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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. Somewhere, I know, we shall find them all, 'The rose that blossomed beyond our reach, The star that bid 'neath as. inky pall Jost as we staggered across the beach; The bird that stifled its cunning song Jost as we paused a moment to hear. The fruit ne'er ripened for which we long, The skies that darkened will all be clear. Somewhere,.! know that the kls8C3 watt Por whioh we languished in days gone by, And smiles will greet us alert, elate, For which we waited ny years that die. The words unspoken como loud and clear. The words withheld in the dim, sad past Shall fill with rapture oar list'ning ear, The heart's best pulses beat sweet and iast. -H --T A FLOOD m " BANDM?THEB Melton lighted the kitchen lamp and set it in the middle of the to bie. "We might as well have sup per," she said. "Your father prob'iy won't be back till late. " Fred and Polly drew up their chairs, and Grandmother Melton brought a Bteaming bowl of mush from the stove and dished it into two smaller bowls. 'Tm as hungry as a bear, "observed Freci, between mouthfuls. "I think it's a shame we have to go so far to school. There isn't a single boy or girl in Springville that has to go half so far as we do. " "I don't see why fat.ier doesn't move down there," complained Polly," pouring more of the rich, yellow milk over h'$r mush; "he could get to his work just as well, and it; would be ev?? so much pleasanter than this lories jaxe place. " "You must remember that your father isn't a rich mau," answered Grandmother Melton, gently. "He owns this cottage, and if he moved he would have to reut another home, and perh?p? he couldn't sell this one." The Mel tons had only been in their hew home since the summer before. Both Fred " and Polly had enjoyed it vary much indeecf during thu' pleasant .warm weather of August and Septem ber, ?hen the wide, swift Mississippi had gleamed through the willows, and there hud been unlimited boating and awimming and . fishing. But with the coming of winter the roads choked full oj' snow and ice, and the winds swept u? the river sharp and cold, aud it was a dreary, lonesome waik of four miles' to Behool at Springville. Au the win ter progressed they had complained more and more, and nosv for a- week, pha,;l "They'U'all get ahead of me," Polly had sobbed;" "and I can't pass my ex aminations." That morning Father Melton had gone up the river to help watch the levees. Reports had been coming from St. Paul, St. Louis, Cairo and other points farther up the great river that the water was rising rapidly. The levees must be watched night and day to prevent breaks. On letiving^his home that morning Mr. Melton had told Fred that he would be back before dark, and that there was no danger to fear from tho water. All his neighbors had told him that his cottage was_high enough to 19 safe, even in the gratest floods. 4 'It's after 9 o'clock now," said Polly, as she arose from the table; "I won der where father is?" 4 Td go out and watch for him if it wasn't raining so hard," said Fred, and then he looked around toward the doorway, anxiously. He caught his breath suddenly. Then he half rose from the table and pointed at the floor. - .Grandmother Melton dropped her fork noisily on her plate and her eyes followed the direc tion indicated by Fred's finger. Polly eat still and gazed at the other two, wondering what it all meant. Th re on the floor, crawling from the crack under the door, was a dark wriggling object. At first Fred had taken it to be one of the swamp rattlers so common to the Mississippi bottoms, aud his first impulse was to spring for his father's rifle which stood in the corner. "It's the flood," said Grandmother Melton when she could get her breath. By this lime tae. black ribbon of water was spreading, slipping into the cracks and creeping out over the floor toward the table. Polly >?roke into a cry of terror. Even Grandmother Melton seemed uncertain what to do. Fred suddenly roused himsel::. He remembered* that he was the nan of the house, and that he must watch over and protect it in his father's ab sence. So he sprung from his seat and threw open the door, not without a throb of fear. It was dark outside, and the rain came down in torrents. Curling up over the step they could see the muddy water, and they could hear the sound of it slapping against the house. It stretched away ir; to the darkness in all directions as far as Fred could see. He knew that already it must be a foot or more high around the bouse. "The levee'? broken," said Polly, in a scared, awed voice. "Do yon think we'll be washed away?" At that moment something biunped against the side of the hom -, with so much force that the dishes tattled. Fred ran to the side of the w indow, peered out, and found that a big log had washed down against the build ing. Grandmother Melton, who was usu ally cool and brave under the most trying circumstances, was wringing her hands in terror. 4*Run up stairs," shouted Fred, "and Polly and I'll bring all the stuf we cjin with us." Grandmother Melton waited nc longer. She crept np the narrow stair way to the little attic. Fred ran to thi cupboard and began filling his anni with dishes of food, while Polly in hei excitement seized the first thi ig tha came to hand-grandmother's rocking chair-and struggled up the stair with it. "We'll need clothing more'a any HERE, - 1 i Somewhere, the laurel we missed while here The bays our foreheads reached for in vain, Some where the chaplet shall ne'er grow sere Nor loss prove victor o'er laggard gain; The glory be real that once was dream, The mountain be leveled to vale below, And a bridge shall span tho fiercest stream, Our feet no longer be halt nor slow. .. ; ' * , "YT - ' - . Somewhere, is.the rest for which we strive, The breast to pillow a weary head, A priest to listen and cheer and shrive, A lite ol nvittjr where naught is dead; A peace <&2EMB? as yonder cloud - That ?a?BE^?fh beauty a shining sky, Sha?foAlj -jpg;? heart, while the song-birds ^flHHp* music that ne'er can die. . amSj&??aVi ia the Florida Times-Union. thing else, " called Grandmother. Mel ton. "Fred ran hack. The floor of the cottage was now entirely covered with water. He splashed through it and seized all the clothing, ooats and jack ets h? could carry. Polly bravely wiped away her tears, and when Pred brought the loads to the stairway she ran with them to the bedroom where Grandmother Melton was sitting. By this time the bu?ding had be gr?n to shake and quiver as the water be.>t against ii "She's going soon," shouted Pred. "I'm afraid the water will reach us up here," suggested- Grandmother Melton. Fred looked up. The ceiling was low, and just above him thiwrjB had been an old trap-door, now nailed up. In stantly Fred seized the ax and buist it open.. Above they could se? th? dark sky and the rabi coming down in steady torrents. Fred piled a trunk on top of the table and climbed out on the roof. He couldn't see far, but he could hear the roaring of the water from every direction. His heart sunk; he felt sure that they would all be drowned] Suddenly something thumped heavily against the side of the building, and the next instant the front end of tho room went up and grandmother and Polly slipped down toward the rear end. Fred narrowly escaped being hurled bff the roof. "We're going! We're going!" screamed Polly. "We're just off the foundation," an swered Fred, as bravely as he could. Then he swung baok down into the bedroom aud helped Grandmother Melton and Polly up through the trap door to the .oof. . He covered them un ag wcii i-J..A^ij-ii-Al ano fr? ; H ?????? ;. I- ?: ?' il:. ?'.> luu >'.':"' ? '>> '.' ? ? lil. :-/.\ . V-.:V-.-: . . L?.f! . :\<A-'S O??!-' >I'.V.!-'J;-? fr**5. mouth when he found himself thrown violently from his feet. He caught a glimpse of the water pouring up the stairway,' and then thc: lamp was cap sized and went out. Next he found himself pounding about in the water. "Fred! Fred!" came the agonized voice of Polly. "Here I am!" spluttered Fred. In falling he had caught the edge of the trap-door and Polly helped him to the roof. "We had all we could do to hold on," gasped Grandmother Melton. "We're moving," shouted Polly. , They rocked and scraped and bumped along, with the water swirling and crashing around them. "It's our first voyage," said Fred, with an effort to laugh; "p'raps we'll wind up in the Gulf of Mexico." But Polly didn't laugh, neither did Grandmother Melton. A few minutes later they heard some one shouting far out on the stream and they saw the glimmer of a lantern. They shouted in return, but there was no answer, and presently the lantern was swallowed np in the darkness and the three castaways were even more lonesome and terrified thaa before. They were compelled to cling firmly to the rope and the ridgepole all the time, for the house was continually bumping against obstructions in the str :am and careening and jolting like a boat in a rough sea. Besides this, they were wet to the skin and shiver ing with cold and fright. Occasionally huge forms would loom up near them, and they would see the outline of trees or buildings floating down the river. They were momentarily afraid lest their boat should bump into something and be broken up. . If this happened they knew they would have small hope of escape. Quite suddenly they felt the build ing grind on something, and then, with a jolt, it came to a standstill. They could hear the timbers strain and creak and the current of the stream splashing about it, but it did not move. "Well, we're anchored," said Fred. * 'I suppose we're out somewhere on a sandbar in the Mississippi." "Do you think we have reached Memphis?" asked Polly, anxiously. To Polly it seemed as if they had been drifting for hours. For a long time they remained al most still. Occasionally they joined their voices in a great shout, but there was no answer. Fred said the water roared so loud that no one could hear it, anyway, but it eased their spirits to be doing something. At last they started again with a jerk and a shiver, as if some of the timbers of the building had given away. They bumped on for what seemed an endless time, and then, after scraping along for some minutes, they again stopped. By this time the rain had ceased and the moon shone out faintly through the clouds. "There's lights," cried Polly, joy fully Sure enongh, on the hill, not such r great distance away, they could set many lights gleaming out over flu water. Nearer, there were othei lights moving about, as if in boats. "It's Memphis," said Pojly, anc then they all shouted at the top o their voices. But no one heard them. The watei roared too loudly. So they sat for hours and hours-it seemed to them until the gray light of morning began to break in the east. They strained their eyes as it grew brighter an looked off across th 3 gray flood of water with its' scattering heaps of wreckage to the.town on the hill. "I thought Memphis was a bigger city than that." said Polly. "It isn't Memphis," said Fred, with a little joyful ring in his voice that made Polly and her grandmother look around quickly; "it's Springville."' "Springville!" And Springville it was. They could see the little weatherbeaten church on the hill, and the red brick schoolhouse, and Judge Carson's home, and a great many other familial' places, although some of the buildings that had stood near the river had disappeared. . "Eut haven't we come only four miles?" said Grandmother Melton, looking greatly surprised. Half an hom* later two boats came alongside and tho castaways were car ried ashore. On the bank Polly found herself in the arms of her father cry ing and laughing all at once. Father Melton looked old and worn and wor ried. He had given up his family for lost, and he was bravely helping the other people in the work of rescue. After. the flood was subsided the Meltons went down to look over their home. Father. Melton hardly knew what to do, but Polly spoke up quite promptly. "I tell you, father, let's leave it right here and live in"it; Fred and I won't have so far to go to school." And what do you think? That is just what Father Melton did. He straightened the house around, built a new foundation under it, and the Mel tons aro living there to-day, quite hap py aud contented. So you see tho flood helped two persons at least Polly and Fred.-Chicago Record. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL " Germany has now electric lights in over 1000 postal cars, and Austria ia about to adopt the same system. ?> Among 1318 children in the Weis baden schools it has been fonnd that only three per cent, had sound teeth. I The failing waters of Kern River ! have been made to-furnish the electric power for the town of Bakersfield, Cal. Tho Japanese Government bas voted 12,800,000 silver dollars for improve ments and extensions in the telephone , service. The gi-and total of the hydraulic power at Niagara Falls secured through electrical appliances is over 26,000 horse power. It las been estimated that au oak of average size, during the five months it is. .in leaf everv vein*, cnnl-a frnm +i?~ Germany by molding woou-palp m iLc desired shape, subjecting it to heat in the form of hot air or water, steam or other vapor, and compressing it by hy draulic pressure. Paris ai :! Madrid will soon be con- ; nected by telephone, the construction of a line from Paris to Bayonne having recently been determined upon. As Madrid is already connected with San Sebastiau, it will be only necessary then to join that placo with Biarritz. Professor Forbes, the eminent elec trician, whose appointment by the Egyptian government to report on tho possibilities of utilizing the Nile catar acts for tho generation of electricity was noted in this column some weeks ago,has returned to Cairo and expressed himself as strongly in favor of the pro ject. Following up the researches of two German physicists, who were recently led to conclude that three lines of oxy gen in the solar spectrum were not at mospheric, Lewis Jewell considers that he has proven conclusively that the lines are produced by water vapor in the earth's atmosphere, and that, therefore, the spectroscope does not indicate oxygen in the sun. "Sundown Minister?." "Sundown ministers, by which I mean preachers who are engaged in departmental or other work during the daytime and who preach evenings and days when on leave of absence," ex plained a gentleman who attended a recent conference in Baltimore, "get little or no consideration in our relig ious conferences any more, and while preachers do not like to talk out at meetin', they have no hesitancy in speaking plainly in private conversa tion. Ministers havo an honorable profession. They spend years prepar ing themselves for their duties, have no other occupations or employment, and seek no other. There is but little money in the ministry, after all, for though a few gifted or fortunate men draw financial prizes by it, the great body of them do not receive the wages received by the average mechanic in the large cities. It is not strange, therefore, that they should not like sundowiijrs. They have no jealousy toward workers in the vineyard who feel they can give their talents to the good work. "What they object to is that persons should compete with them when they have other engagements un til after sundown. As a minister at the conference said to me, the sun down preacher is neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor even good red herring." Washington Star. Water Carried the Current. At a recent fire in the basement of a Cnicag? electric power-house, the firemen had great trouble in getting at the blaze. They had to chop holes in the floor of the dynamo-room be fore they could get a stream on the blazing pile of waste. Not waiting for the dynamos to be shut down thej crept through tho black smoke and turned a stream on the flames. In an instant they were flung to th< ground with great violence, aud th( hose sent flying into fhe air. Aheavj current hid pnssed along the st:? au and had shocked them. Though un conscious when rescued they quickly recovered.-Electrical Review. COOM" TOWN OF PICTURESQUE SCENES IN THE INDIAN . TERRITORY. Great Increase in Hayden's Population . When the Ex-Slates of tho Cherch?e Tribe Receive 8800,000 From the Gov ernment-Biches of the Osage Kation. The most interesting town in the Indian Territory and one of the won ders of the year, writes ? correspon dent of the Chicago Record, is Hay den, where the Government has fte?n paying off the Cherokee freedmen/ A few weeks ago it was only a postoffice, with one store and a blacksmith shop. In a few days it became a busy town of 4000 people, mainly colored. The one intent' of the population was ceive checks from the Governmc which they are the beneficiaries. When the Cherokee Nation li ted its slaves during the Civil War a treaty was arranged between them, and th'e Government that the freedmen should be received into that Nation as citizens and hold land in common with the Cherokees. When the Cher okee strip was sold the Indians io/got the provisions of the treaty and wafted all the money, but the Coo^S Of Claims gave.S800,000 to the freedmen and it was the distribution oOhis large sum that brought the jjfflle together. Hayden is twelve miles fromjthe railroad^ and the 'gathering wffi?ll. housed in. tents, for there was narone to make permanent dwellings if ?eire i had been an intention. The Ir?ujans and freedman were accompameiifi^ a II III II ?? . ; ?cse:, -. ...'.< ? TYPES OF THE CAMP. large number of fakirs, who had the most enticing devices for the money to be paid out. They put np a "Mid way Plaisance," where all sorts of ganes were iu progress. Then, to swell the crowd, there were hundreds of business men who have been sell inc goods to the freedmen for months on credit, trusting in the coming of this auspicious time for their pay. Tho total number of freedmen on the rolls was over 4500, and each share was worth $188.74. The payment was made by family, and on account of the tangled relationship of a race that was so lately slaves, the making of the rolls proved to be a tremendous task. The identification of the members of the families was no less onerous, for HAYDEN DUBIA they ali look alike to the stranger. Tht public school is one of the unknowi factors of Indian life in this sectior and there'are few who can read anc write. The camp has been the most orderly in the history of the Indian Territory payments. In former cases there hai been always a larger attendance of th< tough element which has made thi nights hideous. Hero the nights be come wild about the midnight hon: and then the "fellows" who want t< cut a dash are in their element. Thei it is that the Alkali Ikes are ready go out and shoot a few holes in the at mosphere without warning. Girls wit) red ribbons in their hair are hore am they "do" the town of tents in th most approved fashion," while the ol< folks are having a snouting praye meeting, after the manner of the col ored folks of the South. The brethre: from Oklahoma are numerous and the; are usually of the sort that ha3 th money-making craze well developed There is an attempt to keep gamblin off the grounds, but with small sue cess. Ove in the Osage portion of th territo y ever member of the tribe : wealthy. The men are handsome an the squaws are not bad-looking. Th? are few in number and are decreasir every year. Now there are only 34 voters in the tribe and they are tl recipients of the bounty that migl well make a prince happy. The tril has 1,000,000 acres of land and aboi $3,000,000 in the United States Trea ury, on which the interest is ?400,01 a year. This is paid every thr months and it amounts then to 854 f each man, women and child in tl tribe. Of the $400,000 one-tenth set aside for education and the cb.il dren are all sent to school. They go to Catholic boarding schools andar? not allowed to get the apportionment if they are not in school. The Indians, too, have a large amount of rent from their land, which they lease to the cattlemen for cash. Frequently the leading men go East on a visit and travel in Pullman cars, as do other luxurious Westerners. They take their families to Europe and have for their servants white men and women who are tempted by the prince ly wages to forget that they are the superior race. While fullbloods wear in the council chamber, and sometimes on the street, the full robes of the In dian warrior, for the most part they are dressed in tho ordinary fashion of the whites. One of the wealthiest men, who by the way has twelve chil dren, lives in a house that is the equal of any city residence, having cost$10, 0?0. It has all the improvements of plumbing and heating and is as com E THE PAYMENT. fortable as could be desired. The Osage nation is ruled by a coun cil of fourteen members which is chosen once in two years and whioh is in continuous session. It meets when ever there is anything for it to do. The present council wants to draw from the fund in the national treasury a sum equal to $600 for each member of th? tribe and spend it in beautifying the lands of the nation, in building roads and in erecting public buildings. They promise that the money shall be used to^ good advantage, but it is doubtfulv if it will be allowed. The elections are like those of other states, except that the electors go np to the judges and announce their choice of ' members of the council. No ballots I are used. The lands of the Indians are separated by a.strip of publio do main about a quarter of a milo wide and this cannot be tilled. This tends to keep the Indians from quarreling and makes the courts of the nation comparatively free from business. v . | The ambition of many of the fron -i heonme rich has. lei somewhat jealous of the movement, and prefer to let the United States keep the cash and pay them only the interest. This money came from the salo of the Indiaus' former homo in Kansas, which was in tho best part of the State. They seem to have made a good trade when they took tho Gov ernment's offer and sold out. Instead of being paupers they are among the Nation's richest people, and if thoy are successful in getting the additional amounts that they are asking they may have it within their means to make great advances in civilization. The fears of many, when the terri tory was opened to the settlers, that there would be frequent outbreaks of the Indiaus and consequer, scalpings have not been realized. The Indians having sold -their lauds to the whites [G. THE PAYMENT seem to have made up their minds that thsy are on honor to behave themselves and they do so. They keep on their reservations and any wrong doings that are reported are usually of the harmless order. It is plain that they are taking on the customs of the whites, and some Kansans who went down to the terri tory to fleece the poor redskin at one of the pay days, taking with them about $300, had to send home for money to pay return fare. They made up their minds that the Indian is not quite such au unsophisticated individ ual as he is purported to be in the pages of Fenimore Cooper. The one thing that they cannot break themselves of is the habit of begging At all the stations squaws and chil dren sit, waiting for victims. The pa pooses will be shown for a nickel and for a quarter there will be a circus performance. Seals and Sand Storms. You say the sealers on Pribylofl Islands catch the females when thej go out to sea to feed. That is not so, as they never go out to feed. As foi the pups dying on Tolstoi rookeries from the loss of their mothers being killed at sea, that is not so; they are killed by sandstorms. Tolstoi is tht only rookery that is affected by saud storms, and only one part of it, and a this particular part is the only plac< where dead pups are found. It would be something to the credi of the company if they would build i board fence, like a snow fence on tin plains, for about 500 yards on Tolsto rookery. It would save the lives o thousands of pups.-San Francisco Ex aminer. AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Concentrating the Manare. * There is no farm that makes all the manure that its owner could profitably use in cultivating it; hence we must either purchase commercial fertilizers or restrict his production to the area he can fertilize. It does not pay to spread an insufficient quantity of manure over the whole f?rm in order to cultivate the whole. That involves waste of labor on land that had much better be left in grass, though where ther? is a near market for garden products buy ing commercial fertilizer!! will always pay. In proportion to their effective ness, these concentrated manures pay better than staple manure made on the farm. Dairying and notation. Dairying assists in arranging the rotation of crops on the farm and com pels the adoption of clover as one of tho sources for retaining fertility. The manure made by a herd of dairy cows is as valuable as the milk sold from some herds, and in the rotation of crops it is applied to the fields which require it for certain crops. Corn, for instance, being a crop that can utilize any amount of manure, is given care ful -cultivation, which cleans the ground for wheat or oatt, the time during which the corn occupies tho land also permitting of the decomposi tion of the coarse materials. The manure should be used on gross feed ing crops, corn being one of the best for that purpose.-Home and Farm. Acidity of Land. The acidity of upland soils is prob ably dne to the removal of crops and " the use of certain fertilizers that ex haust the lime and other basic ingred ients of the soil, leaving more of the acid than would be the case were nature allowed to take her course. Some plants thrive best under such condition, but clover, timothy und beets are injured on such soils. There is no easy way of telling to what ex tent soils are acid, but a strongly marked reddening of blue litmus pa per indicates acidity. A dangerous degree of acidity, or at leas); a fatal lack of carbonate of lime, appears to exist iu upland and naturally well drained soils and is not confined to muck and peat swamps and very wet lands, as most American and many other writers seem to assume. Such assumption is because the partial fail ure of certain crops upon these lands has been attributed to other reasons. These are the conclusions arrived at by the Rhode Island experiment station after'several years' work. The rem edy seems to be a generous application of air-slaked lime. The amount ap plied varies from 500 to 2000 pounds per acre, to be broadcasted and har rowed in.-American Agriculturist. ch-. d'! 8 ?' WT - ' k.' Will' ii uno ? ill.ul i ilM??VW&* AU lil utoi tj ?J i quite as important as the bone phos phate. If we had a big pile of bones that we wanted to apply to land, we should cut or break them in as fine pieces as possible, and spread them over an orchard or vineyard, then plowing them five or six inches be neath the surface, taking care not to put them below the vegetable mould. In contact with this, enough carbonic acid gas would be developed by the de composition of vegetable matter to dis solve the outer portions of the broken pieces of bone. These would be very quickly covered with fine feeding roots from trees or vines. Wherever roots are feeding, more carbonic acid gas is developed. The result is that after two or three years the bone would be honeycombed and filled with roots. Even large bones can be disposed of this way without loss. Placed any where in the soil of au orchard the roots will be sure to find them.-Bos ton Cultivator. WISE WORDS. Only in a world of sincere men is unity possible, and there, in the long run, it is as good as certain. Man is like a plant, which requires a favorable soil for the full expansion of its natural or innate powers. What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the pow er to achieve, but the will to labor. Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind as harrow ing and planting those of the earth. If we would be happy, we should open our earn when among the good and shut them when among the bad. Generosity, to deserve the name, comprises the desire and the effort to benefit others, without reference to self. Men are so constituted that every body undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. ? If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost: that is where they should be. Now put foun dations under them. There can be no social beauty, where disorder prevails, no national beauty where law is set at naught, no beauty of lifo where the true ends of life are disregarded. Character is measured by the dis tance traveled from the starting point, and everything depends upon whether the progress has been up stream or down. Bethink thee of something that thou oughtest to do, and go and do it, if it be but the sweeping of a room or the preparing of a meal or a visit to a friend. Heed not thy feelings: do thy work. Politeness is a kind of anaesthetic! which envelops the asperities of our character so that other people be not wounded by them. We should never be without it, even when we contend with the rude. Some say that the age of chivalry is past. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth, or a man or a woman left to say, "I will redress that wrong, or spend my life in the at tempt." HUGE ROCK OF MYST ?RY. Connecticut'? Great Bo ?rider, Larbert la the United Stntea. The Connecticut Legislature has been considering the purchase of the State of Cochegan Bock, located mid way between New London and Nor wich, and said by many persons to be the largest bowlder in the United States. It is eighty feet long, seventy eight feet high, contains about 70,000 cubio feet of stone, and is estimated to weigh 10,000 tons. It is unques tionably a relio of the glacial period, and was deposited in its present rest ing place very many centuries ago. Connecticut, says the New York Herald, has long been a famous stamp ing ground for the geologist and paleontologist. Almost everybody who is at all familiar with ancient birds and beasts remembers what is known to science as the Connecticut sand stone footprints, footprints of birds so gigantic that it appalls one to think what they must have been like. Espec ially around Montville are there many mute evidences of the glacial period, the stone of Cochegan being the most notable. This stone has been studied by the most famous geologists of the United States, but none of them ha J ever been able to state with acouracy just what variety it is. The strangest feature is that in appearance and in grain it is totally unlike any other stone found in Connecticut or New England, this lack of resemblance extending to other and smaller bowlders, which were also evi dently deposited on Connecticut soil by glaciers. Indian tradition says this stone was for centuries used as a council block by the red men of Connecticut. The first white man to own the land upon BOCK OP MYSTERY. which it stands was Samuel Chapman, and he, in 1762, sold it to Joshua Baker. It has changed owners several times since then, its present proprietor he ine A1?TOT?/?/? <?%t tkess ?....;. '.*. . -i.? 5*it?? th' fifi >..; t RjipoaxfiXte^s?r ;J>-.- ho . '. . . -. >:theihazl?3-^ th*. . :w . : 'i ..usl:r.v.?. . S? tt? nuu pruuucBtt tne aimost poiisned sur- I face. Just how far the rock extends into the ground has never been ascer- j tained. Mysteries of the Persian Gulf. Sir Henry Manee recently, in his inaugural address as President of tho Institution of Electrical Engineers, speaking of development of oceanic telegraphy, said in the Persian Gulf one occasionally witnessed natural phenomena which to the untraveled might appear incredible. In the midst of the mountains near Mussendom he had seen during the thunderstorm such displays of lightning as baifled descrip tion. He had, at certain seasons of the year, observed the water in bay which was large enough to hold all the fleets of the world-present exactly the appearance of blood. Not many miles from Mussendom he had witnejsed mysterious fire circles flitting over the surface of the sea at a "speed of- 100 miles an hour-a phenomenon which ! no one had yet been able to explain. ; While steaming along the coast of Belo chistan, he had been called from his cabin at night to observe the more com mon phenomenon of the milky sea, the water for miles around being singularly white and luminous. In the same lo cality the sea was, for short periods, as if putrid, the fish being destroyed in myriads, so that to prevent a pestil ence measures had to be taken to bury those cast up on the beach. This phe nomenon was doubtless due to the out break of a submarine volcano and the liberation of sulphureted hydrogen. In these waters jellyfish were as large as footballs, and sea snakes of brilliant hue were met with in greit numbers. On one occasion a swarm cf sea snakes forced their way up one ol! the creeks in Karachi Harbor, apparently for the purpose of having a battle royal, for the ground between high and low water mark was thickly covered with their bodies in positions betokening a deadly struggle. Made a Carions Legacy. A curious probate suit has come up in the English law courts. An ord gentleman, lately deceased, left a half million dollars to found and endow a church on the condition that every Sunday, before service, the whole ol the thirty-nine articles shall be read by a clergyman outside the church door. Disinherited relatives are con testing the validity of the will. A BeUglons Duty. Mamma Hen-"Where are you go in'?" Hortense-"Oh, just for a little spin, mamma." Mamma Hen (reprovingly) - "I should think you would stay at homo and help your mother scratch up that I new onion bed that Neighbor Peaseley ' set out this morning." Quinine and other fe' ver medicines take from 5 to 10 days to cure fever. Johnson's Chili and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. WHY THE CREEKS LOSE. A Sids Light Thrown Upon The'r Fanios in Thessaly. Aversion to mechanical discipline, writes Professor Wheeler in the North American Beview, shows itself in the j drill of the Greek troops, an would be naturally expected from all that we know of them outside the army. As a people they always create the impres sion of disorderliness. Men who walk together on the street do not keep step. A Greek funeral prooessiqn pre sents to our eyes a most disorderly and individualistic appearance. The people who compose it go on foot, and each one seems to be stroll ing along on his own account. On arriving at the grave there is likely to be no fixed order of procedure. If there is, people do not conform to it. Every one does what seems to him good. Absence of previous plan of sense for order ia app.orent on every hand. If there occurs a hadt in the proceedings through auy uncertainty or lack of preparation a debate may ensue. Three out of four of the bear ers will prove to be orators. There is no one person in authority. Five or six different ones are giving orders or making suggestions at the same time. The same popular trait shows itself wherever masses of people are as sembled. Any single man is a poten tial marshal and master of ceremonies and may develop into such without warning. All this represents a deep seated national characteristic and one that renders the application of strict .military discipline in the form known to the armies of the north extremely difficult. Herein lies the chief ground of ap prehension regarding the fitness of the Greek to meet the demands of modern methods of warfare. A German battalion is a. firmly compacted ma chine in which the individual has lost the sense of autonomy. Panic cannot resolve it into its constituent elements, because steady discipline and persis tent drill have made machine action a second nature. In the moment of emergency a Greek battalion is liable to become "many from ore." Johnson's Chill and Fe ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY ure. Ii cures the most fil CrfSc* ofB^v^i ?& ..?Mio . . . , Uta mja&i - "simples," the seuan i ii.... ,... J i...-, besides a-vast and peripatetic throng of mohalibe venders, windmill ped dlers, sakas or water-carriers, chim ney sweeps, grape-cabbage, frangi?la (rolls), pilaf and sweetmeat peddlers. Mohalibe is a sort of void jelly, com posed of ground rico and milk, and is served in brightly colored saucers, powdered with sugar and sprinkled with rose-water, with ofttimes a lump of clotted cream added. With his row of gaily gilded saucers, his pel* ished metal bowl, a stock of slim, metal, arrow-shaped spoons, and an Oriental flask of rose-water sparkling and flashing in the sunlight, the mo halibe vendor would tempt an anchor ite to eat. isor must we forget the outdoor barbers, who combine the of fices of dentist, barber and leech. The itinerant coffee seller confines hi? rounds to the business haunts, and at noon his trade is especially brisk, for every clerk along the street rushes out to supplement his luncheon of bread and cheese or bread and olives, by the liquor that ho loves. The gypsy women form another unfailing attrac tion to the Occidental visitor. They are wild, merry, picturesque creatures, with flashing eyes, and have various devices for increasing their bank ac count beside that of fortune telling. Some sell lavender and herbs, and oth ers sing, play the tambourine, or dance after the manner of the Egyptian girls. They are all adroit thieves, and in their vicinity the fruit from orchards and pullets from hen yards vanish as by magic. Why take Johnson's Chill 6t Fever Tonic? Because it cures the most stubborn ease of Fever in ONE DAY. A Carrier Pigeon Service In Hawaii. A carrier pigeon service on a large scale is about to be established on the Hawaiian islands. Pigeon flying is generally carried on as a pastime, and is the national sport of Belgium, buta company has -nat been formed in Hon olulu to utilize the peculiar traits of the homing pigeons in a business which is set forth in a prospectus as being very remunerative. Birds have already been bought and taken to the islands. The proposition is to establish lofts on all of the different islands in the Hawaiian group, beginning first with Hawaii, Maui, Kauai aud Oahu. By means of fast-flying pigeons messages can besant from Honolulu to all the towns and plantations on the different islands, and vice versa. It is believed that not less than fifty plantations will contribute to the scheme. Johnson's Chill and Fe? ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever ia 24 Hours.