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/^^j^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ _ ^_ -pg - "^~T?m J, ADAMS, PROPRIETOR ?DGEFIELD, S. C.,~WED|ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1897. YOL- LXII. NO. 35._ SOME^ Some time we shall know why Our sunniest mornings change to noons ol raia; ' And why our steps are shadowed so hy pain; And why we often lie On couches sown with thorns of cara and doubt, And why our lives are thiokly hedged about With bars that put our loftiest plans to rout. Some timo we shall know why Our dearest hopes ara swept so swift away, And Why our brightest flowers first decay; Why song ls lost in sigh. Why Clasping fingers slip so soon apart-J Estrangement; space and death rend heazt frdni heart, tntii from deepest depths tho teardrops Start; THE DW?R? LlTTL ?*\ A GIRL'S ADVENTURE : IS9 STANLEY was a pink-and white English girl; very tali and ?hapely. The Mexican girls; who or dered out their carriages if they had a block to go, used to look upon her with amaze ment as she tramped down their steep streets with a fine, swinging, heel and-toe gait. She was picking her way one day among the vendo s in the plaza, stop ping once in a while to give some whining beggar or tattered monstrosity a centavo, when sh o felt her skirt pulled; Looking, she saw a tiny hand held out; aud a Childish voice piped the uSual formula for alms; The little cr??ture was rio taller than fl ?h?ld of fd.rir; But the face! It was old dud ?frither?d. The eyes were surikeri and so old! Miss Stanley pulled back the rebozo-=-the hair was gray, "A dwarf," she thought, with a lit tle feeling of repulsion; "How old are you?" . -'Fifty-four;" piped up the wee thing. Then, true to her sex, "The priest will tell you fifty-eight, but I am not; I am only fifty-four." She said her name was Rosita. Rosita, it appeared, did neaidy any thing for a living, begging preferably, althongh that is a sv crowded profession in 3' times she sold chicker on a commission. Sh. source of income, being . thobouuty of a young m. A-WPflk-hut,, .sha...jjMfeff made her jump for thc cc held his arni out straigi. ' jump in vain, she could n ? "The brute!" said M: .. Rosita did not know the m Bhe looked up, pleased. good, the English lady was. c_0 interest in her, for the expletive sounded profane, and profanity from a feminine source indicated strong emo tion, which she construed favorably. The poor in Mexico are always hun gry, and Miss Stanley, knowing this failing, took Rosita to a little one room restaurant. The menu was con fined strictly to Mexican dishes. Miss Stanley noticed that Rosita put half her dinner to one side, wrapping the carne and frijoles in tortillas. When she came to a dulce of some tropic fruit, boiled in a syrup of cane sugar, her little wrinkled eyes looked wistful. "How can I take 3ome to my little brother?" she asked. Miss Stanley asked another ques tion: "Is this food you have put away for your brother?" "Yes," nuswered Rosita, in her squeaky voice, "I take all the care of him. We are alone, and I work for him. He is locked in the room now, see," and she held up the massive key peculiar to Mexican doors. "Why is he locked in?" asked Miss Stanley,- as she directed the mozo to put the dinner in a couple of alias for Rosita to take to her brother. "He has combats with the children in the street, and I ara afraid some one will get hurt," she answered. Miss Stanley watched her trot away, laden with the dinner for her brother. So little and so old, unlike mauy dwarfs not bulky-indeed, pitifully thin. It was not until she reached her home that Miss Stanley remem bered she had not asked how old the "little brother" was. She often met Rosita after that, sometimes in the Jardin, where the roses nodded overhead, and violets bloomed underfoot, and the band played t '"j and sweetly, as Mexican bauds do. Rosita would dart from the circling stream of pelado into the inner circle, where the quality walked under the trees or sat on the iron benches. Miss Stanley could seldom resist the little, dirty, badly worked square of drawn-work held out by the tiny hand. Constance Stanley had no father or mother, and, living with a brother who was endeavoring to effect thc drainage of "the richest silver mine in the world," she wandered un checked through the crowded, narrow streets of the old town with a young criada her only safeguard. She had often longed to explore a dark street that plunged downward from the paved and civilized one. It was damp and murky. A staircase of stone, with crumbling adobe walls, two and three stories high. Across the street's narrow width fluttered strings of :washing. The women, with their red petticoats and blue rebozos, made bright blots of color. The men loaf jd about, lean and ragged. It reminded her of Naples. The doorways swarmed with babies and dogs-poverty march ing always side by side with those in nocents. Down she went. The street made an abrupt turn. At the corner she was startled by seeing, protruding from a bole cut in a squalid doorway, several long, black fingers. They were with drawn, and she saw, as she passed the door, two blood-shot eyes peering out like beast's eyes. "Nina, ninital the good mother of God sent you, and see what gain will beyoursl" Turning, Miss Stanley be held Rosita at her heel. She had a plate to Sell-a coarse, ironstone f!ME, Some time we all shall know Each other, aye, as we ourselves are ' known; And see how out of darkness light has grown. And He-who loves us so Despite our wilfulness and blind com plaint "WIM snow us how His kind and calm re straint Can mold a human soul Into a saint. Some time dur eyes shall see The silver lining to the darkest cloud, Whlie Bilvery echoes follow thunder loud. Some time our hearts shall bo Content, forgetting all our restless mood, And knowing everything has worked for good The how, and when, and why be under stood! ^Lillian Gray; B BROTHER, a - & IN A MEXICAN TOWN. Q> china plate, chipped and cracked. There was ? look of intense agony on her o?d faee? ?nd her wee hands Shook as she drew h?r treasure forth from under her rebozd; The pl?te was im possible, and Constancy breaking that .fact very gently td the little dwarf; was astonished to see the tears gather and fall over her shriveled cheeks. "For two days, senorita, I have not dared unlock that door," and she nodded toward the mean portal where the eyes had shone and the fingers protruded restlessly. " 'Little brother' has nothing to eat, except the few tortillas the poor around here could give, and many of these go hungry from the sun's coming up until tba Bun's going down." Constance sent her servant and Kosit? to the plaza foi' some cooked food, andj while she waited, she talked in the doorways with Pepita and Lola and Juana. They told hei* how Rosita worked and starved for her brother. "How old is he?" asked Constance. "Quien sabe?" they said. "Is he a child Or is he big enough to work for her?" she asked, impa tiently. "Ah! he is. gr?ndote* but ?tsd h? is loco, un mani?tico; See, that is Jose now who glares 'from the hol? in the door." Miss Stanley listened to them with that rapt attention we all give to tales ~c ii,.-j Tjrt A "rr Peepholes in the c- tA.": i :.'.???- '.? .... ....... . H?-::ts :orf- .:; \y. :>::.', y.o ?jiti?ofi kit&r~3 ]<?:. ly *".rr, . ' '.. / him ..h i^iiini: ...'iv.-:'**? * V . "<-?i"f .>c szrtfvj. A p" ..crmini nad jeered him as ^?-c" ~T from the hole in the door, much as people tease a hyena snarling in a cage. The mad have memories, for Jose, one night when the moon was - big, crept softly about the dark room, and, find ing the key Rosita's small cunning had hidden, opened the door, crept again softly up the street to an adobe doorway where was sleeping a sereno, his head on his knees. The police have a day and night shift, but one cannot expect a madman to. know everything. So it vas aa innocent man who had his neck wrung as the cook does a chicken's. They could only guess what then happened. There were only the pulsing stars looking silently down and the great, calm moon. However, it was evident he must have dragged and worried and and teased that poor piece of clay for God knows how far or long. They found him asleep by the dead sereno, and, although too polite in the ' 'Land of the Noonday Sun" to manacle or chain, they took the precaution to tie with stout maguey rope Jose's slumbering bulk before six of the largest policemen would venture to carry him to the careel. >ose's kind of "people aro treated with deference in Mexico. So, after some time, the man was sent back for the dwarf to feed and care for, and Rosita's face took on more wrinkles each day. By the time Rosita returned with the food, Constance, who understood Spanish very well, had heard much of the "little brother." She declined to look through the peep-hole at him ravening over his dinner like a wild beast. Followed by Rosita's wordy gratitude, she climbed to the top of the street and there met Mr. Dysart. Mr. Dysart had but lately risen from the folldwing letter: Dear Mollie: Tell father I am looking after the mining business in great shapo. Mexico is rather jolly. I went to tho Gov ernor's ball last night. Only ono English girl there, Miss Stanley, awful pretty girl. I knew her brother, DIckStanloy, at Trinity. Won a cup at tho three-milo. He's a pretty good sort. Tell Bob if ho can get that liver-colored dog of Oglethorpe for eight guineas to buy her. Look out for Tobin's foot. Don't let the old duffer from the Clancarty stables fool with it. Tell all the "old folk" that Master Tony Bont them love and wlshin' them a g^od pratie crop. Love to dad and yourself. TONY. After Tony Dysart had evolved this characteristic missive from his insides, he went out for a swallow of fresh air and to relieve himself of the strain of composition by a long walk. Constance was very lovely at the dance, in a faint-green brocade, with a quantity of creamy old lace. Some crimson poppies were twisted round her ivory shoulders. One or two more of the flaming flowers shone from her pale-gold hair. Mr. Dysart compl tely lost his head over her; as he had a lot of possessions in Ireland, among them a rich father and an' ancient and hon orable ancestry, he could afford to do so. H? was thinking of her as she had looked the night before, when sud denly she appeared, with her servant, coming up from a street dark and deep, like a well, for already it was getting dusk. On the strength of being at college with her brother, he began with true manly irascibility to take her to task for her imprudence. But Miss Con stance tightened up her soft, haughty mouth and, giving him the rear ourve of a tweed shoulder to study, led him a chase home. The house the brother and. sister .occupied had been Senor Lopez's, but was presented to Dick, together with m mine worth millions, several black-eyed girls, and what other trifling property Don Felipe owned. However, Dick con tinued to pay the rent regularly and gazed on the girls from? afar. The hanging-lamp was lighted in the zagu?n; and when the mozo unchained the great double doors, a flood of melody and fragrance rushed out to greet them from the birds and flowers in the dim patio. Dick, in a smoking jacket, lounged out from the sala to insist that Tony, old boy, should take tea with them. Which lie did. ?hat was the first difference be tween the brother and sister. Dick adored Tony, and every night, they pump?d out the mine or rode to hounds Over the Sala floor; But Cohstanoe detested him, ?nd, con trary to her ?su?l reticence, said so; She tramped around the disre' itable and filthy streets twice as much as be fore, for she knew it annoyed him. Sometimes she would see him follow ing, and she resented his espionage. "Why don't you liko Tony?" Dick would ask. "You know my theory, Connie, that a sporty man like Dysart makes the best husband." "Oh, Dick! who is talking about husbands? I think that a man Who is utterly doggy and horsey and tak?s Browning to be authority on pink-eye or glanders is a very poor companion; To quote your 'dear Tony,' 'wo don't trot in the same class!'" Dick gav? ? contemptuous snort; This was one day at luncheon; dnd Constance, instead of the good cry she pined for, took a walk. She had not seen Bosita for some time, and she turned her steps toward what Dr. Dysart called "those cut-throat dens." She had never seen the street so de serted. All were taking a siesta, even the dogs. As she reached the sharp corner, sho heard a thin little shriek full of appeal. She recognized Bosita's voice, and ran with her criada at her side into the low, open doorway she had before so shudderingly avoided. There, snapping his teeth aud roll ing hir. bloodshot eyes, was Bosita's "little brother" tied with strong ropes to an iron pin in the wall-but his arms were freehand ho stood there, a giant in size. He had secured tho key and had almost pulled the staple from the wall, but Bosita was clinging to his arm and calling for help. To and fro he swung her as a wolf might a rabbit. He had the key in his black, cruel hands and he brought it down on her nn.tiirno-1 ' -; ??. - JJ- rt~~ I .i..'. ' -Irl: ?.?CC-?L C? th? .'"'!.?<.. ; .; ..<?} ..vjsy :?c-.;.L Aj?thttt-sioiaehi ifos ?.i-? vr j . . . ..?**.>? rr\'.)!.;ituT.- k-A'y^L- :Vv. .' .'-t r.. ? . . - - - .?. . : -.?.'. . '.. <.... .<. '."f...i.. . r..i} r *Jc?? liut ..c i.* Tili, ..?? cairght* c ; t;.. t ? ??i K...:..}?. : S?li v.*Ti hhu, htiz, f?ili'i?& b??V j *.. .'? .'. . X fiile? erith .. ~_ _i. 1--.V L?jfoari-j smootn-shaven and blonde, loomed above all. Constance, with the help of her criada, got out in the street, where she listened, with beating heart, to the cries, curses, and scuffling going on inside. There was one dominating, awful gi'oau-then a sinister silence. A moment of sickening uncertainty for that unemotional young English woman, and Tony Dysart, panting, his clothes torn, and blood-stains on his face and hands. H? walked firmly enough, to give Constance a helping arm up the stairs. He said Bosita was dead, and he thought the "little brother" would die also, for, while he was struggling with him, a policeman had crept up and strnck him over the head with a heavy iron bar. "Here we are at the Casa Stanley," she said, as they stopped before the carved doors. "Come in. Dick will want to see you. He can thank you better than I." "No one can thauk me like you,' Tony replied. "And I must go to tho hotel. This arm of mine pains a little. No, not broken," he answered, trying to smile, "but'little brother'wrenched it a trifle." Constance, however, would not ac cept his easy assurance that it was all right. "You must come in, Dick will want you. " "Do you want me, though?" She did not answer that; but, as she let the knocker fall, turned with tears in her eyes. "Will you come, Tony?" "I will come," he insisted, "if you want me." The big doors swung open. "I want you," she said, slowly. And the doors clanged behind them. -Edith Wagner, in the Argonaut. I Finger in a Cn ttl s li. A man's finger in the stomach of a large catfish was what ?fohn Vincent, a oolored fisherman, fonnd several days ago while preparing his string of fish for supper, says the Augusta (Ga.) News. John's appetite had been whetted up to a considerable extent at the thoughts of crisp, brown fish on his table for supper, and his mouth fairly watered as he busily cleaned bio fish. The finding of this finger, how ever, destroyed his appetite, and the entire lot of fish were thrown away. The finger, while lacerated, seemed to be well preserved, with the nail and all intact. The catfish in which tho finger was found was a large one and was caught on the South Carolina side several miles down the river. The fish evidently got hold of the body of some man who was drowned and nib bled off one of his fingers. This makes the second^timo the finger of a person has been found in a fish's stomach. Several years ago, it will be remem bered, a child's finger was discovered under similar circumstances. Mateo, the Cross Mun, lg Dead. The widely known eccentric charno ter, known as Mateo, the cross man, was found dead just outside of his cabin at Abita Springs, La., by a Choctaw Indian a day or two since. Mateo has been one of the most unique characters of eastern Louisiana for the past thirty-five years. He al ways wore from seveuty-five to 100 orosses attached to his clothing, and was crazed on religion.-New Orleans Picayune? WORK OF AMERICA'S HEN HER VALUE IS NOT LESS THAN $290,000,000 A YEAR. Worth Moro Than the Entire Wheat Crop of tho Country-Not So Far Behind the Earnings of the Railroads- Could Easily Ray Several States of the Inion. H. W. Collingwood, of the Rural New Yorker, says in the New York World: Mrs. American Business Hen is one of our most useful citizens. She is a shrinking, unassuming creature, too modest at times even to cackle over the birth of her own egg, leaving that celebration to her husband; and yet Mrs. American Hen has been quietly paying off mortgages, driving wolves from the door and hatching out nest eggs for thousands of featherless bi peds; In 1890 there were in this country SUPREMACY OF THE AMERIC. 258,871,125 chickens and 20,738,315 other fowls. In that year the Ameri can hens laid 9,836,674,992 eggs. There are now 350,000,000 chickens, which will lay this year 13,750,000,^ $T.&it Q ":'t ' 'tv ... :'.'".?' -?.<...;', HtljS dnririg the yet; ?rd? ?? . ..,;?;:.?; hi->; -'..:<..:-..;?;;?../;...?;?; + rry * -i .'?lo ** *ti'e ??sir????Vr?? . / IWr?'"*; .-..inT?'a*: '.-ir.-; ;,-.y y.??s, . ?r ^-^-y-. .-. -. yt?: yj' *? .-?>r;.-. .. are ><.>.".. .. t: -i - :\. of .n- \j. r:--"i'. mchfcj5 h ?' ; v " v- .'.:.?>-!... ? i^i? !>u'f. t-.? .-. .?.?'. j. ii-?^?-.. r .t.',. ?v i?iu Na. '.c.?**?'* one-nati inches. The 13,750,000,000 - eggs will, therefore, make a chain 542,218 miles long, while the total weight of this production of hen fruit is at least 853,125 tons. Does any reader of the World real ize what this immense production of eggs and meat means to the country? Here are a few figures for comparison: Valu? of silver production.$72,510,000 Valu? of wool clip. 33,146,459 Valuo of all shoep. 65,167.725 Value of all swine.186,529,745 Value of mules.103,204,457 Value of horses.500,140,186 Value of petroleum products... 62,333,403 Value of potato crop. 78,934,901 Value of tobacco crop. 35,574,220 Value of cotton crop...259,164,640 Value of oat crop.163,655,063 Value of wheat crop.237,933,998 Imports of coffee one year.84,793,124 Imports of tea one year. 12,704,440 Total of pensions.139,230,078 Total of school expenditures.... 178,215,556 Total interest on mortgages... 76,728,077 Cost of Postofflce Department... 90,626,296 Net earnings of railroads.323,196,454 Dividends on railroad stocks... 81,375,774 The value of all gold produced in American mines in 1895 was $46,610, 000, and all silver ?72,051,000. The value of all minerals, inoluding iron, gold and silver, taken out of Ameri GIGANTIC UMBRELLA FOR can mines in 1894 was $208,168,768. Americans are given to bragging about our immense mineral resources, and yet you will notice that the hens paid for it all one year and had enough, left to just about pay the interest on all mortgages ! Mrs. Hen will earn enough this year to pay the entire State and coun ty tax (which in 1890 was $143,186,? 007), and have enough left for every cont of pensions that are paid to old soldiers. The average cow weighs 130 times as much as the average hen, and yet all the milch cows in the country have a total value of but $263,955,545. Mrs. Hen in one year will earn enough to buy every cow, and put the entire tobacco crop in lier pocket as well. She could pay out of her year's earn ings for all tlie tea and coffee import ed in one year and all tho petroleum products, and have enough left to buy all the tobacco grown in 1896. The total assessed valuation of the follow ing States fall below the hen's yearly earnings: Ne-frSitampshLra, Vermont, Delaware Arizona, . v,'est Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Utalfe FlorKLa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Alabama, Mississippi, Idaho, Louisiana, Arkansas, Montana, Dregon? Wyomings Colorado, New Mexico. )ther words, Mrs. American Hen buy any of these States from rear's egg and chicken money, auld buy in this way New Mexi izona, Wyoming, North Dakota, io and Montana all put together. The total cost of conducting thc Postoffice Department last year was ?26,296.84. We can pick out )0,080 of our best hens that will . every dollar of this outlay in one ie net earnings of the railroads in , were $323,196,454. The railroad diypends paid amounted to $81,375, 77# The American Hen paid nearly KEN OVER COMMERCE AND AGRICU: twice the profits earned by American railroads. . gThe total earnings from passenger traffic amounted to $261,610,598, or Jj&8_than that of the hens. It cost in i?-^S?: Z'^r..: .'. -'. *Wi>"-*i.t??-?a f ? ?.t".' ?%<U'iry.:.-?-' -.-r. ?. ii..?*:;*i '. ono ija\\ : sr earry?pft OTI ".?>-'. ?>j[pj ii ruiui '^fi'.'"' ? ?>! lei-.y..'. . . .' ti'i 'j?''.\.u\:-y T. ?tft? Uiid xv/ii-Jf Mica liens ?Ullin ?Jiij the salary of the average teacher em ployed in the public schools, while seventy-five hens would pay the aver age pension to old soldiers. OMAHA'S IMMENSE UMBRELLA. When Raised It Will Ko 350 Feet Above the Earth. The last Paris exposition had its Eif fel tower, Chicago had its Ferris wheel, Nashville has its giant see-saw. The department of concessions of the Oma ha trans-Mississippi exposition of 1898 has also received an application for space for the erection of a novel me chanical device. It resembles the framework of a gigantic umbrella more than anything else which might be mentioned. The part corresponding to the stick of the umbrella is an im mense cylinder, thirty feet in diameter, constructed of steel plates firmly riveted, making a standpipe which rears its head 250 feet above tho level of the ground. At the extreme top of this cylinder are fastened twelve long arms, resembling the ribs of an um brella. These are steel trusses, reach ing almost to the ground. At the lower THE OMAHA EXPOSITION. end of each of these ribs is suspended a car for carrying passengers, each car having a capacity for twenty persons. These monster ribs are raised by hy draulic power, acting by means of steel cables operating through the cylinder, aided by a mechanism greatly resem bling that portion of an umbrella which comes into action when the umbrella is opened. By means of this mechan ism the gigantic arms are raised until they are horizontal, the cars in the meantime being carried outward and upward until they reach a point 250 feet above the ground, the diameter of the huge circle formed by the sus pended cars being also 250 feet. When the highest point has been reached an other mechanism comes into play and the suspended cars are swung slowly around in a circle, after which they are lowered to the ground. The sides of the cars are of glass, so that tho passengers may secure an extensive view of the surrounding country. The University of Palermo has about 1110 stuiaota, REMARKABLE PEAR TREE. Trained to Grow at the Side of a Ho ti BO la a Wonderful Way. One of the most remarkable of old trained pear trees that we are ac quainted with is the splendid speci men of TJvedale's St. Germain at Wes ton House, Shipston-on-Stour, the residence of the Countess of Camper* down. The accompanying illustration is published in the Gardener's Maga zine. Mr. Masterson, the gardener at Weston House, writes that "the tree is admired at all times of the year, but more especially when covered with large handsome clusters of flowers. In autumn, when laden with quanti ties of big fruits, it also presents an attractive appearance, and there are many who also admire the tree when the stems are bare, and certainly at this season it is interesting, as the training is very remarkable. The tree seldom fails to ripen a heavy crop of fruits, cropping right down to the LTUP.E PICTORIALLY SHOWN. ground. It has never been fed or root pruned, and its roots are in the bed of the carnage drive, gravel also encir cling the stem at the base, where it measures six feet in circumference. It i~ ^"/(nfm -TOTO nvAlin Kia that tl,fl WIKTEB VIEW OF THE PEAB TEEH. as the tree is so vigorous as to be capa ble of carrying very large crops, and yet the fruits weigh from half a pound J to one and a half pounds each. The total weight of the crop last year was two hundredweight. Many first prizes have been won from this tree, includ ing firsts at the Crystal Palace in 1894 and 1895." " Queer Fish This. There is a new kind of fish on view in the Aquarium. It comes from Ber muda and is called the "trunk fish." Three specimens are on view. With a little stretch of the imagina tion the fish looks somewhat like a Saratoga trunk. It has a triangular cross section, its belly being flat and its sides rising from a sharp angle to a sharper edge along the back. Along these edges are queer flaps that re semble the ruffles on a sofa cushion. The scales are thick and hard. When viewed head on it looks remarkably like a pig without legs. Its tail does not seem to fit at all. The body seems to cut off abruptly some distance from where the tail should be and the caudal appendage stuck on wherever it would go.-New York Herald. Precious Manuscripts. Sir Walter Scott's manuscript of "The Lady of the Lake" has just been sold in London for $6450; thirty years ago it brought $1000. The manuscript of "Old Mortality" sold for $3000. Lord Nelson's autograph memoir of his own life, with some autograph let ters, was sold for $5000; twenty-three other letters of his to Trowbridge fetched $1400. Bobert Burns's pri vate journal, begun in 1787, "The Edinburgh Commonplace Book," brought $1815. Eight manuscripts of A. C. Swinburne, poems published in his first volume, sold for $198. Garden in un Old Umbrella. Last summer an ingenious woman found an ornamental use for an old umbrella frame. A large nail was driven in the end of the wooden han dle, so it would press into the ground with more ease, the frame was opened and the handle planted in the middle of a round flower bed. A pretty trail ing vine that had a white blossom was placed where each wire rib of the um brella came and twined around. Low flowering plants were placed around tho remaining portion of the bed to keep it in good form.-New York Journal. Tho First Prepaid Post. According to M. Piron the idea of a postpaid envelope originated early in the reign of Louis XIV. M. De Velayer in 1GG3 established a private post, placing boxes at the corners of the streets for the reception of letters wrapped in envelopes, which were to be bought at offices established for the purpose. And it is said that a Swedish artillery officer, in 1828, petitioned the Chamber of Nobles to propose to the Government to issue stamped envelopes for prepaid letter?. COLONEL TOM OCHILTREE? The National Character Who Jested Bia Bills Through Congress. Colonel Tom Ochiltree became a national character a few years ago when he came to Congress as a Bepre TOM OCHILTREE. e*9a^*? sentative from Texas. He wes con* spicuouB to look upon, and he rarely said anything that was not conspic uous He made friends and he was sa good-natured to his enemies and so quick with his wit that tho men who were opposed to him were anxiouB to get over their tilts. He was pointed out on the floor of the House as the first native Congressman from hifj State. It was also related that his district was wider and longer than many of the States of Europe, reach ing over a territory of twenty-seven counties, and running from the gulf to Eagle Pass, on the Bio Grande. This area comprised 37,600 square miles. Ochiltree was practically the king of it. He was the only man in the dis trict when power was in consideration. Ochiltree went to the top of capital favoritism at a single bound. He was a prince of story-tellers. The beauty of his humor was that it hit no one so hard as it hit^himself. He was a joke to himself. He rarely appeared upon the floor of the Forty-eighth Congress that he did not put the House into a furore of laughter. The country mem bers used to declare that he was more fun than the minstrels. His bills and appropriations were jested through the jest always bearing a strong argu ment why Texas and Texas harbors should be the especial care of the country. Ha called himself the "Bed headed Banger from Texas," and the title was enough to get him a hearing before the business committee. It was his custom to send in word to an im port x.-n o' -j?Tca Mir* .ifT.Lv : &cwaist** :'cui t.'..- ; ../.....I asu&sd t?fcr??*rt>>!r .w.* bari ! ?r'i9v r*?m.v%> V- "":'hi.xik? i-J isa a .. . au ?. m?a?ure Iii** I i-J&ii. ?? ; .? ?SS : Jgj***! ' "' saucb- . . t&ri?* :i gg*.<? I i ix&?z'- <T U % fart, of ?j^vfi^&r? j ?!\*?:.:?*> tittftti - v'-.-:?.'V.c: '*? oio'-ivr. ....>. ' do?a for Mi. irbat plain, nuvaraich^il ; MidprotMtiuiugio ?oroih?.?&?, . -Chicago Times-Herald. The Mystery of Heredity? Out of 222 pupils in the grammaii schools of Chicago who attained a oer-, tain percentage of efficiency only twenty-five were boys. This would indicate that girls are about four times as bright as boys. It is hard to un-i stand these things and to straighten up the rules of heredity. It is, we believe, an accepted rule that boys, "take after" their mothers and the! girls after their fathers. If, then, the1 women are the smartest, the boys,] "taking after" the mother, should also be smartest. If the men are the! smartest, then the girls.J "taking after" the father, should be smartest.] It is a difficult riddle to-unriddle.-4 Baltimore Sun. Moving Staircase for Fa. .enders. A moving staircase for passengers, In the shape of an endless leather belt transferring them from one story to another, is now in use in borne of the great department-stores of Paris. It is called a transporting carpet. End less belts of canvas have been used for some time to convey packages from place to place within the stores. WORLD'S BIGGEST JUG, Nearly as Tall ns a Man and Will Hold 175 Gallons. As a curiosity there may be some in? terest in "the largest jug in the world/' but there is little use for such a recepta-, cl?. An Illinois pottery firm has con-* structed an immense jug of the shape and appearance of the familiar little brown jug of history. It is so heavy that several men would be required to lift it high enough for one man to drink out of it. . It is almost as tall as a man, being! sixty-one inches high. It is thirty-six inches in diameter! and holds 175 gallons. The jug is per feot in every respect, and expert pot-j ters have declared it the finest piece of workmanship ever seen. The owners have been offered hand-, some sums for the jug by firms de siring to use it for advertising pun poses. It is no small task to finish a BIGGEST JUG EVEB MADE. vessel of this size, and the greatest care must be taken, for if a single flaw creeps into the clay it is liable to burst when being turned and create great havoc in the workshop. An octogenarian vagrant was lodged' at a St. Joseph (Mo.) police station one night A Pulpit In the Air. In the wildest and most picturesque section of Wirt county, near Cest?n, a uuge rock, known, as "Devil's Tea Table," hangs over the river, high above the valley. A few weeks ago Rev. John Bonnett, an eccentric moan tain evangelist, announced that he would preach from this rock, naming last Sunday as the day for the service. During Saturday night and early Sun day morning the backwoodsmen and their families began gathering at the foot of the rock, and by ll o'clock over 1,000 persons awaited the advent of the preacher, who soon appeared on the edge of the rock, and delivered his sermon from a pulpit 200 feet above his congregation, his text being, "On this rock I build my church." It was the most unique and impressive ser vice ever held in the State.-Parkers burg, (W. Va.) dispatch to the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Johnson's Chill and Fe? ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. The Lost Pocket Book, Three years ago a Portland man lost his pocket book that contained $300. The last he could remember of it was laying it upon his bed. Last Sunday he read in a newspaper the . notice of tho death of an o'd friend, and this set him to thinking of his school days. From these remembran ces came a desire to look over an old chest containing souvenirs, and in which he thought there was a picture of his f orin er chum. He went to the chest, lifted the cover, and the first thing that met his gaze was the pock et book with the money intact. And now he is puzzling his brains to re member how it came there.-lewis ton (Me.) Journal. Why take Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic? I Because it cures the most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DA Y. No Respecter of Persons. When ? hniral de Horsey, at Port Royal, was one night returning to his - flag-ship alone, his way to the boat led across the barrack square. A. black sentry of one of the West India regi ._. .-. ttl ?O'. ' (??aC -. .1.?.-. . . ??oa ?ar?:' Grw-S .hv a<*. ? '-. - aasoyariee tc ?cd ha i-.ad ncs:^ V'-y .... ?j?c ... ?.> -:Tiia: :. K'll^hV^V v.- ~.?u carci- .. * '"'..-S? io ov?rco??* '.'".M.j , ,.rs. ?Kt\(.\\r?i 'la Jf.:tr-:it?. "W?J?? voa ct.* '! gr? fe,*-' ..vwr tu* cly. ?*. a 1 ?i y<:;1 ; - De Donkey, I don't. - Household Words. Johnson's Chill and Fe? ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. Successful Skin Crafting. Ten-year-old Prischer Orter is at 1er home in Newark, N. J., after a tour months' stay at the German Hos pital, in that city. The girl was /rightfully burned on Febriiary 26 by tailing into a fire at the coal docks on Pacific street. For a time her life was despaired of. Her burns gradually healed, except one spot four inches in diameter, ibove the right knee. This refused co respond to ordinary treatment, and it was decided to try skin grafting Jtrips of skin were removed from the other leg and bound upon the unheal ed spot. They adhered, and gradu ally over-spread the whole sore and the little girl is now as well as ever. Picture Market Depressed. Almost one-quarter of the pictures at the Boyal Academy in London this year are portraits. Bather Teas than 200 of these are in oils, abo'-L f he same number are in water colo', 75 are in sculpture and the rest in euuoi draw ings or engravings. It is snpposed that the reason of this great display of portraiture is to be found in the con dition of the market, for there '"sat the present time but little demand for pic tures of any other kind. Quinine and other fe ver medicines take from 5 to 10 days to cure fever. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. First Fire Engines. "The Phoenix" was the nam' of th? first fire company in England, and il was established in 1682. At that tim?, in the towns, squirts or syringes wert used for extinquishing fire, and theil length did not exceed two or three feet. These yielded to the hand fir? engine with pipes of leather, whici was patented in 1676. Water-tight seamless hose was first made at Beth nal Green in 1720. A MODERN SCHEHEREZADE '?Mrs. Meeker," observed a friend of the family, "Isa very superior woman. She can converse intelligently. I believe, on a thousand different topics." "Yes," sighed Mr. Meeker, "and sh? does." A DECIDED nrar. Mother-What in the world ever pos sessed you to give Mr Bingo a shavirg set? Daughter-He never seems to realizo how tender my fate is. TUG TEMPTATION TOO GREAT. Ellen-Why don't you put a couple of oysters on f'ose black eyes o' yourn? Tom -1 d. I, I tried it twiced, but some how 1 can't never get them DO furder up than my monti.