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IM NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA ! L. C. HATNE, Pres't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. Surplus and 1011ft ftftft Undivided Profila I ??llV}UVV' Facilities of our magnificent Now Vault containir?; 410 Safety-Lock *ioxos. Differ ent Sizes are offered to our patrons and tho public at $3.00 to S10.00.per annum. PLANTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS Pays Interest on Deposits, Accounts . Solicited, Lu 0. HATXE, President. W. 0. WAEDLAIT,| Cashier. TROS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29. 1899. VOL. LXIV. NO. 13 IM NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA ! L. C. HATNE, Pres't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. Surplus and 1011ft ftftft Undivided Profila I ??llV}UVV' Facilities of our magnificent Now Vault containir?; 410 Safety-Lock *ioxos. Differ ent Sizes are offered to our patrons and tho public at $3.00 to S10.00.per annum. PLANTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS Pays Interest on Deposits, Accounts . Solicited, Lu 0. HATXE, President. W. 0. WAEDLAIT,| Cashier. TROS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29. 1899. VOL. LXIV. NO. 13 EN WALLS. Oh, for tho kindness that clings and twines Over life's broken wall, That blossoms above the scars of pain, Striving to bide them all! Ob, for tb? helpful, ministering hands, Beneficent, willing feet, Tbat spread rich mantles of tender thought O'er life's bard pliices.tlll Time has wrought Its healing-?divine, complete, ita Wilson Smith, ia Youth's Companion. PLE EGG. and Created a Suicide. ?E FRANCE. which he infinitely preferred to all the rest of his domain; he lived among his hens and had almost lost the habit of talking with human beingg. The odd little figure at this moment vanished, and loud cackling rose in the air. During the short stroll we took in the garden. Klausel told me that at diu ner I would meet his grandmother; that sho was a good old soul, but that I must not pay ninch attention to what she said, as she was often a little out of her mind. The bell rang for dinner. M. Han sel followed us into the house, carry ing a basket of eggs. "Eighteen to day," he said, in a clucking voice. A delicious omelet appeared. I was seated between Aline. Man3el, sighing under her diadem, and her mother, a r?und-cheeked, toothless, old Normandy woman, who smiled .vith her eyes. She seemed delight ful to me. While we were eating our roast duck and creamed chicken the old lady told us amusing stories that showed no signs of weakening facul ties. Om the contrary, she appeared th? merriest and sanest member of the family. After dinner we went into a parlor furnished in black walnut and yellow Utrecht velvet. Under the globe of the gilt clock ou the mantel lay a purple egg that at once drew my at tention. With a child's inexplicable curiosity I could not take my eyes off it. But I must add that the egg was o? a strange and splendid color-a royal purple,not in the slightest man ner recalling the wine-colored Easter eggs, dipped in beet-juice, that de light the children at all the fruit stands. I cou'd not resist making a remark about it. M. Mansel replied by an admiring cackle: "My young sir, that is not a dyed egg, as you seem to think. It was laid just as you see it th*?'1? u~ K- . ..?^wiifisome-"' timesISiatcfi^what'"they haven't laid, and if some mischievous neighbor should happen to slip into their nest a-" "Don't listen to her!" broke in her grandson, violently. "You know what I told von! Don'j listen to her!" "It's a fact," repeated M. Mansel, fixing his round eye on the purple egg Not long after I lost sight of Alex andre. 3Iy mother sent me to Paris to finish my studies. I entered the School of Medicine. About the time that I was prepariug my doctor's the sis, I received a letter from my mother, in which she told me that my friend had been very ill; he had had some strange seizure, on recovering from which he had become exceeding ly timid and . suspicious; but he was quite harmless, and, in spite of his troubled health aud reason,he showed a remarkable gift for mathematics. This news did not surprise me. Many a time, while studying diseases of the nerve-centres, I had called up men tally my poor friend from St. Julien and, in spite of myself, had made a prognosis of general paralysis threat ening this son of a neuralgic mother and a microcephalic,rheumatic father. At first I seemed to oe on the wrong scent. Alexandre Mansel, on reaching manhood, regained normal health and gave unmistakable proofs of his fine intellectual ?gifts. He car ried on extensive mathematical studies; he even sent to the Academy of Sci ences the solution of several difficult equations. Absorbed in these and kindred subjects,he rarely found time to write me. His letters were clear, friendly, well composed; nothing could be found in them to attract the attention of the most suspicious neu rologist. Soon, however, our corre spondence came to an end, and for ten years I did not get a word from him. I was greatly suprised last yea. when my servant handed me Alexan dre Mansel's card, saying that the gentleman was waiting for me in the antechamber. I was in my office dis cussiug a professional question of some importance with a colleague. Excusing myself for a moment, I has tened to greet my old school-fellow. I found him much aged, bald,haggard, fearfully emaciated. I took him by the arm and led him into the drawing room. "I am delighted to see you once more," he said, "and I have a great deal to tell you. I am a victim of un heard of persecutions. But I am brave, I shall fight to the end, I shall triumph over my enemies!" These words alarmed me, as they would have alarmed any neurologist. In them I traced a symptom of the af fection by which my friend was threat ened according to every law of hered ity and which had appeared dormant till now. "My dear fellow," I said to him, "you shall tell me all this later. Stay here a moment. I am settling a little matter in my offic?. Take a book to kill time till I join you." I have a great many books iu my drawing room-there must be 6000 volumes in the three bookcases. Why was it that my unlucky friend picked up the'very ono that could harm him and opeupd it at the fatal page? I talked for about 20 minutes longer witt my colleague; having ushered him out I returned to the drawing IM NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA ! L. C. HATNE, Pres't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. Surplus and 1011ft ftftft Undivided Profila I ??llV}UVV' Facilities of our magnificent Now Vault containir?; 410 Safety-Lock *ioxos. Differ ent Sizes are offered to our patrons and tho public at $3.00 to S10.00.per annum. PLANTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS Pays Interest on Deposits, Accounts . Solicited, Lu 0. HATXE, President. W. 0. WAEDLAIT,| Cashier. TROS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29. 1899. VOL. LXIV. NO. 13 The Good Work Done by tm Third Battle Our soldiers ar3 walking over thlT Filipinos in great style. Even when fighting behind entrenchments with Mauser3 and Kemingtons they are plainly no match for the Americans. The Filipinos have the Spanish dread; of a charge against an entienched po sition, They give way in rout at the? very moment when trained soldiers^ having reserved their fire, would sweep the assailants with a withering fusillade. In no other way cai$ charging infantry be repulsed. What5 the Filipinos know about fighting! MEX OF THE SIGNAL SERVICE. Extending the telegraph Unes during th? third battle ot Manila. they have learned from the Spaniards, who waste a tremendous amount of ammunition in volleys at long range and run when the enemy presses, them. The chief credit for our vic tories must go to General Elwell S.; Otis, whose disposition of troops at every point where they were likely to.' come in contact with the enemy has; shown him to possess military talents of a high order. Besides feeling and engaging the enemy in the environs of Manila, he has had to police a die^f; affected citv: in other words, to deal! third the list of our casualties was five times as great as in the second. The losses suffered by Spaniards and natives on these three occasions (and the Filipinos must strictly be regard ed us subjects of Spain until Spain j has ratified the treaty of peace) will never be quite accurately stated; they were probably about el?ven or twelve times as severe as ours, Firing began at a quarter before nine o'clock on Saturday evening, February 4. Two native soldiers re fused to obey tho order of a sentry who challenged them, as they ad vanced toward the outpost of the First Nebraska Kegiment, stationed be tween Manila and Santa Mesa. The necessity of maintaining the integrity of our lines, especially at night, has COMPARATIVE SIZES OF AMERICAN AND FILIPINO SOLDIERS. been impressed upon all hythe con duct of certain Filipinos who had slipped through a week earlier and attempred to assassinate American . oldiers. The Nebraska sentry again called upon the two natives to halt, and, as they.paid no attention to his' order, levelled his rifle and fired upon them. The sequel shows that they had been sent for precisely this pur pose, to draw the sentry's fire, as part of a preconcerted plan to place the responsibility for beginning the action upon our troops, and to make America appear the aggressor. Twenty thousand Filipinos in their trenches, block-houses, and little vil lages dotting the plain evidently thought themselves ready to drive the American lines in upon the city. They possessed several quick-firing aud Krupp field-guns; many of them were armed with Mausers of the latest pattern, and a number of Spanish sol diers had joined their ranks. About thirteen thousand of our troops were holding the positions formerly occupied by the Spaniards, midway between Manila and the bands of Filipinos north, east and south of the city. A semicircular fighting line, seventeen miles in length, was formed of the following regiments, be ginuiug with those stationed on , Ma nila Bay north of the capital: the Twentieth Kansas, First fontana, Tentn Pennsylvania and Third Artil lery, under Brigadier-General Harri son G. Otis; the First South Dakota, First Colorado aud First Nebraska, commanded by General Hale, sup ported by Batteries A and B of the Utah Light Artillery, under General McArthur, northeast to ea.it of the city; the First California, First Idaho, E FILIPINOS. 2 Am?'riC?n Volunteers in the : of Manila/ ?Pirst Wyoming and First Washing I'ton, tinder General King; east and southeast; hear the Pasig River; the Fourth Cavalry Fourteenth Infantry, First North Da?ota Infantry and Sixth Artillery Division; commanded by General Anderson; near the south shore of the city. \ Like an echo of the sentry's shot a gun was fired from Block-bouse No. 7; and the signal for attacking our troops 'ibj?fceen given: The Nebraska regi ment was made the first target; pres ently, however, the firing spread oh ,/oth sides along the confronting lines. On the north the Filipinos were con centrating at Caloocan and at Gaga langin, where they had mounted two .aiege-guns; on the east, at Sauta ?Mesa, the attack was hot; southward, near Paco, there was evidence of an intention to advance against Ander son's command. A lull in the firing from midnight until about four o'clock in the morning was succeeded by a new outburst all along the Filipino line. 'And so matters stood while the darkness lastedj the American rifles and light artillery replying to Mau sers, and it was all inconclusive. But when day broke the Charleston, the Concord and the captured gunboat Callao opened fire on the enemy's troops north of the city, the monitor Monadnock shelling thoss on the south; and a little later tba captured light-draught gunboat Layuna de B?y went np the Pasig, and plied her Gat ling guns with terrible accuracy at Santa Ana. And our land forces, ad vancing over rice fields and through dense undergrowth and bamboo thick ets, in which the enemy had con structed intrenchments, pressed the natives back and captured the villages of San Juan del Monte, Santa Ana, San Pedro Macati and Santa Mesa. General King's by gad e charged a force of Filipinos, far superior in numbers, and drove them in confusion j^-... - _?. - . about five miles east of the city. On the southeast the Filipinos made a stand in the Paco church, until the building was shelled by Captain Dyer's battery, Sixth Artillery, and set on fire by California volunteers; then, of those who bad not been killed in tlt? church, some were shot as they ran out and others were captured. At noon on Suuday the firiug of the Filipinos slackened. "Our casual ties," Major-General Otis says in his report, "probably aggregate 250." The Filipino loss is estimated at 4000. Wounded Filipinos found in the trenches were taken to the American field hospitals and cared for, while a great number of captives were placed in the military prison at Manik>. During the fight there was intense excitement in the city, where order was maintained by Minuesota volun teers, serving as police. The bombardment made a Manilan holiday for thousands, who flocked to view it as a curious spectacle from the water frout; other citizens, hugging their seourity at home, hung out white flags, or neutral flags, as an additional precaution, uutil the city looked as though it had made ready for some dilatory procession, but from the win dows of these very houses the Ameri-* can patrols were fired upon. Women of the foreign colony were sent to the transports for safety, while, as though to replace these, hundreds of women refugees began to arrive from the destroyed villages, seven or eight of which, plainly visible from the Ma nila Observatory, were burnt aud bat tered down, lest they should serve again to shelter the treacherous en emy. On Monday morning, February there was light firing at long range. Late in the afternoon General Hale's brigade won a position the control of which had become indispensable; it took possessiou of the water-works at Singalon, four companies of the Ne braskans and a part of the Utah bat tery encountering a force of Filipinos on the hill and dispersing them, though with a loss of two Nebraskans killed 'aud,thrv ; wounded. Sergeant Young of th: Utah battery was wounded, captured, murdereil, and mutilated. On Tuesday, February 7, our foroes had advanced far enough towards the north to discover that Caloocau, six miles from the city, was held with sav age determination. A reconnoitring AMERICAN" SENTRIES IX THE PUESTA DE ESPA?A, MANILA. party, attacked by a body of Filipinos, was in great danger, when a charge by Kansas troops, lcd by Colonel Fun ston, drove the enemy behind their intrenchmeiits with heavy loss. In this encounter Lieutenant Alford ?ras killed and six Kansans wounded. The men of the so-called Filipino army are uniformed and all are armed with Mausers and Remingtons. Tbera was little discipline among them ac cording to o?r ide.tS; As nearly as we cOuld" ascertain, writes Captain W. G; Bates,- ?.- S. V., who has just returned from Ma nila, it was the custom of these sol diers to prepare at their homes food sufficient to last iwo or three days, and gd with it td the trenches, where they would remain till all their food was exhausted; when1 they would go home again and get a fresh supply; There was, therefore, a constant stream of these soldiers on the Calle Real (the main road near our posi tion),- and many of them walked through our camp; They Were cf all ages, but principally young men and boys. ? found them very enthusiastic and filled with ardent and genuine pa triotism; Their method of fighting seemed somewhat peculiar' to us; I saw sev eral of their night engagements with the Spaniards. It was tht? custom of the Filipinos at some time during th? night to open fire on the Spanish lines and keep it up for two or three hours. The Spaniards from their works would reply in the same mannsr, and a large amount of ammunition would be ex pended by both-sides with little re sult, beyond a few men wounded and possibly ou8 or two killed, Such fights as these were of almost nightly occurrence, and I have np doubt that it was a fight of this kind that the Filipinos began on the night of Feb ruary 4th. According to their cus tom they probably considered it over when they stopped firing, and never for one moment supposed that the Americans would continue the battle the next morning and advance to the attack. When that happened" they were not only surprised, but utterly unprepared. They had never been in the habit of fighting or seeing civilized trcops fight outside entrench ments, and it was beyond their com prehension that soldiers could be got to advance across the open and attack fortified positions. The experience is similar to nothing in their history, and the lesson, while it is a severe one, TV as necessary and will have a most salutary effect on all future deal _t-.o^ icki?iy lias oeen i rudely dispelled. It probably has be- I come very apparent to them that the American troops are not to be trifled with, and that the commanding of ficers are thoroughly able to e?iorce their orders. KIPLING TO VISIT MEXICO. The Famons Author In Search of Fresh Literary Material. Rudyard Kipling, the fanions novel ist, arrived in this country the other day after an absence of two years. He is not content with having given to the Engh.ih-speaking race his inimit able stories of the "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" and ''Tommy Atkins," but he intends to visit Mexico and there to study the peons, the peasant class of that coun try, as well as to acquaint himself with the local coloring and to gather material for a new series of stories. Mexico is more or less a virgin field for au English-speaking writer, and its unwritten tragedies and romances, its untold stories of the workings of human love and deeds of heroism, in the hands of such a writer as Kipling, will add to our literature, if they can not place fresh laurels upon his al ready well-laureled brow. Mr. Kipling's latest poem, "The White Man's Burden,"pub1 ?shed only the other day, has created more talk j EUDYARD KIPLING. than any poem written within recent time. The phase has become house hold in its use, while the poem breathed of the duty of the superior race in its dealings with inferior peoples. Rudyard Kipling has steadily re fused all offers to take the lecture platform. His words are worth fifteen cents apiece, and even the most ex travagant American audiences admit that they canuot afford to hear him ai that figure. Every time he says ' Good morning" to a neighbor it's thirty cents blown to the winds; and once, it is stated, when ho is said to have shouted in meeting, the old deacons sighed and muttered: "0, that we had the price of that shout in the contribution box for the benefit 0/ the heathen ho writes abont!" Siiffiir IMnmatlon? at Iloilc. The country about Iloilo, Philip piue Islands, is given up to sugai plantations, the aunuai crop beinp ? estimated at 1,000,000 piculs. To I bacco and rice are also ooltivatcd, bul I Hocks of locusts frequently injure I these crops. The Islaud of Negros ! filip sugar to Iloilo for export. Th? ' distance of Iloilo from Manila is 25( I miles. OUR PARMERS IN LUCK. Mailt- Moro Money in lS?if fWn Ever Be fore In tho Country's HifltdfyV The farmers of this country mada? more money in 1898 than ever before in'its history. The statistical report from the* department of agriculture showj rtrtprecedented crops, unpre cedented prictfs and unprecedented prosperity. The coin! crop in 18'J? amounted to 2,283,875,166 bushels,, valued at ?4-19,276,030; in 1897 it was 1,902,'967,933 bushels,valued at ?001, 072,852. In 1898, according to pres ent estimates,tho volume waa not only largely increased, but the farm value of corn throughout th? country aver ages 2.4 cents a bushel more than in 1897. The wh at crop in 1896, at 72 cents ri bushel, was valued at $i27,684,346; in 1897; afc 80.8 per bushel, it was valued rit ?-428^047,121. The increase in 1898 was 1,411,692 rieres, the largest in history, and the crop was dupreco dented in quality, quantity and price. The barley crop in 1897 was worth $25,142,139 nt 37 cents a bushel. The figures fdr 1898 ?re not in yet,but the price is 41.4 ce??s d bushel and the preliminary repo1 c shows rt crop slight ly above the average. The same may be said of rye, which is quoted at 46.3 cents a bushel, against 44.7 iu 1897. The farm price for oats in 1898, ac cording to the official figures of the agricultural department, ie 25.6 cents a bushel, against 21.2 for 1897 aud 19.5 in 1896, The totals art not in yet, hut in 1897 tho crop was valued at ?147,974,719. Potatoes are now worth 41.4 cents a bushol on the farm, which is a large falling off from 1897, when they sold for 54.7 cents, but it is said that the difference will be more than made up by the increase in the volume of the crop, which is believed to he 21 per cent, greater than in 1897, when tho total was valued at ?88,643,059. The hay crop of the United States in 1897 was valued at $401,390,728, with hay selling at $6.62 a ton. In 1898 the crop was the best on record, and it is selling on an average of ?6 a ton throughout the country. . During the calendar year encted December 31,the value of the bread stuffs sold abroad was $317,000,000, provisions S174,000,000 and cotton $233,000,000, making a total of $724, 000,000 wonh of farm products ex ported and sold at better prices than were ever known before. An Unexpected Phase. One afternoon recently a Brush ave class and made a vain effort to follow the fugitive from justice. She flour ished the brush aud commanded him to come out, but he refused and ir reverently jeered at her efforts to reach him. When the father came homo to dinner ho was informed of the situation and grew wroth as he lis tened to the ex-parte presentation of the case. He would have that boy if he had to tear the house down, and started foi- the attic. It was clone work, aud his surprise could not be expressed in words when the boy, in stead of cowering in a corner, came heartily to his assistance. "Try to wriggle through, dad," urged the lad, as he reuewed his hold under the paternal arms and pulled for all he was worth. "Keep wig gling. It's a doss fit, but you'll make it. Never mind the shirt. There you are," as the father came through. "We're in great luck. I thought she'd chase you up here as soon as you got home. Come over here and sit down till she cools offi " What could you do with a boy like that?-Detroit Free Press. Captured Spanish Gunboats. The deplorable loss of the former Spanish cruiser Iufauta Maria Teresa leaves ns with only two small trophies of the naval campaign in Cuban wa ters. They are the tiny Spanish gun boats Alvarado and Sandoval, and in size they are not as large as some of our converted yacht-gunboats. The two are sister ships, being identical in all important essentials. They are 110 feet long, 8 feet beam and 5 feet draught. Their rating is that of tor pedo boats, although, strange to state,*they have no torpedo launching tubes. Their engines are in excellent condition, and it is believed that they can be altered to develop high speed. The two vessels will be remodelled at Portsmouth, N. H. The Sandoval was dismantled and wrecked by her own captain when he saw that escape from the American fleet in Guantanamo bay was impos sible. The breech blocks were broken oft' and thrown overbqard and the guns otherwise rendered useless. The vessel was then sunk, the captain afterward explaining to Admiral Samp son that his ship was in a Rinking condition, and weut down before he could reach her. The Saudoval was afterward raised and refitted by Lieu tenant Anderson under the supervi sion cf Captaiu McCalla.-Harper's Bazar. A Hoy's Labor-Saving Device. A boy who hadn't boan very good about, writing home since he went off to boarding school surprised his par ents not long ago hy sending home a weekly letter with clocklike regularity. The letters were not very long, aud they bore a striking resemblance to oae another; each one consisted ol' the school address-a rather long one-at the top, followed by "My dear father and mother-I am very well. Your loving son,-. " Each one was a letter, however, and for 12 weeks they came regularly and they hove g tod news. When the boy was home tor the holida s his mother compli mented him upoii his improvement in thu art of w.ekly letter writing. The boy blnshel. "To tell the ti nth, mother." he .-aid, "I didn't write tho.-e tatters o icc a week. I was sick one day and couldn't go out or do any thing, so [ ju t sat down and picked out a hit of dates ahead and wrote 'I a.n weil' 12 times."-New York Sun THE LIFE-SAVERS. (TO THE MEJf OF V. 8. LIFE-SAVUiO SZBtlOE.} When ibo Lord breathes Ills wrath above the N.osouj of the waters, "Wtera che rollers are a-poundin' on th? shore, W?en the mariner's a-thinkin' of his wife and sons and daughters, And tho little home WU, maybe, see no more; When the bars aro white and yeasty and tho shoals are all a-frothin', When the wild no'theaster's curtin,' like a knife. ?brootcli the seethln' roar and screech- he's patrolliu' on the beach The gov'ment's hired man fer savin' life. He's strugglin' with the gusts that strike and bruise him like- a hammer, He's ilghtin' sand that stings like swarmln' bees, He's list'nin' through the whirlwind and the thunder and the clamor, A Ifcit'nin' for the signal from the seas. Ho's break in" ribs and muscles launchin* lifeboats in the surges, He's drippin' wet and chilled in every bono. He's brlngin' men from death back ter flesh and blood and breath. And ho never stops ter think about his own. Ho's fl-pullin' at an oar that is free/In' ter his lingers. ? He's n-clinglii' In tho riggin' of a wreck, He knows destruction's nearer every minute that ho lingers, But it don't appear ter worry him a speck. Ho's draggiu' draggled corpses from the clutches of tho combers The kind of job a common chop 'ould shirk Sui be takes 'em from the wave and be lita 'em 1er th J grave, And he thinks it's all included in bis work. Ho is rigger, rower, swimmer, sailor,<loctor, undertaker, And ho's good at every ono of 'em the* same, And bo risks bis life for others in the quick sand and tho breaker, And a thousand wives and mothers bless his name. He's a angel dressed in oilskins, he'o a saint in a "sou'-wester," Ho's as plucky as they make, or ever can, He's a hero born and bred, but it hasn't swelled his head, ' And he's just tho U. S. gov'ment's hired man. -Joe Lincoln. _h HUMOROUS. "They exhumed the wrong body." "What a grave mistake." "Is she really so jealous about'him?" "Man, she won't even allow him to sing 'Annie Laurie.' " Friend-Why on earth do you wear those high collars? The Confirmed Dude-Because there are no taller ones made. " "Isn't Belle's husband old enough to ba her father?" "Her father! Why, my dear, he's old enough to be a cap tain in the United ?States navy!" "Did you ever meet a woman whose very voice filled you with unspeakable emotion?" "Yes, that's the way my .' ' ri: -- ~~ ?*? the morn movrow uti.?w_ "Man is but dust," ;...-> But know thou dost, He's got to dust To get the dust. "It is a question to me," said the dentist, as he got up in the cold to answer a cry from his baby, "if a fel low makes most noise when his teeth are coming, or when they are going." Wright-I believe a good deal of human interest could be put into a play with the scenes laid in a pawn shop. Bead-My dear boy, the inter est iu a pawnshop is something abso lutely inhuman. Mrs. Benham-I couldn't hear what the minister said this morning that made all the people smile. What was it? Benham-Instead of giving out his text, he said: "The usual nap will uow be taken." The woman whom it takes forever to make up her mind had at last come to a decision. "It's very queer, though," she said. "I actually feel more worried and unsettled now than I did beforo it was settled." First Lawyer-I thought you were retaiued to defend Gory Dick,the wife murderer? Second Lawyer-I was asked to, but my conscience wouldn't let me. It was such a brutal crime. And besides that, he has no money. "Now, Thomas," said granny, "there are only two apples left, and they shall be for you and your little brother. One is small, and the other is large. I know that you are not a greedy boy-which shall I give yuu?" "Well, granny, I'm like you, I always hope for the best. " Reflection? of n Bachelor. Love is divided into quarters-one- ' quarter vanity, three-quarters jealousy. lt makes a woman shudder to think how happy she could have made you. When a woman is convicted she ac quits herself by saying she has been misjudged. Constant nagging wears away the heart. The shortest, honeymoon is longer than a bride's delusions. Youth thinks of love with passion, middle age with reverence, old age with comfort. When a girl peers into the future she sees herself in a photograph with a baby's naked arms around her neck. It isn't the striving and never achieving that wearies the heart; it is theachieviug and thenfinding itwasn't worth while. If a man does not unbosom himself to a woman who likes him she shud ders to think of the life he led before her example brought repentance to < him-New York Press. He Was Not Afraid. Nervousness is a thing with which tho Prince of Wales is but little afflict ed. Once at a scientific carnival, while Dr. Playfair was showing the prince and his party round, they came to a vat of chemicals, which were hissing and fizzing away in a very forbidding fashion. The prince seemed much interested in this. Dr. Playfair asked i the prince to dip his fingers in the liquid. There was a titter and some i dismay among tho:-e who heard, but j the prince, having looked the doctor I straight in the face, put his hand into the hissing caldron, and found the liquid as cold as ice. The explanation was that some chemicals when they liijil give ont cold instead of heat, - Bosron Transcript. .