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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. ?AYNE, Prcs't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. Surplus ami ) ?t 1 A Af JA Undivided Profits j $ 1 ? v,vl> v/. Facilities ot our magnificent Xew Vault 'containing 410 ^afoty-Look Boxes. Dlffer 'cn! Sises are ottered lo our patrons ami the public at S3.C0 to 510.00.por annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEEIELD, S. Ci WEDNESDAY, AUGU8T-9, 1899. THE" PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS AUGUSTA, GA. PajB Intcrost on Deposits. Accounts Solicited, L. C. HATOTE, President. W. G. WARDLAW, Cashier. VOL LXIX NO. 32. J ASLEEP ? f. ? - <jj An Incident of t i -- ? BY 33. F. It was the night after tho terribie day at San Juan, and Private George Mor . ton of the regulars was doing picket duty on the heights, Not ranch to niake a story ont of, for after the exciting events of that day, ever to be memor able in otu- history, anything ebo that eran be told must seem simple and com monplace. But to Private Morton there at his post by the deserted trenches it was destined to be even more uventful than the scenes he had just been through. ^ Ever since the landing of his regi ment, two days before, the moments had boen filled with excitement and rough work that left little time for thought. But Private Morton, as a general" rule, was not much given to thought. A private in .the regular army must be made into a part of one splendid fighting machine. So Pri vate Morton was content t? do his duty and let the officers do the think ing. Though apparently not over 30 years ol age, he was now , serving his aeco'jd term of enlistment and hud seen enough of active service in the Indian campaigns in Arizona and tho Bad Laud3 to make war for him no novelty. He was counted a good sol dier, and he knew by heart all the "rules of war" by which the sharp discipline of the regular army is en forced. * But tonight it seemed to Uv soldier that thc burdens of the service were mona than ordinarily oppressive. For nearly 48 hours he had been on con stant duty, without rest or respite, marching through the tropical rain, wading streams, plodding in the mud, [ fighting,famishing; for in all that mad rush pf the preceding days there had been ao time for ;rest and hardly a thought for - food "and drink, for even the regulars ha:l caught the infection and were nearly as reckless and im provident as the less disciplined and thoughtless volunteers. - The one thing to do was to possess that Span ish line before it could be reinforced and before the dreaded fever should thin their own ?anks. It was death in front, but just as' certain death was stalking in the rear. -And so during those last two days there had been no rest from duty, no'moineut in which to catch a little sleep or relieve the muscles or mind from the terrible strain. The lino had been won and now . anc7 F worn-and exhausted. When rnvnte Morton .heard the orderly sergeant call Iris Ju anio "as 'on e ol the" detail for guard dnty_he had just flung himself down on the rain aud blood soaked ground beside a- dead Spanish soldier. There had been no time to select a resting place; the tired limbs had re fused duty the moment discipline was relaxed, an I he had fallen almost as a dead man there hmong the really dead, with all his accoutrements still strapped about him aud firmly grasp ing his'heavy, army rifle. "But with the ealliug of his name the habit of discipline returned,, and he was promptly on his feet to form one of the little squad that-inarched away into the growing darkness toward the front fur sentinel duty. He was stationer in the shadow of a few closely growing trees, just be yond the now deserted trenches lately so stubbornly defeuded by Spain's bravest soldiers, with orders not to expose himself in the opeu,but to note the least movement or sound from the direction in which the enemy had re treated, for it_was deemed very likely that a night attack might be attempted for the recovery of the hill. For a abort time after his compau-. ions left him Private Morton did not give much attention to himself. He followed," first with his eyes, then by. the ear, the movements of the little baud,as guard after guard was placod. and"tried to keep in mind the location of tfie diilerent men. It was no new wcoik for him to be onguard.and there wael p o special novelty to him in the situation. War was war, whether in Cuba or Arizoua. He knew that across that dark canyon, concealed by the darkness and the thick growth of timb?ir-i?H&-the Spanish line and that any^inonient a flight of Mauser bullets might come in his direction from out those dim shadows, or even n line of yelling Spaniards spring from the jungle down there a little way below him and come charging up to bear him and his comrades back from the hard earned field. But- he had been in equally bad places before and did not know what it was to fear anything in the shape of foe. He kuew the im portr.ace of his task, the perils it in volved aud the consequences of fail ure^ _...^ , : - . But now the new-found strength that came to him when called to this new task b~gan gl ad nally to fade away, aud hi could-.realize how tired and faint ho was. He could easily couut up his rations for the last two days - justit!ve hardtack, soaked in muddy t water, in all that time, and as for' sleep, when he came to thiulc of it he did not believe that he had had any, unless, perhaps, he had slept awhile between the lighting and the detail for gua?d duty. How tired he was now and how he wou?d like to sleep! No, that was too risky. "It meant death to bo caught asle?p. He could stab a hole through his ahoe with his bayonet and wounxl his foot; the-- pain mustawalfeu him. Somehow, the blood felt so warm and comfortable there-was he going to sleep after all? He took a cartridge from his belt and bit it savagely till he broke a tooth, and his mouth rilled with blood; but he let it run dowu his face?, and across his blouse, with no care?for the pain or relief from that tevsroVratr of overstrung nerves for reut'in sleep. How ,long Private Morton fought this-': terrible hattie^ with himself-a batt? more dreadful than any on thni blo(S3y4eWvtiie day before-we can rsv PICKET? I he War in Cuba. jj> FLOYD, not tell. It seemed ages to-him; it might have been only the latter part of his time of ri?1 ty, but at last the re lief was coming. He could not be mistaken-that WAS the sound of his approaching delive-ance-yes, there was the head of the line within 50 yards of him. Now he could Ble?p. "O! how tired I am J how blessed this filoepl'* And so they found hinij sound asleep at his post. It might have beeu for n niomeut ; it might havo been for two hours. Asleep he was, at any rate, when relief arrived. Kis post was the most important on the whole line, and its sentinel asleep!-. How could they know he had fonght so hard to keep awake-ancrhe had only fallen ns they were at hand? .They had found him so, aud it was death; He knew that. Ho had not b?en in the service six yoars to forget that. There was no excuse that would say? a sentinel from <Wath who fell asleep at hi3 post in time Of war and; In the face of the enemy. -As the grim faces" of the men that fell in about him to take him to the guardhouse showed no sign of compassion, so Morton real ized that he could expect none from any quarter, but. nrnst suTer th?':fu?F penalty of his crime. It did not occupy much time, his trial and conviction. The' days.w'ere too busy for that- those days before Santiago* between El Caney, San Juan and the surrender. They were grim and powder: bl ack ened, with torn and faded uniforms, that group of officers quickly called together-for courtTmartial, but they were ?tern ' and^just The -evidence was clear-there was no defeuce-the sentence brief. Private Morton for sleeping on post was to be shot to death, in the presence of his regiment, the following day at noon. The action of the court-martial had been approved by the commander, a id but a few short hours remained fo the condemned man between this aud another world. In -the old Saa Juan blockhouse, that served as a prison now, lay Private Morton, stretched on the rough floor and covered with his blanket. There was time enough to sleep here, and that sleep which seemed so precious but a short time ago,aud which would finally cost him hisjife, .why would it not come to him now and shut out the awful'realities of his position? Why going crazy? It was nw oUyk .. niw? 'ful thing to die. He had faced death a thousand times and was not afraid of that. During that charge up the hill the lieutenant had called to him, "Private Morton, cut., these wires." He was not afraid thou, but had stepped out of the brush into that hor nets' nest of lead and with his nippers cut every wire before ho left-and not a bullet hit him, though the nonten ant and eight or ten other meu fell dead before they got through, the gap he had made. Perhaps he bore a charmed life, and they might not hit him when they came to. try~to -kill him next day. lt was the disgrace of it all, though. "In the presence of his regiment"-thnthad been the sen tence, and the disgrace of standing before his comrades, condemued for neglect of duty, he, Private Morton, who had served six years in his regi ment and had never a mark against his name before. This was worse than death. If he could only sleep a little while aud forget that part of it. But that tooth would persist, in paining so, and one ragge \ point kept cutting his tongue and filling his mouth with blood that almost choked him at times, so that ho sleep would come. With such feverish fancies did the night pass away, and thea the brief forenoon seemed all too short. . They would como for him'iu a few moments, and he would march out aud meet, his doom before the whole regiment. Who would come, and who would be told oft' for the firing party? He hoped they would bc good shots. "Reddy" James would surely be one; he was al ways on every special detail, and that, bristling red moustache would be sure to stand out stiffer than-ever today. "Mealy" Mason- would be another. He "was-the mau the sergeant always detailed to shoot the sick und disabled horses tho summer they were up in the Bad Lauds. But before he could count up auymore the lieutenantcame to inform him that the time was up and ho must march to the place of ex ecution. It struck him as a li We peculiar just then that no chaplain had been sent to help smooth his pathway to the grave; but-it did not give him much concern, as he never had much use for a chaplain anyway, and all the boys knew it. Another thing seemed queer. Had he not seen the lieuten ant fall there at the.barbed-wira.fence, with a bullet through his head? But here he~was~atid'did not seenTlo "ber any the worse for it, only his face was terribly white and ghastly, and ai great splash of bloo:l almost covered1 hi3 once white gauntlet. Kow he came: to thiuk of it, "Mealy" had fallen at the fence with the whole side of his head torn away, so after all he would, not be one of the fiiiug party. He: wondered if his mother would know; of his disgrace and if she would be: there. He remembered, how J that he? had heard her voice singing "Rock ot* Ages" some time lasf nigHt, just as: sho used to when h?'was a little chap? and she sang him to sleep at night. ; The? officer started to read some thing from a large roll of "manuscript, but stopped with a scowl. "5fou ? know what it is," he said; "forward, I march!" And Private George Morton; ;. took his blanket from the H.oor, rolled' -it- np properly as 'became a TJnitefl States regular and follow?d his lieit tennnfc*to the scene of his death. He.began-to wonder, howlit would feel to Jae hit; whether he should know :.wyth'ittgiftOoutoit and howlong it would tate to die; He watched tue firing squad as it slowly filed into po sition. He counted them as., they wheeled into place. One. two, three, j four, five, six, and the officer. Why did it take so many tb kill a man? But, then, not all the gnus were loaded. It seemed to take a long time to get everything ready, though perhaps his thoughts were running a little more rapid than usual. One thiug brought him satisfaction - tb?ve would be plenty of time to sleep after it was all over. His imagination must bc playifig him false again, else how was it thal he saw the white, agonized face of hts mother there; breaking through that solid line bf blue on th? right? He wanted td rush to her and tell her it was all a dream, that he would not be hurt, but he cc.nld not bring his limbs to obey his will, and then iu a moment tho stern, fixed faces of the men in front brought back with sick ening force tho reality and awfulness of it all. < :It must come td ai: end some time. Yes, tho officer at the head of the squad had stepped a pace forward,and n command was given that he could ?ot understand, but'the guns weie lowered with a jerk; auother command, and,, with a jerk ^aud clang the guns tam? to "aim" and idl seemed point ' Tug directly into his eye3. It would soon be over. Th ere was a flash; but he could hear no report. "Would those bullets never come, or must he stand there through all eternity waiting for the end? Coold they have missed him? Perhaps he : was dead already. Death had come with the flash, and death AVfiS not so different from life,after all. Then "Yes, lam hit, after ali!" he shouted; grabbing frantically at his left arm; which suddenly seemed a mass of molten iron. "Of all those guns only due was loaded, and that has taken off my arm." Dazed^aud stupid from sleep .aud pain, he opeued his ey.es to see the~re 'lfef'still some" 20 yard's^away,buVmov ing with the brisk f wing of the regu lars to his post. His left arm seemed on fire yet, but he nianaged to bring his gun into position and challenge in the usual manner. "How is this?" said the officer. "Wounded? "ft must have been th?t shot that just came from across the canyon." -'Tes, I believe I'm struck a bit," jsaid Morton, "but it don't ?mount to much, and I'm mighty glad to get-out of this-hole even if my arm is broke. It's a sight.better-than hav ing the whole six in my carcass." I With those, rather unintelligible words Private Morton "fr'l in" and "marched away to his quarters. After the surgeon had fixed up his nnujt was some.time before he could fOltS niS WOUIHieu luui.ggtHfr*0 keep him awake, and at last-to fall soundly and really asleep!-Overland Monthly. , QUEER THINGS ABOUT ANIMALS. The California woodpecker will carry an acorn thirty miles to store it. It takes a suail exactly fonrteen days and five hours to travel, a mile. Thc land crabs of Cuba run with great speed, even outstripping a horso. That, sleeping- or-waking, snakes never close' their -eyes is a .envious ' fact. . Theelephaut has-10,000 muscles in his trunk alone, while a man has only 577 in his entire body. Ants have brains. larger in propor tion to,the size of their bodies than buy other living creature. The dragon fly can fly backward and sidcloug, and eau altar its course on ''the instant without turning. It is estimated that t'uerc are 02,050, 0D0 horses in thc world, 195,150,000 cattle, aud 134,500,000 sheep. When a chameleon is blindfolded it loses all power of changiug its color, and its entire body remains of a uui -form- tint There ave .th veo-varieties of the dog that never bark-the Australian dog, the Egyptian shepherd dog,, and the "lion-headed"' dog ol Thibet 'The lantern fly of Surinam, South America, has two sets of eyes, so as to catch the light from all .directions. It is much more brilliant. than our firefly. ...^ ... The oldest liviug creature in the worldbelongs to Walter Rothschild. It is a giant tortoise, weighing a quarter of a ton, and it has & known life of 150 years. There are several varieties of fish that caunot swim. lu every instance they are deep-sea dwellers, and crawl about the rocks, using their tails and fins as legs. Some animals can live many years without water. A paroquet lived fifty two years in the London Zoo-Without taking a drop of water. A number of reptiles live aud prosper lu places where there is no water. The heron seldom flaps his wings ot a rate of lesa than 120 to 150 times a minute. This is counting only the downward strokes, so that the bir^a . wings really make from 210 to 300 dis tinct movements a minute. , One of the longest-lived birds on record died recently in London. It was a parrot named Ducky, the prop erty of the Prince of Wales, and was a century and a quarter old. , TJp to 80 years of age elephants are useful members of society. In China carrier pigeons; ?re pro tected from birds of prey by an ingen ious little apparatus consisting of bamboo tubes fastened to tba, birds' bodies with "thread;passed ?eueath the wings. As.the pigeon, flies,. the action of the air passing through the tubes produces a shrill, whistling sound which keeps the birds of prey at a distance. The antipathy of animals for certain things is unexplainable, but the fact remains; for example", Th ? t'?aUl es nak es have a' decided dislike ior' the loaves of the'white asl). Experimenta ?hnvo shownv<???at they' would - ra.lheiv^iin over live coals than touch white ash loaves, - Philadelphia Inquirer, Elaborate Preparations . For War Made by the Trans vaal Republic; tienerai Pi j. Joubert, aa American, is the Commander bf the?Boer Army Consisting of ?5,000 Weii-Armed Warriorsi In a iittlo whitewashed cottage in South Africa sits "Oom"PauliKruger. defying the whole British nation. It is one of the,strangest- spectacles of the ago to witness this seventy-year bid Boer, the' head of one ol- earth's weakest nationalising himself against the aggression of-its strongest-power. ' 'It is like a fawn pitting its ;atrengthT against that of a lion. The present differences between the British Colonial Secretary. and the South'African Republic are ont a con tinuation of the old troubles with the addition of a newphase. For fifty years England has asserted that th? Trans vaal is a mere dependency, . with no right to make laws for herself^ unless they are sanctioned by the ^imperial Government. The Boers haveiteadily PRESIDENT KRUGER AND HIS?WIFE. maintained that the agreement be tween the two nations, as arranged at a London convention in 1881,;;vgaJ7e to T7T\ rt*>l rt-n /I Aiiln 4-1? rt - rvrtntAii /\f . o?"i *>n??T??n The British Colonial- oecTetary^ spurred'on by Cecil JV Rhodes, Eng--' land's empire-maker in" South Africa, has been persistently trying to extend his authority so that the entire law making power of tho Boer Volksraad should be under his jurisdiction and control. He has demanded that all laws and treaties, whether relating to the internaHor -external interests of. the republic, shall lie reforred to him for h\s approval before operative, and he has asked that old laws which are not favorable to English interests in the Transvaal shall be repealed. This interference has naturally been pro vocative of much ill-feeling - not;"only between tho beads \of the. two Govern ments, but Between the individuals as will. s To understand tho Transvaal situa tion thoroughly ono must know that every British subject in the Transvaal considers that every iuch of Transvaal soil is rightfully the property of the British nation, and that the Boers are meroly interlopers, with no rights that are deserving .the-.respect of-an . Englishman. They r?gard the/Boers; ; a's 30 ninny ignorant, uncleanly aav'-i - ages? whbjidp jiot know how to govern themselves, much less others. Every Englishman in tho gold-fields, or in any other part pf the republic, still smurts under the .sting of .the Jameson failure, and nothing will-wipe; out ithat score but the. sight ff he British,,Sag flying over the whole of tho Trans vaal. Everything that ingenuity can deviso is done to embarrass tho Gov ernment. The amazing part of the situation is that none of the American, German, Dutch and French 0 residents of the : Transvaal-and there aro many thou- ? sands- of these in business in the - country-joins with the Englishmen in 1 protesting against the laws of the Boer.v Their pympathy with tho ; i Boers, was shown .at the time of tho [Raid, when all of them ranged thom " aelves on tho Bido of the Kruger co ! hprts.- < ? 1 1 " The, War Department Intelligence* ; Bureau in 'rVftauiugtou has collected ft PRESIDENT KB??1 mass of valuable information regard ing the armament and ?quipaient of the Boer Government. According to the data at hand it is learned that tho Transvaal authorities within the last four years have equipped the artillery braneh of the army entirely with Krupp guns. The pieces embrace standard field guns of 2.95-inch cali bre, and in addition, mountain guns of 2.36-inch calibre and bush guns of 1.46-inch calibre. The field guns are mostly of the lighter Krupp variety of twenty-eight calibres length. It is this type of weapon which the Chilean army used in the late war iu Chile, and for rough country work the Krupps declaro it to bo the best piece,pf ordnance turned out in Eu rope. ?he 2.36-inch mouutain gun is capable of being transported on the backs of three mules; one mule car ries the barrel, a second the carriage, and *a third the wheels and shafts. The normal weight for each animal amounts to ?bout 199 pounds. To this must be added the weight of the saddle and equipment, making a total of 287 pounds per animal. In the United States 3*00 pounds is deemed maximum pack-weight for a strong mule. The Krupp bush-gun in tho possession of the Boers consists of a piece of very light weight, and ono capable of being transported in all places, evon over the most? difficult ground. This type of gun has been used in a number of puuitive African expeditions. The Boer infantry is now armed with the latest typeof Mauser rifle,the handiwork of the Loewe works oi Berlin. The cavalry carry German regulation revolvers and sabres. According to the military attaches' reports, the Traievaal forces are essentially German in equipment and J..:n -_ J ii. - ?,'???1 :_ ?.i. J GENERAL JOUBERT, COMMANDER OF OOM PAUL'S FORCES. many commissioned officers in tho Bo?V servico learned the art of war fare in the German army. "There is good reason to believe that there are, even now, many Germau officers with the Boer troops, who are simply absentaron their regiments in Ger many, on leave. The fact that the German Government permitted, openly, Germau officers to takn service with the; Turks in tho Avar between Turkey and Greece lends-additional confirmation to the report. In tli? opinion'of mauy well-posted American officers, the Boers are in far better shape, to-day, for Avar than is generally suppered. A war be tAveeu the Boers .arid English Trill mean, it is said iu official circles hsre, a much stouter affair than Great Britain has had to deal Avith in the laut thirty-five years. The Boors, at the present time, are in much better shape, and are more ably officered than 'they ?vere in the last struggle 3B PEESENT DAY. with tho English. It is estimated by the various reports that the Boers are able to put into the field 25,000 well equipped and Avell-officered men. . ? General P. J. Joubert is oue.of the few :uen who .ever *'broke n; British nquare" in South Africa, and he is confident that he eau do again." As commander-in-chief of the Boers he ia tho .man who may .have tho task of try ing to whip tho English forcea in bat* :R AND HIS ESCORT. tie. General Joabert is an American, haring been born in TJniontown, Penn., in 1841, and few men have.had a more picturesque care'er or know ns much about the re?dtiO? of the Trans vaal to the Swaizes. When fourteen years of age he left this country and went to Holland. H?6 tasto for war was always keen, and when the rebel lion broke out he came to this countrj and served in the navy under Admir al Dupont. Later he became captain of a colored company under General Weitzel. After the war he returned to Holland, and later went to South Africa. When the rule of the Eng lish became intolerant to the Dutch at Cape Colony and Cape of Good Hope, and many of them went north to the Transvaal, General Joubet went with them. After he had assisted '< them materially in driving out the wild beasts, conquering the savages, settling the country, discovering an 3 developing the diamond fields, the j English suddenly discovered that they had a claim to this far away country. He was only a plain Boer, or farmer, when his fellow subjects determined to resist the British. In 1881, at the head of a handful of Dutch farmers, he met the British army at Majuba Hill and put it to flight after great slaughter. This secured liberty for the Boers, and they accordingly look upon General Joubert, now Vice President of the South African Re public, as the Washington of their country. General Jouoert visited this country in the latter part of 1890 for tho purpose of arranging an ex hibit at tho World's Fair for South African products. While in New York tho Holland Society arranged many receptions and dinners in his honor. Strangest Country in the World. finmoliaro .Tn li rr ia flva mn**.* AT. m at msoacjx, ami n, ? ..uciwure . for him to command the respect of all the neighboring tribes and govern ments. The people of Nepal are a strange mixture of races. The ruling tribes aro the Ghoorkhas, whose prowess has given them the supremacy. The capital city is Kathmandu, where the rajah, or King, lives in a queer palace made up of a large, number of small pagodas surrounded by shrines erected to the Hindu gods. These are often smeared with the blood of tho sacri fices brought to the gods. This rajah is too young now to do the actual ruliug, which is in tho hands ot his chief Minister;' but the power of the ruler is absolute, and he can order life or death for any one who displeases him. The people are so afraid of foreign influences that they will not permit Europeans to even enter their domin ions, so it has been impossible to survey the country and., ascertain the height of the mountains, which tower thousands of feet in the air. Cuba aa a Futuro Winter Resort. The entire island of Cuba is a great park that needs no artificial training I to enhance its beauty, and it is destined to become the winter resort of all the Eastern States. But groat adminis trative improvea ants in the ports, be sides the police and material ones noted, will bo necessary before this can happen. For instance, it would do much for the island if the port of Havana could be freed from the high pilot -fees, anchorage fees, docking fees, and fees of all sorts that make it impossible for small craft to enter. [Showing the British troops fleeing be fore tbo deadly Aro of tho Boers at the battle of Majuba Hill, February 27, 1881, whon Sir George Colley's defout ended the war andLxesulted in the recognition of the independence of tho 8outh African Repnh lio bv Great Britain.] Even tho largo steamers do not dock, but cargo baa to bo lightered'out and passengers are compelled to use the small boats that swarm the harbor. Scribner^. For soldier's use in excavating the earth to form fortifications a new in trenching tool is formed of a metalio blade designed to be attached to the cap as a vizor when ?ntbotnar.ch, with a ebor I handle on tho bfadQ by vhioh to fiooop out tile earth. TRAMPS AND THj^ RAILROADS. tftccegs df One Co tn pa ?y ii} Stopping tho Stealing of Bides. At the' request ?f the general man ager of a large' railroad company, Mr. Josiah "??fnti the tramp expert, sport two months recently iu.investigating the company's efforts fo put a stop to the stealing of rides." He found that of all the roads in America this one had the worst reputation among the "hobbes. " The "railroad fever" is hard to cure, but lt ls one that it be hooves the compauits to treat heroic ally. Writing in the Century, Mr. Flynt says: Can the tramps be driven off the railroads? It -was to satisfy my own curiosity in regard to this question, and to find out how successful my employer, the , general manager, had been iii his attempt to answer it in the affirmative, that I undertook the investigation which I have described. Pre/Hons*to his efforts to keep tramps off railroads, it had been thought, as he has stated, that it was cheaper to fi?t up with them, nuisance Jhough tey we're, than to pay the bills which ? crusade against them would occa sion. It has at last been demon strated, however, that tramps can be refused fj^?e transportation by one of dur greatest railroads, with a saving df eipe?se to the company and with . great benefit to the community, and the tjme has come when the public is justified in demanding tbat all the railroads - take fl similar stand in re gard to this evil. Ii all the railroad companies would ?gree upon concerted action against tr?mps, in a few years the following very satisfactory results would he achieved: First, very few tramps, if any, would try to beat their Way on I trains; second, au appreciable number i of them would give up tramping en tirely, b?c'a?se their present railroad privileges are to mauy the main at tractions of the life; thinly,*, few would try to become professional criminals again, partly out of revenge and partly because tramping on the turnpikes would be too disagreeable, arid, fourth, a large number would take to tile highways, where some might bc made to do farm-work, and where ali Would, at least, be in touch with farm life. Tlie reader may take exception, to the third possibility, and think tliat great harm would come of an increase in thejprofessional criminal elass; but as I have said, tramps are really discouraged criminals,and a re turn to the old life, of which they made a failure, would only laud them in the penitentiary. It is probably impossible ever en tirely to eliminate the vagrant ele ment in a nation's life, and no such j hope is held au* iii connection with I the reform advocated iii this article; An Ounc^i-^g, .The high death-ral^^^ftt^ii^con 3?mptives revealed by statisticseWSljl accounts, if nothing else could, for the increased interest recently shown in the question of cures, ami of hygenic measures for combating the ravages of this painful malady. Not many weeks since au account was given of a meeting held in-the city of London,at which the Prince of "Wales presided, and of a discussion of some of the ways and means by which the dangers of contagion might ! ! averted. ' Nothing is more difficult, as we know, than convincing invalids that I fresh air is important-that it is vital to.their well-being,in fact. Consump tives used to be kept in hot rooms, from which all cold air was excluded. Now they are made to sit out-?f-doors, even at nightr with the thermometer four degrees below zero-wrapped iu fms, of course, but playing games or reading by electric lights. They dine ont-ofrdoors. And, moro than all, in some cures, they are taught not to cough. "People of refinement,'' one doctor is reported as saying, "do not scratch themselves in public- This tickling sensatiou of your throat is really an itehing; it would "be as in delicate to. relic ve yourself by cough ing; as to scratch yourself in the pres ence of others." Heroic as these measures- seem, and startling as the insistence;ou lesthetio grounds, of the impropriety of cough ing, certniuly few of us can abstain from wishing that fresh "air anti the self-control which consideration" for others inspires might bo preached even an?ong those whose maladies are of a less serious character.-Harper's Bazar. . ' Hard to Get Acquainted With? A young couple called at v. fashion able boarding house in the West End a couple of weeks ago to engage board. They were from Chicago, and the husr band liad recently - secured an ap pointment iu one of the departments. The landlady, ail amiable and pretty, if a trifle faded, little woman, showed the couple the vacaut rooms, and; one of them was finally accept?e!, . ''Now, you'll waufc veferencos, of course," said the young wife after the terms had been fixed. ' Then she men tioned the name of a Washington man of some prominence. "You know him, or of him, I pre Bume," she inquired. "He is my hus band's uncle." . "Well," replied the landlady, "I cannot precisely say that I know him. Nobody ever really knew him. He's something of a mystery. Now, I was married to him for twelve years, and at the conclusion o: that period, -when I secured my divorce, I don't think I .could have conscientiously placed my liand over my heart and declared that I actually knew him. Some men are so difficult to get acquainted with, vou knowV"\ The si?uatii'U wa-; a bit embarrass ing, but the youug couple' took the room they had decided upon anyhow. -Washington Post. A Bare llecbrif. When Tom Canfield, some years ?go, at the Point of Pines, .ran a mile, swam a mile, walked a mile and vol ler-sk?ted'ainile in an hour, he did a rare thing,* something that, stands alone,, for where can one fin i-a roller skating riuk and a 'running t-raok fcftncly to tbs seashore now?/ * inc BLUumtn-uini, J Lord Sdoggiim he rose from bl? balmy Bleep, And he saddled his horse of steel.? Ee muttered a TOW of import deep As he sprang on his plunging wheel: "I will speed me east, anl will spaed mo west, flor ever "cease from my ladye's quest, Till I And her, for woe or weal !" Tho Iftdyo stepped from her silken bower And F be w ?s a gay lay de e ! Cor a aught but a great composite flower Could riyal her braveres ! With her bloomers red, and her knickers tau, She looked like a link between monkey and man, As she hied her over the lea ! Lord Soroggins he saw that Ladye ride Astride in her haughty state; And he airily cried, as he soorched to ber sider "Do I And thee at lost, my fate?" But she wrinkled her nose with a scorn divine "Sir Fossil, avaunt from path of mme ? For the wheel that I ride is a '99, -While thine is a '98." -Detroit Free Press. . HUMOROUS. "Did you enjoy the circus?" "No, I forgot to get a bag of peanuts before I went in." , Maxim-Only the good die young, you know. Brattle-Oh, no. Only the young die good. "What do you think about this uni versal peace movement?" "It wilt do to quarrel about as well as anything." He (at Miss Tartlet's)-It ia not good for man to be alone. She (bored) -Then hadn't you better go home to your mother? Uncle-Well, my boy, what have yon learned at school today? Nephew -I don't think you would understand, even if I told you. Caller-Is the exchange editor in? The Editor-I am he. Caller-Well, I want to exchange this summer suit for a winter overcoat. "Giving your sou a liberal educa tion?" "Yes. I'm giving him a lib eral education^ and he's giving nie an education in liberality." Absent-Minded Professor (after the wedding ceremony)-So now, dear Emma, we shall always belong to each other. Emma-Yes, Ferdinand; bui please make a note of it and don't forget it. Speaking of new vehicles. Wouldn't it be nobby It's up to the inventors now To ride an auto-hobby? ? "The phrenologist," said the ?yond father, "said he had a head you see on very few boys." "So he has," re plied the proud father's friend. "lu fact, I don't believe I ever saw- that head on any other boy." . Balla-So you're engaged to Mr. rGrcosnm. How on earth did he ever. j propose? Stella-Well, he took mo beard of in inj lifo, *V >?? sellar*- ffc'? was'asKeoY "iuimeuun UM ibjtoisk me for ten cents to get his wash . uutbf-.ni^hiuudry.'' Lady PasVeloger^seated iu the rail way carriage undet?lfiatb the rack which uer fellow passengeishas loaded with bundles)-You have "^ItfeT*0/ packages here, monsieur, I'm afraiu-^ they'll fall. The Fellow Passenger--^ Oh, never mind. There's nothing among them that would-break easily. J'en Picture of the' Colorado Canyon. For a score or two of miles one looks up or down the Colorado Can yon, while the view directly across to the opposite wall covers a distance of ' at least ten or twelve miles. Tho rain aud the rain-born streams have sculp tured this valley fantastically. There arc hundreds of side valleys with pro jecting points of tho plateau, or with isolated plateau topped.hills or buttes between. Through thecentrc extends ike Grand Cauyon itself, but there ara scores of great side canyons, in them selves wonderful, but here lost , by blending into mere minor part of the grand scene; aud then there are tens of thousauds of still minor valleys, each forming a mere minute detail in the great result. While of course the most impressive : feature ia the immense depth, one is also powerfully impressed by the va riety of form and iu this connection is atruck by tho remarkable control over form and color exercised by the rock strata themselves. Being quite near ly ''horizontal, these layers extend at fairly uniform levels along both wolls of the canyon, as" well ns ujvou tbs projecting points and hills. Since these layers are differently colored, there are nearly horizontal bands of color in the cauyon; but through the distortion of perspective resulting ironi the projection of parts of the can yon walls, there is not that rididity which would appear if there were merely parallel bands of color upou parallel valley walls. -The Independ ent. . London School Children. The London board of trade has just - issued an elaborate report on the dif ferent classes of employment into which the boys and girls attending- ... elementary schools in England and Wales went on leaving schools during tho year 1893-4. From tho returns relating to London it appears that of 25,768 boys who left, school between .J and -I per cent, went to each of the .... following trades: Building, wood working, metal, engineering and ship building, clothing, printing and al lied trades, newsboy and street ven der; of 21,175 girls in London, 6191; or 26 per cent, went ;uto domestio service; 2231, or 9 per cent, went to dressmaking or millinery, and 10,471, . or 43 per cent, remained at home. A Pretty Child Story. The prettiest child story that I have "seen lately is in French. A mother tells her little girl that because she . has been naughty she will not kiss her for a week. Before two days have gone by the child's lips hunger so for her mother's kiss that she begs her not to punish her any more. The mother says: "N'o, my deav; I tpld von ?hat I should not hiss yon, and ? must keijp my ? ord. " "But.mamma, namma/'says tue little girl, "wonld .;. be. breaking your word if you should ?isa rn? just once tonight when I'm anjeen'."-Boston Transcript