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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYXE, Pres't. F. G.F?RD, CasKer. Capital, $250,000. Undivided Profits } ?110,000. Faculties o? our magnificent ??ew Vault containing 410 Mifety-Lock Boxes. Difier en; Sizes are offered to our patrons and tho public ot $3.00 to $10.00 per annum. TUE PLANTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, OA. Pays Intcrost . ? on Deposita. Accounts Solicited. L. O. HATH*, President. W. O. WABDJ?AW, Cashier. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 23, 1899. VOL. LXIV. NO. 34. rf i An Unexplaii ? THE STRANGE DISAPPEi EXTRAOI The secrets of history hare a fasci nation that is all their own to a good many of us, observes a writer in the London Queen. A'moiig the mysteries of life may be reckoned the strauge story of Mr. Bathurst's disappearance in 1809, a story that an interval of nearly a century bas not cleared up. Let us, for the benefit of those who know very little about it, tell the leadiug facts of the narrative iu a few words. Mr. Bathurst, son of the bishop of Norwich and kinsman to the Lord Bathurst of that day, was a man who, though young (he was not 27 when be vanished out of this world'3 kuowl edge), was one on wbom bright hopes had been formed. He was brilliaut, talented and seemed destined to make his mark in the world of politics. Through Lord Bathurst's influence, who was in Lord Castlereagh's minis try aud secretary of state for foreign affairs, he was sent to Vieuua early in 1809, as envoy extraordinary, on an important secret mission to the court of the Emperor Francis. The uosi tion of Austria was at that time mo3t critical. She had preserved strict neutrality since the peace of Presburgb, but her relations in regard to France bad sud denly become^ strained. Napoleon was profoundly irritated,aud Bathurst believed that the French emperor bore him espeoial enmity and considered his secret mission as an effort to incite Austria into declaring war with France. So strongly bad this idea taken pos session of bathurst that, when bis mission was accomplished, be was often beard to say that be believed his life to be in danger and that Na poleon would prevent bim ever get ting back alive to England. Ho hesitated long before turning his face homeward and iinally decided to make his way to Loudon by Berlin aud the ncrth ot* Germany. He. bad with bim bis private secretary and bis valet, and to escape observation be assumed the name of Bacb, while, in tbe words of tho story written soon after his disappearauce, "be bad pis tols about bis person and firearms in the back of the carriage." It was the regular old-fashioned chariot, with fourborses and postilions, in which all thc upper ten of those days made their infrequent journeys, aud on November 25.1809.the oortego arrived nt Perleberg, a town ou the banks of tl few miles from where tb: into the Elbe at Witte " the direct road from "P burg. _ lTmay also be mei: berg is only a few ; Magdeburg, garrison by French troops. Close to the post-hous ..... elers changed horse?, was a small inn, the White Swan, and this was close to the gates and high tower of the once fortified little place. Mr. Bathurst < iued at the White Swau, giving orders that the horses were not to be put in till be had dined. * It is curious td read . bow a smart young man of 80 years ago dressed wheu he crossed Europe in that an tiquated vehicle, a traveling carriage, and it certainly gives moro reality to those ghostly figures of the past if we eau picture them iu ''the habit in which they lived." Mr. Bathurst wore a light gray coat, heavily braided aud frogged, and panta loons, as they were then called, pf the same shade; his long fur (sable) coat ?was lined throughout with violet vel vet, and he had a cap of the same far; In his scarf-one of chose bulging vol uminous scarfs that encircled our grandfather's necks-he had a hand some diamond pin. Hardly was din ner over than Bathurst, bearing that a squadron of the Braden burg Cuiras siers was quartered at Perleberg,under the command of a Captain Blitzging, went to the barrack?, asked to see the commanding oTcer, and telling bim that he believed his life to be in the greatest dauger, requested a guard of soldiers while he remained in town. It was noticed that he was profound ly agitate 1 and that ho trembled as he spoke, and this he explained by say ing that be bad that moment received news that had greatly alarmed bim. Bliizging laughed at bis fears, but consented to let bim have a couple of soldiers during bis stay in Perleberg. Mr. Bathurst returned to the White Swan, "saying that he would not start till late, as be considered ic would be safer to travel at night, when Napo leon's spies would be less likely to be on the alert. He remained in his room in the inn wilting letters and burning papers till 9 o'clock,when the carriage came around, and he dismissed the soldiers on guard. He stood at the door of the White Swr.?> watcbiug bis portmauteau beiug replaced at the back of the carriage. He stepped round to the horses1 heads, and then-tben-r-just as if the ground had opened under bis feet aud swal lowed bim np, closing itsdf upon bim without leaving a trace behind, be disappeared and was never seen again! It must be borne iu miud that the time wa8-4he-end of November, that it was a remarkably dark night" and that an old lantern swinging on a rope that crossed the street from one house to another gave but a feeble glimmer, and so did a born lantern in the bands of au ostler. The landlord, prepared.to speed the parting guest, was in the doorway talking to the secretary, who bad just paid the bill, but neither of them seemed to have been paying any at tention to Bathursfs movements. The horses were now in, the postilions had clambered into their clumsy sad dles and the valet stood at atteutiou at the open door of the carriage. They waited and waited, but still Mr. Bathurst did not appear,and then -the wind being bitterly cold-they must all have grown impatient and scattered right and left to look for the missing man. One of them went into ihe hotel to see if he had gone in theru again, another sj ed along the road that the carriage would have taken, while the secretary, went to the guardhouse to led Mystery. LRANCE OF AN ENGLISH IDINARY. find out if Bathurst could possibly have returned there to ask for an armed escort for the journey, but all to no purpose. Suddenly, inexplicably, without a cry, a word, a waru in g of any kiud.he was gone-spirited away-and what really became of him will never be known. The officer in command of the Brad* enburg Cuirassiers acted with the greatest promptitude. The alarm that the missing man had displayed that afternoon had made a deep impression on him, and without loss of time he put the secretary aud valet under ar rest, placed a guard over the Swan Inn, took possession of the traveling carriage, aud then began au exhaustive search, which lasted for days. The river was dragged; mar&aes, woods and ditchos were examined for miles around; the houses in the lower part of the town were entered, and there was not a barn, hedge, outhouse or copse that was not searched; while bloodhounds also failed to track him. The English ambassador at Vienna and through him the English govern ment-was communicated with. A thousand pounds reward was cffered by the latter for any authentic infor mation; his own family offered as much, and Prince Frederick of Bussio, who, for friendship's sake, took the deepest interest in the fate of Bath urst, offered in addition 500 Friedricks d'or, either for the discovery of the body or any clue that would "lead to the solution of the mystery. The only discovery worthy the name was made by two poor women of Perleberg, who, more than a mouth after tho disappearance of Bathurst, found in a copse, whither they had gone to pick up sticks, the gray pantaloons that he had worn 0n the eventful night. Two bui4^c holes were iu the trousers, but no traces of blood, which would have been there had the bullets struck a man wearing them. They Avere staiued on tho out side, as if the wearer had been lying JU the earth; and in the pocket was a lalf-fiuished letter, or rather a few ivords scratched in pencil, to bia young ?rife, to whom ho was tenderly at ached. In these few words be ex pressed the certainty he felt that he vould never reach England alive,bade 1er a touching farewell and entreated 1er by the love she bore him never tn .JU .io ii tu o? amere ordinary lighway robbery and murder. It is hardly possible to overestimate he sensation caused by the sudden lisappearauce of the late envoy extra ordinary from the court of Eugland o that of Austria. Reports of all cinds were rife, and information that vas never verified was freely circu ated. The Times took the matter up and lot obscurely charged the Emperor Napoleon with having made away with Bathurst. The Moniteur,ou the other iiand, in a leading article published December, 1803, state 1 that "Sir Bathurst," on his way from Berlin, iiad shown signs of iusanity aud had iestroyed himself in the neighbor hood ot Perleberg. . According to some he had boen murdered in a wood by his servant, who had robbed him and escaped. Ottfers believed that he had been attacked by brigands; while a mysterious story ap peared in print suggesting that he had beeu drowned at sea. Bathurst himself had always de clarod that his ruin would be brought about, not by the Emperor Napoleon, but hythe Count d'Entraigues.a name well "known in. the secret hiatory of those times as that of a Russian spy, and there is no doubt that the latter had been heard to say that he could prove that Bathurst had been shot in Magdeburg fortress. But as both d'Entraigues aud his wife were them selves murdered by an Italian servant (believed iu his turn to be a spy) not long after Bathurst's disappearance, bis words were never proved. The theory that he had been carried off to Magdeburg and there murdered was also held by Mr. Underwood, at that time a prisoner of war in Paris, who, in one of his letters written thou, declared that both French aud Euglish believed that the, crime of his abduction had been committed by the French government. On January 23,1810,-there appeared a paragraphiaa^Hamburg paper, which informed the people of Perleberg who the murdered Bach really was who had so mysteriously disappeared. The paragraph was in the form of a letter, dated Loudon, January 6, exactly 6ix weeks after Bathurst's fate had been sealed one way or another. It ran thus: "Sir Bathurst, am bassador extraordinary of England to the court of Austria, who was be lieved to have committed-?uicide-in a fit of insanity at Perleberg on Novem ber 25 of last year, is well in mind and body. His friends have received a letter from him dated December 13, which, therefore, must have been written after the date of his supposed death." "Who inserted this paragraph, and for what purpose? It was absolutely untrue, but may have been designed to cause the nu* thorities to relax their efforts to probe the mystery and perhaps to abandon them altogether; or it may have been a plan to throw dust iu the eyes of the public, to whom the story of Bathurst was onfe of absorbing interest. To those who held Bathurst iu af fectionate remembrance it was a com fort-and it was their only one-in after days to think that every con ceivable effort had been made to find out the meaning of his mysterious dis appearance. His young.wife,to whom be had been married for four years, was utterly heartbroken,and at.a time when wars and rumors of wars dis tracted Enrope, making her task al most an impossible one, she gave her self up heart and soul to the difficult aud dangerous business of finding ont a secret that was without doubt a po litical one. She appealed to the Emperor Na poleon himself for information, and he assured her through Cambaceres that on his word of hoflor bo know nothing of the matter beyond what he had seen in the papers. She demanded a per sonal interview with him, aud there is no doubt that they met, but what she asked the great man and what he answered has never transpired. But she received his permission to advertise for her husband in the Moniteur and all the French papeib, but with uo re Bult. Tho poor soul traveled all ove1 Germany,staying for months at Per'e berg and the neighborhood, where she offered tue most liberal rewards even for the slightest clue to the secret. But, though the sums' offered would .have made any of tho peasants or the dwellers in the som?what poverty st?icken place rich beyond the dreams cf ayarice, no one ever claimed them, no one came forward with even a gar bled statement of facts; there was never a glimmer of light to dispel the darkness. Mrs. Bathurst never gave up the hope of his return to the last hour of her life, and she lived to be a very old woman. The husband of her youth wa? to ber still a living figure, and she firmly 1- - lieved that the hour would come when he would come back to her once more. Her life was a sad and troubled one, but that cousolation was always hers, though her dream, ns we know, wae uever realized. Of her three children, the eldest, a sou, was killed when riding a steeple chase at Borne; while the sad fate of her daughter, the beautiful Bosa Bathurst: is still remembered there, and the place is still shown on the banks of the Tiber where her horse reared with her, and-the river b^ng in flood-fell back and drowned her in the stream. She was riding" with the man to whom she was to "be married shortly. 'She was only 17 and ad mired and loved by all. No wonder that her moth?r's heart was half broken. Still, through all her troubles she was sustained by the belief that her husband would return; but the grave doe*not give up its dead, and the well-kept secret has never beeu disclosed. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A rhinoceros bird, about the size of a turkey, which was recently surdon the Island of Java, had in its craw a rim from a small telescope and three brass ^..LA... lf_ J/lCaJi/" JuU- ? . ter. By order of the government of Mas sachusetts Bay iu 1623, a specal use was made of corn as ballots in public voting. At annual elections of the governor's assistant, in each town, a kernel of corn was deposited to signify a favorable vote upon the nominee, while a bean signified a negativo vote, "and if any free man shall putin more than one Indian com or bean, he shall forfeit for every such offence ten pounds." Tho largest flower in the world is the Bafliesia Aruoldi of Sumatra. Its size is fully three feet in diameter about the size of a carriage wheel. The five petals of this immense flower are oval and creamy white, growiug round a centro tillod with cjuntless long,violet-hued stamens. . The flower weighs about fifteen pounds, and is capable of containing nearly two gal lons of water. Tho buds are like gigautic brown cabbage heads. The limit of fine engraving seems to have been reached by A. Hender son of Toronto, Canada, who has just finished the task of engraving tho Lord's Prayer upon the stem of an ordinary pia, one inch in length, with the alphabet and the numbers from one to 10 on tho head. Those inter ested in feats of this description are anxiously awaiting the appearance of the champion who will distance all competitors by selecting, the point of the pin as hie *ph ?re of operations. A remarkable story comes from Somerset, Ind. Scott l)nvis, the lead ing merchant of the village, had a fine Jersey calf, which he placed in a stall in his" barn and was bringing up by hand, the little auimal being supplied with the best of milk for its susten ance. A cat had a litter of kittens in the mauger, and during the night the calf endeavored to swallow one of the kitten? and wfls found dead iu the stable with the kitten fast in its throat, India has a bird that has solved the light problem to its own satisfaction, at least, though its very ingenuity serves to make its nest a bright and shining mark for the midnight ma rauder. This.sly creature that loves to surroundits nest with light is called the baya bird. After building its nest of mixed twigs, mud and grasses, the bird plast rs the nest with live fire flies, attaching the insects by means of damp clay. When a firefly dies and its lightsubsides the bird replaces it with another and fresher one. Thus the nest of this singular crea ture shines like a ball of white fire at night. _ Unearthed nn Indian Canoe. While digging along the shores of Cedar Swamp Creek, near Petersburg, N. J., recently,Penn Bauer uncovered a large Indian canoe. The canoe was nearly sixteen feet long, over five feet wide, and the red cedar from which it had be t ent must have been a mon ster tree. A French philological journal esti mates that of the 800 different lan guages spoken on the globe, 89 are in use iu Europe, -Hi in Africa, 1211 in Asia, 417 iii America and 117 in Oce?nica. ON AN ARMORED TRAIN. HOW IT FOUCHT ITS WAY UP TO THE FILIPINO TRENCHES. Tlie Cars Wore Iion-Clnd Up to the Heijrht of a Man's Shoulders - l'ushe'd Into the Bange of Bullets by the Brave Merl of tho Twonty-seoond Infantry. [In Wie Field Before Calumpit, via Manila, ] This is the way the armored train fought its way Up to the brokeu bridge of tho Bagbig river: Those three cars had Iain for a long time on the siding at Caloocan, and the meu in charge were tired of the waiting, when one night not long ago au engine backed iu aud pushed the cars 'ont in front of the train that was bound for Malolos. Malolos in those days was tho Amer!*' can terminus of the Manila & Bagn pan railroad. Then there was much cleauing of oily pieces, and Lieuten ant Br'-lges swung his legs from the side door of his headquarters waiting further orders. . _ The orders, came early in the morn ing. The cars were cleared for action and the ono with the big 6-pouuder once a transport gun-was shunted around into the lead. Behind this was a common box car, in which the lieutenant and doctors and hospital corps men rode. There, too, certain newspaper correspondents were stowed away. In tho rear were two ' more flat cars, carrying the Hotchkiss rapid-fire aud the Gatling guns. These cars, like those in front, were armored up to the height of a man's shoulders, and it would have taken au armor piercing shell togo through them. While the shunting was is progress aud the armored train was being made : ready General Wheaton was ranging I up his Kansas and Montana regiments, and large mules were toiling along on the right of the truck with several pieces of the Utah* battery. M^ore mules with more cannon were moving off with general Hale, but they were out of sight. When General Wheaton was ready to push on toward the fringe of wood that marked the firing line, less tuan two miles down the track, the order came to go ahead slowly and follow the troops. The motive power was a detachment of picked men from the Twenty-second infantry, with Corporals Schmidt, Cor less and Beeves iu charge, all working under Lieutenant Bridges of the Sixth artillery. Slowly those wheels turned down that unused track toward the unknown territory and the enemy. The brown lines of soldiers moved on with steady swing across the open, with no other inconvenience than a b!n?i"' .uuiuuuo >.?.> .. . ' lyuI. . . Art hu established headquarters un der the bridge in this ravine and wait ed for word from Hale. Occasionally the Filipino sharpshooters broke the stillness of th? air, but the Mauser makes little noise, not enough to frighten the birds that chirped around in '.he treetops. No one was hit by the bullets which thwacked against the green bamboo poles that marked the ravine. A courier ou a panting horse came crashing through the dry brush in tho shelter of the trees, gave General Hale's compliments to Gene ral McArthur and said the latter was in positiou. An orderly rode over to the Montauas. ?Funston of the Ka'usas regiment took his own instructions from General Wheaton. There was Bileuce then, except for the crunch of the orderly's heel in the gravel ns he toiled up the steep bank to the ar mored train. He touched h.s hat to Lieutenant Bridges, and Lieuteuant 0 Bridges gave orders to move ahead r' slowly, with all the men on the left of n the train. A Krag at the right barked out its sharp, short note, aud a low ( laugh of relief trickled down the rav ine, gaiuing as it went until it was a Q! hearty and happy gu fia w. The Kan- ? sas men were crawding np to their1111 places and settling themselves forh? firing at 1200 yards. The wheels kept turning and the63 armored car moved on until the Mtf" pentine trenches, with their yelioWcc coveriugs, came into sight beyond tli^e fringes of wools. Corporal J. K,mi Smith was manning that G-pounder?13 and he got his range. Tho fir3t dis I charge came as the clap of thundery which releases the rain. Again cair?11*' tho report. The traiu was stoppeun and the infantrymen stepped into tl*0"3 protection between- the cars. Tl1 al Hotchkiss now caught the range, ai4n < Privates Benson, Kelly and Slaus<?ae< worked in turu with that rapid-fi?e?l instrument of destruction. Theu tl O Gatlings, which always strike terrhat into the hearts of the Filipinos, begr'on to grind out their murderous fire. >DC' these two guns were Privates Ha'oni aud Turnquist and Privates Lutf**r Manu and Marquis. The fire was Uud rific aud swept from left to right. J\! ^ jor Young sent a shot from his TJterot battery, which began at once to wallse< up for action, and there was an echo t which told that Halo was coining dovhip the poiut between the two rivers a?01'8 sending iu a flanking fire. Lieuti T"0 ant Bridges' ear told him this as n th sat with his hat on the back of I18 '< head. orfc1 "Push ahead!" he called; '%J?ng get'em on the run!" Nothing mP^e was said on tho armored train as slowly moved down the track, around the Mausers were striki: At for the woods had been passed ?reel the train stood out, a fair and cl^d., target. The regulars stuck to tipple X)Osts with their shoulders against ucto projections of the cars. A man jhe i fallen iuside and his life blood ?ar dripping out on the ties, but thfheu men are veteran?. iftna? At the same instant every gnnjoym the train was put in action, ie ex .ftjeels ceased to revolve, biioc'es flashes leaped from each side amjudei front, and smoke that was bla<?re ' than night rolled off into the laxyj th Like the noise of a triphammer qeadit the reports of tlie Hotchkiss and ?fr? .blirtvs from tho 6-pouuder. Tho 'Hew lings were purring and smoking, uutr the air was full of lead, when t en 1 .ame up fronuthe ravine a cheer e nif could not be drowned by the noise of cannon. The Kansas men were mak ing .? charge across tbo field on the ?left? The armored traiu crept forward at a quicker pace, and every gnn was ;traifced on the entrenchments ahead bf Funston. But for all that the ?Filipino fire was maintained, three of the Kansas soldiers finding their way to the rear with wounds in the arm. It was a brave run and a long ono, and not au instant did the men on the .armored train hesitate. They came Steadily close to the trenches, until they were within 250 yards of the ??uemy. It took Funston some time to run across that broken bridge, swim across the missing spau and cap ture the boat that brought his boys ?noross for the charge down the "tronchos. Tho firing meantime was ?persistent, and from the tops of the trenches flew the yellow dust. "When Funston had crossed and the Fili pinos had fled ont iuto the fields, the big iron projectiles from the rapid-fire ?nd 6-ponnd gun followed them. An other cheer came back from aci o*ss the trenches, and the order carno to i?eaae firing. The day had been won. And now that armored car, with tho 6*pounder, rests close to the bridge on the last rails left by the insurgents and the black muzzle of the gun points toward the Bio Grand. The Gatliugs are gone and the men who work them, for Lieutenant Bridges mounted them and took them to the fight before Calumpit treucbes, and there they are as this is written. Thpso who marched beside the train and pushed it into the rauge of bullets weut there without flinching, yet without a cheer, for they were noton achargc. They are of the Twen ty-second infantry.-Chicago Record. CURES FOR CRIME. How Dr. P. K. I'.rower Would Chock Tts Spread in America. Dr. Daniel B. Browor of Chicago, professor of mental diseases in Bush medical college, told the American medical association recently that crime in the United States is increas ing iu a vastly more rapid ratio than is the population. This, he asserted, is due to criminal parentage and en vironment. To* check the alarming growth, he added, radical changes in present methods are necessary. Dr. Brower's theme was "The Med ical Aspect of Crime." He contended that tho present laws and their pres ant method of execution are a potent factor in the causation of crime. The code of today, he asserted, is the Ro man code. In ancient Rome it did troll because the death penalty was ;ommon, but today, with no cuttiug 'il uu i cn o?_/ ,1 >f by the courts and placed in lavuiu )le environment at the age of seven. Ie further contended that those who ire concerned in tho sentencing of rimiuals should know something bout their biologic conditions-or, iu ther words, a judge must also bo a hysician. A person who 'has com litted his first ofibuce, he maintained, hould not be permitted to associate ith hardened criminals, and trials liould be speedy and prompt. The pardoning power, he added, lould be removed from state gov .nors and rest alone in pardouing sards, whose members should be tilled in criminal anthropology. For lose who are incapable of reforma ou there should be penitentiaries for eir lifelong incarceration. Dr. Brower road statistics showing at the proportion of criminals to pulatiou in this country had in eased from one in 3ii'2 iu 1850 to e in 757 in 1890. A Wolf Kills His Tamer. The great Versailles^ fair in France s been marred by two terrible acci uts, in which one af the menagerie imals and a tamer named Letort Jost iir lives. The first occurred through the care sness of one of the keepers, who ; unfastened the door of the cage npied by a fierce polar bear. In midst of the performance the ani l was seen to pull up the trap with paw and stalk out. ortunately a high iron grating 3d between him and the alarmed uokers. The bear accordingly nod his attention to one of his ipanious in captivity, and made for vena, into whoso cage he effected intr?neo. A ferocious battle en 1 in spite of the efforts of the pers to separate the animals, oming at length to the conclusion it was safest to let well enough e the meu shut the cage securely waited for the result of the eu iter. The eud soon came. The made short work of the hyena literally tore the beast to pieces. J tort was killed in thc cage of a ?ious wolf, which all at once re 1 to obey him. The mau struck mimal over the four paws with his y but this only made matters e. shed into fury the wolf sprang e tamer, threw him down and got tugs into the man's throat. Le vas found to have been sovcrely [led. His death ensued almost diately.-New York Journal. ?VomeitAre Good Conductors, a meeting of the directors of the ; railway company of Madison, it was decided to continue the >yment of young women ns con rs on the local street car system, line has been in operation one and is splendidly equipped. the system was completed the renient . decided upon the ern eut of women as conductors,and p?riment has been exceedingly isfnl. The company has con I that the women are, as a rule, itteutive to duty, more careful cir personal appearance ami ir in their habits. Their hours un 7 a. m. to H.:50p. m. rt is 3d to be the ouly lino in the y employing women conductors, tave charge of the cars during fht- New York Press. cl A H bi bi w of nt m hn ag fet th sh hi; hi: th* "I for wil vei stil the the coa sea fro: it t Th< bur in t key tel? wrii not leer. Ii triet brio lowi jury belii have that the coull take in re verai lost a goc rasi-s di in ii celie THE COMINO CARRIAGE. Recent Trip? From Cleveland to Nev? York of tho Automobile Trove? lt. The horseless carriage is here and it is here to stay, The automobile is yet in a crude state of development, but enough has been demonstrated to prove th?t it will speedly become the generally used carriage of the count ry, and in a very few years the can ia e with horses will be maintained, .only, by those whoso pleasure in driving is chiefly in the lovo of handling tho reins with a spanking team. ' Alexander Winton and- Charles R, Shanks or Cleveland, left that city for New York ou an automobile on Mon day morning, May 22, to demonstrate the possibility of such vehicles travel ing long distances. The parties ar rived at city hh.ll in New York at 6 o'clock ou Friday evening, May 26, having traveled 707 miles in 17 hours and 31 mi?utes running time. The average speed of tho eutire trip up und down hill, on good aud bad roads, was 15 milo3 au hour, and where the roads were reasonably favorable the speed of 20 miles was often attained. The entire cost of the gasoline usod for the trip did not exceed $1, proving that for cheapness the automobile can never be approached by any competi tor. Hitherto the chief efforts of the pro moters of the automobile have been directed to develop wagons for the handling of heavy loads within cities, and there is now every indication that they will be speedly introduced. The horses attached to the teams hauling heavy loads in the city are quite as much of an obstruction end a greater element of danger than the wagons themselves, and it seems now to . be clearly demonstrated that automobile wagons can be used with great ecouomy, and with vastly increased convenience to the public for all heavy draught teams iu the city. It is now next to certain that within a year or two at the most, our cities will be haudling their heavy hauling with horseless wagons. It is idle to assume that such an achievement will not displace the horse carriages which are used for the couveuieuce and enjoyment of families. The automobile will soon be deve'.opt d into a handsome and couvenient car riage for family use, aud aa the cost of the moter power is merely nominal, it goes without saying that horses, which are most expensive luxuries, must soon be dispeusod with by all who do not not drive solely because of the love of horses. The horseless carriage may therefore be regarded as fairly upon us, and it now seems im probable that any invention can be B'ouioi aptseu and with vastly de creased expenditure by the automo bile. . The difficulty with the automobile, ns first developed to be operated by electricity, involved the carriage of a very heqvy storage battery, but the automobile propelled by gasoline that can be purchased nt any village store is practically traveling without expen diture, as was proved by the experi ment made from Cleveland to New York, whon the entire cost of the motor power did not exceed $1 for iver 700 miles. Whenever the automobile shall be levoloped to furnish light and attrac ;ive carriages, any person can take the lorseless enrriage and go iu any direc ion with the assurance that the gaso iue cnn be supplied whenever wanted. ?he automobile is here. It has come o stay and the horse will have to go. -Philadelphia Times. A MERCHANT'S ORDEAL, [is Very Soul Harrowed Up by His Wire's Telegram. The merchant uttered a sharp ex amatiou and sank bade in his chair, telegram fell from his shaking hand, is eyes were wide, his face white, jads of prespiratiou stood on his ow. The men in the outer office hispered among themselves. "Touch heart disease?" asked one. '.'No; the old mau can't take up a )te," said auother. "I've heard ru ors of that kind. We fellows will ive to be looking for auother place." "Get to work; he's coming to ain." The merchaut wiped his brow, tched a despairing sigh, picked up e paper from the floor, frowned and imped his foot, as if to summon all 5 resolution, placed the telegram on i desk and forced himself to read ? bitter message. This was it: )earest James: Please send the waist my grosgrain iuit at once. You ;l remember the one, as it has re 's on the fromage and chained t?hed biases on the back. It is in i lower trunk in the closet beside i hall room, uuder your winter ov?r t. If not there, it must be in the led box on the third Hhelf . in the ut-room closet. If you don't find here, it must be somewhere elsa. 3 trunk keys are in the second eau drawer, unless they were put he chiffonier; and I think the closet s are in a vase on one of the mau . Pack the w ist so as not to nkle it; nud, Oh! James, please do swear ! Your loving wife. Col ,"-S. C., in Puck. r s s C u w lc m ol ri si sa hi ov au ol co tic Sa sh ch mt tin So ed lot he ah cle, the poi son gre dec seo dev mil disi ami bro reui An Incredulous Jury. i a criminal prosecution recently il in York, Neb., the jury, after a f deliberation, returned the fol-1 Tote ng remarkable verdict: "We.the j was in the above-named case, do not- ' sve one word that the witnesses of t proi tifie four shat ) sworn to; neither do we believe any of the attorneys have spoken '. JUJL truth, nor that either of them I A OP( cl do so, even if he should care to ?. afc the trouble to try. " The humor marks casting doubt upon the sity of tho legal profession hhs I he freshness of early youth, and )d, stiff penalty for contempt in i of this kind would probably ve il t:> the benefit ot' mankind in ral.-Law Notes, tiou, sp) ii: olhe: pres; Tli paid rates FIRST M' /ABLE METAL TYPE. Korea, the rieriiilt JXntJoti, Was the OIIK ] nut or o? file IO. Eveu Korea cnn boast of ber share of the great inventions of the world, though, singularly enough, neither the world at large nor she herself, except in one case, has benefited permanent ly by tba inventions. Korea was the f??st of all peoples to originate movable metal type. For hundreds of years the country and the king had beeu under the domination of the Buddhist priesthood, and the laud was sufferiug tho extremes of sacerdotalism. Evjry third son must bv law become a monk-in othe? words, an unproductive member o' society; the killing of a cow was a greater crime than the killing of a man. The people's houses were being seized for the erection of worse than useless monasteries. Atlast the Gen oral Yi T'a-jo, whom a dotard king had seut upon the iusaue mission of invading China, turned to his soldiers and said, "Shall we return to the cap ital and apply ourselves to th? cleans ing of tho unspeakable corruption of our country?" T?o was applauded to the echo, and, like Julius Caesar, .but with better purpose, lie r?crossed the Yalu, Korea's Bubicon, marched back upon the capital and sealed the death warrant, of sacerdotalism. No sooner had the new dynasty been fouuded in 1492 than literature received a new impetus through the revival of Confu cianism and tho study of the ancient classics. The monasteries, which had becom?'the repositories of the schol arship of the laud, were filled with the unintelligible jargon of Buddhism, and literature was almost wholly con fined to its Titnal. But now schools were being established, books were being demanded, and students were calling impatiently for the time-hon ored olassic3. Thus it was that in the reign of King T'a-jong a fount of metal type was cast, the first the world had ever seen. The art of xylography had existed for centuries, and clay type, had also been used in Japan, but Korea was the first to discern the need of the more permaneut and durable form of metal type; and so well did she carry out her plan that the type then cast has comedown to tho pres ent day practically unimpaired. Each type was built on the principle of the arch, being -cylindrically concave on the under side. The purpose of this was to secure a firmer hold irpon the bed of beeswax which consituted the ? Vform," technically so called. A | shallow tray was filled with wax, and the type, after beiug. firmly imbedded | in it, were "planed" in the ordinary manner. The printer, sitting cross- | . -?a ??M? iwams, or the I remains of them, exist today. Those of the latter casting are now in com- j mon use in the Korean government printing office. -Harper's Magazine. A FAMOUS TRAILER. Thc Remarkable Faculty of Dolore? .Sanchez of Arizona. Every one who has spent much time npon the frontier has heard of the re markable faculty of Dolores Sanchez, the famous trailer of New Mexico and Southern Arizona. General Miles, who has had unusual personal knowl edge of the work of trailers and scouts, is quoted as saying that sprue of San chez's accomplishments are more than ?xtraordihary, and that his powers jorder on tho mythical. Brigadier general Charles Kiug tells the follow ug story of an experience with this emarkablo man: "I was once in pnr uit of a lot of Mojave-, who had been ollowed and scattered, and the trail baudoned by a company of Texas angers. Eight dnys after the scattering anchez fouud the trail from a siugle hod horse. Tho trail led up the florado river from Yuma to what is ow Kiugman, Arizona. When we ere fairly iu the rough, rocky (>uada tupe mountains, he stopped, dis counted and picked up from tho foot ! a tree the four shoes of the horse ddon by the Indian. With a grim ?ile he handed the shoes to me and id that the Indian had tried to hide s trail. For six days we journeyed er the roughest mountains, turning id twisting in apparently the moat rectless way, not. a man in the whole mmand being able to discover,some nes for hours,a single mark by which nchez might direct himself. He owed ns every day where the Indian ief had rested, where he had eaten isquite beaus, but we were fearful it he was trailing the wroug Indian, metimes I lost patience and demand that he show me what he was fol k-iug. Toco tempo'" (pretty soon) would abstractedly answer, and iu anger or shorter time show me the ar-cut footprints of the horse in soft bank of a mountain stream,or nt with his long wiping stick to ae other unmistakable'sign.' We w apprehensive, but we had confi ice enough to fr>!low so careful a nt. Sanchez led us following the ions windings of this trail over 90 es, and only three or four times nouuttug, so as more closely to ex ne the ground. He finally ncrht me to where the Indians had aited. Reed'* RecorU-jraKliifj Gavel. Then Samuel J. Randall was speaker he House of Representatives he red himself an artistic and scien deskaplinterer. Duringthe Forty th Congress, when the electoral i was counted and Mr. Hayes declared president, Mr. Randall ade:l the top of the desk out of >e three times. Employes of the toi who do the repairing of furhi assert that there has never been Baker who did not leave the desk ie close of a session in bad condi but that Mr. Reed succeeded in iteriugit more effectively than any r speaker.-Rochester Post-Ex ie postoffice department has not expenses since 1883, when the of postago were reduced. eag by I tow int the I'll friei was min of a mau O l! G. Tall dane tue. AFTER THE WEDDING. A MONOLOOCr When will we get settled ! . aavar *: . Saw so many things of no use. Poor Dick, who Imagines me clever, Will certainly think I'm a goose, For, though I'm ingenious enough to Make room for the coots and the frockay I confess I am not up to snuff to Take care of six ebony clocks! Our rooms are Jost lovely. So ?anny And cosy and cute and all that, I'm sure, had we oceans of money We couldn't improve on this flat Except} while the:e ought to be places In sitting room, bed room and hall, I simply can't fix these nine vase? We got, to look decent at all. Three tables, none centre, are vexing, And what I'm to do I don't see. And, also, how very perplexing Four sets for an afternoon tea! Besides, here's a lamp for each table Another to keep in reserve And a oheap candelabrum from Mabet (I wish I had some people's nerve ! ) Ten pictures-and none of them matches The woodwork. And, my ! how they fight J No matter where huns, each one catches The very worst kind of a light. And only one chair. Our friends plainly i Believed we have used one before But. pshaw ! I am happy, insanely, With Dick, clocks and tables galore! -Edwin L. Sabin, la Pack. HUMOROUS. "Is that new English novel inter esting?" "No; there isn't a 'single consumptive person in the book." Ada-Wasn't there some talk of Maude marrying a duke? Dolly Yes; but the Duke didn't "say any thing abont it. "James," said the professor dreami ly, "the horse is uot quite ready to go; please drive me up to the front door and tie me securely." First Ingenuous Maiden-How do you like my engagement ring? Second Ingenuous Maiden-Oh, it is the prettiest one you have had ! When Daphne cleans our Closets up, j Her ways I must deplore; ' She Ands a lot ctf long-lost things, And loses many more. "They say that fringes are not much worn now, but I'm hanged if I believe it !" muttered Penuiless.as he glanced at the bottoms of his trousers. Ethel-I saw Count Hardupski last evening. Cousin Tom-Does he talk as brokenly as ever? Ethel-My ! yes. I heard him ask pa to loan him $10 before he left. "Mary, Johnny tells mo that when he went into the dining room last, night he saw Mr. Biff with bia arm round-yonr waist." "What a story, mamma! Why, the gas waf out." Portrait Painter-Let's see, what pose would you prefer? Sitter Please depict me as holding a volume ~* ?nv TioernR with an inspired air that melancholy da** ha? : ! ; ! j- .? i'i'Mt ?^f tba yoac Tv those - '. And ?loll,-.? uH y ?. ?'? .'. r?-of????p! --. "... . *ui jt~*~;> . . air; there .?....-". r?i ? !!.ar iamiiy. . "Aunt Emeline has a theory for re forming the world." "What is it?" "Mothers onght to exchange chil dren." "What good would that do?" "Mothers always have such strict ideas about how other women's chil dren should be raised." The other day, as two friends were talking together in the street, a don key began to bray aud wheeze 'and cough in a distressing mauner. "What a cold that donkey has," said one of the men. "And, by the way, that puts me in mind-how is your cough." 'Tes," auswered Samuel War shawer, the leader of the orchestra ?ngaged for the occasion, "I saw Sam :hree days ago. He then came to me md engaged my baud. He wanted lecurity that we would be present, so [ gave him my silver watch. I don't mow where he is now." FIFTY YEARS ASLEEP. L Strange and Pathetic Story of a Mexi can Wnr Veteran. A strange and pathetic story was hat told the other day in a special ispatch to the New York Tribune, rom Toledo, Ohio. It was coucerniug man living near Fostoria, in that tate, a veteran of the "Mexican war, 'hose intellect aud memory have just een restored to him after a lapse of lore than fifty years. The story ?ads almost like a new version of Rip an Wiukle. At the battle of Resaca e La Palma, so the narrative runs,' hile making a cavalry charge, this au's horse stumbled, throwing bira olently against a pile of -. -ks, his ?nd striking in such a mauner that 3 lost consciousness for hours. His tellect and memory were both ap irently destroyed by the accident, e was able to tell everything up to e moment he was thrown from the ?rse, but after that everything was a auk, aud it has been so until recent He would say frequently that he ts nearly tweuty-one years of age, d that he was going to vote for meral Taylor. While watching me men saw wood with a buzz saw a ort time ago, a flying piece of wood ; him on the head, and he was ocked senseless. It was several uutes before he regained conscious JS, as his eyes opened and he gazed jut him and upon his friends and atives, a singular expression, as of eison just awakening from a long ep, came over his couutenauce. Re itly for the first time he w s taken * wagon with his nephew to Fos ia. His first question was, "What all those wires up there on po os ?" When shown the telephone and ght how H "-as used, aud what for, astonishment was simply a study, i electric cars frightened him at. t, and he stood and gazed long and erly upou them as they whizzed him.' After he had looked about u to his satisfaction he climbed i the wagon aud said, "Well I guess world has got so far ahead of me never catch up with it." His ads say his greatest astonishment manifested when he hoked in a :or, and, instead of seeing the face you'jg and robust youth, saw a old, gray and ou the down road fe. oethe, Byron, Napoleon, Moltke, eyrand and Bismarck, while not ties, were careful about their at