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- ?THE NATIONAL BANK BF /K?GIIST5 L. C. HATNE, Pres't. P. G. FORD, Cashier. JL.jc+4*: Capital, ?25070^0: Villi Iv idell Profits } SI 10.000. Facilities of our mngnulcoDt New Vault containing 410 ^afoty-Lojjk Boxes. Differ er t Sizes are offered to our patrons and the public at $3.00 to $10.00.por annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. PLANTERS LOAN AND BANK. Pays Intorost on Deposits, Accounts Solicited, L. C. HATKK, President. W. C. WxBDJiiir, EDGEFIELD, S. C? WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1899. VOL. LXIV. T?0..36. -rnr lltV 5 THEj Mm I The B/ue-Ditu fr Those who pay attention to the rec ords of criminal cases, as reported by thf newspapers, and who haT.0 a good t ji?emoVv for such.niatt$rs? will recollect the interest aroused, now several years ago, by the trial of one Robert Morris for what was known as "The Blue-Diamond Robbery. " In the minds of some, perhaps, the details of this crime may be still fresh. But for the benefit of that infinitely greater number of persons whose .memorial faculty is only a nine days'affair, it will be as well to recapitulate all the facts of the' case before proceeding to the elucida tion of one very mysterious point, which at the time battled the cleverest detectives in London. First, theu, for the recapitulation of the facts,. as disclosed before^the' Bight Honorable tho Lorn Mayor at the Man sion "Eo??e anti subsequently before the Recorder of London at the ~ Old Bailey. Tho 1 victim of the rob ; .?bery .was ono Jacob Binni ?fee ld, an Anglo-German. Jew and a well-known diamond merchant in Hatton Garden. This geutleinent, iu tho .course of a visit to the Dutch East Indies, with a 'view to tho purchase of pearls I'm . which also he dealt) had picked up from a native Sumatran, for a song, six stones, which the vendor supposed < to be small, pale and therefore com paratively worthless sapphires, but which Blumefee?d's practised eye told him afc once were those rarest and costliest stones in the markot, viz. blue diamonds. It was stated in court, I recollect, by expert witnesses, that . there were not more than 30 b'.ue dia monds hnown to exist and that the ratio of their value to ordinary dia monds of the same size and water was at least 100 to 1. On this basis the six stones referred to, despite their insignificant sii'e, wore worth fully ?20,000; indeed, at the time when they were stolen Blumefee'd was ne gotiating a sale of them to Messrs. Rostron, the Bond street jewelers, for a sum several thousands in excess of that amount. It may be readily imag ined, therefore, that the theft of such gems excited no small sensation. Tho circumstances of the theft were, or appeared to be, sufficiently com monplace. On the day of the robbery Blnmefeeid had carefully locked the diamonds in his safe when he quitted his office at 6 o'clock. At about 8 or 9 the watchman who was on duty, aud who had received particulars instruc . lions'to "keep au eye oh Blumefee?d's office, happened to catch the flash of a light through th ing open the c; unfastened, mad. actually caught >" in Blumefee?d's -coiraredThe fell;' who made little^ wart captor-ar a minute or twr?*'*SBvei m-waa mums were on the sceue.and a little later au inspect?r arrived, who lost no time in despatching a special messenger to - Bluniefeeld^s private-* resideuWlirl Pembridgfrsquare. * -t ,On)(be diamond merchant's* arrival ? athorongh-exarninati?rrof the preni' ises was made, disclosing ..the fact that his'safe had been' opened with ? duplicate key, which, in fact, was " still iu the lock,and that, whi'e every-. Pthing7else, hud -been left untouched, "the"most valuable contents, namely, the blue diamonds, had .been . ab stracted. ' The thief, of course, was then conveyed, without de'ay, to the nearest police station and ' duly charged by Blumefeeld, who now rec.-, ognized him as a man who had called upon him at his office a few days prc: viously in "refcieuee, to a propos?e! purchase of gems,- which had fallen through. He recollected, also, that he had had ec rasi?n to leavo the stranger alone in his office for a min ute or two, when, probably, the.la'tter ,.. had managed.to. gat au.impro-slooi of.j the lock of his safe. The prisoner did not deny this. Xor, in spite of the us;ial caution, did he make ?uy secret of the fact that he had broken into the office for the purpose of steal ing thelblue diamonds. But that ho had afolen them he stubbornly deuieh. "Someone else had forestalled me," he said. '"I found the safe open and a key already in the lock. I'd got my own duplicate, but I didn't have to use it. If you search me you'll find it in my waistcoat pocket." In confessing . he had entered the office "with felonious iutc-ut he. was, of course,-o?ly*admitt}ng-as - ranch -as- the circumstances of his capture rendered obvious^ud inrouU'overtible and, so far as that: went, was doing himself neither harm nor good. But his state ment that he had been forestalled was so clearly of the co -k-and-ball type that no credence whatever was nat urally attached to it. He was subjected . to the usual rigorous search. The^rrrrH ' plicate key, as he had said, was in his waistcoat pocket,and in his coat pock ets there were olio or two other felo nious instruments. Yet not a sign of a blue -diamond, nor any other jewel or valuable, was found upon him. His clothes, his boots, his hat" hi3 person, . even to/the inside of his. month, were again, a?d' again examinee7. Not_a trace of the missing stoner! And this "wSs" fhe"h??r^l"T?n??rlTab??' because bei had been collared red-handed, and from that moment had'no chance whatever allowed him.of throwing a war or other wise disposing of the stoues. "I tell you I haven't got them," he kept persisting. 'Td have prigged 'em if I'd had the chance-,I don't deuy, and it would te ncrnse if Ifdid. But I was forestalled, I tell you. Some other chap must haye got in just be-'j fore me and' lifted 'em. You're only wasting time and trouble in'-searchiug me. You are, indeed." $ ?f course, ujb attention wes paid1 this ridiculous assertion,and after t? process of search had been repeated again and again, ?lumefeeld returned with two of the police to his office iu Hatton Garden, where it was thought possible that the ?thief might have managed to drop th? stones. . But the most careful scrutiny-ot" - every nook, cranny and corner failed to discover them. ' blumefee'd, very naturally,fe, ll into ia fine'state of mind. VH% ABOUT \\ none/ Robbery. j condensing the evidence subsequently given by a warder at the trial), "I'll make you an- offer. If'.you'll tell, me what \ you've doiie [ with ; those dia monds, and enable me to recover them, I'll pay ?2000 to any representative of yours you like to name. The money shall be paid to him in cash here, in your presence* and then you can have it,when you come out. You're not making matters a bit better for your se'f by slicking to that absurd and in credible story. If anything, rather ' orse, for you'll'get dropped on more heavily by taking that line than if you ?da your best to restore me my stoleu property. Now, then, you'll be a fool if you refuse; you will, upon my wor.d." ' "JJ I Had 'stolen the diamonds, or Icuew Avhere they wore, I'd close with "ybif like a shot, Mr. BInmcfeeld, for I know very well that I'm in for five years, a?y?owi But I didn't steal them, 'andi don't know where they are any more than you do," answered Morris. "My story souuds unlikely enough, I'm well aware. Maybe the judge and jury won't believe it,either; but it's true,, aud that's all about it." From this ?JOSU?OU-true or false nothing conld induce him to budge. The day of his trial arrived. The case excited great iutorest, and tho recorder's court was packed. There were two counts in the indictment, the on? (I'm not a lawyer, aud I ou ly quote from memory, therefore I will crave indulgence in case my legal phraseology bo incorrect)-the one of "feloniously b'oaking into" Blume feeld's premises iu Hatton Garden; the other of "stealing therefrom diamonds to the valne of ?20,000." To the for mer the prisoner pleaded guilty,to the latter not guilty, aud tho prosecution, iu ute li?pe of procm ing n more ^ex emplary sentence, proceeded with the charge of stealing the jewels. But this was a difficult matter to prove. Everybody, of course, was convinced that Morris had stolen the diamonds; but -to establish it hy the technical rules of evidence was another affair. Agaiust the fact that he was caught on the premises, admittedly with the in tention of stealing the diamonds, had to be set tho fact that no sign of a diamond, or any < ther stolen article, was found upon him when caught. Enrtherniore, the circumstance of his having rofased Blumefeeld's offer of ?2QD0, which was elicited by his coun sel in evidence, went to some slight extent in his favor. ^But ..this the of auy accomplice; ana, oesnieo,-?uer tho mauuer in which the theft of the blue diamonds had been bruited abroad and advertised, it would be impossible ior tho ?Br?Tor "{hfeves to dispose of i them for a quarter of itheir real value, if indeed at all. In which contention, of course, there'wns some truth. The recorder summed up at consid erable length-a careful, equipoised .summing up, as I remember thinking at therine, balanced, like the sen tences in o^G?cek .dialogue, with per petual "ou the ou? hand" and "on the other hand;" impartial, no doubt, but colorless, aud affording no assistance whatever to the juryl The latter,after considering their verdict for au hour .pr so, at length brought the prisoner in "not guilty" on this indictment. He was then sentenced on tho other in dictment to.20. months1 hard labor,the "recorder observing 'tlutjt if anything previous had been known-against him, i which apparently there was not, he should have sent him'into penal servi tude. -?"Sirelr is a brief-n very brief-re capitulation of Robert Morris's trial ??nd sentence in connection" with the 'theft pf the bf nd diamonds. ?1 now come to the important point in mystory. the onlypurt of it which is not mere recupiturittiou, namely-the ernefdation of the mystery as imparted > to me only a few week? ago by Morris himself. I may take chis opportunity "of s.-iying that I am tho-doctor who at tended the ex-convict in his last ill ness; of which the fatal termination .came so recently as a fortnight since. He' died in a lodging in' Bloomsbury, iii miserably poor circume'duees, aud "b'???g unable to ' pay jue"' auy"f?ej ?i?~* parted to me his secret-ho do what I could with, as a sort of last,acknowledg ment of my services. "Doctor," ha said to'me one day, about a week before he died, "I shan't leitvo auy clTo.ts behind me tb pay i your bill. But T can leave you a lit tle secret, which you might turn into ^?" ?icTsm? bf xi'eady","TT you set about it the right way. Ah! what a fool I was to go and make ducks and drakes of all that oof! Do you know, doctor, after I came out of shop I was worth ?8000?" "Eight thousand!" I exclaimed. "Then, you did steal the blue dia monds? How did you: manage to hide ??them??* -"That'? the secret I'm -going to tell you. Ah, doctor (he chuckled glee fully; I'm not writing ft moral tale; I'm' telling the truth, and the truth is thai Robert Morris was not in the least peniteut), "I had : the diamonds on me when I was caught; I had them on me when I M as searched at the sta tion; I had them on me{ when I weut before the lord mayor; I had them on me when,I-was tried at the Old Bailey, I had them on me all the 20 inontbs I was in the stone jug-aye, all the blessed time:". "Impossible!" I cried.' "You could not have concealed tiiei?." "Couldn't I, tbough? Ah," doctor, I'll show you. Bring me that cup off the 'washstand, now. ;Do you see rhat's in "-tr" "j . * MYdur grinders," I (said, looking down at the doul le set of false teeth _Jyiug.in thex-tp.i.'what about.'em?!'.,.. " ".vice ones, eh?" he asked with a leer and a wink. ""^'.'verr," I answered. ".Vade !em-myself," he said, with another cnn Rle. "The p'lce eknew 51 wax-a dei:list's assist:mt,too. "Wonder they never guessed." .'Guessed what?" *Take 'em oat of the cup," he tolj nie. I did so. "There's a little mark at the side of the plate," he -went ou. "It's a spring. Press it with your thumb nail." . . I obeyed his instruction. In au in staut all the top grinders sprang open, revealing . ne the fact that each of them was ?imply a small hollow re ceptacle, contrived, as I saw on closer examination, with the most artful skill aud workmanship. The sick man broke into a.yet more gleeful chuckle as he watched the amazed wonder with which I was gaz ing at this marvellously clever effort of skill and cunning. "There!" he said, chuckling till he coughed himself speechless. "Not so impossible after all-eh, doctor?" * * * . * ? *. ' * Subsequent inquiries which I ad dressed to Morris himself elicted the following facts: Tbat,recognizingtke extreme risk he ran of being.caught, h? had had two duplicate keye of the safe made, iu ordor . that, by leaving .oue of them in the lock, some color might be lent to his assertion that he had beeu anticipated by another thief. The extremely clever contrivance of Iiis false teeth, however, was, of course, his chef-d'oeuvre, and he had put the blue diamonds into those marvellously contrived receptacles the moment he took them. Hardly were the teeth safely back in hid mouth before the risk which he feared eventuated, and he was pounced on by the watchman. "But it was worth it, " this impen itent sinner told me. "Aye; rf I'd got five years, it would have been worth it. They had my teeth out, too, so as to examine my mouth more carefully. I felt nervous just then, I can tell you. But it was 0. IC. For, sharp as the fellows were, they never thought of looking inside the teeth."-London Truth. - / QUAINT-AND CURIOUS. A family comprising seven persons left Scranton, Penn., the other day, the "whole party traveling on one full fare railroad ticket. There were the mother aud her three pairs of twins, none of the children being up to the half-fare age of five years. A curious case is roported by a Ger man dentist, Dr. Muhl Kuhner. One of his patients was a woman of 24, whose right arm aud right side of the nock had been paralyzed for two years and a half as a result, it was supposed, of a fall aud broken arm, and he filled several of her teeth and extracted the much-decayed third molar or wisdom, tooth of the'right side.' The patient returned noxt day to state that her paralysis had disappeared. xoKepu, mirna . ivanaunaela. .Luina Kaholoholo, Leihulu-Keohokal?e, Kit-? hakumakalani, -Sot* At and B. Se. The "Ks" take np three columns of space, being three times as numerous as the delinquents under any other letter. In reference to a recent paragraph on mermaidens, a correspondent of the London Telegraph writes: "It may not be generally known that Ja pan exports these shams in assorted sizes, in glass cases, at sa much per foot-run. They are made of the body of a fish and tlie dried head of a mon key, so skillfully united that it is diffi cult to detect where one begins and the other ends, Of late the market for mermaidens has been flat; at one time they were fairly common in the! curiosity shops. In l??O a remarkable lamp was found near Atestes, Padua, by a rustic, who unearthed a terra-cotta urn coutain ing another urn in which was a lamp placed between two cylindrical vessels, one of gold and the other silver. Each was full of a very pure liquid by whose virtue the lamp had been kept shining upward of fifteen hundred years. This curious lamp was nt meant to scare away evil spir5' from a tomb, but war ~" ..^i to perpetuate the pro found knowledge of Maximus Olybius, who effected this wonder by his skill in the chemical art. An English agriculturist has been experimenting with bees as letter car . riers. ? Having conveyed a hive to a house four miles distant,, he let out a few of them in a room where a plate of honey was placed to attract them. When they had settled upon this feast :he experimenter fastened tiuy dis; patches upon their backs with a drop of paste, taking care at the same time that the motion of their wings was not interfered with. He then set' them free, whereupou they immedi ately set out for their old home, wher? the writijg was read with a magnify* ing glass. Consider tho Hen. Thero is something almost pathetic in the faithfulness to business and tho unwavering diligence of :the ordinary hen, when she gets her heart set on hatching out a. brood of chickens.' She will sit all day on an old door knob and dream of the happy day when she can strut around in the back lot with a dozen or so of fuzzy chicks at her heels, scratching and clucking and swelling out her feathers with self-importance. In order to satisfy this motherly.instinct she is not only willing, but frantic to deny herself all of the ordinary pleasures of life. She doesu't care for a "good time." She is perfectly content to stay at home and attend to her maternal duties, and has no concern about how her feathers aro adjusfed or whether her comb hangs straight. When a hen is layiuj and not thinking of family matters she takes pride iu her red comb, aud is .frequently seen oiling her feathers and trying to ' make herself look at tractive. But your "old cluck" is ai perfect type of the devoted mother. Her whole being is absorbed in the one thought of rearing her family, and'even if required to hatch out a brood of ducks or turkeys she bends to her task with the same enthusiasm as though abe had laid tho eg?s her? self.-Puiixsntnwuey Spirit. ? - . . OOQOOQOOQOOOGOCOD OC 00,00000 MEMORABLE 'contest may con fidently be expected .when Sir Thomas Lipton comes over here in the fall to get the America's Cup. The race will, be the tenth since the prpnd day whet? the. eagle first ac quired a right co perch upon that trophy. But it is not time to be frightened' yet. j The British papers are doiug their best to scare' us, but' 'ti/ SIK THOMAS . J; LIPTON*. (Chnllengor for fae American's Cup.) we should keep up our courage for the present. That tho Shamrock, Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger, is a dan gerous craft is hardly to be doubted, but that she will .defeat the Columbia is not yet a foregone conclusion. We (A sall was dropped over the stern to prove? lines of tt have been told that the Shamrock had a concealed centreboard, and that this? was what would beat u*- I Wc have read'that she had u way Of putting her chain cable up her sleeve and taking it out for the purpose of the race; that she had a hollow keel in which all sorts of dangerous expedients could bo concealed, aud that she was iu general a craft m?r? filled with mys teries than our own Fer. i more Cooper's Water Witch. But the lines of a yacht, like murder,' will out.' Her dimensions may be .kepfc'< secret, yet the,y, too, will ultimately be known with something appronohing'cxactness. The dimensions of the Columbia have been obtained . from ?men who have had nfe?fis'di learning .thurn, and are trustworthy. They put the yacht's length over all as 131 feet; beam, 22 feet 2 inches, and draught, 19 feet 10 WM. FIFE, Tn., TEE DESIOXEB. ' CAPT. WBINOE. CATT. IIOOABTP (The Shamrock's d< dgner and lier two skippers.) sions of the two yachts 'is taken from the Loudon Daily News. i . : . Columbia. Shamrock. *~ L 1 " Ft. ID. Pt. In. Longtb over all.... 131 4 132 2 Wator-lino length._89... ..10 80 Beam. 24 1\i 24 Draught. 20 20 Displacement - Columbia, ?45}? t on s; Shamrock, 147 tons. 8M1-area-Columbia, 13,910 square foot, Shamrock, 14,125 squaro feet. The Columbia, which is the third cup defender designed by Nathaniel Green Herreshoff, is owned jointly by Commodore J. Pierpont Morgan and C. Oliver Iseliu, both of the New York Yacht Club. Roughly speaking,, she will cost to build and run about $225,000 for the season, of which tho Herreshofls will receive about 5110, 000, which includes the hull, rigging, sails and extra spars. The Columbia in 0. Oliver Iseliu has a capable amateur manager. His famous racing flag, the black and red swaliow-tai!, has been carried tri-: mnphantly to victory on the Titania,' Vigilant and Defender. No patriotic Americau doubts he will be successful this year. Ho has in Mrs. Iselin the LAUNCH of THE . H * * it photographers getting a picture ol the ie yacht.) most charming mascot in tbe world. His aids are Woodbury-Kane, Herbert C. Leeds and; Newberry D. Thorne, all excellent yachtsmen, > His skipper, Charles Barr, is one of the smartest in the world. Ho is a Scotchman, but has long been natur alized. . He in the only man of foreign birth who will sail on Columbia. He is thirty-five years old, and was born at Gourock on the Clyde. In Chief Mate Allen, Captain Barr has a thor oughly able and experienced officer. The crew of Columbia hail from Deer Isle, Me., and a better lot of seamen never bioko a biscuit. , There are thirty-nine all told, and teu of them sailed on Defender. Many of them have been captains and mates of coastiTig vessels. They aro a lithe, agile lot, and handle the Columbia to perfection. DR, COLUMBIA. r. ANK. tt-AllEtf ._-? o, uuiupitjre ?onfidence in them. The 'crew con ista of no fewer>than fifty-men, thirty Scotchmen and the Teat Englishmen bur officers, boatswain, :,two boats wain's mates, carpenter, carpenter's nate, sailmaker, nine leading Beaman, wenty-seven able seamen, two steW irds and two cooks. In addition, Dom Batsey and six sailmakers will ook after the canvas. Of the ship's THE HULL OF THE. COLUMBIA. iompany, only ten haye not sailed in LnierTca's Cup contests before. The contests between two ? such, yachts as .Columbia and Shamrock, nanned by such men, cannot fail to )"o of magnificent interest. Simplicity of Tagal Women. The natives of the Philippine ."slauds-that ia .the pure bred natives ir aborigines-aro called Tagals. They ire of the Mal ay Tace andar? about as. v'ild and unsophisticated as any of the lavage peoples of the world, j They are notan ill-favored race, and tome of the women are very pretty. Che illustration is made from a photo graph of a native Tagal peasant girl, ier family evidently has had the beno it of contact with civilization, as her Iress indicates. Some of the Tagal vomen dress elaborately, but in the ?ountry places, it is said, they ar?' COOD STORY ABOUT DEWEY. H.> Once Came??ear .Starting a Smatl War With Mexico. Lieutenant F. Winslow, U. S. N., retired, a cousin of tho famous com mander of tbe Koarsarge,recently told a Tribune reporter a hew story about Admiral George Dewey. 'Tn May, 1875, Admiral Dewey was commander of the old Narragansett," said Lieutenant Winslow, "and he was detailed to -surveying the Gulf of 'California and the shores of the coast of the peninsula. It was not long after the Virginias affair at Santiago, and the feeliug toward Mexicans and Cubans was none too cordial. The Narragansett reached La Paz, near the southern end of the peninsula, and we no sooner got ashore than heard that an American mining engi neer and some Englishmen who ev, ned the mine were prisoners in their faining shanties, forty miles back ol La Paz, in the mountains. The American had resented an insult, a quarrel followed, and the American killed two Mexicans. The friends of the latter swore they'd kill the Yan kee and the Englishmen, too, and the latter were soon obliged to barri cade themselves. This siege had been on for several dnys when we dropped anchor. "As soon as Commander Degrey heard of it he was very much in terested. The next day he s?nt a messenger to the Mexican colonel in La Paz, who had a garrison of 600 soldiers there, asking him what he was going to'd? to give the American a trial before he was shot. "Oh, ho got into the trouble-let him get out, " said the Mexican. "Commander Dewey didn't like this reply, and the more he thought about it the angrier he got. The next forenoon hesent anote to tho Mexioan colonel telling him that an American citizen's life was in danger, and that the man was entitled to a fair trial. He told the colonel that he would al low him just twenty-four .hours to rescue the American and protect the Englishmen. If at the end of that time relief was not on its way to the little'mining party he would bombard La Paz and burn it. "When we heard what Dewey had done we were all frightened. " 'Does he meaD it?' we asked one mother; , "As for myself, I was soon satisfied that he meant every word of it. I was in command of the guns. We had only two old howitzers on the Narragansett, the larger guns having been left temporarily at the Mare Island navy yard. " 'Get those howitzers ready for tomorrow morning and inspect all the small arms and ammunition,' said Dewey to -me. Then he called the fuy":.?.;?"**."?"? --J_U_J--J it-i ??I .-'-"?? vu yi*w u, :'". . next morn ing;we/were all ready to be gin a Second'war against Mexico. "At daybreak a Mexican corporal ; came oh board 'with a message from his colonel saying that tho Narragan sett's commander's request would be complied with. Early that morning we watched 300 armed Merrican sol diers start for the mining camp, and we kept the old howitzers trained on La Paz till the soldiers returned with the American engineer. Wnon Dewey reported to Washington ou the matter he minimized the importance of it, and it was passed over as a mere incident. .Lieutenants Harris and Wright were on the Narragansett then, and Harris, at least, was with the fleet at Manila, It is somewhat singular that at that, time, when we were expecting a decla ration of war against Spain on account .of the Virgiuius affair, Commander Dewey bad his plans all in ide to sail the Narragansett to Manila." The British Cook ami Rice Pudding*. The British cook, writes W. L. Alden in Pearson's, who is told to make a rice pudding will take some flour, a few eggs, as much milk as she can spare from the mistress's tea, and all the rice that is left in the rice jar. She mixes these ingredients, and after putting the com position in the oven wonders what it will turn out to be. Sometimes the. result is n plum cake. At another time it is a suet pudding, and at' another beefstake pie. Statistics prove that it becomes a rice pudding only once in four hundred and seventeen . limes. . . ? ? There is ?ll tho charm of a lottery, or of gold mining, in British cookery. It is sb purely a matter of chance that rigid application of the gambling laws would land every British^cook in jail. . The cook stakes her flour and butter and eggs, in the hope that they will emerge from the oven in some desir able form. If she wins, her employer regards her as au .admirable cook. If she loses, and the oven returns to her a dish which is absolutely uneatable, her employer wonders why she can never learn to cook. So loug as the British cook prefers chance to science, and thinks that it is simpler to take "some" bf various ingredients instead of taking a definite and unalterable number of grams of each, so long will British cookery remain among the mysteries of life. Mr?. Davin and the Copyright. Seu'ator Hoar" unfolded what he called a-little bit of interesting bistorj in the Senate whon.the.bill relating to changing the copyright aw was under consideration, says the Bostou Herald. He told how Mrs. Jefferson : Davis prepared a very interesting life of her husband. The ownership of 'that biography was a' "erv important. re sourse to her in her old age. General Gordon came into the Senate one day just before his term expired, aW in thb last moments of ; President Harrison's administration, 'and stnted that the publishers of the book had failed to make the proper deposit o: copies with tho librarian to save hu 1 copyright. They claimed (hat th? copyright was gone and Mrs. Davi was absolutely in their power. Con sequently they undertook to compel her to submit to some very hard aud onerour terms. She was jn great dis tress and came to Congress for help. 'A'-bil!-{vas'pas?ed relieving" her from, that disability, and it was signed by 'President Harrison within SO seconds of 12 o'clock, when his.tej'm expired. . A-PUTTIN' ur mc rmi. "When hayin1 time comes round I go And git the water jug And take it over to the barn And git'a corn-cob plug; Then go do*"? to the pasture lot And bridle Ma's old Gray, And carry water for the men A-puttin' up the hay. I ride the horse down to the spring And plump the jug rightdn And if you put it down too deep " It bobs'right up ag'in ! And then'it "bubble-bubble bubs," It goes jest that a-way.' Your wrist it gita as cold as J^c A-puttin' up the hay, Then, when it's full, I fasten it To Unole Bill's plow line And drag it round. Pa says as that's A lazy soheme of mine. But you just bet I'd rather drag A Jug round any day Then have to hold it on a horse A-puttin' up the hay. One day the doggoned jug it hit A stone-broke all to mash ! Then Pa he got a willow branch / nd said that he -oald thrash Me good; but Uncle Bill said "Aw! The boy most have some play." By gosh ! a feller don't have much A-puttin' up the hay;. -Harold Douglas fioblns, in Puck. HUMOROUS. "In my business," said the conn terfeiter, "I do not expeot to lose any thing on bad bills." i - "Didn't he once say he would never speak to you again?" "Yes; hut he saw I had a cold, and lie couldn't re inst 1he temptation to tell me of a sure cure. . fi fjif'rf * "Doesn'tr yotrr mother-in-law take any interest in your domestic affairs?" "Oh, yes; she baoks up my wife and the cook when I find fault with the linner." Popper-That boy of mine is a regular phenomenon." Batchellor (wearily)-lu what way? Popper Six years old, and never said a bright thing in his life. - Tommy-Paw, what is the differ ence between economy and stinginess? Mr. Flagg-Saving on my own clothes is economy and saving on your mother's is stinginess. "Why the dickens don't you stop?" asked the angry householder. "The fire ia all out." "I allow it is," ad mitted the leader of the hose company, "but they is three winders not broke yet." deverton-I want to consult your opinion on a point of etiquette. When; I take a girl to luncheon, is it proper to ask her what she wants to eat? " Dashaway-It is if you have money enough.. ..... "Don't touch nie," said the chry santhemum, as it leaned away from the rose. ; "I would be foolish to at tempt it," replied, the rose;/^t's a. -u v?.-" Miss Prim-Don t IUI rut.? me, little boy. Boy-He won't*, bitis^ ma'am. Miss Prim-But he is show ing his teeth. ' Boy (with pride)-Cer tainly he is, ma'am; and if you had as good teeth as he has you'd show 'et?, too. Weary Willy (thoughtfully)-Ah,' lady! you are EO young, so good, so beautiful and so true, dat-Mrs. Just wed-That what? Weary Willy-Bat it would be de height of rashness to try and eat any of your cooking!--so I won't'stop! 1 . Young Housekeeper-Hnvo yo? any nice ducks this moroiiug? "Ye.c, here are some nice cauvas-backs. " Young Housekeeper-Oh, dear! I am so in experienced! I think I.would rather have tho old-fashioued kind that have . feathers on. "Unelo," said the scientific youth, "don't you know that you ought to Lave your drinking water boiled, so as to kill the microbes?" "Weil," ans wered the old gentleman, thought? fnlly, "I believe I would as lief be an aquarium as a cemetery."^ IN NATURE'S WORKSHOP. ,j Queer Seeds That Dig Their W?y ?lits the Ground. "For every plant'thatgrows, "says a .writer in the Gincinnatiluquirer, "na ture has mado so xe way for it to plant its seeds. Sometimes they ripen aud . drop off. Sometimes, like the bur, they are given little hooks so as to stick in the shaggy coats of animals and be carried great distances. Some times they are so fine and light that the wind blows them far away. Birds carry some in their wings and some float over seas. Every one knows the pretty winged seed cases that come fluttering and whirling down from the maple trees in autumn, and everyone has noticed the way in which the dan delion, the cctton grass and the thistle float their seeds upon the air. "But there are seeds which not only are scattered abroad, but which hore their own way deep into the ground. One of these is called the stork's bili, because after its flowers have fallen to pieces there grows from the centre a long beak like the bill of a stork. Around the bottom of this are five seeds, and to each seed is a long hairy thread. When the seed is ripe these threads curl up with a sharp spring one fine day and throw the seeds as far from the old plant au they can. "Then the seed begins to bury itself. First the long hairy thread gets dry on top, but stays a little damp where it lies on the ground, ami this makes it bend up, with the. pointed end of the seed against the-'ground. Then tie"hjng hairy ihiead begins to curl like a corkscrew^ ana*'this twists the reed around and around, and makes it bore into the ground,, and as the sharp* little hairs all point backward lae seed ran never come' back" oti*, but every time it moves must twist* deeper in. If oue of these freed?/"with its long tail, is laid on a piece of paper it will curl over and.over till the paper gets dry, when it will cull back again io che f tart in g. place. ?j "There are ?evei?l plants that bury their seeds in this manner, but the r?or5t of ail is. the seed, of the spear trias-. This lias a "sharp and thorny point which gets iu : the wool of the poor sheep which gra/>e out Werst, where thin fearful plant, gre wp, and bores its way into their flesh, making painful sores, from which the helpless anjo) als often die,