Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 17, 1900, Image 4
A FABLE.
From the French.
A, plowshare that long bad idle lain.
Tarnished with rust's corroding stahl,
Seeing bis brother poss that way,
-All ralliant from work at ojoso ot chy,
Addressed bim thus: ".My brother, why
Hore brilliant and polished art thou than
1?
Our substance, is it not one in name?
Were we not forged by hands the same?"
His brother ri (.Wc) in proudest tone:
**i am what 1 am through work alone!',' .
-William West.
1 Will THE CAPTAIN. I
i.
"Women aboard ship," said the
"bo'sun of the British Queen, " is like
oats in a conservatory. They won't
keep still for a mi iure. If they ain't
>ip and asking the skipper 'ow far it
is to the next port, they has to be get
ting themselves in a muddle with the
ropes and spars, and a-trying to turn
a businesslike ship into a sort of 'tar
ait! boudoir, or whatsoever they calls
'em, as is decked ont with ribbons and
fancy touches.
"We 'ad a woman once aboard the
Li2a Jane, as was crossing from Car
diff to the Thames with steam coal,
and back agen with auything as we
could get hold of. She was on the
books as a passenger, and when she
came aboard at Gravesend with a red
parasol and a brown 'andbag and
asked the way to her room we knowed
on the instant that there was some
thing going to happen, and we changed
.our lives just as if we'd bin born agen
an' couldn't help it- Why, afore we'was
off the Nore blest if she 'ado't begun
a-talking to the cook about the greasy
knives and teaspoons, till the poor
feller was in such a flutter that he
took a two hours' tnrn a-polishing
every bit o' brass as might 'appen to
come under 'er eye. And then she
started on the men. The ropes was
/?all sticky anet nasty, she ses, and so
was the bul'arks, as she couldn't lean
iagenst without messin' 'er blouse. And
'the men never said nothing, but just
'went below and fished out their best
togs and took -to scraping away the
coal dust and tar when they ought to
ha' been below and in their bunks,
r "The fact is, we was all knocked
'ead-over-'eels and silly with fear and
--admiration. For, no mistake, Bhe was
.as trim a gal as ever set a parasorl.
That is to say, we was all struck 'cept
the skipper, and he wasn't that Bort
They did say as 'ewasaNvoman 'ater,and
didn't see no'use in 'em; and I dare
say as that was so, for when she was
ion deck a-airing her best things, and
a-making us poor chaps wish ve was
good-looking enough to lay our hearts
at her feet, 'e was a-slinking out of the
"way and only came on de_*k when he
knowed she'd be below curling 'er 'air
or getting 'erself up for another at
tack.
"Well, this state of thinga con
tinued for a couple of days, and then
one morning she came right up to me
as I was a-s pl icing lashings and poked
me in the chest with 'er parasorl.
: " 'Sailor,' she ses. 'What's your
name?'
" 'B?1 Suiggs, miss, if yer please,
? knees a-shaking as if
'?.?, 'you look to
' .Sd and the
"ant you
'?T?t,.:- ^ver
.?ut I
- "ue deck
ses, Tm a-go
*?r ; ^j*??o my confidence.
?&^??^^??*r*muat tell you I'm in
love? I was almost a-falling on my
knees to tell 'er I knowed it. 'Now,
c in't you guess with whom? Why,of
course, with your dear good skipper.
7iutt ob, dear; he is so horridly back
ward. He won't even look at me.
He knows I came here on purpose to
be near him and to talk to him, and
see how he neglects me and keeps ont
of my way! Oh, sailor, am I so
horrid and ugly?'
" 'I told 'er as well as I could as I
didn't think the old man need take on
so 'cos she wasn't 'arf bad to look at.
On the contrary, t-he was about as
pretty a pieter as you'd see in a
month's cruise.
" 'Well, sailor,' she went on, 'what
do youjthink I've determined to do? I
?believe he won't havo anything to do
with me simply because I'm a woman,
aud some silly people think a woman
eau do nothing but receive admiration.
Now, if I could show him that I am
brave and strong and can think aud
act for myself perhaps he would learn
to love me. So I want you to help
me. I want you to fall overboard, and
let *ne jump after you.'
"It come on me a bit sudden like,
and I sorter reeled with astonishment.
But she took 'old of my 'and and
squeezed it till I thought I should
faint away in 'er arms.
".'Now, don't look surprised,' she
ses; 'I'm au. awful good swimmer!
I've won lots of prizes at our baths,
and I'll see that we throw a buoy or
two overboard, so that wo sha'n't be
in danger. And when it's over, sailor
1*11 give you ?5. Now you can't say
no to me, can you-you dear, kind
mau?'
?"No, I couldn't, and that was a
fact. It's bad enough when you've
got a (lovesick maden grasping and
?-leaning on yer; but when it comes
to five quid in 'ard cash dangling be
fore your nose it's too much.
, "So we arranged it that next day, if
the sea was smooth and the weather
fine, I'd sprinkle a few life-buoy's
'over-board and accidentally tumble
among 'em. Then, with a cry as 'nd
bring the skipper on deck, the gal
would dive after me, and we'd go
through a sorter life-saving perfor
mance; and if that didn't make the
old man fall on 'er neck and ask to be
forgiven- well,!hen we'd 'ave to mrow
'im in next, and let 'er 'ave a try at
saving 'im."
IL
"Well, next day was fine, with just
a bit of breeze as kept the barque
steady nuder all sail, and as we were
only making about four knots an hour,
I reckoned this was the time for the
final scene. So I whistled to the gal
to get ready, and then 1 got'old
of all the " buoys I could find
and pitched 'em astern when nobody
wasn't looking. Next I slipped off
my boots and dropped quietly over
the side.
. "When I looked up 1 seed the gal
a-looking an if she was a-wondering
'ow cold it waa. And then all of a
sudden she give a yell, and dived in
and come swimming toward me like
a fish.
"Lor, the commotion there was on
board when they heard that yell!
First.up come tho skipper from below.
He .looked astern and saw the girl in
the water. Off went 'is coat, and
splash 'e carno after 'er. Then I seed
the cook rush out of the galley. '?
took in the situation, and the next
moment 'e was taking a header from
the stem. Two Beaman as 'ad 'card
tue cry next tumbled over, and before
I 'ad time to 'oller out and tell 'em it
was all right the other two seamen
and the boy was a bobbing about in
the water. ' %
"By this time the gal 'ad got to me,
and we was each of us 'anging to a
buoy. Away in the wake of the barque
we could see seven 'eads a-bobbiug
about, and one by one they'they came
up to us and collared 'old of a b?oy,
to wait for what was going to 'appen
next. And all the time that blamed
barque was standing away under full
sail as ii nothing 'ad 'appened.
"Suddenly the skipper looked round
and said something as didn't seem to
just fit the occasion.
" 'Who's left in charge of that bar
que?' he yelled.
"Nobody answered, and then 'e
looked round agen and counted us all
as we was a bobbing : Lout together.
'E counted us twice, ?ud then he
swore agen.
" 'How dare you leave the ship
without my orders?' he shouted.
'Don't yon see that there isn't a man
on the barque, and that we're left here
like a flock of fools while she drifts
on to the nearest lee-shore?'
"Somebody begun to giggle, and
the skipper swore as 'e'd blow 'is
brains out if 'e found out who it was.
The gal said it was 'er, and sure
enough she was a-laughing away as if
It was the best fun in the world, while
there was the crew of the Liza Jane
a-bobbing about in the water, while
our ship waB a-sailing steadily away
by 'erself, without a 'and to guide
'er from the cruel rocks. It was an
awful moment for me, as 'ad bin
the unwilling cause of it all; and it
seemed as if the utter uselessness of
women was a fact, after all.
"But there was the gal, still smil
ing, and when a tramp steamer picked
ns up and carried us to Plymouth she
wanted the skipper to report ns to the
authorities as a picnic party as 'ad
got ont of our depth. But the old
man was wild with the loss of 'is 6hip,
and 'e couldn't do nothing but stamp
abont and threaten to kill us all.
"We did 'ear afterwards that the
Liza Jane 'ad stood out to Bea and
went down in a squall somewhere in
the region of the tropics. And that's
as likely as not, for we never set eyes
on 'er again.
"And when the skipper got over it
and come to look upon things in the
! right spirit he sorter veered 'round to
the conclusion that a comfortable 'ome
and a good-looking wife wasn't such
a poor couclusi?u after all. No more
was the fifty pounds each of us got for
our share, either.
"LIFT YOUR SKIRT, PLEASE!"
?
Being tlie Annoying Kxperlonce of a Young
Al omen and a Strange Man.
She had noticed that men would
stare at her. It wasn't exactly her
fault; beauty in a woman could hardly
be called a fault, but the open admi
ration of men annoyed her, just a bit
The strong wind had blown on her
cheeks the hue of the red rose that is
full blown, and mon looked' after her
with a detaining expression that
seemed to say, "Hi, there, miss, you
have dropped a flower." Of course
she hadn't, but it seemed so natural to
think she had.
Ono man-and he was every inch a
man, and a good many inches,- too
-actually turned and followed her.
-jere was no doubt that he was.fol
Jwing her. She loosened the grip on
the trailing skirt she was ho'ling and
quickened her pace. There was that
man just behind her. bhe turned to.
go into Petticoat lane, when the mau
actually accosted her.
"I beg your pardon, madam, but
would you mind lifting your skirts
just a little?"
Heavens, the man must be crazy!
She turned to him, and looking over,
under, around and throngh him, but
not at him, said, "Sir!"
"Beg your pardon, but would you
mind lifting your skirt just a little,
the fact is-"
"Officer, this mau is annoying me,"
Baid the young woman, tnrning to the
big policeman.
"Say,you're rather a decent-looking
chap to be a-speakin' to women you
don't know," said the officer.
"She's got my hat and is carrying
it away."
"What!" gasped the young woman.
"Your hat! Officer, this man is sim
ply crazy"
"Xo, I'm not," 8aidthe man. "The
wind blew my hat off anc! into your
trailing skirt. Now, if you'll please
raise your skirt just-"
Sho did, and out rolled the hat, but
what was the .use of explanations?
This explains, however, why our young
women in Kansan City wear short
skirts.-Kansas City Star.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
No action of love was ever in vain.
? A trust is no honor till the trustee
honors it.
The personal ideal is the only pow
erful one.
He who takes the pains will take
the prize.'
Kestitution is the right hand of
repentance.
The best things are not always in
the beaten tracks.
A man with an aim, will soon be a
man with a name.
Justice is not m ado for the law, but
the law for justice.
Idealizing the lowly, really helps to
realize the lofty ideal.
Selfishness is the substance of sin
and sorrow its shadow.
Only toy boats are disturbed by
every wavelet of change.
The great man's greatest discovery
is the greatness in other men.
The heart's reservations are the lim
itations of the life's usefulness.
There is n good deal of difference
between giving up and giving out.
Advertising other people's faults, is
a kind of advertising that does not
pay.
The man who cannot put the steam
on the brakes as well as on the driv
ers, will have trouble.-Ram's Horn.
A Feline Patron of Football.
Portsmouth has a novelty in the
shape of a cat who patronizes foot
ball. She is a supernumerary belonging
to one of the messes at Whale Island,
the home of the naval gunnery school
officially known as her majesty's ship
Excellent At Whale Island there is
a football ground, where the Excellent
j team display their prowess. On the
i occasion of a match there this cat is in
j the habit of sedately marching to the
! ground with her two-footed mess com
j panions. She sits in the front row of
i spectators while play is in progress,
; and on the conclusion of the match
i trots back to quarters.-Westminster
j Gazette.
TRICKS OF DESERTERS.
Sl'EER EXPERIENCES OF THOSE WHO
LEVANT FROM THE ARMY.
Many of the Deporte? Re-Enlist-Odd
Cane of a Soldier Named Devine-Im
pudence of a Fellow "Who Took French
Leave of the Navy.
"Deserters from the army and navy
occasionally stack up against some
queer experiences when they re-enlist,
as a good many deserters do," said a
Washingtou man who has served in
both outfits, "When I entered the
army for the second five-year stretch,
about twelve years ago, I 'took on'at
David's Island, N. Y., then the big
eastern recruiting .station. I was as
signed, as is the usual custom, to a
company of recruits, and they made
me a sergeant until they decided as
to what post they wanted to send me.
Among the 'rookies' in my company
was a good-looking chap named De
vine. He was every inch a soldier. I
knew that he had been a soldier. So
did all the old-timers who sized De
vine up. It made me feel foolish when
I took Devine out with a lot of rook
ies for an awkward squad drill. He
tried with all the skill he had to act
like a man who had never seen a gun
in his life, but I felt all the time that
Devine was just laughing at me. One
day, in the middle of the manual
drill, I gave a somewhat unusual or
der - an order that recruits wouldn't
be supposed to know anything about
-just for the sake of trying out De
vine. I caught him unawares, and ho
made the first movement toward exe
cuting the order. Tb en he tumbled
to himself, gave a sly look out of the
corner of his eye aud relapsed into as
sumed clumsiness. When the drill
was over I happened to run into De
vine outside the company quarters.
*' 'You're an old swaddle.' Baid I.
" 'Forget it,'said Devine.
" 'Aren't you afraid they'll nail
you?' I asked him.
" Tt's me that's taking the chance,'
said Devine.
"Well, after the couple of months
at David's Island I got my orders. I
was to join an iufantry regiment at
Fort Assiniboiue, Mont, and take
charge of a large batch of recruits as
signed to the same outfit. The whole
bunch got their orders simultaneously
with me. Among the batch was De
vine. I ran into him at the canteen
about half an hour after we got our
orders.
*"Say,? said Devine, 'I don't kuow
whether to duck or not'
" 'For why?' I asked him. .
" 'There's a captain out there at
Assiniboiue that knows me,' said De
vine. 'I was in his outfit when I
jumped. And I was a sergeant, at
that. He is a pretty square old geezer
and I soldiered up to the handle as
long as I was with him, bur, all the
same, I'm afraid he'll land me if I go
out there.'
" 'It's you that's taking the chance,'
said I. 'If he's such a square officer,
all right and proper; maybe he won't
know you.'
" '111 take the odds.' said Devine.
"Well, we went out to Assiniboiue.
and ien we lined up in front of head
quarters on the morning we got in,
who should bo the officer of the day
but this captain Devine had served
with when he jumped. The captain
didn't see Devine until, in calling the
roll of the newly-arrived recruits, he
scanned the countenances of the men.
I waB watching for him to pipe off De
vine. As soon as ho olapped eyes on
Devine he gave the slightest possible
start-Devine standing like a statue
and looking ten ' paces ahead-and
then he went on calling the roll. I
knew he-had got next to Devine.
"'Devine will fall out," said the
captain when we were about to be or
dered to march to the quarters, and,
said I to myself: 'Devine, you'll do
your little three'yearsat Fort Leaven
worth for a mortal cinch. ' About ten
minutes later Deviue came strolling
into quarters. I nodded him over to
a corner bunk.
" 'How do you happen to be loose?'
I asked him.
" 'I told you he was a square old
geezer,' said Devine. 'He said to
me;
" ' "Your name's Devine, you say?"
" ' "The same," ' said I, giving him
a No. 4 salute and holding my face as
if I had never clapped an eye on him.
" * "Aud you never saw me before,
did you, Devine?" ' said he.
i, ? ??T>ve got a bum memory, sir,"
said I.
" ' "Um-you never saw me before,
Devine?" 1 said he. "I'm certain of
that. Um-very well. Now yon go
to your quarters. And if the idei
should ever enter your head to
desert, Devine, why-well, you go to
your quarters. " '
"Devine did his five years, aud he
was seageaut-mojor of the regiment
when he got his honorable discharge.
But he surely did take a chance of a
fat term at Fort Leavenworth wheu
he went to Assiniboine.
"Deserters from the navy take long
chances, too, once in a while. I was
down in Honolulu haibor on my last
ship. There was a coal passer from
San Francisco named White in the
black gang. He was dissatisfied and
he got to be a sea lawyer quicker than
auy man I ever was shipmates with.
He was always talking up iu the
fo'c'sle alout the superiority of the
merchant service-the comparative
freedom when the ship was in port,
and all that sort of thing. Well,
Whito went ashore one night, and he
didn't come back with his liberty par
ty. Along about 10 o'clock all hands
on our ship were startled to hear a
lot of Comanche howls from a bark
that was passing alongside of us,
bound out for China. It was the bark
Kenilworth. When we looked over
the rail we saw our bravo White sit
ting 'way up iu the maintop, and ob
viously as drunk as a lord-and the
mate down below on deck calling him
out of his name in all languages and
ordering him to lay below. There
White stuck, however, calling us
names and reviling tho whole Ameri
can navy until the Kenilworth was
out of earshot. Our skipper was tak
ing his constitutional on the poop,
and it would have been the simplest
thing in life for him to have ordered
a shot to be fired across the Kenil
worth's bows and mako the merchant
man heave to and disgorge our de
serter.
"But he didn't do anything of the
sort. He simply grinned-saturninely,
and I guoss he was deuced glad to get
rid of White so easily without having
to rig him up in double irons and car
ry him back to 'Frisco for court mar
tial Yet White took a very long
chance wheu he hooted defiance at
the ship he had deserted from, squat
ting up there in the main rigging.
"Another piece of undefiled gall
was shown by an npprentioo lad who
had jumped the pame ship at Acapul
co, Mexico. This boy kept casos,
through the papers, on all the trans
fers in the navy, and he knew, a year
after he had quit the ship without a
discharge, that there wasn't a single
officer'aboard of her that had been
attached to her when he was an ap
prentice aboard of her. So, when the
ship pulled into Napa creek, the
stream on which the Mare Island navy
yard lies, this boy comes bravely
aboard in the capacity of assistant to
the bumboat man. He knew that
none of his enlisted shipmates would
give him away, and he served out
beer at moss call every clay for three
months just ns cool and complaisant
as if a year before he hadn't gone over
the side of the ship and forgot to come
hack.
MANILA'S WATER FRONT.
Scene* That Interest tho Stranger and
Native Alike- Bringing in the Wounded.
There is an air of similitude in all
ports.. The same forests of masts,
the same Llnek-fuuneled steamers, the
same weather-beaten men with sun
tanned faces, speaking all sorts of
languages, the same neat men-o'-'
warsmeu dressed in immaculate white.
Whatever the town may be doing
there is always movement going on
at the water's edge. Either it is the
waterboat or else the Cavite ferryboat
or a casco of soldiers singing happily
as they are being towed out to some
troopship bound to tho old country,
or a squad of jackies on shore leave.
Sa>ipans and other native craft are
busy threudiug their way in and out
among larger vessels. Then there is
the roar and rattle of machinery and
the grinding of the jute mills, inter
mingled with the hoarse cries of the
Chinese coolies as they pile their bur
dens on the different vessels. White
shirted clerks, dressed spick and span
as though just out of the bandbox,
aro taking tally in dainty little note
books of the goods handled by brawny
stevedores, with muscles, that rise up
on their arms like small, inflated foot
balls. Then there are the invariable
loafers, always ready to "strike" a
passer-by for a dime or "work" a
sailor on the spree for his hard-earned
wages.
Every day you see the little old
weazened native woman fishing in
front of the captain of the port's otlice.
When she is fortunate enough to catch
a fish it is no longer than my little
finger. Many a time I have seen her
counterpart in San Francisco, only he
was a man. How they eke out a live
lihood nobody knows or cares. There
are "wharf rats" here as in San Fran
cisco they style politely, the urchins
who work round the docks. They only
differ in the shade of their color from
their white confreres, for they are just
as full of mischief and lead the China
men a dance. One of them is just
now putting a crab down the neck of
n carpen tor as he is bending over his
work. Catch him? As well try to
harness a cyclone. What is that
crowd? A train just in with the
wounded men from the front. ."An
other mau wauted here!" Immediately
there aro a dozen willing hands to
lend their assistance. Gently! Gent
ly! as you place him in the ambulance
to avoid all jar. Yes, that's an ugly
wound in the neck, but he'll pull
through. He is full of grit.
Here is something, however, thnt I
have seeu in no other port It is a
gang of native workmen fixing the
loose cobblestones in a position un a
piece of road that needs mending.
Twenty of th?m line up facing each
in a doible row, the foreman at the
head. As they work their wooden
rammers they sing. Happy the fore
man who can keep his men working to
the sound of his voice. There is plen
ty of music and jollity of the rough
and ready description.
A stout, red-faced captain, wiping
the perspiration off his jolly counten
ance, conies rolling along, and is imme
diately tackled by a Chinaman richly
dressed in silks, as to ? the price of
freight on his coaster to the Island of
Negros. Immediately the smile fades
on the face of the skipper and he is
strictly business. For if you would
eat you must work is an axiom all the
world over. The soldier to the sword,
the sailor to the ship, the shoemaker
to the last and the poor scribe as best
he can.-Manila Times.
Dewey After the Manila Bay Battle.
Admiral Dewey in conversation
with some friends, told an interesting
chapter in his Mauilia experiences
after he had destroyed the Spanish
fleet The battle itself he declared,
was nothing, but it was after the bat
tle had been fought and Spain's power
on the sea destroyed, that his troubles
commenced.
"There were at that time," he said,
"thirteen ships of all nations in the
bay, all of them, with the exception
of the British, unfriendly, all of them
officered by experienced men, all of
them watching for the slightest mis
take that we might make.
"The situation was full of complica
tions. There were any number of
delicate questions coining up to be
decided, questions which ought to
have been decided by a lawyer well
versed in international law, and not a *
sailor who know only such law as had
been able to pick up, and whose law
library was extremely limited.
"The situation at one time was such
that it took almost the entire time of
two officers lo search the books to see
what we might do and what we were
not allowed to do. Why," said the
admira!, with an expressive gesture,
"a good lawyer at that time, a man
familiar with international law, would
have been worth his weight in gold
and diamonds and rubies."
"And probably, if yon had had a
lawyer on your staff," said omi of his
audience, "he would have made ?ny
amount of trouble for you and the
government, which you avoided be
cause you have made common sense
take the place of law."-Bo3ton Daily
Globe._
Feathered Experimenten.
When the telegraph was introduced
into Norway the bears, on hearing the
wires moaning in the wind, thought
that the posts were beehives, and set
to work to root them out of the
ground; the woodpeckers thought that
the poles were filled with insects, and
they bored holes in them with their
bills. Such illusions disappeared
gradually; animals became wiser with
time, and took tho trouble to turn the
telegraph to account for their personal
uses.
Thus, a small bird in Natal, which
had been woutto build its nest shaped
like a cradel in the branches of trees,
bnilt its nest on the first telegraph
wires set up,and the snakes could not
get at it. The new positiou was found
to be so secure that the bird added a
convenient little side door to the nest,
which had hitherto possessed only a
small opening on the'sido farthest re
moved from tho overhanging branch.
A Brazilian bird also builds its
heavy 1 est of earth on the telegraph
wires. The artful parrots take a
seeming delight in uniting the currents'
between different wires, and also in
breaking the porcelain cups on which
the wires rest. Spiders cover the
wires with their webs, and thereby
great confusion is wrought in the tele
graph svstem, as the most unlikely
connections are thus brought about
-Tit-Bits,
2?th
Century
Almanac
( Not the ordinary kind)
A handsome year-book ?lied
with beautiful illustrations, ind a
complete calendar. It is sold on
all news-stands for 5 cents, and
it's worth ?vc times that amount.
It is a reliable chronology of
the progress of the 19th century
and a prophecy of what may be
expected in the 20th.
Hore ure a f ow of the great men ?tao bare
written for lt:
Secretary Wilson, on Agriculture ,
Sen. Chauncey M. Depew, on Politics
Russell Sage, on Finance
Thomas Edison, " Electricity
Gen. Merritt, " Land Warfare
AdmL Hichborn, " Naval Warfare
"Al" Smith, 44 Sports
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One on the Musician.
Here ls a good story of Joachim,
the violinist, as told by himself. Dur
ing one of his visits to London some
rears ago the great virtuoso had occa
sion to enter a barber shop for a shave.
The barber's acquaintance with Illus
trious musicians was limited, and Joa
:hlm preserved his Incognito.
"Hair cut, sir?" demanded the obse
quious assistant, eyeing Joachim's
Bowing locks with an air of proprie
torship.
Joachim Intimated his perfect satis
faction with the existing length of his
hair; but the barber was not to bo so
saslly baffled. 1
''Trifle long at the back, sir," he sug
gested, diplomatically.
Joachim explained that that was the
way he liked it, and the barber waa
silent for a little.
"Rather thin on top, sir," was his
next remark, whereby he sought to
convey his own firm conviction that to
pacifico thickness to length in the mat
ter of hair was altogether a poor pol
icy; but Joachim only glared a.i the
barber and tossed his lion mane. And
the barber went on shaving, but in a
moody, discontented kind of way.
Hope springs eternal in the human
breast, and the barber's breast was
no exception.
"Just trim the edges for you, sir?
Half ail inch all round, sir?"
Joachim remained obdurate, and the
barber's stock 01 patience and ingen
uity deserted bim at the same time.
He vented his indignation in the most
scathing expression of contempt that
suggested itself to his tonsorial mind.
"Well, of course, if you want to look
like a German musician," he remark
ed, "it's no good talking."
How News Will Travel.
"While on a visit to the south re
cently I obtained a box of your Tet
terine, recommended for all skin dis
eases. I find it to ba a marvelously
good thing. I wish to get some more,
and would like to establish an agency
here for its sale. Please let me know
the price of one dozen boxes. W. C.
MoOall, Granville, Ohio." At drug
gists or by mail for 50c. from J. T.
Shuptrine, havannah, Ga.
The Uncertainty of Fishing
Pishing is notoriously an uncertain
calling. The motions of Usu me past
all understanding. One season they
will visit every part of these shores
and those of Labrador in their count
less shoals. The next season certain
bays or even a whole shore will be al
most deserted. The herring are espe
cially fickle, and there are placea that
were once good herring grounds that
have scarcely seen a herring for many
years. All sorts of theories are ad
vanced to account for this,, some of
them ridiculous enough. But the fact
remains, and when the fish fall to
turn up in numbers at the accustomed
place destitution follows. From a very
eanly period the Government has
granted relief in such cases. It is far
easier- to start doling out public funds
than to stop, and it has now become
a regular affair. The effect of such
doles may readily be 'imagined. The
baser look for them, ana the higher
minded soon accept the philosophy
that they have as much right to get
a share as any one else-New York
3un.
All goods are alike to PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES.BS they color all fibers at one belling.
Sold by all druggists.
Found the Perpetrators.
"Mamma." exclaimed Johnny, tearing
Into the house In wild excitement, "isntthis
Indian summer?"
"Yep, dear," replied hlsmother.
"Well, Isaw the Indiana that brought lt!
They're over at the rall road depot righ t now."
Attention is called to the vory useful
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of their Star Plug Tobacco in another col
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PIBO'S Cure for Consumption relieves the
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Condensed Milk.
"Yes," 6ftld Httl*3 Amy's aur.r, "you sbMl
come to the country and sec me milk the
cows."
"What's that, auntie?"
"Why, that's how we get mU.'i for our cof
fee for breakfast."
"Obi" said Amy, knowingly, "we do it with
a tin opener!"
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
A new method for overcoming
lessness has been suggested bj
fessor J. H. Baldwin. It consists in
trying to picture another person as
asleep. The more clearly the other
person's sleep is pictured, the stronger
becomes the subjective feeling of drow
siness.
Professor Nussbaum of Hanover
claims that the plastering of walls
seriously affects the acoustic properties
of a room. The admixture of saud
with plaster spoils the reverberation of
tones. The best results are obtained
by using pore gypsum that has been
heated to white heat
The sponge which grows either on
rocks or directly upon sandy bottom
is encased in a jet black membrane.
When the sponge grows in caves or
under rooks away from the sun the
membrai'" is pale in color, but it
always is full of a thick milky fluid.
As the sponge is torn by hand or cut
from its roots the diver gives the mern*
brane a squeeze that bursts it, the
milk being scattered over the bottom.
The milk is vile smelling and pro
duces an eruption wherever it touches
the human flesh, but the operation of
scattering the milk is considered very
necessary and also a diver's duty,
since the Ashers believe that it holds
the seed of the sponge.
A new textile plant is being experi
mented with in Russia, says United
States Consiil Atwell of Eoubaix.
This is the "Apocynum venetum," a
bush about six foet high yielding a
silken fibre. It grows in Europe,
Siberia, Asia Minor, North of India,
Manchuria and Japan, and" it has long
beeu used by the Turcomans in the
manufacture of cords and woven goods.
It has never been cultivated, aud grows
best in laud under water for part of
the year. The fibre has great strength
nud its cultivation would require no
care. In 1895, the Russian govern
ment began to use it for bank-note
paper, and tho results were so excel
lent that the plant has since been cul
tivated at Poltava.
In England, as is well known, the
resources of the mining engineer are
often taxed to their utmost in the en
deavor to work coal and iron mines on
a paying basis. The latest instance
of this is afforded at the Hodbarrow
mines in Cumberland, where it is pro
posed to build a large sea embank
ment, to keep the sea out of the
workings of the mines. Ton years
ago a wall was built, costing more
than $600,000, but the proposed work
will go much further out in the water,
and will be 9750 yards (3.8 miles) in
length, enclosing a large tract of land,
under which the iron mines will, be
worked. The ore here is a rich one,
and well worth the enormous outlay
of mouey required, as it has been
proved to exist in vast quantities.
The estimated cost of the new work is
$2,500,000.
Perhaps nothing so well illustrates
the accuracy of modern astronomy as
the receut investigations into the vari
ation cf latitude. Professor Charles
R. Doolittle, director of the Flower
observatory of the University of Penn
sylvania, announces that the result of
a long series of individual determina
tions shows that the latitude of Phila
delphia varies about forty feet an
nually. Thotsuch a small change can
be recognized is certainly one of the
triumphs of science. The first sus
picion that there was a systematic va
riation in latitude was aroused by cer
tain observations made at Berlin in
1884-85. This result was subsequently
confirmed by investigations set on foot
in various parts of Europe, as well as
Honolulu and Cordova. Dr. S. C.
Chandler has shown that the matter
can be explained by supposing the
earth's axis to revolve in an exceed
ingly small elipse about its mean po
sition, the period of revolution being
about 427 days. The greatest p ;si
ble change in the position of the pole
is not mbretban twenty yards, so that
it will be seen that no very startling
rt^ults are likely to follow the discov
ery. It is just possible, however,
that the matter may be developed into
something or importance in the case
of boundary lines which are fixed by
latitude determinations. The most
striking fact is the emphasis on the
point that nothiug knowu to astron
omy is fixed or immovable, not even
thc position of the earth's axis from
year to year.
Truth und Fahle About tho Carnet.
There are many fables told about
the camel. Riding him is supi?osed
to make people seasick. He has the
reputation of being very vicious. He
is supposed to have several stomachs,
and to go for several weeks without
water as a matter of choice. I can
only say that iu nearly four years of
experience I have never met with a
case of seasickness or heard of it;
neither have I kuown a really vicious
camel, except wheu they are in a state
called hythe Arabs "saim," which
means "t'astiug, " and corresponds to
the "rutting" periods in stags. As
regards tho camel's stomach, I believe
it is identically the same as that of
any other ruminant, or that, at any
rate,there is no formation of stomachs
which would enable him to do with
out water.
His abstinence is merely the result
of training, and it is a fallacy to sup
poue that he is better without water
or can work as well. In tho camel
corps we watered our camels every
second day in the summer, every
third day in the wiuter, giving them
their fill of water morning and even
ing ou those days, but if iu the sum
mer we expected a long desert march
without water, wo trained them be
forehand by only watering every third
day. . But I never found that this im
proved their condition. The Arabs
keep their camels longer without
water, it is true, but theu they travel
slower, and their auimnls are grazed
on soft food, containing a certain
amount of moisture. This lowers
their condition and makes them in
ferior to a corn-fod camel when hard
work and long, fast journeys have to
be done.
We always found that if we put a
grass-fed Arab camel alongside of ours
it failed in work and endurance. If
corn-fed, it cried out for water as
soon and sooner than ours did. I say
'cried out," because a camel, when it
wants water, moans continually, and
there is no more painful sound at
night in tho desert thau the ceaseless
moaning of thirsty camels.-Cornhill
Magazine.
An Anglo-Saxon.
Simson-Willie, where did you get
that black eye.
"It's all right, pop. I've only been
civilizing the boy next door. "-Tit
Bits.
The death rate from disease in the
D?ttch navy in 1898 was only 3.55 pet
1000. There vore four suicides.
Eighteen daatba were caused by
cholera.
Laying a Cable With Locomotive?
A locomotive cable layer was cm
ployed recently In relaying the tele
graph cable connnectlng Randall's and
Ward's Islands with the Bronx dis
trict in New York v-.ty. The distance
across Bronx Kills was 600 feet," and
the new cable weighed about three
tons. The method pursued was as
follows: The cable was stretched
across Randall's Island In the line of
crossing and 1,000 ?eet of V/? inch
rope was attached to it and led to a
powerful freight locomotive, stationed
on the track running across St Ann
avenue, and this rope was passed over
a snatch block, placed on the line.
When all was ready the locomotive
moved off and the cable was pulled
across in ll minutes 33 seconds,
though the strain on the rope was
considerable as the cable pushed
through the muddy river bed.-Engi
neering News.
Tbe Jewels of Meoelek.
The Emperor Menelek continues his
orders, and has the ambition to form a
crown of Incomparable jewels. Neck
laces for himself and his wife, brace
lets to adorn the wrists, the arms and
the ankles, rings in large quantity, dia
dems with very beautiful diamonds,
have been selected from the richest
fording to the latest eccentric fashion,
will receive sixteen diamonds specially
prepared to be inserted In false teeth.
As a detail of luxury not yet adopted
by Parisians, superb diamonded gai
ters will complete her adornment.
Prosperity for 10OO.
Indications everywhere point to great'pros
perity tor tho coming year. This ls an Invar
iable sign of a hoalthy nature. Tho success of
a country, os well as tho success of an
individual, depends upon health. There cari
be no health il the stomach ls weak. If you
havo any stomach trouble try Hostetter's
Stomach Bittors which cures dyspopsla. indi,
gestion and biliousness. It make? streng,
vigorous men and women.
Montreal's Big Church.
All the exterior of the great Sacre Coeur
Church, in Montmartre, has been completed,
and the scaffoldings which have marked the
hill for MI many year-* will be soon taken
down. So far the church has cost about
$P,500.00O and as much moro will be needed
before the decoration is finished.
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' Next Eclipse of the Sun.
Tho ncxL total solar eclipse will be May 28.
1900. The duration of totality ranees from
one m mite thirty-six seconds in Portugal to
ono minute six seconds in northern Africa.
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