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' courtship and marriage; rearing sides valuable prescriptions, re facts in materia medica that e This most indispensable adjunct to e mailed, postpaid, to any address, Address, ATLANTA PUBLISHING I . LAND LAWS OF CHINA. REAL ESTATE CAN NEVER BE IN HERITED BY DAUGHTERS. Agricultural Land is Divided Into Three Classes-All Under Cultivation Must Pay Taxes-Collections Made Methods. Some interesting detail: ject are appended to thc of tbe Governor of Hor Colonial Office. It expia according to Chinese te ?158 freehold, by grant frc and descends in the rr Daughters never inherit. . mt comprised in the original grant can be ; sold by the proprietors in subdivisions, 1 and is most usually sold in perpetuity, or for 1,000 years. The proprietors reord their names in the district reg istry as responsible for the tax, and t/ielr possession is legally secure so long as that1 is paid. Deeds of absolute sale have been brought in from the new territory for registration which were made in the reign of the Emperor Ka Tsing and of subsequent emperors of the Sling dynasty (A. D. 1319 to 1620), and which bav? been recognized by the present dynasty. Strictly a grant issued bv tbe present dynasty should be attached to all grants made by the previous dynasty. The present owners under such grants are all the existing male descendants of the orig inal guarantee, and in one case the proprietors now number over 70C. All land under cultivation ie supposed to pay a land tax, and from time to time spasmodic attempts are made to sur vey the area under cultivation.. But in spite of Government orders, all efforts to obtain correct data of the actual acreage brought under cultivation have been frustrated. The land owners, wishing to have their laud exempted from the payment of taxes, seem to have succeeded in inducing the survey officers not to make correct reports. But when large and fertile tracts, yielding valuable crops, are not re ported for registration, such has been the case with extensive areas reclaimed from the sea near San Tin. the Chiuesc authorities generally confiscate and re sell them to private individuals, after they discover them. ' Agricultural land is divided into three classes, each class paying a dif ferent rate. First-class lands are those near villages in fertile valleys, with a good depth of soil and a good water supply, producing annually ttfo crops of rice or one crop of sugar cane. Sec ond-clas? lands are those less fertile than the first class, and are generally situated higher up the slopes of bills, and have not such a good water sup ply as the first class. They produce annually one crop of rice or one crop of sugar cane. Third-class lands are those situated on still higher slopes and are far removed from a good water i"?nply. They are generally di. oted to the cultivation of peanuts, sweet po tatoes, millet and other hardy crops which do not require much moisture. Fish ponds pay a special tax higher than that paid by cultivated land of the first class. The land tax is col lected by the authorities sending out deputies, clerks and runners to differ ent districts, notifications being posted calling upon landowners to pay the land tax with all haste. In some cases these collectors linger for more than a month'in certain localities. No pay is given by the Government to the land collectors, who are left to their own ingenuity and wits to make as much as they can out of the villagers, with out creating trouble. The villagers, of course, are anxious to get rid of these men, and are only too glad to pay the "extras" necessary to effect that ob ject, especially as they have not in frequently placed themselves in a false position by not having reported por tions of their land on which ?axes should be paid. The villagers are not slow to understand that the longrr these collectors remain in their neigh borhood the greater the probability of their unregistered land being discov ered? On this account the "extras" is, 5, . for inspection. Watches, Cut Gloss, Clocks, Sterling Fancy Goods, Etc. Write for our new Catalogue. ? k CO., Jewelers, ?f l?tiUJs2Hj mm M Broadway, Augusta, Ga. ?tock of RY. WHITE GOODS, LINENS, ETC. J LOVES, AMERICAN LADY TEKICK'S PATTERNS. tS SOLICITED. S OW/M DOCTOR. >n Ayers, tA. D. tg vuhiable information per tem, showing how to treat and Tho book contains analysis of : and management of children, be cipes, etc., with a full complement of veryone should know. very well-regulated household will b? on receipt of price, SIXTY CENTS. ?OUSE, HO LOYD STIIKET, TA. GA. demanded aro paid without demur, aud indeed at times with alacrity. The land tax which has to be sent to Pekin from each province is a fixed sum. and has not varied for years. It is easy to see what an opportunity this system offers for incorrect returns, as new lands are continually being '-Ur und?r cultivation.-London ductor, "and nothing is len to cnance or caprice. The cook is furnished with ja-niauual giving explicit directions for j the preparation of everything on the bill of fare, aud he is held strictly ac-* j countable for auy waste. He is even told how thick to cut tbe bread and how much butter to put on in case bc is making sandwiches. Sometimes n hungry traveler, who naturally wants big portions, thinks the man in the kitchen is trying to economize on him, but he may rest assured he is getting exactly what the law allows-no more and no less. "I remember a picture in one of the satirical papers a few years ago of a fat gentleman looking scornfully at several small sections of bread and butter. 'What do you call those?' he asks. 'Pullman sandwiches,' replies the waiter. 'Hu!' grunts the tourist, 'Mr. Pullman must cut 'em out with a con ductor's punch!' We haven't got it down quite as fine as that, but we come pretty near lt. The kitchens are stocked at regular intervals and a care ful calculation is made of the exact number of portions in every article furnished. At the end of the run an inspection is made and the cook must account for everything, either in sup - plies or meal checks. Under that sys j tem petty pilfering is absolutely im possible. The purchasing agents, who lay in the stock at important points, from which travel is heavy, are exceedingly important members of the company's staff. "They oan easily render the dining service over any route profitable, or the reverse, and something more than ! more experience and intelligence is re quired to make a success of the job. The men n-ho have done the best at It seem to be guided by a sort of in stinct, but, ns a matter of fact, they are continually studying the conditions of travel. They learn what thc gen eral run of their patrons like at cer tain seasons of the year, and compile a curious sort of table of averages that they use as a basis in purchasing per ishable stock, such as meats, fruits and fresh vegetables. There is a line in thc Northwest that is known among the dining-car men as the "beefsteak route," on account of ?ne extraordin ary call for that particular article of diet, and I know of another that is nicknamed the 'oatmeal express' for similar reasons. The oatmeal expresa carries a good many ladles and chil dren, and the beefsteak route is a fa vorite highway for drummers, so, after all, the explanation Is simple enough. An expert stock purchaser can command a good salary, and not long ago a man who had been station ed for some years in New York was offered a very handsome position as superintendent of the refreshment service for a. big railroad In England. It has been ? rn at a loss ever since it was Installed, but within sixty days after he took hold it began to return a profit. At the same time lt was great ly improved. Dining cars are a com paratively new thing abroad and they are far behind the American, both In system and luxury."-New Orleans Times-Democrat. Self-Importance. Self-importance makes a great man stoop and a little rann bend over backward-New York Press. Most suicides by drowning occur a* . night LET US SMILE*; n - - The thing that goes the furthest toward making life worth while, That coats the least and does the most is just a pleasant smile. Tho smile that bubbles from a heart that loves ita fellowmen Will drive away the clouds of gloom and coax the sun ?gnin. It's full of worth and goodness, too, with manly kindness blent It's worth a million dollars, and it doesn't cost a cent. There is no room for sadness when we see a cheery smile It always has the same good look-it's never out of Btyle It nerves us on to try again when failure makes us blue; The dimples of encouragement arc good for me and you. It pays a higher interest, for it is merely lent It's'worth a million dollars, and it doesn't cost a cent. A smile comes very easy-you can wrinkle up with cheer A hundred times before you can squeeze out a sogg}' tear. It ripples out, moreover, to the heart strings that will tug. And always leaves an echo that is very like a hug. So, smile away. Folks understand what by a smile is meant, It's worth a million dollars, and it doesn't cost a cent. -Baltimore American. I QUEER MISS MAMA. J i By J. Ita Harbour. % **AAkkAkkAAkhkk+kick*rk*4cHri -yL ~T~ O one ever kuew the exact \ cnuse of tue estrangement l_\ between Maria Devlin and (J* ner distinguished brother, the Hon. Horace Devlin. The Devlins had always been wisely reticent regarding their family affairs. It was understood that there had been a violent quarrel over the large estate left by the father of the brother and sister, and that they had never spoken to each other Blnce the division of the property. The estrangement must have been embar rassing to both of them, since they lived in a small town and could not help meeting frequently. The Hon. Horace was much more popular than his sister Marla. She had always been somewhat eccentric, and this eccentricity had become inore marked after her quarrel with her brotl- r. Hti father had been a man of very ?lmplo tastes, and had lived all his life in the plain old red house that had been his father's and his grandfather's. It was a great and bitter trial to Maira when her brother, not long after their father's death, tore down the old limiM 1-ll*. - - li~ -li- - * p \t*r? u?utiict' 3 uuut as much an eyesore to her brother as his houee was to Miss Maria. When the Devlin estate had finally been divided, Miss Maria moved into a tiny old house once occupied by her father's gardener. It was hardly ten antable, and Mies Morin made few re pairs before moving Into lt. It stood directly across the road from her brother's fine home, and was a decided blemish on the landscape seen from his spacious front piazza. He had, through his attorney, made his sister an offer to buy it at a price far more than its value, but the offer had been so promptly mid so decidedly rejected that it had never been repeated. lt was thought that Miss Maria al lowed the old house to remain In a state of neglect, and the premises to be In a state ot continual disorder, tor the sole purpose of adding to her broth er's annoyance and mortification. She also added many Irritating traits to her many eccentricities of character, and was nearly always spoken of by the people of the town as "queer Miss Marla." Her sister-in-law was an extremely fashionable Indy, while Maria went about in thc shabbiest nud most anti quated of garments. She was far from being scrupulously tidy, and seemed to take delight In setting aside the ordinary conventionalities of life. It was known, however, thai she was very good and kind to the poor, willie her brother was by-no menus noted for his generosity toward them. The Hon. Horace Devlin entertained lavishly, while his sister never enter tained at all, and did not go Into so cltey. It was regarded as scandalous that Miss Marla should have chosen to spend the afternoon in her front yard with a man's hat on her head and her skirts pinned up about her waist on the day of her brother's grand lawn party, when he had a carload of guests out from the city. So the breach between the brother and sister widened until there was no probability that lt would ever be would ever be bridged over. Wfien they met. they stared at each other in stony silence. Wenfleld, thc town in which the Devlins lived, was a small manufac turing pince. Most of Its Inhabitants worked In the mills. Many of them were thrifty meu nud women, who saved as much as they could of their earnings, and deposited them In the one savings bank lu Wenileld. The Hon. Horace Devlin was cash ier of the Wenfleld savings bank, and never bad there ?en such wild excite ment throughout the town m on the morning when a placard appeared on the bank door bearing the two omiu ous words: BANK CLOSED. Men and women left Their work mid hurried to the bank with cager nud anxious faces. Many had in it tho sav ings of a lifetime, and they stared at the portentous words with wildly beat ing hearts. There was the most out spoken indignation when thc truth be came known. The fact was that ihe Hon. Horace Devlin had brought shame and disgrace on an old nud hon ored name, and privation and possible poverty to many homes by becoming a defaulter. lt was discovered that he had for years been speculating with ninney be longing to the bnuk, and his defalca tions were sufficient to embarrass lt ?It was fea rea that Ita doors m permanently closed, and that th* positors -Wv did icse all, or at lea most, of their savings. The Hon ace Devlin V7as missing, and no of his whereabouts could be foun?' A week after the closing of the another notice appeared on Its <jfj The second notice was.os follows^ Notice-All creditors of the Wei Savings Bank are hereby reques meet in the town hall on Friday jej lng nt S o'clock. Many who were not creditors bank crowded into the town hall with the bank depositors on' Friday Ife?pen iug. Indeed, the hall was fillet! overflowing, and no one seemc have any definite idea of what was to be done. When 8 o'clock came no one had yet appeared on the platform, but a few minutos later a door at thejfear opened, and to the amazement djuali present. Miss Maria Devlin walked forward and faced the people. There was an Instant hush, could almost hear the breathing of spectators. Miss Maria herself se calmer than any of them. Her was perfectly steady when she be to speak. Every word could be he. In ail parts of the hall. "My friends," she said, simply* "I am here to make reparation for.?the wrong done you by my brother. Hor ace Devlin. The Devlins have ahtfiays been honest people. No roan ever|had a higher or a more deserved reputwion for honesty than ray father. He ofred no man anything, nor do I. I feel Chat I ow? lt to my father to makeJfmT amends for his son's wrongdoing.j?nd to do all that I cnn to removej|the shame and disgrace he has broughton, a good and honorable name. "Now I um here to say that Ilwill pay every dollar due the depositors , who had money m the Wenfleld Saw lugs Bank, and-" ST. . "Hooray for Miss Maria!" shouted a wildly excited man in the rear of^tho hail. "Hooray!" The crowd took up the cry imcVjthe hall rang ns it had never had before. "Hooray for the Devlin naine!" shrieked some one else, when partial order had been restored, "Hooray.Jtor old Judge Devlin, ns good and honest a man as ever walked the earth! ?3n*??e cheers for him and his honest d?Sgh ter, Miss Maria!" Again the hall resounded with; the plaudits of the multitude. When 'or der was fiually restored, Miss Marla said quietly: "My lawyer, Mr. Dawson, willviake charge of tho matter of maklng)_the pavi""-' - ^uiuu c say a better thing about her," said Dawson, the lawyer. From that time forth Miss Marla had a new place in the affections arid raspect of the people of Wenfleld. She was still "queer Miss Marla," but the people knew that her heart was right.-Youth's Companion. Good Memory For a Kind Deed. No good deed is ever forgotten. An incident ls related of a little girl whose mother was a sick widow, and who' stopped a young man on the street and begged him to buy her chestnuts. He was poor, but he could not withstand her pitiful look. He handed her ' n coin and said: "I cannot use your chestnuts, but you are welcome to this." She thanked him and then hur ried away. Twenty years passed. The little girl grew to womanhood and ha carpe the wife of a banker. Passing the library one evening she saw a mon with her husband whom she recog nized ns the man who years before had been kind to her. When he had gone she Inquired his errand. "He enme to see if I would give him n vacant position in the bank.". "Will you?" "I don't know." "I wish you would," she said, and then told him tbe story of her poverty and the man's generosity. The man sat that ulght beside his sick wife's bed, when a liveried serv ant brought him a note. "We shnll not starve," he exclaimed: "I have the position." He opened thc note and found Inclosed a $250 cheek, with thc words: "In grateful remem brance of the little silv?" piece a kind stranger gave the little chestnut girl twenty years ago."-The Christian Herald. Good EtToct of Curiosity. Near the town of Baku, In the Rus sian Caucasus, are several tracts of land whereon no cattle would feed, al though they were covered with un usually rich herbage. The supersti tious peasantry declared that an evil spirit had bewitched the meadows In question. By and by there happened along a practical, matter-of-fact Eng lishman, who started to Investigate the phenomenon. He quickly discov ered that, although the grass was un doubtedly rich and succulent, it tasted strongly of paraffin, a substance the flavor of which is Intensely repugnant to nearly all animals, but especially so to cattle. Such was the origin of the discovery of the Baku petroleum de posits-deposits which have already yielded millions of pounds' worth of oil, nnd which show no signs of be coming exhausted.-Chicago Record. Photographing by Light of Venas. Photographing objects solely by the light from the planet Venus has been successfully accomplished. The ex periments were conducted within the dome of the Smith Observatory, at Geneva, N. Y.( so that all outside light was excluded except that which came from Venus through the open shutter of the dome. The time was the dark est hour of the night, after the planet had risen and before the approach of dawn. The plates were remarkably dear.-Chicago News. Undue Influence. He hadn't thought he would propose, hut fate is so absurd; her doughnuts pleased him-facts disclose-and so he said the wordi-Indianapolis Journal. ?flQW MUCH ONE FAMILY EATS. I s - ! SFour People Consume Four Thousand J? Pounds of Food in a Year. ip Statistics kept by a Chicago man show that (luring a year his family, consisting of himself, his wife and two daughters, consumed 4047 pounds and thirty-eight varieties of food. The family lived under no economical re strictions, and their table was supplied as lt has been dally for years with everything uesired by any member of the family. For this reason the statis tics, religiously kept and accurate to the ounce, have been pronounced high ly valuable by students of food statis tics and medical men generally, espe cially since the tables were kept in a casual innnner, no influence being ex erted either to augment or reduce the amount or variety of the daily menu to which thc family had been accus tomed. The table In gross amounts is as fol-. lows: Foodstuffs, in pounds.4047 Eggs, in dozen. 132 Oranges and lemons, in dozens... 54 Mille, quarts.050 Berries, quarts. 125 Apples, bushels. 9 The table of amounts consumed per day Indicate that the human system is tr FOOD EATEN EY ONE FAMILY IN A YE capable of assimilating a considerable amount of food beyoud what it has been demonstrated ls capable of sup porting life. The table is as follows: Foodstuffs, lu pounds.ll.OS Milk .3.53 pints Eggs.3.GS Oranges, lemons.1.S0 Berries.O.GS pints Apples .7.90 The varieties of cereals used during the year were large, and some of the amounts proved surprising, when, as month afte.- mouth crept, by, the arnouiiis of the totals were observed. Crackers were used largely, much more so than would be imagltifcd, aud probably to a greater extent than is common to a great number ol' families. No account was taken of salt and pepper, they not being regarded as necessary to the value of statistics. The flour used during the year would make a loaf of bread so large it would take two meu to carry it. A chicken 220 pouuds, the amouut of poultry used during the year, would be almost eight feet lu height and according to estimate Its cackle could be beard four times around a city block. Closely pressing the poultry in amount Is the item of fish. A fish wcigning ISO would be almost as large as the fish that always gets away. The meat total would supply a small sized butcher shop for a considerable length of time, and thc G50 quarts of milk would require, a jar several times larger than the ordinary sized milk man. A flapjack made of tho twenty eight pounds of pancake flour would make a small-sized dancing floor, and the 1344 eggs, if made into one large egg to be colored for Easter, would require four buckets of aniline dye for tho work. The 1200 pounds of vegetables would make a New England boiled dinner large enough for two full regiments, the fruits would start a fruit stand of no mean dimensions, while the nine pouuds of cheese, It' turned loose, would exert, it Is estimated, about forty horse power.-Chicago Times Herald. Cossacks Are llcniorseless Soldiers. The Russian authorities have al ways been aware of the usefulness of tjjelr Cossnck soldiery in quelling out breaks even in European Russia. Forty years ago these wild soldiers of tho steppes were sent to quell the in surrection in Poland. The horrible butchery which had ensued in Warsaw and other Polish towns forms one of the blackest pages in the history of Russia. Only eighteen mouths ago the Cossacks were let loose In the streets of St. Petersburg to restore or der among the disaffected students of the university. Hiding straight into the bands of students thc Cossacks lashed right and left with their long, cruel reins, loaded with lead, and the students were literally driven into sub mission.-Paris Messenger. One ThlnK They TMiln't Invent. Miles-"The Chinese claim to have invented nearly everything." Giles-"Well, judging by ".io wny they wear their hair, they didn't invent football."-Chicago News. ? Hazing at West Point. "I have ouly one thing to say," re plied General Grant, when once asked to give his views on hazing at West Point. "It is the resort of a coward DOIXG SPREAD EAGLES and the nmuseraent of a bully." The so-called sport is generally excused on tho ground that "boys will be boys." It is hard to defend when it is kuown that it is practiced without any regard for a man's previous education, his natural mental or physical sensitive re Vi cc Pl ti: b! th in bc of to ac bt bi H re m al UP m ) Pounds. JHB Du 'i !AR. THE AMOUNT REPRESENTED VBOVE WIFE AND THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS. ness, or physical danger from a sudden sb o .k. They haze at Yale, Harvard, Colum bia and many other big and small col leges. There is little of lt practiced at Annapolis. It is anywhere just about as funny as the spectacle of a big bully worrying a little mau or a stout boy torturing a child. Some of the performances required at West Point by future defenders of the nation are: Bracing-Walking about in position of a soldier, chin drawn 'n, chest forced out and palms of the hands turned outward. Chewing-Chewing the end of a rope or string for hours. Monkey-Climbing a tent pole and crowing like a rooster and chirping like a bird. Sammy Race-Two cadets blindfold ed, feeding cacti other from a bowl of molasses. Qualifying -Eating eight slices of bread and a bowl of molasses or con suming eighty-two primes at one sit ting. Sweating -Lying in a closed tent wrapped in blankets and a mackintosh until faint. Cadets often lose from live to ten pounds in thirty minutes. Eagling-Sitting down on the toes and llieu rising upon them and sitting dowu again-repeat 100 times. These are regarded as excrutiatln? ly funny. Young Douglass MacArthur naively says: "There are two reasons for hazing first, amusement, and second, tue de sire to reduce a man's rough edges. It Is tbe only way to polish the rough edges of men who come from the country." If some "country" chap treated In this manner should find lt convenient to break the heads of three or four of the city men who think this way, haz ing might, not be so popular. Youri; Booz. It ls charged, died from treatment with tobasco sauce by these "gentlemen" of West Point. Whether he did or did uot, the very fact that such a charge could be brought with some foundation of truth well illus trates the nastiness of hazing and the nt # M A MOLASSES RACE. ridiculous code of honor which still protects its practices. Rear-Admiral Sampson when nt An napolis and while asleep had straws laid upon his hands. These were set afire, and when they burned into his ;sh he awoke with pain. Now the ;teran says: ' "I think that hazing, as reported re ntly at West Point and several other aces, is brutal. Especially the prac ce of farcing a little man to fight a g man should be discouraged, al ougli it is not much worse than mak g freshmen clean tents and black >ots for older men. It is evidence ' a mean spirit for upper class men compel a new man to accept a dis Ivantngeous attitude or position. I ilieve that all forms of hazing should > stopped." Cadet Hobson, brother of Lieutenant obson. was forced to go through a petition of the sinking of the Merri ac. He was ordered to pluuge into bathtub and sink small floating chips. "Where are you?" he was asked. "This ls Santiago Harbor," he was :pected to answer. "What are you doing?" he was next ?ked. "Sinking thc Merrimac," he said. He es also told to give a "Hobson" to e trees in camp. He had to go to ch treet, put his arms around Its unk and kiss it. Some of the colleges are as asinine their hazing sports and as brutal as 'est Point. A freshman sings another sleep with a lullaby and a nursing )ttle. Another has to "scan" the la ll on a beer bottle. Each freshman put on a table and asked: ! WAS CONSUMED BY A MAN, HIS "What is your name?' "John Brown." "John Brown, what?" The freshman gasps. He is told to ly "slr." Then he answers: "John rown, sir." He gets a dozen ridiculous questions A FIGHT IN THE OLD FORT. ke this. Another trick is for him to alk down Chapel street, New Haven, ith his trousers rolled up to his aces, and his bare legs blackened Ith burnt cork. Some are forced to m around on all fours and bark like jgs while their captors lead them ith strings. A student named Rustin as killed at Yale sonic years ago CAREER OF P His life-farm boy, gold hunter, mi ?ridge, Oneida County, N. Y., May 1G, : t fourteen. Walked to California at i arning. Returned to Stockbridge, well lilwaukee shortly after, becoming a I o enter the packing business. Led the han any other man of his time. Empl ay roll $G,000.u00 to SlO.OOO.dOO; annui 'roperty interests for which he stood i 00; his own fortune about $50,000,000. harity; his private beneficences count] V loyal to his family and friends; lovei ess rivalries and helped his fallen foe i while being rushed around blindfolded by an upper class man. He ran into a wagon pole and died later of perito nitis. A Cornell student while bein? V. S. GRANT ni RECITES EULOGIES ABOUT HIMSELF. hazed In a field was told to jump into a canal. He did so and was drowned. It is the trouble of all this fool play, in college or elsewhere, that It Invaria bly ends in the killing of an innocent man, perhaps the sole strength of his family, ioved by somebody anyway. Then when the killing is over the cry goes up under the "code of honor" that there ls no hazing, that lt was only sport and that the sport of "gen tlemen." It so happens, though, that the only true, honorable sport ever legitimately permitted to any man, can only be practiced under the glare of light, be fore all men, unmasked and without recourse to brute force or superiority of numbers. GEORGE MASON LEE TAKES WATER BATB Hazing break:; ribs, knocks out teeth, breaks arms, weakens hearts and does several other things for what have been rightly termed the "monkeys" of the "upper class." Cadet Smith was dismissed from West Point for hazing Ulysses S. Grant, grandson of General Grant. General Wesley Merritt took his treatment In his day, and so have most of the nrominonf military and uere&i, uitu tne loving tue most oar ing.-Chicago Times-Herald. ^ Tarions Exposition Crowds. The Paris exhibition, though some times described as n failure, has truly failed magnificently. It has broken all records for world's shows in regard to attendance. In seven months 50, 000,000 visitors passed through its turnstiles, more than double the num ber who visited the world's fair at Chicago. It ls Interesting to note how, these great shows have grown in popu larity. In 1851 G.000,000 people at tended the great exhibition in Hyde Park. Four years later the first great show in Paris was visited by 5,000.000". In 1807 Paris drew 10,000,000 visitors, in 1878 she attracted 10,000,000-an average of 82,004 a day-and in 1889 the record show up to this year was visited by 28,000,000 people. Since the Crystal Palace was first erected in Hyde Park in ISSI there have been twenty-one great International shows, and the aggregate attendance " has been about 150,000,000. They do not always pay. In 1S73 Vienna lost ?2> 000,000.-London Chronicle. Grosvenor square probably contains more millionaires than any equal area in London. Railways use up over 2,000,000 tons of steel a year, almost half the world's product. . D. ARMOUR. srchant, packing king. Born in Stock 1832. Attended Cazenovia Seminary eighteen; founded his fortune there in I to do, at twenty-three. Located In merchant. Came to Chicago in 1866 world in this line, feeding more people loyed as many of 23,000 men, annual il output estimated at $200,000.000. conservatively estimated at $150,000, Armour Institute a monument to his less, but not indiscriminate; immense i little children; fought hard In bust up agaim Died January 6, 1901;