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ONE AT A TIME. The Editor-Heavens, man! It needs to be cut down! The Author-If 1 thought that was the only objection The Editor-Well, cut it down, and I'll look for another!-Puck. AN IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE. Hewitt-That girl in the print dress is a poem. Jewett-She differs from most po?ms. Hewitt-How ls tnat? Jewett-Most poems don't get into print.-Brooklyn Life. THE MOTIVE IN DOUBT. "Do you think Mrs. Outdoors likes golf?"' "I don't know. The other day she was poking the fire with her husband's pet driver. I can!t decide whether it was sentiment or revenge." TOO MUCH. "I wish to tell you a story I have just heard," said Squilldlg to McSwill Igen. "You'll simply die of laughter." "But I don't want to be tickled to death," objected the latter.-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. THE CYNICAL PERSON. "Did you ever meet a woman who Insisted on forever talking about her self?" asked the Young Thing. "No," said the Cynical Person. "Any I have come in contact with insisted on talking about their neighbors." Philadelphia Record. THE CAUSTIC CRITIC. The young author was reading fr :JJ his manuscript. 'iAt this," he read, "Maude De Vere drew herself up." "Where did she get the pulley?" asked the caustic critic-Chicago Post. WHEN FRIENDS MEET. Tess-I thought you said May Nag ger married a good-natured man. Jess-So she did. Tess-Nonsense! I met him last evening and I thought he was cross as a bear Jess-Well, he's been married to May nearly four months now, you know-Cleveland Plain Dealer. MYSTERY. I fairly trembled with joy to think of my enemy's discomfiture. "You will bring the foul crime* home to him," I hissed. "No; we merely deliver it L o. b.!" ?aid the detective, very mysteriously. At this my brain reeled-De troll JournaL ds, I r for inspect?01. "Watches, Cut Glass, Clocks, Sterling Fancy Goods, Etc. Write for our new Catalogue. T HO. !?2??????1* a? - SLEY'S BB9BHBMSB BB ray Broadway, Augusta, 6a. 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"Well, no-^-but I flatter myself that I married the ideal of a girl who used to put on a good m&ny airs and think she had me passed up to where thc shadows were dark and thick."-Chi cago Times-Herald. A LOST OPPORTUNITY. "I'm sorry I didn't go to that bar gain sale," remarked the soprano. "I understand some very lovely things went for a song." "That's so. dear." replied the con tralto, "but do you think any of your notes would be high enough?"-Phila delphia Press. WELL INFORMED. "Is the correspondent of that publi cation a well-informed man?" "I should say so!" was the answer. "Half the time he's the only person in the world who knows whether what he tells is true or not."-Washington Star. The Search for Antiques. . writes an Alexandria, Va., corre spondent, this old town had kept all the old furniture to be found in dwell ings up to 1840-50 it would now be worth many thousands of dollars, but before the Centennial celebration held here in 187(5 these antiques were es teemed to be of little pecuniary worth. The little value placed upon such things here fifty years ago is shown by the destruction of Washington's town house, built by him in 1763, and torn down in the 50's in order to get room for a garden of the adjoining dwelling. Were this old town. house ! now intact it could be sold for at least $300,000, more than twice the value of the entire square on which it was lo cated. In one case a family put out on its back lot old furniture which would now be worth $300, and left it exposed to the sun and rain until it was destroyed. A large amount of waste paper, etc., from the lofts and garrets of Mount Vernon, remove! when John A. Washington sold out to the LP dies' Mount Vernon Associa tion, was stored here in an upper room at King and Lee streets, and a fire oc curring there most of it was either scattered or burned. Courting in Mexico. In Mexico the sexes intermingle with a freedom undreamed of in our more northern latitudes. Courting is done in the open among the lower classes. I noticed men standing in the streets conversing with their dulcin eas by means of pocket telephones, the private wire extending from a small battery on their person to the window of the second story apartment occu pied by the fair maids. Occasionally a lover, unable to stand the expense of a private "hello" apparatus, enacts Romeo by mounting a box, barrel or vehicle of some kind and bellowing his affection at the window above. When you approach he walks away, up or down the street, to return to his wooing as soon as you have passed out of hearing.-Victor Smith, in New Yaerk Press. I HIS DOWNWARD C Instead of Becoming; a 1 The old detective stood at the cor ner of Broad and Wall streets talking with a friend, when a dignified look ing old man came along. The oid de fectivo touched his h?nd to his hat us the elderly man passed, and the latter returned the salutation. The old de tective watched him disappear around the corner of Nassau street with a cu rious-smile on his face. He didn't stop smiling until thc man was out of sight. Then he turned to his friend and remarked: "There never was a better illustra tion of the old saying that truth in stranger than fiction than the history of that man. There is a maa who is highly respected by all who knew him. He is a model of honesty and integ rity, and if any man intimated that he had ever dono anything dishonest ke would be laughed at. Yet the basis of that man's fortune was an act that would have sent him to prison for 20 years if it had ever been known. I know the story from the only other man In the world who ever knew the truth of the affair, and in all my life I never heard of anything to equal it Do you happen to know that man?" "Never saw him in my life, and wouldn't know him if I met him five minutes from now," remarked the old detective's friend, who was wise in his day and generation. "Good," said the old detective. "Then I'll tell you the story. I won't mention the time, the place or the real names, for I would not want you to identify those who played a part in this affair. I'll call thc old gentle man who just passed Lavery, because that isn't his name, and is about as far from it as any I can think of just now. Well, 20 years ago Lavery worked In a bank in Kings. Kings isn't ca the map so far as I know, but the place where Lavery worked was, and is. Nevertheless, we'll call the place Kings. Lavery was a product of Kings. His father wa:; a poor but much respected clergyman. He was a pretty fine preacher, and I believe had a lot of high-salaried calls from time to time, but he was one of those fellows who thought his field of labor was right where he was, and for whom money had little attraction. Lavery was brought up in Kings, and his father made a good job of it. He was the model young man of the town. He was no namby-pamby boy, and any one who tried to come it over him found himself up against a stiff propo sition wnen he went, too far. Lavery the fact that when a vacancy occurred in the First National bank of Kings, Lavery was called to the place. Right here his career began. Nobody in town was jealous of his good fortune, no one thought of being, for the whole town sort of regarded lt as Lavery's right to get the first good thing that came along. Now the job that Lav ery took was not very remunerative. He only got $3 a week, and his work was of the? most menial kind, running errands and doing office work, from early morning until quite late in the evening sometimes. I say it wasn't the job, so much as the opportunity that it gave Lavery to rise, that made it a good thing for him. Well, Lav ery boned in like a good fellow. He was just the sort of a fellow to dig in and get on to things. He fairly thirst ed for knowledge and I verily believe that he would have made a go out of a peanut stand, if his father had started him In that line. "Careers in banks are not of the meteoric order, but Lavery certainly established a precedent in this regard. He didn't have to wait for people over him to die. in order to get ahead. He crowded the men over him out, and when he was only 30 years old was cashier of the National bank of Kings at a salary of $5000 a year, which was quite a good deal, even for a bank offi cial, in a small town like Kings. Lav ery had married the sweetest little girl in the town, in the meantime, and had duplicated her with another little girl, who was his pride and joy. He Was the happiest man in that town, and with his home, his wife and his baby, he had every reason to be. He had a little money saved up and a fine fat place that no man living could get away from him, as long as he behaved himself. "Now, I've had a great deal of ex perience with crooks, and I have stud ied their ways and the motives that lead them to live lives of crime with great care, but this man Lavery was a mystery that I never could solve. Here was a man ? ho had never done a dis honest act ii. his life, who had nothing to gain, and everything to lose by dis honesty, and yet carefully planned out a robbery of the bank with which lhe had been connected since early child hood, and the officers of which trusted him implicitly. Don't ask me why he did it. I do not know, and no one else knows. He had never speculated or gambled, had a g?od home all paid for, a loving wife, a baby and a fat sur plus at the bank. If you want to know my real opinion of the matter, I will tell you that I think Lavery was crazy, clean crazy, and yet in posses sion of all the faculties that enable a man to plan and carry out some great enterprise. "lavery didn't juggle his books or monkey with any other man's ac counts. If he had I wouldn't have had this story to tell. He would then h?ve been an ordinary, every day felon, ami would be wearing a number in ^oine prison. No, that was not Lavery's game. With all the cunning of an ex perienced thief, hr planned to rob the Lank of all the money in the vaults, and then just drop out of sight. What might have been the stiffest, kind r! a job for a band of experienced cracks men, would be easy for Lavery, be cause he and the president were the only ones who had the secret of the great locks to the vault, and they :AREER CHECKED. I "hief He Became a Hero. were thc only ones who ever stayed at their desks alone late into the night "It Was nothing unusual for Lavery to stay late at the bank. He Waa the kind of a man tc) work corist??tly, and the old watchman knew hii? so well that nothing he might do would hav? roused the slightest suspicion in his mind. Lavery knew this and he laid his plans accordingly. He made ar rangements to get out of town on an early morning train, and had a most elaborate plan for his wife to follow him at a later, dute. He did not take his wife into his confidence. If he hadi tho thing would never have come off. She would have brought him to his senses with a round turn. As it was? Lavery went on dreaming of a South Sea island home, far from the clutched of the law, with every luxury that na| ture could provide. It was the dream of a crazy man, but as I said a while ago, 1 ara convinced that Lavery wa| crazy. Well, there was a lot of .Interj cstmg detail, which I'll omit just nowp so as to get down to the meat of the story. The night came whfn Lavery made up his mind that the best chance possible offered for the plundering oj the bank. In the great vaults were, some $200.000. every dollar of whicl? was within easy reach of the trusted' hand of Lavery. Of this amount oye| a half, was in such shape that the maa. could carry it off with ease. "Lavery spent that day at his deM working about as .usual. After bank* ing hours he got the clerks arounct him and straightened things out Then, he closed his desk, walked into the office of the president, announced thaj he was going out for some luncheon^ hut would be back and would remain' at thc bank late. The president told the cashier that he was working too] hard, but. Lavery only smiled and went out. Ho came back at 8 o'clock that night and the watchman let him in. He had a large black valise with him? which he put alongside his desk, and. then from 8 until 12 o'clock, he worked away over the papers on his? desk. Tho most remarkable thing about it all was that Lavery was not playing for time as he worked. His labor was genuine-I know that be-; cause I saw his books afterward. The old watchman came to the counting room at ll o'clock, and again at n id night, and snoke to Lavery. He an swered cheerfully and once told.the old man that he might be around u'nti?l early iu the morning. ..O -1-' 1 ^.v,.._ ... ?.????wu on to the vault and when he stood In front of the great steel doors, put his valise down on the floor and after a few seconds' work, succeeded in swinging back the doors. Again there was a slight noise and this time Lavery looked around. A shadow flitted up toward him and (hen disappeared in a niche in the wall. "'l3 that you. John?' asked Lavery coolly, thinking it must be the watch man. There was no answer. Lavery was disturbed, but not frightened. He turned to the vault and with some haste began to pull out great packets of bills. One or two packets he laid on the ground, the rest he placed in the valise. His only light was the flickering gas jet at the end of the passage, but not an inch of that vault was unknown to Lavery, and he could have done his work without any light at all. "Suddenly this flickering gas jet went out. Now Lavery was no fool. He didn't delude himself with any false ideas. Ho knew that there was somohting behind the gas going out except a draught. He put two and two together, and concluded that he had been followed Into the vault by some one. who didn't care to be seen. He tried to think what he might have dunc or said to betray himself or his plans. He could think of nothing. The fact remained, however, that he was at thc end of a blind passage with a valise full of the bank's money. Who ever turned out the light knew the truth. Lavery put his hand in his pocket and slipped out the revolver which he always carried when he stayed late nt the hank. His reflec tions had occupied less than a minute, and during that time not a sound had come from the passage. Lavery waifed until It became impossible for him to remain quiet another second. The more he thought the more convinced he became that he had been cornered by thc officers of the bank. That was his guilty conscience. He thought of his wife, and a certain little baby, then with an oath, something Lavery wasn't used to indulging in, he strode forward until he had gone about 20 feet. Ho heard some one breathing ahead and without a moment's hesi tation, aimed his revolver in that di rection and fired three shots in rapid succession. There was a most terrific outcry. Lavery plunged ahead again, but before he had gone three steps something struck him on the back of the head. As he fell he turned quickly and fired the two remaining shots from his pistol. Then he went slowly out of the world with yells of pain and shouts of alarm from somewhere in the distance ringing in his ears as his mind gradually passed away. "Lavery saw the light of the world again two weeks from that night. He came to in his own home and with his wife bending over the bed. For a mo ment ho couldn't recall anything. Then like a flash it all came back to him. '. 'I must get away,' he cried to his wife. 'I must get away. Quick, give me my clotheF. Oh, my God. ray God!' "Lavery went, off into delirium, and the doctor shonk his bead and looked serious when he saw him and heard what he had said. The next time Lav cry's wandering senses came back to him there was a strong man along side of his bed and when he tried to jump again he found himself pinned down. You may hava guessed the situation by this time, but remember that Lav 67 y had not. When these two days of utter despair had passed, there was a call oft the sick man, which caused him to bury his faCe In his hands and weep the first tears that he had shed since that eventful night, lt Wail the old president of the bank, who came in, the old man who had been Lavery's friend since childhood, and who had always idolized the boy. The tears were streaming down his face as he entered and when Lavery saw that kind old faed, his cup of bitterness ran over. H? couldn't look In those eyes. . " 'He's nervous,' said the ntirse. " 'Poor boy.' said the president, he's .had a hard time of it Well, he must be saved for his reward.' (Lavery's heart almost burst at this.) 'Lavery,' said the president, leaning over the bed, 'don't you feel well enough to speak to me? I have waited two weeks to do ruy duty in this matter, and the doctor tells ma you are well enough to talk a little. Lavery, your courage saved the bank $200,000. , Of course, nothing that 1 can say now will give you any idea of the gratitude of the officers and directors. I want to tell you that you must hurry and get well, so that we can show our appreciation of your conduct' "Then the president went out, and Lavery, almost stunned by tho3e*last few words, rolled over on his face and struggled to think. For boura he lay there silent, but thinking. His wife came in for the first time and from her lips came thc story. For a month two famous burglars from New York had been tunnelling into the passage leading into the vaults. They had worked from the cellar of an oiTc*. building adjoining, one of thr. men having secured permission to use an old coal bin there as a dark room for some photographic work. ' " 'And dearie,' said his wife, 'if it hadn't been for you. they would have got away with all that money. John, the watchman, says that the first idea he had that anything wa3 wrong was when he heard your pistol. He ran down toward the passage:, and as he ran he heard shrieks of pain and more pistol shots. Suddenly everything was quiet, and when John lighted the gas he saw two men trying to drag them selves along toward a big opening in the wall. The blood was streaming from their wounds. They were the burglars. You shot one of them three times and the other twice. John found you unconscious on the floor with your head ail crushed in. John got help and that's all there is to it, except that, they're only waiting for you to get v/ell to try those two men. Oh, dearie, tho:e men almost got the .jnonov TM,"" iIA?Q a hitr, black bag -? $50,000 and your pietm . until you get back.' "Lavery's wife went out and Lavery tried to think. He found it easier than before. The truth came to him like ah electric shock, but he was strong enough to listen to it without betray ing himself. He got well fast after that, and that's all there is to tell you about the matter. You saw Lavery pass a few minutes ago. He never did a crooked thing again in his life, and I verily believe that he never thought a crooked thought again. He is a New York bank president now, and I guess he is a director of about 20 others, in cluding the National of Kings. "Now you're going to ask rae how I know all this. Does seem strange, doesn't it? Well. I got my first hint of it from the head crook of the two who did thc job. He told me in jail that it was a moral certainty that the cashier was robbing the bank when ht, and his pal happened in. If it wasn't for the fact that they were making a hero out of the cashier, he said, he would go on the stand and tell the facts as they really were. He was a cute duck, though, and told rn? that they had made such a popular idol out of the cashier that thc jury would probably soak him harder if he cast any aspersions on the savior of the bank. The rest of the story I got from the only other man in the world who knows it and he told me the whole thing when 1 threw at him the facts that I had got from the burglar and the result of my examination of thc watchman. It was years after the af fair, and so there is no harm in letting me in. Who he was, I leave you to guess.''-New York Sun. Luxtiviong Mnollc.i. , According to tradition there was once an cid woman who kissed her cow and said, "Every one to his own taste." Out at Bustleton there is a "gentleman farmer," who can give the aforesaid old woman cards and spades ard beat her at her own game. He doesn't kiss his cows, but he does something more remarkable. He ac tually scrubs their teeth with a large tooth brush! This man has many pe culiar ideas about his live stock, and particularly his cows, which are of the very finest breeds. So cautious is he about their eating and drinking that all thc water the cows use is distilled, lt is said that he has a separate tooth brush for each cow. and, as he cannot depend upon his men to do the brush ing, he does it himself, using the very best Castile soap. He feels that in adopting this course he is assured of pure milk, free from the possibility of microbes.-Philadelphia Record. The Punning of Buckwheat. The practical extinction of the buckwheat cake of our lathers must be laid at Ibo door of thc miller. He is accused of mixing with buckwheat licur wheat bran and shorts '*n tho in tprests of economy. For a while thc adulteration was undetected, but gradually consumers began to com plain that thc buckwheat cakes don't taste any moro like they us3? to in the good old days on thc farm and people began to atop buying buck wheat flour. As the demand fell nfl the farmers raise less and loss buck wheat A race of honest millers, co operating with the farmers, might raise the buckwheat cake to its foi< mer proud position. LICNUM VlTyE CETTING SCARCE. Foin ot Ii I np; Eine al Uff Be Fonnd for Mak. Kall? for Howl In jr, j "Within a short time you are going , to see bowling balls take a big jump in price," said, one of Indianapolis's ?Hey owners recently. "The only Wood suitable for bowling balls is lig num vitas," he continued, "and the game has increased in popularity so rapidly in the last tavr years that the supply of the wood that is easily available has just about been exhaust ed. Either new lignum vitae for?f3 riust be discovered or some better method of getting the wood to mar ket must be found. "The best lignum vitae in the wo^ld is in Venezuela, but one must go miles into the Interior before the wood is found. The wood is so'heavy that the tree trunks must be sawed in short pieces, about three feet In length. These pieces are then strapped to pack' mules and carried in this way to the coast. Of course, in tho'se places nearer the coast, or where the wood I is more accessible, lardar logs can be I handled. Another danger is in ship ping the wood. Sam Karpi, the bowling authority, told me the other day that vessels do not like to take lignum vitae as even a part of their cargo. When a ship loaded with the wood gets to rocking or pitching in a heavy sea, there is danger of the ship sinking. The record of lignum vitae cargoes that have been lost in t!:is manner is worse than the record of any other sort of freight. "The lignum vitae that is the most easily reached now is that of Africa. African lignum vitae is y*?1'' er than any other kind. A use ri African wood ball. lae wood rbecks-badly, and for that reason the rood turners dislike to handle it, as there is danger of tho turning lathe getting caught in one of the checks and breaking the ball to pieces. The African ball solis for $3.50, 50 cents less than that of the other grades of the wood. I believe the African wond is harder, if anything, than any other, and a ball made of the African wo >d will not become lop-sided so soon as one made of other wood. "The Dutch East Indies yield a good quality of lignum vitae, but such heavy demands have been made on the forests there that the wood is get ting scarce. The big trees are all far inland. San Domingo vitae is more bluish than the East Indian kind and more brittle. "It is impossible to keep a bowling ball from getting lop-sided. The cause of this lies in the finger holes. When balls had no finger holes, the ! bowler never threw a ball twice in I succession the same way. Now a bow I 1er holds the ball the same way every . M.? oome part of the ball -? every time. As '-?et before nogany nere. and l nanueu it to aim. lt felt as light as paper after he hn?l been handling one of the regular balls. I told him that If he would bowl a score of 100 with the mahogany ball I would make him a present of the finest ball that could be bought. You can't bowl with a light ball. That's why I think one can make better scores with the African wood ball. It Is heavier. George Seidensticker has a yellow ball that weighs seven teen pounds and 200 scores are getting common as dirt with him. I under stand that a new composition ball is about to be put on the market. It is claimed for the new ball that it au swers the purpose as well as if not better than the wqpden ball, though I have never seen it. It has weight, ! it is claimed, and elasticity, and the j additional advantage of not warping I or chipping. But it will cost much j more than the lignum vitae ball." i Indianapolis Press. Evolution of a Lemon, CHAPTER L "What is your name, little boy?" asked the teacher. "Johnny L'emon," answered thc boy. And it was so recorded on the roll. CHAPTER II. "What is your name?" the high school teacher inquired. "John Dennis Lemon," replied the big boy. Which was duly entered. CHAPTER OL "Your name, sir?" said the college dignitary. "J. Dennison Lemon," responded the young man who was about to enroll himself as a student. Inscribed in accordance therewith. CHAPTER IV. "May I ask your name?' inquired the-society editor of the Daily Bread. "Jean D'Ennice Le Mon," replied the swell personage in the opera box. And it was duly jotted down.-Chi cago Tribune. How Geography i? Taucht in Germany. On misty days in autumn the school boy of the Black Forest is marched to the peak of some high hill. From there geography is taught him, says a German correspondent. It is pointed cut to him that he stands upon an island completely surrounded by the mist, which, for the purposes of this comedy, h'.s had handed to it the part of water, which it plays with much success. The twin rivers of mist on either side of him, filling both valleys, are, for him. estuaries; the spur of the mountain opposite is a peninsula. He descends, it is certain, with geographical ideas in his head that could never have been put there by mere maps hanging upon a wall. They seem to know something about education in Germany. Had H Sweot Sound. Small Jimmy-Say dem lubly words once ir.or<?. Smaller Gladys-I said I don't want you to be A'astin' your money on ms for ice cream and sweets any more. Boston Globe. Where Art Kn 11*. Girls are not as attractive in their moodc of despair as they think; every picture of "Grief" is inaccurate, be cause the subject's nose is not red from crying.-Ai chison Globa ? gern^ai?/s New f?fle | Finest Eyer fflade| Formidable as the Emperor Wil liam's army is as a fighting machine, it will he even more formidable when equipped with its new magazine rifle, which in many respects is doubtless the finest ever made. In r. recent num ber, the London Daily Graphic, which has several naval and military experts among its contributors, gave an inter esting description of the new weapon, the product of three yr '.rs' work by an imperial commission., and known as Model '08. The writer says: "There is about the new model noth ing of that clumsy appearance so char acteristic of earlier magazine rifles. It Is as neat and as compact as n single loader. The projecting magazine of the model of 18S8 has gone, and Its place has been taken by a much ban dier contrivance, in which the cart ridges are packed zig-zag fashion, three on the left and two on the right The clip or box formerly used to carry the cartridges has been replaced by a "charger," consisting of a strip of thin steel, the edges of which fit into the extractor groove at the base of the cartridge. In loading the maga zine a slight pressure of the thumb ifs all that is necessary to force the cart ridge into the desired position, and as rhe bolt is pushed forward the empty charger is dropped. "The extractor is larger and more rfu! than the one formerly used, and. like other parts of the rifle, has been designed to save the soldier from the consequence of his mistakes, or. rather, to put it absolutely out of his power io make a mistake. The Ger man experts declare that a man labor ing under excitement cannot be safely trusted to perform any complex action calling for coolness and discretion. The commonest blunder is to double load a rifle-that is, to' attempt to convey a cartridge into the firing chamber before its predecessor has been got rid of. With the new extractor this will be im possible. The cartridge in the firing chamber, whether fired or unfired, gripped by the claws of the extractor, moves backward with it. Thus it is impossible to double load. "As far as actual shooting goes, the new model does not differ much from the model if supersedes. The range ls about the same, and the weight and composition of the bullet and charge nre almost identical. But in the sight ing a great change for the bet*er has been made. "In view of the opinions expressed In some quarters in disparagement of the bayonet as an effective weapon, it is interesting to note that the Ger man army administrators have re stored tb)" arm to its former imposing dimensions. In place of the exaggerat ed knife that the German soldier has carried since 1871, he will in future have a handsome and truly formida ble looking sword bayonet, twenty-six inches in length. "Taking the new model as a whole, it cannot be denied that those respon sible for its production have done their work thoroughly and well. Its authors claim-and apparently with a fair amount of justification-that by Its In troduction 'the German soldier has been armed with the best military rifle that modern science has as yet pro duced.' " A New Kind of Armor. Some Important experiments are re ported to have been made at the Krupp works. Essen, with a new arm or plate, which, .it is claimed, is lm lenertable. A new metal, lighter and of softer consistency than steel, is joined to a plate of steel. Fired at with the two plates held fim r togeth er by screws or with the two metals welded together, and the steel fnce turned to tho attack, the missiles pene trate easily, making clean-cut holes. Fired at however, with the new metal turned to the attack the missiles failed io do anything but spread uud break themselves over the surface of the out side softer metal. Various distances wen; operated from without effect, the combination of metals being apparent ly Impregnable. Ike Klug and Queen of Sarawak, Borneo ? certain adventurous Englishman about sixty-two years ago procured a yacht and sailed for Borneo, where hp ingratiated himself into tue favor of the Sultan to such au extent that the latter made him a present of the entire province < ' Sarawak, some 3000 miles in extent, with the sole proviso that he should coLquer th? people. They were snch troublesome subjects that the Sultan could do nothing with them at all. but Mr. Charles Johnson Brooke not only brought them under subjec tion, but set up a little kingdom for himself, over which he reigned during the'rest of his natural life, and after' him his nephew, the pr' .nt monarch" of Sarawak. The kingdom of Sarawak now com-' prises about 50,000 miles of territory, with a coast line of 400 miles, rich coal mines, vast resourcees and an annual income of several million dollars. Its king is Sir Charles Johnson Brooke, nephew and successor of the original rajah, and its Queen is Lady Brooke* who together, rule this semi-cannibal country of 300.000 Asian subjects and are the nearest civilized neighbors to the south of the Philippines. . Liquid Insect Catcher and Tree Guard. The increased destruction of city trees by insects during the past few aw? rm o: tuna. timut.M ooo stfcwi years has caused the inventor*to de sign a number of (devices to prevent the pests from crawling up the tree trunk and depositing eggs in the branches as well as eating the leaves. Hitherto the guards have consisted of bands of loose fabric, cotton wadding, etc., being generally treated with a chemical and bound tightly on the tree trunk. His invention, which we show herewith, however, is a radical depar ture from former ideas, iuasmuch as HOLDER FOR DESTROYING INSECTS. the chemical is in liquid form and ls contained in a circular pocket sur rounding the tree, with a layer of packing beneath the guard and the bark to form a tight joint. The circu lar gutter is provided with two separ ate circles of liquid to insure the death of those insects which might possibly survive a single bath in the poisonous fluid. Roland Forrest, of this city, is the inventor. Champion Speller. At the annual spelling contest of Knox Qounty, Mo.. Miss Mamie Long fellow, of Millport, won the prize over forty contestants. She spelled the en tire list of 2100 words correctly. The number of horses killed in Span ish bull tights during 1000 was 5480. More than 1100 bulls were slaiu during the same period. During the past century American commerce increased from less than $200.000,000 to over $2,000.000,000. The population of Zurich, Switzer land, consists of 70,012 females and 71.21G males.