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?THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA j L. 0. HAYNS, PreVt. F. O. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. Undivided Profils } $110,000. Faculties of ocr mag., fl cen: Kew Van it containing 410 Safety-LovA Boxes. Differ ent Sizes are offered to our patrons and the public at $3.00 to 910.00 per annum. THE PLANTEBS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, OA. Pays Interest oil Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Hayne, President. Chas. C. Howard, Cashier. THOS. J ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 22. 1901. - r - VOL LXV1. NO. 21 T Diamonc Wat che? m Jewelry. tts f^jS Our fall stock is noir ready *T* Diamonds, Fine Jewelry, C ^jj^ SiUer Ware. Plated Ware, I (Jive as a call when in the eily. I m wimm New York City-The waist that in cludes a deep yoke, narrow front and bertha holds a high place among the designs of the season. The smart May Manton design Illustrated has the ad FAXCY WAIST. ~*?tunieJ vantage of suit ana thc odd bc . found generali; ina] is rnaji* t pastel blu^ w ^guipure, .?ndei; hon. but taffej de chine and a^ are" suitable, h_-- - ? . ?rs can be obtained with veiling, albat ross, wool crepe and the like. The fitted lining consists of the usual pieces and opens at the centre front. The back is faced to give thc FAKCY WAIST ^ yoke effect, but the front yoko &? plastron are entirely separate. bel?^ attached to the righi side and hooke?;i over onto the left. The waist proper is tucked at each front edge and is ar ranged lu gathers at the waist line, the bertha fnis?ing the upper edge. The sleeves embody the latest novelty 'and are cut short, with points at thc lower edge, to fall over the full cuffs or undersleeves that, in turn, are fin ished with straight cuffs and may be unlined, to allow the wrists to be seen through their meshes when thc material is of a, transparent sort. To cut this waist for a woman of medium size three and five-eighth yards of material tweniy-one inches wide, two and three-quarter yards twenty-seven inches wide, two yards thirty-two inches wide or one and five-eighth yards forty-four inches will be required with three and one half yards for undersleeves, one yard .of all-over lace for the bertha, and one piece of velvet ribbon to trim as illustrated. Woman'! Fancy Waist. The square yoke and the bertha arc among the notable features of the sea son's styles and lend themselves to various combinations with satisfac tory effect. The smart May Manton waist Illustrated in the large drawing shows wool crepe iu pastel blue with yoke and undersleeves of cream cluny lace and trimming 'of black vel vet ribbon and is exceedingly effec tive, but the design ls in every wry suited to a variety of light weight wools and soft rilks while the combin ation can be varied again and again. Yoke and undersleeves of chiffon or Liberty silk with a figured Lonisine silk are exceedingly handsome, crepe de chine with point de Venise is beau op f A?HiON tiful and similar materials might bo suggested by the score. The foundation for the waist is a fitted lining that closes at the centre front. The yoke is faced onto the back, but made separate at the front and included in the right shoulder and neck seams while it books over into the left. The front of the waist is gathered at the upper edge and seamed to the lining closing invisi bly in front and the seamless back is laid in tiny pleats at the waist line. Tho bertha is attached to the waist, effectually concealing the seam that joins the yoke to the main portion, and closes with the yoke at the left shoulder seam. The front of the waist may be cut. on the fold of material and closed with the bertha at the shoulder, around arms eye and under arm seams if so preferred. The sleeves are cut after the latest style and in clude the full under portions that are unlined and seamed to the lining of the upper sleeves. At the neck is a stock collar of the lace that closes invisibly at thc centre back. To cut this waist for a woman of medium size, three and one-half yarda of mat ?rial twenty-one inches wide, three yards twenty-seven inches wide, or one and three-quarter yards fortv Five-Gored Skirt "Wita riana flounce. The five-gored skirt has the great advantage of never going out of style. Slight variations there may be VITH BERTHA. and details may require lo be changed but the general cut remains. The May ?Manton model illustrated is made with stitched seams and iuclffdes the latest novelty In the band flounce that completes the lower edge. The orig inal is of gray satin faced cloth, but all skirt materials are suitable, chev iot, serge, homespun and similar woolen fabrics as well as the heavy ducks and linens that are made on tailored lines. The front gore is narrow and gives the desired tapering effect to the fig ure. The wider side gores are smooth ly fitted with hip darts :.nd .the ful ness at the back is laid in an inverted pleat. The flounce is finished with rows of machine stitching. FIVE-CORED SKIRT. To cut this skirt for a woman of ? medium size eight yards of material thirty-two inches wide, five and one quarter yards forty-four inches wide or five yards fifty inches wide will bs required? I BMHHHBBSHHR I LITTLE ? BY LOUISA A' "You take my advice now. my boy. Drop everything just where you are, and go off to the country. It will be the saving of you." "Are you mad. Goeff? What, drop a living, certain sure, and go off to nothing!" was my answer to the doc tor, an old schoolmate of mine. "The living will drop you soon enough, in more sense than one. The weather bureau does not want ghosts I as weather clerks!" be replied. "I'd rather be ghost here than starve there. I won't, end that ends it!" "You asked me to be honest with you, and I have been. And this is all I get for my pains." he closed with, as I left his office. I knew I was all run down, but expected the summer vacation would set me up as it had done before; and j honestly I was thinking cf my wife and her views as well as of myself. When I got home that evening she met me at the door, as was her wont, nicely got up for dinner. "Isn't it perfectly delicious. Arch, for Mabel?" (One of her sisters in New York.) "They're going to settle in the country." "It might be for Mabel; but I don't know enough of her to pronounce-" "You do now, story boy!" she an swered. "You know she's just like me. Twins always are alike." I opened my eyes, dumfounded. for evidently I had misread rov young lady, or perhaps her capacity for I won't pay what. She went on, just taking breath long enough for all she had to say. "I've written and told her hov.' I envy her her luck. Fancy being able j to sit upder cool trees when you're baking hot, and have a big fire when you're cold, and tho children running about without dressing un. and-" Here I stopped her. "You mean to say they are to go with 'nodlngs on?' " I "Nonsense. Arch! You know what J I mean-dressed for the street, o? course!" "A verv lucid explanation!" I edged in. j "And they can have their o^n milk and cream and butter and garden stuff -so rood fer th? children!" "It* looks as though, Coonie," (I call her Coonie but her name is Lu cia.) "you want to follow suit." "Why of course I do! What do you suppose I'm telling you all this for?" "We'll see about it. You have to have your own way always, haven't you?" Th IQ metamnrnhncf S nf mv wife's "What lie have I been guilty of now?" I asked innocently. "About my having my own way. ol course. Mabel has hers, and its just lovely to think of it. Just imagin? how free and easy not to bo at tue beck and call of people when you want to be at home and not to have to say you're out when you are there!" "We'll see about it. little woman." "That's what you said before din ner. Of course (hat means ves!" And she clapped her hands. ?ust as Dickie does when he's got ft nev toy. "You really mean it this time!" And she got up and kissed mn solemnly on the forehead, for ratification. I "What's Mabel going to live on in the country, or you we'll say for ar gument'* sake?" "Oh of course the husbands do the work, with a man to help them, and we've lots to sell." "For example?" I asked. "Pigs and sheep; stock and steers; and they hunt all we want to eat." "Stock and steers; a different breed, eh?" "That's one reason why I want to go on a ranch. Archie, to learn some thing." she said in an unusually hum ble voice. "Oh. I see. Your education has been neglected in the city!" I could not help looking narrowly at her, to try to get at the "truly truth" to quote Dick. She had always given me the impression that she was de voted to the city, and city life. She would not miss her concerts, or her little parties, or her "at. homes" and occasional dances for anything. She piqued herself on being "chic," (that's what she calls it. I think) and she ap peared to love new clothes dearly. . But I may have been mistaken. Women are hard to read anyhow. The long and short of it was. that I sent in my resgnation to tho weather bureau, although I had always con gratulated myself on being an official that stays in office not to be turned . with the change of political wind, and have to condescend to any trick to get in again. However, we sold up. and started west, buying half cleared land at a cheap rate, ro PS to have something left for preliminary expenses. We were like the youns bea's, with our trouble ahead, but I prot strong and hearty and well able to bear their brunt. My wife took un her mew studies with fresh zest, and was tickled at all she learned. One of them was what she was pleased to call "aforetime doctoring." "No good to laugh. Arch." she would say. if I grumbled at her exac tions. "Who's to nurse you and the children if you're sick abed? I don't propose to be sick nurse, so don't ar range matters that I should be. Be sides you know there's no doctor in these parts to be had under ?50. so you must practice doing without them by not needing them." "While you practice on the kids," I put in. "Of course I know what you're driv ing at. Amateurs can't know every thing." "But you knew you had put the flaxseed poultice on tho kid, and that -A. VI O H.. t a ai ur Y XA ?H. wasn't the place for the thermo meter!" "How could I follow the shifting of ?* slippery eel?" "Never mind, little woman, you are not the only one scared by thermo meter reading, when the patient was well enough to frisk into his clothes." "Whatever you say, you know Tom mie had a close scratch of pneumonia, and you ought to be thankful, sir. to the poultice he didn't quit. I wish I could prove it by a doctor." "And the procr would be well worth the $50." ? answered in banter. "Who nearly put blistering liquid into my eye?" giving her weather-eye (as she called it) a sly twinkle. . "And who shook the kid, instead of the bottle?" I shot back. "Nobody, since Methusaleh's wife!" "But seriously. Archie, isn't it just perfect being your own butcher and baker and churner and cheese-mon ger, and charwoman and school ma'rm? Other things one doesn't need. Don't say you need a doctor, Archie dear, or my nose will be jointed flat and that would break my heart!" As I made no response, she went on: "It's heavenly to be independent of all the mongers in creation. It gives you a kind of Alexander Selkirk sen^V sation-kind cf 'monarch of all we survey' feeling, that does one good. Just say for once you agree with me',? Arch, or I shall be let down to agreed lng with myself, as usual." To tell the truth, which I never ?inj* fided to Lucia. I had been hiring a man not to work so much, but to teach me to do things-me, who scarcely knew ?. spade from a hoe. | And Coonie always said "We had io have plenty of garden stuff to fight, off the doctor." H Neither could ! make a fence^-jm? milk a cow. or keep the hogs out of tli2 garden, let alone turning them into bacon. Why things came sn natural i_ Coonie I never could make out. She j get through all her housework/-^ taught and clothed th? kids, getting herself up spick and span every ever ing to sit with me in the ,lltt?e~31 lor. Summer had come roi:nrtv.ai ?t the ranch and I had a notion there, was something brewing in her littl head, when she said suddenly. "Arch, dear, now that you knov stock and steers are tho same,. I think you may be trusted to 'leave them awhile." "Coonie!" I exclaimed, adding noth ing. ... -, ... _. me ; ..w..uiiuess of . great cities;" so it must be some lit-, tie world straight from the hand of its Maker. "You see. Arch," she con tinued, "we've not come across the plains-" "It seems to me that we have done so." I dared interpose. "The old-fashioned way. of course. The trains were there, and we had to take them. But I want to go in a prairie schooner!" Heavens and earth! Does she want to go back east that way? Seeing my consternation she gave my hand a little pat. saying: "Arch, you stupid frump, we must take tho children out camping some^ where; they'll winter so much better." "Good heavens! they're not bees, Coonie! I suppose you are afraid of having to apply poultices and thermo meter again-the mixture that does not agree with your nerves. Eh?" I bantered. "Change of air is good, that's why the cows go wandering off so far be fore they calve." she said, "and a prairie schooner will be the very nic est of all." "Only without, the prairie, seeing we're mostlv. mountains over here!" I interpolated. To please her, the man and I Axed up a rig. and we all embarked for the nearest bit of coast, where we expect ed to see more people than wc had the year through, although Lucia pro fessed to hate people. After living all her life near the, great lakes, she hankered after a sight ct water. We were preparing to camp over night, before reaching the place in the morning and I was wielding the axe for fire-making when I stupidly struck my left hand between thumb and forefinger. From a great gash the blood spurted, running down bril liantly as I made my wav to where my wife was busy with the children. "Now, 'aforetime doctor.' now's our chance." I said coolly. "L've struck bone." "How could you be such a goose, Arch?" and she tried in vain to staunch the blood. As it continued, to flow from the rather ugly looking opening, she said, "Wait till I hold it together!" and she very ingeniously closed the lips of the wound, holding them f*rra with thumb and finger. "Wait? What are we to wait for? Till the fire's made itself and boiled the kettle?" "Walt, I say, and don't argie-bor gie!" This always meant that the Scotch in her was uppermost, and she wasn't to be gainsaid. "Don't argie-borgie!" and to the eldest boy, "Jimmie, you run round to the camp ahead of us, and ask one of the young men tn be sn kind as to go with you and fetch the doctor from the town." ' Coon!" I dared to expostulate. "If you bleed to death, sir. how are we to have our tea? You know the plaster won't stick, and I didn't bring my surgery needle and silk, never" dreaming you'd do this." I knew telenhathically that "lock jaw" was the word running up and down the convolutions of her brain the thing she had never seen happily; so I let her be. \ "If Providence makes you clo this,^ just within reach of a doctor, I'm not . ; i going, to fly in its face and let you biped ?0 death." '^t'8\ou who are doing the 'argie boogieing' now. I'm silent as a stock." ^ "Well, you were doing it inside you; that's all^the same!" she had the ef frontery tonc?me ont with. I was feel ing a little \ weak from loss cf blood, and waiting for my supper, and al lowed her to go on holding the cut; she rallying me. and setting the chil dren to rights at intervals. She made me sit on a box. while she 'stood and stood and never flinched, although the stooping position and strain on her muscles must have been very wearing. The time seemed endless. The sun was sinking red behind high cliff land as only a Pacific sun can set In to .the far western horizon. "Almost the Orient again." as Coonie ob served, when she dared turn her head and shoulders round, but never her hotly, to take a look. "That doctor must have gone with thc< sun," I observed. "Just relax your grip for one moment and see it has worked," I begged, lot for nothing and nobody but ? doctor himself! What, undo my M^.that I have been doing?" pulled her down on my knee to ; her. JY?u dare, sir!" she said peremptor Ifchinking it a ruse to let go. _Jhe kids began to whine and cry, first for supper, then for br?d. then winding down the grade that hid the ocian from our view, we at length spied the longed for cavalcade. "Why, Geoff. Goeff is it really you, old man, wandered to the jumping off place of the world?" After a brief explanation that he had .been run down too, and had tak en his own prescription, and was now on: the eve of hunting us up, he pro ceeded to examine my hand. Lucia let go her hold with trem bling, and ne'er a drop of blood to tell the tale! A perfect cure! Or .else as. Goeff suggested, we were both more scared than scarified. It had been an ordeal for her. and I led her on to the mattress in the tent, chopped the wood, made the fire,, got supper and put the kids to bed;,so dearly had I to pay for ray yielding disposition. ;1 I had had my doubts as to the Mabel story for some months, and the last time I queried I heard that she was back in Nev/ York. . ."As vou are her twin. I suppose you want to go back to tho place from winch you came," I remarked. I ^'Ungrateful wretch," she respond ;? "not till we're old and gray head d. and the boys mu^t go to the coi I'm getti"~ - me leading poultryman in a thriv ing. North Missouri town answers to >the name of Henry Coop. "I bought some apples from a China man yesterday, giving him an Ameri ;can dollar," writes a Kansas soldier boy from Pekin, "and in the change which he gave me back was an Am?ri cain half dollar of the date of 1813. I -have been offered $10 for lt." /VjAn Esquimau baby is born fair ex cept for a dark round spot on . small of the back, varying in size from a three penny bit to a shihi r. From this centre head of color the dark tint gradually spreads till the toddling Esquimau is as beautiful1 v and. as completely and ai highly col ored as a well smoked meerschaum pipe/ The same thing happens among the Japanese. A child's savings bank has been dug out of the ruins of Ostia, the seaport of] ancient Rome. The bank was an earthen pot containing 145 silver ??inB issued by Roman emperors be tween the years 200 and 19 B. C. The little savings bank was almost perfect when it was uncovered. It is ihree Inches long and two and one-half inches wide, with a slit in the t.^o through which the money was dropped. Captain Baron Holzing of the Third Baden Dragoons recently cov:r.d a distance of 15 kilometres in the space of 25 minutes, riding against a rail- | way train running from Graben to the neighborhood of Carlsruhe. He ???r rived eight minutes before tbe train. His horse had been especially trained for the ride, having been fed on a particular sort of cake, instead of oats, for weeks p?*9t The ride was accom plished without extraordinary exer tion, and the horse was still flt for more work at the finish. Remarkable to relate, wood can be utilized for soft flowing gowns. Wood pulp silk has long been a staple indus try in St. Etienne, district of France. By certain secret chemical processes the pulp is reduced to a soapy condi I tlon. It is then forced into tubes full of tiny holes, through which it emerges in the form of fine silk like threads. These are speedily dried by b?ing passed through hot atme sphere, and are forthwith wound on bobbins ready to be woven into silk. The ap ' pearance of this unique product is said to be so natural that even experts ar? mistaken and think it the genuine ar ticle. Fro*t Alarm*. Marked success has attended the ef forts of southern and western fruit growers to protect, by artificial heat, their crops from dangerous frost at tacks during the winter season. Frost alarms have recently been devised as an additional precaution. These are simply thermometers arranged to reg ister dangerous "drops" in temperat ?ture, the alarm being ?riven by moans "o? an electric bell. The device is ex ceedingly simple, being merely a new application of old principles. Ar rangements are provided for the ad justment of the alarm, so that the alarm can be set for any temperature, and warning given whenever the tem perature falls within a few degrass of "actual danger: > I PHENOMENA IN NATURE. SOME EFFECTS IN MECHANICS DUE TO CAUSES AS YET UNKNOWN. Newton's Laws af Motion Muy Be Upset. While Much That l'aaaea for Eternal Trnth Ia Under Souple-Ion - Cmno of Uravlty Beyond Human Conception. Recently we have discussed in these columns recondite problems of physi cal science. To say that these things are beyond the purview of engineers is to limit the scope of the profession. The business of the engineer is to util ize what has been termed, popularly if not accurately, the forces of nature, for the benefit of . mankind. To the physicist the world is indebted for the discovery of new phenomena and novel relations existing between old and new natural actions and interactions. It is impossible, however, to draw a nar j row line and say that the province of the engineer lies on one side and the territory of the man of pure science on the other. Thus the discovery of the phenomena of electrical induction was mainly the work of Faraday; but the construction of dynamos, which utilize that discovery, is the dally work of the engineer. Reasoning in this way, it easily becomes obvious that the engineer is really deeply Interested in the whole course of modern scientific research; and speculations as to thu constitution of macter and the nature of energy are by no means to be re garded as of necessity abstractions, possessing no real value sufficient to make them worth studying. No one can tell from day to day whether or not some extremely valuable discovery will be made. There is reason, Indeed, to believe that co-relations of phenon ena may at any moment be hit on which will reduce the telegraph to the level of a conspicuously clumsy piece of apparatus, or bring down the cost of electric lighting to a tenth of its existing price. When Hertzian waves were first spoken of no one dreamed that they would enaole us to transmit messages through long distances with out visible means of communication. The telephone was built up out of most unlikely materials; and the man who asserted that he could make an iron plate talk to an audience by the aid of three French nails, a small bat tery, and a few cylinders, would have been regarded as a lunatic not so very I long ago. Of late those who have watched the j signs of the tim?s will have noticed that a change is roming over the mode of thought of the more advanced seek- j ers after physical tiuth. Possibly not j many of our readers have carefully fol -J Hr. Larmor's address to Section ,--?"Cation, which we was 101?.V..: ' groundwork of physical science . be abondoned as untenable. He hints, indeed, that Newton's laws of motion are no longer satisfactory expositions of well known truths. He seems dis posed to abandon the idea that force is the cause of motion; a statement which we have often pointed out is wholly inconsistent with Newton's third law. Ions take the place of atoms, from which they seem to differ only in being infinitely more numerous. ; Kelvin's theory of vortices, with a dif- j ference is favored, and we have again ! a theory of force centres, which so j closely resembles that advanced years ago by the late Walter Browne, to say nothing of Bishop Eerkeley, that to the superficial observer at all events the distinction ij without a difference. But the most notable feature of the whole discourse is Dr. Larmor's tendency to adandon the pursuits of knowledge in certain directions. It will be bet ter, he said in effect, to content our selves with a statement of the chain of events so far as we can see the links, without attempting to discover the ends of the chain. We can study the effects of gravity, but It is forever im possible for the human mind to con ceive of any adequate cause. We may frame mathematical theories about the ether, but thc human mind is inca pable of forming a concept of a sub stance which will comply with the con ditions. In whatever direction we turn, we are stopped by the presence of the unknown. Dr. Larmor will have it, as we understand him, that much of the unknown is unknowable. It ls pos sible that we overestimate Dr. Lar mor's pessimism; we trust that we do. Among the matters to which he di rected attention was attraction. Its phenomena are common and obvious, even apart from gravity, but they ap pear to be absolutely inexplicable. We speak of a tor 'ie of a motor, or a dy namo, and It is part of the work of the electrician and the engineer to calcu late its amount under stated condi tions; but no one on earth has the smallest notion of why torque exists at all in the combination of iron, cop per, cotton and shellac. The magnet gives us a puzzle as recondite as any in the universe. In old times, when men did not use very accurate lan guage, it was said that a lodestone on a permanent magnet "attracted" iron. No one thought of saying that the iron attracted the magnet to pre cisely the same extent. As to the na ture of the links across space between the two, no one worried himself. "Ac tion took place at a distance," that was enough. Slr Isaac Newton was the first man able to influence thought to any sufficient extent to point out that no action of the kind could take place without some bridge to span va cuity. By degrees it began to be un derstood that what we term magnetic attraction can be expressed in terms of lines of force; and, what is of all things important, that attraction is due not to anything done by the mag net per se, but to some external form of energy which is localized and di rected by the magnet. But what this form of energy is. or how the magnet, works, no one, as we have said, knows. -London Engineer. A century ago the potato was a new and unpopular article of food in Francei BISHOP HATTO AND THE RATS. Th? Old Story of the Dreadful Ending o' the tricked Man'* Life. To the famous mouse tower in which the wicked Bishop Hatto was killed by rats. Augustine Birrell pays his re spects in a paper entitled "Down the Rhine," which appears, with illustra tions by Castaigne, in the Century. Between Bingen and Assmannshau sen, on a rock in the middle of the river, is the mouse tower. What child has not heard of Hatto, the cruel bish op oi Mainz, the forestaller and re grater and combiner of the 10th cen tury, who, having barns full of golden grains, the gift of God for the food of man, refused to sell it to the starv ing folk, preferring to hold on for a further rise in prices? A number of desperate men having unlawfully brok en into one of these barns, this unfeel ing churchman set fire to it, and (so pleasant was his humor) compared the cries of the dying men in the ago ny of their fate to the squeaking of rats. In the 10th century it was dan gerous to make fun of God's creatures. Tie rodents swore vengeance, and the bishop's conscience made him uncom fortable. Dying screams haunt the memory. The vintages of the Rhine will hardly wash them out. The bish op, I doubt not, took to drinking heav ily. But he was not cured. He first heard rats all about him, and then he saw them blackening his floors and nervously twitching their sharp white teeth. He took to his heels and fled from their horrid little faces, but they followed at a quick gallop. Was ever a prelate in so evil a plight? He fair ly scampered to the Rhine, and leap ing into a boat, sculled himself across to this old rock in midstream. It was his last chance. The rats cam? patter ing down the banks, licking their teeth. They hesitated, and ,while they hesitated the hunted bishop, ?esting for a moment at the foot of the tower, be sieged angry heaven with his cowardly prayers. But the hesitation of the avengers of blood was for a moment only; the rats took to the river, and the lordly Rhine was black and brown with their shiny backs. The bishop now knew that his end had come. He fled to the topmost story of the tower, up the spiral staircase, which in a mo ment echoed the quick steps of the rats, that in a? incredibly short time made an end of . Bishop Hatto. So may all combiners ppdish, be they cler ics or lay, of the old world or the new. Of course etymology has^knocked the bottom out of the mouse^??xer^lt has nothing to do with mice. To~gvTtt like a Cheshire cat has, so etymolo gists assure me, nothing to do with grinning or with Cheshire or with cats, and yet Sir John Tennel a Cheshire cat (see "Alice in Wonderland") dis --noorine into a grin will survive the jmptti't .ir: ... ... . . they have already gained from their guidebooks, that "mouse" ls really the old German Musthum, meaning arse nal. Still, Hatto may have been eaten by rats on a musthum as easily as any where else. But by this time the mouse tower is out of sight. M/INl'S KING CJMPICKER. Ile I-sa I* a Lonely Life, but Slakes a <ion<l Income. Ezra Robar, the king gumpicker of Maine, has camped all winter on Por gie Brook, and when he comes to town this spring he will have bags and bags of amber lumps to swap for the dol lars of the druggists, who always pay the highest prices for the best gum. The life of a gumpicker, without doubt, is the most lonely that a man can lead. The men go into the woods in October, and they make a study of spruce growth. They have an odd out fit, consisting generally of several polies and knives, a pair or two of snowshoes, a small dog, a couple of blankets, and a pair of "climbers." They are like those used by telegraph linemen. The gumpickers travel alone, and have secrets, like gold hunters. They follow the wake of the old whirlwinds that have left long furrows in the wil derness, and as long as they can track the course by the gum that forms on trees wounded the previous season they follow it along. Sometimes a gum hunter finds that his pathway has been intercepted by another hun ter, who had discovered the lead, and a new plan of campaign must be re sorted to. There are many men who go Into the woods to chop trees or swamp roads at $25 a month who work every Sunday at digging gum from the boughs of the spruces, and in that way they greatly increase their earn ings, although they are not nearly so successful as the professional digger. The veretan gum hunter has made his occupation a life study and has re duced the work to a science. He can go up a tree like a cat, and skin it bare of gum, from stump to top, while the logger would be getting ready to climb. The lumberman gen erally gets 20 to 30 pounds of gum in a winter, and sells it at from 80 cents to $1.25 a pound, according to quality. A professional gum hunter can make from $3 to $8 a day when he strikes a really good gum country. When he gets into a good place he keeps very quiet about it until he has gathered the last lump in sight. He makes from $400 to $800 in a season, and he earns every cent of it by hard, lonely work.-New York Times. Sad. "I never heard the wind sound so mournful as it does tonight." said tho shoe clerk boarder. "Yes," said the Cheerful Idiot, "lt is the sadest blow of all."-Indianapo lis Press. Telephones Cheap in Glasgow. I Glasgow ought not to suffer from ' any lack of telephone subscribers. Un der the new system annual rentals aro abolished and subscribers are charged ' 8 cents per day for the exchange con nection! . MR. BLUFF. He purchased Shakespeare, fino?y llOUII>I A forty-volume set. Ile ?cn relict! for Dickens, Balzac's talcs Tin* best thal lie could get : ^ An i Hugo, Huxley, Darwin, too, And twrnty sco-e bts'de. 'J hey lin d his b oks'nlc, wilie he rend "Proud Poll, the Pirate's Bride." Of music ho had Mozart's works, Beethoven^ symphonies. A gilt piano, too, with real Hand-whittled ivory keys. Herr Wagner's bust adorned the room, And fancies rare would rise. Until you heard him carol forth: "She Made Them (?oo-Goo Eyes." -Josh Wink, In Baltimore American. HUMOROUS. Wigg-When my grandfather died all the clocks stopped. Wagg-What an untimely end. Boggs-There goes a man who nev er speaks a really good word of any body. Joggs-A misanthrope, eh? Boggs-No; he stutters. "What's your name?" thundered the magistrate. "John," replied the man of many aliases. "What's your last name?" "I haven't quite decided." Muggins-Subbubs seems to be pretty lucky. Buggins-Lucky is no name for it. Even his neighbors' hens come and lay their eggs in his yard. He-So you wanted to know some thing about my past. I hope you didn't go to extremes? She (adherent of spiritualism)-No; I went to a medi um. Mrs. Buggins-That was a rather se vere whipping you gave to Willie this morning. Mr. Buggins-Huh! You ought to see the kind that mother used to make. "That defaulting bank clerk was en gaged in some other business," said Mr. Bellefield, impressively. "What other business?" asked Mr. Bloom field. "Steal." Goodman-Go and see him. and I think he'll give you a job; but first of all you need a shave. Upper: You're mistaken there. "How do >ou mean?" "First of all I need the price of a shave." "You seem to be very fond of cof fee," said the landlady, as she passed over the sixth cup. "It looks like it," returned the boarder, "when I'm will ing to swallow so much water for the sake of getting a little. fhat are you coging for, little l)oy?^aaked-thetW<Tv?''T)!d lady. '"Me fader's sick in lied," replied the little boy. "I'm glad to see jwu so sympa thetic." "It ain't dat. HeTNlgdsed to^^_ take me to do circus today, a.&a&jt*1'^ he went an' got sick. Boo-h?o-hoo!" ... AQot ? Gumti frc tu .xiasKa to Mexico. Sonoda has been assisted by Senor Batres, archaeologist of the Mexican govern ment. Sonoda followed the chronicles of Hoier Shin,a Buddhist monk.who lived in 499 A. D. returned to his native land with an account of explorations that reached to a land he called Fu Sang, now identified by Scnoda with Mexico, because of the maguey plant. Sonoda says he found innumerable evidences of Buddhist influence over the natives of Mexico. Some of these were in the Mexican zodiac with its 28 hours, ori ental letterings and signs on temples, stone images and pottery a:>d hundreds of names which are slightly corrupted from Japanese. He found the temples invariably facing south as in Thibet, the home of Buddhism, and in mosaics at Uitla he found the common cross of Thibet. He also found streng racial resemblances in features between the Mexican and California mission Indi ans and the Japanese. So strong were these resemblances that when a Cali forian mission Indian was dressed in Japanese costume and photographed, Prof. John Fyer and the chair of orien tal languages. University of California, declared that the photograph was of a Japanese of the northern islands and bore no resemblance to a California Indian. Sonoda will write a book on. his re searches and says he will submit proofs that will convince the scientific world that the Japanese discovered Amerl? ca.-New York Sun. . The Stopping Place. There is a wealthy but very hard headed citizen of Detroit who has no hesitancy in telling this story on him self. "If there's anything on earth grinds me it is to plunge into the social swim. I'd far rather plunge into an Ice-cold bath. One of these here steel-pen coats makes me want to go out and hide in the hayloft, and a standing collar puts me Into a grouch for a week after I've worn lt. "But you know how women are. They'll stand right by you when livin' is up-hill work, skimp, hustle and save, but once they get money they want a show for it, and the bigger the show the better. Things sorter come my way in pine and I cleaned up a neat little pile. I just grinned at car riages, horses, a coachman, a lot of servants a snookin' 'round the house, receptions, theatre parties and all that sort of thing. "But when they rung in a genuine butler on me I had a warm conversa tion with mamma and the girls. It didn't do a mite of good. They talked me clean off my feet and the butler came. I .'ould have got away passably with the president of the United States, but that fellow., stiff-backed, high-headed, ?lookin' superior like and never smilin' 'IPSS it was to stat you, riled me awful. One day while sit ting in the library. I heard him tell one of the maids he was goin' to re sign. 'What for?' she asked. 'The last lady as called took me for the barbarian'-that's me. "For years I dealt with raftsmen and lumbermen. I paid his bili for six weeks in tho hospital, and his wages, too. We keep no butler."-Detroit Free Press;