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EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1902.
?DIAMONDS,
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?JEWELRY.
W? carry trn larg?
Fins Diamond.?, >
Sterling: Silver an
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?JEWELERS,
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The.Tiro Apple?.
Said the apple red to the apple green;
"I have more beauty to be s>eeu.
"T ripened quickly, and my cheek
Is the color harvesters all seek.
' "Why arc you noe as" fair as I?
Why do yon wear that green look? Why?"
Said the apple green to the apple red;
"All in good time shall my youth be sped.
"All in good time shall I glow as you
With a healthy, full-blown, crimson hue.1
"Meanwhile I marvel not at fate,
For I am a fruit that ripens late!"
That night lhere came a blighting frost,
And the ripened at>p;e soon was lost!
It pierced its heart and nipped its cheek.
And braised it3 stem which had grown
quite weak!
?Thc apple green on tho other hand
liad met no blight that it could not stand!
And it thought that day, if it thought at
all,
Shat pride goes always before a fail!
-Christian Register.
I'.ear i:i Beaver Trap.
When the trappers in the old clay
set their traps by the Canadian
streams they sometimes caught other
animals besides beavers. A hunter re
turning to see what luck he had had
noticed that one trap -was missing.
He also saw sigas that a bear had
been in the neighborhood. "*y and by
he heard sounds in the big forest as o?
a big c eature clumsily forcing its
way through. Hiding himself, ho be
held a great bear come limping along
^ t>w^ ?Aga *h? f-.iviii-bedti?k-cn-- -
tangled In the missing trap. The bear
raised the imprisoned forepaw to ex
amine lt more closely, turned lt about
with a very puzzled look, knocked the
trap on a rock, and finally licked his
foot as if in pain. Perhaps it was
kindly of the hunter to shoot him,
as there- and then he did. for this put
an end to Bruin's troubles.
Making o Newspaper.
The game of "Making a Newspaper"
is excellent practice for boys and girls
in their teens, and has been tried with
great success. Either the host who
gives tho party, or some cae else is
. appointed editor-in-chief.
To each of the players is given a
sheet of foolscap paper, at the top of
which is written the heading of a
department, or the title of an article,
and a lead pencil. It is then ex
plained that it is the duty of each to
rill out his department after the man-,
lier of a daily newspaper. At the end
of half an hour all the papers are
gathered together, and the results arc
read by the editor-in-chief. As a mat
ter of course the more absurd the writ
ings are made the greater the amuse
ment, and the paper provides an ample
opportunity for cleverness, wit and
humor. This can be played by any
number of boys and girls for an even
ing party.-Home Magazine.
Grandma's Present.
"It was Gertrude's birthday, and
around her plate, at the breakfast
table were piled J undies of all sizes
and shapes. One by one Gertrude
opened her presents, while mamma
and papa and brother Harry looked
on, smiling at her delight.
There was a silver thimble from
mamma, a new doll from papa, a
pretty little ring from Uncle George,
and a box of candy from Harry- And
at the bottom of the pile Gertrude
found a bo- th.it the postman had
brought, marked "from grandma."
Grandma lived way off in the coun
try and Gernude had not expected
she would remember a little girl's
tenth birthday, but she had.
"What is it, mamma," she cried,
after she had opened the box. "Little
green, and red. and blue sticks, and
a funny little handle."
"The little sticks are sealing wax,
dear, for sealing letters, and the
little handle is called P. 'seal.' See,
there's a 'G' on it for Gertrude. After
breakfast I will show you how to use
the seal, and then yon must write
grandma a little note to thank her
for remembering your birthday."
'? Gertrude did not eat much break
fast that morning. Between the
mouthfuls she stopped to look at the
new doll or to slip on the pretty ring
and thimble.
After breakfast was over mamma
showed her how to melt one end of
the sticks, how to rub it on the paper
and how to press down with thc "lit
tle handle" and make a "G" IE the
middle of the wax.
Then Gertrude wrote this letter:
"Dear Grandma-To-day is n'y
birthday. I got a doll, and a ring,
and a thimble, and a box of candy,
and some seling wacks. I like the
seling wacks ard the little seler. Thank
ycu very much for thom, with love
from ' GERTRUDE."
And on the envelope she made three
seals, a red. a green ard a purple
one.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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ment to a debating sc?ety, but he can
lt least make th; motion*.
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CHlNtSE DCC^ "?RS.
lament For th? Dac^nvracy of ?fallve
Physicians.
Although medicine is a small science,
yet it concerns thc lives of men. The
Tso Chuan says: "Unless a doctor be
longs to thc third generation of doc
tors in his own family we should not
take his medicine." Fan Wenkung
in his youth had an ambition to help i
the world and often remarked: "If I I
cannot be a good statesman I will be j
a good physician." Su Hsuankung in
his old age studied the healing art an.l j
when he saw a good prescription copied j
it with his own hand, saying: "This j
is also a way to give life to men." In
the Hau dynasty we bad Ch'ang Yul,
Chang Chuug-ching and Hun T'o, in
the Chin dynasty Ko Hung, in the
Tang dynasty Sun Ssumao. AU these
were famous physicians and left some
writings behind them.
Alas! how the present race cf (Ice
tors has degenerated. How many of
them trade ou the ignorance of their
patients, quite forgetting that though
they may deceive men they cannot
escape the eye of the gods.
Tseng Kuofan heard that in the West
all physicians must pass a stringent
examination in the seien c and art of
medicine before they are allowed to
practice. Hence their patients rarely
suffered death under the hands of doc
tors. This ls the very antipodes of thc
entire absence of law and control of
physicians in China, where anybody
with or without a smattering about ?
pulses, etc., can hang out his shingle
and begin practice. Individual govern
ors have tried occasionally to examine
physicians. But the Government
should take It In hand. At present the
number of Chinese who have confi
dence in Western medicine is very
small, but increasing especially among
intelligent men. Although hospital's
cannot suddenly be called Into being,,
yet a beginning should be made by
compelling aspirants in the medical
art to pass regular examinations, and
only on receiving oiplomas to begin
operations.-Shen Pao.
WISE WORDS.
Fearing leads to fretting.
Tall trees need deep roots.
Tiny hands make mighty links.
Uniformity is not essential to unity.
The heedless life will not be weed
less.
Fretfulness is the cause of fearful- !
ness.
Diversities in truth are not divergen- !
cies.
Conduct shows the content of char
acter.
Every act has a cause and is a,
cause.
Sincerity is the one great secret of
success.
Better be a poor man than a rich
machine.
It takes a great man to escape unde
served glory.
The most needy man is always my
nearest neighbor.
No duty is too small to embrace the '
sublimest principles.
The true furniture of Ufe ls made in j
the factory of drudgery.
It is the touch of selfishness in our !
ambitions that turns them to sin.
If you cannot have what you prize
it is a good thing to prize what you ?
have.-Ham's Horn.
Courtesies of Life.
The Toronto Sun comments on thc
allegation that people are losing their
democratic dignity. An instance is
cited of certain ladies of the smart set
at Vancouver entering th? royal ship
and carrying off as souvenirs anything
they could lay their hands eu, and ;
even clipping the trimmings of the !
royal bed room with scissors.
Such an offense is virtually theft, ?
and too gross a form of misdemeanor
to be termed au indignity. The in- !
stance, however, causes us to ask, ?
"Are we losing whatever considera- !
tion and regard for others that we ever i
had?" It should not be forgotten, as 1
it too often is, that life is made pleas- I
ant. not by great things, but by the j
little acts of kindness. A timely word !
of encouragement or comfort, a pleas
ant smile, in fact, a thousand little
considerations for the comfort of oth
ers, which cost the bestower nothing,
all go to make the world brighter. Not !
only this, but they return to the fouu- j
tains to enrich the nature by which j
they are so benignly prompted.-Lon- j
don (Ont.) Advertiser.
Hts First Society Item.
The new office boy has a longing j
to become n newspaper contributor. |
In his spare moments he practices as- j
siduously on the typewriter, and it
brings joy to his youthful heart to lie j
sent to the telephone by tba city etil- j
tor to take a news i em. Tko otner
night he branched out cn bis owu re- j
spousibility and handed the following j
"society item" to thc young woman :
who has that department in charge: 1
"A pedro party was held at the home i
0f-Monday evening. Several
of the boys of the Get-Together Club ;
were invited to attend, and it would 1
have been a complete success had they j
not of charged 10 cents' admission,
after the boys expected lt was invita- i
tional."-Cleveland Leader.
"DAINTY
We don'i got anything to eat to our house
any moro
Th ire's never any solid dish comes through
the open door.
For ma and nil tho girls work liko thoy
was amohines -
A-makia' "dainty dishes" from the fashion
m.-igaziues.
They give us dabs o' this an' that, with
ii unes wo can't pronounce,
With sprigs o' stuff around them all, just
i.ko ?i little flounce.
A stn!:; or two o' spinnago takes tho placo
o' "mess o' greens" -
Wo'ro oatia' "daiuty dishes" from tho fash
ion magazines.
RAIDING THE
An Episode in the CattI
It is a story of which littie has been
told. Most of those who rode with
"Flopping Dill's" vigilantes have left
tne state or crossed the Great Divide.
Those who have remained are reticent.
As lo the 30 or more desperate horse
thieves and cattle rustlers who operat
ed in northern Montana in the early
eighties-well, bleaching bones on
wind-swept prairies tell no tales.
In 1S85 the cattle and horse business
in northern Montana was becoming
more and more unprofitable, for the
reason that there were organized
bands of horse thieves who had stop
ping places from tho Canadian line to
Mexico, and who made more money in
the business of stealing horses and
live stock than the real owners could
in raising them. Of course more horses
than cattle were stolen, because they
were easier, to get away with, and in
those days were worth a great deal
more money.
The stealing became, so serious that
the cattlemen of northern Montana
were forced to do something, and in
the fall of 18S5 they did it. When the
cattlemen start to do anything they do
it up brown, and it was so in this case.
The tale of the hanging of road
agents of 1JJG3-64 by thc vigilantes of
Alder Gulch has been told so often,
that it has become known from one
end of the world to the other, and it is
looked upon as the biggest thing of its
kind which was ever pulled off in Mon
tana. This is a mistake, and the cow
boys of northern Montana during the
year of 1SS5. from September to No
vember, hanged and shot more men
than the vigilantes of Alder Gulch ever
dreamed cf. This may seem like a
fairy tale at this time, but it is a fact,
and there are men in northern Mon
tana at the present day who have the
papers to prove the assertion.
During; the fall round-up of the Ju
dith in " "-.'-,J-1
to do i
the ma
held, i
one of
lantes
within
nis, an
living
Butte,
of year
but th<
tion of L..v . . .
der thc uircction of "Flopping Bill"
Cantwell.
"Flopping Bill" was a desperate
character himseif and work?d against
the rustlers because lt paid better than
to work with them. From September.
1SS5. until the weather became too cold
to ride, "Flopping Bili" and his band
of cowboy exterminators worked, and
when they had finished there wa- no
count of the men whoso candles had
been snuffed, but there are men in
Great Falls today who can name at
least 26 of them, and it has always
been estimated that about 30 peoplo
were hanged or shot by "Flopping
Bill's" band during that fail.
The first performer in tue bloody
drama of extermination was a half
breed near Fort Maginnis. Some one
believed that he had stolen a steer and
butchered it, and one night during
August, 1SS5, he was taken near the
ranch of Reese Anderson and strung
up to a co'.'onwcod tree without a
chance to sr.y his prayers, if he knew
any.
That was ?kc beginning, and shortly
after "Flopping Bill" called for volun
teers to sc.M L-h for horses widen had
been stolen .'rom the herds of several
well-known stockmen. Thc requisition
was made upon Hie round-up. which
was camped c a the Musioishell aboui
CO miles abo-. 3 thc mouth, and reck
less riders and desperate men only
were chosen.
The posse made a hard ride that day.
and by night they came to thc cabin of
a man nan:ed Downs, near the mouth
of the Mussdsliell. Downs kept a sort
of trading post, and was suspected of
being in league with thc thieve?, lt
was early daylight when the posse ar
rived, and they at once surrounded
the cabin, and' when Downs came out
it. was "hands up."
A search of thc corral and vicinity
discovered 22 D. II. S. horses, and
Downs was asked to explain. He saw
that he was up against it. and gave a
full list of all the mer: connected with
the "rustling'' business, and .dicated
where they had their rendezvous. Th?
Missouri runs cwift and deep where
the waters of the Musselshell enter it,
and the banks are high and steep. A
rope was placed about the neck of
Downs, and a convenient tree was
looked for. Some ono spied a largo
grindstone which stood alongside of
the cabin.
"Tie it lo Ms ne k and drop him in
the river," was tbe suggestion, and it
was carried out literally. Today the
big round grindstone, with the bole ic
the centre, lies in ibo holton of tho
Missouri, near Ibo mouth of the Mus
selshell. and if time and water have
not proven (co much for tho hempen
rope H;e neel: boner, at Icart, of Jim
Downs arc the grimfctahe's companion.
Armed with the information derived
from Downs tho posse rode south to
the mouth of Lodge Polo Crick, where
there were cevarai "rustlers' located,
md in tho early morning light three of
.bom '.ver? captured ar.:? strvag up on
son e cottonwood trees which sur
rounded M:r cabin wscra ;:.>>. had
lived. Ono nf ihc h?mp?n ropes with
which thc !.anging war don? swung in
tho breeze for many years, and ppp
bapi is lhere yoi-it w$s up io five ;
years ago.
DISHES."
Tho grocery bill's n-bummia' now-I tell
yon it's (i sin,
Wo got to buy tho dainty stuff fin1 things
to cook it in
I'm blamed if I'll cull boan soup any "con
sumniay do beans !"
But lt's iu "dainty dishes" in the fashion
magazines.
I want a steak - I want it quick - I'm
hungry as a boss -
I want it with thick pravy-no now fangled
kind o' "sauce."
An' listen kerf ii I an' you'll know just what
the ol' mau nioaDs -
I want no "dainty dishes" from the fashion
magazines !
-Boston Gazette.
2 RUSTLERS.
- I
e History of Montana. &
Some of the cowboys in the posse
bogan to get more than they had bar
gained for, and wanted to quit the
business, but "Flopping Bill" pointed
out to them that they would he hanged
by the civil law if tneir share in the
impromptu hanging was known, and
that, together with other cogent re??
sons, prompted them to remain.
The next bunch of rustlers was lo
caled along the Missouri. They passed
as woodchoppers, and a large number
of them had a rendezvous at Long
John's Bottom on the Missouri, a short
ways below the mouth of the Mussel
shell. "Flopping Bill's" posse came
upon the camp early one morning, and
was discovered by the horse herder,
whom they promptly shot, and charged
upon the camp. There was a block
house wita a stable attached, belong
ing to the rustlers, but most of them
were sleeping in tents, and when the
shooting began one of them was snot
while getting to thc blockhouse. 'Once
there they oefied the posse, and it was
only by strategy that they were dis
lodged. While the posse kept up a. hail
of bullets against mc house, one of
the cowboys sneaked up through the
grats and set lire to the stable, and it
in turn fired the blockhouse. JuFtho v
many rustlers were killed will never
be known, but there' were at least ll
in thc house ann six were taken pris
oners, while one escaped.
The one who got away was Dixey
Burroughs, a half-breed, and weil
known in northern Montana. Bur
roughs managed to get away from the
house, and was stopped by one of the
outer guards, but dropped behind a log
and at thc fourth shot managed to get
his man, and escaped. Who the cow
boy was that was shot has never been
divulged. He was buried where he
fell and a hint given that nothing waa
to be said about it.
crossed the Missouri on a raft, and m
old man James and his two sons, Die
und Jim, together with two other
This part of the gang had not bee
heme when the cowboys called, an
when Dixey told his story they saw
that there was death in the air, and
>.Lartod down the river on .a raft. They
knew the cowboys wpre after them and
that they would be shown no mercy,
and ?o when near Poplar, they surren
dered to a sergeant and a detail of
:-cven United States soldiers, and asked
to bc taken to Fort >.iaginnis for trial.
Thc sergeant and his detail started
with the prisoners for Magiunis, and
"arly thc third morning tuey awoke
10 lind themselves in the nands of a
dozen masked men.
"Hitch up your outfit and drive
straight on." said the leader of the
??arty, "and we will not injure you at
ail; refuse and we -.viii kill you all.
Tito prisoners are ours."
The sergeant, whose name is not re
called-the whole affair appears in the
records of the post during this year
hitched up and drove on as requested,
and the dozen masked men were left
Itch ind. The prisoners were never
?:ccn again, except that a couple of
years ago an old-timer told a story of
meeting Dixey Burroughs. over the
Canadian line, and he said he had
been spared his life by promising to
?rave tho country.
After tins the hangmgs were desul
tory, but the aggregate for the two
r.-.onths cf September and October la
believed to have amounted to about
thirty. The cowboys would be riding
the round-up, and tome night word
would go around and in thc morning
-ti of thom would be gone for a day or
11 week, and no questions asked.
That winter, it is related, a crowd of
men rode up to the place where the
cowboy vigilante crew were quatcrcd,
and served notice that every one of
Hiern must leave the country or dir*.
Tho majority of them left, and have
met. death in one way or another, but
there are still two or three of the
posse remaining in northern Montana,
but they do not boast of having be
longed to "Flopping Bill's avengers" in
S3, "Flopping Bill" also found it ad
visable to leave the country many
years ago, and less than two months
ago Iiis death was recorded in old Mis
souri-for Bill was c Missourian and
?tari ridden with Quantrel).
Tho 1SS5 episode of the rope and gun
has not been written about very much,
but 1 he advertising it got was such as
to discourage "rustling" in northern
Montana for many years, so that it ii
o?, . reviving the bxsiness-the real
old-timer of thc bad lands would not
lake any one's stotu ar, a gift-but
"Flopping Bill." the man of nerve,
without human feeling, has gone ovsr
tho divide, and perhaps the stock in?
spectors may bc given more work in
consequence.-Anaconda Standard.
Pictorial Distortions.,
"Po you are net in favor of sup
pressing thc caricaturists?"
"Ci rtalnly not.'" nmr.vercd the om
ine:.! statesman. "What's tho use of
suppressing the caricaturists so long
ss you can't do anything with tbc\
amateur photographers?"--Washington
Star. ?
j
1
THE GREATEST HAIE-CUT
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHODS
OF SHEARING THE SHEEP.
Professional Cutters l!e;in Shearing tlie
I*ot-k4 In tho Northwest In Karly *|iriii!i
-Working M'est wind and Ending 'I hoir
Season in Ca ll torn I n-Wages Ate Good.
Man is not the only animal that has
his hair cut at regular intervals, anti
it might be interesting to note that
the most extensive bair rut In this or
any other country has no referent
whatever to the human biped, writes
G. E. W. in the Country Gentleman.
Up in the northwest professional hair
cutters begin shearing thc flock's early
in spring, and as the season advances
they work their way westward and end
up in Nevada and California, when it
is about time to return to the original
starting point and repeat the opera
tion. In the course of the year they
cut something like 500,000.000 pounds
of hair.
The present consumption of wool iu
the United States is estimated at about
GOO.000,000 pounds, and, though the
statisticians of the department of agri
culture say that we have about 41,883,
065 sheep on the farms and ranches ol
the United States, these are unable to
supply the full demand for wool, and
we import some million pounds every
year. But thc task of shearing over
40,000,000 sheep is not one to consider
lightly, and as the woo: piles up, new
wheels of commerce are started in their
revolution.
Sheep-shearing time in the earlier
days of our countrys history was a
season of jollification, and thc farmer
and his hired help would go down ro
the sheep pasture to make merry with
the frightened animals. One by one
they would be caught, and while ono
held the animal securely the other
would proceed to clip off the wool
with a huge pair of hand ?hean, j
Sheep-shearing time would often
occupy weeks on the large farms,
and when it was over, the great
mass of soft fluffy wool was piled up
in the sheds to bc cleaned and worked
over or shipped to the market in its
rough state. Not a little of it was
woven into cloth on the farm by the
wife and daughters of the owner.
But with the multiplication of the
sheep, the necessity of better and
quicker methods of shearing was felt.
In the northwest and on thc Pacific
coast there arc farms and ranches with
from 50.000 to 300,000 sheep, and to
shear such flocks in the old way would
be an almost impossible task. It is
these new conditions that have brought
the professional hair cutters into ex
istence, and they move from farm to
farm in a regular circuit every season.
These professional shearers are ox
ers lake their positions in rows, while
thc sheep are brought to them by as
sistants. The cutting instrument is au
enlarged and improved sort of barber's
clipper, which takes huge swaths of
wool off at once. An expert operator
will handle Ike machine so dexterously
that tho wool will come off almost in a !
solid mass, and it looks for all the
world as if the animal was being actu
ally skinned alive. But when the opera
tion is finished, it Wlil be found that
not a bruise or scratch has been made
cn the skin, and the animal scampers
away shorn and shaved within a small
fraction of an inch of its shin. Thc
wool is gathered up by another oper
ator aud carlo:! to the packing house,
where it is tramped Into huge burlap
bags, each weighing when filled about
335 pourris.
The shearers reeeiv?! from seven to
ten- cents per li ead for shearing the
sheep, and a day's work for one pro
fessional is from 125 to 250 head. That
.is an inconceivable operation for a
barber who cuts tho hair of his human
patients; but then, while ibo latter is
operating on one person, the skilled
sheep shearer would cut thc wool from
the backs of half a dozen sheep. The
sheep sheared by a dozen professional
operators in lite course of a week
quickly mount up into thousands, and
tuc modern ranch, with as hundred
thousand and more sheep ready for the
bair citt, doe;; not present such a for
midable problem as formerly.
The revival of the wool industry in
the past few yean; has added material
ly to the number of sheep on the farms
in thc United States. The actual
amount of wool can only bc cit ?mated
from year to year until the shearing
season has ended. Tho number of
Si.eep in thc country docs not accurate
ly forecast tile wool supply. Some of
the moderate high-class wool sheep
give two and three timos as much as
thc old common animals, and an esti
mate of the wool can be made only ap
proximately unless the breed of the
animals is known aiso. There are
ove-r 75 grades and breeds of sheep in
tuts country, and they vary as much
in the quantity of wool they give as
they do in price and general valua
tion.
A Herr? In Kues.
The other night thc police picked
up from the street a ragged man who,
they thought, was drunk. At the sta
tion he said he was not drunk, but
nearly dead from cold ami hunger.
He made known bis identity, and
proved to be Dosjnrdins. one of the
men who made heroic rescues at the
Bazaar de la Charit? lire, in 1S97. Ile
was decorated, but explained to the
judge that bc was ashamed to wes.- !
his medal over bis rags. Thc chief ot '
police will probably take measures iu
bis behalf.-Paris Correspondone? !
New York Herald.
Thc largost ogg laid by any Euro
pean bird is that of tho swan; tho
smallest (bat ol' tito golden-crested
wren.
ODD COSTUMES IN SWEDEN.
Garment!* Worn by I lie Old and thc Yonnjt
Differ Very Slightly.
The costumes of the Dalecarlian
vom?n in Sweden are unique, a dark
jlue woolen skirt, very full and gath
ered in tucks at the waist; a white
jlouse, a vest of red or green cloth,
jcautil'ully embroidered in colors and
jften with gold and silver threads;
x broad red belt of knitted wool; a
ong apron of red woolen, with stripes
)f black, white and green; a kerchief
.'old ed three-cornerwise about tho
seek and fastened with a gold or sil
ler pin, with many glistening pend
mts, and a headdress in the shape of
i cornucopia made of black felt with
*ed trimmings and streamers. Long
earrings of gold or silver and brace
?is of curious forms are commoD.
The men wear long blue frock coats
tvith full skirts, faced with red broad
?loth and edged with red cord. Hooks
md eyes are used instead of buttons
ind the collar is cut similar to that
)f a Church of England parson. The
rest is made of the same material
md is also edged and faced with red.
Thc knee breeches are of yellow
moleskin, ornamented with red cord
md tassels at thc garter, which holds
ip thick woolen stockings. Broad sil
ler buckles are worn upon the shoes.
The hat is of black felt, with a low
..rown and broad brim resembling
?hose worn by Quakers in the United
States.
Small boys are dressed exactly like
their fathers. A coat with a long
skirt is the ambition of every your ir
ater, like tue first pair of trousers of
American boys, and he usually at
tains that honor when he is ten yiars
sid. The little chaps you see going
?uout in long-trailed coats and buck
skin breeches look as if they were
rlressed for the stage. Little girls
in the same way imitate their moth
ers with skirts reaching to their an
Ides and quaint, homemade jewelry
af silver and gold. Every little girl
liopr-3 to have a brooch with jingling
pendants. The jewelry is of simple
pattern, the gold or silver being ham
mered into thin sheets, cut into
squares and diamonds and fastened
together with rings.
Thc costumes of the Dalecarlian
cromen differ according to locality,
tn some of the parishes red is the
prevailing color and in others green
md blue. Their hats are shaped and
.rimmed differently also, and in one
Df the parishes a sort of "tam o'
shanter" is worn, with a band fitting
closely around the head and a broad
:cp. In the Mora country the men
?rear jackets of white fet cut square
it tho corners and fitting closely to
thc neck, with white buckskin knick
erbockers and leather aprons to keep
ir.uiticn In the Kremlin at Moscow. It
is a perfect sphere, and so j.ure as to
appear almost transparent. It weighs
?)? grains. The next finest in the
world is known as the Hope pearl and
is owned by an English nobleman.
There is a remarkable pearl in the
rrown of an image of the Virgin at
Saragossa. Spain, and another of equal
value in a cross in the cathedral at
Sevilie. which is said to have been
brought from A morie- by ono of tho
early conquistadores.
A few years ago an American trav
eler purchased for 100 marks an an
tique gold brooch that he found in a
bric-a-brac shop in a small town in the
interior of Germany. In the centre
of the setting was a spherical jewel
that was supposed to be hematite, a
species of iron ore, but when thc
brooch was brought to the United
States and sent to Tiffany's to be
cleaned the piece of iron turned out to
be one of the most beautiful gems
ever exposed to view. It was a black,
pearl valued at $12,000. An attempt
was made to trace tho ownership of
tho brooch, but it could ouly bc
learned that the pawnbroker had re
ceived it from a stranger some years
before as security for a small loitn
and that the owner apparently had
no knowledge of its value.
The romantic story of Cleopatra's
pearls dissolved in wine was writ
ten by one who was not familiar with
their composition. Pearls cannot be
dissolved in wino or vinegar, but they
can bo eaten by certain powerful
acids, which would have burned the
beautiful throat of Cleopatra so that
she would have died instantly.-Wil
liam E. Curliss in the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Value of Standardizat?on.
The apparatus which the manufac
turer considers standard and which,
therefore, is built in large quantities
and carried in stock is usually shown
in bis catalogues and price lists. This
apparatus ct.-ts less than unlisted or
special apparatus; it can be furnished
in shorter time, and it is more likely
to prove satisfactory in operation. A
greater amount of thought has been
bestowed upon its design than it ii
practicable to give-assuming thc ful
fillment of reasonable dates of dcliv
cry_to any new designs that can LP
specified. The buyer, therefore, will
sometimes find it to his advantage
even to go out of his way in an en
deavor to make standardized appar
atus answer bis requirements when it
does not seem to be exactly suitable.
-Engineering Magazine.
.* Vclcplnjr."
According to thc Newcastle. Eng.
Chronicle, the annual ceremony of
"yclcping," or. as it is now put. "clip
plug," thc parish church has just rc
rived at Painswick, in the CotswoMs,
Gloucestershire, where, after being
performer! io-.- many hundreds of years
it was discontinued by the late vicar.
On tho patron saint's day (St. Mary's!
the children join hands in a ring round
?ibo church, and circle round tho build
ing singing. It is the old Saxon cus
tom of "yclcplng" ti:;' church on l!?o
anniversary ot' its original dedication
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? first Models af ?
g ?reat Inventions, g
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That vast mausoleum of wrecked
hopes and blighted ambitions, the
model department of the United States
Tatent Office in Washington, is illum
inated here and there with the original
models of the very great inventions.
In oue of tile cabinets is to be seen
FIRST WASHBOARD-FIRST PAIR
Morse's origma! model of the telegraph
instrument, fashioned by his own
hands. The model is very crudely
made, but it iuspires reverence in the
visitor, and even a certain sort of awe,
when he pauses to think of what the
telegraph lias done for the advance
ment of ti.j world, and what a slow
universe this would be if we did not
have telegraphic communication with
cur fellow beings the world over.
In another eabiuet, inspiring the
lllttl tflllClllllg 1U HIL' Ult/a ui ui/uu,
when it was all done by hand. .
Elias. Howe's first sewing machine
Is almost as crude as Morse's telegraph
sounder, but in both cases the model ?
operated exactly as described in the.
specifications, and the patents wore
accordingly granted.
Not a whit less interesting is the .
model of the first typewriter, the in- j
vention of R. T. T. Allen, a Kentuck
ian. It is still more roughly made than
the models of the telegraph and sew
IIOWE S SEWING MACHINE.
lng machine, but it proved to be quite
as important au invention.
The first pair cf peg shoes is another
interesting invention exhibited in the
model rconi. The patent on peg shoes
was granted to S. B. Hitchcock and
J. Bernent on July .10, 1811.
Then lhere is the first washboard.
It is as fresh-looking to-day as when
It was first placed in the cabinet, and
shows not a particle of corrosion, al
though the name of the inventor was
S. Ru~t, and it was Rust himself who
made tho mcdel. The patent is dated
February 9, 1838. The first arc elec
tric light was made by Collier and
FIRST ELECTRIC ARC LIGHT Al
B.ikcr. and patented by them May li
1S?S. The first incandescent lamp wa
the Invention of Gardiner and Bio!
sent, o whom a patent was graute
June 29, 1S?8. Botli the arc and th?
incandeseenflights, it will he noticed
were invented in the same year. Noth
ing could be more different than the
incandescent lamp of 1S3S, and that ol
to-day.
When you happen to be In Wash
ington go over to the Patent Office and
spend a few hours looking around the
model roora. You will lind your pains
well rewarded.-New York Mail and
Express. .
Electrocutes thc Rodents.
The electric mouse trap is the latest
rEG SHOES-MORSE'S MODEL.
novelty to aid in exterminating t*??
pests which infest dwellings and other
buildings, and the inventor intends
that it shall be the cause of many a
shocking death. There is no compli
cated mechanism about the trap; in
fact, it ls so simple that thc wary
rodent is not at all likely to regard
the device with suspicion. Everything
is in plain sight, and the animal is not
compelled to insert its head in a noose
or to enter a cage in order to reach
the bait. In this case the tempting
morsel is suspended within easy reach,
but the instant the electrical current
is completed by the rodent itself death
ensues without the bait hting dis
turbed. The trap consists of two me
tallic plates connected by wires to an
electric light circuit, the plates being
insulated by a plate of non-conducting
material placed between. The bait
holder is suspended from a supporting"""'
nwh aaonroA ?? ? '??? ~-Timm
A VEr.T SHOCKING AFFAIU.
inventor also intends it for use in de
stroying reaches and bugs of various
sorts. The electrocution is accom
plished hy the passage of the current
from one plate to the other through
the body of the rodent or insect. The
inventor of this ingenious device is C.
M. Shafer.
-'irr
The Three-Meal Habit. '
. Our three-meal habit is a fearful tax
on our working capacity; it treOtes the
temptation to over-eating: our cham
pions stagger under th? weight of a
.physiological handicap; one-half the
functional energy of the system is di
verted by the exigencies of digestion.
No other hygienic mistake has done
so much to make us a generation of
dyspeptics., as thc custom pf after
dinner work. Its victims, moreover,
Incur'thc risk of contracting that form
of moral dyspepsia called pessimism.
It tends to rob the working day of its
reward-E. L. Oswald, M. D., in Suc
cess.
Th? Clergyman's Error.
An English clergyman was address
: ing a congregation of fishermen,' and
(.in order to .appeal the more, to his
j hearers he introduced a number of
? nautical' smiles. He pictured a cap
j tain navigating his craft through a
' dangerous passage, surrounded with
; rocks and currents, and he described
1 the voyage in detail, At last he
reached his clima::, when it seemed
inevitable that the ship should be lost,
j "And what shall we do now?" he
j made his captain cry. "Bless your
soul, guvnor"' replied a voice at the
I back. "That captain o' yours can't
! do nothiu". He's saiiin* his ship
I slam formost."
S'D FIRST INCANDESCENT LIGHT.
?, New Zealand sent Great Britain 1,
s ' -JS7.197 hundredweight of mutton.
:-| valued at $15,000,000 in the course of
d {last year. . .. . _