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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. B.ATNB, Troa't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, 8250,000. Undivided i'rofits } ?110,000. Facilillos of our magnlflcont New Vanlt 'containing 410 Sufoty-Look Boxes. Differ ent Sises aro offered to our patrons and tho public at 53.U0 to 910.00 per annum. VOL. LXVII. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WfONESDAY. APllIL 2. 1902 THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Mayne, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. NO. 14. ? DIAflONDS SWATCHES, .JEWELRY. We carry the larj Fine Diamonds, I Sterling Silver a i Diamond Setting, Watch and Old Qo!d taken ia exchange f< Wm. Selm {JEWELERS, _ New York City.-The "Gibson" waist ?s quite as fashionable for young -iris as for grown folk, and is exceedingly . becoming to graceful figures. The ex MISSES' "GIBSOV" SHIRT WAIST. collent May Manton model shown in cludes all thc essential features and is suited to a variety of material?, pique, duck, linen etamlnc, cheviot, madras, silk, gingham and all thc light -weight waist cloths and silks; taffeta, peau dc soie, albatross and tho like, but in tho original'is o? white mercer teed duck,-with handsome pearl but tons, and i.?: worn with a tie and belt of paie blue liberty satin. Silk and t xj^ri ^JLU I ri K.J fi i ? v- -jl-rt-rrm-. ?..-?-rrv-lVt*>? when made over ibo fitted foundation, bur washable materials require to be unlined: ." - Thc lining His snugly and smoothly, but extends io tile waist line only. The waist propor is laid in deep plaits over the shoulder that extend" to thc waist lino at the back and front, and t.re stllchcd to yoke depth with corii ceHi silk'to give tho cT?ct ol .pointed straps. At the centre front is tho reg ETON J. illation box pleat, through which but tonholes are worked. The sleeves arc in bishop style, -with the season's deep cuffs that are buttoned up at the in side. At thc n.-'ck is a neckband over which the regulation stock, or linen collar, may be worn. To cut this waist for a miss of-four teen years of age four yards of mate rial twenty-one inches wide, three and a half yard* twenty-seven inches wide, three and an eighth yards thirty-two inches wide, or two yards forty-four inches wide will bc required. Woman's Eton Jaclcet. Eton jackets fill a definite need and aro exceedingly fashionable both foi suits and separate wraps. The smart .model pictured in the large drawing is shown in etamine. In black, with band.? of taffeta, stitched with corticelli silk and small silk buttons, and makes.pari of a costume, but the same material cloth and silk, are all used for genera: .wraps, while all suitings are appro prlate when packet and skirt are mad( to match. The back is seamless and fits witt perfect smoothness. The fronts an pointed and extend slightly below tiff waist lino. At the neck is a square col lar timi adds greatly to the effect, bu1 which can be omitted when a plaii finish is preferred, or it is desirable U reduce either weight or warmth. Th( sleeves are in coat style, slightly fiar ing at the wrists. To cut this ja'-kot in the median size four yards of material twenty-ont inches wide, throe ami five-eighth yard: twenty-seven inches wide, one am seven-eighth yards forty-four lucho: wide, or one and three-quarter yard: fifty inches wide will be required, wit I three-eighth yard less in any widti when collar is omitted.: " Trimmings on the . New Hats. .Many of the new hats are of chlffo: trimmed with mohair braid. Thi THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. B.ATNB, Troa't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, 8250,000. Undivided i'rofits } ?110,000. Facilillos of our magnlflcont New Vanlt 'containing 410 Sufoty-Look Boxes. Differ ent Sises aro offered to our patrons and tho public at 53.U0 to 910.00 per annum. VOL. LXVII. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WfONESDAY. APllIL 2. 1902 THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Mayne, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. NO. 14. <* The Writing I ? By Thomas Brant Durivage was in the neigh borhood of 40 when he came back tc the home of his ancestors. He was a bachelor, very tall, and dark of feature. He had been abroad 10 years, and as I, a young physician, had but lately settled in the adjoining town. I had never seen him. I had heard, however, that he had visited many countries, civilized and savage, ant had concluded that he was tired of roughing it and glad for a chance to settle down beneath the roof of his fathers. His old acquaintances did not see much of him after he came home. He nodded to his former friends, or passed them by without so much as a bow. Not long after his coming home we learned that he was courting Annie Kimball, the prettiest girl of the neighborhood, already engaged, as we believed, to Steve Morgan, a young man of steady habits, but without a tithe of the wealth possessed by Brant Durivage. Old Kimball, Annie's father, was dissipated, and, just then, financially embarrassed, and the truth is that he sold his ch id to Brant Durivage, forc ing her to break her angagement with young Mrrgan, who denounced the bargain ir bitter language whenever he could ? id anybody to listen to him. At times he swore that he would "get even" with the man who had come be tween him and Annie. For several weeks matters drifted along quietly. If Durivage heard of Morgan's hot words and threats, he said nothing. He seemed perfectly contented with the conquest he had won. the wedding day had been set, and Annie had become resigned to the fate from which there seemed no es cape. Steve Morgan had given up his trade, but not his daily habit of curs ing Brant Durivage. He had lost flesh, and his eyes had a wolfish, vengeful look. In common with oth ers, I fully expected a tragedy of some ic ind. and I went so far as to share my opinion wim thc constable, who nod ded approvingly. Thc tragedy came, but not in tho manner expected. At ten o'clock on Hie nignt before thc day set apart for the wedding a man whem I knew to be Brant Durivage's factotum, threw open my office door, and rushing in, startled me with the intelligence that his master had just been shot. Thinking immediately af Steve continued tl'" man, laking an arrow from the table, "but I'm afraid there's a bit of it loll. He's shot under the left shoulder and and from behind; a bad wound, I'm thinking." And the servant shook his head. I fell at once to examining my pa tient, and discovered that while tho barb had not gone deep enough t<~. touch a vital organ, the wound was dangerous, especially iii nie shrift had been poisoned. I found also that the servant was right about a piece of the arraw hoad remaining .n tho hurt, for 1 removed it with my forceps and laid it alongside the weapon on thc table. Meantime the people attached to the estate were looking for the person who had attempted Durivage's life. Thc town constate had been sum moned and the town itself was al ready in an uproar. I remained with Durivage until I could leave him to the care of a nurse, and with ar row and the detached head, I went oack to my office. I was clear to me that the shaft had come from some distant land. I had seen many savage weapons in collections, but never one like it. The shaft proper was a li ghi reed, very straight and hard. One end had been cut off transversely and the other notched in order to receive the bow string. Next came a piece of bone nearly three inches in length. One end of it had been passed into the split, or open end of thc shaft, while the other end of thc bone was slipped a short piece of reed, over which, in turn, a strong wrapping of intestine had been placed. All this formed a socket for the true head of thc arrow, thc uone merely giving tho shaft proper weight. I saw this much by the light of my office lamp; but I saw more. The "head" was the piece I had ex tracted from the wound. It was of ivory, and I now saw that it had been attached to the bone weight in such a manner as to loosen itself wh*n anyone attempted to pull it from the victim's body. Under tue microscope I saw that the head of the singular shaft had been coated with a sub stance resembling glue, but which I decided was some deadly poison. It was bitter an nauseating when applieil to thc tongue, and I had no doubt thu! Its virus was then spreading itseli through out Brant Durivage's system I went back to the estate again be fore daylight, and found my patienl raving in delirium. I administered opiate after opiate, and a long tim? passed before the medicine producec the slightest effect. The servant! said he had not spoken rationally since the shot, not even during hi! quiet moments, and this Rave mi small hopes of pulling him through. The next morning Stove Morgai was arrested on susicion. This di* not astonish me after what tho pig headed constable had said tho nigh before. Nobody believed the youm man guilty, though he did not expr?s any sympathy for Durivage, and afte a hearing ho was discharged. Ho wa strangely non-committal during tho c> aminntion, and when it was over h carno into my office and took a chao "Doctor," said ho. loaning towar me with a smile, "they didn't ask m to toll what I saw, did they?" "I believe they din not, Steve," answered, wondering what he knew. on the Wall. 1 C. Harbaugh '? "I saw the man that did it!" I looked strangely at him, wonder ing if he was not losing his wits. "I saw him, but not till ?fter the shot," Steve went on. "I was up to the house last night. I went there to ask Brant Durivage to listen to : rae Tor a minute, though I don't expect he'd have done it. Just as I was en tering the garden, for I knew I wouid find him in the library with the win dow up, I heard a sharp cry, and.the next moment there passed a little man carrying in ono hand a box. This is as true as gospel, doctor! He never . saw mc though I could have touched him while he was passing; but '7 would not because I thought he hffd finished Durivage. 4 n" ? Morgan then went an and described, the man with a minuteness that ? tonished mc. He did it so well I thought I could see him before me, and at the end of his story he declared his intention of repeating his adve? turc to no one else, not even in the interests of justice. \ "'If he gets well, he'll marry An. nie," said Morgan, savagely, "and If he dies, let him rot without bein? avenged !" . Qr I watched Durivage closely for ten days. I could see that the secret poison was at work, and the case wa? a queer study that opened up to rr* a new field for investigation. During those ten days the wounded mah seemed tt> suffer a thousand deaths. I On the afternoon of the eleventh day I was hurried over to the hous? by the butler, who said that Durivage was writing on the wall before* his cot. At the foot of the stair we were met by the nurse, who with blanched face cried that all was over. Bounding up the flight two steps at a time, I rushed into thc bedroom and found Durivage lying on his face on tho floor. "You should have seen and heard' him," said thc frightened servant: "He awoke and called at the top of his voice for a pencil. I ran and got him one, thrusting it into his hand when I came back. As his Angers closed on it he laughed like a fiend, and rising in bod, wrote what you see on thc wall yonder, and then fell back and writhed till he pitched out upon the floor. Before this I was at tho cot and with burning eyes was looking-nay star ing-at the writing on the wall. i was mme in?tu uver uiyatiueu. i . have never heard of thc written or ? spoken words. They were all "Greek" ] to mc, bul. I foll that they were con- ' nectcd with thc awful death Brant ^ Durivage bad died. During the next few days there ran through my mind ' nothing but "K'aa, K'aa, K'aa." I : had tho nurse repeat "Kala haetlwe" until I had mastered it, and until I left thc Shropshire village and located" in London, an event in my career which took place a year later. I did not lot the singular words escape me. During this period Steve Morgan did not go back lo Annie. He wrote mr: that he would not do so until the mys tery collected with Durivage's death was solved, and I felt that the solu tion would never come and bring the two young hearts together. One evening I was called to attend <i man who had been run over, by a butcher's cart near the Strand. He had been carried to his lodgings near by, and lay bloody and gasping on a pallet of dingy rags. The moment I saw the man a strange thrill took pos session of me, and I recalled Steve . ?.iorgan's description of the owner of the poisoned arrow. When 1 had dressed the wounds made by the heavy wheels of the cart, and had my patient sitting up, with a hot drink before him and his leng dark fingers encircling the glass, I asked him who and what he was. "I'm a Bushman," said he with a chuckle, and then, seeing the look of disbelief that 1 exhibited, he went on: "You don't think so? I can prove it. Look here." He leaned toward his pallet, and to my utter astonishment took from beneath the iii How of rags a bow and two arrows. I could not repress a cry of amazement, and did not try. The dark-faced little man was hold ing the arrows toward me, and I could see that they were exactly like the one which had killed Brant Durivage. "I had three, but I lost one Tome time ago," continued my patient. "Where did I lose it? Never mind that, doctor. I could go back to the spot, but I will not. Ho, ho. He knew what it was all the time. My little arrows are more dangerous than they look. I prick your hand with one, and all your skill cannot save your life. The marum tree grows no where but among the. Bojesmen, the little men o'.' South Africa. It looks like your elm, but it has many ?noms. Its leaves are the homes of the grub that builds houses like the silkworm. When we want poison for our arrows we take a grub between thumb and finger, and make it shed its greenish fluids upon tiie ivory hoad of the shaft That is all. Thc marum grub is death. How dons thc victim lie, eli? Ho writhes in agony. He be comes a giant in his madness. He has few lucid intervals. It is terrible, ho, ho!" I was holding one of the arrows in my hands. "What do you call your poison?" I asked, looking up into his face, which had the leer of a fiend incarnate. "K'aa. answered the little man, with a laugh. Some people call it N'gwa, but. K'aa is its name." I was calm now. "And its antidote?" I said. "We seldom tell that it has one," I crinned the stranger. "But I'll tell you, doctor. The antidote is 'Kala haethve,' the product of a small plant that in our country beats little star shaped flowers." The man on the pallet allowed his gaze to wander from my face to the arrows. He seemed to be rejoicing in spirit over some stirring event. "Your lost arrow is in my office," I said, fixing my eyes on the man. "I took the ivory head from Brant Duri vage's back. I uow know why he wrote 'K'aa, K'aa!* on the wall and died crying 'Kala haethve.' " ' The man from South Africa fell back, and regarded me with gaping mouth. "Why didn't he let mc alone in my love affair?" he exclaimed. I told him that if he took Mina away from me, I'd follow him all over thc world with my arrow tipped with K'aa. He would not take my warning, and I was forced to keep my word. Did he die hard, doctor?" The next day I wrote Steve Morgan down in Shropshire all about my startling discovery, i-nd when I sent an officer to look after my patient he was found to have gashed his throat .with ono of his own arrows, and in an hour was dead. In course of time, I am pleased to relate, Steve and An nie" became man and wife, but I am told that for many years on the wall of a certain room in Shropshire was to be seen this singular thrilling in scription: K'AA!-K'AA-K'AA!"-Thc Home Magazine. CHARCOAL ACE OF IRON MAKING. Wily Ku Mia TLag? Behind In Steel and I'ifZ Iron. Though Russia has almost inex haustible resources in iron ore, the country is not yet able to produce all the iron required by thc home indus tries. Business interests complain that metal and machinery manufac turers are embarrassed because so much iron and steel must still bc im ported. Economists say tho country c?n never attain industrial indepond- , ence till it can make all the iron and \ steel it needs. A scientific commission, which has inquired into the causes for thc slow development of iron production in tho Urals, has just reported that tho in dustry languishes on account of anti- 1 quated methods. Wood is thc fuel J used and as the forests have been felled far and wide around thc smelt- c irs it is difficult to bring ore and fuel j1 together. There are no railroads, 1 lorses being still employed to carry 11 ire and fuel. Consequently, though J vages in Russia are extensively low, | f i,0 ouuuiii ??; ... mtirely to supplant wood ns fuel. I im provement s in processes of pig iron manufacture, long ago adopted by * western nations, aro also suggested. The commission believes that lhe an- 1 nual output of pig iron in Ibo Urals. 1 now about 645.000 tons a year, may I readily be increased to live times tin: 1 quantity and that thc prices of iron 1 and steel, nov.' artificially high, may ? be so greatly reduced that there will ? bo no market in Russia for iinpor- i tations. So the Urals may bo advanced to j ' the charcoal age of iron making. The j fuel used in making nine-tenths ol' our pig iron is coke, aa this country discarded charcoal many years ago. New York Sun. QUAIN . \ND CURIOUS. A man should weigh 20 pounds for j every foot of his height i Mozart holds the record of having written 024 compositions. A New York assemblyman has in troduced in thc legislature a bill mall ing it a misdemeanor to ''flirt on a public thoroughfare." In 1882 the speed record on a high bicycle was 20 miles in an hour and 12 minutes. Behind a motor pacer a rider has recently covered 40 miles in an hour. The skin of the muskox, which is a denizen of the "Barren Grounds" and the Arctic region of Canada, bas tak en thc place of that of thc extinct buffalo for sleigh robes. It varies in price from $50 to as low as $5 for a poor article. An immense geyser has been discov ered in Rotomahona, New Zealand. It covers an area an acre in extent and constantly throws columns of water to .vast heights, some of them ascending 300 feet, with clouds of steam which go much higher. The Iowa supreme court has again fixed the limit of value that may be placed on a man's leg at $8000. In a similar case some years ago thc Iowa supreme court decided that a verdict for $12,000 was excessive, and that it should be cut down to $8000. The telephone exchange of Cleve land, O., has instituted an information bureau, from which subscribers may ask and receive whatever knowledge they wish that can be supplied from a large reference library. During tho pix months of its operation it is said to have demonstrated its value and to be a pattern that might be followed in other cities. Seven miles west of Conncllsville, Pa., a portion of an Indian mound lias been uncovered and Innumerable in teresting relics have been found. A baby's remains had a necklace of hoad?, made out of curiously wrought deot horns. Strangely-shaped pipes, many arrow heads, sandstone wheels, which are supposed to have been used hy tho aborigines for thc making of stone implements; marine shells and macj other trinkets were also found. THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. B.ATNB, Troa't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, 8250,000. Undivided i'rofits } ?110,000. Facilillos of our magnlflcont New Vanlt 'containing 410 Sufoty-Look Boxes. Differ ent Sises aro offered to our patrons and tho public at 53.U0 to 910.00 per annum. VOL. LXVII. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WfONESDAY. APllIL 2. 1902 THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Mayne, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. NO. 14. A QUESTION OF MONTHS FOR MARCONI'S MARVELOUS INVEN TION TO BE IN OPERATION. Wireless Telegraphy Facts Obtained In Interesting Interview "With the liril liant Young inventor - Message! May Be Transmitted from Ocean to Ocean. Garrett P. Servlss, the^ writer on scientific subjects, had an interview with Mr. Marconi, and made doubly clear the conviction that he was not deceived about those signals trans mitted from England to Newfound land. "So there is no question -about the result of the Newfoundland experi ments?" "None." "And we may expect to see your sys tem of transatlantic signalling in com mercial operation soon?" "I hope so. I am going to England to arrange for it as soon as I can get away." "Can you say how long a time will elapse before actual messages may be transmitted across the ocean?" "No, not exactly. But probably it will not be long. It may take three or four months to make the preliminary ar rangements." "Where will your stations be placed?" "In Nova Scotia and at Cape Cod. on this side; in England and probably in Belgium, on the other side." "How about transmitting such mes sages from and to points at a distance from tho seacoast; do you think that can be clone?" "I think so, but more experiments must first be tried. We do not yet know all the data of the problem. Eut I think eventually it can be done." "You mean that when the system is perfected a message might be sent, for instance, from St. Petersburg or . some point In thc heart of Europe di rect through the air to New York without being interrupted and with out the use of any relays." "Yes, I think it possible that that may 'be done." "How about the transcontinental business? Do you intend to try to send messages, say, from New York to San Francisco?" "Oh, I cannot say yet as to that. WTe have not yet gone far enough with our experiments. But I think it might be done; I do not see any impossibility in it." "So you think you could send a wireless message from the Atlantic to the Pacific?" "Yes, but it would re in: re more power than over the ocean -just how much more I am not pre pared to say." ....... wu ouuaitiinjca as Well as to HU | iii space. But, practically, are there tot resistances, etc.. which would nake the waves choose some particu lar path in preference to others?" 'Yes, and I think the waves followed the curvature of the earth." "In regard toi the very important question of making the messages ex clusive, so that anybody might not pick them up and read them in their flight, what ls to be said?" "They <-an be made perfectly exclusive." he re plied, "by having the transmitters and receivers tuned in unison. Then only thc properly tuned receiver can take the messages, and all other receivers would get nothing." "How great a range is there at your disposal in tuning thc instruments? Can you make as great a variety of tuned transmitters and receivers re sponding only to one and another as a manufacturer of Yale locks can make of locks that will open only to their proper keys?" "Well, I cannot yet say how great the range is, but it would seem to be very great, because we have millions of vibrations to choose from, and even if it were nec essary to have one thousand vibra tions covering the field of each set. of Instruments, yet with millions to se lect from, thousands of such sets, each independent of all the others, could be made. Suppose, for instance, wc bad ten million vibrations available and we allotted them in st'ts ^f one thousand to different instruments, then wc could make ten thousand in dependent sets of instruments." "Will you abandon the use of kites in your later experiments?" "Yes, we shall use masts." "How high will the masts have to be in sending messages between Cape Cod and England?" "About 150 feet. Messages have been sent 20 miles from an elevation of only two feet. The distance increase as the square of thc height of the masts. There is probably a slight absorption of the en ergy in the atmosphere, and it is nec essary to make allowance for that." "But, of course, the height of the masts has nothing to do with the cur vature of the earth, or with the get ting over intervening obstacles?" "No, not at all." "And you believe you could sen! messages across North America with out regard to such obstacles as the Rocky Mountains, which rise 12,000 or 14,000 feet above sea level?" "Yes, I think it can be done. But more pow er is required over land than over sea, because there is more absorption of energy." "You will not stop with establishing communication across the Atlantic?" "Oh. ho. I hope not. I hope to sec thc system in use all over tho world." "Would it bc possible to send a mes sage all around thc earth so that, it would como back to the starting point?" "I cannot say." "Is it your impression that such waves as you employ can only be sent between points situated on the surface of the earth, and cannot be sent even disregarding thc supposed ab sorbing shell in the rarefied region of the air above our heads-away from ! the earth to some other body, say j the moon? "Well, that is what the ' experiments so 'far made seem to indi ' cate, but we cannot yet be altogether j yuro." i LANGUAGE OF THE TURKEY. An Encl.sh Naturalist Thinks He Undesw stands tlio Gobbler's Cries. Nelson Wood, an English scientist, has made a life long study of the lan guage of birds and he thinks he can not only understand what many of the feathered creatures are saying, but also express things to them which they understand. He has many inter esting things to tell about the birds he has met. The creatures of the air, so he says, talk the least; turkeys, chickens and such feathered creatures, as they dc not fly very much, talk the most.- The explanation of this is natural. The birds that do not fly are al ways in more danger and they have many notes of warning. Language among them, of course, as it must have been with primitive man, is but an expression of.the simple needs: Danger, hunger, warning, pleasure and such sensations are the first emo tions expressed. To illustrate the various calls which a turkey has, Mr. Wood cites a note for overhead danger, another for danger on the ground, a third foi a hawk in thc distance, another of com plaint when being driven, a different call in open meadow from that in bushes, a special signal at night, as well as a special kind of note used in ordinary conversation. Chickens have even more modes of expression. A hen has three distinct songs, one when seeking her nest, another for calling her mate and a third for crooning to herself or in the search for food. The rooster has several distinct notes and Mr. Wood says that some of these the ordinary person never ob serves. There is one, a low fine whis tle which the rooster uses sometimes on a dark day when going to roost, but when the rooster really begins to carry on an extensive conversation ls when he meets another chanticleer iu battle. It ranges all the way from a defi ant chuckle which invites the other fellow to fight as surely as the pro verbial chip on a boy's shoulder, to a feminine croon which means i?ar and a desire to retire. Perhaps of all birds the parrot is the most intelligent. People havo been accustomed to think of the par rot as simply a mimic, but Mr. Wood pretends to have known many that actually understood the words they were saying. One of his parrot friends always saluted him with "Good morn ing" early in the day and "Good night" in the evening. that the blind man who plays tuc nam* organ day a?lrr day at Grand avenue bridge has a watch in his pocket. He has a watch, and can tell time, too. Yesterday a man dropped a nickel in his cup, and. noticing the watch, asked him for the time. It was a queer ques tion to ask, but he saw the watch and wanted to know whether thc blind man was simply pretending to bo sightless. "I think I can tell," said the blind man. He held it up close to his ear and slowly turned thc stem-winder. "One, two. three, four, fivrv, six. seven, eight," he counted, and then ho said: "That means 72 minutes. I wound up the watch tightly at 3 o'clock and so the time ought to be about 12 min utes past 4. Here, look and see how near I came to it." His questioner looked, and the time was 4.1S. Pie was only six minutes off. "Do you mean to say that you can tell the time of day by winding up yoMr watch?" liot exactly, but I can come mighty near it; usually within ten minutes, and lt's very easy, too. All you have to know is how long one click in wind ing up will run the watch. I'll explain. Suppose that at 3 o'clock I wind up my watch until it is tight, as we say; that is, until another turn of the winder would apparently break a spring. At 5 o'clock I wind the watch again and find that the winder clicks 12 times before the watch is wound up to the place where it sticks. Then I know that 12 clicks will run tho v.-ntch 120 minutes, and that one click represents 10 minutes of time."-Mi'yankee Sen tinel Tilt? Salvation Armv. The work of the Salvation Army in the United States may bo a surprise to those who ha :o little knowledge of their project nor realized what benefit is given by the hard-working cxhorters who are seen of an evening preaching in the streets to the casual listeners. Small enough seems the re ward in contrast to their lab *s, but the following statistics will show the importance and extension of their In fluence: Seven hundred and thirty two corps and outposts, 45,000 annual conversions, 2S00 officers. 93,000 week ly circulation War Cry, in English, Ger man. Scandinavian and Chinese, 190 social relief institutions, 545 officers and employes in charge, $250,000 an nually spent in poor relief, 7200 night ly accomodated for poor, 2,500.000 beds annual accommodation, G6 work ingmen's hotels. 6 women's hotels, 24 food depots, 24 industrial homes for the unemployed, 3 farm colonies, 1800 acres colonized. 240 colonists, 5 em ployment bureaus, 13 second-hand stores. 19 rescue' homes for fallen women, 450 accommodation. 1000 fal len women eared for each year, 24 slum settlements, SO officers in charge. Itenefit of tho Birril. Tho cane should never he used :*s the ordinary instrument of schord punishment. A cano may possibly bring about irreparable damage, and caning on the hands is the most sense less and cruel form of punishment im aginable. Tue birch is the best im plement of punishment for small boys. Firstly, it hurts; secondly, if applier! in reason it does no harm.-London .meet.