Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WAS IT YOU. Somebody did a solden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sans a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; 8omebodv thought; '"Tissweet to live";. Somebody said, " I'm glad to give"; Somebody fought a valiant light; Somebody lived to shield-the right Was that somebody you? \ A SOCIAL- IMBROGLIO. I yrwwww ? Maud Endicott was visiting an aunt who lived in a suburban town in the "wild and wooly west" and which was certainly breey compared to the solid frigidity of the classic Hub, albeit looked upon by the city proper as pro verbially slow. Maud being one of the Endicotts, and related to the Hon. Mrs. joseph Chamberlain of "Lun nun,"Jtelt it incumbent upon her to keeep up the traditions of old lady Boston as to the correct spelling and pronunciation of words embodied in lit erary phrasing^ and delivered with an accent that cold chisels them into a perfect mosaic of language. * Her aunt, Mrs. Mason, was duly awed ; and impressed by her niece's culture, but was more interested in having her marry a western man she had met and conquered, a prosperous and popular young doctor who had won her favor, and who, although born in Kalamazoo instead of Boston, could speak the language of love more flunetly than any eastern admirer she had ever known. And just when she was ready to utter that final "yes" which would make the three of them happy, a word that was not Bostonese desperately offended Miss Endicott. The season of the church fair was af its height and Mrs. Mason, being an active member of a popular church society, had prevailed on Maud to take a tableland sell fancy, articles for the benefit of the guild. On the close of the second evening the young woman parted from her lover with frigid politeness and refusing to en lighten him as to the cause of his of fending, went home with her aunt, to whom she would not deign an explana tion that night. The next morning, however, when her aunt, who looked as if she had not slept, asked her what was the trouble, the young woman an swered with more energy of speech than she had yet employed". "I will never forgive him, ?ever! His words were so rude-so unkind! And I believed him a gentleman? Auntie, what is-is-oh, the horrid word-how can I speak it-what is 'flim-flam?'" "It means getting something for nothing-no, not that exactly, either. Anyway, it's a trick by which you keep what you've bought, and the money you should have paid for the purchase, too. I know that it is a form of swindling." "Yes, and your elegant Dr. Horton accused me-me-a Boston Endicott of playing a game of 'flim-flam'-that was the very word, so coarse and un gentlemanly! I presume the word is ' discoverable in his lexicon-thank goodness, it has no placo in mine." "But my dear Maud," said her aunt in distress, "what made his say it. I think I have heard the word-it is quite harmless-but the meaning is is rather questionable. What had you done?" "Oh,J^expecte.d.sonie of his miser able money back in change when thevo was not a? copper coming to him. And then; he^-laughed-and-said it was a clear jcase pf flim-flam. Oh, how glad I am that ho lias revealed his inner nature before it- is too date. My life .would have-been wrecked in the keep ing ht such a man." In spite of her philippics it was evi dent that ang#*"was controlling the young woman, and the morning sun streaming in through the window made a charming picture of vixenish young saint, with an aureole of gol den-brown hair. For Miss Endicott of Boston, was rather a beauty, r "Did-you tell the rector?" asked her aunt; "I^heard you talking to him af ter you turned your back on Dr. Hor ton." "Yes, I told him what I thought about church fairs-that they were primitive and provincial, and just a ^religious form of gambling, and that " w^never-ba'? 4**m any more in Bos ton. Oh, I expect to be tried for heresy and schism at once." "Oh, n^^?ear," said her aunt with a Bmile flitting-over her troubled counte nance, "we are not in Boston. And I think you took Dr. Horton's joke in serious earnest. We call people dense cut here when they can't sec- a joke. Your unc'e was a western man, Maud, and .he used many expressions I had never heard when I met him-a young giri like you. And I grew to like that - freedom of speech just as you will." "Never," retorted Maud. "I am go ing to write to Dr. Horton this morn ing an,d settle any doubts he may have tn t?d&ubject." "I*?n leaking for an apple cart," Bald Mrs. Mason, charging the conver sation; "I will send ?p a plate of ap ples if they are good." "Please do not," implored her niece tragically, "they would be apples of Sodom to me." MPS. Mason took a silver half-dollar frorii^the mantel and sat by the win dow to watch for an apple peddler passing to the city. She had no idea ?hat Maud's providence was coming in the guise of an apple peddler, and Bhe felt very much disappointed over Vhe trend events had taken. To have this:?avoVite niece settled near her had long been the wish of her heart, and Dr. I?ripri"Vas positively one of the most ellg^blemen in the state, coming of as good family as Maud and gifted with" a slaying quality of goodness by divine right. That the girl should wreck her own happiness for such a slight provocation-she felt suro lt had not been intentional-worried her greatly. Two hours later Maud came down stairs with a lett? r in her hand, and found her aunt walking up and down the little sitting-room in a feeble, dazed kind of way. The girl's ill-hu mor left her instantly. She had a good heart under much veneer of culture. "Auntie, dear," she said, giving the namaa loving intonation, "you are not worrying yourself about me? Please do not, for it is too late now. Dr. Hor ton is nothing more to me than a stranger. Auntie, what is wrong? Why..do you keep your arm hanging by your side' and your hand clenched so?" "Maud," whispered her aunt faint ly, "I have had a stroke!" The girl screamed with apprehen sion:" "I shall run for Dr. Richards!" She seized her hat. "He will, he must help you at once. Oh, it is iny fault! How inconsiderate; how selfish I have been !" Majt? reached the office of the old ; family physician only to miss him; he was off on his rounds. Sh? coul<* enither follow nor intercept him. Meanwhile her aunt, whom she loved dearly, might die. Dr. Horton? For a moment her pride held her, but there was no other, and his skill was un questioned. She met the young man coming out of his office. His carriage was at the door, and while she was briefly telling him the cause of her visit he swung her gently into it, and I in a moment they were speeding to I the house. Mrs. Mason was still walking the floor, her right arm hang ing by her side. Dr. Horton took her hand gently, his face expressing great personal interest and a respectful sym pathy. "Why do you keep your hand clenched- Open it." Mrs. Mason resisted feebly, but he exerted his strength, and the tightly closed fingers yielded. Something dropped to the floor with a sharp, me tallic ring. The doctor "stooped and picked up a silver half-dollar. Maud gave a cry; she did not understand. Mrs. Mason stared vaguely at the sil ver piece, then at the relaxed hand. "Is it paralysis?" she asked in a nat ural voice. "Not a touch of it," said the doctor cheerily, also mystified. "Then ifs-:Oh. Maud, that is the money I shoufd have paid for the ap ples . I was thinking of something else, and I never gave the man his money, and he a stranger, tco, and a poor man. Oh, Maud, it was a regular Aim flam game." But the word went unchallenged, for Maud, now that the danger was over, was going into a fit of hysterics, and it looked as if the malady was con tagious, for the doctor laughed, and Mrs. Mason cried, and it lasted so long that the doctor's horse, accustomed to long waits .pawed thc sidewalk in his 'impatience, while the genesis and exo dus of one word was being settled to the satisfaction of all parties.-Mrs. M. L. Rayne, in the Chicago Record Herald. PEARLS OF THO'JCHT. Great boaster, little doer,-French proverb. A fool sometimes gives good counsel. -Spanish proverb. An angry man heeds no counsel. Portuguese prove? b. The most learned are not the wisest.-Dutch proverb. He who knows but little quickly tells it.-Italian proverb. Sleep over it and you will come to a resolution. Spanish proverb. ? He who would relish his food must not see it cooked.-Italian proverb. Love without return is like a ques tion without an answer.-German proverb. A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner than when his wife talks Greok.-Johnson. It is pasy, in the world, to live after the wed's opinion. It is easy, in solitude, to live after your own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweet ness the independence of solitude. Emerson. Gcod manners are the settled me dium of social as specie is ot* com mercial, life; returns are equally ex pected from Doth; and people will no more advance their civility to a bear than their money to a bankrupt. Chesterfield. Novel Test of Dead:. Horror of being buried alive is common to the whole human race, and from time immemorial experi ments have been in progress with, the view of making such a terrible fate impossible. Some physicians main tain that satisfactory tests can also be made by the use of Roentgen rays, but it is not every one who has thc facilities for making such tests, whereas any one can make a test on the plan devised by Dr. leard, a phy sician of Marseilles, France. The doctor uses fluorescin. the well known coloring material, and his ex periments have proved so successful that they have won for him the ap proval of the French Academy of Sciences. Fluorescin injected into the human body produces absolutely nd effect if the body is dead, whereas it produces most surprising effect if the body is alive. Dr. leard uses a solution of it which is so strong that Sa single gramme is able to color 40, 000 quarts of water. If a little of this- solution is injec ted under the skin of a living person in two minutes the skin, and especial ly the mucous membranes, will become much "discolored, and the person will present the appearance of one suffering from au acute attack of jaundice. Moreover tho eyes will become a greenish color and thc pupils will almost become invisible. These symptoms will remain for one or pos sibly two hours and then will gra dually disappear. Since fluorescin produces this effect on a living body it naturally follows, according to Dr. leard, that any body on which it produces no effect must bc dead. Boston Herald. Comical I"i?liiiiR; Content. A very amusing competition for fish ermen has just taken place in Brussels. The contest, which was international, says the London Express, brought three fishing clubs from Frar.ec. The prizes, which ran up vo several hun dred francs, were to be awarded to those who caught most fi&h in a given time. Hundreds of competitors ap peared on tue scene, clad in a varitcy of comical costumes. Fishing took place in tho lake in the Bois de la Cambre and the Tuelles ' ponds, all noted for their finny inhab itants. Round the banks the fisher men sat for hours under a broiling sun in a serried line, gravely watching their floats. All the rods had to go into the water at a given signal. Whenever a fish was caught, be it great or be it small, a gun was fired. The first fish caught in each group was cooked for the feast and, minnow or whale, served on a bed of parsley. The dish was carried solemnly to the president, who rose and bowed gravely three times to tho unconscious fish, af ter which it was paraded round the room and saluted by all the members of tie club lit turn. At the close of the dinner the president proposed the health of all fish. Joke on Bret Harte. Joaquin Miller says Bret Harte was always disgusted with his "Heathen Chinee" glory, and always begged his friends never to mention it. Once Miller and Harte went to breakfast with Lord Houghton in London, and on the way Harte asked if the guests would be likely to quote from that awful poem. This prompted Miller to tip Lord Houghton a wink, and the jolly old nobleman gave the tip to a lot of good fellows at his tab?e, and they all talked nothing else. How ever, Harte soon saw through th?? joko and he never betrayed his impaiience on the subject again.-Boston Herald. SCIENr AND INDUSTRY". The last discovered and mest distant of great planets, Neptune, extended the solar system more than one thousand million miles. Prof. George Forbes is seeking an even more distant planet, so confidently that he has actually named it Victoria, and he expects that it will bs found about 10,000,0000 miles from the sun. A new French refrigerator consists of | closed metallic cylinders surrounded by a freezing mixture, being designed for keeping fruit at a fixed temperature with a restricted amount of air and an absence of light. Thawing must be gradual. After two months peaches were in perfect condition, and the methods adapted for transporting soft fruits including bananas. All the blood in the human body passes through the heart in about three minutes. The heart beats seventy limes a minute, 4200 times an hour, 100,800 times a day, throwing out 2^ ounces of blood a second, G5G pounds an hour, 794 tons a day. Il is only when supplied with pure, rich blood that thc heart, an organ six inches long by four inches wide, can accomplish this enormous amount of work and rebuild its own wasted tissues. In Brussels, Malines and other Bel gian towns, a novel method of not only getting rid of smoke, but turning it into use, has recently been employed. Thc smoke ls driven by a ventilating fan into a filter with porous material, over which a continuous stream of pe troleum, benzine, alcohol or some liq uid hydrocarbon flows. The result is that the smoke is entirely suppressed, while the filter yields a gas of great calorific power, which can be used for heating purposes and for driving gas engines. The filtering material itself also becomes a good combustible. The available coal yet stored In the earth in Germany is estimated by Pro fessor Ferdinand Fischer of Gotlingen at 160.000,000,000 tons; in England, only 81,500,000, tons; in Belgium, Aus tria-Hungary and France, about 17, 000,000,000 tons each. The store of Russia is but imperfectly known. North America can produce G84,000,000,000 tons, and Baron von Richthofen has stated that China has a supply nearly as great. Japan, Borneo and New South Wales have considerable coal; Africa, an unknown quantity. Ger many's coal should last another thou sand years, but Engalnd's supply will begin to show signs of exhaustion with in 50 years. In the United States the production has increased from about 6,200,000 tons in 1891 to nearly 45,000, 000 in 1901. Cl non That Will Not irrcak. Louis Kauffeld, owner of a large glass factory, claims to have discover ed the secret of manufacturing malle able glass, the long-lost ort of thc an cients.. He says he is now manufactur ing semi-mallcable ware, according to the Washington Times, soon wi 11 bc able to put on the market a kind of glass that will be as malleable as any of the metals. In the presence of thc corres,, .ident and a workman Mr. Kauff?ld took a glass chimney of ordinary appearance, put as much water in it as it would hold when it was placed horizontally, and, placing it over a fire, proceeded to boil the water without crackiug the chimney. Next, this same chimney was healed puntil it was almost at the melting point and. plunged into cold wat pr. The chimney went through the ordeal ? without injury. Kauffeld folowed this experiment by taking up the now cooled chfruaey and using it as a hammer, driving a good sized nail into a tough ..card with it. Again the chimney came forth un harmed. While Kaufleld's process is unknown to anybody except himself he volun teered the information that the lime and lead that are used in the manu facture of ordinary glass do not enter into thc composition of this. What the substitutes arc he would not say. Jellies fruin OM Uoota. France is not the only nation that knows how to practice economics, says Popular Mechanics. Scraps and shav ings of tho iron mills and forges, once thought too small for consideration, are now turned into writing ink and into that beautiful dye color. Prus sian blue. Fusel oil, a dangerous poi son, becomes oil of apples or of nears for flavoring purposes. Beggars' rags 1 are turned into pilots' coats and tho seemingly worthless sawdust into newspapers. Even as the unsavory drainage of the cow barns becomes a basis for thc most fashionable per fumery, and the tar waste of our gas works is turned into tho most exqui site aniline dyes and into saccharine, the sweetest of all substances. Old boot legs, so!' j and uppers, bi's bf harness and thc hoofs, tendons and like worthless scraps of our butcher shops, chemically treated and colored and flavored with thc products of equally "useless truck," find their way to the best tables as "pure fruit jel lies." Such is the American method of inventive economy A Wonderful Electric YVntcli. An invention which is likely to rev olutionize the watchmaking industry has been perfected by a Swiss watch maker named David Perret of Marin, near Neuchatel. It is a watch which goes by electricity, and its special feature is its accuracy. It was se verely tested by experts, and it was found that it gained only seven-tenths of a second in five weeks. The expert at the observatory at Neuchatel de clares the watch to be equal in preci sion to an expensive chronometer. The watch resembles an ordinary gentle man's lever, costing ?G0, and goes for fifteen years without being rewound. -London Mail. - Tlio Anointing or William IV. At the coronation of William IV. when the archbishop was about lc anoint him or. the chest, and opened his robes Tor that, purpose, tho King was discovered to bc wearing under neath his mantle a tight admiral's uniform. A delay was caused by tiii:;, during which the King became impa tient, and showed frank- indifference lo strict adherence to the ritual part of the ceremonial. Irritability and im patience were marked characteristics of William IV., and there was. more over, a thin streak of democracy in the composition of the very eccentric sailor king. Conld Slio I'tfcv? AVoll "Can you play 'Down in the Val- j ley?* " he asked "I should say I could." she an- ; swered. "I got flown there In two strokes this afternoon, and (hon as tonished the crowd by making a six yaid nutt r.c easy as rolling into sand pit.-Chicago Itecord-??crald. MYSTERIES OF TIME. How the Irishmen Were Puzzled Over Birthdays Here and Abroad. Tho two elderly Irish citizens, out for a Sunday Btroll, paused before a jeweler's show window in which were displayed three clocks recording time in various parts of the world.. " 'Tis odd," said one. "In some paris of the earth 'tis yesterday, and in other parts 'tis tomorrow-while the United States is the only place in all the world where 'tis today. " 'Tis odd." " 'Tis so." "Now, when would be me birthday if I were in Paris?" "Your birthday is today." " Tis." "And 'tis tomorrow in France, to? day?" " Tis." "Thin yez could never have a birth day if y' were over there, becauso your birthday comes today." " Tis odd." " Tis so." "No doubt, that's why tho popula tion ls so rayduced in France; but it ha3 advantages. A man is always as old as ho is if he is born over there, but if ho lives abroad ho is a year younger cn his birthday, countin' ho 1)0 home." " Tis odd." " Tis so.-Nev/ York Tribune. Three Ages of Man. She first agc of man is when he thinks about all the wicked things which he is goi-ig to do. This is call ed "Innocence." The second age is when he doos all thc wicked things he has thought of in childhood. This is -..ailed "The Prime of Life." The third ago is when he repents all the wicked things he has done. This is called "Dotage." EXPERIENCE THE ONLY TEACHER. Siic-Tlicre's really no reason for married folks to quarrel. Ile-No except that they generally need a few quarrels to find that out. -Brooklyn Life. TYBKE BY THE SEA. The Most. Delightful Seashore Resort On thc Sout h Atlantic Coast. Low Jiat.i Excursion Tickot? aro now on .-ale tit all ticket offices on tho Central ot Georgia Hallway. For full particulars, rates seiiedulu*, etc., n-k tho nearest agent I1'. J. Robinson, Asst. Geu'l. Pass. Agent, havannah, Ga.; J. C. liailo, Geo. PUSH. Agent, Savannah Gu. Not Always to Blame For lt. Some women think more of their hats than of their husbands, and tho hats are not always to blame for it, either.-Now York Times. AKIJ Your Dealer Ifar Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder. It rests tho feet. ?Cures Corns, l?u:?i. -?-. ?!, Swollen. Hore. Hot. Callous,Aching, Sw< .-nillir !.'< ct und Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foct-Ea.*.' maki s now cr tight shoes easy. .At all Brnggfots and Snocstorcs, 25 cont*. Ac cept no substitute. Sample malled FBF.Z. Address Allen S; Olmsted, Leltoy, N. Y. Thc German Army war uniform will henceforth he grey. That color has been decided on by thc Kaiser. FITS permanently cured.No fltsorneryous ness after first ?lay's use of Pr. Kline's Great NerveHostoror.$2trlal bottle and treatisefreo Dr. H.IL KI.TMC, Ltd.,!1:?! Arch St., Philo., Pa. Males preponderate in the population of Sheffield. England, to thc extent of 1007 to evcrv 1000 females. E. IL G KEEN'S Soxs, of Atlanta, Ga.,' are the only successful Dropsy Specialists In tho world. " See their liberal offer in advertise ment in another column of this paper. The first complete edition of Toe's worics in a German version was printed a few weeks a so. Mra. Winslow's Scothing Syrup for children teeth! ncr, soften tho gums, reduces Inflamma tion,allays pnln,cures wind colic. 25c. abottlo The monkey wrench cots its name from its inventor. Thomas Monkey, of Borden town, N. J._ Albor. Lurch, Wes Toledo, Ohio, says: 'Hall's Catarrh Cure saved my lifo." Write him for particulars. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Thc foundation of thc Bank of England strong-room is sixty-six feet below street level._ Tiso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for couglis and colds.-N. W. SAMUEL, 0<-can Grove, N. .T., Feb. 17, 1900. A ship's cable is usually 720 feet long, but in charts a cable equals 607.56 feet, or thc tenth ?f a sea mile. L " I had a very severe sickness that took off all my hair. I pur chased a bottle ot Ayer's Hair Vigor and it brought .':11 my hair back again." W. D. Quinn, Marseilles, 111. One thing is certain, Ayer's Hair Vigor makes the hair grow. Tiiic is becau;, fi is a hair food. lt feeds ?he hair and the hair grows, that's all there is to it. It stops falling of the hair, too, and al ways restores color to gray hair. SI.CO a bottle. All da-Kirlstt. Ii your dragpist cannot supply yon, send us ono dollar and we will oxpress you a bottle. Bo sure nnd give the name of your nearest express ofllce. Address, J. d. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. ti in a v tr a a ? That's what you need ; some thing to cure your bilious ness. You need Ayer's Pills. Want your moustache or neara a beautiful brown or rich black ? Use SOcts.otdruggistsorR P Hall&Co., Naihua.N.H Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold In balk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." ofeofeofeofcoiiolioMofcoMofeofcolioto FEVERISH CONDITIONS AND COLDS CURED BY CAPUDIISE Sold by ail Drupelets. fc?O??tO??06?OC?OHc6?O?loe?O??C)S?OS?08?5 H? LI W'S WIZ?iRD O l L EARAGHE A L-L. DRUGGISTS SE Li. .PT ?NIVEESITY OF OXFORD WHAT THIS OLD SEAT OF LEARN ING IS LIKE. Cecil Ithodes's Bold Plan of Furnishing Scholarship! lo St mienta frotn the Uni ted State?, tho British Colonie* and Germany Makes This Artic o Timely. Cecil Rhodes' bold plan-provided for in his will, as recently chronicled -to send each ytar to Oxford Univer sity a number of seiect students from the United States, the British colon ies and Germany, with a scholarship provision of $1000 each for expenses this far-reaching benevolence has nat urally called forth much discussion; " ?nd the occasion is ripe for asking what ene of these scholarships at illus trious Oxford is to mean, First then, the details as to how tho candidates are to be chosen, what is to bc required of them, etc.-all this ls still undetermined. The mat ter will bo worked out with delibera tion by beards of administrators yet to bc chosen. Rhodes never concerned himself with ways; all he did was to supply tho moans of doing things. His scholarship endowment plan in volves many difficulties In practice and it will take time to a&vdmibte a Scheme of procedure. Thc University of Oxford differs j from any educational institution in j this country. It is not a single, com pact' university, like Harvard or Yale, but a collection of independent col leges under a form of confederacy somewhat analogous to that by which thc various stales of thc Union arc bound. It i:; a sort of c plurlbus anum. But in Oxforl tho power and influence of the colleges predominate over tho university. Cambridge University, in England, ls the only other school that ls like Oxford. The other English universi tied and the German and French uni versities are more like ours, though thora arc of course radical differences between such institutions in thc differ ent countries. It would take years of residence at the university to understand the pecu liar relations which exist at Oxford. The institution is thc growth of six or eight centuries of time, and its his tory is as complicated as that of a nation. Yet a little inquiry will show us its distinctive characteristics-lit- I tlc understood as they generally are by .the average American. Oxford University was not turned out virtually complete at one opera tion Uko Stanford. From tho earliest times the place was a seat of learning. There was a nunnery lhere as carly as the eighth century, and Pope Mar tin II in 802 spoke of the town as an educational center. Vacarius lectured .there in Latin, on law, in 1149. There were by that time a number of mon asteries and other religious houses there, to some of which schools were attached, where students were bred up for thc church. In course of time the teachers of the various schools came to meet to gether in a sort of "institute," to dis cuss methods and adopt general rules. From this association, distinct from and of higher authority than any par ticular school, the University of Ox ford sprang. Thc word "university" (universltas) war, first applied in a statute of King Jehu, in 1201.. Walter de Merton, in 12G4, first gave the institution thc character it was destined to develop. He founded Mer lon college; and from time to time :luring 400 years other similar colleges ..ere founded until there were 21 in all. These exist today, and beside them there ore some collateral schools also, sustaining special relations to the university. The original purpose in founding the separate colleges was to give the friends and townspeople of thc found er a place to live and study together. The various colleges are by no means uniform. Each has its own character, lt own customs and rules, its own sup porters. Originally the students lived where they pleased in thc town of Oxford, but under tho college system they were required to take up their resi dence in the college buildings called inns, hotels or halls-somewhat aa our college fraternities have their own quarters-where they lived in common -the meals and the rooms being called "commons." Out of the college funds certain sums were laid aside to pay for the support of a limited number of poor er undergraduate students, and these provisions were called scholarships. Then other funds were established for the support of post-gr?duate stu dents, called fellowships, and the pos sessor of one of them yas a "fellow." There arc now-not including the Rhodes scholarships-several hun dred scholarships, worth $400 to $600 each, and about. 30 fellowships worth about $11300 each. Thc bequests of $1500 a year each will therefore put the Rhodes scholars on a footing, fi nancially, with thc most honored class of residents at thc university. When a young man goes to Oxford he is not ..as al our American colleges, assigned to classes where he has to study text-bonks, recite, listen to lec tures, and take frequent examinations. There is no university examination at entra?e, but all tho best colleges have an entrance examin?t ton, varying in standard with the college. The colleges do the teaching, what there is of it. but always with a view to thc honors and degrees conferred by the university. The university it self provides certain lectures, notably in science, law and theology-though science is not put to thc front at Ox ford. But as a rule the university lec turers talk to empty benches. Tho students is not really required to at tend any lectures, not even those giv en by his own college; but he may at tend any he likes, oven those in other colleges. In recent years the lectures have taken a somewhat more practi cal and definite turn. Formerly the favorite colleges at Oxford were filled up several years In advance, but for the last generation students have been allowed to live in their own lodgings, instead nf in com mons, and now a student can enter any college on short, notice. It is hard to say just how many students are in attendance, as such statistics are not made prominent by the university. The number runs fro;:; ?"?00 to 2000 perhaps-or much below that at a number of the German, French and American universities. The colleges hold certain examina tions at intervals, and students are generally expected to pass these up within a stated time. Specially di Ai rd ? examinations are held for honors. Finally the university conducts the ex aminations leading to the degrees the main purpose being to make Mas ters nf Arts. Thorn are four terms each yean: Michaelmas, from Oct. 10 to Dec. 17; Hilary, from.Jan. 14 to Palm Sunday; Easter, from Wednesday of Easter week to Friday before Whitsunday; and Trinity, from Whitsunday to the first Saturday after the first Tuesday in July. The ordinary academic year is about 26 weeks. Tweive terms of residence are required as a minimum for the degree of B. A., and 27 terms for M. A. Ii is seen, therefore, that to be a "Master of Arts of Oxford" is something to be justly proud of, as it means at least about seven years faith ful work. lt ls customary for students to "read" with a private tutor, who helps them over the rough places. These futors generally get about $50 a tern^, ?or throe hours a week. They arc usu ally upper classmen, or post-graduates working for higher degrees. The cost of tuition paid to tho colleges aver ages about $325 for the whole three years-not including tutors' fees. About ?200, or Bay $1000, a year is thc amount generally accepted as a liberal allowance for all expenses of a young man studying at Oxford. The very minimum would bc half this. The professors draw salaries up to $4500 a year, the average being hardly $2000. Thc official title of the university is: "Thc Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford." Thc university is mostly self-govern ing, and is a republic in Itself. There are four representative bodies that manage its affairs. There is the Heb domadal Council or weekly meeting, which is a sort of ways and means committee; the House of Congrega tion, a sort of upper house or revis ory board, which grants degrees, etc.; thc Convocation, consisting of all the Masters of Arts or graduate alumni of the university, which elects the two members to parliament that a law of James I gives to "thc university; and the Congregation of thc University, which passes lawB for the govern ment of the university, etc. Two proc tors-a sort of police-have authority over the deportment of the students one of the university bug-bears, as will bc recalled by those that have read "Tom Brown at Oxford." Tho town of Oxford has about 45, 000 people. It is situated in a beauti ful rolling, pastoral country in one of tho sweetest and most romantic sec tions of England-about 55 miles up the Thames from London, though the little river here is known by its more classic name of Isis. The High street 01 principal thoroughfare of the town has often been called thc finest street in thc world. This does not mean that any particular building is architectur ally finer than those in any great city; but the vast number of massive, ho?ry omi Impressive structures makes tho whole sublime. Oxford stands for a kind of educa tion not much cultivated now lu Amer ica, where everything takes a practi cal turn. But Rhodes was a practical man and he knew Oxford; and he wan convinced that the influence of that great institution, operating on young mon of energy and resource, from newer countries, would be a powerful leaven for the betterment of the world. Men of broad culture such as Oxford can produce he knew would bc In in creasing demand in tho coming time. And it may be that these students from other lands will in turn be a powerful element la the evolution of a newer Oxford, which shall thus exert in creased influence on the progress of mankind.-Thc Pathfinder. THE BOY AND THE MERCHANT. now, by rn nd ry Test?, an Employer Se lected an KITH nd Hoy. A merchant prince of this city, needing aditional help, inserted the folowing advertisement in a morning paper: "Boy Wanted-$4 a week; ?6 to the right one." A group of two or three dozen ap plicants awaited the merchant the next day in his office. One at a time they were admitted, and to each in turn the merchant said: "Take this book and read on without pause or break until I tell you to stop." The boy would take the volume and begin to read. The merchant.after a moment, would rise with a sharp ex clamation and drop a heavy paper weight upon the floor, which would excite thc curiosity of the rea der, who would pause and raise his eyes from the text to see what was go ing on. But if he refrained from doing this, if he kept up a continu ous flow of reading, thc merchant would put him to another test by taking a puppy dog from a closet and beginning to romp with it. All thc boys but one fell before the test of the puppy dog. They stopped reading, they looked on at the romp with smiles, and some of them even went so far as to say: "What's the dog's name, mister?" Those who .failed like this were bidden to depart. But the one boy who did not fail the merchant took by the hand. "I want you,' he said, "for it is plain that you are master of yourself. I told you to keep on reading, and you kept on, though to test you I dropped an iron paper weight and pl ayed with a puppy dog. I'll tr.ke you, therefore, into my employ at $1 a week, and if you do as well as I think you will your salary will be rased to $6 a week within ?) months." The boy, who had an honest, open countenance, said: "I thank you, sir. Mother will bo glad to hear of this. 1 will report for duty at 8 o'clock to morrow morning." And bowing politely, the lad with drew, holding his cap in his hand. Thc merchant gave him, thc next morning, $5 in greenbacks to deposit in bank. "You are master of your self," he said, "and without fear I give you a position of trust at once." The boy set out for thc bank, but never reached it. Neither did he ever return to his employer again. He disappeared completely. He was a scoundrel and a thief Thereafter, in engaging help, the merchant was guided by references rather than by tests.-Philadelphia Record. Encl Inti Dialed Dictionary. 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