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ITHE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA IL. C. HA YNK, Prea'i. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. Um! I v lc d lToilto } $110,000. Factlltios of our magnificent New Vault Jeontalning 410 t-afoty.Lock Boxes. Differ ent Hlzog are ofloreil to our patrons and tho public at $3.00 to 910.00.per annum. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. FATS late rest on Deposits? Aeconnts Solicited. L. C. Kayne, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1902. NO. 42. < FORTUNE CAA 4 ~ ~ jj v The Prisoner's Story ol Old Mc "As a general thing a civil engineer . In the field gets-more 'kicks than hap pence," yet once: or twice, in a lifetime fortune cornes' knocking at his dcor . as -it did mine," remarked the chief, as^e deftly extracted a live coal from J tho campfire, lit his pipe and settled ; himself back on a heap of pine boughs, : with his back against a big log de ; stinccr as a back log for the all-night firo later on, while the rest of the crew settled themselves in comfortable po sitions and prepared to listen. ? We- had started the captain, which - -was a rare event, for he wa? a taciturn :.man, and had the Indian way of rare ly speaking, except to give a direction or answer a question, and thea ia the briefest manner possible. Supper was over, the fried fish, bac on .-and bread and coffee had been dis posed . of,, and the last man having spread his blankets, the younger of us were having a quiet- laugh at one of the eba?nmen,". who declared that he had the night before gone to the little stream which ran down the mountain, a few yards from.our camp, for a pail of water about 1 o'clock and found . the stream .dry, -yet at 5 in the morn ing when we started to get- breakfast it was rushing dwn the mountain side as noisily as it had the night before when he turned in. All the old gags of "why don't you wake up before you ; .go. Xor -water! ". "what brand do you ?drink-!"-"where -did you get it!" "do j:ou?ave those spells often!" etc., had been sprung when the chief spoke as above quoted. ' He continued: "The way I made my pile vos by aid of just such a stream as Jim says this one outside is, though there will be plenty of water in it to night, judging from the sound of that storm outside, and a wet day tomor row, that will not let us move about much, so if you care to listen, I'll give you the story: "It was at the close of 1S6S, when most of you youngsters were in short pants and I had just completed my survey of the territory of Montana and was thinking of pulling stakes and pushing on to a wilder and more un ; ?ettled country. For I thought it was getting rather thick when they had . -.four post offices in the state, and there . was nearly 60 at that 'time, besides . there was more than a dozen lawyers LT the territory, and I knew (hat there .*! ." was trouble for all the rest of us from . then on. I am here, yet I know, but then there are few places now cov ered by the old Stars and Stripes but .axe more thickly populated, and I fought too long under the flag to change to a new one. The Indians were pretty thick and rather nasty rz->^*^^oA fp^t_jj?dii "-hilp T rnnlfl'rm"-"1"1 get along with them, being called 'Bil- J ver that Runs' by them on account of thc flask of mercury I carried at times for the artificial horizon, some of which I.presepted the chiefs and medi cine men, to be used as a prize when they were very sick. The results con vinced them that I was very big mcdi cine myself, and as I say, I could gen erally get along with them, but the safe rule with an Indian is never to trust them this side of the happy hunt ing grounds, and by the way, the same rule may apply to most white men. I had moved in close to Helena and oc cupied myself with the small matters of mining claim lines and locating sill ??f?s for the miners, making my headquarters in Sioux Gulch with the Horton boys, old friends of mine, who had found, in the long run, that ranch lng in that country was fully as profit able as mining. . "One day I was accoste i by three Germans, who had a mine a few miles . up the gulch, called. the 'Wild Horse Mine.' They were in gr?at troubler for banking on the continued widening of the pay streak, they had iuvested the beet portion of their money in ma chinery a.id had almost completed a tunnel in the side of the mountain, to .tap the mine at a point s?n e hundred .feet deeper than the shait .already ..sunk, when the "mine gave promise of living up to Its name, by suddenly turning from a vertical vein-to one of 30 degrees downward and inward, thus rendering a. 400-foot tunnel al ;'ioost useless. .Sadly they abandoned ..the idea of a connecting tunnel to tap the vein and commenced to''follow along the new direction, with the v^ein constantly widening and giving pronK ise of richer ore and more abundant meial day after day, until the chances seemed to justify the expenditure for machinery that had just been made. But a few days before they had start ed up the .new steam drills, feeling very proud, as they contrasted the rapid strokes of the drill* which both lightened their labor and enabled them to excavate with fully 10 times the speed of the old hand drills, when .sud denly one of the drills struck a stream of water, which shot into the mine and made things lively until they could get it plugged, which was done after a few minutes delay. '"Very soon they struck water again and again, until at last it seemed as if they could not stick a drill hole Into any of the rock about them without finding water, which is the last thiug any miner wants to see In a mme. Well, they got a pump after a vast deal of trouble, for pumps were few and far between in this country in those days,' and let the water . An through one or two holes and tried to control it. It did not seem to succeed at first, but after two days they sud denly got control of it and in a few hours the water ceased to flaw rand they put in a blast in a Jew hole* and blew out a section of rock-and ?hen fled for their lives, for in two minutes after the blast was firod the water was six feet deep in the mine and rising fast. Tools, drills,. pumr> and every thing else was. abandoned and in a short time under water, which rose until it was 10 feet deep, and aftar three days dropped to six feet, and after a few heirs began to rise again slowly until 10 feet was reached, which copflnued ^ with regularity for some daysr first' 10 feet of water, then six feet, then 10 agn'u. They borrowed a couple of pumps and rescued their own at low water and started them IE KNOCKING. . . .? - a: Minmg Engineer in > miana, K all and pumped until patience and fuel gave out.. No us?e- still- that deadly rise and fall continued. " ""The ' 'Wild ' Horse ' Mine* and its owners became a busted outfit The bottom Was out of the mine and the owners' pockets, for while they had ?G000 worth of "machinery, which, with the freight overland, .had "cpst them ?10,000, they had rio" mine and there was no immediate .call for water works in that section just at that time. So tlicy came to me with the proposal that if I would control the water they would give me a quarter interest in tho mine. At first I refefeedi for I con sidered the stock too well'watered to be of much usewtc any erne but a stock broker or eastern tenderfoot, but at the intercession of the Horton boys, v/ho gave the Dutchmen credit for be ing good, hard-working: fellows, who would be ruined completely unless 1 cculd find a; way to_help them out, I consented.^to walk over to their hole in the ground and take a lo?k at the lather curious feature of a mine that had a tide which rose and fell once in three days, with a mean variation o/ four feet, and; as low water was to occur that day I started and slowly walked over with the Hortons and the Dutchmen. > . "As we approached the mouth of the mine, I noticed a dozen : or two yards from the mouth of the shaft, a fine mountain rill tumbling over the rocks with a fall of about 25 feet. It was about four feet across and a foot or lo inches deep, and after admiring the fall a few moments I asked jake, one of my would-be German partners, why they had not put up a wheel and used the water power to run their ore crusher, instead of the more costly steam engine." " 'Won't do,' he replied, 'it will stop pretty soon and won't run again for three days.' I stared at him with amazement. . "What!" I exclaimed, "not run for three days?" " 'Yes,' said he, indifferently, 'it will >top by 3 o'clock this afternoon.' I said nothing more, but determined to 3e on hand when it stopped and try ind find out why it stopped. I exam ncd the mine and found things about is I have already outlined them, and .usually asked Hans, another of the Germans, when .he expected the tide TOmmeuee to arise again, when I .vas astonished to hear him say 'about J o'clock and -then the .wAtex comes ip about three days, then goes down igain in one day.J i examined the linne! and by aid of my pocket com )ass determined ita general direction y it h, reference to the mine and the iiicdin.-mnu Wim my'pocKet^nneTtr ien of ? transit made a rough calcu li tion, which I kept to myself, sat lown to diriher, after fwhich I spent in hour or more in examining the last )re +?ken from the mine. "About 2 p. m. I climbed the rock 0 the brink of the waterfall and found :he hole in the rocks through which :he stream came, a few feet back of ?vhere it took- its plunge. All there ?vas to be seen in that direction was a ide the size of a man's body, yet while [ looliod the water, which for some few minutes had appeared to be rapid ly getting lower, stopped with a low rumbling sound. The show was over. [ turned on my heel and led the anx ious Germans back to the office, and in 15 minutes became the owner of a ^ne-fouith interest in the 'Wild Horse Mine,' for the usual sum of a dollar, etc., with-the condition that I was to have sole control of the mine for one rear and that iriy' partners were to take-up.work at-once on the aband oned tunnel and run it hot- exceeding LOO''feet" in ""any-*direction I . named. Work on the .tunnel ^commenced the next'day at an angle-of &. degrees to the right of the former line toward the stream, but 50 feet below .the head ot ihe. fall,>and 10 days afterward I was^awakegt-ed-one morning with the aews^irom^thoser-dlsgusted; .Germans that they had struck water, in '.he tun-, oel. and1 ?ou?d?go no further. I think at that moment that I- could have bought the* uest" of the 'Wild Horse Mine' for another, dollar.' - : .' . ? " 'Good,', said : I, , and put on my hat. 'Good,' grunted Jake; 'bad, bad! I tink dot mountains vas vhat you call pn? sponge.' ain't it?' and. wit?-j the three walking ' dejectedly at my heels we set out for the tunnel. A nice two inch stream of wat?? was spurting from the face of the r&clt To make a long story short, I plugged that hole, loaded it with 30 pounds >f powder, put in a time fuse, had the tools taken from the tunnel, lighted the fuse and took to my heels. A minute later a muffled explosion shook the earth and a yellow stream 'of dirty water, the full size of the tunnel, shot from its mouth. 1 looked at the waterfall. It was stopped. I sent Jake down the shaft to see if the water was rising or fall ing and he came back with a face like a full moon, with the information that the water was running out as quick as 'nef er was,* -By 6 p.. m., that night there was not a. drop of water in the 'Wild Horse mine.' and but a small stream flowing from the tunnel. "The next morning we blew out the heading of the shaft and found our selves^ a^rock charaber-20 by 80 feet, which wa??the natural Reservoir that had cauWralf the tr?ub??for the mine; had furnished the little waterfall with water and myself with a comfortable fortune which is safely invested ih United States .bonds, from which I carefully-cut tho coupons every ; six month's. What had happened? Was this the passage from thc reservoir to thc outlet above? The faMl was simply a natural syphon,' which once started drew- out the water until it was low enough to let air into thc long end of .the tube; when it stopped and took two or more days to fill up and the op eration was repeated. When my Ger man partners punched holes in the rock, they simply added so much space to the reservoir, . causing-it to take longer to fill and'therefore the time was extended to three days. "I, having settled the proposition in my own mind, found the abandoned tunnel running in the right direction and far enough below the floor of the cave to drain it comfortably and quick ly. When we got rid .of the w?ter we simply traced thc vein on the oppo site wall of the cave and went on tak ing it out." Now one word, readers, don't laugh when a man tells you ?. curious story. Don't be ashamed to ask questions. All sucessful men are noted for asking questions and are good listeners when others talk. And last but not least, never bc too old or know too much to let some one else tell you a new wrinkle about your trade.-Sing Sing Star' of Hope. VOLCANOES IN A LAKE. A Kcmnrknb!o IJody or Water Nour tho Mexican Uonndarjr. Squire Redwine, who has been in Phoenix for several days, yesterday described a smoking lake net far from the country where he lives. Thc lake i?-about 49 miles from the town of Im perial and 21 miles south of Mexico. It lies within the Cocopah country ?t the base of the mountains, even belcy* the foothills, but it has not bean there very long. It is on the Mexican side ol' the line. It used to be in California and. was supplied with water by the Chino. River, but the Mexicans dammed that stream and the water was turned into the Cocopah River, which feeds the new lake and does lit tle else. , ' Within the boundaries of the new lake there has been for several years what the Indians believed to be a vol cano. Smoke was almost constantly rising from the ground, but there had been no other sign of an eruption. The water qt the lake now covers the volcano,to a* depth 01 from five to ten feet. Ever since the water has been there, there has been trouble and it is getting worse every day. The Indians have moved from that neighborhood and the whites in thc settlement 20 miles north are thinking of moving. I The lake is about ll miles long, but j not of great width. At first the disturbance was con fined to that part of the water in the vicinity of the volcano, but now the water is boiling over a considerable part of the area and explosions are growing more and more frequent. People living in the neighborhood of Texico are often awakened by them in the night time. Eruptions arc go ing on all the time, bul they arc gen erally of sufficient force only to throw up the water to the height of a few feet. That makes no noise that can be j hoard at any great distance. But oc casionally thc eruption breaks through I the water and shoots mud into thc air at a height of 40 feet. Whenever this happens the noise can be heard and a flame can be seen for miles. It ?vas such demonstrations as these that frightened the Indians away. There ire boats on the lake and parties have started out to the volcano, but they iiave always turned back without com pleting the investigation. One party area of mud 40 feet square thrown 50 feet into the air: Thc level .of this lake isseveral feet below sea level. The whole Cocopah country has been a volcanic region. The side of the mountains and the country for a j considerable distance around are cov ered with sulphur. Within the mem ory of some of the older residents of . Arizona one of the volcanoes in the , mountain lange was active.-Arizona Republican. GUAiNT AND CURIOUS. Three ancient Roman weights were recently found at Rome. They were of green marble, with bronze handles, and ? prove that the Roman pound was equal to three-quarters of a pound avoirdu pois. ' In. Rotomahona, New Zealand, there ir. an immense geyser which covers an area an acre in extent, and constantly throws columns of water to vast heights, some of them ascending three hundred feet, with clouds of steam which, go much higher.. Imagine, if you can, a live-stock train IC 7-8 miles long-numbering 2, 3i'7 cars and containing 34,7S.r> head of cattle, 38,456 hogs and 22,234 sheep, and you will have some idea of th.3 record-breaking day for receipts at the Union Stock Yards. Chicago, on Wed nesday, July 24, 1901. It was thc big est day ever known in the history of this big live-stock mart. The' old custom of giving a purse to the bride at a wedding is still observed in an odd fashion in parts of Cumber land. England. The bridegroom pro vides himself with a number of gold and silver? pieces, and, at thc words, "With all my worldly goods I thee en dow," ' hands the clergyman his fee and pours the other coins into a hand kerchief held by the bride. In other places the bride asks her husband for a gift of money or property on the day after the wedding, and this request he is bound in honor to grant. Wood is to be the newest food, says Heinrich Ren, a professor of chemis try :n Berlin. He has secured a pat ent upon a form of animal fodder which has sawdust as its chief ingre dient. He argues that animals have a decided liking for young shoots, roots of s-luubs, tree bark and other heavy food of thc same nature, and. since experiments have proved that thc nu triment contained in such growth re mains in ii even after it has become wood, he observes that, with a little salt and water added to it, thc saw dust will prove to be a highly nour ishing diet. The other day as D. C. Misner was passing thc Hillsboro (Ind.) Bank :ie saw upon thc sidewalk what ile thought was a snake about a yard in length and of a peculiar color. He struck at the suppesed reptile vilh his walking stick, and was> surprised when the "snake" parted in twain. Upon ex amination il was ascertained that thc peculiar-looking object was made up of myriads of small, wiry worms, each about au inch in length. The mass was lorme.d exactly like a snake and was moving along about as rapidly as a Biiall. Ita ter in the day Mrs. Sir ah ivetcham, rc* ng north of tho town, found a similar mass of wriggling worms ia her dooryard. ! COCCGCOCCCCCCCCCCOCCOCOCO i o .? o j g gtories pout [qsect- g I > Eating Plants | O By J. Carter Beard. O ?OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 33O0.0 o E have all of us beeu accus tomed to wonderful stowes of the wisdom of ants.'^Nl 0 WW A of bees, ns well as other jr worthy members of entomo logical races, that the doubts ^pb. certain scientific Investigators are be ginning (o entert? In with regnrO? to the truth of any assertion that attri butes conscious Intelligence to tk$se little creatures, comes upon our senti mental appreciation ot their ways W$b something ?ike a shock. When we consider the wonder] ul adaptation of means to an end, the $ e vision and the ingenious methods | a ployetl by many sorts of insects! 'n carrying out the purposes and objeifts of their lives, we are indeed inclii to credit them with intelligence of high order. It is only after we', forced to recognize the extreme lim] tions of this so-called intelligence, j inflexible nature, and its inability; adapt itself to other conditions tl those under which it Is habitually/ ordinarily exercised, that Ave recog?! how much is wanting in the belia vi of insects to furnish conclusive e^ dence of their possession of any inti lectunl capacity whatever. Light, for example, attracts insects? general, as it does also plants, ' butSt j does not necessarily follow that visioji, i In thc human sense of the word, b? ? longs either to plants or tb Insects. Intelligence does, Indeed, direct t!*? PLANTS THAT actions of the bee in building her comb lind filling it with honey, and the ant !n her ?wonderful domestic economy; but it is au intelligence quite as much ibove thc plane of conciousness of the bee and of thc ant, as it is above that of the orchid, for instance, in the admirably ingenious manner in which the flower enlists thc aid of the insect In conveying pollen. Reflex actions of this kind mimic intelligence ou the pa. t of the actor, something perhaps as do the movements of thc boat, said to have been invented by Tesla, which, worked by etheric waves, proceeds lu any given direction, turns or dives be neath the surface of the water upon which it floats, not in obedience to any directing power cn Lonrd, but at the will of the person operating a battery on the shore. Take from the cell excavated by a digger wasp, thc grasshopper she has placed there, and upon which she has laid ber egg, and the wasp, after enter ing and exploring the cell, will, instead of restocking it aud laying another egg, calmly close it up, just ns she would have done had it not been robbed. Thc sand wasp (Benihex) cnn unerr ingly return to the entrance to her cell from the distance of a mile or more, over a featureless saud bank, and al though her burrow is covered over with sand, and to human eyes entirely indis tinguishable from the parts surrouud AN INSECT CA.UGIIT IN THE TENTACLES OF DBOSSnA llOTUNDlFOIilS. ing it, thc wasp can alight upon the exact spot, scratch away the sand and enter the nest; but remove the surface, exposing (he cell and the larvae, and Beuibex is entirely at a loss, unable to recognize either her own nest or her own offspring. Nothing can more per fectly show how nh interaction of forces, withom n conscious, directing intelligence, can. in a certain partieu lar way, achieve a inarvolons result while In every other, it results in.cou fusion and failure. The unusual hap pens', and an organism constituted n? is the Benitos, ls thrown out ol' gear much as would to a machine in whicl a cog-wheel lins failed to engage tlie answering cogs of another wheel. There are In plants fully as mau: ingenious devices to attain some de sired end, and ns mnny adaptations to special environments, perhaps, ns among Insects, rinnts, however, root ed ns they are to one spot, and in gen : eral Incapable of movement, exhibit ' contrivance in the only way left them '?: -to dp so, in their habits of growth, and lu the form and arrangement of their parts] as seen, for insrnnce, in the man ner In which ninny provide for the dis tribution of their seed, mid the In ventive faculty, so to speak, shown In the modifications of form in orchid} to secure fertilization. I say in genera} incapable of movement, because thc rule admits of very notable exception*. In the telegraph plant (Dcsnlodiuni gyranus) of India, of the three leaflets of which each of Its leaves are com posed, the larger terminal one erects itself during thc day, and turns sharply down at night, while the other two smaller leaflets move constantly day and night, describing complete circles with n peculiar Jerking motion like the second hand of a watch. Occasionally they rest for a period, and then go on again, thus bringinc every part ol every leaf to the full action of the sun light. Many plants shift the position o? their leaves as the direction of the light changes. This power is possessed to fl considerable degree by some of om common house plants. If nn oxnlb shrub, for Instance, ls exposed for ? time to the light in a window, and tiler, turned half way round, an observe) can by watching, see the leaves read just themselves to their new position In relation to the light. Certain move meurs of plants seem to testify to th? possession by the plants of somethin.? answering to the tactile sense in ani mals. A number of plants besides th? A 5VITZBTI.T/CAUGHT rs TH? TB/U?. ) - EAT INSECTS. common sensitive plant, exhibit appar ent sensibility to external impressions and mani lest also thc power of trans mitting the perception of these impres sions from one part of the plant tc . another. In addition to this power, there are plants which possess a power of discrimination that certainly seems to have as just a claim to be called intelligent as the actions of some in sects. ? If a drop of water or a grain of saud iall? upon the gland-studded leaves of the sundew (Drosera), nothing moro happens that as if they bad beeu ' dropped upon fie leaf of any ordinary plant; but let an Insect or n bit of meat take the place of these Innutri tions substances, and you shall see the tentacular glands gradually beud over, and assisted by the curling \;p of the leaf itself, enfold the esculent morsel, and cover lt with a digestive fluid, which at once dissolves lt and adapts it to be assimilated by the in sect-eating plant--Scientific American. Mr. filiulRtoiie'R Lunch. I "He had a most enviable appetite for plain, nutritious food." said Mr. G. j W. E. Russell, ill his charming dis- ! course on Mr. Gladstone at the Cam bridge summer meeting. "The word reminds rae." writes a correspondent, ' "of n luncheon party at Hawarden ! Castle a year or two before Mr. Glad- ? stone's death. He was then, by medi- j cal orders, on very simple diet iudeed. j nod while we others partook of nil j sorts of dainty dishes he ate his boiled j fish and milk pudding without a word or sigh, giving us meanwhile one of thone delightful sparkling 'mono logues' to which Mr. Russell refers. Toward the end of the meal, however, I noticed that Mr. Gladstone lost a little of his smiling serenity, and once or twice looked around somewhat fur tively to see it' tlie man behind his chair had departed. When this event had nt last taken place the old man rose with a twinkle in bis eyes, went to the sideboard, cut himself a sub stantial 'crust' off of the loaf, helped himself to a plentiful supply of cheese, and while w*? toyed with hothouse grapes and peaches, be ate the 'forbid den fruit' With Hie relish of a school boy."-Westminster Gazette. Niuo Mon und ii Tailor. Once upon n time there was a iailoi who had only nine customers, but as the uiue were very wealthy men, whe wore n great many suits of clothe* eacli season, and were not at all par ticular as to bow much they paid foi thom, he succeeded In accumulating a fortune In il few years. Moral.-Nine men can make a tailor, if they only spend enough.-New York Herald. _ Wild KIcplmnlK G mw Source. It is estimated Ililli there are fewel Ulan IO.O?0 wild e'vphanls left in al the eouuiries on thc rlobc, ami Hint llvi of these will bu kill -d off where one.li born. It is n nial er of only a fey years when tho bisl must go. A single pair ol* i dibits can multipl iu four years to 1,S.H).IXW Napoleon's Magic Table We Great Curiosity Now Owned $3: by a Noble Swedish &l Family. wig y APOLEON'S magic table is \ one of tlic greatest curiosities _1 \ f1*0111 the time of tlie' Grand 6 Emperor, -who bad it in bis study at the Castle of St. Cloud. After the death of Napoleon it -was bought TOP OF NAPOL In London by liaron Rehausen, Swed ish Ambassador to the Court of St. James at that time. It is now owned through inheritance, says thc Strand Magazine, by one of the foremost fami lies of the Swedish nobility. Inside the drawer of thc table is pasted an old slip on which is printed a description, NAPOLEON'S MAGIC TABLE; , .- ....1 f./Tl??l) VP?l?ls ?S tcilows: "The Emperor Napoleon was highly delighted with this extraordin ary work of art. It formed the surface of one of the tables i ii his study, and was always shown lo all foreigners of; distinction who visited the imperial court. It is a painting, whose resem blance to what it represents ls the most Illusive ever produced by the genius of man. One may look at this strange production of art in different lights the pieces of money, the fragment or broken glass, the penknife, water and cards retain an equally illusive appear ance as the observer moves round tin? table-but It requires a very minute ex amination to discover all the truly magical wonders lt possesses." In these times, when relics of Napoleon I. arc eagerly sought for, the present whereabouts and the picture of this masterpiece should certainly interest all connoisseurs. Tullor ?t??a?uroinontH by Phof oE"M>liy. A new method of measuring for tail ors has been patented in Paris. The person to be measured is placed before the camera, ?ind between them is intro duced a network that it photographed nt the same time and serves as a stand ard. Certain articles are necessary to obtain a.complete result; thus, certain hidden parts, like the armpits, etc.. must be indicated by objects visible TUKODOUIO ROUSE from without, and. finally, several views must. be taken from various standpoints. The subject is also fitted with a sort of harness which indicates points of comparison. These points may, however, be marked directly on the person instead. The relative posi tions of tho camera, the network, and tho subject are carefully adjusted so that the subject appears always on the same scale, and then the photograph is taken from the various necessary standpoints.-St. James's Gazette. Jenlouft Homans. The Villa Borghese, whose cool, shady park is the daily promenade of fashionable Roman society and the rc sort of many Americans, has just been EON'S MAGIC TABLE. offered for sale, and ls tile centre of the deepest interest in the Eternal City. Tho park'is private property, but by tile will of Cardinal Scipl?? his heirs are obliged to keep Hie park open io the public, and at the same time to keep the property in good order. Tlie cost of keeping up such a domain is Immense, and the villa is heavily mortgaged. Recently the property was put up at auction, but no offers were made. Speculators are kept away by the conditions attached. The Kornaus are very tenacious of the rights given to them by their fellow citizen. Cardi nal Scipion, and will not hear of allow ing one of the venerable old trees to be cut down and the land divided into j building lots.-New York Times. ltouteri the Enemy. Counsel, too, have their private luncheon room in the courts, and apro pos of this I may tell what I believe is au unpublished Lockwood story. One sanctum was invaded by a gnuut female who upou being courte ously approached by thc junior flatly declined to leave. Thereupon au un blusing Q. C. looked the lady in the face and expressed his mind. Still she l^f-frrtiT- w- w ..^ -- " innig unseemly'lu this lady's pres ence," quoth he. ' She wears a gown, and-3ros, I'm pretty sure that she also wears a wig." The lady went-London Ta tier. Hollian Spoons. These spoons, used by Romans, bail pointed ends to usc in drawing snails from their shells. Illinois capitalists have bought up the big marshes opposite New Orleans on 1lie Mississippi, and.propose to reclaim them after the manner prevailing in Holland. -: In Frussia, during" iTie year 1 OOO. .r)2")7 males and 14?.'> females committed suicide. . V ELT ON HIS UL NT EB. When Tom was twenty, people said: , "He is a model youth. Be like bim, little children: he Is Industry and truth." 'j Now Tom b forty.-Yesterday W? beard a mother shoat: "That boogee man'il get you j II you j .Don't - - - ; Watch i Out!" ? -Indianapolis San. HUMOROUS Van Dabble-This is my latest pic ture; I sold it yesterday. Visitor Indeed? You are a genius! "Elinks asserts that he always tell? the truth." "So he does, but unfor tunately, he seldom stops there." Nell-Did Miss Billyuns act as il it was a severe blow when she didn't get the prince? Belle-Yes; she took the count. Miss Oldgirl-Do you care for pet dogs? Mr. Oldbach-Well-er-yes, when they are stuffed and placed in glass cases. Housen-What's wrong, old chap? Forgot something? Lotts-Yes; con found it! And that isn't all, I've for gotten what I forgot! Wigg-A woman can generally be depended upon to hit the nail on the head. Wagg-Yes; even though it may be her finger nail. "Pa, what does a diplomat mean when he speaks of 'expediency?' " "Usually, my son, it means that hia diplomacy bas failed." . "You dentists may be pretty smart, but you can't improve on nature," said the man in the chair. "Oh, yes we can," replied the dentist. "The teeth we make never ache." Sharpe-I have invented a revolver for shooting cats. Wheaton-Is lt different from any other revolver? Sharpe-Yes; it is a nine-shooter-a shot for each of a cat's lives. "Say," said the first messenger boy, " 'Snaketoothed Sam, the Desert De mon,' is a pretty long story, ain't it?" "Naw," replied the other. "Yer kiu dc it easy in two messages." Angler-Is this a good place to fish? Boy-I guess it is. "What can you catch here?" "I don't know, but it must be a great place for the fish, 'cause I never see any of 'em leave it." Old Gentleman-So you think my daughter loves you, slr; and you wish to marry her? Dudeleigh-That's what I called to see you about Ia there any insanity in your family? Old Gentleman-No, sir; and there's not going to be any. Benevolent Old Gentleman (point ing a moral to village school children) -Now, why do I take all the trouble to leave my house and .lome over here and speak to you thus? Can any boy tell me? Bright Child (innocently) Please, sir, it's because ye like to hear, abvuv VUUb uxovui nevi UUTCI asked the publisher. "No good at all," answered the reader to whom lt had been assigned. 'The man doesn't understand how to write historical novels, and he hasn't perverted the truth as we know it euough to make any kind of a rumphs among the critics. His book would fall flat." Improved Golf Cuddy. Interest is being shown by the golf ers of the local clubs in an improved caddy bag, says the Providence, R. L, Journal. The new carrier has a round base, with a steel rod running through the centre. At the top of this rod is a circle of flexible rubber, in which there are eight indentations for holding thc club3. At the base, which is of wood and leather, are eight holes corresponding to the in dentations, in whicn the grip ends of the clubs rest, the top of the clubs, of course, fitting In the rubber at the top of the shaft. Through the rod in the centre runs a smaller steel ono, which is sharpened at the end, and when the player wishes to set the carrier down to extract a club for playing a stroke, he pushes this brass rod into the earth by means of the h&ndle of the carrier attached to the inner rod. and whether the carrier is on level or slanting ground it will re tain its upright position ready for the player to take it up without effort and continue his play across the green. In the wooden base is a circular cav ity fitted to hold eight balls. One of the best features of the new carrier lg the arrangement for preventing the clubs from warping. The straight steel shaft with the base and upper holder always holds the clubs in firm position, and when one returns from playing around a wet course, where the moisture from the grass has gathered on the shafts of the clubs, he can still throw his carrier where he chooses and the shaft remains straight and even. The flexible bag allow? the clubs to warp. Tlie Stormy Petrel. The petrel is usually named the stormy petrel. The bird is. under the rame of Mother Carey's chicken, the terror of the sailor, who always con siders the bird as the procursor ol a storm. It is the smallest of the web footed birds. Few storms are violent enough to keep the winged creature from wandering over the waves in search of the food that the disturbed water casts to the surface. Like the fulmar, thc petrel is so exceedingly oily in texture that the inhabitants cf the Feroe Islands draw a wick wick through its body and use lt as a, lamp. _ Tricks of Reir?*ra. A bec^ar's league in St. Petersburg mutilates children and cripples them to arouse sympathy from the benevo lent when they are sent to beg in pub lic places. Tho chief of this gang, who is a wealthy man and has posed as a philanthropist, receives 75 per cent of the money begged by the poor people. DUiippr' >ted. "I think," said t historical novel ist, "that I shall n >t put any history into my book." "Oh. Percival," his wife said, "I was so in hopes that you would make your next book different from your others." -Chicago Record-Herald. When a man finds himself in a hole be must expect his friends to look down on mm