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VOL. LXVII.
EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1902.
NO. 42.
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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.
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j g gtories pout [qsect- g
I > Eating Plants |
O By J. Carter Beard. O
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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