Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 28, 1903, Image 1
|THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA
L. C. HAYNS, Pres't. P. G. FORD, Cashier.
Capital, $250,000.
Surplus and -
Undivided 1'rofits
M
?littles of our magnificent Kew Vault I
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? $125,000
VOL. LXVIII.
EDGEFIELD, S. C..
A SONG Ol
A mermaid sat on a moss-gowned rook,
Sing ho! for the belle of the sobbing sea!
She flipped a kiss at a jabberwock,
And flirted her tall in glee,
j She flashed a smile at a circling auk,
And shook the spray from her scaly froo'x
And the sunbeams bunched in a prize cake
walk
Her tresses of filigree.
A merman swam to tho rock's damp base,
Sing ho! for the dade of the sad sea wave!
And ne swam around with aquatic grace
And a word with the maid did crave.
Bhe smiled through tho spumo on her girl
ish faop,
And her brown eyes googled to flt the case,
And she slid on the rock to make a place
For the prince from a coral cave.
Dne arm encircled hor scaly waist.
Sing bv! Tor the gall the follow had!
And the salt of her hps he did boidiy taste
And said it was not hajf bad.
3e told her a sweater one never graced
"he shell-decked halls of the wild sea
waste
o maid moro lovely, no maid more chaste
From Trisco to Ba?ydad.
e maidon listened as.maidens will,
ing hoi for th? ears of the tru-tful dove!
A Bargain o
By riARGAR]
opa, going down the stairs, met
i coming up. Both girls were
and both were slight of figure
r of face. But Philippa was
nd her eyes sparkled, while
s drooping lashes rested on a
; delicately pale and trauspar
h* leaf of a jasmine flower,
room somewhere in the up
of the housD there issued a
.: t of noise and confusion
,4ung of chairs across the floor
p . cf small b it vigorous feet,
ir . of small but determined
..r through all a curious, in
DI id like the shrilling of some
..asset.
etulein," said Phiiippa, laugh
. frowning and puckering her
louth into a little pout of dis
am glad you have come! Now
ll be some peace. I went in to
h the'children a few minutes
arie was busy.
ught I would try a little kin
aing all to myself; but they
espect for me as soon as they
ut that I didn't know how
he king's crown. Then I tried
. cm a story about the bee.
ained'about its being such a
little insect, and gathering
>m every opening flower, and
and then I told the children
ey were little bees themselves,
JW busy and happy they could
you came.
;en I went out of the room a
nd1 what did . jmmy do but
juzz'and bumble so_lo.ud you
'*.... ' ?piH-selt:,fhiiV. tfndl.'g?:
; - ^un'G the rcom bumping '
^"-1 fllM&KT- ' ' TI l r"- -,
Fanay'g^aHhe-^gerTC^ag^ ;
bumuTe f?'Sf &fti ''Tfi^y^ ?s?ll '
p against the Angel so hard
fell >wn and began to cry.
ink ey're playing bee yet.
how o you manage when
thin ; that way?"
. tren ;led on Evelina's pale
rather perplexing," she said;
aink we can straighten it out
t, and make the bee useful, af
you " can straighten it out, of
-. ' cried Philippa, "because you
now! I- suppose-it must be
.he experience, isn't it?"
ippose so," said the other, sim
ad soberly. "The knowing how
ood deal, of course."
. then she went on up the stairs
. Philippa went on down, smiling
inging to herself. They were vel
vet-carpeted stairs, and the hall was
wide and softly lighted by the stained
glass window on thc landing.
In the parlor sat Philippa's mother,
talking to a visitor, who listened with
an anxious expression of countenance
and an evident effort not to appear ab
sent-minded. Mrs. Somers perceived
this presently.
"Oh, you're thinking about the chil
dren," she said, smiling easily. "Don't
let them worry you; they will be quiet
immediately. Fraulein has just come
^r?^their governess-and they are al
ways good with her. They just adore
her-a perfect treasure, Cousin Jose
phine! It's wonderful how we happened
to ge.: her, and at such a price, too!"
"She is a kindergartner?" asked th?
visitor.
"Yes, and thoroughly trained-sup
erior in every way, we think. I call
her one of Philippa s bargains. Philip
pa jot her, of course. She is the clev
erest child about such matters-always
picking up the prettiest things for her
self for almost nothing; and she seems
to have picked up Fraulein in much
the same way.
"You see, when Fraulein-not that
she's German, but we call her that
because the last one was, and so it's
easier to remember; her name is
Dodd or Dobbs or something, I forget
well, she lost some position-that sh?
expected to have in the fall, I believe
and so was glad enough to come here
Philippa happened to hear of her, anc
we congratulate ourselves every day oi
being so fortunate. Philippa, dear
come in!" she called, hearing the girl'!
light step outside
She looked np proudly at her tal
daughter, whose smile was as sunnil;
sweet and good humored as her own.
"Now, mamma," cried Philippa, gai
ly, when Cousin Josephine was gon(
"put on your little bonnet right awaj
and come with me and see my 'shut-ir
people! And then, this afternoon, i
you're not too tired, there's just th
sweetest bit of a hat at Madame Mej
er's. I saw it yesterday-precise!
what I want to go with my green suit
and such a bargain!"
Off they went presently, with a ru?
tie of silken skirts and a ripple <
merry talk and laughter.
.At one o'clock Evelina -met the:
coming home to luncheon. She wi
just leaving thc house, and Mrs. Son
ers stopped her on the steps. _yZ
? "Were the children good to-day?" si
asked kindly. "You look a little pal
Fraulein. You must take care ofi you
We cannot have you getting sic
lat would the children d
\
? ? ?. \
F THE SEA.
Ah! aweet ia the taste of the tomptor'? pill
Whea coated with sugared love!
He tickled her ear with a sea-gull's quill
The gull with the song so sharp and sririll
And his words to the maid were of sweeter
trill
Than a melody from above.
But a handsomer mermaid swam anear,
Sing ho! for the flirt that butted in!
And.the merman dived in the waters clear,
Say, wa'n't it a bloomin' sin!
And he swam away with his new-Iound
dear,
And the maid on the rock shed a briny tear,
And sho dug his words from her o'er-fed
ear
with the polat of her dorsal fin.
Alone on the moss-gowned rock sat she.
Sing ho! for the girlie that got the shake!
And she said: "Waat chumpies wo mergirls
be!
That guy was a bloomin' fake!
There are just as good mei fellows in the
sea
As ever were caught, now you hear me!
But for beautiful Gall wi h a full grown G
That suoozer can have the cake!"
-Denver Post.
f Philippa's. %
ET JOHNSON. S
"Her eyes look tired," said Philippa,
thoughtfully.
"But the hours are short," said her
mother, easily. "She ought to be able
to rest enough in the afternoon to be
fresh for her*work in the morning.
"Oh, no, I can't get sick! I can't get
sick!" said Evelina, as she walked
away. 'They prize'me so!" A little
j bitterness was in her smile. She tuck
ed the little threadbare fingers of her
gloves closer into her shabby muff,
the spring air being raw and chilly, and
hurrying swiftly down the crowded
avenue-for car fares.count up fast
and must he saved-turned down into
a side street, where there shone the
tempting windows of a modest restau
rant.
She ate her luncheon here and hur
ried back, not home, but to the crowd
ed avenue again, and toward the very
store to which Philippa, after a hur
ried luncheon, had already hastened
in her carriage. And so it chanced that,
seated in the inner room of Madame
Meyer's Fashionable Emporium, trying
on the bit of a hat, while Stubs, whom
she had brought with her, investigated
with equal enjoyment some silken
flowers left within his reach, Philippa,
in the mirror, saw the reflection of
Evelina entering the door.
"So the little Fraulein must have a
spring hat. too!" she smiled. And then
she frowned in wonder, for the little
Fraulein had slipped away somewhere
aixi taken off her wraps, and now was
moving about in her trim black gown
..ai-if-she belonged there; and-yes, was
larking to a customer who had just
^^^j^f??ft^^hilippa, sitting np
is that you^glady in tho front room
trying the red and purple bonnet on
the fat lady with the gray hair, who
ought to knew better?"
"That,' said madame, glancing up,
"that is Miss Dobb. You know her,
mademoiselle?"
."I-yes-but I didn't know-is she a
saleswoman here?' stammered Philip
pa.
"Sometimes," said madame, cautious
ly. "Eh bien- Those leafs-'
"Oh, never mind the hat!" Philippa
cried, impatiently. "I want to know
about that girl-who is she? Tell me,
please!"
Madame's keen black eyes changed
and softened with ready feeling.
"Truly?" she said. "You care to know?
It is not much to tel!. She is a little
teacher, this poor Miss Dodd. She and
her mother have live more than a year
in the same house with me. She love
her teaching, oh, so much! And she
have study three, four years, to fit her
self. But in the fall, she tel me. she
have lose the situation she expec', be
cau?e she was so seeck, oh, ver', ver'
seeck! And the medicines and doctors,
and at last the hospital, they eat up all
her money, her little savings, pauvre
petite!
"And when she was all cure her
courage it is gone, and all the schoo*"
are fill. There is no place-the? sh?
must take what she can e<^- JJllt- >'es
the private pupils- mademoiselle, thej
do not payb.cr well, those peoplt
,hc Tca'di. She have not tell rm
y are, but they have money
y do not pay her half whai
she is wort', I know. They do no1
unnerstand bow she have work, hav<
study, for the know. So now she corni
to me to sell the hats. That, it is new
but she is quick, and in the busy times
the afternoons, she work for me. But i
is hard, that!" She shrugged her shoul
ders and spread her hands with an elo
quent gesture of generous indignation
Philippa's cheeks had turned as pin:
as the roses in her hat. She sat quit
still gazing at her reflection in th
glass and the little black figure movin
to and fro in the dim background.
"Thank you," madame," she san
briefly, when the voluble millint
paused, her ample bosom heaving wit
the warmth of her generous feeling
"It is-Lard, as you say; but thini
like that do happen, I suppose. Aboi
the hat-"
"Parfaite, I do assure you!" cri(
madame, returning to the subject wit
a facile grace. "And then, the prii
-consider! Twenty dollars for a h
worth-"
Philippa's cheeks grew pinker sti
and a flash of something proud, indi
nant, came into her ey *s.
"Yes, I will take the hat," she sai
"and pay, if you please, madame, whs
ever it is worth. I believe I am-si
or bargains! Please send it home 1
j morrow, with the bill. Come, Stut
Good afternoon, madame!"
She swept away with dignity, t
fascinated Stubs dragged after her
one. -reluctant hand, and left madai
bewildered by her sudden change
mood.
j "0 Ph'ippa!" shouted Stubs,
c^i-short legs makin? heroic efforts to ki
up with his sister? rapid pa^e.
(?e Ph'ippa! I saw Fwauicin-1 saw Fwi
e lein in the mlll'iier's shop!"
Tl "Indeed! You don't say so!"
k. turned Philippa, with polite surpr:
o? "Strange. So did I!"
"She's got no burfday, Fwaul
has!" His shrill, small voice
trated above the roar of the ?
"She told us so-tomorrow-a bu
Fwaulein has!"
"Indeed!" Philippa said again,
ly. "What are you going to giv<
Stubs?" She turned -non him w
sudden and discor rting sev
"You're going to give uer somct
What shall it be? Flowers, Stubs?
es, violets, candy, Stubs?"
"Cawamels!" shriked Stubs, in
tasy. "Cawamels and choc'let cwez
pounds an' pounds!"
"Pounds and pounds!" e<
Philippa, recklessly. "And flo
too! O Stubs, we'll make it up tc
my dear-somehow we'll make j
to her!"
And then Stubs caught the no
something strange and sorry in hi?
ter's voice, and looking up, h
tears in Philippa's merry eyes.
She was all ready for Evelina
next morning when that unsuspe
young person came up the stairs a
and pausing at the door of the Iii
where Mrs. Somers sat, tapped s
and came in.
The little "Fraulein's" delicate
was paler than usual, and her <
manner was a trifle flurried.
"I thought, Mrs. Somers," she b
-"I have been thinking for some
that I ought to tell you-I am afr;
shall not be able to go out with
children. I-"
"Oh, is that you, Fraulein?"
Philippa, coming out casually from
hind the window curtain, and ta
a position of much firmness and di
ty beside the b!g table in the midd!
the room. "Mamma will excuse
You know it is I who made the
rangement with you in the first pl
so if you are going to resign or i
thing, will you please do it to n
"Oh," said Evelina, flushing fair
"I was going to say--' She looked ?
fully at Mrs. Somers, /who, smil
rose and -left tiTiTfeooi. and then
turned to Philippa with'an-?^?SlJ
doubt and distress in her face;
that perverse young lady was unrac
"I don't think, however, that it
necessary for you to go on," obser
Philippa, lightly, playing with a par
knife which lay upon the table, "
cause I know what you are going
say. I should have spoken to you a:
way this morning. I saw you yesterd
Fraulein, at Madame Meyer's; a
frankly, to teil you the truth, I do
see how you can carry on millin<
and kindergartening, successfully,
the same time."
"I can't," said Evelina, with a 1
tie rueful smile. "That's just the trc
ble. I thought I could-I hoped so; L
I am not very strong, and now-"
"And there is another thing, Fra
lein," continued Philippa, judicial!
"I was going to speak to you tod;
because-I am very sorry \SJ?????SS?
but we have ^r^^JgaB??Bm
we-havq_nc> -.
. ^c^-satisfi?d?'^affiHBHBBHI
back a little, the crimson color comii
up in her white cbeei. "Indeed, ye
have said, and Mrs. Somers, that yt
found ray work-"
"Oh, not your work," said Philipp
with a haughty wave of the papa
kniie. "It is-to be quite frank wi'
you, Fraulein-it is thc terms that a
not satisfactory to us."
"Thc-terms!" said Evelina.
The terms," repeled Philippa, firn
ly. She avoided the other's astonish<
and incredulous eyes.
"Miss Somers." said Evelina, after
moment, her voice a little shaken, "
seems to me there must be some mi
take. I always supposed you knew;
thought surely you understood that
came to you for scarcely half whar.
ought, what I should usually receiv
It was so late, you know, and I need*
-why, that is why I have to go
Madame Meyer's! I-"
"Exac-tly!" said I'hilippu, with spiri
"That is just what I object to. Why c
you do it? What right have you to ?
on teaching my little brothers and si
ters for scarcely more than half wh;
you are worth. It isn't fair, it isr
right; and I can't have it go on ar
longer, Fraulein, clo you understand?
person like you. who knows aboi
kings' crowns and saltcellars and.cit
and^j??*^1101' how to make
' Wr?tTOed bee useful instead of demora
'""izing! Oh, I learned something yeste
1 day-you needn't think-"
"Miss Somers!" said Evelina. H
voice was very quiet. "Miss Somers!
J "It is the knowing how!" said Ph
5 lippa, sternly, emphasizing her won
' with vicious stabs of her weapon im
t the felt table-cover. "You have work?
b for it and studied for it; and that ye
' should go on using it up on Stubs ar
5 Tommy and Fanny and the Angel f<
' - It's absurd! If you want to stay hei
' Fraulein, and work over their your
1 ideas, you'll have to agree to do it f<
" -what it's worth; or else you may g
" and sell hats all the rest of your lif
L; if you want to! I don't care!"
'? "Miss Sonws!" Evelina said agar
e Philippa looked, and what she saw i
e the little Fraulein's smiling, tremuloi
^ face, the comprehension, wonder, r
lief and gratitude, went to her girlis
J* heart.
J "Fraulein-Miss Dodd," she sai
earnestly, dropping her defiant ma:
ner as she did her paper-knife, "
5! mean it, truly! We didn't know, mar
1 ma and I, we didn't understand; ai
>d it was all my fault, because I didr
'h stop to think. And now, if you wou
" stay and let us make it up to yo
at Miss Dodd, and pay you what it
worth-to you-to us-"
"Miss Somers," Evelina began on
' more; but the rest of her reply w
be forever among the secret things
id unwritten history, for at that mome
t' the voice of Stubs was heard in tl
Ck halL
o- "He saved thc situation, mamma
,s! said Philippa, telling about it afte
ward; "just barely saved it. For fro
he the way that Fraulein looked, I kne
by in another minute she would ha
tne cried, and if she had, I don't dou
of that I should have too. But with Stu
and Tommy, yelling like little demoi
his and Fannie and the Anp
op tumbling over their bouque
"0 and having to bc picked up and pctte
au- and all of them explaining at the ti
of their lungs that it. was FrauJ^
re- birthday, and offering her^^
?3R. creams and kisses, wejdjtH
bs very tragic. So^^?
ein ter take her i]^?m
and she thought she would, and-j
all.
"But I'd like you to underj
marum- " Philippa concluded in
sively, "that I haven't lost my vi
tion, because sue is a bargain. *
ever we may pay for her she'll be
more, as you'd know yourself i
should spend one single morning
nursery with Stubs!"-Youth's
panion.
STRANGER THAN FICTIONS
Stories Wholly Different from Anj
Kefore Sren in J'rint.
[From the Chicago Tribune.]
TUE MAX AND TUE PHOTOORArnJ
"This is only the first print
the negative," said the photogrs
"When we have retouched the
none of these wrinkles will sho\f?
"If they don't," replied the mj?|
aged man who had sat for his porH
"I won't take the photograph^
want them to look e<actly like
I STRANGE CASE OF MR. BKILES.
For years the Rev. Samuel Ski)
Ripley, Brown county, UL, had
annoyed by a large and conspij
wart on the back of his hand.
In the effort to remove it ht
tried everything he had ever he?
or could think of, short of ampu^.
the hand, but in vain. The wart clu
At last a member of his congrega
told him that if he would rub it
a grain from a red ear of corn, a
same time saying: "Leave me,
and never come back!" and then
the grain of corn, the wart
disappear for good.
Mr. Skiles followed the prescri
faithfully, although he said he h
faith that it would drive the
away.
It didn't
THE MYSTER/Jug KENTUCKIAN.
"Berkele;',*-said a we]1 ]{nown h0T.?
man yesterday morning, at one of fi
down town hotels, as he introduce
?Ifquaintance to a distinguished
ing stranger in a broad brimmec
rnd long frock coat. "I want ye
enow my friend Bludraw of
tuck}'."
"Gi'id to know you. Col. Bludr
said the man addressed as Berkel
"I am not a colonel, sir," replk
other, stiffly.
GUAINT AND CURIOUS.
An inmate of an insane asylum]
Vienna has to be closely watched
prevent him from standing on
head, which he wants to do all
time.
Novel first-aid-to-the-injured box?1
are to be scattered in the streets
Paris, France. Outwardly the appaf
ot us resembles a lamp post letter box
il contain- - n..^rn?lL^medicini
Of the four hundred inscribed da*
dabs found in the ruins of BabyleS3r
the expedition sent out by the Germai
Oriental society, but two have ye
been deciphered, one explaining tb<
Babylonian cuneiform characters an<
the other containing the litany chant
ed by tho singers of the temple of Es
agila on the return of the god Mai
duk to his sanctuary.
It was disclosed by examination
made In the Washington city pcs
office, covering a period of about/tw
and a half months, that 979,820 plied
of paid matter and 5,900,000 pi^ces^
unpaid (or "franked") matter/ o?
classes went through, the unpa id
ter on some days running as ligj
135.000, 127,000, 126,000, 125,000
122,000 pieces, while the percen^
per day would often go to amout
crawling up as high as 93 percent
single day, and averaging 85 )3-4
cent every day.
In looking through any oW pa
register in England one discovers
a certain period a large number of tra
ial entries, in whi li lt isflnentio
that the deceased was buried in vs
en. There .vas passed in 1678 an ?
4-sepi'iri?..> on po?n n- "i" $-5 tl|
arr* affidavit ..ould be made wit!
eight dajs after a death, before a j
tice of the peace or a minister of
ligion, that the deceased was buri|
only in wool. Its object was the c.
couragement of a native industry 1
the lessening of the importation
linen from beyond the seas. ~-_
A rather curious performance h
just been made with an automobile
Copenhagen. Thc town posses**"
circular lower 100 feet in pcig!
which was formerly used for / ast
rtomicaj^jjiu-poses. Its top lr or
retfimed by ascending a spiral p;
sage 12 feet bread, which winds 1
tween the outer wall of the tower a
an inner circular wall. An auton
bile of five horse-power, weighing J
pound?, and carrying three perso
ascended the tower recently by t
passage, taking one minute to do i
journey, and afterward making 1
much more dangerous descent m
equal success. It is of interest to
call that the Czar Peter the Great,
visiting Copenhagen in 1716, made|
same ascent and descent in a
riage drawn by four horses.
A Httleadlng Verb.
A clergyman of Philadelphia, a
ower with seven grown-up daughj
left home for Phoenixville, his n(
town, and wrote back that he had
news which would surprise them,
had just married a widow witt
children. Tho seven grown-up dj
tors had an awfiil^ time until
turned-alone.
One of them mustered u
ask "Where is our
heaven, I hope." "Eut f
ow with six children
rried." "Oh, I married^
man."-Philad
There is n?
the leasts
"This
mber Chests and Their Con
tents Get the Hardest
KindJolts.
lt tue Sandy Hook rroving
??uuds the tests of charged shells for
I guus are severe ia the extreme,
er they are carefully inspected on
val from the factory, they arc
Ked in a-new limber chest, just" ns
[hey were to be carried ou a long
Jch across a rough country. The
I wheh follows applies equally to
Jchest and its contents. The front
|k of the gun carriage, to which
chest is attached, ls taken from
[tongue and wheels, and the axle
sade fast to a platform strongly
Jt of bard wood. This platform nts
the bed of au oscllating table, but
ls a play of about eighteen inches on
ie bed lengthwise of the axle, and a
similar, play of about a foot at right
ogles to the axle.
The bed or table in which the pta't
^e-t^^?frr^'fr winni"- th"*, axle -is
slides to tho lower end o^ the
in which it plays, and strikes the
per with the full force, of Its
rht of approximately t* ? and
momentum it ga1 SM o
t or o fojjt-and n , '? .
tilts back, iii?fc-t ix pintie*,
.jg against the opWtc bumper
7 a thud that jars tue earth, and
operation is repeated three times a
ute for fully twofoty-four hours,
i chest and its o/ntcnts thus get
'?bout 0000 jolts. niTy one ol' which
? tardfcht be expected' to break open :i
J .nuidar proof saf.'. and iL' not a bolt
^4?3tartod in ilic chest and thc amimiiu
1Viii i has not exploded the chest is re
? ! poi ted all right and the ammunition
> lids probably satisfactory.
Tfce test of .he limber chest ends wah
t two days of an ingeniously crue]
cession of thunderbolts. It is con
:red suitable for mountain roads
it las undergone this prolonge'
hqmke. and its exposure to n
.rainstorms and other meteorologi
vigarics for about a week, after
;t is more in the nature'of a res
general cooling off than a furthe
-Thc ammunition, however has mor
- i haiti treatment in store. It unes inti
iJlJtt^: swentbox, a c!ian:be:' of tort ui t
' J^hjro the temperature is lot) degree
nH8 tho humidity is uinety-llve, am
IrJiore it si ays a monti). If th,? ose!'
| !ator! has opened any seams or crack
p?a ti$e shell case, tho moisture of th
box will find its way in
[the charge. "When thc nmmu.
[comes out of the sweat lit
Whitfield's Pulpit.
Visitors at the rooms of the Amer- j
lean- Tract Society, in Nassau street,
says the New York Sun, lately have
been confronted by a queer sort of
wooden cage on stilt-like legs. Those
who looked twice saw tacked on it
this sign:
I GEORGE . WHITFIELD'S
. PULPIT. i
m
Tho frame ls about sj* feet high,
with the floor of, the vcS?\t about three
feet from thc gvojpmT The wood is
said to be bla^cJc^wnlnut, but age nud
successive j&nts of paint4 satin and
varnish have done much to li'de its
identity.
The most striking feature <tf the pul
pit is the number of hasps, hooks and
hinges which bind ifs frame. Those
who have charge of the relic are quick
to call attention to this fact and to
offer thc explanation that thc pulpit
is of- the folding variety. It was con
structed in that way so that It could
easily be carried in a wagon or even
a strong man.
UBER CHESTS FULL OF FIXED
HON.
It has been exhibited only a" few
|hncs in this country, once at the Cen
muial Exhibition itt Philadelphia, in
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A SKETCH
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at Chic'so:
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FRANCE TO HAVE
Design of M. Roty's "T
France is to have a new stamp which
will be symbolical, the Figaro pre
dicts in making the aunouceuient, of
tbe national artistic taste. The design
to be employe* is the beautiful figure
of "The P'^rf' by Rory, the well
known f -graver of French medals. It
is already used on some French coius.
KI. Trouillot, who succeeded M. inlier
md as Minister of Commerce, Posts
and Telegraphs, has followed up the
proposals of bis---predecessors aud
adopted M. Roty's ?T?b^Jtor the na
tional stamp. M. Roty as-^designer
of commemorative medals has hardly
an equal. He is the author of a medal
struck in 1S01 typifying the Franco
American union. The actual work of
jngraving the stamp has been intrust
ed to KI. Mouehon, one of the French
masters of the art.
BRAVES GF THE FKE3IDEN?5.
RUTHERFORD Ii. HAVES.
A monument made of granite quar
ried at Hummerston Mountain. In Ver
nont, near scenes dear to the Hayes
"amily, was erected in ISSI, in Oak
vood Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio, by ex
?resident Rutherford B. Hayes, on the
leath of his wife. Since then he, too,
las been interred there.
he Sower" to Be Used.
Automatic Speed Regulator.
The subject of this article is an ira
proved fire escape, which does not
pend upon the coolness and nerve of
men to put it in operation or regulate,
it when once in action. Recent loss
of life by fire shows there is still an
unfilled want in this direction, and
John Williams submits the invention
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