Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 28, 1903, Image 2
THE NATIONAL BM OF AUGUSTA
L. C. HAYNB, Pres't. F. G. FORD, Cashier.
[ Capital, $250,000.
I Surplus and ) <M OC (](]()
J Undivided Profits \ S> .
i Facilities of our magnificent New Vault
{containing 410 .-afoty-lJock Boxes. Diffor
lent Sizes aro oflored'to our patrons and
I tho public a; $3.00 to $10.00 j>er annum.
VOL. LXVII?.
EDGEFIELI), S. C.. WESDAY. JANUARY 28. 1903.
NO. 5.
A SONG 0
A mermaid sat on n moss-gowned rock,
Sin? ho! for tho belle of tho sobting sea!
Shellippod a kiss at a jabborwock,
And liirted her tail in ?lee.
She flashed a smile at a circling auk,
And shook the spray from her scaly frock
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 dude of tho sad sea wave!
And he swam around with aquatic grace
And a word with the maid di l crave.
She Bmiled through tho spume on her girl
ish fae;-,
And her brown eyes googled to fit the eas?,
And she slid on the rock to make a placo
For the prince from a coral cave.
Une arm encircled ho-scalv waist.
Sin;; lu! for tba gall lb? fellow hud!
And the ?alt ot her lipa he di l boldly taste
And sail it was not hall bad.
le told Uer a gweoier ono novar graced
'he she?-deckod halld cf tho wild sea
waste -
o maid mon? lovely, no maid more chasto
From Tr.ico to Saiiydad.
p maid.-u listened as.maidens will,
ing hu! for tho cars of the tru-tful d-cve!
A Bargain o
By riARGAR
opa. going down the stairs, met
. coming up. Buih giris were
and be;: h were slight of figure
r of face. D:t Pidlippa was
nd her eyer; sparkled, while
s drooping lashes ?ested on a
: delicately pale and trar.s'iar
h* laaf of a jasmine dowe:',
?v.orr. somewhere in t lie up
ii' the houso lhere- issued a
. t of noi.xe ar.;! confusion
s-iig ci chairs across the floor
r cf small ha! vigorous feet,
ir . of small but determined
r through all a citric ?s. bl
ot id like the shrilling of some
..isret.
aulein," said Philippa, laugh
frowning and puckering her
louth into a little pout of dis
ant glad you have come! Now
ll be some peace. I went in to
h tho .children a few minutes
arie \va3 busy.
ught I would try a little kin
ring all to myself; but they
espect for me as soon as they
.it tba;. I didn't know how
he king's crown. Then I tried
cm a story about the bee.
aincd about its being such a
little insect, and gathering
>m every opening fiower. and
and then I toll1 the children
ey were little hees themselves, j
jw busy and happy they could
?"ou carno.
.en I went ont of the room a
nd what did Tommy do but
razz cid bumble co loud yen
yourself CUaii, and ?>
; . ^iind the rcorn bumping
*' t?m?m - Krir* - i
Fanayauu the Anger rr?tftj.o?
bunuTe~lb"o; and Tuc?' aTT
p against the Angel so hard
'ell rwn and began to cry.
ink ey're playing bee yet.
how o you manage when
thin > that way?"
. tren >Ied on Evelina's pale
.-ather perplexing." she said;
aink we can straighten it out
., 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
ld soberly. "The knowing how
ood deal, of course."
. then she went on up the stairs
?hilippa went on down, smiling
biging 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. "FJon't
let timi worry you; they will be quiet
immediately. Fraulein has just come
-fn-their governs: ? - and they are a1
ways good wit.-, her They just adore
her-a porfrci treasure, Cousin Jose
phine! It'? wonderful how ?ve happened
to get her, and at such a price, too!"
"She is a kindergartner?" asked the
visitor.
"Yes, and thoroughly trained-sup
erior in ever}' way, wc think. I ?all
her one of Philippa's bargains. Philip
pa got her. of course. She is the clev
erest child about such matters-always
picking up thc prettiest thing.- for her
self for almost nothing; and she seems
to have picked up Fraulein in mud
the same way.
"You see, when Fraulein-not thai
she's German, but we call her thai
because the last one was. and so it":
easier to remember; her name i:
Dodd or Dobbs or something. I forget
well, she lost some position that sin
expected to have in the fall. I believe
and so was glad enough to come her?
Philippa happened to hear of her, an
we congratulad ourselves every day o
being so fortunate. Philippa, deal
come in!" she called, hearing the girl'
light step outside
She looked up proudly at her ta
daughter, whose smile was as sunnil
sweet and good humored as her own.
"Now, mamma." cried Philippa, ga
ly, when Cousin Josephine was gen
"put on your little bonnet right awa;
and come with me and seo my 'shut-i
people! And then, this afternoon,
you're not too tired, there's just tl
sweetest bit of a hat at. Madame Me.
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 ski.?? r.nd ?. ripple
merry talk and laughter.
At one o'clock Evelina met thc
coming home to luncheon. She w
jus' leaving thc house, and Mrs. So:
ers stopped her <~.n the steps.
"Were the children good to-day?" s
asked kindly. "Von look a little pa
Fraulein. You mus! take care of yoi
??-alf. Wc cannot have you gottiivg si?
i kn cir EQial would the children d
F THE SEA.
Ah! sweet is the tasto of the tempter's pill
Whou coated with sugared love!
He tickled her ear with a sea-gull's quill
The gull with the song so sharp and stirill
And his words to tho maid were of sweeter
trill
Than a melody from above.
Eut a handsomer mermaid swam anear,
Sine ho! for the flirt that bultod iu!
And the merman dived in the waters clear,
Say, wa'n't it a bloomin' tin!
And ho swam away with his now-fouud
dear,
And tho maid on tho rock shod a briny tear,
Aud sbo dug his words from her oer-fed
ear
With the poiut of hor dorsal fla.
Alono on tho moss-gowned rock sat sh<\
Siug ho! for the girlie that got the shake!
And she said: "Wnat cbumpies wc inergirls
be!
That guy was n bloomin' fake!
There aro just as good mei fellows in tho
sea
As ever were caught, now you hear me!
But for beautiful Gall wi h u full jrrowu G
That suoozer can have the cake!"
- Denver Tost.
if Philippa's. $
ET JOHNSON.
"flor eyes lock tired," saki Philippa,
thoughtfully.
"But thc hours are short." said her
mother, easily. "She ought to be abie
to rest enough in the afternoon to be
fresh for her-work in tho morning.
"Oh. no. I can't get sick! I can't get
sick!" said Evelina, as she walked
away. -They prize rae so!" A little
bitterness was in her smile. Bbc tm .
ed the little threadbare fingers of her
loves closer into her shabby muff.
;;tc spring air being raw :>m! chilly, and
hurrying swiftly down the crowded
avenue-for car fares count np rast
and must be saved-turned down Into
a side street, where there shone the
tempting windows of a modest restau
rant.
She a;e her luncheon here and hur
ried back, not home, but to the crowd
ed avenue again, and toward thc 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 cf a hat, while Stubs, whom
she had brought with her. investigated
with equal enjoyment some silken
flowers left within his reach. Philippa,
la the mirror, saw the reflection of
Evelina entering the door.
"So the lin]? Fraulein must have a
spring hat. too!" she smiled. And then
she frowned in wonder, for tbs little
Fpuloin had slipped away somewhere
ai/j taken off her wraps, and now was
moving about in her trim black gown
ai-if she belonged there; and-yes, was
; talking to a Customer who had just
come inl_
_l4^_ ^3H8?-?ia -hilipprv silting up
^S^t-hanilitaii^v'?.'ag her hm. "who
is that young lady in the front room
trying the red and purple bonnet on
thc fat lady with the gray hair, who
ought to know better?"
"That.' said madame, glancing up.
"that is Miss Dobb. You know her,
mademoiselle?"
"1-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 mc,
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
hor 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 ex pee', be
cause she was so seeck, ch, vcr*, vcr*
seeck! And the medicines and doctors,
and at last tho hospital. :hey oat up all
her money, her little savings, pauvre
petite!
"And when she was all eire her
courage it is gone, and all the seht ol*
are fill. There is no place-th'-:, she
must take what she can .vtS
the privai" pupils - mad -mi : Ile, they
do not poyJ*?' those people
teach. She have not tell me
ure. but they have money,
y do not pay her half what
she is wort", I know. They do not
unnersiand how she have work, have
study, for the know. So now she come
to me to sell the hats. That, it is new;
but she is quick, and in thc busy times
the afternoons, she work for mo. But il
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 quin
still gazing at her reflection in th?
glass and the little black figure movinj
to and fro in the dim background.
"Thank you." madame." she said
briefly, when thc voluble milline
paused, her ample bosom heaving wit:
thc warmth of her generous feelings
"It is- !..ird. as you say; but thing
like that do happen, I suppose. Abo?
the hat-"
"Parfaite. I do assure you!" eric
madame, returning to the subject >vii
a facile grace. "And then, t li o pri<
-consider! Twenty dollars for a hi
worth-"
Philippa's cheeks grew pinker st il
and a flash of something proud, Indi,
nant, came into her ryes.
"Yes. I will take the hat." she sai
"and pay. if you please, madame, wha
ever it is worth. 1 believe 1 in-sit
ot bargains! Please Rend il home I
morrow, with the bill; Come, Stub
Good afternoon, madame!"
She swept away with dignity, t!
fascinated Stubs dragged after her
ono reluctant hand, ami left madai
bewildered hy her sudden chango
rr. o od.
..0 Ph'ippa!" shouted Stubs. 1
short legs m?kln? heroic efforts to k<
up with his sisters rapid pace.
Ph'ippa! I saw Fwauieiii-I saw FW?
loin in thc milttier's .shop!"
"Indeed! Yon don't say so'"
turned Philippa, with polite sur tiri
"S'range. So did i!"
"She's got no burfday, Fwauli
has!" His shrill, small voice pene
trated above the roar of the street.
"She told us so-tomorrow-a burfday,
Fwaulein has!"
"Indeed!" Philippa said again, grim
ly. "What are you going to give her,
Stubs?" She turned upon him with a
sudden and disconcerting severi-y.
"You're going to give lier something!
What shall it br? Flowers, Stubs? Ros
es, violets, candy, Stubs?"
"Cawamels!" shriked Stubs, in ecs
tasy. "Cawamcls and choe'let cweams
pounds an' pounds!"
"Pounds and pounds!" echoed
Philippa, recklessly. "And flowers,
too! O Stubs, we'll make il up to her.
my dear-somehow we'll make it up
to her!"
And then Stubs caught the note of
something strange and sorry in his sis
ter's \oice. and looking up, beheld
tears in Philippa's merry eyes.
She was all read: for Evelina tho
next morning when that unsuspecting
young person came up the stairs again.
. and pausing at the door of the library
where Mrs. Somers sat, tapped softly
and cann- in.
The litt!.? "Fraulcin's" delicate face
was paler than usual, and her quiet
manner was a trifle flurried.
"I thought. Mis. Somers." she began
-"1 have hoon thinking for some time
that I ought to tell you-I am afraid I
shall not be able to go out with the
children. I-"
"Oh. is that. yo;:. Fraulein?" said
Philippa, coming out casually from be
hind ?he window curtain, and taking
a position ol' much firmness and digni
ty beside the big table in thc middle of
the room. ".Mamma will excuse me.
You know it is I who made the ar
rangement with you in the first place
so ii you are going to resign or any
thing, will you please do it to me?"
"Oh." said Evelina, Hushing faintly,
"I wa? going to say-" She looked wist
fully nt Mrs. Somers, who, smiling,
rose and .le?! the^rGCHD? and th.cn -h?
turned to Philippa w?th'a7i-^-.U'a?ii?
doubi and distress in her face; bul *
that perverse young lady was unmoved.
"I don't think, however, that it is
necessary for you to go on." ohscrved
Philippa, lightly, playing with a paper
knife which lay upon the table, "be
cause I know what you are going to
say. 1 should have spoken to you any
way this morning. I saw you yesterday.
Fraulein, at .Madame .Meyer's; and
frankly, to tell jon the truth. I don't
see how you can carry on millinery
and kiudcrgartening, successfully, at
thc same time."
"I c?.n't." said Evelina, with a lit
tle rueful smile. "That's just the tren
Ide. I thought I could-1 hoped so; but.
1 am not very sirong. and now-"
"And there is another thing. Fr?u
lein." continued Philippa, judicially.
"1 was going to speak to you today
because-I am very sorry t,
but we have not
we have
"Not satisfied!
buck a little, the crimsen color coming
up in her white cheek. "Imbed, you
have said, ami Mrs. Somers, that you
found my wo"k-"
"Oh. not your werk," said Philippa,
willi a haughty wave of the paper
knife, 'li is-to bc qui-.c- frank with
yo::. Fraulein-U ls the terms that are
nui satisfactory to us."
"Thc-terms!" said Evelina.
The terms." repeated Philippa, firm
ly. She avoided the other's astonished
and incredulous eyes.
"Miss Somer:;." said Evelina, after a
moment, her voice a li;ile shaken, "it
seems lo me there must be some mis
take. I always supposed you knew. 1
though* surely you und rstood that I
came to you l'or scarcely half what 1
ought, what I should usually receive.
lt was so lat--, yon know, and I needed
-why. I ??ai is why I have to go to
Madame Meyer's! I-"
"Exactly!" said Philippa, with spirit.
"Thal is just what I object to. Why do
you do it? What right have you to go
on teaching my little brothers and sis
ters for scar' cly more than half what
you aro worth, ll isn't lair, it isn't
right; and I can't have ii go on any
longer, Fraulein, do you understand? A
person like you. who knows about
kings' crowns and salte liars and etet?
ail(j j^^nvi, and how to make a
vr"i*(l l.~o useful instead of demoral
izing! Oh, I lent ned something yester
day-you needn't think-"
"Miss Somers!" said Evelina. Her
voi<-o was very quiet. "Miss Somers!"
"it is the knowing hov.!" said Phi
lippa, sternly, emphasizing her words
with vicious stabs of her weapon into
tho reit table-cover. "You have worked
for ii and studied for it: and that you
should go on using it up on Stubs and
'Pommy and Fanny and the Angel for
- it';; absurd! If you want lo stay here
Fraulein, and work over their young
ideas, you'll have lo agree ro do it fnr
-what it's worth: or else you may go
and sell hats all tba rest of your life,
if you want to! I don't care!"
"Miss Somers!" Evelina said again.
Philippa looked, and what she saw in
tho little Fraulcin's smiling, tremulous
face, the comprehension, wonder, -c
lieE and gratitude, went to her girlish
heart.
"Fraulein-Miss Dodd." she said,
earnestly, dropping her defiant man
ner as she did her paper-knife, "I,
mean it, truly! We didn't know, mam
ma and 1. wc didn't understand; and
it was all my fault, because 1 didn't
stop lo think. And now. if you would
stay and let ns make it up to you,
Miss Dodd, and pay you what it's
forth-lo you-to us-"
"Miss Somers," Evelina began once
more; but tho rest of her reply will
be forever among tho secret things ol
unwritten history, for nt that moment
i he voice of Stubs war. heard in tin
hall.
"Ile saved the situai ion, mamma,'
said Philippa, telling about i' arter
ward; "just barely saved it. For fron
thc way that Fraulein looked. J knov
in another minnie she would hav
cried, and if she had. I don't iloub
that I should have too. Mut with Stub
and Tommy, yelling like little demons
and Fannie and thc Ange
tumbling over their bouquet!
and having to bc picked up and polte?
and all ol' PIM! explaining al Hie li
of their lungs tba! ll was
birthday, cud offering h
creams and kisses, wc
h- very tragic. So
ter take her
and she thought she would, and-t
all. h
"But I'd like you to under'|t?j
mamma," Philippa concluded, imp
sively, "that I haven't lost my rep*
tion, beear.se sue is a bargain,
ever we may pay for her she'll be
more, as you'd know yourself
should spend ono single morning
nursery with Stubs!"-Youth's ??jj
panion.
STRANGER THAN FICTION^
Stories Wholly Different from Any'
lieforo Si-en lil ] ntl'.
[From the Chicago Tribuno.]
THE MAN AND TUE PlIOTOOItAl'lljV
"This is only the fiist print "
the negative," .said the photograpj
"When we have retouched the [pf
none of these wrinkles will shovSj
"If they don't," replied thc midf
aged man who had sat for his portij
"1 won't take the photographs^
want them to look exactly like nie
BTU A NOE CASE OK Mit. RKILE8.
For years the Rev. Samuel Ski
Ripley. Broun county, 111., had ?
annoyed by a iargo and conspi iii]
wart on thc back of his hand. I?"
In the effort to remove it IK
tried everything he had ever neara?
or could think of, short of ampuq!
the hand, but in vain. The wart ch
At last a member of his congrega
told him that if he would rub it
a grain from a red oar of corn, a
same time saying: "Leave me.
and never come back."' and then,1
thc snxin of corn, the wait v
disappear fer good.
Mr. Skilos followed the presen
faithfully, although he said he h
faith that it would drive the "?
away.
lt didn't.
THE MVSrr.lLV.i s KENTUCKIAN.
"Berkeje;;-*~sai(i a we|] |ul0wn borg
man y.-'ierday morning, at one of tiff
(lown iow:i hoiels, as he introduced'^
acquaintance to a (iia'inguishod k
iug su-anger in a broad brimmed!
md long frock (oat. "I want yoi
mow my friend Bludraw of
tucky." j
"Glad to know you. Col. Bindra;
said the man addressed as Berkel
"I am not a colonel, sir," repli?e
other, st illly.
-
GUAiNT AND CURIOUS.
An inmaie of an insane asylum:
Vienna has to be closely watched i
prevent him from standing on
head, which he wants to do all
time.
NON cl first-aid-to-thc-injured box<
are io ho scattered in the streets
Paris, France. Outwardly tho appai
??us resembles a lamp post letter box|
uui .il. .fctintam jx^^a.n. medicina
chest, a:.^oJdiag^^cliez.
81
slabs found in thc ruins of Babyl?
Ihe expedition sent out by the Germ?n
Oriental society, but two have yet
been deciphered, one explaining UK
Babylonian cuneiform characters an<:
the other containing the litany chant
ed by the singers of ike temple of Ka
ngila on the return of thc god Mar
duk to his sanctuary.
lt was disclosed by examination
made in the Washington city per,'
office, covering a period ol' about/ tw
and a half months, that 979.820 piece
of paid matter and 5,900,000 pieces c
unpaid tor "franked") matter / of a
classes went through, tho unpn id
ter on some days running as u'gl
mt; 9'
122,000 pieces while the pei;
per day would often go to ali
crawling up as high as 92 perce :.; on
single day, and averaging 85 3-4 pS
cent every day. ? ?33
' fe.
- . w
In looking through any . paria
register in England ono di>e-ovorsSa
a certain period a lar- number of tm
ial entries, in wt . ...f...-. i"h?
that the docer . v.as buried in w.jc
? i '">7,s an k<
mudo
nnss
\ pp
oiild be mude willi!
er a div;' h, before a ju
cm. The:*
an a?iuav
eight i' .
tico of iipeace or a minister of
ligion. that ih< Loceased was buri
only in wool. Its object was die e]
ccuragement of a native industry
the lessening ol' the importation
linen from beyond the seas.
A rather curious performance hi
just been mad" with an automobile
Copenhagen. The town posses<*?=
circular lower Hui feet in ucigl
which was formerly used for i asti
nomicaj pin-poses. Its lop i* ea
ivacn?T by ascending n spiral pi
sage Pi feet bread, which winds 1
tween the oilier wall of thc tower ai
au inner citcular wall. An auton
bile ol' live horse-power, weighing :
pounds, am! carrying three perso
ascended tho tower recently by t
passage, taking one minute to do
journey, and afterward making
much more dangerous descent w
equal success. It is of interest to
call Ilia! Hu1 Czar Peter the Great
visiting Copenhagen in 1716, made
same ascent and doser nt in a
ringo drawn by four horses.
A Ml*lca?Ilns Voil).
A clergyman ol' Philadelphia, a
ow er with seven grown-up (laugh
lelt home for Phocnixville, his n
town, and wrote back that he had
news which would surprise them,
had just married a widow witl
children. Thc seven grown-up d
tors had an awful time until 1
turned-alone. >
One ol' them mustered
ask "Where is oiir\no
heaven. I hopi." "Bul I
ow with six children
rried." "Oh, I married
thor
thitt
'ESTING GUN
iber Cheats and Their Con
tents Get the Hardest
?ind of Jolts.
it Hie Sandy Hook Proving
funds thc tests of charged shells ror
runs art severe in thc extreme.
1er they are carefully inspected on
Iva! from the factory, they arc
fil'd in a new limber ehest, just'as
jhey were to be carried on a long
feb across a rough country. The
Whcb follows applies equally lo
lebest and its contents. The front
Pk of the gun carriage, to which
chest is attached, is taken from
[tongue and wheels, and Uie axle
piado fast to a platform strongly
ft of hard wood. This ?datform (its
the bed of au oscllating table, but
is n play of about eighteen indies on
lie bed lengthwise of the axle, and a
Similar play of about a foot at right
ngles to the axle.
Thc bed or table in which (he plat
wm \
&?3
?-B0&;3roLT4\fi CAI; FOI; TKSTIN?; I.
-: AM M rx F
";'!ruJ is;placed is pivot".! in tim n-Mte
.U; rxnnnjdiis strong emmgh to Pear re
PB$Y sho??rs .of several tons, and a
?w motion Imparted by a steam
nigh
its
ami
v ..
'Thc
,x plat ff?,
?i!,, bumper
ffiapRS Trr^om^nr'wnirh
C?d Slides to tile lower cud o.'
?d in which ir plays, and strike.?
[?uriiper with the full force ol'
reight of approximately r
it tv..' momentum it
Iscept or .> f-.jji and a
.theil tilts back. an--. ,
fiji? agalnsl tl:'' op
,S1 a thud tba. jars t..arti., and
lSg operation ls repeal.Kl three timw a
mi?ute for m?y twenty-four hom*
Thc chest and its (/intents thus ^
flbout bOOO jolts. a?Ty ?.ne r.l whirl
mTpht be expected' ," break open ,
vjXpir proof sate. ?md ?I not a .'?-.
Saned in Hie chest ami th" ai-.iiUini
%m has not ex:.l.??'e,?l ?h.- ?-liest is re
ted all righi and lb- ammnuitiuj
probably satisfactory,
bc test of he Umber chest puds wu
it two days of an ingeniously erm
[cession .d' thunderbolts, lt is coi
;rcd s- itabic for mountain roa.!
it it bis undergone this prolongo
Jthqmke. and its exposure t?>
|???^ rrinstorms and other nirteorolog
Veal! Angaries for abottt a week af te
i'#|ip is more in thc nature ol' a re
??a?i?? general cooling ol? than a furth?
T?ie nniniuiiii??ni, however has mo
i har? treatment in sioiv. Il goes in
j the sweatbox. a chamber ?d' lorim
twhei't' the lempcraiure is |o,i <!egr?"
and' the humidity is nitiely-live. at
? there il slays a month, ll' ti.sc
rori has opined any seams or erar]
^?e shell case, thc moisture of ;!
in box will find Its way in ai
Kilo charge. When thc minny
?Conies oin Of the sweat bo,
Visitors at tlie rooms of the Amer
ican Tract Society, in Nassau street,
says the New York Sun, lately have
been confronted by a queer sort of
woollen cage on stilt-like legs. Those
who looked twice saw tacked ou it
this sign:
GEORGE WHITFIELD'S
PULPIT.
The frame is about sj* feet high,
with the tloor of the wplut about throe
feet from the grtjjjim. The wood is
SM iii lo be iilaeli'wainui, but age and
successive ?>ats of painty satin and
varnish have done much to hide its
identity.
The most striking feature at the pul
lut is the number of hasps, hooks and
hinges which bind its frame. Tl: ,.?e
who have charge of the relic are quick
to call attention to this fact and to
offer the explanation that the pulpit
is of the folding variety. It was con
st mcred in that way so that it could
easily be carried in a wagon or even
bv a strone: man.
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mm
M BEB CHESTS FULL OF FIXED
TON.
It has been exhibited only a' few
limes in ibis conni ry. once at the Cen
'iiii?.-il Exhibition .li Philadelphia, in
mm
t
Design of M. Roty's "1
France is to have a new stamp which
will be symbolical, the Figaro pre
dicts in making the annouccnicnt, of
thc national artistic taste. The design
to be employe'* is the beautiful ligure
of '"The f8' rff'" by Roly, the well
known t .graver of French medals. I tl
ls already used on some French coins.
M. Troulllot, who succeeded M. MI Mor
and as .Minister of Commerce, Posts
pud Telegraphs, has followed up the
proposals of his predecessors aud
adopted M. Roty's de>.J^ for the na
tional stamp. M. linty as design
of commemorative medals bas hardly
an equal, ll" is the author of a medal
struck in 1801 typifying the Franco
American union. The actual work of
Migraving the stamp has been Intrust
ed to M. Mouchon, one of the French!
masters of the art.
GRAVES OF THE PRESIDENTS.
KVTHEBFOBD lt. HAVES.
A monument made of granite quar
ried at Dummerston Mountain, in Ver
mont, near scenes dear to the Hayes
family, was erected in ISSI, in Oak
wood Cemetery, Fremont. Ohio, by ex
President Rutherford B. Hayes, on the
death of his wife. Since then he, too,
has been interred there.
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ans?e-.vith iii" wi$;<!B'$f
his native Stat
Sowar" to Bs Used.
Automatic Speed Reculator.
The subject of this article is an im
proved fire escape, which docs not de
pend upon tho coolness and nerve of
men to put it in operation or regulate
it when once in action, llecent loss
of life by lire shows there is still an
tmlilled Avant in this direction, and
John Williams submits the invention
HYDP.AULIC CVXINDEES CHECK THE FAL
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