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T4?E NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNS, Pres't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. - Snrpl?s and ) <M OC AHA L'udiyided Trouts \ V I t^vvv VOL. LXVIII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1903. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA. Paja Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. t. C. Hajne, - President. Chas, C. Howard Cashier A 'SAILOR'S A somethlnir, white came up last night, It was the mist, I wist, or rain. It wheeled about, flashed In and out, And beckoned 'gainst the window pano, . . It was a bird, no doubt,-no doubt, And will not come again. . Ahd-somethlnir beat with slow repeat, Ana heavy swell, the old sea-wall, And shrill and clear and piercing sweet, I-thonght I heard tho boatswain's cull. The sails were set and yet, and yet, lt may h ive been no boat at all. % BRED FT t : - ? By PATRI It was" close cn sundown when the ?. S. A. despatch boat Speedy sighted ind . spoke Admiral Brainerd's most ' westerly scout, the Denver, protected :rulser; .and the cruiser's were the !ast>A.merican oyes that she was ever io see. In tJie "northeast, leagues iway frcrrrrSan Domingo, "the Ameri tan liberation of which from-cmtinual internecine strife had caused the Eu ropean Alliance to declare war against fche States, Brainerd was feeling for the enemy's powerful fleet, hoping to divert its attention from the U". S. A. Flying squadron swooping- down to ?evstate. the. western coasts of the mainland, of Europe, and also secure . the Windward passage against its ap proach on Domingo and Cuba. That afternoon, acting on information ac . curately supplied by the captain of the R. M. S. Co.'s mallboat, the ad miral hr.d flung his scouts, one after the other, down' into the southeast, and detailed the quick-steaming Speedy for Santiago with despatches, I and to speak the westerly scouts, | when encountered., with orders to re join the main body cf the fleet Her aoting. lieutenant, . getting the utmost out of her fine engines and 3weaty-browed engineers and firemen, Sighed contentedly when ho looked at the speed dial. Another four hours at sighteen-a-half gnots should see him in harbor. He also found relief in the thought that Lieutenant Durey" would then be In hospital. "Poor fellow," he muttered,-as he-wiped the wet off his night binoculars. "Better a shell in Mle's" Innerds, and end up in a scat ter, than have his complaint!" Below, In the little cramped ward room. Du rey. was writhing In a fresh .attack pf agony. . A suffocating sob buTB^fronV him; -he dug his elbows into his knees. With his face sup ported between his hands he let him ressel's jobbling. So excruciating were the flames of pain within his breast that-..it was as If a thousand aerves, raw, vibrant, and exposed. Were; .f?fljyg fr>l"r>T?gr]_.out-hy fhf.t~.j_ roots." H?/gtitt?a his teeth together i_i_?*_J<wj|fcder .himself from ,-sflrieking. Sweat beaded his heavily-lined brows and trickled down over the twitching ashen-gray cheeks. Gasping thickly, he threw himself back, shut his eyes, and stiffened his muscles., V Then suddenly his anguish fled away. For a minute or two he sat there, panting with exhaustion, his body -limp and shaken; but a lurch and weather roll made him secure himself In a safer position beside the table. He wondeicd with fear, when the next attack would recur; then the jumpy, tumbling movements of the hurrying boat diverted his thoughts. As the boat, carefully nursed through the Calces Passage by her tired officer, hurled herself up the dark, seething; slopes flashing dimly with kindling phosphorus, heaved her self across the widening troughs and smashed down a "growing- sheaf of sea, she jarred and groaned and quivered in: every Inch of her rigid hull. But Durey.was-oblivious to the many voiced turmoil. Within his brain jost ling tH'?ughts were making a noisier hubbub. He sat there looking dully . at the shielded glow-lamp, his squar ish head sunk between the even shoul ders, and his thin, long-flngered hands gripping the "fiddle." lieutenant Durey was of slender build, unfited for much hardship or physical stress. Nothing but his high spirited nature had enabled him to withstand. thC pungent seasoning of the gun room. However,, his seafaring J ancestry had bestowed, on bim a tem perament fearless* of the elements; to him. at sea it came as mere routine to cope with and bear the weight of the greatest elemental danger. From the female side, of his family stock was the taint developed in him-his ineradi cable abhorrence of physical suffering. At school his cowardice of a caning had. earned the contempt of other and ?hardy lads. However, as years had passed and his physique improved, he *f>-? had. par/t?y.?lost this squeamish- nicety . of feeling, and through his profession had beopme -hardened-.to the thought at possibly experiencing it. some day. /"Nevertheless,.,this Tblemish was not Vholly ^eradicated, .and, making him look, constantly ahead to a state of waft'lt fiad "covertly Inspired his with drawal from the service. However," when the rumor of war spread In the land, Durey had offered his services again. He was comfort ably married by this time, with a charming'wife and babes; and until the very last moment had enter tained o^.vagu?. innerly hope, that his wife or-?hfs-parents would offer some Btrennous,opposition to his re-serving, some- opposition 'to which he. could honorably .boar, the head.v.To..th?ir.God rpeed ne'had'.tp^join his'ship.. As norw/he sat, clutching the "fid dle" tight'T heT'admltted,. "mentally, a certain /,seprot' gladness .at his being sent, in tp... .sick-bay ashore. .While aboard the flagship the spectacle 'ol tottered,.gory,' living things-, once sturdy seamen, brought aboard out ol a shattered cruiser; had revived all Ms inveterate abhorrence of suffering Hia moral courage, too, had suflerec" defeat from the. sudden attack of hh malady-the growth of an interna tumor developed by his exposure tc ?w'et and cold when on mine-field dut3 Hampton .Roads. Surgeons had dif red in diagnosis,, so the Admiral lowing his. capabilities for "handling baft.despatched him for urgen itmeni.. : .* [As now he sat. ?ripping tile "fiddle' I keep "his balance, the sudden pip of boatswains' whistles, the indie SUMMONS. s But if tonight a sail should leap, From out fie dark and driving rain, You mu8tnot hold mu back nor weep, For I must sall a trackless mnia, To Und and have, to hold and ke.-p. What 1 have sought so long In vain. I need no chart of sea nor snnd, Nor any blazing beacon star, My prow against wild waves shall stand v Until it cuts the blessed bar, And I run up the shining strand Where my lost youth and Mary aro. -Flavia Rosser, in The Criterion. HE BONE t * m CK VAUX. tinct scampering of naked feet over head, the dr^pening throb and thud of quickened machinery took his atten tion. With a curse at his infirmities of mind and body he switched off the light, staggered to the ladder, and slowly clambered on deck. As he drew his legs- out of the companion, the boat made a steep dip; has'.lly banging-to the hatch, Durey grabbed a life-line and stared about him. The night was heavy with the men ace of storm. Though a myriad stars gleamed ahead, the horizon to wind ward was obscured with cluods. The strong head-wind blew wet and sharp with spray that stung the lieutenant's throat and nostrils like fine salt. With' a start of surprise he saw the men were standing by at quarters, and amidships torpedo gear was being rap idly adjusted abeam. Gulping down an exclamation-was it of fear or amazement/-he. staggered forward 'to thc bridge. .As he climbed its ladder a swirling bunch of &ea meeting the port bow splashed over the forecastle and bridge weather-cloths. Contact with the chilly gouts of spray restored Dur ey's self-contrcl. The drenched sub. was clearing his eyes, when he ob served him. "Hello, sir," cried he, In a voice charged with excitement, "would y' not he better below. She's throwin' a lot of water aft. Bridge's like a mill-sluice-'* "No good drivin' her, I reckon. Sile's losin' more than she's makin' ovor 18 knots," Durey grunted. "Why are the-" : "It's cut an' run. Lock there!" in terrupted the sub., handing his binocu lars, and shooting an arm west-by scuth. . "Four big boats. Overhauling us, I guess, too. We'll fight, though, if it comes to that. Sorry didn't report, '.shy,"UJtas. waiting till there's more certainty about*"Ilium. "' 1 ^?s^w?? Durey steadied himself and took a long look at the distant strangers head ing down on their port quarter. they doing there? I just reckon the leading beat 's a smart thing, an' 'll take some lickin'," he snapped out, quick as his heart was beating. The a'cting lieutenant nodded empha tically. "That's my way of thinkin'," he screeched against the flurry of wind. "The look I got before that streak of cloud came up, gave them away. Guess the Alliance have run out a flyin' squadron also. Keen look outs they must have. They've sighted us. They shifted nine points to the west'ard, and put on speed. Looks as if they know something about us," "They've taken the pass as we cleared tho Caicos. Running for San tiago and the transports," cried Dur ey, and snatched the binoculars out of the lieutenant's hands. As he stared at the ^nemy, envy, vehement and despicable, swept into him, for well he knew the Speedy's commander was cool and collected, while it was himself who was growing flurried and painfully apprehensive. Was he a coward physically as well as morally, he asked himself, and In stantly was eating his heart in bitter ness at his inborn pusillanimity. He was moving to the binnacle when a sharp cry broke from the acting lieu tenant. "By the Powers, they've opened fire!" and the smothered report "al most overwhelmed his voice. There was a volcanic emption of red-hot splinters and sparks amidship as the night-spent projectile flopped a?alnst the } ?Te of the mainmast, crashed througn the deck, and wrecked every thing in thc after-part of the vessel. Durey recovered himself from the port bridge-rails against which he had been hurled with the sudden toppling of the thrashed hull. The acting lieu tenant lay in a bloody heap beside the wheel, and from aft came shrill cries and hoarse yaps of tortured bodies. For the moment he winced, and felt a hopeless feeling possess him, but thc next he waj^fending over his in sensible jnnirftjStf. second projectile ricochetted oveWie seas wide to star board, sending up great showers ol snowy brine visible in the night; a third plunged short by 10 feet off thc port quarter. The enemy could play a.good game at long bowls. "Bear a hand, here, some of you forecastle men," Durey ordered. "Aft there, report the wreck," as, with the poor groaning lump of' humanity ia his arms, he tried to stanch the flow of blood from the mangled arm anc ribs. Jagged segments and splinten of steel make ugly wounds. Warm, sticky blood smeared hi. hands and wrists; it made him fee very sick. Disgust swept through hin at his own weakness, and with tendei but shaky hande he bound up th? ghastly lacerations. Only a little more and tne acting lieutenant would hav? been eviscerated. As Durey turned from assisting th< seamen to lift him down the ladder the tight feeling in his throat becanv more choking when he realized tha the enemy were now visible to Ur naked eye. The flashing from th foremost vessel's bow chaser strucl his senses like a blow, though not ar other shot hit his vessel. Betwee: 5700 and 0000 yards distant he wa from the leading cruiser, r'cur point off the bow Great Anagua began t loom low and indistinct in the dari ness for the squally wind choppin about had cleared the starry heaven of cloud and the thin drizzle of rain. Onward rushed the Speedy, throv ing herself up the great swells an slapping down into the hollows as lashod on by the great guns thunde lng out behind her. Had the enea numil sod her errand? Lieutenant Durey had returned to the bridge from attending the wound 'ed. Though pain gnawed at him he gave no heed to it. Sense of the re sponsibilities now lying on his shoul ders had revived bis self-respect and induced an obliviousness to suffering hitherto foreign to him. He was streaming with sa"t water, and his eyes and nostrils were stung with brine and the salty northeast wind that roared and eddied about, smell ing of the deep, gray Atlantic surges and storm-filled weather. Its sharp lang permeated his brain. It reviv ified the dominant instinct of h'"3 stock. Durey was transfigured by its mag ical influence. His face settled in stub born lines; a grim joy lightened it; his weak, sensuous lips became hard as iron bars. He had the omnipotent look of the man who goes forth to death knowing it is the best fight of all.. , Crash went a heavy projectile through the cap of the port smoke stack, and smoke and flame poured in "a lurid cloud to windward.. As Durey throw a defiant lock at thc cruiser again spouting fire, the second artificer reported water rising fast in the after stokehold. The projectile which hud wrecked the after-part of the boat must have started some plates. Durey now had no. hesitation. He bent over the bridge rail. "On deck, there. Tho r ner to the bridge. . . ." Calmly and incisively he is sued his orders. Then "Up helm" electrified the gun crews, yet their hoarse cheering brought no change tc their officer's iron-clad expression; his voice but rang the harder and more despotic as he gave thc sighting ranges to torpedo and gun. For his line had claimed him heart and soul. Who can tell how many fierce hearted forebears' blood sang joyous ly in his pulsing body at he thrust his weak vessel against thc enemy, new opening a terrific cannonading? And what thoughts thronged his cluttering senses as the four great, thundering cruisers loomed large upon his hews. Who of his forebears claimed him then? It was not till the war was over that the Speedy's fate was known. The Criterion. GUAINT AND CURIOUS, P. J. Kent was operated on in a Chi cago hospital the ocher day. and from his brain was taken a knife blade one and one-quarter inches lonr. The blade had been in his skull for 22 years, and since that time he had been subject to what were supposed to be epileptic seizures. ^*~gfa?w?ia?_Specta,cle was witnessed a few weeks ago^jn a Tyrolean valley near Tannheim. A>iOcjent storm arose suXLWBinx-: ann-iuoDiLr-iohr??-?^"- - rolled over the surface of the lake. Then a column of water, 30 feet high, rose from the middle of the lake, and from its top small flashes darted. The spectacle lasted three minutes. Electric lamps cannot only be made to talk, but also to sing. An ordinary sound by placing the arc in the circuit of a telephone instead of the ordinary receiver or instead of thc ordinary t-.ansmitter. In either of these posi tions it will pronounce words, milich can be heard distinctly at a considera- ' ble distance. It naturally follows, also, that the electric car can be utilized as the receiver and also as the transmitter of the telephone. Piles of the rather unusual length of 110 feet were recently used in con structing the fender piers for the Thames river swing bridge, at New London, Conn. This length was se- '? cured by splicing Noith Carolina piles I from 50 to 65' feet long with spruce piles from 35 to 40 feet. Some of these piles wer driven in 50 feet of water. They were all used to replace piles driven In 1889, which had been almost entirely eaten away by the teredo. A petition, signed by 3000 persons, says the Naples correspondent of the London Express, has been presented to the Italian government, asking for a pension of ?72 per annum to be conferred on a wamon named Madda lena Grauetta, who has given birth to 62 children-59 boys and three girls during her married life. In cine years she presented her husband with ll sets of triplets, three groups of quad ruplets, one group of six, and the other ll children came singly. She is now 57 years old and incapable of work. The greatest egg-laying competi tion on record has just been concluded in New South Wales, under the manage ment of tho state government Forty one pens-there were six pullets of one breed in a pen-competed and the competition lasted for a period of six months. Black Orpingtons showed in comparably the best results all through. The New South Wales poul try breeders have now sent a chal lenge to the United States, inviting breeders of laying strains to forward three pens to compete with three local pens under the same conditions. The Vulgar Voice. What constitutes the vulgar voice? In an article in the London Spectator a writer concludes that this evidence of vulgarity "springs, like almost all vulgarity, however displayed, chiefly from two causes-an undue love o? conspicuousness and an undue fear of the same." The person whose chief aim is to keep himself or herself in the eye of the world rarely muk?s a remark without desiring th?, it shall reach the ears of other? uesides the one directly addressed, and here thc peculiarity of false sjund of the voice is attributed to the absence of single ness of motive. On the other h.\nd, the wavering tone and affected accent of the timiri vulgar are ascrib ;d to another lorn of insincerity, namely, the wish to imi tate others with whom one happens tc be, when they are of a supposed i.\ higher social standing. The attemp is nure to fail, and io result only ir the suppression of all evidence of th? speaker's own personality-in thc voice as wrell as in the manner. Thin sincerity, paramount in all art, is bas ic In breoding as well, which la th? Mt Of Hf* AN INTERNATIONAL FEN many miles of its Swiss frontier by a n lt Is believed will help to prevent the so prevalent. 1A Hage Meteorite Re= j 1 cently Discovered, g PROF. HENRY A. WARD, of Rochester, N. Y.. the veteran meteorite hunter, recently found a meteorite of tremen dous size. It has a length of thirteeu feet and one inch; width, six feet and two inches; thickness, five feet and four inches, and weight fifty tons. Professor Ward has named it Bacubir ! Ito, after the mining town near which j lt was unearthed, and which is situ ated on the Rio Sinaloa, Mexico. It took twenty-eight ?able-bodied peons jne entire day io uncover Hs upper ! surface, making an excavation thirty ? feet on a side, with the prent meteorite END VIEW OF THE METEOR IT 3. lying within. At the end of the second tiny they were able to bring the mtge mass to a semi-vertical position, the Mcleans standing aghast at the reve lation of their work. The Bacubirito was found on n farm called Ranchito, which fills the narrow mountain valley, running nearly north and south, .and 2000 feet above thu level of the sea. It lay in a cornfield, j close by the eastern edge of the valley, which is covered by a black vegetable soil two yards in thickness. The giant meteorite lay imbedded In the soil with one end slightly projecting above the level. Professor Ward walked for many feet along and across its surface, surveying the dimensions as far as they were exposed, but he had no idea how far the large and heavy mass pen etrated the soil beneath until the work . of excavation was begun. I The characteristic pinings covering I the entire surface are AV ell marked, and very regular in size-about two' or three inches across, with well de fined yet low walls. The bcd lu which the tremendous rock lay was found \ to be a clean depression crushed into i the rock with absolutely no trace of I $oil between it and the part where the j full weight of the mass had fallen, j showing that tho meteorite had fallen j on the bare surface of this district at i a period before the vegetable soil had begun to form here, carrying back the fall of Bacubirito to a remotely distant : perod. For half a century Professor Ward has been collecting and studying me teorites. He has interested himself in , them in every part of the globe where j they have been found. As the result of his personal exertions he has In I stalled nt the American Museum of i Natural History, New fork, thc Ward ! Coouley collodion of meteorites, allow ; lng this collection, which represents j an amount of labor, research, indefat igable industry and painstaking ingo ; nuity of vhich thc average visitor is entirely ignorant, to bc placed in the halls of this museum for inspection . and study. The collection represents 511 distinct "falls," about five-sixths , of all tho meteorites known to science ? i To s?e these elsewhere would requin ! a visit lo thc groat museums of thi i world and matty cabinets of private ? collectors. Bacubirito, however, li j possessed of qualities which rendel ; lt of greater scientific value than anj I j of Professor Ward's other meteorites t : The inner structure shows the octane - ! dral system of crystallization *ln a vjerj j : marked degree. No other meleorlciroi t ls known which shows this so well t ' Fractured surfaces show erystalllza i j tion plates with faces from Ihreo 1 3 { nineteen millimeters in greatest diame j j tor. Many of these fai-rs are cp.verci tj with fino films of tae'n?to; which ii .I most cases are of.the chanictorlsti t bronze yellow color. Acid brings ou the Widmanstattian flg?.es in a mon CE HUNG WITH BELLS. lian Government purposes guarding etwork of iron hung with hells, which smuggling of contraband articles now beautiful manner. From the coarse crystals on n fractured or weathered, face of this iron we might anticipate that etching would reveal a large wide pattern in Its markings. : As a fact, quite the reverse is true. 'The figures, while very sharp, are .small in pattern, and are composed of narrow blades of knmneite, but a frac tion of a millimeter in thickness. At intervals, these blades pppcar to be of inore than double that thickness, but when examined with a glass lt is seen .that these apparently broader plates are composed of what might be termed "bundles" of narrow kamacite bands. The rhombic figures on the etched face will average from one and a half to .five millimeters in diameter, two an ales of same being sixty degrees and '?20 degrees, while the triangular mark ings will generally range from eight 'to fifteen millimeters with angles of ?fifty-five degrees and seventy degrees. ?T^-yi' three troll i tes are shown, and js essentially tough. Jong, protracted effort. Tro [d succeeded in detaching Ifs an already partly loos en bout eleven pounds In polished and etched on the beautiful Wtd has taken its place colled iou of me in is i ow on dis Amcricah Mil ln New York The Fire (Jod's Wrath. A curious story comes to us from thc iiiburbs. A resident in the near neigh )orhood of London has a museum in lis house, in which the principal curi osity is a fire god, which has been Jvorshinert for many centuries in au *ndlnn temple. Once, when the owner If the house look a party of people to [ook at the museum, he proposed in un that they should all kow-tow to he image. This they all laughingly onsented to do, all except two ladies, tim declared it was wicked. The fire od was revenged within two months. |)ne of the ladies had her house burned |o the ground the week after, and the ther one (on a later date) fell back ings into the lire and sustained some terrible burns. We give the tale wlth ut comments, only commending it to Jho attention of Mr. Anstey.-London hronicle. ?HE MAID OF ORLEANS. n Interesting Portrait of This Re markable Character. Latterly thc official records concern g Joan of Arc have been thoroughlj Ijj vestigated and published for the lirsi Il(Jne in the English language. Apropos re ls a remarkable reproduction ol ^Vlo reputed portrait of this remarkable aracter, formerly in the Church of Maurice at Orleans. St th M haf nn| w lui ve Hld bu th. POKTEAIT OF JOAN OF AKC. g; Make Your Otra Diamonds. That is my diamoud incubator," sale Jeweler, as he pointed to a glass that was set on a high shelf. "We tch out diamonds there-real dla ?ind?, pure diamonds, the kind thal ll cut glass and scratch steel. Hi d on the counter a piece of black Jvet whereon sparkled and flashed e dewdrops a handful of beautiful jHt tiny brilliants, a handful of per e t diamonds, each no bigger thai: head of a pin. Mj?ril tell you how you can make these ngs yourself," said the jeweler ou put in a jar an equal weight ol "Y| cai Kpfboh .sulphide and of phosphorous -{Jug sure that, both of these sub ' V?es are as pure as possible. Fil jar then with water. The wntei jil float on top of the jar and wil vent the sulphide from turning t< .or and catching lire. Place thc ja; i quiet place and leave it alone fo: mouths. During that space of tim? sulphur of*the sulphides will oom e and'release the carb?n, which wil to ihe bottom of the jar and crys lie into perfect diamonds. Follor se directions and you, like me, cai duct a din moud farm upon you fatelplece."-Philadelphia Record, thfl wi prc va| in six] thd bin] fal tal the! coq wa MOOSE IN THE EVERY one who is interested tn the Adirondacks is watching the outcome of the experi ment of restocking that wil derness with moose. The State has turned loose a humber of these animals there in the hist few years, and as the law provides a heavy penalty for kill ing one. there seems to be no reasou why they should not thrive there as they did in earlier years. Oue>of these moo.se about two weeks ago came out of the forest and took np its quarters at a farm house near the village of Newcomb. Newcomb ls in the western part of Essex County, and about as far from a railroad as it. Is now possible to get In this wilderness. The animal, which is about two years old, seemed to have had hard usage. One of Its shoulders was badly bruised, one horn was broken off and it was very weak. It manifested no fear of man or wom an, and the picture herewith printed shows .t standing, and ready to take an apple from the hand of a lady. William C. "Whitney, whose preserve FEEDING ONE OF THE NEW : ls not many miles distant, has turued out a number of elk this fall, and one supposition is that this moose has come In conllict with an elk. But a bull moose is quite capable of driving one of his kind ont of his domain.-New York Mail and Express. Creates a Demnnil, It was once an aphorism that the manufacturer must make what people ?c3lre in oilier to effect sales. The af n/i.."..f{r?H_r U?a -'???i--1 -liii By judicious and persistent newspaper advertising manufacturers and dealers have created a demand for new ar ticles. Without such publicity many years would have been required to es tablish a market for their new crea tions. SufTKested II el met For "imy Motorlnti. Thc new helmet as ordinarily worn. The same, as worn on motor duty. Directions-Simply unhook the lower portion of the helmet, thereby extend ing the collapsible weather and dust proof mask. Admirable also as a dis guise.-London Punch. A Witty Hi.ilinp] Dr. Mountain, a Bishop of Durham in thc reign of George H., was the son of a beggar, yet he rose to one of the highest positions in the church. When the See of York became vacant, the King consulted the then Bishop of Durham as to the most suitable successor to the late archbishop. The learned divine promptly rose to the occasion, and said: "Hadst thou faith as a grain of mustard seed thou wouldst say to this Mountain, 'Be re moved, and be cast into the See.' " This witty remark was too much for the King and the bishop got thc arch bishopric. It is useless to go to a foundry for things that are lost. MAN IN THE V?u/M_fi\. arum , ?KVb i How Man, Proud flan, Outwits th< Distrustful Duck. Duck catching by baskets is the new est form of sport. Coming from China it has been tried with success in Eng. land. Having approached near to when HUNTER'S TRICK TAUGHT THE ENGLISH BY THE CHINESE. the ducks are congregated the operator sets an empty basket floating down the river toward them. As it ap proaches the spot the first basket may cause them' to disperse a little, but when they discover that no danger lurks Hierein they gather together as before. A second basket is then set afloat and the duck bun*-.-r proceeds _ ? MOOSE-IN THE ADIRONDACKS. to undress. This second basket causes no commotion, so, having prepared himself, the operator slips into the water and swims quietly toward the ducks, lils head covered by a basket similar to those he has already set afloat,'but having a small aperture cut in the front for him to see through. If he is careful not to splash much the ducks, now used to the sight of the baskets, will allow him to get right in amone them. When he has done this UL1 quickly ?TUbs-7777, pulls it under water, wrings its neck and lets it go, w!ien it floats up to the surface of tho water, dead. If this bc done quickly and neatly, without splashing, the swimmer can trent many ducks in the same fashion before the suspicions of the others are aroused. Whether this "sport" which Ameri cans may consider merely wanton cru elty, will become popular remains tr be seen. A Wild Dissipation. "I 'don't suppose it is generally known, but, nevertheless, it ls a fad that the ladies are great consumers ol peanuts," remarked the proprietor of f fruit stand located on a promlneni downtown street corner. "I am some what of an observer and have beet forced to take note of this particuhil feature of my business. "Nearly every night belated hus bands stop here and load their outei pockets with the festive goober, the purchase of less than two bags bein? an exception. To my mind the peanut trade has made serious inroads upon the fried oyster business, for my reg ular customers tell me that their wives prefer warm goobers to bivalves done up in cracker crumns for a late sup per."-Washington Star. . Generosity Person j fled. ,i The greatest generosity is to be a miser with advice.-New York Press. In the make-up of some people it is hard to distinguish between ambition and greed. The fellow who is always waiting for something to turn up gets used tc being turned down. PUBLIC EYE. Tho juggler may not be inclined To dally with the jug; The sinful smuggler may be just Tho opposite of smug. The skipper isn't always one Who lito the lambkin skips. And, with disgust, the waitera know The tippler seldom tips. S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald, HUMOROUS. He-"Won't you sit in this chair. Miss Spooner?" Miss Spooner-"Af ter you." He-"You should remember that :onsistency is a jewel." She-"Yes; but jewelry is so vulgar." "She's made a fool of that young fellow." "Well, she didn't have to economize on the raw material." Gyer-"Bald heads remind me of kind words." Myer-"What's the an ?wer?" Gyer-"They can never dye." "It is when a young man is in love," remarked the Observer of Events and Things, "that he has*' a single idea in his head." "How is your brother making out?" .'Oh, he's doing a flourishing business/' "Ah, indeed!" "Yes, he's a profes sional card-writer." Old Party-"Stick to your mother, my young friend." His Young Friend -"I will, sir. It costs to much to board- any place else." Customer (emerging from bargain counter crush)-Help! My leg is brok en! Floorwalker-You will find th6 crutch department, sir, on the ?fourth floor in the rear. Usual Work-Pepprey-What's the matter, Cholly? Yo look weary. Chol ly-well-aw-I was just thinking aw-. Peppre .-Ah! no wonder you're exhausted Ed,na-"Do you-- think your mar riage with Miss Lotta Coyne, the heir ess, will have a pleasant outcome?" Edward-"I can't say-but the thing that attracts me is the income." < Hook-"Miss Gotrox has a wonderful memory for faces.", Nye-"That's right, I was engaged to her last sum mer at the shore, and today she actu ally bowed to me on the street" "There is a train of thought passing through my head at this moment," said the self-appointed lecturer. "That's right," said a voice from the gallery; "you have wheels in your head." "I'm sorry I can't accommodate you," said the boardii "but we only take^ men." "What's Weddman; "fir shrewd to be? Martha-'J kissed mc stance it happ< "Ah, I see. That accounts for it, dear." Mrs. Tawkey-"I hear the Popley's new baby Is very delicate." Mrs. O'Bull-"Yes, it's an incubus, you know." Mrs. Tawkey-"An incubus?" Mrs. O'Bull-"Yes; they had to put it in an incubus to hatch it, just like a little chicken." Miss Nuritch-"Yes, indeed, he was real attentive to me and he's an able man, too." Miss Ascum-"May Ot met him, too, and she declares he's an actor, and a low comedian at that" Miss Nuritch-"Not at all. He assured me he was a Lord Admiral of the Swiss navy." A Fatal Blonder. An insurance man of my acquaint ance ate hearty breakfasts, with meat and coffee, a hurried, lunch at noon, but also with meat, and a hearty din ner at night He : took no exercise, always rode between house and office, became fat and bloated, and his blood became so overloaded that he readily succumbed to disease at forty-five. The wonder was that-he lived so long. He was a type of the average well-to-do citizen. Like him, most of us eat too '? much. Diet should depend upon tem j perament and vocation. At hard work out of doors one requires more nutri ment than at sedentary labor indoors. ; A gradual reduction in diet, even an oc casional fast, will cure many ordinary ! ills. Add deep breathing,, fresh air, ! body building; exercises, plenty of sun ? shine, water inside and ouj;, and it is astonishing how much better one feels. : A friend past seventy,'still hale and hearty, to whom I mentioned the fore ' going facts, remarked: "That's right. If is a text upon which a big- book, could j be written. Most folks are sick through. sheer ignorance, or want of sense, rath er than because of intentional abuse ol any part of the organism. I was past ? forty before I learned how to live. The ! doctors did not teach me-I quit theil artificial methods, studied nature's way, and lived in the manner you in dicate."-Good Housekeeping. Chlone0 Bachelor* Fpt-nd Money. Bachelors are like any one else, they Bpend money when they have it," says an interview in The Inter Ocean. "Chicago bachelors live in a somewhat different manner from the fellows in New York, and their regular expenses are heavier. In Manhattan the boys live in apartments and eat at the cafes. Here-some of us at least-keep oui own homes, have our servants, and, in fact, run a regular establishment. That costs more money than the New York manner of living. If a bachelor has a fad he can spend a good deal of money in that way. His clubs cost him some thing, and perhaps he goes out con siderably. A man could keep a family about as cheaply, for a bachelor is gen erally pretty free with his money, even if he is not a spendthrift" Servant Problem In Banjrary. The servant problem is different Hungary from what it is here, ently servants are so ph prefect of Jaszber