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^ ? ? ?? ? " ??? ?? ? ISSUED TWICE A WEEK-WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. i. h. grist & sons, Publishers. 1 % 4amitj> ghtcspngir: ^or the promotion off the political, facial, g.gricultumt, and Commercial Interests nf the ?outh. __j TER^py"bbe^c^^" VOL. 42! YOBKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1896. JSTO. 35. A STRANGE TRAGBDY.; BY W. CLARK RUSSELL. Copyright, 1SU5, by the Author. CONTINUED FROM FRIDAY. A few days later brought us into cold weather. This was followed by the ice ud conflicts of the Horn. We drove too far south, and for a week every afternoon we hove to under a close reefed main topsail for fear of the ice throughout the long hours of antarctio blackness. We were in no temper to think of ghosts, and yet, though no one had delivered the news authoritatively, it had come by this wild, bleak time to be known that Captain Griffiths and Miss Le Grand were engaged. Mrs. Burney told me so one day in the cuddy, and with a wicked flash of her dark eye wondered that people could think of making love with icebergs close at hand. It was no business of mine, and seemingly I gave the matter no heed, though I could find leisure and curiosity sometimes for an askant glance at the cap* - -? 3 t-?? ?vmUnM tlTA1>a of tain ana Ilia ucauy niiou iudj nuu ?v table or when the weather permitted the lady to come on deck, and their behavior left me in very little donbt that he was deeply in love with her, but whether she was equally enamored of him I conld not guess. We beat clear of the latitude of roaring gales blind with snow, and mountainous ice islands like cities of alabaster in rains, and seas ridging in thunder and foam to the height of our . mizzen top, and heading north blew under wide wings of studding sails toward the sun, every day sinking some southern stars out of sight, and every night lifting above the sea line 6ome gem of the heavens dear to northern eyes. I went below at eight bells on a Friday moraiDg when we were two months "out" from Sydney, as I very well remember. The ship had then caught the first of the southeast trade wind. All was well when I left the deck. I was awakened by a hand violently shaking my shoulder. 1 sprang up and found Robson. the second mate, standing be side my bunk. He was pale as the ghost the Dane had described. "There's been murder done, sir," he cried. "The captain's killed." I stared, at him- like a fool and echoed mechanically and dully: '4 Murder done 1 Captain killed!" Then, collecting my wits, I tumbled into my clothes and rushed to the captain's cabin, where I found the doctor and the third mate examining poor Griffith's body. It was half past 6 o'clock in the morning, and the daylight strong, but none of the passengers was moving. The captain had been stabbed to the heart The dootor said he bad been killed by a single thrust The body was clothed in white drill trousers and a white linen shirt, which was slightly 6tained with blood where the knife had pierced it Who had done this thing? It was horrible, unprovoked murder! Throughout toe amp tne captain naa oeen tne moat popular man on board. The forecastle liking for him was as strong as sentiment of any sort can find expression in that part of a vessel. There bad never been a murmur. Indeed I had never sailed with a better crew. Not a man had deserted ns at Sydney, and of the hands on board at least half had sailed with the captain before. We carefully searched the cabin, but there was nothing whatever to tell ns that robbery had been committed. However, a ghastly, shocking murder had been perpetrated. The man on whose skill and judgment had depended the safety of the ship and the many lives within her had been foully done to death in his sleep by some mysterious hand, and we determined at once upon a ^course. First I sent for some of the best and most trustworthy seamen among the crew, and bringing tbem into tiie captain's cabin showed them the body. I then, in my capacity as commander of the vessel, anthorized them to act as a sort of detectives or policemen and to search every part of the ship, and all the berths in the steerage, and 'tween decks for any clew to the doer of the deed. It was arranged that the cabins of the first class passengers shonld be thoroughly overhauled by the second and third mates. All this bronght ns to the honr when the passengers arose, and the ship was presently aliva The news swept from lip to lip magically. In all parts of the ship I saw men and women talking, with AAn nn 1A vntiU nnnn^Amn?i All n?t/l Wiou latoo pai?3 nnu uuuobciuunuu auu horror. I had not the courage to break the news to Miss Le Grand and asked the doctor, a qniet, gentlemanly man, to speak to her. I was on the poop looking after the ship when the doctor came from the young lady's berth. "How did she receive the news?" I asked. ' "I wish it may not break her heart," said he gravely. "She was turned into stone. Her stare of grief was dreadful ?not the greatest actress could imagine such a look. There'll be no comforting her this side of England." "Doctor, could he have done it himself?" "Oh, heaven, no, sir!" and he explained by recalling the posture of the body and the situation of the hands, not to mention the absence of the weapon, why it was impossible the captain should have killed himself. I don't know how it came about, but while I paced tho deck waiting for the reports of the mates and the seamen and the passengers who were helping mo in the search it entered my head to mix up with this murder the specter, or ghost, that had frightened the Dane at the wheel into a tit, along with the memory of a sort of quarrel which I guessed had happened between Captain Griffiths and Miss Lo Grand. It was a mere muddle of fancies at best, and yet they took a hold of my imagination. I think it was about a week before this murder that I had observed the coolness of what you might call a lovers' quarrel betwixt the captain and hia young ladj and without taking any further notic of it I quietly set the cause down to Mrf Buiuey, who, as a thorough paced flirl with fine languishing black eyes and saucy tongue, had often done her best t engage the skipper in one of those littl asides which are as brimstone and th undying worm to the jealous of thei sex. The lovers had made it up soo after, and for two or three days pre I wisYnoixr hod hoon no and loverlik as sweethearts ought to be. But what had the ghost that hai affrighted the Dane to do with thi murder? And how were Mrs Bnrney' blandishments and the short lived quai rel betwixt the lovers to be associate with it? Nevertheless these matter ran in my head as I walked the deck a the morning of that crime, and thought and thought, scarce knowing however, in what direction imaginatio: was leading. The two mates, the seamen and th passengers arrived with their reports They had nothing to tell The stewan and stewardess had searched with th two mates in the saloon, or cuddy. Ev ery cabin had been ransacked, with th willing consent of its occupants. Th forecastle and 'tween decks and steerag and lazarette had been minutely over hauled. Every accessible part of th bowels of the ship had been visited t no purpose. No stowaway of any sort no rag of evidence or weapon to suppl; a clew was discovered. That afternoon we buried the body and I took command of the ship. 1 saw notniug oi juiss jue urana iu two days. She kept her cabin and wa seen only by the stewardess, who wait ed upon her. At the expiration of tha time I received a message and went a once to her berth. I never could hav figured so striking a change in a fin woman full of beauty in so short a tim as I now beheld. The fire had died ou of her eyes, and still there lurked some thing weird in the very spiritless ant dull and vacant sadness of her gaze Her cheeks were hollow. Under -eac] eye rested a shadow as though it wa cast by a green leal Her first words were, "Cannot yon find out who did it?" "No, madam. We have tried hardharder for the oaptain's sake than hat he been another, for the responsibility that rests upon the master of an oceai going vessel makes him an object o mighty significance, believe me, to n sailora " "But the person who muea mm mus be in the ship," Bhe cried in a voici that wanted much of its old clear music "One should suppose so, and he i undoubtedly on board the ship, but w< can't find him." "Did he commit suicide?" "No; everybody is accounted for." "What motive," she exclaimed, witl a sudden burst of desperate, passionat grief, that wrung her like a fit fron head to foot, "could any one have fo: killing Captain Griffiths? He was th< gentlest, the kindest?oh, my heart, m; heart!" and hiding her face sherockec herself in her misery. I tried my rough, seafaring best U soothe her. Certainly until this momen I never could have supposed her love fa the poor man was so great. The fear bred of this mysterious as sassination lay in a dark and heav? shadow upon the ship. None of us, pas sengers or sailors, turned in of a nigh kntirith A foArnf fViA aivrpthlonHvhAnt that bad slain the captain making ita presence tragically known once mon before the morning. It happened one midnight, when w< were something north of the eqnator, ii the calms and stinging heat of the in Plunged it once, deep and hard. tertropic latitudes, that, having come oi deck to relieve the second mate and tak charge of the ship till 4 o'clock, I fel thirsty and returned to the cuddy for ; drink of water. Of the three lamps on only was alight and burned very dimly There was no moonlight, but a-plenty o starshine, which showered in a very rip pling of spangled silver through th yawning casements of the skylights. Just as I returned the tumbler to th rack whence I had removed it, the doo of Miss Lie Grand's cabin was opened and the girl stepped forth. She was ai rayed in white. Probably she was ai tired in her bedclothes. She seemed t see me at once, for she emerged directl nnnosite. and I thou eh t she would spea or hastily retire. But after appearing t stare for a little while she came to th table and leaned upon it with her lei hand, sighing several times in the mo! heartbroken manner, and now I saw b the help of the dim lamplight that hf right hand grasped a knife?the gleai of the blade caught my eye in a breath "Good gracious!" I cried to myse! instantly, "the woman's asleep! Thii then, is the ghost that frightened th Dane. And this, too, was the hand thf murdered the captain!" I stood motionless, watching hei Presently, taking her hand off the tabh she turned her face aft, and with a wot derfully subtle, stealthy, sneaking gai' reminding one strangely of the foldin motion of the snake, she made for th captain's cabin. Now, that cabin, ever Bince Griffith r, death, I had occupied, and you may e guess the sensations with which I foli lowed the armed and murderous sleepwaiter as she glided to what I must a call my berth and noiselessly opened the o door of it The moment she was in the e cabin her motions grew amazingly e swift She stepped to the side of the r bunk I was in the habit of using, and n lifting the knife plunged it once, deep > and hard, then came away, so nimbly e that it was with difficulty I made room for her in the doorway to pass. I heard d her breathe hard and fast as she swept s by, and I stood in the doorway of my s cabin watching her till her figure disap peared in her own berth. J fln fV?on tKo mtrofflnr trofl af. nn artrf s Poor Captain Griffith's murderess was q his adored sweetheart 1 She had killed I him in her sleep and knew it not In the blindness of slumber she had.repeat0 ed the enormous tragedy, as sinless nevertheless as the angels who looked down e and beheld her and pitied her. 1 I went on deck and sent for the dood tor, to whom I communicated what I had e seen, and he at once repaired to Miss Le - Grand's berth, accompanied by the e stewardess, and found her peacefully e resting in her bunk. No knife was to e be seen. However, next morning, the - young lady being then on deck, veiled e as she always now went, and sitting in o a retired part of the poop, the- Becond mate, the doctor and the stewardess y again thoroughly searched Miss Le Grand's berth, and they found in a hol, low in the ship's side, a sort of scupper, in fact, or the porthole, a carving knife, r rusted with old stains of blood. It had s belonged to the ship, and it was a knife ; the steward had missed on the day the t captain was killed, t Since the whole ghastly tragedy was 9 a matter of somnambulism all points of 0 it were easily fitted by the doctor, who 9 quickly understood that the knife had t been taken by the poor girl in her sleep f just as it had been murderously used 1 What horrible demon governed her in l her slumber who shall tell? For my ii part, I put it down to Mrs. Burney and s a secret fever of iealousv which had operated in the poor bouI when sense i was snspended in her by slumber. We tried to keep the thing secret, - taking care to lock Miss Le Grand np 1 every night without explaining our mo7 tive, but the passengers got wind of the i truth and shrunk from her with horror, f It came, in fact, to their waiting upon s me in a body and insisting upon my immuring her in the steerage in comt pany with one of the 'tween deck's b passengers, a female who had offered . her services as a nurse for hire. This s action led to the poor girl herself finda ing out what had happened. God knows who told her or how she managed to discover it, bnt 'tis certain she got to learn it was her hand that in sleep had i killed her lover, and she went mad on b the selfsame day of her understanding i what she had done, r Nor did she ever recover her mind. 9 She was landed mad and sent at once to 7 an asylum, where she died, God rest i her poor soul, exactly a year after the murder, passing away, in fact, at the 9 very hour the deed was done, as I aftert ward heard, r THE EKD. Treatment For Lt(htnlo| Stroke. : Place the subject on his back, head down and bent backward, arms folded 3 over the head, and under no conditions 3 raise the head from the ground or floor. Place beneath the chest a hard roll of 3 clothing, with the shoulders deolining 1 slightly over ifc. Open the mouth, pull the tongue forward and wipe out saliva, loosen the clothing from neck to waist, but do not leave the part exposed, as it is essential to keep the body warm. Kneel astride the subject's hips, with your hands well opened upon his chest, thumbs pointing toward each other and resting on the lower end of the breast bono, little fingers upon the margin of the ribs and the other fingers dipping into the spaces between the ribs. Place ??? <-?lAtmilrr orroi'ncf. wnni* J'UUi. CIUUUO 1UUJ1J UgUAUUU J Vlu and using your knees as a pivot press upward and inward toward the heart and lungs, throwing your weight slowly forward two or three seconds, until your face almost touches that of your patient, ending with a sharp push which helps to jerk you back to your first position. At the same time relax the pressure of your hands, so that the ribs, springing back to their original position, will cause the air to rush into the subject's lungs. Pause for two or three seoonds and then repeat these motions at the rate of about ten a minute, until your patient breathes naturally or until satisfied that life is extinct If there is no response to 11 your efforts persistently maintained for ? a full hour, you may assume that life is gone.?New York Presa e _ _ ~ 7 The Cat Was uiggntiea. if An interesting experiment in the >- rearing of animals is recorded by a e German journal A country gentleman, having captured a young hare a few e days old, conceived the idea of giving r it as foster mother a cat which had just 1, had a litter of kittens. The cat showed - no objection to this curious addition to her family, and the herbivorous nurs 11 A- it* o ling seemed to taJre very wen iu wjo y regime to which it was so unexpectedly k subjected. The hare throve and grew, o and the cat soon thought it time to bee gin the education of her foster child. :t For the catching of mice, however, the it hare showed not the slightest disposiy tion, and at each fault committed the :r adoptive mother administered vigorous n correction with her paws. This produoi! ed but little improvement, and the reIf latiouB between the two animals were 3, becoming somewhat strained when one ie day they were placed together on the it lawn in front of the house. The hare at once proceeded to nibble at the vegetar. tion with remarkable avidity, to theevij, dent astonishment and indignation of i- the cat, who could make nothing of t, such conduct. Finally, perceiving that g she had nourished anything but a kitle ten, the disappointed jmrse withdrew with an expression of unmistakable die's dain.?Westminster Gazette. r / / J piscdlanwus Reading. ^ ? th WHAT IS THE ISSUE? lit di A Correspondent Warns the People to Be on tho Lookout for County Division. ^ Editor of The Yorkville Enquirer: j I am not a politician ; but we are all ba so constituted as to have clear cut at prejudices, and are therefore prone to ou take sides on the various questions of m the day. It is this taking sides that results in what we call "issues." The most prominent issue before the people of the United States just now is the money issue; but this is not an ov issue at all in this section. You might ^ find a man here and there in York w< county who is in favor of the main- ^ tenance of the single gold standard ; jy but they are very lonesome and but ? few of them can tell why. In nine cases out often it is not because the man really understands the subject, ? and believes that he is right; but because some people are just so consti- ca tuted that they would not be happy if they found themselves in full agree- ? ment with their fellows. No, South 1 Carolina will send a solid delegation ?n to Chicago that will stand for free inl silver first last and all the time, and in ?r my opinion the man who gets upon the , stump for the purpose of preaching 8 * free silver to our people has been ? asleep longer even than I have. I J1.0 think the people will serve him right . if they will tell him "rats." 1(y All of our Reform promises have . been settled in full. We've held a Ju constitutional convention. We have 8 provided new registration and elec- Jv Hon laws which seem to put a satisfac- Jlr tory quietus on the race problem, and V in fact we have done about everything ?u that we contracted to do, especially so far as State affairs are concerned, j* But another campaign is upon us. We ~?a are agaiu called upon to select a dele- ^ gation to represent us in the legislature and in view of what I have said ?D perhaps a great many people will be at a loss to conjecture on what lines " aspirants to represent the people will 0 pitch their claims for suffrage. It was oc in order to make a suggestion on this ce subject that I happened to wake op. ?a You know that our recent constitu- :?u tional convention fixed the limit of old counties at 500 square miles and the limit of new counties at 400 square miles and provided that no county WI should have less area. You know that ?' the area of York county does not ex- to ceed 775 square miles. This is by ac actual survey, by some of the most conscientious surveyors who have ever lived ID ID18 COUDiry. 11 yuu reujciuber, the county, waa recently surveyed Fr again by interested parties, and you on have not yet beard anybody say any- er thing definite about the result. If mi you are as well acquainted with the co intricate calculations that are necessa- ini ry to determine the area of a tract as ba big as York county, you will under- on stand that it is easy to make "mis- de takes" if you want to. It will also oc- co cur to you that it is easier to make ou "mistakes" in favor of an employer T1 than it is against him. Just why, I ki dou't know ; but it is so. th But after a "mistake" has been made to in a survey it is further necessary to re; have a legislature that is favorable he to that "mistake." That is the next th move on the programme. Perhaps he some of our people think that the th county question is settled. By rights, I think it is; but you remember what a 1 kind of promises we had from candi- vo dates for delegates to the constitutional fic onnuuntinn In mv oninion. VOU are he going to have the same old fight over pa again. There is going to be an effort of to have the legislature endorse the bii "mistakes" of the survey, and there foi are going to be candidates in the field to secretly pledged to the endorsement, he The fact is it will be a very lively so issue before the summer is over. pr In conclusion, I think it well for the co voters to look into this matter, and to in keep their eyes wide open. If we elect wi anybody to represent York county in tbe legislature, we should elect them st< to represent the whole county and not he a part of it. We do not want to give ou our votes to men, who come to us co under false pretenses, asking our suf- hi: frage only that they may, after get- inj ting what they want, cut loose from th us and throw us overboard. We have te bad one experience of that Kind, i it. don't ask for any drawing of sectional lines, Mr. Editor; but let us not be deceived again. Next time let us only Pi vote for men who can be depended co upon to do what tbey promise. I sii tbiok there must be still among us ac some men of this kind. ed Rip Van Winkle, of Smyrna, April 24. cr MENTAL TRAITS OP WOMEN. * to What woman loses in profundity itt she gains in quickness. She excels ce in tact, and extricates herself from hr a difficulty with astonishing adroit- th ess. In language she is more apt ar than man. Girls learn to speak th earlier than boys, and old women lo are more talkative than old men. th 4 * 1? - - ? ^ ?tt JTa nan fm Among ine uueuuumeu tuc nuc v?u i.. express herself more intelligently than 4C the husband. Experience in co-edu- tii cational institutions shows that wo- ye men are more faithful and punctilious Li than men, and at least equally apt. w In colleges where a record of standing re is kept, the women gain probably a m somewhat higher average. In the 10 years immediately following gradu- he atiou the men make much greater su intellectual progress. Women reach w their mental maturity at an earlier m age, and develop relatively less after di maturity. In mauy kinds of routine \\ work, especially that of requiring si; patience, women are superior; but cc they are less able to endure protracted at overwork. se We have seen that woman is less fo modified physically than man, and fii varies less from the average. The w same is true mentally. Women are sa more alike than men and more te normal, as it were. The geniuses 0( ive been men for the most part, id so have the cranks. Woman's ought pursues old rather than new ies. Her tendency is toward reproiction, while man's is toward oduction. Woman loves the old, e tried, and the customary. She conservative, and acts as society's lance-wheel. Man represents variion. He reforms, explores, thinks it a new way.?Popular Science onthly. NATIONAL CEMETERIES. If all the cemeteries and burial lots yned by the government in the Unid States, with their silent occupants, are gathered within one enclosure, it ould be a city of three hundred and ty thousand dead, mostly victims of e Civil war. In humane regard for e dead the government was always ually kind to both sides. Even when e storm of war was raging the fiercest e dead Confederate, whether death me on the battlefield or in prison, is treated precisely the same as a ad Union soldier. From the first e government identified every grave ; id where personal identification was ipossible, a memorial slab to the passby that a dead soldier, Union or >nfederate, as the case might be, ;pt beneath that sod. The old methI of thrusting the dead into great iles, like so many stones, and calling at burial, was ioo barbaric for Amerin sensibility. The first government cemetery is 9t outside the City of Mexico, and .tes back to 1851. That monument national gratitude paved the way to e cemetery policy of the next decade. me soiaiers 01 ine lust war uu uuiu ies who lie buried in these cemetery ts?320,692?more than half?190,3?are identified. The government is expended fully nine millions of liars on these resting places. The st or these war cemeteries, after the ie in Mexico, dates from 1863, name, the ones at Chattanooga, Gettysirg, and Stone River. The number Confederate or Camp Douglass prisiers who were buried in Oak woods metery, Chicago, is nearly six thound. There are 1304 Confederates iried near Alton, and 1928 in Rock land. Although Illinois was not vaged by war, it thus has over nine ousand Confederate dead supulchred itbin its borders, and all in graves tmed by the government-they sought destroy. Such are Edme of the oenities of American civilization. HOGS SQUEALING IN TUNE. During the reign of Louis XI, of ance, there was attached to his court ie Abbot de Baigue, a man of considable wit. The abbot was somewhat usically inclined, and delighted the urt with inventions of odd musical struments. One day the king, after tving enjoyed a hearty laugh over e of these curious contrivances, and siring to baffle this musical genius, mmanded him to produce harmoni> is sounds from the cries of hogs, lis seemed an impossibility to the ng, and be prepared himself to enjoy e discomfiture of the abbot. Much his surprise, however, the abbot adily agreed to produce them. All i required was a sum of money, upon e receipt of which he declared that i would invent the most surprising ing that was ever heard of. He scoured the country and secured large quantity of hogs, trying their >ices as to pitch and quality, and, tally naving iuny sausueu LiiLuscit, i arranged the animals in a sort of .vilion, ricbly decorated. The day the trial arrived, and the king and 3 court entered the pavilion prepared r something, but greatly in doubt as the success of the abbot with the igs. However, there were the hogs re enough, and, much to the surise and delight of the king, they mmenced to cry harmoniously and good tune, rendering an air that is fairly recognized. The abbot bad arranged a series of >ps that were connected with the igs, and upon pulling one of them >t caused a spike to prick the hog it nnected with, making him squeal 3 note. The rest was easy, for pullgout the different stops, he produced e tune. The king and all his atudants were highly delighted with Uncertain Age of the Earth.? of. John Ferry has been causing a mmotion in scientific circles by inluatiug that the earth is much more icient than we have been accustom1 to believe. Lord Kelvin's estimate the age of the earth, as a solid or usted body, which is 400,000,000 ;ars for its upper and anything down 10,000,000 or 20,000,000 years for s lower limit, has been hitherto acpted without suspicion. Prof. Perry is called into question this theory of e comparative juvenility of our globe id insists that Lord Kelvin has taken e conducting power of hot rocks as wer than it really is, and hence that e earth bad cooled and consolidated om a liquid state much earlier than 10,000,000 years ago, at least 120 tips earlier: that is, 48,000,000,000 ;ars ago. These hoary figures drove 3rd Kelvin to his laboratory, from hence he has now emerged with most assuring data. He has been experienting on the conducting power of cks at a high temperature, and he is also received some valuable reilts made by Dr. Robert Weber, from hich it appears that Prof. Perry was istakeu in assuming the greater conjctivity of intensely heated rocks. rith some kinds of rock, for instance, ate and sandstone, there is, on the mtrary, a diminution of conductivity , high temperatures. Lord Kelvin es no ground for abandoning bis rmer estimate, and he quotes the con mation of Dr. Clarence King, the ell known American geologist, who iys that "we have no wantt for exnding the earth's age be^kl 24,000,)0 of years." This accdH with the 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 years for the age of the sun, as calculated by Helmholtz, Newcomb and Kelvin. THE GARDEN OF EDEN. An English Egyptologist, Mr. W. Marsham Adams, has been for sometime engaged in an endeavor to solve the structual enigma of the great pyramid and to elicit from the ancient religious books of the Nile land, and especially fkm the so-called Book of the Dead, a clue to the creed of early Egypt. In the volumes embodying the outcome of his researches he arrives at the interesting conclusion regarding the simplicity and purity of the oldest Egyptian faith, and discerns it in a curious conformity, so far as the main lines are concerned, to Christianity. That, to which, however, we would at this time, invite .particular attention is to the assertion that his readings in the sacred books of Egypt bear out the record of Geniscs as to the seat of the earthly paradise, and that consequently, the cradle of the human race must be looked for in Africa at some point in the watershed of the Nile. Let us mark the ground for this at tempt at the new identification of the Garden of Eden. Adams points out that in the region of the great lakes are, as in the places described in Geneses, the "heads" of four rivers which "go forth to water the whole country." There beyond the Zambesi, lies the land of gold, with its mines of unknown antiquity, and bearing an oborous herb, of which the hieroglyphic name is betru, suggesting the original of the Hebrew word betelu, converted, by the Greeks into bdellium. There is the fountain of the winding Niger, and there the source of the inundating Nile. There, too, is the Congo, the river of "life," corresponding to the Hebrew Perith (fruitful), transformed by the Greeks into Euphrates. What Mr. Adams deems more striking still is the fact that iu the eastward portion of this great basin lies the Garden of Paradise, 3,000 square miles in area, described in glowing terms by Stanley as full of animal life, the sceptre expressing dominion over which was one of the insignia of the Egyptian deity, Amen. From that gar den flows a single river, cne onan, exactly as it is in the Scriptural account the single river flowed in the midst to water the garden, which was placed in the eastward part of the immense watershed of Eden. Thence, according to Mr. Adams's theory, the stream of human emigration found its way along the line of least resistance to the the fertile plains of Egypt. Probably I the seat of the most ancient civilization in the world, diffusing itself from the delta of the Nile, or along the shores of the Mediterraqean. To a certain extent the ground was; prepared for the effort to connect the record of Genesis primarily with old Egyptian rather than with the Chaldaic traditions. Since Egyptian monuments have been studied in the light of astronomy there has been a tendency to hold thaf civilization of Egypt was derived from two sources of immigration, the one situated in the Abyssinian highlands or elsewhere in the watersheds of the Nile, the other in Mesopotamia. It is thought, however, that the northward stream of emigration was the earlier. Morever, many Assyriologists concur in thinking that ancient Chaldcea was principally indebted for civiliziug agencies to /lAmlnnr Kw OJOtT rtf t.VlP Ppf. tSLLl lgiau UO lA/miug Kfj IT MJ w* ? sian gulf, from Abyssinia or southwest Arabia. It should be noted that sinologues are now disposed to trace the origin of Chinese civilization to emigrants from Cbaldsea, whose own culture, as we have said, is believed by many to be a derivative. So there is something like consensus of conjecture pointing to the water-shed Nile as the cradle of civilized man.?New York Sun. Mouse Versus Lion.?A mouse was recently put into the cage of a lion to test whether, as the old fables asserted, there was a natural affection between them. The experiment demonstrated that each was so afraid of the other that no affection could exist between them. The lion saw the mouse before he was fairly through the bars, and was after him instantly. Away went the little fellow, scurrying across the door and squeaking in fright. When he had gone about 10 feet the lion sprang, lighting a little in front of him. The mouse turned, and the lion sprang again. This was repeated several times, the mouse traversing a shorter distance after each spring of the lion. Finally the mouse stood still, squealing and trembling. The lion stood over him, studying him with interest. Presently he shot out his big paw and brought it down directly on' the mouse, but so gently that the mouse was not injured in the least, though held fast between the claws. Then the lion played with him, now lifting his paw and letting the mouse run a few inches, and then stopping him again as before. Suddenly the mouse changed tactics and, instead of running when the lion lifted his paw, sprang into the air, straight at the lion's head. The lit>n, terrified, gave a great leap back, striking the bars with all his weight. Then he opened his jaw and roared ' * ..... aMIl again, wnue me nine mvvue, sun squealing, made bis escape. Of the two the lion was the more frightened. j ? ? Flies.?When visiting a friend last summer he called my attention to a curious plan for preventing the plague of flies in his house. The upper sash of one of the windows in his sittingroom being open for ventilation, there was suspended outside a piece of common fishing-net. My friend toldme that not a fiy would venture to pass through it. He has watched for an hour at a time, and seen swarms fly to within a few inches of the net, and then, after buzzing about for a little, depart. He told-me the flies would pass through the net if there was a little light?that is another window in the opposite wall. Though the day was very warm, I did not see a single fly in the room during my visit, though elsewhere in the town they were seen in abundance. I suppose they imagine the net to be a spider's web, or some other trap in tended for their destruction. IST "You should learn' some trade, my son," said an Austin gentleman to his young hopeful. "Bricklayers are getting $6.50 a day, while lawyers can not afford to ride in the street cars." "Pa, why didn't you learn a trade when you were a boy ?" "That is not only a silly, but an impertinent question. I didn't learn a trade when I was a boy out of regard for your feelings. I wanted to give you an opportunity to say that your , father was a gentleman." "It can't be helped now," replied the boy, moodily, "but I wish you had consulted me, for if we had arranged for you to be the bricklayer I could have been the gentleman myself." I WaP Florence, the actor, once gave some advice to a friend in these words: "Mr Dear : The gallon of whisky costs aboat $8 and contains abont sixtyfive 15-oent drinks. Now if you must. drink, bay a gallon and make your wife be the barkeeper. - When yoa are dry give her 15 cents for a drink, and when the whisky is gone she will have, after paying for it, $6.75 left, and every gallon thereafter will yield the same profit. This money she should put away, so that when you have become inebriate, unable to support yourself and shunned by every respectable man, your .wife may have money to keep you until your time comes to fill a drunkard's grave." $?~ An old maid once owned a parrot, which gave her a great deal ot trouble, owing to its pro&nity and disagreeable remarks. She decided to ask her minister to lend her his parrot, which erred in being almost too religiously disposed in its conversation. The minister consented, so Polly the good went to visit Polly the bad. Some days later, upon entering the room where the parrots were, the maiHon la ft i? vm oTAAtAd with the remark. "I do hope the old woman may die!" while the clergyman's parrot added, "We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord." t&~ In medicine the shell ot the egg is used as an antacid, being better adapted to the stomach than chalk. The white of the egg is an antidote in case of poisoning with strong acids or corrosive sublimate! The poison will coagulate the albumen, and if these poisons be in the system, the white of an egg swallowed quickly, will combine with the poison and protect the stom-k ach.' An astringent poultice is made by causing it to coagulate with alum. This is called alum curd and is used in certain diseases of the eye. The yelk of the egg is sometimes used in cases of jsundice, and is an excellent diet for dyspeptics. 18P The most remarkable instance of rapid growth is said to be recorded by the French Academy in 1729. It was a boy 6 years of age, 5 feet, 6 inches in height. At the age of 5 bis voice changed, at 6 his beard had grown, and he appeared a man of 80. He possessed great physical strength, and could easily lilt to nis snouiaers auu carry bags of grain weighing 200 pounds. His decline was as rapid as his growth. At 8 his hair and beard were gray; at 10 he tottered in his " walk, his teeth fell out, and bis bands became palsied; at 12 he died with every outward sign of extreme old age. Obeying Orders : "Give me a bid, gentlemen?someone start the cart? do give us a bid, if you please?anything to start the cart," cried an auctioneer, who stood on the cart he was endeavoring to sell. "Anything you please to start it." "If that's all you wants, I'll start her for you!" exclaimed a broad-backed countryman, applying his shoulder to the wheel, an^ giving the cart a sudden push forward, tumbling the autioneer over the side. By the time the fallen auctioneer regained his feet the countryman had started, too. f6T Bill Nye's pet story was the one as to how he was charged four dollars for a sandwich in a village in New Jersey. He told the man who sold it that it was a high price for a sandwich, and' said that he bad frequent y gotten a ten-course dinner with four kinds of wine for just making a speech, and " ...V... any B8KCU cue uiau vrujr uc vuai^cu four dollars for a ham sandwich. "Well, I'll tell you," said the sandwich man ; "the fact is, by gad, I uced the money." Can Watee Run TJp Hill ??Impossible as this seems, it is an established fact. In truth, every river flowing toward the equator for a sufficient distance runs up hill. The mouth of the Mississippi is three miles higher than its source. That is, Minnesota, where the Mississippi rises, is three miles near the center of the earth than is the Gulf of Mexico. In the reason for this will be found the explanation of the river's uphill flow. Fooling thS^Blind.?"Why will you insist upon writing such one sided political articles? Why, according to your writings, every member of your party, without exception, is an angel of light and every man in the other party a liar and a horse thief. That kind of talk can fool nobody but blind partisans." "Blind partisans are the only men I write for."?Boston Transcript.