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BT FORD & McCRACKEN. AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1889. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR. Hotels and Boarding Houses. BUSCH HOUSE! AIKEN, 8. C. HENRY BUSOH, Propnetor. 71A TES $2.00 PER DA Y. Special Rale* by the Week. Busch House Transfer Carr!ea Pnsflengern for Busch House FlIKK. ^^*OrderH for Passensrers and Bag- gage left at the Busch House or at H. Buseh & t'o.’s Store, will receive prooiipt attoution. PAM AMI iiflTFl! Opposite tie Fuieutt Stitlte. « A. M. TAFT, Proprietor. WEST VIEW. Near Highland Park Hotel. jB#! 11 'I I ft ll ■ 1 S ■ 1 — 1 I if H 1—^■^l—l M l^T Corner York Street and Colleton Avenue. Comfortable and well furnished Rooms and table supplied with the best. Terms reasonable. Mrs. N. E. SENN. PRIVATE BOARD. Boarders will be most comfortably accommodated at Mrs. Percival’s, York Street; or the house will be let for the season, thoroughly furnished. THE AUGUSTA HOTEL! -^Auggfilau - Georgia. BEST $2.00 HO US VO IN THE SOUTH. Headquarters for Commercial Men. Centrally located neurit. It. Crossing. L. E. DOOLITTLE, Proprietor, Formerly of Tontine Hotel, New Haven, Conn. Also, West End Hotel, I.ony lirunch,J. N. PAVILION HOTEL. Charleston. S. C PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND ELECTRIC BELLS. House fresh and clean throughout. Table best in the South. Pavilion Transfer Coaches and Wagons at all trains and Boats. Rates reduced. Beware of giving your Check to any one on Train. Rates $2 00 @ $2 50. Wright’s Hotel! S. L. WRIGHT & SON, Prop’rs., COLUMBIA. - - 8. C. T ABLE supplied with the BEST. Rooms large and well furnished. One of the most comfortable hotels in the South. tST'Rate* • easonable.JgR R.L. COURTNEY DEALER IN BEEF, MUTTON, FORK AND SAUSAGES, The Best Western Beef kept con stantly on hand. LAURENS STREET, Next door to K LATTE’S BUTCHERING. FBEH MEATS CONSTANTLY ON HAND. Western meat for the Winter season a specialty. Sausages will also be kept on hand. Shop adjoining Warneke’s. F. E. SOMMER. LAURENS ST.. \iken, s- C. In the Lying-In Kooin. BETHLEHEM OAT FOOD Is recommended l>3’ all physicians as the mosi di gestible as well as nutri tious diet for tiie invalid. SOLD P.Y ALL DRI GGISTS AND GRO CERS. FRANCIS JORDAN £ SONS. Manufacturers, 209 N. THIRD STREET.PHIADELPH1A FOR SALE BY COURTNEY & CO., Aiken, S. C. HYCEIN! A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY ! Tobacco an Aid to Health. A New Tobacco, manufactured by Thos C. Williams A Co , Rich mond, Virginia, under a formula pre pared by Prof. J. W. Mallet, of the University of Virginia, anti-malarial, anti-dyspeptic, a good nervine and an excellent cheifr.* Try it. No humbug. For sale by all dealers. Call for pamphlet. pOYAl, THE WATER METER. TO N\].[N »l|ljjXjfM &Ak1n c POWDER Absolutely Pure. This-powder ■neCer vfcnes of purity, strength and wholesome net's. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of l»w test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 Wall street. New York. For sale by COURTNEY & CO., Aiken. 8. C. Professional Advertisements. D. S. Hkndekson. E. P. Hkndkrson. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. James Aldrich Walter Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. John Gary Evans, Attorney-at-Law. Will practice in the Counties of Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell. Haviland Stevenson, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Special attention given to Collec tion. 0. C. J OKI) AN, attorney-at-law. AIKEN, S. C. Hr. Z. A. Smith’ PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. VAUCLUSE, - - - S. C. C3^“Office near Depot. REGISTRATION NOTICE; J WILL bent my office the-FlRST Monday in every month for the purpose of registering those citizens who have come of age since the last election, ami to attend to other offi cial business. WALTER ASHLEY, Supervisor of Registration for Aiken County. For Sale in Augusta, Ga. HOUSE with 6 Rooms, desira ble locality on Green Street, a few doors above corner ot Campbell and Green, No. 913, nearly opposite new public building. Refer to Mrs. S. A. LAMAR, Beech Island, S. C. Feb. 12-7t Tornaflo, Cyclone and IMston POLICIES! ISSUED BY HUTSON & CO., Agents, IN PHCENIX INS. CO. of Brooklyn. ASSETS, - - - 15.000,000. On Frame Buildings: 1 year, 30 Cents on iMOO.OO; 3 years, (i0 Cents on $100.00; five years, 90 Cents on $100.00. Brick Buildings; 1 year 20 Cents on $100 00 ; 3 years, 40Cents on $100.00; five years, 00 cents on $lt>0.09. For Policy-, apply to HUTSON & CO. Clyde’s New York and Florida STEAMSHIP LINES. W. P. Clyde & Co., Gvii. Agents. 35 Broadway, 12 South Wharves. New York. Philadelphia. T. G. EGER, Traffic Manager, No. 35 Broadway, New York. WM. A COURTENAY, Sup’t., Charleston S. C. The New and First-Class Steamships CHEROKEE. 2,000 tons (new) ( APT. DOANE. SEMINOLE, 2,000 tons, (new) CAPT. KENBLE. DELE WARE, 1.500 tons, CAPT. TRIBOU. YEMASSEE, 1,500 tons, CAPT. PLATT. T HESE Splendid Passenger Steam ships form an unequaled semi- weekly line to New York and the Florida ports, with state-rooms all on deck, thoroughly ventilated and sep arated from the dining saloon. There is no pleasanter traveling on the Atlantic Coast, and the trip to Florida consumes only twelve to fifteen hours. For passage engage ments address, J. E. EDGERTON, Gen. Passenger & Freight Ag’t, Charleston. S. C. I'm a wicked water meter. Pharisaic water meter, with a face of white enamel, hard enamel, trimmed with braae: But I wear the aoft expression of a painted Simon , » Peter, looking out into the future like a gold fish through a glass. When it happens that the carcass of an Infant alligator plays the mischief with mj vitals In Its efforts to get through, I record the strange occurrence on my brass bound Indicator, by the fraudulent addition of a hundred feet or two. O, the miasmatic matter and the poison which 1 scatter, with the simple same of water, un adulterated, pure! While my friend the undertaker waxes richer, slicker, fatter, and the druggist's wife and daughter take a European tour! O, I often pause and wonder as I ponder o'er my plunder, pause and wonder why In thunder honset people let me lie. Why they do not rise in anger, tear me limb from limb asunder, and adopt a water meter more Ingenuous than 11 —The Wasp. BABY BALLOON £ “How did she come by such a queer name?” said Col. Jack We luted, re- peatiug the question that had been put to him by one of our party. “Well, you may be sure that she wasn’t christened so. During the first three years of her career I wasn’t very well acquainted with her—in fact, never laid eyes on her. But until the end of that period she was known as Bir die; so I’m informed. Birdie Tredloe was her real name. I’ll tell you how she came to be called ‘Baby Bal loon.’ ” The young person to whom he re ferred was a lovely girl of 18, with dark hair, serious eyes, fresh healthy color in her cheeks, ana a lithe figure, so graceful and bouyant that you might easily have expected her to float away if a particularly strong breeze should happen to blow across the seaward looking veranda of the hotel at Reefer’s Pomt, where we sat talking. The idea that she might be waftea off by a breeze would he es pecially apt to occur to you when you saw her aancing in the great parlor, as she frequently did of evenings. And I rather thought that handsome Joe Terrill (one of our younger friends), who danced with her a great deal, would not have obiected to her floating away if he could have been allowed to float with her. To be lain, Joe was in love with Miss Tred- oe, or, as the colonel called her. “Baby Balloon.” Joe Terrill haa plenty of money, but he was not satis fied with that; he wanted Miss Tred- loo as well. When he did me the honor to confide this to me one day, I said to him, “Why in the world, then, don’t you ask her to marry you ?” “Well,” he replied, “I don’t feel at all sure that she cares enough for me to take me just for myself. I don’t im agine she would want me just for my money either. The long and the short of it is, I don’t amount to enough. My money came to mo by inheritance, so that’s nothing to my credit. And I haven’t done anything of importance in the world except just to be born and to inherit this wealth. Now if I liad only done some great action or made a name for myself, I might possibly ' Ty uotionis-sfae wants a hero. Oh, by Jove I—that’s a good idea. If I could rescue her from a mad dog or an angry bull, or save her from drowning, then she’d be sure to have me.” Infuriated bulls and mad dogs do turn up every day; and when they do make their appearance it is likely enough to be just at a moment when we are not prepared to cope with them. So, not being able to impress these animals into his service, Terrill per sistently took Miss Tredloe out sailing, as if with a view to some opportune marine disaster. It was positively amusing to notice how he dogged her footsteps with a design on her life— not the design of destroying it, but of preserving it, so that she might share it with him. But to return to Col. Welsted. His declaration that he had not known the ypung lady for the first three years of her existence seemed rather strange, considering that she looked upon him as a father, and that we all considered him in that light, notwithstanding the difference in their names. He ex plained this, however, in the course of the story which he proceeded to narrate. That story is the one I am going to tell here. i Col. Jack Welsted was a tall, sinewy man with gaunt cheeks, and had a long red mustache that drooped and slanted over the corners of his mouth like a pennant hanging idly from the staff on windless day. He was also cele brated as a crack rifle shot. He could bring down almost anything on the wing, and could hit all sorts of marks, at all ranges. But his certainty of aim with the rifle did not seem to help him when he came to love matters. He failed to come anywhere near touching the heart of the lady whom he loved. Evelyn Carter rejected him, and mar ried another man, who was a great deal handsomer than the colonel, but, I regret to say, not nearly so good. Then Col. Jack went off on his trave’s, carrying his Arc arms with him. He made innumerable hunting trips, and shot endless numbers of deer, rabbits, Rocky Mountain goats, wild cats, ducks, prairie hens and even alligators. For a long time it seemed as if he was trying to wreak on these unfortunate creatures the disappoint ment of his affections. But all to no purpose. Ho could not forget Evelyn; and so far as he could see he was as much in love with her as ever. Tims it was that about four years after her marriage he came wandering down to this popular sea shore resort of Reefer's Point, where we were now staying, and where he now told us the story. Lots of other people came there /or their health or for amuse ment. The colonel came because he did not know what else to do; and al though there was not much shooting to bo had at Reefer's, he was con stantly seen carrying his rifle about with nim, in the crowds about the hotel, or along the lonely beaches, or in the boat which he hired Ben Piver to sail for him up and down and across the inlet, or sometimes well out to sea. People laughed at him a little, good naturedly, for lugging the gun with him on all occasions. But he attached to it He was a and the rifle was his prin- brown haired child of 3, was a great favorite among the visitors at the Reefer’s Point hotel, whither she had been brought by her widowed mother to recover from the effects of a severe illness that had lasted several weeks. All the old ladies and old gentlemen about the place, and even some of the young ones, were fond of talking with aer and petting her. But CoL Jack Welsted, if he had seen her at all, did not appear to have noticed her. He was much given to solitude, and did not spend much of his time on the hotel piazza. Moreover, although fond of children, he could not help remem bering his disappointment in not be ing able to marry Evelyn Carter, and the sight of a pretty child frequently made nim melancholy by reminding him that he had none of his own. Besides, he had been at the hotel only two or three days when the important event connected with Birdie took place. It is certain that he had not once seen her with her mother, and did not even know her name. One afternoon when a brisk wind blowing off shore, the colonel sail was _ had gone out in his boat with Ben Piver, taking his gun as usual, and promising himself a shot at some sea gull if he could find no better game. Some of the visitors were bath ing on the beach, others were sitting on the steamboat wharf, and some were promenading in front of the hotel; while a group of children at the Indian tent, not far away, were buy ing bead moccasins and birch bark baskets. The veranda was crowded, and Mrs. Tredloe was sitting there with little Birdie, when benevolent old Dr. Haygood happened along, and asked the widow if ne might take the child down to the tent to buy some thing for her. Mrs. Tredloe consented, and the old gentleman and his little companion descended the steps to gether. Before they had reached the tent, and as they were walking along the high ground close above the water, they met an Italian peddler who liad a couple of dozen toy bal loons for sale, all fastened by long strings to a stick, and bobbing merrily in the air above his head. “Oh, beautiful big apples 1” ex claimed Birdie, rapturously, her sparkling eyes fixed on the large elas tic crimson globes, which she seemed to mistake for fruit. “Give Birdie one?” Dr. Haygood began to bargain with the Italian, and took the stick from him to select a balloon from the bunch. His small friend was delighted, imag ining sho was to have the entire bunSi. “All—all for me!” she cried, and clapping her hands, she stretched them out toward the coveted treasure of the dancing air globes. This so amused the kind hearted doctor that he resolved to humor her, for a moment at any rate. So gather ing the long strings together, he tied them around Birdie’s waist, then let go, and the balloons all floated up around and above her head and shoul ders, making a gay spectacle of her. The doctor and the Italian both stood by, smiling at her satisfaction, when suddenly to their amazement, a strong gust of wind caused all the balloons to sway to one side, sweeping Birdie off j^er feet and grace£uR-Y pp into y very close to a long r^t that jutted out into the inlet just t>!gond the harbor’s mouth. One more shot finished off a third balloon, an there were not enough left if the bunch now to hold Birdie up. Sfowly steadily, softly, she began to , and qjscena, precisely as if she were being strays Tc!. downward by a pair of arms mov- icg gently, and in a few minutes CoL J^ck had tne satisfaction of seeing her It happened so they coi greatly ly man. was lone \ . | cipal companion. When he was in a | romantic mood he would pat the stock or the fine “twist” barrel of the gun affectionately with his hand, remark ing, “This rifle, sir, is my bride, and she never talks except when I want her to. ’’ At that remark his friends would privately laugh more than ever. But they soon discovered, as I shall speedily demonstrate, that his roman tic attachment to the gun was a very lucky thing, which rendered him and certain other persons an unexpected and importance service. little Birdie Tredloe, then a bright. unexpectedly that, before they could do anything to pre vent, the light little creature was borne away by the cluster of fantastic looking crimson balls, up and off over the water. And as the wind was off shore, it seemed inevitable that she would be carried by it across the mouth of the inlet straight out to sea. “Great heavens!” shouted the doc tor in helpless horror. The Italian, smitten with despair at the loss of his balloons, began a fren zied dance, at the same time exclaim ing to the unhappy old gentleman, “You payee me-a for all-athose-a! you payee alf-a I” The bathers in the water observed the extraordinary sight of a little girl cheerfully sailing through the air with her improvised flying machine, and stood gaping upward in amaze ment. Everybody on shore became aware of the catastrophe in an instant, and began running to and fro in a hubbub. Mrs. Tredloe, on the ve randa, fainted, and Dr. Haygood was called up to restore her, while the Italian vainly tried to keep one eye on him for security of payment, and to follow with his other eye the flight of the balloons in the opposite direction. A dozen men hurried to the water’s edge, launching row boats and sail boats, with which they tried to chase the shadow of Birdie and the balloons, so as to be on hand at the right spot whenever she should drop into the water. But it was a hopeless pursuit. “Sho don’t show any sign of drop ping," shouted Mr. Middleuy, who was steering the foremost boat. “She moves through the air faster than wc can get over the water; and unless those air bags explode or fall off she will be swept so far from land that we never shall get her." All ot once help came from an un foreseen quarter, and one at least of the balloons did explode. It happened in this way: Col. Welsted's big cat- boat was seen rounding the point, with the wind on her beam, preparing to tack into the harbor. Ben Piver at the helm uttered a startled cry. “That’s the queerest game bird that I ever see,” ho declared, pointing up in the air with a big yellow thumb. “It's got shoes and a skirt and about twenty-five beads, I should judge, but no wings.” The colonel was on the alert, but the strange object in the air was some distance away, and so unlike any fly ing thing they had ever seen before that it took both men two or three minutes to comprehend what it was. Even then they could not account for it. They did’ not fully understand what had happened. But Col. Jack made up his mind that, whoever the S 'rl was or however she had got into at situation, she was not in the right place for a child of her age. And there was only one way to get her out of it. He raised his rifle and let fly. But the motion of his catboat and the progress of the balloons through the air made it very difficult for him to take a sure aim. The first shot had no effect Ben Piver gave a short dis gusted laugh. Then the colonel grew “mad.” He perceived now that the harbor was full of boats coming out toward him, and that there was a big crowd on the shore watching the pro ceedings. a “If I don’t hit this time,” said he to Ben, as he put a fresh cartridge into the breech, “my reputation’s gone, and I leave Reefer’s Point to-night.” Crack 1 went the second shot. The crowd and Ben heard its mournful “wboo” as it sped through the bright air: and almost instantly one of the balloons collapsed and shriveled up. An audible cheer came blowing out from the people on shore and in the boats, ana Col. Jack loaded again. . flow away beyond >very than do thaft,” she gasped in “Wb stop by, it is murder 1 that man from Can’t shoot- ui just imagine how Mrs.'Tredloe fiut when she saw that puff of gun oke from the catboat, and realized some one was firing at Birdie 1 She , barely recovered from her fainting when this happened. “Better to her drown or blc r f ov . aiguish. aay one iq??” Dr. Haygood and her friends tried explain the matter to her, but she ntea again before they could do so, it was lucky for her that she be came unconscious, because the gal lant colonel was blazing away again with his rifle at closer range. An other of the balloons was punctured, ar.d seemed to vanish. CoL Jack’s ci tboat all the time drew nearer to a syot on the' water just below the hov- eijmg baby, who now hung suspended fortunate!} ‘d so many huge bubbles of gor geous color. His boat was the first to reach the paint of sand. Ben Piver leaped out. rtn to the child, and turning, wavea h s hat os he shouted to the assembled 11 et, ‘ ‘Gentlemen, she’s alive and kick- irigf’ whereat another cheer arose, Icxig and loud. 'CoL Jack all but wept over the ild as he caught her up and kissed But Birdie, ou landing amid the had calmly and unconcernedly ' ' jj with it Her hanas full of nttle shells. “Dese for tnjamma,” she remarked, cheerfully. He hurried her into his boat, and sailed back to the wharf, accompanied bt the rest of the fleet There was a tremendous press of men and women oA the wharf. Mr. Middleby, who re ceived Birdie as she was handed up, (irted to rush with her to her mother, it, strangely enough, in the crush id confusion of the crowd, he missed vay, and stepping accidentally over side, fell with a plunge into the liter, carrying Birdie along with him. 'e colonel and Ben Piver were over- :ard in a moment, and soon had her safe ashore; so that before they br >ught her to Mrs. Tredloe she ha l been rescued f .vice. Some on 9 had run ahead to tell th> poor mother th .t Birdie was all ngbt With Dr. Haygood’s help sin rose up on her couch to welcome thj little maiden back; and as the col- ocil entered with Birdie in his arms th>re was a cry of recognition on both sufcs. ‘Jack Welsted 1” exclaimed the wjfow, in astonishment. - ls tor CoL Jack, ho stood gazing frun Birdie to her mother, in whom hf beheld his lost love, formerly Eve- Carter. Her husband, Mr. Tred- t$e, had died not long after Birdie was known noth- ixyn: but Col. Jack h t this, having heard no news em tor three'years or more. V ine end of it was that CoL Jack elsted and Mrs Tredloe were married before the season at Reefer’s Roint was over, and that was how he came to be the stepfather of “Baby Bal loon.” All this happened some fifteen years before our conversation with the col onel that evening on the piazza. The day after he haa recited the circum stances to us, Joe Terrill came to him and said : “Colonel, 1 was very much interested in the story you told us last night, but it spoiled a little plan of I have oeen intending to p mine. save Miss Bii*die’s life myself as soon as I could get a good chance to do so, pre paratory to asking her to marry me. But as 1 found you had already saved her life twice, fifteen years ago, the wind seemed to have been taken clean out of my sails. It occured to rao that if 1 were to attempt saving her again I might be overdoing matters. So I have spoken to her today, and she agrees with me. She says it’s no use my waiting around to rescue her, be cause the opportunity might not occur in a long wnile, and she has consented to marry me if you’ll give your ap proval. Will you ?” jCoL Jack gave it ‘Tm glad I saved you the trouble, Joe,” said .he. “It’s hard enough to win a good wo man’s love anyway, and if you’ve done that much, you’ve done enough to suit me.”—George Parsons Latbrop in Harper’s Bazar. Wise, of Virginia. John S. Wise is a noted dog man— nofft “Russian dog faced man,” but a lover of and authority upon dogs. Nobody owning high bred dogs is quite satisfied with his possessions untif'they have the approval of Wise. A favorable decision at a bench show is not more satisfactory to dog owners than such a decision from Mr. Wise, and his work on dogs is a recognized authority. He lias been president of the American Bench association and conducted the greatest dog tests, trials ami shows in the country. One day in Broadway, New York, when he was strolling with a friend. Col. Gordon, a young man stepped up to him and greeted him as “Judge Wise.” He talked glibly, and John smelt Jmmco and wondered whether there was any havseed in his hair. Finally he said: “See here, 1 think I have seen you before, but I am not a judge and 1 never occupied an}’ judi cial jiosition.” “Oh-, I don't mean judge of law,” was the repiy. “Of course I know you are no judge of that. 1 mean judge of dogs.”—Washington Post A NOVEL SIGNAL ROCKET. Ilabj 'Wit and Wisdom. Reading the smart sayings of the smart children in yourpaper, of which I am jx regular reader, 1 thought 1 might contribute a few of the smart sayings of our “Buckeye” youngsters of which 1 have personal knowledge. One of my friends teaches in one of Uie infant rooms. She asked the defi nition of the word “tiger.” They all yclledJiu chorus: “A wild beast.” She then fl&fced: “What is a tigress?” But one boy ventured to hold up his hand. His answer was: “He looks like a tiger, but he’s his wife.” A few Sun days ago the word “mother-in-law" was iu>he Sunday school lesson. The infautclass teacher asked if any one knew what the word meant. Little Frank at once answered: “Yes. A cross ohl woman." One of our neigh bors was 71 years old Christmas day. He liad sixty gentlemen friends to din ner. One of the party was speaking of it to a party of friends in my pres ence, when Little NelL aged 7, said: “Pap?, he might have asked you; he wsiatpur funeral,” her little brother having >$ecently been buried.—Buck eye Gn*3n Chicago Herald. It Docrt Not Neod a Stick, and Its Explo sion Can Be Heard Twelve Miles. A new signal has recently been brought out bv the Cotton Powder company, of Oueen Victoria street, London. The distinguishing features of this invention are that no stick is required and there is no back fire. The rocket takes the form of a metal cylin der. in the base of which is the pro pelling charge. Above this is a charge of tomte } and above this again a star composition. The rocket is placed in E hosphor bronze socket, which may e screwed or let into the rail of the ship. When it is required to fire it a firing tube is placed in the center of the rockeL and to the top of this a lanyard is hooked. The propelling charge is fired by simply pulling the lanyard, and the signal is propelled upward at one impulse. The wire fuse by which the detonating charge is exploded is at the same time ignited and this burns until the rocket has reached the maximum height, which is COO feeL The stars are thrown out, giving a brilliant illumination, and the touite charge then explodes. The noise of the explosion is equal to the firing of a six pound gun; but being high, is heard at a great distance; indeed in one instance a disabled vessel brought another to her assistance from a dis tance of twelve miles. These rockets are so portable and easy to fire—no match or port fire being required— that they are very suitable for boats, and doubtless many lives would have been saved had tney been in use in cases where shipwrecked crews have had to take to the boats. The board of trade has authorized its surveyors to pass these rockets distress signals in lieu of both guns and rockets, so that many lines of steamships have landed their guns and use these signals in stead. The National Lifeboat institution is also introducing them with red stars, which is the distinctive signal to sum mon a lifeboat crew. A further ad vantage in this form of rocket is that a combination of colors and number of stars can be so arranged as to form a code on the principle of the Morse alphabet, a feature which may prove or groat importance in naval maneuver and for torpedo boat opera tions. The full sized rockets are seven inches long and two inches in diam eter. A smaller size, which is called the “rocket light signal,” isalsomade. This has no explosive charge. An other modification of the idea consists of a sound signal, which has no stars. This takes the place of a gun.—En gineering. Gamblers* Homage to Joss. The rites of pagan worship were celebrated in Chinatown until a late hour last evening, and formed an in teresting spectacle. The Celestial gamblers were paying homage to their Joss to secure luck in the games. Small paper bonfires were started at intervals all up and down both sides of Second '♦’•eet, each of which was tended by twe Mongolians. The bonfires were made of a certain kind of prepared paper, which is sup posed to possess a peculiar quality of saaredness. Before each-fire a bundle of'-joss sticks and several red and white wax caudles were lighted. A large salver of edibles was brought out and placed beside each fire for the supply rod. r stronomic wants of the g< vers contained dishes of nu of the Hie plates* of prepared meats, bowls cooked rice, apples, and several empty cups. One of the attendants poured tea from a not into each of the cups, and then lifted each plate and dish separately, (giving them all reveren tial swings in the direction of the bon fires. The food was then taken back into the houses to complete the feasts al ready begun. These rites are gone through with on two nights of each month, and are supposed to bo ex tremely efficacious in the procuring of luck for the manipulators of cards, dice, and fan-tan paraphernalia.— Portland Oregonian. Engines In the Lamp Posts. M. G. A. Tabourin proposes to the Paris municipal council to fit each lamp post witn arc light dynamo and § as engine. He has contrived a ynamo of minute parts and a gas engine ten inches in diameter Tor coupling up with it, and would put a dynamo and gas engine iu the post under each of the gas lamps, as used at present in that city, utilizing the S is supply for feeding the gas engine. e shows by tables of cost and quan tity, which he says are correct, that far more light, in the form of elec tricity, canljo had by the use of this product of coal applied to the dynamo than when the gas is directly used for light Then he sets out to show that the cost of apparatus would not be as large as, at the first blush, it would seem, and, considering the price paid per arc light per year, not costly: far less so than tlio Jablochkoff candle in stallation in 1’Avenue de 1'Opera some years ago. Should his scheme prove practicable, we might be enabled to give up tne discussion of burying wires, so far as high tension currents are concerned, for it would not require any.—Scientific American. An Old Man’s Wooing. Perry J. Chace, a retired Providence merchant, the owner of many houses and various other buildings, a widower and a man of 82 winters, recently de cided that be wanted a wife, and so lie asked a lady friend of his if she knew of any good woman about his age whom he might marry. She said that Mrs. Sarah Ann Tilton, of Boston, was certainly good, was 83 years old, and might possibly wish to marry. “I’ll see if sne’ll let you call on her.” said the friend, “and if bo will take you there and introduce you." When she saw Mrs. Tilton the widow laughed at the idea, but said Mr. Chace might call. At his second call he proposed, at the third arrangements for the wed ding were made, and within three weeks from the first call the venerable couple were married, and are now living happily in Providence.—Boston Globe. Prophetic Vision*. One day in the spring of 1861 I sat with a laay friend conversing pleas antly, when I saw on my left knee a pile of bank notes; the top one was a 93 bilL I saw it distinctly, and so told my friend; she could not see it It quickly disappeared, and we speculated over the matter a little and soon forgot iL This happened in the forenoon. In the afternoon of the same day a man came in unexpectedly and paid me rent money. He was not in the habit of paying at stated times. After he had gone I took a bank note detector to examine the bills to see if they were all good. I laid them in a pile on the left of my lap, and, with tne detector in the right hand, proceeded. A 93 bill lay on the to] and I instantly 'recalledThe vision of the forenoon, and drew my friend’s attention to tne situation. At another time I saw two 920 bills in the air. I was sure some one would pay me money. I could think of no one unless it was my mother, who owed me that much or more, and was to pay it when she pleased. 1 thought she would send it in a letter, but days passed and no tetter or money came. I felt puzzled, for I could not remem ber any mistakes in these experiences. It might have been a week after the vision when my two children qame in ou the stage. They had been staying at my mother's and I had not expectea them home. The girl was 11 years old and somewhat careless. She had been home three days, and we had seemingly talked over everything about grandma’s affairs, when she spoke up loudly and quickly, saying: “Ohl ma, I forgot to tell you; grandma sent you some money, and it is sewed up in the bosom of my dress.” We got her traveling dress and found the money, just two notes of the amount I had seen.—Religio- Philosophicai JournaL Forty-nine Tear* in Prison. The Franklin County almshouse at present affords shelter to a man who has a remarkable record in the crim inal annals of this part of the state. His name is William Pierce, and he was released from Auburn prison a few days ago. after serving a term of imprisonment amounting to forty- nine years, four months and six days. The crime for which Pierce suffered this terrible punishment was for the murder of his own father on Jan. 10, 1839. Pierce, who was then about 16 years old, was working in the woods with his parent, when a dispute arose over the use of a horse winch he de sired to drive in the evening to attend a party or spelling school in the neigh borhood. The father, unable to stand the abu sive language of his son, attempted to chastise him. In return, William seized his ax and with two or three blows killed him. The parricide was arrested and tried in this village in July, and sentenced to be hanged on Sept 2 of the same year. On account of his youth Governor Sew ard commuted the sentence to impris onment for life. Pierce became hopelessly insane a few years ago, and a second commu tation was granted, which allowed his release. Every one of his relatives in this county has been dead many years, and the story of his crime was almost completely forgotten—Malone (N. Y.) Special to New York Sun. The Mountain Goat. While engaged in a hunt I tried to learn something from the half breed about these strange animals, but, al though he had killed scores of theja, he was so uncommunicative that 1 was given precious little information. However, 1 learned enough to know that the race is nearly extinct, having been hunted with great vigor on ac count of the hides by those who didn’t care for the sport, and also having been pursued so hard by genuine sportsmen, who were carried away with the delights of the chase. 1 had -formerly thought that they had these . big curving horns you have seen in pictures, on which they alighted un harmed after springing from some lofty height; but that’s all nonsense, for their horns are small and sharp pointed. They are fearless, however, in rac ing over the mountains, and make some astonishing leaps and climb up to seemingly inaccessible heights, taking a sure foothold where it woula seem almost au impossibility for them to stick. Altogether, I don't wonder that there is so muen of an effort to capture them. By the way, I learned that in the Sawtooth Range another animal could be found which is unknown except in Europe—the ibex. At least there is a tradition to that effect, but I saw none, and couldn’t ascertain that any had been killed; so after all it may lie a fable. —Chicago Tribune. Johann Mozart. Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Ama deus Mozart, one of the greatest of musical composers, was born at Salzburg on the 27th of Jan uary, 1756. When but 6 years old he composed short pieces, which he performed with great ap plause before the court at Munich. The next year he astonished Paris by his performances on the organ and his powers of improvisation. Mozart com posed numerous operas which still nold their place on the stage, and ex celled in all departments of composi tion and in tne universality of his genius. He died at the age of 85.— Philadelphia Times. “Spike Team*.” “Spike teams” are an institution peculiar to the south. The Georgia team consists of a mule ora jenny and an ox; these are geared to an old rickety wagon to haul guano and watermelons in. The Florida team is less complicated and moreecon’jmicaL An ox is harnessed to a pair of shafts fitting to a yoke on the animal's neck and connecting with a pair of wheels in which a box is placed, a rope at tached to the creature's horns an swering for reins. The box generally contains a man and a woman of a typo that can be found nowhere but in Dixie.—Chicago Times. A Hugo Glass Furnace. The tank glass furnace plant of the Chambers-McKee company in Pitts burg is the first of its kind in this country, the idea coming from Europe. Hie tanks, however, are bigger than anything attempted in European glass houses, there being four of thi ig I taclcs for molten glass, each capable of containing 250 to 800 tons of metal and supplying seventy-two blowers. The fire clay of which these furnaces were constructed had to be brought from Germany.—New York World. icse recep- The Enterprising New York Woi-lil. Sweet* from Coal Tar. The French government has become alarmed at the cheapness with which saccharine may he produced from coal tar. It considers tliat the composition of that substance with cane and beet sugar is dangerous to the health of the community, and it is said that it is al ready being extensively used os an adulterant. To remedy this evil a measure has been passed absolutely prohibiting the importation of sac charine or saccharmed substances.— San Francisco Chronicle. A Stradivarius violin is said to liave been found in a Norwich, Conn., loan office. It is a big round model of per fectly symmetrical lines, and a rich, dark retl color. The instrument is somewhat the worse for wear, but the e is rich. As a piece of information, we will nit ntion that the New York World haa been sending correspondents around to the Southern winter resorts to get frdm their people money for publishing something about them. Ocala. Florida, has just been entrap ped, and so has Asheville, N. C.; and here is what the Asheville Citizen says about it: “How a metropolitan newspaper, like the New York World, and pre tending I o respectability as it does, and claiming to have a half million of readers, as it does, could conde scend to such little means of adding to its income as to send around the country an ordinary—very ordinary— correspondent, alady, and*to make it her duty to csjole or bulldoze, to get from impecunious Southern towns money which they might find many better places to invest, is suprising; but it is still more surprising that the inhabitants of many of the Southern towns should be so absolutely devoid of sense, common or otherwise, as to be cajoled -or humbugged, or bull dozed, or whatever it may tie, into fooling away their hard-earned mon ey iu any such manner. We say it is absolutely idiotic to spend money in any such way, and we feel at lib erty to say so the more freely because this time we are one of the idiots ourselves—that is to say, we allowed our business manager to invest a V of his own in the schemes of this fair advertiser, and we note that he, as well as some other of Asheville’s best business men, were slightly disgrun tled to see Sunday the result of the five hundred dollar investment, as displayed on the 20th page of the World of that date, in a column im mediately subsequent to one of stiff- tailed 'logs, for which this eminent paper is eminently renowned. The Bench Show in New York—1,900 Dogs on Exhibition. New York, Feb. 28,1889. Editors Aiken Recorder: The thirteenth annual Bench Show of the Westminister Keunell Club closed this evening. It has been the leading social as well as sporting event of the week, as many of our fashionable ladies entered their pets for competition. The registration for this exhibition of valuable dogs has been the largest ever known iu the history of bench shows in this coun try ; and of the fifteen hundred ani mals entered, more than thirteen hundred have actually been shown. It would be difficult to imagine a more animated scene thau Madison Square Garden presented Ibis even ing. The immense, brilliantly illu minated structure was thronged with the owners and friends of this noble type ot the brute creation, while the air was filled with the barks and yelps ot the aristocratic canines. The judging began on Tuesday at 10 o’clock, almost Immediately after the opening of the show, and was completed the day following. The keen anxiety of the owners of the high-born pets was amusingly palpa ble, and all that heroic rubbing and brushing could do was done without stint, during which performance one is forcibly impressed with the stolid indifference of the olooded canines to tiie attentfens_j>f their enthush masters. .* * The array of large dogs is enormous, St. Bernard’s alone numbering 152; Blood Hounds, 68; Mastiffs, 75; Gray Hounds, 25; Setters, Pointers, New Fouudlands, Deer Hoynds, and so on without number, through the various species of the dog creation. Mrs. Sarah Leggett Emory’s beau tiful couple of English Grey Hounds, “Dora” and “Lancashire Witch,” were first prize winners. J. C. E. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing on March 3d, says: “Here isau interest ing incident which concerns the Presi dent-elect. He was driving along Pennsylvania avenue yesterday eve ning, when he saw over a shop a cam paign banner which cast some reflec tion ou President Cleveland, while eulogizing himself. He at once asked his s»n, Russell, who was driving with him, to go to the owner of the shop and arrange to have tiie offen sive banner taken down. Russell made inquiries this morning about the owner of the place, hunted him up and got hirr to promise to remove the inscription whieli the General had noticed. ‘The campaign is over,’said the President-elect, ‘and nothing should be said or done now to offend former opponents.’ ” The Keowee Courier contains an interesting article on tiie minutes of the sixty-eighth session of the State convention of tiie Baptist denomina tion: There are nearly tliree million Baptists in the United States and about seventy-five thousand of these are South Carolina Baptists. The value of the church property owned by the Baptist denomination is be tween eight and nine millions of dol lars. About one-twentieth of the in habitants of the United States of America belong to this denomination and about one-fifteenth of the inhabi tants of this State. The Baptists are probably the most numerously repre sented denomination in this State. The Boston Globe says President Harrison’s legs are said to be abnor mally short, but that has not preven ted him from walking around Wash ington more in one week than Presi dent Glevelad lias in four years. It is a great thing to be a good walker. It quickens tiie pulse, brightens the eve, sweetens the temper, and takes a" head-weary President where the office-seeker ceases from troubling. We are glad Mr. Harrison isa walker, and tor his sake we hope the walking will he good on the 4th of March 1893. A Washington dispatch says that the caterer for the inaugural ball pro vided 2,000 quarts of.ice cream, 1,000 quarts of water ices, 400 roast turkeys. 1,000 toiled turkeys, 200 hams, 300 tongues, 30 rounds of roast beef, 4 barrels of chickens for salad, 10,000 rolls, 1,500 pounds of butter, 2,000 loaves of bread, a wagon load of pate de foie gras, consomme, salmon, shrimp and bass, 300 barrels of oys ters, 200 terrapin, and wine in abun dance. March April Mar Are the months in w’hich to purify the blood, as the system is now most suscentible to benefit from medidoe. Hence now is the time to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, a medicine peculiarly adapted for the purpose, possessing peculiar curative powers. It expels every impurity from the blood, and also gives it vitality and richness. It creates an appetite, tones the diges tion, invigorates the liver, and gives new life and energy to every function of the body. The testimony of thou sands, as to the great benefit derived from Hood’s Sarsaparilla, should con vince everybody that It Is peculiarly the best blood purifier and spring medicine.