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LINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, .T?NE 19, 1895. VOLUME XXIX. - NO. 51 SUITS! WE make a specialty of Slim Suite, and we want all the long-armed, long-legged people who can't get a fit to come ?und see us. "We can fit you, and we won't charge only about one-half what your tailor does. Don't you think that's worth looking into ? .TOUT SUITS! We also dote on these Suits, as we have the best-fitting Stout Suits made.' All we want is to once try one of them on you. '*. m- Best line of ODD PANTS in the city. B. O. EVANS & CO., Clothiers and Furnisher* To the People who Enow UsT;: To the People who don't Enow Us, 1X3 EVERYBODY, ONE AND ALL. - WE ARE ~ SELLING GOODS CHEAP FOR THE CASH. D P. ?JL.OA.N & CO. 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Revolting Pioturo of the Drunkard as Husband and Father. Sam Jones TeUa How Do Should Bo Oo< With?Lore of Homo, Wire and Children Burled In the TT'"- rnp. LCOPTRIQHT, 1895.1 The two preceding articles 1 have de? voted to the nursery of drunkards and debauchery of youngmanhood. In this article I take up the saddest and most deplorable-phase-of drunkenness,that ol drunken husband and father. The day it is whispered to wife that her hus? band has gone to drink, that sentence has the weight and woe of time and eternity wrapped up in it. I care not how many joys and blessings and com? forts like friendly angels have come to camp and stay with the home, this sen? tence with its meaning puts them all to flight, and brings into the home the croaking raven, the howling wolf and the screaming jackal. The relations and conditions of home have now changed. The wife's bless? ings have been turned into curses, her joys into sadness, her hopes into de? spair. The only thing to add to the wreck is that she take to morphine or cocaine or some similar drug, and that both together, arm in arm, stagger on to destruction before the eyes of the helpless children, the one a devil, the other an idiot. The man a demon from drink, the woman an idiot from mor? phine, cocaine or chloral habit. The worse than orphan children are left in despair, and yet publicly I have taken the position time and time again that the wife and mother has as much right in the saloon, and as much right to the wine cup and tho liquor bottle as the husband. The debauchery is never seen in all its loathsomeness so fully as it is seen in the staggering steps, bleared eyes and ruined life of wife or mother. I have known but few drunken wives and mothers. They have been gener? ally divorced. Thousands of women must live and suffer as the wives of drunken husbands, but very few men m the history of the world have ever tol? erated a drunken wife. I wonder if there would not be fewer drunken hus? bands if women would cease to tolerate them. I declare that a husband who spends the day and until ten o'clock at night in the saloon and winds up the day's de? bauch by eating limberger cheese and garlic and then lights his dirty old pipe and comes home and pillows h? head by the side of a pure wife constitutes an intolerable animal. If I were a wom? an I would rather sleep with a wet dog. After all it is a matter of toleration. No woman can love and respect a drunken husband in the best sense and the highest plane of married life. 80 often it is said of a drunken hus? band or father: "He is a clever fellow, it is a pity he drinks." Now if to de? bauch my body and degrade my family and spend for liquor the money which I ought to invest in comforts for my wife and children, and become a vaga? bond, and then go home and stagger on the heart of my good wife and crush the last drop of blood out of it, makes me a clever fellow, then I don't want to be a clever fellow. It is all a lie. A man that drinks whisky is not a clever fellow. He is a vagabond, a dog, he is a dirty , puppy, and does not deserve the respect of his wife or of the community in which he lives. Clever fellows don't make whisky, they don't sell it and they don't drink it. To be a clever husband and a clever citizen a man must separate himself as far from that traffic as the cast is from the west. A member of the church who makes it or furnishes a house for it to be sold in, or sells it or drinks it is not fit to have his name put down among^ high bred registered dogs of this country, and I doubt if there is a kennel in America that would give him a decent register for blood or qualities if they knew he had practiced such conduct; and when a man lives below the plane where decent dogs are registered it is time to call him a bench-legged flee and keep him in the back yard or under the house. I would not hurt the feel? ings of a bench-legged fice by this com? parison because I have known some bench-legged flee of noble character. The best squirrel de ? I ever saw was a bench-legged flee. But there is not a mean thing in the world that is not open to a man who has a good wife and children and yet lingers about the saloon and drinks of the cup it gives. Boys, I have been there. Experience and observation, two of tho finest schools a mortal man ever attended, have taught me all I have said is true. If whisky debauches a man, makes him neglect his family, and deprives them of the comforts of life, if it makes him murder his wife and butcher his children, then a chain gang nigger is a gentleman by the side of a fellow that drinks whisky. There is but one sadder home in which the wife and mother sits waiting for tho long overdue drunken husband, that is the home pictured in song, where the little girl stood on the streets of a city and looked out upon the piti? less world and sang: "Papa is drunk, and mamma is dead." This finishes the picture. The buried mother and. the drunken father. The drunkard has no more business with a wife and children than a leper There ought to be a law against drunk? enness, and the first time a husband gets drunk he ought to be summoned before a jury empaneled, and if con? victed of drunkenness he ought to be consigned for at least five years to some insane asylum and drenched with stump water filled with leaves, until a glass or bottle or a demijohn would have the same effect upon him as swal? lowing a fly has upon a woman. To be serious, for this is an intensely serious subject, as long as this country is in copartnership with whisky, both nationally and locally, it is but mete and right that every legislature should pass a law providing a home or place, and any husband who is known to have been intoxicated and the fact proved -upon him, he should be con? signee? to a place of refuge and guarded and protected for at least five years. Then, under promise never to drink any more, he would be released, and if he did drink again, let the laws of his state put him back there for life. There is one tiling about the liquor, demi? johns, bottles and glass, they have no legs, and if they could walk up on a fellow they could not do him any hnrm unless he opens his mouth and swallows it. If we would quit making drunkards and take care of the ones we have got, it would not take long to have drunk? enness a thing of the past in this coun? try. The difference between a man who takes one drink a day and the man who drinks a gallon a day, one is a puppy and tho other is a grown dog. The privations of a drunkard's homo would pain the heart of an alligator, and tho example which he sets to his children and the unnatural relation in which whisky places him makes him a crim? inal in the sight of God and man. A drunken father and a drunken hus? band is about the worst shape you can put humanity in. xue saauesi case was presentea to me by a friend some timo ago. lie said I there lived in that city a man who was once a very prosperous business man. He was a gentleman of the highest type and integrity. Ho built him a palatial homo. His wife and children were the joy of his heart, but he got to drinking and drank and drank until his business molted away, his fortune squandered nnd his property all sur? rendered to creditors. Still his wife clung to him, until from the kicks and bruises and neglect she finally took her children and went to the home of her father in another state. I IIo said one day he saw this man ap? parently sober sitting down near the depot alone. He walked up to him and sat down by him and said to him: "Mr. -, do you ever now think of your once prosperous and happy life? Do you not often think of the happy home, j sweet wife and nice children you once had?" "Yes," ho replied. "I often think of my prosperous days, of my good wife and of my sweet children and of my pleasant home; but I don't wan't any business now, I don't want any wife, I don't want any children, I don't want any home. I don't want but one thing in the world and that's ?whisky." In this case we have the culmination of a drunkard's life?patriotism, love of hornti, devotion to wife and interest in children, all sacrificed on the*burning altar of an unquenchable thirst for liquor. The universe drowned in a wine oup gulped down the drunkard's throat at ono swallow. The most horrible picture of heathen? ism is that picture of a woman who carries her sweet babe to the banks of the Ganges and tosses it on its turbu? lent waters, watches its murmuring lips sink beneath its tide; but here in Christian America we watch two hun? dred thousand a year, hopeless drunk? ards, take their wives and children and throw them into the turbulent waters of a drunkard's life. The saddest comments on our civiliza? tion are the infernal laws that license and foster.and furnish police protec? tion for it. The next article in this series will be devoted to the part our government, national and state and municipal, plays in this matter of drunken men. Sam P. Jones. A BAD COMBINATION: The- Tenderfoot and tbe Burro Don't Go WoU' Together. An amusing incident concerning how burros are guided occurred some time ago when a "tenderfoot" from the east was induced to mount an animal noted for his unruliness. The stranger had never seen a burro before, and supposed he could ride the insignificant-looking "sheep," a little larger than a New? foundland dog, with ease. The burro's grotesque appearance was heightened by tho addition of a Mexican saddle. This curious attachment was made of two wooden crotches that looked like wishbones, and were fastened on each side by cross bars at tho lower extrem? ities. The whole -was then covered with rawhide, which had been stretched over the sticks when green and allowed to dry. The shrinkage made it perfectly solid. Instead of a blanket, a sheepskin was thrown over the burro's back for the saddle to rest upon. The "tenderfoot" clambered upon the strange-looking craft, when, to his as? tonishment and alarm, tho tricky ani? mal started off at a lively pace with his head down, moving in a narrow circle. Tho Btranger had no bridle nor halter nor even rope to guide his Eosinante, and was still further disconcerted by the yells of derisive laughter that came from the crowd assembled to witness the sport. The animal veered so rapidly that the rider could not get off without losing his balance, and at the same time he had all he could do to stick to the saddle. Besides, he did not wish to display his lack of horsemanship, and so he stayed on. Finally the burro took another tack, and started at a lumbering "lope" down a neighboring hill, one ear high in air and tho other flopping like a loose sail. At the bottom of the hill the runaway dashed through a creek deep enough to wet the rider, and did not stop until far up the side of an incline. Here the rider luckily re? membered hearing a burro driver say "Cheel" to his animal, and although the former did not know what it meant, he yelled "Chee!" at tho top of his voice. The burro stopped as suddenly as if he had been struck by a maul. By dig? ging him in the ribs with his heels the "tenderfoot" managed to get him started again, and, by the use of his newly acquired vocabulary of one word of burro language and sundry cuffs over tho ears, ho finally guided him back to the starting point.?Dcmorcst's Magazine. A flatter of Doubt. A woman was standing in the front door of, the West Virginia cabin when. I rode up to it, and saluting her sir saluted me in return. "Does William Mixley live here?" I asked. "Yes," she replied. "Whut do you want uv him?" "Hasn't he a walnut tree for sale?" "Yes, 'n that's about all he's got." "Is he at home?" "No." "When are you looking for him?" ? 'I ain't lookin' fer him." "He hasn't left the country, has be?' "Not as I knows uv." "Where is he?" "He's gone down to papa's." "Then of course you're looking fox him back. Old man Gullion Is your father, isn't he, and he only lives a mile or so down the road?" "Yes, but I ain't looking for him back." "Why not?" And by this time I had begun to think the woman was a little daft. "Caze he's gone down to see pap about a hog he says pap stole from him night afore last, an' pap is the shootin' est man in these parts."?Detroit Free Press. Lobster's Fear or Thunder. One of the lobster's queer feats is that of purposely amputating his enormous and almost useless claws in timo of real or fancied danger. He dreads thunder above all things, and when the peals are uncommonly loud or frequent he deftly drops his claws and takes to deep water with all pos? sible speed. It is also said that any? thing irritating will cause a similar ex? hibition of this peculiar power. Boys who are acquainted with this curious fact in natural history often frequent the fish stalls of the larger cities, and with straws tickle the imprisoned lobsters until they have the appearance of having been through a thrashing machine. Lobsters thus deprived of their limbs soon grow others, a faculty possessed by but few living creatures. ? In Japan there are more than 1,200 plecos where Christianity is taugbt, more than 7,000 Protestant schools, and about every yoar 1,800 young persons go out from these schools into tbe lifo of tbe nation. ? In Polk oounty, North Carolina, two brothers named Gibbs had a fight last week. They fought "fist aud skull," for throe hours, Finally one got tbe other down and beat hlvp. to death. F?ESH FKOM OLD ?OCKY. Rufus Sanders Once More Unto the Breach, l"he Sad and Marvelaome Death of Little Jim Dargan--"The Onseen Feather Bad Was There"~Boady Haw? thorne and Squire Wilson. [Copyright 1895]. Over there at old Cool Springs church there is a little new crave, with the hog weeds and the daisies growin round about promiscus. Lit? tle Jim Dargin, which got killed in a runaway scrape this last spring, lies bu? ried there. One day last week I come along by Cool Springs on *iny return bach H|homo f r o m a ^ trip over in the hill country,and the sight of that grave put me to think in about little Jim and the marvelsome way in which he come to the final forks of the road. "The Moat Strangest Death." I have seen and heard tell of many and many a strange and pecurious death, you understand, but I am bound to tell you that the most strangest death I have ever saw or heard tell of come to pass in the case of little Jim Dargin. It was along in the last days of March, if I don't remember wrong, and one mornln the widder Dargin put lit? tle Jim on a horse and started him off down in the Flat Woods to look after a yoke of oxen which had strayed and straggled off with the dry cattle. On their way back home the horse got skeered, or jest naturally took up a fool notion, and run away. He throwed lit? tle Jim where the ground was mon? strous hard, and when the neighbors got there the boy was dead. I reckon it was plum natural for the horse to git skeered and run away, and it want to say no ways uncommon strange for him to throw the boy, you understand. But it was strange and marvelsome past all understandin for the boy to git killed. Maybe no doubts such wonders have come to pass some wheres in the world before, but so far back as the records run the case of lit? tle Jim Dargin is the first and onlyest one that ever took place in the Rocky Creek country. The boys down here in this 6trip of God's own country are about like the common run of boys, and I reckon lit? tle Jim must of been a right smart kin to all the rest. They all play marbles and go in swimmin and swap knives and ride horses, and the like of that. If I had brought on a second class fu? neral every time a horse has run away with me, or fell down with me and chrowed me off, or turned a wagon or a buggy over with me, bless goodness there wouldn't be room enough in the Cool Springs church grounds to hold the graves. But I have always helt to the doctrine, and I maintain till yet, that whensomever a yearlin boy gits a bad fall the good Lord spreads down what you mought call His onseen feath? er bed right under the boy to catch him and to save him from all harm and dan? ger. To be certainly of course it stands to reason that there must of been a slippunce and the machinery jumped a cog somewheres in the case of little Jim Dargin. But at any rates to me it was about the saddest as well as the most strangest death that has ever come to pass in all the regions around Rocky Creek. The Feather Bed Was' There. Patient and long-sufferin reader, have you ever been in a clost place, when you felt the savin grace of that onseen feather bed ? I recollect oncst upon a time?it was the next year after I got married and settled up and then settled down?me and Mother took the baby and lit out for the Panther Creek settlement to see the old folks. I had hooked up a pair of mustang ponies, which for speed and bottom could hold their own with any? thing that ever flung a shadow or left a track for forty miles around. I had put out to ma'-e the long drive in one day, and I was f eelin my oats and keep in a whole tremendius big lot about that time anyhow. So I give the horses all the slack in the ribbons and told 'em to earn their corn and fodder. Way down there nearly to the ten mile branch I got'busy playin sweethearts with mother and praisin up the baby. In the main time you understand, them ponies was fairly burnin the wind, whilst the buggy was hittin the high places only, when all of a suddent the team shied off to one side of the road and hung a front wheel on a stump. And right then and there the whole Bhootin match come to a dead stop quicker than a flash. Me and mother both fell in a pile as far as the dash? board, and when I looked around there was the baby right down there under the traces and swingletrees and amongst the horses heels. The horses they was dancin and trerablin all over and loo .ein like as if they didn't know whether to run away or pitch in and kick the whole shebang into doll rajrs and kindliu wood. And mind you now, we hadn't been married but a little the rise of one year and that was the only? est baby we had of our own. Well, about that time I lost my mind ?jest naturally went blind stavin cra? zy?and till yet I can't remember any? thing for certain about what come to pass in the space of two or three min nits. When at last I come back to my senses mother she had jumped out of the burrgry and fainted, and I was stand in there holdin the baby with one hand and the horses with the other. Mother says I went right out over the dash? board and right down under the horses and brought the baby out, but ns I am an honest man I don't recollect a blame thing about that. In the (rencral smash up and confu sionmcnt I knocked t;vo fingers out oi jint and mother she sprained her ankle, but there want a scratch on the baby from head to foot. Now maybe you mought think it was monstrous strange that the baby didn't git killed on the spot. But it looks plum natural and right to me. The onseen feather bed was there. "Good Whlsliy or None," I reckon no doubts by this time you have heard some tell of Boady Haw? thorne. He is one of the best and big? gest men that the Rocky Creek country has ever brung up and turned out to preach the gospel to a lost and ruint world. Ho went on from good to bet? ter and still more of it till finally at last he got to be as big as the biggest in the whole discovered country. In the main time, you understand, he has broke out of the woods for good and all, and the last news I got from him he was preachin in some tremendius big city back there in Geonry. But when Boady started out on his first legs he use to come around now and then and preach to the people over at old Hark Lnsr rhurnh. Old Squire Wilson waslivin in the settlement then, and Boady soon made an almighty big mash on the Squire. Now if Squiro Wilson ever had any particlar weak pint in the flesh it was with regards to whisky. And at that time Boady Ilawthorne was about the strongest and most terriblest temper? ance epis,tle, you understand, that I had ever heard or saw. He fought the whis? ky devil with coat and gloves off?com in and gwinc?from the woodpile to the clearin. He jumped on the whisky soaks with both feet in mighty nigh every sermont he preached and telit erally mopped up the ground with the "dirty damnable traffic." lie use to hit Squire Wilson center shots reglar and constant, but tho old man never flinched. Whensomever Boady Haw? thorne held forth any where's around in forty miles of Rocky Creek j'ou could bet your side whiskers and 3*our Sun? day boots that Squire Wilson was there every clatter?right up in the dress circle of the Amen corner?and seems like he enjoyed every performance through and through. A great word with Boady nawthorne at that timo was "mean licker." Any? thing and everything in tbe way of spirits was "mean licker" with him, you understand. Looks like as if he never had seen anything but sorry goods in the whisky line, and every time he would jump on "mean licker" Squire Wilson would nod his head and smile and say ''Amen." But what pestered me and the whole settlement was that Squire Wilson had got so dead stuck on Boady Hawthorne as a preacher, and yet he went right on with his hard drinkin, comin up drunk steady and constant as ever. By-and-by it come to pass that Boady Hawthorne had to play quits with the old settlement and move his washin off to some great city. He was in town one day shakin the partin hand with his friends and tellin everybody good? bye. Squire Wilson comr along?about three sheets in the wind and the other one flutterin?and took him off tc one side for a private talk. "So you are goin to leave us are you, Boady ?" says the Squire. "Yes, my dear brother, and my heart is sad and heavy in the thought," says Boady. - "Well, I couldn't let you go away without holdin a little confabulation with you," Kays the Squire." I want to tell you how I have enjoyed your brave fight agin mean licker. And I want to thank you in particlar, Boady, for the good you have done me, a pore weak and wayward sinner. May the Lord bless you for the good you have done me." "If the Lord has blessed my labors in this settlement," say6 Boady, "I am more than glad and thankful. But Squire, I want you to tell me how and wherein I have ever done you any good." "Well,Boady,"says the Squire, "I have sot my mind that I will never drink an? other drop of mean licker as long as I live, so help me. Henceforwards, here? after and forevermore hang my cats if I don't drink good whisky or none." "Savin Sakey" Mixed Up. "One of these new-fangled preachers has been down through the Panther Creek settlement here lately preachin some mighty strange and pecurious doctrines amongst the people," said Aunt Nancy Newton to me the last time she was up to our house. Then tho dear delightful old soul kept on talkin: "The mainest pint that the new-fan? gled preacher makes is that Saturday and not Sunday is the seventh day in the week?the day we ought to remem? ber and keep it holy as the Sabbath. It ruther seems to me like he is jest a leetlts bit late in spreadin the news. The folks down there are too dead sot in their ways to spile out and start over now. The men folks still go to town and swap horses and drink whisky on Saturday, and most everybody takes a day off and rigs up and goes to meetin Sunday. We have been turnin the wa? ter on that way so long till I reckon the old mill wouldn't grind narry lick if we was to pitch in and change things now. "But the new-fangled preacher has got Sukey Sellers?Savin Sukey, as we all call her?powerful bad mixed and muddled up in regards to her Sunday. She won't say he is right and she won't say he is wrong. I raly don't think she knows anything for certain about it. But she is so skeered that the new-fan? gled preacher is right and other people wrong, or that other people are right and the preacher is wrong, till bless gracious she now keeps two Sabbath days holy instid of one. She puts in soon Saturday mornin and runs her Sunday slap through till Monday morn? in. Everybody to their own notion, as one old woman said when she kissed a cow, and if it suits Savin Sukey it is perfectly all right with me." Rufos San'dehs. Astonishing Alabama Discoveries. Florence, Ala , June 7.?Some par? ties living near Barron, Ala., claim to have made a remarkable arohaeological "discovery along the bluffs of the Tennes? see river between Sheffield and Riverton. At tbe point where the discoveries are said to have hp en made tbe bluff has tbe appearance of a solid wall of rock. The party of prospectors who recently went over tbe ground claim to have discovered traces of a man's handiwork in building the bloff, and closer inspection, they say, proved conclusively that a portion of the bluff at that point had been ;put there by a people who knew how to build a smooth wall and a firm one. With crowbar and pickaxe the pros? pectors, after much work, succoeded in ramoving a large, almost square Btone. The aperture thus made, proved to be the entrance to a cave which bs.d evidently been cut out of the wall of rock. Within tho cave the prospectors claim to have found human bones in su.-h an advanced state of decomposition that they crumbled to dust when lifted, and relics of a prehistoric race?vases and pottery? quaintly and curiously carved, entirely different from those found in tbe Indian mounds of this section. From the position ol tho human skel? etons and the ai ticlos which were around thorn, the prospectors aro inclined to be? lieve the cave a burial place f. r a people long ages extinct. The prospecting party carried a num? ber of the relics borne with them aud say thoy will t>ubmit thom to some learned archaeologist to determine, if possible, the age and race to which they belonged. ? A Dispatch from Philadelphia yes? terday announces that "several negro families who sailed from Savannah on the steamship Horsa for Liberia, as part of the colonists of that country, returned to-day on the steamship Kensington from Liverpool. The negroes said that Liberia is unsuited to unacclimated Americans, and that death from lever probably will be the fate of many of the colonists." This is a bad>eport, but a dispatch from Kansas City the same day gives a very much worse account of tbe condition of the white settlors in Oklahoma. "The entire population of Grant Counay," it says, "are actually starving. The un? fortunate people have not tbe wherewithal to leave the county, and so they remain to suffer." From which it appears that the colornd settlers in Liberia are at least hotter off than the white settlers In Okla? homa. The plain explanation in both cases is that a good many people have gone to both places who were not fit for the hardships of life in a new country, The matter adjusts itself. Those who are in haste to cet away should not have gone in the first in-tance. They proba? bly would find it hard to make a living anywhere, DEATH BY FIRE. Evidence Which Indicates that Victims Lose All Scpjo of reeling. A little girl four or five years olci in the farm district of the state of Illinois had her clothes set on fire while stand? ing near a cook-itove, which was out of doors near the kitchen. The mother had gone for a bucket of water a few rods away. The screams of her child hastened the mother's steps, and the burning clothes were at once extin? guished. I was immediately called to visit the unfortunate. Thinking she must be in terrible suffering, all reasonable haste was made. Nearing the house, I listened to hear the cries of the child, but heard nothing. To ray great surprise, on arriving at the bedside of the patient, she was found lving quietly in bed, without the least sign of physical suffering. The burned surfaces had been covered over with wheat .flour. But it is doubtful if this has or had any effect whatever. The pulse was beating over one hun? dred and twenty a minute. This in? dicated a profound shock upon the vitality. The accident occurred about five o'clock in a windy October after? noon, and the poor child died at eleven o'clock that night and gave no more evidence of pain. Here was an instructive case. The length of time of actual suffering of the child, as stated by the mother? that it ceased crying as soon as the flames were extinguished?could not have been over one or two minutes, say, three minutes at the most. The girl's hands, arms, face, breas.t and I other places were burned and blis? tered, so the cuticle of the skin peeled ! off. Here death followed six hours a.fter the accident. Hence the absorb I ing question of interest is, How long did the agony of burning last? Not how long she lasted after the pain ceased. Now, why did not the child make an outcry of pain after the flames were extinguished. There is but one rea? son. It is this: The extensive burn? ing destroyed a great deal of surface or skin integument. From this there followed a profound shock to vitality, which overpowered the sensoriura. Then all sensation was benumbed. J She died in this shock of paralyzed sen | gation. j The brain is the great center of nerve sensation. The skin is the great sur i face of sensitive nerve expansion. Therefore, it is ray conviction that when the great skin surface of nerve expansion had been destroyed, the re? sulting shock overpowered the brain sensorium and obliterated further sense Of feeling. That if she had con? tinued to burn in the flames for a time longer she would have suffered no more pain. The disabled skin surface and the disabled brain sensorium were now functionless and well nigh dead. Hence it is an immense relief to be? lieve and know that those unfortunates in flames, whether by accident or at the stake, suffered less and not so long as we had supposed. Their agony of pain, bad as it must be, continued but one or two minutes. Of course, a slow fire would extend the time and pro? long the agony.?Progressive Thinker. THE USE OF SLATES. They Are Being: Abolished In the Public Schools. The principal of a first-class school, being asked his opinion of slate writ? ing, replied: "I first looked upon it [ with complacency, later on with toler? ation, and finally with disgust." Many cities of the United States have already banished slates and slate pencils from their schools, the authori? ties agreeing with the principal above quoted. Now, what objections are there to nlates being used by the pupils of our schools? The first and by far the most impor? tant objection is that this slate work is really detrimental to the pen-and ink work which comes later on in the child's life. Lynam D. Smith, an authority on teaching writing, says that children who have been allowed to grind on slates with slate pencils, seem to be utterly incapable of taking hold of a pen properly, and the teacher who be? gins the pen-and-ink work has a year or eighteen months' bad practice to overcome. If these children had begun with pa? per and lead pencil, and it is entirely practicable for pupils in the lowest grades?six years old?to do this? much time could have been saved and the children would sooner come into ?'possession of their handwriting." The cramped hands, the despair of almost every teacher, are without doubt due to the firm grasp of the slate pencil, needed to make a distinct mark on the slate. The second objection to slates is that of necessity, much of the nice work done by children must be erased, and the child is discouraged by seeing the carefully-prepared arithmetic, spelling or language lesson disappear with a rub or two of the sponge. Had this work been done on paper, the best papers could have been col? lected and arranged where they could have been sent home to delight some parent's heart. Then the sponges must be wet each day, and they often dry out before the child is through using them. They are often passed from child to child, and in this way skin diseases are spread. They become foul, especially in hot weather. It is the custom in some schools to cover the slate frames; these covers are soon saturated by the frequent washings, and it is not pleasant to handle them nor to smell them. The abolishment of the slate means the abolishment of "school compan? ions," sponge cups and slate rags, and many a teacher would give a sigh of relief to know that they would not again be a part of the school furni? ture. There would perhaps be some slight expense attached to the introduction of tablets instead of slates, but paper is very cheap, only common paper is necessary, and the advantages gained would more than compensate for the expense.?Philadelphia Press. ? He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. ? Though a woman can keep a secret if she has to, she can't keep secret the fact that she has a secret to keep. ? At Ruito, the only city in the world on the liiic of the equator, the sun sets and rises at 6 o'clock the year round. ? The Josephine caves in Oregon have becu explored for about 10 miles, and they seem to extend far into Cali? fornia. ? We always envy a fat woman wheD we sec her laughing. There seems to be so much of her having a good time. ? Jewelers report that gold dollars arc extremely scarce, and many other persons note a similarity in the silver and paper varieties. ? A nicely sharpened lead pencil is the only thing that defies the law of gravitation, Tlj3 lighter end always strikes the floor lhr.fci CAMEO CARVING. An Accomplishment for Clever, Beauty-Loving Women. A Simple Art and One Easily Acquired-? Tools That Are Necessary?The Frocess from Start to Finish. Gravers and scoopers and other mysterious little instruments have crept into the modern maiden's den. It sounds quite formidable?cameo carving?but in reality it is quite simple. First you provide yourself with a working table, it need not be large; then, at any art store buy half a dozen gravers and scoopers of varying degrees of fineness; the next outlay is for a shell upon which you are to cut the cameo. Black, red and yellow "helmets," as the shells are called, are required, and they cost from threo to five dollars each, but from a good shell several ovals or rounds can be cut. After it has been cut the required size and shape, it is then fixed with hot cement upon a holder?a little block that can be held in the hand. The upper surface of the shell is made sufficiently smooth to take tho design, which is then traced upon it, as one traces on china; all the white part beyond the design is cut away, leaving the pattern on the dark ground to be, by degrees, cut into form. The thickness and quality of the white stratum cannot be known until the shell is cut. It varies a good deal so that sometimes tho figure will stand out in much higher relief than was at first anticipated. Sometimes when a particular design is to be made several shells are cut before a suitable one is found. The skill of the artist is shown in the arrangement of the design so a3 to make the best use of the shell. For instance, the foliage must be ar-. ranged to come where the white is thinnest and figures where the thick? ness of the white will give roundness to the limbs. It naturally follows that the one who understands the arts of draw? ing and painting and all about lights and shadows will make the greatest success as a cameo engraver. To take out any scratches made by the graver, the cameo or shell must be polished by rubbing it with pumice stone and water, after which it must be washed in warm water, when a'second polishing follows with pumice dust and. oil, and with a small boxwood stick. Then it must be washed again. The third and last finish is given with fine rotton stone and sulphuric acid; a very high de? gree of polish is thus obtained and behold your cameo 1 Perhaps not/ at first, the success you dreamed, but still fairly satisfactory, while with practice you goon to perfection and in time have a choice bit to offer a friend. "What! a cameo, and you cut it?" "Yes, oh, that's nothing. I've done dozens of them," and so forth and so on, while you in turn initiate your friend in the mysteries of cameo cutting and feel sufficiently reward? ed for your labors in her exclama? tions of surprise at your grea4; clev? erness. APPLIED TWO WAYS. One Was Unfavorable to the Scholar, the Other to the Teacher. A certain schoolmaster occasion? ally compares the achievements of his pupils with the work of noted men in their boyhood days, much to the scholars' disadvantage. "Now, John, have you solved the problem?" asked the teacher the other dajr. "No, sir," replied the boy, "I can't." "How old are you, John?" "Sixteen," was the answer. "Sixteen!" repeated the instruct? or. "Sixteen, and can't solve a sim? ple problem like tbatl Why, sir, at your age George Washington was surveying the estate of Lord Fair? fax." The pupil looked thoughtful, but made no reply. After the class was dismissed a classmate inquired of him if Wash? ington ever did anything else re? markable when he was sixteen. "1 don't know," responded the boy. "He was a surveyor when he was as old as I am, and when he was as old as our teacher he was presi? dent of the United States."?Phila? delphia Call. A Monument of Bismarck. Among the present: given to Bis? marck on his birthday was a model of the monument that the students of the German universities are to erect to him in memory of his stu? dent days. The monument is to stand on the Rudelsberg in Thurin gia, and represents Bismarck as a young student seated in an arm? chair, with crossed legs, the ribbon of his corps across his shoulders, his corps cap on his head and his stu? dent sword in his haud. Behind him sits his dog, and on tho pedestal are grouped the most important em? blems of German student life, the beer barrel, pipes, tankardi> and 6words, with a few books. ? When a boy gets too old for his mother to wash and lather him, his j neck aud ears never get a good wash? ing until he falls in love. ? The earth at the equator moves at the rate of a mile in 3.6 seconds, four-tenths of a second slower than the velocity of a cannon ball. ? Quack?So you prefer me to Dr. Phil? Mrs. Mulligan?Och, indeed, docthor dear, ye're a dale bctthcr than the other ould 'unibug. ? To live peaceably in society, we must open our oyes to the qualities which please us, and shut them on the follies or caprices which shock us. ? It is estimated that over 6,000 women in the United States act as postmasters. The largest number for any oue State, 4?3, is in Pennsylvania. ? A great photographic camera for taking full-length, life-size portraits lias been made and used with much success in Dublin. The camera atakes a plate seven feet high and five feet whlo. ? ': C .".".! RAJHE CLOTH. Faot3 Concerning This New Ma? terial for Sails. It Will Be Used on the YaohU Yaliryrlt and Defender ? The Ramie Plant -and Itf niitory in Thla Country. Adrian Wilson, the well-known Boston sailmaker, in speaking of the Defender's lighter canvas, said that our new cup defender's jib top-sail would -be made of ramie cloth, says the New York Sun. As it is rumored that both the Valkyrie III.'s and the Defender's head sails will be made of this cloth; some facts about this new material for sails will undoubt? edly prove of interest to yachtismen. The following concerning ramie is from E. A. Posselt's "Structure of Fibers, Yarns and Fabrics," a standard work on the manufacture of textile fabrics: . 1 'Ramic is a specimen of the nettle family. It is a native of East India, China and Japan, but at present ex? periments are being made rather ex? tensively in our own country's gulf states (especially in the vicinity of New Orleans) to cultivate this fiber, i The actual introduction of it into this country dates back to 'the year 1855. "The plant, when fully grown, at? tains a height of from four to eight feet, and is surrounded with large ovate accuminate leaves, which are green above and whitish or silvery beneath, the fiber being formed in the bark surrounding the stalk, which has a pithy center. Similar to China grass, it is of rapid growth, producing from two to five crops a year, according to climate and soil, without replanting. "The method for obtaining the fiber, as practised by the natives in. I East India, China and Jap&n, Is splitting and scraping the plant stems and then steeping them, As this method is very tedious, a ma? chine and process are wanted to ac? complish this labor quickly and au? tomatically. The ordinary rotting process, as used for flax, is nob suf-' ficiently effective, since the succu? lent nature of the stem and the;} great amount and acridity of the gummy matter cause rapid coBgulaA tion, and become Insoluble on ex? posure to the air. "In East India, China and Japan the fiber is manufactured not onlyj into cordage, nets and similar^ coarse fabrics, but is also used for, . the construction of some of their, most beautiful textile fabrics. OdJ the European continent and in Eng-' land the fiber has also been woveiL into a great variety of fabrics, since it can be dyed in any color, and rivals silk in brilliancy. "Another feature greatly in favor of this fiber is its remarkable strength and durability. It is also the textile fabric least affected by moisture. With reference to spin? ning, ramie can be used either alone or in conjunction with cotton, wool, ' silk or flax, for the manufacture of textiles in which elasticity is not es? sential, i "Ramie has three times the strength of Russian hemp, while'its filaments can be separated almost to? the fineness of silk. The average value of ramie, either imported (in? cluding transportation and duty) or American grown material, is nine cents per pound." Recent improvements in the man? ufacture of ramie makes its usepos-' sible in yacht sails. The duck mode from it will neither stretch nor( shrink, and it is stronger when wet than when dry. It has not so smooth} a surface as the cotton duck, but' can be made lighter with equal strength. The sails for the French men-6f-;;r war have been made from it for sev-; erfll years. Soups for Warm Weather, .When summer comes it is a good plan to begin a luncheon with fruit,' or with a fruit soup. The latteris'* also sometimes served at dinners/ The fruit may be large, choice straw-' berries with the hulls on, grape? fruit, or a mixture of fruits served1 ice cold in the skins of oranges or grapefruit, or the inside of a cocoa-, nut or pineapple. Sometimes these fruits are dashed with sherry or a liquor. Orange soup, indeed most of the _ fruit soups, are best cold, and there? fore are best suited to a hot day.. To make a quart of such soup, a quart of strained fruit juice is neces? sary. Put over the fire in a double boiler, add to it a half cupful of granulated 6ugar. Moisten two tablespoonfujs of arrowroot with a little cold orange juice or with water and add to the hot juice. Stir until perfectly smooth and begins to thicken. Cool and add two table spoonfuls of curacoa, the flavor of which will blend most perfectly with the soup, as it is, as you probably, know, cordial flavored with orange peel, cinnamon and mace. Cool be? fore using, und serve in punch cups, putting in each a piece of ice the size of an English walnut before serving,' ?N. Y. Evening Post. ? Few men get their life labor oc ' complished without some sore heart ? it costs $120,000,000 annually to pay the expenses of the armies of Europe. ? According to Professor Attwater, butter has the greatest fuel value as an article of food, and contributes more than any other in maintaining the heat of the body. ? If there was but one potato in .the world, a careful cultivator might produce 10.000,000,000 from it in 10 years, and that would supply the world with seed again. ? Eminent medical authority de? clares that the people least liable to take colds are those who keep their mouths closed, unless when they are talking, eating or drinking. ? A man will counsel his wife to be patient and avoid a neighborhood row when the neighbor slaps one of her children, but he won't listen to any talk about patience if a, neighbor kicka,hi3.tlog. r .. - ? *? ?