Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ON A DEAD CHILD. There is nothing that seems the same to me fi tn oe Jim went away. I wonder if he Hid the bine of the skies In his little dead eyes. They don't seem as bine as they used to be. And the finn doesn't shine as it used to do, Nor silver the clouds when the rain breaks through, Ar.d the flowers don't bloom With their old perfume, And the birds don't sing their songs as true. The house is so silent, missing his noise. The sob of his sorrows, the langh of his joys, And the gathering dust, With the thickening rust, is spread like a pall on his broken toys. His old stick horse and his gun and bis sled ? leave in their place by his little bed. ? I told him that they Were all in my way, But they don't seem so now, s ??cc he is dead. -Josephine P. Spoonts in New Orleans Times Democrat. > - \ Thc Talc of a Broncho, a Palmist S ?ad a Mexican Bandit ? VNA "Come, senor, have your palm read! A few centavos are nothing for the se cret of your future," urged a voice that had become exasperatingly familiar to me of late. I was employed on a Los Angeles daily and ?ras on my way, as usual each morning, from my home in the San Fernando valley, by way of the Cahuenga pass, to the little station just Jbeyond the divide, where I took the train into the city. Midway of the pass stood an old stone watering trough, at which I was accustomed to refresh my horse while journeying through the hills. For upward of a fortnight past I had regularly encoun tered at this point a solitary evil vis it ged Mexican, who had announced himself .as a palmist "par excellence," -und occupied the few moments' pause m my ride with persistent importuni ties for ray patronage. What did not tend to enhance my regard for this un prepossessing individual was the craf ty manner In which he invariably in spected my horse out of the corners of his small, restless eyes. The horse, moreover, appeared to resent the scru tiny quite as much as myself and from the first asserted his antipathy for the vagabond! f? kir by steadfastly refusing to approach the drinking trough unto I had imrited the stranger to withdraw it few paces. Cn this particular morning, however, my curiosity became aroused as to why the fellow continued to frequent so unpromising a locality, which at best was a lonely spot, visited only by transitory horsemen and teamsters. Therefore, as my horse fretfully sip ped a few drafts of yaterv eying the peon suspiciously the while, I remark ed: "You i.-mst be intensely fond of your occupation, considering the little recompense you appear to derive from it Why do yon not go into the city, where, at least, your field for solicita tion would be larger?" "Ah, senor," replied the peon, with affected pathos, "I am indeed fond of my profession; but, however little I may realize from it here on the high way, the cl:y would yield me less; for they who Jive In the city care little shout the future. It Is the present j? alone that Interests them." I was inwardly forced to recognize a certain amount of truth In. his argu ment and by way of appreciation ten dered him a smalil coln. As I deposited the silver In his hand, however, with a quick movement he caught the tips of my fingers in his clasp and fixed his eyes on the open . palm. The precipitateness of the act was all but demoralizing to my horse, which sim-ig backward with a sud denness that came perilously near un seating me. The Mexican, however, held tenaciously on to my hand, inci dentally taking care to keep out of range of my frantic animal's hoofs. As soon as I could recover myself wrenched my hand free, but not until the peon had vouchsafed this admoni tion: "Senor, a terrible accident threatens you from horses. Take heed In time, therefore, and rid yourself of that broncho yon are liding.' I made no respe use, but as I touched my spurs and galloped off down the juass the peon shouted after roe a part ing injunction. "Sell him, senor!" he cried. "I warn you he is nnder the spell of a demon." As the words greeted my ear I glanced admiringly down at the sleek, arched neck of my spirited charger. "Mescal1," said 1, reaching down and patting h s splendid shoulders, "do you hear that? He says you're possessed of a demon and that I must sell you. But I shan't." The Mexican's ominous characteriza tion of my horse was no revelation to inc, and instead of inspiring me with ?my apprehensiveness his apparent con ara forriny safety somewhat amused .ne. Moreover, the knowledge that Mescal's disposition was so thoroughly . onsistent with bin name was rather a source o' gratification than regret to .ac. It was an odd name for a horse, but he had come by it legitimately that Is, he bad been so called ever since the Mexican bandit Garcia had broken bim as a colt to the saddle and bestow ed the title upon him. And for two years thereafter Mescal bad borne bis ^scrupulous rider on all his maraud ing raids until the latter had been so hard pressed up in the Ensenada hills by Shetfff Doyle of Yuma that he and ois followers were forced to abandon their horses and toke to the chaparral. I had chanced to be along with Doyle on that occasion- assignments of that character were accepted as a matter of .ourse by newspaper men out there in .hose days-and as tho forsaken horses ?f the fleeing outlaws dashed down the lilli In an effort ti escape past us I launched my rlata at thc leader, a gaunt but fleet and gaudily equipped Rutioal. >iy calculations tis to the distance of ?he mark bad proved accurate, but so Mad the aim of the sheri IT of Yuma, lor hardly had my noose settled about .he shoulders of the horse when anoth er loop, hurried from the opposite di rection, fell directly over it, and Doyle md myself had together captured the bandit chieftain's steed. Thc rest of our posse having corralled the balance of the stampeding animals, Doyle and tnvself fell to work to dividing ou.r spoils between us. He grac?ruliy kuowledged my precedence, mon tary though it had been, in the capt and insisted that the horse should mine, while, by way of evening up division as nearly as possible, I vol tarily surrendered to him the beaut silver mounted saddle, the intrii value of which far exceeded that the horse. The Mexican bridle, h< ever, I retained, for engraved upoi silver plate attached to its heads was the legend, "Mescal-Propriei de Joaquin Garcia," together w some additional data, briefly expr?s in Spanish, relative to the horse's tecedents. The general appearauce the animal indicated the grossest treatment in the past. The small his back was literally covered w saddle galls, while his thin sides w furrowed with deep, calloused ridg where the cruel rowels of a merell rider had plowed their way. But, ti to the nature cf the western bronc abuse had not in the least diminisl either his fiery spirit or his sterli hardihood, and that he had been hij ly prized as a mount by his late own notwithstanding the marks of the 1 ter's brutality, was evident from 1 pedigree engraved on the silver mou ed headstall. Six months of rest and good past1 age had worked a miraculous chan in Mescal's appearance. From' his p vious gaunt condition he had develop a splendid proportion and grace of f ure, while the former disfiguremei to his cuticle were entirely eradicat by the filling out of his glossy bia coat. On the morning following my c loquy with the peon I remarked 1 absence from his accustomed rend< vous in the pass, but upon arriving my office in the city I found among r mail a letter which immediately reca ed him to my mind. It was a propo tion, written in Spanish, and purpoi ing to come from a Mexican stock nu offering to purchase my saddle horse I chose to sell him at a reasonable fi ure. The connection between the coi munication and the peon palmist w? too palpable to escape detection, ai the only cognizance I accorded it w; in the purchase of an extra lock f my stable door before setting out f< home that evening. Nothing furth developed of the circumstance,, hoy ever, nor did the palmist ever aga put in an appearance at the stone w tering trough on the San Fernanc road, in fact, the entire matter ha quite passed from my mind, when or day about a month later I was directe to report at once to the managing e< itor of the paper. As I entered tl sanctum of the dignitary in question 1 was industriously occupied with tl preparation of his editorials. Bein naturally of a taciturn disposition. I was not accustomed to waste any si perfluous utterances on the snbordinal members of his staff, and, upon notln my presence, without pausing ia c glancing up from bis work, deli vere the following laconical order: "Doyle leaves Yuma with a poss early tomorrow morning after Garch You will go with him." I paused with my hand on the dom knob. "May I take my own saddle horse V I ventured. "Take a whole cabalgada If yo choose-only, get out of town on tba 2:30 special," and, having thus dh posed of the matter, the editor in ebie proceeded with his paragraphs a though I had never existed. It was ten miles out to Cahueng: station, where Mescal was stabled an? 12 o'clock when I received the assign ment, but two and a half hours late found me pulling out of Los Angele: aboard the Southern Pacific special with my horse trying his uttermost t< kick both ends out of a palace stocl car that had been coupled on in th? rear for his exclusive accommodation It was late that night when I arriv?e at Yuma and, having released Mesca from his uncongenial quarters, I sad died him and rode away in quest ol Doyle. After a brief search I locatec that individual up in the federal court room playing poker with his chief ant sole deputy, the district attorney and Kiek-a-Poo scout, with as much uncon cern as though Garcia and his band were already safely within the walls of the territorial bastile on the hill. "Where's the rest of your posse?" 1 asked the sheriff after the customary exchange of courtesies had taken place. "Why," he explained, "the coronet was called out a few minutes ,ago to hold an inquest on the leavings of a half breed desperado who got wind that the boys was getting together, and fearing, I reckon, that some of his own personal interests might bo at stake undertook to exterminate the members before they got down to work. Ht? started in on the wrong party, how ever, who happened to be Cal Jenkins, the county clerk, who was too swift for him-which is how the coroner hap pened to be called out temporary. But him and Cal'll be around iu the coins?, of half an hour, and so'll Judge Mur phy and the new tax collector. That'll make nine, counting yourself, and the two custom house riders we pick up down near the border will be ll, which'll be plenty, seeing as Garcia's gang has thinned out somewhat here of late. Beckon there ain't more'n 21) of the greasers left in the whole drove now, which is le.ss'u half their number when we mixed things with 'em last fall." "And where have you localed the out fit this time'.'" I inquire'!. "Down in the Manzunita mountains, close to the Mexican Hue." was Hm re ply "But that's only Iii? miles from here." I demurred, "and leaving in the morn ing will bring us there in broad day light. We'll never get them at that rate, for it's open plains every foot of the way between here and the Mnnza nitas." "Ahr I see! ' returned thc sheriff of Yu mn astutely: "figuring on a good 12 hom- sleep, as usual, before going to work. Well, you won't get it this time, 'eabezasonolionto' (sleepy head), for we'll bc in the heart of the Sierra Man zanitas long before sunrise. It's now 10, and we leave before midnight, which reminds me," he added, "that you'd better go down to the corral and rope yourself a horse. Bring your sad dle with yon?" "Yes. and something more." I an swered. "Y que mas?" inquired my friend. "Mescal, of course," I replied eare lesslv. "Mescal!" ejaculated rue sriorut in credulously. "Going after Garcia willi his own horse? Well-1*11-be- He'll sure like that." The full rnoou was hanging low over the ragged crest of the Mauzanihi range as our little cavalcade drew relui at thc edge of the dense chaparral thai covered its sides after a brisk ride over the intervening alkali desert. "We'll wait here," announced Doyle, "until Pie Grantle." indicating rile Kick-a-Poo scout, who had dismounted and was just vanishing in the thicket, "goes ahead and takes a look at the camp. It was Pie/' he explained aside to me, "who located the ou tilt, and he knows just how to reach it." Half an hour later the Indian return ed with the information that the out laws were still encamped where he had previously found them, which was in a small valley distant about a mile ahead. Upon receiving this intelli gence the sheriff commanded his party to fall in, single file, behind the guide, then gave the order to advance. Thus we proceeded, with the utmost caution, up the narrow trail, through the tangled brushwood, until at length a silent signal, passed from one to an other down the linc, warned us of our approach to the bandit stronghold. At almost the same instant a shot from one of their sentinels told that we had been discovered, and throwing aside all caution we dashed forward to the attack. Though taken completely by surprise, the outlaws appeared to keep their heads, and as many as could reach their horses sprang upon their bare backs and desperately essayed to repulse us. In another moment we were in their midst, firing rapidly but carefully, for no shots could be wasted in the face of such superior numbers. At the height of the confusion I sud denly perceived a tall Mexican, wear ing a silver embroidered jacket, the description of which I had many times before seen in print, forcing his horse toward me. lt was Joaquin (Jarcia. Instantly I leveled my revolver at his head and pulled the trigger. There was no report. 1 had fired the last charge from my brace of Colts. Be fore I could even attempt to reload the bandit chief would have got me to a certainty, but as he was in the very act of covering me a revolver shot rang out close to my ear, and reeling in bis saddle my antagonist fell to the ground. The next moment my deliv erer's horse dashed by me-and his rider was Sheriff Doyle of Yuma. Hardly had he vanished, however, be fore another bareback horseman burt? down upon me. I can see thc gleam of that long stiletto even yet as its owner's bared arm brandished it aloft in the moonlight. Then as thc blade descended, my horse reared back on his haunches arid the blow that was intended for me struck the auimal a glancing blow in the side of the head. In the same instant, with a frenzied scream, Mescal plunged forward and, catching the Mexican's leg In his teeth, tore him from his horse. Then as the i outlaw's body struck the ground the infuriated animal sprang upon him, striking him again and again with his powerful fore feet, before I could urge bim to leave the spot and joiu the bal ance of our party. From this on the odds were wholly in our favor, and one by one the surviving bandits gave up the contest and appealed for quarter. At length, with the exception of a few who had escaped under cover of the darkness into the mountains, the entire band were either prisoners or numbered among the slain. Retracing our steps to the scene of the fiercest stage of the fight, we dismounted for the purpose of examining the bodies of the fallen bandits. Observing one that lay face downward in the sand, I bent over bim to find that thc entire back of his head had been crushed in. From this I knew at once it was the outlaw who had fallen a victim to Mes cal's vengeance. Taking hold of his arm I turned the body over. As I did so I started back in amazement, for the pale moonlight shining full upon his upturned faee revealed to me the ' unmistakable features of the palmist of the Cahuenga highway. And Mescal? The stiletto had inflict-, cd a deep slash directly across his right eye which rendered him partially blind; He was thus permanently min ed as a saddle horse, and to insure him against the possible fate of a draft ani mal I took him back to Los Angeles where I hod a leathern collar made for him, attaching thereto the silver plate taken from his headstall aud another on which I engraved the single word "Exempt." Then I set him free among the greeu pasture lauds of the San Fer nando rauch, where he will continue to roam, pensioned for the remainder of his days.-Jose De Olivares in St Louis Globe-Democrat. A Modern Slave Mart. The "hiring fair" which takes place in the East End of London every Sun day after a specially large number of pauper allens has arrived is a verita ble slave market, though you never see money pass between buyers and sell ers. What happens is that batches of aliens are systematically met at thu docks by fellow countrymen, who otter their services in assisting the newcom ers to lind lodgings and work. These aliens never know English. They gratefully accept assistance, and are taken to the "hiring fair," their conductor receiving as much as ?1 to ?1 10s per head from sweaters who are on the lookout for new hands. When the sale has been completed the men and women are removed from the fair by their new taskmasters, who ex ploit them in sweating dens for mere food and bed. When the victims finally discover thc conditions of life in England, they nat urally walk out and seek paid work, and the slav.? owner-it is hardly pos sible to use another term-attends the slave mart ouce again and provides himself with new slaves. Strange Coincidence*. Here is a series of most remarkable coincidences: A mau named Hugh Williams attempted to cross the Menai straTts in an open boat. When nearly half way across, the boat capsized, and Williams was drowued. Five years afterward to the day ami hour another Hugh Williams was drowned at the same spot while at tempting to do the same thing, and live years after the last incident another man named Hugh Williams was lost while attempting to cross at the same olace THE LOOTCrW GLASS. MERCURY BACKS AND PATENT BACKS ARE VASTLY DIFFERENT. H o iv the Two .Methods Are faed In the Mannfactnre of Mirrors-Why Some <;1II>4MO>' AI way M Hare a Fad ed, Speckled Appearance. It is a popular fallacy that all mir rors baye mercury, ur quicksilver, backs. As a mal ler ol' fact, not over 1 per cent of the mirrors now sohl be long to that class. The general public know thal they can purchase mirrors much cheaper now than Uley could ten years ago. but they do not kuow that these are not the old time reliable mer cury back mirrors. The mirror now manufactured is known to the trade as the "patent back mirror," not that there is any pat ent on the process used, but simply to distinguish it from the mercury back mirror. A number of years ago the mirror manufacturers began to substitute the patent back for the mer cury type of mirrors, without notify ing the consumer or furniture jobbers of the change: so quietly was the evo lution accomplished that it took some time for the furniture dealers to realize the change, aud today many a careful housekeeper wears herself out phys ically trying to polish the speckled or faded surface of a "patent 1 T:k mir ror," when the cause of the trouble is imperfections on the back and not on the face, or surface of the glass. The reflecting surface of a "patent back mirror" is composed of a chemical solution of nitrate of silver, precipi tated on the surface of the glass, which is subject to change from exposure to light, changes of temperature or moist ure, while the reflecting surface of a mercury mirror is composed of two metals, mercury aud tin, winch form an amalgam impervious to and not af fected by changes of temperature or moisture and retains its initial reflec tive brilliance unimpaired for ages. The process of'mauufacturing a mer cury back mirror is first to clean and thoroughly dry the plate of glass, then spread a sheet of tin foll a little larger than the glass on a silvering table, the top of which may be stone or heavy plate glass. In either case lt must have a perfectly level and smooth sur face. Brush the foil out perfectly smooth and pour on liquid mercury to the depth of a quarter of an inch. This mercury is retained on the foil by small strips of glass on three sides. Then float the plate of glass into the mercury from the open side. In doing so the glass cannot be floated on tin; mercury, but must be pushed into it: so that from beginning to end its lower edge will cut into the mercury. This operation must be done with the greatest care and precision. After ibo plate of glass bas been successfully floated, heavy iron weights arc placed thereon to give the required degree of pressure to force out the surplus mer cury which does not unite with the tin foil. The table is slightly tilted by means of a vertical screw under one of its edges and the surplus mercury drained off into a suitable vessel. The mirror is kept in this position for 24 hours to enable the amalgam to solidi fy sufficiently so that it eau be turned over without danger of free mercury running over the surface of the amal gam, which would spoil the mirror. At the end of this time thc mirror is re moved from the table. When removed from the table, the mirror is placet! on a rack to dry and allowed to remain from 'JO to 30 days until sufficiently dry, The progress of manufacturing a "patent back mirror" ia as follows: First wash the glass clean, then place it on a table heated to a temperature of 120 degrees. A solution is prepared composed of the following proportions of chemicals: Four ounces of nitrate of sliver, 19 ounces of distilled water, 2 ounces of tartaric acid and 3 ounces of stronger water of ammonia. This forms ii clear, transparent fluid, which ls poured on the surface of thc glass and left there for about one hour. The glassi ls then tilted and the surplus solution Is drained off. The silvered surface is washed with distilled water and placed on a rack in a drying room, the temperature of which is about 00 degrees, and left there for half an hour, after which it: receives a coating of shellac varnish, to which is added a little later a heavy coat of paint. This is allowed to dry. The mirror is then ready for use. Such in brief is the method aud process of producing the "patent back mirror." The great advantage to the mirror manufacturer in the production of the "patent back," as compared with the mercury back mirror, is quite apparent, lt is readily seen that the "patent back mirror'' can be pro duced in one-tenth of the time, for one fourth of the labor and about the same expense for raw material as compared with the mercury mirror, lt eau also be handled with less danger of damage In packing and shipping, which is greatly in its favor from the mirror trade point of view. St. Louis (?lobe Demoerat. Hereditary Strength of the Ox. The strength of au ox in pulling a load is remarkable. How did it leant to pull so marvelously? Without doubl this quality is traceable to the habit found among all wibi cattle of waging war with their horns. At Chilliugham park, in Northumberland. England, where there is still a herd of half wild cattle, lt is found that the bulls eugage in desperate tussles for the leadership of the herd. Plainly any ambitious beast which has not sufficient strength of neck to thrust his enemy backward would be beaten in the struggle and would have but few descendants. From age to age the strong necked bulls have beeu victorious, and now the quality has become a proverb. Squelched. "Your hair is getting thin, sir," said a local barber to a customer the other afternoou. "Yes," replied thc gentleman ad dressed. "I've bee. treating it with antifat. I never likeu stout hair." "But you really should put some thing on it," persisted the tonsorial artist iu a most earnest manner. "I do every morning." returned the customer. "May 1 ask what?" inquired the bar ber. "My hat," said the patron. There-' after was slleucc-Freeport .Tournai. A (MEAT GOLD SCARE WHEN THE YELLOW METAL WAS FIRST FOUND IN AUSTRALIA. The Kusllnh Government Tried to and Did For a Time SuppreHH the Xewn Became It Feared a Genera! I pr I ul nie at the Convict Colony. The history of the discovery of gold in Australia makes peculiar reading in these days, when the mere suspicion of gold in a district, however close to un inhabitable regions, will cause a rush. Gold in Australia was discovered-one might almost be pardoned for saying first discovered-many times. But the news of the earliest discoveries was jealously kept from spreading. The se cret of this reticence lay in the presence of the army of convicts which then composed the balance of the popula tion. Had a gold panic broken ont it was feared that a general uprising of the prisoners would take place. Nevertheless the first gold found in Australia was by convicts in 1814, near Bathur?*, New South Wales. The discoverers gathered together a quan tity quite sufficient to lead them to be lieve that- they had found a gold mine. Bnt when they reported what they con sidered their good fortune to the keeper he, instead of undertaking to recom mend them for pardon or easing their hard labors in any way, threatened to give them all a sound flogging if they ventured again to say a word about the matter or to spend any more time pick ing up gold. The next find was made on the Fish river in 1823, not far from the spot where the convicts had come across it nine years before. This news, being reported to the authorities, was also ordered suppressed. Within the course of the next two years finds were so frequent that the London govern ment began to take great interest in the affair. But the fact that another region of the yellow metal might be at the disposal of such as might seek was kept rigidly secret until in 1825 a dra matic incident preclnded all possibility of further secrecy. A convict was discovered with a nug get of gold in his possession. When asked how he had come by the metal, he said that he had picked it up in the bush. He was cautioned and told that the authorities had no doubt that he had stolen the gold, but the prisoner stoutly held to bis original tale. At length he wits taken ont and severely flogged in public as a thief. There is now no doubt that the man told the truth. After this, although the public wera every now and then keyed up to great expectations by some reported find, no further veins were discovered nnlil 1839, when a Russian nobleman for nd a rich deposit in the Blue moun tains. The British government again became fearful of the consequence of such news npon a colony of convicts and ordered the matter suppressed. Yet sufficient people bad heard of it to keep the story alive and give credence to such rumors as arose from time to time. So matters drifted on. Time and time again bushmen, shepherds, convicts, surveyors, picked np ?mall nuggets and brought them to the centers of popula tion, but at that day people were noth ing like so keen on gold mining as they subsequently became, and the subject of gold in Australia was not pursued as one wonld expect it to be. The discovery of gold in California changed all that. Those rich fields, panning ont their golden store and fill ing the coffers of lucky individuals and governments at a rate never dreamed of, awakened a thirst for prospecting all the world over. In every part of the earth men went ont with pick and pan, hoping io come across the precious metal. When the news of California's for tune reached Australia, many took ship to America's shores, and among these was Hammond Hargreaves, an English man, native cf Gosport, who had emi grated to New South Wales in 1883. In Australia he engaged in farming without much profit and was among the first to mah for California. On reaching the auriferous region the first thing that struck him was the sim ilarity of tho geological formation in California and Bathurst, Australia, and there and then he made np his mind to inqnire into the subject should he ever return to Australia. He worked for something like a couple of years in California and then set sail for New South Wales. Returning, he, cf course, carried in his mind the thought that perhaps there might be gold in Bath urst, and when he landed he set to work to make a thorough search. Before this, however, he had made the acquaintance of William and James Toms and J. H. O. Lister, who were anxious to prospect for gold. Har greaves taught them how to use pick and pan, the dish and the cradle-in fact, gave them a practical if rough education into the mysteries of gold and gold bearing rocks and gravel. These men struck out, and in April, 1851, the three pupils returned to their old master, and, lo, in their pockets they carried gold to the amount of four ounces. Hargreaves, knowing the ropes, took this gold and full directions to the proper quarter. The news went forth, the rush began, rich linds were made, and Hargreaves was hailed as the dis coverer of gold in Australia. In reality ho had won the title, for it v?as his knowledge that first educated the Tomses aud Lister, and it was his knowledge again that sent them in the right direction. Hargreaves was presented to Queen Victoria in 1851 as the sole discoverer of the Australian goldfields and was made much of in England. He died in 1891.-Cincinnati Enquirer. KxhanMtlnir Hecreutiou. "What's a holiday, Uncle Jim?" "lt's a day when you work so bard to enjoy yourself that you can't do any real work for the uext three days." - ? h lea-go Record. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of - There are people who seem to lose all their religion the minute they can't have their own way. SOB Indian Tn? trament?. The only instruments known to these tribes were the drum, the rattle and a kind of flageolet. The drum and rattle were used in ac companying the voice, to accentuate the rhythm and to assist in interpret ing the emotive impulse of the song. Shaking the rattle and beating the drum with clear, sharp strokes served not only to mark the time, but to se cure the co-ordination and unity of movement of the numerous voices in the choral or to enforce precision of motion in the dance. The tremolo of the drum or rattle was to express the awe and trepidation felt when approach ing the supernatural or when invoking the aid of the occult power. The flageolet was a rather rude in strument, having a range limited to eight or ten notes in the treble clef. Owing to the lack of mechanical ac curacy in its manufacture, this range varied with every instrument, as did also the quality and value of the tone relations. There seems to have been only one requirement of the maker namely, that when the flageolet was blown with all the six holes stopped there should be strong vibrations in the tone produced. This instrument was used exclusively for solos by the young men of the tribe.-Journal of Ameri can Folk Lore. What It Meaos to Walk. The man who is content with a modest average of six miles' walking a day scarcely realizes that every 12 years he walks a distance sufficient to girdle the earth at the equator. Startling as this simple calculation is, he may be excused a feeling of in credulity when he learns that in walk ing this distance he has expended suffi cient energy to raise our 38 first class battleships a foot high. It is calculated that in walking an average mile a man uses sufficient en ergy to raise 11% tons to the height of a foot, or conversely a ton (of coals. ! say), to three times his own height. The j mere thought of such a feat is sufficient to deter a man from taking the most I modest constitutional. I Thus every year the man who walks six miles a day does sufficient work to raise a ton weight to a height equal roughly to 1% times that of Mont Blanc, or to raise all the gold current throughout the world a foot higher than his own head. A tramp of 18 miles a day involves as much exertion as the day's work of an ordinary laborer. A Woman'? Worries. Said a physician: "I wonder that women fail to appreciate how much nervous force as well as physical strength they consume in worrying over the little things of life. Look at the mother and housewife as she goes about her tasks and observe how often she ut ters an impatient exclamation, how of ten she sighs over her servant's short comings, how often she starts nervous ly at a aoiee from one of the children. And each time that she loses control over herself, her nerves, her temper, she loses just a little nervous force, just a little physical well being, and moves a fraction of an inch farther on in the path that ?eads to premature old age and to invalidism. ' ' The Dean's Restriction. If The English Ecclesiastical Gazette reports correctly, eminent English di vines are not above r. little fooling, of a Scriptural tenor, of course. The dean of the Chapel royal was one day seated in the Synod hall, at Dublin, when a scent bottle, falling from the strangers' gallery, happened to alight upon his somewhat bald cranium. Ris ing from his chair, ha asked permission to make a personal explanation. "My lord primate," he said, "I am always glad to see strangers at our de bates, and I feel specially honored by the presence of women. But"-here he held up the scent bottle-"let not their precious balms break my head." Divorce by Candles. When a Burmese husband and wife decide to separate, the woman goes out and buys two little candles of equal length, which are made especially for this use. She brings them home. She and her husband sit down on the floor, placing the candles between them, and light them simultaneously. One candle stands for her, the other for him. The one whose candle goes out first rises and goes out of the house forever, with nothing but what he or she may have on. The one whose candle has survived the longer time, even by a second, takes everything. So the divorce and division of the property, if one can call that a division, are settled. An Economical Cook. A Chinaman will bake a dinner for a dozen with a mere handful of fuel. 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