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A REMAZKABLE CLOCK. Result of Five Years Work of a Black Forest Mechanic. A clock which is in many respects one of the most notable ia the ryorld has been constructed' says the Jewel ers' Circular-Weekly, after fire ye-ars of hard labor by August Noll. a1 Skill ed mechanic of Villingen, one oF'.6e old and picturesque cities of the ;er man Schwarzwald and the former cap ital of the province of Baar, which; came into the possession of Baden in 1806. The people of this region are diligent and talented, and the making of clvtks has been for 200 years a na tive industry among them. Those first made were wooden clocks with a sort of balance. and were very simple in construction. Gradually the work grew in perfee tion and the penduhun took the place of the balance; in still later times came the metallic clocks with main springs; until now the most elaborate and artistically designed timepieces of every kind are sent all over the world, into the humble dwellings of the middle classes and the palaces of the wealthy. .The -astronomical clock- finished by August .N6l almost surpasses in in genuity of construttion, variety of' mechanism and number of figures not only the famous clocks of Prague and Goslar but even the renowned master' piece of Isaac Habrecht, the wonder' of- the Strasburg. Cathedral. It is at present on exhibition in Munich, and; it is unlikely that it will ever be per initted to leave that city, The case, of walnut wood, about 14 feet high, 12 feet wide and 3 feet deep, is fashioned in the form of a church of the early Renassiance style, of harmonious design and pleasing to the aesthetic sense. The calendar me chanism. rollers, chimes, striking works, are arranged to work for 100 years. During a whole century the clock will show. not only the seconds, minutes, quarter hours and hours, the. days, weeks, but also the movable -festivals of the Christian year. The different days and seasons are intro duced by processions of appropriate figures skillfully carved, accompanied by music, with bugle solos and watch men's horns, or with cock crow and cuckoo calls. The center is occupied by an artis tically decorated and illuminated chapel,. whose doors open every morn ing at 9 o'clock and bring to view a congregation of worshippers, in the Schwarzwald costume, who file past the altar amid the strains of a cho ral. Once every hour the figure of Death appears at the left side wing, and figures representing the four ages of man pass by him, at the same time the twelve Apostles are seen passing before the figure of Christ in an at-: titude of iblessing. At the right of the* portal, above, is an idealized repre sentation of the four seasons, and be-. neath, morning and evening, six Ca-. puchin monks march slowly to the ac eompanimnent of chimes and the chords of a choral, from their picturesque forest hermitage to the church. The time is marked on the clock: face in the upper pArt of the central! space. not by ordinary hands, but by figures which spring out at the prop er moment, and two angels strike the changes on melodious bells. Below, as if in the ~side aisles of the church the strong and carefully constructed mechanism is visib)le in action: at the foot is an astronomical tellurium, and at the gables of the side wings two large faces show the time in Calcutta and New York, as compared with the central European time. The whole structure weighs 5200 pounds and is valued at 50,000 marks. Most interesting and original, it ex hibits the great intelligence and in ventive gifts and the wonderful per sever-ance of its maker. Angelo's Verdict. Once a painter notorious for plagia risms executed ai historical picture in which~every figure of importance was copied from-some other artist, so that very little remained to himself. It was shown to Michael Angelo by a friend, who begged his opinion of it. ''Excellently done,'' said Angelo,, ''only at the day of judgment, when all bodies will resume their own limbs again, I do not know what will become of that historical painting, for there will be nothing left of it.'' What makes life dreary is want of ~oti've. MANAGING HUS.ANDS. Some Eighteenth Century Ideas on This Interesting Subject. Most quaint is some of the advice to women contianed in an old book pub lished in1737. The vohune describes itself as "all infallible Guide to the Fair Sex. containing Rules. Directions and observations for their conduct and Behaviour through all ages and cir cumstances of life; as Virgins. Wives, or Widows, with Directions how to ob tain all Useful and Fashionable Ac complishiments suitable to the Sex.'' If the lady's husband was choleric she was told how to secure her own way by dexterously ''yielding everything till lie begins to coll. and then by slow d(egrees she may rise and gain upon tie Mait.' or "when other Remedies are too weak. a little Flattery may be admitted, which 1 beino, necessary, will cease to be criminal.'' With a covetous husband. pride, ambition, vanity, anger. kindness or even a dose of vine may be expected "to open or enlarge his narrow min.'' "The wife 's business must be to watch for critical moments, and not let one of them slip without making her advan tage of it." And a wife may be said " to want skill if by these .means she is not able to secure herself in good measure against the inconveniences this scurvy Quality in' her husband might bring upon her." All the frail ties of poor. erring husbands are here set forth, singly, in plain, unmistak able language, neatly docketed. each Nvith..the receipt f6ir cure, appended thereto. There are other interesting passages in the same book. Of spinsters the au thor says: "An old maid is now thought such a curse as no poetic fary can exceed, looked on as the most calamitous creature in nature. Modes ty and obedience, though necessary to all, are yet in a more eminent degree required here. Tlheir Look. tii* Speech, their whole Behaviour shoul li own a humble distrust of themselves." Concerning amusements this: '"The reading of Romances seems now to be thought the peculiar and only becom ing Study of young Ladies. It must be confessed their Youth may a little adapt it to them when they were child ren., and we wish they were always in that event as harmless.'' Of another vanity: "Ther is also :mother great devourer of Time-we mnean Deessing. Sure 'tis allowable upon :a soberer account that tho:,e who design Marriage should give them selves the advantage of decent Orna ments and not by the negligent Rude ness of their Dress bely Nature and rend~er themselves less amiable than she has made them. But, all this be iggranted. 't will byno meansjutf that excessive Curiosity and Solici tde, that Expense of Time and money too, which is more used.' An Unscarred Veteran. Some of the veterans tell me that during the war some soldiers had pre monitions of impending fate in bat te-could be seen in the faces and demeanor-while others felt that they would escape the casualties of conflict. Mr. Joe Quattlebaum belonged to the latter class. He was in service dur ig the entire war, and in those four long years was at home only a few days. He always believed, however, that the enemy had never made a bul let that would hurt him, and so it turned out. He often heard their music about his ears, and sometimes hey passed through his hair and clo thingz, but he always came out of con lict unseathed. Hie participated in a great many skirmishes and battles; and one day at hiome while at leisure, and thinking of his war experience, decided to make a record of a part of that experience. Accordingly he pre pared a list of the engagements in which he figured; and the date when he entered service and thie time when he came home after the war. The writer has seen that list anid it is a long one. His children feeling a just and honorable pride in the soldierly achievements of their father, have framed this memento of chivalrous daring, and it now hangs in Mr. Quattlebaum 's home. We are proud of the loyalty and de votion and unsurpassed heroism of the Confederate soldier. B. The small steel screws used in watch-making are worth six times thir weight in old. NAPOLEON'S ESCAPES. Reckless of Danger, the Great Soldier Was Often Wounded. In reply to the question in what en-: gagements.he considered himself to have been in the greatesr danger of losing his life Napoleon once said, "In the commencement of my cam paigns.-" Indeed, if further proof were demanded to show that he did not spare himself at Toulon it is only necessary to add that during the ten weeks of its seige Napoleon. in addi tion to a bayonet wound in his thigh, had three horses shot under him, while at the siege of Acre during the expedi tion to Egypt he lost no fewer thai four in the same manner. During the last days of his lif'e. when captivity. disappoiniment an1d sickness had well nigh completed their work. it is said that the agony of his fatal disease drew from him on many occasions the pitiful cry of. 'Why did the cannon balls spare me' During his long military career Na-, poleon fought sixty battles. while Caesar fought but fifty. In the early part of his career he was utterly reck less of danger while on the battlefield. and this spirit of fearlessness contrib-. uted largely to the love and esteem in: which he was held by his armies. There was a curious belief among the English in Napoleon's time that he had never been wounded, and indeed the report was current that he care fully if not in a cowardly manner re frained from exposing himself. Noth ing could be more contrary to the truth, for he was in reality several times severely wounded. but as he wished to impress upon his troops the belief that good fortune never desert ed him and that. like Achilles. he was well nigh invulnerable, he always made a secret of his many dangers. He therefore enjoined once for all upon the part of his immediate staff the most absolute silence regarding all circumstances of this nature, for it is almost impossible to calculate the confusion and disorder which would have resul\ted from the slightest re port or the .:mallest doubt relative to his existence. Upon the single thread of this man 's life depended not only the fate and government of a great empire, but the whole policy and des iniy of Europe as well. SHE HAD HER SAY. A Girl's Revolt Against an Award Of Valedictory Honors. New York Press. "I think the greatest shoek I ever experi'nced and the biggest revolt against my discipline occurred when I was teaching in a country high school.'' said the schoolteacher. "It' was in a school where the valedict' honor was awarded by popular vote. of the school, a most unjust method, by the way. but one to which I1 was forced to succumb. The girl who re eived the most votes was by no means: the best scholar. and the pupil who ranked highest in scholarship was~ plainly indignant. "Every boy and girl in the class was obliged to write and read a grad ation essay, and it was my task to1 look these essays over and aid in the rewriting of them. The pupil who' ranked the highest in the class hand ed in her essay to me with some defi ance, and in it I found some refer-' ence to the valedictory honor being rightly hers. I cut it out and told her plainly that nothing of that sort should go into her paper. She agreed to leave it out. "The graduation exercises were passing off splendidly when it came her turn to read her essay. She had a facile way of writing, and I was proud of her, but when she reached what I knew was 'the conclusion she stepped forward a little and proceed ed to deliver two pages of regulation valedictory. She bade farewell to the class, the school and the teachers, and of course we could not stop her. It took all the sails out of the chosen valedictorian, who followed, and after the exercises there was much wailing and hot words. We couldn 't do a thing, as the sinner was now a grad uate of the school, and we had no right to punish her, but it took me all summer to get over the effect of such a stunning performance.'' A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. The shepherd 's crook does not make the crooked sheep. NATAL AUTOGRAPHS. Sign Manual of the Child that Does Not Change In Life. There is born with everyone of us and continues unchanged during our lives an unfailing and ineradicable mark or marks, which absolutely dis tinguish each one of us from every other fellow being. These physical marks never change from the cradle to the gTave. This born autograph is impossible to counterfeit. and there is no duplicate of it among the teem ing billows in the world. Look at the insides of your hands and the soles of your feet: closely examine the ends of your fingers. You see circles and curves and arches and whorls, some prominent with dee) corrugations. others minute and delicate. but all a well defined and closely tr-aced pat tern. There is your physiologieal signature. Run your fingers through your hair and press finger tips on a piece of clear glass. You will see all the deli cate tracing transferred-not two fin gers alike. Even "the left hand know eth not what the right hand doeth." They are distinctly different. Even twins may be so little different in size, features and general physical condition as to be scarcelv distin guishable, yet their finger autographs are radically different. In fact, in all humanity every being carries with him on.his baby fingers and his wrinkled hand of decrepit old age the identical curves, arches and crieles that were born with him. Noth ing except dismemberment can oblit erate or disguise them. Criminals may burn and sear their hands, but nature. when she restores the cuticle, invaria l bringa back the natal autograph. Both Were Barbarous. Professor Starr, the famous ethnol ogist. was in his humorous and whim sical way accusing women of barbar ism. says the New York Tribune. "And she is not only barbarous she is illogical and inconsistent.'' he exclaimed. "I was walking in the country one day with a young woman. In a grove we came upon a boy about to shin up a tree. There was a nest in the tree and from a certain angle it was pos sible to see in it three eggs. " 'You wicked little boy,' said my companion, 'are you going up there to) rob that nest ?'. " 'I am,' the boy replied coolly. " 'How can von?' she exclaimed. ' Think how the mother will grieve over the loss of her eggs.' "'Oh, she won't care,' said the boy. 'She 's up there in your hat.' As a man 's brilliant future grows shorter his unbrilliant past grows *'mger. Light from above is for the path below. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given tha~t we will mak3 a final settlement on the estate of Jacob Singley, deceased, on Tues dlay, the sixth day of March, 1906, at 11 o 'clock, A. M.. in the Probate Court for Newberry County, South Carolina, and will immediately there after apply,for a final discharge as ex ecutors of said deceased. Geo. S. Mower. J. C. Singley, as surviving Executors of the last will and testament of Jacob Singley. deceased. Newbery, S. C.,. January 29, 1906. Wood's Seed Book FOR 1906 is one of the handsomest and most valuable publications of the kind issued. The useful and practical hints contained in the annual issues of Wood's Seed Book make it a most valuable help to all Farmers and Ga.rdeners and it has long been recognized as an up-to date authority on al Garden and Farm Seeds, p'articular! v for southern plant in . Woo-f iE Zed Book mailed fre a iners and Gjardeners upe ..at. Wrie for it. RICMGiG,- i. G NA. We solicit ye:r c ed~ direct, for betl? 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