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TELEPATHE More voaderfuli Than Marcoi Wireless Telegraphy. SOM.E STAILTULNG SA .ET T3ho--ughI ta en t Th 1rou)-agh It e. -sotSa i . temuatrkable Caaes Thiat llavo Occurred in New'*erry amd in Other Piaces. cikiw we print a very i r article (n telea'thy. wich mens. a: far itcan h:e put il. - mnunical no mld a .N without tury o Newhe~rry < serve as ci en~..~'-~,ce-. i ; suc ,f is nw o ni dictionaries orolyafeteasa 1id not even contain %.ne wNor d "tele pathy." Still it is older than wireles: telegraphy: which it resembles i some respects, but is far wore wonder ful. Some sort of reasonable and in telligible explanation can be given o the Marconi system of wireless mes sages between distant points. ba there is no explanation for this kin( of communication. That the fue exists cannot be questioned. All w can say is. as Hamlet said to Horatio "There are more things in heavei and earth than are dreamed of in you philosophy. Every man may be his own tele phone. This is the amazing declara tion made by the believers in tele pathy, which may be described as th wireless telegraphy of the mind. Si William Crookes has recently startle( the scientists of the world by declar ing that it may be possible to sent thoughts across the Atlantic ocean (1 around the world without either cable: or the apparatus of Maconi. 'Is it inconceivable," said he. "tha intense thought, concentrated towart a person with wnom the thinker is ir close sympathy, may induce a telepa IC chain of brainwaves along whicl a message of thought may go straighi to its goal without loss of energy du( to distance' May not the words 'far and 'near' lose their meaning in thesi subtle regions of unsubstantia tboughty I dare to suggest it." This is the opinion of Sir Willian Crookes, the inventor of the Crooke tube, which made the X-ray possible the president of the British Associa tion of Scientists. the "king of chem ists" and hero of many a scientide ex ploit. Telepathy, this new and mys terious power of the human mind, 1 not difficult to understand. Dr. R. Osgood Mason, fellow of thi New York Acadeny of Medicine, says "There are fortunate individuals to day who have no need of mails or tele graphs, but who can communicat with one another, no matter ho' widely they may be separated. .man named Fitzgerald. at Brunswick Me., saw and described the Great Fal River fire. 300 mniies away, and M~ra Porter, of Bridgeport. Conn.. desc'ribel the burning of the steamer Henr. Clay at the time that it was occurrin on the Hudson river, near Yonkers." Ian Maclaren, the famous novelist theologian and preacher, has been fc several years a believer in the nel science. He say's: "I believe iti possible for persons miles apart t. talk to one anothtr without wires This mysterious signaling most fre quently makes itself felt in the ho,"z of trouble, and is often a call for heip One afternoon, to give a striking in stance of it., I marie up my list of id people and started on my roundls. A:f ter c'omrpleting the drst andc who going along the main road. at abooi 3:30 o'clock, I felt a strong impuls uo turn d'>wn a side street and call vi a family li vin.g in it. "'The impulse grew .' urgent tha it could not be resisted. 2nd I ra", the bell, and considered on the dour step what reason I should give for at unexpected cali. When the doo opened it turned out that stranger now occupied the house, and that m;. family had gone to another address il the street, the precise number beini - unknown. "Still the pressure continued, asi a hand were drawing me, and IL sc out to discover their new house, till. had disturbed four families with vair inquiries. Then 1 abandoned th< search with ~a se'nse of shame. Had busy clergyman not enough to do with out going on a wild-goose chase: Nest morning the head of that house hold that I had sought in vain cam< into my study with evident sorron on his face. " 'We are in great tro.uble,' he said 'Yesterday our little one (a youn~e baby) took very ill and died in the af ternoon. My wife was utterly over come by the shock, and we would have sent for you, but we had n'o messen ger.' " 'What time was it?,. I asked. "'About hais-past 3.' Another notable telepathist is Bishop Samuel- Fallows, of the Re formed Fipiscopal church. "Telepaths is no longer a theory," says Bishoj F'allows; "it it is a fact. I have beer interested in it for years, and the -thing I am pondering now is how tc bring -it into common everyday use. It works on the same principle as the new wireless telegraphy or Mr. Mar coni. I will hail him as a benefactoi .of the human race who will teach peo pie how to use this tremendous psychic force." A young merchant, who had ser eral days before buried his wife, was awakened in the night by her voice He heard her distinctly calling hi! name and asking for help. So imn pressed was he by this mysteriou: message that he sprang to his feet dressed and drove at once to the grave When he uncovered the cflin anc broke it open he found his wife aliv< and moving in an unconscious trance. Lifting her into the carriage he drov< her quickly to the h~ouse, sumjmonec medical aid, and had the unspeakabi pleasure of seeing her regain he health. sOME NEwBERtRY CASEs. Here are some well authenticated cases that occurred in Newberry ii this State. They are related by th< Newberry Observer, whose editor. Mr W. H. Wallace, is a highly culture( gentlemen, and who would not voucl .for a thing unless it was absolutel2 true. The Observer says: On the morning of the i5th day o: February, 18??, just about day-light Mrs. George McWhirter of that citI was gently roused from sleep by feel ing a hand upon her for'ehead-whiet she took to be the han~d of a dear sister-and a voice said. "Father i dead." Her father was living ir Union, and when she last heard fron: him previous to this time he was it good health. In a few minusa she was again asleep. and precisel:. the same message came to her in thc same way, and woke her. She dry ped oif to sleep again, and the ex perienc was rated a third time. She then became thoroughly convinc cd that her father was dead-had Ti more doubt of it tha 4f she had see: ii die. SFhe related the zour*enf to her'huad, who triled to iaug1 er. outa . of what he c'alk -upe.' L.L.vt'a Fath e1 S W\\~U-. n the oTle Came Sayi Lng Sher dirap-ed dad this morn 'l wich was j ust th se t ;: a I, gead in 1ex plica ble mes haeComle to her. \: ueristance fully as stran thi.. happened o Dr. 1. . Ruil :a p1yiean of Newberrv, who died i I . lhr. tutl was the grandfathe Mf Mrs. Elbert 11. Aull of this city ile was an honored citizen and dis tinguished physician. 'No man eve stood higher in public estimation. 11 was a inui of much more than oi dinary intelligence and judgmen and culture, in his profession an otherwise. Some time before the wa he had a son. Pressley. at school a Mt. E.on. then in Edgetield c':unt now Saluda. abut fifteen miles frot Newberrv. One morning the convi I tion came suddenly to the father tha the son had just died. lie went to 1 C. Chapman, the undertaker. and sai to him: "Dick. my son Pressley is dead a mt. Enon. Get a pair of horses fror Gen. Kinard's stables,. hitch them t your hearse and we will go over wit a colin for him." Mr. Chapman asked if he had th ion's measure. S"No" he said; "you know the siz of my son. As soon as the arrangements wer completed. Dr. Ruff and Mr. Chapma in a buggy. and the hearse driven b On assistant and having the coffin it, started for Mt. Enon by way of th liigins ferry road. Between Lind say's bridge on Bush river and Salud rive they met a negro on a horse, o his way to Newberry, riding rapid. and bringing the news of the deati of the young man. Mr. Chapman was greatly astoish ed and asked Dr. Ruff if this was th tirst news he bad received of tb death of his son. He said: "It is but I knew my son was dead." Upon comparing the time, it wa learned that the son had died a precisely the moment the: strang message came to the father. Among the persons to whom bot Dr. Ruff and Mr. Chapman told thi incident is James Y. Culbreath o that city, who knew both men we for many years. as did also the write of these incidents. Mr. Chapman in relating the cii cumstance added that that from th time the young man died until tb negro met them on the way it wa not possible for any message to hav reached Dr. Ruff-not meaning, < course, that the doctor's word nee any confirmation-for everybody kne himu to be absolutely truthful-but t one oif the strange features of this wo)! derful occurence. It should be added that there wt no reason why Dr. Rut! should be e: pecting b:jd news fromn his son. a far as he In. thXX e young man was perfect health--was so when he il! be from wi him. His death was' su< den-f".:n a congliest ive chili. Mr. Cu br''a'hl tinks. Heairst Blazed the Way. Th e recent decision of the Unite SI tates Circuit Court against 1: N ortnern Securities Merger. which one of the mnost- important rendere in years. is indirectly the work of ' R. Hearst. of New York. The de eisi'n strikes at the root of illein combinaions, and has opened tU way for the investigation of the who trust question. While Mr. Hears says the Spartanburg Herald, ha nothing directly to do with the em that has just been decided, he sougt an injunction against the Coal Tru: Sin New York and it was h:s lawye who marshalled the evidence and d gested the decisions upon which th action was based. In the Coal TIrui fiht. Mr. Hearst had a hostile prosi cution and ofticials clearly dispose-i t shield rather than expose. Circun stances were different in the Norther' Securities' C;ompany, but the Hearn fiht blazed the way and marked tli danger'ous points. Because Mr. H-earn owns three powerful newspapers, b iht oin the Trusts was looked upo as "Yellow Jlournalism." It wr bouaght to be for advertising purposes But the decision just rendered shon conclusively that if only the Con case could have been gotten properl before the court, the main issue of the illegality of Tursts woul have been settled a year ago. Th Spartanburg Herald says "Hearsti one of-the most interesting charat ters jdst now in the public eye. Bor: to immense wvealth, it would seer that he would be content to follow il the tracks of other young men whos fathers left barrels of money on thei hands. He could easily have in 'estel his millions so as to make other miu lions: and if he desired farr.e he coul' in old age build libraries with hi '1name carved in brass over the dooi IHe could join with those of this clas in forming combinations and squees Iing the people. Thousands of ea'sy og portunities otiered, but the career h chose is the last that one would hav supposed attractive to a man in hi station. Mr Hearst struck out boldl in journalism where competition wa iercest, where ideas were set. wher prospects seemed darkest and he ha educated the public to a new journa, ism. lie has fought the battles c the people. While he has given brea o the hunlgry, wvhat is more to th point and more appreciated is that h Ihas lent all of his plowers and resource to the task of defending the wea against th'e unscrupulous strong." I A Total Wreck. T he section of a southbound Louis vlle and Nashville passenger trail which left Montgomery, Ala., at 12. 130 Wednesday night, was wrecked a ICastleberry, ten miles south o Montgomery Thursday morning. Tw members of the crew were killed an' .1John Wright of Montgomery, th Iengineer, sustained a fractured skull 1No passengers were injured. Th dead are II. L. Donovan. Mlobile, rail wy mail clerk, and Major Knos Montgomery, negro tireman. Almos Iin front of the station at Castleberr: te engine struck an open switch ani ploed through an empty freight car 'h m'il and baggage cars which fol lowed caught tire and were entirel; demolsed and the wreckage tOOl Total Explosion. The~ boiler of the Charles Bevan' saw mill it Rtuby. 0.. exploded Tues day killing Charles Bevans, Richar< Houk, Rufus Hlouck and two boy. named H ouck and Gottridge. Severa: COMMTTED SM ID . \yire or P'rur' W. E. Eg.8eaal Jnrtmp Vurom a. Steamer. Newn reached Anderson vriday or ite suicide of Mrs, Nlartha irezenc, wire of Prof. W. E. Braaeale or Rut I gers college, N. .J, .he jumpeti 'rer board from a steamer in Long !la sound last Monday night while on route from her home in Brunswick, N. J., to New York city. Her body has not been found. Prof. Breazeale is a native of An derson county -and was Ior sevelai years professor or mathematics in rWinthrop college. lie r e s ig n d that position several years a w aln went to Bordeaux. France. with his family. where he remained for two years. lie returned to the United States two years agzo and accepted the t position of professor of mathematics in llutgers college, and has been there rsince. t A dispatch to The State says no cause iN known fur Mrs. Breazeale's I suicide, except melancholy following - ill heath. She left her home in Bruns t wick without letting her husband know of her intention, and he found I that she had taken a steamer for New York only after diligent search. When the boat reached port she was missing, but her cloak and hat were found in one of the toilet rooms opening on the deck. It was plain that she had jumped overboard at night. A search is being made for the body, but at last accounts it had not abeen found. The married life of Prcf. and Mrs. Breazeale has always been most happy, except for the periods during which she would suffer from melancholia due to ill health. She attempted suicide while the family lived at Winthrop by severing - an artery in her wrist, but was discov ered by her husband in time to save ' her life. Before doing so she left a note for her husband declaring her love for him and saying that she would take her life because she feared she could - not live to rear her children as she would like. Her mind dwlet largely upon her children, and she became a mono-maniac on that subject Mrs. Breazeale was a Miss Dodge of Massa cbusetts. She was educated in Balti t more and it was there that Prof. e Breazeale met her. She was 38 years old and the mother of four child!en, , ranging from 8 to 2 years old. The youngest was born in France. Inspecting Officer. The adjutant general has received from Major General Chaffee, comman der of the Department of the East, notice of the appointment of Colonel e Chas. K. Norris, of the artillery S corps stationed at Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, to inspect the troops f of the state under the new -militia d act. Colonel Norris will notify the adjutant general at once as to the time of inspection and the work will 'commence in a few days. As a result or this appointment, General Frost ~has furnished the department with a list of the towns to be visited, starting from Columbia, and notice has been 1sent the captains of the various com panies ordering them to be ready for inspection in ten days. So far about thirty companies have complied with the requirements and are now ready. but there are many who will have to prepare themselves for the inspection. G eneral Frost will ask the depart ement to detail ano; her oflicer to assist in the inspections, so that there will be one for the-lowver and one for the upper part of the state. Ll out of H is Sphere. CThe Rev. F-rank Siler. of AshilileC. N. C., recently adopted the method used by Dr. Parkhurst., in New York. of spying upon the unfortunate fallen women of Ashville in order to inaugu rate a social purity campaign. Ac companied by a policeman, the pas tor himself being disguised, he visited all the resorts of sin in Ashville. not finishing his rounds until after mid night. We do not impugu Mr. Sil er's-motives, but we confess inability to see how such a course as he pursued is any part of a preacher's mission. According to the published accounts he practiced deception upon the ab solutely most friendless class of hu man beings in the world, by conceal ~ing both his idenity and tihe purpose of his mission. It is inconceivable that he could hereafter influence one of these women to accept the salva tion that he preaches from his pulpit, and that is the mission of a precher of tihe gospel, as we understand it. Of course, we understand that Mr. Siler meant well, but we genuninely regret that he has imitated the sensational Sist. Parkhust, in this matter. 1 From Poverty to Riches. A successful career is always inter esting, but that of the chevalier, Theod->re :ie Taussig of Vienna, has much of the romantic about it. Hie was born in the ghetto of Warsaw forty-eight~ yearsa go of beggar parent Sage, and started beggar. From ped der he rose to office boy, from that to Sclerk, then to superintendent of a store, and then, with a rush, to a -financial power. Now he is president Sof about half of the business enter prises in Austria and a director of the Srest, with a fortune of $25,000,000, ~'and is earning 81,000,000 a year in addition to his regular income. THE New York Sun calls attention -to the fact that Republican Secretary fof War Root has publicly admitted ne Igro sutfrage to be a failure; that Grover Cleveland in his speech~ in New York a few nights ago made practical sly the same declaration. The Sun quotes Mr. Cleveland where he cites the generosity of the south to the black man after the lIeconstruction period and tell of this people "stag -gering under the weight of the white .nan's burden," and then the New -York Republican paper significantly, says: "These words are as generous as true. We believe that they repre sent a public opinion in the north i~that is growing fast, and is bound to become prevalent, without regard to party lines."I A. C. Sars. writting from some place, postotlice or State not given, to the Home and Farm, says he tried a little experimental work. He set Iapart 55 acres. One acre in Kansas corn, an early corn, made 20 bushels with $15. One acre in velvet beans made vines in abundance, but no hay or money. One acre in watermelons brought in 880 besides many melons for his family and given to neighbors. One acre in sweet potatoes, 100 bu shels, $50. One acre in cotton. 500 pounds in the seed. $12. One half Iacre ribbon cane, 117 gallons. *$.50. The melons led: next camne ribbon cane, or an acre in cane would have The Vaule oUine. 'One grain from the sands of what Irun, gn with One iLIentI n f the wing - a2rv. Ther; is a dieence of! that irSctionl f a % sec between the Sun'. time as ree(rd at Uv rnwich and az rec'rdd at Paris. Til iands of traies ar. beinr snt4 to tild the mis ing moe:nt!t. A special hiildin- ha. been erected at Paris. tiuie:I with costly and coniplicated instrur-nts. si)lv for the purros of tracing nut the lost f rakctiol. ihe best anitheim ticians h;tve becn employed for the task. and it m.v: be hars b: fore they complete heiir searCh and b ring for ward solution of the n) stery. it mav seem ridiculous that so inue: labor aid expense shonuid be put into the pursuit of a tritlintg, fraction of a se-cond -t period of time so sh rt as to be practically unappreciable by the human senses. But it should b remembered that longitude is calcu lated on the-basis of (Greenwich time, and the difference of the sixteenth of a second wouid change perceptibly the position of every meridian of longi tude in the world. Thus many polit ical bundaries. fixed by longitude. would be altered. and thousands of people would find themselves of a dif ferent nationality. So this lost frac tion is of very great importance, after all. Time is a valuable thing. A frac tion of a minute may affect the destinies of thousands. In the region of "too late." one second is the same as a hundred years. Like the hairs of our heads, every moment of time is numbered. and in the great economy of the universe, not the twinkling of a star is missing. Each individual is given just so many hours and minutes and seconds, for which he is charged and or which he must some day render account before the supreme Auditor. A king's ransom for the sixteenth of a second! That is what the French government is offering. One never knows how valuable is the grain of time which he is letting run to waste. For it may be that, ti day will come in which he will cry. "A king's ran som for the fraction of a second!" Our Pxorly Paid Teachers. In many southern :ounties the sheriff is allowed $146 yearly, or forty cents a day, for feeding prisonzrs. Of ten times the allowance is mo-re than $146 a year. But prison sheltEr, fuel. clothing, and medicine are extras, paid for out of the pul!ic funds. The average salary of teachers in four Southern states-North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas and Tennes see-is less than $146 a year, and amount only sufficient to pay for food for one person on the basis of prison fare. In some Soutbern states the average salary of teachers is somewhat more than $146, but in no Southern state is the average salary twice as much. Even in Southern cities, all things considered, teachers' salaries are not much better than in the rural districts. A young woman who leaves college or a normal school in debt be gins work in the city schools on an annual salary of $270, with the hope reaching an annual salary of $450, on ly after eight or ten years hard work. Out of this meagre salary she must pay for loard, clothing, and mnedicine; tr books. eduacatijonal jurnals. and summer school instruction. In all not less than 8280, a year, niot co-mting~ religious and socil and charitable causes, to which she must contribute or lose standing. Yet Tnancially hampered at every turn of the way. the city teacher, as well as all other teachers. is expe-cted to preserve he; sweet temper. to be the model ror the c al iren in her charge. and to till no mean place in the socia l lifre of the town'f community. But if the tr ac'.mr be a many If he is an honor gradu te f a '.ollege of good standing, if he c >n unues a hard student, if lhe is able to manage b~oys. if he has the good sense t > avoid partisan and sectarion squab-, bles. and if he has executive ability enough to management a railway sys tem or command an army, he may re eive $500 for first years work: if he continues to teach, lhe may become a principal or a superintendent and re ceive $800 to $1,500 a year. Orin ral V jew o1' Womanhood. The orintal idea of the freedom which American woman enjoy does not accord with that of Americans. One Hlindoo lady expressed herself as greatly shocked that American men should compel their women to go about in public un protected,their faces exposed to the gaze of strangers. and a Hiindoo gentlemen w-tm whom we talked thus expressed himself on the suject of orintal treatment of wo men: "You say that we do not hon or our women. Why, let me tell you that all Ilindoo boys, till they are ready to learn the ways of men, are aught by their mothers. We are subject to our mothers, and we know wat you occidentals do not yet seem to realize, that to have good men and good citizens we must 3ave good mothers. You will hardly find a Hindoo man, whatever his caste, dar ing to go against the counsel of his mother. Can you say as much for American men?" Could as much, do our readers think, be said for Ameri can men? There are no asylums for helpless fathers and mothers in the orient. So long as there is a corner and a crust to be shared, the parents in the oriental fa-nily have t'e lion's s are. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TZAT the murder of Gov. Goebel of Kentucky was pl inned. ordered and directed by the Republican claimant and sitting Governor. W. G. Taylor. has been almost conclusively demon. strated at the trial of the active agents of the crime. We agree with the Charleston Po.st that it is one of the blackest. as wxell as most remark able pages in the political history of the United States. And the chief! crimmina] is protected by the friendly otices of another commonwealth. THE Charleston P'oSt says: "An other merger has been busted by the government in tie conviction of the robbers who have been operating in South Carolina and adjoining States for manry months. The trial of this gang at Charleston was a very later esting event and the conviction and sentence of the prisoners a salutary and satisfactory demonstration of the watchfulness and ability of the gov-ern ment's executive and prosecuting fEoo is preparing to take advant age of her geographical location in connection with the Panama canal. By the time the canal opens steam ship lines planned by President Diaz will be running from Mexico ports to all Caribean, Central and South American points. Bae Blail Victim. Punch Arnold. 15 years old, was struck over the heart by the ball while playing baseball at Newnan. Ga.. on r-ay and died within a few minti A Human Hyena. The humnan family contains a gooi nanv hvy:-nas, andil ill i front -aak Lan1s J e KIauruan, a Ne w Y vrker. lie hias ar4 wiy been a thief. bitt a pcalis.t in crime, and his victims w aays widuws. 11e ra4dn it h. b ne t secure the acquLatanta of wren who had lost their usbands and collected insurance monoy. lie preferred widows with vhildren. he auge . were more helpless. Tne won:ani Aho is lett with a family )nr a rew pa' r (:olla s in moner Often marrirs 1cr a ho-ne Ior the sake of hwr children. i'auf man knew it, and c un td h's vi.:tin s hy the dozen. He didn't marry them. le seemed to have a horrer of bitcamy. but no scr pies about ]ying and thievi ng. I I made childien love him. and omen. too. I a w:s to bn the protector in at hea-i 4 h;meS that. the police knew of. Sometines he borrow ed money and then diisappeared. Again he learned its hiding place and stole it. Finally he robbed a woman of $886 and a gold ring. She worked in a sweat shop for ;,i a week. and had her babies to cue for. That didn't bother Kaufman. There is occasionally a man horn without a heart. you know. Finally Kauf man faced a court. The room was tilled with weeping women and their children. "You are the meanest. most contemptible criminal ever brought before the har of justice." said the Judge, who imposed a sen t 'n.e of tive years in the penitentiary. F.ve years. It isn't half enough. We are too easy with some of our scoun drels, and especially with those who commit crimes against afflicted mo men. Some day wise men will so ad just the laws that punishments will more nearly tit crimes, and the man who makes )ove. or the semblance of it. the vehicle of women's undoing will pay for his sins down to the ut termost farthing. Our Militia Company. The prospects are that if the gen eral government insists on the full number of 65 men in each malitia com pany there will be a general cutting off of military companies in this state. Lest the lo.al company be among those cut oif the citizens of Florence should lend a helping hand and a good firm one. The law contemplates that every male citizen of proper age shall be ac counted as belonging to the militia reserve, all subject to call. Those who are beyond that age ought to see that as many able b .died youngi men as can be had in the militia should join the companies and especially the local company. It needs the help and support of the people of the city men and women and every obstacle ought to be removed from the way of every young man joining the military company. It is a good thine or a town to have such'an organization as a military company but like all other good things we have no right to ex pect it to be here with-some effort or sacrifice on our part. The above. from the Florence Times, applies as much to our town as it does to Flor ence, and we hope our people will heed the suggestions it contain'. Good Newvs. A certain ex-congressman tells a story about a widow in his district who desired a position in the agricultural department. "Therep, was no vacancy at that time." said he. "and I was consequent ly comp1elledI to adlvise my constituent that I could do nothing for her until later. But she persisted in her efforts to obtain a position and for two weeks thereafter met me at every turn. One morning I had just finished breakfast when I was told by the servant that she was awaiting me in the reception hail. So I assumed as pleasant a de meanor as possible, and, entering the room. said in a sympathetic voice: "'Well. my good woman, what news? "'Good news.' she said; 'good news, Mr. Allen.' "'Well.' I said. TIm glad to hear that, And what is the good news?' "'Oh.' she said, 'good news. Mr. Al en, good news. A woman in the agri cultural department died yesterday.'" Jade. The most precious of all stones. ac cording to a gem expert, is the jade, on account of it's rarity, its extraordinary qualities and the mystery of its cutting. It was regarded as a sacred stone, and nobody had a right to possess it except a prince of Imperial blood. Argerius Clutius, a famous physician in Amster dam 'at the time of the renaissance, pulilshed a work on the jade, orne phritic stone, as it was then called. on account of its action on the renal sys tem. At the sam% period Italijin au thors spoke of the jade as osiada and discussed its wonderful powers for healing sciatica. The legends surrounding this stone abound in history. Good specimens of jade are extremely rare, and the world is at a loss to know how the Chinese manged to cut it, because It is so ex tremely hard that nothing can make an imression upon it. The First Linen Paper. Linen cloth was occasionally used for writing purp~oses. but was never very comnmon. Linen manuscripts have beeni found folded in mummy cases. ad the Chinese before the invention of paper used silk and cotton cloth. The omatns ab:o wrote upon linen. The ~s cf this mateial introduced a (-ha nge in ti- ma:it:!er of writing. The other su.: ::nee we.ire rathier engr-aved than wr aenuo. :un iron point being used To write upjon linen-u it was nec-essary to 1a:e sm::- cooe :uid which migh~t get dry ::(d lene a p2lermannent mark. The~ 1irst i::k ne'd was5 probatbly some sort of sno! or lamnbhhick mixed with ize or ;rma 02w::!r. :and( the first instru me(r:; ::nsweVrin;g to our peni wasl a reed. I~)Lo nnd short Hair. Pranche:- says: "Lengr unir was the distinishing characteristic of the Teutonic tribes. It was a mark of the bihest rank amuong the Franiks. none of whom but the first nobility and princes of the blood was permitted to wear it in flowing ringlets, an express liw comman021din2r the people to cut their hair close around the middle of the forehead." And this badgre of ser-vitude and si;gn manual of plebelanismn in one century has bec-ome the essence of' style and ;:lass of fashion in another, the freak of one age, the fan'-y of another. TI!HE PO'rArO R ACE PROBLEM. Jimmy and .Jack ran a potato race. *Each one had twenty-five potatoes to pick up, says the Philadelphia North American. The potatoes were lying1 at Intervals of five feet in three parallel rows Ilow many potatoes were there in ally Ilow many feet from potato No. 1 to potato No. 25 in each row? If every potato In each row had to be carrried clear back to the head of that row and laid down| with the first potato, how many feet' id each boy have to run before he g-t through? If Jimmy could run: 325 feet in one minute. how long did j h take? ! FAITHFUL DAD. Lei-e'm to You, You've Got 'c0u1 Fanltb, bC VoU#,e All RitSght, We happened In 11 hore the other nght and over the poarlor bor srMY the tognd workoed in letera or red. "What la 1iome Without a. Mother?" Across the room was another brlef. "God Bless Our Home: Now, what's the matter with "God Bless Our Dad?" H- get* up early. lights tht fire. buils an egg. grabs his dinn-r pa!1 and wipes off the dew of he dawn with his boots while many a mother N sleep1Lt. lie uakes the weekly handout for the butcher. the grocer. the milknan ani baker. and his little pile is badly worn be'fore ie hi:Is been home :n hour. 11t. stands odf the bailiff and keeps the en't paid up. If there is a noise duriu. the night. dad is kicked in the back and made to go downstairs to find the burglar and kill him. Mother darns the socks. but dad bought the socks in the first place and the needles and the yarn after ward. Mother does up the fruit; well, dad bought it all, and jars and sugar cost like the mischief. Dad buys chickens for the Sunday dinner, carves them himself and draws the neck from the ruins aftbr every one else is served. "What is home without a nother?" Yes, that is all right, but what is home without a fa ther? Ten chances to one it is a board ing house, father is under a slab and the landlady is a widow. Dad. here's to you: You've got your faults-you may have lots of them-but you're all right, and we will miss you when you're gone.-Stevens County Reveille. The Beaver. The beaver is really a sort of porta ble pulp mill, grinding up almost any kind of wood that comes his way, says a writer. I once measured a white birch tree twenty-two inches through cut down by a beaver. A single bea ier generally, if not always, amputates the tree, and when it comes down the whole family fall to and have a regu lar frolic with the bark and branches. A big beaver will bring down a .fair sized sapling-say three inches through -in about two minutes and a large tree in about an hour. The ability of a beaver to remain under water for a long time is not really so tough a prob lem as it looks. When the lake or pond is frozen over, a beaver will come to the under surface of the ice and ex pel his breath so that it will form a wide, flat bubble. The air. coming in contact with the ice and water, is puri fied. and the beaver breathes it again. This operation he can repeat several times. The otter and muskrat do th same thing. Rattlesnakes Seldom Attack. Of rattlesnakes there are at least a dozen, probably fifteen, differeLt kinds, all inhabitants of America exclusive ly, where they range from the north em United States down to Patagonia. The common, or banded, rattlesnake extends from Maine to Texas. Once generally abundant, it is happily now a rare animal save in the more thinly in habited districts of the southern and western states. It may attain a length of five feet, with a large triangular and flattened head. It feeds on rabbits, rats and squirrels and is for the most part a slow and sluggish animal, wait ing quietly till some prey approaches it This sluggishness makes It the more dangerous, as it may be stepped upon unawares, with a most fatal re sut. But it never either atacks spon taneously or pursues a retreating ene my. ________ An Irish Refrigerator. An Irishwoman was looking at refrig erators in a house furnishing store some weeks ago. After examining into the merits and qualities of a number of them she purchased the one that the salesman assured her would keep food the best. Some days afterward the woman called and requested them to take that refrigerator back, as it would not keep anything better than the kitchen safe of the cellar. The sales man mildly suggested that possibly she had not put enough ice In it to keep the things cold. "Enough Ice In it? Why, are you crazy, moa? I don't put any ice In it. Anything will keep cold if you phut Ice in it. I bought the refrig erator so that I wouldn't need the Ice." -Philadelphia Ledger. Wagner's Ner-ve. Wagner, the eminent composer, had the nerves of an acrobat Once he was climbing a precipitous mountain in company with a young friend. When some distance up and walking along a narrow ledge, the companion, who was~ following, called out that he was grow ing giddy. Wagner turned around on the ledge of rock, caught his friend and passed him between the rock and himself to the front The Voice of Experience. "I don't care to marry-at least not yet," said the flirt. "Why not?" asked the matron. "Because as matters are now I have the attentions of half a dozen men, while if I married I would have the attentions of only one." "Huh!" exclaimed the matron. "You wouldn't have even that." -Chicago The Still Voice. "Whose voice did he like best, yours or mine?" asked Miss Kreech. "I'm not quite sure," replied Miss Bird. "His ~remarks were a bit am biguous." "Why, what did he say?" "He said he liked my voice, but that yours was better stili."-Philadelphia The Bank of England has a pair of scales so accurate that an Ink spot on a piece of paper visibly affects the bal A CoTroN IROw Six MILEs LON. The Florence Times says: "While there arc no0 farms in this country as fable says there are in California, aman has to have a railroad train to go over his fields and get back in time for supper. there are some very size able fields. One of the largest that has been reported to thie Times is on the plantation of Capt. Paul Whipple at Riverdale. It is said that Capt. Whipple has a cotton row six miles in length. Down one side and up the other is about a days work for one man and a mule. AT hIs OLD Tareics.-Thae State says the contest of the old plantation I darkey. D~antzler, for the seat in con ress now held by Mr Lever is not ex iting any fears as to the result. for Danzler and his lawyer, also colored, re contestants every year. It is said ;at one of the grounds of complaint 1 ss that some negroes were refused< -g istrationi certi ticates although they ead and interpreted the constitution1 intelligently (according to their own tatemnt). The testimony was taken.; THE ARIZONA KICKER. Some Litely items of News Prosa a Busy Editor's Dons tCopyrig'ht. 1902. by C. B. Lowial There will lbe no fall lioom 1n GIVe adani GUlC tis year. h% six more Saloons wils be qtu-Itly raa up and l9n. !shedl og tO a cOmledate the iucrea Ing busluess. Ol1 Jim Hewson. who1 has just re. turned from 'New Mexico. wiitessed three lynchiUgs while he was gone. and her says they were :lI bungles com pared to our artistic ways. Our last issue contained a selection of seventeen murders compiled from va rious sources, and yet Colonel Morton has ordered us to stop his copy on the ground that the Kicker has become too Sunday schoolish. The colonel Is a nice mnw. nud we'd like to keep 1w 9n our list, but lie mustn't expect too much of a good thing. We've got to run in a few balloon and railroad ac idents for the benefit of other read erS. - If the party who threw a rock through our bedroom window in the postoffice the other night will call and repeat the performance, we will re quite him as he deserves. It happened that we were a few seconds slow In getting out of bed that night Old Joe Wheeler claims to tave seen a silver tipped bear near Sailor creek last Sunday. If he is telling the truth, then he struck something at last he couldn't ask to buy him a drink of whisky or lend him a quarter. The vigilance committee over. at Lone Jack seems to need an Instruct. or. It has hung one man three differ ent times, and yet he Is walking around today in good health and declaring that he has come to town to stay. M. QUAD. Modern Conversations. (At a funeral, whispered.) "He looks so natural!" "Doesn't he! I'm surprised. He suf fered so, you know." "Yes; so I heard. How well she bears up!" "Wonderfully. It's really remarka ble; but, then, she always had such will power." "Yes, indeed. I remember" "Will she wear a veil?" "I don't know. He didn't approve of the idea. He always told her not to." "Still. I think she ought to." "So do I. It's such a comfort to a woman." "Isn't it? He was well 'off. vasn't he?" "Oh. yes: but I'm told that it's all entaled." "Hlow do y0. mean?" "Well, she gets only the income. and If she mnrr~e ngain it goes to a niece." "Too bad. But, theu, she never would marry again." "Don't be so sure of that I wouldn't be a bit surprised." "I know it. One never can tell. I'm so glad I saw him." "So am I. It's a comfort to know how he really looked." "I suppose we ought to say some thing to her?" "Oh, yes; of course. She'll expect it, you know. When the minister goes, we will." "Yes; that would be the best time." New York Herald. None Pa..sed Him.. Connoily knew all about p'izefight lg and had been in the ring himself only once. In the second round he was pounded over the ropes, and at the fir. ish he felt pretty groggy. "Brace up. Connolly, brace up," whis pered. his second in his ear. "Brace up. old man, an' stop some of dem blows." *Sthop 'em?" says Connolly, with a wistful look. "Be gorra, did yez see anny av thim gittin' by?"-New York Times. Her Ba-gain. "Charley, dear," said Mrs. Torkins. "I have such a bargain!" "Indeed?" "Yes. You told me that poker chis were worth a dollar apiece, and I got a whole lot of them for '75 cents!" Washington Star. An Expensive Call. Hoskins-I once paid $100 to see a doctor. Halliday-What? Hoskins-The doctor had four aces and I had four kings.-Chicaigo Ameri A Study In Figure. When I was only twenty-one, My sweetheart was sixteen: Our ages well indeed were matched, With just five years between. But when I camce to twenty-three The girl was just sixteen, And people wished us happiness, With seven years betweel. Alas, I now am twenty-five! My love is but sixteen; Nine years is quite a difference, But not too much, I ween. Nay, think me not a fickle man Nor yet a foolish churl: ind reader, cant you understand, It's still the same old girl! -New York Herald. Given Ten Years. At Bamberg on Thursday Judge 3ary pronounced sentence on Joe Da vis for the killing of J. B. King, giv ing the prisoner .ten y ears in the pen itentiary. Davis was found guilty >r manslaughter on Wednesday with ut recommendation. This ends one f the most widely discussed murder :rials ever held in Bamberg count.y BisOP Derrick, of the African NIethodist Church. said, at a meeting )f negroes in New York recently that :he slave pension bill introduced in longres was an insult to the negroes. Segros like Bishop D) rrick, who en oy good fat salaries, can afford to alk such nonsense, but the good, old aithful slaves of the South need the elp of the government and should >ave it. TE Cincinnati Enquirer says ex enator Tom Oarter-, who talke-i a )ill to death at tihe close of a former :ongress; Senator Tillmtan, who >rought "Uncle Joe" Cannon to terms y deploying his oratorical battery, und Senator Morgan, with whom an' rrangeent had to be made with re erence to the Panama canal treaty, hnn1A hold a filibusters' reunin. FATE OF HINDOO GIRL$. LWepaul Itajpoots Cause Their DaSA tera to Do Murdere. A. CapuchIn monk engaged In mit stnary work In Nepaui. writing of Indoo famaily lfte, remarks that it ti rery difflult for parents to make ad, vantageoua matches for their daugh ters. The flindoos therefore #ud a weanh of rld4ing themselves of too uany daughters by murdering them, It is a well known fact that Hindoos of high birth, those who are calile raipoots, caused their daughters to. be put to death after their birth by me specially engaged to do so. Thiscrim inal custom had become so general that in 1840 lI the seventy-three vii: lages of the Allahabad district there were only three girls under twelve years of age. and three years later In the town of Agra there was not one to be found under that age. All had been put to death. The English government has very naturally passed severe laws against this abominable crime, but to evade them the Hindoos allow their girlg tli live until the age of twelve, ier which they do away with them by ad ministering poison in small doses. Orientals are past masters in the art of poisoning, and after some minute inquiries it transpires that in many districts twenty-five out of every hun-. dred girls have ben got rid-of in this manner. Those girls who have been spared they marry very early, gener ally between fourteen and fifteen years. and that not according to their own choice, but by the will of their parents. which is decisive. An Indian family of good rank. could not keep an unmarried daugh ter. It would not only be a public shame, but also a crime against reli gion. To procure husbands for those who have not already found them there are a number of Brahmans, old and decrepit, called Kulin Brahmans, who go about with the one object of going through the ceremony of the "seven steps" with as many young girls as they can upon receipt of a large sum of money, but who after ward leave the country and perhaps never see them again.-Pall Mall Ga zette. .KINGS AND QUEENS. The king of England who could not speak the language of his kingdom was George L In the battle of Bosworth Field, 1485, a king was killed (Richard III.) and a king was crowned (Henry VII.). Th' motto. "Dieu et Mon Drolt," was fist assumed by Edward III. of En9 land whn he took the title of king of France. '-Ycur :najcsy" as a royal title was assumed in England In 1527 by Henry VIII. The title before that was. "your grace" or 'your highness" for the king or que::n. William IV. was at the time when he succeeded to the throne the first Wil iam of Hanover, the second William ,of Ireland and the third William of Scotland. Henry VIII. was the first to assume the title of king of Ireland. The title king of Great Britain was asamed by James VI. of Scotland- when be became James I. of England. Richard I. was the first to call him self king of England. Everf? king from William to Henry II. called himself king of the English. The title was as sumed .by Egbert, the first king of England, in 828. King of France was a title borne by the monarchs of England for 432 years, and when Elizabeth became queen of England she was also "king of France" asserting that if she could not be a queen she would be king. The Spendthrift. Once upon a time there was a spend thrift who made his father very un happy through his profligate habits. "My son,' said the parent, "you pend every penny that you get, and - It must cease. Remember that the pennies malre shillings and the- shil- - lings make pounds. If you do not change your habits of always spend ing to habits of judicious saving, I will not spare the rod." The admonition had no good eff'ect on th4 yoiuth, and he continued to spend the pennies before they could accu mulate into shillings. His father spoke DO more about the mt"r,. but he applied the rod most vig' :.ssy to him until he howled with pain. Moral-He who spends the pennies will get the pounds.-New York Her ad. Instinct of HorseS Ifn War. Arabian horses manifest remarkable courage in battle. It Is said that when a horse of this breetI finds himself wounded and perceives that he will not be able to bear his rider much longer he quickly retires from the con flict, bearing his master to a place of safety while he has still suflcient strength. But, on the other band, if the rider is wounded and falls to the ground the faithful animal remains beside him, unmindful of danger, neighing until assistance is brought Plenty of Color. "That Mrs. Wadhams to whiom you Introduced me the other evening re minds me very much of a portrait by . Rembrandt" "Is that so? Which one?' "Oh, any old one. They all look, when you get close to them, as if the paint had been thrown on by the: handful"-icago Herald. A Serene Temaperament. "Mike," sad Plodding Pete, "don't you wish yo s. was rich?' "Kind o'' answered Meandering Mike. "Course I couldn't eat any more dan I dzoes, but I'd be saved de trouble o' sayin' 'much obliged' so of/ ten."-Wsington Star. Served Him Rright. A negro named Milling was given a severe whipping by enraged Fairfield county farmers last Friday night week It is said that the negro went n the night to a home near Simpson's Turnout, where a young lady school ~eacher was boarding and told her that her mother was sick in Winns boro and the negro had been sent for the young lady. There was some thing suspicious about the matter, nd the negro seeing that his plans were foiled attempted to make his escape. He was caught th~e following day and was given a severe flogging. THURsDAY, the 9th of April, was the 38th anniversary of the surrender. of the Army of Northern Virginia, when Gen. R. E. Lee at Appomattor urrendered 11,000 raggel, foot-sore ind ,bungry. but fighting, soldiers to. Gen. 5. S. Grant and his army of 100,000 men. I he ranks of that 11, )00 have been greatly thinned since: nly a minority of them remain, but ihere is not one of them whose bent, rorm does not straighten a little and whose bosom does not s well with pride,.