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Bl.HNELL'STURTLE, .Career of the First American Submarine Vessel. IT WAS A MOST UNIQUE CRAFT Launc-hed In 1775, It Made Several Frantic Efforts to Blow Up British Warships and Nearly Succeeded-Its Untimely Fate. The first submarine craft which real ly navigated under serious conditions was the invention of an American, Daniel Bushnell of Saybrook, Conn. Bushnell was graduated from Yale in 1775 and in that same year com pleted the submarine vessel on which he had been at work since 1771. He does not seem to have named the boat himself. but it has come to be known as the Turtle because of its shape. The entrance to the vessel corre sponled to the opening made by the swel s of a turtle shell at its head. The boat was about seven and a half feet long and six feet deep. large enough to contain the operator and sufficient air to last him half an hour. It was ballasted chiefly with perma nent lead ballast. In dddition to this. a m:.ss of lead 200 pounds in weight coulh be let down forty or fifty feet belo,: the vessel. enabling the operator to ai ebor or to rise quickly to the sur face in case of accident. A water gauge illuminated by means of a zark with phosphorus on it. which fioate-d on the water within the gauge, regir.-ered the depth of the Turtle. By mear s of a c upass, also illuminated with phosphorus, the operator was able to d -ect the course of his vessel. An oar formed on the principle of an o'd fashioned screw was fixed in the -rward part of the Turtle. The oper: tor by turning it in one direction coulC prope! the vessel forward or in the c.lier could propel it backward. An her oar. placed near the top of the "urtle, worked on the same prin ciple. By means of the latter the oper ror. after having established the equil brium of the vessel, could move it eil er upward or downward. A rud der i- the after part of the Turtle could be u..ed for sculling. Th( entrance to the boat was elliptic al ar I.so small as to barely admit one eersc . It was surrounded by a broad elliptal iron band, the lower edge of whic> was let into the wood. Above the -pper edge of this iron band was a crown resembling n hat. It shut water tight upon the Iron band, to .',ich it was hung with hinges. turnir.g over sideways when opened. In ae crown were three round doors, one /rectly in front and one on each side. .-nd large enough to put the hand thro: th. These, when opened, admit ted - 'esh air. Their shutters were grou: I perfectly tight and were hung with dinges. There were several glass win(' ws in the crown for the admis sion f light and two air pipes. A -. ntilator drew fresh air through one .^ the pipes and discharged it at the 1:.. ttom of the vessel. The impure air t- aaped through the other pipe. Thes'-. of course. were used only when the 'a urtle was floating on the surface of the water. The valves opened au tomatically when they came out of the water and closed as soon as they en tered it. When the operator wished to de scend he placed his foot on the lever of the valve, by which means he open ed a large aperture in the bottom of the vessel, thereby allowing the water to enter the tank. When a sufficient *quanTIty had been obtained to cause the .vessel to descend very gradually he closed the valve. The aperture un der this valve was covered by a per forated plate. The water could be discharged from the tank by the brass force pump. When the vessel leaked the bilge could be pumped out by a similar pump. Everything in -the Turtle was brought so near the operator that he could find in the dark what he wished and writhout turning either to the right or to the left. A firm piece of wood was 1ramed parallel to the short diam eter of the vessel to prevent the -Sides from yielding. This also served as a seat Car the operator. In :he fore part of the brim of the brass crown was a socket with an iron tube passing through it. At the top of the tube was a wood screw fixed by means of a rod which passed throc gh the tube. When the wood screw had been made fast to some ob sect i: could be cast off by unscrewing the r'id. Behind the vessel and above the r-idder was attached a magazine compo;sed of two blocks of oak wood, *hollowed out so as to hold 130 pounds of powder. This was fired by a percus sion tcevice, timed by means of clock work. A rope 'extended from the mag azine to the wood screw. To -.iestroy a ship the operator was to sul-merge the Turtle, navigate it un til It -..as underneath the ship that was to be 'lestroyed, screw the wood screw into Laer bottom, cast off the magazine and niove away. The magazine, being buoyant,, would immediately rise agains;t the bottom of the ship. The clock'. ork which fired it was started by the~ casting off of the magazine and gave he operator time to retire to a safe distance. Bustmell made many trials of the Turtle. before sending it against a Brit ish vessel. Hie found it very difficult to obtain a skillful operator. In re spect to this part of his work he wrote as fo~ows: "In '.he first essay with the subma rine ssel I took care to prove its strengh to sustain the great pressure of tho incumbent water when sunk deep 'before I trusted any person to desce: I. much below the surface, and!I never suffered any person to go under Kodi is today the best known and most n liable remedy for all disorders of the *-omach~such as dyspepisia, heart burn, -our stomach and belching of gas. o dol contains the same juices found 2a a healthy stomach. Kodol is pleasa- :,to take. It is guaranteed to give relief and is sold here by W. F. Brown & Co. It Was Soaked. Mrs. Jawback - Why, you're wet through! Mr. Jawback-I know it. I'm soaked. Mrs. Jaw back - But where's your umbrella? Mr. Jawback --It's -it's what I am. -Cleveland Leader. His Contributions. "Do you make gny systematic dona tions to benefit the health and comfort of your fellow man?" "Yes. I buy an umbrella about every two weeks."-Washingtonl Star. The Hat Scale. A fifty dollar hat is a conceit. A thirty dollar hat is a confection. A tw') dollar hat Is a sin and a shame and a perfect justification for going 1 water witheat having a strong piece of rigging made fast to it until I found him well acquainted with the opera tions necessary for his safety. "After that I made him descend and continue at particular depths without risimz Or sinkim=. r 1w by the compass, appr''ach a vessel, ';o nuder her and fix the wood screw into her bottom un til I thought him sufficiently expert to put my design into oiperation. "I found, agreeable to my expecta tions. that it required many trials to make a person of common ingenuity a skillful operator. The first I employed was very ilgellioLls. but was taken sick in the campaign of 177t; at New York before he had an opportunity to make use of his skill and never recovered his health suticiently afterward." In the summer of 1776. when Admi ral Howe lay with a formidable British fleet in New York bay, a little below the Narrows, Bushuell attempted to destroy one of his ships, the Eagle, of sixty-four guns. The operator whom the inventor selected to make the ex periment was Sergeant Ezra Lee. He had had little experience with the Turtle and was therefore inexpert. Lee. however, successfully navigated the Turtle under the Eagle. He at tempted to fix the wooden screw into her bottom. but struck. as he supposed, a bar of iron which passed from the rudder hinge and was spiked under the ship's quarter. Bushnell said that had Lee "moved a few inches, which he might have done without rowing. I have no doubt but he would have found wood where he might have fixed the screw, or if the ship were sheathed with copper he might easily have pierced it; but, not being well skilled in the management of the vessel. in attempting to move to another place he lost the ship. After seeking for some time he rowed some distance and rose to the surface of the water, but found daylight had ad vanced so far that he durst not renew the attempt." On his return from the Eagle, Lee passed near Governors island, which was then occupied by the British. Be ing in haste and thinking he was dis covered by the enemy. he cast off the magazine, supposing that it retarded his movement. After an hour, the time the mechanism was set to run. the magazine exploded with great violence, to the consternation of the enemy. Two subsequent attempts were made with the Turtle against the British shipping. In one of these the operator succeeded in getting his vessel under neath a British ship, but the tide ran so strong the Turtle was swept away. Finally the British sunk an American boat which had the Turtle on board. The inventor afterward recovered his vessel, but did nothing further with It. His health was poor, and he was un able to obtain money .1- assistance with which to pros..Ite his experi ments.-Navy. He Wanted Company. Shortly after 2 o'clock one bitter winter morning a physician drove four miles in answer to a telephone call. On his arrival the man who had sum moned him said: "Doctor, I ain't in any particular pain, but somehow or other I've got a feeling that death is nigh." The doctor felt the man's pulse and listened to his heart. "Have you made your will?" he ask ed finally. The man turned pale. "Why, no, doctor. At my age-oh, doe, it ain't true, Is it? It can't be true" "Who's your lawyer?" "Higginbotham], but" "Then you'd better send fcr him at once." The patient, white and trembling, went to the phone. "Who's your pastor?" continued the doctor. "The Re". Kellogg M. Brown," mum bled the patient "But, doctor, do you think" "Send for him lmmediately. Your father, too, should be summoned; also your" "Say, doctor, do you really think I'm going to die?" The man began to blubber softly. The doctor lookedt at him hard. "No, I don't," he replied grimly. "There's nothing at all the matter with you, but I'd hate to be the only man you've made a fool of on a night like this."--Everybody's The College Girl's Rescue. "I believe in a college education for girls," said a professor, "but the girl who comes out of college thinking that she knows a great deal has not profited by her four years' course, for, after all, it Is but a smattering that a college education gives us. "Most girls know this. Many do not. The latter sort carry themselves superciliously, use big words, correct ignorant persons' grammar and fail to make a good marriage. In fact, they create a bad impression every where. "Thus there was a girl-a Vassar girl-who got caught by the incoming tide out on a rock. The tide rose higher and higher, and the girl shrieked and screamed madly for help. "Help came at last in the shape of a grizzled old shellback in a fiat bot tomed boat. The girl, as soon as she saw the shellback, recovered her poise and said in her most affected manner: "'Ah, I knew some succor would come if I but continued ca.ling inde fatigably.' "The shellback scowled. "'Waal, miss,' he said, 'if that's how ye express yer gratitood the sucker'll be durned if he don't row back with out ye.' "-Cincinnati Enquirer. Bad Judgment.^ William-Did the baby come from heaven, mamma? Mamma-Yes, dear. William-Huh! That kid didn't know when he was well off, did he?-Chicage News. If you would like to fool some wise Coffee Critic, who knows fine coffee on taste and flavor, quietly make for him a batch of Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee and serve it piping hot. It deceived Mrs. Shoop, and will I believe deceive any one. And there is not a grain of real coffee in it. Health Coffee is made from pure toasted grains, malt; nuts, etc Made in a minute-no 20 to 30o minutes tedious boiling. 1 1-2 pounds, 25c. Manning Grocery Co. I aeEarly Use of Tobacco. I aeheard my grandfather say that one pipe was handed from man to man round about the table. They had first silver pipes; the ordinary sort made use of a walnut shell and a straw. Tobacco was sold then for its weight in silver. I have heard some of our old yeomen neighbors say that when they went to Malmesbury or Chippenham market they culled outa their biggest shillings to lay in the seales against the tobacco. Sir W. lt,. s'::mdimit in a stn tSir Rober't P'oym;~': ''arkj at Aton, took a pipe of tobacco. v:ic made the ladies quit it until ho had Idone.-"Brief Lines Set Down by John INDIANS ON THE TRAIL The Methods Used by the Red Men to Communicate. SIGNS THAT SPEAK VOLUMES Sticks and Stones Have a Language of Their Own and Serve to Indicate Di rection, Departure, Intention, Warn ing, Claim or Demand. As time has passed and civilization has changed Indian conditions, I was under the impression that our red brothers had forgotten the use of signs in their travels, but as I was loitering about the hills in Siskiyou county some time ago I came across a genuine Indian sign such as I had not seen for a dozen years before. It was a simple little sign in appearance, but it was full of meaning to those who could read it-a long stick with one end stuck 'n the ground, the other leaning and pointing up the road. The stick was elevated at an angle of only about ten degrees from the ground and was supported on a stone. It told some Indian that his friend had been along there and had gone ahead in the direction pointed out by the stick. I marveled at it, but on investiga tion found that the Indians of Califor nia still use signs to convey intelli gence to each each. I found that among the Cocopabs, Cohuillas, Pimas and Yumss the sign is as much in use as ever. While traveling in San Bernardino county later on I came across a pecu liar grouping of stones, and at once saw that some Indian had left a sign so that all other Indians might know that water was to be found in a cer tain direction. The stones were lying in a complete circle, and in the center was a long triangular stone with the sharp point Indicating a specific direc tion. The sign was plain to one versed in such things, and in order to see if the same sign was universal, for I had seen it elsewhere, I followed the direc tion pointed out by the long stone and found a little spring. This arrangement of stones I had often seen in a dozen different places in the middle west and as a variant which was also found in California. 1 have seen a mound of stones similar to a miner's monument, with a pointed stone resting on top, pointing toward water. In many parts of the country, especially in the desert parts of Cali fornia and Arizona, the question of water supply for travelers is one that requires serious consideration, and I have known men to pass within a few hundred yards of water without know ing it, because they could not read In dian signs. The sign was in plain view and was placed there because the Indians recognized the necessity of tell ing all who came along that they could find water. True, there was not a big board set up with "Water" painted on it, but to the initiated it was equally plain. There is not a trail in all the southwest that runs near a spring that does not have the sign openly display ed. I have even seen instances where the wvater was so far from the regular trail that special signs have been mnade to show where it is. Sometimes, however, these circles may not mean water at all, and then it is necessary to understand the intri cacies of the Indian mind to understand just what he is driving at. I remem ber once when I was hunting on the Republican river I came across a circle of buffalo skulls, which attracted my attention because of their peculiar ar rangement. Sixteen skulls were set in a semicircle with their noses pointing down the river. In the center of the circle was a skull on which were paint ed thirty-six red lines. Near the skulls were two small sticks placed upright in the ground,' and at the top of each stick were tied two bundles of hair. A Pawnee Indian was with me and told me that thirty-six Pawvnees had camped there. They had made a raid against a camp of Comanches contain ing sixteen tents or lodges and had taken four scalps. They were now re turning home down the river. To the ordinaryv observer this arrangement of skulls and sticks would have given no more impression than the Idea that some one had been amusing himself by playing with these buffalo skulls. To the Indian the arrangement was a complete story. Indians use signs for several specific purposes, the most prevalent being that of guidance, but they are also used for direction, departure, intention, condi tion, warning and claim or demand. i was hunting with a party of Utes in southwestern Colorado, and we had separated wvith the understanding that we were to meet again at a specified place and all go back to the village to gether. On reaching the appointed lace one of the party was not there, ut the rest started to the village, pay ing no attention to his nonappearance. I asked if they were not going to wvait until he came back, but they said he had been there and had g. ne on to the village without waiting for us to come up. When 1 expressed surprise 1 was shown a long stick standing in the trail with a bunch of grass fastened to ts top. The stick was leaning toward the village, a&nd this told the story of the missing man as plainly as if he had written a letter about it. I found that a similar stick had been'-erected at the top of every hill between there and where the village could be seen. He took no chances of the sticks fall ing down and told the story over sev eral times. The same sign is used by the Indians of southern Alaska and also by the Winnebagoes of Manitoba. The Sioux use a split stick with a short stick in the split, pointing in the direction tak en.--San Francisco Chronicle. 100.00 paid by Dr'. Shoop for any re cent case of Grippe or acute Cold that that a 25 cents box of Preventics will not break. How is this for an offer? The Doctor's supreme confidence in these little Caddy Cold Cure Tablets Prevents-ia certainly complete. It's a 100, against 25 eents-pretty big odds. And Preveatics, remember, con tain no quinine, no laxative, nothing harsh nor' sickening. Pneumonia would never applear' if early colds were al ways broken. Safe and sure for feverish children. 4S Preven ties 25c. W. E. Brown & Co. Two Acre Farms. In Belgium a two aicre holding Is sufficient to maintain a farmer and his family. The typical two acre farm in that country contains a patchl of wheat or rye and another of b~arley. Another fair p)ortin grows potatoes. A row 0of cabbage grows all round on the sloping sides of the dlitches. with a row of on i' s just on:.,ide. leaving bar- walk-lng baI etwe'en them and the grain. The trees round the house are pear iEvery fo't of land is made to pri. .a the farmer keeps pigs and Early Whist. M1rs. Iervey writes on Oct. 25, 1107, to her husband that his "four sisters have been hear this afternoon, and as they never come unattended. brought with them MNr. Ga-, Mr. Down- and Mr. Bo-. Part of them staid and played at whish (sic) 1el this moment. which Is past 11 a'clock." Twenty years later ('March 18, 1717) Lord Hervey, as his tit~e was then. writes to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Foulkes, the tutor of Mad Tom iler vey, at Oxford. about that son's gamin bling propensities. Ie is to follow the example of his "good grandfather Ier vey, who, pray tell Tom, never played at any game but whist, and at that only in Christmas time for sixpence a corner." Lady Brisjol was at Bath in April, 1723, and was then in the center of the world of whist. "Poor Bishop Nev ell," she writes, "can scarce be reck oned among the living, being (in my oppinion) wors than dead. They say he sitts at Lindsey's with one to hold his cards and another to give hini snuff. Palsey and gout have brought him to this missirable condition." On May 1 she cheerfully informs her hus band that the diversion of the evening is the puppet show. "Betty is -gone with Lady Torrington. The whiskers have promised ine some diversion after 'tis over."-London Notes and Queries. Sweets and the Disposition. Nothing could be said in greater praise of a people than that they like sweets. It shows a wholesome. vigor ous, healthful condition, an appetite not jaded from excessive indulgence. The child whose appetite has not be come polluted or calloused by false relishes, smarting sauces and burning drinks loves sweets: so does the girl of bright eyes and untainted youth, as is evidenced by her fondness for ice creams and desserts. The young ath lete among men loves sweets nearly as well as does the child. But the bar room lounger, the "cigarette fiend," the "dope fiend" and the depraved of all other classes do not like sweets. Long ago their minds and appetites lost the desire for everything pleasing 'to the natural palate.-What to Eat. Be careful about that little cough. Get something right away: some good, reliable remedy that will move the bowels. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup acts gently yet promptly on the bowels and allays inflammation at the same time. It is pleasant to take and it is especially recommended for chil dren, as it tastes nearly as good as maple sugar. Sold by W. E. Brown & Co Started the French waixing. The celebrated Dr. Tronchin, friend of Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot, was the inventor of walking. In France until his epoch (1709-81) the leisured class never walked either for health or recreation! Walking was only prac ticed by the Tiers Etat. Folks footed it from one place to another simply because they possessed neither coach nor sedan chair. Dr. Tronchin, an initiator in many other respects, in duced "les elegants et les elegantes," writes a historian, to take what is now called a constitutional. To stroll abroad was named "tronchiner" after the inventor, and for their airings both sexes had special costumes and shoes, the latter being more especially neces sary. The verb "tronchiner," by the way, has not had the fate of our "to boycott," having passed into disuse long ago.-Westminster Gazette. A Baldheaded Reply. A naval officer, very well and favor ably known in London, has for some unknown reason been advanced in his profession very slowly, though he has grown gray in the service and indeed lamentably bald. Recently one of his juniors was bold enough to question Ihim as to his remarkable absence of hair. "How comes it that you are so very The officer replied promptly and with much vindictiveness: "You, man, you would be bald, I -think, if you had had men stepping over your lead for years in the way I have."-London Punch. A French Joke. Two doctors were called to attend a man who had suffered an accident to his hand. "We shall have to amputate three fingers," said one. "No. twvo," said the other. -Three," mna:intained the first "Oh, well, three, then," replied the second. '"We won't quarrel over a lit te thing like that."-Nos Loisirs. Easy Permission. "Willie, did you put your nickel in the contribution box in Sunday school today?" -No, mamma. I ast Eddie Lake, the preacher's son, if I couldn't keep it an' spend it fer candy, an' he give me permission."-Denver News. They who menace our freedom of thought and of speech are tampering 'with something more powerful than gunpowder --Conway. wenty-tree years ridard of the South. in every 'tonl of Frrmers' Bono. mixed, insuring bigger yields with I TRADE MA! 0 E R EGISTE R that this trade mark is Nrfoile, Vir-gin.a Cures Biliousness, Sick Headache, Sour Stom ach, Torpid Liver and Chronic Constipation. Pleasant to talie CEESLA An improvement o' system of a cold by satisfaction or mone: Dickens In Evening Dress. When CharTes Dickens was to make his 'irst appearance in Boston before an Aiierican audicuce as a reader an immenae crowd awaited him. 'rhe en thusii:;:a of thi people for tile most popular uovelist ilen living had risen to fever heat. One of the most ardent of his admirers afterward told this liiti incident of the evening: "With a few gcutlemen who :ished to w.*elcome and show him attention I was in the little room at the back of the platform when Dickens entered it. He was a rather stout man, with a somewhat red face, and I saw. to my surprise. that he was dressed in an ex aggerated servility to the extreme fash ion. More -than this, he wore a bou tonniere in each buttonhole and two watches, the chains of which were strnng aggressively across his chest. There was a gaudy bad-taste in his appearance which his friends regret ted, knowing how distasteful it would be to most of his admirers who appre ciated his genius and enjoyed his writ ings. No one, of course, could broach the subject to him. and he appeared that night and every other night of his engagement in the same attire. The univerral comment was. -Why. this is a petit maitre. How can a man with such tastes be the creator of Tiny Tim and Sam Welerr' Horrible Example. "My dear," said Mrs. Strongmind, "I want yor. to accompany me to the town hall tomorrow evening." "What for?" queried the meek and lowly other half of the combine. "I am to lecture on the 'Dark Side of Married Life,'" explained Mrs. S., "and I want you to sit on the platform and pose as one of the illustrations." Chicago News. GeoS. Hacker &Son a MAiUFACTU and or cough-n frmasipecldmyosol ,r Door ubs. Do'Saidsh ppes B idsh stupef ing o.I'tange hoB ,uti ngs hash sanl wedt pepent to takcou WCh oom arsmlriog nd now-Glss a calittle Caetoughnrs aPution elb Ker poiosaei youvrough Mixure~Z. Gooda Cough-Cere.Nosn frmaama heconDr. ops laysls-nnooeitheeiie, sese itmusd bon chaa bes Don' abel nditsnoly s fess ut it sady cobe bou those tnwt yesar re.o markbs constntl wrmedy peope not chance then, marturlyi our hlreon. conisnaing ii. Drhooorm Corugtlare. Comp.are now-aulittthe Dr.e thougonkges sayh Pothr and ono the bl ifrncN poisonsaeI arksug tere." Yodca alwaygooe on heafeise y deamaing an tes hudisso aigDr. Shoop's Cough Cur.N osnmrso r e ho' stkl o h remey eocace thehall n, pDilarl wihouhatrnIss y o havi Dur ps oDgYCURE. opr aeul h Dr.s pakaneys othafersadoe tihe JANIO Coughreure EoDolDsesaCr UAGO IS ceaerba uno Co. Cleanses the system thoroughly and clears sallow complexions of nXative Fruit Syrup pimples and blotches. It is guaranteed The Arant Co. Drug Store. &ATIE COt~UG SRU CONFORMS TO NATIONAL PURE FOOD AND DRUGS LAW. rer many Cough, Lung and Bronchial Remedies, because it rids the acting as a cathartic on the bowels. No opiates. Guaranteed to give r refunded. Prepared by PINEULE MEDICINE CO.. CHICAGO. U.S. A, LEON WEINBERG, MANNING, S. C. Ger ofer Manufacturing Co., Manufacturers of Higest Grades of Combined Fertilizers, and Germicides; The great natural Food Plant for all crops, all soils and all climates. MADE BY 22 BROAD STREET Charleston, S. C. handl yManning and vicinity the Germofert Fertilizers w i be -. MANNING. S. C. Lower Prices than- weqoema-u n hn thnem oemeaTh bst ione tg-o f good." And the best is the cheapest, f be it Dry Goods or Groceries. SUMETO, . C.1 BRIG OU iJBhOR TOUTHFTNFS. CFI. K AN ENIGMA IN STONE. *Nirvana" In the Rock Creek Ceme. tery at Washington. So many things may be said of St. Gaulens-of the traits of his genius. his modesty, his deep sympathy with all who possessed high ideals or who had noble thoughts; of his own noble generosity, his willingness to sacrifice himself for the advancement of art, his keen perception of beautiful char acter, or of a flne Ampuise that often shone for him out of the most com monplace of lives or of features. One Ine-ident of niany, says Harper's Week ly. may not only illustrate him, but hell) to illumine a masterpiece of his which has perplexed some minds that may be worth the enlightening. "The work is the figure of 'Nirvana' in the Rock Creek cemetery at Washington. St. Gaudens was in Washington in the winter of 1002, making his beauti ful relief of Wayne MacVeagh and Mrs. MaeVeagb. and Hildegarde Haw thorne was there, too, and visited more than once that dreaming figure in the cemetery. At last she was moved to write some verses, which she sent to a magazine, but the editor thought that he had seen verses on the sculptor's work that letter expressed its senti ments, and returned the verses with the stimulatipg suggestion that some day he would show the young woman some real poetry about the figure. St. Gaude'ns, too, had seen both poems, and when he heard of this expression of the editor's he wrote to him and said that Hildegarde Hawthorne had divined his intention as no writer had done, and therefore the verses are in print. So. if you like, you may solve the riddle by reading them." JOYS OF A COLLECTOR. Picking Up a Valuable Painting at an Auction Sale. Collecting will always have its ro mances. I know of one that occurred at the, sale at Christie's of the effects of the late Sir Henry Irving. Some one I knew had been to see the collec tion before the sale. He came across a portrait with which he was familiar because he had seen it thirty years before. On consulting his catalogue he discovered that the portrait was de scribed as being that of a man un known, and, further, the artist was also unknown. Now, he knew that the portrait was that of a famous actor by a famous English painter. He longed to buy it, but decided that it would go at too high a price. He went to the auction with very little hope. The Whistler and the Sargent were sold, and then It was the turn of this picture. Nobody recognized it. Finally he had to start the bidding himself, and this he did. Only one man bid against him, but he soon stopped, discouraged, and then the picture was knocked down to the man who had never expected to get it. He hurried to the desk to pay the small amount and to carry off his prize. "Do you happen to know any thing about that portrait'?" the auc tioneer asked him as a porter took It down to' a cab. "1 know it very well," said the new owner, conscious that it was-now safely his property. "It is a portrait - of Buckstone, the actor, by Daniel Maclise. There is an engravig of it in the Macse portrait gallery." Mrs. John Lane in Pearson's Magazine. Tested It. "Willie," said the boy's mother, who wa s preparing to go out, "you mustn't eat that cak? in the pantry while I'm gone. It will make you sick." Three hours later when she returned Willie said: "You didn't know what you were talking about, mamma. That cake didn't make me sick a bit."--ChI cago News. Don't cough your bead off when you can get a guranteed remedy in Bees Laxative Cough Syrup. It is especially recommended for chil den as it's pleasant to take. is a gentle laxative thus expelling the phlegm from the system. IFor coughs, colds, croup. whooping cough. ho'rseness and all bronchial trouble. Guaran teed. Sold by The Manning Pharmacy. The Black Hole of Calcutta. A scientist, writing of the, black hole of Calcutta and its atmosphere, says: "On the 20th of JTune. 1750, about S o'clock in the evening. 14(3 men wvere forced at the point of the bayonet in to a dungeon eighteen feet square. They had been but a few minutes con fined in thi.4 infernal prison before every one fehl into a perspiration so profuse that no idlea can be formed of It. This brought on a raging thirst, the most difficult respiration and an outrageous delirium. Such was the horror of their situation that every in ~ult that could be devised against the guard without and all the opprobrious names the viceroy and his officers could be loaded with were repeated to provoke the guard to fire upon them and terminate their sufferings. Before 11 o'clock the same" evening one-third of the men were dead, and before 6 next morning only twenty-three came out alive, but most of them in a high putrid fever. All these dreadful effects were occasioned by the want of atmos pheric air and by their breathing a su perabundant quantity of nitrogen emit ted from their lungs." m THE Fori the sta rish scrap is used balanced and carefully