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Ex-Premier Crispi of Italy i» re*
ported as saying that “great danger
is threatening the principles and in
stitutions of the Latin peoples.’’
Majors and captains will he as com
mon in this country at the close of
the present war as admirals in Spain
and colonels in the Blue Grass region.
The resignation of Spain’s secretary
of the colonies may have been caused
by the fact that the near future prom
ises to make the position a compara
tive sinecure.
It is told without shame in Maine
that an amateur photographer of
Watervillo took a snapshot at a friend
who had lost his balance and fallen
into a lake, before going to the rescue.
Cricket in Australia is suffering
from the rooters in Australian “bar-
rackers,” bleacheries. Mr. Stoddard,
whose English team has returned
home after a series of defeats by the
Australians, complains that at every
match a portion of the public hooted
the players, Englishmen and Austral
ians alike.
Associate Superintendent of Schools
William L. Felter of Brooklyn claims
that the handwriting of the future
will not be a verticle hand, but a
round hand, with a slant off the ver
tical from ten degrees to twenty de
grees. Investigation shows that this
is the stylo written by business men.
These writers were taught the old
slant. 'I hey have worked up to a
slant of about seventy-live degrees.
Why have they not gone up to ninety
degrees ? Because they could not do
so and preserve the essential element
of rapidity.
The surgeons who have been mak
ing examinations of the members of
the militia volunteers will make re
ports that will be apt to discourage,
though it may not extinguish the bi
cycle habit, and particularly the low
handlebars. It is said at the medical
deimrtweut of tho army that a great
number of tho volunteers who have
been rejected for physical disability
are bicycle riders, who, by that vio
lent exercise, have developed diseases
of the heart and spine which unlit
f°r exposure or endurance.
.These tronbles are said to.
been
lu tne" addle. xLis position nor only
CORAL BEADS. F
gome twenty years ago or more
His ship was lost at sea,
Alone and lonely for his sake,
Yet still a maid is she;
Her eye Is dim, her brow is seamed,
Her cheek a withered rose.
The glossy ripples of her hair
Are touched with gleaming snows.
But still she clings to girlish things
With unforgotten grace.
And frills about her faded throat—
A bit of yellow lace.
But little dreams her cherished string
Of crimson beads are made
Of coral from the sunken reef
Whereon his bones were laid.
Minna Irving, in Criterion.
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O away; it’s no
use, Mab,” said
Prisey Cart
wright to her
sister. “The
thing has been
settled ages ago,
so far as I am
concerned.
Hush up, now!
hush up!”
‘Ages ago
darHf f *
induces curvature of the spine and
if it h*
other diseases in that part of the
saved
anatomy, but causes the other organs
lug
to crowd the heart out of its place, and
him
produce irritation which ultimately
sel’
becomes chronic. As soon as they
ti<
have an opportunity to do so, the ex-
amining surgeons will be called upon
«
for reports on this snbject.
!»*
Mab echoed, re
fusing to “hush up”—“I believe it
must be ages ago. Well, if you per
sist in this unreasonable course.”
“I don’t persist any more than you.
Look at how you did with. Tom Yan-
duren.”
“That was a long time ago. I
didn’t do it for an example, either
And you said at the time you wouldn’t
do as much for me. Then you went
and did the very same thing, after all.”
“Don’t care,” Prisev said, doggedly.
“I will not marry off’ and leave you
for any man under the canopy of
heaven.”
“Then, rny dear, since w*e cannot
get onr suitors to keep step, so to
speak, we might as well make ar
rangements for a quiet aud dignified
old maidhood. Let’s buy a parrot or
something, Prisey
The front door bell rang while the
two young women were discussing
their mutual affairs in their own room
on the second floor. Just as Mab’s
brilliant suggestion for the purchase
of a parrot had thrown both the sisters
into a lit of laughter, the servant gir
of the boarding house appeared at
their door with a square envelope ad
dressed to Mab.
. .^The boyars MUQwiW!
alrnw^* ftfi Wwjd at the signature,
• fcus must be for you. It’s addressed
to me—yes—no—wait a minute.”
Then she read to herself: *
My Dear Miss Mab—Do you intend going
out this evening? If not, will you see me
at 8.80? I have something to say to you of
the greatest importance—to myself, at
least. Jclich Clement.
“Well, I want to
think—that is,
Julius Clement
which curled with boldness
and which he always
palled when he was in
deep thought. On this
was in both,) and he
ingly.
“Do yon need a great deal ff gym-
pathy?” Mab asked him.
“I don’t know whether I
say I do,” Clement answ
had already worn out his first
rassment and was beginning
to his snbject. “Perhaps I oo§ht to
consider myself fortunate, rath
“Oh, may I ask—?”
“Of course you may. I
you know what answer I got?
“Well, no.”
“Just so.” He langhed n
“But then 1. found out some
think.”
“What did you find out?”
“If your sister said ‘No,’ is
cause—it wasn’t because—it
cause—because she wants alwj
be with you, just as you are?
Am I right?”
Mab had a way of tightenufr her
ips which Prisey called “shuttXig up
rerself all to herself.” Shaf went
through this process now.
“We were talking of buying par- (i
rot,” she said very seriously iter a
ittle pause.
“A parrot? What fyr?”
“For our amusement and o nsola-
tion. ”
Clement langhed at this i ea so
leartily that Mab began to wonder.
“Tell me, seriously,” Clement said,
“isn’t it something to know that some-
body cares for you—even if ?”
“Mr. Yanduren to see Miss Mabel
Cartwright,” Jane interrupted, open
ing the door at this point in the inter
view.
“Mr. Yanduren!” Mab exclaimed,
not concealing her surprise.
“Oh, I—eh—I intended to tell
you,” said Clement. “He arrived in
town to-day, you know. You hadn’t
heard?”
There was some embarrassment in
the meeting between this young artist
and the girl who, in the language of
common report, had “given him the
mitten” nearly two years before.
Yanduren had taken himself off to
Mexico and Central America, alleging
an irresistible longing to sketch na
ture in those parts.
“You quite surprised us,” said Mab,
as she shook hands with the bearded
last arrival—“and very pleasantly,
When did yon get back? Prisey will
be so glad to see you again. Let me
go np and tell her you are here. ”
Without perplexity it would be im
possible to describe Vanduren’s man
ner of receiving this suggestion.
There was more thau more embarrass
ment, there was annoyance. Some
thing seemed to have gone wrong,
Mab saw this much, but was not/*lear
You must not think me overbold If I re
fuse to take your ‘No’ for an answer and
come back again within forty-eight hours
>f my defeat at the Jernay’s. Something
leads me to the conviction that this is a
specially favorable chance for me to ‘try
again.’ Will you reconsider your decision,
or is there really no hope for me?
“In the latter case, mercifully end my
suspense by an early answer.
“Julius Clemsst.”
“I wonder what he means by ‘some
thing,’ Prisey remarked as Mab handed
her back the letter.
Mab was shutting herself np to her
self to think.
“I tell you what, Prisey. That man
is no fool.” Mab paused a while for
farther meditation. “Yes,” she went
on, “it will take a pretty sagacious wo
man to manage Mr. Clement. He sees
into things, does Mr. Clement. Came
here last night to ask for my sympathy,
eh? Forgot to mention that Tom Van-
duren was in town. My dear Priss,
that man knew very well that Tom was
coming here last night. It was a plot
to force Tom Vanduren’s hand. If I
thought Tom was half as clever ”
“But as it is,” Prisey interrupted,
putting an arm about her younger
sister’s neck. “As it is? What?”
“Why, Prisey, I think they’re keep
ing step at last, don’t you?”
“Then we needn’t advertise for a
parrot,” said Prisey.
And the two sisters wrote two little
notes that evening. Mab% note was to
Yanduren, and it said: “Come and
get your final answer to-morrow at 8
o’clock p. m. ” Prisey’s was longer.
But the effect of the two communica
tions was mneh.
The two sisters and their two suitors
kept steps admirably a few weeks later
to the tune of the Wedding March.—
3t. Louis Star.
.If 11 .
as to what was wrong. Clement Sibile
jc-
of chee
.. /There are some questions which,
like the poor, we have always with ns.
One of them is the perennial and
well-worn query as whether worn911
A sense of humor, remarks the
Philadelphia Bulletiu editorially. A
New York newspaper prints letters on
the subject from half a dozen women
prominent in various walks of life, in
cluding Maud Adams, Emma Thursby
and the president of the New York
State Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union, which declare that women
have humor, though they point out
that, owing to the conventional re
strictions upon their behavior, their
sense of the humorous finds less free
expression than that of man. The
New York Post says that these women
are right, and that it is as foolish to
ask if women have humor as it would
be to ask if they have a sense of
pathps or a knowledge of right and
wrong. As normal human creatures,
with faculties, perceptions and emo
tions of the race of which they consti
tute one-half, they possess humor just
as they possess other attributes of
humanity. The old theory that women
were in some peculiar aud mysterious
degree essentially different from the
masculine portion of mankind is no
longer domiiint among intelligent
people. The enlightened modern
tendency is to consider a woman as
neither a queeu to be worshipped nor
as a slave to be driven, but as a thor
oughly responsible, fully equipped
human being, who should be held to
the same degree of accountability as
man. It is true that there hare beeu
no great women humorists entitled to
rank with Cervantes, or eveu with
Mark Twain; but this proves nothing.
Woman’s humor is likely to be of a
finer, less robust character than that
of man, aud she is seldom able to ap
preciate a joke against herself. But
any man who declares that women do
not possess both wit and humor is
blind to some of the. moat obvious
“Here, Prisey, read this.” And
Mab banded the letter to her sister.
“What do yon think he means?”
Then ehe added, speaking gently, to
avoid being heard by the servant girl,
who was waiting at the door, “Do y u u
think he’s got us mixed up?”
As Prisey read the note her blue
eyes widened in amazement, but she
only said, “You’re keeping Jane wait
ing, Mab.”
>Iab turned suddenly to the door,
you care?” Mab said at
the
me?”
a
But
very
“Tell the boy ‘Yes,’” she said.
“That’s all the answer there is.”
The door having closed behind the
servant, there was a silence of some
moments between the two sisters.
They seemed to take the incident in
contrasting ways. The brunette Mab
stared, as a child might stare at an
elder sister—Prisey was her elder by a
year—who has met with a calamity
and perplexes by her coolness under
it. 1 risoy went on with her occupa
tion, which happened to be pulling
feathers from an old hat to rearrange
them cn a new one. g
These two orphan girls had been
alone together in the world for so long
that each expected to understand
every inmost feeling of the other by
intuition.
“Dout
last.
“I?” said Prisey, looking up from
her feathers for one moment. “What
for? Why shouldn’t he?”
“Was I right, Prisey?”
“Perfectly right, child.”
At the appointed honr Mr. Clement
rang the bell and asked for Miss Mabel
Cartwright.
“Did you say Miss Mabel?” Jane
asked.
“Yes, Miss Mabel.”
Jane really felt uncertain as to
whether Mr. Clement’s memory had
not played him a trick. J
“So you have something of
greatest importance to say to
Mah asked him when she had taken „
very strait chair opposite her visitor
I r yes, Miss Mab. I hope you
won t hurry me though. Did I 8a y
the greatest importance,’ in that not^
I sent you? Oh. well ”
‘To yon,’ I think you said.
I don t want to hurry yon. It’s
sloppy out of doors, isn’t it?”
J? 0 ’ 4 fan of me!”
•‘R Il0W ' r ^ ab i . a8ked innocently?
Because I asked if it was sloppy?”
• / ^! ght as wel1 come to tke point,
said Clement. “Look here, Mris
Mab, of coarse you know what hap
pened last night—at the Jernay’s-to
me, I mean.” j »
Mab only fixed her dark eyes on
him and when
“Go on.”
hesitated.
perfectly, at liberty to take for absent
Accordingly, Mab left the room and
the two men stood faee to face.
“You seem amused, Clement,” said
Yanduren, breaking the silence.
“Well, why shouldn’t I?” Clement
answered. “What did I tell you to
day? Of course, you didn’t tell me
you would be here so soon—very first
evening, you know.
“I didn’t think it necessary to ad
vise you of all my movements be
forehand,” said Yanduren, coldly,
while he stood before the mantlepieee
critically examining an applique drap
ery.
“That’s right, Yanduren—quite
right. Now, before they come down,
let me tell you something.” Van-
dureu turned quickly and faced the
other man. “We have np time to
lose,” Clement went on hurriedly.
“You may not know it, but you are my
‘god out of the machine’—that’s a
classic allusion, you know. I’ll explain'
it another time. See here, I knew
well enough you’d be here to-night
That was why I told you I was coming.
Now you want me to get out, don’t
yon?”
For answer Yanduren only stared.
“Yes, you do. Miss Prisey won’t
come down.”
“How do you know that?”
“Never mind. No time now for
argument. I only, want to make a
straight-forward business proposition
*0 you. If I get out of this will you
promise to propose to Miss Mab this
verv night? Yes or no?”
“Well, I’ll be shot’” Yanduren ex
claimed in an undertone.
“Yes, I know,” said Clement. “It
does seem a queer and quaint idea,
but there’ll be time for explanation
later. Yes or no?”
A rustle of skirts could be heard on
the stairs.
“Yes,” said Yanduren, making his
decision hurriedly, as one who’leaps
iu the dark.
“Good for yon—for us both,” Clem
ent whispered to him, as the skirts
came nearer -the door of the sitting-
room. “And tell her to take a day or
two to think it over—not to hurry.”
“I’m so sorry, Mr. Yanduren,” said
Mab, opening the door. “Prisey has
a headache. You are going to be here
some time, are you not, in the city?
That’s right. She told me to say she
hopes you’ll come again soon. She
was very glad to hear of your return. ”
The rest, for ten or fifteen minutes,
was small talk about traveling and art,
Mexico and volcanoes. Then Clement,
iu conformity with his promise, “got
out of that.”
Next afternoon the two girhu were
together in their room. Priaey was
turning over a letter that had come to
her throngh the .mail.
I think you might let m® **>
said Mab. “I let yon see mine yes
terday.”
At last, after some hesitation, Prisey.
said, | without speaking, handed her aiste -
j the letter, which vead:
One* Considered Insane.
Some interesting stories about the
enlistments of recruits to the Ninth
have been going the rounds. One of
the assistant surgeons of the Ninth
gave a young man a rigid physical ex
amination, under orders, as the
young man was not thought to be e
desirable recruit.
After the applicant’s weight and
height had been ascertained, and the
color of his hair and eyes noted, the
dialogue between the surgeon and
prospective recruit went on as fol
lows:
“Were you ever rejected for life in
surance?”
“No.”
“Have you ever given np an occu
pation on account of yoar health or
habits?”
“No.”
“Are you subject to dizziness?”
“No.”
“To fluttering heart, pain in the
chest, cold in the head, shortness of
breath, severe headache?”
“No.”
“Have you had fits?”
“No.”
“Nor stiff joints?”
“No.”
nve yon ever been considered
insane?”
“Yes, sir.”
“What’s that you say?” asked the
surgeon, scratching out the “No”
that he had written in anticipation of
a negative answer.
“Well, I guess it’s all right,” re
plied the recruit. “My mother said
that I was insane to-night when
I told her that I was going to enlist.
As I had got tired of saying ‘No’ I
just thought I’d mention it.”—
Wilkesbarre Lender.
WISE WORDS.
In faith lies victory.
Secrecy is'sin’s coat of mail.
Honor dresses in home-spun.
Pride is the national pickpocket.
The man above suspicion lives above
the stars.
Man never makes truth—he only
discovers it.
Fame’s race-track runs across the
rights of men.
Society's glow-worms always shine
with a sickly light.
A big heart and a big pocketbook
seldom travel far together.
Wearing finery unpaid for, is re
spectability going jailward.
Too much goodness is as monoto
nous as too much wickedness.
The man who confesses his ignor
ance is on the road to wisdom.
Do your best to-day and you will
be able to do better to-morrow.
About the best water-proof for all
kinds of weather is a clear conscience.
The moral training of the little
child is the future hope of the nation.
If you don’t pay as you go some
day you may have to go without pay
ing.
To marry for money may turn out
to be like going to the hornet for
honey.
It is a great accomplishment to
know how to make the best of life as
it comes.
Two Famous Naval “llemark*.”
The answer of Commodore Stock-
ton to tbe Mexican Governor of Cali
fornia, when we took possession of
that country, is worth recalling: “If
yon march upon the town (Los An
geles),” threatened the Governor,
“yon will find it the grave of your
men. ”
“Tell the Governor,” said Stockton,
“to have tbe bells ready to toll at eight
o’clock in the morning. I shall be
there at that time.”
Commodore Tatnall’s “blood is
thicker than water” won great recog
nition in England in 1859. Seeing
the British Admiral, Sir James Hope,
' ’ ' place under the fire of
rts, Tatnall gallantly came
rescue. In so doing he was
of a breach of neutrality, but
rer, “Blood is thicker than
had the affect of condoning
State Engineer Campbell
Adams, of New York, does not
pose to start the work of improving
the highways, which is devolved upon
him by the Good Beads law recently
approved by Governor Black, for
some months. Four petitions for the
improvement of roads in Erie County
have already been filed with him,
and they will be the first considered.
The Higbie-Armstrong Good Boads
bill became a law on March 24, after
several years of agitation and discus
sion. It presents, for the first time
in this State, a comprehensive plan for
the improvement of rural highways
It provides that any Board of Super
visors may adopt a resolution declar
ing that public interest demands the
improvement of a certain piece o:
highway, not located in a city or vil
lage. and, upon a petition of the own
ers of a majority of lineal feet of prop
erty fronting upon such a highway,
they must adopt such a resolution. A
copy of this resolution is then trans
mitted to the State Engineer, who is
to determine whether the piece of
highway indicated is of sufficient pub
lic importance to receive State aid.
If so, he is to have maps, plans and
specifications for the work, and esti
mates of the cost made, and transmit
copies to the Board of Supervisors.
The Supervisors, with these facts and
figures before them, may then adopt
a second resolution declaring that
such a highway shall be improved, or
may refuse to go any further with the
matter.
If a county desires merely to know
how much it will cost to improve a
certain piece of highway, it need only
adopt the first resolution and get the
estimate of the cost free of charge
Then it can refuse to go any further
If it chooses, after ascertaining the
facts, to adopt a second resolution, it
may, but cannot be compelled to do
so. If the supervisors adopt the sec
ond resolution, they must transmit a
copy of it to the State Engineer, who
advertises for bids for the work. If
no responsible bid is made within
his estimate, he mnst make a new es
timate and transmit it to the Board o;’
Supervisors, and if the board then
adopts a new resolution, based upon
the new estimate, declaring that
nevertheless such highway shall be
improved, the State Engineer mnst
advertise again for bids, as before.
When a responsible bid within his es
timate is made, the State Engineer
awards the contract; but if the town
or county desires to do the work it
self, it has a preference over all the
bidders.
This provision enables localities
having scrapers and other appliances
for improving the roads to utilize
them an doing their own work under
this act and so keep all the money ex
o -g - —
under the General Highway law, the
power to elect a county engineer. If
it has elected such an officer, the
State Engineer must act through him.
If it has not, he must himself super
vise the performance of the contract.
When the work is completed, he must
draw a warrant on the State Treas
urer for one-half the cost of the work,
and certify the other half to the Board
of Supervisors, which must levy thir
ty-five per cent, of the whole cost of
the work upon the county. The other
fifteen per cent, is payable iu one of
two ways, viz., if the Board of Super
visors adopted the first resolution for
the improvement without a petition
from the adjoining owners, the Board
of Supervisors must levy the fifteen
per cent, upon the town in which the
improved highway is. If the first
resolution was adopted after such a
petition, the Board of Supervisors
must levy the fifteen per cent, upon
the property owners on the improved
highway.
The act further provides that im
provements of highways shall be
taken up in the order in which the
final resolutions are received by the
State Engineer, but he shall not un
dertake any work in excess of the ap
propriation made by the Legislature
for the purpose from year to year.
The appropriation made to start the
work was $50,000. This amounts to
a tax of about 11-1000 of a mill on
the State for the purpose of — r —„
the other counties which do undertake
to so improve their highway*.
The new law doe* not repeal or
alter any existing law. The old High
way law is left unchanged for those
who prefer it. If towns desire to con
tinue to work on their roads in the
old way, it is their privilege to do so.
The new plan will not be forced upon
them.—New York San.
sJ
A Short Bead Sermon. ~
It is constantly being remarked in
conversation and printed in interviews
and editorials iu the papers that better
roads are very necessary, but that they
are too expensive—the community is
too poor to do anything, and there the
matter ends.
This need not be so. There is hard
ly a town or county in this country in
which the money now annually ex
pended is not sufficient to procure
much better road surfaces than now
exist, while a very slight increase in
expenditure would make great im-
jrovements possible.
First. Road taxes must be paid in
oney, and not in labor. ’ Good re-
Its have never been obtained by
working out road taxes, and it is not
in the nature of things thai they should
)e. Whatever is to be spent on the
roads must be available for use in the
employment of experienced help under
intelligent supervision.
Second. Proper grading must be
secured, hills reduced and fillings
made nntil no steep hill exists that the
farmer mnst “load for” every time he
hauls over the road.
Third. Tbe bed must be thorough
ly drained, or h good surface will be
impossible, and the surface must ena
ble the water to flow off readily. Noth
ing ruins a road so quickly as water
standing on it or soaking into it.
Fourth. The road-bed must be
crowned enough to shed water, and
must be kept in condition by a system
of regular repairs and continuous over
sight.
Fifth. After a good surface is se
cured by the above methods, it must
be preserved and maintained by per
mitting only the use of wide tires on
heavily-laden vehicles, thereby con
tinually rolling and improving it.
Cinders For Paths and Roads.
The valne of cinders for paths is
enthusiastically dwelt upon by a Long
Island paper, which says that they se
cure firm traveling in all sorts of bad
weather when anything else would
fail to provide it, aud cites cases in
town to this effect. It also goes fur
ther and wants a stretch of roadway
laid with them, in order to see wheth
er they would give like satisfactory
results under heavy travel. Their
action may be determined as follows:
“Fill a tub half full of loam; then fill
it up with water. Now put on yout
rubber boots and step in. You can
readily force your feet down to thi
Vvr.rfr.in nf 11) n
each dollar of assessed valuation in
the State. The first connties to ap
ply will be the first served. It is ex
pected that the next Legislature will
appropriate at least $250,000 as the
State share of the expense for improv
ing highways next year.
After a highway is improved the
adjoining owners must pay their high
way taxes in money, as provided un
der the General Highway law, which
permits such highway taxes to be
computed for cash at one-half the reg
ular rates. The act provides that the
State Engineer mnst collect informa
tion relative to the public highways,
and give to all officers having tho care
of roads, whether improved or not,
such information free. He must
furnish them plans and directions for
the improvement of roads and bridges
free of cost when requested by them,
and they may consult him freely at
all times and must aid him in collect
ing data.
Such, in brief, is the plan which
has finally been approved by the Leg
islature for affording aid in the im
provement of rural highways. Al
though the cities and villages of the
State pay about ninety per cent, of the
entire taxes, not a foot of highway
can be improved within their limits
under it. For every dollar so con
tributed by the State it provides that
another dollar shall be contributed by
the county and town in which the im
proved highway lies. If one county
chooses to improve its roads, and an
other does not, the county which does
not need only contribute one cent
upon the thousand dollars of assessed
valuation, for each $50,000 spent by
were used a quic
would have resulted. Now try tt
same experiment with cinder*. Tt
water has no tendency to soften then
You may stamp and stir them, hi
yon cannot make mud of. them. Yo
will stand firmly on the surface of tt
cinders, and it is only with great effo
that you can grind your foot dow
into them at all.”
The Wap on Rat*.
When a road is rightly graded,
Work of man and beast is aided.
A “heavy” road means a light loot!
We can’t make good weather, bn
we can make good roads that ba
weather won’t affect so sadly.
A Pennsylvanian has offered t
subscribe a thousand dollars toward
macadam road proposed to be bnil
near his home.
The farmer who sticks to bad road
because good ones cost a little monej
might as well ent his wheat with
cradle because a reaper would coe
something.
Easy and frequent social intei
course depends on facility of rapi
communication among neighbors an
between country and town. Hard
permanent roads will afford it, and wil
help keep the boys on the farm.
The possession of a “receipt” doe
not prove that payment has beei
made; nor does a road tax that ha
been “worked out” indicate that i
fair amount of labor, either in time o
intelligent service, has been expends*
on the highway.
The terrible condition of countr
roads has received so much attention
from the press during the past winte:
that it has often appeared that the;
must be in a worse condition taai
usual. Such, however, is not tb
case. Our point of view is gradnall;
changing, and we are beginning t!
distinguish how bad they really are.
To Protect Soldier* From Mogquitoca.
James L. Foley, a well-known in
surance man, has written a letter t<
General G. M. Sternberg, Surgeon
General of the United States Army
suggesting a remedy for mosquitoes
black flies, and sand flies, with whiol
the troops in the far South are noi
bothered. Mr. Foley served throng]
the Civil War and has had consider
able personal experience in the mat
ter, having resided for several sum
mers in different parts of Canada
The preparation he recommends ii
composed of olive or cotton-seed oil
with a sufficient amount of North Caro
hna tar to give the mixture the con
sistency of ordinary cream. This
applied to exposed parts of the body
face, neck, and hands, a few timet
during the day or just before retirini
at night, will, he says, relieve the sol
diers of alt insect pests found in warn
climates.—St. Lonis Republic.
9800*000 Ice Hrealcer.
Russia has ordered a 10,000 horse
power ico breaker to cost $800,000. I
will be ready in October, and will In
used to keep open navigation to St
! - etersburg throughout the winter.
Wmimi