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Convict * | F^A. Ober S.manafflnff editor of The Patriot, Havana soon be- cnmo too hot to hold me. Saspeeted of correepoadlDg with the Insurgents, I was hauled before, the tyrant Weyler nt the p&laee. This was one morning early. At noon I was aboard a train for Batabano and at night on a steam er for the Isle of Pines, the penal set tlement for political convicts. 'It might have been wane, of course, for the tribunal might have sent me to Ceuta, on the African coast, where chains and a cell would surely have been my portion. Instead, however, I* was confined within the borders of a beautiful Island which a bountiful Providence had provided with every gift of nature and deprived only of my friends and my habitual environment Soon after ray deportation, having been landed at one of the two ports here and finding the wretched town life not to my taste, I wandered away to the eminence known as the Crystal bill, from the summit of which I could look out over the desolate sea and the forest Intervening between It and the plantations. These and the town lay on the plain eastward of the bHL Some distance down Its western slope I found the yawning mouth of a cave open In the direction of the sea. Its farther end somewhere within the bowels, of the earth. It wss Urge and dry, with.Immense natural pillars sup porting a roof hong with stalactites, while a stream of clear water Issued from Its unexplored Interior. In Its outer chfunlwr I bong a hammock, a lire of gum food dispensed warmth and perfume when the nights were chilly, and I thought I should he con tent here for a month at least or until I could venture back to Havana. I had money and tires nos, and provi sions were dally supplied me by s faithful Islander whom I had befriend ed In former time*. la the surmund- tng forest were many pUnts and ani- tnsU which could afford If ay auppt cot off, and I Ucksd ontv companion ship to ■ska ms perfectly contented. __ if otOy Olivia were here—Olivia, my •anesst If I had but marrisd her be fore this unfortunate affair! But rar, for s tenderly nor in I the daughter of the isf Pa I sat In the cave's it of the Naina l it ( | HlF * r ffln ‘(wi' IFli 1 i hands of tbs authorities when her ra ther, Don Amedeo, should overcome his pride and command the Inevitable search for hU daughter. It could not be long deferred, and so we lived In dally apprehension of capture and sep aration, yet were happy. The knowledge of impending sorrow only gave present joys a keener seat It seemed Impossible to escape from the Island, closely guarded as It was. Yet I made my preparations. Fir down below ns was the solitary shore of a Und locked boy, beyond which were innumerable cays, and still far ther off the ocean. Nelther^ca nor shore was often visited, save tow and then'by a smuggler or filibuster. Every day nt sunrise, Olivia and her maid accompanying. I went down to the land locked harbor and worked upon a great raft of bamboo, which, when finished, I launched and anchor ed In the placid bay behind the coral reefs. . Day by day thereafter during the whole of Christmas week I carried down clothing, provisions, arms and ammunition until at lost our frail craft was laden with everything necessary for n voyage. Foi!r days passed after wo were ready before we saw a soli upon the ocean. It was late In the afternoon of the last day of December, when, sit ting In ttyo shade of the cave, Olivia pointed out a speck upon the waves. She. looked long and earnestly, then said: "Dearest, It Is a ship, and It Is coming toward our Island.'’ “Will you venture" I asked. "Certainly." she answered, smiling Into my eyes. "But first let us be In deed sure It Is approaching.” It drew nearer, nearer, rising higher, higher, until, as the sun sank behind the hill crest, the white sails wore II lumtned by Its ray a Then, no longer doubtful, vat* went at once to the shore. Hut as we etnluirktd the maid refused to risk the voyage and chose to return to brave the wrath of Don Atnadeo. 80 she and tier mistress tsule each other a tearful farewell, and we set nail with out her. ' We had a fair wind, and 1 laid a course for the bark, which, as It was sslllng slowly, 1 hoped to. overhaul within an hour or two. Half the distance had been traversed, sod. though dark ness now overspread the ocean, we could still make out the ohlp's position by her lights. The sen rougher aad more- turlmVot, and suddenly I sensed a new danger. While I was watching the fisun crested bttlows swreytng toward ns in order to avtdd them I saw In their dark hollows rapidly moving streaks of phosphor IM'<' Wo were beset by sharks! Thrir Banting tins were cleaving the water all shout us. The block waves were alive with ’beiii. Hut the hark was looming strsdlly before us. la an >1 her half hour we should be within hall even If she did not sunm-r see us and lower a boat IVrhaps | was nui<li- too ronddrat by warning, s 1 the raft wavs car- > the dark- her aide oid Ti«ncj?;‘“r; New Ycar’i ■ «»» • ;; ^, Dulch Customs M. Ckin"^ OIN’ to sit up tonightr “I reckon—yes, I reck- I will. Nothin’ In It. y’ know, but lots o’ fun and fresh elder.” Such a conversation might have been beard In any rural region of the cen tral west some forty years ago on any Now Year’s eve. And the “setting up’’ was tho one and only point In which New Year’s observances differed from those of Christmas. The Knickerbock ers have so far Impressed themselves upon American llfo that, most of .the present generation think “wills and congratulations” have always been the great feature of New Year's. Know then, Innocent^yputh, that as late as fifty years ago “Xojv, Year's OOW3 FELL' trintN Tiir.ni MUHT KM:.s at m iii- calls’’ were an iHiknown Institution In threi‘;fourtl.s of tls* Culted Hlntes. RUt In the ’sillier states. «*}*<• laflj t!.e southern aeetUm i of the states Just north of .the^ Ohio, the practice "t "wntchhur the old )«.nr out and the new year In" was the one thing.|m*- rullar to New Yeaf’i*. VVtsttVnni things were to is- m-en at that liTftif ('own fell u;>on thrir knees, fo.vls welil through a **irt of ren-nutlai |«-if»rru anec. the wild nnlnin •f r.nu. n;..l certnln trrloua nature sprau: yard. — —■ — -- “I have had the children pell l.mt their r. •I:t u> 111 tl >. I, m »t m ne h r^Trwr-r r.<r sngi t v i-r. sl»' ! i lll-t. When i.nt. ' uati-U my Jtand.' • *i-.. -! - I this ■si r ,r r', 'Ju »h; 7 j ov« a»jr area. In tsd thr ay shoe Hut tl ovtogty s*r tips sm vra it I swa 1st out I l*»cv for ist lasts lain tu . and t I ri t. without fcnl ua, g| Thr same 1 away Iota i su lltly u 1 <9 1 t «Ti ';#»! I Mlm', W.I!l!lkJ»l| IkiLi bat • brscae from tbs leaves of tbs pi Mod to disturb the dssthllke calm till to us familiar riaahtng of branches eaussd me Jo start tod reach mil fcx my rifle. Veiling against a rock. I Hat meted as 1 was, 1 expected noth tog less than a vUlt from the Spanish w wtsj RunimsT mti’Ttminffr hat looking up, I saw before me the figure of s glrk Bhe waa comely, sod her face shone with Intelligence, yet I knew that she belonged to the serving rises. It was. Indeed. Cannela. the do- voted maid of my flaoceol She smiled and held out a folded psficr. At first my bewildered senses cotud hardly ac cept this token of her existence. My vision was blurred, the see no before me swam In a mist; but murmuring vaguely my thanks, I took the letter, opened It and read: - My tatbrr baa drirrn aw froip hi* house. Do you loas met Will you vtlcoae met I am near. Ouvu. I turned to the maid. "Where— where Is sheT" I demanded, leaping from my hammock. The girl shrugged her shotriders and pointed to the pines on the brow of the hill, but vouch safed me no other reply. I scrambled up the rocks, and there, steadying herself against the trunk of ■ a pine, was my sweetheart! She look ed at mo timidly. In her eyes a mute Inquiry, as If doubtful of the reception I would offer. Not long, however, wah she hesitant Then, shaking a finger at me with playful gesture, she said: “Oh, Felipe, you did not think I would come! Now, did you? And now that I have come, do you not think me over bold, or are you glad to see me, to have me bide awhile with you? Now, ns to the hereafter — well, we must allow events to shape our course.» Now lend me to your cavern. I am tired—faint” While the maid set the cave In order gnd my beloved reclined In my ham mock I prepared a simple repast with from, the hillside near, and soon set It before her. 1 — After she had partaken and had been refreshed by a siesta she Joined me at the cave’s mouth, where we sat hand In hand until the plain below waa all In shadow, only the white trunks of the palms standing oat pallid as ghosts In the gathering gtooa,. — During the week that followed Ollvtg and her maid occupied the Inner cham ber of the cave, which vaa sacred to thrir privacy, while I guarded the cave's mouth aad the outer room. We i mi to fmet. ■nt. an bt-r eyes looked line, a cry burst from shs Sh.uk U-iM-ath the -til'd at tor dress aad •trove to raise tor, hut my strength • s* uiiS\ailing ss szain t that uf thr onttsli-r lltsl Usd wised U-f. Ihiws. dosn. la-low the turmoil of | wares sod rusting billow* wv sank to (ether. I «n-tsited my knife from its j thaslh. six! In my fury iilungcd It Into | tto mss •ster’a body, gray soil ghostly, | aksigBide nf me Ths grim Jaws Isxrd thrir hold. sod. dragging the ap-, parently lifeless form to the surface 1 bars it to tto raft and cast myself down bsstds bar. There, while tho woven ■wept over no. while tto fins of tto | shorka hissed snd gk-stood la the room ing waters. 1 oall<-d to tor. brut over j tor, press*-d my lips to bets. Then, overcome by fatigue and de spair. I swooned by her side. | T^roST a dn-amirs* sliv-p. fnnn hover- tog on the horders of olUIvkia, 1 woo awakened by strange vriccs. I was on j ef o- skip. I saw foirnypH nn-n imsa vaguely before me, sud by my side—yen, (tore alive- sat one whom I had tlmuglit no lotigi-r Ih lug. Her shining eyes looki-d Jnto mine again, and tto-u ato told me of our ns cue from tho wares. Tto night hai 1 passed, and now tin- tita n I ad cqtiw [and with Its coming) tto Outterlng < ■alls andMto' rattling of anchor eliab Informed us that n pint was rvuclml It was that of (Iruud Cayman, tu tie soathcast of Isle of I’lues. a neutrai port, and wo were safe. We were married that day at noon- | and thus was achieved the consmmua tlon of our happiness. And the captain [ of the bark, who himself had taken Olivia from the raft, said solemnly as be placed her hand In mine: “Her life belongs to me, for I saved It, but It Is also yours because she gave It to you. That was yesterday, and hence last year; this is today, and hence the new year. That which perished In the oid year the now year secs restored to Hfe. God Mess you both and sancti fy this New Year’s gift.”—Buffalo Even ing News. By far the most charming or tne German New Year’s customs Is one observed from time Immemorial In Frankfurt-am-Main. There at the same moment the whole city salutes itself—wlshi's Itself a happy now year. On the night of pec. 81 all the city keeps the festival; watching tho old year ont and tho new year In. Family parties or gatherings of friends are to | be found In every house. Games, sto ries, music and klndiW diversions. 1 lire >«if rl other !cr rn to 4Wc* turns dell ;t ful fr for mj Hut nig-it si Nile Rent!. >f I!m ►«d tto mcmU-re elded to renewed deletion and thfulncwi to duty” fur tto g year. Tto nocrers, always to adapt their eld African rus to thrir new religion, took speetul it In this one. adding many fsiK-l- ititrew, stsl It still survlvt-w In tto utb as “walking Egypt." what of tto original “watch r“ Weil, nil we ran say la that of our niMv-stnra brought It from nd with them, and, as they told - wonderful things that had hap- ivncd In Rcotland, so thrir children In Kentucky snd Indiana told tto name things as haring happened In Mary land, and by and hy thrir children In Illinois and Missouri told of them as occum-ncvs In Maryland or Kentucky, simI bo the superstition lived on In many neiglihoJlMssls even to the out break of the rivtt WST .. ‘ Strange tD say, the custom of calling on Now Tear’s day grew tqnot ncvirfy BhlTfraal aHMUir tto I'lilmw.! aiwi \merienna. Tto former celebrate the new year through three daya, during which they call on thrir friends, cx- cgnw a social gala day. The young bloods went, half a doora together, In carriagas. and parties vied with, each other ss to bow many calls they could tnaka In the palmy days of New Year** calling the most fashionable people wore evening drees, the blinds of the parlors were closed and the gas lighted. The sccno within was often like that of an evening reception, of the present day. . , But as tho Dutch New York burgh ers pf old were overrun by the Eng llah so the New York swells of today have suffered the same fate. A dls eaSo caltyd anglomanla appeared In ,the- land and seised upon swelldom. The English aristocrat spends the Christ mas season at his country ei-at, and^ when the New York parvenu became wealthy enough to have a country seat he lSust needs Imitate his English model and go to It for Christmas and New Year's. When tho New Yorker began, to spend the holidays as his English cousin spends them. New Year's calls began to fall off. So for several years New Year’s calling In cities has been dropped. Fortunately there are still left people who do not have chateaus In tho midst of great parks who cling to the old custom. On New Year's day they visit their friends with something of tho simplicity of former days and enjoy it as it -was enjoyed then. But tho great rush of New Year's day as It existed tea years ago Is passed and It is no great loss. h Small crops, unsalable veg etables, result from want of Potash. Vegetables are especially fond of PotashT” Write for our free pamphlets. GERMAN KALI WORKS, - 93 Nmmu St., New York. ■NEW YEAR'S SUPERSTITIONS Beliefs of the IVssswt Polk In Prowtoelal Knit land. “Don't take a light out of the boose before one has been brought In,” is the solemn Injunction on New Year's night of the peasants of Lincolnshire. Eng land. Death lircvrtaln to result If this advice Is not followed. To permit a woman to enter the house firat OB New Year's day Is said to tic a sure forerunner of evlL The same results are said to follow tto throwing out of dirty water, ashes or any kind of refuse. ^ In sweeping the house the dust must to swept from the door to the hearth or death will to the consequence. A custom largely observed at present la after making the Arc In the morning to spread tto a*to* simr tto threshold Jf In tto morning there Is sn luiproa- ■W»n of a foot leading from tto houan. a death In that family Is no firmly to- ■fleved in that prejxinittons are made for It. hut If the footmark lends to ward tto In Mine ■ birth during the year Is mire. and*{ir»'pnrnti«XM are made ac cunUngly.—New Orleans ITcayune. The h» hr T"®*’ “ . Begarand NewYeir’s ~ ° It Went Cs & f Q i Through supporting columns, scrolls and cur tains; some display festoons of flow ers and a variety of animals. The cognomens of naval officers emerge from the midst of spikes, anchors, ropes, flags and other naval insignia, while military officers ap pear surrounded by helmets, cannon, tents and soldiers. Artists figure amid palettes, brushes arid other adjuncts of their art, mostly accompanied by a graceful female form, and every kind of musical Instrument has been called Into play—lyres, harps, trumpets and harpslchordav-for musicians. Birds of many kinds bold scrolls bearing the names In their beaks, or they are written on their breasts or outstretched wings. Animals often play a double part. The name of Hare, for example, Is represented as a rebus by that little animal running at full speed, while a goat figured on the fashionable designs of 1783. Archery, agriculture and sport generally left their Impress on the visiting card. About 1810 pure white cards with embossed horders and large cmbossM letterings were tho prevalent mode. History again repeats Itself — the daughter’s name appeared then with w HOW THS DUTCH KADH NEW YEAR'S cat.is IN NEW AMSTERDAM. change greetings in the streets, beat gongs, offer paper prayers and make a Fourth of July of It In fireworks. In the days when a little group of frame houses with gable cuds of Dutch brick clustered about tho fort adjoin ing the point called the Battery In New York, Mynheer and Vrouw, to gether with their children, the youths and maidens of New Amsterdam, would Wlt . h honorable attention to eating J ^p tybeul mAklng viaita to eoch other, Hmr-drrnklhg; serve 'to speed last hours of tho dying year. Suddenly at the exact moment when from tto' great dome of the cathedral the first stroke of mldul^t sounds Its warning every house throw* wide open its windows. Forth from the case ments lean all the dwellers In the town, old and young together, each with glass in band. The glass Is rais ed on high, and the word* of the toast burst on the astonished air of night in obb massif* tone born of mors tigui 100.000 voice* Joined In the* cry. (“Happy ‘ celebrating the day As only a primitive people could celebrate It, tho elders | smoking their pipes and the young er* making merry and'all enjoying themselves heartily. But the burghers of New Amsterdam as new generations came on waxed nch. Broadway passed the oM rope- walk near the present site of the As tor House, shot or nr Union square, and where th*| Fifth Avenue hotel now stands met Fifth armor, which, climbing Murray Hill, now runs through the aristocratic HAT an ordinary, onto t(-resting item in oar social Ufo la the mod <*rn visiting card! But tills was not always ■u, though it has Isirriy torn In exist core 12ti ycara It owed Its origin to the custom of writing ths name or ■oeietlinrs a message on ths hack of a playing rani, says a writer in the WashlngtiNi Fust Occasionally oor particular card mas chosen with Intent, and tto Duchess of I Hx-sst received an apt epigram In return for one she sent to a well known clergyman. Tbs verses end as followa: “You sent ms ten heart*, tto tit to* only nine, flo give me one heart and burn t'other nine." Toward the end of ths last century the visiting raids of ths upper classes were veritable works of art. and by their means many moat Interesting types of engraving, survlm They were of varying slsn. but ths majority not larger than about two and * half Incites by two lucto*, while today those used by gentlemen are two Inches by one and a half Inches and by ladles four -taMics by two and a half Inches. There were many square ones used about WNffto 1790. Ohe belonging to an Eng llsh ssHMy hwdii *of~T'Tchtury ago' dates from • Hollo street. Cavendish square, a spot associated with Lord Byron. Her husband's card Is smaller and has a sketch of the family home In one corner, which still remains In the possession of their collateral descend ant*. Tho notion Is so good It deserve* to be followed, for It would certainly add to the Interest ot tho cards we leavq to each other If they bore the semblance of our friends’ homes ss well as their names. Another example shows that history repents Itself, for, although Issued In tho eighteenth century, tho lady was “at homo on Monday," as many mod ish dames arc now. Visiting en blnne. as it was call»>d—via, by leaving a card -^Wns a novelty then, and on many which come from Italy “In persona" Is written, showing that they had been left and not sent by a servant These ore the simpler class of cards. A vast number of others In use at this time show the ruling powers In decor ration. Hundreds of tho decorative designs bear tho names of contem porary duchesses, or, rather, according to tho ancient spelling, "dutchesse”— 8L Albans, Bolton and Grafton among thq number. The latter, according to Horaeo Walpole, saved her llfo by playing loo when In Home, Instead of going to a party at a palace where the roof fell In. Many of the '’tickets,” as visiting cards wore called In those days, were engraved with architectural buildings Rome, Berlin -and elsewhere *nd r jnathsf'a. as it dnwa now my of the titles then extant have died out! It very often happened that the lady's cards and the gentleman's were of the same sixo. but not slwsys. For her “ticket" the Duchess of Leeds In 17A4 favored s very pretty engraving of ■ f’hlnree figure looking over a low do>rway. with sn Angtt fixed pagoda at the ride. On soothe? card bearing a famous lord's name figures ■ powerful sagravtng of the sphinx, with the Egyptian pyramids In ths rear. Many a great dame of those days had her name oo her visiting card ear rounded hy a framework held by OB- rsttfor than the »mher looking raids eovsred with | art. engraved, bar frontal line* a vary deep border Monogram* and corunsts figured on some of them snd bars left to posterity floe sport mens of steel engraving, but the most els borate of heraldic cards were gen erally foreign, and sotas of ths for sign-embassies employed colored crests occasionally Introduced in ths center INDUSTRIAL AND ORNRRAL While dowers are the most odonltr ooa. It is illegal to practice hypnotism in Belgium. Ons-fifteenth of ibe inhabitant! ol Spain are noblsa. Thoroughbred dog* are lee* lalalh gent than mongrels ljuils 50 per cent, of the property ol England is insnrod Nearly all the royal pereonagufl ot Europe are cousins. London requires bou.Oou cows to sup ply it with dairy whose wife ad rises him that her hus band has come horns intoxicated. Mui Mary Mildred Lee, a daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, visited the State Senate at Richmond, Va., and was introduced, the Senate taking a recess of five minutes in order that the members might be personally pre- ■med. When United State* Ambassador White was introduced to Count Yon Mollie as a man who was boro at Homer, and had been president of a University at Ithaca and a resident of Syracuse, the former inquired if it would be proper for him to address Mr. White in Greek. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior, had a grocery, and provis ion store in St. Joseph, Mo., when a young man and sold provisions mostly to pioneers passing through that city for the far West. He went to China after selling out and returned to St. Louis a wealthy mau. The will of Thomas Mannion filed in the surrogate’s office at Morristown, N. J., is one of the most peculiar doc- undents ever recorded there. Mannion was a resident of Netcong and owned considerable real estate. The family homestead, with tho exception of the cellar, is left to. Kate Mannion, a daughter. The cellar is left to the widow. It is said by a correspondent of the Baltimore Sun that West Virginia is rapidly becoming more and more the Mecca of the'negroes of j the South. The climate of the State, as a whole, is congenial to this race, and the great coal and coking industries in operation in slifiost every county, together with the extensive railroad ‘ construction being carried on, furnish rtady, as well as lucrative, employment for negro laborers, of whom 15,000 arc employed in the mine*. The per capita of currency was 928.73 .on December l,ou a popula tion basis estimated by the treasury at 78,324,000. The total amount of money in circulation was also larger than at any other period in the country’s bis lory, being $2,250,25*>.230, a* com pared with 12,158,761 ;kl7 on Decem ber 1, 1000, an increase of 9yi,4'.»4 The amount of money held in the awoa. snd man CM NT OK MW” L Dhrmtc to^ts- ^•xsjnrrc Golden Medical Discovery S JW* J”? 2i e ; "Golden Medical Discorarv'has a w<£ derful | P°, w< > r - j* nutrition of ths body, sod so to throw off disease. It desasrt foe Mood from poisonous im P 0 ^ tlM £ with the red corpuscles of hfUlth. It is cocaine, por sny other asrcotM. • wiu ewe 70« ■««•* £s *«** •t while KkC ■nd It l doctor! t—■ »e dMit-e eeeei fe (be ‘ DUawtry ' n»d two ▼i*U of Dr Pteres’* fol- lets, sod that VtrslfJ*- ened me up I le*l nke ■ differesl p«r«0S. I sladlr recommend gladly mcdtH era Itcine W au mtmr- fcr l know 8 cured Dr Pierce** Pleas ant toilet* cure con stipation by curing its THE YOUNGBLOOD LUMBEK COMPANY AUGUSTA. OA Orncs asn Worn**, Nosru Acscrra A 0 Doora, Bllsds Mardwi sad Builder** Un8* rreaatn-y aa aaasta af (ha gftBarnmanl was 928!* f 0!»5,C<n>, which was a de crease of more than 98,000.000 since November 1, due to hood purchases. A valuable sword and Bible belong ing to the late Rear Admiral John W. Fhilip hare been sent from tbs Brook lyn navy yard to the Smitbsoolao la- •UtuUon. The relics have been pre sented to the institution by Mrs. I’hi ip, who is now living at Aonapolia, Md. It was said at the yard that another sword, which was presented to Admiral 1 tulip by the riOseus of Tnxaa shortly before his death, aad which ta said to he worth 910,000, will also to present- eri to the Smithsonian loectutloo by Mrs Philip. The most healthful place in the United Sutea to live la is Manun.l Iowa, according to report* received hy the manna hospital service from 1,100 cities and town* haring a population of 100 or snore. Marion has a popula tion of 4,loO, and ths re were only ms lealht in 1000, making the death rats ths phenomenally low figure of I 4«t par 1,000. The town la the Foiled Stales having the highest ratio of mor tality last year wee Carlvle, III. The population was 1,874, and the sum tor of deaths 100, making a death rate of 53 31. Ths land speculator will soon be in ciovar la the lluiipptoen. There are over W0,000,000 acres of lead in the l*hilippine islands, and, whila it is im possible to say with any accuracy how much of th* land ta owned by private interest*, it is believed that at least 50 per cent, will come under the classi fication of public domain. ffmoKiNS. simNG.r.Eiijwn and .. INSIDE FINISHING LUMBER IN GEORGIA PINE. given All leuoa. prompt M FALL STYLES From th* Up-To-Date Carpet H 1517 Main Street, Columbia, 8. C MUTUAL CARPET TO. Write us for Samples of aaythiag in oor has. Goode shipped anywhere ta the State free of freight. We are al ways busy. No dull day* wfoh aa. Whea la t'adnmhia, toms aad see ua. Anybody can show yoa th* place. EE M Medicated Cigar* tmiwn, long In fashion. They were sold In packets. The names were frequently written upo«-them, and even they were printed It waa rare that one particular pattern was kept for any special person. The head of a well known W arwickshire family during a | creased fourfold vlalt to Rome In 1783 kept, and hoe handed down. , those left by trie ao- qualntntoe. On these figure tto arch of Tttua, 8t Deter** tto castle of 8t Angelo and many other Hons of Sone, Not a few of tto visiting cards of this mod recall nothing ao much aa tto tineral monumeota --of those daya I lorartlmes the name* appear on well engraved rase*, aomrtlmea on chlm- Culored races never ItAlAhl Their eyes *H Nnyt 4 brown, brownish7yellow or black. • The contract for bnilding the largest cantilever bridge in the world has been awarded by the Wabash railroad. The new structure will span the Mononga- bela river. I’reeideut Roosevelt is to be present ed with an Arabian saddle horse by Captain John Cobb,aif American, who has been a resident of Morocco for thirty years. According to the last census sixty- six per cent, of the men between the ages of 17 and 35 are unmarried ant the average age at which the 34 per ceat. married waa 25 years. Sweden has 2,303 miles of Jgoveru meut and 4,387 miles of private rail road?. The government has not yet succeeded in acquiring the latter, al though efforts have been made to do so Senator Clark, of Wyoming, predicts that his State will soon be the wealth iest in the Upion. His prediction is baaed on the discovery of a depoeit o:' platinum in a Wyoming copper mine In England, where the governmeni; owna the telegraph lines the newspaper rate is 4 cents per hundred words This would permit of the telegraphing of an one-thousand word lette r for 40 cents. One of the moat curious plants in the world is the toothbrush plant, a species of creeper which grows in Ja maica. By cutting a piece of the stem and fraying the ends the natives make a toothbrush. On a rural free delivery route re- cently estf blished in Kansas there were three aubsenptions to dully papers. Within a month there were 100 and the subscriptions to weeklies had in- It is estimated that 1,000,000,000 acres of land are devoted to the culti vation- of tobacco. The wdrld con sumes each year 6,300,000,000, pounds or nearly 2,812,500 tons, v forth 52,000,- 000 pounds atorling. A Missouri saloon keeper has an nounced that, not only will be sell no bqoore to minor and inebriate*, bat be - Hair Falls "I tried Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop friy hair from falling. Ont- Julf a bottle cured me." J. C. Baxter, Braidwood, HI. Ayer’s Hair Vigor is certainly the most eco nomical preparation of its kind on the market. A little of it goes a long way. 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