Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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iSSstfc ' rv.V^ E.VENINC._ f V 1 j Across the shadows of a dying day Soft. lonely woodland winds are whispering. And o'er the silvered waters" trackless way Love reaches oat to thee, and memories cling To soul and sense. Darkly the bonds of ; space Bear on the human need to touch thy hand; ' To see the love-light waken iu thy face, While tenderness of shadow rested o'er the land. I I THE STORY ? | -0F- s i * | A Shield Pin. | I do not like to take up personal cases, as we detectives call a certain j class of work, so wkeu Miss Augell of Broadside street, sent for me to take up a "small personal mystery" I responded with a poor grace. Scarcely had she begun to tell her | story, however, than I became so in- j teres ted that I begged her to continue and tell me the details as far as pos- i sible. Miss Angell was engaged to Mr. Cloud?a peculiar combination of names to begin with, aud was devot- ; , edlv attached to him. In fact, she : confessed with tears in her eyes that 'his love was more, or had been more, than life to her. The rest of the story I will let her tell in her own words. "Mr. Cloud," she said, "is in the i habit of calling upon me almost every ; evening. Abont a week ago he came to dinner, invited by mamma. He was to attend a snpper of the Phoenix clnb at 10 o'clock, and wore evening dress. "At table we noticed an exquisite shield pin he were. It shone so brilliantly that it caught the eye at once. Mr. Clond took the pin off and it was passed around the table for us all to examine. "It was a shield as large as a quavIter with the ontside edge bordered with pare rabies, blood red, all of a size and without a flaw. The centre of the shield oonsisted of a large diamond eat not very deep, yet too deep to be sunken, so it was elevated in a wire setting. Around the diamonds were perfectly matched black pearls. The combination was so nnusual that we exclaimed as we handled the jewel and I remarked that I had never seen it before. "When we had finished exami ning it Mr.Clond said: That is myPhoeuix Club badge. It belongs to the president When I was elected the badge was presented to me by the members and when I resign, and a new president comes in, I must give up the i badge to him. It is the president's badge, to be owned by him daring his term of office. Of coarse, it is only to be worn at the meetings.' "Mamma spoke of its great value. *Yea,' said Mr. Clond, 4it is indeed very valuable. It is worth thousands. If I were to lose it I should feel rained, as I could never hope to replace it "As he spoke Mr. Cloud's face became very serious. 'We had a case of that kind,' said he?'a most curious case. The president lost his badge and committed suicide next day. You see he wss suspected of having sold it' "After we had looked at the badge and talked about it I very foolishly tsked to wear it and in a fit of way- j *< * * wardness I reached across the table, it nn and nnt it in the bow of rib bon at my throat "At the close of the meal, Mr. Cloud asked me for 1it, bat I, to tease fg| him, said I meant to keep it, and ran ??/> up stairs with it on. jj" i. "After they were seated in the par' lor I stole qnietly down the stairs and plaoed the pin in the lining of Mr. Cloud's overcoat, directly under the v-r- lapel. ip* "I went back to my room and came down stairs again. I found mamma . M*. nod my sister seated alone iu the parlor. Mr. Cloud had gone out to send teg a telegram. He would be back in a ?v minute. "When he returned, which was after half an hour, he came in for only a minute, to say good-by, and to ask for his pin: 'Come, Mazie,' he said, ? ^rou have teased me long enough. Let me have the pin now. I must go.' I. . ' . " 1 gave it back to you,' I said, jf? %nd you have it now.' "Ihen I stood up and running my fingers along the lapel of his coat felt for the pin. It was gone! "I turned as white as snow and as I felt the color leaving my face. I said: 1 gave it back. * "My mother looked up surprised . and Mr. Cloud stared at me. 'Yes, I ? gave it back, I put it on your coat. You.must have it.' " 'Why Mazie,' said Mr. Cloud, II? , *how can you say so?' jp "I pass-over the disagreeable scene e?; which followed. I will not mention Mr. Cloud's chagrin or my mother's amazement, even as I explained how K I had stolen down the stairs and had fastened the precious pin iu the lapel of the coat, just for fun, and how I intended after teasing him to tell him 4 t >at it was there. 'As I talked I could see my mother's incredulous looks and Mr. Cloud's absolute dismay. ' Thoy did not believe me! "After the most painful quarter of an hour which I ever expect to spend Mr. Cloud left, shaking hands corgi* V' dially with my mother and saying a cold good night to me. "After he had gone my mother said I*Maizie, my darling girl, tell the ^ troth. It is not too late.' " There is nothiug more to tell, mother,' I said, 'I have told you the whole truth.' "After a while my mother saw that I was in earnest and she believed me. Bnt as next day came and passed, and no word came from Mr. Cloud, I saw that he doubted me. The third day there came a formal note saying that if I would return the pin he would give me its value in money, paying me as rapidly as. his circumstances would permit As it was valued at many thousands, it was then beyond his means. ? "I tore the note into bits and did not reply. "That was a week ago. For the first three days I was too much overcome by mortification to take any steps towards establishing my iunocence, But now that I am in a soberer mind I wish to learn, if possible, what became of the pin after I placed it in the lining of the lapel of Mr. Cloud's coat aud where it now is." The recital took some time for the yonng lady's emotion overcame her more than once. And I must confess that I, too, felt indignant for her. ? ' A #-i- -1 1.1 1 1 1__ I firm mat iare suouiu nave piayea so unkind a trick upon so beautiful a young girl; and secondly, that her lover, Mr. Cloud, should have doubted her so easily. "I am willing," she said tor" spend any amount to clear myself of this disgraceful suspicion, and hope, with your assistance,to solve the mystery." "It is so long a time," I began, "if jou " . WESSfPr* "Yes, I know," said she, impatient 1 v. "Still," I 9aid, "I will do my best Bat you must allow me to talk with Mr. Cloud. That will be absolutely necessary." At this she became greatly alarmed, but hnally consented. That same day I called on Mr.Cloud and was received by him in his private office. He was not cordial, and I soon saw that while he would not accuse the young lady, he thought she had kept the pin. He told me that, on leaviug the parlor, he had put on his overcoat and had gone to the nearest telegraph office to send a message. There, meeting an old friend, he had gone luto a cafe after which he had returned to the house of his fiancee, havkig been goue about half an hour. * "Tell me the name of the cafe," I said. Having carefully noted the names aud addresses concerned during that half hour, I left Mr. Cloud and I will do him the justice to say that I thiuk he was half convinced that he might have made a mistake. Going tirst to the telegraph office, I walked from thereto the cafe. At that moment a wagon stood in front of the door and they were bringing out the soiled table linen. An inspiration came to me, and I said to the driver: "How often do yon take away the linen?" "Twice a week," said be. "But this week we had a breakdown and we are late, and it's almost eight days." As the driver started away I said: "I want to search that load of napkins and if you will drive them into that vacant lot I will pay you well for your trouble." Once in the lot I overhauled the contents of the wagou thoroughly; and was finally rewarded by feeling a hard lump of something which hurt my hand as I pincbeci it. Looking closer I saw tangled in the fringe a glittering jewel, which, as I extricated improved to be the diamond set in the gorgeous pin which had been so accurately described to me by Miss Angell. I did not let the driver know of my booty, but making an excuse that I could not lind what I wanted, I walked away, nor did I stop until I had telegraphed to Mr. Cloud. A few minutes later I sat in the upper parlor of Miss Angell's residence talking to her. When I had told my story and laid the pin in her lap her joy knew no bounds. Just at that moment Mr. Cloud was announced, and Miss Angell then and there gave him the pin. I never saw a girl so happy. She almost hugged me. As soon as Mr. Cloud saw his mistake he was humbly apologetic aud tried to fall at her feef, but she waved him away, and Mrs. Angell delicately suggested that, as his presence would always remind thera of a paiuful chapter, it would be better if he were to go away and stay away ! I may add that when Mr. Cloud went into the cafe the pin was in the lapel of the coat, but, becoming entangled in the fringe of his napkin^ was pulled out and would have been lost forever had it not been for the perseverance of the plucky Miss Angell.?New Orleans Times-Democrat. CENERALS SLAIN IN BATTLE. Contingencies Which Mast Ee Expected in Every Army. "Many persons seem to consider the killing of a general officer like Lawton as unusual, while the very opposite is the case," said General Miles to the Washington correspondent of the New York Post. "This impression is probably due to the small mortality among officers in the Spanish war, bnt it must be remembered that there were few real battles in that war. Several generals have already been killed in the South African war, and in our civil war about 200 general officers were killed on the Urn'on side. PhiL Kearny fell at Chantilly, Baker at Ball's Bluff, and Stevens at South Mountain. Beuo, a great commander, was killed at Antietam. At Gettysburg we lost Reynolds and Zook- Sill fell at Stone River, Tenn., McPherson -A A Al L- O 4.U A nnnm.tin. HL Auauil, Oliljiii ucnt ay^uiuatiui just before the surrender, and Wadsworth in the Wilderness fighting. Sedgwick was picked off by a sharpshooter while sitting in front of his tent at Cold Harbor, and Lyon was killed at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, one of the first deaths of commanders in the war. Among the Confederates, the losses were greater in rauk, because they had 9 lull generals and 18 lieutenantgenerals, while we had no officer of sack high rank in the field until Grant was commissioned lieutenant-general in 1864. The Confederates lost 15 general officers in the Nashville fighting. Lieuteuant-General Polk, a bishop in the Protestant Episcopal church, was killed at Atlanta; General Albert Sidney Johnson fell at Shilo, where Grant had a narrow escape from being shot. Stonewall Jackson was killed at Ckancellorsville bv his own men by mistake. Zollicoffer was another Confederate general who was killed, and there were many more. The death of a general in command is a contingency for which an army must always be prepared. PEARLS OF THOUCHT. The purpose firm is equal to the deed. ?Young. Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie.?Herbert Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.?Parton. Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. ?Tacitus. The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.?Carlyle. The way to fame is the way to heaven, through much tribulation.? Sterne. He that buys what he does not want will soon want what he cannot buy.? Franklin. He is a wise man who wastes no onorofv on ttnrftnita for which he is not fitted. ?Gladstone. The man who can be nothing but serious, or nothing but merry, is but half a man.?Leigh Hunt. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of wrong.?Emerson. Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise the tyraut of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.?W. E. Alger. Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.? Carlyle. That man is wise to some purpose who gains his wisdom at the expense and from the experience of another? Plautus. People can easily take the sacrec name "duty" as the name for whai they desire any one else to do.? George Eliot Eemember that in every quarrel the person who has been the least to blame is generally the most ready to be reconciled.?Bovgdier. 1 FARM AND GARDEN. E! Kn?ilage in a Dry Season. Ensilage is proving a great aid. In- ' deed, onr dairymen aie learning that it would be a most profitable adjunet to dairying in a dry summer, like the j past one, when the year's profits de- i peud on keeping the herd from shrinking in quantity during a critical shortage of feed. Fruit Trees Alone Highway#. In some sections the farmers have set out fruit trees along tbe highways in place of the more ornamental shade j trees. When properly pruned and i cared for the practice is a most com- j mendable one, and if others would follow the example it would result iu i a great profit to those interested. A ; fruit like the apple should be chosen, j as plums and cherries sprout from the j root aud grow readily from the pit. I If neglected the road would soon pre- ; eeut the appearance of a jungle. Late j varieties of apples should be chosen, j Stone Crock* in the Dairy. A word about stone crocks. Their j weight alone should decide everyone against their use in the dairy. With : the most careful handling they are i soon cracked,aud then it is impossible ; to keep them sweet. Seamless tin I pans are light and easily kept clean, i with no possible lurking places for J microbes. Of all substances milk is ! most susceptible to adverse influences, j and from nothing else is so variable a ; product evolved. Over the purity of i the milk the housewife has little or no j control. Hundreds of women all over J the land are daily disheartened by its ! want of cleauliness when it reaches ! their hands. Slovenly milkers are ! responsible for a great deal of poor i butter. Prime butter can never be made from milk having the slightest taint. Milk should never be allowed to staud in the stable while cooling. Cream begins to rise almost immediately after the milk is drawn and agitation causes more or less loss. I Money in Ginieng. Few crops offer as promising raturns as does ginseng when properly cared for, and where the climatic conditions are favorable. In my experience I have found it more satisfactory to make the beds in the open field? giving artificial shade?than in the forest or under trees of any kind. Whether the plants are raised from seed or from roots the beds must be well prepared. I am in favor of planting the seed three inches apart in rows in which the plants are to remain until the roots are ready to be dug for market. Plants raised in this manner and properly cared for will mature a fair quantity of seed the second year and a good crop the third year. Planted in this manner the roots will be much larger at two years' growth than when the seeds have been planted closer. Then in transplanting the roots nearly one year's growth is lost, and the small stunted roots that result from too close planting are far more apt to be destroyed by grubs and worms infesting the ground than larger and fully developed roots. On sowing the seed it should be borne in mind that not every seed will mature a plant. In the fall, after the first year's growth, the vacant spots can easily be filled with roots standing closer than desired, or these may be transplanted to j new beds.?E. D. Crosby, in New j England Homestead. Ground Food for Poultry, Every once in a while we see in some of the papers articles attacking the feeding of soft food to poultry. Yet soft feed, like most other kinds of feed, is of great value when properly fed. It may indeed be a detriment to the fowls if improperly fed. It may easily be conceived that making soft feeds a constant ration would throw out of order the entire digestive systems of the fowls. It would probably have this effect if fed to fowls that had a very large ration of green stuff, especially in the summer time; as in that case it would be substituted for the graiu ration instead of being nsed to balance the grain ration. Tlia r?*l value of crronnd feed is in feeding it to take the place of part of the grain and so render the work of the grinding orgaus of the fowls less severe. The fowl that has nothing but grain from the time the ground freezes in the fall till the time the grass starts in the spring is the fowf that develops symptoms of a ruined digestive system at the time the most eggs are expected in the spring. A warm feed of ground grain once a day has a wonderful effect in preventing those disorders that are so frequent with fowls confined and heavily fed on grain feed. The reason that it is not more universally adopted is the disinclination of farmers to take the trouble to scald this feed over night or even in the morning. It is so easy to toss a measure of corn to the fowls that many of them get no other food. ?Farm, Field and Fireside. Care of the Apple Orchard. Keep the ground stirred about the trees by using the garden rake after rains heavy enough to pack the ground. This will conserve the moisture and is better than any'mulch that can be applied, and the trees will take deeper root. If weeds or trash of any kind have accumulated about the trees, clear away or cover up in the fall with soil, making a little mound to prevent a harbor for mice. Remove it in the spring. There are several reasons why the young orchard should be planted to corn. The cultivation of corn is the proper cultivation for the orchard. The corn helps shelter the trees from the wind. The stalks help lodge and retain the snow, making winter pro , tection, and if the corn is poor y husked there will be plenty of food for the rabbits. Crop to corn until the orchard is fruiting well, then seed to ' clover. Spray with kerosene emulsion just before the buds open, or apply whitewash with brush to the body. A sot lution made thin and strained can be applied with a spray pump to the i tops. This will destroy many of the > enemies of fruit and fruit trees that find a breeding place and winter harbor on the trees. > Bruises from any cause that deadens the bark make an ideal spot for the ' propagation of the borer. In the dead bark is where the egg is deposited and by nature's law is brought into * life and his work of destruction io * commenced and done. Carry a roll of grafting wax and a roll of old cotton and twine to do up any bruise or I break of bark as soon as done, before t the wood or bark becomes dried, and - it will grow fast again, but if left uutil^ the sap in the wood and bark becomes"* 3 dried you will have a scar that will s take two or three years to grow over |nd if the borer gets a lodgment there ' it may be a lasting blemish- It's bet I -1 ? in' trr ter nor to break cr bruise the trees, but accidents will occur, and the remedy should be applied to save the blemish. Wat a bruise, if the bark is not broken : if broken, put the bark back and was and wind with cloth and tie fast.?American Agriculturist. Mineral Constitneut* of Plants. A correspondent wishes an explanation of how mineral substances get into plants, that is, as he expresses it, ''.Minerals that are insoluble except iu acid." Insoluble mineral matter cannot get into the plant. But the mineral elements of a plaut aie carried into it in solution. If it is a mineral that water can dissolve, wholly or partially, the particles that are held in solution are carried by the charged water through the roots into the tree. If salt is added to water inunnuglazed earthen dish, like u flower pot, with the hole in the bottom stopped up, it will be found in time that there is a deposit on the outside of the pot, and, if tasted, it will be found to be salty. The moisture has gone through the sides of the pot and carried the salt, with which the water is charged, with it. This is what water does with soluble minerals when it enters tho roots of a plant. There is, too, at the end of roots an acid that aids the water in dissolving minerals. It is not true, however, that the water takes into the plant all the minerals which it holds in solution. In the economy of nature, the roots, in a natural condition, permit the entrance into the plant of only such minerals as the plant needs. There is an important lesson in this connection, for the tiller of the soil to learn. We all know that moisture is necessary for the growth of plants, but if it is necessary for dissolving mineral plant food in the soil, it will be seen that too much or too little 4l? a orvil nof l\o lUUldlUlC 111 IUO ovii iju 140 v uv auj v?* to the plant because in the one case the solution will be too weak and in the other it will be too strong, or fail to take up as much mineral as the plant needs. To illustrate: If we jjlace just a little salt in a glass of water,the water will have but a slightly saltish taste. If a plant was in need of salt that weak solution would not supply it with what it required. Now if we keep adding salt to that water there will ultimately be a deposit of salt at the bottom of the glass. There will not bo enough water to hold all the salt that we have added. We have too much salt for the water. The tiller of the soil, therefore, can see that if his 3oil contains too much water at any time, the sooner he drains it, the sooner he will feed the crops as they should be fed; and if he is irrigating he will have no trouble in perceiving that too much water will have the effect that we have mentioned. The necessity of frequent cultivation and of keeping a soil mulch upon the surface in times of drouth will also be apparent. The use of water is not its entire function in relation to plant growth, but it is an important one.?Agricultural Epitomist. Poultry Xo<e?. Never allow the mother hen to take her brood out in the early morning. Brooder chicks should be allowed to go out during the warm portion of the day. Hens will lay more eggs when confined in yards than when having free range. Do not let the little chicks get chilled or wet. Either means death for them. Do net cross pure bred poultry. There is enough variety now for all practical purposes. @ne breed is enough to keep on. any farm. More than that usually results in neglect of all The time to cure a sick hen is wasted. If she lingers longer than * * 1- A 1--M1 1 two clays it is uetter to am uer. Do not put over eleven eggs under a setting lien in the early part of the season. Later thirteen will not be too many. If there are any rats around the poultry house get rid of them before ! the chickens haich. Otherwise they j will soon make way with every brood j that is put out. ! COCOA PALM'S MANY USES. ! From It Filipinos Get Food, Drink, Shel* ter, ltopp*, r.rooms and Soap. There are several species of cocoa j palms growing in the Philippine I archipelago but the ordinary cocoa; nut tree (Cocos nucifera) is the most important. The Indians make use of it in a good many ways, but only the principal ones.need be enumerated. The kernel of the nut they use for food, while the liquid the shell contains makes a refrtshing drink. If allowed to stand for some:, time this liquid forms a very agreeable milky juice, that is relished not only by the j natives, but by Europeans as well. After this juice has coagulated it is j mixed with sugar and made into bon( bons, known as cocoa sugar, and also | into various other delicacies. Aecordiug to a report of the United | States department of agriculture, by 1 tapping the central bud that crowns j the cocoauut a kiud of wine called j tuba,of an agreeably pungent taste,is I produced. This tuba, when allowed I to ferment, produces vinegar, and ! when distilled a kind of brandy, that j is highly relished by the natives. From the husk of the cocoauut the Tagals make rope aucl cords and a material for calking tlieir boats. From the woody shells they carve spoons, cups, beads for rosaries and many other articles. The leaves they use to cover the roofs of their houses. Eoofs made in i this manner are thick and tight, but j they have the disadvantage of burning readily, so that in the towns and j villages where the houses are thus i covered conflagrations spread with | great rapidity. The veins and smaller ribs of the : leaves are used to make brooms, the | midribs serve as fuel and the ashes are utilized in making soap. ! The trunk of the palm is made to ! serve as a pillar to support the houses i that its leaves overshadow. Oil barj rels, tuba casks aud water pipes are j fashioned from hollow sections of the j truuk. From the roots the natives extract a red dying material, that they chew in ulace of the areca palm nuts i or boDga when the latter cannot be j procured. Large quantities of cocoanut oil are I manufactured in the Philippines, j This oil is much prized by the natives, j The men aud women both use it to I anoint the thick growth of hair that I adorns their heads, aud it thus finds a ready sale at remunerative prices. It is also used in the lamps that take j the place of gas burners in the streets i and in tho-.c used by the natives and j Chinese iu their houses, j Manila exports anuually about 150,j 000 pesos (8125,000) worth of cocoaj nuts to China aud British India, and ! about 825,000 worth of cocoanut oil ! to China. iri i i ?? \ Spring \ * Annually Says Take ,; I Hood's }| {Sarsaparillajj ^ In the spring those Tunnies, Boils, ? A Eruptions atid General Bad Feelings ^ ; ^ indicate that there are oobweb3 In ? \ f the system. It needs a thorough Y j f brushing, and the best brush is ^ a Hood's Snrsapnrilla, which sweeps / v all humors before it. This great * * medicine eradicates Scrofula, sun- f $ duos Sal: Rheum, neutralizes the f i acidity which causes Rheumatism? A x in short, purifies the blood and x : T thoroughly renovates the whole * $ physical system. y A "Hood's Sarsaparilla has been A \ taken in our family as a blood puri- x f flor and spring medicine with satis- ^ f factory results." Lf.xah Richard- f A sox, 135 West Wiiliam street, Rath, A \ N. Y. Be sure to get Hood's. A Q Mum's ths Word. After they hud their breakfast and i he was preparing to go to the office he called the eldest daughter to one side and whispered: "Anything special tc say to me this morning?" "No, papa. Hope you'll have a pleasant day." "Is that all. Nothing you want tc tell me about, no advice to ask, or favor, or anything of that sort?" "Only to wear your muffler and not take cold." "Very well." his voice harder and louder. "I was conceited enough to think that you might think some consideration due me, and confide in me. I didn't know that I might have established some claim, but the fate of the married man is to pay bills and ke?ep out of the road." "Why, papa dear. I don't understand you." "That's all right. Don't try to soft solder me. I am no spring chicken, and I'll tell you right now that you're , making it hard for him. I'll make him feel as though he'd jumped from a Turkish bath into a snow drift." "Him! Who?" "0, drop that innocent air. What dc you take me for? Do you think I have to get the help of an expert to add two and two? He came last evening and j you said: 'Why, how do you do, Mr. Brown?' When lie left it was 'Good night, George dear,' and you punctuated audibly after each word. You came up stairs singing and when I asked what time it was you said it seemed too sweet to be true. Now will you tell?" "I cannot. You'll never know a thing about it till he buys the ring."? Detroit Free Press. "The Only Thing That Gives Relief." Mrs. M. E. Latimer, Biloxi, Mir.s., had an itchy breaking out on her skin, and she sends 81 for two boxes, saying: "Tettenne is the only thing that gives me relief." This is strong language, disinterested and voluntary. It cures all skin diseases, tetter, itch, eczema, salt-rheum, etc., and never fails. 50c. a box at druggists or send stamps to J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. Mats of the Navaho Indians. The Navaho Indians In Arizona live in rude, earth-covered huts scattered nHrlrtlTT tVirnntrlinnf tlip rpsprmtfnn find never grouped into villages. Rude as the huts appear, however, they are always built strictly according to rule and the building is followed by an elaborate religious ceremony by which the house is dedicated. Each timber in it must be laid in a certain way and in a prescribed order, and finally a doorway is added not unlike the dormer windows of our houses. This is the home proper, but all over the reservation there are hundreds of little structures which are miniature models, as it were, of the houses, except that they lack the projecting doorway. These miniature huts, scarcely as high as a man's hip, loot like children's playhouses, but they occupy an important place in the Navaho system, for they are the sweat houses or bath houses and are the main reliance of those people against sorcery and disease. Each of these structures is designed to hold but one person at a time, and he must crawl in and squat upon his heels, with his knees drawn up to his chin.?Xew York Tost. Electricity and Soda. Consul Boyle of Liverpool reports Important discoveries and uses of chemical engineering in England. He refers to the electrolytic process for decomposing common salt, with the result of producing soda and chloride of time at very cheap rates. The same method is being applied to' the manufacture of other chemicals. Electricity, having become comparatively cheap, is now used to effect decomposition with which chemists have long had a theoretical acquaintance, but which till recently remained laboratory curiosities. In our own country metals are now being reduced from their ores to an increased extent by means of the electric current. Electrical engineering is now a distinct branch in most of our techuical schools. I AUATH LAAAIH Stops the Cough Kg CURES Mj I llOPUwlMl Ln uiiii i k> NOTEEct> Ul for Colds and Grip, vast territory which : appears on China Methods. N"owhere else are the principles of | sound banking better known and un- j derstood or so universally practiced, i while the word of a Chinese merchant J is accepted tbe world around. The ; Chinese were the tirst to coin money j and they have long since solved the j problem of bank note issues. Business conditions are stable and values settled. Their internal commerce is highly developed and all products that can stand their slow methods of transportation are well distributed. Yer this, the greatest country in the world, is without any of the modern means of transportation and exchange. Its immense traffic is still handled in the most primitive manner?strings of camels that reach from the city* gate to the horizon carry the tons of coal for the people's fuel. Tack mules from western provinces laden with dried fruits, silks and rugs, relurn with salt fish and sea weeds. Heavy carts groan beneath casks of fragrant wines. Towboats are dragged along the canals and rivers by dozen of straining men. The traveling merchant may make his trip by cart, boat or sedan chair, if the weather be mild, but if it be winter, the mule litter will carry him over the rougher country, or he may skim along the waterways on a light sled propelled by human arms and legs.?Leslie's Weekly. CHINESE POSTAL FACILITIES. Letters Carried by Private Companies? Slight Use of Postage Stamps. The recent establishment in Mott street of a postal sub-station with Chinese interpreters for the particular accommodation of the inhabitants of Chinatown may induce some inquiry about the way the Chinamen?who dc so many things backwards, according to Occidental ideas?handle their mail? in their own countty. Sure enough, they stick stamps on the backs of letters, though not invariably; and th( stamps look like the labels on firecracker packages, showing dragons, pagodas, and other emblems less easily identified, but meaning "sincerity," "longevity," and so on. But private postal companies, analogous to our express and telegraph corporations, do most of the business In China. They use no stamp, and it Is necessary to prepay only about a third of the postage, as the rest is collected from the -recipient. The-less one pre pays in excess of the minimum tne surer and swifter the delivery. When a New Yorker mails a letter to interior China the stamp carries it only to some Chinese port, where it is 'transferred to a private post at the recipient's expense. Similarly a missionary stationed away from the coast has to pay two. postal charges to communicate with friends here. Shanghai has a municipal post for its own merchants and citizens, with branches in fifteen treaty ports. It used to charge each customer $50 a year for all his business, light or heavy, but stamps are used now. Chinese "stamps are reckoned in candarines, approximately equivalent tc cents. Their value used to be based on the silver ounce, pr tael, but its variability caused confusion, so now the Mexican dollar is the basis. The first imperial set was made in Japan, and proved unsatisfactory; the current set came from England in 1898. Some stamps, notably those of Tientsin, were Issued without authority merely to sell to collectors. There was no other demand for them, they never carried a letter, and they have been officially repudiated. Elsewhere the regular demand is so slight that no stock is carried; the stamps are run off on-a handpress while the buyer waits.?New York Post. No One NighMother?I'm surprised at you! Could not you tell he was going to kiss you? Daughter?Yes, ma, but there was no one for me to tell except him, and he knew it already.?Philadelphia Press. Dyeing is as simple as washing when you use Putnam Fadeless Dxes. Sold by all druggists. "Robbie, did you divide the orange in equal parts between your little friend and yourself?" "Yes'm; I gave him all the outside and took all the inside." The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Ceill Tonic. It Is simply iron and quinine In a tasteless form. No cure?no pay. Price 50c. Unfeminine. Cumso-Tbe Dowager Empress of China is very unwomanly. Cawker?Indeed? Cnmso?Yes. She adds no postscript to her decrees.?Harper's Bazar. Vitality low, debilitated or exhausted cured | by Dr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. Free 91 trial bottle for 2 weeks' treatment. Dr. Kline, Ld., 031 Arch St., Phlladeipha. Founded 187L No man can command others who is unable to command himself. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrnp for children teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. A spring overcoat on the back Is worth two in hock. I use Piso's Cure for Consumption both in I my family and practice.?Dr. (t. \v. Patterson*, Inkster, Mich., Nov. -5,1891. Mr. Green? "Billson's boy has got to be an officer in the navy." Mrs. Green?"Well, well! I s'pose he'll wear epithets on his shoulders now." . IB1A Is the best remedy fbt I J tT K nil S bronchitis. It relieves the troublesome cough Cmirrh ^VPIin at once, effects an easy vull^n Oyrlip expectoration and j cures iu a few days. Price 23c. at all druggists. TBKIMUwmK ^L/^KDBE^nKVM9Hk jAJBRA ffiHHH ft > I [U mEBW^iEMm jjSMBpM 3 I Nui fSjHj^mm ys9 - A KLONDIK "uggist from Klondike to In fact it is the only Col is striking evidence of every box of the genuii ? I / 7 - ' A Good Cause. "Ladv, wud yer please drop io j cents in dis box?" "To go in bad whiskey," "Yes, ma'am, to go in whiskey." "What! yon have the bare face to stand there and ask me for money to j spend for whiskey?" "Allow me to explain, ma'am. De ! town temperance committee has got me to be de 'horrible example.' As it takes a good quantity of liquor to make dis example horrible, de committee has been forced to inaugurate a house-to-house collection takin'." Indestructible. Mrs. Xuwed (to market man)?I want a chicken that I can fry, or stew, or roast, or fix up any way I like. Market Man?Sme, mum, here's one you can do anything yqu like wid an' not hurt it.?Baltimore American. The Ideal Man. There Is much rivalry between the various colleges as to which will produce the ideal man. Hy this they mean a vigorous, honest. Intellectual man, who will make the world better for having lived. Health will demand first considers-Ion. for upon that depends brain and achievement, Iloeietter's Stomach Bitters will keep the bowels regular and the j stomach healthy by curing all stomach dis- i orders. It also prevents malaria, lever and ague. Try it. Restrained By Consistency. '"You are enough to drive a man to suicide!" exclaimed the husband. "Then why don't you go and hang yourself?" tauntingly asked ^rs. Vick-Seun. "Because," lie howled, "I have been all my life opposed to capital punishment."?Chicago Tribune. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money It it falls to cure. ?. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 23c. 0 No Home. Wragson Tatters?Say, Harv, wot's a "cosmopotitan?" Harvard Hasben?Well, Wragsr, that's the name they givn to a kind of wealthy hobo.? Philadelphia Press. Statk op Ohio. City op Toledo, i ? Lucas County. v Frank J. cneney makes oath that be is the senior partner of the firm of F. .T. Cheney & Co.. doing business in the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and thatsaid firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my (?1 presence, this tfth day of December. <sea l> A. D. 1888. A. VV. GleaSON. ('?.? J Xotary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, ana acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Chf.ney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c.' Hall's Family Pills are the best. Put His Foot in It. "He's sorry now he quarreled with her." "She has gone home 10 her mother, 1 suppose." "No; she's had her mother come home to her.'*?Philadelphia Press. I roc doctobsanS SPECIAL BUGGIES with long bod under seat, Steel or Bobber Tires with stick seats. 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