The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 06, 1902, Image 4
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TWO POETS.
.
Two poets lived: their time came and they
died.
Silenced, they slept their long sleep, side by
side.
Tn memory of the one with loud acclaim
de.^ built a temple beautiful, of Fame.
' Mid richest carvings splendidly enscroiled
"lis name shone radiant, embossed in gold.
And even proclaimed him greatest of mankind,
The Master-singer and the Master-mind.
With lauds and praises did the temple quake,
Out of the ether silenced poet no man spake.
Calmly surveying from his heav-n's height i
Tho temple-builders in their puny might,
.Enthroned ia splendour sate the Oversoul:
And on eternal tablets did a name enroll
Upon the honour-list of heaven's best;
In flaming colours it outshone the rest.
But lo, the letters did not spell the name
Of him whom men placed in their hall of
Fame. !
A Voice snake: "Empty is the name ye
quote: " I
This poet lived the poetry the other wrote.
?Elizabeth It. Finley.
I I AUNT MEG'S COLUMN. I
;; "Harry, I can sum up your case in
^ three words." said Lancaster. "The
fact is?and you cannot deny it?
you're in love.
"How on earth did you find that
out?" he muttered,
fe "Experience and casual observation,"
replied Lancaster, shortly. "By
\ the by, I saw Milly Holsworth today."
\Then, with a grin, "Um, I thought I
K Nasnt far out. She's a nice girl,
|8|. ... \y, and a clever one. Women
^ys who are good looking and
their own living are in great
the matrimonial market, so
a man i can quite believe it"
dred anued Ellington, "but when
cr?even t a paltry twelve hunfcuy
him up^ar the idea of ?er?
pleasant comito a lady who can
"Personally, 're rise to unTaint
heart,' etcm!"
never know what try my luck,
you decide to see henow. You
affect the case anispire. say
your return from Englace might
be snapped up in the meH until
haps the steamer might fbhight
-and-" ^er"Don't
Lancaster, don't!" shfcd
Ellington. "Your advice, old cL
fear has not advanced the imp
ment of the outlook at all."
"Then the only course that ren
open for you is to consult Aunt h
sighed Lancaster.
"Aunt Meg! Who is she? And w
she got to do with it?"
"Aunt Meg is a lady connected
a popular publication entitled *
Daisy," whose official duty it is t<
ceive and reply to, through the
umns of the aforesaid journal,
i questions that may be submittei
her notice on the all important th
of love and its attendant trials,
understandings and vagaries in
"Consult Aunt Meg!" the w<
seemed to ring in Ellington's ears
some time after the departure of
friend Lancaster.
"A precious fool I'd be thought,'
mused, "supposing I was i
enough to trust my private affairs
llit; i.t'UUt'1 iliCiAJKJa Ul tt lUUUCiil 1
journalist, if the story leaked i
Certainly one might write unde:
nom de plume or initials, but the
gki don't believe in such rot."
Half an hour's meditation, howe1
*0. served to put matters before him i
>different light. He reflected that
journal in question bore & very h
character, and he resolved to try A
Meg.
After due destruction of varii
sheets of note paper, his communi
tion was at last fairly neatly tra
cribed and ran as follows:
"To 'Aunt Meg,' Daisy Office, Fleet
street, E. C.:
"Madam?I trust you may be a
to successfully advise me as to i
actions in the following matter: To
brief, I am aged 30 and am in rece
of an annual income of twelve hundi
and fifty dollars as private secrets
to a titled gentleman, who is about
depart on a voyage of infinite durati
in three weeks' time for his healtl
sake, and I am to accompany him.
month ago I made the acquaintance
ft rhftrrnino' lnriv ahnnt mv nn-n ><
and we have met at various intervj
ever since.
"As you will already have surmis;
I am deeply in love with her, thougt
have not as yet declared my passic
As far as I am aware, from the stai
-r : ment of a friend, she is in receipt
an income exceeding mine by two hu
dred and fifty dollars per annum, d
rived from her employment, the e
. ' act nature of which, however, owii
to the shortness of our acquaintanc
I am unfortunately in ignoran
beyond that it is something in a ci
office.
"I have every reason to believe th
my attentions, such as they have bee
are not altogether distasteful. Wh:
would you advise me to do? Ask hi
now and risk a slender income, <
wait until I am in more affluent ci
cumstances, which chance is slight!
remote at the present outlook? ?
H. A. E."
Two Saturdays passed and left hii
^ in the deepest depths of despair, o\
ing to the nonappearance of a rep]
to his communication.
In the meantime he met Mildre
Holsworth on two occasions at th
house of a mutual acquaintance an
once was almost on the verge of
declaration, but checked himself i
time to save making himself an arran
ass, as he termed it.
It was with feverish excitement tha
t j * i- : - -
ue opeutQ uie iasi issue 01 thf -L>ais;
published before he lent' England
'Eagerly he scanned the page sacred'.;
set apart for the benefit of "Aun
* Meg" and her amorous amblings.
Yes, it was there at last!
"H. A. E.:?Waste no time, but g<
and ask her at once. If I judg<
rightly from the tone of your letter
you need scarcely have any apprehen
sion as to the nature of her reply. Ai
to monetary matters, a girl who can
not comfortably manage and be happj
on the united income doesn't deserve
a husband at all."
It was all over. The last slipper
had sped its course in the air and disappeared
through the window of the
compartments which had the honor ol
accommodating the happy couple, and
the last handful of rice lay whitening
the platform like a miniature fall oi
snow.
"I'm so glad it's all over at last,"
sighed Mildred Ellington as she threw
herself wearily back among the cushions.
"But the whole affair was a
complete success and went off without
a flaw."
"Yes, darling, quite complete, except
for the absence from the ceremony of
one to whom I owe a great deal of my
present happiness?in fact one of your
Bistc?r strugglers in the field of liter
I
j ature. Mllly, 'I've a confession to
| make. I know you'll think I'm m
awful fool, and perhaps be angry, but
! promise me, Milly, beforehand, that
you will forgive me."
I "I'd promise you anything, Harry, j
It?it can't be anything dreadful, I'm
sure," falteringly.
"Then read that and put me out of
my misery."
And taking from his inside breast
pocket a copy of the Daisy containing
Aunt Meg's advice, which he had so
successfully acted upon, he opened it
at the fatal page and handed it to her.
"Harry," she said quietly, pushing it
away, her eyes filling with tears tlis
while, "I?I know what you mean now.
I She-?she was there, and?and you
saw her."
"I saw her her, Milly?" ejaculated
Ellington, utterly taken aback by her
answer.
"Yes, Harry, and you see her now! j
- - - a? a i
! I?I was Aunt Meg at tne ume, aim I
knowing whom your question con- i
i cerned replied accordingly. I, too, 1
j meant to confess all today, and you !
i have made it easier for me to do so. j
I Kiss me, Harry, and say you forgive j
me."?Waverly Magazine.
QUEER ARE WCMEN.
That Is, Some of Them Are, Says a Cyn- j
leal Masculine Observer.
"Women are critically curious creat- j
ures," said a cynical citizen, "and the
wonder to me is that they ever make '
a wise selection in marriage. I do not j
mean to say anything unkind, for no
man has a deeper or more profound
regard for women than I have, and I
admire Drummond chiefly because he
said that woman represents evolution's,
nature's, God's, highest achieve- j
ment, and that she was really the cli- .
max of all these forces, and they j
reached their lirnft in her creation, a
result the forces had been striving j
to bring about from the very begin- j
ning of time. I believe this is true.
Being of a cynical turn of mind, I am j
not inclined to admit that the world is j
wholly good, but what good there is j
j on this old planet is to be iouna iu
j the other sex.
"But why is it that we are constantly
confronted by the perverseness of
woman's taste in the matter of choosing
between men as we find it. for instance,
in the stage portrayals? Take
the average play, and we will generiain/
find woman's love drifting
leg ? an* s?me fellow who is totally un,y,
a fellow who is a vertitable
hat's **ia* word meacs*ecPe
cases out of 10 it is neceswith
from11 a men *n order to pro'The
her liftod woman?on the stage?
D re. least, on?ul tortures of living all I
ccl- melodramP unworthy man. At
all limit to theT111 have t0 be of the I
i to be sacrificed il' wby .there is no
erne out of a bad m?r fellows who win
mis- men's ideals higii? *be woman
gen- women? Is the hei^* bargain. Are i
in man's nature rat**18 ?* j
ords ?Ped aad more delicatesubIimfor
these same impulses in\*y deve*~ ;
his the fairer sex? Fiction?^ than
and fiction of the standa^J8 ?'
' he fiHed with women of the ki 0Y'
diot mentioned. Of course, they are
5 to of the kind / have been disci*!
a(jy Shakespeare's women, for insta
out. are made of sterner stuff, and histc
r a cal examples of the stronger and m<
,n j thoroughly balanced kind are not la<
ing. There are the women of 1
rer French revolution, who towered abc
n a the men like giantesses. There are (
own noble women, who strugg!
jgll through the blood and tears tl
unt drenched the 'GO'S, and others mie
be mentioned, for we may count
3US around us the good examples of w:
ic4. women in all of life's relations.
ns. "But I was just thinking lighi
about the apparently natural devoti
. which a woman has for the scalawj
and in a majority of cases, if she
called upon to make a selection 1
e tween two men, she will lean towa
^ the fellow who needs reclamation, i
r* deed if she does not take him. If y<
^ j do not believe it, keep a tab on the
e j for awhile."?New Orleans Times-Dei
iry i ocrat.
to
on PEARLS OF THOUGHT,
il's
A TKa o * ?
J. .ir, uug UUCULC VI. Jilt? IS CUI1CC]
?* tration.
An aimiess life is commonly a nami
1 s less life.
Consideration is the daughter c
' j kindliness.
>a. Time lost in menaing nets is save
te- in catching fish.
of Disgrace is not in the punishmen
tn- but in the crime.
I6* - Riches are not an end of life, bu
x' an instrument of life.
Trust your secret to another and i
^ will return badly soiled
ty A truth that one does not under
stand becomes an error.
at Delicious rest is tue fruitage of toil
n, it is strength's sweet restorer,
at Success, if attained at all, must b
er attained via the path of drudgery.
:>r A good conscience is somet imes soli
r* for money, but never bought with it.
It is always a duty to enlighten con
science; it is never a duty to disobey it
^ If thou suffer injustice, console thy
v_ self; the true unhappiness is in doinj
y It.
The two great longings of a reallj
d noble spirit are to be loved and to bt
e useful.
d If you wish success in life, make pera
severance your bosom friend, experia
ence your wise counsellor, caution youi
t elder brother *nci hope your guardian
genius.
t
y Sir William Harconr.'* Success.
I. The most successful maiden speech
y of recent times was that of Sir Wilt
liam Ilarcourt. He was 41 years old
when he took his seat as a member for
Oxford on Feb. 16, ISfJ, and just a
3 week later addressed the house for
e the first time The subject was hap;
i pily one in which ie was well versed.
- Viscount Bury asked for leave to in>
troduce a measure tntii.ed the vacating
- seats bill, to repeal *he statut" of
r Queen* Anne which makes it necessary
? for members of the house to seek reelection
on accepting office in the government,
on the ground that it senel
' no useful purpose. Mr. Vernon liarcourt,
as he was then calle!, protested
s against leave being given even to
I bring in such a bill. The speech,
t which occupies six columns in lian:
| sard and was loudly applauded
' j throughout, induced Viscount Bury to
j withdraw his motion
I'atlence.
"I never lose my temper when a
man insults me," said Broncho Bob.
"But you didn't waste any time on
Coyote Bill."
"No. But I didn't lose my temper.
I've learned by experience that nothing
keeps a man from shooting
I straight like losing his temper."?
i Washington Star
I
i
ELASTIC BANDS OUST STRING.
Cheaper Than String In Some Usee?
Tons of Them Sold.
"No," said a rubber goods dealer,
who had been asked about the sale of
elastic bands, "we don't exactly sell
them by the ton, but there are tons
of them sold in the course of the year.
"Originally designed more especially
for a convenient binder for bundles of
documents and that sort of thing, they
are now used for a great variety of
purposes in place of string. They are
used to put around packages and
bundles in stores, more especially
small packages, as in drug stores.
"They are used by many manufacturers
to put around things of various
kinds, which otherwise would be tied
up. If many of these uses, aside
from their convenience and their attractiveness
as a part of the parcel,
they are cheaper than string, because
tho 11co of thom envpa so much timp
A rubber band can be wrapped around
a package in much less time than it
can be tied up.
' Rubber bands in old times used to
be sold by the dozen, now, as you
know, they are sold by the pound, but
you don't have to buy a pound, you
can buy ar ounce, or a half ounce, for
that matter.
"Hov.* many bands to a pound? Well,
that depends, of course, on the size
of the bands. The biggest, heaviest
bands used run only twelve bands to
the pound; the smallest, a tiny little
band called an election ring, from their
use around bunches of ballots, number
thousands to the pound. Most people
buy bands of gray rubber, but nowadays
there are not a few who prefer
the bands of tho more modern terra
cotta color.
"I never heard an elastic band play,
but there's sure to bo music in tho air
when the small boy gets out with his
beanshcoter, which he makes by attaching
a rubber band to the prongs
of a wishbone-shaped handle; this being
on of the uses of elastic band3 that
I forgot to mention."?New York Sun.
New Uso For Fetroleum.
Scientific investigation has proven that
petroleum is far superior to coal for fuel, so
that we need not worry should the coal supply
give out. In nearly all of Nature's products
we find that as soon as one material becomes
scarce another is discovered to tako
its place. There is one exception, however.
... . . TT. Ol. ? ?l, Pif>niU
ana mat is rtostener ? oiuui?uii !?????. ?
is Nature's own remedy for dyspepsia, indigestion,
constipation and malaria, fever and
ague. Don't fail to try it.
The prodigal son of the hard-working
hen i3 generally a bad egg.
A Noted Teacher.
Prof.Walter "Wilson, of the Savannah High
School, says: "I feel it my duty to testify to
the wonderful curative properties of Tetterine.
It cured in a few days my son,whose feet
were affected with stubborn skin trouble,
after using other remedies without any benefit."
SOe.a box by mail from J. T. Shuptrine,
Savannah, Ga., if your druggist don't keep it.
If ignorance were bliss, what a lot of people
would be happy.
Tyner's Dyspepsia remedy Cures Sour
Stomach and*Headache. At Druggists, 60c.
There are still districts in Italy where
the peasants live on chestnuts and acorns.
There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For a great many veers doctors
pronounced it a local disease and prescribed
> local remedies, and by constantly failing to
pure with local treatment, pronounced it inarable.
Science has proven Catarrh to be a
ck - ^stitutional disease and therefore requires
the titutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh
)ve tLmftnu*ac*ure<i ky F. J. Cheney <fc Co.,
fro 0.. is the only constitutional cure on
>ur j ^-et. It is taken internally in doses
led svstc5Ps*? a teaspoonful. It acts directlat
oiiy casl0^ and mucous surfaces of the
and test7" offer ono hundred dollars for
' Co Tnlprf? t0 cure. Send for circulars
all qAm rte- Address F. J. Chenet A
ise Hall's FamL^ 75o
Ship rats, wH.&re tho best.
ily plaeue, have been propapators of the
011 at Marseilles by tfi ?ghly exterminated
ig, acid. pj carbonic
is * Best For the
ie- J No matter what ails you^iB.
rd i cer, you will never get well he to a canare
put right. Cascabets hVour bowe;b
n - you without a gripe or pain,ture cur3
on natural movements, cost you jusu?e oasv
start getting your health back. .gnt31*0
Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put u ^bets
a- boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. sta^t^
it. Beware of imitations. on
The rich man traveling abroad dot
have to be a linguist. Money talk3
every language.
The average man returns a borrowed u:
? ! brella when it's worn out and he wants a
! other.
. FITS permanently cured. No fits or norvou
ne8s after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Gre
NerveRestorer.$2*trial bottle and treatisefr
1(2 Dr. B. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St.. Phila., P
Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't i
^ quire much practice to make a perfect fo<
H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta. Ga., a
^ the only successful Dropsy Specialists in tl
world. See their liberal offer in advertis
ment in another column of this paper.
"When a fellow carries a picture in b
watch there is-usually a woman in the cas
Wo refund 10c. for every package of Pttnam
Fadeless Dte that fails to givo satii
j faction. Monroe Drug Co., Unionviile,
New York City is the chief manufactu
e ing city in the United States.
Piso's Cure cannot bo too highly snoken*
1 as ?i cougn cure.?>. w. u i>niE>, 6\Ll imr
Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. G, 13C
. | That man is lacking in diplomacy *.vli
tries to guess a woman's age.
I Coughs |
I "My wife had a deep-seated cough f
g for three years. I purchased two ?
i | bottles of Aver's Cherry Pectoral, v
. i g large size, and it cured her cm- v
g pletely." ?
l J. H. Burge, Maccn, Col. ^
Probably you know o? :j
| cough medicines that re-fi
Slieve little coughs, <~Ji |
coughs, except deep ones' V
The medicine that has p
been curing the worst of ?
I deep coughs for sixty |
p years is Aycr's Cherry |
g Three sizes: ?*c., 5*j , Jl. All Jnzgslrts. n
i fej (V.nsnU your (%>? ;.?r. if lie says take It, 9
j 5 tl'ei. ?i? ;t.? .1 s:.y<. If l>e tells jtmi not S
i ;I..i V T.nVe it lie lfiniin u
I fe Leivr :t w!. ' jv: v*-. f-'
.1 Vi j: '<>., lrtitreJ.MaM. j?
The following named states and ter|
ritories in 1900 did not contain any
i ?ity with a population of 25.000 or
i more: Arizona. Idaho. Indian Terrl:ory.
Mississippi. Nevada. New Mexi|
:o. North Carolina, Oklahoma. South
| Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming.
| Minnesota is called the "Bread and
! 3utter State." and rightly, too. for last
| r'ear her mills turned out 26,630,500
carrels of flour and churned over 60,100,000
pounds of butter.
WELL-DRESSED HORSES. ;
j
LAWS WHICH COVERN IN MATTERS i
OF EQUINE COOD TASTE.
i
Improvement in lho Housing and. Ap* !
pointincnts of Park Trap*?Some Trapping*.
However. Like Diamond* at
Ur< akfast ? It ilos Not to I'e Violated.
To those who deplore the extremes
to which It is pretty generally con- i
ceded the independent American citizen
goes in matters of dress, it may
be comforting to know that the Amer- i
ican horse, at least, is coming to be !
looked upon as one of the best and j
at the same time one of the most |
'properly" dressed horses in the world,
says the New York Post. And. when ;
it understood that a horse without
lho least difficulty on its owner's part
may appear in the park and on the
boulevards in attire as shocking as
diamonds at breakfast, it will be the
better realized what this means. That j
q -rCk c*ill floffpant vinlotinn? fif I
tire laws which govern matters of
equine good taste goes without saying,
but they merely serve to furnish the
contrast by which the general improvement
is made more marked.
To the horse-show associations,
more than to anything else, may ne
attributed this advancement in the
proper housings of the American horse
of fashion and the correct appointments
for park traps and road turncuts.
In establishing classes in which
the appointments of the entries must
betaken into consideration by the judges
in making their awards, the association
has set a definite standard of
fashion. An owner, for oxample,
whose pair of brougham horses are
turned down (after the judge has
weeded out the entire class down to
his pair and one other), because his
brass-mounted harness is equipped
with steel instead of brass kidney
links, learns next time to understand
the importance of these little niceties
of detail. And it is the attention to
or the ignoring of these apparently
insignificant details that make a park
horse eithor "smart" or ridiculous.
The black rosette's, for instance,
when used on the bridle as emblems i
of mourning, arc considered improper,
unless a plain black brow band is
substituted for the ornament one originally
on the harness. The saddle
housings, if in color, should likewise
be changed. In this city it has become
an unwritten law that the rosettes
shall be cf the same shade with the
carriage trimmings, but in London and
in Paris this rule is not observed. In
those cities violets and other flowers
are frequently substituted for the i
orthodox silk rosette.
As in matters to masculine attire. ]
T J? 1 '- ? m aXm a ?tl /\n in I
l.onuon Jllvuwise IIIC lljico iu |
fashionable harnesses. There is a j
well-known importer of horse-furnish- I
ings who has successfully introduced
several new fashions into this country
by first making them popular in London,
where he has another store. Possibly
the most conspicuous case of this
kind was that of the Swiss collar
which he offered as a substitute for
the English collar, which had originally
supplanted former Swiss 'importations.
The new collar was made with
an extremely broad breast-plate and
two heavy brass terrets. As a light
runabout harness, it has now almost
entirely succeeded the old one.
The French quarter-blanket made
of leather has likewise largely taken
the place of the English broadcloth
blanket. It is cut shorter than the
English affair, and is intended to
protect only the horses loins, and
thus in no way Impede the movements
o' his hips. Harnesses, according to
this Broadway importer, are divided,
like men's garments, into two classes
?dress and undress?and to appear in
the park with a victoria and an undress
harness?which becomes undress
if the kidney links are of steel
when the other mounting is brass, or
when the bearing reins do not cornform
to the general ensemble?is as
unpardonable as appearing on toe
street in an evening coat and russet
shoes.
"Strangely enough," said the importer,
"I find that the tendency here is
towards ultra conservatism. There is j
not the same latitude permitted here
today that you will find in London.
"hi3 is especially true of the brough- |
n~ $ and heavy park vehicles. There
n* tn?t any color is permissible in the
HertbGs of a victoria or landau,
any c\ one seems to dare employ
00 same th.?ther than black; and the
a- The use holds true of the housings.
e. 'servant is pole-chains here when a
)!. is unpardonal11* is an offence which
try. Pole-strap*11 civilized coun
are alone pergth Wished buckles
0. chains were Thc, pole:
- - - W lLll * vlonr of
aiding smartness to Vg tuna'snd
they should only be ustn to jn
c. which a gentleman may do tlK^y.
ing. It is not good form *itht ^
I' have quarter-blankets of one color
housings of another, nor is it any lo
ger the thing to use large monogram
on them. We cannot revolutioniz<
1he styles :n harnesses as a tailor ma}
>f with his wares. We are fortunate i:
we can change with every four or fiv<
years."
In four-in-hand turnouts?no doubl
_ from the character of its patrons? il
a is probably easier to offend the pro
| prieties than in any other department
t in which the horse plays a part. There
i are little niceties in appointment and
i deportment, so finely drawn that to
observe or td ignore them either
makes old friends enemies or strang?
ers friends. There is one school that
| believes in driving with the left hand
J held on a level with the chest. The
| other school drives with a low hand,
[ sneers at the former method and calls
J it "driving in front of your scarf pin."
! The scarf pin advocates answer that
j to work a four after this manner is
I more difficult, and consequently Is
more of an accomplishment. There
! are the gentlemen whips who contend
that hip-straps or trace-bearers should
never be used under any clrcum
stances. Their opponents say that
such details of the harness are entirely
warranted in the case of a horse
with a tendency to kick.
There are certain set rules, however.
that the owner of a coach must
observe to be in form. Ribbons and
rcsettes may not be used on a road
ccach except on the last day of the
season, then on the last stage Into
town knots of ribbons on the horses'
heads and similar ones with long* ends
or. the saddles may be worn. It i;s ex|
pected that these ribbons will corre1
spond at all times, but on a road
j coach only flowers in season are perI
missible. The flower may be worn
in the cheek-piece buckle. The bridle
tj be used with a park drag may have
a front piece ornamented with a simple
chain pattern; for a road coach
patent leather or worsted planted
aiound a leather front is alone permissible.
Another little nicety in four|
in-hand appointments is the distincj
tion made in the bridle-bosses. On
! the drag harness these bosses should
| be on the inner as well as on the outer
side of the bridle, on the coach har?
p.ess only on the outside. The boss
Is the only place where a crest or
an initial should be placed. For wet
weather work the harness should be
of black leather throughout, with the
metal parts covered?this rule applies,
however, more to team harnesses than
to fours.
A TRIP TO DAWSON.
Scenerj Beautiful ?Hardships of Travel
Are lliingfl of the I'a^t.
It is a matter of surprise to me that
so few people travel through our northwest
territory for pleasure and sightseeing.
The scenery is beautiful and
the hardships of travel are things of
the past. The old timers like to relate
their experience over the trails,
with their dog sleds, and their trips
on the Yukon, on rafts and in canoes,
their solitary tramps over the mountains,
in search of gold, with scanty
provisions and how they were at
times in peril from the Indians, but
oftener from the weather. The rail'
road over the mountains and the
steamboats on the river have changed
all this and have provided in its place
the usual comforts of travel.
The coast range of mountains is in
view of the steamers that ply along
the Alaska shore to Skagway. The
hills are green with pines and cottonwoods
and an occasional cateract may
be r:een foaming down some steep
hillside, while above it lies the glacier
that feeds it. At this season of the
year, Aug. 30, there are a number of
small icebergs near Juneau, and they
are as treacherous as they are beautiful.
Of a light translucent blue color
they rise 20 to 30 feet out of the
water and look like islands of glass.
They are not easily discernible at
night and the face of the ill-starred
islander awaits a vessel colliding with
one of them.
For miles from the mainland of
Alaska the sea is full of islands, large
and small, covered with a luxuriant
vegetation. The sea in the inland passage
between Seattle and Skagway is
as smooth as glass, except in a very
few places, like Queen Charlotte
Sound. Indeed it is somewhat like the
inland sea of Japan, which travelers
are so delighted to visit and tell about,
hut. it is all on a larger scale and with
the human life of it. In places of
tilled fields in terraces on the hillsides
and the evidences everywhere of
crowded life.', in Alaska and the great
Northwest territory one is impressed
with, the vast solitude. Thousands of
miles are uninhabited except by a few
tribes of Indians, some salman fishers
and prospectors for gold.
Skagway is not as busy a town as
it was in '99. Some copper claims
have been located between there and
White Horse, but if they ever gave
any promise that iSey would become
mines they have not yet fulfilled it.
My Norwegian friend, with a smile
that was "childlike and bland," told
me that he had sold a couple of them,
but did not think nuch of them.
But if there are no mines between
Skagway and White Horse there is
scenery to gladden the heart of an
artist, and the railroad between these
point3 is a triumph of engineering
skill. It winds around the granite
cliffs on grade of 4 percent In
places, and through the car windows
r? u - j nvpr
Can 06 seen tar ui;iun iuu ?.?n- ? ?
which the train has circled. An ascent
of between 2000 and 3000 feet is made
from Skagway to Lake Bennett. From
there the train runs along the lake
side and the banks of the Yukon tc
White Horse. The length of the railroad
is 100 miles. The current in the
Yukon river is swift; it runs about sto
miles an hour, so the distance down
the river from White Horse to Dawson,
450 miles, is made quickly. The
best river boats make it in betweer
30 and 40 hour? ?Mines and Min
erals.
Woman and the Doormat.
j "Reginald," she said, "before wc
go any farther I want you to tell mc
something. At a meeting of some kinc
J the other day a woman said men loolupon
woinen as doormats. Oh, tel
me?tell me, before it is forever toe
I late?is that your idea?"
"Well, darling," he said, looking fai
down into her wonderful, deep eye;
and feeling around for her soft littlf
fingers, "to be perfectly frank witi
you, I must confess that I do considei
women to be like doormats?in i
?f
sense.
A pallor overspread her sweet face
She sank down on the davenport 01
the dubuque, or whatever the fashion
able name for it is, and motioned a
him to stand back.
"Don't touch me! Don't come nea:
me!" she cried when at last she coul.:
trust herself to speak. "Thank heaven
I have found you out in time. Ugh!
And they say this is an enlightener
age! Oh, why did I let you kiss m<
before I knew!"
"You see," he said when she allowed
him to continue, "if it were not fo:
women and doormats I'm afraid som<
of the men wouldn't always leave sc
* much of their coarse clay outside a:
7 they do or try to do qnder the cirf
cumstances."
- In a moment she was pinioned
painst his breast and words ha.:
t <ased passing between them.?Chicat
S Record-Herald.
The Earth's Bending*.
kfle bendings are in progress al
[ ?mc the world over. The "im,
niovaie" hills are bowing and scrap,
ing tceach other constantly. Everj
evenin, as the dew settles in the valleys
beveen them, they nod to on<
another, go, likewise, do the mountains,
eve> to a greater extent. Gravity
is tugfeng all the time. And ij:
London, toe where earthquake sensations
are tactically unknown, the
earth bends laily, and the buildings
l)K*p thp hillcnn^ mnnntainit nrw
to their frierds; opposite when the
morning traffic begins. On Sunday
usually, th2ir manners take a rest
excepting ii such places as Petticoat
lane, where business flourishes in as
lively a fasiion as in Paris. Heine
said that e\en the trees made obei
sance to Naioleon the First when he
entered Berlii. This was imaginative
yet truthful, fcr the weight of -lie
crowd along Titer den Linden made a
tilting sufficient for Professor Milne's
pendulums, to hive recorded distinctly.
One migftt say the crust of the ear?
acts like a steel spring, it bends so
easily?Everybody's Magazine.
Intelligence *nd the Suffrage.
Symonds?So you object to woman
suffrage. I shoald like to know upon
what grounds, if you have any reason
able ones.
[ Belcher?I've heard more than a
hundred women say the men are all
alike. With such an idea in their
heads, how can you expect an intelligent
use of the suffrage from themf?
Boston Transcript.
The bones of a mastodon recently
found in Missouri indicate that the
beast ^iad a throat six feet in diameter.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
It appears that the greatest velocity
of a rifle ball is not at the muzzle, but
some distance in front An average
oi 10 shots with the German infantry
rifle has shown a muzzle velocity of
2CG8 feet per second, with a maximum
velocity of 2132 feet per second at 10
feet from the muzzle.
The extension of the use of electricity
in British warships in place
of steam for subsidiary purposes :s
to be made the subject of a series of
experimental tests. At the present
time the capstan, steering engines,
ventilating fans and derrick hoists
are worked by steam power.
Arsenic is a very brittle prietal, steel
gray in color, and of no great importance
in the arts. Metallic arsenic is
found native in veins in metamorphic
rocks in Saxony, Bohemia, and abun
tiantly ftt Chanarcillo in Chili. Arsenic
is widely disseminated, as few
sulphur ores are free from traces of
it. The white arsenic of commerce is
arsenious acid.
A striking proof of the lasting qualities
of cedar wood nas been discovered
in the state of Washington. Near Acme
is a forest of hemlocks, which has
grown up over a buried forest of cellars.
It has been lound that the
trunks of ceuar are well preserved,
although they have been lying in damp
soil for at least 150 years. The rings
of growth on the hemlock show that
they have been growing over the cedars
for that length of time.
Mr. Birkeland has continued his calculations
to determine whether the
periodic changes in the area of the
spotted regions of the sun's surface
are in any degree due to gravitational
disturbances produced by either of the
planets Mercury, Venus or Jupiter, x^s
latest calculations cover the period
1892-96, and his conclusion is that we
must seek for oiher causes than planetary
influence to explain sun spot
period and that in future it is idle to
look for the cause of this period outside
of the solar sphere itself.
Professor Georgeson, who Is in
charge of the agricultural experiment
stations in Alaska, sends encouraging
reports of the conditions there. He
made a trip into the interior and
down the Yuuon early in August and
found new potatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers
and other vegetables ready for
the table, and gardens blooming with
a variety of annual flowers. On the
lower Yukon he found extensive tracts
of land covered with luxuriant grasses,
six feet in height in places, and apparently
well suited to agricultural purposes.
The following item relaung to the
Manila observatory is taken from Prof.
Barward's account of his trip to Sumatra:
The observatory is equipped
for both astronomical and meteorological
purposes. It has a fine refracting
telescope of 19 inches aperture, the
cbject glass being by Steinheil and
the mounting by Saegmuller. On account
of the troublous times of the
* A' iv. _1_ V. o ^
past inree year uie uujc^l giaaa "?>.?
I- been removed and hidden away during
that period, so that the telescope was
not in a condition to be used when the
! observatory was visited by the Amerii
can eclipse observers during their stay
i at Manila. Father Algue, the director
i of the establishment, stated that they
had a large percentage of clear nights
i curing the year, and that the atmos:
phere was steady much of the time,
i This observatory is doing very valua
hie meteorological work. The study and
s prediction of typhoons?so destructive
i in the China sea, and of which Father
Algue has m; a special study?is of
the utmost importance to navigation.
The work was spoken of highly by the
officers of the various vessels on which
! the expedition sailed.
%
Mra?nrlng Hninlditr.
: To most minds scientific instruments
* ?re so fearfully and wonderfully con)
structed that no attempt is ever made
to pry into the manner of their perr
forming their functions, the results
3 obtained being accepted as a matter
' of course. Yet many such instruments
1 while apparently complicated, are
f really based on very simple principles.
1 Of these the thermometer and the
barometer are, of course, now general
ly understood, although this was not
r always true.
Another meteorological instrument,
however, which is much used, out
which is more or less mysterious to
" the public, is that by which the amount
* of moisture in the air is determined.
J.II ? i ~1.. Vti 1
( Willie UeiUJB.Ltij' cuiion iaau auu u<xianced
by means of fine springs, the
* chief reliance is placed on a few horse
2 hairs, which are exceedingly responsive
to the influence of dampness.
* When the air becomes moist they
r relax, and a pivoted bar, one end of
2 which forms an indicator, is drawn
* along a scale, which snows just to what
? extent the air is saturated with water.
When the air is dry the horse hair |
becomes tense and the indicator is
1 returned to its appropriate place on
* the seals.
It is in this way that track is kept
of General Humidity, whose damp j
forces so effectually conspire to keep
j humanity in misery during warm
weather.
An 1o Folding l>d*.
All purchasers of folding beds do not
buy them solely for the sake of saving
room. According to a maufacturer,
some people with ample house room
at command buy them, for one reason,
so that the rooms in which they are
placed can be put to other uses than
as bedrooms.
This manufacturer mentioned one
New York family in whose house are
eleven fine folding beds. Any room
in the house designed for and equipped
as a sleeping room could be easily
A ? n frt Ana
irausiui uieu li uui a ucviuvui iu uuc
' that had 110 appearance of a sleeping
! apartment whatever.
There are produced nowadays fold;
ing beds of one kind and another that
f are sold at low prices, but the most
costly of the finer folding beds may
1 easily be pretty dear affairs.
1 The manufacturer told of one elaborately
designed and finished folding
bed that cost $1000, the cost of the
carving alone having been $300.?New
York Sun.
Betraying Hi* Ignorance.
1 "I am always putting my foot in it,,!
1 said Mr. Cumrox, -sadly.
"What's the trouble?"
"I am always displaying the fact
1 that I have no taste or refinement.
' Mrs. C. asked me which of two gowns
' I preferred and I immediately betrayed
my ignorance. I admired the
one which cost at least $75 less than
the other."?Washington Star.
i
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Nearly a half billion pounds of tea
were consumed in the year. 1000 in
countries other than the sources of
production..
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Mrs. L. A. Harris, a Prominent Member
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