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WAS IT YOU. Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebodj- smiled tbe whole day long; Somebody thought; "'Tissweet to live"; 8omebody said. " I'm glad to give"; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right. Was that somebody you? j A SOCIAL IMBROGLIO. [ j Maud Eudicoit was visiting an aunt who lived in a suburban town in the j "wild and wooly west" and which was i certainly breey compared to the solid frigidity of the classic Hub, albeit looked upon by the city proper as pro- I verbially slow. Maud being one of i the Endicbtts, and related to the Hon. | Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain of "Lun- j nun," felt it incumbent upon her to j . keeep up the traditions of old lady i *1? anolHnc and .Boston as iu mc tuncti ?? , pronunciation of words embodied in lit- j erary phrasing, and delivered with an ; accent that cold chisels them into a perfect mosaic of language. Her aimt, Mrs. Mason, was duly awed and impressed by her niece's culture, but was more interested in having her marry a western man she ' had met and conquered, a prosperous * and popular young doctor who had won her favor, and who, although born in Kalamazoo instead of Boston, could speak the language of love more flunetly than any eastern admirer she had ever known. And just when she was ready to utter that final "yes" which would make the three of them happy, a word that was not Bostonese desperately offended Miss Endicott. The season of. the. church fair was at its height and Mrs. Mason, being an active member of a popular church society, had prevailed on Maud to take a table and sell fancy articles for the benefit of the guild. On the close of the second evening the young woman parted from her lover with frigid politeness and refusing to enlighten him as to the cause of his of: fending, went home with her aunt, to fwhom she^rould not deign an explanation that Sight. The next morning, however, when her aunt, who looked as if she had not slept, asked her what was the trohble, the young woman anv swered with more energy of speech than she had yet employed. "I will never forgive him, never! His words-Vere so rude?so unkind! r And I believed him a gentleman? j Auntie, what is?is?oh, the horrid word?hew can I speak it?what is ? . a* r* "nim-nam: "It mea?s getting something for nothing?nS^ not that exactly, either. Anyway, it's a trick by which you keep what you've bought, and the money you should have paid for the purchase, too. I know that it is a form of swindling." "Yes, and your elegant Dr. Horton accused me?me?a Boston Endicott of playing a game of 'flim-flam*?that . was the very word, so coarse and ungentlemanl^! I presume the word is discoverable in his lexicon?thank goodness, ft has no place in mine." "But my^dear Maud," said her aunt in distress^ "what made his say it. I think I have heard the word?it is quite harmless?but the meaning is? is rather questionable. What had you done?" "Oh, he expected some of his miserable money back in change when there was not a copper coming to him. And then he laughed and said it was a clear case of flim-flam. Oh, how glad I am that he has revealed his inner nature before it is too late. My life would have been wrecked in the keeping of such a man." In spite of her philippics it was evident that. anger was controlling the young woman, and the morning sun streaming in through the window made a charming picture of vixenish young saint, with an aureole of golden brown hair. For Miss Endicott of Boston was rather a beauty. "Did you tell the rector?" asked her aunt; "I heard you talking to him af ter which it was paraded round the I room and saluted by all the members of the club ii?. turn. At the close of the dinner the president proposed the health of all fish. Joke on Bret Harte. Joaquin Miller says Bret Harte was always disgusted with his "Heathen Chinee" glory, and always begged his friends never to mention it. Once Miller and Harte went to breakfast with Lord Houghton in London, and on the way Harte asked if the guests would be likely to quote from that awful poem. This prompted Miller to tip Lord Houghton a wink, and the jolly old nobleman gave the tip to a lot of good fellows at his table, and they all talked nothing else. However. Harte soon saw through the joke and he never betrayed his impatience ,, on the subject again.?Boston Herald. w?r jkju luiucu juui ua^n. kjlx . uur ton." "Yes, I told him what I thought about church fairs?that they were primitive and provincial, and ju'st a religious form of gambling, and that we never had them any more in Boston. Oh, I expect to be tried for heresy and schism at once." "Oh, no. dear," said her aunt with a smile flitting over her troubled countenance, "we are not in Boston. And I think you took Dr. Horton's joke in serious earnest. We call people dense out here when they can't see a joke. Your uncle was a western man, Maud, end he used many expressions I had never heard when I met him?a young girl like you. And I grew to like that freedom of speech just as you will." "Never," retorted Maud, "I am going to write to Dr. Horton this morntag and settle any doubts he may have sn the subject." "I am looking for an apple cart," said Mrs. Mason, changing the conversation; "I will send up a plate of apples if they are good." "Please do not," implored her niece tragically, "they would be apples of Sodom to me." Mrs. Mason took a silver half-dollar from the mantel and sat by the window to watch for an apple peddler passing'to the city. She had no idea that Maud's providence was coming in the guise of an apple peddler, and she felt very much disappointed over \he trend events had taken. To have this favorite niece settled near her had long been the wl ' ? of her heart, and Dr. Horton was positively one of the most eligible men in the state, coming of as good family as Maud and gifted with a staying quality of goodness by divine right. That the girl shculd I wreck her own happiness for such a slight provocation?she felt sure it had not been intentional?worried her greatly. Two hours later Maud came downstairs with a letter in her hand, and found her aunt walking up and down the little sitting-room in a feeble, dazed kind of way. The girl's ill-humor left her instantly. She had a good heart under much veneer of culture. "Auntie, dear," she said, giving the name a loving intonation, "you are not worrying yourself about me? Please | do not, for it is too late now. Dr. Horton is nothing more to me than a stranger. Auntie, what is wrong? Why do you keep your arm hanging by your side and your hand clenched so?" "Maud," whispered her aunt faintly, "I have had a stroke!" The girl screamed with apprehension: "I shall run for Dr. Richards!" She seized her hat. "He will, he must help you at once. Oh. it is my fault! How inconsiderate; how selfish I have been!" Maud reached the office of the old family physician only to miss him; he was off on his rounds. She cou!4 enither follow nor Intercept him. Meanwhile her aunt, whom she loved dearly, might die. Dr. Horton? For a moment her pride held her. but there was no other, and his skill was unquestioned. She met the young man coming out of his office. His carriage was at the door, and while she was briefly telling him the cause of her visit he swung her gently into it, and in a moment they were speeding to the house. Mrs. Mason was still walking the floor, her right arm hanging by her side. Dr. Horton took her hand gently, his face expressing great personal Interest and a respectful sympathy. "Why do you keep your hand clenched- Open it." Mrs. Mason resisted feebly, but he exerted his strength, and the tightly closed fingers yielded. Something dropped to the floor with a sharp, metallic ring. The doctor stooped and picked up a silver half-dollar. Maud gave a cry; she did not understand. Mrs. Mason stared vaguely at the silver piece, then at the relaxed hand. "Is it paralysis?" she asked in a natural voice. "Not a touch of it," said the doctor cheerily, ulso mystified. "Then it's?Oh. Maud, that is the money I should have paid for the apples . I was thinking of something else, and I never gave the man his money, and he a stranger, too, and a poor man. Oh. Maud, it was a regular flim-flam game." But the word went unchallenged, for Maud, now that the danger was over, was going into a fit of hysterics, and it looked as if the malady was con tagious, ior tne aocror laugnea, ana Mrs. Mason cried, and it lasted so long that the doctor's horse, accustomed to long waits ,pawed the sidewalk in his impatience, while the genesis and exodus of one word was being settled to the satisfaction of all parties.?Mrs. M. L. Rayne, in the Chicago RecordHerald. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. # Great boaster, little doer,?French proverb. A fool sometimes gives good counsel. ?Spanish proverb. An angry man heeds no counsel.? Portuguese proverb. The most learned are not the wisest.?Dutch proverb. He who knows but little quickly tells it.?Italian proverb. Sleep over it and you will come to a resolution. Spanish proverb. He who would relish his food must not see it cooked.?Italian proverb. Love without return is like a question without an answer.?German proverb. A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner than when his wife talks Greek.?Johnson. It is easy, in the world, to live after the world's opinion. It is easy, in solitude, to live after your own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.? Emerson. Good manners are the settled medium of social as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally ex pectea rrom ootn; ana peopie win uu more advance their civility to a bear than their money to a bankrupt.? Chesterfield. Novel Test of Death. Horror of being buried alive is common to the whole human race, and from time immemorial experiments have been in progress with the view of making such a terrible fate impossible. Some physicians maintain that satisfactory tests can also be made by the use of Roentgen rays, but it is not every one who has the facilities for making such tests, whereas any one can make a test on the plan devised by Dr. Icard, a physician of Marseilles, France. The doctor uses fluorescin. the well known coloring material, and his experiments have proved so successful that they have won for him the approval of the French Academy of Sciences. Fluorescin injected, intp the human body produces absolutely nd effect if the body is dead, whereas it produces most surprising effect if the body is alive. Dr. Icard uses a solution of it which is so strong that a single gramme is able to color 40,000 quarts of water. If a little of this solution is injected under the skin of a living person in two minutes the skin, and especial- ; ly the mucous membranes, will become much discolored, and the person will present the appearance of one suffering from an acute attack of jaundice. Moreover the eyes will become a greenish color and the pupils will almost become invisible. These symptoms will remain for one or possibly two hours and then will gradually disappear. Since fluorescin produces this effect on a living body it naturally follows, according to Dr. Icard, that any body on which it produces no effect must be dead.? Boston Herald. Comical Fishing Contest. A very amusing competition for fishermen has just taken place in Brussels. The contest, which was international, | says the London Express, brought three fishing clubs from France. The prizes, which ran up to several hundred francs, were to be awarded to those who caught most fish in a given time. Hundreds of competitors appeared on the scene, clad in a varitey of comical costumes. ! Fishing took place in the lake in the Bois de la Cambre and the Tuelles j ponds, all noted for their finny inhabitants. Round the banks the fishermen sat for hours under a broiling sun in a serried line, gravely watching ' their floats. All the rods had to go into the water at a given signal. Whenever a fish was caught, be it great or be it small, a gun was fired. , The first fish caught in each group was cooked for the feast and, minnow or whale, served on a bed of parsley. The dish was carried solemnly to the | president, who rose and bowed gravely ! Uiw times to the unconscious fish, af SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY j The last discovered and mcst distant of great planets, Neptune, extended the 6olar system more than one thousand million miles. Prof. George Forbes is seeking an even more distant planet, so confidently that he has actually j named it Victoria, and he expects that it will be found about 10,000,0000 miles from the sun. A new French refrigerator consists of j closed metallic cylinders surrounded j by a freezing mixture, being designed ' for keeping fruit at a fixed temperature j with a restricted amount of air and an absence of light. Thawing must be gradual. After two months peaches were in perfect condition, and the *1 ?A*J nnrtintr uieinous auapieu iui uaucijuuiut} soft fruits including bananas. All the blood in the human body passes through the heart in about three minutes. The heart beats seventy times a minute, 4200 times an hour, , 100,800 times a day, throwing out 2Vz ounces of blood a second, 656 pounds ' an hour, 7% tons a day. It is only when supplied with pure, rich blood j that the heart, an organ six inches long by four inches wide, can accomplish this enormous amount of work and rebuild its own wasted tissues. In Brussels, Malines and other Belgian towns, a novel method of not only getting rid of smoke, but turning it into use, has recently been employed. The smoke is driven by a ventilating fan into a filter with porous material, > over which a continuous stream of petroleum, benzine, alcohol or some liquid hydrocarbon flows. The result is that the smoke is entirely suppressed, while the filter yields a gas of great calorific power, which can be used for heating purposes and for driving gasengines. The filtering material itself also becomes a good combustible. The available coal yet stored in the earth in Germany is estimated by Professor Ferdinand Fischer of Gottingen .at 160,000,000,000 tons; in England, only 81,500,000, tons; in Belgium, Austria-Hungary and France, about 17,000,000,000 tons each. The store of Russia is but imperfectly known. North America can produce 684.000,000,000 tons, and Baron von Richthofen has stated that China has a supply nearly as great. Japan, Borneo and New South Wales have considerable coal; Africa, an unknown quantity. Germany's coal should last another thousand years, but Engalnd's supply will begin to show signs of exhaustion within 50 years. In the United States the production has increased from about 6,200,000 tons in 1891 to nearly 45,000,000 in 1901. Glass That Will Not Frealc. Louis Kauffeld, owner of a large glass factory, claims to have discovered the secret of manufacturing malleable glass, the long-lost art of the ancients. He says he is now manufacturing semi-malleable ware, according to the Washington Times, soon will be able to put on the market a kind of glass that will be as malleable as any of the metals. In the presence of the correspondent and a workman Mr. Kauffeld took a glass chimney of ordinary appearance, put as much wrater in it as it would hold when it was placed horizontally, and, placing it over a fire, proceeded to boil the water without cracking the chimney. Next, this same chimney was heated pun til it was almost at the melting point and plunged into cold water. The chimney went through the ordeal without injury. Kauffeld folowed this experiment by taking up the now cooled chimney and using it as a hammer, driving a goodsized nail into a tough -card with it. Again the chimney came forth unharmed. While Kaufleld's process is unknown to anybody except himself he volunteered the information that the lime and lead that are used in the manufacture of ordinary glass do not enter in,to the composition of this. What the substitutes arc he would not say. Jellies from Old Koots. France is not the only nation that knows how to practice economics, says Popular Mechanics. Scraps and shavings of the iron milhs and forges, once thought too small for consideration, are now turned into writing ink and into that beautiful dye color. Prussian blue. Fusel oil, a dangerous poison, becomes oil of apples or of pears for flavoring purposes. Beggars' rags are turned into pilots' coats and the seemingly worthless sawdust into newspapers. Even as the unsavory drainage of the cow barns becomes a basis for the most fashionable perfumery, and the tar waste of our gas works is turned into the most exquisite aniline dyes and into saccharine, the sweetest of all substances. Old boot legs, soles and uppers, bits of harness and the hoofs, tendons and like worthless scraps of our butcher shops, chemically treated and colored and flavored with the products of equally "useless truck," find their way to the best tables as "pure fruit jellies." Such is the American method of inventive economy A Wonderful Electric Watch. An inventicn which is likely to revolutionize the watchmaking industry has been perfected by a Swiss watchmaker named David Perret of Marin, near Neuchatel. It is a watch which goes by electricity, and its special feature is its accuracy. It was severely tested by experts, and it was found that it gained only seven-tenths of a second in five weeks. The expert at the observatory at Neuchatel declares the watch to be equal in precision to an expensive chronometer. The watch resembles an ordinary gentleman's lever, costing $60, and goes for fifteen years without being rewound. ?London Mail. tv.o Anolntintr of William IV. At the coronation of William IV. when the archbishop was about 1c anoint him on the chest, and opened his robes for that purpose', the King was discovered to be wearing underneath his mantle a tight admiral's uniform. A delay was caused by this, during which the King became impatient, and showed frank indifference to strict adherence to the ritual part of the ceremonial. Irritability and impatience were marked characteristics of William IV., and there was. moreover. a thin streak of democracy in the composition of the very eccentric sailor king. Could She I'lav? AVell "Can you play 'Down in the Valley?' " he asked "I should sa\ I could." she answered. "I got down there in two strokes this afternoon. and then astonished the crowd by making a sixyard putt as easy as rolling into a and pit.?Chicago Record-Kerald. MYSTERIES OF TIME. How the Irishmen Were Puzzled Over Birthdays Here and Abroad. The two elderly Irish citizens, out for a Sunday stroll, paused before a jeweler's show window in which were displayed three clocks recording time in various parts of the world " 'Tis odd," said one. "In some parts of the earth 'tis yesterday, and in other parts 'tis tomorrow?while the United States is the only place in all the world where 'tis today. " 'Tis odd." " 'Tis so." "Now, when would be mo birthday if I were in Paris?" "Your birthday is today." " Tis." "And 'tis tomorrow in France, today?" " "Tis." "Thin yez could never have a birthhn^onaA milF U?*J 11 J Y1C1C t?r Cl 1UV1 b, UU^rukiu J ^ -birthday comes today." " 'Tis odd." " 'Tis so." "No doubt, that's why tbo populaI tion is so rayduced in France; but it has advantages. A man is always as old as he is if lie is born over there, I but if he lives abroad he is a year younger on his birthday, countin' he I be home." " Tis odd." " 'Tis so.?New York Tribune. y v Three Ages of Man. She first age of man is when he | thinks about all the wicked things which he is going to do. This is called "Innocence." The second age is when he does all the wicked things he has thought of in childhood. This is called "The Prime of Life." The third ! age is when he repents all the wicked i things he has done. This is called "Dotage." EXPERIENCE THE ONLY TEACHER. I She?There's really no reason for ! married folks to quarrel, j He?No except that they generally | need a few quarrels to find that out j ?Brooklyn Life. TYBEE BY THE SEA. T S 3" The Most Delightful Seashore Resort On the South Atlantic Coast; Low Hate Excursion Ticket* are now on .-ale at alJ ticket offices on the Central of ! Georgia luiilway. For full particulars, ! rates schedules, etc.,-n-K the nearest agent, i !<' .T Roliinsnn. Asst. Gen'l. Pass. Agent, ! Savannah, Oft : J. C. Haile, Gen. Pass, j Agent, Savannah Ga. . Not Always to Blame For It. Some women think more of their hats than of "heir husbands, and the : hats are not always to blame for it, I either.?New York Times. . ^ j A*k Your Dralor For Allen's Foot-Ease, ; A powder. It rests the feet. Cures. Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous,Aching, : Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Alien's Foct-Ease makes new ortiglit shoes easy. At j all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Snmplo mailed Fur*, j Address AJlen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. The German Army war uniform will, j henceforth be prey. That color has been I decided on by the Kaiser. . wi". ! FITS permanently cured.No flts orneryous; ness after first day s use of Dr. Kline's Great i NerveRestorer. $2t rial bottle and treatisefree j Dr. R.H. Klt?ts, Ltd., 981 Arch St., Pbila., Pa. Males preponderate in the population of ! Sheffield, England, to the extent of 1007 j to every 1000 females. i * H. H. Greek's Soxs, of Atlanta, Ga., are i the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the j world. See their liberal offer in advertisement in another column of this paper. The first complete edition of Poe's works j in a German version vaa printed a few i weeks ago. Mrs. Win* low's Sc othing Syrup for children j teething, soften the gums, reducesinflamma| tion,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. abottle The monkey wrench zets its name from | its inventor, Thomas Monkey, of Borden| town, N. ?T. Albert lurch, Wee Toledo, Ohio, says: "Hall's Ca;arrh Cure saved my life."* Write him for particulars. Sold by Druggists, 75c. The foundation of the Bank of England ! strong-room is sixty-six feet below street i level. j Plso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible mediclno for coughs and colds.?N. W. Sakcel, Ocean Grove, N. J.f Feb. 17, 1900. A ship's cable is usually 720 feet long, but in charts a cable equals 607.56 feet, or j the tenth or s. sea mile. My Hair "I had a very severe sickness that took off all my hair. I purchased a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor and it brought all my hair ! back again." W. I). Quinn, Marseilles, 111. One thing is certain,? j j Ayer's Hair Vigor makes I the hair grow. Tliic is I because, i-. is a hair food. It feeds She hair and the hair grows, that's all there I is to it. It stops falling of the hair, too, and always restores color to gray hair. SI.DO a bottle. All dnifflsts. : IT If your druggist cannot supply you, 1 send us one dollar and we will express I you a bottle. Be sure and give the name B of yonr nearest express office. Address, E J. C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass. BBBMSMManMHMMMMBll T . TV1/ I Liver rms . That's what you need: something to cure your oiliousness. You need Ayer's Pills. Wani your moustache or beard a i | beautiful brown or rich black ? Use Buckingham'sDye i 50ct? ot dfugf'itsorR P HillicCo., Nuhui.N.H j (aKOVCL) ^^^CANOY CATMABTIC^^^ 10. in ts*. 10*. Dr*fr***? Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold la balk. Beware of the dealer wbo tries to sell "iiomething just as good." ofcofcofcofcoiiofcoliofcofcofeoitoiiofc I HEADACHE, *** I ; o H FEVERISH CONDITIONS ? ? II AND COLDS CURED BY o j * "CAPUDINE o K Sold by ill bmsglitt. A *0*0*01*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD I WHAT THIS OLD SEAT OF LEARNING IS LIKE, (eril Fhnde*'n Bold Flail of FUrnldhlns ^rliolarGilp* to Students frorti the l/'nited State?> the British Colonics and Germany Makes This Artifc'.e Tlmtely. Cecil Rhodes' bold plan?provided for in his will, is recently chrbnicled ?to send each ytar to Oxford University a number of select students from the United States, the British colonics and Germany, with a scholarship provision of $1500 each for expenses? this far-reaching benevolence has naturally called forth much discussion; and the occasion is ripe for asking what one of these scholarships at illustrious Oxford is to mean. First then, the details as to how the candidates are to be chosen' what is to be required of them, etc.?all this is 'still undetermined. The mat tor will be worked out wun deliberation by boards of administrators yet to be chosen. Rhodes never concerned himself with ways; all he did was to supply the means of doing things. His scholarship endowment plan involves many difficulties in practice and it will take tune to assimilate a scheme of procedure. The University of Oxford differs from any educational institution in this country. It; is not a single, compact university, like Harvard of Yale, but a collection of independent colleges under a form of confederacy somewhat analcgous to that by which the various states of the Union are bound. It is a sort of e pluribus anum. But in Oxford tie power and influence : of the colleges predominate over the university. Cambridge University, in Engliad, is the only other school#that is like Oxford. The other English universities and. the German and French uni- " rersities are more like ours, though there are of course radical differences between such institutions in the different countries. It would take years of residence at the university to understand the peculiar relations which exist at Oxford. The institution is the growth of six or eight centuries of time, and its history is as complicated as that of a nation. Yet a little inquiry will show us its distinctive characteristics?little understood as they generally are by the average. American. Oxford University was not turned cut virtually complete at one operation like Stanford. From the earliest times the place was a feeat of learning.. There was ? nunnery there as early. ' ae the eighth century, and Pope htar-V tin II in 802 spoke of the town as an educational center. Vacariirs lectured I there in Latin, on law. in 1149. There were by that time a number of monasteries and other religious houses there, to some of which schools were attached, where students were bred up for the church. In course, of time .the teachers, of the various schools came to meet^fogether in a Sort of "institute," to dis; cuss methods and adopt general rules. From this association, distinct froim and of higher authority than any particular school, the University of Oxford sprang. The word "university" (universitas) was first applied in a ! statute of King John, in 1201. Walter de Morton, in 1264, first gave Ihe institution the character it was destined to develop. He founded Merlon college; and from time to time during 400 years other similar colleges were founded until there were 21 in all. These exist today, and beside them there are some collateral schools also, sustaining special relations to the university. The original purpose in founding the separate colleges was to give the friends and townspeople of the founder a place to live and study together. The various colleges are by no means uniform. Each has its own character, it own customs and rules, its own supporters. Originally the students lived where they pleased in the town of Oxford, but under the college system they were required to take up their resi dence in the college buildings called ii'.DS, hotels or halls?somewhat as our college fraternities have their own quarters?where they lived in common ?the meals and the rooms being called "commons." Out of the college funds certain sums were laid aside to pay for the ' support of a limited number of poorer undergraduate students, and these provisions were called scholarships. Then other funds were established for the support of post-graduate students, called fellowships, and the possessor of one of them yas a "fellow." There are now?not including the Rhodes scholarships?several hundred scholarships, worth $400 to $600 each, and about 30 fellowships worth about $1500 each. The bequests of i $1500 a year each will therefore put the Rhodes scholars on a footing, financially, with the most honored class of residents at the university. When a young man goes to Oxford he is not .as at our American colleges, assigned to classes where he has to study text-bocks, recite, listen to lectures, and take frequent examinations. There is no university examination at entrane, but all the best colleges have an entrance examination, varying in standard with the college. The colleges do the teaching, what there is of it, but always with a view to the honors and degrees conferred by the university. The university itself provides certain lectures, notably in science, law and theology?though science is not put to the front at Oxford. But as a ruie the university lecfnrorc tnllf tr? pmntv benches. The students is not really required to attend any lectures, not even those given by his own college; but he may attend any he likes, even those in other colleges. In recent years the lectures have taken a somewhat more practical and definite turn. Formerly the favorite colleges at Oxford were filled up several years in advance, but for the last generation students have been allowed to live in their own lodgings, instead of in commons, and now a student can enter any college ori short notice. It is hard to say just how many students are in attendance, as such statistics aro not made prominent by the university. The number runs from 1600 to 2000 perhaps?or much below that at a number of the German, French and American universities. The colleges hold certain examinations at intervals, and students are generally expected to pass these up within a stated time. Specially difficl " examinations are held for honors. Finally the university conducts the examinations leading to the degrees? the main purpose being to make Masters cf Arts. There are four terms each yeas; Michaelmas, from Oct. 10 io Dec. 17; !' Hilary, from Jan. 14 to Palm Sunday; ' Easter, from Wednesday of Eastefr week to Friday before Whitsunday; and Trinity, frbm Whitsunday to the first Saturday after the first Tuesday in July. The ordinary academic year is about 26 weeks. Twelve terms of residence are required as a minimum for the degree of B. A., and 27 terms for M. A. It is seen, therefore, that to be a "Master of Arts of Oxford" is something to be justly proud of, as it means at least about seven years faithful work. It is customary for students to "read" with a private tutor, who helps them over the rough places. These tutors generally get about $50 a ternfc, ror three hours a week. They are usually upper classmen, or post-graduates working for higher degrees. The cost of tuition paid, to the colleges averages about $325 for the whole three years?not including tutors' fees. About ?200, or say $1000, a year is the amount generally accepted as a liberal allowance for all expenses of a young man studying at Oxford. The very minimum would be half this. The professors draw salaries up to $4500 a year, the average being hardly $2000. The official title of the university is: ? "The Chancellor, Masters, ,and Scholars of the University of Oxford." The university is mostly self-governing, and is a republic in itself. There are four representative bodies that manage its affairs. There is the Hebdomadal Council or weekly meeting, which is a sort of ways and means committee; the House of Congregation, a sort of upper house or revisory board, which grants degrees, etc.; the Convocation, consisting of all the Masters of Arts or graduate alumni of the university, which elects the two I members to parliament that a law of James I gives to the university; *nd the Congregation of- the University, which passes laws for the government of the university, etc. Two proctors?a sort .of police?have authority over the deportment of the' students? one of the university bug-bears, as will be recalled by those that have read "T(pn Brown at Oxford." The town of Oxford has about 45,-. 000 people. It is#situated in a beautiful rolling, pastoral country in one of the sweetest and most romantic sections of England?about 55 miles up the Thames from London, though the little river here is known by its more classic name of Isis. The High street 01 principal thoroughfare of the town has often been called the finest street in the world. This does not mean that any particular building is architecturally finer than those in any great city; but the vast number of massive, hoary and ^Impressive structures makes' the whole subBine. *?? % .% Oxford stands for grkind of! education not much cultivated now in America, where everything takes a practi - 1 A r?..t T-? 1 3 ^ cai cum. dui nuoues was a piauutoj man and he knew Oxford; and he was convinced that the influence of that great institution, operating on young men of energy andrjre?ource, from newer countries, would, be a powerful leaveiLfor the betterment of the world. Men ot;broad culture such as Oxford can produce he knewi^ould be in increasing demand in iiie coming time. And it may be that these students from i other lands will in turn be a powerful element in the evolution of a newer Oxford, which shall thus exert increased influence on the progress of mankind.?The Pathfinder. THE BOY AND THE MERCHANT. How, by fnndry Testa, an Employer Selected an Errand Hoy. A merchant prince of this city, needing aditkmal help, inserted the folowing advertisement in a morning paper: "Boy Wanted?$4 a week; $6 to the right one." A group of two or three dozen applicants awaited the merchant the next day in his office. One at a time they were admitted, and to each in turn the merchant said: "Take this book and read on without pause or break until I tell you to stop." The boy would take the volume and begin to read. The merchant,after a moment, would rise with a sharp exclamation and -drop a heavy paperweight upon the floor, which would excite the curiosity of the reader, who would pause and raise his eyes from the text to see what was going on. But if he refrained from doing this, if he kept up a continuous flow of reading, the merchant would put him to another test by taking a puppy dog from a closet and beginning to romp with it. All the boys but one fell before the test of the puppy dog. They stopped reading, they looked on at the romp with smiles, and some of them even went sg far as to say: "What's the dog's name, mister?" Those who failed like this were bidden to depart. But the one boy who did not fail the merchant took by the hand. "I want you,' he said, "for it is plain that you are master of yourself. I told you to keep on reading, and you kept on, though to test you I dropped an iron paperweight and pi ayed with a puppy dog. I'll tc.ke you, therefore, into my j employ at $4 a week, and if you do as | well as I think you will your salary I will be rased to $6 a week within 9 j months." The boy, who had an honest, open countenance, said: "I thank you, sir. Mother will be glad to hear of this. I will report for duty at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning." And bowing politely, the lad withdrew, holding his cap in his hand. The merchant gave him, the next morning, $5 in greenbacks to deposit in bank. "You are master of yourself," he said, "and without fear I give you a position of trust at once." The boy set out for the bank, but never reached it. Neither did he ever return to his employer again. He disappeared completely. He was a scoundrel and a thief. Thereafter, in engaging help, the merchant was guided by references rather than by tests.?Philadelphia Record. Kntjlinh Dialect Dictionary. Professor Wright, chief editor of the great English Dialect Dictionary, published at Oxford, now says that he expects to complete his work by the end of 1905. The work began in 1895, and two parts a year have been published. Dr. Wright is asissted by GOO contributors in all parts of the kingdom and some 2,000,000 slips have been sent in, the mere alphabetical arrangement of which cost several thousand dollars. When complete the dictionary will contain over 100,000 dialect words, Yorkshire contributing about 20,000.?Pittsburg Dispatch. ' TItc Good Boy. There are bad boys and less bad boys, but there never yet was a good boy that " ?s well and hearty.?New York Press. The smallest minds are often the longest made up. "I SUFFERED TEI WITH FEMA SAYS MRS; ESTH " I Had the Headache Con- p tirtuaily-Could Not Do My 5 Work?Pe-ru-na Cured.'* Mrs. Esther M. Milner, DeGraff, / Ohio, writes: ev "I was a terrible sufferer || from female weaknessdnd had Pj the headache continually, J { tras not able to do my house- Pj work for my husband and my- J If self, I wrote you and described Vf my condition as near as poe- J X stble. You recommended Pe runa. I took four bottles and * iras completely cured. 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