The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, July 28, 1904, Image 8
In the Public Eye.
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GENERAL OKU.
CTfef* JflfBOUa Of^ctr Most Prominent ftn tb?
Operations Around Port Arthur)
srtiMamttS w Fiut ox.
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?evlcc flick Will Prevent Msnj Ele
liHr Aecidest*.
? new life-saving device, designed
to prevent serious Injury to one Un
fortunate enough to fall down an ele
vator sh4IC; hfs beea made by Joseph
O. Branch, Inspector of Boilers and
Elevators, and fa shown herewith. It
consists of a woven wire net covering
the full openlns of the well and sup
ported just above the bottom by stout
arms. Tha whole la supported in an
outstretched position under normal
clrcomstsaees by a pair of springs.
When tbe fsMn?r body strikes the
net the fall la broken by the combined
action of it and the springs. It will
give sad sag to a position Indicated,
the arms themselves closing up scls
sirs -like, as Is shown, and being re
sisted la tbla movement by tbe com
pression of springs. The pipes 'are
MaklM ritach Kaoto.
"I did not se* your daughter In the
coaching parade, Mr. Gates."
* "No. She has been captured bjMhe
latest fad?making French knots. You
TAMET SHMTMi M
THE DIMM ROOM TABLE
flguro 1 shows the tarftt catMtof
dgar bos wood. . A circular plm la
test cot. sboot oos lock la disaster,
sad elsbt sbbsU vooad >lici? st ear*
TAFL1 TAtOIT.
board with the number* 1 to 8 oi
them are mounted ou toothpick* and
grouped around It at even distance*;
the other end* of the toothpick* are
then Inserted In the aide* of the cir
cular piece of wood. The target Itself
Is fastened to a stick of wood about
eight Inches long, fastened to a stand,
as shown in the picture. The gun
consists of a paper tube, which Is
made by winding cardboard well cov
ered with glue, around the atem of a
leadpendl. When It ia dry. a piece
about Ave Inches long Is cut off. One
and three-quarter Incbea from one end.
we make an Incision about two Inches
long, cutting down to about one-half
HIGH-GRADE ANGUS STBER, SHOWING
BUTCHER'S CUTS.
SPRING tumiu TO FALL ON.
free to biove endwise through proper
openings made In the upper ends of
the strut arms, permitting them to
close In and break the force of the
fall.
During the laat tear 584 persona bit
ten bj dogs having hydrophobia were
treated by ti^e Pasteur Institute In In
dia. There were only six failures to
Immunise, the patients. Six other
cases came after the disease had de
veloped.
f .Hamburg has a Madchenhetm, or re
fuge for girls, at which last year 9818
young women were provided with
sleeping accommodations at seven to
ten cents a night
The most expensive chair In the
t-ofld belongs to the Pope. It Is Of
?olid silver and cost $90,000.
Live weight, 15."*) lbs.; dressed weight, 10*0 lbs. Retail prices: (1) Neck,
40 lbs., worth 4c. per lb. (2) Chuck, 2 *?T lbs.. 7c. (3) Prime of rib. 117 lbs.,
12Vic. (4) Porterhouse steuk. 103 llu?.. 18c. (5) Sirloin steak, 87 lbs., 15c. (G)
Rump, 3tf lbs., 8c. (7) Round. 183 lbs., 10c. (8> Shank, 30 lb*.. 2c. (9) Flank
82 lbs., 4c. (10) Ribs, plate, 138 lbs., 5c. (11) Shin, 23 lbs., 3c.
know, she was a pupil of Madame
Buchanan, of the Champs Elysees. and
Is quite proud of her needlework.
Every young woman these days must
have at least one hand-made dress,
that Is, a dross made oy her own hand.
Elolse spends four hours a day orna
menting her latest creation with
French knots. Last night she Informed
me that she had made already over
1200, and expects to make 800 more.
The knots look like little hnmmocks
of thread, and are built right In the
cloth."
(Initials For Ntroe*.
Brevity is said to be the soul of wit.
so the mania in England for Initials as
abbreviations of ihe names of per
sons, societies and newspapers seems
to be growing. The lively periodical.
M. A. P., commonly understood to
mean "Mostly About People," has al
ready a secure standing, and the Ix>n
don correspondent of the New York
Times Saturday Review notes the
starting of soveral other papers named
on the same principle. Among these
are P. O. P. and T. A. T.. and the lat
est Is 3. M. fl., which Is devoted fo the
banjo, maudolln and guitar.
Several Mleslan vllljg i have been
visited by a plague of adders. la
Frendenthal alone 452 snakes have
been* killed.
THE MAN WHO WILL BUILD THE
PANAMA CANAL.
JOHN F. WALLACE,
He hat been Appointed Chief Engineer of the Panama Cannl. Mr. Wallace
bat been General Manager of tbe Illinois Central Railroad.
of the thickness of the tube (sw Fig
ure 2).
Figure 2 shows bow a piece of whale
bone about six Inches long Is Inserted,
acting as the propelling power of the
gun. You shoot with a wooden peg
about one and a half Inches long,
fitting loosely Into the barrel of the
gun; to give It "more weight and
strength, we Insert a carpet tack.
To shoot, hold the gun with the
right hand, pulling the whalebone back
with the Index finger, and Inserting
the peg; as soon as the Index fiuger
releases the whalebone. It springs for
ward and forces the peg out. To aim
well, hold the tube In such a way
that the whalebone spring points down
ward.
CUTS OUT TjIE PINEAPPLE EYE.
The *;repair.tion of a ~>.r.tapple Is a
long and tedious operation because of
the size and shape of the fruit, and for
the reason that the fruit is gather hard
to cut. After It bar. been pared It
must be carefully gone over and the
eyes cut out. These tough portions
being allowed to reniuln. Interfere
largely- with 'he enjoyment of eating
the fruit, whether it be In Its natural
PINKAPPLR KTB CLIP.
condition or cooked, and the economi
cal and quick removal of the eyes with
the ordinary means Is Impossible.
A pistol-like device with which thin
la nccouiplshed with celerity and dis
patch Is shown In the accompanying
cut. In use the pineapple is pared and
the hand 01 the clip Is placed under the
eye about one-half inch and then the
trigger Is pulled, and lu Its descent it
completely cuts out the eye. The trig
ger, being released, throws out the
l?l|e. In this manner the eye Is cut out
with great economy of the fruit as
compared with the usu:.: method of
procedure.
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Pool Without Hmok?.
A French naval officer has made It
possible, with certain changes in the
ttreboxes, to burn a fuel in the form
of petroleum briquettes, which gives
off no smoke. The officer claims his
invention will give fuel of which one
pound Is equivalent to four pounds of
cOnl. The briquettes are made by add
ing to petroleum oil, for each liter. 1B0
grammes of ground soap. 150 grammes
of resin, and 300 grammes of caustic
soda lye. This mixture Is tlrst heat
ed and stirred until near solidifica
tion, when It Is poured Into molds,
which in turn are then placed In an
oven for ten or tlftoen minutes, and
t!ir briquettes are .'"ady for use after
cooling for a few hours. Greater so
lidity may be obtained by the addi
tion of a little quantity of sawdust
and a little clay cr sand.?New York
Times,
There are 13.000 to 16.000 street
casualties which call for the use of
an ambulance In London every year.
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GLAMIS CAIQA SIT!
BE calibration of the gold.
? tNMlBg of the Karl
Md dMBtMS Of StTHih
IMN will ooee more ?zdt?
ipffliHiiw ? tb the
joomy mystery which has burdened
his lordship's bowj for many genera
tions. says the Laadon Chronicle. This
hul secret, which Is tn some way
asaasctad with Ola mis Csstle. the fam
ily sest la Forfarshire. has never been
Marsd by mors than three persous.
It Is kaswa to the sari and the factor
of the estate, and Is communicated to
his hair-apparent when he has com
pleted his twenty-flrst year. For this
parpose the young man Is for the first
time Introduced huto the bidden cham
ber. the knowledge of which la part of
the secret. No entreaties or Inducements
hare ever persusdsd one of the trusted
three to break the strange bond which
seals Lis Hps. It Is related that one
coantsss anxious to sase the mind of
her lord by ahartag his sottow, liu
piorsd the fsctor to-tei; her aii. He re
plied. "My lady. If you could gueas
even the nature of thla secret, you
would go down aa your knees and
thank God that yoa are Ignorant of
It"
Popular fancy has played with the
mystery lp Its asasl wild and irra
tional fashion. None of the suggested
tolutlons of the problem are at once
possible cud snffldsnt. Among the
superstitious 8cotch countryfolk It Is
actuslly believed that at one period
"a human toad." whatever that may
be. endowed with Immortality, waa
born to tb' house of Strathmore, and
that this unpleaaaat creature Is the
denlsen of the hidden chamber. An
other story has It that the secret room
holds the bones of a band of prisoners,
who. In 8cotiand'a stormy days, were
Immured there and atarved to death.
A very circumstantial atory would ap
pear to indicate tha key of the mys
tery would lie in visible msterial form
in the hidden apartment. A work
man, It is said, who waa engaged in
repairing the roof of Glamls. sudden
ly left his occupation and returned to
earth with considerable rapidity. He
requested to be allowed to see the
earl, with whom he had a long inter
view. From this be departed to his
home, and after a few uaya. in which
he had made preparations for his Jour
ney without holding any unnecessary
converse with any one, ho set out for
the other side of the world with a
comfortable annuity in hla pocket. It
Is also told that on one occasion, when
a Lord and Lady Strathmore were
paying an afternoon vlsii. some guests
who were staying at the castle re
solved to probe the mystery to the i?ot
tom. Making a tour of rooms, they
hung a towel or handkerchief out of
every window they could discover.
They then walked around the castle,
and lo! there waa one caaement from
which no signal flew. Nor could the
most careful search within the ramb
ling building discover either where
the window was or bow there could
be any apartment to which It could
afford light.
IN OPEN BOAT.
A Toledo man will undertake a trip
of 7500 miles in an open boat. The
man of this quite extraordinary un
dertaking Is A. Stanley Parker, who
has bad experience in the past with
similar expeditions on a smaller scale.
Parker will start from Toledo on a
long and perilous Journey by water to
Pauama. The trip Will be by the lake
route to Chicago, thence through the
Chicago drainage canal to the Illinois
River, to the Mississippi, to the Gulf.
Then the coast of the Gulf of Mexi
co will be skirted to Panama.
The trip will be made in an open
boot rigged with a leg o' mutton sail.
The craft Is a fifteen-footer. four feet
beam, light but very staunch.
"My object in taking so light a
boat," said Mr. Parker, in speaking of
his undertaking. "Is to hnve a craft
that I can beach myself, as I will be
alone. I expect to sleep ashore most
of the time, and must have a boat that
I can pull up on the beach without
help.
"I will take along a tarpaulian so
constructed that I can convert it into
s tent. This tent I will pitch any
where on the beach or shore where
ever I may be. I will take along a
few clothes, cooking utensils and pro
visions.
"While In American territory I will
not carry much provision, because
I can stop in any city along the route
and buy from ti:uo to time what I
need. At Galveston, which will be the
last American city of importance on
my route. I expect to put in a supply
of provisions that will last no until
I get to Panama.
"I won't need much, for along the
Gulf coa6t I can sustain life largely
upon fish and fruit, which are abund
ant and cheap there. I expect it will
tako m? at least a year, maybe longer.
"My object?% to rcach Panama abont
the tlrao operations begin 0:1 the inter
oceanic canal. There is no telling ex
actly when that will be. bnt I want
to be on the ground at that time."
Mr. Parker has soldiered In the
Philippines, "roughed It" many times,
and once made a trio in a small boat
around tho peninsula of Florida.?
ledo News-^ee.
A BATTLEFIELD JOKB.
To look at Gen. Jack Hayes It secris
almost Incredible that he could have
served for forty-elgjt years in the
United 8tatcs Army, bccarse ho seems
no older than that. In narrating rome
ef his experiences recently, the general
said:
"I was In a hot flght wit!i tho In
dians ont In Western Texas la 1859.
in wjich Fitzhugh Lee roceived an ar
row In his sldo from tho bow of n
Comrjaccho chief. Not one of his men
who crowded about him expected he
w >nld live. His look was sa ghastly,
his voice so faint, that wo expected
every breath would bo his last. My
heart was nearly broken, for I had
tho saoo warn liking for him then
I havo ever since cherished.
"Whllo we stood In a mournful
group arornd bin, one of the boys re
marked. at the same lime exhibiting
Lis hat, Tilth a bullet hole through the
top: "They're got the lieutenant. aa|
" the ballet that made thla had goo*
two Inches lower, I'd been a dead man,
too.*
"At Jaat Ptt* Lee opened hla eyeo
Joat n fraction, had M tbe gboot of a
?inlt* played around on hta pallid face,
obierrtdr "Urn, yon needn't try to
Impoae any anch yam aa that on aa.
Yon got behind a tree and abot that
boW 2a 7oar hat yonrtelf.'
?Then and there I knew that Pits
Lee wasn't golug to die. A man who
bad life enough left to Joke waa sure
to get well."?Washington Poat.
THREE ?AY8 IN A WOLF DEN.
An Oklahoman nam.Kl Lawaou had
an unpleaaant experience while vlalt
ing hla brother-ln-law, Mllo Biodgett.
who Uvea near Adobe Walla In the
Texaa Panbaudle. Law son went wolf
bahtlng.
Next day bis Iiorse was found sad
dled. but without a bridle. Biodgett
summoned about thlrtj neighbors and
began searching for Lawsou. who was
located after nearly a day'a bunt. Hla
feet were sticking from the top of a
wolf deif and about three feet of dirt
rested on hia body. Lawsou was so
fastened tbat be could not extricate
himself. H* bad dug down In the
wolf den r.bout tlve feet on a slant in
a manner something like the entrance
to a dugout, then lay down In the
trench to reach in after some-coyote
pups. He caught one and threw It
out. and It Is supposed that this fright,
ened his horse, which was tied to a
bunch of l>ear grass near the hole.
The horse making a lunge caused the
bank to cave, the dirt falling on the
prostrate body of the man. covering
hla body and head. The dirt caught
him with his arms stretched out in
front so he could not use them to much
advantage, but be managed to work
hla handa and shove the dirt down the
hole until his head was uncovered and
he could get air from the top. He lay
In this positiou from f? o'clock Thurs
day afternoon till 10 o'clock Sunday
morning.?Kansas 'Jlty Journal.
RESCUE OF A CHILD SLAVE.
On one of her raids Miss Donaldlne
Cameron, head of the Presbyterian
Chinese mission ? iu San Pranclsto.
whose adventures are told in Every
body's Magazine, followed n tlve-year
obl slave to u Chinese cauip in the foot
hills of the Sierras. She drove ten
miles by night with one Healey. a
country constable. They hitched their
horse outside the gambling-bouse
where the girl was known to be and
peeped through a hole lu the acreen
which shielded the door.
The child was sitting on a table,
rolling cigarettes for six gamblers who
were playing fan-tan. Overthrowing
the 8<>reen and rushing on the little
girl. Miss Cameron snatched her up
and Healey held back the gamblers at
the point of his revolver. As they
backed through the door a Chinese
seemed to rise out of the ground. He
drew a revolver and fired point blauk
at Miss Cameron. The Chinese slow
ness with a gun, traditional in the
West, saved her. for Healey had time
to strike it up si that the bullet splin
tered the ceiling.
They drove ten miles to civilization,
and all the way Healey kept his re
volver In hand against pursuit and at
tack. That was probably Miss Camer
on's closest call.
BAGGED BEAR.
A bear hunt from a private car, a
chase of three hours and the bringing
down of a 300-pound silver tipped bear
Is th-> record of a hunting party from
Cleveland. Ohio, last Thursday.
The party, consisting of W. H. Sll
verthorne. Dr. A. C. Buell and Mr.
and Mrs. J. Odell, reached here Thurs
day morning at 7.30, were met by Steve
Baxter, the bear guide, and bis bear
dogs, and left for the mountains west
of town within half an hour ufter they
arrived.
The bugle calling the dogs had hard
ly finished sounding when the parly
was seen coming buck with the pelt
of the finest bear yet killed dangling 1
from Mr. Silvertbome's saddle. The
bear had been caught between break- !
fast and lunch.
Steve Baxter declares that bear are
becoming more plentiful with each i
year, and the record of this season
has certainly proved It, for there have
been nearly two dozen bears captured
within twenty miles of Glenwood 1
Springs since they began crawling out !
of their winter holes a little over two i
months ago.?Glenwood Springs Cor
respondence Denver Post.
ADVENTUROUS WOMAN.
Among the passengers who left
Liverpool recently for West Africa by
the steamer Burutu was Mrs. French
Sheldon, the well-known traveler and
explorer. This lady has made a jour
ney of over 2000 miles through Africa
on foot, and the natives have every
where received her with great cordial
Ity. Her explorations have given much
valuable information to the world on
scientific and commercial matters.
Her present mission Is undertaken at
the request of Sir Alfred Jones, who
bus Instructed her to report us to the
development of the country in connec
tion with minerals, vegetable life and
other substances likely to be commer
cially useful. Mrs. Sheldon, who fc
reported to be a great hunter, said
she was looking lorward to some good
sport among the lions. After spend
ing some time at Sierra Leone she
will proceed to Congo, and report on
the Belglau concessions there for the
I Information of *he King of the Bel
gians.?Pittsburg Press.
WlH Man of th* Trolley.
j "Yos," said the conductor, as he gave
the motorman the double ring, "I can
I tell what day of. the week It is by
, the size of the money these young fel
lows have. Now, there Is that kid in
front Just gave me a five-dollar note
and made me hustle for change. That's
his salary. He'll be walking down
'town next Friday morning. That
young woman there, who Just gave me
a dollar bill, had to look through a
pocketbook full of samples on Satur
day morning to find a nickel."
"But this Is Monday," remarked the
observant patron, "and I saw a man
give you five cents Just now. How do
you account of that?"
"Ob, that's easy," said the knight
o^he cord; "he's married."?Baltimore
Now*
Newstf Interest
AFRO-AMERICANS
Colored Democratic League.
In person and by proxy there was S
representation of 550 In the conven
tion of the Negro National Democratic
League, which convened In St. Louis
?to* P**t week to elect officers, organ
*e a campaign committee and prepare
An address.
Herbert A. Clark, of Mississippi,
chairman of the campaign committee,
presided.
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Measure Would Be Unwise.
The general agricultural committee
has reported adversely upon the bill
to cause all street car companies to
provide separate cars foe white an J
colored passengers?In other words.
Jim Crow ears. The committee decld<
?A that the measure would be an un*
wise one, and that the present arrange*
merits are as good as any that could
be adopted. The report of the com
mittee Drartfcally means the defeat of
I?u o..i.?Atlanta Constitution.
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Widow Asks Damages.
A Columbus. Ga.. dispatch says:
The widow of Bragg Smith, colored,
who lost his life while attempting to
save Superintendent of Public Works
Johnson last September, over whose
grave the city erected a monument,
toas asked the city for damages.
Her attorneys have addressed a com
munication to the city council asking
'or a settlement without suit. The
city's attorney and finance committee
have the matter In hand.
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The Same Old Proposition.
fhe proposition to limit the amount
of money to be appropriated to the
education of the colored people in Oer
gia to the sum which they pay as taxes
has again made Its appearance in the
house of representatives. This ques
tion has been taken up from year to
year, and from time to time has been
extensively discussed.
This time the bill is Introduced by
Grlco, of Pulaski, and proposes to
amend the state constitution, para
graph 1, section 1, article 8. by addins
at the ciose of the puragraph in ques
tion the following: "And the taxes
paid by the colored race only shall be
applied to the education of that race. *
The measure was referred to the com
ittee on education.
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Hot 8hot, This.
. The few black folk in this town who
have tried to butt Into the Hannah
Ellas "mix-up," and the black lawyer
who undertook to represent them and
got snubbed by Hannah, have no sym
pathy from their fellow citizens. Let
Hannah Ellas fight her battle. Sho
got her money out of white folks
by slick practices and spent it on and
with white people and Japs, and she
can, therefore, very well be let alone
on the moral and sympathetic side.
She and her dupe, Piatt, are of a sort,
and the law should deal no more se
verely with her than the man. who by
his own testimony has been a tough
old "rounder" for more than twenty
years. Hannas Ellas has a grown
daughter living In Philadelphia who
appears to be a chip of the old block.
When this damsel was asked If sho
was going to take a hand in her moth
er's troubles she is alleged to have
said, "Search me!" The whole dirty
business has a moral which he who
runs may read and proilt by, if ho
will.?New York Age.
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A Race Poblem "Platform."
The Atlanta Journal says: William
De Witt Hyde, president of BowJoin
College, writing in a recant number
of "The Outlook," suggests that the
time Is ripe for a "platform" concern
ing the relations between the white
man and the Negro, on which all men.
both north and south, can unite. Mr.
Hyde writes In a dispassionate spirit,
and an understanding one, withal,
which makos the text of the tentative
platform which he suggests worthy
of sincere consideration on all sides.
And certainly the idea itself is worthy
of that.
"Such a platform," saya Mr.
Hyde, "must Involve concessions on
both sides. The South will never tol
erato the platform laid down by the
north during the dark days of recon
struction. The norih will never ac
cept complacently the more extreme
positions to which reaction from that
policy has led. Every man, north
ern and southern, ought to frame for
himself and for his country a plat for-d
which will be fair io both sections.
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Hobsort Praises Booker Washington.
Captain Richmond Pearson llobson
of Merrlmac fame, was ono of the
speakers at the reecnt democratic con
vention in St. Louis. Iu tlie course of
bis address he said:
"Tell me what American stands for
the fairness and acumeut of law. The
the democratic American. Aye, at this
juncture it is demonstrated %'iat the
party In po wer Is playing politics with
this vital question that affects our
Internal happities.*.
"Yes, l?K)k further. Not merely on
the question of our economic policy
they play politics and 'stand pat
when opposition 13 coming over out
people, and further, when In the na
ture of providence tills nation Is call
ed upon to take the great problem of
how the white man and the black
man can live together and work out
their salvation with mutual helpful
ness; when the lirst of all laws, is
that Ignorance must not control lu
government. (Cheers.)
"In Alabama we have a groat Nogro
that we are very proud of. Ho has
been helping do the great work of up
lifting, and yet, In bis last speech a
few days since here In 8t. Louis.
Booker T. Washington stood, ho said,
for the whites and blacks together In
the schools and the churches. I ask
you to look at his earllost teachings;
yon will find nothing of this kind. This
great and good man ku boon useful
because he recognised the fundament
al principles and ,yet today under the
lnfluencee of the party In power and
their chieftains he Is led away, and If
be does not turn his usefulness wllj
come to an end. (Applause.) At a re
cent convention In Chicago it was
made an Issue and put Into the plat
form of a party to oppress the south
land. simply because It Is trying to
work out how Intelligence can rule and
how the men who csre for those who
ere charged to them may work out
their salvation the best. (Applause.)
"8hall the skeleton of seditlonalism
be ever raised in this reunited nation
of ours? I ask of tLe generous north
and the west, do they propose to op
press and persecute the south? I ask
if. while they will not allow any one
else to oppress them, they will op
press themselves ?"
In his efforts to secure order at the
conclusion of Captain Hobson's speech,
Chairman Clark broke his gavel han
dle.
Now comes Booker T. Washington,
who expresses surprise in an interview
because he had been quoted by Cap
tain Richmond P. Hobson. at the na
tional democratic convention, as hav
ing suggested in a recent address be
fore the National Educational Associa
tion. in St. Louis, that white people
and colored people should atteud the
same schools and churches in the
south. Washington said that Captain
Hobson must have made a mistake in
reading his speech.or he had ben mis
informed, as he had never made any
such suggestion, and that the subject
was not touched upon in the address
mentioned.
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Colored Farmers Organize.
A news item from Hawkinsville. Oa,
says: The Negroes of the county have
organized In a society for the improve
ment of their conditions, and in a
meeting held recently pledged their
support to any movement that would
result In better labor conditions In th<*
county. A number of the most pro
gressive Negro farmers of the county
were present and expressed them
selves as being in hearty accord with
the white planters in their endeavors
to secure more reliable labor for ti;e
farms.
Crabs That Eat Cocoanuts.
Crabs which live upon cocoanuts
which they pick for themselves are
found iu the '"'oral islands. Nature
has provided this crustacean with
claws and ulppers of enormous
strength, and It Is supposed that the
cral> climbs the cocoa palms and do
taches the nuts. It reaches th?> mat
of the fruit by picking and rapping
with its claws at the end of the nut
where the three small holes are to be
found till a slight breach is made
Then the nippers are brought ir.io use
for the rough fibers which surround
the shell. These he shreds with his
nippers and conveys to his burrows
where they form a comfortable bed
for the crab while he is changing bis
coat. Some of these crabs attain a
length of over two feet, and live in
holes which they have made in the
earth at the roots of tropical trees.
Count sa a Beggar.
A fatal cycling accident near Beell*
has brought to light a strange typ*
of Italian mendicant. The dead mar
is Count Francesco Avogadro di Vag
llano, a member of one of the oldes'
and noblest families in Italy, and t
public mendicant. He might, had h#
chosen, linve drawn an annuity sulfl
cfent for his frugal support, but frorr
some perverse sentiment he preferred
to beg In the streets, miserably clad
He was a wufl-known figure at Beella
The other day he was tramping in hir
uative district of Vagliano. when h?
was knocked down by a cyclist and
killed. His family are now about to
give him a funeral worthy of th
?\uk.
Typewriters for the Blind.
Many inventions have been made to
bridge the distance between those
who have their sight and thoso who
have not. But none has been more
practical ar.d successfjl than the pro
ductlon of a typewriter which can be
manipulated by the blind. 1 be let?
ters on the keys are raised, and the
sensitive touch of the blind man can
tell the character on a key as soon as
he touches it. The ringing of the bell
when the margin is reached works af
well for him as for the man with
sight, and the sense of touch makes
the manipulation of the various keys
fur setting the paper a comparatively
simple matter.?New York HeraU'
To Grow a Miniature forest.
It Is quite possible for any one tc
own a forest of miniature oaks, which
may be grown even without the aid of
soil. It order to rear a miniature for
est procure a shallow dish and cover
the base of It with mosM an inch
thick. Then ret a number of soot*
acorns In rows About two Inches
apart, and a perfect little lores' of
oak trees can be raised. The mos?
must always be kept very moist and
the ncortis will begin to grow In tlio
spring.
By June or July they will hav pais
ed themselves t>lx to e!:<ht Inches
high, and will form a charming sight
fur any lover of trees.
Long Confined as Leper.
A remarkable story which has lats
!y attracted great sympathy In Cap*
Colony, is that ofra man named A pros
kle, who, after having beon confined
on Robben Island for eight years a*
a person suspected of having leprosy
waB rocently allowed to return to bit
family as non-afflicted, lie was for
nierly a shipwrecked sailor who too*
a farm at the Cape, mnrrled and pros
pered exceedingly. Mosquito bite*
were mistaken for leprosy by a field
cornet, who sent hiin to Robber
Island. He returned homo broken If
spirit and financially ruined, his prop
erty having been sold for tbo uykeej
of his children
Dolls of Olden Tlmee.
A w.-dl-known woman of Benning
ton, Vt? has iwo dolls, one of which
was fotmerly her great grandmother's
and In the family for 150 years. The
other was formerly her grandmother's
and Is 100 years old. Both are dressed
In thf "ovtume Incident to thoso days,
the oldest ore having on the samt
nr.lt in which it was originally attired.