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I FEARFUL DEATH A Woman Falls from a Soaring Balloon in Anderson. ^ INSTANTLY KILLED. The Woman's Husband Makes a Successful Flight. A Crowd of One Thousand People Witnessed What May or May Not Have Been an Accident. A most horrible death occurred at Anderson on last Thursday afternoon, when Mrs. Maude Hroadwlck, wife o i> 1 ? .-1 \juaucn nrutlUWICK, HCri lloatlt Willi Rlddell's Southern Carnival C( d pany fell from a balloon and was instantly killed. Mrs. Rroadwick was an expt r lenced balloonist herself and had made two ascensions while here, but was not to go up this afternoon. Her bus band was to make the ascension and parachute drop, and she was standing by to give the signal to cut the ropes when all was ready. She gave the signal all right, and when the balloon shot up into the air she was seen hanging to the ropes between the balloon and the parrchutc. After, she had reached a distant of 200 or 300 feet she dropped to the earth, striking on the hard ground and was instantly killed, The balloon went straight up into the air and she fell within a few feet of the spot from whore she started A crowd of possibly 1,000 persons wit nessed the tragedy, llroadwick, who was fastened into the parachute with a belt, went on some distance higher and then cut loose and descended in safety. Most of the carnival people are Included to the opinion that Mrs. llroadwlck's death was due to suicide rather than an accident. They say llroadwick and his wife had been quarreling for a week or more and this together with the fact that she was an expert enced aernnannt. ?nri t.hmro ? - v~.mtv.UW v*?-v* ciutv/iu ntl o lJVJ projecting ropes about tbe balloon harness liable to entangle a person, lead them to the sulcirle theory. broad wick admits that he and bis wife had quarreled, but says the> made up, as they had done before. lie says though that she knew all ab >ut balloons and that he does not see how she could have been accidentally en tangled in the ropes. He lias been In the balloon business 16 years and says his wife had been in the business eight years and that sire was quite as expert as himself. He says that as she fell she called to him to catch her, but that he could not do so. He thinks It was an accident and not suicide. Broadwick says Cincinnati is his home. He says his wife's people live there, but that they were bitterly opposed to her marriago ^nd have never become reconciled to their daughter since her marriage, and fo\ that reason lie lias not uotttied them of her death and wlil have the inter ment take place here Saturday. lie is almost completely prostrated. Mrs. Broadwick was about 22 years old and was very popular with the members ~ i i wi tiic uurmvai company. C'ont'tiBHf'8 Ilia Crime. At ValdoBta, Ga., J. G. Rawllngs has made a confession of hiring Alf Moore to kill W. L. Carter, tut he says that the killing of the children was not in the "trade." He says that he particularly cautioned the ne gro not to harm the children. Joe Ilently and Mitch Johnson made a trade with Alf Moore to do the bloody work and Joe Hently and Alf Moore wanted to kill Carter on Sunday night before but that they could not get a buggy at IIahlra to go to Carter's house lie says they tried to hire a buggy but that the liveryman would not hire it to them unless they would tell him where they were going. Rawllngs says that his confe^sio came without knowledge of his lawers as he had reached the place where he could not keep quiet any longer. He says that he is thoroughy indifferent to the supreme court bo far as he is concerned but he wants hiB sons eaved. Whlekoy In Marlon. The people of Marlon county have written to the governor in regard to the selling of whiskey In thai county after the dispensary has been voted out. The letter was received from G. P. Penny, who says that the people are trying to enforce the Brlce law, but the whiskey agents, representing foreign houses, are all over the country and are doing a big business, The governor could do nothing under the clroumstar ces as the law gives an agent, representing a foreign whiskey house, the right to take orders. A Good Spook. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister of former PresldeLt Cleveland,, is now a wealthy woman. A score of years ago she invested $4,500 in an island off the Maine coast near CamdeD. ashlon has turned Its eyes in that direction, and Miss Cleveland has just sold part of her island for $200,000. Take a nay cir auu look around your farm with your eyes wide open and see how many improvements could be made without the spending of very much money. Let all the family join in and help. Then go to work with a vim. CHINESE DOCTORS POPULAR. Have a Lucrative Practice In Western Cities. The method of treating sick persons in some cities is similar to that Of ths other physicians of the United States and those of Croat Uritain. They depend much, nowover, on the examination of the jmlse. Their sense of touch is so wonderfully developed that it is said they can determine the condition of the heart, as well as some of the other organs merely by the feebleness or strength of tho beats; but they say there are no less than twelve different movements of tho arteries in the human body, nil of which can be detected by feeling the fingers, wrist and arm, says an exchange. When a patient calls on him for examination, the doctor first presses the arm, wrist and fingers, touching nearly every part. Sometimes ten or fifteen minutes is occupied with this examination. Then lie may oak if the patient is married or single, and also his age; but this is about the limit of the examination. Apparently lie can tell the nature of the disease without questioning further, and if tho caller wishes a prescription he writes one in the ordinary Chinese characters on a generoua sized square of paper. Kinging a bell, ho hands the prescription to the Chinese attendant who enters, for each physician has his own shop, filled witii the ingredients which he uses in treatment. If he lias a large practice he may employ a native chemist, who makes up the prescription. One of the curious features of Chinese medical treatment is the way la which tuo physicians administer their remedies. Nearly all the offices of the principal doctors have what may be called a tea room attachment. This la a spacious apartment, well lighted, freQUentlv ornamental win. - ? vv-u ** 1 VII ui il iiuu [JUl* tery and pictures, and containing small tables, each with two or three chairs. If the Invalid does not wish to take his medicine at home, lie is ushered into this room, and, while seated at one of the tables, drinks his prescription as he would a cup of-tea or a glass of wine. With but few exceptions the medicine is in liquid form, and served hot in dainty Chinese bow la, for most of it is composed of a decoction of herbs. Each table contains a bowl of raisins, and when the attendant brings in the medicine ho also brings in a glass of tepid water. If the drink is bitter, as it usually is, the patient can eat some of the raisins to remove the taste, while with the water ho rinses his mouth and throat. Then lie is ready to go home, returning the next day for another examination and dose. Charities of Joe Jefferson "There need be no surprise at ths comparatively small estate left by Joseph Jefferson," said A. L. Erlangor. "To be sure, the immense earnings from his many seasons in 'Hip Van Winkle' and his keen sense of business led tlie public to believe that there ' would bo millions of dollars left when the great old man ?f tn? Amnrw.nM stage died; but to those who knew of the charitable side of his personality, and the free hand with which ho gave money away to members of the profession who needed it, there should be no surprise that this is not the case. *'1 was associated with Mr. Jefferson 1 for many years, and knew, probably, more about his charities than any one : > else. In fact, I distributed thousands of dollars every year for him, without j being asked to account for it in any wky. At the least call for aid Mr. Jefferson would say, 'hook up this fellow ?I ilsod to know him?and if lie needs the money let him have it; only he's 1 kind ot proud, so don't let him think it's charity.' 1 "If 1 wanted to, I could toll you the 1 names of u dozen or more actors, some o? them now living, who received regular weekly amounts from Mr. Jeffer- 1 son, ranging from $25 up to $100. The late G. \V. Couldock I used to pay $100 every week, and it was Mr. Jefferson's orders that Couldock should never want for anything. "Couldock was a peculinr old man, honest and candid, and a little thing like $100 a week did not prevent his saying what he thought of Mr. Jefferson. Once Jefferson bought am apart meni nouae lip in iiariom, a fine, new building, then very fashionable and well appointed. " 'Couldock needs a good place to live," he said to me. 'Furnish a nice apartment in the house for him, and tell him to occupy it, rent free, with my compliments, just as long as he wonts to.' "I sent for Couldock and gave him the glad tidings. His gratitude was something surprising. He stormed, fumed and swore, and finally blurted out In his most approved 'You are no longer a chee?lid of mine' tone: " 'What! Live In a tenement on that old miser's bounty! No, sir. No, sir, Never-r-r-r-rl' "He stalked out of my office, pounding the floor with his c&ne, and I never dared mention the subject to him - again." The Power Behind the Puree. Tho determining factor in all modern life is money. The hand that holds the puree rules the world, though the spirit must regulate it Man is the wage* earner, but the purchasing power of the nation is in the hands of the worn* an?that is, among the only women who are of any aocount In the empire, the women of the middle (in all its tiers) and the lower classes.?London Mall. Liberia exports about 60,000,00.0 gallons of palm oil a year. It la made from the outer part of the palm nut. not i from the kernel. i In Bangkok you travel from the steamer to the hotel on the back of an slephaut. ^ % ? \ i WOMAN STALKED BY LIONS. Adventure with Six of tho Big Brutea In Africa. Mrs. L. Hlnde, whoso husband is subcommissioner of the British East Africa '-Protectorate, has had the remarkable experience of being stalked by lions, and still more remarkatie fortune of living to tell the tale. It w?son the Uganda lUilway, in a spot historic for the ravages of man-eating lions, that Mrs. Ilinde met with the thrilling adventute whlon she relates. Camping out, the party in whl h Mrs. Hlnde was could hear with horrid regularity the screams of the wretched victims as they were carried off for the man eaters' nightly repasts. The camp was seventy miles from the nearest connecting link with tie outside world, and c >mmuuleation had to be kept up daily by native mail carriers. It was the habit of the lions to keep pace in the long grass with the runners on the track, and having selected the most appetizing mttubc r of the partv. to pounce upon him and carry him c IT Into the bush. On one, occasion, when out map making, Mr. and Mrs. Illnoe earn upon a party of a d< zin ii<?ns, possibly the man eating troop Mr. Hlnde tired twice, dropping two of the beasts. He then suggested that Mrs. ' Hlnde should ride bac k to camp, while j he approachod the two lion-, who ; might he dangerous, even though raor. ' tally hit. After riding for half an hour Mrs. j Ilinde looked back and saw six of the ; lions following her. The twu native | gun bearers ran away, leaving her un- ! armed, alone with her sais, an hour from camp. She set (IT at a fast gallop, the sals running by her side. In ttielr path arouse an angry rhinoceros, which lied from them on to the lions. Mrs. Illnde reached camp in safety, while Mr. Htnde was held up by the rhinoceros, on which he did not venHire to tire for fear of turning it on Mrs. Illnde. "Talking Saloon." In the article we publish below, wp clip from the baptist Oturier, Mr. WA. Christopher gives his reasi ns for being opposed to prohibition, lie says: "ltut it is our intention not to discuss this question but one far more serious in Its nature, and that is the walking, whistling, talking saloon; the kind that strolls the roads and by-paths of our counties by dey and by night and calls out our cltzans and our boys and sells them the accursed stutT. These walking saloons are tLo most daugerous factor with which n o have to deal in the counties when the dispensary is voted out. They are worse than the dispensary aiftl open saloon combined, because they i go to the homes of our people with the tempting "block'1 and thereby cause some of our people to drink and become druukards who were never known to darken the dooj" of the ais pensary. It is to my mind one of the greatest temptations to our boys that we have to contend with; and surely onere ought to be something done to stop it. With no dispensary, which means practically no law and no constabulary, these walking saloons will run riot over our country- They like the secret reptile, hkl under the bush to some extent while we had the dis pens&ry and would sally forth to drive their poisonous fangs In our countrymen only when there was not much danger of being caught. But now like the migrating reptiles that bit children of Israel they have glided out and, encouraged by patronage, they become more bold untlll ere long their poisonous fangs will be driven into the llesh of our people and the poison wTl permeate the whole population of our country." Killed Himself. Geo Roueche, of Ilamilton, Mo., killed himself at Covington, Ga., by slashing his throat and wrists with a razor at a private boarding house, in this city, Wednesday night. Roue che, who came ihere last week with the advertising force of Sells & Dows' circus, was dirgercusly ill with double pneumonia and his physician had pronounced his case Incur able. Ho was apparently thirty live years old and has a mother ih Meadvill, Pa , and a brother in Chicago, lie was a member of the American Benevolent association of So. Louis. Mrs. G. W. Moore, wife of a well nuunu nuu MlUn^lDlUUS UJL'UllttUU UU | Peachtree road, near Atlanta, was as | saulted by a negro Thursday morning. The track hounds have been following the negro all day, but at a late hour Thursday night he bad not been captured. The county police continue the search and a large posse and all members of tho oounty police foroe will take up the hunt. There is considerable exoitement in the community, where the crime occurred, and it is feared the negro will be lynched if caught. Mr. Moore has offered $200 reward for the capture of the negro. Took llle litre. A. Marvin Carter, time keeper at the Poe mill in Greenville, committed suicide on Thursday evening by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. He was 25 years of age and was lately married to a daughter of F. S. Mosher, superintendent of the mill. He was in poor health. A very conservative estimate puts the yearly loss fn m insect depredations in the United States at onetenth of all the farm crops, and this amounts to the enormous sum of $300,000,000 and this is only about $52 for eich farm. ? A11 Of MANY IMS Germany Has an Abundance lOf Legal Restrictions. DRUG STORES LIMITED Government Regulates Number of Apothecaries?Strangers Have to Register at Police Station?Newspaper Slights to the Emperor Punishable by Fine and Imprisonment A correspondent writing In the Chicngo News says: The law keeps close track of everybody who comes into Germany. Strangers must bo registered at the police station, at mo latest within three days after their arrival in any place, so that it the police have occasion to want them, they will know where to look. Wage earners arc obliged to have reports, amounting to recommendations, which each of tholr employers must sign and yyhich every new employer may, and generally does, ask for. This is a custom excessively hard on both parties concerned. The law requires that employers and employes give each other notice of a full month's tiiue when either intends to discharge or to change his position, as the case may be. Hasty discharges must be paid for by the employer. Everybody knows, of course, how extraordinarily careful people must be in speaking or writlug about the emperor. An ipsult or derogation is punishable by a line and imprisonment. Editors must be on the constant guard, but as it is impossible for them to be respectful under all and any circumstances, they not infrequently find themselves in trouble. And in order that the right person may be punished if there be any such occasion, all publications bear the name and address of the one responsible for the contents. The railroads in Germany have been n \\r ? ? n/i h?? - - - ? ? ?A - ' 4 ' v.. uvu uj me fcuv viumoiil since III? years immediately following the Franco-Prussian war in 1870-1. At th^t time it was found difficult to transfer the troops and to prevent another such situation the government took over the management of trains, so tiiat it could have every train at its disposal in case ( of war. It has succeeded wonderfully well in this undertaking. The German government control* drug stores. I was a good deal shocked to learn this coming from a country where almost any man can settle down in peace in almost any business he may choose. Far different is it with German druggists, and far different lias it i been, too, for several centuries. The government decides the location of the drug store, and does it in this way: For every 10,000 people in each city 1 there must be a drug store, and for every 1,000 people in the country. There is a similar kind of arrangement in regard to chimney sweeps, whose wages j are paid them by the government out of a special tax fund. These particu- < lar drug laws apply only to Prussia. ] The other divisions of Germany?Bavaria, Wurtemburg and so forth?have other, but similar, regulations. I The Prussian laws are exceedingly numerous and complicated. After the 1 yiuoijauvB umggisi nas passed nis ex- < amlnation, lie must obtain a concession , from the government to open a place of business. There Is a greut variety of | concessions, too. When a man has j opened a new place he must keep his books In good order for inspection. Af- ( ter three years he is pledged to give over to the government a specified percentage of his profit, year by year, according to his concession. The govern- ( ment also fixes the maximum profit which a druggist can make on various goods. But what are the objects and results of all this? The fundamental object Is the security of the people, the secondary object, security for druggists. For tlfS profession is not dissatisfied with all these laws and all this government. On the contrary, the United German Druggists' Association Is very decidedly In favor of It. The business, which very easily becomes overcrowded, is kept In a normal condition. The Germans have observed In other countries that free competition in this as in other lines lowers prices. By restraining the freedom of druggists, the profession Is made secure, because when there is only one drug store to 10,000 persona the owner la sure to bo kept busy, and as he Is protected In demanding profit ?all his colleagues are doing the same as he?he is assured of a livelihood. But the public, generally at the mercy of the apothecary, Is also benefited; fraud and exorbitant charges cannot uv inuav. civery coinmuniiy, l/OQ, IS eure of having a drug store. The "Coming Nation." Now the American Immigration question In Canada has reached a climax. It takes only three years for an immigrant to earn a vote in Canada, and 75,000 former Amerioan voters will soon come into their Canadian suffrage. There are, in round numbers, 190,000 males more than 18 years of age In western Canada who formerly llred In the United States, 150,000 of whom are old enough to vote. There are now between 760,000 and 800,000 settlers, with a possible voting population of 240,000, a high percentage bocause many cattlemen without families are emigrating from Montana and Wyoming. In eastern Canada thousands of people believe that this Invasion means ths ultimate annexation of wostern Canada by the United States. It Is called "ths coming nation."?World's Work. Oalallth, or "milk stone," Is being much used for decorating, and promises to take the place of marble. King Edward has appointed King Al? fonsAa general in the British armjr* > BACK IB THE PEN. Ben Bennett, the Celebrated Criminal, Brought Back From Macon. The Columbia Record says Ben Bennett, the celebrated prisloner who killed his wife after being condi tlonally pardoned for another murder is again In the South Carolina penitentiary. Bennett was brought In by Sheriff Llghtsey, of Hampton, from Macon, Ga.: where he was captured several weeks ago. It seems that Bennett was farrested In Macon for drunkenness and aocording to the story he told when being put in the penitentiary, he was sentenced to four months on the city ciiaingang. Bennett evidently thought all chalrgangs were easy marks, after his rxperienoe in Hampton, and ho tried to escape but the Georgia guard was really on guard and he was shot down beforo he could get away. lie lias now one bullet in his back and an ither in his hip, but he is nob so bidly wounded that he could not be put into a cell at the pcnitentlar) when he was brought in last night. Bennett, It will be remembered, was pardoned by Gov. McSweeney while serving a life sentence for murder, the pardon being granted on condition that Bennett would leave the state and not return. After Governor Hey ward became governor, Bennett wrote to him asking that he be allowed to come beck to the state to see his wife at Hampton, but the ro quest was refused as improper. Bennett came, however, and while on this visit to his wife shot and killed tier, ms story was that while asleep he heard some one at the window, and thinking It was the sherllT come fur him, he shot, the bullet striking his wife, who had arisen .during the night. Bennett was tried for murder after a redlculous verdict from the coroner's jury exonerating hira. Ho was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to live years' imprisionmet. which under the laws of the state sent him to the chaingang. He fotind It an easy matter to i/et away from j the gang In Hampton county and has been at large a year or more until he turned up at Macon, as stated above I and was recogn zid as the man want- I ad in South Carolina. MISSIONARIES MURDERED. Flvo AmorioaiiH Have Been Killed at at Lilenohaw, China. A dispatch from Hong Kong, China, jays It is believed that a _ ___ . v>-? v* v ii tu ix UiCl 1UAU missionaries have been murdered at L'.euchow, Dr. Eleanor Chestnut. Mrs. 0. 10 Machic and child and Mr. and Mrs. Pearlo are the victims of tho disiiirbauce at the Lieuchow Mission. Lienchow is a town of 12.000 people, situated in the western portion of the province of Kwang Tung, at the head 3f the Gulf of Tong King, not far from the treaty port of Pakhoi. A dispatch from New York says. Mrs. Machie was the wife of Dr. Charles E. Machlo, of Ohio. She war Miss Ella M. Wook, of Philadelphia They had a daughter, Elsie, 15 years old. Dr. and Mrs. Machie have been stationed at Lienchow since 1880. Dr. Eleanor Chestnut had uo home In this country. She was appointed a missionary in 1803. John Rogers! Pearle was a uew missionary, who sail I ed from this country last August. He was born at New Rloomfleld, Penn., in 18Z.9. He was educated at the Laf ayette College and the Princeton The: logical Seminary. He married Miss Gillespie, of Port Deposit, Md., last summer before going to China in August, In addition to four church buildings the Lienchow Mission, which has 207 native Christians on its roll, has three Sunday nchools and three establishments for seoular education, one of which is a boarding school with nineteen pupils. It also supports a hosplt al and a dispensary. Reports from Canton says that the murder of the missionaries took place on Ootober 28. A Bad Failure. The worst bank failure on record *8 that of the Enterprise bank of Pittsburg, Pa. The assets of $2 800,00? are so completely gone that the depositors will not get over ten per centThe man who grows on a farm all that he consumes on it saves a double transportation?the hauling home what he buys and the hauling to market of what he sells to pay for it. These two items of cost help very ma torially to make up the di(Terence between profitable and unprofitable farming. G jv. Ileyv"""1 accept )d the in vltalion ylgit Orange urg on the first di y of the Oarn, v*. and deliver a short address. IIR til Cf/vwl _ ?v l^vvu UV WDi TheCoveru,* i very popular In this count;, And he will meet with a warm recep&lon. There are only 1,000,000 out of the 13 000,000 youDg men In the United Stales and Canada who go to oburoh What a shame! Cannot something I be done to reaoh the men and get I them Into the church? A noted fashion authority has decreed that pockets should be worn. It is true that every woman envies a man his luiuric us accommodations in this line. Pockets may be conveniently tucked away in almost any gown, and patterns are now being drawn that provide for this welcome idea. A Chinese newspaper has Just rounded out the fourteenth liundrath year of its existence. Subscribers who stopped the paper with the idea that it would have to suspend publication J now see how foolish they were. I COSI J Kill War Grows More Expensive But Fewer Are Slaughtered HAS BECOME A SCIENCE ? Battle of Waterloo Was One of thi* Bloodiest Contests of the Century ?One English King Prevented from Waging War Because He Was Over $2,000,000 in Debt. It costs far more to kill a man In modern than it did in ancient warfare. According to the best authorities of ltussia and Japan, the conflict recently ended Involved a total cost of $1,500,000,000. Of tliis the Russians suffered a loss approximately $t,0U0,000,000"and the Japanese $500,000,000. The Russian casualties amounted to 400,000 and the Japanese to 200,000 men, says the New York Tribune. it may bo estimated, therefore, that every man who fell on oither side in tho recent struggle for supremacy in the far east represented an expenditure of $2,500. It cost $1,225 to vanquish one Russian, and Russia had to spend $5,000 to overwhelm one Japanese. Although more money is speut lo<fay in war than in olden times, yet fVver are killed. The great guns of mt'lern Invention, costing thousands of dollars to construct and hundreds of dollars to lire, and the battleships, representing expenditures of from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 each, are loss destructive to human life than the spears and arrows of the ancients. At the same time that men have devised more powerful engines of warfare, they have goiie still further in inventing more nearly invulnerable methods of defense. Some of the great battles and wars of the last century seemed bloodier than they actually were in comparison. The battle of Waterloo was one of the bloodiest of the contests of the century. Of those who fought under Wellington, and Napoleon in this battle,>25.8 per cent gave up tueir lives or were wounded. The battle of I.eipsic ranked next, with 25 per cent of casualties. On the ik'iu 01 uottysburg the percentage was 20.6. Judging, by percentages, the battle of Moukden in the recent war was bloodier than any of these. Its percentage of casualties was 26.3. Taking some of the recent wars as a whole, the percentages have been: American civil war, 6.4; Franco-Prussian war, 10.7; Iloer war, 19.A comparison of the cost of providing a gun and liring it, ns it has grown within the last century, gives a good impression as to the increase in th? cost of warfare. It is said that in the time of the war for the overthrow o! Napoleon Bonaparte, when solid shot were used, a 32-pouiul ball cost only five shillings, or $1.25. At the time ol the Crimean war, in the 50's, those had been replaced by 32-pound shells. The shells cost, ready filled for firing, $5. The charge of powder and wadding cost $3 more. A 68-pound shell, powder, etc., cost $9.50. The cannons weighed from three to five tons, and cost from $325 to $175 each. A 12-inch gun, an inches larger than the great howitzeri used by the Japanese at Port Arthur, costs the United States government $11,000. It weighs from 54 to 60 tons, and each time it is fired the treasury is mulcted of $140, or the cost of a cannon less than 50 years ago. That war relatively cost less in thg middle ages than today is indicated by the fact that, one English king was prevented from going to war because he was a debtor for $2,500,000 and could borrow no more. Two or three centuries ago it wag discovered that money for warfarl could be secured ^iore easily and in larger quantities by bonding the nation for it and taxing the people to pay the interest. Wars began to cost more. In less than 300 years, Great Britain has spent on warfare $6,795,000,000. The revolution of 1688 cost $156,000,000; the War of the Spanish Succession, $220,000,000; the Spanish war, $325,000,000; the Seven Years' War, $535,000,000; the? American War of Revolution, $725,000,000; the war of the French revolution, $2,360,000,00; the war against Napoleon,. $2,930,000,00o. The Boer war cost Great Britain in cash more than $800,000,000. It is estimated that the ware of the nineteenth century cost the world $17,922,000,000. The debts of the chief nations of theearth aggregate more than $34,000,000,000. It is believed that three-tourtha of this sum jvas swallowed up in warfare and preparations for it. Nearly alt the sum represented by the debts of Great Britain, France and Germany was spent for warfare. These countries are spending annually in interest on their debts nearly $390,000,000. The Hotel on Wheels. Old sleeping cars and parlors carsbring good money in rental before they are sent to the junk shop. They aro chiefly wanted by showmen and traveling photographers, who run all over the country with them during the summer. You And them sidetracked at all the small towns. Some are used by medicine men and agents of all kinds, whotrflvol In lor era crrnuna 1 * - au .?.&u b>wuyo. uvuica UI i nese \ cars are in the hands of strolling enter- j tainers who don't want to remain idle , botween seasons. The rental of these movable hotela has developed into a recognized Indus- i try. Af bond is required for the return / of the car to the point where it was \ hired. From ten to twenty persons cam i live comfortably on an ordinary show ) car. ? 1 / Clay modelling in schools is con?* I demned by doctors as being worse than) slates for transmitting infectious dis-/ eases. * . Tea grows wild In many parts ?f m 81>?b. jj fl ll,