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FOUND IN RIVER. , Tied Hand and Foot With a Rope { a Man's Body , TAKEN FROM WATER. , Mose Hughes, the Dead Man, is Thought to Have Been Murdered for a Crimejfor Whicb'Oihers Are Held, But Nothlngjg known. A special disp&teb from Union to The State says *it/i hands tied behind him and feet roped together, Mose Hughes, colored, aged about 50 yearn, was found late Thursday afternoon in Tiger river in a remote stc tion of the oounty, lti miles fron Union and one mile below Hodges' Ferry. It is strongly suspeoted that he has been murdered as a result of being thought to be implicated in an incendiary burning of valuable property in that section about April 27th, at which time a lynching was narrowly averted, and one of his sons is now in jail charged with two others with destroying the property. It seems that Mose Hughes was at the home of Doc Stewart, a negro, Snnday alternoon and left his mule there as the river was high and he wanted to cross. He went around by the Seaboard Air Line railroad bridge, and that, so far as can be learned, was the last seen of him alive. As he did not return home the negroes in the oommuulty soon began to suspect foul play and organized searching part es and went along the river. Later Thursday afternoon some of them came upon his body with the hands and feet tied and rocks evidently in the pockets and other parts 0\t Lin nlnt Li 1 ? 1 * A * * vri ma UIVIUIUK ? ^ f tt I OU Wy Ilt'ttVlO'BL Sill the trouper legs. Ilia head was under water ar d, with the natural fear of Interfering with the body before viewed by a coroner's jury, they would not disturb it to see where he had been wounded or what had oaused his death prior to his being thrown Into the river. The source from which this story is gotten Is a man who heard it from the 11 ps of those who found the boay in the stream and it was understood that Magistrate W. E.Itatchford of Carlisle was to have betn sunrmontd Friday mornlug to hold an inquest, but In a special to the Prt gross from Carlisle at 3.10 Friday afternoon Mr. Ratchford says that he had never been noil tied and knew none of the particulars. There are two stories iu circulation at Carlisle, one brought in by a negro Friday morning is to the fact that a colored woman thought to be Mose's wife, said that Sunday afternoon she saw two men carrying Moso Hughes to the river and that he had a bullet wound in his throat. The other story Is that Friday morning an unknown white man before boarding the Southern train at 8 43 announced to some bystanders that a negro had been killed and thrown in a river. This man's identity is unknown, and he, possibly and likely, has no oonneotion whatever wlih the affair. On account of there being absolutely no telephone, telegraphic or other facilities for communicating with the seotlon where the crime is alleged to have been committed, details are lacking at 8 o'clock Thursday night. Of fioers went to the scene Thursday morning. SUui ttllllMOtl. At Pittsburg, Pa., Thomas O'Connor Jones took his own life because he oould not'tnarry his beautiful oousln, Madeline Laughline who on April 17 became the wife of the Rev. Dr. Maclane Alexander, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, and who is now travelling In Europe with her husband. This Is the firm belief of all bis friends and acquaintances, who openly admitted and discussed bis sulci-te. Jones was devoted to Miss Laugblln, but both families frowned on his suit because she washls cousin. It Is understood ?* ~i? ? ?-? - - uo uiu uuu uive up nope oi winning Miss Laughlln until he stood in the First Presbyterian Oburcb and saw her become Mrs. Alexander. Then he went home with a white face and collapsed. He asked bis mother to step Into another room for a few mlLiUtes and seized the chanoe to blow out his own brains. Hidden In House. Miss Josephine Sullivan was burled at Andersonvllle, G&., Wednesday. Over forty-five hundred dollars were found seoreted about her house. Over four hundred dollars In gold was In an old stocking and the balance in sundry plaoes. Rolls of greenbacks found wrapped In old newspapers were un disturbed for many years. Fifteen hundred dollars laid for months In an old box in an outbuilding, covered with paper and grain sacks. Probably more will yet be found. Failure of a bank in Americus years ago and consequent loss was the cause of the wo- , man's lack of oonfidence. IX iuouiMi Kn uieu. Geo. ?. Chamberlain, democrat, was re-eleoted on Tuesday governor j of Oregon by a majority of about two j thousand; but Jonathan Bourne, Jr., , received the popular nomination for ? United States senator by 6,000. Tfll PRS88 ASSOCIATION. Program of the Meeting to be Held This Month. Mr. C. 0. Langston, secretary of the State Press association has issued the following programme of the an* nual meeting to he held at the Isle of Palms on Ju/io 27 29: W KDNE8DA Y, JUNK, 27 ? 10 A. M. Welcome meeting In the hotel auditorium. Appointment of committees. A ftkknoon session?3 o'clock. Report of otllcers, of committees, miscellaneous business, eto. Papers will be read on the following subjects by the persons named: "Personality of the South Carolina Press as observed by Mrs. Virginia D. Young since 1891"?Mrs. Virginia D. Young, Enterprise, Fairfax. "The Advertising Agents"?A. O. Kollock, News Darlington. General dlsoussisnof the above subjects. Evening Session?8 30 oclock. "Voting ContesU, Gift Proportions etc. Do They Pay?"?0. W. Wolfe, Record, Klngstree. Should the Foreign Advertiser Rv celve a Lower Price than the .Local Patron?"?W. H. Wallaoo. Ooserver, Newberry. General discussion of the above subjects. Opening of the question box, and discussion relative to the questions asked. Miscellaneous business. Thursday,?9.30 A. M. "Our Countfy Cousins"? J. C. Hemphill, News and Courier,! Charleston, i "Getting the News"?P. II. Flke, Herald, Spartanburg. General dibcusslon of the above subjects. Miscellaneous business. Evknino Session?8.30 o'clock. Miscellaneous business. h The BusineHl End of It"?J. L. S'ms, The Times and Democrat OrauKclurg. "Short Paragraphs"?W. E. Gonzales, The State, Columbia. General discussion of the ubove subjects. Opening the question box and discussion relative to the questions asked. Miscellaneous business. Friday?9.30 A. M. Miscellaneous busluess. ( I "The Staff Poet"? John T. Meehan, Citizen, Cheraw. "The Publisher as an Ad. Writer for his Paper"?J Itutledge McGhee, Index, Greenwood. I 1 rni- . rue Aiiernoon Faper,,?Thos. R. Waring, Evening. Post, Charleston. General discussion of the^above subjects. Evkning Fkshion?9.30 o'clock Final uoeetlnk?Miscellam oua business, election of ctilccrs, etc. Annual address by Ambrose E Gotzales, The State, Columbia. At the conclusion of the address the association will be tendered a barquet by the hosts. During the meeting Cel. Tl os. B. Crews of the Laurensvllle Herald and Mr. N. G. Osteon of the Sumter Watchman and Southron will road papers on their persnal recollections and experiences of journalism of this State for the last half century. Woman's Good Namo. Did you ever notice that "talk" doesn't hurt a man much? Perfeo tlon isn't looked for in a man, and when someone tries to ir jure a man by ranting about a few faults he has, the absent one, who is prob&dly attending to his own altairs is elevated in the hearers's estimation, while the lnformane is lowered accordingly. If a man knocks along, doing fairly well, people realize that while he has some faults, he has more virtues and they are charitable enough to overlook these faults. But It is different with a girl or womon. No matter how good and pure a woman may be, let someone start an infamous lie about her and everyone is willing to pass It along, and there Is always someone to believe it. That. Ha ??? never be lived down. It may burn low but the gossip-loving are ready with new fuel. Did you ever think how damnably mean some goody-good people are in this respect? Deplorable Accident. The Spartanburg Journal ssys Eugene Eubanks, aged 14 years, was accidentally sbot and killed by his sister, Miss Claud Eubanks, last Tuesday about 11.30. The shooting ooourred at the Eubanks home several miles from Woodruff. It ieemg that Eugene and Miss Oluadia Eubanks were playing with a breech loading Rhotgun. The young man removed the shell and after snapping it several times replaced the shell, it is said, and placed the gun on the bed. She not knowing that he had replaced the shell picked up the gun and snap ped it. To utter horror the gUn was discharged and her brother fell to the floor, having been shot over the heart. He died within a short time. Nugro in l)*ng?r. A telephone message from Lemars, la., says the jal) Is surrounded by a mob intent upon lynching a negro who Is accused of having assaulted a white girl Thursday afternoon. The J nsgro Is said to be on employe of a d rous that exhibited at Lemars j/hursday. No Autos. * An indignation meeting was held In ihe oourt house at Darlington to pro* 1 zest against the use of the roads by lutomobiles. Various methods of Hopping it were suggested, the shot- < run being one. i v USED PLAIN TALK. Denounoed to Ilia Faoo as a Dirty Hnoaktnfc Spy. The Columbia Reoord says the sennational incident In the dispensary in* vestigatlou Friday was the revolt of the oommittee'a own ( ftlelal stenographer at the ungentlemanly conduct of Representative Lyon and his detecv tive, Mr. Klingeuberg, in dragging before the Oommliteea private, casual conversation that there was nothing in, made at a whist party in the presence of a party of guests at Dr. Eirlo's homo. The stenographer, Capt. A. M Deal, well known throughout the state, and who has been prominent in social affairs here for several years, denounced the detective, whom he had introduced at Dr. Karle's heme, as "a dirty, Bneaklng, spy" for "going to a gentleman's home in the capacity of a gentleman and aotlug as a detec tive," and he would apologize for taking him into the presence of ladies and gentlemen. And in the succeeding breath, shaking his linger at ReDrenentAtive T^vn.-i \?ou a . ?j 1 ".v - * nuwiv at Dr. Earle's and at Mr. G. R. Rembert's, told him that bringing out such matters In the circumstances did not square with his ideas of what constituted a gentleman, if it did with Mr. Lyon's. Mr. Lyon several times attempted to suppress Mr, Deal, but failed, and even the committee quieted him ouly after repeated efforts. Mr. Loyn defended himself by asking Mr. Deal if he did not know Mr. Kllugenberger's business when he escorted him to Dr. Earle's home. "Yes, I did; but I took him there as a gentleman, and not as a spy," was the hot reply. Mr. Kllngenberg is a Western man of apparently limited opportunities In such matters, and his conduct is not so great a surprise as that of Mr. Lyon, who was bred a gentleman. The tilt started on the heels of the tett mony of ex-Mayer Ear e who was Indignant at the turn affairs took, though he did not hesitate to answer questions. A DEADLY STROKE. A Man am! HIh Grandson Killed by Iitfctltiitiig. A special dispatch from Laurens to The Slate says that within a few hundred yards of old Poplar Springs church and almost In sight of bis home Mr. Newton Y. Manly, a Confederate veteran, aged 05. and his 10 year-old grandson, Jodie Manly, were killed Instantly by lightning Monday afternoon about 3 o'clcck and Hill M?nly, son of Mr. Manly, senior, and father of the boy, was perhaps fatally injured by the same bolt. The father, son and grandsOD were out looking after their cattle when they were overtaken by a rain and eltc rlcal storm. They were returning to the house and were evidently walking abreast In the road as they fell sld by bide on their faces. A negro man living nearby witnegK?d the tragedy and gave the alaim. Mr. Manly, senior, and the lad was killed out right while Mr. Hill Manly was com pletely paralyzed and rendered un consckiH. He received medical aid and at last accounts he had shown signs of returning consciousness although his condition is very critical. Dies from Dog litif. Asa result of the bite of a mad dog inflicted four weeks ago, 4-year-old Bernard Buxton, of Glrard died Thursday at the Baptist Tabernacle Home and Infirmary In Atlanta When the child reached Atlanta hydrophobia had already developed, and the physicians could do nothing but give the ohild opia'es to relieve his sufferings. It appears that Ber nard was playing near a saw mill at Gir&rd, four weeks ago, when the dog came to him. Trie animal , wiw* apparently Harmless, although it ( aotea a little queerly. The child t played with it when suddenly the dog . sprang at the oh lid's face and bit him , on the cheek. { Indiana tor Bryan. I The Democrats of Indiana In convention Thursday adopted a platform 1 strongly Indorsing W. J. Bryan for president and selected a state ticket ( for all officers except Governor and 1 reporter of the Supreme Oourt. ' Benjamin F. Shlvely was permanent 1 chairman, in his address, he said, i 'That whloh Is today eulogized and l approved as broad statemanship and 1 enlightened patrotlsm In Theodore 1 Roosevelt was only a few years ago < denounced as reactionary, revolution- 1 ary and unpatrlatio in William Jen- i nlngs Bryan. The aftersight of the 1 one Is almost equal to the foresight 1 of the other." i Struck By Ijffchtnlnfr. During a heavy rain and eleotrlcal t a-* 1 ?' - " dvuiui uniumay, JlgDLOlOg 8tTUCk the ] Rowesvllle oil mill, burning out the \ telephone and electric light conneo- ( tions and starting a small fire which , was oulckly extinguished, little dam- s age being done. At the same time, \ near the same place, a cow and horse, ( the property of Owen Mack, were Instantly killed and Mack's son severely shooked by lightning. Reoeptlon to Bryan. t A reception In whloh Democrats 1 from all over the country will be in- < vlted to take part will be tendered to e William J. Bryan In Madison Square c Garden, New York, on his return i from his trip around the world. The I reoeptlon will be under the auspices ] of the commercial travelers and hotel fi men's antl-trust league. i PASS THKM AJK0UN1). KIIKK ADVKH1ISINO AHKED FOB HOME HHAHl'UllH Who Art Buncoing People Out of Money On a Oet Bich Quick 8chem?. Some of the washing roaohlne pe> pie who had been operating in this county up to last week have gone to Sumter, where no doubt they are now actively engaged in trying to get the unsophisticated to exohauge some of their hard earned money for a get rich quick scheme which they paJm oft under the plea of selling rights to sell washing machines and establish agencies. When they came to Orangeburg something over two months ago they gave it out that they would be here six or more months and that they Intended to carry at least seventy-tive thousand dollars from this place. This we are glad to say they have failed to do, thanks to the potency < f prirter's ink The/ were here some little while before the character of their business was exactly understood, and in that time they induced some folks to invest in their soheme, which is one of the most bold-faced bunco games we have ever attempted to run down. On April 2? The Times and Demo crat exposed the scheme and warned the people to let It alone. This ex posure had the desired tfleet, and from then up to the time th8y left they did not bunco a single victim, unless it waa some one who did not read The Times and Democrat. Before the scheme was exposed In The Tiraeft and Democrat they had bur coed several people out of Bums varying from two hundred to fifteen hundred dollars. Some of this money was paid In cash, some In notes and some of It Is secured by mortgages on farms We understand that some of those who paid cash have toru up the wonderful piece of Hue paper they received for their money and gonf back to work on their farms, while those who gave notes and mortgagee are kicking4 like blind mules and swear that they will never pay either note or mortgage. We do not believe they will unless these pipers arc held by innocent parties. Several of the victims were in town Saturday and what they said a>K?u? the washing machine f >iks and their mode of doing business was simply ? plenty. Onepoir felloe, who had a large family, and who had given a mortgage for live hundred dollars on his farm for a ''right" was loud ana Hoan 1 n ^ ..1 -. < l - J uvu|< ?u juio uruuuuabiuu UI D.'ue way they hart robbed him by Indue ing him to buy something that they knew was worthless. This man is an honest, hardworking farmer, but knows nothing about the numerous fakirs that go up and dowu the world to entrap theinexporieioed. He said they made him believe that people would run him down to get a chance to buy a "right" and that In a little while lie would bo able to own an automobile or two. After trying to sell "rights" and machines for about, six weeks he has given up in dbgim and gone to work on his farm, a u< or er but wiser man. Any man or set of men that would take advantage (f the man wo mention above will ce?.r watching. These people lived in great style here. They drove tiae horses and rode around in one of the most fash iouabie traps in towu. Tasy evidently spent the money they got from their victims with, a free hand, and had a big time generally so far as good living was concerned. There are a dozen r-r rao^e people in the party who have been boarding here, including the wives of the several agents. We regret to be compelled to attack any man's business, but we cannot conscientiously let these smooth talking people go to some other county and bunoo the people as they did here without warning their intended victims. The press of the State should pass them around and compel them to go elsewhere to carry on their oonfldenoe game, for what they are doing is little less than that. As we see the two things, bunco iteeriOflr IB an honorable ftcAnnat.Inn ? ww vv*/M|TWVlVU in comparison with selling a man a "right" to tell reall? nothing of any value. The more we hear about the methods of tbese people the more infamous they appear in cur estima Mmi. We are satisfied If the United State 8 postal authorities were apprised of their mode of doing business that a fraud order would be Issued kgainst them and they would be deoar red the use of the mails. That was what was done in the oherry tree iwindle, and we can't see where there is any difference in the two oases. The cuerry tree swindlers sold "rights" to tell cherry trees, and the washing nachlne people sell "rights" to establish agenoles to sell washing machines. In both lnstanoes the people who invested were buncoed and it teems to us that the steerers ought iO be punished.?The Times and Demxcrat. Sneers at Mile*. The New York Sun, which is ownid by the trust, sneers at Qeneral lilies for saying that he knew about jonditions In Chicago several years tgo. It Is well known that the Genual did know a great deal about the insanitary and dangerous oondition n the packing-houses, and that the ?epublloan administration took very [ood oare to see that those conditions vert not exposed and remedied. Looks Like Bryan. The nearer we get to the next presidential election the more it looks as if William Jennings Bryan will be the standard bearer of his party for the third time. Tills great American is today the most prominent private citizen of the Republic, and the more his character is*studied the brighter it shines for all that is good and true in private or public station. The finger of destiny points to him as the. next president of this great country, and no citizen is more worthy of that honor than he is. Bry .n Is one man who lias passed through the fiery ordeal of two heated campaigns and came out unscathed. In fact it may be truthfullv said that he has been under the lime light of public scrutiny ana criticism for the past ten years, and yet today thee is not a spec of tarnish on his name or life. This is the type of man the times demand for president of the country, and we believe and hope that the next election will result in his elevation to the presidency. The New York Press, a Republican newspaper, believes that Wil.iam .J Bryan will be the Democratic nominee for President in 1908, and that the Republicans will stand no chance of winning the Presidential contest, unless they nominate a man who, like Mr. Bryan, is close to the people. The Press bays that "those who are watching the trend of public sentiment arc convinced that Mr. Bryan is stronger with the American people today than he was at either time he ran for the Presidency, and that his strength increases with extraordinary force." It declares that "the event,? r?f tim i.m? . _ _ _ - V..V.? v/? VUV ul.1l ten years have proven that most of the charges which he made concerning the special privileges and defiant crimes of the great corporation are true." The Press is convinced that the abuse which Mr. Bryan related from the stump are more virtulent than he himself declared them to be and notes that the voters all over the country "are turning to men of more 'radical' principles and methods for the solution of the problems which will not be laid aside until they are settled as public sentiment demands and has the right to demand they shall be settled." The Press goes on to say that "Mr. Bryan or someone like him will be the enthusiastic choice of the Democratic party; and if Bryan is nominated we have no doubt that he will poll the votes of all those who gave him their ballots in 1900 and hundreds of thousands besides who have become disgust^ J - _ ? A ? ' ? en wiui me mark-time policy of others who have undertaken to redress the curb the illegal and dangerous practices of the special interests which still refuse to permit the American people to make their laws and to administer in their own interest such as have been made." This is true, and the ! Lie publican party will he unable to buy its way or fool the people in another campaign. The people have their eyes opined. The Press then asks. "Are the Republicans, then, to meet a popular revolution of this sort, led by a Bryan or some other 'radical' with an Elihu Root, natural friend and professional adviser of the trusts, or a Fairbanks, even more impossible to contemplate in serious, or even a Taft, whose proclivities are of liiu mark-time character? We don't think so. We believe that the Republican party must conclude that if it is to be allowed to go on with the commission of reforming intolerable conditions it must oiler to the voters cf the United StaU s a candidate of a different type, of different affirmations and ' f different methods?President Roosevelt himself, perhaps, or a Senator LaFlolette or someone of that order whose sy r.pathies are with the people and whose efforts will be directed, with even greater coil'age and stability than the President's, the work which must be done to 83ttle this question in the right way, whether that time is today or tomorrow." This is plain talk, and coming from the Press, a paper that has bjen a leading party organ of the Republican party for many years, is very sig! niticant. The expression of such sentiments from such a source may well be regarded as remarkable and a suic indication of the trend of political thought. South Carolina will be in line for Bryan when the time comes, and we expect to see him nominated by acclamation and triumphantly elected. We have always been a great admirer of Mr. Bryan politically and personally, and if we had the naming of the next president of this gram and glorious nation he would be our choice. We do not believe we could confer a greater benefit on the people than by HI cauiuuk i?ul? pure, good man to the highest political station within the gift of man. Murdered in litwflsitore, John E. Grubb, poatmaater and merchant at Acaton, Va., was murdered Wednesday night by unknown persons and his store was burned afterwards. The body of the merobant shows unmistakable evidences that he had been killed by a blow on his head before the building was tired. Bobbery was evidently the motive. Several suspects have been arrested and bloodhounds were put on trail Thursday afternoon. Grubb was a union veteran, but bad lived at Aueton for many years. r HOW BIRDS SOAR. Tit* Kit* a Muster of the Art *f Soaring. "In th* summer of 1872 I was visitlug on the Warm Springs reservutiou In eastern Oregon," suys a writer. "The residences of the government employees were in u deep vulley between table lands through which the water courses hud cut deep canyons. I climbed up on one of these tables, the edge of which was in most places perpendicular for ten, twenty und more feet, and as I stood there lu a strong breezo blowing against the face of the slope a small hawk came gliding along eight or ten feet above the edge and following the course of the edge, and lie kept on until lie \yiis little more than a rod away from me." He seemed to be making no effort except a little balancing and turning in order to steer himself. * The explanation seemed to me very simple. Just there at the edge there was a strong, sharply ascending current which enabled him to use wind and gravity against each other. "In the autumn of that year I went to Fuchau, Clilua, and there I found the city frequented by a species of large bird which we cull a kite, it seems to be half hawk, half buzzard, in Its build and habits. Its llight Is heavy and awkward, its wings being too big for its pectoral muscles, and their tips are not pointed like a hawk's, but broad and square across. But it Is a master of the art of soaring. There are in Fuchau two hills which lie sq~fcr\ across the path of the afternoon sea breeze. Here toward the close of a breezy autumn afternoon a dozen or a score of these kites will resort and have a genuine coasting game. "These hillsides are (pilte steep, and of course there results a strong, sharp upward current at the top., The kites come to the top and, starting from the eddy In the lee of the top, glide out Into the uprushlng current, wings balancing lip and down and head und tall turning and twisting till they nro In the heart of the upward current, and then they turn broadside to it and are borne upward and backward seventy live or a multireel reet. men moy descend ngj^ into the eddy and again steer tlig[ JfS"es out into the upruslilng current. Throughout it all there in very little flapping of the wings."?Chicago News. ERRORS IN ILLUSTRATION. Hon l??ally Tlicy Arc Mad* Iu Hurry of Preparation. "Perfection of detail," said the cartoonist, "is very rare iu the making oi pictures, whether they ho painted on canvas by the great masters or drawn In line by men who illustrate the daily newspapers. It is the general effect that tells. There are few newspaper pictures?and I don't except my own? in which you can't pick some flaw from the standpoint of realism. "In the hurried effort of the newspaper artist, who counts the minutes by the clock, there may be some excuse for this, but when we see a man carving a turkey left handed on the cover of a magazine we must agree that the artist lias either been careless or else has employed n left handed model to pose for him, and the latter solution Is scarcely probable. "A fisherman landing a trout on a light rod with never a finger 011 the reel is quite a common mistake among magazine illustrations, msd in the matter of costumes of various periods tho illustrators are woefully lacking in information. io illustrate now apt we are to make mistakes," continued the cartooiv 1st, "several years ago I drew a figure representing Cuba, emaciated, starving, a thing of skin and bones. Thefigure was half naked, and I tried to bring out all the horrible details?the shrunken limbs, the gaunt face, the ribs protruding through the skin and,, above all, the hollow cavity where the stomach should have been. A friend of mine, a doctor, took me to task about it. 'Persons who ore starving to death,' he said, 'may be abnormally emaciated In every other part of th* body except the stomach. Tliv abdomen In the advanced stages U expanded, giving the victim a grotesque appearance.' To substantiate this statement ho showed me some photograph** taken in India during a famine, and 1 was forced to admit that he was right."" ? Philadelphia Itecord. Women In Venice. In Venice, says the Ladies' Realm, the women of the lower classes accept trlb^o s to their beauty from perfect f ers as a matter of course. It Is c^sldered not only proper, but polite, f A AAmnllmnnf o noaoln/# 4-Yia w H |>nnaui^ uimucu UU mcr clinrm of her beautiful eyes or complexion. If one treads on the skirt of a pretty woman, one has only to say, "Pardon, beautiful girl," to receive the most dazzling smile and bow In return for tho awkwardness. At cafes frequented by the people It Is the custom for waiters to say when placing a chair for one of the women, "Take tills seat, beautiful blond," or, "Sit here, 1a??A1 1 - - juvcijr ui uut'ui, us me case may L>e. A Womaa Soldier. Women disguised fts men have often eg-yvj as soldiers. The following la v^^nion Is on a tombstone In the English town of Brighton: "In memory of Phoebe Hasself bom 1T13, died 1821, aged 108 years. Bhe served for many years as a prtvato soldier In many parts of Europe, and at the battle of Fontenoy, fighting bravely, she received a bayonet wound in the left arm." Although not yet perfected, the MaJorama telephone bids fair vastly to extend the field of usefulness of the long distance telephone by rendering audible vibrations too faint to actuate the disk of the ordinary receiver of tres the microphone Instrument*, a