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m m THE LEDGER: GAFPNEr, S. C., APRIL 81, 1898. ¥ tf. GONE BY. Little I htew how I loved you, denr, Little how you loved me; Huiiiiiu r and winter and orinn of the year, And bloiMoniH on every tree I Summer and winter and si>ri:iK once mere, And then it was tine to pirt. Never a hint of a hurt we boro Hidden away in the hei.rt; Nov t n word of the after years, Woven with mists of pain; N< ver a thought of the t itter tears To lull like the v. inte. rain. Out of the future it cane to mu, Silent nnd sad and slow. That under it all, though we could not see, We had loved each other so. Little 1 knew hew I loved you, dear, Little how you loved mo; Sunnier and winter and spring o’ the year, And a grief that must always Is ! Naught of reproach or of blame, Only a play and a pert; near, Livir: Savt our lives just the same, denr, • for a crr.ek in the heart! —Post Wheeler in New York Press. IN THE RESERVOIR. Sonin 80 years aRO you might have seen some cf the best society of New York on the top of the distributing res ervoir any fine October morning. There wore two or three carriages in waiting, and half a dozen senatorial looking mothers with young children pacing the parapet, as we ourselves, ono day in the past generation, basked there in the sunshine—now watching the pick- ; trel that glided along the lucid edges of the black pool within, a?id now loo!:- j ing of? upon the scene of rich and won drous variety that spreads uloie, the two rivers on each side. “They may talk of Alphens and Arctbuaa, ” murmured an idling sopho more who had found his way thither during recitation hours, “but the Cro ton, in passing over an arm of the tea at Spnyten Dryvil and bursting to sight again in this truncated pyramid, brats it all hollow. Ly (leorge, too, the bay yonder looks as blue as ever the JEgtt n st a to Byron's eye gazing from the Acropolis. But the painted foliage on these crags—the Creeks must have dreamed cf such a vegetable phenomenon in the midst of their grayish oli\o groves or tin y never would have sup plied the want of it in their landscape by embroidering their marble temples with guy colors. Did you sco that pike break, sir?” “I did not. ” “Zounds! TIis eilvcr fin flashed upon the black Acheron like a restless soul that hoped yet to mount from the pool. ” “The place seems suggestive of fan cies to you?” wo observed in reply to the rattlcT ate. “It is, indeed, for I have done up a good deal of anxious thinking within a circle of a few yards where that lish broke just now.” “A singular place for meditation— the middle of the reservoir.” “You look incredulous, sir, but it’s a fact. A fellow can never tell until he is tried in what situation his most earnest meditations may bo concentrated. I am boring you though.” “Not at all. But you seem so familiar with the spot that I wish you could tell mo why that ladder leading down to the water is lashed against the stonework in yonder corner.” “That ladder?” said the young man, brightening at thoquestion. “Why, the position, perhaps the very existence, of that ladder resulted from my medita tions in the reservoir, at which you smiled just now. Zhall I tell you all about them?” “Pray do.” “Well, you havo seen the notice for bidding any cue to f sh in the reservoir. Now, when I read that warning, the spirit of the thing struck mo at once as inferring nothing more than that one should not sully the temperance pota tions of our citizens by steeping bait in it of any kind; but you probably know the common way of taking pike with a slip uoote of delicate wire. I was de termined to havo a touch at the fellows with this kind of tackle. “I cbcEO a moonlight night, and an hour before the edifice was closed to visitors I secreted myself within the walls, determined to pass the night on the top. All went as I could wish it. The night proved cloudy, but it was only a variable drift of broken clouds which obscured Ihu moon. I had a walking cane rod with mo, which would reach to the margin of the water and several feet beyond if necessary. “To this was attached the wire about 15 inches in length. “I prowled along the parapet for a considerable time, but not a single li.sh could I see. The clouds made a flicker ing light and shade that wholly foiled my stoat!fart gaze, I was convinced that should they come up thicker my whole night’s adventure would b» thrown away. ‘Why shall I not descend the sloping wall and get nearer on a level with the lish, for thus alouo can 1 hope to see oner’ The question had hardly i shaped itself in my mind before l had one log over the iron railing. “If you look around, you will see now that Ihero are* some half dozen weeds growing here and there amid the fissures of the solid masonry. In one of the fissures from \vh nen those spring I planted a foot and begun my descent. The reservoir was fuller than it is now, uud a few strides would have carried mo to the margin of the* water. Holding on to thee’eft above, I felt around with one foot for a place to plant it below in«. “In that moment the flap of a pound piko made mu look round, uud the roots of the weed upon which I partly de pended gave way as I was in the act of turning. Sir, one’s K nees are sharpened in deadly peril. As I live now I dis tinctly heard the bells of Trinity chim ing midnight as I rose to the surface the next instant, immersed in the stone caldron, where 1 must swim fenny life (heaven only could toll how long. A “I uni a capital swimmer, and this * Wtiirully g n vo mo u degree of self pos session. Falling us I had, I, of coarse, bad pitched out some distance from the sloping parapet. A few strokes brought mo to the edge. I really was not yet certain but that I could clamber up the face of the wall anywhere. I hoped that I could. I felt certain that at taunt there was some spot where I might get hold with my bauds, even if I did not ultimately ascend it. “I tried the nearest spot. The ipcliua- tion of the wall wae so vertical that it did not even rest mo to lean against it. ! I felt with my bands and with my feet. ! Surely, i thought, there must l:e some j fissure like those in which that ill ! omened weed had found a place for its root. “There was none. My fingers became i sore in busying themselves with the i harsh and inhospitable stones. My feet flipped fro n the smooth and slimy ma- j soury beneath the water, uud several I times my face came in rude contact with the wall, when my foothold gave ^ way on the instant that I seemed to : havo found some diminutive rocky cleat j upon which I could stay myself. “Sir, did you ever see a rat drowned | in a half filled hogshead, how ho swims round and round and round, and after ! vainly trying the sides again and again with his pawtf fixes his eyes upon the upper rim as if he would look himself out of his watery prison? “I thought of the miserable vermin, thought of him as I had often watched thus his dying agonies, when a cruel urchin of 8 or 10. Boys are horribly cruel, sir; boys, women and savages. All childlike things are cruel—cruel from a want of thought and from per verse ingenuity, although by instinct each of thece is so tender. You may net have observed it, but a savage is as tender to its own young as a boy is to a favorite puppy—the same boy that will torture a kitten out of existence. I thought then, I say, of a rat drowning in a half filled rusk cf water and lifting his gaze out of the vessel as ho grew more and more desperate, and I flung myself on my back, and floating thus fixed my eyes upon the face of the moon. “The moon is well enough in her way, however you may look at her, but her appearance is, to say tho least of it, peculiar to a man fioatiug on his hack in the center cf a stone tank, with a dead wall of some 15 or ilO feet rising squarely on every side of him!” The young man smiled bitterly as he said this and shuddered oucu or twice befero he went on musingly: “The last time I had noted tho planet with any emotion sho was on tho wane. Mary was with me. I had brought her out hero one morning to lock at tho view from the top of the reservoir. Sho said little of tho scene, but as wo talked of our old childish loves I saw that its fresh features were incorporating them selves with tender memories of the past, and I was content. “There was a rich golden baza upon | the landscape, and as my own spirits ; rose amid tho voluptuous atmosphere | sho pointed to tho waning planet, dis cernible like a faint gash in tho welkin, and wondered how long it would bo be fore tho leaves would fall. Strange girl! j Did sho moan to rebuke my joyous ' mood, as if wo had no right to be happy i while nature withering in her pomp and tho sickly moon wasting in tho blaze of noontido were there to remind • us cf ‘the gone forever?’ | “ ‘They will all renew themselves, i deer Mary,’ said I encouragingly, ‘and there is ono that will ever keep tryst alike with thee and nature through all seasons if thou wilt be true to one of us, and remain as now u child cf au ture. ’ “A tear sprang to bur eye, and then searching her pocket for her cardcase sho remembered an engagement to be present at Miss Lawson’s opening of fall bonnets at 2 o’clock. “And yet, dear, wild, wayward Mary—I thought of her now. You havo probably outlived this sort of thing, sir, but I, looking at tho moon, as 1 floated them upturned to her yellow light, thought of the loved being whose tears I knew would flow when she heard of my singular fate, at oucu so grotesque, yet melancholy to awfuluess. “And bow often \v« havo talked, too, of that Carian shepherd who spent his damp nights upon the hills, gazing as I do cu the lustrous planet. Who'will revel with her amid those old supersti tious: Who from our own unlegended woods will evoke their yet undetected, haunting spirits': Who peer with her in prying scrutiny into nature's laws and challenge tho whispers of poetry from tho voiceless throat of matter? Who laugh merrily over l ho stupid guesswork of pedants that never mingled with tho infinitude of nature, through love ex hausting and all embracing, as we have? Four girl, sho will bo oompauionless! “Alas, compauionless forever, save 1 in the exciting stages of some brisk . flirtation. She will live hereafter by ! feeding ether hearts with love’s loro situ bus learned from me, and then, Pygmalioulike. grow fond of tho images she has herself endowed with semblance of divinity, until they seem to breathe back tho mystery the soul can truly catch from only one. How anxious she will be lest tho coroner shall havo dis covered any of her notes in my pocket. “1 felt chilly as this last reflection crossed my mind, partly at thought of the coroner, partly at the idea of Mary being unwillingly compelled to wear mourning for me, in case of such a dis closure of our engagement. It is u pro voking thing for a girl of 1U to have to go into mourning for a deceased lover at tho beginning of her second winter in the metropolis. “Th* water, though, with my mo don less position, must have had some- thing to do with my chilliness. I see, sir, you think that I toll my story with great levity, but indeed, indeed I should grow delirions did 1 venture to hold i steadily to tho awfuluess of my feelings tho greater part of that night. I think, { indeed, I must have been most of the ! time hysterical with horror, for the | vibrating emotions I have recapitulated , did pass through my brain even ai I | have detailed them. “But as I now became calm in thought I summoned up again some res* olution of action. “| will begin at that corner, said I, and swim around tho whole inolosure. I will swim slowly and again feel tho sides of the tank with my feet. If die 1 must, let mo perish at least from well directed though exhausting effort, not sink from mere bootless weariness in sustaining myself till the morning shall bring relief. “The sides of tho place seemed to grow higher as I now kept my watery cturse beneath them. It was not alto gether a dead pull. I had some variety of emotion in making my circuit. When I swam in tho shadow, it loo’.^. to mo more cheerful beyond in tho moonlight. When I swam in tho moonlight, I had tho hope of making some discovery when I should again reach tho shadow. I turned several times on my back to rest just where those wavy Hues would meet. Tho stars looked viciously bright to me from the bottom of that well; there was such a company of them; they were so glad in their lustrous rev elry, and they had such space to move in. I was alone, sad to despair in a strange element, prisoned, nnd a soli tary gazer upon their mocking chorus. And yet there was nothing .else with which I could bold communion. “I turned upon my breast and struck | out almost frantically once more. The j stars were forgotten. The moon, tho very world of which I as yet formed a pert, my poor Mary herself, was forgot ten. I thought only of tho strong man | there perishing; of me in my lusty manhood, in the sharp vigor of my dawning prime, with faculties illimita- i blc, with senses all alert, battling thero with physical obstacles which men like ■ myself had brought together for my un- ! doing. Tho Eternal could never have ! willed this thing. I could not and I would not perish thus. And I grew 1 stmug in insolence of self trust, and I j ! laughed aloud r.s I dashed the sluggish ' w ater from side to side. “Then camo au emotion of pity for ; myself—of wild, wild regret; of scr- i [ row, oh, infinite, for a fate so desolate, a doom so dreary, so heart sickening. ; Yon may laugh at the contradiction if : yon will, sir, but I felt that I cocld sacrifice my own life on tho instant to redeem another fellow creature from such a place of horror, from au end so j piteous. My soul and my vital spirit ! seemed in that desperate moment to be | separating, wfcilo one in parting grieved over the deplorable fate of tho other. “And then I prayed. I prayed, why or wherefore I know not. It was not from fear. It could not have been in hope. The days of miracles arc passed, and there was no natural law by wheso providential interposition I could bo saved. I did not p.ay. It prayed of itself, ray soul wit!:in me. “Was the calmness that I now felt torpidity, tho torpidity that precedes dissolution, to the strong swimmer who, sinking from 3xhau.stiou, must at last add a bubble :o the wavo as ho suffo cates beneath tho clement which now denied bis mastery? If it were so, how fortunate was it that my floating rod at that moment attracted my attention as it dashed thro_»h the watci by me' I saw cu tho in'iUnt that a fish uad en tangled himself in tho v/Hr. ucost. Tho rod quivered, plunged, cair.:- again to tho surface and rippkd the water as it shot iu arrowy flight from side to side of the tauk. At last, driven toward the southeast corner of thb reservoir, tho small end seem.-d to have got foul somu- where The bvuzou butt, which every time the lish sounded was thrown up to the moon, now sank by its own weight, showing that thu other’ end must be fa»l But the cornered fish, evidently anchored somewhere by that short wire, floundered several times to the surface before I rbougn of striking out to the spot. “The water :s low now and tolerably clear You may see the very ledge there, sir, in yonder corner, on which the small eud of my rod rested when I se cured that piki with my hands. 1 did not take him ?:oin the slip noose, how ever, but standing upon tho ledge han dled the rod m a workmanlike manner, as 1 flung that pound pickerel over the iron railing upon the top of the parapet. The rod, as I have told you. barely reached from the railing to the water. It was a heavy, strong bass rod, and when 1 discovered that the lish at the aud cf the wire made a strong enough knot to prevent mo from drawing iny tackle away from the railing around which it twined itself us I threw, why, as you can at once see, I had but little difficulty iu making my way up tho face of ibe wall with euch assistance. “The ladder which attracted your notice is, us you see, lashed to tho iron railing in the identical spot where I thus made my esoapw aud for fear of similar accidents tic y have placed an other one iu the corresponding corner of the other compartment of the tauk ever since my remarkable night’s ad- Slavs, Czech*, Bathenlaaz. The unity of the Slavs is hardly mow than au ethnographical abstraction. For political purposes it is nonexistent. Thus, the Poles are not Czechs, although both aro Slavs; they speak different tongues, tho former possessing a rich literature, tho latter a very poor one; their political history has little in com mon and as lately as four years ago tho Poles wero allied with tho Germans ■gainst their brothers, the Czechs. Tho Rntbenians, who aro also Slavs, have no great love for tho Czechs, while they TOWN OF VELAUX. A Carloti* Llttli* I’lneo In the Southern Part of Franco. , Velnux is one of tho places that you find marked upon Ibo map of tho world with a large black dot. But upon a map of this department of Franco, which is called Bouclios-du-libone, or Mouths of the Rhone, it can bo found lire or six miles back from the shore of tho Medi terranean, on a branch of the P. L. M. railway that cuts across tho Rognac to Aix. About 25 miles west cf Marseilles is a largo bay with a very narrow ea- j utterly loathe tho Poles, and their lau- tranco, au arm of tho Mediterranean, ' guage is very different indeed from that and on the north side of that bay is 0 f either of the other two people, as aro Roguac. From Rogcac the branch train also their alphabet (they uso Russian runs inland and soon enters a large, 1 characters) and their religion. Tho well tilled valley, on the north side of Czech idiom is to theRutheuian asGer- GERMAN MOCK WAR. ELABORATE SYSTEM OF DUMMIES REPRESENTS THE FOE. which is a high hill crowned by a vil lage and tho remains of a castle, both of which look old enough to havo been built by the Romans, aud that is \ e- laux. The train runs through the valley, venture in the Femio Hoffman. reservoir. ’ ’—Charles Benton’* Great Prophecy. “In tho campaign of J85G,” related Cbtfles H. Whitaker of Clinton, Ma, “I beard Senator Benton speak iu what 1 believe was then known as Lafayette park in St. Louis, a small square near Um old Union depot and near the then oily limits. It was a night meeting, and as the carriage containing Colonel Ben ton rapidly approached the speakers’ stand his namo flamed forth from its foil length in capital letters of scintil lating fire and the cheers were deafen ing. In this speech Senator Benton in dulged in prophetic utterances which ■Horded St. Louis a great sensation. Ilo said: “ ‘There are those within hearing of my voice who will live to see the day when (be people of this vast country will by means of electricity instantly oaumianicato with their friends in all parts of the world. There are those lis tening to me tonight who will live to sec the time when the iron horse will plow its way from the rock ribbed iihorrs of tho Atlantic to the golden sands of the Pacific.’ ’’-—Exchange. and on alighting we had a mile to walk up hill, over a beautifully hard aud ■ smooth macadamized road, between some walls that arc still in good repair, ! though evidently as old in many cases '■ as tho crumbling castle. Aud this is 1 Provence. The old folks call it so still and cling to their own language, though other Frenchmen say it is only a dialect | and government has taken away oven the name uud divided tho old territory into departments. The old inhabitants, ■ however, do not like this change, and not only do they still call themselves Provencals, but they dote upon two or three Provencal poets, who print their works iu Provencal on ono page and in French cu the opposite, aud they would see nothing either tempting or nourish ing in a meal that was not prepared ac cording to the rules of tho Provencal cookbook. I have learned in a few days to hold a very high opinion of these old Provencal people. They aro kind, ami able, obliging, industrious, religious, aud they cook liko angels. Wo had hardly taken 100 steps in tho big valley befero I saw that there was something strange about it, but it was some time before I could make out what it was. Hero were tho familiar fields, just as wo have them at home, some newly plowed, come in grass, many cov ered with olive and almond trees. Walls between the fields, some shade trees, good roads—it might have been a fertile valley iu America by shutting cue eye on tho ancient town,on the hilltop, for all but the one indefinable thing. And • presently I discovered what that was— there were no houses among the farms. Hero from my window on the hilltop I tan count you every house in this valley that runs ten miles iu tho ono direction aud two or three miles iu the other. There is the station, with a little mn betide it, loth modern Then tomes a | great stone affair, with towers, that ! looks like au old castle, but it is a winemaking concern Then thero is a i small house at the turn of tho road, uu- j occupied, and just at the toot ot the hill are two or three comparatively modern dwellings, out ot which is Mr Blanc’s summer residence Bui rflese are all, hurt arc >00 taruis m sight and not a single tarnihji.se, and St is tho want of them that gives the landscape its unfa miliar look "That is r survival of ancient cus toms. ’ Mi IFaao explains, when 1 ask about it. ‘ 1.: i'll time- the provinces were continually «i war aud a farmer who lived in a detached 1 arm house would nave beer, an easy prey to tho en emy For their own protection and tho safety of their stock they bnilt their houees in a group, and so tho village was formed. They had farther to go to their work, to be sure, but iu case of at tack they bad a better chauco for de fense. Now that there is no such danger the custom still survives, aud through out the south of Franco you always find the farmers living iu tho neighboring village. ” Tho wine place with the towers we could admire only from the outside, aa the olives and the breakfast were wait ing. It was evidently built iu such shape that it could be defended, but iu more recent times a largo residence has been add.*! at one side. Acrcsa tho road wero large vineyards, and in the vintage season, 1 am told, you can' go to tho mill with a cask and buy tho grape juice fresh from the press for 5 cents a quart. There need bo no question about its purity, for you can stand there and see tho grapes put in and catch tho juice as it runs out. Later on, when tne juice has turned into wine, it sells for 8 or 10 cents nquart. The common retail price of this ordinary table wine iu Paris or Marseilles is 12 cents ox 15 cents a quart.—New York Tribune. One on the Clerk. Dave Hughes, clerk at the Bates, was standing at tho counter the other even ing attending to tho multifarious v/aut! of the guests when a traveling man ap proached. It was about 8 o’clock and ho was smoking his after dinner cigar. “ What's on at tho theaters tonight?” be asked. Mr. Hnghes turned to him smilingly. “Well, there is a good show at tho Em pire, one at tho Grand aud a good show at the Park tsnigbt. English’■ is dark tonight for once. ” “I want something cn tho variety or der. ” “Go down to the Park right hero at the next corner,” said the clerk. “It Js a good show uud will please you. They havo some very clever things iu tho ■how.” “Thank yon. Smoke?” “Occasionally,” said Mr. Hughes, V;ith a smile, us visions of a fragrant pcrfccto flashed across his mind. “That’s good,” was tho reply. “I will keep my cigar then. I always enjoy smoking while looking at a show.” “Oh—yes—that is—you mean— smoke iu the theaters. No, you can’t do that. None of the theaters smoke, here. ” The gentleman turned away and the crowd around tho counter gave Duvo about the meanest horse laugh that has been heard around the hotel for many a day.—Indianapolis &utiuel. man is to English or as French is to Roumanian. Then come the Croatian?, who aro not only Slavs, but tho very purest specimens of tho race, aud they would feel mortally offended if they wero confounded with any of tho fore going. The Slovenians, whoso very namo proclaims them to be Slavs, would bo less wrathful at such a mistake, prob ably because their very backward state of civilization would lead them to re gard it us a compliment. But they differ in many respects from Czechs, Poles, Rutheuians aud Croatiana. Nothing, how ever, could characterize tho situa tion moro satisfactorily than tho cir cumstance that whenever a pau-Slavouio conference is convoked tho chosen rep resentatives of tho various Slavic sec tions are forced to convcrso with each other in German! Thus, the Slavs of Austria-Hungary are nob united ly tho bond of religion, history, language, lit erature or identical political aspirations. —Contemporary Review. Nature Study la 'talne. State Superintendent of Schools Stet son was vihitiug a si bool down in Pem broke, when he got into tho pleasant mazes of nature ftudies and a. ked semu iuteiesting questions about the litt’o things of tho world about us. “How many seed compartments ara thero iu an apple?” he queried. No ouo knew. “And yet,” said the state super intendent, “all of you eat many apples in the* course cf a year and eeo tho fault every day, probably. “You must learu to notice tho littio things in nature. Now, perhaps sorao little bey who has driven tho cows to pasture every day tins summer can tell me on which jaw tho cow has her teeth:" No answer. Rather was there blank astonishment, at last pierced by ono lit tle fellow volunteering tho information that "our cow has teeth cn both jaws ’cause shu chaws hay all up fine.’’ "If that is so, my Ley," replied tho head of tho statu schools, “I’d Aviso you to sell that wonderful cow with tooth cn both jaws to come museum I’m afraid, children, that you haven’t studied nature quite closely enough. “ You may be sure that tho talk of the state superintendent deeply impressed the children They earnestly discussed tho matter at recess time, and tho teach er tho next day overheard this conversa tion in the play yard. A little girl got some of her compan ions around ber and gravely said: "Now, children, make believe that I’m Mr. Stetson. Yon’vo got to know more about common things. If you don’t, you’ll all grow up to bo fools. “Now, tell mo,” she said, looking sternly at u playmate, “how many feathers has a hen?”—Bangor Commer cial. VVilliam'n Army Practice r.s Seen t»y an OlUcizl Kye—Training That Sometime* Kill i and Freqceutly Cripple* —How tlio Fields Are “Reserved.” Though the German soldiers do not f t {',3 steady practice iu real fighting taut the Briti-h troops br.vo tho kaiser deco not allow bis m»n to ru=t. Period ically bodies of German troops are dis patched into some part of German terri tory that presents us many difficulties as possible, with orders to attack or de fend certain positions under all tho con ditions of real war. If the cavalry has orders to charge, tho charge must be made with the des peration and recklessness of men wh i are riding through deadly fire. Artillery is hurled headlong into country that often is difficult for infantry. Men aud horses go down and accidents are com mon events of tho rontiue. Only occa sionally aro.tbey made public, as for in stance tho great one when two bodies of heavy cavalry rode into each other at full speed, killing and wounding many men. Great areas aro “reserved”—practi cally seized—-for the purposes of these evolutions. A circle cf sentries is posted around tho reserved territory, and the people who live iu it are ordered to leave their hous r s and to remain outside of the lines until tho practice is ended. In artillery practice particularly this clearing of the territory to bo us^d is clone with particular cur?, for tho artil lery firo is genuine, service shot aud shell being used. A remarkable feature of German ar tillery mock battles i.-i tho u?e of muv- akla wooden figures to lopivsent tho en emy. They ore excel copies cf infantry, artillery and cavalry ami aro worked ly Machinery Widen* Employment. Machinery has widened employment most effectively Ly stimulating tho growth of new industries, and wo ought not to underestimate its effect in this direction, since it has an important bearing on the general question'. Im provements in printing presses had a direct effect in extending tho use of bcoks aud newspapers, and, therefore, in expanding tho paper aud printing in dustries. The development of railways, steam and electrical, iu themselves simply the substitution of travel and cartage by machine for the ol<^ methods by horse aud foot, has given employ ment to thousands where hundreds were employed before. The invention of the typewriter has practically destroyed tho profession of pen copying, but many more persons now find employment through the wide ly extended use of the machine. Tho application of electricity iu tho tele graph aud telephone and in numerous other directions requiring complex me chanical appliances has iu recent years created industries that previously had no existence. Prior to 1880 tho manu facture of electrical apparatus and ap pliances was not of sufficient impor tance to he separately presented in the census reports. In that year the average number of employees engaged iu the in dustry was but 1,271, rising in 1800 to 8,802. The development of photolithography has almost superseded the old processes of block engraving, hut iu photograph, photolithography aud photoengraving as distinct branches thero wero moro than 8,000 persons employed at tho date of the latest census.—Donahue’s. The Way to Clean a Mackintosh. A dirty mackintosh should be spread out flat on a table aud scrubbed with a nailbrush, using cold, soft water aud yellow soap. When all dirt is off, dip the cloak in several lots of clean, cold water, but do not wring it out. Shake well and hang it up iu the open air if possible to dry. Failing this, let it hang iu a cold room, but on no account put it near the lire. Hot water must never be used, and if thero are any very bad stains or grease marks which will not yield to the soap alone rub a little tur- peutiue on them. The Point of View. He (iu ecstasy)—What a heavenly vision! \ She—Yes. Isn’t shea perfect night!— Now York Press. a.: elaborate system of wires. As these evolutions take place \:i the wint r, the cavalry dummies aro mouulofl cu sleighs anil corno down ou the artillery iu reg ular charges. An official German eyewitness de scribes an artillery attack as follows: "The terrain has been cleared of all except the military. Iu long cclumus tho guns crowd a ravine, the last cover before they go into action. Six great horses draw cnch gun. A messenger cranes galloping from tliof*cnt with the order to move. ‘Mount! Trot!’com mand the officers. The long lines thnn- dor up the ravine. Officers fresh from reconnoissauce clatter dowu tho lines and report to battery chiefs that there is no rover where tho artillery must 30 into poHtiou and that swift movement cf tho guns is necessary to bring them into ac tion with the least p ssibleloss of meu, as the enemy’s fire controls the plane. "By this time the upper end cf the ravine is reached. ‘Battery, gallop- march!’ and with furious speed the heavy cannon go into the open—into unknown, snow covered country full of trenches and dcep-cuts. Perhaps this is thu most exciting maneuver of tho day. Snow covered water courses aud drain age canals cut the country up. A berse falls. Riders aud gun thuuderon top of it. Axles break aud meu fall beneath iron hoofs. "Now there is pale lightning in the misty distance. Then, even during the reckless charge, the artillerymen must mark the direction from which tho cbots come, for tho flame is the only sign of tho whereabouts of the enemy. “(Quickly tho batteries form iu Hue, tho battery chiefs, far ahead, stand high in their stirrups aud raise their arms to signal ‘Halt!’ In au instant the can noneers are out of the saddle and almost at once tho first shot booms from the right wing. A ureat crowd of smoke and mow dust show where it has struck, but the dim flash of the enemy’s gun through the vapor shows that it has fallen short. Tho next shot comes from our left wing, and this time wo hayo dropped it iuto thu woods that cover the foe. “Now wo havo him caught between tho tines of our fork shots, and closer aud closer wc crowd him with the ever concentrating fire of our whole batter ies. At last we throw a shell iuto the woods in just the right place. As the white smoko rises it makes a shining background, against which the dum mies, representiug the enemy’s artillery, are plainly visible for a moment. Mer rily tho shrapnels fly now aud smash into them. “Then, moved from tho sides with long wires, infantry and sharpshooters appear here aud there. The batteries must direct their firo iu all directions in quick changes nntil they have made the whole lino of woods untenable. “When that is accomplished, there burst with startling suddenness several squadrons of cavalry from the trees. They come swiftly, as if they had grown out of the earth, aud approach the bat teries with startling speed. “Slowly a few trial shots are thrown toward them to get their tango. There is silence for a second. Then tho air is full of metal. Figures full here and there, more and moro; faster aud faster scream the shots. At last tho line of fire makes a steady roar, in which individual guns cannot be discerned, and the squad ron* are wiped out.”—New York Pros*. Children In Holland. In Holland policemen are authorized to watch for instances of barefooted and destitute children. Aud if a child ii going about barefooted the policeman takes it to the nearest bootshop and has it fitted with a pair of boots. He then takes the child home, and if be finds that the destitute coudition of the child is no fanlt of the parent be will let the matter drop. If, on the other hand, he finds the parent ia criminally neglectful of the children and spends his money on drink, he then places the case in the hands of bis superiors who see that the parent refunds tho money expended by weekly installments.