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RUSSIA IN AFGHANISTAN H0W ooqs mojHEm way ; THE 5 LUN |p | N STOCKS
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MANY PIANOS RUINED.
A Plan to Increase
ence In That C
Her Influ-
>untry.
BE IN THE SWIM
Give mt'your clothes to clean, press or
dye and you will always look nice and
stylish. Old suits made to look like new.
Experienced workmen and prompt ser
vice rendered.
W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor.
Over W. U. Telegraph Office.
FBIENDLY ADVANCES TO AFGHANS
Wili.iam S. Hall.. Jh. jamehA. 'Villis.
HALL & WILLIS,
ATTORNEYS AT HAW.
STAR THEATRE BLDG.
OvVI-ctctNl tCY. ». O.
Notary Public in office. Prompt attention
'given to all business.
XMutrnRt of the Huseovtte Said to
Ilnse Acquired a I.csr neutralised
Acerbity I nder I’reaent Ameer’a
Pulley—nrilllant Move ot Caar'a
Atfentn to Obtain tleprenentatlon at
the Afghan Capital.
Acivdlng to a late arrival from In
dia with large trading connections in
the northern provinces, it Is interesting
to notice how the Russians in spite of
(evidence That They Pnaaeaa Peeal-
lar Power to Guide Them.
In the old days of the James river
I canal a line setter was taken by his
master on a packet boat which was so
crowded that the dog was put In the
captain's cabin to be out of the way.
says the New York Mail and Express
His owner reached Ids destination aft
er nightfall and had takeu so marft
wine by timt time that he was carried
off 'the boat, and no one remembered
his setter.
Next morning the captain took the
dog on deck with him, but was much
afraid he would Jump off to the tow-
path and try to return that way, and so
handsome an animal would have been
| In danger of being stolen.
Carlo, however, lay perfectly quiet,
but with an air of listening that at
tracted notice. Toward noon he beard
tkanaan Flood < iittNed l,o»a of f200^>
OOO In Mimical Inatrnmenta.
Wall Street Situation Summa- Mure thou sou pianos were totally
. . . TT nr.., ruined in the recent floods in Kansas
nzed by Horace White. | aty Th „ of are
busy tearing apart the water soaked
FALL WAS INEVITABLE, HE SAYS ,nstrum ‘' nt8 * saving some of the hard-
ware and sending the polished wood
to the kindling heaps, says the Kansas
i Financial . r ,
City Journal.
Movement j "There is no salvage to a soaked pi-
stock Kx- Hn()< " snid a prominent piano man the
Reaponnlblc otlier day. "When they get wet up to
the keys they are ruined. There were
DOWIE’S NEW TEMPLE.
Imposing Features of Proposed
Tabernacle For Zionists.
IT WILL SEAT SIXTEEN THOUSAND
Well Known Writer <>•
Topic* Belle* e» ilnll
Myntlfled All In the
change I n 111 Men
Were llrvcnlcd — Then Fvery One
Tried to Buy.
Horace White, a well known New
propably 250 pianos floating about In
the flooded districts of Kansas City re-
York writer on financial topics, who
has a (dimmer cottage at York Harbor,
One music company lost two car
their preoccupations in north China are
doing the utmost that lies in their pow- 1 the sound of the horn of a packet com
ing from the opposite way, and as the
Me., was asked the other evening as to ‘<>a‘ls of new pianos that had not been
unloaded from the cars. They were
fa- $
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J. EMILE HARLEY,
Attorney-at- Law,
Gaffney, - - S. C.
Notary public. All business receives prompt
and careful attention.
MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE
Dr. D. P. THOMSON,
Dentist.
“Office over National Bank.
Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB,
1> E T I » T
Office in Star Theatre Building.
Phone No. 20.
J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist.
Office Over The Battery.
’Phone 82.
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strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero
kee Drug Co.’s and have the defect in
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Glasses Fitted With Scientific Accu
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Ear, Nose and Throat treated according
to the latest and most approved methods.
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Building and Plastering Lime,
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Plaster Pans
Shingles.
Portland Cement,
Dynamite,
Blasting Powder, Fuse
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CARROLL & CO., Lessees.
Telephone
I sell and hang paper, paint
carriages, wagons and buggies;
also do house painting any
where in the city or country.
I use paint that has an iron-clad
guarantee.
Let me " ' your work.
Prices as low as the lowest
for FIRST -CLASS work.
Yours for business,
r>. >1. GiVIIVElS
Ntxt to Pearl Steam Laundry.
To Scbool Trustees.
I can now make arrangements with the
Central Campaign Committees to hold
an iMucational Meeting, or Rally, in
two W three, and possibly four different
sections of the county. These meetings
will be for all communities desiring to
consolidate schools, build new school
houses, levy special taxes, start libraries,
or make any forward movement in the
cause of education. If any school dis
trict desires such help, please make it
known to their trustees, and we can ar
range a program.
Through this committee I can aid the
speakers to the extent of paying all
traveling expenses. Now let us have a
general educational revival as far and as
much as we can. The children need it,
the county needs it, and it is our duty to
assist in anything that will help our
youth. Everyone should be, I believe,
interested in this matter. I will get the
very best practical speakers available—
preferring local talent. Let me hear
from any district wanting such aid, es
pecially the large school districts—Nos.
15, 12, 4, 16, 22 and the smaller ones
where there is only one white school. I
am sure a few meetings like this will be
of great benefit to the entire people.
J. L. Walker.
OFFICE DAYS.
Until further notice I will be in my
office on Friday and Saturday of every
week and every first Monday.
J. L. Walker,
tf Co. Supt. of Education.
er to permeate Afghanistan with their
influence and subvert that hitherto ex- j
ercised by Great Britain in the country,
says the Pall Mali Gazette.
Their opportunity undoubtedly came
when death removed the Ameer.Abdur- ;
ruhmun. who, jealous as he was ready
to show himself of every fancied Brit
ish encroachment, was nevertheless an
inveterate opi>onent of the aggressive
power on his northern borders, whose
offers of amity he so well knew how to
estimate at their true value. When he I
died the dread and hatred of the Rus
sian to a great extent lost that vitality
in Afghan policy with which it hml al
ways beeii inspired by Abdurrahman's
intimate personal acquaintance with
the methods and aims of his former
Jailers.
Consequently those points of discus
sion with the Indian government which
were iflwuys subordinated to the su
preme distrust entertained for the Mus
covite have under his successor acquir
ed a less restrained acerbity. Propor
tionately, too, the increasing friendly
advances by the Russians, to the Af
ghan government in particular and to
the people generally, have not of late
encountered anything like the same un
compromising attitude as in former
times.
Everywhere in the bazaars of India,
those mysterious receptacles of news,
there Ls talk at the present moment of
increasingly strained relations between
the Indian government and the ameer.
And there is now little doubt in official
circles that the recent seizure and de
tention of Colonel Yate was due to di
rect inspiration from Kabul or that the
incident forms a very unpleasant indi
cation of the disposition of the proeent
ameer toward the Indian government.
While this feeling of hostility has
been developing fortune has proved sig
nally favorable to Russian attempts
at closer intimacy. The recent Increase
of famine In the northern districts of
Afghanistan afforded an excellent op
portunity, which the Russians have not
allowed to pass, of posing In the guise
of generous benefactors of the people :
In their hour of need.
They have thrown open their stores of
grain to the starving people and pro
vided them with the necessities of life
free of all charge. That such highly
politic action will go unrewarded by a
corresponding Inclination of Afghan
sentiment Is highly improbable. The
gratitude of hungry men is not largely
swayed by considerations of high policy
which they do not altogether under
stand. And Russia may congratulate
herself on an achievement which is
likely to boar excellent fruit.
But this is not all she bus been doing
in this direction. For some time she
has jKTRistently endeavored to obtain
representation at the Afghan capital.
Hitherto she has failed, but that by no
means implies an abandonment of the
attempt. Russia abandons nothing.
The desire to establish a Russian «m-
boasy in Kabul, apart from the suspi
cion with which it was always regard
ed by the late ameer and in a second
hand fashion by his son, is a project
which England could never permit.
But that by hook or by crook her agents
should go to Kabul, whether officially
accredited or not, Russia was fully de
termined. Accordingly she has set
about It in her own characteristic way.
Carefully selecting her men some
months ago, she sent them, to the num
ber of five, in the guise of ordinary
travelers through the country to the
capital. Here for a short time they
were placed under a sort of arrsst. It
wns not long, however, before they ob
tained their freedom. Their next bril
liant move was to embrace Mohamme
danism and become subjects of the
ameer, after which no further natrto-
tions were placed on their grtng and
coming among the Afghan people. They
have approved themselves most sedu
lous and devout followers of the proph
et, and, with the Judicious backing of
the Russian government to assist tbam,
this surreptitious crusade
prosecuted under the happiest
boats passed each other ho made a leap
and was next heard from as having
got off at the place where his master
had stopped and as having gone at
once to the house where he was a
guest.
€-ould human intelligence have sur
passed that?
This same dog lay on his master’s
grave and refused food until he died
from*starvation. But I do not give this
as a case in point.
A gentleman who lived a hundred
miles from a city moved there with all
ills possessions, including a bulldog
which had been raised at his father’s
home, where he had hitherto resided.
He was locked up in the car with the
furniture and In the bustle of unloading
disappeared, and two days afterward
he reached ids former home, coming by
an inland route, as was known by par
ties who recognized him, so that he evi
dently marked out his own path with
out reference to the railroad on which
he had been carried away.
THE OMNIBUS.
It Waa Introduced by Blaine Paacal,
the Noted Mathematician.
No less a personage than the famous
mathematician, Blaise Pascal, is said
to have introduced the vehicle which
we call the "omnibus.” Unlike most
other men of learning, Pascal was more
or less interested in the affairs of prac
tical life. Ke was the inventor of the
pushcart that now perambulates our
streets, says the Scientific American.
In 1061 be had large wagons built
for regular traffic In the heart of Paris.
He allied himself in this undertaking
with several Influential friends, among
whom was the Duke of Roannes.
In 1062 Louis -XIV. granted letters
patent to Pascal, in which it was said
that these carriages were Intended for
the comfort of poor people who had to
go to courts of justice or who were
sick and so poor that they could not af
ford to pay the two plstoes exacted by
the chairmen and the drivers of
coaches.
At first the use of the vehicle was
not generally permitted. A - royal ^de
cree forbade its use by soldiers, pages,
lackeys and other liveried servants, as
well ns artisans and porters.
Pascal, in spite of the fact that he
only lived to be thirty-nine, is said to
have made no inconsiderable sum out
of his invention.
After the vehicle had been in use
some sixteen years it was abandoned
for various reasons. It was not until
1812 that it was again Introduced, this
time In Bordeaux, which city was fol
lowed in 1821 by Nantes and In 1827
by Paris. The vehicle was Improved
and rapidly became popular. Now it
has been almost displaced by the tram
way.
In modern times the vehicle was
called an omnibus simply for the rea
son that It was intended for the car
riage of all, without any restrictions as
to lackeys, pages or footmen.
his opinion of the cause of the recent
slump in stocks, says the New York
Herald.
"Looking back at the bull move
ment.” Hu* said, “which carried prices
of securities to such a height that a
corresponding fall became inevitable at
some time, it will be remembered that
Wall street was for a long time com
pletely mystified by it. Nolnxly knew
who was under the market till mouths
afterward. It was eventually discov-
ered that the lifting power was sup
plied chiefly J. P. Morgan and J. J.
Hill on the one side and by E. H. Har-
riinan and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. on the
other.
"The movement began with an at
tempt on the part of the former to ac
quire the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul railroad as an annex to the North
ern Pacific and Great Northern roads
by purchases in the open market. That
move, though it failed in its main ob
ject, supplied a great lifting power to
the market. The operirtors and the
public generally, being ignorant of the
purposes which lay behind it and not
knowing .who furnished the steam for
it, concluded thiH it was a sign of gen
eral prosperity dpd hence that it was a
good time to buy stocks. So they
tunnKl and bought also. It was Im
possible to boom St. Paul in such a
fashion without booming other proper
ties more or less.
"This was only the beginning of the
boom, however. When Morgan and
Hill found that the control of St. Paul
coukl not be bought in the open mar
ket they turned their attention to
Burlington and adopted better tactics.
They went to the large holders of the
stock, mostly Boston men, and nego
tiated with them. At the same time
the buying of Burlington shares was
continued on the Stock Exchange.
“The upward movement of the latter
excited the suspicion of the Union Pa
cific people—IlaiTiman, Schlff and
others. They soon found out what
was in the wind and. as It was too late
to prevent Morgan and Hill from get
ting control of “Burlington, they sot
out to acquire Northern Pacific. The
speculators and the public generally
soaked and rendered useless in the
boxes in which they came from the
factory. Then there were approxi
mately 350 rented pianos in the fiood.
These are a total loss to the dealers
who had placed them in the various
homes.
It is the intention of the companies
who have damaged pianos to make
some experiments with the better
ones in an effort to find out whether
it be possible to rejuvenate the instru
ments. But every piano house in Kan
sas City has announced that it will nev
er send out for sale or hire any of the
Instruments that have been flooded.
The collection of damaged pianos in
the Kansas City warehouses embraces
Instruments from the aristocratic
$1,500 symphony in mahogany to the
humble $150 kind in imitation of some
thing which it is not. And they are all
valueless. Tlie salvage is not worth
more than the cast of taking the in
struments to piece*.
“The hardware in them,” said one of
the men at work wrecking pianos in
some warerooms, "is all that can be
saved. It is worth about 60 cents in
each instrument.”
The value of pianos destroyed in the
Kansas City flood exceeds $200,000.
WORLD’S FAIR BUG HOUSE.
One of the Exhibit* Which Will Be
Seen at St. Lon la.
The officials of the bug division of
the agricultural department are busily
engaged in proparation for their exhib
its at the St. Louis world's fair, says
a Washington special dispatch to the
New York Times. An importation of
bugs was recently received from China,
and these wRI be assorted, classified
and made reedy for the bug house
which will form part ef the depart
ment’s exhibit at St. Louis. Mr. Busck,
who will have charge of the bugs, is
arranging those In one class which are
regarded as beneficial to mankind. For
instance, there will be an exhibit of
silkworms that by a system of artifl-
eial retardation of the eggs will be
found feeding and spinning their co-
were as ignorant of the causes of the gooug throughout the continuance of
npward movement in Burlington and t j, c f^ jr
Northern Pacific as they had been of Tho honeybee will have a special
that of 8t. Paul. They ascribed these an( i a n fiyj latest inventions of
also to the general waste of prosperity American Ingenuity in the line of upl
and were confirmed in their opinion
will be presented. Another spe-
that It was a good time to buy stocks. c j a j f ea tu re ^vtu b e the exhibition of
living insects feeding in glass cages on
their natural food plants and undergo
ing their transformations under the
eye of visitors. The economically im
portant insects will have predominance.
Thus it is intended to have live grow
ing cotton plants supporting the inju
rious fauna peculiar to these plants;
likewise growing fruit trees and grow
ing vegetables, as tomato, cabbage,
parsley, etc., with the particular Insect
enemies of each feeding and develop
ing on it.
In connection with these exhibits
will be shown machinery and insecti
cides employed in the warfare against
these curtailers of the profits of the
agriculturist, the horticulturist and the
forester.
HU MUtake.
"Once at a party,” said a Scotch cler
gy mau, "there was a crusty old Scot
seated at u whist table playing pas
sionately, and his partner was a young
woman, the daughter of a neighboring
laird. You are to imagine this young
woman’s surprise in the heart of the
game when the old fellow threw down
his cards and bawled at her:
“ ‘What kind of a game are ye play
in’, ye darned auld’—
“And then, recollecting himself, he
bowed and said humbly to the aston
ished girl:
“ ‘Yer pardon’s begged, madam. I
took ye in the excitement for my aln
wife.’ ”
There to much, therefor*, nfNoriag
the present relatione of India wfth Af
ghanistan which In nowise can he mU
to tend toward the continued
Marriage and Crime.
It la said that statistics prove that In
every 1,000 bachelors there are thirty-
eight criminals, while In every 1,000
been i married men the criminals number only
eighteen. If this Is so, It surely proves
that the present day members of the
sex labeled coy and hard to please have
at least an immense capability for
keeping men out of mischief, sufficient
nanoe of the close connection which has to outbalance perhaps even the nnMnd
subsisted since Lord Roberts marched
from Kabul to Kandahar and disoov-
cred thousands of pounds in Rwhin
gold, even hi those days a. conaptonous
element In Afghanj^oOtica
While the ameer Is, through his .peo
ple, accepting Russian bospttattty fix the
north and is himself admitting Rus
sians to residence in Kabul, be is ir-
restlag and Imprisoning British offioers
on the Indian border fine. It is an ud-
i pleasant conjunction of dretimstanoes
which cannot but presage a fresh de
parture from the settled ordsr of things
In this direction which in so many
parts of the world has borne witness of
to the instability of human affairs.
reputation banded down the ages by
Mother Eve.—London Tatler.
Readr For SaorfRee.
Little Vegetarian—Papa, why do yos
go away again. Why don't you stay
home with mother and me?
Papa—But I must go, little daughter,
to get bread and batter for you.
L. V.—Ob, papa, If you'll only stay
home 111 eat meat!—Brooklyn Life.
"The word wns passed around that
you couldn’t make a mistake in buy
ing anything. This was really believed
by many of the old and most cautious
operators on the exchange. Advantage
was taken of the speculation erase to
launch swindling projects on the credu
lous investing people or lift prices to
an abnormal height in swindles pre
viously launched.
“When the Northern Pacific corner
broke tbe stocks that had been bought
at tbe prevailing prices were mostly
In strong hands. They did not fall to
their former level, but it was pretty
certain that they would do so some
time. That time seems to have come.
‘The fact that certain railroads of the
first rank, such ns the Pennsylvania^
the New York Central and the Burling
ton, have negotiated or are Reeking vast
loans seems to me to be the immediate
cause of tbe recent tumble In prices.
Whatever money they take out of the
boom market they take from other bor
rowers, and chiefly from those who are
currying stocks on margins. The banks
must take care of their mercantile cus
tomers first, and, when it becomes
necessary to choose between different
claeses of borrowers they will first call
on the speculators to pay up.
‘The railroad demands mentioned are
deemed essential as being a part of the
country’s growth, already too long neg
lected. The general business of the
country, too, must be kept going. Those
who ass carrying mors stocks than
they can pay for must accordingly suf
fer If there is really a shortage of loan
able funds.
‘These are inferences wbfcffi I dsaw
from reading the coarse of events In
Wall street, but I do not pretend to
have any special knowledge”
As to the business outlook of the
country generally Mr. White said:
“The general business of the country
Is In my judgment sound. I think It
win not be affected by tbs decline In
stocks.”
Leo fUeepm.
Beat cam* as to an intent tired with
play,
Most oatan and swask ScMhnsr tbs ve>
THE KAISER’S LEGACIES.
What He Doe* With tbe Money Left
Him by Loyal German*.
The emperor of Germany has recent
ly been left a number of legacies by his
devoted German ' subjects, and he
seems to know how to make good use
of these unexpected windfalls, says the
Philadelphia Record. At tbe Italian
villa to which he fell heir not long
since he has founded a sanitarium for
officers in bad health, so that they may
escape when necessary from the trying
winter climate of tbe fatherland.
The 2*000,000 marks bequeathed to
him by the late Baroness Oohn-Oppeo-
heim is to be given to the funds of the
new Prussian regiments, so that officers
with small means can receive allow
ances when needed. The older regi
ments of the Prussian service have
funds to apply to this purpose, but Che
newly organized regiments have here
tofore been without them.
Two Hnndred Pernon* Can Be Bap
tised at Once In the Bn*in, Wlilch
Will Be Killed With KIowIuk Wa
ter ComlnK From a Waterfall.
Bulldlntc to Coat *600,000.
John Alexander Dowie, head of the
Christian Catholic Church in Zion, near
Chicago, has planned for his capital on
the shore of Lake Michigan what he
says will be the largest tabernacle in
the nation devoted exclusively to the
worship of ^od. The structure will
cost half a million dollars and seat
16,000 persons. It will occupy a ground
space of 330 by 340 feet and will be
oriental in architecture.
Leaves of Healing, the official organ
through which Mr. Dowie talks to his
followers and to the world, gives the
following description of the tabernacle
in part:
“The great feature of the interior
will of course, be the auditorium.
The construction will be in the shape
of a horseshoe and must solve many
difficult problems in the arrangement
of so many thousand seats, in ventila
tion and, most difficult of all, in acous
tics. The choir gallery will be' made
to scat 1,600 persons. , The speakers’
platform is to be elliptical in shape,
fifty feet long and eighteen feet wide.
"The seats in the choir and officers’
galleries will be arranged at an angle
sufficient to show the face of every one
distinctly to the audience. Back of
the choir and in line with the center
of the building a groat pipe organ will
be built. The organ will be so placed
that the organist will face the au
ditorium.
“Two large galleries, in the shape of
a horseshoe, will be built In such a
manuer that the public finding seats
there will be able to see plainly the
face of every one sitting on the plat
form. These galleries will seat about
8,400, the ground floor about 6,000, the
choir and officers’ galleries about 1,600,
giving a total seating capacity of 16,-
000 persons.
“Elevators will be provided at the
main entrance to lift the people to
these galleries. On the east side of the
galleries will be four stairways, three
on the south side and three on the
north side; one stairway at each one
of the four corners of the building
and two more in the rear of the choir
gallery. These sixteen stairways con
nect directly with the outside and as
exits will be of inevitable use in empty
ing the vast % auditorium quickly and in
an orderly manner should the occasion
ever require.
“The dome of the auditorium is to be
constructed of steel and covered partly
with glass and partly with sheet metal
and at the highest point will be 160
feet from the ground floor. On the in
terior the dome will measure 192 feet
iu diameter, varying in height from 100
feet on tbe sides to 135 feet from the
floor to the renter.
“Electricity will be used in lighting
the tabernacle. Thousands of incan
descent lamps will be required.
“One of the most unusual and at
tractive features of the new Shiloh
tabernacle will 1* the baptistry. On
either side of the basement, directly
under the choir gallery, robing rooms
for the candidates for baptism will be
arranged, on one side tbe women, on
the other the men. Both rooms will be
70 by 58 feet in size.
“On leaving the robing room the can
didates go directly to the riverlike bap
tistry by way of separate corridors, one
for men and one for women, entirely
hidden from public view until the large
stairways leading into the baptistry
proper are reached. Two hundred per
sons may be baptized at one time, and
so complete will be the arrangements
that 1,000 can easily be baptized in one
hour.
“Candidates will enter the baptistry
from one corridor and pass through an
other on the other side to reach their
robing rooms after tbe ceremony.
“The baptistry basin will be twenty
feet wide and sixty-five feet long. It
is to be arranged with flowers and
shrubbery, while tbe water will come
from a waterfall under the speaker's
platform. The water will fall in full
view of the public, flow through the
entire length of the baptistry and pass
: out of sight under the floor of the au
ditorium.
“The building throughout will be a
harmonious and symmetrical combina
tion of great convenience and beauty.”
Far to Os*
As a means of obtalptag mousy for
hfc cboMb a citorpanasB of
IV, has aumnnosid tbot bf wfll
the most summafal rntfritor of I
fefel
*• Small Amok.
Blxtes—Do you know, Jlpsoa, that
your play M positively improper?
JlpeoD—It la very kind, of you to say
so, Btxtorr, *. but whet's the use? T
haven't been able to jot aay of the pa
pers to denounce It as unfit to be seen.
—Boston Transcript.
Tbs annual consumption of wine hi
France averages twenty-three gaUoos
tor each person.
Faffing through buoy
him ta-
With
Upon tbe aye
dlstixMOMfc eagh-ss ssowr
when, looking Aovu the
It
one sunlit peak outsosr the
A Won be, but lamb etaadtestir mtid;
Fen rim and patient through the har
ried years;
How wofn he muet have been! His love
codears
Him to the world. That bier with honors
ptied ff
Has still a plea* tor our deep grief, our
ffeep on, O Leo, even w a child.
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Neee Temt For the Belle Isle.
The okl ironclad Belle Isle, wblch
tuu> already bad two smashlngs from
the guns of tbe Channel fleet of tbe
British navy, is to have one more, and
possibly two, the seoond depending on
her ability to survive the one now
planned for her, says the New York
Commercial Advertiser. She has been
specially fitted out to he attacked by
torpedoes. The result of the experi
ment excites much interest both
among those who favor the torpedo as
a weapon of offense and by those who
think little of it If the Belle Isle
survives this test she will be ham
mered again by great guns.
Studying Witchcraft Awheel.
George L. Burr, professor of the de
partment of mediaeval history in Cor
nell university, at Ithaca, N. Y., Is tak
ing a trip on,a bicycle through New
England in search of information on
witchcraft, sqjys tbe New York Trib
une. For several years Profe« or Burr
has been deeply interested in the Salem
persecution of witches and similar
movements in the early settlements.
By visiting the places where witchcraft
is said to have been practiced he ex
pects to gain large additions to the lore
in his possession.
July Scenes.
lime where the Hoards run.
the eoofchln’ field an’ plain;
RlOpr sings in the brTltn’ sun,
An* tbe white man prays for rain.
Hammer time, but the cool wind blows
Over the valleys deep;
Whves a daisy, rumples a rose
And sings your soul to sleep!
—Atlanta Constitution.
The “Towing Core."
An eminent London doctor whose
j nervous system had suffered severely
through overwork recently took a trip
from Staines to Oxford, having him
self towed all the way, says London
Truth. He Is now advising every pa
tient whose nerves are unstrung to
undergo the "towing cure.” The
quiet there Is in a boat which is be
ing slowly towed, tbe gentle ripple
which follows the boat and the sooth
ing motion, together with the fresh air.
are said to have a wonderful effect up
on the nerves.
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