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. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
WN8BORO, - - - . 0.
Practices in the Stats and United Statb
Courts.
=' E. B.RiesnL. G.W. BAeDAr.
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
N".2 Law Eangs,
WINSBORO, - 8.0.
SMUND W. SUCEANAN.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
No.T Law Rang.
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Practices in al -United States and Stat
Courts. a ttention to eorporation and
Insunce law
jAS. GLENN MeCANTS,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
No.1 Law Bang",
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Practices in the State and Uited Stales
courts.
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
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lractees in all the State and Unit'd States
cWOurse upstairs in Bank bnfding.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
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ofdee up-stairs over J. M. Beasy & Bro.'s
' store.
1 .. MCDox1L. C.&. DOCGLas.
Solicitor Sixth Circuit.
lcDONALDza DOUGLA4.
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
Noe.S and 4 Law Range,
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Practice in al the State and United States
Courts.
w. D. .DOUGTLAS'
Attorneys and Counsellor at Law.
ho.6 LaW-angs,
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Practices in the State and United States
Courts.
- OAxoF A3C has been revived as a
, : palar heroine in France, largely, it
through the influence of
- actess,Sara Bern
" IIdes In her own *ay quie as effecttd
ally as Joan herself. One of the most
popular entertainments in Paris to-da.
is a series of tableaux representing
scenes in the history-6f the Maid of Or
leans, and on Sunday, June 29.h, a
statue to her memory, erected at Nancy,
was unveiled. She has already been
- thus honored several times, but wi- hin
a year or two there has been a marked
revival of interest. in her strange his
tory and sad fate.
SEVERAL years have elapsed since
there have been so many deaths caused
S by excessive heat as have been reported
from Western cities in the last few
'weeks. The weather over a wide stretch
of country has been like that of the
Centennial year. Philadeilphia has
been favored with breezes that tem
pered the heat so that there have been
few casies of deaths directly due to the
sun's energy, but the death rate has
been largely increased by the warm
*weather. *Very nearly one-half of the
deaths record'ed in the tables published
recently are of infants under one year
of age. The hot weather is particu
larly hard on all who are in feeble con
ditIon, and "old age" alio furnishes
several victims. The greatest care
should be exercised during such warm
spells to nourish and protect the young
children. Nothing can be better for
-them than trips on the water, not trips
taken as a last resort, hut before the
children have become enfeebled by the
beat.
CENsus returns, as far as received,
show that in general the cities, espec
lally in the West, are growing at the
expense of country districts. The
growth of population in the United
States shja~sa~ Increase of about 30
per cr~ .880, but there are only a
few os. :cities on the Atlantic
seaboar, 'o not show a larger
growth.> -upations of the coun
try do not s many induceme:its
to aprogrea .ople as do the occu
pations of tb, .aties,nor is there as great
Aa demand for agricultural labor as for
merly. Machinery has entered the
fields and enables the capitalist to pro
duce a given quantity of food products
with less manual labor. Many of the'
Snewcomers enter agricultural life, from
which progressive Americans retire to
engage in business of some kind car
-nred on in cities. It will probably be a
- long while before tis movement be-.
gntohave appreciable effect, but~
country will be unable to furnish even
* 4 our own people with the means of lite,
and the United States will follow the,
course of Great Britainl. A few years,
'4ago that time seemied tobe alongWay,
I rapidly, and it is not unlikely that the
.Ichild is born who will see even this
country partly dependent on Central
-Africa for supplies of wheat and
-corn.
CALIFORNIA CORK TREES.
The Forests There Are Already
Showing Good Results.
The available for?sts of cork trees are
already relatively extensive, although
hardly sufficient to supply the demands
now made on them, or which, as the
world grows in prosperity,' must be
made on them, for there is harlly any
end to the uses for cork, and none of
the substitutes for it which have yet
been tried are very satisfactory or prom
ise to take its place to any great extent.
The latest estimates of existing areas
of available cork oak forests make their
extent from 3,3 0,000 to 3,500,0)0 acres,
of which about one-half,incuding those
on its African possessions, belongs to
France. The wood of the cork oak is
heavy. coarse-grained and of a ye'low
brown color; it shrinks and warps badly
in seasoiing, and decays rapidly when
exposed to the action of the atmosphere.
It has little value in the arts. but fur
nishes a useful fuel and makes good
charcoal. The inner bark is rich in
tannin, and the trees too old or untit to
produce cork are cut for the sake of the
inner bark
The cork oak is an interesting tree to
Americans,as Its cultivation now seems
destined to become an important indus
try in Caiifornia,where the climate and
the soil in many parts of the State are
admirably suited to produce it. This
is not a me-e theory as the trees have
beex growing now for several years in
California and have already produced
crops of cork of excellent quality. It
is probable that the tree will grow rath
er more rapidly in California than it
does in its native country, although the
quality of the soil, the exposure in
which the trees are placed, local cli
mate,and the treatment which the trees
receive will influence, of course, the
rapidity with which the bark is devel
oped. In Atrica it is found. that the
trees which grow the most rapidly pro
duce bark of the poorest quality, and
that within certain limits the s'ower the
tree grows the more valuable the prod
uct, provided the growth Is , not too
slow, in which case the bark loses some
of the elasticity which makes it valua
ble. Tha conditions which Induence
the developwent of the cork are so
numerous and complic tted that the
product of all the trees in a grove or
forest can never attain the same uni
formity of thickneas or quality in any
giv lime.. Th is so well understood
econn ere'i ork is grown
that the best mit a esting has
been found to be to go over the forest
every two or three years and remove
the bark from such trees as are covered
with merchantable cork,and not to strip
all the trees at the same time. All
the:e-matters must, of course, be con
sidered in connection with planting for
ests of cork oak in California. The
planting, and care of such forestsin Por
tugal and Spain has long been an im
portant industry,and there is no reason
why they may noti be made so In Cali
fornia, where the local consumption of
cork is already enormous, although the
wine industry is hardly more than in
its infancy.-G'ardfen and Forest.
WRITING FOR NEWSPAPERS.
Sensible Words Which Young
Authors Should Read.
I am very frequenl.ly asked whether
the newspaper is the best starting point
for young authors, and in this question
les, in; nine cases out of ten, a grave
misconception, writes Edward W. Bolc,
In The Lad es' Home Journal.. Many
young wvriters believe that work r'ject
ed by t.he monthly magazine will finti
a market with the daily newsvaper.
It seemns to be taken for granted that
the same degree of care is unnecessary
for newspaper work as for magazmne
writing. "The new.spaper dies with
the day, the mnaazine lives for a
month," is the general feeling, and
ence she I mipression that ephemeral
work will find a ready market with the
newspaper.
It has been my pleasure to write for
the newspapers rress of America for
six or seven years, and I give young
writers a leaf from my experience
when I say to them-Do not allow
yourselves to believe that minor work
will find favor with the modern Amer
ican newspaper. There is just as much
demanded of a writer in the newspaper
editorial office as In that of the monthly
magazine. A writer commits the
greae"mistake of her life, when she
looks "khe newspaper as a gradu
ating se to the magarmne. The
same stanu~ -f grammar and express
ion set by the er.zine holds good with
newspapers.
Where the newspaper offers -to the
young writer an advantage over the
magazine, is In its wider field, and its
larger capacity. Publishing thirty
times against the single Issue of a mag
azine, the newspaper naturally absorbs
more material, and a writer's chances
are correspondingly better. Then, too,
subjects which are out of the range of
the magazine, fall directly- within the
scope of the newspaper. This is spec
ially true of timely articles. The mag
azines of to-day with their large circu
lations. and the necessary slower pro
cess of priting, are prepared so far in
advance as to make it Impossible for
them to get close enough to timely
happenings to make their disoussion of
them fresh and interesting. With t he
nwapnrs this is,of couraet dhfarnt~
and it is precisely In its ability to treat
of what is latest and freshest wherein
lies its strength, and in these respects
the field is necessarily broadened to the
writer.
But, bear in mind, this advantage is
only one of greater capacity, not of
less requirement. Disappointment can
be no more certain than when a manu
script is sent to a newspaper editor with
the belier that he is less critical, or i hat
his constituency is less exacting than is
the case of the monthly magazine.
BIRTH OF AN ICEBERG.
Origin of the Great Floating Glaciers
--How They Are Formed.
The dynamical law by which the gla
ciers abutting on the sea generate their
bergs is still somewhat vague. In ear
lier days It was held that the. glacial
tongue broke off by its own weight. To
this has succeede-l the following expla
nation, perhaps more popularly than
scientifically accepted. Moving down
the fords to the ocean the glacier's front
enters the waves, at first plowing up
the sea-bottom into a deep furrow But
as the ice prow pushes over the sloping
ocean floor,the weight resting upon the
bottom steadily diminishes. The float
ing power of the water tends constantly
to lift the ice, which is held down by
the rigidity of the glacial sheet below
Its normal sea line. Moving on still,
the glacier's front reaches the point in
deeper waters where it is lifted from
the bottom altog'ther. btll it remains
unbroken, the strength of the~ sheet,
hundreds of feet In thickness, holding
it. But as it proceeds, the awful lever
age on the unsupported tongue waxes.
It is like the van of an army drawn
farther and farther away from its main
body, and encountering increasing at
tacks of the foe. Each surge of the
tide, every onset of storm, racks its
structure. At last comes the point
where the hardly susta:ned equilibrium
of forc s ends,and the glacial tip breaks
away into the floating berg. Finally
we have a third and more recent hy
pothesis based on the differential move
ment of the upper and lower parts of
the glacier. This latest theory asserts
that the glacial front is thrust ,
from .above by the swifter d of Its
upper portion-a moveme . which
may be roughly likened to/the break
ing comb of a sea wave sseeping to the
shore. :
But whatever the spscific diIrecti1)
of h - a
the glacier, the grandeur of the i8
nomena which often attend it iswitbout
question. Constantly the brow or 'the
glacier over the sea is shaking off with
sharp explosions smaller masses of ice,
which drop to the water in cloudlets of
spray. Suddenly thAre comes a st of
louder and deeper blasts that blend into
a subterranean roar. A great section
of the fissured front of the glacier bends,
with water-falls pouring from its sides,
and obscured in. clouds of vapor from
the cold surfaces newly exp>sed. to the
air. As these clear away the broken-off
glacial tongue surges down,forcing upa
wave of water dangerous to near vessels,
to boats or men at the water's edge.
Up and down the new-born berg
sways, moving, meanwhile,slowly away
from the glacier and out to sea. It bas
been born amid the travail of the icy
elements to begin i life journey, that
is to be long or short, according to its
own size and the places to which the
currents of air and water are to bear
it.
Disappearance of the Earring.
Ras any one except a woman and a
jeweler noticed the gradual, and of re
cent years, the rapid retirement of the
earring? Not many years ago two
Iwomen out of three wore them. 'Little
girls a' school begged to have their ears
pierced, and heroically-it may be call
ed heroism-submitted to the painful
puncturing of the delicate lobe of the
ear only for the gratification of vanity.
To-day, except among the Italian and
Portuguese peasant women of the Niorth
End,the pendant earring has almost
wholly d sappeared. A few still cling
to the ear ornament in the shape of a
stud, but the jewelers say that few
women nowadays submit,to the pierc
ing process. Some whose ears are al
ready punctured still wear their orna
ments, but many use little artifices to
conceal the traces of the needle.
A Jewish Opinion of the Passion
Play.
The JewisA Ckronfote (London) thus
refers to the Ober-Ammergau Passion
Play: "The grotesque elaborar'on of
the scenic effects that mark the present
production are not without their value.
Far from dep'oring them, we think
that, on the contirary, they may be wel
comed. For they have, if a well-au
thenticated report speaks truly, effect
ually killed the play once for alL There
is very little doubt that the Passion
Play has been given for the last time.
And surely it is well that this be so. It
is not Christianity alone that must suf
fer by the conversion of Its most sacred
beliefs Into a theatrical medium for
making money. Religion generally
shares In the blame, and Judaism must
rejoice at the removal of blots from the
face of religions other than itself."
Who seeks those that are greater
than himself, their greatness enjoys,
sand forgets his greatest anal'ties in
their greats ones, Is already truly
Ier Jirn. ll
Br MA EARET CARPBx 'MTE.
Mary Heth looked wls seaward: s
Her eyes were dimmedwtltas
For her lover was going fropi e,
Perhaps for many years.
He looked at her long andfindly,
With his hand on her goUlf hair,
"Are you sure it is best for U darling?"
He asked in tones of despala t
She turned her blue eyes " brown ones 1
And answered, "You knoF bat I think."
"O help me to take what sends me,
And not from this burb
You know she is blind and c
With no one to aid her
My duty is plain, to help
While you sail over the a
"And what if I come to
In the day that some time
When the'Angelof reeaedyon g
And called the weary one
Wiln you still be my o -a
With heart so tender an - 81
May Ilivein the hoeo
Being happy, mydarling
She turned h".r face once _
As'she said, "While your
There's a eart in thiol
That will'beatonly and
So they parted out =
And years rolled on
And for two, old grsm? n. a
In that city sosilent
Mary worked on
And watched, as
But no tidings am6 __ er
Her prayer at dayo
One nig:it came' 1oa
Ashi tOh,Go
And nmesp
Then lughor,and er..
Men, women and
While the cries_ nrdl
.wild,
Butno one
Not a man, nota. a"d.
"Will no one.
"Oh. men, wha
Will yous osd
Mid-danger
"Come, I-can
Come with ey set
And a10s mercy,
gth a ldng,
As they ro.
The waves;
While the? waer .
Were mingled the sbce
a shore,'~,
W hen Mxry- fel
At the
Shesa" i
Withb
As ofa, darkn
Of sue
She reed
And gth
Along tLdi u ows, .
Failythe,
"Heer.
aman'f oasre? ,
Yes.theae ~ -~byu.
so"thyd-mald a
With' w11death, -'
For. fo
"Had revive cit ]
He-stood up,turned his face to M _ie. t
' She looked,land lot 'twas her
And now, bytnat sea girt d F
When the white-cappedwaves n
Mary alks and-n-hanawit
And thnks (iod for savig her bsad
PLAYED CRiIPPL.
I Colonel Bloodgitt's daugh ,Zade
was exceedingly handsome, t was so
haughy an impriou mhrcy yn
livedin anold sone huse, e
- an coere Wit vies.A a t
cametumingoutof h ymsept
H-st. h ooto thed giadea c
ofShed hou o,ndtahert y~~n
Anowth purplear srt are
the onih thrhgh.ave ys
romane, an ever souden.u
lurin sntmen. heol da 1
al aynkth bod orchVimgkher
olelit Blogo dauhe s,Zad
grass sloeeingy noe, ha was to
beliveght the gmpr iseha young
scon marrie omnityr getled aeo
tflwanther. h ooe asnot isw ught
all cvdwthe ines.hoA that4t
brathhpetubwlning fther swp
Luk te fooztinte, whordenedt
ofinet hose, nd the oilayingd
throre terg clars, barkedhe
the whoe hi h lieohcruh aberyi sur
wildmnce,ard reens, aond ant oy
been praeeed tob wasiel b ae
dowkngth stiest. the old man 8Sl
tall dand thboadl ph owmokaingt
pipeer, thie aldcloel shook him on ,or
pady grith andguish th lst dv
grd as se.vey onehi ad om t
Oniee da ah s ir youn e ton
Gcrgn mriage oinson, genle as n
thru a,h th eteenascaogh saingin
all the eiagheorhood ththe o
brHe a hoe ha waning ler.i,e
Lue strwenased aot ownd the
heardthore muic ofher c,r an de
therefore trong h m,oad wn her~ e
toa saro it walifte ofnandlbrd- nd~
weing whtr geennew and ha. Then
eean ofjectiod, anduh was reatly kd
uours, for aGthoghge wned ayr r
mil had aticedtyefar arjutice of baye
steer, he oldp claoged sokly himtd
hil s sdued ctsyn tyme hi 5
Oead against tel.ung p;lawn ed
GrIgglebed'heM.oisaid thi e ng
wiheroughdthe lemn, cug-ht h
of wrterl f morges ae wouldthe d ,
he! w ill goha ht h ou s er pifu
cripple, wha fkew olhers Ihn mye
ponetf acn, endage boad Tety e11
det praeuose earh will conegan wit
nod,he gt u, laghedsofly, nd
his ubdud ectasygenty buped I
er as the uays pass, and my own
rords and her own pity shall' kindle hcr
)ul into a flame of love. Then, when
le is mine, I will stand out before her
sound and strong man, and what was
ity shall turn to pride. Griggle M.
obinson you were born to be great.'
The afternoon was beautifuL Zaldie,
[ed of play and tired of singing, sat
rith her father on the porch, and the
og, witb a garland of larkspurs about
is neck, snapped at the horse flies that
ame buzzing through the warm aWr.
'Who Is that at the gate?' the colonel
sked.
'oh, it is a poor, crippled man,' the
irl answered.
'Come right on inI' the old man
Louted. 'Zaldie, help him up the
leps.'
'Oh, no,' the cripple pleasantly an
wered, coming forward; 'I can help
Qyself.
He came up on the porch not un
racefully, and after bowing with a
ratetul air sat down on a chair which
ie girt ran and brought for h:m.
'You look so tired,' said the girl.
Lt me get a pillow for you to rest
our head on.'
'Oh, no,' Griggle responded., looking
p and smiling. 'You have already
ade me so comfortable that-that'
re he broke dlown.
nut, tut,' said the colonel, wheeling
't in his chair. 'We have only done
you what-we should do for any one
ress. Where do you live, hah?'
live many miles from here,' Grig
plied; 'that is, the brown hills
which I once happily dwelled
a weary day's journey from
omantic riace.'
y my dear -slr, you do not talk
Ignorant-excuse' me-a crip
papa,' the girl interposed, 'crip
n, I should think, can talk ae
-any one else.'
said the old man, scratching
'not as a general thing. There
Smith, for instance He is
and I don't know that I ever
talker. However, that i.
nor there. Wha -can wE
you will, do a great deal
lain my situation.. .I
is: c ry for me to
scene, and J started
in . view. I have
- have crossed
o.come at one .to the point, . wanttc
oard with you for a while.'
'Why, my dear -sir,' the old gentle
nan exclaimed. 'I never took a boardei
n my life.'
'But, papa,' the girl quckly spoke up,
do let us take him just for a while,
inyway, It can do us no harm, and
will be so much of a benefit to him.'
'All right, have it your way.'
What a glorious time it was for Grig
rel He woulM sit on a rustic tench i
:he yard watching the girl In her; coy
us play, and occasionally she would
rome up mischievously and throw
.andful of flowers at him.
'on't you wish that you could romj
with me?' she asked one day.
Griggle sobbed and leaned his head~
)n the back ogiffiDench.
'n g don't cry,' the girl Im
~ I didn't mean to hurt yoni
~eeings, Come, look up now. Sei
what a pretty flower this is.'
'It is a lovely flower,' he answered
ooking up, 'but I have seen loveliel
>nes--in fact, I see a lovelier on a now.
'I wouldn't allow any one else to saa
abat,' she answered, smiling.
'Then I indeed enjoy a glorious privi
'If it is glorious to you it is surel;
pleasant to me.'
'Won't you sit beside me?' he asked
She sat down. He stroked her hai
'The angels must have spun this silkt
Lie said.
'Well, I wish the angels would tak
care of t, for it Is very troublesome.'
'Zaldie is a pretty name.'
Do you think so? I always though
It was. horrid, but If you thirk it
pretty I will try to think so.'
'Do you know what I wish I were
little girl? I wish I were a great stron
man, with a face so handsome that yo
ould not help loving me; but alas!
am only a cripple.'
He leaned his head on the back <
he-bench again. 'Oh! please don't d
that.' she implored. 'If you only kne
how I pity you. Icannot tell how muc
bay enjoyed your society-you can
to me as something to care for and'
'And what?'
He looked up and, gazed into hi
'And It would grieve me to give yC
up,' she timidly re,joined.
'Then why give me up?' he passlo1
tely cried. 'Let me live here; be ii
Both of them put their heads on tl
back of the bench.
That night as Griggle straighten<
ut hIs leg and got into bed he muse
'She is mine. Glorious being, Grigs
M. Bobinson has won you.'
The o'd man, whose heart was he
by the girl, gave his consent. The we
ding day was fixed. It was evening ai
Griggle and Zaldie stood near the gt
den gate. 'Loved one,' he saId, 'ye
sball never be sorry.'
'I know that, dear.'
'Adwe you see other 201L AL
tive and strong you wm nos nave a
secret contempt for me?'
'Never.'
'Zaldie,' he exclaimed, 'I am sure
yon shall not. I am no cripple. I am
one of the Eoundest lawyers you ever
aaw. Look.' He straightened out his
leg and hopped about six feet.' The girl
shrieked and fled to the house. Griggle,
knowing that her joy was overpowering,
and that she had run to tell her father,
followed. The old colonel came out.
'My daughter has told. me all,' he ex
claimed. 'Vile wretch, you bav. de
ceived me and broken my daughter's
heart. You are not a cripple, but a
lawyer! I will teach you a lesson.'
He seized a hickory cane that stood
leaning against the ?railing of the gal
lery, and with the wild strength of jus
tice raised a goose egg between Grig
gle's eyes.
The shrewd but unfortunate young
man has gone back to the turmoil of
his cross roads home, and is practic
ing law before a negro justloe of the
peace.
Not Homesick.
There are some feelings, Innocent
enough in themselves, which neverthe
less a.man does not like to express in so
many words. If he must acknowledge
them, he prefera to do it indirectly,-not
taking a straight course, but, as the old
saying is, going 'round Robin Hood's
barn.'
The captain of Company G, Twelfth
Vermont regiment, was. strolling in the
woods just out of camp, says a writer
in the Salem Wdch, when be came
upon a member of his company sitting
on the stump of a tree, and looking as
though he had fought his last fight. -- -
'What's the Smatter, Bill?' said the
captain.
'Oh, nothing,' was the reply. 'Iam
all right.'
'You look as though you had a fit of
homesickness.'
'No, sir,' said Bill, with some resent
ment, 'nothing of the sort.'
'Well, what are you thinking about?
asked the questioner.
'I was thinking,' said the Ter
monter, 'that I wished I was in my
father's barn.'
'In your father's barn! What on
earth would you do if you were. in your
barn!'
The poor fellow uttered a long
drawn sighand said, 'I'd go into the.
house mighty quick!'
A Woman's Clever Capture of a
Thief.
Mrs. Kate Jennings, of Freepot7 :
L,-wwy robbedo~
detective work not only recovered her
money but also captured the thief. She
was riding home from New York on.
the train when she felt the -hand of a
man sitting next to her steal gently in
to her pocket, and she soon realized
that her pocketbook was gone. She
wisely made no outcry, fearing the ras
cal would either pass the pocketbdok
over to a companion or throw .it out-of
the window, but engaged him in con
versation, Intending to hand. him over
to a policeman on reaching Long Island
City. But when they reached there the
policeman on duty had gone for the
night. Mrs. Jennings, on the pretext
of wanting to find a friend, persuaded
the pickpocket to assist her, and the
pair book a walk through the streets of.
Long Island City. The min refused to'
walk on the well-lighted avenues, anel
Mrs. Jennings, after they had walked
for perhaps an hour, almost despaired
of finding a policeman in the side:
streets. At last she requested the man
to go to ahotel and get her a glass of.
soda water. While he was Inside Mrs.
Jennings espied a pohiceman standing:
across the street under a gaslamp, and
when the pickpocket came out of the.
hotel with the soda water she took hold'
of him and held on until the officer ran
across the street and placed the fel!ow
under arrest, On the way to the po
lice station the man tried tothrow the
pocketbook away, but his action was
detected by the watchful Mrs. Jen
nings. He then declared that he only
took the pocketbook for fun.
The Philosophy of It.
There are now confined In the county
jail eighteen prisoners charged. with
complhity in murder-a larger numbei
than have ever been confined at one
time heretofore-and all the crImes
chrged against them were committed
withing the past five months. With
this number should be remembered the
fact that there has been no legal hang
ing in Allegheny County for the past
half dozen years, for the two have a
close relationship. Not all the eighteen
fmurders would Dave been prevented If
the custom was to hang murdert, but a
a considerable proportion of them
would. The knowledge that the gal
lows awaits him who takes human life
has a very straining influence upon the.
murderously Inclined.
American Politeness.
In America politeness goes, as It
should, before all else. One rule can be
laid down for general observance where
a person's Ideas of the proper thing to
do are unsettled-let him make himself
at home. He should do so in aman
nr to create some respect for home,
unlike a young man who called at the
office of a noted Philadephian, some
what famous for his straightforward
sutterences.
'Make yourself at home for a few
dminutes,' said the owner of the offle'to
his visitor.
The young man, having setdhim
taking a table for a footstool, re
U sponded cheerily:
qI always make myself at home.'
'Then I pity the people at home,'
c. was the quick epo .
-There is afirm irC.ncinn b
mch year beats 21,000 go-ddolitai
cold leaf. and as each :dollar can .be
eat Into a sheet that wil carpe-tw
rooms 16} feet square, same,-ids :may
be formed of its tenuity. - ..
-Flowers are said to be'rmnted"inw
dtead of purchased at ntn; _ f
t clever florist recently used the eams
loers o pcat e at w ,w tOU ~ . '
lowers at an early afternoohlnch-at
b o'eloektea and a card. ,receptionl
;e evening.
-More bridal eduplea are sa d '
ave visited Walhigton this
Zan ever before Onilof the
fakes a pesent of a bouquet to esk,
)ride that enters Its ding as, _
,t flower bills this son as eea
,normnous. -
-A tortable-homse-:of paper 1te r
onstructed m Haniburg, r anusi a
estaurant, has walls with ae etgine
Ayer impregnated-aganst fire-and an
nter one against moiture. Th.jes
a fixed in readily conneed frames
he dining-room isninety fat long.
-A wse for -flowers tat ovas
if not altogether newrwas
afn at-Jersey Cityby a eoasiet. r
:arried a huge bouquet f a
ide the:adcuffas ehihe led :hs
wrists. He wasbeing-4akei to seres
t hs sentence.-- ".
.-A litgtge ida
iealthy and flourishing, ;wll> av1,,.
have to be fed by human%
racts attentlouin Nori i
. The uppe hat ofit s RbTl 3s ,
backa a tight ball etwnr
the lower haltIs nais n ert:
-M . Hling, a -Rhodes
san, being thrown into the watec ' .
the filling of a boati Jawhich
wo lady friends wereeP, wi.er
drowning by clinging to bw:ddgjehkj
swam with her to the aboue.Bam.
riends were drow.
-The sum of- 155;O6tIn goia
was sent from San Bernmno to'8a- - . -
!rancscogf mall recentlyfas s^
lass matter at oneceentan Ou . I Y f -
Insurance company tooS'ela' d
m;in, and thebank'aavedEll@
the maj. -
-The old Aquidneek mill. at w
port, which has long been
purchased, it is said. and bi!.j
converted into an
he Summer demand. <' w
Miie factory win
"carafes, f faues.* .
bos Tes av
twenty yersn ui rrSs
tingth him
trifle ove. oneiith _ a'
9lectriciy,A tri4 under onet
second. 3.c - r? '
-rattlpgts ?800 a sight f~~ -
the entire fees paid to aiig s icca1 - 1
season at the London Opera Hose,
from arch 10 to A 1
2866, whi'e ?0,000wentforthe: F r4
let. The only singer who :got mctev
thana thousand ponnds.;for -a seua
was Camporese. Two ballet aner
received A1,785. and ?1,67 -remu
lively.
-In the'Catholic Catbedralof Wt'1l
England,aCeloCk was put up as in.
back as 162 There is -also -ueinn '~
made mnold records of a clock ofnew
construction invented.by.tile Abbotta -
St..Albans, Right Rev. Robert Walln
forn., in the following year. Down.'to~
the time of Henry VHI. :thi antkilla
timepiece was In inerunnin rsr
-An interesuing event tobk plac cer
the Clyde recently In the:launchhio
a Japanese steel-plated war-,eLek
is 300 feet in length by 42. feet IstN
epth. Her tonnage Is 2460; sb has
twin screws and three masts with Si
tary tops. She carries twenltySee
guns and three torpedoes, -an -i
manned by a crew of 300. Vlscountein
Kewase, a Japanese lady, ebrseed
the ship the Chiyoda.
-The ways of the itinerant vender
of he delicacies of the season are oitan
amusing if trying. Through a suburbmu
street toiled a cart whose driver jelled,
"Watermelons! Nice ripeaerloi'
In the tones of a stentor. Called to
alt by a housekeeper, be.00niies'
that he bad nothing but.potatoe to
selL "Why did you call wateunelonai
then?" was the Indignant qeetom.
"To attract attention, mum; egeyod
has potatoes."
-A s "ycaught In thae RivIe
Parker b heenof Newbury,
port, Mass., was a day or so afterwards
rtred tothe river, "butit reused t
be left behind and followed the men
back to the wharf, crying to be taken
into the boat. Finding It imprisible
to force the seal to leave them, they
iade a litte house for It on.oneeot the
wharves, and every day sine ita
gone Iito the water to get to',retrn-'
g at night to be locked up I no.w,
quarters."
-A singular case of blood ~sfN
Is reported from IWyack, . Am
brose Cells, a young man well known
there, lost a favorite chicken, and be
inganxious to know the cause of the
fowl's death, he proceeded-to dissect it.
While cutting the chicken his knife
slipped and wounded the hind of h
wife, -who was assisting bhimr. The~
oman's hand soon after- began sel
ing, as did also her entire arm and faeem
and soon she was in a terrible --ondi
tion. Medical aid wascale,and lirs
Cells isnow consdered out ofdanger~i..X
-The swearng~of blcod brotherh'ood
in Africa is a pecunlarfunictioniof much
solemnty and responsibi ty In there
lationshp it institutes. An Incision i
made above the fifth rib, on -the right
sde, and coferries ere te
the blood and exchanged and eaten by
the persons makdng the YoW wlich
binds them tobe staast to eachodher
throughout lie, nd t~ gino
ntme of danger. Dr. Peterais re
ported to have made a covenant of this '
nature with Mwanga, th King of
Ugarda, ad he will not doubt make
the bestuse ofhfrindiip latb9
Gean inteet.