Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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lie-~ . . .. .~~ .' . - - , - . I I mAl 404 Po.. *. c EST INN LISIE 184: ThI~WIEKLY EITION -MILLINERY, PILINERY, MILLINERY Always full in Hats and Bonnets, Flow ers, Feathers, Laces, -,Nets, Veiling and la test novelties of the season. A competent and experienced mil liner in this depart ment fully posted in Styles, Trimmings, Etc. Special attention given to. Mourning and made up Hats and Bonnets. Renewing Crepe Veils, Etc. i 0. BOAG.1 Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, Notions, White Goods, Crpetilgs,I Oil Cloths, atting, J. 0. BOAG'S. Pianos, Parlor and Chapet Organs. Fifty new and im proved light-running Family Sew:ng Machines, vertical and under-feed of tbh best mkes, different styles and prices. Also, a lot of good second hand Sewing Machines for' sale cheap, by J. 0. BOAG. Different Size. CL.OCKs,4 CLQCKS, CLOCKS. F ~amily Groceries aND Confectioneries.1 J. 0. BOA (. Always on Hand Single, Open. and Top Buggies and; Double-Sea'ed Vehicles. One. vNrse Wagons. Singe and -le harness. tanos, Organs, Sewing Ma ines, Cooking Stoves, Clocks, Buggies arnd Wagons, are all shipped direct from their va rious factories, therefore no~ agents expenses or commis sions to be paid for by pur ehaser: The best goods for the Slowest prices for cash or good Spaper, at ~ . 0. BOAB'S OLD STAND. -Nw Filiitur or0e, wtiBedrom Buits, karor Suits Curd Tables Be-seads, Cadle. Picture Frailies, Chromos, Baby Car eso anidother goods. Cal and get Stroul tohow you thouh -ARl founture bought from faotsnie J.O. BOAQ Tim Austrian Archduchess Ste. phanie will not appear on state or casions with less than ten pages. What she could get in free Arerica would be about ten line3 in the so clety column. A TEXAs school teacher went to Washington and said that he must have the English Ambassadorship , r nothing. His way of putting the thing enabled the President to ac commodate him. SOME women were backward al out favoring crinoline because they feared that in a duel to the death it gave certain advantages to the mouse. A HUtDRED-ACRE orange grove on the Wekiva River in Florida, known as the "Markham" grove, is reported to have yielded a net profit this sea son of $23,000. TuE suicice of a 77-year-old Penn sylvania woman is reported. One would think that when a woman had !ndured this life for 77 years she would have grit enough to stick it out until the natural end. A GERMAI bi&!ogiSt says that tha two sides of the face are never alike. In two out of five the eyes are out of line. One eye is stronger than the other In seven persons out of ten, and the right ear is generally higher than the left. FREE shines are to be had in every large city in the United States to day; but to get one, you must go to the shop where you. bought your shoes. One concern gives to each customer a card with numbers to be punched out. The card is good for afty shines. WITH Atlantic transportation com panies trying to import cholera, and Pacifle companies trying to irport :oolles, it would appear not to be presumptuous for the Federal au Lhorities to object. It might have ao particular effect, but it would 'eem proper. UTAH's delegate to Congress hax rcsigned because miffed about soame LLing. Other people have. under i.cn-stances somewbat aimilar, dne the same thing, and been grieved ;rely upon ? u Ong the strinA; at :chwed to the re:,ignation to fnd h, radily it 11roe. i 1892 the immigration to tho United States from ail countrics imounted to G-.3,084, which tleu e as not bec n previously exceeded ( x :ept in 1361, when we received 69 - I1 foreiners. of whom 210,485 were ~ermians and 125.391 were from flrit .,h North America THE distresig comnputatio'i is ade that the human system con :ains 10.000.000 nerves. What is the se of letting the nervous man knowv ;bat he is really atout ten timles worse off tha?n he thoughty 'Iiinere iil be no living with him it he tints ut the real gravity of his conaition MR. W. G. S-rEAD writes to the lle riew of PReviews of a mighty African iunter who in four years shot 20 ele >hants, 12 rhinoceros, 5 hippopotami, 00 buffalo, 13 lions, and enough of esser game, giraifes, zebras and the ike to bring the total up to 548. A frica v -uld be a good cauntry :er .he dime rnovel y oungs.e. toer grate to. PALMI SPRINGs, Riverside County, laims the earliest fruits in CaLl fornia. though the out put is as y t small as to attract little attenti n a the market. it is cilimed ti a tranges ripen there in Novemb: r, :rapes in June and figs in Nay. Hout? es, 350 days its the year; and the ,thr fifteen days are not by any :eans chilly, says the Fnterprise. Iv any one sees anything of a. vials careering about in the ocean long the Atlantic coast, with a l.11l >uoy attached to his tail, it will prove he truth of the most extraordmnary Ish story of mnodern timecs. Said chale purports to have been in the iciity of ti:e sunkein Vnnderi it ~aht Alva 'when it wa- Ll .' n 'o: gith a ton of dyvnamite. and he w.s a ,- .a .e .vu ed a tbu >y an~d 'wed it off, ringing tse bell as he vent. A MANUFACTV'RING concern in Bir inghamn. England, drives somethin; i a trade in crowns. They are real nes, of solid golt. with cap of crrm on velvet,g4nerustatio.ns of garn~et. opaz, and other kir!'s or cheap but, howy stond.C. and are supplied to the :ings of A frica. of wh m therc are eeral hundred, at a highly satis actory return of ivory and other nerchandise. The time has gone by rhen an ancient plug hat, adorned rith turkey feathers, suiticed to un >art a halt> of magnificence to Ethi Diin royalty an Teri bu nil fri eM. to( ii t h ti ji in IHE WOMAN IN BLACK. ftc w Traveling recently from Chicago to New York. I found in the morning upon crawling out of my berth, that E the train was standing still. The porter told me that it had been stand ig thus for an hour and a half while I had been sleeping the sleep of tl~e i just, 1 dressed and peeped. out. and saw th:%. we were alongside the plat frm of a country -station: I took a goo: breakfast in the dinninggr, and then weru ut. to -stroTh~upa'i4 ' dwn the platform. In the cab sat the engineer alone, waiting. I W stopped and gossiped with him abo:-t the engine. Then 1 offered him a cigar which he too': with thanks, and asked me to come in. I swung my self into his cab. The engineer-a d bright, pleasant-faced man about di H forty years old-explained to me the ues ot the numerous valves and L levers about him. They were all as bright and shining as polish could n ake them, for an engineer is as roud of hiis engine as any housewife I sor the neatness o: her dwelling. I lanced at the two shining steam auges with the clock between them. ad then I noticed what seemed to e an ordinary white moth, mounted I a gilt frame, hanging against the ~ all of the cab. "Is that for eorna ent?" I asked, pointing at the ' oth. The engineer smiled. "Well,A artly for ornament9" he said, "ibut good deal more for sentiment. I ~ put that moth there because it saved A y life and the lives of 250 people as ri elL" "How in the world could anr isect save human lives?" I asked. C ell, I'll tell you, if you want to hear he story. I reckon there's time nough before we're [able to get out of this." I settled myself In the absent fireman's seat and prepared to lsten to his story. "It wasn'5 such a long time ago," said the engineer; "only a year ago_ last spring. I was running this very rain, and bad this very engine-old 449. My fireman was Jim Meade ame fellow I've got now. You can e iim over there, lean.sg up against he telegraph othece. Jim's a good boy, but he is very superstitious; be eyes in ghosts, dreams, and warn ings. I used to laugh at bis fancies, h but I don't make so much fun of hitah as 1 did-not since we saw the Wo-h man in Black. We were scheduled to ae M- about one o'clock in the morning, and to arrive in S--at -. bout six. On the night when this ri iing took place a fearful stormi of rr wind and rain had teen raging since 1 early evening, and was at the height 0 fits fury when I started for the t' oundouse. It was about midnight ~ and the wind seemed to sweap clear D around and through the buildin-:. It W was terribly dismal. Jim was there, ~ and the engine was all re-.dy, soafter etting my working clothes on, I ran he engine down to the station. Our train, tbe Vestibule Limited, was an hor late. I gav~e the engine a thor ough oiling, and made sure that all was In order. As we sat in the cab we could hear the storm raging out side, while the rain, driven by the gusts of wind, beat fiercely against he windows. 'ft's going to be a bad u. Frank,' Jim said. 'I wish w. were in S- safe and sound.'4 t uhed. 'What makes you so ter rbly glum?' I asked. 'Oh,' s,.ad he, 'Ijust feel creepy somehow. Seems ~ lke there's scmething terrible going tohappen. I can feel it in my bones' ' lauged agrain. 'You got a little wet coming over, I guess. Jim,' said I .'And thesround of the wind isn't vry encouraging that's a fact.' To e the truth 1 was a little nervo'us myself, notwithstanding my easy way tr-eting .Tim's notions 7rPresentv bur train d heavy, consisting m# u It used to make 6 t ow that the lives of d fellow-men were in my k t now I think nothing of it. ht I was nervous.' What ghtful storm had zadia,-A n careless, o. if a P1 had een sened by the seltlikg of the track newhere? On these fast trains a [n must rely on the vigilance of the ployes, for in orderto make sched time be must-run at.stich a speed it often lie cannot see-_a signal b e ne is upon m. 15ut I muheu -selr for my fears as I backed clown coupled on to the train. I set brakes and found everything in d order. By-and-by the little ig above my head clanged -6barplV: k with a puff and hiss of escaping" am we were off Into theynighu and rO, rattling over switch's, past a light and between long lines5 -s, till with a roar and rumble, we Ned over the long Iron bridge and a" througui the b1h1, waking the'r sI ering echoes with our shrill e. Then I pulled the throttle WIden. and the clank and roar soon .tled into a hum, for old 449 was dog her best. and -we were :akinfifty inlles a2 hour. 1i Xhe arknesivas intense, save wherelhe 2adligch an electric device, cast its utoel oftrht into the gloom. Jim ad a big'-V and kept steam up to a igh presst. so t. we fairly flew ast leepingiamlets and still farm ouses. Atr0r first watering sta ion I mades}e that all was work. ," smoothly> Vhile Jim inspected Ze headlight. 'abe operator handed' it the ordezrs,- hich showed thb4i e road was clear 'as far as our n@6 Opping place. On we went. Tel Lrkne4s grew more intense, if possi- I 8. while the wind shrieked by. The .ecaMQ .. ifin-ding, till noth could he d istinguished around us. "Suddenly th:ough the mist and in I saw looming right before us a; antic figure of a woman wrapped: a long .bdack mantle, which beemed flutter-in the wind. She. -wavedi eat spec~ral arm4 about" ii fwiftI 4 risting movements. AP% stood.1 oking in horror, the figure'anished1 th a final wave of 1 . 1 is too much astonishe a stupe. 4 even to make a moe1 amy hand ward the throttle. AV-1hat mo ent Jim had been Len o'ver the e. As he loo ' p' xclaimed: 8 .u) You ee Fa ghost*,.-j ddot an mind wasR li of that s gure I had see a e were'now nea .# gck Cre bere there is a.t.aer-a.deeig reaph. I felt more nervous thm ver.' We dashed aroind the curve. id whizzed by Rcek Creek station, bich is only a mile from the estle. As we passed I gia:,ced at .e steam gauge for an instant. A y from Jim caused me to turn iiek.y toward him. He sat r gid. s eyes large and staring. his *;aw -opped, the very picture of terror. e pointed wit i a sial:ing linger out to the darkness. I turne an i oked, and then I began to sha'e yself. There on the track was th! me hideous ligure of .1 woman, out ed on the back-grou~nd of' light om the enginc. now motionless, > whirling in a witch dan e, but the time motioning us back. "'Frank.' gasped Jim, but scarcelh >ove a whiisper, 'don's go over that estle! Dont go, fur heaven's sake! on't go till you're sure it's safe"' 1 ppose I was pretty badly s aredl. t any rate, 1 put on the air braxe r ali I was worth. I couldn't have sisted the impulse to stop the train. we camne to a stop I could hear ie roar of thle water in Rock Creek ght ahead. I stepped out of the ab and met the conductor coming >.' What's the nmatter? What's ie matter.' he asked 1;,.patently. felt decidedly foolib. There was gigantic woman to be seen ntW. othig could be made out more ian a few ;eet away in the blingipg ormi 'Well.' said I, 'we've seen mething. I don't know what it is -seemed like it was a great black ost that was waving its arms and arning us not to go forward.' The nductor looked at mec curiously. re you crazy, Frank?' he sa d. 'I iould think you were. But we're so ar the trestle we'll take a look at .'W took our lanterns and went lead. leaving .iim with the engine; Slooked scared all over. But we adn't go)ne nyve rods before we oped in horro . "There at our feet lay a black. masm, tied with tne roar ci the ver, as, swollen with the spring ins, It dashed down toward the ke. The bridge was washed away! ny a few splinters ot wood and visted iron clung to the abutment, hile now, far out over the black ss, that awful black tigure of a oman nanced again on the thin air, lieved aga:nst the snaft of light at the headiaht threw. It W.is rging its arms about as if in wild c. The condlucto'r staredl at the masna and then at me. 'Was that e thing you saw when you stopped; e train?' he asked. 'Yes.'-'Well, 's something miore than luck that ved us to-night, Frank'-'We went! ick slowly to the train. feeling~ very meer and thankrai, to',. I can aI. .rc vn Several e'f the pasen m" id come run:nin ri Cnw:,r l by t his mr-e. .Amon: .h-- was a .mn i; low from Chicago. about eigrhteen :ars old. Who' wa'- smlarte2r than t hie hole of us, as it turned out. When ns hoy saiw the womian in black be r~ed and lookedJ at the locomo1ti ve undlight. TJhea he ran up towarils I looked at it as be di~d so, and I w a pe.:uliar spot on the glass. ~here's your womran in black:' said Le Ch-cigo boy. And there it was, re enough-that same moth miller atnyu ce there in that frame. Ha cin to th islae of. te & ped the glass It1 flew d on the reflector. 1'T T whole story, sir. The moth-by littering on theglass just in .ront of the elecr *iv iihirninator, had produced a great tilack shadow,, like *tet.of, .a cloaked woman, darknestin front of us, and ifdpped fris wing.ln his-vtkr' to sail out througthel s his mysterious eidow th1 waving the armswldly Then whein be new back out of the 4irect shine of the llglt'the flauae di-apiearod,A. course.' We never ap eadust how he got in there, but no dpixbtlt.happened when Jim went to fix ;he light ag .he pumping station." Anyhow, he layed our lives by .6caring us-with lhat Woman in Black. So you see why I keep the moth in the frame. it's to remind me of 6ie Way w.e were saved that night. Yes, you-;might call it accidental, but I call it provi dential. "All aboard!" called the conductor of the limited, coming out rlf the telegraph ofice with a paper in his hand. Jim the fireman ran and iumD-d Afnto the *b as I stepped down.-Pten and Seidsbrs. -N.t a L sap Year. The year is 335 days 5 hours and 45 minutes long; eleven minutes are taken every year to make the year '3651 days long, and every fourth Year we, have an extra day. This was .1ilius Csar's arrangement. The Zieven minutes come from the future, and are paid by omittin'g leap year -every 100 years. But if a leap year Usomitted regularly every hundredth j'ar, in the course of 400 years it is (oudd that the eleven minutes taken ach year will not only have, ien pai&'back, but that a whole day will have'been taken up.. So Pope Greg ory XIII., who Improved Ces ir's cal endir in 1582, decreed that every centurial year divisible by four should be a leap year, after all. So we lio row eleven minutes each year, more than paying our borrowings back by omitting three years in three centu rial yegrs, and square matters- by havlng a leap year in the fourteh cen: turial year. ?ope Gregorys arraige went is so exact, and the borrowing and paying back. balance so nicely, hat we borrow more than we pay back to the extent'of only one day in ,866 years. Thqs'1900 is not a leap year. since nneteen is not divisible by four; but 2000 will be a leap year, Oince twenty is so divisibte. Early Tobacco Culture. Tobacco was noted by Columbus on his very first voyage. It was first cul tivated by John Rolfe in 1612, and ds early as 1619 a.lot of '20.000 poLtuds wnshipped to England. In 1732.a tobacco factory was started on the Rappahannock River, and about 1769 the first south of the James River was Luilt in Mecklenburg County. In 1745 the exports from Virginia amounted to 42,841 hogsheads of about 1,000 pounds each, and in crcased till 1753, after which there was a decline until after the revclu ti n. It is n..w grown in most of the Southern States, with Kentuck) iu the lead. - .afts [ .de Ho' low. A point not generally known in connection with the machinery of modern steamships is that all the shafting is hollow. After the shafts have been gorged solid, a core, some. times six or eight inches in diameter, is. bored out from the (enter, leaving a safe amount of metal in annular form for the: work required. The reason for this is that a hollo~w shiaft is stronger as well lighter than a soid one, and also that the core of a solid shaft often emtodies impurities and incipient cracks which may radi ate to the surface after loing use and case dissater. The same idea ol ollowing out is carried through the entire system, even the crank- pins beingbpred. So extensive is it that ^I t.db ~d,0-rse power engine were built on the oidaged ideas fox a ship like the Paris, she wo1ntd.Jery promptly sink under the load. Tat rue is no0w for 8 to 10 hors:2 power t< each ton of machinery, including boiers and all appurtenanCe. Nonsense About Tomatoes. An idea has gaiced currency diur ing the past few years that the to. mato as an article of diet is iianle to produce or encourage the terrible disease of cancer, and n )t long ago it ws also stated that the use of tnis vegetable had been forbidden at the Cancer Hospital. So widely spread has this notion become that Dr. Marsden, chairman of the medical committee of the Cancer Hospital. London, has thought it advisable to give it official contradiction. He says that his committee has been in undated with letters on this subject, and he begs publication for the fol lowing statement. which we hope will settle the mattecr or:ce for niL~ It ;s th" opin onl of the commi'teC "that U: matoes nether prelispose to ntv' excite enincer formation, and that they are not injurious to those sif feing from this disease, but, on the contrary. are a very wholesome ar tie of diet, particularly so if cooked. "-Chambers' Journal. Tm:E site of Washington's birth pace in Wecstmorelandi County. Vi:' uin i:. near the bauks of the Potomiac. is marked b~y a stone placed th. r : in I15 by Gc..rgc Washington P'arke Cutis and two others. It was th a irt stone erected to the memory of Wasingzt n. They gathered bricks f an ancient chimney. lyin-; arourd. and formed with them a foundation for the inscribed slab. Si irits of ca~nphor will remove white pots from furniture. g LANCES AT OLD NEWSPAPERSr Ccuious Things to Be Found in Jo ma] Printed a Century Ago. Among the many-curious relics of colonial days which have come down to f.is gneration none is more Worthyof careful ttention than the lear' %-aper, and two excellent 'n s fashioned -nrints receal found their way into the of dceofthe New'ark, N.. J., !ally Ad vertiier. The U'der one-a.copy of .th.e New En" Weekfy Iournal is dated Ai-ri :28 It is a single :sheet, eight, by tyn1v inches.printed Atwo colums. It was published in SBston. Tnri front pagezis t . up witb an address by "llis 4Acy, Robert Hunter, Eiq., eral," and the reply the cil. On~ the last page is a' of foreign news from six n months old, and several lo ivtems. Among these latter is a '"list of buriais In the town of Boston since our last," which numbers five whites and one black. Followlng this comes a list of fourteen names of thosg:Who 2ave "cleared out." The advertisements are, perhaps che most curious feature of the paper. iRemarkab e ;ngrovements which are to be.n with the next issue are thus announced by the editor: "There are Measures concerted fo; rcncderiu this Paper yet more uni yer.ally esceemed and useful, in which 'tis bop'd th Publicc wil be'g-atin'd. ainl by whi.:h those Gentlemen who desirc to be improved in History, tPilosophy, Poetry, etc., will bc gieat.y advantaged."' Nathaniel Pigott announces that, ne w.'i soon open a school for the in stratLion of negroes in ":ca-ding. cat-chi.ina, and writing, if required," and the -p inter" declares himself ready to give information to any who wish '-a very likely negro wen h who ca-do household work, is about 22 ;eats of age, and is to be sold." Daniel Henchman informs the pub lic that he is preparing for the p:ess, "and may upon suitable encour:tge ment communicate to the puliAc" '-a miscellany of Doems," and bes to be notifned "if any ingenious gent!emeo are disposed to contribute towards the erecting a Poetical MonumienL.for the honor of this Country either by generous subscriptions or' compo+. ares." Anaong, the recent publica tioos announced are"The Nature dir Necessity of Repentence,". by Rev. John togers, and '.'Two.Discourses on tbe Ianger of Falling Avay After a Professiun Made," by Rev. Mr..@reek. The other Journa! isthe New York - Horning Joutrda? for Nov, 7, 1783. This is 'a much more pretentious sheet of.four pages, and shows decided evidenc6-of the m,.dcern newspaper spirit. It contains Washington's cel brated farewell orders to the army which haa or.ly been issued live day before, and other reports of the wat just closing. There is also an edi torial column, occupied with a scath ing article on the tories and a poem on the same sub.ect. similar in char acter and fully asgood as some which1 appear on the editorial pages of the modern newspaper. Various news: tems appear from the various Stares. The Philadelphia correspondent: says: "We are informed by a gentle man from Princeton that the eastern mail was stolen Thursdlay night. The robbery was committed in the most daring mnarber. Mr. Martin, who carries the mail as far as Morr stown, had no sooner entered the otiice and laid his charge on the table than a fellow entered, blew out the can.; le and carried off the mail and all its contents. Numerous auctions are advertised. so he held at the coifee house. David, ie Bartholdt declares himself willing to pay S14 to anyone who will bring back his runaway servant, and Wil [lam Ellis is desirous of selling a :iwelling house -'near the corner of Dey Street and the Broad way. ini the center of the city." Sensational re:.ding is adverti-.ed as follows: "This unparalle-ed tyrol (trial) 's re nete with humorous incid1ents and cannot fail iof according delectable amusement to all the merry votaries >f the Cyprea3 goddess." Bottie zs~w4-gin - At the present time the eyes of the ottle-making world are turned to ward Woodbury, N. .J., for in that quiet village the destiny of the bottle lower may be said to be on trial. The Ashley bottle-making machine has been set in operation to see if it cannot do the work of human hands and lungs, and do it better and mort economically. The machine was described before the British Association in 1si89. when t was stated that bottles had been made by the machine, quite comn olete, which hant successily been subjected to an internal pres ure of 300 pounds to the s uare in:4 The career of the machine in En gland. it is believed, has been most unfortunate, bu', this does not at afl dimiaish the .nterest wh ich its intro uoti-n 'nto America has excited. The advantages to be -rained by the use of stach a machine are much t'o solid to permit small ohstecles to hinder its success The t:ial run at Woodury has been very successful The automatic 1.:i0- iple has not been de' eloped to the full exten t in there miachices, but it has beeni carried so far that on. .n:n anid three bos-nlone of Chiem necessari v silled glass blowers-can opernte two machines. each of which is capa ble of turning ouit two bottles a mmn Light Feeder. A boa In the Central Park menag erie, New York City, has not tast d food in three months, it is reportedi IWE never knew a man So too,. met wife idrn't often say "Or, Too man neIuYrS, \ Whi'e in Africa some years ago Sir . 9amuel Boer was engaged on an ex pedition 6@esearch which involved nany long and tedious journeys. flay ng made a stop at one of the native settlements, he at length made.pre - ratpns for resuming his travel. =ig the men whom he baen agt& to accompany him was one Ma bomet, who was employed as drago man. - -v -*- + - Mahomet, Sir Samuel says, who was a great :man, suffered from the same Mmplaint to wbich great nen are -in those countries' particularly uhfect;.wherever he went .;e was at tacked with claimants orelation ;hip; he was overwhelmed w'fth pro tessions of friendship from people who claimid to be connections of ome of his family. Family pride was Mahomet's weak point. He yielded if a stranger laimed connection with his ancient ineage. The lady whom he had honored by in admission to the domestic circe-., of the Mahomets was suffering from a broken arm, and had been left be hind whien he started from EgypL. She had cooked the dinner badly, and the "gaddab," or large wooden bowl, had been thrown at her by the Iaturally indignant husband, precise Ly as he had thrown the ax- at one man and the basin at another while in our service. Mahornet met several relations at Kassaa; o-.e borrowed money of im; another sto:e his pipe; the third, ho declared that nothing should teparate them now that "by the ble-sing of God" they had met, de termined to accompany him on our axpedition, if Mahomet would. allow him to serve for love, without wagei. I gave Mahornet sone advice upon this noint. reminding him trat, al though the clothes of the party wera worth little, the spoons and torks were silver. therefore I should ho d iiml responible for the honesty of'his riend. Be asru e i me tbat Ach net, tur 4nandam acauaintance, was i near a re-ati:e that he was -dother's brother's. cousin's sister' -nothe.'s son? Eh, Mahomet?" -Yes, sar, that's it!" "Very well. Mahomet; mind h( oesn't steal the sno :ns, and thra;h aim if he doesn't do his work!" "Yes. sar," replied Mahomet, "he til same like one brother, he on3 pcod man will do his business quietly. Lf not master lick him!" Not Lontin-; for a Ladie. Not many years ago, before the "boom" s: o k Southern Californiu, r.-L--, an old New-Yorker, had a large ranch near Los Angeles. E t was fond of good company and a good dinner, and frequently entertained house-partes at the comfortable old fashioned Mexican hacienda. Among others who made a stay with one of the New York parties was Miss M-. Altho gh a woman of "un certain age," she retained much charm of manner, and her quick wit was respected by everyone who had come in contact with it. Mr. L was a jolly bachelor of perhaps 40 summers, who had- seen much of the world and had a magnetic personality.. He was a ma, of enormous tropor tions: some of them, no doubt. en couraged to their growth through his fondness for gosd things to eat and good wines to cheer the ha--helr. The party was at dinner at the ranch one day. The host. the bache er. sat at one end of the table and Miss M-- was on his left. He had been nhatting with ber for some time when she asked for a spoon. Mr. -- arose at this and, bowing In his most suave and polite way, said: "My dear Miss L---, won't you ~ake me?" "Mr. L--." retorted the lady. "1 did not ask for a ladlc."-New York' Tribune. The Sun and the stars. The sun is a star, and the stars are~ sus. This fact has been a familiar one to astronomers for many years. That the stars shine by their own in herent light and not by light reflect ed from another body, like the planets oe taii ay be easily That many of them at Te~ very similar t'o our own sun is clearl'~ shown by several considerations. Three facts prove th is conclusively. First, their great intrinsic brilliancy. compared with their small apparent diameter, a diameter so small thi.t the highe-t powers of the largest telescope fail to show them as any t~hing but mere points of light with out measurable magnitude. Second. their vast distance from the earth, a distance s great that the diame'ter of the earth's orbit dwinidles almost t a point in comp!r:5srn. This ae c( nts stisfactori~dly for the ifr-t fact. Third. the stvretroecpe- that unrrng instrume:.y r f mode-rn r by many of them is w"ry similar to that radiated by the sun Their chemical andl physleal c rn. stitution Is. therefo'r', probably a, a~zoni to our central lumnary. T' e red stars certrinly show spectta dif fering considerably from the soar spectrum. but these obieets aire com paat ively rare. andl may. 1.erhiap) Ie consiered as formningr exceptions t. the general rule. New~ Idea f'.? Garis,. A dozen bright college gird of Lou. non have started a truly educative - club. It is called the "School of F-ic t on."~ andi each member Is supposed to write a story a month. 'I hcee creati ns are read at the fortnihtly meetings and are tLen bound in a pre cus volume, which becomes the joint property of the club members.