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TRF-WEEKLY EDITION, WINNSBORO S. C., SEPTEMBER 16 1893.4SALSHD~4
MILLNERY,
MILLINERY,
MILLINERY
Always full in Hats
and Bonnets, Flow
ers, Feathers, Laces,
Nets, Veiling and la-.
test novelties of the t
season. A competent
and experienced mil
liner in this depart ;
ment fully posted in d
Styles, Trimmings, |
'Etc. Special attention |
given to Mourning,
and made up Hats
and Bonnets.
Renewing Crepe
Veils, Etc.
J.O. BOAG.
ry Goods,
Fancy Goods,
Notions,
White Goods,
Carpetings,
M
Cloths,
aB0AG'S, a
Piauo*,
PinParlor and Cli apei i
Organs.4ifty new and im- I
proved light-running Family C
Sewing Machines, vertical and p
under-feed of tkm best makes, t
different styles and prices.
Also, a lot of good second
hand Sewing Machines for I
sale cheap, by J. 0. BOAG.
C00killi S1toS8Rad[tRNl
Different Sizeu.
CLOCKS, C
CLOCKS,
CLOCKS.9
Family Groceries
--Confectioneries.
J. 0. BOA8. a
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Always on Hand Single,.
rOpen and Top Buggies and
Doukle-Seated Vehicles. One. ~
Horse Wagons. Sing and
double harness.
Nianos, Organs, Sewing Ma
ehines, Cooking Stoves, Clocks,
Buggies and Wagons, are all
shipped direct from their va
rious factories, therefore no s
agents expenses or commis
sions to be paid for by pur- t
ghaser: The best goods for the r
lowest prices for cash or good
paper, ats
i. 0. BOAS'S OLD STAND.
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Nt~ ~. citr Soe., y
1~toro0. BeAy. siQ~
THE B3YS WE NEED.
Here's to the boy who's not afraid
To do his share of work;
Who never k by toll dismayed,
And never tries to shirk.
The boy wtio'e heart is brave to meet
All lions in the way:
Who's not discouraged by aeLiat,
But tries another uay.
The boy who always means to do
The very beat h can;
Who Always keeps the right Ia view.
And aims to be a inan.
Such boys a, these will grow to be
The ruen A hose hands will guide
The urure of our lani;and we
Shall speax their names with pride
All honor to the boy wio Is
A na:s at heal t I say;
W'hse legend oi his shield Is this
'Right always win, the day."
HASEDBYATORNADO
"I don't believe that fright ever
arned a person's hair white off
and," said Henry Wetherell, an en
inser of the Jerey Central Ra'lroad.
Vf such a thing could happen these
)cks would not be as black as you
ce them now, for I will venture to
ay that no man ever went through a
iore fear-Inspiring experience than I
id once. Tell ytu the story? Why.
srtainly. But I am not very good
& a yarn, and I can only give you the
are facts without descriptive orna
aentation.
"It happened this way: The year
as 1878 or 1379, 1 forget which.
Lnyhow it was sometime in July.
'he weather had been pretty hot,
nd it was just the sort of day for
reding a tornado
"But I am getting ahead of my
tory already, not being very expert
i the way of anecdote. I was work
ag on a one-horse road in Southern
:ansas. The Superintendent w.re,l
te to fet-h my engine a distance et
bont seventy miles to a place called
eterstown It was wanted to haul
lot of perishable freight, mostly
aarket produce, which had shunted
E by some a cideut onto a side track
ad was in danger of spoiling. A
ult against the company might have
ylowed, and the business had to be
ttended to In a hurry. There were
nly seven locomoives on the road,
arring two or three that were dis
bled.
"Well, not to be too long-winded,I
ot fuel and water aboard as quickly
3 nossible and started for Peters
own, taxing it rather easily, be
aa:e the track wasn't in condition
0 stand fast running well. I was
bout an hour out from my starting
lace, and had gone sixteen miles
:haps whe.al atka-ee
.on.
"The day was exc-eedingly sultry,
ad there was a curious sort of glare
ver the landscape which rmade it
>ok sort of fever4sh. I can't th nk
f a better word for describing it.
.here was something unnatural about
he apDearance of everything. My
reman wai a boy who had been
rought up in that region, and he
mid &bat it looked like a tornado
nm!ng. He ought to have been a
ood judge of the symptoms, because
he whole of his family, together
th all their property and live
Lock, had been wiped out by such a
,wister,' as they call 'em, when be
as hardly old enough to toddle.
"Byv the time we'd gone, maybe
ight or ten miles further, a a'ense
ank of clouds had spread around to
ard the southwest. It was black as
ik, but Leneath it was a blank
reak of white. I had never seen
ything that looked quite like it be.
re. As I looked at it the bank rose
gher, and p-esently I saw some
n g like a sharp point of cloud pro.
ct itself downward from the black
ass, All this time there was nc'
under nor lightning, hut on'y a
ok about the sky that was dreadful
see, because it was so unnatural.
ke. It seemed as If something aw
Ii was going to happen. It was the
y who called my attention to the
>nted cloud, and he said it was a
rnado beginning.
"I pretendled not to be afraid, andi
id that if it was a 'twister' it would
>t be likely to hit us. But he was
pale as a ghost. Says he:
"'Don't you see that it is directly
,nthwest of us?'
'Why, certainly,' 1 replied.
hat of that?3'
"'They alys travel north'ast,'
said. 'aud we are right in the
rack ofit.'
" 'Then we'll run away from It, I
ess,' says I, pulling the throttle
ride open. But the zboy, he- said
othing-only watched the clouds in
e distance.
"By this time the pointed cloud
ad got very much bigger. the lower
rid of it nearly touching the ground.
.grew rapidly larger ana larger and
eed to be approaching at a great
ite of spee:i, while tbe rest of the
iew toward the west and southwest
came blurred to the eye, so that
othing could be made out clearly. I
ii? that it was a tornado that was
ming, and no mistake, for the
range cloud, which had the shape
a gigantic peg-top, was distinctly
utlined in its inky blackness against
e general blur. I began to feel
retty badly frghtened myself. Now
:i then, when I could take my eye
i the cloud, 1 looked at the b:.y;
ut he only sat silent in the cab,
taring at the great peg-top with
artlng eyeballs and white lips.
'Inally 1 said:
''Do you think we are g'oing tc
scape it?'
"We are right in its track,' he
id W'ithout looking at me.
"You see, we were running in an1
ir line over the prairie, directly
"rtheast aind pursuing the very
.ath in which the tornado was comn- )
ig. Any other course, with the
eamn I had on, would have carried i
s out of the way.
"The boy shoveled mote coal on.j
renad alred Q on g throfouri
times since the strange cloud was
sighted. But it was no use. The
-ngir.e was doing its best, and she
wasn't capable of more than about
thirty-eight miles an hour.
"'It's gaining on us,' I said. 'low
fast does such athing as that travel?'
"'About a hundred miles an hour,'
replied the boy, white as a sheet. 3
"If that had been true I would not
be here to tell the story. I have
since learned that eighty miles an
bour is supposed to be the best a
tornado can do. My belief is that f
this one was going at .about sixty f
miles.' Anyway, it wasn't any more I
than six or seven miles distant by this e
time, and gaining on as rapidly. I c
my reckoning was correct, it would
:atch us in a little more than twenty
minutes. The way I calculated it
was that the great peg-top was mov- 0
ing at the rate of three miles to out
two. t
"It was the most frightfull specta. 9
:le to look at that can possibly be I
Imagined. To me it seemed to be a
monstrous giant, pursuing us with T
an evil in:ention to destrov. Now S
nd then the blackness would be t
transformed into a dark green a
nd it was constantly lighted up by
lashes. as if it were in immense
blloon illuminated from within. It
ap::eared to whirl around with in- c
:oncelyable rapidity, and from it I
came a sound across the prairie as of s
Dellowing, with a voice so an ful that I
the rumbling of the locomotive 1vat a
ost in it. Of the destruction it, wai t
accomplishing 1 could get no notion
(row my point of view. Fortunately a
there were few settlements in that C
part of the country, but as we passed 9
two or three small hamlets at full e
peed I luid see the ipeople running
about trying to find some place of C
safety.
"The boy staggered to my side
the rocKing of the engine made it I
difficult to Reep one's feet-and
clutched my arm. I stooped my head, c
and he yelled into my ears, 'Make 1
the bend.' t
"I knew what he meant on the in- C
tant. Less than ten miles ahead of a
as was a bridge over a river, after I
crossing which the road turned I
abruptly southwara. It was a freak c
railway anyhow, and its zig-zags
were intended to pass through as c
many supposed centers of future pop. 1
ulation as possible. The only lonj t
stretch of it in a straight line was a
just where we got caught by the p
tornado. If we could get to the ben'i t
ahead
"As you may well imagine, I har C
no opportunity to consider the plan f
calmly and in detail, but It struck me I
like a flash. It was a race for life sure a
enough. If that engine never did c
her forty miles an hour before I think I
she must have done that and more a
too, then. With the great funnel a
cloud rushing on behind us and
steadily approaching,' we tore over t
the rails at a frantic rate of speed. I g
was fairly crazed by the excitement, r
so that it almost overcome my sense
f fear. I remember distinctly that
I pulled the whistle cord and let the s
locomotive scream with all her might, C
though it could hardly be heard in
the roaring of the pursuing tornado. n
"Six miles passed, as well as I coulde
estimate, and the monster was onlye
about four miles behind. Threee
miles more and it had lessened the]
distance by a mile at least. But we
were near the river. A minute later
and we were running across the
bridge. N~o time then to heed the 1
warning that trains must run slowly
aver this stream, in obedience to thea
sign post.
' Over the brildge, we flew around
the curve and dashed away south
ward, just in time to see the mighty
balloon pass by with a whirl and a
roar, as if all the demons in the in
fernal regions were let loose. We
could not make out anything very
listinctly, the sky being darkened
pnd the air filled with dust, but we
knew that ne were safe. ' A few min
utes later the clouds rolled away and5
everything was as quiet and pea -eful
as before the storm. We ran back-c
to the bridge, but it wasn't there. 1I~
was clean gone, and such remains of
it as were left were scattered all ove i
the country. Tne road was so badly
torn up, the track for considerabla
istances being twisted and brokerl
to pieces, that the expense of repair*
[ig it bankrupted the company.
Eleven people lost their lives by that
tornado, which afforded me an ex
perience which I would not repeat for
all the money in the world. "-Wash.
ngton Star.
Novel Head Covering. I
A daring young Southern girl has
Llmost discarded her hat at the sea-s
ide this summer, and has appeared
at all hours of the day (and even in
the ball-room .it is said), with he! I
tead covered with an artistically
knotted bright silk handkerchief. 1
Nor, indeed, have these handker- I
hiefs always been of silk, for she has 1
aot disdained the use even of the 1
,rdinary bandanna, such as tha old I1
southern "aunties" wear. Though the I
adornment was regarded as specially 1
fetching" in this particular in- 1
stance, it Is to be doubted that it 1
would be becoming to many. 1
The Native Bride.
A native bride in Hindostan is
oaded with all the jewelry she can I
let. She has a girdle at the waist,c
imerous rings, anklets, bracelets I
Lnd bells, and decorations for theI
air. Although she has never seen
er intended husband, she goes and 'e
1its beside him on the day of the
:eremony. The priest takes a corner 1
f the bride's veil and ties it to thea
oose sal nd ther are married
O4ELPED MANY GIRLS,
oorgo W. Childs Writes of Women E
Has Educated.
The recent founding of the Drexe:
nstitute in Philadelphia, where Mr
Lnthouy J. Drekel. In addition to th
ractical benefits offered to boys, pro
oses to give an opportunity to 1,50(
irls to perfect themselves In al
>ranches of art, sCience, and industry
as directed renewed attention to tb4
ew instances ii this country-and
or that matter, in any other-wher
)rovision has been made for th<
ducation of girls by the endowmeni
'f school or college. Whiie school:
nd collegiate institutions are pro
ided almost without number fo
>oys, only here and there do we hea:
f the founding zof a fully-equippek
ollege having for its direct aim thi
raining and th6fough education o
irls and the fitting them for th<
iracticalities of lite.
Why this is so has always been t<
ae a problem. GIrls, as a rule, re
pond more quickly .to the fascina
ion of study than do boys, and I hav
lways felt that they deserved a!
aany chances, writes George W
hilds in the Ladies Home. Journal
So far as my personal experiences ar<
oncerned gratitude has been the rul
n almost every case where I hav
ought, by the means within mi
ower, to make it possible for girls t
equire practical training. I have up t,
his time educated, or rather been th<
3eans of educating, between thre<
ad four hundred girls, and in ever3
ase I have been rewarded by thei
-ratitude, their aptitude, their gen
ral excellence in behavior, and theil
ore than general success in theii
bosen careers. The girls in whom I
ave been especially interested, and
vho 1 always feel have first claim.
pon me, are the daughters of journ
lists- the men and women of mr
wn profession are always nearest m3
ieart. After them comes the daugh
ers of clergymen. As a rule, th
hildren of newspaper men are quic
.d ready to grasp opportunities, and
t has therefore been with particular
leasure that I have afforded them
pportunities to help themselves.
These girls have-come from almosi
very State in the Union; they hay
een brought to my notice througi
heir friends, through my friends
.nd through strangers. One younj
irl came all the way from a smal
own in Norway toimy office in Phil
ne has entered the newspaper pro
ession. There have been severa
awyers and doctors, many teachers
rtists, bookkeepers, accountants,
ashiers, and secretaries, trainec
turses, and elocutionists; and severa
spirants for the lyric and dramatii
tage.
The teachers have without excep
ion been successful; so have the
raduates of law and of medicine and
f the Nurses' Training School. Th<
irls who had ambitions for public
areers have met with only ordinari
uccess; probably those trained foi
locutionists have made the mos1
oney. The girls of musical and
rtistic capabilities have been giver
very advantage possible in the waj
f home and foreign training. Sev.
ral of them have been ediucated it
aris, several in Berlin, others it
7ienna. In the selection of schoolb
nd teachers there has been no gen
ral rule; sometinges I have selected
>oth, at other times the girls or theil
riends have made their choice. It
11 cases only the best of either havE
>een employed. For one young girl,
ho seemed especially endowed with
.voice, Mine. Christine Nilsson was
equested to select the teacher. The
alarles received by these girls have
.veraged from $300 to several thou
and dollars a year; one received as
igh as $5,000. All the girls have
>ecomne self-supporting, most of then:
uave married, and all (I think I an:
ae in saying this) have made good
ives. All of them have deferred tc
ny request that the men of their
hoice should be honest and well able
o take care of them, and, so far as J
now, not one of them has found a
Lsband who has presumed upon his
ife's ability to earn money to expect
er to contribute to his support
I became interested In these girls,
nd have given them opportunities
or education, because I have ever be
ieved, and that conviction has grown
ith years, in the higher education
if women. 1 think that women can
[ almost anything that men can.
nd 1 am quite sure that they should
:e given the same pay as men receive
or the same quality of work. I be
ieve in the value of training in a!!
orts of work, and I consider nc
ronan's education complete until
he has mastered the p-acticalities of
ife.
My ad vice to the girls and women
ith whose educational progre-e I
nve in any respect been identitied
as always been to keep out of debt,
o dress plainly, to be careful in their
>ehavior toward men, and as careful
n their behavior towara women; to
)e respectful to their employers, and
o be truthful. I have not scrupled
o say to them that in my experience
,he most refined women have been
hose whose tastes in matters of dress
iave been most quiet and plain. and
hat the working girl should above
.11 things avoid extravagance in
ress. I have found that girls and
7omen are apt to run into debt for
lothes, and whenever such case.1
ave come to my knowledge I have
>roffered my assistance toward re
toring their credit, upon the expreCss
tipulation that they should never
gain put a chain of that sort about
heir necks, and I thitik they have
.11 kept their promises.
nmigi takiup this matter of pfovid.
ing educational opportunities for ou
girls. Nothing can be more pleasant
after having money than to spend it
where it will do good, and more good
can be done in tue way UI assisting
self-respecting girls by giving them
practical help toward attaining, not
independence exactly, but the power
of ceasing to be dependent upon an
invalid father perhaps or upon poor
relatives or upon a brother who re
quires his money for his own needs.
While there will always be men whose
proudest part in life is to protect the
women who belong to them from con
tact Ivith th~o world, there will als.Q
L,.; UuuAI;L,' W.WUe v%;u ..aV-V~i.Wu
result in little more than a provision
for the daily needs of their families
and whose days will be shadowed by
I the thought that their death would
leave their daughters unprovided for,
whereas these daughters, if properly
trainea, might instead brighten their
fathers' lives not only by taking care
of themselves but by giving them
some of the luxuries which they have
never been able to afford.
It is not generosity that has m4adg
I me helpful in this respect to girls; it
is in part selfishness. I want to see
where my money goes. I want to
know that It Is circulating; that it
is doing good. I sometimes feel that
the only money I have is that which
I have given away. The rest is just
waiting. The money that I have
i spent upon other people has been that
which 1 have most enjoyed. Many
rich men have done as much, many
have done more. I think Mr. Drexel
has done the noblest work of all by
founding his school of Industrial Art
As I have rarely in my life seen an
estate administered as I know its
owner woula have desired, I think
that all rich men, particularly those
who have no children to inherit their
property, should spend the money
themselves in order that they may b,
able to see with their own eyes th
good which the judicious spending o:
money upon others can do. Girls al
ways ask me what they can-do fol
me in return for my kindness to them
and my invariable reply is a request
that they shall be helpful to other
girls less fortunately circumstanced
than they. I think that the help I
have given women and girls has been
productive of more good than that
which I have given men and boys.
Focussed by Sails.
The wide spread sails of a ship,
-- Wh rendered concave by a gentle
of sound, says
The celebrated Dr. Arnott relates the
following circumstance as practical
proof of this assertion:
"A ship was once sailing along the
coast of Brazil, far out of -sight of
land. Suddenly several of the crew,
while walking along the deck, noticed
that when passing and repassing a
particular spot they always heard
with great distinctness the sound of
bells chiming sweet music, as though
being rung a short distance away.
Dunfounded by this phenomenon,
they quickly communicated the dis.
covery to their mates, but none of
them were able to solve the en'gma
of these seemingly mysterious
sounds.
Several months afterward, upon re
turning to Brazil, some of the listen
ers determined to satisfy their curi
osity. Accordingly they mnentioned
1the circumstance to their friends, and
were informed shat the time when
the sounds were heard the bells in
the Cathedral of San Salvador, on the
coast, had been ringing to celebrate
a feast held in honor of one of the
Saints.
Their sound, wonderful to relate,
favored by a gentle, steady breeze,'
had traveled a distance of upward of
100 mIles over the smooth water anji
had been brought to a fozus by tha
sails at the particular locality i
which the sweet sounds were first
heard.
This is but one of several instancei
of a similar kind, trustworthy. au
thorities claiming that it has often
happened under somewhat similar
Pans.
Fans have long since gone beyond
the stage~ of strict use, and are now
regarded as a part of the finished
toilet of the well-dressed woman.
Vor this particulair summer, the
black fan holds the highest place in
regard of "fair woman." The kinds
muost in favor are those of plsan black
silk, mounted on various colored
sti:cks, or else the spangled ones. A
few years back, the only spangled
fans were of silk, but we have now
the daintiest creations in gauze and
nct. To one skilled in tbe manipu
lation of one of these very useful lit
t e articles. its absence creates a sort
of void. It is so useful to fill up the
paiscs in an awkward conversation,
or lend an expressive emphasis when
w rds fai. By all means have a
black fan, and learn how to use it
effctively.
THREE things ruin a man: to knovt
little and talk much, to have little
F nd spend much, and to be worth lit
We and presume much.--Philadel
phia Call
Americans Naturalized in England.
|Only two Americans were natural
ized in England last year.
A WE5T;ERs geologist says that
Kainsas can raise wheat for another
1,000 years beftore exhausting the
necessary properties of the soil.
IHE who has neither mother-in-law
nor siser-in-law is vw rnarrie.
ive-.4a.MORY OF HEROES.
Che Monument to Men of Wounded E
at Fort Riley, Ran.
The meml ers of the Seventh C
ilry at Fort Riley, Kan., recently
veiied a n-n'iuert to those v
were killed in t h battles of Woun
Knt.i and Dreiee Mission, near P
Ride Agency, S; uth Dakota, Dec.
and 30, 1890. It is built of Verm
and Quincy marble from Berry Fa
Vt., and Quiney, Mass., and Is
feet in height, resting on a pede.
15 feet square of native limesto
It is on a beautiful eminence, wb
the prinbipal drives of the fort m
and overlov'ks the valleys of
Smoky Hill, Republican and Kar
WOUNDED -NEE Mo'UMEXt
Rivers. It Is not far from the f
pus Ogden monument, erected to
memory of Major Ogden, who In .1
iiied while nursing the enlisted i
bf his command through an att
)f Asiatic cholera, and which Is E
Wo be on the central point -of
United States, as shown by car4
teographical measurements.
A flight of steps leads up the so
ide, and on the granite face of
;haft appears this principal insc
Lion:
e t To the :
: SOLDIERS :
: Who Were Killed :
: in Battle :
:at '
r of -Wounded Knee
:and
:Drexel Mission
: e with
-:Sioux Indians,
: SouthDakota,
:A Dec. 2e and w, h.
:Erected as a tribute:
:of affection by their:
: comrades of the Sev
:ienthcavalry and Med
:ical Department, U.
-S. Army, A. ,D. 1893.
nk of the men who
dt to wl
memory 'fe-mu ,.,
CROKER'S QUIET WAYS.
Che Great Pobtician's Unobtrusivene
prises a Visitor.
Ri-chard Croker. the biggest of
ew York's professional politic
is not a striking-looking man at
He looks much more like a suc
ful turfman than the controlle
the greatest political force in Aix
c6an national affairs. But altho
Mr. Croker admires horses, and
iecently purchased some fine o
the turf is only a divertisement.
ero s. uAmy. in lifeisth
rng the greaTmmainnys
hine.He ha serv d o app
*HR CROKER.T AS
cesi Grand koiiinws hisobtrsines
thegrond p. es isor. n
Rich yard oker andhae bie infa
peoritca rofesiontart poears.
wnas eetikinAloderman ate
twenty-threec yeare olike, sercn
erl terfman ha the cntsucce
otaneeatinal befois. Fire aComo
snr. Croker amreyorses, and b
reappnt purchayome Hewitt
he tufas nl a ereent.
anronsoccatione inlieisranda
unning ptii the amayw
hine poiton Hs served as on app
duringthe wa in Ge.Sc
41iad an n h Tnh e
knowh nd khese Thie buins f.
thegrun eh up.iv eon his n
~fri ersl and hasoceetes, adecp
ofahs elct n Adran whuene
Twentythore isedisoed, toething
tea terms. are held anyucesl
ptices, fially thatothny Fiedomic
mitone under aor moetng ndb
reapntede by theyohr hewit,
Croves an riht for birth,
haces ben athesidetto of critY
Cit foeinfancy i St.mPters
hd Iprtihremyo a uclean me
Ife had been Witli theii or many
years, and enjoyed the best of repuw
nee tation as an honest and faithful man
One day, to the boundless astonish
av. ment of the foreign merchant and
an- his staff, the office was visited by a
rho pristaf, or chief officer of the police
led force.
Ine "I have called to inquire," he said,
29 "whether you have lately been robbed
)nt by any of your clerks?"
!l, ; The merchant answered that noth
25 ing of the kind bad happened. Why
tal was the question asked?
De. The pristaf explained that, al
ere though the Irm might have felt no
et, uneasiness about the proceedings of
the their clerk, Mr. V- , yet the police
sas had long had their suspicions, *hich
-suspicions had culminated in 1is ar
rest at the railway station that very
morning. Would the gentleman
please give orders to have the books
of the firm carefully gone over, to
see whether there had been any de
falcation?
SWith strong prptestq one pr of
the merchant against Uinis unjusi
treatment of his trusty clerk, an ex
amination was begun; and it soon
transpired that the drm had been
plundered to the extent of more than
twenty thousand rubles!
Then, of course, the merchant
begged to know how the police had
become aware of what was going on.
The officer explained that it was all
- simple enough. Mr. V - had been
. seen to be snending more money than
am. s man in his position could be pre
the sumed honestly to have. Watch had
855 been kept upon him accordingly.
aen His champagne suppers, his boxes at
ack the opera, and such expenditures had
aid been recorded. It was known also
the that he had made a large remittance
ful to a "friend" in Paris, and so, when
ne went to the railway station to buy
uth iis ticket to that city he was ar
the tested.
rip- A Chinese Courtship.
In his own flowery kingdom the
aeathen Chinee who desires to be.
:ome a benedict does not dream of
tpproaching bis desired bride un
Al he has heard what her father
aas to say. The interview with papa
)n these occasions is largely occupied
by a prolonged haggle over the
mount the suitor is to give untH
the bargain is adjusted to mutual
:atisfaction.
' Then the suitor, highly perfumed
with assafetida. which iL the smart
scent among Chinese, as it was
Lmong the Carthaginians, calls on the
bride's mother and is introduced t
the .he bride. whom, it must be under.
fell stood, he has not yet seen. The
lose visit consists largely of bowing, scrap
. . flourishing the hands, cringing
.-evo7 kind of cere
nonial and very little coeratin.
The lover does not speak one word
se to his intended, and seldom glances
1 toward her. Usually singing and
a dancing girls come in and furnish di.
ins, version. He remains in her presence
al. for tso hours or longer, during the
es ' whole of which time he does not get
e of a moment alone with his intended,
eri- )r even a fair look at her face-for it
ugh Is not etiquette for him to scrutinize
has her too closely. When he has gone
les, he sends her presents.
His *It is a good omen if he sends a gift
ol n1f egg shells painted every kind oi
ma.~ -olor.
ren- All his visits are conducted on the
same plan. He does not get a direct
and full view of her face until they
tiave "gone away," that is, until she
has been brought in her palanquir
to his house.-liew York Recorder.
Krupp's Steel Works.
Herr Krupp's steel works at Esser
amd elsewhere form,- perhaps, the
largest private manufacturing estab
lishment in the world. The town oi
- Essen, which may be almost said tc
a we its existence to the Krupps, i
now a place of 70,000 Inhabitants,
~'and the works themselves cover 1,C0i
- cres, and employ 25,000 persons,whd
Iive in 8,000 houses, all of which be
long to the flrm. Tbere are eleven
langs furnaces, 1,542 smelting fur
aaces, 439 steam boilers, 82 steam
. hammers, the largest of which are of
om j ,000 horse power apIece, 450 steam
rly engines, 1,622 steam-driven ma
ve chines, and 54 locomotive engines al
He ways In use on the spot; and away.
nly from his central foundry, Herr Krapp
;ev- possesses and works three cal mings,
ive 547 iron mines In Germany, other
nis- iron mines In Spain, and four ocean
ing steamers. He supplies his workmen
with almost everything they require,
but and he maintains for their use an
ork hotel, eight beer saloons, a mineral
was water factory, a flour mill, a bakery,
her a slaughter-house, and fifty shops.
of Krupp makes guns for nearly every
er nation except England and France;
her but he makes many other things be
ille sides. The best proof of his fair
so- treatment of his men may be found
her in the fact that, durin( the -recent
an, labor troubles in Germany, although
ter 100,000 people were on strike in the
cer listrict limediately around Essen,
les' not one of Krupp's employes samwed
ark. the least trace of discontent.
5trength of Wood.
Sin So indestructible by wena- and de
ran Icay is the African teakwood that
relJ vessels built of it have lastedlfully 100
ose Iyears, to be then broken up only on
,ng account of their po sairing qual
>er- Ities. The wood, in fact, is one of
his 'the most remairkable employed -in
ion human industries on the s::o:e of its
its, very great weight, hardness and dur
er. ability.
at
us- Eli Wb Iney's originsl cota(n gin is
>m. one of th:e articles of Intmrst exhibited
o. rt the Wosld's Fair.
he Aquater f eci g n ration inail to
heus diefor- re iag the. amr of 17.
A asenger c in coats $4040.
irg ife s full of compensatior~s.
rk.