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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO S. C.. SEPTEMBER 19 1893 ESTAEISHED 1849 MILLINERY, MILLINERY, MILLINERY " A Always full in Hats and Bonnets, Flow- A ers, Feathers, Laces, c " Nets, Veiling and la test novelties of the season. A competent T i and experienced mil liner in this depart ment fully posted in Styles, Trimmings, Etc. Special attention given to Mourning 't and made up Hats M and Bonnets. t Renewing Crepe s Veils, Etc. h( J.. BOAG. be ry Goods, Fancy Goods, Notions, White Goods, Carpetings, Cloths, ta Matting, th Wr .BOAG'S.:b ish PianoA, Parlor and Chapei se Organs. Fifty new and im proved light-running Family P: Sewing Machines, vertical and under-feed of tba best makes, Id different styles and prices. I " Also, a lot of good second- as hand Sewing Machines for "' sale cheap, by J. 0. BOAG. li Different Sizes, li _____._au CLOCKS, th CLCLSS., Family Groceries ->Confectioneries. J. 0. BOAG. Id Always on Hand Single, b Open and Top Buggies and t Doule-Seated Vehicles. One. in Horse Wagons. Singe and " double harness.I Pianos, Organs, Sewing Ma- ha chines, Cooking Stoves, Clocks, wi Buggies and Wagons, are all fth shipped direct from their va- ba rious factories, therefore nor agents expenses or commis- wi sions to be paid for by pur- li chaser: The bast goods for the b lowest prices for cash or good t~ paper, at w i. 0. BOAG'S OLD STAND. g wihBedro Suits, Paror Suits, waedrobes, Side-boards, Mattresses, o Chairs, Tales, Bed-steads, Cradle;s, Picture Frames, Chromos, Baby Car rges and other goods. Call and get st; Mr.reston t ion will always give yo bis kind attention and treat you right, ssd sold asiow asthelowest r *a .OUBO 5anAGt FREEDOM. v work is done; the eventide Is here; Mly wages now I ask of Thee. ot golt nor jewels o I erave, my Lord, liut A ater, set ny spirt; free! bi- shadcws lengthen on my glacier path. H e.av:er th.e chains that fret me hele; tsk for freedom from their crushieg weight. 'Xis life, not death, I hold In fear! y work Is done; the bour of rest draws near; lhe vesper-bells toll clear and sweet. ito the aaed should be spared, myzv Lord, The pains that torture tired feet. cording to my need, I ask of Thee I hat Thou bestow the promised wage. faithful 1 have been in small and great, Wilt'l huu not now my pangs assuage? v work Is done: take me within the gat Where enter <.nly those Thou wilt; city lilahted by jity glory great, The ettiy not by mortalb built. >nie quickly. I beseech. aud freely give I he guerdon in its full aegree, hich Thou hast proinilsed unto every man ccordtin" as his work shall be. t. Master, not my will. brt Thine, be done. ln rher I %:it; forgive iny prayer1 iou kinowest best if here I'in needed still, rhou knowest if I'm needed there. :e %:ages are not due till work is done: Wrinssive to the end I'll be, owiug Thy precious pronise never falls, rhat may reward still rests with Thee! ara Jes up Moore. bj Au2ust LiPP'isCOTT'. AS GO8MT1Y E1OUNFR. "I wish to go over to your Annt th's and stay over night," said Mrs. anly to her daughter Celaine, a ight girl of 13. "Your father can ke the horse and drive over, and it 11 be much more pleasant than for to take the cars, and may be have walk over from the station, a full lle and a half, s there is only one rse and buggy to take people, and metimes several to be taken. 1 ought now as your cousin Philip was xre for company for you and Hal, it >ld be a good time, for us to get ay." ,, "Oh, I am so glad you are goin!Z," Ld Celaine, clapping her hands. "You ver allowed me to keep house alone ifore. Won't it be fun." "I hope you'll be steady, child, and e to things good-'tend to the milk, it's good time to make batter, in Atober." "Il try to d my very best, mother, > surely can trust me?" "I think I can, or I should not go. hink I'll 'tend to the churning to rrow, do up a lot of baking, and 'll go the next morning." Celaine stood in the kitchen door as r father and mother were leaving, d her mother said: "There's a jar sced- cookies and a plate of cold ague in'the cellar cupboard, and you n have some peach preserves for pper. Take good care of the fire, so e house will not burn," and by the ne all this was said, the horse had ken Mr. Manly and wife so far down e road Celaine could no longer hear. -'We'll have lots of fun," said Hal, >m the wood-shed door, where lie is preparing kindlings. "I expect you are old enough to be ve yourself," answered Celaine, as e was clearing the table of dishes. "I'm only a year younger than your if," replied Hal. "You are not 14 til next month, remember." "No quarreling," spoke up Philip Lymond. ".Remember 1 am 16," then o three langbe'. Everything moved clock work within the Manly bome ring the lay; but when night drew ar, a spice of mischief grew within a brain of Hal, and he said to Philip they were going in with the milk: aess us scare Celamne a little. We'll ourselves up in sheets, and groan a tle, and see what she will do," "That would not be right," answered "It isn't so very wrong, either, if we n't extend the time of frightening her ry long. Celame always prided her .f on being courageous, and not be ving one bit in ghosts. Now I do, she is always laughing at me," and L, who had often smarted under his ter's sneers at his foolish belief, ught he would get even with her for "Did you ever h'ear any of us tell t this house was said to be haunted?" ked Hal. "Not that I remember." "Well, the Morses, who lived here fore we did, say it was. An old man tie name of Boole built the house, d he and his wife 'died very suddenly, d a good many thought there must ye been fojul play, and it was said awere sometimes seen at night, essed in white, while a blue light tde the room look very strange. "ut we've lived here quite a num r o years and never once seen any. ig o~f the kind." "You can do as you like about scar Syour sister, hal, but I shall have thing to do about it." "Oh, all 1 wanted of you was not to on about it, and stand by and hear lae screech." Hal went into the house with his uds in his pockets, and stood ditling pretty loud while Celaine mmenced straiung the milk, and en he suddenly disappeared up the ek stairs, and going into his bed om took one of the sheets off his atly made bed, threw it out of the now, and went down stairs whist g agamn as unconcernedly as possi Going out in the orchard back of e house, Hal proceeded to make his usual toilet, wondering all the while ire Phil could be. As the wind w rather cool, and the would-be ost was somewhat afraid of real Losts, ho concladed to reconnoi!.re e a few moments, and then perhaps Listening for a time, Hal heard no iise and concluded Celaine was read g, and that prhaps P'hil had gone to e postofie, a mile away, as ho often C. Going to the door, Hal rapped. in instead of Celaine coming to the oor, as he expected, a strange voice id: "come in." Opening the door, Hal witnessed a ange scene, and one which made his ir stand upright, if the barber had t enough of it to do so. The room L5 filled with a ghostly blue light, vealing a white form withmn the droom door, and another tall, white ed form advancing toward him with ng, rapid stridcs. Hal waited to see >thing more, but screaming at the p f hi lngs, "Lord have mercy on me, and PI never do so again, he beat a hasty retreat, while the tall, gAunt figure rushed out after him,with a mocking laugh. Hal tried to rid himself of his tightly wound costume, but became the worse entangled, and falling in his great fright, never once ceased rolling until be had reached the foot of the hill, back of the orchard. For a few moments Hal lay there, not daring to open his eyes for fear of seeing that tall, gaunt form, with its skinny fingers clutching at him. Once he was sure he heard laughter, and it did not sound like a ghost either. But the question now was what should he do? It was nearly half a mile to ihe near. est neighbor's and Hal dared not go near his own home, which was now occupied by the Booles in f all force. "Are you hurt, Hal, dear?" as!;ed Celaine's soft voice, and Hal was cer tain it was never so sweet before. "Not much, I guess. Bat help me, Sis, I'm all tangled up." "Why, how came you so, Hal?" "Playing the fool to frighten you. I'll be honest." "And three played at the s'ime game," said Phil, lughing." And who won?" "It was not I," said Hal, throwing off the sheet Celaine had patiently un done. Hal was the most obliging of boys after this, his only request being: "Don't tell father and mother any thing about the Boole affair, please " And Phil and Celaine promised they certainly would not; while Celaine gave Hal an extra dish of peach pre serve, as she said: "What if you had broken your necl going down that hill; only to think o1 it, what danger you were in." .1"I was a fool," answered Hal in dis glist. S. ROSALIE SILL, in Boston Budget. Miss Mary Upham, of Boston, re cently contributed $300 to the College Settlement Association, which sum pays for the first fellowship. The as sociation has for its object the social improvement of the masses, and is operating for good in the slums of New York, Boston and Chicago. The fellow is expected to spend thirty-five weeks of the year in residence at the College Settlement. M ss Upham't subscription will elect a Boston resi dent. A second fellowsnip, also pro vided by a Boston lady, will support a fellow at Hall House, in Chicago. The expense of residence in the settlements is about $3 a week, or $175 a year. This includes board, lodgings and washing, and with the remaining $125 the fellow is expected to pay for the incidental expenses, such as books, carfare, postage, flowers, amusements, afternoon teas, coffee and wafers, etc,, contracted in the course of fellowship with the lowly and lonely elasses. O(nce or twice a week the resident has two dinner guests and the extra course, or the flower favors provided in their honor, must come oat of the fellow ship. Faraday was the first to elicit the electric spark from the magnet; he found that it is visible at the instant ol breaking and of renewing the contact of the conducting wires, and only then. In illustration of this, "Blackwood" had the following clever lines: "Around tne magnate Faraday 1 sure that Volta's lightnings play: But how to draw them from the wire? He took a lesson from the heart; 'Tis when we mnet, 'tis when we part, Brea forth the elec'ric flre.'' WHAT WOMEN ARE D)OING. The only woman who ever asked Ioi a degree from John Hopkins Univer sity is Miss Florence Bascom. Bei subjects are organic geology and palm ontology. Her thesis, on the vchcanic rocks of South Mountain, was preparec last Summer during a stay at Monterey Springs. It involved a careful exam ination of a mountainous area of five miles square, durirng which M1iss Bas com was the object of much curiosity on tbe part of the natives, who dub bed her "the stone woman." The results of her work ha.ve attracted much attention among the geologists of this chantry, and her thesis is re garded at the university as the besi ever urepared in the geologic ii depart ment: It has been accepted by the authorities as entirely satisfactory and will shortly be published in full. Mrs. R. P. W. Packard, who hai probably accomplished more in estab lishing the rights of woman than any other one woman, is passing the Sam mer in Chicago. For twenty-five yeari she has devoted her life to establishing the legal rights of woman. She is nol a woman suffragist, and her friends think that alone she has accomplished more than the combined effort of the Suffrage Association. Congress and legssetures have listened to her arga ments, passing the bills she advocated. and placing on the statute books, lawa which have given married women equa rights with men in control of childrer and property. A Hligh Atmosphere. Beyond 29,000 feet above sea level. he bight reached by Glaisher it 862, man has never bc.n able t< navigate the air. Various problema concerning the region farther away such as temfpcrature, the pressure. the Quantity of moisture, the compo sition or the air, etc.--have attracted the attentioJn of physicists, and have at last led to the experiments of M. Hermite, who, duzring the last few months, has been sending up pilo1 balloons, carrying registering appar atus. These balloons are very light, with a capacity of about 100 to 2t.( cubic feet. Falling at a distance from Paris ranging up to 200 miles, the balloons have nearly all been :e turned by their finders, as reque~sted on a card attached to each. and oIne has brought down records from a height of 30,000 feet. The instru ments used are very light and simple. With larger balloons and systemati( exploration. it is hoped that the se crets of the air up to at least 40,000 feet may be made as familiar to us as those of the deepest and darkest ienths of the sea are gradually be AN ACT OF PROVIDENCE. ft Saved the Trains, but Not the Dia patcher. "I didn't leave my job of my owl imeord," said the ex-train d!spatcher as he settled himself down to his yarn, "and my being bounced was a mean piece of business. If Provi dence was ever on the side of an over worked an underpaid railroad em ploye it was with me that last night, and the superintendent ought to have -ealized the fact. It was on an Ohio .ailroad. and the headquarters were .n Cincinnati. We'd bad a strike, ,wo or three asidents and a row at aeadquarters, and I'd been doing two mein's work for ten nights past. On 6his last night I was clean played out and asked for a reliet, but nobody was to be had. When the line is working all right and a man Is feel ing g:>od, train dikpatching is as easy as rollir' off a log. You can locate every train on the rails within ahun :red rods, and unless some pig-headed conductor refuses to obey instructions here's no chance for an accident. "That night I had four througL )assenger trains, two locals, a Blue Line, and two o: three regular f reights to look after. Everything was all right up to about midnight. At that hour the western express would reach Kingsville and sidetrack for the lim ited going east and due at 12:10. I gave the customary order, as I thought, and it was 12:30 before it suddeniy flashed across me that I had aade a imix of it. For thirty seconds [ was ascold as ice from head to heels, nd then a hot wave seemed to strike me, and I came near fainting away. I had ordered the expre.s to run to DIamondale, where I meant it for the Blue Line. She'd meet the lim ted head-on about four miles west of Kingsville, and both trains had a full omplement of passengers. it was too late for me to stop either one, ind I was just about to order out a wrecking train, telegraph the com pany doctors and rouse out the super intendent, when I got a call from Roert's Crossing. This was a milk tation, but a telegraph operator had been put there only the day before. He had been routed out of bed at a iarmhouse near by to communicate vith me. "You may doubt my statement. 3ut you wouldn't If you had been on alther of those trains. They were lying for each other like cyclones, when the engine on the limited col .apsed a flue and was brought to a standstill within a hundred feet of the station, with engineer and fire nan badly scaldcd. At . tb-- a.-? ,Ime the express-struck a cow stand ng on the track, and though not de ailed, was brought to a stop scarcely i hundred feet on the other side. rhere they were, headed for each )ther with only one chance in a thou sond of escaping an awful calamity, mnd yet Providence gave me that hance. The officials ought to have iven me another show, but I got the ounce. and have staid bounced ever ince. I'm selling a patent washing nachine now, and not taking any hances." Love and Toothache. As all roads were said to lead to, ome, so all sorts of paths seem to ead to love- Cupid uses the high ays and by-ways, the short-cuts and he circuitous routes, just as the ancy seizes him. Toothache, one would think, would not be likely to prove an impulse to matrimony, but icording to a dispatch from Nor walk, Ct., that was what prompted he recent marriage cf a couple near ihat city. They had both been stay .ng at a farmhouse in the vicinity, md the gentleman being attacked by ~he toothache jumped into a carriage o drive to the nearest dentist's. The ady volunteered to accompany him, probably to sooth his pain by her ~resence, and her companion was so nuch touched by her solicitude that 2e proposed marriage on the way. As 2e was suffering so dreadfully from he toothache. she thought she mig ht nrease his pain by refusing and con ~ented promptly in order to make aim feel better. As he was about to ose a tooth he concluded that he ught to have at once a helpmate to ~ompensate him for his loss and so topped by at a minister's and was narried before he faced tne dent'st. As soon as the ceremony was per ~ormed, the tooth stopped aching, id he found to his joy that he had aned a wife without losing a molar. Iatrimiony would thus seem to be a ~ure for the sharpest of aches-possi >y the cynics may say by substi~ut ng a general and chronie pain for a articular and temporary one.-Bal ~imore Sun. Long-Period Clocks. Herr Noll, a mechanician of Ber. angen, Germany. has constructed a ~lock warranted to run for 9.00years without w.nd.nz. Mr. D). L. Golf, in this country, has in his hail an old ashioned clock which, so long as the house is occupied, never runs down. Whenever the front door is opened or :losed the winding arrangements of the clock, which are connected with the door by a rod with gearing at tachments, are given a turn, so that persons entering or leaving the house keep the clock constantly woundl up. Mr. T. G. Farrer or Fresno. Cal.. in vented a clock, the only motive power of which, he alleges, is the ravitation of the carth, which keep' the clock runnijng forever without winding. This clock consists of a plate glass dill suspended from the ceiling, and all the parts of it that are visible are the two hands, the pivot on which they swing and the' ia. In 1840 Mr. J. Smith, Leeds, England, constructed a clock, the mole motor of which was electricity. HErael or 1see thia clot k go for fifts yeari. Clocki are now mad'e to r-M five years with one winding up. jI 1881 the Belgian Government place< one of these in a rgitlway station an< sealed it with the government seal It is said to have kept eapitat time having only been twice wound-I1 1886 and 1891. There Is a clock I the church of St. Qitentin, Mayence which is said to have stopped onl. once during a period of 500 years. Brooklyn Eagle. On the Vasty Deep. I notice an item in the press stat log that the Olty of Peking, in he recent trip, sailed 1,240 miles with out meeting a single sail, and thl fact is cited as showing the lonelines of the Pacific Ocean, says the Wash ington Star. In the summer of 1850 I left Sal Francisco on a sail vessel (formerl; from Baltimore) for Panama, distan 4,000 miles, and on the entire route which lasted forty-three days, w never saw a sail. Loneliness is no word for it especially when we lay becalmed ii the tropic, with our vessel floating a helplessly about as a chip on a mil pond, the ground swells keeping a] the monotonous roll of the vesse from side to side all day and nigh1 and day after day, each roll beini accompanied by a flap of the sails anc a creaking bf the riggitt that migh1 have passed for the flap of the wingi and the wall of lost spirits. When we read about Noah and hii rk we are apt to think that he mus1 have bad rather a lonely time, bul then he was out only forty days, and besides, with all the animals, etc., oi board, he had plenty to occupy hi time and attention and If he wantet imusement to while away the t'm( be had only to stayt a sparring matel between his monkeys and parrots rrue, there is no report of any suct proceeding on his part, but that il ioubtless because there was no mod 3rn newspaper reporter on board. I tell you, a man can't realize whal oneliness or comfort is until he hai made some such trin, and If he want4 o complete his education in thal Ine he sbould preface it with a traml )f 2,000 miles over the mountains and tcross the deserts amid wolves and Nild Indians, as thQusands of "forty iners" did. The Trump of Fame. The dignity of the trumpet Ia ?roved by its association with certaiE 'amous personifications. Thus, one ever sees Fame, Honor, or Victory ithout a trumpet. For that matter, L great many mortals are never see! without, - Un AecamDaniment of the janre Rn;, vtrich. Abey-ionW Ati night and main in order to catch the ttention of their fellows. The ;rumpet in this sense is almost Indis pensable; the bigger your trumpet, he louder your fanfare, the greater will be your success. Politicians, priests, authors, actors. professors, agitators, philanthropists, ll blowing their loudest in order tc blow themselves Into popularity oi place or pelf or p'wer! There are men and women with wares to sell heir consciences, their pens, their Jalents-who, by persistent trumpet ing, get them disposed of at thei: >wn price. The wares may be sadia lamaged, but the loud advertisement 3onfuses and overcomes the buyer. 3ther vendors, with better stuff te sell,get never a bid because they can aot handle their trumpets or are toc ;crupulous to make use of them. Sometimes, it is true, the staple is o. ;uch excellent quality that the peo le crowd round to buy it even with ut "a flourish of trumpets."-All ~he Year Round. . The Telephone in Turkey. The influence of the telepone has enerally been regarded as salutary, but the Sultan of Turkey evidentlj Lakes a different view of it. He de rlned to have it in his dominions al a v price. Not only has he forbidder elephone lines to be laid down i Contantinople, but he objecte t< Lhem even in the other large towns, such as Smyrna and Salonica HI says that his subjecta are far tot ready, as it is, to plot and conspire and make his lfe a burden, and he does not propose to introduce a means whereby they can do this twice as easily as they could before. This feeling of the Sultan is so well knowr that for considerable time those in Ierested in telephone matters haye ceasrd to apuly for concasdons in the land. of tfle Turk A Heresy Conference. The Inter Ocan says of Young afanAfraid-of-Ris-Horses, who die( he other day: Only once at an early lay, was his authority questioned. A~fter his tirst trip to Washington he narrated to his people who had nevel been off the reservation, and who hac never seen anything but a one-stori Iouse, the sights and incidents 0f his trip lie told theru about the iror horse that carricd him away and brought him back. They could un 3erstand all about that It wai white man's medicine. He told then a bout talging wires (telegraph). The, understamnd that also, It was whit< man's magic. He told them aboul the high buildings at Washington fve and six storiss high. This wa too much. They could stand talkin: wires and iron herses, but six teepee! built on top of each other was to< foolish for belief. "Young-Man was a great liar and 'would have ti take it back. "Young-Man." how ever, insisted on it, and they coul< not doubt his sincerity. The heres: conference which had the matter i band agreed that the whites ha< given "Young-Man" something t< drink which had bewitched him For a time 'ere was much talk o getting a ne~ ehief. TOPNOODY'3 TYPEWRITER. 1. T. Was Inclined to Raie a Row About the New Aoquisition. Mr. Topnoody was eating his sup per very peacefully, and was enjoying it so much that he had not noticed how ominously quiet his wife wa.s, at the other end of the table. "Topnoody," she said, with such force, just as he bit a piece out of a biscuit that he almost choked on t, "I understand you have got a new type writer in your office." rYe, my dear, I have," he re 4 plied in innocent surprise. "Well, now," she exclaimed, grow s ing red in the face, "I ion't have it, A man at your age of life ought to know better, even It he has no re. gard for his wife and family. There are men who might, with a certain t brazen e;rontery, do as you have lone, but a man of family, as yob are, and a member of the church-I am shocked beyond utterance." Mr. Topnoody looked as if he wert - snffering from the same sort of s shock, for he was absolutely speech. I less. p "Don't try to deny .it or to &Z I plain," she went on ankrily, "for yot b have not only admitted it, but you h bave admitted it to me, and I shall-" "But, my dear," began Mr. T., re. ever!ng his utterance. "on't sneak to me," she said, "you have taken that thing into your office when you promised me faithfully you a never would have another, and, D worst of all, this one is only 20 years old, and the other near 40 if she wat , day," and she began sobbing. "I don't know, my dear, how old the other one was," said Mr. V with a quiet smile, now that the light had dawned on him, "but if the one I got yesterday is twenty years old, I'm go ing to raise a row with the agent who sold it to me, for he assured me it had just come from the factory." "I'm an idiot," sobbed Mrs. T., Looking up Zoyfully. "Yes. dear," responded Mr. T., caking another bite out of the bis cuit.-Frce Press. A Trc'c That Did Not Win. A curious law case has been heard in Berlin. In the year 1891, in Rus sian Poland, a quantity of placards were placed on the walls inviting the peope to emigrate to Brazil, saying that a Polish kingdom would be founded, and that, if they.went to Bremen, they would be forwarded acrcss the ocean. An immense num. ber of emigranus tnereupon traveled to Bremen, only to learn that they --oz have no free passage. Having no means ofielurning to Poland they soon spentt heir- ia t -penny --n- In Bremen inns. When the Poor soard round that they were paupers and iiigely to become a burden on the community a drastic measure was taken. A railway train was prepared and the Poics were told that it would take them straight to Brazil. About a th. us.:nd of them entered it and were speedily taken to Berlin. In that city the wretched wanderere naturally found their way tothe pub lic refuges and the Berlin Poor Board was obliged to take care of them and feed them until they could be dis. i;atched gradunally to their several homes. The Berlin Poor Board theb sued to recover expenses from the Bremen Poor Board, and the courts have just decided that the lattez must pay up. The railway trick does not seem quite so smart now as it did a little while ago. An Unlooked-for Customer. Theophrastus Esculapius Stubbe, proprietor of the "Universal Life Everlasting Golden Bitters," was in his ofice, arid about him were gath eredJ an eager group, listening to an account or the wonderful cures he had ;vrought with his medicine. B3y and by a man in somber garb a thin, pale-faced man, sedate and melancholy-entered the office and inquired for the proprietor. "I am the man," said Theophras tus Esculapius Stubbe, with dignity. "You are the proprietor of the "Universal Lite- Everlasting Golden Bitters?" said the pale visitor. "l am. How can I help you?" "I have come to see If I couldn't get you to establish an agency for your bitters in our town. I want you to sendl a smart man-one who can sell a large quantity of your medi cine." Theophrastus rnbbed his banns and smiled exultingly. "You see." pursued the somnber visitor, "my business is getting dullI and I thought with your help we might ievive it." "Cant you take the agency your. self, my friend?" asked the great Stubbe. "No, no," said the melancholy man with a shake of the head. "It wouldn't do for me. People might think that I was interested:" 'Ah! What is your business?" al am an undertaker!" -Wrir.N a girl is in love, she doesn't Sbelieve anything mean that is said' about any man. 'THE UsUA~L s"EEcII. flikins-"So, after courting that girl for ten years, you at last got up spunk enough to propose?" 3Wilkins-"Yes, proposed last nigt >r guess it'll be all right." ' "E~h! Dizin't she accept?" >"Not exactly, but I think she will." -"What did she say?" S"It's so sudden?"-Yew Tork Wekly. STh~e London Optican says that great 2men are usually blue eyed,and instanc Ses shakespeare, 8oerates, Locke, Ba-. 'con, Milton, Goethe, ffranklin, Napo I leon, Bismark, Gladstone, Buxley, virebo and Renan Two or three years ago an Anstriaa sivil engineer was traveling in Cey lon. Near Pasadena, one of the lame cities, was a botainical garden, which Is considered one of the finest In the world. One afternoon the engineer strolled around the gardens admiring the tropical plints and examining the curious forms of vegetable life with which the gardenabounded. -At length he became very tired, and the day being warm, even for Ceylon, be lay down and was soon fast asleep. What happened is best tdid in hi* own words: I must have slept an hour when I was awakened suddenly by a queer, uncanny feeling, and opened my eyes. Judge of my surprise when I saw perched upon my feet, body, and even ipon my shoulders, a lot of little oionkeys, while all about me, and beaming down upon me from the trees, were monkeys of all sizes and ages. It seemed to me there were myriads of them. I was frightened, for I knew these monkeys were wild, and, In their wild state, I did not know what so many of them might do. I gave one leg a twitch, then the ither, and bounded to my feet, throw .ng off all that were gamboling over and about me. In a second the mon keys vanished, and only here and there, :eering down from the tops of the tall bamboo and rubber trees, :ould I see any of them. I was very much alarmed, for thi appearance of so many of them wa, entirely unexpected. It was a week before I got over my fright. It ap peared, however, that the monkeys had meant no harm to me. The congrees had been called, and their examination of me as I lay upon the ground was merely out of curiosity to divine what kind of an object I was. Nevertheless, I vowed never to go to sleep again in a wild tropical forest, even if it were called a botanical -Carden. Why Flowers Sleep. Why should flowers sleep? asks Sir, yohn Lubbock in "The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live in." Why should some flowers do so and hot others? Moreover, different flowers keep dif. ferent hours. The daisy opens at sunrise and closes at sunset, whence its name, "day's eye," The dande lion (Leoniodon) is said to open about 7 and to 'close about 5; Arenaria rubra to be open from 9 to 3; the white water lily (Nymphaa) from about 7 to 4; the common mouse-ear hawkweed (Hieracium) from 8 to 3; the scarlet pimferned (Anagallis) to waken at 7 and close soon after 2; whence its English name, "John go to bed at noon." Farmers' boys in some parts ars said to regulate their dinner time by it. Other flowers, on the contrary, open in the evening. Now it is obvious that flowers which are fertilized by night-flying insects would derive no advantage from being open by day; and on the uther hand, that those which are fer tilized by bees would gain nothing by being open at night. Nay, It would be a distinct disadvantage, be cause it would render them liable te be robbed of their honey and pollen by insects which are not capable of - fertilizing them. I have ventured to suggest. then, that the closing of the flowers may have rcfeyence to the habits of the Insects, and it may be observed also in support of this that wind-rertilized flowers do not sleep; and that many of those glowers which attract insists by smell opien and emit their scant at particular hours; thus Hesperus matronalis and Ly chis vespertira smell in the evening and Orchis bifolia is particularly sweet it night._________ A Princess of Method. Although a good listener, says an English p~aper, the Princess May never hesitates to ask'questions if she does not thoroughly understand the line of argument. She seldom dis cusses a charity scheme without se curing a supporter. No matter whether it be In a country house or at home, If the opportunity offers, the wants and wishes of her proteges are always put forward, and the result Is generally a check: or promise of help. But it must not be supposed that she accepts other people's facts and fig ures. On the contrary, she makes her own inquiries and marshals them in a way that would do credit to i' financier or a stateman. Order and regularity are with her principles of life-never is anythinir out or place, never is an opportuOity missed. There is a time for getting up In the morning, and, when possi ble, a time for retiring to rest at night,. Part of the day Is always sc1 aside for reading and being read to. No matter how distasteful the task, if it be necessary to do it, it is done, and done, too, in time. and in proper form and order. In her boudoir you will find the books properly classified. Pens and pencils are neatly arranged on the writing table. -In short, there Is a place for everything, and every thing is In its place. These are qua! ities indispensable to people of great position, and it must be yery gratify ir g to the public to know that Prin 'ess May possesses them. Curious Currency. Sheets of paper are used for money in Corfu.one sheet purchasing a quart of rice, twenty sheets a piece of hem1; cloth, etc. We, too, use sheets of pa per for money, but they 'are pretty, well covered by the Government wic hi original designs in green Ink be ore they acquire any purchasing value. . ALXtsT every one who isn't sixneen and pretty, locks very lonome ai times.