Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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T~I-X~ E~k LX' hI'i'flUZSW INNNSBOR() S, C.. SEPTEMBER 6, 18-94-E]?ALSE 14) ONLY the vulgar are overpolite. A LOVER of old books-The moth. Mrcn hard work is wasted in look ing for easy jobs. Dorm* others more and yoursell less and 3 ou will have more back bone to sell. MAN combines the traits of all the other animals, and is often the big gest brute in the who!e lot. THE versatility and verbosity ot gab which says the same thing in many ways is often mistaken for ora tory. A KENTrcKY girl, determined to elope, chloroformed the entire fami'y. The next time she feels the eloperuent Impulse strong upon her she will probably be wise enough to take the chloroform herself. M. CAsTr-R-PERTER wept when elected President. of France. Some emotions are difficult to explain. There were aspirants who did not re ceive a vote and no record exists that any Of them shed a tear. A SAN JOsE butcher complains tha's while seeing the sights of San Fran cisco he lust a $2,200 ring. The in ference is that the butcher business i". San J se is worth cultivating, even to the neglect of the sights of San Francisco. THE Pasteur treatment for hydro phobia is merely preventive. A hotel keeper of Northampton, Mass., who h -d been bitten by a rabid do-, died In the institute at New York a few days ago, two injcctions of poison Irom an infected rabbit having no ef fe t. WE observe with a thrill of pleas tre that the brethren of the bucolic 1ress are doing better grammatical justice to the sedentary fowl of latE, b: speaking of her properly as a "sit ting hen." The sun sets; hens sit likewise lay. - California Fruit grower. MRs. HALLIDAY, of New York. whc l:illed three people and manifests a yearn'ng to kill more. is likely to be pronounee ragy. There is alway syMpathy the insane, and yet it could alnest be wished they wouid Indicate their lunacy by some gen tler symptom than indulgence in bualehery. WHEAT has been selling at a figur. so much below the cost per pound of Dats that it is a wonder anyone is feeding oats. Low.grade flour, bran and o- her offal would be much chea:p er and nmuch better than oats for horses. if millers were prompt in advertising this fact in their local papers some would reap a rich har vest. PvcE: Editor Bean, County Clarion and Fa mers' Friend--"So,; Slas Hopkins, you can't expect ml to take such a craggy, mean lot of vegetables as that for subscription to my paper for next year." "Well, you oiughter, then: Them's the kind o' vegetables I raised from follerin' vour advice in your 'Hinuts to Farm ers' Column.'" Two YEARS ago Pang Yim, a very wealthy Chinam in of Indianapolis, eloped with Addie Norton, a Sunday school teac her. A year ago he took his bride and baby to China. Now they want to return. She was per mitt. d to land at Tacoma, but Pang and the baby are detained until L Government offcials can decide whether they may come into the country. IRE insurance statistics show that last seventeen years there have asixty flour andI grist mill tires in .rsachusetts, with a property loss of M42,55I. in 1893 six flour and grist mill tires are reported, with an Insur ance loss of $12,800, of which M.882 was paid. The flour mills of Mas-sa chusetts are so few in number andI generally so small that the experience of underwriters in that State cannot be taken as a criterion. Sr Loris GROCER: One of tht howling, demagogic organs is having Its annual conniption fit anent tihe "disproportion between the price of wheat and the price of f'our." There are a lot of vascular chumps who im owi that the - armerd' wheat, bran. straw, sticks, dirt and all, is ground into the best patent tiour without cost to the miller, and that he uin doubtedly steals his barreis and bags. it gives us a tired feeling. THEx English Government report rm an investigation into the in:'uennj epidetaic of the last four years re gards the proof of the conta~tiousnes! of the disease from person to person as overwhelming, and denies that it is transported through the atmios phere-another warning of the folid of unnecessary contact with the sick. or contact without precautitons. A eminent laryngologM attributes tht montaounenS to the breath. AN EVEN-SONG. If I coul. cai ymi back for -n(- brief hour, it i. at e.n :i g - hiat L.-ur Fbo .d be. WhenI l'1 :.l.r4 cn. L::t: frutz an old gray tower AkcrVzz tLO ova.. Just siaen tbe fcei are sweet aud cool witb Ju, whoi the lt't 2inTi Unc'r- in tie West, Wou.d I rafli yo.. t z be wuli you knew Be or you wt:.a to ruet. And when the Mtarrv ain" hides the wall Vie two wh and t.'tlwr once again, I know yo:ur I : --I M .l :'1 you all Wy :a.e k",ov and ja~n. And vonA wo-l 1 li-en, -with yoir tender smile, Iraciig tL.e li:;e. :pon uly tear-worn face, And uding, v ' "n fo: ii it tie x t.e, Our -:.'rth a iei ry jiuce. On'y o'o IttI ho::r: .xn tien once morre 1 - b it, er worI, far, wkI. e.twt w ith !ears. A.d Ui1 nv Iia hty* UV rl t-. t, b -efore, With h ou LneLy years. Far better, dear, that von. inlt nsren, ui , 'ver 'ir ine in the outlet tir And draw ruy --i it thi-t.gi :h i mortal screen Your ghter ie to shlare. I wo'd not caU y-u r tek ant1 vet-ah, me: F t hI is o w. ak ti i humtan love ,.o irong TLt bweet it e:m.;i t:n . o whlat luight bo Thi s hour at eve-so:4. -Lounlon Suu. IlS DEAT-WARRANT ,-It was in a Western citv, SOtme years ago," remarked the city editor) "that I was holding down tile c.ty desk on a da ly for the lirst time. '\ e had a man ofn the paper who wal siwply a crank on homicides: and hI was more than a mere reporter, lot he had detective talent of the highA est o der. lle didn't care much foA the common crimes-burglaries, lar cenies, and si. h-but give him good mysterious mu.der. and he was splend.d. Not only did he have the histor of all the famo .s murders at his lingers' ends, but he deighted in ferreting oat the mort mysterious crimes that came within our prov ince. In every case, except the one I am teiling about-and there were. a good many kiliings in that town he traced out the murderer before' the detective even dreamed of his identity. "I have since thought the secret of his success was that he put himself mentally n tue pla e of the mur, ae er. and reasoned it out fro mo4 t.vcs rather than from the -clews' of the ordinarv detective. " 'There is seldom much method, in murder,' he on e said to me, when in a rarely communicative mood.: 'Most men would commit it in about the same way under the same circum, stances. It is only when a murderer goes about it systematically, as do the Thugs of India, that a murder becomes truly mysterious.' -I once asked him why he did not become a re-zular.detective. " -1 was born and bred a newspaper man,' he said, 'and habit is too strong to b eak.' That was literally true in' his case, otherwise 1 might not have, to tell tils sto y. "One mori, the hedy of a fine-. looking man was found in an alley adjoining the electri' light works. in' the %Cry heart of the city. The after noon papers had a chance at it, bt didn't maKe much out of it, so I at once as' igned it to Jones-as we w.l call. him. Although he did not show ui' at the usual hour. I had no o'oub t that he was already at work on it, as it was as mysterious a case as even he could desire. 'The viet imi was idetitlted as a travetlng ttian who~ had just arrived,. and as far as k nown. h -bail no friends or ac tuaintanceS int the city. It was not a c.ise of rotbberyv, Ior all lii mru a ndi valuia let. were left on the bdy. '1 hire wa's a slight contusioi tin the lack of the head, and a small, neei le like- hole direct l through the tman's hea:trt. It wVas especiatlly strange that-sui'h a ecrin ' could have been "iom ilttId in a pubi ' thorough, :c:e. while there was absolutely nio clew to the mturderer or his motive. 'Biut these di - ulties were ol such as wouldi orditarily nut Jones on his uet tle Si I did not di) iLt that he would have a good a count oif the af fair. I was thierefo:-e somewhat sur pised when lhe came sneaking in at out ' o'eioek in the evening to see what his assignmuent was. ife looked worn andt haggard, b ut deniled that he was ill, so I gave himi the murder assignmienit- I thought I saw a startled look int his eyes, but he main tained his outwa. d e .miposure, and went out w ithiout a word. "I did not see himi a-gain that eve ning About midihit I began to wnder why I had not heard fromt him. but only speculated (on the pos sibiity of sumethting hiaving hap pened to hinm, for the idea that he could .ossibly fail never occurred to me. Finally, after an hour had gone by, I telephone'd to the police station. Wo: d camne back that there were no new develop,:netnts in the case, and that Jonies ihad oot b een there. send - lg two meu >1ut to hunit him up. I set ti work tmysef to make up a stry of the murder from the after inton papers. J ust then Jones catme in. llis step was unsteady and his a'c ttusied. Ie hc ad evident ly been drining h ea vily- simeltig I ne' er kne heWim l to doi be~~ic-but he w'as nt dlrunk: rather, lie seetmed at high ie vo-us tensmn, although outwardly as calm as ever. "'1 dlei'idled to let thi5 breach of (its ciplinie piat., anid mere'y alsk uim f'or hi, mturdher sti y. lie eplied that he hant writtenl any. ''-We:1, get to work at once,' I sad,. rat h--t 5Iharly.' ''Then he reai y surrie me1' byCli sti ig that he had niothiung to writ~e evitnd thle !:at facts alrteadyv known. Te 'i(Ce ha-lI devel ped nothing new, :ind he suitosed' that I had wi rke. i i p lie story from the eve ' toni has it ciome to 1oa that voll wait fir th' p i.e'e to develop a mulrdier case fir yoiu.' 1 exclailue d, anry. -.V ton thte reports in the -veui m. pa eru e'nnca take a i etter ifory thiii they had!' "He sat aown, in apparent despair at his desk. Then I relented an( cajoled him a little, begging h!m no to snoil his areat record by fallin Oolw~ n a ch an assignment, 'There a starter for you,' said I, throwin im the article I had commenced -Now go ahead and till that out wit: e column description of the saae.' 'I haven't even visited i6,' he re p!ild. Nevertheless, he picked u the pages and read them as if i. pelled by some hateful fascination Then he took up his pen to make few minor corrections. Then, as i totally oblivious of my presence, h began to write. "'As sheet after sheet fell from ut der his lingers, I snatched them up read them hurriedly, and shot thet down the -copy tube' to the compos ing-room. I read rapidly, as an edite will, taking but small account of th nwatter so long as it ran smoothli while I had too mu.h confidence i him to question the accuracy of hi statements. I only realized that h was writing a great story-th greatest he had ever don& Hc seemed inspirea with the very in nermost thoughts of the murderer and under his touch every trivial in cident came out with distinctneii and c herencv that made the caus( and method of crime perfectly plain -First he described the scene wit! accuracy of detail that would hav been impossible for one who had no studied it closely. The select'on o the spot he explained by the fac that the brght electric light, stream ing through the windows of th( power-house, made it impossible fo the passer-by to see into theshadows Thus while impenetrable darknes screened the assassin, ampia ligh guided his blow, and, moreover, th rattle anQ roor of the machinery nea by drowned all sound of the struggli or the falling body. "The blot: on the head, he demon strated, must have been from a sand bag, while the wound through tn heart could only have been made b; one of those long, fine bladed stilet tos of Italian make. Furthermore the fact that this peculiar weapol was driven home with a firm hand after the victim had been stun'ned b a blow on the head, indicated pre meditated and deliberate murder while the theory of robbery was dis proved by the fact that the man' valuables had been untouched. Th only tenable theory, therefore, wa that the motive of the murder wa revengre. "A more masterly analysis of a cas I never read. but here he .branchei off into what I at first supposed t be purely imaginary speculations a to the wrong which had led the mur derer to seek the lite of the unknowi man. These seemed purposely vagu at first, but gatheied in strength an( certainty. until I concluded that b must have some good foundation i them. Starting with hypotheses, hi s)on began to state them as facts Ile described how the dead man, once trusted friend, had entered th home of another: how, by su btle wile and deceit, he had stoleu the love o wife: then followed an elopement an' the breaking up of that once happ home. '1Ji told with the btterness c ru ih how the si oundrel had deserte' tihe weak and erring woman and lef her to perish alone; low the idea a revenge had tilled the mind of th wronged huchand; how, himself un seen, lie had followed every move muent of the intended victim fo ruonths and care.u ly plotted his de struction; b)ow be had decoyed th doomed man to the city and to thi very si ot where the murder was corn utted: and how he had destroyec the only clews-a couple of letters ii the pockets of the dead man-ani tinally miade his own escape, the se cret safe in his own heart alone. - As 1 read this remrarkab~e tal through, the convict on forced it ur on1 mei thfat this was the absolut truth. Ir the writer himself. ha, comimitted the deed, he could no have dlescribed it more graphically Suddenly the thought flashed ove meC-dould he describe such a crim ihurs without having, in fact, comn nitted it? 'We were alone in the room. glanced at Jones apprehensively. H was writinrg rapidly-flercely. H-i eves were lixed, but he seemed to b loiokinig, through and beyond th papler across which his pen flew, a somrethinig fascinating - terribl< Wen he tinished, it was with start, as if waking from a trace glanced at the last page, whcre wa i na! coui Irmation oft my fears. -Moy GodI, Jones, is this true?' mainaged to, say. -Every word of It, as I live,' h repeated, l:rmly, if faintly. -"-Then you have written the wai rant for your own arrest,' I said. "Ilis head dropped on his desk,bu he saidi not a word. --Jones,' saidl I, finally, shakin him hv the shoulder to arouse him t an undlerstan-ling of my meaning 'ennough to hang .you is a'ready i type: in our hour the papers wil' b (n thue streets: in another bour th police w.ll be after .ou: Go-m~ak the miost of your start'" "It wai :as I predicted," said th city edlitor, aster a pause. "Be3&or dayligrht. a detective called on n:.e t usc -rtainu ih -source of that story. slrplh o ited to .Jones' name on th asignment look, and they wer after him." "IDid they catch him?" asked th can, reporter. eagerly. "They found him in his room, wit a stiletto throughi his heart," sal the city editor.-Willata A. Ho conib, ini the san Francisco Arez naut Ol.1 ane is youth manified. OUR SUNDAY SERMONS t A FCW SU3JECTS FOR ALL TO PONDER OV:~. vergymen Are Too Lenient -S5tistici of the Ieformett ciaurch-The FUTrure*4 Of the Gospel of the Nazi:ene-wO:ien Outituiber the .Men in chi.r:-. IIn 1:s Twvinitiat. (OLTA IN.F' w as 1 : ilt when lie tae clared Christiariiiy FI to be in its twi-i -ight. It i-m 1he twilight of the imorniing We an 2not, help but thimk when we see the r tre:pendcus gaL ner ns, especiaily 3 I - i and in the sum:l ' er m10n t S, hswheni they muight tie ex. . pected to enjoy the.ir vacation in other war1s, that the future of the Gospel of the Na zarine is assured for another genera. tion at least. The fact that ours ii an age of religious awakening cannot be gairisaid. And it is an intel eetua c awakening also. Agnostic*sm does not sway the only sceptre. Atheisni is not only power, if indeed it be a, power at all. Else what mean all these great summer mee'ings aid schools, and why these great coinbi nations of Christian workers and thinkers? There are the clas es at Mount Hermon and Northfeld; th+erg is the World's Student Congress, and, Chautaugua with its famous sessions and, crowning all, Cleveland was lit. I erally [esieged with nearly 100.0u0 young Christians, comprising the dele gates to the International Christian Endeavor Convention, and thein fr.ends. Surely these great gather. ings stand for one of the s:gns of thu ~imes, Selfr-Retterunents. "One motive for riak.n-, alfts to Christ is obligation, another is grati, t tude, and still anot ier is self better. ment. All who lo -ally give them selves to Christ exerimentally re ali,e that 'it is moi: blessed to give than to receive.' Consecratinsg to s fHis -ervice bdy, s ,ul, and spirit; I b.ing no longer conformed to this s we lid, but transformed by the renew- I ing of our minds, we daily prove e what is that good and acceptable arid perfect will of God.' Loyalty-to Him I necessitates utter ni.-l of self, and I persistent cross-i earing, but it is re warded even here by 'manifold more, and in the world to come everlasting. Loyalty to Him necessitates the steadfast practice of Ills precepts. H s law is treasared in the heart, and His will is wrought out faith fully. but -the law of the Lord is c periect. convert:ng the soul: the stat. utes of the Lord are right, relo cing I t e heart. More to be desired arei they than gold, yea, than much fine s gold; arid in keeping of them there is great reward.' He who habitually' gives himself and his services to: Chr st is steadfastly develop~ng in godliness: and 'goalineCss is profitale unto all things, havmng p umise of the iire that now is and or that which is to co.ine.' "--Rev. H~erry T. Scholl. About Two t one. It is generally known that woment a e in the majority in nearly all churches-at any rate in dlenominia tions. Many reasons have been given for this. Some say it is on ace unt_ 'o her sentimentalibm, the gentier sex having a larger bump of this characteristic than man. Hecr devo tional nature, therefore, ia more easily played upon, and she becomes acti'e in the church. Other~s believe t that it is not from any innate cause l~ at all. Not so many me~n are church mxeimbe-s, or even attendants. simplyr becatuse affairs of the world ciaim t their a tention and absor b their in terest. flowever this may he. t-he women outnumber the men about two to one. The Congregationalikts I find (aiud doub~tless the same thing is true with regard to the other dle- I nominations that the relatike piro portion of the sexes in their chuircenI Is in this ratio: Post on, 1 man to 2. 11 women: Clevelaind, I nian to 2. 20 swomen: ( hicago, I man tos I. s wo men: Denver, I man to 1.97 women: San Francisco. 1 man 1.71 women. 1 and in all the obler cities it appeas that the number of women in the Schurches is greater in proportion 1than1 in the newer States and cities. . The Gooli Fhat Remuain-. L ow many are there who are vaiu ingr thlemselvyes byv what they ha ve, e and not by what they a:e? What they may have be talent, or money. -or position: it matters not what. but it is not their very selves. T. ue wo th tcannhot be separated from a mian's real :.elf. Money, position, even in. 4 lelcect, may go. but the sterling. i. O t:.. the moral, worth w~ll remaoin. A lultan~ of Mo.rocco is said to have dis 1 overed that one of his viziers was be. 1 e coininig too powerful. He thereto e 3 j.ummoned him to tea. and comupl! e iented him on his great wealth. The1 vi ler becoming vain, boasted of the I e number of his houses, wives, and e slaves, and the sultan rebuked him1 i saying that he was to, rich. Tc I show the man exactly what he wass e worth. his Majesty had him taken by1 t the soldiers to t'he slave market, where he was put up for sale and re e ceived only a bid ot eightnence. All< his property was also taken from him. h The pr ce wh~ch we put upon our- 1 '4 selves and which our fellow men put Supon us aim two very ditlerent things. 1 A Steady Increase4 The Reformned Chuarch of Ameyin, sometimes thought of as an out-of ate aannination., reports these tig ires, wnlen snow a steady licreas in strength and numbers: It ha A2 chur; hes, s -attered over feurtee tat,1s of th I-nion. withl' a e'a4 - Arcot, India. There are 014 i'n 4ters, and sermons are preached ii our languages. The net incea tir the ycar is as I ows: .\ in -har. hes, 14 Sunday-schools. i i mn 6ier-, 647 families. :'.U t comiuoni n ts, 4.r0 i abha th-school . cholars t nliticnS ,in confe.-sion of fai;h ,07, making 772 more th:in la; t c.ir. Ten churches rer.o t an addi ion on con fes-.ion of faith of 1r-o';.1 o00 ruemibers. and ::S have recei VCI r in 25 to :io. The total number o d1i wember. received is 9.C01. I! , when the " nited States had Opuilation of about :i.0(90,i000, thi a *hurch counted :0,oiiO n.e nbers. Ou l;tion 1(w nuilers twice tha uniannt, or P2, ti",0.0 people. Mean t ,:me the i;eforime Church has like e vise douib-d ilself, now haviur 100, n o con ni uin can t.A. ThC tota t LeIvC a enCs were . 5,%iu4 more than th d )revious year. . f -- - If Cler;zy and Congregation. r '{One thinuz I have against thi lirgy, I oth of the country and in Th own. I think they are not severi nough n(in the.r congregations. The' lo iot su:lcienitly lay upon the s;ul: nd consciences of their hearers the: noral ohigations, anrd pr be thei iearts. and bring up their whole live 9 rid action to the bar o" (ons-lence 'he class of sermons which I think - V re most reded are of the clas: Mhich ofended Lord .\lelbourue lonr Ogi. Lord lelibourie was seen ont iay coining i me from church in Lh, o>untry in a ni;h bty fume. F lnd i n frieind, lie ex lained: 'It is t a )ad: I have always been a support t if the church. an'! I have always up ieid the clergy. But it, is reall- to( >ad to have to listen to asermon lil( t ,hat w'. have had this rmorn.ng. Shy. the preacher actually insistec ip n applying religion to a man's pri ate life.' lint that is the kind o > eaching I like best: the kind o: reaching wh ch men need most, but t is a so the kind 0I which they gi ,he least."-W. E. Gladstone. On the Gam. The report, of the State Execut vt :ommittee-of the New York Sunday. ebool Association shows than on .an. . 1894, there were x,95t Sunday C chools in the State, a gain of 36 ovei ast year: 123,3:; ollit-ers and teach rs, 859,411 children and 2-7,60) ;lults, making a total enromwent ol ,210,42e, or a gain of 15-,6 i in the r ast year; conversions reported werc 5,447, and the contributious atuount d to $L0,93..9 0. r Matters of Fart. THE devil ne. er goes to ieep in hurch. Goo will not go where his huituhlst hild is not welcome. THE good are the only people who iave a God-given right to smile. OuR steps toward I1eaveu uecome borter every time we look back. KEEP a close eye on the man whose vile is afraid to ask him for money. - A GOOD many serm:ans are ainied I 00 high to ever hit anything on arth. THERE are too many fathers who 1 vil tie up the dog at night and let the soy run loose. Trns devil cheats us out of many, ilessings by teaching us to be Ac ls vith our nioney. TIIERE is something wronu if youn lever pray except when you have to : -Ram's Horn. [ PRaOVE that one man has done a ertain thing, and you prove that all thers inay do it. TusE devil has to work extra hard o get his han s on children whc j ave good mothers. TreE- is somithing wrong~ when a hurch member has to go to thc heater for enjoyment. T1ai*'s who Ilive und(er the samie oof with you, know more aliout voui eligion than your pastor does. iT~ is hard to find people in mici ortune who will not stick to it that omebo ly else has been to bhime on it. Preparing Chestnut. i In the Apipenines the~t are three vays of prepiar ng fresh chutnuts a!llotti1. (rh -boiled:) arrosti te, (the -oated, and tegliate, which as yet I ail to apiprecate. -The nut, are irst shelled, then hoiled with aqua n ity of caraway seeds, tO give thienm lavor, the conrse.iuence bing that~ he chestnut c~avor is wanting. Buti I wish to eaLt rei, the del icar' ar excellen e, the gioal which t he ecicolta has even in view, I shall tio >b~iged to remain here well into De :ember. After the nuts are thoro-ughly Iie-and it takes some weeks of >Il L on of wood at the metat, >ito ac :omplish this-they are groun:d at the uil, and the rour supplies the main ond 01 the poor peasantry all win er. Necci are simply flat caikes uade of this flomu-, mi \ed wth water -no salt. it is dear ia italy, the ax being heavy;-anzd baked beitw-eri eated mat stnee, witb chestrnut eaves aext the cakes. te prevent heir sticking to the st ries. These leaves. gathiered by th'u ands fresh :romi the trees in Se. ember, are soiake j before using. It ives the villaze grandarus-of whIch aiher shrunken andl diminutive. ~reature there seems a fair supply~ ere-a rest from spinningz to str na he leaves when gathered and hangj p dry. To my unlightened idea hese lengthy festooins. which for ome days adornea the cottaue door-: vays, appeared sometingL of the na. ure of a Christmas decoration. ;hmbmr' .!orna L - GLASS WORKING. :c:uliarlties of the Manufacture by One Who Knows Uiis Business. A writer in the Optician states hat glass is a suhstance which, as he glassblower says, has a will of its wn. IL is very often dificult to tell Ow a particular piece is going to act onder Lertain conditions, even after a'ing tested other pieces of the ame -batch." When subjected to he heat one of a tube will some imes respond differently froin the ther end. This is in a measure due o unequal chiling, occasioned pos ibly by a sudden draught of air while it is in process of manufacture. ;o piece of glass is absolutely reli ble. Its working is, therefore, at ertain stages, most uncertain, and ie person may have entirely differ n: experiences from another. It is naieleanlike, and every process u;eceds better with those who seem o have a knack which is generally uta.ned by i ng practice. The cutting of glass heads the list f the uncertain processes, for it has o de:-nite cleavage, and its separa ion is moditied by the surrounding etiperature is on flat glass in a tra ght line. Here all that is neces ary is a deep and regular scratch ith a glazier's diamond. a firm and peely bend away from the main :ce, and the parts crack along the esired line. These glazier's dia uonds may be purchased and gener Ily prove satisiactory. but it is more conoinica to purchase fro:n some tiamond cutter a small splinter, and nert this into a piece of brass rod iaving a small hole drilled into one ud. The spiinter should n .w be eoented with marine glue and the ra-ss rod :ileJ a little up.n the side earest th: ru er, to obtain, afte: rial, the best cutting angle for the liamond. Another instrument for utting glass less expensive than the! I a.nondcl is the glass-blower's knife, hich is a thin piece -of steel tem ered glass hard by heating it cherry ed a:id then plunging it into ice muld wa er or mercury. The edge boula be sharpened by rubbing it i on an old, rough emery gtindstone intii line saw-like notches appear. It; s then ready for use and should, if -nuch used, he sharpened repeatedly. To cut tubes, carefully scratch at Ivht angles to the axis a deep notch, ither with the diamond, a triangui ar tile. or a g ass-blower's knife. Heat a piece of glass rod until a small globule appears on the end,and pre-s this upon the scratch. Tho las will thus be heated more at this oint than at any other: an unequal xpansion takes place, the scratch 'iving direction to the line fraci ture, and the tube cracks evely it its th~cgness is uniform. In the case va iable thickness uneven edges result, and these must be filed down to avoid sharp cutting splinters: Many recipes and directions have I eon given for cutting bottles. Wet' ti'nu an asbestos string with turpen tine and setting it on fire produce7 i onsiderable heat in the glass im miediately underneath it. By quickl. removing the string and plunging tht! bottle into cool water the uneqjuai -train takes place and the parti separate. It is this locating of the heat that causes the glass to crack a. we wish it. The easiest method, it the mieans be at hand, is to employ a platinum wire which should be heated white hot by 1,he passage of a heavy electric current. By wrapning the w re round a heavy bottle or jar and allowing the current to pass for ten or fteen seconds t e stoutest walled vesse. may be easily separated if touched on the heated line with a c.oth dipped in water. Tree-Felling Contest. - 'Thcre are probably no more skill iui ax men in the world than thg woodhoppers of the Pacific liorth iet. tom;e of them can saw or :limp a tee so that it will fall in any S~ired direction, and it Is even a il, sr sure are their calculations, that ther' can drive a stake In the rounf I, ~arnd fell a tree so that in 4t. a n the ground it shall bury the sake out of' sight. 'Two or the picked lumbermen of the Northwest are to b e sent over to A ustralia next sumfl o r to com: ete with their fel iw eraftsmen in that part of the world. Thle following letter to the Puget Sund Lumberman, from Latrope, Tamaiai. exnlains the manner of he competition in which they will be entered: "In your issue of Sep tembler, I '93 you mention the I nite I Australasien Axmnen's Asso e ati n, and aimo the' fact that you' have si'-ndid axmien in the Pacific buJ hweSt. Now these latter are just what we want to reach, because. we want to induce the best men aoig them to come and see if they can cown pKe with the Tasmanians5 ad Auisualasians in wood-chopping conte ts. We hold our next annual exhibition at Lliersione, Tfasmania, >U'oi ci' er and ' next for which I en -lose a pirogramn. \'We are 4::erinig literallrizes and if two comp etitors come Iromn the l'ac'lic Northwest--anicomfe proving by reierence from you that they reo esent . cir country in these cou ta~s-we will guarantee them & .2 each for travel:nu extetaes, or I: ce)fr tue two: besides we will give free eutry to all contests. Tue wil h ive to iiueet our chamn. pon o- ulevel turns in the champion -n y i*cts, but if they enter Inl t- ha'd ci ps they would get siarts fi urE.:t mnr. Private mnatche~s cud al-o be atranged." liow~ e N'rumc for a Doctor. Greene Gravcs is the natne of a neUw unctor who has located in Kan sas. With the aid of the watermelon season he ought to be able to keer ur the reputation of thle familh THEY MISSED 4300,000. ow the British Government Let That Sum Slip Thro' Their Fingers. All England is deeply interested in t new wy-tery-whatbecaue f King t 'heebaw's crown jewels and other C -caith when the British occupied the i alace in 3iandalay, Burwah, after L be campaign of 1l85. This question has come up through s he death-bed onfession of a private t i the West Surrey Regiient, whc t eclares that he and a companion, rivate Williamn White, se ured al t r a portion of these treasures and s ii them in a moat in the vicinity. 'his statement has been made public, nd Prvate White has been sent t(; urmah to help recover the L!easure. At the time of the British occupa. on orders were given by the Gov rnment that the annexation of Bir iah should be carried out peacefull.v nd Without bloodshed, and every en- I eavor was miade to obtain King C 'heebaw's submissicn. But he re used to coniply with the ;ritish de. lands, and the troops were marched , romn the ilotil a to the palace walls. I n assault was then made, and the E alace was occupied. Shortly alter i 'heehaw abd.cated, and he and his wo wives were sent otf by steamer As soon as the King had given his ahmission guards were hurriedly I laced in the royal rooms to brotect ie jewels of countless v-orth whnch 1 I ere known to ie there. And great ras the British disappointment when - was discovered that the treasures : ad disappearod. Among these mis- I ing treasures sas a gold calf weigh- i 3g several hundred weight, as we!l E i a portion of the rega ia and quan ities of precious stones. The crown i studded with rubies and diaauonds 1 nd is sura.ounted by a rpeacock. At the time suspicion rested or. I he Burmah Ministers and the maid f honor, and every effort was made o trace the treasure, but wit out vail. Now, after nine year,. the hole subject, omes up on this con ession of a Drivate soldier who was resent at the attack on the palace, nd who declared that he and a <orm anion buried the stolen plunder be eath a sentry-box. Theebaw's kingly wealth was in isputable. tie had accumulated rom his ruhy mines a most valuable llection of stones, and his Insignia rere set with diamonis of the rarest ze. What was known as his etel-box was of pu:e gold, and the aver was ornamented with rows of bies and diainondz, the center ruby lone weighing thirty-nine and one alf carats. There was also in this ollection a golden ewer, made as a ce ptacle for sacred water to be use t t the coronation. It was done in he shape of a crayflsh, of pure gold nd studded with ewels. The crown is also of vold and cov red with pearls and diamonds. These articles, together w th the yal peacock and the .len -a, w 're resent at all royal audiences a.id ere t.herefore familiar to the many gents and officers of the British Gov rument who had leen admitted to heebaw's presence. They were. in act, carried about with him. Th rough all this pictures 1ueness ne can perceive an earnest p1i ie hat Great Britain sonmenow failed to obble that thirty-nine carat rub)i. Care of Small Things. An old Philadelphian tells a story llustrating the manner in which '.he ons of the h'use of 1)rexcl, the wil fown bankers. were bxcaghrlt up. .pon one occaision, returning from he Barbadoes, he brought lack a onsid-erable quantity of gold and sil er tied up in small bargs. as was the ustom, and had them carried to the anking ottice of the D)rexels for ale. The bags were etmptied out on he counter, and the coins carefully 'unted and set aside in separate les, in order to calculate the cor et sum for which the 1.ank check hold he drawn. After tiS was one old Drexel took from insiile his esk one of the feather quill l'ens hen generally used,. and with a sheet if white paper be slowly swvept ott hat portion of the counter up n vhich the coin had been handledl, .nd as carefully shook the pa;:er nto a tin box. The depositor coubld iot see any dust on the paper, oi he smrilingly asked Mr. l~rt. xel hat was gained by ti e sweep gs, and was greatly aistonished Lt the old gentieni:n's kindly r ly: "Why, young man, it bring nc in a clean rofIt of one thousand r iifteen hundred dollars a year." A n 1immense numii er -f eopl Ilc .a' tne left side. and ths n the ml :iimi n( 'auise of the un ide-a :int tast e n the ui uth in t he morn:in '. h oh t generally attri uted to d. pelpsia. [V a meal has been takien n-ithin t;'o ,r three hours of ;:eing to rc'u, to leep on the left side is to give the stomach a task which is ditiicult :nl the extreme to perform. The studlent o anatomy knows that a food .eaves the stomach on the right side. and hece sleepinl on the tll side r-oon after eating invo ves a sort of tnump: ing peration which i- anyitini:s but cnduciveC to son2nd repose. The a tion or the neart is also interiered with considerarbiy. and the lungzs are unuly comipressed. It inProbable that lying on the back is tihe n,04: ratural position, but tew men cnn rest easily so. and henec ir is best t'J cultivate the habit of sleeping on tune right side, . The angriest cur will inLwu at the feet of a begger if he has a bone to throw him. The application of electriel.y toth smelting of iron is being *x; erianent'd with in Swmden_