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TRIl-W EEK LY El j'l~ N. W JNNsBORO S. C.. SEPTEMBER 11, 1894. EST AFLISHED 1849. THE LOW SUN. o level suni. thy broken rays Lie on the wintinig ueadiow way. And by the treatu loni: shwl-- 1i" From willow trees that beelgve the Zpring. o level Sun,thy rays are tippe1 As Wand in'tiy ,toit eiree dip;>1: Flirt gilde.d wving froin grau- to ::a. o level Snn. the-v broken rays Presage another de-ati of days: On meuduw wayshad,-, opricke. by hgbt Move, iuencre and darkeu iuto t. . TH E MISSING KEY. Netzie! Net-tee, I say! Annette Jane Hudson: Where does that torment of my life hide herself every afternooni from two till five o'clock, 1 should like to know? I reckon it's no use hollering for her.. 'Twouldn't be any more con fort than calling on that pesky pianny up-stairs to keep still. I get so tired -of the tump a-tumlp-tump of it, I think I shall go clean daft"' And Mrs. Brown-who kept a tiny bakery on a narrow street in San Framn cisco-after one more fruitless exaznina ion of her surroundings, returned into the house and resumed her labors, to convine customers that the bread and pies which they had seen delivered at her door that ii -rning were made at home by' her own hands. It had never occurred to Mrs. Brown to connect the absence of Nettie with the thumping of the piano. Nettie having been orphaned at an early age, MAirs. Brown had "taken her to raise." The upper floor of the building in which Mrs. Brown lived was occupied by a-dancing-master, whose elasses niet evenings and whose other pupils were taught before noon. The back yard upon which the bakery opered was occupied in conini-4Iby the ash barrel s of a barber sh'p. a furni ure store'ard a drinking saloon: also, there were back stairs ascendinig to the dancing hall. Up these stairs Annette stole one morning, that she might better hear the notes of the violin and uiano. She hovered unropiced for some time just inside the open oor-not envio of the graces nor the attire of the dan cers, but devouring the pianist with her solemn black eyes. And presently rhe burst into the presence'of 'Mrs. Brown and cried out: "Oh, I wan't a piano! I must have a piano!" -The child is mad! I can only pay the rent and. .-eep up the other ex penses. Poor Nettie!" -and Mrs. Brown stroked the small head not un kindly '-Be glad you've got a bed to turn into of nights." "Are we.very poor?" Nettie asked. -Yes," said Mrs. Brown, '-we are very poor. "Then it ain't witked for us to steal?" "Nettie, wh at have I learnt f'ou. all yeur life?" cried Mrs.: Brown, in alarm -Yes, of course. It's as wickd for us to steal as if we was! millionaires." "Are you very sure."' "Indeed I am" ' . "Then I s'pose I shall have to be wicked,".said -Nettie-, i6 velythe shad 6s .deepenjng ih her duskv eves. f\rs. Bioti- looked doiv'n at the seri: ous face before her and la-ughed till-*her fait sides sy~k.-*. - - Thatto " rich,3'' she gasped at last-"going .out vf a bakery to steal bread! Cnild, ve in't going to starve just yet' But Nettie did not joi.n the langhter, and a straight lne of determiinatio~n settled abiour her mouth. . The following momiing shem-ent again to the open door above. Siftly and silently she extracted the key: from it. And after tha't, the neighbors all thought that Professor.IFleet had be gun teaching music as n:ell as danc ing. E ' For several months she taughit her self -laboriously from an old instruction book, which had been left on the piaino among flIes of other music. .\nd then one day the key turned in the lock of Kthe front door, and Nettie was made aware of Professor Fleet's pre~sence by seeing him standing beside her. "'I haven't any piano to home, oe cause we're very poor, so I hadI to prae-> tice on--yours, ' said Npttio. withopt rising from the ston. "Have you ever been. here bfor-?'' "Ire every- day. I've g' t a key' teback door." ' "A!you took the missing key' "Yes." WXho gives you the lessonK'' "'I get them myselt-- out of this.' A.g. she pointed to the bo'ok. "Are yui so very fond of learning, I1 could not live witlbout it:' she said. p .sionately, rin.g:it !ast anail standing. before - him wvith her deep. Iustrods eves fixed on his. His face softened. lie jut out his~ hand and touched her sleeve never.-nt Jy, -as if the wvereca 'creature oif a liner clay than himself. "W~ould you like. mc to get you ai teacher?" She clasped1 her hands in erstacy, saying: '-Oh, could you--would you-bc so good: so kind? ''Be here to-mnorrow at this hour."' "Nettie. 1 have got no money. The mortgage on my stvck is due, and will be foreclosed before the end of this month. The house rent is already due. We'll be turned into the streets in a few days unless-- Nettie, (do you know how o'ld you are?" {'ertainly. I am seventeen'' "Qit awomn. (Md enough to be --You once said 'Twety -live e l b~e young ene igh.' "' - "-Yes. but then I thought to makei~ vou useful to rue.''" 'Yiu den t k nox ''And now. %'rAl y 0u mit d E it useful t marry me off and gvt a h14r1n) for voors If." - - " ' rmark - bile In 1,Neti. nd no .y uar 5o'elever, iniyhe yu kitow whorn I want vu to m.irry. '- h:ve nio p Jwers f divination." "No, I s'pose not;- but Vou've got eyes in your face Rnd sense in youlr lhea'd, ani wihelt a voung 1man11 tcnies six bioeks to buy pies lit' doi't wait him a-b1:irding at a restaurant, do )u V 'pos he coelis to get :t look .at the snirky pictur i:n the windecr, or th pre: ty girl behini ni tiie c uiiterf : J:ke Q 11e-co ask -ed i,e this inorn-in if he f miight have y-I. and I told him I N hadi't got an,. objectioni :nd ;I told 1 himu 1 1 -e y u hadh't. Jake's well- t to-dtI, and if y-u take himi we'll both ) have a good ome." C A frihlitened look was on Nettie's C face.. ' )h, I cii't- I ct:It:' she crivd. "What shaii we d""', Yiu can if Von think you can. What's to hinder,' 'I can't--i can't"- repeated Nettie: "but I will work very hard; I will do anything I can' '-But there's nothing you can do, said 3Mrs. Brown, despondently, "and little I can do now that I an exiip'd up i wii rietiumna tismn .* "We will see,'' said Nettie, listening to the sounds up stairs. where rofes-I sir Fleet was teaching' two of his p pils. When she could no longer hear th piano, she disappeared for awhile through the back doorway. When she returnetd, her face was radiant, and she said: -Checer up' We shall not starve. I have already found work. I am to pty t dances for Professor Fleet while lie tec(thes. II is pianist is goin-g to Europe h next week." 0 "Pianist: Play dances! Is the girl t gone out of her head?" I --Not, quite, I hope, I know some t things that you never dreamed I was a learnin-, and-and when I have, learnetd a great deal more and all of. t suitable age, a am to marry Profe!sr C Fleet. . INDIAN3 ON THE PENSION ROLL. Over 2,ooo of Them in Indian Territory l Drew $31.000 Last Year. .J It is a fact probably unknown to a g ma ority of people that there are v more than :',io0 pensioners of the r civil war in Indian Te ritvry, ex4 d clu'ive of Olahoma. and that the 9 amount- paid theni last year was 1 31',000, the zum contributed to 9 iesideoth o Ok ahoma in the -same c year being $ti2*-,000. At the beginning of the civil war, w says;Abe'Rocky .hioentain News. it ' seems toliave been the opinion of t many persons th4t on account of the o aenerally warlike character of Amer- 'J ican indiar s they were- weil qualile i y to take an active pari in the contest. t in May, PI, the Confede'-ate Con- 1 gre-;s aduted a resolution including g the whole of the present Idian Ter- Y ritory anld Oklahoi;a. too, with tho 6 Confederacy. and, esp cially among, the therokees, there we e many re-i Cruits Irom the Indian tribes to the. :-outhern armyx, but they miairainied s Ian independent organi ation and eut u actually v-ery little ligure in the light. m; The War DecpartmeMt. at the begin- t ning of the war, appe.: :di to) attach t great importafihe to the Indians as a auxiliaries of the union forces, and 'I con-iderable effo'rt was gien to as- 3 e;st in their orgzanzationi. but with t out very mu h su tess. The tota nuniuber of Indians en- f likted on the Northern side betwe'-n r the y'ears I ~ and 1,6O5 was :',5, but a considleranly largrer number v served on the otlier side andi offset I the -e:To. ts of those who were union- 1. ists or, rather, who attached themi- v se. es to the union side, for the is- L sues involved in the war of the re- 11 ellioin wer-e zat no time very clearly r understorod-b the indians, and some~ 1; instan-es are well authenticated int which Indiaii troops fought during t tihe war (in both sidles, alternately. v it seems strange in this day that t capable imilitary leaders, skillied in s the s i'-n-e of wat and famailiir with e the geographical posit.ion of the bir- t der states in which the battle was to d1 -be begun, if no't (lecided, should havea f'allen into the error or' su, posin:l' t that in a-cotuntry capable of furnish- t -ing more thatn.. :r, ot, 000 tohmpei ents. t 'a handful -of semui-savage aborigines. praticaliy re trict!ed to the plains of v the\ West, chtuld'htea formidable fac- a tor in a conflict $o extensive, but the s fact must he; recall that the only t ni itary tradi tions wh ch were pos- n sessed.m tu niiny States and Territor:es s tieyond thie 3Misi-sippi reated to pie- p 'vious contiets wiih Indians. They I were the onily h stile force which t'he ' .local mitia, where there was any, ha d known, and the part which they were poulrl suppoised to have tatken. in the revolutionary war serniedl ~ to qualify tb-nm for active se-rvi'-e in withstanding the nmovements of I Fouth'ern tro 'ps in the Southwest. t Th le p~e en t population of Inrd ian ai t1rerritory.~ since th~e catablishment oif j Oklahoma in 1800u, is less than 1~> ', English Harbors. The har at the~ entrance of the river Mer-sey, and which has bteeni such a; s'ttrt'e ot troub':e to the 'ity of Li'e C there i-- ai rinultini dep2th of nine teen teit over a channel I, t06 feet wide, antd a miinimtum of twenty Ie''t over a w'idltht of '-0 feet, antd the river nuT horities say3 that at -no dis- ~ tant date the charnel at Liverpooil ~ will b~e i-pen to all vessels at all states ofthe tie, it is also stated that yes em: dl liwing twcnty .ie feet six a 'REE FOR TWENT'Y-ON. YEARS. in E-icape I Negro 'onviet 13etrayed and Sent 5ark to 4a01 in Georgia On May IS, IzS3, Monroe Marshall, colored conviet, made a oaring es ape from the Fulton County chai ang, says the Atlantic Constitution. ,ecently, after twenty-one years of ninterrupted freedom, he was cap ured 'aid carried back to the Con ict camp in shackles. Twenty-one. cars ago, when he made his. escape, C was young, strong, and robust trong enough to overpower two uards and gibe the bloodhounds a utile -chase for iany miles. Ie vas carried back old and decrepit .Imost too weak to stand up under he weight of his shackies. in V-4-.3 larshall- was given a seotence in the ounty chain gang, when, on at ount of good conduct, the foreman lade hii a trusty. One mo ning, chiie the rest of the convicts were t breakfast, larshall made a wild re'ak for liberty. Two guards seized im. but he pushed them easily aside rd made for the woods. Several hots were vainly 1i ed at the Ileein ian. Then the dogs were vut on is track and gave him a uood race. 1t, the negro reached the river in oud time to sw.m across and escal.e. 'he chase was given up and the uards returned to camp. 'ears assed, otber convicts came and ent, Marshall was lost sight of and is tscape had passed fram memory. On Saturday a negro visited the nvict caups and volunteered the aformation that he knew the hereabouts ol an escape. lie wa3 uestioned closely con erning the ian whom he said hau escaped. and s to how he lea: ned the fact. ile said bat the man was named Monrce [a shall and lived on Decatur street. ome time ago he had told several I ther negroes how he escaped frto e chain gang twenty-one years ago. is sense of security causcd him to 11 all about hi; flight. The negro iaking the rebrot said that he was ne of the men who heard Marshall's 1 ale. None of the . officers at the amp knew of the escape and were oc inclined to believe the fellow. .ut the books for the year I731 were xamined, and the name of Mlonroe arshall was recorded there as hav. ig escaped and never recaptured. 'he other morning one of gang uards cane into ., tlanta. Aarshall ras pointed out to him and the ar. st was made. At tirst the man enied that he was ever in the chain i ang'and insiste I that he had alway. ved-in 'lton-- Co..unty. -,But the. uard was inexorable, and ,he ex. 1 jnvict acknowiedged that many ears ago he h.d escaped. Then he j ave a 1ull account of his strdggle I rith the guards and his run from he dos. He left Georgia the year f 'is escape, and made his way tc 'exas, where he reaiained for tei ears. coming back to Atlanta after bat tiie. The negro who repoi ted in. he says, did it to ,atisfy an old rudge. Marshall was carried out esterday and once more put iL' ri pes. 3larsh Cup Water Plant. The plant that I fouind in the Hu rd . :> Bay region which is most worthy f notice, grows5 in the mos1 uskegs, in places where there is ilt-1 :e or no grass. It is r mrariable for wo rea-(sons-the beauty of its fiower, ndl its water-conta ng properties. 'lie Indian name or this plant is Iashkiquermuchas. This I transla 3d by the English one of iiarsh ciu: ater plant. It bears a quantity ofr xglove-shaped ilowers standing up. ight on the stem. These Ilowers are either pale green, -y ith a little red, dark green, and ght red, (lark red alone, or tinally rown, according to age. The leaves, 1 h:hch grow iat upon the ground. are rad and green. The beli of the ower seems adapted as a natural se: voir for water, of which Iromi a irge one, there can easily be ob ained as much as aii Egyptian co.:ee up will hild. But the b auty of it 1 as that in the early Autumn, whn he nights were frosty, b.ut the heat till -xcessive by day, the w\ater it ntaned was always iced. For bese ciiarruin-ig flower bells are evi ently oinstructed to resist frost; ndl as. t hey close ini toward the top,1 ey prot'ect from the rays of the surn he lump (if clear ice formued within he calyx at night. The result of this was that aften,1 len toilinrg along at midday. hot, nd weary, through a stagnant wampl. all I had to (10 to slake myu hirst was to piluck a few of these iracuilonu tioweis to obtain so ma;rnyr maiii-lips Till (nf delicious water, ;ch with a little lump of ;cc fIat ig on the top. -Bi8ackwo~od's 3iaga. siubmnarirne wVarrare. It soblriuarine tornedo boat warfare is.-onf cours~e. a mmatr of decisive rup rtanice to know how far the -ub rrged craf t moust keep awvay from he point of explosion in orde:- to void becinig damnaged. A series of ex eriments conducted at the Newport irp-do station have establikhed thie ict that the detonation of a mine of ii) lound< of gua cotton begran to iibly allect the subm~nerged torpedio1 at. at a di stanice of ci.:ht-v feet. anl hiuch not SUilicienit to dleitroyV the1 fe of the ari nials. which had b ee n onlired within for thepuirpsse o t he xperiment. It is possible that lir ms can be made much (loser. arnd hat 1.he torpne-to boat will not col ine until its dlistanice from the mine haill be les than the distanice lie. wveen the nine and the surface of ie water, upon the theory that the ressure of an explosion is chiefly in vrttele line. If this theory should e substantiated the utility of sub. arine warfare would be greater han has renerally been supposed. RAMS HORN BLASTS Wvarning Notes Calling the Wicked to Re pentance. T IS always safe to be right. FOREBO D T NG is always an en. emy of rest, S-. PA ri.never carried a stick in h which to notcb his converts. soCIE'Y I -g what people are when they know they are watched FA Ir in God is the nly sure cure or worry. WVhIAT a little god some very big )eople worship. 1) .UTs are like bats; they can only ive in the dark. MF:> are otten gainers when they one their money. Ir costs less to be contented than t does to be happy. T.o .IANY people would rather ia'e Llory than goodness. N ' MAN is truly brave who hasn't he courage to do right. TI.-: ian who seeks happines nust learn to take short steps. -ON: end of the devil's throne is upported by the liquor bus ness. .No 31AN can give in a way that )leases God without be oming rich. TiHE devil walks beside the man vho goes tW church with a long face. TnE man who does no praying at iome of ten prays too much in church. GOD is not in the religion that is lot using both hands to lift up men. WIIEN a wicked wan makes up his nind to doright be ma certainof God's e~p. "Is THE young man safe?" Not vhile his father is taking crooked teps. FonTU NE never changes men. It >nly tring4 out what is already in hehe. Ii big sermons could save the vorld the devil would .pon be dis ouraged. TiliE inan who is leapt willing to >ractice is sure to find-fhe most iault vith the preacbin. 4 PEoi LE who are always telling heir trouble. are never at a loss for omething to talk ab ut SELF-DENIAL isabourthe last thing oie people undert&e when they tart out to be religiousi Irpatientjy toiling.a hundred and wonty years without naking- i con. ert. Noah pleased God as well as 'eter did by having "about tnree housand" on the day of Pente ost, The Poor German Novel. While the number cf second anQ hini rare novels yearly in reabe. nat deserve to be labe ed Al are as ndoubted y on the wane. The piti ble state or the German book market s partly answerab e for this result ine. it has driven some of the ablest onteruporary novelists, such as Su ermiani, Gerhardt. Hlauptinann, and oss, to turn aside f u their o; igi aandI obvious vocation in order to vrite inditierent dramas. le~ause hese prove to be more remunerative han first-class novels. Vete an tandard authors like Fre tag, Daho, ud~ Spielhagen, who have been be ore the public for three or more d e eLniumU, seem to lab~or under the (elusion that whatever they now vrite must necessarily be worth .iading. and] that a writer who once ats achieved fanm:e has nothing urther to do in orde: to keep it up ~ut to go cn produocing with clock vork regularity a certain number of olumues per annum, whether or not hese hooks are distinguished by any f those gualities w-hich made the eputation of their earlier works. ~lackwood1's Magazine. Arn Oblation to (Jdin. Gable ends have a significance oi heir own. hlorses' heads are com. LIon in Germany (in the points of abies. and are found in hussia, while hamiois' heads oc ur in the Tyrol. i'e completion of a building was igualIi. ed by a sacrillce orig.nally u~rt as the foundation was. \tore of he tinal ceremo .y remains to-lay nan0 the initial one. klorses were eid to be sa red by the Northern aces, and formed. next to man, the ne worthiest sacrifice: and if 9 orse's skull was not putt on the point the gable a horse's head was arved. A t a chieftain's aeath his orse was huried with him, andI ta ay the charger of an o.i cer follows i,. r'ouin to the grave. Poles sur nousnted by lunches of leares and lowers protect the f armhouses of the ~lack forest from lightning, and rep esent the ancient oblation of a ulnch of grain te Odin's horse; and] ~at es often have carvings <'onnected vith this oblation to Odin. Tne heaf of corn that is fastened to the table in Norway and Penm ark, now mI ollering to the birds, was origi ally a feed for Urd in's horse. His Purp~ose. A certain justice of the pice from hic State of Iowa. hav.ng arrived, ~revous to a trial, at a concluston ijon a question of jaw highly satis. actory to himself, refused to enter ain an argum~lent by the op;osing onnsel. ''If your honor pleases,' 'nsel plea 'ed. ''isho Iddlike to cIte few authorities uten the point." lere he was sharply interrupted by he just ice, who staTed: "The court Enows the law, and is thoroughly ad. rised in the premises, and has gives is opinion, and that settles It." "It vas not." continued counsel, "with mn idea of convincing your honor that -ou are wrong, but I should like tc hJOW you what a d--n fool BlaCk tn was -A rrr.nn11t ANAMORPHOSES. ro Produce a Strange Effect with the Aid of a Basin of Water. Opticians sell silvered cylinders which rectify through reflection the listorted fgures known as anamor phoses. The effects of total re:lection may be observed by immersing an inverted vessl in water, and a method of obtaining anamo.phiu Images may thus be secured. Fig. 1 shows the arrangement adopted by Prof. Thomas Estriche of the Institute of Barcelona. A glass vessel very dry in the Interior is in verted in a large bowl with a wide bottom. In order to keep the vessel at the bottom of the bowl, a weight is placed upon it, a bottle. for examp!e, if there Is no other object at hand. We thus obtain an ana. morphic mirror. The glass vessel FcG 1. appears flattened through the effect af refraction. When it is desired to iake use of the glass as a mirror of kinanorphosis, figures are placed at the bottom of the bowl. As these figures are immersed in water, the paper upon which they are drawn must be rendered impermeable. This is easily done with varnish, or the thgures may be painted in oil upon canvas. Fig. 2 gives the outline that serves for making the anamorphic drawing. FiG 2. If one does not desire to immerse the drawings or paintings in water, he can substitute a large flat-bottomed glass vessel for the bowl. The draw ings may be placed under this vessel. They are dry upon the table upon wich one operates, and they are oh erved by tran.sparency through the glass. IT COUNTS THE WORDS. A New and Very Useful Attachment fol the Typ writer. A Western genius has patented an attachment for typewriting machines which automatically counts the num ber of words printed. There are hree disks In series, as common to registering and counting machines -~ TRLE REGISTER INOPERA'lION. - t he disk at the right indicating units, the next t~ns and the next hundreds,. so that the three are adapted to' count up to 999, and the series inay be extended, if desired, to count an.) register any required hIgher number. The disks are all moved from the units shaft. to which a rotary mnotion~ Is imparted by the movement of a slide worked up and d'wn by an ad justable connection with the space key of the machine. The counting mechanIsm may readily be thr. wn out of gear when desired, and there is also an arrangement by which the ong is struck at every hundred words. This c->unter can be made at small expense andl, in addition to its rther uses, is designed to be panrticu larly valuaible on typewriti ma chines oi-erated to print words com, ing on a telegraph receiver, where the oiperator writes out the words from s'und and cannot so easily keep toe count.1 Bloodl Thicker than Water. Once upon a time, while guest orn board a big Engish battleship, some adicers of the wardroom sought to tease me in regard to relative merit of American and English sailors in certain naval engagements of which I had a sadly hazy idea. I was slowly gathering steam for a patriot explosion, when one of my British sailor friends turned the tables in my favor by this jerk~y little speezh: "That mn y be true, but I was at the bombardment of Alexandria, and we were in a bad fix, and all the war ships of other countries drew off and left us to fry in our own fat, and then the Americans came and helped us. They landed their men: they iept order in Alexandria; they acted contrary to orders, but then they said that -blood is thicker than water.'" At this the whole wardroom burst into a cheer, and nothing more was her4 nf Chrsennonk and Shannon' yarns. 'hen another weather-beater marine barnacle told his little story. "I shall never !ay another hart word against Yankees." he said in z voice like a mumb (1 fog-horn. "Whenl the hurricane struck uamoa our slip just manage I to steam out of the harbor and escape total wreck. As we steamed anxiouly and very :(owlv thro;gh the howling wind and b~ind ing sea we could make out the A mer Icans in the rigging of the Trerton and they were all in the presence (t death. But they didn't think of that. They gave us three cheers. and it made the hearts of our men jump up and ihoke them wh,-n they heard those cheers, and it made ru' feel at last that 'blood is ticke] than water.' "-Harper's Weekl. EAReY CIRCULATING LIBRARIES, The 'opular Institution an Been iz Existence for fluadreds of Years. From t me limaienorial, says A the Year Lound, Lookselier's sho z nave been the favorite resort of all toucht-d with the love of letters, and in the days gone by, when the art of adve.tising was practically unknown, it was only by riequenting the shoin where sold that possilble purchaseri were able to learn what was going oil in the publishing world, to know what new looks were in c.,urse of puAlication and to hear and exchanue the latest literary gossip These early bock lovers one may be quite sure, would be certain to while away many a leisu e oiou, by "sampling" the waree on their hosts' counters, and would read, or at least dip into, many volumes besides those they actually purchased ior more leisurely con sumption at home. And hence rnght rise. very naturally, the custo;m f formally lending out books to reat for a monetary consideration. Thus, it the end of Kirkman's "Thracian Wonder," published in 16W!, the bookseller makes the following an, nouncement: "If any gentleman please to repair to my house aforesaid they may be lurnished with all man ner of English or French histories. romances or poetry, which are to bg sold or read for reasonable considera. ion." It is not quite 'lear lroru the ast few words whether i-1e booli might be taken away to be read, or whether the reading was to be done in the bookseller's shop. But that books might be taken home is evi. ent from the remark of a character in Nevile's "Poor Scholar," printed in 1662. "Step to a bookseller's," hae says, "and give him this angel, which L'. end you, for the use or the many-languaged bibles lately pub lish't for a week. Their price ii twelve pound. When you have got them to your study, invite your father to your chamber, show him your li rary, and tell him you are twelve pounds out of purse for those large volumes." This was an igenious ay of getting around the "relieving >iticer," but it is doubt ful, after all. whether the lending system was put into practice to any great extent. Colleges for the Rich. It is useless to dispute the fact that the present tendency is i_ make Yal, i rich man's college. We are aware Lhat men can and (10 go through Yale or a very small sunm, says tW' New York l'ost. Eight tuembers of the ~lass just graduating have lived -on 520 a year, thirty-four more have at exceeded S300, and fo ty-eizbt thers have got along on between 300 and .100. YBut this is not a question of 1 osi bilites: it is a uuestion of tendencies. The very anno::ncem lit that the iverage expenses of the four yearN' :ourse have been 84,578 w~ll of itself nake Yale seem -'onit of the 'tues. ion" in hundreds of families where studious hoys are now prelparing i:.r :ollege. Then, too, there is .he nat iral resentment of a derocracy against classifying men according to their money, which seems ruost >dious of all in the case of an educa tional institution. The boy is not to be severely con lemned who decidles against going t' i college where povert~y makes himu :onsicuous and he fanc~ies injures b~is standing among his fellows. If any ofonr <clleges corue to be di inctively rich ruen's colleges th:-y will cease to draw the element wh c:h n the ieast hasi dlone most to mrak their li-t or alumni honorable an 1 s.lisiignishe'l. We have spoken only of Yale in h-s article. s moply herause the faris (nak'e that institution just now- ' on picious in this respect and biecau re its sue, ess in the athletU tield of late ears Lavye inade it so pr miinI nt throughouzt the country. I-ut h tendencies which we have in ruiad ire by no means con liced to Y ae. There: are other of (our lar-le- c.ale,:es where the sama evil chali":ges at te nti on. Hlow Poetage stamps are Made. Every part of post-agc stamp mak reg is done hy hand. The deigmn are engraved on steel-20.' st amps on i single plate. These plales arec iiked by two men,. and thea are printed by a gi. 1 and a man on a arge han I press. They are o r1 as fast as printed, and then punardi wit a starch paste miade frm inl"a: toes. Ti - paste 1- dr ed b y i-n the sheet in a St eam rani::::: hine. and then the stamprs are b ected to a pressu.ec of -.'000 tons in a ydraulic Iress Next the sheets arc :ut so that each 'ne contains !PU itamps. after which the paer et. ween the stamps is perforat-d. and, ifter being pressed, the .sheets a:e ,aken away. If a single starnp is in ured the entire sheet is deCstroyed. THE devil will not care who dnes the preaching, so long as his lans are ad pted for raising the mroiey to rn thaeh abrch A News in Brief. - -The Quaeu of England never signs (I death warrant. Tlhe tail of a comet'is far moretraus parent than the earth's :atmosphere. -A lion in a jungle will jump twen ty five or thirty feet from a stand point. -The average tourist trip around the world comprises about 22,000 miles of travel. -Organized charity was unknown in the Roman Empire till after the Ulristian era. -A sturgeon weighing 3?,0 pounds hi-s been c Lght in Narragansett Bay, 31assuebuNetts. -The last map of the moon shows the existence of 132,856 projections that look like mountains. -A humming bird is said to have been stung to de ath by a bee. at Co lumbia, Wis., recently. -Another striding insect has been lise vere-d. This time it is an: aquatic bug (ligara minutissima). -Astronnmers search all over the world for spider webs. They are used for cross line-s for telescopes. -The best straw in the world is grown in China and Japau, and is amde into braid in England and Bol glum. -The charitable hospitals of France ampl y a stuiff of 2,348 doctors, 8,854 airses, and 9,51 attendants and ser rants. -It is proposed by the Argentine government to make an extended sur -ev of the mineral resources of that zountry. -G eat Britain imposed taxes on the windows in dwelling houses until as :ate as 1S1. The tax is still in force in France. -At the end of each hair of a cat's whis'or is a bulb of nervous substance whien co:;verts the hair into extremely .elicate feelers. -An English capitalist has placed an >rder with a well known American bo seman for a $100,000 worth of trot. ting-bred horses. -The African race in Africais subject to a disease which is the reverse of in somina. I-s victims are in danger of slee.ing to death. -The yew tree attains the extraor. dinary age of 2800 years, the oak lives for 130' vears, the cedar 800 years and the elm 335 years. -An old boiler, which the ownr. 2laims belongs to the first boat pro. peled by steam in the world, is a relic at Frederick, Md. -Sr. Louis, Mo., has twenty-two railways and is one of the foremost cotton centres, the receipts exceeding 600,000 bales a year. A Loudon bicyclist completed, the last of May. a bicycle ride from London to Constantiuople, which hebe gan early last March. -A new washing machine is run ovei the flor like a lawn mower, and does the soaping, scrubbing and drying in ue or two operations. -A rat's teeth have a very hard an terior edge, while the hinder part .i. much softer, and wearing away more rapidly, leave a sharp cutting edge. al ways or use. -A single plant of wheat will ofteD produce 2,000 seeds in one season; s eun-flower will yield 4,000 a poppy 32.0W(0 a tobacco plant 360,000, a spleenD wort 1,0A0,000. -The export from Sweden to the United States in 1893 is calculated tc hatve had a 'alue of $3,100,000. The prinipal part of this export; or more thian $2,20J,000, consisted of iror go. ds. - A (row with white wings and white ev< s was captuIed in Pleasantdale, N. V., itis a very intelligent bird and hts stolen four silver spoons, a thim. ble and a paper of sewing machine needleQQ. - A ke.-per on the Woodhurst Park estate, Kent, recently shot a fine f mate specimen of the white-tailee ea&,l' the first of the kind ever knowr to hmve been captured in the south ot Erigland. -Pr. W. S. Lumpkin ofAt lants, Ga., sut( l tha:t city for $10,000 damages, alleging that the injurious fumes froni anu open sewer had ruined his health. T11.e jury found in his favor to the amiount of $400. -Professor Dewar has demonstrated tha' metals augment their magnetic gum..ies and increase in strength by diminution of temperature. Iron a: Is.) degrees can endure double its nor. um to n: ile strain. -The13 B:uh Museum has a boolb pnbli- hed by an anoymous author in j7e. It h is the cdd title: "Did You Ever See such Stuff; or, So Much the Bet tr, Being a btory Without Head ol Tail, Wit or Humor." - The most formidable check to the increase ii n' r~ical regions of serpents anid venomous insects is the abundance of t be ants. which, attacking in thou sands, n jiu kill and devour animals of. ten of cozisiderable size. .--Cagead lion s and tigers. pumas ant enars take: no notice of the men anti wmen paswing in front of them, but .et a do; Ie brou~h t anywhere near be eage and they show their savage tu.rle att oace, anod spring up, glarim at waagely. - The "ruining antelope" is the saime of n Drazilian iiower which has on its petals a number of dark lhnes and dots whica re'semble the form of an antelare, with- limbs outstretened and head thrown back, as if fleeing foz ire. -it is reporte-l that a vein ofsyloian ite ore, fromn two to four inches thick, bas been truck in one of the ,mines at Cripie Creck, Col., which will rah So5,(l0 to the ton. Sylvanite. is -a tive tellurium with a large prop~ortion t ~ULd antd silver.