The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, September 13, 1894, Image 4
ANTIQUE GLASS.
ericeless Bits That HAve Survived AU
Other Art Form.
In The Century, Russell Sturgis
describes the fauous 'Coleman Col
lection of Antique Glass," a collec
tion made by an American artist in
:rome, and one of the richest of its
kind in the world. Mr. Sturgis says'
The wo.1I or the Mediterranear.
Sea, eighteen centuries ago, was rich
in works of art and decoration leyond
our flights of imagination It is an
effort which few of us can make with
sur cess to picture the wealth in
beautiful art of . great city of the
empire. The marbles have been
burned to lime, the bron:es have been
melted into gros sous or their e ;uiva
tent, the stuc-oes have crumbles from
the walls. the paintings have gone
:own with their walls to ruin. the
shattered pottery has been used in
tilling the grading an-1 building, and
its reuaining fragments are of n)
value except for an inscription or an
impressed name-mere potsherds,
with now and then a scrap of anti
quarian interest The shattered
Zlass alone contains in its very sub
stance such beauty, and such com
pleteness even in ruin, that its frag
wents are treasured up and studied.
These broken bits point tv a general
use of vessels of decorative glass,
used as we use porcelain for the tiner
vessels of table and toilet. and also a
areat abundance of ob.ects of pure
ornament, of wall-linings and iloor
coverings, Dvade of the same splendid
material. No other substance is like
that-beautiful in itself. in its every
essence. Fragments of glass have
often the value that fragments of
pottery sometimes have-the partial
ligure, the incomplete patte n on
the surface; and they have also what
no pottery and no other artificial
substance has-the beauty we gen
ally think of as peculiar to natural
stones. to agates. and to jaspers. As
a collector tills his cabinet with pieces
of precious and semi-precious stones,
with here and there a piece which
has, as it happens, a head or a piece
of a head carved upon it, so the en
thusiastic vitreologist collects glass
as glass, loving its substance and its
surface, its color, and its texture, its
translucency and its opa ity, its set
patterns and its vague e udings;
here and there a stamped or a wheel
ground pattern adds its own attract
Iveness, but the glass itselt is the
thing: Precious and beautifuI is
zlass. even in fragments.
An Official Purgatory.
Two young students, Messrs. Aller
and Sachtleben, who made a bicycle
tour around the world, describes
their journey Irom Samarkand to
Kuldja in The Century. Of one city
:n their route they s iy:
Tashkend nas long been known as
a refuge for damaged re, utations and
shattered fortunes, or '-the ortcial
pu gatory following upon the Em
peror's displeasure.'' One of the
finest houses of the city is occupied
by the Grand Duke Nicholai Constan
tinovich Romanoff, son of the late
General Admiral of the Russian
navy, aind first cousin to the Czar,
who seems to be cheerfully resigned
to his life in exile. Most or his time
is occupied with the busines; of his
silk-factory on the outsk-irts of Tash
kend, and at his fa:m near Hlodjent,
which a certain firm in Chicago, at
the tirme of our sojourn, was sokn
with irrigating machinery. All of
his bills are pa:dl with caecks drawn
on his St Petersburg trustees. His
private life is rather unconventio a
and even d mocratic. Visitors t
his household are parti ularly im
pressed with the beauty of his wi fej
and the size of the liquor glasses.
Tne e.ample of the Grand Duke ii
lustrates the sentiment in favor of
industrial pursuits whrch is growing
among the military classe-, and e ven
among the nobilitt of Russia. The
G;overnment itslif, thanks to the se
vere lesson of the Crimi an war, h: s
learned that a great nation mnust
stand upon a foundation of some
-. t ilng more than aristocracy and no
bility. To this influence is largely
due the present growit g prospa ity
of Tashkend, which, in milira y im
pcrtance, is rapidly giving away to
&skabad, "the key to Herat."
Fhin-Loving Parrot Blown Up.
In Lexington avenue, just beyond
One Hiunared land Twenty-fourth
street, blasting for a cable road Is
going on at frequent interval s. When
a blast is about to be set off the
warning cry of -kHi: there: Hi:
there." Is heard. Then all rush for
places of safety- For several days
the alarm has sounded at frequent
intervals, and scared the men when
no blasts were to be exploded. The
torerman was unable to discover the
ala mist. Opposite the place or
blasting is the Hotel Peteler. To
amuse his children Mr. Peteler lately
obtained a loquacious parrot. Early
the other morning Polly was missed
from the cage. Search for the
sceeching bird was fruitless for a
lung time. Then Polly was seen
limping across the avenue. The
biter had been bitten. The many
colored bird had gone out to yell 'lli'
theret" arid enjoy the scam; erinig.
wnen a blast was set o:t wh ich tad
ly mixed Polly up with the dlebr is.
No bones were broken. and Polly
Peteler will soon be as weil as usual.
if not wise -.-New York T:mes.
Care of the D~eciduous Teeth.
The child receives its first temp
rarv tooth about the tif th mornt h af ter
dr'th. the dentition beong complete1
at the age of two years. These teeth
should be cleaned with a so.t i rushr
and warm water. The child usua~i
retains these teeth until the eruption
af the vertuanent set, the first per
manent tooth appearing about the
.ixth year. The deciduous teet;
should he carefully watcei. anid
when a tooth showvs decay consult
your dentist. and have it tilled. A t
this stage the tilling Is not expeni v',
and will save the child much pa n.
and trouble fromi an achuing toq h
The early extraction o:f the decidutu
teeth often causes the irregurniite
gf the lermanent set. They sh'uM
oe retained until the jaw has fury
expanded to receive the peruaunent
.eeth. Teach the child the ne essit'.
)f keeping the teeth iean and pu e.
rhe early use of the tooth b:usih wlii
tstablish a habit that will. in afte:r
,ears, be cornsidered a n~ e -ssity to
sealth and personal cleauliness -
N'ew York Herald.
SINGING OF YOU,
Blossoms and blossoms and blossoma! an6
bit-ds singine of 'em so sweet !
Fressing the down of their bo;oms 'gainst the
flowers that fall at your feet'
Clinging and swingin- and flinging thi
souls to thp heavens so blue
0, sweet to my sroul is their siring,
because they are singing of you!
Singing of von
In the dawn an.1 the dew
sit-ing of heaven and singing of you
Blossoms and blossoms andi blossoms! and
just sparkling with beautiful pearLs,
Twining thenselves for your tresses, and fail
ing anti ki'o.ng your curls!
And all the birds swinging and flinging then
souls to God's heavens of blue,
And my soul dreaming soft in their singing
because they are singing of you!
Singing of you
In the dawn and the dew
Singing of heaven and singing ot you
.-Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution
BLACKMAN'S GULLY,
BY H. M. HOE
T was a cold Januar,
night when Janei
Blake. on his wa3
to Mary Grahant
h ome, c am e
- through the dense
woods crowning the
top of Blackman't
hill. The night wat
long rememberec
in the neighbor.
hood. A heavy snow .iad fallen the
previous day, succeeded by a rain whic1
a sudden north wind had frozen to i
slippery crust. The moon, one night
on the wane, was a half hour above t'n<
eastern mountain, silvering the long
stretch of snow, a-Ld turning the ice oz
the trees into diamonds. Blake stoppet
a moment on the summit of the hill.
to admire the spectral beauty of the
night, and to cast an awed glance dowr
to the hideous gully into which the
steep and jagged side of the hill fell.
The place was upon the farm of young
Rodney Blackman, and ever since the
accident death or murder of the eldei
Blackman there many years before, ii
had been regarded with aversion and
horror by the country folk.
It may be that Blake stopped, too:
more firmly to set his courage for hii
errand. He was a prosperous young
mechanic in Templeton, the village
whose lights twinkled in the valley t<
his left, and was going to learn Mari
Graham's final answer to his declara,
tions of love. Beset by the eustoinar3
obstacles, the principal being elusive
ness or coquetry on Mary's part, h(
had wooed her for two years. He wai
now determined to have the questioz
settled that night.
Mary's Lather was a well-to-do far
mer. Mary herself was a vigoroui
country girl, who might well have be'er
an ideal of rural beauty, and who sci
upon herself an estimate by no incani
too low. She was not backward it
making known the standard by which
the successful wooer must measure.
Whether James Blake so measured wvas
a much discussed question in the lo
cality. It was admitted that he was
an ideal of muscular and honest man
hood, and if his means did not quite
equal Mary's prophesied dowry, he
had a capital of vigor and determina
tion well worth taking. into consider
ation.
Another of the obstacles had beer:
set up by Farmer Graham. He declared
that, having no son of his own, the
man who won Mary must come and
live on the farm and learn to car-e for
it after he was gone. To many this
would have been-and, indeed, was
more of an inducement than an obsta
stcle, but Blake was interested and
successful in his business enterprises,
and lie btoutly asserted that the woman
he married must leave all for him. It
was to adjust this dit~erence, as well at
to get a final answer from Mary, that
he knocked that bitter January night
at the front door of the Graham farm
house, and was bidden "Come in !"
Mary sat knitting by the wood fire in
the capacious chimey place, and seldom
have hearth flames brightened a pret
tier domestic picture. James put hit
hat on the table, pulled a chair ovez
near her, and, after a few prelimina
ries, began to state the purpose of his
call.
"Mary. do you know how long I've
been coming to see you now?"
"It must be," she replied, pautsing
mischievously, as if she did not know
the exact time to the day, "a year,
anyhow, isn't it ?"
"It was two years ago yesterday."
"Is it, indeed?" she said, in captions
astonishmn-t. "I wouldn't have
thought it."
"Mary," he said, in mild censure,
"I'm ser ious to-night, and I'd like you
to be, too. I think yon remember ast
ell as I do that it's two years since tht'
first night 1 brought you home f'r:
the protracted meeting in Temnpletont.
I have told you often that I love yout
and want you for my wife, but you
have heen pleasedl to turn away th'i
subject, antd I see you are disposed to
hd mue oft' to-ni'rht. I want to tell
you that I carne to get yes or no."
lie paused, and as looked un in realI
wner at the dlecizsive tone malrking'
the last statemnt.
"Yes. I'm in dead earnet.t to-night,"
he continued. ''What is your answersf
There was no sound save the click
ing of her knitting-needles but the
gave har head tan independent toss,
a~nd purbing her lip-s in l ike spirit, she
replied
" And suppose I don't choose to give
aout aar answer to-night ?"
mean 'no' to met. You have had time
to ind out if vou cain lov& ma~ as
hbnand if yo u cannot t.l m1 t
no 1'U think you do'n't want rue', and,
I'll n.'ver as t you ain."
"V-ry we,"' .hie sai l willin Hy, 'ym
r.eed't. Ii~ not :so anxious to do
er.Ijlttou to reatn 1 * - a d
ed here- . Ther are lenty of youn z
non who'd be -ad enIough to con e
;trs' 1i1 oyt that ca1 s t.,'ti -1\11.i
m--e to' I ne' il' trin'" to. comvel4 you
bis afte-'noon, and told mae het s "ll
g to come any'% timei."
"feginuld tro'n," ho eclsimet
Bostapnstly.r~~.*v~~l ~ t
"Mat ifTGraham would never marr
Blake as Ion, a. ther, was a ebance o.
capturing Prown, and the former well
knew of such opinion. Brown had
been West for a mber of years, and
thre bad been whispers of wild, if not
criminal, doings the-re, eimi, in view ok
his financial worth i:iess, t hey re'mained(
wb ispt.rs and tinaly l died awiay.
"Take care wihat vol say1' aoI'ut him."
:id the girl, a note o'f alirm e-capima.
her. "le was here to-day. as I said,
and he is very' bitter against yon. He
did not threaten you openly, but he
said many things to show that he hates
you and that he mans to be even with
von for tht snuh vou gave him at the
ineeting last week."
"Just like the cownrdl," Blake said
angrily, "to come with his threats to
a woman. Why doesn't he cone to
me and make them?"
"Reginald Brown is a man not to be
defied," Mary said, putting down her
knitting to conceal the trembling of
her hands, "and you L -I best not be
so outspoken. If he should hear you,
you might regret it."
"Pshaw," he cried impatiently, "I'm
not afraid of him. If you want him
Mary, just say so; don't try to scare
me away.
Sh 'ooked doubtfully at him a mo
ment: then anger flashed over her
face, and she said:
"I'm not trying to scare you away.
Mr. Brown has probably the 51am1e
right to consideration a., von. lHe
pvas here to-day. as I have said, just as
You came to-night, to get a tinal an
wer from me."
"And what answer did you givo
im?" he asked impulsivelv.
'Havo you a right to ask that? But
will tell Vou anyhow. I gave him
he same answer I will give you. I
will take my own time to answer. I
won't give it to anyone until I an
Ieady. I have no answer to give you
o-night. That is your answer."
: The young man rose slowly, took his
liat from the table and walked toward
the door. Deep despondency was up
Sn his face as he turned there, and
.aid:
'Mary, I see it all now. You love
Brown. You love him when he comes
to you, trying to win you by threats
Df a rival. That isn't manly."
"Haven't you done just as much?
You have called him names to-night."
"He deserves them. I don't fear
his threats and I'm going to leave you
to him. I'll take the liberty, though,
of saying that you'll never be happy
with hiTm. I repeat that he is a cow
ard. Glood-bye."
Ee turned again, and, with sudden
impulse she nioved one hasty step
toward him, but determination came
back to her face, and she restrained
her impulse and let him go out. H
hastened down the walk to the road,
and turned aside into the path leading
past Blackman's Gully.
Mary walked back to the chair and
resumed her knitting, but soon let it
fall to the floor. She was restless;
looking into the fire a moment, then
rising and walking to and fro. Once
she put on her shawl and a red hood
and stepped to the door, but there she
stopped, took them of,; and with a
forced laugh said: "Nonsense, it wasi
only imagination, or the frost on the
pane." and sat down again by the fire.
"Of course it was only the frost,
sho repeated. '-I anm like a child.
But I didn't do wrong. If h- is soin
dependent about not wanting to comn
here to live, I can be independent,
too. And then the way he demanded
lay answer. I just won't stand it, and
'll--"
She was interrupted by the distant
-unch of the frozen snow under run
hing steps. They came rapiidly near
&'r, and when they tarned into thiA
yard, she leaped up and stood ready to
receive the corner. Her father hur
ried in, his face pale and startled.
"Mary, get a bed ready at once,"
he said. "There have been terribla
'oings this night."
"'What ?" she asked forbodingly.
"You will know soon. A mnan hs
been thrown over into Blackman's
Gully. . As I was coming home I saw
him lying part way down the steep
side, where he had lodged against a i
tree. It's mighty lucky it's moon
light, or he'd have frozen to death, is
he's not already. I roused the neighi
bors and they're bringing him here.
Be quick and prepare the bed.";
"Father," she asked, tremulously.
catching his hands, "tell mae right
out. It's James; I know it's James.
tsn't it ?"
"Yes, it's JTames."
The willfulness with which she had
riven him away died now like a spark
n the herrth, and gave place to an;
anxiety wh ich would have rendered herl
helpless to get ready for his coming
ad not her father sternly bade her
The unconscious man was brought in
nd placed in the bed. While a~
physician, who had accompanied the
2arriers, was examining his injuries,.
iarv followed the men down stairs.:
hewas thoroughly active and earnest
now, and calling their attention in the
sitting-room, she said:
"Men, Reginald Brown has dont
his. I know it. He was here thi4
iftenoon and he threatened Mr.,
Blake. Mr. Blake was here to-night,
ad when I told him of Brown's threats
- called him a coward. At the mo-'
ient he called him a coward I saw a.
ace in the window there. I told my
lf at the time it was only the shana
tue irost, on the paue, baut now L
know it was Brown looking in. He
heard Mr. Blake call him a coward, and
be has pushed him into the gully for
that and other reasons. Go and do
our duty."
'The accusation was as a draft of air
pon their smouldering hatred of
Brwn. The whispers of the life he
al led in the We-st sounded again in
their ears as loud corroborating voices.
here was not a muan in the crowd to
wh'om'i James Blake hand not shown his
r ess anid genero sity. Of course
't- scoundrel Brown had committed
tiii'bded. Hie hadl thouaht to c'over
he act under the probability that a
ma could' easily slip into the gully on
sh an ier nicht. One of the men, a
ur, re-olute' fellow, who had ofte'n
hi:ouncled Brown, c'onstituted himself
lader and marche'd the crowd ofT to
brw's residence.
Ntwithstnding his protatations of
inocene, he was rudcly taken from
he house, hurried before a Justice,
ad logoud in jail to await the resull
Blke's mjuries. These were a
'roken leg and rih, ar.d an internal
'e-rions. In additlon, he had -be
almost frozen. Had he not pros
identially lodged against a tree, h
would have been dashed to pieces 0
Cho rocks in the gully, or. escape
these, would ,urely h-ve perished i
the awful cold of the night. The Io1
rowness of thev escape Sent a shudao
through all the community, and as til
facts of the cese were freely and clostl
discussel, opinion a.. to Browns gui
becamenaf fixed, and indignation increase
a.s the horrors of a lonely death i
Blackman's Gully were graphically (It
tailed.
Meanwhile, with remorseful solic
tude, Mary (?rahan watched ov(
;lames through the long hours of u
consciousess. He was near death
but at last one day, when she and he
father sat by the hearth, talking i
alternate hope and despair, the docic
came down from the sickroom and tol
them that the young man would live
that h! had just come out of a quit
sleep ; and that, in view of the seriom
ness of the charge against Brown,
question as to his guilt would not han
the sufferer.
Mary and her father ascended to tb
siekroom, and James feebly welcome
them.
"Jarnes,-'' said the farmer, "do il<
excite yourself at the quebtion I ai
going to ask. You know, I supposf
that von were found down in Blacl
pcan's Gully. A man is in jail accuse
jaf pushing yon down, and a word froi
YoU will deeidu his guilt. Did Reg
nald Brown push you into the gully?
"Brown push me into the gully?
Blake repeated, weakly, but in gret
surprise. "Why, wi:.n made yo
think thai ? Of co-urse I,. did not.
Was careless, and I slipped on the it
and fell dowh myself."
Farmer Grahan hastened away, an
ames, reaching out his tremblin
hand. asked:
"Mary, I know I mustn't talk, br
how about my answer? Areyouread
vet?"
"Oh, James, how eruel I was t
you," was all she could say; but I
knew from it what the joyful answE
was-an answer which he was only to
glad to meet by relinquishing his r<
solution not to come and live on tb
farm. -Yankee Blade.
Cast-Iron Pillars.
"Have you ever noticed," said a S1
Louisan, "those massive iron pillal
pow standing erect in the basement <
he new Planters' House? Well, di
you ever stop to think of the immen
weight they will be compelled to sul
port steadily for many, many yeart
h, you have? But I suppose yo
ave thought the manufacturers jui
snade those pillars and sold them wit]
out knowing anything about how muc
-eight they would bear or how lon
hey would bear it. Let me tell yo
,about that.
"Those pillars a-e cast in the sam
manner as cast-irou .noves-byv runnin
the liquid metal into sand molds; b'i
plongsde of each pillar is east an ire
bar from the same metal. The bar
precisely an inch square and fh~
and one-half feet in length. Whe
cold it is subjected to a very simp]
test. Each end of the bar is place
upon a table and weights are suspende
from the centre by a rope. It mus
bear a tensile weight of 500 pounds t
the square inch. The test may begi
with 400 pounds and be gradually ii
creased until the har is 'found to b
perfectly supporting the require
weight. If it breaks, for instance,
480 or 490 p~ounds, then the pillar cas
from the pot of metal which east thm
bar is discarded, broken up and pu
into the pot again, with more pig ire
added. The pillars, you know, ar
largely made from scrap iron, and thm
manufacturers cannot know th
strength of the cast until it is tested
The addition of pig iron, in the ever
of failure, brings the cast up to thm
standard.
"Six or ci; t of the pillars designe
for the new Planters' House had to h
recast in this way. "-St. Louis Repul:
Growth of a Snake's Rattle.
-The growth of the rattle of the ral
tesnake has been studied by Docto
Feokistow, who finds that tne rattlei
freqently shed; and, after bein;
shed (his snakes were kept in a ver;
warm room), in three or four month
two rattles were present, their appearn
ance having nothing to do with th
asting of th3 skin. The snakes wer
made to register the vibrations of th
rattle on smoked paper, and it Wal
found that the vibration was a comn
pound one, consisting of the vibratio:
f the tail as a whole, and of the rattl.
independently of the tail vibrations
l'he approximate figures~ of vibration
vere for the tail seventy-five, of th,
rattle 110) a minute.-New York Inde
?endent.'M
Rather a Knowing Cat.
T. W. Moses of Megquier 111l1, ha
an unusually intelligent cat, callei
Isaae, who is very fond of fresh flsh
Recently while the cat was lying o:
the floor a member of the l'amily sal
to it: "Isaac. do you want us to g
a-tshing?" and then added, "if w
had a frog for bait we would go." 0]
this old isaac got up with a knowini
look and trotted out. only to retur1
in a few moments with a good-s/el
frog, which he had caught in a swal
near by.-Portland Pressa
Etching.
When etching is done by the aid o
electricity a wire is soldered to th
pate to be etched, hy means of ffbic)
an electric current is passed througl
the etching solution, which is mad
much more diliute than in the cast a
ordinary etching. Th:s action i
much Increased in intensity, and, i
many cases, acids, which under ordi
nary circumstances are insert, can r1
ued, as. for instance, copper ani
weak sulphuric acid.
SOME men would never mnarry i
they could not marry a grass widow
A LEADMSG QUEs'TtON.
Teacher-"For what is Switzerlan'
Pupil (after a pause)-"Swetzer
kase."
"Yes, but for something much mor
grand, awe inspiring and majestio. TrI
a.an."
(Making another etiort-"Limburg
e. "-Chicago Tribuan,
SUPPOSE WE SMILE.
HUMEROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM
THE COMIC PAPERS.
(rleasant IncIents Occurring the World
N Over-Sayings That Are Cheerful to the
i Old or Youn-, -Funny selvets..ts Tih:ti
Everybody Will Enjoy Readig
Der itivaL.
Mrs. Pearlyloved-Boo hoo hoo: I
arm so miserable' I shall get a di.
vorce. Mrs. Bynthayer-Why, n.y
dear. what's the matter? Mrs.
Pearlvioved iwith a fresh outburst)
- I got hold of Charlie's ex ense
book last night and since Easter he
has spent -]10 on some "Kittie" be's
Leen spending his evenings with.
ludge.
- suspic-Ion.
HIic-ks-Dd you hear about tho
tow a Howbig's house: * s. I. dis
covered a letter in his pocket in a
lady's handwriting. Wicks--The
deuce she did! Do you know, I al.
ways suspected Ilowbig. Hicks -
I was a letter that Mrs. Hlowbig I
wrote ten (lays before and gave him
to mail.--Boston Transcript.
Eminently -f1itted.
Mr. Peighweakly-1 should think.
Mrs. -limdie:, that you would be
bore successful if you turned your
board ngnouse into a hotel for in
valids. Mrs. Slimdiet,-Wpat kind
>f invalids ought I to take in? Mr.
L1 Peighweakly-Well, you might run
au anti-tat sanitarium, for iustance.
Hohon's Choice.
Father (who is on the Point of fail.
fng -But, young man, will.vou be
able to take care of my daughter in
t the way she has been living. Young
l Man--1'll guarantee i-, sir, or return,
the girl. Father-Er-wel 1-never
c wind the guarantee, you can have the
e riri, anyway.-Exchauge.
Would Not Do So Again.
Mrs. Goode-Aren't you the tramp
who was here this morning? Odorous
ebliver--Yessuri. 'Well. I m issed a
Lake I had left in the window." "I
took it. mnum." "Didn't you know
better than that?" "-No, mum, not
then. I hadn't cat it then, mum."
- -New York World.
Ile was Mistaken.'
-Will you kindly pass me the bi t
ter?" said a Luest at the hotel to a
pompous looking man on the other
side. ".I'm a gentleman," he retorited,
a, he beckoned to the waiter.
"That's what I thought when I asked
you," said t-.e tirst man, quietly.
Lxchange.
r Overheard in the Henhouse.
Speckled Dominicker-I learned
e emeu~thing awfut about Mliss Plymouth
SIoeg~ to-day. Mrs. Leghorn Whyte
1 --l'or gracious sake. what was it?
ii -he prides herself on her family
connections you know, and she hasn't
any. s-he was hat hed in an ineu
vrWhen They Are Out Late.
Returned Traveler--What vou
dmight call the societygirl among the
t native savages wear rings in their
C :oses as well as in their ears. Wag
eigh-That's nothing. Some of tho
society girls here have rings arouind
-heir eyes. _____
t o Money 1'here.
t First Burglar-Hark: I hear some
e man talkung. Secondl Burglar
t What's he saying? 'That he will
never bet on another horse race as
long as he lives." '' et's get out of
this. No money here; he's lost every
e ent.'--Exchanze.
An Awful C'rlme.
A IKentucky paper which stated
that the courts had decised the ques.
tion in regard to separate coaches for,
colored people 'on purely cooii-tatua
tional grounds." tries to lay the'
blame on the compositor.-lndiana
iolis Journal.
Ele vated.
"Papa," prattled the golden-ha- red
boy, "is it true that 1 was born in a
seventh-story tfljty" "Yes. my child,'
answered the father and then after t
Smoment's thought he added: '-You
came high but we had to have you."
I-Truth. ____
Haird L~uck.
R Tusty 'Raggles-Wat's the matter,
SWeepin'? Weeping Watson-'ve
just had de orfullest nighttnare. I
- dreamed I found a barrel of leer wid
the bunig all out andI ksobst couldn'r
find no straw.-New York World.
lietter.
First Politician-I can say this,
that our party- conducted the cam.
paign in an honest, fair, and straight
forward way. What more can yor
say of your partyy Second Pl'oticiar
--We won. -Boston Transcrilt.
Like a Cat.
"I wish you were a cat," said Bar
low, ruefully, as Mrs. Barlow stepped
on his fcot in the dance. "Why soy"
queried madlam. "The cat always
'ands an her own fe-et," said Barlow
- -Harper's Bazar.
Under the Weathuer
Hiks-Your milk was p~rtty tad
la..t night. Mrs. Hic ks-1 expected
that thunder shower to atiect it some.
iicks-Thundely Our can was hir
'y a cloud burst- t
I'I he New Young Man- Th n there
Is no hope foy me's'fThere is no hope
for you in the wvay you mean- But
-but-I will be a brother to you.
Ne Yr World.
Of the smart Set
Teac'her-Her drea w.: l';inI
Can you express thaI zhh-a in mioe
poliIe langua-re? i.ittl .\ i -s .one ul
the 410 -11er gown was giiast y. -
Exchange.
A lady had just just 1uot h-:r l'f.
and. A izentleman. living~ r~ext
io on calling to see her. ul
her, to his gre-at surpri-e. ;Ivarn on
the harp, and said: "D ear mie: I
expetedl to tind von in deep distres:"~
A h:" the laciy pathet iraHi tepid:.
"ou should have seen ine yesterday
f ternoon. "--LAriegui n.
Tihe neweSt Se:1'ice issCi -mo ,
NEW TROLLEY R.-V.LEF.,
L Vevicn Which Arnid- mhiennnn
ience and DObav.
It is n half-hourly occurrence with
!veir electric trobe~y ear that the
:!(llV wheel leave. the wiro. usually
it a curve or crossing. stalling the
,:r and not infrequeritly causing a
tretty 1:0 ppro-ach to profanity on
he Iairt of the condutor, whose
iuty it i; to bring everything back to
hip shape. It is somewhat to be
wondered nt iheefore, that iniven
Live progiress has not yet g fiven birth
to any thoroughly satisfactory (levice
for naintaining uninterrupted con
mii,,rlca!ion between a trolley w're
ind a car. Putting projecting prongs
VZ
GERNIAN TROLLEY WflHEL SUBSTITUTE
)n ea-h side of the trolley wheel, to
match the wire as the wheel tends to
lip off. has been tried at Chicago
with fairly good results, but, after
all, this expedient represents only a
partial solution of the problem. On
Dne German road. built at the city of
Barmen, the conventional trolley
wheel has been entirely abandoned,
its place being taken by an oblong
metal frame, the upper sidE of which
be.irs against the under portion of
the conducting wire. The frame is
supported by something analogous to
a trolley pole, - and the theory of
action apparently is that the width
of the frame will rermitconsiderable
lateral movement without breaking
coatact.
OF INTEREST TO OLD SOLDIERS.
Monument to thn Andrews Raiders at
Chattanonga.
This mionum 'nt is Ohio's tribute to
the Andrews raiders, and is placed
in the national cemetery at Chatta
nooga, Tenn., to commemorate the
bravery of twenty-two Union sol
diers, who stole the locomotive "Gen
\,)NUMFENT TO THE RAIDER.
eral" from the Confederates at Big
Shanty, Ga., in April, ix62. It was
their intention to seize a locomotive
and train of cars and then dash back
in the direction of Chattanooga, cut
ting the telegraph wires and burning
the bridges behind them as they ad
vanced until they reached their own
lines. The twenty-two men were
captured and placed in jail at Chat
tanooga. Their leader, James J.
Andrews, was tried and executed as
a spy. Twelve of the number were
transferre-i to the prison at Knox
ville, and seven ( f them were ar
raigned before a court martial,
charged with being spies. All the
prisoners were rim ved to A tlanta,
Ga. On June 18, 1$62, their prison
do'r was opened and the death sen
tece of the seven who were tried at
Knoxville was read to them. They
were at once tied and carried out to
execution. The remaining fourteen
ma !e thier escape fro:n prison in Oc
tober, 16;2. Six ivached the Union
li es. six were recaptured, and of the
remaining two nothing is known.
Many of the visitors to the World's
Fair- will remember seeing the old lo
comotive -Gendtat" in the Trans
niortationi Building.
Asparagus.
Asparagus, deservedly a favorite
vegetable, was extensively cultivated
ly the ancient Romans, but was not
introduced into England before ]O660.
In some parts of Europe the seeds
are used as a substitute for coffee.
and a -pir ituous liquor is made from
the ripe terries. Asparagus is both
ihic and diueretic. and its root5
~e re once extensively u~ed in medi
cne. The young tender sprouts or
stems, from six to ten inches long,
are the edible parts, and those that
are entirely green are the most ten
der and delicate. The white aspara
gs is. as a rule, very tough, the tips
alone being eatable. In some old
recipe books directions are given for
hiing asparaguis one hour, hut this
is a great mistake. Twenty or thirty
mrinutes is long ehoug'a to took it
Girls in a Cage.
Girls are said to be tr~cated in a
curious way in the P'acific island of
New Britain. From two or three
years old until they become of age
they are kept in cages. made of palm
lea' ea. They are taken rut once ev
ery day to be wa-hed, but in all oth
er respects this kind of impr-isonmuent
is very strict. In sp-ite om this s -em
iagly harsh usage, ho.wevcer. t hey grow
ip hardy and healthy. But It may
be~ doubilted itf this cust om is reali y
general ly observed by the islander s.
Uiqueiti Recor-l.
Recv. Dr. Scarrow. of tlus5ell, lKan.,
wit h:n one we-k re cent ly had sur
vie for :i man whots' hr.iy wm' to
al * consuimed by fir.- for a inan who
diel in i he penitint arv, for a ir
derud ruin. andi iluay o ver t e bodl
i- o: three murderers lynchEG by a
"That's r well-deveinned id usi ry,"
sdenly; r.:marked the man who tnr s
to e smart. -'-To what do' you re
cr:- iuguired the rewarv ac-qua:ntr
ance. --To the t ralie in ptoe
Aad that is how he1 came to losa his
last f;ieud.-Washinteu Star.
U. Ne'm---."What is the neGws"
E. Ge;"at a very wiL, thanks."
COWS AND HIRED MEl.
Pointa Won Worth the Attention of E
ery Dairy Man.
Every discerning farmer, who has
kept cows, knows in a general way
that there is a great difference in the
amount of milk they will get from
the same cow. As between two hired
men in milking ten or twelve cows
of e.-ual flow, one man will be worth
double what the other is in his in
fluence over his cows. Until Dr.
I'ancock made a special experiment
on this matter but little was really
accurately known as to the extent of
this personai influence in affecting
the protits of cows. How much %e
have learned on old, old questions
the past ten years! The Doctor made
a careful test, which was published
in the Dairyman some years ago, but
which should be mentioned frequent
ly, on account of its importance to
the dairy farmer. It is Important
that the size and scope of the mat
ter become a living, vital principle
with him. guiding him in his own
treatment of his cows and in the ed
ucation of the men be employs. 4
hired man who Is well educated in
the handling of cows, who has a quick
brain, a kind heart., a patient man
ner, and a skillful hand is worth
double the amount that a man of
opposite character will cost.
Dr. L.bcock found that one milkei
obtained from four cows 2. 2 pounds
of uatter fat in seven days. From
the same cows the week following,
another milker obtained 21.8 pounds.
Here was a difference of nearly four;
pounds and one hal; of butter fat
depending for its value, of course, on
the price of butter. Neither ot
these milkers was abusive, and both
milked the cows equally dry. By this
convincing experiment any dairyman
can see how important it is to tike
especial pains to educate the hired
man, as well as himself, to an under
standing of what he has at risk.
The usual number of cows wihked by
one person in a large dairy Is from
eight to fifteen. In Dr. Babcock's
experiment if butter was twenty-five
cents a pound one man was worth at
least twenty-eight cents a cow a week
more than the other. When a man
is milking, say ten cows, this would
amount to $2.80 a weed, or nearly
$12 a month. This is but one of the
hundreds of fine points that throng
the. pathway of dairy farming. It
shows so clearly that this unthink
ing. unreading, unskillful way of
handling cows that so many farmers
practice can not pay in the nature of
things.-Hoard's Dairyman.
No Advantage.
A clerical looking gentleman of
the "Private Secretary" pattern was
among the arrivals at the St. Cloud
yesterday. While be was registering,
Frank Lincoln, the globe-trotting
humorist, watched him curiously.
At the proper moment he stepped
up to the hotel register and read the
newly signed name, "G. Rupert Coxe,
England." Turning to him, Lincoln
extended his hand, and said:-"Row
do you do, Mr. Coxe. Let me wel
come you to America."
"R~eally, you must pardon me," re
plied the Englishman, very timidly
and evidiently doubting his new ac
quaintance, "but I really-"
"Oh, don't you remember me? We
met at Luxor, up the Nile, and after
ward traveled up the Mandalay to
gether."
"Ahi, yes; ah yes," drawled the En
glishman. "You were giving enter
tainments, imitating Amcerican'de .
tails, and such things. I am really.
glad to meet youi."
"That was a horrible ride up the
Mandalay,." remarked Lincoln.
"Very beastly," was the reply.
"Just think, twenty-four hours to
go 31t miles. WVell, you'll see the
difference in this country," said Lin
con, throwing out his Ameiian
chest. "Our trains sometimes travei
that many miles in an hour."
"Ah, yes, 1 know," answered the
Enlishmian quickly, "but unf'ortu
nat ely you generally arrive la pieces.'
-New York Telegram.
Rarest Stamps for Collectors.
At the philatetic section in the,
rounda in Vienna, a 'Swedish col
lector exhibited a very rare stamp-a
"the" (instead of tre) skillings, yel
low, of 1853-which misprint w'as at
once purchased by the Field Inter
natonal Postage Stamp Museum fer
the sum of 2.400 florins, ($1,100 Uni
ted States currency) - the highest
price ever paid thus far for an ob
literated European stamp. The rarest
and most costly postage stamp any
where is, up to the present day,
te British Guiana one-cent of 185t,
which is valued at 30,000 marks, and
of which only a single specimen is
known to exist in the unique collec
tion of M. Philip Ferrari, Paris.
Net in value (15,000 marig) is thE
twocent Sandwich Islands stamp,
tist emission-and a British Guiana I
two-cent stamp. of 1850, estimated
at ;,000o marks; while Maurit~js Post
0:lice 16. and 2d. (non-obliberated)
recently sold in London for 14,000
marks-a price which might be ob
taine.d eve'n for obliterated specimens.
--American Register, Paris.
He Explained.
In Washington County. Miss.,
which Is 1.iable to annual inundation
from the father of waters, dwells old
lsse D--. (On one o,.casiorn he wai
witness in a case, and prefaced his
answer to every question withi the
irrelevant remark: "Wa'al, I war
desprately overtlowed that year."
Annoyed by the constanit petition of
this remark, the examuinhng counsel
finally 5aidi, ; a raiher sneering
tone: "Mr. D)-, will you p'ease
stat" to the court and jury what yoc
man by be'ing 'desp'rately over
lwe?"Straigthen~ ng himself up
to hik full hei:ht-six feet three
a-i with a drawl of corresponding
lnth, he :e; lied: "Wa'al, sir. I
nwan thar war to mneh water for
wa .onirn ':-nr not enoug~h for boatin,"
The counsei gave it uo.
Iow Ithe Suttn* ot Turkey Din's.
The Sultani of Turkey dines in sole nn
etat in a riin .,velxiouin the B~os
piarus. I Ie sits un a divata and uses
nete.r tabhe. paies. knife or fork, het
onv a spoon aini his~ ingers, withl which
imrlleeots he :ie& out is foo i from
a series of littc ie aupans. Ie generally
has a large retirnne in attendance, but he
awys ears and d:inks alone, not even a
Lew of his favorite wives breaking bread