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anb I etit b TRI-WEEKLY EDbITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., MARCH 5, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1849. AwEIS THAT CAN NEVEIC COME IN. Oh, wondrously fair are the Islands of Rest- u Those islands we never have seen- I But we know they are smiling out there in west, Their valleys all glowing In green. No cloud ever crosses this tro ical sky, And there is no sorrow nor ,in. And snug in their harbors all peacefully lie Our ships that never come in. y There dwell the fair faces our fancy may see, e With eyes of the tenderest blue, n That come in our slumbers to you and to me, In dreams that can never cc-me true. y We joyfully greet them, ncr wish they were W here 'Mid all the danger and din; They are blissfully guarding -he hopes we hold Y dear u Our ships that never come ti. A SECRET DISCLOSED. The incidents we are about to relate n are true in every particular. For a d period of three years thaere was grea t d, consternation in Vienna, caused by the number and boldness cf the highway , robberies which were committed upon fiS travelers in the very saburbs of the city. The intelligence which guided a these attacks was not less remarkable ri than their audacity was surprising. In i nearly every instance the victim select- b ed furnished a rich booty to the band- d. its and there seemed almost a supernat- h ural agency aiding the efforts of the w outlaws, enabling them to strike where p rich rewards were certan, resistance h unlikely, escape easy, and detection a impossible The police of Vienna, the shrewdest and best in Europe, with. the possible p exceptiion of that of Paris, had made a extraordinary efforts to check the out- S lawry and arrest the perpetrators, but, the attempt was as often baffied, and' the robberies went on. It was in the fall of the year when |13 Sir William Harlow, an Englishman of great wealth, was passing along the highway in his carriage about thiee miles from the city, accompanied by cl his wife and daughter, the latter a beautiful young lady, seventeen years s, of age. h Suddenly a couple of masked men ,( appeared in the road before them, their horses were seized, and their valuables demanded. Sir William drew a pistol, I and pointing it at the insolent robber, t pulled the trigger. At the same in-|t< st-nt his daugbter, alarmed at the de- I b mand, had drawn her purse, and ; reached out her arm to deliver it. The Is aim was sure, and the robber fell heav- ti ily to the earth; but the young lady d tittered a scream of agony which drew her father's attention even from the gravity of the situation without. He fmund that his ball had passed through the small white aim, indicting a severe wound, from which the blood was flow-: ing in great profusion. Thoroughly , alarmed, he gave no heed to his assail ants, bestowing all his attentions upon the now insensible girl. The report of the pistol brought three h or four masked men to the spot, ac- e companied by a tall. well built man, a1 who'appeared to act as their leader, s but whose movements were character ized by such ease and grace as to excite wonder how a common robber could a acquire such high born accomplish- I ments. lie arrived on the scene just -in time to prevent one of his men from summarily avenging the death of his comrade, and at his command every. thought of plunder was dismissed, and d every aid extended to the wounided ladyvt and her stricken parents. The injuredt limb was bound up, the horses reat tached to the carriage, and in a few moments they were ready to proceed f to the city where they could procure a surgeon. Sir William Harlow was so grateful It for these attentions that when ready to start he drew a valuable ring from his finger and presented it to the bandit!a Shief with thanks. a The robbery was reported to the au- t thorities, the usual investigation was -made, nnd the usual failure followed. Miss Harlow's injuries were not se-'~ vere, and in a few weeks the family re siuned their tour, and finally returned to'England. Three years later Miss Harlow was S married, and soon after went to reside in Vienna, her husband being attached ot to the English embassy to the Austrian 0b court.| In the society of the imperial city 'n she, now Mrs. Archibald Ingsley, soon formed the acquaintance of tr Count Barcni, a native of Hungary, tl but long a resident at the Austriana capital. He was reputed a person d of great wealth, many accomplish- rc ments, and high social position. He soon became a regular and frequent visitor at the house of Mr. and MIrs. Ingsley, and the lady became the ob-: iect of his most gallant attentions. The rather loose morality prevalent in the high circles of Austrian society tole- ti rated an intimacy which ended in a a mad declaration of love by the infatu- ti ate count. To what extent his feelings'p were reciprocated there are no means of i knowing. While tolerating, even en- al couraging his friendship, she steadily ce resisted his ardent advances, thus con stantly inflaming his passion and keep- , ing hope alive. He became blindly, ie madly enamored of her, and pressed l(10 his suit with frantic desperation. Every it other passion or impulse seemed to for- b sake him, or was kept in perfect sub ordination; and he seemed to exist only in her presence, and live only in the hope of finally winning per heart ti and hand. tl One day in the delirium of his pas- ti a sion, he threw himself at her feet and p: begged her to fly with him to some b haven where no obstacle to their union w would be known or suspected, and in ce that quiet retreat live in the full enjoy- a: ment and happiness which he declared ti must crown an affection so ardent as e:: theirs. wV Finding her resolution unshaken, w * and crazed by her obduracy, he rose to ol his feet. tore open his vest, wrenched from the slendr gold rch ain to which va was attacnited a heatvy ring, wit rich diamionild setting, itd holding it p before her eyes, nuw ned wid ith wonder andi fright. he -rid: "'See here! Why do y':1 now treat le with s.ucl co: :m11d scorn? Yor iree years I have been your lover, our slave; your image has been the rer present object of my worship, and oW I lay fortune liberty, life even, at :ur feet! Do you know this ring? It as presented to me by your father ars ago, for some service I rendered ou and him in a moment of deadly aril, when I saved you, unconscious ad bleeding as you were, from robbery ad death! Believe me that the love bich turned aside the avenginz dagger iree years ago will still protect you om every evil. If your father deemed e worthy of this gift why should his ighter refuse to extend her confi ance?" Thus did the infatuated man ravb, bile he thrust the jewel into the white .cc of the frightened woman. A cry of horror broke from her lips she recognized the ring, and the ter ble memories of the fearful adventure the suburbs of Vienna three years fore came back in all their painfulI stinctness and detail. With those iteful memories was broken the spell hich had once led her to listen to the ofessions of her admirer. In her eyes - was no longer the polished. courtier 2d gallant companion, but the'masked ;sassin, the common footpad and vul ir thief who prow!ed stealthily for rey as the wolf hunts che harmless d defenseless members of the flock. ae could not conceal her aversion and hen the count attempted to proceed ith his supplication she turned away r head with a loathing that was uin distakable, and waving him away be )ght nim to leave her, and enter her resence no more. '1he supplicant was not slow to per ive his failure, and a gieam of reason -etrating the thick mist in which his inses had been enveloped, the idea of is danger came upon him with such a rce that he stood appalled as if he )nfronted it. As the consequences of his rashnesb >se before him the seltsh passion iumphed over all others, and turning the lady, his face livid with rage and iled passion, eyes flashing with the rrible deadly brilliancy of the rattle ake's when about to strike, he hissed rough his clenched teeth, as he with ew: 'Woman, if you lisp a word of this I ill kill you, if I hunt you to the end of Le earth? My death alone will not se you, for I have a hundred fol wers who will know all within an ur, and if harm comes to me you id yours cannot hide from their ven ance." His concluding words were wasted, r before he had finished Mrs. Ingsley id fallen back upon the sofa, appar tiv lifeless; and when, a short time ter, an attendant entered her room, te was still lying unconscious. The whole house was alarmed, and essengers sent to call a physician and >prise the lady's husband. Both ar ved at about the same time, and met ,her bedside. To their anxious in iiries ais to the cause of her sudden ness she long refused to answer, re ying to their urgent entreaty that she ire not. Of course this only heigh ned their determination, and after a dious struggle the secret was exturted om her. The matter wa iiimmediateiy laid bo re the authorities, but the chief of hlce shook his head increduously. e knew the count well, and declared at it was impossible for him to cam it such an offense. But the accusation was pc~Tve, and last it was arranged that a squad ol licers should proceed quietly to make .e arrest and search the premises, so the suspiciou should pro -e ground s the affair would produce no un easant scandal. About midnight half a dozen men lietly entered the count's palace, and aced him under arrest. A careful arch of the premises followed, and a st quantity of plate, jewelry, and her valuables were found, which bad en taken from waylaid travelers or undered from neighboring estates, id much of it was identified. The prisoner was soon brought to ial, when the facts developed showed at he had been long connected with band of highwaymen, and it was un r his direction that most of the bold .bberes committed during the few eceding years had been planned and :ecuted. He was a secret police agent .the pay of the government, and, merefore, able to warn his companions impending danger, or turn suspicion id pursuit away from the guilty par s. It was his knowledgze and guid ice that had enabled them to select meir victims with such pecuniary oit, and his influence with the au-' orities had paralyzed and thwarted efforts made for their detection and pture. He was convicted, executed, and his alth, amounting to over $2,C00,000, utiscated. With his death his fol wers, who had escaped the gallows or e prisonm, dispersed, and the famous nd of outlaws ceased to exist. Women Don't Eat Enough. Mrs. Frances Power Cobbe maintains at at present women are by no means .e Intelectual equals of men; that it .e franchise were confined to people ssing a certaiu standard, there would at present 50M per cent. of men whc ould obtain votes and only 80 pem nt. of wvomen. At present womer tve not a fair chance, if only because ey are not as well ied or as well edu ted as men. She says that men ould lose half their superiority if they ere to be fed as badly as women, few whom have sufticient braIn-sustain. . nourishing food-November Ee. 7(.'JGH, BUT DIDN'T L-AST LOm Statern Way of Suppressing u Ba/ Man from the East. "It is interesting to observe," said a .an from Colorado, "how small the tough man from the East is apt to sing .n the Far West after he has had an ex perience or two in running up against. the men of that region. He finds out that an altercation is likely to bring ilm up facing the muzzle of a pistol in the Lands of a man much more ready :o pull the trigger off-hand than to vaste time in preliminary talk. He ;oon learns the lesson of circumspeC :on, and, if he survives the process, his behavior is usually modified to fit his aew surroundings. "A tragic illustration of the resulth :hat may come from a tenderfoot's at tempt to masquerade as a bad man west of the Mississippi River came un der my observation in the winter of 1881-'82 in New Mexico. I boarded the ;outhward-bound Atchison train at Las Vegas and soon found that one of the passengers was terrorizing the others. [le had been drinking, and he paraded the cars, talking loudly and profanely, trying to pick quarrels with passengers tnd frequently flourishing a revolver. rhe train hands did not seem inclined :o interfere with him, and among the people aboard whom he directly insult ad he did not happen to hit any one w'o had the sand or the disposition to cal) him down. "Toward the members of a theatrical company traveling in one of the coach as he particularly directed his violence and insults. His conduct with them at last became unbearable, and when, af ter threatening two actors with his re volver and frightening the women to the verge of hysterics, he passed onward into another car, a hurried council of wa: was held in the coach he had va cated, and every man who had a pistol. got it in readiness, with the understand Ing that if he returned he was to be shot down at the first aggressive move ment But that phase of trouble was averted, for, as it happened, he remain ed in the car ahead until, at dusk, tht 'rain rolled into Albuquerque. "Here Scott Moore, the proprietor of the Armijo House, was at the statior with his hackman awaiting the train's arrival. He called out the name of hiU house at the door of the car in which I was sitting, and then turning to the iackman said: " -You take care of the passengers fr his car and I will go on to the next.' "These inoffensive words caught the !ar of the tough man from the East, who was pushing his way to the car platform. He drew his pistol and start ed for the nearest man on the station )latform, shouting: 'You'll take care of us, will youl I'll show you smart fellows. out here that vou're not able to take care of me!' "He flourished his revolver as he spoke, and just as' his feet struck the ;econd step of the car he fired, the ball passing over the head of the man on the station platform. The sound of his pistol was instantly followed by two quick reports, and the tough man fell rorward upon the platform dead. The man at whom he had apparently fired iad drawn his revolver and shot hir twice through the heart. "A crowd gathered as the train rolled n, leaving the tough man lying where b~e had fallen. Of course-I learned in eidentally afterwvard-the man who killed him, a gambler of the town, was; fully exonerated at tihe inquest, and was never indicted for the killing." An Honest Merc-han~t. "Are you sure that this suit of clothe-e s durable?" asked the prospective pur thaser of the dealer. "No, I don't think they will wear very vel." said the dealer.. "Are they all wool ?" "No, mostly shoddy-" The customer looked puzzled. Hec :hought he must be dreaming. He had never heard a merchanit talk this way before about his own goods. '-Does the suit fit me perfectly?'' isked the customer, after he had recov ered from his astonishment.. "Baggs at the knees, sleeves are too ong, legs are too short, too tight under the arms, too loose over the shoulders 5ad fit" The customer edged away, beginning to be thoroughly frightened. But he &nally caught his breath long enough te gasp: 'Do you think the suit is cheap?" "Awful high price for such poor oods," said the dealer, The customer would have fainted with fear; but just here the keeper of the insane asylum came in and led the :ealer back to the institution from which he had escaped. The Casting Out of Pevils, The melancholy superst:Gion whlich raw in the case of an epileptic a niani estation of the living power of the de-v 1 and which has been the cause of so mch misery during the last 800 years, was then at its depth. And the Chris tian fathers, it is to be feared, were but :o ready to make use of this supersti tion to enhance "the glory of God." rhat they all unhesitatingly believed in the superstition may save their mor tis at the expense of their intellect. But it is remarkable that while they ~laim for the name of Jesus an exor ~ising power, they allowed a similar wer to Jews and Gentiles. Now, if he Gentile and Jewish exorcists were mpostors, what becomes of the Chris an exorcists, who are placed by tile 'athers upon neither a higher nor a ower level? Nor do the more intelli rent heathen writers recognize any dif. 'erence. In the eyes of Lucian and Uipian aL xorists, Christian and heathen alike, tre jugglers. And when to this tesiti nony we add a critical knowledge of he nature of the miracles themselves. ve shall not be inclined to differ from nan and lp~ian. We he of Bac-. larlon; of devils howiung, confessing and even preaching; of a certain odoi proceeding from the clothes of men bi w% MCh pious men could tell to what par ticular demons the patients were sub ject. On the other hand, it is worthy of notice that these wonderful deeds were generally done by laymen, who may easily have found the profession i lucrative one, and that no sooner did the church take them In hand itself than they decreased and gradually dis appeared.-The Westminster Review. RED PLUSH FOR CAR SEATS. fhe Favorite Color and Material Some of It Being Imported. The red plush car seat is one of the time-honored institutions bf the rail road service, and very few cars are up holstered in any but that color. Some of the roads have broken away from the sterotyped color, and on special trains have adopted old gold, blue, olive and other simple colors. But tha roads cannot get away from the old favorite, which has survived the changes which occur in almost every department of railroading "Why is plush so widely used by rail. roads?" remarked a prominent plush manufacturer to a reporter of the Phil adelphia Record. "Because It never wears out. The plush covering of a car seat will last on an average at least ten years. But even when it has to be removed it is not worn into holes. It has been torn, or: stained, or faded, and for this reason, and no other, the seat has to be recovered. The railroads have often tried substitutes. One some times sees wooded or willow-ware seats, but none are so comfortable as the old-fashion cushion, and so the lat ter triumphs to the end." "Very expensive plushes are used by oome companies," remarked a railroad man; "stuff worth no less than $3 or $4 a yard. Railroads go to this expense rartly for luxuriousness, but also be. cause the finer and costlier materials will wear longer. The plush seen in the passenger cars of the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroads is worth from $43 to $50 a piece, or $1 to $2.25 a yard. Most of it is domestic material-the Reading Railroad gets its supply from Pawtucket, R. I. The Pennsylvania Railroad, however, makes some impor tations on its own account. It would surprise you to know the amount of. plush that a railroad company uses up in its repair shops. The upholsterer of a big railroad has a great room fitted with rolls of new material with which to fit up new cars and to pat a new face on the old. The Pennsylvania Railroad has in some years given its order for G0,000 yards of plush, while a company like the Philadelphia and Reading will pay $15,000 to $30,0v( a year for plusk used In repair work alone."' 3fediaeval Architecture. Mediaeval architecture attained its grandeur not only because it was a nat ural development of handicraft; nol only because each building, each archi tectural decoration, had been devised by men who knew through the experi ence of their own hands what artistic effects can be obtained from stone, iron, bronze, or even from simple logs and mortar; not only because each monu mnt was a result of collective experi ence. accumulated in each "myste-ry," or craft; it was grand because it was born out of a grand idea. Like Greek~ ar, It sprang out of a conception ol brotherhood and unity fostered by the city. It had3 an audacity which could only oe won by audaclous struggles nnd vie tories; it had that expression of vigor, because vigor permneatcd all the life of the city. A cathedral or a commiunia. house symbolized the grandeur of an organism of which every mason and stonecutter was the builder, and a medieval building appears not as a solitary effort to which thousands of slaves would have contributed the share assigned them by one man's imagination; all the city contributed to it. The lofty bell tower rose upon a. structure, grand in itself, in which the life of the city was throbbing-not up on a meaningless scalfeld like the Paris iron towcr, not as a sham structure In stone intended to coneal the ugliness of an iron frame, as has been done in the Tower Bridge. Like the Acropolis of Ath'-ns. the cathedral of a mnediaeval city was intended to glorify the gr-and ur of t~e victorious city, to symboiize the union of its crafts, to exl ress the glory of each citizen in a city of his own retion. After having achieved its raft revolution, the city often began a new cathedral In order to express the new, wider, and broader union which had been called into life.-The Nine, tenth Century. Pretty Good Guess. The Newv Orleans Picayune says that tcacher, In exp):laiing to her Imp'ils the diin'erence between civilized and uncivilized races, insisted upon three things as requisite for civilization food, clothing and shelter. The next day she bought the subject up again, by way of review. "What are the three things necessary to a civilized man?" she asked. Several of the children remembered food and clothing. but the third re usite seemed to have escaped their i-ecollection entirely. Finally, after the uestion had been repeated two or three times, one little fellow lifted his hand and said: "A wife." Whether the teacher sent hiin to the aead of the class, we are not informed. When a man tires of chicken, it is a sign that he is getting old. Nearly every one drives his ducks to poor market. The truest wisdom is a resolute de, termination. The man who mamres for mone, anally earns it. SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO. ?awnshops Existed in Bavaria Rege ulated in the Borrower's Interest. There are records of a pawnshop reg -dated in the interest of the borrowers :A Bavaria in 1198, and one in the Franche Compte in 1350, before the first Italian mont de piete was established :iy a priest at Perugia in 1440, says the .ontemporary Review. The movement .or State regulated pawnshops received its great impetus from the action of ,hat statesman-monk and social demo :-rat, Savonarola, who liberated the Florentines from oppression and gave them popular institutions. In no other direction were his services to the peo ple more successful than in founding mont de plete. The law for creating his mont de plete was passed in 1495, and before many years they were estab lished in all the principal towns in Italy and had spread throughout Eu rope. The first mont do plete in France was started at Avignon in 1577, and still exists. Their establishment in the Netherlands'dates from the sixteenth I rentury. A Spanish priest, Don Fran. :isco Piquer, founded the mont de plete of Madrid in 1705, starting with the modest capital of 5 pence, which he 'ound in the offertory box he bad placed In the church to receive contributions 'or the institution. By the end of the seventeenth century there were monts le piete, formed more or less after the Italian model, in most countries of Eu rope. The characteristics of the orig nal institution remain with those of to Jay, although they have long since :eased to be managed by the priests or lo be under the influence of the !hurches. The main object, which Sa ronarola and other early founders had n view-the protection of the poor from usurpers and their relief in periods of listress-is still maintained, and the monts de plete in all Latin countries ire associated with charitable institu 'ions and hospitals. THE BAD LANDS. A Waste of Desolalation Made in Na ture's Angriest Mood. The Bad Lands, says one who vis .ted that region recently, are a strange :ombination of desolation, horror and ncomprehensible freaks of the prime ral world. There are lofty peaks. bare and brown, baked into spires of burning rock by the hot suns of mil |ions of years. The valleys between ire white deserts, covered with bit ter, dusty, blinding alkali that has made all that country a desert worse than Sahara ever was said to be. The rivers run white or turbid with .is alkaline concretion in winter, And are dry ead dusty channels in the summer. The peaks, the valleys, , nd every festu-o of the whole region, in fact, seem tc be thrown down upon the earth in Nature's angriest mood L hideous conglomeration, in which ven the geological strata are displac d and entangled. This strange re Iion was once the salt-washed bottom I )f a sea, and the traces of the reced !ng waves are visible on every hand. rhe fossils are mostly aquatic ani mals. Few birds, and those mostly of ,be semi-reptilian character, are l'ound among them, while innumerable bones of gigantic saurlans dot the shale and sandstone of the valleys. Mingled with them are remains of bear, antelope, and buffalo, and relics f an intermediate age, the bones of the mastodons and olephants-not ma~Immoths - and of a three-toed equine, one of the ancestors of the present horse. Some of the saurians of the eccene md miocene periods were indescrib ably hideous. Looking upon the rem aants of these monsters and gazing on the awful scenery of the country-a bit of hades upturned to view, one might say-Is it any wonder that the [dians shunned the Bad Lands and said they were the haunts of ghosts and the home of evil demons? Athleticism in Excess. Whether at work or at play, we are always re-creating-that is to say, we are rebuilding our bodies out of new matter; but in truth we are still ever going through a series of forced marches' at the end. No one stroke of the heart Is ever recovered, regained, r, as a stroke, repeated. The body is formed or modeled to do at its full a certain number of vital physical acts, and no more. "There are three things that come not back," Bald the ancient Caliph, " the sped arrow, the improper thought, and the spoken word." He might have added a fourth-the vital ct. No vital act returns, no more than the tick of the second in the time-piece. We may make the vital ats run out in a brief time, fast! fast' nt we can never recall them. We are the watches of life, with this differnce, that as we can never have tnew mnainspriug we must work out e spring we possess. We may run down almost as quickly as we ican, but we cannot renew the prime source of life. In pleasure, therefore, we do not really re-create; but if we proceed properly, we transfer action into new channels, and give wearied organs time to rest-a change which, in sc far as it affects our nervous centers. is of enormous service, because it saves for a time responsibility andi anxiety. But when diversion becomes respons ible it becomes work, it is doing th< bad instead of the best. and it may bi doing the worst; as when to play .n man adds hazard, or gambling, wit!' all its tricks and miseries and earls death; or when in sport, athleticisma is. by excess, leading into decrepitude. Sir B. W. Richardson, in Longmn'.F Magazine. New Hamrshire. New Hampshire was formerly calle e Lacnia. It received its present name in 129, being first called New Hampeshirr by Captain John Mason, wvho had beex n ret of Hampsbhre England. FIGS AND THISTLES.' Evol-ation. By Keyes Becker. A spring: upwelling from unfathofnef source, The tiny rivulet, the brook so free, The river rushing in its destined course To add its volume to a changeless sea. A life: begun in mystery divine, The laughing child, the youth with lots athrill, The man fulfilling an all-wise design And striving toward the ocean of God'i Self-love is idolatry. A self-made man likes to brag eon his lob. Golden opportunities do not fly in oil eles. The saloon will stay until the church says it must go. People who think wrong will be sure to live that way. A head conversion never puts any love in the heart. Open the door for the penny, and the dollar will come in. If we have no trials we have little fel .owship with Christ. As soon as gold was discovered scme body invented brass. The devil never runs from the manZ who is not in earnest. When a bad man reads the Bible, the' devil turns the leaves. God's most effective preachers are not always sent to the pulpit. If we do little, men and angels wil) know that we love little. The man who believes that the Bible Is God's word will obey it. Follow Christ closely, and God v!i, lead the man who follows you. If God gives a thorn, it is because he sees that it is just what we need. Whatever Is not fully consecrated to God the devil still has a lien upon. The money that brings us most good is the money with which we do good. Love has to be seen with the eyes of ;be heart before its name can be knovn. God's business is never intrusted to the man who has no business of hi2 own. If some of our heads were not so big, God could do a great deal more for our aearLs. When meanness has been baptlzed and called religion it is as deadly as the small-pox. The man who rejects Christ in spirit shuts the kingdom of God entirely out of his heart The devil gets a good deal of sub stantial help from the church member who grumbles. Unxdertake to keep the ten command ments, and yoa will soon find out tha? God is their maker. Everything God sees in us the world will some day know, unless It is sooner blotted out by the blood of Christ. The devil feels that he has gained & point when he can make a Christian look as though Chd3t had never como 'ut of the grave. Healing Properties in Ashes. Some of the best known physiciano in Russia are strongly advocating the adoption in the government hospitals >f an old Cossack custom of treating :uts and wounds with ashes, says the New York Sun. The Cossack peas antry have treated cases in this fash on from time Immemorial, and Dr. Pashkoff, a Russian physician whc has been studying the treatment, re :ently said in an interview-ind a Russian medical journal: "I strot.giy recom mend the treating of severe cuts and wounds with ashes. Experiment has :onvinced me of the thorough efi :iency of the treatment, and, in addi dion, it Is cheap, takes little time to rrange, and does away with lbulky bandages, which have always been the ane of nurses and physicians. The est ashes are those resulting from the burning of some cotton stuff or linen, and only a very thin layer should be applied. If the wound lhs been made by some dirty instrument anud tnere s danger of blood poisoning, it should be firet washed thoroughly wvith a lo ion. The ash -s with the blood forms i bard substance, under which the :wost severe cuts heal with remarkable :apidity." Dr. Pashakoff has experi uented with ashes on twenty-eight :ases of cuts, and only two of the en tire numebr faIled to result success .ully. These cases would have been ured, too, had not the nurses failed to apply prescribed lotions to the| wounds ucfore the physicians took i tem in charge. It is extremely pr-ob- i ible that the ash~es treatmient wil~l be dopted in the St. Petersburg ho~jiitals efore long. Hop Bctds. In the good old colony times, and ven later, a hop pillow was prescribed for sleeplessness, and now it Is a hop< bed which is to cure insomnnia, to use he word exhumed from Plautus to serve the needs of pathology. The hop ed is about as comfortable as the corn usk mattress of the country farm ouse, but It is fondly supposee to!1 ring slumber. H-ops and skips t-rei atural companions, so it may be prop er to say here that a London docto.r in trduced skipping as a form of exercia especally adapted to professional wer men who have not much timer. I-1 gine a company of teachers, actresse-s, female doctors, artists, with a stray i female minister, perhaps, skipping ) errily through a public street! Cleo-' atra's forty paces .of hopping woulj e a trifle by comparison. We don't see what fun there can b~e an kissing a girl out skating when her noe s cold. News in Brief. Electricity is used = 300 Amerioan mines. -Electricity is sow ased to improve the complexion. -The private schools of Iillinoi contain 100,000 students. -Excessive meat eating is deelared to make 111 humored, irritable people. -Schnebile, the new explsiv% Is composed Chiefly of lL)ate of got ask.. -The Lonisville rKy.] water work. has a 16,000,000 galion pumping o gine. It is said that they eat only In mild weather, and in extreme cold remain torpid. -In the pablia schools of France 24.2 per cent. of Lie pupils are. sket sighted. -The doue!et was, a elose Atting coat introduced into France from Italy %bout 1100. -The leathern apron worn by the blacksmith is mentioned by Pliny am ,.u use in his time. --In Rnssia, the carrier pigeon i. being uszd to oonvey negatives of ph& ograpns taken in baioons. -It Is calculsted that the men and women of to day are nearly two inches taller than their ancestors. -Rassian engineers are studying the route for the waterway to connect the White Sea with the Baltic. -Red hair is of that color becaus. it is sapposed to have a larger proper "ion of sulphur than blaci4 hair. -The further north an apple oan be grown successfally, the better the quality and the higher the color. -A Cincianati physician had diph theria in his eye, where a partiale o: -nuous from a patient lodged. -In the smalpox epidemic at Leip sic in 1871, the death rate from tnis tause rose to L,700 per 1,000,00". -fhe largest elsctric locomotive is he world (2,000 horsepower) was built %t Zurich, Switzerlaad, in 1S92. -An instrament at Rome registered t Japanese eaithquake, nearly a fourth -f the earth's circumferenee away. -The hedgehog, badger s4uirrei ind some kinds of mice lay up a rega ar store of provisions for the winter. -Lunar halos aro sometimes large md sometimes small because they are !ormed at different heights in tbe air. -Durable artificial silk, wioh is both neat and dressy, is made of waste wool c r cotton by the aid of ehemioals. --A scheme has been devised in Kansas to irrigate farm lands with watez dawn from the underground streams. --Silver tarnishes when exposed te light, becanse of the actinie or chem wtal property possessed by the rays of the sun. --Durirg the sumners of 1895 ana 1896 a Danish expedition will thor >ughly examine the Greenland and [celand seas. -There were two total eclipses of the mn in the year 1712 and two in 1839. Thin rare phenomenon will not hapen again until the year 2057. -Engish oculists areintenselyftter. sated in the osse of a Manaleter, weaver whose eyes magnify obleets te ilty times their natural size. --There are 163,000) faotories in [llhnoiq, with an annual prodnet of $450,000,000, employing $150,000,0Q9 mapital and 150,003 employes. --Professor .iailey of Missouri is saiG. o have obtained more than 1,000 ypes of pumpkins by crossing the lowers of one kind with the pollen etf mowther. -A very faint comet haa beeni dia :overed in the conatellaion Aquarius by Professor Edward swifr, of the Uowe Observatory, eho Mountain Dalifornia. -Platinum has been drawn inte imooth wire so fine that it could net >e distinguished by the naked eye, iven when stretched across a pieces e tite cardboard. -Recent experiments at the great s~rupp Giun Works, Essen, Germany ,rove that the discharge of large cal be~r cannons can be heard twie as fa ias the loudest thunder. -The land tortoises of many ceun. ries bury themnselves in the mud at he bottoms of streams and marehes mn the approach of winter, and also at he coining of a protracted drought, -Professor GThooat says that if wa eckon the average depth of the ocean t three miles there would be a layer if salt 200 feet thica in their basmns hould the wattrs of all suddenly evap. rate. -The seat of color in the different aces of men is the the inner skin. rhich is a network containing the tor nini of the blood vessels. The thin ter this inner skan the whiter the per on. -The horse's eye has a thick, gintia us secretion because his eye being aree and mnch exposed to dust 4he iscid secretion cleanse it more ef ctally than would a more water; gez.t. -hAnimals that live in cold countries tave a warm mattwg of wool or u nr underneath their hairy cots, so hat they are almost perfectly protec ed from the cold. This wool u2ally alls off in summer. During the 31iddle Ages the belief ras commnon that insanity was a form *f demoniacal possess1oe, and many rnelties were practicecd on thme 410 aented for thie purpo~e of expelling he supposed demons. -Spinello the painter, became in. ane wilie painting his great picture, 'The Fallen Angels." fis mind !welt so persistently on the image ot intan that he fancied the arch-demon