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TRII-WEKLY ELITION. WINNSBORO, C., MARCH 149 TOO LATE. Joy stood upon my threshold mild and fair, With lilis in her hair. I bad,- her enter as she turned to go, And she said. "No." Fortune once halted at my ruined porch, And lit it with her torch: S I asked her fondly, "Have you come to stay?" She answered "Nay." Fame robed in spotless white before me came; I longed her kiss to claim; I told her how her preseuce I revered. S She disappeared! Love came at last-bow pure, how swe With roses at her feet. I begged her a'l her bounty to bestow She answered, "No." e Since then Joy, fortune, love and fame Have come my soul to claim; t I see them smiling everywhere, But do not care. A GUILTY CONSC1ENCE. "Poor, dear Joanna!" said Mrs. Fox. "So she's gone at last. Well, we're all mortal.' "The deceased had many good t traits," said the parson, adjusting his ten finger-tips together and looking up o the ceiling. "I won't say but that Arphaxad had some trials with her," observed Cousin k Car'line. "She was middlin' short in the temper, and hadn't any great -iotion of economy." "Two silk dresses," said Mrs. Min turn. "And I never had nothin' bet- t er than a cashmere, all my life long." "Then that diamond ring," said r Mrs. Fox. -- - _-6-Yes, that diamond ring," -hoarsely I muttered Mrs. IN'inturn. "And the r morgide not paid on the stun barn yet. t When I heard o' that diamond ring, I up an' says, "Well, the fools arn't dead f yet, so long's Arphaxad Johnson's i %live.'" "He was a most indulgent husband r to the deceased," remarked the parson, looking around for his hat and gloves. v While poor Arphaxad' himself was s stealthily splitting wood in the basement I of the stone barn, heedless of his new d ')lack suit. "I'm blest if I can stan' Eettin' 'round an' doin' nothin'," said the disconsolate widower. "And as long C as nobody hears me, an' the wood. pile's runnin' low-an' Lord knows it ] iin't-no disrespect to poor Joanna," s In the meantime Mrs. Minturn, the Widow Fox and Cousin Car'line were r prepa,ring for the mcrrow's funeral; f In that belated portion of the ttate of New Hampshire a funeral meoilt cold baked meats, chicken pies, raised I loafeake and the choicest preserves, for I ,he benefit of the mourners. "Joanna herself wan't no great of a < housekeeper," said Mrs. Minturra "But. all the same, Arphaxad'asinother R'as my second cousin, nn' I'm bound t to see there ain't nothin' lackin' on this sad occasion'. It.was.narly dark when the last loaf was taken out of the oven and the last cold ham garnished with pars ley leaves and yellow jelly. "Where's Car'line?" Mrs. Fox in quired. t There was a little bustle and flurry of question asking until Cousin Car' line hurried out of the back room, with Mrs. Fox's bonnet and shawl on a her arm. "I was just a-takin' a last look at the deceased," said she. "Poor, dear Joanna! An' she only twenty-eight!" "Is it true," satid Mrs. Fox, "that t she's goin' to be buried with that dia- t .aoud ring on her finger?" Mrs. Minturn nodded. "It was 'most her last request," said a she, in the doleful voice which she s had assumed ever since Mrs. Arphaxad Johnson had departed this hife. t "That was a queer notion, wa'nt it?" g "Joanna always was queer," said I Mrs. Minturn, "Wanted to be buried in her weddin' gown, with year-dropsc in her,- years and that there val'ble 1 diamond ring on her finger. She never would have had that ring if Arphaxad I 'nad took my advice." All .this time Cousin Car'line had a stood uneasily balancing herself first. on one foot and then on the oth~r; s holding the bonnet and shawl the while. s "Why, how you tremble, Car'line c Cooper!" su~d Mrs. Fox. "Ain't gettin' nervous, be you?"s "Well, p'rapslI be a little nervous,"' admitted Miss Cooper. "There's such I a lot to do, you know; and Arphaxad r he's dreadful tryin'. Won't set in the ( parlor and see folks, as ho oughter, but persists in doing odd jobs about the place on the sly, and keeps me worried to death." Mrs. Minturn took up the candle s and went into the big best room, where lay poor Joanna in her white Benga- I line wedding silk, with the much-dis euss'ed ring sparkling on her left hand. "Somebody took the vi'lets outer her hands!'' said she sharply. t "Don't you like 'em better so?" fal- - tered Cousin Car'line with chattering v teeth. "No, I don't," said Mrs. 'Minturn, v replacing the stiff little bunch of artifi cial pansies within the long, white t aingers. "You don't half see the ring that a- c way," said Mrs. Fox. "Yes, you do," persisted Mrs. Mint-' t urn. "The idea of buryin' that ring1 t with Joanna! I call it sheer nonsense." "I guess we'd better leave the candle 5 here," said Mrs. Fox. "She looks] dreadful nateral, don't she, poor dear? a Well, she was pretty." "I never thought so," crisply uttered Mrs. Mipturn. "Though, after all, -beauty's only skmn deep."a Not until the two neighbors bad~gone a home, and Cousin uar'line was left ] alone in the kitchen, with , the fading s sunset shining through the geranium I leaves in the window, and an answer- j ing splash of carmine glowing behind t the bars of the kitchen stove, did she a glance furtively at the door of the bestt r room, and then bring out something a vrapped in paper which she earned in ha ier nocket. off "I wonder if I've done a wicked wli hing,'" muttered she. "L-t me, hv 'c parkles! But I always did admire wa lamond ring; and poor dear Joanna, thi he'll never know that I've put a glass . ne on her finger to be buried in! Ar- yo haxad he never was one to notice, and 'm sure it's a pretty ring enough. I'll Ca end this one down South to my ephew, Albert Smith, as is just en- en aged to a Florida lady, and the $50 ill he sent me to pay for't, will be just to1 nough for a winter outfit. I hain't had tio cloak nor a shawl for six year, and are hat old un is gettin' too shabby for cor nything, let alone the bonnet an' auff. Here. I've worked an' done me verything about the place, ever since nei rphaxad brought his wife home, an' ha Lever got nothin' but my board. They'd ,ught to hev paid me somethin', but ome folks is dreadful thoughtless, and 11 the morey'the' was to spare went o buy new clothes an' fal-lals for Jo nna. Yes, I'm pretty middlin' sartin 'vedone right." But all the same, she started nerv- 60 usly whenever the wind rustled the st< are lilac boughs against the siding of no he house, or the cat made a rush at ce orne supposititous mouse. o She felt like- a guilty creature when In trpbaxad came in for his supper, and I Ti he whispered talk of the neighbors W. ho came a-nd went from time to time, net tearly drove her frantic, especially 711 hen-as was universally the cAse- I he conversation turned on Mrs. Ar -. sh >axad .lohnson's determination to be 1e( ouried in the diamond ring, the pos. we ession of which had always after a. All ashion set her above and beyond the of >ane of her social surroundings. thi Ca'r'line went to bed, but she could wi iot sleep. The ring seemed to haunt wi Ler. A sense of overwhelming guilt wc reighed down her heart, every sound an eemed ma2nified to twice its usual im- col ortance, until at last she got up and the ressed herself in nervous haste. RI< "I can't stand it," said she, her ior eeth smiting against one another. we 'I've got to get this ring back afore I Ob au sleep. It does seem as if Joanna me ras standin' behind me the hull while! wr ain't no believer in ghosts, but there's act ome,things folks can't stand." wc Ndiselessly she crept 'down into the gy, oom where the silent sleeper lay peace - Le ully among the. flowers which every outh window'in the neighborhood h n ontributed, for florists were an un nown. quantity in .that benighted ed iuarter of th-e globe, arut.ieturned the t riginal trinket ' iTs- place, not with- we ut 1 pidation. - And then she asl reathed freely again. chi "I guess I'll hey to make the old wi hings do a while longer," said she. chi I don't know whatever put such a fir< iotion into my head. Poor Joanua! vic 'he looks exactly like she was asleep." tw And Cousin Car'line stooped and shi -ressed her lips to the waxen forehead ut )f the woman whose caprices and un- He :indnesses had often served to embit- g er her own drudging life. "I feel a sight easier now," said she. I do b'lieve that ring would 'a burned i se4 , hole in my pocket ef I'd kep' it there lax ny longer." ter Just a year from that time, Arpharad the ohson and Car'line Cooper were sit- er: ing together in the old kitchen, with i he red April sunset shining in throughsh he west windows. Supper had just been cleared away, d tie clock pointed to the hour of'n x. - 'cre Arphaxad was staring tranquilly at Int be fi:e-he was a quiet man, not much im' iven to conversation-and Car'line fur as knitting. sadse u-fri "Well, Arphaxad," si hsd enly, "why don't you up and tell me, . ke a man?" an "Tell you what?" slowly uttered Ar- ery haxad- 210l "That you're goin' . to get married . gin and want me to clear out. a 1 "I don't want you to clear out," po)0 iid he. - an< "I've heerd it all in the village," . sid she, "and you may's well make a lean breast of it."ye "Well, then, I will," said Arphaxad, o utting tup his jack-knife with a click.u I'm tired of living a lonely life, a n'I 'i goin' to get married, if the agal IIg otion to will hey me; an' that gal, tI ar'line Cooper, is you." Car' line started from her chair. thi "Me?" v "Yes, you:" tee Arphaxa:l folded his arms and Ja tared steadfastly at her. ie "Lut I'm as humbly as a hedge I ence."I You suit me, Car'line." t "And I'm forty!'' Ia "I ain't the very youngest inhabi- i mt myself, And look here, Car'lin~e -you was always veryv good and patient ith poor Joanna, and there was times o rhen she was tryin'. Say, Car'Jine, (we 'll you be my wife?" he Not until after the details were set- Tb led did honest Arphaxad become coo- sta dential as regardes some of the affairs te f his past life.j the "ay. Car'Iine," said he, "you know-th at diamond ring that Joanna was a 1 uried in?" ~itt "Yes, said Car'hine, with a little 6e udder. - [e "Wall, it warn't no diamond arter 11. There, I've got it off my con- "T ience now'" pri "No diamond!" gasped Car'line. ls "No, Joanna she was forever and tio ways besettin' me for a diamond ring, wt nd me in debt and a poor man at that. te held' out as long's I could, but she ao as so set on't that finally I brung ome a ring to pacify her. It was a .It a retty, shining thing, but it was only a se dollar imitation ring. I couldn't ee my way clear to affordin' nothingj etter, but it pleased her just as well, I ml I always meant some day when TIn I paid the morgidge and was better , to replace it with a real stun. And en she died it was buried with her, rdin' to her wish-Weil, p'raps if s just as well. Eh? What do yOL nk about it, Carline?" 'I think," Car'line answered, "that i did just right, Arphaxed." 'You don't want a diamond ring, "line, do you? he asked wistfully. 'No, Arphaxad, I don't. I'm happy >ugh without it." knd the second Mrs. Johnson never I her husband of that one aberra 2 from the plumb-line of duty. There some things which are better un ifessed. 'And if the Lord hadn't a forgive ," said Car'line to herself. "He 'er would ha' Eent me this great. ppiness." ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY. tejected Lover's Revenge Recalled by a Recent Virginia Wedding. tomance is not dead, and tragedy IL netimes as real to-day in life as in ry books. A story comes from Ra e, Va., of a marriage which was re tly performed there that recalled of the most distressing tragedies the history of Botetourt County. e parties to this marriage were John Trout and Mrs. Lavinia Ki. Walton, Obenshain, both natives of Trout. le, a village seventeen miles cast. a the summer of 1891 Houston Oben. Lin, a brother of the bride, and Hor ,N. Trout, a brother of the groom, re, each paying, attention to Miss -e 4lichardson, a pretty young lady Troutvile. Obenshala resided in t city, and at times was a little d. Learning of several scrapes into .tch he had gotten himself, the youn f man's father objected to a continu :e of his attentions, which had be ne so marked that it was reported I young couple were engaged. Miss hardson wrote Obenshain the decis . of her father, and charged that it f s due to tales told of him by Trout. enshain, on receiving the !etter, im diately - began preparations fr eaking a terrible vengeance on Hor. N. Trout He speedily arranged h1s rldly affairs, hired a horse and bug and Informed several friends that j was going to Troutville to kill Trout, ss Richardson and himself, but no paid any attention to these threats. rriving at Troutville, he ascertain that Trout and the young lady were the house of a Mr. Beyar. Thither he at, spoke pleasantly to everyone, and :ed Trout to walk with him to a rch close by. Trout consented, and en they had nearly reached the irch Obenshain drew a revolver and -d a bullet into Trout's head. His tim fell to the ground, to receive 6 ) more bullets in his oody. Oben Lin stood over his victim a few min s and calmly surveyed his wolk. t started to the house where Mise hardson was, but turned, went to church, where a few people had as abled, told them what he had done, I then went to the house of Ben ain Murray. ust as he entered the doorway he ced the muzzle of the revolver to his ple, pulled the trigger, and fell to floor dead. Trout lingered for sev .1 days and died. His body was bun in the same cemetery with Oben-~ Lin's and close by it. I Why Teeth Are Expensive. Ihe price of false teeth has in ased greatly since electricity cargo > use and the perfection of electrical 1i entons and their general use will ther enhance the value of artificial ders." he dentist was, trying to explair t' y he charged whr't appeared to be I, exorbitant price for a set of crock teeth. The patient looked incred us and remarked in a sarcastic tone: Yes; I've noticed that the grating of j elephione. jars' on the teeth. I sup. e It eventually shakes them loosE 1 thus increases the demand." No; it isn't that." 3h. it must be the phonograph which I is: 'They are busy. We will call i.' That always did set my teetb edge." Oh. no; that isn't it at all. Y~oi. 't understand it," protested the den t must be the jar of the electric cars t is so tough on false teeth. Oh, ;a friend of mine had all of his front th knocked out ifi a collision last iary. That's what increases the nand and raises prices, is it?" No, no, no; you see-"j You perhapswnt me to believe th-n linemen bite the wvire off with their se teeth to save the trouble of carry -nippers." Hold on a minute; I'll explain-" , yes; Trve read about the telegrapi ~rator who finds his battery is so ak it will not work the sounder, and takes the wire between his teeth. en there is the stock operator who I. nds before the ticker and wears his th out grinding them together when quotations don't come right. And n there is the dentist who yanks out ig three-pronged jaw-tooth with a le bit of forked lightning and you er feel It. Electricity is tough or teeth." You're crazy,"declared the dentisi ue increased cost is due to the high ues and scarcity of platinum whi-:h used so much in all electrical inven is. Platinum is the only metal ch can be used for fastening the th to the plate. Other metals wil' stand the heat of the vulcanizer.' Oh. that's it. is it 2 I guess I'll gumr ,while longer."1 Bunsen's Carbons. unsen's carbons were first put inte au ui 1m 1 . FIGS AND THISTLEB. M ANY a min sets up for a public benefactor who never thinks it worth while to give his wife a word of encour . ngement. The richest man is the one who gives up most f for Christ. When an hon est man stays way from the polls the devil votes. The man who grumbles much prays ittle. When we hin'der God's work we rob be world. The joy that isn't shared with anothel les young. God's supply trains are never behind me a minute. Some people appear to -think thai rhining is religion. The devil gets a good deal of help rom the stingy man. There are church members aL whom he devil never aims a dart. When good seed is sown, the better he ground the better the crop. If some men had a bull dog's teetb hey would bite when he wouldn't. It generally takes a blockhead L ood while to fnd out what ails him. A selfish man -is about the ugliest ing upon which angels have to look. Confidence in God will always give lope a rock upon which to rest her eet. Remember that while God's eye is n the sparrow he will not forget hisr lild. No matter what appearances may be, he road God points out is always the est. We lesa nothing by going into the ery furnace, when we go there for brist. If our faults were written on our aces, howquick we would all hang our eads. The first drink cannot be taken with ut giving the devil a morfgage on he soul. The man who lives only for himself ill not have many mourners at his ineral. Has any one ever starved because he ot a stone from Pod when he asked >r bread?' - Every sinful pleasure kills a real lessing that God -wan ts to have dwell i the heart There Is no bigger fool than the ma. rho thinks he can get rich by robbing me ono elhe. Nothing can make hard things eas) ntil we reach the point where we do bem for Christ. The Holy Ghost puts something I. iusic that the devil has never been ble to counterfeit. Checks that are not signed go into he waste basket, and prayers that wean nothing never reach heaven. Peter was made a ifsher of men quito s much because he had good horse ese as because he had a big heart. It is easier to make steam without ire than it is to keep from 'backsliding rithout going to prayer meeting. Don-t spend any time under the junh. er tree praying -for dleath, but get hre the Lord can talk to you about 1is business. In a Cyclone. In describing a cyclone in the West, ot long ago, a writer stated that the 'ind actually stripped the feathers om a rooster. Of course, many people et :he teller of the story down as a funchausen, and argued that a wind hat could do so much would have own a fowl half way across the At. natic. But scientinec iesearch sustains e story. Tornadoes which have vis ted this country and parts of Europe, has been found afterward, on inves Igation, have done somec very myster! ns things. Not only have birds been tripped of their feathers, but people ae had the~r clothing torn from them. ~'Lese exeets could not p~osibly be as cbed to the wind, for the force neces .r to de such work would have been uifle:Ient to carry the objects away odily. In the to~rnad1oes wvhich pre' 'ailed in France last summrer numerous eccurrnces of this chamecter were ob rved. Trees were found rent in a maner which could not possibly have euled fromu the wind. Oaks were 1it down the center for a length of wouty to twenty-Sve feet; poirar an1d ecesi, for l'imgths~ of six to twelve 'r-et, were shivered into sticks of uui 'orm thickness. For example, a beech ree six teen inches in diameter was pit into more than five hundred sticks third of an !nch thick, two-thirds of n inch broad, and an inch and a half ong. Firs and other resinous trees had heir stems cut clean through leaving Llmost even surfaces. Thesie phenomn na, and others of a kindred natoze, ca ascribed only to electricity. Insomnia in Erooklyn. Residents of a certain setion qq 3rooklyn have made complaint to thet oard of health that they are kort/ wake by the crowing of chickets. An~ Old Deed. A few days ago a singular deed was wesented at the register's odice lai ewark, N. J. It was made in 172 .id had never been recorded. Butter and Bacon. Physicians declare that the most nu. r4.tious article of diet is. butter. as.) iat enf COmeSO niext. A BAYOU TRAGEDY. tho "'Skeeters Carried Off His Ole Woman"-He Still Mourns. As we sat on the depot platform Ir. the evening, smoking and talking and slapping at the mosquitoes which came out of the swamp opposite in a perfect cloud, says the Detroit Free Press, the old man with the clay pipe and rabbit skin cap took advantage of a pause in 'he conversation to say: "Talkin' 'bout 'skeeters, but you or ter live down on a Mississippi river bayou to know what 'skeeters is." "You've lived there?" queried one of .he crowd. "I've lived thar, an' it was down thar that my humble home was broke up, and I was left desolate by the 'skeet ers. It's a matter I don't often talk about, fur it makes me powerful lone. some and downhearted." "What did the mosquitoes do?" "Carried off my ole woman." "You don't say?" "That's what they did, gentlemen, ,.nd I don't never expect to be happy agin. That was in the summer of 1879, when we had a big overflow, and 'skeeters was powerful bad. We just had to stay right in the cabin and fight fur our lives. We finally got out o' whisky and cornmeal, and I was obleeged to go over to Pendersville to git some. I left the ole woman feelin' all right and cheerful, but when I cum back she was-she was-" "Wasn't she there?" was asked, as he did not finish. "No; she had disappeared! Them skeeters had busted the door open and carried her off, and from that day to this I hey never sot eyes on her!" "Sure it was the mosquitoes?" "Of course. What else could it be?" "Why, she might have gone out and got lost in the woods or fallen into the bayou and been drowned, or been bit ten by a snake and died in the swamp. Or again she might have concluded that she had had enough of that coun try and skipped out." "Do you think so, stranger?" anxious ly queried the old man. "Why, certainly. Didn't you look tround any?" "Not a bit. I jest found her gone and thought the 'skeeters had took her ind then I cum away a brokenhearted man. Mebbe I was mistaken about it. It was fifteen years ago, and do you think it" would be any use to go down xnd look around for her now ?" "Not a bit." "I thought not I thought the best way was to keep right on mournin' and grievin' fur her and feelin' that thar was no more happiness fur me in this woeful world. Pore old Julia. How you must hev fit and suffered. Does any of you folks happen to have a match in your pockets? Smokin' seems to sorter ease my breakin' heartl" A Penal Settlement. To a visitor, the life of the convicts of Fernando de Noronha, an island that serves as a place of banishment from Brasil, does not seem a very hard one. Two-thirds of their number are divided into ten companies of one hundred each, under the command of a sergeant, himself a convict. They live in outly ing villages, and are employed at work in the fields and plantations and tend the sheep and cattle. The rest live in the town, and are engaged at different handicrafts in the workshop, or fish in catamarans, the native Brazilian canoe. All have to work for their food and clothing, which they obtain from the government stores in proportion to the work they performed. Some of the convicts themselves are allowed to keep private stores, where their fellows are permitted to purchase any little extras they require beyond the bare neces saries of life. Convicts of good behavior are allowed to have their own wives on the island, should they be willing to come. Little difficulty is experienced in the management of the men. Pun. ishment for ill behavior is detention in the penitentiary, flogging, or, in ex treme cases, branishment to a small, un inhabited island, where its occupant would have to keep himself alive by fishing. There are two schools, one for the children of the officers and sol diers and one for the children of con victs. The masters in both cases are convicts. At the age of 12 the sons of the conviets are sent to a military schooL. at Pernambuco. The girls: are allowed to stay on the island with their parents if they wish to do so. Spite. Animosities which do not rise ' o the dignity of passions evince themselves in spite. In Quilp Dickens gave the world a type of spite in its worst form -a mean anger which finds vent in the infliction of small injuries on its pas sive recipient The most evil thing iu spite Is that it never even claims to lbe founded on a sort of wild justice. It glories in its own wilfulness, and lux uriates in venting a spleen fQor which no just cause exists. There I0g lways hope for a day of high passiog Even evil passions, if they are on j great scale, are generally closely re( ted to noble passions, and often grow in the same soil. But spite is the pe fact of empty lives and mean vexatiei s, of a poor soil, a poor scale of living and be token a dwindling power both of love and hate. What is wanted to viweep it away is any inti .est Involving full em ployment for the higher energi s. There has usually been more show of spite among women of the leisur * classes than amongst men, simplj because there has been less occu,.paf on and a pettier scale of life. Among's the mod ern women who go into Ltusiness or professions, whatever may be their de fects, there is at least a great enranci pation from social spites. They com pete eagerly with each other, but they do not stick pins into each other, as they used to do when they had nothing bet t~r am~t~e~~ mutJ~uo - small interests Is not favorable to tie growth of ardor of any kind; but on the other hand, it is fatal to that worse r suit or Drooding 9lesure-tne small aMG yet deadly animosities springing up In miads weary of themselves and desti. tute of high interests, and which result !n the spite that grows from an Sber ent disposition to rail at its OWn #U roundings. O W IN PRAISE OF HOT WATER* L Few of the Uses of That Common* place Article Mlentioned. "If I were asked what woman's best friend is," said the doctor thoughtfully to the New York World man, "I should say hot water. if she drinks hot water an hour before her breakfast she will be able to ward off dyspepsia. If she drinks hot water flavored with lemon and sweetened with sugar when she has been out in the cold she will ward ch!lls. The same agreeable medi 'ine taken early enough In the progress of a cold will stop it. When a nervous headaehe makes the forehead throb iud the back of the neck ache, hot water will relieve the pain. "For tired eyes, inflamed eyelids and styes," continued the doctor, "nothing Is so good as hot water. The eyes should be sopped with a cloth dipped in boiling water. Sprains may be relieved greatly by soaking the afflicted member In hot water for half an hour at a time and then binding it with a flannel band age. Bruises yield to much the same treatment, although such long soaking is unnecessary. Wounds and sores may be treated by pouring hot water on them for a few minutes at a time. Very hot water applied to a bleeding cut will stop the flow of blood frequent. Iy. "Then for mere comfort," he went on, "few things equal hot water. A rubber bag full of It makes one indif ferent to cold. Wrapped in flannel and put on the floor of a carriage it is in, valuable. She who suffers from cold feet at night has but to fill a hot water -bag to know what comfort is. Suf' ferers from sleeplessness find them. selves deliciously drowsy after a hot bath. Wrinkles flee before it and black heads vanish before its constant use. Great is hot water." Critics and Weber. Now, we understand that a critic !s a person capable of judging, so, there fore, by the power of reasoning, ever one who is capable of judging is a, critic; but it nevertheless seems strange that we are satisfied to rest our faith upon those who not only are unknown) (so .long as they preserve their incog1 nito}, but without first giving any evi dence that they are fit and capable persons to deal with the various sub4 jects undertaken by them. To criticise' is to pass judgmnt, and, while in mat ters of law we all know who the partie, ular Judge is who gives his decisions, in other matters "an unknown" has the same duty to perform, not so much con cerning life and property certainly, though it does very often affect indi viduals. Again, in aw an adverse decision can be appealed against, but we have, In art, no higher authority than the un. known individral,unless it be "Time," the great ruler of all things; so, until this comes about, conflicting opinions, frequently as far apart as the anti podes, reign supreme. It is well known that great musicians, in the true sense of the word, have been in times past spoken disparaginly against, and their works have been condemned, thoughi such works have lived only to show the shallowness of the criticism at the time of their froduction. To refer to a few of these: On the first appearance of Weber's opera, "Der Freischutz," the judges cf the press then declared that th s music could be compared to "noise prod-iced by whistling In the barrel of a key," and that the opera was only saved by the "Huntsmen's Chiori!" -This is what we of the prese'nt day have to reflect uipon as being the opinion of our ances tors of the operatic masterpiece of Weber!-The Westminster Review. WVe ington's Funeral.. In the funeral procession of the Duke~ of Wellington twelve horses drew the ar; these were covered from eyes to p'etlocks In housings of black velvet, pvith black eatrich plumes upon their heads. The Duke's funeral was mod iledl upon the precedent of that of John Monk, first Duke of Albemarle, the only chntnge in the trappings of the horses being that the animals were only plum ed on the head. instead of carrying a second plume ou the ernipper, which. as the tail wa hidden by the velvet cloth ig, had rather a indieraus aippearance. But in the funerazl of the D~uke of' Albe marle led horsesi ?ornied an important paIrt of the procesion. "Mourning horses," as th~ey were :-.iied, draped i black cloth and ~lumied, were distribted at intervals in the cortege. The "chief mourning horse" followed the standard of En gland. The funeral car was also fol I:lowedl by a cream-colored "horse of honor," with crimson catparisons, in the uke of WVellinetonl's funeral proces sion. The only ledl horse was his char:; pr, not Copenhagen, but the animal which he was ini the habit of riding in his last yealrs. Yet the ridecriess steed, pciujs behind3 its master's hie'r, awak ened the em:'tiou of the .gazing thou snzds with an :g~'ea:l more potent dn'i direct tihan that of' all the accumuulatedi pomp which p~rceded it.-The Satur dy Revisw. 'A gra-phical reporter of a Boston paper in describing a saicide says: "It is quite certain that he was unmar::ied and there - is absolutely no aprent notve for theo eels-destruction~ The middle course is the best; even a n~-(derate deaccn Is a safer man thanf a News in Brief -India nas 25,000 acres in tea. -Goldfish are of Chinese origin. -Egypt prohibits tobacco cultiva tion. -The black ostrich stands seven fed high. -The seuth polar snow cap of Marm is now visible, -Seeds 2000 years olil have been known to sprout. -India in its Bo trees has the oldast trees in the world. -Orange trees were known to have existed in England in 1595. -San Francisco, Col, is the taira commercial city in the United States. -Only one out of every fifleen er. ons has both eyes in good condition -Light narrow gauge railroads art again being tried in England and France. -A man in Somersat, Mass., pays seven cents tax on a pet monkey ad nothing else. -The records of Massachusetta ar written in an official ink specially made !or the purpose. -The greatest velo sity attained by a whale when strnek by a harpoon is nine mi!es an hour. -An eminent Boston electrician de elares the common poplar tree to be nature's lightning rod. -The little canals which permeat. the dentine of the teeth are only 1,12, 1300 of an inch in diameter. -A. early as 1695 a paper was red to the Royal Society of England on a natural gas well in Lancashire. -The smallest known insect is tbA Pleratomus putnamii, which is only ->ne nmeteenth of an inch in length. -Fort Garland, CoL, is believed to be the driest spot in the United .States. The rainfall there is only six inches a ycar. -The volcano at Cotopaxi while in eruption early in the century sent a m-ss of rock 100 cabioyards in volume' -iine miles. -The gray partridge of Spain ranges froni 300 to 700 feet above the level, and is rarely found below the former altitade. -An alligator with aperfectlysmooth boAy was seen en the banks of Lake Okeechobee, Fia., recently bf two ,olored farm hands. -A flower cut in tae inarning ijih retain its tresbness twice as long',as a flower cut in the middle of the- day, when the sun is uponit. -Professor Shiaparelli says that Mar. has an atmosphere which is heavily charged with water vapor, but he thinks %hat it rarely rains there. -Dr. Alexander, of Wyandot, Ohio, fell into an unused well while respond ing to a midnight call, and before he was rescued the patient died. -At Leeds, England there Is as electric clock which has beon contin nously ticking since 1840. Its motive power is natural eledtriety. -The Pennsylvania Bailroad has de cided to increase the Standard weight of rails on its main little from eighty *ve pounds to a hundred poundm. -An error of a thousandth part of a - second in an astronomical calculation would mean an error of 200,000,030, 000 miles in the distauce of a star. -It is estimated that during the tLaree month: of greatest heat the Dead Sea. of Palestine, loses 1,000,000 tons of waters a dy by evaporation. - -London lire engines often have to stop on their way to a fire to take up a tnrncock, a liveriod functionary, who is alone allowed to have the key to a lireplug. -One ofth'eve n r history of this conitry'was February 19 to 24, 1717, when the snow remained five to seven feet deep all over New T':ngianad. -A disease called antrix is reported to l-e prevalent among cattle around Mediterrinean ports. Several people have died from eating meat from the 1ffected cattle. -A little bit of cheese and an electric wire form the latest rat trap. Thi e che~ese is fixed to the wire, and the in. stant the rat touches the choese he is shocked to death. -A dog belonging to Hezekial 13!ucher, of Gilbertsville, Penn., went '* hnuntai.g on his own account and alone and unaide~d caught andktiileda twenty - tive pooir.d wildcat. -Wooden~ blocks for street pavin& purposes hwvo been shipped from. Hobert t-' London. They are mainly of blue gum and stringy bark, twa of, 'he principal Tasmamia woods. -Sir John Lubbock is authority foi the state ment that a. single bee, with all its industry, energy and iimnunra ble journeys will not collect mere than a teaspoonful of honey during a ses ; >n. -Scientists says that Jthe late disas trous earthquake -in Argentina were caused by tae overflow of a subtera nean river, known to-eXist in that lo cality, owing to the heavy rains of last -The great boarth? fire in the hall of IRoby Castle, England 13 said never to have baea permitted to go ont for centuries. That in Warwick Castle will barn a quarter of a cord of wood -:t once. -R .ts nins' have access to water ok they die. A trapped rat may easily be tamed by allowing no -water but that of~ered in a -spon, -for'the creature soon' learns to-:r'ecognize the band, which suppliesthis all important nec. In Sawhen al funeral Is passing, j.he women tak~e down .their .haq~ and nlLen their beade' "apd the menj fumble ar.und in'theii i dkets fora little piece of metal to hold bet'veen their teeth.