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T-) IL'LTION. ~~WINNSBORO, S., C., MARCH 21, 1895.ETALSHD189 reary epaiafu I had been sitting at my desk for a sull hour, engaged in the laudable oc cupation of doing nothing. Who could work upon that lovely September morning, with all nature beckoning you into the 'land of Nothing-to do! Yet, nature had no charms for me to day. My heart was- breaking. Paper, pen and ink lay 'iefore me. Certain "potent, grave and reverend seigacrs" were awaiting "copy" in distant sanc tums, but I could not, work. No wonder; foi all night long I had walked up anad down the floor of my room in a fewer of excitement and unrest. Even the fair scene spread before my eyes 'could Bot lure. me to quiet to-day-for my thoughts were far away-with Will. Outside my'window stretched the blue waters of Mississippi Sound, mingling with the Gulf of- Mexico. Within easy .range, Cat Island reared its wall of shining whits sand; off to the left lay Ship Island; that historic spot wherp so many, soldiers suffered imprisoninent during "the !late unpleasantness." White-*inged sail-boats dotted the wide expanse of water; everythig was still and peaceful, for Long Beach is an ideally quiet plahce. In spite of my trcuble, what wonder then-that I drifted. into reverie, and that my thoughts reverted to sadly pleasant retrospect? Once mfre, it was winter, the sunny New Orleans winter; and Will and I were together. I -recalled the hours passed in reading, and. writing, and music, the drives, and walks, and thea -tres. ' The niost minute. and trivial incidents occdrred to riy- mind, and I found myself smilingat therecollection of a certain long, narrow and phenome nally dark passage, or .alley-way, on - Royal Streei, tip which we glanced one -night and which Will, with his bright wit and quick sense of humor, imme diately christened "Jack the Ripper's Court, - This is hot a sensational story that I am about to tell. I warn my readers in. advance that there is nothing startling or wildly romantic in'it; from the start to timsh.it is a- simple,"o'er true tale." And yet, it was romantic, too; there was a tinge of rdmance after all, when Will asked me to become his wife; to rl marry him in secret. We had been betrothed for a- year, and he was far g .from strong, .is health was under! l mined, and a horrible fear oppressed ~ him that he would be taken away. In ~ the prime of his manhood, with life, ~ and hope, and happiness all his, it was U an awful thought. 'Constance," he said, one night, as we stood on the moonlit gallery with its luxuriant rose vines, and the great yellow roses clambering up to shake down their showers of fragrance in ourt faces-"my darht g, be my wife now! WVhy should we wait, dear one? There ' *is n'othing between ourlives and happia ness, .but the bugbear of poverty; and I shall have, a -fortune when I am thirty. I shall be thirty next Septemr ber, Constance, if--if I live." Something in the'sweet, tender voice made me glance up swiftly into the . brave dark .eyes.. Beautiful,' tender fi eves, where are y-ou. 'ow? Where are yon to-day, oh, .Will? Hidden away * forever from the. sight of my eyes, frcm beyond the clasp of my arms; gone-gone (I feel it, believe it) to that n "B&autiful, vailed, briglat word Where the glad gbosts meet.' I t something in his voice made my heart 1 ache. "Why- do you speak so sadly?" I asked him. "Never mind th~e fortuneg Will, I care nothing for that, if you a are only spared to me." "I k-now it, dear, tender little heart," ti he answered s->ftly. "You are the sl only true woman in the world, Con- e stance. But I wanted to tell you (I am t superstitious, I admit it) .it was once a prophesied that I shall die before I am thirty." "Nonsense!" I cried, sturdily, "thatn is sheer superstition, and it is'very s wrong to believe in it, dear. No one Ib knows the future! I would never think I of that agamn, if 1 were you." I tried to snile as I spoke- to shaike off the strange feeling that wo).ld -oppress me, try as 1 mig at. But all in h vain. Die before thirty! My true k hearted, noble Will, with his .sunny b smile, and tender dark eyes. I would not belie've it. It -wa absurd! So I e laughed at his fears as foolishiness, and d t - i rget. But-he was a at one glimpse I r re 'for -us-the it come-miadels that night to' d e; and "in v teold song 1( and on t before t married d one. of a s. And , er, for iz -ad a ie went back to his Northern home, r vhile I returned to my work, bri-.:ht. I med only by the hope of the nieeting a the summer at quiet Long Beach. I am not a supersitious woman. I ad laughed at Will for his own dread >f the supernatuial, and his belief iL a. )rophecy; but we had not been parted C L whole month when something very :urious happened. Will had writter. o me every day; such dear, sweet let ers that they did my heart good cept it alive, in fact. But- for those letters I would have riven up my hold upon hope, and vould have succumbed to despair. But one day no letter came, I felt a trange sinking at the heart-an awful ;ense of oppression; darkness gathered ver my life. Suspense-hope defer -ed; these are the two emotions whica erve to kill the human heart, to dark m and blight existence. That night I vent out on the little gallery, where ve had passed so many happy nours. Fhe moon was bright, and one star hone in the blue vault above my head -one that Will had long ago design ted "Our star." My heart was rushed and hezvy. I stood leanirig against one of the olumns.which supported the gallery, he scent of the roses that he loved nating all around "me. And as I tood there, something-a light touch -fell upon my shoulder; a cold breeze rept over my cheek, like a breath rom the grave. I turned' my eyes, and there before ne in the cold moonlight stood Will ny htisband. With a wi!d incredulous cry of de ight a'nd rapture, I flung my arms Lbout him-only to grasp empty air! 0o one was there. Will was gone! , I fell to the gallery floor, and lay t here like a dead woman. When I opened my eyes, the moon as shining down upon me just as aim, and cold and imperial as-ever. t struggled to a sitting posture, and ared wildly about me. What did it nean? I was not at all superstitious, a et, I feit that I had seen my husband t hat night, just as. truly as I had ever eheld his face in my life. The next day-no.. letter, and the t ext, still no letter. Oh, the anguish Ihope deferred! , 0 The time had come now for me to go e o Long Beach, as I had promised him. d would keep my word-no matter how S Lard it might be, I would go there. If s e-if that hideotIs prophecy had really C ome true-at all events, I would keep j1 ay promie-my last promise to him. t< o I went. Oh, the long, dreary,. in rminable.days, with only the mono )nous waters before -me; the blue, blue ky and golden sunshine - alWays "the E tme; it made my heart faint and sick. had written and written Itter after tter; still no response. I felt that he f: as dead. And no one could tell me, c< ecau.e how could his friends in the tI tr distant North know aught of 'the it outhern woman whom he had secretly ti -edded? And s:, the dreary endless a ays dragged by, and I still lived- si eart-broken and hopeless! I will never d iore laugh at superstition-never. ix Last night I saw him again. I had o: one down to the beach in the moon- ti ght and walked slowly and sadly up ci d down the white stretch of sand at e xe ~water's' edge. All at once I saw te nother shadow, mingle with my own ft on the moonlit beach; I came to a alt and saw at my side -Will-.b With a wild cry I attemp~d to grasp .i is arm; but there was no one there. p I went back to .the house and passed i1 xe night in pacing up and down the r oor like a mad woman.. Today is his thirtieth birthday,'or a ould have been, but I feel that my arhug is- no more; that the visions I ave seen were warnings sent me of is fate. Would WVill have ceased to rite me-me, his beloved one, if he ere alive? I believe that I shall see 1 phantom once again,.and then len, shall go, too. For' I feel that: is his spirit that has come back to 'e' So I have ~been sitting hei-e .in the orning sunlight, thinking of the past. tI an one wonder greatly that my pen ti es idle, and utterly refuses to produce Ie~ 1e love tales of others? Is not my own ve story as said a one as I can ~ever. -rite~? I hear -the sound -of wheels, andi ance listlesslyKfrom'.the open window.~ tmy side. A carriage has stopped he 're the gate; two men are assisting a xird to alught. They are bringing himi owly up the walk to the house; he ia c videnty very ill. Why does my heart irob so weakly? I am too weak to and-to take a step forward. Oh, In i not allow myself to be deceived by? ti rad, vain hopes. . They reach the house at last, and as st the feebile form up the steps of the di road gallery into mny presence. Oh, sc itying Heaven! it is Will, pale and ectral, a weak, frail invalid, but ill all the same. It is some time be >re I fully recover from this trance of appiness, and then the truth is made u own. He had been very ill with re rain fever. No one could write to ae because they knew nothing of me -my address and he was raving in ce elirmm. As soon as he was able to t .tempt the journey he had set out to et turn to me-.s It was all ended now-that dreary tb paration. Upon his thirtieth birth iy, oh, so happy and hopeful my tb Jill had come back to me, never to f ave me again, " shall never more laugh at any i 1e for being superstitious!" I Said ie te next (lay, gazing into the deep, pr irk eyes cf the loved one so happily '3 'tored to me. "Thank Heaven that to ry superstitious fears were not real- so ed"or I have tiever been able to account for ne ot make up my mind what it was that had seen. But it was not Will's ghost, and that all I care to know, after all. LIVERPOOL WAKING UP. ompetition of Southampton Forcing Her to Be More Accommodating. The dock board of Liverpool is to pend a large sum of nmoney for the pur ose of building a landing pier on the Jersey River, at which the great At antic steamers may take on and dis harge their passengers, and thus avoid he nuisance of the present method of sing for this purpose a small tender teamer, says the Boston Herald. The ost of this landing stage will be large, >ut it Is realized that Liverpool must nake this effort and expenditure In rder to compete successfully 'with outhampton as a port of arrival and lepartare. The competition between these twc esports has been very keen of la'e. he Southampton authorities, acting vith the steamship lines that have their erminals there, succeeded first In hay ag special trains run from London to onnect directly with the steamers. he passenger on a steamer bound for tnerica, if he went via Southampton, ould leave London on the morning of he sailing day, and, running without , stop to Southampton, could board the teamers a few hours later. If going ia Liverpool, It was formerly neces ary, if the steamer left on Saturday, to ave London on the preceding. Friday, ,nd spend the night In Liverpool; but vithin the last year or so it has been rranged that special steamer trains bould leave London for Liverpool on e day that the steamers sail, so that e delay and expense of past times are i this way avoided. At Southampton the train from I.,?i* .on carries the passengers direetly to bejdock in which the steamer, ~flshe elongs to the American line, is lying, nd to offset this advantage it is pro osed In Liverpool to have carriage ransfers made from the railway sta Ions to the steamer's pier without ex ense to the passengers, while later on de railway trains will ruAto the land ig pier. 'his readiness -to meet the xre favorable ~ 4cobditions existing Isewhere displayed by the Lverpool ock authorities has; no doubt, been timulated by the belief that unless ach inducements were held out the unard and White Star lines might find expedient to transfer their services > Southampton. DIEGO CANO'S PILLAR GONE. xplorer's Monument Moved to Kiel by the Kaiser's Orders. Diego Cano's pillar, marking the trthest south of the Portuguese dis >eries in 1485, has been removed by te Germans from Cape Cross in Da araland, South Africa, and placed in te collection of the Marine Akademie : Kiel. The pillar consists of a shaft x feet six inches high and a foot in ameter, with a capital seventeen tches deep, hewn out of a single piece marble. On the upper surface is ie mark of the place to which the oss, also brought to Kiel, was fasten I with lead. ,On one face of the capi .1 are the arms of Portugal, in the rar they first took in the -reign of hn II.; the other faces are covered ra Latin inscription In Gothic char ters, the substance of which is re ~ated in Portuguese in the same char ters on the shaft of'the column. It ads: "From the beginning of the ord there had elapsed 0.084 years, id from the birth. of Christ 1,455, hen the most exalted and most se no king, Don John IL of Portugal, dered a column to be erected here his knight,-Diego Cano." -T wo simn r columns from Punta Santa Maria, rmerly Cape Santo Agostinho, dated 8, and from Cape Negro, wvere re oved in 1891 to the Lisbon Museum. mperor William has sent out to Cape ross, to be erected on the spot from hii the pillar was taken, an exact e-simile of the monument, in polish t darkgray granite, with, in ad'dition, e arms of Gei-many and this inscrlp m In German: "By order of his maIj ty, the German emperor andl king of -ussia, William II., this wa:s erected 1894 if,place of the ori:ginal pillar, bich had become weatherworn in the urse oftyears." atrmonial'Separatrions in Egypt. The liveliest divorce 'centers of the 'est have to take second place when I mpared with matrimonial separa,1 ml in Egypt, according to the ac-I unts of the American consul to the nd of the Nile. Hie tells'of an alterca n that took place- b--tween one of hs) ost trusted servants and a veiled Jady, s wife, which squabble resulte~d in a vorce in less than five minutes. The ne 6jbened with reproaches emanat g from the woman. "Take care," warned the man. "J :t you from me!" Nothing daunted, the virago contin d until the exasperated man again peated "I put you from me." Still the torrent of abuse flowed in ssantly. Worried beyond endurance, e servant entered the house and so .red thirty shillings out of his year's hary of ten pounds, and, returning to ~ e woman said: .| -Here is/your dowry. Now .for the ird and last time I repeat, 'I put you i om me.' " At these words the woman went her' iy, and the astonished American irned that he had witnessed divorce ~ oceedings, for in Egypt the assertion, put you from me," made three times a wife by her husband, constitutes a iemn divorce without alimony, and ce the words are said the woman has rgtak to any further support from FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. The Inspired Author of "The Stas Spangled Banner." In the history of humanity it is occa. sionally seen how some one act car raise a man from obscurity and make him for all time famous. There lies his life before him gray, uneventful, unknown. Suddenly, as if a flame leaped out, the man, inspired by some divinity, does some one thing-achieves some single feat-and what was before dim and obscure becomes now radiant with a glory which.time can never take away. Such was pre-eminently the life of Francis Scott Key, the author of America's famous song, "The Star Spangled Banner." Living as an hon ored and respected citizen, never hav Ing done anythin; surprising or likely to make him . famous, one night's events inspired lim with a poem which will endure so long as the Unlited States exists. These reflections are called forth by the fact that the anni versary of Key's death occurred re cently, which event took place In Balti more in 1843. It was G3 years before that he was born in Frederick County, Maryland, the son of John Ross Key, a revolu tionary hero. Key's school days seem to have passed uneventfully. He prob- I ably studied and fought and played as every other boy has doneand gave no indication of what he would do in the future. His youth passed In the same con. t ventional way. He studied law, waC admitted to the bar and eventually became District 'Attorney of the Dis trict of Columbia. having removed to f Washington some years before. It was in 1814 that the events oc- N curred which led on te :key's great song. In that year the -British forces t were engaged in doing what they could " to harass the United States in retal. 'J tation for destruction wrought by our < soldiers in upper Canada. The city of t Washington had suffered,terribly at t their hands; fire and the sword being i called to the aid of the Inyders. Their t evil work done the English withdrew N to Marlborough, thirty-five iles from U the National Capital. Anrong the resi- E dents of this place was pr; William a Beanes, a wealthy but fiascibl e ind V hot-tempered planter. He n some way 9 managed to get into aquaT!ilWith-one o of the English soldiers an was taken T prisonar and- afterward conveyed- on c board the British ship Suvprige a Now Key happened td6b# a great t 'iend of Beanes, and heizng of his P plight came to the Britisif'hip under s a flag of trur:e' t*rrange:ketoii re- 0 lease. Here Key Imse-4%vas ditain- c ed, the ecmmande~iaying that the t, force were about to attack Baltimore; t that he could not allow them to de- b hart for fear they would give the c alarm, but that they must wait until v the bombardment was over. The at- t: tack was to be made on the water side f, ind by a small land force at the same f. ime, but the greater reliance was ti placed on the vessels. Baltimore's n htrbor was principally guarded by d Fort McHenry and a small earth bat- b tery on the Lazaretto and it was be- 0 lieved that these could be- easily ov'er- c ome. .d It was Sept. 13 that the attack on d bhe city was begun and continued in- s: Lecisively all that day and the -next. a 'hen news camne to the English that t' he land attack had been a failure, and s: heref ore, unless the forts on the b ~vater front could be taken, retreat as inevitable. Taking advantage of the darkness J mn the night of the 14th a number of ritish vessels moved to within a short ange of Fort Mcflenry and -opened a p udden and terrible fire. Five hundred h~ ombs fell within the ramparts, as nany more burst over them. Again ei he enemy made a desperate attempt y :n gain the city. They passed Fort Mc enry ~in safety, when suddenly the attery on the Lazaretto opened fire c pon them, and they were forced to r reat In much confusion. Meanwhile Key and Beanes on the s B-itish vessel awaited In agonizing usense the issue of the night. Would be eniemy prevail, sail pas't Fort Mc- e Iem-y and enter Baltimore there to '(peat the outrages heaped on Wash nton? They knew well how weak y ~omparatively wer-e the Americans, n ow strong the English; they knew a; rell the proud boasts made by the nmy and they feared they might ave a fulfillment all too true. What c1 dded to the men's uncertainty was hat after midnight they could no yngei- make out the fort and see the si ag there, for the air was filled with U le dense smoke of the cannons. All brough the night the suspe-nse insted, umt at 7 in the morning the firing ce-as f d. The large ships loomed throngh ' be mist and the silent foi-t lay beforea em swathed In vapor. With eager yes Key watched the shore, straining very nerve. The clouds began to lift q ttle by little. At last Key' discerned a ver the fort the flag, the symbol show- 0o ig that the place was still unconquer-b *d. the enemy unable to gain a victory. t was a supreme moment and in pired by it he gav'e forth the "Star pangled Banner." When Key arrived at Baltimore he ti refully copied out the verses which w e had hastily jotted down and sent t*d em to a printer by the hands of Capt. w ;njamin E-ades. They were set up in cc u'le as soon as possible, it being noted A t their head that they were to be sun-' fr > the tune of "Anacreon in Heaven," song then popular. When the verses came from the press aes took a copy and hastened to a' vern frequented by theatrical people. I ere he found- a crowd and read the oem aloud amid the wildest applause. 'erdinand Durang thereupon mounted i chair and sang the song for the first : me, which since then has issued from o many millions of throats. 'he ong wn intoduced to the pub- ! a Ic from the theater and It spread M4< ivildfire. It was sung in all the camp! lbout the city and was soon played b mhe regiment bands. One of the latte: played it at the battle of New Orleans rhe popularity of the song has neve: wavered; to-day it is known and sun, Cast and West, North and South, an( t is as tr*ly the country's nationa iymn as "God Save the Queen" is th4 inthem of England or the "Marseil aise" that of France. As for Key, he continued after th war to live in his native State as quiet y and uneventful as before. The burs >f genius which had produced th( 'Star-Spangled Banner" was never re yeated. He wrote other poems, to b( ;mre, and a volume of them was pub ished in 1857 after his death, but noth ng comparable with his first anc preatest strain. Key was buried it he cemetery at Frederick where his ,rave now lies, with no monumen1 Lijove it but the flag which is rever ntly renewed every year. But he doe. lot utterly lack a fitting memorial, foi lames Lick, of California, gave $60,00( o build one to him to- be placed it solden Gate Park, San Fsancisco. I1 vas executed in 18S5-7 by William W ;tory. iUNGRY BOA CONSTRICTCRS. ae of Them Swallowed Another al the London Zoo. A large number of visitors went tc he reptile house of the zoological gar ens, Regent Park, to see the nine-foot oa constrictor who automatically wallowed his brother, measuring eight eet, says the London Telegraph. Il ppears he could not help it. A pigeol vas given to the long snake as an even ag meal, and another was handed tj be shorter one for the same purpose, 'he nine-footer forgot all about iti urning his head to the other side, h4 ame in contact with the hind quar, ers of-a pigeon, but was apparently naware that the other end of it wal i the mouth of his companion. He ought it was a bit of his own bird rhich he had omitted to eat, and leis rely began to swallow it. Unfortu ately, his palate was out of order nd he failed to recognize where thi igeon ended and the other snake be an, for after he had got the remain:{ f the former in his mouth he calmly rent on swallowing his friend an( ompanlon eight feet in length. It wa;1 case of "put pigeon in the slot and 2e serpent will eat." Never has the rinciple of automatism had a more gnal triumph. It is a great pity the ther was not ten feet long. In thai ase-the eater-would have had one looi > spare, might have- forced himsell 2rough the other end,.and in revenge egun to eat the eater until they hal ansumed each other. As it was, the ictory went to the longer snake, and le-unhappy and unsuspecting tight. )oter found a scaly sepulcher in hi: :iend's interior. It is not surprisinq > hear that after the meal the gour. iand's skin was for some time undulf Istended. Yesterday, however, thd oa constrictor had nearly resumed it rdinary size and was getting on ymfortably as could be expected uni er the circumstances. The keepers eclare that this peculiar example oli 1akophagy must have arisen from a istake, because the two, during the velve months they had inhabited the tine apartment, "loved each other liko rothers." WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED. he Sort of Examination Johnnie Must Pass on Going to School. According to an exchange, new pu lis in the schools of the future will :tve to submit to this examiliation: Teacher-"Johnnie, have you got a ~rtificate of vaccination for small "Yes, sir." "Have you been inoculated for "Yes, sir." "Been treated with diphtheria 'rum?" "Yes, sir." "Had your arm scratched with chol a bacilli?2" "Yes, sir." "Have you a written guarantee that >u are proof against whooping-cough, casles, mumps, scarlet fever and old' "Yes, sir." "Have you your private drinking "Yes, sir." "Do you promise not to exchang:e >onges with the boy next to you, and ever use any but your own pencil ?" "Yes, sir." "Will yo~u agree to have your hooks miigated wi th sulphur and sprin~kle. m:r clothes with chloride of lime on1ce week? "Yes, sir." "Johnnie, you have met tihe first re irements of thc modern sanitarians sd may now climb over yonder rail, :cupy an isolated aluminum seat and igin making P's and Q's as your tirst sson." A Country of' floats. China has msore boats on the waters can there are in all the rest of thle orid combined. She is the best wa red country on earth, and has miore onderful waterways. S'upy1,. youI uld stretch a river wider thani the nazon in an alnost straight line om London to Vienna. rraal Avice. Mrs. Pooroff-Yes, sir, my husband t me in straitened circumstances; my o daughters are the only resourcestl tre left. Mr. Blunt-Then, madam, I should~ congly advise you to husband your sources before it is too late.-Truth [t's "agin" a maa if there is nothing in" him. FIGS AND THISTLES. IN repeated ptts out the eye of con. science. There are many OR ' religions, but only one Christ. 1 Our place in 1 eternity is to be decided by whom we love. If dust settles on your Bible, sin - ill get Into your t heart. Thinkers have their hands on the -heels of the world. Our weakness becomes strength rhen we take It to God. Tact wins where great gifts without t would fall flat. If we are afflicted, it Is because God ees a good- reason for it. Is the burden heavy? Don't try to iear it. Give it to Christ. God can say a good deal in a flower o those who know Him. The less we have, the 'more angels ronder when we give. Gold never stops looking bright be ause somebody calls It brass. The money made on whisky and vice: a the devil's working capital. The preacher may be locked up, but ds Bible can't be kept In prison. While Joseph was wearing the Iron hain his golden one was being made. When the ehurch Is cold It can only ie warmed by fire that comes from God. God needs every man who knows lim, and knows every man* who needs Ulm. The lazier a man Is the greater things te is' going to do when to-morrow omes. Make your life a ministry of love, and xgels will take an interest in your Iork. You take'something from the burden if sorrow when you give it soniething o do. If God gives you a rose, thank Him 'or It. If He gives you a thorn, do the ame. The Bible begins-to grow the moment re begin to live up to the Bible we now. It Is only the man who can rejoice in he Lord always, who has a mountain oving faith. Satisfy one desire, and you will find hat it has brought a large and hungry amily along. Every dart the devilamins at the man rho bears the shield of faith is pointed rith a doubt. We don't have to open the New Tes ament very wide to find out that God oves sunshine. When God's Word is made a lamp to he feet, the walk will be in the paths of c 'ighteousness. The devil will have to go out of busi tess on the day that he can't make a lie e ook like the truth. Looking at the crowd no doubt enter alned Zaccheus, but hearing Jesus' t speak transformed him.f A stereotyped prayer may possibly. >e better than none, but it never brings town fire from heaven. z The dangerous thing about putting off 1 'epenting until to-morrow, is that we nay be putting It off forever.' The man who Is running before the :hariot of Ahab to-day will be running ~ 'or the juniper tree to-morrow. It Is more needful to be able to suffer ong and be kind, than It is to preach wilth the tongue of an angel. Had the serpent In Eden been as ig torant of human nature as some )reachers, there would have been no ball A FavIval meeting Is sure to drag I 'hen people can see clear across the 'touse thait the preacher -is not expect ng much.a The reason all things work together .'or good to them that love God Is be- ti :aus;e love is always the gainer by be- ti n~g tested. it There is something wrong with the piety of a Christian whose religion y iever attracts any attention outside the a :hurch. The Lord is not helped any by the ihouting of a man who only pays twen- ti -y-five cents a year to help take the 1 vorld for Christ. Travels 30 Miles an Hour. h The fastest steam launch In England b it the present time is the Hlibernia. 0 c-hich makes a rate of thirty-nine miles Ln hour. The boat is 48 f-eet 3 inches onmr. 7 feet 3 inches broad and 1 foot . ~I% inches in draught. Her engines area ;wo cylinders, both higrh pressure. 1% nches in diameter, stroke 6 inches, rey. & >lutions from 750 to 1,050 per minute. 0 Che propeller M three-bladed. At or- ' linary speed the boat makes but little I ash. With a slight touch of the regni- s ator, she leapt forward, and as the 3 meed. increases she( sinks slightly to 0 :hie stern, while rising by the head. un ;il at a critical high speed the bow rises a I:lean out of the water. and~ restina on .n xer keel the boat shoots ailongr between r. L double wall that hides about two :hirdsi Prf her hull completely.-Phia: Big Forg-ng. . h The largest steel plate ever rolled, ,a only in this country, but in ~the h vorld, was turned out recently by theb Wellnian Iron an-d Steel -Works. at lhester, Pa. The dimensions of the al ->late are 450 -inches..long by 130 inches :wvide, aufl. 1, .inceg thick. It Is in :ended astrudde'r lPlate for one of the ~ new "ocea~ :gre'yhounds" contracte~d .5 for by the International Navigation Jit -:omp~any w ith the Messrs. Cramp, thly j Philnadelnbia shbuilders. -- - News in Brief. China exports lizards. -Oatmeal is said to make bone. -Aluminum paper is announced. -Atlanta (Ga.) trolleys will have air brakes. -Emerson, Nebraska, has one brick building. -Elephants' skins are tanned -to make carpets. -Zrich has a 2000 horse power eleo tric locomotive. -Oatmeal is "one of the healthiest rticles one can eat." -California has had the best season Wver k:own for drying raisins. -The income of the faml of the Ptnce of Wales is about 0%O0 a Fear. --Frog legs, preserved in glass from France, are something new in deti macies. -The gabardine, so often mentioned - by Shakespeare, was a cloa for rainy weather. -English mufflins are now declared o he made better here than in the old ouhtry. -Cyclones in miniature have been ro duced by passing eletrie discharges brough gases --Savee' breads andtripe when prop. rly cooked, are the most easily diges ;ed of a-imal tood. -The inventor of "Saratoga Chips" ias just died at Saratoga, N. Y., aged ighty-two years. -The little canals which permeate the entine of the teethare only '1-12,000-of n inch in diameter. - The average weight of an American nan is 141, pounds; of an -American voman, 324J pounds. -An eminent Boston electrician de lares the common. poplar tree 'to be tture's lightning rod. -A cute madLess and saicide most rcqueatly follow in cases 4where people .r :.deprived of all fluid. - Brittany was so caled from the fa hat for many centaries it was claim* iy the kings of Great Britam. -Local scientists of Findlay, Ohio, ave a project to produce istural ga y pumpxing air into the earth. -Men who imagiike that they re horougubreds, discover finally: that hey are only plain work animals - -A Parsee sacred fire has burned, Lextinguished, in the temple -at.ei. uie, Persia, forstwelve ninin. Fort Garland, Col., ik believed to e the driest spot in the United Statis. he rainfall there i. only six inches.,.a ear. -A corn stalk seventeen and a half et in height is the boast of the Ma-, inska County [Iowa] AgrIculturdl So iety. -To prevent wrinkles the ladies of be Court of Catherine de Medici wore forehead cloth tightly bound on their eads. -A farmer of Newton, Me., han sued e School Board for the water used om his well during the last eighteen -Jasper Parish, of Blois, Ga., has as ionster potato. It is twenty seven aches in circumference and weighs 71 'ounds. -J. F. Irwin, of Oswego, N. .1has. n interleaved Bible which coat him 10,00)0. It is in sixty imp~erial folio -olumes. -Some American mayors i-eeived a rew Year s card of greetilg from Sil anus Trevail, the 765th Mayorgf Tru ro, England. -A stone weighing 746 grains ws emoved from the right kidney of Fred 'ett, of Chicago, through an opemag~ ade in the liver. -Stockings were first worn in Italy ithe year 1100. Before that period was customary to swathe the --feet ad legs in bandages. -At Leeds, England, there isanrelec -ic clock which has been contmonsly eking since 1840. its motive power natural electricity. -Mound City, Mo., has a thirteen, ear-old boy who weighs 242 pounds, Ld Casco, Me., a twelve-year-old girl -ho weighs 225 pounds. -A bullet was recently removed from ae head of an Indiana man, where it ad been deposited in an Ecuadorian abel lion many ye~irs belore. -On the Londcn, .l~over and Chat-. am Railroad, in E~'gland, they use a adcar which is propelled by means a bail wvhen the wind blows. -Eblenezer Long, of31anions, Fla., as born perfectly black some sixty. ur Tears ago. He is- now as white any white man in the country. -The Pennsylvania .lsilroad ha de ded to increase the standard weight rails on its main line from eighty eo pounds to a Lundred pounds. -An eror of a thonsandth part of .a cond iu an astronomical~ oldilation~ ould mean -an error of 200,000,000, )O miles in the distance of a star. -Eiighteenth century chairs are now ade with great success bo'i in Con. cticut~ and Micigan, and find a ady sale in Engiand and .Holland. -Feathers knled a nsan at Lamoite, 1 It was a big I undle of then which ere being hoisted to a loft, when bie rope broke aad they fell on tuis ad. -An alloy of .aluminum with copper iving a rich yell, w hue, and said to Sproof against -acids, is being used r tableware tinder the nm.of- "g-od uminum. ---. ~ -It is reported 'that the famo' oger Tich bornehah turned up sane asylum in Sydney, be May< r and other promn t people is sad bhamv that he is the genuine