Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The t;rowth of One nenerauion. Thirty years is one generation, am it is estiinated that 2Y) generation will take one back to ih time o Adam. In these 2,0 generation much has been done by maukind il the way of improvenent and mch o what has been done is now elaimred b, the modern woman as due to woman ly influence. Unfortunately statistics are wantin, for a considerable portion of the abov period, and the modern wo:nan i forced to base her argument more o less on comparisons and analogy. I may be of interest in this con to view the progress made by the se. in the generation between the last tw censuses, as shown by offieial stati. ties. These fignres show a resirka ble increase in the nuniyer of wmeI as wage-earners in the professionIs. few of the more important cla-ses ar tabulated as follows: Women employed as- 13)3. 187 Actors................. 3.911 61 Architects.. ........... - Artists and teachers of art.. . 1 ) 4 Authors. literary and seienti1i - Parsons ... ...... - . . -. -J --- -21 1: Chemists. assayists and meta! lurgists.....,.. ....., .... - Clergymen............ . 9 Dentists..........--- - --) Designers, draughtsmea and Inventors............ .. Engineers and surveyors.. 123 Journalists................. - Lawyers.................... 21 kusicians and teachers of mu sic. ................. 34,5 5,7 Government officiaLs,Federa!, State and local.......... 4. 75 41 Physicians and surgeons..... 4.55 5! Teachers...... ..... ..... 245. 5 81.0 Theatre managers, showLen. etc............. ......... O1 11 Veterinary surgeons.......... 2 Bcokepers and aecountants 274.777 Clerks and copyists........ : f.01; 8,0 Stenograpers and tvpewriter.'. 21.1i Saleswomen.........':....... 53.-19 2,7 It has been chiefly within the la, five years, however, that "the connin woman" has begun to take a really Ni tional position, and it was not lint 1892 that the tendency becarne a craz and women began to crow-I into ever branch of business. Startlin; as ax the above figures, the census of 100 may be expected to show an increast which, gratifying as it may be to tl woman enthusiasts, will undoutied demand the close attention of tho. who are authorities on inlustri problems.-New York Mail and R press. Ma'i-.i Wait ag It is very interesting t, g> thron a wall paper factory and follow th processes of mannfactare. The de signs are the first tiiin; observed Formerly there was a searCity of these but now there is a ilood, and a mann factarer must exercise much artisti taste and bnsiiess ability in makin aelections. Various designers hav different specialties -some flower: others architectural idea, -etc. -an of recent years architects have de ted many of their spare moments t originating wall paper designs. -complete design consists of thre pieces --side wall, border and ceiling The general width of patterns of th side wall and ceiling, as used in th tryt.1e and msnufactured by America machinery is eightyeen inches, and th lent h of .the repeat in the p~ttea eigbt, eleve~ and threedirths o: fourteen and sthree~adrths inches, a Kecharacter of the de e shorter repeats being th tisfactory to the trade in genu Many of the best effects ar ed in papers containing onla -to six colors, but as many a nty or twenty-five are sometime 2~. Each c->lor and shade in a de gn means a separate roller to th annfacturer.-New York Telegram The Ladies. T1-e pleaant effect and perfect safety wih which ladies may use the California liquid las ative, Syrusp"of~ Figu, under all conditions. mnakes It their favorite remedy To get the true and genuine article, lock for the name ol the California Figt Syrup Co., printed near the bnttom of the. 'ak;. Mrs. Winslow's Soothin: Syrup for childrei teething. softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain. eures wind colic. 25c. a bottle -Money Speas in rarker. Glaser Tenie Ys well invested. It enb4ues pain, and brings better -digestion, better strength anid health. After physicians had given me up. I wm saved by 'iso's Cure.-RALPn EnIFw, Wi] liamnsport,'Pa., Nov. 2?, 1S83. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomti son's Ey e water. Druggists sell at 25c per botti A Good Appetite Indicates a healthy condition of the systen2 and the lack of It sho'ws that the stomani and digestive organs are weah and debilt tated. Hyod's Sarsaparllla has wonderfn power to-tone and strengthen these organs and to create an appetite. By doing this Il restores the boly to'health an;4 prevents at taeks or disease. Biemember Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the only true blood purifier prominentl: before the public eye today. H oo d's Pills he aEr~lnne pil"am * 4SK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR * NU~ : T IS FO D INXVALID S * JOHLN CARLE & SONS, New York. * A Bo-kneer ans a-so-,lrlarr A UOO k keeptgPi within your reach b: a ldr esin; Al E N C IuK EY. Kror~zn N ich. -.;,q a lM.'t -inh h.. ~ ~ cvi'~'Failsu ro iste G$ray - r(:., to its YOut ful Color. CG;i Qe! :g.-SheS s irlain g. S. N. U.--30. t-.S mLi Ai.L. EtSE EAIS -- Eeet'.:h W rup. Tastes Goocd. Use a : e. d erirteists. ON THE GREAT SALT MIAK STRANGEST BODY OF WATER 1 THE UNITED STATES. Impossible to Drown In Its Satli Depths - Queer Experience Captain Boyton. HE Great Salt Lake is seven miles long and fifty mil across in its widest part. has an area of 2000 squa miles, and of late years its greate t depth has not exceeded forty feet. ] early summer, says the San Francis( Chronicle, this remarkable sea is tv feet higher than it is in the fall, os . ing to the melted snow brought doiN . bv its three largest tributaries, 1 Bnr, Weber and Jordan Rivers. Th in d nx of fresh streams does not appr! (1,Ilv lessen the saltiness of the mai body of water, though its proportic of solid matter varies with the oscill tions of its surface, being naturall 1 greatest when the lake is shallowes 2 Those engage4 in the manufacture < silt here say that i, takes six galloi of water to make one gallon of sal .. f any one doubts that the water < the lake is taken up by evaporatioi and leans to the hypothesis of an u: derground outlet, let him expose - the sun and wind of this high altitu< a vessel of this same water and see a what an incredibly short time ti i3 liqnid is redneed to solids. - The Salt Lake shores are mostl gray flats o- indescribable barrennes The scant dwarf sage on the water edge is often beautifully flowered wil a delicate frostwork of salt spray. ( the northern slopes and down t] 6 western border there are numero sprius running pure brine. B 1 stranger than this is the fact that C' ,t several places fresh water rushes o of the sand on East Antelope with . fifteen feet of the brimming lal i basin. The one perfect beach is e Garfield,.a dozen or so miles west y where th3 Jordan River is crossed ai e at the feet of the Oguirrhs-a grand 9 pictures(ne range, in whose clel throughout the summer the snow Ii e liks fallen clouds. The first bathii v in the lake was done at Black Roc e on Garfield Beach, which has been kl resort for picnickers since the ear . fifties. The various groups of islands this Dead Sea of the Western Conl nent are fragments of mountain chai gracefally straung out on the flashii bosom of this strange water. T: largesD and best known is Antelop which was once used by the Mormo as a cattle corral for the church her This isl.4d is sixteen miles long 1 four wide, and lies twenty miles the south coast. The next in size Stansbury, which is fourteen miles length, while Fremont is seven mil( and Carrington two-thirds as long Fremont. The others, Strong's Kno SGannison, and Dolphin, are group Sfifty miles to the Northwest .of Ani Slope, and are superb limestone clif almost wholly without vegetatic an.1 haunted by millions of gu eother sea fowl. 0 The four largest AiWare used nwinter .das for sheep or cattl Sare uninhabited and withot fresh water except Antelope, who one ,house -an ancient adobe, bui here by the Mormons fifty years a; -is occupied by the island herd< and his family. There are huadrei of acres of goal grazing on the eas cra slope, and a few years ago., whe the Government set apart the Sa Lake islands as a reservation for o: nearly extinct buff'alo, somne sixl American bison and for ty elk wea transported to Antelope. The owne: of the island endeav~oredt to breed tI buffido in with Alderneys, but so fI have not succeeded, the shaggy, fierce eyed beaists rebelling at every al proach to domestication. The el proved even more unsatisfactory, fc after a feaw days of restless roanir tuey took it into their antlered hea< to swim back to the main shore iii body, and landed on a point fiftet miles fro~m Ant'elope, where they wei promptly shot down'by the settle: thereabouts. Along the shores of the lake and:i many of the island b-.ys the watt presents a remnrkable appearane;, skind of madder red spread out fc acres. Upon investigation the cans of this sangninary color is fonn I -be a thick jayer of floating larvte, tl Schrysalides of worms the size at shaoe of an oat kernel. Where the: accumulations exist an offensive sme: :is noticeable, and is the one disagre: able feature of these desolate shore IIn early days the Utah Indians co Ile'ted and dried the larvae and use the mnixture as a musb. In the fall of the year the marsh< at the month of the rivers that emi into the lake are covered by fl-cks< wil.1 geese and ducks, with somaetimi a statelv blue heron or swans wit beautifni white pliumage. Their cheel ful clatter and the fresh green of to coarse grass and singing weeds coi trast delightfully with the dreary tini and solitariness of the immnediate det er1. There are also numbers of sei gulls, which visit the marshes to fisl coming thirty miles from their rool eries on Gunnison andi its neighborin is!es. The main food of the gulls: known to be the intinitesimal lii ibings found in the bitter brine small winged shrimp, a smaller fly an its larvre, the bla.:k worm befoi alinded to-the three atornia cret tur.'s Ihat comprise the animal lifeC the hake. Bathing in the lake is one of th most delightful experiences imagini ble- It is next to impossible to sin in stuch dense water, and one fleal easily with head, arms, knees andl fet entirely exposed, and this withou moving so mneh as a finger. The'batl ers wabble this way and that like manv corks east adsiifE. Swimmnin the o>ld way is evidently hard worn but an habitue of these waters wi throw his body highout and go han over band.*itb a speed not excelled fresh water. Salt. Lake people wi tell yon what hard work the famot 'ovnton had in 188G of his attemipte swim to Antelope Islanud and the te: irb'.e suffkrings he endured while bu feted about in his rubber suit all ot night A 'wind fromn the northwe: t'ew a stiff' breeze, and the spra h led in his face and hardened thea unto sal. In the morning the exchaus ed man was thrown up like a .rubbt baill in the marsh eaut ot Black Roel oni the main shore, and afterward d "A man can't get this warer on his head and stan- it. If I were fort feet under water in the worst storml 1 the Atlantic ever knew, it wouldn't be as bad as beirg. under one foot here. It was the weigi; of the water that te knocked me out, and there isn't A enough money in the world to tempi me to try it again." v One of the many mysteries of the Great Salt Lake is its irregular habil t of shifting its bed. Three years agc saw the completion of a fashionable bathing resort on a point called Lake n side. The firsi summer people came I by the thousands, and were enthusias tic ii their praises of the bathing at "Lake Park.-' But alas for the uwnea of the resort and the narrow-gaen ie railroad that made houriy trip' b-ren and fourth to the city! Bfore the next season opened the row of ltb houses stood uphigh and (try a gaarter of a mile from the talt zone thet con fined the lake's liquid green the red roofed pavilion was deserted and xind swept, and empty, sun-nrnekel benches were set forlornly aboiit the unuse,l walks; the lake had turine its back upon the "Iark," and wonil have none of it. The handso:no Cnev biuillings, whose Fole tenants are now tfl "bpirds of the air" and the horned t. ', but ad-l full lesertness to C'. wide, lonely waste of Lakeside. The long whnrf, once the moorin of e pleasure craft, is left to the desuiltory use of stockmen, who anchor an oc casional "cattle boat" alongsid. after its bellowing cargo has been unloa-ded on the chute hard b. One of the first things that strikes a newcomer is the comparative absence of boat life on the Great Salt Lake. A sail in sight is the exceptiou, an:1 has rather a startling cec on the otherwise empty water. There are several schooners owned by private in parties, a kind of toy ste.tme called e the Tailla, that makei elrcarn 'us at from Saltair, and the gay httle of Cambria. There are also two. or teia id schooner-rigged cattle boab, we'i ly are really the safcst boats on the l.ne, t and are used chiefly to transport stok es from Antelope and Fremont. k, ECIENTIFIC AN) INDUSTRIL. a - - l Aluminum is being used in making . the bodies of cab?. i- In nearly all the arid land regions water can be obtained at a depth of 300 to 600 feet. e A Pittsburg company has secared a e, large foreign contract for 'aluminam a for army purposes. d. A steel ship hai been constructel -y in Cardiaf, with the stan-ling rigging, 3f as well as hull. all of steel. .is The castor oil plant and the tobacco in plant are both looked upon by the s animal world with almost unauimous as disapproval. b M. de Montessus de Ballore has cal aculated that in the known earthquake regions of the world a shock occurs on ste average every half hour. - - - - nmp1~n tunnel in Switzerland will begin two and a half kilometres is from Brieg and come out twenty--five' ~kilometres from Domo D'Ossola. Lt A plumb-line suspended a few feet i from the side of a large building in It lines a little from the verpenilicular, o because the weight is attracted by the r o~ince. s There have bee:, instances where Sbodies, when exhumaeil, have been *found turned on their faces; but that Shas been explained as having been Scaused, by some chemical action accru Sin. dug the process of decomposi The Bolivian tin miL's are very erich, but they are generally situated rat an altitude of over .14,000 feet above sea level, so that between high freights, lack of railroads and insuli rcient capital they are hardly devel oped at all. jA new device for utilizing coal dust a for fuel is to mix coal, molasses and a water, coal dust and petroleum. An cother-fuel mixture is that- of sawdust, s Irish moss, asbestos fibre and burned limestone, these being heated together n and made into bricks with coal dust. r Take a polished knitting-needle and dip it into a dleep) vessel full of milk; a withdraw it immediately in an upright rposition. Some of the fluid will hang eon to the needle if the milk is Pure, 4 but if water has been added, even in sinall- proportions, no milk will re .-main-on the needle. Rode a Iforse a Thousand Miles. 3. An interesting test of the endurance . of the native Western horse. for catv Iairy service was made this month by Li~uteuant Cornelius C. Smith, of ~Troop H, Second United States Cay airy, says the Washington Star. Lieu tenant Smith has numerous friends and several relatives in Washington b to whom the feat he has performed is awelamatter of pride as it is of in e terest. Starting from Fort Wingate . April 10 he set out to ride 1035 miles to San Antonio, Texas, in one month's .time. The horse was part Spanish in t. reoding, weighing 99S pounds. The journey was a rough one, over moan .tain and desert, witta little subsisteuce ,in plabes except the wild grasses. !3e ~ing an old plainsman, an athlete, a flue e equestrian and up in Indiani languages a and signs, Lieutenant Smith was well d fitted to undertake sucb a test. He e reached San Antonio May 6. .The ho6se looked well and had lost but - ifty-four pounds. 'yclone Cllars ior Iowa Schools. .- Superintendent of Public Instruc k tion Sabin, in answer to questiob4, holds.- that School Boards are fully 6 authorized by lawv to build cyclone cellars nnd to use the contingent funds of the district in so doing. -He places the cyclone cellar under the general head of school expenses. The law for it or not, it is better to have a place 1of refuge and not want it than to want it when the clouds are raging and not d have it. It doesn't invite a conflagra n tion to insure one's home. One is in no more danger of being killed with i nn accident policy in his pocket than a he is without it. Money might be I spn for better purposes than cyclone [ celars; still, pupils and teachers who e ae a an experience with cyclones tcanuot- he0 induced to think so. Da epot (Iowa) Democrat. S."..-e uollege, r'.nfrianti, navlng a0 'reteed taw chl:iIe- of -. -,r an athletic t -L~$t, arrangeurents- ar now being made to iav" it o'.m- on OetoY' 5. at New York, to T[1E FIEI) OF ADVENTURE; f THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DAE.- ; ING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. t C Single-handed, John Shy Stood Off; Seventeen Apaches - A Whole Family 3Iagnetizer!. t J OHN T. SHY, of Deming, New, f AlMexico, manazer of the Mis- t souri-Florida Cattle Company, t single-handed, fought and stood o'l seventeen Apaches all one after- E 6r0On. It was ten years ago when Uhief Geronimo was on the warpath t aI d rnaking things warm for ranch n;wnand prospectors in Southern New Mexico and Arizona. John Shy at i hit time, the same as now, was the nuaer of the cattle company, whoss r u:;e lies about. the Florida Mount i twenty miles south of Demin. Wit'i his wife and little son, he re 41e.l unon the ranch in a neat frame bunse. in a cottage close by live1 Mr. nI Mr. Yeager, from Missouri. Mr. Ye i.er was one of the owners of the ciiiti outfit. Everything h-0 -ou: on prosperously and pleasantly since th. rmh hal been starte,1, an I all )romi-e I well for the future. On a briht autunmn morning in 1.S5, Mr. anl Mrs. Yeager drove to )ening in their carriage. There t they ma:le so:ns purchases, called on i friends in towa, an], in the after noon, started for home. It was the a lat time they were seen alive by their J fricnd'. Meantime, at the ranch, v John Shy, who hal been huntin ;traye i stock out on the rn, cIMa e back to his house at noon, playel1 wit% c his boy while dinner was preparing, o ndl then the family sat down at the I table. I Xomethin; darkeneI the window, r mil Mrs. Shy screamed. Au Apache f too.l just outside in the act of aimin. i gun at her husband. As Job'i Shy v ;pring for his rillai the Inlia fire 1, -nissing him. The yells of a band of fa li- and the tr.vnplirt- of hoofs >utside e.mno ilmaltaneously with the narsting upward of fiamos and smoke, 4howing thit the ho-iehai been fire1. Back of the honse was a hillside thic'dy wooled with a low growth of pinou andl setub oa1k. Oat through the back door the inmates broke for the hillside, the husband coverin; their retreat with his rifle. Before they could gain a Dlace of shelter an Apich bullet wouaded the boy. Dropping behind a boulder John Shy toll his wife and boy to secrete them selves in the thicket in the rear, an then gav-. battle to the Indians. It was a mounted band of seventeen Apaches that he had to deal with. While some of them fired uin him from a distance others disuiounted and crept as near him as they dared, taking advantage of every object and inequality of ground to shelter their approach. They were el...aa and every tie h ffdhis head it broughta .Wiof bullets about him. t -die~ the Indians nearest him kept up their firing to ~compel him to re main closely under cover, the mount-t ed1 ones suddenly charged upon him. Peering from behind his sheltering .~ rock, John Shy saw ten Apaches rid ing at top speed toward him, not a: hundred yards away. Without heed ing the bullcts fromn the enemies in concealment about him, he rose on C one knee, and, steadying his elbow o npon the bonlder worked his repeating 0 rifle with the skill that comes from E coolness and a lifetime of practice. s Eis first shot dropped one of the 1 ponies flat, at his second a warrior 1 rolled to the ground and at his fourth or fifth shot another warrior dropped ~ his gna an i clutched at his elbow. That was enough for the red riders c who came no further, but picking up I the fallen Indian from the ground I circled back and got away out of C .ran:;e ar. fast as they coull1. While this was going on bullets from the In- 1 dians lying ini con 3ealment were fall- f ing about him an-1 repeate1ly chippe.l I the roci, an 1 t., glaneing, passe] r thrug~h his clothes with -mt wounding him. Pra;ently the In lians charge 1 again, but this tim-e they hil larnedl to respect John Shy's' rifbe, and did not venture so near as before. They circle l bac'., ani, afar thit, a fe-. of thcnm re-natne I vrith the ponies while the other disaiountel andl joine 1 those who were attieking him fro-u concealment. All the chiaracteristic skukin:; and strategenis of the Apceswre cmployed in the at tempt to kill this lone white man;. Sonie of the [ndians crept ron-il to I the hillside so'as to attack him on the tank and rear, which compelled him to leave the boulder and crawi baLck into the thicket behind him. H~ere the Indians were loath? t-. follow him, not liking; the notion of coming to close qnarters wis a man who hel i blown sach nerve- andi readiness in the < use of his rifle. Somiewhere among 1 theo scrub oak an:1. pinon he knew his 4 rnfe and boy were hiding, but he did i~ot dare call to them, as every sonl r movemient made in the thicketJ brought a volley from the Indians aimed at the spot. So lie worked back to the higher land, from which to get a better outlook and a point of vatage for firing upon the enemy. . When at last the Apaches' firing eased it was as mnuch of an indication of ai strategem to ent~ice the vhitei a from cover as of the dopstd ure of the Indians for goo:L. 'cowb~oy ri.ding by at a distanco saw the onn.:.og house and hcar~l thei soundl of tiring at the Missouri Fior ida ranch. He set spurs to his horse, rodeinto Deming, ant reportel that the;Apace hid attacked the ranch. A volunteer party was quickly mns terd and started out to the rescue os the whites. Half way to the ranch they camne npon the first evidences of the~Apaches' work. Tfhe carriage of Ithe Yeagers. who had left t Deming that afternoon, lay -:verturned beside thi: Itrail, and aear it was stretched Mr. Yeaecr, shot to death and mutilated. Frther alon; they fonnd the holy of Mrs. Yeager. Hastening on through the gathering drkness the rescuing party drew near the ranch. A frightened, disheveled womau camne hurrying along the trail to meet them. It was Mrs. Shy, who, the coumnl of the firing having long Isince died away, had crept fromn the hicket, laid her wounded boy near the embers of the house, thrown over Ihim her calico dress to shield hirr from the frosty air, and now was on -e w.. ...,, Deng for help. For read that Indians might still be lurk :g near she had not dared calD out >r her husband, who she feared was illed. She turned nud went back to e ranch with the rescuers, who with aills and signal shots set out to find ohn Shy. At last their voices reached im and were understood. He up. eared from the bushes at the head of he crest, and, deeply anxiousas to the .te of his wife and boy, came down > the party to learn the glad news of heir safety. The house burned by the Apaches as never been rebuilt. Indeed, so reat is Mrs, Shy's horror of the placo Rt, while her husband still has the etive managernent of Ih. cattle com any'a estate, she cannot ha indnee 1 o go near the scene so identi.e-l to er with terror and suffering, anl th amily now live on a ranch several iles away. nueer Story About Human 31 . A remarkable story comes from th i pper Yahima, in Washingtoun Stte. 'wo years ago, Mr. Peter Stro-nst-vit eated on a piece of lanl near w'o it s now known as Borax Spring-, ha aimily consisting of his wife an 1 two ildren. A few days after hi:. setle aent Mr. Stromstadt discoverci a pring close to the shack he l erce ad, the water of which was strougIr mprognated with iron, but not in alatable. Mr. Stromstadt dug out 24 deepened the spring, and sinco ly, 1833, the family have usel tha -ater for all domestic purposes. On the night of April 2, a l vy ectrical storm nasse I over the Cas ,es, accompanie. by viviJ displLv.; f lightning. The following niorning [r4. Stromstadt, while kindIling tI re in tho stove, foan I it alm )3 in ossible to separate the stove liiter rom her han-l. Her husbau.1, hear i; her scream, ran to her assistance, hen, to his suiprise, he found that e, too, experiencel great difficulty n detaching the particle of iron with hich his hands came in contact. reakfast was finally prepared and the amily sat down to the meal. The bhildren, two girls of five and seven ears, drank their milk from the tin aps, and upon raising the cups to heir lips found themselves unable to etach the cups from their mouths. r. Stromstalt, who is an intelligent nmigrant from Sweden, was non )lsed, and while unable to account or the wonderful occurrences, never heless laughed at his wife's exciteI leclarations that the family were be ritched. Mr. Stromstait has written , friend in town. He says that the mall bed on which the children sleep s upon roller casters, and that in the orning the bed is invariably pointed torth and south, the bed being a lit Jo to the east of north. The case is rne-t the most r - IbI,j-,r--Yo-'z. X -ie7er-of Lthe3 cademy of Sciences, to whom the cir- I mstances were related, states th it e Stromstadt family have become iturated with iron, which was ren ered magnetic by the passage of elec icity from the clouds to the earth uring the stolrm on the night of April aid they are actual human magnets:, Kept the Crew at Bay. The three-masted schooner Sallie , which recently arrived at the3 port Philadelphia from Rio Janeiro, has a board a Nor vegan sailor by thi ame of Lars Jansen, who, by his as ciates, is accounted one of the hand st men that ever shipped before the The schooner carrie I a mixed cargo f hides, coffee and other merchan ise. Three days out fromi Rio it be ame necessary for Lars to go into the old for an axe, which had been left ehind when the cargo was being load d. He was searching about for the nplement when he heard a pecaliar issing sound apparently about ten eet away to the left. This did not rightn him at first, but when it was epeated, loa.der tha'n before, he be ame a little nervous. The next morning he confided tha tory to one of the sailors, a fellowt antryman, namel Nels Petersen. Lc.oringly the hatchi was reopeneli nd thetwo men went into the hold. The lantern which Jansen carried ad scarcely softened the gloom of the ld when the same cl.1 hissing so m hoe I throa ;h the room. Suddenly, ad almost simultaneous1ly, their eyes ere faeus.l upoa a sight which s a it 'jolent s'livers do'w'1 the spinalbc.>l mus of b~oth men. (bile I upxn a. a!e of hidea, an l' preparing for a trike, w.L all enorflmias s.arpaat. Its e were' lika ball; of fire, anl as it miittei thit peculiar hissing soun:1 ts poisonous fangs dar te.l oat anl in t narrow jaws ina menacing minuer. The ship's crew was alarmed,=bat >r several days no one was courage ns enough to go into the hold. It cae absolutely necessary to do this a the seventh day ount, however, and fter arming themselves with revolr r~ and being. reinforced by Captamo lairtes, both Jansen and Petersen eturned to the hold to annihilate the nnwelcoe passenger. Petprsen is a o 1marksman and the first shot ,urced the snake's heal. T'he snake wais of a anl gray color, stu'pos2 olarker gray ca th.elow, r bi l, and with a bro snish blac tripe long the back. It measure-l i iht feet nine inche in len gth, an I ttthe largest part of tha boly maUs rel seven inches in circuimferenice, {w it ever got into thue hold is a mys ey, but it is believel it was citriled u with one of the bales of hiles. tenarkable Escape of a Soldiere While storiniug the lirst linl> of orts at Port Arthar, durin; thec war vih Caing' a Japanese soldier boeong n to the Twenty-fourth Reginent aisd his nrf to lire at an unnusially xespicaos Chinan.. Just asj ho waas bout so lire, a bullet fro:n the memvs dde ca'ne whizzing ou, and, n-rvelon; to relate, entere d the bar -l of his own gun as smoothly and neatly as if the muzzles hut been plaed mouth to monthl. Oi course here was an explosion, and the sol d'.s piece was shattered to the stock, bt without his receiving~ any injuries whtever. A fractional variatiou to ti right or left would have caused hh hoile ballet to enter his head or fac, so that his escape was nothing 4irt of miraculous. He preserved he stock of the now useless Weap.)n, n-d fterward exhibited it to) hit Jolonel, who permitted him to keep ita eet ofhi narrow esespe. Ie W Kiot ronm nimsel. (From Mhe Toy, . Y., ims) It. W. Edwards. of Lansingburgb, was pros. trated by sunstroke during .the war and it has entailed on him peculiar and serious consequences. At the present writingEr. E. is a prominent officer of Post Lyon, G. A B" Cohoes, and a past aid do camp on the staf of the commander-n-chief Of Albany Co. In the interview with a reporter be sad: -A "I was wounded and sent to the hospital at Winchester. They sent me, together with others, to Washington-a ride of about 10 miles. Raving no room in the box cats We were placed face up on the bottom of fat cars. The sun beat down upon our unpro tected heads. When I reached Washington' I was insensible and was unconscfous for ten' days while in the hospital. An abscess gathe ered in my ear and broke; it has been gath ering and breaking ever since. The result: of this 100 mIle ride an, sunstroke was heart disease. nervous prostration, insomnia and rheumatism; a completely shattered system whfeh gave me no rest night or day. As a last resort I took some Pink Pills and they helped me to a wonderful degree. 1y rhea matism is gcne, my heart failure, dyapeps and constipation are about gone and the abs scess in my ear has stopped discharging and my bead feels as clear as a bell, when before It felt as though.it would burst, and my once shattered nervous system is now nearly sound. Look at those flngers,"Mr.FiA s said. "do they look as if there was any rheu. matism there?" He moved his fingers rap ly and freely and strode about the room e a young boy. "A year ago those fingers wern gnarled at the joints and so stiff that I could not bold a pen. My knees would swellu and I could not straighten my legs out y joints would squeak when I moved them. That is the living truth. "When I came to think that I was goin to be crippled with rheumatism, together -with the rest of my ailments I tell you life seemed not worth living. :. suffered from despondency. I cannot tegin to tell yo said Mr. Edwards. as he drew a longbeI "what my reeling is at present. I think I you lifted ten years right off my life and left me prime and vigorous at forty-seven, K could feel no better. I was an old man and could only drag myself painfully about the house. Now I can walk off without any trouble. That in itself " continued Mr. Edwards, "woul4 be sufidcent to give me causb for rEjoicing, but when you come to consider that I am no longer what you might call nervous, and that my heart is ap parently nearly healthy, and that I can sleep nights, you may realize why I may appear to speak in extravagant praise of Pink Pills. 2hese pills quiet my nerves, take that awful depression from my head and at the same time enrich my blood. There seemed-to be no circulation in my lower limbs a year ago, my legs being cold and clammy* at times. Now the circulation there is as full and as brisk as at any other part of my body. I :sed to be so light-headed and dizzy from niy neryous disorder that I frequently fell while erossing the floor of my house. Spring Is coming and I never felt better in my life. and I am looking forward to a busy season if work." * Labrado's seal fishery isa failure .th1s )'ear. 1 -Latest U. S. Gov't Report owder rELY PUDE Tne ong-eontestedi Teralta claim 4o I2, X00,00aresof Arizona land was pronounedA k fraud by Federal Land (Iourt. at SanteFe, few Mexico, and James A. Pers-!ta Ilenvis, h~oleimant, was arrested. The-Herreshoffs have made an offer to the nitd~tates Government to build a torpedo mOat with a guaranteed spee of I wenty ven knot an hour for1I ,o00. It shall te ostructed on Navy Department plans, and to bends wfil be asked for extra speed. The Greatest fledical Discovery of the-Age. . 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It will be sent free, and tress, eU WmORKSe9 l=-..e- Ste .. ew-s.. In Chinese VMlages. Mr. Weldon and - I often wenA into the village,, walking between the fields of shivering rice, but far o'iener the villagers came to see us ivi oar honse-bo-it -men, women, babies, dogs, and all. Always som little side canal, the offshoot of a main water way, was the ouly street between or before the village houses. There was always the towpath, but the best route was by a second path leading behind the houses. By following that we passed through the farms and yards. We saw the men and women thrashing the rice by beating a log with handfuls of i5 to scatter th- ker nels on the ground. We saw the farmers turning the soil over and breaking it up laboriously, or punch ing holes in the thick clay, droppiag seeds in them, and then smearing the holes over with a rake. We went into the iLner courts of the better honses, and noted how the mev, and even the tiniest baby boys, thrust themselves forward to greet us, while the Niomeu and girls slunk behind or merely peeped through the doorways and i open windows the latter being Eliza bethan contrivanes. framed for little panes of oiled paper or the enamelled inner coating of seashells. White goats, wolfish dogs, common-sense chickens, hump-backed cows and nose-led buffaloes make up the anuimali life that is so painfally missing in I Japan au so aban.lant in China. Julian Ralph in Harper's. Remarkable Tarn About Hoptoads. "aoptoid Hollow," near Morris town, N. J., is again the scene of its curious annual gathering of tho3e harmless but unattractive creatures. Soidntific men cmuot account . for their singular habit of hopping aout in squads of several hundred each, or why they lie on their backs on moon. light nights, and old Jackson Lully, the hermit sassafras root fapier, who is the only human being the toads do not show fear of, refuses positively to tell what he knows of their breeding ground on his place. One peculiarity of the patriarchs of the colony is that they always hop backward .on the day precceding a steady rainstorm, and the efforts of the little toads to imi tate them is said to be a very amusing sight.-New York Mail.and Express. Another big gold find has been made near Butte, Montana, and the citizens are running to the place. Highest of all in Leav AB&OEM~ One thousand now thirty-ton coal cats have been ordered for the BRang railroad, at a cost of $400,000. . California peach growers az bin advised not to send any shipments East owing to the - arge crop from Georgis. 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