Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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...... -t %V 4 TRL-WEEKLY EDITION WINNSBOR), S.C., APRIL 41 1S99. SALSE 84 A Truly Woxd-rful Story T the World O DoAnz SrE.&xsr. OCE.LNC) OZr 1OL-CLU, HA.7U. -, WODERil. if you eve1 hear al the pretty Ai rong Isr of Hono- I ru1 u-thirteen .har min g daughters of 1 t r e m e ndously . wealthy China man and a Kan ak;l woman, each with a ~ owry of $350, - It is a truly wonierful story and en tirely unparalleled even in the world -t fiction. Foz no caus6 other than a Chioanan's ceaseless longing for re .tirn to his native country the father abandoned is wife and family snd his millions 4nd lives in seclusion in IPekin . His Sandwich Island wife lives in'magnifeent style in the sump tuous home which he built in Hono tlu, .and his numerous daughters are in the' swellest society the islands afford .and are plainly enough deter mined upon marriage alliances with the best of the white men who come their way. Becent tidings from Honoluld give eurrenby to a report that another daughter of Wing Ah Fong is to marry in that city a young American resi dent. The prospective bride's mother already has the dowry of $350,000 in eash,.eal estate and securities ready for tly marriage day. TI a time the bride will be Miss yesiie. Ah Fong, and her choice is settled upon Howard G. Morton, a young n,spaper editor who has lived in ouoilua for several years. He is a distaat relative of ex-Secretary of I Agricuture Sterling G. Morton, of Nebraska, and a frst cousin on his pafernal side of Irs; Andrew Carnegie. was a student at Cornell Univer sity, and later at Stanford University at Palo Alto, Cal He inherited a smaUl fortune when he was'twenty-fie, sud,-abandoning reportorial vork in San -rancisco, sailed on a * journey around the world. H never got any farther than Honolulu. There, be comiidg infatuated with the climate andy the easy life under the tropics, he d6cided to remain always. He bought stock in a local newsp-per, in vested in sugar company stck, and fell in love with Miss Jessie Ah Fong. %Theinv i t.rd-eair; will take place shortly. - Story of the Ah ung Girls. The Ah Fong (written Afong since the family became leaders of fashion itnlonolttlu) group of thirteen gIls is: very interesting from several points of view. Everybody who has been in Hawaii, no matter for how brief a timie, in the last decade has heard much about the Ah Fong family,' and how-it has borne the brunt of hospita ble'entertainment of all visiting naval craft' jin the harbor of Honolulu. Eirly in the sixties a young Chinaman named Wing Ah Fong settled in Hon olulu. He was an unusually intelli ge't and genial Chinaman, and with a little capital lie soon built up a pros perous business in Chinese pottery, siliks and bric-o-brae. He learned the' Kinaka and English tongues readily, and before anyone knew it he was the! leading merchant in Honolulu. He spant money freely and was well liked by whites and blacks in the! quaint old town. H9 married ayorng girl of uncertain Portuguese and Kan aka ancestry, but with a dash of Eng-~ lish blood somewhere back in her con fused pedigree. She was an attrac-: tive, energetic and ambitious person! fof that land of languor and siesta, and the young couple prospered. Ala Fong invested in sugar cane planta tions, and in the old times, when sugar plantation stock paid thirty and forty per cent. dividends a year he grew very rich. In ten years Ah Fang -was worth over $300;000 and was add Sing $35,000 a year to it annually. Mr. Ah Fong was a careful, prudent busi ness man, and while his business as sociates were content t,o drowse and take no heed of the morrow he was, - ~W8t-jig- chances- -to buy plantation land cheapsfrom the improvident who abounded in Hawaii. Swellest' Rome in Eoaonluu. In time the' Ah Fong family num .bered seventeen-the parent, two boys and thirteen girls. People whao used to visit Honolulu ten and fifteen years ago say that it was a memorable sight to see bowling along any of the lava-made roads in Honolulu Papa Ah Fong with his white duck suit and his long cue dangling down his back, driving the horses that drew his com plete family circle. The girls always dressed in elaborate gowns of maroons, magentas and scarlet -reds, and the wagon load of childish~ feminie loveli ness of every hue in the rainbow made a charming spectacle. Mr. Ah Fong built the most unique residence in Hawaii. It stands in the western suburbs of Honolulu on a sightly knoll. It is an - enormous pagoda, with the oddest sort of piaz zas about it. There are sixteen of the piazzas, and they are all over twenty feet wide. Envious parents of other pretty and marriageable daughters in Honolulu say that the Ah Fong par ents had these many separate and dis tirnct piazzas built in this fashion pur posely to let, each daughter in the family have a piazza solely to herself and her particular young mnen callers of an evening. Be the charge true or false, it is a fact that all the Ah Fong piazzas--so famous in Honolulu-are filled 350 evenings in the year with eompaniee of young men callers, and GIRLS OF IIONOLULUI3 hat is Unparalleled Even in of Fiction. 9 VZ Ann: RA'IDIY ANNEXING. there are impromptu co6merts with man dolins, banjos and a dozen redclinstra ments not known outside the tropics on the piazzas almost every evening. Mr, Ah Fong, true to the cbaracter isti6s of his race, never abandoned his Chinese mcde of. life. His wife and his fast -increasing family might think and do as they liked, for he was an in dulgent father, but he never gave up his chop-sticks and his wooden shoes and flowing garments cf gaudy silks. Occasionally when this wagon load of gayly gowned femininity drove down to the Honolulu wharf to give a wel coming hand to people from the steamer or man-of-war he wouldplease his daughters by putting his long black cue under his derby hat. He was the soul of hospitality, and he loved to give big spreads at home. Ah Fong Sails Away. In the spring of 1892 Mr. Ah Fong plAnned a visit to China with his eldest son, about seventeen years old. The man had become very wealthy in fact, one of the four richest men in the Hawaiian Islands, His invest ments in stock in the stfgar companies had paid themselves out six and seven ties over. He made over $300.000 in one deal in sugar stock to Claus Sprecke's, of San Francisco. *Hun dreds of acres of land on the Island of Maui that had cost him a few thou sand dollars had become worth many times more. He was popularly rated at about $4,000,000, with an income of over $70,000 a year, and the estimate seems to have been just. In the summer of 1892 Mr. Ah Fong i: had eo arranged his business that he and his scn sailed away for Hong Kong. When six months had passed and the rich Chinaman had not re turned there was some comment. Bal : when a year went by and he was still absent all. Honolulu was interested. Mrs. Ah Fong and her lovely daugh ters never spoke on the subject-at least, to ontsidere. Then the Chinese in Honolulu began to get news from relatives and friends in China, and the information became general in the city that Ah Fong had gone to visit in Pekin, and that by the laws of China he came very near going to prison for a long term for going to a foreign land. The gossip had it also that Mr. Ah Fong had paid afDno'of many thou sands of dollars and had settled down : with a good-sized fortune to live all i iiis days in Pekin. How much of this:i.s mere gossip.And how muchhis- [ Lory no one can say confidently. At my rate the Ah Fong family in Hono- i ala believes the story as to the fate hat befell Papa Ah Fong in Pekin. Noreover, the Honolulu and San Francisco newspapers published the'' ossip about Mr. Ah Fong and no one mas yet contradicted them. Mrs. Ah Fcng and her children .ave gone right along, apparently seedless of the- absence of the has )and and father. The estate is well anaged and is in such shape that it earns its dividends with little personal are of the family. When the first laughter was married to Captain Whiting it was decided that each girl; should have her share of the family patrimnony when she married. Mrs. Whiting got $100,000 in cash and 3250,000 in property and securities. lo it was then settled also that the lowries were to consist of money and proerty or securities to the value of 3350, 000 each. Girls All Winsome, some Beautifal. Bight of the thirteen girls are un taually attractive and would be much bserved in any general assemblageI -f young women the world over. All he Ah Fang girls are petite and have I peculiarly graceful ways, winning voices and a certain vivacity that has o comparable counterpart in Ameri san life. They range in height from Fve feet two to five feet seven, with hhe average at about five feet five. All the Ah Fang girls are good sing rs, and have the love of the Ha r-aiians for string music. . For years Le girls have been famous for their I waltzing. Many a naval offcer has ailed away from Honolulu harbor with fond remembrance of his first ap reciation of the soulfalness and beauty of Strauss' waltzes after a party at the Ak Fong house. Five of the girls are unusually handsome and would win attention for that reason alone in any society. Two or three of the girls have the Chinese almond shaped eyes quite marked, and they feel dreadfully about it. But they. are the very jolliest of,the Ah Fangs, and by the graces and ecomplish ments that they have evidently studied to overcome any facial defect, they are particularly popular. Two more .ave a faint suggestion of slanting syes, but their superb complexions and limpid dark eyes make them par ticularly prepossessing. All the Ah Fang ~girls hlave dark hair. Four have deep olive com plexions, five are as dark as American brunettes and four have light com plexions. They all have small hands and feet. One or two of them are what would be called fairly fat, but none of the others can weigh over 130 pounds. ~Stylish and Fleturesaue. But it is the manner of dress and the chic style of the Ah Fang girls that make them such attractions to naval offcers and prominent resident Americans in Honolulu. Possessed of great wealth and a natural genius for color effects, the Ah Fong girls have from the time the eldest first 'went out to dancing parties till the youngest a year ago made her debut in Honolulu society at the age of fifteen worn some of the mast heart -.Mhin gons man ever lookedi upon. A modiste from Paris has been kept at a good salary for over ten years to live near the Ah Fong house and devote her talents solely to the mother and the unmarried girls in the family. Once every two years she goes to San Francisco. thence across the continent to New York, thence to Pgis, where she spends some thou sands of the Ah Fong fortune in great boxes and cases of the latest Parisian feminine vanities and conceits. Cultivated and Up to Date. Unlike all other young women in Honolulu, the Ali -Fong girls have cultivated the ways of the Americans and English. That is a characteristic they have inherited from their Mon golian ancestors-the knack of know ing what will please the Causasian race and then setting about to accom plish it. The Ah Fong girls have be ome proficient tennis players. Hun dreds of officers in the A merican and British navy know what good tennis players the Ah Fongs are, and a man of-war no sooner touches Honolulu than the young men aboard who have been there before begin plans for get ting early to the hospitable Ah Fong home. The Ah Fongs' social position in Honolulu has been assured for ten years, and since the father went to China never to return to Honolulu the position of the girls has been settled beyond argument. The marked at tention the naval officers have shown he girls has given them a prestige that their money could not buy even in mercenary Honolulu. The agree .bility of Mme. Ah Fong, and her smiles of happiness upon all her laughters' attendants have been po ential in making the Ah Fongs the avorites they are. The pagoda man ;ion has always been kept open to the girls' friends. Captain Whitinw's Happy Home. Miss Henrietta Ah Fong, who mar :ied Captain Whiting, U. S. N., and low at Manila in command. of the 1onadnock, is considered the most >harming in the family. She is a ?retty brunette, and is the only book reader among'the girls. While all the girls have had so much attention from 2aval officers, it was nevertheless a ine days' wonder in Honolulu and 5an Francisco when the announcement vent out that grave, dignified and Lristocratic Commander Whiting was o wed Miss Ah ;Fong. To be sure, ;he was very bright and pretty and ould adorn any home, and-and she iad an absolutely sure dowry of $350, )00, and may get more. But then ;here is the persistent thought that yossibly old Papa Ah Fong and his jueue and his clattering wooden shoes nay come out of China one day on a risit to his daughters. Then, too, one :annot. suppress the wonder whether my of Mamma Ah Fong's Kanaka ylood will ever assert itself in future enerations. The naval officers, even hose who had repeatedly been guests Lt the Ah Fong mansion, shook their eads and talked in whispers among hemselves. But'the marriage, which took place a May, 1894, has proved a perfect ion. Captai'n Whiting and his wife ave a beautiful horne among the sooanut trees of Honolulu, and their levotion to eaich other is only marred >y their common devotion to their hree.year-old girl. Mrs. Whiting is ne of the most beautifully gowned vomen among the naval circles any there. Three Other Married Sisters. Miss Alice Ah Fong, who married irthur 31. Johnstone (formerly a re orter in St. Louis), the Associated ress representative at Honolulu, is he tallest and most dignified of the ~irls-that is, if one may speak of dig ity in connection with these jolly, inging bits of femininity of the tropics. ftrs. Johnstone owns a great block of tck in the Hawaiian Sugar Company, md the annual income from that alone s over $22,000. Besides, her dowry nluded a coffee plantation and busi ess real estate in Honolula. Mrs. J. lfred Morgan, wife of a prosperous awyer in Honolulu, who came from leavenworth, Kan., was Miss Jenny t Fong until her marriage last Janu try. Her dowry consisted of cash, a lock of stock in the Maul Commer :ial Sugar Company and real estate at Waikiki. near Honolulu. Miss Helcn th Fong married a young San Fran ,isco lawyer named George Stewart in Lugust, 1897, and went on a tour of he world with him, They will be aek in Honolulu next spring. Mean hile a very handsome home for the oung couple is building in San Fran nsco. But there are nine other Ah Fang ~irls to gladden the hearts and homes f youth and chivalry. Moreover, here is a vast amount of stock in sugar. opaies, interests in cocoanut ~roves, thousands of acres of fertile soil on the islands,of Hilo and Maui, tock in Hawaiian'steamboat lines and Eonoulu real estate to be given in lowry tothe gi'rls as fast as they choose :heir husbands. -ind above all old Papa Ahi Fong has recently sent word from Pekin that he will probably sever leave there again, and Mamma ah Fong is not at all likely to so much as sail out of Honolulu harbor. Laying the Atlantic Cable. The Atlantic telegraph-cable was safely laid, and was put in successful operation in the month of July, 1866. The work was begun on the 6th by landing the shore end at Valencia, in Ireland. On the 13th the deep-sea line was spliced to the shore end, and the Great Eastern, with the cable on boa~rd, accompanied by three consorts, set cut on the voyage. Not a single misadventure- occurred, and on the 28th the vessels reached Newfound land. The~ whole distance sailed by the fleet was 1686 nautical miles, and the length of cable paid out 1868 mile: The rate of sailing was singu larly uniform, and the least distance was made in a single dg being 105. NEWS ATD NOTES j FOR VOMEN. i The renk Crepons. The expensive i-k-finished French crepons which -ir tentatively dis played show whok5novel and stylish arrangements of ti'r soft wavy sur faces. Black For the tnten Season. For the Lenten sason there will be a demand for both te plain and fancy materials in brae; and these are shown in very may different weaves either in cloth, ,xied light wools, and in silk and w3! melanges. Some of the new attraive patterns are in fine matelasse iects, while others have diagonal stzpes in. glossy chenille or roughly wovet silk. These goods are made into ve? graceful princesse pol.onaises, operigwith curvingfronts over an underert of corded silk, trimmed with ek staaps and three small undulatini frills. The sleeves are very snug ind the cuffs, -tiny shoulder puffs ad bodice trimmings are of the black-dk, which is prefer ably of the Mueoviie weave, with a rich gloss, but fiished with but little "dressing," theljbric, being almost as pliant as surah. The Favordt SpriW- Hat. Early in the w;ter -he hat that turned up in froustly xeceived its due of favoritism and f6ttery. Its successor in the sing will be an airy thing of silk,musli or tulle set on the side of the head.and with a wide spangled brim tured up .on all sides equally. Alreadyre see some lucky women, who havetheir headgear all hot from Paris, weringthese delicate, glittering gownrt meantime many sensible souls. c4tent themselves with pretty tulle tries they can really fashion with their hands. These are very popular fi4 theatre wear, and are made first of ring of hat wire about the circu ence of a saucer. Wound tightly ar nd this is black satin or white sa ~ ribbon and then loosely goes a win g of tulle. The tulle ring just end^ es the top of the head and at some int in its aircum ference, usually j in front, a tuft of silver wheat, with o loops of tulle, is fastened. Thi simple ornament passes for a bonne d is a becoming coronet and a sho one on any head. -Chicago Recor" Economy ridal 7resents. "It is scareel teright thing," said a young bride, '' look a gift horse in the mouth, an et it's hard not to speak one's mind a matter of this kind. It does se' to me that people might think a Tile befire buyingi wedding *su if Ahey+ had done Po I oid never have re ceived seven cruetl stands. What in the world am I to d, with them all? I can only use one at4 time, or at the most two. Now, wiat is to become of the other five? It' just too perplex ing "for anything. If I could only show them, it wonlin't be so bad; but I can't even do tha r' "Dear me, I donk know why you should worry over tch a little thing as that," observed e.r sister, who had been married nthe years. "Those extra cruet stand will come in handy by and by. Selet the one you want to keep, and the put the others care fully away. Wienever any of your friends marry, lit a cruet stand be your gift. It'll sve youZots of money. When I was maried I received four fish knives among my presents. I was ross until somegne gave me the.hintJ that I have just ;iven you, and then I was happy. It Jasn't long before I had made good -se of three of the fish knives." Woman's Fro:ress Under Victoria. Whereas the ceIsus taken six years before the Queen c,me to the throne contained no occuptions for womeni except domestic serice, there were at the date of the 1at census 61,000 women dressmakers 70,000 employed in public houses, ':500- in printing establishments, and 4721 in mires! Even the Postoffle, ledged about with redtapeism as it is, las nearly 30,000 women as clerks, idegraphists, sort ers, etc., and they are included in these figures no fev'er than 100 head potmistresses and 5250 sub-postmiis tresses. Where there was one woman clerk in 1871, th?ere are now four; and -to take two .ndustries only-there are now 121 wonen per 100 men in the tobacco ind.istry, as against forty two per 100 in 1871; while in hemp and jute the women workers have in creased from sixtyseven per 100 men to 125 per 100. There are throughont the kingdom nearly 180,000 wimen engaged in teaching, almost tIree times the num ber of men; and 200 women have worked their way ito government de partments as typisis. It is significant of the part women now play in our commercial life tht there were in a' recent year 758 'omen bankrupts,I whose aggregate libilities amounted to $1,500,000. -Th Young Woman. Vnlgar to Use tMandkerchilef. Uintil the reign C the Empress yo sephine a handerclraf was thought in Frarpe so shockin. an object that a lady would never lo>ve dared to use it; before any one. I e word even was carefully avoided ij refined conversa tion. An actor wVh would have used a handkerchief- on h e -stage, even in the most tearful mCaesnts of the play, would have been uUigercifully hissed; and it was only ii the beginning of the present centur$hat a celebrated, actress, Mile. Duc asnois, dared to appear with a handkerchief in her hand. Having to seak of this hand kerchief in her cc.rse of the piece, she never could sun'non enough cour age to call it by its :.e name, but re-: frred to it as "ai14t tissue.' A few years Iate a translation of one of Shakespeare plays, by Alfred d. Vigny having hbn noted.theivwor handkerchief was used for the first time on the stage, amid cries of indig nation from every part of the house. It is doubtful if even to-day French ladies would carry handkerchiefs- if the wife of Napoleon I. had not given the*signal forladopting them. The Empress .Tosephine, although really lovely, had bad teeth. To con ceal them she was in the habit of carrying small handkerchiefs, adorned with costly laces, which she constant ly raised gracefully sto her lips. Of course, all the ladies of the court fol lowed her example, and handkerchiefs then rapidly became an importantpart of the feminine toilet.-Woman's Life. ,The New Trimmings. Most of the trimming favorites of autumn and winter are repeated for ornamenting spring materials. Black mohair scrolls with a feather edge will be freely used, :owing to the popular price at which they can be sold. Black silk trimmings in scroll de signs will be next in favor. Garnitures in both worsted and silk will be espec ially desirable for,ornamenting 'waists and skirts. All of the foregoing are in weights appropriate for spring ma terials. Black and colored silk applique trimmings on chiffon grounds are the favorites for spring and summer silks and dress goods that are sheer in tex ture. One of the pronounced novelties in trimmings will be Persian bands for trimming plain silks and plain wool veilings, and in the very claborate costumes they will be employed for supplying narrow flounces. Narrow widths to match are also in vogue for sleeve ornamentation, and add much to the beauty of materials of one color. Narrow shirred ribbons have lost none of their popularity, and will be appropriate for embellishing summer silks and sheer woolen materials. White embroideries may be set down as certain to meet with universal favor for trimming both white and col ored wash materials. Insertion will also be freely employed on both white and colored wash fabrics. - Fashion has given a high position to laaes, and if present indications may be relied on as reflecting coming events in the fashionable world laces will be used in profusion. Both black and white will be associated for trim ing as this combination is an nounced as a leading one for the com ing season and very free use will also be made of black velvet ribbons for trimmings. -American Qneen. lGossip. The Queen of Greece, a Russian Princess, is admiral in the Russian Navy. - Tho Princesses Victoria and Mand rftLe-mos,athusiasti4 byclists in the British royal family. Mrs. Alice Parker Less3r, attorney t law af Boston, Mass., has been a] mitted by Judge Putnam to practice in the United States District Court of Appeals. Miss Ethel Wyn Eaton, daughter of President E. D. Eaton, of Beloit Col lege, Wisconsin, has gone to Spain, where she will teach in a school for Spanish girls. Mrs. Helen L. Grenfell, who was hosen State Superintendent of Public nstruction of Colorado recently, has given mngh satisfaction to her con stituents thus far. Club women of Illinois are up in arms over the use of the female form on paper for advertising purposes, and bsve presented to the Legislature a bill to put a stop to it. MIle. Thilikeza, a young woman of Polish origin, recently passed a bril liant examinationbefore the Paris Fac ulty of iMedic:one. The subject of ther thesis was the "Condemnation of the Corset." The last line'of work to be taken up by a well-knowngsoc:ety woman in New York City forced to earn her own live lihood is the making of paper lamp shades and other articles of a similar character. Constantin Christomanos, the au thor, who was readei to the murdered Empress of Austria, h.as published a book of reminiscences of his life at the court, much of which. is biographical o the Empress. The girls of Smith College have adopted a missionary of their own, whom they are pledged to support. The one selected by them is Dr. Myers, a gzaduate of Vassar, who goes to China next fall on a salary of $600. Chicago has a woman watchmaker, Miss Mamie Frey. She works at a watchmaker's bench and lathe in a big jewelry shop from morning until night, and her highest ambition is to become one of'the best watchmakers in the business. _____ GIeanings From the. Shops. Japanese (silk shawls edged with ringe for summer wear. Spring lines of ribbon showing pom padour designs and fringed edges. Silk grenadines with satin stripes and brightly colored floral sprays be tween. Mouselines and chiffons having their patterns wrought in narrow fringed ribbons. Silk organdies in all colors showing fne white satin stripes with small lower designs between. White silk petticoats decorated with three flounces showing appliques of black lace in waved patterns. Light pink, blue, yellow and green organdies with large black polka dots over the surface closely spaced. Spring lines of ribbons with silk embroidered or printed designs of small and larger floral sprays in sash widthzs. Allover embroideries of wkhite che ille cord and black heavy guipure with rhinestones interspersed throug~h out the pattern.-Drv Goods Econo JES' KEEP A SMILIN'. "Jes' keep a smilin'," I hear it said. When yer tooth is a achin' tell you wisht ye was dead. An' "jes' keep a smilin'," 'ith a hard --row ter hoe Fer the world'll be agin ye. ef ye tell yer woe; Say! but I*m sick ov the hull blamed sbow, An' it's "jes' keep a smilin" "Jes' keep a smilin':" as of there ain't Nary time, nor place. fer a suff'rer's plaint, An' "jes' keep a smilin'." 'ith a make-be lieve grin A-tryin' mighty hard to take folks in An' vowin' all the while ye ean' begin, Ter "jes'keep asmilin'T' "Jes' keep a smilin'," it's all rery well Ter show yer grit when ye're down a spell; But "jes' keeL a smilin'" when yer ship's goin' down An' yer dasn't make a holler, though yer know ye'll drown, For fear some folks in the world'l1 frown Kin ye "jes' keep a smilln'?" "Jes' keep a smilin'!" there comes a time Where the world ain't a joke, an' livia' ain't a rhyme; An' "je ' keep a smilin'," it seems ter me Is a dangerous thing, when yer out at sea 'Ith yer radder broke, an' oughter be Where ye kin "keep a smilin'1" "Jes' keep a smilin'," I'd like ter know Kin ye ahus keep away from sin an' woe? An' "jes' keep a smilin'," when the tbing ye need Is ter help an' be helped by a generous deed, Tho' ye do hev ter make some soft heart bleed, Ter help ye "keep a smilia?" "Jes keep a smilin'," jes' so, when ye kin; Don't go ter whin'n' bout the prick or a pin, "Jes' keep a smilin'," till yer strength gives out An' ye findyerself sinkin' in a raire ov doubt; But let folks know you're som'eres about And they'll do the smilin'! -Detroit Journal. HUMOR OF THE DAY, Tabby--"Would you die a thousand deaths for me?" Tom-"No; only nine. "-Indianapolis Journal. The ptomaine is a cowardly bea1t, A man's his favorite prize: If he must fight he might :al. le:t Take some one of his size. Old Style-"Where there is a 'will there isa way." New Style-"Where there is a will there is a contest." Judge. Cholly-"I want a nice hat, One that -aw-will be becoming to my iead, don' cher know?" Hatter-"Yes, sir; here are some stylish soft ones." Irate but Unmusical Father-"-'For gracious sake, Mary, give us a rest!" Daughter-"Can't do it, paw. There's none in the music."-Harlem Life. Mrs. Newwed-"My mother writes that she if coming here to stav'three months." Mr. New,ed-"Thank heaven for that! She knows how to cook." Mistress - "Why.. Bridget. . the chairs are covered with dust'" Ser vant (coolly)-"Well,mum, they want something to hide their-shabbiness.1 -Fun. He-"That is just like a woman sharpening- your pencil with' a pair of shears." She-"That's more than you could do, anyway."-Iudianapolis Journal. Barber (to Charles)-"Why, your face is all carved up! What mutton headed donkey shaved you last?" Charles (meekly)-"I shaved myself." --Tit-Bits. Constane--"What lovely emb'roid ery! And do you also paint?" Violet -"No, dear. I often envy you that accomplishment."-Philadelphiia North-American. "Fwat is th' matter with your face?" "Oi wor thrown from me carriage. But it tuk th' condocchtor an' motor man, the both of thim, to do it."-Iu dianapolis Journal. "The editor receives lote of dirst rate jokes, but he throws them all in the waste basket." "Well, I'm glad to know there's something about that's overflowing with good humor. " Philadelphia Bnlletin. "Do you believe that poets are born?" asked one caller. "Not now," replied the editor, as he glanced toward the waste basket, "although I believe a few were born in former cen turies."- Chicago News. The mother of the youthful employo in the Senate glared at her offspring. "I can read you hike a book," said she. Then, getting her. slipper, she pro ceeded ,to turn over a page.-New York Commercial Advertiser. "Anyhow." said Perry Patat.tie to himself, as he curled up in the hay, "I kin sleep long as I please 'thought bein' afraid of missin' my breakfast, 'cause they ain't no breakfast fer me to miss. "-Cincinnati Enquirer. "Mr. Seatterton prides himself on being strictly impartial." "Yes," an swered the unamiable man, "I once went hunting with him,. He didn't seem to care whether he hit the rab bit, the dog, or one of his friends." Wahington Star. "The year just passed was a very satisfactory one in nearly all lines of trade," remarked the observant boarder. "I am told," addedi the cross-eyed boarder, "that even the mints made more money than in any other recent year." - Pittsburgh Chronile-Telegraph. taper's Many Uses. Trelegraph and telephone poles, fagtaffs and spars for small sailing vessels are the latest development in the line of mayuacture. from paper. They are mnade of pulp in which ai small amount of borax, tallow and other ingredients are mixed. These are cast in a 'mold in the form of a hollow rod of the desired diameter and length. The poles and spars are claimed to be lighter and stronger than wood. They do not crack or split, and i2 is said when theyare var nished or ipaine'd the weather does not affect the~m. Bs'sides possessing these advantages, the paper-made ar ticle can be made fire proz'f by satu rating it in a st-ong solutiorz of alum water. When thoroughly dry the paper' poles and spars thus treated witi re ait the action of flames. PENNSYLVANIA SUPERSTMONSi$ Queer Things That the Deseeadants ef Men of Primitive Ideas Belleve U. Julius F. Sachse. a tell-known his torian of Pennsylvania, who has made the subject of superstition. a study, says that many of the ancient supeR stitions that prevailed in east Penn sylvania a century ago are still to be met with in some regiona; The us lucky days of the year upon which no seeds are planted are January 1, 7. and 11;. February 10, 16, and 17; March 1, 3, 12, 16; April 3.15, 17, 1; May 1, 3, 10, 20; yune 1, 7; Tuly 1, 5. 6; August 1, 3, 10, 20: Septmber 15, 19, 20; October 15, 17; November 1, 7; December 1, 7. Some old almana makers invariably mark these dateses unlucky days. Children bornon these dates are said to have never thrived. No journey is begun at these times, and no ventures undertaken. April 1 and September 15 are dangerous days. Mothers having children born on those days are always miserable in the thought that their little ones will soon die. If it thunders in January it will be a stormy month. Bough weather -in February will bring sickness. .Fair Christmss weather means a prosperous year. If the fourth day in Christas week is clear, smallpox will prevail among children. If Christmas fallion Sunday the year will be:-prosperous; Everything thrives under a full moon except goslings. When they are hatched under a full moon they will be blind. Let not a full -moot shine on an empty purse or it will be omgty the remainder of the year. At Ephrata, in Lancaster County, in the oldei days, all the chimneys were built of wood and they had very few fires. A plate was tacked on the chimney for luck, and in the event of a fire' if the plate was thrown into the flames the fire would die out.' Chufrch sextons are very careful not to toll a bell if there is any danger of a clock strik ing. It meant.disaster to the neigh borhood if the bell sounded when the clock struck the hour..-New.York Sun. WISE WORDS. Creation is the organ, and a gfa mious man finds out its keys, lays his hands thereon, and wakes the whole system of the universe to the harmony of praise. Mountains and hills, and other great objects are as it were the bass of the chorus; while the trees of the wood, and all things that'have life, take up the air of the melodious song. The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the mi2 ment; the eye of the body is not al ways that of the soul. I t is-a weak6ess.,diiz~at~L~ citi nd nans e ous aftersnii niOa1~S ' been accowplished. Better leave your children a character to imitate and defend than Government bonds and pedigree. - Aman never knows all his mother has been to him until it is too late o let her know that he sees it. There is only one real failure in life possible; and that is not to be true to the best one knows. A man is strong when he admits to himself his own weakness. He who can suppress a moment's * anger may prevent days of sorrow. Take the place and attitude which belong to yon and all men will so quieses. There is only one person you need to manage, and that is yourself. Boldness is a good steed when wis dom is the driver. Love suffers, but it never forsaksa, Secret of the Telephone tiNscovery. In a recent lecture Professor Alex ander Graham Bell' is reported to have -explained how hie camne to invent the telephone as follows: "My father invented a symbol by which deaf mutes could converse, and finally I invented an, apparatus by which the vibration of Isgeechr eould 54 seen, and it turned out to be a telephone. It occurred to me to make a ma'chine that would enable one- to. hear vibrations. I went to' an durjst, and he advised me to take the, human ear as a model. He supplied me with a dead man's ear, and with his ear I experimented and upon applying the apparatus I found that thre dead mnu's ear wrote down the vibrations. "I arrived at the conclusion that if I could-make iron vibrato on a dead man's ear, I could make an 'instra ment more delicate which would cause those vibrations to be' heard and un derstoood. I thought. if I placed a delicate piece of steel over an electric magnet I could get a vibration. 4ud thus the telephone was completed. "The telephone arose from my at-. tempts to teach the deaf to speak. It arose from my knowledge, not of blec tricity, but as a teacher of the desf. Had I been an electrician I would not have attempted it."-Electrical World. Herons at Meammle. The digestive power of the heron is remarkable, as well as its capacity and ability to swallow 'large fish. The neck seems to expanid as if made of India rubber-the fis slips.down and the bird is ready for anothtr. In est ing beef, large bones are swallowed intact. On one or two -occasions aiter feeding beef this way,'great alarm was felt, as the bird showed signs of great distress, but the uneasiness was son calmed when the bird threw up a large bone, clean and white, the meat hav ing been thoroughly digeeted. In eat ing catfish they instinctively pierce it with their strong beaks, until there is no question in their simnple minds but that it is harmless. If; in their hurry to swallow their food, it goes down the throat covered with sand or trash, they immediately ejet it, carry. "t to. the water, and having- rinised is well, swallow it agap.'Forest and Streatn.