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---4 - TRil WEEKLY EDITIGY WINNSBORO. S.C.. fARCH 3. 900. ESTABLISHED 1844 AFTERGLOW. After the clangor of battle. There comes a moment of rest. And the simple hopes and the simple joys And the simple thoughts are best. After the victor's pman. After the thunder of gun, There comes that lull that must come to all Before the eet of sua. Then what is the happiest memory? Is it the foe's defeat? 's it the splendid praise of a world That thunders by at your reet? Nay, nay. to the life-worn spirit The happiest the-:ghts are those That carry us Lack to the simple joys And .he sweetness of life's repose. A simple love and a sinipler trust And a simple duty done Are truer torches to light to death Than a whole world's victories won. n, IM TILES BUCXHAX WAS 8 oclock of a Saturday inornir.. in February when Mr. r and Mrs. Stone drove out of their farmyard and took tho road northward. The crisp snow of the highway, packed and polished by weeks of good sleighing, creaked under the runners of their "cutter," and -the sun was shining gloriously over the wooded hills to the east ward. The Stones were going to spend Sunday with ''Cousin Maria," Stone's second cousin, and the object of Mrs. Stone's admiration and envy. She declared that there was no house like Cousin Maria's, and no domestic con venienees and advantages like those she enjoyed; that nobodyv wore such SeautifT-clothes, or had such good t-ingso- eat, or commanded such re senes ft "do with"as Cousin Maria.. sbort, Mrs. Amass Stone, who had iotbeen a great while married. and wolIaioneof the nicest little farm uMsei41e-country, as wdll as one estand most devoted husbands Beworld; wan somehow a victim of ost-disagi-eeable and distress alaay envious discontent; and e:occasion of it was Ji ishe could only. ex 11eaee1haps not husbands, big elsey with Coifsin w.happysep.would be! enough -y 'that strange eoften..see crop nimanlife-Cousin Maria ineretel~y~ i t'sincer enrve ittle oman with the big'devoted, erlike-husband and the modelfarm us/overlo.ing one of the- most 'beantiful an:i productive valley farms in New Englaut.. "If I could only keep house' like Cousin - Ella!" she would sometimes say to her hisband; and then she would add to hei-self, "Perhaps I might if I had as nice a house and the things to do with that she has." Sincere and dordial envy does not make people dislike each other, by Sany eans; and it was natural enough that Mrs. Stone and her cousin, Mrs. Holmes, should enjoy visiting each other and thereby adding fresh fuel to their mutaal admiration. They traveled back andforth on these social exchanges a good deal, and their hus bands, who liked each other (and each others fare, by the way), were never averse to "driving over" for a dry's outing. The two farms lay soma 20 miles apart, in different townships, and about midwr between them was a village, where the Stones and the Holmeses each had a special friend, with whom it wvas convenient andi *pleasant to stop for dinner while * going a-visiting. The sleigh bells rang cheerily and *the miles rapidly fell away behind the * Stones' cutter this Februaryv mnorning, as they drove along toward Hydeville, - the half way village. "I hope nothing will happen to the stock or the hens, over Sunday." said Mr. Stone. "Oh, don't worry about that!" ex claimed his wife. "You spoke to Leonard, as usual, didn't you?" -"X'es, I asked him to fodder once a * day and attetid to the milking. But * he lives-quite a little piece away, and * if it should come on to storm" "Storm' Look at the sky!" ex claimed Mrs. Stone, with a scornful !anmgh. "I declare, if you aren't the greatest man to worry over nothing." It was still gloriously pleasant when they reached Hydevilie, at 11 o'clock, and they stopped there two full hours. As they again took the road,at 1 o'clock,they noticed that the * sky had become slightly filmy, but ais it frequently does cloud over thus to ward the close ol a fine winter day they wvere neither surprised nor dis turbed. -At 3 o'clock, however the wind. began to rise, the sky grew more overcast,and before long was spitting Lisharply out of the northeast. ."What do you think about a storm' ___ now?" asked Mr. Stone. U" "Drive along and get there as quick -as you can, "was his wife's only reply, as-she gathered the buffalo robe more tightly about her. When - they reached the Holmes farm, at about 4 o'clock, the wind was howling and .the snow driving across the landscape in sheets. Mrs. Stone got out at the side entrance and plunged shiveringly against the door, but turned at once to her husband with a look of surprise and consterna tion. The door was locked! So were the front door and the kitchen door, as they speedily discovered. "They're away from home, " an nounced Mr. Stone. "They've gone visiting," groaned his wife. "Oh dear! do you suppose it's possible they've gone to visit us?" "Shouldn't wonder a bit," replied MSr. Stone. "Come to think. of it, I heard a man's laugh when I. went over to the store in HvderiUe that soun led i le John Holmeks. Iimt I conlau'. tell where it came from, and couldn'I see anybody that looked like him, s4 gave it up. "Goose!" cried Mrs. Sione. "He was probably over at Jason Super's, where they 'always stop - out in the ;, barn, like as not. If you'd only men- F fioned it! Well, we must just make the best of a bad jo'. I know where Maria puts the kitchen key when she's e' away, and we might as well go in and* take possession-as they will have to I c do at oar house, I reckon.' t The key was found on a nail under the sto p, and Mrs Stone proceeded * to take possession, while her husband stabled his horse. When M r. Stone came in he found the lamps all lighLted 0 and his wife in a high state of exeite ment and delight at the prospect of it "using Cousin Maria's nice things for a while! I guess it's all for the best," she announced, with unexpectedI a cheerfulness. "F6r once in our lives we will have a taste of keeping house with modern conveniences"' It was a tremendous snowstorm thal swept New England during Feb ruary 25 and 26. Mr.and Mrs. Stone were snowbound for a week in the Holmes house, and Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, as it happened, were similarly imprisoned in theirs. Roads were not broken through for five days, and h no one knew how his neighbor was faring. h In the meantime Mr. Stone took s care of Holmes's stock, and Mr. Holmes took care of his, while their C wiv'es revelled to their hearts' content in the supposed domestic advantage% I and improvements for which they had i 1'0 envied each other so long. At laet the two families were able to get word to one another, and. a day was set for the mutual evacuation of each other's premises and a meeting at Hydeville on the way. Both parties were in vited to dine at Jason Soper's that memorable day, -nd the reader may be sure it was not one of those dinuer par-t ties that languish for lack of conver sation. Late in the afternoou,as the Stones came in sight of their own pleasant farmhouse, Mr. Stone said, hesitat ingly, "John and I had so'ne talk of exchanging farms while we were har nessing up. We thought, if" "Stop right there, Amasa Stone." cried his wife. with a sudden uncalled for burst of tears. 'If you ever men tion such a thing again"'- - "Why!" exclaimed Mr. Stone, in gad.- astonishment, "I thought you were crazy for Cousin Maria's modern conveniences, and John said that Maria made life a burden to him__$ e'd please boh 'of da b pin farms." "Well, you'll ueither of yo ever hear anything more on the sabect from Ma-ia or me, "sobbed Mrs. Stone. "We were'both of us so homesick and so ashamed that we burst out crying when 'we were up in the front chamber at Mrs. Soper's, and confessed what fools we had been. I guess neither of us will ever quarrel with her own things again-least of all, with her own husoand."-American Agricul turist. THE NEW WOMAN'S'BABY. IShe Brings Him Up According to the itules Laid Down in the Book. "But haven't you any more books on the subject?"asked the woman, ap pealingly, much as if the person' she was consulting had large installments of books hidden away, only forthcom ing when his heart should soften. "Not in, now," and the young man at the circulating library turned to a, newer comei'. "Why don't you take something else?" advised her companion. "Because I do not come here to get any books. I just want books that will give me information about caring Ifor baby. Ever since h~e was a wee little thing I have been reading every thing I could s.et on. the subject. I think," she said, crashingly, turning: to the young man in charge, "I will not take any book today." Then as she started away her tone changed to one of pity.. "How was it," she said to the other woman, "that babies used to struggle up, when there were no magazines or hooks about how they should be Itrained? Every one of my friends who has a baby does just as I do and gets evey article she can upon their physi cal or mental or moral well being. And one' does get such help. Just the other day I was reading somewher'e: 'No mother should be without a baby;'s diary. Jot down all the sayings of the little one,'and so I've started with such a pretty book, leather bound,yo2u know, and I mean to keep it up." "That must be awfully interesting," said the other woman, "isn't it?" "This last boo0k, the one I had given back when I met you, gave me fine directions for caring for baby's teeth, especially the second teeth. I shall do exactly as it says, and take him to the dentist in time. In that way, you kn-.w, you avoid all trouble about teeth coming in crooked and all that. Kindergarten methods are fine. too, and I've been reading up about them, for I want him to have the ad' vantage of the latest ideas." "How old is he now?" asked the listener suddenly. "Three months old,"said the proud mother, fondly. -New Tork Sun. Phillips' Devotion to His Wife. A beautiful story is told of Wendell Phillips, the famous American oratorI illustrating his lover-like devotion t his invalid wife. At the close of a lecture engagement in a neighboring town his friends entreated him not to return to Boston. It was a fearful cold night, and the last train had go:n, so he would have to return in a carriage. "You will have 12 miles of rough riding before you get home,'' they said. "But at the other end." lie replied, GOOD WATER FROM TREES. -y Woodsmen in the South Always Carry an Auger in Their Kit. In many sections of the forest lands the south during the dry seasons a an may walk for miles without find g a stream of water or a spring by hich to quench his thirst. If, how -er, he is an experienced hunter and oodsman, he will not have to drink ater from the stagnant pools in order keep life in his body. D Queer as it may seem, an experi- 2 iced man can hunt for days through (1 tch dry tracts and yet experience no t convenience on account of the lack t water. Nature has provided a eans which is only known to the in iated. Every old huntsman carries ith him, when going on a long hunt, r small auger. by which he can secure s refreshing drink and water to cook ith at any moment. A cottonwood tree or a willow is the ell which the wily huntsman taps. t :e examines each tree until he finds c io that has what a woodsman calls a vein." It is simply an attenuated rotuberance. By boring into this vein" a stream of clear Avater will ow out. It is not sap, but clear,pnre ater. The huntsmen say that the t -ater is better than the average to be ad from the ordinary wells. There t i no sweetish taste about it, but it f as a strong flavor of sulphur, and is t ightly carbnoated. The reason for this phenomienon aunot easily be explained, but that supply of water can be contained in tree is not so surprising. The fact f its flowing is the wonderful feature, bowing that it must be under pres are, or, in other words, that there is lore at the source of the supply. Vhen it is considered that the trees irnish the water in the dry season, nd that the ground is literally baked, : is the more remarkable, especially ,hen the roots of the trees do not ex and to any great depth iuto the round. Owing to the fact that water can be btained by tapping cottonwood and illow trees, very peculiar testimony -as recently heard in a case in the deral dourt here. About 20 years go, at a certain point on the Missis ippi river, one of the islands which -as formed by the channel forking and arrounding a large tract of land was eserted by the stream on the Tennes ee side. Years afterward this land ras claimed by the man who owned roperty in Tennessee adjoining the yrmer island. His claim was that the ;land had been wahed away,. and eretion 'ormer owner, to prove that the and had been washed away, sawed off the top of a cottonwood stump that was on the island and showed that it contained 56 circles, or rings, begin ning at the heart. His statement was that a ring was formed in the tree every year, hence the tree was a sap: ling 55 years ago. and was conseguent ly growing there 36 years before the island became a part of Tennessee. In order to prove that a ring was formed every year he testified that while hunting, about 20 miles from that place in 1865, he had tapped a cottonwood tree for water, and had put a plug in the hole afterward to keep the water from wasting. His theory was that the tree in its growth would have covered up the plug and that the number of rings from this, plug to the bark of the tree would be, in ihe year 1899, 34,showing that a ring had been formed for every one of the 34 years it had been imbedded in the wood. The tree was found and sawed up. The plug was discovered. and was dis tant from the outside of the tree ex actly 34 rings. Although such testimony would not be doubted by a woodsman, it was not received as evidence by the court. The Strange Things We Hear. The car was very crowded. Just beside the woman sat a very pretty girl and hanging to a strap was a very uice young man, and since everything was in such close quarters, the wo nan had no choice but to play the part of eavesdropper. And this is what she heard: "How is everything out in Rocky Heights now?" asked the young man. "It's so dull," answered the young woman. "You've no idea how dull it is. I've been~ wanting to come into town to visit Susie, but they won't let "Why not?" asked the man. "I don't know," she said. "Good 2ess knows they're anxious enough o get me married off. I should think :hey'd be only too glad to have me ~ome." "Would you marry?" The young nan seemed partial to questions. "Would I marry?" she repeated. 'Yes, indeed I " ould." "But why dob't you?" came an >ther question. "Because nobody asks me. 1 will narry just the first man who wants ne," she said innocently. "Well, will you have'me?" he said. Silence for a moment, and con ealed anxiety on the part of the he ener. "Will you have me? I'll come out vith the ring tonight,"' he said. "Do you know what my father and nother would say'." she said sud enly. "'Traise God from "No, hat?" whom all bless ngs flow.' " The Increacin; Value of' Diainond. The war in South Africa, it is a earned, .has been the cause of the I yeat risd in the price of diamonds. 3 or .the last few years these precious 2 tones have, become more and moret alnable, till the war has accentuated heir price io such a degree that the I esrs atre not only things of beauty L BIG PYTHOYS TOILEI UEER HABITS OF THE NEW YOF ZOO'S MOST CURIOUS SPECIMEN. wenty-two Feet of Maternal Devot ion Eggs That Wouldn't Hatch - Vigoro Measures to Make Her Change B Ctumine-A Seven Monthts' Faa!. Probably the most curious. .pe en among the inmates of the m oo in Bronx park is the big East I ian python known as Fatima, sa tie New York Sun. Few visito; tey stand before the eage wheri ' reat reptile coils her 22 feet of rich inted body appreciate the ecteit abits of this creature, aud the cc espondingly remarkable treaitoe he receives from her keepers. Fatima arrived in New York la eptember on a tramp steamer frc ingapore. For the three montis he voyage she lay tightly coile(i ir rate withont food or drink. The on ttentiou given her was a sprinili: ?ith warm water every week or sp, hieh she responded by hissing li small steam engine and making ceasional vicions lunge at sonte he crew. From the introduction of the p hou into her commodious glas ronted cage in the reptile houre i o the present time she has establ;4h record nnique among snakes. E egan by laying 75 eggs, which :-e estined never to hatch because "ha wuer had-been chilled by the -co reather prior to settling down in es ivity. Nevertheless, the proud own ollected them into a pile, aud, cc ng herself about them, waited p iently for the little snakes to app'e: Two weeks, the period of incul ion, went by and Fatima had n tirred from her position. An 4 empt was then made by her keepe o take the eggs awa from her, but s teveloped such energetic measures lefence to prevent this that the kee rs, who think little of juggling -wi attlesnakes and cobi as. retreat rom the cage with considerale al ity. In the meantime Fatima had b& >reparing to shed her skin. Her e6 iery eyes, mounted on a head asti s that of a jug of respectable sizei urned to a pearly white. Gradnal his tint faded away, leaving the-ej lull and glassy. This was a sign'ti he skin was ready to be cast. Ifi iperation did not take-place with ertain time the reptile was- liab ontract a malady peculiar too neare h.ei~ oi At r 'e Mr. Ditma has charg e reptile house. cided upon os measures. eggs must b n away, he deel aud, if the python failed to walk\ of her skin, the same must be strip from her by the keepers. Ace< ingly, a stream of cold water--at- l pressure was turned on the repi As she hurriedly uncoiled to ea trouble, Keeper Snyder crawled i the cage behind the protectior screen and raked out the eggs wil long pole. Several times the ser was sent flying by blows from snake's head and Snyder had be pulled out .by the legs. The e were finally removed and a respite allowed to the reptile until the i day to appear in her new clothes. The respite was vain. The r morning showed the python co: sulkily in the corner where her e had been. Her old skin had crac1 in many places and must be remno at once. The snake's bathtub tilled with boiling water and ev orifice in the cae was stopped It was~ soon full of steam and semibled a Turkish batb. A fter hour of this treatment of the pyth whenk the temperature of the inte: of the cage was at about 100 degt and it wsas dripping with moistt Keepers Snyder and Dahl, with : Ditmars, entered the cags, pushin blauket in front of them supported a pole as a screen. The were v aware of the fact that if the sn caught them in her coils an unc fortable embrace might follow, same being detrimental to ribs whatever portion of their anate was involved. The door was in centre of the cage and they muet vance ten feet to reach the snake. they started to crawl forward snake blew a quantity of air from eapacious interior with a noise particularly encouraging. She tl glided toward the door, eutting the rctreat of the invaders. Catch. sight of Suyder's suspenders, wh which were of a bright carmine h and evidently not being partial t~o color, she made a neat pass of ab, six feet in his direction. Not see my way of retreat, and fully app siating what might happen. Sny< romptly ascended the truuk ol yedar tree in the cage, and, perch: simself about eight feet above Fm un, looked about to see what wo, lappeni next. The nextamove was made by one he men below. IBeaching out a ha ~autiously from under the blanket ~aught hold of a rent in the old sl nd p~ulledl oft' a long~ strip. Whi he epidermis wa removed th< hone a patch of velvety body refle ng the prismatic colors. The ope ion was repeated.. It seemed >lease the snake. She at once beca tniet and allowed the process to n. Snyder slid down from the ti nd joined in the operation. In hort time the blanket was laid asi nd the work Ihegaearnest. ook more than icu -- :s to relic ratima of her old el , during t emainder of which tune she show he utmost good nature toward I .eepers, although making a vicio ab or two at groups of spectators c1 ide the eage. In her new ut h ose Cected all colors of the rainbow, bt 7et their remained another anxietT -he must now take a substantial mea K otherwise, in the language of the hei patologist, she must be stuffed. Thi with a snake of her size is a difl-en tand dangerous operation. Dainti( to calculated to delight her eyes wei served daily, but at these she indi ferently turned away. A week ago it was decided that flu fast must be broken. For about seve inonths the snake had not tasted foot A bra-e of dead rabbits were procure s from the 2narket. Thev were tied t< gether U 4h twiinA and carefully lIbr e ea'ed so as to slide down the snake elougated aesophagus with fadilit After due preparation the rabbits wei placed on a bamboo pole. There w: some livelv maneuvering and the b snake was caught by the neck, thong not until one of the keepers had ha a finger torn by her long, curve teeth. The forward portion of 11 a body was straightened by the con biued force of six or eight men, an IS like the loading of an old inuzzli to loader, the string of rabbits was rn ie down her throat. After being releftse she nonchalantly swallowed her dinn4 o and, piling he inany folds into tl corner of the eage, went to sleep. y VICTORIA'S PRIVATE MUSEUM Ip S!nfornation About a Little--Known Ite. Ie in Windsgor Castle re There is atiWindsor Castle a priva ir museum which is of very recent da1 d and in the formation of which h< P. Majesty has taken an inmsnse amoun rof interest. Its treasures are in mnat . cases of unique ialue,both from the a. associations and their intrinsic wort] r. In 1896 some workmen engaged i a- tearing out a set of apartments that hg ot long remained unused, and whic t. were situated in the tower, came upc rs some old lumber, as they imagined ie to be, in a passage which was qui of blocked up with it. On closer exam p. netion, however, the "Inmber"'turne th out to be a collection of most interes ed ing and valuable relics, whose vei existence had been forgotten for gene .itions. n t:Mheajesty took great interest i p. the find, gindin conjunction with tt ig 4 inspector, conceived the idea of mal ad ing a private museum 'of these a similar treasures in the io est bule, an apartment near the eq i -,,entrance on the'ground floor.. at this time that S ener, now Lord. Ki nch t proi to occupy the-B case in her new museum. These tre o ures consisted of Wad Eishara's de- banner with its tin rattle, which 1 Phe captured at the battle of Firket; a ed, a crusader's sword,found in his hoi out and with a Spanish motto in Gern ed characters, which says: "Do rd- sheathe me without honor." In t igh case. too, the Queen has placed I ile. I Afghan trophies presented to her use Lord Roberts 10 years previously. nto The second contains Several nota sf a articles, chief of which is a in e spe h a men of executioner's are, which]I een ievidently seen great service and wh: the was given to the Queen' by Sir X3 to liam Congreve, who invented the v grocket, a The next case has a nitique "ol, ext tion of beautiful leather creaks f< merly belonging to some chiefs of i ext South Sea Islands. On a charmi led network are sewn feathers so mint ggs that they form a smooth, finished si ted face in black, yellow and red colo ved Most of these are single feathers o vas very rare species of parrot, and ei r-of the magnificent cloaks has be up. -alued by experts at not less t1i me. E10,000. On further inquiry it v an found that they had been given by I on, king~ of the Sandwich Islands,in 18! -or'* to his Majesty, King George IV. ees In the fourth case are a great set re, . Nepaulese knives and daggers used dr o'ur Indian frontier campaigns byt a Ghoorka and similar tribes. TI on "Kokri" or Ghoorka, fighting kni -ell w~hich the native uses in preference ike the sword or bayonet, is~ well woi ,Im- attention1 te Case No1 5 displays the head a ud skin of an enormous Indian 1ic my ar ound which have 1.een grouped the ancient Hanoverianu standards of t ad- firt three Georges; some weapons A s the Zulus taken at iqandhiana, so: the finely caparisoned saddles of v .er horses, and a "sampit," or blow tul sot nsed to shoot poisoned darts hv ien natives of Borneo. off The next collection is a very Ii ng and unique one, being that of a si ich cession of spurs, of all shapes a: esorts, from the Wars of the Roses I he today. With these are placed mit pieces of plate which formerly I ng longed to the Thirty-second regimue re- They will at once strike the spectatoa ler- attention by their extraordina a shape, being twisted into most fant4 ngtic arrangements. This was due ti- the effects of a shot which struck t la regimental plate c-hest during t siege of Lucknow. of Case No. 8 may be said to represe nd war weapons of various countrii hie They are old muskets anmd b~nnd4 :in busses of the Prussians, French, Ha mre overions, Russii's, Portuguese,Spa eish and English. Also African w ehatchets and himmers, together wi abundles "of spears and arrow hea to of the North America Indians. Th ne there are tire shields and weapons go Asiatic savages, as well as of su ee nations as the Chinese and Japane a - - - __ _ de .Tall Men scarce. It The directors of the Great Northe: ye ~of England have issued a circul he letter to the station agents statij ed in future the standard height fot- pc eters in tepartment shn us be a : ti t-1goo Thi -ewuctio forI-mea AMERIAN MULES MAK(E TROUBLE. Many of the British Purchases Die on I; the Voyage to South Arica. While the British government an s nounces that it is perfectly satisfied with its investment in American mules, s and will buy 10,000 more, men who 8 have returned to New Orleans from - Cape Colony declare that the mules have caused a great deal more trouble 0 in South Africa than has been reported. n five British ships are on their way L to New Orleans, all of which will be d loaded with mules. Nearly half the required 10,000 animals have been - already purchased, and so heavy a purchase at one time has sent the price of mules up $20 apiece, England having to pay some $200,000 more than expected. g The British-are buying one special h grade of mules, known as small mules. The large animals used. on the sugar plantations in the SottL are, their r veterinary surgeons say, not so vigor ous and toug'a, although able to haul Jarger loads. The small mule bought by the British are tough and wiry, n ith more vitality than the large ones, and less liable to disease. All those bought in this country have been e breen-that is, they have not been broken yet-and they seem to have caused some of the trouble in Africa. From the day the shipment of mules began the British have had trouble with them. They packed them too e closely on 'one of the vessels, and a e considerable proportion of the animals r died in transit. Another lot developed t glanders as soon as they landed in y Africa and either died or were killed, r and quite a number of others died 1. from the climate and insects of South a Africa, to which they were unaccus d tomed. But the heaviest loss was on h the Corinthia, which landed 500 of her a I cargo of mules at Port Elizabeth. No it sooner did the animals find themselves :e on shore, after being cooped up for i- 31 days on a vessel, than they made d for the interior, and the entire lot es caped with the exception of 11. A y reward has been offered for their re v. capture by the British authorities, but-! without result, and a herd of some n 500 American mules is now wander , ing somewhere in the interior of Africa. These losses render it quite certain that the 20,000 American mules shipped-or to'be shipped to "outh At use of the British army -- b a fresh lot will omio ain 1evingthat itoffered opportuities rsi to energetic and pushing young men. as- They found the situation. there very ed bad and no prospects ahead, so they ras all took advantage of 4heirscontract so with the British governmeiit to be se brought back home, and ,they almost an unanimously declare that they were iot harshly treated on the voyage, getting His insufficient and unsatisfactory food,. he and being worked far too hard. The by British government has expresAed a preference for American drivers as bAe well as American mules, but it will not ci. get them. as -__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ch ' How to C"'e W1orr ~il'. Many perso~ns wouldl be only too ar glad to 1!s.'r of a cure for worry. The Pic. .iih :1atzazine has a contributor 'c- who rote~.ses to have solved the >r 1ol 00t.i an.l gives the remedy, which hie is. as, folows: .g "Nben the symptoms of worry be .t e 'in to mnanifest themselves, when your ir- min d gets to d wellbng upon some one *s. t ontlin; matter with feverish in f a sis:euce, when you find yourself de ,ch pressed or irritable or overstrung, or en full of foreboding, then go into your an room and lock the door. -as "-For the first application of this he prescription you must be absolutely Malone and in -silence. After awhile you may be able to make these con of ditions for yourself anywhere, by ~ in complete withdrawal of y ~nd he even in the midst of a rw;but at he first yon must be.qiifealone. re, "Looseiryolir garments completely; to lie'down in the most restful position -th you can assume; avoid raising the head too high, thus cramping the dneck and impeding circulation. Now nclose your eyes for a few minutes, and he i'aising the arms let them fall and lie he loosely and naturally above your of head. Lie thus for a minute or two, ne and then begin to take deep, long ar breaths, as deeply as possible, exchal eing quietly and naturally. Keep this e up for five minutes, until you are sen si!>le of a real rela'cation and refresh ne xnent of the body. c- "You will then be in the physical acondition to take up the mental work i:l which you need to do. "-M.edical isRecord. it. An English Offier on Our Armly. - Lieutenant-colonel F. M. Rundall, ry commanding the First battalion, Fourth s-Gurkbam, recently delivered at the to Unitea States institution of India at be Simla two lectures on th'e American r ivil war. In his summing at the esa the lecturer said: n"As one reads the story one cannot s.but be tilled with the profoundest ad I- niirationl for the superi) courage dis nplayed, not occasionally, but inces nsantly, by both Federals and Confed ar ates -- a courage not displayed by in th dividuals only, but by regiments, by Is brigades, by whole divisions. As I read of these gallant deeds and re of miembered that these officers and men ehad been but a few months before not e. soldiers, but peaceful citizens, I felt that America is a nation of soldiers born, and that her sons are made of ethat Btern stuff which enables men, ar worn out with incessant fatiguea ig hardship, to still go forth r- after morning, amid slushn d and misery, to their ie I with death and mutil a. .did dash and brillia n m- a et A QTIIo ijr A DWI I wn-l With fingers awkward and big (Long past the hour for bed), V a mere man handles a needle keen WhIch it's taken him hours to thread Work! Work! Work! For work he is truly a gluton. 'Tis his first attempt-yet he does not shirk Ee is trying to sew on a button. - With fingers weary and worn (The dawn is rising red). A mere man toils In a piteous way, Still plying his needle and thread Prick! Prick! Prick! nd he murmurs (I think) "Tut ! Tat I" on The needle invading his fingernails quick, As it comes with a jerk obrough the button. With fingers ragged and sore (The sun shines bright o'erhead), A mere man wearily puts away His troublesome needle and thread Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! He has struggled with eyes half shut on. But his spirits are yards above concei' pitch By Jove, he has sewn on a button ! -The Mere Man, in Punch. HUMOROUS. Ida--She keeps her age well,doesan Bhe? Ma~~ash~a' get rid di it. "What made you so long getting. ready?" "I had lost the combination and couldn't get my earmuffs on. "What are you going to call your new office building?" "I think ill call it the 'Serial,' on account 'of its continued stories." "How much is Jane's new -.husband worth?" "Oh, I suppose she coul& realize $5000 on him if she'could get him killed by the cars." "I say, Pat; what are you about? Sweeping out the room?", "No," an swered Pat; "I'm sweepin' out the dirt., and leavin' the room." "I would have you to know,feflow, said Charlie van Beet, . "that I cale ' down from the real Kniekerbocke stock." "It's a terrible come-do 7 said the man. The sage spoke words ot wisdow w ,; And every one seemed fast asleep. He chanced to make a sightman e And every one was wide awake. "I believe that Goodluak has 7 an increase of salary. What xtra work?" "Yes! Me a s enthe bostells thi mk ~ ' pro ner I. at on liar wit soon came .. complimented of the language. estly that it was nothing; spent four years in one of the drug houses -of London, Iouryearsi with a similar establishment . in Parian and three years with anothei- at Rome -all 'preparing himself for the buai-~- - nes.' In other words, he could con duct a commercial transaction witi ease- in English, French, Italiark German. 1 looked at him in amaze ment, and be assui-ed me that there was nothing phenomenal about i accomplishments - that t guages were spoken well equipped clerks and fou by many. I mention the incident to illustrate what manner of men are used by for eign nations to cater to their export trade. That is one of the reasons why we have had 'auch small success in gaining a foothold in the Latin Americin markets. We lack solicitors. with education suameiently cosmopoli tan to do business with the people of those countries. When our young men work a couple of years in a comn miercial establishment they expect toY become junior partners. "-New Or leans Times-Democrat. An Extemnsive~ Family Tree. The Emperor of Japan 'is entitied to be considered the-most aristeeratic ruler on earth. The royal family' Japan has a genealogical :tree which reaches to Adam. There hare beeu * 121 emperors of Japan, and thaey all-P belong to this family. The fi governed Japan just abu ) an o He wan