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* . TRI WEEKLY EDITIGO.L WINNSBORO. S.C.. APRIL 5.900.,SALSH 84 - - -* WHAT THE CAR With a scream of the whistle our farewell I said, And into the blackness of night we sped I On u"nd on, Atthedawn; k L. ir ci- > sky where the stars burned red; I Past aills that stood where the snows were shed, 2 Ghostly white as the shrouded dead; On and on To meet the dawn: 2 True-hand at the throttle and hope ahead! The steel rails ringing The swift wheels singing: "To kith and kin, 0 hearts that roam- C In vine-wreathed cot, and marble dome, Over the world we bear you home!" Whirled through the dark where the black steed drives C Are joys and sorrows of human lives; Laughter and weeping, And children sleeping On the breusts of glad mothers; and wistful wives : The clank of chains and the grip of gyves! Onand on To meet-the dawn Where Light the soul of 1hZDarkness I shrives The.steel rails ringing The mad wheels sinring: "To gloam or gladness,O hearts that roam To darkened dwelling or marble dome Over the world we bear you home !" -Fran BY A HAIR'E Anm Ol0d M.jaid Viss Selina sat knitting and hum- I ming softly to herself in the tiny' porch in front of the house where she I dwelt supreme mistress. The golden t sunshine darted through the rustling vines and flashed upon the swiftly i moving fieedles,sending dazzjing rays in every direction. C Oh, Miss Selina," cried a high, x clear voice, "do stop knitting for a minute. I am nearly blinded." Down - dropped the work,as Miss Selina hast- e ily spraug forward to meet this most < welcume visitor. r "Come in,dear; come in," she cried. "It's nire and cool here on the porch, 2 and I have been baking those nice I seed cakes you like so much." 3 "You're an angel," responded the girl, as sh3 kissed the cheek where I time had furrowed a few wrinkles as -year posts for nearly half a century. t "But even seed cakes won't console'c me,for we are going home tomorrow." "For the land's sake, child," ex- i hostess;genuinely g--ieved; S % ond:sy*&. N ought- thatN u would.5e here. another month, at : ast. Is anything the matter?" It "6h, oil ohi- ..1d '.o ; L y ma a has a tonh of eumatism and'is afraid to 'h-ve any more east winds. Oh, dt r, iow can I go and leave all this bc.nd?" and as she spoke the girl gazed over the cliff where the little hotse stood like a sig nal tower, n ross the smiling ocean, where the a -ing waves were crested with foam 4 uey frolicked with the refreshing wind. "Such a perfect blue and gold day as it is. It seems to me it grows hard er each year to go back to the prim, sedate, old city. What shall I do when there is no more fishing or row ing or bathing'or anything?" and the gir-l leaned bac-k, with a slight cloud on the usually sunshiny face. "Where area you going, Miss Se':" "Aftsr the cakes, dear," and Mis -Selina vanished, with a step as light as a girl's. But even the cakes fai!eI to banish the girl's unwonted mood0(, and Miss. Seiina felt at her wit's end. "See here, dearie," she said at last, "I know it is hard to leave now, wh :n it is all so lovely, but you wouldn't like to stay here all winter." "Wouldn't I, though," put in the go!. *"That is easy to say, but sometimes when I look out of the windowvs I really wish I lived somewhere else. It is gr'ay and white and angry, and the clouds hang so heavy over it. Then the surf comes to the shore,as though it wanted to tear it away and drown everybody it hadn't got already." Miss Selina shivered, and the girl impulsive ly turned toward her friend. "Don't, Miss Se, please. It is aw-1 fully mean of me to make you think of these things. I wonder that you don't hate the sea, after all the harm it has done you." "Hate it? No, child; even though it has my father and brothers in its keeping, and somehow it makes me feel as though I were doing something for the daughters and sisters w ho-arel watching e :d waiting everywhere, by -outting my lamp where it will show all night. They call it the Selina light, you know. But come,we won't! be solemn any longer. Tell me what you are going to do this winter-, now that you are a young lady." "I don't know,I am sure. I wanted to go to college, but mamma says she cannot spar~e her only gili, so I will have to content mysef at home. How, I am not sure, unless I become a pro fessional hail-dresser, which is really the only thing for which I seem to have any talent. Oh, Miss Se, won't you please let me do your hair up for you. You have such pretty pink cheeks and nice hair that you will be a beauty when I have finished it." "For~ land's sake, child, what put that ridiculous idea into your head?, Why, I have done my hair this way for 'years, and it wouldn't seem natu ral in any other fashion." "Then it is high time you changed, -Mi ss Se. You want a pompadour in stead of drawing it straight back. --. Come and let me try. I won't touch the seissors or,6curling tongs." Miss '4elina never corld refase the girl anything,and obediently went in, with many inward misgivings as to the result -Sit down here, mum," cried the girl, dragging a low seat before the old-fashioned~ mirror and seating her .Ctm theron. In a minute Miss NHEELS SANG. here are hearts that listen- with hope and fear or the signal shrill of the engineer: That throb and thrill At that signal shrill, oes it bring them the rose or the rue to wear ? he song, the sigb, or the burning tear? On and on To meet the dawn 'he black night dies, and the hills stand clear! "What are you bringing, O swift wheels singing daisied meadow and dew-sweet loam?" The hearts that hunger-the hearts that roam iver the world we bear them home !." id friends, old lovers, in a rapture wild :iss of the mother and clasp of the child - The night is gone We have met tne dawn: ,ever so glaily the -;weet sun smiled l ;ever the spirit of Night beguiled The hand so true. That the throttle knew ;earing the burden of mother and uhild On and on To the joy o' the dawn! Vith ever that song to the hearbs that roam -To vine-wreathed cot and marble dome )Yer the world we bear you home !". k L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. T 1 BREADTH. S 1i Ulmance. $ elina's severely smooth plaits were [own and the girl brushing the satiny DCks with many an exclamation at heir length and beauty. In a quaiter of an hour Miss Selina vas transformed. "Why, yez: naughty woman," ex laimed the gi, as she stepped for rard for a u: inspection. "So one rould take you for a day over 30. Zow that you know how to do it prop rly, don't let me see you with it any ther way. It's like the poem that einarked, 'They made believe to fancy ress by the way they did their hair.' ow I have got to go and help pack, ut, dear Miss Selina, please leave I our hair that way, and if you can't et it straight in the morning I will ix it when I come to say good-by." When the lively girl had vanished, he little house grew doubly quiet by ontrast, and Miss Selina felt herself trangely lonely. It was due to the apending parting with her favorite, he concluded, a.d strox..to console Lersflydun inigher already imm-c-t 3ate house and eatin- her 'solitary thof e night, broken only by the monotone of the waves upon the sand, grew a!most unbearable. It was a great relief when about 8 oclock Miss Selina heard a heavy foot fall upon her neatly swept walk, and knew that the captain had come to call, as was his custom twice a week. The captain was like Miss Selina-one of the aristocracy of the little seaport, and boarded sinpe his retirement from active life with a widow not far fram the little cottage on the clifr. He had sailed with Miss Selina's father on his last ill-fated voyage, and this made a keen bond of sympathy between the lonely man and woman. But th:s evening some intuition made the captain pause and glance in at the open window iefore entering. The lhttle room with its collection of quaint and curious objects, t!otsam from a score of foreign trips, was the sane, but his eyes were rive:ed upon Niss Selina.as she leaned expectantly forward waitingfor- his kno.ck. Some indefinable change had passed o er her, but without pausing to analyze the change, the captain shook otf his bewilderment and entered the parlor, which was well nigh- filed with his tall, portly form. "G3oodl evening, Miss Selina," he renarked, sealing himself in a big rocker, which had by mutual co.nsent been eeded to him. "I was feeling lonesome and came here to find some pleasant company. How very well you look tonight,:) lhe finished gallantly. Miss Sesina started,then thought of her hair anid flushaed a most becoming pink. The captain always said that the bush tinally settled the question that for somec months had lurked in his mind. For some occuilt ieason he could not forget how charming she had looked, and thoughts of Miss Se lina intruded into every turn the con versation took. When he spoke of the sea it sudden ly raade him recall how umuch sorrow it had brnought upon her life. and was the direct cause of her loveliness. In discussing the shing'ing of the minister's roof he remembered that Miss Selina had said that her roof leaked in the last storm, and that she must hire some one to repair it,as she could hardly di) it alone. When the famous seed cakes were brought out the captain thought of the soggy gingerbread at his own table and mentally drew invidious compar isons. The very neatness of the room made him recall how very careless h's landlady was growing, and above all he could not help contrasting the frowsy widow with the tr-im figure and pink tinged face before him, which time and misfortune had failed to change for the worse, and which had suddenly become doubly attractive. As the captain meditated upon these matters a tiny caraway seed sta ted the poor man choking in a startling manner. Miss Selina, who had the tenderest heart alive, sprang up and hastened to the closet,where she kept her rare ly used restoratives. Ujnfortunately, however, the little lady in her excitement entirely forgot that her hair was a trifle higher than she had ever worn it befor-e, and as she stood on tip-toe and reached for ward to lift a bottle from a shelf, an nnwaev movement brought her against t projecting nail, and in an instanr ihe was fi mly caught. Poor Miss Selina was indeed in a ;redicament. One hand grasped the big bo,tle, the other the edge of the ibelf, and she could not touch her ieels to the floor without fairly tear Eng her hair out by the roots. "Steady, steady," cried the captain, is he re overed from his little misad renture with the seed and realized his hostess' pl ght. "Just hol Ion a min ate till I get there," and he sprang ,oward the closet with a Lelerity which 5arprised himself. "Can't you unloosen my hair?" fal tered Aliss Selina, thank ul that the -loset was dark enough to hide her burning face. "I think you can get it away from the nail wilho A much trouble." But the captain's clupsy fingers made sad work with the tangled 'resses, until, finally, losing ratience, he boldly lifted Miss -elina in his arms and slipped her away from the angerouspro.etion. It was no faint rose jJush which swept over 'ise Selina at that master stroke of policy, but the captain failed to see any need for an apology. In his own heart hE thought he should apologize to himself for putting her down so soon. When Miss Selina felt herself once more upon her feet she started for the door with a hasty word that she would be back in a minute, but, to her aMazIment, the captain stepped in front of her with a masterful air,which somehow had a soothing effect upon lthe little lady who for many long years had had no taste of mas.:uline protec tion. "Don't go yet, Selina," he said,aud Miss elina's heart fairly stoodstill at his words. It was a long time since anyone had called her by her name withint the prefix, so strong was the :Ustom. .L want to say something that I have been thinking of a long ti-ne, and never seemed to have a goo cha ice to say it. It isn't right fo': you to be all alone here. Suppose you had been caught when nobody was around, you'd have likely b>een hanging in the morning. I know I'm groing old," the captain sighed, and isq Selina involuntarily shook her head. Speech was beyond her, and he plucked up his courage again. "But 1 think I am good for some time, and I come of an old stock. I have sone money put away, and,and,well,Selina, it may a und foolish for a gray-haired man to say, but I lovq. you, au d1 waht7u to7-be-iy wiffe Miss Selina, however, failed to see anything either amu-t f .S this middle-ag ance. he looked before her, and read in the kindly bue eyes a confirmatiou of what the stony lips had told. There was a second's silence, while like lightning the th<.nght flashed through her mind that never, even it that censorious little town,bad a wore been spoken against the captain, and the thought of a long succession o: lonely evenings like 1he one ju. passed, with no hope of the comiuc of a guest whose advent had beet most eagerly anticipated, madeher fioic out her hand. "Captain," she said, slowly; "cap tain,I like you very much." "But nit enough to marry me?' asked the capt.ain, in a tone of suel deep disappointment that Miss Eel.nz threw all scruples to the wind. "Oh, yes, quite enough for that,' she answered, softly. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The largest stockyards in the worli are in Chicago. The combined plant repres.ent an investment of more tha: $io,000, 000. The yards contain :2 miles of streets, 20 miles of wate: troughs, 50 miles of fee ting trough and 75 miles of water and drainag< troughs. The yards are capable o receiving and handling daily 20I,r:0 cattle 2o, 000 sheep, and 120,000 hogs The Siran Thibetans' form of an cestor worship is.oue that appeals t< our sense of the ludicrous more that it does to our sense of sole:nnity T wiee a year they dig up the bone of their ancestors and reve:'cntly sern them. These bones are the oh ect c great veneration, and are seized-upoi by creditors or enemies, leaving 'ih descendants shorn of honor till the; 1:o recovered. The larger the boner; the greater the social status of th< descendant. How fortunate it is fo us that the honor of our lineage can not be snatched fro:n us, by our cred tors, in the bones of our ancestors. IIn Prague there exists a goos "bourse," where yearly 3,000,0 geese change hands. Its most activ time lasts from the middle of Septen ber till the first days of Novembei During this time immense flockse geese are driven into the suburbs especially from the districts lying o the left bank of the Weischer. As th geese are driven in from long diF tances they are "shod;" that is to say walked repeatedly over patches of ta mixed with fine sand. This forms hard cru-t on the feet of the geese and they are able to cover imnmens distncswithout fatigue. In Hungary they fish in the winte as well as in the summer. The fishe: man outs holes in the ice, puts ni little frasnes, to which his fish line ae fastened, builds a haystack in th centre to sit upon, and waits for th fish to catch themselves, when a littl bell that is fixed on each frame ring! A shellfish of the Mediterr anean ha the poiver of spinning a viscid sill which, in Sicily, is made into a ver handsome fabric. The silk is spn by the shellfish for the purpose< attaching itself to the rocks. Tfh matrial is gathered at low tid. washed in soap and water, drief saihtanned and carded AMERICAN DIAMONDS. CHILDREN AT PLAY MAY DISCOVER VALUABLE GEMS. Specimens Foun:l-bout the Great Lakes -The Likelihood of Their Hav ng Been Deposited There by Glacial Move inent-L:,cation of the Original Fields. A problem of great interest to geol ogists is the occurrence of di'atonds in the united States, and while it is haiily possible. tnat these precious stoawiil ever1e found in any one locality in sucl. abundance as in South Africi, yet, accordiug to au thorities who have given considerable thought to the sub,ect, there is no ieason why they should not be ds covered froa titne to time in certain sections of the esantry. Diamonds have t>een discovered during the last few years in the neigh borhood of the great lakes, princi. ally in the state of Wis:onsin, and the first discovery recorded was at Eagle, Waukesha county, in 1876. Since that time 17 well-identified dia monds, weighing from -one-ha!f of a carat to 21 1-4 ciarats have been found about the great lakes, and ther dis covery has given rise to considerable speculation and the formulating of theories which, if correct, not only explain the presence of the stones, but also indicate the possibility of ad ditional finds in -the future. The first diamond- to be found in the region of Waake-ha was brought to light in digging a welL. The stone was given to tire wife of the farner occupying the troperty, who subse quently sold it to a Milwaukee jeweler for $1. The I tter submitted the stone to a minralogist for examina tion, and it was found to be a dia mond of a palejyellow color. It was subsequently sold to Tiffany & Co., in whose collectioa it now reposes. A later discovery pf note was made on 1-lum Creek, in Pierce-county, where some prospectTrs looking for gold found in 1887, 188 and 1889 a num ber of dianVs varying from two carats in weiiu& -to microscop,c size. Several of these.arealso in the Tiffany collection, and-re either yellowish or white slightly ,inged with yellow, or grayish green o 1-4irgest diamond on record A .this'section weighs 21 1-1 carats t is of -a pale yellow color. It wa und by a farmer of Kohlsville, fington county, Wis., while p Jo iSaow0ned:by is Widow; - cine wa .examinej by Pr-oessor -. Hobbs of the Jni ersity of \ onsin and was de sdlf k by -in several scientific --a Ic. rts sOn -uaTs ' -al rep )rts es un i3 In ad lition t es Wisconsin, the ' also record of th( discovery of d uds in Michigan and Ohio. The chigan stone wa; found at Dowa c, Cass county, ir the glacial dri . The Ohio stone, whi.h was disovered at Milford, Clermont county, was of very fint quality, and was cut as a brilliant b3 its purchaser. It was found by tw< little girls and weighed six carats, being of the purest water. DurinE the last five years diamondshave be..r -discover-ed at the rate of about one y -ar, an:i the geo.ogists who are in te -ested in the question believe th~ i people, particularly childr-en, woul be on the look out for the stones many more would be recoirded. IAn examination of the localitie where dianionds have been found an the consider ation of the various geo logic-al conditions have led to the con elision th-at the diaads have t.eei b ought to their present locations b; the a::tion of great glaciers in pas agae. ThCie theory advanced is that the dia monds in preglacial times were separ ated from the matrix, or coveri rock, anid were deposited in valley fnear the source of the ice movement According to the geological evidenc there were two invasions of the ice and as t1:ce have been no diamond found in the material transpo.-ed il the fir-st of these, it is l elie' el. tha the material in which the diamond .were embelded was not affected b; the first, but was carried along by th second movement. To locate th origin it is necessary to follow th fproi>able paths of the transported dir mon ds backward, and it will be foun< that they meet in a common centre il Labrador, east of James Bay. Tb eological survey of Canada has fixe the centre of the ice mantle tha efected .the glaciation of the grea - lakes also in this locality, and it seem - as if the two centres were in proxinu ity. According to Professor Hobb (to whom is due the collection of mne of the informuation,-on this subject: considerable original resear-ch and th ) examination and study of the dii a monds alrea'ly found, there are sei eral lines of inves:igation to be pui . saied before the home of the diamon fcan be located with accuracy. C , vese the geological study of th country surrounding Hudson ba.a e -.a a view to determining the movi ', to the sou.h and east of the grei *r lakes are moraines somewhat simili to those on the west, and a searchifc , diamonds should be made in then particularly in the marginal moraine the transported stones would be mo: likely to be deposited. It is also matter of importance to ascertai whether there are dia:nonds in tia moraines of Ohio, weste ni New Yor s an1 western Pennsylvania, as in suc an event it would prove that the fa e of distribution extended further i e the east, and that its apex must 1 - very near the centre of Labrador nev< sor ice summit. ', With the growth of geological k-now edge and the i-ease of the data 01 n :ained by the discove y of new spec I uens or on field expeditions in norti S e n Canadla, there ' wi 1 be an add a tional amonnt of inte-est lent to sh subject, and with a view to stimula a pmens dwelling in the dintric concerned, particularly children In their play about brooks and with their pebb!es, to use their eyes in order to make new and valuable discoveries, a statement ha- been prel:ared for cir culation in which the present condi tion of our knowledge in regard to the lake diamonds and the manner of dis tinguishing them from quartz pebb.es is set forth.-New York Post. CURIOUS NAVAL SToRES. Remarkable Equipment of a Ship for a Thrve-Years' Cruise. Any of the vessels of the Unitel States navy, if stranded on an islan.1, would fina al nost enough material in her general stores to e tab.ish and maintain a community on shore. Each ship is so well equipped with a ma-s of diversified material that she is able to go on a thr4e-years' cruisz without replenishing supplies, except of pro visions and clothing. A vessel of the battleship class carries fully one hun dred tons of stores, tue vaine of which would be half a milli,n doilars. The lisc of naval stores for each ship is prepared in the navy de att ment, where tne expe.ience of many years determines the needs of the sir vice. Tue weight o( diXerent artic es is carefully ascertained and the re ord faithially preserved. Tue books .. the depa:tment show, for instance, the we.ght of the crauk-pin bolt of the forward starbuard engine of the Ore gon, or the weight of the saf.ty valve of No. 1 auxiliary boiler. It is pos sible for a naval engineer to take the dianeter of a smoke-pipe and to trace out the dimensions and general char acteristics of the ship, just as the scientists will take a fossil bone of an extinct animal and furnish a picture I or build a skeleton of it. For convenience in ledger acconnts the naval stores are divided into -2 classes, and they embrace every con ceivable article likely to be neetled during a three-years' term on board i ship of war destined to visit strange ports and to eneounter unusual con diions. The possible needs of a I naval ship have been very apt y anti cipated, although the list will sbow many articles which will strike an outsider as curious. For instance, a man on the iarm, who knows a vessel only as a thing of masts and ropes, would hardly expect to encounter on shipboard plows, pitchforks, rakes, spade', chicken coops, carriages and wagons, carriage whips, carry. oins, horse coilars, and mules and o en. tiomefidea 'of the diversity -of vari ous ariaJes classed under one head i afforded by the item of brushes, oj which these varieties are requi ed Iartist's dar, bench, black. In il*ind, b hair, -cattle, r chisel, ein painter's, coir; co.or, dus tory, feather, feather dusti floor, line, foundry, frescoe, tips, glue, graining-combs, hearth, horse, kalsomiin.P' lamp chimoey, let ' mottler, ie.>ulder's, painter's,painter dust, paste, pencil, roofing, saUl4 sash-tool, scrub, shaving,ship's sea i ing, shore, sten--il, steel wire, stov4 streaking, sweeping, tar, tooth, tub4 varnish, wall, whitewash, winndov -wire. Another subject with many sides: that of oil,of whi h the different kin are armorer's tool, belt, boiled au raw liuissed, cleaning, carboline, ca bon, castor, clock, cocoannt, cotto2 seed, carne, cyiinder, engine, fisi gargling, gasoline, hard fiIzish, ke-r sene, lar-d, Iigniid cooler, lubricati machine, Mecca, mineral, naphth; natural, neat's-foot, olive, paraffil .e:i-oleum, polishing, sperm, spindi sweet, synovial, tea, vacuum, valv, whale. Art c es with quite widely separati utility ar-e closely associate 1 in ti alphabetical classification, so-netit< to an interesting degr-ee, as when v find that collins, clothespins, clarine and clapboards are together,or gr-ave gravy boats, Greek fir-e and gridirol are gr-ouped in aniother- p!ace. TI other curious items w.iich hellp nma up a ship's equipment are andiron drums, earrings (rigging),letter boxe rags, razors, lap robes, umbrella bread boxes, box openers, cat mea coal breakers, cravats, corset lacin: diamond-tools, devil's claws, dog vane dynamite, fireworks, hour glasse j ewshar-ps (pertaining to the anchoi Jacob's laddlers, pedometers and r traps. -Saturday Evening Post, tLamnps for Night Marches. An ingeniously constructed lanm -designed by Mr. Scott-Moncrieff, h: been ac;.epted by the war o:lice anthc ities for use at the front and a lar; number are being hurriedly co structed for immediate dispat h. T] lamp will be used by the troops di ing night marches, and is design --with a view to k.eeping large bodies men in touch with each other means of red, green and white ligh which will be seen by those on t] right and left and in the rear, but light will be shown in front. In ads itien to the small lamps carried by certain percenta te of the men, lar: central lamps will, if the idea is fon1 to be practicable, be carried as guid to the entire force. Lor-d Rober-ts 1. 5approved the design.--Pall Mall Gi ette. a Car Driver Kept WVarn. aOne of the interesting spec'acles Sa cold night re -ently was furnished a horse car upon Amsterdam avent A searching wind was blowing whi made e'en the thick ulster of t >driver seem a scanty cover-ing. T Scar had only a single passenger a he was the conductor. The dris had abdicated the chilly front ple I- form and was sprinting alongside 1 - horses-.So long as the car was i- sight the flying figure of the -JeLn i a- seen neck to ne-ck wit-h his steeds. - "Tfhat's a q1uainit specc:aele for a up to date comnlunity," re:ma-ke< - iti,.en as he followed the odd char s I rae with his gavm BOER FARMER AT 1OME1 HIS MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CHIEF t CHARACTERISTICS. A Recently Returned Traveler Says the Boer Has Been 310ch Masirn.!d-A De ,cription of His Home and Fasnily His Hearty Treatmeat of the Stran.-'r. C C A traveler who recently returned from South Airica, in describing som . of 'he characterlsiCs of the Boees and their home ii.e, said: "I am surpri.ed t at the ignorance displayed regarding 1 these peop e. Many of the de scriptious oi their life and character r which I ha e seen since my re urn are extre.uely absurd. The boe:s when properly appro.tched and treac,;d are uily as c-.urteous a:id obligiug as the average New Engiand fa me,,. Ihe,r injuisitivenesr, which has been so largely dweit upon, while no doubt annoying to a fore gner, is due more t to their isolated liie, in most cases, I than to any inborn rudeness. t "The men are, as a rule, magnifi- t cent specim -ns of manhood. I have kn,,vn families where the father and from six to eight sons would all exceed 6 feet 2 in he- in heigot and Sary in weight from 1U to 21Opuuuds. Wuile they are uften what we would term c'umsy, in many respects, they are a most im,.ervious to fatigue and I the b azing sua and chilling nights of t ' 5outh Africa appear to maie but little C i upre:-siou upou them. They are not easily amenaule to the rig.dness of I Swi.i ary life, and for that reason make t poor soldiers Lom a European stand II 1:oiut. But they- a--e, wi.-hout excep-I tion, taken as a body, the best rile shott I have ever met in my travels. "A traveler approachin-1 the home I of a fairly well-to-do Boer farmer will at once be impressed with the unpre- t tentiousness of the surroundin .ts. f sually two or three thatched houses t for the master or his married sons or i daughters and a few reed huts for the servants - mostly Hottentors - to gether with the barns and outhous..s,' comprise all the buildings in sight. His arrival will be heralded,by the yelping of a pack of dogs of all kinds j and degrees and seemingly without end. A few kicks heartily bestowed causes the howling pa:k to lose all int.-rest in the new arrival. A mutual introduction, and perhaps a few ques tions, will be followed by the coar teous query, 'Will mrnheer off-zadel?' 4 (Will the gentleman unsaddle?) The-advent of a stranger causes the I entire family to assemble, and w I greeting may tagruff, yet it h I ring of genuine hea.tiness i soon puts thetravel - ase. If the g n ried to drink spirits he is -- to take a cup of 'tea water in place of the 'brandiwyn.' ~This 'tea-water' is a decoction rather than an infusion of the Chinese leaf, being di uted with boiling water with ? out the addition of milk and sugar. )9 "During this refreshment the vis itor will be plied with qaestions re "garding his age, occupation, the ob - Ject and extent of his present journey, ", the nu.nber and names of his family, ,1 and particularly about the political conditions of the outside world and its bear.ng on their .republic--some S thi:ig the Boer never loses sight of. Is While he is busy answering these Iquestion~s, he will notice that the men -wear loose tronsers of sheep or goat - skin, probably home made, a check , shirt of coarse frieze or cotton, ac - co: ding to the sevecity of the weather. , The.se, with the broad-brim hat, comn , plete their costume. Shoes and stock , ings are seldom worn, except when , they go to church or to \ rolykheids ,(merry.nakings). During the -colder season sandals of coarse country make :are sometimes worn. They are made efrom raw bullock's hide with an up sper of dressed sheep or goat skin. eThese are not very substantial, but as s every man can make hi% own sandals , and the leather-costs little or nothing, is they hold their own against the more emodern sh ;e store, especially as e ecnomyis one of the chief character 5, istics of the Bes ~"To" -a -foieigner the house will 4 hardly appear as the embodiment of : comfort, in size and shape it re sembles a substantial barn. The walls Sare thick and built of adhesive clay, ~which, when well prepared in the manner of mortar, soon acquires in at the dry climate the hardness and con sistency of briek. These walls are about eight or nine feet high and fairly smooth and straight, and are ,plastered with a combination of sand zs and then whitewashed with a sort of -white clay. T1his gives the house au eexceedingly cool and pleasant ap . pearance upon enteririg it upon a hot day. The ..roof is thatched with a e.species of rush and from the rafters aare suspended a numerous assortment l of supplies and farii implements. y The house is divided into three apart , ments. One, opening directly into he the air, is called the voor huis and ac corresponds to our sitting-rootrn; Here Ii- the family sit, eat and receive visitors. a A room -at either end of the hall is er formed by walls of the same height ad and construction as the outer walls es and is called aloap kamer, or private isroom. The latter are used for sleep .Iing purposes mostly. The floor, which is made of clay from ant-heaps, pounded into dust and then watered and then well stamped, is hard* and on smootfr. y I"Little furniture is found in the te average Boer hiouse. Perhaps a dozen h stools and chairs, roughly made and he with bottoms of thiongs, are scattered he thoughout the three rooms of the nd house. Two tables, one large and er of rough plank, a9.d the other smaller ,t and with~ some attempt at finishing, he will be found in the voor huis. The in latter holds the brass tea-urn and the as other apparatus used in making* the 'tea water.' Uitensils used in the an housework are hung on antelope 1a horns fixed in the walls, as, for in wo bowls of calabash, always founi Lear the door. "Jutside the house some little at empt is m.-de in the way of a ga d n, >ut the chief wealth of the country soer lies ia his flocks, and agriculture 9 not carrie,l beyond the needs of the ousehold. The garden will contain abbage, Leets, mint, sage, garlic ard uions. Sometimes, pumpkins, mel OR and potatoes. In the or hard are ound peach, apricut, apple, I ear and lam tree!, bat outside of .hi pea-h rees, from the fruit of which is ma; : he 'bran-i%vyn,' they receive bu't aLtle atteation. "My impression of the Boers as a esult uf the six mo -ths spent in their euntry - sy be summed up in a few ords. Taken as a who e, they are ,n exit e..ely religious and home lov og people, close in their dealings and >reudiced and sul e.stitious in many espects. Bat wi hat they ha e he courage of their convictio'is and he dog:,el determination of their )utcb ancestors and should not be oo lightly estimated as a foe when hey are fighting for what they cou ider their homes and soil." PLAINT OF THE FAT MAN. fe Declare% That All Other Fat Men Are I oolIlh, and Wonder.i Why. "Of all the foolish fools in the rorld," remarke.l the one known as he proctor as he joi.ed a grou:> of ourt ben hers in tae county court Louse, "the fat man is the bigiest o1 on recurd. Of ah kinds of fools he fat man is the most foolish." "Strange to hear you abuse fat aen," said the solicitor as he lo6ked -er the pructor's short, stout ignre 'you mnt weigh so..ething like 220 >ounds." - ".aike it 240," exclai:ed the proe or, "bnt' remember I am stout, not at. There is a marked difference ;e ween a st ;ut man with good healthy, auseles and a fat man. A fat- mav;4 reature with soft, fiabby. mu.-ces, al ras has a fat, soft - brain. And it .eems to me that all large men are a rith unusually fat brains." ' "You ate the so'e exception, I sup )ose," broke in the soicitor witlk-e meer on his clean shaven face. "I think I am," Calmty resumed the )roctor. "I have made a study at men and their foolish actions., "dive us the benefit of your obqer ations of the fat man," sugge tedonil,. f the benchers. "We'l," said the -pro-to', as h alled his chair. clser to the ~ amany lo how foolish the ave: is will merely give you afe ilsstrafi , the foolish workings of afat man s fat brain. The next time vo are iu. an elevated road car, a street car,er any other kind of a car just size _j P the passengers. You will find that al the fat men are seated toget.hel shoulder overlapping shoulder. er,.w led and unc.mfort.,ble, while all the na-row-shouldered.men are -eated in another part of the car with sve-. ral inches between their tiodies. No why is it that the fat men all get to. getherin a b:neh?" "We give it up," exclaimned several of the ben hers. "Of course yon do," growled the proctor. ~"Your brains are not fats and flabby like those o' the fat men." "Whene'er I enter a ca-" contin ed the proctor, "I always pick out a small, narrow man or- woman. ,I take a seat beside him or her, aad if .there is a 'acant plaice on the 'other'sidle of me an d 50o other unoccupied seats in the ca-, or a few vacant pla es alongsile of thin me 1, I feel certain that the first fat man who comes into the car will settle his :300pound body ne t to me and that we will be uncom ortable all toe rest of the trip. It's the same thing in the theatre and at the -uick. --- lunch counters where men sit on high stools. The foolish fat men all sit to getter with their shoulders so tizhtly ressed to-gethaer that when one moles the whole sine of fat shakes like so4 much jelly. I tell you that the fat fool is the most foolish on earth. The Legislature should p ass some laws to. punish fat men who miake others so uncomfortable. I tall you fat men are-" The proctor stopped sudlenly for - the 1 enchers had all made their escape -New York Sun. Discounted a Friend's Criticism. Fuseli, an-eminent historical painter, who grew in fame after 1770, when he first formed the resolution to'- devote his talents to painting, was rather fond of sarcastic remarks at the er-a pense of 'his friends. ~ Northcote, a contemporary, exhib ited his "Judgment of Solomon." Fuseli looked at it with a smirk 'on .his face. "How do you like my picture?" in quired Northcote. "Much," was the answer. . "The action suits the word. Solomon holds out his fingers like a pair of open -- scissors at a child, and says: 'Cut it.' I like it much." Northcote remembered this when Fuseli exhibited a picture represent ing Hercules drawing hiaed.~rrow at Pluto. "How do you like my picture?" in-. quired -Faseli. "Much," said Northcote; "t: s. clever, very elever, but he'll neve~r -hit ]him." "He shall hit him,"exclaipgd. the other, "and that speedily." Aw;y r.an useli with-his brush, and, as:- he. labored to givethe arrowv'the -true di rection, was heard to mutter: "Hit Ihim! By Jupiter, but he shall bit hi!"-New England Home' Maga Izine. _ _ _ Probable Cause. The husband of a woman who is lecturing in Arkansas on "How to Manage a Husband" commited suicide a few days ago. No other cause is assigned for the rash act.-Denver