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I.AQ mlI WEEKLY EDITION WINNSBORO. S.C.. JUNE 5. 1909.4EALSE 84 NEWS AND NOTES% FORWOMEN. l The Square Sunshade. Smart new sunshades are square when opened, or appear so nearly square that the name may be applied. -These come in brilliant carmine, bright blue, scarlet, hyacinth' blue, maroon and brown; and also in crushed raspberry. They are covered with taffeta, and nearly every one has a woven border of white, sometimes adorned with a design of the body color on a white ground. Cross Bands of Black Velvet. Fashionable new stocks and collar ettes of lawn and lace are often made :up to combine ecru with pure white. White lawn may be trimmed with ecru, or ecru be garnished with white. The Itouch of novelty in these confections of lingerie is the cross-over narrow band of black velvet or black satin which passes around the back of the neck and the ends meet, cross and hang stifily down for three inches at the utmost. Son e only cross. The Iklends of the ribbon are bluntly squared, never notched. The Fashions For Summer Headwear.' UvIoubtedly the most important change that has been made in forms has reference to the crown. This, for most hat shapes, is higher than they have been hitherto,'save for capelines, flat at the top and rather wider at the base. Some toques :have domed crowns, but many are shaped like hats, the difference betwe'en them being slight, and depending mostly on the arrangement of the trimming and the width of the brim. The flat toque was merely a passing whim. A medium width of hat brm has been adopted pretty generally, and it may be allowed to be flat or be turned up at the side or in front, or bent down over the brow. The new models include very few picturelhats and-capelines. On the other hand, they number among them some very decided novelties in the shape of a variation of the Amazon hat, bent down back and front, and curving up at the sides, while no spring show is complete without its specimen ca potas.-Millinery Trade Review. A Remunerative Occupation. An occupation that has proved quite remunerative was started recently by a-married woman in London. Herhus band was unfortunate, which necessi tated the sale of their home and most f the furnitare. The remaining far *ifure. was placed in a small house. The clever wife had two rooms left un 1frnishel, save for a gas stove and a sti she intended to use in her busi -When settldia.hernew all kings, w dainty articles that could not be in trusted to the usual laundress. In a very short time she had more work than she could undertake single asnded, so she employed the services a woman, whom she allowed to wash articles and do any of the rough c, while she devoted her spare to the careful iraning. Very e energetic wife was earning a sum of money in a quiet way. oms devoted to the occupation t quite apart, and the family no-iniconvenience. Women "Will" Their Brains. omen have brains and they have vred it. They have demonstrated at they are in commendable, ap reciative working order. As a sub 'stance they have upheld a theory. -But this is not all. Once when men wore weighing brains-that is, of -'/ course, dead men's brains-and were expressing congratulatory "Oh's" and / "Ah's" with th2 dignity of masculine superiority, the women dug up the brain of a poor old washerwoman, and lo! it weighed the same as Daniel Webster's brAin! That exploded the theory in regard to weight in its rela tion to quality. Women demand recognition for their brain quality, so now they be -queath their brains to colleges that are making brain collections. Cornell leads in this idea, and Helen H. Gardiner's and Elizabeth Cady Stan ton's brains are promised as soon as their present owners are through with them. In the future stone and water 'will not be the only substance upon which to depend for the perpetuation of merits and demerits-indeed not while there are shelves in Cornell on which to place jars of alcohol labelled with names and containing the evi dence that women have once thought thoughts. It will be a legacy of comn ;parative value, of course, but what values are not comparative? Women's brains shall testify that they have lived.-Harper's Bazar. Queen Victoria's First -Visit to Ireland. Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland is the fourth she has paid to the Emerald Isle. Her first visit was made over half a century ago, in 1849, when she landed at Quesenstown; and entered Cork and Dublin in state. The ILondon Times of the next day, in its description of the reception of ;the Queen on landing at Kingstown, the pert of Dublin, said: "It was a sight never to be forgotton-a sound to be recollected forever. Ladies threw aside the old formula of waving a pocket handkerchief, and cheered for their lives, while the men, press ing so closely as to throng the very edges of the pavilion, waved whatever * came first to hand-hats, sticks, or coats-and rent the air with shouts of joy, which never ceased in energy un til their sovereign was out of sight. The royal children were objects of universal attention and admiration. 'Oh, Queen, dear,' screamed a stout .old lady, 'make one of them Prince Patrick, and all Ireland will die for you.'" Almost every one of those days had a soverign remedy for Irish disaffec tion, but few were so easy of applica tion as this old lady's suggestion, which the Queen accepted, and the child born next after the Irish visit, on the Duke of Wellington's birthday, May 1, 1850, was named Arthur, after that great Irishman, and Patrick after Ireland's patron saint. The Irish as sociation was emphasized by the young Prince being given the title of Duke of Connaught, and the whirligig of time still further ordained that the "Prince Patrick" of the old lady's sug gestion, in his present capacity of commander of the forccs in Ireland, should furnisa the military escort when his aged and royal mother made her probably last visit to the Emer -ald 1sle.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Goup. In Chile two-thirds of the public school teachers are women. The Princess Beatrice is an enthusi astic hockey player, and has organized a ladies' team to play this game at Windsor. Sleeping with the hair pinned up tightly is not only bad for the circula tion, but it is said to prevent the hair from growing. An order has been introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature to make women eligible to serve as Overseers of the Poor in the city of Lowell, Mass. Mrs. Potter Palmer is tue owner of what is probably the finest private collection of old china in America. It has cost a fortune and taken years to collect. Miss L. White, who has for seven years successfully carried on a real estate agent's busines5 in Melbourne, Australia, lately applied for and ob tained an auctioneer's license. Mrs. May Preston Slosson, Ph.D., Cornell, who has been in the habit of devoting several hours each week to teaching the convicts in the Wyoming State Penitentiary, at Laramie, was recent!y appoin'ed chaplain there. The S iperinteudent in the Leaven worth, Kan., public schools, Miss M. A. Dolphin, is recognized as one of the most advanced and d6ompetent ed ucators in the United States. She has been unanimously re-elected each year since 189G. Miss Sybil Carter three years since opened schools at the White Earth Reservation, in Minnesota, also at Beaulieu, Loch Lake, Red Lake and Birch Coulee, to teach the Indian women the art of lace making. Ex quisite work is accomplished. Mrs. Blaine has purchased a lot of seven acres adjoining the city ceme tery at Augusta, Me., overlooking the aid that she usband's re Berlin now as a school omen librarians. One of its two courses of instruction lasts six months,and is for the training of librarians for the ordi nary public libraries, while the other, of three years, prepares the students to take their'places at the heads of sci entific libraries. Mrs. Hammond, the lady of Swaff ham Manor, Norfolk, England, who died recently at the age of ninety four, was the daugher of Mary Chat worth, whom Byron loved so hope lessly. Miss Chatworth, it will be re mAmbered, married a Mr. Musters, who took the family name of his wife. Lady Roberts, Lady White and Lady Stewart, wives of three distin guished English officers in South Af rica, have been decorated by the Queen with the' Crown of India. This decoration consists of Rer Majesty's cypher, V. R. & I., in diamonds, pearls and turquoises, encircled by a border set with pearls, surmounted by the imperial crown jeweled and enamn eled in proper colors, and attached to a light blue watered ribbon edged with white and tied in a bow. (deaning~ From the Shops. Leno-striped batistes in the finest, sheerest analitics. Oxidized and Roman-finished belt clasps in exclusive designs. All-wool French challies with figured, floral, dot and striped designs. An abundant-e of new ideas in plain, enameled and jeveled beltpins. Many new ginghams showing checks, cords or stripes in harmonious con trast. Bedford cords and summer weight wool dress materials in light and dark mixtures. Broad assortments of extremely fine washable laces for trimming sum mner gowns. Many new ideas in silk caps trimmed with lace ruching and pompons foi infants' wear. Wide and narrow-corded wash silks and changeable taffetas in new colo. combinations. Very elaborate dress waists made of granite and japon crepes, libert; satins, maousselines and all varieties of lace. Mercerized canvas and cotton grena dines in an endless variety of checked striped, dotted, figured and bayader patterns. Silk and wool crepe do chines show ing embroidered dots or figures, a well as fancy corded stripes in selfo0 contrasting colors. French dress crepes adorned witl polka dots of varying sizes arrange in clusters, pnin ted brocade figures o: narrow silk lines in pleasing con trast. New as sortments of infants' close fitting caps made of allover em, broidery, net or sheer-tucked, and corded lsawn trimmed with narron ruching or lace frills.-Dry Goodi Ecnomist. THE CHEROKEES. Their Advance in Education--How They Hold the Land. Wade Mountfortt writes -s follows in Ainelee's Magazine: "How much of a self-governor the Indian has been is best shown in the history of the Cherokee. He is the higbest type not only of the five tribes, but also of the North American aborigine. He is the only one that can boast of a written language. He has had schools, acade mies and seminaries, and a higher percentage of education than some of the States. All the ups and downs of the five tribes, and their melancholy experience with self-government have been shared by him. The Cherokee strip, occupying the northeastern por tion of the Territory, comprises the e. tensive area of five million acres, which are of the most fertile soil in the great Southwest. The white man has penetrated into the district, has fixed his foot there, has smothered his conscience and his decency so far as to marry the Cherokee woman only that he may become the part owner of the Cherokee land. From the Checo kee, as from all the others, is now de manded that he yield his control of his own affairs to the intruder, and that he sacrifice his Indian nature upon the altar of Caucasian progress. "Ac.ording to the allotment rolls of the Cherokees themselves, as revised from time to time by the Department of the Interior, there are in all, 32,800 in the nation, subdivided as follow.: Fall bloods...... ................... 8,000 Descendants of full Ibllods (either by narriage or direct de.ecnt)....... 18,001 Delaware (adopted)................. 93) Negroes (by tre-ity) ................ 2.51 Whites (adopted)............. ..... 2,53 shawnees (adopted).................. 90 Total.......................... . 32,803 "The Cherokee's lands, like those of the other nations, are owned in common, as are their invested funds. The Government has never placed them upon the full basis of individual independence, or spent much time in teaching them by Sloyd's system. The invested .fands of $5,000,009, which the tribe owns as a tribe, have been held by the United States in the form of Government bonds, bearing five uer cent. interest, and the lands have been allowed to the men and women of the tribe only in a quasi ownership. The name of each mem ber appears upon the allotment rolls, and, theoretically, he is entitled to his pro rata when the lands and the funds are finally divided. But the Indian cannot deed away his land. He may acquire a sort of occupying ownership of all he cares to fence or improve, and he may derive rentals from the leasing of it, but he cannot lawfully make over the title to others." WISE WORDS. o gh is sunshine in a house.' -Thackeray. attempt a n to fail, -Lon",us A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters a fool.--Bulwer. What oneliness is more lonely than distrust?-George Eliot. Anger begins in folly and'ends in repentance. -Pythagoras. Gaiety is the soul's ripple over depths of despair.-Chapin. The mind attracted by what is false has no relish for better things.-Hor ace. Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.-Gar field. There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity. Mitchell. Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. English. There is no substitute for thorough going, ar dent an d sincere earnestness. --Dickens. The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. -J. P. Senn. Every duty which.we omit obscures some truth which we should have known. --Ruskin. Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.--Beadle. Decision and character will often give to an inferior mind commari over a superior.--W. Wirt. The Surgical Ant. The native Brazilian, far removed as he usually is, from doctors anc surgeons, depends upon a little ant t< sew up his wounds when he is slashec or scratched. This odd creatu:-e iu called the surgical ant, from the usi to which it is put. The ant has two strong nippers ox his head. They are his weapons fot battle or forage. When a Brazilian has cut himself for example, he picks up an ant presses the nippers against the wound one on each side and then gives the bug a squeeze. The indignant insec snaps his nippers together, pierci the flesh and bringing the lacerate< parts close together. The Braziliai at that moment gives the ant's body jerk and away it flies, leaving th nippers embedded in the flesh. T~ be sure thy~t kills the ant, but he ha served his most useful purpose il life. The operation is repeated unti the wound is sewed up neatly an< thoroughly. -St. L ouis Post-Dispatch Gennans Teach Dogs to Fight. German military authorities havy een training dogs for some time pas to take an active part in modern war fare. The Eighth German Arm: Corrs have a number of splendid ani mas, who are trained to assist the re lief parties in discovering the where abots of wounded in battle. Severs other commands also own packs a war dogs, who are drilled to assist il ambuance work VALUABLE HORSE LAW. Novel Decisions in Reard to Liability For a Klekinz Animal. Valuable horse law has been de veloped by Dr. Bruce and his kicking horse. It seems that Dr. Brucv, ap parently a resident of Kings Cwinty, bought of a horse company a horse which the company warranted to be "sound, kind, and true, and gentle and quiet in harness, and suitable for use by plaintiff in his profession as a physician, to drive in harness as a carriage horse." In the Doctor's sub sequent suit against the horse com pany for breach of warranty, iie Doc tor said of his horse that the very day he bought him "the horse, without provocation, deliberately jumped, and stood on his front legs, and kicked up into the buggy, and kicked the roof off the buggy, and ran away down as far as Seventh street. In kicking in to the buggy, he kicked me in the shin in the left leg." Some three weeks later, when harnessed to a coupe, the horse kicked and injured it "very greatly." It was on these facts that the Doctor sued the horse company. A Kings County jury gave him a verdict of $300, of which amount 8196 was charged to the ac count of the coupe. From this trial and its result the company appealed, and it then devolved upon the learned Mr. Justice Cullen, now of the Court of Appeals, to do justice to the com pany, to the Doctor and to the horse.t This the Justice did by deciding that the $196 damage to the coupe should not be charged to the company, fox the reason that the Doctor, having tested the horse on the bugjy, madE "this second experiment (on thE coupe) with the horse at his own risk. He knew the horse was vicious and dangerous. He should have ceased its use in any manner that would im peril person or property." Conse. quently the Justice thought therE should be a new trial. As between the horse and the company, this deci sion obviously cuts down the liability of the horse to the company.-Nev York Post. The Vipers' Deadly Fange. The fangs of th e vipers are attached to the fore end of what may be termed the jawbone or maxillary, in the hol low of which is contained the poison sac, the contents of which are emitted through a hollow or groove. in the fangs. At right angles to the maxil. lary, and attached to the p'ates by means of certain muscles, is a nirrow bone called the transpalatig. The fangs lie normally flat, back- nf the palate, but whenthe 'na ."kas a contraction of the - musel f the transpalatine pushes the lAte inht the maxillary, which, being le, revolves through a quarter. o ele, carrying the fangs with it u eJy are erected pe ' r . roof the mouthi. , -has -been reently .5hown that- the erectio$ of the fangs is not a: necessary e e openin of the m th, hitherto writ the s so stated. In the case o lance, the reptile lies in a its tail as a "point d'appui," a the fore 'part of its body be upon itself in several~ coils, t sembling the rattlesnake. S it shoots forward its hea i ; rapidity of lightnin wing open its jaws at~ ai ugle of 180 degrees, ?'al-h it is seen that the fangs, whidh are erected till they are at right angles to the jaw, must point straight at the object of attack, and that if this, object lies anywhere on the line between the commencement and com pletion of the thrust, it is bound to be struck fairly by the points, espe cially as the venom-injecting snap is not made until the victim is struck or the thrust completed. Women Housekeepers in Boer Camps. General Gatacre has notified the Boer commandant that it is under stood that the wives and daughters of the burghers live in or near the Dutch camps. He points out that this circumstance is very contrary to the customs of civilized warfare, and warns them of the danger and conse quences. The General, naturally enough, is providing against future charges of having fire~d upon laager-s sheltering women. The warning is timely and sensible enough; but any body who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that the Dutch women-folk invariably accompany, or at least follow, the camp. Indeed, the commissariat department is large ly-in point of fact, chiefly "manned" by women. Clad in a coarse, dust-colored frock, a gigantic apron that will serve a thousand purposes, from handker chief to tablecloth, or, as they often say, "a British flag"-they declare the BrFitish flag is white-and a huge pok~e bonnet that will ward off the rays of the hottest snn that ever burned, they will help to inspan the oxen and trek with their men to the frontier, and ex pose themselves to all the dangers of shot and shell and fever, and when the fighting men come back to laager their food is ready and their tents in order.-Londou Chronicle. How to Catch a Husband. ''Stop him!" shouted a woman who was pursuing a wild-eyed man through Broome street. "He's my husband Iand he's deserted me." But not one went to her, assistance. The man would have escaped had it not been for the woman's wit. Quick as a flash she tore at her hair and cried: "Stop, thief! Stop, thief!" This bate took well. Fifty persons took up the cry, and several hunch-ed men and women chased the man and caught him. "Womau," remarked Magistrate Hogan, before whom she marched her husband, in the Essex Market Court, "I wish to compliment you on your common sense. You certainly did the right thing at the right time. " Chicago Tribune. PEARLS OF THOJGHT. The wavering mind is but a base possession. -Euripides. He censures God who quarrels with the imperfections of men. -Burke. Hundreds wouid never have known want if they had not first known waste. --Spurgeon. The ampiesf knowledge has the largest faith. -Ignorance is always in credulous. -Willmott. Our first impulses are good, gener ous, heroical; reflect~o:i weakens and kills the:n.--L. A. Martin. People seldom improve when they have no other model than themselves to copy after. -Goldsmith. A true and genuine impradence is ever the effect of ignorance, without the least sense of it. -Steele. Nature knows no pause in her prog ress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.-Goethe. Mutability of temper and inconsist ency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human natnre. --Addison. The greatest of all humau benefits, that, at least, without which no other benefit can be truly enjoyed, is inde pendence.-Parke Goodwin. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.-Johnson. Few things are impossible in them selves. It is not so much means as perseverance that is wanting to bring them to a successful issue. -Rochefou. cauld. NEW PHASE OF COLD MININC. Dredging the Precious Ork- From the Sea at Cape. None. Our government is granting all rights to all applicauts to dredge for gold in the sea off Cape Nome. Of ficial authorization is necessary be cause it is illegal to carry on any en terprise within the three-mile limit that may interfere with navigation, and dredging could not be permitted till it was certain that the work would not be injurious to shipping interests. A number of companies and indi viduals are preparing to engage in this enterprise, which is a new phase ol gold mining and the result- of the novel conditions under which goli is found in the Cape Nome region. Min ing was successfully carried on last year a'ong the beach sands 'for a dis tance of thirty miles. The gold* came .originally from the quartz veins in the Jimestone and mica-schist mountaint fIo~n four to five miles inland. Iar-the cours-e of many thousands of years of Aeoudation a great deal of this gold biaring quartz has been broken away and carried gradua'ly by water agency Eown the gentle but continuous slope f'ou the niountains to the sea. Much 6V thequi rt,'i0 th. form of coirse gravels andy boulders, has lodged in the tundra - that intervenes between the mounitains and the beach and it will pay for. working, but the neces ,ary crishing machinery has not yet been introduced at-Cape Nome. Along he beach, however, the rock has been duced by wave action to fine gravel sand, and the heavier gold in fine 'neles, h4s sunk through the sand obtained by the -r inaryane of placer minipg. It was to be expected under exactly similar conditions e gold would be founid under the a for a considerable distance from t e sifore nd last year's - investigations proved that this was the case. Dredging is practical because the sea is shallow for a considerable distance -nm the beach and, in fact, the larger vesseis cannot approach the shore, but are obliged to discharge their carg::es by means of boats and lighters.- The nearest harbors for ocean vessels are Port Clarence, Eixty miles northwest of Nome City and Goloffin bay, the same distance east, and there is tafk of connecting both these ports with Nome City by rail. Dredging, -there fore, will not interfere with navigation along the gold coast, and there is every prospect that a rich harvest will be reaped from under the waters. New York Sun. Caring for Kindergarten Flock. A young woman who conducts a kinder-garten in Chicago showed one day recently that she is ready to meet any emergency. Every morning she starts out early in a big 'bus and calls at the houses of her patrons, collecting the little ones intrusted to her care, and driving with them to the scene of their studies. In the afternoon they are taken home again in the same way. On the mnorning in question, through some unexplained accident, the 'bus got in fi-ont of a grip car, or a grip car ran 'into the 'bus. Fortunately none of the children were hurt. but one of the hind wheels was knocked off the 'bus and the twenty little chil dren tumbled and scrambled out into the street. The 'bus was useless,and the schoolroom was half a mile away -too far for the little ones to walk in the cold weather. Then the teacher showed howv kindergarten training makes one ready to meet every emer gency. She marshaled her charges and let thiem into the closed car im mediately behind the grip, which hap. pened, fortunately, to be entirely empty. The party almost filled the seats on both sides of the car. Piresently the conductor entered, intent on collecting fares. When he came in the kindergarten teacher handed him five cents. The conductor took the money and looked question ingly at the seats crowded wi':h small children. "Who's goin' to pay fer de kids?' he asked. "My dear sir," said the kindergar ten teacher, "these children are all under five years old, and I a~m their guardian. They ride free." A nd they did. .-Chicago Tr-bne. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. It is stated that the authorities at Scotland Yard are now engaged in subjecting a police electric lamp to practical tests, to ascertain if it will stand the necessary wear and tear of the service. In South Africa the warmest month is February and the coldest is July. The temperature is not as trying as that of Central Europe. The rainfall for the year is light, varying from five to 20 inches. The German army authorities are E experimenting on a cotton stuff a as a material for balloons. It is t treated with rubber before being used, I The fabric is said to have great i strength, and is better than silk which s is apt to generate electricity. Professor B. S. Woodward of Col- 8 umbia university, in a recent paper shows reasons for tbinking that the earth's atmosphere extends to a height varying with the distance from thie a equator. At the equator he estim. . the height to be 26,030 miles L..? 1 .diminishes to only 17,000 miles at the 1 poles. But of course, beyond a few t hundred miles above the ground, the 3 density of the atmosphere becomes so S slight that its effects are impercep- f tible. i C The discovery of two Belgian chem ists, Hoho and Lagrange, whereby C iron may be broujht to a white heat by dipping it in water, is attracting much attention in Europe. A metal vessel is partly 1lled with wa~or and 3 connected up to a source of electricity t supply giving 30 amperes of current. The other pole is attached to the iron "'"r rod provided with an insulated handle. The water offers great resistance to the passage of a current through the combination, a very high electrical t potential being thius generated in the neighborhood of the iron rod, where by the water is rapidly decomposed, a and a temperature of 1200 to 1500 a degrees is pet up within a period of 20 d seconds. d n In the last 60 years the speed of t] ocean steamers has been increased b from eight and one-half to 22 and one- f, half knots an hour. Ships have been f, more than trebled in length, about s] doubled in breadth, and increased ten- 6, fold in displacement. The number of 0 passengers carried by a steamship has k been increased from 100 to nearly e 2000. The engine power has been d made 40 times as great, while the rate of coal consumption per horse power 14 per hour is now only about one-third t1 what it was in 1840. The weight of a the machinery.-per horse power has e also been very gr eatlyrediieed . Wei& .1 the engines of the Campaia pidjpor- t tionately as heavy as those in use 60 P years ago, they would weigh about t) 14,000 tons.. In other words, machin- a ery, boilers and coal would exceed the tl total weight of the ship 'as she floats b today. tl IMAGINATION AND DIl-;. Amusing Inc~lib mih'W o' "n "A Journalist's- Note-Bo'ok" Frank F. Moore tejis an amnnsing and significant4Ieff'of the influenet of imaginatioiupon health. A 'young civil serlva$~ in India, feeling fag~ged from the e ssive heat and from long I hours of rk, consulted the jeas' doc- I tor withi reach. The doct . ooked I over him, ounded his heart a4 augs, and then aid gravely: "I .wi write . you tomo ow."( The n t day the young 'n re ceived a letter telling him-' at his left lung as gone and his he rt seri Qusly affe ed, and advising im to lose no tii e in adjusting his bvIiness affairs. ',0f course you may for weeks," tpie letter said, "but yhad best not Ieraimportant mat t un decided." Naturally the young official was dis mayed by so dark a prognosis-noth ing less than a death warrant. ,Mithin 24 hours he was having difficn' ty with his respiration, and was r6ized with an acute pain in the region of the heart. He took to his bed with the I feeling that he should never arise from it. During the night be became so much worse that his servant sent for 1 the doctor'. "What on earth have you been doing to yourselfy" demanded the Sdoctor. "There were no indications of this sort when I saw you yester-] day." "It is my heart, I suppose," weakly] answeied the patient. "Your heart!' repeated the doctor. "Your heart was all right yesterday" "My lungs, tlhen." "What is the matter with you, man? You don't seem :o have been drink ing." "Your letter!" gasped the patient. "You said I had only a few weeks to live." "Are you crazy?" said the doctor. "I wrote von to take a few weeks' vacation in the hills, and you would be all right" For reply the patient drew the let ter from under the bedclothes, and gave it to the doctor. "Heavens !" cried that gentleman, as he glanced at it. "This was meant for another man. My assistant mis placed the letters.". The young man at once sat up in bed and made a rapid recovery. And what of the patient for whom the direful prognosis was intended? Delighted with the report that a so journ in the hills would set him right, he started at once, and five years later was alive and in fair health. The children of the Berkeley, Cal., public schools are required to bring their own cup, towel, and soap to school, to insure the best of sanitary condi tions, REPAIRING SEVERED ARTERIES. L Surgical FeatiTthat Was Long Thought to Be an lIpossibility. In the recent medical archives in he library of St. Petersburg is an ac ount of a most wonderful operation, >erformedt by Kamisky, one of the ,reatest surgeons of his time, an operation like which no other is re orded. Poitinkosh, a rich farmer, !attle raiser and reindeer farmer, re iding north of St. Petersburg, suf ered an injury to the upper part of he right thigh, caused by being vio ently hurled from his sieigh, the 1st er having struck a stump. The farm r, in falling, was jagged by a snag rhich struck about two inches below he fold of the flank, causing a torn, >leeding, gaping wound of about four aches in length, directly downward nad in a line over the femoral artery the large artery which supplies the utire leg with blood), the latter ves el having been laid bare and severely ruised in the wreck, no large vessels aving been torn. Kamisky, with the great wisdom of. world of experience, wisely appre ended the possible results of this eculiar wound, and for the next 24 ours he spent every minute of his ime, valuable though it was, working dith chemical fire, molten substances nd apparatus of divers kinds, until nally the ob'eet of his etforts was nished, a small, hollow, elastic, col rless tube, about five inches long, Le composition of which is not reo rded, therefore not known. In 12 - ours after his task was finished care :l scrutiny of the injured limb re ealed a slightly bluish tint, scarcely oticeable, on the end of the great toe. 'his was the signal for operation! . ae surgeoi, and the stockman was nmediately taken to the operating Dom, where, in order to arrest com ig grangrene, he was subjected to an dd and experimental operation. After the patient was anesthetized ie wound was uncovered, carefanly leaned and the tissue carefully pushed ad dissected away from the' large etery, exposing about three and one alf inches of bruised vessel, ready to' isintegrate. A clamp was placed on ie artery an inch above wherq oi.; tal sound tissue began; then, h ie artery at the junction a ruised and sound tissue, an care fly drawing tfie mysterious tube om its aseptic hiding lade he ipped the cut, round end of de -14 d into it about an inch, isipgke edingli careful while so dping eep the hollow tube, collapsed "an rapty, so as to avoid all' ger aced by the entranceofair. Repeating the sameProcess a iwer end of the artery, he i t. ie tabe into the :end of bout the same distanc as " id laj-in the tb ) Using th ,lowet le tubetoa fill wit rtion of .the. ie final test Oame d steadily rel ie tube, thus le roken chi I,.1., .3ht pouching of the tube aused some fear 'as to w ere strong 'enough to stand ['' >ressure of the heart wave of boq7l 4 he latter pulsatpad tbroughlits ep hannel. This latter defed wiS- - ome, however, when the. tide~~~ aid in the bed of the brue,( leted portion and the extera >ort of the rmuscles and tissa t sufflcient strength to. ov ressure of the bloodl steinm~ round was then -earefueR ad disappeared frog i te a oJtor of 'the skin- of the lg rom a pale ashy toa~ink. T wo months aftergward -the gas attending his everyday4 ormqrly, suffering no incovei~j rhatever from his wound, Fivsyqegn' iterward the patient diede of a0t' menmonia and a post aiortenieii~ ation of the seat of the voundre'T realed a strong, firm plastico doirpoi ion tube, immediately'in the "situa"r >f the composition tube, the latter aving been absorbed by the blood; iot, however, before the lymphatics ad so encysted in the body after nonths of time, to the extent that hen the tube was eaten away by the >lood this fibrous coat answered the >riginal plan of -circulation. Testing Teitimnony. During a case recently tried in the aassachusetts supreme court consid ible expert medical ter,'imnony was lard as to the common symptoms of aresls. For instance, if the pupil of one eye s larger than that of the other, it is a :ad sign. Another test is to cross the egs so that the crook of one leg fits >ver the knee of the other,and hit the ipper leg sharply just below the knee map. If the leg flies up you are all ight; if it does not, beware! Stand ap perfectly straight, with feet close ogether, and look at a point ten feet way. If you sway from side to side you al'e in a bad way. Still another test is to stand on one foot, with the other leg bent at the knee. If you can stand perfectly still for five seconds without dropping the raised leg you are probably sound. Since this testimony has been made public in the Boston papers one may see bu'siness men in their offices, loungers in cafes, truckmen in their wagons, policemen on their beats and men of all avocations, balancing them selves on one foot and going through other maneuvers to make sure that they are not disposed toward paresis. Not His Fanit. Sterene-What a chap you are, Bounder! You never agree vanh any body. Bouznder-Well, what of that? Am I to blame if everybody else is wrongs -Boston Transcript. I