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vj .. - t fllBljjl^ i'm II mn 'gil ? i i m js?&?&?&&?mW???mS??mW??nW&?^^ VOL. I. LAURENS C. H.. S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1886. NO. 25. Tho Well or Saint John. tThe old woll of Saint John In (ho parish of Xowton-Nottajre, GlnmorR-nnshlro, has a Hilo of Ito own, which lu Kcuumlly believed to mn counter to that of th.- ?on, sonie half-milo away.] "Tbero la plenty of room for two In hero, Within tho steep tunnel of old aray-otoiio; ?nd th? "-?ll <s flo dark, and tho spring- so cloa?.r* It ls quite unsafe to jr? down alone." ?'It i? perfootly safo, depend upon lt. Vu.- a crlrl who oatt count the steps, llko tr.o; And If ever I ?aw dour mother's Imnnot, It is thoro on thc hill by tho old nsh-treo." 'Thcro 18 noliody but Hoes Morgan's cow Watching tho dusk on tho mllk-whlto sea. Tl? thc timo and the nineo for a llfodong vow, 8uoh aa I owo you, 'iud you own mc." "Oh. Wllllo, how can I, lu thin dark well? I ahab ?trop tho brown pitcher. If you let go; Tho lona- roof Is nm rum tl.IR like ii sen-shell, And tho shadows an? shuddering to and fro." ** "Tia tho nnnnd of tho ol?b In Newton hay, Quickens tho sprint? as tho title grows losa, Sven aa truo love flows away Counter tho Hood of tho world's succcia," "There ls no othor way for love to How; Whenever lt springs lu a woman's breast, To tho home ni Its own hourt lt must g>. Anil run contrary to nil the rest." ?"Then fill tho sweet cup of your hand, my kW*, And t ttdgc ino your malden fnlth thereon, Jly tho (i.iicli of the lettered stone above, And tho holy water of Knlnt John." "Olv yrhnt shrill I cay/ My heart drops low; My ?l?R-ors ure cold, and my limul too thu, Ia lovt? to he mensurad bv iinndfills ao? And you know that I .hrvo you-without .amt." Thor stooped In thc glenm or the faint light, over Th? print of themselves on the limpid glimm ; And ?he lifted her full palm toward her lover. With her Hps preparad for tho words of doom. But t*ir wann heart rose, nnd the cold hand fell, And tho pledge of her faith sprang, sweet nod croar, Vrom a holler source than the old saint's well, rmni the never-ebbhur tide of love-n tear. -H. 1>. lilnckmnrc. In IVeoember Harper's. ELSIE'S i o y Kit. "I suppose it isn't right bu say such a tiling/' said winsome Klsic. with a plaintive, tug!?, to lier friend and confi dant, old Nurse Barnes; "but I often wish I'd never boon born. Nobody knows what to do with me, and I cer tainly don't know what to tlo with my "Doar, dear!" said Mrs. Barnes, .?what are they going to do with you?" "I don't know," said Elsie, sadly. ."Uncle Joseph wants mo to go ami .work in tho factory. He thinks I might earn twelve shillings a week, after] had had a few weeks' practice." "It's not hard work," said Mrs. Sames. "You'll soon get used to it, roy ?lear. One can get used to any thing." "And Aunt Betsey wants to send me up to tlie Manor House to help Mrs. Perkins, tim housekeeper," went on Elsie. "I was there a week in tho spring. Oh,"-with a long breath, "lt is tho prettiest place! One room all full Of books, don't you know, and .? nail where they hang nothing but pic tares. I used to creep all over tho lace, when tho squire was gone out on orasback, and Mrs. Perkins was taking her after-dinner nap. I used to sit down in the ?Uk chairs, and fan myself with the big Hconted fans, and malee believo J was a geeni heiress, with lots of ser vani.i to order about." "Oh, Elsie! that was making very bold," said Mrs. Baines, with an a wo ?stricken shudder. "Yes, I know," confessed Elsie; "but it wail only making believe, after all, and nobody knew. But I saw Mr. Baven twice, anti he talked to mc just as kind-oh! a deal kinder that Uncle Joseph doits. And he told mc the names of Bomo of tho rarest flowers, and ottered to lend me books out of tho grand li brary. But Mrs. Perkins told Aunt Betsey that I am too ?tile anti awkward for sendee. So now I don't know whether I nm to bo bound to Miss Miggs, tho dressmaker, or sent to learn the artificial flower trade." "It's most a pity, ain't it?" said Mrs. Baruca, looking sympathizingly at Klslo. And just then, as she surveyed thu largo dark eyes, thc eheel glowing scarlet niutcr their stain of fcjpsy sunburn? the lithe, graceful figure in its outgrown gown, thc fancy suddenly crossed her mind that, nu dei- some circumstances, Elsie Linn might bc almost handsome. "You soe, I nave no ?me really hiv longing to me," said Elsie, sighing. "Evon Unelo Joseph was only my mother's half-brother. And they don t know what to do with inc." "What would you like boat to doP" ?aid Mrs. Barnes* who was paring pota loes for tho ono o'clock dinner. "I should like to bo an authoress, and write books," said Elsie, with kindling eyes. "Bless me, child!" salt! Mrs. Barnes, ,4w> *, do you know about authoresses?" TO?othing," confessed Elsie; "that's Unv'trouble. Or I should like to paint p. res, and to bo famous; or be queen of mint ry that was at war, and load tho soldiers to victory, mounted ou a coal-black horse; or do something very great and grand, so that people might never forg jt my memory. Mrs. Barnes lust started and then sighed. Pour soul, there waa perhaps a timo whon .he, too, had itor wild dreams and imposHi.de imaginings. "Such things don t happen nowadays, I Elsie," said she. "Women havo to scrub, and wash and sow in this coun try, not ride to battlo or paint grand pictures. Bettor leave off thinking of such a fate." "Yes," cried Elsie, with a start, as tho clock struck twelve "And Aunt Betsey will bo wanting mc to set the table. ' I must hurry home. How sho will scold to bo nure.1' But to Ellie's infinito relief, when she reached home, Aunt Betsey met horwlth no frown. "Come In quick, child," said she, "and change your frock. Mr. Baven is "?hl" cried Klslo, with a skin ovor the door-step, "am I to be Mrs. Perkin's maid?" ..Wo don't know," said Aunt Betsey mysteriously. "Time will show. Don t jump about, my child. Try to take ebor*, steps, and"be A lady. And, oh, what a dreadful tear that is in y OW dress. Never mind now. Bun quick and change it as soon as ever you can, and than como down to tho liest parlor." But long before Elsie Linn's simple toilet was mado. an awful fear took pos MSSion Of ber that Squire Baven had ?son? to tell Uncle Joseph of tho big bunch of hobhouse grapes which she plokodi sub rosa, Inst Bpring and gave lo little Billy Snill'en, in tho road, tho last day sho was at tho Manor House. "Thero wero such lots of thom," she argued with herself, "hanging there in the sunshmc, all purplo and fragrant, and Billy had just got over tho searlot fever-poor little nute!-and did long for them so. I knew it was wicked, hut the temptation carno over mo so sudden ly that I couldn't help it- And now if Mr. Haven has told Undo Joseph, and Uncle Joseph is going to scold ino-" Elsie drew a deep inspiration of hor ror at this idea, but she must face her fate, and endure it as best she might Anti in her best frock, which was scant and faded enough in all conscience, she descended with a heavy heart to tho "best room,*1 "Bring her in! Bring her in!" said Uncle Joseph with a chuckle. "I never yet sold oven a yearling calf without giving the. purchaser a chance to look at his bargain-dia, ha, lia! And if you roally want the child, Squire-" Mr. Haven roso courteously and put a chair for Elsie as she entered, with drooping head and checks al?ame. "Wo aro old friends," ho said; "are we not?" At the sound ot his gentle, measured accents, the prickings of Elsie Linn's conscience became intolerable She lifted her large startled eye? to Mr. Haven's face. "I'm very sorry, sir," said she. "Please, Pl! never do it any more." "Do what?" said Undo Joseph, star ing. "I am unite at a loss to understand you." sait! Mr. Haven courteously. "The grapes, please," faltcivd Elsie, getting redder ami moro confused than over. "I didn't pick 'em for myself; it was for little Billy Sn i lion, ami -" "Never mind the grapes, Elsie,'1 said Mr. Haven. "Let me seo how old aro you? ' "Seventeen, sir," said Elsie in a low voice. "And I am scve.i-and-thirty!" said Mr. Raven slowly. "Do I seem like a very obi man in your eyes, Elsie?-' She shook her head, and then, em boldened by the fact that Undo .Jos eph had disappeared, and Aunt Bet sev was drawing water at thc weil, she added: "When I write my novel. I shall make the hero just like you. 1 won't call him Haven, lost people should find out; hut Havonbum, or Bdravchi or some such namoi You won't mind, sir. will you?" Mr. Haven smiled a strange, serious smile. "Elsie," sahl lu*, "would you like; to conic ami live at tho Manor House?" Elsie's dusk taco brightened, "Oh, so much!" she cried. "But Mrs. Perkins don't want me: she says I'm too flighty and too young." "Elsie, you misunderstood me," said Mr. Haven, with another smile. "I don't mean as Mrs. Perkin's assistant-I moan as my wifo. A sudden crimson flooded Elsie's face, neck and throat. All of a sudden the ?cale? seemed to fall from ber eyes; the world stood before her in it? true colors. She was a maiden out of tho tmges of romance. -Robert Haven was icr lover. Ho took her hand tenderly in his. "Elsie," he said, "could you teach yourself to love mc? For I love you with all my heart." And she cried, "Oh, yes! Oh, yes!" and laid her flushed face across on his shoulder, and wept and smiled in turns. She had entered the room a child; she went nu! a woman, leaning on her lover's arni. Even Uncle Joseph no ticed tho change, and Aunt Betsey vaguely wondered what bad como to "our Elsie." So Elsie's problem was solved. She went to be lady at the Manor House, to gladden tho heart of this modern King Cophetua who had fallen in love with tiie nineteenth century Beggar Maid. And as her dark beauty bloomed out into perfeot loveliness, people wondered that they had been so blind. But Mr. Haven said quietly: "I knew it all along. When lirst I saw her pie!-, in g daisie , in the park, I know that she was tho most beautiful creature in all the country. I fell in love with her then, ami 1 have been in lovo with her ever since." But to Elsio tho whole thing seems like a dream out of tho Arabian Nights. Ralston Pears in tho South. Gen. Gcorgo Sheridan has often been mistaken for thc other general of the samo name. Ho wa? nt tho white house onco during thc Hayes administration when n delegation was announced. It was a horticultural convention which had called to pay it? respoot?. Presi dent Hayes asked Den. Sheridan to ac company him to tho reception room, most of them thinking it was P. II. Sheridan to whom they were talking. Gon. Sheridan finally became reticent, and the president sought to engage him in further talk. Tho conversation between thom ran about like this: Hayes-General, havo you much fruit in Louisiana ':' Sheridan-() yes. Wo have oranges and apricots and grapes in profusion. Hayes-Do you Ti ave any of the hardy northern fruit?-apples and pears? Sheridan--Thero are a few apples raised along the northern boundary of tho state. Hayes-Do you ever raise pears? Sheridan-Always, if wo have throe of a kind. Thero wa? a moment's ley stillness, and then a big, fat fruit-grower, with n roguish eye, unablo to hob) in, bogan to snicker, and in less than a twinkle of an ej-c they were all guffawing. The president himself laughed with tho rest -New York Tribune. Lieut. Greek's theories respecting the North Pole naturally moot with much opposition in England. It was his for tune during his imprisonment in the Arctio to upset the conclusions reached by Sir Gcorgo Nares nnd his compan ions respecting tho Pahcoerystie Sen. Having controverted what the English explorers assumed to bo facts, he cannot ex peet to havo his own theories pass un challenged. Lieut Groely believes that there is an ocean 1,600 mlle? in diame ter, round about tb? Polo, that never freezes; and conjectures that tho Polo it self is the centro of an loo-capped land covored with leo from 1,000 to 4,000 feet thick Thean conclusions aro rejected by prominent Arctio authorities In Eng* land. A MU?lillAT'N ??I0UIL.3. Trapping thu Little \iiliual Alona; th?Mew ii"--"/ M-tiMlic. "It is uot necessary togo lo tho north ern latitude tn I. ara' lo trap successful ly. Jersey will do for beginners." So spoke :ui old indigenous Now .fer ney Ikdtcruuiii lc sat on a sugar hogshead which resf ?don a South street pier and tapped it- head merrily with Iiis big split-leather boo:-. His scraggy whiskers and weather bronzed, pleasant countenni. says tho New York Times slowed (hal ho was ono of those happy persons who hud passed tin- period of lifo when youthful ambitions and aspi rations never (o bo obtained had passed away, and peace and content incut wcro now accompaniments of a frugal life. On his head wes peched a cap of black fur, and giov? s of similar material peeped fr.au deep ?lockets of the old tar staincd cont. What stalled the old man was tho presence of a ? ile of -teol traps, which glistened in thc sunlight of a warm fall day. lie eyed them furtively and heav ed a sigh. The traps did not look at all formidable as they lay in II tangled heap, with thc four-foot chain-; spread out iii every direction. They were of the Infest pm: rn, light, bul of strong, still' springs, though not differing in any essential particular from Ibu ordi nary rat-trap that many a mind-becloud ed tenant at a late hour has put his foot into while groping in (bu coal-cellar. At thc ont! of the chains were little, round rings, which would bu used to fasten them to slakes, "I suppose." continued the young man. "those fellows will he sent north to be used in mink trappln'. Rf I only had 'cm in the meadows m ar my place I would make 'he muskrats howl. Thoy'ro thick down there, and I mean to make it hot tor a few o? 'ein myself this winter." "Tell tue something about trapping," asked a listener. '.Waal.'' replied th" old fisherman, "you look a- iii?.'i;;!! you needed a lit tle of it lo spend them shoulders of vonni and harden them muscles," and ho pinched ibo thin, soft biceps of tho young weakling's arin. "There is noth ing better to strengthen young fellows and build 'em up (hau trappin' and trample'over tito meadows ami through the wood-. There ain't any money in it lo Speak "i. bul - inc fun. I should say." Take the alt marshes en tho Jersey const anti they are full of muskrats, while tin' streams fun Inn* inland con tain but a few. The muskrat is a re spectable animal to trap. Ho is wary and on Ids guard in the moro populous districts. In value his pell is not worth much. The juices paid for them vary from 16 to 30 cents apiece, according to the condition ?if tlc fur, and also the condition of the market. Some years they bring' much more money than in others. The peps are used in making hals. Sometimes they are done up into furs and sent into the country to bo sold under the name of river mink. Of course, as to a pecuniary return, there is not much to attract a young man or boy in tills small trapping, but in it ho will learn much about thc. mysteries of the brooks and the secrets of animal lifo, while lin- exercise lie gets is brac ing. Thc cost of axes, hoots and traps will amount to as much as ho gets f?jr the skins. "Waal," continued tl.ld man, "there ain't much piny in trappin', ami its nio-tlv work hard work, too. You want to bo well prepared for it. In tho first place you nuts: have warm cloth ing, for you will he out in most all kinds of weather, and nights, too. And in th?' mornill', win n you <_r<t up early to go look at your trap-, it's ooh! and raw. You must carry an ax or big hatchet w illi you to drive in the stakes to which the chains of tho steel traps arc to be attached. Tin y must bc driven in tight, loo. or the animai will pull them out und away ho will go, trap and till. Then yon want a big bag to fetch '?.ni home in v. hen y ou get any. These tilings, willi a good -ct of .steel traps, will do lo commence with, ami dum tho trapper may put in box traps and de vis- means of alluring tho beast-. Some pc?>ple usu ii little bail in tho shape o? a piece of turnip or apple to allure 'om. A piece of sweet Apple is awfully good bait for a muskrat and ho will try hard t?) get it. A drop <>r SO ?il anise-seed on tim pan of the trap is also quite an at traction for 'om. As a rule, however, these allurements are not necessary, and care, to cover up the trap will be suffi cient. The muskrat is a wary animal, and won't slop square into a trap when he sccs it. He's Know in', and if it ain't well hid he will step around it. Hut there's other tilings to catch hosnies muskrats. Ye see that capP" und tho old man took his headgear otb "Ye see that caji? That's made out ?>f cat skin. There was a time when ?-atskins was worth 10 cords apiece, but they ain't worth nothin' now. In a season's work you will probably run against one or two mink, too. Real mink, too. Yes, and in New Jersey I v e caught quito a lot of 'em llrst ami last." Catching muskrats is a common win ter pursuit for fishermen ami others in New Jersey, ami largo quantities of thom aro cuughi. The money got brr them helps k?'cp thc poor ? oastinen in to bacco. The muskrat, docs not come ?nit of his lair in thc daytime, except on raro oc casions. Sometimos, on very dark, cloudy days, he may be seen swimming across the pond or down thc river, with his hea?l just above the water. Ile b an ugly-looking animal, of brown fur, black, webbed feet, with white claws, and lon/?;, white teethi Ho is a fasl swimmer, and his powers f?tr staying under th?! water ar?! enduring. At nighl they come out to feed, and wandet miles over Ibo Ileitis in Search of food They travel over the SS me roads or diese occasion* and make little paths, which in trapping parlance aro called runs. Tho steel traps are often set In these runs, and are carefully covered over willi light material, dried leavos ami grass. The rinaitspcotlng rat, as ht travels along, will probably got caught It is always bettor, if possible, to catch tho lively little animal in tho water where hu w ill ?irowji. If on dry groom and tim jaws of tho trap have caught the log pretty well down toward tho toe tho rat, not being ablo to pull away will gnaw off his log jost abovo when tho (rap holds lt. This is often done and It shows thc pluok and cou rogo o thc animal as well aV its endurance. Many is the time tho trapper will bo disappointed to lind only a stump of a log in his trap or ono or two toes. The. musk rat's homo, if the stream or pond has a high bank, is a little hollow place under ground five or six feet from tho water's edge. Tho entrance is un der water. The hallway, after it baa penetrated thc bank, will turu up above the lovel of thc water, and thom, in the little dry subterranean chamber, ho spends tho day in sleeping or is busy storing away food for winter. Tho trapper is happy when ho finds tho en trance to these houses. He will ?wad time in poking with a long rt irk under the bank for tneso places. When found ho places tho trap meier water just in tho entrance. If tho rat is caught ho will probably drown, a? tho weight of the trap and his efforts to get away will tire him, and finally, exhausted, he sinks below water. In thc small ponds with low banks the muskrats often build houses of cornstalks or grasses. Whole families livo in these edifices, which are sometimes built BOVerai feet above tito level of the water. Thu en trances, and there are usually several, arc under water. Inside they are fitted up into chambers-cory littlo places lined with soft grasses. A favorite mode of catching tho rat in his own house Ls to cut off thc top of his domicile and place the trap in one of thc little rooms, carefully covering it ovor with a Dart of his soft heil. The rat when found alive caught in a steel trap will tight furious ly, and many a blow on the head will he receive before ho will give up. Ho is courageous, and on his own part will make tho attack, as young and old trappers will testify. When there is no way of escape he immediately gets ready to resist A dash is made at tho trap per's log, and if he once strikes a howl of pain will escapo the poor trapper, while thc long .sharp tenta will holli on with a grip that would sharao a bull dog. Too venturesome amateurs some time como home with fingers hanging by shreds and big holes in their hands, tho result cf too much freedom with their prey. Tho box-trap is the favorite for streams, as it is easily made, and often several rats are taken in one in a sin gle night. It consists of a long, straight box, rectangular in shape, made with entrances at both ends largo enough to admit the rat comfortably. In tho ends arc placed gates made of stiff wiro, slanting toward the insido of tho box, so that it can be lifted up easily by tho rat going in, but eau not bo opened out ward. Spaces are left between tho wires so that tue water can run through ens ilv. The box is sunk in tho middle of & \ stream and securely anchored with big rooks. Then a row of stakes is driven from tho box to tho shore, firmly im bedded in tho bed of tho stream. They are usually run a little up tho stream so as to form a sort of fence down to tho trap. The rat coming down tho stream linus himself between two walls of stakes and can not get through. Ho follows along to thc trap; thon no dives under in his efforts to got through tho blockade His nose comos in contact with the wiro gate and it lifts easily; ho passes in and on through. At the lower end ho meets tho lower gat?, which slants in, ami cannot open it If ho turns back tho samo difficulty moots him at tho other ond. In a Abort timo ho drowns from lack of air. Some times, in u stream thickly inhabited by rats, the trapper will find his box full in tho morning whon bo makes his rounds, niel the next night ho will probably lind more. In thc spring, when the rats aro running and swim ming long distances, thc box traps will yield a large return for tho capital ex pended, Ft is a job to keep thom in re pair, however, and when big storms come the stakes will likely he washed out hy the Hoods and perhaps the trap go floating down the stream. Herc is where thc. li ard work comes in. Another manner of getting the rats Ls to Hood them out A small box trap is placed nt tho entrance to a house, and ju-.t below tho stream dammed up no that thc water will rise to such a height as to drown them out. As thny attempt to poss out tho main entram o they get in tho trap, o?* if the trapper is a good shot he will kill the animals as they swim away. Moonlight nights there is sport in shooting tito muskrats as they aro swimming in tao ponda. "Tho Mighty Dollar.'* "Tho Mighty Dollar" is probably the kaost successful play, financially speak ing, in which thc Florences nave ap? neared. It came to tm written in tho following manner: Mn?. Florence, while abroad, was constantly amused at the French phrases which good natured and oftentimes wealthy but uneducated American womon mad? use of with such an amount of misapplication and mispronunciation as to cresta the high est amusement nt their expense. She thought that it would be a first rate idea to transfer ono of these persons from the st age of life to the mimic stage. She spoke to her husband about it and he agreed with her views. Ma also had had a character in his mind for a long time tiiat of a good humored bot not overscrupulous lawmaker of the. groat west They went to Ben Woolf, a clever journalist and had him write a play to ordor with these two characters as tho promiuent feature?. Woolf did as di rected, and tho "Mighty Dollar" waa the rosult. At first lt was named the "Almighty Dollar/' bot the American public which can tamely submit to In gersoll's blasphemies, could not submit to tho uso of the word "Almighty," though Washington Irving, one of the chastest of American writers, had given this very name to the dollar. Thus lt was the play was changed from the "Al mighty" to tho "Mighty Dollar." Ia tho characters of Bardwell Slots and Mrs. (len. (Jllllory, Florence and Mrs. Florence have appeared over 9,500 times. - brooklyn Kayle. A man living at Red Wing, Minn., lias a pair of golden can dlestkks which he says he dug out of an Indian mound at Waukesha, Wis., and which he thinks are Ute golden candlesticks which form ed part of the decorations ot Solomon's temple. Gen. Robert Toomba recently defined a fanatio as "a man willi big station* sad vjry gggl i^fttt." A CRY FOR BETTER LIGHT. Tb* Kiaka* Miner Rund llccaune Ile Cu Not Sec. For every City thousand tons of coal mined in tho anthracite regions, write? a Scranton, Pa., correspondent, ono hu man life is lost. Thia is al thc rate o) fifty lives a month, or almost an average of two a day for overy working day in theyoar. When tho price of coal is odjustod for the season the cost of pro duction and transportation is all care fully mun med up in tho estimates, hut this ono factor of the cost of human life in mining tho coal does not get into tho calculations, and is never reckoned in the price current. Tho chief causos ol fatality in tho mines arti explosions of gas and falls of rooting. While the most dreaded form of destruction, that of ex plosion, docs not appear from statistics to bo the most fatal numerically, yet it is attended by a fact that adds to thc melancholy of tho fate of its victims. Every life lost in a mine explosion is a sacrifice to carelessness, either the care less and culpable act of a miner or to tho moro deliberate carelessness of ml . owners in omitting to pr?vido better light and ventilation in tue mine. Scarcely n week passes in the coal region without news of sonni disaster from explosion or thc falling of a mine roof, and overy accident is followed hy the cry, Uiat has been made ever since coal-mining began in the region, that there must bo netter light for uso in mines. Thc cry is soon forgotten, be cause it has never been followed up "by any practical effort on the part ot thu men most interested to make it of prac tical effect. Accidents in mines are enormously increased by the darkness. A danger greater than that from a gas explosion constantly menaces a miner. Of the deadly presence of thc fire-damp he may frequently trust his sense of smell to warn him, but the other danger he can only discover with his eyes. This lian? Ser is that from tho fall of face-coal in ie roofs, and one-third of tho live- lost in tho COal-minefl are lost by those falls of coal. Abi ?t n a mine may shatter a larger area of al than is thrown down. If tho miner soe? a crack in tho wall ahead of him, or in the roof above him. ho knows ho is in danger, ami he can tell whether it ls imminent by his never failing test of the piece of wet clay. This clay, plastered over tho crack, will shortly tell him whether the crack is stationary or is slowly but surely en larging and advancing toward the time of tneiall of rock or coal. If the crack Ls enlarging the olav will soon show a crevice In itself. Tuon there la danger swift and near. Tho miner has the reputation of be ing a most reckless and needless person, and the evidence of many mine acci dents show plainly that except for some careless act of a workman it would not have happened. Tho danger of fire damp is as well known to the miner ns the fact that bc is alive, and such an act of bravado or thoughtlessness as striking a match to light Iiis pipo or the feing forward with a naked lamp or a urning candi? while there was a strong suspicion that tho deadly fire-damp was lurking at his side would seem to bo the madness of self-destruction, Not even tho most reckless would bo supposed capable of thus deliberately inviting a horrible death or doom himself U> see his chance of life and escapo slowly wear away while he is imprisoned in a locked-up gallery. Yot the interior of a mine after an explosion too often bears tho mute but unmistakable witness a.s to tho cause. It may bo a half-burned can dle, sometimes still clutched in. thu care less miner's hand, ov a bux of matches half emptied, or a naked or unlocked lamp. It Ls a common thing to heal th o report of a mino accident of this kind ending up with the statement: "Caused by a miner working with a naked lamp." Hut in making tho clay test to dis cover the danger that may he present in a cracked root there is not much won? dor that the miner risk.) ono danger to tho wore surely determine the immi nence of another. His lamp is dull,and the) testing day is surrounded by dark ness. The miner, to note more certain ly tho working of the clay, frequently removes his candle, and holds it nearer the crack to givo him a better light, thus imperiling his own life mid that of others by tho danger of exploding gas in the effort to more surely escape the other danger that bo knows may be present. If instead of the lirc-lly lamp the miner is now compelled to uso because of tho still backward state ami scientific neg lect of invention in regard to the bet ter and safer lighting of mines he had a light by which ho could see clearly what was threatening him in tho con firms of tho gloomy cnambers he would not, as now, constantly be tempted to brave the risk of fire-damp. Tho eleotric lighting of mines has been suggested and experimented with, but it does not t em tobe practical in the windin? galleries and isolated cham bers of the anthracite mines. The lights would have to bo so numerous that tho cost would place tho lighting of mines by electricity, as a rule, beyond the con sideration of tho mine-owners. "What la needed," says an old Scranton mino boas, "is a portable lamp, easily carried, and eapablo of a brilliancy so great that the necessary safety-screen can not re duce it ?' dullness that will tempt tho miner to bring thc naked flame of a match or camile in contact with mino gases in ordor that ho mny insure him self against tho ono danger ho fears more than an explosion. 1 believe ?hut kerosene ean be raudo to become thc medium of producing tho light II is cheap and safe. To tho person who will invent an appliance by which it may be used will surely come fame and fortune, and tho blessings of his fellow men. Ii some brilliant inventive ge nius could only oxporience even for a ?hort time thc sensation of a miner when, in the absolute and lonely dark ness of a mine passage, he hears tho oralnorm aound of cracking beams and rattling stones and coal overhead, tho horror of which no repeiiiion of tho sound earn lessen, and should feel, as be must? the irresistible instinct that he most have light, even at tho risk of oth er per1!, he would certainly turn his thoughts and invention to the poor work men toiling underground until he din covered amt applied the boon for which tiwy have sighed so long-more light. BEST GOODS! LOWEST PRICES ! AUGUST DORR, TAILOR, HATTER AND FURNISHER, Offer to the publie at large, the largest and handsomest stock of Cloths, Ca*?W mers, Montaignaes, Heavers, Worsteds, Meltons, etc., ever brought South. These will be made up into Suits, Overcoats, Trousers nnd Vests, at Prie*? Unprecedented in this or any other market. 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