Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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tv js^SS^WB^ 1 ' . % « . •. ;• ■*>» . The Darlington News. H. T Thompson, Ed. A Prop Vsiious Japanese towns are bunding water works, the Tokio work* having proved so successful Between the hours of 9:30 and 1:1*5 every d;iy t^ucen Victors works as bard as any clerk m 1 ondon. An undertaker at Cresco, Iowa, states in an advertisement that be has a large number of debtors who, though now living with their second wives, have not paid the funeral expenses of their first ones, and if they do not do to in sixty days he will publish their names. Seventy per cent of the criminals of Illinois are unable to write, asserts the Detroit Fret Fret*, but ignorance is not always linked with crime. There would be no forgers if criminals did not know bow to write. One half the crimes com mitted in Massachusetts are by well educated men aud women. The Liverpool ifnury predict* a halt In the prosperity of lireat Britain. It remarks: ‘•There was imported of raw material for textile manufacture nearly *4,™0,000 worth less in August of this year than in thu^August of lust year. This naturally means a growing decrease presently in textile exports. Tho de crease is alarming in amount. It is not far from twenty-live jicr cent, on tho month. The trade, in other word*, bids fair to shrink to three-quarters of its dimensious last year." the Kultalo bug ot .New i.nginud is the latest pest sent to adlict the hou^e keepers of that section. The Buda'o bug is a swell. He never comes down stairs to the diningroom. The parlor and boudoirs are good enough for him. lie borca tiny aud beautifully edged holes in everything ih it you hold dear, po^tion^tcoped .uVtUouehc'rthe'miia’s EXPERIENCE The worM was made when a man was born, He must taste for himself the forbidden springs. He can never take warning from old fash- ionod thing*. He must fight as a boy, be must drink as a youth, He must kiss, he must love, he most sw ar to ! the truth Of the friend* of his soul; he must laugh to scorn The hint of d"Cf>it in a woman's eye That are clear as Hie wells of Paradise. And sobe goes on until the world grows oid, j Till hi* tongue has grown cautious, his heart h:!ggrown cold; Till the Himlo leaves his mouth and the ring leaves his laugh, And he shirks the bright headache you asked h m to i|Ualf. Hi'grows formal with men and with women polite. And distrusted of both when they're out of bis sight, Then he eats for his |>u!atc and drinks for his hi a 1 And loves for his pleasure, and tis time he wt re dead. —John Hoyle Cflteillu. AN ACCIHENTS SEQUEL. BY KVKI.YN THORP. ~ A young woman wearing a substantial broad br.mnic<l hut t e*l down oxer her ears drove biiskty a'nng a country mud on the high front sent of u lumbering faun wagon. At a bend the old turn pike took she observed soiiieihing dark and shapeless, which on n nearer v ew resolved itself iuto tho prostrate figure of u man lying in the grass-gr wn ditch of the roadside. The man’s face was paitialiy concealed by one ont-t'ung arm, and he appeared to lia e fall n, us the ex pres? ion goes, all in a heap. Tlio young woman pulled up her bor es sharply and turned her well cut pro: le, which d.sappearcd unde, the iiotluc arch of her poke, with a st eg look of disgust towa;d the reemnbent form. Her whole disdainful visage said ‘•Drunk;’' as plainly us tho formulated w rd could have said it. Then seme in definite intuition caused her to change her mind, and, the Levite giving place to the Sam aritan, she thr xv the stout lima over the dashboard, ca'ling a per emptory ‘ Whoa ” to her steeds, and al g ‘ing dcxte-ously Horn her elevated Moreover, he is aristocratic and artistic. He lo.e* bright things, ami, I ke the maidens the poet 8|ieaks of, is ultra* ted by glare. His first homo was in tho Turkish nigs, and, Btrauge to say, for other folks besides New KnglMidcrs have ruga, he hasn’t popped up any where but in New Fngland. Secretary Endicott has signified his approval of the adoption of a novel weapon for the memliers of the hospitu) corps. It is, practically, a b g jack knife, and seems to be a cross between a short sword—such a* Mr. Lawrence Bar rett’s Homan soldiers wear—and a bow ie knife. It is made of the tin st stc* I, aud is to be worn strapped to the side. The weapon is not intended for otlcn ive ac tion, since the members of the hospital corps ate classed by the General Confer ence of the Red Cross os non-combatants. It is intended as an emergency weapon, to be used as a carving knife, a splint- maker, to whittle out an improvised lit ter, or for any one of the thousand and one purposes for which a good jack knife comes in. The hospital corps will be supplied with the newr knife at once, and will then be drilled in its varied applica tions. Hrm. Suiue Young women, bre l tnsoftcr u-ages, nrght still have lelioved in a ca-e of far-gone inebriation. Not so Mistre-s Edith J nne. An instant’s sur vey caused her to come to a d L'erent conclusion. Shu took in a few details— the tali riding boots, the wh’p which had fallen a few paces further on,the hat lying in a stub »ly barley Held at tho other side of the hedge—and with char acteristic prom nine s ot reasoning :-he concluded that thisyoung gentleman had been thrown from his horse; whether little or much injured she could not tell yet. With firm but gentle hands she turned the heavy, unconscious weight of the shoulders and head, and la d this victim of an untoward accident fiat upon his back in the bottom of the ditch. Then she raised h s arms and began to work them according to the tules prescribed by the society of "iirst Help to the In jured.” She was vciy calm aud very systematic, and after au interval she was rewarded by aeeing the young man's eyes slowly open. 1 Returning consciousness brought at first only a remote and total sense of blankness—a >cnso of h iving pi*ked ui> life again with au unbridgeable hiatus between. But upon this state of nega- 1 tioa there cut a wren, h of renewed pa n, which emt-ed the present and the actual to leap back at a long hound. “Don’t try to move until you collect yourself a little,” said Mi-s Lane nromut- ly, in a voice whose modulations were at once strong and soothing. “Arc you in pain.' Yesf Ah, I . see. A sprain—or dislocation.” The young man had raised Some curious facts about tccih a o put hitu-c f into a sitting posture, “if you forth by Mrs. Alice Bodiugit.n in tho ! C0 * J l ( l nisnago to rest your we ght on the other foot—I could help you into the wagon—it’s just a step-try. plea e.” “You’re more than kind,'* murmit “It is very awkwork. I’a/miar S ieiue M nth’y. r-he says, in substance, that, ow.ng to tho extraordi nary development of the modem brain, it requires all the available room in the skull, aud there is no space left for the attachment of muscles for a powerful jaw. Cooked food also causes a degen craqy in the development of the jaw. There is, consequently, no room left for either the wisdom teeth or the second upper incisors; the wisdom teeth arc re tarded, often cause great pain and decay early. In the sumo way men, and the manlike apes, have fewer teeth than tho lower monkeys, and these again fewer lhantho insectivorous mammals to xxhith they are most nearly allied. This is a new argument for evolution. As a man rises in the scale of civilization and in- of the face beneath The capacious poke, tellectuul improvement his teeth diaap- not'ced al-o, through the vague veil of pear. Is it posdble that teeth can be educated out of the human frame, and will the time come when the perfect man will have no natural teeth at alii That will be a big day for the modern den tist The disposition of the dead is attract ing much attention in England. The question is being agitated by the English Burial Reform Association. During late years there hat been more or less discus sion on this topic. The objection to the present mode ot burial is based on two grounds. First the sanitary reason and second, the financial cost. As funerals are managed in the present time they are expensive end fall with much weight upon the poor, who are as fond of mani festing their respect for the dead by large funerals as are the rich. A medi cal authority in London declares that the average cost every year for burying the dead in England and Wales alone is $25,000,000. This would make the average expense of every funeral about $30. In the United States it cannot be any leae. The sanitary objection is based upon the reports of sanitary authorities that communitiea living in the neighbor hood of graveyards suffer from ailments to which those who live a distance from the place of burial are strangers. Dis raeli, is the House of Lords, for this reason urged that all the God’s seres in Great Britain should be cloeed. These reasons, the Detroit /Vo* Prat allege^ are making many converts to cremation. The beat evidence of the growth of this idea b to be found in the strength of the International Cremation Congreee, which was held about a year ago in Milan. The roll included representative! from every pqrt of the civilized, world. . urmured he. “It is very axvkwark. I’m afraid I’m going to have a great deal of trouble.” The excuses were cut short by that inexorable wrenching, aud boring and tearing. “We won’t spook of that,” said tho young ludy in tho concise tone of a per son who looks u|>on life in a business like way. Alter considerable difficulty the tra i- sit to the wagon was effected, and Mi*s Lane, having piled up some empty fio tr bogs intoa pillow, disposed a few others skilfully as a rest to the suffering limb, and prepared to mount to her eat Again. But she paused aud returned with a hat and whip in her hand. “I nearly forgot these," she said, smil ing. And Kendall noticed for the first time tho fair coloring and line regularity His dazed sense*, that she had remark ably fine, wholesome-looking teeth. “Are hats and whips necessary to peo ple who drive in ambulances?” he in quired, feebly. bhe laughed frankly, and, finally re gaining her place, drove slowly aud care fully away. ***** “I never knew what delightful th : ngs farmyard sounds were,” murmured Ken dall, drowsily. Thu soft clucking of hens se mod to permeate the h izy air. Tbeie was a buzzing of much-busied wasps about the eaves of the columned and porticocd porch. The late Septem ber sunshine burned with a mellow and intense and vivifying warmth. Miss liopkin*, seated nea", w'th a piece of knitting going on at lightning pace in her shriveled brown lingers, peered over at her guest from her little Shrewd be spectacled eyes, bhe had a round face, seamed by three or four un compromising furrows, and, for the rest, smooth and firm, and possessing a certain hardy freshness and juvenescence, like that of a late winter apple. Her black hair, with a silver thread here and there, lay gummed and flat and shiny to her pate like some novel sort of cap of tu- perlatively fine fit. “I suppose they’re kind of pretty when you hear them for the first time," she replied. ‘ ‘That proviso of yours betokens a profound knowledge of human nature. Miss Hopkins,” said the young man. re spectfully. “Although, at this moment, lamina mood which make. me feci that they may be delightful even after one had heani them many tho <snnds of times; a mood which makes m wonder how civilized men can prefer the din of cities to the quiet charm of nature at first hand. Miss Hopkins laughed bcl ind her spectacles. In laughing she had a way of throwing back her head and ot cover ing her mouth. Kendall, in his first languid hours of convalescence, ha 1 oc cupied himself by wondering whether this were a precaution calculated to guard afafegtaay chance displacement of the phenomenal row of fr.S'C teeth, ax regular and w hite a* a row of absolutely new tomb>toi.es, which graced Mbs Hop kins's smile. “Oh. you would soon want to go back to the city if you h id to live here," sh< said shrewdly, and with a nod dug o the head which seemed to convey thj she understood xvhut sort of a yom>: man she h td I efore her. Edith 1 ane s aunt xx n* no ft o \N hat fexv human ] iiL.es h.;d come uder her observation she ha t read with no luck of sound in- 6 ght. And that she had read other pages I c hie. Kendall had discovered from liaguients of h- r conversation dur ing I er miuistrat o*j* iu the sick room, a *1 h id an hour do had ocular demon- stratiou of, in addit'oo, as he crawled down sla ; rs for the first time aud made his way into the ‘ sitting room,” wh'-re, on shelves, xvore the woik* of Emerson, ( hunuingand other New England lights of tinns endency, while various late uumlx rs of mag i dues strew-ed the table. “I see that you, or your niece, ure rcadc *,’ tiie yo: n; m in remarked. “> li. }cs, wc both read a great deal evenings when all the work’s been seen t'i," said Miss Ilopk n*. Aud Kendall felt that his r ma k. as implying sur- priso, hail been an im|>ertinence. When the old lady iiad installed her elm ge comfortably in the sunlight, and ins.s cd upon wrapping him in a super- tluity of shawls which made him feel more of an old woman than his hostess, Mrs. Hopkins xxent on; “Edith had always been a great girl for study. Her mother poor Fanny was my youngest si-ter—was 1-ke her; but she didn't get so mu- h time, for Mr. Lane wasn't ve.-y successful with tho fa*in -i; t tir.-t oil, and these was so much always t > do. But Edith she was from the lirst kind of bright* and strong, and she seemed to do everything easily. After her mother d ; ed she took to help- 1 ing her father on the fai m, and when he died and she came back from high school she just laid h Id, and-he says to me, ‘Now, Aunt Judith, don’t you think we can make the farm run between ust I don't ee why wc shouldn’t. And so we did. Edith knows as much ns any good fa i.icr you can tlnd anywhere around. Why, : li re’s the horn for the hired pcopVs d. ier! I’d no idea it was twelve o’clock. You’ll take your dinner with Lilith and me, ’’•. KcndalW Edith ain’t home yet, so 1 ii I :vc to go to sec to the men.’’ And she tiled oif. In the s Icnce that followed, Kei.dall fell to wondering how long it would l>e liefore Edith came homo. And at tho same inou e it he saw her team drive in betwc n ihe two tall, gibbet like posts of the re I gate. t*he had ought sight of him under the porch, and came around to speak to him. >lie had taken oil her poke bon net, and her strong, healthy beauty, no longer eclipsed, had never compelled his admiration so ardently. Eh 1 * had hung over her waist a little basket of grapes. ‘ These a e for you,” she said, smil ing, and meeting hU eyes with the direct friendly glance of her own. “I got them from a neighbor. Besides, I am afraid we shan't have very g -od ones this year. We've had trouble with our vines.” bite had seat d herself on the low steps of the porch, and, failing into a pleasant conversation with h.m, now raised her eyes to look at him, now tutu d her head with a graceful, arched movement peculiar to her, to glance absently over the yellowing lawn. The returning life in Kendall’s veins opened all his senses to the subtle charm of any feminine presence xvhich might appear to him in the garb of youth aud beauty; but here he seemed, in addition, to des cry something unlike what he had ever known, something capable yet sweet, strong yet womanly, which, for some time noxx’, hid had.power to move him strangely. ‘ This is a miserable business!” he hurst out, brusquely, savagely. “Whit u xvoful figure n man does make in valided aud propped up in pillows aud shawls!’ “Yes, I suppose it does hurt the manly vanity," she observed demurely, with a twink e under her fair lushes. They were beautiful Itshes—long and curly. She was full of line points. Kendall, regarding her sitting there, half in sun- li ht, half in shadow, asked himself, w iih a positive >-cnse of d.sgust. whether she must tie left to harden, and peihaps to coarsen, to lose, in any ca-e, that rare quality of mind and per son which made him think of the fair, wirEke Ecaaditmvian goddesses and V.-.lkyres in Lioking at her, under tho gradual, depoeti/ing in iucnccs o) a eir- cumscribed, narrowing and withering life. Who could tell? bhe might giow to look like that worthy and excellent person, her Aunt Hopkins! 'I his thought brought a smile. His eyes wandered from tiie firm coatourof her half-averted cheek to the long, c apable looking hands, brown, but sha; ely, twined about her knee. No immediate danger of resem blance there; -till her complexion would certainly “go.” And then another idea suggested it self. There was the possibility that she might marry. Why, it was a probability; it was a certainty! Kendall's only available foot suddenly cast oil one of Miss Judith llopkin’s shawls with tremendous vigor. “Why—what is the matter?” inquired Miss Lane, turning in surprise. “I beg your pardon said her patient, humbly. ***** The snow came late that year, but it came with a will, and the mrsistence of a fixed purpose, wheu at length it did begin to fall. “I don’t see how you are ever going to get a* far as the Mills t»-day,” said Miss Judith Hopkins one morning, looking out upon a white world. “The wind’s so high and the snow is drifting dread fully.” “Oh, I think we can manage it," said her niece. But when she began to wrap up later on. acd the cutter drove to the door, MUs Hopkins had fresh misgiv ings. “It isn’t a* though she was just like herself. She hasn’t been what you could call real well for some time now," she thought when she had been left alone. And in her journeys from the kitchen to the milk cellar she fell to musing of sundry thing* which had puzzled her of late. After the sunset there came a red glow in the sky which turne i the snow, in sheltered places a polar blue. Edith Lane, now facing the cutting wind, turned her horse's head homeward. She had not intendid being so late, hut she had been detained. At first the cutter fiewo.er tho ground like a swallow. But the snow, farther on, had drifted badly, and the road gradually bad almost disappeared. Edith Lane waa not a nervous girl. But she ref ected that she did not know every tree thereatxMite as she did around her own place, and that as the light was fading momentarily, the might presently find Tierself iu a some what awkward predicament. As she peered through the gray, des olate dusk, trying to gather her faculties calmly together, and to keep her self- poster ion aud coolness, she heard in the distance the jangle of sleigh bells. When they had appwrfhed so neat that she could d'stieguish tho dsrk outline of this new cutter she called out immo- - diately and tho cutter stopped. It struck her as a little singular that one of tho men—there were two—should alight while she was speaking and come toward her. The second man called out in reply: “I’m taking this gentleman there now. If you want to follow me I guess we'll get there all right. I know the way—” lint he paused in surprise, for his pas senger and this unknown lady wrapped in a sealcloth coat and cap seemed to know each other. In ttu'h Edith Lane was looking tlnough the gloom into Robert Kendall's face. “You—you 1” was all she could say. “This i* poetic justice—| oetic com- pensa.ion,” cried the young man hilar iously. “You dragged me out of a ditch a few months ago. MUs I.ane. Now fate put* it iuto my power to drag you out of a snoxxdrift. Will you take my place in the cutter and let me have your reins? For we are both going in the same direc tion. Your destinat on is m'ne." And she could make no demur. 8he had never though to meet him aga n, much less to meet him as she had just done. They hail parted very differently two months before. She would never have betrayed herself had she not been taken thu* unawares; for she knew that she had betrayed herself. Even though he could not have seen her face distinct ly he must have know n what made her voice tremble when she pronounced tho-e two word*, and as soon as he had s|H>kcu iu his turn Edith Lane knew that her secret was hers no longer. When Miss Hopkins had recovered from her boundless amazement—when tihe had hsi-tily opened a fresh jar of her l»c*t pieserve* for tho unexpected guest; when supper was over ami there had U'cn much iheerful conversation in which she herself had participated so Inrgily that she scarcely noticed her nie. e’s silence; and when tho guest still remained, it occurred to the worthy woman that perhiqis her presence was required somewhere else in the house. Then Kendall rose aud, going over to where Edith I.ane sat, leaned over her chair. “Arc you going to send me away as you did last autumnT’ he inquired. “What do you want of a raw country girl for a wife ” she demanded, with eva'ive irrelevancy. “I to’d yon last autumn.” “Aud I told you that you were ” “Weak and idiotic from illness. Yes, I remember.” “* h! I never ” “Well, in substance that was about what you meant. But though I may be silly through the action of another cause I am not silly from illness. You will have to treat me differently this time.” “You had no right to Like me by sur prise a* you d’d a little while ago!” she cried, inconsequently again. Kendall laughed. “That was a wonderful piece of luck for me. You can never deny again what was in your eyes at that minute.” “You can’t sec my eyes!” “Well, I can see them now, and ” But Edith 1 ane, with a gesture very unexpe'-tod in so self-reliant a young woman, had hidden her eye* in a thick roat sleeve very near her cheek—for tlieie were tears iu them.—Mercury. Whistles Supplant the Engine Bells. The South Carolina HaTway Company is gradually dispens ng with bell and cord on its passenger engines and coaches, which custom ha* heretofore been so long in existence. Instead of the bell in the cab of the engine, connected with the passenger coaches, serviog a* a means for signaling the engineer by the conductor, a whistle is placed in the cab directly in front of the engineer’s seat, and this is operated on the same system that the air brakes are controlled. The whistle is con nected jxith tho air reservoir, and when the conductor desires to signal the en gineer he simply presses a button, which is connected by the air-pipes with the whistle, and the signal is instantly given. I he button and the whistle are very sensitive, so to speak, and the sli^lucst touch of the button will dis charge the air into the whistle, instantly g ving the desired signal. Major I*. J. Cochran, the superintend ent of the South ( arolinfc i adway shops, kindly exhib ted to a reporter for tiie jYi «i-i the system now being used by the “Old Reliable,” and also stated that four engines on this railway had been sup plied with the new system. As fust as pus* hie nil the passenger engine* of the South Carolina Railway will be supplied with the system, ai d it is likely that the various railroad companies in ihe Htstc will follow suit and adopt this plan of s'gnuls. The system is made by the Wedinghouse Air Brake Company of BIRDS AS MESSENGERS. KEEPING AND TRAINING THE CAB BIEK PIGEON Pittsburg, I'enn. Major Cochran is al ways on the outlook for some new con trivance for tho rolling stock of the £outh < arolina Railway, and he is to b« congratulated on the introduction of this new and useful system on h-s road.— CkarlteloH (S. C.\ He ice. How This Swift Bird Is Being Trained For Both Pleasure and Utility-Some Speedy Flight* The keeping and training of carrier p'geons, says a writer in the New Y ork £'/**•*,ia a sport which is growing gradu ally into popular favor in this country, and tine pigeon lofts have been estab lished in many prominent pla' es in and around New York. The exhibition of trained homing pigeons at the American Institute fair last year, and the experi ment with the bird* in carrying messages during the International yacht races, ad ded a great stimulus to this interesting pastime of bi:d fanciers, and the pretty winged messengers have received any amount of attention and sympathy since that time. That the s|>ort will be more interesting aud popular with the edu cated portion of our people than the fascinating, yet apparently barbarous fashion of shooting pigeons from traps for stakes, is manifest from the great strides which the work of training the birds ha* made during the last two years. Many cannot endure the sight of a pigeon-shooting match; but the most sensitive man or woman would not refuse to see a pigeon rare or a winged message bearer going about its duty. The birds have been utilized in various ways in New York, aud private lofts aro special features of the work. Recent experiments have shown that a bird may bo so trained that it will take its food at one station aud watcrat another, thus Hying readily from one station to the other once or twice or day. Many private letter posts arc established in this way, connecting city office* with coun try home* or factories. Homing pigeons are used more or less generally in newspaper offices, and they arc des.ined, in time, to save reporters and correspondents of large dailies the trouble and expense of telegraphing on many of their itemi cf news. By having pigeon lofts in all of our large cities, news could be obtained easier, and by a more direct route, during heavy winter storms, than by the present system. Wiie* arc often down or out of working order at such times, and quite frequently dispatches reach New Y ork from Boston by way of Chicago. The FrancoTiusdan war of 1870 first brought the homing pigeon into univer sal favor. 8hut up in I aris by the euemy, the French soldiers had no means of communication with the outer world, until the ex|>criinent of udug homing pigeons as messengers was first tried. Thiec hundred and sixty-three birds were sent out of the beseiged city by means of sixty four balloons, fifty- seven of which returned to Paris bear ing 150,000 official dispa ches and over 1,000,000 private messages. Such a mass of matter could only lie carried into the city by the bird* through the aid of photography. Ordinary print, covering a space of ten feet square, was photo graphed so as to occupy space on a deli cate collodion film about the size of a postage stamp. These films were tied to the feathers of the buds * n d carried back to the lofts in Baris. By the aid of a magic lantern they were easily de ciphered. This work was another illustration of the old saying, that “necessity is the mother of invention;” for within & month the pigeon service for war pur poses was brought almost to perfection. Since then several ofthe European coun tries have established lofts at their mili tary outposts, perfecting the service an nually by constant practice and experi ment. In Belgium and portions of France, pigeon races might Le said to be the national sport. Public trials of the speed of the homing pigeons are almost of daily occuricnee, and rotne remarka ble record* h ive bean made. For short distances the bird* have averaged more th/m a mile a minute. In longer races the average decreases, as the flight of the bird lessens gradually after the first 300 miles have been covered. The bird “Ar- noux" carried a message from Pensacola, Fla, to Newark, N. J., a distance of 1010 miles in twenty-six days, while an other bird from Newark returned from Montgomery, Ala., a distance of 3GG miles, in four and one-quarter days. Other records of longer tiights have been published, but these two serve a* au ex cellent illustration of the wonderful powers and endurance of the bird*. The “correct" homing station is a model of perfect on in itself. Every thing for the convenience and comfort of tho pigeons i* there, and tho birds are made to feel that it is their “homo." YVhen a bird returns Irom a race, it has to light upon a trap before entcrlngjthe loft This act operates an instantaneous camera which photographs the bird and a clock to the right of it. The precise momi nt that tho bird returns is thus automatically recorded. How to Prove that the Earth Tarnsu It has puzzled the heads of a good many youngsters to know how the earth turns round. A German educational journal j ublithed in Frankfort gives the following directions for proving that the earth “does move.” “Take a good-rized bowl, fill it nearly full of water, and place it upon the flour of a room which is not exposed to shaking or jarring from the street. Sprinkle over the surface at the water a coating ot lycopodium powder- a whit* substance wnich is sometimes used for the purp ses of the toilet, and which can be obtained at almost any apothecary's. Then upon surface of th s coating of powder make, with powdered charcoal, a straight black line, say an inch or two in length. Hav ing made this little black mark with the charcoal powder on the surface of the contents of the bowl, lav down upon the floor, close to the bowl, a stick or some other straight object, so that it will l« exactly parallel with the mark. If the hne happens to be parallel with a crack in the floor, or with any stationary object in the room, this will serve as well. “Leave the bowl undisturbed for a few hours, and then observe the position of the black mark with reference to the object that it was parallel with. It will be found to have moved abont, and to have moved from East to Weat—thatis to say, in the direction opposite to that of the movement of the earth on its axis. The earth in simi>lj revolving has carried the water and everything else in the bowl around with it, but the powder on the surface ha* been left behind a little. The line will always be found to have moved from East to West, which is per- leetly good proof that everything else * the other way.”—Abw Yerl. Oxereomiu? DiflR'iiUiea. A newspaper in the Western States called tho l{o<ky Mountain Cyclone opened the first article of its first number at follows: “We begin the publication ot the /l ciu Mountain Cyclone with some phew d'phiculties in the way. The type phounder from whom we bought theout- phit phor this printing ophice phailed to supply us witn any ephs or cays, and it will be phour or phivc weeks bephore we can get any. We have ordered the missing letters, and will have to wait until they come. Wo don’t hque the loox ov this variety ov spelling any bet ter than our readers, but mistaix will happen in the best regulated ov phamilis, and iph the ephs ana cays and exes and qus hold out we shall ceep (sound the o hard) the Cyrhne whirling aphter a phashion till the sorts arrive. It is no joque co us; it is a serious aphphair.— D eton lloun Journal. beard because The has moved 8un. fll'MBR OF THE WAY. He warmest season—Cayenne pepper. A lump sum-The coal dealer’s profits. A rank deceivcr-A viaiting foreigner with sham title. What sticketh closer than a brother? A postage stamp, by gum. The billy-goat a ears a he isagoat-he himself. What is the board of education? schoolmaster’s shingle. if a young lady’s maiden aim is suc cessful, she has no maiden name. YVritiugfor Ihe magazines is a business that always yields big returns —Life. It is probably the attention paid it which makes tho weather-vane. Lijc. What is the difference between au en gineer aud a school teacher? One trains the mind and the other minds the train. What is the difference between a soldier and a pretty woman? One faces the powder aud Ihe other powders the face. Day is not easily d scouraged. Although it breaks at its very start, it keeps right on just the same os if nothing h»il happened.—JJciro t Free /i. The cobbler does not die, of course, When all his years are past. Because it’s quite impo^iblo For him to breathe hi* last. —Bazar. In Boston the neck of a chicken ie ca’led Napoleon, because it is the bony part.—[Muny Union.j That is funny; and it is strange that tho bony part in cludes the Na|>e of the neck.—/Vuyune. Emma (to her intended) —“Just think, Charlie, Judge So.udso proposed to me yesterday.” Charlie—“What did you say to him?” “I told him that 1 waa very sorry, but that I was already en gaged."— Te aie By tinge. “Had a nice timet" “YVas, rather." “Been doing the Continent?” “Well, yes, if you like to put it that way, but when I look at my expense account it rather seems as if the Continent had been doing me.”—Lomlon TiJ-BUe. Samaritan—“I see you have a card in your window, 'Help Wanted.’” Yes, sir; I put that there. 1 ' Samaritan—“My poor friend, why don’t you pocket your pride aud go at once to the Overseers of the Poor?”—l.otcell Courier. A Temporary Loan.—Chumley—“i’m in a little fix, to day, Brown, for money; what would you say if I were to ask you for a temporary loan of a hundred or two dollars.” Brown—“Well, Chum- ley, if the loan will be temporary, I might let you have the two dollars.”— Ai cutout Neic*. His First Offence.—Miss Gotham (to Mr. Wabash, recently returned from abroad)—“1 suppose you were at court while in London, Mr. Wabash?” Mr. Wabash (uneasily) — “ Well — er—yes, Miss Gotham, but only once, and then I got off with a merely nominal fine."— Jtarper'e Bazar. Bilkins Miss Tom “Why, Mr. Bilkins, how can you sug r t such a thing? Y'ou know 1 believe even numbers. Polly and Charley made two; Jack and 1 make four; you a > ~11 MONEY IN THE ALLIGATOR. SEEKING THE SAURIAN FOB HIDE AND TEETH ITS s—“I hope I am not in the way, impkvna.” Miss Tompkyns— Mr. Bilkins, how can you sug- A Saurian Hunter Tells How He Makes a Living by ’Gator Hunt ing and Pelican Fishing. “Eevcn barrels of hides, about forty bunches of feathers, a dozen ham*, eleven pounds of teeth and one eight- foot’gator. How docs that strike you, sc any, for a two-months’ take on the coast? Pretty large and luminous, eht" Heetood on the wharf at Baton Rouge with his hide* and feathers and teeth piled around h'm “Of cour-cl had a half-breed helping me most of the t me ; iu fai t, he caught tho big'gator all by himself. He saxv her young ones first, caught one of them and then tolled her into the noose. But a* he was working lor board wages his work don't count, and the whole take is mine. ‘Mow much is it worth? Well, you can figure ;t up for yourself. The hides will iuii abo t ten to a barrel, and will average apiece; that’s $70, ain’t it? The feather* run about two bunches ft>r $ I, which makes $11 more. The hams sre worth $25, and alligator teeth market in the rough at $1 a pound. 1 tin- der*tand there is a standing order down bote from a New Y ork dealer for a b g ’gator, and if there is, mine wilt bring $30 in the local market. If there is not, I may sell her for $20, and I may have to kill her for bide. That makes $70, and $U, and t2"i, and $11, which is $11!) sure, ami maybe $30 more. Every dollar made in two months’ time by just paddling around with a gun and a rope on the lower Bayou la Fourche. There is another big industry down there tliat I did not touch at all thisycar—and that ia oyster s’ o- el ing. The whole coast line is a bed of oysters, and the New (trlcans market is always hungry for the bayou oysters. But 'gttor and pelican fishing is good enough for me.” He moved the muscles of his face into a smile of simian content, while ho loaned against a barrel and scratched his bare ankle with one of his big sun-baked, big toes. He xvas a member of the army of nomads who pepper the Misalsa ppi and its tributaries with their floating homes, locally known as “shanty boats.’’ July aud August invariably find them above Oiro, and os the weather moder ates they follow the summer souih, spending tho winter aud spring in tho I ayous or on one of tho southern lakes xvhich teem with every siM-cies of wild fowl, game and vegetation, taking their ease in their castle. As a rule, they toil not, neither do they spin, and it is an und sputed fact that Solomon was never i anayed like one of them. ‘‘Fire hunting at night is tho best 1 plan, and the one most followed when hint's are the object. The fire in the bow of the canoe lights up the shores and blinds the eyes of the ’gators so that we cau paddle close to them and put a ball into one eye without trouble. | The big l>east always throws himself ashore and lashes abont among the reeds with hi* tail, after an eye shot, dying in about five minutes. We never stop to [xick them up, but keep on down the and the dog mske six. We sre all paired J . ...... „<t n t,. u i„ n^rtn.™ Imjou uotil wc have killed half a dozen off nicely. ” The Cartoon. “Talking about the sad condition of the poor," said a monojiolist, ‘Tre oeen investigating of late on my own account and I find that tho poor can purchase more for their money now than they conld fifteen or twenty years ago. Why, a locomotive can be purchased for $1U,- 000 now that would have cost $30,000 twenty year ago.”—Cartoon. Patient Wife (of sick man)—“Mary, bring in a glass with two tablespoon fuls. Kick Man—"Darn your hotn o 1 pathlc doses. You wan’t to let me die for want of medicine, don’t you? Mary, | bring in the glass half full.” Wife— “This isn’t the whisky, dear; it’s the cod-liver oih” "Oh!"—P.iUaneljj/tia Iticord. A young widow, in erecting s monu ment to the dear departed, cleverly or more, and the next day we hunt them up, strip off the skins, cut out the jaw bones and sometimes a part of the tail, which is ns good eating as pork. After being buried a week or so the teeth drop out of the jaws, and are ready for market. “Now about the feathers. Y'ou want to know what they are. They are peli can feathers. Every pelican has a bunch of these fine, hair-like feathers in each wing, and each bunch is worth about thirty-five cents. The simplest way qf catching them is with a hook and lini baited with a minnow, which i* kept on | top of the water by mea:c* of a float. The pelican sails close to the water, see* the minnow, swoops down and is 1 hooked. It wants to be a stout hook and a strong line, or the big bird will break it away, and you 5 big will not only avails herself of the opportunity to iu- 1 l‘ >>e your seventy cents xvffrthof ft atheis, scribe upon the tomb: “ira retl to the b’H your tackle as well. De.rm^ rue memory of Mathu/.in Le uchet, who de- Prcte. parted this lite, sgc sixty-cigbt years. regretting the necessity of parting from tbe most chaim ng of women.”—Ban Fraucieio WaeiK Believe* Cnnsntnption Curable. The most interesting feature of the xcssions of tbe convention of the Horn opathic State Medical Society in I labneniunn College, says tho 1 hiladel- phia Tim,*, w as the reading of a paper by Professor Gooduo. of Hahnemann, College, on consumption. Professor Good no said: “I have made investigations which p ove that tic person afflicted with phthisis c ects the barilla or germ from the mouth in breathing. The bacilla sre readily taken into the mouth and respiratory organ. I have no doubt but that if we lived up to the knowledge of this disease in our poscession we cou!d very soon relegate it to a less important position than it now holds. I am firmly convinced that the disease if treated properly in its incipient stage, can be cured, and I do not believe that it is hereditary. Undoubtedly every one of us have inhaled the bacilla, rat have escaped because of our well-nourished tissues." an of an older island is,” Submarlue Cotlou Picking. The story is told by a resident near Rocky Ford, Ga., that, while the recent floo<l was at the highest point ia the Ogecchee, he was navigating around in a bateau looking after some hogs he had in the swamps,his attention was attracted to the peculiar actions of a man who was seen to climb up on a fence, the top of which was iust peeping out of the water, and then dive off again, repeating this time and again. On approaching nearer he discovered that it was one of his neighbors, that worthy old gentleman, Mr. Henry Brigdon. He would dive off the fence and for twenty yards the bubbles wonld rise to the top of the water as though a huge alligator was making h s way along the bottom, and then be would rise and swim back Bid deposit something in a sack fastened fb the fence. On inquiiy he found that old friend B. was picking cotton, having a field of it there completely hid by Ure flood. It struck the observer as a novel way to pick cotton. Old EngHith Bread Regulations. During thu reigns of Henry III. and Edward L, 1213- 1307, certain laws were passed in England regarding the weight and price of bread. In the city of Lon don, if the baker sold his bread himself, by retail, he was particularly forbidden to sell it in his house, or before his bouxe, or before the oven ia which it had been baked. He wa* only to sell it in the “king’s market,”and such market as was assigned to him, and nowhere else. Bread was delivered from house to house in London by regratresses or female retailers. These dealers on pur chasing their stock from the baker were alloxxed thirteen loaves to the dozen, the extra loaf being the limit of their legiti mate profits. Tho baker was also for bidden to sell the regratresses in his shop, the sales having to take place at his stall iu the “king's market.”—De troit Free Prets. ChiHIren’s Quaint Sayingn. Little Dick had been listening to the recitation in geography brother. “I know what said he to mamma. “Well, xvhat is it?" asked mamma. “It’s a little piece of land all fenced round with water,” proudly answered Dick. Lillie Cora heard an older person re mark that some one who xxa* in trouble wa* “in a pickle.” (shortly afterxvard her little brother attempted some difficult feat. •*< h, you mustn't do that,” she ex- cla'iued, “or you will be inacucumber." “Fail,” said Auntie, “I should not think yon would like radishes; I should think they would bite your tongue." “Why, auntie," said the little boy, “they hasn't got any teeth.”—Youth’t Comvanii*. “Old Hickory." The story of how General Andrew to be called “Old new to some of our rhe fresh fruit crop of California thi season has au estimated va'us of $10, • mm It has been discovered and authorita tively announced that the first man to turn the handle of en orgai waa a n» Mve of tho province of Te&de. Tho Poplar as a Lightning-Rod, An old faehionod Lombardy poplar, by ita height, by iU complete covering of twigs and small branenes, and their foliapo almost down to the ground, and by its eappv wood, make* a capital lightning-rod and a good one. Happily no one can patent it and bring it around in a wa'on and insist upon trying it To make it surer, tbe tree should Hand in moist ground or near water, for wot ground ia a good conductor and dry soil a poor one. It ie recommended to plant a f.ombatdy poplar near the house and another close to tho bare. If the ground ie dry, the nearer tho well the better, except for tho nuiaanoe of the roota that will get into it. Jackson happened Hickory” may be readers: During the Creek War he had a bad cold, anti his soldiers made for him a shelter of hickory bark. The next morning a tipsy soldier, not knowing who was under the bark, kicked it over. As the General, speechless with rage, struggled out of the ruins, the soldier yelled: “Hello, Old Hickory 1 Como out of your bark and take a drinkl" When the soldiers saw Jackson shak ing the bark from his uniform they gave three cheers for “Old Hickory," and the name stuck." The Lena of Three Pant hers. Herr Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, tbo leading German wild beast dealer, lately received a letter from Horn Bonheor, the great animal painter, inquiring if she Could come to his menagerie ana select a couple of pan then which she was anxious to paint from life. In reply the wild beast dealer was gallant enough to say that thera was no need ot Mmo. Bonheur exposing herself to n fatiguing jegpney, but that he Would instead read her, la charge of a keeper, wolf pecked and secured, three flue panthers which she could keep as long W* she pleased and return by the keeper when ehe had quite done with them. Rona Bonheur in painting those pea there now. Unfortunate Haggaatlaa. Elderly Maiden (to druggtat’s boy)— “Well, I do declare, If I ain't forgot what I came fori" Boy (full of business!—Hair dye? rouge? lotion to remove freckl**J wrinkle oradicator? bottle Bloom of Youth?” Elderly Maiden haila a passing atrett car,—/.(A.