The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, May 20, 1891, Image 4
Fast Time iu UttoLmakin?.
The fastest time on record for the
making, compiling and publishing of a
statute book comes from Oklahoma. The
Legislature recently adjourned was in
session 120 days. On the morning of the
last day there had not been passed en.
actmcnts that when printed would fill to
exceed sixty pages of an ordinary law
book.
At the close of the last day the signa
ture of the Governor _ was placed on
enough more to lill a statute book of
1260 pages without the index. Among
those were include J a code of civil and
crimina' procedure in both district, pro
bate and justice courts and laws govern
ing crimes and pnuishmeuts covering 300
pages.
Within thirty-five days from the final
adjournment, these laws were copied,
corrected and arranged iu a manner that
Chief Justice Green, of the Territory,
pronounced perfect, with side and head
notes for each section. Within forty-
eight hours after the compiling commit
tee had turned iu its last copies the
printed volume, comprising over 1300
pages, was turned over to Secretary Mar
tin bound in law sheep.—Knnxu City
Times.
What Fog Means.
Professor Reynolds recently gave a
practical illustration of the effect of fog
in connection with some new belting
which bad been running for four hours
it Owens College during a heavy fog.
The belting, which was new and bright
when started, was found, when stopped,
to be black and loaded with dirt. It had
been running at 4000 feet an hour. Pro
fessor Reynold! pointed out the rcsem-
_ _ Jilanec to the dirtiness of an express train,
the pHeno'tnciiou in both cases being duo
to the fact thair the -rapidly moving bocL
comes in contact with a greater quantity
of air in a given time than a stationary
body, and, therefore, picks up a greater
quantity of atmospheric pollution.—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Out of the 32,000,000 of subjects over
whom Victoria now reigns as Queen of
Great Britain, taken in round numbers,
about 32,000 arc said to be blind.
Good Blood
Is absolutely
Essential to
Good Health
You may liave
both by taking the
best Blood Purifier.
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
5j Tickets iiootl for
KEEP YOUR EYE OR
DILWORTH,
"THE CITY OF AVENUES." *
A Suburban Town Site of 450
Acres, forming the South
ern Corporate Limits
OF
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
The Queen City of the State. A
Boulevard 100 feet wide, gives a 3
mile drive around DILWORTH,
and its avenues, running at right
ingles, are 60 feet wide, constructed
Mha view to sanitary advantages,
for sewerage with water facilities.
Over one hundred thousand dollars
has already been spent on this pro
perty and many more thousands will
be expended in the near f uture. The
property contains the beautiful
LATTA Park of 90 acres, a lovely
feature of which is Forsyth lake,
nearly 1200 feet long. Taken alto
gether, this is the prettiest resort of
*ts character in the "Dixie" country.
At LATTA Park there are now in
course of construction, and will be
completed by August 1, 1891, a pa
vilion designed by the celebrated
Norrman, "the architect of beauti
ful designs," together ivitha keepers
lodge, unique m character and a
conservatory after the English pat
tern, at a cost for the buildings and
furnishings of over $13,000, together
with other attractive features, now
being arranged for by the
Charlotte Consolidated Cons. Co.
The company will offer at public
sale on the premises on
MAY, 20, 21, 22, 1891,
a number of valuable building lots,
»n the immediate vicinity of the pic
turesque places above described.
Terms of sale: One-fourth cash, bal
ance «n 1, 2 and 3 years. The visitor
to Charlotte on that day, will be
present also at the regular annual
celebration of
Meckleiitiiirg Declaration of Indepdence.
Tbt« r«r* day U a feature of North Carolina
•aeao City, and i« well worth the trip from tl
remotest section of our surrounding country Tl
Mrchaeerof alotor lots, will be rewarded wit
the return of the cost of his fare to tho sale I
respective of business, tbe pleasures of the da
will imply repay all for tbe outlay. Celebrate
mutlc will be on hand to enliven the party. Ac
■le accommodations fur visitors, through fot
hotels and a Urge number of boarding houses,
fliely equipped electric city railway to can
paasepgers over Charlotte and her environa, no
iatoraied in their beautiful Spring attire.
a stole* or li, lo vi»it Dll
W^gTHand CM A It LOTTOS, May M
ror further Information, addreti
CHARLOTTE CONSOLIDATED CONS. CO.
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AMERICA
Aw SB c«nta a bottle.
It TASTES GOOD.!
KEfl‘8 AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Tho now hats arc quaint.
Long trains arc de rigour.
Brocades are all the style.
Tbe veils arc of plain tulle.
In Paris skirts arc worn long.
Capes are in great assortments.
Stylish jackets arc of blue cloth.
Eqicry bugs come in quaint forms.
The new skirts are perfectly plain.
The new dress bonnets are smaller.
The chatelaine bouquet is the rage.
Black lace dresses are being recalled.
Covered sardine dishes are a novelty.
The largo round hat is being called io.
Gloves are being worn with four but
tons.
Bonnet pins are more popular thau
ever.
The toque is rapidly coming to the
front.
The new pocketbooks are awkwardly
large.
Pearl grays and gray blues are most in
vogue.
The newest egg cups have saucers at
tached.
Light woolens are still the very height
of fashion.
Pearl-gray gaiters over low shoes are
considered very chic.
Very many of the evening bonnets
have no crown whatever.
Vassar College girls consume forty
bushels of onions in a year.
Newport, R. I., is to have a “yacht
manned entirely by women.”
Mourning tea gowns arc made with
crepe de Chine front and Watteau back.
r Bteel and coraliue are piefcrred by tbe
best (ireccnaakers to whalebone.
Diamonds mounted on invisible pins
and worn in the hair are decidely novel.
Women of exquisite taste and abuu lant
cash use gold glove clasps on dressy oc
casions.
China-lined teacups of solid silver arc
used by fashionable people at five-
o’clocks.
Wedding dresses arc of white satin,
trimmed with orange blossoms and point
d'angeleterrc.
All the little girls in Mrs. Hamilton
Twombly’s family have Vanderbilt for
their middle name.
Terra cotta, modified to old rose, pale
blue and greens of every shade, are pet
colors in millinery.
Almond green, trimmed with blood-
red roses and real rose leaves, make a
charming confection.
Tbe mutton-leg is still tho popular
style of sleeve for toilets and costume)
of every description.
Black rough straw hats will bo tho
fashion for young girls with great-great-
grand mothets’ bows of satin ribbon.
The newest colors are turquoise and
peach-pink; yellow and green of many
tones have been most worn hitherto.
A Sioux City (Iowa) belle wore such
narrow-toed shoes that one of her toes
became so injured ns to require amputa
tion.
Ninety-nine per cent, of all of the
brides “go away” in gray gowns, which
gives them away quicker than their new
trunks.
A fashionable hairdresser observe)
that it is work to dress the hair of a girl
of fifteen, pleasure for one of twenty-live,
and art for one of thirty-five.
Miss Mary E. Byrd, teacher of astron
omy and director of the observatory at
Smith's College, has been elected a mem
ber of the British Astronomical Associa
tion .
Dr. Helen L. Betts was the first woman
physician appointed to visit Dr. Koch's
laboratory, and enjoyed equal advantage?
with the other doctors iu investigating
the case.
Recently the Princess of Wales ap
peared in a long white lace boa, em
broidered with real pearls, the cost of
which London society papers give as
“over $2500.”
When you construct or order your
next gown, set to it that the sleeve)
come quite down to your knuckle). If
not, your gown will stand a cuanco of
looking old-fashioned.
Rhoda Broughton lives at Oxford,
England, where she took up her abode
just tea years ago. Ju ail she has written
about thirty books, but sho has allowed
only half of them to be publish] 1.
Tbe practice of employing women as
clerks iu the Government service origi
nated with Secretary Chase, who ap
pointed Miss B. I. Wilson to a place in
the Treasury Department September 15,
1861.
Miss Elsie Stanley is an Australian girl
of fourtcea who has great musical talent
and has just won a scholarship at the
London Royal College of Music, which
entitles her to a free education for three
years.
Linen lawns promise to be much worn.
They are usually printed in black figures
aud flowers on » white ground; anil
when laundry work is not a matter of
serious consideration, no material is
neater or more durable.
Mrs. A. Claxton, au Englishwoman,
has invented a patent ear cap, and hence
forth no one need be disfigured by cars
that stand out too far. The cap is like
a skeleton of tapes, which cfTceually con
verge over the ears. The cap is intended
to be worn at night.
Lady Florence Dixie is one of the
most talkcd-of women in the United
Kingdom. She bos a bead like a band-
some boy, with short, wavj hair, full of
threads of gold. Her features are bold,
eyes fine, nose a little heavy, mouth at
tractive and decided. Her complexion
is brilliant, as of a woman who lives
much out of doors.
The use of a moderately hot curling
iron is not deprecated by hairdressers,
but, on the contrary, is beucficial to the
growth of tlie hair. A small amount of
hair lightly waved and pinned in place
with shell or gold bins makes a much
more attractive arrangement than the
quantities of false hair appropriated from
some other head that was formerly used.
The Duchess of Leinster is to inaugur
ate a revival of a bygone fashion in ap
pearing at the Dublin Drawing-room ar
rayed in a costume designed after Hop
per’s portrait of the “Duchessof Dorset,”
which is now on exhibition at the New
Gallery. The chief innovation, how
ever, consists in her wearing the high
“nodding" feathers in the hair so much
worn of old.
A writer in a ladies' journal has a word
of encouragement for girls who lament
having red hair. Tho Catherines aviso
made Russia great had red hair; so had
Maria Theresa, who saved Austria and
made it the empire that it is; so had
Anno, of Austria, who ruled France for
so long; so had Elizabeth, of England,
and Catherine Borgis, as well a) Marie
Antoinette, whose blonde tresses bad in
them a glint of gold.
The latest New York fad is the col
lecting of certain kinds of woodwork
from dilapidated houses for insertion in
expensive dwellings.
Large silver mines have been found tl
the Kuban sources in Russia.
I DEALS.
Like butterflies that fret
Entangled in a net,
Then at the last thro’ some chance rift es
cape
Of half their raidance shorn,
■With ruffled plumes and torn,
Bright mockeries of their former hues and
shapes;
Eo in the poet’s mind
Tho rich ideas conffued
Struggle to break iu music from his tongue;
He speaks—he speaks—but ah,
How changed, how different far
The thought onco uttered from the thought
unsung!
So, too, the painter sees
Bewildering images,
Atad brush is seized, aud canvass quick un
furled;
Tho bright creation glows,
But lo! his easel shows
Mere shadowy glimpses of that vision-world.
Know then whate’er we cull
From Art’s fields beautiful,
Whatever fruits philosophies may yield,
Their prototypes more fair
Are blossoming elsewhere,
Sweet songs unsung an J visions unrevealed;
* Until the veil is rent,
Our flesh-imprisonment,
And we are borne beyond this dust’s con
trol:
Then shall our orbless eyes
Behold realities,
And soul commune immediately with soul.
—Temple Bar.
MARY CL A RI MONT, M. 0.
When Mary Ciarimont's engagement
was proi'laiiftcil to the world there en
sued a general expression of surprise.
People are generally surprised at mat
rimonial engagements. There is always
some cogent reason why things should
have been adjusted otherwise—why John
should have married Joan, and Peter
should prefer Betsey. Nobody was ever
yet married to suit everybody.
But in Mary Ciarimont's case it did
really seem as if the course of true love
bad interfered seriously with the current
of common sense and prudence.
Miss Clarimonl was only one-and-
twenty, a tall, imperial beauty, avithdewy
black eyes, a skin as fresh as damask
roses, aud dark-brown hair, coiled in
sinning bands at the back of her bead.
Moreover, Miss Ciarimout had a “career”
before her. She had just graduated from
Medfield Medical University, and taken
out her diploma as au M. D.
“Aud only to think of it,” said Aunt
Jo, bursting into tears of vexation and
disappointment, “that she must needs
go and ruin all her prospects by get
ting engaged to Harry Marlow, down in
New York!”
“It does seem strange. Aunt Jo, when
I sit down and think of it,” said Doctor
Mary, laughing aud blushing. “Six
months ago my profession was all the
world to me. I neither wished nor cared
for anything outside its limits. The
future was all mapped out before me
without let or hindrance; and now ”
“Humph 1 ” growled Aunt Jo. “Any
brainless idiot can get married and keep
a man's house and meud his shirts for
him, hut you avcrc made for something
higher and more dignified, Mary.”
Mary's dew-bright eyes sparkled.
"Higher, Aunt Jo?” said she. “More
dignified? There you arc mistaken.
There is no higher or more dignified lot
in life than that of the true wife of a
noble husband.”
“Fiddlesticks!” said Aunt Jo. “As
if every poor fool who avas dazzled by
the glitter of a wedding ring didn't say
the same thing! You’ve disappointed
me, Mary Clarimont, and I'm ashamed
of you, and that is the long and the
short of it.”
“Dear Aunt Jo,” said she, “I shall
not let my sword and shield rust, believe
me. Harry has only his owu talents to
advance him in the world, aud it will be
at least a year before we shall be ready
to marry. In the meantime I shall ac
cept the post of visiting physician to the
Aldenbury Almshouse and practise my
profession, just the same its if there were
no engagement.”
“I wish to goodness there wasn’t,”
said Aunt Jo. “I tell you what, Mary,
I don’t fancy that smiling, smooth
tongued young man ot yours, aud 1 never
shall.”
Still Dr. Mary Ciarimout kept her tem
per.
“I am sorry, Aunt Jo,” she said,
pleasantly. “But I hope that you will
eventually change your miud.”
“I used to keep a thread-and needle
store when I was a young avoman,” re
marked Aunt Jo, dryly, “and I always
could tell the ring of a counterfeit half-
dollar when a customer laid it on the
counter. I could then, and I can now
—and I tell you what, Mary, there’s bast
metal about Harry Marlow.”
Dr. Mary bit her lip.
“Perhaps. Wc will not discuss the
subject further, Aunt Jo,” she said, avith
quiet dignity, nud the old lady said no
more.
“Aunt Jo is avrong,” persisted the
pretty young M. I), to herself.
“Mary is making a fool of herself!”
thought Aunt Jo.
Aldeubury avas a pretty manufacturing
village, with a main street shaded by
umbrageous maples, a “westend,"where
people who had made their fortunes
lived comfortably in roomy old houses,
surrounded by velvet laws and terraced
gardens, aud an “cast end,” where peo
ple fought desperately and not always
successfully to keep body and soul to.
getber on the merest pittance.
And a little way out of the village the
almshouses, built and endowed by a cer-
tain smuggling sea captain, whose con
science had pricked him during his latter
days, raised their gray stone gables to
tbe sky, and made a picturesque back
ground to the landscape.
Dr. Mary Ciarimout made something
of a sensation at Aldenbury. Up to tbif
time all tbe resident M. D.’s had beon
stuffy old gentlemen with wigs, or peii
youug ones with eyeglasses.
A beautiful young lady who wrote pre
scriptions and compounded pills and po
tions was a novelty iu the town, and by
no means a disagreeable one. People
rather liked the idea, once they had con
vinced themselves that the lady doctor
understood herself anil her patients.
Aud tho poor old people at the aim-
house grew to love Dr. Mary and listen
with eager ears for the sound of her
carriage wheels over the blue gravel
drive which led up to Ihe portico.
It was a brilliant December day when
the young physician stood in the ncatly-
eapeted reception-room drawing on her
fur gloves previous to entering her neat
phaeton once agn n, avhilc she reiterated
10 the white-capped maid some direc
tions concerning old Ann Mudgett’s
rheumatism, when the matron hurried
in.
"Oh, I beg your pardon, Dr. Clari-
inont,’ said she, "but I clean forgot the
new old woman.”
“The new old woman,” repeated Dr.
Mary, with a smile.
“That 1»," exclaimed Mrs. Cunningw
ham, "she only came last night—a quiat
old soul, half blind, and quite bad with
the nithma. Perhaps you’d better just
ico her before you go. She brought a
card of admission from Dr. Merton, th«
New lork clergyman, who is one of our
iirectors, you know. Ana sue seems a
lecent body enough."
So Dr. Mary went cheerfully into the
little brick-paved room, with its white
pallet-bed, cushioned rocking-chair, and
neatly-draped casement, where sat a
mor, little, shriveled-up woman, wrapped
.n a faded shawl.
She looked timidly up, as Dr. Mary
-arue iu, Irom under the borders of her
:ap.
“I’m a poor body, miss,” said she,
‘and I’m sensible I’m making a deal of
‘rouble in the world. But the Lord
lon't always take us, miss, when we’d
ike to go.”
"This i) the doctor,” said Mrs. Cun
aiugham.
The little woman would have risei
up to make a feeble curtesy, but Dr.
Mary motioned her to keep her scat.
“What is your name?” said she pleas
antly.
“Louise Marlow, miss.”
"Marlow! That is an unusual name,
Isn't it?” said Mary Cluirmont, coloring
in spite of herself.
•MYe're English, miss,” said the old
woman, struggling bravely with her
isthma. “There ain't many of us in
this country. I've a sou, miss, in the
'aw business, as any mother might be
eroud of.”
“Ason 1” echoed Sirs. Cunningham;
.“and you in the almshouse?”
“Not that it's his fault, ma’am,” the
old creature made haste to explain. “My
son is to be married to a fine, proud
lady, as is fit for any prince in all the
land, and,of course,he can't he expected
to burden himself with a helpless old
woman like me. He says I’m to write and
let him know how I get along,and if I’m
sick or anything he’ll try to see. I
sewed carpets until the asthma got hold
of me, and supported myself comfortably.
But, of course, I couldn’t lay up any
thing for a rainy day—who could? And
Henry couldn't help me, for he's getting
ready to bo married, poor lad! So ?
went to Dr. Merton and asked him did
lie know any decent place where an
old woman like mo could end her dayf
in peace. And he gave mo a card tc
come here and some money to pay my
traveling expenses—God bleas him!—
and here I am.”
Mary Uharimont listened quietly to the
garrulous tale, but the color varied in
her cheek more than once as she stood
there.
“Is your son's name Harry Marlow?”
she said, slowly and thoughtfully.
“Yes, miss, at your service,” said the
old woman, with a duck of her white
capped head, which avas meant to d(
duty in place of the impossible curtesy.
“Is he like this?” said Dr. Mary, tak
iug a photograph from her pocket.
The old woman, avith trembling bands,
fitted on her iron-bowed spectacles, ani
looTtcd at tbe picture, uttering a little
cry of recognilion.
“Sure, miss, it is his own self,” she
cried. “You are acquainted with him,
then?”
“Somewhat,” said Dr. Mary, com
posedly, os she returned the photograph
lo its place. “And now I will leave you
something to relieve this difficulty in
breathing.”
But the old crone eyed her wistfully.
“Perhaps you know the young lady my
son Is to marry?”
“Yes,” said Dr. Mary, writiog some
thing in her prescription book. “I have
seen her.”
“Perhaps, miss,” faltered the old
woman, “you would give her my humble
duty, and tell her I avould just like to
look at her for once and see what she is
like. There's no fear of my troubling
her, miss, for I mean to end my days
here. But I avould like to see her just
once. And if it wouldn't be asking too
mQch. miss, would vou please write to
my son, amt tell him where I am, for
I’m no scholar myself,and I’m his mother,
after all.”
“I will write to him,” said Dr. Mary,
quietly; and so she went away.
“I never see a lady doctor afore,” said
old Mrs. Marlow, with a long sigh. “But
she's a pretty crectur, and it seems good
to have her around. I hope she'll come
again soon.”
“You may be very sure of that,” said
Ihe matron, brusquely. “Dr. Clarimont
ain't one to neglect poor people because
they are poor.”
That evening Aunt Jo, frying crullers
over the kitchen fire, was surprised by a
visit from her niece, who came in all
wrapped in furs, with her cheeks crim
soned with the frosty winter air.
“Bless me! this ain’t never you!” said
Aunt Jo, peering over her spectacles.
“I drove over to see you, Aunt Jo,”
said Mary, “to tell you that you were
right. The metal was counterfeit.”
“Eh?'’ said Aunt Jo, mechanically la
dling out the brown, curly crullers, al
though she did not look at what she was
doing.
“I have written to Harry Marlow, can
celing our engagement,” said Dr. Mary,
calmly, albeit her voice faltered a little.
“The man avho will heartlessly let his
old mother go to the almshouse, sooner
than to take the trouble to maintain her,
can be no fit husband for any woman I”
And then she sat down by the fire and
told Aunt Jo everything; for crabbed,
crusty old Aunt Jo had boen like a
mother to her, and the girl's heart was
full to overflowing.
When she bad ceased speaking, Aunt
Jo nedded her head.
“You have done well and wisely,”
said she.
Old Mrs. Marlow died that winter in
Aldenbury Almshouse, with her head on
Dr. Mary Ciarimont's arm, and never
knew that lur garrulous confessions had
deprived her sou of his promised wife.
And Mary says quietly and resolutely
that her profession must be husband and
home to her henceforward.
“Just what it ought to be,” says Aunt
Jo. “No women ever yet succeeded in
doing two things at once. ”—Indianapolis
Ifoirs.
Queer Superstitions.
The Zulus ot Africa believe that per
sons who die sudden or violent deaths
have been killed by tho rainbow. AU
individuals among them who lose their
lives by falls, drowning or wild beasts
perish because the rainbow has devoured
their ka-la, or spirit. In the New He
brides there is, or was, a colony of pro
fessional disease makers, who live by col
lecting such rubbish as the skin of a
banana which a man has eaten. The
banana skin is rolled up and slowly
burned, the result being that as it burns
the consumer of the fruit becomes more
and more sick until he makes up his
mind to propitiate the wizards by pres
ents. But even the wizards are not se
cure against such influences, and at times
they themselves discover that sombody is
buroing their rubbish and so are driven
to appeal for mercy. The custom of
ringing the “passing bell” took its rise
from the notion that its sound would
drive away tbe evil spirita that stood
waiting at the bed of a sick man for his
soul. Abyssinian sorcerers attach to the
image of a person whom they wish to tor
ture By inflicting injuries upon his like
ness the name of the victim, and to pre
vent this the people conceal their baptis-
mat names.— WatA*n'/ton Star.
The only onyx polishing works in this
country, located in Rutland, Vt., will bo
removed to Missouri and engage in pre
paring for market the vast quantities of
onyx mined in Crawford aud Pulaski
ooustiea.
FEATURES OF CANAL LIFE.
DAILY ROUTINE ON AN ARTIFI-
P1AL WATERWAY.
The Monotonous Journey Broken by
the Locks—The Canal Boatmen,
Their Families aud Amusements.
The Delaware and Hudson Company’s
canal starts from the west shore of the
North River at Hoboken. It pursues its
way through tbe most picturesque parts
of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New
York State as far as Rondout, where it
bas its terminus.
The start is not made by taking up
tickets, blowing whistles aud yelling
“all aboard” as on a train or steamer,
but the driver of tbe mule or horse, as
the case may be, steps ashore, connects
the towing line from the boat to ths
beast's collar, shouts “git oop” and the
journey is begun.
To the eye of one unfamiliar with the
canal it looks about wide enough to al
low but one boat to proceed at a time,
but it is really wide enough for two canal
boats, and the two boats pass each other
as easily as though they had unlimited
room. Tbe canal is about fifteen tect
wide, and the towpath about six feet.
The driver of a boat going up the canal,
when he meets a boat comiug dowu,stops
bis mule or horse and lets bis tow line
lie on the ground. The driver of the
down coming canal boat walks his ani
mal right over the tow line of the other
boat, and then the two canal boats sail
gracefully—if there is any grace in a
canal boat—past one another.
The day that the canal is declared
open is a day of great rejoicing along tho
canal.
The many little stores that line the
towpath which have been closed up dur
ing the long winter months, as there is
only business during the canalling sea
son, start up again w ith the opening of
the canal, and nil is gladness.
For some distance after leaving Hobo
ken the canal runs through a level coun
try, and it is plain sailing for the boat
man, but ns the canal gets into Northern
Pennsylvania anil New York State the
country becomes mountainous, and it be
comes accessary every two hundred yards
or so to raise the boat some fifteen feet.
To do this locks are necessary, and it is
the locks that break the monotony of the
trip and make it enjoyable. A roofed
house covers each lock. This house has
at both ends a pair of swinging doors oi
shutters, which are opened and closed
by a lock keeper. When a caual boat is
going up stream the doors at the lower
end of the lock house are open. The
tow line is thrown off and the boat glides
into the house. The canal on the upper
side of the house is fifteen feet bigber
than where the boat lies, aud it is neces
sary to raise the boat to a higher level.
When once in the bouse the swinging
doors at the rear of the boat are tightly
closed, then the doors at the bow of the
boat arc opened and the water rushes in.
As there is no outlet for the water it
quickly rises, and carries the boat with
it. In five minutes the boat is floating
in water-fifteen feet higher than the
water it has left, the bow line is again
connected and the boat coutiuues on its
way to the next lock.
As the water is likely to overflow its
banks, tho company has caused to be
constructed outlets at regular distances,
from which the avatcr flows when it gets
too high for the canal. This water sc
let out from the canal runs down into
the valley and fertilizes the lowlands for
the benefit of the crops.
The canal boat forms the only habita
tion that tbe canal boatmen have. On
it, both in winter as well as in summer,
they reside with their families. The
canal boat reminds one of a bowl made
of lumber, a mere shell, which is hcllow
inside, and only fit to use for the pur
pose for which it is used, as a couveyauce
for coal aud other commodities. At the
stern of each boat, on the deck, is a lit
tle house, in which the boatman and his
family live. Where there are children
in tho family—and It is a rare thing to
find n boatman who has no children—
the father swings hammocks on the
deck, and in these the children sleep.
Tho house, which forms tho boatman’s
little home, consists of one room only, in
which everything, cooking, eating and
sleeping, are carried on. When the
weather is warm the family all sleep op
deck, but when it is cold they crowd to
gether in the little house. Many au
amusing scene is witnessed iu a trip along
the canal.
At Rondout the boat is loaded with
coal, lumber or some other commodity,
and is started down tbe canal. Each
day at five o’clock the locks arc closed
for the day. Thun each boatman must
bitch his horse up for the night, tie his
boat to the bauk of the canal, and his
hour for rest has arrived. Then there
are great times for the boatman aud his
family. Starting from his boat ho wan
ders along the canal towpath, visiting at
each boat until he has gone within walk
ing distance of his own boat, when he
turns about aud goes back.
Some of the boatmen aro musicians,
and it is on such a boat that tbe men and
their wives love to congregate, while
the little ones play on the shore. Dancing
is often indulged iu, and a merry evening
is spent. The single men go to the boats
where they will find attractive girls, and
lovemaking is often indulged iu. Some
times a wedding takes place, and then
there is fun. For miles uloug the canal
men desert their boats and walk along
the canal to the scene of tho festivities,
where they stay frequently, only arriving
at their own boats by five o’clock in the
morning, when the locks aro again
opened and business must be resumed.
A breathing space is given the boatmen
at noon time, when they are allowed to
hitch up for lunch.
One of the interesting features of the
boat is the decoratious at the beginning
of the season. Every boat has its flags
and bunting displayed, and as they go
up and down the canal they present a
brilliant picture of colors.
The scenery along the canal is varied
and interesting, and the care taken to
keep the canal and towpath in good or
der is pleasing to see.
The canal men arc, os a rule, good
natured and talkative. They will always
invite any one they meet on tho towpatli
to jump aboard, and will ride you as far
as you want to go. When their dinner
hour arrives, if you have traveled with
them, they will invite you to take “pot
luck,” and will he oflended if you de
cline. Formerly the boatmen owned all
the boats, but by degrees tbe company
has absorbed them, until now a boatman
who owns his own boat is rarity and a
man to be congratulated. To him the
company pays freight charges, while to
the others they only wages, and not
a great deal of that. There arc few ac
cidents along the canal, although once in
a while a horse, disgusted with the ine
quality between his lot and his master's,
will walk into tbe canal and commit
equine suicide.—JVew York Herald.
Tho term “Sunrise Kingdom” has been
applied to Japan, also to Corea, these
countries being the earliest, under the ar
bitrary division of dates, upon which tbe
sun is considered to rise.
A trausaustraliuu railroad is being
talked of iu the colony.
Colombo sent us 01,431 hundredweight
«f egeoauut oil in 18911.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Heating by electricity is promised.
Compressed air signals arc successful.
A petroleum bicycle makes forty-uin
miles an hour.
Wire-wound guns are the latest ac
quisition of the United States Navy.
It is said that at last a satisfactory arc
lamp for use on an incandescent circuit
has been designed.
The electrical underground railway in
London 1ms proved that a speed of
twenty-four miles au hour is practicable.
The electric arc is composed of a stream
of vapor arising from the actual boiling
or vaporization of the solid ends of the
separated conductors.
To secure uniformity in the painting
and varnishing of their passenger and
freighs ears some railroads employ ex
pert chemists to analyze the paints and
oils used.
A double hulled ship has been devised
by Captain Mcacou, of Chelsea, Mass.,
which is said to be absolutely unsinkable.
His plan bas received indorsement in the
highest quarters.
A new electric appliance is so con
structed that in railway train signalling
it is impossible to give a clear signal be
fore the delivery of orders intended for
the approaching train.
One of the two chimpanzees at the
Paris Jardin d’Acciimatution inoculated
with Koch's lymph died forty-eight
hours after the operation. The lungs of
the creature were sent to the Alfort
School of Medicine lo be carefully ex
amined.
At Mont-Dol, iu Brittany, already
well-known geologists ami paheontolog-
ists, the remains of about a hundred ele
phants liave been discovered, gathered
on a small surface of about 1900 square
metres. All the bones ate brc'ien, and
it is thought that the animals must have
been eaten by prehistoric men.
In response to inquiries as to how hard
rubber can be polished, the following in
structions are given: Use a felt lap
charged with the finest grade of pumice
stone mixed with enough lard oil to make
a thick paste. Run the lap at a high
speed, and of course, apply the rubber
to the side and not to the rim of the lap.
A device has been recently patented
in England for the purpose of removing
grease from gloves or fabrics. It is
called a benzine pencil, and consists of a
cylindrical body about tbe size of an
ordinary lead pencil, containing benzine.
At each end tliei ] is a thick piece ol
felt. One piece is intended to be
moistened by the benzine, while tho
other end ot the pencil is kept perfectly
dry to take up the superfluous moisture.
A number of experiments on the com
parative palatability of insects, etc., are
recorded in yature,\>y E. B. Ticheuerand
F. Finn. The insects experimented
upon—consisting of beetles, moths,bees,
etc.—were offered to domestic mice,
common toads, and a common mynah.
The results evinced considerable varia
bility aud some caprice iu the tastes of
tiic animals fed, but do not indicate that
their appetites were voracious for the
delicacies given them. The stronger
beetles were taken with some hesitation.
The mice declined to take bumble-bees;
the mynah ate wasps greedily; the loads
readily took wasps and bees, aud were
often stung, without seeming to pay
much attention to the accident. The
cockroach was eaten by the toads. The
mynah for a bug time refused, and only
took it, as well as the earth-worm, Anally,
in the dearth of our insects. A few
ceutipeds were given to the mice and thi
mynah, but were never eaten, though
the mice, in one ease, eagerly seized and
killed a large specimen.
One Good Turn Deserves Another.
“Help ycr on with ycr coat, sir?”
it.
“Thanks!”
A Lost River.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has lost a river, and inconsequence
has a bridge whose occupation is gone.
The Whitewater River has (lowed from
the Sierra Mudre Mountains across the
sands of the region just this side of Seven
Palms as long as anyone can remember.
The station of Whitewater was located
where the river crosses the railroad and
was supplied with water from its cur
rent.
During the last heavy rains the White-
water rose iu its might and devastated
the whole country round about, washing
out the bridge and the roadbed and play
ing tho mischief generally. Soon the
rains and the river stopped simultaneous
ly, and the river has not been found since.
It appeared to become asbaoied of itsell
for doing so much barm, and has appar
ently slunk away in disgust and sorrow.
It is entirely gone. At no" point does it
cross the railroad, as it would have to do
were still iu existence in some new
course. The railroad company, in order
to secure water for its station at White-
water, has been obliged to build a pipe
line way up to the mountains at consider
able expense.
AU lost summer, during the hottest,
driest weather, tho river ran placidly
along—in fact, it has never failed until
after its "jag” of this winter. Now it
forms one of the mysteries of that region,
the Colorado River desert, and perhaps
is flowing by tho Pegleg mine, and pos
sibly rippling besido the treasure-laden
Spanish galleon, which lies somewhere
in that region, buried in sand.—Lot
Angela (Cal.) Herald.
Flax is extensively cultivatid iu Now
York State for its seed.
It Is curiously noted that girls wno
work in candy factories lose their taste
for sweetmeats after the first week.
The present output of white lead Tn
the United States is estimated at 70,000
tons.
During 1890 Colorado mines produced
$29,881,331.
A PlftnslBg Sense
Of health and strength renewed and of ease
and comfort follows tho use of Syrup of Fi^s,
us it ads in harmony with nature to effectual-
1} cleanse tho system when postive or bilious.
For sale In 50c. and fl bottles by all leadini;
druggists.
nare oeeii playing naroc with
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A mau who hoa practiced medicine for 40
yours ought to know salt from sugar; read
what he says:
Toledo, O., January 10,1887.
Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.—Gentlemen: 1
have been in the general practice of medicine
for most 40 years, aud would say that iu all my
practice and experience have never seen a
preparation that I could prescribe with as
much confidence of success as 1 can Hall’s Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have pre
scribed it a great many times and its effect is
wonderful, and would say in conclusion that I
have yet to find a case of catarrh that it would
not cure, if they would take it according to di
rections.
Yours truly,
L. L. uoitsucH, M. I).,
Office, Jil5 Summit St.
We will give $100 for any case of catarrh
that cannot he cured with Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. Taken internally
F..?. Cheney «fc Co., Props., Toledo, O.»
Sold by Druggists. <5c.
To change tbe name and not the letter is
hnngo for worse and not for butter.
Ladies needing a tonic, or children who
want building up, should take Brown’s Iron
Bitters, it is pleasant to take, cures Malaria,
Indigestion,Biliousness aud Liver Complaints,
makes tho Blood rich and pure.
Bridle tho appetite with reason and save
lie stomach.
Peusonal—Khek—To all persons who are
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He deserves not the sweet who will not
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Baachatn’s Pills cur' Sick-Headache.
Talk's cheap, but when it’a
backed up by a pledge of the
hard cash of a financially re
sponsible firm, or company, of
world-wide reputation for fair
and honorable dealing, it
means business l
Now, there are scores of
sarsaparillas and other blood-
purifiers, all cracked up to be
the best, purest, most peculiar
and wonderful, but bear in
mind (for your own sake),
there’s only one guaranteed
blood-purifier and remedy for
torpid liver and all diseases
that come from bad blood.
That one—Etnnding solitary
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Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med
ical Discovery.
If it don't do good in skin,
scalp and scrofulous diseases
—and pulmonary consumption
is only lung-scrofula - jusi: let
its makers know and “a: your
money back.
Talk’s cheap, but to back a
poor medicine, or a common
one, by selling it tv, trial, as
“Golden Medical Discovery"
is sold, would bankrupt the
largest fortune.
Talk’s cher-p, but only “ Dis
covery ’’ is guaranteed.
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There is a gentle-
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The August Flower, however, re
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ever I am, I take one or two tea-
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