Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Said te nirV Been the riret Barber—Beard* Zlav. Baen Cnoimnn During the Blutoiy'of Barlleet llace.—Some Remark*. 2 . * To rn* Editoii- <'au you teU a* when *hav* InKcame iuto faaliiim, alw. aumethiuc ot I hr bl.tory of lieanUf UltoWN AMD pottles. . This question Is apropos. At this period, when the Nineteenth century is coming to the end of the division, the Km has been put out in the box and old father time has reversed thy wheels and myself and with mV neighbors, too, has been that it Is somewhat difficult to cure them. The pea vine cures slowly and being heavy lies close to the ground, and if the weather is either wet or cloudy, they are apt to mould or rot before they can be suf ficiently cured to store away. The plan which I propose to recom mend I p roc tired from the columns of the Democral and tried it myself last summer and which I tried so suc cessfully, 1 desire to endorse most heartily, so that every farmer who has pea vine hay to cut need not be afraid to try it, if they have any con fidence iu my endorsement ‘TIere is the plan: Out your pea vines and let them lie for two days at least, and prepare stakes or poles at least eight feet long, shape one end so it will drive into the ground and load np in a wagon with 2 body on, and drive the wagon along the field where tie stages are to be driven and with mauls; or sledge hammers, drive them down sufficiently deep to support a stack of vines about four or five feet broad. The stack your vines around the stake, being careful to round each stack nicely at the top so it will turn rain and let stack re main one, two or three weeks as your convenience and weather will allow, and then haul up and put in your barn; and I will assure you your vines will be well cured and sweet and nonrishing—the sweetest forage yon ever saw.—S. W. Reid, in Charlotte Democrat k Religious Courtship. A young gentleman happened to lit at church in a pew adjoining one in which sat a young lady for whom he conceived a sudden and violent passion, was desirous of entering in to a courtship on the spot, but the place not suiting a formal declaration the exigency of the case suggested the following plan: He politely hand ed his fair neighbor a Bible open with a pin stuck in the following text—2d Epistle of John, 15th verse: “And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new command ment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginii g, that we love one an other.” She returned it, pointing to the 2d chapter of Ruth, 10th verse: “Then »he fell on her face and bowed herself to ■ the ground, and said unto him, why. have I found grace in thine eyes, that than shouldst take knowledge of me, seeing that I am a stranger I” He returned the book, pointing to the 12th verse of the 3d epistle of John: “Having many things to write un to you, I would not write with paper and ink, but I trust to come unto you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.” From the above interview a mar riage took place the ensuing week. KPip.*. A good deal has been written In vari ous quarters with regard to the little Elizabethan pipes in' which the late Charlee Keene took such great delight 1 cannot help thinking that the persist ent smoking of these pipes most have dene no little injury to hU health. The pipe* were so short, they became so charged with nicotine and he *o persist ently smoked them at every opportunity that I cannot help thinking he most have absorbed a large amount of poison into his system. No one, nnlew he had smoked one of Keene’s pipes, could have the leaet idea of its strength. 1 remember trying one at his studio one evening, and thongh a pretty tongh tobboconalian 1 shall never forget bow my head was affected and all the pains 1 endured in consequence. 1 had all the symptoms of suffering from the effects of a powerful narcotic poison.—London Graphic. A* Anpa*»«t -lMp*«*lbllltr. The phrase “squaring the circle” ia an other way at laying “attempting an im possibility." The allualoB ia to the mathematical question whether a circle can be made which contains exactly the same area aa a square, and the difficulty is to find the precise ratio between the diameter and the circumference of a circle. Popularly it ia IMM, etc., bat the numbers would go bn to infinity. This problem has given rise to an amount of labor only equaled by that bestowed upon the equally impossible one of dis covering perpetual motion.—Brooklyn Jones or both, should arise and put this nnestion. It is a fin do siecle question. The first instance of shavingoriginated from the necessities of war. in the late autumn of the year GOO 0. C., the Mace donians got their crops in early, and after the celebration of the harvest home things got pretty uninteresting in Mace donia. It was too cold to lish and too warm to skate, and the prospect for the Macedonian on pleasure bent when he fired up the baseburner and reflected that skates hadn’t been invented yet was uot a happy one. Things continued to drag on until Thanksgiving time, t)>)0 13. C., when the Macedonians got together, sailed down on the Greeks and did them battle. The Greeks got the worst of it, and for no other reason than that they sported long, flowing beards. The marauding Mace donians grabbed these Grecian orna ments and yanked the poor Greek forty ways for Sunday, leaving him a howl ing mass' on the ground, it was this incident that probably gave rise to the couplet: When Greek meets Macedonian Then comes the tug of heard. An old veteran by the name of Alex ander saw at once the weak point of the Grecian forces and he called in a loud voice, •Off with every tieard!” That settfed it. The next day a committee called on the army with a ripsaw ami a bucket of salve and amputated every beard in sight. This is an account of the first shave known to history. The rec ord of the first harboring is a frontlet of curls made for a princess in the east 8,000 years ago, now in the Uritish mu seum. Homer has the first reference to the razor in the Eighth century, C. C. He says, with some feeling: Dralli or lifo hIhihIh on a razor’H eri^e. After the rape of the beards of the Grecian army shaving became popular with some, hut uot until a much later day. and when Greece had started down the toboggan slide of adversity, did it become general. In fact it is a well known fact among historians that the fashion of smooth faces among the men has marked the effeminacy, weakness and final downfall of all nations. The Homans were always partial to beards until the Roman empire liecame too big for its clothes and acquired a swagger, when Hadrian set the example of a smooth chin in IG1 A. D. and gave the Roman barbers a boom. The first men tion of barbers is by Pliny. Somewhere along about a'J8 13. C. Scipin Africiuius took a jaunt to Sicily and there saw some barbers. They pleased him. and he bronght 200 back to Rome and had bis beard taken off. Scipio was a good deal of a Ward Mc Allister in his day, and the Roman swells rapidly followed suit. After that it got to be a common sight in Rome for a row of men to sit until 13 o’clock Sat urday night and listen for “Next!" But this was only among the Four Hundred. The bone and sinew of the Homan re public swore by tbeir beards. All through the orient short bair and beard less chins have always meant a condi tion of mourning ami servitude. A long beard was priceless, and the Mohum medans still swear by their lieurds. The prophet Ezekiel, as early as 585 B. C., was directed to take a barber's razor upon bis head and upon ins beard in sign of the ruin to come ui>ou Israel. The men wore set free, but were ashamed to go to David with any of their beard gone. He fonud them, how ever, and sent them on a vacation to let their beards 'trow out An old Greek, known among bis friends as Zoilius. who lived in 000 B. C.. anil was dropped off a precipice for criticising Homer, had a very long beard, and so solicitous waa he that long hair on his head might detract from the strength of the beard that he kept his noddle clean shaven. After Thomas More had taken leave of his daughter at the foot of the scaffold, in 1585. his chief anxiety was that the beadsman might injure his beard. The finest beard on record belonged to Gillaume the priest, bishop of Clermont, who founded the college for Jesuits at Paris late in the Eighteenth century. This beard waa long, wavy und*soft as silk. Bat his beard was bis downfall. His brother bishops became jealous of it, and decided that it mast come off. This was decreed at a secret conncil, and the next morning when the priest entered the chapel three men met him with soap, hot water, a razor and shears and laid hold of him. He bloke away, skedaddled and took refuge iu a castle, where he died of vexation. The only exceptions where beards have not been considered as advanta geous appurtenances were among the Germans, tbe Egyptians and iu the early colonial days among the Puritans. The ancient German youth was not allowed to shave aut’l he had slain an enemy in battle, and among the New England Puritans long beards were sometimes forcibly reaped, because the idea pre vailed that pride lurked behind a vener able beard. It was uot until the begin ning of tho present century that the long beard went entirely out of fashion. Since then smooth faces have been on the increase, and any person who will take tho trouble to notice the men who pass a given point for an hour on any of the busy streets of Chicago will see bnt a very few long beards. It is not im- ^ 1)16 that in another century, if the is continually cropped, the long beard will no longer grow and will be come a thing of history and story books. —Chicago Inter Ocean. There is a man in Montezuma, Ga. who has had his arm dislocated at the shoulder thirty-eight times and his leg dislocated at the hip eight times. • * j v • •• Major flltchaock'a Story oigt tCloae Call. “I was ence Aentenced '^o, be blown- from said Major, John Hitch cock.. n Ihari long Yjeen a resident of that laid of revolutions, Central Amer ica. During one of the semiauuud po litical upheavals I was captured by a savage mob known aa' the army of San Salvador and sentenced to death. In the camp of my captors a 0-pound gun was-fired at high noon by means of a sunglass, and to the tunzzle of this an- ' liquated smoothbore I was strapped and left in the broiling sun to await my fate. Now, 1 have "faced several kinds of death in my day, but that knocked all the nerve ont of me. I could not see the small, fieir spot made by the sunglass, but} knonrlhat.it'v gslowlyluR^yiethe, e vbnt. -HnfsgmM f cotifabear the powder hissing with the heat The blazing sun beat down npon my bare bead, blinding me and seeming to boil the blood in my veins. 1 became hys terical and prayed and enrsed by torn. “The great clock in the cathedral was on the stroke of noon, and 1 knew that the concentrated rays of the sun were pouring squarely npon the powder. The troops were dozing in the shade. A few, awakened by the bell, raised up on their elbows and watched me with lazy inter est, expecting every moment to see me blown to shreds. One—two—three- four—five—with maddening delibera tion came the strokes of the bell, when suddenly a harsher note was heard—the roar <jf musketry. The camp was sur prised. and my captors driven were back. The cords were cut, and 1 sat down be neath the muzzle of the gnu just as it belched forth its midday salute.”—St Louis Globe-Democrat An American Abroad. Many Americans abroad are exceed ingly annoyed at their lack of skill in the use of the European languages. After a vain attempt touiake a Parisian waiter understand French they swear at him in English. But 1 haw always re membered when traveling abroad the art of the physician who put all the re mains of old prescriptions into one bot tle—the oil and the calomel and the rbnbarb and the usafetida—and when he found a patient with a “complication nf diseases” he would shake up his old bottle and give him a dose. And so 1 have compounded a language for Eu ropean travel. 1 generally take a little French and a little German and a little English, with a few snatches of Chinese and Choctaw, and when 1 find a stub born case of waiter or landlord that will not understand 1 simply shake np all the dialects and give hit 1 a dose. It is sure to strike somewhere. If you cannot make him under, taud. you at any rate give him a terrible scare. 1 never had the anxiety of some in n strange land getting things to eat. 1 like everything iu all the round of diet except animated cheese and odorous codfish; always have a go,si appetite; never iu my life missed a meal save once, when 1 could not get any. and knowing that “eine gcrostote riendlleisch schicbe” means a beefsteak, “eine ines- ser” a knife, and “eine gabel" a fork, and “eine serviette" a napkin, after that feel perfectly reckless as to what 1 can or cannot get.—Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage in Ladies' Home Journal. Hard Work. How many men like hard work? Many of us are ready enough to tax our minds or our muscles to the utmost for a cer tain object, bnt it is tho object wo love, not the labor, if we could obtain the end we covet without exertion, which of ns would toil and sweat as a matter of choice? Horace Greeley, who was one of the hardest workers of his day and generation, used to say that uiuo-tenths of those who profess to be enamored of work are mere hypocrite! Adam himself was an indolent fellow. Had it been otherwise the cultivation of the soil would not have been imposed upon him as a penalty for his disobedi ence. He was quite taken back when told that he must live by the sweat of his face. He would have preferred the life of a gentleman of leisure, and most of his descendants take after him in that particular. Nevertheless wo toil with an energy and perseverance that do honor to our—shall we say to our greed? But mark our cunning. All the time we are inventing labor saving machin ery, manufacturing dumb slaves to do our bidding, while we look on and ad mire their energy.—Pomona Progress. Medicul Knowledge In Novelo. Wilkie Collins made a specialty of his medical knowledge, and it was upon this account that he was induced to un dertake an antivivisectiou novel, which he published under the name of “Heart and Science.” The work was equally unsatisfactory both to the iiersous who inspired it and to the general pnblic. Wilkie Collins' effort in this direction was a complete failure, and his medical men and his wonderful drugs could never have existed outside of his own imagination. In Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities,” where Sydney Carton substitutes him self for the condemned Evremonde, we have premonitions of the chloroform which was to he discovered fifty years later—the chloroform of popular imagi nation, however, and by no means the CHCI of the “Pharmacopoeia."—British Medical Journal. Rabies have been obtained up to the present time from the old beds of 1 streams, having been washed ont of the rocks originally by tha water. Brier Bool. Brier root, of which pipes are made, comes from the root of a kind of shrnb that was formerly dng in great quan tities in the south of France, bnt now It comes mostly from Spain, Italy and Algiers. In the mountain forests the roots are sometimes fonnd bigger than a man's body. Instead of digging them ont after the old fashion they are torn np nowadays with explosives.—Wash ington Star. By adopting the basic process of mak ing steel castings there is less phosphor- ons in the metal than when the acid process is nsed, and the results are said to be most satisfactory. English and American Gam**. A careful examination of the cata logues of English deui«4» in game* shows that the popular ga lies in Eng land ore in every way identical with those in the United Staten, and not a single game could be found in any of them that is not well known and cur rent in this country, SMB [RECOILED, BUT DIDN’T KICK. * ' —————— ■_ Barnla Conduct of a Tall, Graceful Girl at til* Supreme Test of Lot*. Two tall, gracefnl girls strolled slow ly along the beach earnestly conversing. They were conspicuous in the throng, and many an admiring glance was turned toward them as they sauntered to and fro. A cloudless sky was reflect ed iu calm waters below, while scarcely a breath of air was stirring. The girl in the pure White blazer was doing most of the talking. “it is all very well,'' she was sayingi, “to insist, that yon would die for tho man yon love, but tbe sacrifice is quite another thing.” ... ; . The gid with the Mue yachting Jgn 'You speak," she observed, “like one who had made the sacrifice.” “I have the right so to speak." Affecting recollections poured tumul tuously over tbe soul of the girl in tho white blazer. Her lips trembled and the superb eyes lient npon the sand of the beach glistened with the dew of gathering tears. The girl in the bine cap smiled hanght- ily. “indeed," she sarcastically retorted, "how very interesting! And how docs it feel to actually die for the man you love?” Reproachfully the girl in the white blazer directed her gaze upon the girl with the blue yachting cap. “You shall not mako light of it” “Forgive me." For n time they walked in silence. Both were deeply affected, the one filled with remembrances of the past; the other her resentment gone, with wo manly sympathy. “Tell me about it, Ethel." Tlie girl in the blue yatehing cap was tenderly jiersuasive. “It was worse than dying for him. Clara.” With a quick movement the tears were dashed from the superb eyes, and the girl with the white blazer faced her companion. “It was at Easter, Clara. Yon re member the dear, bright fellow 1 was engaged to then. One evening but a short while before he said he did not believe I bore him the deep love I should. I challenged him to name a sacrifice I would uot make for bis sake. Wi:h an insight into feminine character which was Mephist«pheliaii in its subtlety, he dared me to do that which causes every woman's heart to recoil with horror. But 1 did it.” They had paused in their walk, and were looking at each other fixedly. “Ethel 1” “Yes, Clara, 1 did it I went to cliurch that Easter morning, sat in the very front seat, and I never looked around during tho service.” The girl in the blue yachting caji drew a deep, tremulous breath. “Ethel!” “Yes, Clara." “Yon are a sublime heroine. Can yon forget my hasty words?" “I can. Clara.” And the .ittle wavelets lapped the snowy beach with drowsy sound, while all the throng gazed in admiration at the graceful girls.—Detroit Tribune. Did Ike Ancient Jcwm Pluy Ball? Herod tho Groat was the first Jewish king who imported into his realm Roman modes of “society life." His theaters and arenas, after tbe Roman style, were not to the national taste in amusements, despite the fact that tho former were, so to say, silently patron ized by the Talmud in the saying, “Lot ns be grateful to the Romans for their establishment of theaters, as they keep the pnblic from mischief, Which Satan finds for idle folks.” Thu arenas were. not patronized on account of the in human performances given there. The favorite Jewish national game at that time was the kadur, or ball. Whether it was played as a sort of lawn tenuis or us national baseball is not recorded. That the game was not allowed by some rabbis to be played on the Sabbath i.; a proof that tho game re quired skill and lalior. That the game waa patronized by tho Talmud we infer from its uot being included among those against which the Tulmnd opened a crusade, condemning them as “gambling games.”—Boston Transcript Tlie Tlmndercr’s Suicide Dey. A young Philadelphian, who has been employed on the staff of more than one newspaper in this city, wont abroad and secured a position as reporter for the London Times. When he was deemed sufficiently broken in be was sent o- one evening to write np the story of s rich and beautiful girl who had taken chloroform because her lover failed to appear at the altar when due. The young Philadelphian raced nim bly about, gathering varions particu lars and hurried back to the office in s cab, after getting his copy into shape. Not far from midnight he sped np the stairs to the local room and turned in his copy with apologies for bis unavoid able lateness. “It doesn't matter," said one of the editors calmly; “this is Monday, yon know, and we print suicides only on Saturdays."—Philadelphia Press. UncouftclouM Comment* Mr. C. was particularly deliberate in the matter of invoking the divine bless ing upon the family meals, and when the repast was unusually good this was a trying ordeal to the three yonng sons On one occasion there were strangers— and chicken—at dinner, and this func tion was longer than ever. At its con- clnsion tbe three-year-old son drew a long breath, and fervently bnt audibly remarked, “That’s a good job done."— New York Tribune. Always Right Thar*. The man who says the weather is too hot to dance at the summer hotel com promises by wearing a polka dot neck tie and standing in the ballroom win dow to keep as much air as he can away from the dancers.—New Orleans Pica yune. The Author of an Old Campaign Song. There is satisfactory evidence that the words of “Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too,” were writteq by A. C. Ross, of Zanes ville, O. This was the original song. The words then comprised only a com paratively few verses. The song was •uch a success that additions were made to them in all direction. Here is an instance in point. The Whigs unexpect edly carried the state of Maine, electing Edward Kent by a very small margin for governor. Tins verse immediately appeared: Hare yon beard from Maine, Maine, Maine, good news and true? it went, hell bent, for Governor Kent, and Tippecanoe and Tyler too. And with them we’ll beat little Van, Van, Van. < Ob, Van is a “used np man," etc. As regards the music, it was adapted from a familiar air of the times, which had the not very attractive name of “Little Pig's Tail.” Henry Russell was an Englishman, and at that period was the most popular concert singer in this country. He was a composer, bnt he did not compose this tnne, and pro’-ably would not have been very proud if ho had been credited with its authorship. It is altogether likely that the Whigs engaged him to sing it in Boston, as ho told onr correspondent that he did sing it as he stood in a window near the cor ner of Washington and Milk streets. Mr. Rnssell must be a gentleman well advanced in years by this time. It is a great many years since he ceased to sing in public in this country. It may be in teresting to know that he is the father of W. Clark Russell, the popular writer of nautical novels.—Boston Herald. Coins of Value. “Some pennies are worth a good deal of money,” said a dealer in coins. “If you come across an old collection of copper cents in an out of the way comer you will do well to examine their dates carefully. From the point of view of the numismatist their value depends largely upon their condition. For ex ample, for a cent of 1799 in a fair state of preservation we pay five dollars, but for a specimen of the same issue in first rate condition we would pay from ten to twenty-five dollars, and for a perfect cent of 1799—that is, as bright and sharp as the day it was coined—we will pay ♦100. “Do not attempt to clean coins that are in fine condition. They should be held only by the edges in handling them, and ought to be kept wrapped carefully in chamois skin or soft tissue paper or laid on velvet. Gold and silver coins may be rinsed, not washed, in hot water and soap. Copper coins should be placed in sweat oil only to remove grease and dirt Acids and sconring will ruin any coin of worth. Age does not necessarily make value in coins. The old Spanish silver pieces current in this country from-1700 to 1800 are worth no (Oum rlM^*j, and to restrict as faros p6*ai- ,'and'tlie sameIs the case Me bis intercourse with h' 'BROTHERLY LOVE. Tha Tandar Davotlon of * Colored Man for * Sick -'liter. Nothing moves the heart of the lov ing sister of undemo: .strative brothers so much as the unex oected exhibition of brotherly love, say j a writer in tho Housekeeper. Many a sister, whose , brothers are all that > he could ask for, In manliness, couragt and purity, would be almost glad to exc range places, for a little while, with tl e sister in the fol lowing account, who: e brother not onfy loved her, but was wi iling that all the world should know a id feel that love. A noble case of hr >therly love came under my .observatic u recently, while in one of the great g cenhouses of the city. A little, middli -aged negro, with a face like ebony, w -» overseeing the making of a large b luquet, which the young lady in attend: nee was skillfully constructing of whit: carnations, dai sies, etc. “Now, put some ro es in,” he said. “The roses aremuc 1 more expensive,” remarked the clerk. “It does not matte • about the cost; she always liked rose i,” said the little man, and going to t he cold closet he selected Jacqueminr t, Marcchkl Kiel and Niphetos buds, with a reckless dis regard of cost. The 1, following me to the door as I was leai ing, he spoke lov ingly of the flowers t hat they could get in the south, everywl ere, without pay ing for them; of how the flowers grew in their yard, and hoi / he used to see his sister out every r lorning handling and looking them o -er. “But she is down with the typhoi 1 fever now, and I am on the railway, and every time I come to the city the £ i-st thing she says is: ‘O, bring me son. a flowers!’ ” And two great cr> stal teai 3 looked over the rims of the little man' i eyes, and a great white soul, full of bn therly love, shone out through the bUok face, and my heart cried out: “Oh happy sister, to have such a brother!” PRISON DISCIPLINE. More Need of Rigor * :d Leu of Fllmij Sentlmen atttjr* If we cannot help t xe honest worker, at least we can stop ] •etting and pam pering the detected confidence man, the thug of the dives and the enterpris ing bnt unsuccessful burglar, says a writer in Lippincott’ 1 Magazine. The Howard association : ppcars to hit the nail on the head in 1 rging “the neces sity of rendering the rratmentof crim inals less attractive” than that of the law-abiding and indi strious poor. He who lives by honest : oil should not be tempted to envy tho scalawag who preys on the community. When the scalawag is caught, w hat we have to do with him—If his offen :e is not legally a matter for the noose- is to keep him alive, safe and at wo 'k, to teach him something useful it w 1 can (not neces sarily Bhakwpeare 1 nd the mjisical than tbeir face,' with cents of 1798, 1803 and 1808, a* well as with half dollars of dates between 1803 and 1885.”—Washington Star. An Old Question Asked Anew. The old question has been lately asked anew. Why fill the infant mind with ; images of cruelty and horror? Why! suggest to innocence the dreadful vision of ogres fattening captives like sheep for their table? Why torture it with that appalling cabalistic bloody invoca- his kind, es pecially separating 1 im, while young, from those who wouh be his instructors in crime. It is not e: sential, nor even desirable, that he she aid enjoy his con finement; it ought ne /er to be forgoten for a moment that he is there for pun ishment, that he is di ferentiated by his own act from honest 1 nd decent people. Short of inhumanity 1 e can and ought to be made to feel th; t the way of tho transgressor is hard; that honesty, or what the law recogn:zes as such, is the tion. Fee, faw, fuiu? Why permit the ' best policy. When t bles are turned, hoary mnrderer Blue Beard to terrify when the knave boco nes distinctly an tho young before in historical 'sequence unprivileged person, he may find oc- they rea/.n Henry VIII, in no exten- nating page of Fronde, bnt as the grisly murderer and defender of the faith of the older annals? And why per plex the callow pilgrim scarcely em barked on the journey of life, which the reverend and the wise describe as a moral warfare, by the rhyme which de clares the greedy thief of a plum from the copious pudding a good boy? Why is a glutton who triumphs in his gluttony to be commended in honeyed measure as good, while nothing is said in praise—nay, he is not even mentioned —of the virtue of the unnamed com rade, who was undoubtedly present and who restrained his desire to pull out plums, and who, so far as posterity knows, not only had no plum, bat also forbore tho sauce?—George William Curtis in Harper’s. casion to mend his ws ys. THE ACTION OF DUST. How It I* Forced Into House* When tho Weather Indie itor Hlse*. When the air aronm 1 us becomes con densed—shrinks into* smaller volume— it becomes heavier, j uts greater pres sure on the surface of the mercury and makes it ascend in t ae tube; then the mercury Is said to ri: e. When the air expands—swells into 1 larger volume— it becomes lighter, ti e pressure on the mercury sinks in the tube and the bar ometer is said to fall. Therefore, every change of height ol the quicksilver which we observe is a sign and measure of a change in the vol <ime of air around ns. Further, adds th 3 Popular Science Monthly, this change in volume tells no less upon the air im ide our cases and cupboards. When the barometer falls- the air around it exp;, nds into a larger volume, and the air in side the cupboard also expands and fo ces itself out at every minute crevice. When the bar- Rallraad Speed and Obstructions. Two years ago a cow was seen in the middle of the Monon tracks in front of a train. The engineer tried to stop, and tho result was the locomotive was de- j ometer rises *Sraln He air inside the railed and the engineer killed. A few ! cupboard, as well as < utside, condenses months ago the writer was riding on an shrinks, and air i. forced back into engine on tbe Chicago division of the the cu P board to equa ize the pressure, Pennsylvania, and a herd of cattle got an< L along with the ai , In goes the dust, on the track. The train was running The smaller the crevice the stronger the almost forty miles an hour, bnt when the engineer saw them he “threw her wide open,” and went into them at full seventy-five miles an hour. No damage was done except to “mass up” the engine extensively. The engine man was asked why he had thrown on the extra speed. His reply waa that bad he been running slow it was eight chances to ten that he would have left the track.—Indianapolis News. jet of air, the farth >r goes the dirt. Witness the dirt track 3 so often seen In imperfectly framed engravings and photographs. Remember, ladies and gentlemen, whenever you see the bar ometer rising, that an additional charge of dust is entering yo ir cupboards and drawers. Lynch Law Ai long Hats. In the neighborhoo 1 of Burley the other day, says the I eeds (Eng.) Post, a gentleman looking < ver a wall saw a dead hen in the field. Presently a rat ran up, snuffed at t be defunct fowl HU KxcuBe. Patient—Great Scott, doctor, that’s a frightful bill you've presented. Doctor (with dignity)—Not so large, sir, when you come to think that it is my first case and 1 had to study up on half a library full of authoritit*.—De troit Fre* Press. • Standing Bear. A book could bo written about Stand ing Bear. Properly speaking he is not a : with much sutisfactio 1 and went away Sidux, but a Northern Cheyenne. With in some haste. The < nlooker, who is a Crtzy Horse, Hunting Hog and old student of natural hi tory, knew what Chief Gall he lias been at the head of th*t meant, and rem< ved the hen from nearly all the notable Indian wars for the spot. In a minute o -two the rat came twenty years. He routed the Pawnees i back with half a doze.i friends, with the and once killed ten white men iu a lone- ' evident intention of 1 amoving the car- some canyon single handed. On another ca8s tor future use. Arriving at the occasion he defied and defeated alone B P°t where the fowl bad lain, the rat thirty cavalrymen. It was Standing raised a loud squeak cf astonishment at! Bear who under Sitting Bull routed the lta absence- In a trie i the other raU tJlifted States forces when Custer died fen u P° n him 80 ****< dy that they left on 'the Little Big Horn.—San Francisco him dead on the fleld 18 a warning not News-Letter. to play practical Joke.' with hi* friends. Revenge of Iltsej minted Rats. In tho neighborho si of Burley the other day a gentlcma a, looking over a wall, saw a dead ben in the field. Presently a rat ran up, sniffed at the defunct fowl with 1 mch satisfaction and went away in some haste. The on- | looker, who is a student of natural his tory, knew what tha t meant, and re moved the hen from the spot In a minute or two the rat come back with half a dozen friends, with the evident intention of removing the caraMS for future use. Arrived i t the spot where the fowl had laid, the rat raised a loud squeak of astonishmt ut at its aheence. In a tjiee the other r ts fell upon him ■o savagely that they left him dead on the field as a warning not to play practical jokes with his friends--Leeds (Eng.) Evening Post»% A Plain Statement. A Hartford girl called on a physician recently who is as plain in his speech as his patient is in respect to her face. He tried to cheer her; her ailment being only a trifling matter, he said. “Oh, doctor,” site groaned, “1 feel worse than 1 look.” Then, my dear young lady. - there is no hope for you,” replied the doctor.—Philadelphia Ledger. American Tipi Too Large. Frenchman—Vat you gif zat.wataire? American—I gave tho wa 1 * *■ half a dollar. Frenchman—Mon dieul Zat ees not von teep; zat ees von bribe.—New York Weekly. THE STRANGER’S CALL. An Incident That interested the Miner* at llomeslfk Diggings. There were about two hundred men of us at Homesick Diggings, and it was the hour of noon on a summer's day when big Jim Davis came over the hill with his pack on his back and staked out a claim. He came alone, and that was why we noticed him so particularly. He seemed to fight shy of us for three or four days, and that is why we won dered if he was all right. Big Jim had got a squint at the face of every man in camp before he thawed out and became social. In a little time we found him to be a good fellow, and so we gradual ly came to forget our first suspicions. We were still agreed, however, that •there waa something queer sbout him. .He appeared anxious and perturbed whenever a new arrival was announced, ;and if a party of half a dozen came along, Jim would go into hiding until pie had sized them up. It was as if he ■suspected some one was trailing him ■down. There were all sorts of men in tha ■mining camps in those days, and it was 'the rule to mind your own business. 1 As long as a miner obeyed the rules and, 'regulations laid down for the govern* ,ment of a camp he was looked upon as all right What he had been in the past 'was nothing even to his tentmate. -, There was a big shanty in the center of our village which was occupied as a store, saloon, bank and general rendez vous after working, hours. I was in there one afternoon just before the) miners knocked off work, when si stranger quietly entered. He had come! by the trail and alone, but ho one had 'noticed him. He was a slim, light weight man, and though clothed in trough garb you could sec at once thaij 'he was not a miner. He was sunburned! and nnkempt, but that was to be ex - , peoted out then*. He was talking with 1 the stoorkeeper as I entered—asking [after just suon a man as Big Jim Davis. [His face struck me pleasantly enough, [but there was a something in his gray |eyes to remind you of a wounded beast, and a something in his voice to satisfy [you that he would be a pitiless enemy. 1 He went out before I did. Where he kept himself for the next hour I never learned. The boys had knocked off, •washed up and eaten supper, and about twenty of us had lounged into the store for a smoke and a talk, when the little man suddenly show xl up. This, mind •you, was three months after Big Jim’s [coming. Jim sat on a box facing the ■door, which was open. I happened to,, Ibe looking at him, and I suddenly saw [ .his face grow pale and his jaw drop. I looked over to the door and there stood the stranger. He had a leering sort of smile on his face, and was look ing only at Big Jim. In ten seconds all conversation had ceased. We instinct ively felt that the two were enemies, and that the little man had finally ■ trailed Big Jim down. It was fully two minutes before the etranger moved or spoke. Then he stepped forward until close to Big Jim and said: “It has been over two years, but I’vi •run you down at last!” 1 Davis looked at him as one who sees * specter, but made no reply. “You have skulked and doilged like a coward!” continued the little man in the same quiet voipe, “but you’ll be a man now, of course. The boys will see fair play. Shall it be pistol or knife?” If Big Jim’s eyes hadn't been wide open we might have thought him a dead man. You never saw terror more plainly written on a human face. “It’s a little affair of our own, gentle men, explained the stranger, as he turned to us. ‘Tve traveled thousands of miles while looking for Big Jim. I've been hunting him down, to kill or be .killed. This world Isn’t big enough for both of us. Arrange the details to suit the crowd.” Not one of us had spoken. Just as the stranger finished Big Jim recovered from his stupor and made a move for his pistol. Like a flash of lightning the little man had him covered, and then he laughed a harsh, dry laugh and said> “I ought to shoot you down like a dog, but I’ll give you a show. Come out doors. Shall it be this or that knife?” Big Jim turned white again and re lapsed into bis former state of dumb ness The stranger surveyed him in dis gust and contempt, and by and by turned to us and said: “Back in the states this white-livered coward betrayed my confidence and wrecked my home and my life. Even his dead body would disgrace your diggings. Come, Jim!” He stepped back and beckoned to Davis, who slowly followed, staring like one who wa Iks In his sleep. The little man backed to tbe door—out of it into tbe moonlight, and then started up the trail. Davis foil owed like a dog, never looking to the right or to the left—mak ing not the slightest move to draw his weapon. It was as if he had been mes merized. Something of that same feel ing was upon all the rest of us, for wo stood at the door, speechless and amazed, and looked after the pair until they were out of sight • It was like a dream, and men rubbed their eyes as if heavy with sleep. Up the hill—around the great black rock—past the tree on which we hung Taylor for murder, and then they w<re out of sight The stranger we never saw again. A month later a prospector found Big Jim's skeleton in a ravins two miles away.—N. Y. Sun. Fashionable Shoes. With the exception of a few fine jet ornaments or a small buckle of Irish brilliants, all fancy decorations on dress shoes and slippers have nearly disap- appeared. Fine soft shoes of undressed kid, most easy and delightful to wear, are shown in many new shades to match the costume. The dove-gray and pale- tan models find the largest sale. These tinted kid shoes do very well for a change or to complete a suit of one color entire, but for real elegance and neat and refined appearance there is no foot covering that can compare with a perfect-fitting shoe of fine black French kid. It suits all styles of dress, all oc casions, and makes the foot look trim mer and much smaller than a shoo of any other description.—N. Y. I’osL A SPRING IN A WATCH AN IMPORTANT BIT OF STEEL THAT FREQUENTLY BREAKS. Watchmakers Say That Sudden Changes of Weather Are Dangerone to These Uncertain Pieces of Mechanism—Main springs In Expensive Watches. “Mainsprings are very much like peo ple,” said a Broadway watchmaker the other day. ‘ They are as susceptible to extreme degrees of heat and cold as human beings. When the thermometer is hovering around the freezing point or dancing away up in the nineties the lit tle mainspring will give up in disgust and uncoil itself and die, just as men succumb to freezing or sunstroke.” This uncertain piece of mechanism is supposed to be adjusted to meet the various degrees of temperature, but when the change is very great and comes with short notice there is nothing that can.prevent them from snapping. They are made in Switzerland of the very finest quality of steel, absolutely flawless. Very often the watchmaker can detect a bad spring before putting if in the watch, either by its color or the softness of its spring. These have been too highly tempered in the making, and instead of being subjected to merely a red heat tlie fire lias been bronght to white heat, thus weakening tho strength of the metal. The finest watches that are handled by reliable dealers are put through a “cooking and freezing” proc ess before they are sold, for the purpose of testing their reliability iu all temper atures. The watch is first placed in a little metal box, which is made airtight. Then a strong gas flame is turned on the under surface of the box and is kept there for two or three hours, so that the watch is so hot at the end of that time that it could not be touched with tho bare hand. From this it is immedi ately taken and put into another me tallic box which is buried in ice. There the costly watch is allowed to freeze for an equal length of time, when its torture ceases and the examination is made. If during this excessive test the watch appears to have ticked merrily on without deviating a fractional part of a second it is placed back iu the case and marked “guaranteed for two years.” The mainspring is the first piece of mechanism that succumbs to the test. If it survives nothing else need be feared. Mainsprings are, however, about the only part of a watch that the jeweler cannot successfully diagnose. They can guarantee any of tlie numberless little wheels or pivots or balances that go to make up the anatomy of the watch, but the mainspring has as yet baffled the most skilled makers of watches of all countries. It is not so innch the severe extremes of the weather that prove fatal to the spring ns it is the process of changing from hot to cold, or vice versa Like the human frame, if the ribbonlike little coil of steel can withstand the ef fects of this change it may be considered proof against breaking when the change to normal weather comes. Many people who have been possessors of new watches but a short time oomo into the dealer’s with blood in their eyes, declaring that they have paid an enor mous price for the timepiece and the mainspring has broken after only a week’s use. “That is nothing,” remarked the jewel er. “We have them snap in our case before the watch has ever been shown for sale.” Others imagine that they might have wound the watch too tight, bnt this does not harm it. It is rather the jerky, hurried winding that will eventually tell on the temper of the metal. Every good stem winder has a stop placed in the stem, which prevents the winding too tight. Damp weather has an ill effect on mainsprings, and in England they do not as a rule last as long as in this coun try. A severe thunder and lightning storm also frequently proves disastrous to the durability of the spring. A dealer who took in seiicnty-nine watches on one day said that one summer on a day im mediately following a terrific electrical storm there were twenty-one watches brought into his store witliin five hours for new mainsprings. Tlie cost of a new mainspring is the small part of making such repair. It is the putting them in, the labor expended, that costs. It costs from twelve to fifteen dollars to put a mainspring in the Jurgensen watch and a little less in a Patek Phillippe, while in a cheaper American make it may cost only fifty cents or a dollar. A man purchased a 1800 Jurgensen from a leading dealer several years ago, and shortly after he left for a tour around the world. Ho was gone a year, and when he returned ho went back to the dealer with his watch and com plained: "Here’s a watch I paid yon ♦800 for a year ago, and while I was traveling abroad it lost two minutes. You guaranteed it, and I want you to make it good.” The watch was placed In the window with this card be side it: “This watch lost only two minutes in a year in a trip around the world. Price ♦800.” It sold within an hour. It is said that one bar of iron costing ♦5 will produce $250,000 worth of main springs. Some springs are made in this country by the manufacturers of cheap watches. These springs are several feet long and take nearly two minutes to wind up.— New York World. Saving to No Purpose. It has sometimes happened that per sons little deserving, and even rulers, have reaped tho harvests which misers have painfully sown. Tho life of Vau- dille is a proof of this. This man iivixl upon bread and milk, with tho addition of a small glass of sour wine on Satur days. At Ills death he left £800,000 to ♦he king of France. Audley, the com monwealth miser, saved £400,000, all of which reverted to tlie government.— Cassell's Journal. It Yields Bent Returns. Totling—Do you know which is tha most profitable metal to work? Dimling—“No; whieh is? Totling—Printer's zino.—Detroit Free Preen . _ Time to Swear OflT. The Rev. Dr. Primrose—I’m glad to hear your husband lias given up melon stealing. It is some comfort for me to feel that perhaps my poor words have had something to do with his reform. Mis. Johnson—Dat wasn't do reasun. sah. Yo’ see ob late do po' man wuz gitin kotched ebery time.—New York Evening Son. ^ THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM.