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“IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” VOL. III. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1892. NO. 9. sorar Carious Slips of The Tongue. : ..v i The tongue is unruly in other ways than that pointeU out in such vigor ous terms by James tho Apostle. It seems to sometimes take the bit’ll its teeth, if so mixed a metaphor may be permitted, and to run away from the directing mind, with results that hardly ever fail to cause no less con fusion to the speaker than amuse ment to the hearer. The incident of the gentleman who, in cordially in viting some friends to hear his p; s* tor preach, said to them, “You may occupew my pie,” is perhaps already familiar. Equally laughter provok ing was the transposition made by a friend of mine who had undertaken to recite Bret llarte’s “Heathen Chinee,” and surprised both himself and his audience by the statement that For ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain The heathen peeu is chiuoliur. - It is probably because they more frequently appear before the public as speakers than any other chiss of men that clergymen are the heroes of the majority of the stories told as to slips of the tongue. The Rev. Mr. A has this to tell of the Rev. Mr. B : Brother B is tall and gaunt of figure, and pale and serious of countenance. Once, in bringing a meeting of special solemnity to a close, he caused many a smile by saying, impressively: “Now let us pronounce the Doxology, and I will sing the benediction.” Then as if realizing that something had gone w rong, he drew himself up, and look ing, if possible, more solemn still, added, “No; I mean I will sing the benediction, and we will pronounce the Doxology.” The quick wit of a hearer, who at once started “Braise God, from whom all blessings flow,” in stentorian tones, rescued the others from disgracing themselves by an outburst of laughter. After the meeting had dispersed, said Brother B to Brother A : “Now, you know, I saw that thing coming wrong end first, but for the life of me I could not turn it round.” Here are some more amusing stories of a similar character. It was but a very insignificant change of a letter, but it spoiled what was intended to be an eloquent denunciation against idolatry, when the preacher cried, w ith impassioned earnestness, “.Bow not thine eye to a needle,” having meant to say, “Bow not thy knee to an idol.” In the same way, the young clergyman with the corract Oxford pronunciation, in giving out the hymn “Conquering Kings,” mere ly stumbled over the first vowel; but being unable to save himself, was hurried over the precipice, and startled his congregation with tin- announcement, “The concluding •hymn will be ‘Kinquering Congs,’ ‘Kinquenng Congs.’” After that ex perience he was in a position to fully sympathize with his brother clergy man who, in place of saying “Behold the fig tree how it withereth away,” asked his bewildered audience to “Behold the whig tree how it fithereth away.” In simil ir case did the preacher • find himself who, describing con science, and dedring to get his listen ers to recognize the promptings of its inward voice in the half-formed wishes of the mind, appealed to them whether there was one present who sometime or another “had not felt within him the effect of a half-warm ed fish.”—Harper’s Young People. Foot Notes. The following notes occur in the Philadelpdia Form Journal. A fast walk should add fifty dol lars to the selling price of a young horse. See that he is accustomed to it from the stall while being trained. j know of a mother w ho allowed her seven-year-old son one egg for every dozen he gathers, purchasing his eggs at the end of each week. Bhe reports no useless sitting hens, no stolen nests and a boy w ith a tal ent developing for business. A good colt will sell. Remember this is a fact unalterable. If you have yoi.ng horses that don’t sell take it for grunted that there is some defect in them, either from breeding or feeding. Teach the colt one thing at a time. W hen he has learned some thing don’t let him forget it. Make him go over it again and again. In days following repeat it. Don’t do a penny business with yonr neighbors. Be generous with them. You will loose nothing by it. And agiin, don’t bore them to death by borrowing everything they own. You will gain nothing by it. Six Cent Cotton Better Than Twelve Cent Cotton. Some time ago a two horse tenant said: “1 tell you, I believe that (5 cent cotton is better for the farmer than 12 cent cotton.” We asked him to explain himself. He said: “You see when cotton is 12 cents the farmer, especially if he is a poor sort of one, will plant all of his best ground in cotton. He will put the poor edges in core and not manure it and if he is pushed, as he ^ilways is with a big cotton crop, he will neglect his corn crop. When fall conies it takes all of his 12 cent cot ton to pay fur guano, clothing and supplies. The first of January finds him with about corn enough to last till the first of March, a few half- starved cattle around the lot, a sack of western flour in the pantry and a little piece of white western meat hanging up in the kitchen. When cotton is six cents, if the farmer has any sense at all, he will raise corn, sorghum syrup potatoes, oats, wheat, hav, fodder and garden truck in abundance with some to spare. When his 6-ceut cotton is gathered and his guano bill paid, the balance of the money is clear. He can then lay in clothing, sugar, coffee and farming utensils for another year and be in dependent of liens and mortgages.” Do the farmers who read the Spar tan agree with this tenant:' Do they believe he is correct in his Conclu sions? He has surplus syrup to hire forty days hoeing next summer. His surplus will help buy clothing sugar and coffee. Now if you incline to the opinion that it is better to raise your supplies than buy them, or do without, begin at once to plan for your small grain crop. Oats, especially the hardy varieties may be sown up to first of November. Sow for an abundant wheat crop. Raise everything you need. Do not depend on the store for everything. Be independent and self Wtpporting and then you will prosper.—Carolina Spartan. Where the Mouey does. The Baltimore Sun has been in vestigating the cost of “Protection” to the consumers of the country, and has been led to the adoption of some figures which are startling enough to arrest the attention of the most heed less victim of that infamous system of robbing the many for the profit of the few. The Sun says: “The amount the McKinley Act takes out of our pockets each year is made up of two items—the amount of money obtained by the Govern ment as revenue at the custom houses from the exaction of the McKinley tariff rates, and the amount obtained by the protected manufacturers in the shape of increased prices’ due to the McKinley rates on their respec tive products. The tariff rate puts up the price of what is manufactured hrieand keeps it up after prices have fallen abroad) at Hie same time that it puts up the price of what is im ported from abroad. As the quanti- lyof protected goods manufactured here is five or six times the quantity imported from abroad, it is evident that we pay live or six times more to protected manufacturers on account of tariff rates, than we do to the (iov- erumeiit. Few persons will deny that we consume vastly more of pro tected manufactures than of com peting imported manufactures. This being the fact, and taking the pro portion to be five to one, we find that while in 1891 we were paying $219,- 522,205 in tariff revenue to the Gov ernment, we were paying over $1,- 095,000,000 into the pockets of our tariff lords.” Other authorities have made prac tically the same estimate, on the basis of a similar calculation, so that tre mendous us the sumiippears it is not far from correct. It is not necessary, however, to stick to any definite state- meut of the amount of the exactions to which the people are subjected us the penalty for their failure to think for themselves and move in their own d fence. The main fact is enough. The beneficiaries of the tariff system number only a few thousands at mo t, and they divide among themselves an enormom booty, amounting to hun dreds of millions of dollars annually. It is not a matter for surprise, in v<ew of their ill-gotton gains, that they fight so hard for the mainten ance of the policy which has enrich- e I them,' and that they should be so libera 1 in spending their money at every national election to put their agents and servants in places in Con gress, the White House and elsewhere where they can work to the best ad vantage.—News and Courier. Things Were a Little IWixe*. WEAVING WAS AN ART “Speaking of queer happenings in newspu) ers offices recalls a little ex perience of my own,” said Robert G. Adair, now a guest of the Southern. “The city editor of my home paper was a great friend of mine, and when I got married determined to give me an elegant send off. I had never been married before, and of course knew no better than to send a basket of champagne to a newspaper office before the paper wept to press, 1 am wiser now. In a country office every body about the establishment, from the editor-in-chief to the junior devil, considers himself in on all the luxu ries that make their appearance, and that of the Boomerville Broad Axe was no exception. “The result was that my wedding bells became inextricably mixed with the paid puff of a cheap circus and was estensibly marked ‘t. f.’ I im mediately ordered my half of the re markable advertisement out. it stated that it was ‘worth double the price of admission to see the blush ing bride and her beauteous brides maids come up the aisle in costumes of white silk and turn a double somersault over three monster ele phants and a herd of camels.’ No body could well doubt it. The bride groom was described as ‘a young man recently captured by a company of military in the wilds of Borneo,’ and who ‘went on all fours down the aisle, with bis bride on his arm.’ It is needless to say that every seat at the circus was filled. My friends had the audacity to tell me, however, that the performance was a disap pointment—that it was not as repre sented in the advertisement”—-St. Louis Globe Democrat. Bits of Wisdom. It is believed that nickel carbon L soon to play an important part in I metallurgy. The only true brave people are those who are not afraid of the truth. There isn't a man in the world who is not serving some kind of a master. No religion can do you a bit of good that does not make you try to do good to others. It seems to take a great deal of trouble to get some people where they can be happy. 'A hypocrite always stretches him- eelf up a little taller every time he sees a good man backslide. It very often happens that the man who is an iceburg in hi# church is a boiling spring in his _ " cs. Make it a rule to look upon the bright side and you will soon find that there is always a bright side to look upon. The main difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man's blunders always teaceh him some thing. People do not weigh much in heaven who take pigeons to God’s altar when they ought to go with full-grown oxen and sheen. One of the first things the business man does who walks in the counsel of the ungodly is to begin sawing pieces from the end of his yard stick. Some of the people who think the door of heaven ought to b -open wi le enough to let in everybody are now among the most anxious that folks with the cholera shall be kept out of the country.—From the Rum's Horn. C'hivalric Maxims. THE AGE OF PAPER. IN THE DAYS OF HOMESPUN WOM EN USED TO WORK HARD. The sacred books of India contain the following maxims: “He who despises women despises his mother.” “W ho is cursed by a woman is cursed by God.” “The tears of a woman cal! down the fire of heaven on those who make them flow.” “Flvil to dim who laughs at wo man’s sufferings; God shall laugh at his prayers.” “It was at the prayer of a woman that the Creator pardoned man. Cursed be lie who forgets it,” “\\ ho shall forget the sufferings of his mother at his birth shall be reborn in the body of an owl during three successive transmigrations.” “There is no crime more odious than to persecute a woman.” “When women are honored the divinities are content; but when they are not honored all undertakings fail.” “The households cursed by women to whom they have not rendered the homage due to them find themselves weighed down with rum and destroy ed as if they had been struck by some secret power. “It is time to appreciate all things at their true value.” O’tr Grandmothers Used to Spend Much Time Spinning, Weaving, Knitting, Net ting and Embroidering—They Manu factured All Their Own Cloth. In the days of homespun four ounces of lint, cotton or a half pound of lock wool was a day's stint in spinning, though a clever spinner could easily do twice as much. Wool was often colored before spinning—dyed black or red, then carded with white. The resultant thread, steel or red mixed, was wonder fully soft and harmonious in color. Old silk carefully raveled, then carded with white wool or cotton, made the silk mixed that was such a favorite for the long stockings worn with knee breeches, as well as for homespun gowns. They were woven in cheeks, stripes and cloud ings. One of the prettiest was dice cloth—a kind of basket weave—of alter nate white and black or gray threads, thirteen to the group. It was trouble some to weave—a thread too many made a balk in the pattern. Children and servants had simple checks in blue or copperas and white. Linseys for winter wear were gorgeous in green and scar let and black ami blue. Dyeing was part of the home work, as well as weaving and spinning. From walnut hulls, bark and root came twen ty shades of brown. Green walnuts and sumach berries gave a beautiful fast black that did not stain the wearer. Hickory hark or peach leaves gave a glowing yellow; swamp maple, a black ish pnrple: sugar maple, a light leather tint, and oak hark, set with copperas, a handsome grayish color. In fact, a skilled dyer could get twenty colors from the woods and fields. Except for flannels, carpets and blankets the warp was usually of flax or cotton. A very pretty carpet had half the warp of coarse wool doubled—a strand of green and one of brown. In weaving when the Woof came upjier- most a very coarse wool thread was shot in. When the cotton eamo up a very fine thread caught and held it almost in visibly. Beaten up thick the effect was that of a mossy, clouded Turkey fabric. Other carpets were woven in stripes or plain, like webbing, the woolen woof threads passing over and under the cot ton warp two at a time. Size was estimated by the number of threads that, laid side by side, made cloth the regulation yard wide. Tin coarsest was 400. From that it went up and up with hardly a limit except that of the spinners’skill and patience. There was scarcely anything they couldn't weave on the looms—jersey and serge, and cotton and linsey, house linen, 1h>c1 linen, blankets and counterpanes. The counterpane was homespun high watei mark. Woolen ones had usually the figure in colors skipped up on a white or blue ground. Those of cotton were left white and bleached till they dazzled the eyes. Of some easy patterns a clever woman could weave eight yards in a day. Of honeycomb, huckaback and dia mond draper three yards was a good day’s work. Fancy patterns were more tedious. The crown of skill and patience was knotted cloth. The weave was per fectly plain, but at intervals of an inch a big soft cord was woven in and pulled up in little knots all along its length. Over the body of the cloth they formed regular diamonds. For the center they made an elaborate aratiesque design. Down one side of the spread the maker generally drew them up to shape her initials, with either the date of making in roman letters or her husband's name opposite, to balance her own. There was room, and to spare. Beds in those days stood four feet from the floor. Counterpanes were three yards by four without the fringe, which was either woven with dates and initials in the deep open heading or knitted in open lozenge pattern to which deep tas sels were attached. It fell over a val ance, also homespun, and was either fringed or edged with netted points at the bottom. Weaving was not the sum of house wifery in Uiat era. The good dames knew as much of embroidery as their favored great-granddaughters. One of them has left behind her a monumental piece of work, in which can lie found no less than nineteen different stitches, many of them among the rarest and most difficult known. The netting needle and stirrup filled up many a day.- The lied was the piee, de resistance in furnishing then. It wu« a tall four jHister, and, besides counter pane and valance, had netted curtains and netted iioints, edging the long pil low and bolster cases. Window cur tains were netted, too, besides edgings and fringes for all kinds of household articles. In particular the "toilets" that fell over the high square bureaus had often a netted fall half a yard deep around them. In addition,caps, ruffles, purses and fichus were netted. The lat ter were called dress handkerchiefs, and folded high about the throat over the low cut gowns. On them the netter lavished her choicest art. Sometimes the mesh was as fine al most as bobhinet. Netted capes were high in favor, hut the square with long ends was accounted better for young women. Sometimes they had fringe or tassels about the edge, or even a ruffle of the net with a big pattern run in. The handsomest finish was embroidery. For that the net was tacked smooth over cloth, the figures were wrought through,, both, then the under fabrics were cut away, leaving something closely approaching old rose point. The women who practiced these arts ■nude tatting, knit lace, stockings, mit tens, tufted gloves, overshoes, comfort ers, garters, galluses and many things besides. Before their works follow them it might bo well if some collector should gather up and keep safe for later generations a representative array of the homespun masterpieces.—New York Sun. A Timely Pretest. Sarah K. Bolton, through an article in The Independent, utters a timely pro test against the wedding present nui sance and extortion. She says—what every sensible person knows and con cedes -that wedding presents have come to he a burden, and to a considerable extent simply a matter of pride. The Time la Coming When Paper Will He the Only I'aeful Thing, The world has seen its iron age and its brazen age, but this is the age of paper. We are making so many things of paper that it will soon be true that without paper there is nothing made. We live in paper houses, wear paper clothing, and sit on paper cushions in paper cars rolling on paper wheels. If we lived in Bergen, Norway, we could go on Sun- lays to a paper chnrcb. We •‘do a! paper business over paper counters, braying paper goods, paying for them with paper money, and deal in- paper stocks on paper margins. W>frow races in paper boats for paper prizes. We go to paper theaters where paper actors play to pajier audiences. As the age develops the coming man will become more deeply enmeshed in the pajier net. He will awake in the morning and creep from under Hie pa per clothing of his pajier bed and put on his paiier dressing gown and his pa per slippers. He will walk over ; per carpets, down paper stairs, ami : .it’ himself in a paper chair will rea l the paper news in the morning paper. A paper bell will call him to his breakfast, cooked in a paper oven, served on paper dishes, laid on a paper cloth on a paper table. He will wipe his lips with a pa per napkin, and having put on his paper shoes, paper hat anti paper coat, and then taking his jiaper stick (he has the choice of two descriptions already), he will walk on a paper pavement or ride in a pai>er carriage to his paper office He will organize paper enterprises ana make paper profits. He will sail the ocean on paper steam ships and navigate the air in palter bal loons. He will Miioke a paper cigar or paper tobacco in a paper pipe, lighted with a palter match. He will write with a pape- pencil, whittle paper sticks with a paper knife, go fishing with a paper fishing rod, a paper line and a palter hook, and put his catch in a paper basket. He will go shooting with a paper gun. loaded with paper cartridges, and will defend his country in pape- forts with paper cannon ami paper bombs Having lived his paper life and achieved a paper fume and paper wealth, he will retire to paper leisure and die in paper peace. There will be a paper funeral, at which the mourners, dressed in paper crajte, will wipe their eyes with paper handkerchiefs, and the preacher will preach in a paper pulpit. lie will lie in a paper coffin; he has a chance of doing so already if he is a pajier—we mean pauper. He will bo wrapped in a paper shroud, his name will be engraved on a palter plate, and a paper hearse, adorn tl with paper plumes, will cairy him to a paper lined grave, over which will be raised a paper monument.--Paper Rec ord. About What to Kat. If asked what I would place of high- sst importance in family diet 1 would answer without hesitation abundance of fruit. The apple is far more invaluable Ilian we have yet estimated. It should be eaten before meals, ami not after. Not a member of my family, myself in cluded, but eats one, two or more before breakfast si long as they are obtainable, and as man- before dinner—about half an hour bef -e the meal. As soon as the fruit is begun we stop all study or work, and spend the half hour in spurt’or walking or conversation. After meals we rest in tho same man ner for one hour. No child is allowed to study during this time. Nothing is lost, for the head is thus kept out of conflict will the stomach. Cereals, next to fruit, are of prime importance. I recommend highly such preparations as parched farinose--any food where the cooking is done liefore the grinding. Uofla and granules are of this sort. As for meat, it must be at each one's option to be sure, but let us be sparing in our carnivorous tastes.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Fraudulent Jewels. Since solutions of aniline dyes possess the property of imparting to genuine jewels as well as glass paste a deep, rich color if left long enough immersed in them, and since they possess also the pnqierty of imparting precisely the char acteristic color of a genuine jewel, ti e swindler has it not only in his power to dye cut glass paste, but also inferior cut gems, of *he color of a ruby, an emerald or a sapphire, since fuchsine is the hand somest ruby red shade, while bleu de Paris imitates absolutely that of the sapphire, and aniline green that of the emerald. Such a fraud, however, can be made still more complicated by using genuine off colored rubies, sapphires or emeralds and dyeing them with the correspond ingly aniline dyes, thereby raising their value tenfold. It is exceedingly diffi cult to recognize this fraud, because the color of such a well corroded jewel can no longer be washed off, even with hot water. Only the bleaching power of sunlight might after a time assist in re vealing the swindle.—Jewelers’ Circu lar. • How Wutlo Hampton UHed Cigars. Wade Hampton never smoked cigars in a rationa. way like the rest of man kind. Instead, he took the cigars as he bought them and crushed them to pow der la-tween the palms of his hands and made use of the fragments as the old regime use snuff. Tho coarse bits were thrown away, and in the military com mittee room, of which he was so long an occupant, there was always a pile of cigar shavings on the floor beside his chair. The finest cigars in the market were none too good to be treated this way, and more than one genuine cigar smoker has been moved to expostnlution as he has seen Hampton dispose of a fine weed in such an unceremonious way.— Kate Fiild's Washington. Natural Faint. Twenty miles from Newcastle, North umberland county, New Brunswick, a deposit of natural paint (9(1 per cent, oxide of iron) has been discover' d, bp ' so pure that it does not require refining or even manufacture, since it is ready for mixing with oil in the proportion of two i>ounds of paint to a gallon of oil.— pYrO ***•»**<» Not Much Difference. Little Boy—1 wish 1 had a rabbit. Mr. Fourthfloor—What would you do with a rabbit in a flat? Little Boy—Well, 1 guess a rabbit could get along here ’bout as well as I can.—Good News. XVuIleU Cities In India and China. The first glimpse we get of an eastern wall 1 city unfolds at once memories of our childhood days, which have perhaps never been awakened since, and the pic- tares of oar childish books, which im pressed themselves so vividly upon onr minds, are reprodneed in the bright col ors of old, when we are brought face to face with the qnaint battlements and the dark gateways, with the accessories of bright, burning sunshine and tur- baned figures and processions of camels and the listless calm of ths-tropical land. Buch old cities are still to be seen in In dia, still walled in- the old fashion and still peopled by the figures of the Biblical picture hook. Closely akin to them are those walled towns standing on the canals of mid- China, passing through which, say at the close of day, when every tower ami every roof stands out clearly cut against the brilliant western sky and we are challenged by a grotesque figure, armed with a spear and probably wearing armor, the illusion is complete, and for the moment we find it hard to realize that we are traveling at the end of the Nineteenth century. Even in much changed Japan there are old cities which still retain their walls of the age of feudalism, and in the very heart of the capital the imperial palace is surrounded by the same quaint forti fications which in old troublous times made it an imperinm in imperio, al though the walls are crumbling and the gates are never shut, and the moats have been abandoned to the lotus and to carp of monstrous size and fabulous age.— Cor. Chicago Herald. ORGANIZATION. THE PROBLEM THAT HAS AGITATED WOMEN FOR MANY YEARS. Tile Azores. In inso the Azores came under the power of Spain, ami in the history of the next twenty years their name is fre quent as the favorite battleground of the English and Spanish fleets. The partiality was, indeed, mainly on the side of the former, and for a good rea son. These islands lay right in the track of all vessels sailing to and from that enchanted regii n known then to all men as the Spanish Slain. On the highest peak of Terceira, whence in clear weather the sea could be scanned for leagues around, were raised two col umns, and by them a man watched night and day. When he saw any sails approaching from the west he set a flag upon the western column, one for each sail; if they came from the east a simi lar sign was set up ou the eastern col umn. Hither in those days fame up out of the mysterious western seas the great argosies laden with gold and silver and jewels, with silks and spices and rare woods, wrung at the cost of thousands of harmless lives and cruelties unspeak able from the fair lands which lie be tween the waters of the Caribbean sea and the giant wall of the Andes. And hither, when England too began to turn her eyes to El Dorado, came the great war galleons of Spain and Portugal b meet these precious cargoes and convoy them safe irto Lisbon or Cadiz before those terrible English sea wolves could get scent of the prize.—Macmillan's Magazine. s Important Advice. A gentleman who b* lieved that to an important extent clothes made the msn, even when the man is a royal personage, visited the Comte de Chambord at Froiis- dorf a few years ago. The Comte de Chambord was the grandson of Charles X, the last Bourbon 1- ing of France, and the French Royalists called him Henri V, and hoped, until his death, in 1883, to restore him to the throne. The mar quis, of whom this story is told, was a Parisian, a man of fashion and an ar dent Royalist. The Comte de Chambord was glad of an opportunity to talk over political affairs with a man who must know what was going on in Paris; io after a few minutes’ chat he said: “Mar quis, it is not often that I have a chance to talk with any one so well informed on the signs of the times in Paris as yourself. Now in case I return to Paris, what would you advise me to do?” He waited for a bit of profound po litical philosophy. The marquis looked at “Henri the Fifth” and hesitated. Should he venture on a great liberty’ But his advice had been asked; as a loyal subject he would give it frankly. “Sire—monseigneur,” he stammered, “1 think you had better give up your Ger man tailor and have your trousers made iu Paris.” “My trousers!” “Yes, sire; pardon me, but your trousers are out of fashion.”—San Francisco Argonaut. Strange Kflectc of Kztreme Cold. Dr. Moss, of the English polar expe dition of 1875-7, among many other things, tells of the sti ange effects of the extreme cold u]>on the candles they burned. The temperature was from 35 to 50 degs. below zero, and the doctor says he was considerably discouraged when ujion looking at his candle he di.,- covered that the flame "had all it could do to keep warm.” It was so cold that the flame conld not nr It all of the tallow of the candle, but was forced to eat its way down, leaving a sort of skeleton candle standing. There was heat enough, however, to melt odd shaped holes in the thin walls of tallow, the result be ing a beautiful lacelikc cylinder of white with a narrow tongue of yellow flame burning on the inside and sending out many streaks of light into the darkness. —St. Louis Republic. What Organisation Has Done for Fe males—One Writer Says That It Is a Mistake for Women to Regard Men as Enemies—Men Hav$ Helped. Them. The prob|hm of organization is one which has agitated women, who work ever since the sex has been regarded as a factor in industrial competition, and ft. I* apparent, from, the almost dailydis- cniwions of the subject, that it is no nearer solution than it was at its incep tion. The relative sides of the contro versy, whether organization assists in the amelioration of the sex from the evil effects of prejudice, have many cham pions who argue the question of princi ple with much wisdom and enthusiasm. To a casual observer, or even one who is interested in the outcome of the agita tion without taking part in it, the affirmative side of the proposition would seem to be the most logical and popular, and there are many evidences to sub stantiate this view. It is scarcely ten years since organiza tion was tried by industrial women, and an observer epitomizes the result in these words: “Organization has in the first place compelled the recognition of female workers as competitors by the males, who previously usurped the fields into which women have since ventured and succeeded; organization has demon strated the capabilities of woman more than individual merit could have ever done; it has rendered women independ ent of the influences of men in the ad justment of labor and social difficulties and in the matter of compensation.” Taking this view of the matter, which, it may be explained, is advanced by a Wisconsin lady who is much interested in the subject, it would seem that or ganization has not only done much to promote the advancement of women, but has in addition opened up a broad field for discussion as to the claims of women for lecognition in other than an industrial sense. Our correspondent argues that “a woman who, in the face of the strong opposition of men engaged in similar industrial pursuits, succeeds in elevating herself by her own efforts to an equal plane with them, is certain ly entitled to consideration as a factor in both the social and official spheres of life.” The argument is so logical and patent to the student of the social and indus trial status of women that it needs no comment. The assumption, however, that men oppose the progress of women and in any way seek to retard their ad vancement and restrict their capacity as competitors is ungenerons and, in a large measure, will do much to inspire prejudice in men against women. The facts all tend the other way. Men are not only not opposed to wom en as fellow workers, but would, if en couraged, do more to assist women in their struggle for supremacy than any other influence could possibly do. The developments of the agitation in the past few years have shown this. Work ing women have appealed to the national congress and to the legislative bodies of several states for recognition and have obtained it, purely through the assist ance of men who realized the justice of the demands. Without the assistance of these men the recognition could never Lave been secured. Further than this, women have found, when seeking to obtain the questionable benefits of organization achieved by men, that they had only to be sincere to secure the s .me. If men are once satis fied that female workers are sincere in their efforts to secure independence, and are willing o render all social proposi tions subservient to the purpose, women will have no cause for accrediting an tipathy to men, but on the other hand will precipitate the millennium of their ambitions much sooner than by working alone. The natural conclusion to be deducted from these 'onditions is, That women shall combine their own (as yet disor ganized and incomplete) interests with those of men. Organization under such circumstances will obtain for a woman what she wants. Men are to bo made friends, not enemies. To obtain recog nition from their admirably organized systems of industrial pursuits is as much of a triumph for working women as they will ever secure. This can be done by working with them, not against them.—A Club Woman in Jenness Mil ler Illustrated. An Unlucky Number. “I should think Pope Leo XIII would be a very unhappy man?” said Judge Pennybunker. “1 should think he would be troubled with dreadful fore- boilings?” “Why so?" asked Colonel Yerger. “Because he can never sit down to the table without being the thirteenth—Leo XIII,” replied Judge Pennybunker.— Texas Siftings. Materials for Glass. For making the best mirrors tho ne cessary silica is obtained from ordinary white quartz, while common window panes are produced from sea sand to a large extent.—Washington Star. The rapid progress of photography in the discovery on the one hand of new wonders in the heavens, and the revela tion on the other hand of many hitherto hidden facts concerning familiar objects upon the earth, is one of the most nota ble phenomena of this distinctively sci entific age. AT FIFTY-ONE. Jesting Is over with nfe forever— Life is too sober at fifty-one; No longer I worship the witty and clever; Things that amuse me 1 loathe and'shan. I have come to the summit and now began To sink to the vale on the other side; There's a damp in the air, there's a gloom on the snn, Whose waning tho vapors of Orcos hide. And my fellow travelers, left and right. Fall away from the track, as we downward hie, ♦ • To their several homes; they are not in sight. Bit I hear the bells as they bid goodby I How lonely I feel as I get more high To my destined inn—a dismal place . Shut from all glimpse of the goodly sky And the suhshinp of every friendly face! Yet what is to dread? There's a Master there Full of pity, to welcome the weary guest, Who will bind the footsore and have good care Of every poor soul who seeks his rest. I tremble to go to him, unconfessed. I bear him no letters from priest or pope. But I carry a passport within my breast Of his own sure word, and a deathless hope. —Thomas W. Parsons in Boston Journal. Glaciers. Glaciers plunge into the sea in many ■ cold countries and perish by drowning, their dismembered remains floating away as bergs. But their end is by dis solution where the annual mean temperature rises considerably above the freezing point. At some certain level they melt faster than they can flow, and so terminate. The level indeed is a fluctuating one. Icelandic glaciers are now steadily ad vancing. Swiss glaciers, according to M. Forel, have undergone during the present century five alternating periods of diminution and growth. The meteorological changes occasion ing and emphasized by these oscillations are very slight. Their character, how ever, is unmistakable, and such as might have been anticipated. That is to say, glacial decrease accompanies a warm ! and dry cycle; glacial increase, one that I is damp and cold. Without one additional degree of cold it is conceivable that a persistently aug mented deposit of snow upon the Ger- stenhomer and the Schneestock, al though otherwise scarcely perceptible, might enable tho Rhone glacier - to over whelm Brieg. But this would he an exceedingly small step toward the restoration of a former state of things, when an ico stream close upon 250 miles in length, starting from the same source, crossed the frozen or nonexistent lake of Ge neva, and debouched by Culoz upon Lyons. Without severe cold as well as heavy precipitation, ice could not pos sibly have gained so great an ascend ancy. And this was no local phenom enon—it was simultaneously prevalent over widely separated tracts of the rarth’a surface.—Edinburgh Review. An Ornament to the Profession. The political orator was just warming xp to his subject. “Gentlemen,” ho said impressively, "the groat party of freedom—the party that has upheld the dignity of the Ameri can eagle and strengthened it so that it is now able to flap its wings in the face ef tho British lion, or any other animal du the European continent—male no mistake when it nominated that able and representative citizen, William Montgomery Blinks, for alderman from this ward. A young man of sterling integrity and progressive ideas, he en tered upon the study of law soon aft< r graduating from one of the free schools with which this glorious country is blessed, and upon being admitted to the bar he at once became an ornament to his profession—I beg yu\ir pardon, sir, did you say anything?” “I did,” replied the tall, angular man in the back of tho hall. “May I ask you to repeat the remark? I didn’t quite catch it.” "I said you were right” “Certainly, sir. 1 am glad you” “He’s been an ornament to the profes sion, 1 suppose, but that’s all. He never has been any use to it. And, gentb-men, are we looking for ornaments to put on the ticket?”—Detroit Free Press. Th. Colored Light. In Komnn Cnnillra. In making Roman candles a cylin drical case is taken and packed with a lot of stars. At the bottom of the case they put some of the composition they put in rockets, and on top of each star is some mc-e of it. By mixing certain chemicals green and red lights are produced. Green lights like those used in death scenes ou the stage at the the ater are made by mixing a great quan tity of nitrate of barytes with small quantities of sulphur, chlorate of pot ash, charcoal pulverized and arsenic.— New York Evening Sun. What a "Doublet” I». The doublet is the imitation of a jewel, the lower part of which, the culet, is an appropriately colored paste, while the upper part, the table, is an inferior gen uine gem, both being fastened upon the culet with a water clear cement. These doublets can readily be distinguished by the expert.—Jewelers’ Circular. An Architect's i'lenn Shirt Front. George Meikle Kemp’s indifference to dress is amusingly illustrated by an in cident which occurred when he was called upon to attend a committee meet ing, in order to discuss the restoration of Glasgow cathedral. Ho performed tho journey from Edinburgh to Glas gow on foot, ami on arriving at his des tination it occurred to him that a fresh shirt front would freshen his toih t to a sufficient degree. He bought the article, put it on, ami quite satisfied with his immaculate ap pearance waited on the committee, ami then, business dispatched, called upon a relative. “Why, George,” cried that “plain spoken” person, “what have you licen doing to your shirt collar? Just look i.i tho glass and see what a fright you are!" Kemp looked in the mirror and then burst into hearty laughter. “It does nut matter now," he said, “for, fright and all as 1 am, I hae been among the great folks." Ho had forgotten to remove his travel stained collar, and there it appeared, rising majestically above the new and spotless one.—Youth's Companion. Made a Bronze Medal. Joseph Moore, of Birmingham, a die sinker, made his reputation by a medal in bronze four inches in diameter, of which few copies were struck. On one side he showed in pretty high relief the “Salvator Mundi” of Leonardo da Vinci and on the other tho “Christus Con- solator" of Ary Scheffer. The latter wrote in thanks for a copy of the work, “Your medal has immortalized my pic ture; it will outlive the canvas.”—New York Times. The Tailor Made Suit. In fitting a cloth suit the modes of fitting peculiar to the tailor are many in number, but good in result. The ' measurements are numerous; the first j fitting is an ordinary cotton lining; the second one a silk lining; the third one the silk and the material: the fourth one j the almost finished bodice, which usual- 1 ly needs then only a few mistakes recti- ' tied, and there is the finished bodice for tho head tailor to see in its entirety. No critic is so severe as is the master of the establishment, and a slight wrinkle will cause him to order the taking apart of tho bodice and the making it so that it fits like the proverbial glove. The same care is shown in fitting a skirt, and at the really good tailor's a long train cloth skirt, unless it were for evening or house wear, is not even considered. — Mrs. Million in Ladies’ Homo Journal. It is stated ts remarkable that in most ancient statues the second toe is longer than the great toe. The reverse is the case iu men of the present time. Amaziah, king of Judah, fled from Jerusalem on the discovery of a con spiracy against him, but was followed Mid killed. The EarlicMt Llghtliouftefl. Fire towers at the entrances to ports were established in the earliest historic , times. Bonfires were built on top of them at night,—Washington Star. Lake Erie, it is said, produces UOK i fish to the square mile than any body ut | water in the world. This is liecau e of I the result of the good work done by the fl*b wssUmIodk* t-lf. THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM.