Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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cvr IOHULL ALVNG. Wbat'i the use in sighin' if your soul can sing & song? SUiny day, or sunny, you're got to pull along! Hurricane a-blowin', or tide a-runnin' strong. , Time is a-flyin'?is a-flyin'! ~Wk*t e the use in wishin' fer the dead an' dusty years? Didn't they have crosses? Didn't they have cares? .What's the use in weepin'? World will never heed your tears: ' Tltoc is a-flyin'?is a-flvin'! Take the road contented?an' the old world at its best: Travel soon is ended; there'll be time enough for rest Whea the Shadow comes an' scatters dust an' daisies o'er the breast: Tim* is a-flyin'?is a-flyin'! Tune is a-flyin'?is a-flyin'! ?Atlanta Constitution. THE WHITE LIES OF JULIETTE ? Inconvcn ence of Always Telling the Truth Pointed Out in a Girl's Journey. From the French. 3CLIETTE TO HER FATHER. EAR FATHER ? No one __ Jg could possibly feel more O | | Q keenly than I your rc% '-J proaches yesterday moru- x "WOW lug when I was just leaving for Cherbourg with my governess, Miss Harriet, and my little brother, Taul. In spite of your having forbidden it. the last thing I did before my departure was to brush my cheeks With my powder puff. This you perceived as you bade me good-bye. Caught unawares. I denied the fact as stupidly as I did energetically. and you did not spate your denunciation. QX course I am heartbroken to think that I have ever displeased you. dear papa, so I immediately made up my ; mind that the best way to prove my j repentance and show my respect for you was to conform blindly to your i counsels. This is how I set to work to practice them that very day. . j No sooner had we taken our seats in ] the train, Miss Harriet. Paul and I, than the guard came to take our tickets. According to your instructions we had bought Faiil's at half price. j "I am sure that child ought to pay the full fare." said the guard; "he is < certainly more than seven years old." "He is eight years old, sir," I said, openly. , j "Ten francs more, then," replied the i guard. i We paid and the train started. Miss < Harriet was not at all pleased with < my interference, and she scolded and i spluttered away until she finally i wound, up by telling me that she did not think we appreciated her suffi- < cienuy. ? "I Learil your father say the other | day that I was stupid," she said. "You ] needn't deny it, for you can't!" ! Of course I had to tell her the truth. ' "He didn't say you were stupid," I s answered, "but he did say that you were a goose." i Mercy! That was worse thai ever. She looked at me as if she would like j to eat me up. She did not say much, i but I think, dear papa, that you had i better be on the lookout for another 1 governess. s We reached our destination without i further adventure, except at the cus- c torn house, when we were asked to declare the brandy, the cologne, the game t for my aunt at Cherbourg and all the c rest of the things. This cost fourteen t more francs. 1 After an hour's ride in the carriage ? we at length threw ourselves into the 1 arms of your sister. Thin and bony, | < more homely than ever?I am still being perfectly frank, you see?she stood ? waiting for us on the threshold of the ] old house which you are so anxious to ] sell to her. 3 "Why didn't your mother come with j you?" she asked me at once. I "Oh, mamma was delighted to get i rid of us so that she could have a good time with papa," I replied, for was It not the truth? "She is not ill. then?" x I "So, indeed." i "She wrote me that she was ill. Ah'. ] I understand perfectly; I am to have < all the care and worry of taking care j of the children while she amuses her- ] self." ] She did not seem pleased, somehow, i I tried to caress her and soothe her. "But you love me, little one, don't you?" she said. , "Ye6, aunt," I replied. "As much as your mother?" I was about to tell a lie. Fortunately I remembered your words in time, so I answered her truthfully. "Oh. no. indeed, aunr, noi neariy su much." "Is it because you thiuk your mother Is prettier and more agreeable than I?" she pcioisted. "That is exactly the reason," I replied. She frowned at uie as blackly as Miss Harriet had done but she gave uie one last chance to redeem myself. "Why. how old do you think I am?" she demanded crossly. Again 1 was absolutely frank and said just what I thought. "Nearly sixty. I should judge." "Little fool, I am only forty-five," and as she seemed quite inclined to box my ears I thought it was high time to get the presents that I had brought to her. "Here is a centrepiece that mamma sent you." 1 said as quickly as I could got hold of it. "It is very pretty," and aunt appeared delighted. "P?ut what especially touches me is the thought of all the stitches that my sister-in-law has taken for me herself." "Oh. but she didn't embroider it herself," I said hastily, for I remembered how pained you would feel at such a depamure from the truth; "the waitress the work on it." Auut scowled more fiercely than before, and I handed her your box of chocolates. "What' From Potin's!" exclaimed aunt, smiling, all her frowns vanishing as if by magic. "His chocolate is always the best, but it is so expensive." This time, dear papa, it concerned you, so I told her the truth at once. *The box is from Potin's, aunt," I .Mid. "Mamma had it given to her on New Year's Day. buk papa got the chocolate at the little shop on our corner." Aunt looked as if she had n -whole thunderstorm inside of her. and the frowns were in full force as she said sourly: "I honed that your parents would have the decency to come and see me themselves. Your father wants to sell me this house, and as he said he had had it'specially repaired for me. perhaps I might be suited very well!" "How curious!" I remarked, saying exactly what I thought. "There haven't been any workmen here for three years, for I heard papa say so!" "Ah!?And do you also know why your father wants to sell the house?" I was tempted to be silent, but, instead. I said frankly: "It is too noisy here to be endurable. and, besides, there are stables elose by." I cannot describe, C.mr papa, the tinfortunate effect of these undeniable truths. My aunt left the room hastily and banged the door behind her. I should have renounced then and there the attempt to be truthful if Gaston de Tournettes had not just that instant jumped from his horse and come hastily into the room. I wished to announce his arrival to my aunt, but he stopped me, saying that he had heard of my Intended visit here and had come to see me the instant he knew I had reached the city. He said that he wanted to speak to me and not to my aunt. Thereupon lie began to say many very pleas*^ things to me, and finally asked ope:? if I liked him. 1 Ah! my dear papa, if it had been disagreeable to me before to tell the truth I assure it was quite different this time. ' Indeed, you please me very much, Monsieur Gaston, and you always have." "Then you are not afraid to become my fiancee?" "On the contrary, I shall be delighted to do so," I said frankly, remembering how you had said he was the most eligible bachelor of the season. "And you will love me?" he continued. "I hove you already?" But I will stop here, dear papa, for it seems to me that I can see you frowning this time, and I can hear Four voice growling: "Naughty girl! You have said as many Impertinent and awkward things as j*ou have told the truth!" * So let me hasten to reassure you, dear papa. This is all a story that I have made up to tell you. Paul paid no more than half fare and Miss Harriet is convinced that we could none of us get along without her, and that we think 8he is the very salt af tlie earth! The brandy passed the lustoms officers beneath their eyes and noses, and they never suspected a thing. My aunt is delighted with mamma's centrepiece, which she thinks is all her )wn work, aud she is perfectly satisJed with the cheap chocolate in the Potin box. She will certainly buy the louse. And as for poor Gaston de Tournettes, he is still ignorant of my sentiments! I merely wished to show you, a trifle nallciously perhaps, but perfectly respectfully. I assure you, that the truth rou talked so much about is not alvays expedient to tell. Indeed, you vould not think it was modest or tiling for a lady to issue from her well ind travel about through the world vlthout being adorned and veiled to a certain extent. You had far better trust to woman's act. finesse and taste to render her so iable, amiable and even pretty and switching without losing any of her latural grace! Cover her with a little modyne in the shai>e of a few innocent les and she may journey freely with>ut fear of injury. Thus, dear papa, do not scold me so ieverely another time. I promise that [ will tell only nice, white, innocent ittle lies, and you must admit now, rourself, that they make life vastly nore agreeuble and easy to live! In Tact, there is no getting along without :hem! JULIETTE. The Country Editor. The worm will turn. Sometimes it rakes the worm a long time to make up its mind to do it, but sooner or later it does. Every man who has served time as editor of a country newspaper has experienced the trouble referred to in this little anecdote, but not all of them have had the courage to resent it. Let there be a society function in the little city and the local editor present, some will approach him with a smile and say: "Well,'getting some news to put in your paper?" Of course they mean well, but they seem never to realize that perhaps even a country editor cam lay aside his professional duties long enough to go out in society and vjaeet his friends on a social basis. "Deacon" Dobyns, one of the best known country editors in Missouri, suffered this sort of thing for years, and although it rankled in his bosom, he never let on, but smiled in return and nodded assent. But at last patience ec'ased to be a virtue. Not long ago ho attended a social affair ki his home town, going as an invited guest. While mingling with his friends a local grocer greeted him with the remark: "Good evening, 'Deacon.' Getting some news for your paper?" "Yes. that's what I'm here for." replied "Deacon." "By the way, Mr. Sands, are you here to drum up some trade for your store?" Of course the grocer got mad about it, but "Deacon" only grinned and resumed mingling with his friends.? From W. J. Bryan's Commoner. Cloves, The word clove is derived from a Spanish word meaning a nail?the sim ilarity in shape between a clove and a tiny nail is easily recognized. Cloves are the flower buds of a tree which grows to a height of fifteen to forty feet. These flower buds are the principal products of the tree. They are gathered carefully, exposed to the smoke of wood fires, and afterward to the heat of the sun; or again they may be dried by the sun alone. Cloves are much used both in savory and in sweet dishes. In braizing, making a soup, stew or ragout, no cook would think of dispensing with an onioi stuck with cloves^ French (ilrl'i Lingerie. Like her mother, the little French girl has an inborn love of pretty lingerie, but the luxury of her underwear is limited strictly to the quality of the material and the beauty of the baud stitching. No lace trims the dainty garments unless it be very narrow Valenciennes, edging a little frill on which three tiny tucks have been run by hand. Any embroidery that may find a place on the lingerie is worked directly on the nainsook or broadcloth, in button-hole stitched little scallops.? I Tlnin^ u asuiiigiuu nun.?, Peek-*-Boo Shoe*. reek-a-boo shoes are pretty things among the most fanciful footwear. The peek-a-boo part is made by cutting the leather in simple designs on the toe and the low uppers on either side of the opening. The shoes are of kid with lUgh heels, and are to be found in every color aud shade imaginable. One of the prettiest is in bronze, but with light gowns those of different colors, pastel shades to deep tones in green, l blue, lavender pink, and oyster and > white are pretty. The shoes are laced with ribbons to match, and worn with silk stockings of the same shade, which are visible through the cut openings. They *are pretty and dainty worn with frocks of the same color. As to the Use of Perfume. Much has been said of the vulgarity I of scent. Well, of course, there are I cnlcnr norfiimrw tost ns tlioro nro low music aiul art. The real reason of the tirade against the vulgarity of perfumes 110 doubt lies in the fact that the scent bottle is made too evident. A woman of taste, in whatever class of I life, will not pour in the eau do cologne by the pint. It is something far more delicate that she requires. It is not a rapid evaporation of strong scent that she delights In, but a very faint, clinging fresh violets in her linen cupboard or hanging her dress In a wardrobe i where a scent bottle is left to evaporate slowly. It takes a long time for the subtlest part of the scent to get into every fibre of the texture, but when she wears that dress there is no vulgarity about it. She brings a kind of fragrant presence with her into the room, and it accompanies lier wherever she goes, reminding mot* of summer evenings in pleasant gardens where the lilies blow.?Modern Society. MlntrfM Whom n Servant Respects. A woman should insist upon being mistress of lier own kitchen, but unless she posseses self-control, patience and tact she is really just as unfit to manage her servants as a child. It is a I very true saying that a man or woman wlio has not learned to control self Is not fit to control others. If a woman cannot so into her kitchen without losing her patience or losing her temper she would do better to stay out of it. Fault must be found, but with servants, as with children, It should be In a quiet, dignified way, and a proper time should be chosen for It. A woman who does not know any better than to take a time when a servant Is particularly busy or has some special piece of work she Is trying to get through, such as washing, ironing or getting dinner, will never be likely to have good service. If she scolds or nags she at once lowers herself to the level of her servant and loses the respect which every mistress of a house | should strive to deserve from those j about her.?Woman's Life. Sow the Fling Coat. Very smart are the little fling coats. Some of these abbreviated wraps reach | but to the top of the girdle, and yet | others come to the hips. A few end : at the waist line. A white chiffon voile with emerald ! green discs embroidered at intervals ! on the blouse and the foot of the ' -i- t.i -.1 u i Mtirr, ;i:uiu uiuh uiuiuiiii?>, is imvu ; out with the cleverest fling < oat, which j has thus boon christened for obvious ! reasons. Not so long since a garment of similar usefulness was called the I coffee coat. This particular example is of emerald green taffeta. It is pleated and short-sleeved and adorned with embroidery and touches of lace at the neck and front. It provides just the necessary warmth with the sheer blouse and may serve for a theatre or restaurant coat. One in white taffeta shows an Eton as a foundation. Over this fails a hiplength pleating, the sleeves being on corresponding lines. These small coats may be had alone O." ili> U juiri ui a lua't-jiirvc vvoiuuio Women and Laughter. A Parisian physician has started a school of laughter. This is surely an innovation. We are accustomed to hear that we may "laugh and grow fat." Hut whether the threat conveyed is such that the average woman is afraid of increasing her avoirdupois or whether she is too lazy to do more than smile occasionally is not known, hut it is a fact that women do not often laugh. They smile, and alas! too often giggle, but a hearty laugh is becoming a rare thing. Some people claim that the childhood training, forcing girls to be less boisterous and restrain their hilarity, has resulted 111 the absence of laughter among women, ! and surely an unmusical roar is nnyj thing but pleasing, but let us try to ! cultivate the '"musical tinkle," the "silvery laugh" so much vaunted by the novelist, and in return we are promised that not only shall we be more attractive, but entirely free from dyspepsia?the Atter is a prosaic but comfortingjpason, although if a woman suffen^rom that complaint It Is difficult 'tlunderstand Just how she will feel enough to laugh, and so cure her own Illness.?Indianapolis News. ??? c Exerclae. The variety of beneficial motions that may be had in muscular exercise is almost unlimited. It is interesting to noilce that children, when free to play rotation or exercise ro me aim utaiui. One may learn ami practice with heneiit a system of exercises, as many do, without having the acquaintance with the principles involved that makes possible the greatest benefit and interest and enjoyment. There is an important advantage in knowing the reasons for the various movements, and what muscles make each movement, and how muscles use bones as levers. Fus>h:on to Bo Motherl.Ti Some cynics say it is merely one of the poses of the fashionable mother whey she lets herself be seen in public witJf her children around her. But so?e stout defenders of Mrs. Fiftli Avenue say she really feels the spirit of that Roman mother who said of her offspring, 'Those are my jewels." Mrs. S. Barton French rarely goes for a drive in the afternoon without at least one of iter children in her victoria, and Mrs. Oliver Gould Jennings and Mrs. Francis D. Beard seldom are seen without one or more of their hopes with them when walking or driving. Usually the children are dressed in such a fashion that the mother's beauty is set off. Henry T. Sloane preserves this tradition of family affection, and always takes one of his younger daughters with him when lie goes for his afternoon drive. A development of this idea is the current fad of mothers liav| ing their photographs taken with their I children grouped around thoni. Yet it was only a few years ago when such "family pictures" "were thought to belong exclusively to Coney Island. Positively that man Roosevelt is getting a following.?Newark Advertiser. Care In I?rcs*t?c. The well-dressed woman is always a woman of keen intelligence and*brain power. No senseless doll knows how to dress. She may don gaudy raiment, spend a fortune on a gown so utterly inappropriate to the occasion that one (An only feel an intense pity for her; Itot no one would ever dream of laying the burden of her sin against good form and good taste at the door of the whole of her sex. says the Washing Times. The woman who dresses well, in conformity with her age, her work, and her position in society, choosing neither extreme of the prevailing modes, but striking a happy medium, is the woman who has brains and uses them to make good selection from the fashions of the day. It is the well-groomed, suitably gowned woman who attains success, whether in business or social life. The age of the blue stocking has passed, and nowadays the woman who dresses unbecomingly through choice and not for the sake of economy is regarded as either mentally weak or as seeking some eccentric form of selfadvertisement, which is but another phase of unpardonable vanity. In the commercial world the dowdy, insignificant woman, even if she has mental ability, is at a discount when compared with the well-dressed woman, confident and smiling, with bright capacity written all over her comely person. The latter has learned an essential fact?that confidence is born of good clothes; and therefore, with genuine brain power, reasons the necessity of making the most of all her good points. By doing this she engenders the feeling that her dress adds to her appearance, she knows that it is tin- j ished in every detail, and tlnis assured, her business assumes first importance and success is gained by the forgetfulness of self. The woman orator, the actress, the singer, the musician, all understand "the philosophy of clothes" as a powerful adjunct to their personality. And this personality is to them of as paramount importance as their own individual gifts. The pleated skirts are popular and pretty. White linen coat suits tailored and heavily embroidered are -shown. Lir.cn holds its own, especially in the long coat suits, which are practical and becoming. Most of the separate coats are In plain tailored styles, with colored velvet collars. All sorts of efforts have been made to introduce the wearing of artificial flowers as corsage ornaments, but so far the American woman will have none of it. Skirts grow wider and wider. Even the moderate ones are now at least five yards around the hem. while eight are not too many to be considered for skirts of thin material. There are methods of laundering and cleaning which are secrets to the world in general, but which make it possible and even practical to make wash fabrics into such dainty creations. The p Ibilities of the silk coat on basqued lice, with a sheer skirt have not been liausted, and the dressmakers are ing with one another in ringing cl..irming variations upon this idea. The semi-tailored gown is the latest outgrowth. The skirts of these gowns are as correct in line and finish as the tailor's art can make them, while the Jatkets or coats are exquisitely made, and are more or less elaborate. I ' ' '- '-'- " t/) as tiioy choose, instinctively in;:ke so many different motions that they scvin to use all their muscles. When people's ideas of propriety shall have become what they should be grown people can exercise like children, without being considered daft or silly. Many r\t Mm nor/nvmnmiac r\f I'll i 111 run Sfnjll to older persons purposeless and useless. There is suoli a state of ignorance and prejudice that many people of considerable education lack very much of having a proper conception of the How to Secure Good Roads. HIS newspaper is very __ much in earnest in the tie0 10 sire to see a system of imX Prove(l highways in the country. Its editor knows that no systematic highway improvement can be had except by a great national movement, such as lias been outiimd in the Iirowulow-I.atlmer bills in Congress. The people of this State have an interest in the highways of Its sister States. Highway travel does not stop at State lines any more than river transportation stops where the waterways pass from one State to another, or railroad transportation where the railroads cross State lines. High- , way improvement is sooner or later to be recognized as a function of the Government. The Government comprises a union of States of mutual interests, and interdependent, each obligated to the other in a compact for the general national welfare. Wo do not believe any question, present or probable, is more pregnant with import- * nnoe Jo all the people than?that of 11aHmvil nift tn irnoiT roads, and we want to surest to our re ad res that the only way this aid can l?o scoured Is for the people to demand it. The Senate Committee on Agriculture a year ago favorably reported on the Latimer bill, it being substantially a copy of the Brownlow bill, which was earlier offered in the House. The bills will be reintroduced on the assembling of the Fifty-ninth Congress. If the people who favor national aid will write to their Senators and Representatives, insisting upon the measure, the little difference in the two bills will be eliminated and the one thus agreed upon will be passed. It is all with the people themselves. One citizen is as much obligated as another in the matter. No citizen is so humble but that lie has the right of petition. Every citizen can afford the time to write. He can attend the county meetings that should be held everywhere to emphasize the demand for Government help to better roads. He can sign a petition with his neighbors asking Congress to give this relief. He can write to his Senator for Senate Document No. 204. study of which will enable him to talk good roads to others. All may be posted for the asking; and we suggest that our newspaper brethren keep standing i:i a prominent place in their columns some such paragraph as this: "Write to your L'. S. Senator for a copy of Senate Document No. 2IM. Also tell him you favor the enactment of the Brownlow-Latlmer bill for good roads." The press and the people must speak out on the question.?Brooklyn (X. Y.) Uptown Weekly. Road Maintenance. Tn the maintaining of the State roads so little experience has been had on the part of the Highway Commissioners and the people In general that it Is usually thought that when a road Is once built it will maintain itself. Many Highway Commissioners and town boards feel this same way toward an iron bridge and neglect to paint it, but even a bridge built of Iron when neglected loses its strength. Just the same as a road built of stone if neglected will go to pieces. The real life of a stone road is dependent upon the care which it receives during the first six mouths after it is finished, and the perpetual attention Avhich it receives after that. Some commissioners think that when a road is completed that if the loose stones are raked off once in thirty days that it will maintain Itself for three or four years, and then the road can be resurfaced with top dressing and a steam roller anil again become as good as new and ready to go three years longer without attention. Tliis method of caring for roads is far from economical and satisfactory. The best way to maintain a road is, as soon as it is turned over by the State to the town, to gngage a man to take charge | of a five-inile section at an agreed price j per year and put him in charge of t-ke road, providing him with surface material, which is stored at regular intervals on each side of the road for resurfacing. This man goes every day with his rake, his shovel, his hoe and his wheelbarrow the entire distance of the road, rain or shine. He removes the loose stones, he keeps the shoulders low at the side of the road so that the water passes freely over them to the ditch, he keeps the sluices opened, he fills the depressions, fills.the ruts and repairs each spot as fast as the surface dressing wears off or blows away. It is this constant attention which keeps the road always in good order and at the least expense to the community. Our American road builders may be inexperienced in handling stone roads, but it won't take long to adopt the best methods, which long years of usage in Europe have proven to he the most economical.?Rider and Driver, New York. lie %Va? of Age. An instance of the Application of a ! precocious knowledge of the law by a child occurred In a Parisian school last January. In France education is obligatory. but the law cannot compel children to remain at school after the age of thirteen. This law, needless to remark, is usually a dead letter, but on the occasion in question a pupil suddenly got up in the middle of a lesson, gathered up Ills bonks, placed them neatly In his desk, took up his hat and moved toward the door. "Where are you going?" asked the teacher, with a certain amount of acerbity. "Sir," replied the boy. with irritating nonchalance, "I was thirteen years of age four minutes ago, and you have no longer any right to keep me at school." By Cow Train. Three covered wagons from Minne- i sota, drawn by nine milch cows, passed through here for the country west of the Missouri River. In addition to making fifteen miles a day with their loads the cows furnishe^ milk for the movers.?Miller Corr | spoudeace of the St. Paul Dispatch. ( j V With} the Funny jj A New Psalm. Lives of nurses oft remind us We can hypnotize our pals And departing leave behind us Husbands for surviving tjals. ?Milwaukee fcentincL Their Waning Honfjmoon. She?"Have you got the time?" He?"Yes. I)o you want it?" She?"Xo-o-h!"?London Punch. i IIU AVay. First Caddy?"How does lie address the ball?" Second Caddy?"To de dead letter office."?New York Sun. ?i Lectured Too Murh. , "You seem rather hoarse this morning, dear?" "Well, my husband came home rather late last night."?Chicago Journal. The Ideal Girl. "Is she one of those horrible girls who know enough to set men right?" "No; she's one of those delightful girls who know enough not to."?Smart Set. Ground*. Edythe?"Divorce! Weil, I never! What grounds can she possibly have?" Mae?"The t^ry best. A quarter-section In North Dakota and a tbrcc-acre plot at Newport."?Puck. Literary Note. "That last book of Jones' don't seem to have anything in it." "Oh, I don't know?there are C13 pages, five illustrations and a bookmark!"?Atlanta Constitution. Eqnally Ignorant. Upgardson?"What has become of your new automobile? I haven't seen it for a month or more." Atom?"I don't know. I haven't, either. It blew up soon after I got it." ?Chicago Tribune. Unusual. "Was the eminent actor popular with the profession?" "He should have been. lie never intimated that ho thought they ought to give him a brncfit performance."? Cleveland Plain Dealer. Where the Money Goes. "Why do Rounderly's children look so shabby and hungry?" "I can't account for It He's a good fellow." "Ah, that accounts for it."?Louisville Courier-Journal. Meant Well. She (Indignantly)?"Do you mean to say that Charlie Prettyboy Isn't a gentleman?" He?"Oil, I meant no offense; I'll say more than that for him?he's a perfect lady."?Detroit Free Press. Politely Expressed. I f W| ^1 "She took u medal at the beauty show." "She is not much of a beauty." "No, but she's a kleptomaniac."? 1 Chicago Journal. Aa Compared. Mumm?"Cheer up, old man, and don't be so melancholy. You remind me of Jonah." Glumm?"Remind you of Jonah?" Mumm?"That's what I said. He was down in the mouth, you know."? Detroit Tribune. Explained. Urban?"De Smythe has only lived in the suburbs a month, but he is already'a social favorite." Uppton?"How do you account for his sudden popularity?" Urban?"He bought a new lawn mower a couple of weeks ago."?Detroit Tribune. Nothing Left Bnt Flying. "You should adopt some healthful form of exercise," suggested the doctor. "Take up riding, for instance." "But," protested Mrs. De Style, "everybody-does that." "Then walk." "Oh, but nobody does that!"?Louisville Courier-Journal. Began at the Top. Philosopher?"Young man, in order to succeed in life you must begin at the bottom and work up." Young Man?"That wasn't my father's motto. He began at the top and worked down." "And made a failure, I suppose?" "Not at all; he made a fortune coal mining."?Chicago Journal. ' Hard Timet. First Tramp?"Not much doln\ pard." Second Ditto?"Nothin' doin' at all. Things Is orful. I ain't had a Job fer six months." First T.?"That's rocky. What's yer lay?" Second T.?"Me? I peddles Chris'mus trees. What's yourn?" First T.?"I sells sowveneers ,at Presidential inaugurations."?Washingion Life. I' g SCIENCE A new incandescent lamp conium filament annouuce^^^^^H^H in any. Weil din, rp lamp of to the Electro-Technical ^ocic^H^^H^H By means the leprolin temporary cure has been umber of cases under the mission of lepers in India, tients are kept in special obscV^^^^H Silicon, the most abundant metal HH| the world, lias been unknown on count of the difficulty of separating it ^ from oxygen, but the electric furnace has now made it obtainable iu quantlties to meet any demand. In Paris the Postoffice Department is now using several electric mail wagons which are designed to tranv port the mail matter in larger quanta ties and at a greater speed than the old horse-drawn vehicles. German newspapers speak of a new typewriting machine, which prints syllables and short words instead of single letters, attains much greater speed than others, and, it Is claimed, will revolutionize the art of typewriting. Three rare specimens of male tree fern, Osmunda regalis, of more than 1000 years' growth, have been pro cured tor xne imiJerim r>uiauic v*ardens of St. Petersburg from the virgin aj forests 'on the Black Sea coast, near Adler. A scientific man in Buffalo proclaims that he has discovered that working about high voltage electric apparatus results in "grave disturbances of tfca* digestive organs, loss of appetite, distress after eating." and a whole train of dyspeptic symptoms. A report on the German traveling schools for teaching scientific housekeeping, cooking and farm work to the women connected with the agricultural districts of Baden, Bavaria,* Thuringen and Hosse declares them to have given great satisfaction. ' . Solar activity showed a great in-. crease during the year ending May 10, 19CU5, the sun not being free from spots for a single day. So says the British astronomer rojal in his report. The enn cnotc v: non anrlv this VA/IP Ui OUll C|/V14 kiVVM VM> V ^ _ Was the largest ever photographed at the observatory. Inventors are now- turning their attention to the sm.-.ller details of the automobile. One cf the most recent patents is applied to a wire frame arranged to sweep the rubber tires. This, it is claimed, will avoid many punctures, since it will remove tacks v and bits of glass as soon as picked up. 'N A NEW METAL ( Tantalum, a Blulsh-Whlte Substance, PoMesalng Kemaraable Propertlca. A few wneeks ago electrical engineers got wind of a new Incandescent lamp < hailing from Germany. Now. as a rnle, no one even raises an eyebrow at such an announcement, for reputed improvements on incandescent lamps are an old story, but the newcomer was unusual in that tho light-giving filament was a plain metallic wire drawn from tantalum, an element of which most neonle had not even heard the name. Tantalum is an element which lias been known for more than half a cem v tury as a constituent of various rather uncommon minerals, but nobody knew It for anything more than a black poWder which could be obtained without great difficulty, but was of no use after one had it. It has turned out, however, that when melted in vacuo, to overcome its unpleasant trick of absorbing nitrogen when hot, this black powder becomes a little ingot or real^ metal, which possesses very remarkable properties. Metallic tantalum is a bluish-white substance, a little darker in color than platinum, and about three-quarters as heavy for the same bulk. It is, for a metal, an unusually bad conductor of electricity, and has an extremely high melting point, both of these properties being invaluable for the purpose intended. Besides this. It can be hammered into sheets and rolled or drawn into fine wire quite easily. Its melting point is so high that it can be pushed to vivid incandescence that makes an ordinary lamp look yellow. By this same token, the light is produced at a high efficiency, so that for the same energy used the tatalum filament gives nearly double the light of a carbon filament. The former, by the way, Increases Its electrical resistance as It gets hotter, while the latter has its highest resistance when cold. The result is a very curious difference of appearance when a tantalum and a carbon lamp are turned on together. The latter takes a perceptible time to reach full brilliancy, while the former jumps to whiteness more quickly than the eye can follow it.?Harper'i Weekly. Relics of Old Virginia. Three pieces of Iron sheathing and one gun from the famous Confederate ironclad Virginia lie 011 the Roanoke , pier here to-day, having been dug up off Lnmbert's*Point by a mud machine. The old smooth bore and sheathing, which is several inches thick, are now the property of a Junk dealer. The mud machine which is engaged- In deepening the harbor scooped up the relics, which are famous. The iron shcathlugs, which, it was explained by a marine man, covered the slanting sides of the famous vessel, are about fifteen feet in length. The gun Is about three feet in length, and the water has apparently mad? no impression on ^ the weapon.?Norfolk Landmark. The Han in the Iron Mask. A means has been found for enabling the sojourners on the Jersey seacoast to defy mosquitoes. A mosquitfl mask has been invented by some genius. It consists of a wire framework, covered with netting, and when slipped over the head protects that part ol one's anatomy from the pests, giving one time to defend the other parti more effectively. ? - *'S % m