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- WARWICK CASTLE. _ A Peep Into the Famous English Palace of the "Kingmaker." One could spend days looking at the pict ores at Warwick and at the sculp? ture and curios. There is a table, the slab of which is made of fine marble mosaic, lapisl?zuli, and precious stones which Velonged to Mario Antoinette. In the red drawing room are rare speci ? :: mens of Limousin enamels, also Bohe * mian glass and Venetian crystals. This room leads, to the cedar drawing room, whose walls are 10 feet in thickness. One of the many valuable and beautiful ornaments in this room is a bust of Proserpine, by our American sculptor Power. The "living rooms" of the castle ex? pend 330 feet in length, and each win? dow gives charming views of the grounds. In one of these rooms, the girt drawing room, is a Florentine mo? saic table, enriched with precious stones, brought from the Grimani palace in Venice. Its value is ?10,000, which, please remember, is $50,000 of Yankee money. The Grimani arms, the pope's triple * crown, lion of St. Mark, doge's cap, keys of; St Peters and cardinal's hat are illustrated in jasper, onyx, am? ethyst, malachite and cornelian on its surface. A moment after leaving th? gilt draw? ing room and we are in the state bed? room, where good Queen Anne slept, and in which her big dreary looking bed still stands. We don't seem to know much about Queen Anne's belongings, thus her bed and traveling trunks at its foot arouse our interest. In these trunks were her majesty's clothes. They are sensible, ponderous trunks, covered with brown leather and studded with brass nails. Even an American baggage smashing porter would have found Queen Anne's trunks "too large an or? der" to destroy. George TH presented f this bedstead, with its faded crimson curtains and its 15 feet high posts. Over the fireplace hangs a fine portrait of the queen herself painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller. It is in this state bedroom that Queen Victoria slept when she visited Warwick castle with the late prince consort. I don't know whether she occupied Anne's bed, but if so I hope it was more comfortable than it r looks. From the bedroom is a boudoir, lit? erally crammed with paintings. Here is Holbein's "Henry VTU;" "A Boar Hunt," by Rubens; "A Dead Christ," on copper, by a follower of Correggio; "Charles n's Beauties," by Lely; a "San Sebastian," by Vandyke; "Card Players, "by Teni os, and a Salvator Rosa landscape. The castle's state dining room was burned out in 1871, but it has been re? produced on the old lires and is a truly royal apartment. On either side of the massive fireplace, where many a Yule log has slowly burned itself ont to white ashes, there are gilt Venetian figures. Above the fireplace hangs Ruben's sketch of lions. There is also in this room a droll portrait of George TH in the arms of his mother. ? The castle boasts a Shakespeare room, designed and added hythe late earl, and to which the county of Warwick presented the Kenilworth buffet in an? cient oak. Into this room have been col? lected all procurable Shakespeare rel . ics, and resting on an old claw footed oak table are all the works, with the admirable edition of Shakespeare of the late Halli well Phi llipps. The place has been called the castle of the kingmaker. Who can visit this historic house and not desire to reread Lord Lytton's-or Bulwer's, as you please-"The Last of the Barons," whose text of composition is furnished by the annals of this wonderful castle and its wonderful earl, Richard Nevil. -Boston Herald._ BEFORE THE CAMERA. Booth, Forrest, Mansfield and Chauncey 2>epew as Sitters. - I found Edwin Booth the most genial and good natured of men. I could never associate the companionable, yes, even the jelly Edwin Booth, who came into my studio on so many occasions, with the Edwin Booth of "Hamlet," and be? cause of this he was the more admirable as man than as actor. The portrait of him with his pipe in his hand he dis? liked very much. Yet he and his pipe were inseparable. Of all men, I most enjoyed making a portrait of Edwin Forrest. His own magnetism and vigorous personality put me at my best. Richard Mansfield is a realist. He appreciates the limitations of photography, and, unlike most actors, instead of desiring to pose in a dramatic # fashion, he wishes to be taken so as to reveal the strong characteristics of him? self or of the character he is impersonat? ing. Chauncey M. Depew has never been taken at his best. His smile is at once wise and good humored and of course his chief characteristic. As a sitter he is self conscious, strange to say about him of all men, and it is impossible to destroy a certain makeup for the occasion appar? ent in his countenance. If he could be caught unawares in the midst of a story during a political speech, the real Depew might be transferred to albumen paper. -Napoleon Sarony in New York Herald. Ancient Egyptian Papyri. Some time ago the Geneva library be? came possessed of a collection of unopen? ed Egyptian papyri, which on being care? fully manipulated and examined by M. Nicole were found to be of great inter? est and value. They include a fra?<ment of the Orestes of Euripides, which is be? lieved to be at least 1,000 years older than any other manuscript of the same work at present known. There are also portions of the Iliad, containing great variations from the usually accepted text. The collection also contains an idyl on Jupiter and Leda and an elegy on the stars. A curious document is a letter from the head of the monastery requesting the use for titree months of certain horses. The animals were to aid the monks in getting about the country, and as an in? ducement for granting the request it is urged by the borrowers that "they are orthodox." There are other interesting items in this valuable collection of papy ri-^Chambers' Journal. TRAINING BOTH HANDS ALIKE. No Good Reason Yet Advanced Why It Should Kot Be Done. In one of his essays in a book en? titled "Brushwood," the late James T. Fields wrote: "If I were a boy again, I think I wonld learn to ose my left hand jost as freely as my right one, so that if anything happened to lame either of them the other would be all ready to write and handle things just as freely as if nothing had occurred. " And un? doubtedly a great many of us would leanTto use both hands alike if we had our lives to live over again. Of all the young women who came under my in? struction while in charge of the School of Domestic Economy of the Iowa Ag? ricultural college, not more than one in twenty-five could sweep properly. The ratio in this respect of those who came under my instruction at Purdue univer? sity was about the same. And as far as my observation extends this ratio will hold in regard to women generally. As a rule, women, old and young, do not know how to handle a broom. Their right hands only have been trained. Their left hands have been neglected. When a women takes nbfcTof a broom it is with the right hand near the top of the handle and the left hand toward the corn, and instead of changing and reversing them as occasion demands she always keeps them in the same po? sition. Whether she sweeps to the right or to the left, the position of her hands remains unchanged. And her body is contorted and her muscles strained in the performance of an operation that would exercise these organs harmonious? ly, if the hands were so trained' that, they could be used at will and were changed as demanded by the changes in the position of the sweeper. I refer to women sweeping merely to illustrate my point. The same can be said concerning the training of the bands in numerous other branches of women's work that it is unnecessary to mention, and so far as the use of the left hand ?s concerned men are in no better condition than women. Men and women are in this respect maimed and handicapped alike. Why should such a state of things exist? Why, in this age of manual training, should we over? look and neglect the education of the left hand and continue to train the right hand at the expense of the left? No physician or physiologist has "ever given a sensible reason for so doing, and we seem to adhere to the custom merely because it has been carried down to us by our ancestors.-Jenn ess Miller Monthly. A Smuggling Scheme. Passing through Hudson street with a friend, I chanced to pass the establish? ment of a firm of "folders arid repack ers" of dry goods. Before the door were a hundred or more little bales of goods, bearing odd markings, but showing that they were destined for a firm in Texas, doing business in a town near the Mex? ican line. **Do you know," asked my compan? ion, "why those goods are put np in such small packages?'* Upon replying in the negative he con? tinued : * ' They are to be smuggled across the Mexican line. The goods are pur? chased in their original packages and delivered here. The wooden boxes are discarded, and the goods subjected to hydraulic pressure and baled. Each bale contains about 30 pieces, or half the number of an ordinary dry goods case. "The goods are then shipped to Tex? as, and all marks removed. When all is arranged, some night the little bales are slung across the backs of mules, two bales to each animal, and with an armed escort the train proceeds over the border to some distributing point in Mexico, where the goods are sold to Mex? ican traders at a good profit. "Smuggling in this manner is quite extensively carried on between this country and Mexico, the United States getting in return for its dry goods, which are the most easily handled, cheap Mexican coffee and cigars. "-New York Herald. America's Only Frostlese Belt. What is supposed to be the only frost less belt in the United States lies be? tween the city of Los Angeles and the Pacific ocean. It traverses the foothills of the Cahuenga range and has an ele? vation of between 200 and 400 feet. In breadth it is.perhaps three miles. The waters of the Pacific are visible from it, and the proximity of the ocean has of course something to do with banish? ing frosts. During the winter season this tract produces tomatoes, peas, beans and other tender vegetables, and here the lemon flourishes, a tree that is peculiarly susceptible to cold. Tropical trees may be also cultivated with suc? cess, and in connection with this fact it is interesting to know that a part of the favored territory has been acquired by Los Angeles for park purposes, and it is only a question of time when the city will have the unique distinction of pos? sessing the only tropical park in the United States. Strange to say, only the midway region of the Cahuenga range is free from frost, the lower part of the valley being occasionally visited. -New York Evening Post. Love's Toons: Bream. The Rev. Simon Peter Roundtree, a ? colored Baptist preacher, aged 99 years, j was married for the eighth time in his j history the other day, the bride being a j buxom widow of OD. Roundtree spent ; 70 years in bondage and authenticated ; reports are that in 1S65 he was muster ! ed out of the Army of the Tennessee at I Nashville, when he gave his age as 71. ; The old man is exceedingly spry for his ; years and declares that physically and i mentally he is good for many years. j Lincoln (Neb.) Dispatch. The American Girl. Mgr. Nugent, the English prelate, j who was a visitor at the fair, speaking j of the American girl, said, "She is not; ! forward, bnt straightforward. " A hand I some distinction! He also remarked j that he saw very few girls in this coun 1 try, even in the lowest ranks, who did not wear shoes and stockings, an ob? servation which from some point of view seems to have been worth making. New York's Four Hundred. When will we begin to know how to amuse ourselves? i really am tired of the same round of inane entertainments, where 1 am obliged to talk to the same set of inane people. Yet one cannot do otherwise. Bohemia in New York means vulgarity. There is a half world in London and in Paris where one can meet professional people and such in? teresting beings as the second Mrs. Tan queray and Lena Despard and the other clever and fascinating creatures observ? ing les convenances. Here one is obliged to keep, strictly in one's set or otherwise be socially declasse. I have tried literary people, and 1 have found them crude, stupid and al? together impossible. To be literary in New York and to belong to the literary set seem simply an excuse to do all kinds of extraordinary and eccentric things. One can name the artists in society on fingers of one hand, and as for the stage the players have by their own voluntary action placed themselves beyond the pale. Senators and politi? cians seem to think it necessary to wear bad clothes and to appear as gauche as possible-probably with a view of im? pressing the horny handed son's of toil. Wo of course have a few exceptions, but they stand out conspicuously and. are the subject of universal comment, criticism and not a little condemna? tion.-Vogue. MAKING WHITER PAPER. Novel Experiment Carried on by a Rhode Island Mechanic a A mechanic in a mill at Providence has invented a new method for whiten? ing paper. An expert invited your cor? respondent to go with him and see the contrivance. Here, near the center of the inventor's room, stands a large, square table with a wooden top. On this topr which is about 10 feet square, are the va? rious apparatus used in imparting me? chanically a Whiter color to the paper stock than can be procured in any other way. Sulphur whitens anything. Every mill man knows this. Put a pine board in an airtight chamber with burning sul? phur over night, and in the morning the yellow colored and dirty looking board will have been made as white as snow by the powerful fumes. The same princi? ple is applied in this new process of whitening low grade paper stock, but the method of application is quite peculiar to the new process, for it does the work very thoroughly. It used to take a month to whiten goods; then the time was reduced to 10 days. The big mills of the country can now bleach in a day and aoiight. The inventor of the process sets forth the statement that he can bleach the worst kind of paper stock in six hours. The stand upon which the machine rests is the top of a big table. To this is fixed a large copper chamber. A common pump is employed with which to pump the air from the interior of this chamber. The goods to be whitened are put inside the chamber, the doors are secured, the pump started, and' then as fast as the air is pumped out a jet of bleaching compound is admitted. The removal of the air from the chamber of course means the re? moval of the same from the fiber of the paper. Hence when the compound en? ters there is nothing to hinder the fumes from penetrating the fiber of the paper to its foundation. It is done very quick? ly, too, as no hindrances are presented. In common ways of bleaching, the pres? ence of the air in the fibers offers a great bar to the effects of the sulphur. Re? move the air, and this difficulty is over? come. The expert and your correspondent ex? amined the apparatus from top to bot? tom and investigated all its details. As a result we are ready to pronounce the idea as quite a novel one, and unless some unforeseen accident occurs the thing may be of great practical use in the paper mill. The fact that the whitening of low grades of stock can be accomplished in a few hours by the in? vention ought to be sufficient to war? rant its usefulness.-Boston Commercial Bulletin. O'E iley's Gorgeous Ancestor. An ancient suit of court garments, worth $4,000, is on exhibition in the window of a West Madison street store. lt includes a coat, waistcoat, knee breeches and a three cornered hat, which arrived from Ireland less than two weeks ago. The suit was once the property of J. J. O'Riley of County Cavan, who wore it in the Irish parlia? ment in 1774. The coat is of heaviest I broadcloth of a deep maroon color and j is richly embroidered in solid gold bul? lion. Tara's harp, surrounded by a wreath of shamrock, is embroidered on I each side of the front, wilh a vine o? I the same embroidered around the full, long skirts of the garment. Anothei harp is wrought on the back. Gold braid an inch in width finishes the edges. The waistcoat is of the same mate? rial and finish as the coat. The knee breeches are of deep yellow plush, thici and of very fine texture. The buttons are marked ' ' P. White, Dublin. ' ' The three cornered hat is of black beaver, covered with gold lace and hung at thc corners with gold tassels. The girth of the coat proves the own? er to have been a man of lordly propor? tions. The palo y/eliow silk linings ar? somewhat soiled from wear, and th< yellow plush garment bears evidence oJ parliamentary benches. . The embroid? ery in gold is entirely untarnished. This relic and heirloom was broughl into the Wost Madison street store bj ono J. J. O'Riley, a namesake and di rect descendant of the late J. J. O'Rile} of County Cavan, Ireland. The mar is a day laborer, and tho present han times had forced him to attempt th< salo of the ancestral regalia.-Chicagc Record. She Loves Scotch Music. I Lady Elgin is very musically inclined j and has a special predilection for thc j characteristic compositions of hernative land and has taught all lier children tc sing the fine old Scottish melodics. It is her custom every evening to have them join her at the piano, from the oldest down to Lady Rachel, a tiny fairy of three summers, whose piece de resistance at present is the familiar "Boatie Rows/1 -London Gentlewoman. ARTISTS OF THE ROUNDUP. j Old Time Texas Cowboys Tastly Different From Those of tho Present Day. The old time cowboy is no more. He passed in his checks with the free grass custom. The big pasture has intro? duced a new order of cowboy, who sleeps in a house and "obeys orders'* or quits. The old cowboy was the companion of bis boss and shared his pleasures and his hardships. No manager in this big headquarter rockhouse reminded him of his inferior rank in society, nor did any of the mod? ern ranch accessories mar the common dangers, the pleasures and the freedom and equality of the whilom cowboy and cowman. But the ranch in the olden time was a cottonwood loghonse to i cook in, and for roof and protection from the weather the slicker was used, and mother earth supplied their beds. The broad range and the overhanging sky answered for house and home. A ronndup in 1867-SO was not bounded by wire fences, but the boys galloped out of camp after breakfast, made a wide sweep, and all then drove toward a common center, and lo! directly at that point was gathered a herd of stock cat? tle of all brands, ready for the cut to begin. The high toned man was tabooed. I remember such a man appeared at the ranch of J. T., in Shackleford county, in 1869. He was a city fellow, and would say "Thankyou" and such like. His intense politeness and nigh toned nonsense aggravated the boys mightily. Jim B. in particular-poor fellow was especially fretted by his nonsense, as he called it, and tried to ridicule it out of him, but in vain. At last his resentment ripened into genuine hatred and it was hard to keep the peace be? tween them, for the city fellow had grit too. Well, one morning in 1S69, at Moun? tain pass, in Taylor county, long before any one lived in that section, Jim got awfully mad and gave the city fellow a cussing, whereupon a row resulted and blodshed was barely prevented there and then. We got the city fellow to ride off, and it looked like peace had return? ed, but one hour later Jim B. and his amiable enemy met off at one side of the roundup. I happened to be near. In a flash the city chap ran before Jim, dismounted, leveled his gun on him and demanded an apology or death. Jim jerked out two six shooters, but said nothing, and instantly the city fellow fired. Poor Jim rolled off his horse a dead man. I got to them just as Jim fell. He died instantly, shot through the heart. His slayer mounted his horse and 4iit Out. " We buried Jim and went on with our herd, two men short, but with no discordant ele? ment among us. Such was the old way. The boys were courteous and kind, they were gener? ous and brave, industrious and honest, but they would not stand any high toned nonsense. A new era has set in. Which is the better we cannot say, but one thing is sure-with all his faults, and they were many, the old time cowboy was a man to be trusted in peace or war and was the very soul of honor. Dallas News. A Careless City 'Editor. Reporter-That's a nice way to make an assignment, isn't it? Tm ordered to get up a column of "Slaughter Statis? tics." Friend-Well? Reporter-Well, I don't know whether Tm to write up the abattoirs or the grade TossirccrR.-New .York Weekly. ??-a?--? LADIES Needing atonic, cr children who want build? ing up, should take BROWN'S 1KO? BITTERS. It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria, Indi? gestion, Biliousness and Liver Complain ta Notice. No Hack-Drivers, Hotel Porters or News? boys are allowed ou the Passenger Depot Platform while Passenger Trains are at the Station. B. K. DKLORME, Agent, C. S. & N. R. R. DR J JM ?11)1, DENTIST. Office OVER BROWN & BROWN'S STORE. Entrance on Main Street Between Brown & Brown and Durant & Son. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock April 9. 2 ss aj? - ^ W PER MONTH la YOUR OWN LOCALITY made easily and honorably, without capi? tal, (.iuring your spare hours. Any man, woman,boy. or girl cando the work hand? ily, without experience. Talking un? necessary. Nothing like it for money? making ever offered before. Our workers always prosper. No time wasted in learning the business. "We teach you in a night how to succeed from the tirst hour. You can make a trial without ex? pense to yourself. We start you, furnish everything needed to carry on thc busi? ness successfully, and guarantee you against failure if you but follow our simple, plain instructions. Reader, if you are in need of ready money, and want to know all about the best paying business before the public, send us your address, and we will mail you a docu? ment giving you all the particulars. TRUE & CO., Box 400, Augusta, Maine PA TRICK Military Institute ANDERSON, S. C. 4 MILITARY HOARDING SCHOOL ^\ opens SEPTEMBER 12th. Fall corp? t experienced teachers. Healthy location octa! moral and religious influences good Rntes reasonable. Terms accommodating \pi>lv for catalogue. COL. JOHN B, PATRICK, Principal. Juna 23-3m LOW FOR CASH. A OAR LOAD OF Fine Buggy Horses* A Full Line of OLD HICKORY WAGONS, BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, WHIPS, ETC. ALL FOR SALE LOW FOR CASH. W. M. GRAHAM. Jan.ll. New Orleans Molasses In Barrels, Half Barrels and Kegs. Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Crackers, Meat, Lard, Cheese, Starch, Soap, And everything nice in the Grocery Line. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, Call and See Us. Our Retail Department is Complete. - Schwerin & Co? Feb. 7. ELECTRIC SALE. I now have a complete line of these celebrated goods RAZORS, SCISSORS, POCKETKI?ES, And I do not hesitate to guarantee every one. A FULL LINE OF Coalscuttles, Coal Vases. AflteSW and Toiips, Meat Chopra, Etc. Paints Not only guaranteed by the manu? facturers but by their agents. Respectfully, W. B. Burns. \^^^?A W. LO DOUGLAS sTWsm S3 SHOE GENTLEMEN. *W m $4 and S3.??0 Dress Shoo. c|;l ?K J $3.50 Police Shoe, 3 Sole?. *?P WJ?^l NSL $2.60, $2 for Workingmen. Ufm p^?^t 82 and for Boys. LADIES AND MISSES> . ^M^^5^^^^ ^ YBR CAUTION.-If any dealer ?pp ^.. V^^. offers you W. L. Douglas mWUlwiC'l^ Tim T^IT^^5^*??^ \ shoes at a reduced price, ?ft] HIS 15 THE B?^?^^Saj55s^_J^^, or says he hag them with BNS?.???i?x-.Z. w ^^!T??^?Lr^^?^^^ ont tho name stamped TLW?\\\ T iSHAcrw on. th? bottom, put him W. .L. DOUGLAS Shoes are stylish, easy fitting, and give better ! satisfaction at the prices advertised than any other make. Try one pair and be con j vinced. The stamping of W. L. Douglas' name and price on the bottom, which j guarantees their value, saves thousands of dollars annually to those who wear them, j Dealers who push the sale of VV. L. Douglas Shoes gain customers, which helps to i increase the sales on their full line of goods. They can afford to sell at a less profit? I and we believe yon can save money by baying all your footwear of the dealer advert j Used belov/. Catalogne free upon application. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mast. ! J. RYTTENBERG & SONS. Epperson's Coal Yard. ?I HANDLE Pennsylvania Red Ash, Egg, Stove and Nut COAL. Alabama and Tennessee Bituminous Coal also Pocahontas Blacksmith and Steam Coal. Prices to compete with any dealers. Weight and quality guaranteed. GEO. F. EPPERSON, SUMTER, S, C. Office at Epperson's Livery Stable. Oct. IS.