The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 03, 1896, Image 3
GUV'S LETTER.
And lo, theresball oe twelve million and
twelve baies of the li Nt c.tlle<i cotton made in
j. that year. And beboid the men so called
bears will arise and will bear upon the price
thereof even unto a Gerah a pound ; and all
the people with one accord will lift up their
voices and-howl. Now a gerah is the
one half part of a nick.-Hez. iv-xv.
Let us p-sing "0, what wiM the harvest
be." The prayer will be postponed until
fall, when we will doubtless ask the good
Lord to forgive us for acting so much like
the animal that browses UDon the thistle
As a special expounder 'of the book of Heze?
kiah we unhesitatingly pronounce the above
prophecy as referring to this present year of
grace and cotton. "Yes, the die is cast."
Bat we fear it's a die that wont stamp out
much coin for us. A trip through the
neigbboriog township and adjoining coun?
ties will prove to any oae that great efforts
are being made to fulfill the above prophecy.
Verily, verily the cotton farmer liveth upon
hope ; but we'll be doggoned if its a fatten
ing diet unless well seasooed with hog aEd
homioy. We don't mean to indicate that
the provision crop and stock are being ne?
glected as in former years, for we've noted
some very promising crops of both. The
acreage in tobacco is also largely menaced,
but progress with that crop bas been badly
handicapped by the dry weather. AppolUs
has been very partial in the distribution of
moisture this season and some of us have
suffered much. We notice strenuous efforts
being made on the Rosehill plantation to
move the mill pond np into tbe tobacco field,
and they had nearly succeeded in moving
considerable portions of it. Water appears
to be a very precious fluid under certain cir?
cumstances, whether :,chemically pure" or
not. Some of the tobacco planters that
" we've caught on the fly are Messrs. Neill
O'Donnell, near Mayesville, 10 acres ; D. W.
Josey, 4 acres ; J. Bullock, 5 acres ; McKa
gen & Moooeyban; 4 acres ; Geo. McCutch
eo, 2 barns; R. M. Cooper, 2 barns; A.
Brearlyr 1 barn ; Ryttenberg, Rosehill, 50
acres, 10 barns ; Thomas McCutchen, 15
acres ; H. H. and C. T. Evans, 12 acres ; J.
D. Evans, 7 acre3 ; T. J. Baker, 5 or 10
acres ; Wiley McKaio, 5 acres ; John Kelly,
5 acres ; Clarence Durant, 20 acres ; A. A.
Strauss, 2 barns. There are many others
that we have not yet caught. Will try and
report any interesting features as we wander
around.
Well, well, this world ought to be big
enough for us all and the good Lord un?
doubtedly intended that there should be
crops enough and money enough and room
enough and range enough for us all, but it
really looks as if there aint and that we're
getting crowded, judging by the way some
people act. But it is simply too hot to dis?
cuss-or to cuss-anything. We wish the
proprkies would permit us to reduce our cos?
tume to a hat brim and spurs, or that we
could find soma "endless contiguity of
shade" with a spring and ice house in it, we
would retire into a state of "innoccuous
disuetude," but we learn that rations are
not produced in that state, and goodness
gracious knows, they are scarce enough here
now. We eat breakfast three times a day,
leastways there's a mighty sameness, as
vegetables are not fully ripe and scarce, and
fruits and berries scarcer. Not even the
belly-acbe plum bas specified this year ; but
the political plums will ripen later on,
though the crop will net near supply the de?
mand, and there will b? bowling there also.
Too much plum causes the small boy to how!
and no plum causes the big candidate to
how!. We are not racning 'or any office.
We wouldn't walk after one except in the
shade ; but we wish it understood that if
any office is seeking the man, the man is not
far and will accept readily and on very
moderate terms. Coroner would have suited
aa io the recent past, for there have been a
number of fatalities around calling for in?
quests ; but we be dad fetched if our luck
aint such that we verily believe if elected
coroner everybody would stop dying except
legally and regularly under a doctor's cer?
tificate, and we'd die of starvation, cut off in
our youth and beauty and furnish the first
inquest over our interesting remains. We
would discuss the financial question as we've
received much information Rod many origi?
nal ideas from varied sources ; but the
torridity of the atmosphere has produced a
torpidity of the cerebrum et cerebellum and
we must postpone until a change of weather
-and of the Shove organs also. Suffice it to
say that the "unit of value:' is a mighty
good thiog by itself, but is much improved
by the X ray, and some contend that there's
a "C" ray that is 100 time3 better, but very
difficult to obtain. 16 to 1 is also good, pro?
vided we get the 16 and tother ellow the 1
We are much like Long. Long says, "I've
pondered and considered and calculated and
reckoned and opined and thinked all over
from head to foot and after mature delibera?
tion have reached the decided conclusion
damphino " We doo't know how this word
spells itself or where Long got it ; but it is
popular with him and emphatically expres?
sive. Gcv.
"To Slightly Correct."
MT. Editor :-Allow me to slightly correct
you in reference to the vote on the Irby reso?
lution io the State Convention by the Sumter
delegation. Two of the delegates, Messrs.
McLeod and Purdy, were not at the night ses?
sion, consequently did not vote. The resolu?
tion was uncalled for. Delegates had never
been bound to the National Convention.
Why bind them now? A man that can't put
the good of his country ahead of bis party,
is not tit to hold office, either by trust or pro
.jfi If enough delegates to the National
Convention will be bought as now claimed,
to control it in the interests of gold and
against the verdict of the people, such Con?
vention wiii not be a Democratic one, and it
will be right fer one delegation to bid them
"good evening," and if this is done, by
them, you will find the State Convention if
re-convened Sept. 1st will sustain them in
their action. This is the object of the recess.
The time is here when principles and no_t men
will control the day. This stifling cf the
voice of the people by the corrupt use of
money in our politics must Jcease, or scenes
worse than the history cf the world has pro?
ducid will take place here.
Pisgah, Maj.30th. JAS. E. D?PRE.
THE ANNUAL RF.PORT.
County Treasurer Scarborough
Files His First Annual Report
With the Ul erk of Court in
Accordance With Law.
County Treasurer Scarborough has com- ?
pleted his Aooual Report of the disburse- |
ments of the mods of the county and hae'filed j
? copy ia -No office of the Clerk of Court
HS require* >y law. j
1 The report is carefully and neatly made up
and may be readily understood by one who
cares to inspect it.
The annexed recapitulation of the report j
will give some idea of the manner in which j
the nioner of the county has been expendrd. ?
Roads and bridges, S 4,804 16
Other county expenses, 16,746 46 !
Total, $21,550 62 j
Court expenses-October term, S 952 00 j
March term, 1,549 20
Total, $2,501 20
Dispensary profits paid City of
Sumter, $1,735 48 |
Public Schools-District No 1, S 1,718 70
DistrictNo 2, 1,195 47
District No 3, 1,035 SS ?
District Xo 4, 185 60
District No 5, 734 00
DistrictNo 6, 1,17919
DistrictNo 7, 867 65
District No 8, T93 00
DistrictNo 9, 1,087 31
DistrictNo 10, . 496 94
DistrictNo ll, 397 80
DistrictNo 12, 1.574 87
DistrictNo 13, 1,104 30
DistrictNo 14, 991 00
DistrictNo 15, 675 50
DistrictNo 16, 790 10
DistrictNo 17, 1,690 90
DistrictNo 18, 732 00
DistrictNo 19, 376 00
DistrictNo 20, 1.257 75
Miscellaneous expenses-Salaries
School Commissioner, County
Board Education, Advertis?
ing, etc., 1,314 75
Toial. $20,248 7S
Grand Total. S46.C36 04 !
Sumter City Mission Picnic
About two weeks ago Mr. W. P. Smith,
Superintendent of our Sunday school ap?
pointed a committee on Sunday School picnic
consisting of Mr. John S Kennedy, Mrs. G.
W. Broach, Misses Annie Childers, Mamie
Brinkley and Lorie Barwick. This commit- j
tee went immediately to work and as a re
snit our school spent yesterday, May 28tb, a j
most delightful day in the grove uear Mr. J
Newton Berwick's.
There were in all about one hundred pres- ,
ent, as near as one count, for some of the j
children were like the Irishman's pig -ran '
around so you could not count him
Some of the members of the other Metho?
dist school, accepting the invitation of our
Superintendent came down and enjoyed the
day with us.
We wish here to thank all who, though not
immediately connected with our school, aid?
ed in making the day pleasant for the younn
people and children. Especially would we
thank Mr. James Foreman for his kind
thoughtfulness in bringing along ropes for
two splendid swings. We wish likewise to
return thanks to those who made additions
to our-table sto:?, though they themselves
could not be with us. Truly one o'clock yes?
terday witnessed a feast of good things.
The table seemed a3 it were to groan uader
the weight of luxury and even after one hun-j
I dred appetites had been satisfied there was |
j plenty left. Mr. Newton Barwick along with j
his many other kindnesses furnished our
I table with rather an unusual dish-Brer
Coon was caught early ia the morning and
was nicely cooked for the occasion.
The general understanding seemed to be !
? that each one was to make somebody else
I have a pleasant day and of course the result ;
j was unanimous verdict that the day was a j
I grand success. T. G. H.
Confederate Relics.
Miss Mary Singleton Hampton, regent for !
the South Carolina room of the Confederate j
Museum, Richmond, Va., has appointed Miss j
Carrie Moses as chati \n for this county, to ;
collect relics for exhibition and preservation j
in the above mentioned room. There are no
doubt many persons in the county who pos- j
3ess interesting relics of '.be lost cause, and j
they can be deposited in no safer or more ap- |
propriate place tb" i in the Confederate ?
Museuro. . If, however, the owner of such j
articles have some tender associations con- ;
nected with them, and feel unwilling to give j
them away, then they may be loaned to the
Museum and returned at the owner's pleasure
It is especially desired to have a creditable
exhibition in the South Carolina Room by
the thirtieth of June, when the United Con?
federate Veterans hold their re-union in Rich?
mond. Miss Moses most earnestly begs the
old soldiers of Sumter County to help her
i in this work. Each article sent should be I
j plainly labelled with its history and the ?
i sender's name and address. Miss Moses will !
j goto Richmond herself and the articles will j
j receive her personal care All packages or j
j communications should be addressed to Miss j
Caroline Moses, Sumter, S. C , or if more
convenient, packages may oe left with Mr.
Horace Harby.
- iiMIH--Ullin
Perfection in Cake-Making.
_ ?
Housekeepers frequently wonder why it is
that they cannot make biscuit and cake that
are light and palatable and that taste as deli?
cious as the buscuit and cake made by their
mothers and grandmothers, the delightful
memory of which even to mis day creates a
sensation of pleasure to the palate. The
trouble arises from the highly adulterated
state of the materials they have to work with,
particularly the cream-of-tarter and soda used
to raise or leaven the food. Cream-of-tartar
and soda that are now procurable for domes?
tic purposes contain large quantities of lime,
earth, alum, and other adulterants frequently
from five to twenty-five per cent., and conse?
quently vary so much in strength that no
person can tell the exact quantity to use, or
properly combine them, to insure perfect
results. From using too much or too little, or
because of the adult?rants in them,
bitter, salt, yellow or heavy biscuits
or cake are frequently made. These
adulterants are also injurious to health .
All this trouble may be avoided by the use
of the popular Royal Baking Powder. Where
this preparation is employed in the place of
cream-of-tartar and soda, its perfect leaven?
ing power always insures light, flaky, digest?
ible biscuit, cakes, and pastry, that are per?
fectly wholesome and free from the impurities
invariably present when the old raising prep?
arations are employed.
The Royal Baking Powder, weare informed
by the most reliable scientists, is perfectly
pure being made from highly refined ingredi?
ents, carefully teated, an ! so exactly j-rn por?
tioned and combined that it never fails to
produce the best and uniform results. An
additional advantage in its employment
comes from the fact that bread or other food
made wit!) it may be eaten while hot without
fear of indigestion or any unpiea-ant results,
while t'C-ing equally sweet, moi?t, .md grate?
ful to the palate when cold.
Base balls, bats, mas!s3 and mitts for sale
by H. G. Osteen & Co.
Th* Graded School Commence?
ment.
The au'hermes of tbe Gr-tded Schoo! res?
izing how inadequate the assembly hall of
tbe Gradad School building is tor the accom?
modation of the visitors who attend the com?
mencement exercises, and feeling assured that
there are many parents and others thoroughly
interested who will be anxious to witness the
dosing ex?rcises. have decided to rent the
Opera House for that occasion. The rent of
the Opera House for o ie night will be twenty
five (S25) dollars, in order to raise this
amount so as not to impose.upon any one,
the commi;sio*ners and superintendent have
thought it nest to charge an admission fee of
ten cents.
This entitles one to a seat anywhere in the
building, except on the first rews of chairs in
the balcony, which have been reserved for
the pupils of the school, and in the boxes,
which are intended for the members of the
Board of Commissioners, the City Council
and for those gentlemen who have consented
to decide on the merits of the contestants for
the declaimers' medal
No complimentary tickets will be given ;
but the authorities will see that no patron of
the school shall be deprived of the privilege
of attending these exercises on account of in?
ability to pay. If a greater sum than S25 is
received, the remainder will be given to the
library fund of the Graded School.
The commencement exercises will beheld
in the Opera House on Thursday, Juneilth
at 8.15 p. m.
The Deelaimer's Medal.
The declaimers' medal that will be con?
tested for at the approaching commencement
of the Sumter Graded School was purchased
by the contestants themselves.
When the four boys, who were elected by
the members of. their classes to represent
them at commencement began to practice for
the occasion it was suggested to them that it
would be well to have a medal as an incen?
tive; the suggestion was accepted and the
medal was purchased by a joint contribution.
A committee or seven gentlemen has been
requested to act as judges end they have
kindly consented to do so. The following
gentlemen compose the committee: Maj. H.
F. Wi bon, chairman, Dr. J. S. Hughson,
Col. R. D. Lee, Messrs. T. G. McLeod, H. G.
Osteeo. W. F Rhame and E. P. Ricker.
A Vote of Thanks.
The following paragraph is taken from The
News and Courier's report of the regular
meeting of the Charleston City Council:
A letter from Mr. Tomas E. Richardson, of
Sumter, was received, donating a valuable
historical paper relating to the laying out
of East Bay. The paper was read by the clerk
with great, difficulty. Mr. Gadsden moved
that the thanks of Council be returned to
Mr. Richardson.
TIMMONSVILLE TIDINGS.
News Ttems of Interest and Gen?
eral Notes.
TlMMONSTILLB, S. C , May 28, 1896.-Mr.
John McSween-leaves to-night for Scotland
to visit relatives and take recreation. He
expects to return about the 15tb of August.
Prof. C. A. Smith attended the commence?
ment exercises at Wake Forest College, N. C.
this week.
The school here closes to-morrow.
Prof. J. L. Mann, Superintendent of Lan?
caster Graded School is spending a few days
with his father, Rev. C. D. Mann.
Miss Hodges, of Cokesbury, is visiting Dr
Wright's familv.
Work is being pushed forward on the
Presbyterian Church. They hope to have it
coroDleted soon.
Mr. R. C. Severance hos moved into his
new residence about one and a hair miles
from town. E. 3. T.
Alabaster Boxes of Human Sym?
pathy.
Do not keep the alabaster boxe3 cf your
loyc and tenderness sealed up until your
friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweet
cess. Speak approving, cheering words while
their ears can hear them, and while their
hearts can, be thrilled and made happier by
them ; the kind thing3 you may say when
they are gone, say before they go. The
flowers you mean to send for their ce?ios,
send to brighten and sweeten their homes
before they leave them. If my friends have
alabaster boxes laid away full of fragrant
perfumes of sympathy and affection which
they intend to break over my dead body, I
would rather they would bring them out in
ray weary and troubled hours and open them,
that I may be refreshed and cheered by them
while I need them. I would rather have a
plain coffin without a flower, a funeral with?
out an eulogy, than a life without the sweet?
ness of love aRd sympathy. Let us learn to
anoint our friends beforehand for the burial.
Post mortem kindness does not cheer the bur?
dened spirit. Flowtrs on the coffin cast no
fragrance backward over the weary way.
[We publish the above at the request of a
reader of The I'.etn, who is anxious to learn
the name of the author. If any of our read?
ers can give the author's name we shall deem
it a favor if they will do so.-ED.]
- ? amy ^^mtmw
Mr. Shirley C. Hughson
NEW YORK, May 27.-One of the gradu?
ating class of thirty-three who received
diplomas at the General Theological Semi?
nary in Chelsea square this city, this morning
was Shirley C. Hughson, once a well known
member of the News and Courier's staff,
whose historical work gave promise of d is
tinction until three years ago, when be began
the study of divinity. Mr. Hughson will b?
ordained deacon in Sumter next month and
will afterwards begin work in one of the
densely populated parishes of Philadelphia.
-News and Courier.
Converse's Annual Orator.
The Spartanburg correspondence of the
News and Courier has the following state?
ment in reference to the annual oration at the
Conveise College :
"By tbe death of Dr. Pritchard, of Char?
lotte, Converse College was left without a
commencement orator. This was greatly re?
gretted, because our people were anxious to
hear him. But Dr. C. C. Brown, of Sumter,
has kindly consented to deliver the address
before tbe literary societies, Tuesday. June 9,
at ll a. ra. Those v.ho know the speaker
expect to be k?pt wide awake. Dr. Brown
always says something when he talks.
Ifit required an annual outlay of $100.00
to insure a family against any serious conse?
quences from an attack of bowel complaint
during the year there are many who would
feel it their duty to pay it; :hai they could
not afford to risk their lives, and those of
their family for such an amount. Any one
Ctn get this insurance for 25 cents, that be?
ing the price of a bottle of Chamberlain's
Co!;c, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, in
almost every neighborhood some one bas
died from an attak of bowel complaint before
raejicitif could be procured or a physician
summoned. Une or two doses of this reme?
dy will cuni n;iy ordinary ca-". Ir never
fails Can you afford to take the risk for so
small an amount? For sale by Dr. A. J.
China.
Council Meeting.
The regular weekly sunning of City Coun?
cil was held lust evening nt the usual hour.
Regular routine o:jsiriess was transacted
and no matter of any special importance was
, transacted.
? A petition, that was very genera!:;/ signed
; by the taxpayers of the city, WHS presented,
requesting council to restore the scale of
: salaries paid the members of the police force
j and other city officials prior to the reduction
; made two weeks ago. The peti'ion was re- 1
I ferred to the Ways aDd Means Committee.
I The Bink of Sumter petitioned for an
? abatement of the license tax imposed on the
I bank by the license ordinance. The license |
i
I had been paid by the bank, but the First Na- !
i tional Bank had not paid the license, as un- |
j der the national batiking law it is exempt
from such charges and the city could not J
collect the iicense.
The committee on streets reported that j
the work of preparing the gruuods for the j
Citadel encampment had bee-: commencedjjby !
Street Commissioner Tribble.
The Winthrop Scholarships.
The attention of parents who have daugh
j lers whom they wish to send to Winthrop
; Coliege is directed to the notice of examina
I tion given in this issue by President D. B.
Johnson. Winthrop is one of the most
modern and best equipped educational in?
stitutions in the South, and a girl who j
completes the course of study in this instiru
tion will have a practical and thorough edu
j cation that wii! fit her for life's duties.
Good Soda.
J. S. Hu^hson ? Co , have a new adver
? tiseme t in this paper that no one can fai 1 to j
! see. It is artistically and attractively illus
j trated and tells about the soda and ices served j
j at their fountain. Only the best methods are j
j used aod nothing is more refreshing these hot
days.
Where to get Your Money Back.
Ten cents rebate on every dollar you spend ! !
; This is not usual when goods are bought at j
j the regular price, and when goods are selliog j
! at the very bottom prices as at the annual
! clearance sale of the Palace Dry Good3 Em- ]
I porium, it is a most surprising proposition. ;
j Thi3 is what Schwartz Bros. advertise to do, i
j and they wi'I do exactly what they advertise. ?
j Fer particulars see their new advertisement. '
? Mill? ? ? -
I A Puddin' Swamp Enterprise.
j A charter was issued last week to the Pud
j din: Swamp Tobacco Ware House Company, '?
I of Mayesville. The directors of the comoanv I
i are: W. D. Gamble, A. T. Buddin, ?. A*, j
Strauss, J. E. Tomlinson, J. E. Barnett, R. j
M. Cooper and D. E. Keels. The officers are : !
President, W. D. Gamble; vice president, !
A. T. Buddin ; secretary and treasurer, A. j
A. Strauss.
McLaurin's Opponent.
Congressman McLaurin is to have
opposition in his district this year,
j Mr. W. D. Evans, the chairman of
j State railroad commission, has finally
j decided to enter the race against Mr.
j McLaurin. The fight will doubtless
: be a very interesting one, as Mr.
j Evans is considered a pretty strong
j man in his district. Mr McLaurin,
j however, has a strong following, and
; the contest will be a lively one.-The
! State.
THE STATE*BANK EXAM?
INER.
The announcement was made yes- ;
; ierday that the special banking board !
I created by the act of the general as- j
' serably is to meet on Tuesday next I
I for the specific purpose of electing!
I the State bauk examiner, as provided I
i for in the act. A great many ap ;
j plications have been received by the \
1 board from all over the State for the j
i position. Governor Evans says I
I that in view, of the fact that!
I no machinery was provided in !
! the act for the collection of the tax, ?
! the board considers that the legisla- j
ture intended that the special tax to
be collected through the channels I
provided for the collection of any :
other tax.-The State, May 31.
The Moscow Tragedy.
Moscow, June: 1.-Every offert is j
being made to cl?ar the liodynsky 1
plain of the dead upon it who lost:
their lives in the frightful disaster of
Saturday. To-day a number of.
bodies were found on the edges of j
the plain and in the villages around j
These dead were injured and crawled
until death overtook them.
The functions in connection with
the coronation festivities are being
given a3 though nothing had hap- \
pened. The pleasure resorts are open ;
as usuai. Several wealthy residents j
gave garden parties to-day and things j
generally are geing on as though
nothing out of the ordinary had oe ;
curred The police ecalre that tkey j
had no official power on the plain and !
ctuld not interfere until it was too
late. Many of the Modjiks danced j
about the beer casks while the dead I
were lying around.
It is stated that large numbers of j
the injured refused to go to the hoe
pit?is The mob subsequent to the j
disaster callously stood by the corpses j
and received the doles.
All the bodies of the victims were j
interred to-day. About half of *^e !
dead were identified The unclaiin^ '.
dead filled ll trenches which were!
50 yards long. The priests officiated
afall the interments.
Many pathetic scens were witness?
ed as tlie bodies were consigned to
the earth. Thousands of persons were
in the cemetery weeping and praying.
Upon the hearts of all the dead were
placed icons or sacred pictures. To?
night the city has resumed its normal
aspect and a stranger, unless told,
would not for a moment imagine th.it
two days ago one of the most fright?
ful clamities that ever occurred in
Ruissiahad taken place just ^outside
the city.
WHIPPING HIS WEIGHT.
Th? Champion Lodger Overestimated His
Fi*?c AWlity.
Iii the logging ea a-ps of Michigan !
might makes right and the man who !
has chipped all comers iii fair fights is j
king of his camp. j
Ono of these, said a logger to ap?
porter, was very boastful of his exploits. !
He had been the viet or in a dozen fights |
and no one cared to enter the lists with j
him, but every man in the eamp hated
the champion. Going into a saloon one I
day he announced: "I'm tired of these
babies in camp. I ain't had a good light j
in Michigan. I can whip my weight in i
dogs, wildcats cr anything that breathes i
for ?100."
A meek looking man took tho bet and j
arrangements for the fight were made.
It was to take place in a closed room
one week from the time the bet was
made. *
The day came and the champion
called, "Bring on your animile. " The
man who had bet against the king of
the camp brought his antagonist in a j
large sack, which had been deposited j
behind the stove in the saloon where
the match had been entered into, the
weather just beginning to get cold. The
gladiator entered the room, the sack
was emptied and the people crowded at
the window to see the contest. Out of
the sack came three large hornet nests, j
the occupants of which had been revived
by the heat.
They issued from the nests in swarms !
and lit all over the man. Ko fought I
them for a minute or two, then with a j
yell jumped through the window, carry- j
ing sash and glass with him, never stop- I
ping until he reached the river, into ?
which he jumped.
"Said he could whip his weight in ?
anything that breathed/' remarked the i
meek little mau as he pocketed the i
stakes, "but about five pounds of hor- :
nets knocked him out in the first j
round.';-Washington Star.
A BEETLE THAT GNAWS SHELLS.
_
And It Does Other Things Calculated to
Slake Its Prey Tremble.
Of all tho insects the beetles aro the
most interesting. There is one that car- j
ries a cannon, which a naval man !
would call a stern chaser, and is loaded i
with a fluid. When pursued, the beetle j
fires it, and the other insect, usually a ?
carnivorous beetle, is blinded by the dis- j
charge of fine acid spray. Hence its
name of bombardier. The latest thing
that has been learned about beetles is
that Dytiscus marginales cuts its way
through the shells of snails and mollusks
and eats the inhabitants.
W. B. Tegetmeier writes to the Lon?
don Field and tells about the curiosity
of naturalists at finding shells manifest?
ly gnawed by some insect or other and
the final discovery of Dytiscus margin?
ales at work on the shell. Then he tells
some things about the Dytiscus family.
Says he :
"I know of no moie interesting ani?
mal in au aquarium than a Dytiscus, |
who scon acquires the habit of follow- I
ing the fingers for food and amuses :
himself ar night, if the aquarium is. .
open, by flying round and round the :
room, and occasionally misses the way.
and, hoing unable to return, is found ;
on the floor in rho morning. There is
one drawback to the habits of this crea- :
turo.. He is a bloodthirsty tyrant of the
aquarium, requiring the whole place to j
himself, fer if kept with tadpoles, frogs, ;
fish or any other animals, he* quickly I
destroys them, evi n if many score times
his own slz-\ ?;
What hawks are to the other birds I
cats are to other mammals, sharks arc
to other fish, thc Dytiscus is toother in?
sects. !
THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE.
The Perfect Vehicle Will Come luto Uso
Slowly hut Surely.
A little reflection will convince any
one that the ase of morocycies, or, in ;
other words, horseless carriages, will j
improve the roads. Gc ii; ral Morin of j
France is authority for the statement j
that the deterioration of common roads,
except that which is caused by the ?
weather, is two-thirds due to the wear |
of horses' feet and one-third due to the
wheels of vehicles. This being the case,
if the same amount as usual c< mtinue |
to be laid out upon the roads, and the !
continual damage decrease two-thirds, [
then the amount spent will go to in
creased and permanent improvement,
and thc roads will be "as smooth asa
barn floor. '?
There aro many questions to be j
solved, many difficulties to be sur- j
mounted, before the unexceptionable
vehicle appears. It was a long-time be- ;
fore the difficulties of making sewing |
machines, revolvers, repeating ri?es
typewriters and typesetters were over- !
come. Yet. examine them! It is all :
plain and simple, and not ar all marvel- ,
ous now, and we can hardly imagine j
how any mechanic could spend years of ?
time studying over such easy problems. :
So it will be with the motocycles. The
mountains of difficulty will sink into
molehills, and the ingenuity displayed
will be found to take the form of judi?
cious application of ordinary mechanic?
al appliances, approved by the final j
umpire, the common sense of mankind, i
Those who build automobiles must j
not permit themselves to think that they j
were born with all the carriage makers'
lore inherent in them. A man may be j
a first class theoretical and practical ;
mechanic and not be able to make a !
good vehicle to run on wheels. The per- ?
feet carriage, as we know it today, is .
the aggregate of the years of exhaustive j
trial and experiment and the improve- :
meuts on that experience made by 1,000 1
men of genius.
If the carriage builders bestow up< n
the new carriage all the art acquired in '?
building the old, and the motocycie j
men Irani the reasons of the convention?
alities of thc trade and adapt their im?
provements to them with reference to
the opinions of those who are net preju?
diced against innovation, they will
both work together in harmony and
with one purpose, and, so unitedfthey ;
will make rapid progress m thedevel- .
opment of tho inevitable vehicle of the 1
future. -Cassier's Magazine.
Pay of .Former Contributors.
Coleridge took at tim? s an exaggerat?
ed view of his services to The Morning
Chronicle. His surprisitig statement
that. Stuart in 1S00 offered him. ?2, OOO
a year if he would devote himself to
journalism, that he declined on the
ground that lie would nor give up "the
reading of old folios" for twenty times
?2, OOO, and that ho considered any pay
beyond s.'i?O as a real evil, is obviously
impossible. Stuart probably tried te
spur Iiis indolent contributor by savin?
that his services would be worth some
such sum if tiiey could he made regular.
But the statement is only worth notice
here in illustration of the stat" of the
literary market at the time. S. aitiiey ac?
knowledges his gratitude for the guinea
a week which he received as Stuart's
"laureate."
Poetry, by the way, appears to have
been more in demand then than at the
present day. Both Perry and Stuart's
elder brother offered to employ Bums,
and Coleridge, Southey, Campbell and
Moore all published poems in the news?
papers. ^Lamb tried his hand at "jokes. ' '
"Sixpence a joke," he says-"audit
was thought pretty high, too-was Dan
Stuart's settled remuneration in these
cases.
The high water mark of a journalist's
earnings at the end of the last century
is probably marked by the achievement
of Mackintosh, who earned 10 guineas
in a week. "No paper could stand it!"
exclaimed the proprietor, and rhe bar?
gain had to be revised. A few years
later, however, we are told that Ster?
ling, the father of Carlyle's friend, was
receiving tito sum which Coleridge sup?
posed himself to have refused, namely,
?2,000 a year fer writing leading arti?
cles in Tlie Times.-National Review.
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MRS. N. C. .ViJLLER.
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up ever being well again. About two years
agc I commenced using Dr. Jliies' Remedies.
One bottle of the Hear: Cure stopped al!
heart troubles and the- Restorative Nervine
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