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MOVING PICTUKES. HOW THE SKETCHES ARE REPRO? DUCED UPON THE FILMS. The Amount of Movement That Blay Be Crowded Into Fifty Seconds, The Greatest Successes Are O it?ra Brousrht About by Accident. "A queer thing about moving pic? tures," said an expert operator in that line to a New Orleans Times-Democrat reporter, **is the illusion they generally produce as to the time they occupy * while on the screen. What is known as the 'standard exhibition film* is 50 feet long. It is used almost entirely for comic scenes, trick pictures and other effects that are got up in the studios of the experts who make them a specialty. Every theater goer has seen them, and I will venture the as? sertion that the average man will de? clare they take at least three or four minutes in passing before the eye. As a matter of fact the picture is on the screen less than one minute. You can easily figure it out for yourself. The ordinary 50 foot film of the kind to which I refer is put through the repro? ducing machine at the rate of 1G pic? tures to the second. Each picture is three-fourths of an Inch broad, which makes the 16 measure exactly one foot, edge to edge; in other words, the film travels a foot a second-50 feet 50 seconds. What gives it the effect of taking up so much more time is the Immense lot of action that is usually crowded into the brief period it is in Tiew. Until the moving picture was invented I don't think anybody had the least idea how much could be done In 50 seconds. It seemed hardly time enough to turn around in, yet when the experts began to study its possi? bilities they found it was ample for hundreds of little pictorial comedies that have since delighted audiences all over the world. *Tt is entirely a matter of rehearsal. A subject is selected, generally calling for from three to four people, and ev? ery detail sf the 'business' or action is carefully worked out in advance. Sup? pose, for illustration, that a comic bur? glary T<5 the topic. The business, in skeleton, might run something like this: Old gentleman dozing in parlor; enter burglar; old gentleman awakes; burglar hides; enter policeman, search? es the room, collars old gent; they fight and roll on the,floor while bur? glar suddenly emerges and leaps out of the window. That doesn't sound particularly side splitting, but in the hands of intelligent comedians it can be made really very funy. The all es? sential thing is to crowd it into 50 sec ondsT and to that end each bit of ac? tion is carefully timed and made to fit into each other bit like so many well geared cogwheels. The old gen? tleman's startled yawn, the burglar's glance around the room and every step, movement and gesture from be? ginning to end is calculated with tue utmost nicety, and at last after dozens of rehearsals the act is attempted be? fore the recording machine. If every? body is lucky, it goes through on sched? ule time, but the slightest hitch is fa? tal, and if one occurs the film is spoil? ed, and they must try all over again. No wonder it seems impossible to fu? ture spectators that so much could transpire in 50 seconds. "But some of the most telling effects in composition pictures," continued the operator, "have been the result of acci? dent and were entirely unpremeditat? ed. That was the case with a film that I had a hand in preparing and that afterward made a tremendous hit and proved to be one of the best sellers ever put on the market In getting up the picture our principal purpose was to introduce a large and very in? telligent bulldog I owned at the time, and we sketched out a simple little scene in which a tramp steals a pie from a kitchen window, is pursued by the dog and is last seen trying to scale the back fence with the animal hang? ing to his coattails. "The training of the dog was the , main trouble, but I finally taught him to lay hold of anything red, and we sowed a big piece of flannel as a mark to the back, of our tramp's coat. Red photographs black, so it couldn't be seen in the pictures, and after a good many rehearsals the dog learned to dash out at exactly the right moment and nail the marauder, whose cue was then to rush for the fence and consume the remaining time in making an ap? parently desperate effort to scramble over the top. At last we got every .thing all ready, gave the word and started the record machine to take the picture. "Immediately the little comedy be? gan. The tramp appeared, looked around stealthily, saw the pie. hooked it and was having a feast when out sprang the bulldog and seized him by the coattails. He * hereupon sprinted to the fence and was about to carry out the rest of the programme when, to our consternation, the boards gave way. and he came down bang on top of the dog. The film had about ten seconds to run, and it was occupied in recording one of the liveliest scraps that ever happened. There was no hippodrome about it. Both parties were out for blood. When the fence fell, the bull? dog had promptly transferred himself from the tramp's coattail to the tramp's calf, while that unfortunate person snatched up a broomstick and tried to pry him loose. They rolled over and put about 50 times as much action and animation in the last ten seconds as had been crowded into the preceding 4ft. We finally pulled them apart, and lt was not until the negative was devel? oped that we realized what a prize we had accidentally secured. That ear? nest and impromptu wind up has con? vulsed audiences all over Christendom J and made fully as much of a hit in Eu? rope as it did at home." Before the discovery of sugar drinks were sweetened with honey. Mrs. Gilbert and Augustin Dal^r. "The pleasantest recollections of ruy s?age life are those connected with the governor." said Mrs. John Gilbert. "We never called him Mr. Daly-that is, we older ones, who knew him well. "He never bothered much with Jim Lewis and myself. Ile had more trou? ble with John Drew and Ada Ilehan. They were young and needed looking after, you know. "He was very set in his ways, and if he took a fancy to a piece of stage fur? niture he invariably introduced it into every play. He had a pair of large, dark blue majolica vases which were th? bane of my life. They were always placed near a doorway In such a man? ner that you had to have the dreadful things always on your mind or you would run into them. **I had complained several times to the governor and begged him to pat thom In the storeroom, but he had tak? en a fancy to them, and they remained. 1 **WeIL one day I did knock one of them down, and it was smashed to bits. The governor never said a word, bot he looked volumes. He was arranging the interior for a new play a few days later, and In one scene I had to faint on a lounge. "Tom/ he said to the stage hand, .see that that lounge ls good and strong, for Mrs. Gilbert is very gawky, and it would ruin the scene if she smashed lt when she fainted/ "That was all, but I knew that he knew how that vase was broken," New York Herald. Confiscation In Morocco. It is a custom in Morocco that all the property of* an official reverts at death to the crown. The logic which leads to such a result is simple, for the govern? ment argues that all fortunes thus ac? cumulated consist of moneys Illegally retained by the authorities. A gov? ernor when appointed is probably pos? sessed of no considerable fortune. When he dies, he may be a million? aire. Whence came his wealth? Squeez? ed most certainly from the tribes under his authority and therefore amassed only by the prerogatives of the position in which the sultan had placed him. It has never struck the Moorish gov? ernment that these great fortunes might more honorably be returned to the people from whom they were sto? len. The result is entire confiscation to the crown, including often such pri? vate property as his governor may have been possessed of before his ap? pointment and not seldom, too, of the property of his relatives. When the mighty fall in Morocco, the crash brings down with them their families, even uncles and cousins and all connected with them, and it is not seldom that the sons of great gov? ernors, who have been brought up in the luxury of slaves and horses and retinues of mounted men, have to go begging in the streets.-Blackwood. Barbers of Spain. The barber's business in Spain is pe? culiar in that be is called upon to ply his shears on donkeys as well as men, for it is an important item in the care of Spanish donkeys that they should be sheared as to the back in order to make a smoother resting place for man or pannier. So, while the master held his animal, one of the barbers plied some enormous clacking shears and lit? tered the ground with mouse colored hair, leaving the beast's belly fur cov? ered below a fixed line and for a small additional price executing a raised pat? tern of star points around the neck. The tonsorial profession is an indis? pensable one in a country where shav? ing the whole face is generally prac? ticed among all the humbler orders, not to mention toreros and ecclesias? tics. But the discomfort to which the barber's customers submit is astonish? ing. Instead of being pampered, sooth? ed, labored at with confidential re? spectfulness and lulled into luxurious harmony with himself, as happens in America, a man who courts the razor i? Spain has to sit upright in a stiff chair and meekly hold under his chin a brass basin full of suds and fitting his throat by means of a curved nick at one side. Cause of Talleyrand's Lameness. The cause of Talleyrand's lameness has long been a matter of dispute. Some stories have it that the defect was congenital; others that it was oc? casioned by an accident which befell him in his infancy. The mest curious explanation of all is that offered by a writer in The Quarterly Review. "To quote the very words of our informant, an eminently distinguished diplomat," says the writer, "Talleyrand's Vienna colleague. Baron Wessenberg. told me years ago that his lameness was owing to carelessness of his nurse, who laid him down in a field while she flirted with her sweetheart and on coming back to her charge found some pigs dining on the infant's legs. I am sun* that Wessenberg told me this as an established fact, and I am all but sure that his authority was Talleyrand him? self." Xoi Entirely Alone. As he entered the car he saw at a glance that there was one seat with a young lady in lt. and he marched straight down the aisle, deposited his overcoat, sat down and familiarly ob? served: "I entirely forgot to ask your per? mission." "That's of no consequence," she re? plied. "Thanks. Just arrived in the city. 1 presume," he ventured to remark as he glanced at the bundles and grips on the floor near by. "Not exactly." "You're ali alone, eh?" "Almost, but not quite. My husband ls the conductor on th's car. the motor? man is my cousin and my father and a brother arv? In the seat back of us." "Aw: Aw! I see." gasped the man. and the Moor of the car suddenly be? came so re<lhot that lie lit out without another word. Sait 1-ake Herald. I Impressive Initiation. A man who had applied for admission into a secret society, which, for the pur? poses of this narrative, may be called the Ancient Order of Queer Fish, and had been accepted presented himself at the appointed time for initiation. In accordance with ancient usages, the candidate was blindfolded, ushered into the lodgerooin, marched in slow j and solemn jff^cession around the dark? ened hall, subjected to various trying ordeals, including that of being tossed in a blanket- held at the corners and sides by athletic members, and, having come through the ceremonies alive and I in fair preservation, was declared duly initiated and entitled to the right hand of fellowship. The bandage was remov? ed from his eyes, and tho brethren crowded about him to extend their con? gratulations on the fortitude he had dis? played. *4 How did it impress you?" asked one of them "It was the most impressive cere? mony, take it all around, " he answered, "that I ever knew or ever heard of. " "You were aware, of course, that there was a fire across the street while we were putting you through?" "Why, " rejoined the new member, "I could hear the puning of the engines, the tramping of the horses on the stone pavement, the yelling of the firemen and the swish of the streams from the hose, and 2 could smell the smoke, too, but, good gracious, I thought it was part of the initiation."-Youth's Compan? ion. The Black Cat. The famous "Black Cat" cabaret in Paris is in process of being shut up and sold out and its curious decorations scattered to the four winds, upon which the Boston Herald says : The name Chat Noir was given to the cabaret because this worthy Bohe? mian, at the end of his resources, caus? ed his favorite black cat to be cooked as a succulent "fricassee" of rabbit with plenty of onions. At the end of the des? sert, which consisted of a few nuts and a piece of cheese, Rodolphe rose, and, with his abominable bass voice, began to sing a requiem about Bibi, one of the three cats which had been killed to feed himself and his friends ! Babette duly followed Bibi, but the last one, called Xoireau, the h'nest tomcat on Montmar? tre, he did not sacrifice. As the story goes, it was the fat check of an artless Yankee that saved the cat. In grati? tude, Salis hired a larger shop and adorned it with the "poster" sketches which made him a success. As every one knows, it became the fashion fer other eccentric personages in Paris art life to add their mite to the place's dec? orations, and on those walls Caran d'Ache, Willette, McNab and many other illustrators have left some valua? ble autographs. Collectors will be eager to buy chunks of the cabaret, but the best thing would be to keep it whole and transport it to America, where it could be set up as a show. Oar Last Cargo of Slaves. Captain Foster was the commande! of the slave ship Clotilda that brought the last cargo of slaves to the United States. The trip was made only after many thrilling scenes requiring weeks of skillful maneuvering and dangerous exploits. Just before the north and south engaged in war Captain Foster built the Clotilda and announced that he would make a trip to the gulf of Guinea despite the fact that United States war vessels had burned and sunk the ships of many who tried the voyage. He was warned repeatedly of the dangers attached to such an under? taking, but he equipped his ship and sailed away. He reached the African coast after going out of his course many times fend remained along the coast for a month. He succeeded in getting 100 negroes on board before he was detected by the watchful vessels of the United States. He was pursued, but easily outdis? tanced his pursuers, and two months later arrived in Mobile bay with his human cargo. A steamboat met the slav?ship during the night, and the negroes were transferred in order to avoid the custom house officials. Cap? tain Foster set his vessel on fire and passed through Mobile without being detected. The government authorities hunted for him for months, but he eluded them until the close of the war. when he retired from the sea. Dables In Greenland. The bed of the baby Eskimo is not al? ways one of eider down. There are times of famine now and then when the condition of the ice makes hunting impossible, and old and young starve to death. Cases have been known on both shores of Baffin bay where ba? bies have been eaten by starving adults, but infanticide in Greenland is un? known because of a belief that the spirit of a murdered infant turns into an evil spirit called Angiak that for? ever haunts the entire village and J brings endless misery and distress. When a friend is In trouble, don't ask. "Can I do anything?" Do some? thing.-Atchison G?obe. Do but half of what you can, and you will be surprised at your own dili? gence. Vigor ?f Men Easily, Quickly, Permanently Re? stored.: HINDIPO, Dr Je?n O'Harra'e (Paris) Gre-?: Frenen torjic anil vita.iZT is S?ld with wri?'pn pinrant-p to cor*? Nervons Debility, boat Yitahtv. Fat?ng Memory, Fits, Dizzi? ness, fiy?'eri*. stopg ail drains on the ner ?ou* srpt- m ca iSPd b? bed habits or excessive s?* of ;obacco. opium. liquors, or "living th? r-nre that kills " It ?atda 0ff insanity, consumption and d?ath It e'ears ?he blood a^d r?r*in, hnild? up'h? shattered nerv?a. res-ore? the 6re of . o'J'h, and firings 'he P<nk ?!ow to paie cheek?, and makes you ono? ard strong aeaiD 50c, 12 bores $5 B' mail to HOV addresi. For sale io Sourer by Dr J F W LaDorme. 3 Every woman in the country ought to know about Mottler's Friend Those who do know about it wonder bow they ever got along without it. It has robbed child? birth of its terrors for many a young wifo. It ha3 preserved 'her girlish figure and saved her much suffering. It is an external lini? ment and carries with it therefore, absolutely no danger of upsetting the system as drags taken intern? ally are apt to do. It is to be rubbed into the abdomen to soften and strengthen the muscles which are to bear the strain. This means much less pain. It also prevents morning sickness and all of the other discomforts of pregnancy. A druggist of Macon, Ga., says: " I have sold a large quantity of Mother's Friend and have never known an instance where it has failed to produce the good results claimed for it." A prominent lady of Lam berton, Ark., writes: " With my ?rsl six children 1 was in labor from 24 to 30 hours. After using Mother's Friend, my seventh was born in 4 hours.'' Get Mottler's Friend at the drag ?tore, $1.00 per bottle. THE BRADfXLD REGULATOR CO. ATLAKTA, GA. O "Writ* for our Trw ill-?cr*t*< book. "BEFOSE BABY IS BOBS." -M IWJ^ - '1B MB^*?.???-^ Eggs and Chickens. Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs, FROM FINE STRAINS OF FOWLS At $1 per sitting of 13 Also a few young Cockerels for sale. 1ST. G-. OSTEEN. i Wim & ? Fire Insurance Agency ESTABLISHED 186?. Represent, among other Companies LIVERPOOL ? LONDON & GL03F NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. * LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000 Feb 2S. DAVIDSON COLLEGE DAVIDSON, N. C. Fer two thirds of a century David son bas been noted among Sootbern colleges for the thoroughness of its training, tbe ability of ils Facoity, and the atmosphere of morality and honor on its campus it invites the attention of every parent who wishes the body, the intellect, and the char acter of his son trained together For farther particulars, catalogue, etc , address HENRY LOUIS SMITH, June 26 President. WE Are Money Savers ! In addition io our large stock (f Heavy and Fancy Groceries, we wiil hardie Bagging and Ties. And es w? hnve airpady mice n by purcrase 10 t'-.is line we will nsk tb ?t vtu ?-et cur yrice3 before you So? Special prices gi ten to lar^e buyers LK US b-ive >onr 0 ders for Flour, Grits. Meal, Sugar, Coffee, Lard, Bacon, Molasses, Corn, . . . Hay, Cakes and Crackers, Cigars, Cheroots and Tobacco, DRUGS, Canned Peaches, To? matoes, Pineapple. Baked Beans. Corn Beef, Pot? ted Ham, Gelatine, Cocoa, Chocolate and numbers of other things. Send us your order and we will save you money. GROSSWELL & CO., PHONE 53. Land Surveying. 1WILL GIVE prompt atteotion to all calls fot eurvevine and olatu- e Urda BANKS H R0YKIN. Oct lO-o Catchall. S. C Glenn Springs Hotel, GLENN SPRINGS, & C. Queen of Southern Summer Resorts, There is but one Glenn Springs, and it has no equal on * the Continent for the Stomach, Liver, Kidneys, Bowels and Blood. Hotel Open June 1st to October 1st. Cuisine and Service Excellent. The GREATEST RESORT IN THE SOUTH? For board apply to Simpson & Simpson, GLENN SPRINGS, S. C. Water For Sale by Dr, A. J. China, J- F. W. DeLorme. June 26-Sm. Where Can you buy with lea?t money and nio?t satisfac? tion excellent Vehicles, Horses, Mules, Feed, Flue Pipe. Terra Cotta, Urne and Cement ? AT HARBY & CO'S STABLES. MISS MeBOJT.IJLB Takes pleasure in announcing that her stock of ITCTETW :iV[ILL.I3VERY FOR THE Spring and Summer is complete and one of the handsomest she has ever shown. Largest variety of ROSES. FOLIAGE and SMALL FLOWERS That we have ever sbowo Millinery is still on a "gold basi?," about cce-half (he farcy materais shewing it as a constituent. Hats For Ladies* and Children ?e .. (Untrimmed) io the leading shapes We have en?pged the services of <> most competent trimmer from Louuville, Ky . who bas had the advac ???e cf working in the whoiefale bouses of thar, city, Cincinnati, and other fashionable centres throughout the country Closest attention given to designing and executing. Come and see us. we take pleasure in showing our goods. JHi?? McDonald. MAIN STREET._SUMTER. S C. SUMTER MILITARY ACADEMY ?ND FEMALE SEMINARY, SUMTER, S. C. C2ABTEBED..2T01T-SECTAEIA2?. Clarence J. Owens, A. M?9 President? Object : That oQr young aen may be developed physically, mentally, morally aod "that our daughters maj be a cornerstone, polished after the similitude of a palace." Courses : Literary. (Regular.) Scientific (Regular.) Music. Vocal and Instrumental. Art. Charcoal and Cast Drawing, Pastel, Water Coior, Crayon and Oil, Portrait? ure aod Cbtoa Painting. Commercial. Bookkeeping, Stenography, Typewriting. Elocution. Oratory and Expression. Military. Drill, Physical and Bayonet Exercise, Sigcaliog and Military Science. Degrees : Two Degrees given, B. L. and A. B. Expeoses : Matriculation, 00 Board, per month, 8 00 Tuition, per month, 4 00 Sorgeon, for year, 3 00 Points of Advantage. 1 Accessible location-Sixteen passenger truing per day. 2 Healthfulne?s~Pure water goori drainage 3. Beauty-Wide avenues, handsome buildings mastic oaks. 4 Influence-Social, Intellectual ar^d Religious 5. Koterprise-Trade T.d mao ufucta ring centre. 6 School Organizations-Liternr.v Societies, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., College Journal. 7 Facu"v Sn mni? Hod six female teachers, representing the leading Col leget ?t.d Universit?s of the country. Appiy for illustrated Catalogue.