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THE 6ENEBAL ASSEMBLY. _2_ House Votes for a Commission of Investigation to Establish a Fertilizer Plant. , Columbia, Jan. ?26.- The house of representatives was in session but 55 minutes today, and then on motion of Mr. John McMaster adjourned until Monday at noon. The house accepted the invitation to visit the Charleston exposition. The invitation stated that the legislature could select its own time, but the 7th was recommend? ed as a very good day on which to see the gala sights at the exposition. Mr. Webb yesterday introduced a bill to authorize and require the di? rectors of the State penitentiary to erect and.eqnip fertilizer plants and warehouses for the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers. The first matter debated was Mr. Tatum's resolution to provide for_ a commission to consider the advis? ability of the State establishing a plant for the manufacture of fertilizers. Mr. Beamguard moved to strike out the enacting words. Mr. Tatum explained that if the times were not so hard he would have introduced a bill to establish the plant this year. He attacked the trust and showed what would be the good results of the State having its own plant. Mr. McGovern stated that it would be as constitutional as the method of operating the State dispensary. The State has the convicts and the -State owns the phosphate beds. He opposed the cruel way in which con? victs have been leased out to, farmers. and railroad contractors. Bnt the great end to be accomplished is to thwart the object of the fertilizer trust; every fanner must use commer? cial fertilizers to some extent. Mr. Lide of Orangeburg favored the resolution. The matter can be dis? cussed in the several counties next summer. Mr. Beamguard withdrew his hos? tile motion, the matter having been explained to^his satisfaction. Mr. W. H. Parker offered an amend? ment to change the amount proposed for expenses. The original resolution provided "two dollars per diem for the time actually employed in the in vestigaton and actual expenses.'1 He wanted to change the amount to four dollars per diem not exceeding ten days. Mr. Tatum thought ten days totally inadequate. He himself had made three trips to Charleston to get in? formation on this matter and had not gathered much information in that time. He thought there are patriotic men who would work for two dollars Der diem and expenses. He does not believe in paternalism, but the State should take some steps to protect the consumers. The Virginia-Carolina Chemical company owns practically ail of the mills in the State and con? trols the prices. The. farmers are pay? ing about twice as much for fertilizers as they should. Mr. Weston thought it safe to limit the number of days and to have the pay stated more explicitly. . Mr. Moses thought it should be limited to at least 30 days. He did not think the investigation would -amount to much, but he wonld not owpose the resolution if the prospec? tive expenditures be limited. It was then argued to limit the num? ber of days to 15 at S4 per day per member. It was also agreed, on Mr. Parker's motion, to cut out "and -actual expenses" and to insert instead "and mileage at the rate of four cents per mile. ' - MONDAY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Columbia. January 27.-The House had a two-hour session today and re? ceived a. number of reports and ne tv .bills. A bill realtive to the lien of landlords was given its second read? ing without objection. The bill was amended so as to give the landlords a lien for so much as they were legiti? mately entitled to, but no more. The Tatum resolution, to inquire into the cost of a State fertilizer plant, met with no opposition on its third reading and went over to the Senate today. The bill to incorporate the French Broad and Southern Railway Company was passed without much trouble. The proposition is tc? build a short line from some point on the main line of the Southern between Senaca and Cen? trai, to Toxoway, which is in the heart of the Sapphire County of North Carolina. The chief discussion of the day was on Mr. Sanedrs' bili to regulate State depositories and establish more system about their selection than is now in use, and above all to Tequire bonds, which are not now required of State depositories. The bill was referred to a special committae to be perfected. The Senate was in session more than two hours tonight, and the greater part of the time was spent discussing Mr. Raysor's bill to amend the law known as the Lord Campbell Act. A bill of this kind comes up every year and is always discussed at great length ~by the lawyers of the legslature. Two bills were introduced one by Sen? ator Barnwell, to regulate the number of directors of banks, trust companies and ship-buliding companies, the other by Senator Bryce, to repeal Section 610 of the Statutes permitting the ex? tension of the time for paying taxes. Senator Hydrick, introduced a joint resolution to fix the boundary linc between Spartanburg and Gtreenville counties. An invitation was received from Director General Averill inviting the Senate to visit the Exposition. The House sent over a resolution which appointed February 7 and 8 as the days for visiting the Exposition. Senator Sheppard suggested that the House resolution lie over for considera? tion tomorrow, stating that he thought tone day was enough and that the subject should be reconsidered. The resolution went over for consideration tomorrow. Pretoria, Jan. 26.-Col. Wilson cap? tured 20 Boers near Frankfort in Orange colony last Saturday. He was preparing at dawn the next day to move away withh is captives when a superior force of Boers made a despe? rate effort to recapture the prisoners. A hot fight ensued in which all but three of the prisoners escaped, and in which a few men were killed on both. Guban Industries Greatly Depressed. THE MAJORITY OF INHABITANTS READY FOR ANNEXATION. Washington, Jan. 25.-Col. Tasker Bliss, the United States army officer, d?tailed as collector of custom at Ha? bana, was before the ways and means committee today concerning the Cu? ban reciprocity. In opening this statement he disclaimed authority as a sugar expert and said his knowledge was confined to that of a nobserver for three years in an official position, j dealing with the trade of Cuba. This had led him to hope that if there was any change in the tariff it would be such an adjustment as would throw into the hands of the United States the large amount of Cuban trade now taken by foreign countries. Speaking first of the condition of the Cuban industry, he said it was great? ly depressed. The leading Habana banks were refusing further credits to the sugar planters, and when this oc? curred it was a sure evidence of the distress of the plantations. He rough lv estmated the sugar industry of the island at $200,000,000 and said about three-fourths of the people were de? pendent in one way or another on the I sugar industry. Chairman Payne asked Col. Bliss to specify what advanhtages the United States could gain from Cuba and Mr. Payne also called attention to the low tariff rate Cuba imposed against the United States. Col. Bliss said the average ad valo? rem rate was about 21 per cent, and he presented tables, designed to show how a tariff readjustment could throw practically all of the Cuban trade into the hands of American producers; At present, he said, Cuba bought $66,000,000 of which the United States furnished $28,475,000, and the balance of about $37,000,000 cam? from foreign I countries. On many articles such as fresh beef, railroad iron and other specified articles, the United States had a practical monopoly of the trade. But on many other ariel ss, totaling about $45,000,000 the United States had but $10,000,000 of the trade. "By a reasonable modicfiation of the Cuban tariff,"said Col. Bliss, "at least 86 per cent, of this trade can be thrown to the United States." He submitted a list of articles on which a differential of about 33 per cent, favorable to the United States as against other foreign countries would give us the trade. In reporting on this to the war department the condi? tion had been imposed upon bim not to reduce the revenues of Cuba. Un? der such circumstances, he thought it would be necessary to first raise Cuba's tariff rates, for purposes of revenue, and then with a sufficient differential to give the United States the control of the trade. This he put forward only tentatively as one of seve? ral plans proposed to the war depart? ment. The members of the committee ques? tioned Col. Bliss on the details of the proposed readjustment. In the course of the examinaiton Representative Newlands of Nevada suggested that without our political control of Cuba there might be servile labor to compete with American labor. He added: "Are the Cuban people prepared to come into political relaations with the United States?" "I think a great majority of the Cubans are ready to come in," Col. Bliss replied. "As a Territory or as a State?" ask? ed Mr. Newlands. "They would be glad to come in as a State or a Territoiy, or under the ? military authority, almost in any way in order to come under the authority of the United States.' "If invited to come in first as a Territory, then as a State, would this be accepted?" "I think it would." Continuing on this topic Col. Bliss said he thought commercial union with Cuba would postpone poli? tical union. Personally iie was not convinced of the wisdom of annexa? tion. The feeling in Cuba was one of readiness to accept any conditions the United States might impose. Louis Place and Mr. Mendoza of the Cuban delegation were heard briefly. SGHLEY NOT ?N OFFICE SEEKER. Says He Has No Intention of En? tering Politics. Chicago, Jan. 25.-Rear Admiral W. S. Schley has thrice declared that he had no intention of entering poli? tics. His remarks were calculated to set at rest for all time the political ambitions which some of his admirers have entertained for him. He said that no office, however high, would tempt him to jeopardize the love which the people of this country have expressed for him. Who are the Gentility ? The New York correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, of London, makes the following observations of some re? cently published photographs of Mrs. Roosevelt and her daughter, Miss Alice Roosevelt: "They have made it entirely clear that republics will some? times insist upon producing princess? es, in spite of all rules. It cannot be denied that the United States are dis? tinctly pleased at having at the White House those who are ladies by birth, rather than by act of Congress.'' Oh, come ol? the perch. Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt are ladies, indeed, in every sense of the word, but in what sense were they born ladies any more than Mrs. Dolly Adams or Mrs. James K. Polk, or Mrs. Grover Cleve? land, or Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, or ! Mrs. William McKinley or any other of the first ladies of the land?" And who are "the gentry of the United States" referred to'r The millionaires and their precious pampered proteges, lolling in the lap of luxury, and coming to their highest development in Mr. Harry Lehr, leader of the Four Hundred, who wears gold rings on his toes when he ought to have an iron one in his nose, like any other calf? Charlotte Observer. ---^p^ A company with 800,000 has been organized in Columbia to establish a glass factory. Andrew Carnegie has under consid d HORRORS OF SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. Boers are Gradually Being Wiped off the Earth-A Slow Process of Extermination. New York, Jan. 26.-The Right Rev. L. K. Coppin, who sailed from this city about a year ago on the Umbria to take charge of the 14th Episcopal diocese of the African Methodist church in South Africa, re? turned by the same ship, arriving here today. He is from Philadelphia and was the first bishop sent out by the A. M. E. church to take charge of the diocese which lies south of the Zam? besi river and comprises two confer? ences, the South African and the Transvaal. "I found plenty of work awaiting me when I got out there, he said today. "The two conferences were mapped out but were not organized, and only a start had been made in the development. We now have between 40 and 50 churches established with over 100 traveling ministers. We re? cently have bought a school to prepare students for a collegiate course. We are also hoping soon to start an indus? trial and literary school near Bloem? fontein, modeled on the same general plan as the school at Tuskegee. "We are seriously handicapped in this project by the unsettled condi? tions of the country on account of the war. There ssems little hope of the terrible war cloud lifting. % You can not conceive the conditions of affairs over there. . The Boers are gradually being wiped off the earth. It is no longer war, but a process of slow ex? termination. England will never lis? ten to any arbitration proposition which means restoration of the repub? lic and the Boers will accept no other settlement. Just as long as they are able to keep up the guerrilla method of warfare they can, notwithstanding the smallness of their numbers, keep thousands of soldiers in the field busy watching them and trying to head them off. DISASTROUS FIRE IN MOBILE. The Wholssale Business District Scene of Conflagration. Mobile, Ala., Jan. 25.-Fire early today in the wholesale business dis? trict destroyed property to the value of 8300,000, and caused the death of Richard H. Vidmer, a leading society man of Mobile, and Bat Thomas, a negro laborer., from New Orleans. Three firemen were injured, two slightly and one painfully. Mr. Vid? mer and Thomas were assisting the firemen in subduing the flames and were caught by falling walls. The firms who suffered are : Michael & Lyons, wholesale grocers, building and stock completely destroyed : H. Piser & Company, wholesale hides, building and stock destroyed; Drago Grain comany, Swift ? Company, packers, building and stock complete loss; F. S. McCoy, cigar marrufac-. tnrer: F. Gomez, stoves and tinware; Green's tinsmith shop. The fire broke out no the second floor of the Michael & Lyons, grocery grocery company, and in the offices occupied by E. Holzborn & Company, cotton brokers. The entire loss is almost covered by insurance. Turpentine and Rosin. An increase "of almost 19*2 per cent, in the capital invested in the turpen? tine and rosin industry and of 152 per cent, in the value of the products therefrom is shown in the census re? port on the manufacture of those pro? ducts in the United States. The re? port shows a total capital of 811,847, 483 invested in he 1,503 establish? ments reporting for thc country. This sum represents the value of land, buildings, machinery, tools and im? plements and the live capital stock of any of the manufacturing corporations engaged in this industry. The value of the products is return? ed at 820,344,SSS, to produce which in? volved an outlay of 8778,6694 for salar? ies of officials, clerks, etc., 88,39a483 for wages, 8476,171 for miscellaneous expenses, including rent, taxes, etc., and 86,186,492 for materials used, mill supplies, freight and fuel. The total product of the spirits of turpentine in the United States during the year 1900 was 745,670 barrels, of which 461,227 were received at the principal ports for distribution, leaving 293,443 barrels as the amount shipped direct from the distilleries to internal points of consumption. The total value of turpentine and rosin products consists of 814,960,25 the value of 754,567 barrels of spirits of turpentine; 85,129,268, the value of 2,563,087 barrels of rosin, and $255, 385, the value of miscellaneous pro? ducts, such as tar, pitch, rosin oil, charcoal, refined tar, etc. From the distillation of the 4,033,161 bar? rels of crude turpentine by the 1,503 establishments reporting there resulted 24 per cent, of spirits of tur? pentine, 55 per cent, of rosin and 21 per cent, of other products. , The consumption of spirits of tur? pentine in the United States is 20, 397,588 gallons, or 53 per cent, of the quantity manufactured, and of rosin 193,969 barrels, or 7.6 per cent. The amount of crude turpentine (barrels) gathered and total value by states follows : Barrels. Value. Alabama, 337,005 82,033,705 Florida, 1,212,935 6,469,605 ( i eo rgi a, 1,515,569 8,110.468 Louisiana, 20,299 115.:;24 Missisippi, * 359,529 1,772.435 North Carolina. 361,729 1,055,659 South Carolina, 190,095 787,678 Some Ways to Stop Nose-Bleed. J lave thc child sit up straight, and held thc nostrils tightly together. Wrap a small ?-.ieee of icc in a little cotton wool rind gently rub the outside of thc nose with it. If this docs not stop it yon may have thc child raise his arms above his head and put a wad of tissue paper under his upper lip, holding it there firmly. Do not allow the ch?d to I'low Iiis nose for some time after thc bleeding has stopped. If the attacks are frequent consult a good physician, as there may be some disease of the blood or bood-vessels which should be treated before things have gone too fa^-February Ladies' Home Journal GROVER THE GREAT THROUGH GULLAH GLASSES. Cleveland as Sketched by a Georgetown Darkey-A Good Laugher, But Not Much of a "Gem'man." Noting your news and editorial references to ex-Pesident Clevela d and his Georgetown itinerary, the writer is reminded of his own duck hunting experiences on Gen. Alexan? der's preserves in January, 1898, when, perhaps, physically and politically, Mr. Cleveland was more of a figure than he is just now. The general and family were absent, but their cottage on South island along with Adam and Liza, the man and maid of work (and man and wife at the same time) had been hospitably placed at the disposal of the writer and his party. Driving along in the same vehicle and behind the same horse and driver which had conveyed the president and party to the various ponds and creeks of that neighborhood, it was but natu? ral to question Adam as to the person? ality and proclivities of my hunting predecessor, and much amusement and information were thereby elicited Finally a somewhat comprehensive inquiry was made, about in 'form as follows : Q. Well, Adam, what kind of man was Mr. Cleveland anyhow. Did he ever crack a joke? A. Well, maussa, him is a berry big buckra, en' w'en him seddown puntop de buggy seat 'e tek up all due room, en' de two spring smack togedder same lukk chillunsmack shingle fuh min' bud out de ricefiel,' but 'e ent much fuh mek joke, do' 'e laff ebry time mas'-dat Cap'm Evans, mek joke, en' dat w'at him deos do all de time. No, su,h you mightn't bldebe me, but Mas'z Clebelan' ent a bit mo' nb a gem'man dan w'a onu is. Possibly the writer bad recently robbed his creditors by giving Adam a half dollar, but it has been a puzzle ever since for him to make out wheth? er the joke was on Mr. Cleveland or himself. Yours truly, G. What the Looters Missed. Pekin, Jan. 26.-Chinese officials have found treasure to the value of over 100,000,000 taels in gold and sil? ver which was buried in the women's quarters of the palace before the court fled from Pekin. Walterboro, Jan. 27.-Safe crackers were in town last night and blew open the safe in the Postoffice. Postmaster Levy does not know exactly what his loss is at this time, but says it will be less than $250 in money and stamps. The robber broke into Mr. E. P. Knight's blacksmith ?bop and secured the tools necessary for their work, and after securing their booty left them lying around on the floor in the postoffice. Where Marion Crawford Writes. F. Marion Crawford finds his ideal home in a breeze-swept villa, perched high on the picturesque cliffs of Sant' Angello di Sorrento, overlooking the beautiful Bay of Naples and its romantic shores. There is, indeed, no finer site to be found anywhere about this far-famed bay than that occupied by the "Villa Crawford," with its cheerful landward outlook over scat ! tered towns, olive-clad hills, and frag? rant orange groves dotted with white walled dwellings, to where Vesuvius rears his mighty cone and Naples j queens it among her subject villages, ! far out across the shining bay to the ' enchanting island of Ischia, set like a lastrioas jewel in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The house itself is an unpreten? tious building of stucco an rough stone. It is reached by following a country road overhung by olive, lemon and orange trees, for about a mile from Sorrento, then turning through a gray-stone gateway, em? bowered in ivy, and in along a nar? row driveway almost to the verge of the cliff, where the villa stands, some two hundred feet above the bay. Februarv Ladies' Home Journal. There would not seem to be occaison for any excitement over the young women of that Belle Center, O., church who have formed a Hugging Society for the purpose of selling 'their hugs. People are not going to pay list prices for hugs. The only article in that line for which there is any de? mand is the free hug or the stolen hug. The women who advertises hugs for sale is likely to be "stuck" on old stock.-Courier-Journal. D juma la, European Turkey, Jan. 26.-Miss Stone, the captive Ameri cna missionary and her companion, Madame Tsilka, have been located near Yapyak, in the vicinity of the frontier. The American delegates conducting the negotiations for the release of the captives have arrived at Banisko, about 30 miles southeast of Djuraala, and probably will pay over the ransom monev todav. The Governor of Missouri has just pardoned a convict who was serving a fifteen year sentence in the peniten? tiary for manslaughter, that he might be hanged immediately for murder committed in an attempt to escape from prison. --^^mw&- ? m ia- ? New York, Jan. 27.-The reserve supply of high explosives stored at the Park avenue shaft of the Rapid Transit tunnel, now in course of con? struction, blew up shortly after noon today. The giant blast killed six per? sons, injured a hundred others and seriously damaged all the property reached by the flying debris and the vibration of the shock. The loss is estimated to exceed 61,000,000. A Raging, Roaring Flood Washed down a telegraph line which Cha- C Ellis of Lisbon, la. had to repair. "Standing waist deep in icy water," he writes, "gave me a terrible cold and cough. It grew worse daily. Finally thc best doc? tors tn Oakland, Neb Sioux Cit} and Om? aha said I had consumption and could not live. Then I began using Dr King's New Discovery aud was wholly cured by six bottles." Positively guaranteed for coughs, colds and all throat and lung trouble by J F W DeLorme. Price 50c and $1. Trial bottles free. 5 DIFFERENCES IN FOGS. Sea Mist and London Gloom Flare Nothing- In Common. The fog of London and the fog of the sea alike discompose traffic, and omnibuses and steamships alike have had to lay to for safety. But while the London fog gets into your inmosc room and baffles even the electric Ugh: -though the candle? comes out trium? phant curiously-the densest fog at sea does not disturb thc saloon or tin stateroom. Why is that? The word "fog" Las not boen traced further back than the sixteenth cen? tury, but the thing was known in thr? eady years of thc fourteenth. Tho commons, with the prelates and nobles visiting London for the parliaments and on other occasions, united to peti? tion Edward I. to compel the burning only of dry wood and charcoal, as the growing use of sea coal corrupted thc air with its stink and smoke, to the great prejudice and detriment of health. In 1306 the king prohibited the use of coal. Heavy ransom and fines were inflicted for disobedience. In the case of recalcitrant brewers, dy? ers and other artificers the furnaces and kilns were destroyed. But the re? striction was evidently removed, fer in 1308 $250-probably equal to about $L OOO now-was paid from the exchequer for wood and coal for the coronation of Edward IL-New York Commercial Advertiser. The Game Destroying* Locomotive. Said a railroad engineer: "The aver? age man has no idea how many ani? mals and birds are killed every year by the cars. If you will walk along a railroad, you will see toads, frogs and snakes almost every mile that have been cut in two by the engine. "But these are not the only forms of animal life that suffer. I have run down woodchucks, raccoons, squirrels, hedgehogs and pretty nearly every ott? er sort of small animal. Once I saw a ruffed grouse sitting on the track. It waited and did not seem at all afraid. When at last it did get up. the engine was so close that it struck f,he bird and tossed it to one side, dead. "But the strangest experiences I ever had were in the south. I was running an engine on the Queen and Crescent road, which goes through Lake Pont? chartrain on a long trestle. Ducks and other water fowl were numerous on the lake, and the sight of a headlight seemed to attract them, just as the light in a lighthouse attracts many birds. One night vre struck a flock of .ducks that smashed into the engine and cab ns though it were raining them from the clouds. They broke the forward windows of the cab. and we gathered up enough ducks for two good, big game dinners." Kindred Vleese. The Rev. Justus Forward, settled in Be?chertown. Mass., a hundred year? agc. once reproved a workman for swearing while he was plowing a new field. "Swear!" said the man. "I guess you'd swear." Mr. Forward took the plow and hur? ried after it, indignantly denying the charge. Then, as the field beca mo more impassable, he began panting: "I never did see the like! I never did see the like!" When he had gone once round the field, he stopped breath? less and said: "There, you see I didn't find it neces? sary to swear." "No," drawled the other man, "but you've told more'n fifty lies. You said you never did see the like, and you saw it all the time I was plowinV' Youth's Companion. HIS ENGLISH FRIEND, A Visit That Wrecked the Nerves of an American Host. 'Tve been having the time of my life. I tell you," said the suburbanite gloom j ily to his city friend at lunch. . "What's the matter? Pipes burst? I Furnace won't work? Dog killing the j neighbors' chickens?" asked the friend, sympatheticallyrunning through the list of the suburbanite's usual griev? ances. "No: worse than that," sadly answer j ed the first speaker. "I've been hav? ing an English friend visit me. It's years since I've been across the water, so one or two of his ways were a little strange. The worst of his doings was what has broken me up so. He went to bed the first night before the rest of us, and when I came along the corridor an hour or so later there were his shoes standing outside his door and frightfully muddy too. "I looked at them in astonishment Then I remembered the English cus tom of having the boy come up for the boots. We keep only two servants, you know, both women, and of course in the country you have to rub them the right way or they'll leave. I knew perfectly well that if I told either of those free and independent Irish wo? men to clean the Englishman's shoes we'd be left servantle-s. and that would have been the death of my wife. "I lifted the shoes gingerly by two fingers and carried them to r^y room. When I thought the servants must bc asleep, I crept down stairs and got lo work with a brush. At every sound 1 would nearly jump out of my own boots and drop his. I fancied every moment that the .^i:is would see my candle and give the alarm of L*rg!ai*s or that my friend would be taken ill and get up and tin.il me brushing his shoes. Oh, 1 had a pretty time of it! Ile stayed a week, that Englishman, and what with loss of sleep and Over? strained nerves I*m a wreck." "Well. w!iy en earth didn't you have the moral courage to" "Moral courage! I'd like to see'the man who'd have the moral courage to tell an English gentleman with a mono? cle that the ways of even well bred people in this country differ from those he's been accustomed to! My friend, you do not know the breed!" And he drowned his sorrows and braced his nerves with a second cup of unsur- I passed coffee.-New York Tribune. I A STORY OF LINCOLN. The Letter That Waa Stolen and t:he Rascal Who Stole lt. Benajat G. Jayne during most of the civil war wits the personal assistant of Edwin M. Stanton, the famous war secretar}-. One day Lincoln -sent for Jayne to come td the White House. "My boy/' said he, "there is a letter I would like to have you look at" Jayne picked up the letter and found lt was from General Dix. It conveyed the information that several Federal prisoners had escaped from Libby pris? on with the aid of Abbie Green, a wo? man famous during the war. The let? ter also said that as the fact of Ab? bie's assistance was well known, she had been obliged to flee from Rich? mond and even then was on her way to Washington oji the flag of trace boat. "Now, my boy," said the president, "I don't know what I should say to any rascal who would steal that letter and have a bill passed through con? gress to grant $10.000 to the relief of Abbie Green." Mr. Jayne "stole the letter," and the next day both branches of congress passed the bill to grant ?10,000 to Abbie Green. The following morning "Honest Abe" sent for Jayne again. "I told yon I didn't know what I should say," he said, with a twinkle in his eye, 'to the rascal who would steal that letter and have congress act on it. Now, I've made up my mind what to say. You go down to No. - - street get Abbie Green, take her down to Chase at the treasury, and don't you let her go until she gets that money." New Orleans Times-Democrat Swallowing: Salt Water.' One of the most beneficial features of a sea bath is the salt water inadver? tently swallowed by bathers. It is a wonderful tonic for the liver, stomach and kidneys. In many cases it will cure biliousness when all drug prepara? tions have failed. It is peculiarly ef? fective in ordinary cases of indigestion, disordered stomach and insomnia and has been known to produce excellent results in many cases of dyspepsia. Clean sea water is full of tonic and sedative properties. It won't hurt any? body. Indeed two or three big swal? lows of it would be of positive benefit to nine bathers out of ten. It is not of course, a palatable or tempting dose to take, but neither is quinine or calo? mel. You seldom if ever see an old sailor who is bilious or dyspeptic or a victim to insomnia, and why? For the reason that an ocean of good medicine spreads all. about his sky, and he doses# himself copiously with it whenever his' physical mechanism becomes the least bit deranged.-Washington Star. Crnelty to Lobsters. It is singular how the cruel practice of boiling lobsters alive continu?s. Our forefathers - and indeed our parents -let calves bleed slowly to death, on the theory that In no other way could white meat be secured, and later on calves were bled one day and killed the next. Now, every one knows that a calf can be killed in a humane manner and the veal made just as good, and* generally speaking, animals killed for food have been put out of the wajr in a much more humane manner than for? merly. But lobsters are still tortured out of existence, the only difference be? ing that, while formerly they were ex? clusively boiled to death, now some are boiled and some are broiled. Which process causes the most agony no one can say.-Exchange. 3?oaotonons Tones. If voices were cultivated toward ex? pression in speaking as weil as in sing? ing, the variety of tone would be very agreeable to. the listener. Many people find the monotonous tone used in ev? eryday conversation very irritating and would hail with delight any meth? od which would tend toward breaking this tiresome sameness. Even beauty of tone does not save this monotony from condemnation. It is like striking one key of a musical instrument over and over again. The teaching of elo? cution should be of aid in this direc? tion or the practice of reading aloud, striving to give proper expression to each sentence.-Detroit News-Tribune. Causrh? a Tartar. Like so many of his learned brethren in the Church of England, the late Canon Carter was the terror of com? positors. His was perhaps, after Dean Stanley's, the very worst handwriting of the last century. About 1SS0 the then bishop of Lich? field. Dr. Maclagan, surprise^ one Of his secretaries by saying: *I have hardly ever received an anonymous letter, but I got one this morning. It is very badly written, and I can hardly make it out but from the signature it is sure to be abusive. The man has signed himself 4A Tartar.' See if you can make it out" The secretary, who knew the hand? writing, rather startled his lordship by rejoining: "It's nothing alarming. It's only a note from Canon Carter cf Clewer!"-London Tit-Bits. Lies,of the White Kind. The whole fabric of social inter? course is interwoven with what would be lies according to a strict code. Some are pleasant fictions that deceive no? body. Most of them have their genesis in a kindly, cheerful desire to avoid giving pain. These polite untruths are the lubricant of society. They wear away the rough edges, take away the sting out of uncomfortable facts. They are the flower of courtesy, "the pine? apple perfunie of politeness."-Wash? ington Times. The Best Lifter. Hiram-That boy of yours what weut to college could do some powerful lift? ing with the clubs and dumbbells. Siias - Yes. but 1 always thought more of the other one's lifting powers. Hiram-Did he lift dumbbells andthe iike? Silas-No: he lifted the mortgage. Philadelphia Kecord.