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LOCAL NEWS PARAGRAPHED. The city council, having extended the time for the payment of city taxes to December 35th. there will probably be no rush for tax receipts until the 14th and 15th. Lum Mathis was before the Mayor's court onc8 again Monday for drunk enness and disordarly conduct, and he was turned over to Supervisor Seale for ten days. The pantry robl>er visited the resi dence of Mrs. Bertha E. Bultman Sunday night. He broke the latch on the kitchen window to make an entry and helped himself to all the groceries that were in the kitchen. The police pulled a crowd of negroes on Divine street: Mondayjnight They were engaged in a rough and tumble fight as is the w ay of the gentle resi dents of Divine street Mr. W. S. Burton, of Richmond, Vs., is the winner of the Cortlandt buggy offered by the Carnival Com mittee of the Knights of Pythias, and the buggy was shipped to him Saturday. Quite a number of men and boys, who could beg, rent, borrow, or take by force, & gun last Thursday, went hunt ing. A quantity of ammunition was wasted. In conversation with Mr. Geo. D. Shore, the wholesale grocery man, he safd it was quite a common thing for Sumter to get all kinds of goods in car load quantities. He further stated' that his firm had already sold more than $10,000 worth of meat for the month of November. The complaint against the telephone service between this city and Mayes ville that is made by Mayesville peo ple is well founded, and the Sumter Telephone Co., will either have to make an immediate : and decided im provement in ite system or many of its patrons will return to th6 use of the mail or telegraph. Mr. Henry F. Parker, artistic pian ist and technic specialist, late of the Virgil Piano School New York, arriv , ed in the city during the past week. Mr. Parker is now connected with the Sumter School of Music and ?ll serious students and those who are seriously interested in the musical education of their children will appre ciate the excellent, advantages offered by this school. Mr. Tom Sumter, Jr., who is a member of the Charleston football team, is credited with saving his team defeat in the game with Eurman University on Thanksgiving' day. ' He kicked a goal from the field, when the score stood 5 to 0 in favor of Furman, and tied . the score. After^ this play by l?umter neither side' scored and the game ended with the score 5 to 5. ? The Monaghan Hose Wagon Co.'s racing teams have gone to Charles ton to take part in the Fire man's Tournament Teams have been entered for the hose wagon race, the hand reel race and the quick hitch ; contest, and as horses and men are in fine form and perfect training it is hoped that some of the prizes will fall to Sumter. Delgar Squad will not send a team to Charleston, it being impossible for the members of the squad who usually represent it at tournaments to leave their business at this season of the year. The statement of the First National Bank published today shows better than any mere assertion could that the country is in a prosperous condi tion. The bank has on deposit $344, 875.10, has $42,075.66 surplus and un divided profits over and above the cap ital, stock of 875,000. JThe cash on hand and due from other oanks and bankers foots up more thsn 8185,000. The bank is doing, an immense busi ness which is growing steadily every .month. There is no stock on the market, but the few. shares that have< changed hands during the past year have commanded a premium of fifty p5r cent. County Treasurer Scarborough and Auditor Wilder hare heard nothing from Comptroller General Derham rel ative to the deliye'ry of the tax books to the Lee County officials. It is pre sumed that the Comptroller General and Attorney General are wrestling with the problem, and that the contest will be continued until the Supreme Court shall have taken action on the case now pending before it. Arbor Day was observed by the Washington Street Graded School on last Wednesday afternoon between the hours of 3 and 4.30 o'clock, the exer cises being appropriate and instruct ive to pupils and parents alike. The attendance was quite large and with the several hundred school children there was a great crowd assembled on the Graded School Square. The Sec ond Regiment Bana.played several suitable selections, a row'of trees was planted and Rev. W. A.. Fairy made an address. He spoke but a few min utes, but the address was to the point, simple and direct, full of thought and tending to arouse interest in the ob servance Arbor Day and all that the day is intended to symbolize. The people of Darlington are very mad with the Atlantic Coast Line for removing Agent Frank Pegues with out cause. Mr. Pegues has held the position for ten years, has given entire satisfaction and is popular personally in the community, hence his dismissal has aggrieved his many friends. The A. C. L. autboriSies have refused to reconsider their action, although a delegation of prominent Darlington citizens went to Wilmington and urged Mr. Pegues* r?tention as agent. There is no use for Darli Dgton to kick against the pricks and they should be thankful that is not the depot that is to be re moved. It is evident that Sumter is willing for Columbia to keep the Femlale Col lege or for some other town to secure it, if it can. One reason advanced for the general apathy concerning the College H that the belief is prevalent that there is Hot the least probability of the removal of the College from Columbia. The Naples priest who to give his con gregation a more realistic idea of hell, the horrors of which he was picturing, put a man behind the pulpit to rattle chains, and yell, succeeded so well that he caused a stampede from the church by which many people were injured. Now he is not allowed to employ any yelling assistants. ' Sm*rt Set at H. Gl Csteen & Co. m???a??ami .li . , Dots From Hagood. Mr. Editor: That, is a splendid report which the Eev. C. C. Brown, in the Advocate of last week, makes to the South Carolina conference. This is characteristic of the man, but jnst now he is felicitating himself on hav ing completed one of the handsomest churches in the State. If all the re ports made at the conference do but measure up to Brown's, Methodism in South Carolina may congratulate it self. I hope the school trustees and Coun ty Superintendent of Education will give due attention to the recent in structions .of Mr. McMahan. They look to the betterment and increased efficiency of our schools. I heartily agree with him in ali he says. What a pity that he was not reelected. It was not, an intelligent vote that de feated him, not that I mean to reflect on the people that cast it. They are not in a position to know the state of affairs and his fitness for the place. If the choice had been left to the teachers, who are in a position to ap preciate the situation, hardly a vote would have been cast against him. The Molineux case, decided in New York the other day, has awakened dis cussion on the pecuniary redress of persons innocently deprived of their liberty. Without doubt much good would arise from it, if such a law were in operation here. Our * legisla tors would do well to consider the matter and make some such provision. The writer has been abroad lately in the country and finds that the wells, that have never failed in water, are going dry. Can it be for want of rain or is it due to some other cause? Have the recent volcanic disturbances anything to do with it? The snow came, did you see it? be fore we had any frost to speak of, and caught many farmers with their pota toes in the ground. They were and are an uneasy set just now. There is a theory abroad among tbem that the vines ought to he killed by frost be fore the crop is dug. Whether this is true I know not but it behooves all concerned to find out and not unneces sarily risk the loss of the crop. How ever true , or untrue the above theory among those who have dug there is considerable complaint that their potatoes are rotting. Master Johnnie Wingate, the eldest son of our esteemed neighbor G. W. Wingat?, had his leg broken by the falling of his horse while out riding He is doing well under the efficient care of Dr. Kirk of Hagood. Mr. G. W. Winate having bought the Tom Philips place near Providence will shortly move to that ^community. He is a good neighbor, a fine citizen, a useful church member whom we hate to give up. While out the other day I met a Miss Greer, a country girl, that has the finest voice in singing I ever listened at. What a pity it cannot be cul tivated. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, ^ The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air." "Hagood." Dr. Gilbert R. Bracket! Dead. Dr. Gilbert Bobbins Brackett, pas tor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Charleston, S. C, died at 2 Ashmead Place on Sunday morning at 2 o'clock. He had been in failing health for some time, yet the news of his death was a painful shock to his numerous friends in the city. ?1rs. Brackett was with him when he peacefully breathed his last. His son, Prof. R. M. Brackett, of Clemson College, and his daughter, Mrs. A. B. Fitzgerald, of Maryland, were notified by wire Sunday morn ing, and they will come here for the funeral. Dr. Brackett was 69 years of age. He had been pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church since 1872, and during that time he did splendid work for his Master and his flock. Dr. Brackett, the son of Charles and Lucy (Gay) Brackett, was born in the city of Newton, Mass., July 9, 1833. He entered fAmherst College in 1853, but was compelled to leave before his graduation on account of ill health. Removing South in 1S59, he entered the Theological Seminary in Colum bia, and was graduated in May, 1862. He was licensed to preach by Bethel Presbytery, South Carolina, and was ordained and installed pastor of Third Creek Church, Rowan County, North Carolina, May 14, 1864. He became pastor of Zion Church, Winnsboro, S. C, June 5, 1868. Dr. Bracket accept ed a call to the Second Presbyterian Church, in Charleston, in May, 1871, as the successor of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Smyth, who had served the church with great acceptance, devotion and distinction for forty years. He was installed as pastor in June, 1872. In 1877 Davidson Collage, North Carolina, conferred upon Mr. Bracket the honorary degree of doctor of divinity.?News and Courier, Dec. L Washington, Dec. 2.?Recess ap pointments to South Carolina post masterships sent the senate today in clude J. F. Richardson, postmaster at Greenville; William L. Harris at Charleston; C. J. Shannon, Camden, Geo. D. Shore, Sumter; J. P. Mur phy, Bamberg; and Frank M. Em mauel, Bennettsville. In several of the above appointments opposition has heretofore been shown by the senate to their confirmation. It is too early as yet to say whether there will be a revival of this hostiility. MAYOR'S COURT. The following cases were heard in the Mayor's court yesterday : William Alston,Bill Smith and Holly Fraser, gambling at William Alston's house and disturbing the peace. Alston, guilty, sentence suspended; Smith and Fraser escaped. Charles Douglass, disturbance of the peace. Not guilty. William Alston and* Hester Wilson, fighting at Alston's house. Guilty. Alston, 83 or 6 days : Hester Wilson, $5 or 10 days. A lot of 25c. books at 15c. each. We need the space for newer ones. H. G. Osteen & Cc. The latest in fine stationery just re ceived and placed on sale at H. G. Osteen & Co's book store. '.. *.'?.?? ?...-. ???? ? ',: ' HOLIDAY FOR WINTHROP GIRLS. Board of Trustees Grant Week Vacation at Christmas. Columbia, Dec. 2.?The annual meeting of the board of trustees of Winthrop College was heJd today in the governor's office and continued from 10 a. m. till 2 p. m. There were present at the meeting Gov. MSwee ney, Superintendent of Education John J. McMahan, Dr. E. S. Joynes, Gen. Wilie Jones and Messrs. A. M. Lee, C A. ' Woods and J. E. Breazele. President D. B. Johnson was present and presented his annual report which covered the whole work of the college for the year and coontained a number of suggestions for improvements on certain lines. This report was made the basis of the board's annual report to the legislature which is not yet ready for publication, but will be in a few days, all important, points being discussed and passed upon. The resignation of Miss Ethel Nance as music teacher was presented and ac cepted and the board elected Miss Par nell Jones, of Laurens, a graduate of Winthrop College, to fill the vacancy. The question cf giving Christmas holiday came up for discussion and the following resolutons were adopted : Resolved, That the president be au thorized to intermit all college exer cises from Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 23, 1902, to include Monday, Dec. 29, and to grant furlough during this time to all pupils whose parents may in writ ing request the same. Resolved, That further consideration of a winter vacation be deferred to next annual meeting. THE YOUNG DOCTORS LOSE THEIR CASE. The S. C. Medical College's Three Year Course Graduates Must Stand the Regular Exam ination. The State supreme court has handed down a decision of considerable inter est in the last few days. It finally set ties the issue that has occasioned such a lively fight between three-year-course graduates of the South Carolina Medi cal College and the State Board of Medical Examiners. All will recall when - the agitation was begun in the general assembly several years ago to exempt the graduates of the South Carolina Meidcal college from examination by the State board in order to practice medicine.^ Finally the act was passed with an ' amendment exempting any graduate of a medical college in South Carolina completing a four year's course, from such examination. It happened th?t the class that was sent out by the South Carolina Medicai college that year had only been required to take a three year course in order to get their diplomas, and the young men held that the purpose of the amendment was simply to require a course ex tension over four years, and meant that the diploma from the college was sufficient to secure the license. When the graduates applied to the State board the board refused to grant the licenses. Then it was that Dr. Moore of the three-year class deter mined to test the issue, about which there seemed to be doubts, in the high est tribunal of the State. He applied to the court for a writ of mandamus to compel the board to grant the licenses without further examination, alleging this to be the purpose of the act. The matter was fully and ably argued some time ago, and the de cision bas at last been handed down dismissing the application. This means that the young doctors of the class referred to must now go before the board and stand the examination just as any other applicants to practice medicine.?The State. SHE KNEW JOSH. "Now, madam," said the counsel for the defendant to a little, wiry, black-eyed, fidgety woman, who had been summoned in a case, "you will please give your evidence in as few words as possible. You know the de fendant?" "Know who?" '1 The defendant?Mr. Joshua Bagg. ' ' "Josh Bagg? I do know him, and I knowed his father before him, and I don't know nothin' to the credit of either of 'em, and I dont' think? "We don't want to know what you think, madam. Please say 'yes' or 'no' to my questions." "What questions?" "Do you know Mr. Joshua Bagg?" "Don't I know him, though. You ask Josh Bagg if ho knows me. Ask him if he knows anytL.;n?? about try ing to cheat a pore widder 1i!<-e me out of $25. Ask-" "Madam I-" "Ask him whose orchard he robbed last and why he did it in the night. Ask his wife, Betsy Bagg, if she knows anything about slippin' into a neigh bor's field and milkin' three cows on the sly. Ask-" "Look here, madam-" ' ' Ask Josh Bagg about that uncle of his, that died in prison. Ask him about lettin' his pore old mother die in the workhouse. Ask Betsy abouti putting a big brick into a lot of butteri she sold last spring-" "Madam, I tell you-99 "See if Josh Bagg knows anything about feeding ten head of cattle on all the salt they could eat, and then let ting them swill down all the water they could hold, just 'fore he drive them into town and sold 'em. See what he's got to say to that!" "That has nothing to do with the cese. I want you to-" "Then there was old Azrael Bagg, own uncle to Jrsh, got kicked out of his native town, and Betsy Bagg's own brother got ketched in a neighbor's henhouse at midnight. Ask Josh-" "Madam, what do you know about this case." "1 don't know a li vin' thing 'bout it, but I'm sure Josh Bagg is gailty, whatever it is. The fact is I've owed them Bagges a grudge for the last fifteen years, and I got myself called up on purpose to get even with 'em, and I feel I've done it. "--London Tit Bits. Toilettes, Harper's Bazar, Smart Set at Osteen's Book Store. Helping a Sculptor. When Maemonnies, the American ' sculptor, was a young man working in Paris, Falgniere, the famous French sculptor, on one occasion entered his i atelier and found there a beautiful ; Diana that had been for months "on | the stocks"' and was approaching a perfection measurably satisfactory to I the sculptor himself. Falguiere became so absorbed in the work before him as. to forget that it was not his own. lie began to twist and pull the dainty limbs of Diana this way and that, to punch her in the ribs, turn her queenly head?for she was then only in clay, of course, and sus ceptible to impressions?until at last he had produced the very pose he de sired. "There, my friend; I like her better so," he cried and skipped out of the studio. He had-really intended to do Mae monnies a favor and had indeed paid him the greatest compliment of which he was capable, but the young sculp tor was in distress, for on comparing the remodeled Diana with a photo graph of Falguiere's statue of the same character he found the French man had unconsciously ?ade a prac tical replica of the other. Maemon nies did not rest until he had restored his statue to its original pose. A Literary Kleptomaniac. Among French writers no one car ried the profession of the literary brig and to such an extent as Mme. de Gen lis. In 1830 her evil ways brought her into the courts of law under very dis creditable circumstances. Bout, the publisher of a series of manuals, en gaged her for the sum of ?16 to write a "Manuel Encyclop?dique de E - fance." The manuscript, which had been paid for: was on the point of be ing printed when it was discovered to be an exact cony of a book of the same kind published in 1S20 by M. Dasscha. I do not find it easy to understand the audacity of a writer who would perpe trate a fraud of such enormity or the imbecility which would suppose that it would not easily be detected. Another time she contributed to a Paris newspaper a feuilleton which turned out to be a close reproduction of a romance printed some twenty years before. Surely the poor woman suffered from literary kleptomania.? Gentleman's Magazine. Reason and Instinct. A certain north country miner was particularly proud of a clever little dog lie possessed. At times he was apt to claim a little too much for his pet, and one morning a neighbor was en deavoring to point out the difference between instinct and reason when an amusing interruption occurred. ? A seedy looking tramp turned the corner, and the dog, without so much as a word from his master, sprang into the road and offered battle. "There you are," laughed the miner as the dog snapped and snarled round the heels of the tramp; " 'e don't like the look of the chap. That's instinct." Suddenly the tramp turned and kick ed the dog into an adjacent field. "There you are," ejaculated the min er's friend grimly. "The chap don't like the look of the dog. An' that's reason."?London Tit-Bits. Practice and Preachings When the late Bishop Hare was pre siding over a Methodist Episcopal chireh in New York city, a large re ception was given in his honor, to which a brother of his, a lawyer, who closely resembled the bishop, was in vited. During the evening a member of the conference who had never met the bishop's brother approached him and, shaking him warmly by the hand, said: "Good evening, Bishop Hare. I greatly enjoyed the sermon you gave us today. It is just what this church j needs." "You are mistaken in the person," said the brother, smiling, as he pointed to the bishop on the opposite side of the room, "that is the man who preach- ; es; I practice." His Quaint Suggestion. A Frenchman, who appears to have been of a thrifty turn of mind, con ceived the idea in 1878 that too much valuable time was being wasted in cleaning sardines when preparing them for the market. He found a way of preparing them without cleaning tfiem, and on this he took out letters patent. Apparently he had some slight misgiv ing as to whether the public would be perfectly suited with his invention, ? and so In his claim he makes this ! parenthetical entry: Fish put up by this process may be j slightly unpleasant to the customer at first but he soon gets used to it. Taverns In Sweden. Taverns in Sweden are closed on Sat urday, which is pay day, while the savings banks are kept open until mid nigh^- T*<rplah induces the workmen to/invest their money where it will pay ?nem Interest Instead of in alcoholic stimulants. Xot Exactly a Compliment. Hewitt?Ignorance is bliss. Jewett?You'd better get your fife in sured. Hewitt?What for? Jewitt?You're liable to die of joy.? New York Times. The Modern Juvenile. Mother?Why, Franki?, what are yon reading in that book about bring In? up children? Frank?I'm just looking to see whether I'm being properly brought up. Faint Heart Won. Dora?How many time3 did you re fuse Jack before you accepted him? Ethel?Only once. He seemed so dis couraged I was afraid to try it again. ?New York Weekly._ There are three things about the north pole that have never been dis covered?exactly where it is, what it is and why it is. Napoleon Ii E. and Kis Cigarettes. The most obstinate of cigarette smokers vr.s the Emperor Napoleon III. It is an error to suppose that he was ambitious. A fatalist, he fol lowed a plan which he imagined had been traced in advance. At Sedan, when the end came, he calmly lit a cigarette. Hugo's epic anger against him had a large element of irritation at the man's supreme calmness. Hugo was not a cigarette smoker. He never understood, he could not understand., him. Zola, who was a cigarette smoker and who ceased in order that: he might become a great workman, understood and described Napoleon III. in "La Debacle" perfectly. Usual Result. Mrs. Gabb?Dear me! There comes my husband. There won't be a whole piece of furniture left in the house by midnight Mrs. G^dd?Horrors! Does he drink, and is that a case of whisky he is car rying? Mrs. Gabb?No, he doesn't drink. That's a new box of tools. Meant the Same. Doctor?I found the patient to be suffering from abrasion of the cuticle, tumefaction, ecchymosis and extrava sation in the integument and cellular tissue about the left orbit Judge?You mean he had a black eye? Doctor?Yes.?Judge. Its Value. "What was the matter with Mrs. Scadds?" inquired the doctor's wife. "Oh, a cold," he replied. "Very bad?" "Yes; disgustingly so?just one of those simple little things that, you can't possibly get more than two visits out of." Pat Definition. In a Liverpool school lately a num ber of scholars were asked to explain the meaning of the term "righteous in dignation." One little chap replied: "Being angry without cussing." Nothing Doing. -'What is the matter with Bills?' "Worrying over business affairs." "I didn't know he had any business." "That's it. He hasn't."?Indianapolis News. A Personal Reflection. "I see villain in your face," said a judge to a prisoner. "May it please you honor," said the latter, "that is a personal reflection." A Possibility. "So you refused him?' said Maud. "Yes," replied Mabel. "I told him 1 shall send back any letters unopened." "I wouldn't be so rude. There might be theater tickets in some of them!" There is a wide difference in getting what we think we deserve and getting what is in store for us sometimes.? Pittsburg Gazette. Positive Proof. Judge?What proof have we that this man is absentminded? Attorney?Why, he actually stopped his automobile at a watering fountain. ?Philadelphia Record. There are 227 different religious sects in Great Britain und ?r?innd. k Hope Springs Eternal. The patience of fishermen who really love the sport is the theme of many stories. One is told by a man who, traveling on foot through part of Eng land, came upon a solitary fisherman who looked* as if time and the world might pass away without disturbing his content "Hr.re you fished long in this stream?" asked the traveler. "Eighteen year," was the calm re sponse. "Get many bites?" was the next question. The fisherman scarcely turned his gaze from ?he rod in his hands. "Five year ago in this very spot I had a fine bite." he answered hope fully. He Was Only the Master. "George," exclaimed Mrs. Ferguson, with flashing eyes, "am I the mistress of this house or am I not?" "You certainly are," replied Mr. Fer guson, with alacrity. "What's the mat ter now?" "I've discharged ihat impudent hired girl, and she refuses to leave. I want you to go to the kitchen and bundle her out neck and crop!" "Settle it between yourselves, Laura," said Mr. Ferguson weakly. "I won't have anything to do with it I'm only the master of the house."?Chicago Tribune. Be always beginning. Never think that you can relax or that you have at tained the end. If we think ourselves more than beginners. It is a sign that ws have hardly yet begun. Very Irritating. "Once in awhile, even now," remark ed the caller, "you hear of some Eng lishman who says our Revolutionary war was *the most causeless rebellion in history.' Isn't is irritating?" "Decidedly so," responded the Boston young woman. "If a thing is cause less, how can it be any more cause less?"?Chicago Tribune. The Whole Thing. "Bixby seems to think he's the whole thing as an expert authority on sport ing matters." "Yes; he appears to regard himself as pretty nearly big enough to wear golf links to fasten his shirt cuffs."? Cleveland Plain Dealer. When we deserve it we don't mind abuse, it makes us careful. But the troubh* is we never a?ree with our critics as to whtu .\? deserve it.--Atch Isoii (.Hobe. A SOLEMN QUESTION. O no of tlie Pranks Art emus Ward Played Upon His Brother. In the days \vhen Cyras Erowne and his brother, Charles Farrar Brown?, better known as "Artenius Ward," lived in Waterford, "the little Maii e village that nestled among the nils and never did anything else bnt nestle," Charles delighted to play prac tical jokes on Cyrns. Charles came home? one freezing night, says the nar rator cf the following prank in the Boston Herald, at an hour that would be thought early in a metropolis, but was not so considered in WaterforcL The family were sleeping soundly id the warm comfort of their beds whe;i the future showman halted under tha window of Cyrus, and raised an alarm. "Cy! Oh, Cy! Come out here, Cy!" After a time Cyrus appeared at th-? window. "What do you want?" he demanded through the crack he had opened. "I want you to come down!" wi?t great earnestness. "I want to ask yotl a question, Cy." "Oh, go 'way!" said Cyrus, his teetti chattering in the awful cold. "Ita only one of your jokes." "Really, Cy, it's a very important: question !" persisted Charles with in creased earnestness. "It's a solerne thing, and I want you to cerne down, Cy; I want you bad." Finally, after grumbling and expos tulating, Cyrus slipped on some clothes and came reluctantly downstairs and out into the arctic cold. "Now what in the world is it that you want?" he asked. Charles came up close, laid his hands on his brother's shivering shoulders, and in that voice of plaintive solemnity which in after years moved so many people to mirth said: "I want to ask you, Cy, if you think slavery is wrong?" A STORY OF C/^SAR. The Quality of Mercy as Exercised by the Great Roman. Ccesar traveled with the retinue of a man of rank, and on his way to Rhodes he fell ih with an adventure Which may be &omething more t'ii?i'n legend. "When he was crossing the jEgcan, his vessel is said to have been taken by pirates. They can-led him to Pharmacusa, an island off the Ca rian coast, which was then in their pos session, and there he was detained for six weeks with fcree of hi^ attendants, while the rest cf his servants were sent to the nearest Roman etation to raise his ransom. The pirates treated him with polito ness. He joined in their sports, pla3'ed games with them, looked into their habits and amused himself with them as well as he could, frankly t?lling^" them at the same time that they would be hanged. The ransom, a very large 012e, about ?10:000, was brought and paid. C s-ar was set upon the mainland, near Mi ietus, where, without a moment's delay, he collected some armed vessels, returned to "the island, seized the whole crew while they were dividing their plunder, and took them away to Pergamus, the seat of government in the Asiatic province, where they were convicted and crucified. Clemency was not a Roman characteristic. It was therefore noted with some surprise that Caesar interceded to mitigate the ; severity of the punishment. The poor wretches were strangled before they were stretched on their crosses and were spared the prolongation of their torture.?James Anthony Freude. The Wild Strawberry. The wild strawberry is very widely diffused over the surface of the earth, being found in the chill regions of the north as well as in the sunny climes of the south. It is not a tropical plant, however, and except on mountain sides is not found south of latitude 38 de grees north. On the European conti nent it grows extensively from Lap-. land and the Shetland isles to Italy and Greece. It is also found throughout western Asia, but is unknown in China and Japan, It has grown abundantly on the bleak hills of Iceland for cen turies. It is found in America from Labrador and British Columbia to the pine woods of the southern states anci. on the high.lands of Mexico and the Andes. The hardy plant, with its tiny scarlet berry, may be said to girdle the earth on the line of the polar circle and several hundred miles soutbwai-d, ex cept that it is cot found in the basin of the river Amur, in Siberia. The Horse Is Useful Even if Dead. The whale can be put to a greti number of uses when dead, as can also the horse, the various parts of which are utilized as follows: Hair of mane and tail for haircloth, stufilng mattresses and making bags for crush* ing seed in oil mills, etc.; bjde and skin tanned for leather for covering tables, etc.; tendons used for glue and gelatin; flesh for food for dogs, poultry and man; fat usedjor lamps, etc.; intes~ tines used for covering sausages, mak ing gut strings, etc.; heart and tongue for food; hoofs for g-elatin, prussiate, fancy snuffboxes, etc.; bones for knife - handles, phosphorus, superphosphate of lime and manure; blood for manure - and shoes for reuse or for old iron.? Spare Moments. . In Suspense. ^ ?"^j "So you don't know whether you" want to go to work or not?" "Well, suh," answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley, "I'd like do refusal ob de job a little while." "But I need somebody right away." "In dat case ITI have to let it go by. I'ze jes' bought a policy ticket, an' I'll ha'tcr wait till aftrh de drawin' to see whether I'ze gwine to work at all or not"?Washington Star. a nnancial View. Eustacia?I knew that man was a physician by the way in which he shook hands?his tender, delicate, con- ' siderate touch. Edgar?Yes, of course; thafs his five dollar touch.?Detroit Free Press.