The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 30, 1904, Image 3
CARSWELL'S OBSERVATIONS.
Interesting Facts and Flgares Relative to
Stae of Sumter s Substantial anti .
Srowing Establishments.
There is increasing activity in the
varied industrie? of Sunter. Me?
chanics are at works and shops early,
and at night are planning bow they,
eas expedite matters next day.
THE SUMTER IRON WORKS
Are busy in every department, not
only ia. answer to local demands, but
orders come from Georgia.
The new Foundry Cupola, 3,500
pounds capacity, is the latest addition,
and lesser auxiliaries to facilitate
operations are in place and on the
way. t
The works, ai coiner of South Wash?
ington, and West Oakland Avenue,
have lot measuring 310x230 feet,
affording space for engines,, boilers
ana* vehicles reqairng treatment, and
the main building, in L shape, meas?
uring 13&d00jfeet, will receive exten?
sion. The machine shop has engine of
12 h. p., two planers, two lathes, one
25 feet bj 28 inch swing, also drill
press, boring .machine, emory wheel
and first class tools generally.
The wood working and pattern de?
partments will also receive increased
attention and the blacksmithing and
horse shoeing shops has gained wide
fame, as the irs the best horses in this
country are shod for speed and endur?
ance. .''
Branson and Bmnson the owners-of
the Sumter Iron Works are thorough
mechanics and physically have a
hustle on all the time,
They are also agents for the. cele?
brated LefJeil engines also turbine
wheels and have just put in a turbine
in the Eden milk
. In the selling of circular saws their
trade has received great impetus of
late, and in reference to business they
are about the cheeriest men in town
and they are always cheery.
J. I. Branson can put in a water
wheel .or shoe a racehorse with equal
facility, and as a V. S., he can cure
an animal from head to heel. His
versatility is very exceptional.
He loves the noble equine, and has
the finest hounds in the county, and
as a trader it is a pleasure to deal with
. him.
W. E. Branson is also a South Caro?
linian who as machinist worked for
Frick in Pennsylvania, and he is also
excellent in woodcraft . At edge of
town he has 20 acres which show as
fine gardenia? as there is in this belt
of counttry-Mrs. Branson being the
garden genius? and the lady takes de?
light in some-gazelle-eyed dairy beau
ties.
By the way with tbe Bronson and
Branson works is a grist mill with
Richmond vertical burr,' and a Bone,
mill also does excellent duty.
Sumter having a ?number of whole?
sale houses is benefitting not only
Sumter but South Carolina.
The brainy and level-headed gentle?
men who go from Sumter from differ?
ent wholesale houses are- competitive
ia business, but they are all represen?
tatives of a good city and a good peo?
ple.
Their representations are advocacies
for the best markets, and they aid
Sumter every time.
The different" lines pertaining to
groceries and provisions haye become
particularly extensive and with in?
crease of competition every house is
increasing business-that is not only
individual and company statement,
but is borne out by investigation of
imports and exports.
THE SUMTER BANKING AND
MERCANTILE COMPANY .
Began business on Liberty street
near The Daily. Item and Watchman
and Southron offices in October-only
six months ago.
The S. B. and M. Co., have a wei1,
stocked establishment on the thorough
- fare mentioned and '-offices therewith,
and in yard a warehouse, and three
on the A. C. L. track.
The trade has increased far beyond
the expectations of the organizers whose
good investment hav-d caused them to
purchase the Episcopal Church pro?
perty, south of the Sumter Hotel? on
which they will build a brick estab?
lishment measuring 200x40 feet, and
handsome offices with all the facilities
necessitated by immediate call and
answer. They will bave side track
and will build cotton warehouses, and
will issue certificates on the White
King.
A brief statement as to some of the
business done by the S. B. and M.
Company will interest insiders as well
as those who don't know Sumter.
Beginning in October 1903, they have
had a surprising trade in fertilizers
orders for which extend to 1905.
They sold this season 1,000 tons of
Muriate of Potash, 700 tons of Nitrate
of Soda, and 4,000 tons of Kali, and
3,000 tons of Ammoniated fertilizers
besides.
That they look for the future is
shown in their having bought and
sold 6,000 tons of Kali and 1,000 tous
of Muriate of Potash. Those goods
have been sold to big buyers in North
as well as South Carolina. The S. B.
and M. Co. borrow no money and dis1
count all bills-pay cash for every?
thing. Coffees are bought direct from
importers, and rice they handle large?
ly from Louisiana and Texas: and
without detailing all there is in the
list of provisions they handle, it is
evident that their business will go
over the-quarter million dollar mark
for the year.
Although a youug enterprise, the
officers of the company possess ample
czpetieuce and modern methods of
doing business and they are extending
Sumter's influence rapidly.
W. A. Bowman, the President, was
formerly with the firm of Harby &
Company and has a wide circle of
friends commercially and socially, and
will rush the business through the j
State and N. C. as well as push its
.interests at home.
C. W. Bjsbamer, the Secretary and
Treasurer, was formerly auditor and
manager of the famous wholesale pro?
vision Jtouse of W. S. Forbes, Rich?
mond, Va , with whom he was for 8
years and for a score of years been in
thi.s line of trade as representative on
fae road ai. J in other positions of re?
sponsibility, so thai he is known over
many states, and has made a fine
record as a business man and refined
gentleman. Walter Durant, formerly
with Harby & Co., is one of the S. B.
? :vl. Company's commercial travellers
and bis ever genial manner and com?
mer?ai acumen are # bringing him
greaser success every trip?
Then the company hare local brokera
in different t >wns wno send in lots of
orders by mai), telegraph and tele?
phone, and exclusive of the broker?
the company employs nine people and
the force will be greatly increased
when their new buildings are occu?
pied. James Carwell.
COL KNIGHT'S VISIT.
Grand Chancellor of Pytbians in Charles?
ton.
Col. John M. Knight, the veteran
editor of the Sumter Kearid and grand
chancellor of the Knights of Pythias
of South Carolina? who was here
yesterday for the purpose of paying an
official visit to Calhoun Lodge, No.
23 of this city, was royally entertained
during the day by members of that
Order, and was. taken to various
points of interest that he might be
made to appreciate fully not only the
beauty of. Charleston at this season,
but that he might get a taste of the
warmhearted hospitality of which the
people are capable when they set out
to entertain some visitor within their
gates.
' Coi. Knight is one of those genial,
wholesoulea South Carolinians who
make friends ?pf all they meet, and it
was for the reason that he was?g^?h
in demand that a repr?sentai^^?!
The News and Courier bad^wpg
trouble in getting him into a cdpe-r.'
But when this consummation was at
list brought about the editor bf the
Herald was found to be thoroughly im?
bued with that love of his native heath
and belief in its possibilities that has
made his hustling np-country town
the thriving little city that it is.
"Business is just about as good as
it could bein Sumter," said Grand
Chancellor Knight, "and everybody
seems to have all they can do iti look?
ing atfer their affairs. At this season,
of course, the farmers are using every
effort to get their lands in shape and
the new crop in the ground as quickly
as possible in order that full, advan?
tage cay be taken of the splendid
weather that we are now having.
Fertilizers are being hauled to the
fields in large quantities, and though
the commercial grades are meeting
with the most general use guano is
also being sold to an increasing extent.
The people of Sumter will increase
the cotton acreage this year and to?
bacco will not be planted so largely as
was the case last year. The low price
of the weed which ruled last season
made cotton a more profitable crop
than tobacco, and it is for this reason
that the latter will be more extensive?
ly planted* than was the case last
year."
When asked about the emigration
movement in his county, CoL Knight
said that the Sumter people were too
?busy taking care of the business in
sight? to bother about this matter much
at the present time, but that the ques?
tion was a live one and was of deep in?
terest to those in that section of the
State. It was one that would be at?
tended to at its proper time. The
available negro labor had been greatly
decreased by the fact that the turpen?
tine industry had drawn a great many
of these from Sumter to find employ?
ment in these fields. In addition many
had taken up small farms and the
scarcity of negro help was becoming
as^serious a question as it was in
other parts of the Satte.
Sumter is situated on the Atlantic
Coast Line and Southern lines, and is
not having any serious trouble with
the railroads, and enjoys good rates,
lt is said to be the largest interior
cotton market in the State, shipping
about 30,000 bales of the fleecy staple
each year. There are many other
paying industries being carried on.
within its borders? all nf which' are in
splendid condition and doing a
flourishing business.
As is noted previously Grand Chan?
cellor Knight was the chief figure in
the business meeting with its later
enjoyable social session, given by the
Calhoun Lodge, No. 23, Knights of
Pythias at their hall, last night, at
which members of the other local
lodges of that Order were present.
To the regret of himself and his many
friends here he was forced to leave for
Sumter on the early morning train,
it being necessary for him to look
atfer some important business matters
which would require his attention
there today.-News and Courier,
March 29.
The First Lexicographer.
Dr. Johnson, even if we except his
predecessor. Bailey, was not the father
of lexicographers. lu a volume issued
by the historical manuscripts commis?
sion on manuscripts in the Welsh lan?
guage it is stated that the idea of illus?
trating the meaning and correct use of
words by actual quotations from the
literature or' a living language seems to
have been first put in practice by Grif?
fith ll i met bog. the herald bard of
Wales, who died in WA. It was not
till the days of Dr. Johnson, 200 years
titter, that a similar idea took root in
English soil. An abbreviated copy of
(?ri?h?h llirae.thoir's Welsh Dictionary
was made by his "pupil. William Llyu.
between 1507 and 1573 ami is now in
the free library at Cardiff.-London
ftlbbe.
Growth of thc Human Heart.
A scientific analysis of the growth of
the haman heart demonstrates the fact
that the increase is greatest and mos*
ni pal during the lirst and second years
of life, its bulk at ibe end of the sec?
ond year being exactly double what it
originally was. Between the second
and seventh years it ls again doubled
in size. A slower rate of growth then
sets In and continues during the period
of maturity pf other portions of the
body. After the fifteenth year up to
the fiftieth the annual growth of the
heart is about ,?H;I of a cubic inch,
the increase ceasing about the fiftieth
year.
The Delusre.
In answer to a correspondent a news?
paper says: "The deluge mentioned lu
the Bible was threatened in the year
177><> 1?. C. and began on Dec. 7. ]CT>G
B. C., and continued 377 days.. The ark
rested on Mount Ararat on May C.
li???, but Noah did not leave it until
Dec. 18 following." Any reader who
imagines that it would be an easy task
to figure these details from a Biblical
account can find a basis for his calcu?
lations in the seventh and eighth chap?
ters of Genesis.
6E0. W. DICK WILL BE MAYOR.
Result of Primary Declared-Dr. Dick
Wins by Safe Majority After Close
Race-No Second Primary
Necessary.
Interest in Sthel primary increased
rather than diminished yesterday in
the ?-hour for the polls to close. The
workers kept hustling and every effort
possible was made to bring out the
full vote. It was along in the after?
noon that the only disturbances of the
day occurred, and these were of an
insignificant character, and no arrests
were made.
The total vote polled was 674, the
largest ever cast in a municipal pri?
mary in this city. The large vote in?
dicates not only the interest the con?
test aroused, but the increase in the
voting population since the last elec?
tion. The polls closed at 7 o'clock
and the managers began counting the
ballots at once. It was a long and
tedious process and the result was
not known until midnight. The
official tabulation of the votes was as
follows :
For Mayor-W. B. Boyle 307 ; Geo,
W. Dick, 367. .
For Aldermen-Henry D. Barnett,
509; H. T. Edens 337? P. P. Finn,
427 ; R, F. Haynsworth, 608 ; H. W.
Hood, 466: E. W. Hurst, 460; J. H.
Levy 331 ; E. H. Moses, 348 : C. G.
Rowland 519; J. A. Schwerin, 274;
W. G. Stubbs, 383; R. K. Wild . 609.
The City Democratic Executive
Committee met in the Court House at
10 o'colck this morning, received the
returns from the managers and de?
clared the election. The following
.were declared the nominees of the
party.
For Mayor : Geo. W. Dick.
For Aldermen: il D. Barnett, P.
P. Finn R. F. Haynsworth,- H. W.
Hood, E. W. Hurst, C. G. Rowland,
W. . G. Stubbs and R. K Wilder.
When the business before the com?
mittee had been disposed of the com?
mittee adjourned and a mass meeting
of citizens was organized for the pur?
pose of electing an executive commit?
tee to serve for the next two years.
The following gentlemen were unani?
mously elected :
Ward 1-E. C. Haynswortb, Edgar
Skinner.
Ward 2-L. L Parrott, J. H.
Clifton.
Ward 3-Altamont Moses, C. M.
Hurst.
Ward 4-E. H. Rhame, J. W. Mc
Kiever.
At Large-Marion Moise.
Mr. Altamont Moses was re-elected
Chairamu and Mr. L. ? Parrott, Sec?
retary.
THE PRIMARY.
Contrary to some peale's expecta?
tions this primary has developed in?
tense int Brest and greater efforts have
been made today to bring out the in?
different voters than* for three or four
elections. There was a crowd of work?
ers on hand from the first and they
were hustling all day.
But with all the interest that the
contest has excited, the election has
been quiet, peacable and orderly ; there
has been no disorder or fights, nor even
boisterous conduct. Good feeling and
decency characterized the proceedings
of the day and the city is to be con?
gratulated upon the absence of
drunkenness and thc brazen use of
liquor which formerly disgraced city
elections before the day of the white
man's primary. The primary has
been a God send to Sumter-the ?rst !
town in the State to adopt it the1
writer believes-and no one would
ocnsider for a moment a proposition
to abandon it and throw the choice
of city officials back into the general
city election.
The total number of registered voters
np to date is 754.
Wedgefield News Notes.
Wedgefield, March 29.-The relatives
and acquaintances of the late Mr.
Thomas A. Lathop were shocked to
hear of his sudden demise in Long
Island, N. Y., some days ago. He is
pleasantly remembered here, having
spent the winter ot 1900-01 with the
family of his wife's sister, Mrs. R. R.
Singleton.
Mr. C. M. Hurst, of Sumter, lec?
tured to a large and appreciative
audience in the Methodist Church
on last Sunday afternoon on Sunday
school work.
His lecture was well delivered and
enjoyed by all.
After an extended and enjoyable
visit to Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Parlor,
Miss Bessie Mimtns has returned to
her home in Walterboro.
Miss Thompson, of Florence, is
visiting Miss Maud Chandler.
Corn planting is about over now,
and cotton planting has begun. The
favorable weather of the "past few
weeks has improved oats very much.
Somer lute* ??e L???hi I* Good.
"But you are not always bothered
with poor light, arc- you'.'" inquired tho
complaint clerk at the gas office.
"Oh, no. not always." replied tho
quiet citizen.
"Ah, I thought so. It's only at cer?
tain time's that you notice it, ch?"
"Yes: only after CarlL"-Philadelphia
Press.
Ve^inj? Delay.
"Our now company is capitalized st
$40.000.000."
"(Jivat: Let me see your pros
peel us."
"Ob. we haven't ?ot out a prospectus !
yet. Tho or -the darned printer wants |
nts pay In ad vaneo."-Puck.
An Alpha he (ic Mena.
Apples, bananas, coffee, dumpling.-,
eggs fried, grapa fruit, halibut. Italian
jj?.m. Knickerbocker lamb, mince, nou?
gat. ??range pie. quai.'s rousted, stewed
tomatoes, underdone veal, waffles, ex?
traordinary yams from Zululand.
< 'liristhtn Intelligencer.
(>ood Saillutc.
Jack-Once more. Molly, will you
marry me? Village Delle-For the thir?
teenth time this hour 1 tell you I will
not. Jack-Well, thirteen knots an
hour ain't bad sailin' for a little craft
?*ko you.-London Tit-hits.
HOW HE BECAME A LAWYER
The Storr of John Sherman's Ad
mission to the Bar.
. When John Sherman was quite
young he was taken into the law office
of his brother Charles at Mansfield, O.,
to help abo?i the office and make him?
self generally useful. One day when he
was in his twenty-first year he took
Charles one side and quietly asked him
for a loan of $50.
"What!" Charles exclaimed. "What
do you intend doing with so much
money?"
"I am going to Columbus to be ad?
mitted to the bar," John replied.
Charles was greatly surprised, as
John had. never asked him for any ad?
vice regarding the profession nor had
he ever appeared to be interested to any
extent in the study of law.
"You can't be admitted to the bar
without some knowledge of the law,"
said Charles.
John maintained that he knew more
about law than some others and as?
sured his brother that he would try to
nise the money somewhere.
"You know," he added, "it will be
necessary for me to have rejp?ectable
clothes and enough money td pay my
traveling and hotel expenses."
Charles finally ordered the clothes
and provided him with the necessary
money. At Columbus on the day he'
became of age John was admitted to
the bar. On his return he said to
Charles:
"I am going to Iowa to practice law."
Charles remonstrated with him.
"There is room for both of us to prac?
tice law here in Mansfield," Charles
told him. ,
They then and there became partners
and continued to practice together un?
til the formation of the Republican
party, when John was sent from the
Mansfield district as a representative
In congress.
Later he was elected to the United
Stages senate, and the balance of his
life became a very important and in?
teresting part of the history of his
country.-Washington Star.
_
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE.
Valuable Territory It Brought to the
L ni ted States.
The upper portion of the Louisiana
purchase was known as the territory of
Louisiana. It comprised all that terri?
tory north of the thirty-third degree of
latitude, eastward to the Mississippi
and westward and northward as far as
the undetermined boundaries of the
newly acquired possessions might ex
tend. South of tiiis was the district of
! Orleans, with its seat of government
fixed at New Orleans. The cession of
the upper part of the purchase did not
take place until March 10, 1804, when,
having received the cession from the
Spanish, the French representative
handed it over to the agent of the Unit?
ed States with a very brief and simple
ceremony.
By these unimpressive proceedings
the government of the United States
was put in possession of territory with?
in whose boundaries now flourish the
states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missou
ri Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Da?
kota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho,
Montana, the Indian Territory and
parts of the states of Minnesota and
Colorado. The men who were the ac?
tive agents in the transfer of this
mighty laud from one national jurisdic?
tion to another are well nigh forgotten
in the crowd and rush of later but not
less important events. By this historic
purchase the scat of a mighty empire
was forever established. By this pur
chase the possibilities of developing
from the republic a world power were
?strengthened. Under our benignant
rule comfort, luxury, prosperity and
every variety of material activity lill
the wide" spaces in which our fathers
found only a trackless wilderness. Com?
mon gratitude bids us recall with ac?
claim the names of Jefferson, Living?
ston and Monroe, who, building better
than they knew, made this magnificent
transformation possible.-Noah Brooks
in Scribner's. _
MARINE ART.
Virtues and Defect? of the Ships
That Sailors Paint.
It is an axiom with sailors that there
never was a man who put in three
years before tlw? mast who did not
think he could paint a ship better than
the most skillful landlubber that ever
wielded a brush. In the homes nf re?
tired sea captains specimens of this
kind of marine art are often displayed
on the walls to admiring friends and
.dre handed down :is family heirlooms.
A good place for the man who lias no
seagoing relatives cr friends to see
such pictures is in some of the win?
dows of ship supply stores on South
street in.New York. Sailors buy them
occasional ly.
Ships that sailors paint are absolutely
correct in every demil. From a brig to
:i lull rigged three master there is not a
block or t.-ickle missing from stem to
stern or from masthead to water line.
No marine painter could get in half so
much detail if he tried. lint the ships
painted by sailors look as if they were
caught fast in frost tipped waves.
There is absolutely no life or any sug?
gestion of motion about them even
when represented as going under full
sail. When a sailor tries to get in a bit
of landscape as a background, as he
usually does, he makes matters hope?
lessly worse. As a general thing it is a
lighthouse or a fort looking for all the
world like little images that children
take out of their toy arks.-New York
Press.
Thc Poet's Meals.
"I'm nearly famished." sighed the
garret poet.
"But you told me you had two meals
a day," said the friend.
"Yes; oatmeal and corn meal."-Phil?
adelphia Kecord.
Sir lioyle Boche said, "Single misfor?
tunes never come alone, and the great
?st of all possible misfortunes is gener?
ally followed by a much greater."
Stood by the Reporter.
The late George W. Childs, the pro?
prietor of the Philadelphia Ledger, was
a uian who supported his subordinates
when they were in the right. During
a bitter congressional campaign one
of the candidates called upon Mr.
Child? nnd said:
"Mi. Childs, I have always consid?
ered you my friend. Am 1 right in
that assumption?"
"Yes," said Mr. Childs in his quiet
way,. wondering what was coming.
"Well, I come to complain about your
political reporter. His reports cf my
campaign have done nie much dam?
age.''
"I understand." said Mr. Childs,
"that our reporter has been printing
your owu speeches. Is thai true?"
"Y-e-s," was the hesitating reply.
"Then," said the publisher, "you are
the guilty man. You are killing your
own candidacy, and the Lodger is sim?
ply giving a faithful picture of the
performance. Blame yourself and not
the Ledger reporter."
And that was all the satisfaction this
influential politician could get from
the publisher.
Why Cot Apples Torn Color.
The rapid change of color in cut ap?
ples is due to chemical action ou the
exposed surface of the apple after the
free admission cf oxygen and not, as
was once supposed, to the presence of
micro-organisms, for if apple pulp is
sterilized and filtered the same thing
happens.' The juice of an apple not
only contains water, sugar and various
acids, but a starch which ferments
when exposed to the air.
Lindet holds that the fermenting
matter and the acids also are. in dif?
ferent cells in the uncut apple, but are
brought into contact as soon as ii is
cut. This is. however, not to the point,
as the fermenting matter can only at?
tack the aromatic body in the presence
of oxygen. So long as the skin of the
apple is whole no change can take
place, but immediately this is wound?
ed the oxygen begins its work, carbon
dioxide' is evolved, and the reddish
brown appearance sets iu, especially
on unripe fruit.
Why tue Siexicnn* Call IK Gringo*.
In the southwest, especially along the
Mexican border. Mexicans uro vulgarly
called "greaser*" by the American tow
boys and ranchers. Thc Mexicans hav?
retaliated by contemptuously referring
to the Americans ns "gringos." uncoo
scions that they are ttsinir a word of
American origin first applied to them?
selves.
During the Mexican war the army of
Santa Anna was composai mostly of
Indian peons who could neither shoot,
drill nor fight. To distinguish these igno?
rant recruits from the trained regulars
the Americans called them ..greenies,"
and tho Mexicans, with their Latin
pronunciation, converted it into first
"greenos." then ..gringos." Later they,
applied ii to those from whom they had
first heard it. thinking it meant some?
thing especially bad. .
Gunpowder Bass.
It is possible to weave a very attrac?
tive fabric-as regards appearances, at
least-out of ordinary gunpowder. The
cloth looks very much like silk and
when ignited instantly disappears with?
out leaving'a trace behind.
The fabric is used for making bags to
hold gunpowder, which in this shape
are loaded into big guns. When the
bags are of- canvas, as is customary,
they are not consumed by the explo?
sion, and what remains of them after
firing has to be removed' from the pow?
der chamber of the weapon. But if
gunpowder bags be substituted for can?
vas the sack actually becomes part of
the explosive charge, and no trace of it
is left after the shot has sped.
Sound Enjoyment.
The spirit of modern life is to plunge
Into experiences vigorously and get the
most from them. This was the spirit
that animated the man who preferred
tough beefsteak because there was
more "chew to it." Similarly virile was
the attitude of Mir. Skillings, who had
come to town to order a new family
cai ria ge.
"Now, I suppose you want rubber
tires?" said the agent.
"No, sir," replied Mr. Skillings. "My
folks aiu't that kind. 'When we're rid?
ing we want to know it."
Beginning Young:.
The feminine instinct begins young.
The little girl who wore her new cloak
for the first time in an east wind was
not thinking of the east wind. Her
mother, however, was, and she sug?
gested that people who allowed their
cloaks lo blow over their heads some?
times caught cold. "Oh, no, mother,"
observed her daughter complacently.
"You don't catch cold when it's such a
pretty lining:''
??nap "Went tue Trap.
"My father has always told me," be?
gan Edgar, "that pretty girls make
poor wives. Now. when I marry it
must be a girl who is not pretty at
all, but one who is possessed of the
home loving instincts, one who is un?
selfish and"
"Oh, Mr. Montgomery-Edgar-this
is so sudden, but you may ask papa!"
Ready to Growl.
Maunder-We must put a great deal
of realism into this forest scene. Can
you get some one to growl so as to re?
semble a bear? Assistant-I thin* so.
There are six ar seven stage hands
who have not received their wages for
three weeks. I'll cali them.
An Inf orari vable Fellow.
"I didn't close my eyes once last
night."
"That so? Insomnia is a miserable
t!ung, 1 must say."
"Oh, I slept all right enough. They
closed themselves."-Cincinnati Times
Star.
A shell from a 12 Inch gun makes
its flight of nine miles in forty-two sec?
onds.
Lo^lAL CUSTOMS.
Tfce Vnii??v.H difthwlm (?od In ?he
*><?pofia] o? t>i?* Dead.
The ?iS\os?.. ot the dead among civ?
ilized nations lias usually consisted of
one of the following throe ways:
Firstly, of closing up the Dody in earth
or stone; secondly, of barning the body
and committing to earth the ashes,
and. thirdly, the embalming of the
body. The earliest form of interment
of which we have any account was.
that of the paleolithic cave dwellers,
who buried their dead in natural grot?
toes and crevices in the rock similar to
those in which they had lived.
When we come to the later stone age
we find that the people throughout
Europe buried in chambered barrows
and cairns. Next comes the bronze
age, with its changes, and among oth?
ers the burial of the dead. The cham?
bered barrows passed away, and in
their places barrows were frequently
used without chambers, and cemeteries
of stone cists set in the ground were
largely employed. Frequently a nat?
ural eminence of sand or gravel was
the place assigned for burial, and
around it were circles of standing
stones. During, these prehistoric times
cremation was also practiced side by
side with the simple interments of the
people. In pagan limes it wa3 custom?
ary, whether the dead were buried
with or without cremation, to put in
their graves such articles as urns or
vessels of clay, bronze, gold or glass,
clothing, personal ornaments, imple?
ments and weapons of warfare.
Cremation was largely abolished
when Christianity spread over the
country, and the interment of grave
goods was restricted to kings and
priests, who continued to be buried in
their royal and sacerdotal robes and
with their insignia of office.
Down to the tenth century cremation
was customary among the tribes locat?
ed along the Volga. Here also human
sacrifices in honor of the dead pre?
vailed. Records of eyewitnesses of the
horrible ceremonies have come down to
us. Charlemagne prohibited this usage
among the conquered Saxons under
pain of death. In India the living wid?
ow was in many instances down to
1829 burned with the corpse of her hus?
band.
NAMES OF FABRICS.
Muslin is named for Mosul, in Asia.
Serge comes from Xerga, the Spanish
for a certain sort of blanket
Bandanna is derived from an Indian
word signifying to bind or tie.
Calico is named for Calicut, a town ki
India, where it was first printed.
Alpaca is the name of a species of
llama from whose wool the genuine
fabric is woven.
The name damask is an abbreviation
of Damascus; satin is a corruption of
Zaytown, in China.
Velvet is the Italian "vellute," woolly,
and is traceable farther back to the
Latin vellus, a hide or pelt.
Shawl is from the Sanskrit sala,
which means floor, shawls having been
first used as carpet tapestry.'
Cambric comes from Cambrai, gauze
from Gaza, baize from Eajac, dimity;
from Dametta and jeans from Jean. ;
Blanket bears the name of Thomas
flanket, a famous English clothier who\
aided the introduction of woolens into
England in the fourteenth century.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
DRESDEN POLICE.
They Are remittiert to Impose Sxnali
Fines on O?cndcrs.
Ono advantage acones to tlie respec?
table member of the community from*
the minuteness with which the Dres?
den police look into the affairs of every
inhabitant of the city. If he is a care?
ful man and always carries papers
which may serve to establish his iden?
tity he is practically immune from the
indignity cf being arrested and march?
ed off to the police station unless, in?
deed, he commits some especially hei?
nous crime. Does he drive faster than
the law permits, does he cross a bridge
on the left hand side, he is stopped hy?
the guardian of law and order and re?
quested to give his name. If he has
his papers with him the policeman may
fhen and t?ere>impose a line of from
1. to 3 marks. If then he admits thai
bo is in the wrong and pays the fine
the incident is closed. If. however, he
wishes to appeal from the policeman's
decision he may do so. Even in That
case he is not arrested, but a dav or
two later lie is notified to appear in
"ourt and answer to the charge against
him. But then if he is found guilty
the lowest tine that can be imposed
is .". marks. That tins custom cf per?
mitting the policeman personally to im?
pose small fines is little understood by
foreigners is shown by a remark made
to me by a gentleman who had lived
iu Germany the greater part of his life
and in Dresden for a number of years.
In reply to my inquiry as to whether
there was ever any question of cor?
ruption in the police department he re?
plied:
"No; none whatever as far as the
higher officers are concerned. The in?
dividual men, however, may be bribed
occasionally. For instance, if 1 were
to walk on the grass in the Crosser
garten and a policeman caught me at
lt I would give him a mark or two,
and that would end the matter."-Phil?
adelphia Lodger.
-ii
H!? Ideal.
Editor-What do you mean by "a girl
of rare intelligence and one who re?
fused to take advantage of alleged ad?
vantages offered her?"
Critic-Simply this: She does not
dance, sing or play, but she can sharp?
en a lead pencil, drive a nail and keep a
secret.
Stretching Procesa. ,
"The doctor says I must take some
massage treatment to limber up the
muscles of my neck."
"Massage nothing! Come down to the
theater at 5 o'clock and watch the mat?
inee girls come out.**-Houston Post