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AN ACCURATE CLOCK. Timepiece In the Observatory of Columbia Univsraity. In tbe observatory of Columbia unl varsity ts one of tbe moat accurate clocks In tbe world. It has run for several months with a mean error of fifteen thousandths of a second a maximum error of thlrty-tbou snndthe of a second per day. That means that It doee not vary more than balf s second a month, or six seconds a year. Compare this with the first pocket timepiece, the "animated egg of Nu? remberg," which required winding twice a day and varied an hour and i. half in tbe same time! Compare It wrttb some of the highest priced watches manufactured today, which often vary more than ten seconds s week, and you will have some Idea of Use refinements in the science of meaa tlme. Yet even this accuracy la by some famous timepieces, M the trade magnsines are to be be Tbere have been accounts In of clocks or watches that have wearied less than a second In periods as tease; as ten years. The dock at tbe "University of Co gnsabfa Is an astronomical clock. It Is geniiiiundsd by a glass case In which e id vacuum Is maintained, and in that the esse may not be opened ear dkiturbod the winding Is done auto? mat k ally by electricity. The clock to net ep tn a room especially constructed to l:eep It free from jar or vibration, -emperature and barometric con is are maintained practically con it, and every possible precaution to to mlrdrnW tbe errors of tbe ldog mate.?New York World. ilT CLEANS THE SHIPS. ling Through a Volcano Crater In the Aegean tea. la the Aegean sea a vessel nay sail the top of a crater, and. though it fja hard to find anchorage there, yet a euere sail through to appreciated great? ly by captain*, because It cleanses tbe tjottiro of tbe ships from marine njpa ii th. More than 2.000 years ago tbe Laie of rtoein was spilt In half by an earth le. with the result that what was the crater of s volcano to now a it shaped harbor. Two glisten white towns of There and St? are perched on tbe summit of steep cliffs, whose dark and dismal Is similar to that of tbe top of Ve Lftuu. Standing out against the sky large numbers of windmills, with sails, arranged In a perfect cIr? an? evidently employed for tbe olives, which, along with ^tbn terraced vines, are the at a pie proc? ess*, of the Island. The Bantortn wine is ant excellent quality and to highly ap Seei toted to th Levant Between Um -nein Island ou tbe east snai the amaller. Theresia, on the west awe tbe three small Kau men e Islands, etfl of which have come Into existence tbe origins! earthquake, while the of the three wae "born from sen" lees than 200 years ago. show that the center of the old volcano i still a certain amount of activity, water in tbe harbor into which sulphurous scree me from this vol tslsnd rain has a peculiar prop whkb completely cleans off of every kind from the bottom any ship. "Real Sporty" Woodsmen, chief recreation of the woods enen of tbe Puget sound country to to aje to town on Saturday nights. As a wnfley dweller explained: "They've got enaney, and they Just blow It In. That 'there to the logger style of It There's ee> places of amusement In the town. Tlsey can go to the library and sit Sown or go to a hotel and alt down, bot that don't suit 'em. No, they either .ajK drunk or go to church. Some take an both I've seen 'em at church pretty ereil loaded. 'Bout 'leven or twelve O'clock they start for their camp. Most? ly they hire s rig and go eight or ten Inflam to a team. Oh. they're sporty! Chore's nothing too good for the log Jars and, tsks 'em as a whote, they're the biet class of men I ever run up tlnsf-Cllfton Johnson in Outing nine. Itrusosn Vsses. Tlie fsmous Etruscan vases were wrongly named, for. though made In Krrurla. they were the productions of Greek genius. They are elegant tn form and eurlched with bauds of beu t tlful foliage and other cmameuts, fig urea and similar subjects of a highly artistic character. One class has black Struma end ornaments on a red ground ? the naturii ggtgf of the clay, another has the figures of the natural color and the ground painted black The former eines telong to a date aliout 0o0 It. c . the tatter date about a century later aod e .tend over a period of some 300 Or 300 years.?New York American. Le, be led. fn the Legard house there was a it dinner. After awhile the msld called, and the mistress said *flerve the dinner. Thoro la no one ceee o come except a rolatlon of little Importance " Fire minutes afterward the n aid an ejeemced In i. loud tone: Tbe relation of little Importance!" Lo Bcacclaponslorl. It Happened Bofore. A self made, self satisfied and self Nftlve Itinerant preacher was ex putlatlng to a college graduate on his own eloquence. 1 oiiegea," he declared, "ain't neces? sary alien a preacher's got a genuine cell to the ministry. I'm thankful to nay the lord opened my mouth with? out educetton." -That's Interesting." returned 4ila bearer. "Come to think of It, aome thlng like tbst happened several thou? sand years ago In connection with Ba? lsam, waao't ItT Circle Magazine. THE OLD CIRCUS POSTER. Pretentious Language With Which the Show Was Dssoribsd. The grandiloquent extravagance of language of the old time circus poster la Illustrated by this reproduction, which Is given verbatim: "There will be presented a resplen? dent series of sublime, moral. Interest? ing, Instructive, amusing and wonder? ful scenes which would appear entirely too fabulous if expressed in an adver? tisement. They must be seen to be duly appreciated. These great displays will uufold In all the loveliness and beauty of enchantment, carrying the minds of the bewildered or spellbound spectators off on the gentle wings of the imagination to such pageantry as they might dream of after reading a few pages of 'Arabian Nights' Enter? tainments.' Words are really wanting to give adequate expression. Web? ster's unabridged falls most signally in language to fu'ly portray a semblance of the reality. Zoonomy may be learn? ed at this great college In a single evening. Here the visitor will see splendid specimens of the zygodacty lous race that live upon the earth or float end poise upon the wings of gold and silver plume in the cerulean arch, and In reference to these the corps of superintendents in courtly dress will elucidate the peculiarities of each with guarded suavlloquence." THE TWO ROMEOS. Mrs. Siddons' Opinion of David Qsrrlok and Spranger Barry. David Garrick and Spranger Barry were both playing Romeo at the same time In London. Barry played it at Drury Lane on the Monday, and Gar? rick played it the next night at Covent Garden, and the town was divided as to which was the greater Romeo?In fact, there was quite a great excite? ment about It and they acted It ui>ou such different lines and with such mar velously different conceptions that the people argued the case as to which Shakespeare intended. The fact ia that Shakespeare intended It to be scted wen, and if one man's temperament suited It best to act in that way it would do for another temperament the other way. So they asked Mrs. Siddons, who was the Juliet alternately with the same Romeo, which she considered better of the two, and she said: "It is difficult to say. They are both wonderfully great, but I will tell you how they impress me In the balcony scene. In the balcony scene Garrick seems so eager, so Intense snd so full of firs and spirit that Fm afraid he'll Jump up In the balcony to me, and Bar? ry is so lovable and fascinating that I'm afraid I shall have to jump down from the balcony to him/' Tho Relationship. "You say. madam." said the bespec? tacled lawyer to the woman in the witness box, "that the defendant is a sort of relation of yours. Will you please explain what yon mean by that ?Just how yon are related to the de? fendant T* The witness beamed upon the court and replied: "Well If s just like this. His first wife's cousin and my second husband's first wife's sunt married brothers named Jones, and they were cousins to my mother's aunt Then, again, his grandfather on his mother's side and my grandfather on my mother's side were second cousins, and his step? mother married my husband's step? father after his father and my mother died, and his brother Joe and my bus band's brother Ilarry married twin alsters. 1 ain't never flggered out Just how close related we are. but I've nl ways looked on Mm as a sort of cousin." "Quite so," answered the lawyer "Your explanations are perfectly satis? factory.'* Forgetful. An eminent painter was once nsked If he thought art 8tudent9 did well to go to Europe to study. lie said that undoubtedly the atmosphere was more artistic In Europe than anywhere else, but that Paris as a city to study and work In was overrated. To illustrate his meaning he said that a certain rich man's son after three years In Paris wrote home to his fa? ther: "Dear Father?I have made up my mind to set to work. Please lot me know at your earliest convenience whether it was painting, architecture or music I came to Paris to study." Phenomena of Heredity. It is one of the phenomena of hered? ity that l boy wants to be what his father was?If a shoemaker then a IBMmaker; if an ironworker, then an Ironworker: If an artisan of any line, then an artisan in that line?und the father and mother who have come to hate the smell of leather or the grime of the smithy, the oil waste of the ma? chine or the sweat of downright hard work cajole or coerce that boy Into something that Is genteelly (lull or respectably stupid and kill the germ that would have produced the manu? faeturer. the mechanical engineer of the capitalist?Philadelphia Telegraph Called the Turn. "What's the old lady doing now?*' asked the old stocking in the work basket. "She's getting out her needle and yarn." replied the scissors. "Well, well." exclaimed the stocking, "I'll be darned."-Philadelphia Press. Adding to Hie Sufferings. The DottOf J expected to go out of town next Saturday, as usual, to spend Sunday with my family in the country, but professional duties forbid. The fates are against inc. The Professor? The fates are to blame, are they? Well. It's natural for a week ender to come to a lame conclusion.?Chicago Trib? une. SCARLET FEVER. A Scourge of White Races In All Agee and Countries. Now thnt smallpox, thanks to com? pulsory vaccination, has become a rar? ity in civilized communities, scarlet fever steps forward as the worst of the eruptive diseases of childhood. It is a malady of enormous antiquity. ThucydideB, writing nearly 500 years before the beglnulng of our era, called it a heritage from the remote past. It has scourged the white races in all ages and all countries, and the phy? sicians of all schools have leveled their heaviest artillery upon it Yet it remalus a puzzle unsolved and an enemy unconquered even today. We are in doubt as to its cause, and there is no drug or antitoxin that will cure it But despite all this the death rate froni scarlet fever is steadily declin? ing, and we may expect it to decline more and more as the years "go by. The reason for this, I take it lies In the fact that the modern doctor is a great deal more sparing with pills and powders than his predecessor and a great deal more lavish with water, air and antiseptics. In the old days it was custonmry to dose scarlet fever patients with all sorts of violent reme? dies in staggering quantities, and as a result many of them died. Today medicines are but minor auxiliaries in the sickroom, and both doctor and nurse devote their main energies to preventing a spread of the Infection.? Delineator. USE FOR A TELESCOPE. Interesting Discovery Ono Woman Made by Use of the Glass. "I thought It was a pretty fair sort of telescope for one that wasn't very big," said Uncle Silas. "I rigged it up in the attic by the high north win? dow and had it fixed so it would swing around easy. I took a deal of satisfaction in looking through it, the sky seemed so wide and full of won? ders, so when Hester was here I thought I'd give her the pleasure too. She stayed a long time upstairs and seemed to be enjoying it When she came down I asked her if she'd dis? covered anything new. "'Yes/ she says. 'Why, it made everybody's house seem so near that I seemed to be right beside 'em, and I found out what John Prltchard's folks are doln' In their outkltchen. I've wondered what they had a light there for night after night and I Just turned the glass on their win? dows. They are cuttln' apples to dry ?folks as rich ?ff them cuttln' apples!' "And actually that was all the wom? an had seen! With the whole heavens before her to study, she had spent her time prying Into tho affairs of her neighbors! Aud there are lots more like her?with and without tele? scopes."?Christian Uplook. Fiddled Into Office. Lossing relates that in 1848 he met at Oswego, N. Y., Major Cochran, then nearly eighty years old, a son-in-law of General Philip Scbuyler, who told the story of his election to congress during the administration of the elder Adams. A vessel was to be launched on one of the lakes In Interior New York, and people came from afar to see it. The young folks gathered there, determluod to have a dance at night There was a fiddle, but no fiddler. Young Cochran was an ama? teur performer, and his services were demanded. He gratified the Joyous company, and st tho supper table one of the gen:lemcn remarked, In com? mendation of his talents, that he was "fit for congress." The matter was talked up. and he was nominated and elected a representative in congress for the district then comprising the whole of New York west of Schenec tad.v. He always claimed to have "fiddled himself Into congress." A Worthy Dssh-e. An nmbltl' iis young Chlca^onn called upon a publisher of novels in that city, to whom he Imparted confidentially tho inform:1 ti a that he had decided to "write a hook" and that he would he pleased to afford the publisher the chance to bring it out. "May I venture to Inquire as to the nature of the book you propose to write?" asked the publisher very po? litely. "Oh." came in an offhand wny from UM asptftnt for fame, "I think of doing something on tho line of 'Lei Mlse-ables,' only livelier, you know!"? Lipplncotfs. Spoiled Hio Appetite. "Kverv l it of food on this table." said the serving lady to I.amson as he sat flown to ?at at tho church supper, "was co< ked by your wife." "Oh, I don't mind." rejoined i.am? son faintly. "I'm not a bit hungry, anyway!"?New York Times. A Foozle. Evelyn?I lust met Clarence, no is a conversational fooslo, George? How's that? Evelyn?He makes love when he ought to [ lay golf, and he talks golf when he ought to mako love?Illus? trated lilts, Beneath Him. "These chefs!" said one New York multimillionaire to ?nother. "Mine, you know, draws a thousand a month, lie used to be at the Cafe Koyul in Turis. Hut his Independence! One night 1 gave, Just to show off, a din? ner of L'oH) OOVers. The afternoon of the dinner. 1 found him motoring in the park In a taxleab with two French dancing girls. Of COttree 1 hailed him and took him to task. 'Oh.' said he, 'a dinner of that sort 1 always leave to my assistants. With such masses of food It is Impossible to lutroduce delicate, subtle or origlual cooking. Now, little girls, shall we drive on?' "? Argonaut. BEETHOVEN. The Composer's Own Story of How He Became Deaf. Charles Neate, on a visit to Vienna, was either commissioned by certain Engish authorities to induce Beethoven to visi* England or was persuading him to do so on his own account, and as an allurement he spoke of the su? periority of the English aurists in their treatment of ear disease and held out hopes that were Beethoven to consult them he might at least find some sort of relief. Beethoven shook his head. "No," he said, "I have consulted all kinds of doctors and followed their prescriptions. I shall never be cured. I will tell you how the thing happened. "I was writing an opera. I had to deal with a very tiresome and capri? cious tenor. 1 had already written two great arias to the same words, neither of which pleased him, and also a third, which he did not care for the first time he tried it, although he took it away with him. I was thanking heaven I had done with him and had begun to settle myself to something else which I had laid aside. I had hardly worked at it half an hour before I heard a knock at the door, which I recognized as that of my tenor. "I sprang up from my table in such a rage that as the man came into the room I flung myself upon the floor, as they do on the stage" (here he threw up his arms and gesticulated in illus? tration), "but I fell upon my hands When I got up I found I was deaf, and from that moment I have remain? ed so. The doctor said I Injured the nerve."?Diehl's "Life of Beethoven." GRAFT IN RUSSIA. Removing the Difficulties In an Army Officer's Transfer. A young Russian officer wished to be transferred to another regiment and took his request in person to one of the lights of the Russian general staff. That powerful officer * shook his head and declared the matter very difficult to arrange?almost Impossible. Then his glance fell suddenly upon the shoes of the lieutenant. To the amazement of his visitor, the senior officer said that the lieutenant's shoes were not nearly good enough for an officer and that be would strongly advise him to buy new shoes of a shoemaker whose address he gave. Then, telling his vis? itor to return in eight days, he dis? missed him. The latter was clever enough to realize that he could not re? turn without the new shoes, so he hur? ried to the shoemaker. On hearing who had sent him the shoemaker said that the lieutenant could have the shoes in five days for the sum of $250. Much astonished, the officer went to a comrade for advice. He was told to pay half of this sum at once and the rest when his shoes were finished. This the officer did, and. wearing his new boots, he duly kept his appoint? ment with the general staff officer and learned to his Joy that all the "grave difficulties" In the way of his transfer had been successfully removed. Misplaced Sympathy. A sympathetic Frenchman unluckily bought an almanac that gave the dates of the world's chief events. From that day on he lived a life of mourning. I Thus on April 30 he had crape on his hat. "Have you lost a relative?" a friend asked. "Not exactly," said he. "But today is a sad anniversary for the French people. On April 30, 1524, the Chevalier Bayard died." On May 2 he had crape on again. "Still mourn? ing Bayard?" said the friend. "No," said he, "but don't you remember that on May 2 a great and charming poet, Alfred de Musset, breathed his last?" On the 0th of the san e month, "Whom are you mourning for now?" "For an j honest man, Generul Caviagnac." On I the 30th, crying terribly, he said: "Ah, Joan of Arc! On this date, in 1431, a handful of Englishmen and a miser? able bishop ptit the gallant maid to death." Ou July 13 he took a bath in memory of the assassination of Marat. On the 10th Beranger's death gave him n fatal shock. On the ISth, having read of Napoleon's departure to St. Helena, he felt better, but on the 23d the bombardment of Dieppe by the English, in 101)4. confined him again to his bed. He was taken with a fever and died on the 22d. muttering, "In a month the massacre of St. Bartholo? mew!"?New York Sun. Bright Prospects. "My dear," saiu the banker to his only daughter, "I have noticed a young man attired in n drets suit in the drawing room two or three evenings each week of late. What is his occu? pation?" "lie is at present unemployed, fa? ther," replied the fair girl, a dreamy, faraway look in her big blue eyes, "but he Is thinking seriously of accepting a position of life companion to a young lady of means." Lived Up to His Belief. Hobo?No. madam, I am neither a Socialist nor an anarchist. I am a pas? sive altruist. Housekeeper?And what i in the name of common sense is that? Hobo?I believe in being helped nil I can.- Boston Transcript. Cautious. Prospective Best Man?Got the mar? riage license yet? Prospective Bride groom?No: I'm not going to get that until the last thing. She may go back on inc.?Chicago Tribune. Poor Angel. "I wonder." said the sweet young thing, "why a man is always so fright? ened when 1 e proposes?" "That." sa d the chronic bachelor, "is his guardian angel trying to hold him back." Marked Him. "Are you aware who I am?" "Sure! Didn't I Just call you an old idiot?"?Cleveland Plain Dealer. ,00 3** Eft* 3 ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. AVcgctablerVeparationfcrAs. suTiilatingitieruotfaiKlRegula ting the Stomachs and?owcbof Infants/Children Promotes Di^tionJChterui ness and RestXontains nejttvr OpiuTiLMorphine norMioeraL Not Narcotic CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of BmptiSmJ JkcMUS?h Him Stfd - Exact Copy of Wrapper. AperfecJ Remedy for Cona? tion ?Sour StDinadi.DlafrtBtt Worms jConvulskms Jevens* ness and Loss of Sleep. FicSimk Signaiure of NEW YORK. - Atb months old M Dosis ^Ciws In Use For Over Thirty Years GASTORI TMS CtNTAlia aOMMNT, UtW TOMS CITY. e*t<. .. . EM N. G. OSTEEN, JR., Dentist. 18 West Liberty Street-Up Stairs. Honrs:?8.30 to 1-P. M?2 to 6. Office Phone?IM o 30 - - - House Phone 382 I have with me now a first class engraver. We can engrave plain, scrip or monogram, while you wait. We have felt the need of being able to do this work for some time, now we have it. We will be glad to sell >ou any article and engrave it or en? grave anything you have. W, A, Thompson, Jeweler and Optician. No. $ S. Main Street, Phone No. 333. 6-10-tf? A Novel Case. A case of unusual interest was call? ed before Magistrate Richbourg's court at Summerton last Thursday. Dr. D. O. Rhame, the mayor of Sum merton, was haled before Judge Rich bourg charged with selling Jamaica Ginger, a comp)und, containing a large percentage of alcohol. The charge being one beyond the jurisdic? tion of the magistrate all that he could do was to hold a preliminary, but the prosecution represented by J. M. woods, Esq., made objection IA Judge K'.chbourg hearing an exparte side of the case upon the ground of biasness in favor of the defendant. W. C. Davis. Esq., represented the de? fense. The cause was moved to Man? ning to be heard before Magistrate Dickson at a time not fixed. As far as our information goes, there ftp peart to be considerable feel in : among the friends of Mr. Ad Walto I, Who it strms bought Jamaica Ginger at the drug store of Doctor Rhame, anil becoming intoxicated to the ex? tent of becoming boisterous and dis? orderly. He was arrested anal heavily fined, which resulted, so it is claimed, in a warrant being sworn out Charg? ing Dr. Rhame with violating the liquor lavs of the State, in that he sn'i] a compound <>r mixture which contains alcohol when used as a I av? erage will produce intoxication. This case will be watched with in t< rest nil over the country, because a very Important element of law en? forcement is Involved in it. it the courts decide that the selling <?t Ja? maica Ginger is in violation of law. it wi'l necessarily have to make the same ruling with regard to nearly ail of the extracts being used in the households for cooking and baking, because nearly all of them contain a Large percentage of alcohol. Vinegar would have to be analyzed to ascer? tain the percentage of alcohol it con? tains; yeast for the making of bread, goes through ? fermentation, and it t<'<.. may contain glcohol,?Manning Tlm< p. CASTOR IA Tor Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of From a Philosopher's Note Book. It is no use shedding tears over epilled milk, because it was half wa? ter anyhow. A match that is based on money is seldom used in lighting the fires on the Altar of Love. A bonnet, or a hat, costing from $150 to $200, is a poor sort of cap to set for a cautious lover. If you choose to sleep on a bed of roses, you should exercise very great care lest you roll over on the thorns. The man who first said that figures never lie must have lived in an age when the sheath gown was fashion? able. People who try to climb into so? ciety by means of the Church speak very low when they call themselves "poor, miserable sinners."?Har? per's Weekly. ?Everybody is likely to have kidney and bladder trouble. In fact nearly everybody has some trouble of this kind. That is the reason why you so often have pains in the back and groin, scalding sensation, urinary dis? orders, etc.?that's your kidneys. The best thing to do is to get some of De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills right away. Take them for a few days or a week or so and you will feel all right. In this way, too, you will ward off dangerous and possibly serious ail? ments. They are perfectly harmless, and are not only antiseptic, but allay pain quickly by their healing proper? ties. Send your name to E. C. De Witt & Co.. Chicago, for a free trial box. They are sold here by all drug? gists. Foley's DRING Laxative Im Pleasant and Effective CURES Constipation, Stomach and Liver Trouble* by stimulating these organs and restoring their natural action. Is best for women and chil? dren as ORINO docs not gripe or nauseate. SIEBERTS DRUG STORE.