VOL. XIV.
GRAHAM, N.C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1888.
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Tin evening and the dreamy chime
Of vesper bells fulls on my ear. ;
Ik sad response my heart. Seota, time; '
A year today - -
They laid away . .
Oo distant, shore my love so dear. ' ,
a
T?m joyeua lark has ffone to rest, '.
' The aim's last glow (ales on tha eky- -So
would I hush within my breast : "',
, . , Thestrainasolow- , . ? i'"-
r Oflongago, v J '
" Caught from my love In davs gone by.
. Oh, reaper bells. So low, so sad,
" Tour troubled chime I cannot bear;
- Tfopsa minor chords will drive ma wad
, Hush; Ilmpioral ' , " .
Oh, peal no mora' ' f
The dissonance of my despair! - 7
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RETURN OF THE VPS1E3. .
Plexorlna; -with Unfortunate Farmers.
XAyJlBg by a IVlntar'a Stock of JIay.
' . Tims many return to. tliQ cities ko their
actual habitations, which way liave stood
idle the summer tlirouch. Numbers trail
nloiifr tbo kigliways until tbeir farm homea
nra reached, where, if they be rented, as
they usually are to somo less thrifty far.
mer, they have reserved; n few months'
housing, Thousands wander into the
central south for alt winter dickering and
trading thero, Ma'iy return to tbeir vil
lage homes, over or alongside mammoth
barns, where a winter's gypsy jockeying
is done. Great crowds of them, not yet
so elj along, as their brethren in gaini
ings, straggle into the cities. In tliocom
moner quarters these tiu-n their hands to
bird training, basket weavingy training
an1 trading in valuable cats and dogs,
wkilo liuudreds -of .- gypsy yoiitlis secure
ready : employment- under , gentlemen's
grooms, and particWarly at tho care of
horses being lilted for the next year'a
events of tho turf. Still others, and these
compriso the larger number, come troop
tag into thousands of lirtlo villages and
countryside places throughout-the south
ern portions of northern states and in the
northern tier, of southern states, arrivine
as early as the last October days. The
movements of these provide a genuine
gypsy study. .
Their arrival is hardly noticed,. as they
never come in a large body, but in twos
and threes, and it is often 'weeks before
the little gypsy community is at Its best, "h
4. us vanguara nas quietly rented some
deserted roadside inn at the outskirts of
the village, or some former spacious homo
long gone to deeay. This is always got
for a song. , Howover much house room
it may have, it must invariably possess the
requisite or a great ramshackle barn and
outlying sheds. For a little time tho gyp
sies seem to merely exist here. But every
day their women folk may be seen miles
BWUJ, DJJUJMlUg III lUfllll DUfJIUS )VVI (TO
autumn roads iu every direction,. Not
only are they found pn tho well traveled
highways, but every grass grown wagon
road, leading to secluded and remotest
farms has been hunted and haunted. At
this homo and that; there tarrying un
der pretense of admiring some animal;
there making a trifling purchase of
vegetables and poultry i pver yonder bar.
tering for, but never' buying, grain and.
hay; again tolling a fortune or two if
appealed to; but seldom urging such
profitable vocation-r-in a" little timo these
canniest and most indomitable of all hu
man detectives' have at their tonguo's
end, for home reference, every possible
item of information regarding the finan
cial standing and condition of, every
farmer for half a county round, -
Then of a sudden, some luckless wight,
under terror of jan overdue noto or re
lentless mortgage, has sold his' cornfield
"in the shock' to the gypsies. Another's
wedther browned stacks of hay have
come into their possession, ; Then begins,
and to continue the w hole winter through.
a ocaseieea procession of young stock.
horses and mules, toward the gypsies
temporary domicile, Drunken farmer,
unfortunate farmer, thriftless farmer, in
all d isaptinna-rMt p a jhg , pg;;gj ii3 fe jl
doing or ill luck to these superb jockeys,
who, buying for pittances, and for
months gelling at excellent prices or not
at all, at their improvised market, make
large prows; ana tne spring nnus them
ready for greedy city buyers with great
numbers of .. stock transformed from
shaggy, ambling beasts to animals of
such splendid form and spirit as do even
a city gypsy trader's eyes good to look
upon. The amount of live stock thus
gathered up ecry winter throughout the
country is tremendous; the profits are
inconceivably great, and these wizards
or tna suioie must eventually largely con
trol the entire horse trade of the country,
Edgar h, Wakeman's Letter.
A CURE FOR POVERTY.
LAST SPRING'S WAR CLOUD.
How the Aersnons Made .Preparations tq
Advance Immediately Upon France. .
- During lust spring there was great ex
citement along the franco-Wruian bor
der over the arrest of Selinaebele, the
French coihniiswioner, It was thought
at one time that the irritation caused by
I ill arrest would lead to actual war.
Many alarming reports were telegraphed
Over tho workl .at that tune, But the
worst sensationalists in all of their exag
gerations gave no picture which ap
Croached to the real situation along the
order. I havo learned since coming
into this part of tho country of the tre
mendous preparations made, by the Ger
mans at that time to enter France. ;. It
lias never ' been published how jicar the
German army came to crossing the bor.
ber. . I have learned the story of a most
eventful night at Mete from the lips of a
private soldier, a German of more than
ordinary education and experience. Ho
fold mo this story at Bonn, where be bad
gone just after he had finished bis three
vmm'umi.. : T-1a watt i,i tl.A M.k,.,.-
hood of Jletz alt through ' the border
troubles of last spring. He said that at
the time of the Schnoebele affair every
man in the German army was given to
understand that war was inevitable.
Each man mode his preparations to suit
such an emergency. Small traps .were
packed up and letters written home as a
preiiixnimr va an avuw uou uesjK-ruie
campaign.; It was the intention of the
German authorities to strike France, if at
alL without a word of warning, and to
thereby secure all the. advantage that
could be obtained; by a swift, powerful
haHiwMk th nrovemt-nt of -aggrtSBiotr
i in effects must be distin- - upon t rencii .tern
BIchar A. Froetnr'a Tlan for Preventing
: It everybody iJatH Too Jlnclv
' Richard A- Proctor, In an crticlev "A
Remely for Poverty," in Tho Cosmonoli
tan Magazino, makes some original state
ments, which, if acted upon, might re
duce the expenses of every household nnd
in so doing alleviate somo or tha poverty.
Ho finds' that tho dietary of, soldiers,
sailors, artisans and prisoners in England
averages t43 ounces of solid and liquid
food , consumed daily per man, This
amount modem doctors agree iam excess
of the real daily requirements of
Jiealthy man or woman, and that they
would thrive better and enjoy bfo better
on half the quantitv,
During the "Franco-Prussian war, tho
government, desiring to havo their sol
diers in prime condition, supplied to each
man daily a ' sausage, weighing one
pound, made of pea flour, bacon, sage
and other ingredients. This was all the
solid food the armv had.durine tho ardu
ous campaign; yet they thrived and grew
fat, and worked harder and bolter than
when rations were more liberal,
Tho improvement, in health, if this
forcei regime is. pursued, wilt be nptiee.
able at once, and the expenses for eata
bles reduced almost one-half. It will, plso
develop an appetite for plain and healthy
things, and the poor mail will take more
delight in his frwgal fare and experience
more gastronomic pleasure in its cpn
puinption than the millionaire with all
his epicurean delicacies at command.
It is urged that few people now what
on miluenoe this food question lias had
in determining the amount of freedom
An Intaiwstlng Experiment,
A highly interesting as well as instruc
tive experiment in night signaling at sea
will be tried at tho first favorable oppor
tunity, The pew method is one suggest
ed by Air. tJiaon. it consists la throwing
the rays of-the electric light on the
clouds, The clouds," thus acting as re
flectors, permit tho flashes of tbe-h'ght
being seen at a very great distance. The
regular system of flashes of different
lengths can be utilized in this manner by
corresponding them with the dashes and
dots of the regular army and navy eodo
of telegraphy. This system could be used
to great ed vantage where the means usu
ally employed would be inadequate and
unreliable, i he present manner of send
ing measages at night between different
vessels consists of tho common torch,
which is used in the samo manner as the
"wig wag" flaar in daytime. Newnort
Cor, New York WorkL .
. The Begalar Thlwg
An old gentleman of Detroit was naas-
tng through the ceremony of taking his
tourui wiie uie owcr azy. At ue im
pressive climax of the good preacher
man s part iq Ibe performance some
body was beard sobbing in an adjoining
room.
'Jly goodness! ' exdaimed one of the
guests in a dramatic whisper, who on
earth is that crying on Lhi f estiva peca-
sjour' .
'That?. replied a mivhicroos menw
ber of the errekmced hriJcfrrcom'a fam
fiy. Thai nolody but Em. Klie al-
wa-vs booiKXia wlicn pa's getting mar
ried," Detroit Free Press.
Pprhnpa the most lucrative -fTsce in the
national government, next to the rroai-
dency itwif. ia tho rkTki,!,ip of tlw; so-
preme cairt at miunvh m. It viciils is
fcnntial iikcnnie in f f of fr-n 0 to
the difference
guished between mere cheapness Of food
and abstemiousness in the use of food
which enables men to put by a part of
their earnings and bo obtain mdepend
enco.
It is ntt desirable to live in a country
where life can be supported for a mere
notiiing, because tho incentive to labor is
lost and the people become lazy and im
provident. In illustration of this, the
l'eruvians and Mexicans or eld times lived
chiefly : on bananas, which grow as pro
lific as Weeds, They throve for awhilo
and multiplied, until thp overproduction
of population brought them to a most de
graded condition. - :.;;:
Tne workmgman may not be able to
become a capitalist by such savings as
would remilt from halving let us sup
posethe amount of food that so many
in all classes consume to their detriment.
writes Mr. Proctor, but the saving of two
or three dollars weekly in the expenses of
the workingman and his, family (sup
posed to include two or three other work
er?) would signify in the course of only a
lew years a sum which, to such a fam
ily, would be of great importance, not
merely for what it could purchase, but
for the anxieties that it would remove,
even though for many years not a cent
of it were touched, and it underwent no
change- but tho Increase resulting from
the steady accumulation pf interest.
It may seein. to many readers that all
tb.is.ia very trite. ; It is nothing but tho
old lesson that we can most of us save a
portion 'of our expenses, and that small
savings, steadily inado, mount up in the
ongrun to large sums. There may lie
recognized, however, these points of nov
elty in what I have suggested; : 5
First, the diminished outlay for food is
not only indicated as an effectivo remedy
against poverty, but as a means of ; so
curing improved health and longer laating
life, and. secondly, tho indirect gain i.3
scarcely loss than these direct advantages,
nay, miry even bo regarded as greater, if
we consider tliat life is scarce worth liv
ing without freedom, and that there can
be no full freedom even under the freest
form of government whero the bulk of
the community is hampered in means. "
The effects, further, of the diminished
struggle for life would be important, as
rrpnvir Pspital el math f portion
of its control over labor which must be
regarded as unjust and injurious. Were
such care shown in tho duo limitation of .
the food supplies of the bulk of the com- !
m unity as seems desirable, the steady
though slow accumulations of small rarw
ital in the hands of the many would in
tho long run enable tlie working classm,
without strikes or other undesirable in
terruptions of the progress of trade, to
secure just wages seeing that they would
no longer have occasion to make forced
sales of their labor, as practically they
now so often do, . r v '
, In the course of somewhat longer but
quite measurable time ink-rvalf there
would arise an appreciably more even dis
tribution of capital than at present pre
vails. Labor would rise in relative value,
while in absolute value capital woui t at
least not diminish, even if it did not ac
tually increase, New York Journal.
A Koted Preacher's Method. "
I take a great deal of outdoor exercise,
cither by walking or in carriage. , I re
tire early and rise early, invariably at the
samo hours every day. I indulge iu light
gymnastic exercises almost daily, and
bathe three times a week during the
summer in water that is comfortable to
the fellings, and twTce a week during the
cold weather. I believe in the old saying
that "cleanliness Is next to godliness,"
for without it and attention to diet, it is
of little use to try to keep from disease.
There is nothing like a correct diet and a
well regulated general regimen. Con
sidering the many dangers to which tlx;
average man ia exposed, it U surprising
uiai ue eiKxim remain in neaitii so long
s he does. But parental nature fre
quently repairs tlie injury, unknown to
bun. I believe that, if a man eats spar
ingly and drinks little, he to sure of bring
ing no ill health, upon himself, and (bat a
moderate supply of food notrrwlxe tlie
body beat. The quantity of food which
nature really requires for her support it
email, and he that Uvea temperately and
drinks moderately at each nx-al, as Hip
pocrates says, (lands fair to enjoy spriht
linesa, vivacity and freedom of argils. '
Rev. T, Do Witt Talmage.
Strength of Aeirea.es,
Fanny Davenport Is said to be the
strongest woman on the stage. She L?s
a powerful j.li.rjuo and the best of
licaltlu Moffjrtika, :.otigh very frail
looking, i physically strong. 3 thinks
that slie dexeU Iter muscle a a young
pirl by breaking t!ia lor.f miir for the
family, and iu after years by churning
ti;rrT or, ! rr r.:... b ia CiiunIa.--Cke
I..- ) Lc-j- r.
territory,
Upon: one occasion of that xclting
spring, late at night, there came a dis
patch from Berlin which placed the Ger
man army on the frontier ; at once on the
qui vive. Every niaiTwas turned out,.the
horsea t-f the cavalry were all saddled
and men placed at their heads. Fifty
thousand horses were saddled that night,
waiting a eecorid dispatch from Berlin,
My military friend saya that there were
tlien upon the border and witiuu twenty
four, hours reach 200,000 German sol
diers. . Fifty thousand cavalrymen were
ready thut night for a rapid scurry across
tlie frontier. If tho imperial hand at
lierlm had presseu the lectnoai button
for tho signal, instantly these 50,000 men
would have dashed forward uko a bolt,
and when "morning came the world
would have been treated to the alarming
spectacle of a great German army on
French territory, .If tlie sensationalists
could have only known then the story of
that night it is possible that the publica
tion of Us history would alone have pro
voked war. -Cut the Germans waited
silent and ready all, through the dark
night without receiving any further word
from Berlin. Towards morning the
horses were unsaddled, aecoutermenta
were put away and the men retired for a
short rest. But the secret of the prepara
tion was well kept, no word of it reach
ing any French-or foreign publication. :
lh3 night incident musjrateg well th,
German side of the war question. Tlie
Germans know that the French have been
preparing for fifteen years to mako them
selves strong. The Oermans have,, in
turn,, worked 'with greater diligence to
meet this growth of the French, Tlicit
future plan is to remain In this constant
condition of energetic readiness, and, in
the event of a inwsible conflict,, to be the
first to strike the blow. , They are thor
oughly, well informed concerning every
movement of the French, while the latter
do not appear to have the same ability as
the Germans to keep their secrets. , The
Germans Iter say. that they have no
difficulty in finding out anything that tlie
French are planning to do. liio whole
German army fa core another war. This
U but natural. Tlie officers look to
war for promotion and distinction. But
the prriaralioiis along tho frontier on
tUi Jsbi art a sirUU that ti
very fact is a strong guaranty in favor of
peace. 7 ho uermaii onicers ncre say
that the French defenses are by no means
as complete as they have been described,
and that tlicy cannot for one moment
withstand lt onward inarcn ui tne tn-r-
mans if they should resolve again to in-
valo t ranee,
I talked with a number of German peo
ple before coming here, and I find that tin
business classes are opposed to war,
Tlieir taxes are now very high. Tlie in
demnity secured from France was just
about enough to compemnte for tlie
losses of the anny material during the
war. -More than this, the loss of- life
upon tlie part of the Germans was very
great. I was told by a iirominent uer-
man banker the other day that upward of
100,000 German died during the ten
years which followed tho war from tho
effects of exposure and iiardabipa of tho
Franco-German camiKUgn. Nineteen
thousand Germans fell near Mote. The
French are gallant fighters when well
led, and - whenever tlie two siilea were
brought face to. face tlie loss of life was
very great. T. C. Crawford in New York
World.
The Aral of France Today.
Tes, France has made tremendous
strides sinco 1870, and her military
strength today lias assumed really for
midable proportions, One of the most
proisoworthy act of the .war ministry
wa tho Immediate change effected after
tlie war in tho general stall, and the con
dition of this body of men Is now on
par with any organization in Europe of
tho same nature. sL' t ...--.:.-...'
Formerly the oiHcers of tlie general
stalf were not taken man the army.
They were first educated at the Polytech
nic, or at St, Cyr, and then passed into
tho school of application for the general
staff; thence they were sent for one year
to an infantry' regiment, one year to a
cavalry regiment and latterly for half a
year to the artillery, but it must bo re
marked that during . this service they
did no actual regimental duty. After
they passed , through these, a called
schools they at once entered, tho general
stan as captains, and, unfortunately,
usually as aides-de-camp to general offi
cers. Now a man may be, socially, very
amiable, and, socially, very accom
plished, and therefore extremely 1 well
fitted to be an aide-de-camp to a general.
tq manage his menus plaisirs, and yet
not oo uv tne least quaiiiied tor a stall
officer in the proper sense of tho word.
So -when: many of the general officers
wero promoted and their aides-de-camp
carried up a grade with them, it often
placed these young officers 'in positions of
immense ; importance, often calling for
tha performance of dutses which they
were incapable of performing. And
these wero the officers to Whom tho de
fending fcf many of tho fortresses hi 1870
was mtrustod, and who had been ordered
to their strengthening previous to the
breaking out of hostilities. V r:
What could' one expect from such ma
terial? 1 Today tho armies of France are
well officered, tho condition of tlie line
excellent, tho esprit do Corps good and
tho frontier defense' formidable God-,
frey Dynet Garden in Sau Francisco
Clironiclo. , .
Dynamite for Laying Foundation.
Paradoxical as it may aeeui, the latest
tiling for which dynamite has been em
riloved is not the blowing an of build
ings, but, on tlie contrary, the laying of
foundalkma. This new dcveUipnvent is
due to II. Bonnetond, a French engineer.
When a foundation has to be hi id in wet
ground - lie bores a hole from ten to
twelve feet deep and an inch and a half
wide.. Into this bole lie passes a string
of dynamite cartridges, whk-li is tlien ex-plodt-4,
' Not only ia a cavity of a yard
wide produced by tlie explosion, bat the
expansive forcA el the dynamite drives
tlie water out far beyond the sides of this
cavity, and it doss not return again for
more than half an hour. In the mean
time I lie workmen cbwr the cavity and
introduce quickly setting concrete so
lh.it when the water returns again to can
not injure (tie ftaandatiun. The method
baa U-ew put into practice during the
bull-ling of an enceinte at Lyons, and s
ra; i l rate of working ia said to have been
attained tlirrHiy. 3iicago Tunes,
A Cariaae; Chaagav
A remarkable caaa of 'substitution"
was recently found in a Georgia iron mine.
Wieitmen digging came upon pine
stump, or hat bad been a pine stump.
How converted into brown iron ore. Toe
stamp fclxxred ail tl iiliers and hark of '
tin- ori.':iul pine tree, and rown atreaks
werq i !iiJy twca tn plea. "ew Vok
ta.l, , . . I
u'-.' A Full Orchestra Bcere. '
Anybody who has ever looked at A full
orchestral score must havo been im
pressed with tko immense- labor involved
in writing it, as well as with the pro
found knowledgo of instruments that is
reqiured for the work, One reason why
modern composers are not so prolific as
those of ; the last century is due to this
very fact. A hundred years ago the or
chestras wero of a much simpler form
than they are at present Not nearly so
much attention was devoted to wood
wind' instruments, and. bet-ides this, a
great many other instruments have been
added to the full orchestra, and every
modem composer , feels bound to utilize
every effect in his score. Tlie music of
today, therefore, is much richer In color
than that of tho past, as every coucort-
gocr will appreciate who makes a mental
comparison between works of Hadyn or
Mozart and those of Wagner and Liszt. U
In view of the immense amount of
work and the kind of knowledge required
to do it, the impression would bo natural
that scoring must be a well paid lalior,
but tho reverse is the case. For the scor
ing of an ordinary inarch for full or
chestra ono does not need to pay more
than 610 at the most, and it may bo fre
quently had for $, and tho work will be
hi every sense satisfactory and complete,
Tho men who da this kind of work are
usually players in orchestras whose tloio
ly not entirely taken up with rehearsals
and performances, and with pupils that
they may have to instruct, ihcy are
glad of an, opportunity to devote their
evenings to odd jobs of scoring and ar
ranging for tlie orchestra, and tho com
petition among them is so great that tho
prk-p is cut down to such a margin that
orduiary composers, who do not strive
after original efTecta, can better afford to
havo this work dono by outsido parties
than to do it themselves. Jow loik
TBmu - -
An Electrical Stratagem.
When the electric telegraph was first
introduced into Chili, a stratagem was
resorted to In order to guard the posts
ami wires against daiuago on tho part of
Uio Araucanian Indians and maintahi tlie
connection between tlio strongholds on
tho frontier, Thoro. yero at tho time be
tween fusty and fifty rapttro Indians In
tlio Chilian camp. Gen. Pinto called
tltom tegetlw, ami, pointing to the tele
graph wires, he saidt "Do you see those
wires? " "Yes, general. ' "Very good,
I want you to remember not to go near
nor touch tlieui; for if yon do your hands
will bo held and you will t unable to
get away." The Indians smiled incrcdu-
looly. . , -
Then the general made them each in
succession take bold of the wires at both
ends of an electric battery in full opera
tion. After which lie exclaimed: "I
command you to let go tlio wire!" "I
can't; my bands are benumbed," said the
Indian. Tlio battery was then stepped
and tlie man reu-ased, not long after
ward tlie general restored them to liberty,
giving them strict injunctions to keep tlw
secret, and. not to betray U to their coun
trymen, on any account. This bad tlie
desired effect, for, as wight be expected,
tho experimentwas related "in the
strictest confidence" to every man of the
tribe, and the telegraph has ever since re
mained unmolested. Electrical Review.
TRYING i TH8 NERVES,
ANGI-LS IN THE HOUSEHOLD.
Cow sweet It were, If without feeble frlpht.
Or dy but Of the dreadful, beauteous sitibt, ' . .
An an(;el came to us, and "we could bear '
To see him hetle from tho si lent air '
Aevenlng In our room, nd bend on ours
Ilia divine eyes, and bring us from his bower
News of dear (riestha and, children who hava
. aever ,
Been dead lpdeed-s we sacA taow.torpver.
: , T-Lelh, lluat.
JHE POET'S 60NQ.' -
The poet's srmRi arc like melodious birds
f bat soar and sing above the reach of worda
And great his ratiire when, from time to time.
Re snares oae with a silvery net of rhyme.
-Samuel llnituru. ?eck Al'V CUIl!
MAKING FANCV CANDLES,
The Materiala Used In Hodorn TlMee
Candles for the Church Trade,
As the fashion for lighting up tht bril
liant society devotees by cuiioysi ami'
beautiful wax candles, in magniijcenj
candelabra and- candlesticks is rapidly
increasing, the trade in these' fine goods
is correspondingly mcreasing, Vp to
the past six or seven years tlie bulk of
fancy candles went to church organiza
tions solely, - Now the fashion is to use,
them at brilliant banquets, tasty smal
dinners, at grand evening receptions, so.
ciety 's pet cliarity balls, tea parlies, in pict
ure galleries, millionaire halls and stud
ieswin renowned artists' .studios, and on,
tho desks of grocery trade papers' edii,
tors. There are four times as many fan-T
cy candles sold now as there were pxy
years ago. v, i
The materials used in this modern en
An Entomologist's Feelings While Tar
, rnutula Woe Crawling Over Ills Faee,
Out on Dearborn avenue, near Lincoln
park,- lives a man whose hobby is bugs
not live bugs with vicious, teeth and viru
lent fangs, but bugs impaled upon pieces
of cardboard and kept to gloss cases.
Herbert Edgertoh, the . possessor of the
collection, was at homo when the re
porter called upon hun the other day.
He conducted .the visitor to a cozy little
den in tho rear of the house, which was
fitted np with a number of cabinets, the
doors of whioh were- appropriately let
tered. "I've lota of specimens," said he,
"but here is ono that I value above all
others, though it ii not at all rare." Mr.
Edgerton took a pieeffof cardboard from
tlio cabinet and placed it upon tho table.
Pinned to it was a large hairy spider
Which was easily recognized as a taratfr
tula, was at Camp Grant, A. T.,
three summers ago, continued the
speaker, "visiting a cousin of mine who
is in the army. One day, While we were
out shooting, I lay down in the sand to
get a few moments rest. , We bad rid
den a good many miles that day, and as
I was ahead of the rest of tlie, party I
thought I would wait for them, to come
up. So I tethered my horse and was
soon stretched at full length upon the
sand, I fell into a sort of a doze and
was awakened by a horrible feeling on
my face. You know a' man's mind acts
quickly under such circumstances, and
it didn't take me' an, instant to realize
that a tarantula was crawling over my
face. If he Stung me I knew I was a
dead man, but if he simply crawled overjjightened agere mestlywax Bna a corp.
" "j " vw I posiiioii ra ww,;,,. j.ue lauow uips oi- our.
The Cleetrleal Typewriter. ,
And now finally as to tlie electrical
typewriter. A friend in the patent office
at Washington writes to ak me to keep
cool. Tlio device lias been already in
vented and ia now about half patented.
By tlte time litis appears in print tlio
patent will he complete. The niaciiino
will work at any diatanre over which a
wire can be placed. . My correapondent
believes -that it can be Worked en tin
other aido of tla orvan conimieil with
this side by tlw calJe. " Tliis I doabt, ss
the current Is so wruk eiliKT on account
of seaMcknees or other rraanns by tlie
time it gi-ts to Ihe ltrr title tliat all it is
aUe to do ia to W-nVct a Tpry small mir
ror so definitely priril as o he rrarti-
cally auspended J.-t llw sir. Rtiil if tla)
dynoK'gri'pb, aa thry call it, will work
ever ordinary kind spaces it will lie a
great invention. allltt-lt. ef oaire, it
will be nothing to tlie n-l.ilofsTanh
shortly to lie jmt ffsrward ly Mr. LMaion,
LukeKhurp Detroit Free Press,
suffer no ill results. My only recourse
was to keep perfectly quiet and trust to
luck, for as soon as I moved the chances
were tliat tho. poison would penetrate
the skin and, be coursing tlirough my
veins,
" closed my eyes and stopped breath,
ing, so fearful was I that tho tarantula
would be disturbed. Each ono of bis feet
folt like a red hot iron, and seemed to bo
burning a deep hole In my cheek. Tlio
tarantula didn't seem to be in the least
hurry, oa he remained, nearly a minute
upon my face, and I was on tha point of
brushing him off witit my hand and tak
ing chances of being bitten, when ho
crawled off. I lay perfectly still for a
moment, and when I got to my feet I was
trembling so violently that I couldn't un-
tether the horse. A big draught from a
flask of brandy soon pulled, me together,
and I determined to get tliat tarantula
for my collection. I fastened a small two
tined fork to a ramrod which I used for
that purpose, and started after tlte bug.
I impaled him without any trouble, and
he now has tlie place of honor in my col
lection. I wouldn't pass another minute
like that, though, for all the collections in
the world.
"Horo,"contlnued Mr. Edgerton. point
ing to an insect pearly four inches in
length, "s a rare specimen. It is an
elephant beetle the largest of tho Hcara
bssus family. South Africa is the only
place where it is found, and there arc hut
few specimens in this country. This was
sent to me by a friend of mine who is a
great traveler and who has been In every
inhabitablo country in the world. Cen
tipedes are common enough, but this ono
here," taking a cardboard from one of
the cabinets, "was murderer. Several
years ago I passed several days In a hotel
in Albuquerque, N, M. Tliough it waj
nothing but a 'dobs building, there wore
a number or prominent people there,
among them being a family of ridi Mex
icans by the name of Alvuarex. Ono of
the daughters of Alvuarez a beautiful
girl about 1.8 awakened the nurse 'ono
night with a kiud scream. How it hap
pened no ono knows, but in some way a
centipede had found its way into her bed
and stung her. All the known restora
tives were applied, but tlie poor girl did
not recover. The centinedo was found
an'J killed: anil 1 tof-ml it for mr mlb, I
uon. as you con see, it is pot a very
good specimen, as it is badly mangled;
but I prize U for its history., I've a great,
many more specimens," concluded Mr.
Edgerton, "but these are tho only ones
which have any particular story connect
ed with them," ,
rVKne penj le in Belgium luiievo that
an wr l-t r-f rr H a certain owl is aa
fcf.iM rtmvd lor drur.lpr.rc-a,
Suggestion te Collegiate Orators.
Tho perplexity of students in the selec
tion of. a tlicmo is frequently shown in a
desire to be original. But if to be original
Implies that tho writer ia to select a
thereto that no one has hitherto chosen,
then originality in this sense s scarcely
possible. Again, if in tho treatment or
development of tho theme it is to be pre
sented by means of ideas that havo not
occurred to. others, then, also, originality
in this sense is scarcely possible. Origi
nality may be attained in the way of
putting a thought, jn the selection of
thoughts, 'and in their arranircments.
Such is one of the meanings of composi
tion. In this view a stndont may very
properly place the thoughts of embers,
whether written or spoken, under contri
bution. It is plagiarism when a writer
takes bodily the tliought and words of
another and gives theni as his own. It is
also plagiarism when a writer, even if he
changes the mode of expression, adopts
tbo development of a subject from an
other .and gives this as Lis own. College
Journal.
Monarch of Aanerleaa realuv
"Tlio highest mountain in America"
most now be changed from Mount St.
Elias to Mount Wrangle, a little to the
norilv rjevond, of these mountains I tare
been newly measured. Mount HoxL
once "roughly" estimated at 17,000 fort,
then "closely" at 10,000, was brought
down by triangulation to 1.1.000; an
aneroid lrometer made it 13,000 and a
mercurial barometer 11,235. Mount St.
Elias. eatiu-atod by D'Agekit to bo 12.CT3
feet, is triangulated by ifr. Baker to 19,
600. It now appears that Mount VrangU
lying to the north, rises 18,400 feet above
Copper river, which is in turn 8,000 feet
above the era at that point If this holds
true. Mount Wrangle is at least 1,000 fort
higher than any ether peak in North
America. It lies within the United States
boundary. Salt Lake Tribune.
The Vonltlir Center,';
Professor Tumaa, a European physiolo
gist, hais shown tliat vomiting ia (bo re
sult vt irritatiia cf a space in (be merfu'.la
oblongata about one-fifth c( an inch 1- r ;
and one-twelitU wile, and believis C.
the brains cf ruminants, relents
outer nan-wnmans su:ma ... -i t
t'iiiA".istz center." rl ir.-iw "I --.v- :
forefathers are now sent to South. Amer
ica, the Wst Indies, and a few to. tlio,
southwest. They, of course, lose, thcia.
rotundity in passing into tropic warmths,
and are therefore-used by the native
largely for lubricating the outer Cuticlq,
of their liodies." Candles are a com peed,
tion, in detail, of paraftiDe, wax an
stearic acid. ' Tlie latter is the solid ebh.
stituent of tallow, wax is really beeswax,
is tlie residuum of petroleum from crude;
oil. With all other lines tlie advance-
inent in the manufacture of candles s iq
accord. Tlie modern, star, candle, or ad,
amantine is a-"thing of beauty and jo
forever" or until snuffed out.
It has been found in the past that the
manufacture- of the very finest ' of fancy
candles in this country doss not pay, and
England, France and Uennany Itold the,
trade, but on many other fancy lines, tha,
American manufacturers are 'taking, it
away from "over the water. "vi For .np-.
wards of two and a quarter centuries s
London house has had the lead abroad aa.
candle makers. The very latest styles
are at once sent to,, this country, and thk
house has, been largely iustramental
rt'voiutionizing tlie business iiere. ...
, Vienna sends to, this country fancy,
candles, some of which are peculiar,
being made of "Ceresm," also called
"Ozokerite, or .natural earth -wax.
Extra big candles are used also at Easter,
The arge candles W made, (or ehurcli
trade, but oto seldom made faiicy, Thft
lowering of prices in the past few' years,
is also remarkable. Fancy candles tha'
now cost f 00 per gross could hardly bs
bought tlien at tho samp price per down.
In tho coloring, of .fancy goods an. or-t'
dinary wliite candle is used, and is gut-:
teied along the skies by machinery,'.
Tlen the colored wax is run intogtueTs,
and the candlo nftenvaril twisted by"
machinery, It is then dipped and poU
islicd. AnaUne dyes are now used in
coloring. All these changes, tlie use off
chenper dye stuffs, machinery, etc., havo,
tended to lower prices. Grocery, "vX'Slld
Foverty In Bfonteueg-ro, ,
Mon tenegro is already beginning to pax
the penalty of such civilization as it baa
attained. Even in that little, mountain
statetlio unemployed, pmiparism and
tiiiigiatiuii qtieailtiu auii Otlii-i itke.t.-uinu
usually considered tlie peculiar property,
of tlie most advanced- peoples, arc begin
ning to raise their heads. Tlie prince ami
his ministers will toon lie face to fnco.
with a grave internal difficulty, ami the.
cause assigned Is thai the harvest this yea t
has been a bad one. Hiisisqtiitc possible,
but in the best of years there is little Ui
liarvcst in Montenegro except stones.
i ne caue u a more deeply srateq
one. v hen, on entire nation finds ibt
only industry destroyed at a single blow.
it must either starve or turn to new env,
ployrocnts. This is tho case with Mon.
tenegro. In the old days tlie quantity of
the harvest was a matter of indifference i
its - deficiencies were easily supjilietL'
When food rah' short in the priucipalityi
inhabitants - maue a raid on tbo rlciv
Turkish lowlands, carried off tlieir neigli-'
bora produce and lifted tlie cattle. Bus
since Princo NiclioLis, no doubt with tho,
best intentions in tbo world, has set t
work to civilize his mountaineers and to
turn the light of European publicity,
upon tbcm, these pleasant litllo ha bit 4
have, perforce, become things of tiiti
part. And aa tlie Servians object verv.
strongly to a Montenegrin emigration, it
Is only tot) probable that the state which'
willwtflod all the forces of the sultan fog
centuries will fall to pieces Ihrougli in-;
temal dbturbances. London Globe, '
, pathetics ef Street Mml.
Wnere the untrained rye will ace notht
tog but bilro and dirt, says Sir John Lub
bock, scienco will often reveal cxmiisita
poshibilitics. .The mud we tread under;
our feet ia a grimy mixture, of clay and
and, soot and water. Separate tho sand,
however, as lvukiu deTvelet tho
atoms arrange themselves in pbee ac
oording .to tln-ir nature and you havq
tlio opaL Separato tlie ylar, and it be
comes a white earth, fit for tlie finest
porcelain; or, if it still, furtlief rnirife
itrclf, you lave a sapphire. Take tho
soot, ami if properly treated it wiii give,
you a. diamond. AVhile. Luilr. the water.
ppuriued gu4 Uu-tilled, will become a dew
drop or cryatalihse into a lovely star.
Or, again, you may see in a sliallow poof,
eillier tlte mod King at the l4(oni, t e
tlie imago $4 lias aky above. ArksiiNj'
Tp uitf. - - -
One Way te Win fmrtoov
Tho Africaii King Jaja. Jrcere a ttrf ,
His subjts ratruniwd a rival p"
chant. Jaja a prof J,:"1 a"l f"
lievrs in protecting ,is intere-t.o. IV
fore W prtleml up liil putn-' ; I
rival and cat on tlieir Ih-3.'o. " - v
c tra lo with l. com- ; -