VOLUME X. lenoir, n. c, Wednesday;" july 22, 1885. NUMBER 44. Wallace Bros., ST?ATESVILiLE, N.C. WholesalE Dealers General Merchandise. -lot- ' Largest Warehouse and best facili- & . S -to-J ties for han dling Dried Fruit. Ber ries, etc.. in the State. RESPECTFULLY JMRl'UFi nh' If August 27th, S84. X m m. m A J. M, Spaiuliour, LENOIR, IT. C. t?tca bo import material for filling toetb. Work as low as good work can be done. FatlenU from diaUnM MJT old four by informing blta u what tuna they propoM coining. P. LEE CLIN E, iTTORNEY.-AT-LAW, ATTORNEY - AT -LAW, : i.iri (ill ir i VJjlTJ'I'f irj V- UAillW! waimcsr Icc ia JLl Do Courts. JOYS. B B.KV. B. L. BMXK. . Tbe Joys of earth bow sweet they are! When all la calm around; And nothing cornea to hedge our way And trouble ara not found. To fallen men, then life Is sweet. While joy. around them stay; And they are merry on tbe street Of time, fr m day to day. 8weetly their days are passing by. Crowned with festivity, While many are mixing the err, I1a lost eternally." i - We say the jovs of earth seem sweet. And make .ife sweet too ; But they oon pas-, and thm we meet Trvubl, and they not few. Th' re ia a plac where joya last Forever and forever, , Tbnir troubles are forever past And do not coiue, never. Then let us seek this joy above ; Then let na "watch and pray," That we may rest in joy and love, . In the brign. realms of day. FORTY YEARS IN A TRAKCE; OR, : y v '; Old Sij in a Caie. Bakersyille, N. 0., July 8. To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic : A long time ago, "when this coun try wu8 irst being settled, there liv ed a man by the name of Si. Haw kins. The white settlers were few and far between ; the nearest one to old Si.'s was about tenor twelve miles, but the Indians were a great deal nearer and not quite so friend .ly. The Indians would often visit old Si. when he was asleep and steal his stock. After being harrassed, vexedand losingnearly all his stock, he concluded to build a stockade out of locust posts ; ic was to be In dian high, bear strong, and wolf tight. So he hitched up his ox team one morning and drove to a small rich cove, where there was plenty of nice" young locust trees. Old Si. was working away faithfully, pre paring his posts, when a heavy rain came up ; seeing that he was going to get wet, old Si. crawled into a small cave nearby on the side of the mountain. r V. He had been in the cave but a few minutes when a peculiar looking bird flew thrice around him ; it re sembled an owl but was not half as large. Every time the bird flew around old Si., he inhaled a strange, peculiar odor, growing stronger ever time the bird flew around. At first it frightened old Si. somewhat, but he soon ) began to get stupid and sleepy and laid down. In a few minutes he was unconscious of his surroundings While in this unconscious, trance like state, he wandered far away through space, passing distant suns, moons and worlds without number. He passed beyond the star-lit sky, saw beautiful gardens, legions of angels and heard the sweetest music that ever, fell from, the lips j of re deemed souls. Old Si. . was so en chanted by all that he had seen and heard that he attempted to enter one of the beautiful gardens but he was hurled by one of the angels at the gate, down ! down ! through un known space and an immeasurable distance j ijntil ; he fell suddenly jin the'iriOutb'of a cave in' ah unknown world. Then old Si. awoke, rubbed his eyes, and went but of the cave he had been in, but what was his aston ishment when Jbe,saw that all of his Jdiretrpoitsi were decayed, all- the irons rusted off his cart but the tires, and they were standing upright and alone. The wood works of This cart were all decayed except the tongue, and it was so affected that it could not speak ! Kivette. ' . Washington gossip. . Greentboro Patriot. "Coot" Jones has been appointed Chief of Division in ..the .Customs Bureau, Treasury ' Department. This Appointment was tendered A. W. Graham, and subsequently J. A. Lockhart, of Anson.r! Both declined on the ground that the salary $2,000 wag not equivalent to their law prac tice. . V, ' ., ' :,' . Col Staples has the .refusal 'of a judgeship in Arizona or an appoint ment as , Chief of Division ;m the Treasury Department. " He will take the judgeship. The salary is $3,000. The appointment will be made next week. . "'" '.'' ' - Babyhood for July urges upon parents the importance of "labell ing" little children by always mark ing their full names and addresses in indelible ink on some easily-accessible part of their clothing, such as the f ihfefde of r their , co4Iar:'band. Therecari be no doubt" that such a custom would be fruitful of many good results, and go far toward alle viating the anxiety of parents in cases of their little ones straying. away from home, or becoming lost fdent ortrtnnrtfl mntW and. in the vanetv of top-! UVUV, 7 - - i ica treated by ats contributors and correspondents, proves its ability to, fulfil ita avowed intention io become a channel fartEe best thoughts xf all who study the highest interests of child-life. A Among its leading articles are fTerBaby that must go to the Counts," by Marion Har land, and "The Quantity of Food . Eequired in infancv," by Prof. J. Lewir Smith;, Physician to the a number; $1.50 a year. 18 Spruce Street, New York.) DUCK CREEL A Citizen of Duck Creek, Alexander County, Thinks his Neighborhood has been ; Siandered-An Open Letter: in Reply. Little River, July 13. To the Editor of Tlie Lenoir Topic: Allow me to interest your readers with a few lines." I find in your paper an instrument disgracing my neighborhood and country, headed, "Duck Creek Outlaws," headed by Marley, on the line between Alex ander and Caldwell counties, j I will inform you that there is no such a crowd as you describe ; if there is it is unknown to the writer of this. You say for years this crowd has been banded together and has carri ed on illicitly the manufacture and trade of whisky until the whole neighborhood is ruined and de bauched. . f j I was born and raised on j Duck Creek, in one mile and a quarter of the Caldwell line and 'can inform you that we have as peaceable a set tlement as there is in any part of the adjoining country. We have peace and plenty. We have . a good a Sunday School as there is in Cald well or Alexander counties and we have as prosperous a Church at Do ver, in one quarter Of a mile of the' Caldwell line, as you will find in any country. I You say that we have a gang that dares not testify against each other. If there if any such gang they do not stay in this locality. By what you say if a man lives on DuckjCreek he dares not tell the truth1 and,' again, if he lives on Duck jCreek and was to get out from home he would be arrested for burning Clip pard or for breaking jail. ) There are just as good citizens on Duck Creek as there are in Lenoir town or any any other town, and just as ready to submit to and execute the State laws as any people jin the State and would be the Federal laws, if they were controlled by huest and respectable men. We are Dem ocrats on Duck Creek from one end to the other, but if such men as John Clippard and Bob Teague and the very scrapings of God's creation is to execute the revenue law we squirm to submit to them. " We vot ed for Cleveland, hoping the! scala wags and carpet badgers would have to step down and out and go to work, but we find to our surprise to the contrary. We want thej laws administered fairly and squarely by honest men and men of good char acter, men that has stood io the front until Cleveland had taken his seat. . I have seen no band of men col r logued together until, last week, I saw a crowd, said to be revenue offi cers, headed by Bob Teaguej pass my house going up Duck,, hunting, they said, for an illicit still and it is reported they found an old still house that has not been in use for ten years and they was so hungry for whisky that they gnawed all the bark off the old house logs and, be cause they could not find anyj they forsaken Teague and left him to make his way as best he could. As to Marley heading n crowd on Duck, it is an infamous lie. Marley does not live on Duck Creek, j You may think by what I say that I am upholding, jail breaking and- barn burning, but I am opposed to any such thing. If I. had the wisdom of Solomon and the penmanship of Jerry Black I could not explain iny feelings toward such depredations. I have seven promising little chil dren and don't intend them to lie under such reports. I Sir, you must give me either pub licly or privately the author of the writing headed "Duck Creek Outlaws,"-that is in your last j issue. , Give me the author. If it wasj your self let me knqw. and if it was any body else let me know -who ft was. You may think I am a friend to il licit distilling. Sir, I am as much opposed to it as any good old fash ioned Democrat. 1 1 will close, hop ing to hear from you in your next issue. O r-M.' PennellU . ,; A. LETTER IX REPLY. ! ...7. Lenoir, N. C, July 15, 1885. t My Dear Mr. Pennell ; I re ceived your letter of the 13th inst. I fully appreciate your feelingai. One is prone to make one's own neigh borhood law-abiding and respectable and to take umbrage at criticisms. I did not know that you lived on Duck Creek and it goes without say ing that such men as Mack Pennell are not to be classed with the; out laws whom I condemn. f iLot 'saved Sodom. You ask for my author. I can give you a dozen ; it is the common-talk, here and is I substantiated by good men from Alexander , coun ty.' I am, of course, myself respon sible for the publication; but, if T were to try, I could bring up dozens ! of witnesses to prove every thing ' I charge in The Topic. ; Such men as yon, perhaps, v know; little of these things these lawless men would not dare to interfere with you, but I repeat it, the poor and the humble are so in dread of these men j that they are afraid to swear the i truth against them in Court. i Ho w many citizens of Duck, Creek are now lying in the woods and dodging the revenue officers and the sheriff of Alexander; who has : war rants charging them with rescuing Calloway Marley ? Note this care fully : No good citizen will distill whisky illicitly and no good citizen will transgress or evade any law. You cannot deny ? that too many Duck Creek men are blockading and that some of them are dodging . the sheriff of Alexander, who wants them for rescuing Marley. If they are hot guilty why do they ' run ? Clippard may be a bad man but he has a right to the protection of law. You are a good citizen, you want to raise your family right you would not be a Pennell if you did not. Then, my dear sir let the good peo ple of Duck Creek, these Church members and patrons of the Sunday School, join hands and frown down these bad men who give a bad repu tation tp your settlement. Let them understand that the best elements of society, the moral and well-meaning people, intend to rule public senti ment and that the lawless must take back seats and reform. These wag ons that go almost every week to Hickory with whiskey and . brmg back corn, these threats to the jailer of Alexander county they are all known and they give a bad name to Duck Jreek. . r , ' ' I honor your manhood in 'writing over your own name and your article' shall be published. By ;:the same mail I received another letter from . Little River from a man who was ashamed or afraid to sign his name. He abused me and spoke ill of every body that is opposed to Marley and his gang and said if his letter was not printed I should "hear from him again." lam not John Clippard to be scared and run away by threats from a coward who skulks in ambush and is afraid to show his face. I may be mistaken in reading it as a threat, but if he did mean to threaten me and you find him out, please tell him for me that I am al ways to b found at my office during business hours, and what I do I am neither afraid nor ashamed to ac knowledge. Again, Mr. Pennell, I sincerely believe that you are an honest, hon orable man, and I beg you to think seriously over this matter and ask yourself if I was not correct and I also ask that, if you find I was right, you Will join with the f riends of law and order and give the force of your influence to rectifying this disorder. I hope you agree with me that it is not the part of a good, citizen to break the revenue laws and to block ade whiskey and brandy. Then ask yourself--'1,' Are there any Duck Creek men who dodge the revenue officers, and if so, how many ? 2, Are there any Duck Creek men who are charged with that outrageous rescue of Marley from Alexander jail, and if so, do they evaile arrest? If you answer these questions in the affirmative you must acknowl edge that TnE Topic is right and it is your duty, as a good citizen, to join with us, for this state of affairs must and will be stopped, and these crimes punished no matter who suf fers. Sincerely your friend, W. W. Scott, Jr. Editor Lenoir Topic. Assessing Railway Franchises. -News and Observer.' Yesterday the State board assessed the value of the' yarious railways in the State. Notices will be sent the various counties in which there are lines of railway, giving the mileage in each, and the assessed value per mile. The board ascertained the total length of -thf lines to be as fol lows and the valuation pen mile as given :" North Carolina railroad, 226 2-10 miles, $1,000 per mile ; Northwest ern North Carolina, 26 13-100, $700; Piedmont, 44 12-100, $1,500 ; At lanta and Charlotte . Air-Line 46, $1,000; Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta, 67, $800; Atlantic, , Ten nessee & Ohio, 41, $300; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, 12, $800 ; Chester & Lenoir narrow gauge, 62, $300; Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line, 106, $700; Carolina Central, 238, $600; Atlantic & North Carolina, 99, $600; Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley, 143, $800; Norfolk Southern, 53,6-10, $850; Western North Caro lina, 276$, $250;. University, 10 2-10, $100; Alma & Little Rock, 12$, $100; Cheraw & Salisbury, 14; $500; Albemarle & Raleigh, 33, $300; Asheville & Spartanburg 25$, $500; Oxford & Henderson, 13. $500: . Milton & Sutherlin narrow gauge, $ flOO. , . .. , . . ' A very amiable and modest widow lady, lived in a certain county. Soon after her husband had paid the debt f nature, leaving her nis legatee, a claim was brought j against the es-, tate by ; his brother, ! and a - process was served upon hereby the sheriff! of the countyf who happened to be a Widower of ' middle ' age. f ! She 5 was j much alarmed, and meeting with a ' female friend, she exclaimed,1 - wh agitation; "What do you think? the sheriff has been afte me!" "Well," ; said the considerate lady, with per fect coolness?" tfherls"" a very fine man.", "But he says ' he has an at tachment for me,"., replied the 'wid ow,1 "Well, I have, long suspected that 5 he ; was attached to you; my dear." ' '"But you don't understand ; he says I must jfo1 to court, ' "Q 1 that's , quite anothit raffair, $ don't you go so far as that-it is his place' to come and court you," A SOUTHERN FOURTH OF JULY ORATION. John S. Long at Goidsboro. ; From Messenger's Report, ' ' "J ' " When the impetuous Montgomery led his brave but exhausted patriots against the fortifications of Quebec, when Gates charged the splendid columns of Burgoyne at Saratoga,, and when the ice-covered hills of Valley Forge were marked with the bloody foot-steps of the starving Continentals, everywhere the men of the South were in the "fore-front of every danger, hardship and suffer ing. They were the ancestors of a race of soldiers, who, at a later day, shook the earth . with their valor, and wrote with their bayonets an Iliad such as Homer never dreamed of. : They fought by the frozen lakes of the Siorth just as cheerfully and gallantly as if they had been fight ing among the pine and palmetto woods of their own sunny home. And equally the men of Massachu setts and New York sacrificed their lives for the same cause. Side by side with Marion. S,umter and Lee flashed the chivalrous blades of Mor gan Lincoln and Greene. The great drama . of National liberty upon Southern soil drew into its -stormy bosom the sturdy sons of New Eng land, who had breasted the first crest of the tempest at Lexington and Concord. Out of the thick darkness flashed for a single moment the crimson glory of King's Moun tain, but the heroic gallantry of Shelby and Sevier could not keep back the steady columns which were rushing forward to victory. In this lour of comnjon danger, the bonnd '. ess spirit of a common patriotism, nerved every heart to die for the fires and altars of a common country. Talk about dividing the inherited glories of a nation, brought through such a baptism of suffering, and built up at the expense of so much treasure and sacrifice ? , Again we say, Isuch a result could never have been accomplished. An interna tional survey might have established geographical 1 limits, and interna tional courtesy might have observed them with Christian gentility and forbearance. f But the sublime iri heritanco of glory and honor, won by heroic self-denial and courage, belonged to both sections alike, and would have mocked at every effort to divide it. ; When this Con tinent was chiefly occupied by the savage and beasts of prey, the great literary workers, of Elizabeth and Queen Anne had enriched their na tivity with the grandest productions of ancient or modern times. But still in the fields of history and crit icism, of poetry and science, and in the almost boundless area of action, wo have accomplished results which the World will not willingly let die. We pave lived to see the day when . Englishmen three thousand miles away, have erected ' a cenotaph to Longfellow in their glorious Abbey ; when Bayard Taylor is mourned in the German capital as if the blood of Schiller flowed in his veins; when Phillips Brooks receives the divine doctorate at Oxford side by side" with the (bishops of the English Church ; when American scientists are recog nized and respected by royal socie ties !; and when by a people, who a few years ago barely tolerated the graphic pictures of Washington Ir ving, the exquisite writings of Poe, Whittier and; Lowell are received and honored on every side. What higher tributes could be paid to American , literature than these ? These are the seal set by the intelli gence, taste and culture of the world on our literary excellence and suc cess. . ,' ' Only let us of the South seek to have a larger share in this intellect ual possession, which has so glori ously adorned the annals of our country. Hitherto we have reaped but a slender harvest in this fertile field of industry and thought. Be fore the war, 8 wept onward by the tide of politics and pleasure, and. si nee, bending under the burdens of poverty and taxation, we have claim ed but little interest in these mat ters . Dowewishto make our country truly great and power ful ? Let us keep 'it on that grand,' conservative pathway along which it was started by "our patriotic , sires.; Let us weave into the material and intellectual elements of its growth the honest contributions of foreign brain and muscle, seeking a free I country for liberty and rest. 'Then,; though we may be gathered to our fathers, oUr children shall see the! grandest nation which ever lived in the tide of time. Like the Olympus, which, under the eastern skies, look-! ed put upon the vain ambition of Greek and Persian satraps, and ' saw : the shattered fleets of Xerxes and Antony alikeugo down in ruin, this stately Government crowned with the fadeless splendors of peace and plenty, shall see the . proudest na tions of the earth pass away "like a dj-eam of the night when one awak eth.w ,rArid'as the centuries pass over her, freighted with the changes of intellect and thought, i and the hoary watchman, on his lonelybeat, begins to strain his vision for (the breaking of that morn '-which shall ; never hare a night; in her starry sisterhood 'of; States j shall . still be that Qharigelesa unity whioh no war nor revQlutionan eyer reach. ? ' f Side issues whiskers; ( AN OLTUPIAN TOUR. A talented Party visits Banntr Elk "Tha Oelightful Tnssday"-Th8 First Banana Peel for Beech Uonntain-A Tongne Tiad Poet.- .." 1;: w;:,; f ; Banner Elk, July 12, On the evening of the third inst. a beautiful tent was pitcned on a grassy lawn at the upper end of the Banner Meads. i Its occupants were Mrs. Elizabeth Van Loon; a talented and well known authoress of Knoxville, to gether with her husband and little daughter, Mrs. E. P. Martin, Lou isville, Miss Jessie McFarland, St. Louis, and Miss Katie Trig, a pop ular young artist of Louisville. So pleasant and agreeable were these people that only half an hour was necessary to form an acquaint ance which could not have been ac complished with the ignorant and unlearned in half a lifetime.1 The Apollos of the mountains visited the Muses of the valley and a trip was planned to Beech Moun tain, the Olympus of Banner Elk. Mrs. Martin, the dashing widow of the party,sugge8ted that the nec tar for the trip should consist of "Mountain Dew," a well-known beverage of this country, which is not only inspiring on such occasions, but also useful in cases of poison or snakebite. On the morning of Tuesday, the 7th inst., the company left camp in the following order, viz : In front, Miss Trigg and the experienced fuide, who had just returned from litchell county, where he has been mining the glittering treasure. Next in order was Dr. Wetmore, of Salisbury, with Mrs. Van Loon and daughter, in a bughickle. Among others too numerous to mention, came a well-known tongue tied "Tar Heel" f rem near Wil mingtonthat is, his tongue is tied in the middle and loose at both ends, and by his side the charming widow, whose speech is slightly disabled in the same Way. , 'Forward the light brigade, and three leagues onward. The tongue tied couple volleyed and thundered.' ' Some laughed; some talked, some hollowed, some whistled, and some sang songs until the ringing, joyous mirth of the jovial crowd,- minglecl with the prattling laughter of the Beechen brook that played beside our pathway. , j f As we neared the place known as the ! Ponds, we passed through a cluster of wild honeysuckle, where every shrub, clad in full bloom, looked like the burning bush which Moses saw. Mrs. Van Loon named this place Honeysuckle Avenue, and suggested that the first hotel erected on Banner Elk be called "Fern Wood," for the great variety of beautiful ferns peculiar to this lo cality. " : Miss Trigg named a favored spot "Love Vine Gap," it being almost entirely covered with a delicate yel low air plant, known in Watauga, as Love Vine It winds its tendrils around the branches of rich weeds, and is used in fortune telling in the. following manner : i The person in love holds a piece of the vine in his left hand, and placing his whole soul, mind and strength on his sweetheart, tosses it over 1 his head without observing where it falls. The next time he passes that way, if it has taken root in other plants and is growing, he will be successful in love, otherwise he is doomed to dis appointment, j We now reached the summit where mountain rose beyond mountain until all was lost in the blue haze of an immeasurable distance. The ladies, with book and pencil, took heights, distances, names and directions with a rapidity and an interest that evinced not only thor ough discipline, but also an appre ciation of the beautiful and sublime unsurpassed in prose or rhyme. Hibriten, near Lenoir, :is among be - mountains noted and sketched y them. The face of the venerable Dr. Wetmore alone bore a marked re semblance to the granite bluff which had stood the storms of the count less ages and with every beating rain grew more majestic. ; The sun having reached the zenith we repaired to Buckeye .Spring where a lunch was spread that would have done honor to Richard Coeur de Lion. Nothing had been left undone in its preparation. Oranges and lemons were abundant, and the first banana peel was cast for Beech! Mountain. Dr. Wetmore afterward ; stepped, on one of the peels and f ell, reminding us vividly of the parody on "Aileen Allana." After lunch i every : young couple found them a mossy rock from which the low, sweet, musical accents of love arose and died on Aeolian whis pers of the evening breeze. ' V When Joshua hung in the West, and the shadows wsre j falling fari towards the East, we started home ward and, resting at the Ponds, the guide was prevailed on to ; tell the bear story which he calls "Brewin's hiberna." The ladies pronounced this the champion bear story of the world; and by an unaninious request, it was repeated at the camp on the following day. ' H ? I We reached the valley in the twi light, which was rendered mellow by the reflection of a saffron sunset, and thus ended that season . of sun shine to the heart, which is denom inated "The Delightful ..Tuesday of 1885." . However tbe tongue-tied gentle man being vexed at nis unsuccessful effort to express his feelings in well articulated English1 to the accom plished widow, completed his diary that evening with the following metaphorical lines : t : . My life Is a quill from a goose's wing. The pain that's left from a hornet's sting, , The screak of an owl on a mooney hill, An opossum, at bis captor's will. . S. M. D. ; "A Plain. Respectable Dinner." The Standard complains that a man of means cannot purchase what will furnish a respectable dinner for his family for less than one hundred dollars." And here is the bill5 of fare and the cost of it, which it lays out for a family of "six or seven "One ham of 12 lbs, $84; 4 lbs steak, $10; couple of fowls, $10 ; couple of ' cabbages, $8 ; to say nothing' of bread and soup, and potatoes, and a dozen small constituents which can not be dispensed with." This is liberal feeding for a man of any amount of means, and in these times of scarcety ought to be restricted. 'Divide out this dinner WWW 11 VV A OAA VA. DVIVUj VUVA1 . Vi. . yidual would have to swallow two pounds of bacon, half pound steak, one-third of a "fowl," and a pound or two of cabbage, a quart or two of soup, a peck or two of potatoes, and . a quart or .two of a dozen "small constituents which cannot be dis pensed withl" T.he breed of such a "family" ought to be put a stop to, or else exiled to a more plentiful' country than ours is at the present time, no matter what their means. "Students' Songs."! , Ml J Moses Km?, while a student at Harvard College, earned his entire college expenses of about a thousand dollars a year by making books, such as "Harvard and its Surroundings," 'King's Handbook of . Boston," "The Harvard Register," etc,, and since graduation, a few years ago, he has published many successful books: among theiin, "Students' Songs," which has had the most remarkable . sale ever known for a book of its cias3. Over 40,000 copies of this "Students' songs" have been made, and the demand is almost the same as before. The probable cause of this success is the fact that prior to the publication of "Students' Songs" there was noj book containing songs and music that have sprung up and become popular within college walls during the j past ten years. ' ! The songs nave been heard and heartily J J J f - glee club concerts, college festivities, . college societies and at home and social gatnenngs. rney nave a pe culiar breeziness and mirth-making capacity that make them enjoyable on all enjoyable: occasions. . ;The book itself is also a cause of its suc cess. It is handsomely printed, and contains sixty of these songs, with their music, nearly all of which are copyrighted and to be found in no other collection. It is a surprise to , find so choice , a collection of songs . new and copyrighted jolly songs and music, selling for only fifty cents. Like almost all successes, it has its imitations, and some are rather de- ceptive.lri their make-up. Already several so-called collections of stu dents', or college songs are in the market," but the genuine and origi nal book of 'Students' Sougsr" the only one that has been noteworthily successful is edited and compiled by Wm. II. Hills, a.young Harvard graduate, and published bv Moses King; the publisher, at flanover square, in Cambridge, Mass. i - -it ; iSi e Lamp-Shades and the Eyes. i Prof. IL L. Cohn, in his pam- nhlftt "TTfiherden BelenchnnrRWftrt der Lampenglochen" . (Weisbaden, 188o, describes along series of de- -terminations of the, relative value of various forms of laipp-shades.' The method pursued was to measure the wa . nrigntness oi wnite paper lying on a table over which the source of artifi cial light was suspended aa given distance by means of a Webster pho tometer. As ne wtreld anticipate, the general effect of shade is to in crease very greatly the illumination immediately; under the Ugnt,. and not modi fly it notably at an angular distance greater than forty-five de grees from this ; region. The last section of this pamphlet, which deals with the illumination requisite for easiest use of the eyes, is of the most general interest. ' Taking as a meas ure of the value of the illumination in this . sense the number of lines which can be read from a newspaper in a minute, and as the unit of illu mination that of a normal candle at a perpendicular distance of a metre frnm triA -nnnpr Via flniln i.Vifl.f. tr)A it. lumination is not less than fifty such units. Since even a fifth of tma u- . lumination is very rarely secured, except immediately under a lamp provided with a good shade, the au thor emphasizes the conclusion, that few school-children' work' in a satis factory light. , .,t ;lff.rt 'ni. it '. i' ii a'a n .''"i'' lieconect mac irines masea per fection and that perfection ia - noj trifle. irti