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O K. GRANTHAM, Local Editor.
I?UNN, HARNETT CO:, ISV C, THURSDAY. MARCH 5, 1891.
I VOLUME I.
NUMBER 2.
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; I The cigarette is an illegal luxury for
I yquth in twenty-nine State3. " "
A cent us of the Province , of Quebec,
I Canada, compared with the returns of
vlivil, shows a great exodus of the popa
rt j' latioa.
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, The University of Geno, Italy,. ha es-
tablihed an academy for scientific travel-
J er. It jroposes to teach students how
l to observe and investigate all phe-
1 uiracm. -
Manv. women are finding congenial em-
)iovmpnt in the various libraries which
have been established in nearly all the
eities and towns throughout the country.
The work, is eminently suited, for fhera,
declares the New Y'ork World, and thev
.liave been found suited for th.e work.
Mrs.- Caroline La Conte has been ap
pointed State Librarian of Suth Caro
lina. She is an accomplished stuJent, a.
resident of Columbia, and is the first'
Woman to hold .suck a position in the
State". .'
If there is no' law upon the statute
books to prevent a same 'person fronc
. being dragged from home, declared in
'sane on the authority of two physicians,
and left to the chance of meeting an up- '
right judge to save him from incarcera
tion in a luuatic 'asylum, it is time, in
sists the.New YorkuYcc, that one should
lit passed. How cailya m;n may be
gt ovit of the way in New York has re
cently been s-hown in the ease ofa well-
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to-slo citizen, and the fact is not credit
able. The existing statute -on the sub
ject evidently requires overhauling.
i The United States has now become the
grea'est iron producing nation of the
worfd,; having produced 0,202,703 gross '
tons of pig iron in A$0Qf against about
8,0.)(),010 grovs ton produced in Great
Uritain, an excess of all out l.20D,05
tons, or fifteen per cent. It has been at
tained by the most astoundingly rapid
development of a vast indusirv which the
. world has ever seen, our pig iron product
having increased from 1.01 millions in
lbSo to 0.2 ) railiions ia an in
crease of 5.1C milliojs or 12S per cent;,
during whieh'p.eriod the Uritish product
. jucreascd only from 7.12 to 8.00 million
tons, or about 7.8 per cent.
1- -Says the St. Louis liqmhlk: Wc thiuk
: we have some big churches here in
- America' but few of them have a seating'
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1 opacity f over 1500 pvrsor.s. Com-
V cd with sonic of th lir churches of
iropc ours
mountains.
are
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Seats.
St'.Tetcr'sCIuirel), Rome 54,000
. Milaii C'atheJra! .....37,000
St. TauIV, Home ,3-2,000
St. rau.'s, London ........ .i. 35, GOO
St. Petrionio, Boloua 24, AM
Florence Cathedral .....,.. .114,300
Antwerp Cathedral i.,'24,000
St. Sophia's, Constantinople.. .23,000 i
i St. John's, Lateran........ 2'2,'AX)
Norte Dame, Paris -. .....21.000
Pisn ChalheJral '. 13,000
St . Stephcus', Vienna 12,400
St. Dom:n:e. Bologna 12,000
St. Peter's, Boloina... ..114400
Ccthedral of Vienni 1 l,OG0
. St. Mart's, Venice...- 7,000
, Spurgoon's Tabernacle, London....:.. 7,000
Dr. Hall's," the gredt chuicli at Fifth
avenue, New York, but. 2,000
- That the C'.iiliai', who have bc?n
dubbed the Y'au'iees Of" South America
because of their busluess enterprise and
stability--of .character, should have a
.revolution on their hands has disap
pointed and 5 even shocvcd their well
wisheis i.i this cjuatry.a Imits the New
York -'Trih-tne. But the trouble seean
to have. sprung not from the lawlessness
or "unrest..of the people, but from the un
patriotic ..course of a few 4pliticians,
especially Senbr Halmaccda. The Chil
ians have advanced too far in the path of
civilization to make it either possible or
-.probable .that they will revert to the
state of chronic iusurrtttfon which ' has
characterized so many countries of Latin .
America. After they' have taught some
politicians a salutary lessoa order-will
doubtless be restored, aud the jeojde
will again resume the industrial and com
mercial pursuits inw.hich they have so
signally distinguished llnnslvta in the'
OUR KIND O" A MAW.
Kot an Apollo with wiow-whitc han L
A trifle austere, nor yet too blan 1;
But a heart of gold all through an 1 through.
And tender and gympathetic, too . .
Our kind of a man!
Ab.one who, wakin the world' broad
ways,
Sees little to blame and much to praise;
Was cheer and smile for th3 weary throng
And boid contempt for the bitter wrouj
Oar kind of a man!
.Yea. one who, ignoring baser ends,
Liveth for home and the good of frien Is;
"Where, self forgotten, broad manhood lies,
Astar in the glory of the skies
Our kind of a man!
Who not for theories but for deals,
Christ's own apostle, with love for cresls.
The world's brave prophet, after Gol's plan.
In healing and teaching ha leads the van
Our kind of a man !
E. S. L. Thompson, in FranP Leslie's.
AN EVICTION FIGHT.
Et I.UKK SHAKP.
This 'is the story o'f the house of Ma
ginley, its building and itsfwreck.
A the present moment Magtnlry him
self is in 3Iontana. He inadc his money
in Australia and then - came hometo Ire
land and foolishly built a house on a land
lord's estate. " It was built wliere labor
and malerial were cheap. Stones cost
next to nothing; in fact, the land around
produced little else, and soMagiuley spent
$1500 in buifding a nioeftvvo-story house
with a slate roof upon it.
Maginley was in America. Times were
bad. Hjs boys had not been able to
make any money in the Scottish harvest
fields. They wanted an abatement of the
rent, but that' the landlord, refused to
grant. The money was subscribed and
was offered to the cvicfors by the priest
of the parish,jJjhe celebrated Fr. Mac
Fadden. It wafc refused as beiug offered
too late, and (he command was given
that the eviction must proceed. I ar
rived on the ground just at the end of
these negotiations. The pplice refused
to a flow me to pass down the road near
the house to be attacked so I struck
across the fields, keeping on the outside
of the police cordon threatened every
now and then when I approached too
near that line and at last took up a po
sition on thf hillside, just outside the
line of policemen and facing the cud of
the house where I could see what was
goiogcn ou both sides of it.
I will now mention a little incident
which, although trivial in itself, goes to
account for the hatred with which the
police are regarded in Ireland. When I
took up my position as near to the out
side line as 1 was permitted, the police
man near where I stood thought it would
be the correct thing to stand in front of
ra'j so that I could not see what was go
ing on. I moved up the hill a little and
he moved up in front of n.e. I moved
down and he again moved down in Iront
of met
"I don't Ihink you have any right to
do that," I said. ,
Y'ou move on," was his answer.
. .My own. impulse at the moment was to
hit the man across the face with my um
brella, but I realized the futility of do-'
iug this to a man armed with a riilc, so
I called to an officer, who was standing
near by, inside the cordon.
"You cannot get inside,". said the of
ficer, anticipating the question tha$ was
usually asked him. .
"I do not want to go inside," I said,
"but I want to know if it is any part of
this "man's duty to obstruct my view- of
what is going on?'"
"Not at all,", was the answer cf the
officer. Then addressing the man he or
dered him to keep his place and I had
no mortal rouble with that man. The fact
is the police are over-zealous in their du
ties and get themselves disliked not to
put it .too strongly.
Although there were so many people
around the fine kept by the police the si
lence was most intense. The housoJComing out the officer handed the piece
showed no signs of having anybody in it.
yet everybody knew that a number of
young men weic locked inside, and were
going to ' defend the place
they were able.
as knir cs
Here a certain comic element was in
troduced. One of the officers of tne
constabulary looked as if he had just
come oil the 'Savoy Theatre stage after
playing the 1 art of an officer in the
'Pirates 'of Penzance." He was a fine
looking man with a heavy mustache and
he hnd one eyeglass stuck in his" eye.
This, which dcesn't look at all bad on
Piccadilly, seems rather comical out in
the wilds of Donegal. He strode into
the open space before the house and
with his one -eyeglass cast a look un and
down the house as if judging thebest
place to attack. Then he walked a Yew
steps further with that pompous stagey
air of .his and again glanced up and
down that house. Finally he walked
down to the other corner aud gave the
same glance. It looked rather ridicu
lous when you, remember that only
five boys were in that house and this of
ficer had at least 150 armed policemen
at his back. - Nevertheless he examined
the house as critically as if Napoleon
were defending it, 'and the Old Guard that
might die but never surrendered were
going to -take part in the conflict. When
he stood back a man with a crowbar ad
vanced to the corner of the house and
drove his crowbar in between the stones.
At the same instant appeared the head
aud shoulders of a man from out one of
the second story windows. He had a
stone in his hand and he flung it with a
viciousness that I have never seeu equided
at the man with the crowbar. The stone
went wide of its mark. The next came
closer. , The third, with deadly accuracy,
hit the man and keeled him. over, while
the blood spurted from his cheek where
the stone had. struck. His comrades
pulled him back into line. The head and
shoulders disappeared from the second
story window and a cheer went up from
the ciowd of peasants who saw' what had
been. done.
Maginley's house is situated on the
hillside. The main body of policemen
wfxe ou the side above the houe. Ai-
ter the repulse of the crowbar man ji
number of police picked up a ladder
end placed it on the edgo of the roof.
Then very nimbly three or four police
men ran up the incline. Instantly there
was a shower of stones from all that side
of the house knocking down a -couple
of the policemen, but one managed to
secure his place on the roof. He raised
a Ratchet which he had ia hishand and
struck the 6lates, which few of! in a
dozen pieces, rattling down the roof and"
falling i'n a shower to the ground.; Blow
after blow .was struck. Those inside,
being unable to hit the mnn on the roof,
began flinging stones at the crowd of po
lice outside. - Then the police, !seized
with a sudden frenzy, began to , throw
stones back at those in the house, j This,
I was told, was against the law, and it
has bjeu denied that the police ithrow
stones; nevertheless they did it, and did
it with a vengeance. In a very short
time every window oa that side of the
house was riddled. The police threw
with an accuracy and vigor that wa3 ad
mirable, looked at from their point of
view. WJien the man on the roof had
smashed a sufficiently large hole ia it
two or three more policemen with arm
fuls of stones rushed up the ladder in
spite of the missiles flung at them arid
began throwing' stones down the hole ia
the roof at those inside. -Then a body
of police took another ladder and
smashed in the paneless sash of one ol
the upper story windows, giving , the
ladder one or two swings as the sash
gave way from its impact. Placing the
ladder on the window-sill, a dozen po
licemen, with great nimbleness, rushed
up jhe ladder and entered the house.
Another dozen or more quickly fol
lowed. The men ou the roof ceased
throwing down stones. .TI13 mau with
a hatchet pulled out a liandkerchief
and began to ; mop his brow, The rain
of stones from the police stopped and
silence again intervened,' only broken bv
a low wail from the peasants on the hill
side who knew the "boys" inside and
knew what their fate would be. In a
very short time the door looking out on
the hillside was opened and twenty 01
thirty police marched out with five ill
clad lads ranging -in age from sixteen tc
twenty-four. The first prisoner who
came out had a fearful cut on his face
until it presented a most hideous aspect.
Another had his hand completed ,
smashed, and as the boy stood on tht
road he held his hand out from him and
the blood streamed from it as if it wert
poured from a teapot, forming a-grea;
slowly coagulating pool on the road; The
police were very much excited, and "when
some of the English ladies, who had
b2en wringing their hand3 and crying as
they lookod at the scene, tried to pasi
down the road to say a word of comfort
to the prisoners, the police shoved them
back with some degree of rudeness, al
though for that they , were checked by
their officers, who explained to tho
ladies that they would not be allowed to
have a word with the arrested men. One
of the j oung men was the son of Ma
ginley, who was off in America. The
res': were neighbors' boys from the im
mediate locality, and their relatives and
friends stood on the hillside crying, as
they saw their hands held up while the
steal handcuffs were clasped upon them.
Thirty or forty policemen completely
surrounded them. Nobody was allowed
to approach them or speak to them. Tho
constabulary formed two doubltf iines on
each side of the young men. The order;
"Forward, march," was given, and the
regular tramp of the troop3 echoed down
the hard road.
Then an officer of the law went to the
ruined house, picked up a piece of
broken slate aud a handful of the earth
near the house. He went inside to see
that. the fire was trampled out, because if
a spark of fire is left alive the eviction is
not complete. He searched the house to
see that no domestic animal was inside.
A clog is a domestic animal and if- left
inside of the house invalidates the evic
tion ; a eat is looked on by this wise law
afe a wild animal and does not matter.
of broken slate and the piece of earth to
the, agent of the landlord, saying, as he
gave tnc slate, "There is your house,
and as he gave the earth, "there are your
lands." Thi3 was accepted by the
agent, and thus the house that Maginley,
who is in America, built with his own'
monay.becomes the property of the land
land, who never expended a cent on the
house, and never expended accent oe the
land.
Thus ends the story of the - House of
Maginley, its building and its wreck.
Detroit Free Press.
s The Invention 6T Spectacles.
Old Roger B.icon is generally nc-.
credited with the invention of spectacles,
at least of the pattern now used by per
sons of failiug or defective eyesight. It
seems to b-nore than likely that his
work in this direction, as early as 1292,
originated the custom of wearing glasses,
at least in the western nations. Alless
andro de Spino, a monk of Pisa, has also
been credited with the same discovery,
but his pretensions or rather those cf
his adherents, for ,he has never been
heard to say a word on the subject him
self aredispiited by students who think
Salvinus Armatus wa3 the real father of
the spectacle. Bat as both" these b5ne
f actors flourished later than Bacon, and
as he is known to have mentioned the
work, they are probably much in the
position of the gentleman who invented
the telephone after another had shown
them the way. Chicaqo Herald.
A Faculty Prairie Dogs Lack.
Dr. Wildr has madman interesting not
relative to piairie dogs. They seem to lack
any sense of height or distance, owing, it
is thought, to the nature of their ordi
nary surroundings a flat, - level plain,
destitute of pitfalls of any kind. Sev
eral dogs experimented with walked ovei
the edges of tables, chairs and othei
pieces of furniture, and seemed, to be
greatly surprised . when their ad venture
ended in a fall to the ground. One dog
fell from a window-sill twenty feet abovt
a granite pavement. Ke) Yvk Juurnal
THE JIERRYSIDE OF LIF$.
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STOEIES THAT ABE TOLB BY Tlf !e
ruNirr men of the psess.
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A Song of. Isms A Careful Man T0c
Flatterer A Heartless H nsbaa
One on His Dad, lite, Etc. if
Sin z a song of isms.
Of fads and foibles past,
Sing a song of erases
Too ludicrous to last; .
Eingthe odd caprices
Inspiring social cliques,
Si dc of wild sensations,
Of silly whims and freaks.
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Sing a song of isms,
And when this song is dona
Let us sing another
Of the latest one. ' . ' . . j
Showing how eacu lsmy jr
Evea as of yore,
Always is succeeded
By one ism more.
j London Truth,4
OXE ON DAD.
Brown "Was that boy going up tjie
ladder or coming down when he felli"
Little Johnny f "From the way. fje
looked, dad, I guess he. wa3
down." Puck.
comiii?
A CAREFCli MAN.
She "Are you really a
ti"
fortune
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n
hunter and nothing more?" .
He 'Certainly not. I want a
seJS:
Eible wife to go with it, who can tafSe
care of it for us." Boston Tramcript.
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X IIEARTLES3 HU8BAXD. .
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"Wife "Do you really think, dea,
that this bonnet matches my hair?" '
Huband (tired of waiting) "Wbt
does it matter? If it doesn't, all yeju
have to do is to get another set H
hair." Chicago News. X
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AN JXDCLGENT TAP.EXT. j
He (a scion of wealth) "I was in Ber
lin quite two yeahs, don't you know."
She "Indeed? What kept you ovr
there so long?" Y '
He (innocently aud truthfully) "Paa
did." Waihinrjton Star.
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AMBITIOUS. ?J
Applicant "I wraut a salary of thrc
thousand dollars a year." M ;
Proprietor (sarcastically) " Would if t
you like a partnership?" . :-1
Applicant "No; 1 wish to maje
money." Munseys Weekly. j .
THE FliJTTERER.
She "Now, how old would you taUc.
me to be? No flattery,, now.". , l
ITe "About forty. That isv by stra
in g an average. You talk as wisely !s
a wo&an of sixty and look like a girl )f
twenty. Indianapolis Journal.
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Mrs. Younorwifs "Take another pieb
te
of the cake, dear."
Mr. Y."Wfio made it, love?"
Mrs. Y. "To
cook, oaransc.
Mr. Y. "Tha
ik you, anijeL mineJil
don't care if I do." Washington Star.lr
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ALWAYS SEASONABLE. m '
Tapely "What kind of a suit do yu
want?" ' f
Grayneck "I would like to get oe
that would always be in season."
Tapely "Ah, then how would yyiu
like one of these pepper-and-salt suits!'"
DAYS OP HORROR.
First Traveler "I was in Paris during
the siege." . . xf
Second Traveler "I was in New Yojjk
during the draft riots:" " .
Third , Traveler 'I was in Scotland
when the railway strikers paraded tfe
streets with bagpipes." Nexo Tok
Wtelly. - j)
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COMPLETELY "GONE.
Si
Myrtle "He's awfully attentive
her, you know."
Lilly "How far has it gone?"
' Mvrtfe "Very far. I'm' afraid. .
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held her prayer-book upside down jt
church yesterday, and - I'm sure I heariS
him say a woman' instead of 'amen!'
The ledger. .'
UNCERTAIN, COY AND HARD TO PLEASfL
Jones (who has just told his best storj
and been rewarded with a gentle smilj)
"Upon my word, women haven't got te
real sense of humor!' Why, 'when I head
that story for the rir3t time, only hjHt
week, 1 simply roared." .
-Miss Smith "So did I only it wfts
last year. Loncion Jfuncti.
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SHE WAS TAKINO LESSONS.
Roadside Bill (handing back the piij)1
"Mdam, will you kindly change this
for a piece of soap?" . 4
Mrs. Ncwhouse "Certainly; but yAi,
can have the pic too." $
Roadside Bill "Don't need it. RI
wanted the soap to get the taste of thfjt
one mouthful out."- Judge. .
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FORCE W HABIT.
Robber (to bank teller) "I'm Blooi
Jim, th Rip Roarin Snorter-of ..t
Rockies. Hand over that there cash!'
Bank Teller (mechanically) "I have
no doubt, personally, sir, that you afV
Bloody Jim, the Rip Roaring Snorter
the Rockies; but, sir, you will have tp
get somebody to identify you." Qo6$
Hoes. W'
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. MANY BARS REST. j
Daughter "Paw, this piano is hor
ribly out of tune. H
Nervous Parent "Y-e-s, my dear, ft
is. I guess you'd better not play on it
o r tt m rm nfit-'l If lias lwitn f n r Of 1 T ' ?
"Well, I won't,
it fixed!"
"Oh, in a year
Weelly.
iWheh will you hayi
w so." New York
BOTH IN LUCK. "
"Do you love me, MUs MableyAf
Maude?" the young man asked in de
lightfully tremulous tones.
AI am sorry," she replied, coolly (h$
was her twentieth victim), "but I d
not.". J
"-"Bv Jove!" hr exclaimed under
breath, "but that was lucky. Only two
more to ask and I'll win "tbaV"iiat.'T
Chicago Ntui. .
. TLEASAST TO RECEiyE.
Edith "All is over between its, sir.
Here are your letters and the little gold
locket and the ring you gave me Ch-ch-ch-ristraas."
Cyril "There are some other things I
tjave you, Edith. Y'ou must return
all." ;
Edith "Ttfhat arc they?''
. Cyril "Eleven thousand nine
dred and thirty-seven kisses."
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A THIRD PARTY SUGGESTION.
"Do you believe in starling a third
party," asked old Mr. Diramick of his
daughter's beau, as all three sat in the
parlor.
- "Well," replied the young man, who
had not called to discuss politics,. "I
wouldn't have thought of asking you to
retire; but since you mention it, ."Mr.
Dimmick, I will say that it is the general
belief that two are company." -irper'a
Bazar. '
AFTER MARRIAGE.
He "My dear,' I am a little shott of
money. Could you. let me have twenty
thousand dollars of your million for a
few days."
She "I have no million dollars!"
He "Betore .we were married you
said you were worth ' a million."
She "Why, you often told me I wa3
worth my weight-in gold, and I thought
one hundred and forty-two - pounds of
gold was worth about a million ; that's
all.'.'
Judge.
EE WAS IKOUD.
- "Do you have your washing done in
this precinct?" asked ono of the judge3
of election.
"No sir," replie.2 the man.
"Then you cannoi vote here," said the
judge. And the shaggy-haired reformer
of society turned contemptuously on hii
heel and went awa3T,too proud to tell the
tyrannical minions of a capitalistic and
corrupt government that he didn't have
his washing done in any precinct. Chi
cago Tribune.
A DISINGENUOUS PHILANTHROPIST, a
Secretary of Charitable Association-
"Are you the wife cf Muller; the coaV
porter? The wealthy He"rr von Knicker
called on me this "morning and drew my
attention to your unhappy circumstances.
He told me that you are going to be
turned out of your lodgings as you can
not pay your rent."
sPoor Woman "It is, alas, too true!''
Secretary '.'Who is 3-our landlord ?''
P.; W. "Tiiat same wealthy Herr yon
Knicker." Chicago Keas.
TnE EXPENSE WAS IMMATERIAL.
I am not permitted to give my author-,
ity for this anecdote, but it is true. A
woman who is not uuknown in fashion
able society, where she reigns by right
of riches over a little quecaclom of loyal
admirers and admiresses, had an affection
of the throat, but was not too ill to see
her physician. After making an exami
nation he said: "Madam, I shall'have to
touch two or three of the affected spots
with nitrate of silver."
"Oh, doctor, please don't do that,''
she said. . "Use nitrate of gold ; the ex
pense is immaterial." San Francisco
Examiner
HE BOUGHT THE RING.
"Florry, dear," faltered the Washing
ton youth, "I I couldn't summon cour
age to. tell you what wa3 in my heart and I
wrote it. You got my letter, didn't
you?" .
"Yes, George, I got it."
"And you read it, didn't you?"
"Yes, I read it. In fact, I I read it
over twice." '
"And now, "Florry," he said, grow
ing bolder, "I have come to lcara my
fate."
"The best I can promise you, George,'
said the blushing daughter of the dis
tinguished' Congressman, withdrawing
her hand from the ardent clasp of the in
fatuated young man, "is that I will ad
vance your letter to a third reading to
morrow." Chicago Tribune.
TnE SHOPKEEPER SIS SING. I
Customer"! want some kind of a
door spring; one that won't get out of
order." ., f
Hardware Dealer "A door,spring?" '
Customer ' Y'es ; and one that won't
require the strength of an elephant to
open!" . j
. Dealer "Hem !" '
Customer "And yet it must be strong
enough to bring the door all the way to
and not leave it swinging open a couple
of inches."
Dealer "I see."
Customer ;"And when the door closes
I don't want it to ram shut like a cata
pult, with a crash 4hat shakes the house
irom its foundations.". ,
. - Dealer "Yes, you want one that will
bring the door all the way to, and yetdo4.
it gently." - '
- Customer "That's the idea. Bat I .
don't want any complicated arrangement '
that requires a skilled mechanic to attend
to it." - !
Dealer "No, of course not; you want
something simple, yet strong and effec-
tive." . , . j
Customer "That's the thing; some- i
thing that can be put on or taken off
easily; something that will do its -work t
quietly yet thoroughly, and won't be ,
eternally getting out of order." j
Dealer "I see ; I know exactly what !
you want, sir, just exactly."
Customer "Well, show me one."
Dealer "We don't keep door springs."
Tit-BU. - . ...
A street railway line in Berne,Switzer
land, has been operated with compressed
air as its motive power for about fout
months. The line is four and three
quarter miles long. Its operation has
been satisfactory.
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The first newspaper in Virginia was
jorinted in 1780 at $50 per annum.
C.0TT0.N IN THE OBIENT.
ISniGATION- THE SECXET OP TTS
SUCCESSFUL CULTUBE.
How the Crop i Haiset
In the Val-
ley of the Nile TUe
iory of I he
Industry.
Surprises have bs?ri coming out of
Egypt ever since cutside barbarians'
picked up intelligence enough to recog
nize that which was odd when they saw
it. Even down to this: day the Nile
country has continued' to send forth
strange things, and cveryrday things put
Mo unusual uses, and curious things to be
used for most prosaic purposes. It was
not very long ago that shiploads 1 of all
that was left of sacred cats and a job lot"
of run-to-seed mudamies arrived in New
York en route to tne fertilize 1 factory.
That was certainly ptting4whatthad once
been objects of venerates and aion
ate care to strictly utilitarian uses. And
now Egypt stands- as the source of sup
ply of shipments to this country of what
has always been considered a peculiarly
American product, at least in its best
forms.
A few davs ao the Times' told of the
arrival in this port of a largo cargo of
Egyptian cotton shipped from Alexan
dria, to be, worked into fabrics in
New England mills. It consisted of
2150 bales, . was valued at about $350,
000, and was by far the largest impor
tation of the kind ever made into this
country. Persons who are interested in
the tiade 'say, however, that a good
deal of Egytian cotton has beenrcbrning
herefrom Europe in the shapcr of goods
manufactured in English and Continen
tal mills. ' ' ,
One American manufacturer began to
experiment with the Egyptian product
three yeara ago. He began buying a
lot of fifty bales; now he gets 2500
bales in a lot. About twenty owners of
cotton mills in this ,dountry are said to
be using the imported article. To handle
it they have to use combing machines
and that fact probably keep it out of
other mills. .
In Egypt itself there-. is" no manufac
turing of the cotton. -The product is
exported to be made into cloth and that
is the last the producer generally sees, of
it. Two kinds of cotton are produced
one white, .the other brown. The white
is the lc33 valuable of the two, as the
staple is shorter. '
Cultivation on a large scale began in
1821,' in the reign of Mahomet Ali. 'Ex
periments were made with the seed from
plants growing wild, and cotton was
produced of a character good enough to
warrant a rapid spread of its cultivation
throughout Lower Egypt. Very high
prices were ?.lized for this early pro
duct. ,
A Frenchman named Jumel, a mer
chant, brought about the next step in
the development. He imported the seed
of Sea Island cotton from Florida and
devoted much care to its culture. His
trouble was well rewarded, lor bis
experiments were highly successful, and
the new grade of cotton he secured was
a great improvement on that formerly
raised. One result of 'hi3 eiitsrprise was
the giving of his name to Egyptian cotton
which is called either Jumel or Mako.
The latter name is that of a planter who,
previous to the Jumel experiments, had
raised cotton on an extensive scale.
In" the beginning the cultivation was a
monopoly farmed out by. the Goveru-r
nicnt but later oh the fellahs secured the
right to become planters. There was a
boom in the industry when that privilege
was granted. Methods employed were
rudimentary then, and they arc s.ill far
behind the time. Primitive tools are
used, such as an American planter would
regard as beneath contempt. There has
all along been one factor . rn the case,
however, which the peasant' understood
thoroughly. He knew how necessary ir
rigation was to cotton-growing in hJis
country.
They have two methods of cultivating
cotton in Egypt, one known as "Mes
gani,". the other as. "Bali." In the'for
mer the fields are regularly irrigated with
water pumped from" the Nile and carried
over the country in canals. In the lat
ter the fields afe thoroughly saturated
before the planting takes place. Aft2
that the plant3 have to get along with
out water until the Nile riset. . Then
pumps- are set at work and the fields get
their needed supply of moisture. In Up
per Egypt the Mesgani system is gener
ally followed.
Directly the Nile inundations are of
po benefit to cotton, although for a long
time a notion prevailed that the overflow;
would serve to fertilize and irrigate the
fields. Experience showed, however,
that too great floods often meant thai
cotton could not be raised. So .weirs or
dams were provided to carry off the sur
plus water into canals. Planters have
more or less difficulty from the fogs
which prevail in September and October
to the detriment of the crop. When the
British took hold of Egypt they went to
work oa vast improvements designed to
extend irrigation. A great deal of money
has been expended . on these works,
which are expected to prove of lasting
benefit to the planters. .
s There is some doubt whether the area
under cotton cultivation can be .extended
very greatly. In the delta about 1,000,
000 feddans, or acres, are in use for the
crop, or about one-third of i the total
area under cultivation of all sorts. One
estimate is that the limit of the crop is
ebout 100,000 bales in excess of any
year's yield so far recorded ' Further up
the Nile, to be'sure, the system of irri
gation may be perfected, and perhaps
that, region may increase the total pro
duction more than is at present ex
pected. :
Nearly half, the Nile delta, which . was
cultivated centuries ago, is unproductive
now, because the water supply for three
months of the year is none too large for
the fields in use. To get' much bigger
cropj it is estimated that storage reser
voirs will have to be constructed, capable
of taking in from 20,000,000 cubic me
ters to 50,000,000 meters a day. Even
the smaller figure calls for a flow of
8000 feet per second.
The crop for lb8U-90 turned out to
be better than tho' 'unfavorable condi
tions indicated that it would be. .The
Nile -was unusually low, and the wcathet .
was not all that could bo, desired. Sys
tematic irrigation produced a good ef
fect, nevertheless, and the seasotproved
to.be fairly prosperous. Net York Times.
About Glass5 Eyes. ;
"Good glass eyes come high," taid an c
occulist recently. j
. "Cost a big prie, do they?n, ' - , :
"Yes, the good ones do."
"Then there is'a good deal of differ-'
encet". . - .- :.. - ..-;
Obi yes. Thc range all the way
from fifty cents to $50."
"Is there such !& big demand for
them'"
"Larger than most pcop-j supposa.'
The fact is thatjnaay peoplf get alo'a;
so well with a glass eye that cot ono pe
soiWn tea suspects the f.vt.w
vSome of our friends nay bs wearing ;
one of these solid visual ; rrgans and we
do not it?" ,
"Precisely. I'll het that several tro
pic in this city withj whom you are ac
quainted are wearing jjlass eyes and 'th.3
fact has al ways escaperl your attention."
"Tell me Njaiethwg about tho busi
ness, doctor."
. "In the firt place the -greater shaye of ;
glass'eyes, g3 filled are not glass. The
best quality (pf artificial eyea is manufac
tured in America by a process which it "
kept absolutely eectct. These aro the
lightest and best and will hist longer. .
The Germans also' make a' tiue artificial,
eye. The best eyes nra made of stone.1'
The German article is cheaper than the
American. The veining in the foreign
eye is not so well marked." '
'What makes the trade profitable?"
"I'll tell vou. Qne-cvcd ratrCTaro
litely to be rather scarce, and ono would
think that having once stocked up they
would buy no more.! But this is not the
case. An artificial eye gets to, be a nuis
ance after it has been on .duty lor two or
three months. Another one pas to be
purchased This ex"pl ains the reason for
the lively trade in these articles. There'll '
always be a trade in them, and a good
one,, too." - . ..' ! .
"How is it we. dou't notice a glass eye '
in soine, men?" (';:. ' . , v
. "Hecau.se they know enough to keep
stilt about the matter and car the best
eyes obtainable. In this way, if you no- -tice
anything at all peculiar about their
optics. you imagine they save asquint or
are.cro33-eycd."Lujfato (iT, Y.) Neva. .
Lobbyists In Engl an! .
In England lobbyists are called parlia
mentary lawyers, and thoy are upheld .by
some people 'who really do not know
much about them as a class infinitely "su
perior to our lobbyists." Maybe , they are
as aiclass better than sorai of 'dur lob
byists, but there are some of them a v
great deal worse than our lobbyists are as .
a class; .They are suppoiVl simply to
argue before parliamentary committees,
but wlint is to prevent then from aru-
ing with the in.lividaal members of tho.
committees? In tile" House of Commons
c4Kreat Britain are some of the, most
disreputable' scamps-in England. Thej
frequent the gambling houses and the
low saloou-i, and'tliey ate, just as pur-,
chasable by an unscrupulou-i "parliamen
tary lawyer" as any member of Congress
.isjiv thi country .by a lobbvis. If
there were statistics in existence they
would show, without a- shadow of a
doubt, a greater percentage of corrupt!- .
bleytoembers of the House of Commons
than of the 'House of Representatives.
The British lobbyist is at aay rate a
luxury fully as expensive as one of ours.
A numDe)f j-ears ago it, is said, that the
enormous sum $110,000 was paid the
parliamentary solicitor" for one rail
way bill that never got into the. House of
Commons at ail. There is a story of a-i- -other
British '.'lawypr," "who boing re
tained to appear before a number qf dif
ferent committee at the same hour of
the, same day, Having receivcdLa nurar :
ber of guineas foreach attendance, was :
found by a friend repo?ing ; under a
tree in the park, in, order, as be said,
that he Tfnight do "equal justice to
all his clients." .. Perhaps the cunning
of our lobbyists wa3 an inheritance from
the rd country. ' If the . truth wcrfl'
knovn it would be found that many lob
byists prey; upon . the credulity of . th?ir
clients and thatvthey pretend to do a
great dcal.of bribing, where in realitj
they tlo but little. Washington Star.
Fronts in Will Aufinal Breed hi?.
One of-'Barnum's big;ters dicdTre
cently at Bridgejortj .Conai The ani
mal was given its breakfast and in tbe
huge piece of meat which formed a part
of its meal was a . small boae whicli got
stuck in the animal'i' throat, and before
it couia dc removcu tne user naa cnocxea v
to death. The carcass of the dead .tiger
was sent to the Birnum inuseum at
Tufts College. The same night that the '
tiger died there was quite an addition to
the family- of animals at th? quarters
By the law of compensation a liones
gave birth to four beautiful cub. Thtj
are living and the owners of tlis show
value them at 15,000. In speaking of
tbe matter 3Ir. Barnum said to a reporter:
"I have offered my partner, 3lr." Bailey,
$100,000 for the first baby elephaul
born in Philadelphia, and if' will bf.
worth every dollar of that amo mt. Out '
gains by the birth of wild animals among
those in the menigerie of o ir 6how arr
annually about $50,000 greater than ouv
losses by death of animahL-FAirtyfa.i
Star. .. " ':. ' ' '..
A Prlmillre Tnrkih Halli. ' 1 '
The Alaskans, as a rule, arc Dot" par ift
tic6larly fond of bathing, but some ol
them like occasionally to indulge in
sort of Turkish Lath of a primitive '
character. For this purpose a nunibei -of
long sticks are driven into the ground V
in a circie four feet in diameter, being
thereopod drawn together and tied at
point six 'feet from the bottom. A small
fire of wood, with stone?,te lightel in
the middle, and the heat h kept in witb
the blankets spread over the framework.
When only the cicderi are left and the'
stones are well heatcd, the lather takci
a seat inside and proceed to ptrapire.
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