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THE EDITOSS'S LEISUBB ZQttZ Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past ana Future. ; This is tbo season wh&i people work the hardest in pursuit of rest. They io work so hard at fashionable resorts trying lo have a good time ; and in many cases the dissipation in which they engage dnring their "rest time" tells worse upon them than straight work lor the same time would have, done. At this particular time of the year when the sickly season is thought to be near at band it is good to give heed to the possible development ol disease germs. A , . The following in the Youth's Com panion's "Nature Science" column is interesting t "An interesting experiment to de fer mine the possibility of dangerousj serms being transported considerable distances through the open air was re cently made in Dublin by Prof. E. J. McWeeney. A complaint had been made that certain premises were liable to contamination from a refuse-heap 800 ieet distant. Professor McWeeney selected a species of micro-organism aot normally present in Dublin air, and distributed it with a spray over the ref jse-heap in question. At the same time culture-dishes, calculated to i-atch bacteria floating in the air, were exposed at the point where contamina tion bad been suspected.. The experi ments were continued during three hours, the wind blowing in the requir ed direction, but torrents of rain fall ing continuously. The culture-dishe? snowed that the bacterht had been car ried across the intervening distance b) the wind, even as high as GO Ieet above the ground not withstanding the rain Senator Bailey, of Texas, is gener ally condemned, we think, for his se vere attack on Senator Beyer idge, of Indiana, in the Senate Chamber a few days ago. ' The altercation was somewhat dif ferent from the famous fight a few months ago between Senators Tillman and McLaurin, but it was fully as de plorable: Tillman and McLaurin fought while the Senate was in session, while Bailey attacked Beveridge after the Senate had adiourned. Senator Bailey . if under tevere censure of the people " foi his conduct, because Senator Beveridge did all that he ought to have been ex pected to do. Ho assured Senaloi Bailey that his words were not Intend ed for au insult. He simply said that Bailey had made an unwarranted at tack, and the words "unwarranted attack" were the cause of Bailey s anger. Altogether, it was a very unfortu nate affair ; and a lew more such en connters in which Southern Senators eugage, will give the South a reputa tion for pugilistic tendencies of which none of us need feel proud. At tbis writing it is thought that there will be a great strike in Norfolk among tne street car employes, . President Malonc, ol the Amalgamated Association of Railway Employes, 61 St. Louis, came to Norfolk a day or two aco and held secret conference with local labor leaders. The carpenters strike has been some what successful and this has given anmA flSHiiranee to those who wished to eugage in other strikes. Strikes are deplorable affairs always; and there ought to be some other way At set tlinf differences. As has been said in these columns before, a labor ing man has the personal right to labor for whom it suits him, and in the - ab sence of a contract to the contrary he has the right to stop work when he pleases ; but b has hot the mora right to interfere in the relations be tween employers and -other labor, And when trouble comes through strikes, however the work of employ ers may be interfered with, the strikers in the end get the worst of it. 3 tt I Dor Torn It Into Pavement. A SCIENTIFIC VIEW. Written toThe Commonwealth by aScientific Friend. To the onward - march of science fratUtfc has yielded. For centuries the rival beauties maintained an equal contest, but now step by. step science has won pre-eminence. She spoke and time and space were no more. At her command the earth gives up her dead anil relics oi a long forgotten past ap pear, to tell the story of pre-historic time. One wave of her magic wand I The very stones cry out "Hosana to God in the highest !" for fossil on their cold hearts is written in unmistakable language in the history of the glorious creation. No more can Byron sing, "Thy control stops with the sea." Science has, also, ransacked the secrets of her breast. The voice of man is heard above the loudest roar of the storm in thd ocean's depths, and soon wireless telegraphy will carry his mes sages to any point upon her surface ; while the day is not far distant when man shall speak and his voice shall be beard over the whole face of the earth. Nay, more, that voice shaU be treas ured up and handed down as -a far more representative monument than the Egyptian mummy. ' But in nothing has science made more progress than in the develop ment of the ease and comfort of mod ern travel. Apart from the conven iences open to all the public alike, others haye been, provided of which each can avail himself as an individ ual. In the large cities the wheel, automobile and pneumatic tired bug gies have come to be almost a neces sity. Indeed some even prophesy that in the near future horses will be outlawed. . But whether this is true or not, it has become apparent to ail that with the light and frail modern vehicle must come a great improvement in the conditions of the thoroughfares. rhia improvement is most seen in the substitution of the asphalt pavement for he cobble stones and them macadamiz ed drives for the corduroy of former times. In many states ana localities the macadamized road is almost the only one known and in such places driving is truly delightful. Put in our Southern states especially along the coast and n sandy regions -we can not be said to have any roads. In fact from the present state of our finances it is al most impossible for us to have them that is if we have to wait for the mac- idam. But is there no other road jaodern thought can giye us? As matters now stand, it is plainly impossible to have the macadam. The best material is basalt ; ground up in a rock crusher. Pieces ot uniform size about three inches in diameter are then put down. Upon these are spread oieces of smaller size and so on, until we come to dust of the same material . rhen the whole is rolled and we have fine drive. - Soon the action of the weather causes the basalt to cement tnd such a road will last for years and ears without any appreciable wear. The next best thing to basalt is lime stone. Besides these two mere are no other kinds of stone I know" of that combine hardness and the properly of cementine to a sufficient decree ' to make them of advantage for roadbuild- ing. Here, we should have to bring these from a great distance : and "the expense would be too great. So In the present state of our finance it would be impossible for us to have them. But the splendid achievements ot mod a. ern thought and industry teach us not to halt at this obstacle but to find some other way. Why should we be behind our Northern brethren? Why not have our "Good Roads Conventions?" Shall we laboriously toil along our roads knee-deep in sand and dust while the versatile Yankee speeds over his beautiful drive? Ye patriotic North Carolinians, does it not make your blood boll to plow through these sand bars ! Sand bars hub deep in our streets ! , Where are your chemists and physicis ts and olhei scientific men'. Are you going to let it be said that North Carolina is a drag to the'onward - march -ol civiliza tion, science and industry? Where are your universities and schools? What are they for? Can none ot the brilliant youth your colleges turn out, can none find or prepare some chem ical compound that can be mixed with this sand? This, I fancy, Is not one whit inferior to the dust of our North Am aitie. Un there they have made a compound to pave theirs with. Why not we. too. make one of the sands McDuffib's Tnrpentine and Motton aiiAt. I,nn? Plaster is certain euro for wooeplag coesb, easy andcomforUbis SOIIB STREE of our roads to pave those roads? Nay, can we not go farther? Can we not go make the road bed and then harden it by mixing the sand with our com pound ? It se&ms to me that if the proper substance weje obtained, the cost vould be very moderate. To say the very lecst, in this way we could have better -streets. We could then take our place in the march of civilization, Our Eolidays. Youth's Companion The Fourth July, measured by any standard, is the great American holi day. It is observed in every State and Territory and in th3 District of Col umbia. Its celebration in our insular possessions is becoming more general each year. In all the great cities of other countries the American resi dents, with such tourist as happen to be there, usually gather for some recognition of the day. In this northern hemisphere no more fortunate date for a holiday could have been hit upon. It seems like the 'portal through which the heated term of the year enters, just as Labor day in in early September may be regarded as the end of summer. By the Fourth of July, the schools have all closed, and the season for vacation has begun. Ia many parts of the eountry, tx, this holiday seems to mark what is almost an intermission between the spring work and the bar vesting of the summer crops. It thus happens that almost everybody likes to celebrate Independence day, for rea sons aside from the worthy impulses ot patriotism. To use an overworked phrase, the Continental Congress un wittingly chose the "psychological moment" for such a holiday as this would naturally become. AU ot the States keep Christmas, and most of them Thanksgiving day ; but In the other holidays there is con siderable local variation. New-year's day is observed in most of the States, but is not a legal holiday in all in which it -is observed. Washington's birthday and election day in November are almost everywhere legalized. Labor day and Memorial day are each obser ved in a large majority of the States. California celebrates an Admission day; Louisiana commemorates the Battle of New Orleans, Texas the anni versary of Texan independence, Massa chusetts the Battle of Lexington, North Carolina the Mecklenburg De claration of Independence, Utah a Pioneer's day, and Vermont the Battle of Bennington. Lincoln's birthday, already a holiday in a few States, would doubtless be come more general but for its nearness to February 22d. General Lee's birth day is a holiday in Virginia, the Caro- linas, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, and Jefferson Davis' birthday in the three States last named. The religious holidays, aside from Christmas, have never made great headway in this conntry. Mountains and Hail. Scientific American. The influence of mountains on the fall of hail has frequently been the subject of controversy, but up to the present time no certain conclusion ap pears to have been arriyed at. The Italian Meteorological Office has re cently published an interesting note upon the question by Prof. V. Monti The positions chosen were perhaps the most suitable for the purpose of . any among the Italian network of stations, yiz., the Collegio Romano and Monte cavo, an isolated station near Borne, situated at an altitude of about 1,000 meters; the complete observations at both stations, for the years 1880-87 are contained in the Annals of the Italian Meteorological Office. During this period, forty-one days of hail were recorded at Borne against eighty at Montecavo ; the monthly values show to maxima, in April and October, and to minima, in July and December, as regards the excess of hai.1 at the moun tain station. A comparison of days ot thunderstorms shows, on the other hand, that there were 76 such storms at Borne, against 29 at Montecavo. This seems, to show the excess of hai at the mountain station is not - attti Da table to a greater intensity of atmos pheric electricity. The author gives a table f showing that ; the monthly mean temperature at Rome is at times about 10 degrees higher than at Monte cavo. and suggests that the fusion o! hail traversing a warmer stratum air may account for the smaller amount at Borne. MeDUFFIE'S Witch Hazel Fooo Healer is one of the finest baby pow ders know, cures prickly heat and gives ABOUT THAT LOG CABIN. .i ... Under Battery Parle SEEN AND SATISFIED. When Cfaas. W. Thompson, Con gressman from Alabama, took a . com- ahy oi his fellow Congressmen 3outh some time ago, they spent some time in Asheville. The follow ing appeared in the Atlanta Journal concerning their visit to our mountain city i One of the interesting places shown the northerners was Colonel Ed Mc- Kissick's log cabin room underneath the Battery Park hotel, at Asheville. - At Asheville the party became the guest of the board ot trade. Carriages were furnished and a drive through Biltmore was enjoyed. Returning, the visitors were driven to points from which all the gay scenery about the mountain tower could be observed. Still one or two were not satisfied. 'There is something about the mountains 1 want to see, but for th ife of me I can't recall what it is," declared Judge Fuller, of Iowa. "Out my way we have law mountains, you know, and I am not familiar with the mountain adjuncts." Colonel McKissick came to the res- cue and began to call oyer the names things usually associated with mountains. " "Is it a bear? A cave? A trout?" he suggested, but Judge Fuller shook his head after each name. Colonel McKissick went on : "Is it a moonshine still " "That's it! That's it !' cried the owan. "1 want to see a moonshine still 1" "Then cocfle with me," replied the amiable host, and be led the way to bis log cabin under the hotel. There, hidden away In a corner and half concealed by a pile of skins such as mountaineers have in . their cabin homes, stood a copper still and worm, as natural as though the visitors were reyenue officers just stumbling upon it. Colonel McKissick bad bought i at a public auction after a raid by offi cers in the neighboring mountains and had installed it along with his other log cabin relics. The sight of the still seemed to satisfy the curiosity of the visitors, tor they didn't adjourn to the bar to sample the still's product, as some ot Colonel McKissick s guests have done in former years. The northerners were completely carried away with the beauty of Ashe ville and the superb scenery they look ed upon along the line of the railway as they left this thriving city. Alle Samee. Philadelphia Times. A. city hall employee tells the story of an officeholder who was one of a party that attended the funeral ol Chinaman on a recent Sunday. He took a great deal of interest in the queer services at the grave, and noticed that, among other things, a roasted duck was left there by the departing mourners. Calling one of the "Chinks" aside he asked : "Why did you leave the duck on the grave? Do you think the dead man will come out and eat it?" "Yeppee," replied the Boxer symj pathizer ; "alle samee as le white deadee'man come out and smellee flowlers." Looking Ahead : ;But," she said, "we are little more than strangers as yet, you know." "Yes," he answered, "but don't let that interfere. We can break the engagement after we get bet ter acquainted, if necessary." Chicago Record-Herald. BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CATARRH THAT CONTAIN MERCURY, - As mercury will surely -destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physi cians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you . can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured, by F. J. Cheney & Coi Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and ia taken internallv. acting direct ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the svstem. In buying Hall's Ca- tarrah Cure be sure you get the gen nine. It' is taken internally and Is made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. , Cirsoid by Druggists, price 75c. perl bottle. - M Peculiar to Summer Pe-ru-na Gives Prompt and Permanent Relief. Clem G. Moore, Editor of the Advocato-Democrat of CrawfordsvlUe, Ga, write the Peruna Medicine Company as follows : QentlBtnen-' 'Afttr tour yean ot intense suffering, caused by systemic catarrh, which I contracted while editing, and traveling for my paper, I have Been greatly relieved by the use ot Peruna. 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I had not walked a step in nine months, offering with partial paralysis and palpitation ot the heart every other day, and bad become so reduced In flesh as to be a mere skeleton weigh' lag only 8S pounds. "Up to this date I have taken Peruna lor seven months. 'It has saved my life Never Spoke Again. Philadelphia Times. The following story is told of a ven triloquist, now famous, bat at the time of this happening so hard up he used to walk between the cities where he was to appear. On one of these tours he came to Philadelphia on foot, and on the road he picked up a miserable little dog "because it looked so much like be felt." The story will explain what became of the dog. The first house he came to was a saloon and of course he wanted a drink. . He hai no money, but went in anyhow to see whet he soulddo. The proprietor, a German, said : "Well, what will you have?" " He said, "I'll take a whiskey," and then, turning to the dog, he asked : "What will you have?" The answer came very promptly: "111 take a ham sandwich." The German was so surprised he almost fainted. He looked at the dog a mopjent and then asked : "What did you say?" The dog replied : "I said a ham sandwich." Hans thought it wonderful that a dog should be able to talk and 'asked who bad trained him, how long it had taken, etc., and wound up with : "How much yon take for him ?" "Oh," said Mr. Ventriloquist, "I wouldn't sell him at any price, bnt I am a little hard up, now, and it you will lend me $50 I'll leave him with you 'till I bring back the money." "All right," said Hans, "I just want him for a little while so I can show bim to some emart people I know around here." So evervtbinc was sestled, the mon ey paid, etc., and as the ventriloquist went out he turned and waved hi8 hand to the deg and said : "Well, goodbye, Jack, I'll come back soon." The dog looked at him and said : "You mean son of a gun, to sell me for $50 after all I've done for you ! So help me Moses, 111 never speak anoth er word as long as 1 lire I" And he didn't. FOR OVEJt SIXTY YEARS. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used lor sixty yean by millions of mothers tor their children while teeth ing, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the guas, alias all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best tremedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Sold by Druggists in eve r port of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure" and ask for . "Mrs. Winslow' Bocthins Syrup, and: take no .' other as I can safely testify. I have net Mt so well In five years, having walked over one mile without III result, and have also gained thirty pounds since commencing to take Peruna. In fact, I cannot praise it too highly." Mrs. Amanda Morrill. Peruna never fails to prevent systemic catarrh or nervous prostration if taken in time. 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