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A NEW GAME NEEDED.
Why Whist Has Ceased to BE Recreatio
for Most of Us.

Why Whist Has Ceased to Be Recreation
for Most of Us.
The people who used to play whist,
the old-fashioned whist, enioved the
game and cherish pleasant recollec-
tions of the evenings whiled away by
this pastime, says the Indianapolis
Journal. These people do not play
whist any more. If by chance three
of them are gathered together the
needed fourth is sure to be disciple of
the new system; he plays scientific"
whist and scorns their haphazard meth
odA He may be too well-bred to
speak his contempt, but he makes is
felt; it envelops him as q cloud; it Is
visible in his air of patient endurance
and the sad droop of his eyelids. The
old-fashioned player feels his inferior
ity and loses interest in the game, but
at the same time 0herishes secret be-
lief that the devotecs Of the new and
improved" system do not get the en-
tertainment out of it that he once Gid
out Of what was then considered a
highly-dignified and respectable game.
but which is now condemned as ''bum-
blepuppy."
The players now proceed as if per-
forming solemn rite; they have no
appearance Of enjoying themselves, but
are serious of countenance and subdued
in manner. A blunder, departure
from the fixed law of the game, sub
jects the unfortunate perpetrator to
looks of disdain, if not to. outspoken
contumely, which is crushing to ell but
the most hardened. It is scientific
and intellectual" no doubt, as its fol-
lowers declare, but why continue to
call it > game or . pleasing pastime?
Do the people who take pleasure in any
pursuit or recreation ever hold q ''con-
gressr over it? They had whist con-
gress in Philadelphia recently, and the
players sat about the tables in ST.
lence 60 solemn and oppressive that the
scratching Of match wns startlin
noise. Not = man would have dared to
speak aloud. There may be deep and
exquisite joy In this sort Of thing.
but it is hidden from the majority Of
people. who prefer to take their pleas
ure less seriously. The new whist is
too profound for them, but the old
game is probably forever done away
with. What is needed is . substitute
something which viii while away IN
hour for weary people who do not feel
equal to intellectual exertion and do
NOT find recreation IN teats Of memory.
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thorough, TOR he wss educated by tn
Jesuits. From thevery earliest time o6
his service In thAA church he hns alled
high and responsible places, and In his
dealings with ruleAs and governments
he is implicitly trusted BY Leo Kill
Rampolla HIS the repotataon. Of being
cool under any emergency, = man OF
resources aa alI times, = worker Of sths
Gladstone order, . man Of the most
temperate methods and the most even
disposition. and st the Same time oApAr
BILE Of ruling with . hrm hand: ons
fully confident in his own powers, fully
self-reliant. 81 e ass-fe 20
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AMERICAN TEA.


seate Agr1calturist's Opinion.
Some fine specimens of American tea
have been sent from Fayette, N. c.,
this season to northern markets, and,
according to the New York Evening
Post, the results of the sales seem to
indicate that the culture OF this crop
in parts Of the south may yet lead to
large fortunes. It is not generally
known that attempts were made to es-
tablish tea gardens here before the war,
and that since the end Of that out
break systematic efforts have been
made to revive the old gardens. Prot.
Massey, of the State Agricultural col
lege, has been instrumental in trying
to spread information among the farm
ers concerning the culture of tea, and
a few have been induced to put ont
gardens. The tea sent from the old
Smith farm this season brought eighty
cents pound, and some from the
Summerville gardens in South Caro-
lima brought as high as one dollar q
pound. Last summer the tea cut at
Summerville amounted to q dozen or
two pounds, and this yearseveral times
amount has been sold. .srs
DIR. Shepard says that the leaf grown
in the south is better for black than
for green tea and that the cost Of pick
ing is about twenty-five cents pound
Of cured tea. On q large scale, and
with the best apparatus for gathering
and curing, this cost might be largely
reduced. He feels confident, however.
that cheap-rate culture could never be
made profitable here on account of the
lower wages that rule in Japan and In
dia and China, hut the higher grade
teas can be raised with considerable
profit. DIR. Shepard is increasing his
tea gardens every year, and when the
plants are old enough to yield good
crops he proposes to put in good ma
chinery and start into tea selling for
money. Prof. Massey says that the
finest tea he ever tasted was grown in
the south, and he has no doubt it will
be a future profitable crop in the Caro-
inas. Mr.. jackson, an expert tea
grower from Assam, who had charge
of the Summerville plantation under
Gen. LIE Due, says that with negro la
Dor he can raise tea more cheaply than
is done with coolie labor in India be-
cause Of its greater reliability. In re-
gard to the hardness of the tea plant,
all observers seem to agree that north
of thirty-five degrees it is unwise to at
tempt to cultivate it. Around Old Point
Comfort, where some plants have been
growing more or less feebly for years,
the winters cut the plants badly, and
on the upper part of the Delaware Pc
ninsular they were entirely killed. But
south of these points, in the piney woods
country extending from Raleigh to the
gulf, tea plants can be grown with
great success, and the time may not be
far distant when American tea will
compete openly in the market with that
shipped from China, japan and India.
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THE LIVE WIRE DID NOT KILL.

A Workman Resuscitated After Sustaining
. Shock Of 4.50O Volts.
A few months ago a sensation was
created by the assertion of D'Arson-
val, the French expert on electro
physiology, that the electric current,
as applied to condemned criminals for
purposes of electrocution, did not kill
but only suspended the vitality of the
subject operated upon. He maintained
that all those who had apparently
been electrocuted had died, not from
the effects of the current, but by the
knives of the physicians who made the
autopsy, and he dared the American
physicians to try to resnscitate the
next criminal who was subjected to
the death-dealing current. The chal-
lenge was, according to the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, discreetly ignored by
the authorities interested in this coun-
try, but an instance of the restoration
of q person apparently electrocuted has
just occurred, which can only be
taken in the light of an absolute con-
frmation Of NJ. d'Arsonval's theory. In
such cases NJ. d'Arsonvai insists that
the same treatment should be tried
with the object of inducing the lungs
to recommence their normal respira-
tory functions-as that for restoring
the vitality of the apparently drowned.
A workman at the st. Denis generating
station was putting up q telephone
wire. While seated at his bracket he
inadvertently touched . wire on the
main transmission line and instantly
had forty-fve hundred volts through
his body. 1t was some minutes before
the current could be cut of, and it was
three-quarters Of an hour before he
could be got down from the bracket.
Artificial respiration was immediately
tried. In two hours the man could
talk, and he is now apparently none
the worse for the accident.
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short in statare.

A family Of dwnrfs has been living st
Applccross, In the west OF Roeshi14,
Scotland. for. over half . century
Mary Finlayson, one of them. did
there recently. She was the youngest
Of the family, which consisted OF her
self ana two brothers, and had reached
the age Of sixty-Ave years. The mem-
bers Of the family vary in height from
three feet to three and one-hah feet
and have appeared before the queen at
frequent intervals during the past
forty years.
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EATING sNoweALLs.
A Now Fad Enjoyed by the People 1t
Washington.

Washington.
''Look yer, mister, put some more OF
that juice on dat, won't yer? The
speaker was an infantile representative
Of the class termed street arabs He
held in his hand q round ball, colored
red, that might have been taken for a
popcorn ball had not the lad shifted it
uneasily from one hand to another, as
if it were uncomfortable to hold, while
drops of water trickled from the ball
down through his grimy fingers The
person addressed was typical Italian
street vender, with all the peculiarities
of his class. He did not heed the
youths appeal, but began to repeat his
monOtonOus cry: Snowballs! Snow
balls! One cent?"
Selling snowballs on the street in
the most torrid portion of the hottest
month Of the year is o decided novelty,
says the Washington News, and per-
sons who have 'wearily remarked that
there is nothing new under the sun
will see something to think about If
they will take their stand beside one
of these carts at the curb and
watch the ebb and fow of humanity
that surges around them to obtain cool
ing relief from the hot and parched
taste in the throat. 1t is wonderful
place in which to study human nature,
and many well-dressed, substantial.
looking man has paused on the street
to smile at the scenes enacted around
one Of these carts.
To the person who has heard the
monotonous cry of the vender and who
has never taken the pains to investi-
gate, the ingredients Of snowfall"
may be mysterious. Nevertheless,
there is nothing more delightfully."-
simple. The vender's stock in trade
consists primarily of big block of ice
the bigger the better. Next he has
arranged along the front of the wagon
a row of glstening bottles, with tops
just like Worcestershire sauce bottle.
These bottles, filed with various-hued
liquors, contain nothing more than the
fruit sirups that are in soda foun-
tain, only the vender's sirups are weak
and diluted to the utmost degree. The
third implement in the manufacture of
snowballs is what is called a scraper.
This looks very much like q lemon
squeezer. 1t is simply an empty tin
box with handle. At the bottom of
the box is rough scraper. As the
scraper is run swiftly over the ice
shavings are taken of, and soon the
box is crushed full of ice chips. The
box gives the compressed ice chips their
ball shape. When the ball is taken
out of the scraper the vender poises it
gracefully in one hand and then begins
to squirt sirup over it, as one would
perfume on a handkerchief. When the
ball is duly colored It is turned over to
the waiting purchaser, who grasps it
eagerly and begins to suck it at .
great rate. That is the whole transac-
tion, and ball can be made in less
than ten seconds.
It is q peculiar sight to see a vender
surrounded by dozen children, of all
colors, races and nationalities, each
ponderously sucking SNOWFALL and
gazing at him with great owl eyes,
wondering how long this one will last
and where they can get another.
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cHAPEaoNE Foa "A CORPSE.

How . Stranded Actor Worked Hls Pnet
sage Across the Ceatipent.
The other day an actor who fort
night ago was known. to be stranded
on the Pacific slope, made his appear
ance on Broadway dressed in the height
Of fashion and the deepest mourning,
says the New York Evening Sum. A
his old scquaintances met him theyex-
claimed, simultaneously: aoT -
''How did you get here? Where dM
you get the clothes? Who's dead3''
The actor waved them swsy imperi-
ously.
Don't ask questions, now," he
cried. II earned the clothes and Z
travelled frst-class all the way from
Frisco. There's no one dead. I'm just
wearing the clothes from SENSE of the
fitness OF things Keep it dark, boys,
and I'll tell you. I've been chaperoninx
q stih. You see, it was like this" con-
tinued the actor. There wss I, ont in
Frisco without red. Ny trunks were.
gone and my credit ct the hotel, /
hadn't so much as an alternate pocket
handkerchief. I was beginning to
think seriously OF suicide, when Iheard
that q wealthy easterner had just died
in the hotel, and his friends were look
ing for some reliable person to take the
body ON east. It is . rule with the rail-
road companies that when body-is
shipped the friends must buy two tick
cts one for the corpse and one for
the person IN charge Of II. Well, L
applied for the job and got it. The
friends Of the corpse gave me the
mourning suit and kept me supplied
with all the creature comforts from
cocktails to tos1eepers. There are worse
jobs than stiff's chaperone. :" @ 20
Afterward, when the actor had
passed, manager exclaimed: ..Hozps
that for = ghaatly yarn9 Aad. get /
know that fellow il telling the truth.
Did You notice none Of the. other
actors seemed surprised at his story?
You'll Add that lots Of actors who have
played and been stranded IN the lar
west have chaperoned . stin ct sodue
time in their career. You sea, in .ueo-
YER and those other health resorts cast
ernsrs arc constan tly dying. Often
the persons have no friends out there,
md the relatives ~ only t1o slad .
pay some respectable lefsoe fof h9inG
ing the body tome." a -. E Z
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found. Every available foot Of land
had once been cultivated. The region,
although little has been known shout
it, Is. Q very accessible one, and will no
doubt become an interesting resort for
travellers
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POINTS FROM THE stCYcLE.

4 Revolutlon In steam 6nd EloeoktcaeS
Hay H Brought Abon&.
For many years man has attempted
the construction Of . successful road
machine to be propelled by the rider,
SAYS the Scientific American. The FIRST
signs Of real success came In the appli-
cation OF crank propulsion to the old
velocipede. The next development was
the introduction Of elastic tires Of In
dia rubber. Then came the last and
greatest Improvement, the pneumatic
tire. Meanwhile the proportions and
details Of the machine were constantly
changing, until the wheel Of to-day
was evolved with its ball bearings,
wherever possible, and with air-indatell
tires. Where he has 10 p1opel himself.
man naturally has done everything to
facilitate the work. The principal
bearings Of . bicycle, oil except thoss
of the chain gearing, work on hard
steel balls, running with . minimumof {
friction and readily adjustable for end
shake. The old solid rubber tire en-
abled the average rider to mAke.high /.
speed; the modern pneumatic tire adde
three or four miles IN hour more to hisr
~OOV w AxxC AAA0AA A80 CA10Ve eSNE UAAIOO
improvements where his own individ-
ual exertions are concerned, does it not
seem as If he had neglected to extend
his ingenuity to the horse, steam and
electricity propelled vehicles? An ina
preston that the bicycle has engrossed
all the time of the constructor and In
ventor Of improvements In vehicles =
created-the carriage and the rail en-
seem awaiting their turn.
A few solid rubber-tired carriages
still fewer pneumatic-tired vehicles.
are seen upon our roads and streets.
The pneumatic sully used on the rscs
track is side issue. Roller or bali
bearings are rarity among carriages
that, If it could be done, veritable
revolution in steam and electrical
transportation might be brought about
by the further application of these im-
provementa. It seems absurd to sug-
gest a steam railroad car on pneumatic
tires. But light short cars could GER
tainly be carried on elastic tires. Of
some kind, which would do away with
the greater part Of the noise and inja-
rious jarrinR of iron wheels agains4
steel rails. The friction Of car wheels
is greatly diminished by roller or baN
bearings. By every Improvement II !,
the direction Of preventing jarrine.
ightness Of construction would be ~
vored. The whole system Of trsns-
porting passengers in vehicles operated
by steam or electri :ity IL subject 70
radical notifications. The rail car, -
now used, is open. to criticism II
many respects Possibly the whole
system OF operating railroads may yet
be changed. But it Il hard to believe
that the lesson taught by the bicycle
cannot be of use TO the railroad en4i-
neer. Elastic tires, light construction,
almost frictionless bearings, should
have some place In hia economy
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ThA Ilpaa IN AunaFacns

The fbis, the sacred Bird 81 Egypt, r
not peculiar to that country, but h
found in considerable numbers iu the
south, il Florida especially. In ST.
augustine and other coast towns II q
no unusus. thing to see an ibis perch6d
on the ridge pole Of . house OK stable
d stalking s0lemn1t shout : yald, to<
M bttd is sehi19 tduel; ard seeu1s tct
y fq16 q human company.
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Wesleyan Christian Advocate.

There was circus in Atlanta last
week and Atlanta was there in full
force. The circus may have been
q big thing, but the biggest thing
about it was what Atlanta made it.
1t was regular circus to see the peo-
pie come and 60, and the enthusiasm
and abandonment with which they
entered into the great enterprise. Ii
was no longer a matter Of taking
the children to see the ami
mails :" the people just turned loose
aud went on purpose and wholesale.
Big and little, old and young, black
and white, rich and poor, bond and
free, high and low, male and female,
all were caught by the noble impulse
and carried to the circus. No hard
times now. And from all accounts
Just such mob as they had is not often
witnessed by our generation.
They say, too, that church members
in great numbers and of every name
and order, men and women who had
stood before the sacred altar and VOW
ed to renounce the world, the flesh and
the devil, and all of those diversions
that could not be engaged in the name
of the Lord Jesus, were mixed in with
the throng. Did those solemn vows,
which ought in some degree at least TO
control their lives, lead them to lha!
place?
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One Wonderful Saying.

I used to reckon our Lords answer
to the healed demuniac o. Gadara one
of his strangest utterauces. The man
wanted to follow Jesus, but Jesus an
swered, "Go home to thy friends, and
tell them how great things tnat Lord
has done for thee, and hath had COM
passion on thee" Mark 5:l9.) The
Gadarenes were urging Jesus to depart
from their midst-mainly because they
misunderstood the purpose of his mis-
sion. Jesus never will stay where he
is not welcome, yet such was his COM
passion for these deluded people that
though he departed that same day
himself, he did not do 30 without leav-
ing behind him a witness of the power
of his grace. And see the wisdom in
this act. Mark tells us that this man
"departed and began to publish ip De
capolis how great things Jesus had
done for him; and all men did mar
VEL" And see what followed this
witness-bearing. A few months later
Jesus returned to Decap0lis. Mark
7 :3l-37.) Now the people are glad to
see him they rushed to him, bringing
their sick. etc. It was these people
perhaps some of the same people once
besought him TO depart who testified.
"He hath done all things we'll he
maketh both the deaf to hear, and the
dumb to speak,"
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Sabbath Preparation.

There is no preparation for the Sab
bath day usually more valuable than
that which We gain in its early hours.
Then we may devote ourselves to
special thought concerning the sacred
duties before us. And even though on
The Sabbath works of necessity should
| turn our minds to material things. IL
| il possible TO make supreme effort
in the secret depths of the soul to have
our thoughts harmonize, with the day.
Everyone should desire on the Sab
bath to arrest worldly tendencies.
There are many ways in which this
can be done.
AS far as possible, conversation
foreign to the spiritual claims OF the
Sabbath should be avoided; especially
secuIarizing literature should be dis
carded. When Christians consent to
':remember the Sabbath day, to keep
it holy" not seeking worldly pleasure
or gain, even from the very beginning
of the day; not seculariZing ITS holy
hours by anything of a questionable
character, then new era will dawn
upon the Church. Then the spiritual
significance of the Sabbath, as sign
between God and man, will be appre-
ciatej.
The truth il the responsibility of
proper Sabbath observance, with all lis
attendant blessings, rests upon the
Church of Christ. All agree that pro-
gre.s in the Christian life is largely
dependent upon the faithful recognition
of the Lords Day. 1t is manifestly
our duty to seek release as far as posi-
ble from worldly engagements on tile
sabbath. The day is given-among
other thiDgs-for hearing Gods word
in the congregation, fo- uniting In his
praise and with His people. 1t il pos
sible so to transfer the cares Of life to
this day as to wholly unfit the soul for
these sacred duties. And not only SO; !;
the reading. social visiting. and unnec-
essary work may be Of such kind as
to render religious exercises wholly un-
profitable.
We may be fully absorbed in the
work of the Sunday school. the church,
and the community. Home may
bring its urgent demands. Oftentimes
duties may seem foreign to the reli'
gious purposes of the day, but II its
hours are commenced in a devotiona!
spirit, and the soul retains sense OF
union with the Lord of the Sabbath,
the promise of rest in Him will be abond
antly verified.
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sixteen Lost, One Saved.

Alta public dinner given to Gen.
Harrison, when he was candidate
for the office of President of the
United States, one of the guests rath.
erconspicuously "drank to his health: "
The General pledged his toast by drink
ing water. Another gentleman offer
ed a toast and said, General, will you!
favor me by drinking glass of wineT,
The General, in very gentlemanly
way, begged to be excused. lie was
again urged to join in glass OF WINE.
This was too much. He rose from ms
seat and said, in the most dlgnineo
manner
"Gentlemen, I have twice refused, 70
partake of the wine-cnp. l hope that
will be sufficient. Though you press
the matter ever so much, not crop
shall pass my lips. I made o resolve
when / started in life that Woulu
avoid strong drinks. That vow L have
never broken. / am one of class OF
seventeen young men who graduated
at college together. The other sixteen
members OF my class now fill drunk
ards graves and all from the peniclout
habit of wine-drinking. l owe al
nv health, my happiness and prosper
ity to that resolution. Would yoI
urge me to drink it now ," The et
feet on the company may DO mag
| lined.-EX.
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Nashville Advocate.)

Every minister has an individual
interest in the good name of every
other one. Whatever damages any
member of the fraternity in the public
esteem like wise lowers the reputation
of all. This fact should make them
yery careful as to the manner In which
they speak of one another. We do not
mean-and no sensible person will sus'
pect US Of meaning-that it is ever
right and proper to cover up gross i'm
moralities, or to use whitewash brush
for hiding the soiled places in a minis
ter1al reputation. But we do mean
that it is most unbrotherly thing to
proclaim from the housetop all the lit
tie defects and shortcomings which a
minister exhibits in his daily life.