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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-04-02
SCIENTIFIC SHOEING.

Having secured the SHOEING FORGE OF
William Blume & S.n for permanent bust
ness stand, / shall conduct Scientific and
Pathological Shoe ng for the Prevention, Re
lief and Cure of Lameness and other impedi-
ments in the movements of Horses incidental
or due to imperfect shoeing. / shall give the
work my personal attention and guarantee no
extra charge except for impi ovement. Lame
ness etc, will be treated afternoons A free
clinic and professional advice given every
Monday from to 4. NJ.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04
CAPEs FOR EARLY SPRING.

While it is yet too early to think of the
spring Jacket, one makes a neat little cape
TO hang over the dropping sleeves The
sleeve of the winter jacket has its puff too
high to accommodate the dropping infa-
ton of the latest sleeve, and therefore the
cape is more acceptable. The coat sleeve,
at its best has never been a success; for
make it large as you will, the revers and
dress puff will never fit neatly under.
The spring cape is very short in fact, it is
little more than deep collar. 1t tails in
godets over shoulders, and generally
matches the costume A neat one in
fawn silk-and-wool mixtures has two
short capes, falling over in Che full
godets, quite plain and double breast ed in
front, trimmed with large buttons. A
turu-down collar in black velvet extends
Itself into broad pointed reyers in front
away from pretty stock collar of white
silk, a small chemisette of white and a
neat white bow.
mother simple one made from the ma
terial Of the dress rof plain black cloth.
falls in godets all around, is very short.
and is trimmed with three rows of mar
row satin ribbon, running up the fronts as
well A ruche of black ostrich feathers
forms a tasteful collar.
One in scotch plaid is rather pretty for
going away. Its two capes fall in the
regulation godets, while a narrow. fat
one above them both, is edged with mar
row fringe. EVA A. SCHUEERr.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04
OTHER NOVELTIES IN CREPE CLOTH.

More varieties in the delicate crepe
cloths have reached US. These show the
stripes much finer and closer. A green
that is both serviceable and dainty is in
dull, dark shade of light texture and has
a minute, close satin stripe running
through over its crinkled surface; dull
blue has heavy twisted cords in pink and
white, forming the stripe; gray is dotted
with big spots of green; rich golden
brown is both pointille and striped with
blue; while a thin silk crepon forms it.
self into small square Fuckers and is all
OF the one clear Havana tint.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04
THE HUMBUa OF PALm1srRY.
Palmistry Characterized Without Be-
sis in Science or Sense.
From the Century.

After many experiments with those
considered most successful, and a study
of the subject in the light of anatomy,
physiology and natural condolences, re-
gard palmistry as without basis in science
or sense.
That no two hands have ever been abso-
lutely similar is indisputable When crit
lcaIly examined no two leaves or flowers,
though of the same species, appear ex-
actly alike, much less would such complex
organizations as human hands be found
without difference.
General conclusions can, therefore, be
drawn from the shape and size of the
hands, as to strength, suppleness, circula-
ton OF blood, temperament and the size of
the form 10 which they belong. But even
here large margin must be allowed
for departures from general rules
huge hands are sometimes the
modification of small and otherwise
beautiful women, while giants are found
with small feet and diminutive hands
Sometimes large feet and hands are
possessed by the same persons. Walker
and Darwin observed that the hands of
the children of laboring men are larger
from birth than those of persons whose
ancestors have lived idle lives or have
been engaged in vocations, not requiring
L
dreu might become renowned for intel
lectuality or proficiency in art, the large
hand might be transmitted to several gen
creations.
What is Justly allowed to chirognomy
is true OF every other part of the body, in
its proportionate relation to the sum of
human activity. With these rational con
illusions the voJary OF palmistry will not
be content Ii IS mystery he seeks, and
power to read the past, present and fu-
ture, which nature has denied man. IS
The sole and sufficient cause Of different
lines in different persons is the difference
in the shape and size of the hands, elias
ITCHY of skin, strength and use Of the
muscles, and external pressure. There
fore, hands of different persons are not
alike, nor both hands of the same person
Mr. Francis Cations remarks, in his
work # niger Prints, " are 10 the point:
The palms of the hands and the soles Of
the fee, are covered with two totally dis
tlnct classes of marks The most conspic-
uous are the Creases or folds OF the skin
which interest the followers of palmistry,
but which are no more significant to
others than the creases in old clothes;
they show the lines of most frequent
tiexure, and nothing more
For lines to be an indication of anything
mental, moral or emotional, it would be
necessary for them 10 be evolved under
the influence of nerves connected with
the brain centers, in which the said intel
lectual and moral qualities inhere; but
superinduced from the periphery, they
can mean nothing except more or less of
different motions and use.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04
THE KEARsARGE's ARmoR.
How it was Afterward Used to Protect
German Man-of-War.


The history OF the Kearsarge has been
so many times told that it seems like
taking owls to Athens" to attempt to say
anything new about her. There is, how
ever, an item of interest connected
with this famous vessel which, so far as
am aware, has never appeared in print
number Of years ago while stopping
in little mountain town in Germany /
became acquainted with Chief Engineer a.
Gebhardsbauer,o of the imperial German
navy. He recalled to me that when the
kearsarge fought the Alabama of Cher
bourE anchor chains had been placed on
both sides of the kearsarge in order TO
protect the boiler and engines from the
enemy's fire.
A long time after the battle, when the
Kearsarge was lying OFF the Azores Islands
the anchor chains which had done such
good service were removed, and were de-
ivered over to the care of the United
States consul at Fayal They remained
in the consular store house until July,
1870.
THE ARcoNA MAKES USE OF THE CHAINS.
At this time, just at the outbreak of the
Franco-German war, the German wooden
frigate ArcOna arrived at Fayal. The
Arcona was one OF the old type of wooden
war vessels. Mr. Gebhardsbauer, who
was chief engineer of the Arcona, was or
AtItN ny utF GOluuduueF 10 TlS up some
thing to AFFORD protection for her engines
IN case the Arcona should fall in with
French ship. it being the intent ton to pro-
coed to Germany at once.
In search for material in the store
house of Mr.. Dabney the United States
consul. he found the old anchor chains of
the kearsarge and Immediately secured
them. They were placed on the Arcona
exactly as they had been on the kear-
sarge, and in a short time she was ready
and sailed for the Fatherland.
RUsTING IN A GERMAN NAVY YARD.
The Arcona met with neither adventure
nor trouble OF any kind on her homeward
voyage, but she remained in service, and
the chains were kept on her until the
close of the war, aftCrWard being turned
over TO the navy yard at kiel as old iron.
They were still there in 1888, and several
tndents made by the shot from the Ala
bama could still be seen in them
The log book of the Kearsarge does not
show that the chains were disposed OF as
l have stated. No mention whatever is
made Of the disposition made of them
Further, the records Of the state depart
ment contain nothing on the subject.
The facts remain, nevertheless, and
now that the old ship has gone. it would
seem highly proper that everything in
the way Of relics of her should be in the
possession of this government. Portugal
courteously returned the gun Long Tom"
OF the brig Armstrong and Germany
would undoubtedly do the same with the
armor of the Kearsarge.
Crispi, the Italian prime minister, is said to
have both eyes affected with cataract He is
to UNDERGO an operation at the close of next
month at the hands Of two distinguished
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04
CORBETT'S METHODS.
How he Developed the Half Arm Idea
Of Fighting.

It Gets There Much Quieker-He Gives
Few "reminiscences Of His Life at
nIayport and Thinks Training Should
be Made Enjoyable-The Sea a Great
Help in Training.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04

Steamer"St Augustine" is
appointed TO leave Titusville
daily. except Sunday. $50 a.
m; due Ro kledge $3.50 am;
Melbourne 10 noon.
Steamer st. Lucie'' or "St.
SEBASTIAN is appointed to
leave Titusvllle for Jupiter on
arrival Of train No. 71-4.01
p. m. daily, except Sunday;
due RockledRe $50 p. m. ;
Jupiter l2noon following day.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04
THE ALTRURIAN MASTER.

Authors in New York do not, as a rule,
acquire political influence, bnt William
Dean Howells is the proverbial exception
1t Is no exageration 10 say that with the
masses of New y DIRK citizens he is a sort
of social idol He has adopted a new way
Of attacking what the htterateurs style
the social failure. He has pointed out
one way of escaping from the breakdown
of society consequent upon what is termed
the weak foundation of the present order
that has made his name almost talisman
with New York's poor. Even the alleged
ignorant foreign element of the East
Side revere Howells. His latest work is
now running as serial translated into
Hebrew in weekly on the East Side
1t is not likely that the talk of sending
Mr.. Howells to congress will result in any
thing Of political nature in his future
1t is the invariable habit in New York.
whenever a man becomes suddenly popu-
lar, to talk of sending him TO congress
but the present aspect of the Howells cult
is significant as showing now powerful a
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04

David Garrick Longworth, an American
whose home is in London is publishing an
American newspaper in Cairo, under the verv
shadow of the Pyramids. he calls his lour-
nal sphinx.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04

Not every one has so successful method
with the autograph hend as Alexander Dumas
had Prince Metternich once requested an
autograph OF him. Dumas wrote in his best
round hand: "heceiyed from Prince Meter
mich twenty-five bottles OF his Oldest Johan-
mis- erg' Metternich sent the wine with a
good grace.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04

Crispi, the Italian prime minister, is said to
have both eyes affected with cataract. He is
to UNDERGO an operation at the close Of next
month at the hands Of two distinguished
Italian oculists.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
A Journalistic Mentor.

A brilliant and not unsuccessful news
paper proprietor once remarked to me,
apropos of his staff: II do not care for
men Of broad views, sound common
sense and correct principles. Give me
clever, disappointed man Of morbid
mind, who wants to get his knife into
as many Of his fellow creatures as pos
sible. That's the kind Of man who can
write what the public like to read, but
Of course he needs constant supervi-
sion.'
At the time was somewhat shocked
by the oynicism Of my journalistic men-
tor, but an extended experience OF life is
apt to convince one that most persons in
wardly relish disparaging and "spicy"
comments on others and are not over
and above pleased when an old school
fellow or next door neighbor is publicly
acclaimed. Let those kindly souls who
may feel inclined to deny this cynical
view of human nature turn again to
Dean Swift's pungent verses on his own
death, with their famous-and shall
we not say accepted?- motto from his
master, Rochefoucauld, dams l'adver-
site de nos meilleurs amis nous trou-
vonos toujours quelque chose qui ne
nous deplait pas. National Review.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
.;PibitipssssBrooks and Ingersioll.

PIdtipss Brooks and Ingerson.
Ingerson and the late Phillips Brooks
were great friends, despite the wide di-
vergence IN their ideas as to spiritual
Things. On one occasion, when Inger-
soil happened in Boston, he called to pay
his respects to the distinguished divine.
Dr.. Brooks was very busy on that par
ticulal day and had given positive or
ders to his servant to admit no one to
his study. Several ministers called, but
each was turned away with the polite
explanation that DR.. Brooks was at home
to no one. Presently Ingersoll called.
The servant told him the same story.
But" said the colonel, II am a
friend of Dr.. Brooks, and l think he
really wants to see me. Anyway carry
in my card and sec what he says. y
The.servant speedily returned and re-
quested Ingersoll to walk right in. Aft
er formal greetings 1ngersoll said:
Doctor, your servant told me that
several preachers called just before me
and yon declined to see them. Why
have You shown me this marked dis
tinction, may ask?"
1.-The reason is simple, replied the
great churchman. II those preachers
die, ri be sure to meet them again in
heaven, whereas had you gone away
and died should never have met you
again. thought | had better take no
chances. Ram g Horn.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
Ayerse to the Camera.

Roscoe Conkling took a very cynical
view Of picture making. When ] step
ped up to his desk one day in Washing
ton and asked him ogive me sitting,
he gave his curly brown locks a toss
and replied:
"a picture, sir? Ask me anything
else! But a picture, never!!" Other
photographers had no better success.
Alexander T. Stewart was simply
callous. He would not even entertain
proposal to sit before camera. When
he died, there was a memorable rough
and tumble scramble among the news
paper men to get anything in the way
Of likeness of him, most Of them be-
ing compelled to rely upon their recol-
lection Of him-and their invention
G.. Pach in New York Herald.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
How a Hen Sleeps.

People often. wonder why a hen does
not fall off her perch when she goes to
sleep. The Fact is she cannot. AS long
as hen is standing up or walking about
the tendons of her toes are relaxed, but
by a very curious arrangement, natu-
raj mechanical grip, the moment she
sits down on her perch the act of bend
ing the knee joint tightens the toe sim
ews and they are drawn taut, thus clasp
ing the foot around the perch with
viselike clutch. She can only looser it
by rising, and that is the reason why
hen or bird that has been frozen to death
is found firmly fixed on the perch. Hens
or birds that die in convulsions stand
up or try to fly, and so fall, but a bird
that has been frozen slowly to death
remains ON the perch.-Exchange.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
Chocolate as a Beyerage.

An enthusiastic lover of chocolate af-
firms in the Omaha Herald that for
those who wish to keep the Imagination
fresh and vigorous chocolate is the bev-
erage Of beverages. However copiously
you have lunched, a cupful Of choco-
late Immediately afterward will pro-
duce digestion in three hours and pre-
pare the way for a good dinner. 1t is
recommended to every one who deVotes
to brain work the hours he should pass
in bed; to every wit who finds he has
become suddenly dull; to all who find
the air damp, the time long and the at
mosphere insupportable, and above all
to those who, tormented with a fixed
idea, have lost their freedom Of thought.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
A Greek Find.

The French Archaeological school in
Greece is in luck. In the course Of
their excavations at Delphi they discov-
cred, it seems, an inscription Of hymn
to Apollo, with the musical notes. This
is '.find' of the utmost interest, for
music is one of the lost arts Of Greece.
We know what effect it had on those
who heard it and how large a part it
played in the views Of philosophers.
But Of the nature Of it we know very
little-less even than we know Of that
other lost art, the Greek art Of paint
ing. The French school will indeed
have reason to be proud Of their dig
gings if in this hymn of Apollo be found
key wherewith to unlock a closed
page in the knowledge Of old Greek
civilization. Westminster Gazette.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
.chinesa aPr,soners


A Chinese prison is called a "cangue.
nso outer door is barred with bamboo
and is guarded by petty soldiers or po-
licemen. The '.cangue'' contains two
rooms and two yards. One room and
one yard are for men. The other room
and yard are for women. The space Set
apart for women. is very much smaller
than that for men.
But the women's quarters and the
mems quarters are alike in being en-
tirely devoid Of any provision for per-
sonal comfort or for personal decency.
Chinese prisoners are by the govern
ment provided with absolutely nothing
but the space beyond which they may
not pass. If their friends thrust food
to them through the bars Of the prison
fence, the law does not interpose. 9th
erwise the prisoners may starve.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
His Query.

The statue of DR.. Horace Wells in
Bushnell park, Hartford, bears beneath
his name the assertion, "Who Dis
covered An@ethesia. The other day a
stranger in the town looked earnestly at
it for a long time, and then turning to
a bystander said, apparently in all sin
cerity: "Please, sir, will you kindly
tell me what that word An@sthesia
means? WIS it the old name Of Hart
ford?'' Possibly the querist was a
Bostonian, who, having his own town 8
claimants to the honor in his mind,
thought after the manner Of his kind
that the assertion in the inscription
ought to be query.-New York Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
Another Had the Call.

Colonel Wat Hardin Of Kentucky
was asked if he did not regard acertain
fellow here in Washington who had
dealt most villainously with him as the
most perfectly unmitigated scoundrel
he ever knew. The colonel studied the
question with thoughtful gravity mo-
ment and then, loyalty remembering
another rogue Of even meaner proclivi-
ties, finally decided:
mo; I'm committed to g fellow out
In Ohio. ''-WashiDgton Post.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
Mrs. Lewis Work.

Mrs. Lewis, widow Of Professor Lew.
is of Cambridge, England, with her Sis
ter, Mrs. Gibson, has returned from her
second visit to the monastery of Mount
Sinai. Mrs. Lewis is familiar with
Greek Hebrew and Arabic. The monks
at the monastery permitted her to ex-
anime six chests full Of manuscripts in
their possession, and she and her sister
brought away photographs of almost all
the papers.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31

and then let It shine. You cannot let
it shine unless you have it, and if you
have il. .you cannot keep it from shining.
THE PRINCE AND THE DAISY.
Are you sometimes discouraged and
despondent? You never have been able
to give much in money nor in strength
Of service; You cannot teach in the
Sunday school; you cannot work in the
club; perhaps you were active once,
and have been laid aside and say some
times t. yourself, I am Of use no more,
might as we'll be dead. nyou can
not do, you can be, and that is most
important ofaII. read or heard years
ago little parable: A certain prince
went out into his vineyard to.examine
it, andshe came to the peach tree, and
he said, What are you doing for me?
and the tree said, In the spring I give
nv blossoms and fill the air with fra
GRANGE, and on my boughs hang the
fruit which presently men will gather
and carry into the palace for you, and
the price said, Well done, good and
faithful servant. And he came to the
maple, and he said, What are you do
ing2 and the maple said, am making
nests for the birds and shelter for the
cattle with my leaves and my spreading
branches, and the prince said, Well
done, good and faithful servant. And
he went down into the meadow, and he
said to the waying grass, What are You
doing? and the grass said. Weare giv-
ing up our livessfor others,for your
sheep and your cattle, that theym be
nourished, and. the prince said, Well
done, good and faithful servants that
give your lives up for others. And then
he came to little daisy that was grow
ing in the hedge row, and hesaid, What
are yen doing? and the daisy said.
Nothing! nothing! cannot make nest
ing places for the birds, and l cannot
give shelter to the cattle, and cannot
send fruitsinto the palace, and I cannot
even furnish. food for the sheep and the
cows-they do not want me in the
meadow; all can do is to besthe best
little daisy can be. And the prince
bent down and kissed the daisy, and
said. There is none better than thou.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
Auriferous Irish Moss.

Auriferous Irish Moss.
A story from Astoria says that James
Anderson, keeper Of the Fort Candy
lighthouse, brought to town, carefully
wrapped, small piece Of dirty stick
and an Insignificant branch Of seaweed,
but both the stick and seaweed were
thickly powdered with pure gold. The
weed, or Irish moss blanc NANCE"
as all the old settlers Of Clatsop know
it, grows between the kelp and the rocks
in the vicinity of Fort Candy and is a
common article of food. After being
bleached and mixed with boiling water
it makes blanc mango indistinguish-
able from the real cornstarch. Mr..
Anderson picked quantity Of it last
spring and bleached it throughout the
summer in shallow wooden boxes. The
other day, when cutting the boxes up
for kindling wood, he noticed that they
contained a large number Of scattered
grains of gold, and on some OF the
pieces Of seaweed he also found traces
of the precious metal. Tracing the
cause of this strange discovery to it's
source, it appears that in the spring,
when the swell around the lighthouse
IS not very strong, the black sand that
abounds in that locality had been wash
ed over the kelp continuously, leaving
these gold deposits behind on the sea-
weed.
S Mr.Anderson says that be has found
"a gold mine, but under present condi-
tions It isabsolutely impossible to alb
stract the e.go1d from the black sand, as
no reducing apparatus has yet been dis
covered that will do it. It has been
known that there is gold in all the sand
on the lower Columbia, but up to the
present, though trials have been repeat
edly made, mo known process is keen
enough to sever the metal.-Oregon
Statesman.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-31
A Queen Bee.

Mrs. Jennie Atchley of Beeville, Bee
county, Tex, has 500 colonies Of bees,
devoted entirely to queen rearing. She
is the most extensive breeder Of queen
bees in the world. She is q woman OF
3S and has eight children, with whose
help she Ioes all the work in the apiary.
She has sold over a, 600 queens this year
and expects to sell 5000. Some single
Queens are valued at 500 each.