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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
To See the Great Llama.

Prince Galitzin, Of Russia, is fel-
low of the Geographical Society OF st.
Petersburg and one of the most ia
nous travellers of the world. He will
start soon with an expedition to pene-
trate the plateau of Thibet with the
intention of entering the sacred city
of Lassa and interviewing the grand
Llama. It is said that no European
has ever faced the grand Llama, and
the success of Prince Galitzin in his
undertaking would be open to grave
doubt were it not Cor his record IN
the way Of wonderful journeys. 1t Is
over a year since his appearance at the
head of small Cossack caravan IN the
passes of the Pamir table land on the
extreme northern irortier OF lnd1a
startled the English Government. de
has demonstrated by journey OF ove1
1900 miles from the terminus OF trans
Caspian railway, at Samarcand, thai
the Indian frontier was accessible to
Russian attack through the Pamlr
table land, hitherto considered mac
cessible. Retracing his steps with MS
caravan he passed through the Quen'
lun Mountsins, crossed Eastern Turkl'
stan into Siberia, rrtil he struck the
caravan route leading to lrkutsk, neal
Lake Baikal, in Southern Siberia. He
then pursued his way east to Vlad1Tos'
tok, thence through Japan and te
Vancouver and the United States. II
Prince Galitzin succeeds in entering
Lassa and getting out alive his next
journey will be from the eastern term
mus Of the trans-Siberian railway,
along its proposed route to Bering
Sea. Then, crossing into Alaska, ht
will try to pass through British Co.
lumhia to the northern boundary q
the United states-zPiea7nns
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
No Gardens

"When first saw the palaces te
longing to New York magnates.a
said foreign visitor, 81 was struck
by the total absence of any kind OF
garden surrounding these splendid
abodes. in Paris. London, Vienna,
Rome, St. Petersburg, or Berlin, the
'h0els' owned bv the upper ten are
always entered through garden, and
are thus isolated from direct contact
with the street. This certainly con.
tributes to make life pleasant for
their inmates. and I cannot help
being surprised that where money is
no object such plan should not be
generally adopted here" The sur.
prise is one to be shared by others
Why is not a beautiful house sur
rounded with the luxury and priracy
v trees and gardens?
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
she WAS 70 "cHEAP,s
Cow a Lady Treated q Servant VIII
Wanted Worlds Fatr Wages.

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Cow a Lady Treated q Servant VIII
Wanted Worlds Fatr Wages.
She was clumsy, te be true, but the
!air hair that Swedes have and the
rich coloring that tints the cheeks OF
the women and the petals Of the roses
of Sweden were hers. She was anu
bling north on La Sale avenue look
ing at the numbers on the houses.
Finally she stopped before a fat pu1ldtt
ing. She took a newspaper from unt
der her coat, glanced at want sad,H
then looked again at the namber Of
the fat building. They correspouded.
She walked up the steps, fumbled
among the bells a moment, and then
rang the one that belonged to the
second Cat :, The lady who lived
thers, being without servant,
dropped her embroidery and went tt
the speaking tube. =
"Well, who is there?" she asked.
stMe, Gusta Guatavson. Eli come
to tax work.
''What?"
'Me, Gusta Gustavsor Ell come
to tax work"
20! you want to work for me??"
"Ja; Ell tax work. f"
"Well, come upstairs
The two women surveyed each
other critically at the door OF the fat
"Come in," said the mistress.
s.How many in dis house?" Queried
the would-be servant something afte,
the manner of a pompous attorney
cross-examining a witness
Myhusband, myself, and one little
girl"
"Wash place light or dark?"
"You mean the laundry, l suppose.
There are no windows. 1t is in the
basement and is lighted by gas"
s.Don't like dat. Ell no wash cob
lars or shirts Eli have man Liei
Ericsson. He comes thursday nights.
I tax your work, no shirts, no collars;
Lief come thursday night-for 81 3
week"
The Swede, having delivered her
self Of this disjointed but compre-
hensive proposition. settled back COM
fortably in her easy chair and let her
eyes wander with interest over the
bric-a-brac on the pretty mantel and
The Persian rugs on the floor. But
ner inspection was abruptly ended.
s'Seven dollars a week!' cried the
mistress of the at in an injured tone
as she gasped for breath.
:'Ya; Ell come for 81 a week and
hat Lief Thursday nights and wash NO
Shirts or collars"
"Well, I don't want you," rejoinec
jhe mistress, rising and opening the
door. ''You are altogether too cheap
for me. Seven dollars a week! Is
that all? Why, I wouldn't have any
help around me that would look a.
less than So"
The door closed behind the rosy
checked Swede with a hard, metallic
click, and nothing but the sound Of
heavy feet descending the stair broke
the stiffness of the hall.
..Ei ask $40 at de next place." she
said in bewildered way as she turned
into the street and started for the
next number indicated on the wello
thumbed newspaper ''want" page
that she plucked again from under
tec coat.-Chicago Tribune
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
Woman In Politics.

Laura never seemed to me pardcu,
nrly strong g-n!nded. wonder why she
has become such sufYragist?"
"She WIS converted last fall. Her
Annce rar for the Legislature and was
defeated, and now Laura is sure thar
woman liz needed IN politics. New
York World
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
The Exploits Of Diving Birds.


Engineers have often announced that
submarine vessels would some day ac-
quire speed much greater than that
Of ordinary ships. The diving birds
furnish US with a powerful argument
in support Of this opinion, for they
move with surprising rapidity under
water. .:ssss
The penguin, for example, can neltll-
er fly nor walk, but hops along as If les
legs were tied together. Nor does it
swim. FOR it literally flies under water.
When, at the Geological Gardens Of
London, the keeper brings food to these
birds, a sudden transformation is wit
messed. The bird, which Is heavy and
awkward, suddenly becomes superb
and rapid creature, covered with glob-
ules Of silver formed by the air impris-
oned in its plumage, and flying In the
depths Of the placid water with a rapid
ity Of evolution that Is unknown ir
,erial fight.
The motion Of its wings is Identical
With that Of ordinary flight, and its
feet extended in line with Its body,
serve neither as motors nor as rudders.
Steering is effected throurS the accel-
Grafton Of the motion Of one Of the
wings at the expense Of the other. The
fish thus chased is captured and swal-
lowed without any retardation Of the
speed Of the bird being visible.
The cormorant, on the contrary,
swims with its feet, which act like the
paddle boards Of the wheel Of steam
boat. Yet the conditions Of the sub
marine medium are so exceptionally
favorable that the speed obtained there
In by the cormorant Is three or four
times greater than that which 1t makes
Upon the surface.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
2 SIUFFLE-SHooN AND = .AMRER'
OcKs.

- y
Shuffe-Shoon and Amber-Locks
Sit together, building blocks;
Shufae-shoon is old and gray
Amber-Locks little child,
But together at that play
Age and youth are reconcfed,
And With sympathetic glee
Build their castles fair to see!
sWhen grow to be man.
So the wee ones prattle -an-
'tI shall build castle-so,
With gateway broad and grand
Here pretty vine shall grow,
There soldier guard shall stand3
And the tower shall be so high
Folks will wonder by and byp'
Shufae-Shoon quoth: eyes I know;
Thus I builded long ago.
Here gate and there wall,
Here window, there door.
Here steeple, wondrous tall,
Riseth ever more and more;
But the years have leveled low
What builded long ago"
So they gossip at their play
Needless Of the fleeting day.
Onespeaks Of that Long Ago
Where his dead hopes buried ieI
one with chubby cheeks aglow,
Prattleth of the By-and-By.
Side by side twin castles grow
By-and-By and Long-Ago!
Long-Ago and By-and-By-
All, what years atween them lies.
Yet, oh srandsire, gaunt and gray,
BY what grace art thou beguled
That thou sharest In the play
Ofthat little lisping child?
Children both, they build their blocksl
Shuf1e-Shoon and Anber-Locks.
Eugene Field in Ladies' Home Journal.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23

ish; when drawn forward, 1t bends to-
ward the bottom and encounters no re-;
sistance. When pressure is brought
from above, the plate falls down and
the resistance Of the water is very
large. This is the principle motion, as
the difference between the two actions
represents the actual distance covered.
While progress is slow it is still ap-
preciable. The long pole is carried to
maintain the equipose easier. .t.5
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
4 Refufatiou.

Doctors say that the practice Of kiss
ns is a very unhealthful one, but girls
who are always getting engaged don't
look particularly sick.--Atchison Globe
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
Her Rad Cold.

"J'ou have a bad cold,' he said. u
nave" she replied huskily. Il am SO
hoarse that if you attempted to kiss m'
T couldn't screams"-New York Press.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
WATER LOCOMOTlOM.

An Invention Which Enables One t.
Perambulate on the Aqua.
A French inventor has recently
shown at the Nouveau Cirque, says La
Nature, a pair Of shoes with which a
motion on water is obtained similar in
every respect to walking. An enor.
nous ellipsoid frame Of thin wood
covered with rubber has rectangular
plate Of sheet-tin or aluminium at
tached to the fat base of the water
shoe. This plate acts like the fin Of a
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
4 FAMILY SECRET.

Neighbor-'1 hear your father in.
tends to put up new house. Who i
his builder?"
Boy-"What's that?" -s,z
''Why, the-e-one who bosses thf
job"
"Ohs Why, ms, of course. "-Gooa
r., :. s.--.ss~- ~ sss,,:;1s
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
The Heroine Of Queens Peak,

DUR miles north
west Of the little
city of Bowie, il
Northern Texas,
there is O sharp
point of land
rising abruptly
above the prairie,
and known to all
the surrounding
C o IN try a 8
Queens Peak. Its
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23

Friendly societies in England have
agreed to pay indemnity to all mem
bers who may te injured at football.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23

to be turned over; 8 Is a rest for the
back Of the music, and 4 are guides to
hold it in place; S is the pneumatic re-
lease, worked with the foot and at
tached to long rubber tube, which in
specially manufactured music stands
Is carried through the foot Of the stand
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23
JoHNNT WAS FEELING BETTER.

Doctor-''Well, Johnny, don't vou
feel better since I gave you the med.
icine?"
Johnny-s'Yes; forgot all about be.
ing sick.''
Doctor-''That's what T thought !;
and it wasn't hard to take, was it?''
Johnny-tI guess so, for it took two
Of US boys to hold Fido when we gave
it to him. "-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
It is marvellous how long q rotten
post will stand, provided it be not
shaken.
Those who are sure of going to
Heaven want to take the whole world
with them.
Tragedy has the great moral defect
of giving too much importance to life
and death.
Various facts go to show that a
mans age may be as ripe as tae man
himself is green.
Give man the world aud he will
try to kick other planets out of exis.
tence.
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in
which sap is stagnant remains fruit
less.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-23

"A on of good coal is said to yiels
about 5000 feet Of purified gas,
The St. Johns herald., 1895-10-17
THE DOG NEVER SPOKE AGAIN.
And tho VentrilOquist Received Three
 Hundred Dollars for Him.

And tho VentrilOquist Received ThrOe
 Hundred Dollars for Kim.
 There was once a ventriloquist so poor that he was obliged to travel on foot from town to town to save expense, much after the manner of the gentle man of adventure in C2imm's tales, says Harper's Young People. One day he was joined on the road by dog as for saken as himself but who seemed de- siron5 of becoming his companion. They journcyed together to the next town and entered the tavern tired, hun gry and pennilesa. Not being troubled with the inconyenient refinement which comes from long line of gentle an ccstors, the man had developed the quality known as cheek, so he and the dog sat down to eat supper for which they could not pay.
 The room was full of loungers and the stranger took conspicuous seat. What will you have?" asked the only waiter the place employed, and the order embraced. nearly everything on the bill of fare.
 But I want something for my dog, too" he added. Ask him what he will have" The waiter Inuttered some thing about 'Whatcher giving us," so the stranger said: What, don't you like to? Well, Bruno, will you have beef or fish?"
 ''Beef every time," said Bruno, look ing with mild browneye at the waiter.
 'And what do you drink?'
 'Water. thank ; ou, said Bruno.
 By this time the landlord and every. one in the place were eager with sup. pressed wonder and gathered about tc hear the dog talk.
 The vcntriloquist feigned Indifference by eating with avidity, while the land lord was evidently considering some thing. His cogita1ion resulted in his. offering the stranger three hundred dollars for his wonderful talking dog. The ventriloquist appeared to hesitate moment. then said, abruptly: "Yes, you may have him for three hundred dollars"
 When the money was paid and the ventriloquist was about to leave he turned to the dog, patted him affection ately, and said: 'tGood-by, old fellow; you've been good friend to me"
 ''You are no friend of nine," re- turned the dog, ito sell me to another master. As you were mean enough to serve me such trick I'll have revenge. I'll never speak another word as long as 1 live"
 The ventriloquist then made off with all possible haste.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-10-17
OUR TWO LANGUAGES.
Che Used In Conversation, the Other in
 Written English.

Che Used in Conversations, the Other in
 Written English.
 4 writer in the Educational Review prefaces an article on English litera- ture in the college by the der laration: Tt is now, think, generally admitted that the first principle of rhetoric is. write as you speak The pedantic, de- clamatory, Latinized ,iiction that pre- vailed in literary circles a hundred years ago i3 no longer the standard kings English. In order to write well, it is necessary first to speak well-that is, to speak naturally, correctly and strongly"
 This is q clever and cunning, as well as complete bogging of the whole ques- ton. The assumption that we, Eng fish and Americans, speak as we write. and that the ordinary rules of rhetoric and grammar run through and under lie oral, as well as written language is an assumption which cannot be verified by evidence. The man who says don't and ''can't" and isn't" and who talks about him and ne" when he means ''he and l." or who says ''donc" for ''did" or ''seeu" for saw" can take his pen or pencil in hand and. write Eng fish which is uncxceptionable from the standpoint of person, mood or tense, the fact being that written langnage is refinement and, possibly, an improve ment on spoken language, but at the same time as different from it as the dialect of Yorkshire from that of Corn wall, or the talk of Yaniseeland from the patois of the uplands of North Carolina or the lowlands of Louisiana. The writer Of the article in question has fallen into the rhetorical error of, as the vernacular has it, putting the cart before the horse. Every written language, protected and fenced in as it may be by rhetorical fences and hedges, each of which is bristling with rules end safeguarded by exceptions to those rules, is only development from spoken language, and whether it be au improvement or not is an open ques- tion. At all events it must be apparent to every student Of language or phil- ology that we have, at least in Eng fish, two separate and distinct ian- guages, and that if we should attempt to follow the Gictum Of the writer in the Educational Review, and write as we speak, our contributions to current literature would be speedily side tracked into the editors waste-paper basket. It might be better for the genius of the English language. and for the preservation of its integrity, that we should speak as we write, but to adopt the converse proposition and climax of absurdity to those who know and appreciate the distinction between English 'as she is wrote" and ''as she is smoke
The St. Johns herald., 1895-10-17
Storr of a oalifor.lIa Ploaesr.

At "a recent gathering Of California pioneers at Baltimore. one of the best stories was told by tlc secretary Of the association, John L. Stisf: lie com pared tho ''spread" before them with the pork and beans which were served in the mining camps twenty-onc times a week, year i1l anu year out, and said the absence of women in California had taught him how to appreciate them. Nearly all the time he was there he had to do Gll his own cooking, wash ing and mending- Part of the time he was in California he was EeTchandis- ing and getting such prices as these for goods: Long .shovels, SIG; checlzered shirts, s3 each; long boots, s32 g pair; copies of the Baltimore Sun of a1y date, Sl each; four, 8 cents a pound, and picks, s16 each. A t'stiff" drink oi whisky was worth about s8.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-10-17
HIDING OVER AN EARTHQUAKE.
:soves Train Experience of an American
 TraEeler in Turkey.

.Eoves Train Experience of an American
 Traveller in Turkey.
 Riding on train over ground shaken ny earthquake is the novel experience f Constantjnoplc correspondent of
 'le Cincinnati Tribune. He thus de- .cribes iS:
 'All as once the air grew still, an oppressive silence seemed to hang on ;ale and iill and all the people stopped short l. seemed to me that we ran in ;0 lad piece Of track Or that our train lad suddenly quiel1ened it's pace. l s2lv 2 5or7iazl woman with child in her a-Els stagger, stop, take the water tug rom her head and hug her fright med baby to her naked breast. Hun ireds of yoke cattle were lowing, bur 'os were praying and the whole ioei13 Of sheep were crying on
 he distant downs. Meantime the .i;rvcs seemed to increase, and, al- 5hcugh we were not making more than sorty miles an hour, we appeared to fairly fly. Hen stood still and stared at the heavens 4 Nollammedan slid down from pack raulc, spread out his prayer rag, set his face toward Mecca aad rI:eyed Christians crossed them selves, and as often as stole . glance at the driver found him looking at me.
 ''Iill now had attributed the action of these wild people to childish wonder at seeing the train sweep by, but when looked at the almost pale face Of the snnbrowned driver 1 was bewiidered. The things 1 bcheld were all so un- natural that I felt my head swimming. Glaneing ahead saw the straight track take on curves and shake them out again, resembling. running snake. The valley had become narrow gulch, and from the near hills arose great clouds of smoke, aS from a quarry when the shots go of. The fireman, who had been busy at the furnace door, stood up now and gazed at the driver, who pressed his left hand over his eyes, then took it off and tried to see, but made no attempt to check the speed of the flying train As drunken cowboy dashing down straight street sways in his saddlc-as a wounded bird reels through the air-did this mad monster of q locomotive swing and swim over the wri5!ling rail.
 Suddenly Q great curve appeared in front of us This time the stolser, who had left off firing, saw it, and made the sign of the cross. Again the driver hid his eyes, and again I felt my brain growing dizzy trying to understand. We could hear and feel the engine wheels rise and fall on the twisting rail with deafening sound. At last she settled down and began to glide away as boat glidcs down running stream. What is it? I asked of the French fireman.
 ".Trembletaent de terre,' he said, shaking himself violently and fainting to the floor, and then understood that we had been riding over an earthquake. The driver was either tco prcud and brave to stop, CT too frightened to be able to shut off steam; I don't know which"
The St. Johns herald., 1895-10-17
Capped thc Climax.

. An exchange tells that good story was heard the other day Of father and mother who were trying to find names for their twin babies, who. by the way, were girls. It was decided that the father must name them. After casting about and finding no names that exactly suited him he determined to end the strain on his mind and named them Kate and Duplicate. h the course of time another pair of twins came and they were boys. This was the husbands opportunity to get even and he wanted his wife to christen the boys. Imagine his feelings when the mother one day told him she had named them Pete and Repeat. But when the
 third pair came the father grew fright.
 ened and named them Max and Climax
The St. Johns herald., 1895-10-17
DEADLY DISEASE OF THE TIMES.
The Great Increase in tine. Number. Of
 Cases Of Paresls.

The Great Increase in tine. Number. of
 Cases Of Parcsis.
 In connection with the cocl1-sure statement of Mr. Howells, says the Medical Record, that the present race was never so healthy and strong as now, it is interesting to read the fol lowing paragraph written by Dr. T. 1. Ciouston, superintendent of the Morningside asylum, Scotland. He says:
 "One terrible form of brain disease, with mental symptoms, is certainly in creasing. That malady might De described as breakdown Of the great center Of the mind and motion in hc'brain. It always goes on from bad 5o worse untii it renders it's victim ut :crly helpless in mind and body and kills him ia few years. No cure and scarcely any mitigation of this latter lay curse has yet been devised. aIt is Q disease of cities, Of restless lives, of active brains in their prime; sometimes of dissipation and debauchery, of life Ut high pressure commonly"
 During the past year the asylums Of  Scotland received 150 new cases; those of 8ngland, 1,40G cases, and those Of Ire iand, 3. The asylum statistics Of this country show an even greater number.
 Tn single asylum in this state, for example, that oe Ogdanburg, there were among 65G admissions 31 cases Of general paresis. This would make the proportion of general parosis over { per cent.
 Among seven state asylums, 10 which l.943 patients were admitted in 1S90, there were 66 eases Of general paresis, or Q little over 3 per cent. If per cent. be the general ratio of this dis ease in the state of New York, then the total number of pareties among the 1G, ,0o9 insane would be about GAO. As a matter of fact, the number is greater, because the proportion of this disease is larger in the New York and Kings connty asyluIns than in those Of the state at large. But even if there were but 4,09o cases of general paresis among the 100000 insane people of this eouU- try it would be the extraordinary evi- de1ea of the development Of . disease winch iu the last century was certainly not known even. if it did exist.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-10-17
A 0ueor savines Bank.

Five million francs in warming-pan was the lucky find of the prefect of the Seine the other day. An old lady of eighty-three named Tanies had died in her country house, leaving the city of Paris heir to all her property, which she said amounted to five million francs. After her death the country house and her lat in the Rue de Ia Boetie were searched without anything being found; she was not known to have any banker, and the authorities were com ing to the conclusion that they were the victims of mystifcation. when some one opened an old warming-pan without handle. slowed away under a sink, and found the sum there in gold, bank notes and bonds.