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A Natural Problem.

What Is the scientific explanation Of
the mysterious readiness with winch
portions of the human frame pass In.
to openings by which it is afterward
found impossible to withdraw themt
Everyone knows how easy it is to get a
ring on the finger whichwill only come
off again with the help of liberal ap.
plication of soap. Only week or two
ago gentleman, igno ant OF this, got
his fingers into the ring which usually
forms part of the window fittings of
hanson cab, and had to be conveyed
in his cab to hospital, and worked at
for an hour or two before he was set
free and now small boy has been
prisoner by the head for an hour at
one of the iron openings in the parapet
of Westminster Bridge. which had to
be fled before he could be released.
Probably the circulation Of the blood
and consequent slight swelling is re-
sponsible in both cases. Anyhow one
sympathizes with the gentleman who
may have been of a nervous ard fd-
getty temperament, and also in a hurry,
rather than with the small boy, who
probably put his head through the
opening in or ler to spit upon the
passing steamers-a not uncommon
amusement Of small boys when the
police are not vigilant upon bridges
st. James's Gazette, London. !.
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Tho Heliograph.

With all its superiority in distances,
the heliograph is too uncertain for sole
reliance. A passing cloud is sufficient
to interrupt the clearest signals, per-
haps in the critical moment of battle;
or o sun haze may render invisible
the rays from the largest mirror; so
that, at any time, without q clear
atmosphere, the system is useless.
It is not known that the photographic
system has ever been in use on ship
board, and the sea service has moth
ing for daylight signaling that ap-
proaches its accomplishment in dry
atmospheres. For night service at
sea the fashlight appears to be the
best system Of signaling in all
weathers, though, on rare occasions,
the long beam of the electric search.
light thrown up on the sky has proved
effective for Communication when it
was possible by no other means. An
instance of such use was reported q
few years ago by two British ships,
which, while on opposite sides of g
high promontory niue miles in width,
opened communication with each
other by means of dot and dash
flashes on the sky from their search
lights.-Lippincott's.
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paratively small pay of their pre- deces-
sors, and by reason of their popu larlty
were able to make extraordinary terms
with the Spanish public and impress
arios. The profession is grateful to
them to-day, now that they are in
their old age, and they are still called
by courtesy the two stars OF Spain.
Lagartiio, in particular, was always
ferocious fellow, insisting that the
public should have it's full of blood
and excitement.
Nowadays the success OF the tight
ers does not depend so much on the
applause of wealth and beauty in the
boxes as it does on the fidelity of the
respectable middle.class public in the
reserved seats of the grada, to say
nothing of the yelling populace on the
stone benches Immediately around the
arena. AS for the modern Spanish
lover, he feels that he is doing great
deal when lie pays the admission price
to the grada for his sweetheart and
her mother. The Spanish lover is,
ordinarily, spoony, and the Spanish
girl is seemingly ordinarily, timid to
q degree; the Spanish mother is very
often pretentious, and the whole mid
die class and lower class population
astonishingly democratic and out
spoken. -,
This, then, is the bull-6ght, and the
spirit of the bull-fght audience. The
audience is composed of every type of
citizen-the respectable and good, as
we'll as the depraved. Little children
suck their oranges contentedly while
the miserable horses are squealing
with pain, their entrails protruding
from their ruined bellies. 1t seems
to be only question of getting used
to it. They say you can get used to
anything.
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which the Indian uses to-day is prob
ably 5000 years old, and nothing can
more clearly indicate the unprogres-
sive nature of the people who have
used it so many centuries than its
very primitive condition to-day. 1t
is supposed that there are 1000, ,000i
of them at work in India, using Indian
made yarns for the coarse counts and
English imported yarns for the finer
qualities of cloth. The weaver sits
with his legs in hole i'll the ground
below the cloth beam, on which the
finished cloth is rolled. This beam is
carried on two stakes driven into the
earth. It is wound tight and kept
from revolving by means of stick
thrust through a hole in it, one end of
which rests on the ground. The reed
is of bamboo skin, and the healds,a
stifened with some drying oil and
hung on two wooden pulleys, consti-
tute the greater part of the appliance.
The fact that man can subsist, how
ever poorly, on the product of such a
machine, is proof that with better
designed but cheap and simple loom
he could probably double his outturn
and make good living. Throwing
the shuttle by hand, he can obtain
about twenty picks per minute, and
with strings and picker about fifty
per minute. With the new foot loom
he can make fifty picks minute. and
thus treble his present daily income
of twenty-five cents day, which It
takes the help of his wife end children
to earn.-Chicago Record
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INSULTING A LAZY BULL.

and bull. Besides there must be cere-
mony and show. Out OF these ne
cessities the numerous and well-oe-
fined acts and scenes of q bull-hght
take their due progression.
The bull must first be exercised be-
fore the audience, that they may take
pleasure in his strength. The ami
NAL is noble, with pedigree as long
as that of many a Don. He is slender,
with small hind-quarters and tremen-
dous neck and shoulders. Neverthe-
less, he is rather small than large.
His horns are straight and sharp; and
he is quick, tricky and vicious. The
ordinary bull-fghters, toreadores,
haunt their cloaks before his face and
escape with difficulty, often being
obliged to Jump the fence around the
ring. But for the poor horses there is
no escape, and here is where the i'll
ness of the stranger takes its sudden
rise.
The object of bringing in the horses,
early in the game (poor broken-down
old creatures), is really four-fold. It
is first to exhibit the vigor OF the bull,
when he lifts and tosses them with the
most abominable strength. Next, it
is to tire the bull a little, so that it
will not be impossible for single man
to face him, later on. Thirdly, it is
to give the bull smell of blood, that
being naturally what he himself is
fighting for. Lastly-it must be said,
unhappily-it is to give the people
themselves o sight of blood.
I believe this latter to be absolutely
true, in spite of all denials of Span
iards. The audience seems to like the
blood of mangled horses!
And now, while the bull is being
taunted in the ring, almost at the be-
ginning, the horses, blindfolded, are
therefore being slowly ridden around
to him. Upon them are mounted the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
A Now Device in Guns.

The tremendous havoc wrought by
Admiral Dewey's guns at Manila
shows the capabilities OF modern ord
nance. Machine guns, rapid-fre car
non and great 1O0O-pounders,
mounted on disappearing cartridges,
all are part of the necessary equip
ment of frst-class battleship of the
latest type. An electric gun for coast
defense purposes has been lately de-
vised; if successful, it will throw a
steady stream of explosive bombs and
give neither report nor smoke to show
its location. The gun will be sort
of cumulative magnet; that is, as the
projectile passes along the tube it
sucoessively closes new circuits and
thus acquires a velocity which will
carry it several miles. The advantage
of contrivance like this is that it
would protect the bomb without tie
sudden shock of a powder explosion,
and thus remove the danger OF burst,
ing the gun,-Gunton's Magazine
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of pea green, silvery white and plns;
of scarlet. black, dark blue and white
and over all of it the brilliant sun
light, the perfumes of spring in the
sweet air, and the enthusiasm OF 81
mighty audience that moves and
shouts and blazes with excitement. q
The ring at Tarragona, for example
little, old, lost-to-the-world Tara
gona-giyes seats for $1,000 people.
more than the entire population OF
that backward town along the Medl-
terranean; and yet, the seatsare often.
full, for the country people for miles
around flock in, on foot, on donkeya,
asses, horses and in bullock carts So
that when the big band strikes up the
old barbaric march, and the thousands
on the benches move themselves un-'
easily, and shout down greetings to-
their favorite fighters, you have
scene before you not to be forgotten:
The central idea of bull-fght, the,
Spanish will tell the visitor, is to dis
play the courage and dexterity OF men,
It is acknowledged that the bull is
more than a mans matchLthe bull
with his strength, ferocity and sharp
horns, and the man alone, arme with
sleder sword. Again, it is essential
that the bull should be killed with but
one single stroke, given while the
swordsman, the espada, faces him.
This stroke must also be delivered in
one special spot, behind the shoulders,
to penetrate the heart. Should ut.
glance and strike the lungs instead,
so that the bull will drop blood from.
his mouth, the audience is dsgusted,e
and expresses its disgust. All this ls. 81
delicate and dangerous work, and 1t
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most degraded of all bull-fghters, the
picadores, so little-thought-of by the
people themselves that the lowest,
cheapest brand Of Spanish cigarettes
are called, with one consent, the plea
dores. It is the trade of these gehtle-
men-who ride in always, IL is said,
half drunk-to see that the bind-folded
horses which they ride are properly
ruined by the bull; it is their trade to
spear the bull with long lance, to
irritate him, and to save themselves.
They, themselves, are protected on the
legs by iron sheathings. After two or
four or even eight horses have been
gored and tossed and tumbled, and
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Odd Seaside Rocreations.

We saw o man the other day-s
man rich in lands and beeves-close
to nature, perfumed by pine trees,
with the sound of the sea in his ears.
absorbed in the study of bookkeeping
for his amusement. We know man
who finds the quiet of sea village
delightful because he can concentrate
his mind on cook book. Anq sr
finds that earth and sea and sky
not distract him from q treatise 60
political economy, the dismal science.
Thus do men take variously their
pleasure. Boston Journal.
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for the great act of the matador, or
the espada, the most important man,
the high professional who has to kill
a crazy bull, made monstrously wicked
by, ill.treatment and thousand goad-
ings. The bull is weakened, it is
true, but he is still SO dangerous that
half the matadors of history have
found their death in the ring.
It is in vain that the Spanish de-
fend their bull-fghts as "the heroic
games" of their ancestors, "conse-
Grated by antiquity" The truth is
the ancestors of their ancestors long
ago sbandoned the corrida to paid
professionals of low birth. Spanish
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Ikerchief and slip aside from him.
Their harpoons, which they jab into
his injured and insulted neck, should
make him wild.
But if he does not show sufficient
wildness, the people cry for "Fire"
And here it is too sickening and cow
ardly to proceed in detail. Sufficient
twill be to say that there have been
invented banderillas with frework at
tachments, that they may burn after
they have been thrust into the bulls
neck!
Enough. The time has now arrived
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are dragged away dead and bleeding,
the trumpet sounds and very differ
iens set Of men dash into the wide bull
ring.
These are the banderilleros. Each
one ;of them has twobe-ribboned darts,
like little harpoons, in his hand, which
lie e!must fix, in the bulls neck to pain
him, to infuriate him, and to make
him exhibit the agility of men,.
tits q matter of no little skill and
danger; if successful, it almost crazes
the animal, giving him the maximum
of sierocity with the minimum of
strength. It is also one Of the "'pret-
tiisst parts of the corrido de toros; for
THE bull comes on with rush to these
most nimble and courageous banderil-
.leros, who often must eyade him by q
.single inch. Each evasion and each
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
LAST GREAT ACT OF THE EspADA.

bull.fghts ceased to possess anything
ofthe old chivalry when chivalry it
self expired, more than two centuries
ago.. Apologists Of the ring, indeed,
claim for the end Of "the aristocratic
period date as late as the accession
Of the Bourbons, in ITO; but as their
chronicles are silent concerning the
exploits Of the Spanish nobility IN
this regard all through the eight
eepth century, there is reason to give
the date of 'the accession OF the
Bourbons' its mere sentimental
value. The chronicles of tho ring
begin again in ITO, with the name
Of the plebeiap Pedro Romero; with
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21

as much hero as any man who car
ried gun in the wild fight and
fearless charge up San J7"l hill.
Charlie arrived at New York City, 8
few days ago, on the transport Lou.
isiana and was shipped to his home,
Columbus, Ohio, by the Children's
Aid Society.
Charlie looked like picturesque re-
concentrate, wearing a regulation
brown cavalry hat, an old brown jacket
and pair of trousers much the worse
for the Santiago campaign. The rem
nants of the shoes that carried him up
the rocky hill of San Juan held his
feet, and blue flannel shirt, much toe
large, was Tapped about him.
His father was a bugler in the Ninth
Infantry, which Charlie managed te
join at Tampa. There he was SNUG.
gled on transport and ~h-~i 81
tn Crl;- IL ~ ~, i1a g,.aa9 49, ~
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consequently restricted. '.te
opening of the NicaraguL L--;:., how-
ever, the trade of our Atlantic ports
with the Orient will take the safer and
shorter route thus provided; and in
addition to this, the commerce of
much of Europe which now seeks the
East by tie voyage through the Medi-
terranean. the Suez Canal, the Indian
Ocean, and the Straits, or blythe Cape
route, will turn in the opposite direc-
tion. The possession of the Philip
piIes by a progressive commercial
power, if the Nicaragua Canal project
should be completed, would change
the course of ocean navigation as it
concerns o large percentage. of the
water-borne traffic of the world. Eu-
rope looks to the Nicaragua Canal and
the Pacific as Offering better route
to the Eastern countries, and in
the event of its completion the archi-
pelago will be the gateway to all the
trade of lower China and the countries
south. Hong Kong, the great ware
house where are stored and whence
are distributed the products of the
earth in the maritime trade of China,
may, in the course of these changes,
now in prospect, become scarcely more
than q distributing point for the trade
of the valley of the Si-Kiang.
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A NEW WAY TO PROPOSE.
A Fine Sample, OF Nerve That Won ti's
Old Mans Consent.

>.
Old Mans Consent.
As the young man entered, the old
man. looked NJ. and .scowled.
"Well?" said the old man shortly.
'Your daughter" began the young
man. but the old man. cut him off
abruptly.
sI'ye noticed that you've been
hanging around good DEAL" he said.
''I suppose that you've come to tell
me that you love. her and want to
marry her?'
''No," replied the young man,
calmly. "I've come to tell yoa that
she loves me and wants to marry me"
''What!" roared the old man.
"She says so herself" persisted
the young man..
"i never heard of such an exhibition
Of egotistical impertinen2e," said the
old man.
tThen you misunderstood me-" ex-
planned the young man. "My as.
sertion is dictated by policy and not
by impertinence. You see, it's just
this way: What Ivant Is nothing to
you; now, is it9"
"Why-er-not exactly"
ct might want a million dollars, but
that wouldn't cut any figure with you,
would it?"
Certainly not"
'Your're under no obligations to
supply me with what I want2"
= Hardly" - - e.
'Then what fool proposition it
would be for me to come to you and
say, MIR. Parkinson, / have been very
favorably impressed with your house
and lot or, T think I'd like your
daughter or anything else N that
line. But when your daug liter wants
anything it's different. Now, isn't it
different?"
cit certainly is different, admitted
the old man, cautiously.
Precisely" said the young man.
"She and I figured that all.out very
carefully last night. You see. I have
no particular prospects, and we could
both see that there wasn't one chance
in hundred that you would giyeaher
to me. Then she suggested that you
had never yet refused anything that
she wanted, no matter what the cost
might be, and that perhaps it would
be good plan to change the usual or
der somewhat. We sort Of felt that it
wouldn't be right to ask you to do any
thing for me, but it's different in her
case; as I remarked before. So I'm
here merely as her agentto ssy that she
wants me, that she wants me- very much
and to ask you to please see that she
gets me. She never has wanted any
thing so much as she wants me, and /
am so favorably disposed toward her
that, if you care to make the invest
ment, I shall be quite willing to leave
thcterma entirely to you and her.
Fs:gr.iiy sha Scs hin. No Tf-'T
c--.at- .. : -. q -; yEaYl l. rGlTE IL gF--
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rho uardest ,Japanese wood.

The hardest Japanese wood is what
is called KHAKI, which resembles oak
fibre. It takes high polish, and is
used for iine work and also for the
frames of ships. On account Of the
scarcity Of this wood, the price has
doubled within the last few years.
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ws.te I.and Probably Utilized.

Five years ago farmer in one of
our country towns. who had on his
farm q thorny little ravine of no.
value, set it with balm of Gilead
shoots. He now gathers every spring
from $50 to 500 worth of buds from
the rayiue, selling them to. pharma-
cists.
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riok Of daring has its name, and is
or hissed by the excited
on the benches, according
q thesandacity, GOODNESS and dexterity
i the men. or the reverse.
These lively fellows, who take ter,
,ible risks, will sest themselves "".
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THOS. ). ADAMS PROPRIETOR.
"A YEAR, FROM. TONIGHT.

Aiyear from tonight,
Shall we sit here the same?
I wonder and wonder,
And stare at the flame
That will not reply, 2.....-.s.-r.=- =.
Though I study its light,
And sadly am thinking
a year from tonight.
a year from tonight.
All, who Gun fQretell?
But this may count on
That all will te well;
{; The rest just as happy,
The fire just as bright,
Where e'er am dreaming
A year from tonight.
The world will be laughing,
Nor hush glad breath,
Although tired dreamer
Re dreaming OF death
A foolish young dreamer,
Whose lips have grown TEhltc,
May sleep all forgotten
A year from tonight.
Ethel n. Angler, in Boston Transcript
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Consumption OF Coal.

The consumption of coal per head OF
population is lowest in Austria, where
It is only one-si1th ton per annum, and
highest in Great Britain, where each
person averages three and three-tenths
tons each year. In the United States
the average is two and one-fourth tons
@ year.
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YOUNG HERO OF SANTIAGO.
Charles Escudero, of Ohio. Age fourteen
Carried Water to the Wounded
on San Juan Hill.

Although Charles Escudero, four
teen years old, doesn't realize it yet
time will shoy that 'as the water bo!
of the Ninth Infantry in Cuba he wai
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
Co,nmercIal Plants.

It is stated that 1900 species OF
plants are gathered and used. FOR COM
mercial purposes in Europe. Of
these, 42O have q perfume that is
pleasing, and enter largely into she
manufacture of scents and soaps.
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il. b,N, - TUfh. WuCu BOW Jul
men gett41g killed I wished had
gun, butt had to carry water. I had
four canteens. One held about two
quarts. The men firing would see
me and yell to ask if I'd got any
water. If they were all empty I went
to the creek and filled them. At the
last it got long way to go. Wasn't
[ afraid?' I just thought I'd get
killed, and we'd all get killed that
day, the bullets came SO thick. I saw
men I knew get hit.
'I kept run of my father by the
bugle, mostly. Did I see many
wounded9 Yes, carried water to 'em
when I could. Sometimes I had to
pour it into their mouths, but most oil
the men saw wounded were able to
get on their elbows to drink.
"I've got plenty of relics for my
mother-Spanish cartridges and other
Spanish relics. I'm going back to
school. I'm in the fifth grade"
The boy seems to have suddenly be.
come aged by his experiences. He is
only a little chap, with big brown
eyes and long lashes, and he says he
does so want to see his mother and
sisters,
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The Time It Failed.

Mrs. Callahan-"Don't yez re:
mimber Oh told yez tn marnin' not to
go in swimmin' today"
Patsy Callahan-"Oh, come OF.
mudder. Youse Want me ter say yes,
an den you're goin' ter say, 'Fergit it
on remember de Maine. Judge.
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1t is eighteen years since the first
Japanese newspaper was established,
and now there are in existence 575
daily and weekly papers, thirty-five
law magazines, thirty-fve medical
magazines, eleven scientific and large
number Of religious journals.
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LID SPAIN, despite, ,
the disgusting ime
morality of the

eA o . -, 49,
morality of the
thing, knows OF
no sight more
stirring and i'm.
posing than the; he
first part Of an e1..
pensive bull fight,
with. the oee;E Ger e.
monious entrance
to the blare OF
trumpets; the pro-
cession of historic
costumes Of Grim
son, pale, blue
white and canary;
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21

Russia is said to own 3,000,0Ot
horses-nearly one-half Of the whole
number in existence
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FLOYD GRAY'S :.
TEMPTATION.
~. o.
BY Eben E. Rexford.

lOYD GRAY used to
tell himself when he
and Mary Dexter
were children, that
some day, when he
grew to be q man,
he was going to
M AIRY the rosy
checked, b r gh t.
eyed girl who al
ways counted on
hin, nc raw chomnion