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The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
SECONDHAND WATCHES.
Commercial Museum Correspondent
In India Make Suggestions
In Their Letters.

Among the most valuable CORE
spondentG of the Philadelphia Conf
mercial museum in India and othefl
oriental countries are American mis-
sionaries. Two OF these, from WHOM
considerable valuable information has
been received. have suggested as d
means Of introducing and popularizinr
American products II floating cXposi
ton. Their idea is that his should be
on board vessel and should include 4
full and complete collection of Amer,
lean goods After spending some time
at Indian ports the vessel could visit
various Chinese ports, and give the
Chinese an opportunity TO see what the
United States has to sell.
The museums correspondent says
that there is an opening in China for
the disposal of limited quantity Of
secondhand watches. The native
watch repairers are skillful and work
cheaply They will take a watch that
a jeweler at home would not think
worth repairing and fix it up so as to
get several years running out of 1t
Old watches, the missionary thinks
which accumulate on the hands OF
jewellers could be disposed of for the
value OF the silver in them.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
Slow Eating May Be Had.

According to The Journal of Mental
and Nervous Diseases. slow eating is
as bad as fast eating. "The important
point is not that we eat slowly or fast,
but that when we do eat we chew with
energy. OF course where the haste is
due to some mental anxiety this may
injuriously inhibit the secretions. Slow
eating begets habit of simply mum
bling the food without really masticat.
ing it, while the hurried eater is in
clined to swallow his food before proper
mastication. Hence hurried eating is
bad, but rapid mastication is advan-
tageous. 1t concentrates our energies
on the act in question, and hence more
thoroughly accomplishes it. Moreover,
energetic chewing stimulates the secre.
tion of saliva in the most favorable
manner. These various points are so
commonly misunderstood, at least by
the laity, that they demand our FIRE.
quent attention.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
sp~aisb Cruelty.

The cruelty of the Spaniard. or rather
his callousness, his reoklessness of the
lives Of others, and even of his own, is
a medieval and oriental survival, says
Irving Babbitt in The Atlantic, and
then, too, there underlies the Spanish
temperament l know not what vein OF
primitive Iberian savagery. Mime.
d'Aulnoy relates that ON certain day
of the year It was customary for court
gallants to run along one of the main
streets of Madrid, lashing furiously
their bare shoulders, and when one of
these penitents passed the lady of his
choice among the spectators he bespat
tered her with his blood as special
mark of his favor.
Insensibility to the suffering of ami
mails, though general in Spain, is not
any greater so far as my own observa-
tion goes thar in the other Latin coun-
tries. Possibly medieval religion in so
exalting man above other creatures in
refusing to recognize his relation to the
rest of nature, tended to increase this
lack of sympathy with brute creation
The Spanish peasant belabors his ass for
the same reasons that Malebranche kick
ed his dog-because he has not learned
to see in it p being organized to feel
pain in the same way as himself.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
The Gioved Pashn.

Mustapha Pasha Fehmi, prime minis
ter of Egypt, decorated by Queen Vic
toria with the grand cross of the Order
of St Michael and st. George, is known
throughout Egypt as the gloved pasha,
owing to the fact that no one has ever
seen his left hand barred since the day
two and twenty years ago when, as one
of the chamberlains of the late Khedivo
Ismail, he helped his colleague, Sahmi
Pasha, to strangle the Egyptian minis
ter of finance at the close of n supper
party given by the wicked old khedive
on board his steam yacht, lying at anchor
in the Nile at Cairo. just off the palace
Of Gezereh.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
ATE DURING THE FIGHT.
Admiral schley md Capt Cook Ne
Worried Enough to Lose
Meal.

II seems that Admiral Schley auS
Capt Cook sat down to dinner Will.
the Brooklyn was chasing the unfof
tunate but gallant Colon. Theres
American assurance for you. says th,
KansIs City Star. At the close OF l
tremendously important battle. whiet
settled a war and changed the map Of
the world. the commanders on The
United States flagship. pursuing at To-;
speed the last of the enemy, who's
guns still belched defiance, sat down to
dinner, which, no doubt, wns served il
style and with strict regard for ga,-
Economical etiquette.
II will have a bit of the tomato
soup" remarked the admiral. "Ah
that must have been Ave and ons-hali
inch shell. eh. captain?''
Sounds like it-pass me the celery
replies Capt. Cook
With the cheese and black coffee AID
cigars the enemy is overhauled and
driven ashore, the Spanish sailors dot
ting the sea like drowning rats and tb,
aged Cervera tearing his beard in tn
agony of disaster. Then. after quafiinl
n chartreuse. the American admiral ap
pears on deck and orders all boats low
cred and all efforts made to save TIL
lives of the saturated Spnniards.
There ought to be fairly good mate
rial in this incident for a light opera
There was nothing half so naive o
amusing in "pirafore.'
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
urIc~. neck. During . right.

The position Of the men below decks
ON a modern vessel of war, they being
isolated by the watertight matches and
doors, has been frequently commented
upon, but their position is not always
so hard as has been supposed. On the
Brooklyn, during the fight before San
tiago, Admiral Schley sent orderlies
among the men behind classmates and
below decks telling them the effects Of
the shots and how the fight was going.
When the chase of the Colon began. the
oIderlies went down to the stoke holes
and engine room and told the men
there that the race had begun and ev,
erything depended upon them. The wis
dom of the action was partly shown in
the outcome
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
the Anglo Saxon.


The superstitious fears of the many.
always particularly alert on the occa
sion of marriage, culminate in this
final act of the drama. The lifting Of
the bride over the threshold or her step
ping across il is the signal in Persia,
Arabia and among the Copts Ct Egypt
for the sacrifice of goat or sheep.
Among tine AeneZes, according to
Burckhardt, the bridegroom simply
kills lamb in front of his father-i in.
laws tent. and the ceremony, but for
the running of the bride from one tent
to another. is complete. Perhaps the
pu-est symbolical act is that of the
Transylvanian Saxon bridal pair, who
step over the threshold with their hands
tied together. Some of these Transyl-
vanian customs are remarkable and
must be survivals from very ancient
period. The bridegroom never wears
the shirt made for him by the bride ex.
cept on his wedding day and at his
burial. just as the veil of the japanese
bride becomes one day her shroud. -
London Spectator.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
RHYME OF RHYMES.

Wild on the mountaiL peak the wind
Fepcats its old refrain,
Like ghosts of II, srfals who have sinDsd
And fain would sin again
For wind" l do not rhyme TO mind,
like msny mortal men.
slgsiB" when one reAectsl 'twere kind
10 rhyme as If 'agen-"
never met n single soul
Who spoke of wind rs ''wined."
Ard yet v-e use IL, on the whole.
To rhyi4.e to "hnd" and blind"
We say. Now don't do that agen,-
when people give us pain.
In poetry. nine tis-es in ten,
1t rhymes to "Sosin" or Dane"
Oh. which Is wrong or which is rightf
oh. whi is right or wrongp
Tho sound in prose familiar quite
Or those we meet in songt
To hold that love" can rhyme to prove
Requires some force Of will.
Yet in the ancient lyric groove
We meet them rhyming still
This was our learned fathers wont
In prehistoric tunes
We follow IL. or II we don't
We of run short of rhymes
-Androw Lang in LongInan's Magazine
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
He Got the Mustard.

II was in the army. The boys had a
meal of beef that had been corned by a
bath in salt horse barrel. 1t was quite
n treat. They all thought SO until one
of the party remarked, "A little mus
tard wouldn't go bad. "
"That reminds me, said another
"You just wait few minutes. A
quarter of an hour later he returned
and, producing screw of paper, he
said: "Oh yes. Here's that mustard. :"
Where did you get it?' said the
others in chorus.
up at the surgeon S. The sick call,
you remember, sounded as we were
talking about the mustard. 1t occurred
to me that little mustard for my lame
back would be just the thing. 3"
but you haven't got any lame
back. -
"But l have got the mustard -
Philadelphia Press.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
DICKS GOOD TIME.
A Very Human boy Enjoying His Well
EARNED Reward.

A Very Human BOY Enjoying His Well
Earn.d Reward.
A portly gentleman sat ON the porch
and smiled while small boy, also
smiling, painted the front fence.
Look at that boy, " the portly man
remarked To visitor He thinks he
is having good time \ small boy is
surely the drollcst creature on earth
When / was a youngster, ! remember
that there were certain kinds of work
considered play, and one of them was
painting | was always crazy to paiut-
Many times | have taken a bucket Of
muddy water and an old paint brush
and have spent whole half day put
ti..S a thick coat on the sids o. my IA
ther's barn.
$50 with my hoy Dick, the little
chap painting the fence. He has ALWAYS
been crazy to paint He is enjoying
himself now-you can see he is, and he
will paint that whole fence, too, just
as we'll as he knows how l don't care
II it is trifie smeared He's getting
Joy, solid joy, thicker than the paint
on his hands and clothes.
"There's n mean side to it too. He
wanted to paint the fence, and l wanted
the weeds pulled out of the yard. So
like an underhanded rascal, | bargained
with him. | told him that If he would
pull all the weeds out | would let him
paint the fence. He went through the
other job like "a soldier-he hates to
pull weeds all boys do-and now he
thinks he 10 getting his reward. 1t is a
downright shame to fool him that way.
don & you think SOP
The utly gentleman chuckled again,
and the small boy, wild with joy, went
on plastering paint ON the fence. De-
troit Free Press.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
MAKING WOOD ALCOHOL.
The Deadly Substance Tint Thirsty
Top~rs Sometimes Drtnk-

1t is necessary first to convert wood
into liquid. The strongest hydraulic
pressure would not squeeze onehalf of
1 per cent of the moisture from dry
wood, but by putting the same material
into an iron retort and converting it
into charcoal by means of heat the gases
and smoke, TO the extent of fully 65 per
cent of the weight of the wood, may DO
condensed into pyroligneous acid, from
which are obtained wood alcohol, acetate
of lime and wood tars. A cord of wood
weighing 4, 900 pounds produces about
1850 pounds of pyroligneous acid and
roo pounds Of charcoal The pyroligne-
Gus acid from one cord of wood pro
duoes gallons of SO per cent crude
wood alcohol. 200 pounds of acetate OF
lime and about 90 gallons of tar. besides
80 bushels of charcoal. After the pyro-
ligneous acid is neutralized with lime
the wood alcohol is distilled off, the
lime holding the acetio acid in solution.
After the separation of the wood spirit
the remaining liquid is boiled down in
pans 90 a sugar, which is dried, and he
comes the acetate of lime of commerce
Acetate of lime is used for making acotIc
acid
Fully three-fifths of all the wood al
cohol and acetate of lime produced in
the world are made in the United States
Over 10, 900 acres of forest per year are
cleared in the United States. Wood al
cohol affords a perfect substitute for
grain alcohol for manufacturing and
mechanical purposes, end at less THAI
one third the cost. 1t is used principally
as solvent in the making Of shellao
varnish and in making celluloid and
Photographic paper. 1t makes beautiful
dye tints, is antiseptio and is used for
liniments and for skin rubbing in bath
houses Wine and Spirit Gazette.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
Method.

NO" said Senator Sorghum, with
Emphasis, IL cant talk for publication
today"
But, senator, in all the years of uuI
acquaintance this is the first time you
ever declined to let me quote you.
II don't want you not to quoto me
want you to say decline to be inter
viewed This is confidential I've CON
cluded it's time for me to act as if Ia
got to be SO important that dasn't talk
Tor fear of giving something big away.
Washington Star.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
Know. Them Too w.lI.

Mrs. Brown--What a curious man
Mr.. Skowler is. He never takes the
least notice of children. He actually
seems to dislike them.
Mr.. Brownies, Skowler is the
man who takes babies pictures at
Smiler's studio, 1t is his business, you
know, to make the little ones look
pleasant. Transcript.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
Delicately Put.

He would not say that she painted,
powdered and all that. He was too
much of gentleman for that.
"Still l may as well confess he
said, "that she impressed me as one
who thinks she can improve upon the
Lords handiwork. Chicago Post.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
renpI. of SION. Age.

1.-The stone age" is not, properly
speaking, an expression of time. Ii re.
fers to a stage in civilization which
passed long ago in Europe and Asia,
but still fingers in some out OF the way
corners of the world. A report of La
Plata museum in Paraguay desert bes
the Quayoquis, a small tribe of 800 or
600 living near the headwaters of the
Acaray river, as true stone age people.
They are timid, harmless folks, desper
ately afraid of the whites, aud with
reason, as they have been shamefully
abused by them. They haze no weapons
for defense save bows, la ices and stone
tomahawks. They are undersized and
round headed.
Incident OF Trolley Travel
What the dash are you here for1'
said an angry passenger, stepping down
slowly from the footboard of trolley
car. He thought the conductor should
have looked out for him and stopped the
car where he wanted to get off, blocf
back.
"I'll show you what I'm here fur,
said the conductor, reaching tor the
belloord tting, tingD as he spoke and
Zip, zip, zip. came the sound OF
the motorman's lever turning in the
uotches, and
"Bz-z-zz- -zz-zzl" sang the trolley
and before he knew il the passenger
found himself standing alone III the
middle of the road. New York san
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
Painful Operation.

SIS that fellow really "a painless den
tist?''
almost. The only pain suffered
vas when he extracted his fees. lin.
ianapolis Journal.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12

In the number of murders Italy leads
Europe. In the nunai-- - suicides Rus
s.s is ahead.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12

The trade between JA-.n and For
mosa has more than Quintupled since
iS96
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
Crossing the Threshold.

Crossing the threshold was and is
the most critical period of the wedding
day with all races. not even excepting
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12

Become reader of the TRInuNE
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
Ladies Muslin Underwear

Ladies Muslin Underwear
Taking stock we find that
our Muslin Underwear on
hand amounts to over
ST. 900. This will and must
be sold. This is your chance
to get a supply at greatly re-
duced prices. On one of our
center tables you will find
them marked in plain fig
ureS. the incest assortment
of all kinds, up to- date. See
a few items below.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
Lace Department

Our Oriental lace amounts
to more than nine hundred
dollars alone. in all widths,
patterns and shades, goods
which were never sold for
less than SOC yard; on this
sale we will sell them at the
great reduced price. Your
choice per yd 15c
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
Silk Department
Dress Goods Department

In this department you can
find dress patterns in domes-
tic and imported goods. and
down to half. We also have
a big lot of remnants of the
best goods in all styles the
Globe will sell them less than
cost. All goods marked in red
SOC at 15c
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-12
so CENTS
ON THE
DOLLAR

We have been TAX
ing stock and find
that we have more
winter goods than
we want. This is
the best opportu-
nifty for cash buy
ers to secure a
years supply at an
i'm menSe saving.
The da niger of the
sickness is over.
People of Florence
and surrounding
country get over
your scared feeling
and come back to
real life again.
New-York tribune., 1899-12-03
TILE MAGIC OE NATURE

Wireless telegraphy is as hard to believe in as
the chlds story about the "scven league boots"
Why little wheel that runs along n wire should
gather power enough to lift three carloads OF
people up hill Is much more difficult to under
stand than that the door of the robbers cave
should swing open when All Baba uttered GER
tain words. No doubt door could be arranged
with so delicate a mechanism that on being af-
fected by certain vibrations OF the human voice
1t would open. But still 1t would only be n
mechanism, and would be no such miracle as is
exhibited in telegraphy. If belief In a thing
means the understanding Of 1t we do not believe
IN electricity. We only make IT, or rather educe
IT and guide IL, and then use IT, But no one
knows what ii is. When the cable Is laid from
Canada TO Australia and the old earth renews
It's vigor by wearing an electric belt we shall be
able to send messages from our right hand TO
our left with all the world between. And while
one hand ticks off the sentence the first words Of
it VIII be coming TO the receiver before the last
words Of 1t are sent off. In those two or three
seconds the message Will travel about thirty
thousand miles, allowing for the great deviation
IN the Pacific.
Now. let 1t be noted that no one understands
this The human mind cannot follow that mes
sage as 1t twists on the glasses Of half million
telegraph poles and sweeps across the valleys
and climbs the great submarine mountains. Is
man not forced 10 his belief in the miracle of
Natures magic solely by results7 This does not
differ from belief In n religious creed. II be-
"lieve In God, the Father Almighty. Maker Of
Heaven and Earth SO far as human under
standing goes Is there any difference between
the reasons for belief in this creed and the rea
sons for q belief in electricity? Both come from
noting results the causes Of which are undiscov-
cred. Both creeds are equally scientific. or un.
New-York tribune., 1899-12-03
PERSONAL.

Edwin G. Cooley who is 10 succeed Colonel
Francis c. Parker as principal OF the chicago
Normal School. is a graduate or the ChVelsi'y y.
Iowa. In 1885 he elected superintendent OIL
Schools of Cresco, Iowa. and In that post ne re-
mained six years The Iowa Legislature by unan-
inous vote elected him trustee OF the state
Normal School, and for two years he charged MN,
became bee ' principal Of the Cook County High School.
University Of Chicago.
Rabbi Emanuel schreber. of Youngstown. Ohio.
who has been chosen rabbi OF the Emanuel Syna-
gogue, Of Chicago, is forty-hve years old and a
native OF Austria. He is doctor OF the Royafi az
religious works.
Dmitri sergevitch Sepjagin, the new Russian
Minister Of the Interior, born In 1853 on the
estate Of his father. near Moscow He began MS
career as Justice OF the Peace. Then he became
president of the justices bench Of his county ana
ernment OF Moscow In 1886 he became Governor OF
Kharko IN 1888 Governor OF Kurand IN st IL %8S fhe
imperial domains and In 1891 Assistant Minister OF
the Interior and Equerry to the Car.
The Pretoria correspondent Of THE London
Chronicle" says: 1T must have been the next
evening as we were waiting three or four hours,
usual for the line to clear. that General Joubert
came up in special train few young men ana ana
BOYS IN clothes hes fSrmed s brown hs s1nch h
With bqqG Snd blue e 9Gk 9S wb not but his
long straight hair is still more black than gray;
The brown sallow face Is deeply wrnkled and
marked but the dark brown eyes are stil bright;
simplicity mingled with shrewdness, or. per
haps some subtler quality. He speaks English
with a .pIquant lack OF grammar and misuse OF
words When travelled with him next day almost
the first thing he said to was: The heart OF my
soul is bloody with sorrow.' His moderatng In
fiuence the Krtger Government is well known
and he described to me how he had done his Ut
most for peace. But he also described how bit by
bit England had pushed the Beers out Of their in
heritance and taken advantage OF them in every
conference and native war"
Governor Mount Of Indiana Is personally super
vlsng an elaborate exhibit for his State at the
Paris Exposition One of the features OF this will
be a series of large photographs 10 show the prog
ress Of the good roads" movement in Indiana.
where there are now fifty thousand miles OF graded
and gravelled highway
New-York tribune., 1899-12-03
A.rwa1ork DAILY Gribn'rs
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1890.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Oficial dispatches from Genera,
Walker at Cape Town announced that GeheIai a
Methuen was rebuilding the brdge over NhVu
dor River. reinforcements have been forwarueu
20 him. the official casualty list of the battle or
Nodder River makes the total British LOSSES
AL officers and men; the Beers are rePor'su So ~
have withdrawn from Modder River 10 spy
fontein where the next battle by Dord Melhu-
ems column will probably be fought; the boels
are reported to have blown up the prluge o.sd W.
the Tugela at Coenso == The capture Vi tns :
Filipino General Conon, with eight hundreu
men by small party Of American caVaiS- =
men was the result Of successful plul py
Lieutenant Munro, Of the attn CavaIV, VIZ %
tanned the rebel wire. -= The trlal OF 'he
prisoners accused Of conspiracy before the sen
ate High Court in Paris was asain marked py
excitement and disorder == battle between
the forces Of Castro and Hernandez Is I'M
mnent in Venezuela. where the cause OF III
Mocho' (Hernandez) is constantly growing =,
The Peruvian Cabinet has resigned. - Inc
Newfoundland banks have imported a large
srm In gold 10 meet a threatened run by de-
pcsitors = Much destruction mas peen
caused along the Chilian coast by tidal wave
DOMESTIC C-Caucuses were held at the cap
itol by Republican and Democratlc mempers ol
the House of Representatives; David Is. Hen
derson of Iowa was unanimously nominated
by the Republicans for Speaker, and the Demo
Gratis nominated James d. Richardson or Ten
nessee 60 Republican members or the SENATE
Finance Committee held meeting at the cap
ito TO consider general financial DILL one Ieat-
ure Of which is expected TO be a provision lot
refunding the DOndeu uept Oi the t, -
- a treaty for the partition Of the Samoan
Islands was signed at the State Department by
Secretary Hay and the Ambassadors or Great
Britain and Germany - The war DePapu- Pps
,nent made public General Otis's report on oper-
ations in the Philippines up to August 81
CITY-Stocks were strong and dull -
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff conferred win
Kings County Republican leaders al a iuncHeol
given by him in Brooklyn. == Daniel ramon
Lord Mayor of Dublin. and John T. Redmond
NJ P who have been in this city raising money
for the Parnell monument, sailed FOR nome
- Mrs Henry b. Plant started a suit 10
have her husbands will brought back from
Connecticut and probated in this state. -
Alderman p. Tecumseh Sherman showed the
gross extravaganza Of Tammanys adminlsIra-
tion by an array of startling figures. - Inc
National City Bank announced It's intenuon 10
increase its capital stock from Sl,oooooV 10
S1OOO0OO0
THE WEATHER.-Forecastf for to-day; FAIR
The temperature yesterday: Highest, % degrees;
lowest 46, average. 4S1s.