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THE COMING CARRIAGE.
Recent Trips FROM Cleveland to New
York of the Automobile Proves 1t.

Recent Trips From Cleveland to New
York of the Automobile Proves 1t.
The horseless carriage is here and
it is here to stay, The automobile is
yet In crude state of development,
but enough has been demonstrated to
prove thst it will speedily become the
generally used carriage of the country,
and in very few years the carria g
with horses will be maintained only
By those whose pleasure in driving IS
chiefly in the love of handling the
reins with spanking team.
Alexander Winton and Charles B.
Shanks OF Cleveland, left that city for
New York on an automobile on Mon
day morning, May %, to demonstrate
the possibility of such vehicles travel
ing long distances. The parties ar
rived at city hSll in New York at 6
o'clock on Friday evening. May 26,
having travelled TOT miles in At hours
and "a minutes running time. The
average speed of the entire trip up
and down hill, on good aud bad roads,
was Is miles an hour, and where the
roads were reasonably favorable the
speed Of 20 miles was often attained.
The entire cost Of the gasoline used
for the trip did not exceed 81, proving
that for cheapness the automobile eau
never be approached by any competi-
tor.
Hitherto the chief efforts of the pro.
moters of the automobile have been
directed to develop wagons for the
handling of heavy loads within cities,
and there is now every Indication that
they will be speedily introduced. The
horses attached to the teams hauling
heavy loads in the city are quite as
much of all obstruction and greater
element of danger than the wagons
themselves, and it seems now to be
clearly demonstrated that automobile
wagons can be used with great
economy, and with vastly increased
convenience to the public for all heavy
draught teams in the city. 1t is now
next to certain that within q year or
two at the most, our cities will be
handling their heavy hauling with
horseless wagons.
1t is idle to assume that such an
achievement will not displace the
horse carriages which are used for the
convenience and enjoyment of families.
The automobile will soon be developed d
into handsome and convenient car
riage for family use, and as the cost
of the moter power is merely nominal,
it goes without saying that horses,
which are most expensive luxuries,
must soon be dispensed with by all
who do not not drive solely because of
the love of horses. The horseless
carriage may therefore be regarded as
fairly upon us, and it now seems i'm
probable that any invention can be
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gieuset speeu ana with vastly de-
creased expenditure by the automo-
bile.
The difficulty with the automobile.
as first developed to be operated by
electricity, involved the carriage of q
very heavy storage battery, but the
automobile propelled by gasoline that
can be purchased at any village store
is practically travelling without expen.
dlture, as was proved by the expert
ment made from Cleveland to New
York, whom the entire cost of. the
motor power did not exceed 81 for
over 700 miles.
Whenever the automobile shall be
developed to furnish light and attrac-
tive carriages, any person can take the
horseless carriage and go in any direc-
tlon with the assurance that the gaso-
line can be supplied whenever wanted.
The automobile is here. 1t has come
to stay and the horse will have to 90.
Philadelphia Times.
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glHsT, Nc yAeLE METAL TYPE.
Korea, the Hermit Nation, Was the Orig
inator of Them.

Even Korea can boast of her share
of the great inventions of the world,
though, singularly enough, neither the
world at large nor she herself, except
in one case, has benefited permanent
ly by the inventions.
Korea was the first of all peoples to
originate movable metal type. For
hundreds of years the country and the
king had been under the domination
of the Buddhist priesthood. and the
land was suffering the extremes of
sacerdotalism. Every third son must
by law become a monk-in other
words, an unproductive member o.
society; the killing OF COW was q
greater crime than the killing of
man. The peoples houses were being
seized for the erection of worse than
useless monasteries. Atlast the Cen
eral vi T'a-io, whom dotard king
had sent upon the insane mission of
invading China; turned to his soldiers
and said, "Shall we return to the cap
ital and apply ourselves to the cleans
ing of the unspeakable. corruption of
our country?" lie was applauded to
the echo, and, like julius Caesar, but
with better purpose, lie recrossed the
Yalu, Korea's Rubicon, marched back
upon the capital and sealed the death
warrant. of sacerdotalism. No sooner
had the new dynasty been founded in
1892 than literature received a new
impetus through the revival of Confu-
cianism and the study of the ancient
classics. The monasteries, which had
methe repositories Of the schol-
arship of the land, were filled with
the unintelligible iargon of Buddhism,
and literature was almost wholly con-
fined to its ritual. But now schools
were being established. books were
being demanded, and students were
calling impatisntly for the time.hon-
ored classics. Thus it was that in the
reign of King T'a-iong fount of
metal type was cast, the first the world
had ever seen. Tie art of typography
had existed for centuries, and clay
type. had also been used in, Japan, but
Korea was the first to discern the need
of tile more permanent and durable
form of metal type; and SO we'll did
she carry out her. plan that the type
then cast has come down to the pres
ent day practically unimpaired. Each
type was built on the principle of the
arch, being cylindrically concave on
the under side. The purpose of this
was to secure frmer hold upon the
bed of beeswax which constituted the
'sform," technically so called. A
shallow tray was filled with wax, and
the type, after being: firmly imbedded
in it, were ''planed" in the ordinary
manner. The printer, sitting cross
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find out if Bathurst could possibly
have returned there to ask for an
armed escort: for the Journey. but all
to no purpose.
Suddenly, inexplicably, without a
cry, word, warning of any kind, he
was gone-spirited away-and what
really became of him will never be
known.
The officer in command of the Brad.
enburg Cuirassiers acted with the
greatest promptitude. The alarm that
the missing man had displayed that
afternoon had made deep impression
on him, and without loss of time he
put the secretary and valet under ar
rest, placed n guard over the Swan
Inn, took possession of the travelling
carriage, and then began an exhaustive
search, which lasted for days.
The river was dragged; marshes,
woods and bitches were examined for
miles around; the houses in the lower
part of the town were entered, and
there was rot a barn, hedge, outhouse
or copse that was not searched; while
bloodhounds also failed to track him.
The English ambassador at Vienna
and through him the English govern
ment-was communicated with. A
thousand pounds reward was offered
by the latter for any authentic infor-
nation; his own family offered rs
much, and Prince Frederick of Russia,
who, for friendships sake, took the
deepest interest in the fate of Bath
urst, offered in addition 500 Friedricks
dor, either for the discovery of the
body OF any clue that would lead to
the solution of the mystery.
The only discovery worthy the name
was made by two poor women of
Perleberg, who, more than a month
after the disappearance of Bathurst,
found in copse, whittier they had
gone to pick up sticks, the gray
pantaloons that he had worn on the
eventful night. Two bul..5 holes
were in the trousers, but no traces of
blood, which would have been there
had the bullets struck man wearing
them. They were stained on the out
side, as if the wearer had been lying
on the earth; aud in the pocket was q
letter, or rather few
words scratched in pencil, to his young
wife, to whom he was tenderly at
tached. In these few words he ex-
pressed the certainty he felt that he
would never reach England alive, bade
her touching farewell and entrcated
her by the love she bore him never TO
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ON AN ARMORED TRAIN.
HOW IT FOUGHT IFS WAY UP re THE
FILIPINO TRENCHES.

The Cars Wcre Iron-Clad Up to the
Into the Range of Bullets by the Brave
Men of tho Twenty-seoond Infantry
I'm Vie Field Before Calumpit, via
Manila.
This is the way the armored train
fought its way UP to the broken bridge
of the Bagbag river: Those three cars.
had lain for long time on the siding.
at Caloocan, and the men in charge
were tired of the waiting, when one.
night not long ago M engine backed:
III and pushed the cars out in trout of
the train that was bound for Malolos.
Malolos in those days was the Ameri-.
can terminus OF the Manila & Dagu-
pan railroad. Then there was much
cleaning of oily pieces, and Lieuten-:.
ant Bridges swung his legs from the
side door of his headquarters waiting:
further orders. s-s,
The orders came early in the morn
ing. The cars were cleared for action
and the one with the big 6-pounder-:
once transport gun-was shunted
around into the lead. Behind this
was common box car, in which the
lieutenant and doctors and hospital
corps men rode. There, too, certain
newspaper correspondents were
slowed away. In the rear were two
more fat cars, carrying the Hotchkiss
rapid-fire and the Gatling guns. These
cars, like those in front, were armored
up to the height of a mans shoulders,
and it would have taken an armor- .
piercing she'll to 60 through them.
While the shunting was il progress
and the armored train was being made
ready General Wheaton was ranging
up his Kansas and Montana regiments,
and large mules were toiling along on
the right of the track with several
pieces of the Utah battery. More
mules with more cannon were moving
off with genera! Hale, but they were
out of sight When General Wheaton
was ready to push on toward the
fringe of wood that marked the firing
line, less than two miles down the
track, the order came to 60 ahead
slowly and follow the troops. The
motive power was q detachment of
picked men from the Twenty-second
infantry, with Corporals Schmidt, Cor
less and Reeves in charge, all working
under Lieutenant Bridges of the Sixth
artillery. Slowly those wheels turned
down that unused track toward the
unknown territory and the enemy. !
The brown lines of soldiers moved on
with steady swing across the open,
with no other inconvenience than a
hlaoir. ,.. =. vss
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CURES FOR CRIME.
How DR.. D, X. Brower Would Check Its


How DIR. D. X. Brower Would Check Its
Spread in America. (;
DR.. Daniel r. Brewer of Chicago,
professor of mental diseases in Rush
medical college, told the American
medical association recently thai
crime in the United States is increas-
ing in vastly more rapid ratio than
is the population. This, he asserted,
is due to criminal parentage and en-
yironment. To check the alarming
growth, he added, radical changes in
present methods are necessary.
DR.. Brower's theme was '"rhe Med
'ical Aspect of Crime" He coptended
That the present laws and their pres
ent method of execution are q potent
factor in the causation of crime. The
code of today, he asserted, is the Ro.
man code. In ancient Rome it did
we'll because the death penalty was
common, but today, with no cutting
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-08-23
HUMOROUS.

''Is that new English novel inter-
esting?" ''No; there isn't single
consumptive person in the book. y
Ada-Wasn't there some talk of
Maude marrying duke? Dolly
Yes; but the Duke didn't say any
thing about it.
James," said the professor dreami-
ly, 'tthe horse is not quite ready to go;
please drive me up.to the front door
and tie me securely"
First Ingenious Maiden-How do
you like my engagement ring? Second
Ingenious Maiden-Oh, it is the
prettiest one you have had
When Daphne cleans our closets up,
Her ways must deplore;
She finds q lot Of long-lost things,
And loses many more.
'They say that fringes are not muck
worn now, but I'm hanged if I believe
it !" muttered Penniless, as he glanced
at the bottoms of his trousers.
Ethel saw Count Hardupski last
evening. Cousin Tom-Does he talk
as brokenly as ever? Ethel-My! yes.
I heard him ask pa to loan him $40
before he left.
"Mary, Johnny tells me that when
he went into the dining room last.
night he saw Mr.. .Biff with his arm
round your waist" "What story,
mamma! Why, the gas was out. !"
Portrait Painter-Let's see, what
pose would you prefer? Sitter
Please depict me as holding volume
&c nv poams with mn inspired mir that
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AFTER THE WEDDING.
A MoNoLoeyr

MONoLOGUF.
Wien will we get settled tevsr
Saw so many things of no use.
Poor Dick, who imagines me clever,
Will certainly think I'm goose, J,
For, though I'm ingenious enough to :
Make room for the coats and the frocks,
confess am not up to snuff to
Take care Of six ebony clocks! 5
Our rooms are just lovely. SO sunny
And cosy and cute and all that.
I'm sure, had we oceans of money
We couldn't improve on this flat
Except, while thee ought to be places
In sitting room, bed room and hall, d:
simply can't f11 these nine vases
We got, to look decent at all.
Three tables, none centre, are vexing,
And what I'm to do don't see.
And, also, how very perple1ing
Four sets for an afternoon tea!
Besides, here's a lamp for each tSble-
Another to keep In reserve "
And cheap candelabrum from Mabel
q wish had some peoples nerre!)
Ten pictures-and none OF them matches
The woodwork. And, my how they fight
No matter where hung, each one catches
The very worst kind Of light.
And only one chair. Our friends plainly
Believed we have used one before
But, pshaw! am happy, insanely,
With Dick, clocks and tables galore!
Edwin L. Sabin, In Puck.
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,ould not be drowned by the noise Of

could not be drowned by the noise OF
cannon. The Kansas men were max
ling q charge across the field on the
left. The armored train crept forward
hta quicker pace, and every gun was
Etraihed on the entrenchments ahead
|sof Funston. But for all that the
Filipino fire was maintained, three of
| the Kansas soldiers finding their way
to the rear with wounds in the arm.
Tt was brave run and n long one,
and not an instant did the men on the
armored train hesitate. They came
Rsteadily close to the trenches, until
they were within 25H yards of the
enemy. It took Funston some time
Ito run across that broken bridge,
Swim across the missing span and cap
sture the boat that brought his boys
across for the charge down the
ltrenches. The firing meantime was
persistent, and from the tops of the
Strenches flew the yellow dust. When
Funston had crossed aud the Fill
Spinos had fled out into the fields, the
4plg iron pro;ectlles from the rapld-nre
and 6-pound gnn followed them. An
Eother cheer came back from across
sthe trenches, and the order came TO
cease firing. The day had been won.
And now that armored car, with the
t6-pounder, rests close to the bridge
on the last rails left by the insurgents
sar1 tbe block nuzz1e of tha pun
Spoints toward the Rio Grand. The
9Gatlings are gone and the men who
work them, for Lieutenant Bridges
mounted them and took them to the
fight before Calumpit trenches, and
there they are as this is written.
b Those who marched beside the
train and pushed it into the range of
bullets went there without hinching,
yet without a cheer, for they were
not on a charge They are of the Twen.
lty.second infantry. Chicago Record.
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Reeds Record-Making GaveI.

When Samuel j. Randall was speaker
OF the House of Representatives, he
proved himself an artistic and scien-
titic desk splinterer. During the Forty
fourth Congress, when the electoral
vote was counted and Mr.. HAYES
was declared president, Mr.. Randall
pounded the top of the desk out of
shape three times. Employees of the
capitol who do the repairing of furni-
ture assert that there has never been
speaker who did not leave the desk
at the close of session in bad condi-
tlon, but that Mn. Reed succeeded in
splinteringit more effectively than any
other speaker. Rochester Post-Ex.
press. s........
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A MERCHANTS ORDEAL.
His Very Soul Narrowed Up by His wife,s
Telegram.

| W ny hlB VIE
Telegram.
The merchant uttered n sharp ex.
clamation and sank back in his chair.
A telegram fell from his shaking hand.
His eyes were wide. his face white,
beads of Precipitation stood on his
brow, The men in the outer Office
whispered among themselves. t'Touch
of heart disease?" asked one.
..sNo; the old man can't take up a
note, +" said another. 'I've heard ru-
mors of that kind. We fellows will
have to be looking for another place." F"
Get to work; he's coming to
again"
The merchant wiped his brow.
fetched a despairing sigh, picked up
the paper from the floor, frowned and
stamped his foot, as if to summon all
his resolution, placed the telegram on
his desk and forced himself to read
the bitter message. This was it:
Dearest James: Please send the waist
tor my grosgrain suit at once. You /.
will remember the one, as it has re-
vers on the fromage and chained
stitched .biases on the back. It is in
the lower trdnk in the closet beside
the hall room, under your winter over
coat. If not there, it must be in the
sealed box on the third shelf in the
front-room closet. If you don't find
IL. IL there, 1t must be somewhere else.
The trunk keys are in. the second
bureau drawer, unless they were put
IN the chiflonier; and think the closet
Keys are in vase on one of the man
els. Pack the W ist so as not to
wrinkle it; and, Oh! James, please do
lot swear Your loving wife. Col.
ect. IS. c., in Puck.
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FIFTY YEARS ASLEEP.
A Strange and Pathetic Story of a Mexi-
can War Veteran,

| can War Veteran.
A strange and pathetic story was
that told the other day in special
dispatch to the New York Tribune,
from Toledo. Ohio. It was concerning
a man living near Fostoria, in that
state, veteran of the Mexican war,
whose intellect and memory have just
been restored to him after a lapse of
more than fifty years. The story
reads almost like new version of Rip
Van Winkle. At the battle of Resaca
de La Palma, so the narrative runs.
while making cavalry charge, this
mans horse stumbled, throwing him
violently against pile Of .ocks, his
head striking in such manner that
he lost consciousness for hours. His
intellect and memory were both an.
parently destroyed by the accident.
He was able TO tell everything up to
the moment he was thrown from the
horse, but after that everything was
blank, and it has been so until recent
ly. He would say frequently that he
was nearly tweuty-one years of age,
and that he was going to vote for
General Taylor. While watching
some men saw wood with buzz saw
short time ago, ying piece of wood
hit him on the head, and he was
knocked senseless. It was several
minutes before he regained conscious
ness, as his eyes opened and he gazed
about him and upon his friends and
relatives, a singular expression, as of
a person just awakening from a long
sleep, came over his countenance. Re-
Gently for the first time he taken
n wagon with his nephew to Fos-
;oria. His first question was, "What
re all those wires up there on po os
or?' When shown the telephone and
aught how it ras used, and what for,
lis astonishment was simply study.
The electric cars frightened him at
lrst, and he stood and gazed long and
agerly upon them as they whizzed
y him. After he had looked about
own to his satisfaction he climbed
nt' the wagon aud said, "Well I guess
be world has got SO far ahead of me
II never catch up with it.. His
'iends say his greatest astonishment
as manifested when he Looked in a
lirror, and, instead of seeing the face
young and robust youth, saw
AN old, gray and on the down road
life.
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Women. Are Good Conductors

AT Meeting of the directors of the
sreet railway company of Madison,
ad., 1t was decided to continue the
inployment of young women as con-
nctors on the local street car system.
Ihe line has been in operation one
ear and is spleudidly equipped.
hen the system was completed the
anagement decided upon the EN-.
oyment OF women as conductors, and
.e experiment has been exceedingly
lceessful. The company has con.
uded that the women are, as rule,
ore attentive to duty, more careful
their personal appearance and
ead!er III their habits. Their hours
g from a. m. to e.30p p. m. IT is
lieved to be the only line in the
untry employing women conductors
en- have charge of the cars during
e night. New York Press.
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A Wolf Kills His Tanner.

" The great Versailles fair in France
aas been marred by two terrible acci.
n ents, in which one af the menagerie
criminals and tanner named Letort lost
orheir lives.
The first occurred through the care.
hessness of one of the keepers, who
,reft unfastened the door of the cage
,Hccupied by fierce polar bear. In
hthe midst of the performance the ami
Knal was seen to pull up the trap with
,lais paw and stalk out.
ia Fortunately a high iron grating
etood between him and the alarmed
nnlookers. The bear accordingly
eurned his attention to one of his
companions in captivity, and made for
i hyena, into whose cage he effected
I'm entrance. A ferocious battle en-
eued in spite of the efforts of the
iSeepers to separate the animals.
] Coming at length to the conclusion
that it was safest to let we'll enough
alone the men shut the cage securely
ind waited for the result of the en-.
counter. The end soon came. The
pear made short work of the hyena
md literally tore the beast to pieces.
Letort was killed in the cage of u
eroclous wolf, which all at once re-
used to obey him. The man struck
he animal over the four paws with his
whip, but this only made matters
gorse.
Lashed into fury the wolf sprang
n the tanner, threw him down and cot
is fangs into the mans throat. Le-
ort was found to have been severely
langled. His death ensued almost
nmediately.-Ne York Journal
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: Ianllly.

+. "Aunt Emeline has theory for re-
forming the world" "What is it?"
Mothers ought to exchange chill
dren." "What good would that do?"
Mothers always have .such strict
ideas about how other women's chill
dren should be raised" '1
The other day, as two friends were
talking together in the street; a dom
key began to bray and wheeze and
cough in distressing manner. "What
a cold that donkey has," said one of
the men. 'And, by the way, that
puts me in mind-how is your
cough"
eyes," answered Samuel War
shaver, the leader of the orchestra
engaged for the occasion, 81 saw Sam
three days ago. He then came to me
and engaged my band. He wanted
security that we would be present, so
| gave him my silver watch. 1 don't
know where lie is now."
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rrne.rtbed nm Indian Canoe.

While digging along the shores of
Cedar Swamp Creek, near Petersburg,
N. J., recently, Penn Baner uncovered
a large Indian canoe. The canoe was
nearly sixteen feet long, over five feet
wide, and the red cedar from which it
had be l. cut must have been a mon
ctar tree
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-08-23

A French pathological journal esti-
mates that of the $50 different lam
guages spoken On the globe, 50 are in
use in Europe,.l1A in Africa, l23 in
Asia, AIT in America and III in
Oceanica.