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The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-02

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The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-02
Island citizene in their beloved COM

Island citizens In their beloved com.
moRwealth."
Minnesota's new State House was
also constructed OF Georgia marble.
This building 10 now nearing COM
pletion. The immense Corcoran art
gallery at Washington now owned by
the United States is built Of white
marble from Georgia quarries. 30
when Little Rhody" completes her
massive State House, 1t may be setd
that three of the finest public build.
ings In the country ere constructed OF
Georgia marble. :
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-02

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" upon her health.
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81 you will, It Is a
. woman's duty to
SS Worship ut the
4 shrine OF her mir
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to preserve her
good looks and youth.
ful epirits as long az
The women who suf-
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The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
Won Her a Diadem.

How did the French come into Sic. fly? A woman did 1t. At festive entertainment held at French court Beatrice, countess of Savoy and wife of Charles of Anjou, the brother Of Louis TX. of France, was removed from the superior range of seats occu- pied by her two younger sisters, the queen of France and the queen of En- gland. Mortified by the- humiliation, she returned to her apartments, and burst into tears.
 Upon learning the cause of her chag- rin and her saying that she would be willing to give up her life to confine her tresses for one hour beneath a diadem Charles embraced her affectiOnately and said:
 "Set your heart at rest, countess, for before long I will make you a greater queen than either of your sisters"
 So he promised her. He defeated Manfred, the last of the Norman kings, and caused Conradino, the great-grand- son of the Emperor Frederick, to be mercilessly slain, he himself and Be atrice witnessing the scene. Upon the death of his brother Charles became king of Naples, thus fulfilling the cher. ished desire of his wife for a diadem.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26

erality. Native character and customs are carefully studied and duly respect ed. So far as possible native rulers are kept in power, and religious lib erty and the freedom of trade are stu diously promoted. This liberal policy not only enables the ruling power to maintain its authority economically, but by propitiating the governed, per- disposeS them to study and to acquire the point of view of their rulers. It is thus a civilizing policy. Spain could not maintain her power in Cuba with two hundred thousand soldiers; but Great Britain governs Ceylon, which has twice the population of Cuba, with fifteen hundred men; and Sir Andrew Clarke, by his wise policy in the Straits Settlements of the Malay Peninsula, brought order out of chaos, put an end to tribal misrule and brought prosperity to the people without the aid of any British troops. The events of the past year make this matter of colonial gov ernment one of supreme interest to the United States. The National Civil Ser vice Commission, in a report just pub lished, rightly attributes Great Bri- tain's success to her admirable civil ser vice, and enumerates characteristics as worthy of our imitation if we hope for similar results.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26

Young men ought to go into politics. They can do themselves. and their country good. If tbey want office they are entitled to have 1t. If they are clever enough to beat their elders it will be a salutary event for all persons concerned. Most of the elders of poli- tics need to be beaten once in a while. It freshens them and it ventilates the offices, taking the mould out and ex- posing the disorganization. Youth Is indiscreet. if the textbook of the aged may be believed. But indiscretion is frequently the beginning of new and approved conventionalities. It is the lcoDoclast that lOOsens the world from Its fetiches. When it isn't a reality, it is a bogy, and the raillery of men against it need not deter any young man from taking a turn at it if he con-. scientiously thinks the old men mis- taken. 4 thousand youthful Indiscre- tions in municipal and district govern ment could scarcely be worse than the thousand and ten mistakes which the elders constantly are making. The young men can do at least as much as the older ones-and that is, they can try
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
The Conspiracy Failed.

Once upon a time there lived in Leavenworth the late Len T. Smith. whom all old timers remember, and General Powell Clayton. Smith was in New York one day when he was ap- preached by a chap who said he had on the string a rich friend from Cuba, who was anxious to start a big faro game and wanted him to deal for him. He proposed to Smith that he would take up the offer-Smith should tackle the game and he would cooper ate with Smith, so that together they could rob the Cuban of $50,0OO.
 Smith sent up stairs for Clayton and told him what the gambler had pro posed. All three started out to see the Cuban, and they found him surround ed by everything refreshing that mon ey could buy. Smith and Clayton ate and drank and drove and went to the theater and had all sorts of fun at the Cuban's expense for three or four days, all the time having under con sideration the proposed conspiracy.
 Finally, when they were through with their business in New York. they thanked the gamblers for their hos pitality and suggested that they look for suckers elsewhere than from among frOntiersmen from Kansas It was estimated that the gamblers spent lt least $1,OOO entertaining their in- tended victims.-Kansas City Journal
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26

According to reports from Teheran, the present Shah, who has been on the throne only little over three years, en- tirely neglects the affairs of state, spends all his time in the palace anus ing himself with telephones, and his intellect is believed to be impaired. It is said he suffers from Authorizations and is no longer fit to rule.
 For years before he came to the throne 1t was reported that MuZaffar- ed-din was Intellectually weak. The Shah is the second son of the late Shah, and his elder brother Is still alive and is a. very active and able man of af- fairs. The throne would have been his birthright if he had not been the son of a plebeian woman, while his younger brother was the son of a lady of high birth ands royal blood. It was feared hat when the succession came Zil-i- Sultan, who is enormously wealthy and a man of high spirit and ambition, would contest the right of his brother to abrogate the rights of the elder son. For this reason he was forbidden to maintain a separate army in the prov ince he governed, or to import arms. None the less, it was feared there would be trouble, and it has been as- serted that he would not have submit ted if it had not been for the awful cir cumstances of his fathers death and the seating of Muzaffar on the throne almost before 1t was known that the old Shah had fallen by the hand of an assassin.
 The present Shah is 46 years old, and his oldest son, the heir apparent, is 27 years of age. All the rulers of Persia amass enormous fortunes, as might be expected from the fact that the entire revenues of the country are at their disposal. The fortune of the present occupant of the throne is reported to amount to about $3O,O0O,OOO, a consid- erable part of which, however, is rep resented by the crown jewels.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26

The lines of diplomacy are running | parallel in the matter of the Alaska
 boundary and the Behring Sea ques-
 tion. The agreement which Ambassa.
 dor ChOate and the Marquis of Sails.
 bury have effected concerns not the
 whole boundary line, but only such a
 part of it as is of present importance
 to Canada and the United States, just as was the case in the other matter.
 That Is to say, 1t applies only to the
 villages and properties built up by the increased activity of travel over the passes leading from the sea to the Yu-
 kon valley. This provisional agreement,
 which it is cOvenanted shall not be exercised to prejudice the final loca-
 ton of a permanent line of demarca-
 ton, was required to appease the growing dissatisfaction of the army of settlers upon, and the traders and trav- elers who cross the ChilkoOt and White Passes and move upon the Dal- ton trail. The doubt as to locality rests upon the contention of the Do
 minion that the boundary line should run ten marine leagues east from the outermost fringe of islands that dot the Alaskan coast. The United States holds that the initiatory points of measurement exist on the main land. Tn the United States survey maps the boundary line at the places named in the mOdus vivendi passes in a sweep ing curve around the head of Lynn Canal, including in Alaskan territory Talya, Skaguay, ChilkoOt and the viii lage of Kluckwan. By the provisional delimitation the line will pass through three specified points, the old Cana dian custom house on the White Pass, the present Canadian custom house or Chilkoot Pass and extend northward to the Dalton trail just without the village of Kluckwan. The real dispute has been at what point the line should cut the Dalton trail, because at the other places the natural boundary Is fairly defined by the summit of the
 water shed upon which the custom houses have stood. But the present agreement, which is operative only for
 two years, by which time the whole question will be threshed out, practi
 cally leaves the United States in pos
 session of all she claimed as being in
 cluded in the Russian purchase. The Lynn Canal, as the estuary is called which leads in from the sea to the foot of the Chilkoot, remains in Alaska with all its varied interest for fisheries and commerce, and if some concession has been made to the Dominion it is of a nature that is justified by the uncer- tainty of the boundary and the friend ly and reciprocal interests of the two countries which dispute 1t. Canada has not reached tide water, however, which was her dearest wish, and about which she has clamored so per Fortunately the settlement of international disputes in which she may engage does not rest with her, but must be made through the crown who in this case have seen how baseless the pretensions of the Dominion are.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
The CameI's Eve.

The Nile is essentially a river of si- lence and mystery. Even the camels turn their beautiful soft eyes upon you as if you were intruding upon their silence and reserve. Never were the eyes in human head so beautiful as a camePs. There is limpid softuess, an appealing plaintiveness in their eX- pression which drags at your sym pathies like the look in the eyes of a hunchback. It means that with your opportunities, you might have done more with your life. Your mother looks at you that way sometimes in church, when the sermon touches a particularly raw nerve in your spir- Jtual makeup. I always feel like apoIogizing when a camel looks at me- -Woman's Home Companion.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
Expressed in His Own Way.

A certain Sunday school teacher whc has class of boys of assorted sizes established the custom in her class o1 repeating each Sunday a scripture passage in unison until it was firmly implanted in the 'vagrant minds."- The selection for the Sunday in question was. '"Tis l, be not afraid" and after the usual mental gymnastics had been gone through, after an expectant hush, one promising youth volunteered the information that he knew. "Well, what is it?" asked the teacher. ''It's me, don't get skeered," was his rendi. ton of the verse.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
SPONGE USED AS HoNEYcoMs.
Maine Mans Way of Solving a Prob
 lem in Bee Culture.

y a
 lem in Bee Culture.
 According to Tom Kier, of Venable,
 Me-, bee is well-meaning and poorly educated insect that needs the guiding hand of man to bring it to fullest per lection. The making of honey is sec ondary consideration in the economy of bee life. The stuff which costs time and labor is the comb, which is manu- factured into storage vaults, in which the honey is preserved in alright, seal ed packages, stamped and labeled with the trademark of the queen bee who preSides over the deStinies of the col ony. Different men have constructed machinery for the stamping of bees wax into crude imitation of the genu- inc comb, and the bees have accepted this as a passable substitute for the real thing, but Tom is the first apiarist who has done away with beeswax in any form and satisfied the bees.
 One day last June, after washing his buggy and sponging it off he threw the sponge, which was large and porous, into an empty beehive that was in his stable. Here 1t stayed until thorough ly dry. A swarm of bees coming out, Tom housed them in this hive without thinking to remove the sponge, which had clung to a nail in the top board. Two weeks later Tom looked into his hive and found it was almost filed with nice, white clover honey. As the swarm was not a large one, the great store was a surprise to Tom, who thought 1t would not be full before On closer observation he found that his bees had utilized the porous sponge as a storehouse for their honey, filling it cell by cell and sealing 1t up as if sponge was the very article that progressive bees had been seeking all their lives.
 It was too late to continue the expert ment, as all the bees had swarmed, but this year Tom has equipped all of his new hives with sponge comb, and be- lieves he has solved problem that has mystified bee-keepers for years. h. stead of compelling his bees to waste of their time in chewing gum and making 1t into wax for cells, he will now furnish them w.ih comb, thus multiplying his honey output three or four times. When le wants some new honey he will re- move a sponge, put it in a cider press, md having squeezed out the liquid sweetness, he will replace the sponge n the hive to be filled again.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
Where Ipnorance Was Bliss.

Some years ago sudden panic caus- ed a run on a country bank, which was saved only by the cOOlness and re source of it's head officials. An old lady, who had banked there for fifty years, was among those who present ed themselves at the bank counter to draw out her large balance and deposit account.
 "Will you have it in gold or Bank of England nOtesY inquired the polite cashier.
 "Oh, none of your new-fangled notes," replied the cautious dame; 'I'll have your own notes-they've always been good enough for me!' And she departed with her bag stuffed full of the paper which had been refused by every one else.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
THE PROFESSORS PRIZE.
1t Was Something He Could Beat.
 but It Got the Best of Him.

1t Was Something He Could Beat,
 but It Got the Best of Him.
 One evening last winter one of Adel- bert's popular professors attended a social function where the guests play ad progressive pedro, game in which the worthy educator lays no claim to being an expert. In fact, on the pres- ant occasion he was credited with but two progressions. score of really as- Dnishing smallness. Naturally, what $ termed the ''boOby prize" fell to him, and this time 1t took the form of a double yolk egg, with the following sarcastic legend attached:
 Something you can beat"
 The professor smilingly accepted the reward, and after 1t was passed around md joked upon he 9nally slipped it Into the side pocket of his oyercoat and then straightway forgot its exist ence.
 When the party broke up, he accom- panied two young ladies to their home. When they reached the house and the latchkey was produced and used, 1t was found that the front door was locked so tightly that it refused to yield to ordinary pressure. So the professor put his hip against a panel and pushed hard.
 There was a dull crash, a mild yell. the professor leaped in the air and clutched at his side.
 The double yolk had exploded!
 A moment later the afflicted educator gingerly drew from his pocket pair of exceedingly yellow gloves, followed by muff1er of the same gaudy tint. And the ladies leaned against the rail Ing and laughed until they cried.
 Of course they promised not to tell, put in some unfathomed way the story like the egg-leaked Out.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
THAT FIRST SIN.
Figures to Show That Adam and Eve
 Ate Eight Million Apples.

Ate Eight Million Apples.
 Probably our great ancestor, Adam, little thought of the trouble he would cause posterity by eating an apple. 1 But now the question as to how many apples he really did eat is a new diffi- culty.
 How many apples did Adam and Eve eat? Was it one or was it millions? When the subject was first mooted the editor very naturally replied, 'Why, one, of cOurSe."
 "No," said the assistant editor, Eve ate one, and Adam ate one, too; that's two."
 Then the subeditor passed along slip of paper on which was written, Eve 81 and Adam 81. making 1892"
 But the poet, who is a man of imag- ination, capped this with, 'Eve S1 and Adam S12-S93."
 Then the publisher tried his hand, and his contribution was, "Eve 8,142 see how it tasted, and Adam SIP. equals S,954."
 The poet, who dislikes being sur passed as much as he hates barberS, came up to the scratch again with "Eve 8, 142 see how it tasted, and Ad- am S1, PAP keep her ,3S4."
 Then the humorist, who had been listening, quietly handed in his con- tributiOn, Five 8, 142 see how it tasted, and Adam SPA, ,21O-der a husband was he to see her eat alone. This equals S,132, 1852"
 But he had another object" said the poet Five 8, JAP satisfy her curiosity, and Adam SPA, ,240-fy Eve in her pc sition. That makes 8, ,132, 3S2."-Phila- delphia Record.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
UTILIZING THE GOUT.
1t Has Power to SOOthe the Man
 With a Cracked Shoe.


 Every now and then" said a man of moderate means, something hap pens to remind me that I am Only a novice in the art of life. For instance. my shoes were wearing out, and in one of them there was an ugly crack in the top. If there is one thj>g more dis turbing to me than another, 1t Is the sight of a shoe on one of my feet with 3 hole in the top. But I had not the money wherewith to buy another pair. and, though it may seem ridiculous. l couldn't very we'll spaSe the quarter that it would cost for patch, to say nothing of the fact that patched shoe IS little less unsightly in my eyes than one with hole in it.
 Walking, in this predicament, Ona day, 1 met friend, whose means, so far as knew, were little, If any, great top of one of his trimly blacked shoes B carefully cut round hole. Since had last seen him he had apparently pros pered enough to have got the gOut. a fact on which I ventured to comment.
 Why he said. you can get precise ly the same kind of gOut with a pair of shears And then he smiled He always was blithe and gay, DO matter what betided.
 Well. when l got home I enlarged that hole in the top of my shoe to the size and responsibility of a gOut open ing, and now, when I go down In the morning on the elevated. don't hold that foot with the broken shoe curied under the seat, back of the other ankle. as though I had a curious habit that way, but place it boldly out In front. and l read the paper with the air of a man who is going down town with his surplus interest money to take httls dier in stocks."-Chicago Inter Ocean
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
Reredity in the Ear.

A prominent physiologist who has been making an exhaustive study of ears says that in no physical feature does the law of heredity so strongly rule Indeed, he declares that the ear is the only feature by which an in- fallible Identification can be made. Noses, eyes, cheeks, chins, lips, brows. etc, of forbears and progeny may be alike, but if the ears do not tally there is no lineal deScenf.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26

Russia is not an autocracy in fact. She Is an oligarchy. She is under the rule and dominion of her powerful mo- bility, and they find the army a source of pleasure and profit to themselves which they have no idea of parting with. They put their young men into It as well-paid officers, and the old fel- lows And it an amending source of plum der and peculation. The oligarchy will never part with the army so long as they rule Russia.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
To Be Trusted.

Don't you think the American masses can be trusted to think out prob lens for themselves and arrive at sen- sible conclusions%
 There can't be any doubt of it," said the officer-holder, "so far as the Amer ican masses in my own locality are concerned. They have been voting for me for years" Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26

The greatest colonizing nation in the world, both in the extent and value of her foreign possessions and in the sue cess with which she governs them, is Great Britain. Spain, on the other hand, while she has been one of the most enterprising and energetic in the establishment of colonies, has been the least successful in governing or even retaining them. The success of the British policy is cue largely to its ib-
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26

Cases of broken-down girls whose minds have been nearly destroyed by overstudy, or who have been driven to the brink of insanity by disappoint- ment in their studies, are becoming more and more frequent. This phase of mental suicide has little excuse, and Is most lamentable.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
Where the Cxar. Are Buried.

It is not generally known that the remains of all the czars of Russia since Peter the Great lie in a memorial chapel built on one of the islands of the NeyA All the cenotaphs are exactly alike each being a block of white marble. without any decoration whatever. The only distinction by which one is marked is the name of the deceased emperor
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26

How much ought an army or a naval officer speak in public? A seasonable inquiry, admitting of several answers. A recent remark of a British officer will serve as one answer. 1.-The speech making of the soldier" said he, "should be confined to barking out few re- marks on parade to an audience to whom. listening Is compulsory"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26
Back- Bay Flipnancv.

Blitzen-I was sorry to see you on your wheel last Sunday. Evidently you haven't much respect for the Sab bath.
 Donder-YOu'd better not talk; you were playing golf all day long.
 Blitzen-Yes, but golf you know, is hOley game.-Boston Transcript.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-08-26

Dr. Sabouraud. a French physician, has reached the conclusion that bald ness Is contagious and that it Is caused by a specific microbe which is passed around by means of barber's imple- ments. The remedy probably is to cut your own hair, or to let it go uncut