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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

MGeN "e GOT 20 MS rooms ana cal
seated myself as comfortably as my
nervous state of mind would allow,
Since. busted himself rumsging III
the drawers Of rolltop desk.
Il don't need any very elaborate
apparatus, you see," he said, "hut
there is one thing somewhere in tb" sc
drawers, if T can only find it, that
ought to help a good deal. All, here
it is"
He produced what at first took to
be q glass paperweight. On close.
inspection it turned out to be Japan
ese crystal ball, very clear and exquis-
itely mounted, hnt not mounted on any
! carved stand, like most Of those I have
seen.
"Just hold this, wall you?" he said.
Itook the crystal in my hand.
''You had better sit here" he said:
with you back 10 the window. ]
want the light to come over youl
shoulder"
fought to say that in that window
frame there was no curtain of any
kind, only brown holland window
blind, which was rolled up. T. front
of me as I sat with my back to the
light was nothing but an open carpet.
ed space. Indeed, baroness was the
most obvious characteristic Of Sim
cox's room. It was more like law:
yer's Office than private sittingroom,
"Now, T am going to stand behind
| you, if you don't mind" he said, and
acted accordingly.
In obedience to his instructions I
held the crystal in my lap with both
hands aud looked intently at it. Once
I could not resist the temptation to
look behind me and see what he was
doing. He was standing with arms
extended, waving his hands about.
"Never mind me-" he said. "Yog
keep your eyes fixed on that crystal. "
After that I kept my eyes on the
crystal constantly. Presently a mist
seemed to shut out the point of light
on which T was gazing. It was 6
white mist at first, but turned to a
dark brown. Out of the mist pres.
ent y came the gray glimmer ofarmor:
then above the arm IL I could make
out flesh tints; then the curling chest.
nut hair, the peaked beard and the
lnustache. The face was more clearly
defined than it was in the portrait I
had been looking at.
"Now," said Simcoz, speaking from
behind me, "was 7 right? Isn't the
chin much more humane than Velas-
quez made it,"
"Yes," I answered. 'And the
mustache is smaller and the hair
closer cropped. But it is wonderful
likeness, on the whole"
''It is,': said Simcoz. ssAnd now
you know what an astral body is.
Let's go and have some oysters"
Ths whole thing was gone. I was
looking az ssses7ce,,s5Ysvssss
| So we went out and got some oysters
Some months later Simcox himsel
was gone. But T got by mail marke
COPY OF q small scientific pamphlet
It was printed in England. Th
marked passage was terse statemen
| of sCase lO-Mr. x, New York, |
S. A." The essential facts OF the fore
going story were given in half pas
Of print. I was "Mr. X"
"Clarence," said next time [ u1'
that interesting person, "who q
deuce is Simcox?"
"Simcox? Didn't you know.
seems that Simcox is big man. Siu
! cox is MeAler, the English doctor
| expert on hypnosis and halluein
/ tions,'-San Francisco Cal.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
a Dangerous Moment.

One need not be soldier to stanG
in need Of courage. A clergyman
may find himself confronted with as
nerve-slaking al ordeal as those
! more generally expected by the man
&C wax. In his retrospect of ''The
Lights and Shadows of Long Epis
copate," Bishop Nipple tells Of q mo-
ment when he found it extremely
necessary that his courage should not
fail him.
The Bishop was about to preach in
one Of the cathedrals, when there en-
tered a divinity student whose brain
had become deranged by overmuch
study. He went forward, as if t sit
with the others.
"On reaching the chancel, how.
ever" says the Bishop, she stopped,
aud taking a revolver from his pocket,
pointed it at me. I felt what was
coming before the revolver appeared,
and knowing that the young man was
short-sighted, and thathe would prob
ably wait until sure Of his aim. I
walked with quick, long strides
through the chancel, which is very
deep, grateful that I had been an
athlete in younger days.
sat the chaucel steps I made a
leap, seized ne young man by the
collar, aad turned him sharply round
with my knee at his back, while I said
to the congregation, will some one
take charge of this man? He IS in
sane
''It all happened 80 quickly that
no one moved till then. The poor
fellow was led out aud the service
went on. 1t was found that the pistol
had a hair trigger, and that all the
chambers were loaded, making it g
marvel that no tragedy had occurred"
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
Where Marcoui's Plan Failed.

Experiments with the Marcoui sys-
TEN Of wireless telegraphy have been
tried lately between De Aar and Mod
der River with stations ct various in
termediate points.
Messages have been succ esstullJ
sent between Orange River and Ensli1
during the last day or two, but great
difficulty was experienced, and little
further success has been attained
owing to the odd fact that the e1-
traordinary amount OF iron in the
neighboring hills played all sorts OF
pranks with the system Cape Town
Dispatch to The London Mail
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
Science at School.

The following comes from an Aus.
tralian school magazine. EFF We
break O magnet in halves each piece
becomes magnet. If we break each
piece in halves each Of the smalle,
pieces becomes q magnet until We
come to something which VIC cannc;
split up. Each Of these pieces which,
cauuot be split up further is called a
microbe. "-Houschold Words.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
WARNING TO PARoDlsTs.

-, =, Bard Who Used Ills Tai"
ents Once Too Ofsen.
r,o~ence Douglas, of Purcell, Okla.
IONA. O few weeks ago wrote the io''
lowing poem:
NAN AND NATURE.
,1or GRAND TO stand upon the virgin plaios
Jvhan stars are benming In the SKY,
And hear the distant thunder'ns 'sa'c'
And see It flushing by.
tIov small, . thing man seems to BE-
With such immensllies IN Tie"'
crnIn OF sand beside the sea-
4 fragile drop OF dew.
n nrond and boastfui man, take heed'
'nsho,J the mighty works OF Goo.
Thou urt n little thing, indeed
grass blade IN the sou!
When Editor Williams, OF Aromose,
Oslahoma. saw the poem he SooS MS
,,en in hand and wrote the following
parody: r,rvr.
! uor s,6 to etaod out on the lonesoas
| v,sn clouds are heavy in the sky.
! And ha eynosed unto tue wind anu raln'
While she you love is dry.
uov small a thing man seems 70 ne
When he is wet through 10 tue n'o''
Bscnuse her dad will not agree
To let him WOO inside.
q nroud and boastful man. take nee1;
The old chaps big and roGSn'y sn'o.
Tis better to get wet, indeed
Than lie beneath the SOD! ..... ..s~
When the poet saw the parody ne
shouldered his trusty rifle and starred
overland for Ardmore. The eoieol
was in when he called. Then shot
rang out, and there was a vacancy ~ y
for q live newspaper man in thas
vicinity. A trial ensuing, MIR: Dougtas
. was found not guilty by an Oklanoms !,
iury. and the incident was declared
. closed. Now, let Kipling and Austin
. 30 to Oklahoma. There they may
3. Ind protection from the parodists ano an,
> satirists. There alone. apparen.ly
0 does the sacredness of the sublime
songster's calling find the recogn..
ton that is necessary to keep II IRON
J going to pot.-Chicago Times'Heralo
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

his method is to estabIlsh ID al 'ne
,,onnlons centres OF France comOlna-
ton milling and baking houses wn1cn 1ea
will furnish 100 kilograme-22o
pounds-of nutritious and dlgesuoies
White bread, from an equal amount CT
Grain at the lowest cost CT productlon'
The model establishment is at La
v;)lette. Paris. In this bakery Inc
da;lv sales rose in three months from
| s36S. 70 to s772, and corresponding
increase was noted in tho brancA
houses, which are patronized hbersiIy
in the wealthy quarter Of Paris. Om-
cial analyses demonstrate that tle
Schweitzer bread contains more nutTl'
tive nitrosenous properties than orol'
norv bakers bread, and more than
double the phosphates in the latter
The bread, known as family bread, Is
sold to the working classes at 4.o.
cents for 2.2O46 pounds-wh!ch Is
! 90 cents less than the usual price.
The Villette establishment IS
bn;ldine Of iron and stone 5l5 fec
| long. SltuatGu Oh IL S"o@', eon
, structed at a cost Of about sl9a'ooo
A steam engine OF $50 horse-powe
! supplies the power and produces til
electricity necessary for lighting pnr
! poses and for charging the accumu
, lators of the delivery wagons. -,
r Just as coffee is better If treshi
\ roasted and ground, so, Schwelsze
\ saws, bread is better If made 1fol
n freshly ground wheat. The Hour ,,
this mill, which is part OF the estaI
q lishment, is ground only in quantitlF
i sufficient to meet the daily needs
d the bakery. :,
- The wheat arrives in boat, viii!
y ;s moored in the canal; elevators MOI
+ it into bius, whence it IS carried |
.rsen immense elevator to tue top OF u
ls 1e mill ans sa hi s into the alit;rs III ;n
If cleaning and separating
t, After oil foreign substances have be-
IS removed and the glEs;s-Lsia sinllss
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
THE LOVE OF LOVES.

BY MADISON cAvEIS.
] have not seen her face, and yet
She is moro sweet than anything
o. earth; than rose OK violeE
That April winds and suubeams bring.
Of all We know, past or to come,
Oiloveliness none can forget,
She is the high compendium;
And yet
have not touched her rohe, and still
She is more dear than lyric words
Or music, or than strains that ell
Wi,G brooks aud throats OF summer birds
O; ci. We mean by poetry.
That rules tue soul and charms the will,
She Is the deep cpitome,
Aud still
She is cny world, all, pity me:
A dream that fles whom pursue!
Whoct uli pursue, whoe'er they be,
Who toll for art and dare and DO;
The shahow-love for whom they sigh
The far Ideal affinity,
For whom they live or gl.dly die.
All, ne,
saturday Evening Post.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

iE poor people Oh
Paris are in
debted to q man
with @ German
name for . method
CT getting the best
bread at the low
est price. This
III a L bears the
name of Schweit-
zer, and the pur =
pose OF the So
ciety which uses
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

So great has been the Improvements
of storage batteries Of late that &C
CT cording to an English engineer, a C car
now requires 500 pounds OF cells 'na'
two years ago needed 1000 pounos'
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
I'll. Iarcest Tree in the World.

In Nassau, the capital city OF the
poLama islands, they say "the tree
in the public square" mot the tees.
Now the public square OF NASSAU 80 40
quite as large as that OF most Clues :.
the size, but there is only one Tree ~ N
it. and that tree literally fills the =,
square So and spreads its shade ove, all
the public buildings in the neigeooI-
hood. For it is the largest tree IN
the world at its base, sishong1h hong haa,e IT IS
IT. Izis's is Usually r known as ceiba, . or :, 9
elk cotton tree, but the people OF the
! low low islands Of the West Indies call ss
the hurricane tree. For no matter
,natter how hard the Wind blows = y
aaapot distus psghsy 9nts.esse.. ea
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
NEWEST KIND OF BREAD
IT ,s MORE NUTRITIOUS AND CHEAP
ERTHAN ANY OTHER.

oebt of Gratitude That the Poor CT r"f's
Owe to schwaitzer-His Famous breh"
9J.le From Freshly Ground wheat
u,c This Novel Food is Prepared.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
eaiha H.

of last sRrin5 all the palms atd many.
Of the Other trees of Nassau were
overturned, but the great hurricane
tree, although it lost all its leaves, did,
not lose so much as a branch. Its
trunk throws out great curving wing.
like braces, some of them twenty feet
wide aud nearly as high. These ex-
tend into the ground on ell sides and
brace the tree against all attack, while
the great branches throw q thick
shade overhead. In the tropic sum
SHINE of midsummer hundreds, even
thousands, Of people gather in ths
cool of its shadow. a very old picture
in the library at Nassau shows the
tree as bigas it is at present and even
tie Oldest negro in the island cannot
remember when it was bit smaller,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
Young George and the Rat.

I George Fladiska, aged fifteen years,
4 store boy, coming down North Me-
cLanic street in Cumberland, NIL, the
other evening was surprised by rat
darling up his, trousers leg. The rat
sank its teeth IN his flesh aud the
harder he shook the tighter the rat
held on, and at last he darted into
Will's Creek to drown the rat, but the
.waser8as so deep that he was nearly
drowned himself. He got rid Of tho
raj. bntsWas badly bitten.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

STRAL body was
not an expression
entirely wi t h 0 u t
meaning for me
when / first met
Simcox. II any one
had then asked me
what t b Q t er N
meant T wDul1 cer.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

II has been discovered that the hn-
man voice is produced by forsy.iour
5;Terent muscles. Fourteen OF these
serve for the emission OF lo'aeo
CO.. sonnds. and the others aid the pro.
duction of some IT'S, ,0O0,o ooo dlneieu'
sounds; that is, these torty-four >! mus al Is.
cIss 90 to produce millions of differ
ont tones which acoustics distinguish
IS absolutely distinct one from sh'
other,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

=! !! ! !! Il: !: !: !: !:
minutes passing through a
s4Ss three feet. long, but the wind
transports the odors far and rapidly.
Rev. John NJ. Bacon, who has been
investigating the subject, mentions a
smell of burning fat that was. drawn
by the wind into a stream much more
than seven miles long but of little
width. He mentions the record of a
boats crew that was enveloped in q
dense wreath of wood smoke when
400 miles ut sea; and also that of a
smell Of primeral forests that seemed
to have been borre by cyclone across
the Atlantic to the coast of France,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

s6yable, but DO not touch; sc
Estead of crushing the wheat
producing q -four in which the
Rarch only is retained, the outer and
PR'harder portion Of the wheat, contain.
ing gluten and other nutritive proper.
ties, is retained in the flour. The
bran alone is expelled.
Attached to the mill are the works
for kneading the meal. water and
yeast into bread. All of this is
done mechanically, the works being
separated into three stories. Special
yeast is prepared in the upper story
in rooms heated in winter aud cooled
in summer. The yeast, -four and the
salted and filtered water are carried
down by machinery into kneaders in
the form of half cylindrical tubs, 7ota-
ting Oh two pivots placed in the axis
Of the kneading troughs, so that the
tubs may be placed at "a lower or higher
angle to accelerate OF retard the knead-
ing.
One person can attend to two
Schweitzer kneaders, regulating the
distribution of the dough, and thus
the kneadiug OF 4409 pounds of dough
an hour is accomplished.
The steel arms Of the mixing and
kneadlng machinery, some of which
are stationary and others mobile,
stretch and work the dough much bet
ter than hand power.
The wheat, salted water and yeast
automatically enter ore end OF the tub,
and dough in an endless skein of pale
yellow issues from the opposite end.
This dough finally falls on tables on
the ground floor, where it is weighed
aud made into bread of every shape
and dimension. Small wagons are
charged with the shapes, which then
go to the raising room. Each floor
has fermenting rooms kept ct an
even temperature.
The dough, after raising. is carried
by wagons into the baking room,
where it is placed in Scnweitzer ovens,
heated By gas from retorts arranged
in such o manner that the gas does
not enter the oven, and the heat is so
regulated that the baking operation
goes on automatically.
Twice day-once before dawn and
in the afternoon-ten large two-horse
wagons (which will be used until the
electric carriages shall have been
built) distribute the bread in the diff
ferent depots Of the Societe Parisienne
in Paris.
In connection with this model es-
tablishment is q laboratory for the
chemical examination Of the samples
of wheat submitted for buying. These,
upon their arrival, are ground and
passed through sieve ',y small !!
hand bolting mill, invented by !
which determined inme-
'iately the nutritive volume OF the |
grain in gluten and nitrogenous mat
Ter.
Schweitzer has mills, ovens and
kneaders of various Dimensions that
nay be worked by machinery CT hand
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

mower. The latter system enables tbs
farmer TO grind his own wheat an,
make his bread from an unaduiterate1
and wholesome product.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
A Siusle-uand Fight With Five Lions

a slnsle-Hand Fight With Five Lions.
Occasionally q foolish and inter-
meddling spectator in a menagerie
will endeavor to show his brilljancy
by experimenting with the animals.
More than once this tendency has
well-nigh cost performer his life. J.
recall one instance when performer
was doing an act in a cage containing
five lions, the late ". G. Coup, the
old circus man, was wont to relate.
He bad just begun his work, and the
lions had taken their positions. In the
middle OF the cage. facing him, was
one large lion, and at either end sat
two others. OF course a big crowd
had collected in front Of the cage and
was pressing heavily against the guard
ropes. Suddenly countryman of the
smart kind was seized with a desire
to distinguish himself aud attract
little attention. Slipping inside the
ropes he stopped down and took up
tue ragged little dog that was crouch
ing at his heels. Tic instant he
lifted the cur up to the level of the
cage every lion gavo out roar and
made g wild leap for the yellow mon
rel.
For few moments the performer
was completely lost to view. buried
underneath the Writhing bodies of the
infufiatcds lions. OF course the. .anis
mai men outside made asrnsil Tor ths;,
cage door, before sgeoald reach
It with their irons Ia bandit ,sptaeky
performer was on his in and
tighting his osa tooth
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

The lighter ell chocolate is in color
49, is from. impurities.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

T ANY sportsmen say that no
other hunting can compare
in interest and exhilaration
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

Guu luS tdGLeIcucilAOI VI !
clothing indicated ne had suffered
severely. Althorlls face was
bathed in blood, b od his ground
and piled his rod the heads and
roses Of the groy beasts until
they were momeny driven back.
Bat they had tashlood and were
furious. Before lould reach the
door they were atl again, and IN
the onslaught hist arm and hip
we're frightfully lated. His grlt'
however, was iudtable, and he
struck and iabbedt t and lett like
gladiator. Finally howls OF pain !
from the lions revei the fact that
be was getting thpper hand OF !
them, and at lastly were driven
bowling and whininto the corners
of the cage and he 1ed out OF the
door. No SCORER yhe safely out
side the cage than became uncon'
:cious.
1t was a good thinr the country.
man whose folly b; stirred up the
lions that he contrl to make his
| escape from the grods before the
circus men got hold oim. This III:
cident is simply typioof hundreds OF
others perhaps moreterestlng ana
exciting. 1t will, hever, serve to
indicate the constantsrils that sur
round the trainer or rformer, many
OF which arise fro sources over
which he has 10 co:ol.-Saturday
Evening Post.
APuff of Smoice Th Saved Him.
William Albertson,, Spokane. in
describing an early lining experl.
ence Of his, said: lime seventies ]
was in Arizona with aarty prospect
ing the country. Athat time the
Apaches were makingainss lively II
that region, and Will nominally We
were on good terms VII the Wallapa
Indians, they were soreacherous WI
could place little spendence OF
them. Our horses nre turned ou
to Craze at night, an each norm NJ
one OF the other Gus went out T.
round them up. &c day when /
came my turn for th duty I locate
the bunch on q MAINTAIN side m
drove them toward te camp. l the
started to do d littleprospecting:
lad rifle along forprotection tror
the Indians, as ouragreement the
was that on no accou.t was Il shot {
be freG unless Indi.B were slghtet
I found a float, an. on top OF th
mountain @ better ole, and this le
me to descend the Other side. ha
got down the benches, when my e.
lit on a hill, which I felt sure was
good prospect, and I started tor
In those days, like the E1glis6ms
Il 'ad heye like an .'awk,' and in t.
distance T suddenly saw little p'
of s>oke. It was gone in en- instar
but l welr>ha4asssss 4sss meaning: Indial
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

and bad prompts Z
fire. Without any
steady ascent OF ting
tending all the time to !
aud keeping a wary
red devils. Before
they were getting in -
had to make a Z
reaching the crei = =
rock and began - :
knew the shots E
camp, and sure e :
some Of ths boy : :
But if I hadn't ses
had gone on, it wouw
nD with me. Later. Char
the Government guide,
seven others prospected tt SIS
the Indians made our occE ot
what General Butler wo OF 1t
as untenable. However r~oescrloe
ficiept record behindI4 we left sut-
our claim, and rs us to estaolish
G Craet sas.n,auas1@6en the famous Nc
Zen mine was later located there
they compromised with US, and I re.
cei7ed $4,000 as my share"
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

Paper is proving very satisfactory
Material for driving ropes. At the
English factories Of Wolverhampton,
the rome is made like that from other
materials, aud contains three man
strands, each made up OF number o.
continuous strips of twisted pup
paper. The material is made water
proof by treatment with boiled on
The i rope is fairly smooth and wonder.
fully plant, and in recent tests 10; I0'
driving machinery it has been onl,
slightly polished under conditions
that have caused cotton rope to ne
como badly worn and frayed. Ii
octual tensile strength IS supposed u
be considerably less than that 0
. ! -
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

A very long electric railway is to De
bnilt in Ohio, connecting Toledo ana
Norwalk and passing through seven
or EIGHT smaller towns. The total
length will be sixty miles, nan nS OF u
which will be on turnpike road. Ihe
nermanent way will be Of substantial
construction, as speed OF forty miles
an hour is proposed. Still higher
speed can be made upon stralsns
electric road running on its own rlSn'
of way.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17

Professor G. E. Bcssey announces
in a letter to Science, that he has OBJ
tanned evidence that trees inclnains
such species as oak, hickory, willow, ,T,
cottonwood, elm and box elder, are
rapidly advancingin eastern Nebraska
The areas covered by them are grad
ually creeping up the courses OF inc
streams and spreading out lateraiiy.
In some csses, the stree belt along
rivers has, within twenty-five years.
;ncreased in width from 100 feet TO
half a mile, and even mile.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-04-17
3 4 Sturg Of Ngpnptisn}.

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