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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY In i Imp --*••> . ■ • , « * BY JOHN BL ATS. Terms— sl.o • per anrUth ;50 cehU for six month-; 25cents forth ee months. 1 arttes >iK»y from itellton are requested to send their na ais, with such amounts ot money as taty eta spare, Irom 200. to sl. the English langvage. A pretty dear is dear to iuo, A hare with dnwjiy’hair, I lore a hart with all my heart, But barely bare a bear. ’Ti> plain that no one takes a plane To hare a pair of pears, A rake, though; often takes a rake To tear away the tares. All rays raise th vine, time raises all; And through the whole, hole wears, a writ in writing “right,” may write It “wright” and still be wrong. For “wright” and “rite” are neither “right,” And don’t to wright belong. B. r often brings a bier to man, Coughing a coffin brings. And too much ale will make us ail As well as other things. The person lies who says he lies When he is but reclining. And when consmntive folks decline, They ail decline declining, A uuail don’t quail liefore a storm ; A bough will bow before it; We cannot rein the rain at all; No earthly powers nigh o’er it. The dyer dies awhile, th»n dies; To dye he’s always trying Until upon his dying b»sl, He thinks .no more of dyeing. A son <»f Mars mars many a sun; AU deys must have their days, And evi ry knight should pray each night To him who weighs his ways. ’Tis meet that man sltmul mete out meat To feed mi-fortuue’s son; The fairshould fare on love alone, Else one cannot Ih? wn. A bro, alas' is sometimes false; Os faults,# maid is made; Her waist is hut a barren waste— , Though >taye t she i > Dot staid. The springs -pnng forth in spring, and shoots S!i<«ot forward one and all; Though summer kills the flowers, it loaves Thu h aves to fail in fall. I would a fetor v here commence, But you might find it stale; So let’s suppose that we have reached The tail end of our tale. —Chicago Inlcr-Octan. A MEMBER OF CONGRESS. BY MRS. C. W. FLAKDERS. There was a little fellow among the New England hill--, y< agb, as there ere many now, whose parents Were poor, lie could not remember the time when he wore shoes and stockings in the sum mer. Sometimes in the winter, when he was obliged to walk three miles to school, and wade through snow drifts that did not melt until the last of May, he did wear such as his father had re jected, and a pair of shoes that slipped . up and down every step he took. Never theless, they were shoes and stockings; and he was infinitely prouder of them than any king living is of his crown. One day, as Tom was plodding along with his slip shod shoes, puffing from exertion and blowing his blue fingers to keep them wsnn, there came dashing down the hill a sleigh such as the youngster had never seen; no, indeed, nor ever dreamed of. And a horse! Tom stopped blowing, so intense was his admiration of the elegant creature that came foaming and tossing its daintily arched neck right and left. Tom sprang aside al the very last mo ment, and as he sank up to his chin in the light snow, tore ell his cloth cap from his head, and bobbed up and down as if he wereiu the presence of the President. “Jump on behind, my lad,” shouted tie rider; ‘‘jump on behind.” And Tom did jump on, at the peril of his life, and away they went tearing along with great speed until over went riders an I buffaloes and things generally. Tom sprang to the horse’s head, and cVnging to the bit, the tips of his great cowhide shoes touching the snow, asked if the gentlemen was hurt. “Not a bit of it my lad,” said he, shaking himself free of the snow, “only wanned up a little. What’g the damage ?" . “Nothing, sir, that I see,” returned Tom, his handsome face glowing with good humor, as he yielded the horse to its owner. k ' Well, then, my lad, get in and we’ll try again. You are going to school, I see,” added the stranger, as he gathered up the reins. “ Yes, sir.” “ Howfar?” ‘Guess it’s about two miles from here.” The gentleman turned and looked into his face, and then glanced all over Tom’s figure, even to his feet. “ He sees my shoes,” thought Tom, proudly, to himself", giving his feet a shove forward to make certain that they should be seen. The gentleman did see them, and envied in spite of himself as he glanced back to Tom’s face. He then kindly pulled the warm fur around the boy, and pulling his cap over his eyes, shouted, “Go along, Nell!" and the chestnut mare, now thoroughly sobered, meekly commenced the ascent of what was known as the img hill. She was evidently accus tomed to having her own way, for she availed herself of every hollow to rest, and did not aliow herself to be pressed forward until the whip was applied. Tom wondered what had possessed the creature a few minutes before. He scratched his head on the right side and then on the left, and, finally, his Yankee curiosity getting the better of his diffi dence, lie ventured to ak: “ If you please, sir, what was it that made the mare run?” “A stump,” returned the gentleman with a smile. “ Nell is a little aristo cratic, and shies at uph plebian things. She does not know that a stump was the making of her master.” Tern scratched his head again, and r wiggled all over. Then out came the question: “ How could a stump be the making of a man?” •My lad,” answered the stranger, marking the white surface of the snow gently with his whiplash, “ I was a poor boy, and my father could not afford to tend me to school. We worked very bard, but I u-ed to study evenings by the light of the fire, and learned the The North Georgian. VOL. 111. whole of the Latin grammar, by the light of one pitch knot. For a moment Tom sat perfectly still. Then he asked, as if ashamed of his ig norance : “ Please, sir, what’s a Latin gram mar?” This last question aroused the gentle man, and becoming sensible that the little fellow at his side was thirsting for knowledge, he very kindly went over such parts of his history as he thought would he of interest to him, and ended by saying that he was a member of Congress. This last announcement almost took tbe lad’s breath away. He had heard of members of Congress, but he had an idea they were myths, whom nobody ever saw. Perhaps the awe with which Tom regarded him as he glanced up sideways into his face, flattered the gen tleman, for he said, smiling: “ You axe just as likely to be a mem ber of Congress as I! You know, in America, success isto be determined and braved. If you study, as 1 did, you may possibly rise as high—yes—perhaps higher I" • “ But I haven t any Latin grammar, sir,” said Tom. “ No? Well, would you like one?” “ Yes, sir,” cried Tom, with flashing eyes. “ Well, my lad, I shall come this way again, and 1 will leave oue at the school house for you.” • “ But I have no money.” “ Never mind, you can pay me when you get to Congress.” “Thank you,” said Tom, “I won’t forget it, sir.” The gentleman looked down at him with a quizzical smile, and the two rode on in silence, until they reached the schoolhouse. “Please don’t forget the grammar,” suggested Tom, as he lifted the old cap again. “ Not I,” returned the gentleman. “A man who cannot keep a promise should not make one—hey, my lad?” Nell tossed her head, and the boy soon lost sight of the rider. Then he looked down at his shoes, at his coat, and his old cap as he hung it on the peg in the entry, and silently contrasted them all with the fur-trimmed overcoat and out fit of the stranger. “ Never mind,” said Tom to himself, “ I will have them all, too, when I am a member of Congress." At the end of two weeks a bundle of books was left at the school-house. There was not only it Latin grammar, hut a well-worn copy of Virgil, zEsop Fables and sundry other volumes such as Tom had never seen. Pine knots were plentiful where Tom lived, and he sat up until midnight all the rest of the winter pondering over the mysteries of those books. Asgcod luck would haveit, the school master, who boarded around with his pupils, band not eaten the rations due him at Torn’s father’s. When he ar rived he entered warmly into tbe lad’s ambitious projects, and as he had a smattering of Latin himself, was quali fied to aid his pupil. Although the schoolmaster was al lowed the use of a tallow candle, he vastly preferred the more brilliant light of Tom’s pitch knot; so that, as often as the long winter evening set in, the master and the pupil might be seen (and were seen) sitting before the large fire-place with their heads buried in the pages of the books, along which they plodded slowly, but to such purpose that at the end of the winter Toni could read his fable and solve his problem in a manner very creditable to himself and master. It was up-hill work with poor Tom, but he never lost what little he gained, i and managed to make what little he ac- i complished to tell on the future. One day his father brought home a stranger, and told Tom that he was ap prenticed, during his minority, to this man, who would make him a black smith. “ But I am not going to be a black- I smith,” cried Torn, in a passion; “I’m i going to Congress!’’ '■ The more need that you should : learn to shoe the horse that carries I you there,” replied his father, with a shrug. Torn packed up his worldly goods, not forgetting his books, and trudged away to a distant village, where he pared horses’ hoofs by day, and studied and read at night by stealth, for he was al lowed neither knot nor candle. Six months the poor fellow tried to be faithful to his duty, but one night when the master had thrown his grammar into the fire, and lathed him for his dis obedience, Tom took leave of the work shop. He made his way, barefooted as he was, over bogs and briars, until be ven tured into the main road, and by dint of begging a ride now and then, reached the city, where, as Ben Franklin had done before him, with his roll under his arm—he sought and obtained em ployment. Perhaps the happiest day of Tom’s life was when he found himself in the antiquarian book store with plenty of leisure, plenty of books, and nothing to fear from friend or foe. It is wonderful how he read—and read —and read. The parched earth does not more greedily take in the sum * mer rain. When his intellectual thirst was par ; tially satisfied he began to work. He saw the ladder un which he must climb, , and seizing the lowest round, he made ’ his way steadily upward. r We all know by what steps an am > bitious man makes progress—by patient r toil —by sell-denial —by courteous de r portment —by the constant acquisition ? of knowledge. BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY. GA.. MARCH 18, 1880. , Years passed by, during all of which Tom had looked in vain for his early ; friend, the stranger. In his timid awk j wardness, he had not thought to ask the name of his benefactor, and the only I opportunity to do So had been lost. Well, years slid away, and Tom was j elected member of Congress from the very county whefe he spent his strug ! gling boyhood. He went to Washington, not in cow hide shoes and butternut colored home spun, but dressed something as imag ination had pictured, as he looked after his benefactor, on the eventful day of the sleighride. A nobler looking man, the ladies in the galleries said, never had appeared upon the floor, than this Yankee mem ber, who, if he spoke through his nose, always drove his arrows home to the mark. One day there appeared in the House the venerable form of an ex-member, whom al l present delighthed to honor. It needed but one glance at tile genial face for Tom to recognize in him the giver of the Latin grammar. “ He had come,” he said, “ to listen to the gentleman who had so manfully defended the. right, and to wish him God speed I” “If,” said Tom, with his old modesty, “ it has been my good fortune to do any thing for our country in the hour of her peril, I owe my ability to do so, in a great measure, to yourself." “To me!” echoed the astonished gen tleman: “to me! I do not recollect ever having had the pleasure of meeting you before in my life.” “ Ah. sir, have you forgotten, then, the little school-boy among the hills of New Hampshire, to whom you so kindly sold a Latin grammar?” The gentleman inused. “8o!d—sold a Latin grammar! Now that you recall the incident, I do recol lect a little fellow who interested me, and io whom I gave some school books ” “ Well, sir, lam that boy. You told me that I might pay for them when I got to Congress. If you will honor me by meeting a few friends at dinner, I will settle the bill." Perpetual Motion. Albert Pietrowski, a Pole, living in New York, has a motor which lie de ciares when once started will run till it wear out. The model that he exhibits consists of a pair of hollow metal wheels, four feet in diameter, which revolve on the same axis, but in opposite directions. The moving power is nine metal balls placed within the wheels so as to bear the rim down at first, and then gravitate toward the axis, where a side groove runs the balls off to a grooved radius of the wheel revolving in the opposite direction. Four balls were placed in the grooved radii of the first wheel and four in the radii of the second, and when the mo mentum had been gained, the ninth ball was added, to give additional power. To the axles of the wheels, which is also the axle of smaller grooved wheels that regulate the speed of the machinery, the shafting is applied. “ Give me a cast iron wheel sixty feet in diameter,” said Mr. Pietrowski, “and I w.iil show you a motor of 300 horse power, that requires nothing to keep it in operation. It will continue to run until the material is.worn out.” Several of the engineers who witnessed the working of the Pietrowski machine yesterday, were sanguine in the opinion that lor all practical purposes, leaving out the engine of the locomotive and steamboat, it will be found of great value. The Labor of an Editor* The London Times, speaking of the work of an editor, says it can only be appreciated by those who have had some experience in it. The meerest slip of the pen, an epithet too much, a wrong date, a name misspelt, or with a wrong initial before it, the misinterpretation of some passage, perhaps incapable of I interpretation, the most trifling offense I to the personal or national susceptibility i of those who do not even profess to care ! Ipr the feelings of others, may prove . not only disagreeable, but even costly mistakes; but they are about the least of the mistakes to which an editor is liable. The editor must be on the spot till the paper is sent to the press, and I make decisions on which not only the approval of the public, but even great I causes, may hang. He can not husband ; his strength with comparative repose I in the solitude of a study, or the fresh | uesH of green fields. He must see the i world, converse with its foremost or j busiest actors, be open to information and on guard against erior. All this should be borne in the mind by those who complain that journalism is not in fallibly accurate, just and agreeable. What Dickens Said to the Boy. When Charles Dickens visited Amer ica for the first time he stayed a few days —says an old writer in the Repub lican, of Springfield—at the old City Hotel in Hartford, occupying rooms on the first floor, which had windows reach ing nearly to the street level. A Hartford lad, who has since become adistinguished citizen, appeared at school one morn ing and loudly proclaimed that he had not only seen Mr, Dickens at the hotel, but that the great novelist had spoken to him. Deeply did his mates envy the youth, but his noble spirit was shortly tamed when it was finally ascertained j that he had climbed up on the window ' sill of a room where Mr. Dickens was shaving, and that the latter had turmed i at the noise, and razor in hand, waived him away with a stern “Go away, | boy.” To make a suberb soup use the proper I soup herbs. SOUTHERN NEWS. Memphis has -159 untenauted houses. The Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College has 300 students. The military fever is raging in most of the counties of Southern Georgia. Goat-skins worth $25,000 were shipped from Corpus Christi, Texas, li.st week. The exports of hides from Texas in a single year amounted to nearly $3,- 000,000. A number of farmers are successfully cultivating upland rice in Monroe County, Ga. The amount of lumber exported from Pensacola, Fla., during January was 24,580. ODO feet. Fifteen Tennessee stables are to be represented at the spring meeting of the Chicago Jockey Club. Charleston people complain of the lack of facilities for daily and weekly recreation, and want a public garden. Tampa, Fla., boasts that murder has not been committed in that place for the past six years. .. . An appropriation of SBOO has been made for an educational exhibit at the appaoaching centennial at Nashville. One thousand men and 250 teams are making things lively on the line of the Texas Pacific Railroad. The ground in certain localities in Nash County, N. C., has sunk several inches, and an earthquake is feared. There will be no nominations for county officers in Franklin County, Ala., this year. The field is open to all aspi rants to office. The average expense per mile for keeping up the county fence between Abbeville and Edgefield Counties, S. C., is $27 per annum. TWENTY-ETVEdifferent brands of com mercial fertiliz.ers are on sale in York ville, 8. C. The demand for them now is greater than for any year in the past. The wool-growers of Atascosa County, Texas, have organized for the purpose of eradicating the disease known as the scab from the sheep of that county. JNEak Valdosta, Ga., J. C. Jones killed five wild turkey gobblers at oue shot. Their aggregate weight was ninety-five pounds. Sixty-Seven per cent, of the deaths at Memphis are from more or less pre ventable diseases, such as consumption, malarial and typhoid fevers, scarlel fever and diarrheal diseases. Early amber sugar-cane will be largely planted in Fayette County, Texas, this year. A sugar factory is being established at Lagrange, with a capacity of sixty tons of cane per day. The Missouri, Kansas and Pacific Railroad, Texas Pacific Railroad and Dallasand Wichita Railroad haveagreed to build a large union depot at Dallas, Texas. The: wife of United States Senator Wilkinson Call, of Florida, is the young est of ali the Senators’ wives, and is said to be the most beautiful. She was a Miss Sirnking, of South Carolina. During the tornado |at Nashville on Thursday the wind reached a velocity of forty miles per hour. It blew steadily from twenty to thirty miles an hour for two hours and a half. A recent ordinance of the city of Charlotte, N. C., prohibits all work on Sunday about freight offices, the shift ing of freight trains and all other duties of railroad employes except what are connected with the regular passenger trains. Since Nashville and Edgefield have been annexed the next thing will be a bridge for free travel between the two places. The present suspension bridge can probably be purchased, but it has been suggested that a new stone-arch bridge be Near Charlotte, N. C., a ’negro girl twelve years old fell down a mine forty !eet deep, where she remained nine lours without being discovered. She was drawn up smiling, and has suffered ao ill effects from the fall. Nathan Cook, of Terrell County, Ga., is 102 years old, and still earns his daily bread. He has ten children, the youngest of whom is forty years old. He has lived in the same yard that now incloses his home ever since the Indian war. The Georgia Historical Society, with its headduarters at Savanah, has nearly 12,000 volumes in its library. During the year 932 volume? and 228 pamphlets have been added. The income of the society last year/was $3,133.71, which was sufficient to defray all expenses. Macon, Ga., is infested with a swarm of tramps who seem to be a regularly organized band. They have attempted to enter several houses by force, and on Friday a lady was knocked down in her own house while trying to prevent NO. 11. the entrance of some of these vaga bonds. The various manufacturing estab lishments in Columbus, Ga., give em ployment to 1,201 adult males, 1,100 fe males and 280 children—a total of 2,641 persons. This is the number steadily employed. In times of unusual activity it is frequently doubled. The population of Columbus is about 15,000. At the State Agricultural Convention at Cuthbert, Ga., Prof. Wm. M Browne reported experiments on corn and cot ton conducted the past year at the ex perimental farm in Athens, showing that cotton seed or stable manure will furnish all the ammonia needed in making com posts on the farm. The heavy rains among the monntains of Tennessee did considerable damage to the Cincinnati Southern Railroad by causing landslides. Hundreds of thou sands of dollars will be required after ■this road is turned over to the carrier company for completion and mainten ance, to put it in comp’ete and perma nent running condition. The Lynchburg (Va.) News learns from a reliable gentleman who has just passed over the Huntington route from St. Louis, that large numbers of negroes are actually returning on foot, and that the Chesapeake and Ohio road is lined with them, making their way back to North Carolina. He remarked that they were not bringing any of tbe fine farms with them, nor half of the good clothes they wore away. Ten years ago a large colony of Get mans from Cincinnati, none of whom could speak English, purchased a tract of land in Lawrence County, Tenn., said to contain 4,100 acres. It has since been discovered that it contained only 2,057 acres, and they were defrauded cut of $3,500, besides the interest on this amount for ten years. The- colony has brought suit in the Supreme Court at Nashville lor the recovery of thia sum. The Commissioner of Agriculture has received reports infortningjiim of the existence of asbestos in several localities of the State, and some specimens have been sent to him. He tested them in the fire and found that the fibres, even when separated from each other, would stand a white heat. He intends, as soon is possible, to send out an agent ana have the deposits inspected with a view of ascertaining their exact quality and their probable extent and value.—Col umbia (& C.) Register. Matt. Woodlejf, the Texas des perado, gambler and murderer, the iread of Houston and South Texas, was killed at Lake Charles, La., on Monday. Many years ago Woodlief shot and killed a man in Columbus, Texas, and ifterwaid became a desperate character. In 1878 ho attacked and fought a street Juel with Alexander Erickson, Chief of Police at Houston, Texas. About ten shots in all were fired with revolvers. Both men were shot down on Main street, and lay within a few yards of each other. Woodlief was shot in the hip and his hip-bone was broken by a ball, and Erickson was shot through the thigh and the bone broken. Both re covered, but were cripples. But few regret Woodlief’s taking off, as he was a terror in Texas, and, in fact, there is rejoicing that he was killed. Leap-Year Difficulties. He was a nice young man,-with cane, high tiat and patent leather boots. He strolled leisurely down Fourth avenue, puffing daintily upon a cigarette, and oc casionally twirling the waxed ends of his mustache. He was accosted by'a stout woman with a florid complexion. “ Top of the mornin’ to ye, Mister Charley," said she. “Good morning, Mrs. McGuinness,” said the nice young man. “ Me darlint boy, would ye —” and she bestowed a bewitching smile upon him. He dodged out of her reach. The recollection that it was leap-year rushed upon him. He answered: “Madame—really—l can’t—l am very sorry if 1 cause you pain—but my af fections have already been bestowed upon another—and, madame—l can’t— I can’t marry you. ’’ She gazed at him in astonishment, and then'said, indignantly: “Who axed ye to marry me! The idea of the loikes of me, a poor lone widdy, wid four children to support by washin’, axin’ ye to marry me. I was only goin’ to ax ye for that dollar for washin’.” He sighed and gave her a dollar, and walked sadly away. A Curiosity. • For some years the following sentence has stood as the shortest into which all the letters of the alphabet could be com pressed : “J. Gray: Pack with my box five dozen quails.” The above sentence contains thirty three letters. A Utica gentleman re cently improved on it as follows, using only thirty-two letters: “Quick, glad zephyre, waft my javelin box." George W. Pierce, a Boston lawyer, has now forced the twenty-six letters of the alphabet into a sentence of only thirty-one letters, as below: “Z" Badger: Thy vixen jumps quick at fowl.” Georgian, Published Every Thursday at BELLTON, GEORGIA RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Oae year (52 numbers), $1 00; six months (26 numbers) 50 cents; three months (23 numbers) 25 cents. Olfice in the Smith building, ca.t of the depot. PASSING SMILES. A STUCK-UP thing—a show-bill. Spring-halt—May 31—midnight. Spare-ribs—the scaled wives of Utah. OLd ocean indulges in storms merely for wreck-creation. Let's see; it isn’t quite time for the first divorce in the Oneida Community. Four thousand bills arc pendirtg in Congress. Children and brass bands, in their extreme.youth, don’t amount to much without a tutor. “ Now 1 lame me,” as the pedestrian remarked when he stumbled on a bit of ice. In diamonds, solitaires are fashion able, but when it comes to buckwheat cakes let us have clusters By all means Jet us have free salt. Some lazy people might “earn their salt” if it was a little cheaper. The toe of an enemy’s boot will often do more to raise a man into prominence than the hands of a dozen good friends. “ The men of to-day are . too high strung," says a Chicago paper. Some of them are not strung high enough. The brook, you know, flows on for ever. Sometimes it seeins as if a law suit was trying to see the brook and go it one better. The lisping Christian thus defended her pronunciation: “Dothn’t our minither direct our thepth in the nar row path? Ithn’t he, then, ourpather?” No matter how finely a .dentist’s par lor is furnished, no one cares to take a seat in his drawing-room. This is a good joke, but it is tooth in to draw. We have had one osier, but the lady couldn’t promise to support us in the luxury to which we have been accus tomed.—Boston Post. A commercial report says: “The fall of leather causes an uneasy feeling in hides.” We have often remarked this in youth while laying across the maternal knee. A minister who regards kissing as unessential part of saving grace, should kiss his lawfully appointed wife, and tell her to pass it arour.d among the congregation. When a man becomes the father of a sixteen year old daughter, he 'commences he period of his life when the toes of his boots wear out before the heels become italicized. The beauty of Sunday collections on the envelope plan is that you chn knock the plate out of the collectors hand as easy with a copper cent as you can with a silver half dollar. “ Did you ever know such a me chanical genius as my son ? ” asked an old lady. “He has made a fiddle out of his own head, and he has wood enough for another.” Indignant wife—“ If I had known you were coming home in this condi tion, I should have gone home to my father’s.” Inebriated husband—“ Hie— would you? I’m awf sorry didn’t shend you word—hie.” “ Dear Louise, don’t let the men come too near you, when courting.” “ Oh, no, dear ma. When Charles is here we always have one chair between us.” Mother thinks the answer is rather' ambiguous. 1N the midst of life some men do all the evil they can, and when they die the papers tell lies about them at the rate of fifty cents per line. nr.rOKK. The cheerful fire brightly burn?, The gns bill keeps aceruing, 'l'he maiden fair new lessons learn, The ardent youth ne’er homeward turns, And dnward speeds the wooing. AFTER. The flickering lire feebly burns, Tlie time has parsed fur wooing; The faded wife new lessons learn, Thu husband seldom homeward turns, And onward speeds the ruing. —UackoiuitK k Jitijublican, An Albany woman brings suit against a telephone company for trespass in putting its wires on the roof of her building. It isn’t the trespass, however that troubled her so much as the fact that there is gossip going on over her head that she cannot get hold of. Casts from Living Forms. 1 was taken by a friend, says a Paris correspondent, to see • the wonderful plaster casts of living human beings which are among tbe curiosities of the Russian department. How the thing is done it is impossible to imagine, but there the two statues are, recumbent female figures, undoubtedly taken from living women. One lies slightly turned upon her side, her lips parted in a smile, as though she was trying to suppress a laugh. The other, who was much the finer of the two, lies face downward, her feet crossed and her head pillowed on her folded arms as though she had .thiown herself down to sleep. The minutest details of the texture of the skin, nails, etc., are very perfectly re produced, the “gooseflesh” wherewith the skin is covered being amusingly noticeable, and showing that the pre paration used for these casts, the com position whereof is a secret, must be applied cold. Then all the little in dentations in the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands, and the curve of the nails and their rimmings of skin and flesh are produced with startling accuracy. The process by which these figures are produced is still a secret, but it is certainly a wonderful discovery. When one of those overcrowded elevator trains in New York jumps the track and kills a lot of people, the manager’s can’t say that that they didn’t know it was loaded when it went off.