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RUSSIA AND ROYALTY Shadow That Darkens Path of the Czars. the THE FEAR OF ASSASSINATION Plots That Were Woven Around Alex ander II. and the Bomb That Shat tered His Body—An Infernal Machine That Failed to Kill Alexander III. The shadow Hint falls across the path of the czars may extend the world round. Wherever the ruler of all the Russlas may happen to lie, there the shadow of Year lies. Once In Paris, once in the palace gardens, Alexander II. was lirod at. Again In the Winter Palace square one SolorlcfC, wearing the uniform of an ofllclnl, passed the guards one day, and again the czar wns fired upon. Alexander ran for the palace. Solo- rlelT followed him and tired three times. The czar ran In zigzags, how ever, and so escaped. Not long after ward two mines were laid to blow up the imperial train. One did not ex plode, lmt tho second wrecked the (rain. Once more the czar escaped. Watching eyes had saved him, their owners having persuaded the ruler to take another train. Later Alexander 11. owed his life to the fact that lie came late to a func tion at the palace. A bomb blew clean out a large portion of the Imperial resi dence, but the czar was not present. But of all the attempts on the lives of Russia's rulers two stand out most clearly for their amazing Ingenuity. One tells the story of a little unpre tentious shop In Malaja Sadovaja street. Kobozelf, then unknown to the police, took tho shop and set out to impress the police, who were al ways making sudden inspections of premises along the thoroughfares through which Alexander II. passed, that he was nothing but u provision denier. Nearly every one in that street was a paid spy, but Kobozeff joked with his customers, pleased his purveyors and was most affable and apparently harmless. The dealer Inspired confidence, and Ills custom increased gradually. No wonder, for most of the parcels that his customers were carrying away by day contained nothing hut earth- earth that during the night hours had been scraped by tin* man and Ills wife from beneath the street! it was by such ingenious method that a tun nel was hollowed and cleared under tho thoroughfare and a mine laid be neath the way the czar often passed, nn Innocent couch upon which the housewife slept covering the entry the tunnel. Yet all the work was useless. On tlie day the scheme was to lie carried out the czar upset all the arrange ments by going off to lunch with tho Grand Duchess Catherine MtchuelOYiin. Among those who were watching on behalf of the terrorists was a beauti ful girl—a countess, too—named I’o- rovskaya. It was she who, seeing the altered arrangements, gave warning. The czar would return to the palace another way. Along this route four men carrying bombs were stationed. One threw Ills. Men and horses were killed all around, but the czar stepped from Ids coach unscathed. A second man holding a bomb cauio forward and threw it. "Tills time the effect was awful,” says Wacltnv Gaslorow- skl, who describes the Incident In Ills book, "Tragic Russia." "The czar fell ns If cut by a scythe, ills legs were shuttered to pieces." So died the czar who had escaped as by a miracle many times. Alexander 111. followed, and there were attempts upon Ills life. The fourth was oue of the most sensa tional In the entire list of nihilist plots. Ou a bright autumn day the Impe rial train traveled at full speed on the track well guarded by soldiers. It was toward noon. The Imperial family were In tho dining car. where lunch wns about to be served. The cook and his help were making the last prepara tions for it when an assistant was taken til. The court physician attended the man and, having stated that lie had fever, with symptoms of some inex pllcable ailment, decided that the man could not remain in the Imperial train, and ho was left at tile next station Tho train moved forward toward Borkl, traveling at the speed of eighty kilometers an hour. Then tin* elec- trtcal bell notified the cook that the imperial family were ready for lunch eon. A few seconds after the bell sounded a territlc uolse was hoard and a violent explosion changed in the twinkling of an eye the luxurious im perial train into a heap of broken Iron, of wrecked cars, of inutilet corpses, enveloped in smoko and made all tho more harrowing by tho moan lng and cries for help of tho wounded Yet the czar escaped! The dining room car that ttie nihilists had In tended should be a grave for the czar, his family and his suit saved hltu, for although its roof and floor were wrecked its sides were preserved They inclined toward the eeutor. prop pod each other like two cards and re mained in that position, protecting those who were there from belli crushed. The cook who had been put off tho train had worked the whole thing. He had placed an infernal machine iu a cone of sugar and had faked his 111- uess. thus getting clear away.—Phila delphia Ledger. Mercy turns her back to the unmerci ful.—vjuarles. THE MILITARY SQUARE. A Formation Borrowed by Wallace From the “lemings. The greatest of nil Scottish nnniver- surles Is that of Bannockburn, fought Ln the year 1314. Apart from its bear ing on the Independence of Scotland, the battle will always have nn excep tional Interest from the military point of view, as Bannockburn may be said to have been the birthplace of the British square. "Proud Edward’s" army mainly consisted of cavalry, while thnt of the Scots, on the other hand, was almost exclusively composed foot folk armed with the spear. of and these Bruce threw into “schll- troms," or oblong squares, a formation borrowed by Wallace from tbe Flem ings, who had employed it with suc cess at Courtray to resist the charge of the English cavalry’. Hitherto the mounted mail clad knight had carried everything before him, but Courtray and Bannockburn proved that he was powerless to break resolute spear armed Infantry drawn up In "schiltrom," or hedgehog, forma tion, and these two buttles revolution ised the tactics of the continent and of our own Island. Profiting by the lesson which had been taught them at Bannockburn, the English applied tho tactics of the Scots with brilliant success at Crecy and still more nt Agincourt. As It wns the Scots who may be said to have originated tbe British square nt; Bannockburn, so it was they ngain who at. Balaklava were the first to discard it with their “thin red line,” and now, owing to our changed conditions of warfare, it Is discarded altogether.—London Chron icle. MOHAMMEDANS OF INDIA. Superstition Seems to Govorn Most of Their Actions. Mohammedans of India are very superstitious. No Mohammedan will take a bath on Sunday or Tuesday But if one bathes on Wednesday till misfortunes and misery that are in store for him till the next Wednesday will be averted. As a rule, all Moham medans bathe on Fridays before going to perforin the jumma prayers. For donning new clothes Saturday. Sunday and Tuesday are regarded as bad days If any one dons a new dress or puts on a new clotb or allows his tailor le cut a piece of cloth on these days, lie will live a miserable life till that dress or cloth gets torn or is thrown away If a shirt is torn and if the wearer wants to stlteb it. It must be taken off. for If It is stitched while on the body the person will soon die. A Mohntn medau will never allow u burlier to come near him on Tuesdays, for Tttes days and Saturdays and Sundays are bad days for shaving. If absolutely necessary he will get himself shaved on Saturday or Sunday, but never on Tuesday, as his star is supposed to fall lu blood if he does so. If one receive money or some valuable thing, it I taken with the right hand, for if it Is taken with the left the person re celvitig It ts said to forget nil nbout It very soon or to mislay it. A di vout Mohammedan will not start on a journey on Wednesdany, for it is he lleved he will never return home safe ly If he does so. And it is said that even a snake never ventures out Its hole on this day. A Snake Story. The family were at dinner when there came a tap at a door seldom opened. Winning no attention. It wa repeated and again a third time though more softly, and then the door was swung back and, behold, then was a snake, knocking at the portals of hospitality! Down upon its bead, in conformity with the decree of tradi tion and with Ezra's understanding of scriptural direction, crunched a Brit ish boot. It was a mother snake, who, having bravely overcome her fear of man, was seeking sustenanee, not for herself perhaps, though she was starv ing, but more likely for the little ones that were found lu the grass by the brook. Thus for once, at any rate, did tho craftiness of the devil succumb to tbe Instinct of motherhood.—George B. M. Harvey in North American Re view. THE PRICE OF GENIUS. What It Means to Man to Be a Pioneer In Thought. To bo a pioneer ln thought Is to stand alone with nature, not for a few minutes, but for life. The isolateness of tbe few great inlDds of each gen eration of men is utterly undreamed of, for want of understanding, by those about them. Yet think what it Is to puss one's days ln a thought world where the thinker roams alone; to grapple with problems the very terms of which are beyond ordinary comprehension and the solution appre ciated only in years to come; to con template in lonely ecstasy, after still lonelier despair, the revelation that comes with months and more of pon dering. When some one asked New ton how he came to make his wonder ful discoveries ho replied, “Simply by always thinking about them.” Consid er Kepler toiling year after year fruit lessly for some ratio that should link the planet’s motions by a general law, calculating assiduously and putting hypothesis after hypothesis aside as he found it would not work until at last, ifter almost Inconceivable toil, he hit upon the oue that would. (Vs if this loneliness by nature were not enough, it must needs be accen- unted by man, for he rises in such enses in chorus to condemn. Consider Darwin, in patient study, testing the working out of natural selection and adding fact to fact, only to have the whole denounced as ridiculously ab surd. Think you the denunciations of the master while living are wholly compensated by the plaudits after lie Is dead? The loneliness of greatness is the price men make the genius pay for posthumous renown.—Perclval Lowell ln Atlantic. SPARED BY THE ENEMY. A Dramatic Incident In the Career of General de Gallifet. It was on that fatal, day. Sept. 1, 1870, that General de Gallifet distin guished himself by commanding the cavalry charges intended to clear the elevation at Illy, with the view of opening a passage toward Flolng, where It W’as hoped the army might re treat. The first charge overthrew the Eighty-third regiment of the Prussians and penetrated among the German troops, but the latter formed again rapidly after tho retirement of the French cavalry. General Ducrot then asked If they could renew the charge with what re mained of the light cavalry and hus sars, and then Gallifet answered in the words that have become historic. “As often as you wish, general, as long as a man remains!” The second charge was not so successful as the first. Only a few men. with their gen eral at their head, succeeded in pene trating the first ranks of the enemy It Is known that the king of Prussia, who was watching the battle from the top of the hill of Marfee, exclaimed with admiration, "Oh, les braves gens!" Just at this moment an astonishing event occurred in the midst of the bat tle. As Gallifet was returning with a few survivors, their horses for the most part wounded or foundered, he passed before the Nassau regiment. The Prussian officers ordered their men to cease fire and even struck up some of their guns. The French sa luted and shouted, “Vive l’empereur!” and tho German officers acknowledged the salute, some of them applauding.— Westminster Gazette. THE COOK’S FAULT. SCIENTIFIC FEEDING. ilSSMSSI! To Every Consumer of Croceiies, Delicacies, Condiments, Elc. If you believe in our grade of Food Products, and stand for purity in everything you eat, you and we should be in close touch. Are we? This store represents the ideal in groceries, superb edibles, and everything good to eat. It has been many years since this store was founded, on a very small capital, but a big stock of principles. We make a rule of buying the best of everything good to eat, and our test of satisfied customers, and the new ones being added daily, is evidence that we are giving entire satisfaction. We treat all alike and have strictly one price. Our cash and credit customers, our customers who 'phone their orders, and those who come to the store, are all shown the same courteous treatment. We have no bargain counters nor sales at cut prices. We make an average profit on all the lines we sell, fixing same to cover ex penses and give us a living and a fair return on our investment. For these reasons, if our quality of food products and our style w of doing business meet with your approbation, we would be pleased ■■ to number you among our customers. II Yours to please, II ■h t. swintI T E L E P H ONE iissmssi: 5 4 Tho “Macaroni." The “macaroni" were exquisites or fops who in England and France led the fashions from 17S0 to 17S5 and were distinguished by an immense knot of artificial hair worn on the top of their heads. A small cooked hat which perched ridiculously on their topknot, satin or brocade coats and small clothes fitting tightly to the body and silk stockings with ribbon garters composed the costume of these fash ionable gentlemen, who invariably car ried a long walking stick with tassels attached and frequently a bouquet tied to the handle and eucouraged a minc ing and affected gait and manner There was during the war for inde pendence a body of Maryland soldiers wlio ou account of their showy uni forms were called “macaroni.” She Had Learned. “The hardest thing to acquire, miss,” said the dramatic teacher, "is the art of laughing naturally without appar ent effort.” “Oh, I’ve got that down fine,” said the would be soubrette. "I typewrote for three years for a man who was al ways telliug me funny stories about his little boy."—Indianapolis News. He Knew. Mrs.—Ob. Jack! Dolly told me tbe I most exciting secret, and made me swear never to tell a living soul! Mr.- Well. hurry up with it. I’m late to the office now.—Cleveland Leader. The care of the health of the people Is the first duty of statesmen.—Dis raeli No Wonder the Bird Was Not Tender When Served, One of the most annoying things about swans is that, they live to an extremely great age and that it is impossible for the ordinary observer to guess what their years may be. President Grover Cleveland once had an amusing experience With some swans, according to a writer in the American Magazine. He had been iu tbe south shooting and brought home a number of wild swans, oue of which he sent to each member of his cabi net and to some other associates. "All the hoys.” said Mr. Cleveland, "thanked me politely for having re membered them, but none of them seemed to have much to say about how they enjoyed the birds. "Carlisle, I found, had his cooked on a night when he wns dining out Another, when I asked him, said he hoped l wouldn’t mind, but he had sent his home to his old mother. Thur- ber didn’t mention his bird at all for two days. Finally I asked him about it. “ ‘Tliurber, did you get that swan all right?’ “ ‘Yes, sir—oh, yes, I got the swan all right, thank you,’ and he bent over his desk and seemed very busy. “ ’Fine bird,’ I said. “ ’Yes, sir, tine bird,’ and he went on working. “ ‘Enjoy eating him, Thurber?’ “He waited a minute, and then lie said; ‘Well, sir, 1 guess they didn’t cook him right at my house. They cooked him only two days.’ And he went on working without cracking a smile." Edible Flowers of India. Many edible flowers, It appears, are to be found iu India. One of the most appreciated grows on a tree about which we have very little information, but which iu the country Itself is named the “mliowad.” The natives consume au enormous number of these flowers, whose pale yellow corollae are pulpy and thick, and they prepare them in various ways. When they are fresh they are put in cakes, to which they give a sweet flavor, but they are more especially used for making bread after they have been dried and reduced to flour. By allowing them to ferment a kind of wine is produced, and by distilling them a brandy Is obtained of which the Hindoos are very fond.—Vulgarisa tion Scieutifique. Health as a Primary Factor In Intelli gent Living. Health and success are so largely dependent upon balauce, upon sym metry of development, physical and mental harmony, that we should do everything possible to secure that physical ppise which also means men tal and moral poise. A large part of our Ills come from one sided develop ment caused by overstimulating some tissue cells and starving others—over feeding and underfeeding. Scientific feeding, therefore, is of vast impor tance. Overeating and improper eating are among the curses of the world. Think of the people who put all sorts of iu- compatibles into their stomachs at the same time and then use all sorts of nostrums to get rid of their bad ef fects. One of the most pathetic sights in the world is that of a human being struggling bard to carry out bis am bition, yet handicapping himself by his ignorance of physical laws. What a pathetic figure Carlyle cut in the world—a one sided giant who might have been a symmetrical power, possessor of a colossal brain largely controlled by a dyspeptic stomach! He was cross and ernbbed and did just the things that he did not want to do, things that he knew It would be bet ter not to do, but be was the victim of starved nerves, of exhausted brain cells largely for want of common sense feeling.—Orison Swett Marden in Suc cess Magazine. WHEN IN NEED OF LUMBER AND PLANING MILL STUFF Of all kinds—Brackets, Mouldings, Columns, etc.—you will find it to your interest to give us a call. HOUSE BILLS A SPECIALTY Vulcanite Roofing R. D.Cole ManufacturingCo 49-54 E. Broad St., NFWNAN, GA. : ’Phone 14. A Dandy of 1770. From an English newspaper printed ln the year 1777 is the following de scription of a dandy; “A few days ago a macaroni made his appearance In the assembly rooms at Whitehaven, dressed in a mixed silk coat, pink satin waistcoat and breeches covered with au elegant silk net, white silk stock ings with pink clocks, pink satin shoes and large pearl buttons, a mushroom colored stock covered with fine poitat lace, hair dressed remarkably high and stuck full of pearl pins.” A “Mite.” The difllculties experienced by our forefathers in trying to reckon money in very small proportions appear In the various values given to a "mite” in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen tury books of commercial arithmetic. The original “mite" seems to have beep a third of a Flemish penny, but tbe use of the word for the widow’s coin of the New Testament made its regular English meaning half a far thing, and some old people may re member applying the name to the short lived nineteenth century coins of that value. In those old arithmetic books “mite” stands for various val ues not represented by actual coins, but obviously used in reckoning. A work of 1700 makes it one-twelfth of a penny, two sixteenth century books one-sixth of a farthing, and in 1674 Jeake’s arithmetic made it as little as one sixty-fourth of a penny.—Lon don Chronicle. Utter Contempt. “I s’pose you wouldn’t marry me if I were the only man on earth?" "I wouldn’t even be engaged to you,” responded the girl, “if you were the only man at a summer resort.”—Louis ville Courier-Journal. And the Parson Passed On. "And what are you here for, my friend?" asked the visiting parson of au inmate of a reformatory. " ’Cause 1 can't get out, ttiuik you,” replied the victim.—Ladies’ Home Jour nal. Lots of Company. Stranger—You must find it very lonely on these hills. Shepherd—Lone ly! No, I don’t. Why. there was a man an’ a 'oss passed yesterday, an’ there’s you today.—Loudon Punch. Greatness is the ability to meet the i unexpected.—Stowell. Heroic Treatment. In Guiana if a child is slow iu its movements the parents apply an ant to the child instead of a whip to make it move faster. This little ant bites more cruelly than a mosquito, and its bite is apt to be troublesome after ward. As you can imagine, this treat ment does not make the child kind to others, and the children of Guiana are said to be particularly cruel to ani mals. The little boys in Guiana do not reckon tbeir age by years, but by their ability to endure pain. Until he gets to the point where he can let the Hucu ant bite him without wincing he is considered merely a baby. Not AH His Life. Reader Magazine. Two gentlemen were traveling im one of the hill counties of Kentucky not long ago, bound on an exploration for pitch pine. They had been driving for two hours without encountering any human being, when they came in sight of a cabin in a clearing. It was very still. The hogs lay where they had fallen, the thin claybank mule grazed round and ’round and one, lean, lank man, whose garments were the color of the claybank mule, leanod against a tree and let time roll by. “Wonder if he can speak,” said one traveler to the other. “Try him,” said his companion. “How do you do?” said the North erner. “Howdy?” remarked the Southerner languidly. “Pleasant country.” “Fur them what likes it.” “Lived here all your life?” The Southerner spat pensively in the dust. “Not yit,” he said. A physician at a recent meeting of the College of Physicians in Philadelphia told a story illustrating the witty com prehension of a patient of Irish nativ ity. The physician declared that one of his ailments the Irishman could not understand was why, if one of his arms refused to perform its usual functions, the other should remain normal. “It is the balancing power of na ture,” explained the physician. “If man is blind in one eye nature general ly provides additional strength for the remaining eye. When deafness is dis covered in one ear the hearing of the other ear becomes unusually acute. ” “Now that you mention it,. Oi be- lave ’tis so,” said the patient. “Wliin a mon has wan short leg, th’ other leg is generally longer.” Sympathy. He—It was a frightful moment when I received your letter telling me of the insuperable obstacle to our mar riage. I would have shot myself, but I bad no money to buy a revolver. She—Dearest, if only you had let me know.—Simplicissimus. A Mean Friend. “All the dust flies up ray nose.’’ “Well. Cholly, maybe the city will pay you to parade the streets. Per haps, instead of sweepiug, it would be better to clean them by a vacuum proc ess.”—Kausas City Journal. All the Difference. “My wife is very bad.” said a man at '.be Bloomsbury county court. “You mean she is very 111. 1 hope she Is not bad,” replied the magistrate sympathetically.—London Telegraph. Here is the way the papers will write up weddings ten years hence: “The bride looked very well in a traveling dress, but all eyes were centered upon the groom. He wore a dark suit that fit ted his form perfectly, and in his dain ty gloved hands he carried a small rose. His curly hair was beautifully done, and a delicate odor of hair oil of the best quality floated down the aisle as he passed. The young people will miss him now that he is married. He is loved by all for his many accomplish ments, his tender grace and his win ning ways. The bride commands a good salary as bookkeeper, and the groom will miss none of the luxuiies to which he has been accustomed. A bevy of pretty men saw him off at the depot.” “Great Scott!” said the doctor to his servant. “Has anybody called during my two days’ absence? I left this slate here for callers to write their names on, and it is perfectly clean.” “Oh, yes, sir, ” responded the servant, cheerfully. “A lot of folks has came, and the slate got so full o’ names that only this mornin’ I had to rub ’em all out to make room for more!” foieyis omolvxauve '■fW. _Th ou si t. a n a JWod i fccfi cm His Conservatism Unshaken. Washington Cor. Cleveland Plain Dealer. “The more 1 see of that marvelous equilibrist, Senator Allison, of Iowa,” said “Private” John Allen, who is here making sunshine for a few days, “the more I am reminded of a tnan named Gates, who used to live in my peerless town of Tupelo. “Gates would never take sides. He would not commit himself. One day a doctor and a lawyer decided to force an opinion out of him. They got into a quarrel, with Gates present. “ ‘I was out hunting,’ said the doc tor, ‘and I shot a bull buffalo. He was sitting up in a big tree eating grapes and I plugged him and down he fell.’ “ ‘Go along,’ broke in the lawyer., buffaloes do not climb trees.’ ‘ ‘There was a long dispute and the two decided to leave it to Gates. He 1 deliberated carefully. Well,’ he said tinally, ‘as a gener al thing buffaloes do not climb trees,, but there’s no telling what they will do when they are after grapes.’ ” A gentleman from up North was talking to a young negro boy in the presence of 'his old father. He asked the boy several questions and received sensible answers to each one. Ho turned to go, but seeing that the fami ly was in need and remembering with what willingness the boy answered his questions, the gentleman said : “Here, boy, take this dollar and get you a chicken for your supper.” When the gentleman was out of sight and hearing the boy’s father called his son and said: ‘‘Yo’ jes’ gib me dat dollar, ami when hit gits dark yo’ go out an’ git dat chick’n in de nat’eral way. Does yo’ hear me?” ‘‘For ten years,” said a physician, I have advocated apples as a cure for drunkenness. In that time I have tried the apple cure on some forty or fifty drunkards, and my success has been most gratifying. Let any man afflicted with the love of drink eat three or more apples daily, and the horrible craving will gradually leave him. The cure will be greatly helped if he smokes as little as possible.” Please, mumsey, just five cents, begged Johnnie. “But, Johnnie, it was only this morn ing that I gave you five cents.” “I know, mumsey, but”—putting Ins arms around her neck—“I’m so hard on money!” Mother—“Is it possible, Harry, that you have eaten all that cake witlwu giving a thought to your sister?’ Harry—“Oh, no; I thought of her every second. I was afraid all tn- time that she would come before I ha eaten it up. ” “It’s no use for me to go^to said little Elmer. ‘the any more, — ,. ,, never be able to learn how to spell. “Why not,” asked her mother. “Because,” answered Elmer, teacher keeps changing words on me all the time.”’ Her (reading) —“And so they were married, and that was the last of troubles.” . , Him (sotto voice)—‘‘Last, but not least.” __ 4 Part and parcel—a play MSS