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Up®! o gasssasaeassasasaji] News-Herald | ! Constitution, I | 12 IL/Eontlas--$1.25. | gggggftsssgasasasasasasasasasas^asasfe THE GWINNETT HEBALU, ) THE ~A: w KEN;e E vVi!, H E NEws.. Consolidated Jan. 1,1898. KiUbilahed in 1893. > BUILDING - MATERIAL. DOORS—INSIDE AND OUTSIDE, SASH, SIDE LIGHTS. BLINDS, MANTLES, FLOORING, , CEILING, BASE BOARDS. CORNER BOARDS, DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMING, MOULDINGS, LATHS, SHINGLES, LOCKS, HINGES, WINDOW WEIGHTS, ETC. All material complete for building a house. Atlanta prices duplicated and freight saved. J. A. AMBROSE & CO.. Lawrenceville, Ga. EISEMAN BROS. ATLANTA. The largest stock of Clothing, Hats and Furnishings in the South. Thousands of styles for you to select from, and prices that are from 25 to 50 percent, cheaper than any where else, that’s because we are manufact * urers and do not pay a profit to middlemen. Men’s Nobby Suits, - 500 up to 25 00 Boy’s Long Trouser Suits, 450 up to 15 00 Boy’s Knee Trouser Suits, 150 up to 1000 We buy the best fabrics and choose the newest and handsomest patterns and coloring that are produced. Buy here once in person or through our mail order department, and the satisfaction you’ll receive will make you a permanent cus tomer of EISEMAN BROS. : Atiuntii, 15-17 Whitehall street, STORES ' Washington, Cor. Seventh ami E Streets, ( Baltimore, 213 W German Street. 15-17 WHITEHALL STREET.—Our Only Store in Atlanta, Lake Michigan’s water, rushing through turbing wheels at Lock port, will furnish power to supply the current for the electric lights needed by the city to light the streets of Chicago, if present plans are carried out. It is plan ned, says Boston Transcript, to have the city of Chicago and the sanitary district of Chicago, which are nearly identical so far as the taxpayers are concerned, .go into partnership for the purpose of transforming the wasted energy of the water which will escape through the controlling works at Lockport into electric lights. City Electricain Elliot estimates that 15,000 arc lights will bo suffi cient to illuminate the populous parts of the city. Hydraulic en gineers estimate that it is possible to develop 22,500 horse-power at a point 6,400 feet beyond the con trolling works of the sanitary ca nal at Lockport, or enough to sup ply current to nearly 25,000 are lights in Chicago. Girls, you ought to be mighty nice to old widowers and old bach elors. At Prescott. Arizona, the other day, an old bachelor died and bequeathed to Maggie Mont gomery $50,000, because Maggie always had a smile and pleasant word for him, and the other girls frowned at him. It still pays to be civil and nice, you see. —Dalton Argus. ECZEMA (Itching, Burning, Scaly Hninnrs), A BLOOD DISEASE. An Old Medicine which Cures. The real cause of Eczema is the acrid conditioned the blood, and to cure this annoying disease requires only pa tience and plenty of Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). Dr. Giliman made his first cure with this medicine over for ty-seven years ago, and the medi-ine has been a godsend to over 500 suffer ers since. Recollect that your system is saturated with this Eczema, or Salt Rheum Humor, and this poison must be forced out, and B. B. B. will do it as sure as the sun is to rise. Julia E. Johnson, Stafford’s F. 0.. 8.0., writes: “I had suffered thirteen year's with Eczema, and was at times confined to my bed. The itching was terrible. My son-in-law got me one half dozen bottles of Botanic Blood Balm, which entirely cured me, and I ask you to publish this for the benefit of others suffering in like manner.” We have many more testimonials, which we will gladly show. They are printed in a little book, which will be sent, free of charge, to any one who ad (lr6BS6B us. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B. ) is a purely vegetable preparation,original ly compounded by Dr. Giliman, and used in his private practice. It has cured many people of all blood humors, scrofula, and from the common pimple to the worst case of Blood Poison. It is put up in large bottles for SI.OO, and sold at all druggists, Blood Balm Go., Atlanta, Ga. THE NEWS-HERALD. SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS TWICE A WEEK. 104 PAPERS ONE YEAR FOR SI.OO. This popular edition of the Sa vannah Morning News contains all the latest news and market re ports, and is sent out with the daily paper, while the news is fresh. It ia the old and popular Savannah Weekly in a new form. It was changed three years ago from once a week to twice a week without change in price. It contains full accounts of what is going on in Cuba and the Philippines and all the news of the world. This year, like the last, will be full of startling news, not only the war, but of the polit ical situation which promises to he exciting. As in the past, The Savannah Weekly News wrll sup port the Democratic Party, be its platform what it may. Send SI.OO and get you the best news paper for a year that can be had for the money. Address, Morn ing News, Savannah, Ga. We club the Savannah Weekly News, twice a week with the News Herald for $1.50. Gainesville Eagle says: “The man who has made greatest record in producing' spring fries thus far is Frank Dewer, who lives about six miles out. He has incubators. Last year he hatched chickens in the dead of winter, but they would freeze in a few minutes when ex posed to the cold air and he could not keep them in the incubator all the time. This season he built a hot house and when the chicks were large enougn to leave the incubator they were turned into this building. When the chicks were large enough to broil he put them in coops, wrapped them in blankets and delivered them to the express company on hoard the cars in this condition. They were shipped in the warm cars of the express company to Cincinnati, where they readily sold for 75 cents each. Mr. Dew er shipped several lots during the mouth of February and realized about $62 on each coop. He pro poses to furnish mid-winter fries on a large scale next year. Dr. Martin Vanburen seventy-one years old, is a law student at the State University of Kansas. He expects to graduate next spring. He has already re ceived degrees from other colleges. COL. FREI) FUNSTON. THE FIGHTING LEADER OF THE KAN SAS JAYHAWKERS. Fou«ht For thr InnurKentN In Culm und Now Thrnwhes Filipino*—Dar ing Dimmln With Goinet—Battlea ot the Twentieth Kansan at Manila. [Copyright. 1899, by G. L. Kilmer.] —‘" ■—- —-I ' I'. n :i. ltl.l. scrap from a letter credited to Colonel Fnnston “As all the world knows before this, we are ‘up ag’in it’ and the long job of licking that bumptious, insolent crew, the Philippine insurgents, has begun. Kansas has been up near the band wagon and has simply covered itself with glory. The Twentieth is the most talked of regiment here because of the way the boys swept everything before them at the taking of Caloocan. a town three miles north of Manila. Five Kan sas boys have been killed and 27 wound ed up to date. “We buried 199 Filipinos, piled up on the ground that the Twentieth Kan sas advanced over in the various fights, and this of course does not include the dead that they managed to carry away. “The trouble with the Filipinos is that they do not shoot straight, while our men keep their bullets down close to the ground. A good deal of our fight ing has been at close quarters in the dense bam boo jungle, and several fellows were bayoneted by the Jayhawkers. ” A trifle more in detail is the story of Captain Bishop, who commanded a company which took an important part in the attack on Caloocan. Says Cap tain Bishop: “Colonel Funston realized that suc cess defended upon baste, and as he hurried up and down the line urging ns on to Caloocan we realized that we had the bravest colonel that ever led a regiment, and a thousand brave Kansas boys responded to the commands. As two of our battalion commanders were absent —Lieutenant Colonel Little and Major Whitman —Colonel Funston left part of the regiment absolutely in com mand of Major Metcalf, and it was no mistake he made. As we neared Caloo can it seemed as if all the devil’s imps were in front of us. We could hear, but could not see. The only thing that saved us from great loss was the fact that the natives invariably fire high. “It would have done your soul good to have seen my country schoolteachers as they made these rashes, with Ser geant Sampson always at my right hand and Sergeants Brockway and Wil son urging their sections on. We knew our left flank was safe, as there was Glasgow, with Sergeants Fox and King looking after the second platoon, and to the right of the road was the big stone church, surrounded by a seven foot stone wall, and that was what we were after. One more rush would take us to it, and then over the walls we would go. As Harry Todd was ringing the bell in the chnrch tower with lead from his Springfield I cried out, ‘How many will follow me?’ and every man answered, ‘I am ready!’ or ‘Here, here!’ and away we went. It was my ambition to be the first man to scale the wall, but, bless your soul, I am get ting old, and 40 or more brave lads sat astride the wall shooting natives before I got there. And here we rested until the other companies, which were pick ing their way through the underbrush and across trenches on either side of the town, came up. We were proud of our rush on the town and proud of the brave boys who forced the intrench ments right and left—intrenchments concealed by brush md vines and full of natives with Mansers and Reming tons. ’’ Like the rough riders in Cuba, the Twentieth Kansas is in danger of over praise. It is said that Colonel Funston boasted that he’d make bis hardy bor defers the rough riders of the Philip pines. They started in well. For a bat tlecry they adopted the resonant, sig nificant legend, “Rock chalk, Jayhawk, K. V. ” Jayhawkers in the best sense these unconventional, enthusiastic west ern volunteers are. It is not necessary to depend solely upon flattering friendly reports of the doings of Colonel Funston and his Jay hawkers to make out a case of heroism for the Twentieth Kansaa In the re port of the brigade commander. Gen eral Harrison Grey Otis, the doings of the Kansas men take up fully half, al though they count numerically but one fifth, of Otis’ force. The insurgent attack on the night of Feb. 4 began on the Kansas outpost Two battalions were rushed to the front by Colonel Funston and the insurgents held in check for the night. Next day the whole regiment charged gallantly through the gardens and bamboo thick ets directly upon the insurgent strong hold. When the Jayhawkers got within 60 to 70 yards, firing as they pushed on, the insurgents gave way. Rallying at the captured barricadea, the Kansans were about to storm the isolated block houses beyond when they were recalled. Next day. however, it advanced to the barricades and held them. One com pany went forward into the brush and stirred up a sharp fight with the enemy Colonel Funston took out three com panies: and charged the insurgent posi tion, carrying it after a fight of half an hour at the point of the bayonet The Summer Season Should Be Taknen With A drain Of Salt. The way to the seaside is by the Seaboard Air Line. Saturday and Sunday excursions from May 20th to September 24th to Virgin ia Beach, Ocean View and Old Point Comfort, round trip $8.50 via the Seaboard Air Line. Tick ets will be on sale Saturdays and Sundays, good to return following Monday, fiom Raleigh, Boykins, Durham, Lewiston and intermedi ate points. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1899. There was quiet in front of the Kan sans after that charge until the line was ordered forward to attack Caloocan on Feb. 10. The regiment had the left | of the brigade and charged through a I dense woods in the face of a hot fire from tty* insurgents, not stopping until it had swept through the town and a distance beyond. This is not the tale of all the fighting done Jo date by Colonel Funston's Kan sans. Every battle report has some ex ploit to their credit. They belong to MacArthur’s division and to Harrison Grey Otis’ brigade, which means a share in all fighting, perhaps the lion’s share. Personally, the leader of the Jayhawk ers is not a war lion. His wife that now is called him on her first inter view a pocket edition of Mars. He is 5 feet 4 in stature, the minimum for a soldier. Perhaps there is something in bis very red head and very black eyes in combination that makes him a fighter. He has been in a dozen battles or more -in the Philippines and had 23 to his credit with the army of Gomez. In Cu ba he fought with the insurgents and at Manila is crushing them. Perhaps his experience with them in Cuba is behind his zeal for stamping them out in the Philippines. Colonel Funston was an enthusiastic I convert to the Cuban cause. Happening to attend a mass meeting in the early days of shouting “Cuba libre, ’’ his heart was touched, and he offered his services to the junta. At two houra’ notice, plain Private Funston of the filibustering band went on board the steamer Dauntless and without adventure landed in the pres ence of Gomez. When asked what he could do for Cuba, be said, "Fight!” Gomez made the little redheaded Ohioan, for that he is by birth, com mander of a Hotchkisß battery. Start ing with the rank of captain, he fought his way to favor in the eyes of Gomez and in 18 months was a lieutenant colo nel even in that army of ornamental Cubans. His first battle was at Cascona, a town well defended by Spanish forts. Funston had two Hotchkiss guns and played them npon the Spaniards with appalling effect. The Cubans were amazed and called hint a demon. Fun ston’s Jayhawkers at Manila are called demons. For a time Funston bore a charmed life. Then a shot mangled one arm. There in hand, and he had five guns to give a good account of. So he bandaged his arm and went into battle, making it so hot for the Span iards with Hotchkiss and dynamite shells that they set a price on his head. Joining Garcia’s hand. Funston won bis last promotion in battle, was punc tured the lungs by a Mauser and then laid low with fever. This last foe brought him back to the States to recuperate, and then came the uprising to make Cuba libre something more than a motto. Funston aeked for au thority to raise a fighting regiment of the Kansas yeomanry, rough riders on foot, and when ready to take the field was ordered to the coast to join the Philippine expedition. Caloocan, Marilao river, Malolos and Calumpit are the great battles to be inscribed on the flag of Kansas. Private Burton Mitchell, writing of Caloocan. tells how the colonel led and inspired the charge. Says he: “The colonel (Fnnston) led this charge on his horse with his hat off, calling for the men to come on, which they did with a will. I came near get ting plugged by a sharpshooter who had been giving us trouble all that aft ernoon. My companion hollered ‘Duck!’ and quick as a flash I dropped my head down behind a wall, when a bullet came where my head had been and hit the ground just behind me. After the gunboats had shelled Caloocan for awhile we heard the colonel’s voice say ing : ‘Forward I Advance! Double time, firing I’ And the way those Jayhawkers did come through the town and \% miles beyond!” It is said tiiat Funston resigned from the Cuban army on account of the bar barity of the insurgents. In the last battle under Gomez, where he was wounded, the Cubans captured 50 of the enemy of the class called guerrillas and condemned them to death. Funston COLONEL FRED FUNSTON. babbled to headquarters and pleaded for the lives of the condemned, but his pe tition Fas refused. He then swore he would never strike another blow in a cause waged in a manner so barbarous. The first personal exploit of Colonel Fnnston in the Philippines was at the Marilao river in February. With his command be reached the banks of that ftreaui and found the enemy on the op posite bank in good position. Selecting 20 men who could swim, Funston told them to follow, and. holding his revolv er np out of water, swam across. His soldiers placed their rifles upon logs and pushed the logs before them as they swam. On reaching the enemy’s side the little band of Kansans charged and captured 80 Filipinos A later exploit, towing a rope across a stream under fire from the enemy, has been rewarded by promotion to tb« rank of brigadier gen eral George L. Kilmer. In this country last year the number of milch cows increased about twenty-five per cent, and the number of other cattle over thirty per cent, while the number of sheep and swine slightly de creased. AGENTS WANTKD-FOR“TUK LIFE AND Achk*v»‘inenn of Admiral Dew«y, ”the world’s frvatest naval hero. By Mu rut HaUted, the i felon# friend and admirer of the nation’s idol. Biggest and beat hook; overf*ho pages.Hx 10inch es; nearly 100 page* halftone illustrations. On ly sl.r»o. Knormoiu demand- Big commissions, outfit free. Chance of a lifetime. Writequick. The Dominion Company. 3rd Floor Caxtou Bldg., Chicago.—May HAP OF GWINNETT COUNTY. Showing the Disputed Territory Claimed by Walton, but Which is About to Fall on the Gwinnett Side. * ' y . i co / , o }L l -.v. j c \ ° I X >r~\ V I y. ' ' j *''L 'y c° V / [ . y yJ \ \ ' / I \ V 'V >( /■! y / ->' . \ \ / j C ' { .//y d)!cfi«fGwinru?t~Co>(7a \ C o \\ j / V“ X'j ""T-- , Many of our readers will be in terested in the map we publish in | this issue of the News-Herald, asi they watch the result of the sur-| vey of the county line between j Gwinnett and Walton. The dark space represents the disputed territory—Walton claim ing to the upper line, with the ob truse angle, while Gwinnett claims the lower and straight line. Both counties were organized in 1818, out of territory then partly belonging to Jackson county, and partly acquired by treaties from tho Creek and Cherokee Indians. By an act of the Legislature passed in 1820, the line between Walton and Gwinnett was defined as fol lows : Factories in the South, There is a steady increase in the number of factories in the south. A few days ago we published a statement showing that several new factories have been projected in South Carolina, and that the j building of others has already been begun. In our dispatches Tuesday from Columbus, Ga., statements were made indicating that great activity prevails in that city in factory building, and in making additions to factories al ready in operation. We mention only these two states because we have just published statements showing what they are doing in factory building. In other south ern states there is almost, if not quite, as much progress in manu facturing as in the two to which we have called attention. The growth of the south in man ufacturing has been remarkable. It must not be forgotten that until within the last few years the south had very little money for invest ment in manufacturing enter prises. It took her a good many years to get over the effects of the civil war. Now she is steadily forging ahead, and the growth of her manufacturing interests will be fur greater in the next few yearg than during the last few. It is a safe prediction that with in the next twenty years the south will be using as many bales of cotton in her cotton mills as the north will, and the mills of the whole country will have a capaci ty about sufficient to take the en tire cotton crop. Instead of ex porting raw cotton we shall export cotton manufactured into articles demanded by the markets of the world. All the cotton mills iu the south which are well managed pay a fair return on the money invested iu them, and there is every reason to think they will continue to do so. And the south’s iron ard coal mines are being developed with wonderful rapidity. Birmingham is coming to the front again, and when she gets there she will stay, because iron and steel can be man ufactured within her limits at less cost than elsewhere in the world. The outlook for the south from a manufacturing standpoint, is cer tainly encouraging. She has I some great advantages over the I north for manufacturing and they * * “Commence at the boundary line, about three miles down said line, from the Rock Bridge, and run a straight direct line along by the house of James Morris to the house of Mrs. Ruunells, on the Hog Mountain road, about four miles up said road, from the pres ent line dividiug said counties.” This is the line the surveyor j appointed by the Governor on thp recommendation of the the grand jury of Walton county, is chargi d with the duty of locating by his j survey. There seems to be no difficulty in ascertaining the two points where the line is to begin and end: That “about three miles down , the line from Rock Bridge” at one ; are beginning to tell in her favor. | In the next ten years the south I will accomplish more in the way of factory building than in the last twenty years, if not in her entire history.—Savannah News. The Next Census, The primary purposes of the government in counting the peo ple, which the Constitution re quires to be done once in ten years is to ascertain how many Repre sentatives in Congress shall be ap portioned to each state. Until a first census could be ta ken the Constitution itself speci fied the Dumber of Representatives allowed to each of the thirteen States. Virginia was assigned ten members, Massachusetts and Penn sylvania were allowed eight each, New York and Maryland six each, and the other States were granted representation in the same arbi trary manner. The total mem bership of the first House of Rep resentatives was 65. The apportionment based on the census, that of 1790 allowed one Representative for every 88,000 people, as near as the division could be made. On that basis the membership of the House became 105. By the next census, ten years later, using the same “Unit of population,” the number of Representatives was increased to 141. Since that time it has been nec sary with every new census to al low u larger population to each district, and also, with the excep tion of one decade, to enlarge the membership of the House. A part of the increase was by the admis sion of new States. There are now about 857 men in the House, and each Congressional district is made to contain as near 178,901 souls, by the census of 1890, as is possible. The forthcoming census in 1900 will, as usual, make a new appor tionment necessary. The popula tion < f the United States, which was 62,622,550 in 1890, will be, it is estimated, from 74,000,000 to 76,000,000, not including our new possessions. It is not desirable to have the House of Representatives made much larger if its efficiency as a leg islative body is to be maintained. Hence, the increase of population will prcbably make necessary an enlargement of the Congressional end, and “the house of Mrs. Run nells” at the other, and if there is any difficulty it grows out of the doubt, after the lapse of nearly eighty years, as to the location of the “house of James Morris.” “A straight direct line” from one of the points named to the other will place Loganville, or a large portion of it, in Gwinnett, and in that event it is not unnatural that the parties who induced the grand jury of Walton to recom mend that the survey bo made will regret their action, however pleasing it may be to our Logan ville friends to use their railroad to visit their county site, rather than jolt twelve miles over the wagon road to Monroe. district—perhaps an increase to 200,000 —which would be six times the population of the original unit of apportionment Clarkesville Advertiser: A young man came into town last Friday morning and soon became the “observed of all observers.” The young man, whose name is Joe Taylor, says he is 20 years’of age, has been raised within six miles of Clarkesville and had nev er been to the town before tljat day. When asked why it was he had never been to town, he said he had never had any business here. Now that is something new "under the sun,” a boy who would not go to town except on business. The young man said he had been to Carnesville, Fort Madison, and a few other places, but not to his county site, just six miles from his home. Verily he is a wonder of the boy species. We fear he could not appreciate the new court house with its tower and clock. Our northern friends do not like to have a part of the burden of re sponsible for the race problem pub licly laid at their doors. They are bound to acknowledge that respon sibility when they are brought face to face with the facts, but they do not like to talk about the past. “Reformers like Gov. Nor then of Georgia will not solve the negro problem of today,” snys the Philadelphia Ledger, “by harking back to its past history. ” Does the conscientious and competent physician prescribe for a danger ous disease before carefully study ing the history of it ? He does not, but considers cause and then effect, and makes his remedy ac cordingly.—Savannah News. Shorthaud is one of the arts that has never been lost. It is believed that it was practiced in Phoenicia before the Greeks ex isted as a people, and possibly al so at Babylon. There is no trace of it in China or Japan. Paris actresses wear paper lace, which by night looks as beautiful and delicate as the best of real lace, while it costs but a trifle. „ p6 RFECT" sc 4te . 1 LAST FOREVER. STEEL TRUSSED LEVERS COPPER PLATED, COMBINATION BEAM WITH BEAM BOX* CATALOGUE MIC. * JONES OF BINGHAMTON. BINGHAMTON, N. Y. ( News-Herald j | an » Journal, weekly. | Only $1.25. •TR Offt] C. OSI G 773 CTS i tsm rs«i rs ktii rr=*. rsw i=si rmi= si »rsi rar VOL. VI .-NO 32 EVOLUTION. I.tNIIDOH SMITH INTHK ICOSOCI.iST When you were a Tadpole and I was a Kiati, In the I'aleoiolc time. And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime. Or skittered with many a caudal flip. Through the depth-* of the Cambrian fen, My heart was rife with the Joy of life, For I loved you, even then. Mindless we lived and mindletut we loved And mindless at last we died; And deep in a rift of the Caradoc drift We slumbered aide by side. The world turned on in the lathe of time. The hot lands heaved amain, Till we caught our breath froqi the womb of death, And crept into light again. We were Amphibians, scaled and tailed, And drab as a dead man’s hand; We coiled at ease ’neath the dripping trees, or trailed through the mud and sand, Croaking and blind, with our three-* lawed feet, W riting a language dumb. With never a spark in the empty dark To hint at a life to come, V M happy we lived and happy we loved, Ajsd happy we died once more; Our forms were rolled in the clinging mold Of a Neoeomian shore. The Rons came and the Kong fled. And the sleep that wrapped us fast Was riven away in a newer day, And the night of death was past. Then light and swift through the jungle trees We swung in our airy flights, Or breathed In the balm of the fronded palm, In the hush of the moonlight nights. And oh, what beautiful years were these, When oar hearts clung each to each; When life was fllled and our senses thrilled In the first faint dawn of speech. Thus Life by Life, and Love by Love, We passed through the circle strange, And Breath by Breath, and Death by Death We followed the chain of Change. Till there came a time in the law of Life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke I n a strange, dim dream of God. f was thewed like an Auroch bull And tusked like the great Cave Bear: And you, my sweet, from head to feet, Were gowned in your glorious hair. Deep In the gloom of a lire less cave, When the night fell o’er the plain, And the moon hung red o’er the river bed. We mumbled the bones of the slain. 1 flaked a flint to a cutting edge. And shaped it with brutish craft; I broke a shank from the woodland dank. And fitted it, head and haft. Then 1 hid me close by the roedy Tarn, Where tho Mammoth came to drink— Through brawn and bone I drave the stone, And alew him on the brink. Izoud I howled through the moonlit wastes, Loud answered onr kith and kin; From West and Kaat, to the crimson feast. The clan came ' cooping in. O’er joint and gristlo, and padded hoof, We fought and clawed and tore. And cheek by Jowl, with many a growl, Wo talked tho marvel o’er. I carved that fight on a reindeer bone With rude and hairy hand, 1 pictured his fall, on the cavern wall, That men might understand, Kor we lived by the Blood and the Bight of MIrI.I Ere human laws were drawn, And the Age of Bin did not begin Till our brutal tusks were gone. And that was a million years ago. In a time that no man knows; Yet here tonight, in the mellow light, We sit at Delmoulco’s Your eyes are deep as the Devon springs. Your hair is as dark as Jet; Your years are few—your life is new, Your sou] untried—and yet. Our trail is on the Kimineridge clay. And the scarp of the Purbeck flags, Wo have left our hones In the Usipihot stones. And deep in tho Coral no crags; Our love is old, our life is old, And death shall come amain; Should it come to-day, what man may say We shall not meet again? God wrought our souls from the Tremadoc beds, And furnished them wings to fly; He .owotl our spawn, in the world’s dim dawn. And 1 know that It shall not die. Though cities have sprung above the graves Where the orook-boned men made war; Aap the ox-wain creaks o’er the buried caves Where the mummied mammoths are. Then, as we linger at luncheon here, O’er many a dainty dish, ln)t us drink anew to the time when you Were a Tadpole and I was a Fish. In several sections around Ha vana the soil produces five crops of vegetables in a year. The oldest family in the British Islands is that of Mar, in Scot land, which dates from 1098. The eye of the vulture is so con structed that it is a high power telescope, enabling the bird to see objects at an almost incredible distance. The cost of keeping up the drinking fountains and cattle troughs in London is $8,500 p>r annum. A single trough in a husy through fare costs $250. In China, where most eyes are narrow and long, a small, round eye is considered an extraordinary beauty. Chinese girls pluck their eyebrows to make them very fine. The pupil of the eye is so called because when looking in it a very small image of the observer may be seen, hence the term from the Latin “pupilius,” or little pupil. For Spain and Switzerland the figures are more nearly equal. There are 77,000 Spaniards in I ranee, and 25,000 Frenchmen in Spain; 88,117 Swiss in France, and 54,000 Frenchmen in Switzer land. Cargoes of Ntw Zealand and Australian butter recently ship ped to London have been reship ped to their starting points, as the home price (or butter is now much higher than the English price obtainable. Flies are the only thing found in amber, in a big mass of clear amber, dredged up out of the Bal tic Sea, there was distinctly visi ble iu its interior f* small squir rel—fur, teeth and claws intact.