CLAY THEIR DIET. THESE ARE NOT INDIANS NOR NEGROES, BUT WHITES. The Clay is Without Smell or Taste, Properties it is Poisonous and Induces Premature Decay. Ever since my childhood I have heard abou! the clay-eaters of the Southern but until a few weeks ago I regarded them as amyih. In the interest of an immigration company I was making an examina- tion of the valleys of the Eastern }lue Ridge, extending from the head- waters of the aanawha, in West Vir- to the headwaters of the Chat- tahooche, in Georgia. While in the foothills, about thirty miles south of Mount A panied by a guide, my attention was attracted to two men strange appearance indicated Like all the thes: were lean their forms were stooped attenuated and their eyes as dull as States, ints grinna, , Accom whose some unusual nountaineers, but » limbs disease, mar men fish—and these not es of 1 I'he ly ashy those of a dead t characteristi Blue wns the beard was thin certainly he the men of the color of these men : and strag- ine. and the hair sug 3 «dd Spanish moss. straw hats, cotton shirt nut trousers constiti attire. the my guide bu i Was At men first clay-eaters,’ believe that rf » of whom men, were as luxuries, succeeded in the al the ¢ 1 with are was irectic : Fiit. Is it far from After a painful p he sucked at his his chin nervously, if calculation, he drawled out far. Yar a * . g 8 “Waal 80 stran- sekon I confessed that I was, whereup he continued, with the i troduction, "Waal, nigh to the Harracan.”’ “Harri was a new word and I certainly would have been left in ignortance had not t to the rescue by informing me that the Harrican District’ meant a place near the head of the valley, where, many years ago, hundreds of acres of forest had been leveled by a de- structive hurricane. What do you do at the I asked, “Do!” repled the man dazed way, and with the ing of the chin, as if perplexed him. thar.” “What do you do was my next question. Oh, not much of nawthi » responded, and for the first time a ghastly smile flitted over the death mask, while his companion, who so " Mi nvariabie in- we-1 1 ns ives un verry’ Call to me, Y he guide come Harrican?"’ in the same same stroke the aquest “Why, we-uns lives ion for a ing indifferent as to what had said, broke into a eackling laugh. leasoning that these men were not sensitive, nor particularly dangerous if anything I might say offended by asking: ‘*Are you clay eaters?” “Waal, yes,” drawled the man. thar ain't nawthin’ better.” gave me a throb of delight. life, I had regarded as Against the wishes of my guide, who assured me that the country in the divection of the Harrican ‘‘was the most God-forsaken on the top of the green earth,’’ 1 determined to go there. About three miles from the point where we met the two men we enter. ed a labyrinth of fallen timber, which told me without question that this was the ‘‘Harriean.'” The trail skirt. ed the timber for about half a mile, snd then it ended in a little valley like a cul de sac. Before reaching this place the fact that it was inhab- ited was indicated by e blue smoke column that rose straight in the clearest of amethystine skies. But thi» was not the cnly sign. 4 poor { As we neared the cluster of little log | cabins, these curs came into evidence. ing as their masters, and appeared to have much intelligence, and far more spirit, | Standing in the door of the nearest us with raged, dirty cotton gar-| ment, her ashy face and expression- less eves showing unmistakably her relationship to the men. About her, in various stages of nudity, were a number of children, all lank of limb and wide of girth, all having the same deathly complexion, but with nothing | suggestive of childhood about them excepting their size. The man, who this time been as mute as the pro- verbial clam, pointed his arm at the woman in the door and called out “That's Sal. Sal, she's my wife.’ Regarding this as an introduction, I raised my hat and dismounted. At the expense of veracity I ventured to You have a fine lot : Her thin | rows one had up to second of children, two as to where she got the cls pointed to a red bead $i jandslide at the valley, and said in i racterized these 1 Il find right pe lunch myself and t » the place indicated, a: der a thick layer of yellow clay found a stratum about two thick of the bluisii-gray substance which these used food. There were signs all about indicating that the place had been worked for years, and my examination showed that the supply was practically in- he 2 went we inches as neanle exhaustible, THEIR MOUNTAIN CABIN, In conversation with the people 1 was told that they preferred corn bread and ment to the clay, but as the former required effort to produce them, and the clay was hand to hand, they regarded it as the main source of food. They begin eating it before they can crawl, and they con- tinue the practice through all the years of their lives. 1 was impressed with the fact that this clay was at once a food and a slow poison. Its toxie qualities were indicated in the shriveled limbs, distended stomachs and ghastly complexions of the people who use it, while the fact that for months at a time during the Winter they partake, indicates that it con- tains some elements of nutrition, My subsequent investigation led mo holism or morphine mania. In many wehre the clay-enters have been so placed that they could get an abundance of wholesome food they still craved and pined for this mineral substance. I am led to be- lieve that it is more destructive of vital energy than opium, and that one of its most powerful manifesta- tions is that of premature old age. After seeing the first clay-eaters I had no difficulty in finding and re- cognizing others. They live munities wherever the clay is to be found, and they hold little or no as- sociation with the outside world, In North Carolina, South Ci in and Georgia, during my three months of travel, | have fully thousand i who {dicted to this habit, all the CASES must Giid Tied wore 1 wople number who was us 1 bef FACIAL RESEMBLANCES. Why People Living Long Together Resemble Each Other § Eye iis W of voice and y or ft ba His gesiires of KNow I. hrase produced ? ps have be« culinrities of speech n adopted more every one of his pupils during and several of them resemble him in features, HNCONSCIONs of ex. pression is very noticeable in children Has it occurred to Care parents that the good looks of daughters may dep nil no ars dix vv imitation many in and governesses? For some reason which we cannot the imitative faculty is ingrained in us that what the _is eye \ fathom ur permission | and where two » live long together the facial mus- ‘les of each are constantly influences may be infinitesimal at any given moment, Yet tend to for feature, int) an almost exact fac. simile of another. Getting Even With the Judge. A Maine Congressman tells a good story of a veteran lawyer up in his State who more than equalled Ben Butler in his famous quarrel with a Rhode Island Judge ovér his attempt to conceal his contempt for the Court. The Maine barrister was a man of very plain speech, and on one occarion he told a presiding mag- istrate very plainly what he thought of his decision. The Judge promptly fined him $50. “*All right,” said the lswyer: ‘I have a note against you for $100 which 1 have been trying to collect for the past ten years, and I'll indorse it over to you. 1 never ex- pected to get that much for it,”’ and without a word he pulled the note out of his pocket and indorsed it over. The Judge had nothing further to say.—{ Washington Times, FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. EARLY AXD 1 ATE. Go to bed early—wanke up with joy; (10 to bed lnte——cross 14 r | rl of Oy. (10 to bed early—ready for play; Go to bed late—~-moping all day. Gio to bed early——no pains or ills; Gio to bed Inte—doctors und pills, {W. Reed in St. Nicholas, — MN. A PINERKNOT BQUIRREL HUXT. A pineknot the most exciti sauirrel hunt I know pine woods of great many ng sport in the there Kays an exchange, the we squirrels and the with knots 7 and their shay uth are a ground wered hard them mueh y throw ernt. parties of expert throwers in © Heese are very renders gira Frequently I squirrels without imarkuanie When 3 HOw juirr 3 and it i Bi IVA VERMICELL!I EMBROIDERY. it is Effective and Simple in Detail Worked on Fine White Linen. with new sch VIVING Ole od to broidery whiel restore probably some century and ago or more. Thi vermicelli stitch example of this ir reproduced in n is termed Hun « % i% what and teresting work Hustracion of the i CHAIR BACK chair back, and suggests a very pretty cushion, The accompanying diagram also affords an excellent idea of the og — 4 7 DETAIL OF THE VERMICELLI STITCH, meandering lines for the back und. The embroidery is worked upon very white linen, lined with a some- te, thn throaghont ba " o thon ng ani his lees, wondering what w about as The man of all work told the stor the Fido was in disgrace, until one nig he netually did ehase no fox that about farm he vicinity of He did but his failure, like Hotses not catg his fear result WHYS, wo the young ducks, was the of county’ . srder, city ignorance New York Re IN=-BOY, THE CAlI During one ¢! the France and ¥ American Revoltition, the ship (rood ed wars between ngland, previous to the vos of Philsdelphia, command ain Hez the skinh Sniffin, a Soci ty of Fri nds York with a to E Quaker ship we HY onat ¥ $8 pretty Ty $ Ps Hh vier & > i me-nots at the ni are hacked % 3 will a fan-shaped ment powdered with ting be seen by ArTat orang cents while the vermicelli | wi ! i » . backstitched in ght wellov ——-— which gives a very pleasing broken effect to the background, The seat of the chair may be work- ed ina similar manner, and the de. sign may alse be easily adapted to a square sofa pillow. This may aiso be applied to screen panels, scarfs for library tables and for bed spreads. In executing the work care must be over the lines with the least possible number of interruptions. if abso. lutely necessary, a break may be made as indicated in the working di- agram, but as far as possible the lines should be continuous, Non-fading washing silks may, if desired, be substituted for crewels, and it is needless te say that in works ing a bed spread, it will be perfectly admissible to omit the back-ground stitching and confine the decoration to the colored work alone, for, unless the aid of the machine should be in- voked, the covering of such a large surface with the vermicelli lines, if done by hand, is somewhat too much century with lighted matches. U'nderstands« lience, they sorrowfully steered into the their followed bw the cutter with the En flag hLolsted above the French. [pon coming {o tio wort of enemies, ow » anchor, communica- and =n was sent off and mount When the partic became ¥ i with Ui #iiore Of Was ina : i t i » detachment BOLIC iron the pris ard over them OPS “ine deed WHE COI missioned a midshi He | nuvy. jis came to b K1ni¢ Wager, — Harper NOVELTIES IN NECKWEAR. Pretty Notions to Suit All Complex- ions ished off fancy gauze bands ms: Can =a A vard ribbon is sufficient ide The off, each 1 & side plait and hemmed with a couple of hooks and eyes fe he fastening. TI rest of the ribbon is knotted up in a butterfly bow. and fastened at one endof tl neck-band, which hooks at the back. The favorite colors in are maize cherry-red d¢ ep rose, corn- groen and emi. nence purple. The same shades may be found in gauze and chiffon, either plain or gauffered, and one new and prettily collar band is made of rosettes of gauze, alternating with knots of ribbon in the same shade exactly. watered inches w thre« band is cut i Over $ § i € Ww 18 these ribbons A New Counterfeit Bill. Major Thomas B arter, trea. sury agent for Indiana. received yes- terday from the department at Wash. ington an accurate description of a new counterfeit ten-«dollar bill which has recently made its appearance. It is said that the general appearance of the note is calculated to deceive, although it displays a number of glaring errors in the spelling of words is described as flat and unnatural in appearance, the shade lines being about the same depth over the entire fice, which makes the white spot on the forehead too prominent. The corner, does not appear in the coun- terfeit. In the “penalty” on the back of the note the commas bets ween the wonis ‘‘note”” and ‘‘or” itted, as is the period alter the words “debt” and the bracket after the $5,000. The first word ‘‘this” is spelled “tnis,” and the word plate is spelled “plae,"={ Indianapolis Jour nal. As accordion plaited waists are al the style, the manufacturers have in« vented a silk Diaited on the cross. wise and of sufficient depth for waists ; some of it is laid in tiny plaits, while in others the seem to form extremely
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