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FqTkA--LSHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1890. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR CONCEP.,JNG THlE CRAN. The Genuine Article Is a Boon to Any Community-He Never Lies Still and Never Crawls, and Is Always Frank, Fearless and a Fighter. LIate Field's Washington.] The crank, in spite of his very re cent christening, is an ancient institu tion. He was born into the world when the first human animal with a brain appeared. He astonished his fellows by being dissatisfied. In fact, he invented discontent, and out of its birth was evolved progress. Civilization produces cranks, but the crank first produced civilization. He is a mastodon among molecules, and is furnished with originality, a muscular j jaw and well-developed vertebrie. His' orginality individualizes him. He thinks. This is what distinguishes him from the imitation crank, whose head is merely swelled by the con stan,.ly expanding- vacuune within, and who is therefore a bore. There are people so obtuse that they cannot see the great difference between this tiresome talk-you-to-death and the man of ideas; and these people call all cranks bores. The genuine crank is a boon to any community. New England, being the native home of American intellect, is the nursery where the species is reared successfully. Let the thoughtless scof fers of society laugh, the crank can afford neither to notice nor to mind. He, at least, is in earnest, and has something besides vain words to bring forth when he talks. He may be like one of those disagreeable ruts in the road that shake you up so painfully, or like the nettle that stings your hesi tating fingers, but he never resembles the indistinct grain of dust blown hither and thither along the way, or the trembling blade of grass that grows up only to be cut down by the scythe. He may stick pins in your inflated vanity, he may look at your diminish ing proportions through the small end of a pocket telescope ; lie may prod you and punch you without regard for your weaknesses or well-veiled deform ities, but he is your benefactor for all that. He makes you ashamed first, and then brings you out, forces you to grow. You uproot and cast aside the weeds that sap the nourishment from the soil of your wit, which,'if it be a healthy plant, is to that e.xtent bene fited by the existence of the crank. Cranks are sometimes like the sharp pieces of glass that stand up viciously on an .orchard wall to keep the greedy boys out, o,: like the cyclone that sweeps over the plain and annihilates a handful,of humanity here and there; ,but, after all, the one saves the boys' stomachs untold gripings, the other drives the germs of disease before it, and carries purity into life. The great reformers were such cranks. History is but a biographical memoir of series of distinguished cranks, from Eye's time to the present day. Eve was a crank of sup,remle eminence. Adam was a mistake. Though lie is mentioned in hisjory, it is as an ig noble tattler, and he belongs to the class of bores without vertebro. It was the scientific crank that dis covered this. The scientific crank, by the way, is meek in books, but, in the search for a new specimen or a hidden truth, will ingly dares the terrors of cannibalism among the savages where cranks are unknown, or calmly picks his way among the ice-bergs of northern lati tudes. He is learned in all the olo gies from the ages before embryo man became an unadorned polywog to the present era of unblushing full dIress. You will easily dis'inguish this crank from one of his own fossils. He is un labled. Then there is the patriotic crank, in whom the love of liberty struggles sub limely till it triumphs over every hu man amnbition or selfish passion. His aspirations, his pleadings, his sufler ings, enlist the sympathies of even this apathetic age. He is the impersona tion of liberty fighting oppression, and w eakening the ancient:props of thrones bydashing his energies against them, until the icy hand of death chills the fire in his speech and blood and he is offered as a sacri fice ptrgparia. When you hear the echo of this crank's war-cry, look to the mountain tops half hidden in,clouds and :mist, there you will see victory beckoning him onward. But as the crank, like the brook, goes on forever, it would be impossible to follow him. Whether it shouts at you from the rostrum, or shrieks at you from under an old fashioned bonnet, you recognize the voice of the crank as that of a distinct specimen.I It was to the courage and persever ance of a crank that we owe the dis covery of this great hemisphere. It was a crank that gave us the printing press, the cotton loom, the locomotive, the telegraph. All the great inventors, from Archimedes to Edison, have been cranks ; all the great philsophers, from Plato to Herbert Spencer; all the reformers, from Lycurgus to Lady Habberton ;-all the great p)reachers, from Peter the Hermit to Henry Ward Beecher ; all the heroes who left their plows standing in the furrow while they went to fight for liberty under Washington. Let us cherish the crank. Let us cultiv~ate and corner him here in this land! where bleimings are plentiful and - curses few. He is a being that never crawls. He may be a kicker, a buck ying broncho, a wasp or an eagle, but he is never a parasite or a snail. Whether he play the part of the pes tiferous gnat or the trumnpeting ele ph, no man can accuse him of be ing a sneak nor an enemy in an am bush. He may be right, or he may be wrong; he may be a necessity or a: nuisance, but he is always frank, fear less and a fighter striving earnestly to enlighten and improve the world. Reader if you are a crank, I am glad Lo have met you. Permit me to thank you for existing.-Therese M. Randall. Law of Courtship and Breach of Promise. LNew Yofk Herald.] While it is the policy of the law to encourage marriage, it is not the policy >f the law to encourage unhappy mar riages. So says the Supreme Court of Mich gan in a recent breach of promise case. The Court believes it to be the moral luty of a man or a woman to break an -ngagemient which is not likely to lead ,o happy wedlock. At the same time It holds that the one breaking the en ,agement is liable to the other in dam ges. Judge Cahill quotes with ap proval these views of courtship: The marriage state ought not to be ightly entered into. It involves the profoundest interests )f human life, transmitting the com plex influences direct to posterity and invading the happiness of parents and ear kindred. From such a standpoint we view the marriage engagement as a period of probation, so to speak, for both parties -their opportunity for finding one nother out; .,nd if that probation re sults in developing incompatibility of astes and temperament, coldness, sus picion and incurable repugnance of one to the other, though all these may im pute no vice to either, nor afford mat Ler for judicial demonstration, duty re iuires that the match be uroken off. For these reasons the recoverable amages should be limited to such as are compensatory. That is the party breaking the engagement should pro perly compensate the other, but should not be required to pay damages in the nature of punishment. What are the compensatory damages which a woman may claim who sues far breach of promise? She is entitled, says the Court, to be compeneated for loss of time. For any expense she may have been put to in making preparations for mar rage. For mental suffering which may. bave been occasioned by the breaking )f the contract. For injury i,o her health, if avy. For loss of a permanent home and he worldly advantage which might 3,e been derived therefrom by her, he circumstances as to home, property nd pecuniary condition of the defend int being considered from the evidence in the case and hergown lack of inde pendent means. She is entitled to damages to her reputation, if any, and for injury to er future prospects of marriage. She is entitled to damages for any humiliation, contempt or mortification he may have suffered in the circles wherein she moved by reason of the breach of promise. To all these damages, concludes the Court., she is entitled, "even if the jury bould find;that he broke the contract in a careful, considerate, discreet and kindly manner." Once Was Enough. OTTrA WAY, September 23.--A young gentleman, says the Calvary Herald, who lately left his home in England, having exhausted his credit, telegraph ed to his parents: Your son *Walter was killed this morning by a falling chimney. What shall we do with the remains? In reply a check was sent for ?20, with the request, "bury them." The gentleman pocketed the money and had an elaborate spree. When in a condition for writing he sent his father the following note: I have just learned that an infamous scoundrel named Barker sent you a fic titious account of my death, and swin ded you out of ?20. He also borrowed 10 from me and left the country. I write to inform you that I am still alive, and long to see the parental roof again. I am in somewhat reduced cir eumstances, the accumulations of the last five years having been lost-a dis astrous stock operation-and if you would only spare me ?29 r would be ever thankful for your favor. Give my love to all. A few days later the young man re eived the following dignified letter from his outraged parent: Mfy Dear Son:-I have buried you nce, and that is the end of it. I de line to have any transactions with a ghost. Yours in the flesh. FATH ER. Farrners' AliUance Policy. I3owLING GREEN, Ky., Sept, 23, 1890. -President S. B. Orwin, of the Far mers' Alliance of Kentucky, and editor of the official organ, the Kentucky State Union, p)ublishled there, has come out boldly against the Sub-Treasury scheme, and has created much com ment by so doing. The democratic wheelers of that section are upholding him, and it has made him more popu ar than ever. He had previously been quoted as favoring it. Sacred Annie Rooney. [From the Philadelphia Record.] A Ridge avenue girl infatuated with a new tunle called "Annie Rooney," manages to play it on.the parlor organ on unday without detection by her rigid pare~nts by slowing down the time and giving it a devotional sort of phras ing, so that the effect is truly human like. Erysipelas, swollen limbs, bad sores, scales and scabs on the leg have been entirely cured by P. P. P., tmost wndrful blood medicine of +h~ ay. SHOWING THEIR HANDS. A Republican Ticket Baited with Dem ocrats. LFrom the News and Courier.] On Wednesday night C. C. Levy brought to The News and Courier office a ticket for State officers, which, he said, was practically the choice of the Republican State executive com mittee, to which the Republican Con vention gave the authority to an nounce a State ticket. If such a course were advisable. The ticket named by Levy is as follows: THE PEOPLE'S TICKET. For Governor-A. C. Haskell, of Col umbia. ~ For Lieutenant Governor-Tohn Brar-c ton, of Fairfield. For Secretary of State-J. Q. Mar shall, of Columbia. For Treasurer-W. A. Ancrum, of Camden. For .Comptroller General-Joseph Barnwell, of Charleston. For Attorney Ceneral-J. H. Earle, of Sumter. For Adjutant and Inspector General -M. L. Bonham, of Abbeville. For Superintendent of Education J. H. Rice, of Abbeville. Several of the Republican leaders were interviewed yesterday as to the authorization of such a ticket. They had not yet heard of any conclusiou reached by the executive committee, John M. Freeman, was seen, but he said that although he was not aware that the ticket was official, yet he had no objection .to it and felt convinced that it would be voted for by the ex. ecutive committee. None of the gentlemen whose names have been placed on this ticket knows of the intention of the Republicans to use their names and none of them have given their consent. It is probable that they will soon be heard from. A BOGUS TICKET. [Editorial in News and Courier.1 C. C. Levy, a railway mail clerk, who should be dismissed from the ser vice for offensive partisanship, and who would be dismissed if the civil service laws were properly enforced, has prepared a ticket for State officers composed of Straightout Democrats, which, he says, will be "officially en dorsed" by the Republican Stat.e Cen tral Committees on October 6, and be voted for by the Republicans at the election on 4ovember 4. It is said that Levy is alone responsible for this ticket and that it is proposed by him without the authority of the Republi can Committee. Certainly, it was not prepared with the advice and consent of the Demacrats whose names it con tains. We do not believe that any one of them would run on such a ticket, or be willing to accept office if elected by Republican auspices. There will be only one Democratic State ticket at the election in November-the ticket nominated by the State Democratic Convention on September 10, and no other ticket will receive the support of the Democratic voters of the State. The fight against Capt. Tillmna's election for Governor ended in the September Convention. It cannot be renewed now, or at the polls next month, without destroying the unity and integrity of thre party. If there is no opposition to the ggular Democratic ticket, we think that it will receive a small vote, and that many Democrats will stay away from the polls, but if anotNer ticket shall be put in the field, whatever the material of which it may be composed, and by whomsoever it may be "officially promulgated," it will be the duty of every Democratic voter in the State to make his force felt on election day. Certainly, no white man will take his politics or his ticket from a third-rate colored clerk in the railway mail service. An Old Radical Leader's Good and Bad Deeds. [Lancaster Ledger.] Albert Clinton, a prominent colored Republican politician of this county, died last Sunday morning. He was stricken with paralysis about four months ago and has been confined to his bed ever since. He was State Sen ator during the days of good old Radi cal stealing and while he' was accused of getting a finger in the pie it was never proven on him. Since 1870 he has had but little to do with polities and has been rather a conservative counselor of his race. Albert had some good and some bad traits in his character. All of the bad in him was forgotten by us, in one kind act he did in 1882. At the bloody riot on September 27th of that year, at the risk of his own life, he saved the life of Mr. David J. Carter, now de ceased. Mr. Carter was replying to Colonel Cash when amid cries of "Take him down," "He can't speak," etc., a mob of infuriated negroes with pistols and clubs rushed upon the stand to kill him. It was then that F. A. Clinton and several other colored men suir rounded Mr. Carter and bore him through the excited mob, not without injury, however, for he received a blow on the back of the head and one or two pistol shots passed through his clothing. One of the shots fired at Mr. Carter struck Ciinton on the nose. Clearing His Skirts.' "Who fought the civil war ?" yelled -the orator fiercely. "Twasn't me," said the meek little man in the front row. "I sent a sub stitute." Abbott's East Indian Cern Paint Is a quick cure for Corns, Bunions and Warts. SAM JONE'S SAYINGS. Some Blunt Words with Which lie Hai Edified the Crowds at Round Lake. SARATOGA, Sept.11.-Sam Jones has conciuded his sunimer engagement at Round lake. Thousands of people went there to see him. Here are some of iL, latest sayings: "To be a Christian you must be a pr(. hibitionist. I don't mean a third party man; but you must be a man that is against everything that favors whiskey, and in favor of everything that is against it." To this some of the prea chers shouted, "Amen," when Jones said: "If you say 'amen' to that you can never vote the Republican ticket again." "I'm so glad that I don't preach like other preachers; and Pm so glad t hat whenever anyone else tries to leach1 like I do he makes an ass of hini:elf. "Most preachers could learn from the old darkey down South, who said: 'My sermon will be divided into three parts -de text, de subject matter and the arousements; and seeing it is warm, we'll leave off the first two parts and take to the arousements.' "Fve never said a vulgar thing in the pulpit, never. When a horse has sore spots on he thinks a currycomb is vulgar but w,.en he is sound he likes it. "The dog barks and whines at the moon, but the moon shines on; and so your uncle Jones is going to let folks scold and scowl, and he will try to ju:t to shine right on. "The homes of this country are the key to success, or to failure. And as many homes have been turned over to worldliness and folly, multitudes are going to the devil." "A man will pay a dollar a day to have his horse trained aright and be careful to have it sheltered from every danger; but we let our children come up as they will." "The thing now most to be dreaded in your home is yellow-backed litera 4ure." "Don't let bad children into your yard, even if their parents are rich." "You say I don't preach the Gospel: but you, poor soul, you wouldn't know the Gospel if you should meet it com ing down the road." "Nine-tenths of the old people are after the dollars, and nine-tenths of the young are after a good time, and it is hard to tell which are the biggeot fools.' "If God loves everybody, then will not everybody be saved? No: for love never saved' anybody. If it did, not another mother's son would ever.go to a drunkard's grave." "A man gives his wife $50 to buy a new dress, and she needs it; but she takes the money to buy .coal aid pay rent for some poor woman. She has more religion than one who rides to a missionary meeting in a $t00 carri age and then pays her monthly sub scription of 10 cents." "It takes t wo things to make a Chris tian; first, to realize that God loves you, and second, for you to pitch in and love God all you can." "God nevei- forces a crown upon any body who doesn't want it; if he did, the rascal would go and sell it the first chance he got." "The happiest fellows in the world are the ministers. (Then, turning tc those on the platform, True; you dion't get very big salaries; but you get all you are worth." " If a man begins to give liberally, folks begin to think he is losing his mind." MADDENED BY A RUBIE1: SNAKE. A Negro Attempts MurdIer and Chases a Train Seven Miles. [Lancaster Review.)1 An immnitation snake, made of wood or rubber, but closely resembling thc "genuine article," came very neai causing a tragedy on the Narrow Gauge passenlger train coming from Chester to Lancaster Monday evening. It was in the possession of an old dar key, who, seeing a younger brother on the train looking out of a wvindow, walking up to him and suddenly ptt the would be snake in close proximity to his face. The young darkey was at first badly frightened, but because fu riously mad when he d scovered that he had been made the butt of a practi cal joke. He cursed and abused the owner of his life-like suakeship and finally drew his pistol and threatened to use it on him. He became .-o vio lent, in 'Cact, that the conductor was conpelled to call in a brakeman and with. his assistance put him off the train. He resisted with all his power and when he got to the platform of the car he seized the rail-ing with such a powerful grip that one of the p)assengers had to take a stick and strike his hand in order to make him relax his hold. After he was ejected from the train the obstreperous negro became, if p)ossi ble, more furious than ever and set oui with the alleged determination of catch ing it and getting aboard again. And, strange as it may appear, it is never theless a fact that he camne near doing it, after having followed the train fom about seven miles, on foot of cou:-e. The train was delayed unusually long however, at the next station, Baiscomr. ville, which enabled the negro tc almost catch it. He hove in sight, run, ning and jesticulating. just as the trait pulled out at Bascomvlle. Photographs of a Hypothetical Quorum [From the Washington Star.] The Republicans had a photographe: in the galleries to-day taking pictures of the House with the empty seats or the Democratic side and all thbe seats or the other side full. EDWARD ArKINsON ON IRON. A Growing Picture of Great Southern Pos BALTIMORE, .11D., Sept. 23.-In view of the expected visit of five or six hun 0red of the leaping iron and steel mak rs of Europe to the United States in October, to spend a month studying the !ron and steel making resources of this country, Edward Atkinson, of Boston, con tributes to this week's issue of Man ufaturers' "'ecord an elaborate paper on the irou and steel interests of the work. Mr. Atkinsin's paper is the result of the most elaborate investiga tion. He shows that this country is the greatest consumer.of iron and steel in the world. Owing to the nearness of the ores and coal in yards of this coun try, as against the long haul of trans portation of ores from Spain and Africa to Great Britian.and the increased depth and heat of coal mines of England, he believes that iron and steel will be made in this country at as low a cost as in England, notwithstanding the higher wasrs in the United States. Mr. Atkinson believes that the world's consumption of iron and steel which is now increasing so rapidly, will for the next ten years full tax the pro ductive powers of this and all other iron-making countries to keep up with it, and hence that while there may be Iluctuations, prices on the whole must steadily teld upward throughout the world. Basing his estimates on careful calculations made by himself,by Abram S. Hewitt and others, holds that the present world's production of 2S,000,000 net tovs of pig iron, of which the Uut ed States will make during 160 about ten million tons, must within the next ten years, or in 1900, be increased to not less than 44,000,000 tons, even at the lowest possible rate of increase based on the rate of growth that has continued from 1856 up to the present time. The calculations are based on the normal rate of growth for the last 50 years and do not take into considera tion the possibi!lty and, in fact, the al most certainty of a greatly increased demiand by the reason of the opening up of Africa and Asia. This enormous increase in the de mand for iron and steel will, Mr. At kinson claims, require the utmost effort of production at every point where the raw material can be assembled at rea sonable cost and where furnaces can be operatated to advantage either upon European or North American conti nent. It is in the South. however, that Mr. Atkinson believes the world's iron and steel production will centre, and this industrial advance "may," he says, "and probably will, settle the race ques tion." "Supremacy in the production of iro'n," says Mr. Atkinson, "must go to the pocint whiere the facilities for work ing the mines and the cost of assemb linga the materials at the furnace are least, because at that point the highest wages can be paid for skilled workmen, accom'rnied by the lowvest cost of pro duction, which will be due to such favorable conditions. One may not venture vet to name the specific place or places, but suilice it that if one should stand upon the top of the highest peak among the great Smoky Mountains in the heart of the Southern A palachian chain and could bring within his vision all that could co;me within a radius of 75 to 100 miles, he :night be able to establish 'he centre o'can iron and steel prod.uctioni which x7ould not be far away fronm what has Lbeen called the "eentre of gravity" of the population of this country. I"If he could then bring within his vision tihe whole of the area inclosed within a circle of L->0 nmiles in diameter, centering on the Great Smoky Moun tains, he might trace the lines made by the erasion of the rivers and the gaps in the ranges on which the rails may be laid to the northwest at the southern border of Ohio and to the southeast on the way towards the Atlantic ports of South Carolina, over which the metal Iproducned at the possible future centre Iof the iron production of this country may be distributed on the easiest grades, either for domestic consumption or for the supply of foreign markets." Fran,k Legie's Popular Mlonthily for Oct04 l>er, 1800. A portrait of Speaker Reed, and a full-page picture of the Ways and Means Committee 6f the House of Rep resentativyes, which formxiulated the McKinley TariiT Bill, are included amongst the illustrations accompanying an interesting and spicy article on "The House of Rlepresentatives," by Frede riek S. Daniel. in the October nuniber of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. A powerful poem, "The Cyclone," by .Joaquin Miller, is dedicated "to the destroyers of forests." James Ricalton describes Simla, the Summer capital of India :and Pierre Morand contri butes some highly entertaining Re miniscences of Foreign Residents and IOld Times in Newv York City- Other Illustrated articles are, "Life in B3olog na," by Herbert P.iersan; "Karuko of Japan"; the Orientail Empress and her Court," by Eliz~a Ruhamah Scidmore; "Fishculture at Lake Sunapee, N. H," by Frederic M. DJey ; and "Tails, and the Services they Perform," by Ernest Ingersoll. "iReyond the End," Pro fessor Bounteli's new serial story, *>e Iginls in this number. The circulation of the blood-quick ened andl enriched-bears life and ener gy to every portion of the body; appe tite returns; the hour of rest brin;gs with it sound repose. -This can be secured by taking Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsapa rilla WHAT A FAMILY COSTS. Extract from the Diary of a Practical Man -Shoes Beat Everything. [From the Indianapolis News.] What does it cost to bring up a fam ily? A gentleman, whose experience will be recognized as having points in common with other householders, has preserved an account of the ex pense to whieb be has been in rearing a family of four children. To-day be entered the following statement in his diary. It might be a valuable fact for the census takers: "To-day I close my diary. Twenty six years ago to-day I undertook to keep an accurate statement of all my earnings and expenses, so that I might know actually how much it costs to live in a married state. Then all was anticipation. I and my young wife couuted our resources and our expecta tions. I received $15 a week, with the promise of more. "I owned a house comfortable enough for frugal young people to begin jife in. We were spared house rent, there fore, and our expenses have never in cluded this item. Retrospectively, I see that we have brought up four chil dren in comparatively easy circum stances. My health has been good, and my earnings have been constantly re ceived. . "I now receive $30 a week, and we still own the homestead, without any -great additions to its wealth, except in an increased amount of furniture. I have little more money then I had when first married. Perhaps, all told, I have $3,500 now of assets, then I had perhaps $2,500. We have never wanted for bread. Sometimes we have felt in need of more mon6y. Three of the children are now making their own way. Next week the fourth graduates at the high school, having received the same schooling that the others have had, and will begin to look out for him self. "I shall not necessarily be at any more expense on account of my chil dren, and the diary properly ends now. Would I be able to go through the same experience again of raising a fam ily? I asked my companion, who had borne the greater part, this question, and I know that she spoke with a heart full of love, but was compelled to say: 'Not for all that money could buy would I go through again what has been necessary to rear a family. "Expressed in dollars the totals are these: In twenty-six years we have re ceived from my wages and incidental moneys that came through my wife and the children, $40,900-or, say $40, 000-besides the amount of increase in the permanent assets. Given a plant of about $3,000 and two employees, a man and wife, it has taken, therefore, about $10,000 to each * man produced. This, of course, included all employees' exp'nses. The plant is slighly en hanced in value, but the employees haye seen their best days. The quality of the goods is yet to be demonstrated. Prospects happily point to cessation of labor and an increase of receipts, but there is no certainty about this. The employees are proud of their work but don't want another job. "Some of the items of .expense have been these: Doctors' bills (twenty seven years), $2,100 (and- all paid, pos sibly the only instance on record); gro ceries, average per week first five years, $7; next three, $9; remainder of the twenty-six years, $13 a week. For ten years it has taken on an average one pair of shoes per week for the family, including myself and wife. The most annoying thing I have ever known is the rapidity with which children wear out shoes. Only one thing approaches it--the high price of children's shoes. I never could undeirstand how, with all the civilization of the age, and the demand for cheaper results, children's shoes have not been reduced in price. The human shoe is a failure. No man not rich can afford to buy shoes for a family, and if I had it to do I would go to Timbuctoo, where neither horses, mules, camels, nor men are shod.'' DUTCH COURTSHIP. Young Men in Holland Smoke Their Cigars With Their Lady-Loves. [New York Star.] Thackeray explained the prejudice of ladies against tobacco as being due to the superior claims of the latter on the aflections of young men. Yet the great novelist could not have known that in many countries that tobacco plays a very important part as a preliminary to courtship and the closer union of the sexes. In parts of Holland when a young man thinks he has found his affinity it is customary for him to ask for a match to light his cigar at the door of his loved one's house. This little subterfuge is intended to arouse the parents of the girl to the fact that somethbing is in the wind. If a second call with the same object is miade soon after, no doubt is left of the young man's intentions,and the parents proceed to investigate the young man's character and antecedents with a view of ascending his eligibility as a member of the family. When lie calls the third time, always for a match to light his cigar, they are prepared togive him an answer. If his suit is regarded with favor he is politely requested to step inside for the first time and is served with a light. If he is not accepted lhe is refused a light and the door is shut in his face without fur ther ceremony. But, having prepared for tbis contingency, the downcast suitor will in all probability light his weed with a match from his non box ndr wa11r away, musing nn the transitory nature of all earthly things. - When the accepted suitor is invited to enter the house, he, as a matter of course, informs the parents which of their daughters has captivated his fancy. When this is settled the young woman steps forward and they join hands. While the engagement is by no means considered a settled fact even at this important stage, yet it is stated! as a truth that when, on the occasion of the young man's third visit, his ina morate has offered him a second cigar, which he has smoked in the house, the engagement has never been cancel ed. How an Ocaan Cable is Made. [Herbert Laws Webb, in October Seribner.] Let us first see what a submarine cable is, and how it is made. To d-> this a visit must be made to the enor mous factory on the banks of the Thames, a few miles below London. Here the birth of the cable may be traced through shop after shop, ma chine after machine. The foundation of all is the conductor, a strand of seven fine copper wires. This slender copper cord is first hauled through a mass of sticky, black compound, which causes the thin coating of gutta percha applied by the next machine to adhere to it perfectly, and prevents the retention of any bubbles of air in the interstices between the strands, or be tween the conductor and the gutta percha envelope. One envelope is not sufficient, however, but the full thick ness of insulating material has to be attained by four more alternata coat ings of sticky compound and plastic gutta-percha. . The conductor is now insulated, and has developed into "core." Before going any further the core is coiled into tanks filled with water, and tested in order to ascertain whether it is electrically pefect, i. e., that there is no undue leakage of elec tricity through the gutta-percha insu lating envelope. - These tests are made from the test ing room, replete with beautiful and elaborate apparatus, by which measure ments finer and more accurate than those even of the most delicate chem ical balance may be made. Every foot of core is tested with these.instruments, both before and after being made up into cable, and careful records are pre served of the results. After the core has been all tested and passed, the manufacture of the cable goes on. The core travels through another set of machines, which first wrap it with a thick serv ing of tarred jute, and then with a compact armoring of iron or steel wires, of varying thickness according to the depth of water in which the cable is intended to be laid. Above the arm oring, in order to preserve .the iron from rust as long as possible, is applied a covering of stout canvas tape thoroughly impregnated with a pitch like compound,$md sometimes the iron wires composing the armor are separately covered nith Russian hemp as an additional preservative against corrosion. Education Should Develop the Individual LMrs. Sylv"anus Reed, in October Serib ner.] This material from \vhich the ideal is to be constructed is a being with a physical, mental, and moral nature to be developed and educated. This edu cation is not like a mechanism produced by cunningly fitting together portions of grammar, science, and art; neither is it a receptacle to be filled. The child brought for edbeation mnst be regarded as a distinct personality, different from all other personalities, the result of an tecedents and environments upon which, just'as it is found at that mo ment, must be brought to bear the strongest motives and influences, to induce it to make sacrifices or. suspend self-indulgence, for the sake of an end at which it aims. So far all true edu cation must be the same. The State will take the child on its way so far as to enable it to become a good citizen; there its duty ends. The college goes further and aims to make a learned man. The State and the college treat all their children alike; the curriculum is inflexible, and the stagnation of uni formity is often the result of their rigid procrustean rule. While system, meth ods, and careful organization must form the groundwork of any school, the true aim of education should be to seek the individual, that it may bestow upon him in himself the fulness of its blessing. A FIGHT TO DEATH. Two Students at Virginia Military Institute Settle a Difficulty. RIcH3oND, VA., Sept. 25.-A special from Lexington to-night -says two cadets at the Virginia Military Insti tute, Frank WV. McConnico, of Texas, and W. T. Taliaferro,~of Gloucester County, Virginia, to-day engaged in a personal encounter in which fifteen rounds were fought.. Two hours afterwards Taliaferro died, it is presumed from punishment received at the hands of McConnico. The affair has cast a gloom over the entire community. For rheumatic and neuralgic pains, rub in Dr. J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment, and take Dr. J. H. Mc Lean's Sarsaparilla. You will not suffer long, will be gained with a speedy and effective cure. _ If you feel "out of sorts," cross and peevish take Dr. J. McLean's Sarsapa rilla; cheerfulness will return and life will acquire new zest. HALE AND HEARTY AT 104. A Remarkable Woman Living at Parkers burg, W. Va. PARKERSBURG, W. Va., September 22.-One of the attractions at the four- - teenth annual reunion of the Army of West Virginia in this city last week was the oldest person in West Virginia, Mrs. Jane Brungardner. She will be 104 years old on December 25 next was born in Georgia in 1785. Early in her youth she came to Virginia and settled in what is now called West Virginia, near the Ohio River. She is a most remarkable woman in many respects. She does not use glasE es, even when doing the finest sewing. - She would be taken at a casual glance as a woman of 60 years of age. She uses tobacco, having been accustomed to it from her youth, her constant com panion being a primitive cob pipe, She says she prefers a cob pipe to "any of the new fangled notions." Her hear iug is still good. She has forty grand children, thirty-five great-grand dren, and three great-great-grandchl dren. This chronological table is taken". from her recollection of ten years ago. A fair estimate of her descendants at', this date would not be less than two hundred and fifty people. The old lady has a repertoire of .sto ries of Seminole raids in Florida and of the aborigines of this part of the coun try almost a century ago. She- was - 20 years of age when Aaron Burr and Blennerhassett figured prominently in.. the history of the country. She says Burr and his 'victim, Herman Blennerhassett, .frequently in their travels from the historical island to Marietta and return, and frequently conversed with both of them. Mrs. Blennerhassett was, and still is. her ideal of a beautiful woman. In speak ing of Burr she says she always had a natural dislike for the man. When she - settled permanently at Briscoe, six miles from Marrietta, Ohio, (the oldest town on the Ohio River,) that place - was nothing more than a collection of a few log buts. The front at Hakiar, Ohio, opposite Marietta, was the only' place for many miles up and down the Ohio River where the isolated settlerof that day could secure protection dur ing the numerous Indian raids which were common then. Mrs. Brungardner's physical condi tion is, indeed, wonderful at her great age. She comes to this city unattended once every three months ~to sign vouchers for their pension as the wid- - ow of a soldier of the war of 1812.. Boulanger's Fair Ally. The old adage "look for the woman" whenever a serious complication arises. receives a striking confirmation in the revelations concerning Boulanger. The sinews of war, it is now ascer- ( tained, were furnished the French ag itator by the Duchess 'd'Uzes, whose motive seems to have been to make - him the instrument of restoring the French monarchy, with the Comte de Paris, who is about to visit this coun try, as King. She intended that Bou-~ langer should play a role like that of Monk, the Cromwellian General, who -- restored Charles II to the English throne, but whether Boulanger would have hept his part of the bargain, real or implied, had his schemes succeeded, is an open question. He professed to be an ardent republican, and it,may be that he would ha've disappointed the monarchists. The Duchess d'Uzes is '. a picturesque character. S3he is the daughter of Duke de Montemart, and granddaughter of the famous Widow Cliequot, of Champagne fame, from whom she derives a great part of her wealth, She is decribed as an ardent : devotee of out-door sports, somewhat masculine in her tastes, and a lavish hostess. She is also an energetic roy alist, and the generous support she gave to Boulanger might have resulted in the collapse of the French republic but for the firmness of the government and the ski'l with which it outman euvered tl'e wily General in the game ~ of politics. The sum she advanced was $1,000,000. The Shirt was "Tufr," but He Wasn't. One day thiis week, says the Detroit I Free Press, when the crowds coming in - tq, visit 'the exposition were simply enormous, a young man approached Special Officer Button at the Third Street depot and said:U "I want to make a change. That is, I-I want to change my shirt. Can I find any place in the depot?" "What's the matter with your shirt?" "Why-don't you see-its buckskin -regular Indian warrior's fancyshirt. "I see it is." "I bought it of a cowboy who had been - way out west. Bought it on purpose to come here. Thought it would par alize the crowd, you know. Wanted to be looked upon as a tuff, you know- . regular Indian slayer.- Couldn't sleep nights for thinking how scrumptuous I'd look in this shirt." "Well, it's n. g. Folks don't tumble .worth a red, More'n a dozen fellen~ spit on my boots to-day to get up a fight. Got to get out of it or get licked. I've gone and bought a humble looking calico shirt for 50) cents, and I want to get out of this and into that." "Well, you'd better go out into th - freight house. You'll find an empty4a there." "Thanks. Ever so much obig e t Made a great mistake when I paid $12 for this shirt. It's a big. bluff ond th1e~ boys around home, but it wontdiwork here. Ever so many thanks. A docife, peaceful looking calico shirt is my hold, and a better match forant