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* VOL. It. ■i vjj;. “IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1891. ■ ■ fiXO.,M Why The F»r»ers ere P*#H The people of the State, iuclnding the farmers, arc not prosperous. To keep within the scope and purpose of this article I speak more specifically and say the farmers of this State are not prosperous. Why? The answer is, because they have not enough money. That is vague, but true. “Money answereth all things.” Why is there not money enough? The Ui ited States Treasuries says there is more in circulation per capita now than ever before in the history of the Government—$23 45. Others say there is only $5. I do not know how much there is and have to take somebody’s word for it And as I know nothing, and have heard noth ing against the honesty and truthful ness of the Treasurer, I am compelled to believe his statement. I say this without impugning the credibility of those who say otherwise, because the Treasurer must know, while they may be mistaken. No matter what the circulation per capita may Ire the country over, the circulation in this section of the country is very limited. It is from this section that comes the most urgent demand foi more money—not from the Northern, or Eas^rn States; they seem to realize no greafsca#* city. Why is money scarcer iu this sec tion of the country? Here are some reasons: 1. The annual pensions to Federal survivors of the late war amount to $130,000,000. All this, practically speaking, goes into Northern States, while every Southern State has to pay its proportion. The average of each State is nearly three millions. South Carolina pays at least two millions more than she gets back. 2. Then comes the import tariff, of which $230,000,000 a year goes to the Government, and about $60,- 000,000 to protected industries, and of which South Carolina pays its share, estimated at eight millions, and getd hack only a small-portion, the greater portion going to manu facturing States in the North. South Carolina pays out for tariff duties seven millions more than she gets back. This is a moderate and safe estimate. The usual estimate is from eight to ten millions; butl prefer to put the figures too low rather tWm risk putting them too high. 3. Again, our railroads- are all owned by Northern capitalists. Whatever the roads earn over actual running expenses goes North to pay the interest on their bonds. The gross earnings of the railroads in South Carolina for the month of July last was $570,000. July is one of the poorest months. But suppose that to be the average for the year, there would be gross annual earnings of $6,840,000. Sixty per cent of this amount goes to running expenses and remains in South Carolina; the other forty per cent or two and three- quarter millions goes North to pay interest on the bonds. The first item is a burden imposed upon us as the conquered section by the National Government. It is the penalty of defeat, and we will have to endure it with whatever patience and fortitude we have. It cannot be avoided. The second item is a burden conse quent upon our being an agricultural people. There is good ground for hope of relief from much of that burden by reform of the tariff, which is the heaviest burden of all. ^Tl reforiica^nl* cotnethto^ the triumph ofthef §01* piifratic party, f-w that is the only party in the country pledged to that reform and working for its accomplishment, and if the party remains united this hope will soon be realized. Our railroads after the war were worn out and run down and we did not have money enough to reorganize them; hence they fell into the hands of Northern capitalists, and those since built have been built by North ern capital—many of them with our aid, that aid consisting in gifts of county and township bonds, the interest pn which, as well as the net earnings of the roads, going to the Northern Ixmd-holders. I see no hope of relief from this railroad burden. All we can expect is that these giant monopolies shall not op press us by exorbitant charges for freight or travel, and that is provided against in our National and State railroad commissions. Those are fearful drains upon our resources and take immense sums of money out of circulation in this sec tion ti)ti country, tint they me mot all. 4. We send somewhtre about two millions every year into Tennessee and Kentucky and other States for mules. Newberry County alone— one of the smallest counties in the State—sends about $50,000; the State about $1;500,000. 5. Immense quantities of corn are shipped to Sdiith Carolina from the Northwest. 1 can only approximate the amount. One merchant at New berry has received and sold since the first of January seventeen (17) car loads—8,500 bushels." Not less than 30,000 bushels are sold annually in Newberry, and about 10,000 at other jioints in the country, at an average price of about 90 cents, making$36.- 000 for corn. T’Jwt would make the amount for the State, at a moderate calculation, $1,250,000. 6. Our Western meat costs more thaq our Western corn. Large num bers of live hogs are sold and shipped into the State and sold and butchered here, but I take no account of these and'speaks of the bacon only. One merchant here—the same I have already mentioned—sells 350,000 pounds of bacon annually. He thinks he sells about one-forth of what is sold in this county. This total then would be 1,400,000 pounds, which at 71 cents w'ould be $90,000. On the same basis of calculation thure would be about'$3,000,000’ sent out of the State for bacon. To recapitulate: Sent out of the State for pen sions 4 Sent out of the State for tariff Sent out of the State for rail road bonds Sent out of the State for mules Sent out of the State for corn Sent out of the State for bacon 2,000,000 7,000,000 2,7.50.000 1,500,000 1,250,000 ;i,00o,ooo Total Nearly all 7,5oo,ooo our flour, hay and agricultural implements come from other States. Anti what do we produce that we can sell ami get money to pay for all these things? -Cotton—nothing but cotton. Seven hundred thousand bales at $40 per bale, brings iu only $27,000,000, which is nearly all taken out-again for purposes mentioned, and for other purposes too numerous to mention, leaving very little to pay debts or to lay up “for a rainy day.” No wonder we are poor.—W. II. Wal lace, editor Newberry Observer, in News and C’01 irier. “When.” STAVING THE HAND OF DEATH. The Darlington Htine Guard. Most people who read a paper W'ould like to have it come to their hands without any typographical or editorial errors. This is quite possi ble when all the following conditions come together. When the contributor has written correctly. When he has written the* correct tl ing distinctly. When the compositor has only the correct letters in the different csises. When he does not take letters from a wrong case. When he sets them correctly. When the “reader” corrects every error. When the compositor corrects the “rough proof” projwrly. When the “reader” reads the cor- rected proof attentively. When the compositor corrects the second proof properly. When the revised proof is carefully “read.” When the “reader” has sufficient time to do this. And when a dozen other circum stances work together for good.— Exchange. There Is Said to be a Certain and Rapid Means of Resns- eltatlon. Colonel Henry Fllsdale, of the Roy al engineers, claims to have discover ed a certain and rapid means of resuscitating persons from the effects of suffocation. A sapper among the men under his command at Chatham was one day found enveloped in the folds of a half-empty war balloon. The coal gas with which if had been inflated had suffocated him, and to all appearances he was a dead man. But efforts were made to restore him, though the pulseless heart and cadaverous face of the man gave no encouragement to persevere. In a moment of something like inspira tion it occurred to Colonel Elsdale to send for some tubes of compressed oxygen, which had been prepared for the oxyhydrogen light. This pure oxygen, at a very high pressure, was hurriedly conveyed into the mouth of the prostrate .'■upper by means of inserting the nozzle of the valve between his teeth, and the supply was •‘gently turned on” to the smallest extent. The effect was absolutely instantaneous. In an in stant he opened his eyes and seized the nozzle between his teeth. In short, the sapper was not only thoroughly revived within a few minutes, but in half an hour walked away, quite well, to the barracks, and refused to go to the military hospital, as was suggested by his commanding officer. Of course the objection will be raised that everybody has not tubes of pure oxygen at high pressure iu readiness to apply to such coses. Happily oxygen in quantities as large as those administered is not needed, and it can be stored “in small, strong bottles made of the finest steel, with a valve giving an absolute hermetic seal.” These vessels may l>e as small as a soda water bottle, and may be made part of the medical stock of every doctor. Oxygen at any degree of compression required can, in fact, now in* obtained, and the whole ap paratus for restoring vitality can be packed in a small box quite porta ble. What possibilities may not such a discovery as that to which we hive drawn attention involve! It is equally available, we are assured, for those persons who have boon* asphy xiated by choke damp in coal mines, or by ordinary coal gas. People ap parently drowned, and those insensi ble from long exposure in the rig ging of a ship, might also be saved from an untimely end by what Colonel Elsdale calls “a close of oxy gen.” It would probadly l>e invaluable, too, in casses of suffocation from the fumes of ciharcoul, or iu caSc-s where chloroform had operated injuriously on a weak heart. Such a discovery should at once occupy the attention of the Royal College of I’hysicians, with a view of ascertaining whether Colonel Elsdale has overrated the beneficient effects to be anticipated from the administration of pure oxygen.—London Chronicle. People who have never attended the bjg mid-winter fur anction in London, can have no idea of its magnitude. Buyers from all parts of the world—America, China, Aus tralia, Russia, everywhere,—come there to bid for furs, and stay there until they have secured their stock in trade. The winter just passed has been one of the coldest on the Continent of Europe for fifty years, and furs of all sorts have consequent ly been higher in price than for many a season. In the last sale, 900 silver fox skins were sold; 2,700 cross fox, and 56,000 from the common red fox. ‘"rum that wrapping paper the other side out,’ said a lady to the clerk in a dry good store. ‘I don’t want to he a walking advertisement for your establishment’ The clerk was astonished and looked at her in quiringly for an explanation. Then she added: ‘I read the newspapers and as all intelligent j>cople do think they are the proper place in which to advertise your business, instead of making your ctislonins carry your tifu wound with each jiiu'eUitft. A new pianoforte keyboard having six rows of keys has recently been ex hibited in Manchester, England. An octave is formed by six keys in two contiguous rows. All the keys are on the same level, and each nota is sepa rated from the next by ail interval of two semitones. How is thiH* In an interview at Orangeburg hist Friday relative to the alleged cotton . pickers’ strike, President J. W. Stokes is reported to have said, if half the cotton crap were lost on account of the strike the other half would tiring os much money to the farmers us the whole crop would bring if there should be no such strike and the cost of pick ing the part lost would be a gain to the producer. • We suppose the idea of President Stokes is that if the supply of cotton were reduced to oik half, the price for the staple would advance; but we assume not on ac count of demand, for his paper, tlu (Jotton Plant, holds that supply and demand have but little to do with fixing the price of cotton. If Presi dent Stokes contends for the correct ness of his position that supply and lemund are not the all-important factor in adjusting prices, w ill he ex plain how it could be that if one half the cotton crop"wero destroyed, the other half iveiildbring 11s much money to the farmer as the whole uop;-—liutit iiiil Herald. The military comedy, "l'he Home Guard, produced by the Darlington Theatrical Company at the Academy of Music on last Thursday night was as fine an Amateur performance as a Sumter audience has never witnessed. The Academy was filled with the most intelligent people of this city, and they sVowed their appreciation of the play by frequent applause. The entire self possession which each one displayed, the ease with which they adopted themselves to the parts jmrtrayed and the grace and natural ness of gesture and movement evi denced careful preparation and na tural histrionic ability. We would not attempt to criticise individual excellences, or defects ii» acting but cannot forbear to express the genfcral appreciation produced by the acting of Misses Emma William son as Mrs. Lawton, ( a trie Spain, as Nellie Lawton—she was undoubted ly the bright particular star of the performance—and Carrie Mclver, as Mable Rutledge. Mr. R. E. .lames as Cato was an artistic study in char coal, who livened up the eveving w ith Hashes of wit attributed to, but usually so rare in the real brother in block. Mr. F. 0. Spain, as Chester Lawton, the hero, looked, as well as acted, the gallant soldier hoy, to perfection. W. J. Garner, as Gordon Reid, T. H. Spain, as Hiram Jinks, and J. L. Michie, as Hosea Jinks, post master and punster, wore all ad mirable. One of the features of the evening, which was not apart of the announc ed program, but which was enjoyed by many more than anything else was the song by Miss Bessie William son, who lias a voice of great purity and sw'eetness. We can assure the Darlington Guards and their fair and talented eo-adjutors a hearty welcome from a Sumter audience when next they grace the stage of our Academy of Music.—Sumter Watchman and Southern. Something New In the Way of Cot ton Seed. The Spartanburg correspondent of the Greenville NewS says, iu a letter w ritten a few days ago, that the lint less cotton seed plant whose discov ery was announced in the Nows.and Courier last year and was much de rided at that time, “has come to “stay.” Mr. II. T. F’ergusou exhibitied a stalk of the plant in Spartanburg on F’riday, which contained three hun dred 1 Kills, each boll filled with large plump seed. He has taken much pains to get the variety perfect, and announces that he “will seed enough this year to plan? the entire State.” The estimated yield is four hundred bushels Ui the, acre. The product is easily harvested, but the boll must be gathered as they begin to crack, else the seed will fall to the ground. The yield of oil, it is further reported, is about one-third more than that of ordinary cotton seed. If all these statements are literally true, it is seen that South Carolina has developed another new and im portant agricultural industry, and will soon be able to supply the world with a practically unlimited quantity of vegetable oil, stock food and fer tilizers. It would be a remarkable result truly, if the cotton seed crop should largely supplant the cotton crop, but it may come to that in the end. These arc record breeding times and the cotton plant is as full of sur-‘ prises os a monkey. A hundred years ago there was some doubt about whether cotton could be grown iu this country. This year there is considerable doubt wether wo can stop its growing. Twenty years ago the seed were re garded as a nuisance, Now they are probably worth more than the corn crop, hay crop, wheat crop, hog crop all coml ined. Ten years from now the lint may be a nuisance, and in deed it is next tiling to that now.— Charleston News and Courier. Three Chinamen were baptized and admitted into the communion of the Church of England by Bishop Sillitoc at Vancouver last week. They received the names of James, Henry and Samuel, respectively. An exchange tolls how a girl’s taste differs according to her age. At sixteen she wants a dude with tooth pick shoes and a microscopic mus tache; at twenty a chief justice with piles of tin; at twenty-five she twill lie satisfied with a member of Con gress; at thirty, a doctor or a preiipher will do; at tUirty*livc, anything fcnuii mi editor uj). H HANGDOODLE BAXTER Delivers a Lecture on Flattery. Berlnbbed Bredderen and Histcrn: —De subjee’ ob dis hear cbening’s discourse- am flattery, or what am commonly called taffy. De female sex am perteckerleriy liable ter dis dread disease. In de langwidge ob de inspired psalmist. Ef you can not inspire a woman wid love for you jess fill her above de brim wid love for herself, and all what runs ober will be yours. In de words ob de poiek: De way ter please a w oman, And nebber ter offend her, la ter eall a slim one stout And a stout one bony slender. Et she happens ter he short. You must tell her she is tall. And if she is rather lengthy, Say she is uol tall al all. Howsuniebbcr, de men folks .lues not always object tor large doses ob taffy. Hasn't yer sett a man stop- pin' around higher'den a blind boss? How proud he i.> Ef Jie.bad wings he would lly! fid rtu^bifd « notice in sum paper, 'file editor lias said that h6 is a typical American and should lie in Congress. That nmn mav have said he didn’t care what the papers said about him, but he would ride nine miles ter git a copy ob de paper what called him a typi cal American. 1 has always nolised' dat de. man who writes de life ob a President ob de United States am sure ter get some fat office. If yer wants ter hub a soft snap write de biography of de coming man. It am surprisin’ bow early in life some folks takes to usin’ taffy. De fullering story am taken from life on de spot: “Grandma,” said a small chile, “how old is you?” “About 65.” “You will die soon, won’t yon, grandma?” “Yes, I ’speeds to,” said de ole wo man. “And when I die, grandma, can I be buried side of you?” “Yes, my little dear,” said de old woman, as her heart warmed to the dear little hoy, whom she folded closer in her arms. ‘Grandma," softly whispered the little boy, “ginimic ten cents.” Dat’s de way it is all fru life. When you hear a man say right loud: “J fully agrees wid de President,” you may be sure dat man has al ready got a fat office, or he is looking for one. If it wasn’t for suj ar hit would be impossible ter run a perlitical campaign, nohow. Some folks swallers flattery jest as babies does a button, without having any idee what trouble may foller. Doy forgits dat some folks may be flattered in order to bclaft at. Dese heaTt\ complimentary talks are called soft soap, bekase dar is so much lie iu ’em. Flattery, like counterfeit money, makes dose folks pore what takes hit. And now berlubbed awjience, 1 will make de concluding remarke dat I hopes you will come down hand some when de hat is being passed, and don’t take it out in prayin’, for yon must remember dat taffy has no effec’ whatever on de Lawd.—Alex. E. Sweet of Texas Siftings. Plenty of boiling water should be used in cooking vegetables, as the greater the quantity of water the greater the heat. If only a little water is used the whole soon cools, the vegetables become tough and no length of time will render them tender. The body of .every Spider contains four little masses pierced with a mul titude of holes, imperceptible to the naked eye, each liole permitting the passage of a single thread; all the threads, to the number of 1,000 to each mass, join together when they come out and make the single thread with which the spider spins its web, so that what we call a spider’s thread consists of more than 4,000 threads united.—Scientific American. The secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange has secured com plete reports from the Southern cot ton mills of their business during the year of 1890-91. There are now 340 cotton mills in the South, a gain of seventeen during the year. South Carolina now leads the South in this branch of industry, consuming 164,957 bales of cotton, with Georgia second, consuming 153,818 bales, and North Carolina third, consnm- 140,508 bales. Thus South Carolina takes .from Georgia the title, of which Ucor^iau* were jumukit, PROPELLING WOMEN. Pretty Girls Permit an I'gly HaMt. Speak English. Jacob Grimm, the fine old German philologist, is one of the most learned linguists alive. He has studied care fully the tongues of civilized peoples, and after mature thought, German though he is, writes this: “The English speech may with full right 1 be called a world language.” If a! . „ ,,. ,X i. the courtsy, if not the support, of German can say this, then those citi- ,. - , , . 1 ' his own arm. It is one of the com- CHOICE SELECTION Don’t Flirt. The “Girl of "91” has one l ad habit which she should at once cor- aect—i e, the habit of permitting her escort to seize her arm instead of playing the part of the well Do you want to act it. lie? T flirt. Do you car- to lose I he nm.li charm of inauiier which is woma. best heritage and man's -too. inf . quently found attributed? called a world language.” If ' pieman and gallantly offering l*er! play at love. Do zens of America who arc trying by all means fair or foul to make other tongues than English the prevailing language of their respective com munities may well pause—think what they are monest experiences to see men pro pelling .women along the side-walk by the elbow. Now this is indispu table evidence of lack of breeding on the man's part and lamentable lack , , > of self-assertion on the woman’s part. They are going against nature and 1 . , , ... . , . 0 I No . right spirited girl will pyrimt 1 such cheap familiarity.— Press and Banner. yoir want Th ic well pause- endeavoring to do. 1 common sense. When SiMM-pt»tji lived .no 300 years ago, on the whole globe there were less than a million more English speaking people than now inhabit London alone. ! lien were between 5j>00,(>00 and O.OOO.OOO. So . Seme peopl- Lhiok j ers grumble too muc 1 nf that class. If our 1 bug at le>- ili in i\ i recently as a century ago, even idler | u we W1JU ],| Ml lie fill . We arc I paper was - -l us to pr 0 I future life embittered oy uienton which will stab you when votn hen is beating with happiness? Tin cheat some one into giving tru. 1 g.iid for falseness. ]f you would womanly, my woman reader, or m, o unknown questioner, give esteem to all who deserve it, frieuCship, t<i those who true friends, and your le ,n earin-M an c loon-imm ,, , j ami let it be unsullied ie. 01 are you : - w nap' wolli.le tiie ‘hit.; ’ .: nous w men mmo j on the lingers of e-UHit both til; tliis republic was founded, there) were on I v 15,000,000 English spea k -j g persons: ing persona on the same date 30,00o,0o0 globe. spoke At the French j One of the latest di vvlopnieip • Western civilization is acluliof veimg women in Moberly, Mo., who have . organized a 10 cent bank, into which and 1 (I,(>00,000 German. Now v.i j |] )( ,y pm a phne everv time they arc find that w Inm the French and Ger-j kissed, the dime very approp’iab Iv man tongues ore spoken by areasona-1 being contributed by the kisser, bly increased number of individuals J Press & Banner, in the world today! in Australia, the! Does our contemporary propose to British isles and in America 115,- j introduce the custom in his section 000,000 claim English as their j ^tote? mother tongue. This is 40 per cent, j of the inhabitants of the world. It is not clever old saying of a wit rnat nrj |; llwinn < ;, m .riimciil would speak Spanish to his (lod, L t( . e j wc j,v} ls 235 ton, French to a woman. German to » | calibre of 13 J inche horse, but English to a man? Un-j fwt ;„ i W)glll . • j, u „ fchwt mistakably this splendid tongue isjp,. t . , a nd each charge cost the language of manifest destiny, IM300. the speech of the future. 1’roof of I -» Tnnrh.Mii Tmilix. f i B llelteV, ;■ til., de.il wmiU I ) :u a piece of euraordinarv UKa: I The credit of having manufact ured civilized j (ll d I irgest iv the 51111 iu existence is elan.i- Krupp Company. The commendation of that) gun> whidl is t | K . 0 f ,;„■ saying of a wit that hej i; llS sian Government, is made of ca.-t and lias » md a barrel to this is not needed, but if it were it would be found hi the fact that the English race is spreading itself over the globe far more rapidly than any other nationality. It is probably th language of the coming race. English speaking nations are the freest, strongest and most prosperous 011 the globe to-day. The greatest light in literature this earth has pro duced was Shakespeare, who wrote in English. . Therefore let us maintain this noble tongue of a-raising race in its choicest purity. We may learn other languages as an accomplish ment if we will, but never to the detriment of our national tongue. Let us speltk and write the best Eng lish we know, in the most musical voices we can cultivate.—Times and Democrat. Curinsities of Foal. What we need now is about one month of sunshine, and we hope we will get it, A good advertisement in a news paper pays no fares on railroads, costs nothing for hotel bills, gives away no boxes of cigars to custom- mers, or merino dresses to customers’ wives, drinks no whiskey under the head of traveling expenses, but goes at once and all the time about its business free of expenses. Ruralist came intoTallahasse, Fla. and finding a uewi stand, ordered a lot of papers, which he took from the clerk with profuse thanks. He was astonished though, when the-l^ . ,, ‘ J ’ ' ‘T” , , . , , , . tropinc. Some of these are used for clerk asked payment, as he ‘never heard of charging for newspapers before.’ He had been reading his neighbors’ papers for nothing, and never knew that they cost money. Oh, lovely, gentle, unobtrusive mule, Thou sUmlest idly ‘gainst the azure sky And sweetly, sadly slngcst like a hired man. Who taught thee thus (0 warble In the noontide heat and wrestle with Thy deep, corroding grief and joyless woe? Who taught ihy simple heart Us pentup, widly warring wasted. Of wanton woe 10 carol forth upon the silent air? —Rill Nyc. A new safety-match has been pa- tciitod in England by a Belgian, who places on different parts of the same match two compositions, which in ordinary safety-matches are generally placed respectively on the box and on the end of the match. In obtaining a light, the match is broken across the middle and the ends rubbed to gether. If it is to America we owe the in vention of the type-writers which we now possess in such perfection, we should not forget that the idea of that invention was born in France. Before 1833, Xavier Progrin, of Mar seilles, .took out a patent for a ma chine of that kind, which, judging only from the sketch, was very satis- fttctwy.—Rent'v Swvutifi^ue. 11' -'.'. lie put: : Oil l.i- Snn.l V clwii,,;; and a.<> -i lit .. a.v.-ry No i.iiiii ‘" r peri',.rj. fi c j d" ?:»i iff. : rag.-ouslv >■. long died j,,-!,; •• ."ill! \\ i ; ■; out fir-1 pc. •sua-diig liiiu i ■' »},..» J. had a g-.-.d lootivc ha ■- : 1 1 IE »: ': Ni ip lln devij of jus fi ho would 11- 1 1)0 so < • , D > • 1 If the de * I» IjiO 1 (t > (n . 11 ! •; - 1 • ' Will, Ill's t: nukod 1. • . 1'. . rvi!> {. 'Vuuid iiau >n.i fi<*d s idve j : - M 'juit. Kverv \\ ; .4 if ^ UUV.i 1 W! n MlMiir ’ J !. -. I ... 1 . i • • i 1 seif fi the 'll jlldD'iJB’Ill !>v rl.ns Ii tie "I I'eligiiui. . N'oIhkIv le.l.J, |!, ( . | than the devil d U .'lei I iu- IU:. Ill: ill 10 entircn more r c '•ever stay s llWay eu roads >.r I- '■‘id weaf'i- Crowd the del i. whenever you will 1 Script Tiro to 111a ke -pectalde. No mat ter what, do, from }iol voj’j key, he w i ill try I., 1 that lb.- I ’dde givpjj do it. I.\ mn - 1 Ion I bus anyone expect a praclical chemist ever slop to flunk of all th* substances which we get from coal and the almost inconceivable \aricty of their uses? Everybody is famil iar with those of them that arc in daily use, such as gas, illuminating oils, coke, and parafino, but of the greater part few persons know ever, the names, science advances so rapid ly and its nomenclature i> so exten sive and obtruse. Though coal iu.-' been known for some hundreds of years, the discovery of its number less products is confined to the pres ent century. Illumhiating gas was ifct known a hundred years ago, and it is scarcely more than fifty since some one discovered that stone coal was inflamable. Nearly all the oth er products derived from soft coal have been discovered and applied in the interests of science or fraud within the last twenty-live years. The first (bought in regard to coal i-J ,lmis ’l 11 -' 1 " '<p. that *it is made to give heat i his ai,v ci'-.s r -.1, L g, 1,, •ui h-, 11,. of roug q a comer position re de,il wants n his- Waiting for Something. “Waiting lor Something To turn np is a moral weakness v. iih .\onie people who lack the energy and the nerve to make a start in hfo or to lake hold of any piece of work that requires present action to move for ward or accomplish. Depend upon .it, fame or fortune cannot he reached in this way. Things-iu tfij HOI -| ( i do not “turn up” mile ,- <„ mi b, rillil b ti, ,-y warmth; the next, that one of its principal uses is to illuminate. But there are obtained from it the means of producing more than for hundred colors, or shades of colors, among the chief of which are sallou, violet, blue, and indigo. There arc also obtained a great variety of perfumes —ciumflnou, bitter almonds, queen of the meadows, clove, winter-green, anise, camphor thymol (a nev Colne mus! yon, imj it ly in uounmin w ill i,,,t if yon ri'iicli if nut go to it yoursdf. Tin- chance calculation involved in first specification carries wiili it a verv uncertain and involved conclusion, which, ten chances to one, will never materialize. For inertia means nothing. It will not move matter or embody spirit. B aiting for ‘•some to tiivii up” means just ibis It i.- an b/tiis thiny and nothing more. French odor), vanahne, and hello- j ^^ous which lias no solid foundation. ropiuc. flavoring. Among (he explosive agents, whose discovery has been caused by. the war spirit of the Iasi few years in Europe, are two, called dinotrolienzine. or bellitc, and picra- tes. To medicine coal has given hypnsue, salicycle acid, naphtol, phenol, and antipyrine. Benzine and napthaline arc powerful insecti- tndcs. There have been found in it anxmoniacal salts, useful as fertili zers, tannin, saccharine (a substitute for sugar), the flavor of currants, raspberry, and pepper, pyrogallic acid, and hydroquinone, used in photography, and various substances, familiar or unfamiliar, such as tar, rosin, asphaltum, lubricating oils, varnish, and the bitter taste of beer. By means of some of these we can have wine, without juice or the grape, beer without malt, preserves without either fruit or sugar, perfume with out flowers, and coloring matters without the vegetable or animal sub stances from which they have been hitherto chiefly derived. What is to be the end of all this? Are our coal beds not only to illuminate, but to feed and quench the thirst of prostcrity? We know that they are the luxuriant vegetation of primal epochs stored and compressed in a way that has made them highly convenient for transport and daily use for many centuries.—Hearth and HalL At best it leads only to dreamland, and is jusl about as inteiligiiilu and consistent. ■So, you may wait, and wait, and wait, and that will be all vou will get for it. In the meantime, valuu ble time is lost and your ruin is uv sight. Against this there i> a more consistent outline and a far better promise of realization and success. If you expect any valuable accretion, or what might be called a ••-ti.-a!, of fortune,” you must work for ir. You must earn your spurs and buckle them on to your own heel: move on mid win success Iu the object for which you .dui. ed. Then •clcct- One of the duties a man owes to himself is to live so that he can re spect himself. If there were no little sins there would never lie any big ones. The big snakes have all been little ones sometime or other. A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never get there without Christ. — —- There arc a number of otherwise good people in this country who seem to have forgotten that neither gold, silver nor greenbacks are cur rent iu the world to which they arc 0°i u 9’ THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM. 4 *