Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FLOATING FACTS. . - . it* - ; X$y the tue of maohinery in loading and unloading ships one man can per form the labor of 2,000 working with out its aid. Ooo machine with one man as at tendant manufactures as many horse shoes in one day as it would take 500 men to mako in the same time. An expert watchmaker can turn ont from 250 to 300 watches each yea1* with the aid of maohinery, 85 per oent of former hard labor thus being re placed.-Pearson's Weekly. Parisian lovera of horseflesh devour ed more than 30,000 horses last year. In 1894 the number waa 21,227, in J878 it wa? 10,000, and in 1872 5,034. .There ara two hundred hippophagoua batchers' shops in Paris. A conf?rent was recently held at Budapesth on the tippling question. The restaurant and hotel keepers were divided aa to the course that should bo followed, but the waiters were Unanimous as to the whole system be ing abolished. When the Russian government took ?ip the liquor monopoly recently in loather a and southwestern Russia, it began by having all the liquor Blore .houses and the vessels in them.blessed and sprinkled with holy water by the clergy in full canonicals. The extr eme temperance people call this "thebene diction of the devil in solution." Ti lpn Undertaken for Health's Sake Will be rendered more beneficial, and the fatigues or travel counteracted, if the voyager will take along with him Hosteler's Stomach Bil terr, and use that protective and enabling tonic, nerve invigorant and appetiser regu larly. Impurities in air and water is neutral ized by it, and it is a matchless tranquillizer "nd regulator of the stouiacb, Uverand bowels. It couii tcracta malaria, rhenium Ism. and a tendency to kidney and bladder ailment?. j Th" Danube flows through countries i*n.i - which filty-thrce languages and dlalocta are J 'po'.en. Fall Medicine Is lolly as important and beneficial aa spring medicine, for at this season there Ie great danger to health in the varying temperature, ?old storms, malarial germs nod prevalence of fevers and other diseases. Danger may be avoided by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla The beet-In fact tho One True Blood Purifier. V?.J). OIIIM assist D?ftextion and cure ItQQtt 5 rlllS Constipation. 25 cents. A Heretic A crowd hid gathered in the cabin in North Carolina where I stayed all night, telling ghost stories,all of which were sufficiently vivid and seemingly well authenticated. At last my host had the oourage to fpeak his convic tions. "I don't b'i'eve in ha'nts nohow," he said. ..Don't b'i'eve in 'em?" was echoed .by several. "Waal, of ooaree I've seed a few, but they didn't never do no hurt. Thar hain't half as many as folks let on.' 'Td li ko to know of yo' own dad didn' cum back ?" indignantly replied a neighbor. "Yass, bal he jess kep' a o om in till I fonn' ont what he wanted. Yo' see, we buried Jim jess behind the peach orchard. The ole man kaowed I want ed ? well worse kin' and he kep' oomiu' every n:gut till I opened th' grave ter see what war wrong. Thar I foun' it full o' water. Th' old man knowed I wanted th' water, an' he wa'nt comfer bio in it, so he cum back. I dug a well ta ii an' moved his coffin, au' he hi in's never 'peered no mo'. That conlan' be dolled'a ha'nt."-Washington Star. ~~ A W0MAFS ST0BY.~ It Should Be of Interest to Every Think ing Woman. * Women who reason well know "ihat no male physician can understandingly treat the complaint known as a female diseases," for no man ever experienced them. This, Lydia E. Pinkham taught them "twenty years ago, .;vhen she dis covered in her Vegetable Compound the only suc cessful cure ?for all those .ailments peen" lia:: to the sex. Many " women have * a fatal faith in their physician, and not till they can suffer no longer, will they think and act for themselves. Th a following testimony is straight to tie point, and represents the ex perience of hundreds of thousands of How grateful women : " For si? years I was a great sufferer irom those in ternal weaknesses so prevalent among our sex. After having received treat ment from four physicians of our city, and finding no relief whatever, I con cluded to try Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, and it has proved a boon to me. It can truly be called a " Saviour of Women."-MKS. B. A. PKRHAM, Waynesboro, Pa, ?f|l ll I MCKINLEY lill LU B AND HOBART SILVER ! SEWALL ND '3 OKO KCBES, Lithographed la Five Colors on Nee Work. j A Novelty for Every Home. A Necessity for Every Of?loB. IO Gents t>y Mail. AGENTS WANTED." LIBERAL TERMS. TOS? EVANS, 34 Pork Row, New Fork. mi il I? interesting especially when lt tells all about the NEW FRUITS as well as the old ones, and often all at very low prices. It's Free. Send for lt. Address W. P, BEATIE, Atlanta, Ca. DON'T BE CUTK?TFE. We can cure you without it. If you have the PH,ESuse Planter's Pile Ointment. We guarantee to give instant and permauent relief. Send five two. cent ?-tamp* to cover pof *~*e aoV we will mail FREE package. Ad dress Dept. A. * Mew .Npmicfr Medicino Co., CHATTANOOGA, TEWN^. A. N. ?.Forty, '96. fl n 111U and WHISKY habits cured. Book tent Uli Ult! Froe.Dr BM. WOOLLIY.ATLAMTA.OA. I Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Usc in tliaa ??old br drugglata. THB SAVING O? UT. W. j. ^ /"^v """L OU Bhontd B?? Mrs. ftA^/x&) O'Grady," said my wife to me shortly af "COV]VA?^ ter my arrival at the ?^^^fl/^ summer hotel where v |tf she was spending the V l\ season nnd I was (3"**^^) spending every other Sunday aud all my spare cash "Be jabers," I responded, giving tho best imitation I conld of the Hi bernian aocen';, "an'pbwat have yez been doing wid Mrs, O'Grady V" "My dear," said my wife, reprov ingly,""! perceive that your opinion of Mis.Q'Grady is as poor as yoar imita tion of tho dialect yoa associate with her name." "I don't know hor at ail, "I replied, on the defensive. "Ijb was not necessary for yon to say soin so many words, niy dear," said my wife, in a tono of voice it is not worth while to explain to married men. "When yon have seen" Mrs. O'Grady yoa may hold to different views.concerning her." As usual, my wife was right in her conolusions, for when I saw the lady I was more thau surprised-^-I was de lighted. She was of that typo of Spanish women we see in pictures, and her name bore no relation to her what ever. As she and my wife were on suoh excellent terms, my probation as a stranger was short, and in a few minutes we were chatting away like old friends. "Really," I said to her, "you must pardon me, but may I ask about your name? As fax as I can recall,* I do not remember having heard of the O'Gradys of Oordov a or Sevilio, or even of the Alhambra." "And still I am Dolores O'Grady," she smiled. "Which beiug interpreted," said I, with a dawning consciousness, "means that you were onoeDolores Somebody else, ann some Irish hidalgo or doo came your way and gave his name for yours." "Iou have guessed it," she 6aid. Then I recalled au old friend and college mate of mine. Tom O'Grady, a dare-devil-Dick sort of a chap, who had no sooner received his diploma than he converted what little proDerty he had into cash and wont off on some adventure to one of th J South Ameri can Republios. "I don't know, madam," said I, "which of the O'Grady B has been so fortunate, but there is one I used to know who was worthy of even such good fortune as to be your husband. His name was Tom, and we were bi others for five years." She took a tiny little locket from some place about her where women usually carry isuch things and handed it to me. "Look at that," si.o said, and I did. "By Jove-I bag year pardon," I exclnimed and apologi? ed in the same breath; "It's Tom." That evening Tom arrived, and our respective anet respected wives prom ised to let us havo an hour to our selves if wo would give tho first two hours after dinner to them. This we readily agreed to, becaufe we knew that no other courso was left to us, and we adjourned to tho apartments of the O'Gradys, "Well, well, old Tom," I said, when we had disposed of ourselves comfort ably, "how did it ever happen?" and I smiled over at Mrs. O'Grady. "That what I wanted to tell you when we have our hour together," he laughed. "What selfish orea tures men are," said my wife. "Why not let us know now? I have never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. O'Grady until this evening, but I've knowa 'old Tom' ever since I've been married." "How long has that been?" in quired Tom of me. . "Fifteen years." "Three to the good of me. Dolores and I have been struggling along with each other for a dozen long and weary years. " Mis. O'Grady threw him a ki ss from the tips of her pretty fingers in re spohse. % "That's one experience, plus three years," said my wife, and I threw her a handful ol kisses. "Let us have the story of your life, old fellow," I said coaxingly, which was entirely un necessary, for Tom was as anxious *o tell it as I was to hear it. "Oneo upon a time,*' he said, bow ing to all of us, "there was ono Thomas O'Grady, an American citizen of Irish descent, better known as Tom or 'old Tom,* and he went to South America and mingled in a revolution, one of tho things which is always on tap in a South American Republic for anybody to minglo in whenever he is disposed to do so. This O'Grady-" "Drop.the didactio and general," 1 interrupted, "and get down to the personal and particular. " "As I was saying," Tom continued, "I went to South America and invested what money I had in mines and a oof-1 fee plantation, and kept out of poli tics-" "Au Irishman and kept out of poli tics?" I asked. ' Tom smiled. "I kept out of politics until I thought I had some show and then I W3nt in like-" "Au Irishman," I suggested. "Just so, my boy," he admitted, "and we had it lively. I still retained my American citizenship in case of an emergency, but that did not interfere with my duties as a 'boss,' and a - boss' I wau, thongh I could not vote. At the end of five years I had a tremendous influence, a coffee plantation, a pay ing mine and a good bank account in New York City, where it was safe. I was twenty-seven years old, and a ris ing young man at that ago has a heart, if he is any good at all, and I was some gooc , if I do say it myself. I was not much on society, as that term goes, but I knew some of the best families in the place and visited them. Then ther3 were some other families I did not visit, notably that of the man who was my opponent always in the j field of politics. He was a rich old. felic w,with two sons and a daughter Dolores, there, remembers her quite well"-and Mrs. O'Grady nodded pleasantly, as if she had no fears *now of aDy pretty girl anywhere-"and ho was a fighter from Waybaok. As I say I neyer visited the general's honse, but I did meet his daughter at the houses of my friends, aud oi course she, of all the girls I moot must be the ono I should fall in love with. I don't know why Cnpid sends his victims euch luck, but I notice that he often does. I had known the general's daughter about a year when the forty-seventh revolnfion-or was it the hundred and .forty-seventh ?" he asked of his wife with a smile occurred, and 1 was in it up to my neck. The others I had managed to keep ont of, but this one caught me before I knew it, and I found myself the head and front oj the party against the Government The only thing I did not like in the affair was that the general was at the head ol: the Govern ment party, and the general's daugh ter was the sweetest woman in the world, and we were in love, general or np general. Well, the scrap came off in duo course, and after shooting the town full pf bolos for a week or so, any soaring the women and chil dren into fitajpny side wont to piccea and ten of itsleading spirits went tc jail. From that point the transition was easy to ?he sunnyside pf a wall PS the outskirts pf town, and early om fine morning we ?onad ourselves grouped there with fifty Govern ment soldiers drawn up in lint pointing loaded guns at us. In plain English, it was an execution bee, and we were the guests of honoz. I had fixed up my business affairs in the few dayl allowed me, and as there was no one 1 thought as much of as I did of the general's daughter, I willed all my property to her, thus proposing tc heap coals of fire on the old gentle man's head while bo was after mme. You might think I was frightened as 1 stood there before those guns, but 1 wasn't. True, I was a bit nervous, but I wasn't soared at all,, and I insist ed on facing the shooting party and giving the command to fire. They wouldn't let me do that, though, and I had to face tho wall with my back to the foo. I stood at tho head of the line, abont tbreo feet from thc man next to me, and waited calmly for the cud of things. At the first command I braced myself, and when the cem mand 'Fire' came I tried tc steady my self, but in spite pf all I could dp when the guns went off I went up inte the air as if I had been bounced PU a spring board and came do?n in a heap?" "Yen weren't killed th6n?" ox olaimed my wife, in tho ure-eminently rational manner pf all women. "Yes, madam," smiled O'Grody. "Why, Mr. O'Gradv," 8he began, but I laughed, and she realized that Mr. O'Grady was opt as dead as his statement might lead ono to suppose-. "Just the same, Tom," I said, "I should think tho nervotis strain and your imagination combined would have snapped the vital cord when those guns went off. You know there are any number of such cases well au thenticated. You must have had strong nerves to have withstood the shook." "Supppse, Dplprea," said Mr. O'Grady te his wife, "you take up the story and finish it." "It is very simple," she said, with an acoent so charming that any at tempt to put it into written words would be sacrilege. "You know it twas the daughter of the general who 'saved Mr. O'Grady's life. Of course, if he had known, he wonld have died with the others when the guns were fired at him, but the Government party did not want to shoot Mr. O'Grady, because he was an American oitizen, and that might cause the Government great difficulties. So it was arranged that the shooting party was not to kill him, as it did the oth ers, but te let him esoape the bullets. It was a great secret and they thought they would frighten Mr. O'Grady so mu oh that'never any more wonld he be in trouble of that kind. And no doubt they wouid have frightened him to death, and he would not have been in any more trouble.-" "On earth," interrupted Mr. O'Grady. "Fer," ccntinuod his wife, Smiling, "the shook might have killed him. But it was not to bo that way. The general's daughter learned the secret and sent him word by a faithful ser vant, and when the others were led out to their death, Mr. O'Grady knew that some other fate was reserved for him. Even as it was, the strain was so muoh that ho fainted away, and those who saw tho shooting thought he was dead also-H "So did I," again interrupted Mr. O'Grady. "And they were about to put him in tho ditch with the others," contin ued his wife, "when one of the officers requested to send the body to Mr. O'Grady house. There he was re vived, and in a fow days ho had es caped from the city and was safe cut of the country. " "And tho general's daughter, what became of her?" asked my wife. "3ho waited until times were easier for the O'Gradys'" replied Tom, tak ing up the story again, "and then he came back under au amnesty* aot. In thc meantime tho general had died-" "Oh, how glad I ara," exolaimed my wife, in quite a rapture of interest. Mrs. O'Grady looked at her with great seriousness. "You shouldn't speak so of the father in the daughter's presence, ''she said, and O'Grady actually laughed at my fife's utter discomfiture.-Wash ington Star. A Swallow's Swift Flight. An untamed swallow, which had ita nest on a farm near Chetwynd, inj Shropshire, was caught and taken in a| cage to London, where it was released.; It returned to its nest in eighty min utes, having accomplished a distanoej of 145 miles at the rate of nearly two miles a minute. Thei'3 are manufactured in the United States 8,000,000 kegs of nails in a year, LOVE'S KINGDOM. Yon eeo no pomp of circumstance, No entourage of pride, My lowly seeming to enhance As I walk by you:: side. All day, at others' book and call, My work obscuro is done, But off my shabby garments fall When comes the set of sun. Youjmay not know it, friend, but then I, walking by your side, Am crowned and sceptred, king of mon ; Let none my state deride; For when I turn my own latch-key . My wife is at the stair, The baby claps her hands with glee, And I am royal there. -Harper's Weekly. PITH AND POINT. "What in the woild broke Burke down? Ho used to bs the picture of health." "Ho recuperated too long at tho searhore."-Detroit Free Press. "Monoy makes tho mare go," But now we add, to striko Tho fancy of tho whoolmnn, "It also make3 the bike." -Tra tb. "The older a man gets," said the corn-led philosopher, "the harder he finds it to feel sorry for a woman whose pug dog has died."-Indianap olis Journal. If I could gratify a wi9h, My wealth would be unfold. The bag3 my trousers all possess I'd havo filled up with gold. -Lifo. Mother-in-Law--"Did Mary tellyou that I always sent you a kiss when ever she wrote to you?" Son-in-Law :-"Oh, yes; and it was a great com fort to ma-while 1 was away." Judge. Mr. Popleigh--"What would yon think if I were to tell you that I had been dying by inches for you for years?" Miss Wanter wed--"I ehould think it-it was very sudden." Brooklyn Life. "What's tho matter, Cotherstone? You look blue." "Things have gone wrong. I seem tb be losing my indi viduality." "Cheer up, old boy best thing that could have happened to you."-Chioago Record. ; Mr. Freshly-"Did you hear of the terrible accident that occurred during the storm yesterday afternoon?" Miss Newcomer-"No, how distressing; what was it?" "The wind blew up' the lake."-Chautauqua Herald, j The Little Critio: "I think that must be a splendid hook, Aunt Jen nie." "Why do you think so, dear?" "Beoause, when you read the author's desoripticn of that midnight scene, I got just as sleepy as I could be-just as if it really was midnight."-Har per's Bazar. Benson--"I'm almost crazy. I sent a letter to my broker, asking him whether he thought I was a fool, and another one to Miss Willets, asking her to drive, and I don't know which of them this telegram is from." Roberts-"What does it say?" Ben son-"dimply 'Yes.* "-Boston Globe. "I wish you would toll mo," said the agents, who had long been oa Mr. Snagg's trail, "what is your insuper able objection to insuring your life?" "I don't mind tolling you," replied Snaggs. "The idea of being more valuable after I am dead than while I am alive is distasteful to me." Ohroniole-Telegraph. > The artist knit his brow. "1 wish to pioture the heroine with a number twelve waist," ho remarked. "But where, in that event, is her liver to be?" "Oh, I can make room for that," rejoined tho author. "I will just say that sho has no heart." Thus it is to be seen how tho muses advance hand in hand, generously disposed to mutual concession.-Detroit Tribune. The guide had been telling Bobbie the most thrilling stories of his ex periences in tho woods, ending with a graphio account of how ho had once been lost upon Bald Mountain. "My 1 It must have been awful," said Bob bie. "And did you get back all right again?" "No, Bobbie," returned the old fellow solemnly. "Never. Fact is, my boy, I'm out thar yit."- j Harper's Bazar. Importance of tho Forests. George Washington, a farmer, liv ing near St. Paul, Minn., is on a trip East in the interest of American for estry. "The people," said he, "ar? just beginning to awaken to a realiz ing sense of tho importance of the forests of this country and the neces sity for action for their preservation. When the country was discovered so large a proportion of tho land was covered with trees that the cutting of them was the principal work to be done in advanoing the line of settle ment from the seaboard. "This process became so much a matter of habit that forests after for ests have been destroyed in all sections of the country, and now if no action is taken our woodland bids fair to dis appear entirely. Of late years, how ever, the inhabitants of several States have begun to perceive the folly of this wholesale destruction policy, and have decided to amend the matter through legislation. Recklessness has almost invariably been shown in cutting down all the tress from a great stretch of land, instead of so treating the for est that another crop of trees might be harvested in the future. Forest fires have been another industrious instrument of destruction, for as a rulo they have been allowed to destroy, undisturbed, forest upou forest. The result is that commonwealths whioh have heretofore considered their woodland inexhaustible are brought to see that protection for their forests is necessary. , "Minnesota has been tho first State to propose organized action. It has been one of the chief lumbering dis tricts, but the sight of immense tracts of land once covered with trees has brought to tho citizens the knowledge that the State is in danger of losing that distinction. So tho Minnesota State Forestry Association was formed for the arrest of this indiscriminate destruction. It at once went to work and formulated a plan which will en able the State to acquire and protect forest lands at trifling expense. Town, county and State forestry boards are to be constituted by the Legislature, these boards to have charge of lands which have been cut over and of other lands not likely to be U6ed for .agri cultural purposep, with a view to planting them with trees and carrying on lumbering in future under proper restrictions. The plan has been hailed with applause by all our farm ers, and no doubt will be followed by Hher Staten"-Washington Times. The League of Wheelmen. . The League of American Wheelmeu was organized in 1880, and a year later, at the time of its first annual meet, it had a membership of 1654. Its membership is now more than 65, 000, and is said to bo increasing at the rate of 1000 a week, BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. A Bicycle Tragedy-Out of the Ques tion-His Business-An Unfemi nine Trait-All the Same -Confidences, Etc. A girl, a wheel, A shook, a squeal, A hender, a thump, A girl in a lump, A bloomer all torn, A maiden forlorn. -Springfield (III.) Monitor. A SLIGHT CORRECTION. Fourthbell- "Your cook has been with you a long time, bas she not?" Brownstone-"We have boen with her for five years. "-Puck. ALL THC BASIE. "Is it true that young Wilson has gone on a polar expedition ?" "Yes; he has gone to Eoston to see his girl"-Detroit Free Press. AN UNFEMININE TRAIT. "Isabel, I can't understand why you say Margaret is so masculine. " "Can't? Why, her watch always tells the correct time."-ChicagoJBec ord. OUT OP THE QUESTION. Hojack- "I hear that you are build ing a now house?" Toradik-"Yes. I couldn't very well build an old one, you know. " J udge. ms BUSINESS. The New Pastor-"I beg pardon, but in what walk of life are you en gaged?" The Brand-"None, 'sir. I am a sprinter. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer. CONFIDENCES. Elsie-"Why does your husband speak of you au bis right hand?" ; Mrs. Bay-"Givo it up, unless bo cause he never lots his right hand know what his left hand doeth." Truth. DIFFICULT THEN. Mr. Bloomfield-"Isn't Mr. Point Breeze an easy going chap?" Miss Bloomfield-"When he calls on mo ho seems to find it very diffioult to go."-Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele graph. SHUT OUT. Miss Simperly-"You're just like tho rest of the men. You all want to make fools of us women, " Mr. Gruffer-"But there's no ohnnce, you know. Nature got the start of us."-Detroit Free Press. IN A QUANDARY. Assistant-"The Circassian lady has fainted on the 6tage." Museum Manager-"Well, carry her off on a stretcher." Assistant-"I can't. The India rub ber mau is not around just now." Truth. SCIENCE ALWAYS READY. Caller-"Doctor, Mr. Divine, th muscle reader, fell into a sort of trance a littlo whilo ago, and we eaunot arouse him. Isitcatalepsy or death?" Doctor (a great soientist)-'/Bring mo his head, and I'll soon tell you." Now York Weekly. AN IMPERTINENCE. '- "I think," she said earnestly, "that a woman who truly loves a man always has bis best interests at heart." "Perhaps," he answered; "but"-' "What were you going to say?" "If that's the ease, what makes her marry him ?"-Puok. BASH. "What is that Japanese idol over there worth?" inquired a purchaser in a bric-a-brac shop, who saw a quaint head and shoulders back of a counter. The salesman replied in a subdued tone: "Worth about half a million madam ; it's the proprietor. "-Pear son's Weekly. UNLUCKY. Angry Wife (after a quarrel) "Seems to me, we've been married about a hundred years. I can't even remember when or where wo first met." Husband (emphatically)-"J can. It was at a dinner party aud there were thirteen at table. "-Tid-Bits. VENGEANCE. First Clubman-"What did you blackball Goodman for? You don't even known him." Second Clubman-"No, I rever spoke to him in'ny life, but I hate him and his whole /amily. They-livc in the fiat below us, and they havo corn beef and cabbage three days a week."-New York Weekly. PERSIFLAGE. Curious Tourist-"What are you fishing for?" Farmer's Boy-"Fish." Curious Tourist-"What do yen use?" Farmer's Boy-"Bait." Curious Tourist-"How do they bite?" Farmer's Boy-"With their mouths."-Atlanta Constitution. WORTH THE TROUBLE. "Popkins is a olever fellow." "What has he dono now?" "He's put a sprung gun in his back yard, a burglar alarm at every window, an electrio mat at eaoh door and a bulldog m the kitohon. It costs money, but he accomplished the pur pose he aimed at." "What was that?" "He's got the hired girl so scared that she's afraid to stay out lato at, night."-Cleveland Plain Doaler. GRATEFUL. She arose, smiling, from the dentist's chair. "How mach do I owe you?" she asked. "Three dollars and a half," was the reply. "Are you sure that's right?" she in quired, suspiciously. "Quite sure." "Well, it seems a good deal. The time I was hore before you only charged me two dollars, and you, hurt me over so much move than you did this time. "-Washington Star. THE OLD, OLD QUESTION. Mabel-"Miss Featherwori.I should say," said tho young man, "is your father at home? I want to ask him something." "Y-yes," said th. young woman, tremulously. "I wish to ask him." he continued, "I wish to ask him tue qnestion that nearly every man has found necessary to ask. In Bhort, I wish to ask him-" The young woman tittered nm] the young man "switched." "I wish to ask him," said he, with a malignant tone in his hitherto honeyed voice, "what, is the exaot meaning ol 16 to 1."-Indianapolis Journal. The First Cyclometer. An odometer is a little machine which is attached to the axle of a wagon or Carriage td give the ndmber of miles traveled by the vehiole. A pedometer is an odometer carried in the pocket by whioh the distance a man has traveled may be ascertained, and a cyclometer is an odometer at tached to a bicyole. Every boy and girl has seen a cyclo meter, which generally is fastened to one of the front forks of a bicycle. Every time the front wheel makes a revolution a little cog wheel in the cyclometer is pushed around a cer tain distance; every time this little wheel mokes a revolution it moves an other wheel, and this another, and the train of wheels is so arranged that it registers the number of miles trav eled by tho wheelman. Many people probably believe that the cyclometer is a modem invention. The name is but a few years old, but the machine itself was known and used in the reign of the Emperor Ru dolphus II., and ha reigned from 157G to 1612. He had two curious odometers, whioh not only registered distance but marked it on paper. But it was an artist in Saxony named Hohlfeld who invented the odo meter which is used by surveyor* to day, and which is the father o' the I cyclometer. He made one in 1711. He also made several kind of air guns whioh shot dead bullets, and late.** on he made a pedometer. It seoms that he was a wonderfully ingenious man, for he mado a maohine for, noting down any pieoe of music played on a harpsichord ; ho invonted a threshing maohine, a straw obopper, a loom for weaving figured stuff and many other valuable machines.-Chicago Record. The Domestic Cat, The cat was a solitary roamer, whose companions were the trees ot itu native forests. It found a home ia the hollow trunks and safety among the branches. How do we know that the cat's ancestors were dwellers in the forest? Because every kitten takes to a tree as readily as a duck to water. Also, because nearly all forest dwellers are mottled in color,'so that they may not bo conspicuous among the lights and shadows beneath the trees. While I was considering what was the probable view held by cats about human beings, it was suggested by one ingenious friend that probably they regard a man a3 a kind of loco motive tree, pleasant to rub against, tho lower limbs of which afford a com fortable seat, and from whose upper branches occasionally drop tid-bits of mutton and other luscious fruits. We may laugh at the theory, but it has quito a respectable string of facts be hind it to back it up. If the Kanakas argued from the pig to the horse, why should the cat not pass from the familiar tree to tho unfamiliar organ ism called man? The cat, in spite of tho domostio character it has acquired, is in reality the least tame of oar animal servants. As far as its duties are concerned, man has taught it practically nothing. Its methods of pursuing rats, mice and birds are all entirely its own. It is indeed rather a wild animal whioh hos taken up i ti residence in our houses for its own purposes than a servant or a slave.-North American Review. ."\ ^ ../_ Roads aud Road-Making, The Irish milo is 2240 yards. Portugal has 2000 miles of road. Sweden has 36,200 miles of highway. France hos 320,000 miles of highway. Tho 'modern Roman mile is 1628 yards. -I Holland has 7600 miles of public roads. In Germany thero are 265,000 miles of road. Norway hos but 14,800 miles of pub lic highway. Tho Austrian Empire has 81,000 miles of road. Canada has 6000 milos of roads and highways. The English statute mile is 1760 standard yards. Austria is building roads at the rate of 100,000 miles per year. The comparatively small kingdom of Italy has 51,000 miles of highway. In many parts of Europe river and canal routes are legally regarded as highways. Little Denmark is admirably pro vided with roads, having 2000 miles of public highway. According to Mulhall, there are in tho United States 260,100 miles of public highway. Until tho beginning of tho nine teenth century all traveling in Ireland was done cn horseback. The Roman roads, according to their importance, wore from eight to thirty feet in width. 200 Grandchildren. Levi Bradshaw, who lives ia the Sparks district, Killingly, Conn., has sucha large family that ho can not count his grandchildren. Bradshaw emigrated from Canada and has lived in Killingly thirteen years. He is cow in his seventieth year. He has been married three times and is the father of forty-one children, forty of whom are now living. By his first Wife he hadsix*children, inoluding a pair of twins. His second wife bore him twenty-four children, half of whom were twins. His present wife presented him with eleven children. Bradshaw was not fourteen years old when he married the first time. The eldest son is now forty-four and has several children and grandchil dren. Twenty-nine of the old man's sons and daughters are married and all have children. The grandfather doos not know just how large this family of grandchildren and great grandchildren has become. Ho can enumerate up to 150, but is in the dark as to the remaindei. He estimates that they may run up to 200 or so. His Sweetheart Knew Him. A Maryland man got into trouble M ith his employers and fled. When in a safe placo ho grew a beard and al tered his personal appearance in other particulars. Then be returned to his employers and said he was a brother of the defaulter and wanted to settle the case for him. They were about to comply, when his old sweetheart, who was employed in the place, came in ?and recognized him." His arrest fol lowed. Tricks of Bmln. Every telegraph pole in the remoto districts of Norway has to be con tinually watched on account of the boars, whioh have a mania for climb ing the poles and sitting on the cross beams, swaying backward and forward until the polo finally falls, MUTUAL FIEE INSURANCE And Its Many Important Advantages. (Atlanta Constitution, Sept. 80, 19?.) Nearly two hundred years ago & few property owners formed the first insurance association of tho world by agreeing to "chip in" and share eanally any loss by fire which might be suffered by one of their number. Tb? ma chinery of fire insurance at that timo was in a very crude state, hilt, thanks to tho brain of man, since that time the improtenietit tn the plan of protection against fire bal been in keeping with the wonderful advancement of the times in all branches. Today we have, in tbe Manufacture rs' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of our city and state, the perfect on of fire insurance, oombining, aa this company do?, tho security and stability of the stock company with the liberality of the mutual company. Their plan is indeed ihe most equi table to all to bo found today. Thin company was chart : red by a special act of tho Ck orgia legislature in tho year 1833, and by that body and at that time was granted privileges which cannot be duplicated at the present time. The company's homo office ls in this city and they are pleasantly domiciled at No. 19 South Broad. Mr. J. Charles Dayton, who is known throughout tho state of Georgia as an able financier and a conservative business man, is the president of the company. He is also cashier of the State Savings bank and promi nently connected with other solid Institutions which mark the growth of the city of At lan'a and sute of Georgia. 'I he vice presi dent of tho Manufacturers1 Mutuat Insurance Company ls Hon. Thomas B. Felder, Jr.. than whom there is no better known and better liked gentleman in the stato. He ls of one of our prominent law firms, that of Anderson, Feldur & Davis, and will represent tho county of Fulton at the next session of the lozlsla tnraof Georgia, he having lead the ticket in the face of strong opposition at the last elec tion for representative from Fulton. This is in strong evidence of his popularity and of the esteem and confidence reposed ia him by the citizens of his county, and throughout the state he is honored and esteemed by all who know him. Tho active management of the Manufac turers1 Mutual Insurance Company is in the hands of Mr. Peyton Douglas, who was the prime mover in the organization of the com pany and who since its organization has he'd the position of secretary and general man ager. Mr. Douglas has mode a life study of tho Insnranco business in all its details, and is as w; ll posted on that subject as any man in tho state. He started in tho Insurance busi ness many years ago, bein? first connected witt) the stock companies, bat realizing that mutuality, with proper sa'egutrds, was the truer principle of insurance, he organized and has put in operation the Manufacturer^1 Mutual Insurance Company. Ho was raised in our midst and has tho confidence of those who know him and his friends are legion. In Mr. F. H. Cathcart, the treasurer of the com pany, wo liave another practical insurance man. Mr. Cathcart came here from Balti more several yoars ago and up to the organ isation of the Manufacturers1 Mutual he was prominently connected with one of tho largest general agencies in the south. Since coming to Atlanta he has takea a prominent stand arnon? tho business men of our city and state, ail i he stand) today one of her ntoat progrcs-ive citizens. TU? director* of the company are all men of integrity and ahl'ity and in their hands the Manufacturers1 Mu tual ls marchinsr rapidly along the road to sure success. The prominent features dis tinguishing the Manufactura rV Mutual In surance Company irom other mutual *om n des is the:r guarantee fund of $100.1.00, ?eked by a bond of that amount 'ecurt-d by real ?slate mortgages, stocks and bonds, and collateral loans, making a total of twice the amount of the hoad. This furnishes absolute security and the only mutual feature of the contract Issued by this company is the fact that a proportion of the profits irom under writing is each year divided amoru: tho policy hohler- of the company. This is but Just, os it is the patronage or the^e policy holders which baa enabled the company to earn their protlt1*. An insurer in thia company, thero lore, has absolute indemnity at cost. They ure patronizing a home company. They pay no more for their insurance than the com panies wmposin1.; the insurance trust charge and the profits are returned to policy holders as they are . arned, and are a clear MI vin?. Pol ey holders in this company cannot be a ?- 1 sesaed for losses or for any other purpose and I the company is a member of no trust or com. bine and is independent in its every action. The la?t statement of the company, mode June 30, 1896, showed actual assets in the state of Georgia of $109.44t\20, and a surplus to policy-holders of $100.214.10. This company is successful, strong and reliable and deserves, and is securing, the patronage of tho largest as well os the smaller insurers of Georgia. Thc Manufacturers1 Mutual Insurance Com pany has agencies in all the principal cities md towns of thc state. . One Road Still Left. _ An American politician recently il lustrated bis politioal position by the dilemma of the old negro preacher at the camp meoting. "Bredren," he he said, "they'd but two roads for you to foller. One leads to bell and the other loads to damnation." "Then," said an old darky, "this nigger takes to tho woods."-Ex change. The Ins an IE you get best wear o have gone inte it. You poor flour. Moral: You can't get tl the best is in it ; and the h can be taken out. Now, sarsaparillas with a big "1 what's put in you and we the best." That's fair. I say: "Ohl we can't tell, the label.". . . Stop! Th saparilla that has no secret want to know what goes your doctor to write for satisfy yourself that you g argument when you get A Any doubt left ? It kills doubts Address: J.C.A ProtBabcoc? "I find that Walter Bakei absolutely pure. It contain foreign to the pure roasted cc of pure cocoa; the flavor is n the product is in every partie produced from the pure coa of any chemical, alkali, adc stance, which are to be de the so-called 'Dutch process Walter Baix /FEMALE Thousand* of woman ara nervous, tired, h uro headache,sick stomach,fa!ntlng spells, dizziness, scanty or profuse menses, weak back, constipation; their aide?, shoulden and limbs acne constantly-In fad, they auf. fer from general debility of tho whola system. The superior tonic qualities ol McElREE \'i 1 WINE OF CAR0UI make lt th? (tiding rea ?dy for this class ol trouble!. L. D. Pangfburn. New Virginia, lowsv, i aays: * ' My wife has suffered for yearn ' from general weakness, pain in top of . head, back and neck-at times could not J do ber work. One bottle of MCELRBB'U I Wi.va OF CAED?I baa given her instant relief. Th? effect is wonderful.** I Recent Discoveries In Babylonia. Among the recent finds of the French expedition in Babylonia, which has been and is still working at Telo, are a nnmbef of dated cuneiform tableta of Sargon ?. find his eon Naram-Sib. These have now re?ob?d Constantino ple, and within the last two months have been submitted to the examina tion of Monsieur Heuzey, director of the Museum of the Louvre, am? of Professor Hilprecht, who has been re*' Lained by the Turkish government to deoipber and classify the objects found by bo th expeditions. By this in par tant find all questions as to the mythi cal character of Sargon are put an end co, and he is shown to have been ? real person. The contenta of the so-called Oman tablets are definitely decided to bo historical and not my thiijal. One of the new tablets spenks of tho "year when Sagon marohei againet Pulistine" (Martu). This was 3800 B. C. Even were no other finds to bo made, the inscriptions gathered by tho two expeditions will add largely to tho knowledge possessed of the his tory and civi ization of Babylonia. The truth 1?, however, that there isp every reason to suppose that there ex ists aa untold store of archaelogical riches buried along the shores of the Euphrates and Tigris. Books on the subject which were up to date three? years ago already require revision, and there is reason to believe that the efforts which the Americans and the French are making in a field first opened by Layard will be amply re? warded.-London Daily New?. Value of a Good Cow. An exchange computes tho differ? er o i between a cow that will produce 2C0 pounds of batter per year at 25 cents per pound, and the one that will prodc.ee 300 pounds, to be $25. Du ring ten years of the cow's lifo there is a difference in favor of the 300 pound cow of $250. With twenty such cows there wonld be a credit iu favor of the superior cows of $5,000, and with forty, $10,000. Dob a: JU' Floating-Borax Soap bein? 100 por cent, pure, io, therefore, absolutely all soap, rad has nothing1 in it to tnrn yeUow. Dobbins' Soap* Mfg Co., Pillia., guarantee its purity. Every one knows the Taine of Borax. Try it once, please. Many of the engineers and firemen laid off by the Vanderbilt railroads are color blind. Th? Ladlee The pleasant effect and perfect safety with Which ladies 'i?y use Syrup of Figs, ander ail conditions, makes it their favorite remedy. To get the true and genuino article, look tor the nome of the California Fig Syrup Com pany, printed near the bottom of t'?t package. For salo by all responsible druggie * The mc*t mnsrn i firent liol y water font has been given to a New York c it Led ral. TeU n Friend Unod News. PROVIDENCE, R. I. > "Please forward pis boxes of TLTTKHINE. <V O. D. 1 think it strange (hat it 1- not sold here in New England, as it is the beal cure for j eczema, ringworm and all < rnptions of tho ' skin I ever .'nw. I got a box from a Cincinnati drummer, and cave part of it ton joung lady who had tiled almost everything to remove pimples and an eruption in:m her face. Two nppf cations of TETTERISE compeMy cure<t her. I know alf-o agent lemnn whose bcd y had bron i'overi d with eczema. Two boxes of 1 ET TERI?> E cured bim completely, and now bis skin Li as smooth as a baoy's" P. O. HANLON, With Silver Sprint s Bleaching Co. 1 box forCOc. in s'limp*. J. T, SHCPTBINE, Savannah, Ga. : 8100 Reward. ?100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to care In all Ita s tagus, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive care now known to tho medical fraternity. Catarrh being a consti tutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Care is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and ma cons surfaces of the system, thoreby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building np the con stitution and assisting nature in doing ?ta work. Tho proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers^ that they offer One Hun. dred Dollars for any case that it falls tocare. Bend for list of testimonials. Address _ J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Ball'sFamliy Pills are the lest. FiTSstopped free and permanently cured. No fits after first day's ns? of DR. KLINE'S GREAT NERVERHOTOKEH. Freef2trinl bottleand treat ise. Send to Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St. Phlln., Pa. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gams, rod aces infiammv tton.allays pain.cure* wind colic. 25c a bottle. After Fix years' suffering, I was cured by Piso" s Cure.-MARY THOMSON, 21 12 Ohio Ave., Allegheny, Pa., March 13, 04. If afflicted with sore eye? use Dr. Isaac i'homi - *on'sErc-water.Drngg?8t?sellat25o nerbottle. d Outs of lt. ut of a coat, best work must can't get good bread out of he best out cf anything, unless est Jias to be put in before it we nave a rule to test those .est" on the bottle. "Tell us i'll decide for ourselves about Jut these modest sarsaparillas It's a secret Have faith in ere's one ex:eption; one sar to hide. It's Ayer's. If you into Ayer's Sarsaparilla, ask the formula. Then yon can et the best of the sarsaparilla Iyer's. Cet the "Corebook.'? but cures doublers, ycr Co., Lowell, Mass. r tiie well-known Oemist, la.4> says : - ? . & Co.'s BreakfasfCocoa is LS no trace of any substance xoa-bean. The color is that attirai,and not artificial; and :ular such as must have been 5a-bean without the addition lt or artificial flavoring sub tected in cocoas prepared by t & Co., Ltd, Dorchester, Mass.