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Site __l__ DEV,1'ED TO 1'OL11iU, t10RAI1 T, E11UC1"IO! AND TO TUE b?ENEItRL INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY; By D. F. BRADLEY &. CO. PICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1883. VOL. XI. NO GENERAL NEWS. Florence, South Carolina, has raised $100,000 for a cotton factory. Griffin, a., is trying to raise $100,000 to build a cotton factory. 'Ten million acres of land in Georgia are covered with timber. Texas has bought all the grazing cat te of Tennessee and Arkansas. Darlington, South Carolina, has raised $250,000 towards a cotton factory. The fruit business is threatening to ri val the iron industry at Chattanooga. Stles of fertilizers in Alabama this year are much larger than those of last year. ' Nearly a million acres of land in Louis iana, have been sold recently to a Kansas speJulator. The barrel, box, tub and bucket facto ry of Chattanooga will give employment to 150 hands. Selma, Ala., has sixty artesian wells, ( nmd the water from no two of them is t exactly talike. 4 The Southern wheat crop increased from 37,000,000 bushels in 1873 to 67, 000,000 buaishels in 1880. A bagging factory is to be erected in iehnma, Ala., and it will be ready for the 1 colilnig season's business. - 'T'he grand jury at Austin, Texas, have itudicted fifty members of the Legislature of that state for gambling. t "ria said the English sparriw', have driven nearly all the nmocking-birds from arotnd Goldsboro, North Carolina. Mr. Charles Goodwright has 700,000 arres of lauld, lorated at the head of Ried riN l'r, in '1'exa. He has a herd of 40, 000 rattle. Now Orleans' 'commereo for the first f iho nontlis of this year exceeds last < y-,rs' by over $lI,000,00--an increase i c' nearly a third. A vein of silver ore three feet and ai altf wide has been found on the property 1 of Mr. Powhattan Williams, of Floyd ronunty, Virginia. New Orleans is now the second grain expo>rtim r plort of the United States. t During the past five mnontlis 460,000 to1s < have been shipped. BIay-colored wild goats ar"e said to be 'lentiful in Grant parish, La. '['lte Col fax Chronicle says the meat of the an1i nals is extra fine. Most of the tobacco stems from the f North Carolina tobacco factories are ship lied to Germany to be manufactured into snufl for the German peasants. I Six hundred hands are at work on the I Florida Southern railroad, and three ves- 1 sels are en route for Pensacola with iron, car's andl engines for the road. A faui of 400 acres, a little more than four miles from Winchester, Ky., sold rc"en tly at $110 per acre, and another farm of 225 acres sold for $132. The value of the orchard crops of Flor ida twe'lve years ago were e'stimate'd at abouet $60.,000. To-day aL million anid a half dollars would hardly buny themi. The ('attle dIrive of 'Texas this year will beo ninety-five herds, averaginig 5,590 head each'l. Th'le entire hlerdi is estimated at 510),000 head, against 350,000 head last year. In the Gulf Hammock, Levy county,t Flas. , areC two live cypress 'ree's, some 80i leet high, that have cabi age pamettos gro)wing outt of hosles in their Sides, forty to fifty feet ab ove the giv und. Col. JT. B. Killebrew oif Nashville, has heen visiting the Me.Icii mines of Polk, the dlefaullinig state treaisurer of T1ennes- I 11ee, anid reports thant they are "gooId for 8150,000) a year, if properly worked.'' . Durinug the early parIt (of this month the largest mule in the worl was sold1 at Kansas City. I10 was 18; hands high, I weighed 1975 poun11ds, measuired 15 feet from nos5e to taid, aind was six years oli. At Pensacola, Fla., there ar'e at priesent in qu.ara'inteeni twenty-three vessels hail ing from infected ports8 and poriits embra ('ed in the( pIroclammiIation oif the Board (If 1'eal thI as subject to (jiiItuanee r'estie-c tionis. A company huas b een oirgaizied in New Orleans to buil a railway to the jetties. .J'The ('harter aLutho(riz.es the comnpansy to co nstuct wvarehuses, harboris, piers, wharves, etc., at the jimet ion (It thei rail waIy wvith the se'a or' iver. At the South Tnulriegar Tron-works of' (Chat tnoo' ga ad(ifliculty (x('eiwre betwveen WVilliami Th'lomias. Blrowder', who is a po(werifusl muan, raised 'Thomas like a child 4 ~ and laid him oin his back on 4L red-hot slab oif iron, holding him1 there until nearly 1biuned to death. Th'le popeh' will hold ai 'orisistorly at fthe end( of Juane, to fill up, the eight vacant posts oIf cardinald in thue Sacred1 college. '.'le toItal number oif these dignitaries should1( be sevenity", as fixed by~ a bull (If Mixtus V in 1656, in memory (if the soy (enty elders whod goIverne(d the people1 (If Israel and the seventy disciples of Christ. General WV. H1. Sk>eum favors a confedl eration, rather than a consolidation, of the two cities5 of Neiw Yormk and( Broo{kIyni, 'ac(h to retaini conIltrol of its own wauter' pIlaces, but withI a single maunicipail he(ad, and the 1re, police anid health depart ments under a common jurmisdlictionu. Mr. Burchmard1, directo,r (If the muint, pu1t5 'dhe pIr<xlue't (of the Ge'orgia gol m llieS ini 1882 at $250,000; of North Car olinai aLt $190,000; (If South Carolina at $25,000, and of Virginia at $15,000-aI total of $480,000. TIhis amounmt is an in 'rease( (If over 100) pl.r (cenlt oIver the fig uires from the samie source for the previ (Ius year. The Queen's navee, when all vessels on the stocks are finished, will comprise 36 first aiid sleconid class ships with armor . averaging 13 iinches iln thickness, amid guns of the average weight of 35 tons. France haa the0 piiune numiber of ships, >Ut the armor is 141 inches thick, the Kuns averaging 40 tons, and half of them aro breech-loading. Atlanta Constitution: People who pre er lard to cotton seed oil should be deep y interested in the developomenlts in Jhicago, where it is shown that hoofs nd offal are ehemically prepared and hipped South as a first-class quality of og lard. Nature has in store many bet er compounds for the kitchen than those ound with a Chicago brand. Mr. Blaine, in a )rivato letter, speak ug of the liquor question in his state, ays: "Intemperance has steadily de reased in the state since the enactmient 4f the prohibitory law, until now it ean >O said with truth there is no people of lie Anglo-Saxon world among whom so mall an amount of Liquor is consumed s among the 650,000 inhabitants of dIaine. Mr. Pereoy E. Battailo, of Louisiana, uas caught within the last twelve months rith a steel trap fixed on the top of a ry tall persini mon tree, forty-one hawks, ive owls, five crows and a large number f birds. One of the hawks weighed our poinis and measured four feet and our inches from tip to tip of wings. 1any of the hawks were of the largest and. The total miles of railroad in the State if New York, September 20, 1882, were ,269, and the number of locomotives in he State was 3,541. This is an average >f almost one engine to every two miles >f road-a higher average tianlt prevails u the count rv generally. The total num )er of locomotives reported at the end of he year 1881 was 20,116 for 104,325 niles of road, or less than one to every ive miles. The richest colored man in the United states is Aristide Mario, of New Orleans, vho has an income from his city rent-roll alone of about $50,000 to say nothing of tis other property. le has not, however nade al! this since Lincoln's prxlatmmia ion, for he was a large slave-owner he ore the war, and is a gentleman of blood aid breeding which would throw any tumber of Haytien princes in the shade, rhatever the particular hue of their skin. dr. Marie lives abroad, on the I'roser >ine plan, about half the year. Cotton has recently been adapted to at iew and most useful purpose. Manufac tured into duck it has been successfully ntroduced as a roofing material. Aside rou its cheapness, it possesses the aver :go of lightness as compared withshiniges >r slate, effectually excludes all water and a said to be a non-conductor of heat, so hat the rooms next the roof are not 1un luly heated by the sun's rays. The nethod of laying is to plane the boards o an even thickness and nail them down ecurely. The duck is laid dry, and Irawn over the roof--not lengthwise. Che edges are lapped one inch, aid nail A with sixteen-ounee tinned curpet tacks. Chese tacks are driven one inch apart. Chen two coats of paint, composed of oil aid lead, are applied. Wlenl it is desired 4 protect the roof against fire, fire-im,,>f >ainit may lbe uised inl additain. Should ~ottoni comne into general use as a roo finig naterial there would he a great demand or the staple. Viewed in this light, the mew adaptation is a subject of importance o the cotton-growers. EdIltorlal Notes. Ta population of New York city has loublled six times within a ceniturv. louiblinig on ani average onlce' every seven een'1 years. In other words the New lork of toi-day is sixty-four times as large is the New York of 1004 years ago. Tm:a 1hoom in Confederate securities itill cont inues in Rlichmnond, Virgiia:. i'here have b eeni sales at auictioni o f Nor hi Jarolina M :r bonds at $4 per $1,000) and >rokers are conls4mt 1buyers of all classes >f Confederate coupon ils'cumri ties. Thl e~ louse of '1hOnas Branmch & ( ,ohas boulght OVer $20,000,000 worth of these securities. Tusi state board1( of silk cultuire at 'Fris so) conltinuleS its (effort$ to itercep('~lt someI( r>f the $9,000,000 in raw silk flatl annua tdly pass through the local ports forn tie eiastern states b)y offerig prnizes for naitive grown silk at the Sacramento fair in Sep. tenmber, thme minimum wveight of eachl ex.. hiibit to be not less thiini one-fourth of a plound. Cocwcoons are sold thIiroughiout the state for from 90) cents to $1 each. F'roamJA is niot the only statei ini which English capitalists are nmakinig la rge landi piurchalse's. lin Texas one lot of about a) thirdl of a million acres Jias been IboughtI by an English company, while ini Missis. Sippli about a million and a third hiave recently beien takeni up 1by aniotheor. These iinvestmenits areO madtue with a con.. victioni that the value of all land ini Amer iea i1uist inicrease, * aind that , by a1 little outlay in dlraiinage anid preplmiatain, tramcts that can he purchaised ntow for a caiii p)arativecly small sum w ill sooni havea high agricultural vahbn, anid rtise fat renits for their British owners. Tan latest mathex atical question runs as follows: Two girl met three other girls anid all kissued, J:ow many kisset were exchanged? THE DREAM. { In the dream I dreamt to-night e( Love came, armed with mag;o might I Fret and fever, doubt and fear, Foes that haunt his kingdom here, Misconception, vain regretting, Bootless longing, cold forgetting, The (lark shades of change and death, Ever hovering on his path ;I Vanished, from sound or sight, of. In the dream I dreamt to-night. " Lil Time's strong hand fell helpless down Fate stood dazcd without her frown : ite Sly suspicion, cold surprise, las Faded 'neath the happy eyes And the voice I love was speaking, 1)a And tho smile I love was making Sunshine in the golden weather, li' When we two stood close together ; 1 For you reigned in royal right, sai In the dream I dreamt to-night. at1 po And I woke, and woke to see an A cold world, bare .id blank to me, til A world whose stare and sneer scarce hidden, in Told mo that as fruit forbidden, ill Love and trust must ever pine wa In so sad a clasp as mine : til All too faint and fragile grown For giftr, that youth holds all its own ; Be Al, best to wake, forgetting quite ml The sweet dream I dreamt to-night. t AUNT SOPHIE'S STORY. t an Do you know, Aunt Sophie, that you ho have never told me the romance of your Or long ago? I came in just to hear it this thi evening." And a grave look came into V Georgia's merry blue eyes. Miss Chester (o turned her glance from the far-off dream- el: land of the opal sunset to the little beauty who was kneeling daintily before be her. (ph; "How can you imagine that any sis romance is connected with my past, a 1 Georgia ?" fir: The young lady glanced up at her hit 4utt's deep, liqid brown eyes, an,d the an heavy folds of satiuy dark hair that the fot last sunbeams had changed to golden t w just then, and exclaimned, with her usual an candor: "Oh, I know it very well, Aunt pr Sophie. Beautiful as you are-there, w; don't deny it-I would give--well, I th would give my diamond set just to have hi such glorious eyes. Now, tell inc why th you didn't marry. ri " Very well, Georgia, if it will gratify ra you, you shall have those pages from my m heart-book read. You may profit Ly the lesson it teaches. " My father died when I was still a a child, leaving me to the care of my - brother and two elder sisters. My father had all his children, educaited at home, and would have followed the same. plait i regarding myself if lie had lived, for lie did not fancy the idea of sending girls ti away from home to be educated. Bit my brother thought differently, and when I was twelve he placed me in ai boarding school in another State.'' i "Four years passed, and among my th friends at school there was one to whoin a I was bound by the warmest ties of 10 friendship-Bertha Grey. At last the vacation came when she must return to st her dist4ant. home, and she entreated me w. to accompany her. My brother's Cott- hi sent was gained, and Bertha and I were 1i happy as possible. " Ie came for us-"-1vh-rtla', 1brother 11 Elroyd Grey. It. would be itmpossible, Georgia, to describe him. His rate charm was something indeitnable. In iil the seclusion in which I had always lived i I had mingled, . but slightly with the ml world. Every Stunday, in the St. ii Berthold church, to which we were at marshlted by our preceptress, a faint vision came to my eyes of thes spletndor si and magnificence of life outside the ha college walls, but among aill thle faces I le had scanined so curiously there had never T beeni one to coinpare with his. I was lil but a foolish clilId, perhamps, but whten la his deep voice caine to) me, rich,w mnelod ious, mod ulated, iny very heart a would pauise in its throbbing. 1 have Ii thought sinee that lie undtierstood1 aind i exerted his stranuge p)ower at will. i "'But I was qiuiet and reserved, ansd resisted all his at temphts to estalisht a friend(ly in timacy with a pertinacity oif which T was aishamied event thlen. Uerthai wa.s my friend(, andt( to htem alonte dlid I cling, wvishing not for othler-s. We arrived iat Bertha's home, aind I wits mn.v trodiuced to Mrs. Girey-a tall, pale hly, (' who greeted mae withI such kindness t h'at the tears came unbidden to my eyes. Ih "I can hairdly tell howv th'e next two ml months passed. Swiftly, like an hour of goldent, glowing dreamus, thait we rememt bor afterward with a strange thlrill of s< pain. Ehroyd, Berthai atnd f--a p)leisant little trio-rode, walked, talked, had boating excursions out over the glassy little lake, sat on the gallery in the beau tiful, calm, moonlit ntight anmd siung sweet 01(d songs that thrilled atll the chords o,f tIme heart with their exqluisite paithuos, and whenm every other amiusenment was c exhtausted in the long, glowing siummier in dlays, we soughtI the litbrariy. I dot~ tt know when the conusc-iouisn ess ecame ,to 1l me first of my love for Elroyd (hey. I t g~ wvas alnost overpowering in its ideplt ht amtI intusi ty. I concealed it. so sedulou aslyv that even Bertha, to whom TIthad comn miunicated every secret for the past fewv years, never suspected the truth. We rode, walked and( talked as usual, we floated out over the mirror-like surfatce of the lake in the jubilaint sumimer evenings, and still I kept my hieayt's idol-worship enshrined saceredlly ini my heart. "WXe stood one" evening at the goate, Blertha, Lroyd anti I. it was at peacet',ful sceno upon whtichi wet wer'e ltookintg. The sky, with its glieamin tg stars, was re flected in the motionless lake. Even the mocking bird hushed its jubhilant chorus, as if to listen to t lie silenee. "What a calm and Ip eefil night! What rest, what quiet !Wotild that it might cont inute forever, munrmured El roydl, turning his eyes upon mue wvilh a~ i at toolk that always rendecredl me restless iad ta uneasy. "'You are intstiale,' I said with a i o lauugh. "'Yes. I wattt this glorious; night to w usy, with its deteph rest andt( peace. But o F kntow th1 at th e peacei- I see now wvill vant- iIl ish almotst as iinit'lv a thn night.' q ''Why ?" I asked half unconsciously. ''Because the star that is illuming rything without aud within will flash teor-like from the horizon,' he said, tly. 'I tried hard to control my emotion, i succeeded, I think, for never had I t his gaze more onlmly. Just thou s. Grey called Bertha, and, very glad the interruption, I turned and went h my friend, calling back to him glingiy: 'Ye;t may stay and watch your favor night, Mr. Grey, while its beauty ts." 'It has lost both already," he returned, n tedly, and I felt my face burning with shes. Al, Georgia, the dreams that tuted my sleep that night 1 3ut the early morning mail brought news to me of my brother's death, 1 our sudden descent from wealth to rerty. He was fond of speculation, 1 had been remarkably successful un lately, when fortune turned from him an enterprise in which he had staked --so he lost all. I must stay where I s for the present, my sister wrote, uu we could find a home. 'I told them of it all after awhile. rtha and Mrs. 'G-ey sympathized with kindly a1m1 sincerely. But through ill Elroyd Grey was silent. 'From that time I purceived a cold is in his manner, and he gradually 'w away from all his old habits. Be' 1 and I were alone in all our walks I rides, and we propelled our own ,t. over the glassy lake, leaving Mr. ey to attend to t lie important businesg it engrossed so much of his attention. hIatever grief I might, have felt at dis verin g that I had been worshiping a y idol,' nlonle of them knew. 'I was resolute and determined, and fore the month was half out all my mns were settled. I knew that my ters would he compelled to labor for ainrtenance, and I resolved from the t that I would hear my part of the rden. Without asking advice from y one, I answered an advertisement a governess that I had seen and in u weeks received a letter of accept. e'r 'When I wrote to my sisters and ap. sed then of the step I had taken. they rmnly opposed it, and declared tlit : y were more than able to support me, t I was firm and would not yield. At is time my friends were utterly igno at of my intentions. A week theore V departure I was standing at the gate titing for Bertha to join me in a ii,te, lc"n Elrovd came up and asked a little xiouslv: "'Will you not tell me now what you tenld doing, Miss Chester? You know are all :ntxious to know.' "I told him without hesitation. He tened nit il [ had finished, and after -hile said, with an anxiety which lie -ove to conceal: ''Thanks for vour confidence. An<d, tee you are going away so sooi, per .ps you would like to take v.ithl you is remRembrance of my lappin,"ss. I 1 going to be married to Miss Wil ighby.' "I was conscious of a heart-throh that irtled me, and of some intense grief lich I conhl not explain. Butt I met s wavering glanmee steadily, and re ied: '' 'I hope tiat you may be very hap 'Bertha came just. then, and I went th her, thatking heaven in my heart at. my wealth had been suddenly attceid away, since it had been the eeans of proving to me that Elroyd rey bowed downl with the thoussnds of hers in his worship of mammon. "'Three yie:n-s paisseid away. My elder dter mattrried Mr. Arnoblh. Tier los mRd died, anRd she sioon fotllowedI him, av~ing her little Georgia to myv 'are. hien canme atnotihir lhange, that seemed( (C 5Oml~1ie it ifl visioti from 'Inaitrv Rnd to mtyself' and sister. An uiitl htom we liuid long supposed to lbe detid, ime b ack fromn Autst raiat, wiealthly on1ii eed oft w:iunlerinig. He( took us Ibo(th ider his care, antd wec were at rest and1( 'ace at last. "El royd (Grev caime aga intn tr i edl to cave t lie old. anhlt le webi artoun d tin. utt I haid bokeni its mncshcs onice, tand icy were powerless now)~. "'1 turned awayv heatrt sick from till his twa and protestations, and toldl him 11 mdd never be. AnId so, Georgia, it all ided. ie wentt taway, aind I neiver saw mU aft erwardi. My life hits heet' qiit iil peacitni, hnt thtere is a wotti in y heart thiatIId bls:ifresh whien I liear I I le va in wortsh ip of wor'thileAs idols." In the galthering gloom Georgia wilt flly. A Love'lorni Indtlianu MaIden's SuIcie. UTe Brandoni Suni stays: News has mUe that atn lianit matideni be(loniging a brtanch of the Siimux oni the Oak~ iver Rleserive, ~in Manitiobai, recenly i nmoittedi suicide. VTe Chief desuired -r to marry a certaini member (If thle ihe, whio was advaniicedl int years, but 0 matide's fancLt(y hadi( already b(een eni igedl by a younig brave, whom she -omised to wed shoul site wedl at all. lie ob jectionta i shwin to thte Chiief's shies enriagt d hRiml to such an extent at lie mtsisteid onR the matrriag' with the der1 oneii, andRi tihrealtened all mannler' of miiiuhiments ini the evenit (If fur'ther colt mnany. TIhiere appeared'ii tio possile cape for the uuinhappy nmaideni hut 0one, idi sIR, briavely faceid it. Gettinig p)os ssii n of ai ptice of ropeH, she nmaiiageid ship aiwaty unobuhservedh, tani, fasliiiing e rip' to a btranchl of a tree in the einiit y oif thle (neamt en~iult, sinee,ededl most e'ffectual ly haniging herself. PAYAAsvEn.--The paymuasters and ex Lymasters of the United Statils Ar'my, ibl re'side in WVashington, have extended invitation toI nil paymasters who servedl the Union army during the late wvar to teind a r'eunion which will be held in at city in connection with the meeting the Society of the Army of the P1olo. ac oni the 16th anud 1 7th itrt. 'Ther'e ill be a meeting of paynmaters at onei clock on Wecdnesday at then Ebi ouse, where they will have their hiead nari.'ra. NATURAL GAS WELLS. An inportant Industry Developintg Iu Penn. I sylvnnla. The great natural gas wells in Western Pennsylvania are developing an industry which will some day be of vast import ance to this country. It is the inanufac ture of lampblack. To a large inunber of people the existence of this industry in the United States is comparatively utn known. The fact that hundreds of thou sands of dollars in profits are realized an nually in Pennsylvania by simply gat her ing the soot which is condensed from the flames and smoke at these wells is some thing that very few persons havo evei thought about. For years past the busi. ness has been rather obscure, but of late it has been growing in size and import ance, and no little public attention has been attracted by it. New gas wells are being bought or leased in this region by Eastern capitalists for the purpose of ex tending the industry and utilizing the gas, which otherwise would only go to waste. 'J'he <puality of carbon black that is made from natural gas has been found to he so much superior to that, mamufac It red by other methods that it is in de inand everywhere, and it is at signiticant fact that. nelarly the entire prodltct ill that State goes direct to Germany and other foreign countrics. This liner grade of the article is a pigment of great value in the arts and .is expensive, briniginag the highest prices. The process iy which lampbwtk is male woutl at first thought appear" very simple to the casual reader, but its die tails are novel and interesting. A carbon black factory at the side of a roaring gas well is a wonderful place. There is one in Butler county, about thirty-eight miles from Pittsburg, which is the most extensive in this country. ft is located at Saxon station, on the West Pennsyl. vaaniaa Railroad, and is owned by a wealt by New York con pany. Tthe uots oprruara i of the manufacture of lamp 1black, ill brief, is the hburmng of gas against sheet-iron plates. In this factory at Saxon 20,000 gas jets are burning day and night. The buiilding is about 175 feet squnaare. From the gas well, a few yards distant, a fouri-inch pipe extends to the factory. At the main:i entrance it branches off in two directions, and from these two distriuting mains eight long pipes, running the entire length of the building, draw their supply. Along each of these pipes are sntll jets, thin and very close together. As stated above, they minuber fully twenty thousand. Over each "bench" 011 whi'h the long pipe rests are continuous plates of sheet iron, and it is against these that the tiny flates from the myriad of jets burn. The win:dows and doors are always kept tightly closed with close titting s'it.ters, so its to prevent the tdmnission of too much air. The temperature of the in terior nmst be sufliciently regulated to avoid perfect conblistion. ant tIus save the carboli. Little by little the lamp black forms on the sheet iron until a small mass not larger than a cliln-y, per haps, hangs over each jet. At regular itterval- of twenty minutes a small iron 'carriage'' or a sort of seraaper is run all nig each of the rows of iron, mal the matter thus collected is emptied into a receptaicle in another departnment. Fre tpiently water is run over tie top of the iron to keep it cool. The hcat of the place is intense and cannot he endured lot g. Wlenl this finely divided carbon is re mlovetl from the slheet iron it is ready for packing. This is the most diflicult 'part of the work. Being such an cxtremtelv light substaice it woultl r4 *tl ire but t very stua 11 g iaintity to 1ill a Ibarrel if it wer1e trluownl in loosely. Inugtenin tis ma. - chier ha u:s been intv'tetd, lio wever) to oiat thist difiity 'i ini measurei.* te an ui statmpers nmi: by a steamtu enginec 1press it dlown ias I i4 hit as possil e, bulit iitwithstain.llig all thiOs Ih itr onuly fifty pIoullts of lamphilab:ck tillm h pt in an nuary siza l 1barrelt . 'i T capacity of thle faito ry iat Saxxon i * 25: p ainals per <day, ori onily tivt' barl.it I staited that all the liampjhlack mu:ai:aturtl therm goes direct to Grmnyn. TIii-r it. is iusedi for various purpol)(ses.' It formu s I the tuinl eiia lI prt oIf colonriig initte ti.ftr painuts. Prninte'ro' inik mat markinig inksi are also miade from it, anud it is btcomuinig it det suiabl article for the polish andt priepara | ion of shoe leather. A Seecret. The i following aniecdtite of Altexmuiller II. Stepthens is relalted inl the Loiuisvillt' I wirJorn/ r1Te wife tof i Wteste'rn Conlugiessmn was (one days sit tiing by Mu. St iephes's bed'(sideC, when httit wits so very ill in the witeri of 1877, and lie sptoe 'luite' fn ely to hecr (of his miot her andi his t'arly life. "'Ttimt's may secre't,"' hle replied evia sivel v. "Ibit jve wouItld all like to know it, was her'i relsponsest. "Welt'l," siaid lie, grimly anti retllniIt anitly, ''1 never saw but oniet woman i wainted to mahrry, butt slit diid not want to mlariy mue. That's at good reatsonl. isn't it ?" "I hope site livetd to re'gret her ms take,'' remnarketd thle kiuit heart. "Y-e-s,"' respot nded Mr'. Stephensut'i slowly, "'I thinik sIte tdid, anid st tdid I." A Conmtndr'um. ThIuis freom the PtoAtton Tr',anscript cont phiilosopher through life: ''A fathetr wa.e utdvising his vtiy anniii siou nott lonug itg itgiast t' situ ttf st'ltishuiu.ss that hi' inist nevt'r blttat' to grat favortis aili iht genera*iilly obtligiing wheitrtever hte ot'ttl lik to' lo tevery Itig youi tell me, fathlert butt there's a f'l low lit schooil just lik< what you've descsribedl. Everybodly saysi 'een the teach ter - t'at's hhn~ as if lie wa: ainy account it. Now, I dton't waint pe6h to t'ake mnc for ai nio-auntltt fellow !'" CmICAno's BAns.-Cicago has r,00o bars, or one to every 12(0 inihabiitants wile there are not much more tha twice that number of stores ftr theit sur ply of food. Fifteen blocks, cotvteriti tr'&-teinth. of a sqnuu-o mile ('Itinl - al RAILROAD ENGINEERS. ci 1O1W IT FEEI,M TO KIL,L, A MAN ON t, TilE ROAl). EI tl What Engineera Themrelven lave to Say tl on the Mubfect. a] n The other night" when the Western ex- to press arriv,d at the Broad street station tr from New York, says a Philadelphia C paper, Engineer Vandegrift discovered tI blood trickling down the spokes of of the cow-catcher. IIe know that if some deadly work had been done, si but was at a loss to tell when and where ft it had occurred. He told Harry Foster, g the conductor of the train, what he had ti discovered, and imulmiately word was telegraphed all along the line to make a ni search for anyone who might have been struck by the train. Shortly after mid night, the dead body of a man was found si near Bridesburg station with the head crushed in. In the meantime the con ductor and the engineer had gone to their e homes. Conductor Harry Foster told a fellow-conductor the next day that ho at had passed a sleepless night, and the on- p gineer reported a similar exnerienice. o An old engineer said to a reporter the cl other day: "The public, taking them collectively, think that an engineer is a n hard-hearted wretch, and that he thinks t no more of running over a human being c than he does of killing a cow or a hog. I I've hear-. people say that we became t hardened to it, and don't mind it a bit ; i lint that's a mistake and a very grave 1 one. I remember killing a man some i five years ago, and I know that I couldn't slee) for ia month except by fits and a starts. I used to have the most horrible ' nightmares that ever worried mortal i ma t:. "One night," continued the old engi- t neer, as he shifted his quid of tobacco. s "I had a horrible dream. That was an I awful night. My wife wolee me up. I p had my hand on the foot-rail of f the bed, just as if I had hold of the p thrott le, and the bead.i of perspiration were standing out all over my face. My t wife told me how I had yelled, 'For 1 God's sake, jump !' and how it had . wakened her; and then she sprang out of l hed, shaking with fear, and when she ( shook me and I saw where I was, I told < her of my dream. It's at mean thing to i accuse us of not minding killing peop)le,'' said the engineer, as lie took his oil-can and started to oil his encine. Another engineer (,ut in the West ] Philadelphia yard told the reporter lie knew of a few instanea"s where engineer.s had gone crazy froni killing people with their engines. "I know a poor fellow," said the engineer, "who wats on the New JTersey Central. He killed a woman upl by Clifton one night, and that night I beard him tell the train-master, Billy Smith. at Elizabeth, all about it. H'e seemed to grow insane right there, and had a queer look in his eye. A week after that lie was put in a straight jacket, and lie's in an ins:ane asylum to-day, nothing short of a maniace, and that happened nearly lifteen ylars ago." It is very eyident that the whole course of an en gineer's career is not as snooth as the track he runs over. They are supposed to exercise presence of mind, never mind what stares them in the face. The engineers on the Pennsylvania Railroad get $3. RIt a day, or ?I 15 a month. For instance, a roiil trip from : the Broad stre t statito to Jersey City 1 and back, 182 mih-s, is considered a day's work. Every thiinl daay they have off. I When you see ain engimeer who is run- i ninig: apassenger" line youm canl make upl r your mind talt lIe has worked a long time on. aii enigine.. lbih>n lie reaches that irst , th1 ere are Itouri or fiv yc~ears to lbe se'rved as a lia-uim, and theui several years on a freighiI tii. Tihie enginaeers eoin ihe Peinnusylvan ia ro.nal are carefully se'lected 1bytl ith ro:i ftorenmino o f engines, and nii mant knaown to drinak liquor wouldi hue alltwtd to rimi ana engine tin hour. No~ t onily is Ithi fe whmile. on dutty care fully serilinizd, bttI taeir movements while off' dutty arec genierally knuown by the oflicers. "A~ nman must niave the <ptlienil'tions (if a clear head aond a steiady lhandii,'' stid an oflicial I to hel teoiler. " Fog is an etagineer's worst eniemy. They (lire not run so fast as ini elear weather, and have to slow ump frtq<pttuitly to see if the sig nials aie all tight. Rain matkes the track morte slip pery Ithan sntow, anud necessi tates slowing iup sooner oin approaching a station, which mens lost timle. Sniow always gives an enagineer the blue.s, mandt next to fog is dreaded( worse thiani any th ing e'lse. Many engineers are par Itiularlhy ch eerfiul wheni Ithey hauve a brigha1 ti aon, antd claim tey canil mtake better riuning time thlan withmout it, while many feel happy andu contenited withl tIme coait tny of a clear sky full of stars. "Some enaginteers lumdti Iai trlain more gracefu vlly t oithetrs. Sonmo stop a ti grabually by appjlyintg thle air and1( heni allohwig it to exhiaiust. rep)eati')J te mninitin t iiIwe or three times, which stop s flit train by degrees and( prieventfs the .ierk inogof the ears and shiak ing the passengers up; while other tinginmeers, who have not the knack, atop thle trlain freqpuently with one application of the air briake. Charles D ickens to)ld a friend oan aulighItng fromt a train during a visit to this tounatry, that his first thoughat oni step~inag upon)i the platform was, 'Thank Ghod and the engineer.'" .A N arkansaiw boy, writing from college in repily to his father's letter, said1 : "'So you th ink I am wvastinag my time in writinig little stories for local papers, and cite Johnitson's saying that the man who writes excep)t fori moiney is a fool.I shall act upon Dr. ,dohnison's suggest ion and write for montey. Sentd ifi tiffy dlo\\ars. "--A rkanqaw, TJravecl!cr. AsN echange asks whlet her antybodsy enni tell any ehairaicterist ic fait abou tht le ) hoiyhtisd of the pouliticmal "'Bess." Yes; .he was the baig boiy whmo whlen hae saw a little fellow lishainzg took the pole awa,y -fromi hi' and saiid: " 'Johnnay, let meo caitch fislI for you whl o uo lha ha it.'' Anda( Johnnumy'stood Iby tad wont titred wvhere the fiui camelt it. LESSONS IN ECONOMY. E30W TO BUY MEAT. LIeUs nrlea' Ieetaure Illustrated by " Butcher and a jIlde of Beef. "Now, ladles, I hope you will ask as tany questions as you please, because I ant to make everything clear to you." tid Miss Maria Parloa, as she began er lecture on "Marketing" in the Col ge of Pharmacy, New York City. On te long table on the lecture plitform as a side of dressed beef, weighing 400 )unds. Beside it, ready to cut it up to lustrate the lecture, stood a most gentle anly-looking butcher. "You must remember," said Mrs. Par a, "that after the meat is dressed only )out one-sixth of it is desirable. The at of it, rich and poor alike prefer not buy, but the poor have to buy it, be mse they cannot afford the price of e choice cuts. But you must bear in ind that costly and tender cuts are not e most nutritious. The muscular part", tat is most used, while it is the toughest, so gives the most nourishment, only it 3eds to be cooked differently from the nder parts. When you are buying eat, remember that the tenderest parts ime from the part of the animal where tere is least exertion. The tough parts 'the meat, which would be unpalatable broiled or roasted, may be with profit ewed, braised, or made into soup. In .et, the very tender parts would not I od for fooc't for a sick person, becauso iey are not nutritious enough. Now, I ant ydt ladies to say what are the ames of the parts I touch." "The neck," said a timid voice. "The ribs," said a matron in a sealskii tcque as the stick moved along. "What kind of ribs ?" "Give it up," said a lady in a fur-lintl oak. "Now we will have Mr. Kissell cut it p," said Miss Parloa, after she had ointed out the principal cuts and told f the various ways of cutting meat in ifYerent cities. "Fix that back bone in your mind," lih continued, "for we will start from here. You see the sido of beef has be"tn ut in two. The hind quatter end eon. ain, at about. the middle of the animal, he porterhouse steaks, the porterhouse oasts, and the tender pieces that every >ody wants. As we go further back we id the rump and the sirloin." The deft butcher, with his knife, saw, ud cloaver, cut piece after piece as the ,ctuier pointed theni out, showing rhore the kidneys lay embedded in the act, showing the brittle, erumsbling ature of suet as distinguished from fat, howing where the tenderloins lay, and ow to cut them to advantage. Each ieee was shown, until all had an oppor tnity to fix its name and placo and it,s resent, market price. The delicate, nutritious rolling pleeea rere cut and shown, and the method of reparation was explained. These pieces ro sometimes called "the skirt." The dies were cautioned that brine draws ut the juices of the nieat, and that fat orned beef is the best, because the fat cecps the juices of the meat from being r.'wn out by the brine. "Do you consider kidneys nutri ioua ?" inquired a sprightly lady, who cd got a front seat to be sure and see he carving. " Yes, kidneys and the flank pieces, he liver, and other cheap parts, when >roperly cooked, are all good food." The lecturer showed how much more eonomiical and sensilde it would b) e, uave the meat cut in grades, and not t uy as often a is done now poor me:' mnd good meat in one piece. 8ho ad. vised the habit of buying, oven at higher pricos,~ .ieces with the flank endi cui >ff. Shie advised her hearers to hunt up~ autchers who would cut upl meat to or ler, and( not comp)el thenm to buy what hey dlid not want amd could not use*. speaiking of soup, she said that. to k''ep t clear it should not be boiled much, is boiling set the lime ot the'h1 ones free. "But I should think thait might ho lhe very thing needed for ehiiren whlen hey arc making bones," said a bright yed lady. " Well, that muay be so. I srIpse ii s but you must not boil the soiup nuch if you wvant it clear.'' Tfhe lecturer was pointing (but in a >iece of sirloin the tough part that she aid ought to be cut off as not fit for oasting, andi turning to Mr. Kissel I, I li tentlemanly butcher, she said: "' ou lonu't usually sell thiem' that ?" ''Oh, yes, they do,"' interpo.a d the y'oung lady. ''You will hlave V- go and educate our butchers, Miss Pharlon." ''They chairge you t wenty-eighit eeita For this p)icco withi the flank on, You 'inight better pay thirty (cnts for the rest., and let them sell the flank for 'an tents." "'All it's worth!'' ejaculated t he livelv matron. "'I always ask for short s':ikn oid short roasta, and don't buy a lot of tmeait thait is woirthl(ss." Miss P'arloa kept upII a ruitnOIg tir of ' chat with her audien'tce', and enci(outraged thera to ask reii'st ins. SeveoralI y 'img ladies, witiha books andl pencils, ava i lo them'selves of thle opp)hortuntity. D)ays o' thte (Clipper' Ship. ien, whtieb t6,r thirty years lhis led thi' average' ricords of th Pac ~icitic coast sail. ing vessels, is no0w att Por'tlaind, Oregon, and the local tars recall thle excit intg imes when thle 90 (lays' su'ilI friomi Sani Franctl(isco, to New York was a mat Itir 'i specuilatiotn and gaminitg. About t(en yetamrs ago the Young A me riea reached Sani Francisco, beinig 99t days from Li iver p)(o, anid the fastest t ime un tecord, and a few days later the Britishi sip~ Escou. cesa ar'rived1 wit h the ne(xt best re'ord . 'This led to a newspaper cont roversyV ini which the relative merita of the sipjs was freely canvassed; and, fi inIly, Theo'dore' II. Allen published a propos'i t in to t he effect that, if both shilps coutld le'ave Sant Francisco within twenty-foitr hours of each other, hue would he't tive thlousam' dlollars on1 thes Younig America, ubhichi offer was taken. A furior of be~'tting aroxit which was never e<utaled in thle history of dep-s(ea navtigattioni. T1hie Davy Crockett wias necarly ready for sea at tin sameli time, and1( pools5 were' sold ont th1e bhcc. vensh, tic Yonng Amica'ii bingi1 ti e favorite. On th Iath oi(f Februa try the Escocesa andl Yountg Amerties 'a ere' towved omut oif Sain Francisco wI h in halIf ia mnile oif eachi o'thter. Thle windl, whieb wats very ligh t, was fromn the west. I'The British ship P Iatriciani, wIhichl went outt just ahead (if t hem, was caughit in a calm am'I drifted( in ito ith le Potato Piatcht reef, out salt' Poi nt Bon it a, where shte went to p)ices. Next niornting a bark arrived1 from Unitaia and 1( ro)rtedl hiav ing met both ships. She met the Young America forty-fIve miles off the Farra lones, anid the Escoesa three hours anid a half bhlindl. This weather lasted aome days, antd the Yankee ship never lost hor advantage, blat inicreasedl it to such'l an extent that she heat thec Escocesa five yadls and the Daivy Crockett eleven, al-. though her time on this voyage was ouip hundred and eight. dayv.