The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, July 05, 1883, Image 1
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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
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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.