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V lewis m. grist, Proprietor, j ^n Jnirpmbent Jfamiln Betosppr: Jfor % $romotron of % political, Social, fgricnltnral anil Commercial Interests of % Soat|. {TERMS--$2.50 A YEAR, IN ADYANCE. VOL. 27. ' YOEKYILLE, S. C., THUESDAY, MAY 1881: NO. 19. - - - _ lite j?tant Idler. AS MM MS & BUFFALO III. I was traveling with Beut's train from Independence to Santa Fe. One evening after the wagons had corralled, and my animal had got some rest and a bite of corn, I leaped into the saddle, and set out to see if I could , find something fresh for my own supper. It was a rolling prairie, and the camp was soon hidden from my sight?as it lay in a hollow between two swells. Trusting to the sky for my direction, therefore, I continued on. After riding about a mile, I should think, I came upon buffalo sigus. It was not the first time for me, and I saw at a glance that the signs were fresh. There were several state wallows; aud I could tell by the tracks, in the dusk there had been nothing but bulls in that quarter. A cow track would have pleased me better ; but, after all, thought I, a fresh bull's tongue for a change is better than salt bacon ; so I followed the trail in hopes of getting one. Shortly after I came to a place where the grouud was ploughed up, as if a drove of hogs had been rooting it. Here there had been a terrible fight among the bulls?it was the rutting season, when such conflicts occur. This augured well. Perhaps there are cows in the neighborhood, reasoned I, as I gave the spur to my horse, and followed the trail with morespirit. I had ridden full five miles from camp, when my attention was attracted by an odd noise ahead of me. There was a ridge in front that prevented me from seeing what produced the noise ; but I knew not what it was?it was the bellowing of a buffalo-bull. At intervals, there were quick shocks, as of two hard substances coming in violent contact with each other. I mounted the ridge with caution, and looked over its crest. There was a valley beyond, a cloud of dust was ri sing out of its bottom, and in the midst of this I could distinguish two huge forms? dark and hirsute. I saw at once that they were a pair of buffalo bulls engaged in a fierce fight. They were alone ; there were no others in sight, either in the valley or on the ' prairie beyond. I did not halt longer than to see that the cap was on my rifle, and to cock the piece. Occupied as the animals were, I did not imagine they would heed me ; or if they should attempt flight, I knew I could easily overtake one or the other; so, without further hesitation or precaution, I rode towards them. Contrary to my expectation, they both winded me, and started off. The wind was blowing freshly towards them, and the sun had thrown my shadow between them, so as to draw their attention. They did not run, however, as if badly scared ; on the contract? ttiov ?ont nfT nnnnrpntlv inrlicrnant. at ?j, ~rr; ^ o ? being disturbed in their fight; and every now and then both came round with short turnings, snorted, and struck the prairie with their hoofs iu a violent and angry manner. Once or twice, I fancied they were going to charge back upon me; and had I been otherwise than well mounted, I should have been very chary of risking such an encounter. A more formidable pair of antagonists, as far as appearance went could Dot have been well conceived. Their huge size, their shaggy , fronts, and fierce glaring eyeballs, gave them a wild and malicious seeming, which was heightened by their bellowing, and the threatening attitudes iu which they continually placed themselves. Feeling quite safe in my saddle, I galloped up to the nearest, and sent my bullet into his ribs. It did the work. He fell on his knees?rose again?spread out his legs, as if to prevent a second fall?rocked from side to side like a cradle?again came to his knees; and, after, remaining in this position for some minutes, with the blood running from his nostrils, rolled quietly over on his shoulder, and lay dead. I watched these manoeuvres with interest, and permitted the second bull to make his escape ; a side glance had shown me the latter disappearing over the crest of the swell. I did not care to follow him, as my horse was somewhat jaded, and I knew it would cost me a sharp gallop to come up with him again ; so I thought no more of hint at the time but alighted and nrenared to deal with O 4 1 the one already slain. There stood a solitary tree near the spot?it was a stunted elm. There were others upon the prairie, but they were distant; this one was not twenty yards from the carcass. I led my horse up to it, and taking the trail rope from the horn of the saddle, made one end fast to the bit ring, r and the other to the tree. I then went back, dr?w my knife, and proceeded to cut the buffalo. I had hardly wetted my blade, when a noise from behind caused me to leap to au upright attitude, and look arouud ; at the first glance, I comprehended all. A huge dark I object was passing the crest of the ridge, j and rushing down the hill towards the spot! where I stood. It was the buffalo-bull, the ! same that had just left me. The sight, at | first though rather pleased me than otherwise. j Although I did not waut any more meat, I ! should have the triumph of carrying two | tongues instead of one to the camp. I there-1 fore hurriedly sheathed my knife, and laid j hold of my rifle, which according to custom, i I had taken the precaution to reload. I hesitated a moment whether to run to my horse and mount him, or to fire from where I stood ; that question, however, was settled by the buffalo. The tree and the horse were j to one side of the direction in which he was j running, but being attracted by the loud ' snorting of the latter, which had begun to \ pitch and plunge violently, and deeming it perhaps a challenge, he suddenly swerved his course, and ran full tilt upon the horse. The I latter shot out instautly to the full length of the trail-rope?a heavy "pluck" sounded in my ears, and the next instant I saw my horse part from the tree, and scour off over the prairie, as if there had been a thistle under his tail. I had knotted the rope negligently upon the hit-ring, and the knot had come undone. I was chagrined, but not alarmed as yet. My horse would no doubt follow back his own trail, and at the worst I should only have to walk to the camp. I should have the satisfaction of puuishing the buffalo for the trick he had served me ; and with this design, I ?- turned towards him. I saw that he had not followed the horse, hut was again heading himself in my direction. Now, for the first i 4 . 4I-..4 r lime, id occurreu do iiiu umt x ?us m ouuictiling of a scrape. The bull was coming furiously on. Should my shot miss, or even should it only wound him, how was I to escape? I knew that lie could overtake me ? in three minutes' stretch ; I knew that well. I had not much time for reflection?not a moment in fact; the infuriated animal was within ten paces of me ; I raised my rifle, aimed at his fore shoulder, and fired. I saw that I had hit him ; "but, to my dismay, he neither fell nor stumbled, but continued to charge forward more furiously than ever. To reload was impossible. My pistols had gone off with my horse and holsters. Even to reach the tree was impossible ; the bull was between it and me. Right in the opposite direction was the only thing that held out the prospect of five minutes' safety ; I turned and ran. I can run as fast as most men ; and upon that occasion I did my best. It would have put "Gildersleve" into a white sweat to have distanced me ; but I had not been two minutes at it, when I felt conscious that the buffalo gained upon me, and was almost treading upon my heels. I knew it only by my ears?I dared not spare time to look back. At this moment, an object appeared before : me, that promised, one way or other, to inter! cept the chase ; it was a ditch or gully, that | intersected my path at right angles. It was j several feet in depth, dry at the bottom, and i with perpendicular sides. I was almost upon ! its edge before I noticed it, but the moment it i came under my eye, I saw that it offered the means of a temporary safety, at least. If I I could only leap this gully, I felt satisffed that j the buffalo could not. It was a sharp leap? j at least seventeen feet from cheek to cheek ; [ but I had done more than that in my time ; j and, without halting in my gait, I ran forj ward to the edge, and sprang over. I alight; ed cleverly upocr the opposite bank, where I j stopped, and turned around to watch my pur * r.nwinin or! nDOf m V Pflfl ] SUCl. i. UU TV (isuuajui.il uv y uvu. "-J ? ? had been; tho bull was already up to the gully. Had I not made my leap at the instant I did, I should have been, by that time, daucing upon his horus. He himself had balked at the leap; the deep chasm-like cleft had j cowed him. 'He saw that he could not clear' it; and now stood upon the opposite bank with head lowered, and spread nostrils, his tail lashing his smooth flanks, while his glaring black eyes expressed the full measure of his baffled rage. I remarked that my shot had taken effect in his shoulder, as the blood trickled from his long hair. I had almost begun to congratulate myself on having escaped, when a hurried glance to the right, and another to the left, cut short my happiness. I saw that on both sides at a distance of less than fifty paces, the gully shallowed out into the pli^n, where it ended at either end, it was, of course, passable. The bull observed this almost at the same time as myself; and suddenly turning away from the brink he ran along the edge of the chasm, evidently with the intention of turning it. In less than a minute's time we were once more on the sarnie side, and my situation appeared as terrible as ever; but stepping back for a short run, I leaped the chasm, and again we stood on opposite sides. * During all these manoeuvres I had held on to ray rifle; and seeing now that I might have time to load it, I commenced feeling for ray powder horn. To my astonishment^ I could not lay my hands upon it; I looked v i r- .. 4 uown to my ureast ior me snug?jl was uui there; belt and bullet pouch too?all were gone! I remembered lifting them over my head, when I set about cutting the dead bull. They were lying by the carcass. This discovery was a new source of chagrin ; but for my negligence, I could now have mastered my antagonist. To reach the ammunition would be impossible ; I should be overtaken before I had got half way to it. I was not allowed very much time to indulge in my regrets; the bull had again turned the ditch, and was once more upon the same side with me, and I was compelled to take another leap. I really do not remember how often I sprang forward and backward across that chasm; I should think a score of times at least; I became wearied with the exercise. The leap was just as much as I could do at my best; and as I was growing weaker at each fresh spring, I became satisfied that I should soon fall short, and crush myself against the 6teep rocky sides of the chasm. Should I fall to the bottom, my pursuer could easily reach me by entering at either end, and I began to dread such a finale. The vengeful brute showed no symptoms of retiring ; on the contrary, numerous disappointments seemed only to render him more determined in his resentment. Au idea now suggested itself to my mind. I had looked round to see if there might not be something that offered a better security. There were trees, but they were too distant; the only one near was that to which my horse had been tied. It was a small one, and like all of its species (it was a cotton-wood,) there were no branches near the root. I knew that I could clamber up it by embracing the trunk, which was not over ten inches in diameter. Could I only succeed in reaching it, it would at least shelter me better than the ditch, of which I was getting heartily tired, j But the question was, could I^reach it before | the bull? It was about three hundred yards off. By proper manceuvering, I should have a start of fifty. Even with that, it would be a "close shaveand it proved so. I arrived at the tree, and sprang up like a mountebank ; but the hot breath of the buffalo steamed after me as I ascended, and the concussion of his heavy skull against the trunk almost shook me back upon his horns. After a severe effort, I succeeded in lodging myself among the branches. I was now safe from all immediate danger, but how was the affair to end ? I kuew from the experience of ethers, that ray enemy might stay for hours by the tree?perhaps for days. Hours would be "enough. I could not stand it long. I hungered, but a worse appetite tortured n>e: thirst. The hot sun, the dust, the violent exercise of the past hour, all contributed to make me thirsty. Even then I would have risked my life for a draught of water. What would it come to should I not be relieved ? I had but oue hope?that my companions would come to my relief; but I kuew that would not be before morning. They would miss me of course. Perhaps my horse would return to camp?that would send them out in search of me?but not before night had fallen. Iu the darkness, they could not follow my trail. Could they do so in the light? This last question which I put to myself, startled me. I was just in a condition to look upon the dark side of everything, and it now occurred that they might not be able to find me! There were many possibilities that they might not. There were numerous horse t-ails on the prairie, where Indians had passed. I saw this when tracking the buffalo. Besides, it might rain in the night, and obliterate them all?my own with the rest. A circle of ten miles in diameter is a large tract. It was a rolling prairie, full of inequalities, ridges with valleys between. The tree upon which I was perched stood in the bottom of one of the valleys? it could not be seen from any point over 300 yards distant. Those searching for me might pass within hail, without perceiving either the tree or the valley. I remained for a long time busied with i such gloomy thoughts and forebodings. Night j was coming on, hut the fierce and obstinate i brute showed no disposition to raise the siege. He remained as watchful as ever, walking j round and round at intervals, lashing his tail, and uttering that snorting sound so well known to the prairie-hunter, and which so much resembles the snuffing of hogs when : suddenly alarmed. While watching his" various manoeuvres, an object on the ground drew my attention?it was the trail rope left by ray horse. One end was fastened around the trunk by a firm knot?the other was far out upon the prairie, where it had been dragged. My attention, had been drawn to it by the bull himself, which in crossing it had noticed, and now and then pawed it with his hoofs. All at once a bright idea Hashed upon me? a sudden hope arose within me?a plan of escape presented itself, so feasible and possible, that I leaped in my perch as the thought struck me. The first step was to get possession of the j rope. This was not such an easy matter. The rope was fastened around the tree, but the knot had slipped down the trunk and lay upon the ground. I dared not descend for it. Necessity soon suggested a plan. My "picker"?a piece of straight wire with a ring-end?hung from one of my vest buttons. This I took hold of, and bent into the shape a of grappling-hook. I had no cord, but my knife was still safe in its sheath ; and drawing this, I cut several thongs from the skirts | of my buckskin shirt, and knotted them together until they formed a string long enough to reach the ground. To one end I attached the picker, and then letting it down I commenced angling for the rope. After a few traverse drags, the hook caught the latter, and I pulled it up into the tree, taking the whole of it until I held the loose end iu my hands. The other I permitted to remain as it was. I saw it was securely knotted around j the trunk, and that it was just what I wanted. It was my intention to lasso the bull; and for that purpose I proceeded to make a running noose on the end of the trail- j rope. This I executed with great care and i with all ray skill. I could depend upon the rope?it was raw hide, and a better was never j twisted ; but I knew that if auything should j chance to slip at a critical moment, it might j cost me my life. With this knowledge, there ] fore, I spliced the eye, and made the knot as j firm as possible, and then the loop was reeved I .1 1 J turuu?ll auu WIO tiling naa icavij. I could throw a lasso tolerably well, but the branches prevented me from wiudfog it. It was necessary, therefore, to get the animal in a certain position under the tree, which, by shouts and other demonstrations, I at length succeeded in effecting. The moment of success had arrived. He stood - almost directly below me. The noose was shutdown? I had the gratification to see it settle around his neck; and with a quick jerk I tightened it. The rope ran beautifully through the eye, until both the eye and loop were buried beneath the shaggy hair of the animal's neck. It embraced his throat at the right place; I felt coufidentthat it woujd hold. The moment the bull felt the jerk upon his throat, he dashed madly out from the tree, and then commenced running in circles around it. Contrary to my intention, the j rope had slipped from my hands at the first drag upon it. My position was rather an unsteady one, for the branches were slender, and I could not manage matters as well as I could have wished. But I now felt confident enough. The bull was tethered, and it only remained for me to get out beyond the ! length of the tether, and take to my heels. | My gun lay on one side, near the tree, where I had dropped it in my race ; this, of course, I meant to carry off with me. I waited, therefore until the animal, in one of his circles, had got round to the opposite side, and then slipping down the trunk, I sprang out, picked up ray rifle, and ran. I knew the trail-rope to be about 20 yards" in length, but ran 100 at least before making a halt. I had even thoughts of continuing on, as I still could not help some misgivings about the rope. The bull was one of the largest and strongest I had ever seen. The rope might break, the knot upon the tree might give way, ? . i* i i i n or tne noose raignt slip over nis neaa. curiosity, however, or rather a desire to be assured of ray safety, prompted me to look arouud, when, to ray joy, I beheld the huge monster stretched upon the plain. I could see the rope, as taut a bow string; and the tongue protruding from the animal's jaws, showed me that he was strangling himself as fast as I could desire. At the sight, the idea of buffalo-tongue for supper returned in all its vigor; and it now occurred to me that I should eat that very tongue, and no other. I immediately turned in my tracks, ran towards my powder and balls?which, in my eagerness to escape I bad forgotten all about?seized the horn and pouch, poured in a charge, rammed down a bullet, aud then stealing nimbly up behind the struggling bull, I placed the muzzle within three feet of his brisket, and fired. He gave a death-kick or two, and then lay quiet; it was all over with him. I had the tongue from between his teeth iu a twinkling ; and proceeding to the other bull, I finished the operations I had commenced upon him. I was too tired to thiuk of carrying a very heavy load; so I contented myself with the tongues, and slinging these over the barrel of my rifle, I shouldered it, aud commenced groping my way back to camp. The moon had risen, and I had no difficulty in following my own trail; but before I bad got half-way, I met several of my companions. My horse had got back a little before sunset. His appearance had of course produced alarm, aud half the camp had turned out in search of me. Several who had a relish for fresh meat, galloped back to strip the two bulls of the remaining titbits; but before midnight all had retured ; and to the accompaniment of the hump ribs spurting in the cheerful blaze, I recounted to my companions the details of my adventure. A PHEN'OMINAL INFIRMITY. A singular deafness and infirmity of speech afflicts Edwin Cowles, editor of the Cleveland Leader. He gives this account of his trouble to an interviewer: "My deafness is somewhat of the nature of color blindness. There are certain sounds I never hear. I have never heard the sound of the bird since I came, into this world, and until I grew up to manhood I had always supposed the music of the bird was poetical fiction. You may fill this room with canary birds, and they may all sing at once, and I never would hear a note, but I would hear the flutteriugs of their wings. 1 never hear the hissing sound in the human voice, consequently not knowing of the existence of that sound, I grew up to manhood without ever making it in my speech. A portion of the consonants I never hear, yet I can hear all the vowels. I uever could distinguish the difference between the j hard sound of the letter "s" and the soft j sound, consequently I frequently mix these | sounds in a sad manner. It is the same with the soft and hard sound of the letter "g." It was only by accident, after my marriage, that I discovered the existence of the hissing sound of the human voice. I was i then taught arbitrarily how to make it, but; I never hear it in my own voice, consequently I frequently miss making that sound in my ! speech without knowing it. Owing to its | j having become second nature with me to' | omit the sound of the letter "s," when I do make it I labor in doing so, which in a great measure gives my pronunciation the peculiarity it has. About a quarter of the sounds in the human voice I never hear, and I have 1 to watch the motion of the lips and be governed by the sense of the remarks in order to understand what is said to me. I have walked by the side of a policeman going home at night and seen hira blow his whistle, and I never could hear it, although it could be heard by others half a mile away. I never 1 hear the upper notes of the piano, violin or | other musical instruments, although I would hear all the lower notes. I can hear low conversation, but cannot, as a general rule, understand a public speaker in a hall. I have consulted the most eminent surgeons, physicians aud artists in the country in regard to my heariug, and they all tell me that there is not another case like it iD the books." A Quaker had his broad brimmed hat blown off, and he chased it for a long time with fruitless and very ridiculous, zeal. At last, seeing a rougish looking boy laughing at his disaster, he said to him?"Art thou a profane lad ?" The younster replied that he sometimes did a little in that way. "Then," said he, taking a half dollar from his pocket, "thee may damn yonder fleeing tile fifty cents worth." [ IpsceHiweims Reading. THE KEELY MOTOR WAKES UP. Correspondence of the Charleston News and Courier. New York, April 26.?It will*probably amaze moat of my readers to know that the Keely motor matter is just now booming. J Some exhibitions recently given before prominent New Yorkers have been described in one or two newspapers, and the old story to the effect that Keely will soon send an ocean steamer to England at the expense of a bucket of water, has been revamped with additions. I went to-day to see Frank G. Green, a well-known businessman, who was foryears at the head of an important iron business in this city; four years ago Green failed in business, the failure being attributed by many persons to the time and attention he had given to the lveely motor, beside which, he ottered ?20,000 worth of the stock among his assets. Strange to say, although the creditors plainly attributed his misfortune to the Keely motor, Green so argued the matter and so impressed them with the value of the motor that they allowed him 63,000 out of the available assets with which to continue his motor experiments with Keely, Since then he has done nothing but work for the motor. He is the president of the company, and has an office in which hang large drawings and photographs of the different contrivances out of which Keely produces his power. He is an intelligent man, in the prime of life, not over-enthusiastic, and inclined to discourage anything like an interview. He received us courteously, however, and I plunged at once into the heart of the matter by saying: "Of what practical use is Mr. Keely's motor ?" "Until two months ago," answered Green, "we never have been able to get a steady, reliable motion out of our force. That is the reason why we objected to taking out patents and telling the secrets of the matter. Once our secrets are known, a dozen inventors will go to work devising machines with which to put our force under control ; this would take it out of our hands to a cousiderable^xtent, and before publishing our discovery of vapor generating, we wanted to fin'd an economical and practical means ot applying it to an machinery. We made five costly and complicated machines, each one requiring a year's hard labor, and only succeeded with the fifth. Was not Elias Howe ten years at the sewing machine before it would work, and was not Morse looked upon as a lunatic even loDg after his first line was up? Now we have got a motor, the Hy-wheel of which makes one hundred revolutions a minute, with a power equal to a twenty-two horsepower engine. We have rigged up a saw, aud, with our little apparatus, all of which, generator and all, I could get into a room twelve feet square, we are running a saw requiring a fifteen-horsepower engine. The struggle has. been a hard one, but it is over. In July we shall apply for patents, and then begin to sell rights to manufacture engines. Within a year steam will be doomed, and, of course, power, and light aud heat will be as cheap as fresh air. Electric light and heat will cost next to nothing, as ground out by our machines." From the talks that I had with Green and with other gentlemen not directly connected with the company I am pretty certain that the following experiments took place in circumstances which rendered the possibility of fraud extremely slight. At the beginning of the evening's show last Friday all the valves and cocks were taken off the machine and every one was allowed to see that it was empty; then everything was screwed on again and a pint of water was poured into the apparatus. Keely's theory is that cold water can be vaporized without the use of heat, and that the cold vapor is far more powerful than hot steam. In half a minute uftor nrni ri n rr the* ivoter in if ivne finnminPPfl "1"v" > ~ that sufficient pressure had heen obtained to experiment with. In order to test the power with which a jet of the vapor issues from the generator, a six foot lever was arranged over an aperture of the machine not bigger in diameter than the lead of a pencil and weighted so that a lifting power of 15,000 pounds would be needed to raise it. No sooner was the word given than the lever was lifted without trouble. According to engineers present at the time, no steam or compressed air could be made to do the same work. Another demonstration of the immense strength of the machine was shown in the power with which the fly-wheel is turned even when going at a slow rate. It is well known that a strong man can stop the fly-wheel of a ten-horse power engine when it is not going at more than one revolution a minute. Keely's motor was Btarted at one revolution in five minutes ; the wheel just turned and that was all. A strong man took hold of it, but had no more effect upon it than an infant would have upon a steam engine; then a rope was selected in the workshop and tested by a weight of 1,600 pounds; it was tied to a beam of the roof and to the fly wheel and snapped like a piece of string. The engine was then started up to one hundred revolutions a minute, aud at a given signal was reversed instantaneously and started off in the other direction at the same speed without the slightest jar being perceptible. Next came some experiments with the Keely cannon, a small bronze gun fourteen inches long with an inch bore. Iron balls were thrown against a target made of four thicknesses of three inch plank, making a foot in all. Each bullet went through the whole mass of wood and struck the wall behind. The explosive force was given to the ball by a current of the vapor conducted to the cannon by a pipe from the generator. When the cock was opened the hall sprang from the gun with terrific force and with a sound about half as loud as the explosion of a powder charge. Strange to say, there was absolutely no recoil of the gun, and after twenty shots in rapid succession it was found to be perfectly cool. In order to prevent a possibility of fraud by * 1 *?*-. ~ M/tinnM f liwAHfvU thfj lono /\ 4* llltJ ill UOU UULIUil Ul JJUYTCl IU1UU?U Li it*?0 \JA the table the generator was then lifted from the ground by chains ; while thus suspended Keely produced his power. It must be borne in mind that, although Keely has only just got a motor that will work, he has been ready at all times to show the power of his generator. According to a prominent engineer present 011 Friday nijght, Keely would have needed a fifty-horse power engine constantly at work compressing air in order to have always ready the power he shows. The list of names of the directors and stockholders in the Keely Company is perfectly amazing. To mention only one or two widely kuown men, Charles G. Frauklyn, who has just retired from the management of the Cuimrd Steamship Line with a big fortune; Blanchard, vice-president of the Erie Railroad, and Tappan, city chamberlain of New York, are all stockholders and firm believers in the motor. It is perhaps still more surprising to find engineers of reputation infatuated with it. On Friday night a dozen engineers were present who were completely dumbfounded. Gorringe, the govJ eminent engineer who brought the obelisk over, was present and said to a Herald reporter : "I am amazed at what I have seen. It is certainly one of the most remarkable I curiosities I have ever looked upon and apj pears bona fide" He said that Keely had j thoroughly removed the strong prejudices I which he had had against both inventor and discovery, and that the exhibition was a wonderful one. The company, according to Green, is not in need of money and has no debts. No stock is for sale. Going out of the office today I met Baker, the largest manufacturer of steam-heating apparatus in the city or country, and asked him if he had the Keely craze. "I have had it for five years," he answered. "I think that it is the grandest invention of the age or the world. It will make physical labor unnecessary. The poorest man can have his own carriage and his own yacht ; flying machiues will become common ; machinery will plough the fields, reap the grain, make our clothing, all at almost no cost ; we shall have heat and light for nothing. I only wish that I had some more stock." Notwithstanding all the foregoing remarks I would not advise any one to invest in Keely motor stock. The story is too good to be true, and at least one well-known expert, E. N. Dickerson, of New York, has denounced it as the humbug of the century. But the infatuation of seusible men of means for the concern is interesting, and the history of the fraud, if fraud it is, will be u strange one, should it ever be written. About 8150,000 have now been spent 011 experiments. Should the Keely motor prove to be a genuine discovery, then no one will dispute the possibility of a railroad to the moon or the discovery of the elixir of life. MARVELS OF RAPID PRINTING. Among the devices for quick printing which it is said will be used in bringing out the American edition of the revised New Testament are the type setting machines now in several priuting offices. Inventors have been workiug for forty years at a typesetter, and eighty patents have been issued upon such machines since 1841, when the first patent was obtained. It is only within the last few years that they have become of practical val ue. The operator sits in front of a keyboard, similar to that of a type writer and touches a key for every letter wanted. The types are contained in metal cases divided into long channels, each kind of a letter having its sep arate channel. When a key is touched the lower letter in the channel, the opening of which is controlled by that key, is allowed to drop and is conducted by converging chan nels into a ''race" where all the types meet. The man who plays upon the keyboard pays no attention to dividing the types into lines, that being done by another man who sits at the other end of the machine and cuts up and justifies the line of type into the right lengths for the page. Such a machine attended by two men will set up seventy thousand ems a day, a day's work for a good hand compositor not being more than teu thousand ems. The distributing machines are far more wonderful than the type-setters. These machines are entirely automatic, and distribute seventy thousand ems a day with absolute accuracy and require nothing but the feeding of "dead matter" by a bay, who from time to time, places a block of type on the machine. It takes line after line from its table and puts each letter into an endless chain of traveling carriers, which move along step by step, resting at quick intervals. While at rest the whole row of the eighty-four types then on carriers is subjected to a series of automatic .feelers. Each letter is nicked or notched in a different manner, and if the feeler corresponds to the nicks the type drops into a channel which conducts it to its place ready for the machine. When a type is brought in front of a feeler whose projections do not match the nicks cut in it, it passes on. A good workman cau distribute by hand from thirty to forty thousand ems in a day of ten hours, I or about half the work a machine will do. Most printers speak highly of the ingenuity of these machines, and admit that when in perfect order'they do rapid work. When they get out of order, however, it is not an easy matter to discover the trouble. Another iuvention which will be used for i. <* .I XT m getting stereotype piates or me r^ew jesiument within a day, which will be absolutely similar to the copies, will be the phototype process, by which many English books have recently been duplicated in this country at astonishingly low prices, A dozen pages of the book to be reproduced are put in a frame and photographed. The negative is placed face down upon a bed of gelatine and potash and exposed to the sunr Where the rays of the sun penetrate chemical action lakes place which makes such parts soluble in water. A gelatine mould is thus obtained with each letter raised above the surface. Plaster is next run iuto this and from the plaster cast an ordinary stereotype plate is made. This process is, by no means, new, however, but since 1868 great improvements have been made in the process, and some of the works recently duplicated in this way can scarcely he distinguished from the English edition. When it was first announced that "Young's Concordance," a work in fine type, and containing about as much matter as an una bridged dictionary, had been reproduced in this country, the English agents for the book, thinking of course, that the book had been printed from type, issued a card saying that from the size and nature of the book, full of Greek and Hebrew references as it was, the American reprint must be full of errors. The Messrs. Scribners had several confer*, ences with the English publishers of the re ' vised Testament with a view to reprinting in ' this country from duplicate plates. It was | found, however, that no protection could be had agaiust cheap reprints, and the scheme j was abandoned. It has been suggested that ' some publishers would put the Testament into type in advance and have only the alterations to make, but this will be scarcely possible in the opinion of most printers, on account of the vast number of changes, one in iilmnst pyp.rv verse, and the altered para graphs, the division into verses being done away with. Jt is not a very great work to "set? up" the New Testament in a day, a quintuple sheet of the Herald containing nearly as many words, or about two hundred and fifty thousand.?New York Evening Post. The Magnetic Poles.?The reason why the needle points in the northerly direction is that the earth in itself is a magnet, attracting the magnetic needle as ordinary magnets do, and the earth is a magnet as the result of certain cosmical facts, much affected by the action of the sun. The laws have periodicities, all of which have not as yet been determined. The inferent and ultimate reason of the existi eDce of any fact in nature, as gravity, light, I heat. etc.. is not known further than that it is in harmony with, and the direct resultant of, the action of forces existing under general laws. A condensed explanation in regard to the needle pointing to the northward and southward is as follows: The magnetic poles j of the earth do not coincide with the gel ographical poles. The axis of rotation makes | an angle of about twenty-three degrees with a line joint to the former. The northern magnetic pole is at present near the Arctic circle on the meridian of Omaha. Hence the needle does not everywhere point to the astronomical north, and is constantly variable within certain limits. At San Francisco it points about seventeen degrees to the east of north, and at Calais, Maine, as much to the west. At the northern magnetic pole a balanced needlepoints with its north end downward in a plump line; at San Francisco it dips about sixty-three degrees, and at the southern magnetic pole to the south, and points directly down. The action of the earth upon a magnetic needle at its surface is of about the same force as that of a hard steel magnet forty inches long, strongly magnetized, at a distance o one foot. The foregoing is the accepted explanation of the fact that the needle points to the northward and southward. Of course, no ultimate reason can be given for this natural effect, any more than for any other observed fact in nature.?San Francisco Era. LIFE OF THE CZAR OF RUSSIA. The following brief sketch of the Czar's life is taken from Chambers' Encyclopedia: Alexander II., Emperor of Russia, was born April 29, 1818. He was carefully educated by his father, Nicholas, who professed himself delighted with the manifestations of true Rnmau spirit in his son. At sixteen he was declared of age, and made Commandant of the Lancers of the Guard Hetraan of the Cossacks, First Aid-de-Camp of the Emperor, and subject daily to life of manoeuvering, reviewing and military parade, which at last seriously injured his health. He then traveled through Germany to recruit hia energies, and while there concluded a marriage with the Princess Maria, daughter of the Grand Duke of Darmstadt, in 1841. He now vigorously applied himself to his studies as Chancellor of the University of Finland. By his dexterous and subtle mauners ho insinuated himself into the affections of the Finns, and weakened their love of independence. He founded a chair of the Finnish language and literature, patronized the Academy for the culture of Finnish literature, and defrayed the expenses of numerous remote expeditions undertaken by the savants, such asCygnoeus, Walliu and Castern. In 1850 he visited Southern Russia, Nickolaieff, Sebastopol, Tifiis, Erivon, &c. It is said he witnessed with regret the attitude which his father assumed toward Europe, and that he altogether disapproved of the Crimean War. On his accession to the throne, March 2, 1855, he found himself in a critical positiou. He had two parties to conciliate at home?the old Muscovite party, blindly zealous for war, and the more peaceable and intelligent portion of the Nation, who possessed his personal sympathies. He pursued a course calculated to encourage both; spoke of adhering to the pol icy of his illustrious ancestors, and at the same time concluded peace. Since then he has shown a strong desire to purge the internal administration of its impurities. He has sharply rebuked the corruption of functionaries, and severely punished some as a warning to the rest. An honorable recognition has been given to public instruction, which he has freed from military influence where that absurdity existed, as in the law schools of St. Petersburg, and has placed it under his own ? - i i j u direct ana personal supernueuueuce. xn? moderation has ever stimulated the hopes of the Poles. By a ukase of May 27, 1856, he has granted to all Polish exiles who are willing to express repentance for the past, permission to return home; but, though desirous of preserving the nationality of Poland, he will not separate it from the Great Rus sia Family. The grand achievement of his reign, however, as yet is the emancipation of the Russian serfs in 1861, and of the Polish serfs in 1867. An attempt was made to assassinate him at Paris, June 6, 1867, when on a visit to Napoleon III. ? * ABANDONING SOUTHERN CROPS. A Washington correspondent writes that a prominent lawyer and Republican politician?thongh a candid man?who gave his money liberally to elect the Republican nominees in the late Presidential election, gives his views as follows on the policy of building up Republican ascendency in the South : I have not much faith in building up Republican ascendency by dividing the loaves and fishes. I think that the Republicans in the North ought by this time to understand that there cannot be productiveness and development in the Southern States as long as the blacks are stirred up by white demagogues just at crop-gathering tin\e. I have had a juvenile experience in the Southern States since the war, and have planted cotton there. So spontaneous is the soil that weeds grow faster than the cotton, unless your labor at that particular period will fight the weeds out and let the cotton live. And these political demagogues, without the least interest in the prosperity of the people, would come along with a band of music just as you were fighting your weeds with all your hands, and would give a political howl and would stop the work, make everybody drunk, and probably spoil your investment. To plant cotton you put, perhaps, ?50,000 into your plantation, and then borrow $-s0,000 in stuff to eat from your merchant. Just about the time you begin to see your money in sight, they spring politics on the negro. That is the cause of the indignation in the Southern States, and the Northern people cannot be made to see it. The brain of the white man has made the South. The negro labor has been necessary, but so ha3 the labtfr of the mule. That directing mind and energy residing in the white man has made cotton one of the great staples of the earth. The negro is to be protected ; and since the experiment of the ballot has been carried out, he should vote; but there must be in the Southern States the recognition of some present necessity of safeguards to capital as well as labor. White men who inflame negroes to abandon the crops are mere incendiaries, whether they come in the name of politics or religion. Mahone thinks he can start a white element in the South which will moderate both the whites and the blacks. It looks to me, however, as if the white people there had become solidified by his movement. STUFFING OCT AN AMATEUR. "I think," said a well-known orchestra leader to a reporter of the San Francisco Chronicle, "the best joke ever played in this town was on an ambitious amateur pianist when Gottschalk was here. The amateur's father was the owner of a large hall, and he offered the use of it to Gottschalk for his benefit. There was to be a piece for eight pianos, and the amateur was to play one of the instruments. I was leader, and I thought Gottschalk would have a fit when I told him that the amateur could not play three straight notes of the peice." "'He is sure to throw us all out,'said I, 'and ruin the performance.' " "Gottschalk swore like a major, but it was no good. The bills were out and he couldn't go back on his programme, even if the gift of the hall for the night was no consideration to him. At last 1 hit upon an idea that fixed the whole business. The amateur came down to rehearsal, and we praised hira up till he thought he was to be the star of the night. As soon as he left we took the hammers out of his piano and made it as dumb as an oyster. I guessed he would never know the difference, with seven pianos going at once." The tuneful convention laughed. "And just as I thought," said the leader, hammering on the table with his glass, "that amateur or his friends never discovered the trick." "No ?" "No, sir; he just sailed in and pounded that piano as if it was the worst enemy he ever had. He was bound to show off among so many good pianists, and hammered on his keyboard till the perspiration nearly blinded him. Now and then I looked at him approvingly to give him fresh courage, and every time that I did he gave the.piano a lick that nearly made matchwood of it. His friends all round threw bouquets at him till be looked like a wedding arch, and when 'twas all over his fond parent fell on his neck in the green room and dropped a check for $250 into his hand. The old man didn't know whether he was standing on his head or on his heels, he was so tickled, and the way he set up the wine for the crowd was a caution." " 'Didn't he do fine?" said he to me, "and among so many first-class professionals, too ?" " 'I never heard an amateur do so well in public,' said I, and. what's more, I meant it, eh ? Don't you think I was right?" THE YOUNG MAN OF PRINCIPLE. A young man was in a position wnere nis employers required hira to make a false statement by whieli several hundred dollars would come into their hands which did not belong to them. All depended upon this clerk's serving their purpose. To their great vexation he utterly refused to do so. He could not be induced to sell his conscience for any one's favor. As the result, he was discharged from the place. Not long after, he applied for a vacant situation, and the gentleman, beiug pleased with his address, asked him for any reference he might have. The young man felt that his character was unsullied, and so fearlessly referred him to hi8 last employer. "I have ju3t been dismissed from his employ, and you can inquire of him about me." It was a new fashion of getting a youug man's recommendations, but the gentleman called on the firm and found that he was "too conscientious about trifles." The gentleman had not been greatly troubled by too conscientious employees, and preferred that those intrusted with his money should have a fitfe sense of truth and honesty, so he engaged the young man, who rose fast in favor, and became at length a partner in one of the largest firms in Boston. "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches." Even unscrupulous men know the worth of good principles that cannot be moved. A gentleman turned off* a man in his employ at the bank, because he refused to write for him on Sunday. When asked afterward to name some reliable person he might know as suitable for a cashier in another bank, he mentioned the same man. j j ? l:? .AA.^ X OU CHU uepeuu ULI IlllU, JUI HO iciuo^u w work for rae on the Sabbath." * A geutlemau, who employed many persons in his large establishment, said: "When I see one of my young men riding out for pleasure on Sunday, I dismiss him on Monday. I know such a case cannot be trust \ Nor will I employ any one who even occasionally drinks liquor of any kind." Honor the Sabbath and all the teachings of the Bible, and you will not fail to find favor with God, and with man also. WHISKY DRINKING IN A DRY CLIMATE. The effect of alcohol on the Indians of the high, dry plains, even when taken in small quantities, is to almost instantly drive them crazy. The craze is evinced by bloodthirsty savageness and utter recklessness. The frequent assaults that have been made by mounted Indians, armed with bows and arrows, on Western trading posts, defended by American riflemen, sharply indicate the effect of alcohol in men of high nervous temperament, natives of a dry country where the light atmosphere is highly charged with electricity. So it is with white men. The murderous acts of the "cow boys," when under the influence of liquor, are well known. When sober, a more hospitable and kinder-hearted class does not exist. When drunk, they exhibit all nf fho Indiana. Thev are LUC UliaiaLbLlMblVO VI VUV J transformed into howling, blood thirsty fiends. They shoot and stab each other, as well as unoffending strangers, with the savageness of the Cheyennes or Sioux. Most of these men are residents of Western Texas. Almost all of them have lived on the plains for a term of years. The country they inhabit is arid and of an altitude of from 1,200 to 6,000 feet above the sea. Throughout the pastoral region the atmosphere is surcharged with electricity that expends itself in terrific thunder storms, in tornadoes, and in the dreaded dry water spouts. Throughout the pastoral region the fact that a man who has been acclimated cannot safely stimulate himself with alcohol is well known, and has long been admitted by all thinking men. In Kansas, above all other Western States, has fhe attempt to settle the Arid Belt with agriculturists been made. Living in this belt are thousands of voters, and it was the ballots of these men that accomplished the adoption of the constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors in the State. Unconsciously they, by their votes, recognized the conditions of the climate in which they live. The adoption was a measure of self-defence. Democrats and Republicans, irrespective of party, voted for the meas? AT? xu,? UIC? A1GIV Ji VI n* Sayings of Poor Richard.?-Pride is as loud a beggar as Want. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more that your appearance may be all of a piece. It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox.' Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty and supped with Inf/imy, and after all, what is the use of the pride of appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered. It cannot promote health or ease pain. It makes no increase of merit in the person. It creates envy ; it hastens misfortune. What madness it must be to run in debt for superfluities. Think what you do when you run in debt. You give another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time you will be ashamed to meet your creditor. You will make poor, pitiful, sneaking excuses, and by degrees lose your veracity, and sink into base, downright lying. For the second vice is lying, the first running in debt. You lose your manliness and independence. An empty bag can't sta'ud upright, and those have a short Lent who owewnoney to be paid at Easter. Tiie Results of Prohibition.?The following extract from a letter to the News and Courier, shows the beneficial results in the little town of Wedgefield, in Sumter county: "The few who owned the houses and lands of the place determined that there should be no more liquor sold at Wedgefield, and for this purpose would neither rent or sell their lands or houses. The barrooms closed up, and there has been no such curse here, or whisky sold in any way since. Soon the talk of building a church and school house sprang up in their stead. These have been realized with all their beneficial results, and other churches still are projected. Tljp place has grown almost as if by magic. Industry and thrift prevail. Lands have advanced in value in a ratio exceeding anything previously dreamed of in this county. Population has increased. A healthy moral tone prevails to such an extent that if a man of any respectability "gets in whisky," as the common phrase 1 ?J L iv^no. is, ne is asnaraea 10 ue dccu auuut field, for here public sentiment connects degradation with such a condition. And the course of events in this good way is decid^jly onward." SZ&* According to Dr. Maclaren, of Scotland, the types of sanity have changed with modern times. Acute delirous mania,for example, is comparatively rare, but mental enfeeblemeut, attended with paralysis, is becoming more and more common, as a result of the overwork and worry of the struggle for existence at the present day.