Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 16, 1890, Image 1

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' / . "1 lewis >i. grist, Proprietor.| gin Jndepcndenf (Jiuiulg JHeicspaper: Jor the $romotion of the fotitiral, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Jntcrcsfs of the j^outh. jTERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL. .36. YORKVILLB, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1890. ^elected foctvn. THE FIRST GRANDBABY. How strange! How very Rtrange it sooms ! Why surely I'm not old ! And yet these happy grand mam mas Are reckoned sc, I'm told. I'm sure 'twas but the other day That friends pronounced me young, And compliments, upon my looks, Were borne on every tongue Why can It be that "silver threads" Appear among the "gold," Or that a wrinkle, on my brow Proclaims that I am old! A grandmamma! How strango the thought How very queer it seems! I'm like some startled slumborer, Awakened from his dreams. This little cherub, sweet and fair, Has filled the house with joy; There never was a dearer one, A brighter, lovelier boy. He's won his way to every hoart, He's worth his "weight in gold," Although his advent proves the fact That I am getting old. i wouldn't give too imnin^ uj> For royal woaltli untold ; And, to possess so grout n prize, I'm willing to grow old. ?ftotg. THE DESERTER. BY CAPT. CHARLES KINO, U. S. A. Author of "Dunraven Ranch," "The Colonel's Daughter," Etc. fCnpyrlght, by J. R. I.lpplnenit Company, Philadelphia, anil published by ?peei:tl arrangement with them.] CHAPTER XX. "And so she's really going to marry Mr. Van Antwerp," said Mrs. Buxton to Mrs. Waldron a few days later in the month ol sunshine and roses. "I did not think it possible when she left," was the reply. "Why do you say sc now ?" "Oh, Mrs. Rayner writes that the eaptain had to go to Washington on some important family matters, and that she ami XT^IIJa ?,An oKawa orvoin on/1 \f* Xtdllt* were ttl 11IU scaanuitngiuii) ?uu mi Van Antwerp was with them from morning till night. He looked so worn and haggard, she said, that Nellie could nol but take pity on him. Heavens! think 01 having five hundred thousand dollar* sighing its life away for you!?especially when he's handsome. Mrs. Bayner mad( me promise to send it right back, l>ecause he would never give her one before, bul she sent his picture. It's splendid. Wait, and I'll show you." And Mrs. Buxtor darted into the house. When she reappeared, three or foui young cavalrymen were at the gate chatting with Mrs. Waldron, and the picture * was passed from hand to hand, exciting varied comment. It was a simple carte de visite, of the style once spoken of as vignette?only the head ana shoulder? being visible?but it was the picture of a strong, clear cut face, with thick, wavy black hair just tinging with gray, a drooping mustache and long English whiskers, The eyes were heavy browed, and though partially shaded by the gold rimmed pince-nez, were piercing and fine. Mr, Van Antwerp was unquestionably a fine looking man. "Here comes Hayne,',' said Royce. "Show it to him. He likes pictures; though I wouldn't like this one if I were In his place." Mr. Hayne stopped in some surprise when hailed, greeted Mrs. "Waldron warmly and bowed courteously to Mrs. Buxton, who was watching him narrowly. Want to see a picture of the man you ought to go and perforate ?" asked W ebster, with that lofty indifference which youngsters have to the ravages of the tender passion on subjects other than themselves. "To whom do you refer?" asked Hayne, smiling gravely, and little imagining what was in store for him. "This." said Wehster. holding out the card. Hayne took it, gave one glance, started, seized it with both hands, studied it eagerly, while his own face rapidly paled, then looked up with quick, searching eyes. "Who is this?" he asked. "The man who's engaged to Miss Travers?Mr. Van Antwerp." "This?this?Mr. Van Antwerp!" exclaimed Hayne, his face as whiteas a sheet, "Here, take it, Royce!" And in an instant he had turned and gone. "Well, I'll l?e hanged if I knew that he was that hard hit," drawled Webster "Did you, Royce?" But Royce did not answer. ******* A gorgeous moonlight is bathing the Jersey coast in sparkling silver. The tumbling billows come thundering in to the shining strand, and sending their hissing seething, whirling waters, all shimmer anei radiance, to the very feet of the groups o spectators. There are hundreds of people scattered here and there along the shingle and among the groups a pale faced youuf man in tweed traveling suit has maele hi: way to a point where he can command i view of all the passers by. It is nearly 1] o'clock before they liegm to break up ane seek the broad corridors of the brilliantly lighted hotel. A great military band o: nearly forty pieces is playing superbly ai intervals, and every now and then, a? some stirring martial strains come thrilling through the air, a young girl in a grou^: near at hand beats time with her pretty foot and seems to quiver with the influence of the soldier melodies. A tall, dark eyed, dark haired man bends devotedly over her, but he, too, seems to rise to his full height at times, and there is something in the carriage and mien that tell: that soldier songs have thrilled his vein: ere now. And this man the young traveler in gray watches as though his eye: were fascinated. Standing in the shade o a little summer house, he never ceases hi: scrutiny of the group. At last the musicians go and the people follow. The sands are soon deserteu; the great piazzas are emptied of their prom enaders; the halls and corridors are stil patronized by the few belated chaperon: and their giddy charges. The music loving girl has gone aloft to her room, anci her aunt, the third member of the grouj that so chained the attention of the youn? man in gray, lingers for a moment to ex change a few words with their cavalier lie seems in need of consolation. "Don't l>e so downhearted, Mr. Vai Antwerp. It is very early in the summer and you have the whole season before you. "No, Mrs. Rayner, it is very differeni from last year. I cannot explain it, but J know there has been a change. I feel as? as I used to in my old, wild days, when i change of luck was coming. It's like tin gambler's superstition, but I cannot shake it off. Something told me she was lost tc me when you boarded that Pacific express last February. I was a fool ever to have let her go." "Is she still so determined ?" "I cannot shake her resolution. She says that at the end of the year's time orig inally agreed upon she will keep her prom ise; but she will listen to no earlier mar riage. I have about given up all hope Something again?that fearful something 1 can't shake off?tells me that my onlj chance lay in getting her to go with me this month. Once abroad with her, I coule make her happy; but?" He breaks off irresolutely, looking aboui him in the strange, haunted manner, she has noted once or twice already. "You are all unstrung, Mr. Van Antwerp. Why not go to bed and try ant sleep ? You will be so much brighter to morrow." "I cannot sleep. But don't let me keej you. I '11 go out and smoke a cigar. Goot night, Mrs. Rayner. Whatever comes o it all, I shall not forget your kindness." So he turns away, aim she still stands a' the foot of the staircase, watching bin uneasily. He has aged greatly in tin past few months. She is shocked to se< how gray, how fitful, nervous, irritable he has become. As he moves toward the doorway she notes how thin his cheek has - grown, and wonders at the irresolution in his movement when he reaches the broad piazza. He stands there an instant, the massive doorway forming a frame for a picture en silhoutte, his tall, spare figure thrown black upon the silver sea l>eyond. He looks up and down the now deserted galleries, fumbles in his pockets for his cigar case, bites off with nervous clip the end of a huge "Regalia," strikes a light, and before the flame is half applied to his weed throws it away, then turns sharply and strides out of sight towards the othce. Another instant, and, as though in pur, suit, a second figure, erect, soldierly, with quick and bounding step strides across the glittering moopstreak, and Mrs. Rayner's heart stands still. Only for an instant, though. She has I seen and recognized Lawrence Hayne. Concealed from them he is ionowing inr. Van Antwerp, and there can be but one purpose in his coming here?Nellie. But what can he want with her?her rightful lover? She springs from the lower step 011 which she has been standing, runs across the tessellated floor, and stops short in the doorway, gazing after the two figures. She is startled to find them close at hand?one, Van Antwerp, close to the railing, facing towards her, his features ' ghastly in the moonlight, his left hand resting and supporting nim, on one of the tall wooden pillars; the other, Ilayne, with white, clinching fists, advancing upon him. Above the low boom and roar of the surf she distinctly hears the clear tenor ring of his voice in the tone of command she last heard under the shadows of the Rockies, two thousand miles away : "Halt!" No wonder a gentleman in civil life , looks amazed at so peremptory a summons ' from a total stranger. In his high indignation will he not strike the impertinent subaltern to earth? As a well bred wo1 man it occurs to her that she ought to rush out and avert hostilities by introducing them or something; but she has no time to act. The next words simply take ' her breath away: "Sergt. Cower, I arrest you as a deserter [ and thief! You deserted trom F troop, ?tli cavalry, at Battle Butte!" , She sees the fearful gleam on the dark ( man's face; there is a sudden spring, a clinch, a straining to and fro of two forms?one tall, black, snaky, the other liurl?f lithn rtoriln nml tminftrl ! muttered . curse, panting breath, and then, sure as [ fate, the tidier man is being borne backward against the rail. She sees a dark arm ' suddenly relax its grasp of the gray form and disappear an instant. Then there it L conies again, and with it a gleam of steel. I With one shriek of warning and terror she f springs towards them?just in time. Hayne . glances up, catches the lifted wrist, hurls , his whole weight upon the tottering figure, and over goes the Knickerbocker prone J upon the floor. Hayne turns one instant: > "Go indoors, Mrs. Kayner. This is no place t for you. Leave him to me." , And in that instant, before either can i prevent, Steven Van Antwerp, alias Gower, springs to his feet, leaps over the balco ny rail and disappears in the depths below. It is a descent of not more than ten feet to - the sands beyond the dark passage that un: derlies the piazza, but he has gone down ' into the passage itself. When Mr. Hayne, } running down the steps, gains his way to ? the space beneath the piazza, no trace of t the fugitive can he find. ******** Nor does Mr. Van Antwerp appear at [ breakfast on the following morning, nor J again to any person known to this story. An officer of the ?th cavalry, spending a 1 portion of the following winter in Paris, writes that he met him face to face one day in the galleries of the Louvre. Being in ! civilian costume, of course, and much ! changed in appearance since he was a youth in the straps of a second lieutenant, , it \yas possible for him to take a good look at the man he had not seen since he wore the chevrons of a dashing sergeant in the Battle Butte campaign. "He has grown almost white," wrote the lieutenant, "and ? I'm told he has abandoned his business in , JNew \oric ana never win return to me , Uuited States." Ilayner, too, has grown gray. A telegram from his wife summoned him to the seaside from Washington the day after I this strange adventure of hers. He found 1 her somewhat prostrate, his sister-in-law > very pale and quiet, and the clerks of the hotel unable to account for the disappear[ ance of Mr. Van Antwerp. Lieut, liayne, , they said, had told them he received news . which compelled him to go back to New York at once ; but the gentleman's tjwfcs are all in his room. Mh Hayne, too, had . gone to New York; and thither the captain followed. A letter came to him at . the Westminster which he read and handed in silence to liayne. It was as follows: "By the time this reaches you I shall be [ beyond reach of the law and 011 my way to Europe to spend what may be left of my > days. I hope they may lie few; for the ^ punishment that has fallen upon me is more than I can bear, though no more than I deserve. You have heard that my college days were wild, and that after retieated warning my father drove me from lome, sending me to Wyoming to embark " in the cattle business. I preferred gambling and lost what he gave me. There was j nothing then left but to enlist; and I join1 ed the ? th. Mother still believed me in ' or near Denver, and wrote regularly there. ' The life was horrible to me after the lux? ury and lack of restraint I had enjoyed, [ and I meant to desert. Chance threw in 4 my way that temptation. I robbed poor { Hull the night before he was killed, repacked the paper so that even the torn 1 edges would show the greenbacks, resealed ' it?all just as 1 have had to hear through her pure and sacred lips it was finally told [ her lover saved. J "Cod knows I was shocked when 1 heard > in Denver he was to be tried for the crime. J I hastened to Cheyenne, not daring to show myself to him or any one, and re5 stored every cent of the money placing it | in Mrs. Clancey's hands, as 1 dared not ' stay; but I had hoped to give it to Clancy, 5 who had not arrived. The police knew ' me, and I had to go. I gave every cent I ' had and walked back to Denver, then got * word to mother of my fearful danger; and though she never knew I was a deserter, * she sent me money and I came east and | went abroad. Then my whole life ehang* cd. I was appalled to think how low I had fallen. I shunned companionship, * studied, did well at I leidleberg; father for' mvp nip mwl iliful hut (inrl litis not. tor ' given, and at the moment when i thought 1 my life redeemed this retribution over5 takes me. ' "If I may ask anything, it is that nioth1 er may never know the truth. I will tell } her that Nellie could not love me, and I ? could not bare to stay." Some few weeks later that summer Miss Travers stood by the same balcony rail, with an open letter in her hand. There 1 was a soft flush on her pretty, peachy ? cheek, and a far away look in her soft blue eyes. l "What news from Warrener, Nellie?" r asked Mrs. Rayner. "Fluffy has reappeared." "Indeed! Where?" , "At Mr. Hayne's. lie writes that as he ; returned, the moment he entered the hall ' she came running up to him, arching her , back and purring her delight and welconi' ing him just as though she belonged there " now; and" "And what, Nellie?" > "lie says he means to keep her until I [ come to claim her." TIIE END. r a?" "How long will it last?" asked a r man of a jeweller who had just told him i that he would have to have a new spring I in his watch. "May be a week; maybe a year or two," t answered the jeweller. > "Rut this one has lasted four or five years," said the man, protestingly. ' "Yes, but they don't make that kind of I springs nowadays. It really does seem as - though they had lost the art of tempering watch springs. I sent out a hundred dol> lar watch the other day brand new, just 1 from the factory, and the spring broke f within twenty-lour hours. The manufacturers have spent thousand of dollars witht in the past few years, experimenting to get i back the old quality for the springs, and } they have failed. The springs seem to be 3 getting worse rather than better." gliscrUanrou.s finding. NOTES OF TRAVEL. REV. 1)11. ItOSS WHITES AN ISTERE8T1NG ACCOUXT OF UIS RECENT TRIP NORTH. For the Yorkvlllc Enquirer. Editok of the Enquirer: I have been out on the wing. A few jots for The Enquirer may not be amiss. I left home on the 17th of June, and got to Charlotte, N. C., the same day. Saw nothing worthy of note on the way. I lay over in Charlotte a night and (lay, looking after Brother Todd and the Charlotte mission. Everything seems to be working reasonably well. If we had a $10,000 church on our fine lot, I see no reason why we should not soon have a self-sustainingA. It. P. congregation there. Brother Todd, so far, has been a successful worker. His little congregation is in excellent trim. On the 18th, at 0 o'clock p. m.jltook the train for AVashington, D. C.j via the Richmond and Danville and Virginia Midland railroads. After passing High Point, beyond the Yadkin, I saw nothing till I came to Alexandria, Va. I slept from High Point to Alexandria, very comfortably. Got to AVashington at (5.80 a. m. AVent across to the Baltimore and Ohio depot, and by reason of some misunderstanding, missing the company I expected there to meet, I took the train over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to Pittsburg, Pa. From Harper's Ferry on, all the way to Cumberland, Maryland, and thence down the valley of the Youghiogheny to McKeesport, on the Monongahela river. I did wish that Have Grist had been with me, to write up the superlatively grand scenery which every where meets the eye. I will not attempt this description. At Harper's Ferry I saw a building on which was emblazoned, in large letters, "Old John Brown's Fort." It was the house in which John Brown, the antislavery fanatic, ensconced himself to evade arrest, when he invaded Virginia on his insane crusade against slavery, shortly before the war. Misguided old man! Ho simply anticipated, by a few years,the work which God had decreed to effect by a much larger effusion of blood. Emancipation came in God's own time and way. God is always right. "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" When I was going from McKeesport to Pittsburg, and in Pittsburg, I felt something like Yankee Doodle, when he went to town in his striped trowsers. I could not see the earth, there were so many houses. The hills and dales are all literally covered with houses?many of them very stately and magnificent. I was told in Pittsburg that they were extending their houses longitudinally into the aerial regions, simply because there was no room on the earth for latteral extension. I saw numerous houses from six-and-a-half to nine stories high. I arrived in Pittsburg at G p. m., on Friday. I lodged there in the Seventh Avenue hotel. I was kindly and very courteously treated. I paid $2.50 for supper, lodging and breakfast. Early on Saturday morning, the 20th of June, I took the train for old Cannonsburgh, in Washington county, Pa., some 18 miles southwest of Pittsburg?the home of my old alma mater, Jefferson college. The old buildings are all there, in all their venerable grandeur, just as I left them fifty years ago. The college, some twenty-five years ago, was united with Washington college, at Washington, seven miles southwest of Cannonsburgh, and removed to Washington. This union was not agreeable to many of the friends of Jefferson. With some of the alumni there is still a good deal of ill-feeling about it. Fifty years have made great changes about Cannonsburgh. I saw nothing I could recognize but the college buildings, and the house in which I boarded, and one other. The people, with few exceptions, that I knew in my youth, are all gone. I spent the Sabbath there worshipping with a Presbyterian congregation, now using as their church the old college chapel. There is now living in a house next door to where I boarded, when at college, one John Parr, a good U. P., and a brother of Rev. Dr. Barr, of The Instructor, and his good kind old lady, who kindly offered me a room as long as I chose to stay. To them I am indebted for very comfortable, Christian entertainment, from Saturday morning till Monday morning. Notwithstanding the removal of the college, Cannonsburgh lias grown four or five fold in the last fifty years. There is a railroad running through it, covering what was the main street fifty years ago. Trains pass and repass about every hour of the day. Every hill and valley is dotted with rlnvrlolro rlmllinn1 oiwl Ail fonlrc; uviiivno) iiuitiinivo tutu v/11 kuiuu^ connected with the oil and gas industry. Some of the oil works, in full view of my old boarding house, are yielding 150 barrels of crude oil per day. The little valleys are covered with tanks of iron, holding 30,000 or 40,000 gallons of oil each. Some times one of them is struck by lightning, and then there is a great big fuss and tire. The natural gas which they get from deep wells is superseding the use both of petroleum and the bituminous coal, for all purposes of light and heat. They cook with it, light up their houses with it, warm their houses, heat up their furnaces and light their streets with it. J t makes a very brilliant, hot fire, without smoke or cinder. They fill the grates we used to fill with stone coal, with pieces of brick-bats, and open a gass jet underneath it by turning a little screw, and apply a match, and in a moment of time you have a fire you can grade, by means of the said screw, to any degree of light or heat you may wish. This mode of heating and lighting, 1 think, is almost universally used in all that region. Every where I went I saw no other method employed for said purposes. The stone coal, universally used there in my college days, is now refined, except what is used by the railroads and shipped off as coke, to other parts?I don't know where. This process of refining, which is done by burning it in kilns, destroys the lurid, offensive smoke which the natural coal emits. So much for Cannonsburgh. On Monday morning, the 22nd, in company with Dr. II. A. Brown, one of my old class-mates, 1 left for Washington, Pa., the present site of the united colleges of Washington and Jefferson. We arrived there about !) a. m. There we met five other of my old classmates. Our reunion, which was the chief end of my trip, took place at 11 o'clock a. in. in the First Presbyterian church. There were seven of us. Out of a class of thirty-two who graduated, receiving diplomas from old Jefferson in 1H40. onlv seven appeared. There are three others of the class still surviving; but they were not there. Our meeting was opened by devotional exercises, conducted by the writer. The class orator was excused from delivering his oration in consequence of the extreme heat. The thermometer was up in !)((. The class history was read in detail. There were more or less extended biographical sketches of nearly all the class. There were some short, and some very long sketches. The reading, together with some interloquial reminiscences, occupied several hours, extending through three different sessions. These sketches, together with the historical oration, will be published in an annual published by the alumni association of the two colleges, together with a group photograph of the seven members of the class who were present. This annual can be obtained by sending SI.00 to Rev. J. S. Harnett, secretary of the alumni association of Washington and Jefferson college. Our meeting was extremely pleasurable. Hut we parted in sadness at the thought that we should never meet again on earth. We hope to all meet in heaven. All of us profess to be followers of Jesus Christ, and feel sure that he will gather together into one, all that are his, in his great day of ingathering. There is but one Shepherd of Israel. Heaven is his one great fold, into which he will gather all his sheep at last. Six of of the seven of us at the reunion were ministers of the gospel?three Presbyterian, two Lutheran, and one A. R. Presbyterian. The remaining one is a venerable looking, polished, genial Christian lawyer, belonging to the Episcopal church. After our reunion, we all attended the commencement of Washington and Jefferson college. Of this I do not propose to say much. We were treated very cordially and courteously by Dr. Moffatt, president of the college. We witnessed-the graduation of twenty young men?one of them a negro, lie delivered a very good speech. He was modest and unassuming. We partook also of an annual festival given by the ladies of the city. I think there were not less than five hundred guests. As soon as this festival was over we left and ran back to Cannonsburgh, where we had promised to dine at 4 o'clock p. m. with a widow lady?relict of one of the professors of Jefferson when we were students. She had invited a few of those who remembered us in our boyhood to dine with us. We had a very pleasant social reunion. We had only time to visit the old college hall, and walk up one of the old familiar streets to the to|? of the hill, whence we could see most of our old haunts, till we were warned by the whistle of the 0 o'clock train, to repair to the depot and get our seats for Pittsburg. We readied the Smoky City about 7 o'clock. Next morning we repaired to Mechanics' Hall?the place of the meeting of the Internationr * jabbath-school convention. It was not my intention to attend this convention, but urge*, by the South Carolina delegates, I consented and was enrolled, badgedand assigned quarters during the meeting. Had it not been so fearfully hot I would have enjoyed this meeting very much. There were about sixteen hundred delegates present. I believe every State in tlie Union was represented. There were a good many delegates from Cana da. Tins vast body contained a number! of female delegates. The most absurd and ridiculous thing I saw in all my trip was a little woman with a screeching voice trying to address an audience of Ave thousand people. Verily, it was not very edifying. Miss Frances Willard, the great Women's Temperance Union lecturer, was there also. She spoke flippantly, and to me it seemed boastingly, of ner appearance before the committees of congress and the United States senate. Upon the whole though, she made a very good speech?smartly mixing temperance and Sunday-school. There were also on the floor two or three dozen colored delegates. Some of them were from the South. I heard one from North Carolina?a graduate of the Fiddle institute of Charlotte? make a good speech 011 a resolution to appoint a colored superintendent to organize and supervise Sabbath-school work among the frccdmcn of the South. His argument ran along the line that wc could not expect an educated, refined Anglo-Saxon to go down to all the filth and squalor and poverty and ignorance, and barbarism, found in the average homes of the freedmen, to work among them as an apostle of the Gentiles ought to do. His speech told well upon the issue. The convention instructed the executive committee to find, if possible, a capable negro for that work. The convention will hold its next meeting in St. Louis, Mo. I spent the Sabbath with Dr. I. C. Boyd, U. P., at Mt. Lebanon. Pro. Todd and I both preached for him. He is a noble, genial, large hearted Christian gentleman. Wo oninvwl niiryolvos with him nild bis excellent family from Saturday till Monday. On Monday morning I began my homeward trip. I did not stop at Washington, ]). C., as I had intended. It was so awfully hot I was afraid. By the good hand of God upon me I reached home Tuesday evening. "There is no place like home.'' It. A. Ross. MAKE AN^AGREEMENT. It is a difficult matter to deal with that class of men who will neither give or receive a definite proposition looking toward compensation. If, on the one hand you meet a man who says, "That will be all right; I guess we won't have any trouble about that part of it," set it down that there will be trouble on just "that part of it." If, on the other hand, you find a man who is always declaring, "You'll not lose anything by this; I'll see that it's all right," you may be sure it will be all wrong in the end. When two men of this sort get together, and the services are of such nature that to determine their exact value at the time of their inception is impossible, the end will be a misunderstanding, imi-' tual dissatisfaction, possibly an estrangement. Yet there is no case in which a probable value cannot be got at. If you consider matters as a complete affair, and estimate the value of results as you plan them to happen, you can never be far wrong. If one cannot do that he has no business to undertake to maKe contracts at all. It may he that there are times when a man may go into a business engagement without a definite idea of what his pay is to he, and there may be men who will always settle satisfactorily. But one is never safe to make engagements in such a way. False modesty always stands in the way of sensible business arrangements. But it has no place in business. As an old merchant said once to a writer: "We are friends, and I trust will always remain so. Perhaps it is against my interest to tell you so, but when you are making an agreement for the purchase and delivery of goods, don't think of your feeling toward each other at all. Buy of me as you would a stranger; consider your own needs and profits, and don't hesitate to buy when you can do best." It should be exactly this way in making arrangements for employment. Treat the matter simply as business, pure and simple. You can't afford to do business without making arrangements for all points. These sensible suggestions from National Grocer have more than a money value. "Business is business" seems sometimes like a heartless proverb, but it is a fact that no business is likely to prove so satisfactory as that which is done strictly 011 business principles. Ilere is where the great value of business education comes in. It must impress upon the mind at every stage of its course that "business is business." A IMILROAl) 1)00. Napoleon is a dog residing at Salida, Col., belonging to an engineer of the Denver and Bio Grand railroad. He has been engaged with his master for the past two and a half years in running locomotive No. K7. Jlis apprenticeship commenced at the early age of six months. His first trip was not a success 011 account of fright. This was speedily overcome. I Ie can now go into tfio round house where twentyeight engines are domiciled, single out iukI mount his own machine, and, in the absence of his master and the fireman, defend it against all intruders. lie rides on the fireman's side of the cab, with both front ]>aws and head hanging out of the window, intently watching the track. He frequently scents cattle a mile or more distant. When they appear in sight be becomes greatly excited, looking first at the cattle and then at his master, as though trying to make him comprehend the gravity of the situation. On nearer approach he sets up a cry similar to that of a human being. If necessary to come to a full stop, he bounds out of the cab, runs ahead an'd loses no time in convincing the tresspasser of the importance of finding some other stamping ground. When necessary to communicate with help at the pumping stations, frequently at long distances from the track, a note is written and given to the dog, who delivers it and speedily returns with a reply. Signals to start from his engine are readily interpreted by him, but he pays 110 more attention to the whistles and bells of other engines than to cattle that may be safely grazing on the sides of the road. His olfactory powers are so keen that he has frequently given his master timely warning against stock, that, if struck, might have resulted disastrously. He is wen Known 10 an railroad employes netween Ogden and Salida. If accidentally left at any of the stations, lie returns to Salida on the first train. BSaT' An eccentric old gentleman recently knocked out a whole graduating class in a Western college. I Ie got the boys together, the day before commencement, and told them that he would give ten dollars to every man who would answer correctly two plain every-day questions, The questions were as follows: What is the origin of the common phrase, "To hope against hope?" And, "Why is the human ear shaped as it is, instead of being flat?" Not a man answered the questions correctly and the old gentleman went away declaring that colleges are a failure. Doctors say that Americans rush too much and eat too fast, but when they are asked for figures they can't show 'em. On the contrary, the English, who never rush, and who eat as though they had all day to a meal, suffer with dyspepsia twenty-eight per cent, more than Americans, and the average age at which business men die is five per cent, below the hustling Yankee. THE MURDER OP MRS. COLONS. A CASE OF BRUTAL ASSASSINATION TO WHICH 11 Eli HUSBAND IS CHARGED WITH BEING ACCESSORY. ?m From ilie Shelby, N. C., Aurora, July 10. Our community was glad to got rid of Rufus G. Collins, a noted blockader, who moved to upper Georgia last month. He was accompanied by his wife, who was killed last Thursday at Plainville, Gordon county, Georgia. The slayer, Steve or Rich Custer, colored, Mr. Moore, his distiller, and his wife, accompanied them to Georgia, where Collins and Moore again helped to run a government distillery. Last- Thursday Mrs. Sarah Stuard Collins, daughter of David Stuard, in York county, S. C., was killed by the discharge of a pistol by the colored servant Rich, or Steve Custer, in daylight, in the presence of Mrs. Moore. The negro entered the house of Philo Moore for the purpose of assisting Mrs. Collins to remove some furniture from that house down to the back end of the barroom, which Collins and his wife were to occupy as a home. After entering the house the negro nlnlrn/1 im oiul tviiitfnfl if of Afpu Mivrw*j\t up uiv; piovvi uu\i pwiiuvu iv?i>v Moore, when Mrs. Collins interfered and warned the negro to stop, and said that he might kill somebody with that pistol. Then the negro turned toward his employer's wife and said: "Then I'll shoot you," and pointing the weapon towards her head, the pistol fired, penetrating the forehead into the brain, from which wound she died in two hours. The negro, it is said, ran immediately down to the distillery near the tragedy and meeting his employer told him that he had killed her, and soon made his escape. Collins first said: "That negro has killed my wife. It was an accident?ho didn't go to doit. He is a good negro, lie did not aim to do it." Before the wife died from the wound in her head, her husband telegraphed for a coffin. Did not try to have the negro arrested, refused to pay for telegrams to have him arrested for the crime; did not want an inquest held, and in hot haste carried his wife's corpse on the train to Grover, N. C., near his former home, and had her buried Friday at Antioch church, S. C., two miles from Grover, N. C. He accompanied the corpse, and after burial went to his plantation near Grover, where his mother, Miss Betsy Collins, now resides. A telegram from the sheriff of Gordon county, Georgia, was received Saturday afternoon by Sheriff J Ianirick, as follows: "Arrest and hold Itufns (1. Collins for tho murder of his wife." [Signed] A. II. MoGinnis, Shoriif." Sunday morning at sunrise lie was arrested by Ed. B. Hamrick and W. L. Carroll, while in the house. lie was cool and quiet, showed unconcern and said "lie was willing to go back to Georgia after the excitement blows over." He held in his hand and had been reading in the Atlanta Constitution about the killing of his wife and the excitement following the tragedy. His statements after the tragedy and since his return here are somewhat conflicting. Suspicion points to the husband as a participant in the crime and that he hired the negro to kill his wife, whom he had once whipped severely here. The negro has been in the employ of Collins for about five years and was attached to his master. The negro fled after the tragedy, but was subsequently arrested and is now in Gordon county jail. He told his captors that Mas Rufus hired him for to kill her. He says he "did not then intend to kill her?that the pistol was accidentally discharged. He did not aim to kill her until the f.r>0 reward in cash was paid him." This is the negro's version of the tragedy and thus he seeks to inculpate his master and exculpate himself by saying it was an accident then. The negro may soon give another version. Did the husband hire the murderer? The circumstances ldok suspicious and a chain of circumstances point to the guilt of both, but Collins stoutly asserts his innocence. The husband, Rufus G. Collins, is a short heavy man, with brown hair and sallow 1 ?: ? 1 uunipiUAiuii ana i'u?eiiiuies ms puuiuvc father, Sam'l Hates, and was born in Cleveland in January, 1805. His weight is 185 ?ounds and he is five feet, nine inches high. las a quiet, sluggish countenance and round face; his demeanor is calm and serene in jail. He says "I'm not uneasy about the trial. After the excitement blows over I will return to Georgia. This imprisonment and charge is hard on me, but I must endure it and submit to the law." "The negro's j statements were made under excitement and fear and are not true and he will at the trial tell that I never hired him. The pistol belonged to Philo Moore, my distiller, who got it from Hunt, in Cleveland county. I never had a pistol." It is frequently stated that the husband j and wife had rows, and that once he whipped and beat her severely in this county. There is no doubt about the discord in the family. She was Sarah Stuard, age 21 years, a black-haired and attractive woman. Her dower of beauty helped to bring discord. Subsequent developments point stronger and stronger towards the intentional murder by the negro, Steve Custer (called "Richmond" because he came from Riclimon, Ya.) and that he was and has been for years the guilty tool of bis master Rufus G. Collins, who hired the negro to shoot his wife. It is true that the pistol was loaded by the owner Philo Moore, formerly of Burke county, on Sunday preceding the tragedy; that the negro was told it was loaded. Why was it loaded and why so eager to inform the negro about the pistol? Was there another party cognizant of the plot to murder Mrs. Collins ? It was proven at the trial that Mrs. Moore knew the plot and that Moore loaded his pistol Sunday. It is not true that the negro had received the reward. 11c had not been ln? rfi\ltinu 1*41/1 /hi 1 \r iIffnoil nnntu |7<ll?l ..J V W.....O W...J v~...., in cash when caught Friday night in the woods two miles from the tragedy l>y Mr. Miller. The negro at the trial Saturday claims that he was hired to kill Mrs. Collins, hut he did not that day intend to kill her. It was an accident. lie said he immediately ran and told Mr. Collins "J have killed Miss Manda." He told that he helped Collins out of several scrapes; was a tool to help break open CI rover depot window last winter and steal the railroad hook that would help to convict Collins of blockading and show he had shipped on the train twice as much whisky as he had paid tax to the government. Sheriff McGinniss arrived here from Georgia Tuesday night and as soon as the requisition papers arrive will carry the accused to Gordon county, Georgia, for trial, on Friday or Saturday. J Ie says the chain of evidence is very strong; that the jury of inquest pronounce it intentional murder. Collins had repeatedly abused his wife, had kicked her out of bed several times in the presence of Mrs. I'., and had whipped her severely. Frequent quarrels was the result of his cruelty and the attractive face of the wife made her a prey of forbidden pleasures. The husband accused her of infidelity and the negro told the husband of her guilt with a store-keeper and detailed the circumstances inculpating the wife. Therefore, he resolved to get rid of her. He was a blockader, a frequent violater of laws; had been in many transgressions, reared in an atmosphere of vice with still-house environments in all his manhood days, and the transition from one vice to another is easy and with such youth and manhood is it strange that he should l.;-" ? u'loini 1?? line <i iii'^iw IU nia^ mu ?iu unuiu i?^ swore to love, cherish and protect ? From vice to vice in si still-house the transition to murder is too frequent. Served Longer than Jacoh.?W. A. Pollard, a farmer who lives in this county, was in the city a few days ago, and to some of his friends he told the following story, which is vouched for by those living in his neighborhood : About nineteen years ago Mr. Pollard hired himself to the late Alex. Spillers, a well-to-do farmer of this county. The first month he received a suit of clothes sis pay. r. Pollard wsis then .employed permanently sis a farm hand, lie had been with Mr. Spillers but a short time when a girl child was born to Mrs. Spillers. An hour after it was born Mr. Pollard siskeil Mr. Spillers to give him the child sis his wife when she arrived at the proper sigo. 31r. Spillers consented, and said if 31r. Pollard stayed with him he; should hsive his daughter sit sixteen. Through sixteen years the young man worked with his employer and at sixteen claimed the young lady, as his fiance and was soon after married to her. He is now h the father of two children, and at Mr. Spiller's death he left his son-in-law $1,000 in cash for the sixteen years he had so 11 patiently waited for his wife. e: BREAD. x "I travel a great deal, and I sit at a great many tables, public and private, and J find that good bread is the exception and not the rule." So said one of our traveling agents the ? other day and he continued : ? "Is it so difficult a matter to make good ?' bread. "I think it is," replied an old house-keeper of over thirty years' experience in breadmaking. C( "It is like photography," interposed a e: younger housekeeper. "In photography a there are twelve or fourteen distinct pro- ')( iv._ i-t 1?x:? sn cesses necessary ior me pruuucuuu ui a jmv;ture and each of these processes must be " conducted perfectly or the picture will not ai beasucccss. After it is all done but past- " ing, you can daub it and spoil it, as I nave myself proven." ?' "I've often thought," resumed the elder jt house keeper, "of a remark ITariet Reecher Ktowe made in an article in The Atlantic ai years ago, that no matter how many batch- J1 es of bread the house mother has made, she ir never fails to rejoice with a new and fresh ^ and unmingled satisfaction when she takes Ci from the oven sweet, light, fragrant, gold- S( en-brown loves of bread. While that bread (>1 lasts she knows the pangs of hunger will ^ be appeased with wholesome food." S( When one makes cakes she has only to 11 give her mind to it during the making and (taking, but from the time she sets her al sponge for bread till hours after when it comes from the oven she must keep it on t' her mind. The sponge must not rise too long or the bread will be tasteless, per- tj haps sour. The dough must not be mixed ti too hard or too soft, and its consistency de- a] ponds upon the flour, and is, therefore, a {?' matter of Judgment and experiment, and w if the oven is not just right the bread will " be spoiled in baking. Then the materials w must be just right. Stale, sour yeast, will e; not make the best quality of bread. Poor b flour will not make good broad. It may ^ be fixed up with various additions and ftl cheat the palate, but the organs of nutrition C| will discover the cheat and resent it. I] Recipes for bread-making are on most ? every bag of flour sold ; they can be found 111 I'" nr?nl.' l\A/\lr (111/1 111 11! Ity till' UU/iL'U 111 u/uiv iviiM J4t columns devoted to culinary matters; there 11 is no lack of good recipes, but there is plen- 111 tiful need of more skill in following them ; Pj there is need of a noble aspiration on the part of hundreds (if housekeepers to iiiake h every day and all the time bread of perfect 11 quality and ideal excellence. 1)( a&T It will perhaps assuage the discom- n. forts of the summer to read some past ex- to periences with heat, compiled by a tier- w man statistician. In the year (527 the springs were dried up and men fainted 11 with the heat. In 879 it was impossible c< to work in the open fields. In the year br| 993 the nuts were "roasted" as' if in a ba- ai kcr'soven! In 1000 the rivers in France " dried up, and the stench from the dead P fish and other matter brought a pestilence 01 into the land. The heat in the year 1014 " dried up the rivers and the brooks in Al- ?! sace-Lorraine. The Rhine was dried up P( in the year 1132. In the year 1102 the heat was so great that eggs could be cook- " ed in the sand. In 1227 it is recorded that 11 many men and animals came to their death P through the intense heat. In the year ^ 1303 the waters of the Ithine and the " Danube were partially dried up, and peopie passed over on foot. The crops were E burnt up in the year 1394, and in 1539 the .Seine and the Loire were as dry land. In ai 1550 a great drought swept through Eu- C( rope. In 1014 in France and even in tl Switzerland the brooks and the ditches " were dried up. Not less hot were the J* years 1040, 1079, and 1701. In the year " 1715 from the month of March till Octo- 01 ber not a drop of rain fell; the tempera- to ture rose to 38? Reaumer, and in favored a. places the fruit trees blossomed a second to time. Extraordinary hot were the years n: 1724, 1740, 1750 and 1811. The summer of 'r 1815 was so hot that the places of amuse- fc ment had to be closed.?[New York Sun. 11 , ? ei A Divided Income.?"Come out and ^ 1 m _ 1 - 1 - -1- is..* si see my money-maKers," saiu h iauy living in the country the other day, to a lady from the city who was visiting her, ac- *. cording to a New York paper. "These," ; she said, as they came to a large and well- | appointed hen-house, "are my 'church ? hens;'all that I make out of them above * expenses is devoted to religious objects. jV The geese you see down there on the pond * are my 'poor and needy geese.' They cost 1? little or nothing, and the profits are ap- ; plied to the relief of the poor and needy. ,j Away down beyond that wood 1 keep a drove of hogs, 'dress hogs' I call them, because I buy my dresses, frocks you say, -r, I suppose, out of what I make from them. Those Alderncy cows are my 'theatre and j? opera cows,' I saw four Wagoner operas out of the profits of one last winter. You . see that bed of strawberries? Well, we j don't call them strawberries, but 'shoeber- J ries,' for I buy all the children's shoes and ^ my own, too, out of the income 1 get from them. These and many other little money- [ making schemes I manage myself without J . troubling my husband, who works very hard in the city for a small salary, t'onsc- 7 (|uently we have a great many comforts ^ and luxuries that we couldn't otherwise have. And I thoroughly enjoy the work, ?. too." JV "Tiik Would Owks mk a Living."? jj; Far too many people say "the world owes 7 me a living." There is more sound than w sense in the expression. The world can only owe us for what we JV have done for it. ITe who still believes J1' that the world is owing him, may as well understand that be must use force with the 1,1 debtor to secure payment; and you bad 1'] better be about it or you will get left. ({ranting the world does owe you a living, you must work to make the world give it to you. F.ven if the world did owe you a living J11 some would be too lazy to collect it. Some *!' people never learn that they must work for what they get in this world; that they cannot get something for nothing. Those *_u who try to get a living without work never (l| succeed. Tliev erenerally get into the pen itentiary and there work for what they get. 111 The world needs men of genius, hut the highest type of genius is spelled w-o-r-k. So do not hang around waiting to go into t(' partnership with Mr. Luck, for Mr. Luck 1K died with the last century. Neither wait, ?| like Micawher, for something to turn up. Micawher found, and you will find, that (T it is better to go right to work and turn up C1! something.?[Exchange. Uses for Coffee.?It is asserted by F men of high professional ability that when 1,1 the system needs a stimulant, nothing ca equals a cup of fresli coffee. Those who ,re desire to rescue the drunkard from his cups will find no better substitute for spirits ?? than strong new-made coffee, without milk 1,1 or sugar. Two ounces of coffee, or one- re eighth of a pound, to one pint of boiling water makes a first class beverage, l>ut the F water must he boiling not merely hot. ?jf Lit tern ess conies from boiling too long. la If the coffee required for breakfast be put 111 in a granitized kettle over night, and a or pint of cold water poured over it, it caii be co heated just to the boiling point and then set back to prevent further ebulition, when *r it will he found that while the strength (l^ is extracted, its delicate aroma is preserved. As our country consumes nearly ten pounds )'1 of coffee per capita, it is a pity not to have " it made in the best manner. Jt is asserted sts by those who have tried it that malaria and epidemics are avoided by drinking a Ia cup of hot coffee before venturing into the (? morning air. Burned 011 hot coals it is a *1] disinfectant for a sick room. By one of F" our best physicians it is considered a spe- jn cific in typhoid fever.?[The Epicure. J111 B?* "Men give me some credit,"* says ar Alexander Hamilton, "for genius. All Jj1 the genius I have lies in this: When I Jj1 have a subject in hand I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before 1110. I ex- 111 plore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort Jji which I make the people are pleased to h<1 call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought." b There are sixty-two Masonic lodges yc in Africa. I ca HOYT ON THE PRIMARY. E DEFENDS TJIE ACTION OE THE STATE 31 DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE. Under date of the 7th instant James A. oyt, chairman of the State Democratic a cecutive committee, publishes the follow- oi iff communication in The (Jreenville S1 ews: . f* The statement has been made by Mr. B. e] . Tillman, candidate for governor of this si tate, that in response to his speech at ir idgeway early in May, the State execu- v ve committee had refused to order a pri- ir lary election. I was not aware that he p: id assumed the authority of political die- tl itor, but it would seem that he has been s( ischarging the duties of this position, acirding to his own confession. The State ii tecutive committee has steadily pursued ci consistent and tenable course from the w ^ginning of this remarkable compaign, b id this course has been strictly within tl le lines of its prescribed duties, as they h re found in the written constitution of o: le Democratic party. That it hits not b scaped censure from either faction is an w liservation which need not be proven, but g has turned neither to the rignt nor the tl 'ft in its purpose to maintain the unity h ihI integrity of the party. Mr. Tillman as quoted frequently from an interview, ci 1 which 1 said that the demands of the n [arch convention were "utterly impracti- o iblc and unattainable" in this campaign, tl > far as reapportionment and the election ft f delegates by primary were concerned, tl re is endeavoring to make capital for him- n If by assailing the position assumed by tl leon the lf)th day of April, and now aims that the August convention will re- p [lportion the delegates and order a prima- i> f election. My statement was based upon tl le facts of the case, and related solely to h le duties and power of the State exccu- e vc committee under the present constitu- h on. His prediction is yet to be verified, si id it may or may not be fulfilled. My o eclaration was made in good faith, be- p luse there was a general acquiescence in y le proposition to delay the nominating invention, in which ftlr. Tillman and his ft fccutive committee fully concurred, as I v ave the evidence to show. Now, if the T fate Executive committee had ordered h ii earlv State convention, under the cir- n imstances existing at the time of the u idgeway meeting, am any one doubt a lat nominations would have Ixxm made tl t that date, thus cutting off all opportu- ti ity for a preliminary campaign. It s< light have been wise to avoid the heat si [id the rancor of this preliminary aim- tl fiign, hut Mr. Tillman is mainly respon- T ble for the tone and temper of the meet- tl igs, and not the State Executive com- tl littee, whose duties were plain and imerative. tl It is fair to conclude, then, that the de- p lands for reapportionment and the elec- o on of delegates by a general primary g ere "utterly impracticable and unattain- o ble," unless a State convention was called lto existence. Did the State Executive w immittee retrace its steps when the Au- a list-convention was called? Not at all, b ad it is in order to show that Mr. Tillman a litiated the movement which led to the a reliminary convention. If there is any T ne to blame for this state of things he is ti le author of the suggestion itself. At the fi pening meeting in Greenville and at other a laces, Mr. Tillman urged his oponenents, o en. Bratton and Col. Earle, to unite with si im in asking the State Executive com- a littee to order a State convention for the d urpose of securing a general primary, tl nthe 19th day of June, nine days after p le preliminary campaign opened, I re- a jived a message from Col. Joseph H. a larle, through the Hon. W. L. Mauldin, d > the effect that Messrs. Tillman, Bratton k nd Earle had agreed to ask the Executive v immittee to order a State convention for y le sole and exclusive purpose of changing tl le constitution so as to provide for a pri- il mry election of delegates to the Nomina- si ng convention already called for the 10th b f September, and that the agreement be- r< veen them was that neither would accept o nomination for governor if the conven- tl on thus called would undertake to nomi- e ate a ticket. Within an hour after the p lessage was received, the call was issued tl >r the State Executive committee to meet c 1 Columbia on the 25th of June to consid- o : this proposition. Col. Earle came to o reenvnie the clay alter tne can was is- u led, and I said to him that it would be ell to put the agreement in writing, as t< le basis of action for the Executive com- s< littee. He asked me to draw up such an ii ?reement, and I declined to do so on the v round that the proposition was to be T lbmitted to the Executive committee, c< lid as its chairman I would insist that C le agreement be placed in our hands with- p Lit any dictation on our part. It was tl leir proposition to hold another .State b invention, and it was our duty to con- f< derit. Col. Earle admitted the proprie- tl iry of this course, and the next day at p nion submitted a written agreement to a Tr. Tillman, which he refused to sign, and a ive as a reason that "there was a trick in a; " lj Those are facts relating to the call for the a ugust convention. Ordinarily, it would o ; regarded as ungracious and discourt- p )us to criticise any one for doing that d hich you had requested to be done, but b in rare facility with which Mr. Tillman ti imps from one conclusion to the opposite IS de of the question, as luts been abundant- t( ' demonstrated in the campaign, will ac- K nint for his assertions upon the State Ex- g utive committee since the call was is- ai led for the August convention. He and o is followers are welcome to the distinc011 enjoyed by unjust and unfair accusa- tl 011s against the committee, but let me say n nit the action taken by the committee tl as unanimous, which includes Col. Eu- A Mielh Gary, of Abbeville, the candidate ai r lieutenant governor on the Tillman c cket, and Judge M. J. Hough, of Lauras- hi r, who is also understood to favor Till- T an for governor. These gentlemen were di resent when the resolution was adopted w hich called the August convention, and d icy entered no protest against the action 1 the committee. ii Now, in all firmness and candor, let me c< ge that the serious questions involved in n in result of the August convention be con;lered with the careful scrutiny which ieir importance demands. After the resal to sign the agreement at Union, it is i-S mbtful whether the executive committee ould have ordered a preliminary conven- q( in, except that it was convinced of the ()i rerwhelming necessity for measures tl hich would make the nomination in Sep- fe ?-t i/x .*11 4--flirk .12 Ill UtT UCCOpUU'lU IU 1111 minima in Lim UJ irty. The committee were unanimous a 1 tiiis point, and after full discussions it ai its agreed to submit the questions involv- el I into the hands of the people, whose de- tl sion would be accepted its final by every ai le. The executive committee wits power- Vi ss to order the election of delegates by tv imary, the counties were taking action u advance of the time suggested, and the si lling of a State convention was the only hi source to obtain a final arbitrament at the d< illot box, which would end the pending litest to the satisfaction of all. This is ci e true and only reason for the decision tl ached by the State executive committee, u] id all statements and insinuations that n< ey were infiuenced by sinister and de- tl jfning motives are absolutely and unqual- is edly false, whether these declarations are la ade by candidates of high or low degree, tl put forth by self-appointed censors in b( ntrol of partisan newspapers. ea The threatened decapitation of execu- ju re committee need not excite any won- m ;r and it is certain that not a member of ill shed any tears when his term of seree expires, whether in August or Sep- ai mber. Under the most trying circum- ni mces, we have sought to discharge deli- m te and important duties without fear, jo vor or partiality, and while it is the only Sl] :ecutive committee that has ever been j)( nilarly situated, it may be fairly claimed m at its official action is just, consistent and lpartial. The supreme purpose in view in is been the unity and the perpetuity of tli e Democratic party in South Carolina, ce id when the passions and prejudices of e hour are gone forever, it will be seen $1 at the conservatism and impartiality of e> e executive committee have oeen instru- ai ental in preserving the organization e\ liose maintenance and supremacy are vi- in lly important to the white people of iiith Carolina. Very respectfully, j James A. iioyt. ? > pj It isn't wise to say always all that tli ai think, but it is wise always to think la refully over everything you say. m RAISING CORN. Ji. It. T. GILLESPIE SEEKS TO TEST AN ACHE'S MAXIMUM LIMIT. Mr. Richard T. Gillespie, who lives about mile and a half northeast of Tirzah, is lie of York's most observing and proressive farmers. He is a farmer not only [ cause that occupation affords the means >r a pleasant, comfortable and independ:it living, but also farms for farming's ike, and taking a peculiar interest in all lanner of experiments looking to the deelopment of the best and most profitable letnods, he has long ago left tne beaten aths and learned a great many things for ie advancement of agriculture in this xjtion. Mr. Gillespie was one of the competitors 1 this county for The American Agrialturist's corn prize last year, and, as is ell remembered, came in first over neari a dozen competitors, as well as third in winnino- Stutp. His viplrl was nnp undred and ten bushels of shelled corn on ne acre of land. Two hundred and fifty ushels won the prize, but Mr. Gillespie's as confessedly the most profitable crop rown in the contest, barring, of course, le prize money. Mr. Drake's crop cost im $2(54, while its market value was only 182?a net loss of $82. Mr. Gillespie's rop cost about $27.50, and its market vale was $70?a net profit of $42.50. This is n a basis of the market price of corn at le time. As a matter of fact, however, Ir. Gillespie sold less than one-third of ic acre's yield for $47, and with the reminder planted his entire corn crop for ic present year. But Mr. Gillespie had bad luck with his rize crop last year. It was washed down y freshets twice and did not make more mil half the quantity of corn it ought to ave made. It is not for this reason, howvcr, but because he finds it pays, that he i trying it again this year. He has the line acre planted in corn, and in the light f last, anil previous years' experience prooses to see how much he can make it ield, "prize or no prize." A reporter for The Enquirer visited Ir. Gillespie about two weeks ago and dth him went out to see the pet acre, 'he stalks were then alwut eight feet igh and growing luxuriously with remrkable rapidity. The blades were of an nusually dark green and the whole patch ppeared as dense as a cane brake. Although the rows are four feet apart, I venjre that in the acre there is not a single jUfefoot on which the sunlight fairly irikes the ground, though to walk through lie corn the heat is almost unbearable, 'he soil, however, was still quite moist, allough there had been no rain for more tian a week. Comparing the outlook to what it was at lis time last year, Mr. Gillespie thinks, rovided there is no mishap in the shape f a freshet or severe wind, that he will ather not less than two hundred bushels f corn from the acre. This acre is perfectly level bottom land dth a much loam soil and situated in an ngle formed by two pretty good sized ranches and can be overflowed at will, nd with very little extra trouble abundntly watered independent of the rain, 'his year Mr. Gillespie prepared and ferilized the acre in question as follows: He rst broke it up as deeply as possible with bull tongue, and then pulverized it thorughly with a Disk harrow. Then it was nbsoiled ten or twelve inches deep with n extra long bull tongue and smoothed own with an Acme harrow. Next came lie manure, which was broadcasted, 1,400 ounds soluble guano, 5 per cent, ammonia, nd 400 pounds of kanit being used. The ere was now as loose as an ash barrel to a epth of at least ten inches. It was next lid off" in rows four feet apart [the corn ras planted eighteen inches each way last earl and the seed dropped six inches in lie drill. As soon as the corn was well up ; was run around with a bow and straight hovej and about 400 pounds more of solule guano drilled along the side of the dws, and ten days later 200 pounds more f the same was drilled in midway between lie rows and harrowed in. That completd the work and the result is the finest atch of corn that has ever been seen in liis county. It has been given all the ultivation its rapid growth would admit f, while the fertilizers used foot up a bill f $37. However, a yield of seventy-flve ushels will return a handsome profit. Mr. Gillespie is also making some investing experiments with cotton. He is seking the fullest developement of the itensive system and has several patches diich are receiving his especial attention, 'he one that bids fair to be the most sucjssful is a half acre plot planted with rawford's improved seed. [Further, imroved by Mr. Gillespie during the past iree or four years.] He has been carefult selecting the best and most perfectly >rmed stalks and using the seed from lem to secure still better results. The atch in question is about one half acre, ml from all appearances, bids fair to yield bale of cotton. It has lieen manipulated s follows: First it was broken upas deepj ?? imssihlo. thon iiulverized thoroughly nil Juki off in rows five feet apart andf ten r twelve inches deep. Then four hundred ouncLs of cotton seed meal was put in the ottom of the furrow, and on which after cing covered about half full, was drilled ,vo hundred ]>ounds of soluble guano, icxt the rows were bedded up and the cotHi planted on the 20th of April. On the )th of June 2(H) pounds more ot soluble uano was put in on one side of every row, ml alxiut the 1st of July the same amount 11 the other side. This little patch of cotton is the finest ic reporter has yet seen this year, and it is ot at all improbable that it will yield at le rate of at least two hales to the acre, .(though planted in rows five feet apart ml two feet in the drill, it is already quite vident that hardly enough space has cen given it in which to fully develop, hough only an experiment, it bids fair to cmonstrate some very interesting facts ith reference to fertilizers and proper istance of planting, and with 110 bad luck think 11s a result, Mr. Gillespie will be uluced to plant and cultivate his entire itton crop after the manner of this patch ext year. UIJEEK FACTS ABOUT MONEY. 1 low many people know how much there in this country of what people call money," how much in gold and silver >in, and how much in greenbacks and ;her paper currency bearing the stamp of ic United States government? very w. Inquiry at the treasury department iscovers the tact that there is, all told, just little over two billions, or between $30 id $40 apiece for every man, woman and lild in the United State^ Of this a lite over one-half is in gold and silver coin, ul a little less than one-half in paper of irious kinds. Of the metal money about co-thirds are in gold, and one-third is in . S. notes or greenbacks, one-fourth in lver certificates, one-fifth in national ink notes, and the remainder in various ^nominations. But the $2,000,000?(HH) of United States irrency are not all in circulation among ic people. More than one-third is locked p in the treasury building, and that is the irmal state of things. One-half of all tegold and three-fourths of all the silver locked up in the treasury. The circuting medium in use among the people is iree-fourths paper, the largest volume >ino- in nreonhiieks. with silver certifl ites. But we would not be doing gold stice if we did not say that there was iore gold in circulation than any one kind ' paper. What a disproportion between the nount of wealth and the amount of loney in the United States. All the loney in the country, including what is eked up in the treasury, would not be ilticient to buy the real estate and the >rsonal property in the city of Washigton. Americans are not in the habit of carrygall their wealth in their pockets, and iat is why American money is worth >nt per cent, all the world over. The largest greenback extant is worth 0,000, and there is only one such note in :istence. Of $5,000 notes there are seven,; id when you come down to the ordinary, cry day $1,000 note, "there's millions it."?[Washington Critic. laf- The corn crop of the United States fgregated over two billion bushels for .SO?the largest in our history. Even at ie low price of twenty-eight cents per ishel, its total value is nearly six hundred illions of dollars.