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lewis m. cxkist, proprietor.| gin Independent ,Jfamilij $lear.paper: the promotion of th(| fjotitit^l, Social Ikfltifultural and Commercial Interests of the $outh. {terms?$2.00 a year in advance. VOL. 39. YOBKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, >T CJISTTC 81, 1893. NO. '2o. ? BY HOWA1 [Copyrighted, 1893, by D. Appleton A 1 with t SYNOPSIS. Chapters I and II.?Henry Bruce, a wealthy ranchman in Texas, loses his horse while on a hunting trip and after rough experiences trying to ford rapids in Colorado river is helped across in a rcwboat by a native nymph. Miss Cynthia Dallas. Chapters III and IV?Cynthia guides the stranger to her father's ranch, where he finds a tme western welcome. Bruce and Cynthia meet causually and take a morning stroll. Chapters V and VI.?Bruce's partner in the Mesquite valley ranch, Phil Kernochan, rides in search of the lost hunter, accompanied by his wife, and Edith Stafford, an eastern belle visiting at the ranch, who assumes to hold a claim in the attec tions of Bruce. The party surprises nruce and Cynthia in the nymph's bower. Cynthia finds that Bruce is dear to her, and she becomes jealous of Edith. Bruce Eromises to escort Cynthia to a "roundup" all to be given by the cowboys. CHAPTER VII. A trio of mounted men rode up to the j Mesquite valley ranch. They were dusty and travel worn, and the horses they bestrode were jaded and flecked with th foam of hard riding. At the ranch gate I they halted, and the central figure of the group?a small man with a slouching 1 seat in the saddle?removed his distin- , guishing sombrero and wiped the per spiration from his high forehead. "By the Lord!" he exclaimed, dashing 1 a hard, small hand across his eyes with j a quick, impatient gesture, "how the sun glares today! Whether it's my bein up ; so much nights or thet Lampasas whis ky, I kin skursely see my hand afore my face. Dick, chuck me over thet flask of tarantula juice!'" Thus commanded, the individual addressed?one Mr. Jake Sharp of choleric memory?extracted from his ducking jacket a large tin pocket companion ! known on the frontier as a "silent com forter" and tossed it to his comrade. He was a big, muscular man of the herculean type, and he flung the fl-slc from | him as if it had been a feather The ! other caught it deftly. "A-ah!" ejaculated the first speaker, clearing his throat after throwing his head back and partaking freely of its oontents, "that stuff takes hold whether it's damagin or otherwise. I feel re- ! freshed a'ready. Humly Jim. will you irrigate?' The third party, addressed by this uncomplimentary title, exhibited the customary frontier alacrity in ulcoholic matters and reached out a hand more or less disfigured by scars and "tetters" for the liquid refreshment. He was not a prepossessing object. His long, lank hair fell down upon his coa'. :ollar. His beard was straggling and ontrimmed, and his nose was gone?that is to say, the nostrils were there, but only in the shape of two rifts or fissures in ' liis disfigured face, the bridge of that iistinguishing feature having been liter- : ally plowed away by a 6-shooter bullet in a duel at close quarters. Despite the disorder of his dress, due to dust and hard riding, the small stature j of the first speaker, his heavy mustache, bald forehead and nervous manner revealed Sheriff Mosely of Oskaloo. He blew the few remaining drops of spirit from {lis huge mustachios and tweaked them fiercely as he dismounted. "I reckon we better tie up till the sun gets dowiwa little," he said to his companions. "I ain't very well known here, | but if thet chap Kernochan is as likely i a feller as his pardner, Henry Bruce, wo won't get no slouch of a reception. Ye might give Smithareens a feed of corn afore ye come in." With this considerate suggestion for ; the welfare of his mare?a long limbed, j gannt, ill favored roan?he nnslung his i . mm revolvers from his saddle pommel and j strode away to the porch, buckling on j his holster belt as he went. The afternoon sunshine was slumbering on the broad veranda. A pair of Scotch greyhounds raised themselves la- j rily from the doorstone and barked at the stranger. The quick rustling of a woman's dress and a vision of fluttering 7 ribbons and flying braids as she hurried into the house indicated that the fair Kate had also been surprised by the arrival. "Doggone it, thet's a woman all overl" exclaimed the sheriff, halting in j his tracks and patting the heads of the J dogs, who fawned upon him. No dumb j animal could long resist the approaches j of Ike, much less anything of the canine type. He possessed the true sportsman's touch, and they detected it at once. "Thet's a woman every time," continued Mr. Mosely, confiding a knowing j wink to the posts of the front gallery, j "She's prob'ly gone in to slick up. It's no use though! I've been tryin to impress it on the female sex fur the best Dart of a w^arin life thet thev hain't no ! power natch'ally over the sheriff of Oskaloo." In spite of the emphatic protest of Mr. 1 Ike Moselyin regard to the invulnerability of his affections, it was quite noticeable that, having mounted the j 3teps, he took the opportunity of surveying his warlike undersize in the short mirror of the ranch window and actu- ' ally passed his short fingers through his | scanty locks as he sank down in the luxurious reclining chair. A small hand- | kerchief with polka dots?one of those delicate trifles that femininity affectswas crumpled up in the fur of the great 1 buffalo robe. Ike took it up carelessly ! It was redolent of a delicate perfume and pleasantly suggested the owner. He raised it reverently to his lips. "We don't get very much of this biz ness in our profession," he soliloquized, "but it's humanizin and makes a man re- i member who he is." He became strangely quiet, and his hard, steel blue eyes took on a softer look as the faint odor woke a chord of his memory. What was it about the scent of those orange blossoms that took him back in the past? He saw an old plantation house and its outlying fields of corn and cotton. The moon roso softly over the bayou, tipping the low porch with black and silver. Who was that standing in the shadow there, the vines of the trellis drifting in patches over her fair young face? And who that young fellow, small of stature. but lithe and active, slipping upon-the little hand a circlet of gold beneath the palo moon's glamour? Ah, yes, it was all past long ago! There was a small green mound out by the lagoon which the "sentinel cypress tree stands over." And the willows wailed a low dirge by the hurrying stream. It was all gone long ago! But somehow the rough sheriff, for all his brusqueness, found the sunlight too strong for his eyes again, even upon the shady veranda, and shielded them against it with his heavy hat brim. A step on the porch recalled him. It was Henry Bruce. He came toward him with an outstretched hand and a frank greeting. "Well, well, Sheriff Moselv, glad to see you've got over our way at last," ho said cordially, with a hearty handshake. "Which way this time?" "On the way hum now," Mosely rejoined, returning the grip with sinews *. f steel. "Badly done up, too, and gen'rally knocked out by the experience of the last three weeks. Me and my two depyties hev been down on the stage road, layin fur road agints day and night. We had a brush with 'em night afore last and done pretty well, but Humly Jim got a bullet through his hand, and Jake Sharp lost a finger. I ain't been in a bed fur a dog's age." "Any one killed?" inquired Bruce, knowing the sheriff's delicate habit of avoiding the fatal details in these midnight encounters. "Lessee!" said Mr. Mosely, putting his RD SEELY. Co. Published by special arrangements hem.] ! head on one side, closing his eyes and apparently indulging in a sincere effort ! of memory. "I disremember exactly whether it was three or five of them fellers passed in his chips. I got two, 1 know, with thet new self cockin colt's ole man Dallas give me. Geewhittaker! but thet are a pretty boy to shoot, natch'ally?beats the ole fashion of fillin the tumbler all to death. Humly Jim called one chap in with his Winchester? the best line runnin shot I ever see?by good luck h was the one who winged him. And, Jake, how many did you git, Jake?" he inquired, as the two deputies lounged slowly up the steps of the porch and lurched on tho low railing. "None," said Jake sullenly. "Not a mother's son ez I knows on. My hand was bleedin so like all possessed thet 1 hedn't any use fur a 6-shooter." He exhibited the stump of his tinger, bandaged in a bloody rag. It was now apparent that Humly Jim had also suffered in the night encounter. His left arm was worn in a sling. "Ef this yer foolishness continners," remarked Mr. Mosely in a disgusted tone, surveying his wounded subordinates, "the gals in this country will hev to put on their spectacles to find a sound, ablebodied man into it. They ain't a fighlin man in Oskaloo thet's got the average allowance of fingers and toes. Some's without ears, and they's a few"? chuckling softlv to himself?"ez is losin their hair, but the majority o' them are married." As the sheriff concluded he gravely uncovered his scanty locks and rubbed his bald pate with his red bandana. "N-n-nobody can a-alow thet a gal relieved you o' y-y-yourn," stammered Humly Jim with a spasm of merriment as malevolent as the laugh of a hyena. "Not much!" said the sheriff shortly. "They was a gal once who was a little soft on me, and she said to me, 'Oh, how I wish I hed your hair!' I hed more of the article then than I have now," Mr. Mosely remarked apologetically. "She said thet from a spirit o' gush, I reckon, but meanin it all the same, ye know. Howsumever, I didn't cotton. I suspicioned thet gal to hev designs on my futur' state and reckoned I'd give her a hint thet I was onto it. 'Sal,' sez I, 'ye can't hev my scalp nohow, much as ye admire it.' She never hed much to say to me arter thet." "To change the subject somewhat, gentlemen, from the fair sex to more vital interests," put in Henry Bruce, "I fear your labors are not yet over. I surprised Lem Wickson and his gang this morning engaged in their old pastime of hog hunting on my range. The hogs they were shooting belonged to Alcides Dallas and had his road brand. They were over by the 'soldier's water hole' on the Twin divides." "Ye don't say!" said Mosely, rising upon his elbow excitedly as he received this intelligence. "Is it possible them fellers are in thet bus'ness yet? They must be hankerin fur a term in jail at The Post, and Lem, I reckon, is lookin forward to bein'tlio piincipal figure in one o' them 'necktie matinees' thet I've presided at more frequent lately than 1 hev any use fur. Leastwise thet's wot he'll hev to attend ef he keeps on with this hoss stealin." "I'm too tuckered out jest now," continued Ike, sinking back in his chair with an air of fatigue, "and my possy is too badly used up to push things right away. I'll hev to enter a 'nolly prosequy' fur the present. But, howsumever," said he, rising up again excitedly and laying a significant hand on his revolver, "I'll run thet Lem Wickson down afore I'm a month older, or my name's not Mosely. Thet man is get tin on the inside track of my moral principles by his impudence, and thet's suthin I won't allow no one to do. Besides, 1 owe thet much to Allsides himself." Sheriff Mosely's righteous outburst of indignation was interrupted by the sound of footsteps and voices as Mrs. Kernochan and Miss Stafford came out upon the veranda. The usual courtesies were exchanged, the bluff sheriff exhibiting an offhand gallantry in meeting the ladies which invariably surprised those who knew the man and the rough duties of his calling. Far different was the bearing of the deputies, Jake Shary and Humly Jim, who were instantly surprised into that uncouthness which overtakes the uncultured male animal in the presence of beauty and refinement. They descended abruptly from their perches, executed the customary awkward salutation and then, climbing back upon the railing from sheer embarrassment, were overcome by a painful silence and a conviction of being all hands and feet. "You were speaking of Alcides Dallas Mr. Mosely," Mrs. Kernochan remarked, sitting down in one of the large old fashioned rockers. "How is that queer old man and his quaint little daughter? Does he entertain visitors as much as ever with his bewildering music upon the violin?" "Having just returned from a professional visit down in the lower country, I can't really say just how they are gettin on over by the Colorado," replied the sheriff, with a humorous twinkle of his blue eye that showed ho appreciated the lady's comment, "but I suppose the usual overtures to courtship and matrimony are still in order. By the way, are you ladies aware that there is to be a ball given at San Marcus immediately after the spring roundups? It can't be moro than a fortnight away, and such another opportunity for a stranger in the Lone Star to witness the gayeties of tho 6eason is not often afforded. You must ask Mr. Bruce to escort you." turning to Miss Stafford. "A ball!" exclaimed tho fair Edith, who had been leaning against a pillar of the veranda listening listlessly to the previous conversation, "a genuine frontier merrymaking such as I have heard so much about? That is delightful! 1 must see it by all means! You will take me, Hal, of course?" i i ,lA ball!" exclaimed the fair Edith. "I suppose so," replied Bruce in rather a hesitating tone on being thus directly appealed to. "I hope you won't think me rude, Edith, but the fact is I have already part way committed myself in regard to that affair." "And to whom, pray?" inquired Edith, raising her pretty brows in the completeness of her surprise. "What siren has anticipated me in this request, I should like to know?" "Oh, it's a little favor Miss Dallas requested during my visit there," Bruce responded carelessly enough. "I'm sorry these engagements conflict, however. What do you think I'd better do about it?" "Do about it?" returned Miss Stafford, with a proud toss of her head. "Why, you'll tako ino of course. You'll write Miss Dallas a note?I'll write it for yon if it's too much bother?in which you'll say that your first duty is with your Kuest. and that she won't release von | tinder any circumstances. I won't! I j think that disposes of tho matter very satisfactorily," she concluded, with a j certain triumphant smilo of superiority which would have charmed the absent Cynthia had she been privileged to witI ness it. "I'm afraid Cynthia will regard that as coming with a very ill grace from I me," Bruce rejoined, as if thinking i aloud. "However, there is considerable force in what you say. By the way, ! sheriff," he said suddenly as Mr. Mosely ; rose with a quick glance at the sun, as if , about to take his departure, "do you happen to be going in the direction of the 'Dallas ranch?'" "Well, I do happen to bo ridin that j way," Mosely replied- "I was about to i say, ladies, that I regret professional duties will prevent my offering my personal services in the present emergency." Tho sheriff belonged to that recognized class of individuals whoso vocabulary improves with their surroundings. "But that being, unfortunately, out of the question, Mr. Bruce, if I can take any message to Miss Cyn thia or do you any other favor. I'm here to do it!" "No message is necessary?tlinnks!" Bruce rejoined in rather an emphatic tone, "and I feel a natural reluctance about making the request I do. The fact is I think a guitar would bo such an improvement upon that poor, weather beaten banjo Miss Dallas possesses that I should like to send her my own. I think, | with her knowledge of the banjo, she will readily learn to play upon it. But it's an awkward thing to carry in the saddle, sheriff." "Bless your soul, man, don't let that worry you!" exclaimed Mr. Mosely; "ef there's a strap or band about it, I'll pack j it as easily as ef it were a grip sack. Let's i have it at once!" Thus urged, Bruco stepped quickly , into the house, returning with the instrument enveloped in a green baize case j "They'll take me for a traveling min, strel show this time, sure enough," i laughed Ike, passing the attached ribbon deftly over his shoulder. J "Rather a dangerous one to interfere j with, though," commented Mrs. Kernochan. with a gesture indicative of his revolvers, contrasting strangely with the suggestion of the troubadour at his back. "They don't tally very well together, that's a fact!" said Ike, glancing down, "but I'm equally prepared now, you see, I for peace or war. Well, goodby, ladies, j I must be off. It's a long ride yet to Os! kaloo. Come, boys!" and baring his | bald brow in a sweeping salutation the iheriflf was off to the gate with his quick, nervous stride, j Jake Sharp and Humly Jim dropped i down from the railing of the veranda. | like a pair of rusty coated crows which j had been spending the interval in quiet and gloomy communion upon some convenient fence. With bows that were i phenomenal for their awkward originality they slouched away after their chief. ; There was a leisurely adjusting of girth and stirrup at the rancho gate, a i hurried scramble into the saddle and an abrupt departure. Smithareens developing some eccentricity?possibly o\vj ing to the strange burden her rider bore ! ?called for a display of horsemanship on the part of the sheriff, which was promptly responded to with whip and i 6pur. This incident awoko the latent humor and merriment of the two deputies. At last, with loud laughter, a clatter of hoofs and an accompanying cloud of dust the cavalcade got fairly under 1 way. In a few moments their mounted j figures were scarcely discernible amid i the lengthening shadows of the valley. [TO UK CONTIXUKI) XKXT WKKK.] IMPORTANT FACT ABOUT CHOLERA, j The most important fact about j cholera, a fact to bear in mind and to emphasize, is that it is a dis9a.se which ; is never generated on this continent I and can come here only by importation. ! It has never traveled faster than it could he conveyed by sea or by land, and it has always followed in the track of human migrations or of commerce. After every visitation in America or in i Europe, it has been completely stamped out in both these continents. When it i has come again it has always been ! brought from its breeding-place?Asia. If quarantine is a successful method of prevention by communities and by ! continents, as it has proved to be over and over again, the same method is api plicable (to a great degree) to personal prevention of the disease when it has invaded the community. Cholera is | not communicated directly from one person to another, even under eircum! stances of the greatest intimacy ; yet it is spread only by patients afflicted with the disease. By means of one infected person, in whom the disease has * manifested itself by only an apparently insignificant diarrlnea, cholera can be conveyed to a whole locality. This person may travel without further development of the disorder, but he may ' leave behind him matter which may give rise to a most deadly epidemic. It 1 is thus no longer inexplicable how the cholera, in its wanderings, takes no defined course, but spreads indifferently, now from west to east, now from east to west; now with wind and now ! against it; in cold weather as in warm weather; how it always follows the routes of travel; how it does not go from to place in a shorter time than is required for men to travel the same distance, and how, since the building of railways, it has been able to spread more quickly than before. Sometimes it has made great leaps. In the localities visited by the disease, the houses and streets in which those infected reside, are, of course, the places of the * 1 T? 1 1 ,,..1 ?l...t greatest, uanger. n iius iiuppuucu unit a single house or street has for a long time been the only infected locality, lint while those buildings or neighborhoods, first visited by the cholera, are being depopulated, the infection, sooner or later, is easily communicated to other houses ami streets, partly by means of common privies and partly by other ways, surely by water if tunny means the water supply has been affected.?The l'oruin. ? "What is Lin:?"?"What is Life?" . someone asked Mont ford, and he beautifully replied: "The present life is sleeping and waking: it is 'good night' | on going to bed, and 'good morning" ! on getting up; it is to wonder what | the day will bring forth ; it is rain on the window as one sits by the lire: it is to walk in the garden and see the (lowers and to hear the birds sing; it is to have news from the east, west, north and south, it is to see pictures and hear music: it is to have Sundays: it is to pray with a family morning and evening; it is to set in twilight and meditate; it is to have breakfast dinner and tea; it is to belong to a town and have neighhbors, and to become one circle of acquaintances; it is to have friends and love; it is to have sight of dear old faces, and with , some men it is to be kissed by the same loving, lips for fifty years, and it is to know themselves thought of many times a day, in many places by : children, grand-children and many friends." ?a?" In China there is a profession for ' ladies, strange, necause openly and ( handsomely remunerated. It is carried on by elderly ladies who go from house to house of rich people announcing their coming by heating a drum, and ottering their services to amuse the lady of the house. This ofFer accepted they sit down and tell the latest scandal and the newest stories and on dits, and are rewarded j at the rate of half a crown an hour, | besides a handsome present should j some of their gossip have proved parI ticularly acceptable. pistcUiuirmis jSfitcling. j I THE AGE OFALUMINIDM | The World Shall Shine with New Luster. i TWENTIETH CENTURY PROPHECY. Professor Kid path Foresees Grcut Things. Secretary Noble on tlio Development ol tho West?Secrctnry Foster and H. Walter Webb on Railway Speed?Shall We Have a New White House? [Copyright, 1893, by American Press Association.] Among the greatest changes which the | , fifth Columbinn yeur will discover will be i the substitution of aluminium for iron and of Kound for sight in tho work of learning. These things civilization demands and will find in the Twentieth century. Both of I these substitutions imply a (striking change In the relations of man to the laws of his ' environment. The progress of the human race has been marked and recorded at every stage by the nse of materials found in the earth. The | present civilisation of the world is founded on iron. For nearly 3,000 years iron has been the most important material sub stance in the arts of life. We live in an uge J of iron. The whole present fabric ic builded ! almost exclusively on this coarse, strong ! metal. The age of iron marks the first ( emergence of mankind into^the conscious , state. Before the epoch of nationnl con ' j sciousness there had been two ages of stone. | Barbarism has always had stone for its sub I stance aud symbol. In the intermediate [ stages of man life the race advanced to copper and then to bronze. There was a brief : 1 copper age and then a longer age of bronze, Finally came the age of iron. It has been the age of battle and power and conquest. Civilization has caught her hue and quality from that material substance to which she has owed her preservation. We are not to suppose that the age of iron will last forever. Nothing lasts ' lorever. All things obey the law of evolution and transformation. Justus stone and bronze have given place to iron, so shall iron give place to aluminium. The people will not call it aluminium or aluminum. but alum?for short There will be an age of alum surpassing all the pre vious ages of man's development. The age of power and conquest shall yield to an age of glory and enlightenment, and of that age aluminium will be the shining symbol. That beautiful, universal and everlasting metal, constituting as it docs so large a part of the earth's surface and body, will l>ear up the whole stupendous fabric of knowledge and progress which shall rise around our descendants in the closing decudeof the Twentieth century. The world shall shine with the new luster of its principal metal. All things shall became whiter than silver. All the exterior aspects of life shall be burnished to brightness. The houses and cities of men, j built of aluminium, shall flash in the rising i sun with surpassing brilliancy. All spires and walls, all gateways and lurches, all bridges and temples, all moving enginery j and farofT battlements shall blaze with a i splendor befitting the new dawn of the ages to coma The second great change from the fourth I to the fifth Columbian year will be the sub- , stitution of sound for sight. It will be the , restoration of the human ear to its rightful ! 1 office as the organ of enlightenment and learning. The sound wave is to be substituted for the light wave as the vehicle of all our best information und intercourse. The ear is to take the place of the eye for the interast and instruction of mankind, i A mast unnatural thing has huppened in human development. The life of all ages ' has been instructed by sound. All mothers, from the mother bird to the | mother woman, teach their offspring by sound, by utteranca But instead of continuing this natural process of instruction to the complete development of the mind . an abnormal method has been substituted. j The youth at a certain ago is led into a l world of science and there dismissed to ' acquire if he can the painful use of mean- j lngless hieroglyphics. There ho must study with the eye, learning the senso of crooked marks which can at most signify no more than words. Alas, how much of energy i andlifeand thought have been wasted in i the instruction of the mind by characters < and symbols! How the eyes of mankind have been dimmed and eclipsed and the ! laculties overheated by this unnatural proc! ess of learning! Man begins his acquirement of knowl ! edge with words, and ho ends with words. But an unnatural civilization has tuught him to walk the greater part of hi? intel Jectual journey by means of arbitrary systems of writing and printing. The fifth Columbian year will see him untaught?a hard tiling withal?and retaught on nature's plan of utterance. Nature teaches by sound only. Artificiality writes ascrawl. j Nature's book is a book of words. Man's i book is still a book of signs and symbols. Nature's book utters itself to tho ear, and mail's book blinds the eyes and overheats the imagination. Nature's method is to teach by the ear and to save the sight for the discovery of place und beadty. The fifth centennial of our discoverer will bring us the sound book in some form, und * with that the intellectual equipoise of mankind will begin to be restored. The uso of the eye for the offices of learning in place of the stronger ear has destroyed the equilibrium of the human mini Thatequi- . Jibrium must bo restored. Tho mental diseases and unrest of our race are largely attributable to the overexcitement of the ! faculties through ages of seeing. The uge of hearing is to come with the Twentieth century. That ago will restore the balance. Memory, almost obliterated, ? will come again. The perceptions will cool. ' The imagination will become calm, and the eye itself will recover from tho injuries of overstrain and regain its power and luster. Man will see once more as tho eagle sees and will know Shakespeare by heart. lie will remember all knowledge and will see again, as of old, from Sicily'to Carthage! JOHN CLARK RIDPATH. Secretary Noble on the Development or tho West. [From Our Washington Correspondent.] Said Secretary Noble, of the interior department: "The most stupendous changes in the United States during the next 100 years are to come in the far west. A ten! tury hence the world will see in the plains and mountain region of North America an empire such us the ancients never even dreamed of. All through that region, much of which is now arid and not populated, , Will be a population as dense as. the Aztecs i ever had in their palmiest days in Mexico and Central America. Irrigation is the magic wand which is to bring about these great changes. "I>ast summer I traveled much in tha far I west, and the effects of irrigation are indeed wonderful. Here runs a ditch skirted by a hedge. On one side is the desert, a bar ren plain, only sagebrush and cactus grow ing out of its parched soil, on the other side waving fields ol alfalfa, grain, vegetu bles and other crops, rich and luxuriant. The alfalfa produces three crops in n year and is splendid food lor sheep and cattle. I It needs no prophetic eye to see this region ; all subjected to irrigation and one of the j greatest agricultural countries in the world. With agriculture and mining manufacturing will follow. The market will constantly move nearer instead of getting farther away. "Vast sections of our country, now in ! habited only by coyotes and roaming red i skins, will become the seat of the empire of a hundred years lience. 1 have no fear that America will grow too big. This republic is not going to get so large that it j will fall to pieces of its own weight, nor 1 will the people, widely separated by distance, suiter from lack of hcterogeneoustiess or common sympathy. "One of the most wonderful things at { this day to me in the far west is the likeness of the people there to the people of the I Atlantic seaboard. They are with us in thought, speech, in feeling, in aspirations, in patriotism. Indeed they have more patriotism than we seem to have farther east. The nearer one gets to the Canadian border the warmer appears the love < f the 1 United States, the more eager our citizens to float the stars and stripes. Up in Monj tana near the British line 1 found American citizens who kept their (lags flying day and night, so anxious were they to advertise t their country and their loyalty to it. j "Notwithstanding the vastness of our area and the immense distances between ! our far eastern and our far western posses- : fcions, every truly national thought appears I to be known in one place as quickly as in | the other. What some one has happily { called thought waves go over this coun! try with astonishing rapidity. The habits of the people are substantially .the same? tlic forms of speech, the idioms, even the slang. We are indeed one. . ] "If this is true now with our present < methods of communication, how much i truer will it be 100 years hence, when to ' < the mail and the telegraph, the railway 1 1 and the stagecoach, are added postal te- I I legraphy, electric railways, long distance ; ' and short distance telephoning as cheap : \nd common as post routes, and heaven j t only knows what inventions besides for 1 facilitating and cheapening comniunicu- : < tion and transportation? Go into the pat- I < ent office, which is a part of this great bu- 1 rcau, and see what we have done in 100 ( years. With that before him no man dare ' set a limit us to what may be done in the j i next 100 years. "As nnr rountrv irrows in both area and i i population the means of communication I 1 will hecome moro and more perfect, and j ] Lower California nnd faraway Alaska will 1 be as near to Massachusetts, New York and ! I Ohio In thought and sympathy as people of j < adjoining states or communities are to j 1 each other. But for these tneans of quick, ; i cheap and easy communication, preserving j 1 heterogeneousness among the people and I maintaining sympathy and understanding | between them, the future of this great re | I public would not he as bright as it is. "A hundred yejrrs hence these United j < States will be an empire such as the world < never before saw, and such a&.vill exist no- < where else upon the globe. In my opinion, < the richest part of it, and a section fully as [ i populous as the east, will be in the region j i beyond the Mississippi." 1 I Vice President Webb on Itiillwuy Develop- J 1 uicnt. It is not easy to make any positive pre- i ' dictions alwut the increase in railway speed, or at least to put a limit upon the possibil- i ! ity of swift travel in the next century, yet ; it is safe to make some approximate sug- : gestions based upon judgments that come ' from the experience of today. A few years ago an express speed of thir- : ' ty-fivc miles an hour was regarded as fast ' travel. Today there are a number of trains which make regular runs of between forty ( and fifty miles an hour, and there is one ' train runniug from New York to Buffalo on the New York Central, a distance of 444 ! miles, at an average speed of about fiftythree miles an hour. This.same train has made the run once at an average of less than a mile a minute, and it frequently at- | tains a speed of as much as seventy or sev ( cnty-five miles an hour. This experience, which is comparatively ' 1 recent, has convinced me that we are still j 1 much under the limit of what may be ex- j f pected by travelers in the Twentieth cen 1 tury. 1 expect to see even before the Twen- j tieth century trains running regularly at j J an average of sixty miles an hour, and I have no doubt at all that early in the next j century there will be a number of trains on some of the greater roads whose schedule J time will call for as much as 100 miles an , hour. I have no doubt that a traveler early in the next century will be able to get iiis , breakfast in New York and hisevening din nerin Chicago. We have already learned how to con- ! struct locomotives which are capable of j making ninety miles and more an hour, and | we have learned how best to utilize their ; enormous powers. Given the perfect loco- ! motive?and we have very nearly secured j the perfect machine of this sort?we need t only two or three other conditions. There must be a perfectly constructed track and J roadbed. It must have inappreciable grades j and very slight curves. It must be so made i as to be elastic and yet withstand easily the i ( strain caused by high speed. Then we must j g have a perfect signal system. That I am . sure will be developed. The block system of today is sufficiently i 1 thorough to make the high rates of speed I attained by trains on my own road, for in * stance, possible. There should be no grade i crossings?these cat up time dreadfully i ( sometimes?and passenger cars must be I light, but very strong, and the number of ' ( them limited to a high speed train. We need the best coal and of course highly I trained employees. With these conditions? ' and they are sure to be obtained early in t the next century?I feel safe in saying that ( regularly scheduled' daily trains running I t 100 miles an hour will be advertised by ! ( many of the railway companies. The question of safety and of popularity j will be uo more considered than ure the ! } same questions when a person enters an or 1 dinary express train of the present timo. i With the conditions that I have described ' t above, a train running 100 miles an hour is | ] just as safe as one running forty. In either ! j case if an accident happeus it is likely to [ prove disastrous. The tendency of the ! . time is toward rapid travel, and it has al ! 1 ready been discovered that these fastest I 1 trains are not an experiment, but are put on ; t the roads in response to a public demand t H. WALTER WEBB ; j : f Secretary Charles Foster on the Uses ol j Electricity. j [From Our Washington Correspondent.) Secretary Foster, of the treasury department, looks to see the people of the Uuited j t States traveling at the rate of a hundred 1 miles an hour a hundred years hence by means of electrical railways. "While trav- j i eling in the west a few months ago," said j the secretary, "I read in a newspaper the > advertisement of the company which has ' projected an electric railway from Chicago . to St. Louis. As 1 understand it. they are going ahead in a businesslike way. making j s contracts for construction, having passed 1 t through theexperimental stage and reached t the plane of reality and commercial cer j tainty. Their expectation Is to make the | <; journey from Chicago to St. Louis in two ^ hours and a half, or at the rate of a hun j dred miles an hour. "It occurred to me then that these men ( must know what they are about, and that ] if a hundred miles an hour can l>e realized i with safety anil economy in thus century it ( Is uot too much to say that 50 per cent, j greater speed, or possibly 100 per cent., will ^ be reached a hundred years hence. Still, to be conservative and within the limits of the I 1 probable, 1 will estiiuute that in the year ( 1902 it will be a common thing to travel t from New York to Chicago in seven or ( eight hours. t "I remember ulso reading a short time ' j ago in one of Walter Wellman's letters , that Thomas A. Edison, the greatest genius { of thisceutury, says electricity is terrestrial magnetism, and that the universe is full of 1 it. According to Edison, the present sys- I \ tem of producing electricity by friction is 1 very expensive compared with what may j y be done by simpler processes. Edison be- j lievcs electricity may be pumped out of the j earth, or the sea, or the air, just as water is I , pumped out of a stream, the only tiling necessary being to find the form of pump J that will do the trick. I ] "This, I understand, Edison is now look- 1 ing for and experimenting on, and if we y may estimate his future accomplishment | by what lie lias already douo he will sue- j ceed in finding the pump that will extract electricity or terrestrial magnetism, or ( whatever it is, from the earth at a cost so I ' low as to make electricity the universal ' power. Imagine the revolution that will ; come in all civilization if Edison or some one else succeeds in doing this. Given - ? ? ?. <i,? ... t electricity at unt-icum |m?n. and electrical power will become universal, s Steam and all other sorts of power will be ' displaced, and with invention stimulated, < , as it will be, by the extraordinary cheap- j ness of the new power, what may we not expect in the way of rapid transit, house- ' Jiold conveniences, electrical carriages to ' take the place of horses, elevators in busi- < ness and private houses, and all sorts of i machinery? i < "If this theory of Edison proves to be cor- | rect, and the electrical experts are not mis- ; j taken in their plans for rapid travel, the next hundred years will develop changes more stupendous than have been shown by I ' the last hundred, in which pretty nearly J every useful thing there is in the world hns ( been invented, I cannot rid myself of the 5 belief that we are 011 the eve of an Indus- 1 trial revolution as a result of electrical re- j search and experiment, and I take much . comfort from tho reflection that the people of the United States are likely to be the 1 first to feel the good effect of the new dispensation?ure, in fact, as is their wont, to I lead the nations on to a more perfect'and : perhaps as yet undreamed of civilization." | 1 Klljali W. Hulford on the White House of j the Future. j tFrom Our Washington Correspondent.] ( "In the executive mansion of a hundred 1 years hence," said President Harrison's , private secretary, Elijah W. Ilalford, "I think I can see the present building as the ' central part. There is 110 doubt that this > building will soon have to be enlarged. There is not room enough in it for the fam- . ' ily and the office of the president and for | the social entertainments or public levees which tradition requires the president to I give. Hut I do not think the people will j ever consent to the destruction of this house. Too many memories cling about it; I too many of the great men and great events of the country's history have been associ- , ated with it. | "Since I have been here I have often won- I dered at the skill with which our forefo- , thers built this mansion. A hundred years have passed since its foundations were started ?the cornerstone of the White | [louse was laid a century ago the 14th day | if October?and it is a good, serviceable 1 ind comfortable house still. Its only deliiiency is in the mutter of room. It is stately, elegant, impressive. In its enlargement I think some such plan as that suggested by the late Mrs. Harrison will lie followed j ?preservation of the present structure and throwing out of wings on either side. That would give room for the living apart incuts if the president's family, for the public { iffices and for the ceremonial or social funcLions which must take place in the presi I Jent's house. "The White House o' the future will, therefore, in rny opinion, be simply the White House of the present enlarged. I do not believe it will ever be found desirable ; LO bupiiriitu IUU (iicaiucub a iwiuciitu IIUIII i bis office. My four years' experience here lias convinced me, moreover, that in the future the private secretary to the presilent and his family should also be provided ivith living apartments in the executive Mansion. The president of the United States linds it necessary to work nearly all the time, and when he works he wants his private secretary close at hand. This means the night as well as the day. "Probably more than half the evenings if the last four years I have spent in my i affice, busy c'therwith my own work or ! standing ready to assist the president. To ;lo this I have had to leave my own home night after night, often at much inconvenience. The private secretary should have liis home in a part of the executive mansion set apart for his use, and this necessity ill on Id be recognized in the enlargement of the house and should be made a part of the j law under which the mansion is re-created. . "A hundred years hence I think the presi- I lent of the United States will have much less work upon his hands than he has now, though the country will be twice as great ind the government correspondingly larger, for long before that time presidents will lease to give personal consideration to a myriad of matters which now consume their time and their energies. The presi lent of the future will not, in my opinion, pay any attention to minor appointments. "Every government post, aside from cab net ministers, foreign ministers and a few aureau officers and perhaps a score or so of the most important administrative offices, ivill be filled by heads of departments withiut so much us consultation with the presi- ! lent. Under the present system four-fifths j if the president's time is taken with these minor appointments. He is perplexed, anaoyed, worn out by them. His energies are so sapped that it is only by tremendous i sacrifice of comfort and strength that he is iblc to give thought and study to the important and serious matters of state demanding his attention. "Mr. Blaine said to me a year or two ago ;hat he believed the day was soon coming ,vhen a president would not permit himself ;o be bothered about postmasters and col- ! ectors and consuls any more than a rail- j ,vuy president would spend his time hiring jrakemen and track repairers. My ob lervation in the White House has been that >ome such change in administrative meth xls is not only deSirnble, but absolutely lecessary in the near future;" PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S POLICY. The Washington correspondent of ! ,he St. Louis Republic thus outlines ! President Cleveland's financial policy: i President Cleveland is accumulating nformation and data for his message to :ongress when it convenes in special icssion in September. He is devoting mrticular attention to the question of ; in income tax, and is making a com- j dete study of that question, seeking ; ill the information from many men of i natiy minds that he can obtain, and lrawing his own conclusions. There is no longer a doubt that Mr. Cleveland will urge an income tax >olicy upon congress. The question las narrowed down to an income ax or the restoration of the tax >n sugar and perhaps on coffee and ea. Mr. Cleveland came to the con- ! dusion that it would be better policy j o tax the accumulated millions of the | veal thy than to levy on the breakfast able of the poor. The president has discussed the juestion of an income tax and legis- j ation generally with the chief men of j lis party who have called upon him : luring the past few weeks. He has j ndicated very plainly to them that his eanings were in favor of an income ax, and has asked them to submit heir views upon the (juestion to him n writing. The president is not going, i rom all accounts, to make any recom- 1 nendations regarding the limit of tax, vherc it should begin or where it ihould end. He will advocate the general principle and trust to congress o work out the details satisfactorily. It is also certain that he will recomnend the repeal of the 10 per cent, i irohibitory tax on State bank issues. There is a report that several finan:iers of distinction in New York have ! >een at work on the new banking icheme for the purpose of expanding lie currency for some time past, with ! he president's approval. This new icheme is that the 10 per cent, tax on Rate banks should be repealed and hat an act should be passed allowing he different States to charter banks j m a silver bullion basis. That is, that icople desiring to engage in the bankng business might be enabled to do so 1trw? 012 tlin rmtiriTYnl )\\ UiUDU liic naniv iiuu ao inv mnks ure chartered now, silver bullion o be made the basis of the currency I nstead of bonds; that any association jhartered by the States to engage in lie banking business could issue mon- 1 ;y ou the silver bullion basis, say notes ! o the extent of $80,000 when the bank- ; ng association has purchased $100,000 vorth of silver bullion. j This scheme, it will he seen, would ;ive the silver dollar a chance. It is /ery plausible and there is reason to jelieve that the president considers it /ery seriously and it may be a part of lis financial scheme when he submits lis views to congress in September. The report here is that ex-Secretary ' Pairehild, David A. Wells, Carl Schurz, | Edward Atkinson and other financiers, | joth practical and theoretical, are now i tvorking out the scheme in detail with lie president's approval, and that he lopes to outline the general principle )f the idea to the cabinet in the near i "lit ure. ' STAR TIME AND SUN TIME. The time for sending out the noon signal at Washington is the instant the sun crosses the seventy-fifth meridian, i This, however, is not the sun which jives us light and heat, but an invisijle, imaginary one; because, for the lertain reason, the true sun does not | toss the meridian at the same moment j ivcry day, but during one part of the | year he gets over it a little more ahead time each day, and during the other part he is correspondingly behind ;ime; and so this fictitious sun is j ised, because its apparent path around die'earth brings it exactly over the I mine line at the same moment every lay. Now at just what instant this | mil crosses the meridian is determined >y means of the stars; for the time at the observatory is not reckoned i>y ihe sun, but by the stars. Kvcry clear nij^ht an astronomer at the observatory looks through a large telescope for certain stars which he knows must cross i certain time at certain times, and by 1 the use of an electrical machine he makes a record of the time each star passes, as shown by a clock which keeps sideral or star time. He then ! consults a printed table, which shows ; him at just what line each star must , have passed, and by as much as this j time differs from that recorded by the 1 dock the latter is wrong, and in that way the sideral clock is regulated. This star time is then reduced to sun time, which requires some calculation, us there is a difference between the two of about four minutes each day. These two clocks?one keeping star time and the other sun time?are of very fine quality, and arc as near perfection as possible. Although they cannot help being affected by changes jf temperature and different conditions of the atmosphere, they are very rarely more than the fractional part of a second out of the way. No attempt ; ci is ever made to correct such errors, ; ai but they are carefully noted and allow- I ed for in making calculations. For ! w the purpose of distributing time a tc third clock known as a transmitter, is li used. This is set to keep time by the \ oi seventy-fifth meridian, and is regula- i cc ted hy the standard clock before men- c< tioned. It is in all respects similar to tl the other clocks except that it has at- lc tached to it an ingenious device hy gi which an electric circuit may be alter- tl natcly opened and closed with each ci beat of the pendulum.?Ladies' Home Journal. is LOCOMOTIVES OF 1831 AND 1893. j11 Among the exhioits at the Chicago World's Fair, in which are shown con- , trusts between past and present, none jj will more strikingly illustrate the gc progress made in the last sixty years j than the exhibit of the New York ^ Central and Hudson River railroad, consisting of a reproduction of the I)e Witt Clinton locomotive, which was i the first engine to draw a train in the j State,of New York, and the sixty-two In toir passenger locomotive 999, on the i g, New York Central and Hudson River | railroad, just turned out of the New j York Central shops at West Albany, j . The I)e Witt Clinton was built in j Jj New York city in 1831, at the West Point foundry, located at the foot of Reach street. The engine had tour j . drive wheels, 4 feet 6 inches in diam- .^ eter; the cylinders, two in number, j ' were oA inches in diamter by 16 inch j ^ stroke. The boiler had thirty copper tubes, 2$ inches in diamter; the engine i weighed about six tons, and was pro- 1 vided with a tender carrying fuel and ! rj, water. On the tender there was a seat for the conductor. The engine had a ^ boiler feed pump driven from the crosshead, and also a hand feed pump. This engine drew a train of three L coaches, made in the style of the oldfashioned stage coaches. Trial trips c< were made on the Mohawk and Hud- w son railroad at various times from Ju- ' w ly 2 to August 9, 1831, when the first regular trip was made. The passen- j gers on this occasion were Erastus Corning, Mr. Lansing. ex-Governor Yates, J. J. Boyd, Esq., Thurlow ' Weed, Esq., Mr. Van Zant, Billy Winne, penny postman, John Townsend, Esq., Major Meigs, Old Hays, high constable of New, York, Mr. Joseph Alexander, of the commercial bank, : Lewis Benedict, Esq., and J. J. I)e . Graft. David Matthews was engineer and John T. Clark was conductor. n The signal for starting was given by . blowing a tin horn. The fuel used on this trip was dry pitch pine, coal baving proved unsatisfactory, and as there ^ was no spark arrester on the stack, the smoke and sparks were freely poured ' on the passengers in the coaches. They raised their umbrellas to protect . j themselves, but the covers were soon burned oil', and the passengers busied I ? themselves in putting out in each I .. other's clothes the fires started by the j ^ hot cinders. When a stop was made at . a water station, the slack between the . iw?n/1 /I 1 CO OrVPPahl P. I ;red something about fetching them i the cart, climbed into that vehicle [id drove off. A little later lie again rove in sight surrounded by much (under. Aware of his oddities, the "owd was on tiptoe to see the dcouneement. "Mr. Chisel," he said, addressing the lerchant, and with great deliberation e proceeded to unload, "here's my uoks. I)esc three barrels shows how luch heaben dus (flour) I's had ; desc jrn cob stoppers tells how many jugs r 'lasses I'se toted away ; dese paper rings says how many times you's rapped up sugar an' eawfee for me, n' as to how many sides er Baltimore J >acon) I's hauled home, jest come an' junt de greasy spots in my ole cyart | ottom wid yo' own eyes. I)ey all ' tuui.lira, ? II1VI1 J,.wv.v.v,v,^ -.w~e --- rf jerks, was partly remedied by wedg- .g ing rails from u neighboring fence be- Q) tween the cars and tying them fast. Engine 999 representing the accumulation of knowledge, skill and experi- ^ ence of over sixty years in locomoti\e engineering and building, is the latest and probably the finest locomotive in this country. It was designed by Mr. " William Buchanan, superintendent of the motive power of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad, and was built at the shops of the com- 11 pony, at West Albany. The cylinders & are 19 inches in diameter by 24 inch stroke. The drivers, of which there st are four, arc 7 feet 2 inches in diame- o ter, and the tires are 3A inches thick ? and 5J inches wide, secured to the cast at iron centers by Mansell retaining rings, ai The truck wheels, which are 40 inch- w es in diameter, are also provided with 11 steel tires and Mansell retaining rings. w The total wheel base is 23 feet 11 inch- ]l es. The weight on the four driving 11 wheels, loaded, is 84,000 pounds, and ? 011 the engine truck 40,000 pounds, g( making a total of 123,000 pounds, w The boiler is of the wagon top style, and the lirebox is of the Buchanan type, with a water arch. It is 108 * inches long and 40J inches wide. The ? total heating surface is 1,930 square feet, with a grate surface of 30.7 01 square feet. The height of the engine ^ at the center of the boiler is 8 feet 11A inches above the rail. A The boiler is designed to carry 190 pounds working pressure to the square ^ inch. The tender has a coal capacity tl of 63 tons, and carries 3,857 gallous of ft, water, and is fitted with a water scoop. ft] The weight of the tender loaded is b 80,000 pounds. The engine is fitted t( with the Westinghouse air brake, and p the engine and brake are fitted with the Westinghouse air signal. The lo- , Q comotivc was three months in build- fj] ing and cost in the neighborhood of c $12,000. . . . S This new engine differs 111 outward Q, appearance from those previously built. | No brasswork is visible. The iron- j n work is well finished and polished. | g( The pipes are nickel plated and the n painted portions are striped with silver ftj leaf. A round headlight is mounted j over the smokestack. This engine is designed to draw the Empire State express. Ou its way to the Chicago Exhibition it easily made j a speed of 803 miles per hour, and the ; designers und builders believe thftt after it has worn enough to smooth up its j bearings, it will create a sensation in the matter of speed.?Scientific American, Illustrated. now PROSPERITY IVILL COME. k Prosperity will not come to the | ol South through any socialistic or pater- tr nal system of legislation. No act of 01 congress will ever abolish poverty, and w the triumph of 110 political party will j it ever supply the people with money I hi when they have nothing of value to L exchange for it. . ' 01 When permanent prosperity comes to this section it will assume the shape 1 h, of diversified industry. It will come, ol as Ingersoll says, through the white j n< and golden harvest fields; leaping from 1 the whirling spindles and the turning ; In wheels; flashing from the open fur- b< mice doors ; darting out from the Ham- di in" forges; rushing by the chimneys in filled with eager fire?greeted and w grasped by the countless sons of toil. The factory will be the material sal- m vation of the South. It will draw tl thousands of men from the mass of ag- , riculturists, and make them consume ct and pay good prices for the products j m of our farmers, while they in turn pro- , duce the articles of necessity needed bi in every farmer's home. . . j11 If we would see our towns and cities tc built up we must let the factory do its hi perfect work. Divide our people into ti only two classes?farmers and traders ' ai and there will never be any real 1 prosperity. I nder such a system the . tc farmers will simply bedevil the soil, ( ir while the traders bedevil them. Farm- ai ers raising one crop at a loss will grow d poorer every year, auu me uuueo , pi grinding their uncertain profits out of I ei such a class will build up nothing. in The factory is the thing. Its skilled workers drawing good wages makes m the home market that is needed by the. h tillers of the soil. Their demands, b< hacked by ready cash, will cause the in agriculturists to diversify their crops ; c< and produce everything that is wanted : ei in the nourishing town, that will clus- st ter around the factory. w Every well managed factory will a: draw around it a circle of stores, and (I beyond them will be a circle of happy c< homes, and then will come widening hi rcles of market gardens, small farms id prosperous plantations. The factory stimulates the exchanges | hich are the very life-blood of both I >wn and country. Atlanta is an il- | istration. As a commercial center jr city would give employment to miparatively few. As an industrial inter she gives employment to more >an 15,000 workers. We must foliw this line in order to reach our icatcst development. Take care of ic factory, and the factory will take ire of us. Create the factory where none ex- j ts; enlarge it and help it when you ave it, and when it stands off amidst nprofitable surroundings and looks mgingly in this direction, invite it to < ake its home here where cheaper | ,bor and raw material and perfect i istributing facilities will double and j Miictimes quadruple its dividends. This is the winning policy for the 1 iuth.?Atlanta Constitution. A QUESTION OK FINANCE. The New York Times eives the fol iwing as the reasons why the United tates treasury fails to accumulate )ld: It is worth while from time to time ? make a note of the eflect of the lierman law "of 1890 upon the treasry receipts and the various kinds of oney of which they are composed. 1 July, 1890, the last month before le treasury note of 1890 came into cirllation, 95.4 per cent, of the receipts ir customs in New York were gold >in or certificates, the remaining fracon being silver certificates and nited States notes or greenbacks, wo years later there was less than 14 sr cent, of gold, 15 per cent, of silver, j I per cent, of greenbacks, and 43 per | :nt. of treasury notes issued under the i lierman act. In April of this year ; le gold had fallen to nearly 3 per i int., silver, 23 per cent., greenbacks , ere 41 per cent., and treasury notes 1 ere 33 per cent. In other words, gold has practically isappeared, and nearly three-fourths I F the receipts are in greenbacks, I hich are redeemable in gold, and easury notes, which are practically ) redeemable, while the remainder is lade up of silver certificates. The 'turn of the silver certificates simply Ids to the standard dollars owned by le government. They would not >me in if there were any'use for them i the general circulation of the couny. The treasury notes of 1890 are in early the same case. They also come , ito the treasury only when there is i excess of- them issued. What the Dvernment is doing, therefore, is this : , is buying silver at the rate of some 50,000,000 worth a year and issuing otes for it payable in gold, aud these otes are flowing steadily back into : le treasury, while no gold is being j 3t with which to redeem them. ! J hen this process began there was I 190,000,000 net gold in the treasury, fhen it had gone on for one year there ! as ouly $121,000,000 net gold in the j easury. By another year this was j iduced to $110,000,000. Today there less than $100,000,000. The end is tilv a nuestion of time. ~W ? 1 NATURE. 'ritten for the Yorkville Enquirer. The beauties of nature ! What a leme! A theme upon which the geius of poetry, covering a period of x thousand years, has been exhaust1, and yet the half has not been ; >ld. And yet the great majory of the human race, in all ages, /en down to the present day, have j )ent their days with opeu eyes, i ;eing and yet bliud; for how many j f us appreciate the grand panorama f Nature, who, "with open volume j auds, to spread her Maker's praise j broad." Henry Ward Bcecher, (whose = ords I've forgotten) once remarked, | i substance as follows; This great orld, with its towering mountains, s flowing rivers, its sparking lakes, s clear, limped, perennial streams, its , lillions of feathered songsters of goreous plumage, its lovely flowers, in hich are blended all the varied tints : F the rainbow ; the "silver moon," the j vinkling stars, the "golden king of ie day," the grand majestic "ever- ! >lling ocean," in fine, all nature, in II of her majesty, glory, and matchless eauty, is all mine, to look at! And the poet Burns, remarked : Yet nature's charms, the hills anil woods, The sweeping vales and foaming lloods, ! re free alike to all." How can anyone behold the won- , ers and beauties of Nature in all leir sublime splendor, and yet be un- : [>le to trace, in ten thousand lines, i II converging in one, the indelli- ! Ie imprints of a Divine hand? Woe j > the student of Nature who, though erhaps possessing the wisdom and the enetration of a Darwin, a Huxlev, or Spencer, can study nature and yet til to be led up to the Great First ause, and through Nature to worship fature's God. Read Byron's "Prayer F Nature." How pleasant to record the fact that lany of the most eminent Christian jholars are today found in the front ink of scientific research. Let us II study nature, for "the heavens eclare the glory of God; and the rmament showeth his handy work." ! To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the lee, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eve ol heaven to j garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. ?King John, Act IV. BOOK KEEPING IN THE ROUGH. Among the many odd modes of bookeeping which have come under my bservation?flot excepting that of the ivern keeper who kept his accounts a the plastered walls of the room and ho while absent was well nigh bankjpted by his wife with a ^whitewash rush?that of my old eoloreih-ftjend, nele C'ephus, struck me as the m^ost rigiual. I The old man, like many of his race, ad mortgaged his steer, cart and :her pitiful belongings to buy/the | ecessaries of life. Pay dqy iame. i he account was so much larger than e expected?being indeed hopelessly jyond his slender resources?that he , isputed its accuracy most vigorously , i true African eloquence, of which he as master. But all was without avail. The erchant, his creditor, only replied mt he relied on his books, Uncle ephus on his head, and that when it ; line to a question of ink against lemory, the ink must carry it. The old man affirmed that he kept K>ks too, and that they would prove im right. The merchant asked him > produce them. The crowd which nd been collected by the loud dispute ttercd, for Uncle C'ephus was illiter- | ey itself. V.wliimr JiimitMl the old man milt ut,tu " v " ?1' ? J in Rome, viz.: Peter, Philip, James the Less, Jude, Bartholomew, Matthias and Simon. The remains of three lie in the kingdom of Naples : Matthew at Salerno, Andrew at Atnalfi, and Thomas at Ort'ona. One, James the Greater, was buried in Spain, at St. Jago de Compostello. Of the exact wereabouts of the remains of St. John the Evangelist there is much dispute. Mark and Luke are buried in Italy, the former at Venice and the latter at Padua. St. Paul's remains are also believed to be in Italy. Peter is buried in Rouie in the church which bears his name; so, too, are Simon and Jude. James the Lesser is buried in the Church of the Iloly Apostles. Bartholomew in the church on that island in the Tiber which bears bis name. The "Legends of the Apostles" places the remains of Matthias under the altar of the renowned Basilica. Professor Morse, of Salem. Mass., has solved the problem of house heating in a curious fashion. He has built a house with all its rooms fronting southward and only a passage 011 the north. Almost the whole southern front of the house is made of glass, and by means of reflectors Professor Morse is enabled 011 sunny days to heat the whole house with sunshine alone. At night and 011 cloudy days he has hearth fires going. He believes that by this contrivance he has the most wholesome heat that is attainable. tens uo iruic. i s peruciur noui my books as you is 'bout yone." By that time the merchant's bookkeeper had discovered that goods bought by a dili'erent person of similar name had been by mistake charged to the old man, and that Uncle C'ephus's account was the right one. But to this day the latter believes that his own unerring system of hook-keeping saved him, and he still follows it more assiduously than ever.?David Dodge, in Kate' Field's Washington. THE SHERMAN SILVER ACT. Washington;, June 13.?In a statement concerning the operation of the Sherman silver act, Secretary Carlisle said today that under the act there have been coined $29,408,4(51, which makes the total coiuage of silver dollars, under all acts since 1878, $419,294,835, or more than fifty times as much as was coined during the previous period of eighty-one years. The secretary of the treasury has purchased under the act of July 14, 1890, ami now liolds in the vaults ol the treasury, uncoined 124,922,532 fine ounces of silver bullion, which cost the people of the United States $115,299,920, and is worth today, at the market price of silver, $103,411,380, thus showing a loss of $10,888,530. The records of the treasury department show that during the eleven months beginning May 1, 1892, and ending March 31, 1893, the coin treasury notes issued for the purchase of silver bullion under the act of July 14, 1890, amounted to $49,901,184, and that during the same period the amount of such notes paid in gold was $47,745,173. It thus appears that all the silver bullion purchased during that time, except $2,210,011 worth, was paid for in gold, while the bullion itself is stored in the vaults of the treasury, and can neither be sold nor used for the payment of any kind of obligation. "How long the government shall thus be compelled to purchase silver bullion and increase the public debt by issuing coin obligations in payment for it," says Secretary Carlisle, "is the question which congress alone can answer. It is evident that if this policy is continued, and the secretary of the treasury shall he compelled to issue bonds or otherwise increase the interest bearing bublic debt, it will be done for the purpose of procuring gold with which to pay for silver bullion purchased under the act referred to." What Was the "Secret of Jk bus?"?'There are several passages in the Scriptures which convey the idea of some great secret?the details of some monstrous mystery?was communicated to the Apostles by Jesus during the time that he was associated with them in the flesh. All the early "Christian N Fathers," and a great many modern divines of high standing, believe that the "secret'' was made known to the Apostles, with the understanding that it was to be handed down to the heads of the church until the end of time. W hat this great secret is concerning, or why it should be made known only to a select few, is, of course, as great a mystery a3 its supposed existence. Iu Mark we get a hint, a mere casual allusion, to the existence of something of the kind. See chapter iv, verse 2: And He said unto them, unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God ; but to them that are without, all these things are done in parables." Again, in Gpliesiaus lii, laul says: "He made known to me the mystery." Clement of Alexandria, one of the fathers," in his great work "Stromatn," chapter v, says : "The Lord commanded in a certain gospel, My secret is for Me and the children of My house.' In the gospel to the Kbonites it is recorded in this manner: "Keep My mysteries for Me and the sons of My house." Many eurly writers believe that this "secret of secrets" has been preserved, engraved upon stone or written upon some lasting fabric, and that it is now in the "Ark of the Covenant," and that the whereabouts of that vessel or receptacle is known to a chosen few.? St. Louis Republic. Bk Happy Today.?It is far too common to sec people working and saving, denying themselves all recreation and many comforts, to lay up money to buy more land, to build a larger and finer house, or to save for their children, thinking that when they have accomplished this they will be happy and begin to take comfort. The hoped-for point may never be attained ; or if it is, sickness or death have come first, and the dear ones whom we expected to be happy with, may be gone forever. How much better to use some of the good things of life as we go along; to make our humble homes as cherry and bright as possible now, instead of waitiug for a better house! Don't starve today, either body, mind or soul, thinking that you will riot tomorrow. Don't hoard and scrimp through all the best >ears of your life, that you may be generous in your wills. Life is uncertain, and it is best to make your children happy while they are under the home roof; to call to that home everv agency which will make their lives sweeter and better than to deny them these that you may leave a large bank account when you are gone. Don't keep the parlor shut up and live in the kitchen, unless you want the boys and girls to be anxious to leave vou. lake time to read, to rest and to enjoy the social society of friends. Especially take time to enjoy the companionship of your children. It will be only a few years at the best that they will be with you, and these ought to be years of happiness to both you and them. If we are ever happy in this life, we must enjoy what every day brings us.?Selected. Where thb Apostles ark Buried. ?All that now remains of the Apostles of Christ are in the following places: ulnoninrr tlin uloon nf f lip llist