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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. TUE With Feeder and Contf&nser, "WITH REVOLVING HEAD. THE BEST GIN MADE?embracing all improvements, and correcting faults in others. A. FTlttFlHOT GXJSTl THE ACME POWER COTTON PRESS. THE BEST, CHEAPEST AffD MOST PBACTICAL COTTON SEED CRUSHER MADE. BUY DeLOACH SAW MILLS. " A Four-horse Engine Unna Them. HEADQUARTERS FOR FARM MACHINERY. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. SS.OO &5.00 S5.00 REMEMBER tiiafc we offer onr usual Premium of FIVE DOLLARS for the Lar? gest Turnip raised from our Seed and brought into our Store by 15lh November. ORK & SLOAN. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE! WAGONS, AT YOUR OWN PRICE, X HAVE determined in the future not to handle Wagons, and for the next few weeks I will offer the Wagons I now have on hand at Manufacturer's prices. Come early and see me. I still keep on hand a big stock of? BUGGIES, PH?TONS^ C?RTS9 ETC. Which can be bought at Low Prices. MY LIVERY STABLE Ib always open and ready for business J. L. McGEE. FOUNDRY B. F. DIWBR, Proprietor. , Dealer in Machinery Supplies. Builder and Repairer of all Kinds of Machinery. J. HAVE established a FIRST CLASS FOUNDRY in connection with my MA? CHINE WORKS, and can supply you with any kind or style of CASTINGS, from a pair of Fire Dogs to a Fine Iron Storo Front. 1 also have a? GIN REPAIRING DEPARTMENT, .Where your old Gins can be repaired at snort notice. I have a supply of good workmen,a Iways ready to do your work, and will do it promptly. I am Manufacturers' Agent for all kinds of Machinery, 'And keep on hand a large supply of BRASS GOODS, PIPING; FITTINGS, OILS, &c. Also, New and Second hand ENGINES always on hand. S?~ Come and see me. May 8, 1880 44 6m KEMEMBER, wo sell fresh Goods. Wo do not buy large ??lsj?t small bids, and in that way keep up our stock, and have it always fresh. No old, stale ETOOflS . * We Buy all kinds Country Produce for Cash or Barter, E. W9 TAYLOR & CO. i Te}a?he}^'Goi,?mn, All communications intended fo this Column should be addressed to D. H RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C. EDUCATION. The following East.y was read by Miss Lizzie Brock before the recent Teachers' Institute: This, my friends, is a subject on which much baa already been said, but to us engaged in the great work of teaching, it will ever contain something of intereBt. No one can over estitnate the benefits of an education. It begins ivith life and haB no end. It is a work of progress, and must continue. It is development, and does not consist simply of instruc? tion, facts and rules communicated by the teacher, but it is discipline, a wak? ening up, development of latent powers, a growth of the mind. In this enlightened age ignorance is a voluntary misfortune, for all who will may drink deeply of the fountain of knowledge. We see the effects of an education on all the vocations of life to which man or woman may be called. Educated labor commands higher wages than uneducated, for an educated laborer can do much better work than an uned? ucated one. But this is not the highest or best reward of an education : It broad? ens our views, elevates our thoughts, and raises us to a higher plaue of life. But education, like every other desira? ble object, can not be obtained without persevering efforts. How many men who have won well nigh imperishable renown in the world of literature Owe all their success to perseverancing ef? forts ? Talents are desirable, but per? severance is more so. It will make mental power, or at least strengthen those already made. Too much cannot be said of perseverance in connection with education. How necessary then that we who are teaching the young should encourage them to persevere in whatever task they undertake. Give them the help they need, but re? quire them to do the work themselves. What are all the treasures of the world compared with the wealth of wisdom, and the stores of knowledge that enrich the enlightened mind? It is educated manhood that wakes the sleeping soil, covers the earth with good, and gathers in the golden harvest. It is the cultivat? ed mind that applies the strength of the ox, the fleetnes3 of the horse, that bridges the river; that U3es the lightning to de? livers its messages; that brings to life the dead ore; that covers the sea with ships, and the land witb mighty engines of wealth. It is the enli. htened kouI that worship* God. Note the joy of the student who has labored over a difficult problrm, but finally reaches :i logical conclusion. Think you that he would exchange his joys for the pleuaures of i-enst-? It is of a higher and more ennobling character nud not to be biiriered for pal try wealth. What dignify and *elf respect invests the man .>f though'. ! His every look bespeak-* of mind He is ap proached with revcrmief. j?h one bavirig aright lo command. F-r whttl morea mind, but rniud? A .ir -ng intellect coining in cuntact with a weaker will naturally move it, as superior physical strength will overcome the weaker. This knowledge once gained can never be taken from us It cannot be bought or Bold. The law may lay its bands on our homes, lande, &c, and leave ua home? less and penniless, but it cannot lay its hand on the treasures of our miud. Neither can we give it away and by bo doing diminish one's own store. For the more we give the more do we strengthen our own minds. This giving haB been compared to lighting many lamps from one. Though it has lighted many lamps its own light still burns aa brightly a3 ever. And from this com? parison may we not draw a lesson ? How often in our journey through life do we meet with unlighted minds, and how many opportunities do we not have of dropping a glowing thought from our minds into one of these uulightcd ones? One little ray of light may set some other minds burning, and it, too, by con? tact may light others To us teachera is committed the great work of lighting many minds. Then let us look to it that our lamp gives'out no uncertain light. We but start the fires to burning that will keep on long after we have passed away. We lay the foundation of an ed? ucation that wiil be completed long after the children have left the school room. How necessary then that this foundation be laid wilh care, and that wo think of their moral as well as men? tal we Ifare. Keep Still. In one of Dr. Burton's Yale lectures the following advice was given to the young ministers: "When trouble ia brewing, keep still. When slander ia getting on its legs, keep sLi 11. When your feelings are hurt, keep still, till you re? cover from your excitement at any rale. Things look differently through an unag> itated eye. In a commotion once I wrote a letter and sent it, and wished I had not. In my later years I had another commotion, and wrote a long letter; but life had rubbed a little sense into me, and I kept that letter in my pocket against the day when I could look at it without agitation and without tears. I was glad I did. Silence is tho most nia.3.sive thing conceivable sometimes. It is strength in very grandeur. It is like a regiment ordered to stand still in the mid fury of battle. To plunge in were twice aa easy. This has unsettled more ministers than small salaries ever did, or lack of ability. Dignity of Human Nature. "I do not dream," said William E. Channing, "wheu I apeak of the divino capacities of human nature. It was a real page in which T read of patriots and martyrs?of Fenelon and Howard, of Hamtlen and Washington. The diguity of human nature should make us all guardians of the vivifying spark, even if the law of self-preservation were not strongly implanted in everyoue's breast This, theu, is why, especially in malarial districts, no American home should be without a bottle of Dr. Westmoreland's Calisava Tonic. In its formula are con? centrated the revealed remedies that re? search has discovered to the student world of medicine. To the depressed, enerva? ted and debilitated, and thooo suffering from chronic ailments and blood affection it is tho boon of the age. It can bo had from all druggists. lNdeeson, s. c, t: A TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS. Editors Intelligencer : I intended, aa requested, to write to you while in the mountains, but I was so continuously on the go that I did not have an opportunity. I will tako pleasure, now, however, in giving an outline of our trip, which I think will interest your readers. We left Anderson by rail on the 15th of la?t month, going via Greenville, Spartanburg and Asheville to Bryson City, N. C, our point of destination. After several hours' delay, both at Greenville and Spartan? burg, we boarded the train for Asheville and got fairly started for the mountains. At Tryon, 27 miles above Spartanburg, we crossed the line of the cotton belt and the Bcenery began to grow more interest? ing with every mile we traveled. From all part3 of the crowded car friends were calling to one another to look at this or that interesting view. Crossing Saluda Mountain, 35 miles above Spartanburg, the grade rises from 150 to 200 feet per mile, and it wa<3 found necessary to attach two engines to the train in order to make the climb. Three hours and twenty minutes after leaving Spartanburg we reached Asheville, where we spent the night. Asheville is, indeed, a beautiful city. It is surprising what chaDges are wrought on the same spot in such short periods. Where the smoke of the Indians, wigwams arose and the stealthy tread of the wolf and panther was heard over the autumn leaves at twilight, the 12,000 population of Asheville now surges along. The wigwam has given place to the mag? nificent buildings of the "Pale faces," fashioned after the elegant styles of mod? ern achiteclure. The wolf, the panther and the bear have been driven back into the Great Smoky Mountains, and their places supplanted by lowiDg herds of cattle. Electric lights flash their brightness where before the darkness was impene? trable. Thundering traios glide over the narrow trails of the Red man, and where, but a few summers ago, the rising sun flooded a primovial forest with its golden hues, is now built one of the most beauti? ful mountain cities in America "with glistening spires and pinacles adorned." At 9.15 next morning we took the train ior Bryson City. The scenery along this road is at once wild and grand. Moun? tain peaks tower high above you on al? most every side, and far up on the sides of the mountains, in places so steep we wonder how they can be cultivated, can be seen fields of cotton and tobacco. Many streams dash down the sides of these mountains which we cosa on tres sels so high and slender lookiug that they almost make one shudder. 36 miles beyoud Asheville we cross the Balsom Mountain, 2500 feet above Sea level. The grade here is very steep, but as only two coaches are attached to the engine the ascent is madu without much difficulty. There is a spring bubbling up on thiri mountain, the waters of which register a temperature of 47 degrees. Trvcnty miles this side of Bryson City the train passes through a tunnel 850 feet long, cut through fidid rock. Many miles of this mountain road lie along the banks of the Tuckaseegee River, and we pass through a uumber of wide spreading valleys in a high state of cultivation. Fields of corn, tobacco and "tanned hay? cocks" dot ihetu over. Bryson City ia situated in a beautiful valley in Swain County, Western North Carolina, 05 miles west from Asheville, on the Western North Carolina branch of the R. & D. R. R. This quiet valley, through which the Tuckaseegee River winds its silver current, possesses all the advantages necessary to a large and pros? perous mountain city. The town ia built on both sides of the river, which is span? ned by a good, substantial bridge. There is ample room in the valley for Churchea, Factories, Warehouses, Stores, &c, while the mountains, which surround the valley, furnish, in their gently sloping coves, the healthiest and most picturesque building sites imaginable. The present population is only about 500 but they are all active, enterprising people, fully alive to the natural advantages which aurrcund them, and it is only a question of time when their city will bo the rival of Asheville Away up to the very topa of theae mountains the locust, chestnut, walnut, poplar, oak, ash, &c, grow in their greatest luxuriance. Rich mines of talc, gold and iron lie buried on the outskirts of their city, while mineral springs of wonderful curative powers mingle their waters with the beautiful Tuckaseegee. There is already in course of erectiou there a 830,000 aaw mill plant, while Messrs. Arthur & Lipscomb, two South Carolina men, are daily turning out and shipping to all parts of the world, millions of locust ship pins, and insulater pins. In addition to these industries there aro many well constructed and ele? gant stores, a Court House?Bryson City being the County seat?two Churches completed and two in course of erection, a first-class hotel, newly constructed and elegantly furnished, a Masonic Lodge, good school nnd many handsome resi? dences. Prominent among the lawyers here are R. L. Lcatherwood, A. M. Fryo and N. Newby. Mr. L. is a young lawyer of fine promise and large practice, and enjoys the unbounded confidence of the entire people of Western North Carolina. Mr. F. is a man of unusually affable manners aud Bound judgment, and enjoys a large practice. Mr. N. is a gifted young law? yer and journalist. He is the editor of the Swain County Ilcrald, and, altho' a new comer, he is looked upon as one of the leading young men of the city and County. I doubt if thnre is a mountain city in America possessing so many natural ad? vantages for both a winter and summer resort, with an outlet to so many places of interest. Encircled by lofty spurs of the Great Smoky Mountains, the chilling blasts of winter never reach the city, while in Ruminer they breathe on the valleys below an atmosphcro so pure and cool that one can scarcely realize that it is midsummer. Clingman's Dome. Ten rciles off to the Northwest this cloud-capped peak lifts iL9 head G GG0 feet above sea level, from the stimrrit of which can be seen Knoxville, Tenu. Across the trail lead? ing to this lofty peak dash the christal waters of Noland's Creek and Forney's Creek, both of which abcutid with tho. HUESDAY MOENIN famouB mountain trout. It was in these waters we fished and loitered till night enveloped us in its dark folds and kept us till morning in the wilds of the moun? tain?, two miles from the top of Cling man's Dome. Over the mountains to this peak lies the wildest and yet the grandest and most beautiful scenery my eyes ever looked upon. Chesnut Mountain. Off to the South,. 4 mile3 from the city, this majestic moun? tain liftii its stately head, "hoar with the floating miota of dawn," while others, with lower mein, stand sentinel-like in all directions. The Indian Capital. Eight miles, a little north of east from the city, is Yellow Hill, virtually the capital of the Indian Nation. At this place ia estab? lished a government school for the train? ing ot young Indians, There are four Government buildings here, besides a store and other buildings belonging to individuals. The buildings are nicely painted and the fences white-washed. About Sii Indian boys and girls are taken care of here, and for their maintenance and education the government appropri? ates ?15,000?annually. We spent one day here, aud I shall never forget it. It is situated on the banks of the most beauti? ful stream in the world?the Oconee Lufty?the waters of which are so clear that the distinguishing beauties of the pebbles in the deep bottom can easily be painted out. The Indian boys of the school have organized a Brass Band, and it is astonishing how well they play. As we stood there, surrounded by Indians of all ages, and listened to the sweet strains of music, we felt that nothing could be more interesting and romantic. The old familiar tunes of "Dixie" and "Massa in the cold, cold ground" had a weird sound in that wild country, but I do not think I ever heard them where they sounded more beautiful. There are about 2,000 Indians in Swain County, .owning in common about 73,000 acree of land. Their only indus? try is farming, and they have good cropB of corn and tobacco. Their chief is elected every four years and receives a salary of ??00 per annum aud expenses. Their present chief ia an educated and refined gentleman, and one of the finest looking men I ever saw. Eps Spring. Fve miles west of Bryon city, about 150 yards from the Railroad, ia this famous mineral spring. It is owned by Mr. E. Eveiet, and is one of the most romantic places I ever visited. It 1b on the side of the mountain, in a densely wooded cove. From the base of a solid rook guah the healing waters of this spring. The peculiar taste, together with the brownish deposit in the spring and branch, iudicates that iron predomi? nates, but there are doubtless other miuerals asHociated with it. Many testify to its ?/onderful curative virtues, and I can certainly testify to the fact that as an appetizer its waters cannot be surpass? ed. Mr. E. has built a comfortable and roomy summer house at this spring, and for several days we were his guests. The royal dishes Mr*. E. alway3 put before ua indicated very plainly that she appre? ciated the appetizing qualities ot the spring. To our cousins, Leatherwood & Everet, we owe our grateful thanks for one of the most delightful trips we ever enjoyed. NoitRYCE. That Baby. There was a baby in the railway car the other day. It was not an unusual child, but it had a decidedly bright face and pretty ways. For the first tew miles she was very quiet, and her blue eyea looked around in wonderment, for evidently it was tbe little one's first ride on the cara. Then as she became used to the roar and rumble, tbe baby proclivities asserted themselves, and she began to play with her father'u mustache. At first the father and mother were the only parties inter? ested, but soon a young lady in an adja? cent seat r.udged her escort and directed his attention to the laughing child. He looked up, remarked that it was a pretty baby and tried to look unconcerned, but it was noticed that his eyea wandered back to tbe spot occupied by tbe happy family, and he commenced to smile. The baby pulled tbe bair of an old lady in front, who turned around savagely and glared at the father with a look that plainly aaid, "Nuisances should be left at borne." Hut she caught sight of the laughing eyea of the baby, and when she turned back she seemed pleased about something, Several others bad become interested in the child by this time business men and young clerks?old ladie? and girls?and when the baby hands grasped the large silk hat of her father and placed it on her own head, it made such a comical picture that an old gentleman across the way, unable to re? strain him?elf, burst out into a loud guf? faw, and t'aen looked sheepishly out the window, an if aahamed to be caught doing such an unmanly thing. Before another five minutea he was playing peek-a-boo across tbe aialo with the baby, and every one waa etivying him. The ubiimitouB young man, ever on the move, paa.'ied through, and was at a loss to account for the frowns of everybody. Ho had failed to notice the baby. The brakeman looked in from his pest on the platform and smiled. The paper boy round no custom till he had spoken to the baby and jingled his pocket of change for her edification. The conductor caught the fever and chuckled the little one und*r the chin, while the old gentleman across the aisle forgot to pass up his ticket, so interested was he playing peek-a-boo. The old lady in front relaxed, and diving into her reticule unearthed a brilliant red pippin and presented it bashfully to the little one, who, in response, put her chubby arms around the donor's neck aud pressed he: rosy little mouth to the old lady's cbeok. It brought back a flood of remembrances to that withered heart, and a bandkeichief was seen to brush first this way a'ld then that, as if to catch a falling tear. The traia aped on and pulled into the station whj;re the baby, with her parents, was to leave the car. A look of regret came over every face. The old gentleman asked if he couldn't kiss it just once; the old lady returned the cares** she had received, and the baby moved toV.'rd the door, shaking a by by over the bhoulder of her papa, to which every one respond? ed, including the newsboy, who empha? sized his farewell with a wave of his hat. The passengers rushed to the side whero the baby got off aud watched till .she turned out of sight at tho other end of the ntation, shaking by bys all the time. Then they lapsed into silence. They missed that baby, and not one of them would be unwilling to acknowledge it. The little one's presence had let a rift of sunshine into every heart, warm or cold, in that oar.?Orphan's Friend, House of Angel Guardian-. ? It ia rue of the remarkable facts in riding that the carriage is always tired before the horso is. G, AUGUST 14, 189 BILL AUF'S JfflllASOFHY.? Atlanta Constitution, Tbiugs are not altogether calm and se? rene in these parts. The farmers' ground swell has amazed and bewildered the people. I asked my friend, John Black, what he was doing in politics over in Rome. "Nothiog, nothing at all," said he in a sad, sweet tone of voice. "I'm staying inside the house now, and waiting for the storm to blow over." Suppose it don't blow over at all," said I. "Maybe the thing is lik6 the deluge and all you political sinners are out of the ark and floating around on tho logs and chicken coops, and e?ery little while you look up at the great floating warehouse with its closed doors and say, 'Boys, how long is this infernal shower to last?' Biased is he who hath a boat of his own and does not have to depend upon the people's line. Blessed is he who don't hanker after office. This whole thing would be funny if it wasn't death to the frogs. A few months ago our town boys were puzzling around and laying their plans for the legislature, and were fixing to catch the Alliance vote, for it had not gone into politics then, and the boys got hot over their rights, but they have all swaged down and look as meek and hum? ble as a run over calf. The farmers made no noise, but simply said: "Boys, we don't think your sort are fitten, and you ain't fitten to get fitten, so we will attend to this little business ourselves." And the boys made a bow and said: "Jesso." It reminds me of a story they tell on Mrs. Brown, the Senator's plain spoken and discerning wife. After old Joe had served uearly two term3 a3 governor, some gentlemen were discussing, in her presence, the question as to who would be his successor. Mrs. Brown was stitch? ing away on some garment and took no part in the conversation Until one of them said : "Mrs. Brown, who do you think will weaf the governor's mantle when he retires?" She looked up and replied in a matter of fact way : "I don't think he is going to retire; he calculates to wear it himself for two year's more." And he did. I heard a big Alliance man say," We'll show you how to run a. legislature when our boys get there. The boys will eat breakfast by sun up, just like they do at home, and in an hour more you will hear a horn blow at the capitol and they will all be there and go to work, and there won't beany fooling around and no ex cuies nor absentees, nor going down town to get a drink, nor running off on excur? sions to Tybee and Chautauqna. Mark Hardin shan't have fourteen clerks, dog on him, but he shall do the clerking himself. We can't do without him, and don't expect to, but he will have to knuckle down to work. The last session cost $150,000, but the next won't cost the third of it. I'll bet any man a suit of clothes it don't. We are going to rent out about half the State House. Every one of them stall fed fellows have got a front room, and a back room, aud a sanc? tum and a sanctorum, and a fifty-^dollar sofa to sleep on, and they have their bus? iness hours just like the banks, and you can't see 'em only when you don't want to see 'em ; and they haven't got to go to mill, either, or take up the fodder, dogon 'em. We'll straighten out their trace chains when the boys get there." "I h.ear," said I, "that some of your members are opposed to George Lester for Attorney-General because he is a lawyer." " Well, yes," said he, "some of 'em was, but I told 'em that George was a poor raau and a good soldier, and was no law ver to hurt, and I think they will go for him. I know ho ain't much of a lawyer, for I bad a case in his court when he was judge, and he decided it pintblank against me, though I kuowed I was right all the time. No, he aint much of a lawyer, but we don't expect to need any?we are go ing to run the machine in a commonseuse farmer way, without any red tape or Sal lymaguudy, and if these judges and so? licitor.1! dou't do better than they have been doing, we'll turn 'em all out and put in some old fashioned farmers who don't know much law, but do know a power of gospel and high natral justice. There's too much trigger work going on, The courts have been three years trying to bang that devil, Woolfolk, and he ain't hung yet. We could have trird him in Euharlee's justice court in three days, and hung him and saved twenty thousand dollars that it has already cost Bibb County. It's tho lawyers that do it all, and the judges keep on letting 'em and if they don't change their ways we'll abol? ish the whole concern. There's too much law and too many hooka auyhow, and everytime a lawyer makes a speech he gets aome newspaper to aay it was the greatest speech of his life. But we'll straighten 'em out, and put about two thirds of 'em in the cotton patch." Well, maybe theae farmers will reform some things, for our folks are getl: a little loose in the socket. All's well that ends well. Bill Arp. Jute Bagging Ousted. The farmers of Georgia will never use jute again. The next crop will he clothed almost totally in cotton bagging, and juto will bo thrown away. The Alliance Ex change ia busy continuously shipping cotton bagging, even at this early period, in great quantities to tho various Allian? ces all over the State, and the ordera are increasing every duy. Mr. J. 0. Wynu of the Stale Alliance Exchange has shipped 50,000 yards of cotton bagging to the Alliances of Georgia, and is busily occu? pied filling new ordera for the article everyday. 'It will be used exclusively this season, ho said, "aud although jute bnggiug ha3 become about one-fourth as costly as cot bagging, nono of it will be used. This would seem strange at first, but when you consider the matter you will find that it is the best plan for farmers to uso cotton baggiug, eveu though it ia about four times the price of jute, It is selling for 16 cents a pound, or about 12* cents per yard. Jute h?a gone down to 4 cents a pouud or S cents a yard. "The reason that it ia cheaper for the farmers to cover their cotton with cotton bagging rather than with jute is because the consumption of cotton is increased considerably by using the cotton bagging. This naturally increases the demand for cotton, and hence is profitable to the far? mers by raising the price of cotton. If that rise is only half a cent the difference between the cost of jute and cottou bag? ging is counterbalanced. You can see, therefore, the advisability of tho farmers using cotton bagging. "Jute will not be known sa a cover for cotton fibre years from now. It will never be used again for this purpose. Cotton bagging has whipped in the fight for all time." A movement will be brought before tho meeting of the Stale Alliance, which is to be held in Atlanta soon, to establish a cottou bagging factory in this State for tho Alliance. The matter has been talk? ed of before, but will b?)-brought before the next meeting in a business likeshape. ?New York Times. ? Worth KxowiN'ci.?-Hughes' Ton ic, tho old lime, reliable remedy for fever and auguo. Reputation earned by 30 years' success. You can depend upon it. Try it. Druggists have it. ? Tho total number of deaths by wind stonus and lightning eiucc January last is estimated !>t 1,100, as compared with only 103 deaths from the same cau? ses during the whole of 138H. This is a record which will malko this year memo? rable in the annals of meteorology. I_ THE ALUMINIUM AGE. A New Isidnatry that will Revolutionize limine?;* of the World. Atlauta is about to become the centre of an industry which will revolutionize the business of the world; When, in the mad rush for the gold regions of California in 1819, the emi? grant and the adventurer rushed pell-mell across the richest part of this country and struggled panting across the great West? ern desert, they little knew"that they were leaving behind them?even press? ing under their feet?greater wealth than the gold mines of the world could offer. In the toilsome si'ence of bis laboratory it W33 reserved for an Atlanta man, Michel Emmi, to uulock the secrets of nature and opeu up the bewildering pos? sibilities of aluminum. True the metal was kuowu, true it had been produced before, but never at a cost small enough to bring it within the reach of the world-wide demand of all the arts to which aluminum is applicable. The metal which thirty years ago was worth $15 an ounce, is produced in Atlanta by a new method, in which the cost, "at a liberal estimate/' is 50 cents a pound, and it is an open secret that it is far he low that figure. For long weary months this mau toiled Without encouragement. Finally Mr. Samuel W. Goode went into partnership with him, and now they are associated with Dr. J. S. Hopkins, Mr. Phil. Haral son and others. This wonder among metals is spread about us in the most lavish abundance. It is everywhere, in the clay banks all about it io stored, and in some places it makes more than a third of the ground. In many clays there is 20 per cent, of it, and in the Georgia kaolin 40 per cent., in some Virginia deposits CO per cent. This metal- aluminum, or aluminium as the weight of authority now has it? though it is so abundant, has been dearer than gold. About the time of Deville's discovery of a method of reducing it in 1851, the price was $15 an ounce, and up to 1887 the total production of the world in a year was 10,000 pounds. Now it is being made by the ton and the price has fallen to $4 a pound. The method of reduction is otill costly and imperfect and a fortune awaits the man who will produce it for a minimum cost. Aluminium has only been on the mar? ket in a commercial way for about a year. Iu that time the applications to which this metal can be economically put have been found to be so numerous that its introduction will mark a great step in the advance of human progress. Aluminium at 25 cents per pound?and it will surely reach that price?will take the place of iron and steel in many important lines of I manufacture. Its adaptability to ship? building becomes at once apparent. The use of aluminium for this purpose would change the mighty black racers of the Atlantic into bright silver vessels, which would inspire the marine peets to flights of hitherto unheard of fancy in describing how "lightly the silver ships rode the blue billows." Seriously, there is a possibility that ocean racers in the course of time will be constructed of alumini? um. Its chief advantage is its lightness. At present one of the great difficulties in ocean'navigation is the weight of ves? sels. It is impossible to get engine power sufficient to obtain more than twenty miles an hour. It has been estimated that if an Atlantic liner were built of i aluminium, or that the weight of the material out of which ships are construct? ed be reduced by one half, and their sides coated with a highly polished non corro? sive substance, it would have less than one third the draught, and be propelled with the same engine power et double the speed which characterizes the iron built steamship of the present day. It is a matter of history that Napoleon ofFered a large reward for an inexpensive process of manufacturing aluminium, because he wanted its lightness and strength for use in war. A ten-pound gun, for instance, would only weigh four pounds, and accoutrements that would drag the stoutest soldier down, could be carried with ease if made of aluminium. What a boon to humanity this change would be. Houses can be built of alum? inium, and, as this metal never rusts and is as fire-proof as iron, a house construct? ed of it would not only survive a great conflagration, but always exhibit a sil? very, glistening surface. Passenger cars made of aluminium would be incombust? ible, and would not be readily crumbled by collisions. The ductility of alumini? um will render it the best of all possible materials for bridges. Pure aluminium melts and becomes fluid at about 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit, and is most malleable at a temperature between 200 and 300 degrees Fahrenheit, although it can be rolled cold with frequent annealing. In malleability it ranks next to gold and silver, and may be easily drawn, its tensile strength vary? ing from twelve to fourteen tons to the inch. It can be hammered into foil as thin as any beat gold leaf and rolled into sheets of five thousandths of an inch in thickness. "To give an idea of the properties of aluminium would require the delivery of a lecture. It is. extremely light and strong. Its specific gravity is 2.58 in the cast metal (258 times as heavy as watsr) and rises to 2.G8 when it i3 ham? mered. The specific gravity of iron is 8, more than three times as heavy as alum? inium. Copper is 3.G times as heavy, nickel 3.5 times, silver 4 times, lead 4.8 times and gold 7.7 times as heavy. The average wood is three-fourths as heavy as water; aluminium is therefore about three times as heavy as most wood. "Its ductility is another great quality, and for that reason its usefulness in the arts is apparent. It does not oxidizo in the open air like iron, silver or other metal. For that reason it will bo used in covering houses. On a roof it would almost last forever. Fruit acids have no effect on it, and that will make it in? valuable for cooking utensils. For the weight its tensile strength is very great ?from twelve to fourteen tons to the inch, while that of cast iron, which is over three times as heavy, is only eight tons. The tensile strength of steel show? ing a test of thirty-eight tons will bo equaled by an aluminium rod of the same weight, though it would be three times as large. "This great combination of strength and lightuess will extend its use. I see no reason why it should not be used in? stead of wood in buggies or railroad cars, for you could get the same strength with much less weight, and it would be prac? tically indestructible. "It"will also be used in making surgi? cal instruments, mathematical or survey? ors' iustruments, or iu everything where ductility and strength are required. It will undoubtedly be used in tableware, for it is as haudsome as silver and much more durable. "In electrical apparatus it will be in demand, because it is of great conduct? ivity. Weight for weight it is a better conductor than copper, and nearly as good as silver, which is the best conduc? tor known. "Another peculiar property and one of the moat useful is its effect in reduc? ing the fusing point of other metals. A very small percentage of aluminium will make iron weld at a much lower temper? ature, and will enable foundries to make finer and tougher castings. For this reason the largest stone works are using it with fine effect. Tho same property enables tho founders to make castings of wrought iron, thereby getting work of exceeding toughness." Mr. Phil: Haralson has bad the door plates of his new residence made of it. The work wag done by the Corbin Lock VOLUI Company, one of the leading manufac? turing firms of the country in builders' hardware. They are' enthusiastic on it. For years they have been looking for a metal that will not corrode, and now that they have found it they are enthusiastic. The wonders of this metal which the Creator has spread literally under our feet show how we may overlook the best gifts of nature in the search of an Eldo? rado. Whether the bright and beautiful aluminium will sooner or later replace the black and ugly iron in most of the latter's uses remains to be seen. There is aluminium in every clay bank, in every plain, in every mountain side, and when it reaches a cost of say 25 cents a pound it is safe to predict that we shall have entered on an age of aluminium. Artificial Ice. The fact that it is now possible to sup? ply artificial ice on a scale and at a price euited to the needs of a great city, is a noteworthy example of the application of science to the exigencies of modern life. The notion, once prevalent, that nox :ous microbes were destroyed by congela? tion, and that no danger was incurred by using ice taken from rivers and ponds known to be contaminated by sewage, has long been discarded. There is reason to believe that in the United States, where the consumption of ice water is inordin? ately great, natural ice has been the medium of propagating a notable amount of disease. To destroy those microbes, which are I the germs of typhoid fever and other dangerous maladies, water should be boiled, or, better yet, distilled before it is subjected to the congealing process. Of course, such precautions are only possible in the case of artificial ice, and if the public were once convinced that the manufacturers of that commodity were careful to provide such safeguards against disease, the use of natural ice would gradually he abandoned, provided, that is to say, the artificial product could be pro? cured as cheaply. It is an interesting fact that ice was artificially produced in India long before the invention of machine* for the purpose. In the upper provinces, water was made to freeze by exposing it, during cold nights, in porous vessels, or bottles wrapped in a moistened cloth. In Bengal, shallow pits were dug and filled nearly full with dry straw, on which were set fiat, porcus pans containing the water to be congealed. Exposed over night to a cool wind, the water evaporated at the expense of its own heat, and the consequent cooling took place with sufficient rapidity to overbalance theinflex of heat through the cooled air above, or through the badly conducting straw below. Ice made in this way, however, was costly, and, when, in 1833, natural ice was shipped from the United States to Calcutta, it was sold for half the price of the manufactured article. On the other hand, a machine shown at the Vienna exhibition in 1870, made thirty hundred weight of ice an hour, at a cost of twenty five cents a hundred weight, and it is now asserted that ice can be manufactured on a large scale for less than a dollar a ton. There has certainly been a wonderful development of the ice trade since the pioneer, William Tudor, of Boston, shipped the first cargo of ice to Martini? que, in 1805. At one time, American ice was sent to England, but Norway now monopolizes the ice market of the Old World. It a said that Norwegian ice is superior in staying power to the manu? factured product. When Your Boy Comes From School. What an appetite he has! How hun? gry he is always! How the cookies van? ish and the gingerbread disappears before his determined onslaught! He is all noise and impulse, and warts and freckles! Hi3 hands are dirty ; his finger nails rimmed with black; he has stuck a "cud of gum" to the shelf in the pantry to clear ths way for the edibles, and his trousers are torn at the knee3 and he smells of fish bait and peppermint candy, but he is your boy, and you love him. The house is turned upside down immediately. He wants a striug for his kite. He wants some lead. He wants a bigger fish hook. He wants his ball mended. He wants money for Jim to pay him the boot on the jackknifo he has swapped. He wants to go fishing with Tom and Jack. He crams his mouth full of bread and butter, and with the jelly running out of the corners he makes his wants known. "Ma, can't I have a bycicle ? I want one. Where's pa? Who's been here with a carriage ? Where is my box of worms 1 I wish I had a pistol or a shot? gun. Jim's got one. Say, ma, teacher says I've been late twice, and it's only just once. Jim's been late a dozen times, and never got marked. I did ten exam plea to day. I wish I had a new slate. Oh, ma, the circus is coming next month ! Can't I go every day ? I wish I was a circus or a menagerie! Wouldn't I have jolly old times! Going to school ia awful slow! "Tom'a dog bit Mike Lane. They thiuk he's got the hydrophobia. It was in the leg, and he had two white eara and a white tail, and he'd sit up like?like well anything. I should like to have a dog! Say, ma, ain't there any custr.rd? Tom has mince pio all the year round at his houas. Oh, say ma, can't I have three kittens ? Mike's mother's cat has got five, and they'll give me three! Mike said so. Ain't they real good ? Hallo, there come the boys! They've all got their poles 1 Where's ccy line ? Don't lei Minnie cat up all the cake.' I shall waut some when I get back 1 You won't let her, will you ma?" And with a whoop and a hurrah ho dashes out of the house, and leaves a track of mud behind him aud a generally disordered room for you to clear up.? New York Weekly, How's This ? We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.. Toledo,'0. We, the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be? lieve him perfectly honest in all business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Tkuax, Wholesale Drugdsts, Trledo, 0. Waldixg, Kixxax & Makvix, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure ia taken internal? ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testi? monials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. U^Sold by Druggists, 7oc. Sensible Colored Mcii. Philadelphia, August 3.?The Mat? thew Stanley Quay Club, of this city, composed eutively of colored men, Gilbert Bail, a prominent local politician, being its president, held a largely attended meeting this afternoon and passed unan? imously resolutions to the effect that the Federal election bill, which was recently passed by the House of Representatives and is now awaiting action by the Senate, ia not practical, and will not help the political condition of the colored man in the South, but will rather have a tenden? cy to keep alive race prejudices. The club, therefore, expresses tne hone that the bill will not become ft law. m XXV.- -NO. 6 ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS, ? The alliance in the United States numbers about three million strong. ? "Call no man happy," says So-on, "till he is dead." "Call no man unhap? py." Socrates added, "till he is married." ? There are politicians who "don't want no office," the same as there are girls who wouldn't marry the best man living. ? He (falliugon his knees)?Oh, Mary, may I address you on tho subject of marriage? She?You may if you can dress me after marriage. ? A small box filled with lime, ana placed on a shelf in the pantry or closet, will absorb dampness aud keep the air in the closet dry and sweet. ? Thousands of cattle are dying for lack of grass and water in Arizona, New Mexico and portions of Colorado, where a prolouged drought has occurred. ? A new cannon just made by Krupp is forty-two feet long, can be fired twice a minute, and throws a two-thousand pound shot twelve miles. ? The originator of the expression, "Look before you leap," was probably the fellow who sat down on a chair with" a heavenward pointed tack on it. ? The cultivation of pecans is increas? ing in the South. F. A. Swinden has a farm of 400 acres near Brownwood, Texas, upon which he has 11,000 trees planted. ? The United States government history of the war between the States cannot bo completed for at least ten years yet. It will cost thirty-three thou? sand dollars a volume. ? Abrain Martin, a colored workman on the Alliance warehouse at Orangeburg carelessly knocked a prop from under the roof rafters Monday. They fell, breaking Martin's neck and hurting two other men. ? A woman who died atTremont,Pa., a few days ago, weighed one hundred and ten pounds. A year ago she weigh? ed four hundred and sixty pounds, but sickness reduced her weight. ? John Harris, the largest man in Illinois, died recently at Tuscola. He was seventy years of age, and his weight for many years past had been between six and seven hundred pounds. ? A traveler in Japan writes that tho Japanese pay more attention to personal cleanliness than any other people in the world. High and low bathe all over at least once a day, and sometimes oftener. ? The number of fires in the great city of New York ten yeare ago averaged five a day. Now the average is eight, but the average loss ha3 been reduced in the meantime from seventeen hundred to fourteen hundred dollars. ? There is a general failure of the peach crop from New Jersey to Florida this year. It is the first time within the memory of the oldest inhabitant that there has been a complete failure on the south side Tryon mountain. ? Henry Ward Beecher used to tell the story of a traveler who finding him? self and bis dog in a wild country and destitute of provisions cutoff his dog's tail and broiled it for his own supper, giving the dog the bone. ? The Pennsylvania Railroad has 115 trains arriving at and the same number depart from the Broad street station, Philadelphia, on Sundays. On week days 225 trains arrive and 226 depart from this station. ? The latest device of girlhood is a fan.y for stuffing pillows with their old love letters. There i? one thing about the contents of these pillows that can be depended upon with a a marked degree of certainty?they are sure to be soft. ? The total number of deaths by wind storms aud lightning since January last is estimated at 1,100 as compared with only 163 deaths from the same causes during the whole of 1SS9. This is a record which will make this year me? morable in the annals of meteorology. ? An Indianapolis woman who has been eight times divorced is 37 years old, and comes of a family noted for divorces. Her mother has had six divor? ces, and is living with her seventh hus? band. An uncle and two aunts have each been married five time?. They are still young. ? Ths- thirty machines ussd in the census office at Washington for counting the population, work with clock-like accuracy, and count from one to twenty persons each time a small ivory key is touched. The machine looks like an upright piano in a polished oak case, and has a keyboard like that of a typewriter. Most of the machines are worked by girls, and they are able to count accu? rately one million names a day. ? The Supreme Court of Illinois has just decided that a man cannot be exclud- - cd from the witness stand in that State on account of his religious disbelief. The witness in the case under review believed in a God and a hereafter, and in punishment through the courts if he swore falsely, but he had formed no opinion About punishment in the next world. The Supreme Court held that he was a competent witness. ? Nearly 65 per cent, of the popula? tion of the world aie barbarians, of whom 4S per cent, live in huts and caves, while the remaining 17 per cent, have virtually no place in which to lay their heads. The other 35 per cent, live in some descriptian of houses. The numbers, as given recently by a statistician, are as follows: Living in houses, 500,000,000; living in huts aud caves, 700,000,000 with no habitation of any kind, 250,000, 000. ? A curious anesthetic used by tho Chinese has recently been made known by Dr. U. Lambeth in his third annual report of the Soochow Hospital. It is obtained by placing a frog in a jar of flour ;and irritating it by prodding it. Under these circumstances it exudes a liquid which forms a paste with the flour. This paste dissolved in water has well marked anesthetic properties. After the fiuger has been immersed in the liquid for a few minutes it can be cut to the bone without any pain being felt. ? An eccentric old gentleman recently knocksd out a whole graduating class in a Western college. He got the boys together, the day before commencement, and told them that he would give $10 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 cor? rectly, aud the old gentleman went away declaring that colleges are a failure. ? "Here's an item," ejaculated Mr. Billus, who was reading his newspaper, "about a superstitious crank that got up from the table rather than be one of thirteen at a supper." "That reminds me, John," said Mrs. Billus, "that there were just thirteeu that sat down at our wedding supper." "Well, it didn't hriug anybody bad luck, did it ?" growled the husband. "No, I believe not, That is?to none of the others." Mrs. Billus stared abstractedly at the "God Bless Our home, on the wall, and Mr. Billus read his paper upside down in silence for the next ten minutes. A Pleasing Sense, Of health and strength renewed and of ease and comforts follows too use of Syr- - up of Figs, as it acts in harmony witb/S nature to eftectu:iily cleanse the systcrif when custivc or bilious. For sale in fifty 1 cents and si 00 bottles by all loading drug-^ guts.