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Builder and Repairer of all Kinds of Machinery. Dealer in Machinery Supplies. I HAVE established a FIRST CLASS FOUNDRY in connection with my MA? CHINE WORKS, and can supply you with any kind or atyie of CASTINGS, from a pair of Fire Dogs to a Fine Iron Store Front. I also have a? GIN REPAIRING DEPARTMENT, Wh<?re your old Gins can be repaired at short notice. I have a supply of good workmen,95 lways ready to do your work, and will du it promptly. I am? Manufacturers' Agent for aii kinds of Machinery, And keep on hand a large supply of BRASS GOODS, PIPING, FITTINGS, OILS, &c. Also, New and Second hnnd ENGINES always on hand. JUgf* Come and see me. May S, 1S80 6m rT>EMEMBER, wo m? fvesh ?ooiIm. Wo -1? not l.ny large hil&Jril small bijjs, Xi and in that way keep up our slock, and have it .".lways fresh. No ol<i, utnU> SOO*,S" Wo Buy all kinds Country Produce for Cash or Barter. B. W, TAYLO? A CO. TflAGHEf?g'GoLUMN, All communications intended fo this Column should be addressed to D. H RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C. A good many papers have been discuss? ing Andrew Carnegie's stateraeut that the colleges were not serviceable in fitting men for a successful business career. They have hurried to the rescue of the colleges, as if powder was to be exploded, under their foundations. Now we do not believe the colleges will lose a single student by the remarks of Mr. Carnegie. He stated results, and in? ferred that the college was not needed. We think his facta are good, but his rea? soning bad. We should put it thus: If college men fail, it is because the college has not done for them what it should do. Education pays everywhere?but there is a great deal in the colleges that is not education. There is a vast amount of poor teaching in colleges. There are men who are college professors who ought to go and learu the first principles of teach? ing. We think the moBt successful men as teachers (say in high schools) should be selected by the colleges. They too often furni?h roosting places for the sous of the patrons of the college. - WHAT SHOULD HE DO! The other day a teacher heard of a two thousand dollar position. "Just the place he wanted." He did not stop to inquire if it was just the place that wanted him, but made application, post haste. A lit? tle questioning showed that he-was ut? terly incompetent to fill the position. He had a certain accumulation of facts which he regarded as a sufficient stock in trade, but the business of teaching he knew nothing about. It was suggested that he Bpend three years at a normal school in order to qual ify himself for the position he coveted. "Three years! He hadn't the time for that;" but if he could just get the posi? tion and the salary for a few years, then he would see about attending the normal school "to top off with." Sad mistake! It wasn't the "topping off" that he needed; ho lacked the foun? dation. This is the trouble with nine tenths of the people in every walk of life who are full of complaints that the world does not appreciate them. They are on tip-toe waitiDg tp be called up higher; instead of listening to the inner voice that is continually calling them to better work and higher purposes. The best positions do not go by favor? itism, there is work to be done; men and women aro wanted who can do it; not thu.-e who can think about it, and talk about it, and tell h.'w it ought to be done, or how they would .like to try it, or how much more they w> utthe salary than the one who ia getting it. If you r. Hp ire to a higher place than you hold, don't wasto tyueiti .talking, but qualify lor Uie place; louni to do the work belter than iti- done aud prove to the world ihatyt-u can doit. You think that ii< I be hardest task?to make the world belieVr in what you can do; ??>!), it isn't TukI is quite a job to he sure, out ihe very hardest thing of all is to do the work ; to ?indy, to think, to plod and dig away laying a s-olkl feutida lion of training and capability?in the shitting sand of day-dreams and idle wishes. No mau ever wished himself in to auythiug worth having. Few men ever worked honestly, intelligently, per? sistently to fit themselves for a position that was not glad to get them as soon as ever they were ready for it. It signifies nothing that a thousand men are struggling for every siDgle posi? tion ; the men are not big cnoicgh; if you want the place you must be bigger than the man who is there now. You must grow so fast that your present place won't hold you. You must be so full of heat that something has got to crack ; like a handful of corn in a popper. "Shape, shake, shake. What does the man amount to? Shake, shake. Must be poor stuff; fetch the shovel, fetch the poker. Once more shake. Pop ! Pop ! ! Pop!!! Off comes the cover. Get the biggest dish in the bouse. It won't hold it all!" If you think the stuff is in you, shake, poke up the fire, aud expand. You see a boy to day; you see him in ten years. Why is ho so much abler than you expected to find bim ? It is a good question.? W. D.t in Practicnl Teacher. A Stupendous Task. The present cannot boast of things re? markable beyond the precedent, for we do not read that when Alexandria was laid out "in the form of a plethrum, or military cloak," to an architect named Dinocratea was assigned the arrangement of the gardeus, and he conceived the dar? ing project of carving Mount Athos into a stature of Alexander," with a city in the right hand and a reservoir in the left." But they knew not of the merits of the Cinchona tree of those yet undiscovered primeval forests and fever and ailments thinned the ranks of soldiers and slaves. A bottle of Dr. Westmoreland's;Caliaaya Tonic would have beeu as nectar *o. them. Its medicinal virtues thatalleviatcdebPi ly, prostration, restore lost appetite, cure dyspepsia, invigorate the syRtem, eradi? cate blood and malarial poison and ward off chills and fevers, would have brought fresh laurels to the marches of those con? quering legions. It is for sale by all druggists. A Disappointed Editor, Arkansas Traveler. Some time ago a rich old man, who was dying, sent in great haste for the editor of this paper. The editor knew that the old fellow had no relatives, and fondly mused as he went along over trie proba? bility of a large inheritance "I'm glad you've come." said the old man in a deadly whisper. "Come closer." . The editor approached. "You know that I have worked hard, and that 1 have earned every cent I have. Some time agn, you remember, J sub? scribed for your paper for nix months. There is jnsl "tie more number flue mo, and as I am dying, and can't wait till your next issue comes nut, just give me a nickel and wo'll call it square" lNderson, s. c, t: arp in camp, Where Ho is Away From Care nnd Toil. Atlanta Constitution, I don't want a lodge in some vast wil? derness as the tired poet did, but it is good for a man to get away from town and so? ciety once in awhile. Get away from newspapers and politics and business and town talk. Get away to some secluded, attractive spot and rest. A man can read the newspapers until he gets drawn in and absorbed in politics and gets excited and becomes an offensive partisan and gets to abusing folks, aDd like Carlyle ex? claims : "England has a population of thirty millions?mostly fools." He calls to mind the old time, honored maxim, "Vox po puli vox Dei," and mutters his disgust by changing it from Dei to diaboli and luna tici and other hard words. When he gets to that state of mind be had better quit the turbulent haunts of men for a few days and commune with nature and nature's God. The more politics, the lesa work. Look round the town and see who are the principal formentors of political excite? ment. They are the gentlemen of leisure, the gentlemen who have nothing else to do. Some of them are the genteel vaga? bonds of society who never do a lick of work, but are supported by their kin. Of course, we have to have some of that sort to make up society, but I could never see why, The man who has to work all day basent much time and inclination for pol? itics, and I have noticed that the best far? mers are the most lukewarm alliancemen. When a man works hard all day be is too tired to run about or ride three or four miles at night to attend a meeting. I know some farmers who have quit their farms pretty much and keep on the war? path hunting office, and I do hope they will get it, for their diligence deserves success. The trouble, though, is that of? fices are scarce and the wanters are many, and so that gets up strife and contentions, These disturbances agitate the body pol? itic for awhile, but in due time they will subside and everything bo calm and se? rene. I was ruminating about this while re? clining "sub tegmine ffcgi," which ia near? ly all the Latin I remember. Our tent is pitched right at the foot of a mountain, and within ten feet of a crystal spring that gushes from its base. Laurel bushes and ivy and mountain ferns adorn the rocky sides just over the spring, and a grassy glade Bpreads out below it and follows the little stream to the river. Eight in front of us looms up a higher and darker and steeper mountain that shuts us in from sunlight for half the morning. I', is covered close with pines and fir trees, except where an occasional cliff shows its barren wall and invites you to the top of its dizzy precipice. This mountain seems awful near, but between ud and its Dase flows the wide, loaming current of tho Etowah, dashing and ?sparkling..over the shoals, moaning and complaining its way with unremitting sound, and seeming to sing the poet's song? Men may conif, and men may go, ? But I go on forever. Dota the water never got tired ? The little stream that starts from Lake Itasca has 4,000 miles to go before it reaches the gulf, and it takes a year to make the long journey?a year by day and by night, and and then finds no rest, for its waters are mingled with the restless sea whose wa? ters cast up mire and dirt and are ever moaning to the shore. It is a peaceful luxury to recline in a camp chair and survey the majesty of na? ture and listen to her song. Up the stream and down and in the coves that separate these lofty mountains, are the ruins of a once happy and prosperous settlement. The immeuse furnace stack breathes fire no more. The long high walls of machine shops and foundries and dour mills are still standing?stauding in their atony strength without floors, or roofs or timbers. Pines and sycamores and blackberries have grown up inside and outside, and wild vineB have covered the walls, until in many places the ruins show nothing but the huge doors and long lines of open windows. The shadows of evening bring over the scene a wild, weird look of desolation that calls to mind Hood's "Haunted House:" The tempest with its spoils had drifted in, Till each unwholesome stone was darkly spotted As thickly as the leopard's dappled skin, With leaves that rankly rotted. Over all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery tho spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, 'This place is haunted.' In the coves and dells and along the foothills the humble working people lived in wooden houses with massive stone chimneys. The firebrand of war destroy? ed these bumble homes, but the chimneys are there, secreted among tho trees and vines as if ashamed of the work that man had done and hiding from the light. I have visited these ruins often, but find many sentinels I never found before. I found one near thirty feet in height, and it was embowered and hidden in musca? dine vines, whose autumn fruit attracted us to its hiding place. Memory goes back thirty years, when the busy hum of machinery was heard all along the narrow neck that lies between the foothills and the river. Hundreds of strong arms and cunning hands were here earning honest money by honest toil, when old Mark Anthony Cooper lived near them, and like a prince and a patriarch cared for them and directed and governed them and was proud and happy and kingly in his work. Ho was the pio? neer of the iron business in Georgia, and had there been no war would have left a monument more durable than marble. How grandly did the old man submit to the inevitable. How serenely did he bow to the course of events. I looked upon the Btained marble that he erected in honor of the friends who had given him aid and encouragement. What a com? mentary upon life! There are thirty-eight notable names upon tho marble, and they arc all dead. The great enterprises that llittir money built up and nourished are all in ruins. The workmen are dead and their children Mattered. But the ever? lasting hills ;trn thero with thoir mineral treasures, and the same beautiful river still murmurs as it flows: HTJESDAY M0RNI1S Men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. When a man sits in his arm chair and ruminates upon these things, how perish? able seem the work of human kind. How insignificant the passing excitement of politics. How pregnant with vanity is man's ambition for power|and place. How puerile the contentions of political lead? ers. Thirty years will find them in their silent graves or in the sere and yellow leaf of old age, forgotten if not forgiven, and a new set will be in their place, dancing to the same music and singing the same ! old song for office. Verily, it is better for a man to cling to the small, sweet pleasures of his home and fireside, look after the children aud grandchildren, work and toil and enjoy rest and food and sleep; Beek but few friends, and treasure them when found. Work while the day lasts, for the night cometh when no man can work. Bill A nr. Lions in Harness. The very spirited illustration of three lions driven abreast by a man standing erect in a Eoman chariot is familiar to most residents in London. It portrays, without the usual absurd exaggeration of mural art, an entertainment which is given daily at the French Exhibition at Earl's court. In the centre of a large circular space, which has been used during the past few years for the display of the Indiana of the Wild West, the sports of the Koman amphitheatre, etc, is erected a smaller circle, securely surrounded with iron bars, having at the back an enclosed building containing dens. The "open sesame" of my hoat passed ua into the private recesses of this prison house, in which I found four young lions, the oldest being about 3 years of age, These constituted the trained troupe, and there was also one younger scholar who had just been added to the collection. The education of this one was just commenc? ing, and he still retained the feline char? acteristics to such an extent that any approach to familiarity was met by a snarl which displayed the unshed milk teeth of the owner, looking as sharp and needle-like as those of a puppy. The training of these young lions rarely occupies less space of time than twelve months, and is chiefly accom? plished by kindness. Mr. Darling, their trainer, informed me that he regarded force as not being desirable, as it excited the animals to rebellion and was not conductive to obedience, whereas trained under the system adopted, each animal knows its name and answers to it. So successful are the methods employed by Mr, Darling that he has never been bit? ten by the animals during the time he has had them in hand. In addition to the lions the collection includes two huge Bavarian boarhounds, which take a very prom inen t paiLin tbe? performance. After this introduction to the perfor? mers I toook my seat with the audience to witness the exhibition. Mr. Darling and his assistant entered the arena with the liouH and one of the dogs ; the for mer at the word of command leaped up upon pedestals and arrauged themselves in pyramidal groups. While in this position Mr. Darling placed the ends of two BCarfs in the mouths of the lion?, forming festoons, over and under which one of the dogs leaped; two of the lions then stepped upon a plank forming a seesaw, the dog leaping on to the centre and swaying it from side to side. One of the lions then mounted a tricycle, working the pedals, moving the front wheel with its fore feet, while the boar hound was pushing behind. The chariot was then brought forward; one lion en? tered readily between the shafts and two others took their places at either side, one proving rather refractory, but after sundry growls he submitted to the stron? ger will of the trainer, who mounted the chariot and drove the trio round the circle. The performance is very distinct from that of the lion tamers in general, who rule their charges with rods of iron, and prod them with points worse than the stings of scorpions, utilizing the fear and terror of the animals at the superior 1 power of man. Mr. Darling, on the other hand, is very familiar with the members of this troupe. The manner in which he took hold of the forelegs of one of the largest and pulled him down irom his pedestal when he was not sufficiently quick in descending was amusing. The lions are of African descent, but, like the majority of the species now in menageries, have all been born in cap? tivity, and familiarized with man from their birth. Whether they will retain their docility as they advance toward their full size remains to be seen ; but at present they offer the most complete specimens of trained lions that it has ever been the writer's fortune to witness. ?From the London Field. Deafness Can't be Cared by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, aud that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous lining of the Eusta ian tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the in? flammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucoJs surfaces. We will give one hundred dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that we cannot cure by taking Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. ttQix.Sold by Druggists, 75c. ? Our word "hoi.-ymoon" ia derived from a marriage custom formerly much practiced amongst the nations of North? ern Europe, In ancient times it was the I practice for newly married couples to drink nothing but methrglin or mead, a kind of wine marto from honey, foi 'tirly dayi after marriage. Honco (ho i *m "honeymoon" or "honeymonth." ???? m ?^^M^? III ? ?? III m rq SEPTEMBER 11, YOUDOO IN THE FORESTS. Both White an<l Colored Flocking to Mnx tHIo's magician. Savankah, Ajgubt 29.?Maxville, a hamlet in Florida seven miles south of Baldwin, on the Florida Central and Peninsula Railroad, is becoming famous judging from the numerous passengers for that place the past month or two. The town has a store and three houses, aud the surrounding country is sparsely settled. Ordinarily not more than three or four passengers a week would make up its quota, but when the number in? creased to seventy five, and then to one hundred and fifty, the persons under whose notice the increase came began an investigation. Your correspondent made a flying trip to Maxville yesterday, and interviewed Dr. 'Lisha Wilkinson, the great magic healer and voudoo of the negroes for hundreds of miles around. The reporter arrived at Maxville at night, and had to ride a mule back two miles through the deep pine forests before reaching the doctor's habitation. On the way a camp of some fifteen or more col? ored people was passed, who, the guide said, had come from Northern Georgia to consult the doctor. They were all ranged around a big fire holding an ex? cited consultatiou, and examining a big sheet of paper that one of them held. As the reporter approached they ran off into the woods, and nothing could induce them to converse with him. The guide said that this was the usual custom, the paper being some kind of magic voudoo or spell the doctor had given to them, and they thought that if strangers saw it it would lose its force and power. The party approached the house and the newspaper man went in. A abort, stout man, with one eye bandaged, approached him, saying, "I was expecting you," and shook him by the hand. This upset the reporter, and for a moment he stood still looking at the celebrated doctor. His rugged, tanned face was one of shrewd determination, and his small gray eyes twinkled with unusual force. A slouch hat was over his gray-white hair, while a rough flannel shirt, jean trousers without suspenders, and big brogans completed his costume. "Doctor," said the reporter, "I've got rheumatism the worst vray in my back. What can you do for me ?" The doctor motioned for him to bare his back. He did so. The doctor then ran his open hand over the bare flesh in circles and then did the same, using his index finger alone. An uncomfortable feeling soon manifested itself, and it seemed as if that finger was a piece of red-hot iron. He stopped shortly aud abruptly told the reporter to resume his clothing. Taking up a small square of pasteboard ruled into four squares, with the numbers 1, 10,16, 54 in them, he gave 'hat to the reporter and told him (o read those off backward..eyery night as he retired for a week, and after that the rheumatism would never be felt again. The reporter expressed bis gratitude, and then had ? long conversation with the "healer." He said that this power to cure by touch any disease, wound or hurt was bestowed upon him when a young" man by an utter stranger, and that he has practiced it for sixty year^. "I can cure dropsy, rheumatism, cancer, etc, by look? ing at the patients, sometimes not even touching them," said he. "I can't say what this power is, but do all I can to cure them, and succeed when lots of doctors have given up the job. I can make absent and separated couples return to each other, make a woman love you, and find stolen and lost property. I knew to-day that you were coming." The reporter soon found out that the old fellow would not give any real details of his work, and so sought out some of bis neighbors. "What do the niggers say about him ?" repeated one of the oldest settlers. "Why they come hundreds of miles just to see him on all sorts of business. I have known them to come from the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and from all parts of this State. They camp out when they come here and won't have anything to do with white folks. I've seeu many a queer proceeding in their camps while here, daucing around the fire, 'voudoo' practice, and all that sort of mummery. Thoj think the world of him, and they will go without their last dollor to pay him a big sum. You see, he doesn't charge them anything. Oh, no ! He knows a trick worth two of that. He tells them to 'compliment' him, aud they strive to see who will give him the largest and most expensive 'compliments' in the way of money. I've known him to take in from $50 to $100 a day for days together. They go to him for fetishes to make some woman look upon them, for 'spells' to injure an enemy, or even to kill some one. He will look on one of them when brought before him and tell him to go back home, and that he will be well when he gets there. "But the whites are helping 'Cuffee' to fill this fraud's coffers. He gets from fifty to two hundred letters a week, many of them enclosing money, asking for advice. He cannot read a line and these letters are simply opened, the money taken out, and the letters burned. He has never been known to answer a letter of any kind, even by proxy. He assures his dupes that he can treat them as well when they are at home as when near him. "White women from New York, Chi? cago, Cincinnati, and other places visited him here last winter, and this summer hundreds of white ladies from towns within 200 mile3 have gone through the mummeries that he sometimes practices. Ho is worth many thousands of dollars gained in this way. He has no bank, but buries his money in the ground near his house and such iB the reputation of the place that it would be a bold robber that would defy the 'doctor'.*' spoil and try to secure it." Several negroes expressed themselves in the utmost awe of the old doctor and his spells. One said that his wife had run off with another map, and that the doctor had changed her mind so that (die returned home in a month. Another had lost a npan of hornet, and the doctor found thorn hundreds of miles from homo. Still another had been bitten by a rattle? snake, the doctor put his hand on the 1890. wound and he went home cured. Sam Jackman showed a big scar on his breast where a load of buckshot hit him. The doctor simply washed the wound, mut? tered something over Sam and dismissed him. It was well within two days. The reporter learned from the railroad officials that more tickets were sold for this place than for any place around with ten times its business. Parties to the railroad office have been daily askiDg for information regarding the doctor's home. Here in Savannah a party is made up weekly, chiefly of colored people, and when they return home a grand pow-wow i3 held in which hundreds gather to hear of this much-advertised doctor.?From ike New York Sun. A Daring Train Robbery in Florida. Mobile, September 2?The Louisville and Nashville cannon ball train, which left here at 8 o'clock last night, was held up at Big Escambia bridge, half a mile north of Pensacola junction, by robbers, who entered the express car and com? pelled the messenger to give the contents of the safe. It is not known what was the extent of the loss. Having secured the valuables the robbers jumped off the train and took to the woods. The first newB of the robbery received in Mobile by the railway officials was but meagre. The train was held up about half a mile above Floomaton junction, and the peo? ple there know very little of what occur? red, for the train was delayed seven min? utes only, and there was not much chance of learning what occurred. Eogineer Bob Sizer says that he was pulliDg out of Floomatou and just as the train, which is the through express from New Orleans, got under way be turned around and saw a man standing near him. Before he could ask a question or look twice two big revolvers were in his face. He was told to run bis train up to the E3cambia River bridge, some miles dis? tant, and stop on the bridge. There waB nothing left for him to do but obey, and he did so. There the train stopped on the bridge. The engineer was told to get off his engine and he did bo. Then the robber directed Sizer to go to the express car and force an entrance, the robber put? ting a heavy mallet in his hand. Sizer did as directed and burst open the car door. Express Messenger Archie John? son was standing in his car with pistol in hand, but, seeing Sizer, lowered it, The next minute he was "covered" and told to lay down his gun, and he obeyed. Then the robber, standing in car door, compelled the messenger to open the safe and hand him the money. While this operation was going on the fellow waB standing in the door, coolly looking at his victim and firing first to one side of the train and then the other to overawe the passengers and train crew. When he got the money the robber told Sizer to follow him. The man showed the way to the engine, bade Sizer pull out, and, with a partiDg shot and wild yell, dashed off in the bushes and was lost to sight. A posse has left Floomaton and an? other has left Mobile-in-ptirfluit of the robbers. Some BUrpriae is expressed here that the robbers selected this particular train as it is well known that other trains carry the mo3t express money, No! G, the rob? bed train, carrying very little at any time, and a small amount on this occasion. It is said that Rube Burrows has re? cently been seen in Florida, and there is a possibility that he ordered the assem? bling of his gang at Floomaton and joined them there to superintend the proper con? duct of the affair, but this r Jbery looks more like the work of the celebrated Oapt. Bunch. The express officers say that the amount of money stolen will not exceed $200. She Robbed the Mails. Charlotte, N. C, August 31.?Mrs. Mary Boyd, the postmistress at Biles ville, a thrifty town in Stanley County, on the Danville, Mocksville and South? western Railroad, has been arrested for robbing the mails. Mrs. Boyd has been discharging the duties for several months, and during that time sums of money dis? appeared. Government detectives were set to work to watch her, and notwith? standing that they secured evidence which strengthened their suspicions, the woman managed for a long time to baffle them in their efforts to obtain a working clue. This week two detectives of the mail service forwarded two registered letters from a village near Bilesville to Denver, Col., via Bilesville, containing several marked bank notes. On the next night the mail lay over in Bilesville, and when it went out to Gold Hill the letters were missing. When this was discovered the two detectives hastened to Bilesville and presented themselves at the postoffice. Before making known their business, they asked at the office for some change, and in making it the postmistress passed out to them two of the maked bills which were identified at once. A warrant was secured and Mrs. Boyd was placed under arrest for rifling the mails, When it was first announced she grew hysterical and fainted. Upon recovering she lis? tened coolly to the questionings of the officers and met tho charges with a steady denial. She was escorted to Salisbury, where a hearing was given her yesterday, and she was released for trial at an early date to? day upon giving bond for her appearance. ? There are thirty tnousand elemen? tary schools in France where uoys are taught gardening. ? Worth Knowing .?Hugh es' Ton? ic, the old time, reliable remedy for fever and augue. Reputation earned by 30 years' success. You can depend upon it. Try it, Druggists have it. ? To prevent insects from depositing their eggs upon plants when in flower, spray the latter with a solution of one part of vinegar to ten parts water. This treatment has given excellent results at the school of Arboriculture at Lyons. ? Always speak a good word for your town. Speak a good word for your hotel. Speak a good word for your town paper. Speak a good word for your minister. Speak a good word for your school. Speak n good word for your neighbor. Speak a good word for your church. Speak a good word for everybody and everything. VOLUM THREE NARROW ESCAPES. A Traveling Railroad Man Toll? a Thrilling Story. Neu York Sun. "I have been a travelling employee of different railroad companies for over twenty years," said George Coffee, now "lost car agent" of a western railroad, and in all that time I have made but three at? tempts to ride any part of one of my trips or spend any time on a locomotive. My first attempt was made some years ago, my second one last February, and my third only a week ago. If I live to be a traveling railroad man for ahundred years I'll never make a fourth attempt. I'll teil why; "In the summer of 1875 I was making a trip over the Erie Railway. On my way east I had to stop at Lackawaxen. I got through my business there and met at the depot an old friend of mine, Doc. Fuller, an Erie freight engineer. He was waiting for orders to pull out, on his way to Port Jervis. His train stood at the station and he expected to be able to go ahead as soon as his locomotive had finished taking water. He asked me to ride as far as Port Jervis in the engine cab with him, as the express train I was waiting for would not be at Lackawaxen for two hours. As we were talking Ful? ler got his orders, and I walked with him to his engine. He got into the cab and I followed him. "Just as he was pulling the throttle open the telegraph operator at the station came running to the engine, shouting to me that he had a telegram for me. The engine was then moviog. I seized the telegram, read it and found orders in it for me to go to Scranton the next day. I bade my old friend good by, and jumped off of the locomotive'" "While I was sitting at the hotel at Lackawaxen a couple of hours later, the news came that Doc Fuller's engine bad exploded a few mile3 west of Port Jervis, and that Fuller, his fireman and the flag? man of the trai.:, who was riding on the engine, were all killed. The news was too true. The three men were literally torn to fragments and were scattered for hundreds of feet around. Scarcely a splinter of the locomotive was left. That was the first instance on record of a loco? motive boiler exploding while the engine was running. I was terribly shocked at the fate of my friend, and my thankful? ness for the telegram that saved me from the same death may be imagined. "I had no inclination or cause to be a passenger on a locomotive from that time until one day in February last. I was on a business trip over the Baltimore and Ohio road, and found myself laid up at the little station of Benwood. I was all through, but there was no way to get anywhere else for half a day, except by way of a freight train, which ran by the station at about four miles an hour. When it came along I recognized Al. Cunningham as the engineer. He hailed me, and without a moment's thought or hesitation I jumped on the step and climbed in the cab. I had no sooner done so than George Divine, the conduc? tor of the train, came out of the telegraph office with orders, and stood waiting for the caboose at the end of the train to come along. He discovered me and shouted: "Hello! You're just tho man I want to see ? Get off and wait for the caboose I" "I jumped from the engine and got on the caboose as it came along. I had scarcely reached the platform before the whole train and everything in town was shaken by the most tremendous explosion I ever heard. The train stopped with a jam. I hurried from the car with the rest and ran forward. I never saw such a sight. All that was left of the locomo? tive was the driving wheels and truck. The track was torn up for rods, and cars that stood on switches in the yard were battered to pieces by the flying parts of the locomotive that were hurled on all sides. We of course thought that Cun? ningham and his fireman had been torn ? to shreds, when what was our surprise to see Cunningham coming out of a field 200 feet from the scene of the explosion at one side of the track. Several ran to meet him and found, that, although he had been hurled headlong through the air and landed in the field Beventy yards j away, he had scarcely a scratch upon him.' His fireman was found two car lengths back. He was lying on the hind end of the boiler with the cab upside down over him. He was not badly hurt. That ex? plosion was the second one on record of a locomotive while in motion, and it was the most miraculous one as toharmlessness to life in the history of railroading. What my fate would have been if I bad not been so opportunely called out of tbia cab I am not prepared to say, but I was entirely satisfied that I had been in the caboose at the time of the explosion instead of in the locomotive cab. "A week or ten days ago I was in Sub quehanna, on the Erie railway, and went to Lanesboro, a mile below, at the foot of the Starrucca viaduct, to have a good view of that stupendous piece of masonry from below. While there I walked to the sta? tion of the Albany and Susquehauna railroad, and there, with his locomotive on a switch, I found an engineer acquain? tance named James Morgan. Ho told me he was waiting for the fast express to pass and asked me to get in the cab with him and see the flyer whizz by. I got in tho cab, but then, remembering that I had important letters to get off east on tho Erie and bad not a mcment to lose in getting back to Susquehanna, I got off the engine and was walking away when I heard the fast express coming. I stopped mechanically to see it approach, and was thunderstruck to sec Engineer Morgan jump for his lever and start his engine ahead, all steam on. The engine rushed forward. The siding whs short and ended at a high embankment overlooking Star? rucca creek. It didn't take me three seconds to see what was the matter. "The switchman had failed to turn back the switch when he let Morgan in from the main track. Morgan had discovered the fact. There was nothing to keep the express from running on the siding right behind him. If Morgan was out of the way, (he engineer of the express train could stop hia train with the air brakes and avert disaster. If Morgan's locomo? tive stood in the way, a collision that would undoubtedly cause much loss of E XXV.?NO. 10. life would result. Morgan did not hesi? tate a second. Ho drove bis locomotive ahead to the end of the switch and be? yond. It was hurled down the high em? bankment, and tur^d bottom side up in the creek. The express train and its human freight were saved. Poor Morgan was taken unconscious, from the wreck of his engine, and I hear that he died the same night. "[ hadn't the nerve to write my im? portant letters that night. I had escaped three times from death on locomotiyes, and I theu'and there took a vow never to . make another attempt to ride on a loco? motive, or eveu get aboard one. I am superstitious enough to believe that to do so would simply be tempting fate, and that I would not escape again." Should "Mother" be Spelled With a Capital ? We have received a dainty little note written in the small, somewhat cramped hand of a nine-year-old little woman, who writes us to know if a capital should not be used when writing the word "mother." The dear little girl unconsciot^ly ex? presses preference and her reverent love by writing the word "mother" with a cap? ital in her own letter. The little philos? opher tells us of her interview with her teacher and several others on this subject, but fails to see why "the dear, darling precious mamma should not be spelled with a capital as well as the mayor or the governor." We answer?yes, a hundred times yes, if that strengthens it. Your mother is more sacred to you than all the conven? tional rules of composition ; more preci? ous than any rule of rhetoric; more obli? gatory than all grammars. By all means spell mother's name with a capital. As she is now, may she ever be, higher than a mayor, more digDified than a governor, more commanding than a general, more honorable than a Senator, more exalted than a President, a king, an emperor, or any potentate. Spell mother with a capital, for the use of capitals is to bring out more prom? inently, to show reverence, respect or honor, and a mother should receive all these. Let your heart dictate, as it has, the use of capitals when writing names; and what applies to mother is equally appli? cable to father, for though his love may not be so expressive, it is just as deep. "Honor thy father and tby mother, that tby days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God rgiveth thee and one way that our sweet little corre? spondent can honor father and mother is by writing their names with capitals. There is no love like mother's love none so quick to forgive and forget, none so patient with weakness and folly, none so ready with the cloak of charity. Write mother with a capital "M." Friends may desert you ; relatives may pass you by unnoticed ; the world may look with scorn upon you, but mother never. Her love is unchangeable unless it is intensified by your exclusion. Never let an opportunity pass to Bhow your reverence, love, honor and obedi? ence to your parents. You ask if you should spell mother with a capital. We have given you our answer, and as you reflect the love of a loving mother, in the days to come when you have grown up and taken your place in the exalted ranks of motherhood, may you have as affectionate a daughter as your mother has.?American Citizen. Women as Inventors. It was a California woman who in? vented a baby carriage, which netted her $50,000; while to Mrs. Catherine Greene, the wife and widow of Washington's* ablest officer, is duo the honor of invent? ing the cotton gin, which is one of those distinctly American inventions, the value and importance of which have been rec? ognized by the whole industrial world. A horse-shoo machine, which turns out completed shoes, was the invention of a woman; also the reaper and mower, the ideas of which came into the brain of Mrs. Ann Manning, of Plainfield, N. J., to whom is also accredited a clover cleaner. Mrs. Manning seems to have stimulated the inventive genius of her neighbors, for a few years after her reaper and mower was patented Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of the same State, took out a pat ; eu'u for an improvement on the machine, being a device for changing the knives without stopping the wheels. One of the most complicated machines ever made iB that for the manufacture of ie-enforced bottom paper bags. It is so curiously ingenious that how it was con? trived passes the ordinary comprehension, It was the invention of Miss Maggie Knight, who, from it and other inven? tions in the same line, realized a large fortune. A street-sweeper of great merit was devised aud patented by a New York lady, who had a costly dress ruined by the mud splashed on it by a defective ma? chine. Most remarkable of all is the invention of Mrs. Mary B. Walton, for deadening the sound of car wheels. She lived near the elevated railroad in New York, and was greatly annoyed by the roaring trains passing her house. The most noted ma? chinists and inventors of the country had given their attention to the subject with? out being able to furnish a solution, when lo! a woman's brain did the work, and her appliance, proving perfectly successful, was adopted by the elevated roads, ftDd she is now reaping the rewards of a happy thought. A 1'leasiug Sense Of health and strength renewed, and of ease and comfort follows the use of Syr up of Figs, as it acts in harmony with nature to effectually cleans the system .when costive or bilious. For sale in 50 cents and one dollar bottles by all leading druggists. jj0 ? The farmer should buy labor-saving inventions for his wife as well as for himself. ? If yon want to sow turnip seed evenly, mix a pound of peed with a peck of sand. ? There are sixteen thousand Masonic lodges in the world, with a membership of nearly two millions.