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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1892. VOLUME XXVil.?NO. 6. JESSE K. SMITH. A. A. BRISTOW. WHEN YOU GO TO GREENVILLE (Call and see the Handsomest and Newest line of Clothing, Hats and Furnishings, To t>e Found in the City, Or SENLrUS an ORDER, which we will gladly fill, and if not satisfactory to be returned at our expense. SMITH & BRISTOW, Clothiers and Furnishers, Greenville, S, C. f ? We have in Yinegai-s the very Best Qualities obtainable and at Reasonable Prices. ?Apple Cider Vinegar?four years old. Wliite wine Vinegar?extra quality. Claret Vinegar?for table use. West India' Spiced Vinegar?our specialty. Our Spiced Vinegar is made from Pure Grape Wine Vinegar, boiled down with "West India Spices. The combination of imported Spices for the production of this line Vinegar has been skill folly made, after many years of experiment. The result is 4m absolutely,perfect Spice Vinegar, retaining the delicious flavor and delightful fra? grance of West India Spioe. It is the only Vinegar you can heat, warm or boil that will throw off the same fragrance and flavor as when' cold. Especially desirable for Meats and Vegetebles. When used to make Spiced Beef or Spiced Onions it will satis? fy the most fastidious taste. TAYLOR & CRAYTON, l4Q Granite Row. K ''S" \ ,'<> TO CLOSE AND SUMMER GOODS. In order to clear out all kinds, of Goods to make room for a new Fall Stock. WE have decided to make the people of Anderson an offer to secure good, first-class Goods AT AND BELOW COST. WE MEAN JUST WHAT WEiSAY^-all Summer Goods tog* regardless of what they are worth. Embroideries, Laces, Lawns, Muslins, Bedford Cords, Challies, And, in fac^ a nice clean Stock of Spring Goods. A big lot of EEKLNANTS, all kinds ot Goods, to close. How is your time to get the Childrens' Winter Clothes cheap. t&r Come and see me. W. A. CHAPMAN, Agent, Next to Masonic Temple. LITERALLY WASHED WITH BLOOD. Police do their Duty without respect tb Persons. Tire Wall Still Covered with Bloody Gore. ? ? ? J^HE fight was on South Main Street at the Bazaar and Ten Cent Stores of C. S. Miiuor&Co. It was an attack of the combined forces of seven other merchants oo the famous Q 8. Minor. They fought in defence of their prices, which they claimed had been crushed out of all respectability by the said 0. S. Minor, and they fought with desperation to restore the former prices, but down they go in the dead of the fight, and their blood on our Store-front only is left to tell a pitiful . tele ui woe. . Stranger than Strange. One man claimed that we had reduced the price of Pants to 25c andJSOc. per pair?less than cost to make. We don't care. Another claimed that we Bell the beat quality Mason Fruit Jar at less than he can buy the second quality. We don't care tur that, either. A a other said oar 10c. Hosiery was the same that he had to sell at 15c, or two pair for 25c, and that we'sold his 15c Suspenders at 10c, and his 25c Suspenders at 16c, Well, what of that? Another man believes that we are selling his 40c Cups and Saucers for 30c, and ihis 35c Plates at 25c. Why should we care ? 4 A certain millinery man thinks we have knocked! him out of more than a ?hundred.sales. We don't have to pay a milliner, and he don't believe we pay for ?our goods. What concern is that of his ? Another man claims that we sell Tobacco at a starvation price. Has he any light to object ? Those are some of the complaints made against us. We ask you whose busi ;ne*s is it, if not that of our customers and ourselves ? Can't we make such figures as we *ee fit without being hounded down and forced to fight for our lives ? We'll ?fi\-nt to the death?we'll put their blood on bur walls and their scalps on our doors, atnd their customers in possession of undoubted bargains. Say, would you wash thu' Mood off the wall, or would you let it stay as a warning ? . Yours for Spot Cash, C. S. MINOR, THE BAZAAR and the 10c. STORE. "\XfZ are agents for the Celebrated Kentucky Cane Mills and Hall Self - W Feeding Cotton Gins. It will pay any person to call and see our Ma? chinery and get our prices before buying, as we feel assured we can save you money, and can sail you on easy terms. We can bottom and repair old Evaporators, making them as good as new at a small cost. , We also manufacture Smoke Stacks, 8park Arresters and Suction Pipes, which every Glnnsr should have, as it saves time, labor and expense. Onr Su ? of Stoves, Tinware, Crockery and House Furnishing Goods is complete. , We have a large suDply MASON FRUIT JARS and TIN CANS which are going oheap. It will pay you to buy as soon as possible, as Fruit Jars are going to be scarce and h**gher latter part of season. Call and see our Cherry Seeders, Apple and Peach Pealers?something that, every household should have. It saves much time and labor, and are so very cheap. When you oome to Town be sure to call and see us. We will make it to your in? terest to buy your Goods from us. We still buy RAGS, HIDES and BEESWAX All kinds ROOFING and GUTTERING done on short notice, and in a thorough workmanlike manner. Yours very truly, PEOPLES & BURRISS. Jo.<. II: Eaklk, J. W. Quastlebaom, ? > reenyille, S. C. Anderson, S. C. Earle & Quattlebaum, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ANDERSON, - S. C. April 28,1892 43 8m XT?TICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. The undersigned, Executors of the Estate of A. W. Smith, deceased, hereby give notice that they will apply tc the Judge of Probate for Anderson County on the 15th day of August, 1892, for a Final Settlement of said Estate and dis? charge from their office as Executors. B. H. GREER. L. A. WILLIAMS, Executors. July 13,1892 2 ? Tlj??H^'?OL?MN. -635. All communicatio'-j intended fo thisOolumn should be j/fddressed to C WARD LAW, School Cv&mlsBioner, An? derson, S. C. Mr. W. P. Holland has a very large school, and is of coarse doing a big work, i -? [ Miss Leila Browne is working faith? fully at Trinity. Her school is larger than usual. We are visiting the schools as fast as possible, and hope to get around during the summer term. Miss Anna Grabbs is at work at Dor? chester. We visited her school recently and were pleased with her work. \ Miss Meimee Stephens has a large school at Cedar Grove, and is doing a work that ought to give satisfaction. ! Miss Lela Roberts is the teacher at Melton's Academy. She has the work at heart, and is exerting herself to give good results, Prof. J. M. Hamlin, we presume, is open to offers for next year. He is a teacher of smowh ability, and one that I \ does very line work. Some school will be fortunate in securing his services. Mr. J. 6. Spearman, who has charge of the Friendship school, is a young.man of promise. He is thoroughly in earnest, j and is doing good work. He begins J work soon and continues later than f usual. J Miss Bessie Neal is teaching at Lib' erty Springs. She is young, both in years and in the work. But she as mak? ing a beginning that promises good re? mits. We think Miss Bessie will bo one of the best teachers. She has good teach? ing qualities. The school at Flat Bock is full. Some pupils had to be refused admission, be cause there was not room. This is not .a public school now, end hence they are to be congratulated on such a large school. Mr. R. E. Nicholson, their teacher, has built up a fine school at this place. . Miss' Lizzie Brock's school closed on the 29th of July. She has done a good year's work, and her patrons are entirely satisfied with her work. She will not teach there next year, but we feel that her pupils will fall into safe hands. Miss- Anna Grubbs will follow Miss Brock and continue: tie good work, be? gun. " A. Unique Lynching* _ " Tennessee has just furnished to the world the most unique of all recorded lyuchings. Major Wynne, a well known citizen of Dickson county in that State in a fit of pasnon growing out of some domestic broil murdered his wife. In token of their indignation at this outrageous crime the neighbors and friends of Major Wynne organized a mob, seized the wife murderer and hurried him off to some convenient limb where he was lynched. The unique feature of the perform? ance, however, is found in the entire friendliness and harmony existing be? tween the victim and big lynchers, Major Wynne not only offered no resist? ance to their laying violent hands upon him, but entered with entire harmony and approval into all their actions. He made a brief speech to his friends just before being swung into eternity In which he cordially commended their course, and said he would have been ready to do as much for any of theca'un der the circumstances. He even went so far as to express regret at having call? ed hin wife a "bad name," and to warn his hearers against domestic quarrels. Having finished his confession, express? ed hie repentance and given the. forego? ing friendly advice to his waiting mur? derers, he requested them to "make a good, neat job of it," and the lynching proceeded. Possibly there never was a more har? monious and cold blooded lynching. The murder of Major Wynne by his friends was even more outrageous than his mur? der of his wife, for the latter was the re? sult, of passion growing out of a family quarrel, while the hanging of the mur? derer was the coolest, calmest case of homicide imaginable, in which the vic? tim co-operated in the most amiable and courteous manner. But this remarkable parformanca did not end here. There was another chapter in this unique history which is as novel and original as the lynching itself. The Nashville American made bold to de? nounce the lynching of Majori Wynne in very plain terms, and to declare that the participants should be arrested, tried and in their turn hang for murder. This rude interference with their affairs was promptly resented. An indignation meeting was held by t: a citizens of Dick son and Editor Cain of the American was publicly banged in effigy. Above the hisses and sneers of the crowd some shouts of "death to the. editor of the American" were heard. Some fellow hung the following sign to the dummy: "Editor of the American. Dead, dead, dead." $100 Reward. $100, The readers of this paper will be pleas? ed to learn that there is at leasi one dreaded disease that science has been able to cur j in all its stages, and that ia Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the on? ly positive cure now known to the medi? cal fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu? tional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure ia taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surface of the system, there? by destroying the foundation of the dis? ease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Sena br list of Testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. jWPSold by all Druggists, 75. BILL ART'S TALK. The Georgia Philosopher Visiting In Louisiana. Atlanta Constitution. Louisiana is making progress?progress in education and good morals, At a mon? ey sacrifice of millions of dollars she has rejected - the offer made by the lottery company for a renewal of their charter. North Louisiana did it. The yeomanry of the bill country were marshaled for the fight by good men in the towns and villages and they carried everything like a cyclone. There has not been such ex? citement there since the war. There has never been such masterly eloquence on the hustings and never did the people come together with such unanimity on any issue as they did on this. White and I black, Democrats and Republicans, rich i and poor all voted together this time and they have redeemed the State from the powe^ of the octopus. I have been to Ruston again, where the State Education? al Convention was held, and there I heard all about the great lottery canvass, and who were in it,, and how it was.man? aged, and how it absorbed everybody and everything. There was enough and-lot? tery eloquence to make a book?a book of speeches for the boys and girls to spout from. . Dr. Palmer gave them a start last fall and it ioBpired orators all over the State. Rub to n is a charming little town of 2, 000 people, nearly all white. It is a brand new town and quite select. They don't exactly vote on applications for citizen? ship, but a bad man is blackballed all the same, and can't get a start. There are no rich people, and no poor people, and ev? erybody works, and everybody goes to Church when Sunday comes. There are no saloons, no jugs, no gambling dens, no rowdying. They have the best of schools, and besides have the elevating, refining influences of the chautauqua and the ed? ucational Convention for about a month every year. Distinguished college pror fesBors deliver lectures on science and art, or read essays on the problems of the day, and these are open to discussion. Women from the schools take a womanly part in the proceedings, and pretty g! Is, with their graduating blushes thick upon them, make recitations and sing songs and make instrumentel music at intervals as a dessert to the intellectual feast. I found it possible for a scientist to entertain his audience for an hour upon the "Mosqui? to," and my respect for the little con? temptible insect has greatly enlarged since I made his more intimate acquain? tance. If the learned professor could make so much out of a mosquito, what would he do with an elephant or ML Ve? suvius? A young girl with a pretty mouth and an alabaster throat mocked the mocking bird so perfectly that a blind man could not have told the difference and yet there was no strain, no puckering no distortion?the music juBt seemed to whistle itself. Ruston is in the hill country and is high and dry, and very much like middle Georgia- in general appearance and in climate and productions. In going there from Vicksburg you soon reach the over? flowed region, and then for thirty miles the road bed is nearly all the dry land in Bight. In many places the iron rails seem to be resting on the water's surface. Wa? ter, water everywhere, as far as the eye can see. This water comes from this cre? vasses and it has submerged hundreds of square miles, and ruined the crops of thousands of farmers. I was ruminating sadly about this when a traveling com? panion said to me: "How in the world do your poor people manage to make a living on those poor, worn-out red hills in Georgia? It looked to me like they would perish to death when I ras there. Why don't they cut loose and come out here where they can make some? thing?" "My friend," said I, "our hills are poor, but just before I left home we were try? ing to get up a town meeting to raise some money to send out here to keep your farmers from starving." He admitted that it was pretty bad this year, but declared that they could afford to lose one crop in five. At Ruston a visitor from the sugar cane region whis? pered to me that it was a pity these hard? working farmers in the poor hill country of North Louisiana didn't have a few acres of good sugar-cane land attached to their farms. And bo it goes, and here I am at home again in North Georgia ready to make oath that this is the best all round region in North America, and I can prove it by our preacher, who has just returned from Oregon. There is something like gravity or magnetism that draws people to their homes and keeps them contented there. It is a good trait and engenders patriotism and binds com? munities together. Patriotism begins at home by the fireside, from there spreads to the village, or the militia district, or the county in which we live; then it broadens to the State, and last of all, stretches wide its arms and takes the na? tion in its embrace. There is right smart politicians in Louisiana, and the third party seems to be making converts. A friend told me that I must not be surprised to hear that he had joined the boys in their determi? nation to purify political methods. "I have not joined yet," he said, "but I may, for it is the coming power, and a young man must keep in the line of promotion." That seems to be the way to purify. Pol? itics in the last analysis is office. When we have tried a man once and he has proved himself we ought to stick to him. We may not be able to elect Mr. Cleve? land, but I should think a southern man would feel mean if he didn't try to. I asked Uncle Sam if he was going into the third party and he said : "No sir, no sir. I is too old to be swappin' horses. Mr. Harrison is good enuff for me. Them third party folks done walked off, I reck? on." "Walked off how, Uncle Sam," said I. "Why, way back yander, sah, when ol' Masaa make man He make a heap of em of all colors. He make em out of mud and sot 'em . in de fence corner to dry. Den when dey all get dry He go back over de line to give 'em brainB and He found dat some of 'em had walked off. Dat's what dey tell me." Two laboring men boarded our traju at Fort Payne, going back to Ohio, and they cursed our country and our people all the way to Chattanooga because we hired a negro in preference to a white man. "The d?d black African," they called him, and they d?d the Republican party for tak? ing up for the nigger, and the Democrat? ic party for taking up for the d?d rebel, and there was no party at all for the la? boring man unless he went into the third party and took the scraping of that. "We were promised $6 a week," said the men, "and in less than a month they cut us down to five dollars, and then to four, and it is all because of the infernal nig? ger." 1 It looks like the world is getting too full of people. Our government has shut the gates against the Chinese, and Okla? homa has put up the bars against the ne? gro, and there's too little silver and not enough offices and everybody wants something they h a vent got, and there is more devilment going on now than ever before. That's the way it lookB when a man reads the newspapers. That's where all the fuss and commotion comes from, but when he gets away out in the country and mingles with the humble people and sees peace and plenty around the comfor? table farmer's home he is reassured and feela that the nation still is safe. A few days ago I was a welcome guest in a fam? ily where there were children, and grand? children, and sons-in-law, and daughters in-law, and all were happy and loving and kind, and the old patriarch opened the family Bible every morning, and de? voutly said, "Let us worship God and ask His blessing upon us." These are the kind of people who strengthen the gov? ernment and give confidence to patriots. They never "walked off," but waited - for brains and a spark of the Creator's di? vinity, Bill Abp." Glass in Old Egypt. The glassblowers of Thebes were as great proficients in their art as, possibly .greater than, we are after the lapse of nearly forty centuries of progress and re? trogression. They possessed the art of staining glass, and they produced this commodity in the utmost profusion. BoBilini gives an illustration of a piece of stained glass of considerable taste of design and beauty of color, in which the color is struck through the whole vitrified structure, and there are instances of the deshm being equally struck through pieces of glass half an inch thick, per? fectly incorporated with the structure and appearing the same on both the ob? verse and the reverse side. The priests of Pi tan at Memphis, were great glassmakers; and says one author? ity, "not only had factories for common glass, but, profiting by their discovery of the property of oxides of metals, which they got from India, of vitrifying differ? ent colors, conceived the project of imi? tating all the precious stones which com? merce brought them from that country." They were favored by nature, more? over, in having at band an unlimited supply of pure sand and kali; and their glass derived its good quality as well from these substances as from the further fact than in its preparation they utilized the ashes of a peculiar genus of kelp that grew in abundance by the Lake Mareotis and the Red Sea. They imitated amethysts and other precious stones with wonderful dexterity; and besides the art of staining glass, tbey must have been aware of the use of the diamond in cut? ting it and engraving it. For in the British Museum there is a piece of ex? quisitely stained glass, of the time of Thothmos III., {circa l?OO B. 0.) skill? fully engraved with that monarch's em? blazonment by the hand of a master. The priests were to the people of early Egypt pretty much what monks like Ro? ger Bacon were to the early middle ages ?they were the great scholars and ex? emplars of the learning of their day, and held the keys of all the arts then known. But they differed from all monks in this: that whereas the latter imparted their knowledge only to a few, the others taught it broadcast and let the people benefit by it. How they discovered the art is a matter concerning which nothing can be gathered, probably because the discovery went too far back in the na? tional country.?Chamber's Journal, A Childless Home. Smith and his wife have every luxury that money can buy, but there is one thing lacking to their happiness. Both are fond of children, but no little voices prattle, no little feet patter in their beau? tiful home. "I would give ten years of my life if I could have one healthy, liv? ing child of my own," Smith often says to himself. No woman can be the mother of healthy offspring unlesB she is herself in good health. If she suffers from female weakness, general debility, bearing-down pains, and functional de? rangements, her physical condition is such that she cannot hope (o have healthy children. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a sovereign and guaran? teed remedy for all these ailments, See guarantee printed on bottle wrapper. ? God never accepts a good inclina? tion instead of a good action, where that action may be done; nay, so much the contrary, that if a good inclination be not seconded by a good action, the want of that action is made so much the more criminal and inexcusable. ? A man who thinks to get to heaven by being honest and civil to bis neighbor while ignoring his duty to God, is like the school boy who expects to get on well at home by having nothing to do with father or mother, but being very considerate of his school fellows. ? Mrs. L.R. Patton, Rockford, 111. writes: "From personal experience I can recommend Do Witt's Sarsaparilla, acure for Impure blood and general debility."? Wilhite & Wilhite. ? New York now has in successful op? eration a hotel for women only. No men are admitted and no men are employed. It has only one peculiar regulation, that no guest may remain longer than four weeks. This is because the hotel is run for the benefit of women who need a transient home, and to prevent the place being occupied by permanent boarders. ? Bright people are the quickest to re? cognize a-good thing and buy it. We sell lots of bright people the Little Early Ri? sers. If.you are not bright these pills will mafco yott so.?Wilhito $ Wilhite. PROHIBITION'S FLEA. Address Issued by State Chairman Childs. The State Prohibition Executive Com? mittee would present a few facts and proposition for the consideration of the voters of South Carolina, as justifying the appeal which wo make to them to support the present movement to secure the prohibition of the liquor traffic in our State. That this traffic as now fostered by gov? ernments, protected by laws, entrenched by custom and long usage, is the produc? ing cause of at least 75 per cent, of all the pauperism, vice and crime which afflict the State; that it is the nucleus of all impurity, anarchy and moral and spiritual death, and that it imposes enor? mous avoidable burdens upon individuals, families and the State, admits of no con I troversy, as the proofs are unfortunately too familiar to the observation and expe? rience of every man, woman and child among us. That the traffic is producing these dire? ful results at this time, all over South Carolina, is attested undeniably by the largely increased criminal business of our Courts, the filling of our jails with crim? inals, our penitentiary with convicts, and our asylum with lunatics, the degradation and ruin of many of onr brightest young men, and the general condition of unrest and demoralization which is everywhere apparent. In a word, it is the agency most potential in its influence in oppos? ing the intellectual, social, material, fi? nancial, educational and moral interests of our people, and opposes an almost in I surmountable barrier to the salvation of ! human souls. This condition of things is I neither natural nor desirable, and exists in spite of the denunciation of God's im? mutable word against it, and the efforts of the good and true to reform it. All efforts to regulate or restrain the traffic, or mitigate its evils by law, have proven abortive, because under the de? moralizing influences, inherent in the traffic, the liquor seller utterly disregards or violates every provisions which is in? tended to restrain, and the authorities tolerate or condone the violation, because of their share in the profits, which in the shape of a license fee, comes in to ?well the revenue of the County and munici? pal treasuries. Under these same influen? ces, too, the people have become tolerant of its evils because of the false impres? sion made upon them that the revenue derived from it relieves them, to that ex? tent, from the burdens oif taxation. Thus it is tbat the legalized liquor traffic in South Carolina is to-d.iy conducted in utter disregard of every restraining pro? vision of law and of every right of the class for whose interest and protection these provisions were framed. If these statements were true of any other business or class of men among us, their mere announcement would be suffi? cient to arouse such a storm of righteous indignation as would only be satisfied by the final and complete removal of the evil complained of. This being apparent as to the nature and results of the liquor traffic, who is re sible for its continuance ? We answer as the deliberate and sol? emn conviction on our consciences: You I the free white voters of the State, whose sovereign decrees at the ballot box no humau power dare gainsay?you are responsible for the continuance of these evils. Oh, our fellow citizens, bear with us if, it: the dprp interests of our consci? ousness of the urrible woe* which, by this system, we impose upon our helpless wives and children, we press the matter upon you in terms which seem to be se? vere. Examine for yourselves and see if what we assert is not the truth, and regard us not as enemiea because we tell you the truth. The present prohibition movement is made under circumstances and conditions which seem to us to give promise of suc? cess, if the voters who are, or ought to be, in sympathy with the effort, will take advantage of the opportunity which It affords. There has never been before so hearty and general a response to the call which is being made for the friends of prohibi? tion to rally to its support. There is a more thorough organization throughout the State than at any former period, and the powerful aid which comes from the pulpit, the press and the organized tem? perance bodies is assured to our move? ment with all the vigor and zeal which so noble a work for God and hu? manity iB calculated to inspire in such auxiliaries. Not the leant of the conditions which favor our success at this time is the fact that we have been accorded the right, as Democratic voters, to test the sense of the voters and the candidates for the Legisla? ture on the question at the first Demo? cratic election, with all the rights and protection which the party machinery se? cures for a free ballot and a fair count. The wisdom and importance of this ar? rangement appeals in the fact that this test will be made free from complication with any personal or factional issues on which the voters may differ, and that those who would be disposed to favor prohibitive legislation for the whole State 83 more effective than license or local prohibition can vote in this instance free from the fear that the expression of their will cannot be nullified and defeated by an overwhelming negro vote. With these advantages in our favor, can we succeed ? We can, if the votea of tbe pledged temperance men, the 50, 000 votes of the members of Christian Churches, and the votes of friends of pro? hibition not included in the two former classes, unite to Bay that the legalized li? quor traffic in South Carolina shall cease. If these voters, with the vows of God and of their organizations upon them, will for once meet the solemn responsibilities which this occasion imposes upon them, and which they cannot evade and be guiltless before God and man, and will cast their votes for their altars and homes, our nuccess is accomplished, At its recent meeting the Executive Committee adopted a resolution request? ing tbe ministers throughout the State, by their votes and their prayers and their work, to aid in this great cause, and to set apart the third and fourth Sabbaths |n August aa "prohibition days," on which sermons on the subject shall be preached and earnest supplica? tion made for the success of this great cause. To God, the Supreme Arbiter of all human affairs, let us therefore make an earnest appeal, and voting as we pray, let us hopefully expect that sooner or later success will crown our efforts to redeem our altars and our homes from the curse of the destroyer. L. D. Childs, Chairman for State Prohibition Execu? tive Committee. Columbia. S C, August 1,1892. Making Gold Leap* The rhythmic Bound of hammer blows issuing from a cellar attracts attention of m'sry a passer-by. The most curious stop, and though the windows see a row of men vigorously pounding square pack? ages, turning them about at every blow. On a sign at the door of the store over? head there is a golden leaf with the word "gold" on it The row of men are gold? beaters ^and the packages they pound ao inceWntly contain gold in its transition into gold leaf. To begin with, a bar of gold is pur? chased at the mint. It is not absolutely pure, but it is finer than coin. The bar is, aay, six inches long, two inches wide, and a quarter or half an inch thick. Its weight is somewhere around twenty-throe ounces, and it costs $500. The bar is submitted to the pressure of rolls in a machine, and is gradually rolled to a strip of tough gold ribbon, an inch wide and 150 or 175 feet long. This ribbon is from two to three one-thousandths of .an inch thick. Three pieces are usually made of the strip, and as they come from the machine they are rolled up and put away until wanted. Then begins the manual labor, by far the most important, and work that re? quires no little skill. The ribbon is cut into pieces an inch long. There is a square inch in each piece. One hundred and eighty pieces are put between layers of "cutch" paper, four inches square, the whole forming a block about an inch and a half thick. "Cutch" paper is a grade about as heavy as a parchment, having very strong, hard and tough qualities which are capable of standing the merci? less pounding it is subjected to. Parch? ment bands are put around the package of gold and paper, and it is ready for the j beater. He places it on a marble or iron block, firmly and solidly Bet in a table of wood, and proceeds to beat it with an iron mallet. He has several of these of different weights, running from eight to sixteen pounds. They , are round, with a convex face, so that but an eighth of an inch or little more forms the striking sur? face. He begins with the heaviest mallet, and as he beats he turns the package around and over so that the metal within will be spread evenly. It takes an hour to beat the inch squares of gold out to the edge of the package. When it is done there are 180 pieces nearly four inches square. The gold is then taken out, and each piece is divided into four. The 720 pieces thus formed are put be? tween layers of gold-beater's skin, which is made of bladder, and is very tough, into another pack four inches square, and once more given over to the beater. It takes two hours or longer tobest the gold out to the edges of this package. When it is done, the package is opened, and each sheet of gold, which by this time is pretty thin, is cut into four pieces. They are filled into three packages or moulds, five and a quarter inches square, holding 900 pieces each, and for the third time the beater begins his work. Fror five to seven honrs are ] consumed this time in the work. On ac? count of the beat which is generated by the blows of the mallet, the workman can beat but fifteen minutes on each monld, which is then set aside to cool. This finishes the beating process. Girls take the leaves of gold and cut them into pieces three and three-eighths inches square. Twenty-five sheets are packed in a "book" between sheets of thin paper. A "pack" is 500 leaves, and is the sala? ble shape of the material. The waste which is trimmed from the edges of the leaves is melted down, rolled out, and beaten over again. There is probably nothing made by man that is as thin as a sheet of gold leaf. Some say that the thinnest have a thickness of but one-two-hundred and fifty-thousandth of an inch. So thin is the film of metal iu the leaves that thoy are transparent. But instead of the beautiful golden-yellow color which gold is believed to possess, when held to the light they appear to be of a deep rich green. Every one of the thin square inches of gold that the beaters begin on makes sixteen pieces of gold leaf. In* eluding the waste, each inch is beaten out into leaves sufficient to cover an area of 400 square inches, which is larger than a good-sized gentleman's handkerchief. A gold bar, when beaten out, will carpet a room seventy five feet long by sixty six feet wide. An impression is given, from seeing the men swing the heavy mallets, that gold-beaters, as a class, are partially strong and healthy. This is not so. Their work is confining, and whilst their arms are strong and muscular, they are not more healthy than any other class of men whose work keepa them indoors. Their work is steady and they earn from $12 to $16 a week. Some of the work of trimming and preparing the moulds for the beater is done by the wives and daughters of several of the men at their homes. A term of four years is not considered too long a time in which t~ learn the trade. Much skill is required iu beating, so as to spread the metal evenly and keep the skins in good order. It in a trade that men seem to stick to. Some have remained in one place for twenty-five years, and in over a half dozen factories in Philadelphia the present foreman has been in charge for forty years.?Public Ledger. ? It's only when a baby is very home? ly that its mother can see a resemblance between it and her husband's folks. S? Early Risers, Early Risers, Early isers, the famous little pills for consti? pation, sick headache, dyspepsia ?r\d ner? vousness.?Wilhite & Wilhite. HAWAII'S DEMON TREE, The Story of a Wonderful Bran-Eating Veg? etable. In the latter part of the year 1S67, says E. Ellsworth Carey, In the Honolulu Adveriiaer, I was commisoioned by the Belgian Government to find a certain rare wandering plant that was believed to grow on the higher slopes of Manna Kea, a large extinct volcano situated in the northern part of Hawaii. I had a station built on one of the wooded dopes of tbe mountain, faraway from any other habitation. My only companion was a native who had lived all his life on this part of the island. About twice a month he would visit the seaooast to obtain needful supplies for our camp. This native, who said that his ancestors were "big chiefs," whose bones lay secretly buried in caves on the mountain side, was very old, although he could climb canons and scale lava cliffs with wonder ful agility. During one of my botanizing excur? sions I passed by the mouth of a narrow canon or gorge, and I asked Pili, the old native, if he had explored the same. Pili suddedy became interested in his pipe and didn't know anything about the gulch and did not understand what I said. This was rather strange in Pili, for natives generally know every rock and tree in the section where they live, and I knew Pili was lying when be said he did not understand me. So, naturally, I determined to examine into the mysterious ravine. Some time after this I was walking with Pili down a gentle slope when I saw a number of bones. Pili stopped. He walked back a few rods and sat down on a stump. Not a word would he Bay. I began examining the bones and for two hours or more puz? zled my brain over a problem as I had never done before. What I found was this: A circular area of about one hun? dred yards in diameter thickly covered with the bleaohed remains of birds, ani? mals and human beings. These ghastly relics were scattered among the shrubs and grass. The larger bones were sear the centre; in fact, I found that the bones became gradually smaller as I ap? proached the periphery of this circular bone yard. In the centre cf tbe circle was a well? like opening in the ground, from which emanated a sickening odor. No vegeta? tion grew within fifty feet of this cavity. How came this hole with its horrible stench? How came these bones here? How came they to be arranged about the central opening ? These questions con? tinually presented themselves, but they remained unanswerable, A deep mys? tery seemed to hangover the spot. It was growing dark. I heard Pili calling and hurried to him. He pointed in terror to to the centre of the bone-covered area. A shadow was thrown ou the scene by a rising bank of clouds. Bat I declare that I Baw rising from the pit a visible vapor, a column of visib le fog or smoke or gas that was luminous. Spell bound I gazed at the spectral column. Near the ground it had the appearance of a phosphoreseceat flame and gradually be? came fainter as it ascended. Your/im? agination will have to picture the un? earthly phenomenon. Pili pulled at my arm and in silence we left the spot, and we did not loiter by tbe wayside. As I was looking for a simple plant, and not blood-curdling manifestations, I was inclined to break camp and leave. But by morning my nerves were in bet? ter order, and I went back to the scene of the evening adventure. I could find no clue to the mystery, and the matter gradually went out of mind as I prose? cuted my labors. But I had occasion after a time to visit a spot near where I had seen the canon about which Pili was so appa? rently ignorant. One evening I made known my intention to Pili to return to the place and to explore the gorge. "When ?" said Pili. "In the morning," I replied. Without a wcrd the old native arose from his mat on the floor and departed. He was gone all night. He returned by aunriae, bearing on his shoulders a ban die. When we reached the canon he stopf 1 and unpacked his load. I saw a stone idol, curious in shape; he placed it on the ground, and then took a small pig from his bundle. Making a fire, he sprinkled something in the flames, mut? tered strange sounds and made symbols in the air with his fingers. The animal offering was placed before the idol. After he completed his strange rites he said that I might never come back, but he had done what he could to preserve my life. He would wait until the going down of the sun, and then, if I did not come back, he would wail for me as did his fathers long, long ago, when a son fell in battle. Then he sat down, cover? ed up his head and was silent. All this made me feel uncomfortable. The natives of the Hawaiian Islands are supposed to be Christianized, but in time of danger or trouble many often turn to the discarded gods of their fathers. I knew Pili believed that great danger awaited anyone who ascended the ravine. But I went. I had gone about a mile, when over the tops of tree ferns I uaw a waving mass of sea green foliage undu? lating in the wind. The object looked like a huge bunch of thick-leaved sea? weed, and the peculiar motion of the same arrested my attention. I was over three hundred feet away from the curious object, and hurried to obtain a closer view. A wall of fern-covered lava about ten feet high stopped my course. Climb j ing up so that I just could see over the edge I saw an object such as the eyes of civilized man never before beheld. Im? agine a bunch of seaweed about twelve feet high, the edge of each piece lined with fine streamers which radiated in all directions and trembled like fine spirals, the whole object moving like the fringes of sea anemone. I was wearing a heavy felt hat with a wide brim, and I pushed it back from my forehead to get a better view. As I moved my arm the strange object ceased quiver? ing and every vibrating antenna or streamer pointed directly at me. Just then my foot slipped from a jutting rock on which I was standing and I fell, but not before something cleaved the air with a horrible hissing noise and struck my hat crown. I felt tbe force cf the blow as I fell and knew no more for a time. I re* gained consciousnase after a short time and lay in a partial stupor. The wall above me was stripped of its verdure and I saw a long, sinewy, snake-like object, writhing, twisting and curling on the rocks. It han missed its prey and a low, angry hum filled the air. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ?fiThe party who won't forgive is the one who is always in the wrong. ? A machine has been invented which makes 30,000 corkscrews every day. ? In all, there are 356 representatives in Congress to be elected next Novem? ber. ? To please people with whom you talk always know a little less than they do. ? It requires $1,000,000 every twenty four hours to run Uncle Sam's - government. ? There is a river in Kansas which va? ries in width during the course of the ? year from three feet to seven miles. ? When a boy begins to wash his neck without being told it is a sign he is passing into the ordeal of his fin Move affair. ? Man is a good deal like ?, fish. > You know the fish would never get in very serious trouble if it kept its month shut. ? The right side of the body perspires more than the left, and the palm of the hand four times more than the a tin of the hand. ? I f you owe a man, pay it, and don't pay as if you were doing the man a favor. He is the one who has done yon t favor in trusting you. ? It is said that in England there are 100 lives of Gladstone in manuscript ready to be rushed to the printer the day the grand old man dies. ? In Camden, New Jersey, suspenders for girls are unpopular because a girl , there tried to commit suicide by hanging 4 and she used those articles for uuspender ing. ? A Shasta Indian broke the egg-eat? ing record by devouring thirty raw eggs at one sitting. He would put an egg in his mouth, crunch it and swallow it, shell and all. . ? If you want a pair of boots to last lour years, melt and mix four ounces of mutton tallow; apply the mixture while warm, and rub it in well; and then put ? I the boots :in some closet, and?go bare? foot. ? It is a fixed and immutable law that to have good, sound health one must have pure, rich and abundant blood. There is no shorter nor snrer route than by a course of De Witt's Sarsaparilla.?Wilhite!??"? & Wilhite. ? "I am glad to become acquainted with you, Mrs. Montooth," said the lady, somewhat embarrassed, to the neighbor who had called on her for the first time. "How is Mr. Montooth and the little Misses Monteeth ?" ? A strange spider has appeared in 1 one of the valleys of Mexico in great numbers and is creating consternation. Its bite is deadly, While it is ferocious and much larger than the tarantula. It moves rapidly and attacks everything that is in its way. ?"It is a truth in medicine that the smallest dose that performs the cure is the best. De Witt's Little Early Risers are the smallest pills, will perform tho oure, and are the best.?Wilhite <fc Wil? hite. ? Newly Engaged Young Lady?Do ? /a think it's right for a girl to let the man she's going to marry kiss her? 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Wipe the glass with this cloth and rub with a dry piece until the surface shows a polish and is free from lint. .? A prominent divine who was to of? ficiate at a wedding, finding himself and congregation in the church considerably in advance of the bridal party, asked that som< one should strike up a hymn to improve the time. A "good brother start? ed off just as the bridal party entered with the byinn beginning, "Come on, my partners in distress." ? "Late to bed and early to rise will shorten the road to your home in the skies." But early to bed and a "Little Early Riser," the pill that makes life longer and bettor and wiser.?Wilhite & WiDiito. ? One of the things which the country farmhouse is not likely to have is cold water. Cool mountain springs read rythm ically, but they often taste very warm. An exchange gives as rather a new no? tion, the old one of keeping water cool in flannel'wrappped vessels. It serves, however, as a good suggestion at this time, when almost everybody has gone or is going somewhere for the summer. If the "somewhere" is not a hotel with all modern improvements, ice water inclu? ded, get a common earthenware pitcher, the commoner the better, as it will be the more pn-nus, wrap it all around, leaving no incu of it bare, with wet flannel. Keep the flannel wet, and the water will shortly be as cold as is good for drinking purposes, almost ice cold. Bncklens Arnica Salve The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Bheum, Fe? ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Cfail** blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay ? required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. ; Price 25 cents per box. For sale, by : I Hill Bros. '? f