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From the firm of C. A. REED.
BUGGIES, WAGONS AND HARNESS.
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|N the lafe sale of the General Stock of Goods to Brown, Osborne & Co., we
reserved Buggies,. Wagons, Harness, &c, which we now offer to the trade at
reduced prices, and ask for a call from all wanting such articles.
The business of the old concern, and also that of Bleckley & Fretwell,
for Mules and Horses, must be wound up, and we beg everybody owing us a
cent to come on and pay up. at once. We will take Cash or Cotton in exchange
for debts. Remember, that settlement must be made. We want no costs or
proceedings in the Courts. We have helped j/ott. Help us now by paying your
honest debts.
Very truly yours,
SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY.
Anderson S. C., Aug. 19,1893.
BROWN, OSBORNE & CO.
HeREBY respectfully inform the public that they have bought the Stock of
Goods of Sylvester Bleckley Company, and will continue the business at the
old stand.
The new Firm is composed of Fred. G. Brown, W. R. Osborne, James T.
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BAGGING AND TIES?We have on hand and arriving 1200 Rolls
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Ginners to'buy their supply from us. Yours very truly.
xBROWIM, OSBORNE & CO.
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One 12-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Boilers.
Three 12-horse Nagle Detached Engines.
Oue 12-horse power Nagle Portable Boiler.
One second-hand 5-horse power Engine.
Several Cotton Gins, Feeders and Condensers,
Cane Mills, Evaporators, &c.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ANDERSON, - - 0. C.
Feb 5,1891
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FACTS TS. THEORIES.
Mr. Editor: So much has been
written and said on the silver question
in the last few months that we ordi?
nary readers are almost bewildered.
Possibly no single question has been
discussed so much in American poli?
tics, and it seems now that a large
part of our people have reached that
point where assertions and theories
are more readily received than facts.
It requires no talent to start a theory,
and hence the country is full of them.
It is the only stock in trade of the av?
erage politician. What does he care
for facts ? What regard has he for
truth when a bold assertion, regard?
less of truth, receives the applause of
the rabble ?
Having read several articles on the
money question pro and con, and hav?
ing seen statements that were not in
keeping\ith the facts, led me to in?
vestigate somewhat historically.. the
legislation on the subject of the coin?
age of gold and silver, and by request
of some friends I am induced to let
those of your readers' who may desire
to know a few facts on the subject
have the benefit of them. This sum?
mary is not complete. I have not the
time to give details, besides it would
be too tedious to the reader. I do not
propose to state anything on the au?
thority of the politician. His author?
ity is never trustworthy. He has but
one idea, and that is a fat office.
"Give me office or give me death," is
his patriotic (?) battle cry, and if nec?
essary to get it, truth and honesty
must give place to dark and devious
way. There are men, however, who
still have regard for truth, and who
will state facts as they are for truth's
sake, and upon such authority we can
safely rely. Our people?hot, impet
uoup Southern people?would do well
to take a calm, dispassionate view of
public questions: especially the
money question that will affect them
more in the future than* it has in the
past. Denouncing every man as a
fool who will not shut his eyes and
swallow without question the asser?
tions of some cross-roads politician is
a very unhealthy sign, and inspires
contempt for the man who has no
stronger argument than passion and
prejudice.
Adam and Eve never realized they
were naked, and would have remained
in blissful ignorance but for the
tempter. The South has been united
?rsolid, prosperous and happy?and
who told her she was not ? The temp?
ter in the garb of the oily-tongued
politician. Like his protypc of old,
he simply lied, and the people, like
foolish Eve, have believed it.
But the people say we need money.
Well, some of them do, and"Bome have
already had too much. Men some?
times . imagine they need whiskey
when they don't. It is quite amusing
to see a sick man calling upon a doc?
tor to prescribe whiskey for him. One
man will insist that we need more
money, because if it becomes plentiful
prices will go up and the people will
get more for what they sell. The
writer still remembers, while a boy
during the late war, money was so
plentiful that he paid $25 for a pocket
knife worth ten cents, and was offered
$400 for a silver watch that could be
bought for about $4 or $5 to-day.
What fortunes can men make?on pa?
per ! But they are "like bubbles
which on water stood." The more
whiskey the toper has the more he will
drink, the more money the spendthrift
has the more he will spend. Plentiful
money begets extravagance, and noth
iug demoralizes society faster than ex?
travagance, which begets licentious?
ness, luxury and wantoncss. "Give
me neitheir poverty nor riches" was
the prayer of the wise man, but possi?
bly we arc ncaring that time when the
great Apostle to Gentiles speaks of
strong delusions being sent "that they
should believe a lie."
"The love of money is the root of
all evil," yet the people cry give us
money. We arc becoming impatient
of the restraint of the Bible teachings
upon our passions. Make us a "calf !"
As for this man Moses, we care not
what has become of him. "As for
honesty, truth and morality we care
not what becomes of it?make us
money! This be. our God," seems to
be the cry of a large part of the Amcr
can people, and it remains to be seen
whether Congress, liko Aaron of old,
will yield to the importunity and
make for the peoplo a "silver calf,"
and then prepare "flat money" on
which to feed it. Let the people be- J
ware. Blind leaders in every age
succeed in dumping both themselves
and their blinded followers in the
ditch.
Money is alright and proper in its
place, and is necessary for the busi?
ness transactions of life. It may buy
conveniences and necessaries of life,
but beyond that it is practically use?
less. What is money ? What is its
value ? Why is it that apioce of brass
or iron the size of a silver dollar,
Stamped in the same way, is not mon?
ey ? Why is not a piece of paper
stamped $5 money ? Is not iron
more useful than gold or silver for or?
dinary purposes ? ?an not paper be
made cheaper and easier than forcing
the bowels of the earth to yield up the
shining particles scattered here and
there in mountains of worthies.1; rub?
bish ? Ancient history reveals to us
the fact that at one time skins was the
earliest form of money, but we have
not time to discuss money philosophi?
cally nor historically. We will take a
single definition comprehensive
enough for all to understand. It is
defined as '"that which passes freely
from hand to hand throughout the
community in final discharge of debts
and full payment for commodities, be
ing accepted equally without reference
to the character or credit of the pcr
jon who offers it, and without inten?
tion of the person who receives it to
consume it, or enjoy it, or apply it to
aiy other use than in turn to tender
? to others in discharge of debts or
piyment of commodities."?Money,
T\adc and Industry by F. A. Walker.
.the value of money depends upon
th\ amount in circulation and the
amount of goods sold?without stop?
ping to show what are the requisites
of honey, suffice it to say that the
civiized governments of the world
hav^ adopted gold and silver as the
two petals that fulfill these requisites.
In tin earlier development of govern?
ment, these metals passed by weights,
and iristotle points out that it was
aftenbrds determined in value by
men pitting a stamp upon it in order
that i might save them from the
trouble of weighing it?Cyclopedia
Brhania, VoljpVI.
It oujht to be perfectly obvious to
every rim of intelligence why this
stamping of coins should be done by
the Go^rnment, instead of by each
individu^ for himself who might pos?
sess the ietals.
Passing to the proposition, viz:
that the -v,lue of money depends upon
the amout in circulation, there are
those whoinsist that-the volume of
currency irithis country is too small
?not enoug per capita?and, there?
fore, the gcernment ought to coin
more money and if she has not the
bullion, thei issue "fiat money."
What a hoby is this for the politi?
cian 1 Let tri reader think for a mo?
ment. Sy th last census the popu?
lation of the tiited States, putting it
in round numlrs, now would be six?
ty-six millions
Suppose the government should
inflate our curacy and was to make
the startling a?ounccmcnt that on
the 1st day of Icember, through its
agents, would plje $10 in each inhab
tant's hands, thl would be $660.000,
000. How muchyould that money be
worth unless tho;overnment had the
gold and silver tdedecm it ? People
might fool themllves with it for a
while, just as sde men' do in over
stimulation, but Isincss men would
no more take it th| they would coun?
terfeit money, unlla there was a ba?
sis of gold or silvejfor it. The Cen?
tury for August shvs that until the
outflow of gold bfen the per capita
of the United Stati was $25.62, and
at the beginningjf June it was
$23.83. That woulmake the volume
oi_ currency, on aiasis of Bixty-six
millions, $1,576,0/,000. No other
civilized governmit has such a vol?
ume, except Frai}, her per capita
being $43.11. ThtJnited Kingdom
has $17.60, Germar$16.40.
Since that time^ leston, acting di?
rector of the min has prepared a
statement, or tabHshowing the ag?
gregate stock of goland Bilver in the
principal countries (the world. The
gold is" stated to b;$3J582r,605,000,
silver $4,042,700,00 Gold of the
United States is pi down at $904,
000,000, silver $62530,000, the full
legal tender being $5i00O,O0O in sil?
ver. The per capitis all classes of
money: France $403, Cuba $21,
Netherland $28.88, Atralia $26.75,
Belgium $25.33, Unit<States $24.34,
United Kingdom $13.4Russia $7.16.
The countries using Id and silver
bimetallic, are United l,ates, France,
Belgium, Italy, Switz<and, Greece,
Spain, Netherland, Tury and Japan.
Gold?United Kingch, Germany,
Portugal, Austria, Soajnavian Un?
ion, Australia, Egypt,*Janada and
Cuba.
Silver?Russia, McxicCentral and
South America and Indii
The aggregate of uncgred paper
money is put down $2)5,872,000,
distributed as follows: Sch America
$600,000,000, Russia $0,000,000,
United States $412,000,*, Austria
$260,000,000, Italy $113,0.000, Ger?
many $107,000 000, Fran'$81,000,
000 and Great Britain $50jo,000,
Still some of our wise I political
leaders say we have too sril a uper
capita," and that it is leshan $10.
The question is whbh willle people
believe, the man who has .ken the
pains and trouble to examinee mat?
ter, adds up the figures andjikes a
balance sheet, or the inanhat has
never seen the figures, bi, simply
raves and makes loud asserti?. We
are so blinded by passion a preju?
dice, and inasmuch as mahof us
have never experienced the easure
of knowing that I, Tom, DiciHarry
and the Devil, has never had Hexact
$23.88 at one time, therefore ,e per
capita is less than $10. Of Cvse it
is so, we have not had it. aw, I
must believe when those in cfge of
the United States Treasury refts in
1891, for example, that the go sil?
ver, copper, gold and silver rtifi
cates, Treasury notes, United ates
notes and National Bank notes ^vc
gatcs $1,500,446,389, it is trueAl
though gold was exported very ely
during the last year, when wecotler
the fact that the mints were still in
ing money as directed by Congrc \
am disposed to believe those 10
have an opportunity and arcpre.su.,i
to know, rather than some voluble v.
itician or partisan newspaper edit
to the contrary. Man can believe.
much of truth as he can of falschooc
unless his moral perception has ben
buried beneath passion and prejudice.
Some men, however, prefer that which
is false, because the bent of prcjuditc
lias deflected them in that directior.
1st Without stopping to discuss the sec?
ond proposition upon which the valui
of money depends, the government ol
the United States at the beginning
saw the necossity of having its own
currency, and it is to the history oi
chronological order of these Acts the
reader's attention is now directed.
Without going back to the Continental
Congress and its diro dilema in 1782,
or 1786, when the proposition for es?
tablishing the mint was inaugura?
ted, let the reader remember Mr.
Hamilton's Report in 1791 .started the
question. It is needless almost to re?
mark that Mr. Jefferson took issue
with Hamilton, and these issues have
never yet been settled by the Ameri?
can people. But let the reader re?
member that nothing in this world is
ever settled until it is settled right.
Each party, Republican and Demo?
crat, presumes to represent the right,
and every four years the contest rages
around the ballot box and on the
stump.
April 2, 1792, the Act establishing
the mint was approved. Jefferson
suggested the silver dollar as the unit.
The Spanish pillar dollar was taken as
the basis, (The pillar dollar, so call
ed from the two piUars on the reverse,
representing the '^Pilfers of Hercu?
les." Called also the milled dollar
from its milled edges.) The weight
was fixed at 3714-16 grains of pure sil?
ver, 412 grains standard silver. Gold
was directed, to be coined in eagles,
half eagles and quarter eagles. The
ration was fixed between the two met?
als at 1 to l?^that is one pound of
gold was equal in value to fifteen
pounds of silver. The first publio
building erected under the Federal
Government was the mint in Phila?
delphia, -where by Act, 1792, it
was put into operation by coining sil?
ver half dimes. A few cents and half
cents, authorized by the Act, were
coined in 1793. In July, 1794, the
Bank of Maryland made the first de?
posit in silver French coins valued at
$80,715, which was' coined into dol?
lars and half dollars. The following
year, 1705. a Boston merchant depos?
ited some gold, which wns coined into
half eagles.
By the Act of 1795, the director of
the mint was authorized in coining to
give the preference to. gold or silver
bullion deposited for coinage, so far as
respects the coinage of the same, but
this in no way affected the Act of
1792, that directed in the exchange to
give silver coins for silver bullion, and
gold coins for gold bullion, weight for
weight. But the amount of currency
was so small * series of^Acts were
passed from time to time n)aking cer?
tain foreign coins a legal tender. The
paner money issued under tne charter
of the first Bank\?f the United States
without a solid:;hasis did ndt fill the
bill, and. the ^Government'si name
added no strength, not having the
gold and Bilver to back it up. Besides
the Bank of England resumed specie
payments in 1819,v and nearly all the
gold and silver had crossed the water.
The second Bank(of the United States
had been chattewH, but the institu?
tion never foimdsavor with the Dem?
ocratic party, ag? in 1832, when an
Act was passed ??extend its charter,
President Jacksm vetoed the bill.
Its days were njmibered, and as its
bills would necessarily be called in,
the time was ripe^or gold, which by
1834 had beoome'n^Qjre plentiful. Its
most conspicuous^ champion Was the
celebrated Thomas Af:Benton, of Mo.,
and on Juno 25, 1834^tl|e gold coinage
Act was passed, when :jold went up
and silver went down/ -The ratio be?
tween gold and silver /was changed 1
to 16.002. The eagle j .which contain?
ed 247 4-8 grains of pure gold under
the 'Act of 1792, under this Act of
1834 was made to contain 232 grains
of pure gold, a gain of. 15 4-8 grains in
favor of gold. In six years $18.000,
000 in gold was coined, and the "Ben
ton-mint-drops" rolled like sweet
morsels into the pocketsof the people.
In 1837 again Congress tinkered
with the currency. Silver Ayas content
to take a subsidiary position. Its
standard was fixed at 4121 grains,
the eagle at 258 grain?, .. and out of
1000 parts by weght 900 was to be
pure metal and 100 alloy*,v
In 1849 again gold s$)od forth as
the recognized currency^of the coun?
try, and the mint was directed to coin
the gold dollar weighing 25 8-10
grains, 9-10 fine, 23'22-100 being pure
gold. jf I
In 1853 the free coinage of frac?
tional coins was sWpcd: ? The weight
of.the half doll$r was fixed at 192
grains, quarters, jdimes and half dimes
at one-half, onerfifth and one-tenth,
respectively of the half dollar and made
a legal tender upf to $5. These could
be paid out . "only in sums of $100 in
exchange for gold coins at par, and the
Act also authorized the coinage of the
$3 piece. February 21, 1857, the legal
tender of foreign coins was taken
iway, and coinage/of half cents stop?
ped. In 1865 the)three cent piece was
luthorized and:the words "In God we
Trust" ordered io be stamped on coins.
May 16, 1866j.;ithe nicklc was au?
thorized to he coined.
February 12, 1873, silver was qui
3tly laid aside... As the heathen Chi?
nese had his heart set on silver, the
'Trade Dollar" was authorized?420
irains?specially for the Chinese.
Dwners of silver bullion of $100
vorth, oould get 100 "Trade Dollars"
u exchange. The champions of sil?
ver called this demonetizing silver,
[n 1876 Congress declared the "Trade
Dollar" no longer a legal tender. The
iggregatc amount., of "Trade Dol
ars" issued underlie Act of 1873 is
ixed at about $35,965,924. It is
stated that about four-fifths were ex?
ported. The dollar found so few
"riends, after being kicked from pillar
,o pest, was bought up by its own
'fathers" at seventy-five cents on the
lollar, and redeemed by the govern
ncnt at one hundred cents on the dol
lollar. If any one besides Itepubli
tans ever got the benefit of that short
?,ut to wealth, he still remains in ob
icurity.
July 22, 1876, silver began knock
ng for re-admittance. The Secretary
if the Treasury was authorized to is
lue $10,000,000 in exchange for an
squal amount of. legal tender notes,
ind was authorized to purchase a ccr
ain abount of silver bullion at the
iiarkct rate. Its managers not being
mtircly satisfied with this slight re
ognition, like the camel in the fable,
?eing cold, pleaded with the Dcino
ratic Congress that it might be al
owed to put his head inside, and on
February 28, 1S7S, Congress restored
he coinage sf the standard silver dol
ar, 412* grains, but the gold dollar
cmaincd the unit of value under Act,
>f 1873. The Secretary was aulhor
zed to purchase silver bullion at the
neo'ket int.ee thereof from time to time,
lotless than two, nor more than four
milion dollars worth per month.
President Hayes, captain of the shop,
refined admission to the head, and
ctod the bill, but the bill was passed
ver the veto. Samuel J. Randall,
Minorat, was then speaker of the
hus. Under the Act holders of
$1 cold deposit it, and get a certifi
cat fSni the Treasury receivable for
cusiji* taxes and public duos. Mr.
Blail of Mo., has been the chief
uianrc" of the "silver camel." and
aftcroiing its head in, persisted in
takinh'.s body in also, and in 1SD0
the lli.se of Representatives said ad?
mit lu. Mr. Sherman shrewdly
guessethat if he got in he would say
lo golojf y0lI are not satisfied with
my cor^inv you can get out," quietly
switchtone leg to one side and says
we willalce you in part at a time,
4,500,Otouiices per month, and for
provendyou shall have certificates
payable gold or silver. This was
entirely ^factory to the managers,
as they kw it would he but a short
time bet. the government would
have no gjj ;,t the rates of $54,000,- 1
000 per aUIUl and there would be
nothing lofcut tli?- "camel" for the
govemmen Fortunately for the ;
country a i },avc been wise enough ?
to see the V, it had nut turned out l
just as Mr.-) ornian expected, and as
theDemocu, propose to cutoff the
supplies oijhe "camel" before he i
wastes all the government's gold, the
silverites arc regaling the country
with howls, gnashing their teeth and
threatening vengeance dire.
"Robbery of the people." "Oh, the
dear, dear people !" "Down with the
traitors!" "Hang and quarter the
traitor!" People, let the demagogues
howl. You keep cool and don't make
fools of yourselves because some of?
fice-seeker chooses to make an ass of
himself. If you will take the trouble
to examine the reports of the director
of the mint you will find that up to
June 30, 1888, the United States pro?
duced in
Gold.$1,367,015,450.44
Silver. 461,049,459.34
Difference ' in favor
of gold.$ 905,965,998.10
Of this amount of gold the South,
to-wit: Alabama, Georgia, South Car?
olina, North Carolina, Maryland, Ten?
nessee, Texas and Virginia produced
over $33,000,000, while she produced
only $69,178 in silver. The large sil?
ver mines in the West, being now
worked at a much larger profit than
gold can be obtained, has increased
the supply of silver, and just as long
as the South will play cat for the
monkey, the silverites will have your
gold, then what will you do ?
From the best sources that can be
obtained the stock of silver in the
principal countries of the world, ex?
clusive of the United States, is near
$3,397,000,000, the commercial value
of which is thirty to forty per cent,
except in the countries where it is in
terconvcrtable with gold coins. Do
you wish to seo the flood ? Then raise
the gates. "Wherever there is a free
market, thither will the silver pro?
duct go, and down will go your own.
You may dam up a branch or creek,
and direct the water for your own uses
and needs, but you cannot dam for a
flood.
I would like to pursue the subject'
further, but this article is already too
long. Except in France, silver does
not seem to be regarded as money in
any of the strong governments of Eu?
rope. France retains the double
standard, Italy in name only, and she
is now floundering in financial dis- j
tress, wholly unable to maintain her ;
standard. History repeats itself of- j
toner in finance than on any other
subject. "We are not in the first panic
the country has survived, and from
each financial panic the country has
emerged richer and more prosperous.
The September Forum has an ex?
cellent article showing our periodical
spells. We arc a spasmodic people,
and have our spells. First, 1814-18 ;
second, 1826-29 ; third, 1837 ; fourth,
1848; fifth, 1857; sixth, 1864; sev?
enth, 1873; eighth, 1884; ninth,
1890-93. In all nine attacks of finan?
cial colic. Don't heed the cry of
"stop thief" uttered by Republicans
and howling Populists. The Republi?
can party insisted in doing business at
the old stand in 1890 and 1892. The
want of confidence in American securi?
ties commenced long before Mr.
Clevelands' election, and foreign inves?
tors prefered taking chances with their
gold in their own country instead of
ours. I am not a "gold bug." I
have not had a dollar of the stuff for
many months. Silver is more familiar,
and a few fractional coins now and
then enables me to purchase a few
supplies from agricultural friends, yet
I am not a silverite. Still I would
not object to a little more of the
article. We do not want a money that
will take $10.00 of it to buy a 25-cent
pocket-knife. Any money that is not
worth one hundred cents on the dollar
in any country is a cheat and a swin?
dle.
Our country should have a currency
sufficient for its business. If the
currency is paper, it should be worth
one hundred cents on the dollar in gold
and silver. The silver dollar should be
just as good as gold and vice versa.
It is utterly futile, nonsensical to talk
about running the finances of the gov?
ernment upon any other than the
strickest business principles. If there
were $5.000,000,000 of gold or silver
currency in the United States to-day,
I would not be any the richer, the
farmer would be none the richer, nor
the mechanic, unless he had some pro?
duce of sonic sort to exchange for that
money.
But the poor debtor ! That is what
causes visions of horror to arise in the
mind of the politician ! Who made nie
a debtor ? Who made you a debtor ?
Surely in vain is the net spcad before
the bird. Yet we are asked to believe,
that the creditor quietly spreads his
net before our very eyes and into it
ive walk, with less sense than the
birds of the air. And the politician
.vants to get us out. And what for ?
He wants office. He don't care any?
thing about your debts?not a straw,
[f he could get you out, he knows you
rvill be in again, heels-over-head, be?
fore the next "campaign of education."
How grievously disappointed would he
3e at the next stump-speaking should
fie find the people free from debt.
The mullcnium would be unhealthy
!or his schemes. Do you not sec that
ic would not be i'i it. Lotusremem
jer that one wiser than the politician
jays, "The rich ruleth over the poor,
ind the borrower is the servant of the
endcr." Again, remember that the
nspircd writer says, "The wicked bor
roweth and payeth not again." Would
rou cease to be servants, then pay up
ind quit borrowing and speculating on
i credit, hoping for a rise in prices.
)rink less whiskey and beer. When
he South quits borrowing her corn,
lour, meat, wagons, buggies, mules
ind farming implements from t-M
iVcst, her shoes and clothing and
noncy from the North and East, then,
ind not till then, will she cease to be a
icrvant to the lenders. The wildcat
heories of government would not dis
urb her people. Labor riots, strikes,
raud and corruption would not flour
sh in her borders, but bountiful har
est from her generous soil would nil
lor bams. The fleecy staple would
ill her coffers. Her never failing
ivers would turn her mills with pro
it, the fragrant air and balmy sun
hinc will bring brightness to the
hecks of her fair women, and health
0 her .sturdy sons. Contentment, joy
nd happiness would linger around
very fireside. Charity would cement
very virtue, and with the sweet angel
f peace brooding over the land, in
nc united voice all could exclaim
;tliis is my own, my native land/'
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BILL ARP.
William Talks About Bees.
Atlanta Constitution.
There is one good thing about get?
ting stung by a bee. It makes you
forget all other troubles for a little
while. I have had lots of fun with
these bumblebees for the last few days
and it renewed my youth. Time was
when I thought it a big thing to fight
"yellcr jackets" and take my chances
with the other boys. The bravest boy
was the biggest fool and would stay at
the hole the longest and thresh all the
leaves off of his brush and get stung
before he surrendered. I am not that
brave now, and I fight with exceeding
caution, but I have killed over two
hundred in two days and fought fair
and square. My weapon is a crum
pan and I take 'em coming and going,
but they crowd me sometimes and my
antics attracted attention among the
nabors, for they can see me in the
upstairs piazza, and one good lady in?
quired if Major Arp was subject to
fits. The bees come out where the
weathcrboarding joins the floor and
my repeated assaults have made them
mad generally. Up .to this time they
have stung every member of the fam?
ily, even to the little grandchild who
lives with us, and I'm going to exter?
minate them if it takes all summer.
Wc triod hot water, but it will not
reach them. Just think of that poor
little child going round with one eye
closed and afraid she will lone the
other one ; find Mrs. Arp's head all
swelled up with two bumps that a
phrenologist couldn't diagnose. We
can't sit in the downstairs piazza with
any security. It is a bigger thing
right now than bimetallism or free
coinage or the tabernacle meeting. In
fact, it is a relief from politics to fight
bees and study them in the books. I
wish the editors would hold up awhile
and go to the woods and fight yellcr
jackets or wasps or hornets and get
stung a few times. It would be a
relief to the country and I have heard
that such things are good for rheuma?
tism or any nervous affection and I
know that it takes the conceit out of a
man for awhile.
My book says that the proper name
is "humblebee," but there h no
humility about these at my house.
There are from 70 to 300 in a colony
and so I know I have nearly whipped
the fight. They live only one summer
and never rebuild in *-he same place.
The books say there are three kinds
?the masons and the carpenters and
the diggers, but vi>at they are good
for I don't know unless it is to make
a man more willing to quit this world
and prepare himself for another. If
there were no snakes and tarantulas
and stinging things and deadly conta?
gions and demagoguges and thieves
and fusses we wouldent want another
world.
The little honey bee is a trump and
a wonder from stem to stern. It is
good to ruminate about their wisdom
and skill and their government. Just
think of one queen being the mother
of 20,000 and controlling them all
more absolutely than any human
mother controls her children. Just
think of 19,500 workers and only 500
drones in a colony. These drones are
the gentlemen, and remind you of our
gentlemen loafers and swells who set
about on the piazzas of the hotels and
watch the girls go by. But the droaes
don't enjoy themselves but a month
or two. The queen gets tired of them
and gives her orderE and then the
massacre of St. Bartholomew begins.
In an hour's time every one is slain?
stung to death by the workers, and
their puffy, bloated carcasses dragged
out and tumbled on the ground.
There is no little thing in nature
more wonderful than the honeycomb
that these little workers make. Its
mathematical construction gives the
most space with the least enclosure,
the arched top and bottom of every
cell, the exact and uniform thickness
of every division and the wisdom
shown in shaping the whole storehouse
to suit the shape of the hive is, indeed,
marvelous. Then there is the division
of the workers into brigades and regi?
ments and companies, some to gather
honey, some to make wax, some to
build the cells, some to stand guard,
some to wait on the queen and be her
escort as she moves around, and a
whole regiment to keep their wings
going like revolving fans and supply
fresh air in the hive. That fan busi?
ness makes the humming that is heard
in the hive day and night. It is the
flutter of the wings of the fanners.
How in the world they do everything
in the dark is a wonder to me. I was
talking to my friend, 'Mr. Bussey,
about it on the train some time ago,
ind he told me confidentially that he
was experimenting to see if he could
not cross honey bees with lightning
bugs and get up a bee that could see
liow to work at night or in the dark.
He has applied for a patent on the
idea, but whethor he has succeeded or
not in his experiment I have not heard.
He was very sanguine, and the only
trouble, he said, was about the cross
Snding room in the tail for the fire?
works and the. sting too. But Mr.
Bussey is an engineer on the State
?oad and knows what he is about.
The sting of a bee is said to be the
nost perfect war weapon ever invent
}d. It is cquisite in its mechanism,
[t is a hollow tube, and yet the point
jf the finest cambric needle is immense
vhen compared with it. Under the
nicroscope the sting is perfect in its
shape and smoothness, so much so
hat the point is almost invisible,
vhercas the point of the needle under
he same glass rooks like a great rough
Towbar with seams and ruts and
idges all over it. This is the differ
mce between the works of God and
nan. And yet the same Almighty
land that made the little bee with his
wonderful instincts and attachments
nade the universe?the boundless,
imitloss universe where there arc stars
0 be seen by the Lord Ross telescope,
phosc light takes b'0,000 years to reach
is. Contemplate that for a moment,
?e little conceited minds who think it
mart to say, "I don't believe in God.
am an agnostic." Sixty thousand
?ears for the light to reach us, and
jord Ross said that the star was in
he near edge of the universe. Light
ravels through space about 190.000
tiiles in a second of time, which is
lore than ten billions of miles in a
ay. Then count it for a year and
hen for 60,000 years and give it up.
Vc may well exclaim, "Lord, what is
nan that Thou are mindful of him."
t is well for us all to stop a little
rhile now and then and ponder upon
he works of creation from the little
usy bee to the confines of that uni
ersc that wc may some day occupy as
pirits unfettered by the flesh.
Rut Imust up and fight some more
umblcbees, for one has just stung the
og, and he is rolling over in the grass
1 a tumultuous manner.
?ILL Aap.
A Queer Family,
At the mouth of a coal bank in Nes
shannock township, six miles rrom
New CaBtle, Pa., stands a little two
roomed cabin, built mainly of logs and
plastered with mud. The roof is made
of clapboards and the one door of the
cabin is a plank that swings on a pair
of rude wooden hinges. Everything
about the cabin has anairof antiquity,
says the New York Advertiser.
The occupants are miners and their
appearance is in keeping with their
surroundings. The father, John
Lewis, is a widower, seventy-three
years of age, a little stooped by his
continuous work in the mine, but still
enjoying good health. There is noth?
ing about his appearance to indicate
eccentricity, except his long beard,
which reaches below his waist. While
working he keeps it tied in a knot,
and on coming out of the coal bank
his fi.rst attention is given to his beard,
and he never ceases washing and
scrubbing at it until it is as white as
snow. For over fifty odd years a razor
has never come upon his face and he
regards his whiskers as?almost sacred.
Mr. Lewis has four sons, who arc no
less odd in appearance than himself.
They are John and Edward and George
and William, two sets of twins, aged
about fifty years. None of the boys
has ever shaved, and as they are
almost exact counterparts it is next to
impossible for even those intimate
with the family to distinguish them
apart. This curious family is of
Welsh attraction, but the boys were
all born in New Castle. Their mother
dying shortly after the birth of George
and William, Mr. Lewis bought the
coal bank in Nesshannock township,
put up the cabin above described and
removed thither.
For one year he had a housekeeper
take care of the children, but since
that time no woman has ever crossed
the threshold of his humble home.
Mr. Lewis has an aversion to their
society, and when he makes his month?
ly visit to New Casile for supplies he
buys at the stores located on the out?
skirts, and if perchance he sees a wo?
man on the sidewalk he will take the
middle of the street. The sons very
seldom visit town, and when they do
always in company with their father,
to whose side they oling more closely
than a ten-year-old boy.
None of the family is able to read
or write and they are consequently
very superstitious. They have no
faith in banks and, although worth
probably ten thousand dollars, hoard
their money. The income from their
coal bank is quickly changed into
gold, to be deposited in their safe.
This safe, according to neighborhood
gossip, would baffle the ingenuity of
the most expert bank robber. It con?
sists of a stout iron box three feet
square. This box is placed at tbe
bottom of a well twelve feet deep
located underneath the cabin. The
well is filled with stone and from a
trap door a common gas pipe three
inches in diameter leads to the box.
Deposits in the safe are made by drop?
ping the coins down the gas pipe..
The men never take anything out and
a coin once dropped there is supposed
to be salted down for life.
There is said to be three pounds of
dynamite secreted in the well which
can be touched off by a secret fuse at
any time in case of an attack by rob?
bers. A knowledge of this fact has
doubtless kept the Lewis family free
from the notorious gang that has been
committing depredations in Lawrence
County during the last year. The
family is not known to have any rela?
tives .in the country and who will get
the contents of the iron box and their
real estate is a matter of much specu?
lation. They have no intimate friends,
their dealings with the world being
confined to selling coal, and in this
connection it might be mentioned that
five large dogs are used by the men in
hauling the coal from the bank.
These dogs are treated as members of
the family, sharing the same roof and
eating the same victuals. Father and
sons take week about at cooking.
They do their own baking and wash?
ing and three pounds of sugar, it is
said, lasts them nearly a month.
Every member of the family is an in?
veterate smoker. None of them is
ever sick and they attribute their good
health to the use of tobacco.
A Ouery Ahout Time.
R. D. W. asks : "Give a history of
our time reckoning system. Is it cer?
tain that wo calculate from the time
of the birth of Christ?"
To begin with, I will say that there
is not a man living to-day who can tell
exactly why one day is called Satur?
day, July 1, 1893, or what the calcula?
tion is based upon which give that as
a result. There has been so much
tinkering with and changing of time
reckoning systems, that I frankly con?
fess that I hardly know how one would
go about even attempting to answer R.
D. W.'s puzzler.
It has been clearly established that
Christ was not born on January 1 of
the year with which the Christian era
begins, but some time in the spring
(believed to be April 7) in the year A.
1). 4! Here is an insurmountable
chronological error to begin with.
Then, again, others take an entirely
different view of the matter (most
notably Professor Sattler, of Munich)
and have proved to their own satisfac?
tion at least, that we are five years be?
hind in our mode of reckoning instead
of being four years ahead; thatChrist
was born in the year 5 B. C, accord?
ing to chronological reckonings, which
would make this the year of our Lord
189S instead of 1893! One curious
thing is claimed by astronomers, which
the editor, being a common mortal, is
not able to verify?viz: that we are
gradually losing time, and that by the
end of the year 12,893 (which is a con?
siderable way in the future) the sea?
sons will be completely reversed. All
this is being brought about by what is
known as the "procession of the equi
noxes."?St. Louis Republic.
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? When you tryjto be good try to
)c good for something.
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
? "Who purposely hurts his
would cheat his God. ?
? The man who takes the cJm
thinks he is only receiving hisdesseH
? Why is summer the pride of tfl
year? Why, because it goeth beforJH
fall. 1
? If brevity is the soul of wit afl
we who are "short" ought to be veil
! ? The head of the rattlesnake hnl
been known to inflict a fatal wounJ
after being severed from the body, j
? The value of the coal product of}
the United States is nearly four tiraeq
the value of the silver product.
? "Do yon call your wife your bet?
ter half. Mr. Henpeck?" "Better
half ? Hfm! My friend, she is more
than three-quarters."
? A letter mailed in London April
7 and remailed in Hong Kong made
the circuit of the world in the fast
time of sixty-two dayfi.
? Fifty-six years ago the block on
which the Chicago postofiic'e now
stands, was sold at aactfoa Xor/$ft)ffif
It is now worth $5,000;C00.
?: According to the tracks found in
a stone quarry in Conr/Jctiout, a bird
with a foot eleven inches in length:
once inhabited those parts. ? j
? "There goes Van Dabble, thl
artist. Is he rising in his profession ^
"0, yes. Why, he has got so he can
borrow five or ten dollars at any time."
? To rise in the morning with a
bad taste in the mouth and no appe?
tite, indicates that the stomach need*
strengthening. For this purpose, theH
is nothing better than an occasional
dose of Ayer's Pills taken at bed time.
? Wife?"You are just as ugly as
you can be. Before we were married
you. used to hold me close in your
arms by the hour." Eusband?"Did
I ? Hum! Well, I suppose it was to
keep you from talking."
? A summer hotel youngster wai
talking with a lady on tho piazza, and
her father appearing, -the lady said
?facetiously, "Who is that gentle?
man ?" "That's not a gentleman,"
replied the youngster, "that's papa."
? A cute little three-year old Cari?
bou, Me., girl was eating candy and
watching a monkey the other day.
Her mother asked if she thought the
monkey liked candy. "I think so,"
was the reply, "papa does."
? People who live in new countries
are liable to be prostrated by malarial
fevers. Inhabitants of cities,' by
reason of bad drainage and unwhole?
some odors, suffer from similar dis?
eases. Ayer's Ague Cure is warrant?
ed a specific for all malarial poisons.
? Warner, the big corset manufac?
turer of Connecticut, has found .it
necessary to discharge several hun?
dred of his women employees and has
provided board for them until such
time as he will rcquire"their services.
This is another example of what helps
make both the times and the world
better.
? An execution in the Indian Ter?
ritory is a unique proceeding. A few
days ago it became the duty of a sher?
iff to legally slay a ' Choctaw. Two
men held the criminal's hands. The
sheriff knelt five paces in front, aimed
at a bit of white paper pinned over the
Indian'8 heart, and shot him dead.
? The largest stationary engine in
the world is used to pump out the
zinc mines at Fridenville, Pa. Its
driving-wheels are thirty-five feet in
diameter and each weighs a little over
forty tons. The cylinder is 110 inches
in diameter, and the engine raises 17,
500 gallons of water every minute./'v
? An old toper, who once attendee!
the exhibition where a learned pro?
fessor caused several explosions to
take place among gases produced from
water, said: "You don't catch,mc
putting water in my liquor after this.
I had no idea that water was so danger
bus, though I never take much of it.'?
? According to an old tradition,
silver was first used as a coin in Great
Britain 1,900 years ago. A mint is
said to have been established at Col?
chester, in the County of Essex, Eng?
land, by one of the native kings dur?
ing the reign of the Emperor Augus?
tus, and gold, brass and silver coins,
to a small extent, were issued there?
from.
? The "wigglers" in standing wa?
ter, which afterwards develop into
mosquitoes, can always be killed by
pouring a few drops of any kind of oil
?coal oil will answer?on the surface
of the water. The insects breathe
through their tails, and when the wa?
ter is covered with oil, their air tubes
become clogged an 1 they die of suffo?
cation.
? A country fellow, anxious to see
the queen, left his native village and
went to London to gratify his curiosity.
Upon his return his wife asked him
what the queen was like. "Like !"
cried Hodge. "Why, I was nev'r so
cheated in all my loif. What does
think, Margaret ? Her arms arc loike
thine an' moine, although I have heerd
a score o' times her arms were a lion
and a unicorn."
?? May is considered an unfortunate
marrying month. A do/wn east editor
says that a girl was asked not long
since to unite herself in the silken tie
to a brisk lad. who named May in his
proposal. The lady tenderly hinted
that May was an unlucky month for
marrying. "Well, make it June
then," honestly replied the swain,
anxious to accommodate. The damsel
paused a moment, hesitated, cast
down her eyes and said with a blush,
"Wouldn't April do as well ?"
A Mystery Explained.
One of the most learned and digni?
fied members of the Austin bar pot a
terrible rebuff from Old Uncle Mose
last week. The o]d man had Jim
Webster hauled up before Justice
Gregg for stealing his Spanish chick?
ens. As Jim Webster has political
influence, he was defended by two
lawyers, f'nclc Mose was put on the
stand and made out a bad case against
Jim Webster, testifying to having
found some of the chickens in Jim's
possession, and identified them by the
peculiarities of the breed.
One prominent law .vor then under?
took to make Uncle Mose weaken on
the cross-examination.
"Now, Uncle Mose,"' said the law?
yer, "suppose I was to tell you that I
have at home in my yard half a dozen
ihickens of that identical same'
breed?"
"What do you suppose I would say,
boss ?"
"Yes, what would you say if I was
to tell you I've got that same kind of
shickcris in my yard ?"
"I W'iuld say, boss, that Jim Web?
ster paid up ycr fee with my chick?
}ns," and a pensive smilecrei
under the old man's^eajg^
the back of his hcj