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LECTED Stock of FURNITURE in South- Carolina! - bought this Summer when everything struck bottom, and while there, was a big cut in freights. We have determined to fire the People the advantage of our BARGAINS ! W? will Sell you Furnliture at Prices below anything: ever heard of in this Country /before ! And prices it is impossible for any one else to buy the same quality of Goods for. When you need anything in the Furniture line give us a call, and? WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. Prices Lower than Cotton at 5c. Yoars for business, g. F. TOLLY & SON, The Leaders of Low Prices. j. P. SULLIVAN * CO., -Will sell you the Best Coffee, Th Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, All for less Money than you have been paying. J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. THE MOON'S STORY. BY SIR ROBERT BALL, ASTRONOMER, I _ From the Scientific American. I do not think there is any chapter in modern science more remarkable than that which I here propose to describe. It has, indeed, all the ele? ments of a romance. I am to sketch an event of the very greatest moment in the history of this universe, which occurred at a period of the most ex? treme antiquity, and has been discov? ered in the most remarkable manner. The period of which I write is far more ancient than that of the Pyra? mids of Egypt, or of any other monu? ments erected by human effort. It is even more early than that very remote time, hundreds of thousands of years ago, when man himself first came upon this globe. Our retrospect has to pierce right through those vastly pro? tracted cycles which the geologists have opened up to us. We speak of a period long anterior to the ages dur? ing which our continents were being sculptured into their present moun? tain chains and river courses. We have to look through those periods still earlier, when great animals, long extinct, flourished on this earth. The ; time of which I write is more remote than that very remarkable epoch in earth history during which the great coal forests flourish. It is earlier than [ the supreme moment, countless mil? lions of years ago, when living organ? isms, first became inhabitants of this globe. Even here, however, our re? trospect must not stop. We have yet once more to look back through certain anterior periods to a time when our earth was in its earliest youth. The chapter of history about which I am now writing is indeed in the very dawn of things terrestrial. It might be thought that it would be utterly impossible for us to learn anything with regard to what took place at4i time so immeasurably an? terior to all sources of tradition, and indeed to all the ordinary channels for obtaining knowledge by observation. It however fortunately happens that the darkness of this early period is illumed by a bright and steady source of light which will never deceive us if only we will follow it properly. Our trustworthy guide is to be the pen of the mathematician, fof it is well known that,, unless we are going to dispute the fundamental proposition that two and two make four, we can? not impugn the truths which mathe? matics discloses. This science knows no boundaries of space. It recognizes no limits in time. It is ever ready for discussing operations which take place oither in the millionth part of a second or in the lapse of uncounted millions of centuries. The process of mathe? matics are alike available for tracing .out the delicate movements in the in? terior of a molecule not one millionth part of the size of a grain of sand or for investigating the properties of space so vast that the whole solar sys? tem only occupies an inconsiderable point by comparison. Let us there? fore see what this infallible guide has to teach us with regard to that mo? mentous epoch in the history of our system when the moon was born. Onr argument proceeds from an ex? tremely simple and familiar matter. Every one who has ever been on the sea shore knows the daily ebb and flow of the waters, which we call the tideB. Long ere the true nature of the forces by which the moon acts upon the sea was understood, the fact that there was a connection between the tides and the moon had become certainly known. Indeed, the daily observa? tion of a fisherman or of any one whose business was concerned with the great deep would have taught him that the time of high water and the time of full moon stood at each place in a cer? tain definite relation. The fisherman might not have understood the precise influence of the moon upon the tides, but if he had observed, as he might in some places, that when the moon was full the tide was high at 10 o'clock in the morning, it would be perfectly obvious to him that the moon had some special relation to this ebbing and flowing of the ocean. Indeed, we are told of Borne savage race who, re? cognizing that the moon and the tides must be associated, were still in some considerable doubt as to whether it was the moon which was the cause of the tides, or the tides which were the cause of the moon. The ebbing and flowing of the tide opens up this chapter in remote his? tory, which we can now ? explore, mainly by the help of the researches of Prof. George Farwin. For, as the tides course backward and forward, sweeping to and fro vast volumes of water, it is obvious that the tides must be doing work. In fact, in some places the tides have been made to do useful work. If the water as it rises be impounded in a large reservoir, it can be made to turn a water -wheel as it enters, while another water wheel can be driven as the reservior empties itself a few hours later. Thus we produce a tidal mill. It is quite true that, so long as coal remains tolerably cheap and steam power is consequently readily available, it is not often possi? ble to employ the direct power of the tides in an economical manner. For our purpose it is merely necessary to note that, day after day, week after week, year after year, the tides must be incessantly doing work of - some kind or other. Every practical man knows that a certain quantity of work can only be done by the expenditure of a certain quantity of energy. He also knoivs that there is in nature no such thing as the creation of energy. It is just as impossible to create out of nothing the energy which Bhould lift an ounce weight through a single inch as it would be to create a loaf of bread out of nothing. If, therefore, the tides are doing work, it follows that there must be some source of energy on which the tides are enabled to draw. A steam engine is able to put forth power because of the energy developed from the coal which is continually supplied to the furnace. But where is the equivalent of the coal in the great tidal engine ? We might at first hazard the supposition that, as the moon is the cause of the tides, so we must look to the moon to provide the energy by which the tides do their work. This is, however, not exactly the case. The match which lights the fire under a steam boiler is in one sense no doubt the cause of the energy developed ; but we do not. therefore, assert that the power of the engine is derived from the match. It comes, rather, from the fuel whose consump? tion is started by the match. In like manner, though the moon's attraction causes the tides, yet it is not from the moon that the tidal energy is drawn. There is only one possible source for the energy necessary to Bustain the tides. Every one who is conversant with mechanical matters knows the important duty which the flywheel performs in a mill. The flywheel, in fact, may be considered as a reservoir into which the engine pours the power generated with each stroke of the piston, while the machinery in the mill draws on this accumulated store of power in the flywheel. If the en? gine is stopped, the flywheel may yet give a turn or two, for the energy which it contains may be still suffici? ent to drive for a few seconds the ma? chinery through the mill. But the store of energy in the flywheel would necessarily become speedily exhausted and the flywheel come to rest unless it were continually replenished by the action of the engine. The earth may be regarded as a mighty flywheel which contains a pro? digious store of energy. That energy is, however, never added to, fo* there is no engine available. If, however, j no energy were withdrawn from the earth, then the globe would continue to spin round its axis once every I twenty-four hours, forever. As how? ever the tides need energy to get through their work, they abstract what they require from the store which they find at hand in the rotation of the earth. Next time you see the tides scouring up and down a river you may reflect that the power which impels that mass of water to and fro has been obtained solely at the expense of the spinning of our globe. Indeed, the little child who digs a moat in the sand, which is filled by the rising tide, j affects, to a certain extent, the revo? lution of this earth about its axis. j This withdrawal of energy from the earth is incessantly taking place along almost every coast. From day to day, from century to century, from aeon to aaon, energy is daily being withdrawn and daily wasted, never again to be restored. As the earth has no other means of replenishing its stores, the consequence is inevitable. The quan j tity of energy due to the rotation of ! the earth must be gradually declining. Stated in this way, perhaps the inti? mation is not very alarming, but, placed in other words, tbe results at which we have arrived assume the more practical expression that the tides must be gradually checking the speed with which the earth turns round. The tides mnst, in fact, be increasing the length of the day. In oonsequence of the tides which ripple to and fro on our shores, and which flow- in and flow out of estuaries and rivers, to-day is longer than yesterday, and yesterday is longer than the day before. I may, however, admit at once that the change thus produoed is not very appreciable when only mod? erate periods of time are considered. Indeed, the alteration in the length of the day from this cause amounts to no more than a Iraction of a second in a period of a thousand years. Even in the lapse of ordinary history, there is no recognizable change in the length of the day. But the importance of our argument is hardly affected by the circumstance that the rate at which the day is lengthening is a very slow one. The really significant point is that this change is always taking place, and lies always in the same direction. - It is this latter circum? stance which gives the present doc? trine its great importance as a factor in the development of the earth-moon system. , ! "We are aocustomed in*astronomy to reason about movements which ad? vance for vast periods in one direction, and then become reversed. Such movements as this are, however, not the real architects of the universe, for that which is done during one cycle of years is undone during the text. But the tides are ever in operation, and their influence tends ever in the same direction. Consequently the altera? tion in the length of the day is con? tinually in progress, and in the course of illimitable ages its effects accumu? late to a startling magnitude. The earth now revolves on its axis once in twenty-four hours. There was a time, millions of years ago, very likely, when it revolved once in twenty-three hours. Earlier still it must have spun on its axis in twenty two hours, while this succeeded a time when the day was only twenty hours. The very same arguments applied in those times which apply at the pres? ent, so that if we strain our vision back into the excessively remote past, we find the earth spinning ever more and more rapidly, until at last we dis-1 cern an epoch when the length of the day, having declined to eight hours and seven hours, had at last sunk to something like five or six hours. This is the time when the moon's story commences. At this eventful period the earth accomplished about four revolutions in the same time that it now requires for a single one. "We do not attempt to assign the antiquity of this critical moment. It must cer? tainly have been far earlier than the time when this earth became fitted for the reception of organized life. It must have been at least many millions of years ago. If it be thought that the vagueness of our chronology is rather unsatisfactory, then it must be remembered that even historians who have human records and monuments to guide them are still often in utter uncertainty as to the periods during which mighty empires flourished, or as to the dates at which great dynas? ties rose or perished. But our story has another side to it. Among the prof oundest laws of nature is that which asserts that action and reaction are equal and opposite. "We have seen that the moon is the cause of the tides, and we have further seen that tides act as a brace to check the speed with which the earth is rotat? ing. This is the action of the moon upon the earth ; and now let us con? sider the reaction with which this action must be inevitably accompani? ed. In our ordinary experience we J observe that a man who is annoyed by another feels an unregenerate impulse to push the annoying agent away as far as possible. This is exactly the form which the reaction of the earth assumes. It is annoyed by the moon, and accordingly it strives to push the moon away. Just as the moon, by its action on the earth, through the me? dium of the tides, tends to check the speed with which the earth is rotating on its axis, so the earth reacts on the moon, and compels the satellite to adopt a continuous retreat. The moon is therefore gradually receding. It is further from the earth to-day than it was yesterday, it will be fur? ther to-morrow than it is to-day. The process is never reversed, it never even ceases. The consequence is a continuous growth in the size of the track which the moon describes around the earth. It is quite true that this growth is a slow one, so too the growth of the oak is imperceptible from day to day, though in the lapse of cen? turies the tree attains a magnificent stature. The enlargement of the moon's orbit, though imperceptible from month to month or even from century to century, has revolutionized ' our system in the lapse of many mil? lions of years. Looking back through the mists of time, we see the moon ever drawing nearer to the earth. Our satellite now revolves at a distance of 240,000 miles, but there was a time when that distance was no r")re than 200,000 miles. There was a time, millions of years ago, no doubt, when the moon was but 100,000 miles away, and as we look further and further back, we see the moon ever drawing closer and closer to the earth, until at last we discern the critical period in earth moon history, when our globe was spinning round in a period of about five or six hours. The moon, instead of revolving where we now find it, was then actually close to the earth, earlier still it was in fact touching our globe, and the moon and the earth were revolving each around the other, like a foot ball and a tennis ball actu? ally fastened together. It is impossible to resist taking one step further. We know that the earth was at that early period a soft molten mass of matter, spinning round rapid? ly. The speed seems to have been so great that a rupture took place, a por? tion of the molten matter broke away from the parent globe, and the frag? ments coalesced into a small globe. That the moon was thus born of our earth uncounted millions of years ago is the lesson which mathematics de? clares it learns from the murmur of the tides. The Blessing at the Table. The blessing at the table has much to commend it?the example of Christ, the necessity of cultivating household, religion, and the sense of gratitude for mercies received. It is a small feature of our domestic life, though entering potentially into it. In many households it is omitted altogether, either from diffidence or indifference, except when a visiting minister is being entertained. Around some ta? bles it is a form injected irreverently in the clatter of dishes and the chat? ter of tongue, a sort df empty phrase which propriety demands. Sometimes with an excess of zeal it becomes a long-drawn-out petition testing the nerves (and the necks) of the little ones. Many seeing the abuse of this ordinance have been led to ask what good it does. Do we say it lest other? wise there may be death in the pot ? Do we utter it as a pietistic formula ? What do, we mean by "asking the blessing ?' To Bay "grace at the table," then, is, in a word, a momentary turning of the spirit heavenward in prayer and praise. It means, first of all, thank? fulness for the mercies spread before us, and for the unnumbered benefits of which they are the representative. It means a fresh emphasis of the truth, which we are prone to forget, that all our blessing sflow from the "goodness of God," and are designed to "lead us to repentance." It means the ceaseless recognition of the fact that the strength which our "daily bread" affords should be spent in ser? vice for the kingdom. It means that the Christian would see in the pro? vision of bread statedly supplied a constant reminder of the "true Bread. It means the earnest petition that in everything we do, "whether we eat or drink," we may glorify God. It means a renewed affirmation that we believe in the duty, dignity and the potency of family religion. Ought not an or? dinance that suggests all this to be earnestly and heartily enshrined in Christian homes ? Practically a word. Four essential principles should regulate our manner of "giving of thanks" at the table? sincerity, brevity, variety on the part of those who ask the blessing and unity of sentiment on the part of all who are present. The last may be secured impressively by the general response "Amen" at the close of the uttered prayer. As for variety?this may be obtained in many ways. The contents as well as the form of the prayer may be ohanged. The blessing may be asked silently, as the friends do who simply bow the heads in quiet petition, or it may be said in concert, or it may be sung with fine effect. If one acts for all in saying grace, it need not always be the same person who voices the general thanksgiving. The consecrated ingenuity of the readers of this article will devise other ways, if necessary, in which to vary the manner of "asking the blessing." A knowledge of the various methods of observing this household ordinance in different parts of the world would help to exalt it to its proper place in the home. The forms given below are those which are perhaps most fre? quently heard: "Bless this food to our use and us to Thy service." "For these and all Thy mercies we give Thee thanks, 0 God." "We thank Thee, O God, for this food ; may we spend the strength it gives in more acceptable service to Thee." "We thank Thee, our Father, for Thy remembrance of us and for Thy provision for all our needs." "We recognize in these mercies the hand of the Giver. 0 Thou who givest liberally and upbraidest not, may we in return give ourselves more unreservedly to Thee." "Help us to do all that we do, whether we eat or drink, unto the glory of God." "May this food, our Heavenly Father, remind us of our need of the' true Bread, of which if a man eat he shall live forever." "Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and all that is within me bless His Holy name. Bless the Lord. O my sou!, and forget not all His benefits. [Repeat in concert.] ? Advertisement writing is becom? ing a regular branch of literature in the United States. Some of the first class writers command salaries of $10*, 000 a year, und now the y*>ung men are regularly training for this work, and going to college in preparation. ? Tho dolphin is said to be the fastest swimmer in the seas. It has been observed to dart through the wa? ter at a rate computed to be much greater than 20 miles an hour, and is often seen swimming round and round a vessel which is sailing at highest speed. Deafness Cannot b i Cured by local applications, aa they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Dflafness, and that is by conRtilu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an Inflam cd condition of the mucous lining of the Eustach? is^ 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 inflammation 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 mucous surfaces. We will giro One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F. J. CHENEY/, 4 CO., Toledo. O. , ?-Sold by Druggists, 75c. S?RGE PL?NKETT. Writes of His Recent Trip Among Moun? tain People. Atlanta Constitution. Such a trip as I have just closed up through northeast Georgia is calcu? lated to make any one feel good, and to see things entirely on the bright side. The northeast Georgia people know me and Brown, and there is none of that suspicion shown toward us one reads of as being a part of the charac? ter of these mountaineers. Parties who are reported as being "moonshin? ers" had no concealment from us. Of course, we did not go to their stills, nor we did not hear them say they had any stills, but the little brown jugs would put in an appearance in the early morning and whet our appetites to enjoy the good country fare. There is no danger in these mountain people, who attend to their own business, and I every latchstring hangs outside the door for any one who is not a med? dler. It is hard for me to decide which is the best scope of country through all the stretch we traveled. The valleys between the hills with crystal streams a-flowing and delightful springs gush? ing out from the rocks at the foot of these hills are so pleasing to an old man that we are more than apt to see on? ly the bright side of the seotion. The only trouble is to get your produce to market from among these mountains. This will be overcome in time, and then this will be the most desirable coun? try to live on the face of the earth. The section has everything to recom? mend it. The soil is rich, the water so pure, the fresh air so bracing and healthful, that it is no wonder the mountaineer is recognized as brave and generous by those who know him as he is. In the travel of a week I failed to find a single thing save just one inci? dent that was brought to my mind by visiting the mining region of Dade that could throw a damper over the spirits and good cheer engendered by the surroundings. The mines recall? ed a poor fellow that was sent from my section to serve a term of twenty years there, and the story is worth repeating, that the young generation may be impressed to their advantage. The man I speak of was a black? smith of the good old times, and I re? member him as the picture of health and a model of fine physical manhood. His dwelling was close to his shop in these old times, and many has been the time that I have looked upon him as blessed as I would watch his chil? dren as they played under the big oak that stood near his door. But the house was tumbled down, the trees have passed away and the family have all died or scattered, 'till there is noth? ing now but a memory. Once the smith had been a drinking man, and liked much to join in the sports that then pertained around the cross-roads grocery. But he had turned over a "new leaf," as the say? ing goes, and had become a prosperous and happy father. Twenty years ago this smith was sent to Bade County as the penalty of a rash act in an evil moment. He, with his little son, John, was returning home from the village. On the roadside stood one of these dog? geries, arid at this little house the smith was led to stop for a moment. "Don't go in, papa," pleaded his little boy, as the smith drew up his reins and stopped the horses. "Ah. John, said the father, "you have all got to treating me as though I was a child," whereupon he pushed the reins into little John's hands and bid him mind the team for a moment. In another moment he was standing with some of his old associates in front of the plank counter of the bar. "Just one drink, comrades," said the smith; "and hurry, for little John is holding the team, and my folks treat me as though I was as weak and tender as a babe in these days, and little John will be grieving if I don't get right along." In haste the drinks were poured into the glasses and the smith was hurry? ing to return to his boy. Just a mo? ment he was detained to get his change from the bar-tender. This was the fatal moment. A rough, rowdy fellow staggered up from a dark corner of the little house and, getting between the smith and the door, insisted that he had been insulted in not being invited to drink, and nothing would do but a fight to settle the matter. The smith was no man to back down from a fight, especially after he had taken one drink. In less time than it takes to write it there was a general row going on in the room, one man was lying dead upon the floor, the smith's team had become frighten? ed and run away, smashing the wagon, and up the road little John lay dying at the root of a tree. The smith was arreBted upon the charge of murder, found guilty and sent to the Dade coal mines for 20 years, while the poor wife and two little girls were left all alone in the world. . In two years the mother died, the two girls drifted away and were lost sight of, while .the father fretted for 18 years in the mines. In some way he was turned loose after 18 years and returned to his old home, to find all that he had known to be gone. I shall never forget the look of that poor man upon his return. I saw him coming down the road, bent and gray. He halted at our gate and leaned upon the gatepost. He looked at me and then at my wife, and then his eyes would wander off at the trees. "Come right in, stranger," said I. Not a word did he speak and not a move did lie make, save to stare about him in a dazed manner. My wife vowed that it was some crazy fellow; but, crazy or no crazy, I hobbled out to where he was, and there in this broken-down old man I saw the smith of 18 years ago. As I approached him he turned and wobbled down the road, muttering as he went: "The price of a drink! The price of a drink!" But everything is bright and cheer? ful in this mountain region. It seems to me that the roosters crow louder, the hens sing merrier, the turkeys strut prouder, in this section than anywhere I have been since tie war. It is from such sections as this that the towns must draw from to purify and bless the great streams of crowded population. The people commune with nature under the moBt happy conditions. The wild flowers of their mountains, the cooling streams and healthful air?everything there tends to the making of a people happy and pure. Sarge Plunkett. ? The first steamboat plied the Hudson in 1807. Keep lour Temper. An exchange give the following very good advice to people about keeping a cool temper at all times: "The cool man is the strong man, the popular man and the great man. "We always associate coolness wich bravery, and we cannot imagine a truly courageous man in a high state of ex? citement, roaring out what he is going to do. There may be persons who axe boasters and fighters at the same time, but the combination is certainly rare. "Perhaps you remember about the French soldier who jocularly spoke of the shower of sand cast by a cannon ball on the dispatch he had written .is 'his blotting paper.' If you did. you must have admired his coolness as much as Napoleon, who stood by. "A parallel case is that of the gen? eral who put a lieutenant under arrest, not because he pulled a pistol on him, but because it did not go off. " 'I will punish you for not keeping your fire-arms in good order,' said the general, coolly. "And as he walked away, the lieu? tenant must have felt exceedingly cheap. "It is not alone in war that a good temper is requisite. The cool, self balanced man is always the successful man in business. To act on impulse is to act wrongly nine times out of ten. It rarely takes more than a few min? utes to inquire into details and look at all sides of a question before com? ing to a decision, and, as a rule, it saves hours or perhaps days of after vexa? tion. "The man who loses his temper is not always in the wrong, but, to the onlooker, he always appears to be wrong. "When two persons engage in an argument or debate, the one who keeps his temper will almost invariably get the best of it. "Why do the utterances of a judge have so much weight with a jury? Because he keeps his temper. The lawyers may be ever so vehement, pa? thetic or angry, but the judge must be calm and cool, or he is not fit to be a judge. "Boys and girls are men and wo? men in miniature, and youth iu the time to form the habits of after life. " 'Think twice before you speak once,' is an excellent rule for your guidance. To keep your temper, you cannot afford to speak hastily. "To keep your temper is to be pop? ular. If you will notice in school and among your playmates, you will see that the good-tempered boy or girl has more friends than the smart boy and rich girl put together. Good temper always pays. In all the affairs of life, no matter how much quarreling or fighting there may be, matters are finally settled by reasoning, and there can be no reasoning until good temper rules. So why not let it rule in the beginning? "If for no other reason, you should keep your temper on the score of good health. Choleric people are rarely long-lived. People have been known to die in a fit of anger, while no one ever heard of a death caused by being too placid. "Nothing will preserve good looks to old age like a good temper.' The irritable, quarrelsome person is always wrinkled and distorted in visage as well as in mind, and the only way to avoid these terrors of old age is to keep your temper." A Clock Tli at Rons a Century, A thing to rival the seven wonders of the world, if not in size and elabo? rateness, at least in ingenuity and variety, is a clock that requires win^ ing only once in 100 years. Nor Is it a modern piece of mechani-m?. Such a horological curiosity is actually in existence and is now in the possession of M. Pottin, who lives in Ivry-sur Seine, France. Nearly a decade ago he bought it of a farmer, who had in? herited it of his father. Neither tht; latter nor his son could tell how it came to be an heir-loom in the peasant family. Expert olockmen claim that it is the work of Borne inventive genius of the period of Henry II. For some mys? terious reason all imitations thus far attempted have been failures. The original is a sort of water clock, not, however, in the .accepted sense of the term. It is made in the shape of a narrow, upright chest. In its front slits a cylinder is suspended on stout cords. The cylinder turns on its axis as it moves up and down and indicates the time on the two face-boards, on the one the hours and on the other the half and quarter hourB. When the cylinder is on top then all the cord is twined around it, and in proportion to the rapidity of its descent the cord is unwound. It takes the cylinder just 36 hours to make the round trip, 18 hours each way, the movement maintaining a per? fect regularity. It is thus that the points of the axis are made to serve as correct time indicators. What puzzles the investigator most is how is it made possible for the un? wound cylinder when it has arrived at the bottom to again wind the cord around itself and be drawn up to the top. It is vested with this power of regu? lar movements by a very complicated system of small water filled reservoirs, with which it is connected and which serve as a propelling power. The in? cessant moving up and down of the cylinder keeps up a constant change of the ceuter of gravity. The receiv? ing tubes are bo constituted that only a measured quantity of water is ad? mitted into the reservoirs and the same precaution is taken at the out? lets. It has been calculated that the cords wear out in a little more than 100 yearB and that enough rust col? lects in the buckets to require clean? ing or replacement after the same length of time. - m +? m - ? A transparent mirror glass, re? cently introduced in Germany, reflects on one side, from which it is practi? cally opque, while from the other side it is transparent. It is proposed to use this type of glass for glazing windows in city residences, for, while it will not cut off light or vision from the interior, it will prevent outsiders from seeing into a room. ? I have too little grand children who are teething this hot summer weather and are troubled with bowel complaint. I give them Chamber? lain's Colic, Cholera and. Diarrhoea Remedy and it acts like a charm. I earnestly recommend it for children with bowel troubles. I was myself taken with a severe attack of bloody flux, with cramps and pains in my stomach, one-third of a bottle of this remedy cured me. Within twenty four hours I was out of bed and doing my housework. Mrs. W. L. Duncan, Bon-aqiia, Hickman Co., Tcnn. For sale by Hill Bros. Strong Flea for Sheep-Raising. Tothc Editor of the News and Courier: As this is the season for the sheep to yield his rich fleece to pay for the care and keep of the owner for the last year it is natural that we should feel more than usual interest in his life and health, and then it is the time that he is most exposed to attacks of roving dogs, when they hunt the rabit and find the sheep, which they regard almost as much their legitimate game as the rabbit, and, unless the dog has been trained to understand that the sheep are not for him, he will attack them wherever he finds them, especially if there is more than one dog, as it is a frolic with him, and the more company the better he enjoys the fun, though I have had sheep killed by a solitary bull dog; hounds like to run in packs. What a pity it is that our farmers feel so little interest in the sheep, since it is so easy to raise a small flock, which pays a greater per cent of profit than any branch of the farming interest! Such is my experience. I have been keeping sheep for more than 40 years and they have given me bet? ter pay for care and feed than any other animal, and even if one dies he does not die insolvent, but he has either paid in advance or has on his back enough wool to pay his debts. Then it comes in at a time when the purse becomes light. The sheep yields three crops every year, lambs, wool and manure. Any one of these will pay his board. What other crop will do as well, and but for the extra trouble of looking after his safety, to guard him from the dog, the profit would be greater. On every fifty-acre farm in this State pasturage could be found for ten or more sheep, which would about clothe an average family after paying for feed. I have kept more or less sheep for over 40 years and have fewer now than ever before, but they make up in quality. We sheared from our breed? ing ram 23 pounds of wool in the dirt; four ewes yielded 18J, 16, 15, 14 pounds. This is merchantable wool in the dirt, which means one-third less than brook washed wool, that is, it is sold and one-third deducted to make it equal to brook washed wool. These are highly bred American Meri? nos. We could not expect so much from a large flock. My old fashioned Merinos averaged about six pounds of beautiful wool, better than these heavy fleeces. Now is there no way that can be de? vised to so interest our people in the sheep that they will send representa? tives to the Legislature pledged to enact a rigid dog law? It is now so that there are other weighty reasons why the dogs should be thinned out and to restrain the liberties of what are left. Only a few days ago I "heard of a relative being bitten by a mad dog; our County has not been clear of mad dogs six months at a time in 20 years, and while a member of the Legis? lature I tried to get a bill through tax-j ing dogs, but it was ridiculed out of existence. Such is the experience of all who have tried to restrain the dog to his owner's premises, and it is a shame while men cry reform to let the dog cost the State millions of dollars for what mischief he does and what harm he does in preventing farmers from raising millions of sheep. The dog is chargable with all of it, and our farmers are tame enough to submit to it while they could control the matter if they would. Our State is well adapted to sheep husbandry; we have grasses that make fine pastures; land is cheap and fertile, and winters mild. We only have to | feed four or five months and often not ?that much. I do hope to live to see this State raising sheep by the mil? lion. Then prosperity would come and people be at peace. j. Washington Watts. Great Things From Little. Edward Everett Hale tells this talc of the Revolution: "There was a little, lame blacksmith boy, who be? cause he was lame, was obliged to re? main at home when all his companions went to join General Stark and fighi; the Hessians at Bennington. They had been gone but a while when some soldiers galloped up, and asked if there was anybody at home, 'Yes,' Luke said: 'I am here.' " 'What I mean/ said one, 'is there anybody here who can shoe a horse ?' " 'I think I can ; I will try.' So he put the shoe on the horse quite thoroughly and well. And when it was done, one of the men said: 'Boy, no ten men who have left you to-day have served your country as you have.' "When I read," Mr. Hale goes on to say, "in the big books of history of Col. Warner riding up just in time to save the battle of Benningtan, I think of Luke Varnum. When I see monu? ments in memory of Col. Warner and Gen. Stark and Gen. Burgoyne, I think of Luke Varnum. And often I think: 'Does not every boy who does his duty have the future of the world upon him ?' Had it not been for Luke Varnum's work that day, per? haps the battle of Bennington and of Saratoga might have gone otherwise. Did you ever think that on the hinge of a baby's tear hung the destiny of the world ? We are here perhaps to? day because of a tear that once glis? tened on a baby's cheek. "It was the weeping of little Moses in the bulrushes that touched the heart of Pharoah's daughter, so that she had him taken to her home and nursed and trained in all the learning of the Egyptians. In the the court of Egypt, he was prepared to become the forerunner of Christ, and the leader of God's chosen people. "How little we know what any smallest act of our own may do ! "Who are you and I that we should pick and choose when we do not know what may come out of the little things God Bets against our hands ? Cer? tainly we should not have had the per? fect example of Christ had he not stooped for us to the nobler doing of each daily duty. "Do you not see how this daily life of yours may be God's mission for you if only in it you seek to do, as Jesus did, even the least things that the Heavenly Father sets against your hand ?" ? A miss is as good as a mile. This is probably why a man doesn't feel the distance when he's got a nice girl with him. ? "Many of the citizens of Rains villc, Indiana are never without a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house," says Jacob Brown, the leading merchant of the place. This Remedy has proven of so much value for colds, croup and whooping cough in children that few mothers who know its worth are willing to be with? out it. For sale by Uill Bros. All Sorts of Paragraphs, ? What is done cannot bo undone, especially if it is a hard-boiled egg. ? The chance of two finger-prints being alike is not 1 in 64,000,000,000. ? But one thunderstorm has bcea witnessed in Arizona during 14 years. ? The plumes in the helmets of the French dragoons are made of human hair. ? A cremated body leaves a resi? duum of only eight ounces on an aver? age. ? Most men avail themselves of their opportunities to make asses of themselves. ? Corruption always leaks out somewhere. With a corrupt heart it is at the mouth. ? One of the funniest things in toe world is to see a fat girl or a tall girl act kittenish. ? Even in house cleaning when a woman passes a mirror she "fixes" herself a little. ? Break down under small trials, and you will certainly be crushed un? der great ones. ? Torture i- always applied in China to compel the accused to declare himself guilty. ? What is that which you can keep even after giving it to somebody else? Your word. ? One cannot get too much of a good thing. When it reaches toet much it is no longer good. ? Electricity, in its various forms of application, is said to give employ? ment to 5,000,000 persons. ? Don't fool with a wasp because you think he looks weak and tired? you'll find he's all right in the end. ? There are very few people who live to be 60 who do not look as if they were tired of living, and afraid to die. ? The devil has a garden, and you work in it every time you plant a sus? picion of someone in another man's mind. ? It is calculated that in 90 years, at the present rate of increase, Austra? lia will contain about 40,000,000 citi? zens. ? It is estimated that the coffee crop of South and Central America this year will be about 10 per cent less than last year. , ? Are you plowing around that same rock, that an hour's time would remove, that you have plowed around for twenty years ? ? A Russian scientist attributes all our maladies to the fact that we wear clothes. He suggests a return to man's primitive state. ? Magistrate (to prisoner)?Have you any remarks to make? Prisoner (a barber)?Yes, your honor. Your hair wants cutting. ? The Statue of Liberty on the dome of the Capitol building at Washington is 19 feet 6 inches in height, and weighs 14,935 pounds. ? A cigarrette smoker sends into the air about 4,000,000,000 particles, of dust at every puff, according to Dr. Atken's investigations. ?A camel of the largest size has been known to drink from 30 to 50 gallons of water, and then travel without any more for 20 days. ? The largest woodenware works in the world are located in Bay City, Mich. The present output every lu hours is 1,800 tubs and 8,500 pails. ? They ai e trying to invent a pho? nographic disk on which, a speaker can record his own orations. This is to be tested in the German Reich? stag. ? Teacher (at the Sunday School)? Can you tell me, my little boy, who our first parents were ? New Schol? ar?Yes, m j our fathers and moth? ers. ? "Cool as a cucumber," is correct scientifically. Investigation claims that that vegetable usually has a tem? perature one degree less than the sur? rounding atmosphere. ? On January 1,1895, the railroads of the United States were using 31, 281 locomotives, 24,881 passenger cars, 7,900 mail anil baggage cars, and 1,168,849 freight curs. ( ? "What am I to take this medi? cine in ?" asked the fussy old lady of the young assistant, "In your mouth mum," replied the chemist of the fu? ture. "'Tain't to be rubbed on, that ain't." ? Gas lamps were introduced in the Paris streets in 1819.. Their em? ployment caused no little remark among the country people, who got an idea that there was some magic about the matter. ? It is said that the chief reason why a mule can nearly always wear out a horse, when it comes to a trial of endurance, is that the former always lies down to sleep, and the latter, in a large number of cases sleeps standing up. ? A man in London is making a lot of money by lending out a ?1,000 Bank of England note for swell weddings to be exhibited as a gift of the bride's father. A man is sent along to watch the note, and can be made very useful at the presents' table exhibiting the articles. ? The simplest first remedy for scalds is flour. A thick coating of this should be put on immediately, and a layer of cotton over it. After a time a little vaseline spread on lint is the best treatment, but even this should be covered with cotton wool and a bandage of some kind. Sometime ago I was troubled with an attack of rheumatism. I used Chamberlain's Pain Balm and was completely cured. I have since ad? vised many of my friends and custo? mers to try the remedy and all speak highly of it. Simon Goldbaum, San Luis Rey, Cal. For sale by Hill Bros. ? The best tea in Japan is raised in districts where the snow often falls to the eaves of the houses. Many plants will survive under such snow that are not hardy even in the South? ern States. By the same rule, some virieties of Japanese lillies will sur? vive Vermont winters that are not hardy in Missouri. ? An entire book can be repro? duced without setting a line of type by photographing each page separate? ly and making a photo-engraving of it. There is in New York a weekly news? paper of eight pages, six of which are prepared in this way each week from copy cut and pasted together and then photographed. ? A writer says many fail to un? derstand while yet it is the fact, that when cows are on good pasturage is when they need salt the most. The better plan is to keep the supply in a convenient place where they can help themselves. One advantage with rock salt is that it does not waste to any great extent if left exposed,