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BY OLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JOTY 10, 1895._VOLUME XXX.-NO. 2. NEW LINE OF . . STIFF HATS! _ a JUST RECEIVED. S ee the ones in onr window at $1.50.YOU need One. We have also received. ;.. A NEW LINE OF BOYS' KNEE PANTS. Prices from 35o. up. Bring the Boys in and get them a new pair. Bo O. EVANS & CO., Clothiers and Furnishers Chattanooga Cane Mills, Chattanooga Galvanized Steel Evaporators, With the Patent Cups. Chattanooga Portahle Furnaces; Cook's Galvanized Steel and Copper Evaporators. Cook's Portahle Fnrnaces. We invite your attention to the above, on which we can save yon money. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. To the People who Enow Us, To the People who don't Enow Us, TO EVERYBODY, ONE AND ALL. ? WE ARE - SELLING GOODS CHEAP FOR THE CASH. d.:r;sloan & co. 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When you need anything in the Furniture line give us a call, and? WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. Prices Lower than Cotton at 5c. Toon for business, G. F. TOLLY & SON, The Leaders of Low Prices. j?. " 1 1 ? J. P. SULLIVAN * CO., -WiU sell you the Best Coffee, Tli Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, All hr lest Money than you have been paying. J. P.SULLIVAN & CO. SARGE P1UMETT. A Letter From a Comrade of the Dead Soldier. Atlanta Constitution. Some time ago I wrote of a lonely grave among the pines that is near my home, and before this there should have been a public acknowledgement to those who so kindly sent in dona? tions to put up a stone above the grave. The -delay has put into my hands the full particulars and leaves no doubt as to the occupant of the grave. Yes? terday there came a letter to the Con? stitution office, which I give below and which explains itself: "Taylor's Creek, Ga., June 12.? Editor Constitution: On or about Decoration Day I received a slip, sent me by a friend, clipped from the Con? stitution, containing Plunkett's letter, trying.to find the friends of a dead confederate soldier. "The soldier's name is Jacob B. Wheeler ; his command was Company D, Fifth Georgia cavalry; his home was in Liberty county. He has one sister, now living at Johnston's Sta? tion, Ga. As I believe I am the only one that can give you a true account of the last day of Mr. Wheel- ? 3 life, I will make a few statements ror the benefit of those kind friends and la? dies who have his grave for a pet grave. It is a noble grave for a pet, because there is a noble patriot boy that lies beneath it, under those small pines at the corner of the field. Yes, noble, because he died in your defense as brave as ever wore the gray or ever met the blue. "On returning to the army from Stonewall hospital, in Alabama, to Griffin, Ga., in August 1864, I was in? formed that the cavalry had left in the direction of Tennessee and that Cap? tain Wiggs was then in command of all returning soldiers. I reported to him for duty between Griffin and Flat Shoals. After gathering force enough we commenced picketing and scouting around Atlanta and found that the wagon trains and foraging bands of the enemy were stripping the fields and country of all they could get on Shoal River and leaving thai; country in distressed circumstances. So Cap? tain Wiggs thought he would take his little band and march up the river and teach them a lesson, which he did. I can never forget that warm day in Au? gust and the night before. "About 3 o'clock the day before the fight the bugle sounded for the com? mand to assemble, to form ?nto com? panies and make preparations to march. Mr. Parker was appointed captain of our company. He was from Roswell, Ga. I was appointed order? ly sergeant. Jacob Wheeler, a Mr. Smith and Mr. Baggs wore all that I was personally acqua! ^ed with in our company. Some very small boys were with us from Roswe'l. They were as brave as heroes and fought like men. Starting from camp as soon as we could get ready we marched to Flat Shoals some time after nightfall; we crossed the bridge, halted to rest and eat sup? per, such as we had in our haversacks. After taking some rest we marched up the main road until we came to a ohuroh. It was then very late and we, being very weary, took another rest. The preparation of our pallet was only to find a smooth place and as we thought we were on holy ground we offered a silent prayer to the giver of all good and thought of loved ones far away. Soon we were side by side fast asleep and I well know that was the last little rest that Jacob Wheeler enjoyed before he died. We were soon on the march again, up the same road, until we came to a turnout to the left. It must have been a private road. We were ordered to remain there until 9 o'clock and then advance up that road ready for action at any moment. We were supplied with four cavalrymen as an advance guard. At 9 o'clock we marched up the road and passed one plantation on the left with? out being disturbed. After passing on for some distance all at once, as quick as thought, a volley was poured into our advance guard. That was the commencement of the day's fight. We were marching by twos, close behind the advance guard. The balls passed above us and only one guard was wounded. As soon as I cculd form the company front into lin3, Jacob Wheeler on my left, we were ordered to charge, which was obeyed. When within a few yards one volley by com? mand routed their pickets. Making a right turn we fought through the woods for some distance. A small "stream ran through these woods and crossed the road. Over this stream, in a cornfield, were Sherman's wagons loading with corn. Near the corner of this field Jacob Wheeler died in the thickest of the fight. After the bat? tle was over and knowing that Wheel? er was in the enemy's lines we were compelled to leave him. Passing by Dr. Fowler's house, I saw the Doctor myself, and requested him to have Wheeler buried. He promised faith? fully that he would have it attended to. I was satisfied that it was done. I also gave him the initials of Mr. Wheeler's name. I am glad that Plunkett has suggested a plan to raise a monument to his memory and I forward my contribution?50 cents? to Mr. Hemphill to-day. Hoping these few remarks will be of interest to some of your readers, I remain, yours truly, "John A. Martin." I would say to those who so kindly sent in donations to this cause that the matter is now in the hands of a society of ladies, called the J. B. Wheeler Memorial Society. Mr. Hemphill turned over the money he had received to these ladies, amount? ing, I think, to $9.50. The ladies de? cided to use this as a nucleus around which to build a.larger sum and then to put up the stone in good Memorial Day style some time in the near future. Perhaps this will occur after crops are laid by, or it may be delayed until Memorial Day of next year. Anyhow, the douators may rest assured that the matter is in the best of hands and that all of us appreciate the kind responses received for the purpose. Mrs. Dr. Hitchcock is the president of this society, and Miss Emma Doby is sec? retary and treasurer. Their address is Pauthersville, Ga. The letter of Mr. Martin describes the ground perfectly upon which this fight occurred, but it will be noticed that he calls the pines "small." They arc not "small" now" but, on the contrary, they are large enough, any of them, to make twenty rails to the cut, and are tall enough to get four or five cuts to the tree. In fact, the old field is now as fine a timbered piece of land as you ever laid eyes upon, all of which goes to show what recuperative power the land of this section has when left alone for a few years. There is more timber on the land now than was in the original forest, and it would produce as well as when first cleared, if not better. The church that Mr. Martin speaks of as the resting plaoe on the night before the fight is "Wesley Chapel, a flourishing Methodist Church. It is still standing just as ifc stood upon the night spoken of, and from there we can follow his march toward Decatur, along the Flat Shoals road, till arriv? ing at the farm of Mr. Elijah Webb, where he "turned to the left," and the fight was soon begun. Here Mr. Martin mentions that "Sherman's wagons were over in the field being loaded with corn." I mention this because a big-hearted Indianian was one of the first to forward his nickel to the call of my previous letter, and to Mr. Hemphill he took issue with my having said that the foragers from Sherman's army were taking every? thing they could lay hands upon. This writer stated that he was in the fight ?a Lieutenant in an Indiana regiment ?and, good naturedly, defends his pide from the charge of "taking every? thing." I never thought of taking any notice of this writer at the time and have not the letter to give his name and command, but I can tell him that when I mentioned what he had written to Mr. Hemphill to a good old lady of our settlement she said : "God bless you, I have the very washpot now that I found down in the branch full of well-cooked shoat, after the fight. The yankees had killed a hog, taken a washpot from some one and were cooking the meat when our boys came up. They left the pot and meat and it was well cook? ed when I found it. We eat the meat and was glad to get it, and there is the pot out there in the yard." If the Indiana Lieutenant comes down to the exposition I will show him this washpot, for the good old lady above declares that he is the very fellow that was cooking the meat, and if he will come she will fill it full and we will eat from it in peace and with thankful hearts that we can laugh together over the incidents of those days and can sigh together over she graves of those who fell. *?*#*.** Of course all our hearts went out to our Governor in his late suffering, but now that the fear of his death is pass? ing away there is no harm in telling the effect that his sickness had in our settlement. Not a one of us puts a plum, a cherry, or anything with a seed, to our mouths but what our thoughts run to the consequence of swallowing a seed. Heretofore, water? melon seed or any other seed slipped down our throats without a thought of harm j now we will not eat dewberries without straining. Brown has im? pressed his folks that it is not so much in the swallowing of Beed as-it is in stuffing one's self so full of eat? ing. A boy of his that has never stopped a meal under five or Bix bis? cuits, and other things in proportion, cannot be persuaded to eat over one and a half now. Surely it is a bad wind that blows nobody good. Sarge Plunkett. Fishes With Ills Hands. Lawrenceburg, Ind., June 25.? Capt. Whitcomb, a conductor on the B. and 0. S. W. Railroad, and a party of railroad friends were fishing last week in the waters of Big Creek. The railroad party proved a little slow in catching fish, and were considering the advisability of moving their camp, when John Conway, of Dilsboro, call? ed on them, and assured them that down in the depths of the still and dark waters there was an abundance of the desired game, .and he would prove it to them. The water was from twelve to twenty feet deep at that point, and as placid as a pond. Stripping off his clothes Conway as? tonished the two dozen spectators by diving to the bottom of the silent wa? ters, and after some moments of sus? pense, when the men upon the bank had begun to get alarmed at his pro? longed absence, he arose to the surface spouting like a young whale, and hold? ing in each'hand a fish weighing sev? eral pounds. After a breathing spell he again descended to the rayless depths of the dark stream, and again returned with a couple of fish. Nine times this merman repeated the trick, and in the space of an hour came swimming to the shore with one or two fish at a time until he caught fourteen the combined weight of which amount? ed to twenty-one pounds. His feat was considered a remarka? ble one by the railroaders, who had never heard of the wonderful perform? ance before. But there are hundreds of persons who can attest to the abili? ty of Conway to catch fish in the man? ner described. Many persons have seen him achieve greater success in that direction than he did last Friday. Parties of would-be fishermen, after failing to catch any of the finny tribe in the usual way with hook and line and net, on hearing of this Hoosier's success in his peculiar style have paid him handsomely to drag from the bot? tom of the creek or pond the reluctant fish. His reputation as a successful and scientific catcberof the scaly backed game by his unique method is known to all who frequent the water of these inland lakes and creeks. Conway is about 40 years of ago, and spends al? most as much time on the water and in the water as he does on land. II? has studied all his life the nature and habits of the fish that inhabit the wa? ters with which he is familiar, aud knows where and how to find them. He never uses seine nor line, but plunfces into the water, feels under the rocks at the bottom of the stream or in the crevices at the base of their banks, and with his long, bony fingers pulls them from their hiding places. He says that when not more than 4 years of age his father taught him to swim and frolic in the water, and gave him instructions how to catch fish in the manner the Indians had done long before the white man came with bait? ed hook and line to tempt them to their destruction. Some of Conway's feats would appear incredible unless witnessed by the doubting ones. ? The crow can make a speed of 25 miles per hour one hour with another, for a whole day. The sparrow hawk can beat brother crow about sis to one, and the humming bird can cover a distance of 275 miles in the space of GO seconds. There in more Catarrh in this seccion of the country Mian all other disca'cs put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incur alili! For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, aud prescribed local remedies, and by constant y falling to cure with local treat? ment, pronounced it incurable. Science lias proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney .t Co., Toledo, Ohio, ia the only constitu? tional cure on the market. It is takenintcrnally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonfui. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the syttrni. They offer one hundred dollars fur any case it fails to cure. Send fur circulars and testi? monials. Address. F. J. cheney & co., Toledo, 0. BILL ARP'S LETTER. Glad That Women Love Babies so Much. Atlanta Constitution. There was a pretty Persian rhyme which said: "A new-born child lay crying While all around were smiling. An aged man was dying And be peacefully was smiling While all around were crying." I Sir William Jones puts it in better verse : "On parent knees, a naked, newborn child Lay weeping, while all around it smiled. So live that, sinking In thy last long bleep Calm thou mayest smile while all around thee weep.' j What is more wonderful or more beautiful than the maternal instinct? what an attraction does a birth in the family have for all the sex?the chil? dren and wonr'n, the girl children I mean?the men and the boys show no great concern. The babes would have a hard and perilous time if entrusted to them. Babes are born every day, every hour, by the thousand. It is the most common and universal event that concerns our humanity. It is more common than death, for more come into the world than go out of it every year, and yet the excitement of a birth goes on, and is a big thing with matrons and with maids. For a few days past I have sat in my veran? da and ruminated, for the women come and go, and the neighbors send flowers and kind messages, and the girl"children come to see the baby, and the tiniest one wants to hold it in her arms. Verily, it looks like this was the first one and the last one that ' ever was born. The three great events of our life, our birth and mar? riage and death, are ministered, too, by women. What a sad affair would be without her presence, her care and her sympathy. The wonder is that she can go through the ordeal that providence has assigned her, and be be so contented, so calm and serene. What mother ever harbors gloomy fears or forebodings about her infant child? How hopefully they look upon the future?how happy in the love of her offspring. The poet says: "A mother is a mother still The holiest thing alive." And she is. I wish that I was as good, as true and as loving as the av? erage mother in this land. I wish that I was as sure of Heaven. Most of them have a child up there, and they still treasure every smile, every dimple, every song, and in their wak? ing dreams they realize what the poet so beautifully said : "Oh, when a motfier meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrows, all her tears An overpayment of delight ?" The maternal instinct! The never fading love of children. My wife i? serenely happy now,for there is another child to look after, and she moves around with her old alacrity. I used to help her with her own, but my time ig out. As old man Calder said after the first battle of Manassas, "I have fit enough." I used to tote the little ohap around the room sometimes half the night and sing my little song until I wore it out, and at times I felt like the tired parent who hugged his little boy to his bosom and said : "I wouldn't take a million dollars for you?no, I wouldn't?but I wouldn't give a nickel for another." It is a weary tusiness?nursing and caring for a little child. But it is a part of the bargain, and has to be done, and it has its rjwards. The more the father helps the children the better he loves them and the more they love him. The country people, as a rule, have no nurses for their children, ex? cept the members of the family, and their devotion to the little helpless ones is beautiful. The baby in a oountry home is common property. All nurse it, and the father does his share when he returns firom the field. Go to a country church on Sunday and see. how many fathers are not ashamed to "tote the child" and keep it while preaching is going on. Why shouldn't he ? It shows his love to the child and his loyalty to his wife. The average farmer has not a very wide field for his ambition. He is not seeking fame or office or riches. He has no longings for going to New York or Washington or crossing the ocean. His hope and desire is limit? ed to his family and his farm and he looks to God for rain and sunshine. There is nothing that weans him from his wift and children or that gets be? tween him and them. Sometimes he takes the family to town iu the big wagon, and sometimes the .children go with him to the mill, and on Sundays all go to meeting, and so the weeks and months roll on?proving the truth of the poet's lines? Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound. It is given to but few men in this world to do any great thing, but all can be happy if they will be content with their humble lot. I used to envy the rich aud great, but I do not now. As a general rule grief and sorrow are the perquisites of riches and of fame. Great men are rarely blessed with lov iDg children. Not long ago one of our noblest men found himself face to face at Delmonico's with a drunkcu son. His mortification was intense and the lines of trouble still linger on his face. The pressure of public af? fairs and the constant struggle to keep up socially and politically consumed the time that should have been de? voted to his children. In such cases the mother is their only safeguard. She may do all she can, but she can? not watch her boys when they get in their teens. She can love and pray and chide, but still they will stray away. It is pitiful to see the break? ing of a mother's heart over a son who is on trial for his life. How closely does she cling to him when all the world is against him. I remember once a widow who sold her cow and her little furniture aud then went from store to store begging for a lit? tle more money to take her to Arkan? sas to see her son who was in jail for murder. Her devotion saved his life, but not his liberty, and she thankful for she found some work near by and could visit hiin'in his prison and com? fort him with her love and blessing. What an awful thing it must be to have no one to love you, and yet there are thousands of such in the prisons of the land. Nothing was more touch? ing in Governor Atkinson's afflicton than his respite of a man who was to be hung?his tender thought while on the brink of the grave of a poor wretch who was begging for his life. Dan Yoorhces once hurried to a distant State to defend a young man accused of murder, and he saved him for his widowc'l mother's sake, because her father had been good to him wheu he was young and poor. If we men do not have love in our hearts like a mother's, we honor it and respect it and admire it all the more. ** Birr. A$e. 1 Irish Potato Culture. Clemson College, S. C. June 24, 1895. My Dear Sir : Replying to yours of the 18th, inst., I beg to say that the question of how to succeed in raising a second or fall crop of Irish potatoes has not been definitely set? tled. "The best laid schemes of mice and men," etc., apian that succeeds one year may fail the next. A great deal depends upon the seasons. There can be no doubt that when successful the second crop is the better, and it is decidedly the best for seed for spring planting. In reply to one of your questions, I quote from (my) Bulletin No. 9, issu? ed in March, 1893, by this Station : "The great difficulty is in getting a stand early enough for the plant to mature before frost. This can usually be had (a) by bedding out the potatoes just after digging, as you would sweet potatoes, except that you need no ma? nure, and keep the bed damp. (/>) Spread the potatoes close together on an even surface anu cover two to three inches deep with hay, straw or pine needles, and 'ceep them moist, (c) Spread them in the shade, where the morning sun only can reach them ; let them remain until they begin to sprout. In any case plant only whole potatoes ; and not until the eyes show signs of germination, cover very shal? low, say half inch to one inch deep." I can add very little to the above advice, except to correct what may be an error. The advice to plant "whole potatoes only" w*s based upon my own practice and the opinion of many old and successful potato raisers, they having stated that they had frequently tried cutting the potato for a second crop, and in every instance had failed. In 1893. after this Bulletin was pub? lished, a friend of mine living on the College grounds, being short of seed; cut his potatoes to one and two eyes. He planted at the same time that I did, his seed were cut, mine were whole. The result was that his came up to a good stand and made a good crop, while mine lay dormant until near frost, in fact, some of them until after frost, and made nothing. Neither of these were sprouted. In 1894, I bedded out as in "B" and as in "C." After the potatoes had sprouted or started to sprout I planted both kinds whole, but took some of each and cut to one and two eyes. They were planted within two days. Those planted whole got up late, but made a little over a half crop, while those that had been cut. got up two or more weeks sooner, had a good stand, and made a much better yield. I intend trying the same experiment this year, with one other additional. Last year, after gathering our July crop. I planted a portion of the ground in dwarf or bunch beans. We had been careful to get out all the potatoes possible, yet in a short time after the beans got up, the potatoes came up also (volunteers) and made at the rate of over a hundred bushels to the acre; so, as I dig, this season, I will imme? diately plant another crop of whole seed, about the size of a "hen" egg. Small seed, and even very small seed will make potatoes, but they are later in maturing and the average size will be very much smaller. Reasoning from observation, I would say cover the second crop very shallow. You will almost always find that a "volun? teer" potato is either only partially covered, or is very near to the surface. My rule is to make a wide, deep fur? row and cover with a very small plow or the corner of a hoe, leaving top ef ridge below the level of the general surface. At the first working, this furrow will be filled, and in so doing the plant will be hilled. One other matter. If you have a variety that will mature in eight to ten weeks, and another that will take twelve to fourteen, always plant the second crop with the early variety. If from any cause they are late in get? ting up, the early kind may make even a half crop, while the late variety would make nothing. The same variety planted in July or August will mature a week to ten days earlier than when planted in February or March. I have just planted half a peck of a new kind that, it is said, never fails to grow, and will continue to grow until frost, and will kocp, without sprouting until the next June or July, and be ready for another late crop. I am looking forward with great interest to the result of this experiment. In 1892, I grew forty-seven vari? eties. In 1893, and 1894, these were increased to over eighty. I also be? gan in 1892 sundry fertilizer, cultiva? tion and other experiments. Most of these, having run three years, I am now preparing a bulletin setting forth the result. This I hope to have pub? lished within a few months. Send your name to J. N. Hook, Esq., on a postal card and he will send you, free of charge, all of the Station Bulletins that may be on hand. I have written somewhat hastily, and may not have covered all the points in your letter; if so, I will be glad to reply to any further questions. Yours very truly, J. F. C. DuPre, Horticulturist. GaTe np Ills Charge Memphis, Tenx., July 1.?Rev. John A. Brooks, who has been pastor of the large and influential Christian church here for more than two years, gave up the charge yesterday and left for Kentucky, where he will engage in evangelical work. The course was entirely out of the ordinary and was not clearly intimated by the pastor in his farewell talk on Sunday. It de? veloped that it was due to the persist ance. of several women of his flock, leaders in society, in playing progres? sive euchre and similar games where prizes were contended for. After exhausting his power of per? suasion and Christian counsel, Dr. Brooks announced to them that their social practices must cease or he would resign. The issue was made and his resignation was accepted. The same issue is said to have caused his prede? cessor to give up the pastorate. ? Mrs. Rhodie Noah, of this place, was taken in the night with cramping pains and the next day diarrhoea set in. She took half a bottle of black? berry cordial but got no relief. She then sent to me to sec if I had any? thing that would help her. I sent her a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrluca Remedy and the first dose relieved her. Another of our neighbors had been sick for about a week and had tried different reme? dies for diarrhoea but kept getting worse. I sent him this same remedy. Only four doses of it were required to cure him. He says he owes his re? covery to this wonderful remedy.? Mrs. Mary Siblcy, Sidney, Mich. For sale by Hill Bros. AHE STEAM ROADS DOOMED? An Electric Railroad Motor Runs Eighty Miles an Hour. New York Sun. New York, June 25.?A revolution in railroading is promised by the re? sult of the trials of the electric power on the Nantasket branch of the New l'ork, New Haven and Hartford rail? way yesterday. The success of the? venture is assured. The first trial was made on Thursday night. News of the test was withheld from the public. Two electric locomotives were run over the road and a speed of more than fifty miles an hour was at? tained between the Old Colony House and Pemberton. Last night another trial with an electric locomotive geared to accom? plish eighty or more miles was made, and a hot box on a motor car defeated a new record for speed. The heating of the box was due to the fact that the new bearings could not withstand the friction caused by the terrific speed, at which the car was run for a distance of probably less than three miles. In the opinion of men quali? fied by years of experience to judge of speed, eighty miles an hour was reach? ed. The possibilities, they Bay, were ninety miles an hour, but the hot box spoiled it. ^ None but officials and attaches of the road were allowed on this test, the entire party comprising less than 20. It was exactly 8.45 o'clock when Col. Heft turned on the current, and in less than four lengths the car was go? ing at a speed of 20 miles an hour. After having gone less than a quarter of a mile the car was speeding along at a 35-mile gait. A stop was made at Nantasket for a few minutes, and then came the run to Pemberton. The troublesome curves in? the first few rods were gone over slowly, but upon reaching the long stretch just below Nantasket full power was turned on. There was none of the gradual increase of speed characteristic of the steam locomotive, but with a plunge the car began to fly. Just as the more ap? prehensive began to wonder how long the car would remain on the rails it was announced that there was a hot box, and Col. Heft shut off the cur? rent. Eighty miles an hour with five notches of the "controller" still to spare was his estimate of the speed at the time of shutting off the current. Under the momentum gathered the car ran on for two miles further, most of the distance at an estimated speed of 60 miles an hour. The work of changing the motive power of the road from steam to elec? tricity was done under the direction of Col. N. H. Heft, formerly president of the Bridgeport Traction Company, but who recently was engaged by the Consolidated road to superintend their electric work. Starting at the* Old Colony House there is little to suggest the trolley railway. In place of the girder, groove, stilt-like "T." or the other styles of railway in electric rail? ways, there is used the conventional T rail employed by steam roads. The rails weigh 78 pounds to the yard, and are of the type known as the "Old Colony section," 4* inches high and are laid precisely as the rails of steam roads. Two flexible copper bonds seven inches long are under the base of the rails at each joint and riveted to them. The bonds are so placed that when the angle bars used in splicing the rails are in position the bonds cannot be seen. The length of the bond is re? duced to a minimum to insure the maximum carrying capacity with the minimum of resistance. The tracks are 15 feet apart from centre to centre, and between the tracks is the single line of poles upon which is supported the cables and trol? ley wire cross arm. The poles are 12 by 14 inches at the butt and ten by twelve inches at the top. They are painted black to a point six feet from the ground ?.nd white to within one foot of the cross arm, then finished black. Power house No. 1 is situated mid? way between Nantucket and Old Col? ony House station. The stack is 115 feet high, with a base of 13 feet. The power house is 83 by 110 feet, and 53 feet to the top of the roof. A 24-inch wall separates the engine from the boiler room, in which there are two batteries of four boilers each. The boilers are of the horizontal flue type, 72 inches in diameter and 19 feet long with 140 3-inch tubes. The engine room contains two tan? dem, compound engines with two direct coupled generators. The en? gines are of the Green-Corliss build and-specially designed for the work they are to do. The shaft is 18 inches and the fly wheel, which weighs 64, 000 pounds, is 18 feet in diameter. The condensers are so piped that the engines can work with or without them. They are arranged to regulate from no load to a maximum of 1,420 I horse power. The regulators are so arranged that in case of an accident to any part of the machinery the engines will stop automatically. They can also be stopped by simply pressing one of several buttons. The two generators specially built for the line run at a speed of 110 revo? lutions a minute, and arc guaranteed to develop 1,500 horse power each. The armatures, instead of being built up of wire in the usual way, are made of copper disks, each insulated from the other. By this arrangement it is said to be impossible for them to get out of repair. The generators are 10 feet high aud the armatures 8 feet in diameter. The switchboard is of the latest design. It is arranged with two main generator panels. The tation voltage is 700 volts. The wires are so arranged that none can be seen issuing from the roof of the building and there is little to indicate that the building is an electric power bouse. Four motor cars, built after the style of baggage cars, are the electric locomotives. To secure traction they have been made extra heavy, weigh? ing, when fully equipped, about 60, 000 pounds each. Two will have four motors each and the others two motors each hung on trucks. The cars arc equipped with the Wcstinghouse air brake, aud have all standard appliances of the steam cars in use by the Consolidated. In addi? tion to a 15-inch gong at the frout ends of the motor cars each of these cars will have a chime whistle, worked with compressed air in place of steam. Save for a siugle feature, there is not the slighest resemblance to the steam locomotive. That feature is the .owcatchcr at both ends of the motor cars. It is situated underneath the platforms instead of projecting beyond the body of the locomotive, as with the steam locomotive. The wheels are about the size of the largest wheels used on the steam cars, but the p.ilo.s p.re considerably hearie? to withstand the strain of the electric gearing. Until the capacities of the motors are fully ascertained it is not known how many cars will be run on a train. It is expected, however, that trains will have from four to nine cars, as occasion may require. The Nantasket branch was chosen for the experiment for the reason that within its limits arc condensed most of the difficult problems which will have to be determined to make elec? tricity a successful substitute for steam. The curves are many and sharp and the grades steep. Trains will be run with great frequency in the seven miles between Old Colony House sta? tion aud Pemberton. DUE WEST. Coi. Jas. T. Bacon's Address at the Alumni Dinner. Associate Reformed Presbyterian. Gentlemen of the Alumni : When we first knew Due West it was called Due West Corner. Why "Corner," we remember not. For fifty years it has been no longer a corner, but a centre ?aradiant, glittering, glorious centre of learning, of art, of science, of god? liness, of Christian refinement, and of all thought and fair deeds. And why is Due West this glittering glorious sun ? Why ? Because she has always been righteous. Why are the sons of Japhet blessed to-day, while the sons of Shem rank low in the scale of civil? ization, and the sons of Ham are the servants of the other two sons of Noah ? Because God exalts the righteous and destroys the wicked. For fifty odd years commencements and alumni meetings have been going on periodically in Erskine College. Year after year the roll of Alumni is lengthening. Year after year the roll of those who attended the first alumni meeting is shortening. Only a few of the real old guard can be left now to tell of the joys and sorrows and glories of former days. Are there any of the old guard present ? We know not. If there are any present, we should deem it an honor to shake their hands in the course of the evening. But as we look upon this goodly assembly of South Carolina and Southern men, we could almost wish?we do wish?that old Erskine were our Alma Mater instead of a Northern college. Perhaps never have there been as many alumni present as on this occasion. Perhaps nearly every class is represented in person or by letter. But if the roll should be called, beginning with the first man who ever graduated from Erskine, the answer would come in response to many of the names: "Dead on the field of honor," for well do we know and well does South Carolina know, that many brave Erskine men gave their lives to the cause which is not lost, for no true service, inspired by patriotism and honest impulses, is ever lost. This is only the third time we have ever been to Due West to a com? mencement. The first time was when we were a very young man, when Associate Reformed Presbyterians ] were called "Seceders," and when the j elder Pressly, the elder Grier, the elder Bonner and Miss McQuerns swayed the earth?and oh so wisely, so faithfully, so nobly so much of godliness and wisdom. We remember well seeing Miss McQuerns marshall in the young ladies on the stage. We knew her well afterwards. She was a queen of a woman, a queen of a teacher, a queen of a Christian. And in the first years of our newspaper life we learned to know the elder Bonner well?and to love him well. The el? der Pressly, the elder Grier, the elder Bonnor, Miss McQuerns ! Where are they now ? Numbered among the saints in glory everlasting. And still it is only within the last fifteen years that we have really known the "Seceder" well. And what have we learned about him. We have learned to believe this, and before God we say it with perfect and absolute honesty, that there never was a Seceder who was a rascal, and never a rascal who was a Seceder. Wherever you meet him, He is an honest, straightforward, unaffected and useful man, not only true to his fel? lows but to his God. Two or three weeks ago we happened to be in the town of Lancaster, S. C, and walking about the streets we found a beautiful new church hard by an imposing man? sion. We said to an aged negro man : "What church is this ?" The answer was: "Dis is Mr. Jones' church." "Mr. Jones' church? Who is Mr. Jones?" "Mr. Ira B.Jones, he is de Seceder, and he built dis church here on his own land." And so it was. The Hon. Ira B. Jones, whose unbounded hospitality we afterwards enjoyed, "the Seceder," had really built the handsome church upon his own land. But our ten minutes is about gone. Gentlemen of the alumni of grand old Erskine, and young men of 1S95, if there be any such present either as alumni or guests, this is a time for the renewal of not only friendships but of covenants, and to-day is the time for you to renew the covenant to live and- die for Christ. Young men, as ye enter untried fields, whom will ye serve?God or mammon ? Mammon appeals powerfully to young men. The first five years of your life from to-day will determine the complexion of ypnr whole future career. God forbid that a single one of you should centre his life in self. Ambition should not be repressed or crushed, but directed to the attainment of the best that is in life. Renunciation of self is the first step to be taken by one who deserves to be really great. Better for you that you should be ignorant, and thus have less power to work disaster. Be co workers with God. "The way of the transgressor is hard, but wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." ? Accustom your horses to a low calm tone of voice and use it if any? thing breaks, or they become frighten? ed, and they will always be managea? ble. The horse that listens for loud commands is carried away by panic. On buying a new horse get him into your habits as soon as it is possible to do so. ? Last summer one of our grand children was sick with a severe bowel trouble. Our doctor's remedies had failed, then we tried Chamberlain's Culic, Chulcra and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave very speedy relief. We regard it as the best medicine ever put on the market for bowel com? plaints.?Mrs. B. G. Gregory, Fred crickstowu, Mo. This certainly is the best medicine ever put on the market for dysentery, summer complaint, colic and cholera infantum. It never fails to give prompt relief when used in reasonable time and the plain printed directions arc followed. Many mothers have expressed their sincere gratitude for the cures it has effected, For sale by Hilj Bro>. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? An old maid?one who has been made a good while. ? The devil comes to the wedding when people marry for money. ? Excellence is never granted to men but as the reward of labor. ? As a rule a man's hair turns gray five years sooner than a woman's. ? Georgia's fruit crop this year is estimated to bo worth $3,000,000. ? Your character is revealed in the things you most desire and admire. ? Eight thousand tons of gold have been mined throughout the world dur-^ ing the present century. _J ? Wooden shoes are worn by about 70,000,000 people in Europe. Most of them are made of basswoo?. ? Italy has the~greatest population of criminals. They number 5,140 to the 1,000,000 of population. ? The consumption of water in New York city is very large?averag? ing 100 gallons a day for each person. ? It is said that there are thirteen families in New York each of which has over $500,000 invested in dia? monds. ? A north Georgia farmer shot a book agent recently, but the agent escaped unhurt. The bullet struck his cheek. ? If a flannel compress of cold wa? ter be applied nightly for a week^the most sun-burned neck?may be whiten? ed by it. ? One billion silver dollars stacked up. one on top of the other would make a column 1,404 miles high. 'Figure on , it and see. ? During the year 1894 192 tons of gold and silver were made into coins' by the mint officials of the British Government. ? One of the curiosities of Nashau, N. H., is a twin tree made up of maple and an elm, which have grown firmly together. ? Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cures colds, croup and whooping cough. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by Hill Bros. ? An opened letter at the dead let? ter office read as follows: "Seven years is rather long to kort a gal; but ile have you yit, Kate." ? Maud Evans, a young lady of less than 20 years of age, residing at Beaver Falls, Pa., is said to have her third set of natural teeth. ? A species of minute Brazilian spins webs so fine that it takes 4,000 of them twisted together to equal the diameter of a human hair. ? Good nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others. . ? ? "De man dat hab de mps' advice ter gib away," said Uncle Eben, "doan' ginerally look laik bfl had done hisse'f much good wid it.'j ? A girl baby belonging to a Mexi? can woman of Los Angles is a verita? ble cyclop, its single eye being exactly in the center of its forehead. ? The Brooklyn bridge cable is seven feet and six inches longor when the thermometer marks 100 degrees, than when the mercury is down to 0. ? One billion dollars in United States silver certificates laid end to end would reach a distance of 114,2891 miles, or nearly five times around theN earth. ? To open an account in the_B_ank of England, a person must deposit less than $2,500, and the author ^_ require the depositor to be introducer, by a customer. ? Dimmick, the great elephant catcher, says that it is declared on good authority that but 24 white ele? phants have been caught since the birth of Christ. ? To circulate an evil report abont your brother, which you do not know to be true, is only a less offense than to give currency to a story which you know to be false. ? A single female fly has beej known to lay 20,000 eggs in a d? The larvae which hatches .from tl increase in weight at the rate* of fold every 24 hours. n ? A western man, after a honey? moon of four weeks, killed himself when presented with a bill for house, rent. It is a poor woman who can't support one man these days. ? Says Chaplain Toulmin, of Deer Island: "When a man becomes a drunkard, he also becomes a liar." How fortunate it is, however, that every liar does not become a drunkard. ? A man in PennsylvaniaTitf*rbeen~ granted a divorce from bi3 tenth wife. His last wife had been his first bride, but between his first and last divorce from her he had married eight other women. ? Four persons, representing four generations, dwell in the same house in Kansas City, Mo. The great-grand? mother is 52 years of age4 the grand? mother is 33, the mother is 16, and the baby is a month old. __ ? We see from one of our exchan? ges that Steve Miller, of Union Coun ty>Ga., has just married his mother -ih-law, and thus become his own father-in-law. This goes to prove that all men do not hate their mothers-in law. ? "I am sorry for you, Walter," said the kind-hearted surgeon, "but the thumb will have to come off." "My hand won't be of much use. will it doctor?" inquired Walter, tearfully. "You will have your four fingers left, but you will not be able to grasp any? thing firmly." "I can't weed the gar? den for mamma even, can I ?" "I am afraid not, my boy." "Cut her off, doctor I" ? Several people in Louisville, con? sumptives and persons of delicate con? stitutions, daily visit the slaughter? houses of that city to drink the warm blood of recently slain cattle. They believe that it is invigorating and ex? hilarating. At first the blood is nau? seous, but a liking for it is soon ac? quired. A half pint is the usual drink, but there are some persons who readily imbibe a quart within half an hour. ? An editor died and slowly wend? ed his way to hell. The devil saw him aud said: "For many years thou hast borne the blame for the errors thy printers made in the paper. The printers have deviled thee on Satur? day eve for wages when thou hadst not a red to thy name. Men have taken your paper without paying a cent, yea, verily, and cursed thee for not issuing a better one. All these things hast thou borne in silence. Thou canst not come in. There will be a continual dunning of delinquent subscribers (for hell is full of them) and discord will be created in our kingdom. Begone ! Heaven i?; yonj orr^| iduccd*^