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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1895. VOLUME XXX. - NO. 7. BOT! ALWAYS needs CLOTHES. He needs 'em often when you clothe him cheaply. Give him well sewn, strong Suits that will stand the strain. Now is the time for him to need a new pair of KNEE PANTS?the old ones are worn out, "We have received a new lot, (third shipment this seasou,) out of which we can please you. A good Pair for 35c. Something better for 50c, 75c. and $1.00. *?r Call and see them. Have you seen our 25c. COATS ? B. O. EVANS & CO., -. Chattanooga Cane Mills, Chattanooga Galvanized Steel Evaporators, With the Patent Cups. Chattanooga Portahle Fnrnaces. Cook's Galvanized Steel and Copper Evaporators. Cook's Portable Furnaces. J?* 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 Know Us, TO EVERYBODY, ONE AND ALL. - WE ARE - . SELLING GOODS CHEAP FOR THE CASH. ~D. P. SLOJlN & CO. OLD BACHELORS Qannot fully appreciate the elegant assortment of Fancy and Fami? ly Groceries, Canned Goods, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Ci? gars, other Goods, that we are displaying on our shelves and couotere, but we? WANT WIVES, And Houuekeepeni, especially, to come and see the nice things we can furnish them for their tables. We. have the goods, guarantee them to be pure and fre?h, and the prices very low. Give us a call. Gk F. BIG BY. FURNITURE 1 FURNITURE!! LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS! J?~ COFFINS and CASKETS furnished Day or Night. WE have on hand the LARGEST and BEST-SE? 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 give the People the advantage of our BARGAINS ! ' We will Sell you Furniture at Prices below anything ever heard of in this Country before ! i Aud 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. Yours for business. G F. TOLLY & SON, Tho Leader^ of Low Prices* J. P. SULLIVAN * CO., -Will sell you the Best Oofiee, Th Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, Alt for l?ss Money thin you have been paying. j. P.SULUVAN & CO. BILL ARP'S LETTER. Arp Talks About Bribery. Atlanta Constitution. The number of men and women who get a living by "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain" is rapidly increasing in the South. Every day the papers tell of new schemes and frauds and shortcuts whereby to get money without working honestly for it, and most of them by persons who have good manners, good education and who wear good clothes. Diamond Charley is very much of a gentleman, and is smart enough to make a fortune at any reputable profession. If he would turn his wits that way he could succeed as a politician and go to Con? gress?what perversity of nature it is that inclines such men to prefer dis? honest and dangerous methods we cannot tell. As a rule, these swind? lers are not malicious. They would not rob nor do personal violence, but will commit forgery or perjury or em? bezzlement or larceny with an easy conscience and all on the principle that justified a cook we used to have ?"You all don't miss what I takes." The State, the government, the rail? roads and the rich are considered by some very respectable people as legiti? mate subjects for plunder. The methods of plunder differ only in kind. It may be done by tricks of law in the Court House or by bribery in the Legislature. I was talking to a friend?a man of affairs?about this thing of bribery, and said I wondered how it was done ; that I would be afraid the first man I approached with a bribe would haul away and knock mo down. "Oh," said he, "it must not be done that way. Professional lobbyists know how to approach a man. In the first place they are good judges of human nature, and soon have a man's weak point, his blind side, as it were. If he is under a cloud of debt they find it out and work on his financial embarrassment. Some? times there is a woman in the case : sometimes it is office the fellow wants for his son, and the lobbyist shows him how he can accomplish his de? sires. I have been in Washington a great deal and watched these big schemers, who want their bills put through the committee. I knew a millionaire who didn't mind spending $50,000 a session for promoting his measures. I have known him to lose a thousand dollars a night at poker while playing with a United States Senator. I knew the Senator who won $5,000 from him in two weeks, aDd yet he was a far better player than the Senator. He let him win so as to place him under an unconscious obligation, for no generous-hearted man would keep his money and vote against his bill. The Senator was a brainy, gifted, eloquent man who stood high in the nation and does yet, but he was poor and needed the money to keep up his extravagant family. Of course it wouldn't do to approach such a man with a direct offer of money for his vote." This was a revelation to me. I read not long ago an account of the death of John A. Morris, the lottery king, in which his biographer, who was his friend, said that he was a most philosophic judge of human na? ture and did not hesitate to buy juries and judges and lawyers and legisla? tures aud members of Congress, and that the only tribunal he never dared to tackle was the Supreme Court of the United States. And yet he was big-hearted and generous and gave away in charity not less than half a million dollars a year and made no noise about it; that when he died he was educating and supporting in gen? erous, lavish style a dozen or more orphan girls and among them were two daughters of General John T3. Hood. Another way of bribing a man is to make him a liberal gift for the use of his name to some big booming scheme, as promoting a new town. If money is not given it may be stock in the scheme. Just so patent medicines are promoted by first convincing a man that the medicine is no humbug, but is a real honest specific. Of course, he is easy to convince if he has any malady himself and there is any profit in sight, and so we see preachers' names figure more frequently in patent medicine certificates than any other class. Their certificates are worth more to convince a credulous public, for, as a rule, preachers are above sus? picion. A block of stock in a popu? lar medicine is a right good thing to have in the family. Many Georgians remember a certificate of a well-known citizen that was published for months in the Atlanta papers certifying that a certain medicine had cured him of a malignant cancerous affection. In a year or so he died of that same can? cer, but the certificate went on. I have been told that certain patent niedbine men up North will get up a pamphlet that is for circulation in Texas and Arkansas and have lots of certificates from people in North Caro? lina and other Eastern States, and get up another pamphlet for the Eastern States with certificates from Texas and Kansas and Missouri. They are very careful about mixing things in a promiscuous manner. I don't know whether our medicine men have learn? ed this trick or not. Credulity is the easiest prey that a man can set a trap for, and there is no law against setting the trap. The New York World tells abuut a spider farm in New Jersey, the only one on this continent, where the Fieuchman openly breeds spiders and sells them at 50 cents apiece to dealers in old wines and brandies. They put a hun? dred or so in their wine cellars and the spiders spin their webs all over the bottles and give them an ancient appearance and they have on them old musty labels marked vintage of 1S00, or 1820, or 1S30, and when an old sea captain or other wine bibber comes along hunting for some that is old and mellow, they will show him the cob? webs and sell it to him for!?5a bottle. This was published as a fact?an un? blushing fact?without any invidious comment. On the contrary, it was called '"quite a novel enterprise." Just so most everything that we get from up there conies to us adultera? ted. The sugar, the coffee, the sirup that goes up there from the South pure and honest comes back manufac tured and adulterated. The olive oil we buy never saw an olive nor the vinegar an apple and the tea has been used before at the hotels. But the common tramp is guilty of none of these things. lie hasent en? terprise enough to play tricks. Con? sidering the hard times, I have more respect for him than I used to have. They are out of a job and don't wish to steal and so they tramp?they ex curt?they travel and study geography without a book. One called yesterday for a second-hand pair of shoes and 11 was sorry I dident Lave them. ' But not long ago we had the most original tramp I ever saw and he staid three days. I saw him coming up the avenue with a big black valise in his hand. He knew me and knew my wife and we used to know him when he was young away back before the war. He is gray now and seedy. He was very glad to see us and said his poor mother always thought so much of Mrs. Arp that he had come out of his way to see us?and would stop over a day or two. That scared us pretty bad, for we had company, anc" so told him in a gentle way. But it had no effect. He said he could sleep on the sofa in the parlor or anywhere, and he repeated how much his mother loved ray wife. Well, she weakened, of course. This old tramp wasent ashamed of his calling, but told me how he had come all the way from Virginia and was going to Texas and it wouldent cost him a cent. Said he had friends or kinfolks all along the line ; that his next stop would be at Cedartown with JoeBlance or Borders or John Waddell, for they were all his old friends and used to trade with him at Rome. "Now," said he, "you will have to let me have a couple of dollars to-morrow morning to pay my way to Cedartown and Joe Blance will pay my way from there to Talladega, where my mother has a cousin." He said he made this trip once a year so as not to quarter on anybody too long. Well, of course, I gave him the two dollars. I would have given him five to get rid of him, for he was dirty and laid on the parlor sofa half the day reading the newspapers and wiping the dirt off his old shoes on the plush. I would have sacrificed him and turned him out, but his old mother loved my wife so much. And Bhc did, but that was all. This tramp never did any? thing for his old mother. He clerked in a store and drank up his wages. That was all, but ho was a philosopher and never worried about anything. He never stole anything nor disturbed the public tranquility. The fact iB, he had the advantage of me in being calm and serene while at our house, and he knew exactly how to get two dollars out of me. We will look for him back this fall, for he said he would like to see the exposition. But we have done our duty by him for his mother's sake, and when he comes again he and our new biting dog may have it out. Bill Arp. Did Ilia Enoch Aril en Act. Greenville, 0., July 29.?Curtis Johnson returned to this city after an absence of ten years, having deserted a beautiful young wife in 1885. He left here a bankrupt business man and came back with a fortune. Loaded with valuable presents, Bays a special to The Cincinnati Tribune, he sought the woman he had left. He found that she had secured a divorce from him several years ago and had remarried. He is almost wild with grief, and it is feared he may lose his mind. Mr. Johnson is still a young man, being but 35 years of age. When he was 23 he met and wooed Miss Etta Freezh, who was noted throughout Ohio for her great beauty. They were married and lived happily to? gether for two years. One child, a girl, was born to them. Mr. Johnson was in the wholesale lumber business, and for a time he prospered. Things gradually went against him, and one day he was forced to assign. It was but a short time before he found himself penniless. His business troubles told greatly upon him, and he commenced to act queerly. One day he suddenly disappeared. His beautiful young wife made every possible effort to find some trace of her husband, but all her efforts proved useless. As years passed and she heard noth? ing from him, she came to the con? clusion he had committed suicide. Mrs. Johnson worked hard to support her child, succeeding in earning a fair living after surmounting many diffi? culties. Two years ago she met Wil? liam II. Perry. She was first attract? ed to him because of his remarkable resemblance to the man she had first loved and wedded. Mr. Perry fell desperately in love with pretty Mrs. Johnson, and she finally consented to become his wife. She applied for a divorce and secured it. They were married in 1893 and lived together happily. Mrs. Johnson had about forgotten her first love. This afternoon at 2 o'clock a handsome stranger rang the bell of Mrs. Perry's residence. She opened the door, stood for a second and gazed into the face looking into hers, saw the outstretched arms and then fell into a faint. Mr. Perry appeared upon the scene and indignantly demanded the cause of the trouble. Mr. Johnson just as indignantly inquired by what author? ity he was questioned. "I am this woman's husband," Mr. Perry replied. For a moment Mr. Johnson seemed dazed. Suddenly he staggered and fell. He was taken into the house, and when he was himself again he ex? plained matters. He went to Mexico after leaving his wife, and five years ago he had enough money to speculate in mining property. He was more than successful and in a few years he amassed a fortune. He could give no reason why he had never communicated with his wife during his long absence. Mrs. Perry is completely prostrated by the shock, and so is her husband. Mr. Johnson says he will spend his fortune educating and caring for his daughter, who is already noted for her remarkable beauty. How the matter will be settled has not yet been de? cided. ? A pig's tail is said to unerringly indicate the condition of the animal. If it hangs loose, it shows that the pig is not well, and that its food should be changed. If it is coiled tightly, the pig is healthy and happy. ? The late Emperor of Germany disliked to hear anyone speak slight? ingly of women. When he was Crown Prince, an officer once remarked of a wounded comrade that he was weep? ing like a woman. "Never make that comparison," said the Crown Prince, with a frown. "Crying like a child would be better; women have more fortitude than men." $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this pspcr will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that sci? ence lias been ahle to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only posi? tive euro now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease req ilres a constitutional trcatmeut. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de? stroying the foundation of the disease, and giving iho pa tient strength by building up ihe constitu? tion and assisting nature in doing its work The proprietors have ro much filth in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred ! ollars for auy case that it fails to cure. Send for list of tes? timony:;. Address F. J. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, O. SoU by Dn'jrsists, 75?. IN THE PEN. Disproportionate Number of Negroes to Whites. Columbia State. The State penitentiary is an inter esting place to visit, if it is not so pleasant a place to make one's abode. Standing on the piazza of the captain of the guard's office, one looks at the granite buildings, the heavy iron doors to the narrow cells which mount up? wards five stories high, and at the high brick walls, surrounded by sentry towers with sentries in them, the gates locked and barred, and the guards with guns watching them, and he wonders how it is possible for any one ever to escape from such a place. And as he looks his wonder grows and the desire comes to him to see those who are confined within the prison, and an invitation from Captain West field or Sergeant Allen to go through the grounds is not declined. Such was the privilege of a representative of the State on Saturday. He was put in charge of Mr. W. B. Young, who showed him the sights of the place. What struck him more than anything else was the dispropor? tionate number of negro convicts as compared to whites, when the popula? tion of the State is considered. The colored population of the State is greater than that of the whites, but of the 1,054 convicts whose names now appear on the rolls of the institution only 65 are white men, and all of the remainder negroes. There are forty eight women, convicts, all of whom are colored. But what the white man lacks in numbers some of them make up in reputation for the crimes for which they have been couvicted. The most noted criminal within the walls is Bob Jones, the exterminator of the Pressley family of Edgefield. Six feet of earth is the portion of three of the Pressley's as a .result of the efforts of Jones, and the State of South Carolina is several thousand dollars poorer that he killed them, since his several trials and convictions cost that much. He was first tried and convicted in Edgefield County, and thence taken to Lexington, where he was again tried and convicted. He was sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary, but was given credit for the four years he had spent in jail before conviction. Jones is a mild mannered man, and there is nothing in the man to denote cruelty of heart. He had charge of the dining-room of the convicts, and judging by the very bountiful supply of food which be dealt out to his comrades in stripes, he is at least willing that they shall live, and live as well as he can make them. Another noted prisoner is Professor Frank Shuford, who was sent down from York County for trying to out? rage one of his pupils. He is a very highly educated man, and is a fine musician besides. Neither of these men are native South Carolinians. Jones comes from Georgia, and Shu? ford from North Carolina. Other prominent convicts, more for what they did than the enormity of the offence?are the "blind tiger" con? victs. The first is William Sheppard, from Columbia, who is yet confined in the hospital. There is the well-known Charlie Jaggers, from Chester, whose name has suffered so much punning. Keeping him company is John Jones, who bought liquor from Jaggers and then swore that he did not. Both of these men have six months to wear the stripes and do the work of a convict. The last of this tribe is Andy Floyd, from Oconec, who is serving a sen? tence of three months. Passing over many points of inter? est, the ways that some of the con? victs have escaped from this seeming? ly secure prison are worthy of note. Albert Jenkins is the name of an old cripple negro sent down from Chester County. He was confined in one of the inner cells which, besides having its own inner door, fastened by a padlock, and the long iron bolt which passed in front of all the cells, and which impinged on an iron elbow attached to the iron doors, was in? closed in a space at each end of which was a network of iron extending the whole height of the building to the roof, where it was attached to a heavy covering of a double thickness of a heavy plank. Jenkins succeeded in picking the padlack on his door, though he had to reach through the bars as least a half a yard to itp broke off the ends of the bolts fastening the iron elbows to his door, and twisted the elbow so that it would not touch the iron bar across the front of the cell. He then climbed the lattice work five stories high and hung on by his legs while he broke a hole in the roof. Then he slid down a sixty foot post to the ground, though he had to hold fast for several minutes when he was about half-way down, as the sen? tinel with his lantern stopped just be? neath him. On the ground he secured a piece of rope and a scantling, and with these he scaled the twenty foot wall around the building. He enjoyed his liberty only for a short time, and was recaptured and returned to the penitentiary to serve out his time. In some of the cells are spliced bars to show how prisoners have sawed through half-inch iron and then squeezed their bodies through a space about ten inches wide, and by the aid of the same implements as Jenkins used gained their liberty for short pe? riods of time. Altogether very few prisoners ever escape, and very few of those who do ever remain free long. ? Only one kind of man is excusa? ble for not hearing argument on both sides: When he is deaf in one ear. ? Sally : "An' after we are marri? ed, will you keep on lovin' me ?" Tviibe: "I'll love you till?till the cows come home, as the feller says." Sally : "Y-a-a-s, an' then go down to the grocery anr let me do all the milkin'." ? More overproduction ! Now comes Sarah Jane Johnson, wife of Samuel Johnson, of Mt. Sterling, Ky., now in her forty-sixth year has just presented her husband with six bouncing babies. ? My little boy, when two years of age, was taken very ill with bloody flux. I was advised to use Chamber? lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, and luckily procured part of a bottle. I carefully read the direc? tions and gave it accordingly. He was very low, but slowly and surely he be? gan to improve, gradually recovered, and is now as strong and stout as ever. I feel sure it saved his life. I never can praise the Remedy half its worth. I am sorry everyone in the world does not know how good it is, as I do.? Mrs. Lina S. Hinton, Grahamsville, Mariou Co,, Florida Fnrsale by Hill Bros. A Texas Queen. Washington Evening Star. One representative in the next con? gress will be nominated and elected by a woman. She is the widow of Captain Richard King, and she owns a princi? pality in Southern Texas. Her landed estate consists of about 1,500,000 acres ?that is to say, nearly 2,000 square miles. For taking care of this vast domain a small army of men is requir? ed. Their votes are controlled by the mistress, who is to all intents and pur? poses a queen. The records of the land office at Washington reveal some extraordinary facts with relation to that part of Southern Texas, which seems on the map to intrude into Mexico, terminat? ing in a point at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This region, nearly as big as New England, comprises four big counties, and is owned by four fami? lies?the Kings, the Kennedys, the Collinses and the Armstrongs. Much the largest of the four shares belongs in fee simple to Mrs. King. The ancient road from San Antonio to Brownsville has been closed by Mrs. King's fences, and there are no gates. There is no road law in that country. The only way to get from Brownsville is by a stage route of for? ty hours. The stage carries mail for a large part of Mexico. In the en? tire distance there is not a single set? tlement, because the territory travers? ed belongs to Mrs. King. The region is wholly wild, being used for cattle grazing. Mrs. King is referred to by Richard Harding Davis in one of his articles, who remarks that it is diffi? cult to imagine a solitary family occu? pying an area larger than some of the Eastern States?an area that would in the East support a State capital, with Governor and Legislature and numer? ous small towns, with competing rail? way systems and rival baseball nines. The owner of this'principality is a generous and liberal-minded woman, about sixty years of age. She does much good and takes care of her peo? ple. To each laborer on her estates she gives a cow. Her ranch of Santa Gertrudis is the largest in the world. It is bounded by Corpus Christi bay for a distance of forty miles and by barbed wire fences for 300 miles more. From her front door to her front gate is thirteen miles, and she can drive in her carriage Bixty-five miles in a straight line without going off her own premises. Her house looks like a castle on the Rhine?atypical baronial mansion. It is situated on a slight eminence, surrounded by the modest dwellings of her dependents and by fields of waving corn. Beyond on every side is a green wilderness of mesquite and cactus. The chateau is as completely fur? nished and as handsomely equipped as any mansion on Fifth avenue in New York. No luxury that money can buy anywhere is lacking to the widow, who, by the way, is the daughter of the first Presbyterian missionary to the Rio Grande. Corpus Christi is the terminus of a railway, and from that point a continuous stream of wagons carry ice and other necessaries to the ranch. Mrs. King lives for several months of each year in a palace at Corpus Christi. Her son-in-law, Rob? ert J. Kleberg, is general manager of the ranch, on which are 200.000 cattle of improved breeds. Long trains of freight cars are made up at Corpus Christi to carry Mrs. King's cattle to the East. To run the vast estate costs about $100,000 a year. For every twenty miles of barbed wire fence there is a man to make repairs and see that no break occurs. In the old days to cut a fence was an offence likely to result in the death of the perpetrators of the act. Three hundred cowboys are regularly employed, 1,200 ponies being set aside for their use. Every spring all of the calves are rounded up for branding. They are driven into a pen through a wooden chute, and, as they leave the chute, each one is caught by the leg and thrown upon its side. Then one of a dozen irons that are kept red-hot in an open fire is pressed upon the animal's nose. All brands are registered, and sometimes each member of a family has one. Mr. Davis speaks of a girl who came out in society in New York three winters ago, and who is known in Texas only as "the owner of the triangle brand." Nobody can get water in that country save by good will of the owners of the great estates, and no one can travel without their permission, inasmuch as there are no public roads. Thus it comes about that the region is entirely shut up and unused to any extent for agriculture, though it is extraordi? narily fertile. One Person's Influence, In our Christian life often are we tempted to feel or to say that it mat? ters little what I personally may say or do, for I am only one person. And yet the history of our country has re? peatedly hinged upon one vote. In the presidential election of 1800, an even number of electoral votes were cast for Aaron Burr and for Jhomas Jefferson, as President. A change of one vote would have made Burr (who afterwards attempted treason) Presi? dent of the United States. What a change might this have made in the history of our country! After the close of the late war, articles of im? peachment were filed against President Ad ".rew Johnson. The ballot on them in the United States Senate lacked only one vote of the two-thirds requisite for his conviction. These instances have been drawn from the actions of legislative bodies. The same is true in proper measure of the votes of individuals. In Massa? chusetts, in one instance, the election of Governor was decided by the vote of a single individual; for by a ma? jority of only one vote in a total poll of more than a hundred thousand, Marcus Norton was elected as Govern? or. We do not pause to note similar in? stances in church courts, but hurry on to our conclusion,?the influence of some one man upon his neighbor's salvation. How often upon the word of counsel, fitly spoken by some one man, has the course of another been happily changed for a whole eternity ! Or by the omisson of that word, how has some man been left to perish ! Is it not true that the great majority of those who are saved arc brought to Christ, not by sermoos addressed to crowds in the churches, but by private words of entreaty spoken by some one friend ? ? Miss Swift: "No. I shall not go into the conservatory with you, Mr. Slowboy ; I'm afraid you would try to kiss me." Slowboy: "Why, Miss Swift, did you ever in your life know me to do an ungentlcmanly thing ?" Miss Swift: ''But, you see, so many people wouldn't think that ungentle manly," NO NEED OF SUN. Plants Grown by Electricity at Agricul tural Experiment Station. Ifcio York Herald. Probably the most interesting of the many miracles which scientific men are learning to perform by aid of elec? tricity is the artificial growth of plants, technically know as elcctriculture or electro-horticulture. This is as yet a new science, and little has been told the public concerning it. Interesting experiments in these lines are now being carried on at several of the ex? periment stations of the department of agriculture. East Indian jugglers have excited the curiosity of the world by their miraculous creations of certain plants, which they cause to spring up from seeds in a few seconds. Whether these adepts are conversant with the stimulating effects of electricity upon vegetable life, and whether they use the electric fluid in these tricks, is yet to be solved. It is, however, a fact that agricultural experts in this country are growing plants much more rapidly than nature herself, although no lightning flash juggleries have yet been accomplished. The agricultural experiment stations are testing several different systems of electroculture. One of these is the direct application of electricity, fur? nished by a dynamo, to the plant itself and to the soil in which it grows. Another is the distribution of atmos? pheric electricity among plants by a similar method. Still other tests are being made with both arc and incan? descent electric lights for supplying sunlight, so to speak, at night. The first mentioned experiments are being carried on by Professor C. D. Warner, of the experiment station at Amherst, Mass. Professor Warner has prepared two plots of ground, side by side, each six to twenty feet long. To compare plants grown by electric aid with those raised according to the natural method one of the experimental gardens is furnished with electricity and the other without it. The soil is of a rich loam, and that of the electric garden is surrounded with a timber frame, on which are arranged numerous porce? lain insulators, a few inches apart, holding a continuous uncovered copper wire. This copper wire crosses the garden as many times as there are in? sulators on either side. The whole f ramework thus fitted looks like the string frame of a large piano. The wires are covered with earth to the depth of two inches, and in both gardens various vegetables have been planted from time to time. These plants were so arranged that the rows in the electric garden were continua? tions of those of the non-electric, in order that the contrast of development might he more easily noted. The wires are all fed from a small building containing the necessary machinery. After applying currents of various strengths it was found that a certain flow of electricity through the electric garden produced strange results. Many varieties of seeds sprouted much more rapidly and many plants blos? somed much earlier than in the other. Roots of certain vegetables and the tops of others were found to be greatly enlarged under this process. In fact, all plants were found to be stimulated by a current of a certain strength. The physiological effect of electricity upon plants, although not yet defi? nitely understood, is probably similar to that experienced by the human anatomy* or by the animal tissues. Electricity is applied to paralytics be? cause it stimulates the nerves and muscles, just as exercise does. A strong current is used to remove super? fluous hair, while, according to latest reports, a milder current will produce hair on bald heads. In the same way an electric current too strong will de? stroy plant life, while a milder one enhances its growth. There is also the theory that the electricity pro? duces a chemical effect upon the soil or the surrounding atmosphere, rather than a direct effect upon the plants. At the Ithaca, N. Y., experiment station Professor Bailey, by aid of electric lights burned all night in greenhouses, makes plant life work "over time"?that is, he forces plants to do both day work and night work without a moment of "sleep." Sun? light, as well as atmosphere and water, is necessary for a plant's development. The electric light resembles sunlight in its composition more than does any other artificial light. It is the com? mon theory that plants grow mostly at night, making use of the air, water, sunlight and other materials which they have received during the day, when the sun is shining. It is gen? erally believed, therefore, that they need rest, just as animals need rest for the building up of the tissues worn out during the day. Professor Bailey, however, does not believe that plants need rest in the same sense that ani? mals do. Plants have simply acquired the habit of gathering nourishment and using it at different times, because nature has divided the day into light and darkness, and because it is better to "make hay while the sun shines," and to use it at night when there is nothing else to do. There appears to Professor Bailey to be no reason why plants cannot grow in full light. In the arctic regions, where the year is divided into one long day and one long night, plants grow continuously, as conditions require. Xow, if electric light enables plants to acquire stimu? lation during the night and does not interfere with growth, it will cause them to grow to a greater size. Artificial light is found to produce much the same effect upon plants as does sunlight, only in a smaller degree. If a ray from an electric arc light be thrown through a prism it will sepa? rate into various colors, as will a ray of sunlight. The arc light contains more violet rays than sunlight, but has less orange rays, which latter arc very valuable to plante. By using an amber globe over the arc light, there? fore, its rays become more like sun? light. Professor Bailey has experi? mented both with a naked arc light and with one c?vered with a globe, lie hung the uncovered arc light, of 2.000 candle power, inside his green? house, burning it all night. He found that the plants matured earlier than others in a greenhouse lighted only by the sun. The nearer the plants were to the light the faster was their growth. While Professor Bailey isvcontinu ing his experiments with the arc light, similar investigations are being made with the incandescent lamp at the West Virginia experiment station, under Professor P. W. Bane. Profes? sor Pane prefers the incandescent lamp, because it is cheaper, consumes less time and is not so bulky. Pro? fessor Kane is meeting with much re? sults as noticed by Professor Bailey. Ho finds that the stronger he makes the candle power the more marked are the increases in growth. After learning of these wonderful results from experiments as yet in embryo, it would seem that wc may yet see the day when there will be many harvestings on a farm each summer. The modern planter will erect lines of high poles throughout his fields, supporting not only mechan? isms for gathering the atmospheric electricity, but also immense electric lights for supplying sunshine by night. Who can say but that forests will some day be made to grow up from seeds in but a few months or that the builders of new homes may not grow shade trees about their homes in that time? The Colonel's Flight. A prominentColonel, of Swainsboro, has a watermelon patch which has been raided by enterprising darkies on several occasions. The Colonel miss? ed so many melons that one night recently he seized a double-barreled shotgun and repaired to his melon patch to await the coming of the thief. He soon saw what appeared to be the figure of a man, when he immediately opened fire. At the report of the gun the fun commenced. The Colonel thought he saw the man draw a revolver to return the fire, and this, together with other extreme excitement, so unnerved him that he forgot to fire the other barrel of his gun, and dashed with all his might for his residence. When he reached the door he was traveling at such a rapid rate he could not stop to unbar it, so he decided it wasn't much in the way anyhow, and as he dashed against it the door flew all the way across the room, striking the opposite wall, bursting to pieces an elegant bureau and shattering 12 window panes. Investigation next morning on the scene of action developed the follow? ing facts: The melon patch is virtually ruined, it being torn to pieces by the Colonel and the thief, each doing his best to see who could get out first. The first leap the Colonel made he leaped clear from under his hat, which was found next morning. He ran over melons, bursting them right and left and tear? ing the vines off the land. On the other side, where the thief went out, was found blood on the vines, trees and fence, and where he went out of the melon patch there were 12 panels of plank fence knocked down.?Atlan? ta Constitution. How to Make Batter. The Yorkville correspondent of The News and Courier, some time ago, paid a visit to Mr. W. H. Hicklin's dairy farm at Guthriesville, and wrote it up for his paper. The following description of Mr. Hicklin's method of making butter will prove interesting : Shortly after we arrived at the barn the separator?a machine used for sep? arating the cream from the milk?was put in motion. I shall not attempt to describe it, as a detailed description would occupy too much space, and would be of little or no value to the reader when done. I will say, howev? er, that the machine is a marvel, and is a combination of cranks, cogwheels, cylinders, spouts, etc. It does exactly what it was made for, and will take every particle of the cream out of 300 pounds of milk in one hour. On that day the product of the cows?one milking?was about 18 gallons, and the cream was extracted within 30 minutes. I asked Mr. Hicklin to tell me what the relative value of the two systems of extracting cream by this new method and by the old of allowing it to rise and skimming it off was, and in reply, he said that on receiving the machine, he had made a test and found that during the fir3t seven days it was used, there was an increase of 23 pounds in yield of butter over the seven days previous, from the same number of cows with same feed and treatment. He also said that the sep? arator had now been in use for about two months, and had paid for itself and yielded a net profit of about $80, as compared with the old method. As my special mission in this article is to tell how Mr. Hicklin handles his milk and butter we will follow the cream after it has been separated. It is placed in tin cans and set in cold water, where it remains for 12 hours, after which it is mixed with a previous milking and set to ripen. During the ripening process it is stirred two or three times daily, and is churned 36 to 48 hours after being drawn from the cow. A swing churn is used?one with no inside fixtures? and a swinging motion does the work. The time occupied in churning is about 40 minutes, with the temperature of the cream about 66 degrees. When the butter comes it is in granules about the size of a grain of 'wheat. The buttermilk is drawn off and the butter is washed in the churn with pure cold water, and this process is continued until the water runs off clear, and then one ounce of salt is added for each pound of butter. The butter is now ready for the printer?not the kind that manufacture the News and Courier ?but a powerful little machine that is used to press all the water out of the butter and to compress it into cakes of one pound each. The cakes of butter when taken from the printerare about in the shape of a brick, are free from any foreign substance, such as milk or water. They are then wrapped in parchment paper and packed for ship? ment in a regular refrigerater. It will be observed that the story of how Mr. Hicklin, or rather Mrs. Hick? lin, makes butter is very simple and I can see no reason why any intelligent housewife in the State might not make exactly the same quality of butter as that made at this dairy farm. Of course it is absolutely necessary, if the best results arc secured, that the cream be in exactly the proper condi? tion before being churned; and the next important step is to see that every drop of the milk is washed out of the butter, and next that it is properly salted. Mr. Hicklin says that one ounce of salt to the pound of butter is the proper amount where butter is intended for market, but that he sometimes puts only a half ounce, and occasionally as much as two ounces, at the request of customers. ? Eton, the most famous of British public schools, now has 10,019 stu? dents. ? Six weeks ago I suffered with a very severe cold; was almost unable to speak. 31y friends advised me to con? sult a physician. Noting Chamber? lain's Cough Remedy advertised in the St. Paul Volles Zeitung I procured a bottle, and after taking it a short while was entirely well. I now most heartily recommend this remedy to anyone suffering with a cold. Wm. Keil, 678 Sclby Ave., St. Paul, Minn, For sale by Hill Bros, The Bloody Angle. Sergeant Brown, of the S. C. V., recently wrote an article for the " gusta Clironicle, giving an accc the battle at the "bloody ang! Spottsylvania C. H. on May 1864. He relates that, during the' fight a Yankee came into our line and" demanded us to surrender. The de? mand was rejected, and hewaspeaAjl ted to retire to his own lines, which he^ did in safety. "J. B. C.,M of Co. K., Orr's Rifles, in the Anderson Intelligences, takes issue with Sergeant Brown, and I says that the Yankee was shot downJ on his way back by a youiih of Harris's - Mississippi Brigade. This "happened about the middle of the afternoon, and at dark he was lying in the same posi? tion in which he fell." a| In 1866 we crossed the Gulf of Mex? ico from Galveston to New Orleans on a fine steamer of the Morgan Line. ; Among the passengers was a very handsome young man. He entered into conversation with u3 and began by asking what command we belonged S to during the war. We replied that we served in McGowan's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Corps. He declared that he supposed I was a Union Soldier, but went on to say that he had fought against McGowan's Brigade at Spott? sylvania C. H., and could verify the statement by an incident that McGow? an's soldiers would remember. Ho then said that he had jumped down into our lines and demanded our sur? render, having seen a white flag raised some distance up the line. Our offi? cer replied that there was no surrender on our side. He asked to return to his own lines, as he had been misled by the supposed white flag. Permis? sion was granted and he saluted and started back, but fell just as he reach? ed his own lines. A bullet from the left passed through the lapel of his coat, but he was uninjured and fell because one of his companions jerked him down. He described our captain with whom he talked perfectly, and I gave him the address of Capt. J. W. Carlisle, of Spartanbnrg. of the 13th S. C. V. He corresponded with Capt. Carlisle, and they exchanged photo? graphs. Capt. Carlisle told us that he was the identical person who de? manded our surrender. The Yankee was promoted afterwards, and was Maj. S. S. Parker at the close of the hostilities. He lived in Union City, Michigan. When we reached New Or? leans we took a glass of lemonade to? gether, shook hands and parted. Others may have demanded our sur? render, but there can be no doubt about the incident between Capt. Car? lisle and Maj. S. S. Parker.?Abbeville Medium. ind, is* From the foregoing editorial re? marks it will appear that it is highly^ probable I am right in my recollection of the Spottsylvania circumstance. The semblance between the Carlisle Parker incident and the one mention? ed by me is, at least, suggestive that - they arc identical. But, as Colonel Isaac F. Hunt has well said in his fraphic story of "The Horue Shoe at pottsylvania," recently published in? the Charleston Sunday News, "thirty years is a long while to remember oc? currences accurately." B. F. Biiown, Sergeant Co. L, 1st Reg., S. C. Vols. Augusta, Ga., Aug. 9, 1805. \ll Sorts of Paragraphs, ? Sheep have no teeth in the upper jaw. ? The best of men are but men at the best. ? In the human skeleton there are 260 bones. ? As a rule a man's hair turns gray five years sooner than a woman's. ? All other knowledge is hurtful to one who has not the science of hon? esty and good nature. ? Alabama, Michigan, Pennsylva? nia, New York, Minnesota and Wis? consin produce over four-fifths of the iron produced in this country. ? Statistics prove that nearly two thirds of all the letters carried by the postal service of the world are written, sent to, and read by English speaking people. ? More hearts pine away in secret anguish from the want of kindness from those who should be their com? forters, than from any other calamity in life. ? "Hew do you stand on this here^ money question, major?" "I don't stand at all, sir ! Money's so scarce that when I strike a dollar it jest keels me over!" ? A fence 500 miles long, of" netting, separating the colonies* New South Wales and Queensland, one of the wonders of Australia. It is designed to keep the rabbits out. ? Investigations of rain drops lead to the conclusion that some of the large drops must be more or /'ess hol? low, as they fall, when striking, to wet the whole surface inclosed within the drop. ? The most indestructible wood is the Jarrah wood of Western Australia, which defies all known forms of decay and is untouched by all destructivei insects, so that ships built of it do not need to be coppered. ? After his evening prayer a boy once said: "Mamma, may I pray just as I want to, and will God hear it?" She answered, "yes, my son." He prayed: "Dear God, please for? give me for killing a hop-toad and putting him in a hole. Amen." The child was sorry for his wrong, and did right to confess it to God. ? Japanese soldiers are being dress? ed in paper clothing. The shirts and trousers are all composed of especially prepared paper of a yellow color. They are bound with linen binding, and are partly pasted together and partly sewn with a machine. Whe:a the clothes, which are very durable, are worn out, they are thrown away and replaced by new ones. ? The signature of the cross?the mark which persons who are unable to write are required to make?was not always confined to illiterate per? sons ; for among the Saxons the mark of the cross, as an attestation of the good faith of the persons signing, was required to be attached to the signa? ture of those who could write, as \ ell as to stand in the place of the signa? ture of those who could not write. ? Rufus M. Merrill, aged seventy nine, a well-known ship builder, while walking on the Portland and Roches? ter Road at Portland, Me., was struck by an engine and received injures from the effect of which he died two hours later. His dog, his constant companion for many years, tried to drag his master from the track, and had both hind legs cut off. Mr. Mer? rill seemed more concerned about his dog than himself.?Trental {N. Jt) American,