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BY CLINKSCALES & LAN GSTON. ANDERSON, 8. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1895._ VOLUME XXX.- -NO 12. New Line of Boys' Suits! WE have succeeded in getting control in Anderson of Messrs. Blumen? thal Bros. & Co's. Celebrated Boys' Clothing. If your boy needs a Suit, better come in and look at our's before you purchase; if you don't you may regret it. We have *ein from 75c. up to $5.00. Our line in each price is very strong. . We are receiving NEW GOODS every day?would be glad to have you come in and look at same. We may post you, whether you purchase or not Respectfully, B. O. EVANS & CO., P. S,?Mr. W. P. KING is now with us. He would be glad to have you call. B. 0. E. & CO. Chattanooga Cane Mills, Chattanooga Galvanized Steel Evaporators, v With the Patent Cups. Chattanooga Portable Furnaces. Cook's Galvanized Steel and Copper Evaporators. Cooles Portable Furnaces. I?* We invite your attention to the above, on which we can save yon money. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. FRESH TURNIP SEED! OUR Stock of Fresh Turnip Seed have j arrived, and we offer our usual. / > ?? _ ': ? ? ? ? FIVE DOLLAR PREMIUM. ORR & SLOAN 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 counters, but we? WANT WIVES, And Housekeepers, 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 fredh, and the prices VERY LOW. Give ui a eall. G. F. BIG-BY. FURNITURE 1 FURNITURE!! LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST COODS! IS- 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 BARG AINS ! "We wHI Sell you Furniture at Prices below anything ever heard of iu this Country hefore ! And prices it is impossible for any one else to buy the same quality of Goods for. When you need anything in the Furniture line give us a call, and? WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. Prices Lower than Cotton at 5c. Yours for business, G. F. TOLLY & SON, The Leaders of Low Prices. J. P. SULLIVAN * CO., -Will sell you the Best Coffee, Th Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, AU for ioes Honey tluu you Have been paying. J. P.SULLIVAN & CO. COTTON, AND BAGGING, AND TIES. For the Information of Farmers and Ginners. THE Agricultural Bureau report, issued August 10th, by the Secretary of Agriculture at Washington, D. C, for Cotton is the lowest August report on record. It is 77 9-10 against 92 4-10 in 1894, and 82 3-10 in 1893, when we made only 6,700,365 bales, as against 9,700,000 bales last year. The condition in South Carolina is 81, while in Texas, and some of the other Western States, it is only 71. We give you this for what it is worth, but do not vouch for it. If it Bhould prove true, however, we expect better prices than we obtained last season. Wo have? The Largest Stock of Bagging and Ties Ever brought to this market by one Firm, all of which we bought last April before the advance in iron products. We have any kind you want, as follows : 50,000 yards 2-lb. Old Bagging, in 50 yard rolls. 25,000 yards 1 3 4 Ib. New Jnte Bagging. 15,000 yards 2 lb. New Jute Bagging. 5,000 Patterns Old Bagging and Ties. 1,600 Bundles Whole Rebundled, Repainted Ties. 600 Bundles New Steel Arrow Ti s. These Goods must be Bold We guarantee prices as low as anv body, and solicit your patronage. Our line of GENERAL MERCHANDIZE, GROCERIES, &c? is always complete. When you sell your Cotton always see our Mr. FRED. BROWN, who is always in the mar? ket, and will pay the highest cash price for the staple. Thanking you for past liberal patronage, We are yours truly, BROWN, OSBORNE & CO. Traveling DaJrle?. Mr. N. H. Egleston has recently been in communication with Prof. Jas. W. Robinson, dairy commission? er of Canada, regarding the "Travel? ing dairies," which have been in op? eration in that country for some time. In view of the recent agitation of the subject of dairies in this State by the News and Courier and the Sunday News the topic is one of interest. Mr. Egleston said yesterday: Canada seems a rather distant, cold place to go to for ideas that should be helpful in this State, but remember? ing what wonderful results had come to the dairying interests of that coun? try through the education given the farmers by means of their "traveling dairies," I wrote to Prof. Jas. W. Robertson, dairy commissioner, for a exact information, and have been fa? vored with a very full set of reports, from which I quote. With a view of improving the standard of Canadian butter the Dominion Government un? dertook some years ago to give every one of its farmers the chance of learn ine practically how to make the best quality of butter. As it was impossi? ble to bring all the farmers and their wives to the dairy stations it was de? cided to send teachers through the country, right among the farmers, with all necessary apparatus to illus? trate every operation. A competent instructor and a practical butter maker were given, the folowing outfit: An eight-bottle Babcock milk tester, with necessary accompaniments to make tests of milk ; a barrel churn, a tin lined water tank, a No. I lever butter worker, a one-pound butter printer, parchment butter paper for covering prints, a refrigerator butter box of forty-eight pounds capacity, weighing scales, cream can, deep-setting cans, dairy thermometers, a good supply of dairy salt, wooden ladles, dippers, moulds for printing the butter, etc. These are all loaded into a covered wagon, and with a good team or horses taken from town to town. During one season one of these "traveling dai? ries" covered a route of 2,057 miles and held meetings at 151 different places. The plan of working these "travel? ing dairies" is to arrange before hand, along the routes they are to take, with the officers of the farmers' institutes, to have the day and hour of the meet? ing in each town well advertised, gen? erally 2 p. m. was the hour chosen. Arrangements were also previously made to have a sufficient quantity of ripened cream delivered at the hour of meeting. When the wagon arrived all the out? fit was unpacked and set up in work? ing order in the place chosen for the meeting. The processs of butter making was begun at once and while the butter maker was engaged in transforming the cream into golden "creamery" butter, the instructor ex? plained each process, clearly illustra? ting his remarks by the work progress? ing before them. Especial attention was called to the superiority of the swing and barrel churns over the old clash churns, the people wore shown the "granulated" butter as it began to separate, and they watched with keen interest the new method of "washing"^out the buttermilk instead of squeezing it out as in the old way. Samples were given them to taste and questions asked and answered. Ac? curate printed directions were given all present, who, after the instruc? tion received, could readily under? stand and follow the rules laid down. In the evening the farmers brought samples of milk to be tested, and the talk was generally on such subjects as ?'Winter dairying," "Care and feed? ing of dairy cows," "Markets for dai? ry products," etc., etc. Now is it not possible for our State to do as well as Canada and take a sample of good dairy work right among our farmers, where they can all see and understand what operations are necessary in order to produce a prime quality of butter? We have been in? formed this year by our produce dealers as to the kind of stuff sent to them for butter, and we know that whole carloads of butter are brought to this city for consumption in the city every week, every pound of which should have been produced within the borders of the State, and the thousands of dollars now sent to the Northwest should have been put in the pockets of our own farmers. The outfit for one of these "travelling dairies" would cost very little, inside of one hundred dollars; if a "separator" is taken along another hundred dollars would be added to the cost. The whole rig, horses, wagon and outfit could be gotten together, I am sure for ?500. The instructor and butter maker can no doubt be furnished from Clcmson College without other addi? tional expense than their travelling expensi 3. Would it not be well to devote some of our money and ener? gies to showing the present generation the better way of farming, and not put off the "good times" till the boys now at Clemson grow up and take charge of the farms their fathers are now cultivating? ? >ur members of the family of Jacob -McCloskey, of Urbana, 111., have been under the care of physi? cians as a result of eating new pota? toes, the vines of which had been sprinkled with paris green for the purpose of exterminating the bugs which infected them. Physicians say nc e of the victims will die, but sev? en 1 had close "^ls. - In a recent ic^r to the manu fa turers Mr. W. F. benjamin, edito. of the Spectator, Rushford, N. Y., says: "It maybe a pleasure to you to know the high esteem in which Chamberlain's medicines are held by the people of your own State, where they must be best known. An aunt ot mine, who resides at Dexter, Iowa, was about to visit me a few years since, and before leaving home wrote me, asking if they were sold here, stating if they were not she would bring a quantity with her, as bhe did not like to be without them. The medicines referred to are Chamber? lain's Cough Remedy, famous for its cures of colds and croup; Chamber? lain's Pain Balm for rheumatism, lame back, pains in the side and chest, and Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy for bowel com? plaints. These medicines have been in constant use in Iowa for almost a quarter of a century. The people have learned that they are articles of great worth and merit, and unequaled by any other. They are for sale here by Hill Bros. BILL ARTS LETTER. Arp Hopes That all of Them Will Get to the Exposition. Atlanta Constitution. The exposition gets bigger and big? ger. The managers have builded wiser than they know, and everything concerning it seems to prosper. It will be a great show and a great school. I wish that every youth in this southern land who is over ten years of age could visit it. They could learn more in a day than they can learn in a year from books. The sight is the very best receptive of knowledge. .The best way to study geography is to travel, and the best way to study art is to see things made by the artist or the mechanic. I see that a Philadelphia silk house will have silk worms there making their cocoons and will reel the silk from them and spin and weave it into cloth and they will sell you a cravat for a song. I make mention of this because when I was a lad my father carried on that same business of making silk in Lawrenceville, Ga., and for three years I had to pick mulberry leaves in their season and feed them to the greedy worms. I had to get up before day and go to the morus multicaulus or? chard and pick the leaves while the dew was on them and carry them in sacks to the silk house and scatter them all over the hurdles and the greedy worms would eat them all up before breakfast. The big worms that were two to two and a half inches long were kept in one row of hurdles and were given the coarser leaves ; smaller ones were graded down to age and the little worms, half an inch long, had to have the young and ten? der leaves. When the worms were full grown and had devoured till they had stuffed themselves with mulberry fiber they settled down to business and spun their winding sheet in the shape of a cocoon. These cocoons were beautiful little things, about as large as a pecan nut and of the same shape. They were of different colors. Some were pure white, some green, some pink, some red, some yellow and all were bright and glossy. The worm got smaller as he wrapped his web around him, and by the time the co? coon was done it had changed its shape and turned into a chrysalis, an ugly brown thing that had neither head nor tail visible. It passed into a comatose condition for awhile and then came to life again and cut its way out of the cocoon in the shape of a butterfly or large fluttering moth and crawled about over the hurdles to find some place to lay its eggs. These eggs soon hatched out into little silk worms that went to eating leaves just like their greedy ancestors. But we dident wait for many to cut their way out of the cocoons. We put them in a pot of hot water and they staid comatose all the rest of their lives. We would have perhaps a hundred cocoons floating on the top of the hot water and with a tiny brush would catch up the delicate fibers c." silk from thirty or forty cocoons and make a thread of all of them together, and having fastened that thread to a reel close by we would turn the reel just like our grandmothers used to turn it in winding spun truck?turn it until it clicked and then take the cut off and begin again. Just so, we reeled the raw silk and kept putting more cocoons in the hot water. In this way we reeled off every bit of the winding sheet and left the ugly dead chrysalis floating on the water. When they accumulated so as to be in the way we skimmed them out and threw them away. This is only an outline of the busi? ness, and I want the young folks to see how the thing is done from the tiny little egg to the raw silk upon the reel and from there to the loom. <My father was a pioneer in the morus multicaulus craze, as it was called, and I think the only man in Georgia who made silk and sold it. I remem? ber that one year he sold $600 worth at one shipment and he sold some otheik smaller lots. He would have continued the business but his trees took the "die back" or something and he had to give it up. It is said that the continual stripping of the leaves will kill them in about three years, for the leaves are the lungs of plants and they can't keep on making new lungs just to please silk worms. These trees were grown from cuttings and we began to strip them the second year, when they were about as large as a broom handle. They had no branches and were about as far apart as young apple trees in a nursery. We stripped them like pulling fodder, coming down with both hands ana leaving only a few leaves at the top. It would have been good fun if it had not been so monotonous and required so much of Ben Franklin's advice about "early to bed and early to rise," etc. I havent gotten over that habit 3ret, but it hasent made me wealthy or wise. I never have found out how one worm can get red silk out of a mulberry leaf and another one will get white or yellow. I heard Captain Evan Howell make a speech once and he pr'' eloquent and humble as he said: "i*ly friends we are helpless and ignorant creatures. We know nothing hardly about the mysteries of nature that are all around us. The good book says : 'Great is the mystery of godliness.' We can't tell why it is that when a goose cats grass the grass turns to feathers and when a horse eats grass it turns to hair and when a sheep eats grass it turns to wool." And he might have added that when a worm eats mulberry leaves it turns to silk. The exposition has been a great strain upon Atlanta, but that town is smart and gamey and will make it a grand success. When the scheme was first proposed we outsiders never said anything to discourage it, but we smiled and whispered was there ever such cheek. Right after the great Chicago fair and right in the middle of a financial panic for a little city of only 100,000 people to propose such an absurd scheme is perfectly ridicu? lous. And to think of the impudence of asking for the patronage of the na? tional government and an appropria? tion. But the managers kept right on and have never faltered for a moment. And they got the Smithsonian insti? tution and the Liberty Bell and they seriously discussed the practibility of borrowing the Bartholdi statue of lib? erty from New York harbor and put? ting it up in Clara Mccr. I see that the hotel department is all right and that the visitors will be fed and sheltered decent!}'. There has been a little flirtation going on about the street car lines charging 10 cents, but that is all buncomb, I reck? on. It is a right big rumpus about a very little mntter and I rc:on will die out after a few more have had their say. It is very amusing idea for a South Carolina man and a Brunswick preacher to write up and say they will not come to the fair nary step if the street car fare is raised to 10 cents. "Why, this is a free country, and those gentlemen can stay ai home or they can come and patronize the Southern railroad that will charge 10 cents, too. It does not seem to be the price, but it is the raise that arouses their in? dignation. But this little episode will all settle down. It reminds me, however, of the time when we propos? ed to build a public academy in Rome, and it was to cost $1,800. The boys had put me forward to run for mayor and the issue was "academy" or "no academy." Of course I was for pro? gress and the noisiest and bitterest enemy I had to contend with took the streets and declared that I would tax the people to death, and he for one was not going to stand it. Looking over the taxbooks at his sworn return of his return of his property I found that his part of the academy would be 47 cents. So I pleasantly showed him the figures and told him I would pay his part if he would hush?and he hushed. Now let everybody hush about this car fare business, for the people are tired of it and in these parts are not making any fuss about it. It will cost our people from $2 to $3 each to go the fair and enjoy the day and come back home and talk about it for a month and we are not going to miss it for five cents ; we are not built that way. I should think it would remind a newspaper man of those amusing fellows who ever and anon get mad with the editor and write to him to stop their paper. But I don't reckon the fair will bust up on account of the absence of any man who swears he won't come if he has to pay 10 cents to the street cars. I hope not. Bill Arp. A Cannery Ban by Ladles. If there is an institution deserving mention, and one about which a re? porter might write strongly without fear of following the fate of Ananias, it is the Ladies' Cannery, of Winns boro. In a grove near the residence of Capt. H. A. Gailkrd, on his pre? mises, the building where the goods arc packed is situated in a pleasant, shady and retired spot. It was "our man's" first visit to the place, and after looking around he felt that he had seen something deserving of spec? ial mention. Mrs. II. A. Gaillard is president, manager, superintendent and in fact runs the business. The manner of preparing the vege? table for canning will doubtless inter? est many of our readers, so we will give freely a description of the pro? cess. First in the matter is a large boiler set in brick, the water in the boiler being brought from the branch, a dis? tance of about 75 feet, by means of an ejector or steam pump, as it might be called. The steam in the boiler is kept about 50 pounds pressure. From this boiler there is a pipe which emp? ties into a large zinc vessel; the to? matoes are let down in this boiling water by means of a wire cloth vessel. When steamed enough for the peel? ing to come off they are pulled up by a rope and wheel. This is the first step concerning tomatoes. They are then emptied into a large flat trough, on either side of which is sitting on two long benches a lot of pretty girls, who commence at once to pick out a quantity, and the peeling and culling commences. The peelings and refused parts are pushed down this sloping trough and emptied into a vessel at the lower end. This vessel is emptied into cattle troughs about one hundred yards away, where the well groomed cows seems to relish them. The tomatoes after being peeled and culled are taken to another table and are mixed (when desired) with okra, which has gone through the steaming process also in a wooden barrel. The okra is chopped up, but the tomatoes are put in the cans whole, as they command a better price when whole. After the cans are filled they are wiped off and a tin plate put over the hole. The soldering iron is at once applied and the cans are sealed up. A small punch hole is left in the centre of the end of the can in order that the air may be driven out by the action of hot water into which the cans are submerged half their depth. When the air is driven out through the small hole it is closed with solder and then the cans are let down into another vessel of boiling water and remain a given time by the clock. The whole lot are at once lifted into another framed basket and are hoisted up-stairs to be labelled. The entire lifting is done with a crane and derrick, and a very small girl will raise them easily. Everything goes on with military exactness, and each one shows that she knows what to do and when to do it. We asked Mrs. Gaillard if they went to work about 8 o'clock. She replied: "At 8 o'clock; not about." The pluck of euch and every one of our fair young ladies is commendable; they would put the men of Winnsboro to shame to see how unreservedly they lay hold and work with a will. Aman would ask for a machine at once; in fact, our reporter was inventing ma? chines in his mind while these busy hands were doing the work. But this is the way, woman goes ahead and does a piece of work while a man is hunting an easy way to do it. The goods manufactured by our ladies command as good prices as any in the market, and they meet all com? petition. Some of them have been shipped to Guatemala. It happened that a gentleman ate some in Charles? ton, and upon inquiry found that Welch & Eason, of Charleston, pur? chased them of the Ladies' Cannery. He at once placed an order with Welch & Eason to ship a lot to Guatemala. Mrs. Gaillard and the ladies who have assisted her deserve the greatest commendation for their efforts, which have been crowned with success. As we left the place we felt like we ought to let them vote.? Winn$**oro Herald and News. ? What is probably the largest ap? ple orchard in the world covers 1,537 acres in Fairmont, Kan. ? The average life of the total ab? stainer is sixty-four years, while that of the drinker is thirty-five years and a half. -?-m~*>-**m Haw's This. Wc offer One Hundred Dollars re ward for any case of C'alarrh that cannot be cured by flail's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO . Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 1/5 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and linan cially able to carry out any obligations made by tholr firm. West 4 TauAX, Wholesale Drugirists, Tolodo, O. Wat.din?;, Kin.va.v It Marvi.i, WhoLsale Drug? gists, Toledo, 0. HaU's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonial!? s*nt free. Sold, by PrvjgtaU), 75?; A BIG DAM. The Great Power Plant of the Pelzer Company. Columbia State. W -LLIAMSTON, Aug. 31.?Your cor? respondent had the pleasure of visit? ing the justly famous and unique Pel? zer dam, two and a half miles below the big Pelzer mills on Saluda River, near what is locally known as Hol? land's Ford, a little below, opposite, the town of Williamston, in Anderson county. It is, indeed, a picturesque place. The turbid waters of the swiftly flowing Saluda, rumbling and tumbling, jumping and bumping, splashing and dashing, whirling and twirling against, over, by and between the boulders of rock that bestrew its pathway, maddened by their contact with and their impediment by the Pel? zer wheels, come sweeping boldly and gracefully from behind the wooded hills to the north, are abruptly turned by a promontory, jutting out of the eastern bank, in a southwesterly course, then suddenly forced to as? sume a direct southerly course by an outcropping hill on the western side, forming an aqueous crescent, its horns pointing to the east. These hills are sharply undulating to the water's edge, receding to the east and west and rapidly rising as they recede, un? til almost mountainous proportions are reached, thus forming with the high dam erected across the river and valley at its narrowest point, a vast, deep semi-circular basin, holding an immense head of water. These hills are well wooded with a variety of tim? ber indigenous to this Piedmont re? gion, with here and there huge bould? ers of gray granite cropping out of the hills, like grim sentinels keeping a sleepless vigil over the noisy, playful waters as they romp along below, forming a scene which, viewed from below, is beautiful and entrancing. This dam is being built by the W. A. Chapman Company, Providence, Rhode Island, the same firm that built the big Columbia duck mill. It is unique in that it is the first and on? ly one in the world built from its in? ception solely for the purpose of gen? erating electricity to be used f or man? ufacturing purposes. It will be com? plete in about five weeks, being a lit? tle over seven hundred feet in length and forty-five feet high at its highest point, the base being twenty-six feet in width and in places extending thir? ty-five feet below the river bed (this on account of securing a solid founda? tion). This width is maintained un? til the dam reaches a height of eleven feet, then there is an offset of three feet, then every seven feet until a width of six feet is attained at the top, giving a rollway of three hundred feet in length at the eastern end, end? ing in an abutment ten feet higher than the rollway, dove-tailed and ce? mented to the granite hill. This roll way is ten feet lower than the rest of the dam, designed to throw the cur? rent of water from the power house, which rests on the western part of the dam in case of freshets and high wa? ter. There will be a finishing cover? ing of timber on top of the dam two feet high. The dam is pierced just east of the power house by two large flood gates, with four conduits or pipes, with a combined volume of eighteen cubic feet. The dam will contain, when finished, over twenty thousand cubic yards of stone mason? ry. Just above the level of the floor of the power house and twentj-three feet above the river bed, the dam is pierced by five large iron tubes or drums, projecting nine or ten feet in? to the power house, in which revolve horizontally 5<-<3 large turbine water wheels of the Victor patent of one thousand and twenty-eight horse pow? er each, giving a total capacity of five thousand, one hundred and forty horse power. The power house men? tioned above is built to contain the machinery necessary to generate the electricity for running the new Pelzer mill, which machinery will be more fully described further on. The pow? er house is a hundred and ten feet long by fifty wide, and it is sixty feet from the top of the power house to the bottom of the wheel pit. Its northern wall is built up with the dam, its oth? er three walls resting on five arches, built upon five stone piers sixteen feet apart. It is floored with bedded stone covered with concrete to a depth of eighteen inches with a two-inch finish of pure Portland cement. In this house will be, besides the five large wheels mentioned above, five genera? tors with their complement of fixtures, consisting of nine large pieces aggre? gating a hundred and ninety-four tons weight, or about eighteen tons each. These heavy pieces were transported from the railroad to dam, two and a half miles, on rollers with tackle and block, it taking a day and half to transport one piece. In addition to these there is a movable crane of twenty tons capacity for lifting and placing this ponderous machinery, and so nicely is it adjusted and so smooth? ly does it work, I am told that a twelve-year-old girl can move any one of the heavy pieces with case with it. It would be well to say right here that only three of the five wheels mention? ed are put in now, as they are more than sufficient to run the fifty-five thousand spindle mill now being filled with machinery, three miles away at Pelzer, and the fact that everything is prepared to put in the others is a sure prophecy that another big mill will be built at Pelzer in the near future. From the large tubes which contain the wheels extend downward five large elbow-shaped iron flumes at an angle of about forty-five degrees to the wheel pit below, passing the water from the wheels through the arches and discharging it through the space between the stone piers spoken of above. Owing to the plan or princi? ple upou which the Victor wheel is constructed it is more desireaole to develop the force of suction rather than fall, a head of water of two feet accomplishing as much a hundred. The water discharged by wheels pass? es through flumes into the tail race. The tail race is 1,S00 feet long by 125 feet wide. Seven thousand cubic yards of earth covered with a heavy growth of timber and 12.000 cubic yards of stone were excavated from the tail race. This earth and stone constituted the whole of one and a large part of another large island. Just above these islands the dam is built. A large wire cable, supported by two immense towers, is stretched across the river, 100 feet above, just over the dam, for lifting the huge stones built into the dam. Besides all of this building, drilling, blasting and excavating, full three miles of railroad has been built and used in re? moving the debris from the excava? tions and in bringing ptoue from the quarries to the dam, all of which has been do?c sinec Sen+cmJier, 181)4, with a great deal of bad weather and rising of the river, especially during last winter and the past month. The work, as stated above, is beinp done by the Chapman Company. The im? perturbable, ubiquitous, argus-eyed, practical Major Briggs, one of the company, is directing this great work, and if any man in this now distracted State knows what he is doing or where he is at that man is Oscar Briggs. Un? der Major Briggs are several efficient and gentlemanly bosses. There is Frank Neal, a veritable tarhcel, over the blasting and excavating force? and he knows just where to stick a shovel or drill a hole in rock. Then there is Hughes, of Edgefield, in charge of an excavating, railroad building and general pioneering force. There is also the facetious, witty Dick Grant, a New England Irishman, in charge of steam drills?making in? numerable holes in the long lodges of rocks just to blow them out again. Then we have the volatile M. Fonier, a French Canadian, who is over the vast array of machinery in operation by this company, and knows everything from splicing a rope or rigging a der? rick to patching up a cable and run? ning or repairing an engine. Then there is the clinging Ivy, inspector of masonry; also the shining free Silva, though of Portuguese coinage, and as good as gold. Then there is vivacious, urbane Mercer, looking so much like a priest that one feels like making a general confession and asking full ab? solution when in his presence. He is bookkeeper and paymaster, and all the darkies smile at him when he passes by. Then there is the tactiturn Da? vis, of Columbia, S. C, who calls time on the laborers. And last, but not least, there is the portly Col. Chapman, as jovial as St. Nicholas, as witty as an Irishman and as pompous as a presiding elder of modern times. Indeed he is not very unlike the graceful wild turkey gobbler in symet rical shape, and is the only man ever through these parts who can strut ly? ing down. He comes around semi-oc casionally, holds conference with the force and is gone agaip before you have had a good look at his kind, healthful countenance, which pro? claims his big-heartedness. These gentlemen, one and all, have shown themselves to be high-toned, honora? ble gentlemen by their kindness and their obliging conduct to visitors and employes. As to their skill and ef? ficiency as contractors and builders, their splendid work on the Peicer dam speaks for itself. Employing the best skilled labor and using first-class material, they invite inspection and defy criticism. It would be well for anyone who is contemplating the erec? tion of costly buildings or expensive dams to invite bids by this company, as they are the best equipped con? tractors that have ever operated in this section, having over $30,000 worth of machinery, tools and appliances. H. M. Prince. Seven Reasons Wby a Man Should In sore His Lire. Some time ago the Mutual Life In? surance Company of New York, offer? ed a prize of $200 for the strongest article setting forth the reasons why a man should insure his life. There were over two hundred competitors participating in the contest, and while ?ome one else won the prize, Mr. F. H. Hyatt, of this city, had his article, which is as follows, highly commend? ed by the committee of judges, and it has been published in the corapany's weekly statement, under the caption "Seven reasons why a man should in? sure his life:" 1? In the first place, its puts him in better shape to do business, if he insures, for by so doing he is relieved of anxiety as to the welfare of his family in case of death. Therefore, being relieved of this anxiety, he is better prepared for the battle of life in every respect. 2? It protects his family, furnishes immediate relief, and keeps the wolf from the door in case of death. 3? It protects his estate, in case he dies, by furnishing ready money to meet urgent demands, as creditors all want their money as soon as a debtor dies, and often force sales in order to buy for less than the real value. 4? It strengthens his credit, as often a man might be able to borrow money if the lender knew he would live a few years and make the money to pay him back. So you see, if he insures and (in case he dies) this meets the objection, as the lender could collect out of the policy the amount due. 5? It provides to be a better savings bank than any other investment of deposit. After he pays the premium, he is compelled to pay the second, the third, fourth and so on, until a cer? tain time, for if he fails to make full payment he suffers a partial loss, and in order to prevent the loss, he is forced to make a special effort to keep up his policy to the end of the period, in order to reap the full benefit. By so doing he saves money which he would have withdrawn, had it been in tangible, if he was pressed to meet his bills. So, you see, a life policy forces a man to save money in self defense. Asithasbeen said, "a man cannotcut off the corner of his house to pay his bills," neither can he cut off a part of his policy to pay them. 6? A man ought to insure, because few men succeed in life, only about five out of a hundred. Thus there are about 95 per cent, of the men of this country who will leave their families in want if they do not insure their lives, as this is the only way in which they can be sure to leave a competency for their families, by simply taking a policy in some standard company, and keeping the premiums paid when due, as they can carry ten times the amount in this way that they can in any other. 7? A man ought to insure his life, because in case he should live to be old his policy, which is free from taxa? tion, will protect him in his old age? by converting the policy into cash, or taking an annuity for life, which makes him absolutely independent of the cold charity of the world. ? Age and youth were married at Virginia, 111., last week, in the mar? riage of William Patterson, aged (55, and Miss Matrgie Ilubbard, aged 18, both of Kushville. 111. ? It is said that the disagreeable creaking of a hinge can be stopped by rubbing a soft lead pencil into the crevices. It answers the purpose bet? ter than oil. ? Mr. Jacob Esbenscn, who is in the employ of the Chicago Lumber Co., at Des Moines, Iowa, says : ''I have just sent some medicine back to my mother in the old country, that I know from personal use to be the best medicine in the world for rheumatism, having used it in my family for sev? eral years. It is called Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It always does the work." 50 cent bottles for sale by Hill Bros, j All Sorts o! Faragrapbs. ? Men thank themselves for suc? cess, but curse fortune for failure. ? Queen Victoria never removes from her hand the three rings connected with her courtship and marriage. ? It is believed that camels arc the only animals that cannot swim. Just after entering deep water, they turn on their backs and are drowned. ? "Don't you think," asked the preacher, "that the editor can raise a . dollar for the organ ?" "I doubt it," replied the deacon. "He can't even raise a tune !" ? In the United States there are 2.800,000 stocks of beecs, which annu? ally produce 30,000 tons of honey, value, $4,140,000 : and 5,500 tons of wax, worth $2,475,000. ? From all accounts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a Godsend to the afflicted. There is no advertisement about this ; we feel just like saying it. ?The Democrat, Carrollton, Ky. For sale by Hill Bros. ? "You ought to have apologized to the lady for stepping on her foot," said his mother, after the caller had gone. "I did," answered Willie. "I told her I was sorry she couldn't keep her feet out of my way." ? The French may not have any word in their language for home, but Americans should keep quiet about it in view of the fact that more than half the French live and die in the place of their birth. The American who lives and dies in his native vil? lage is an oddity. ? G. M. Roberts and James Miller, stockmen, of Marshall, Mo., had a thrilling experience while driving in the country. Their buggy wheel ran over a huge rattlesnake, throwing it into their laps. However, both fell from the buggy, with the reptile, all scared alike. The snake escaped. ? One secret of the willow's mar? velous tenacity of life is to be found in the fact that it sends its roots a long way in search of moisture. It was discovered after an important aque? duct had caved in that its walls were cracked and filled for many feet with roots. These roots came from willows at least 30 feet distant. ? Chicago wholesale druggists are receiving their annual consignments of ginseng root from Michigan. Most of the root is gathered by Indians in the vicinity of Pokagon and shipped to Niles, where it sells for something like $3 per pound. In Chicago it brings from $5 to $6 per pound, and in China, to which a good deal of it is exported and where its virtues are held in the hightest estimation, it sells for about $15 per pound.? Chicago Tiviea-Herald. ? The only case on record where a man wanted to ;ead the Bible so badly that he went fur enough to steal one occurred at Nashville, Tenn., one day this week, when Henry Hammell, a laborer, attempted to make away with the Word of God, in morocco, from the bookstand of Andrews & Co. "I didn't mean anything wrong," Ham? mell said when arrested, "but just wanted to read the book and didn't have the money to buy one." He will be released. ? Louisiana claims the honor of having within her dominions the old? est person now living in this country, if not in the world, in the person of George Brown, colored, a native of Virginia, who boasts of 131 years and of having acted as a servant of George . Washington. He claims to have fre? quently blacked the boots of and lighted cigars for the Father of his. Country. He has a certificate from. Ed. Cronigan, his former master, cer? tifying that he was born in 1764. ? English, Ind., physicians are puzzled over the case of the eight-year - old daughter of Fred Ispwellen. Four years ago the child ceased to grow, and her parents believe she is now dwindling away. Up to her fourth year she was unusually bright and healthy. She has lost all power of locomotion, and with the exception of her bright, sparkling eyes she looks like a withered old woman. The physicians believe it is a case of ossification of anchylosis. The child neither cries laughs nor speaks. ? Recently Captain Mason, of Way Key, Fla., was standing on the porch of his hotel, when an elderly lauy came out of the building. The rain had been falling aud consequently the middle of the street was wet. "I should like to get across there with? out wetting my feet," said the ladf!^ "I can help you across," the captain responded. "Oh, dear ! I shall feel so much obliged to you," the lady said : "my feet have not been wet for 20 years." "For heaven's sake, ma? dam," said the captain, "don't show them to me." ? Every watchmaker knows that the human frame is an excellent mag? net. A man will carry a watch for years and be proud of its accuracy. Then he will fall ill, the watch will lie on the mantelpiece or on the chest of drawers and will develop great inaccuracy and unreliability. The only explanation given is that the absence of magnetism upsets the time announced, and the best proof of this is that when the man recovers and takes his watch it soon gets right again. No two men appear to have the same magnetism in thir frames, and it is seldom that two can use the same watch satisfactorily. ? It appears that, after all, the sleep sluggard is a very rare being. The man who does intellectual work and exhibits what his friends think a disposition to oversleep is merely obeying a healthy instinct. The pop? ular notion that a. man who works with his head, yet sleeps for nine hours, is a sluggard, is popular non? sense. No one whose brain is active and who does not drink ever sleeps more than is good for him. Sleep is a delight till you have had enough of it, but five minutes beyond that point it becomes a bore. Nobody sleeps twice around the clock, or, even once, unless impelled by exhaustion?for which, again, sleep itself is the best and the most natural remedy. ? While the family of Mr. Oswald Alexander, of Pinevillc, N. C, were at breakfast Monday morning, a bot? tle of catsup that was on the table burst with a loud report, breaking almost every dish on the table and throwing pieces of glass with great force and scattering victuals in all directions. One piece of glass struck Mr. Alexander above the eye, making an ugly wound. One of Mr. Alexan? der's lit$e children was sitting on the floor in an adjoining room playing with a smaller child, and a piece of glass struck it on the cheek with sufficient force to knock it over and cut a bad gash in its face. The catsup was in an ordinary patent stopper beer bottle. The noise of the explosion was as loud *s the report of a shot-gun.