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BY CLINKSCALES~& LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOTJEMBEK 13, 1895. VOLUME XXX.- -NO| IS the thought of most every Man und Boy. You want Clothes that are Stylish, that Fit; ami then you don't want too much price added on. In view of these facts we bought our Stock of Clothing, and wc are prepared to fit up anybody. Wc cau fit you Slim Suits. We can fit anybody who are long and slim, having Fants 30-inch waist by 36-inch in seam. If you can't get fitted elsewhere call on us. In Slim Suits wc cau give you a splendid all wool Cheviot in blue, black or brown for only 87.50? Meu s Suits. In this de? partment we bought heavily, buying twice as many goods as last season, but we must say candidly we sell them easier than ever before in our business career. A good Suit for 83.00. A better one for 85.00, and on up t) 820 00. BOY SUITS. This is cut pet Department, and our Mr. Evans this season overdid himself. He bought, and bought, and bought, until wc filled up completely. Seeing he had bought too many, he said : "Well, the only way I know to get rid of 'em is to make prices that will move 'em." The consequence is we have had the best trade in Boy Suits we have ever had, doubling our sales of last seasoD so far. A good Suit for 75c, and on up to 85.00. In conclusion wc want to say that we want trade?your trade? and if there is anything we can do to get it, just let us know. Yours truly, B AN UP TO DATE GROCERY STORE WE?"the boys"?call tbe attention of thn Ladies to the fact that we have just rroeived a fresh line of BUCKWHEAT, 0ATM BAL. FLAP J ACK FLOUR. FARINA and ROLLED WHEAT. Also, this season's RAISINS CUR? RANTS, CITRON and MINCE MEAT. We handlest. Louis FINE CANDIES, and have junt received the lanrest assortment ever shown in the city. CLEMSON COLLEGE FULL CREAM CHEESE?b+st In ba had?always on band. Ask to see our 5 pound Coffee, and don't forget we give S lbs Soda for *.'5c ?9" We have put in a Phone for the benefit of llu> Ladies, and would be pleased to have them call up No. 70. Will be p'ad to attend to any business for them through our Phone when they don't want to come to the city. Very respectfully, ??the bovs." {RUSS ELL & BREAZEALE. Phone \'o. 70. Free and prompt City Delivery. CHAS. T. BALLARD, Pred?er.t. S. THRUSTON BALL ARD, Sec. BALLARD & B?LLARD CO. (INCORPORATED.) Daily Output 1500 Barrels of Flour! LOUISVILLE, KY., Oct. 17,1S95. To whom it may Concern : This is to certify that BROWXLEE & VANDIVERS are at present our only customers in Anderson, South Carolina. They buy from the Mill direct, in Car lots, and are thus able to sell to the trade at very close prices. Our Flours are recognized as Standard, and are of the highest quality. We guarantee every package to be absolutely pure, and free from adulteration of any kind. BALL ARD & BALLARD CO., By CHAS. T. BALLARD, Pres. Oct 23, 1895_17_4_ Below we mention a few Goods on which. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY! Doors, Sash and Blinds, Builders Hardware of all kinds, Syracuse Turning Plows, Syracuse Subsoil Plows, Rubber Belting Leather Belting, Machinery Supplies, Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Inspirators, &c. Sporting Powder, Blasting Powder, Shot, Loaded Shells, &c. When in the market for any of the above named Goods, or any? thing in the Hardware line, you will do well to inspect our stock and get our price before you buy. Y'ours truly, PROPHYLACTIC?" Preventive of Disease." THE PROPHYLACTIC TOOTH BRUSH! Unlike other Brushes in Construction, Use and Results. IT CLEANS TI-IE TEETH! - ITOIi SALE 15V - ORR & SLO^ljNT. IIB 1 ? ??1 mi ?? i ?mi ill ii ? i i in nil ii ? i mm ii mi in mimwi um If you want to see Pretty Things, in Endless Variety drop into that eweiry raiace Next Door to Farmers and Merchants Bank. BRIDAL PRESENTS.BIRTHDAY PRESENTS, World without end, and at PRICES that will make yon SMILE. I have certainly bought the large*! ??'.u'. pn-t;:?>( St vk ever ? ?potted up in this City No trouble to find wh it y<> i w int. NOVELTIES BY THi. CART LOAD. ! A visit to my Store will knock lb* Wu?-s sky Ir-.di. ENGRAVING FREE. ?S?fc. No tronblH In .*ln>w flood---. Eight-day Walnut Clocks $2.00: ?ILL ARP'S LETTER. Arp Takes In Ihi Free Parade ond He Moralizes. A Hanta Constitution. 1 witnessed the great street pageant of Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" show. I suppose there were 50,0(10 people who did the .same thing. That much was free, and quite enough for inc. Somehow I have lo.?t my appetite for circuses ami other spectacular amuse? ments. The time was when 1 never missed ?nie if I could help it: but now I prefer to see things that provoke thought instead of smiles. The won? ders of the exhibit? in the exposition, the progross of mankind in the arts and sciences till the mind with plcas ant contemplation. When the tele? graph wires first reached our town we felt sure that there was nothing else to invent or discover; that nothing more was needed. But so many won? derful and useful things have piled up on us since, that now wc live in a state of expectancy. What will come next? When I was a boy we studied a philosophy which said that the load must be near the power, and there was a picture of a horse trying to pull a bag of sand by a rope that was 100 yards long?and he couldn't move it. Now wc read that the power from the electric plant at Niagara is soon to pull all the boats on the great Erie canal, and the thousands of horses and mules are to be discharged from their monotonous service. More than this?wc read that this same power is soon to supcrcede all other powers in loading and unloading the vessels in New York harbor. If this power can reach New York from Niagara, why not reach across the continent? How long before all our railway trains will be moved by it? There is suffi? cient water power right here near Car tersville to operate a plant that would move all the wheels in Georgia. The children now at school will live to laugh at the simplicity and stupidity of their fathers and grandfathers just as I now smile at the recollection of the time when my father kept a flint and steel and a piece of punk in a little tin box and would strike a spark and light a candle when he wanted a light in the night. It is funny to think of the time when there were no matches. What would these cigarette boys do without matches? Every decade brings cheaper meth? ods and more comforts. The old rule that Adam .Smith taught us in his "Wealth of Nations" was that provi? dence had wisely ordained that the labor of one man would easily support eight persons, meaning himself and wife and six children. But he was'nt counting on $0 shoes for the boys aud $10 hats aud balloon sleeves for the girls and a college education for both. The labor of the average man will not support eight persons now, for not? withstanding the cheapness of things our wants arc increased ten-fold. Stephen Girard said that the way to get rich was to buy nothing that you are not obliged to have, but we reverse the maxim and buy too many things wc are not obliged to have. While in the exposition I did want to buy a lot of those beautiful alumi? nium wares for my wife, for she does love pretty things and tine things, but I didn't have the money. T let her look at them and only bought her a pepper box. Now, that reminds me of our trouble in the South. That aluminium clay is all about in our hills and is being mined and shipped every day to Pittsburg, and there it is reduced and manufactured and the products come back to us with two freights and big profits added. Just so with our manganese and ochre and lumber and hides and most of our cot? ton and wool. We have got to manu? facture our own materials or wc will never catch up. But wc arc making good progress in iron and cotton, and maybe the other plants will come along in time. I learn that SO per cent, of that aluminium clay is wasted and thrown away in the process of reduction. Just think what a saving of freight there would be if we could reduce the metal at the mines. Wc would soon be the richest people on the earth if wc could manufacture our own materials. The labor is here, but it is idle. Our boys arc willing but they can't find employment. It is astonishing how rapidly wealth increases when labor is rewarded. Look at a ruined State like Georgia was in ISO") and now sec what thirty years have done. Look at the expo? sition that has been planted with the money from one city and is now the wonder of the nation. Where does all this money come from? Verily, it looks like Aladdin's lamp has come down to us?and yet almost everybody is complaining of hard times. I've been reading Joseph us again and I don't understand how Solomon got all his money, for David was at war with somebody most all his life. Joseph us says that silver was as plentiful in .Jerusalem as the stones in the street. The temple was overlaid with gold and cost millions of dollars. Herod sent a little present of ten millions of drachmae to Ciesar. Ilyrcanus sent ten thousand talents of gold. The Pharaohs built the pyramids for their own tombs and one of these took 100, UOU men thirty-seven years to complete it and it cost five hundred millions of dollars and is not worth a cent to any? body. The Aztecs, of .Mexico, built some just as large. The ruins of them arc still there and historians say they had idols on their tops that were thirty feet high and made of solid gold There is a cathedral now in the City of Mexico that cost sixty millions of dollars. What a vast amount of money has been made from the beginning down to the present time. Mankind began early to hunt for gold, for Moses says in the second chapter of Genesis that the gold of that land around Eden was good, and I reckon old Adam dug for it and molded it and jingled it in his pocket, lie never wore fig leaves Inn;:. John Kimx, in his Geneva edition of the Bible, an edition that lasted fifty years and was very popu? lar, says that Adam ami Kve. when they knew that they were'naked, made f??r themselves "breeches," and so, of rour.se, they bad pockets to carry their money in. < Od Mother Ivve wore breeches then, and her offspring, the new woman, gut her fashion right straight from the garden of Kdcn. What will I?r. Hawthorne say about tint ? But silver came along in due time. Abraham brought the cave of Maepc lah and paid I'm shekels "f silver, current money with the merchant. It was let ruined, for he weighed it. I reckon it was granulated like we used to buy gold ball' a century ago. My fatlo r was a merchant.and bought a greal deal "I fine gold from the min < i- and mo-S of \' was:? goose 'juil's. The *i'ii 1! w"'; fran?paren! Rnfl hfl m little wooden stopper, and a good large one held about id') worth. .Jo scphus says that in his day gold and silver were coined and stamped. It was roughly done, 1 reckon, for I have a coin that is 1,000 years old, and it has Constautinc on one side and two Kornau lictors on the other; and it is a rough job. Aluminium would make a beautiful coin, and with the govern? ment stamp would be a handier coin than silver, for it is not half so heavy. It is the stamp that Axes the value. Iron and copper were used by the Greeks and Hornaus just as wc use nickel now. What a rumpus this question of cur? rency has raised, and it came upon us this time so sudden and unexpected. Where all the gold is I don't know, for I never sec any of it. Nobody but the bankers and the United States treasury have any use for it, 01 any? thing to do with it. It travels hack and forth across the water in bags and boxes and settles the balances of trade with the banks and the merchant princes, and that is what it is for, I reckon. I hav'nt seen but one piece in two years, and that wasn't mine. What good it is doing locked up in vaults I don't know, but I reckon it is all right. Pope said whatever is is right, and so I don't worry. We still live and arc out of jail, and there is peace and harmony in the household? and that is a bigger thing than gold or silver. Hill, AitP. Triple! Brothers. The visit of R. J. and T. L. Gibbs, of North Carolina, to W. W. Gibbs, a prominent mechanic of Atlanta, this week brought together three brothers who arc triplets, and the two North Carolina brothers have not seen the Atlanta brother for twelve, years. The brothers arc (12 years old, and in every respect they resemble. Iu height and weight they arc the same, and it is with difficulty they can be told apart. During their younger days when they were boys, and wore the same kind of clothing, their near? est neighbors were unable to tell one from the other. They arc six footers, and are all men of heavy build and strong physique. They are all mechanics by trade, though only one has continued in this profession. The other two, who live in Wilkes County, North Carolina, after laboring fifteen years as mechan? ics, branched off into farming, in which pursuit they are still engaged. The third brother, Mr. W. W. Gibbs, is well known as one of Atlanta's most highly respected and thorough me? chanics, he having been in charge of the building of many of this city's most prominent residences. The Gibbs family is a remarkable one. There are six in the family? five boys and a girl. The triplets arc the babies of the family, and have enjoyed the best of healthful] their lives. Their mother lived to 'jo !>4 years old, only dying last June. She was always a healthy and strong wo? man, and knew but few sick days dur? ing her 94 years. The father of the triplets died while they were young, although he was a man of robust con? stitution. The triplets lived at Wilkesboro, N. C, 2? years, and during all this time the three were inseparable. They realized the closeness of their relation, and where there was one the other two were near at hand. They lived this peaceful, contented life until the war broke out. and for the first time, for any length of time, the three were separated. Two of the triplets were in active field service in the Confederate army all through the war, while the third was detailed for home guard. All during the four years of strife these brothers seldom met, and it is said by their comrades who knew the love of the triplets for each other that they were troubled more from being apart than by the bullets that fell around them. W. W. Gibbs was in company B, Brooks troup, Hampton legion, and passed through the entire war without receiving a sear. R. J. Gibbs served in company F, Thirty-seventh North Carolina infantry, received a slight wound at the battle of Chancellors ville, and was a prisoner for 19 months. T. L. Gibbs served in the home guard, but was frequently called on, as their home was iu the thickest of the fight. After the war the brothers worked together at their home for several years. Finally two decided to go to farming, and the third came to Atlan? ta and pitched his tent, where he has since resided, doing well in business. For the first time in twelve years the triplets met in Atlanta this week. They are still the same, and only by careful observation could the one liv? ing in Atlanta be told from the other two. The two who are farming have adjoining farms in the same county iu North Carolina. Their visit to At? lanta was to see the other brother and the exposition. Their striking resem? blance was the subject of much com? ment in the city. It was a case of "Three J'romios."?Atlanta Constitu? tion. Why the HiifTulo had to (hi. General Nelson A. Miles, in writing about the wholesale killing of buffalo, says : ''After the hides were removed the carcass would be poisoned in many cases, some yearling buffalo being gen? erally selected, and next morning there might be found -10 or fit) dead wolves lying scattered around, victims of the strychnine. In this way the large game was rapidly destroyed, to? gether with countless numbers of wolves that had thrived only by prey? ing upon them. This might seem like cruelty and wasteful extravagance, but the buffalo, like the Indian, stood iu the way of civilization and the path of progress, and the decree had gone forth that they must give way. It was impossible to herd domestic stock in a country where they were con? stantly liable to be stampeded by the mowing herds uf wild animal*. The same, territory which a quarter of a century ago was supportingtho.se vast herds of wild game is now sustaining millions of domestic animals which afford the food supply to hundreds uf millions "f people in civilized coun? tries." Statk or Ohio, Pitvof Tom no. I l.v?'Afl Pocsi r, I FkaSK .1. ('IIIMRY innkrs r>ath INp.I li" is tho <k>ninr pariser of ill" firm of I". .1. ( nr.yF.^ .1 , diihii; lni.iiiieM iu ihr < ity ol Toledo, I'oiuity ami Stati.' afttrvMMl, ami that Kahl firm trill pay the Him of i iNK Ht NI'UKli I?dm.ar.s for each ami (?vpry car- "?f i ?tarrii that rannol In*.rural hy Ihc tilt' "t Hall's Cai ?tum i'vkf. KRANK .1. rilKNEV. Sworn to li?for<' m? ami piitocrilivd in my pres nni-c, thi-. Uli 'lay at hecomhur, A. I? l^C. sual a. W til.I ASON, Xvtrtry I'nhlit. Hall':' Catarrh''ur?! Is takoti ittli'riially ami acts iliriTtlt on thi< t.!.I ami murous surfaces of ii" Soti'l f'>r tosiimonial*, fr?*n V. .1 ' IIESKV, ?* CO.,Toledo,<? 169,449,251 DOLLARS. The Total Amount of Taxable Property in the State. yen s and Courier. CoU'MWA, November 2.?The {'um] has been provided wherewith to pay the expenses of the Constitutional Convention, that is. if the expenses do not exceed $50.000, for that amount was covered into tlie State treasury this morning as profits from the dispensaries. Commissioner Mixson cave State Treasurer Hates a check for that amount, and in return receiv? ed the proper receipt. When asked what would be done with that mono Commissioner Mixson replied that it probably would be used to pay the ex? penses of the Constitutional Conven? tion. The money was taken from tin profits made from the dispensaries, and was turned over to the State Treasurer, as the Commissioner ha. no use for it, having sufficient funds besides on which to run the business. All of the State officers arc busy preparing their annual reports to the Legislature. The clerks in each de? partment are kept busy, and all of the reports will soon be in shipshape. The report of the Secretary of State will show a wonderful advance in tin State industrially. Complete extracts cannot now be given, but enough is given to make a most agreeable show? ing to the people of the State. The report will show that charters wen issued this year to corporations with an aggregate capital stock of $5.2 700, as against $2,010,700 for 1S94. In other words, the capital invested in industrial enterprises in the State for the year ending October 81, 1805, was more than twice as much as was so invested for the year ending Octo? ber 31, 1894. There has been a won? derful increase in cotton manufactur? ing enterprises, and the figures given will surpriso even those who have been watching the development of this in? dustry. In ISO 1 five cotton manufacturing en? terprises were chartered in the State, with a capital stock amounting to $Ki5,0U<). In 1805 twenty cotton manufacturing enterprises were char? tered, with a total capitalization $2,705,000. Six times as much money was invested in cotton manufacturing in 1S05 as was so invested in 1894. This docs not include the capitaliza? tion of those mills now under process of organization, or rather those to which commissions only have been issued. The figures given apply only to those which have been regularly chartered, nearly every one of which ir; now in operation or is in process of building. While no comparative data arc at hand it is safe to say that South Carolina will again be the banner State in the matter of increasing her cotton manufacturing facilities. The Comptroller General is hard at work upon his report, which is requir? ed to be in the hands of the printer on November 10. lie calls attention to the following extract of an Act of 1893 : "Each department of State or any person having printing done at the expense of the State is required to report to the Comptroller General the cost of printing so done for such de? partment or person, and such amounts are to be included in a table which shall be included into the annual re? port of the Comptroller General." Under this Act Comptroller General Norton construes all printing done for Clemson College, the Citadel, the South Carolina College, Winthrop Normal College, the institution for the J>eaf and Dumb, the State Peni? tentiary, and such other like State institutions should report all printing done for them, and as none of these institutions have yet made a report he will not be able to include in his re? port such a table as is contemplated by the Acts. He would like these institutions, and all others, and all persons who have had any printing done at the expense of the State to report the same to him at once, as within eight days more he will be re? quired to have his report in the hands of the printer. The following table, which will ap? pear in the report of Comptroller Gen? eral, shows the total amount of all taxable property in the State given by counties : Abbeville.$ 6,920,790 Aiken. 5,900,541 Anderson. 0,013,011 Baruwcll. 0,452,555 Beaufort. 3,542,53!! Berkeley. 5,205,000 Charleston. 20,500,872 Chester. 3,700,228 Chesterfield. 1,472.810 Clarendon. 2,579^450 Colleton. 4,308,1 Id Darlington. 3,708,781 Kd'.'efield. 0.252,000 Fairfield. 3,032,825 Florence. 3,353,411 Georgetown . 2,012j005 Greenville . 0,798,705 Hamilton. 2.289j497 Ilorry. 1.550,571 Kershaw. 2.803,520 Lancaster. lj093.030 Laurens. -1,200.77s Lexington. 3,429,120 Marion. 4.323,407 Marlboro. 2.029,310 Newbcrry. 4,733.035 Oconco. 2,700,84-1 (Irangeburg. 0,709,485 Pickens. 1,932,148 Kichland. 7,393,352 Spartanburi;. 11,170,230 Sumter... 0,220,470 Union. 3.144,150 Williamsburg. 2.728,033 Vork. C1220.390 Totals.$109,449,251 The following table gives the total State taxes assessed against each county in the State : Abbeville.$ 31.113 Aiken. 20.822 Anderson. 29,701 Barnwell. 29.030 Berkeley. 23.-I22 Beaufort . I5.?II Charleston. !?2,2S0 Chester. lOi'.i-tS Chesterfield. 0;t527 Clarendon. Ilj0ll7 Colleton. 10.057 Darlington. I0.O.7.I Kilgcftcld. 28.131 Fairfield. 1H.:'. 17 Florence. I "?.?>:?:? Georgetown. 0,050 Greenville. 30.5!11 Hampton. I0;302 Hurry. f..077 Kershaw. 12.i?|5 Lancaster. 8,97-1 Laurens. IS.'.M | Lexington 15.-131 Marion. 10.455 Marlboro. II,Sil Newbcrry. 21.301 Oijunce... 12.153 Orangebura . 30~4?'.2 hvkena. 81091 Riehland. 33.271 Spai tanburg. 50t25i S uintcr. 20,90; ITnion. 14,1-1 Williamshurg. ... 12.27i Vc-I:. ?_?:.!'!?! otalf I he following tab taxes collected in eac Statu for 1895 and f.>r Abbeville.... A iL.mi. Andcrson.. . Harnwell.. .. Beaufort Berkeley . . ('harle>ton.. Chester. Chesterfield. (Harendon... (Colleton. Ha Hi tie ton .. Kdge?cld.... Fairfield. Florence. Georgetown.. <! rccnvillc.. . Haui]iton 1 lorry. Kershaw. Lancaster.. .. Laurens. Lexington.. . Marion. Marlboro.... Newberry Oeonec. < Irangcburg.. Diekens. Hichland.... Spartanburg., Smuter . ITnion. Williamsburg Vork. es give b count IS!M : l -!?:>. ! 1.583 ?L I Ml 5.1 i:; 5.5 is 1. hit r?.ii it; 0.059 ::. ir?i 2,522 5.155 1.352 o.3io 4.021 2,737 2,808 5..") i IT 2.2S3 2,578 3.171 2. HIS 5.1117 3.350 3.011 3,021 3.713 2.270 5.00] 2,103 5.175 8.802 7.084 3.077 3.101 5,031 $70i\3l." the HI y in the $1.5 IS LI Ii 1.700 5.820 3.085 ."?. I 2.70* 125 5.135 1.190 7.020 3.83-1 2.1'.50 L.i i.' 5,79r 2.39! 2,03-1 2,825 2.014 1.710 3,0-12 3,108 3,272 3.0t 13 2.2H5 5.S42 1,907 5.700 7.S00 0,320 2.S20 3.107 1.805 Total? Ulilklng Machine. Milkmaids have a dangerous rival. A man has built a milking machine. From time immemorial the cow has switched her tail, kicked over the milk pail and been mistress to a certain extent of all she contained. Hut hereafter she will have to accommo? date herself to a labor-saving device which will pay little regard to her feelings in the matter. This milking machine has been in? vented in Scotland. It is said to work perfectly. It is known as the "Thistle," and an English farm paper ssaj'S of it: ' The most successful milking ma? chine yet invented was recently shown at the Darlington fair, where it at? tracted more attention than any other novelty on exhibition. The machine has been so thoroughly tested by ex? perts that it is now considered to be almost perfect, and it has given much satisfaction as to warrant the erection of large works for the manu? facture of the machinery. Its con? struction is based on the principle of suction produced by vacuum in a teat cup, which, pressed against the teat of a cow. extracts the milk, which u carried off to a receiving pail. While the teat is drained of its milk air en? ters the cup, allowing the former pressure to relax.and the teat is again filled with milk from the udder. Va? cuum is once more created in the teat cup, which again collapses, pressing out the milk into the tube, and it then passes to be received as before. The exhaustion is, of course, efFccted by means of an air pump, which can be worked by the motive power mustcon vcuicnt. "The teat cup is by far the most important part of the machine. Great difficulty was experienced in manu? facturing the cup on account of the complications of movement required in imitating the calf's lip and tongue, special machinery having to be manu? factured for this alone. These teat cups are about the size of an ordinary urine glass, are made of flexible india rubber and are adapted to any cow. :'The four cups join at the bottom, with a tube attached long enough to carry the milk to the glass cylinder or trap on the top of the pail. Another tube connects this glass trap with the exhaust pipe running overhead. When the cups arc placed on the teats and the exclusion of air is complete the milk begins to flow, not. in a continu? ous stream. but intermittently, streaming into the glass receiver with each respiration of the pulsomctcr, just as it would do when the hand closes on the teat in the act of milk? ing, the momentary interval between each stroke being exactly the same "By aid of the class receiver the attendant is enabled to see when the milk ceases to flow, and then removes the cup- at once. Should the suction go on, however, after the milk ceases to flow, no injury will be done. This has been fully borne out by practical experiment. It is also worthy of note that the milk 'froths' up in the pail just the same as if dune by hand. The friction is so gentle that the cows seem to enjoy being milked by it. "A hand machine for four cow? with a woman and a hid, is capable of milking thirty cows in less time than four women can do it. Larger ma? chines are being fitted to milk large numbers at a time. j lie most obvious advantage to be derived from a milking machine lies in the fact that a large number of cows can be milked with the employ? ment of but few hands. This is a matter of greater importance in dairy? ing than in most other lines where machinery is sought to be introduced, because, while in other lines it may cheapen production, in dairying the number of cows that can be kept i limited by the number of bauds that can be kept busy on the farm outside of the milking hour. "An additional advantage is the absolute cleanliness that is possible with a properly constructed machine, it being admitted that even the most strictly clean and careful hand-milker: cannot entirely keep impurities from the milk."?AI !<? IV/. MVA/. How to Prevent Croup. S".Mi: ItE.VMNti THAT WIM, PltOYK INTMlF.STIXtl TO V??l*X?i MnTIIKKS. IIiiW 'I" Ii I'Alt h AliAIXST TIIK hl.SKASK. Croup is a terror to young-mothers and I" post them concerning tlie can*e, first symptoms and treatment is the object of this item. The origin of crop i- a common cold. Children who are subject t" it take cold very easily and croup is almost suit.' to follow. The first symptom is hoarseness : this is soon followed by a peculiar rough cough, which is easily recognized and will never be forgotten by one who has beard it. The time t" act is when the child first becomes hoarse. If ('haiiiberlaiti's I 'oiigli Beiuedy is freely given all Leiidciiey to croup will soon disappear. Kveii after the croupy Cough has developed it will prevent the attack. There i- no danger in giving thi- remedy, foi ii contains noihiiiL' :!iiuii"0? Kor sab; Hill >Iail>{ olios. < 'no of the widespread delusions of modern times is to he found i:i the implicit faiih which thousands of p< ?? pie, educated and otherwise, place in the so-called "inadstoncs." Kwry medical practitioner in the world would rejoice to know that sin h stones were really efficacious, and that their re? puted virtue-; could be relied 111?> 11 to rid the human system of the hydro phobic germ. Vet it is a fact beyond dispute tliat as remedial agents they are unknown to the world of science. Sensational literature for the period covering the past i'00 years contains many references to the substances popularly known as "inadstoncs." and many wonderful stories are told concerning their real >?r imaginary virtues, yet they -till remain unrecog? nized by the medical fraternity. Men who have devoted months and years tu a careful and painstaking study of the madstone with all the facilities and appliances for testing them which modern science commands, frankly state that such stones possess no cur? ative powers whatever: and further, that the owners and operators of such charmed bits of the earth's stony structure, or of pellet-like concretions found in animal bodies, as the case may be. are either kind-hearted, super? stitious people, with a desire to du the afllictcd a kindness, or brazen frauds and charlatans, who live by preying upon the public Cyclopedias and hand? books of reference in general utterly ignore the madstone, but refer rather gingerly to the supposed virtues of the "hezor," which appears to be a scientific name for the alkaline concre? tions occasionally, but rarely found in the stomachs, intestines and bladders of deer, antelopes, goats and other animals of that ilk. I find one exception to this general silence mi the subject of inadstoncs, as exhibited by the reference books, but it is an account not at all calcu? lated to enlighten inquisitive human? ity. It is found in the little "Diction? ary of Hare and Curious Information," complied by Prof. RobertThornc, and is as follows: ''.Madstone is a light, porous stoncof agreeuishcolor, which is said to possess the property of drawing the venom from the bite of a dog or other animal afllictcd with hy drophobia. They are ?mite rare, be? im: only occasionally found in the South." The above citation, which is Prcf. Thome's "madstone" article in full, does not contain sufficient enlighten? ment to make it of any particular value, more than to show that the ideas which professors and public alike entertain on the curious subject of madstone., arc rather crude, dim and misty. In the encyclopedia articles which bear the catch titles of "hezor" or "bezors" we are informed that such substances arc nodules of precipitated salts and other alkaline matter which generally have for their nucleus some small indigestible substance taken into che stomachs of the class of ani? mals referred to above, or which has found its way into the bladders of the same family of ruminating creatures. When such indigestibles once find lodgement in the organs of animals they gather layer after layer of phos? phate of ammonia or magnesia, and occasionally superphosphate of lime, and thus become pebbles varying in size according to the number of years it has to take on concentric layers before being discovered by the death and subsequent dissection of the crea? ture in whose body it was formed. One fact is very noticeable in all ex? pert articles on bezors: They invari? ably close with the words: '"They are particularly valued by the ignor? ant ami b*.. ??rstitious on account of their imaginary medicinal virtues.'' M. Louis Pasteur, the eminent French specialist, and discoverer of the inocculation cure for the dread disease of hydrophobia, and such well known bacteriologists as Prof. Gicbicr, and Mrs. Ferran and Koch, have re? peatedly warned the public to repose no confidence whatever in inadstoncs, nor faith in the stories told of their wonderful cures. Such cures, our specialists say, are cures of the imagi? nation only, and are wrought upon persons who have never hud the poison of hydrophobia injected into their circulation. If one only pauses a moment to reflect on the subject he will be surprised that he has ever even partially believed in an idea so exces? sively absurd. .Iust think of it: We are told that such stones "draw" great clots of greenish virus from wounds inflicted by rabid animals, yet not a word is said about how it can possibly separate the poison from the blood without also "drawing" away a large quantity of that life-giving lluid. ?"The stone hangs on like a bulldog."' one account say-;, "seeming eager to Iii] its poies with the deadly virus." In another account we are told that "the stone literally buried itself in the flesh.'- when applied to a scratch made by the tooth of a rabid cat. Such accounts are wishy-washy in the extreme and worthy of no serious con? sideration whatever. The geological madstone is alto? gether different from the animal con? cretions considered in the foregoing. Not that they are any more efficacious as remedial agents when applied to wounds made by creatures afllictcd with hydrophobia, but because of their formation and structure. The weight of evidence concerning the geological madstone is to the effeel that it is a fossil coral of one of the early ages of the earth, and that it- cellular struc? ture causes it to adhere to any wound on the same principle as "cupping. A - in tin- case of the bezors or animal mad-tones, there i.- no trustworthy evidence that the application of one of these bits of rock has ever effected a cure. In order-to make this article properly conform with it-heading. I give below a li-t of well-known uiadstotlCS ami the address id' the owner of each. This li.-t is the rcsull of years of pa? tient clipping and indexing of u -w.? pa? per files, and will doubtless be appre? ciated by those who "believe in mad stones.as well as by those who may desire to scrap-1.k this article be? cause of the prevailing scarcity of this class of literature : .1. G. Pringle, of Marlin. Tex., has a madstone ami a long li.-t of cures uliicli it ha- effected. I'r. McKinney. of Pinekneyville, Ind.. owns a madstone which he will match againsi a ease of hydrophobia. Captain J. I.. McCormick, of Knox vi lie, lo.. ha.- a genuine hezor st??ne almost as large as a man's lisl. The niosi noted Sue* -r Stale mad? stone was formerly own ' at Mloom. ('????k County. 111., bywe Charles Sanier. < >id settlers oj the pi;. mentioned may know the presch I ad drc?s of Sanier. .1 T Cooper, of bum! in. <'>.< . owns .: madstone which i;. Iiol ;? chaiH ,,}tl.i ,..) -:j,ik'; mid :;??"! dog Idles, but which cure- neuralgia, toothache. ??:?. The editor of the Nashville (Tenn. I Aiiii.ii'i'uti is in possession of a mad stone which has a record "i nearly in years of continued usefulness, during which lime it has cured dozens of rat? tlesnake bites'". Dr. I'. W. Harper, of Loekland. I >.. claims lhal he was onee cured of hydrophobia by the timely ap| !i. iliou nf a iiia<l>ioue in the possession of par lies li\ inn at liisinu Sun. Ind. Mrs. George White, of I i>k:il.a. lo.. i- the proud owner "f a madstoiie in the shape of a whitish, trray-colored. porous-looking -tone, which she ob? tained in Scotland 550 years ago. The famous ''Piper Mad-tone" i owncd by a family <.f that name, who reside in Torre Ilaute. Ind.. and there are hundreds of happy lloosiers who are willing to testify on oath tu the ellieacv of that valuable little shine. Mrs. .J. M. Darksof this city(streci and number nol known.) has a line madstoiie which she say- is sure to elfect a cure if applied before convul? sions set in. It was found several years ago by her husband at Magnesia Springs, Fla. T. M. Orion, of Denver, a little vil? lage near Carthage, III., is the owner of a madstoiie with which he has sue cessfully operated upon scores of pco pie. Among the eures effected the most remarkable was that of Hitch Mice, of Piper City, 111. The best known madstoiie now at the command of the hydrophobia vic? tim of the South belongs to the family of ex-Governor Walker, of Tallehassec, Fla. It is about an inch in length, of a grayish color, and with a greed for rabic poison which is characteristic of all such stones. John Nelson of Savannah. Mo., has a madstonc which is said to have the most wonderful record of '"cures'' of any similar talisman in the State. Since it has been in operatian the mad dogs of Northern Missouri and South? ern Iowa have bad no show at all. J. M. Kstes of (Jceola, Clark Coun? ty, lo., is the owner of a madstoiie which he is ready to defend with his pen at any time. It is a little bczor. which in day-gone by worked miracles in the States of Virginia and Ohio. For many years the most noted madstonc in the Mississippi Valley belonged to Turner Fvans of Paris, Linn County, lo. I understand that of recent years it has been so frequently boiled in milk to elimnate absorbed rabic virus that it has been rendered unfit for use. One of the most noted madstones now owned in this State is in the pos? session of the family of the late Stephen Smith, who live on the Man? chester road, between this city and Sutton Station. It is about the size of a hen's egg, and is said to resemble apiece of cake in texture, color and specific gravity.?.SV. fomis Republic. The Hieltest Nation. And now it is a French student of finance who adds his testimony to that of the eminent English statistician, that the United States is the richest nation in the world. Professor Francois has been writing for a Paris Magazine, Momli M?h rm. of the wealth of nations. According to this authority the United States has 25 per Cent, of the entire wealth of the world, or, to be more exact of the nineteen nations which have sta tististics from which sonic compulation can be made. According to Francois, the nineteen nations are worth, all told, the really inconceivable sum of 1,457,700,000,000 francs.or t?201,5SO,000,000. The Unit? ed States is credited with 313,000, 000,000 francs, or $02.000,000,000, leaving for all the rest I,tW,700,000. 000 francs. The second place is accorded to Kng irland, 205,000,000,000 francs: the third, France. 255.000.000.000 francs: fourth, Germany. 101,000,000,000 francs; fifth, Russia, 127,000.000.000 francs; sixth, Austria-Hungary, 82, 000,000,000 francs. All the rest com? bined do not equal the United States. This is pretty good for a nation which is only little more than a hun? dred years old. and, countingfrom the very inception of its life, less than three hundred years. Columbus had made Europe acquainted with the ex? istence of America more than one hundred years before any attention was paid to what is now the United States, except to search for the foun? tain of perpetual youth. If we have grown from Jamestown. Plymouth Kock, and Manhattan in so short a time, from nothing to the wealthiest member of the family of nations, it will not be so very long before the United States will be richer than all the rest of the world is today. What a responsibility this fact brings upon us as a professedly Christian nation. Will we use our wealth for Cod's glory in the extension of his kingdom?? Michigan Adrocafi. Legend of the "Moody Heart Apples." In Franklin County. Connecticut, and there only, if the writer has been correctly informed, are grown the famous '"cursed apple.-with the bloody core." They are locally known as '"Micah Kood Apples." and in every one there in a large red globule near the heart which bears a surprising re? semblance to a drop of blond. The legendary origin of this eerie and un? canny variety of fruit is told in the following tradition, which is known throughout New Kngbuid : 1 n the year 1003 Micall I!.1 was one of the most prosperous farmer- in the Colony of Connecticut. His suc? cess finally made him very Covetous and avaricious : so much so in fact that be spent hi- days and nights scheming t<> increase his wealth more rapidly, 'hie day a jewelry peddler -topped with Micah and was never -ecu afterwards. Next day the re? mains of the traveler with throat cat ami lo ad split was found buried under old Micah's favorite apple tri e. Old Micah stoutly denied any knowledge of the tragedy, and as there was no proof against him. the matter was soon dropped. Straightway, however. Kood became morose and never again prospered. That fall every apple on that favorite tree bad a heart swim? ming ill Id.I. Tin' p< Ople Wilggi d their bead- and declared that it was :i silent judgment sent on I!.1 for this murderous deed. Tin- uncanny ap? ple.- and the suspicion combined soon had the effect of causing the old man to pine away and die. The tree con? tinued t" bear bloody bear, ipples for more than 100 years a :.r Micah - death. The trees . of that variety which now llourish in Franklin Coun? ty are all front grafts el' the original "cursed tree" on Micah II.iI'aim. /. . n.-p?u;.'_ ?-iLi.nl advice : Never Lave home .?it :i journey without i bottle of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrh-a Kernel. For sal* bv Hil! Die.-. I All Sorts of IVtrnirrn])' I he next thing to havim; ourselves i ? t" profit by that of We v ouhl soon get rid were paid for all the useless^ ? New Vork harhers say rh ha\ e a number of regular worq tmuei - to be shaved. !f you should have jus you really deserved.?no more. ?would you be a- happy as now / According to a Herman seil a rise or tall of price in rerJ synonymous with a rise or f| crime. ? A man had five out <>f sis pi returned i" him which he dron-T Ncv Vork the other day t?test puld honesty. ? A first water diamond, engrave] with the figure of a two headed bull has been discovered by the excavatonj at Pompeii. ? Seme men forget all their prom? ises except their bad ones, which they always insi>t on keeping for the sake of their honor. ? Of every man and woman living to day at the ace of li.">. one out of twoj will live according to the tables, to bj ii."> years of ace. ? Small Nephew : "Uncle, why dj you always take a dog with you whej you go out shooting ? Arc you afrai? of the rabbits ?" ? Snakes are said to live to a verj old age. A large boa in London somJT time ago was estimated to be about 1,000 years old. ? A petrified frog found in an Al? bany (X. V.) stone quarry was two feet eight inches in length and weighed over 100 pounds. ? A Hungarian penman residing at Vienna exhibits a grain of wdieat. upon which he has plainly written .'.08 words, all properly punctuated. ? lie : ''Will you marry me ?" She: "Certainly." He: "Thanks. I was afraid you were going to say it was too sudden." She: "Itcouldn't be." ? The prime of life in a man of regular habits and sound constitution is from 30 to ;"> yer.rs of age; of a woman, from 24 0? 2") to about-10 years of age. ? To call a man a Herman spy is in Prance a sure way of securing his arrest, and it is said tobe the only ' form of calumny for which there is no legal redress. ? Voting Wife: "Before we were married. George, you never smoked in my presence." Voung Husband: "I know it. my dear: and youneverwore curl papers in mine.'' ? Between 300 and 400 persons are employed in making writingink in the United States, ami their yearly wages amount to between $300,000 and $400, 000. About the same number arc em? ployed in making printing inks. ? More than 100 canning factories have been started in North Carolina this year, and hereafter there will probably be great increase in the mini her of factories with each recurring fruit season throughout the whole South. ? The man who suspicions a bad motive as the inspiration of a good act. is a moral blow-fly. He is cood for nothing but to hunt up gajj and carrion. A man can; breathe easier when he gctst company of such. ? We can be thfjikfcl to a iriem for a few acres or little money ; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligations. ? One habitual borrower in a neigh? borhood is intolerable sometimes. He is one who will run to a neighbor for" a handfull of nails, a wrench, and for a hundred things which his bare thought ought, to have provided. The best rule is?never to borrow unless compelled by force of circumstances beyond your control. ? The word "dun" owes its origin to one doe Dun, a famous baiHff. in Lincoln in the time of Henry VII. He is said to have been so extremely shrewd in the management of his rough business, and so dexterous in the collection of dues, that his name became proverbial, and whenever a man refused to pay his debts, it grew into custom to say, ''Why don't you 'dun' him ?" ?? An exchange gives the following! definition of the word "cigarette,"' which is up to date and eminently correct: "A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco and drugs, with fire at one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief enjoyment.- are eon denscd nightmare-, fits, cancers of the lips and stomach, spinal meningitis, funeral processions and families shrouded in gloom.'' ? A teacher in the primary depart- - mcnt of a village school asked tho children to name the fruit each one liked best. I Inc liked peaches, anoth? er pears, a third grapes, and so on until a little fellow at the foot of the class was reached. Almost every kind of fruit known to juvenile minds had been named two or three times, but Tommy, with a smack of his lips in? dicated his choice by saying, "mashed latcrs.' ma nia''" ? We commend the following from John Wesley to all: "Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let everyone enjoy the full ami free liberty of thinking for himself. Letj ??very man use his own judj since every man must give an a7 of himself to Cod. If you canm persuade a man into the truth, ne attempt to force him into it. If will not compel him to come. Ieav' him to Hod. the judge of all. ? A lady living in Ohio is the mother of six boys. < >nc day a friend calling on lo r said : "What a pity that on.- of your boys hadn't been a L'irl." One .pf tbr boys about > years of age. overheard this remark, and promptly interposed : 'I'd like to. know who'.' ;i Kin 'er ; 1 wj bin 'er : Albert wouldn't a bin Phil wouldn't a bin \ r : dim woul a biir cr: Harry wouldn't a bin I lave wouldn't a bin "er : and 1 t" know who'd 'a bin 'er.'' The \\ifc of Mr. Leonard W ? ?I Ka.-t Brimticbl. Mass., had bccij suffering from neuralgia for two day, le t being able to -hep or hardly ki -till. wh< u Mr. Hold? n, the mcrchj there sent lo r a bottle of Chan lain'- Pain II,ihn. and asked that ci\<. it a thorough trial. < In nice ting Mr. Wi ll.- the next day he was told that she was all right, the pain had left her within two hours, and that tie bottle I Pain I! dm was worth $:;;?'?) if it couh! ii, : be had for less, i'i i sah ! cents per bottle v-y J?ii