The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, November 13, 1895, Image 1
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