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( I BYiOLTNKSC ALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25,1895. VOLUME xx: giving a man a PRESENT, give him something that's ELEGANT aBd-T3SEFUL. H^w about a Nice Umbrella ? i; $ We have just received a new line in all / the latest handles. A Good Gloria Silk for $2.25. We have others from $1.00 up to $5.00. 'ALL'NECKWEAR .In New and Elegant designs. A man never has too many. One in a box at $1.00?just the thing for a Present. A splendid line at 25c. and 50c. \ A nice: line of? MUFFLEBS, EiNDKEEQHIEFS, COLLABS, GuTFS, ' ANDSBIBTS. % Come'in and gaze. Yours truly, 3 1 MEANS TO SELL 1?O Fine Carriages, Buggies, Phaetons, -AT? ' x A.t Grreatly Reduced Pieces* From now until December 25th, SCSdl and see my Stock and get the Prices and yon will bay. .1 mean to sell a.'; the lowest for Standard Grade Goods ever offered in Anderson. This Reduction only holds good until Dec. 25,1895. J. S. FOWLER. HAVE YO!? SEEN We intend to make a run on Shoes from now until January 1st, 1898. JUST RECEIVED. Fifty Boxes Old Time Twist Tobacco, In 10 to 12 pound boxes, just the tblug -? for Xmaa Present to Father or Brother. Wo carry a full line of Staple Dry Goods, Heavy and Fancy Groceries. . In every department we give full value for every dollar spent .with us. D. P. SLOAN & CO. No. 4 Hotel Chiquola, ^OTJ will find a nice assortment of tbo latest "get up" In? - IX^A-S Q-OOTJS, Celluloid, AlnmiTinm and Cut Glass Which will please the eye as well as the purse. Go and make your selections AT ONCE. > Also, nice large boxes NUN*ALLY CAHDY, suitable for yonr best girl. FINE-EXTRACTS EVANS PHARMACY. 1 IT WIIX PAY YOIT! To drop in and see our Goods and get our Prices before parting with your hard-earned Cash, as we are in position to meet all competition, and will save you money on every purchase. "WE have a big Stock of Jeans, Flannels and Staple Dry Goods at TV prices tha; never fail to Bell. Also, a bisr Stock of SHOES, bought before the advance. All we have to do is to shojff oar Shoes and the prices do the rest. They are certainly going fast. We sell the most popular and reliable brands of FLOUft in Town. Cheaper than you have been paying for Inferior stuff. We.always sell the boat COFFEE. We can suit anybody on Tobacco, both in quality and price. Acids and Fertilizers on hand now. BB0WNLEE & VANDIVER8. 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 Beltine, 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 ing in the Hardware line, you will do well to inspect our stock and get our rice before you buy. Yours truly, brock: bros. A WORLD OF TROUBLE. I Rev. Dr. Talmage on the Petty Annoy? ances of Life. Washington, Dec. 15.?Dr. Tal? mage to-day chose for his discourse a theme that will appeal to most people ?viz, "The Petty Annoyanoes of Life." His text was, "The Lord thy God will send the hornet," Deuter? onomy vii, 20. It seems as if the insectile world were determined to extirpate the hu? man race. It bombards the graiofields and the orchards and the vineyards. The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska grasshopper, the New Jersey locust, the universal potato bng seem to carry on the work which-was begun ages ago when the inseots buzzed out of Noah's ark as the door was opened. ? In my text the hornet files out on its mission. It is a species of wasp, swift in its motion and violent in its sting. Its touch is torture to man or beast. We have all seen the cattle run bellowing under the out of its lancet. In boyhood we used to stand cautiously looking at the globular nest hung from the tree branch, and while we were looking at the wonderful cov? ering we were struok with something that sent us shrieking away. The hornet goes in swarms. Tc has cap? tains over hundreds, and 20 of them alighting on one man will produce death. * j ". The Persians attempted to conquer a Christian city, but the elephants and the beasts on which the Persians rode were assaulted by the hornet, so that the whole army was broken up and the besieged oity was rescued. This burning and noxious insect stung out the Hittites and the Ganaanites from their country. What gleaming sword and chariot of war could not accomplish was done by the puncture of an inseot. The Lord sent the"hor nets. My friends, when* we are assaulted by great behemoths of trouble, we be? come chivalric. and we assault them. We get on the high mettled steed of our courage, and we make a cavalry charge at them, and if God be with us, we come out stronger and better than when we went in. But, alas, for these insectile annoyances of life?these foes - too small to shoot?these things without any avoirdupois weight, the gnats, and the midges, and the flies, and the wasps, and the hornets ! In other words, it is the small, stinging annoyances of our life which drive us out and use us up. IS the best con? ditioned life, for some grand and glori? ous purpose, God-has sent the hornet. I remark, in the first plaoe, that these small, stinging annoyances may come in the shape of a nervous organ-1 ization. People who are prostrated under typhoid fevers or with broken bones get plenty of sympathy, but who pities anybody that is nervous ? The doc tors say, and the family say, and everybody says, "Oh, she's only a little nervous; that's all I" The sound of a heavy foot, the harsh clear? ing of a throat, a discord in music, a j want of harmony between tha shawl and the glove on the same person, a curt answer, a passing slight, the wind from the east, any one of 10,000 annoyanoes opens the door for the hornet. Tho fact is that the vast ma? jority of the people in this country are over-worked, and their nerves are the first to give out. A - great multi? tude are under the strain of Leyden, who, when he was told by his physi? cian that if he did not stop working while he was in such poor physical health he would die, responded, "Doc? tor, whether I live or die, the wheel must keep going round." These sen? sitive persons of whom I speak have a bleeding sensitiveness. The flies love to light on anything raw, and theBe people are like the Canaanites spoken of in the text or in the con? text?they have a very thin cover? ing and are vulnerable at all points. "And the Lord sent the hornet." Again, the small insect annoyances may come to us in the shape of friends and acquaintances who are always saying disagreeable things. There are some people you cannot be with for half an hour but you feel cheered and comforted. Then there are other people you cannot be with for five minutes before you feel miserable. They do not mean to disturb you, but they sting you to the bone. They gather up all the yarn which the gos? sips spin and retail it. They gather up all the adverse criticisms about your person, about your business, about your home, about your church, and they make your ear the funnel into which they pour it. They laugh heartily when they tell you, as though it were a good joke, and you langh too?outside. These people are brought to onr attention in the Bible, in the book of Ruth. Naomi went forth beautiful and with the finest of worldly pros? pects, and into another land, but, after awhile, she came back widowed and sick and poor. What did her friends do when she came to the city ? They all went out, and instead of giv? ing her common sense consolation, what did they do ? Read the book of Ruth and find out. They threw up their hands and said, "Is this Naomi?" as much as to say, "How awful bad you do look !" When I entered the ministry, I looked very pale for years, and every year, for four or five years, a hundred times a year, I was asked if I had not the consumption, and pass? ing through the room I would some? times hear people sigh and say, "A-ah, not long for this world 1" I resolved in those times that I never in any conversation would say anything de? pressing, and by the fcelp of trod I have kept the resolution. These peo? ple of whom I speak reap and bind in the great harvest field of discourage? ment. Some day you greet ".hem with a hilarious "good morning," and they come buzzing at you with some de? pressing information. 'The Lord sent the hornet." When I see so many people in the world who like to say disagreeable things, I come almost in my weaker moments to believe what a man said to me in Philadelphia one Monday morning. I went to get the horse at the livery stable, and the hostler, a plain man, said to me, "Mr. Talmage, I saw that you preached to the young men yesterday ?" I said, "Yes." He said : "No use?no use. Man's a failure." The small inseot annoyances of life sometimes come in the shape of local physical trouble, whioh does not amount to a positive prostration, but which bothers you when you want to feel the best. Perhaps it is a sick headache whioh has been the plague of your life, and yon appoint some oooasion of mirth or sociality or use? fulness, and when the elock strikes the hour you cannot make your ap? pearance. Perhaps the trouble is be? tween the ear and the forehead, in the shape of a neuralgic twinge. Nobody can see'it or sympathize with it, but just at the time when you want your intellect clearest and your disposition brightest you feel a sharp, keen, dis? concerting thrust. 'The Lord sent the hornet." Perhaps these small insect annoyan? ces will come in the shape of a domes? tic irritation. The parlor and the kitchen do not always harmonize. To get good service and to keep it is one of the greatest questions of the coun? try. Sometimes it may be the arro ganoy and inconsiderateness of em? ployers, but, whatever be the fact, we all admit there are these inseot annoy? ances winging their way out from the culinary department,. If the grace of God be not in the heart of the house? keeper, she cannot maintain her equil? ibrium. The men oome at night and hear the story of these annoyances and say, "Oh, these home troubles are very little things I" They are small, small as wasps, but they sting. Martha's nerves were all unstrung when she rushed in, asking Christ to scold Mary, and .there are tens of thousands of women who are dying, stung to death by these pestiferous domestic annoyances. "The Lord sent the hornet. These small insect disturbances may also come in the shape of business irritations. There are men here who went through 1857 and the 24th of September, 1869, without losing their balance, ;who are every day unho'rsed by little annoyanoes?a olerk's ill manners, or a blot of ink on a bill of lading, or the extravagance of a part? ner who overdraws his account, or the underselling by a business rival, or the whispering of store confidences in the street, or the making of some little bad debt which was against your judgment, just 'to please somebody else. ? It is not the panics that kill the merchants. Panics come only once in 10 or 20 years. It is the constant din of these everyday annoyances which is sending so many of our best mer? chants into nervous dyspepsia and paralysis and the grave. When our national commerce fell flat on its face, these men stood up and felt almost defiant, but their life is going away now under the swarm of these pesti? ferous annoya'nceii. "The Lord sent the hornet." I have noticed in the history of some that their annoyances are multi? plying and that they have a hundred where they used to have ten. The naturalist tells ns that a wasp some? times has a family of 20,000 wasps, and it does seem as if every annoyance of your life brooded a million. By the help of God I want to show you the other Bide. The hornet is of no use ? Oh, yes ! The naturalists tell as they are very important in the world's economy. They kill spiders, and they clear the atmosphere, and I really believe God sends the annoyan? ces of our life upon us to kill the spiders of the soul and to clear the atmosphere of our skies. These annoyances are sent to us, I think, to wake us up from our lethar? gy. There is nothing that makes a man so lively as a nest of "yellow jackets," and I think that these an? noyances are intended to persuade us of the fact that this is not a world for us to stop in. If we had a bed of everything that was attractive and soft and easy, what would we want of heaven ? "We think that the hollow tree ? sends the hornet, or we may think that the devil sends the hornet. I want to correct your opinion. "The Lord sent the hornet." Then I think these annoyances come on us to culture our patience. In the gymnasium you find upright parallel bars?upright bars, with holes over each other for pegs to be put in. Then the gymnast takes a peg in each hand, and he begins to climb, one inch at a time or two inches, and, getting his strength cultured, reaches after awhile the ceiling. And it seems to me that these annoyances in life are a moral gymnasium, each worri ment a peg with whioh we are to climb higher and higher in Christian attain? ment. We all love to see patience, but it cannot be cultured in fair weath? er. Patience is a child of the storm. If you had everything desirable and there was nothing more to get, what would you want with patience ? The only time to culture it is when you are lied about and sick and half dead. "Oh," you say, "if I only had the circumstances of some well to do man, I would bo patienty too !" You might as well say, "If it were not for this water, I would swim," or "I oould shoot this gun if it were not for the charge." When you stand chin deep in annoyanoes is the time for you to swim out toward the great headlands of Christian attainment, so as to know Christ and the power of his resurrec? tion and to have fellowship with his sufferings. Nothing but the furnace will ever burn out of us the olinker and the slag. I have formed this theory in regard to small annoyanoes and vexa? tions. It takes just so muoh trouble to fit us for usefulness and for heaven. The only question is whether we shall take it in the bulk or pulverized and granulated. Here is one man who takes it in the bulk. His back is broken, or his eyesight put out, or some awful calamity befalls him, while the vast majority of people take things pcacemeal. Whioh way would you rather have it ? Of course, in piece? meal Better have five aching teeth than one broken jaw; better 10 fly blisters than an amputation; better 20 squalls than one cyolone. There may be a difference of opinion as to allopathy and homeopathy, but in this matter of trouble I like homeopathic doses?small pellets of annoyance rather than some knockdown dose of calamity. Instead of the thunderbolt give us the hornet. If you have a bank, you would a great deal rather that 50 men would come in with less than $100 than to have two depositors come in the same day, each wanting his $10,000. In this latter case you cough and look down to the floor, and you look up at the ceiling before you look into the safe. Now, my friends, would you not rather have these small drafts of annoyance on your bank of faith than some all staggering demand upon your endurance ? But remember that lit? tle as well as great annoyances equally require you to trust in Christ for suc? cor and a deliveranoe from impatience and irritability. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee." In the village of Hamelin, tradition says, there was an invasion/-? rats, and these small crea? tures almost devoured the town and threatened the lives of the population, and the story is that a piper came out one day and played a very sweet tune, and all the vermin followed him?fol? lowed him to the banks of the Weser. Then he blew a blast, and then they dropped in and disappeared forever. Of course this is a fable, but I wish I could, on the sweet flute of the gospel, draw forth all the nibbling and bur? rowing annoyances of your life and play them down into tbe depths for? ever. How many touohes did Mr. Cburch give to his picture of "Cotopaxi" or his "Heart of the Andes?" I sup? pose about 50,000 touohes. I hear the oanvas saying : "Why do yon keep me trembling with that pencil so long? Why don't you put it on in one dash?" "No," says Mr. Church, "I know how to make a painting. It will take 50, 000 of these touches." And I want you, my friends, to understand that it is these 10,000 annoyances which, under God, are making up the picture of your life, to be hung at last in the galleries of heaven, fit for angels to look at. God knows how to make a_ picture. - I go into a sculptor's studio and see him shaping a statue. He has a chisel in one hand and a mallet in the other, and he gives a very gentle stroke?click, click, click! I say, "Why don't you strike harder?" "Oh," he replies, "that would shat? ter the statue. I can't do it that way. I must do it this way." So he works on, and after awhile the fea? tures come out, and everybody that enters the studio is charmed and fas? cinated. Well, God has your soul under process of development, and it is the little annoyances and vexations of life that are chiseling out your im? mortal nature. It is click, click, click! I wonder why some great providence does not come and with one stroke prepare you for heaven. Ah, no. God says that is not the way. And so he keeps on by strokes of little vexations until at last you shall be a glad spectacle for angels and for men. You know that a large fortune may be spent in small change, and a vast amount of moral character may go away in small depletions. It is the little troubles of life that are having more effect upon you than great ones. A swarm of locusts will kill a grain field sooner than the incursion of three or four.cattle. You say, "Since I lost my child, since I lost my prop? erty, I have been a different man." But you do not recognize the archi? tecture of little annoyances that are hewing, digging, cutting, shaping, splitting and interjoining your moral qualities. Bats may sink a ship. One lucifer match may send destruc? tion through a block of storehouses. Catherine de' Medici got her death from smelling a poisonous rose. Col? umbus by stopping and asking for a piece of bread and a drink of water at a Franciscan convent was led to the discovery of a new world. And there I is an intimate connection between trifles and immensities, between noth? ings and everythings. Now, be careful to let none of these annoyances go through your soul un arraigned. Compel them to adminis? ter to your spiritual wealth. The scratch of a sixpenny nail sometimes produces lockjaw, and the clip of a most infinitesimal annoyance may damage you forever. Do not let any annoyance or perplexity come across your soul without its making you bet? ter. Our government does not thiLX it belittling to put & tax tm small mi olea. The individual taxes do not amount to much, but in the aggregate to millions and millions of dollars, And I would have you, 0 Christian man, put a high tariff on every annoy? ance and vexation that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much in single cases, but in the ag? gregate it would be a great revenue of spiritual strength and satisfaction, A bee can suck honey even out of a nettle, and if you have the grace of God in your heart you can get sweet? ness out of that whioh would other? wise irritate and annoy. A returned missionary told me that a company of adventurers rowing up the Ganges were stung to death by flies that infest that region at certain seasons. I have seen the earth strewn with the oaroases of men slain by insect annoyances. The only way to get prepared for the great trouble of life is to oonquer these small troubles. What would you say of a soldier who refused to load his gun or to go into the conflict because it was only a skir? mish, saying "lam not going to ex? pend my ammunition on a skirmish. Wait until there comes a general en? gagement, and then you will see how courageous I am and what battling I will do." The general would say to such a man, "If you are not faithful in a skirmish, you would be nothing in a general engagement." And I have to tell you, 0 Christian men, if you cannot apply the principles of Christ's religion on a small scale you will never be able to apply them on a large scale. If I had my way with you, I would have you possess all possible worldly prosperity. I would have you each one a garden, a river flowing through it, geraniums and shrubs on the sides, and the grass and flowers as beautiful as though the rainbow had fallen. I would have you a house, a splendid mansion and the bed should be cov? ered with upholstery dipped in the setting sun. I would have every hall in your house set with statues and statuettes, and then I would have the. four quarters of the globe pour in all their luxuries on your table, and you should have forks of silver and knives of gold, inlaid with diamonds and amethysts. Then you should each one of you have the finest horses, and your pick of the equipages of the world. Then I would have you live 150 years, and you should not have a pain or ache until the last breath. "Not each one of us?" you say. i Yes. Each one of you. "Not to yout enemies ?" Yes. The only dif? ference I would make with them would be that I would put a little extra gilt on their walls and a little extra em? broidery on their slippers. But, you say, "Why does not God give us all these things ?" Ah, I bethink my? self he is wiser. It would, make fools and sluggards of us if we had our way. No man puts his best picture in the portico or vestibule of his house. God meant this world to be only the vestibule of heaven, that great gal? lery of the universe toward which we are aspiring. We must not have it too good in this world, or wc would want no heaven. Polycarp was condemned to be burned to death. The stake was planted. He was fastened to it. The fagots were placed around him, the fires kindled, but history tells us that the flames bent outward like the can? vas of a ship in a stout breeze, bo that the flames, instead of destroying Poly? carp, were only a wall between him and his enemies. They had actually to destroy him with the poniard. The flames would not touch him. "Well, my hearer, I want you to understand that by God's grace the flames of trial, instead of consuming your soul, are only going to be a wall of defense and a canopy of blessing. God is going to fulfill to you the blessing and the promise, as he did to Polycarp, "When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned." Now you do not understand. You shall know hereafter. In heaven you will bless God even for the hornet. What Uappy New Year Means. A happy New Year ! What does it mean ? Are not these words often thrown out as a greeting without thought or depth of meaning ? Is it a year in which to ourselves come wealth and health, prosperity and friendship ? ' one spent in the pursuit of fleeting I pleasure and filled with self-centered interest ? No ! Rather let the wish be to each and all,- as the new year dawns with all its opportunities, that the days of 1896 may be well spent?filled with thought and sympathy for those around; that in self forgetting and kindly deeds the happiness of others may be ever sought, and then most I truly will each act rebound again in joy and blessing to the heart from which it springs.?Maud Booth. ? Times of great calamity aud con? fusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicit? ed from the darkest storm. ? Besides her plague of rabbits, Australia is now threatened with a plague of foxes. These animals, im? ported for the sport of fox-hunting, have increased so rapidly that a re? ward is now offered for their capture. ? When most needed it is not un? usual for your family physician to be away from home. Such was the ex? perience of Mr. J. Y, Schenck, editor of the Caddo, Ind. Ter., Banner, when his little girl, two years of age was threatened with a severe attack of croup. He says : "My wife insisted that I go for the doctor, but as our family physician was out of town I purchased a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which relieved her immediately. I will not be1 without it in the future." 25 aud 50 cent bot tlw frr rtte by Hill ?rta, The Phonograph Told the Trouble. To those people who look upon the phonograph as a soientifio toy this story will be of interest, and it will be none the less so to those who know of the practical purposes to which this remarkable instrument oan be put. It appears that the Knowles pump works put up one of their large pumps for the Ricks water oompany at the Elk river pumping station in California. The pump was in oonBtant use for some years, and the makers heard no complaint until a few weeks ago, when they received a novel communication from H. L. Ricks, the manager of the pumping station. There was no doubt in the minds of those at the station who were best acquainted with the mechanism that something was wrong with the pump, but they were unable to fix on the de? fect, and as the dismemberment of the pump would involve much loss of time, and as a visit by an expert from the East would mean a considerable ex? pense, the phonograph was resorted to. The manager spoke into the re? ceiver, describing the symptoms of the ailing pump, and further to indicate the case, he placed the receiver so that the pulsations of the pump would be recorded on the roll. Just as a physician listens to the action of the heart or lungs in the human body by means of a stethoscope, so the pump doctor listened by means of a phonograph to the throbs and pulsations of the pump thousands of miles away, and was enabled by that means to diagnose the disease. A Tribune reporter listened to the strange communication at the New York office of the Knowles company. The voice of the Californian is heard first giving in a dear, precise, and dis? tinct way, the symptoms of the pump, and then he asks the listener to pay attention to the pump's action. Then one hears the b?-r?r?-r?bang I b?r ?r?r?-bang! of the pump, and an occasional wheezing sound which might be made by escaping steam. The engineer to whom the phono? graph was submitted said that the whole record was so perfect, and the speaking so plain, that he felt tempted sometimes to interrupt and ask addi? tional questions. The experiment proved absolutely successful, and by means of the roll the disease was diagnosed. The proper remedy was suggested, and the pump is running once more "good as new." Wisdom of the Squirrel. "Of oourse," said a hunter, "every? body knows that when a man with a gun comes along the gray squirrel goes around on the other side of the tree; he doesn't get killed if he can help it, and he can help himself pretty well. I remember once coming across a gray squirrel up a big oak ; he was out on a branch about 40 feet from the ground. He saw me as quiok as I did him? quicker, I guesB?and when I was ready to fire he was around on the other side of the branch. This branch was very small, only a mighty little bigger than the squirrel, but he hug? ged it so close and he was in such per? fect line with me that you couldn't see anything of him at all except a little bit of the tip of his tail that was blown out by a strong wind. I blazed away at him, and never touched him. Then I went around on the other uide of the tree, thinking that possibly I could get a shot at him from there, but as I went one way he went "the other, and by the time I had got over on the other side he was on the side I. had come from and in just as^ line with me as he was at just as safe. I tried him aga^i < just the same result. "Then I pulled a stake out of a rail fence near by and planted it in the ground on one side of the tree and hung my coat on it, and went over on the other side. I thought that possibly I might make the squirrel think, there were two men there or put him in .doubt long enough to enable me to get a shot at him, but he never paid, the slightest attention to the coat. I don't suppose it would have made any difference to him if I'd opened a clothing store there; he knew the man with the gun, and it was the gun he was looking out for. "Well, we dodged around that tree for quite a spell longer. There wasn't any tree near by that the squrrel could go to, and he knew his only safety lay in sticking to the one he was in, and the way he did stick to it and keep around always on the other side of that branch was something wonderful. I fired five or six shots at him all to? gether, and filled the branch under him half f ull of shot, but never touched him ; and when I thought I had wasted time and ammunition enough I left him.?New York Sun. ? In some countries fat men live longer than their more meager breth? ren, but in warm latitudes the fatter the man the shorter his life. In the far north a fat man's chance of life is better than a thin one's. In Great Britain temperate fat men have a good chance of living to a fairly old age, but the man who lives longest of all is the wiry man of somewhat above mid? dle height. It is a curious fact that, while short women often live a long while, one rarely sees extremely old short men.?Chicago Times-Herald. Catarrh Cannot be Cared with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease Catarrh Is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure. Is taken luti-rnally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Hall a Catarrh Cure Is not a qnack medicine It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is com? posed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on tie mutous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two Ingredients is what produces such wonderful results In curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free F. J. CHENEY A CO, ToWo, 0. Ninety Miles an Hour. There is now being built at the Baldwin locomotive works in Phila? delphia, says the New York World, an ordinary locomotive with driving wheels of five feet diameter, which, it is said, will, as soon as completed, draw a train of cars from Philadelphia to New York city in an hour. This claim is not made by the Bald? wins. They have nothing to say on the subject. They are simply build? ing the locomotive for private parties and are to receive their regular price of $10,000 for it. When it is com? pleted their part in the matter is end? ed. The gentleman who is paying for the locomotive is W. J. Holman, of Minneapolis, an elderly inventor, who has been in the railroad business all his life and who has now invented something whioh it is claimed will completely revolutionize railroading. It is not pretended that the ordinary $10,000 locomotive which the Bald' wins are building would, if set upon any railroad track, be able to travel ninety miles an hour. The locomo? tive is not, however, to be set on the rails as engines generally are. When it is completed it is to be placed on what are known as the Holman fric? tion-geared trucks, which will raise it thirty inches above the surface of the rails. It will be just like any other locomotive except that each of its driving wheels rests upon and between three other wheels that finally rest on the rails. The instant the drivers of the. locomotive begin to turn they necessarily, through friction, give an opposite rotary motion to the small wheels upon which they bear, and these small wheels just as necessarily give a forward rotary motion to the third set of wheels upon which they are bearing. The natnral and inevi? table result is that one revolution of the locomotive's driving wheels, by this multiplicity of wheels in pyramid form, carries the locomotive forward just twice as far as a single revolution if the driving wheels be on the rails themselves.- In other words, the speed of the engine, whatever that speed might be on the rails them? selves, is exactly doubled by the use of this newly invented truck. In an experiment which was made with an ordinary locomotive thus mounted in Minnesota on a branch of the Northern Pacific railroad recently a speed of eighty miles was said to have been easily attained. The in? vention has been kept quiet, it being the purpose of those interested to say nothing abont it until practical utility was demonstrated by a run from Phil? adelphia to New York within an hour's time. That, it is believed by the in? ventor, will be the shortest and quick? est way of letting the world know that a new marvel in mechanics has come into existenoe. In addition to the increase of speed attainable this new invention will, it is claimed, save millions of dollars through the diminished wear and tes upon the rails, for the weight of lc motives will then be further distpRTu ted along the track, and at no print of any rail will there be a pressirj^j than one-third as great as is^Jfrbw ex? erted by the drmng^wheels^ A Sagacious Horse. Some 40 or 50 years ago a party of surveyors had just finished their day's work in the northwestern part of Illi? nois when a violent snowstorm came on.? They started for their camp, winch was in a forest of about 80 acres in a large prarie, nearly 20 miles from any other trees. The wind was blow? ing very hard, and the snow was drift? ing so as to almost blind them. When they thought that they had nearly reached their camp, they all at once came upon footsteps in the snow. These they looked at with care and found, to their dismay, that they were their own tracks. It was now plain that they were lost on the great prairie, and if they had to pass the night there in the cold and snow the chances were that not one of them would be alive in the morning. While they were shivering with fear and cold the chief man caught sight of one of their horses, a gray pony, known as Old Jack. Then the chief said: "If any one can show us the way to camp out of this blinding snow, Old Jack can do it. I will take of his bridle and let him go, and we can follow him." The horse, as soon as he found himself free, threw his head and tail in the air, as if proud of the trust that had been confided in him. Then he snuffed the breeze and gave a loud snort, whioh seemed to say: 'ICome. on, boys ! Follow me. I'll lead you out of this scrape." He then turned in a new direction and trotted along, but not so fast that the men could not follow him. They had not gone more than a mile when they saw the cheer? ful blaze of their campfires, and they gave a loud huzza at the sight and for Old Jack.?Boston Herald. ? The Dutch have a delightfully original way of collecting their taxes. If after due notice has been giveu the money is not sent the authorities place one or two hungry militiamen in the house, to be lodged and maintained at the expense of the defaulter until the amount of the tax is paid. ? Major C. T. Picton is manager of the State Hotel, at Denison, Texas, which the traveling men say is one of the best hotels in that section. 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