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BYCLINKXCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19 1896._ VOLUME XXX.?NO 34 ? 9 WE'VE just received a new line of Colored Shirts, A big lot of 'em. Got prices right, too. 15 dozen Colored Shirts, good value, at only 25c. 15 dozen nice Laundered Colored S?iirts, with Collar and Cuffs attached, at only 50c. 15 dozen elegant Laundered Colored Shirts, with two Collars and Cuffs at tached, at 75c. We have others on up to $2.00. Come in and gaze. P. S.~-Mr. A. G-. MEANS, Jr., Anderson's popular Clothier, is now with us. He would be pleased to see you. _ B.O.E.&CO. GREAT REDUCTION IN JEANS AND OTHER WINTER GOODS ! Heavy Shoes at prices that sell them. T^TXTTL? T7T ?^YTTTJ? BallaTd's "Obelisk, "Favorite," "Blue Bird" and Jj JLJ3l JD Xj\J \J XW ' Waterloo " Tbe-e brand* are known to every housekeeper, and wh guarantee PRICE, QUALITY and WEIGHT. If not found 1? represented your money will be caeerfuliy refunded. ? PllJff" l*ArrCC?Golden Bio acd Peabe'ry. See our Coffee at six pounds r lift WUl I" tt for one dollar. TOBACCO"*" KradeS' ff0m 2"^C* *)0Un(*t0 the Sun ^Qre<* Gocds. We can sell you High Grade Fertilizers Cheap. BBOWNLEE & VANDIVERS. ATLANTIC SOLUBLE GUANO! And other brands of their vreU kno-wn High Grade Fertilizers, for sale by. . P. SLOAN & CO, STOP !_ -.THINK IT OVER ! WILL. E. HUBBARD, That runa the JEWELRY PALACE, next to Farmers and Merchants Bank, has. beyond a doubt, the Largest Stock of... i This side of Charleston. Competition t ain't in it at all, as I cannot be under sold.r.. / JHP* I bought these Goods to SELL, and if you f*il to get your share it's not my fault. Drop in and LOOK, even it you don't want to buy. Birthday, Wedding and Xmas Presents IN GREAT.VARIETY. ftf- ENGRAVING FREE?Promptness ia everything. JWILL. R. HUBBARD, Jeweler. i i 3 a s a a a 3 ro en rrj m ru m a m Lu m rjj to .ta OB ffl E ffl S ffl 1 i fflfi ATTR?CTING A CROWD IS one thing ; pleasiDg that crowd is another. We would rather have one small customer pleased than one huf 'red who had made large purchases and were not perfectly satu ^. That is why we have constantly refused to handle certain ma^ f Shoes which are of the "Made-to-Sell-but-n?t-to-Wear" qualk/. We won't keep anything in our Store that we cannot conscientiously recommend. One Shoe that we CAN and DO RECOMMEND is the Selz Royal Blue, at $4.00 the pair. This is really a "Made-to Wear" foot covering, which is eztraordinariy cheap, quality considered. "There are others," too, but it is needless to specify. Drop in when you are in Andereon, whether you want to buy just then or not, and take a look at them. THE YATES SHOE CO. Masonic Building, Anderson, S. C. NEW JEWELRY STORE ! JOHN ML HUBBARD, IN HIS NEW STORE. .IN HOTEL BLOCK. L0T8 OF NEW GOODS. NOVELTIES IN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. ONE CENT TO $100.00. jar-No charge for Engraving. Jtfr>Tbe Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it's a pleasure to show them, p. ft*?If you have Accounts with J. M. HUBB V??.D & BFO. make settlement witb me at above place. JOHN K. BLVBBAUB. DISPENSARY AND SCHOOLS. Tbe Politicians Smarter Than the Educa tionalists. Special to News and Courier. Columbia, February 10. ? There seems to be very much oi' a tangle about the dispensary profits going to the State fund. To-day a member of the Convention gave some "inside" history about the fund, and how Mr. Scruggs, of the dispensary, is the dis coverer of the fund for general pur poses. Said the member of the Con vention: "The most serious objection to the scheme of giving the dispens?ry profits to the school fund was that it was necessary to have the benefit of every dollar that the dispensary would pay into the State treasury this year in order to keep down the State levy to a point where wide-spread dissatisfac tion would not arise. Satisfied of the correctness of their position the gen tleman said that after it passed its first reading the opposition determined to kill it when it again came up. j "I called on Chief Book-keeper Scruggs, at the dispensay," he con tinued, "to obtain what information-1 could from him as to' the status of the dispensary, at the same time telling him my intention to fight th>s provis ion for turning over the profits to the .schools when it again came up. Mr. Scruggs agreed with me that it would be unwiaeto give the dispensary pro fits to any specific fund until two years hence, or until we could get rid of the increased expenses of the Con vention without a higher tax levy. "After reading the clause which I had handed him Mr. Scruggs cd viced against reopening the question in the Convention, stating that my opponents, with Senator Tillman in the lead, were too powerful, and further advising me to let the clause paBS in its present shape, aa there was nothing in it retro active, and that the general fund of the State would get nearly $250,000, before the school fund would get a cent. Belying upon his judgment'as a business man, I took his advice and allowed the matter to pass in its pres ent shape without further objection from me, and I am now satisfied that iifr. Scruggs was eminently correct in the premises." "Your correspondent asked Mr. Scruggs about tbe matter , to-day, but he positively refused to discuss it, but promptly consented to elucidate the unearned profit feature of the dis pensary that seems to oonfuse e;o many. So as to. get a succinct and clear statement of the history of this fund, that it is intended to put in the gen eral fund. I asked Mr. S. W. Scruggs to review the matter and be said: "The contention is that the general fund and not the school fund is en titled-.to- the. $243,816.57 net profits, which has accrued to December 31sl;, and not the school fund as provided in the new Constitution. No part of this amount is an 'unearned' profit, as has been published, but, on the con trary, it is an 'earned' profit. Oa December 31st there was an 'unearned' profit of $25,571 85, which is all the main profit existing outstanding, which represented the State's profit (added at the time of shipment) on goods unsold in hands of county dis pensers on- December 31st. This 'un earned' profit will not go to the general State fund, but will.go to the school fund when it shall have accrued, as it will have accrued after the new Con stitution becomes operative. "The new Constitution provides that the net earnings of the State dis pensary shall go to th? school fund from January 1st. As that clause, of the Constitution making this specific provision is not retroactive and only makes provision for a speoifio applica tion of the net earnings of the State dispensary from January 1st, then it is reasonable to assume that all net income to the State, from any source, hot set apart by statutory enactment or constitutional ordination for a spe cific fund goes to the general (or un specified) fund of the State. Well, a net profit to tbe State to the amount, of $243,816.57 had accrued to the State to December 31st, and before the new Constitution had become a thing of life. On January the 1st I closed my profit and loss account and passed this amount to the oredit of the State treasury?general fund?and it stands to-day on the books as a liability due the general "fund. In November a loan was made to the treasury of $50,000 from the surplus fund of the dispensary. This amount was charged to State treasury, general fund, and the difference between the two sides of this particular ledger ac count is $193,816.57 in favor of the State. This balance is a net earned profit?not an unearned profit, as has been erroneously stated?and my con tention is that the school fund cannot become the beneficiary of any part of the cash surplus of the State dispen- ' *ary hereafter to accumulate until this liability of $193,816.57 has been paid into the general fund of the State, which will be eighteen months or two years. Of course, all net profit accru ing from tbe State dispensary from January 1st will be entered to the credit of the school fund from time to time as tbe profits arise, and when the general fund account, which stands on the dispensary ledger as a liability, shall have been liquidated, then it will be in order to turn over to the school fund all cash surplus as rapidly as it accumulates'. "It must be remembered that tbe net accrued profit of $243,816.56 to December 31st does not represent that amount of profit in cash, but only cash in part. It represents that amount in assets in excess of the total liabilities of the dispensary. Those assets consist of cash, merchandise, supplies and other quick assets, and are as much of a net earned profit as if every dollar was in cash. So you will readily see that probably there will be to the credit of the school fund of the State as provided by the new Constitution two hundred thousand dollars before a dollar of actual cash is paid into the school fund." There is always a tangle about the time a levy takes place on account of the' differences in the time of making appropriations and levies. Comptrol ler General Norton has given me an interesting statement on the present situation. "The real condition which confronts the State is this," he said: "The ap propriation for 1896 will amount in round numbers to $950,000. The General Assembly is now appropriat ing moneys collected from 1894 and 1895, and from.such other revenues as the State may have during 1896, which will not be over $15,000. The total revenues from ail sources at present are $775,000, which, it can be seen at a glance, will leave a deficit of $175,- I 000. They propose to meet that by * using the unearned dispensary profits, which they report to he $193,000, which would, of course, put the State on a firm basis for 1896. But we have no assurance that the same conditions will not exist in 1897, and the ques tion arises as to how the matter must be dealt with then. A tax levy of 5} mills, or thereabouts, will raiise it, as you can see, by estimating lihe taxa ble property of the State at $.170,000, 000, and th'?u there is a proposition to make a levy of 4} mills and raisie the other $150,00? or $200,000 necessary by imposing a graduated occupation license, as provided for in the new Constitution, which will do no mate rial damage to anyone. To put the thing in a nutshell, they have either to make a levy of 5$ mills or have a deficiency of one hundred and1 fifty or two hundred thousand dollars, or to supply the deficiency from new sources." The Legislature is now to consider a levy for State purposes for 1897, while the appropriation bilH in for money to be paid from the moneys derived from the levy of 1894-1895, plus the insurance and. Secretary of State fees during 1896 and plun the dispensary fund of $193,000 that hau been fixed for 1896. The levy and ap propriation are distinct. The levy ia for future purposes, while the appro priation bill is for money already col lected or available. Forbearance Needed. The Register, whatever may be said of its motives in bespeaking a restora tion of good feeling and good fellowship between the people of South Carolina, will continue to use its best endeavors to reach that blessed consummation when all the people of the State with one consent will agree to dwell togeth erharmoniouBly. Political differences, however warm and earnest, need not invoke a feeling of bitter personal hostility which refuses to see anything good or honest or patriotic in an oppo nent. We do not deny the fact that in the heat of debate party leaders will sometimes be betrayed into hot and bitter speech. "We do not deny the fact that it may be right and proper at times to call public raen sharply to account in deference to the high interests of human society. Yet it must be admitted by all thoughtful people that bitterness of speech is a two-edged sword that cuts both ways. It must be confessed by all men of good reason that human society connpt live by violence --and that sooner or later some basis of mutual respect and confidence must be reached in order that society itself should continue to perform its supreme; functions. We pray the good Lord every Sabbath morning to cleliver us : "From all blindness of heart ; from pride, vain glory, and hypocrisy ; from envy, hatred and malice, and all uncharita bleness." Is this solemn petition to the Almighty God mere form or an earnest, honest petition for Divine help to sustain and subdue that human weakness which we all feel to be lurk ing in human hearts to the defacement of poor human nature ? We think this is no less the becoming prayer of the true Christian than of the true gentleman and the good citizen. Hu man society, and especially free fo ciety, has solemnly important and supremely necessary functions to per form which it cannot rightfully nor wisely abdicate to the mere law-makers.. Making the law and fulfilling the law are two distinot things.^ The code of a civilized State, however wisely con ceived and judiciously appointed, with all its surrounding provisions for the administration and execution thereof, would be hopelessly impotent in a bar barous country. It would be a lever without a fulcrum, a body without the breath of life. Hence it is that a peaceful society with a sense of right and justice at its heart is absolutely necessary for the fulfillment of the best and wisest of laws. A bitter, dissonant society, with hatred, malice and all uncharitableness at its heart, can neither perform its functions in its appointed sphere of usefulness, where humanity directs and controls itself outsidcof the statute books, but it cannot even enforce or maintain the law which is enacted and recorded for its security and well-being. Let; our Legislature, for instance, pass ever so strenous and righteous a law to punish and suppress the barbarous and vicious system of lynching, which has grown up in our day into an utterly unjus tifiable enormity, and society at large refuses to frown down the crime, or to lend the law a helping hand, what good will the law have achieved ? A society at war with itself, where neighbors hate each other as though actual war had been declared between them, is no better than the most con fessed barbarism. Nothing can atone for this, nothing can condone it. It is the devil's own work and is noth ing else but wanton wickedness and worthlessneBS, it matters ' not what excuse may be made for it, nor how ever the blame for it may be bandeid about from one side to the ether of antagonists. We hope and believe the people of this State begin to see for themselves the supreme necessity of suppressing this social dissonance. It matters not who falls* or who rises, they must see for themselves that in their own supreme interests, as civil ized people, they should require all who seek their support and confidence to possess themselves with patience and demean themselves with that for bearance which is alone becoming an enlightened Christian people. Either this or we are a barbarous aggregation of worthless, self-seeking, degenerate men, who have no sense of the true requirements of civilized society or common Christianity.?Columbia Reg ister. ? Baltimore as well as Brooklyn is a city of churches, each having a greater number in proportion to the population than any other cities in the United States. ? Richmond. Va., has one of the smallest areas of any city of its im portance in this country, having only bi square miles of area, on which live 100,000 people. ? The oil of tobacco found in the stems of long-used pipes, or obtained by distillation at a red heat, ia one of the most active and powerful poisons known to the chemist. A single drop will often cause death in the case of a dog or cat. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there le at least one dreaded disease that iici ntce has been able to cure in all its stnges, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only posi tive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutione! disease require* a constitutional treat meut. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de stroying the foundation of the dl ease, and giving the pa tient strength by building up the constitu tion and assisting natura In doing ita work The proprietors bave o much f Ith In its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred 1 ollara for any case that it falls to cur . Bond for list of tes timonials. 4SrM*u__Ilf -^CHENEY. 4 CO., Toledo, O. , CAVALRY HORSES. Uoole Sam Is & Very Fastidious Pur chaser. There are over 16,000,000 of horses in the United States, and yet, accord ing to Captain J. B. ?leshire, assist ant quartermaster of the United States army, the government finds it diffi cult to procure the 700 to 1,000 ani mals needed every year for the cavalry service. This seems singular, but it is true. Captain ?leshire, accom panied by an army veterinary surgeon, has scoured Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky during the past few months in search of desirable oavalry Btock, and has just recently secured the full quota, his largest purchases having been made in central Kentucky, where the blending of thoroughbred and trotting strains has evolved a horse peculiarly adapted to the service. It has been the custom of the gov ernment to buy oavalry horses by con tract, but this method has been so un satisfactory and accompanied by so many perplexing difficulties, it is not unlikely that the purchase will here after be made in tho open markets by agents of the government. ? great deal of money has been lost by con tractors and their bondsmen on ac count of the rigid requirements, and the failure of bidderB to comply with them. The government would adver tise for so many hundreds of horses, to be furnished in lots of different numbers, and award the contracts to the lowest bidders. The contractors would be compelled to give bonds for the faithful performance of the obli gations, and when the horses were ex amined they would be compelled to pay th? difference in cost between the animals rejected and those bought in their stead by the government's agents. An idea of the rockry road traveled by some of those contractors, as well as an illustration of the rigid require ments upon the part of the cavalry service, may be gathered from the fact that in one consignment by a contrac tor in a certain State, only five out of a total of eighty-nine head delivered were accepted by the government veterinary. This left eighty-four head of horses on the contractor's hands, and he or his bondsmen were com pelled to put up the difference in the cost between tbe rejected animals and the ones bought to complete his con tract. Heretofore an average of one horse in every fifteen inspected has been accepted, but it is frequently the case that thirty to forty animals are passed by in succession. Government officiais on purchasing tours have sometimes ridden all day through a fairly populous region and found only two acceptable animals. The model cavalry horse is, in color, either bay, sorrel, black or gray ; sound, well bred and of superior class ; gentle under the saddle, free from vicious habits, with free and prompt action at the walk, trot and gallop ; without blemish or defect; of a kind disposition and with easy mouth and gait. He must be a "gelding," (mares not taken under any circum stances) of uniform and hardy color, in good condition, from fifteen and one-fourth to sixteen hands high ; weight nob less than 950 nor more than 1,150 pounds ; from four to eight years old ; head and ears small, fore head broad, eyes large and prominent ; vision perfectin every respect; should ers long and sloping well back; chest full, broad and deep ; forelegs straight and standing well under; "barrel" large and increasing from girth toward flank ; withers elevated ; back short and straight ; loins and haunches broad and muscular ; hocks well bent and under the horse ; pasterns slant ing, and feet small and sound. A horse under five years ole will not be purchased unless he is an especially fine animal, well developed. Each horse is subjected to a rigid -examina tion, and any animal that does not meet the requirements in every respect will not be bought. So it can be seen that a horse which meets the cavalry man's fastidious taste must, indeed, be a model of equine excellence. Much stress is plaoed upon the intelli gence manifested by the candidate, both in expression and action, and there are certain peculiarities in the "face" and eyes of a horse which, to the expert, denote the fool, the stub born brute and the devilish animal. Another singular phase of the sys tem is that while the cavalry horse must be of perfect shape and faultless confirmation, he is purchased at from $125 to $250, comparatively small sums for even desirable "roadsters." This, however, is explained in a meas ure by the fact that the oavalry horse is useless for breeding purposes and, as a rule, not fast enough as a trotter to make a race horse. In the United States cavalry service there are ten regiments of twelve troops each, with sixty men to the troop, not counting officers, and there are over seven thousand horses in the service. The average working life of the cavalry horse is about fifteen years, and about 10 per cent, of those in the service die or are discarded every year. The horses bought annu ally are sent at once to the different forts and stations, and to the riding school at West Poi: t, where rough and fancy riding is .aught, and are put to work without delay, the soldier taking the green animal and commenc ing its education. Each cavalryman trains and cares for his own horse and no discrimination is made in the dis tribution, the -soldier boy out on the plains getting just as good a mount as the dandy who parades the gay thor oughfares of the capital. The horses adapt themselves very readily to the new condition of things and become familiar with all their duties and the signals in a surprisingly short time. The most difficult thing to teach them is to become accustomed to firearms. Every evening as they pass from one part of their quarters to another to be fed a carbine is fired near the head of every animal, and in this way they are finally made so familiar with the noise of musketry that it fails to attract their attention, and during the rapid firing and con fusion of a skirmish with the Indians they will browse along calmly and complacently, unmindful of whizzing rifle balls or bursting cartridges. When the cavalry horse is purchas ed he is branded with the familiar "U. S." on his side or shoulder and with a certain numeral on one of his hoofs. The agent records his number in a book provided for the purpose and opposite the numeral writes a full de scription of the animal, cost, former owner, condition when shipped, etc. When the horse arrives at its destina tion the record is copied into another book, but thia time tbe animal ia en tered by name instead of by number. The curious might ask how so many names, short, appropriate and distinc tive, were provided. Hortfeiof on? color are given to one company, and their names usually begin with the letter which classifies the company. Thus, the horses in Company "Gr" are called Grover, Grant, Garfield, Greely, Grimes, and so on. The hor ses soon learn to which company they belong. Many of them from several troops may be grazing upon a prairie, but when the bugle sounds the stable call they quickly assemble, the bays to themselves and the sorrels and the grays and blacks to their respective commands. They are taught many difBcult maneuvers, one of the most interesting of which is to lie down so that che soldier may use their bodies as a protection from behind which to fire at the enemy. Very warm attachments naturally spring up between the cavalryman and his horse, and rare indeed is a case of cruelty heard of. Captain AleBhire says he has known soldiers out on the plains, far from supplies and in a desolate country, empty their oanteens into their hats and give the water to their famishing horses, robbing them selves. Others have been known to endure intensely cold weather while their blankets covered their horses. H. Giovannoli. Photographing a Man's Bones Through His Flesh. Here is probably the most sensation al discovery of the age. The story comes from Vienna, and is given to the public by the New York Journal. It is the story of a discovery which will he of vast value to mankind?something decidedly novel and sensational in its nature, as well. The invention is one which might naturally cause suspicion were it not that the possibility of such a thing is fully testified to by such eminent sci entists as Thomas A. Edison and Pro fessor Henry Morton, president of Stevens Institute of technology. Here is the story to speak for it self : "Vienna, Jan. 1.?One of the most remarkable modern discoveries has just been made public by Professor Roentgen, of the Wurzburg university. It is a process by which the interior of a living human body may be photo-^ graphed. The light achieved by means of a vacum glass pipe with an' induction current going through it will also penetrate all^ organic sub stance ; that is, wood, leather and ar ticles of the same class. "The light which renders all this possible is derived from radiant heat and is of wonderful penetrative pow er. It is thrown upon the object by means of one of Crooke's tubes. This is a vacuum or airtight glass tube, through which an induction (elleetrical) current passes, and the rays from the intense heat caused by the current, which is known as radiant heat, are thrown from the tube upon the object it is desired to photo graph. "Professor Roentgen has succeeded in securing several remarkable nega tives. One instance is that of a man's ankle wherein a bullet was im bedded. The pohtograph shows, the bullet was just as it is lodged in the ankle, thus revealing what heretofore could only be learned by probing and the use of the surgeon's knife. "In another case a purse, contain ing a quantity of money, was selected as a subject. The heat rays focussed thereon produced a negative showing with wonderful clearness both purse and con/ents. "A human hand was then subjected to the heat rays. In the picture re sulting appears a skeleton hand, the covering of flesh seemiDg to have vanished as if by magic. ?t must be remembered, too, that this was not the hand of a dead person, but belong ing to a living, breathing man the remainder of the arm being so screen ed and arranged as to be excluded from the focus of the tube-oamera. "Perhaps the most notable experi ment, however, which illustrat?d with graphic clearness the eccentric power of the new discovery, was the photo graph of a man seated beside a young lady before the photographer in ordinary dress, but whom the nega tive shows a perfect skeleton. To test the clearness with which the new process would produce the skeleton of a living subject negatives were also taken by the ordinary method. In the first case the spinal vertebrae were reproduced in every detail, forming a ghastly specimen of realism. "Again, an ordinary iron weight was placed inside a wooden box one and one-half by three feet. In the picture the weight alone is seen, the box having apparently vanished in air. This latter was a crucial test, und demonstrated beyond the possi bility of a doubt that only a few of the wonders the new process will ac complish have been learned. "The Crooke tube used is arranged like the lens in an ordinary camera, the induction coil?that is, the wire over which the electricity passes into the tube?running from a small storage battery arranged in the camera,and at the rear of the tube. Then over the end of the tube from which the heat rays are focussed a heavy cloth is thrown in such a manner as to clearly outline the tube's end, euabling the operator to focus the rays without difli culty. Thus it will be seen that the photograph is taken through this heavy cloth, as well as the substance surrounding the object it is desired to reproduce. "Strictly speaking, radiant heat rays are by no means a new light, but Professor Roentgen has, by experi ment, gained the ability to secure special rays with which scientists are not familiar. "Professor Roentgen has also over turned the scientific theory regarding opaque objects ; that is, object which it is held light will not penetrate. He holds and claims that his newly dis covered process will clearly show, even more than now, that there is no such thing as an opaque object. The pene trating power of light, he claims, is regulated by its intensity and method of use. The professor futher says he is convinced from facts that the dis covery has brought to his knowledge concerning heat that the greater uses of heat and electricity arc not known yet ; that they are capable of vast de velopment. He is now carrying on in secret a series of experiments by which he believes he will soon be able to accomplish even more wonderful feats of photography." ? Our people are growing more and more in the habit of looking to Hill Bros, for fhe latest and best of every thing in the drug line. They sell Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, famous for its cures of bad colds, croup and whooping cough. When in need of such a medicine give this remedy a trial and you will be more than pleased with the result. CRANES IN WASHINGTON. Doluoiono of Some Visitors fit the White House. New York Sun. "Washington, February 1. ? Two more cranks were thrown out of the White House this week by the watch men at the door. One of them was an old fellowwith an imaginary grievance, with whom the officers had not much difficulty, but the otuer, an insane convict from somewhere up in Penn sylvania, gave the officers a tussle after he was put in th? patrol wagon, but was landed in the station house at last. Washington seems to have a pecu liar attraction for these unfortunate creatures, who come here from all parts of the country with-the vain hope of arising their grievances before the Congress or the President. Pub lic men are getting used to them, for all have had more or less experience with demented and disappointed office seekers and with the promoters of use less schemes and inventions So many are tbe classes of cranks, so many are the disappointed inventors and office seekers at the end of their tether, with minds perpetually harp ing upon one subject, that it is diffi cult to say where the monomaniac ends and the crank begins. But; from the standpoint of the doorkeepers and guards of the public offices, the former are worse in a way than the latter. The crazy man, unless he is violent, oan easily be put off. Not so the man with one idea. He will persist, in spite of continuous disappointment! and even hunger?not to say thirst in besieging Lhe strongholds of the Administration in the pursuit of his favorite project. The guards at the White House are bnrry fellows. They are the best men in the police force of the city, detail ed for this especial work because of their peculiar fitnees. There are six of them, in thireu details, who keep a continuous guard over the main en trance of the White House day and night throughout the year. So long have they acted as doorkeepers and guards of the President that they are more than ordinarily skilled in the reading of human character. They, have White House visitors divided up into a numbe;r of different groups.! They profess to know and be known personally by titie President aad hij personal and official family, the Cabi net officers, and the members of Con gress. They can tell a visitor from out of town or a newly married coupl?,' forty or fifty of whom visit the White House every day, a block away, and, they know almost every class of te-: hiclc in town, from the, fienkeyed brougham of the British ambassador to the Bhabby four-wheeler of the; Pennsylvania avenue Jehu. All the newspaper men and the sub ordinate officers of the Government, too, are known to them, so that the sizing up of a crank is a matter of a very few minutes. He usually wan ders up to the portico of the White House in a shifty nervous manner, gazing vacantly around and betraying his nature to the very watchful eyes of those at the door. When the door is opened he is closely questioned as to his business. Unless all the ques tion? are answered in a straightfor ward way he lis emphatically turned down. Sometimes the fellows show fight, when they are forcibly ejected and thrown out into the drive. It generally does not take more than one of the big watchmen to accomplish this, except where the intruder is very violent. The men at the door are most diplomatic. The crank who walks in with bluster and insists on seeing the President on the ground that be is an American citizen, and as much entitled to the use of the White House as any one, is quietly but firm ly reasoned with, and more often than not tbe guards succeed in getting him away by peaceful means. If he makes, any warlike demonstrations, .however, the touch of a finger on an electrio button calls the patrol wagon of the 3rd precinct, where Lieut. Boyle holds the prisoner until an inquiry cm be made into his sani ty by the physicians of police. If ho is adjudged insane he is sent across the river to St. Eliza beth's Asylum, or turned over to his friends, if he has any. Often, though, by a profession of repentance and de sire to get out of town, the orank ob tains his discharge from custody. The religious cranks who visit the White House are many. A short while ago one of them went there with a largo tin box under his arm, which he said contained a new kind of reli gion. He wanted the President to see it in order that a proclamation might be issued to the American public de claring it universal. There was noth ing in the box whatever, and after being gently reasoned with the crank departed, his mission unfulfilled. One night a strange man stole up the por tico, and, opening the door himself, stuck his head in and shouted at the top of his voice. "This is my house, get out!" and then ran away. He re turned after a short while and repeat ed the performance, and, much to his disgust, was hustled off, according to his mind, with more vigor than the occasion demanded. During President Harrison's administration a religious crank appeared who succeeded in see ing Major Halford, then the Presi dent's private secretary. He claimed that1 e was the advance agent of the Messiah, and was trying to raise enough money to erect a shrine or altar in Washington, about which all the Christians of the world in the days to come could kneel and worship. Not often do cranks get past the first two doorkeepers. If the guards of this door fail to notice any signs of dementia, the crank is obliged to pass another door at the foot of the stairs leading up to the Presidential offices, where again they are confronted by two messengers and a doorkeeper be foro they can see even the President's private secretary. No persons except the Cabinet office? are allowed to go into the Cabinet room, adjoining the President's private office, unannounc ed. Members of Congress all see th? private secretary before visiting the President, unless they come by special appointment, when they are shown in directly. Newly elected Congressmen have frequently been eyed askance by the doorkeepers and messengers, and now new members are usually brought to the White Hout;e by some of their colleagues that unpleasantness may be avoided. Of course, when the faces of the new visitors become familiar to the employees there is no longer any difficulty, and the business of presen tation is conducted with as little red tape as possible. Sometimes cranks do get into the presence of the President. This happened in the time of General Grcnt, when a woman by the name of Thurston came with a deed, elaborate ly engrossed on parchment, to the entire State of Maine. General Grant humored her, &nd finally succeeded without violence in getting her out of his office. In a short time she re turned, having increased her posses sions so that they included the whole of the United States. On her third visit she included the whole of Europe in her deed, hut she didn't see General Grant again. General Harrison had another female visitor who . owned most of the United States. He asked her to sit down and they had a talk of several minutes' duration. It appears that while she owned this property she desired to perfect her title to the 'same by a deed in fee simple from Benjamin Harrison. General Harri son told her he would he very glad to give her the deed if she would pay the taxes on it. Gen. Harrison was sitting out on the rear portico one evening talking to a member of Congress when a man bounced up over the rail and said -lie wanted to see the President. General Harrison quietly walked with him to the inside of the house and there, touching an eleotric button, summoned two doorkeepers, who promptly put the visitor out, and the man left with out knowing that he had seen the President. Forcible entrances to the White House have been attempted and made frequently from the rear, but, none of the intruders had ever pre viously succeeded in reaching the President. Secretary Thurherreceives such visitors, and when h"e finds that they are irresponsible he frequently soothes them getting rid of them with out calling on his messenger. Once Mr. Thurber became verymuch alirm ed, so it is said, by a crank to whom he refused permission to see President* Cleveland. After talking a few min utes the visitor suddenly reached around to his hip pocket, hut to Mr. Thurber's infinite relief, pulled but only a rusty, weather-beaten package of papers, from which he proceeded to discourse at great length upon the manifold injustices of our constituti onal Government. More trouble than was had from any other visitor was caused about a year ago by a big colored man who thought he had lizards, rats and snakes in his hoots and in his skin. It was a disease which only the President could cure He was arrested before he reached Mr. Thurber, and fought like a mad man until the police landed him in she cell. It would indeed be difficult for any crank to assasinate the Presidentin the White House, for a man. with so des perate purpose could not fail to attract the attention of the keepers of the main door and could never get in side the house. Lincoln was killed at a theatre and Garfield at a railroad, station, and as far as is known no at tempt has been made upon the life of ." a President in the White House. It: would seem that the Democratic prin ciples which govern the conduot of public affairs in this country might give frequent opportunities to cranks at the President's publio receptions,1 but even then he is most carefully guarded. On the nights of the big State receptions fifty-four policemen are detailed from the Washington po lice force. There are about twenty five or thirty of them inside the house and the remainder are on the outside, ! most of them mounted. It is remarka ble that there have bees few or no attempts at robbery, by thieves on the \ nights of these function a. The coats and wraps are carefully looked after; by the messengers, and although many | diainonds.are worn, on these occasions, SO careful is the scrutiny of the door way and at every five or ten feet until the' President's reception room is; reached that no malicious persons have got so far as the corridor leading to the President's room. Drunken persons are frequently taken out by the officers, but so orderly and rapidly is this business conducted that most paople never know it. The Washington monument seems to hold forth alluring possibilities to the. crank. About six months ago one of the watchmen on the monument hill saw a man leaning up against the base of the monument looking down, his hands on his hips, and pushing with his legs for dear life. He would push pn one side, then stop and look up in the air, and then walk around to the other side, where he renewed his ope-1 rations. The guard watched him fora while and then walked over to him. "I beg your pardon," he said, "but you aren't going to push it over, are you ?" "I could if I wanted to," said the other. "Iam a Samson, look atme and I will show you how to shake it," and he renewed his efforts until the veins in his forehead swelled* as if they were going to burst. "I wouldn't doit if I were you," said the guard. "It cost the Govern ment an awful lot of money, and it took fifty_ or sixty years to build it. Besides you know you might hurt somebody if you pushed the thing over that way. Then you wouldn't be so mean as to throw all of us fellows down here out of our jobs. I would let up a while if I were you." But the other fellow continued to struggle away, and said : "I don't believe you think I can do ii. Well, I will just shake it for you, anyhow. I will push, and you just look up at the top and see how it moves. The watchman did as requested, and, sure enough, the clouds scurrying past the cap showed him what had deluded the fellow into confidence in his super human strength. "Well, I didn't think you oould do it," he said, "and I guess I would stop if I were you." After a while, by dint of much soothing and arguing, the man was led away. He wandered north into the city and was never seen again. A wo man who visited the monument grounds believed the shaft was built of the souls of dead people. Each glistening speck of the granite, she said, was the soul of a friend. ? The female spider is always larger than the male, and if accounts be true, is of a rather peppery disposition, j When the husband becomes obstinate and will not obey orders, the loving wife eats him up to get rid of him, and seeks a more obedient spouset ? Cats and dogs cannot live at a greater elevation than 13,000 feet above sea level. Thr*w Away His Cones. Mr. D. Wiley, ex-postmaster, Black Creek, N. Y., was so badly afflicted with rheumatism that he was only able to hobble around with canes, and even then it caused him great pain. After using Chamberlain's Pain Balm he was so much improved that he threw away his canes. He says this liniment did him more good than all other med icines and treatment put together. For sale at 5/0 cents per bottle by Bill in Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Potatoes are siz cents a bushel at Plainfield, Wis. - ? Physiologists say that among English-speaking people brown hair predominates. ? New York, whose charter dates baok to the year 1664, was the first incorporated city within the limits of the United States. ? Mildred?I wouldn't marry the best man in the world 1 Mr. Suitor? . There is no danger; the bride"never gets the best man. ? "Does Willie tell lies, G?orgie?" s "No'm;I don't think he doss.U-a. "What makes you.think*that7,^'THe | gits so-many lickins." ? Hungary is tocelebrate nexb^e? the millennium, of her existence; A thousand years of national existence is what few countries can boast. ? Minnesota and South Dakota are the only two States in the Union thai have half of their population made uj of foreign-burn residents. ?<}od's way of giving is strength for daily needs. He who would serve God wisely and well m\ use to-day's strength?and to-di.y'? strength only?for the duties of to-day. ? If the* government should eoin $50,000,000 a month in legal tender silver dollars, how would the farmers of this section get any of it ? W?l. some free silver'advocate please an- - swer ? ? While digging in the side oi? a bank in Belfast, Me., the other day, workmen found a snake's nesTr^^jn-, taining thirty-nine snakes, locatea"aT a point below the surface which frssfc would be unlikely to reach. ? No liquor has been sold for 40 ' years in the town of Bessbrook, I-e., where John G. Richardson.employs 3,000 people in the Whufa?ture ' of |-Irish linen, and theie is neither poliile man/prison, pawnshop nor pauper in the town. ?- The longest tunnels, in propor tion to the sise of the workers, 2,rc. those constructed by the South Ameri can ants. One of these has bean traced two miles, and during.its course it passed under a stream nearly fifty yards in width. ?.During 1894 3,315 patents re lating to electricity were granted lin Great Britain, the United States and Germany. Of these 1,130 were Brit* iBh, being one-twentieth of all Britiiih patents, 1,704 were American, and 4ttl were German. ? A breakfast for Tip, the Central Park, elephant, consisted of 55 gal lons of water, followed by one bushel [of carrots, 24. head of ; cabbage, 50 loaves of bread,' 250 pounds of "nay.*" For desert he had peanutB, offered by scores of small boys. ?r The cat i 3 called kat in Danish and Dutch, katt in Swedish, chat in French, katti or katze in German, catus in Latin, gatto in Italian, gato in Portuguese and Spanish, kot in Polish, kots in Russian, cath in Welsh, kath in Cornish, catua in Basqu i ana gaz in Armenian. ' ? When an African buffalo ia wounded by a hunter it is surrounded by several others, who immediately group themselves round, him and help him along in their midst by shoving against his side until they have reach ed a place of safety. ? Jones (to Brown who had just dropped in to borrow a fiver)?Well, I'll do it this time, bat I wonder yoti are not ashamed to be always in debt j Look at me. I don't owe a penny. Brown?Dare say not, old man. You haven't a borrowing face!" Nobody i would trust you. ? A fond grandmother .tells the ! following story of a grand child : An aunt was talking to her of God's laws - and of obeying them, when the child surprised them by saying "Wel? is a good deal easier to obe., Ood's laws than it is grandma's?she~~has so many." ? Among the replies to an adver tisement of a nusical candidate as organist, music-teacher, etc., was the following : "Gentlemeu--Ihotice yOur j? advertisement for an organist and music-teacher, either lady or gentle man. Having been both for several years, I offer,you my services." ? Last summer baby was very buBy supervising everything that went on at the farm. After awhile she pushed away her chair at supper one after noon, declaring tliat she did not want any more milk. . "Why not, dear ?" asked mamma, gently. "Because," said baby, with an air of superiority, "I know all about it now. Milk is nothing but chewed grass." ? Several weeks ago'a young hound puppy was born at-the Berkeley jail, at Monck's Corcer, which was cer tainly a curiosity. The pup was well formed, but its two ears, instead'of being upon its head, were down on its neck, and it was born with only one eye and that was on the end of its nose and wide open at the time of its birth. Th? mother of this freak of nature was one of the pair used to track criminals in thiB county.?Sum merville Newt. ? The little daughter of Mr. Fred - Webber, Holland, Mass., has a very bad cold and cough which he hzdraob*<"* been able to cure with any thing. I gave him a 25 cent; bottle of Chamber lain's Cough Remedy, says W.-P. Holden, merchant and postmaster at West Brimfield, and the nex.t time I saw him he said it worked like a charm. Tljis remedy is intended especially for acute throat and lung diseases such as colds, croup and whooping cough, and it is famous for its cures. There is no danger in giving it to children for it contains nothing injurious. Foria?e by HIT! Bros. - ^ 9 mm Hypocrites. The man who does not join too church because there are hypocrites there, doesn't hesitate to ; join the club for the same reason. Business is full of hypocrites, but he does not hesitate to take heavy chances with them. The theatre is full of them. He pays good money te enjoy the hypo crite there. The actor was the origi ual hypocrite. Society hubbies and seethes with them, but who thinks of turning hermit because of hypocrites in society. Married life is no exception, and ! yet our critic does not remain a bach- ^ ' elor on that account. Hades is said to be peopled with them, yet to avoid their constant so ciety he never attempts to go where hypocrites can never enter. If you are honest, you will acknowledge^ yourself to be the prince of hypocrites in this matter. The devil will continue to make hypocrites as long as there are good men that he can counterfeit.?-The