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BYCLINKXCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19 1896._ VOLUME XXX.?NO 34 ?
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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...
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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.
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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