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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEKSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1897. VOLUME XXXII. KO. 33 Vi>'^?>' -i^- i?> i> -Jai/ ^> -i?. \i?< -ici'' 5? ' --?*^ --cf *??> xi^'^??' > vt/ I, I A DOLLAR in an ordinary place is worth simply a dollar, as a soldier in the ranks is one of the many. A dollar in ?ome special place may be worth more than a dollar. This Store is the Special Place. Your dollar is worth above par here. You can save Twenty live Cents on every dollar spent with us on CLOTH ING or WINTER UNDERWEAR. That's what Ave mean by our Twenty-five per Cent Discount Sale. You -want to know the reason for this. It is simple : Got too much Clothing and Winter Underwear on hand, and we don't propose to carry it over. 10. EY?NSI CO. ii vjy v?/ v?/ \?/ v^vcz THE GREAT SYRACUSE TURN PLOW HAS mai?e for itself an everlasting reputation. Hundreds and hundreds of the Best farmers in Anderson County are now using them, and will tell you that it has no equal. It is second to none. Those that have used them tell us that they can't say too much in their praise. We know of a goodly num ber of farmers who have been using a Plow that they bought for the best. They have now laid them aside and are usiDg the Great Syracuse Chilled. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Try one and be convinced. Sat isfaction guaranteed or money refunded. STEEL PLOWS. We have just received a Car load. They have the correct shape and the corr?cfc til iciness We sell the GENUINE STARKE'S DIXIE. Beware of imitations. We have the largest stock of BRIDLES and LEATHER COLLARS ever brought to Anderson-all bought before the advance in Leather. We are always glad to give our customers the beuefit of our lucky purchases. On BARB WIRE and POULTRY WIRE we defy competition. For DOORS, SASH and BLINDS and BUILDERS' HARDWARE remember that we are Headquarters. * We are yours truly, BS?- If your Water Works need repairing remember that we have two first-class Plumbers with us._B. B. DEAN & RATLIFFE SAY ! jj -o- D ?TTTINTER has just struck us, and woful prophets predict more of it. The ? YY man who ?as to fie by hi" fire al! during the snows sleets and chill- y ing blasts with paper-bottomed SHOES, ripped from heel to toe, or get his jv* feet wet in the effort to koeo his family's feet dry, will have to cuss somebody P otbor than DEAN & RATLIFFE for the fault. We announce our readiness H to keep your family's feet drv at a moderate cost if vou buy your Shoes from H us. Why pay $1 50 for a ?1.00 Shoe, or $1 75 for a ?1.25 Boot ? We will save h you money and save your health. Don't take our word for it, but come jd and see yourself. P We ar?! not only economists in clo'hing the feet comfortably, but pride cur- M Bt elves on our record in clothing the inner man. With our- * y DEAN'? PATENT FLOUR R We challenge comparison with the whole world It is what you want-"ihe H ?3 best for the least money. s I DEAN & RATLIFFE, I g Guano Dealers, Cotton Buyers and Money Savers to the Trade. g THE DUTCHMAN ONCE SUNG : "Meat means tings dat's good to eat, Meet also mean:? tings dat's brober ; 'Tis only mete to measure des? tings Ven steampoats meet the stabber." That Dmchman caught the idea on the first jump, and if you would be wise and want to get fut and jody like the typical Dutchman, ( Mayor Tolly or our Senior,) you will lose no time to visit cur Establishment, where you will find everything that is gocd to eat, such ns Fresh Meats, Vegetables, Fruits and Canned Goods, Cured Meats, Flour, Meal, Sugar, Molasses, And everything necessary for seasoning and shortening. We handle everything to eat-the best that can be procured, and at the lowest pricts. Free City Delivery. Telephone No. 41. JG. H. POORE ?Se CO., City Market. DEPOT STREET. O ^?^ir^?l ^1 That haye a National Reputation LJJ W VBA3 for Reliability BUIST'S YOUR father planted them, his father planted them, and possibly your great-great grandfather planted them, too. Sow "BUIST'S" and have Vegetables like your daddies. We have BUIST'S Seeds for Wholesale Trade. Also, a large lot of Onion Sets. Evans5 Pharmacy, No. 4 Hotel Chiquola. TIIOS. A. ARCHER. CLARENCE OSBORNE. ARCHER * OSBORNE rSTISH the public to know that they have recently onened up a new line of FIRST YY OLASS Cooking and Heating Stoves, Cooking Utensils of all kinds, Crockery, Lamps, Glassware, Tinware, Woodenware, &c, And that they propose selling them as cheap a3 anybody in A mlerbon. Come and see our Goods and get our prices. We will treat vou right. Wo want your f rad<\ We want to give you full value for it. Weareal.-o prepared to do all kinds of TIN WORK, such ai Roofing, Guttering and Repairing. Our Shop is well equipped, and wc will do your work on short notice and at rea sonable prices. 2fir- Wre aro keen np for bimneB.0. Don't Rive us the go-by. Ifonrs truly, ARCHER & OSBORNE. AN ELECTRIC WONDER. Edison's Carbonized Filament and its Work. Kew York Sun. How many persons realize, as they sit under the brilliant glow of the i candescent electric light, what a won derful thing is the bit of carbon fi] ment that gives life to this modern substitute for the tailow dip of the forefathers ? Only two generations ago mankind was content and even thankful when night came on to put fire to the wick of a tallow candle, an then, armed with a pair of scissors like snuffers, to trim the crusting wick from time to time, and, leanin far over toward the public light, carry on study or reading for pleasure with a full belief that nothing better could be devised to dispel the shadow Later came the solar lamp, which fed with sperm oil, proved vastly better, and a generation ago, with th discovery of cheap gas making and of kerosene oil, it seemed as if both city and country people were provided with illuminants which had made night as nearly like day as was possible for tb finite powers of man. Then in the late seventies came tha most wonderful practical demonstra tion by the wizard of Menlo Park that there was a new use for electricity ushering in a light which put all oth ors into the shade and proved to th whole world that the possibilities of enthralled lightning were beyond all the previous dreams of mankind To-day, in homes or offices, in hotels theatres, railroad stations, street cars and ferryboats one finds this subtl genius doing its work, and whether one be in America or Europe it is only neoessary to turn a button to flood the rooms with light. For this, which is perhaps the greatest blessing given by inventions of modern days, one man is to be thanked, and he is Thomas A. Edison. He is the inven tor of the carbon filamont which has made the incandescent electric lamp a commercial success, and the industries to which his genius gave life have perfected and cheapened it until there are few towns so small that they can not have the benefit of this best of lights. By the later developments of storage batteries even isolated country houses are provided with plants which enable them to vie with houses of the city in brilliant illumination. Tesla and a few others of the great men of electrical science hold out promises that some day people may be able to do away with the present form of elec tric lighting and substitute for it tubes which will glow brilliantly, but this is all in the future. There is noth ing at present to compete with the invention of Edison. What this electric lamp is all can see. There is first a bulb of clear glass set in a socket which- contains also a button which turns the vivify ing current. Within this bulb quiv ers the soul of the lamp. With the lamp lighted this appears to be merely a curved streak of fire. It may bo possible fer the eye to distinguish that it has in some cases the form of an elongated horseshoe, and in others that this is complicated by thc addi tion of a longer or shorter oval section between the outer lines of the U, but no eye is sharp enough to pierce the brilliancy of its light, and see the actual thing from which the radiance proceeds. Look at thc lamp again by daylight with the electric current turned off, and there, within the bulb of glass, you will see a tiny thread of something black, BO delicate that it rivals the aspen leaf in its restlessness. This is the Edison carbon filament, which ?3 not only the great light giver of the new era, but is at thc same time one of the Ldost expensive bf the. products of human ingeuuity. A few of the products of Nature's laboratory, costly because of their rarity, such as gems of diamond, ruby, sapphire, and pearl, surpass this common charcoal in value, but gold is as dross compared with it, and the man who would purchase car bon filaments with silver would have to repeat the later experiences of the folks of the Southern Confederacy, who took their money to market in a basket and brought home their pur chase in a purse. Somebody writing in a trade newspaper recently directed attention to the enormous value which these filaments have when estimated by the pound avoirdupois, and a Sun reporter went to the lamp works of the General Electric Company at Harri son, Ni J., to look into this interest ing subject. Superintendent Eyre became interested in this view of the subject at once, although it was not a new one to him, and, summoning some of his department assistants, he made, with their help, some very interesting oalculations. The standard lamp for general use is of sixteen-candle power. Out of the 20,000,000 electric lamps used every year in the world this size is believed to aumbor 90 percent. A carbon fila ment for that 6ized lamp measures .1-1,000 of an inch in diameter and 10 inches in length, and 200 of these put upon a scale weighed ten grains. Mr. Eyre's calculations soon demonstrated that, with 7,000 grains to the pound avoirdupois, it would take 140,000 of these filaments to make a'pound, and that at the current market rate for these, $10 a thousand, their value would be $1,400. A man can carry 150 pounds in a sack on his back, and if the sack were filled with such bits of carbon his load would bc worth $210,000. Take buta single pound of thee filaments and stretch them out in a continuous straight line, and they would cover a space of 113,333 feet, or about 21.3 miles. The world's product for a year would reach ?5,157 miles, and in a little more than seven years, at thc present rate, would reach completely around the globe. But thc value of the filament of this size is small when compared with that of some for the smallest of the lamps made. Whether a filament be for large or small lamps it costs about the same sum to market it, but its candle power makes a great difference in its size and weight. The smallest of the incandescent lamps used for regular purposes is of three-candle power. For this thc filament is of a plain U shape, and is G-1,000 inch in diameter and 3-H inch long. Mr. Eyre's calculations showed that there would bc l,000 of these to a pound, and these would be worth $10,000. But, again, the lamp makers manu facture many tiny lamps for surgical and dental purposes. The smallest of these is called tin poa lani]). Us tiny bulb is about one-fourth of an inch in diameter, and physicians use it at the end of probes and similar instrument-: to illuminate tho interior ol' the hu man body. Its carbon filament is but 2-1,000 of an inch in diameter and but one-eighth of an inch long. This is but the 320th part of the volume ol the sixtcen-candle power filament and, as a consequence, it was easilj figured that it would take 44,800,09C of these to make a pound, and theil value would bc $448,000. "Whew!" said Mr. Eyre when he had verified his figures, "I did not know that we had anything so valua ble about the factory. I think some time I will have to walk off with a pound of these." The head of the filament department laughed. "Where would you get them ?" he asked. "In the whole history of this factory we never made anything like a pound of them, and if we had where would you sell them ?" "Well, an ounce would do," said Mr. Eyre. Of course the larger the filaments are the less they are worth by weight, but whether they are of value ci $1,400 a pound or $44S,000 it is inter esting to consider that practically ail of this value is the product of human labor and skill. The material out cf which they arc produced costs hut a few cents. Their history and the way in which they are produced are know:i to but few except those who are inti mately associated with their produc tion. In the early days of experimenting with the electric light the current wan passed through a thin wire of plati num. Thc reader may remember at that time Mr. Edison had agents look ing all over the world for new sources of supply of that rare metal. Then, as now, nearly all tho platinum of the world came from two districts in the Ural mountains in Siberia. Had the people remained dependent upon plat inum for their lamps they would have needed for each one a piece of wire G-1,000 inch in diameter and 15 inches long, and this at the present price of platinum-$13 an ounce-would cost 10 cents. The world's whole product of this metal in 1S87 was but about 9,500 pounds, and would have been inadequate for the present lamp sup ply. Even to-day, with a product of perhaps 12;000 to 13,000 pounds, there would be but a small margin left after making 20,000,000 lamps, and merely the cost of the filaments would be $2,000,000. It was at this junc ture that Edison conceived the idea of using a carbon filament. He confided his idea to his chief assistant, Mr. Batchellor, and they began work one evening. It is one of Edison's pecu liarities, that once started upon a piece of work, he does not stop , for sleep or sometimes even food. The material from which he proposed to make his filament was a spool of Clark's cotton thread. All that night Edison and Batchellor worked and all the next day, and then again all night. At the end of thirty-six hours they had produced a perfect filament. Mr. Batchellor took it up and they march ed with it toward the bench where a glass blower was at work. Just as they reached the bench the carbon broke. "Edison," cried Batchellor. "we won't sleep until we make one.' Back they went to work, and late in the afternoon they completed a second carbon loop. Again they marched with it to the glass blower's bench and placed it there in safety, but just then a jeweller's screwdriver rolled over it and broke it. Batchellor was an even tempered man, but that was too much. "I'm dammed," he cried, "Job got too much reputation for patience on a small capital." There was no giving up,, however. Back to work the two men went. Ex perience had been a good teacher, and before night they had completed a third filament, got it safely mounted in a bulb, exhausted the air, and set it glowing with the electric current. For the great illumination at Menlo Park, which followed, the filaments were made of pieces stamped out of visiting "cards, and many after that were stamped from paper. Others were made from slivers of bamboo. Weston was the first, perhaps, to use vegetable parchment for the purpose, but that is what the General Electric Company use to-day. This is virtu ally the material out of which artifi cial silk is made. Just the materials and process used no filament maker will tell, for this is one of the last of the trade secrets, aDd the only one about lamp making. A mixture of vegetable matter, rich in carbon, like paper stock or cotton, is taken and is digested with sulphuric acid or chlo rides until it is a gummy mass about as thick as dough. This is forced through dies, just as vermicelli is made, and it comes out in endless strings? For sixteen-candle power filaments the die has an aperture 22 1,000 of an inch in diameter. The striug of paste falls into a jar partly filled with a secret liquid, where it lies in coils. Then it is run out, washed, and partly dried and coiled on cylinders to become entirely dry. Then it is cut into proper lengths, with allowance for shrinkage, and taken in bunches and wound on shap ers to give it thc form desired and set into form by being heated slightly. Now it is ready for carbonizing. This is done by packing the bunches in crucibles with sifted charcoal or other carboniferous substances, and, after scaling, by baking it iu a hot fire for one and a half days. When it is taken out every thread is black and shiny and seems to have a perfect surface, but it is not ready for use. Now each filament is taken separately and clamped with each end in a live electric current, and while it is im mersed in a vaper of gasoline the cur rent is passed through it. Thc effect is to deposit upon the white-hot fila ment a coating of lamp black, or car bonized gasoline, which gives it quali ties uot otherwise obtainable. In the early days of their manufacture only eight li!-candle power lamps could be lit by one-horse-power, but now fifteen arc used. Thc filament is now ready to bc mounted iu the lamp. There are thirty lamp factories in the United States. Only about half of these make their own filaments. Thc others buy them from special manufacturers. One of thc largest of . these filament makers is in Newark, N. J. All thc lamp factories in the United States produce altogether about 11,000,000 lamps a year. Of this product 0,000.000 are turned out at the factory of the General Electric Company, at Harrison. Unlike those fragile filaments which Edison produced the new ones are handled easily, and, although they break easily when bent sharply, they are so springy that they can bc drawn straight out without danger and then allowed to fly back to shape. With thc development of thc car bon filament has come a gradual change in all the processes of lamp making until the prices of 10-candle power lights has fallen grad nally from $1.25 each to 20 cents, or even a trifle less when takeu by contract in large lots. Few of the clever products of human skill can hold equal pracc for value with, these simple bits of charcoal fila ment. Some which will compare with them are to be found, however, in thc watchmaking industry. Two of these are the jewels which protect the pivot holes from wear and thc delicate steel hair-springs. Jewels for fine watches arc made of sapphire, and the material has a value of perhaps $4 an ounce. Outside of all that is labor. Others, for common watches, are made of gar net, and this material has hardly any value. Just how much a pound of the most costly of these might be worth no one has figured, for they vary greatly according to size and finish. Jewellers keep ?hem in little vials, each about one inch long and a quarter of an inch in diameter, and these will hold, perhaps, 200 large jewels or 2,500 small ones. An oblig ing jeweller emptied out a vial which had contained 1,000 garnet jewels of medium sizes-there were four sizes in the vial-and weighed them. They scaled 13 carats or 41 1-G grains. At this rate there would be 170,000 to the pound, and a3 their value was 8 1-3 cents each, the pound would cost $14,166.66. Hair-springs, made of steel worth but a few cents a pound, are valued afc great sums by weight. A dozen of them of assorted sizes weigh about four grains, and there would be 21,000 of them to thc pound, or 1,750 dozen. The cheapest which are untempered, cost 25cents a dozen, and a pound of these would be worth $437.50. Tempered springs of a good quality cost about $2.25 a dozen, and a pound of these would be worth $3,937.50. There are, however, a great many hair-springs made the value of which is much greater. There are regular springs at $8 a dozen, a pound of which would cost $14,000, and special small springs for tiny watches which cost from $1.25 to $2.50 each. A pound of these would be worth about $70,000, for they would weigh not more than three grains to the dozen. Another of the very expensive arti lles of manufacture, and one connect ?d, like the carbon filaments, with lighting, is the "Welsbach gas mantle. The mantles are worth about 50 cents 2ach, and when they are on the burn ers and ready for use they are almost is light as air. They are originally ?roven in the foam in which they are seen in ?se, of cotton thread. They ire then dipped in a solution of the .are metal zirconium, and dried. The nomcnt the gas is lighted under them me cotton flames up and is burned, caving the zirconium in the form of in oxide, keeping the mantle form, jut with so little substance that a puff vould destroy and dissipate them. It s because of their small substance ,hat a very little gas flame heats them ,o incandescence. There are also ither processes of making them, but lone varies much from this. Zirco lium is an extremely refractory metal, md has been used successfully for -ips on chalk pencils for the calcium light. Saved by an Apparition. The following remarkable occur .ence, an absolute fact, is related by i lady visiting friends in Hartford, as fc was told her by her cousin in Meer it, northwestern India. It took place n the house of the sister of the narra ;or. Of its absolute accuracy there ian be no question. The two sisters n India are connected with families )f repute and with officers in the Brit sh army in India. We give thc story is the lady here related it. She is a levoufc member of the Episcopal ;hurch, and is incapable of misrep esenting in the slightest particular. Her cousin, in whose house the oc ;urrence took place, was seated at a ighted table engaged in reading, when, hinking it about time to retire, and appening to lift her eyes from her :ook, she was astonished to see seat id in a chair before her, and between ?ersclf and the door to the bathroom, i man, a stranger to her, who calmly ?egarded her. It was too great a sur mise for her to speak and demand vho was thus intruding unbidden upon ier privacy, and what was wanted. ;he remained for a moment in silent istonishment. Then it gradually dawned upon her /lat the figure was probably not that )f a person of real flesh and blood, but L visitor from the unseen world of life. She remembered having once, 13 a child, seen a similar figure, under iircumstanccs which seemed to pre lude tho idea that it was any person still in the body, and in later years, ,n revolving these circumstances, she lad remembered how the apparition iad, after a while, faded away into in visibility. Concluding that this new visitor also was not a person of flesh md blood, she sat silently gazing at ;lie silent object, while the intruder, whoever or whatever it was, sat in si ence, Bteadily regarding her. Just low long this state of things lasted ;te lady did not accurately know, but t was probably not very long when ,b.c mysterious stranger began to van sh into thinner and thinner personal presence, until in a moment or two he liad vanished quite away. It was the lady's hour for her eve ling bath, but she thought she would irst let out her two pct dogs from :hcir confinement in another room. They came barking furiously and run ling directly toward the bathroom. There, through the open door, the lady was horrified to see on the floor a noustrous corba-the snake whose bite is certain death. Springing for rard to save her dogs, she quickly shut the door, but not so instantane lusly as to prevent her seeing the rep tile turning and escaping down through i hole in the floor where the drain pipes of bathtub and washbowl went i hole which had boen carelessly left larger than was necessary. If she had gone directly to thc bath room, as she would have done but for thc intervention of her mysterious visitant, her lifo would undoubtedly bave been sacrificed in thc act.-Hart ford Times. - Mrs. Smith (thoughtfully)-I'm afraid that I shall have to stop giving Bobby that tonic tho doctor left. Mr. Smith (anxiously)-Why, isn't he any better? Mrs. Smith-Oh, yes; but he has slid down the banisters six times this morning, broken the hall lamp, two vases, a pitcher and a look ing glass, aud I don't feel that I can stand any more. $100 Reward. $100. Tho readers of ihis paper trill bc pleased lo learn I hal lhere is at least one dreaded disenso thal sci ence has been able to cure in all its stages, and that ls Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is thc only posi tive cure now known to Ibe medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu? ional disease requires a constitutional treatment. Hall'*) Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blond and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de stroying tho foundation of the di ease, and Riving ihc paulent strength by building np Hie constitu tion ind assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have BO much filth in its rurative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it falls to cure. Send for list of tts tlm'/niala ELL AltFS LETTER. Bill Lies Upon a Lounge and Ruminates as the Children Pomp About Him. Atlanta Constitution. I consider myself an injured person -"wife gone to thc missionary meeting, my two daughters gone visiting and here I am alone with three grandchil dren-got to watch them until some body comes. I've never seen one of the stock that wasn't full of mischief and frolic. Thought I would take a little nap on the sofa while they play ed around, but it was no usc. They got all the chairs in a row and played railroad and locomotive awhile. Then they playea soldier imd fired guns and killed one another and fell dead. Then they played horse and ruu around the center table. I thought thc little girls would get tired after a while and settle down to their dolls and make a playhouse, but the boy didn't like that and so the racket continu ed. They turned the chairs up side down and slid down the backs head foremost, and rolled over and turned sommersaults, and then jump ed off the table and lounge and shook the floor and made the windows rattle like an earthquake. Will they never get tired? thought I. No, never. But by and by, when lcame home she set tled them down and played club fist and trimbletoewith them and Iliad peace. My folks have got an idea that it suits me to take care of the children, and the children have an idea that they are to do as they please when there's nobody around but me, and so I suffer myself imposed on and feel like an injured person. I believe I will go to the missionary society myself nest time. But, after all there is no use in pos ing as a domestic martyr or a patri archal pack horse about these things, for I do like to have the little chaps around me, especially little girls. Children are a blessing to the house hold. They take away our selfish ness and purify our feelings. Their joy and glee and sportive happinc3S carries the old people back to their carly life when thc days were all sun shine. It is a sad sympathy we feel when we sec them so happy now and foresee the troubles that await them. Poor Tom Hood. How sad he wa. when he penned these touching lines: "I remember, I remember The hr trees, dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky. It was a childish ignoranco, But now 'tis little joy To know I am farther off from hea ven Than when I waa a boy. There is no happiness like a child's. If I could I would exchange all that I have realized since I was sixteen years old for that I had before. Those sixteen years are about one-third of the average life and the memories of them are more precious than all the rest. If a child is blessed with loving, indulgent parents those years are an unbroken season of unalloyed enjoy ment. Sometimes I see my wife look ing sad and dreamily into the glowing embers and know she is thinking aboui, her children or her childhood, and recalling the joys of her youth, when she had a mother and could lay her head upon her lap ar,d feel the soft caresses of her gentle hand. What a weight of care and anxiety presses continually upon the heart of a moth er. How often do her prayers ascend to Heaven in the dark watches of the night-prayers for their health, their welfare, their good conduct, their sal vation. But with all the cares, anxieties and forebodings, children are our greatest blessing and the family the greatest bulwark of good society and good government. It is the law of our being that man and woman should mate and marry and rear children, and there is no substitute foi: the marriage relation. I hardly knew the value of a child until a few weeks ago a dear little grandchild got sick-very sick, and for days and nights was very near the gate of Heaven. She suffered, and we watched and suffered with her. Her little lips and throat were in flamed and swollen with diphtharetic sores. Her lungs rattled with pneu monia. How she pleaded with us for help-for relief-pleaded with eyes and hands, and we could do nothing but caress her and weep. I would have given a million dollars-yes, ten million, if I had had it-to relieve that child and save her from suffering. Prayers or medicine or good nursing or something saved her, and we are all grateful. What is the value of a child, anyhow? If one was up at auc tion what would the mother give? How insignificant is property or gold or sivcrwhen compared with it. What are we all working for hut children, their happiness and prosperity. Dan iel Webster, the greatest man this country has ever produced, said: "A good father will shrink from no toil, no sacrifice to raise his children to a better condition than his own." If I was a judge and a father was brought before me for stealing, or even for robbing, I would seek to know the hidden motives that prompted him to thc crime. Many a mau steals or cheats to get somethiug for the chil dren, and the world is outraged and calls him a thief and thc law sends him to the chaingang. But, after all, it is thc mother who screens them, protects them and wraps them in her bosom. I thought my wife was tired and would like to rest in her old age, but the maternal in stinct still possesses her, and she seoras as much concerned about the grandchildren as she ever did about her own. In fact, she is loss exacting and more indulgent. Thc little boy we have with us is a young cyclone and keeps the home in an uproar. When I get outraged with his tumul tuous racket and threaten him with punishment my wife takes his part and says he is nothing but a baby. Yes, a four-year-old baby, who slain s thc door like an athlete forty times an hour and don't mind any body, and I could regulate him in an hour if 1 had my way. My wife nev er allowed such liberties fromherown. They were afraid of a spanking, or of being shut up in thc parlor when they got too boisterous. And now she pleads for this boy and says he is nothing but a baby. But I'll get him some of these days when she goes to the missionary meeting-sec if I don't. I've promised him a licking every day for two months and he re treats to her and looks defiance atnie. Hut I'll get him, sec if 1 don't. Ile is nothing but a baby, but he takes the dog to thc cow lot and sets him on the cow, and when 1 tell him that the cow will hom him and that she gives him milk, he says he don't want any more milk, lie lets the chickens out of the coop, but ho is nothing but a baby. But I'l get him before the year ia out-yee ii' 1 don't. I'll do like Dick Johnston, who was tryi?g to raise his boy on love. But the boy got so bad that one day Dick picked up a lath and walloped him good. It was a desperate remedy and hada fine temporary effect, and Dick walked the piazza with a triumphant stride. "I told you I was going to whip you, sir. For live long years I have promised you a whipping, and now you have got it, you son of Belial." And Dick puffed and blowed like he had fought a great fight and whipped the fight. Ile bragged about the performance for a week. But it didn't do the boy any lasting good. The whipping came just five years too late. I never did take much stock in bad little boys. They are a nuisance, not only at home, but abroad. Boys rhyme with noise, and thc little rascals want a gun or some fire crackers or a drum or a tin horn. It always seemed strange to me that mothers love their boys better than their girls, but I reckon it is right. I have known boys who had no other friend. A father loves his boys according to their conduct, but a mother loves them anyhow. A sweet little girl is a treasure in the family. She is very close kin to the angels. Her value cannot be es timated in dollars and cents. If she is seriously sick the alarm paralyzes everything about the house. We whisper our anxieties in sad voices. We walk lightly and close the doors gently and breathe our prayers silent ly. If she dies there is an aching void the world can never fill. What is the value of a child? When the railroad train kills a man the law yers sue for his value. It may be a thousand or ten thousand or fifty thousand, according to his conse quence, but that; is nothing compared with the value of a little child. IIow rich these mothers arc-rich in their children! How utterly poor when they lose them! BILL ARP. A Blind Man Builds a Honse. Paul S. Pinkham is a resident of Millbridge, Me., who, though blind, has succeeded in building, unaided, a better house than most carpenters in possession of all their faculties would construct. Pinkham has been bereft of sight since he was 12 years old and he is now 55. The house which Pinkham built, says the Philadelphia Press, is a spacious house, with a comfortable and roomy look, a story and a half high, with a long ell one story high. The clapboarding is well put on and the windows, doors, and exterior finish look as if done by an expert carpenter, while the interior is as perfect in its plan and construction as one could expect. Yet Paul Pinkham, sightless, planned the house and built it. There is not a stick or nail or stone or brick in its construction, from foundation to roof, that he did not place there. The house as it stands is a hand some monument to the industry and unfaltering courage of its maker, and a convincing proof in support of the time-honored adage, "Where there's a will there's a way." It is also a suggestive reminder that there is some dormant faculty in man that asserts itself wh6n necessity makes a demand upon it, else how could blind Paul Pinkham plan and construct this house, or do other things equally won derful, and to thc verity of which the neighbors bear witness ? At 21 Mr. Pinkham's father, who had been a well-to-do shipmaster, died, leaving him penniless and alone. The neighbors pitied "poor, blind Paul," and it was the generally accepted theory that Paul would ere long find his way to the town farm, to be cared for at thc public expense. But Paul was made of better stufe. Although up to that time he had done little for his own maintenance, he at once set about devising means whereby to sup port himself. He feared at the outset that his Mindless might prove an in surmountable obstacle to making his way, but he did not lie down under the fear, ile shipped with Capt. Wilson, of Millbridge, on the schooner Forest and made one trip along the coast. Ile soon discovered that some lateut sense or faculty wa 3 developing, enabling him to know of the presence of objects and to estimate distances. What this sense is Mr. Pinkham can not explain, although in him it has now reached a high stage of develop ment. Ile next shipped in the schooner Sympathy and found thc work more easily performed. With this trip the season was at an end, and during the winter he added to his savings by saw ing firewood and chopping cordwood. Then he ventured into peddling clams, and was fairly su?cessful. With his earnings he purchased a boat and fitted it out for lobster catching. He hired a boy to steer the boat while he at tended to the traps. The danger which lobster catchers fear greatly is being nipped by the jaws of the lob sters when handling them. Men with good sight are frequently thus nipped and receive painful wounds, yet Paul Pinkham handled his lobsters bare handed, and so nicely was thc sense of touch, or prescience, or whatever it may bc termed developed, that he was never caught by a lobster, al though bc coutinucd in thc business for twenty-seven years. In addition to his home Pinkham has built many boats that sail to-day near Millbridge, and they are all good models and easy sailers. He also made some fine showcases and various other forms of fancy woodwork. His neighbors generally look to him for small jobs of delicate wood repairing, and he turns out the work as rapidly, and with far less appearance of mental worry, than many clear-visoned car penters exhibit. "Whenever I set out to doa thing," says Mr. Pinkham, "I plan it in my mind, and that picture remains for ever before me. I made the plan of this house, arranged just how far back from thc mad it should sit. how high it should be. and how long and wide. I saw in my mind thc shape it should assume before I started to make thc excavation for thc cellar wall. I made thc excavation, laid the wall, raised tho frame, boarded and clap boarded it, put tn thc windows and made the doors and hung them, lathed aud plastered the interior and painted thc exterior, and I even topped out the chimneys." His neighbors call Pinkham's house "the miracle.'" Chicago Tr i Int II c. Threw Away His Canes. Mr. D. Wiley, cx-postmaster, Black Creek, X. V., was so badly alllicted with rheumatism that he was only able to hobble around with canes, aud 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 lini ment did hid him more good than all other medicines and t^atment put together. For sale, at 50 cents per boWlc, by Hill Un- Drug Co. Stonewall Jackson's Death. Gen Horace Porter, in his "Cam paigning with Grant," in the February Century, relates the following anec dote of an occurrence after the Wil derness campaign: While our people were putting up the tents and mak ing preparations for supper, Gen. Grant strolled over to a house near by owned by a Mr. Chandler, and sat down on the porch. I accompanied him, and took a seat beside him. In a few minutes a lady came to the door, and was surprised to find that the visitor was the gencral-in-chief. He was al ways particularly civil to ladies, and he rose to his feet at once, took off his hat and made a courteous bow. She was lady-like and polite in her beha vior, and she and the general soon be came engaged in a pleasant talk. Her conversation was exceedingly enter taining. She said, among other things: "This house has witnessed some sad scenes. One of our greatest generals died here just a year ago Gen. Jackson-Stonewall Jackson, of blessed memory.' ' 1 'Indeed,'' remark ed 'Gen. Grant. "He and I were at West Point together fora year and we served in the same army in Mexico." "Then you must have known what a good and great man he was," said the lady. "Oh, yes," replied the gener al; "he was a. sterling, manly cadet, and enjoyed the respect of every one who knew him. He was always a re ligious turn of mind, and a plodding, hard-working student. His standing was at first very low in his class, but by his indomitable energy he managed to graduate quite high. He was a gallant soldier and a Christian gentle man, and I can understand fully the admiration your people have for him." "They brought him here the Mon day after the battle of Chancellors ville," she continued. "You prabably know, sir, that he had been wounded in the left arm and right hand by his own men, who fired upon him acci dentally in the night, and his arm had been amputated on the field. The op eration was very successful, and he was getting along nicely, but the wet applications made to the wounds brought on pneumonia, and it was that which caused his death. He lin gered till the next Sunday afternoon, May 10, and then he was taken from us." Here the lady of the house be came very much affected, and al most broke down in recalling the sad event. Our tents had by this time been pitched, and the general, after taking a polite leave of his hostess, and say ing he would place a guard over house to sec that no damage was done to her property, walked over to camp and soon after sat down with the mess to alight supper. He Promised. "In one of my races for Congress," said Representative Cox, of Tennes see, according to the Washington Post, "the lines were drawn very tight between my competitor and myself, and the partisans of both were worked up to a pitch of excitement in every County in the district. In some localities a good deal of bad feeling had been engendered and personal difficulties were daily expected. One day when I was filling an appointment to address the people a tall, heavy built fellow with a bad eye and a gen eral look ?:s if he were out for blood came up to me and said in a loud and positive tone : " 'Cox, I want to have a little talk with you.' "I knew that he was an active sup porter of my opponent, and also that he was a man of very determined sharacter. Wondering what he had to say to me, and withal being a little anTious on aocount of his rough, not to say threatening manner, I walked aws.y with him to some little distance from the crowd. Then I stopped and told him I was ready to hear anything he iiad to say. " 'See here, Cox ; I am going to put a plain question to you, and if you answer it square everything will be all right between us ; if you don't every thing will be all wrong. Now, if you will promise me to vote ag'in that -dog law, I will vote for you and make all my friends support you. Is it a bargain ?' "I assured him that if there waa one measure that I hated worse than any other it was that odious dog law, and that when I got to Washington I'd fight it to the death. He kept his promise, and, as I afterwards heard, worked loyally to help elect me. I don't know whether or not he got more light on the subject subsequently, and discovered that it was the Tennessee Legislature, instead of Congress, that had jurisdiction over the dog law, but, anyway, if he ever found out his mis take he didn't reveal the fact to me." lafayette's Grave. "While in Paris a short while ago," said a traveler recently to a Washing ton Post reporter, "it occurred to me that it was a fitting act to make a pil grimage to the tomb of that illustrious Frenchman, dear to the hearts of the American patriots, Marquis de Lafay ette. I asked a number of people be fore I could find anyone to enlighten me as to the spot, but after repeated inquiry ascertained, the location. The grave is situated in old Paris, within the grounds of a convent that the an cestors of. Lafayette founded, and where repose the remains of many of the French nobility. The first thing that attracted my attention in connec tion with the hero's tomb was that above it floated a silken flag bearing the stars and stripes. It seems that a good many years ago an American gentleman left in his will a sum of money to be used for the special pur pose of keeping an American flag for ever flying over thc grave of Lafayette It has done so without intermission from thc day the will went into effect, and whenever, through the wear of the elements, one flag becomes un serviceable, a new one straightway taks its place. Through untold cen turies the emblem of the country which, in its early struggles for liber ty, had his beneficent aid will wave above his ashes. - Thc little daughter of Mr. Fred Webber. Holland, Mass., had a very bad cold aid cough which he had not been able to cure with anything. I gave him a 25 cent bottle of Chamber lain's Cough Remedy, says W. P. Holden, merchant and postmaster at West Brimficld, and the next time I saw him he said it worked like a charra. This remedy is intended especially for acute throat and lun?; diseases such as cultl?, croup and whooping cough, and it is i'.imuus for its cures. There is no clanger in giving it to children, for it contains nothing injurious. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co, All Sorts of Paragraphs. - Laplanders often skate in one day a distance of 150 miles. - An excellent thing to remember is that every story has two sides. - Court-plaster is often used to make a lover stick to his promise. - Simplicity of character is tho natural result of profound thought. - Systematic daily study will soon j turn an ignorant man into a scholar. - - It is of no consequence how good a man is abroad if he is really mean at home. - Drinking water neither makes a ?| man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. - The veneering is pretty thin on a great many of the polished gentlemen ] 'f|S you meet. - Consider well what you can and ought to do, and be faithful in per forming it. - In Russia you must marry before eighty or not at all, and you marry only five times. - Borrowers of trouble are more prompt in their payments than bor rowers of money. - A bilious man hunting for some thing to get mad at, is generally suc cessful in his search. - If people were as anxious to live right as they are to do right, this world would be a much better place. ? - There are 5,60!) distilleries in the United States. North Carolina leads, with 1,824, and Virginia is next, with 1,352. Pennsylvania has 13?. - Be cheerful. If you have no V*-N$f great trouble on your mind you have no right to render other people miser- x able by your long face and dolorous tones. If you do you will be generally . ";| avoided. - After a long and luxurions yawn one morning a Westwood (Mich.) man couldn't close his mouth. His jaw had been dislocated. He was so fright ened that since it was set he doesn't dare even to smile broadly. - Moral worth is best. To be right is always to be powerful. Faithful ness, charity and justice to all is the:yA^% on?y true measure by which to live and by which to die. Wrong is always wrong and never can be made rigfit. - A conscience stricken man in Oregon on his deathbed racently handed over to Louis Davenport the sum of $27,000, which represented the ' 1 accumulations of $8.000 worth of gold dust stolen from Davenport thirty years ago. - The closest contest in any of the States at the recent election is believed to have been that for the State treas uryship in Sculh Dakota, where the Republican candidate won by a ma jority of 2 votes in a total vote of more than 90,000. - In a recent leoture in Chicago the Rev. Dr. De Witt Talmage took occa sion to remark: "When a German wants to take a drink, he takes beer ; an Englishman, ale ; a Scotchman, whiskey, and an American anything he can lay his hands on." - "I want one of those magdoleens," said Farmer Cornhill to the dealer in musical instruments ; "the kind you play on with a piece of turtle shell." "Yes, sir; for yourself?" asked the clerk. "No ; fer my wife. I Want to get her something 'sides me to pick on." - "What was all that noise in your house last night, Willie?" asked the lady who lives next door. "We had a cane rush. Pa had the cane and I did the rushing, but pa beatme," answer- V ed Willie, tis he rubbed the seat of his trousers tenderly against the brick wall. - Among the Anglo-Saxon races the consumption of tea is recorded as one pound per head in America, while England is credited with putting away seven pounds per head of her popula tion, and eac'i individual in Australia on an average gets away with 17 pounds "-.S? of tea every year. - A district of New York City with a population of 40,000 was subjected to a house-to-house canvass, and found to contain 18.476 persons who were not church attendants. Thc metrop olis is being "worked" thoroughly after this fashion by a federation of churches and Christian workers. - Our people are growing more and more in the habit of looking to the Hill-Orr Dru,5 Co. for the latest and best of everything in the drug line. They sell Chamberlain'sCough Reme dy, famous for its cures of bad colds, croup and whooping cough. When iu need of such a medicine give this rem edy a trial and you will be more than pleased with the result. - There are certain principles that make a man successful if followed, and chief of these are sobriety, in dustry, and integrity. If they are faithfully applied by a man, he will succeed. The greatest recommendation a young man can have is that of per sonal character. No large corporation or business house will employ a young man whose character is not good and who is not honest, sober, and indus trious. - There are about 1,000,000 Italians in the United. States. One-third of them are settled in the principal cities. Half of these are laborers. Fifty per cent, are illiterate. They are hard and steady workers, very saving and anxious to improve themselves. When they have no chance to work at their own trade, they will accept any kind of work and any wages. The Italians hate begging. In the records of char itable institutions are very few Italian names. . - It would take a whole page of the Republic to catalogue all the queer superstitions about the beard and the curious laws that have been enacted for its protection. Russia had an old law by winch one who pulled buta single hair from another's beard might be fined four times as much as if he had cut off one of his enemy's fingers. The Turks have al ways believed that a beardless man would never bc admitted to Paradise, and the Russians, although they pro fess to despise everything Turkish, declare that "no beardless son ot Adam can ever enter heaven."-St. Louis Republic, - Indiana and Illinois claim that they have the oldest pear trees in the West in their respective States. There is one near Springfield, 111., known lo cally as the great Sudduth pear tree, which is fifty feet in height and ten feet in circumference. It is said to bc fifty years old. This docs not be gin to compare with some of the old pear trees planted by the early Ger mans and Swedish settlers in the vicinity of Philadelphia, but it is re markable for a country settled so com paratively recently as what was but a few years ago known as the <fj?ar West."-J/W????' Monthly.