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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1897._VOLUME XXXIII.?NO. 3. | To look Cool and still look Neat is now the problem ! Crash Cloth Solves I COMPLETE SUITS SB3.50, S5.00, 6.50. If Franklin were alive now he never would have written "Don't buy a thing because it's cheap." The needs of a fam ily are so constant that it's good judgment to forestall them when 25 or 50 per cent can be saved. STRAW HATS That were $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 now 50c. Scriveii's Drawers That were $1.00 now 75c. 2 Oil to in o? i 1st of next Meier. . 0. EVANS & CO. ?achmer}r? implements Now the time to select your Mower and Rake, THE JOHNSON MOWERS ?D BIKES Shipped in Car lots?the buyer gets the advantage in freight. We guarantee these Machines absolutely. Unequalled, the latest, the best. ^ * THREE CAR LOADS$TE?fif! ENGINES ,N ST0CK' ATLAS, ECLIPSE, ERIE CITY, And other standard makes. Our prices simply astonishing. SMITH GINS, SAW MILLS, COTTON PRESSES, CANE MILLS, And all kinds of Farm Machinery at figures to meet any hon est competition. Call on or address \ Sullivan Hardware Co. FROM THE FACT THAT AVE ARE 111 YOU must not infer that they arc old and shop-worn or inferior in qual ity. Wc guarantee each article to be as represented, and will cheerfully re fund your money if dissatisfied. We take especial pride in our? SHOE JD-BiTAJH/TML^lSfT, And will maintain in it that standard of excellency which will compel your admiraci?n for the values offered. Most of the styles are exclusively our own, and cannot be duplicated anywhere else in town. Our $1.25 Satin Finish, Solid Leather Shoe, in both Bal. and Congress, is stylish and durable, and is as neat and handsome as any $2.00 Shoe on the market. We Bj.ill have some of those $3.50 and $4.00 Gainesville Home-made Shoes which we are closing out at the uniform price of $2.50 per pair. The large stock of JEANS we have on hand are now being sold at WHOLESALE PRICES. Some of these are extra heavy Goods, but at the same time it will be judicious economy on your part to iuvest in a supply for next Winter. We always keep on hand a large and complete stock of? Groceries and Plantation Supplies, Which we sell as low as the lowest, and will be pleased to have either your cath or time trade. Car load Chicora Acid for sale at old price. McCULLY BROS. Shoes, Slippers. Where can I get the very best fitting and most desirable as well as stylish Shoes ? Why, where have you been all this time? Come with me and just look at the most complete stock of Shoes, Slippers, and everything in the way of Footwear, at? THE YATES SHOE CO., Under Masonic Temple, Anderson, S. ft. The only complete and special Shoe House in the City. Our prices are low because we buy close, and for cash? and we can certainly give you bargains and enable you to save money. DON'T FORGET THE EPIDEMIC AT CLEMSON. Its Catioes, and What Is Needed to Pre vent a Recurrence. The following report has just been authorized : To his Excellency, GovernorEllerbe ?Dear Governor : Your committee has the honor to report thai, iu obedi ence to your Excellency's instruc tions, we visited Clemson Agricul tural College and investigated the cause and character of the prevailing sickness at that point and nothing re mains but to render to you officially the results of our examination. Upon our arrival at Clemson on Tuesday, the 27th of June, we were waited upon by President Craighead and the faculty, who expressed much gratification at our arrival and an earnest desire to give us all possible aid in solving the serious . problem by which they were confronted and which had excited painful apprehension throughout the State. It may not be inelegant to refer to the extremely picturesque appearance of Clemson College, crowning the gracefully un dulating hills and standing an endur ing monument to its founders, with silent and irresistible eloquence in behalf of generations to come, who sheltered in its beneficent arms shall learn the lessons of stalwart, enlight ened citizenship, upon which our Government must rely for peaceful, prosperous and happy perpetuity. In advance of making a tour of sanitary inspection wc visited the hospital in which there were a few patients, probably a dozen, some con valescing and others quite ill. "We regretted the absence of Dr. Redfern, himself sick, probably with the pre vailing fever, and we found Dr. Har din in cheerful and efficient discharge of the duties of resident physician. We were informed that approximately between seventy and eighty cases of sickness had occurred among the stu dents within a few weeks, necessitat ing the disbanding of the College. Of that number of fever cases not more than thirty were of prolonged dura tion, and that several had died. The fever was thought to be "malarial," but there were two cases in the hospi tal concerning which there was some doubt, but might be typhoid fever. As to the causation of this fever, various theories were entertained. One theory was that the students had bathed in the river near where the sewerage emptied. Another theory was that a number of students had worked in the low swamp lands, rich in alluvial deposits, and had inhaled the noxious exhalations from stagnant water, the outflow of which, had been recently checked by a dam. A third theory was that a large percentage of the students had come from their homes in malarial sections of the State and that the latent material in them had developed by a higher latitude by an excessive amount of work and the severe military discipline of the insti tution. That these causes had gradu ally devitalized the students, render ing them easy prey to sickness. The disproof of the first theory was that some of the students disclaimed ever having been in the river. The second theory could not hold, because the sickness was Dot entirely confined to the students who had worked in the swamp land, and in reply to the third theory it may be said that the sick students represented all sections of the State. In the presence of so maDy conflict ing opinions entertained by gentlemen of intelligence, discrimination and ob servation, your committee proceeded to make a systematic and vigorous ex amination of every place and every thing which might possibly suggest a clue to the solution of the problem in question. Your Excellency will recall the physical appearance of Clemson, THE WHEELS OF HEALTH. There is no better exercise for a young woman in thoroughly good health than bicycling. On the contrary, if she suffers from weakness or disease of the distinctly feminine organs, if she rides, at all. such exercise should be very sparingly indulged in. Women are peculiarly constituted and their (renerai health is peculiarly dependent upon the health of the specially feminine organism. It is the health of these delicate and im portant parts that "makes the wheels of general health go round." Their strength and vigor arc as important to a woman as a mainsnring to a watch, or a sprocket and chain "to a bicycle. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the best of all medicines for delicate women. It makes them strong where they most need strength. Taken during the "interesting interval," it ban ishes the usual squeamishness and makes baby's admission to the world easy and al most painless. It fits a woman for in-door work and out-door sports. Honest druggists don't advise substitutes. "I cannot sav enough in praise of Dr. Plerce's Favorite Prescription, as it has undoubtedly saved my life," writes Mrs. Florence Hunter, of Corlev, Logan Co., Ark. " I miscarried four time*: could get no medicine to do me any good. ? tried the 'Favorite Prescription ' and after taking several bottles. I made my husband a present of a fine girl. I think it is the best medicine in the world." man or woman who neglects constipa tion suffers from slow poisoning. Doctor Pierce\s Pleasant Pellets cure constipa tion. One little "Pellet" is a gentle laxa tive, and two a mild cathartic. All medi cine dealers. THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE! Pure Blood is essential to good health. Thousands suffer with impure blood. Thousands who are afflict ed could bo. cu rod" by tak ing Africana the only pos itive remedy. AFRICANA cures Rheumatism of long standing. AFRICANA cures Scrofula. AFRICANA cures Old Sores. AFRICANA cures Syphilis. AFRICANA cures Constipation. AFRICANA cures Exzcma. AFRICANA cures Catarrh. AFRICANA cures all Blood and Skin diseases. A trial will convince you of its mer its. BST" For salo by Evans Pharmacy and Hill-Orr Drug Co. I its hills and valleys, and the relative distances and positions of the various buildings. Taking the Gollegc build ing as a centre, it will be observed that the water shed of the hill upon which it stands causes a part of the storm water to flow north to the river, west to the barracks and south and east through a gradually developed valley, round and about the dairy and into the ravine, which is the natural vent of most of the water of adjacent hills upon the east, north and south ern sides. On the northern edge of the ravine, in the valley, is located the dairy, a building probably fifty feet square. The site upon which it stands had been a small pond, which had been filled in with debris of varia ble character, organic and inorganic, and had been partially tiled and drained. Between the dairy and th3 abrupt hills north there is a small space in which two springs rise. The larger spring was said to become mud dy after a rain, and, accordingly, it had been enclosed with brick on three sides. The smaller spring, beside the door of the dairy, is included in a casing of impervious material, about two feet in length by one foot; in. width. This spring sometimes be comes milky and is used exclusively in preparing the products of the dairy. The day of our arrival it rained heavily and the next morning we traced the storm water from the adjacent hills over and around the imperfectly con structed storm ditch, beside the spring and upon the limited area oc cupied by the dairy. On the surround ing hills over which the storm water flows are open privies, to which no especial attention had been given, and the contents of which must be washed by each recurring rain into the valley and thence into' the ravine. Your committee, in continuance of their duty, examined the barracks, which they found defective in loca tion, in construction, in ventilation and in its system of sewerage. Mois ture is an essential element in the process of organic decomposition in the soil by which mysterious and dangerous products are evolved, heat and a moderate supply of air being necessary to this process. In the construction of a dwelling the sani tarian adopts the most efficient means for excluding dampness from the foundation walls and from the base ment floors, for protecting the soil from impurities and to render it dryer, by underground drainage and by open ing the outflow. To prevent the pol lution of the ground air is of pressing importance, and it is tobe accomplish ed by removing the source of contami nation, by facilitating the natural process of purification and by reliev ing the overtaxed powers of the soil by drainage and aeration. In the second place, protective measures must be resorted to for addi tional security. Be it remembered that cellars, as usually constructed, do not constitute- a barrier to the es cape of air from the subsoil, and this is especially so in buildings which are heated artificially, in which case there is superadded a suction force created by the ascending rarefield air. While it is impossible to prevent the aera tion of ground air it can by suitable devices be diverted into other and less hurtful channels, and its danger ous influence minimized. The foundation walls and the base ment flooring of the entire building should rest upon a bed of impervious material and should have a ventilating chamber under the entire surface of the cellar floor, separated from the basement by an intervening pavement. The chamber should be connected with a chimney flue to carry off the ground air which rises in autumn, winter and spriDg. During the sum mer, when the ground air sinks, a current of fresh air hurries downward and rises to the heated surfaoe outside of the building. Your committee failed to find that these ordinary sanitary requirements for protection against ground air and moisture had been met in the construc tion of the dairy and the barracks. In the matter of ventilation there is no adequate arrangement in the bar racks to get rid of the stagnant air, charged with carbonic acid gas, which must abouud to an injurious extent in such an unscientifically constructed building, with its hundreds of inmates. In addition the water closets are im properly located and should not be with the main buildings, for the pip ing for the disposal of excretion is liable to be deranged by the gradual subsidence of the building and by other causes, which may loosen the joints and allow the escape of sewer gas. Assuming the number of in mates of the barracks to bo 300, the aggregate amount of said excreta for twelve months would probably be eeven tons and about 12,000 gallons of urine. To secure the continuous and rapid removal of this excreta and to prevent pollution of air and soil by their tem porary detention is an interesting problem in sanitary science. To ac complish this purpose the sewers must be perfectly tight throughout, so that whatever enters may pas3 to the out let without leakage. The movement throughout the sewer must be contin uous from head to outlet, without halting to putrefy. Besides the sewer must be perfectly ventilated, bo that accumulated gases may not form and force themselves through the traps to the dwellings. Adequate means must be provided for inspecting and flush ing the sewers, the size and form of which must be perfectly adjusted to its flushing appliances, that the usual dry weather flow may be made to keep it free from stilt and organic deposits. The following conclusions have been reached by yonr committee : First. That while it is not improba ble that there has been somo malarial fever at Clcmson, it is unquestionable that the prevailing fever is typhoid. Second. That the open privies have been the prime cause of infection, and we view with suspicion the products of the dairy, in the manufacture of which spring water at that place is used. There arc several recommendations your committee would respectfully make : Discontinue the open privies absolutely and by a system of ecwers have all the excreta from the various residences conducted to the river. Meantime enforce what is known as the "dry system," which consists in the admixture of dried earth or coal ashes with the excrement in sufficient quantities for absorbing and reducing it to an inodorous and harmless form. The material must be perfectly dry and applied immediately and in suffi cient quantity to cover the excretions and to remove all fluidity of the mate rial. The water closet should be de tached from the house and thorough ventilation insured, and should be frequently inspected and kept in per fect working order. I The dairy should be removed from I its prosent site and constructed in I obedience to sanitary laws, and per haps it would bo better to discontinue its operations and avoid the possibility of its posing as a factor in the propa gation of diseases. Assuming that the barracks will be continued as a home for the students, the best reooamendation wo can make is to underdrain the narrow area be tween tho east side of tho building and the high embankment, tho latter to be faced with granite. An improved system of ventilation should be intro duced, suoh as is used in many insti tutions North ; for instance at Johns Hopkins University, by which perfect ventilation is obtained and regulated at will. The most modern system of sewerage should be used, and to pre vent the possibility of contamination of the building by noxious gasses the water closets should be detaohod from the building. The distal end of the sewer at the edge of the river should be so arranged as to escape submer gence by river water and protect it against whatever might interfere with ita office. We recommend further from the standpoint of sanitation that vacation be given in the summer months, and your committee are impressed with the belief that it oan be done without conflicting with the agricultural fea tures of education at Clemson, and would subserve the highest interests of the professors, the students and the College. The recent unfortunate experience of sickness and death at Clemson has awakened the spirit of criticism against the institution on the ground of unhealthfulness, which it may not be wise to ignore. In conclusion your committee might have discussed the laws regulating the evolution and extension of typhoid fever and how, originating in soil and air pollution, itgives rise to epidemics. They might also have cited abundant parallel cases corroborative of the position they have taken in this report, but they do not think these would lend additional emphasis to the plain fact of the existence of typhoid fever at Clemson and the- imperative neces sity of preventing its recurrence. We have the honor to be very respectfully, Charles R. Tabor, If. D. James H. Evans, M. D. C A. Reese, M. D. They Rode Tandem a Thousand Miles. Wesley Robinson and John Dreshcr, two enthusiastic wheelmen, have slip ped noiselessly down, on the soft, velvety tires of a tandem, from Orange, New Jersey, to Atlanta, Ga., a distance of nearly 1,000 miles. These two crack cross-country riders rolled into Atlanta Friday afternoon, being out on the road only 10 days. On an average, 100 miles of American soil skimmed under the rims of the flying tandem, and forests and towns flitted by like the fast shifting scenes in a vitascope. It was braciDg and strangely fascinating, and every mile which fell behind seemed to spur them on to greater speed. They came by way of Philadelphia, Washington, Charlottesville, Va., and Greenville, S. C, and carried with them an entire travelling outfit, con sisting of bicycle repair goods, tool bags, wearing apparel, tent and a number of other articles incident to a bicycle outing. The baggage weighed fifteen pounds, and included such minute articles as shaving soap, brush and razor. "We are both members of the Orange Athletic club, of Orange, N. J.,'! said Mr. Wesley Robinson, who, by the way, is a nephew of Dr. Man nahan, the well-known physician hero, (!and left home last Tuesday, one week ago, and arrived in Atlanta last Friday. ? we left Orange something like a hundred wheelmen accompanied us as far as Philadelphia, a distance of 106 miles, which we easily made the first day. "Our second day out, though, was our record, for in it we made Washing ton, which is 190 miles from Philadel phia. This is the greatest distance we made in any single day, but the 190 miles slipped by without any effort almost as the roads were simply perfect. "Our average a day was about a hundred miles and then, of course, very often we did not ride a full day. We never rode in the middle of the day at all, but did most of our sleeping then. We usually started out at 2 o'clock in the morning, and would ride until ten or eleven o'clock, then we would go into camp and sleep till about 6, when we would begin again and keep up a steady 'lick' until 11 at night. "I never felt better in my life," said young Robinson, thumping him self vigorously on the chest, and I think one reason for our good physical condition is due to the fact that we lived on bread and milk for breakfast and for lunch, and at night would take only a very light supper. We dieted ourselves all the time we were out and as the result we both show up in good form at the end of the trip. "We rested a day and a half in Greenville, S. C, -and a day at Win chester, I believe it was, \:irginia, and the rest of the time we put in. "We rode a 96 gear which is never used in cross-country rides and besides we had enough baggage to weight us down." Robinson and Dreshcr will leave here Wednesday for New Orleans, by way of Mobile. Dreshcr is going to (?nter business in New Orleans but Hobinson proposes returning to Orange on a single wheel through Mississippi and Tennessee in the course of a few weeks. The wheel ridden was a "Patee" tandem and the entire front tire was worn away. The entire trip was made without a single accident and during the 10 days out not a rain storm was encountered. ?Atlanta Journal, July 5. ? An exchange prints the following fervent prayer which a colored minister recently made in behalf of a fellow minister: "O Lord, Gib him de eye ob de eagle dat he spy out sin afar off. Way his hands to dc Gospel plow. Tic his tODgue to dc line ob truth. Nail his ear to dc Gospel pole. Row his head way down between his knees, and his knees way down in some lonc Bomc, dark and narrow valley where prayer is much wanted to be made. 'Noint him wid dc kerosene ile of salvation and sot him on fire." There is more Catarrh in this section of tho country than all other diseases put together, and iuntl the last few years was supposed to be Incur able. For a groat many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to euro with local treat ment, pronounced it Incurable, Science has ?trov en catarrh to bo a constitutional disease, and th?rofore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney Co. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cute on the market. It is taken Internnlly in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts 'directly on tho blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any caso It fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonial. Ad drees, F. J. CHENEY a CO., Toledo, O. K%6old By Drugglats, 75c. ELECTRICITY'S NEW USES. Minor Neuds of the Household Now Serv ed by It. From the New York San It is estimated that the various companies which manufacture electri cal apparatus for purposes outside cf electric lights, the trolley cars, the telegraph and the telephone, make and sell $20,000,000 worth of goods every year in this country alone. Electricity is so readily put to service whenever it is available that it is be coming a servant in the affairs of daily life in many different ways, and so in vidiously that people scarcely notice its approaches. Its rivals in the field of distributing power arc steam, water under pressure, compressed air, gas and belts and shafting. Belt* and shafting and water under pressure can do but one kind of work, and neither can supply light or heat. Steam may be used for heating purposes, but it cannot be turned into light, and even its heating qualities are confined prac tically to temperature not much above the boiling point of water. Com pressed air will do refrigerating, but not heating or lighting, and gas, which gives both light and heat, cannot be used for the production of power ex cept by combustion. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that it has been demonstrated recently that for illumi nating purposes gas can be used more economically by employing it to drive a gas engine coupled to a dynamo and getting the light from incandescent electric lamps than by burning the gas directly for lighting purposes. Even if steam, air, water and gas each ' combined the qualities of pro ducing at will light, heat and power electricity would still have vast ad vantages over them all, because the transformations can be made in its current more readily and its convey ance is accompliahed by simpler means. A familiar exemplar of this is the electrical door bell. You can buy a oomplete bell outfit for 89 cents and set it up yourself. Think of trying to utilize gas or water or steam to drive the cooling fan in a lady's bou doir or her husband's office. No doubt it could have been doDC, but the noise and oil and smell would soon have doomed any attempt to utilize one of these forces. Now it requires but a flexible wire cord for connections ; the fan can be changed from room to room by merely unscrewing a lamp and slipping in its place the end of the cord, and the noiseless motor goes or stops in answer to the turn of a but ton. Docs a woman wish to curl her hair ? There are curling-iron heaters made which arc as easy to connect and manage as the electric fan and far handier and neater than one on a gas jet. She sits at case in front of her dressing glass and the heater stands on her dressing case wherever it is best at hand. There is no flame. The wires run to a convenient electric lamp socket and the current comes down through them and turns to u red heat a coil of German silver wire con cealed within the heater's case. The lady slips her curling iron within this coil and heats it quickly and evenly without a possibility of smoking it. The electrician has more clever de vices for a woman's use. Docs she want a cup of tea ? For three or four dollars she can buy au electric stove which she can use as handily as she did the curling-iron heater, taking the current for it from a lamp socket. It will be about six inches across and capable of boiling the tea kettle or coffee pot, making a stew, a fry, or a Welsh rabbit, or in fact performing any work that might be done over the flame of a chafing dish. In the sew ing room she can have the sewing ma chine run by an electric motor aud an electrically heated sadiron to smooth out seams, flatten bindings and do the many like services required in dress making, and she may sit with her feet on an electric foot warmer, or even take it in bed with her. For the sick room she can buy an electric heating pad to be used as a substitute for a hot water bag or bottle and ever so much better. These arc very cleverly made of asbestos or other suitable ma terial and they take their current from the ever ready electric light socket. By means of a switch the nurse can fix the temperature of the pad at any one of three points and so long as tlu current remains on the pad will never get either hotter or colder. For the kitchen entire electric cooking outfits may be had, but the day for these has not arrived yet, although it it is claim ed that, considering the great economy with which heat is utilised in them, all sorts of cooking, except boiling, can be done with them at as low a cost as with coal or gas. While a woman is thus served by electricity at home, her husband is benefiting by it elsewhere. The car that takes him to his ofhec is driven by it and he lights his cigar at an electric torch before he goes to his desk. Push buttons about his desk cali his clerks and messengers, the telephone stands ready at hand for him to transact business with people afar off, and electric fans keep him cool. There are big ceiling fans at the restaurant where he lunches, which not only cool the customers, but also drive away the flics. If he started out with his last summer straw hat on he may surprise his wife on his return by showing it to her revived in all its pristine glory at a25-ccnt-clean your-hat-whilc-you-wait place, where such good and rapid work is made possible only because of electricity. After the operator washed the hat with a cleansing and bleaching com pound he put it on a form, where an electric motor turned it about thous ands of times a minute and sent the fluid flying out of it in a spray. Then he pressed it with an iron heated cither by gas or electricity and finish ed drying it before an clcotric fan. Before the man goes home, he may buy an electric railway for the chil dren, for there is such a toy in the market. It consists of a circular rail way with a train of cars that run around it, driven by a current which is taken from a battery. In France this same idea has been used to facili tate table service. A circular railway is hung above the dinner table, a lit tle back from the edge of the table. On this runs a car which each person can control by a push button at his place. If he presses the button the car comes and stops in front of him. Then he can put his own plate on a serving dish upon the car aud have it carried along to the server or any other person. Such arc some of the minor uses of electricity in cvery-day life which have already been adopted in many parts of the country, but the more important field in which the smaller electric devices are forcing their way is the workshop. One of the clever est and most useful of the new elec trical tools is the soldering iron. Every one has scon a tinner at work with his furnace and irons. He would work a little while and then poke the iron back into the charcoal furnace, and either wait for it to be heated again or bring forth a fresh iron from the furnace. In later times in can ning factories and such places naph tha or gas furnaces have replaced the old charcoal fires, but still the tinner has had to work with a number of irons to keep busy, and these were often too cool or else so hot that the tin was burned off. AVith the electric soldering iron the furnace is done away with entirely and the irons are always at just the right heat to do their work properly. Except that these irons have wire cords running to the end of the handles and a jacket over the copper head, they appear like the ordinary soldering iron. Within the jacket lies concealed a coat of wire and this supplies the needed heat. In all the big electrical works all the soldering is done by means of these irons. Many factories are not only sup plied _ with a great variety of special electric tools, but also use electric motors for the direct driving of nearly all their machinery. A notable exam ple of this is in a new shirt factory. Beyond the work of heating, which is done by waste straw, the whole place is run and lighted by electricity. The sewing machines are driven bv it, the collar and cuff ironing machines are worked and heated by it, and all the flatirons are electrical. One of the most potent advantages claimed for the electrical sad iron and tailor's goose is that no heat is wasted and the iron can never do any harm if left standing. The grasping of the handle in most makes puts on the cur rent, and the iron heats up ; and the current is cut off and t'ho irons begins to cool the moment you let go of it. The owners of the factory declare that electricity is away ahead of other power, being more cleanly, less noi3y, and more satisfactory in every way. Tiffany & Co's. great silverware factory at Forest-Hill, N. J., depends entirely upon electric motors to drive the machines which are used in cseh department. In one place a visitor may see delicate drills and polishing wheels running by electricity and in another the same power operates a hydraulic press capable of exerting a pressure of 1,000 tons, while in another room the same current is electro-plat ing and gilding. Out at North Tona wanda, near Niagara Falls, is a great bolt and nut factory in which every machine is driven by electricity. Here big motors; run great lines of shafting and these in turn drive the machines which transform the raw bars of steel or iron into finished bolts and nuts. The same work could un doubtly be done with steam engines. The intention to use electric power from Niagara Falls might explain the installation hero, bat there are many other factories where no such reason would hold. Yet there arc other good reasons for doing it. One of these is economy in room. In the nut and bolt factory the motors arc carried on platforms hung from the roof rafters over the heads of the workmen and above all the machinery on the floor, and this is done in many other places. A steam engine could not be treated so, nor would it be handy to have it in such a position, for steam engines re quire constant attention. Not so with the electric motors. They arc made for the roughest uses and the greatest exposures, and, ca.3cd in dust proof and water-proof covers, they defy everything. En the bolt and nut fac tory the only attention they require is to be oiled, and this is attended to by filling the oil wells once in every six months. Besides running the fixed machines in factories and shops the handincss with which a currentcan be conducted has made electricity a favorite for driving tools which are used about the floor or in yards, such as drills, punches, shears and small presses. One of the handy tools of this sort has the electric motor on wheels and a flexible shaft running from the motor to drive the tools. In textile factories the electric mo tor is making its way rapidly for (hiv ing looms, spindles and carding ma chines, aud for printing presses they have no rival for efficiency and case of control. Another of their very im portant uses is the driving of pumps. For this purpose they are made of all sizes, from that required for the little house pump, which would run with an electric light current, to tremendous machines adapted to pumping the whole water supply of a city. There are a dozen cities in this country which pump their town water into the mains by electricity. Then there are motors and pumps meant for the rough work of sinking mines or keeping them clear of water and others for pumping water, stone, sand, coal or grain through centrifugal pumps, such as arc used for dredging. Everywhere that one sees the elec tric motor applied it becomes appar ent that no other motor could compete with it for economy of space and the case with which power can be carried to it, and there are many situations where these qualities make it possible to be used when all other powers would be out of the question. With ail of these advantages it has one other, which is of vital importance. This is economy in the use of power. A good motor will return in actual work more than 95 per cent, of the energy that reaches it, wnile no en gine driven by other powers will ap proach this figure. ? "These colleges," said the old man, "is the greatest things in the world. Why, John's done larnt me ter play football, an' hanged ef the old woman ain't a-ridin' of a bicycle in britches !" ? Something whizzed by, a minglc mcnt of steel spokes and red bloomers. "What isthat there?" asked Uncle Hiram, withdrawing his gaze from the high buildings to look after the vision. "That is the new woman," answered his nephew. "The new woman ? Looks like the old boy." ? Mrs. Rhodic Noah, of this place, was taken in tho night with cramping pains and the next day diarrhoea set in. She took half a bottle of black berry cordial but got no relief. She then sent to me to sec if I had any thing that would help her. I scnthcr a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Choi era and Diarrhoea Remedy and the first dose relieved her. Another of our ucighbors had been sick for about a week and had tried different reme dies for Diarrhoea but kept getting worse. I sent him this same remedy. Only four doses of it were required to cure him. lie says he owes his recov ery to this wonderful visuedy.?Mrs. Mary Siblcy, Sidney, Mich. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. Syrup Scatters a Street Throng. A young man with high collar, blue tie and immaculate duck suit was leaning languidly against the tele phone post directly in front of Nun nally's corner waiting for a car. He looked as if he had just sprung from a bandbox. By his side stood a mid die-aged man, with the bearing of a minister. He wore a black broad cloth suit, with high silk hat. To all appearances he was also waiting for a car. Coming up the street was an old mule?one of those skinny, sleepy looking Georgia mules?pulling a dray, on whicli was a barrel of New Orleans syrup. The barrel was not steadfast in the wagon and it rocked on the flimsy boards like a ship in a rough sea. The dn,y ncared the corner of Marietta and Broad streets and at a moment when the barrel was not five feet from the two men on the corner, there was a terrific explosion. The end of the barrel flew skyward, throw ing a sticky spray of syrup in every direction, the most of which landed on the man in a white suit, complete ly covering him from head to foot. The only part of his anatomy untouch ed was the back of his ears. He was literally covered with sweetness. The reverend gentleman was also covered with drippings from his hair to his toes. The gang near-by immediately set up a howl of delight and the youth licked his face as best he could with his tongue, entered a cab and drove away. The other unfortunate was the ?ynosure of all eyes for perhaps fifteen minutes, standing dripping and sweat ing on the corner, when his car oame along, and taking a seat all to him self, he, too, disappeared. But this was only the prologue to the exciting drama. The belgian blocks in the neighbor hood of the catastrophe were literally covered with syrup and were slicker than ice. After the first excitement had died away, a bicycler in golf stockings, up-to-date paraphernalia and cap, pedalled gracefully around the corner from Broad Street. He was a well-known physician, who was once on the hospital staff. The crowd held their breath as the rider ap proached the fatal spot, and it was several minutes before they could re alize what had happened, for the ri der's steed shot out from under him like a skyrocket and he was holding close communion with the syrup on the ground. The bricks were so slick he could hardly get up, and he was cov ered with a thick coating of syrup from head to foot. He bowed grace fully to the crowd, however, and rode off to the tune of rousing cheers. But no sooner had this act subsided than another wheelman, equally as graceful, and as ignorant of his ap proaching doom, flew at a rapid pace around the corner and bore stright for the syrup district. He probably weighed in the neighborhood of two hundred?and he was not the presi dent of the bicycle path, either. Po lice Dobbins made a frantic effort to warn the p?dalier of his danger, but he was too late?and great was the fall thereof. He struck in the very deepest puddle of syrup, which splattered it in every direction again and struck the white skirt, of an eager onlooker, considera bly changing her tune. The fat rider mumbled something that would not look well in print, and squeezing the syrup from his long whiskers, mount ed his wheel again and rode off, fortunately nothing hurt except his clothes. But wait ! In less than five minutes a pretty, young girl came spinning down Broad street. She wore a smart little cap and up-to-date costume. The police man was on the other side of the dan ger spot, warning cyclers to go around and consequently never saw this fair wheelwoman fast approaching an aw ful doom. Some sympathetic creature in the crowd yelled, "what a pity!" and another hoarse voice cried out, "let'er go, Gallagher." The John nies were at the height of expectancy and a few more falls would have wiped up ali the syrup, but the young wo man, with wonderful intuition, guided gracefully to the left and sped past the scene of holocaust to the disgust of many of the gang.?Atlanta Con stitution. Bees Stung Them to Death. During these hot summer days, when Charleston people fret and fume over the bite of a small mosquito and think it's killing, they can no doubt appre ciate the fate of two mules that have just crossed over the river in a rather peculiar manner. A day or two ago Sir. A. S. Emerson had a team work ing up the road for the City Railway. About noon tie mules were hitched to a tree while the driver was off a little distance attending to other duties. In the branches of the tree to which the animals were fastened a swarm of honeybees had collected and some small boys were trying to drive them in a gum. When bees swarm they get in a bunch larger than a water Ducket. The boys were determined to capture tbe whole business, and cut the limb from which they were swing ing to and fro in the breeze. The bees fell and lit on the big mules. They started a regular old-fashioned stinging bee, and the mules, unable to move, had to stand and bear it. The boy up the tree was afraid to come down, but through the branches he watched the gradual swelling on the suffering brutes, and he sent up a boyish prayer of thanksgivi ng that it wasn't him. The poor animals tore and fumed and kicked and screamed until their strength was exhausted and the poison had gotten in its deadly work. Then they fell over lifeless, and later the stingers circled up through the air and flew away. But they had conquered.?News and rier. ? "My daughter is entirely too young to marry," snorted old Goldrick. "Well," replied the dejected suitor, "what would you say to my taking her marriage portion now and waiting a Jew years for the girl ?" ? Last summer one of our grand children was sick with a severe bowel trouble. Our doctor's remedies had failed, then we tried Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave very speedy relief. We regard it as the best medicine ever put on the market for bowel complaints.? Mrs. E. G. Gregory, FrcdericKstown, Mo. Thi? certainly is the best medi cine ever put on the market for dysen tery, summer complaint, colic and cholera infantum in children. It nev er fails to give prompt relief when u.*cd in reasonable time and the plain, printed directions arc followed. Mauy mothers have expressed their sincere gratitude for the cures it has effected. or sale by Ilill-Orr Drug Co. How's this for Nerve. i Mrs. Adam Stroit, au aged woman living two miles from Adrian, Mich., was cutting grass on the river flat;; recently when a big snake wound itself around her bare ankle and bit her. In her fright she dropped her sickle, but quickly nerving herself she seized the snake and flung it from her. It im mediately coiled for a second spring, and she jumped back. Again the snake coiled, and when it sprang Mrs. Streit made a swipe with the sickle and cut its head clean off. With the same blow, however, she cut a big slash in her ankle, severing two veins and opening a wound across the place where the serpent had sunk its fangs. She ran to the river and washed the blood away and then sewed up the wound wi-h a needle and thread which she had in her pocket. She started to walk home, but soon the thread gavo way, and the wound began to bleed afresh. She had no more thread * and could think of nothing but a big brass safety pin which held her dress together. With this she gathered the edges of the wound , and holding her apparel as best she could walked a / quarter of a mile to her home. The doctors say that the profuse bleeding saved her from serious results of the snake bite. The snake proved to be a rattler five feet long.?Areu> York World. ?ll Sorti of Paragraphs. ? A ton of oil has been obtained from the tongue of a single whale. ? The first printing press in Amer ica was established at Cambridge, Mass., in 1639./ ? "Smithers seems immensely proud of his wife." "Well, he has much to be proud of. She weighs 300 pounds." ? The republic of Texas once had a secretary of the navy who never saw a ship, or even an ocean, gulf or bay. ? Don't give your horses to much cold water when hot or after a hearty meal, especially when they are tired. ? Jeems?Cholly Traddles had a tight squeeze last night. Deems? How was that? Jeems? saw him hugging a lamp post. ? Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy cures colds, croup and whooping cough. ' It is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by Hill-?rr Drug Co. ? Bibmah?"Did your watch stop when you dropped it on the floor ? Magley?"Of course it did. Did you think it would go through ?" ? He?"Ycs^ccause' is a woman's reason?and it is about all the reason she has." She?"It is about all the reason she could have for marrying a man." f ? The mathematics of marriage? man .becomes an integer instead of a fraotion ; he "halves his sorrows, dou bles his joys," and ,nultipl,v his use fulness. ? "Do you mean to say," thundered the Caurt, "that you hold any human authority higher than the laws of the land ?" "No," stammered the timid witness, "except when I'm at home. My wife makes the laws there." ? A lady in Wilkesbarre, Pa., who died possessed of considerable proper ty, left it all to a female friend who had been very kind to her?all except one cent ; and this she decreed should be given to her husband five-years after her death. ? The Texas State Legislature, ? ? > whieh has just concluded its session," enacted a stringent law against lynch ers, and makes all participants in a mob which inflicts death upon any S? person, for any reason whatever, guilty of murder in the first degree. ? "Any letter for me?" asked a young lady of a postmistress in a country town. "No," was the reply. "Strange ?" said the young lady, aloud, to herself, as she turned away. "Nothing strange about it !" cried the postmistress over the counter. "You ain't answered the last letter he writ ye." ? If any proof were wanted of th*" benefit of good roads, it comes from Massachusetts, where it is computed -v . that property in the immediate vicinity of improved roads has improved to the extent of $6 per acre. This is clear gain to the landowner, the cost ' ?J of the roads being money saved many times over in reduced cost of traveling . over them.?Journal of Agriculture. ? An Irish officer who had the mis fortune to be dreadfully wounded in one of the battles in Holland was lying on the ground, and an unfortu nate soldier who was near him, and was also severely wounded, made a terrible howling, when the officer ex claimed: "Hold ycr row, will yo ? Do you think there is nobody killed but yourself ?" ? The truly courteous person will take particular pains to be courteous to poor people, working people, ser vants, just the same as the truly great and brave man will scorn to attack a weak person or a helpless animal. George Washington astonished a friend by taking off his hat to a poor Negro whom he knew and happened to meet on the street. ? ? Police Justice Duffy had a diffi cult case to settle between two tough women who had been arrested for fighting. The judge had a hard time in trying to get an intelligible account of the trouble between ?hem, and at last said, sternly, to onsrof the.wo men: "Now, Maggie, answei: my question plainly. Wha? passed be tween you?'' "Stove-lids,yourhonor." Then the judge gave it up. ? A St. Pail gentleman tells of a church incident that cane under his observation in the western part of New York State several years ago. A pious church member arose in experi ence meeting and gave a review of his life. When he came to the declaration. "I thank God I owe no man anything,' a quiet man, in a remote corner, jump ed up and said : "I have a little ac count against you, brother, that you must have forgotten." "Ah ! Brother Camp," said the upeakcr, unconsciously, that debt was o at of date a good while ago." ? Thus do the prophetic jokes of the humorists come true. A redding cyclists tool; place at Epson the other day. The bride and bridegroom, . 4 the witnesses, the two families and the attendants rode to the church and stacked the wheels outside the sacred edifice. When the happy pair pre sented themselves before the clergy man, he looked from one to the other - ? in a puzzled way. Both were dressed exactly alike. They wore the same coats, the same waistcoat, the same breeches, the same shirts and collars, the same short hair, the same smooth face in each case. The embarrassed ecclesiastic was forced to say7"Excuso me, but which is the bride?" Hero is equality of man and woman tamed into identity,?New York Sun. i i