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VALUE Op E 'VVork of Importance fi > Stand \ visit loone of tho packing-housoo * t the stockyards will give a very dear idea of the enormous amount of money saved and mad? by the ^utiliza tions of the portions of the animals "laughtered there ?whioh cannot be used for food. The late Philip D. Armour was a very pratoioal man and ilways did business upon the basis of poor Kichard's adage, that "a penny saved is a penny earned." The re gUlt of this policy is shown in the vast area occupied by the several fac tories operated by his firm and others in the same business for the manu facture of hundreds of useful articles from those parts of the steers, sheep ind hogs that were formerly thrown away* ID the earlier days of the industay the hide, tallow and grease were usad, but thc blood, feet, head.and offal were uuried or hauled out on the prai ries and dumped. The horns finally became of some value, and after the born pitch was removed they were shipped to Europe and there manu factured into horn buttous, oombs and varions ornaments; but no manufac turing of this sort was attempted in the United States until within the last twenty years. About the firflt use made of the offal at Chicago was in the latter part of the 70s, when a small blue manufacturing plant was established near Ashland avenue on the river. There was no attempt to buy material from the paokers, hut tbe story goes that the cattle heads and feet from the trenches in which they were buried by the paokers dur ing the day would be dug up at night, hauled to the glue factory and con verted into glue and hone fertiliser. Soon after this paokers fonnd out that the material had some value and began to charge for it. In the mean time quite an industry had been built up in the manufacture of glue, and in the year 1885 Armour & Go. purchas ed the Wahi Brothers glne faotory. This was the first entrance of the packers into the manufacture of glues. Tbe industry has grown rapidly, and Armour & Go., having the largest glue plant in the world, not only use all he raw material furnished by their wn packing-houses, but also buy irgely from all the smaller paokers. They manufacture several kinds of lue. The phosphate of lime in hone s held together by a nitrogenous ma rial which can be taken out of the one hy cooking for a long time at low emperature and the glue is taken out. *ter the glue is extracted it is oon entrated in a vaouum, chilled by re rigeration, ont up into thin layers, ried on wire screening in large hot "ir dryers and sold as sheet glue, rokan glue or ground glue, as the de may demand. The diamond hape marks on sheet glue come from he wires on which the glue is dried hile in a plastic condition. During e process of glne boiling the tallow d grease are extracted and skimmed ff, and the boney and meaty matter dried, ground up and sold SB fortili r. It contains certain proportions f nitrogen and phosphorus, combined iih phosphate of lime. Gelatin is made from selected calves ock and is very carefully manufao red, the process being somewhat nilar to that used in thc making of lae, Isinglass made from animal tissues used by brewers in the clarifying of ?ir liquors. It is a transparent Mle artiole sold in sheetB, and re tables the finest grades of gelatin in pearanog, ? It may be said that in the fertilizer dustry Armour & Co. were pioneers. theearlj"80s, Peruvian being very gb and a demand having arisen for mmercial fertilizers, it was suggest that the meaty and boney material Posited in the bottom of large tanka ?d in rendering lard and tallow be ?ed and used as a source of nitrogen compounding fertilizers, mixing lh them the acid, phosphate made dissolving South Carolina rook ospbato with aoid. A hot dryer ^signed, and that was the begio H of the fertilizer industry in Chi "0. At the same time the blood aconmu "g ^om the killing of oattle, boil to coagulate the albumen and dried 'team dryers was also used as a fer 1Ief, tho entire output for a number J??rs being shipped to New York ? Boston, as there was no demand fertilizers in the west. TheBe ms w> with hoofs and horns, are vain ?-chiefly for their nitrogenous con ?.blood and hoof meal contain Jjunost as much nitrogen as nitrate ^Jorsulphate of ammonia. For ?aber of years they wera sold to manufacturers of fertilizers, bat pearly '90sMr. Anw? began Btuiuessi himself, oomWoing with .nutorial jnoiash from Germany, Phosphat?s ftom the South. BYPRODUCT. rom Selfish and !Publio point. Thia part of the packing business has grown very rapidly, and Armour & Co. now have plants at many pointB in the United States for the manufac ture of fertilizers, shipping their blood and tankage to those points, making their own sulphuric acid and acid phosphates and supplying the trade of each immediate seotion. Fertili zers are made of different strength for different soils, climates and crops, a quiok-aoting fertilizer being prepared for garden truckers, who must get their product into the very carly mar kets, and a slower aoting fertilizer for winter wheat. Practically all the cot ton in the United States, with the ex ception of Texas, is grown with fer tilizers, and nearly all thc winter wheat produoing States are now large ly using them. At the fertilizer works is now pre- 1 pared blood albumen, which, up to within five years ago, had been im ported entirely from Europe. It is used by calico printers in fixing oer- 1 tain pigment colors to the cloth, and j is similar in appearance to the -white of an egg. When ?ts temperature is ' raised to a certain point it coagulates? After the cloths are printed they are 1 steamed at a temperature approximat- ' ing 200 degrees Fahrenheit. This 1 action coagulates the albumen in the ink, rendering it insoluble in water, 1 and meenanioally fixes the color in 1 the cloth. Albumen is also used by ' tanners in finishing leathers, by mak- 1 era of certain extracts, by sugar manu- 1 facturero and for the clarifying of ' liquors. ( Dried blood is used as a fertilizer . and is also beginning io be used large- > ly as a stock food. It is the most con- i sentrated food we have, containing < something like 87 per oent protein, 1 =tnd gives exceptionally good results i svhen fud to horses and other live i stook in connection with their regular < Feed, two or three ounces being given i i day. The Kansas City experiment i station has discovered that a disease ? known aa the scours, which greatly * troubles young calves, can be cured ] t>y the addition of a little of this dried j dloo? to the skim milk on which they r ire fed. This discovery is saving ( thousands of calves every year. Cer- j tain portions of tankage are ground < ip into meat and largoly sold for poul try and for the fattening of hogs and j >\har live stock. Bone, coarsely gran- ( llated, is used for the same purpose? , In the bone cutting department, an ther branoh of the fertilizer busi- 1 less, are made handles for knives, 'azora, etc., carved and dyed to ro- ( ?embie stag horn; also collar buttons, jipe mouth-pieces, hon* screws used 1 ;o connect the mouth-piece io the 1 jowl of the meerschaum and other j >tpes, dice, little square blocks used , >y dental students for filling teeth, ? 'or nursing bottle rings and shields ind bone buttons of al! kinds. In the manufacture of the fine steel , )arts of guns, bicycles, automobiles ind other maohinery, the steel is fash oned into its final shape when soft ind then put into a box of hard gran ilated bone. This, box is then put nto a furnace, heated to a certain lolor, dumped into water, and the re mit is that a very high carbon steel las been formed on the outside of the )arts thus treated, making them ex* remel;/ hard. , Hoofs are assorted into three grades; he white hoofs being used for a cer ain grade of button closely rescin ding the better quality of pearl but ons. A striped hoof is flattened nto a plate through pressure 'under teat and used in the manufacture of ?air-pins; striped hoofs are also used n the ? .anufaoture of buttons. Black i.oofs and hoof scrap are used in the nanufaoture of cyanide and chrome. Scraps of hoofs ground up into a ftae >owder make a nitrogenous fertilif<>r br grapes and other crops. The tallow and grease of s. carcass ire used in the manufacture nf soaps. Ita certain time In thc boiling of loap salt is introduoed into ?he kettle, vhich precipitates the glycei.'n of the at together whioh the lye, vhich is Irawn off and from them is mi uufao ured glyoerin. All grades o' soaps ire mads, from the very finest toilet ind shaving soaps to the mottled Ger nan scrubbing soaps. Washing pow lera are also prepared. Curled hair is made in large quanti les, and all grades and colors. The garnet sand used in the manu acture of sandpaper and the emery ised in the mannfaoture of emery >aper and cloth are fastened to the >aper with glue. Armour & CO. own i garnet quarry in Connecticut, and tome idea of the extent of their works nay be obtained when it is said they nanufaoture daily from twenty to weuty-flvo miles of sandpaper. The pharmaceutical laboratory is mc of tho moat interesting parts of ha Armour plant. Armour & Co. are the largest manufacturers of pep* Bia in the world. Pepsin is a ferment something like yeast, and ita function ia to dissolve the alumeaoua parts of the food eaten BO that it can he as similated daring the process of diges tion. From time immemorial people have been troubled with goiter, a disease of the thyroid gland oa the throat. Some years ago it waa discovered that if the thyroid gland of sheep or other animals is administered to sufferers from this disease the trouble maybe relieved. Heneo it ia now desiccated and aold to druggist as a powder, and physicians report exceptionally good results from its use. Other glands are desiccated and are supplied to the medical profession by Armour & Co., and a great, deal of original researoh work is continually being done in their pharmaceutical laboratory. The suprarenal capsule, a ?small gland immediately above the kidney, furnished an active priuoiple which is au extremely pu wert ul heart stimulant. It ia used in eye surgery, and in the treatment of hay fever, as it seems to have a beneficial effect in reducing irritation when applied to membranes of the eye and nose. All these phar maceutical articled are prepared in various shapes and are well known and used by the medical profession all over the world. Tho pelts of the sheep slaughte red at the packing-house are deaned, and the wool is pulled out, "dried, graded, and sold to the wool manufacturers. The wool is so thoroughly prepared that it commands very high prices. The sheep pelts are then piokled and Bold for the manufacturo of gloves and other leather goods. The hides go to the tanners. T?he history of the eztraot of beef Borveo to illustrate tho progross of the packing industry daring its rapid evo lution from the old-fashioned slaugh ber-houBO to the wonderful plants of bo-day, where every department is con ducted under the most advanced scien tific methods. Realizing that South American and Australian extract:, ??hich are made from wild cattle, usu ally killed for their hides and bones, cannot possibly possess the delicious la vor of those made from the carefully fattened domestic cattle of the United States, the Chicago packers have en leavored to preserve the true flavor in i concentrated form. Tons of fresh neat are used daily for this purpose. Alfter the extract has been taken from ;he meat the fiber is dried, ground or powdered and sold largely in foreign narkets, where it is used in various 'orm of food, principally for animals. Che liquor oooked from tho meat is joncentrated in vaoouum pans to either lolid or fluid consistency, as may be lesired. It is then a pure ooncen rated essence of meat. Gouffe says that "beef broth is the he soul of domestic cookery," but low to get that "soul" from the old imo "shin of beef" has proved a diffi iult problem to many housekeepers. !?ow, with a pot of beef extract at land, the oook has, without time or -rouble, the best of stock for making loups, sauces, beef tea and other deli laoieo. AB the consumption of beef extraot las gtown, so too have the varieties j if preparation. One may obtain it ai I i solid or finid, ia tablets with a com unation of vegetables, or in the form ?f as par ox, which is extract of aspara gus and beef extraot, or in tomato mullion, a combination of tomatoes ind beef extraot. A few years ago a physician friend >f the late Mr. Armour asked him vhy he did not make a preparation of teef that would be a nutritious food ipon whieh life could be sustained; hat this was needed particularly for he invalid and convalescent, and tointed out that his means and posi ion as a packer made suoh an expen lensive investigation possible. Mr. Armour gave instructions to his ohem sts to start the work, and as a result hey have plaoed on the market solu te beef. This differs from beef ex ract in that it is the real substance if the meat (fiber and all), oonoentrat d and predigested. An idea of its lutritive value may be had by compar ng it with raw beef juice, which has . high reputation as a food for the iok. The London Lancet's analysis f soluble beef shows that it contains 4 per cent food value, while raw beef uioe contains from 2 to 5 per oent nly. On that basis one teaspoonful f soluble beef is equable to from 10 o 27 teaspoonfuls of beef juice. It JB7 be used with hot water without ffooting the nutritive value. William E. Curtis. ?urea Blood and Skin Diseases, Itch In? Humors, Eczema, Scrofula, Etc. Send no money-simply write and ry Botanic Blood Balm at our ex tenso. A personal trial of Blood ialm is better than a thousand print d testimonials, so don't hesitate to rrite for a free sample. If yon suffer from ulcers, eczema, orofula, blood poison, oanoer, eating ores, itching ukin, pimples, boils, tone pains, swellings, rheumatism, aiarrh, or any blood or skin disease, ;e advise you to take Botanic Blood >alni (B. B. B.) Especially recom mended for old, obstinate, deep-seated ases of malignant blood or skin dis ases, because Botanic Blood Balm B. B. B.) kills the poison in the lood, cures where all else fails, heals very sore, makes the blood pure and ioh, gives tho skin the rioh glow of lealth. B., B. B., the most perfeot ilood purifier made. Thoroughly test d for 30 years. Cost $1 per Targe bot te at drug stores. To prove it oures, ample of Blood Balm sent free by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. )cseribe trouble and free medical ad ios seat in sealed letter. f@* This a an honest offer-medicine seat at .oe, prepaid.- Sold in Anderson by )rr-Gaay Drag Co., Wilhite & Wil ite and Evans Pharmacy. Comity Mutual Benefit Association of America. The County Mutual Benefit Association of America is now organizing the Anderson Division of 1,000 members. The membership fee is $5.00, whioh covers the first ad vaneo death assessment. One Dollar for every member is deposited with Mr. James M. Payne, the Secretary and Treasurer of the An derson Division, and is held in Tho Bank of Anderson, subject to the order of Nelson R. Green, the President of the Anderson Division, to pay the first death loss by the Association. ; The Policy is elear and simple, agreeing to pay thc sum of one dollar for every member in the Division upon the surrender of the Polioy and approval of the proofs of death of a member in good standing. It is a home organiza tion, managed by honorable, high-minded business men, for the benefit and protection of home people. It reduces life insurance proteotion to the mini mum of oost that the average of human life will allow. There are no big sal aried officers to pay, and there ave no big annnal premiums to be sent out of the County into some rioh Northern insurance company's rocket. All the money stays right at home, and when it is paid out every member knows ex actly to whose benefit it goes in time of trouble. Until tho first thousand members are scoured applicants will be received up to 55 years of age, there after no member will be admitted over 30 years of age. We want good, relia ble agents tn every township in Anderson County at once. Persons desiring to become agents for their township will write or oall on TH03. W. NORRIS, manager of agents for Anderson County._ 19-4 GROWING ? WE have enlarged our Store room and added to our Stove and Tin busi ness GLASS and CROCKERY, and would be pleased to have you call aud inspect Goods aid get prices. We sell the bc6t Cook Stoves, Ranges and Hinters on the market. Would call special attention to the Air Tight Wood Burner. It will burn knots, chunks, chips, corn-cobs, roots, trash of any kind, and gives the greatest arno,HU of beat with less fuel limn any Stove in ex istence. 8?&- We contract for Roofing, Gut tering, Plumbing and Electric Wiring. Yours for business, ARCHER & NORRIS. TAKE NOTICE. Do not Fail to try our Specially Prepared 8 1-2 2-2 Petrified Bone Fertilizers for Grain. We have all grades of Ammoniated Fertil izers and Acid Phosphates, also Kainit, Ni trate of Soda and Muriate of Potash; all put up in new bags ; thoroughly pulverized, and no better can be found in the market. We shall be pleased to have your order. ANDERSON PHOSPHATE MD Oil CB. |C?rts G&ol?ra-Inf anton?, DuuThoca, Dysentery, and the Bowel Troubles ot Children of An/Uga. I Aids Digestion, R?gul?tes I tjie Bowell? Strengthens Costs Oaly 25 cats at Dni?gists, *^$g$g? Or mn 25 casts to C. ?I. MOFFETT. M. D.. ST. LOUIS, MO. I turra found Dr. Ifoffatt'i bey wma a teeth! n tr child, rrery tnootjdiss dry warned tu that w? would ineTitably lose Um. i happened upon TEETHINA, and tc^an nt onca ?drjnla toting ft to him, and hla lmpro remen? was marked la 24 boara, nnd from thal day on bo recuperated. I bare constantly kept lt and used lt rince with mr children, and haro taken IT*** Dlaarareln sounding tu pralMa to aU mothers of roans children. I Xooad lt invaluable oren after the Uethlnc parlod was passed. SUS. D. H. HARDY. "MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES !" It is very easy to make Hay while the sun shines if you have A DEERING MOWER and RAKE. THE many advantages the Deering- Mower has enables the operator to work it with much more ease than any other machine, and no time lost in go ing around stumps and trees. This Machine is so constructed that the driver is at no trouble in lowering ?nd raising the cutter bar in passing stumps and trees. With no effcrt scarcely he brings the cutter bar to an upright position without stopping the Machine. There are many other advantages the Deer ing Ideal Mower has that we will show you when you want a Mower. Tho Pitman Rod of this Mower has only two pieces, while all other Machines have from ten to twenty-five pieces to wear out and be replaced. The Mower is not all in looking up an outfit. It is essential to have a good Rake, and the Deering Rake is the simplest Rake on the market A comparison of our Rake with other makes will convince any farmer that it is the Rake he nee is. The devices for dumping are so constructed that a child can operate it without any assistance. If you are in need of an outfit let us show you our Mower and Rake and be convinced. Now is the time to sow your stubble land in Peas and harrow them in with one of our TORRENT HARROW8. We are still headquarters for ali lines of Hardware, Nails and Wire. BROCK HARDWARE COMPANY, Successors to Brock R roth erw._ BLACKSMITH AND WOODWORK SHOPS ! ??wMMaMr^-.xssswssasiMswa^^ THE undersigned, having succeeded to the business of Frank Johnson & Co., will continue it at the old stand, and solicits the patronage of the publia Repairing and Repainting promptly executed. We make a specialty of "Goodyear," Rubber and Steel Horse Shoeing General Blacksmith and Woodwork. Only experienced and skilled workmen employed. We have now ready for sale Home-made, Hand-made Farm Wagon that we especially invite your attention to. We put on Goodyear Rubber Tires. Yours for business Church Street, Opposite Jail. J. P. TODD. LESSER & COMPANY. Remarkable Pricing of New Fall Goods. A mammoth collection of the very best Fall aud Winter Goods at LESSEE'S. A store full of New, Bright aud Fashionable Merchandise at prices that cannot be equalled. Moaner showing of new Dress Gooda, Goun ter* piled high with fresh. n?jw Dry Goods, Domestic Notions, Hats, Shoes, Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Goods. The whole priced only as LESSER oan prioo it. For tho last 40 years the leader* of low prices and the recognis ed trading place of Anderson County. NEW FAL.L, BARGAINS IN OUR NOTION DEPART MENT. 100 r-oien Ladles Perfect Fitting Bibbed UnderveaU at only. iiiza 60 Doren Ladies Perfect Fitting Union Suits at only. ?ic 26 Dozen Ladies White Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, worth 6c. at only. ' 2c 100 Doren Ladle? Extra Heavy Home Knit Hose, *alue 10c, at only." 70 16 DOWD Infants Wonted Hoods, real value 25c, a'- only. 15c 40 Dozen Ladles All Wool Fascinator*, real value 40c, at only. 24o SO Pairs Kat ra Heavy 10 4 White and ?rey lllanket.s. at only Per Hair. C5o 10 Doren Lud les Flannelette Underskirts, ready nude a. only. 24o 600 yards Table Die Cloth, ?rst <iualtty at only. 16o 10 Doten Ladds Black Parasols at only. 25c 26 White Counterpane?, ready hemmed, extra large size, at only. ?9c New Fall Bargains in our Dry Goods Department. 8 cents Outiuxs iu dark and light shades atonly. . i7:o 100 yards of Bemnanta of Cheviots, extra heavy value 10c at only . bo Ono Lot Remnant* cad Sheet Lengths in all wool Bed Flaunel ot only. 12'$ 500 yards Dark Styles In Percale?, last colors, nt only. i 1000 yards Extra Heavy Cotton Flannel at ft, C, 7, 8 and 10c yard. 800 yard Wool Piad Dress t?oods, real value ?Sc, at on'ye. 17J?o New Fall Ldue of Up-to-date Ladles Cloaks and Reefers. We were fortunate to purchase whilo in Now York five hundred sam pler of up-to-date Ladies Cloaks, made of thc very best material. When in need of any CLOAKS it will pay you to see our linc before purchasing as we will save you 50 per cent, on thc dollar. One lot Ladle. Fine Cloaks, all colon, Silk Lined, al only. 11.50 One lot Ladles Fino Tan Cloaks, made of French Diagonal, at only. $2.25 One lot Ladles Black Cloaks, made of Flue Beaver,Bilk Lined, atonly. 82.08 One lot Ladiea Extra Heavy Mellon Cloaks, nil colors, Silk Lined, .at only.- 88.48 One lot Ladles Black Bonclay Jackets, Silk Lined, at only. 81.48 Ono lot Ladles Black and Tan Kersey Jackets, bilk Lined, at only. 81.25 One lol Ki ra Fine Sample Lino Russian Blouse Jackets, value S io. 81.60 One lot Child's Heavy Keefer?, lo all sizes, at only. 26o One lot Child'? Cheviot Beefers, in all color?? and sizes, at ouly. 76o One lot Child'? Extra Heavy Melton Reefers, beautifully trimtnod, at only. 98c NEW FALL LINE OF MILLINERY. Woofler 250 Ladles Elegantly Trimmed Hat?, any shape and color, at only. 98o One Lot Richly Trimmed Children's Hau at only. 48o Do not buy any Ladies Hats until you seo our immense variety of ele gantly TRIMMED HATS which will be sold AT A SACRIFICE. NEW SHOES. NEW FAL.L L.INE OP SHOES. Our immense Shoe trade has foroed us to increase our Shoe steck. We sell only solid leather Shoes at tho very lowest prioes. Our Shoe stock is now completo. We purchased all of our Shoes from the largest manufactures in the United States and guaraotee any Shoe that goes out of our Store. One Lot Ladies Dongola Shoes, all solid leather, at only.75c One Lot Ladies Grain Button and Lace Shoes, all solid, at only .?5o One Lot Ladies Vesting Top Shoes, ail sizes sud nniid 'loather, at only... 85o One liOt Men's Brogan Shoes, cabio screwed, all leather, at only.75o One Lot Ladies' Fine Dongola Suoes, scotch bottom, value $2. at only. ..$1.48 One Lot Gentlemen's Vici Kid Shoes, guaranteed all solid, at only.$1.50 ODO Lot Boy's Brogan Shoes, all solid, 3 lo 5J, at only.50o NEW L.INE CLOTHING AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS, 100 Dozen Gents Fleece Line Shirts, well worth 50o, at only. 35o 10 Dozen Gents oil wool Undershirts, regular value $1.50, at only. 95o New Line Gents Hats of any stylo and color, from 25o to $2.00. New Line of Gents Singlo Coats, value $2, at only. $1.48 New Line Gents Trousers, just received, worth $1.50 and $2, at only... $1.00 New Line Chesterfield Gents Blue Flannel Suits, real value $10, at only $7.50 Free, Free, Free-Hand Painted China FREE. A House-wife's delight, a nicely arranged table. Buy your Goods of US and got a set of hand painted CHINA FREE. Ask for Coupons for free Premiums. Yours always truly, LESSER & CO., UNDER MASONIC TEMPLE. LEADING STORE OP ANDERSON. Wliy Not Give Your House a Coat of MASTIC PAINT ? You can put it on yourself-it is already mixed-and to paint your house would not cost you more than.-. ?^ive or Six Dollars! SOLD BY Ori>Gray & Co. HOME SEEKER EXCURSION RATES VIA. The Western and Atlantic Railway and Nashville, Chat tanooga and St. Louis Railway, To points in Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Missouri. 8olid vesti buled trains between Atlanta and Memphis. Only one change of cars to principal western cities. Very low rates to all points North, Northwest and West. Best service and quickest time via the Scenic Battlefield Route. For schedules, rates, maps or any information, write JOHN E. SATTERFIELD, Traveling Passenger Agent, No. 1 Brown Building, Atlanta, Ga. Sept 10, 1002_1^_ (im SH o 5 cr ? S H pl M . ? on CELEBRATED Acme Paint and Cement Cure Specially used on Tin Roofs and Iron Work of any kind. For sale by ACME PAINT & CEMENTl CO. Reference : F. B. GR AYTON & CO., Druggist", Anderson, S. C.]