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GREAT IN1 JLll of Them I-Iave M siti< Milton Horn in ( When thc $ucz canal was proponed ! Lord Palmerston, the then prime min ister of Great Britain, declared in an impassioned utterance: "It shall not be maile, it cannot he made, it will not be made, but if it were made there would be a war betwen France and England for the possession of Egypt." Although it did noi take ten years to prove Lord Palmerston in the wrong, this incident is an epitome of the whole story ol' invention and re form, both before and since. The rank aud file of the world is hopeless ly inert. Their inertia makcB them resift with all th?ir sluggish strength thc efforts of those who would haB ten forward. In every 3ge there arc a few geniuses, a few discerning men, j who are ?upposed to sec visions and theories of to-day have a way of be coming the matter of fact history of to-morrow. Marconi, whose praise is now ring ing in every nation, is thc same Mar- i coni who eight years ago was worry- j ing hia parents about sending a mes sage through a hill on their estate, land about whose wild schemes thous Jands were predicting the direct fai 1 - Jure a few years later. Opposition had lan effect upon Marconi which was fa Ivorablc rather than otherwise. I "In tho beginning," he say?, "I lhad the whole scientific world against tue, saying and doing everything pos tibie to upset mc, but I want to state that I feel grateful to them for their Ipposition. Particularly do I wish lo ?hank the leaders who continually op losed me. I am sure I would not lave been half so successful if it bad ?t been for them. .And afterward, 4hen they changed their attitudes, I helped me so, as it bad a good effeot unon the public confidence in my wprk. If they had not noticed mo at a!, it would have done mo more harm tlan anything else. Their criticism mide me dook forward with all thc Tn Irr? lipK'rnninatinn fcO thc time whCD II hould be ?able to show them that th y were wrong." ^e triumph of George aWesling ho ise, second only to his invention of tlx air brake, was the lighting of wo Id's fair io 1893. His suoooss only cai te because of his indomitable will anea courage. C Heehad taken tho con tract for $1.000,000 less than the offer of any other][oompany, and every meaos was adopted to throw obstacles in his way. IojunotionB were served upon bim without number, but glor ious success crowned his efforts, and it was well 'known that thc million dollar surplus Q divided among the stockholders after the .'fair was over was the amount saved in thc lighting contract. When after nine long years of re search and experiment, Bell complet ed the first telephone in 187b\ ii was not accepted as feasible by the world at large. A few scientific men pro nounced it "a wonder in electric tele AftTdkt graphy," but most people considered *^ it only a novelty and scientific toy. . Business men generally doubted if it Would ever be a useful factor in the daily life of the business world. No body dreamed that it would revolu tionize business as it has or that it tvould become the untold blessing to kan that it has. Bell ard his back ers had endless skepticism to over come before the time came when he J?-t- " hegan to draw his large dividends. The discouragements which have been offered to American inventors are as nothing, however, to those whioh have been thrown in the path of such men in England.,^Stephenson Throat Coughs A tickling in the throat; hoarseness at times; adeep breath irritates it;-these are features of a throat cough. They're very de ceptive and a cough mix ture won't cure them. You want Something that will heal the inflamed membranes, enrich .the blood ar*d tone up the system ,\ ,\ Scoffs Emulsion is just such a remedy. It has wonderful healing and nourishing power. Removes the cause of the cough and the whole system is given new strength and vigor ,\ ,\ " * ti Sit ' ? , , . ?X Set;J for fret tamplt j SZOTT G? BOWNE, chemists j 4^9^iS tMf Street, Afrw Tori I SOe. ariJff.OO. Sill druggie, MENTIONS. et "With Fierce Oppo on. ?hieago Tribune. was branded a- an impudent quack, as a fool, and as a knave. Experten gineers derided liiui, went into thc witness box and loftily "exposed" the impracticability of bis projects. Men were told that railways would prevent their cows from grazing and hens from laying. The poisoned air from the locomotive would kill thc birds as they flew over thc trains, and render the preservation of pheasants and loxes no longer possible. Householders along thc projected lines were assured that their dwell ings would be burnt up by the fire from the engines. Traveling by rail way would lc highly daugerous. Country inns would bo ruined. Boil ers would burst and blow thc passen gers to atoms. Thc landscape would be made bare and barren. The canals would be reduced to tho condition of unusuedjditches, tho coaching busi ness ruined. The Quarterly Review stated: "As to those persons who speculate on making railways general through out thc kingdom, wc dr*cm them and their visionary^schemcs unworthy of notice." Those who have mainly benefited by the introduction of railways, thc great landowners, whose estates have been developed and their value enor mously enhanoed, were among thc most bitter of the new idea's oppo nents. The nobles themselves opposed the bills in parliament, what time their keepers were assaulting thc oili cers intrusted with the duty of mak ing surveys. The cost to the early companies was appalling. Unheard of sums were de manded by way of compensation; and one company found its bill for parlia mentary costs total up to $2,000,000 before ever a sod of the railway was turned. Bessemer's story is so near to our own times that we are all familiar with it. His first invention waB one for stamping documents, whioh, by rendering fraudulent stamps impos sible, saved tho government an enor mous sum annually. Tho idea was practically filched from him by tho authorities. Profitable office was promised, but when tho friendless lad went to claim fulfillment of pledgo he was rebuffed and driven away from the office. BHia struggles in tho making of steel read like a romance. When hin in vention seemed perfeot, and the man ufacturing world whioh had howled him down was quelled, there was found a pig iron whioh his process would not convert. The triumph of tho critics was immense. But he labored on; and, though to the very end he was still disbelieved by a fatu ous few, ho gave to tho manufactur ing community such wealth as had been undreamed of in his day. The government in the end.bchaved with great magnanimity; it oonforred upon him a knighthood with as little grudging as it would bestow tho dis tinction upon a provincial mayor. QThe invention of the steamboat, for whioh Fulton was ridioulcd in the United States, and whose success was due alone to the intrepidity of the in ventor, was received in even a worse spirit in England. William Smying ton launched the first practical steam ship jjy eropffl p 1 o t e d ,C It p e rfo r m e d its trials successfully-too success fully. The wise-acres of the period rose in wrath, and deolared that the wash from the new contrivance would destroy the sides of the Forth and Clyde oanal. It was broken up; and its inventor died broken hearted. Long after the praotieability of the steamship had been demonstrated, the British government was appealed to in vain. Steamers were plying on the Clyde, on tho_Thamea, between Glas gow and?Beifast, Glasgow and Liver pool, between London and Margate. Steam [passage to and from Amerioa and to and__from India been made twenty years ^before tho admiralty would allow publie opinion to force the adoption of steam for the navy. Having once adopted it, they stuck like limpets to tho first idea-thc pad dle wheel against everything. John Ericsson made and patented his screw propeller, and got the lords of the ad miralty to make a trial trip in his vessel. C It was one which towed ves sels of 110' ?tons burden at the rato of S2ven miles an hour. My lords made use of thc trip to visit the yard Jin^which they had a new paddle?steamer n building. The Ericsson fscrew answered every test S3 admirably, and?was so obvious an improveineotj'upon the] paddle wheel that the lords.of the admiralty unan imously decided that thpy w<r? .'very muoh di&appointcdgwilb the ex periment." Poor EricFsonStook hid belongings and bis rnighiyjjbrain to the United Stater, where ho was to revolutionize .'.-\v.'-- '. . "'?.?>'.>? '...'">.'?:'?. .V-'-'. ' .. : navigation and methods of naval war fare. There remained in England another man who had got a ?crew in his brain. This was Francis l'ctt Smith. An oiler for the purchase of his invention was made by tho pasha of Egypt, but Smith, like other cf our badly used gnniubPS. was marvelously loyal to thc country which condemned his skill and perseverance. Not only was thc admiralty against him; the whole of thc shipping interest rose in oppo sition to the new theory. Thc sur veyor of the navy pledged his reputa tion that it was impossible to steer a vessel which was impelled from the t-tern. Sir William Symons, the offi cial in ?juestiou, hated steam, was ut terly opposed to iron ships, and de scribed both schemes in his journals as "monstrous." Even when, at the end of IS Ki, the navy had at last got a tiny .screw steamer of its own, they were not sat isfied, although the new means of pro pulsion had been tested by sending a vessel to every port in the united kingdom and to every capital in Ku rope. The ridiculous spectacle was wit nessed of two vessels hitched stern to stern. Upon a tug of war between thc screws and thc paddle depended the fate of tho navy! The screw won easily and dragged thc paddle Btpauier ignominiously into harbor, and then, unwillingly, the new principle was adopted. Three Years Without Drink. Dunbar, Fa., April 15.-Benjamin McGraw, a Civil war veteran, has no U6c whatever for water as a beverage, despite the statements of scientists that five pints of thc fluid per day are required to lubricate the human Bystcm. Mr. McGraw always [thought pretty well of water until August, 1902. In fact, bc consumed enormous quanti ties of it-drank so much that peoplo used to refer to him as thc human tank, although he never tasted a drop of intoxicating liquor in bis life. On that fateful day io 1902 McGraw took his last drink-of water. For some reason it did not tasto good to him. Thc next day he tried to take another drink, but even the sight of water caused nausea. From that time to this bc has not tasted water or any fluid. Within the last week McGraw be came ill and physicians were called in. After an examination they deolared that his illness was caused by being off the water wagon for so long. Phy sicians declare that if ho does not drink water soon he will die. Timely Warning. "O' c in Montana," says Senator Clark, "where silver and copper ores are the chief cods of man, there lived a minc superintendent who mingled digging ?with divinity-including in the latter on the 'day of rest.' "One dpy this worthy man deliver ed a sermon in which he exhorted his hearers to preparo for the life to come, and he concluded his remarks with "Brethren Gulohville is a very healthy place. Men don't often die here. Once in a while a rook rolls down and kills a fellow. Once a while, too, a shaft oaves in and sends a fellow tb tho other world. My brethren, we have started down yon der at thc forks of the creek a little grave yard; and though we had to start it with a man who was hung, and though, as I said before, Guloh ville is a^healthy place, nevertheless, if you live long enough, some of yon may live to he buried in that grave yard; so prepare for the life to oome." Ambition Faded. A young man who was anxious to seourd a . job as a railroad brakeman wandered into one of the local yards the other day ?.nd oamo across a bunch of railroad men who were sitting in a shanty. He made known his am bition and one of the men, who is quite a joker,'asked him a few foolish questions. The youth answered them and then asked: "Howlong beforo I'll be likely to get a job?" "Sit down and wait," said the I joker. "There's ten or fifteen brake men killed here every day and you can't toll how soon we'll need you." Tho young man's ambition seemed to fade, and ho remembered that he had engagement elsewhere.-Colum bus Ledger. Why Popcorn Tops. When the graius of maize or Indian corn are gently roasted they burst with a pop and turn inside out. They are then known as popcorn. This papping is due to thc evapora tion of the oil contained in tho ker nel. Ordinary wheat does not pop so readily, because the outer portion of the kernel is moro porous, and thus permits tho escapo of tbe oil as it evaporates. In tho caso of popcorn a great pressure is developed ia the ker hel by the Confined oil, which is pr?s ent iu greater quantity, so that the kernel is suddenly exp?o i d and re versed. J. Pierpont Morgan's Story. I Tart of tho experiences of very weal thy or extremely succe?bful people is that they have many letter? written' to them by other?, who ask: "How did you win success?"' Recently J. Pierpont Morgan, one of thc tuost successful financiers of this country, received an inquiry of this nature from a young Iowa boy, one Charles Vincent, of Claire village-so the letter was dated. The letter read: "Dear Mr. Morgan: I don't know how to succeed. I am just beginning work. 1 want to succeed. How did you make your success'.' Tlease an swer and oblige." Mr. Morgin is an extremely busy man, but the letter must have struck him most favorably, since he gave it to a New York newspaper friend of his with the remark: "I shall answer it in this way: "Young mau, if I have made any success in life it haB been due lo sev eral thing;:. I am not a rich man SB riches arc now counted, but I have enough to live on and to meet ill ex penses. I do not count being rich a success; it is only a means toward be ing successful. 'It has Deon a rule of my life to always mind my own affairs. I do not meddle in other people's buuiucss, and I do not permit others to meddle with mine. I have my work to do, and I figure others have theirs to care for; so, if lyre don't meddle with each other, the world is better off. "I?oevor have believed in trying to regulate thc lives of other people; if they do wrong they will suffer for it, and, if they do right, will have their own reward. *'I] work all the time my natural strength will permit me to, and I will not have & person in my employ who does not feel the same way. I never look at the clock until my work ?B finished, and I expect those who aro in my service to act in the same way. "The world is very busy. We can not change that state of affairs. We who are living must take care of the work to be done It is not right that one should nhirk and another overdo. That throws everything out of bal anco. Every one should work togeth er, each in his own place, and then a fair balance would bo preserved. 'Success to me is not represented in dollars and cents, but in the satis faction that you inwardly feel from having done any piece of work fairly, honestly, tc the good of all the peo ple whom yon may influence and con trol. "My highest conception of the word BUCCCBO' lies in my belief that I have tried to do right and have come aa near to it as my abilities and know ledge will permit. "I feel that the lazy boy or man is a drag on the world; ho helps to hold back the wheels of progress. Yon oannot afford to be lazy in any field of work you undertake. "Another thiog is important, be cause you work hard and steadily, do not imagine that you ought to know only work. Mix some real pleasures in your work. You oan afford to know something of good music, good books, good painting, and a great deal of good people. "If you will only look close about you, you will be surprised to see how many interesting people-people worth knowing-are at yonr elbow. It is your fault if you do not beoome ac quainted with them; y. u need them; they will help to cult?valo your taBtes and make yon a stronger man. "It is an old saying, an ancient bit of advice, that yon should save your money; but it is as good advioe now as it was years ago. As the business world goes today, you are certain to be very helpless if you have not some capital, and the dollar yon pnt aside to day may be the one five years from now that, with others, may help you into a comfortable and assured liv ing. Saving the little sums pays. "We all have habits-some have one, some have many. Oet along with aa few as you possibly oan. A habit is an expense, and, if yon are {tarting in life, you can little afford one. If you get along without them now, you will not need them after awhile. "Business men watch very closely the h a o i. s uf those ihey employ. Tho boy or ...-in who now goes to work is watched more closely than at any oth er time iu the history of the oduoiry. If [ h av o to trust several million dol dars' worth of transactions ?very day to my employes, I must know how well qualified they are to care for such a sum. "If they have bad habits Ido not feel that I can trust thom, and they mu.st.be discharged. If they are in dustrious and their habits are good, their chancea of advancing in the bus iness are very good. They have . the chance within themselves to advance Keep that in mind; every promotion you gain will be inspired out of your self, and that inspiration will bo re ceived by your employer. It is worth your while to make yourself worth a hundred coots on the dollar in every tbtug yo* do. and a lit.lt m ire. It i? aUays important to be worth more than par. Tho gold dollar is always worth wore than a hundred cents, while the silver dollar is worth much lues. "Learn a trade or a business; have some one thing you can say you know thoroughly; io fact, know it a little better than your competitor. A young man in whom t have had some inter est, came to me a short time ago and said he would like to furnish all the chairs our establishment uses. "I told him we were well satisfied with the quality of chairs we were getting. Hu said he knew that, but that he was making a better chair, a more practical one, for thc same price as wc paid for ihe others. That in terested mc, and 1 let him illustrate. When he got through I gave him the contract, he had taught me something new, and he had put a new and econ omical chair where it was needed. "This I call 'business sense'; and, while it takes time and costs money to acquire it, it pays the young man who wishes to succeed. Master some thing well, and use it as a stepping stone to higher ambitions. I think that is about all the light I can throw on tho subject of how to succeed. If it helps you at all, remember this: the best help must come out of your self, and do it right."-Forward. Coon Baats Mountain Lion. James A. MacCallun has a mountain lion that he is now willing to part with to any one as a gracious gift. When he received the Soe looking cougar a few days ago from a friend in the Rooky Mountains he thought that he had an animal that could whip any thing that wore hair, but when the king of the mountain beasts was fought to a standstill yesterday by au ordi nary old ring tailed coon MoCallum lost heart. The lion was seen a fe n days ago in his cage by Jack Cook. The lion tipped the beam at 175 pounds, but Cook said bis coon could lick him. The other morning Cook's coon was thrown into the cage with the lion. The fight began at once. The lion made vioious strokes with his paws at the coon, but the wily little animal proved to bu an adept at dodging all the blows. No quicker would thc blow of the lion prove futile than the coon would grab him by the throat and begin to claw with all his might. He would soon loosen his hold and jump away. This was repeated foi about twenty-five minutes, when the lion, bleeding profusely, skulked to z corner and refused to battle further. The coco was taken out of the cag< with hardly a scratch on him and ap parently proud of his work with hil heavy antagonist. The little ring tail ed animal weighs about 20 pounds, but Jack Cook says he is worth hil weight in gold.-Louisville Courier Journal. Reason of His Objection. There was a merry eompany in th? smokiDg compartment of the Pullman sleeper on the Lowing Herd Limit?e the other evening. A ministerial looking citizen entered the compart ment and was about to take a drink ol the water from the cooler wbea h< paused suddenly, turned to the festive company, and demanded: "What man has had the audaoity te drink whiskey out of this glass?" ! "I did," promptly replied a travel ing man who had his share cf courage aid bravado. "Well, where are you concealing the bottle?"-San Francisco Chroni cle. ' - , - A woman would almost rathei write a letter than a man would rathol have aomebody write him a chook. OA8VOXIXA. Bea? the y?TIW Kind Yo. HlW BOggfet S?gnate /7^^K3! Meeting of Stockholders. < '? ?^?_____ Tha Annual Meeting of the Stock holders of the Cox Manufacturing Oom 8kay will be hold at the office of th< offlpany. in Anderson, 8. G., on Toes day, April 25tb, 1905, at li 30 o'clock. . w. F. cox,.President. March 29, 1005 _41 4 Keep a Record of Tour Transactions. Put your money in the Bank and pay your bills by check. The Bask Book is the best record of receipts, and your check ia the beat receipt for your billa. . The SA VlfG8 DEPARTMENT of The Bank ot' Anderson will pay you interest on that' idle money you have. One Dollar-will open an ac count. THE BANK OF ANDERSON. Capital ?l?O,000-.Surplua $150,000. % J. A. 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