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FORTUNES FOR IDEAS. Some Simple Little Things that Have Not Been Invented. New Tork Sun. There are lots of chances for in ventors still. It is an old saying that the simplest devices are the ones jvhich prove' most profitable to their originators. The field is not yet ex hausted. For instance, it is asserted that the genius who conceived a process for loading coal on ocean-going steam ships which will efect a saving of one half a cent a ton over the present methods employed can get a check fqr $1,000,000 for his idea the minute lie is ready to demonstrate the practica bility of his plan. But, valuable as would be such an idea, it is a question whether it would bring a larger price than a method of treating straw hats to prevent them from changing color with the weather. There is also a demand in the Amer ican household as well as in large can ning establinsments for an effective and rapidly working device for seal ing cans. Fully 50 patents have been granted for contrivances aimed to meet this want, but the ideal has not yet been reached. A typewriter that will do its work without the present nerev-racking clicking and clacking would bring a good retrun to the in ventor and would be as great a boon to humanity as a speechless barber. In the airship field there is ample opportunity for fortune making, and the submarine boat can still be im proved upon profitably. A flying machine that will go up and come down and a submarine that will go down and. come up at the pleasure of the operator are mightily to be desired and would be of vast financial value. The genius who contrives a motor actuated solely by the rays of the sun of the waves of the sea, and of practi cal use, is assered of a fortune and a niche in the trial of Fame. Shoe manufacturers have long sought a neat and durable substitute for leather, and they are willing to pay handsomely the man who solves this riddle for them. Millions of dollars await the man who invents a substitute for coal. One of the biggest bills of the world of civilization is its fuel bill. Cut this down a trifle a year by any new means and a fortune surpassing Rockefel ler's will be the reward. A device that will entirely obliterate the grating mechanical sounds of the talking machine will find a dozen bid ders, with certified checks waiting to purchase it. The man who devises a method of cleaning a ship's bottom without dock ing it will never have to work another day in his life, and can take a trip abroad in his own private yacht if lie desires to do so. It is estimated that millions of dol lars are locked up in waste of various kinds from factories. Any scheme that will effectiudlly utilize this waste and save the millions will fill the cof fers of the inventor with coin. Probably 500 patents have been se cured on non-reusable boxes and five. times as many on non-refilllable bot ties, but no one of these meets all the requirements. the inventor of the perfect thing is either of these classes 'will live on the fat of the land for the rest of his days.* Automatic chicken pickers and oys ter shuckers are in demand. One of the ideas upon which the inventors may exercise his ability with profitable results if he is successful is an automatic gas cock that will shut off the flow as soon as the gas is extinguished. There is a self-sharpening paper cutter which keeps its blade on edge through the very process of cutting of paper. There is a tidy $100,000 waiting for the man who can apply the same principle to scissors and shears. A pen that will not corrode, a pin that will not dull, a gasolene for automobiles that will not smell, an ink that will not evaporate, coloring matter for light dress goods that will not fade, a self-lubricating sewing machine, an automatically puncture closing pneumatic tire for bicycles and automobiles, a perfect smoke con sumer, a device for accurately timing camera exposures, a typewi'iter key that will nob clog, and hundreds of other schemes that will add to the comfort and economy of living, are all waiting to be broght to that stage of perfections that will make them ser viceable. The Maid-What's your opinion of the type of girl who never wants to get married? The Bachelor-I'm not qualified to express an opinion on the subject. The Maid-Why, are you prejudic ed? The' Bachelor-No, but I've never seen such a type.-Clevoland Leader. Zach 21'Ghee on Tillman. Charlotte Observer. There are some men about whom the pfiblic never tires of reading or' hearing. Such a 'man was Napoleon, such a man was Lincoln, ind such a man is Tillinan. The scores of biogra phies aild character sketches of the two former find ready sale, and all the magazine mid newspaper talk about Tillman, since his connection with the rate bill forced him into a livelier national attention, - has en joyed an eager hearing from the pub lie. Of all the Tillman sketches the most engaging and intimate appears in the current World's Work and is written by Zach McGhee, formerly for a brief time of The Obearver staff. Mr. Me Ghee is a South Carolinian. His work as a newspaper man makes him famil lar with the history of Tillman and Tillmanism in that State, and his ex perience as a Washington correspond et puts him in close relation to the ''stormy petrel from South Carolina" in his career as a national legislator. The style is as vivid as the narrative and description are true. Here is the opening paragraph: "Near the centre of the Senate chamber, directly in front of the Vied President, sits a large, burly, surly looking man, with a tremendous square head set upon a pair of broad shoulders, the corners of his mouth drawn down nearly to the lower mar gin of his heavy, square jaws. He is clean shaven-that is, he is shaven: perhaps it was day before yesterday that lie shaved. His thick, slightly gray hair is dishevelled, and lie wears just such clothes as you would expect to see on a man who says on the floor of the Senate. 'In'm a rude man and don't care.' But when he rises from his seat and addresses the chair in a high-pitched, almost whining voice, standing somewhat above the other, his dark-brown, glistening eye flash ing through the room like a search light, the other Senators put down their newspapers and slowly turn in tleir seals; those walking- about inl their tracks; the many necks inl the visitors' galleries are craned to get a better view, and there is a move ment in the press gallery to get a lit tle nearer the front.'' After a brief account of the oli garchy which governed his State, be nigly and justly, before the war, and resumed its government upon the overthrow of the carpet-bagger, Mr. McGhee reaches the point where it is necessary to state the issue on which Tillman mounted into power. He chooses to do so by illustration, drawn from the Senator's later life. '' 'I should like to ask, Mr. Presi dent, what is before the Senate?" said Senator Foraker one day as lie rose for a 'parliamentary inquiry' while Senator Tillman was making fierce attacks in a desultory way on a number of things and a number of men. ''I am before the Senate,' fairly screamed Tillman.'' Mr. Foraker insisted on knowing what Tillman was discussing. ''No particular subject, '' was the reply. ''1 am just making a few remarks oni the general cussedness of the situa tion.'' So the issue before the peo ple of South Carolina in 1886 and af terwards was Tillman himself, and his campaign was an attack upon the general cussedness of the situation. The article dlecribe's the picturseque hustings, when Tillman, sea ted in a farm wagon draped with agricultural p)roducts, was drawn to the stump by his devotes and escorted by a howlhing p)rocession; describes some of the quaint chiaracters tIhat the revolution swept into temporary prominence; traces Tillman's growth in stateerafi hife. Mr.. McGhece sums uip: 'As a public man ; it is difficult tc estimate Tillman. There are thos< who think him a demagogue of the worst type; there are others who thinla him a great stateman ; still others whc think him a little of both. His lift has b)een lived in the open, so the pub.1 lie may. pass8 judgment upon the facts --that is, up to the present. What h< wvill do to..morrog noe man knows. H< is a r'ude man and don't care.''' It 'is a very skilfully fritten story but even had it been done with lesi art it would have been welcomed b3 the pl)iei; for, as was said at th< outset, Tillman, whether admired o1 disliked, is of that stamp of man wh< excits universal interest and of whon any anecodote or description is read, able. aurrent Happenings President Rtoosevelt, according t< a Washington authority, will let Pt-es. ident Palma '"go it alone'' againsi the insurrection in Cuba, and is in elined to favor a change of adminis tration. J1. Raynor Storrs Wells, apprentice seaman, United States Navy, and son of a millionaire, is to be dischargedl for the good of the service at the ex piration of his term of imprisonment at Portsmouth, Va. The Dowager Empress of China has appointed a committee to considei the report of the commissioners wlio recently returned from abroad. The Railroad Rate law went into effect at rqidiight Wednesday. Ten new indictments on charges of profiting by secret rates were brought in by two grand juries in Chicag< against the Standard Oil Company. Great damage has been done in th< town of Mazatlan, Mexico, by floods Another flood visited Winchester over six inches of rain having fallen from Saturday night. Representative Maynard, of th< Second Virginia district, declined the joint-debate challenge of Col. George C. Cabell, who is making a contest for the nomination. The Circuit Court at Martinsburg, W. Va., is considering the appeal of the Hannis Distilling Company from the decision of the county court on a question of taxes. A number of vessels were driven ast*o,re and wrecked on the Great lakes. The assignment of misisters of the West Virginia Methodist Protestant Conference were made at Fairmon't W. Va. The Standard Oil Company has, it is said, taken steps to acquire the principal distilling plants of the coun. try. Men who brag are those who for. merly squandered. Some spinsters advance step b) step until they finally become step mothers. Many are trying to get their heartE into paradise by putting their handF into other people's pockets. ANNOUNCEMENTS. For the Legislature. I am a candidate for the House o Representatives subject to the rule of the Denocratic partY. Elbert H1. Aull. Arthur Kibler is hereby announce( as a candidate for the legislature ani pledged to abide the rules of the Dem ocratic party. For Supervisor. I hereby announce myself a candi date for Supervisor for Newberr; county. Subject to the Democrati primary. J. Chesley Dominick. J. Monroe Wicker is hereby an nounced as a candidate for re-electio1 for the office of county supervisor, ani will abide the rules of the democrati party. For Sub-Supervisor. J. P. Cannon. is hereby announ ced for re-election as sub-superviso and is piedged to abide the result o the democratic primary. W. H. Wendt is hereby announce as a candidate for sub-supervisor an will abide the rules of the democrati party. I am a candidate for the office o Sub-Supervisor from Newberry cour ty and will abide the result of th democratic primary, Thos. J. Wilson. We hereby nominate our comrad< Osborne Wells, for reelection to th office of Sub-Supervisor and pledg him to abide the result of the Demt era tic primary. No better soldier es er served in the Confederate army. Comrades. Wood's Seeds FALL p~owsNG. Ever frmer should av a copy of our New fah .CaIogue It gives-bqst methods of seed ing and:r f.S m formia.tion about CrimsorClover VetcVes, Alfalfa Se d Oas Rye Jarley, Seed Wheat /Grasses and Clovers Dlesorlptive Fall Catalogue mailed free, and prices quoted on request. T. W. Wood & Sons~ $eedsmen, --Rlohmond,. a. Ou Tra e Murk Braied aS Brick! Brickl For Sale by C. M. CAN NON. Orangeburg Collegiate Insittute will begin its fall session Wednes day, September 19th. 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