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Companies are distrib- t uted as far as possible, says the i report, equally over the State, and the aim is to have one company j near the center of the county, with an extra one or two for large towns j and cities. * The two following recommends- i tions of Gen. Floyd are of especial i moment and should receive favora- < ble consideration by the General i A rsembly: '"The necessity of an armory ] building is absolute, to preserve and protect thousands of ilollors of 1 military material loaned annually to the State, to equip, arm and < uniform our militia, and the na- : tionnl government requires that ; such material be kept secure from damage or destruction, except from . natural causes, f submit the mat- I ter again for your consideration. ( whether it is best to rent an ar- } mory from year to yenr or for tlio ] State to build one of its own, and thereby stop an annual outlay that 5 in five years would amount to the ( cost of a suitable nnd substantial ? State building. j "It is nlHo highly essential that . some provision be made to furnish ( nriuories for the companies of the | v volunteer service, where they can assemble for drill, nnd whore the 1 uriiiS, uniforms and ordnnuce stores can be safely kept. It has been said that 'a good armory is almost as surely productive of a good company as n good home is the production of a good family.' At present the S ate does nothing in that direction. A small appropriation added to the present one of SS.000 would enable companies that have no nrmories to provide one. And where companies already own their armories taxes thereon should he remitted and the amount charged to said companies in lieu of their quota of any appropriation made for that purpose." - - Pnnr (1M l"{i?pU?tnn Washington Post. A current news item states that in order to see how fast a buzzard really could fly, a good specimen of the tribe was sent from Charleston, S. C., to New York and there released at an appointed hour. It was expected that the bird would take a day at least on the trip home, but the buzzard fooled the experts and got there in four hours. We have no information as to the authenticity of this item, but it does seem to us that it reflects seriously upon a city that is trying to get up an exposition to exhibit its progress. Western Towns Tired of Negroes. An Evnnsville ( Ind.) dispatch of Monday says that cities and towns along the Ohio river have begun a crusade against the negroes. The entire trouble dates back to the lynching of the negroes at Rockport and Boonville for the murder of the white barber, Simmons, at lvockport lust month, The hoard of safety of Evanaville has ordered the police to arrest all strange negroes and bring them before the city police judge. If they can not give any reason for being in the city they will be sentenced to the rock pile. It is estimated that there are 2,000 colored men in Evanaville who absolutely refuse to work. They 6pend their time in low saloons and dives of the city and live the best way they can. On election day they are on the market ! s fur the highest bidder. O her Indiana towns along the river me taking steps to drive the worst element of the negroes away. I n some towns no negro is permitted to remain. Vigilance committees have been appointed at Grand View, lOnteiprise. Tell City and Leavenworth. .Since the recent trouble at Newburg many colored people have left that town. ? The Manufacture oI Postage Stamp?. .. It is estimated that on an average every man, woman and child in the United States will use tiftythree postage stamps during the year 11)01, forty of them being of the popular 2-cent denomination. The total number consumed will be over four billions, and nearly ane billion of these will be of the 1-eent variety. One person out of every ten will send n special delivery letter in the course of the present year. The lirst process in the manufacture of postage stamps at the Bureau of Printing and l'kigraviug, in Washington City, is to count the sheets of blank paper. This work is done mostly by women, because they have proved themselves more rnpablo than men for business of this description. Each sheet is ilie proper size ami shape to make 1U0 printed stamps, with a small margin. After they have been counted the sheets are moistened by laying wet rags between them at intervals af twenty, and next morning the rags are removed and the sheets lire ready for printing. The press for printing po tage damps is a queer looking machine, half automatic in its action. It is juite a small affair, with foursquare steel plates, set horizontally, occupying the four sides of a horizontal square. These pi itos. always hori soutaI, travel around the four sides jf the square at a mode rale rate of speed, passing in turn beneath an ink roller. Each of them is engraved with tin4 faces of loo stamps mul after being iukt d by the roller goes under a mechanical rubber, winch removes most of the ink. Then the plate is cleansed of all the rest of the ink save what is left in the graven lines by a man who rubs it with cloth and his bare hands, and finally it goes under a dry cloth-covered roller, which, a sheet of white paper being interposed, does the printing. All of these proce-ses are accomplished four times inside of half a minute. A girl supplies the fresh white sheots ns the plates come round to her in quick succession, and another girl takes them out, fresh printod,as they appear on the out siue or ino eioiii-c ivered roller, piling them neatly as she docs so. Then tin* sheets, so new and beautiful with their bright colored impressions, are carried to another room to be counted, after which they are laid on racks in wire cnges on wheels and hauled into a steam drying room to stay over night. On the following morning they are taken into the examining room, where each of them is carefully inspected for defeets. Torn or otherw so imperfect ones are rejected, but all fragments are carefully stuck together, so that each slu-et may be accounted for. Each person in this department is expected to exnmiue I2,o00 sheets a day. Now comes the gumming of the stamps, which is one of the most interesting steps in the whole pro ccss. Each sheet cf 400 is taken in its turn and placed between a pair of delicate steel hands, which pass it beneath a roller that carries II mil lit 1( ill of fi no irnni nnmii'iiiirl - - * x chiefly of dextrin. An endless belt carries the newly gummed sheet through a wooden box lUO feet in length, which is lined with coils of steain pipes, so that it conies out nt the other end a few minutes later perfectly dry, being received thereupon by deft Angers of steel and laid accurately upon a pile of similar sheets. The gummed postage stamps before they are ready for use must be perfoi sited, so as to be torn apart easily, a ad this process is preformed by machines with rows of small toothed wueels of brass set parallel to each other. Rock Hill is qu ir&nliiujd against Blacksburg? smallpox, ^ ? tiu-yto' the tub). C. C. Itrowu. Sri inter, ij. (J. Oil a November morning, long ago, I was strolling along Caine L'iece Swamp in search of squirrels when J came upon Uncle Dan'l. whose home was full a mile away. It was a lovely morning; the .sun was warm enough for coin fort; the woods wore the many hues of autumn, and the falling leaves were shying down between the bared I branches to join their fallen follows on the ground. 1 soon found what had brought Uncle Dan'l out in the lonely woods by the branch, so far from home. Under a great live oak 1 saw tin enclosure, dotted here and there with mounds, and I knew at once it was a graveyard ? a country graveyard, set to one side in the lonely forest, where the noises of the hurrying world could not reach cither the sleepers or the mourners who might come to weep t here. ''What are you doing hero, Uncle ! Dan'l?5' I asked. "Well, you see, little Aleck's up there in Mint graveyard; been there u long lime too, an' now nil' then I just have to come out here where the hoy is an' s >rt o* commune with him nii' try to make believe that he hears me. Little Aleck was me an" Rachel's fust-horn, the chile of our best yers. an' the hope of our ole age, but one night, many a yer ago, his sperit waked up in the deail o night nil* lifted the latch to the do' an* went away?went all by its self in the night, an' when the j inornin" come his crib was like a bird's nest, left empty. It come mighty nigh breakin' my po' heart. I use to walk about the hou.-e an' long for little Aleck to come an' play on the llo' agin an' climb up my knees, nn' 1 just thought I'd be williu' to follow right behind him an' miss him an' pertect him the bnlui'efc o' mv life, ef 1 oou!d onlv t_;it I)iin brick. But lie was gone. I folded his tcency little hands over I his heait an' brushed his shiny hair back, an' put him in a coffin all by myself; an' then 1 fetched him out hero -in the lonesome woods, where he could sleep quiet ; like-an'peaceful. Rachel was sol nigh crazy that she followed me do\f u to the fence a cryin'.'O, Aleck, * Aleck,' but 1 walked on, an' buried ] our baby right there under that tree, thirty-eight ycrs ago this comin' March" An' now 1 come out hero sometime?two or three time ' a yer, maybe?and set down under the trees an' think of all that's happened an' of little Aleck. When I'm fretted an' worried, an' a big cloud covers everything an' the I world gets in a great whirl, I jest steal away an' set down by little Aleck's grave. It's mighty quiet hero an' peaceful. The branch goes gurglin' by, the light o' the, sun plays hide an' seek among the trees, an' ef 1 puts my hand ou the soft coverin' of little Aleck's grave it 'pears to me that he knows it. I know you'l say I'm olo nn' foolish, but a broke heart can't listen to reason. Little Aleck was jest two yers ole an' somehow he went away easy an' soft like the dew when the sun licks it up in the morninh ' There wasn't no noise; but, po' me, I was left like a tree pulled up by j a storm. I've come to think a little baby like Aleck is the greatest power in the world?greater than , all your read in' an' poetry an' sech 1 things. Livin' or dead, you can't git away fum the little one. Some- j times now. in the dead o' the night, I kin feel littlo Aleck's wet kiss on my* dry an' parched ole lips, an' 1 reach out an' grab after that Iwiby, an' I'd give all ef 1 could jest look once mo* away down into his playful little eyes nn' hear him babble an' have him pull my shaggy ole beard with his dumpy little lingers like he used to do." 1 looked steadily nt the feeble mnn till lin /lion im\ - n,lu little Aleck s grave was left alone in the solemn forest. Alas! how many graves are dug in human hearts for tho interment of human hopes. How many homes there are where deep silence reigns, tho flowers have fallen from the bushes, and the song-birds hushed in the iree9, becnuse a little Aleck has gone nwny?gone away by himself ?gone away forever to the happy i play-grounds oi God. [ 1 ^ Concerning Ureat Britain'* King. It is claimed tlint A! be ri, Ed ward has no light to ve'gn as Edward I VII. If lie is to roign ns Edward,' it must bo ns Edwnrd I. There has never boon an Edward on the throne of (i reat Britain; so of course it is impossible for the present monarch to be Edwnrd VII. About three hundred and forty years ago. Edward VI sat on tho throne of England, but at that iime Eng'and and Scotland were ns separate ns nrn tlu> Ulnfnn i n I itiv/ vuu v_- 111 bcu kjidivo nn\i vj i r?i Britain tovlav. James I, of England, who had been James VI, of Scotland, was the first sovereign of England and Scotland, but even then the parliaments of the two countries and their armies and navies were entirely separate. These conditions prevailed during the reigns of Charhs I, Charles II. James II, and Mary and William, and it was not until 1707, during the reign of Queen Anne, thnt the union of the two nations was made complete. Queen Anne, therefore, was the first sovereign of Great Britain, and was the first to he addressed as her Britannic majesty. All sovereigns since then have been addressed as his or her Britannic majesty, and it is the throne of Great Britain, and no* the throne of England, upon which they have sat. It must he remembered that Scotland is not a vns.-.al of the English Crown. She was never conquered, hut became voluntarily a part of the union which is known as Great Britain. It would be just ns reasonable to call Albert Edward Kinjj of Scotland ns it would to call him KitiR of England. It is as King of Great llritain that he reigns, and as there Ins never been a Kin?j Edward of Greit Britain, it stands to reason that if it is as Edward he is to rei^n, it must be as Edwaid I. >u> m:\vsba-peks FOP. SALE AT THE TIMES OFFICE. MALE HELP WANTED.?Reliable men to soil our Hue of fine lubricating oils, greases and paints. Address, THE RESERVE OIL CO.. 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