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JANUARY ISO, 1001.
The annual report of the adjutant
and inspector geneinl shows
that the militia of the. State is in
better condition than it litis been
fur several years, anil with the increased
appropriation from the national
government it is hoped that <
the militia will ere long compare
favorably with that of any South- ?
ern State. 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."
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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.
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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
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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, ^
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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\
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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. [
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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.
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