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dob Printing Xtecat*) yrwn&tly and (s the best sty lea ontfaw Paoru: Preu \ Vol, XVI I* BARNWELL COU^T HOUSE. S. C., December 7 1893. Alliance Departme nt. •r~ '• ■ The mein hers of the New York Cot- ^ HELLOING 1,300 MILES too Bxi henge had their innusl Ruess-| i,’ ‘ 1 Injt toatiih Wot week on the cottrn crop ! ^q N q distance AND SHCfftf CWCl/lt TELEPHONES. Adopted** the Connty Organ by UicUoon- . - 7 Alliance Jalyith, 18?». for the year ending next September M. J. PA'I’K, Assooiatm Rdito*, Tp whom all Ceiaiqnatcatlons on Alliance "Sit&n •houkl be addteeaed. Hw Oemty' AUtaaee. jl. H..Cnw,_ President. 1. Hiller S. Bara I >, Vice Ptealdeni. W. *. Bamberg, Secretary. • A; f. Frpe, Treeeoror., . . O. I). Klnard, Chaplain. T. 8 Week*, Coanty Lecturer. W.-A. All, Steward or Assistant Lecturer. W, T. Harley, Door Keeper. H. R. Harley, A«i»istant Door Keeper. D. W. Bodlford, Sotgeant-at Arm*. t. H. Crpccb, BoMneee Ajcent. Exeentlve Oomraittee- PatHbk, W. A.Faust. m i,— ’ Trade Committee—G. M. Hunter, E. Ill-| better DowHnF, i. M. Ulmer, W. A. AH. Committee ou Good of the Order—J. C. Wc- -hllllan, C. M. EdenUold, W. T. Cave, J. K ' SUetUbg, E. ft. Gueee. =, Estimate* were*ubmilted by 140 mem bera. They i aw god fMtti 6,750,000 balea to T.iOS.OOO. fWie avdragC was 7,2S4,703. The Ec'.cctio MedL a’ Journal says that In thecontlnued use of the eye* In /uch work as sewing, typesetting, bookkeeping, reading and studying thfe,saving point U looking up from the at shorf intervaU and looking around the room. Till* maybe prac* Meed every ten or llfteeu minute*. 'Nil® it.' Pree, W. w. reHotf** the mosoular teneloti. rasts the makes the blood supply much AN INDIAN AMBUSH. FftlGHTENED WILD AN1MAL8 PREVENT A HORRIBLE MASSACRE. I Owing to the fact that Court was In rtsston At the time of my late visit to the George’s Creek Alliance, whichnec- dssarlly claimed many of it* member* solicitation of those present, promised to visit them again on the third Satnr- d ay !n December, at 1 o'clock p. m. and aa the meeting will be public 1 hope t.> meet a full house, ladles, especially. T. S. W KICKS, County Lecturer. ” Bamberg, Dee. 4tb 1803. Cletasoa Cellsgw* ■ F«eV eon- S dered the problem that there are~ac* bommodatlons for not more than 560 buys at Clemson by crowding, while toe re are about 900 applications on file for admission next Friday. After mature consideration it was de cided by the board to apportion the ad- miasiona to the college in the future antohg the seveTal counties according td the number of representatives each county has in the Legislature. AVbat this app >rtionment will be ha* not yet been decided on. The students at pres ent in the college will not be affectetl by the new arrangement. TO Settle the matter when a county ha* mora applicants for admission than H ♦« entitled to, the board decided to admit the older boy* first, other things being equal. In order further to facil itate matters, the board also decided to give the preference to boys who can en ter the freshman class, since by this ar rangement the students will get through quicker end make way for others, and In thi* way a larger number of boy* will get Jh# benefits of the col lege. The rule or “fifst come; drat ser ved” will also be applied, and those J who do not present themselves in ten days after the opening of the session will not be admitted. In order also to secure the healthful- ness of the college, sll who have any contagious disease or show symptoms of consnmptlon will not be admitted. All students will be required to under go a medical examination, and those uhaiHe to live In the barrack* and per form manual labqr will be refused ad mission. Plant an Orchard. The farmer, owning his own land, who neglects to set out s few fruit trees this winter, i* not a friend to him. self and family. The exception is the man who has a variety of fruit trees al ready growing. A few well selected apple trees will keep a family in fruit day of March. One can pick up in the neighborhood a few dozen scions from good trees. By planting apple seed Ur good, rich soil, tho trees will be ready for grafting after one year’s growth. Arty farmer’s boy can soon learn to graft arid bud. Seedlings will give a good orchard. .The trees that bear poor fruit can b* grafted. Sipce the first of last June good apples have brought at wholesale from 75cents to $1.00* bushel In this market. If you Wish your trees to grow olf wall and soon come into bearing, select a good . place. Dig a hole two or three feet square aaJ about eighteen inches- deep. After breaking up the.clay In thebot- tom, throw in rich dift^rom the sur face, or from tbe woods urtU it is about Six Inches deep. Then put lu your tree wnd fill In with rich earth. That will furnish the raots with plant food for a year, or longer. The tree wlll grow off Vigorously and pay Well forthe trouble. Apples require a rich deep soil. One good tree in the right sort of place is worth a half dozen measly, scrubby .trees on land too poor to sprout pea*. ' ll Is as eaay to have a good variety of fruit as a poor one. »£lect the best Be sure to set oat some trees this win ter.—Carolina Spartan. A Northern gentleman who pawed through Florence a few days ago said : “You say the time* are hard? Why you people of the South do not know ,whst hard times are. You should *ee what they have been North. Thous and* upon thousands of people out of employment, and who were, to. a large ‘"extent, only getting pittances for ysgea.n ^Tho )»>uth,»’ ha remark. ed further, “has, I do not deny, had hard times, but you got off with scars, the North with deep wounds The strike's, amt other evidence* that the masse* were Suffering, made up. a c$* lamitwis onffditinn long to be remem bered ’’—Messenger. THE COST OF COTTON. A bulletin iwned from the Texas ag ricultural experiment station and de voted to the cost of cotton production Texas i* of more than passtyg impor tance. From actual experiments it ap pears that cotton can be produced,hand picked, nt a cost of 4 09 cent* a pound and maehlne picked at 2.12 cents’ a pound. These are the lowest figures given. Other experintenls are approxi mately as cheap. These experiments were not ideal In the sense that condi tions were selected. They were the ac tual experiences of practical farmers In Texas, The cost included rent of land and i>ay o( all labor from planting to marketing. The sigoittoanc* of this is treiiie r :dous. If, says the Dallas News, the cotton planters of Texas could or would adopt a system bringing cost as low as 5 cents a pound, it is plain that they would soon solve the problem of southern agriculture. The cheapest cdtton noted In the bul letin was produced on land that had al ready grown a crop of peas. In another place tne farmer, Mr. W. A. Clark, pf Hell county, exhibits Lis intensive sys tem of farming, by, which, «ith peas, followed by cotton, he made a net profit of 82,45 an acre. It is to be ob served, too, that this profit was made, not without, but with, fertilizer as the fertilizer is charged np In the ex pense. The best farmers in the State use at! the fertilizer they can rake and scrape to aid them in the production of t&ctr crop*. And this -ha* been proved to be a paying investment, ac cording to the authority referred to, which further adds: ^ If Jeff^ Welborn could raise cotton at a cost of fi 12 cent* per pound (and he did) on post oak, upland,-what could be do on the rich river bottoms? WJpH could others do7. Tr hen the cotton picker which Mr. Welbormttsed ojf*fc»* e other comes Into general use through out the state, and other improved ma chinery, and farmer* have Icsmed to raise wlpit they wantto coiMume instead of paying out their money for nearly every thing Ahat goes on their table, anil even into the mouths of their beasts,the millennium in cotton raising will have arrived and not before. The secret of cheap cotton raisii/g, other tliings.heing equal, lies in doing as much of the work as pne and pis family can do themselves, and in niut drawiugon a grocery too heavily, par ticularly a hen hired labor is to be fed. Taking this view of the matter, no one can doubt that fit time, when the cotton harvester comes into use, cotton may gun rally be raised in Texas during fa vorable seasons for even teas tl an ‘iy a -Piifr »iiff ’ *> vl V VtTJTfTtnBTtTX should cos 3 or even 4 cents there Is still money In cotton and always wi.L be.—Savannah News. * ' Who Use the Former aad What They tTsa Them For—The Charge* Keem High, hot They Permit the Use. of Considerable Coaremation—A Lecture For Test Calls. A continuous long distance telephone line extends between Boston and Mil waukee, • distance, as the line is run, of 1,800 miles. A reporter who was wondering, aa many other people are wondering, no doubt, if the long distance telephone cir cuits are-much used, and if so by what class of people and for what purposes, called to ask those questions of Edward p. Meany, assistant general manager of the company, in the main office, at 18 Cortlandt street. •‘Yes,” said Mr. Meaney, “the long distance service is used to such a satis factory extent that it is being constantly extended,’ In the far western part of our.territerry Milwaukee has been added to-tMe aystom, .and. this side of Chicago a line liias recently been ran down from Toledo to Dayton O., and from Dayton extensions are making which will bring Cincinnati and Indianapolis into the serv- ioa. - “What class of interviews is most conducted over the longqr cirenits?” “I should say that social and domestic affairs bring most of the patrons now, although there are some business inter views conducted." Mr. Meaney explained that the chargi - for long distance interviews are hased upon five minutes’ conversation as a unit That is, the charge between New York and Washington is $2, between teCaate Pear Tree* la Baappto*. . The Rev. John T, Morrison in the Hampton Guardian eav*: “My Le- Cento pear* had commanuejl to blight. I took out After slack toff, 4 added a added water, barrel of water and sprayed my tree* •o that the leaveeahd fruit want cov ered uTCh Mlie lime arid gwlphur; every close, cloudy uay I couki perceive it. i'woApplicaMo>‘ift in May, which con- opuroed half a bushel of Jifite aud twelve pound* of suiphtirf stopte-d the ravages dn twentv trees and today 1 am skipping * fruit of toe first quality. 1 never a*» though Wight It wo »y tbe (rule of the Htruicslo* 'With In HI am* In-Uhe Northwest—The Shrewd DUoernmeut of a Half Breed Guide Saved SOp Lire*. Wo were going down tho peninsula formed by tho junction of the Yellow stone and Little Missouri rivers, hoping to intercept the Indians and turn them back. It had been a hard, swift march— a ride of over 400 miles—with no halt above four hours, and at 10 o’clock in the forenoon half the troops were sleeping in their saddles as their lean and lame horses picked their way oyer' the rough ground. . ’ - We had planned to react the spot where tbe fleeing Indiana, wonl.l crosa the Lit tle Missouri a day of two ahead of them. We believed we had accomplished it. At 10 o'clock we were within two miles of the spot. Then the head of the col- nmn halted for tbe men to close up. Our line had strung out for A mile or more. was made, nature had made a highway. feet wide, AM' Thinks That tho Timas Aro dotting .. Bettor 1>e uinszed tmtl bewiu.emi. aivi finally ivould K,t u* down with Carlyle's crowd. - All this crimination and recrimination Is a sad commentary upon political fair- pcs* and integrity, but it Is tlO nfeW it ' thing, and will never cease, I reckon. It waa just Aa.hiid.in the days of Waate And That Hie l.uwi of Supply and Demand Are Greater Thna the l.aw* That Con ere** Way Kiiact. — IS SPITE OF THE .LEflSUTIOS 1 — | survived the biiock of it and the scandal of It for a orntury, and so we need not fear. The wheels will roll on. Genera tion* will come and go Jiwt like they r — j hnve done. Tbe good trill have to en- nt d«re and’tuffer for the bad, but they It lock* liko the tunes are getting, better. I don't know that leAttAi^ B ‘» nd , a ^ and will nt Washington has had anything to do. ‘ rium ^ \ ht5 end ' v - with it In faet 1 believe the pani<J “ TrHUl crushed to earth will rise won Id have passed away just a* soon ' ’ Hili. A*r. without the repeal a* with It, consider- tng.thkt It took three months to do it. Th? laws of trade are more powerful then the laws of congress. The panic uanet-just Hke comet* count, and it will go just like tL u comet g(M>s. Like the comet it came unexpected, but it takes , bav0c m tho oy , tor bed* In Dela- longer for it to dnwpimar, for conn-! , dence is a plant of slow growth FIGHTING A ROBBER. WAS IT BRAVERY (Ml WAS IT A CASE OF lOOLHARDINESSt . A KtrUKKta with the ParneM THE OYSTER’S ENEMY. Great I>eetroctlon In the 'Delaware Day Bede hy the “ Borer.•• The "borer,*’ t. pest aoout the siz« of small strawberry, iFxvorklng great A Diphtheria Remedy. A French medical journal announce.' a new and successful treatment for diphtheria, discovered by a country doctor, M. FrederTo> Flahaut, who lives near Houen. Last year a malig nant diphtheria broke out in his village, and l e Dated* it in the usual way, losing, to his disgust, a consideraole number of patients. Knowing the an- tteptlu gudMiies of potroicum, he detar- mined to try it on come of his ca«es as an experiment. The first o’ne on which he experimented was a little girl, whose recovtfl’y he despaired of. He proposed to her parents to make the experiment as a last resort, and they consented. Th© petroleum was applied to her throat with a swab, and to the physician’s sur prise, a decidedly marked improvement was noticeable after the first application. The treatment wa* continued and the child recovered. He nt once used the treatment with his other patient*, with the result of saving every one. The present year he has treated forty cases, and every one has recovered. In order to 6e sure that the disease was really malignant diphtheria, he bad the expec torated matter analyzed by the eipert of the Koueif College of Mecfictne, who pfonounced it indubitable diphtheria. It ia faid that tbe treatment presents New York and Chicago $9, for each five minutes or portion of that time. This does not include the time used in mak ing the connection or .bringing the par ties to the ends of the line. All snb- scribers to the long distance telephone can be connected with the circuits just as they are in the local business. If a man is wanted who is not a subscriber to the long distance service, he is hunted up and brought to a central station without charge. When two people get fairly started on a long distance interview, they can talk from 400 to 600 words in five minutes, according to the subject and their famil iarity with it. It is a fact that most in- ■’ terviews end before the unit of time has elapsed. One New York woman who had b er • 00 South Bend, Ind., where be is at school, called np anxiously, asked her startled hopeful if she had pat his winter flannels in his trunk, if he had not maliciously carried off his father's razor and if his tooth had stopped ach ing. Being satisfactorily answered on all theee points, she paid for the service and went on her way rejoicing. Business men chiefly use the long dis tance service to consult about terms of contracts or to report the text of con tracts which must be repeated to insure accuracy;' -i The chief difference between the long distance and tho short cirenits is that in the former whafls called a metallic serv ice » used—that is, m talking between New York and Chicago, a distance of 1.000 miles, the service is really over 2,000 miles of wire, as the wire, instead of be ing grounded at both Ads to complete the circuit, is doubled or looped to make the complete circnit metallic. The in structions for speaking and listening are the same as those printed for the use of the ordinary telephone, aud the result, so far as hearing is concerned, is rather better over a thousand miles than over one. This is owing to the metallic cir cuit, which does away with the madden ing burr-r-r resulting from induction and from the uso of a heavier and su perior copper wire. The wire used in thft long riintaiicft nervicQ wftigha 870 pounds a mile,, the ordinary service wire weighing but 340 pounds. Mr. Meaney said that while there was no mechanical reason why |ho service should not be continued across the con tinent, it is not probable that, for the present at least/it will go beyBnd the Mississippi river^ owing to the great cost of construction, operating and mainte nance expenses. When these facts had been given to the reporter, Mr. Meaney asked if a chat with Chicago woftld not . . aid an understanding of the subject. Th«4 reporter thought it might, and Mr. Mea ney drew toward him a movable stand ard telephone instrument and calle<lnp Chicago. That active city quickly re sponded, and the telephone was turned over to the reporter. The thousand-mile- away voice began in a clear singsong voice, “This is the World’s fair tele phone exchange station.” “That’s all right,” said the reporter. “I’m a Sun man and wanted to hear your voice." Then it laughed and said in a Natural manner: — “I have to answer about 00 ‘test’ call* a day, and so have made up a little lec ture which I give them free." Then a conversation of several min utes followed, unbroken by a “bnir-t-r,” a “zip-tsing” or a single “what’s that?"— New York Sim. It was a grassy road about 20 feet twisting anil turning like a creek. Either side was lined with dense thickets. Half a mile down the highway it was crossed by a creek with s^eep banks. Half a mile farther on was a second creek. It waa hardly more than a rivulet at this season, but the width from bank to bank was 40 feet, and tho banks were 10 feet high. Our guide had never passed over ♦ Vlf* F*x vIXTt AA7av»V7* - ■■ ■ - No man in ’the column of 200 men knew what lay beyond tiio first turn. The halt to close up was a precautionary measure, but no one dreamed of danger. If the hostile Indians had not turned back or changed their route, they should be 40 or 50 miles to the south. - The stragglers had c«me up, the sleepy troops ers had bracqd up under the eyes of their officers, and tho bugler was about to sound the forward when the half breed guide and scout held up his liaud in ^yarning. A deer canie running np the ' grassy lane at fail speed and was within two feet of the colonel's horse when it wheeled to the right and vanished into the thicket. Next came a fox, who ran under the feet of a dozen horse* before he found shelter. Then a second deer, then three or four rabbits. “What is it?” asks the colonel of the guide. ^ . . “Ambush r was the reply. “Where?” The guide waved his hand to signify that it was down tho lano somewhere. “How do you know?” “See that?” A big gray wolf rounded the turn HX) feet away, coming at full speed. The hair on his back stood up, bis tail almost dragged, and it was easy 40 see that he had been disturbed and Was put out about it, t f ‘JnjWtt^jlo'vm thereP said the guide. “$fe are toq^atet They have got here ware bay and tributary stream*, *ay» the Philadelphia Ledger. ('apt. Mom-s Vcalc, of tho oyster ■chooncr White Lily, says that tho do- fetruotlvO power* rtf the" "borer” have been known to oystermen only a few years. He had followed oyster digging , ... , t^ or nearly thirty-five years, and tho will spend some, of the proce dz cn hi* flrnt .. boror „ he IUW xva:t about u . n wife and children. Hats and cloaks ] and Sunday shoes must be hud. '.Cotton keeps on rolling in and the last little far as trad" is concerned, we see no difference between now and a year The are thr*m'(ed with. cqstnmorR, especially from the country. Cotton does not bring a gfxxl price, but there is lots of It, and the kind hearted boll has opened, bentulful weather T|ie late has added fall ‘and not Icni years ago. but their ravages In the oys ter beds were comparatively unnoticed until last year. ('apt Venle said that “last year the number of dead oyster.; with holes made than 20 per cent to the crop in north by Wrf| , n t he shell became so great Georgia, * and almost every farmer Is; selling some . ToFa hi;. and ;her price. next spiTOg, but I keeping some back took one peck <ft'lime *: 1J six pound* little difficulty and 110 danger. The of sulphur, mixed them welT and then swabbing Is done every hour or two, ac cording to the vi ralencc of the sf.a k r care being taken to shake the swab, af ter dipping K'Into' the /petroleum, to prevent any drop* falllffg info the res piratory chanpe|s. The patient expe riences immediate relief. The disagree able taste of t|ie petroleum lingers ii* tbe mouth bat a few minutes* V . ^ A Life Line Snrgeition. It is evidently a veteran tailor who makes the suggestion that, as a vessel II ways goes ashore to leeward, and the life line shot from the shore must there fore be fired against the wind, and with all the" difficulties which this implies, every vessel should carry a supply of rockets, which, attached to deep sea log Hue and sigm^ halliards, would connect them ranch more speedily, with the shore.—Boston Transcript. first,wo aro iu ambush!” “Butwfiat makes you think so?” per sisted the colonel, who was impatient to go ahead and yet too prudent to need lessly gxpose his command. “Deer—fox—rabbit—wolf!” replied the guide. “All were frightened. All run ning away from something. Injuns down there waiting for us. We go some other way.” We turned to the left and flanked the position. We had made a distance of seven miles when Indians were seen, and skirmishing began, but they soon re treated southward, and as wo followed them qp they crossed the Little Missouri. It was the bond we had hoped to inter cept, but why did they turn back with out a fight? Everybody .was asking the question when a few of ns rode off to in spect the ambush. The deathtrap had beehliri foFus between the creeks. The It may go U>8 cents believe that tho time. 1ms passed forever when cotton will bring more than 8 cents. It** average will probably be 7 1-2 cents, for there will be no more short_ crops. The yearly increase of acreage in Texas will make up for all disasters els*-- j where. There is still a world of unset-1 tied land out there and it is being set-1 tied by immigration. They can make cotton at 5 cents a pouhd and they will keep on making it. The pro duction will exceed the conaniuption— the supply will exceed the /demand, mid of course the price 'will be low. Burning ginhonsrS or passing alliance resolutions will not have the slightest effect. The laws of supply and demand are Inexorable and nolKsiy but foobi and demagogues will ever preach any thing else to the pqople. 1 remember when cotton sold for 5 and ti cents a pound every year and was hauled 20® lower end of the avenue had been blocked with felled trees and bushes, and trees partly cut . down would have blockaded the upper end as soon as the last horse man had 1 Kissed. Tho road here nar- rowod to 15 feet. Wherever there was an opening in the bushes which lined the sides it, had been closed with thorns. From sunrise that morning the Jndians had been waiting for us. Almost 2C0 warriors were JR hiding behind ‘ttfnhrwst out tapd fire at the signal. Perched iu the trees along the wajr were half a hundred, boys armed with bows and arrows.. Hid den away under tho banks of tho creeks were 100 or more squaws firmed with hatchets, knives or clubs. It was not to be a battle, but a massacre. No mercy was to be shown—not a prisoner taken. 8conts had observed our approach and rejiorted. When the head of par column had fairly entered the lane, the eager squaws aud impulsive boys could hardly be controlled. In their moving about they frightened the wild animals out of their retreats and sent us the Warning. They did not know why we halted, hesitated and then took another way. For half an hour they waited, with the scoWl of liate on their bronzed faces, with the savage ness of devils in their hearts, with eyes which glared and glinted as they roamed about in search of the expected prey. Then they whispered to each other: “They have taken another way! The Great Spirit sent them a warning to turn aside! Wo cannot fight these men! Let us recloss the river and return to the agency T’—Wheeling Register. customary benediction, “Not for my sake, nor your sake, but for Christ's sake, I give you this bread.” The tramp smiled and said, “Not for your sake, por for my stike, but fqr Christ's sake, put some butter on it.” She did so, and he trumped on. ehind thq I A wkiow who lived not far away frem cor ^ f “ r *’ to the Ikjum- their'.rifles ^s killed a sho^t the other day and port ant than U’» 'UY conclnded to"leave It out in the. piazzi to cool Qsiitdhring the night. But she consulted ' old Jack, the darkey, about whether it would be safe to leave it out there. “1 don’t know, ma'm — it's powerful onsartin—dar’ some strange tramps gwiue 'round. Eber since dese "York coo do has a bird banter who birdsAt Silent MnchlnniT. The Safety Valve calls attention to th«. fact that the probienFof silent machinery has been solved by A firm in Vienna. This firm is manufacturing cogwheels of ‘ rawhide. The new wheels have, they do the other Inanition* Ant*. The green ants of Australia make nests by bending loaves together and uniting them with a kind of natural glue. Cpok saw hundreds at a time on one leaf drawing it to the ground, while an equal number waited to receive, bold and fat ten it.—Philadelphia Press. , pressed rsX'SKxnr, and > Rather KaturaL A man of not over bright intellect •wallowed some Calm teeth. Then be thinking that the would masticate it when it got be- ■* 1 to miles in ivagons tn market, and the pe«>- ple didn't complain as much us they do sowr 1 don't believe much of these charges against white caps burning ginhouses. Every fire that takes place nowadays is laid to Incendiaries, Vriien, the truth is. most of them ore the result of cure- le.ssncss or natural causes. Of course, tberi'“ , 1lW v Bome lawless v;i •reHonri* tramping over the country, and it does seem like there arc mwe of t!'?m this fall than,usual. Sometimca they burn stables and barns, so as to rob thF dwelling while the family are at the fire. But the trumps don't go^tamt In droves like they do- up north—up there it is a very respectable profession. They map out their routes, and start out without sarip or purse. They know who keeps dogs and who dorct — who will let them sleep in the’barn and give them something to eat and who won't They know the charitable wid ows, and never slight them\ I dident know how they could travel - over a thickly settled country until 1 was up iu Ohio the other day. 1 was told alxmt a rich, kind-hearted old widow ^ho made it a specialty to feed them for the Lord’s sake. When they called she gave th«yn welcome an- 1 lunch and a cup of coffee, and bade them Godspeed. She always kept a pot of coffee on the stove' for the tramps. One drty when they had eaten all her ready supplies, another one came along, and she had nothing left but a piere of bread. As she gave it to him, she repeated the that oystermen we're alarmed. This i year the work of the borer* has become a grave matter.' and If It continue* many bays will be depopulated of oys ter*, From one bed we dredged on thi* trip we got twelve hundred basket* of oysters, but out of these only two hun dred were good, th<vdcod oysters hav ing'been killed by borcre. A peculiar thing about the ravage\of the ’borers’ is their apparent selection of tho best oyster beds. Wo have found tills to be true acveral times this reason; We have found a bed of small oysters al most entirely free from borers.’ This lied will be separated from another bed of ‘orger oysters by two hundred feet, but this latter bed will be co badly affected by the creatures that it will hardly pay to work it. “From what I can learn from oyster men the destruction wrought by borert is much more revere in Delaware bay than In other places. “Tho work of the borer this year makes a double mi:,fortune, for tho oyster beds were badly damaged by the big storm in August and September. Very fcw'“poople who are not in the oyster dredging business know any thing of the methods of the borer. When I first took notice of Its work I secured several oyster* just after the borer had fastened Itself to the shell. Fur the I*o«*e**loa of • •9,000 M« FackiMr*—A Telegrapher'* Mery of Oad Winter Night’* experience. When I read of adrentnres, there cotrtea 'to ray mind tny encounter with a no torious ontlaw of tho naino of Ed Dal ton. For years he hod robbed mall coaches and waylaid and murdered trav elers who Were Mated and so Unfor tunate os to meet him: I waveinployed by tho Northern Da- cific railway as telegraph operator. I* was in the latter port of tbe winter that the most terrible storm broke npon that section of tho country that was ever known. Tho wind blew a strong gnld from tho nortbwest, and the air waa fall of snow. All trains were late, and I hod found & - no time to leave my office and take an ex press {Nu-kago of $.'>,000 to tbe bank f«Y safe keeping. Tho station was crowded aad gtt wrfjwwrift posited the company’s money in the bunk —not liking to risk it in the office. I had an order from tho dispatcher not to go to bed till after No. 4 hud passed. This was tl»e western bound limited; duo at Cameron at 10 minutes of 11. It was a lonely night The wires hummed qnd sobbed in the wind aa though they could not withstand the fury of the storm. I had finished my work and was sitting half asleep near tbe Stove, which was Ailed with coal and red as • cherry, when a sensation'of some im pending danger took possession of me. Trying to shake it off, I walked to mjr desk, threw open tbe key and asked the operator on the “night trick" it Hudson how No. 4 was. ^ “On time," clicked the instrument to reply, and I stirred the Are, tnrned Ute blaze of tny lamp higher and sat down again. For ll or CO ininntes I sat Ikdening to the monotonous click w musical to tbe operator'll ear, when I became conscious some one was looking through tbe win dow, and a thought of the express pack age flashed through my mind. At tbe same instant a crashing of glass was fol J lowed by a gruff voice saying: “Move and yon aro adead man!" I did not stir, but I realize 1 that I woe looking straight into a six shooter. While I was wondering how I could sard the money tho robber broke out the rate of Mi" window paiju aad crawled in over toy desk. Ob, for some way to reach my trusty “bulldog," which waa lying in full sight nmW tho ticket window. Useless wish! Ordering mo to rise, th^ ryfflan calmly took my clutir and proceeded 4p worm bis chilled tnemben befjoro “cleaning Dorer ikki TiirSitincu ilscii to tuc sncii* ,,,♦»* iti g <*11 Yka on like a leech, and it lit with difficulty that it efin be removed with tiic floors. “Sometimes the borer fastens, itself to the oystef shell near tbgn^gc and then the - oystef is nut killaJL-—When the hole pf tho borer is milde rear the center" of the shell the oyster is at tacked In its vital parts and dies In three or four days after tbe hole In fir .t made.” t t, Home of the bedf-ownors near Maurice river have lost Ihrgo sumn of' thdnUy" this year on account of tho borer. . All oystermen fcay-there can by no why of ta’fing away the borer without -de stroying the oyster beds. FUTURE OF ALUMINUM; revolver iK>intel at tny head. ■ Glancing around, lie spied my pistol and coolly pot rket. As ho rose bo said: ready for butinees. hip you for that HttM »red' Reals that is in you# Boofj for nous'-* no<i - lint:* for _ Care to Uo Mmlo of It. Aluminum, which itself poreoves e bigli degree of specific heat, does not really abr.orb heat iteelT. aud thus Is not liable to the chief objection to iron buildings In hot countries. But apart dimmercrat'cks got de. country every thing are gwinc wrong—dAt’s what dey tells me.” ^ « This reminds me of a speeh that Alex Stephens made away back in the ’40's, when the strife was very hitter, ondTie charged the democrats with be ing responsible for the short crop and the yellow fever tn Savannah, aud lota of fools believed 1L ———_L I don't know how it is in all cotton regions; but in north Georgia and Ten nessee and Kentucky I don't see any signs of distress, especially outside of the towns. The country is in a good; healthy condition. Bight here in .Bar tow, where corn and meat used to come by the carload, there is no corn and but little meat coming now. The country is full of corn, and it brings 5.5 cents in this market. Country-cured bacon is quite common. Chickens, eggs and po tatoes are plentiful._ Everything_the farmer haa to- seib brinjpUwTair price, except wheat. .The big crops in the west and low rates of freight, have brought wheat down. The silver ques tion had nothing to do with it, bat thousands of prejudiced people will from decorative purposes, says the tit. Louis I’of.teDispatch, fiu ih a balconies, cupolas, finiuls and veran das, it is as a roofing material that aluminum should jbe most welcome to the builder. In plates or scales, two- thirds lighter than coppvr. uncorroded by air and undimmed evert'by ihe sul phur of London smoke, it ohovrtd make a roof bt ipx a palaec of romance. The humbfer riGinynt« of b—.dtli r. :id fcarliy jb .•* iu? ■cTtaftMTl def..-tf-:ei. agaibirt tho weather—pipe... jpi: terns. birt JP tap* :wr ■gutters. now r: M charge it to the democratic administra tion. This reminds me of what Carlyle, the great historian, said about his peo ple. “England has a population of 30,000,000—mostly fools.” 1 don't say that about oar people, bat it does seem like the fools and knaves together raise s powerful oommotion. If an intelli- F stronger shdoid come over here “and road mm j of iron tyhlch rusts, or lead which poi on ;— would be more enduring aad tar ,iuo;e healthy if made of thi < light and clean ly metal, which might al'.o take the ptsee"of oil water-holding vessel* now made of heavy, brittle earthenware oi painted tin. An alum'lnum bath b among the probable hlxurio t of the next century.. But4t is riot a:* a mere accessor}- to comfort and convenience that real development of tho new metal .shoetld lie. it is (piz wrea that it:, mort marked quality of light- Boss obviously fits it. ; ■— The. mar in o_.engineer and tho naval architect, who fire already looking ia this direction for a reduction of the weight which is inseparable from lost of efficacy, whether in speed or cargo, cannot neglect the possibilities of a metal, which, when mixed in the pro portion of one to fifty, gives to uTurii- inum-bronze a hardness and tough ness which makes It almost as reliable as steel, and which, if the proportion* could be reversed and the strength pre served, would reduce the flight of ships and machinery alike by two tfairdk . Th®i. it a problem .which awaits the metallurgist for solution. The redaction in dost, judging by an- slogy, can only be a question of time and research. The bebt steel now costs little than onc-half penny per ponpfi, w] aluminum is fifty times that But aluminum exists tn f^r greatei quantities titan iron, ia more widely ; distributed, and neither ike limits oi time nor the historymetallurgy for bid ns to conjecture that, os the World has seen its affs art stone, iu age of bronze and. Ms age of iron, so it it in hi* iKK-ket. “Well, now I fim i win just trouble package, with tbe't safe.” I Was desperate fnongh to say any* thing and broke into a loud, harsh laugh as he finished. “Was ever anything more lucky?" I cried, and tny Voice sounded like acroakt “Why, my friend, 1 have been waiting for a chance to rob tho express company for a month, and if yon are bound to take the package we will divide the coa- -tents and skip together.” tt ■ He looked at mo a moment with • skeptical sneer. “Bosh! Don’t tallf stuff! Wintered yon do be qnick about it *i>d look a littld ont that yon play mo no trick, of 111 fin-' ish yon.” I tabled the combination and drew the safe door open, making np my mind lo throw mygelf upon him if ho moved his revolver away for an instant. It did not seem likely that opportunity would favor me, but *$ I. took the money from the safe and handed it to him ho lowered his weapon. Tjio critical time bad come! If I should fail to overpower the feilo*!', it meant death for me. - , I sprang upon him with the strength cf n madman, aud so unexpected waa the movement that we both went sprawling on the Hour, the revolver discharging it self hariule*sly as we f*11. The robbei 1 soon struggled to his feet, apd lifting mo completely from the floor forced ms through tho ticket window. But I had wrestled often while at cot-' lege, and as I crashed through the glass I whirled him around, throwing my left foot back of his in such s way that th. next insrtaht found him on his head In • corner. Wild with excitement, I pinned him to tho floor, pulling my old “bolt dog” from his pocket and Aanging th* situation by placing the muzzle against his temple. “Lie still, my friend,” I panted, “or it will be worse for yooT ^ . Jkt that very moment I heard the fa miliar whistle of No. 4, which was ap' proaching the station, but would not stop unless signaled. I was master of - the situation now. I could stretch ont my left hand and touch the signal board* and with a lood cry of triumph that sounded strange and savage in my aim ^ cars I tnrned it. I heard the airbrakes and escaping steam, and then the train came to a fnll stop. Directly afterward the office door opened, and the coodwet- or came swinging his lantern and ex pecting his train orders, I suppose he understood before him, but that was all I knew ifMMm When I became conscious of what was going on around we, they had ——■ ber bound band and foot, and crowd stood round my choir, tny bravery and saving tha huge sum of taring the eroo, the Wa.it *r"- : ' *7