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to the AoctitU Chronicle
ChMUeqon, K. Y., Au*. 21,1899.
•I hare juit wltaMced aoise expert*
Bent! with liquefied hlr which were to
wonderful that I am euro your reader!
will be Ictereeled In henrlnr about
them. The liquid waa brouynt from
ew York olty, where It waa manu
red, In a large eight-gallon can,
ully wrapped In noa-oonduotlng
t, juet aa loe la packed for transpor
tation. h la the flrat time that thli
field haa erer been Carried eo far In
tuna title* large enough to be experl-
manted with, and ao well waa It paoxed
that only two gallon! evaporated In
the trqaalt—a dletanoe of about cSOO
mllea. When the cover waa removed
It immediately began to emoke like a
oaqldron of furloualy boiling water.
The temperature of a liquid air ia ao
low—SI2 degreea below aero—that con
tact not meroly with common air, but
with a lump of ordinary Toe will aet It
to boiling juet ae water will do on con
tact with fire or with a lump of redhot
Irona.
There la no ordinary aubetance that
la not redhot In comparison with a
temperature of 312 degreea below zero,
oonaequentiy the liquid air, unleaa
carefully protected by non-conductor a
of heat la In a constant state of ebulli
tion. Yet, even while boiling, It is
colder than;lee by many degrees, and
wUl instantly freeze whatever comei
in contact with It As the operator
dipped it up from the can the ladle
»P
would be immediately oca ted with
frost, and when a vessel of it waa
placed in cold water, the liquid air at
once began to boil .furiously from the
heat of the water around the vessel,
forming a crust of ice ao hard that it
could be readily removed and used as
a tumbler. Into this loe tumbler more
liquid air waa poured, which instantly
began to boll from contact with the
loe. TIm hydrogen, of the air, being
lighter than the oxygen evaporates more
quickly, and aa eve^y school boy knows
' that oxygen ia a great promoter of
combustion, the liquid air, after losing
Ite hydrogen, becomes a medium for
^ producing the fioroeat heat, though
IteeU ao intensely cold. Now you will be
^prepared to believe me whed Itell you
that a pleoe of wire with a carbon point,
when plunged Into this loe tumbler
filled with a liquid 312 degrees below
aero, began to burn with a tempera
ture of nearly 3,000 degrees above
boiling water, and buraed away till
the wire waa consumed like a straw !
. <Ja the eame principle a piece of
woolen felt that oould not be made to
burn when Ignited In common air,
blazed up like rosin when saturated
with the liquid, and a flock of common
cotton wool exploded like gun cotton,
leaving scarce 1/ a pinch of ashes be
hind, ao complete waa the combustion.
Hence can be seen the great poaslblll-
tlee of this latest discovery of science
In the oremat.bn of garbage and the
manufacture of exploetves.
la color and consistency liquid air is
just like clear water, but evaporates so
quickly that It will not wet anything,
aad being heavier than common air, 1
THK TRUE TVUPOnt OF ROAM.
How They Are to he Made to Bab-
serve the Best Interests of the
People. ’
The following Is an extract from the
thoughtful address of Mr. M. O. El*
dridge, of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, at the recent good roads
isstltute in Charlotte:
The purpoee of roeds is to transport
from the place of production to the
plhoe of consumption thoae agricul
tural and oommeiyilal atppliea which
are ao essential to our life and well
being, as well as to subserve the best
Interests of sooisty, education and re
ligion ; consequently, they should be
located and so constructed that prod
ucts and people can be easily, quickly
and cheaply move$l from one place to
another. %
In order to most successfully attain
these essential ends, It is necessary
that roads should be hard, smooth,
comparatively level and fit for use at
all seasons of the year;- that they
should be properly located or laid out
on the ground, so that their grades
may be such that power may be ap
plied upon them to the best advantage
and without great loss of energy; that
they should be properly constructed,
the ground well drained, the roadbed
graded and shaped, and that they
should be surfaced with the best ma
terials procurable; that they should
be propedy maintained or kept con
stantly In good repair.
A horse can pull only four-fifths as
much on a grade of two feet in 100 as
he. can on a level road, aad this grad
uc uau uu m iuvoi cwtau wiv gsm-
ually lessens until with a grade of ten
feet in 100 he can draw but one-fourth
as much as he can on a level road. As
a chain Is no stronger than its weakest
link, just so the greatest load which
pan be hauled up the steepest hill or
through the deepest gushy mire on a
road is the gauge of that road. The
cost of hauling Is therefore necessarily
Increased In proportion to the steep
ness of the grade or the roughness of
the surface. It costs one and one-
fourth times as much to haul over *
road having 5 per oent. grade and
three times as much over one hav
ing a 10 per cent, grade as on a level
road.
Good roads should, therefore, wind
around hills instead of running over
them, and ip many cases this-can bo
done without greatly increasing their
length. The matbem<itlcal axiom that
* a straight line is the shortest distance
between two points' is not therefore
the best rule to follow In laying out a
road. More appropriate is the proverb
that ‘ the longest way around is the
shortest way home.'
It has been ascertained that a horse
or mule can for a snort time double tils
usual exertion, also that on the best
road he exerts a preasure against his
collar of about one thirty-fifth of the
load. If he can double his exertion
for a time he can pull one thirty-fifth
more, and th<Lelope which would force
him W. lift tbu proportion will be one
of one In thlrty-fiv/or about, at 3 per
cent, grade. Oa this slope, however,
he would be compelled to double bis
ordinary exertion to draw a full load,
A SNAKB WBBD STORY.
A Wonderful Plant With Wbloh tb*
Clamaon Proleasepa am BaM to fft
tfxpart mealing.
Charleston News and Courier.
The horticultural depagment at
Clemaon College is making an experi
ment with tbe growing of a rather re
markable weed which has been known,
though in a qulet^ray, for years In the
up-oountry. It ia dona in the lists aa
“The Rattlesnake’s Master,” and its
good properties are said to be such
that a snake might bite a man to its
heart’s content, and get only a jolly in
return, provided the weed is used In
the proper kind of way. The “master”
t hrows in Anderson County, as wall as
n other sections, and recently it was
given care and attention by Professor
DuPre. the borticukurist at Clemaon.
To the best recollection of people
who know tbe weed It was brought to
this Btate from Texas, though It Is
more than probable that It waa thriv
ing here when Texas was not on the
maps. Some years ago a man from
the Lone SUr State came this way
with a weed, potted and blooming, In
his caravan. “It is a great thing/’ he
told the people, “and as long as you
have it aboul^ou will never need whis
key for snake bites. I discovered It
accldenUlly one day,” he went on to
say, “and I have never lost it since.
Driving along the road once I saw a
snake fight which was Doing bitterly
conducted by a black snake and a rat
tler. It was fierce while it lasted, and
WM getting la tome rather swift
punishment on his opponent, and
every now and again the black viper
would dart off, stop a moment by a
green bush, and then come back Jo re-,
new hostilities. This was kept''up'/
Five times I saw the snake go to the
weed, and then I decided to investi
gate. I went over to the side of it,
and the next Instant the snake ran up
and began biting viciously at the weed,
and as soon as be returned to the rat
tler I jerked the weed up by the roots.
Three or four mlnutM later the snake
cams back for his hfialth restorer, bjt
It was gone. You should have seen Its
antics. The snake wag wild. It jumped
aad darted and made terrible strug
gles and lunges to find the weed, but It
was missing. In lets than three min
uted the snake, finding that Its' ally
was gone, tumbled over and died.
“In the meantime the rattler was
lying quietly, overcome by the fierce
struggle. I- thought 1 would try the
experiment lurther, so I cut a, small
piece of the root, put It between the
prongs of a long sUff. and jabbed It
toward tbe rattler. From his half
sleeping position It jumped up like a
man shot. He wns drunk, or craxy,
nnd made ajs^sperate effort to get
away. Hut Intended It off. Every di
rection It turned it wns met with tbe
strange weed, and finally it thought
best to give up the struggle. Then tbe
snnke deliberately twisted Us head
and jabbed the poisoaed tenth tnto Its
neck nnd n moment Inter was dead. It
was a clear case of suicide.” ,
A flee this wild story the weed
was a welcome guest In any garden
It would therefore be the proper I A mao from I’endleton said the other
grad<> for all public highways. J day that the facte ae related must have
Its vapor, instead of rising, like the
vapor of water nod like common smoke,
falls to the earth. Flunge your hand
kerchief lato It, and tbe handkerchief
will smoke ns If on fire, while drops of
tbe chitling liquid fall to the floor, but
there la no sign of molsturn. Four a
bucket full of It on the floor nnd there
will be a furious smoking as If every
plonk worn on fire, but when the vapor
rolls away not a drop of molsturn Is to
bn fssa. A bunch of rones Immersed
la n vessel of It retained their natural
appearance, but became froteo so hard
la a faw seconds that they shivered
Ilk* glass when thrown upon the floor.
Tbe same thing happened to n potato
aad a piece of beef, which had to be
broken with n hammer Ilk* stones
after remaining about 2U seconds In
the strange fluid Alcohol, which
frees— at a temperature of someth lag
like 200 degree* below xero, became
solid loe In about half a minute, aad
mercury, In scarcely double that lime,
fqose so hard that It waa used — a
hammer to drive two large nails Into a
board.
Btlll more curious effects were pro
duced when n little water was poured
Into* ten kettle fllled with liquid air
and placed on a lump of loe. The kettle
Immediately began to boll so rapidly
that It froze the water by evaporation
and left It n lump of loe In the kettle.
The experiojeut was then tried with
- the kettle placed over the burner of n
kerosene stove nod not only did the
water turn to ice ns before, but the
cold produced by tbe evaporation of
the liquid air was so much greater
than the heat produced by tbe stove
that the bottom of tbe Kettle was
heavily coated with frost right over
the flame of the burner 1
This Intense oold, I may remark In
pa—lug, Is tbe great obstacle In the
use of liquid air — a motor power.
While it* expaaalve force Is twenty
' times greater than thnt of steam, the
Intense oold produced by its expansion
/ onus— any machinery to which It la
applied to become so heavily clogged
with frost as to prevent its working.
No effective remedy for this difficulty
has yot been found, and until this prob
lem is solved I would advise all inves
tors to beware of the bogus companies
that are being formed to exploit
Trlpler’s groat discovery. Its chief
practical use at present would serve
to be for refrigerating purposes, and
the manufacture of explosives. It also
promises great results In medical
therapeutics—I am not sure that this
is the right word, but it will no doubt
means just — much to most of us as
the right one would if I knew it. In
regulating the temperature of hospi
tals and destroying the activity of
disease germs it will probably work a
re solution In medical practice.
BC1LT from One Thee.—At Santa
Clara, Cel., there is a Baptist- Church
^whieh w—built of lumber made from
e single giant oak tree. Under Its
branch— the first Baptist service In
that region was held in 1853. When
it was decided to
it was thought b—t to use the site of
the original meeting place.
With appropriate oeremoales the
great tree, who— shade covered an
acre of ground, was consecrated for its
Mr purpose. Workmen then cut off
the tree twenty feet from the ground.
This big stump was partially hollow
and was allowed to stand for the church
. tower. A tapering steeple was built
OB top of It. The upper part of the
tree trank end its huf e branch— ware
sewed up Into ludlber for the jnain
body of the church.
When the church stood completed,
a substantial building thirty feet wide
by seventy feet deep, 1,200 I—t of
” unusqd. A more
build a church edifice he Is prepared to say
seen anything at all
Tbe ts—nlln. feature of a good road
Is good drainage ; where you find tbe I
one you are sure to find the other.
Drainage alone wUl often change n bed I
road into n good one, while on the
other-hand, the best road may be sU
•troyid by tbe absence of good drain.
Tbe drainage problem remains sub I
stanUally the —me, whether the road
be constructed of earth, gravel, spells
or stone. Tbe —scntl^ feature L that j
the surface should be 'crowned' or
rounded uptosytrds the center to the I
•Ido, thus comphlmg tbe water to dow
rapidly from thr surface Inco the |
gutters, which should he constructed |
on one or both sid—.
In addition to being well covert d '
nnd surfno* drained, tbe surface should
be kept as smooth — possible, that Is, .
free from ruts, wheel ti*uks or holes. |
If any of these exist, Instead of being
thrown to the sid—, the water Is held
back, nnd Is either evaporated by the j
sun or nbsor bed by the material of j
which tbs road Is constructed. In the
latter case the material los— it* solid
ity, soften* nod yields to the impact of I
the horses' feet nod the wheels of !
vehlcl—. and like the water poured on 1
n grindstone, so the water poured on n oountrv
road surface, whlcn I. not properly | 2SL31
drained, assists the grinding action of
the wheels in running or completely
d—troy log the surface. Wnen water
Is allowed to stand on a road tbo holes
and ruts rapidly Increase In number
and sixe until the road Anally becomes
utterly bad.
Where the road is constructed on n
grade or hill tho slope from the center
to the sid—should be slightly steeper
than that on a level. It must be steep
enough to lead the water Into the side
ditch— Instead of allowing it to run
down the middle of the road. Every
wheeltrack on an Inclined roadway
becomes a channel for carrying down
the water, and unless the cui vature is
sufficient these tracks arc quickly deep
ened into water courses which cut into
nnd sometimes completely destroy the
b—t improved roads. Water breaks
should never be used until all other
means have failed to cause water to
flow Into the side channels. Neither
should they be allowed to cross the en
tire width of the road diagonally, but
should be constructed In the shape of
the letter V* This arrangement per
mits teams following the middle of the
road to cross the ditch squarely and
thus avoid the danger of overturning.
been true, for on one occ—ion he took
apiece of tbe “master" through the
mountains nnd tantalised with It n big
rattler until It died. Other storl— say
that years ago, the Indians living in
the up-oountry would capture big rat-
tl—oak— aad stand n bite for ten
cents, nod then escape pain and dan
ger by eating portlet— of the cele-
bratod weed. It was said that this
was one of tbe side shows at Indian
gatherings, and none of the tribe
•uemed to fear a sting or n bile so long
— tbe precious antidote wns about.
Tbe worth of tho weed ha* been
vouched for by so many good and repu
table citizen* thnt It has be«n given n
place In the gardens at ^lerasoo, with
a view of musing its fine qualities bet
ter known la snnke counin—. The
only drawback la that the wood la not
of nuy value in hilling anuses teen in
dreams, though It might be used — a
plonk in the platform of probitloj peo-
people who do not like the idea of'uicn
carrying whiskey for “snake bite,” as
they often do.
THE
DROUGHT.
f *" d I1 Drv l-yratt-aSlMd MS.
Follow*' » Oold and Rainy
A Hoi
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mer
Winter
Columbia btate.
The month of August has been a
record breaker for hoat^nd drought.
Since the weather boWail was —tab-
llahnd 11 year* ago, the month of Au
gust haa never presented — many con-
eecutlve days of heat as it haa this
J ear. The mornings and evenings
sve been pleasant for the past week
or so, but the heat during the day has
been severe. The whole summer has
been warm, and In July abnormally so.
Mr. J. W. Bauer, director of the
weather bureau, has given some in
teresting facts In connection with the
long dry spell. The hottes < day this
year was July 15th, when; the ther
mometer reached 105. The cold—t
day was one degre below zero, showing
a variance of 10ti degre— at this station
since the year began. ,
While tbe summe^ has been remark
ably hot and dry. tbe winter was
colder than usual. -The average tem
perature for January was 1 degree
colder, and for Feoruary ti degrees
colder than the normal. March, how
ever, was a trifle warmer, and April
was colder than ordinarily. The aver
age deficiency in temperature for the
entire winter was 4 degrees per day,
or in other words, ouch day this past
winter was 4 degrees colder than the
average for the past 11 years. Tbe
deficiency in temperature was 252 in
degrees.
The precipitation this year h— been
abnormal. When tee growing season
began In March there was an excess of
5 Inch— In tbe rainfall. Tnis contin
ued until about tbe middle of April,
when the excess reached as high as
51 inches. Tbe ’.‘dry spell” then be
gan, and has continued uninterrupt
edly.
The average normal precipitation
between March and September Is 25.75
Inches. This year it has been but 16.-
30 Inches, showing that while the rains
of tie spring ran the average rain
fall 5| Inches In excess ef tbe normal,
tbe hot weather has reduced that ex
cess until it has become an actual de
ficiency of U.45 Inches for the sum
mer months, or about 4 inch— since
January 1.
There have bee a 84 days since May
1 when the mercury ran over the tfO
degree mark. "May 3 waa tne first day
when the maximum temperature was
over 00 degre—. There were It days
in May when that maximum was
reached. The rainfall in that month
waa but 4 loch, reducing the previous
excess tb li Inches.
• The hot weather record kept qp in ;
June. There were 22 days in that
month when the thermometer regis
tered over Ml. Five days showed a
maximum of 100 degrees and over.
There w— but beif tbe usual*amount
of rainfall and the previous ezbesa in
r rectpllalion became a deficiency of
-10 of an Inch
it was abnormally hot In July.
There were 23 days wjjpn thi- thermo
meter registered over UO. For four
aonsecutive days there was a record as
follows. 102.105,101. 103. July loth
was the holt—t day recorded sipce the
weather bureau wm t-itabilsbed 12
yea— ago. Tbe rainfall this month
wns about normal.
Hut the real drought commenced in
Augus>. of the 25 days so far recorded,
there has bees for 23 days a maximum
lam Derate re of over 00,' and the other
two days the maximum reached over
88. This has been the hotusi nod dry-
—t August recorded in II yonrs. Tbe
average normal temperature lor this
month for the first 24 days has been
78.6. but tbe mean .emp.rature for
August, 18UU, 24 day*, has been *4, over
5 degree* In excess of tftc normal.
NEW BTYL.E UK MONEY OHbKU.
of Ouslnras In (hr
Order Nysirni for Thirl)
THE FLOOD WAB NBCKMARY.
Barth by Fatrtarct
Tbe building of tbs ark proves that
the family of Noah must have p—-
(teased and transujjtted a large inberi-
tmee of knowledge nnd skill in arts
that were common to men before tbe
flood. Tbe magnitude and seaiyirtbi-
u—s of that great specimen of antedi
luvian marine architecture—not less
than 600 feet in length and 100 ia
breadth, and with its three decks, at
least sixty feqt in depth—is a conclu
sive testimony to a proficiency in the
arts such as we should expect from the
Immense advantage at which men
worked who had hundreds of years in
which to accumulate skill, experience
aud methods, instead of dropping their
life work ae soon as well begun, like
the artisans and engineers of the pres
ent day.
With lives ten times as loqgand vig
orous as ours, how long would it have
taken the antediluvians to fill up the
Eastern hemisphere ? Allowing them
the 1,656 years of Moses’ chronology
foe-a maximum, we shall stand aghast
at our own figures if we take the
smallest conjecturable ratio of increase
in computing the population engulfed
by the deluge. At only three times the
postdiluvian ratio, or 4.5 per ccnUiry,
the population would have passeu the
present number of mankind in a little
more than twelve centuries ; and when
that great day of destruction came, the
•flood would have found as its incon-
Mark Twain on the Jews—The
Jew Is not a disturber of tbe peace of
■■ Even bis enemjes win
concede that. He Is not a loafer, he Ir
not a sot, he la not noisy, he Is not
brawler nor a rioter, ha is not quarrel
some. In the statlstl— of crime bis
presence Is conspicuously rare—In all
countri—. With murder nnd other
crim— of violence he haa but Utile to
do ; he Is a stranger to the hangman,
in thF'fiollce court’s dally long roll of
The Inc
Money
Yean*
The United Btate*
after SepU-mot-r 4.h li
of mono) order which
gradually "upplaut tin
now In vogue. Hoc no
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sue a n
will bt
u •tyin of or
form I* *n
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to
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. f-''- ^ » -^ ^ *n une, cioscjy
a**au i* aud “ drunk and disorder- fathe-worir, "of darkev^vtiule. | About 60 per bent, of this Is for In
in the centre is an escutcheon beariog juries to passengers, and the romain-
the words, [>—lal money order, in
—Judge Rush R. Sloane, a million
aire of Sandusky, O., some time ago
visited Binhingnam, Ala., which be
declared to be the most wonderful
example of rapid development within
his knowledge. The spot, he says, Is
probable unequalled' in*, the world.
Within the space of one- mile are coal,
iron and limestone in Inexhaustible
quantlti—, and coke ovens in full op
eration. He has travelled all over
Europe, is familiar with the Black
country of England, knows the Iron
and ocal fields of France, Belgium
and Germany, to say nothing of our
own country in the East and W—t, and
that he haa never
appcMohlng the
Birmingham district for \the cl—e
( iroximlty of the matert»Hpr produc-
ng pig Iron, and the enormous volume
of these materials.
11—” his name seldom appears. That
the Jewish homk Is a home in the
tru—t sense is a fact which nb one will
dispute. The family Is knitted to
gether by the strongest affections *, its
members show each other every due
respect; and reverence for tho elders
is an Inviolate law of the house. The-
Jow Is not a burden on the charities
of the State nor of the city ; these
could cease from their functions with
out affecting him. When be Is well
enough, he works; when he Is Incapa
citated, his own people take care of
him. Rls r ice is entitled to be called
the most benevolent of all tbo rac— of
men. A Jewish beggar is not impos
sible, perhaps ; such a thing may exist,
but there are few men that can say
they have seen that spectacle. The
Jew has been staged In many uncom
plimentary forms, but," so far ae 1
know, no dramatist has done him the
injustice to stage him as a beggar.
Wheuever a Jew has real need to beg,
hL people szye him from the necessity
of doing it. ^he charitable institu
tions ol tho Jews are supported by
Jewish money, and amply. The Jews
make no noise about it; it Is done
quietly; they do not nag and pester
and harass us for contributions ; they
give us peace, and set us an example—
an exatpple which we have not found
ourselves able to follow.
ler than tbe old, being In llu snape of
a bank check. Tbcrc Mill bo. a tiub
receipt for tbe remitter, anu a muni-
fold copy will be sent to tbo othue upon
whlcb tbe order Is drawn ns a notifica
tion nod to prevent fraud.
On tbe back of tbe order a space
has been* provided for tbe stamp* of
banks tbruugb wblch it may ou passed '
for collection.
In color, the order is bluo, having a |
light-blue ground, with fine,
dred times fcs large as the earth now
sustains!_
Although the antedlluvia. patri
archs, with their average lifetime of
nine centuries, be assumed to oorre-
spoad to our present "oldest inhabi
tants,” who may average at most nine
decades, we must still Infer that the
general average of human life was, in
like manner, ten times as long by na
ture, before tbe flood,as now. Of itself,
this lengthened term must have several
times multiplied the present ratio of
increase In population. The much
greater proportion of persons who lived
to become parents, with the length
ened term of parentage In the individ
ual, must have still further multiplied
the ratio of increase.
After making all p—sible allowance*,
or even supposing no greater ratio of
Increase in the worst of thu antedllu
vian centuries than has prevailed since,
we are compelled to accept the Mosaic
chronology , as the longest that the
limits of probability and of the capaci
ty of the Eastern Jiem.fpbere will
bear. And not only so. but the deluge
itself becomes another logical ncc-s
slly That utter destruction of all the
families of the earth save one w— the
only aUernativt- to ao ivercrowdiog of
the earth.—“Salvation.” organ of con
verted Jews.. .
—A New York paper has sugg—u^d
that Admiral Dewey’s victory at Ma
nila be made the subject for a painting
£b fill Ike vacant panel In the dome of
the cap tot at Washington. For twen
ty-five years that pacsl has been va
cant be—use of failure to secure an ur-
llst to continue the work of l«o fa
.mous painters, employed by ant^oriL
of Congress, who died before it had
been completed. Tbe suga—Uu »•*-
p -ar* to have 'Oct with the approval
of a number of C .ogres*.onal len^-rs,
and the cbanc .* are it will be a<lop
ted.
- Live pou’try command* a
o aad ready sale In the Ha
and M^tourl figures larg ly In
supplying tbe demand. The Kan.-as
City Journal note* that C. E. L'gul
oer, of Trenton, Mo., Is Vo hr r*** at
once the forwarding of 2uo uul> Live
chickens to Honolulu. Forty stanunru
poultry cars will be required for their
trantportation to San Francisco, and
t.tKTi pounds if feed will be taken along
in each car.
—While digging a tr nch In front of
the Federal building, Park Row. Nc v
York, tbe other day, workmen un
earthed a section of the first wgtor
pipe ever laid in that city—part of
tbe system for wblcn Aaron Burr se
cured a franchise from the Now York
Legislature. The pipe consisted of
hollow ch—tout logs, laid end to end.
and was in excellent condition.
—Tbe estimate Is that the wheat
crop of tbe United States this year is
the third best on record, tbe oat* crop
tbe second best, and corn the same.
With an aggregate ol 3 506,000.066
bushels of wheat, corn and oats the
prosperity of 1899 has a good founda
tion.
—It Is calculated that the railways
of Great Britain pay a daily average
•aiowrtlirrrr'
A little back from the countx
few miles oat from one of our
em cities stands the rain of a magnlfii
mansion, once the scene of a pathetic
drama, which, though years have ]
C thrills the heart of one who
closing scene. ,
Wall is remembered the wild
none night with rsfo driving in abefty ter-'
rents across the high kon-spiked wall, and
beating, as it seemed, almost like bayonets
against the barred and bolted gateway,
And there beneath the frowning arch, sbeb
terless and homeless in the pitiless stonq
that had driven strong men to cover, the
fierce lightning flashes that came crackling
"ffirffiiffh the night revealed tbe frail figure
of a delicate young woman with face up
turned to heaven and clenched hands up
lifted in mortal agony; while
tbe stenn
refrain
out of b
_ le btr wail of
misery penetrating even the awful voice of
ta oould be heard in the oft-re
'My homel My home I
it of home-!”
She haa been a bright ambitious girl
starting hopefully abroad to cultivate her
naturally beautiful voice, determined to
make a European fame for herself as a
success fill singer. But circumstances were
against her. Unfair rivalries robbed her
of the best opportunities. Despite her
Undoubted talent failure followed failure;
she grew morbidly sensitive and wrote lesa
the fond parents whose
and leas often to the _
greatest happiness was to supply her every
need She was proud : “ I will not write
again” she said one day, “until 1 have
succeeded." Weeks lapsed into mouths.
Suddenly misfortune and death upon
joulf, »nd from a neighborhood wt
M*et order usually prevails.
Wed*«W*y afternoon, while walking
Joseph McKinney®
*8 ftf ^°“ l Tifforville, the discovery
jfjkoman head severed from the body
«u »* de ^ LaHwr McKlahoy, and
juneroas dog tracks were near the
j^evhere the frightfpr light was seen
CucKmney, who reported the ghastly
Jliir 9> some of his neighbors. An
ignedixto search was begun, and thnv
(eCo'H dog tracks to the river not
(tr twtf, where they. supposed further
ijtt*t i ® |,ion would reveal , more in re-
nrd to the matter. They entered the
JjJtf isd went up the stream, where
tiey found Oman’s leg protruding above
tbe wtiei, and on further inspection a
hetdlue body was brought to the sur-
ftce, which had only the stamp of the
^ where the he&a belonged. It was
it once concluded that the body vyas
tose other than that of Ed. Hayes, a
(tnner wno lived in the neighborhood',
u d whose Budden and mysterious dis-
jppesrance three or four weeks ago had
bik tbe talk of the community. A
tjychhsd been made for Hayes, and no
tne& 4liun '.Vito kuowu until the head-
■^u nlxff~wRB unearthed from the - *sand
ltd debris which had concealed him
(topi dew. The dogs had eaten the
llgkfrom the face so. that it could not
w identified, and hence other means
^tdtobeused to prove that Hayes’ fate
ttithessiade known.
Oullick was notified of the
ice and began an investigation
delay. He organized a jury of
natft on Wednesday afternoon, and
mrestigation was continued until a
^Bron Thursday afternoon, when
tposeit was concluded after finding
a Ttrdict to the effect that the man
frcid wu Ed. Hayes, and that he came^
Ahefetih by a pistol shot at the hands
of Justt badduth, who is a neighbor
vkom he had been on unfriendly
the grand old homestead.
Mpnggiri
giving up the unequal straggle came hack
across the tea to the death-sttteksn. bo'ted,
barred, deserted bouse all unaware of the
swift disaster which had left her pencils**,
orphaned and alone.
'' Barred out of home I M This Is the sad
refrain ringing through tb* memorie* of
that pathetic scene. ‘'Barred oat of home"
is the thoaghl that well may echo thrSagb
the hearts of many a woman who seems to
all outward appearance surrounded with
avary household comfort, that the heart
could wish Alas, health I* lacking Home
Is no horns to the poor sick broken down
Woman who haa no strength, health or <n-
Cfgy to enjoy It Disease bolt* and bar* a
Woman outside of the door* of true
te.
wi/e
happiness as sompletrly a* If she had no
Countlsss thousand' of weakened, weary,
dlaeaaa-racked women all over these United
Btate* have had the gates of a health
Vigorous home happrasas thrown
open to them by the lift renewing, blood
vitalising “ Golds* Medical Discovery ” of
Dr. ft. Y Pierce, of Hoffhlo. N. Y. ft lifts'
the enfeebled coastUuitoe out of the quag
mire of disease and agts h bodily span ths
firm ground of beskb.
It reach** deep dotrn Into ths system
and qoickrn' the inner force* of the no
tritire organism giving the dtgeettve fuac
power to create health
i
atrengt
la
Shri
r rlce a
-land*
wtwi the Suctote
sad *t «nach 1
araitur i
making and aarrs-buildlng.
W Dr. rteree. Mis Carrie
Cherokee Hat . Ind. TV..
Sck wflh
(he heart
Wkes It
la s grateful letter to Dr Pteree
ve*. uf T
Ms years ago I
Mllsl
ukee Nat .
wa» Uktu
i called neuralgia of
waa given sp to die W
aed that aM life aad health waa lost, s lady
dad me to try Dr Pierce s Ooldea Madt
psraaam^imra^H
tal Dtacorsry aad his ‘ Kavmtte I
OMseatcd. and now. after taking mm botUes'of
I'Ooiden tfe^tral Discovery' and S ur of ‘ Pevorl
ITht iorrstigallon was tedious and
ths evidence was vague and in-
The principal witness waa a
~|tb mm d Wade Morgan, who waa
fopossu to tell all £e Knew, but ad-
gd lh«l ho saw Hayes on the night
«ii nported missing at Buddatn's
rhsrv taey were in an altercation,
va leaving tbe place and Bnd-
foloved him with a whip and pis :
tgL'inl the negro beard three pistol
.-Inaifrerftv.ng away from them. An-
vilMts said that Bnddath was at
Jgkt Mr£iuney’r that night, and de-
cAnd that hu nnd shot three timet at
thm az the third shot was meant to
kill uii Hiyes would not trouble any-
o i? sail “ unless it Is me.”
Htjsry was satisfied that Ed Hayea
had rtesm l his death wonnd from
SgRafk tec rendered z verdict accord-
IV ileceaned was shot in tbe
_ akis right side, and the ball
ikrosgh his liver and lodged in
tia left IssMt
Bara *»* by
huernck pnu
w 1ft, vhc Hated
UisgtraeA)' 'as
»av kin oe lh<
; sptn tsrs four
pocks'! weft ent
Ekfs* dhappe
6tk. wtet V a si
which a sat uu
1 mlkfron T
.ug.y
lack ^
wssi
The Identification of
means of his clothing,
01 was inspected by his
meilively that he wore
n to her when she last
Nth of August. .No
! ou the body, and tbe
r 7 1 A
ruekday, Aug.
»u
tree
i last seen at hi* hums,
>re than a qOaru r of a
■rim.
Ito Pttvc
I am weft, era go 'IT my work.
. . - a my wc
maatuug auU all, ami take care at my baby l
month, old."
Don’t accept any subatitutc* far Dr.
Fierce’s Gulden Medical Discovery or
Dr Pi erts'* Favorite Presinptioa. TAe
shadow of success is imitation Imitation
remedies don't cure, any more than the imi
tation banquets of Urn stas» feed the hun
gry You want a cut*. Doa’t aacep
shadow for the rabalance and “spend
money for that which is not bread ”
Every woman should own a copy of Dr.
Piece’s great thousand ■ page boon, “The
Common flense Medical Adviser.'' It will
b* scat absolutely /Wr, pspsr-bound for
si onc-cent stamps, to pay /As eoji of mail
ing only. Address World's Diaper, .ary
Medtgsl Association, foj Main Street. Buf
falo. N Y. Or send 31 stamps for a hand-
soma, cloth-bound copy.
igeof the
Into tb<
wsssurued math sand
!yla|ialk*<
a dick ■snMtici
«A. .
t ths
your
11 ht toll wm
dovitk* rtvi,
the March * at
wlftnike Inly
Tka origh
.HafMuJ Stldi
aosesfastiss t
Uu-dart tut
it ptrus|a • c
him, is wkkh
to ban be:
0 account of the recent troublo
>ck, Fla., arising out qf tbe ap
pointment of a negro aa deputy poat-
mnator, Ills likely that tbe'course fol
lowed by the administration in the
case of the Lake city postoffico will! be
taken In this Instance. At the i’ost-
fioOloto-Dopgrtment n 4# - noWnY
hat- been done In the matter, and that
—Every boy in Germany from the
crown prince to the meanest subject,
la obliged to learn some useful trade.
The present emperor mastered the art
of bookbinding, though
one of his accomplish meat*, for
oould probably earn his living
mnsloian 11 at$thLng happened
throne.
—Near LUledal, a short distance in
land fpcm Christiania, Norway, there
were a heavy fall nf snow and a sub
sequent thaw that cleared much pf
the ice out of the river, whtch was
•tooked keavily with fl*h./In the night
an avklanche slipped down Jhe moun-
I tain side into the stream, and the m6-
mentum of the great mass forced much
of the' snow out of the river bed and
some distance up the slope of the moun
tain on the further side, carrying with
it a large quantity of fish. For some,
this la-only-J days the peoplnof-the rarity gathered
out of the snow all the fish they oould
t. •' /■''
for ha ou
l as fa ea
toJUj? .
•tardy building oould not bn Imagined
- ~ the old Saxon
which were built
.aaMra oak aad
“(Jive me liberty or give me death
There la no liberty where there ia bodily
pain. Why siifler with rheumatism, neu*
ralgia, backache, bruisas, burns, or any
other ailment which a penatraung lini
ment will ears. Ont a bolli* of Alligator
Li aims at and oommenoe to remora the
Sanaa It cure*. Sold everywhere.
—Japanese auctions are conducted
upon a plan Which gives rise to aooe
of the noise and confusion which 00to
rn only attend such sales. Each bidder
writes bis name and bid upon a slip
of paper which he places in a box.
When tbe bidding Is over the box la
opened by the nuctioneer, and the
goods, declared the property of thn
nig hast bidder.
shaded' capital letters of the same two
tint* uf blne._ The tint of the order
and lathe- *wr will serve to prevtni
Imitations; but a* an additional safe
guard against counterfeiting, a hori
zontal water-mark, composed ofJtne
initials, U. S. M. O., in broad, capUal
letters, j^as been wrought, into the
paper On which the new form* are
printed.
Through tbe proces* mentioned (the
carbon, or manifold process) the or
der and the advices are produced sim
ultaneously. By the same operation
the essential particular* of name of
p yee, date, amount and place of pay
ment, a* written in the order, are du
plicated, or reproduced, and made to
appear, in the advice precisely a* in the.
order. Tbe liability to mistake is thus
greatly lessened, and a saving of time
effected. Discrepancies betwef^i order
and advice, which, by entailing addi
tional correspondence and causing-de
lay In payment, have heretofore been
a source of annoyance to tne depart
ment and postmasters, a-i well a* to
remittor* and payers, are prevented,
and absolute uniformity between the
order and advice Insured. The dis
patch of advices, which hitherto have
not been made out and until after is
sue of the orJors, will also be acceler
ated. ' . '4*
The receipt, which Is to be furnished
by’ the issuing postmaster to the re
mitter, showing the number and date
of tbe order and the amount for which
issued, is also, in the main, a reproduc
tion by the carbon process of the writ
ing and stamping on -tbedrder, hence,
must necessarily agree therewith. Tbe
adoption of a receipt has not hitherto
been practicAble. lt will tend to pop
ularlze tho postal money order, sup
plying more than all else what was
needed to make it, lu tho estimation
1 of-the |rabH(vzr“pe
vehicle for tbo transmission of imafl
sums.
The postal money order system, from
a small beginning ill 1864, when the
number of money order pus to Aloes es
tablished In the United State* was 419,
has grown to be bn* of the great in
dispensable agencies of ‘ exchange.
There are now about 36,060 such offices.
The number of domestic money orders
Issued In the United States during the
past year was ove* 30,006,000, amount-
juries
log 40 per cent, for lost or damaged
freight.
—Some of the plaid skirts the girls
are wearing look like their mothers
shawls pinned around them.
lag U value to 1240,0©u,000.
DfcPlEKB
LOCKS YOUR DOOR
AGAINSf DISEASE
—On
at l‘o(
nothing finaLwill bcjdone before toe re
turn of Gen, Bristow to Washington,
it is understood, hpwever, from other
sources that an Inspector has been or
dered to Investigate into the-affair. If
tbe charges are sustained as to tbe
mobbing of tbe postmaster, there is
little doubt but tho office will be closed,
and tbe people of the town deprived
qf their mail facilities they now en
joy. At the department It 1* stated that
the I’eck postoffice is a small on” and
barely pays anyway.
— An Atchison woman had a husoand
and “v house to care for, and her duties
kept.her mind occupied and she was
always well. Her husband died, left
her some money, and it had the effect
of cutting* boat loose and letting it
drift: she wanders around from point
to point, Is dissatisfied, and. having a
great deal of time to think about her
self, Is sick half tbe time as a result.
This has happened In so many cases In
Atchison as to create the belief that a
woman is happiest when she. has some
one to gjuiqibic about his three.Bffftklsa j>Fcw and Beliew'
day. ^
—In Essex, England, the unwonted
spectacle of monks riding bicycles
may be dally ^nessed. .The Francis
can Fathers, trao have charge of t£e
mission at Braintree, have also to at
tend the spiritual needs of two other
missions at long distance, and, in order
that they may accomplish this work,
they have with the permission of Car
dinal Vaughan, invested in bicycles, on
wblch they ride from one mission to
ao&ther.
fie butjy was
river, jmrwhere
) stream, and it
^ttl own stalks
found some distance
and the men who made
led from that point to
wa* bring.
of the trouble between
Julh i* said to have been
on the part-T>f Have* to
Mrs. Hudduth bad lied in
nvernation she had with
he declared an intention
father’s house. Hayes
dcsicti the statement of Mrs. Sndduth
aud Mid Uti it waa a lie, whereupon*
HuddiU tknalcned to lake his life if he
ever earn* to his house again. Hayea
didfo there on the Nth of August, and
his iregktsd tells how faithfully Sud-
dulh kept his word.'
kUguimc Gnllick upon tbe finding
of the jsrr issued a wairant for the
arrttt of Buddath, and his constable
found ttkt the alleged murder*# was in
bed with s high fever, with a physician
klleadiag hit.. ‘The constable took him
in chirp ud guarded him thronth the
PHfe tad yesterday ranraiag Sheriff
Gilratth instructed the magistrate to as-
certain the condition of his prisoner,
who will be placed in jail when able to
come. Mr. Gnllick went after Drs.
.Jackson ud Lindsay at once, and with
them west to Sndduth’s. home. 'They
reported tin; Suddulh was not in-a con
dition to be moved, and an armed guard
was placed at his house.
James hudduth has been once tried
for murder, but in that instance he was
promptly acquitted ' of blame. Ou
November kk,'1886, James tiudduth and
his fttber,J»iiper Sudduth, Joe Bellew
and Iguntius Few were in pursuit of a
man who had stolen a horse from Mrs.
Few, a widow They overtook him and
attempted to capture, but ho reached for
his plstoL Jsmes Sudduth tired a heavy
charge ofbucksh*t aud literally blew
the top of the horse-thief’s head off.
The four meu surrendered and wtre-
granted ball i« a nominal sum, and they
were tried inthe same month. Judge
Hudson presided and Col. J. L. Orr was
the solicitor. Capt. J. A. Mooney, who
haw just been admitted to the bar, con
ducted the defence. The ButUluths,
„ were acquitted. The
name of the horse-thief was not dlfa
covered until after the coroner’s inquest,
^Ppears on the court' records al
GIVES STRENGTH TO THE
STOMACH,
RIIUTV TO TUB
HLOOD,
LIFE TO THE LUNQ3.
ss.
Charleston. B- C.
OSBORNE’S
but
Robbie J. Jones. He was a rough, wild
tramp from North Carolina.
—At a toa and concert given in a
dissenting plaoa of frorship in an Eng
lish village a local magnate presided,
and when the program was entered
upon be row and said : “Ladies and
gentlemen, the choir will now sing a
solo. R
—Chzries Broadway.Rouss, the blind
millionaire, who recently sent a check
for 11.000 to the Shenandoah Valley
Agricultural Society, has been similar,
ly assisting that association annuallv
for the past tea years.
-nTha^Ai B *f Cy 'p rtt)Tnr< j )
xtccoto onSime for t
claret that the saloon
United btales Is dlroci
with a total qf 53,436
that time.
—There arfl.i
tk® tcean
month, some
—A young man
when a giri shows ,
older man ^efascared.
—Tta maswho talk* In his
|>l*y» Ml wiritn by remaining a