The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 24, 1892, Image 1
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v VOF.VII.
IN A MACARONI FACTORY.
How a Palatable Italian Product
Is ManufacturedSt.
Louis Republic.
Few people who out that toothsome
article macaroni know how or where
it is manufactured. They, however,
\ (lo know that when it is properly pre
^ pared it forms one of the most palatable
and healthful dishes that is
Set upon the table. Many imagine
that macaroni, vermicelli, spaghetti
and noodles are chiefly made in Italy
and imported into this country. To
a certain extent this is true, but of
late years the industry has so grown
on this side of the ocean that now
but one-tenth of the entire amount
consumed in the United States is
imported, aa s the Philadelphia
Tim ex.
Some years ago it was distinctive
ly an Italian dish. The natives of
that country were the first to make
it, and they made a national dish of
it. Other countries took np the
article; until now it is known the
world over. While a* lirst Italy
had the monopoly of its manufacture
and exported large quantities of it
to Europe and also to the United
States. In this country the work is
lone nearly entirely by Italians, who
have immigrated from the mother
soil, or by their American descendants.
In New York City there are sev
oral large factories which produce
am average of 35,000 po inds a day
w ino 111 iiiLi city, wiin n sunnier
number of factories, bet won 7,000
. unci 8,000 |> ?unils nre made daily.
J'rohably the largest factory U. this
city is ut Eight and Ohir tiai. streets.
In this one alone 3,500 pounds are
manufactured each day. Much of
this is consumed in this city, hilt
quantities are shipped to different
places in the United States and to
Canada and Cuba.
IS A MVCAUONI KACl'OUY.
A representative of this paper
visited the factory at Eight and
Christian yesterday and a tour of
inspection through its three floors
and watched the different stepsjwhich
converts the flour into the hard and
brittle substance that afterwatds
becomes so palatable in the hands
of the chef or adept housewife,
The Hour and water is first put
into what is called a dough-mixing
machine. It is cylindrical in form
and within it are knives or plates
which are worked by steam power.
The dough is kept in this machine
until it is thoroughly mixed. Then
it is thrown into a circular trough
(5 feet in diameter. Through tliis
trough rolls a largo stone weighing
3,300 pounds. Over and over the
dough this heavy weight passes, rol
ling it out flat. This process is kept
up for half n hour.
The next step is the placing of
this well rolled material in a power
fill circular press worked by steam.
The bottom of this machine is a copper
plate or mould. It is. about an
inch thick and perforated with holes,
in the center of which is a pin. The
dough is forced through these holes,
the little pin in the center each making
the hollow center in the macaroni.
It comes out in long strings,
% soft and so pliable that it could be
tied in a knot.
taKks eight days to dry.
It is then taken upstairs where a
man lays it out in straight lengths no
wire trays covered with paper. The
whole ,is covered with heavy paper,
and tlie tray8 are put up in racks
to dry. It lies in this position for
eight days before it hardens and
dries completely. It is kept as much
from the air as possible, as the dampness
prevents it from drying properly.
On nice clear days the windows
are a1 lowed to remain open, but on
windy days they are kept closed and
the steam is turned on running the
temperature up to between 70 and90
** * degrees. This heat does not affect
U1U III<l< ?I 0111, UUv 111" nil Uiy.
Vermicelli, spaghetti and noodles
are all made the sumo way, except
that the holes in the moulds through
which it is forced are smaller. The
vermicelli is made both white and of
u yellow tint. The coloring is done
with saffron. When it is taken upstairs
to dry it is laid out in curledup
shapes that give it a fancy appear
anco.
There is yet another product that
the factory makes that is fancy pas
tcs. These are used for soup the
same as noodles, but present a much
IV nicer appearance. For the pastes the
same mixing and rolling process is
gone through with as in making the
macaroni. Then the dough is taken
up to the second floor, where it is
placed in a pressing machine set in
a horizontal position. Instead of the
ordinary round holes in the moulding
plate, the perforations take a
number of different forms. All the
letters of the alphabet are produced.
INITIALS IN TllE SOUI'.
There arc very small and complete
as to form and enlarge after being
placed in the soup. Thus the Smiths,
the Joneses, the Browns and the
lohnsons may have served the initial
letters of their names in their soup.
Ci
Numbers, stars, rings and wheels are
also made, while the pretty shapes ot
the pepper olive and melon seeds are
also produced.
After the different articles are
thoroughly dried and hardened they
are packed for shipment. The macaroni
is tnude up in pound packages
wrapped in the familiar blue paper
that many a housewife imagines has
coma all the way from Italy. It is
also put up in other colors, with labels
of different kinds, bearing Italian
names, all of which give it a foreign
look.
A UKCIl'E BY AN AI>BCT.
Tilltro urn enun/u 1 tirntro <\P I ? 1
a ?iv? v i?i v ov/ ?ui m n (?J o VU UUUI\ I U ^ 1
macaroni. Some people cook it with
tomatoes, others with cheese. The)
hitter is probably the most palatable
A liuly who is quite an adept in preparing
the article gives the Times
the following recipo for its preparation
:
Break the sticks into inch pieces,
put in boiling water and boil 20 minutes.
When half done add u little
salt. When done strain in a colander
and set if in cold water until the
dressing is prepared. To make the
dressing melt a lump of butter the
size of a walnut and stir in an even
tablespoon fill of Hour, add a cup of
milk and a little salt and allow it to
boil. I'utina half cup of grated
sharp cheese, allow it to melt and
add the yolk of one egg, which has
been thoroughly mixou, but no beatten
light. Then stir in the macaroni
and put it where it will heat, but
not boil.
Courtship auJ MarriageWith
an honorable girl, with an
honorable man, an engagement oar
ties witn it something more than a
few sunny months of courtship.
After oourtshii) mmcs marriiuy?. Af
- 1 ~o?
tor marriage comes the home. To
describe the reasons which to some
young people seem sufficient to justify
them lirst in "flirting' and then iu
getting "enguged," would answer no
good purpose. Hut, putting aside
the indirect manner in which writers
address their renders, let me speak
frankly to you as a friend ton friend
Let inu ask you to consider what you
uro to have in your future husband,
in your future wife, to make it even
tolerable to spend twenty, or thirty,
or forty, years together. I will not
insist on the elements which are
necessary to the romantic perfection
of married life, for most of us are
commonplace people and a life of romance
is beyond our reach. There
are some very commonplace things
which you ought to make sure of.
Good sound health is one thing.
There are twenty grave reasons for
insisting on it. Next to this I should
put perfect truthfulness. The man
who will lie to other people will lie
to his wife; the girl who will lie to
other people will lie to her husband.
Next to truthfulness, temperance, industry
and courage. Then fortitude
that is, the power to bear pain and
trouble without whining. Then unselfishness,
for the selfish man, the
selfish girl, though drawn out of selfishness
in the early weeks of court- j
ship, will settle back into it again
when the wear and worry of life
come on.
1 said just now that most of us are
commonplace people, and that a life
of romance is out of otir reach; hut I
believe in "falling in love." The
imagination should be kindled, and
the heart touched. There should be
enthusiasm and even romance in the
happy months that precede marriage,
and something of the romance totno
very end of life, or else the homo is
wanting in its perfect happiness and
grace. The wonderful charm which
makes tho wife more to the husband
than all other women, and tho husband
more to tho wife than all other
men?this is necessary to a happy
marriage, nut take my woru for it,
those plain, solid virtues of which I
have spoken are indispensable to the
security and happiness of a home, and
it is a home you are drifting to when
you are drifting into love.?II. W.
Dale.
ICeMlly Proved from Price List*.
(Front The New York Tribune.;
The Democratic National Committee
is reviving the falsehood that was
so industriously circulated in 1888
and again in 1800, concerning the
price of American farming implements
here and abroad. Tho allegation
is that American manufacturers
of agricultural machines, protected
by a high tariff are selling those ma
chines in tho European market; or, in
other words, that the tariff is enabling
them to cheat their American
customers.
From the Peoria II<?rul<l.
Here are prices at home and abroad
I It n 4 ft. it itt rtM it it /I niAAlanniA /
I ll'lt f fni J 1)11 lUUi niiu I1ICUI1UI1IU IB
frtmillinr with:
A steel plough sold here for $8 is
sold in Spain and South America for
*4.
Hav rake sold here for $25 is sold
in Spain and South America for $17.
A feed cutter sold here for $28 is
sold abroad for $16.
Blacksmith's hammers sold here for
$10 a dozen are sold to foreigners
for $0 a dozen.
Hatchet, shingling, a dQzon, here,
*4.60; to foreigners, $3.50.
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"He True to You
)NWAY, 8. C., 1
A WOMAN FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Miss Ella L- Knowles is the Legal
Advisor of the State of
Montana(From
tho Now York Press )
Hki.kna, Mon, November 12.?
Montana has at Ins made something
new under the sun. 11 is a woman
Attorney General?a young woman,
and a pretty one at that* The Popu
lists, who have done so many queerthings,
have this peculiar political
freak also to their credit.
And yet there is little doubt Miss
Ella L. Knowlos, who has boon elected
t} office, will make an excellent
Attorney General. She is full of
brains, dauntless, self-confident and
plucky. She had two contestants
against her?Haskell, Republican,
and Hay, Democrat. She leads them
both by 300 votes.
T'lH OTll RK STATU OFFICICR8.
Unofficial figures of the Legislature
show; Senate, 10 Democrats, 5
Republicans, on? in doubt; House, 25
Democrats, 23 Republicans, 4 People's
party, and three in doutbt. One
of the Populists was endorse 1 by
Democrats, and is pledged to vo'e
for a Democratic United States Senator.
The vote in doubtful districts
is no close that it will take the official
count to decide. Giving the Republicans
all four, the Democrats will
still have a majority of one on joint
ballot. This insures the selection of
a Democrat to sucoed Sanders, Republican,
in the United States Senate:
Enough returns are in to show a
Republican majority on the Presidential
ticket, Congressmen and all
the State ticket except Attorney General
and Blake for Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court, who was beaten
by Pemborton, Democrat and Populist.
MISS 1CN0WI.K8'S CAHKKH.
Miss Ella L. Knowles, Attorney
General elect of Montana, was born
28 yeais ago in North wend, N. II.
She is a graduate of Bates's College
at Lewiston, Me, and has taken the
degree of Master of Arts from that
institution. 11 or legal studies wera
ii.? i ..f II.,-..
[MUStUincU in tuc inn uiuuo wi IJUIII*
ham & ltrown in Manchester, N. H.,
and later in Helena, Mon. There
was considerable prejudice against
allowing her to practice.
So the plucky young woman went
to work to influence the Legislature
?it was tho Territorial Legislature
of 1888-89-to pass a bill admitting
women to practice law. Western
chivalry could not withstand her, and
the bill was passed. In Decembor,
1890, she was admitted to the liar,
and now she has a practice of whioh
many men would be proud, to say
nothing of her prospects politically,
now KHH look8.
Miss Knowles is described as being
very womanly in appearance. She is
the only woman lawyor in the State,
but even into her profession she carries
the gentler virtues. She has all
a woman's keen sensibilities and ten/I
am n ittvt 4 It i <tn<l n I 1 lltA % / \ /?!? .
u*;i ojiupatiiicvi auu nu uuo iuu^ir
ness of Western life with which she
has come in contact has not impaired
these qualities. In appearance she is
more like a demure young matron
than astern Portia. She is of medium
height, neither thin nor stout,
has a face which, while strong and
firm, is also pretty. She believes in
her right to practice law and to be
paid for her legal services, and she
believed in her right to be Attorney
General of Montana if she could get
enough votes. The People's party
liked her spa it, and when it came to
make up a ticket last July it gave
her the nomination.
She conducted a spirited campaign
and all the credit of her victory belongs
to herself.
The Art of Sweeping.
In sweeping, take long, light
strokes, and do not use too heavy a
broom.
"Alice," said Leis, "do you honestly
think sweeping is harder exercise
than playing tennis?'*
I hesitated. "I really don't know.
One never thinks of hard or easy in
iHitniH, me game is so nuere ung;
and then, it's outdoor exercise, and
there's no danger of inhaling dust."
''Well, for my part," said Marjor
ie, *'I like doing work that tellsThere
is is to much satisfaction in
peeing the figurea in the carpet couae
out brightly under my broom! Alice,
what did you do to make your reception
room so perfectly spendiferousP
Girls, look here! You'd think this
carpet had just come out of the warehouse."
' Mother often tells Aunt Hetty,"
said I, "to dip the end of the broom
in a pail of water, in which she
poared a little ammonia?a teaspoonful
to a gallon. The ammonia takes
off the dust, and refreshes the colors
wonderfully. We could't keep house
without it," I finished rather proudly.
"Did you bring some from home?"
r Word, Your Work and Y<
THURSDAY N
asked Marjorie, looking hurt,
"Why, of course not! I asked your
mother, and she gave me a bottle,
and told me to take what I wanted.v
"A little coarse salt or damp tea
leaves strewed over the carpet before I
sweeping, adds case to the cleansing
process," said Mrs. Downing, appearing
on the scene and praising us for
our thoroughness. "The reason is
that both the suit and tho ton 1oon>u
being moist, keep down the light
floating dust, which gives more trouble
than the heavy dirt. Hut now
you will all ho belter for|a short rest;
so conic into my little snuggery and
have a gossip and a lunch, and then
you may attack tho enemy again."?
i Selected.
A Young Lady's Rules.
The following rules of conduct
fell out of the pocket book of a young
lady and an unscrupulous newspaper
j reporter picked them up, says the
Padurah Standard.
1. 1 don't let a man sinoko when
the walks or drives with me. If lie I
knows no better than to do it, I
| promptly tell him what I think of it. j
2. I don't give my photograph to
I men. I used to, occasionally, but 1
am wiser now. I should hate, byaiul-by,
to know that my face might
be hanging up in Tom, Dick or
Harry's room
3. 1 don't let a man take my arm |
when he walks with inc. If he does, j
I tell him 1 pcrfer him to give me
his arm,
d. I don't go out with a man!
friend just because he asks me. I
like it better if lie asks another lady
tojgo too his sister for instance*
5. I don't let any man "see me i
homo" from church. If he hasn't
gumption enough to take me there
and sit through the services with me
he may stay awav altogether.
(J. I don't let a in in friend give
me presents unless it is something
or a trilling cost, like fruit or Mowers.
Ami I always guage 11 man by
his taste in this respect.
7. I don't encourage any young
man who is not perfectly polite and
agreeable to my mother. Whoever
calls upon nio sees a groat deal of
her.
8. I don't allow a caller to stay !
later than ton o'clock. If ho does
not go at that time, 1 politely tell
him my custom.
He Had Nerve.
41 About two weeks ago I was camping
with u party on the shore of
Lake Kric, trot far from Ashtabula,"
said George Wilson, a mill worker,
to the Syracuse tStdmlard.
Shortly after we had retired ono
orenint.' 1 heard a peculiar whirring
sound, which 1 recognized at once.
'There is a rattlesnake in camp,' I exclaimed.
'I am coiner to trot. nn.'
- - - o r> ? n ~ _ " J"
'Hush!' caino tho word, slowly hissed
through tho teeth from a companion
near mo. 'The snake has crawled
into my shirt bosom.' This was
very softly and wo were almost para
lyzod with fright at tho prospect.
We were afraid to stir for fear tho
reptile would tako alarm aud atriko
its victim. It crawled over his body
good-naturedly, evidently enjoying
tho warmth, for the night was a little
raw.
"At times the snake's head was
close to his face, and he told us afferwards
he feared the motion of his
chest up aud down in breathing
would stir up the animal, and he
tried hard to breathe as little as possible.
Finally the snake crawled towards
the fire and in an instant the
whole camp was up. One seized a
club and broke tho reptile's hack before
it could make a spring. It
measured nearly 5 feet.
"The man who had the terrible experience
collapsed like a rag after the
experience was over. During the
ordeal we were all surprised at the
coolness and nerve he displayed.
With Sill rlllllir.51* IMItf lia f..ll i>i?n . I
? %?.. W1 j'H'U liu IV II JIIIU f*
faint, but he soon revived."
i About the Word "Roorback.'
i Yon have often heard and used the
j word "roorback," especially at just
about the eve of a political election,
when any and all kinds of 'roorbacks"
may be looked for, but it is ton chances
to one if you "stopped in your
mad rush," etc , as Nye would say,
to figure on the origin of the term.
My political dictionaries, each of
which have a preface informing the
lucky or luckless owner that ''the
origin of every known political
phrase" may bo "found upon the
inside," are sadly lacking at the
place where "roor" should como in.
However, in a* little unpretentious
scrap-book I find the following:
"The word 'roorback' originated
away back in 1814, when a lot of
soulless political schemers in llaltimore
published a fictitious story,
said to be au extract from the works
of one Baron Koorback. The object,
of course, was to gain some po
llitical point, tho extract from the
Baron's book giving many good rca.
sons why just that particular point
should bo gained at any cost. The
probabilities are that there never was
such a person as 'Baron Koorback,'
bat the incident related has made
hit name a synonym for any gigantic
electioneering lie."
our Country"
OVEMBEli 24,
READY FOR FOUR YEARS HENCE'
Democrats to be Downed as Republicans
Have Been.
News ami Courier.
Dm-. Moinks, Iowa, Nov. 10.?
Gen. Weaver, candidate for President
on the PeopVs party ticket,
issued an address to-day to tiro voters
of the party He declares that the
People's party is not far behind tlie
Republican party in the number of
States carried; that it would doubtless
hold the balance of power in tho
United States Senate; had doubled
its adherents in tho House; had secured
control of a number of Stute
Governments: holds the balance of
power in the majority of States, and
bad gained a large following in every
State of the South.
Weaver says that the almost annihilation
of tho Republican party
organization leaves the former adherantsof
that party free to align themselves
with the anti-monopoly and
industrial movement. The accession
of the Democratic party to power is
the result of a violent reaction and
not the deliberate judgement of t he
American people. Tho leaders of
the Democrits, he declares, are without
any x\i'l defined noliov excent I
thut of contempt for every element
of reform within the ranks of their
own party ami among the people tit
large,
The new Administration will ignore
three contentions of modern
times relating to land, money and
transportation, and in fact the whole
force of the new regime will bo exercised
to prevent reform in those important
matters. The urgent demand
for the free coinage of silver is to be
disdainfully ignored and in oontompt
of the doctrine of Andrew Jackson
dictate our financial policy. The
uniform legal tender currency of the
Government is to he sacrificed and
a serious attempt made to force the
people to return to a fraudulent sys-1
tern of Statu hank issues.
In Gen. Weaver's view the violent
political storms of 1888 and 181)0
signify a turbulent condition of the
political atmosphere foreshadowing
a political crisis. He urges that the
work of organization bo pushed
with energy through all the States.
? - ?rnamm
Some Greenville IdeasNrws
and Courier.
Ghkknvii.uk, November 15?Special:
A bill lias been prepared and
will be introduced in the Legislature
bv fi mnmbnr fr<n?? lliiu nnnntMi ....
~J ' If"
quiring county commissioners to Ink?
charge of and feed priosners in the
county jail. It is claimed that the
bill will be passed and that it is a
retrenchment and reform measure.
The advocates of the measure say
that sheriffs are now paid thirty
cents a day for feeding prisoners
when it does not cost over ten cents
a day. The cotnmitjsionors, it is
claimed, can buy food by the whole
sale and probably keep the prisoners
for les?s than ten cents a day.
Uepresentativo-eloct Shuman will
introduce a bill, which he has already
drawn up, establishing a County
Court for Greenville, anu it is not
improbable that a bill creating County
Courts all over the State will be
passed. The bill for this county provides
for a Judge at $1,000 a year
salary and a prosecuting attorney at
$500. The regular grand jury is to
consider indictments and jurors will
be drawn as|ltsual. The Court will
have jurisdiction of all criminal
cases except murder, arson, burglary,
rape and a few other serious crimes.
Jt will also hear civil cases.
The Court will be run very much
as the Circuit Courts, and the terms
will be held every other month.
There are so many provisions of tho
bill that it is almost impossible to
give all of them. Tho Judge and
prosecuting attorney are to be elected
by the people and their terms of
office are to bo four years each.
The postponed Cleveland and Stevenson
jollification and torchlight
procession will tako place on Friday
night.
Sam Randall's Poverty.
Piiii.adki.phia, Pa., Nov. 14.?
Pennsylvania's grent commoner,
Samuel J. Randall, died a very poor
man. How poor was not disclosed
until to-day. Mrs. Fannie W. Randall,
widow and administratrix of the
deceased statesman, to day filed an
answer in the Orphans' Court to proceedings
brought by a creditor of the
estate to compel an accounting. Mrs.
Randall simply said in the answer
thath her husband left no roal or personal
estate save a few personal effects^
and that after the payment of
the funeral expenses and the setting
aside of her $400 widow's exemption
there was nothing to account for nor
enough money of the estate left to
pay the costs required in the accounting.
She added that no disrespect
was intended by her to the Court,
hut under the circumstances she had
not complied with the request.
A Large ShaikCapt.
J. F. Howen brings the news
tkart a monster shark was captured
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one day Lst week, near Shallotte bur,
in u purse 801110 belonging to Messrs.
Mooro niul ltourk. Capt. Janies
Chad wick was in charge of the net
when it was hauled in. Tho shark
measured 12 feot in length and 0
feet around the middlo of his body.
Ilix tnolltli (iliiMii'i) frm l'tni'ii iiwiiou
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and his tcngue measured 8 inches
across. This is the largest shark over
seen in those waters, Southport
hauler.
Nellie Bailey, a Pennsvvania
Belle, won By a DemocatSpecial
to The Republic
Hazel ton, l'u., Nov. 14*?Tho
littlo town of Harvey villo, in thoval.
ley below this city, is greatly excited
over tho outcome of an election bet.
Miss. Hat tie Ihiilcy, the buxom
laughter of fanner Ihiilcy, seems to
have inspired the bet and the desire
to gain her hand may be tho means
of bringing Win. Koons and Thomas
McGraw together in mortal combat.
For six months these young men
have been paying attentions to Miss
Bailey. Both aro well to do, and
have good connections' Not infrequently
one of them called at M iss.
Bailey's home and found his rival
there ahead of him. The young
woman seemed to like both of them*
No preference was shown. About
a week ago both young men appear
ed at the Bailey house hold together.
Among tho subjects discussed during
the evening politics came up. Mc(
.' IMI ??? ivttu at 1 ^ ??VI l 1 ? I l On It 1?
I ....... cio (i 11 c1' ?i ' i iv;?? II , i* 1111*3 111r>
rival was a Democrat. Doth expressed
themselves as confident in
tho success of their favorite candidate.
A wager was offered by the
Cleveland man and Miss liailcy en
eouruaged by offering to become
stakeholder. The sntn had not been
stipulated and while considering
that subject McGraw hit upon the
idea that a good chance to dispose
of his rival had presented itself.
The proposition was first made to
the young woman. She was satisfied,
and it was agreed that all
claims on her company would he
forfeited by the backer of the defeated
candidate.
When the news of his loss reached
Med raw Wednesday he almost
fainted. Ho did not lose hope, however,
and when he recovered determined
not to abide by the decree of
fate.
Last night Koons called on the
lady, and, while seated in the parlor,
was suprised to sec his old rival
walk in Angry words were ex
changed and both men left the room.
What conclusion the men came to
after leaving the house last night is
not known, but it as learned that
Mcdraw is in receipt of a challenge
to fight a tluel. The young woman
is inucn exorcised over tue turn nf
fairs have taken, hut favors the
Cleveland man, and will stand I>y
him, she says.
A School 11 oil no Full of People
Blown up by Gunpowder* Four
Persons Killed and
Fifteen Wounded.
i?ayetteville, Ark, Novombcr 17.?
The Democrats of Mountain View
held a Presidential ?lection celebration
in the district school house
last night, and a terrible disaster ended
the proceedings prematurely.
Anvil beating and the discharge of
fireworks were features at the jolli
fieation and as a consequence a large
quantity of explosivoduid been provided.
A portion of these had been
stored in the school house. During
the speech-making and while the
building was packed two kegs of
powder exploded.
The results were frightful. The
, school houso was totally wrecked
land most of its occupants were burnled
in thA ruins. Those who could
extricate themselves set about at
once to rescue the others. Shrieks
and means cam ) from the mass of
{wrecked timbers, the debris took
fire in several places and it required
hard work to prevent the cremation
of the persons who were imprisoned.
The flames were subdued, however
only one person suffering from the
fire.
A son and daughter of Silas (irnhum
were taken out dead and Berry Sherod,
one of ?he most prominent resi
dents of Washington County, was
so badly injured that he has since
died. Another man, whoso name
has not been lean cd, was also killed.
K'fteen persons were injured, some
fatally, but their names have not
been learned hero.
Sherod suffering horrible agony
before he was gotten out of the
rains* He was pinned down by
timbers and was burned beyond re.
cognition. Ho lived several hours
after being rescued.
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It is the song, the picture, the
book, and the preacher that touches
on the human basis in man that is
successful.
A medical man tells us that the
habit amoug women of biting off the
thread when sewing is the chief
cause of blood poisoning.
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NO; 19
CABENET-NAKERS AT WORK.
A "Capital" Opinion of Congressman
) J. Hemphill[Special,
to News ami Courier.]
Washington, November 15.?In
political circles hero it is rumoied
that Mr. Cleveland is considering tho
name of Representative J. J. Hemphill
in connection with the Secretaryship
of the Navy. The Star
! says:
"The rumor has a basis of likoli*
! hood at least for it is known tkat Mr.
Cleveland entertains a high regard
for Mr. Hemphill's ability, and above
all for bis sterling integrity. A
warm personal friendship also exists
between tho two men. Mr. Hemphill
lias been very activo in the campaign
in Mr. Cleveland's behalf, and
lias been one of tbe national committee'
stanchest workers in tho field.
Mr. Hemphill will be in position
to] accept tho appointment as tho
Farmers' Alliance defeated him for
rcnominntion to Congress.
41 As will be rente m herd. Mr.
Hemphill recently married a beautiful
young lady of this city, and be
enabled to add to tho social side of
tbe Administration to no small degree.
Mr. Hemphill is fully quali
tied to fill n place in Mr. Cleveland's
Cabinet or any other place under
the coming Administration to which
he may bo assigned. He should
have been a member of the 53d Congress.
The State of South Carolina
is to be deprived of his valuable
services in the House simply because
he dared to stand shoulder to shoulder
with Mr. Cleveland on questions
of tariff reform, the force bill and
sound money.
"It is not strange, therefore that
the President-elect feels that he
needs the assistance of just such
statesmen as Representative Hemphill
to make his Administration a
national success During his long and
faithful career in Congress Mr.
Hemphill has not devoted much at
tendon to naval affairs. His efforts
have been in the direction of financial
atul judical questions. He is, however,
able to render distinguished
service in any branch of the public
service to which he^niay ho called
after hin Congressional term expires."
The Greatest Growth.
(From tho British Medical Monthly.)
The year of greatest growth in
boys is the seventeenth; in girls,
fourteenth' While girls roach full
height in their fifteenth year, they
acquire full weight at the ago of
twenty. Hoys are stronger than girls
from birth to the eleventh year;
then girls become superior physically
to the seventeenth year, when
tho tables are again turned and remain
so. From November to April
children grow very little and gain
no weight; from April to July they
grow in height, but lose in weight,
and from July to November they
increase greatly in weight, but not
height*
Odds and Ends.
Oliver Cromwell's father was a
brewer.
About a quarter of the people of
Paris live in apartments.
An inch of rain means 100 tons of
water on every acre.
Spain lias fewer drily papers than
anyjjother European country.
Put a teaspoonful of salt into a
kerosene lamp once in awhile.
A pretty woman's reflections aro
seldom deeper than her looking
glass.
A yearly outlay cf *5,000,000
shows American enterprise in advertising.
The first omnibus appeared in
Paris in 1825:in New York live years
later.
The Davy safety lamp for miners
was invented by Sir Humphry Davy
i?i 1815.
There is no time in life when
books do not influence a man.?Wal.
ter Bosnnt.
Change the socks from one foot to
the other unless you wear anatomical
socks'
It is estimated that about 250,000000
bricks are used monthly in Great
Britain.
A gold leaf electrometer was invented
by Bennett in 1879, and sub
sequently improved.
The Cat in Art.
Until the present century the peouliar
difficulties offered by the
structure and texture of cats had
hardly been surmounted. When the
old masters drew a cat they made it
solid and hard?it is probable that
the varieties they knew were less
beautiful than those which wo now
delight in?but also there was a conventional
neglect of the furry character
of the surface. In painting a
cat now the danger is in ovoiding a
false solidity, to lose all sense of the
osseous forms in securing softness
and lightness.?London Saturday
Review.