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BILL NYE IN MAINE. SAYS HE CAN MAKE A COT TON MILL. But, Alas! He Has No Time—He De" Scribes the Gin Palace and Gives a Harrowing Expe rience in Maine. ICopyrlght, 1804, by Edgar W. Nye.j Way Down In Maine. We are traveling through the Pine Tree State and enjoying the sweet and •Mlnous air of calm winter, while the •lad plunk of the skater as he skates in to an airhole is heard on every hand, and the tinkle of myriads of sleighbells och- sea through the spruce forests and the dr trimmed hills. Maine is a glorious state. She is very largely given over to manufactures and looks upon tariff reduction at the pres- ^pgasT IN THE BFXrnY. ent time with horror. I went through the largest cotton mill in the world last week. It is a marvel of ingenuity and power. The river turns these millions of spindles, and machinery makes it pos sible for one man to do the work former ly done by 2,000 women. What is to he the result at last of this machinery ad vancement and perfi lion? Isn't that throwing the laboring classes out of work more than the tariff tinkering? All cotton goods are made here, from the coarse grain iiag up to tii. Is nuiiful white and crinkled seersucker which adorns the glorious form of the suiuiuer girl. Below you can start in with the lag, silent waterwheel and go on up to where a hundred thousand delicate threads are put into one, and above that the giant bell which tolls the noon hour and the labor day off into sections. 1 went up Into the belfry to see this big Ben of the Androscoggin mills. I had to climb a Jopg ladder through a dark skylight, and fur comfort I had worn a high hat. l T p In the l>elfry I straightened out my hat and stood on the icy comb of the roof while the wind blew through the whis- fcers of a man who hud been secured for that purpose, I never saw a finer sight than the view of Nova Scotia from this belfry on a keen, cold winter’s day, while off to the northward and eastward Labrador could be seen, and hack of it the aurora bore alis reflected from the rodhot journal on which the earth revolves at the north pole. This mill takes the raw cotton as it comes from the iron jaws of the big com press and turns it into a million beau- W’ll fabrics, The man who falls into the carder at the ground floor will find himself in a counterpane on the top floor “if he don’t watch out.” Mr. Bean, who operates this giant mill, showed us q,ver it and explained all the complicated machinery, so that I could build a mill just exactly like it now if I did not have so many other things to do. But he advised me not to do so, for witli the dull times and appre hension everywhere a funny paper in London would pay better than a cotton mill does now. Maine, too, looks with great grief up on the prospect of having free 1 umber •admitted across ^he L'anadian border, Vbere vutge.-i aye very low and pine un- Umited, The pulp mills of Maine are a great branch of industry and utilize many kinds cf wood which otherwise would not be of use at all. Inside of 24 hours a spruce tree now may return to Port land in the form of the Boston Sunday Globe—that is, I mean if the tree should be large enough. Of course you couldn’t make a Sunday paper uut ot a scrub tree. Aside Ull these other industries, it is estimated that from $7,600,000 to $10,000,(KM) come in each year from the Bummer boarder and sportsman. I met the proprietor of a liotel on Marble- t»ead Jake the other day, and lie told me that he kept SO guides all summer and as many canoes, and the ideal trip now consists of paddling from the head of Moosehead lake for over 300 miles to St. Johns through the virgin forest. There is really no game preserve that has the flavor of the Maine pre serves. The log jam and game preserve in Maine are such well known delicacies that I need not pause here to dilate upon them. The Maine liquor law is always a very interesting cadaver to me; In fact, I have roamed around the charnel house of dead prohibitory measures for several years in various states. They simply make drinking inconvenient and breed a more ruinous breed of rum. In Lewiston the gin palaces are under the streets, and a labyrinth of passages known only to “members in good stand ing” leads to the interior, with ever and anon a door marked “pull" when it means “push,” and “push” when it means to the initiated “pull." This confuses the officer, so that by the time he gets in fairly the decanters have been emptied down the sink, followed by an acid which removes all traces, even of the odor. A guard is above both day and night, whose duty it is to press the but ton when the sheriff enters, and when he get« at last through this devious way he inds the bartender engaged in lathering and shaving a customer or shampooing ^im with a bottle of Angostura hitters, Liquor is shipp'd all over Maine in- Bide of molasses and sugar barrels, in to bacco 1sues and inside of big boxes os tensibly containing mill supplies and machinery. Hanger oi>enly sells all sorts of liquor and is considered the smartest city in Maine. In Portland the ofiice of sheriff is said to he worth IMJMM). Tim sheriff manufactures a cigar which he sells to those who also sell rum. But ho raids these places regularly. It is an exciting spectacle to see the sheriff with his foam flocked steed flying toward a liquor joint of which he has just heard. He has a loud, vociferous chime of bells on his loam flecked steed, and wnen ho gets to the door of the itini palace he climbs out, carefully blankets his horse, “trigs’’ the sleigh runner so that he can not hack up, tics the steed in several in tricate knots and enters the place. By that time the place is swept and gar nished. for the sheriff has to get the frost out of his whiskers, and that takes time also. So all isniroand legal there. He sells the proprietor a thousand of his Stench- ers cigars, eats 20 cents’ worth of cloves, empties the silver dish of calamus root into his pocket and then goes av'ay to raid another sink hole of iniquity and sell it some Cold Slaw cigars. To be sheriff at Portland is regarded as the goal toward which all the hoys in Maine should aspire. It is as good as being president of tin* United States and is less exposed to assassination. Those who cannot he sheriff hope some day to marry into his family and inherit his cigar trade. At Augusta I had a st range experience. I was given a very comfortable room at the hotel, and having lost considerable sleep for several nights, sitting up with college boys end so forth, I read a brief chapter from a very interesting book re specting the World’s fair and retired. Soon there came from the adjoining room a low whistle. I regarded it as a signal and answered it as a matter of mere sport, as it wore. The reply came hack along with a low gurgle like that of a baby elephant dying in a kettle of mush. It was a snore. Following this came a quick detona tion, like the explosion of a paper hag under a cloud. Then tin re was a snatch of song without words and a nocturne in something or other. It was a musical snoro punctuated with the wail of a damned soul. I sat up In bed, and the mat- rialized ghost of my departed hair rose Hko new aspara gus on the old site. If this w> re to ho my last letter to my friends all the way from Edinburgh to the City of Mexico and this statement were to face mo at the bar <>f judgment, I should still say that I never heard any thing like that more since Hell Gate was blown out in New York city. Eight years ago at Herkimer, in the state of New York, a cruel woman who had promised to love, honor and obey her husband stole up behind him while he was reading the "Ib aveuly Twins,” or some other work, and split open his head with an ax while ho was in the midst of an unthought think. Had she truly loved him she would not have done this. But she did, and then quar tered him. Ho hadn’t had a dollar for years that he could call his own, but in death he had four quarters on his ,s*r- son after his loving wife got through with him. After cutting him up like tlio brother of All Baba she consumed him in the cook stove. It took several days, and even then his artificial teeth were easily recognized by those who knew him. Discovery followed, and s > instead of a nice second husband she etood in the early spring on an elevated platform at the Herkimer jail, with bared head, to give her wretched life to the state in part payment for the naughty act for which she had been tried. As she shot into eternity she gave a shriek that interfered with my rest for over a year. 1 never heard anything like it till this night at Augusta. It lin er witti a string of labels on It, "you are wrong, I guess, about that. That room was occupied this week by Viola Mnr- kine, the prima donna of the Binged Cat Opera company, so called because the girls who sing in it are so much better than they look.” And it was so. /0)-c HE STOPPED THE TRAIN. COURAGE AND COWARDICE. The Mon of Abjert Feor Moy Be a Nerroo* Invalid. Thoro is an old and often told storv of the officer who claimed more cred it for his own conduct under fire than for that of his men. “They were not afraid, and so they stood steady,” he argued, “but I didn’t runaway, although I was most damnably afraid.” The reason of that conten tion is one that is generally admitted, and the world is not slow to acknowl edge the virtue of the constitutional coward whose courage lies in his force of will, for there is such a thing as constitutional cowardice, and it can lie conquered if a man’s spirit is greater than the tremor of his nerves. When the natural tremor is the stronger and overcomes his will, then wo write him down a coward. But what can l>o said of the man who makes no effort at all and cares not in the least whether he be calk'd a coward or not? As yet one cannot believe that there are many such men, but at the same time it is im possible to ignore the fact that in stances of this weak surrender are growing more plentiful, and that there is the same tendency to palli ate cowardice that now seeks to pal liate drunkenness and crime. In the old days the drunkard and the thief were not overtenderly handled. It was held that they sinned through what the American calls ‘‘cussed ness,” and it was judged that cussed ness could best he cured by being whipped or put in the pillory or oth erwise strongly repressed. Now it has been discovered that the poor sinners are afflicted with mental disease, and serious doubts are east on the humanity of forcible restraint, even though that restraint takes the mild form of short terms of imprisonment. With much more truth might it l>o represented that the coward cannot command his nerves, and that as a nervous inva lid he rather merits pity than con tempt. Such a view may Ik* more humane and charitable, but it is far from being expedient. By all means let us hold it, if wo will, with regard to a particular coward hero and there, but heaven forbid that we should ever hold it with regard to cowardice in general! It is not in the least likely that we ever shall do so, for the results would lie so imme diate and so deplorable that u healthy reaction would very soon set in.— London Spectator. MSTF.N'INU. hingeJ my mind tor ;i week, r d I could not eat or sleep. Perhaps it .van my sur prise that she did not expe Vurodireet- ly to Abraham’s , where there ^nust ho an awful m t of murderers by fhib time worrying the* life out of poor Lazarus, hut this shriek of a lost soul that day gave my brain a jolt that it will never fully m over ff u.. I tvs 1 ' therefore surprised when this man with his bugle played a bar of “The Campbells Are Coming.” 1 imverknewa snorer with such a register as this one. He would give a little moan like a new puppy that lavs missed the maternal font by three-quarters of an inch, and then he would render tlic mush kel tie gurgle and the Balaklava groan, winding up with the Herkimer squeal of the damned soul whose tail has be. n caught in the door. 1 have never put in such a night since I was horn. The glad snort of the 2 year- old colt came now and then, follow.-. 1 by the twitter of swallows and the cries of the wounded at the surpri v- afld capture of Marco Bozzaris. Then the folding Is-d would creak, and I would imagine that it had closed upon the sufferer, for a stifled inort would come from the bedclothes, and death would seem to have eoiiio mercifully to lay his cold hand on the atrong man in his agony. I was Just going to the door cf the room to save the man's life when "cross the hall * -.m ac< mmereial travel, i who mils I >1*1 sl.-ds for t he .Maim-Manufac turing company. H • was in his robe de nuit and wore a high hat t< keep the cold air from striking his nude head. Kicking the door rudely with a big shoe which he carried in his hand, lie said, “There, .1 n you, you’re dead, and I'm glalof it, but if you ever dare to move a hand or foot again, you low lived stiff, I'll come l8,<MMi miles to murder you in the most sickening manner I can think Of.” Then he shook the door violently, threw some coal through the transom and went back to bed again. In the morning I got up pale and hag gard. Blowly I dressed myself and went down to breakfast. As I passed the desk I said to the clerk, “Who whs that thrice accursed brute who slept in No. 0 ' last night'.''’ “Why do you nsk?” “Because he is dead. Died in his sins with a newborn snort on bis cowardly ; lips. Died with a room full of echoes imd throttled groans. That’s why I ask.” “Ah." M&i he. looking at alittle draw- llioln’t MIhm-.I Ills Car. The wind was blowing a gale, and tho rain was pattering against the window panes at the home of a promi nent Camden physician. The clock had just tolled the hour past mid night, when tho physician was aroused by tho ringing of his door- bell. Ho jumped out of bed, put on his dressing gown, went to the win dow, raised the sash and saw a man, muffled to the ears, standing on hia front step. He asked; “What do you want at this late hour?” “I'm Mr. Carr," was tho answer. "Well, go home. I am not respon sible if you did miss a car. Why did you stay out so late ?” Tho window went down with a hang, and the doctor went buck to bed. The bell rang again, the doctor put his head out of tho window and saw the same man on the step. “Doctor, doctor! I’m Mr. Carr.” “Well, if you did miss your car, what have I to do with it?” “Carr, doctor, Carr. Don’t 3’ou understand “What do you take me for, a eon duetor?” “No, no, doctor. Mrs. Carr, my wife, your patient, is very ill and re quires your services.” “Oh, that's you, Carr, is it? Wait a minute ami 1 11 lie with you.”— Philadelphia Press. A SltllMInn W»» by the Brakrnian and Kxrltad I’aMengrr*. The train had just pulled out of Kenwood and was making moderate headway toward Forty-third street when a young man passing from one car to another was seen to hesitate for a moment on the platform. He cast a frightened look behind him, and then his arm shot up and his hand caught the air coni. Ho gave it a yank. The signal reached the engineer, who shut off rteam, threw over his reversing lever and applied the emergency brake with such force that the train came to as sudden a stop as though it had struck a stone wall. The sudden shock threw passen gers from their scats into a promis cuous heap in the car aisles. As soon as they could extricate themselves they rushed for platforms, fully ex pecting a rebounding collision, for every passenger on the train was sure that a collision had already oc curred. The train crew hurried back to where the frightened looking young man stood by the road side wringing his hands. “There, there!” he moaned as he extended his hand under the ear. Tho brakeman, with a sweeping motion of his hands, signaled the engineer to back up slowly. Like a snail the train slowly crawled back ward, while tho passengers fought with each other to catch the fa-r-t glimpse of the mangled IkhIv, for now they were sure that the young man’s friend had fallen from the train. “Look out!’’gurgled the frightened young man, and a downward sweep of the brakeman’s hands brought the train to anotherstandstill witha jerk which threatened to demolish all the windows. “Great Scott!” he cried, “notthere? It must be under tho rear ear. Oh, Lord” The brakeman elevated his hands, and with a slight twirling motion, understood by the engineer, the train began to move slowly ahead. “Under the rear ear, under the rear car," moaned the young man, and tho train moved ahead faster and came to another stop in obedience to the trainman’s signal. “No, no I There it is,” he cried ex citedly, pointing to a spot about 50 feet in the rear of the train. “What?" yelled the brakeman. “My overshoe," replied the young man, the frightened look having dis appeared from his face. “i* ?r^-.. — lit was all the brakeman could say. Another vigorous motion with one hand, and the engineer pulled the throttlo so wide open that the engine threatened to jump the track with tho entire train, and when the sad eyed young man had picked up his overshoe, which had slipped from his foot while passing from one car to another, he found himself between stations, with the tail end of the train containing a lot of angry trainmen and passengers rapidly disapi*euriug around a curve.—Chicago Mail. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS._ Tin* Srnate on the Bland BUI—The Home on Appropriation*. Washington, March 11.—After somo routine business, on motion of Mr. Gor man, tho committee vacancies were filled. Mr. Bate was made chairman of the committee on military affairs and Mr. Blanchard was made chairman of the committee on the improvement of the Mississippi river. Tho Bland seigniorage bill was taken up at 12:30 and Mr. Btewart addressed the senate in advocacy of it. The house at 1 o’clock on motion of Mr. Bayers resolved itself into a commit tee of tno whole on tho sundry civil ap propriation bill, Mr. Lester, of Georgia, in the chair. The house elections committee has de cided to take up the continued case of Thasher vs. Enloe, from the Eighth Ten nessee district, and Moore ve. Funston, from the Second Kansas district, for consideration on Friday next. Argu ments have-been heard in both cases. It was further decided that after March 27 arguments would be heard in the re maining cases on the committee calen dar. The house committee on agriculture has decided to postpone until next month action on the bills providing for the ex termination of tho Russian thistle. The Hatch anti-option bill was made the special order of business until disposed of and its consideration will begin at once. The sense of tho committee has been taken and show’s that a majority are in favor of some legislation of this kind. The bill will be read by sections and per fected, ns the draft submitted by Mr. Hatch conveyed only the idea, leaving the exact terms to bo discused and fixed by the committee. I A True ll«-lpnint<*. Wife—I have made $200 this afternoon. Husband—Phew! “You paid only $300 for that old piano, didn’t you?" “Yes.” "Well, I have sold it for $500.” “My! my! What are you going to do with Hit* money?” “There isn’t any money.’* “Eh?” “I sold it to a dealer. He gives me a new piano for $1,000 and allows me $.’>00 for the old one. If you’d stay at home and let me goto your office and attend to your leviness, you’d aoon be rich. Just think! Two hundred dollars a day is $73,000 a year.”—New York Weekly. Thurston lias No Fears. Washington, March 14.—Hawaiian Minister Thurston said concerning the report that the arrival of so many steer age passengers from the United Btates and British Columbia at Honolulu was part of a conspiracy for the restoration of the queen, that it had been known for some time that the ex-queen was seek ing recruits in British Columbia. He believed, however, that tho provisional government hail the administration of the government so w’oll in hand that it had nothing to fear from tho queen’s followers. Ho discredited tho report that many new men employed by the government would join the queen's forces at a signal from her. In the Inter*-its of Farmers. Washington, March 14.—The United States department of agriculture is about to issue a farmers’ bulletin on fertilizers for cotton. This Imlletin has been pre pared by Dr. .1. M. McBrydo, president of the Virginia Agricultural college and director of the Virginia experiment sta tion, and gives a concise account of nu merous experiments with fertilizers on cotton ma le under his supervision in South Carolina. It also contains direc tions as to the selection, compounding and application of fertilizers for this crop. participate is held at SOUTHERN NEWS NOTES. Important HappanlngsTolU Inn Few T.lnes For Ha*tj- Brader*. Chattanooga, March 12 —About 1:20 Sunday afternoon the magnificent qta- bles of tbe Lookout Inn were found to be on tire. No water was at hard and soon tbe stables and dance hall were burned to tbe ground, together with a number of costly vehicles. Tho fire nearly caught the inn. which is one of the finest summer hotels in the United States. The loss will be about $7,000. The fire waa caused by two young men who were smoking cigarettes in the building. Washington, March 10. —General II. V. Boynton announces tho postpone ment of the dedication of the Chicamauga and Chattanooga National Military park from September, iMt, to September, 1M)5, in order to give the Grand Army of the Republic a chance to if the national encampment Atlanta, and also because of duly in the appropriation. Roanoke, Va., March 10.—The Even ing World has purchased and a' sorbed the Roanoke Daily Record with the tdant and all its fixtures. This gives The World the afternoon field in this section. Its combined circulation now makes it < no of tho strangest afternoon papers in Virginia. The World is a member of the Southern Afternoon Press bureau. Atlanta, March 12.—Mr. Joel Chand ler Harris was the guest of honor at the dinner of the Quadrant club, at the newly appointed Richelieu Sunday af ternoon. Mr. Harris is said never to have been dined before by persons out side of the friends of his home life, and this fact waa duly appreciated by the •fnemhors of the Quadrant club. Hot Springs, March £0.—The Busi ness Mena club and chamber of com merce have mldopted resolutions inviting President Cleveland, Secretary of tho Interior Hoke Smith and Secretary of War Daniels. Lamont to visit their city. The people have long been desirous of entertaining the presindent, and believe that be will soon come. Hontell© Makes Fun. Washington,'" March 14.—Mr. Bou- tellc, in commenting on Secretary Her berts reply to bis resolution asking by what authority Mr. Blount waa placed in command of tho naval forces at Hon olulu, remarked that it was “amusing to note that this administration is driven to find the only semblance of precedent for its action in some orders issued dur ing tho famous San Domingo episode by that secretary of tho navy (Robeson) who has been tho subject of Democratic denunciation. Injured by nn Overturned I.nuip. Washington, March 14.—Mrs. Patty Miller Stocking, widow of the late Wil liam E. Stocking, and daughter of the late Justice Miller of the supreme court, was badly burned by the overturning of a lamp at her apartments at theElsmerb. Her physician states 'that tho injuries, while very serious, they are not likely to prove fatal. Where Happiness Reigns. A pretty little village lias been erected In one of the most thickly populated sections of the city. The families which dwell there are the happiest of the happy. The carpen ters whohuilt the houses received no pay for their labor, for it was a labor of love. The housekeepers, like house keepers generally, receive nothing for their toil, for they are, like all good people, toiling for the love of it. Every home has one or more children in it; some of them are very, very small, yet they are the “goodcst’’ of the good, for they never cry or make a noise. Sometimes the “mamas quarrel, hut their differences are soon settled and their hearts hold no ani mosity. If you want to he looked upon with scorn, you call upon them, for they regard all outsidersfas in truders. ’Tis the playground of the tots. - — Church Calendar. The Gaffney Baptist Church—Rev. B. P. Robert son, Pastor; services every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7 :30 p. m.; Sunday School < .):t.’> a. m.; Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30; services at Factory second Sunday at 3 p. m. The Methodist Church—Rev. Mr. Boyd, Pastor; 1st Sabbath. Gaffney. 11a.m.; Beuloh, 3 p. in ; Gaffney, 7 :!10 p. m.; 2d Sabbath, Wilson’s Chapel, 11 a. m.; Gaffney, 7:30p. m; 3d Sabbath, (letlisemane, 11 a. m.; Factory 7:30p.m.: 4th Sabbath, Asbury, 11 a. m.; Gaffney, 7 :30 p. m. —— •— A Lesson Worth Learning. Mr. W. W. Hayes, a shoemaker by occupation had been a resident of Gaffney for several years. Last month he decided to move to Shelby, so he moved. He went away by wagon. Tuesday he moved hack. He was in such a hurry to get hack he would not wait on the wagon so he came on the train. We hope he will find it to his advantage to stay here now. Evi dently this is not the worst place in the world to live in when a person prefers it to Shelby. — - Election Aftermath. We should have mentioned the fact that Messrs. R. S. Lipscomb and W. H. Richardson were not the nominees of the convention, hut were being run without the consent of themselves, therefore the ballots cast for them were purely complimentary. The figures in flic returns for Mr Wheat were wrong. They shoult have been 27S instead of i.Vl. Mr. Wheat led 1 he t ieket. Fire at Henrietta Mills. Tuesday night a few minutes before S o’ clock a fire was discovered in the six-room dwelling occupied by the boss-spinner. R. P. Scruggs, of the Henrietta Mills. The fire made rapid progress and in a short while the building was destroyed. Mr. Scruggs saved all his household effects. The loss is entirely covered by insurance CARROLL & STACY, u.vrv iv inks-*. Transact a (It'iioral Hanking Business. Careful attention to collections all points. on Safety Deposit Boxes Inside. Fire Proof Vault for Rent. Your patronage Solicited. L. BAKER, ONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. The One Rseeptlon. A village cure at a wedding dinner held out his glass after each dish was served, with tho remark, “My children, we innst drink wine with this.” At the tenth repetition of tho formula, "Pardon, M. le Cure,” said one of the guests, “but tell me, with what would you not dri ik wine?” “With ater, my son.”—Argonaut. Where the Money Went. Smiler—I spent nearly $2,000 refitting my house, and then my wife complained there was nothing to show for it. Pickorly—Wasn’t there? Smiler—Well, old man, you ought to have seen our win© cellar.—Brooklyn Life. Transparent. Groom (en tour)—Everybody in tho dining room must have seen through us. Bride—It was our own fault. We made perfect 0i>ectacles of onrselvea.— Detroit Tribune. — Was the Story Denied? Bpatts— T , heard that Goslin lost hia head at Miss Hurley’s the other night. I “loobumper—There’i nothing in it.— ' a ruth. Birmingham, Ala., March 3.—Eugeno Cook, a newsboy, was run over mid crushed to death in front of the First National bank by an East Lake dummy in this city. The boy attempted to step from one err to another while the train was in motion, but he fell between the trucks and was killed in a moment. Wilmamsduro, Ky., March 8.—A riot has occurred at the Bird Eyo mines. About 100 union men went into a mine where non-union men were at work, armed, and compelled them to with draw. Tho sheriff and .i posse of deputies are there now. All is quiet, the leaders having fled to Tennessee. Eatgnton, fiu., March 9.—A negro named Whit Flournan, who has been in ail here, will be lucky if he escapes ynching. He burned th© barn and sta ble of Robert Young, and officers caught him in time to save his neck. The IKKiple in that section of the country are after him. Knoxville, March 10.—In tho Re publican convention at Morristown, in the first district, W. 0. Ando.son was nominated for congress on the one hun dred and forty-fourth ballot A. A. i-,lor, who was hot a The nomination is equivalent ttom * - i 1)ICAL/KK IIN Sash, x Blinds, x Doors, -and all kinds of- Building Materials. Plans and specifications for build ings made on short not ice. Copper I’lating. A new method of depositing copper is proposed by which, as is asserted, a perfectly smooth surface is ob tained and by which a very dense and finn depo. is assured—such a meth- od of electroplating the hulls of steel vessels, in fact, as will keep them from fouling; also doing away with the necessity for drydocking, scraping and repainting. The plan is to plate tho bottom of iron and steel vessels with u continuous sheet of copper that will ho so firmly at tached to the iron or steel that there will Ik* no danger of any tearing off by accidental grounding on bars, etc., and having no seams or joints to ad mit sea water and set up galvanic ac tion. Tim ordinary method of de positing copper electrically on iron or steel could not, it is stated, he em ployed in this way, as tho thick coat of copjHT required when thrown down from the ordinary sulphate so lution would be very rough, porous and otherwise unfitted.—Now York Sun. Teeth us Sentinels. “When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently him that is before tin < says the Hebrew prov erb, waniing a king’s guest to regu late his appetite by his host's temper. Boswell, Dr. Johnson's biographer, ,ives in his notebook a modern para phrase of the old Jewish proverb: “I said of a rich man who enter tained us luxuriously that, although ho was exceedingly ridiculous, we re strained ourselves from talking of him as wo might do, lest wo should lose his feasts. “ ‘Ho makes our teeth sentinels on our tongues,’ said L”—New York World. A Music Loving Cat. A young married couple up town adopted a pretty little Maltese kitten which strayed into tho house one evening, aud tho innocent little feline caused quite a sensation tho first night of his stay. Tho head of the small household whs awakened by a succes:; < T .-u; c-e, inharmonious sounds 1. * that evening, and after alarming Lis better half armed him- •el* and slowly made his way to Tho source of tho disturbance. Reaching tho parlor, ho suddenly struck a match and peered fearfully to find an intruder. Ho found one, hut ’twas only tho now four footed .inmate of tho homo walking up and flown tho piano keys, to which she had taken a strange fancy, and she performs tho same feat whenever sho i can get access to tho instrumeni Phiiadolohiu Call In His Own Place. McKune has readied the destina tion for which his whole career r political boss and a law-breaker < | cd the way. In the cell of a t< under sentence for six years 1 c li mit only where he belongs in conse quence of his treason and rebellion against the State last Novel! her, but he is also at the end of I he long road of political tricky, usurpation of power and trafliding in crime along which he has been traveling with a light heart for many u year. Nothing lias la-eii furl her from his I bought s during Ids protracted reigi in Gravesend titan apprehensive r. spooling his fu- tun. He was a pri lieal politician, witha profound i .ith in his own tal ent for out wit t in riendand foe and always coming out ahead. ‘'John Y. McKaiie never gets left ; he generally gets there before he is through witli it!” won* characteristic expressions which his admirers in Gravesend, wagging 1 heir heads and winking very hard, wen* want toappluud. What a hollow sound have these cynical vaunts now. when the uncrowned king is in his convict’s cell, from which neither bench nor bar lias been able to rescue him! He has “got there” al last, aud it is his own place, for which his whole or 1< r of life from his youth has pre-eminently fitted him. There have been many worse men in Gravesend than McKane, hut there lias not been one who has made a worse use of every quality of heart and mind with which he was endow ed.—Tribune. Could It He? Will you and T ttow like the rest Of stupid muiried folk*? Will love’s sweet savor lose Its rest? Is happiness a hoax? There are the major and his wife And uncle and Aunt Kate? Could we he like them? What a life! 1‘erliaps we'd better wait. Oh, Will, could ever you and I Grow stuffy, mean and old? And could my voice grow shrill and high? And could you swear and scold And throw out splieful little flings? Oh, dear, It's not too late! If w# could do such horrid things. Perhaps we’d better wait. It ?>reaks my heart. I tell you, Will, l^t's always he engaged, And then we’ll love each other till Our hearts are worn and aged. Fur married jieople don't r< fleet Much credit on their slate. They show us what we may expect L'ules*—unless We wait! —Harry Komaine In Ufa. Livery and Feed Stables. Headquarters fur drivers and Farm ers, who want to buy,sell or exchange. I make a Specialty of Feeding Stock. First-class turnouts at reasonable rates. Cattle and lings bought ami sold. J. G. Spencer, Proprietor. ;v. W< ><>!>, MAISICKK, Gaffney, - - S. C. Having just jnircliased a HERRING-H ALL-MARVIN BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE —wi 5 Automatic Bk —A N I >■ 'rime Lock and Safety Bo: I will be better prepared than ever to take care of ray customers funds. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate, rent. Countv claims bought. \ Exchange bought and sold J. E. WEBSTER, J\. t tornojv-A t - IviiWs Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the eourts. Col lee lions a specialty. R. & D. R. R SCHEDULE. WASHINGTON TO ATLANTA. Leave] f Arrive No. 11. No. 12 A. M. 1*. M. 11 01 . Washington. .. 2 55 5 50 ... Danville 8 10 1*. M. r. m. 12 INI ... I'hnriot te.... 12 50 ...(iastonia.,... .... 7 21 1 17 .. Itlaekshurg... 6 26 2 07 .GAFFNEYS... 6 07 5 00 . SparUmhiirg... .... 5 SI 1 52 .. < ireenville.... ....11 16 10 15 p. m . ....At lanto....ii i. m. !> 5n Condensed Schedule, R. & D. R. R. sot'Tll isoeNH. No. II.... 37. Vci tihu!< ... .2.07 p. m I l.o,') a m NOItTII ItorNI). No. 12 36, 38. I>.07 n m Flag 1.03 a in Vestibule 6.57 a m eilABI.KSTON, eol.t’M III A, SPARTANBURG AM) AKHVII.LK DIVISION. Alligators. When first hatched, alligators are about three to four inches long. In a day or two, however, they double their size, and don’t need any food to do it on^^her. They just seem to H ftouie naturalist •et of their liv- Rp.r bonanza. Leave] No. 13 7 15 a. m. 10 00 p. m r> 5o p. 6 44 p. 8 10 p. 11 20 p. Arrive] m. m ■ in. m. . < ’harleshm . .Columbia. .... Alsson .. .. .Carlisle.. [ A rri ve No. 14 45 p. m. J 00 p. in. 12 20 p. m. 11 20 p. in. Hpnrtumburg.. 10 00 p. m. .. Asheville... fi 50 a. in. [Leave