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4 THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 26, 1895. THE WEEKLY LEDGER. | tor. M ke hoin< s moiv attractive in the cou :ry, a d country will have added < : .ar;ns, and bare fields will ive place t"> lowing cattle, the fleecy si: pie and largo burns. rtIBLISHKI) KVKRY TIIUBBDAY BY The Limestone Printing and Publishing Co. j Incorporated. $1.00 per Year. R. O. SAMS, - - Editor. ED. H. DeCAMP, Manager and Local Editor. i'iie Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri- oute regular news letters must fur- Msh their name, not for publication, out for identification. Write short letters and to the point ;o insure publication; also endeavor I to got them to the office by Tuesday. ! \11 correspondence should bo ad dressed to Ed. H. TVCamp. Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will bo published at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at five cents a line each insertion. Single copies of the paper are five cents each. PERPLEXITIES IN CONGRESb. TIi'* President’s message on tin- subject of the Venezuelan boumlan and Kngland’s refusal to submit the locution of the true boundary line Ir - tween her South American possessi-) 1 , and Venezuela to arbitration, stun k a popular chord in the public heart Even in Congress the tidal wave of warlike feeling rose to the high water murk, and staid senators were found clapping their hands and otherwise applauding the patriotic sentiments of the President as expressed in hi- message. President Cleveland is clear- cut, concise and to the point in all of his messages, hut in this one he ex celled even himself. We presume the President ex hausted all legitimate methods of bringing England to terms, and that as the chief executive, representing the nation and zealous that her honor be preserved, he appealed to Congress. And Congress ns readily respond There is no doubt about this being the most serious trouble that has arisen to our government since the “late unpleasantness.’’ Englan I would be a formidable foe at any time; she is better equipped than any other nation on the “high seas.’’ and is always ready for war. We an not ready except in feeling, and feel ing is cheap. A sober second thought would make us less noisy, less de monstrative and more prudent. Our dignity as a nation needs to be upheld as much in preserving the nation’s credit as in maintaining the “Monroe doctrine.” If congress acts as a unit in upholding the latter when its life is threatened, let it with the same unanimity and promptness act in supporting the former. We will soon see if patriotism rises above party. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 1S9.>. to )OVl an nnis wake old yt a r’s be but iio idny s ind get her as order :: mi anew he rest .-iiiil of life. THE PRIZE AWARDED. The prize tuition offered by Tin:, Ledger in Hudson’s Business Col lege. Charlotte, X. C., for the largest number of subscribers to Dec. 2."), | 1895, has been awarded to Mr George j ! Turner, he having secured the largest i number. OUR BARE FIELDS. Rapid changes are being made in country and town. The towns ar enlarging and they are growing at tin expense (if the farms. Especially is this the case in neighborhoods wher* manufacturing industries have sprung up and by their success hid for the help that is needed. This help comes almost entirely from the farms. As long as men and women, boys ami girls find tin 1 compensation received in towns to be greater than that earned on the farm, their thoughts will he found following the satm channel on the surface of which many other thoughts have traveled, and their feet will be found treading the same paths that other feet have trod to the cities. Many bare fields all over the country give mute testi mony to failing husbandry. The question is often asked: “Does farm ing pay?” Of course it pays when common-sense, business-like meth s ods are applieu to it. And it pay- well. But it will not pay when these are disregarded. Our lands are fer tile. our farms are well watered; our climate is healthy; our seasons are nearly perfect. What more do we need? Perhaps a little more well divided energy; a little higher value j placed on time; more thriftiness, lest wastefulness. Would we improve our homes, beautify our surroundings, build comfortable school-houses, make bet ter and larger our churches, a change would soon come over us for the bet- CHRISTMAS. Uhrb.tmas is here again. What , season is so full of joy as this? A j gem ral holiday, a time for family re unions. it is emphatically the fam ily day of the year. Father, mother and all the children must be at home on Christmas day. And then Christ mas morning! The bright eyes peep ing into lengthy stockings, hung on ton : - and shovels and chair backs and bed posts. Well, the world never gro r •• M as long as children are here to pratll>\ and parents and friends nerry lives. Soon the year’s retreating foot-steps will no i.niml Old .Man. Yulia 1 ' i i.i.uzawa is tho Grand Old Man ( ! .Jr. vi. although ho is about 20 year y< n ; ! than the inemhorsof that more fainnus triumvirate—Gladstone, Bismarck and Li Hung Chang. More than any ( ‘ her man, says a correspond ent. ho Iff brought Japan to that posi tion which site now holds among the civiliz. d nations of the world. Thirty- five year.- ago he visited this country, and on hi. return home introduced the Well tor Dictionary to his countrymen, a book that is considered the foundation of danru’s intellcetual power. He also inlri dtieeii English into all tho schools. In d; -v. k n Japan was divided into two parties—one for and the other again t for gneis—lie advocated tho opi mng of his country to the now world, and his i k in behalf of western civili- zalion which he wrote from his studies andtraieis in America, had a cons id. eiani i .cct in restoring to the throne the dynasty of which the present em- pen r is a member. The Jiji Hiimpo (The Times newspa per) is his organ, and although he does net actively manage i. in.; sons are the cd' ... and its inliuenee is widespread, doubt le. ; because it is independent in eve:y s< n.-o. Perhaps his greatest bone- fa': on was tho founding of a school kno'..n as tho Kewgijinku university, which is so"!'iid only to the Imperial un v ot Tokyo in point of uu ubers ami leak of scholarship. Mr. Fukuzawu rctui s from the common people and is known as the “great commouei ” and w! r •hovs above all the character of the man is that he lias never allowed hit (bt' to be carried away by his suc cess and lias modestly refused to accept decora:ions, honors or even the peerage from tho mikado.—Detroit Free Press. RACE BY DEER, PANTHER AND ENGINE. An Epiaode of Railroad Travel In m Flor ida Swamp. C. C. Taylor, engineer of tho Pablo railroad, has pulled a throttle for 36 years, and during that time has had many novel experiences, but Sunday he had one that has no parallel in his life’s history. It was during tho run from Pablo to Jacksonville. About eight miles this side of Pablo is Cedar swamp, a tangled morass in whioh bear, wildcats, deer, and even panthers have often been kill ed. When about half way through tho swamp, an immense buck, wild eyed and lathered with sweat, made a clean leap of 25 feet on to tho track, within 60 feet of the engine. An instant later there was a crash of the underbrush, and out of it came an immense panther, running so fast that he seemed to bo level with the ground. He was so eager to catch the game ahead of him that he had no eye for tho train. Passengers in the five coaches did not know of the exciting race going on ahead of the cowcatcher, but they did notice that there was a series of quick and suc cessive jerks, and that tho train was spinning along through the swamp at a whizzing pace. It was at this time that Engineer Taylor resolved to take a hand in tho race himself. He pulled tho throt tle wide open. The deer was 100 yards ahead, and the panther was 30 yards behind the deer. The deer was barely holding his own. Something seemed to bo the mat ter with him, for he didn’t run as lie should. The deer kept the track for half a mile. Before he left the track, how ever, tho engine crawled close upon the panther. Ho heard the rumbling of the wheels and the trembling of tho track, and ho quickly got out of the way, hid ing himself in the underbrush by a se ries of successive and graceful leaps. Tho deer did not qnit the track until a quarter of a mile further on. He took to the open pine woods on the opposite side to that which the panther bad leap ed, and the last seen of him he was still running like chain lightning. Conductor Rogero went ahead to see what was up when the train was run ning so fast, but only got there in time to see the deer scudding through the woods. Ho told a few of the passengers, but none of them was fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of tho buck. Mr. Rogero says that deer have fre quently jumped on tho track on tho Pablo run, and before this have had a race with the train, but this is the first time he over heard of a panther getting mixed up in any of the incidents.— Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Uuion. TO SEND MESSAGES THROUGH SPACE. Tlio Wreck of the Jason on Capo Cod. A half mile away tho prow of the wreck Jason, with its white figurehead, rose clean out of tlie water, standing wbero she struck the night of the 5th of Doecmber, nearly two years ago. The iron • cbooner broke clean in two that ni 'l ' with tho first shock, and the waves rushed over her stern, which sank like lead into the- sand. Twenty-seven men 'vent down with it, and next morning 2(i dead bodies lay upon the shore in among the scattered bates of jute that had formed flu: cargo. But the twenty- seventh, reaching tho shore alive, man aged to clutch hold of one of the hales of the floating cargo and kept his foot ing. Ho was a young fellow, a prentice lad our of an English rectory, and ho was veryncarly exhausted with the struggle, but ho staggered on along the sand through the storm until ho met the squad of tho life saving crew coming to give help where there was only one men h i; to need it, and catching at the first man he cried out to know that he was safe. When they told him that he wa -. ho fell down in a faint, and was carried to the station like a log. The lei ter his father wrote in gratitude for their can of him is kept among the rec ords of the station, and it is one of tho few pleasant things to remember about the most terrible wreck that had ever lam tm tho dangerous Truro coast.— Letter in Boston Transcript. Notes About Drink. iiie amount of New’ England rum sent from the port of Boston to Africa has decreased in two years from 1,085,- 22(i gallons to 501,265. Well Defined. Poet—What did you think of my verses tm ‘‘The Bologua Sausage?” Friend—Excellent doggerel,sir. —Pick Mo Uu. - — -«•» « —• Deafness Cannot be Cured In local applications as they cannot !•':ieh t he diseased portion of the ear- Tiiere is only one way to cure Deaf, ness, and t lint is, by constitutional tvini lies. Deafness is caused by an inllaiiied condition of the mucous fi'iing of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it isentlely closed Deaf;-,. is tIi», result, and unless the inflammation cun be taken ou< and this tube restored to its normal eonditnm, hearing will 1h> destroyed for- ver; nine eases out of ten are ' aused by catarrh, which is nothing but an Intlamed condition of the nine ms surfaces. We will give One Hundred Da'lars for nny ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot he cured by Hull s Catarrh Cure. Send for cir culars, free. F. J. CHE S’EY A CO.. Toledo, O. £0“Isold by Druggi at. 76c. Experiments Which Prove Thmt This In vention Is Practicable. The continued success which has at tended experiments in sending tele graphic messages through space prom ises to lead to remarkable developments. An English electrician says it is diffi cult to forecast the future of this new telegraphy. So far signaling has been carried on by this means in one direc tion only, but, there is no reason why messages should not be duplicated, or even quadrupled. Further details arc now at hand of the establishment of communication between the- island of Mull and the mainland near Oban a few week ago, when the connecting cable broke down. It will be remembered that an insulated wire was laid along the shore of the island, and messages through it were sent to tho mainland, across two miles of intervening space. The official report states: “An ordi nary Morse circuit could not have given better results. The chief difficulty was the incessant .screaming of the wild fowl.” W. H. Preece, in commenting on tho achievements, finds a very differ ent explanation of this supposed “screaming of the wild fowl. ” He says that strange, wierd and mysterious sounds are frequently heard on long lines of telegraph in tho calm stillness of the night, but whether they are due to terrestrial or to cosmic causes re mains to be discovered. Tho sun’s pho tosphere, when disturbed by spots, may be subject to violent electrical storms, and the vast jets of incandescent hydro gen that flame up with terrible velocity may excite electrical oscillations through ethereal space of :;r.eh a frequency as to influence our terrestrial circuits. It may thus become possible for ns to hear on earth tho electric storms of the sun. —Buffalo Express. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Sermou Topic* of Today. It will not do for brethren of the pul pit to be so afraid of a sensation that they permit their hearers to doze off in to a comfortable sleep. The preacher is wisest who knows how to keep from go ing too far, but at the sumo time who knows how to get out of the ruts. A late writer in The Homiletic Review in sists that taking topics from tho news of tho day was not an apostolic practice. And yet Paul knew how to make tho gladiator, tho wrestler, tho boxer and the runner in athletic games texts for his spiritual exhortation. It is, how ever, in the training of the twelve by tho great Master that wo find how each event of current history was made to convey a heavenly lecson. Husbandman and fisherman, children playing in the market place and housewives hunting for the lost piece of the wedding dowry, all were mirrored in his never to be for gotten sermons. When the tewer of Si- loain fell, he noted it in his discourse. When Herod went to Rome “to receive a kingdom,” he preached upon that event and its results. The sermonizing that illustrates all its lessons by refer ence to Greece and Romo, not to say Egypt and Assyria, will not be very sensational, neither will it be produc tive of great good. Men are more inter ested in today than in yesterday.—Chi cago Interior. What Antiveuine May Do. Professor Fraser of Edinburgh has at tacked the problem of finding an anti dote for snake bite, and there is every reason to hope that his labors will not be for naught. Starting with the com monly accepted theory, which he finds to be true, that a snake is itself immune to snake poison, he argues that this im munity must be duo to the absorption in tho blood of the poisonous matter. Ho next procured some venom, chiefly cobra poison, and ascertained by direct experiment the minimum lethai dose to a small auimaL The dose was gradual ly increased without any iucouveuieuce to the animal Indeed it grew fat under the treatment until it could receive by subcutaueons injection enough poison to kill 50 creatures its size. The next step showed that the blood serum from animals thas treated was able, in varying conditions of adminis tration, perfectly to prevent lethal doses of tho venom of the most poisonous ser pents from producing death in nonpro tected animals. The new remedy is named antiveuine, and its discovery may be regarded as one of the most im portant of the centpry. — Chambers’ Journal Whitewashed the Coals. According to a London paper, the ef forts of the railroad employees charged with a recent transportation of the Prin cess of Wales and her daughters on u short trip went to laughable lengths to insure a spick and span appearance for their train. The coals in the tender were whitewashed, the top layer only, and the fireman drew his supply from a trap door at the bottom, preserving the snowy appearance unbroken. It is of course too late to suggest that this was not high art. It would have beeu in better taste to have polished each piece separately, after carefully washing off all superflu ous dust. A high degree of natural per fection is preferable always to any ve neer. But coal stokers probably do not road Ruskin, *o their transgression of the canons of taste was quite pardon able. Coat of Living In Paris. An able statistician has been esti mating the cost of living in Paris at tho present time and has compared it with that of 40 years ago. Ho shows that in the fifties an average middle class fam ily could do with a budget of 10,000f, or £400, annually. That did not mean luxury, but it was sufficient for comfort and required uo economical engineering for the purpose of making both ends meet. Nowadays the case is different, and an official with a wife and three children dependent on 10,000f a year has to work miracles of saving in order to avoid getting into debt. Accordingly in less than half a century the condi tions of life in Paris have beeu com pletely modified. It is no exaggeration, in fact, to say that prices have doubled, and with them has increased tho desire for a more luxurious mode of living than that led by the average Parisian of the fifties. The statistician has revealed nothing new, but his figures serve to emphasize the fact that the French cap ital is tho most expensive place of resi dence in Europe.—Loudon Telegraph. Eyelett* Fifth From a Well. Workmen engaged in putting down an eight inch artesian well on the ranch of Bufford& Williams,near OraGranda, San Juan valley, southern Colorado, had au odd experience a few days since. The well had been drilled to tho depth of 188 feet when all of a sudden the tools appeared to penetrate a cavern filled with water under high pressure. Drills, rods, ropes and prJlcys were thrown high in the air auu scattered in all di rections by the torrent of water spouted from the opening. Tlie excitement vrn» intense for some minutes, but when quiet was again restored it was found that tho ground was literally covered with small eyeless fish, white lizards and clear colored bugs tbat had been forced from 1 heir homes in the pent up reservoir beneath. On careful examina tion it was found that the water had a temperature of 88 degrees and was strongly impregnate!} with medicinal salts.—St. Louis Republic. Turkey’* Subjects and England. Probably Turkish rule in Armenia is not much worse thau in Macedonia, and if the Armenians are to be pitied so are the Macedonians, for the Turk is a blighting curse to every subject race within his dominions. If we are sincere in our fervor for good government in Turkey, we must renounce the idea of sacrificing these races to our political aim of niaintuiningTurkey as a bulwark against Russia. This was tho doctrine of Sir. Gladstone, and roundly has he been abused for it. The contrary doc trine 1ms been that of Lord Salisbury and .Lord Rosebery. Mr. Gladstone rec ognized the paramount obligation of conscience. Lord Rosebery, Lord Salis bury and many of their predecessors subordinated conscience to what they regarded us 1 he exigencies of policy.— London Truth. Dug Up a Jar Containing Old Coin. Thomas Moore, Jr., and two other workmen, while excavating for pipe conmetiunsut Market square, in Ches ter, Pa., on Thursday morning unearth ed a small preserving jar, containing gold and silver Spanish coin, estimated to be worth at least $150. Some of the coin boro the date of 1800, and other pieces a later date. An old market house, erected in the last century, stood on the site where themouey was found, and it was torn down in 1857. It is thought tho money was buried by oue of the marketmen.—Philadelphia Ledger. HonaM at Wood Pnlp. You can build n house out of sheets of wood pulp now if you incorporate sheet wire gauze in the material It cun be made waterproof, fireproof, ooldproof and stronger than plunking. Moreover, the material cun be made to represent almost any other material and can be molded into almost any shape. Great is wood pulp.—Paper Mill. Tho Fool QoMtlon In tho Wart. The race between corn and coal for the honor of being the cheaper material for fuel is interesting this year.—Chica go Tribune. Absolutely FRENCH NERVOUSNESS. locreaM of m Disease Known aa Neura* thenio Anxiety. French doctors say that the increase )f the neurasthenic condition threatens to become the great scourge of society, and they are bound to admit that some of tho phenomena arising from it are such as science can throw but little light upon. Moreover, it is often impossible to say \v hero mere nervous disorder ends and downright lunacy begins. The case of Mile. Amelot, who shot the Abbe de Broglie, is oue in point. She has been pronounced insane by a committee of medical men, but had she not commit ted a criminal act they could not possi bly have come to any such conclusion from her conversation and general con dnet. A doctor has made the consoline statement that we brush shoulders will such people almost every hour, but that so long as they refrain from doing mis chief their state of mind cannot bo char acterized as dementia. There is a later case, respecting whirl tho Parisian mind is still much exercis ed. It is that of tho youth of 20 win indulged a propensity for stabbing young women with a penknife as tin \ passed him in the street. In doing so he used stmio prudence and reflection, foi he stabb •(! them all in the same place- one where such an injury was nut like ly to be dangerous. After his arrest he declared that he could not account for tho impulse under which he hud acted Dr. Gillrs de la Tonrette, who is taking the position occupied by tho lato Dr Charcot, plates this young man in the Jack the Ripper category of modern maniacs—those whoso ruling propensity is to do mischief to women. He declares that such desequifibres are by uo means rare, hut that in a general way it is im possible to treat them as maniacs. They know quite well that they are evil do ers, for when arrested they invariably deny with much energy tho charge brought against them until tho evidence of their guilt becomes too strong. Dr Gillos do la Tourette maintains that they should be dealt with as criminals, for there is nothing like the dread of punishment to rescue them from the “fascination of their vice. ” There is some conflict cf ideas hero, for if such people are truly maniacs they ought not to bo punished to cure them of tho “vice,” but in their case it is so diffi cult to distinguish madness from had ness that to spend compassion on them would he probably to waste it. The fact to be faced is that, whether from causes of tho physical or the mor al order, or of both, the bizarreries of tho In:man mind are becoming more perplexing every day in France and they are beginning to interfere very se- rionsly with the normal course of fife. Wo hear of dragoons who aro seized with an unaccountable terror when they mount a horse, so that they fall from sheer panic; of consulting doctors—yes. oven doctors—who are ready to tear the hair from their heads when tho patient has gone for fear that they have made sumo terrible blunder in tho prescrip tion ; of railway employees who are trou bled in a similar manner by an appall ing dread of having done something wrong; of preachers who dare not put their foot on tho first step leading to the pulpit; of persons who aro terror stricken while crossing a bridge, al though they may have perfect command over their will in all other respects, and of nervous couditious still more distressing. Such a state is described us one of “neurasthenic anxiety,” and ex cessive concentration of tho mind on certain points is generally supposed to bo tho cause of it. But, whatever may be tho explanation, the nerves of mod ern society appear to be getting serious ly cut of repair.—Paris Cor. St. James Gazette. Th« Yaliitt of Lord NclKon’s Regalia. Tho government of England paid no less than £2,500 to Lord Bridport for tho medals and orders worn by Lord Nelson on the fatal morning of Trafal gar. Tho medals and orders that have thus become the property of tho nation aro: Tho service gold medal of the victory of St. Vincent. Tho service gold medal of tho victory of the N i le. Tho jewel of the Order of the Bath. The jewel of the Sardinian Order of San Joachim. Tho grand cross of the Order of San Joachim. The jewel of the Neapolitan Order of San Ferdiuando. The grand cross of the Order of San Ferdiuando. The gold star of the Turkish Order of tho Crescent. Two badges of the Turkish Order of the Crescent. And las; ly the gold medal struck to commemorate the victory of Trafalgar, which was presented to Nelson’s family after that hero’s death.—Notes and Queries. When most needed it is not unusual for your family physician to be away from home. Such was the experience of Mr. J. Y. Schenck, editor of tie* Caddo. I ml. Ter., Banner, when his little girl, two years of age was threat ened with a severe attack of croup. He says: “My wife insisted that I go for t he doctor, but ns our family physician was out of town I pur chased a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, which relieved her immediately. I will not he without it in the future.” 25 and 50 cent bottlea for aala by W. B. DuPre. Minlctci- Dapoy <le Lome In Tears. I here w;is a remarkable scone in t-hfil state deq ar; ■ ! -g ago. It was J that of the ia liter from Spain, tl proud Scnoi Dupviv do, Lome, in tet in the pn -«•. i . lie ivrctaryof stat Mr. do J. o v, , ut hither by h| government ai • gua had ma - no ion with a defl- v. ’I hat object was to^ ity - f Spain’s paying :a ok _ ■ vt Mr. de Li' iie, withj i; tact, his Ch;ca-i sue< - in manage-1 v t, would bo abl€ , if in;t to defeat outright,^ of such a it; niio object in avert the :a the famom „\ govcriii,. in I bis art ami t.ddn go OXpcne ’ meat of d . to *1)0.'11 again.;t t . seen in the is a bulldoi payment ; t;, ■ cel eJ • m. But ho ran f t >• f t ugest men ever. < ;• : i inont. Mr. Olni. a P nueity, a fighter when’ his blood is up. All of Mr. d:) Lome's art was exer-i cised in vain. IL .e ■ ; were his appeals] for lime. Mr. (Jinoy told him in lanA guago quite unmistakable, though very! polite, that the claini had to he paid. Tho dn : na ive which the minis ter and bis government had to face was , thoappenran ' of Amrriean ships of war in Ha «•;•.:!.i bur- , with their command ers under orders to seize tho custom] house after t o of a certain pork of time. Tito haughty Spaniards had j nothing to do l et yield, and thcydidl this rather u ly n alizt Mini -ti r When he final-, ,t was inevitablejl I roko down. tears cm i - and ho cxclaimecl to .See.. y: “This will mini me, Mr. ; I am beaten in the] prim: ip:: 1 1 r which I was sent hero, i: v. . ,.o mo the most unpop j ' ular mini My career is at an end.”— Wellman in Chicago Timcs-Hcrald. ti Tim vr I .shlisht. Tho new i.:. d ut lately added tol tho anpiiaii photography is a m»i chine made of ) : - and nickel, which! stands aboa d: foi l high; on the top(j of tho a] i I an endless chain, to* which a; e; . d 12 wooden cups COfi-j taiuing l;' !!:: m to 20 grains of “Lux-^ ow” pi.we . .:d protruding from ont sid' 1 of lii . mull caps are little piece of iron v. n . .. i: half way down tbel stand are t . . U points, similar tol tho curb us in an 11< ino light, and at tached to tho stand are two lines of rubber pipe, one of which is connected' with thoeamera. Li the center of the pipe is a rubl r ball, like that of an atomizer, a: . v hen the person wbc photograph is to bo obtained has 1 focused, the br.:b is pressed with the hand, causing tie* sinister on the camera to be is lea.- il, and at tho same time making an electrical connection whioh lights a fuse in ’he little wooden box at the top and i ; the powder to ignite, thns making * xposure. Themacldj is said to w>irk v< y quickly, anf boon pi. ii' i n o d the most woil&erfnl device w i 1 : ought forward in the pho tographic ait.—.ae\v York Snn. A Cnrcma Hail road Contract. The < k' . Y>’( .. m railroad of Eng land lues j 1 to pay §500,000 to free it-elf lu.m the obligation to stop every train a: tsv, indon station for ten minutes. In 18-il, before the road had caelu (1 Bri. tol, it made an agreement for 99 years with a firm of builders to. hold every train carrying passengers,' “not being sent express or for special purposes, for a reasonable period of about ten minutes,” at Swindon, in consideration of tho erection of suitable refreshment rooms, for which a rent of a penny a y< ar was to ho paid. The rail road soon fo .'ud out tho inconvenience^ of the arrangement and tried it. Tho courts in lb-id and in 1872 that “express” did not mean in the con tract what i now meant by an express train, but t . . price asked for the annul ment of the < ncion was always more than tho e ipany was willing to pay. After a fight of over 50 years it has been driven by tho competition of other roads to buy out its opponents, and the ten minute stop of fast expresses at Swindon is now a thing of the past.— New Haven Journal and Courier. ,Tbu Greatest Canal. Tho lar gci,t canal in tho world is con- teniplatudf Ly tho Russians. This is to bo a continuous waterway of 1,000 miles, connecting tho Baltic with the Black sea' and the cost would only be a little item of £20,000,000. It would start from the port of Riga, in thw Bal tic, and ijse the rivers Dwinu, Beresina and Dull per on its route, entering the Black sc; at tho Ciimeuu port of Cher- sju. It is a project by which a mer chant el ip going at only six knots an hour woi Id do tho whole journey in a week, at/a tremendous saving of time at 1 fuel 1 In a flat country like Russia there sr( ms no real difficulty in the en terprise, except (ho eternal want of ru ths, frutui which the government suf fers. j v Th<fc Discovery Saved His Life. Mr. i < i.iiilouotte, Druggist, Boifveripvillc. ill., says; “To Dr. King’s!New d .•wvtvi I owe my life. Was (Ski is v ;ih I .a Grippe and trie I all tlm phy hm.wis lo” miles about, hut otf no avail ;.i : ' : 's given up and told If coil I,! is i live. Having Dp. Kingjrt New >'■ >>u in tnv store I senl Jt>r a I >11 'e * Levan it* uj} ( . and Trow (lie first .bi-e began to get belt Ur, and a'ter iwing three bottles Wiisltlp awl nl.mit v ain. It is worth its w'ei'.rh; i : ild. We won’t keep stoije nr hoi - ■ wit Lout it.” Get a freJ trial bottles at W. ii. DuPro’i Dnjig Store,