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4 THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JANUARY 9, 1896. THE WEEKLY LEDGER. PUBLISHKl) KVIIKY TIH’KKDAY (U fhe Limestone Printinq nr>d Publishing: Co. Incorporated. $1.00 per Year. R. O. SAMS, Editor. ED. H. DeCAMP, Manager and Local Editor. Thk Lkpoek is not f " , the views of corresixindonts. CorrespondentH who do not contri bate regular news letters must fur- -'ish their name, not. for puldieutiou, but for identifieation. Write short letters and to the point co insure publication ; also endeavor to get them to the office hy Tuesday. \11 correspondence should he ad- Iressed to Ed. H. DeCamn, Manager. Obituaries will be published at five cents a line. Cards of thanks will he published at one cent a word. Reading notices will be published at five cents a lino each insertion. Single copies of the paper arc five cents each. THURSDAY, JANUARY 9. 189(5. GERMANY AND ENGLAND. Emperor William must be active even though it makes the blood o<‘ others boil. His recent congratula tions to President Kruger of tin South African Republic over the di<- comfiture of the invaders of the II public is received in England as n insult to the nation. Oerma: y i hearty in her support so sponta- eously given to her Emperor, wir' England receives tin- rebuke in a.iv- thing but a cheerful spirit. The reprimand was a timely om even if it was a severe one. En_ land's foreign policy has continuous 1 , been one of aggression and encroach ment. She takes hold never to ho go, unless as a last resort. It is In- lieved that she will he made to fee! and feel keenly, that her will is n law. Whether Dr. Jameson, in In recent raid into the Transvaal, en tered with or without authority wii: soon be known. Had he been su. cessful, perhaps England would hav. been disposed to uphold him. E land is waking up to the realijat!<• that she cannot d > just as she plea- . With Germany on one side and t United States on the other she wi . have enough to engage her atte - tion. UTAH. At last Utah is a state. She ha- come up to the requirements, and tin President’s proclamation puts th seal to her authority. She will now be represented in Congress. The* have two Senators and Representa tives in proportion to her population Perhaps not as warm a weleom has been given her as is usual m such occasions. This is easily ac counted for. A shade of suspieim attaches to all her acts on accoun of her peculur history. This wi 1 continue for generations. When tie name Utah is mentioned, the worl immediately seizes upon that fcatm-t of their belief and practice that Iki- s< pa rated them from all other pi<>. pie and made their name a by-Aon: and a reproach. But in more respects than om Utah is to be praised. She has made the wilderness to blossom and th« barren soil to \ield an abundant har vest. Flourishing towns have sprung up within her borders and prosper ity reigns where was desolation atm gloom. She has forced reluctant nature to open her hand to supply her wants. And in this she has set us an example that we would do well to follow. Utah will not hurt us. BOND ISSUE. The President bus solved the ques tion of relieving the treu>ury. I this he has acted with his accustomc prudence and decision. As Congress was in session, to it he went for re lief. He asked for u fish. Coimr *.- gave him a stone. It was then tiim for him to act, and he acted prompt ly. Of course his step will raise a howl among the silver men, who felt that this was their opportunity aim they must use it to their own advuut age. They tried to take the tide at its flood, but the ebb come sooner than they thought. Cleveland did the unexpected. The treasury will bo filled, but not with silver. The credit of the government will he maintained, but not by u divided Congress. Too many issues are involved on financial matters in the present Con gress for either one to be ‘ down at the bidding" of any one party. For tunately the President is a man who has his own opinions and who dares maintain them iu the face of violent opposition. WATERWAYS AS HIGHWAYS. Coluf.bia. < • !h > Congnree, is try ing to open i >m nunication with the see. X i life In mine to her since i she lias entered with such pride and spi-t into inatiuf.iCtiiring enterprises. Now she wishes an outlet other than t hat oTered by her superior railroad lucilit i Waterway s are cheap ways; and ti . is what Columbia wishes now l' t she has embarked more largely u commercial enterprises. fie. r_.etown i.-, willing to help !n*r, amis* is Charleston. Georgetown is nr, hu* Charleston has the better ■ .. i.. ^Lial would gladly take Colum bia in’o^Tc^ntS^^ Uur mugniH- cei.t rivers ought to L? us than simply as channels for tile' water to find its way back to the sea. Canals can readily be dug through the alluvial soil that fringes our coast, and thus a safe and easy way be »petud up for freight and travel. If Charleston wishes this way opened, she must renew her youth. S5he can, if she only will. ^• • .,# ^• r-r>ir• ^ai r-r» * *• - — tmt i • I I a i % W ••• • medical Mou View With Alarm the In- < rcase of Alcohol Consumption. We have been accustomed to regard Franco as the very home of temperance and sobriety. Travelers tell you that yon may walk the streets of Paris— where everybody drinks wine—without seeing a drunken man or woman for days But it seems now that this is only upon the surface. The increase in France of s< me form of alcoholic drinks ia something enormous. From 1885 to 1892 the ar.'onutof absinft and similar ale. belie drinks coining under the ob- rervaliou ol the authorities of Paris has more tla.u doubled. The total consumption in the city is about y,(;:j(),()()0 gallons yearly. Those iv’ures, bo it noticed, refer only to those ‘‘b iter;;” that are distilled with essen tial oils, ami they are far more power ful in producing disease and insanity titan the ordinary form of alcoholic stimulation. And, while the increase of tin consumption of ordinary alcoholic liquors proceeds more slowly, yet it amounts to about 15 gaboas yearly for each adult. These figures are frightening both physicians and statesmen. The former urge upon the people the necessity of some stringent legislation that shall give tlio sta e a more satisfactory regu lation of th i liquor traffic. They sug gest as :i partial remedy the reduction in tlio number of liquor shops; the low ering of the tax on beer and cider; the moderate taxing of wine; an increase a the tax on spirituous liquors, and the total prohibition of absinthe. This is the judgment, not of a fanatic, bo it re membered, but of practical medical men, who probably do not urge the moral side of tlio temperance question at all.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. AgPH of French Actremca. An ungailnnt writer in the French press, M. Yve-Plessis, has been criticis ing tlio accounts given of tlio ages of actresses and operatic singers iu a little work called “Nos Artistes.” In all cases the dates given have been fur nished by the ladies themselves. M. Yvo-Plessis has gone to t lie records of the Conservatoire for his facts. At the time young people go to study there, they have no motive for concealing their ages, and there the records remain. TJio conclusion one arrives at is that there is hardly one actress iu Paris who can bo trusted to bo quite accurate re specting her age. Some take otf only ono year, like Mile. Reiehembcrg, the little “doyenne'’of the Theatre FYau- caise, who was born in 1858, not, as stated, iu 1854. Mine. Bcmacrt of the Gaitc, however, appears to have taken ofi - six years. M. Yve-Plcssis is not al together without mercy. Ladies who have allowed themselves a still wider margin he purposely omits from his list. It is noteworthy that the weakness of wishing to bo thought younger than one’s age is not absolutely confined to the Indies, us the sumo records show on reference to the real ages of one or two popular actors.—London News. Folding Furniture. Hero is a remarkable scheme, being the entire furniture of a bedroom, so built that it cnufco folded into one small package weighing 450 pounds. It can be set up by any one in a few minutes. It contains no loose screws or intricate parts which would puzzle one to ar range. This suit consists of a 8 foot 9 inch w'nrdrobe, 8 foot 0 inch dressing chest, 3 foot 4 inch wushstaud, two cane scat chairs, 2 foot 9 inch ottoman bed stead on casters, bedding complete, chamber service and mosquito curtains if required. The whole of this extraor dinary suit, forming tho entire furni ture of a comfortable bedroom, folds in to itself, forming one package 0 feet by 2 feet 0 inches, by 2 feet 1 inch, weight about 450 pounds. No packing case Is required. The scheme is the work of an English manufacturer, and for that large class of people who are on tho constant move, like gypsies, summer tourists or flat dwellers, the idea is food for reflection. —Upholsterer. Not a few who road what Mr. Rob ert RowIh, of Hollands, Va., has to say below, will remember their own experience under like eircumstunces: “Foist winter 1 hud la grippe whieh left me in a low state of health. I tried numerous remedies, none of "'Mob did me any good, until I whI> indueed to try a bottle of (dm in tier- hiin’s Gough Ren ed) . The first bot- th in* it mi Mr relieved me that I was on ihh'd to attend to my work, and (be soeond bottle effected aeure.” For sale at 2,> utui fiO cents a bottle W. B. DuPre. THOUGHT THE KAICUR STUPID. A Coachman Tol<1 Kim Re Woo’d tfavar Set a River Afire. An amusing', ttlo story about tho pres ent emperor of Germany, William II, and a Vienna coachman was narrated at a banquet lately given at Vienna by sonic diplomatists, the narrator being himself a well known and prominent member of the corps diplomatic. In tho year 1887 the pro.ant Emperor William II of Germany, then Prince W illiam of Prussia, came to Vienna, visiting Iiis particular friend and chum, the late Crown Prince Rudolf of Aus tria. Joined by tlio Prince of Wales, who was at that time ul. o a frequent visitor to the Vienna court, the three princes took a fancy to mingle with the commons of the Vienna population. Dressed in ordinary clothes, they visited places which are not in the leajjLjeggfifr* eu JbhSfiitable for pmi.oelr-g'tiests. One da/tl'^fntered a hotel, but in stead of going into the dining room they walked into the “schwemme,” a place which answers in some degree to tho barroom of an American hotel; in this room coachmen and the servants of the hotel guests take their meals. The three princes took scats at nn empty table, and listened, highly amused, to a fierce debate about politics between several stout members of that class of fashionable Vienna coachmen who are known all over Europe as “fescho Wiener fiaker. ” The distinc tion of those charioteers is a kind of good nutured boldness and droll famil iarity toward their customers as well as to perfect strangers. After listening awhile Prince William put in a word, and soon was draw n into the excited discussion. Suddenly a stout, red faced coachman walked up to the table where tho three princes were scat ed, and, tapping Prince Willi ;m gently on tlio shoulder, said, “Now, if you should ever have anything to say 'n politics, you wouldn’t set a river on fire, I’m sure!” As every public coachman in Vienna wears a n unber. this coachman was— upon a special request of Prince William —easily n entilied. The prince sent him a hamk-cn 3 scarf pin with his initials as thanks f< the nmuicmeut be had fur- nished, m 1 thus the man learned in amazement whose political abilities they were that he had so belittled.— Vienna Letter iu Now York Prcis. IN PLAGUE TIMES. Bow London nantUr-.I <’•-! AH I>cTonrInx Sickness la tho S. v< : !'i Century. During tho pi a M08 Francis i Bering, “Doctor !•: and Fol- i low of the Colh M'tbiHs in ' London * « * pub;., i ; in Rules and Directions for the •• < vi n;ion of the | spreading of that cont; y.'ous and all de- ; vonriug Sickness.” These ho it printed, “somewhat iularpcd,” iu tiio next plague season of 1625, “to tho view and vse, and I hopo good of my Cittizeus and Countrimcn. ’ ’ Among his rules arc: “Concourse of people to Stage playes, wakes or feasts and May pole danuciugs are to be prohibited by publique Author ity, whereby, as God is dishonored, tho bodies of men and women—by surfet- tiug, drunkeiiues and other riots and excesses—disposed to infection, and the contagion dangerously scattered both in Citio and Couutrio. “Let not tho earkasses of horses, dogs, cats, etc., lye rotting and poisoning tho airo (as they have done) in More and Fiusburie fields, and elsewhere round about the Citie. “Tho burying of infected bodies iu churches, churchyards and, namely, iu PaulcH Churchyard, where the chiefo Magistrates of the Citio and many other Citizens mcete weekly to hear Sermons, must needs be not onoly iucouueuieut, but verie dangerous for spreading tlio contagion, and poisoning tho whole Citie. “ Some folk ate breakfast then, others did not: “For breakfast you may vse a good draught of wormowood beero or ale, and a few morsels of bread and bn'ter, with tho ieuuos of sago, or else a tosto with sweet snlade oyle, tw’o or three drops of rose vinegar and a little sugar. They that lutno cold stomackes may drinkc a draught of wormewood wine or malmsey, instead of ale or beorc. But take heed (as yon lone your life) of extreme hot waters, as aqua vita', Rosa solis or other compound w’aters of like nature, which Empcricks prepare and set out with value and boasting words * * * they were * * * devised to kill, not cure men. “—Notes and Queries. A Remarkable Tree. There is a wayward white oak tree near Laporfe, lud., that may well puz zle naturalists with the vagaries of its growth. The tree is 9 feet in circumfer ence at tho base, and there are no brunches of any size below 15 fret from the ground. There the great bole di vides into a number of limbs. Two, leaving tho trunk about 20 inches apart, grow west, their lines diverging for some 6 feet, and thru each rending toward tho other. Twelve feet from the body of the tree they miiro again, making a per fect oval, and out of this grow two smaller branches. As if not satisfied with that expressed disregard for tho laws of nature, this |ld tree bus per formed another feat. Six feet from its base grows another white oak, less than half its size, and no sooner does the smaller tree arrive at the charmed cir- oMs of those branching limbs than one of them grows right into it, and is ab sorbed. The second tree la very much larger 20 feet from the ground than at its base. Noah’s Business, While teaching a class of girls tn a school recently, tho master asked the following question: “What was Noah supposed to be do ing when the animals were going into tho urk?“ | Lo received several mtHwers. At last a little girl put up her hand. “Well,“be said, “what do yon say?” I “Taking the tiukeUt sir. “—Buffalo Times. j Export Cmm Jampots. “I haven’t much hair on my head," said Superintendent Mansfield of tho Indianapolis and Vincennes, “but what little I have was up in the air like por- cupino quills this afternoon. Several of us were coming down the Union tracks as No. 20, the fast tr.rin on ihe Indianap olis division. was puJliug out. “At Delaware street three tramps wore standing. By the time the train reached that point it was going at a lively rate. Each of tho tr imps selected a coach, and as the train rushed by caught tho iron rod that extends under the side of the car and swung boueutb the train in front of tho trucks. L.ke acrobats, they turned over tho red and rested their feet on the brako beams, and as the train rolled on settled down for a ride. A single mistake, a slip of Jthc baud or the failure to place their fec‘t on tue*brake tcUln, rneuitl fer-HiefiT a horrible death. I was so frightened at their recklessness that I fairly lost my breath. Experienced railroad man that I am, I would not have attempted such a feat for $1,000,000.” “That was a common trick,” said Frank Lewis, formerly with the Union Pacific Railway company. “I have had a good deal of experience with tramps, and there are few’of them but risk their lives daily on the cars. Tho old time tramps used to walk over tiro country. Up to date tramps ride. I have taken them out from beneath the pilot of tho engine. 1 have hauled them from tho brako beams of passenger cars, and a favorite hiding place lor them is at tho top of tluL.ve.stibulo. Oa tup of (ho cars is a pleasant place during the summer, but iu winter they try to make them selves us comfortable as possible. It is seldom that you bear of a tramp being killed by the cars unless in a wreck. To become an expert car juniper is one of tlio first reqn 'tcs of a tramp of tho first class.”—Indianapolis Nows. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Flro mid Air. Tho intimate relation between fire and air was early recognized, seeing that t'Xpericneo soon that air was necessary for fire. The esper ment of burning a candle iu a closed vessel, now so familiar to every schoolboy, is a very old one, and tho inflnenco of a blast of air on a furnace had beiu prob ably noticed from a very remote period, By some it was affirmed to bo tlio food of fire, while by others tho same belief wasembodied in the phtai.e, “Air nour ishes fire.” Again it was long ago ob served that inter, a suMtaUce well known to tho chemical philosophers of tho past, could produce intense ignition. It was hcnco infcircd that, since niter possessed this property, it necessarily followed that the two substances resem bled eir.-h other iu composition Accord ing to Robert Boyle, tho air contained “volatileniter,” while Lord Bacon hold that air contained u “volatile, crude and windy spirit,” and thunder and lightning wero supposed to bo duo to the presence of iniuuto particles of this niter diffused through the air. The important bearing of such obser vations is duo to tho Met that oxygen gas, which is ono of the chief constitu ents of air and tho one to which it owes its power of supporting combustion, al so forms the largest elementary constit uent of niter and is likewise tho source of tho power possessed by that body of supporting combustion. The action of heat on metals in caus ing them to lose their metallic luster had also not (scaped notice, and Cardan, a philosopher who lived duraig tho six teenth century, in noticing the increase in weight that lead undergoes when heated in air, attributed it to the gun iu tho air which feeds flame and winch re kindles a body presenting an ignited point—Hcotiish Review. The Bear Hoy. A newspaper man sat in tho study of the pastor of u swell Fitih avenue church one fcnuday night await mg the appeal a nee of the clergyman. The par son’s 10-year old sou strolled in. Ho was u very smart young gentleman in deed. His collar and cravat wero a tri fle horsy. His left baud was worn iu his trousers packet iu approved fashion. Tlieie was u suggestion of blase interest on li n face as ho scanned the visitor. “Rcpotab, I believe?” he said at length. • ‘ Yea, “ said tlio newspaper man meek ly- “Fawtbaw rarely sees repotahs on a Sunday. Y’ouah business will) him is— aw—ragout, I presume.” “Very,” answered tho newspaper man. Then there was nnothor silence, the gaze of tlio youngster making tho v'nil- or feel someliov.* that reporters are a very inferior lot indeed. “You were at tho hor.-:o show?” ven tured tlio visitor. “Yes,” admitted tho lud, with a sus picion of nyav u. “Foualior five times. Got awfully tired of it, though.” “And,’’said the newspaper mao affa bly, “I suppose you were interested iu the ponies?” “I mu not utui] interested iu ponies,” ho replied, mid his tone was u distinct chock tofurilnr familiarity. ”'iho huu- tuiis were u pretty decent lot, as bun- tabs go. And the fonr-iu-bauds showed fairly. But—aw—horses are but homes of tali all, mid one sics too many of them, you know. Good evening. ” And a cm-hed newspaper mail was sitting alono.—New York Journal. Absolutely pure One Peddler Silenced* One of our druggists says that in the medicine business almost everybody wants to sell and not to buy. For in stance, a man came into the store one day and attached a machine like a cof fee mill to the counter and begun to turn the crank. “What's that?” asked the druggist, bee actor. “A machine to take the seeds out of raisins that I’d like to si ll ^ m. ” “Will it put tin in back aguiu?” Tho peddler gave a pitying look at Mr. Lcuticx and inarch d out without another word.—Huntord Post. PUTTING UP A STOVE. A Venlon of the Operation Ttir. Rarely Happen* In Real ’^.e. This is about a may who put op a Steve. , ? It is unre^.flearj petliaps to go far ther w^]; it. You know iu advance just how tie swore and tore and spoiled tho carpet, and the pipe didn’t fit and ho skinned his knuckles and cut his finger and spilled soot down the back of his neck and finally went np town aud got six men to finish the job. “Johnson,” said Johnson’s wifte at dinner yesterday, “I want you to come homo early this afternoon. I want that sitting room stove up aud going by Sun day.” “All right, my dear,” said Johnson. “I’ll be home at 4. ” So that aftemcon Johnson’s wife sent the children over to visit on tho other side of town cud stuffed rags iu all tho cracks to deaden sound. After a fervent prayer that all the neighbors would be out of town for a few hours that after noon she was ready for Johnson. He arrived promptly. “Tho stove ia out in tho wood shed,” laid his wife. Tho stevo was not very large, and af'.cr Johnson had dressed himself for tho occasion, with ti okeluuf Mrs. John son, who had taken care to have his old clothes aud gloves bandy, ho got tho stove to tho back porch without much difficulty. “It must to blackened,” said Mrs. Johnson as t!;e mix'd tho blacking. It blackened to a beautiful finish with very liltlo rubbing, and Johnson whistled at his work. Then ho tacked down tlio oilcloth met and tho zinc cud Lepton whistling. He took tho stove in carefully aud put it in tho right place. Thera was plenty of tho cld stovepipe, and while ko cleaned it in tho alley with a stick Mis. Johnson sat on th« back porch and listened to him whistle. The first joint went on all right, and Ihe damper staid in plate. The next joint fitted so well that Johnson almost stopped whistling in sheer admiration for it, and so did tho next rr.e. The el bow’ fitted admirably, aud the collar and last joint went oa like a tup. The scam was ca the r ght side ail the way up. There wa- not even a speck of root on the papers Mrs. Johnson had spread on the carpet. In t n minutes more Johnson had a lovely lire in tho ttovo and was iu his buMi. am it a;’:, in spick and span read ing the pap v while his wife got supper. It was j..; i Iu re that there was a sav age nudge in .Tohurun’s left ribs and ho heard hai v. To toil him to wake up, and hustle out j w, for it bad b< eu daylight for half an hour.—Topeka State Journal GUILT THE WRONG WAY. Why the Qcr.hor*.s Chester Hog* Took K* Prires In Georgia. “I never thail forget an incident which occurred at tho first fair I ever attended in Georgia,” said a retired Cincinnati meat packer. “It was at Macon, aud I think tboyculledit a state fair. At any rate it was a big thing for tho town in those day*. They had some lino stock on exhibiiou, and a Pennsyl vanian had tent clown about 20 of the finest looking hogs yon ever saw. They wero mostly Chester Whites, and if I recollect night they were exhibited by Thun as Wood, a great bug and cattle fancier cf 20 aud 80 years ago. He it was who introduced that famous breed of hugs, tho Chester White, aud ho made a great deal cf money out of his fancy s uck. He was a Friend—a Qua ker, you know—who used tho plain lan guage and wore a broad brimmed hat. Ho was a smart old gentleman, honest and prosperous. Ho scut his hogs from state fair to state fair, and they took so many prizes aud Muo ribbons that each hug locked like a buy who had spent all his money making a collection of badges. “Win it tho Macon judges made their awards, they gave blno ribbons very lib erally to tho razor backs, but not one of the fat, t'iui k Pennsylvania bugs got a prize. The owner of the exhibit did not understand it, eu ko hunted up one of the judges aud said iu tho language of tho Friends: ” ‘I l.aow theo to bo mi honest man, and I <! mot question thy fairness iu tho award, but to gratify my own curiosity I would ! 1 glad to have tlico tell mo why tl.r :• ; ave ail the ptizes to tlio na tive. staik and wl at fault thco fouudlu m tie?’ ” ‘fly friend, the commiiteo admired your lugs greatly.’ tho judge replied. ‘They tire cc.ta.nly bunoK me, aud 1 have mi dt.id t that in your section they aro the best bree.l to raise, bat they are nil suited for (bis country. They aro so short legged and fat that a nigger could catch them in two minute.:. What wo requite in a hug in tho south is legs and wind. \Y.> give our prizes for speed.’ ” —Atlanta C< astitutiou. • Free Pills, • s v , ml your add less to II, E. Bueklou £*'>•.. Chicago, and got a free sum pi o !»*x of Dr King’s Now Life Pills. A trial will eoiivlncn you of I heir merits. Those pills are easy In action and ur' iiartictiliiriy effective in tho cure of Constipation and Sick Headaidie, For Malaria and Liver trouble* they Mr e !i <'n proved invu! iiihlo. They nr' /'lur.ifiti'i'd to In* perfectly frei- from every ilideterloiis suhstumv and to h«» por-dy M'g-t-iidu. They do not v,i .iL« n hy their action, but by giving lone to stooiiielu* and bowels givitily invigorate i be system. Regii| lar size Jioe. per box. .Sold hy \V. Dul’ro, Druggist. A SUMMER LCENE. Laden come the maidens hom% With poppies and wild rose*, Singing dittus ns.IV. y eonie. And bluahinz like their posi«A Crowned la one r.a rry maid With coronal t f p.v.a .; Nature has with 5 ••aiv.y playaA To mako a cop/. LAtigliter fathers tn h r Ht-r every iiiovetue!;. Mushefj Bark! she minks :s l< v, r's sigh With songs tu bird;ike gushs* (jC C«pi<J, should he pass her way, For lack of strength must tanj; She will steal U-i bow away And hid the rogue go rar.rry. —Charles T. Lusted tn Elackwood’s OLD MILITARY LORE. | BegntAtloas That Guided Soldier* fa Sixteenth Century. “Tba Pathwaie of Martlall Dia plino” (1581), by Thomas Btyward.Si full of plates and abounds in quaint w* marks. Giving the duties of a provost marshal, wo find: “He shall according to the lawes punish all offenders with ent regard or respect of persons, and is the market place shall set up a pair of gallows, both for tlio terror of the wioki ed and for execution upon them that of fend tho lawes. That he shall set upon all vietnalls brought to the n?arket B reasonable price, that tho seller aud thi buyer may reason;.My live byit. ” la the effieoof corouil (or colonel—tho two. terms socm to have been introdneed atj tho .same time, but the latter became favorite), after mentioning his appoinf-J ing of as many captains as is needful, giving 800 men to a company, “which is u convenient number,” for if the men aro divided into smaller companies too much money would bo spent on the ofB- cers. With regard to the lieutenant, ht is to lo “of great experiences, qnalitiefl and behavior. ” “The corouel shall also examine tho selections that the capta have made uf all the officers throng! their companies, aud if they be such ought to be, or not much worse he allow them, and not otherwise. ” Before firearms drove out all otlMf] weapons it was an object to equal tho strength of tho company, “the she* < (as tho musketeers came to be ' supplementing tho pikes. AH tbe< binatious of men for drilling whieh i given by various authors illustrate tbit;] thn.t for the (hifeu.-o from hornrnif I “FI aco tho ranks of pikes every w •your K'.iot next unto them,your bilk (ti halbards) and ensign iu the midst, piles ends couched down the beUtf j resist the enemy. ” All kinds of dodges aro taught—tt “If in .sight of tho enemy, which It i pc: ior in numbers’, the front rank pikes fhall spread out so as to admit! men of tho second rank ip, the ■paces. But if tho enemy manifest real luten at of attacking, and i bo no place of refuge near, the j rank shall retain to their places, i shall svrrio close together. The slniil Le placed in tho voward auijJI ward so that tiny may skirmish and : tire r..-' occasion servoth. ”—Gentl Magazine. tYbtt* Ron.-* of t!io ConfodeMAp, Within a short time* tho old hot Jeffetcon Davis in RichtD^id Will thrown open to the public as itHk “ crate museum. Tlio “Whit* Hoot the Gcnfederacy,” r.s it has been has bron tlio property of the c.—— many years and has recently been tM as a Fchoolhouso. A room iu the f will bo assigned to each of the.’ that seceded for a collection"^, mid in addition (hero will be room for a general museum and a library. Tho first of the state tions—that of Georgia—has been ccivcd. It was presented to the con tco by Mr. Do Roane on the eighty-^, birthday of President Davis, June, 11 Anxn;.’ an relics aro tho cape, gaun) end t word of General Lee; the ,1 froni Giucral htuart’s hat; the gla;- p.i tv ed by General Beauref, tho ba'tiouf Manassas, aud the tions from tho various soldiers’ establish? d throughout the sooth, eluding the Lee Camp Soldiers’ _ collection, which contains, in add!! to many rare and interesting relief skin of Stonewall Jackson’s chi Tlifro arc also a number of mane, and private papers.—New York uuo. HnesAry Wafer. Tho first alcoholic perfrme was Hot gary ’.rater, made from .otiemary Elizalcth of Hungary, 1870, she hi procured the recipe from a Hui li riu»t. This perfume became tiuouebout all Europe in thati ?«ecei'diutf MAtury. ^ ' rvrror < mto. City or Tot/nno, | , Ln cs County, z' pip I'uank .1. <'iu;:,K\ ik'.di;us oath till is tho senior partu^r of the firm [’. J. ('h::.v:y A('i^doing hitshU'MH the City of Torf., ('mitily and St aforesaid, aud/nut said firm will Hie sum of/lNE HUNDRED LARS for /vauli and every t’aturrli tiyfit cannot ho cured b y * : USU of H*l.l. S ( ATAHKH Cl’BK. FRANK J. Cl!EXE* ^ Swo#i to before tno and su! ! II prusunm'. tills titb day of i\ A. F>. 18,8(1. ( A. W. GLKAPOX, Votary Pit bit 'fair* Cutn? ly uiid act. ItM Mine.HI . ,S ml f o’ t ■ i rvtce tru is ft*ken tly on tho bk J of the «yst itlals, free. .1. CHEN EY A CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75o.