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BENTLLTY3 TEM. mm. 8L, OPY?IGHT, i!E CENT?BV CCLJ I was at work In my littlo don at Tho Evoning Appeal oflloo. Tho paper had Just gone t? press, but I was hurrying to finish before going homo u "spociul" for tho uoxt (lay's issue. Through my open door I conld seo the dingy dosks of tho so railed cdi torial room, must of thorn vacated now, pud from tin; farthest comer came tho flrono of a proofreader. Glancing at Ibis familiar sccuo, I Btoppcd my writ lug a moment as my uy< ? rested on his copyholder. Instead of the rough young hobbledehoy who usually Oiled that placo, there sat tho most young girlliko of young girls, making a sunshine in the grimy pluce. six- had soft liudit brown hair drawn smoothly back into jthedeccntest of little knots She turned [toward mo tho neatest of tittle profiles, and sho devoted horself to her eopy with the gentlest bond of her huh II head. Just us 1 was idly recalling Hie fact tiiat old Martin, the pt oof reader, had ouee confided to mo his desire to g< t tins position for a daughter of his. Bontley, tho "star" reporter of Tho 'Appeal, came striding in and toward Uie. "Spare men minute from tin tariff?" he questioned, standing in my door way, pushing his silk hat to tho back of his red bead with one hand and rest ling tho otiier, which held a lighted cigar, against the door fromo. When I had declared my willingness (to lay nsido for a time those political {labors with which it pleased Mr. Bent ley to Imagine mo always occupied, bo ttook off hin hat and laid it with Iiis sugar OU the steam heater outside, came (in and seated himself astride my vacant chair and for a moment stared at 1110 in sllonce over tho back of it. When he spoke, he said: "I'm going |to nsk a favor of you. Miss Addington, end I wish by a largo majority that it was you going to ask one of me. Oh, yes, I know, you're a mighty nice, Ipleasant. accommodating littlo girl? Ithat's aside from my wanting somu Khlng out of you just now?but you don't have it tiny too soft down hero, anyhow, and now I'm going to ask you ?I'm ashamed of myself. But? well, let me open with tho curtain music, nnd work up to tho last farewell by de grees. Tho beginning is"?ho stopped, waited an instant, got up and turned his chair around, sat down properly and took up his sentence again as if ho had never dropped it?"that I'm in lovo iwith and want to marry that littlo nimini plmini, whito faced girl of old Martin's out there"?then relaxing a littlo from tho uncommon seriousness with which this was said -"and I'd give $100 to be able, without arousing suspicion, to got hold of that seat that Culvert lias there by her. That ain't sentiment, '1 would Iworonglovo upon that hand'kind of business; it's pure science. That desk is tho strategic key to tho whole campaign. I'm not in with Calvort, we've bcou bating each other COO long forme to ho able to work np an intimacy with him now just pre vious to asking him to give me his desk, and Ic would be too thin, anyhow. There is no way to get that desk?here comes tho climax" Bontloy stopped and looked at mo dopreeatingly, appeal* lngly. I was amused to see that ho could command such an expression? "unless"-?ho stopped again, scowled and drew a long breath in burlesqno of ibis own discomfort and his resolution, Und, as ho would havo said, took tho [plunge?"you'd bo so angel white as to jlet him come in here. He's boon Want ing to do that this long time, not alto Igethor because of his secret desire to bo [near j-ou, but ho thinks it would bo nice to bo in bore away from the lower orders, and convenient to the eneyclo ipediaa that ho gets Iiis littlo pieces out jof." Tho Appeal's limited library was in |tho room I occupied. Expression of my willingness to share my seclusion with (Mr. Culvert did not still Bontley's de sire fnriher to explain and justify hini BClf. "You see," ho went on, "I'vo got the campaign all planned out, though I can't explain it in a word. I'm perfect ly willing to explain it, however. I'm oven willing to admit that it would bo a pleasure to mo to do eo. I'm too old and tongh to talk about this kind of thing to a man, but there's a ?enaiblo diminution of a dangerous pressure in lotting oil to you a littlo." I shall utterly fail in giving any idea of Bentley unless I am ublo to convoy an impression of tho personal uncon sciousness that characterized his con versation. Ho expressed himself in tho way that was easiest to him?that is to say, hb much as possible by estab lished formulas intelligently applied, Bonietimes slang, sometimes quotations that became clang in his mouth?but, though he often felt tho humor of his own ideas, his verbal clothing of them roroly enough attracted his attention. Ho turned u look at once gravo and quiz/deal through tho door and upon [the copy holder. "Nothing's going to change mo nho.it Wanting that littlo piece of propriety lout there hut getting her." ho ro puarked. "No, not altogether quite ho snddon as you might think," ho Haid whon I expressed my interest in tho speed with which ho had discovered bis ntontiona. "Sho wus hero lust month for i wook, when you wero off doing tho Woman's convention. I haven't ever got her out of my head since. It wiis sudden enough, and I'm hit hard enough. I'm going to put my system to work now for all it's worth." Ho turned back to mo, bitched ids chair half around, ho thnt the distracting picture in tho other room Was out of bin range of vision, nnd went on: "You'vo hoard that there is a right nnd a wrong way of doing evoryth'ng. Well, my system 1h tho ono right way of going courting -when you'ro court ing a woman, that is. I'm BOrfy it's not fitted to bo more use to you. I'vo got faith in it. or I'd im"? Ho shook his head slowly in n manner significant of n Most uncertain frame of mind. "You can seo with half an cyo," ho continued in a moment, "that that lit tlo thing there hasn't beon put through any mill that would make her think? put her on tho lookout to get married. Sho isn't that kind anyhow. That's why?ono why- I want her, nnd of courso that's tho very reason I ain't likely to got her. This world's run that way." Bontloy gazed far out of tho window, his upright red hair looking even moro astonlsherl ttfnh nnnal as tho cc?unto> nanco it surmounted took on an uncom monly .grim expression. Then, without tue-vm Iii- head, ho brought his eyes back to mine, looking at mo sidowiso with ; n turn of something of his usual twinkle, ti twinkle in < clip.su, and de olnred: "It the system I'm asking yon to pay tribute to. I'm frco to confess, Mi . A . lington" hero a faint, incred ible si/de of embarrassment soemod to cross iJentley's countenance?"that I novcr truly loved before, hut yet"? Dcutli ? lilted and knitted his brows as bo scratched his head witli ono finger und looked silently at mo. t w i e< untrained to say, "Why, yes, Mr. B< ntley. 'hut yet' " ? "Bgg-'/actly," lie answered heartily. "You are the sort of person I like to talk to Well, now. my system is appli cable in dealing with any young lady whose good will you wish to gain? whoso good will yam wish to gain," Bentli v ri punted, brightening with on joymont of the follcity of this phrase. '?I've had it in shupo pretty nearly ever si neu my coming out sociable at Cranberry Center. Not with unvarying Buccoss 1 don't say that, hut it's dono its part, i?'s done it well. It isn't as if a professional beauty wero using it ex ! actly, l know that. 1 havo faith In It. 1 always have had?that is. but now the sight of that white inouso out there takes all the starch out of mo. Curious, isn't it. though 1 don't supposo"? "I think, Mr. Beutley," 1 interrupt ed, "that you are talking against timo to put oil telling mo what your sy?tem !iH" "Gut there every time, dou'tyou?' Bald Beutley, admiringly. Thon lixing j a queer look upon me, in which again appeared that amazing Suggestion of Bhyneas, ho said slowly: "Hang around and say nothing. Hung around industriously" ? pauso? "and sity nothing, till more or less ur gently invited to. Yon press tho button and we do tho rest. These directions uro capable of 50 different adjustments to suit the most complicated case." Beutley was speaking those last bou tonces half abstractedly and watching my lace anxiously. As tiie mystic significance of this formula penetrated my brniu I was moved to mirth -mirth that was not lessened by the fact that I was visited by a sudden illuminated vision of tho system's possible workings iu practice ?a vision which at once convinced mo of its value. 1 wiped my ey es and gavo my hand to Beutley, assuring him that I holloved he was master of a great secret. "Yon do really','" he broko forth eagerly and seriously. "Say, Miss Ad dingtoii, you wouldn't guy a fellow in my fix now. would yon? That's only the opening of tho campaign, but that'll the great critical period, don't you think? That's tho merit of the system. It attacks tho opposing sex (opposing box?not bad. is ItV) through their curi osity. See .' And they quit being eo all fired opposing early. Generally you can count on 'em to become helpful pretty soon - helpful in sumo degree. Thon's the time for tho next move. I'm i not much at explaining these psycho logies phenomena, but tho system's all [ right. '.Thjs conviction is arrived nt 1 through a priori reasoning and is con ! firmed by subsequent observation.' ' Beutley stood Up as he delivered this lust sentence and looked down upon me with a pleasant combination of ead uj# peal and humorous patronago. Ho was quoting from my maiden editorial, a document that laid idled him with mys terious mirth. I began to arran o my papers for de parture, Muauiing J inj in tho meanwhile of my good will toward his enterprise, ] That seemed tho right word for it. Ho npologized for taking so much of i my timo and yet further explained his needs and plans?as, for instance, hia ??scheme ' for letting Culvert know that tho way was clear for him to change his desk while ho was standing feeling for a match and I was putting on my hat and coat. "Yon see," he said finally, barring my way a moment at tho open door, "it is hopeless for mo to try to hung around in Hoboken. That's whero old Mai tin lives. I uou't say I'm bock?. Anything hut IT. ooken. But there it Is. It is perfectl; clear that, however I might walk in the letter. I'd blow tho whole spirit of tho system I ho minute I Stepped my fou* into the parental fiat. It's too late to do the Damon and Pythias act with old Martin. I'm forced to a huso your gonerosity. Thank you, thank yoitl It's been a Ixxm to talk to you. It has indeed. I'll work the racket With Culvert a little slow. May be a day or two before I get ,t around to him that the coast is clear. Then I'll have to wait upon occasion for a good excuse to jump dow II tic ' o ami take his place. If tho office giits ?n to me, (hero's no telling what'II be to pay. Good day. good day I I'd jump at tho chunce to help you get married. " Dent ley picked up his hut und Ida cigar, put. the- one km tln> back of ills head ind the other in Ids moutli, just AR h? Kavn inti wliat won in spirit a courteous, grateful little, nod of furo well. old Martin's little girl still bent her pretty lo ad studiously ovor hor copy without a buirbrondth's variation of attitude. Culvert had just como in and scutud bimself in scowling introspective preoc cupation at Iiis desk. That was the last I saw of tho ofilco for three months. On the way homo, through tho untimely movement of a car, I sprained my ankle, and for a weary while was confined to tho honso. In a few days, however, I bogan work again, writing as I lay on a sofa and dopouding on messenger hoys and visits of mingled business and condo lence from other members of tho staff to keep mo in touch with tho ofilco. I had been at home perhaps a month wlmn one dny Mr. Maloney, n gentlo- j man who had tilled by turns many dif ferent positions in The Appeal ofllce, each, as a rule, being less Important than the last, was ushered in. Mho joy of gossip lighted np bis oleary blue oyes. "And how are you, Miss Addington 1" ho began. Ho had a charming touch of brogue. "And indeed it's enough to make the old one himself sorry for yon to see what a good timo you got ont of the worst of occasions. That is a bit of a paradox, you aro saying, and so is every other truo thing that over was remarked in this topsy turvy world, and yon aro the one that's got tho philo sophical head on your ehouldors to find that ont long ago without waiting for on observant old blind moln liko me to tell you. Yce, I'm nn Illustration?al low mo." Maloney_snakily stooped to pick up my pen. "I can servo aa an il luHtrutioti when you write your cele brated treatise on tbo paradoxical, And now don't interrupt uio for the space of a minute You're a sad chatterbox, Miss Addington." lie stopped and laid an unuianicnred forefinger against his grizzled temple. "I'm preparing tho way to a graceful transition. 1 would bo tel'ing you some thing tlint is for your amusement. I sin UU observant old mole, I was Bay ing, and now l can't be giving you ono particle of useful information as to whi ther or no the boss is going to sell the paper nut to the Republicans next wick nor as to what will b. come of yon und mo If ho does, though 1 daro Buy tbore uro other blind moles that 1 bave discovered all that, but I'm about | to toll you that that big bruto Bontley is In love with that old proofreader's little girl, and none in the ofllco knows 1 it but me and him, and it's ten to ono ' 1 know it best! Yes. euro, 1 thought 1 you'd bo gruteful to mo for a littlo di version like that. It's not every day yon can see or even hear what a brass monkey's like when it's in lovo. Its ex pel ii nee much more resembles that of a white man than you would over imag- i inc. and that's the truth. No, he's not trying, as ho would say himself?worHO luck to him? lie's not just trying to mash her; lie's in lovo, I'm telling you, and Iiis feelings uro not dissimilar to those depicted by Tom Moore and other po. ts that the hoiking ignoramus never heard of. and there is the paradoxical for you. Me bald spot was biggor than n trade dollar beforo I could havo be lieved such a contradiction possible, bo think what 00 inexplicable surprise It must tie to him, that basnomoro powor of ratiocination than mo blackthorn there. I have been industriously gath ering the evidence for days, till mo con viction was complete, beforo I'd como to toll you. "Well, now, the first 1 noticed was the way ho went white and red when she came to speak to him about his copy one day. It tills me with rage to think of that ; it does indeed. To think of him having the additional impudence to ex hibit a capacity for changing color like a girl!" Malonoy staid an hour and I am sure missed an assignment, telling mo wi*h infinite relish of detail all the ins und outs of Bontley's maneuvers. "He used to write exceptionally clear copy, you know," said he. "lie has no more education than me pet cat, but he can write liko a grocer's clerk, nnd ho used to do it. I'vo edited his copy for -11 bo makes such big money. When old Sheffield was managing, ho used to cull on mo to help him out when ha was incapacitated with drink. Ho said ?but it's no matter what ho said; his betters have said more. But I've edited Bcntloy's copy when it was clear as print, and now, if you'll boliovo mo, it looks littlo better than your own, bog ging your pardon. That makes business now and again with the proofreader, you understand, and soiuoho"' he's hocus pocused things till it seems an if Martin read nearly all his stuff, but I've not found out how ho uiar igos that." Maloney added tho lust sentence in u tone ol apologetic regret. "Does tho littlo girl notice all this, do you think?" I nskod. "Indeed and I wish you wore down there to sei yoursolf. How can I teilt The littlo white still ones liko that? the old ono himself can make out uoth iug about them. And Beutlcy's Hly, wonderful sly, all around. I don't un derstand him, though. How should over an Irishman comprehend tho way of the likes of him with his brass and his Blynessf Why doesn't ho go at it like a man am] display to all the world that bo's in lovo up to his cms and bo's proud of it? That's what a woman likes, be she old or be she young." Overweighted as I was with Bent ley's scent, I was tempted to edgo upon it by discussing this point, and I said that undoubtedly a woman was apt to like that kind of tribute, but 1 was not sure that it always followed that it made her like the man equally. "And it' he can give her what shu likes, ought not ho to he satisfied, I say, and if she does not liko him so ar dently isn't there tho loss chance that ho'll marry her, to the sorrow of both of 'em ?" I told Malonoy that he made my head oclie, and he went away, pledging mo to secrecy about Bentloy. Nevertheless I was not wholly surprised when tho next visitor from the ofiico quoted Ma loney as authority for the news that Mr. Bentley "was making that is, hu was paying attention, not exactly pay ing attention, but.Mr. Maloney thought ho was going to pay attention to that Miss .Martin." This visitor was tho managing ed itor's typewriter, an elderly young wo man, not bad looking, tint with a con strained miiuner, grayish hair and a denn lying desire for human intercourse that should be labeled intellectual, or, n her own phrase, to be sociable and Improve herself with literary people, literary people being, in her opinion, any who earned a living by the use or abuse of tho written symbols of lan guage. "Mr. Maloney says that Mr. Bentley is that ho cures about her," she said tentatively, sitting uncomfortably on the edge of her chair. I conquered the inevitable throb of resentment that I felt at the discovery, faintly expected though it was, that Maloney was just as confidential with the typewriter as with me. As I had felt myself rarely gracious in appreciat ing Mnhonoy's ont at elbows charm nnd hud credited him with a becoming sense of my kindness, this required nil in stant's communion with my higher self, and then 1 was rewarded by a de lighted perception of how utterly liko Maloney it was to lapse into intimate conversation with any petticoated ob ject within his orbit. The appeal that these storied garments would always make to him was now ro-enforced, too, by that false.sense of masculine dignity which makes mon slow to gossip of familiar personalities with one another, liven Maloney felt constrained for u time to give his really interesting and curious news only to the patronized sex, though, to do the staff of Tho Appeal justice, tho time soon came when the artificial ico was brokon and Bcntloy's hojies, fears und prospects seemed to occupy them night and day, to tho manifest gain in color, vivacity nnd value of tboir conversation. 1TO UK CONTINUED.l j CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho Signature The. horse business throughout New England 1? In the bent possible condi tion, and the demand for good horses is belter than it has been for vears. ?A?TOTIIA. Baanth* /> The Kind You Have Alwnys Bougil ? \VK CAN TALK WITH MAUS." Nikola Tosla, who shares with lidi son Iho high priesthood o? nature iu , her oioclrieal manifestations, has made I a new i'OVolation in the .June number Ol ihe Century Magazine, which du j v?*les 80 pages and a number of start ling illustrations to the su joct. [fall his Ideas tuorein disclosed were capable el being put lulo practica,! use, the re ' suit ol lhs discoveries might be revol-! uiiouary, hut when lie talks ot eliminat ing moil from warfare ami doing the I lighting with machines wlUiuut blood shed, the imagination refuses to follow i bun. OllO of tlic propositions is tho old ji >| ol ????Hing the river on lire," uriously stated as a practical proposi lion. My tin- U8U of an electric current he claims to have decomposed water, ???paratnit: tho hydrogen ill order that he may use it as fuel to smell iion. In this way he calculates that one horse power will prO'.iuCO JO tOIIS of iron a year. Another proposition is to cheapen tin' loud supply of the world by ( In-ap ing the principal lerlilizcr. Niltogutl is the most expensive and mosl largely used Icrtllizer and 'Pophi proposes to got it trom the air by burning it out with electricity, in the process of combustion, the nitrogen forms now combinations from which it can bo ex tracted and applied to the soil as plant food. I'radical farmers will probably call Mr. Tcsla's at'.cnliou to the fuel thai nature has provided inexpensive ap paratus for extracting nitrogen from the air and putting it into the soil. Leguminous plants do that with an ex pi tue so small that it can hardly he e null d. They attract bacteria, which at lach themselves to the roots, accumu lating nitrogen there The plants thai do this have tops, which aro valuable a* food, and tho Southern Held pea is a familiar example. Alter the pea vine has done its work for the soil, through the accumulation ?>f nitrogen on its mots, the top of (ho plant is cut and cured, and seih readily at ?1S per Ion. There is a prolit in this bay without j taking a JC dill of the deposit of nit rogen which is left in the soil. Il may reasonably he 'Ion' ted wheth er Mr. Tesla's apparatus, using an electrical oscillator giving twelve mil ' '.ion volts wi'.li 100,000 oscillations pel I second, can cxtrac'. nitrogen from lite ab as cheaply as nature's apparatus ihu leguminous plat ts. lie will have to try again ror a method of cheapening the food supply of the wo) Id. Mr. Tosla might employ hi* talent for this purpose l" good advantage by turning his attention to nature's ap paratus and doing wind he can to specialize tin- I unction of leguminous plants by stimulating the activity of tin bacteria which collect tin' ultrngen on their roots. Scientists have s.> increas ed the tUgar in the lici t that it has be come a formidable rival of cauc in the I commerce of the world, largely in creasing ihe food supply. The article is entitled, "The pro blem of increasing human energy." The author considers humanity en masse as a physical body, whose effectiveness or total energy may he computed by the physical formula at at otic-half Ihe product of the mass by the square of the velocity. Mr. Tosla says there are three way s ol increasing the sum of human energy. The fust is to increase its "mass" the second is io reduce the retarding force or friction, and the Ihbd is lo incici si the impelling force. Taking up Ihe llrsi ?i tLesi: bca U, he. says: "Thcie arc two way s <,i indenting tho mass of mankind; liisl by aiding ami maintaining those forces and con ditions which lends io increase it, and reducing those which ten i to diminish it. The mass will be increased by careful littet 11 loll lo health, by sub stantial food, !>'? moderulioii, by re gularity of habits, by the promotion of marriage, by conscientious attention to the childicn, and generally slated b) the observance of all the many pre cepts of religion tuel hygiene. '?Everything against the teachings of religion and hygiene lends to de crease the mass. Whisky, wine, leu, coffee, tobacco, ami such siumiluals arc responsible lor shortening the lives of many and ought to be used with moderation, Hut I do not think that rigorous measures ..! suppression of habits followed through many gen orations are commendable. Ii is wiser to preach moderation than abstinence. Wo have become accustomed to these stimulants, ami if such reforms arc lo be effected, they must be slow ami gradual. Those who uro devoting their energies lo such ends could make IhemSOlveS fat' more useful by lUI'llillg their efforts toward pioviding pure water. "For every person who perishes from the use of a stimulant, at least a thousand die. from the consequences of drinking impure water. Tho germs of destruction it conveys are all the more terrible as they perform their fatal work uupoiceived. They seal our doom while WO live und enjoy. The majoiity of people arc so careless in drinking water and the consequences arc so disastrous, that a philanthropist can scarcely use his efforts hotter than by endeavoring to enlighten those who are. thus injuring themselves." The retarding forces are war, ignor ance, insanity ami imbecility. To re duce these is to Increase the muh of human energy. Knlighti nni'-nl is velocity, and if the children born into the world are "of higher velocity" than their parents, ihe energy of the race is increased, etc. There should he a qualification just here. There are kinds of education that reduce energy. To increase energy it must he practical. Iiis remarks on war as a roinrding force are striking, lion is (he mosl USOlul material of civilization. That ' used in war is about 00 per cent, of that USCd for all of the purposes. De duct it Iroin the effcclivo force of iron ill Civilization ami VOU have, only 40 per cent. left. On the contrary, if ihe destructive or retarding force of (ho iron used in warfare be turned to useful account and added to the effective iron of civil ization, ihe result will ho an effective force of 100 percent.?four limes that now enjoyed by the race tit the same expense. -? When it conies to the. means of ston ping war, Mr. Tcsla's ideas are (anlas lie. He proposes lo make machines that will act like automatons, whclher ?Iriven through the air or uodel the walcr. They are to DO Controlled by some kind of electrical impulse an alogous to sound waves ami seul with out wires with the air as the medium of communication. He goes to the length of spying these machines can he developed to a still higher typo which will act for itself, directing its motions according lo surroundings?practically acting like a human being when left on duty with a certain amount of discretion. Tho problem of increasing force starts with the sun?tho source of all tho forces in operation on oarth. Un der this head Tesla proposes to sepa V ? Why let all your neigh bors and friends think you must be twenty years older than you pre? Yet it's impossible to look young with the color of 70 years in the hair. It's sad to see young persons look prematurely old in this way. Sad be cause it's all unneces sary; for gray ha may always be re stored to its nat ural color by us ing 10 AYW3 witor For over half a cen tury this has been the standard hair prepara tion. It is an elegant dressing; stops fall ing of the hair; makes the hair grow; and cleanses the scalp from dandruff. $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. " I iinvn been using Ayor'a Hair Vigor fur iimt 211 yearn and I ran heartily rccoiniueud n tu the public us tlu> f? ill lutlr tunic in existence" Mrs. <;. L. ?.LDBURON, April 24, lsw. Eutur,Tex. ? i :< mi .In not obtain nil tlio benoilts >X|M'CtOil from tho VlK?r, wrltu Uiu DuetOI IIbout It. Address, Hit J 0. AY EH. rate hydrogcu from water und use it us luol lo smelt iron. The headings will suMoe lo indicate the portions of tho article uiulor this division of tlie subject. One relates to tlie electric oscillator ami lha do> vclopmeut of a new principle by which liie earth responds lo num. With this the statement Is made Ihut interplane tary, communication is probable. The iiuusmissicu of electrical energy to any distance without wires is said lo be practicable as 'he best means of in creasing force. In regard to communications with oilier planets, Mr. Tcsla says: "My measurements und calculations i have shown that it is perfectly procli 1 cable to produce on our globe au olec ; trical movement of such magnitude i that without the slightest doubt its I eiiect will be perceptible on some of j our nearer planets, as Venus and Mars. ?*;???*'* ' " That we -an send a message lo a [linnet is certain, that wo can ijet an answer is probable. Man is not the : only being in the inliiiile gifted with a mind." Tcsla considers his most important discovery the capability of the nlmos ' plu re lor conducting electric currents ol immense power to great distances, lie says it will be practicable lo Irans? i fur the power of waterfalls to any part of the earth ihlOUgh the upper strata of the air, six 01 seven miles high, and that it will be done better anl more economically than over copper wire. Then (he expoil of power from countries like the United Suites, Canada, Central and South America, Switzerland au I Sweden will I he a source of great revenue. r 111: < 11 a it i. i :st< > n k n I'ositio N. Tho most satisfactory piogress is be ing made with the preliminary work for the South Carolina, 1 nter-State and Wist Indian Exposition to be held in Charleston, Docctubcr 1st, 11)01 to May 1st, 11102. More than .fI 17,000 has a 1 read} been raised in Charleston for the project and the executive com in.tire, is now extending its inlluuncc ! ami usefulness by appointing members in the various counties of the Stale, lo j serve witli them, ami thus make it duly, as II should hi- a stale enter prise. The qUC8tion has been asked i why should the people of the Stale be I particular!) interested? and this can ! be answered in a dozen wa\s. The , history "of expositions in this ami for l eign countries has been, that not only was the city where the big show was held bonolited, but the entire sur rounding country has almost immedi ately shown signs of improvement. I The exposition, with only the pro ducts of Charleston shown would not I be of special service to South Carolina. I hut even a Charleston affair should be patronized ami approved by the people of the Slate. This exposition, how ever, is intended ami will show to the world the weallb ami resources of this splendid State of South Carolina. The Textile I'alace which will be the "main building" ami which will show a cotton seed ami the result from it, will Intoicsl thousands of men who arc looking for investment and looking for homes. They will not wish to settle in Charleston to plant cotton or to build cotton mills there. The man who is interested in the splendid forestry exhibit will hardly expect to make a home in Charleston and fell trolley poles. The mining engineer and pl'O&pcdor will llnd little interest in assaying Belgian blocks in the streets id' Charleston, and the tobacco grower from Connecticut who sees the line opportunity for transferring his work to a more fertile soil where the winter is not nine months long und Ofcry condition favorable for the rais ing of the golden leal, will not liud amble lands in the shadow of St. Michaels church. These men, ami hundreds ol others will 800and nODl'Ove of (ho producta of sod, of miuo and forOBt, und seek (heir origin. This is 110 selfish project organized by Char leston for ils aggrandizement and pro fit alone, but a Dl'Olld, generous plan lo put South Carolina before the world in her best array and Bay,*''Look on this picluro, is il not fair? Can you elsewhere find a liner climate, a moro productive soil, braver forests or bolder StrOAlOS? There arc homes here for those who will come, and a welcome for all who would help in making (his the. greatest, as it is the proudest Slate in the Union." rfsiun tho hignatura Of * lho ? -m! Yon Ham Always BoujM THE MERCANTILE SIDE OF FARMING. This has. been too much overlooked. I We have heeu accustomed to think I that others should run that for us. We 1 have boon BO much engrossed in pro- j ducing thai we have not given hh much thought 10 selling as wc should have ' done. There are so many sharp traders in every line, ready to manage that for us, thai wc have quietly submitted to their management. Of course they looked after their own interest. The result is that all we make is consumed and yet wo remain poor. More than this, every class is mak ing more money out iff our produce than we make. sr.l.UNO COTTON. Take this, the most important money producing crop wc grow. We have given more thought to this than any other. Ami how does this stand? Everybody gets better pay than the producer. The picker gels good wages for picking. The ginnor gels good pay for ginning. Tlie. bagging ami tie men get immense profits furnishing the covering. The warehouse mull get good profits weighing and storing. Many of them have accumulated large fortunes in this business. The iiistir ance companies make very huge money from every crop. The sampler and Street or wagon buyer make good wages. The diaytnen get handsome pay. Tho railroad ami ship companies make larger profits than on any other class of freight. The compress men gel immensely rich, "squeezing" Ihe badly packed hales, The larger buyers start in business with little, or no money ami gel lo be millionaires. Hankers get handsome profits, furnish ing llio cash and paying the hills. The manufacturers double their capital and pay largo dividends. Lastly, hut most ly, tin- speculators a vast army of sharp traders and schemers, who deal in cotton in sight and out of sight, and gamble in options lo the ruin ami hurt of thousands of honest men oft* n roll in wealth when they should be toiling in chains. Thus wc sec these filtern classes of men all making profits, sometimes immense forllllics, and many others incidentally gulling a good living while we often sell at less than the cost of production. Take ihu manufactured goods nnd follow Hi em back to the consumer, und tho man who grows the cotton i.-, a very liberal consumer, und lind nhuosl us many proIiis attached. Wo sell a pound of cotton for from six to eight cents and sew on our buttons with Hi read that wo pay o dollar per pound for. None of these people are to blame lor making what they can ami do. They arc only looking out lor self interest. Hut we are lo Maine for selling them our cotton without lirsl gelling a protll for ourselves. iron CAN rn.s m. don k. First we must own the cotton. We ean llCVOr control lite sale of a mort gaged crop, or a crop made upon pro\ isions bought on time. We must raise our own supplies, and own the cotton. This has been often said. But we have not yet learned whal ii really means. '1 hen we must distribute the sale through the twelve months. By doing this we will avoid the numerous go bet weens and get nearer to the manu factories. In this way wo ean get what our COltoU is worth to the manu fncllircr. We can ihus slop the forced sale we have been making. We can avoid the annual glut of warehouses, railroads ami money markets. When we have done this we can have a voice in the price. We have a practical monopoly of glowing this great ami essential crop of American COtlOll. Wo lose all tin immense ad vantage for want of business methods in sidling. When we gel in this shape many of us, when we found a cotton crop Oil band for which we could not got a satisfactory price, we could hold it and quit making cotton, and give our at tention to something else until tin price was satisfactory. Of course this means a great revolution in our meth ods. But that is just what we need and must h ive if we are ever to gel fair prices for farm products. OTIIKIt CHOPS Whal we have .aid about cotton is equally true of many other crops. The seed of tho collou is another illustra tion. Most of us sold our seed this past season for about fourteen cents per bushel or less. A few who held on got twenty live cents to thirty live. All could jusi as well hive got ten twenty-live cents if we had waited. CottOll seed are worth twenty-live cents to us. They are worth OVCI Hint to the oil mill men. Why should we sell them al fourteen cents ? Wo sell llii! seed al less than one half cent per pound, and the. hoy the Oll back in lard at eight cents per pound, the meal at over one ci nl per pound for feed and manure, a id the hulls at nearly one cent, and the Hill brings from three to four cents. It is tune we studied the mercantile side of Inrmitlg more. We have no light to make Upon any honorable business or any honest business man. But we have a great light Oil hand for i self-defense and belli r methods ill I selling our farm produce. Wo might extend Uns article in (lellnitoly, hui wo hopo this will help lo awaken farmers tu its importance. We must continue the line of luvest!? gation, begun at l.a Grange ami en larged ami emphasized at the conven tion at Macon, Georgia. We must tree ourselves from the domination of the compress men, the roumllap hale trust; the bagging and tie trust; the option market gambling trust ; the cot ton seed oil trust, the fertilizer trust, and every other trust. stml\ markets and marketing. Cease to go hi <lel?t. He free men, and then wo can he independent and happy, Wc must he independent, own our crops, sell for more than the cost of production. We are under no oblig ation to mpport ami enrich every other class at our expense.--?SlHltllcru Cul tivalor MAGNITUDE OF THE PEANUT I CHOP. Scientific A(noricr.ii. Tho peanut nop of 1800 is nearly 1 ,(iii(i,ti(iii bushols heavier thau tho crop Of the proieding year. The total crop will, it is the aught, reach near 4,500, 000 bushels Of 22 pounds each. The hulk ol the crop is produced in Tennes see, Vilgilliuuud North Carolina. It is not generally known that the Ameri can ylold constitutes hut a small pro*! portion of the peanut crop ol the world; : the exportation from Africa and India In Europe is uoarly 100,000,000 pounds annually, half ol which goes Io Mar seilles to he made into oil. Tin- run ning variety i* a typical American pea nut, says the Kvcning Post, from which wc derive, our information. Its vines are huge, with spreading branches growing tlitt on the ground. The pod8 are large and white. There arc many IllO'O varieties grown. The so-called Spanish nuts arc used principally by confectioners. They have I small, round kernels, and are very line. The crop averages annually I."?0,000 bags of 110 pounds each. It is only within recent years that pea nuts have been shelled by machinery. With the increase of their production machines have been taking the place of the old slow-going methods. To grow peanuts successfully re quires a calcnroous soil without too much lime, and under such conditions the yield runs from '10 to 40 bushels per acre. There are about 20 peanut factories in America ami the capital i required for starting a mill is small. ] Olio factory handles live tons ol pea nuts daily, producing 23u gallons of re fund oil, 170 gallons of crude oil, 080 pounds of flour and meal and .'!,. 800 pounds of slock food. An extensive grower does not take the trouble to separate peanuts front the vines and dirt when he has dug his crop, but sends everything to the factory. They arc put into the mill, vines, dill and all, and arc then placed into a hopper and led into a revolving cy linder which cleans them by Motion, the diit, loaves and vines being taken out by a suction pipe. The nuts remain in the cylinder ami they arc fed out upon a revolving slat-table, the 8lalS resting upon can vas, from which negro women pick out those, ol the lirsl glide which are known ns44fancy," The selected nuts are fed Irani the (aide into chutes, and thou into bags. The remainder are run user a second revolving slat table, fed into chides and packed into bags labeled "extras." Four grades are sorted, the lirsl three being sold to dealers and the fourth lo confectioners for making burnt almonds und cheap candies. America docs o heavy ex port business to Ktiropo in peanuts. Foreigners do not eat them as Ameri cans do, but grind them into meal. They also make oil of them which is resold (o Americans as olive oil. The nuts arc very rich in oil, 40 per cent, of the shelled nut being oil. After the oil is extracted the cake which re mains is sold for $!J0 a ton in Germany and led to cattle and sheep. Peanut butler is one of the latest uses ol the peanut. It is made by grinding the nut very line ami reducing the mass to a pasty substance, a portion at least of the oil being removed. Salt is ad ded as flavoring. The rubber substitute discovered by an Italian in Central Mexico is obtain ed from a shrub called yule ami other names by the Indians and botacanically known ns Synalhcrcoons-Moxlcanns, This shrub grows rapidly and aluidd lilltly, reaches a height of about three feel and may be easily cultivated. While it docs not yield a milky juice, pounding and maceration in napthn or other hydrocarbon solvent extract gum j amounting to as much as 40 per cent, of the plant's weight. This gum har dens only to a viscid, sticky mass that has the valuable propeities of rubber, may be vulcanized perfectly,and is su perior to most rubber in its freedom from mechanical impurities. The plant may be treated either in a green or a dry state. As prepared, the gum contains a residual portion of the sol vent, and the composition, hailed as "the twentieth century gum," is claimed to offer a saving ill the cost of reproducing the plant, in exportation, in purifying materials, in fuel, in ma chinery, and in time. Albinism and melanism were remark ably illustrated in a collection of birds shown the other day to the Uiitbh Or nithologists' club. ' Albinism is an ab normally light coloration duo to lack of pigment, and melanism is a darken ing ol normally light-colored animals by an excess of pigment. Several hundred specimens represented the Trlng Museum, said to contain a greater number of these bird rarities thai) any other single collection. Among the most curie..: specimens were a belted kingfisher, totally while curlew, some pied hawfinches, a penguin, in which the plumage usually black was grey, and a Wn.XWiug in winch the dark plumage was replaced by while, while lhe. usual red and yel low remained. Much inteicsl was aroused by a molanislic wood-cock, while it was declared that a great snipe Willi spotted plumage on the upper sin lace might easily have passe?I lor a new speeies. The future steam engine, in the opinion of Mr. ('has. T. I'or lor, is to depend upon mechanical draft instead of chimney draft-. At a late meeting of tho American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he staled thai the new en gineering has established that the boiler furnace shall lie independent of natural draft, effectually consuming its smoke, and burning two or more limes as much coal as il could do under nat ural draft alone, and yet sending off the gases at a low temperature ; the heiler being a steam generator, a su pcr-healcr and a fuel cconoini/.er com bined. barge ocean-going vessels can go up the St. Lawrence river as far as Mon treal, over 1,000 miles from the Atlan tic ocean. I HELP FOR YOJJ For honest treatment and a speedy cure write or go to Dr. J. Newton Hathaway whose great reputation is a sufficient guarantee of satisfactory results. Consultation 0f bv mail Free. Blood Poison Conti acted or fiorold' t.iry Syphilid In all Its terrible stages, producing coppor-colofod ?pott) on faro or body, llttlo ulcers on the tongue, In the mouth or throat, falllUff out of tho hair or oyohrows, decay of the Ih'sh or bonos, completely and forovcr eradicated Without tho uso of Injurious drugs, leaving tho system In a pure, strong and health ful state. soxual power; also Jlydrocolo, Gonorrhu-a, Gtnnt, Htrlcturo and all I'rlvatoand Vonoroal Disease* and Weakuoisov of men quickly cur od. Varlcocele or enlarged veins, Which load to a complolo tos? of Kidney and Urinary CUlt,TOO Frequent, Woody or Milky tiring, alt functional diseases of tho Heart. Lungs, M Vor And Sioma<'li; also Catarrh, Rupture, Rtioumatism, Plica, Fistula and nil niood and Skin Diseases and ?II Female Diseases treated according t<> Hie latest and best methods known to medical science. 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