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CROOKED COm Criminal Operations In Doctoring Uncle Sam’s Currency. How Skillful Manipulator* Derive Larga Fro flu from Clipping, Sawing, Oougtmg, Boring and (Hiding | Gold Pieces. One of the many unlawful schemes to prostitute the coin of the nation has recently been suppressed by ex-Chief Drummond. It first came to my atten tion early last year, s<iys a New York Herald writer. I refer to what was known as the "coin sticker," which made possible the extraction of, with out discovery, part of the silver in coin. The inventor of this "coin sticker,” which was an advertisement printed on paper to be pasted on coins, sold territorial rights to print and use it. The “coin sticker” cost the govern ment a great deal of trouble and ex pense to suppress. On fifty cent and one dollar coins was pasted the adver tisements with a paste of glue which almost defied removal, covering the in scription on the reverse of the coin, deadening the resonance and of course enabling the swindler to take out part of the silver and substitute base metal. Spurious coins of very common work manship also passed readily with the coin sticker on them. There is a great increase of late in the number of skillful men who are constantly studying ways and means of stealing a part of the genuine metal from our coins and substituting base metal. One of the most successful swindlers in this line was a man named Wilcox, who was recently taken into custody in Chicago by secret service of ficers. He made an average income of from fifty to one hundred dollars a day by clipping gold coins. Uy cutting a rim from around the coin, as a tire might be removed from a wheel, he took away from each twenty-doliar gold piece an amount of gold not ex ceeding twenty-six or twenty-nine grains in weight, or the value of one dollar. The subsequent rereeding of the double eagle, done with a machine, rendered it as perfect as ever to the eye of the casual observer. The apparatus was small and easily packed, and on reaching a fresh locali ty all that was required was a quiet room in an obscure street and a supply of gold coin. The latter he secured from the bank. He would deposit a considerable sum of money, and after awhile he would draw it out in gold. The clipped coins were passed by Mrs. Wilcox at dry goods shops mostly. One of the most interesting processes consists in sawing a donble eagle in two through the edge and gouging out the inside, so as to remove about fif teen dollars' worth of gold. Thus the piece is reduced to a hollow shell in halves. It is then filled with platinum, which U nearly as heavy as yellow metal and costs at the present market rates, though this varies, somewhat less than one-half. Lead is too light for the purpose. The cut edge of the reconstructed coin is disguised by a rim of gold soldered on, and a reeding machine renews the corrugations of the minting. The result is really a work of art, being a combination of five different metals. Only an expert can distinguish anything wrong about A metnon somewnai similar, tnougu less artistic, is to substitute for the in terior portion of a gold piece a core in the shape of a planchet of silver. A better plan, though somewhat labori ous, consists in boring into the coin from the edge so as to remove a consid erable part of its internal substance. In this manner about seven dollars’ worth of gold may be conveniently re moved from a twenty-doliar piece, the hole being filled up with a metal com position and soldered at the opening with gold. Fortunately for the currency, prac tically all the gold in circulation in the United States passes every few hours through the treasury and subtreas- nriea. Every piece received at those institutions is weighed, and, if found light In weight, Is stamped with a big "L.” Such coins are redeemed as bullion. The loss to the government by wear and tear on silver coin in circulation is considerable. It averages three cents on every dollar. Last year it amounted to 8239,293. The people have not all become familiar with the faces of the new silver coins The obverse and reverse of the older coins they have known so long and intimately that the draped figure of Liberty and the majestic pose of the eagle are fixed in their mind and always recognized, but the new coins, with changed designs, to which, puzzling them more, were added the Columbus souvenirs, have not yet established their identity. The manufacturing counterfeiters, quick to discover and take advantage of whatever favors deception, almost immediately followed the government’s issue of the coins of new design with their fraudulent issue in likeness of them, and reaped a rich harvest be cause the originals were known, but not well known. The gilders-—counterfeiters, too—’ saw in the new twenty-five-centcoln, if gilded, a presentable, beguiling ten- dollar piece, and pocketed a full per centage of profit until discovered. The lack of weight should, of course, and does make known the fraudulent Character of the gold coin. This laat, the gilders' scheme to falsify coin, as It requires neither skill nor expensive plant, and promises so much (or so little, is always a seductive one to the unprincipled or weak of wllL Prices a century Age. One hundred years ago beef sold in New York city at *X<1- toStfd. a poundi mutton, SJfd; veal, 5J4 to SXd-; live pigs, 3 butter. Is. IXd-i new milk, :8Xd- ta>3Xd, a qnart; chickens, lOd. to Is.; hay, £3 Sa. to £3 16s. 3d. a ton; wheat,’ 3s. 7Xd. a bushel; barley, 3a. IXd.; corn, 2a. UXd.; rye, 3a.lXd.; oats, 1*. 8Xd. The average yield of wheat per acre in the state then was 12 bush els; of corn, 23 bushels and of buckwheat Is bushels. THROUGH COOSA RtVIff BRIDQt I Birmingham and Atlantic Mixed PrecIpS tated Hear AanUton—One Killed. Annsien, Ala., October 3.—A Bir mingham and Atlantic mixed train, consisting of ona coach, baggage and wo coal ears Went .through n bridge over the Coosa river yesterday. The bridge was qjty feet high and the wa ter twenty feet deep. One negro pas senger was billed and the conductor, flrenis a, mail clerk and baggage mas ter were hurt, but none seriously. Among the passengers were ft woman and tw® children, neither of whom were AMERICANS AND DIAMONDS. They Buy Mure Thau tha People of Europe. It Is claimed that Americans buy more diamonds than any other people. They have always worn more, and at all times of day. In and out of season, so i they were a reproach to their English cousins in the early days of social inter course. But American women's dia mond earrings worn early in the morn ing. though decried by conservative Britishers, had the power, to change the standard of dress. Ridiculed as they were, the Americans won the day, and soon European dames began to wear their Jewels in the street and on all possible occasions. A craze for din- i monds spread over society, and not only family heirlooms but much new Jewelry employing these once rare stones, and bought dirt cheap, became a feature of the daily toilette. Of course, when fashion took a hand in the business, the diamond market boomed and syndicates talked very I loud and big of the fields where the sparklers bloomed perennially. The real gem entailed the Imitation, and rhinestones, as well as the almost-im- possible-to-detect paste from the Rue de la I*alx and the Palais Royale have had a tremendous vogue, but, as de mand increases supply, tfie diamond syndicates were equal to the occasion, and "real stones’* could be purchased for a little more than the false ones. The result has been that everybody has worn some sort of a diamond. In this country the craze has grown into a cult. Tiaras gleam on the brows of the wives of millionaires. Necklaces worth a prince's ransom are bought by anybody who has money to pay for them. Brooches, pins, bracelets, starred with the gems, are so common a woman must plaster herself with them to be observed. Every girl "Just engaged" exhibits a diamond ring, and it has de veloped a vein of humor, if not a new class of joke, that much envied gage d'amour. The nice young man who polishes your boots for a nickel wears a "diamond" in a not too fresh neck scarf, and the gentlemanly car con ductor is not above ornamenting his little finger with an off colored African stone! In fact, where there is the least excuse for jewelry, one may be certain the preference will be given to the dia mond kind. NOISELESS ROYSTERERS. The Whoopi©.. Spree Indulged In by a Trio of Motet. Three men went out on a quiet drunk the other night, says the Kansas City Times. They drank early and often. In the descriptive parlance of the north end they "made a night of it.” Unlike the majority of men, the more intoxi cated they became the less they “talked.” They were mutes, ail three of them, deaf mutes. They visited the saloons of the nor th end and Imbibed copious libations of the extract of malt. They lined up be fore a bar and chatted to each other on their finger ends, and drank and smiled and smiled and smiled. Words were written in the air with startling rapidity early in the evening, but as the night wore away the insidious something that steals through one’s system after repeated it erations to the white-aproned monarch to “fill ’em up agai»," began to tell on the mutes. Their fingers began to grow “thick" and did not readily respond to their owner’s will os was their wont in periods of sobriety. Toward midnight it became plainly apparent that their artificial source of expressing their thoughts was losing its Integrity, also its orthography. This fact pleased the mutes. They looked as if they would like to whoop a few times in defiance of the police and the public. But as this pleasure was denied them, they pounded the bar and nodded to the bar tender to fill the glasses again. But the deaf-mute humanity wears out the same as the other kind, and shortly be fore dawn stole down from the Sni hills they dropped off into sound and unbroken slumber. Then only they became audible. Their sleeping could be heard. WHIPPING-POSTS AGAIN, electricity on the farm. Efforts of Prominent New Yorkers in This Direction. Franch Marring©.. When a French bride marries she does not assume the hymenial white satin, as is our custom, if her family or her husband's are in mourning, but goes to the altar in simple white mus lin, as M. Ernest Carnot’s bride did a few weeks ago. Though in view of the late president’s tragic death it seemed somewhat soon for the wed ding, Mme. Carnot herself wished that it should take place, as it accordingly did, but with so much privacy that not even a single relative, except Uiose im mediately connected with the young people, were informed. The bride's family wore costumes of pale gray and violet, while the Carnot ladies were, of course, in deepest mourning. The bridegroom's mother appeared deeply moved during the service, and an air of silence and sadness hung over the bridal. Mile. Chlris was an especial favorite with the late M. Carnot and is extremely pretty. She had no orna ments, except a bouquet of white roses, with some fastened into her simple dress. The Lady chapel of SL Pierre de Pasay, in which the marriage took place, was adorned with similar flowers, but there were none in any part of the church. Tr»a.ure SMksrs In Florida. It l* remarkable how many people live In Florida for no other purpose than hunting hidden treasure, says the Cincinnati Inquirer. From the stories told it would seem that there must be millions of dollars In Spanish doub loons hidden along the Florida coast Some of these have actually been fonnd, just enough to give zest to the search. Capt. Kidd is supposed to have planted a few hundred thousand dol lars down there, and a number of other pirates used Florida aoil as a deposit bank. There are people who have lived there for twenty years in order to find treasure, and have Impoverished themselves in their search for this' vast wealth. There have never been any very large finds, but a number of small ones, and the belief that there are large sums hidden seems to be uni versal What It I* Hoped to Areoatpllsb Through 8Mb • Low-To Bo Employed Oul; for Wife-11©.ter. and Brutal Thugs. New York proposes to attempt to re vive the system of corporal punish- l ment for certain classes of offenders. A t least certain people in New York, led by Elbridge T. Gerry, will try to have the following made a law at the next session of the legislature: “Whenever a male person shall be convicted of a felony consisting of or accompanied by the infliction'of phys ical pain or suffering upon the person of another, the court may, in its dis cretion, in addition to that penalty now prescribed by law, impose an ad ditional sentence of corporal punish ment to lie inflicted upon the offender in the prison to which he shall be sen tenced. Such corporal punishment shall be inflicted in private in said prison, in the presence of the warden and suigeon thereof, who shall certify the fact to the court wherein it was imposed." Commodore Gerry is very much in 1 earnest in the mstter, snd in an inter view with a reporter for the New York Recorder stoutly defended the plan on the ground that it provided for the only punishment that is really feared by the brutes that It is intended to reach. “Crime,” *aid he, “of the more brutal and fiendish . haraetcr is frightfully on the Increase, -specially in the case where children of both sexes are the victims. Instances in which lifelong injuries have been Inflicted on girls and boys of a tender age ore becoming so numerous that it is time something was done to strike at th. 1 very root of evil, and I am sure the only weapon that can be effectively used against the brutes who, in their passions, exhibit no thought or feeling for their victims is the lash. * “Once let the brutal element of the community know that the pain and suffering inflicted by them on others will be meted out on their own bodies and the shocking state of affairs now existing will be to a great extent wiped out I am thankful to say that the creatures res]>onslble for the of fenses are forelgnera. The grade of crime against which the resolution is aimed is peculiar to men from other countries. And the only way to show these wretches that they cannot in dulge in such things in this continent is the crack and the sting of the lash. 'It has been erroneously stated that wife-beaters are included among the creatures against whom we are fight- j ing. This is not so. We are only ad vocating the lash for felony committed by men. Wife-beaters belong to an other class of animals which may or may not deserve a good thrashing. They, however, do not enter into the discussion. Burglary with violence, as sault of any brutal nature—those ore 'he offenders who, i maintain, should feel the sting of the lash. A conviction of twenty years, reduced by good be havior to twelve, has no salutary effect on the callous element with which I am dealing. As an Instance, you, a law-abiding, peaceful citizen, are enjoying a well- earned rest; a hardened brnte of a bur glar, not satisfied with plunder, delib erately knocks you over the head, puts your eye out, crushes in your skull, maims you, beats you, and for this he gets twenty years. Is that any satis faction to you? Do you get a new eye or another skull or a clean skin? Nol Then I say let his punishment be pro portionate in some degree to the of fense. 'Formerly crimes of which I specially speak were punishable by death. But experience showed that the class of people that commit these crimes of personal violence don't dread death. Nihilists, anarchists, atheists and the more degraded classes scout the Idea. Corporal punishment Is the only thing the scamps and rarcals are afraid of. A few years in prison doesn't have any deterrent effect. A man comes out of prison and he immediately perpetrates a similar crime, but if he understands that he is going to get a dose of that which he inflicts on other people, he thinks twice before he runs the risk. “It is nonsense to play the fool with criminals and say thatcorporal punish ment is degrading and a revival of the dark ages. Are the abuses Inflicted on little children degrading? Was there anything in the dark ages more debas ing than the revolting acta which oc cur to-day? There seems to be a mawk ish sensibility in the opposition to cor poral punishment. It is the oldest form of punishment known, snd it is to be found in the Mosaic law. There can be nothing brutal in It, provided yon don't make the exhibition public. In Delaware they have a curious meth od. A felon is sentenced to thirty lashes, fifteen of which are adminis tered. lie is then told to get out of the state, and if he is found there after the lapse of a week the balance of the thirty lashes awaits him. The plan works admirably. “Again, in London, when the garrot- ere were terrorizng the city, the cat-o'- nine-tails was brought into play with such effect that garroting was un known in a very short space of time. Would I suggest any particular mode of administering the punishment? No. The ordinary lash on the back would meet all requirements. It is effective, and if I live long enough the advisabil ity of its legalization a ill come before the next session of the legislature.” Country Life May Be Mud* Lee* Laborious by u New Ageecy. Part of the growing difficulties oc casioned by the desertion of the coun try and the crowding of the cities will be remedied, perhaps, by six years hence—in that wonderful year 1900, which electricians set as a mile post of human progress—by the crowning of steam's rival, says the New York Press. Machinery is rapidly taking the dead ening drudgery out of farm work when conducted scientifically and on a large scale, and is causing it to attract the attention of city people who long for the healthful fields. Only the bodily discomforts of farm work have pre vented an exodus from the city to the country. Already electricity is turn ing its attention to the long neglected DANGER TO THE WORLD. China a Menace to the Civilization of All Lands. Japan Within liar Rtahu In liar Effurta to Maintain a Bold I'poa — Eiclu.lr. Nationality of tha I'hlaMO. Sir Edwin Arnold is s warm partisan of the Japs, but he had the privilege of witnessing the grand army maneuvers of some two or three years since, and s no one will deny to him a knowledge of the Interior economy of the country. Sir Edwin Arnold, says the London Daily Graphic, will not countenance [ the belief of Mr. Curzon that the Jap- _ _ j anese government is desperately occu- farm work, and has discovered profit*- pied w Uh domestic politics ble results to be had by subjecting , “I am surprised that so intelligent an crops to currents of electricity. It is obi error should not have known how beginning to simplify the ponderous farm machinery, and as soon as the storage battery has received its finish ing touches and can be applied to light ening the farmer's toll and increasing his profits the farmer will be looked upon with envy by the prisoners of city streets and counting house walla Those particular effects of electricity upon farm machinery and farm life are, however, visible chiefly in the im agination at present, and are not at all likely to be realized in six years; but one great change may be looked for in this direction in the immediate future, and that is the improvement of the farmer's condition by means of good roads and the rapid transit which electricity Is almost ready to bring, thus greatly enlarging his market and bringing him higher prices for fresher products, and also bringing him closer to the life and pleasures and stimu lating effect of the city. There is to be a wonderful change in farm life in the more thickly settled parts of the country in a very few years, and rapid transit will be largely responsible for it. The cheap transmission of electrical power must bring soon many changes that will be felt in the city household, and perhaps the chief of them will be the abolition of the cook stove as it is known at present The small electric heater has already begun to take its place, and it is almost certain that even in six years coal will be banished from a majority of the kitchens in cities ad jacent to water power from which electricity Is generated. When heat is wanted for cooking purposes it will be had at a moment’s notice by the press ing of a button. THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Voatn©.. of Some of the Or.liter star, of the I’leladea. If our sun were removed to the Pleiades it would hardly be visible in an opera glass with which nearly 100 stars can be seen in the cluster. Sixty or seventy Pleiades surpass our sun in brilliancy, Aicyon being 1,000 times more brilliant, Electra 500 times and Mala nearly 400, says Longman'© Maga zine. Sirius itself takes a subordinate rank when compared with the five most brilliant members of a group the real magnilleance of which we can thus in some degree apprehend. If we seek to know the dimensions, not of the individual stars, but of the cluster itself, we are met with many diffi culties, but, on the assumption that it is approximately spherical in shape, we can calculate Its diameter to be over 40,000,000,000 miles If we think of the dimensions of our solar system by themselves or in relation to terrestrial matter they appear stupendously enor mous Neptune, the most distant known member, has an orbit over 5,- 000,000,000 miles across, but the solar system Is to the Pleiades but a Lilipu- tian to a Brobdingnagian—is but a microbe to a mountain—for a sphere the size of the solar system would, if it were spherical and its diameter that of the orbit of Neptune, be relatively so minute that it could be contained more than 400,000,000,000 times in a sphere the size of the Pleiades; in other words, the limits of the Pleiades could contain 150 solar systems as many times over as there are miles be tween Neptune snd the sun. It must not be forgotten that though there are 2,300 stars in the cluster, yet with such dimensions for the entire group vast distances must separate the stars from one another. In fact, 2,3»0 spheres, each with a diameter of 3,000,000,000 miles, could be contained in the limits assigned to the group, snd assuming equal distribution of the stars in the group, each would be at the center of a sphere 3,000,000,000 miles across, and therefore a light journey of 187 days from its nearest neighbor. Cure for Headache. As a remedy for all forms of Headache, Electric Bitters has proved to be the very best. It effects a permanent cure and the most dreaded habitual sick headaches yield to its influence. We urge all who are afflicted to procure a botttle, and give this remedy a fair trial. In cases of habitual constipation, Electric Bitters cures bv giviugtheneed- ed tone to the bowels, and few cases long resist the use of this medicine. Try it once. Large bottles only fifty cents at Will- cox & Co’s drug store. MORE GHASTLY EVIDENCES. The Remit, of tha —«©©nt Storm on tho Florida Coaat Grow More Alarmlug. Kby West, Fla., October 8.—Fifty dead bodies, victims of the wrecks oc curring on the reefs during the recent storm, have bean washed ashore on the islands around Key West. The dead, it is stated, sra evidently sailors from the vessels destroyed, although the length of time which has elapsed since the storm has rendered the bodies uni- lentiflable through decomposition. The }reliabilities are that many more of ;hese ghastly evidences of the hurri cane's fury will be brought to light in . .*.7. iL.r». Pursuing tho Train Koblioiv. Fort Worth, Tex., October 23.—A strong posse is in pursuit of the four men who robbed the west-bound Texas Pacific express train of a large amount of money estimated at about 820,000. Governor Hogg proposes to offer a re ward for their capture. Penas cols'. Sunday Oramsnco. A — t qr. aTW , inc rcmoiuiuK —7- Pensacola, Fla., August 1. The p- tu . re( p meDtli which fought with peal case to test the validity of th Union army thf drll wa r met In an- Bunday ordinance In this city was ^ rennloI1 Waddy, twelve miles argued in the supreme court at laiia- | aorth of her8 t^y. Four or five hun- hasaee yesterday. The eourt reversed ^ (old!en , are pr esent. At the meet- ha decision until the September term. | ^ t 600 Soldiers of Khstncky Most. Lawrkncebubo, Ky., October *. The remaining members of the Ken- the MONOCLES IN EUROPE.. Believed to Have Orlglnstsd In the British Army—Favored by Continental ORleem. In every capital of Europe the mono cle Is common enough, says the New York World. It attracts no attention on the street. In a row of men at a theater a considcralile proportion are sure to have IL Perhaps half the offi cers in the Ger man army wear mono cle* They are seen in abundance at any meeting of the French academy. Even socialist deputies In France are not -ashamed to go among their con- stituenta wearing them. A session of the English honse of commons glitters with solitary eyeglasses. The single eyeglass is said to have originated among the officers of the British army. About the beginning of the century an order was Issued that army officers should not wear eyeglasses or spec tacles. It was supposed that they gave the wearers an unmllitary appearance. The order caused severe inconvenience to many short-eighted officers, and one of them belonging to a crack regiment Invented the single eyeglass; its use was no contravention of the order which prohibited spectacles and eye glasses. It soon became very popular In the army and was afterward adopted. On account probably of this origin the single eyeglass is very generally worn in Europe by army officers. It is by sonic thought to give an aspect of de termination and ferocity to the wearer, whereas eyeglasses lend an air of teeblenesa A Tablet for n King. A tablet recently set up at Naples commemorates the bravest act done by a king in this century, the visit of King Humbert to the cholera sufferers in 1884. It stands near the spot where the excommunicated king, Cardinal San Felice and the archbishop of Naples met while passing through the hospital In the performance of duty. queen Regent cur mine has in structed the Spanish government to prosecute Roman Catholic papers which asserted that aha had caused the King ta carolled %» 8 Free llttie the Japanese houses of parlia ment count socially or politically against the policy of those ministers whom the emperor appoints and whom he removes at his sole pleasure. When the deputies make themselves Impossi ble they are simply sent home; when they refuse supplies public funds are taken quietly on account; and when they bring things to a deadlock the emperor and his advisers carry on the business of the country, after dissolv ing parliament, which, amid all these vagaries—the lively working of new and geqerous wine—remains steadfast ly loyal and ardently patriotic.” That the two countries had equal rights in Corea, and that when one In creased its force the other was bound to do the same, was the writer's con tention—in short, that Japan has done and is doing precisely what England would have done under the same cir cumstances. “In the present struggle Japan unquestionably stands the cham pion of progress, of justice, and of in ternational development, so that the partisanship shown in certain quar ters against her has In it an element of stupidity which cannot, therefore be easily excused." Mors interesting than this, though, is Sir Edwin Arnold's re minder of one of the forces "which more potently tends to hold China to gether in her intense and exclusive na tionality," namely, the extreme anx iety of the Celestial to be buried at home. “But if some high ecclesias tical authority, or tho Vermillion Pen cil itself, should decree as they well might, that Confucius should be sat isfied if a pinch of Chinese dust were thrown into the foreign grave—then tho floodgates would lie open to a gen eral Chinese immigration into all lands. “One perceives how heavy the obliga tion is, and at the same time how bind ing, when again and again, at San Franaisco and other ports of embarka tion, Chinese passengers are stopped carrying in a carpet-bag or a hat-box the bones of their relatives. But when any such general emigration of China men occurs as that which I am fore casting, It will be a social and industri al deluge. The markets of the world will be literally jswamped with the most Industrious, persevering, fearless and frugal specimens of mankind who will everywhere underbid labor and monopolize trade, as they have done in Singapore, Penang and many other spots. The danger to civilization that China represents consists in this rather than in her unwieldy strength and slothful resources, the ineflicaoy of which for actual service Japan has al ready exposed by the brilliant com mencement of the present campaign. “For these and other reasons it is to the Interest of the civilized world that China should not become more homo geneous or any larger than she is at present, and above all that she should not intrigue with the second colossal standing menace to human progress, the Russian empire, agumst the free dom of the Pacific. That German jour nal had the true instinct in scientific politics which lately wrote that, in the war just declared, the sympathies and good wishes of civilization were dne en tirely to the side of Japan." Tressarad Present, from the Queen. Jewelers to Queen Victoria have a •oft snap since her craze for theatrical performances at Windsor. It is opined that diamond brooches and bracelets must be bought by the gross, as her majesty always pays the artists in these tokens of her consideration and appreciation of the show. Many are the favored stars who now own a queen's brooch, and who look on the gift as a lucky piece ever after. It speaks well for their loyalty and the lieauty of the Jewel that the recip ient always says It shall never leave the family, but become an heirloom from that time forth. The worth of these souvenirs rarely varies in price, but they vary in design, and the artist who receives a crown in diamonds and rubles with the initials “V. R. I.” from the royal hand deems the honor worth living for. Mme. Higrid Arnoldson re ceived one of these brooches when she sang in “Philemonet Baucis" recently, and Mrs. Kendal has one like it which she told some friends was placed In her dress by the queen herself, when the Kendals were commanded to play at Windsor seven or eight years ago. Modern Andalusia. Mr. Carl Luffmann, the well-known Australian agricultural expert, who has been for some months studying viticulture and fruit growing round about Malaga, gives a highly favorable account of that part of Spain as a field for emigration, in the Ixindon Dally New* With the importation there of industrious men, capital and modern appliances there is every natural con dition, he thinks, favorable to a speedy and profitable return. In fact, accord ing to this authority, there is no coun try in Europe which presents advan tages equal to those of Australia. At the same time he points out that Spain offers the advantage of being In Eu rope, and therefore close at home, while it has local attractions of such an old world character as delight the most conservative. From a health point of view, moreover, the climate is 1 unrivaled, a circumstance which tells strongly in favor of happiness In Spain there are no bad seasons, no drudgery, no hard competition, no dearth of sunshine. The country, Mr. Luffmann declares, Is open to receive and benefit every class of emigrant Crattaxoooa, Tenn., August J.— Richard D. Rawlings, of Chattanooga, whose disappearance from Chicago caused a sensation, returned to Chatta- their | nooga yesterday. He had been on • | visit to SI Louis. lils-rifi-idlstt-Cisiiltj! FIRE INSURANCE A SPECIALTY. Representing only the strong est and most reliable Compan ies, we offer special induce ments. Promptness and accuracy shall mark all the dealings of our office. j. e. \mm &co. J. K. KOKMBNT. MRS. LUCY M. NORMKNT. Office over Welling & Bonnoitt’s Store w Rice, Rice, Rice. E solicit consignments of ROUGH RICE in any quan tity. Ail consignments milled and reshfpped or sold promptly. Kates moderate. WEST POINT MILL CO., Sept. 27—2mo. Charleston, 8. C. Great Bargains Is Your Life Worth Anything to others? Are there not persons dependent on your earnings for their support? Are they pro vided for in case of your death? The simplest and safest way of assuring their protection is life in surance. Business, pro fessional, and working men generally, should in sure, for their brains or their muscles, are their capital and income too. Death stops them both. Insure in the Equitable Life and death cannot stop your salary or steal your capi tal, and your loved ones will be safe from want. W. J. RODDEY, Gaavaml ARmt for the CarallnM, ROCK HILL. South Carolina. nFallinjSicM CAN b« CURED; W. via SEND FREE fc* _ m.n a UiK TRIAL BOTTLE, ■ tho a treat*© os Epilepsy. DON’T SUFFER ANY LONGER! Cl-©PoMOC. 6ce. Stats and County, and A*« plainly. ! ***"“. THE HALL CHEMICAL CO./ I 3809 i sirinvuat Aroaue, i’UlaMsfcia.JW ROOFING SLATES. IN Sewing Machines, Some of them almost as good as new, are now offered at the Darlington Guards’ Armory building by DAR- GAN & THOMPSON, Attorneys for the White Sewing Machine Co. J18tf TpLEMING CEMENT AND BRICK COMPANY. MASONS’ SUPPLIES, 276 East Bay, CHARLESTON, S. C. Importers of "j ENGLISH f /FOIRTL A-3?TID 1 J CEMENT J and dealers in Eastern and Southern Rook Lime. Rosendale Cement, N. Y Plaster Paris, Hair, Laths, Sli ingles. Tiles, Bricks, Fire Clay and all Building Mater ial.’ ALL SIZES T. C. PIPE. BEST FULL SIZE FIRE BRICK. Telephone 291. ROOFING SLATES. Captain Batty, ot London, win lead * smsM ©TTxMitlon to the Arctic Ocean to neck liis brother and his companion, Bitvlttutl. nitt'irallMs, who Und«d os la.. ...of Kolguevsii Jun* last IT IH FACT That the furniture store of BAIRD & SMOOT « » credit to Darlington. THEIR FURNITURE Is up to date, artistic and well made, stock complete and the largest in Eastern South Carolina. Wt can furnish your home from the kitch- to the parlor, including window shades, CARPETS, MATTING, &C. OTJR IPIRICIES ARE LOW. We bought this summer our goods in the West where they had been made on half wages, and we can sell you FURNITURE now at prices that we will GUARANTEE to be the lowest on the manket. Call on or write us. Mim i SMOOT. RE-HD AT THE STORE OF IBTTTr BRUNSON, LUNN & CO. 20 Yards Good Standard Calico; 20 Yards Good Checked Homespun; 20 Yards 30 Inch Sea Island Homespun; 15 Yards 30 Inch Heavy Homespun; 8 Yards Good Pants Cloth; 4 Yards 30 Inch All Wool Flannel Dress Goods; 2 Dozen Spools of Thread; 100 Balls Sewing Cotton; 1 Pair of Lady’s Shoes; 1 Suit Boy’s Clothes; 1 Dress Hat for a Man; 40 Pounds of Good Flour; 5 Pounds Good Rio Coffee and too numerous to mention. many other things Sin th i nil Gii asjlliig pi nut; tkiy will nit jn Ml QUALITY -AND—