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J Property of ^'* le ^‘hirltnnton County (Historical Society THE HERALD. VOL. I DAKLINGTON, S. C„ WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 189# NO. 1. r It appetn thSt water works in the United States and Canada have trebled in the laat ten years, growing from 680 In 1881 to 1900 to-day. The capital in vested is $500,000,000, their annual revenue is $50,000,000. their mains are 30,000 miles long and they have 2,000,- 000 taps. The ex-King Milan, of Servia, receives a large incomje for refraining from the pleasure# of authorship. When he threat ened to write his reminiscences, a pen sion of $200( a month was “cheerfully” accorded to him, it is reported, if he would abstain. He consented to ab stain. The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Time* in quired into the nationality of the 358 members of the Chamber of Commerce of that prosperous and go-ahead city. The result of the investigation showed that 175 of the 358 were born in the South ern States, while 147 were born North and thirty-six in foreign countries. The Philsdeldhia Preu says: “Ice has not risen in.Baltimore and to the South. It has in Ihiladelphia and the North. Coal is reary at the foundation of cheap ice. Before long it will be cheaper to use coal to make ice than to use it in carrying ico. Many people think this is true now.” J A writer in the New York Sun calls calls attention to the fact that $70,000,- 000 of American money passes through English banks annually for use in the Argentine Republic. The reason is that there is not a single United States bank in the great South American republic, though there are large numbers of United States citizens in business there, chiefly >r home houses. city of the red man for civili- I no longer be doubted. The ribune has heard of one who tost a nundber of ponies last fall, and in stead of going on the war path, put an advertise! sent in the papers offering a suitable r sward. He got his ponies and paid not only the reward, but the bill for advertisii tg, furnishing thereby coticlu- sive evid snee of civilization. ( \ ;ve 500 to 600 seals or sea e month of the Elbe, near , Germany. It is calculated seal eats about ten pounds of ay, that is nearly 4000 per year. Tttat would amount to 2,000,000 pounds it fish for 500 seals annually. The Hac r Xirg Ashers do not like it, and are talkii g of remedies. In San Fran cisco the r are bothered in the same way. ,1 I ! But fetw persons who view a passenger train as ft goes thundering past know that it represents a cash value of from $75,000 [to $120,000. The ordinary ex press tralin represents from $83,000 to $90,0001 The engine and tender are valued ist $10,500; the baggage car $1000; 1 he postal car $2000; the smoking car $5000; two ordinary passenger cars $10,000 each; three palace oars $15,000 each—t )tal $83,000. Many of the trains which p all out from the depot in New York ci ,y are worth $150,000. The Chicago Be raid narrates that an em] iloye of the Louisville & Texas Railroa I at Hawesville, Ky., dreamed that a switcl i was misplaced, and that a fast train w is^due- He awoke so deeply im pressed withVhe vision that he went out to the Switch at oace to see if all were safe, tie found it misplaced, as he had dream (Id. A fast train was nearly due, which, with the switch as he found it, would 1 ave crashed into a train on the sidetrack in which sixty men were asleep. The inc ident is of interest to hypnotists and ^ream student pel haps, but it throws no new light on the misplaced- switch question. Passengers, as a rule, would Htilt prefer to trust to the man that is wide awake rather than to the man that dreams. The Hawesville man’s dream was opportune and truthful this time, to be sure, but he is just as likely some other time to dream that the switch is all right when really it is all wrong. At showing what may be accomplished In the way of timber growing in treeless regions, ex-Governor J. Sterling Mor ton, of Nebraska, father of the Arbor Day for economic tree planting out that way, says that “more than 600,000,000 trees planted by human hands” are grow ing in that State. “The time will yet eome,” says the Virginia (Nev.) Enter- prisa apropos of that fact, “when the mountains of the region known as the ‘arid zone’ will be covered to their tope with timber trees. We of the present generation have not much time to give to reforesting the mountains, but that work wiH bedone by the generation i that will foil >w us. Our work is to make a be gin ting of water storage. That is • wot k which now faoes us and demands to t e done. By it will be utilized the araMe lands of the arid sone. When theee shall have been reclaimed the next |gei (ration will see that the mountains do Inofl lie waste. The rich soil on their atones will be made to bear forests of pine. While the present generation wll) fee jthe reservoir builders, they will also $01what they can to preserve the forests r existing, and beside will be sticking occasional tree. Naturally they I start groves about the reservoirs and the lines of canals and ditchsa, i will bs a beginning for the coming NEWS SUMMARY. FBOtf ALL OVER THE B0UTHLAHD, Accidents. Calamities Pleasant Hews and Notes of Industry. VIRGINIA. A company has been organized at Lynchburg to open up a coal mine in Wist Virginia, on the Elk Horn, with $75,000 of capital. The name given the company was the Gilliam Coal and Coke Company, and the following officers were elected: T. W. Gilliam, president; James Clark, vice president ;W. C.Brooke secretary, Bramwell, W. Va.; J. R. Gil liam, treasurer; Directcrs: W.C. Brooke, Bramwell, W. Va.; C. V. Winfree, James Clark, Hunter Marshall, .1. T. Jennings, 8. H. Halsey. George D. Witt, James A. Ford, 8. W. Watts, T. W. Gilliam and J. R. Gilliam, of Lynchburg. A man named Wells, a passenger on the Virginia Midland, accidently fell from the eaetbound train a mile from Lynchburg, and is reported to have been mortally wounded. J. T. Hambrick, of Danville made an assignment. A horrible accident occurred at the Buena Vista iron mines. There are 200 laborers employed by the company for day and night woik. At 4 o’clock, the night men were called off and the hoist was let down in the mine to convey them to the top. 8ix men boarded it, and all went well until within ten feet of the top, when the shaft gave way causing the rope to break. Three of the miners leaped for their lives, and two succeeded in clinging to the siding until they were reacued. The four unfortunates were hurled down the shaft a distance of 150 feet to the bottom. The dead are: Eli Painter, Jno. Montgomery, and Litz Snead, killed outright. Floyd Marion had hi* collar bone broken and received injuries internally, but will probably re cover. TENNESSEE. Cenaus Supervisor Goves estimates the population of Knoxville at 48,000. The city bad 9,493 in 1880, showing a gain of 23,307 in ten years. The first gneral reunion of confeder ate veterans commenced in Chatanooga Wednesday, continuing three days, The cit^ was brilliantly decorated with blue and gray bunting, the stars and stripes, and large pictures of prominent generals and other leading characters of both sides in the late war. Several thousand people were there from various southern states,among them being General E Kirby Smith, General John B. Gordon and others prominent in war. Address of elcome and response were made. In the grand military parade Friday morning there was 10,000 old soldiers and militia from all parts of the south. General Gordon, general commanding, reviewed the troops and delivered a-i ad dress from tbe saddle. The Tcnnissae river, Cameron bill and Lookout moun tain was illuminated Friday night by a grand pyrotechnic display. What is called the supreme lodge of the Independent Order of Immaculates, a negro society, while in session at Nash ville, and had a street parade.. While passing across the square, James Hutch inson’s team became frightened, and the owner jumped down to keep them from running away. The horses reared and plunged and dragged him in the way of the procession, when Bara Toney grabbed him by the collar and, with one blow of a sword, nearly severed tbe man’s nose from his face. Toney waa arrested on a state’s warrant, charging him with as sault with a deadly weapon. Hutchison is a weil to do farmer. By au explosion of dynamite at Craw fish Springe, Ga., near Chatanooga on the old Chickamauga battlefield, three convicts were killed and one wounded. The men were blasting out a foundation for a new hotel. Ten charges had been placed,, but only six of them fired. The men returned to work, and while send ing a drill down tbe hole, which had not been discharged, an explosion oc curred. Four men were thrown over the top of the surrounding trees, killing two of the victims instantly, wounding one so that he died in a few minutes, and dreadfully injuring the fourth. An inquest was held. NORTH CAROLINA T. K. Brune, secretary of the State Agricultural Department, was notified by the secretary of tbe London Exposi tion that by mistake no space bad been reserved for North Carolina’s exhibit. Th : s is a great disappointment, as North Carolina hnd prepared an extensive ex hibit to be sent to London for the occa sion. News has been received of a drunken row near Pilot mountain, Surry county, Saturday. A drunken crowd congregat ed at a whiskey shop and began quarrel ing A young man named Hyatt cut another man named Edmunds all to pieces, and while doing so, Hyatt’s father arrived- Another man named Bruner, who was taking up for Edmund*, shot the father down, killing him instantly. Hyatt was hauled home drunk by the side of his dead father. Several other parties were hurt. The Fourth District Judicial Conven tion met at Raleigh and nominated Hon. Speir Whitaker judge. Toe Lynchburg and Durham Railroad will reach Durham about the middle of the month. Census Supervisor Lockcy says the population of Wilmington will be shown by the census to be about 20,000. A company has been formed to build an elegant $30,000 hotel at Ocean View, on Wnghtsville Beach, near Wilmington. It will be a three- story structure, of sty lish architecture, and will be suirounded with balconies. It will contain a hun dred and twenty five rooms, and a hand some ballroom. The ex-Confederste soldiers of Beau fort county have decided to hold sa en campment at Ocrocoke sometime during August. They piopose to remain in camp a week and have a general reunion of old soldiers, of whom there are many in that section. The death sentence of young Avera Butler, ‘ who killed his father with a double barrel shot gun, at Clinton, in Api ll, has been commuted by Gov. Fowle to fe imprisonment. Tbe murderer wss only 15 years old. SOUTH CAROLINA The Supreme Lodge Knights’of Honor, at its session in 1890 awarded a magni fleent silk banner suitable embroidered to the State of Louisiana, to remain with that State a* long u it maintained itself the banner State of the Union, that is, showed at the next succeeding meeting of the Supreme Lodge of the United States a net gain of three hundred and the highest percentage of gain over three hundred. At that asssion South Caro lina was at,tbe bottom of tbe list. At tbe recent session from the official re port Louisiana has again captured the banner, coming out first, while South Carolina has taked second place and Texas third. Tbe fraternity in this State encouraged by this showing, are making efforts to capture tbe banner at the next session. During a very severe thunder storm, the store of A. M. & J. L. Lopez, at Coosaw, waa struck by lightning and set on fire. The entire store and the stock were destroyed. The loss is unknown, but it is said that they aie well in sured. A valuable mang\ne<« mine has re cently been discovered near Greenwood, on the plantation of Mr. Andrew Stock- man. The vein is a very large one, being about twenty-five feet in width, runs in the direction of Edgefield Oounty and is found within four feet of tbe sur face of the earth. The quality of the ore is very fine, and analysis shows that it will average about 80 per cent. Mr. Stockman has made arrangements with a syndicate in Chicago to work the mine and fifty operators will be put to work at once in digging tbe ore. The discovery has created a ripple of excitement and nearly everybody is look ing around for additional finds of a similar character. Mr. Dan Charles, who lives in Edge- field County, twelve miles southeast of Prosperity, killed a negro man named Major Barrc. It seems that Mr. Charles went in tbe hoarse lot where the negro was catching the horse to go to work and told Major to fix the collar so that it would not hurt tbe horse's shoulder, when the negro teld him to mind his own — business, that be would attend to bis. Charles told the negro that it was his business »o look after his stock. Major became offended at this, and made at Mr. Charles with a pitchfork, the tine grazing the breast of Mr Charles, who, considering his own life in jeopardy, shot the negro, killing him instantly. Mr. Charles has gone to Edgefield Court House to surrender. Whilst seated on the street, Mr. Pojte N. Crouch, late of Newberry, S. C., and now proprietor of the Central Hotel of Spartanburg, received a sunstroke. Tbe day had been the botest of this unusually heated term, the thermometer standing 92 in the shadiest places. Drs. Means, Moore, Dean and Hcinitch were sum moned at once to tbe assistance of tbe sick man. He lay for several hours in an unconscious state, but regained the possession of his faculties during the night, and is doing very well. GEORGIA A daughter, aged four years, of J. G. McCants, of Taylor county, was burned to death a few days ago, her clothing having been ignited while she wus play ing with miitohes. The extensive barns and stables of Mrs. V. V. Hanson, at Sunny Side, about two miles east of Rutledge, was entirely destroyed by fire together with about 1,000 bushels of corn, very large crop of oats, hay and several bogs. Loss about $2,500. No insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. United States Deputy Marshall Wat son arrested William Keaton and Aaron Robinson, for breaking in the postoffice at Waycroes last Msy. They acknowl edge their guilt. They were carried to Savannah to have a hearing before United States court. A freight train was wrecked on the Alabama Midland railroad about six miles below Cedar Springs between Sheffield and Joeaphine station. The result was three men iustantly killed, and the tear ing up of four freight boxes. The dead bodies were taken to Bainbridge as soon as possible. The work on the Macon and Atlantic railroad will now go rapidly forward The cantracts for the first 120 miles, be tween Sofkee and Excelsior, havo been let and the contractors expect to com plete the grading in six months. The 120 miles have been divided into 121 sections and sublet to nineteen subcon tractors. A thorough schedule has been E ut on the Alabama Midland, from Bain ridge to Montgomery. OTHER STATES. Joe Keith, Town Marshal of Childen- burg, Ala., was killed b^ an unknown negro tramp. Keith arrested the negro for vagrancy and was carrying him to the police station when the negro broke and ran. Keith punned and followed close behind the negro until they had left the town limits and were in a clump of detached woods. There the negro turned on him, and drawing a pistol fired three times at the officer. Each shot took effect—one in the mouth, one in the back and one in the back of the bead. The negro then escaped and has not been heard of since. Louisville, Ky. A special from Flem- ingburg, Ky„ says Conflicting report* of a bloody encounter between revenue men and moonshiners, ic Rowon county, have been secured. All reports agree in one particular, namely: That three men were killed, without giving names or the sides to which they were attached. There has been intense feeling against tbe revenue men since tbe laat raid six weeks ago, and the government force was probably led into an ambuscade. PASSING EVENTS. NEWS OF THE DAT CONDENSED Item* ot Interest Put In Shane For Public Reading. The entire business portion of Pullman, Washington, was burned. The dock laborers of Chicago have struck for 5c per hour advance in wages It is estimated at the treasury depart ment that there hae been a decrease of about $20,000,000 in the public debt since June 1st. Cholera has appeared in France, sev eral cases being reported from tbe city of Marbonne. The eupcrlutendent oi the census has decided to order a recount of twenty- four districts in Kansas City. The world’s fair commission held a meeting in Chicago and a committee was appointed to examine Chicago’s subscrip . tion list and report. Tbe largest sheep ranch in the world is in the counties of Webb and Dimnet, in Texas. It contains upwards of 400,- 000 acres, and yearly pastures 800,0fli0 sheep. James Melvin, of Concord, Massachu setts, has for twelve years lain upon a bed without changing his position. The osseous portions of his body have united into one place, and from tbe crown of his head to the soles of his feet there is not a joint responsive to his will, Of the;i56 applicants for admission to West Point this year, 24 failed to pass the required examination on account of physical defects. According to tbe New Haven Pallad furn, out of the 125 men connected with the daily press of Connecticut, 81 are church members, 56 arc church goers or in sympathy with the church, while only 9 arc indifferent or skeptical. GO SOUTH YOUNG MAN. That’s What Hon. Chauncey Depew Tells the Yale Boys. The Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, in his address delivered before the Alumni As sociation of Yale University made these remarks, which were inspired by his oh nervations during his recent tour through the South. “The next result of this visit to tbe South, to mind, is just this—that the South is the bonanza ot the future. We have developed all the great and sudden opportunities for wealth or most of them, in our North Western States and the Pa cific slope. But here is a vast country with the best climate in the world, with conditions to health which are absolutely unparalelled, with vast forests untouched with enormous veins of coal and iron which yet nave not known anything be yond their orignal conditions, with soil that, under proper cultivation, with lit tle capital; can support a tremendous population; with conditions in the at mosphere for comfortable living winter and summer which exist nowhere else in tbe country; and that is to be the attrac tion for the young men who go out from the farms to seek settlement, and not by immigration from abroad—for I do not think they will go that way—but by the internal immigration from eur own coun try it is to become in time as prosperous as any other section of the country and prosperous by a purely American devel opment. His Wife Died Beside Him. Greenville, S.C.—James Fortner, a white man, living near Marietta, in this county, committed suicide by cutting his throat with an old razor. About a year ago his wife was found dead iu lied, having died by his side very suddenly, and although he was ac quitted of any blame, he has since allow ed her death to prey ou his mind to such an extent that at times he seemed very despondent, and would accuse himself of causing her death. Fearing he would do himself some great in jury, friends had been watching him for several days, two of them, who had been attending him, thinking ho was asleep, left the room for a few minutes, and while they were out ho arose, took the razor and cut 4iis throat. He was found on the floor in a pool of blood, with the bloody razor ly ing beside him. He left two little chil dren. Mr. Fortner was much respected and bore a good reputation. A largo number of applications for pensions under the disability pension bill have already been filed in the pen sion office. The haste has been so great that many of the applications are defec tive and will not he accepted, A num - her of applications have been received signed by the attorney only, CONGRESSIONAL. | Excess of Revenue $84,000,000—The Silver Bill—Federal Election BUI -Etc. i Washington. Acireful analysis or the fiscal operations of the government during the past year, as disclosed by the statement of receipts and expenditures issued from the Treasury Department places the excess of revenue over expen- ! dituree, in round numbers, at $84,000,- i 000, and the surplus revenue for the bear, after deducting about $40,000,000 ' yonds applied to the sinking fund at $44,000,000. In the preceding year, surplus revenue amounted to $48,694,- 007. ^-,The confceres on the silver bill me and discussed tbe difference between the two houses. They separated, having (ommSo no conclusion. Jt is said there were three oppositions preeented for con sideration, but their terms has not yet been made known. The house con ferees biought to the meeting a copy of the bill as it passed that body, and this formed the basis of whatever discussion took ploce. A great porton of the time, one of the conferees said, was spent in a general talk upon the subject, with no difinite proposition before them, The conference is said to have been satis factory in its tone and tendency to the members. In the House, Mr. Lodge, of Massa chusetts, asked for a report of the federal election b'll as passed with mar ginal notes. Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, demanded the regular order. Mr. Lodge suggested that there was oo necessity to get cross obout the matter. Mr. Rogers reported that the house had had enough of the bill, whereupon Mr. Honk, of Tennessee, suggested thdt the democrats might get more of it. The request was not acceded to. TUB ELECTION BILL PASSED. The reading of the engrossed copy of the bill was concluded, two hours and five minutes having been consumed thereby. The Question was then put on the passnge of the bill, the vote result ing yeas 155; nays 149. Messrs. Lehl- hack, of New Jersey, and Coleman, of Louisiana, voted against the bill with the Democrats. With this exception it was a strict party vote. The president signed the Idaho bill and the new state has been added to the flag. The President nominated Adam E. King, of Maryland, United States consul general at Paris. A Fnli With Two Months. A large number of persons visited Samuel Gugenheim's abattoir, at Forty- sixth street and First avenue, to see a natural curioaity, in the shape of a full- grown black and white bull having two separate mouths, each containing teeth. The animal is four years old, weighing about 700 pounds, and was raised on a farm near Yonkers, by Mr. Robinson. The second mouth hangs from the dew lap half-way between the base of the jaw and the shoulder. It is pouch shaped, seven Inches long, five inches wide and has an opening or mouth in the bottom about four inches across. In this mouth are nostrils and several well developed teeth. The animal breathes and drinks through both mouths and eats with the upper one. The head la well shaped, and the only other peculiarities are s double right shoulder with the shoulder blade extending to the line of the back bone, and a double-jointed left fore-leg. The bull is gentle and la in the best of condition.—New York Tribune. 21 Widows and 77 Orphans. The work of smothering or putting out the fire in the Farm mine at Dunbar, Pa., has commenced. The mine can not be flooded, and an effort is being made to smother the flames. It is thought there is only one way in whiob the property will be of any use again— that is, to shut up the burning portion in the walls of brick. By confining it in this manner, a part of the vein which has never been reached will be within reach. The corner’* inquest over the bodies of the men brought out of the slope will be one of the most important ever held in that district. It will be the aim of the coroner to try to test the entire woik from tbe first. , What is most needed there now is re lief for the 21 widows and 77 orphans of the victims of the explosion. Money is needed badly, aa there is much Buffer ing. Menendez was Assassina’e • City or Mexico, via Galveston.— Benor Dieguex, Guatemalan minister, here, informs the Associated Press cor respondent that he hat just received a telegram fr( m his government announc ing that President Menendez, of Ban Salvador, was assassinated and did not die a natural death. The telegram also states that the people of Ban Salvador are protesting against the usurpation of )>ower by General Ezeto, who will not per mit tbe truth to he published or sent out of the country. Fish Carried In n Tornado. At Swayzee tbe other day the resident! were catching fish out of the pools and puddle* made by a night’s terrifle rain. Later, when the water sunk into th< ground, sunfish and shiners by the thou sands strewed the ground. There is n« stream within four mile* of Swsyzee, and the theory ie that theee fish were caught up by a email tornado and deposited where they were found.—Indianapolu (JiuL) Journal. THE KNIGHTS IN A WRE0E. A Serious Accident on the Illinois Oen- trol Railroad. The most serious wreck that the Illi nois Oentral has experienced for several years occurred at Manteno. A special excursion train of fourteen cars, carrying 600 Knights of Pythiaa and ladies to the biennial supreme lodge, at Milwaukee, was derailed at a swi'clr entering the village at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour. Tbe accident was caused by a loose switch bolt being taken out of its place by the passage of a train. The four forward cars kept the main track, and tbe remainder ot tbe train stood upon a siding. When the train broke, the chair car, occupid by the East St. Louis contingent, turned upon its side, and the occupants, numbering fifty, were hurled with great violence against the side of tbe car. The sudden stoppage of the train prevented a long list of casualties. J H. Crowder, of Waco, Tex., aged thirty years, was standing ou the plat form of one of tbe cars and was killed. The wounded passengers were all in the East St. Louis car. They are: William J. Bbrn, Miss Millie Dooley, T. W. Teague, Captain W. H. Sandusky and Charles Lantz. Every car except three was derailed, several of them being dragged twenty feet away from the line. The excursionists were transferred to a special train about noon and sent to their destination. ALLIANCE NEWS. INTERESTING NOTES PERTAINING lu ALLIAN0E MATTERS The Honey Kings—Georgia Maiohirg Onwaid—No’.ee, Etc. The money kings hate the Alliance because it is educating the people, and showing the money king* up in their true light. Tte chronic office seeker hates the Alliance, for it shows him up as the tool of the money kings, and they have no use lor him. It hurts all their pocketbooks and that is the tenderest part about them. None of Ibo-'e fallows want the tanners to join the Alliance or any other labor organization, because they show those fellows up in their cor ruption snd viciousness, and will cause all sensible men to abandon them. That takes the power to oppress away from them, and without that power they can not steal the hard -earned wages of the farmer and liborer, hence no spoils, no money, no prestige, no influence, no slaves, but all equal. That is why they kick.—Free Piers, Kan. The Farmers’ Alliance is “Marching through Georgia.” One hundred thous and voters of that State are members of the order, and they proyose to take a hand in the deal this fall. The entire vote of the State is only one hundred and fifty thousand, and the Alliance is certainly in a fair way to have their own way. Their State convention is called for the month of August.—Index, Belle- fountain, O. The secretary of Greenville (Florida) Alliance writes that the wholeiale mer chants have ordered their salesmen not to sell to AULnce stores. A general war over the matter is brewing in that sec tion. The Alliance is only a few weeks old in Mickigan, but already ten counties are on the march. The Alliance Senti nel says: “There is something magic about the touch of the Alliance. When you get into this army, now three mill ions strong, you feel that you are shoul der to shoulder with the “patriotic liberty loving people” of the country. A people who live above partisanship and love their country better than any poli tical party, and who would not haggle about the methods or names so long as the people are freed from the grasp of monopoly," California is falling into line in splen did older. Mr. Barbee, organizer for that State, telegraphs Mr. Turner, na tional secretary, for one hundred outfits. The whole Pacific Slope will soon be fighting for the principles of the Al- iiasce. Col. L. L. Folk, President of the F. A. and I. U., left the national capital for a tour West and Noitbwest among the Alliances. He will make addresses in thirteen States on this trip and will be absent if health permits about 40 days. A most powerful farmers’ organiza tion, a branch of the farmers’ Alliance, is now under way in the State of New York. By a unanimous vote of the Execu tive Committee of the Farmers’ Alliance of Minnesota, it was decided, to hold a State convention of the Alliance for the nomination of a State ticket at St. Paul on July 16th The Farmers’ Alliance of Georgia is pledged not to support any candidate who will not vot’-for the abolition of the convict lease system. The Farmers’ and labor arganizations of Indiana are said to bs combining to control legislative and Congressional nominations this fall. The Minnes >ta State Alliance now has a membership of thirty thousand. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. The Land of Paper. The string with which the articles you buy are fastened is made of paper in Ja pan. Do you want a piece of string? Tear a sheet of paper, roll it between your fingers; it requires a strong wrist to bicakit. The handkerchief thrown away after use is paper I The partitions divid ing the houses are paper! The pane through which an eye looks at you is pa per I The method is very simple. One finger is passed through the paper—that is all 1 When one has had a good look a small piece is stuck on this opening with grain of rice. The yakonnine hat passing b paper; the porter’s cloak, who carries bis burden, singing a cadence, through the rain; the garment- of the boatman who conducts you on board; the tobacco pouch, cigar case—all are paper I Those elegant flowers ornamenting the beauti ful hair of the Japanese ladies, and those robe collars, which are taken for crape- paper!—New York Journal. When the Birds Begin to Sing. The green flnch is the first to rise, and sings as early as 1:30 on a summer morn ing. The thrush is audible about 4:50. The quail’s whistling is beard in the woods at about 3 o’clock. The blackcap turns up at 2:30 on a summer morning. By 4 the blackbird makes the woods re sound with hu melody. The house spar row and tomitt come last iu the Ibt ot early-rising birds. At short intervals after 4:30 the voices of the robin and wren are heard in tbe land. The lark does not rise until after the chaffinch, linnet, and a number of other hedge-row folks have been merrily piping for a good while.—Our Dumb Animal*. Judges With Short Hair. It b well known that Judges wear their hair very short. A Judge, who b still on tbe bench, relates an amusing in cident which happened to himself when be was on circuit in the South of Eng land. In company with another admin istrator of the law he went for a walk in the country, and being thirsty their lord- ships entered a small inn, in the rear of which they found two Is,borers playing skittles. They decided to join in the game, and, each taking one of the men as a partner, they played in real earnest. Getting hot, Mr. Justice took off his coat; becoming hotter, he removed hb cravat. His lordship's partner im mediately stopped playing. “Go on,” exclaimed the dbtinguished Judge; but Hodges remained motionless. “What are you stopping for?” asked Mr. Justice , all impatience to renew the game. “I don’t moind bein’ neighborly,” re plied the man, looking at the Judge's closely-cropped head, “but I’m blamed if I be a goin’ to play skittles with a tick- et-o’-leave man.”—London Figaro. China City. The porcelain clay* of China differ from those of Europe in containing a large percentage of white mica, or, as it b called, “muscovite." According to a re cent analysis of M. Georges Vogt, the “yeouko” clay, a fusible sort, used for glaze, consbts of 52.9 ports of quartz, 81.3 part* of muscovite, 18.4 of soda felspar, A of carbonate ot lime and 1 of hydrated silica. Petun-tse clay contains no less than 40.6 per cent, of muscovite, which indeed b a common ingredient of the soil in the Flowery Land. Its pres ence in porcelain clay* evidently helps to account for thelr translucency.—OamWt. An Infant's Long Journey Alone, Little two-year-old Ringhill Larsen holds the record as the youngest im migrant ever landed alone in New York. The pretty little tot, who was born in 1888 in Stockholm, has traveled from there to New York to meet her father, who b employed in Newark, N. J. She had with her letters written in Swedbh, | English and French,asking the ship's offi- ! cers and railway officials to take the little : one in charge and see that she reached Newark. The stewardess of the Aurania 1 during the passage across the Atlantic saw that the wee traveler was well pro vided for, and at the Barge Office Matron Strickland sent the little one safely on her way to find her father in Newark.— Timet-Democrat. Discoverer of Africa’s Diamond Field. O’Reilly an old man, who is said to have been the first individual to unearth diamonds at Kimberly, South Africa, b S uite poor, and obliged to work for hb ring. He was for many years a trader with the natives, and doing well, but the rush to the fields, he says, “ruined him.” Since diamonds were discovered in South Africa, over $100,000,000 ere said to have been exported New York Obter- HOW TO DRINK MILK. If a glass of it is swallowed hastily it enters the stomach and then forms in one curdled mass, difficult of digestion. If, an the other hand, the same quantity b sipped and three minutes at least are occu pied in drinking it, then on reaching the stomach it is so divided that whea coag ulated, as it must be by the gastric juice while digestion is going on, instead of being one hard, condensed mass, upon the outside of which only the digestive organs can act, it b more in the form of a sponge, and in and out of the entire bulk the gastric juice can play freely and perform its function.—Courier Journal. HOW TO WASH WINDOWS. Two servants employed in adjoining houses were talking recently about their methods of cleaning windows. The one whoso windows always looked the bright est said she selected a dull day for the work, or a day when the sun was not shining on them because when the sun shines it causes them to bo dry-streaked, nt> matter how much one rubs. The painter’s brush is the best article for this purpose; theu wash all the woodwork be fore the glass is touched. To cleanse the glass simply use warm water diluted with ammonia; don't use soap. A small •tick will get the dust out of the corners, then wipe dry with a piece of eloth—do not use linen, as the lint sticks to the glass. The best way to polish is with tissue paper or newspaper. To clean windows in this way takes much less time than when soap is used.—Boeton Qldbe. HOUSING THE HOMELESS. HOW NEW YORK S CHEAP LODOTHQ- HOUSES ARE RUN. YBAST FOR HOI78B PLANTS. “Tell mo, please, what spell you cast about your plants that they flourish so vigorously?” I asked a lady friend as I examined the lovely blooms which seemed to have fairly captured the big bay window. One miniature tree of heliotrope flooded the room with its sweet perfume. Now, this plant, she said, is considered by some extremely fragile, hut it in reality only requires plenty of sun and water to glow most luxuriantly. They are thirsty things, and arc often allowed to die for want of sufficient moisture. An English recipe has, however, furnished me with the se cret by which I may enjoy all the season through a succession of lovely blossoms. Delicate plants I water occasionally with yeast. This seems to strengthen them in a wonderful manner. Then I have found that seeds which absolutely refuse to sprout in the ground may be coaxed into a vigorous existence by giving them a bath of camphor and water, putting them in the sun and letting them remain until they burst, when they are placed in the earth.—Philadelphia Inquirer. SPINACH. ' - There" b only one way known of cook ing spinach in this country. That b boiling it in an abundance of water. The French have a cumber of ways. They serve spinach in a del'ghtfni cream soup, and a la creme as a vegetable, a manner of serving entirely unknown to us. As a lule, greens of all kinds are cooked too much in this country. Tender, young spinach will cook in ten minntes if it is plunged into boiling water; twenty minutes is long enough to cook older, tougher greens. The addition of one quart of tender, young dandelion leaves to a peck of spinach leaves gives a pleasant and wholesome bitter flavor to the dbh. Only the young heart leaves of the dandelion should be selected for thb purpose. After cooking and drain ing spinach leaves the French cook pours cold water over them to freshen them and brighten their color. After this they are again drained and heated up, with a little butter and half a cup of cream or rich milk, are well seasoned, and are then spinach a la creme. They may be eaten simply with butter, or if heated in stock instead of cream, in the American way with vinegar. A wreath of slices of hard-boiled eggs served around a mold of spinach adds to its appearance, and is an addition to the flavor of the dbh.— New York Independent. 2 Fatal Shooting Affair, News has been received of a fatal •hooting affair at Taxahaw, S. C., near i the Union county liut. John Kenning I ton was shot twice by Henry Mii'sey. j He died Saturday night. Massey was 1 arrested and teietsed on bail. RECIPES FOR FRUIT JELLIES. In making jelly, writes Mrs. E.R. Parker in the Courier-Journal, it b of the utmost importance that the fruit should be at the proper stage, as either green or over ripe, all efforts to make good jelly will be in vain. If jelly does not form in twenty-four hours, it is useless to cook it over. The best loaf sugar should be used, and the juice should be boiled before adding the sugar, as it retains both flavor and color better. Strawberry Jelly—Mash ripe straw berries, strain the juice, add the juice of one lemon to every quart of strawberries; put on the fire, let boil five minutes; add a pound of sugar to a pint of juice; cook until thick. (Raspberry jelly may be made the same way as strawberry.) Green Grape Jelly—Pick green grapes from the steins, put in a preserve kettle, add a little water, and boil until the gtapes are tender; strain, and to every pint of juice allow a pound of sugar; cook until it jellies. Pour in glasses and set to cool. Currant Jelly—Stem ripe currants, scald them, and when cold, mash and strain them through a jelly bag. Allow half a pound of sugar to a pint of juice. Boil the juice twenty minutes, add the sugar, let cook five minutes. Try a little; if thick when cool it is done. Pour in jelly glasses and set aside to cool. Currant Jelly Without Cooking— Pour the juice from the currants and strain it; to every pint add a pound of sugar; mix together until the sugar is dissolved, then put it into glasses, cover and set in the sun for two or three days. Thb jelly must be solid. Gooseberry Jelly—Stem gooeeberrice, put in a preserve kettle with very lit tle water; cook until the gooseberries burst; strain, allow a pound of sugar to every pint of juice; cook until U jellies. A London firm hu just received an order for two dozen collar* meuuring twenty-three and one-half inches—much larger than mans belts worn hj ladies. also, little The Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, de liberately declares that in the city ol New York there arc not more than 7o,- 000 Protestant Christians. Who the Patrons of the Houses Are —Prices and Accommodations- Tho Regulations. In the great population of the metro polis there is an army of homeless men. They are brought to extremes by bad fortune, disaster, drink, crime and some times by age, but nearly all of them are able to get from day to day a little money, —it may be by houert work, or by thiev ing or beggary—and for such men there arc some 300 lodging-houses in the city. They are really hotels of the plainest and poorest typo,and furnish little more than bare shelter to transient guests, though many of the “transients” are regular cus tomers, and even hire their rooms by the week. These houses have a capacity of from fifty to 500 guests, and when full, as they often arc in the winter, probably accommodate 25,000 persons. A rough estimate—probably a fairly accurate one—has been made that one- third of these persons are criminals and beggars. One-eighth or more are con stant drunkards. Probably one-quarter, equally divided, arc men who are out of work and honestly in search of it, and those who have work, but earn only starvation wages. There is a proportion of small peddlers, of tramps, of hopeless ly broken-down men, and there are a few who live in these houses on account of parsimony. There are very few, for one who can afford bettor will seldom endure the life of a lodger for any time. In the winter, for obvious reasons, trade is at its best in the lodging-houses. It is not seldom difficult to get shelter in one of them; but. In summer the profes sional tramp goes to the country, and the drunkard or the poverty-stric | 'cn man sleeps out-of-doors- -it may be on a bench in the pnrk, or it may bo in an areaway. The patrons of the houses have learned how to support life on the minimum. They can get shelter for five cents a night, and enough to eat—barely enough, that is—for seven or eight cents n day. With less than this one must go hungry or shelterless. Not all the lodging-houses, however, are so cheap as this. Prices vary from five cents to thirty cents a night, according to the accommodations: The cheapest consist of large rooms—al most halls—filled with cots or “shake- downs,” these latter being thin mattresses thrown on the bare floors. The better class, where twenty or thirty cents is the price, offers to each customer a separate room. This is a mere subdivision ot a large room, and is made by board par titions about seven feet high. The “rooms” are about ten feet long by five in width, and each contains a chair, and half a dozen hooks clothing may be bung. Tb in a case of greatest ejeilfrf&ce, closet, perhapso n»riocit by two in di- mensiaesrin which the lodger may lock "fils clothing for extra safety. In such a case he will probably put the key into his stocking, and keep his stocking on when he goes to sleep. The bedding in these rooms is of the cheapest, consisting of a mattress and pillow stuffed with “excelsior," two sheets, and a cotton coverlid, cheaper and cleaner than a blanket. There is no covering to the bare floor; but this is far from being drawback, as it greatly facil itates the cleanliness which is insisted on by the proprietors of the place no less strenuously than by the Board of Health. The most relentless warfare is waged against the dirt, vermin, and disease germs that naturally accumulate in such places, and soap, water, and powerful disinfectants are used prodigally. Walls and floors are flooded by the use of hose, bed linen is washed twice or thrice a week at the least, oftener daily, and in many of the rooms tbe crystals of disinfectants that have dried On the walls sparkle like tbe side of a shaft in a salt-mine. Few of the lodging-houses have bath rooms, but each has a lavatory, in which are from two to a dozen wash hand- basins, where the lodgers may perform their toilets. Strong laundry soap and rough roller towels are provided,and the customer is easily able, if he so desires,to maintain at least the appearance of clean liness. In one of these cheap lodging- houses, which is maintained by a chari table society, the price ef a n ight’s lodging includes the privilege of a bath at night, and coffee and a roll in the morning. It may be remarked that this is not a popular house. The regulations are few and simple. Guests are usually admitted at any hour, but the lights in the halls and dormitories (none is allowed in the individual rooms) are lowered or extinguished at 9 r. si., and at 10 r. m.', in most cases, the read ing-room, which is a feature of the better houses, is darkened. At a fixed hour in the morning, varying, according to the season and the house, from 6 to 10 a. m. the guests are aroused. If they do not arise at the summons, they are, in the poorer houses, either rolled out of bed on to the floor, or a stream of water from the hose is directed at them. In some places a guest is allowed to remain in bed as long os he chooses, but if ho so remain after the rising hour, he is charged for another night’s lodging. Exceptions are made in favor of print ers and other night workmen, who come in at 4 or 5 a. m., and are allowed to sleep till 5 p. m. The business of keeping these houses, small as the prices are, is a lucrative one. One man, a pioneer in the business, is said to have accumulated half a million dollars in it. The proprietors are usually responsible men of fair character, from a police standpoint at least, and though they are watched by the police, generally keep on good terms with the Captain of the precinct. They never shelter thieves from pursuit, at least when they believe the police to have defi nite information, and they strive to stand well in the records of the Board of Health.—Harper'* Weekly. A Great Trotter's Shoes. The shoes worn by Maud 8. aro kept in Mr. Robert Bonner's writing desk. Two of the pair in which the beautiful trotter made her last record are displayed in a wall cabinet and havo a value of $500 each. Mr. Bonner has had numer ous requests to raffie them off at church and charity fairs, but preferred always to give his check for their value rather than part with either.—Afete York World. f THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER i-ve-’T-’T'’^TT’ Y 4 T TTY^T Y IV $ / vv APPFAR ONTHF FTT M v