The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, September 23, 1891, Image 1
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“IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.”
DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1891.
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Why The F»r»ers ere P*#H
The people of the State, iuclnding
the farmers, arc not prosperous. To
keep within the scope and purpose of
this article I speak more specifically
and say the farmers of this State are
not prosperous. Why?
The answer is, because they have
not enough money. That is vague,
but true. “Money answereth all
things.”
Why is there not money enough?
The Ui ited States Treasuries says
there is more in circulation per capita
now than ever before in the history
of the Government—$23 45. Others
say there is only $5. I do not know
how much there is and have to take
somebody’s word for it And as I
know nothing, and have heard noth
ing against the honesty and truthful
ness of the Treasurer, I am compelled
to believe his statement. I say this
without impugning the credibility of
those who say otherwise, because the
Treasurer must know, while they
may be mistaken.
No matter what the circulation
per capita may Ire the country over,
the circulation in this section of the
country is very limited. It is from
this section that comes the most
urgent demand foi more money—not
from the Northern, or Eas^rn States;
they seem to realize no greafsca#*
city.
Why is money scarcer iu this sec
tion of the country? Here are some
reasons:
1. The annual pensions to Federal
survivors of the late war amount to
$130,000,000. All this, practically
speaking, goes into Northern States,
while every Southern State has to
pay its proportion. The average of
each State is nearly three millions.
South Carolina pays at least two
millions more than she gets back.
2. Then comes the import tariff, of
which $230,000,000 a year goes to
the Government, and about $60,-
000,000 to protected industries, and
of which South Carolina pays its
share, estimated at eight millions,
and getd hack only a small-portion,
the greater portion going to manu
facturing States in the North. South
Carolina pays out for tariff duties
seven millions more than she gets
back. This is a moderate and safe
estimate. The usual estimate is from
eight to ten millions; butl prefer to
put the figures too low rather tWm
risk putting them too high.
3. Again, our railroads- are all
owned by Northern capitalists.
Whatever the roads earn over actual
running expenses goes North to pay
the interest on their bonds. The
gross earnings of the railroads in
South Carolina for the month of
July last was $570,000. July is one
of the poorest months. But suppose
that to be the average for the year,
there would be gross annual earnings
of $6,840,000. Sixty per cent of this
amount goes to running expenses
and remains in South Carolina; the
other forty per cent or two and three-
quarter millions goes North to pay
interest on the bonds.
The first item is a burden imposed
upon us as the conquered section by
the National Government. It is the
penalty of defeat, and we will have
to endure it with whatever patience
and fortitude we have. It cannot be
avoided.
The second item is a burden conse
quent upon our being an agricultural
people. There is good ground for
hope of relief from much of that
burden by reform of the tariff, which
is the heaviest burden of all. ^Tl
reforiica^nl* cotnethto^ the
triumph ofthef §01* piifratic
party, f-w that is the only party in
the country pledged to that reform
and working for its accomplishment,
and if the party remains united this
hope will soon be realized.
Our railroads after the war were
worn out and run down and we did
not have money enough to reorganize
them; hence they fell into the hands
of Northern capitalists, and those
since built have been built by North
ern capital—many of them with our
aid, that aid consisting in gifts of
county and township bonds, the
interest pn which, as well as the net
earnings of the roads, going to the
Northern Ixmd-holders. I see no
hope of relief from this railroad
burden. All we can expect is that
these giant monopolies shall not op
press us by exorbitant charges for
freight or travel, and that is provided
against in our National and State
railroad commissions.
Those are fearful drains upon our
resources and take immense sums of
money out of circulation in this sec
tion ti)ti country, tint they me
mot all.
4. We send somewhtre about two
millions every year into Tennessee
and Kentucky and other States for
mules. Newberry County alone—
one of the smallest counties in the
State—sends about $50,000; the
State about $1;500,000.
5. Immense quantities of corn are
shipped to Sdiith Carolina from the
Northwest. 1 can only approximate
the amount. One merchant at New
berry has received and sold since the
first of January seventeen (17) car
loads—8,500 bushels." Not less than
30,000 bushels are sold annually in
Newberry, and about 10,000 at other
jioints in the country, at an average
price of about 90 cents, making$36.-
000 for corn. T’Jwt would make the
amount for the State, at a moderate
calculation, $1,250,000.
6. Our Western meat costs more
thaq our Western corn. Large num
bers of live hogs are sold and shipped
into the State and sold and butchered
here, but I take no account of these
and'speaks of the bacon only. One
merchant here—the same I have
already mentioned—sells 350,000
pounds of bacon annually. He thinks
he sells about one-forth of what is
sold in this county. This total then
would be 1,400,000 pounds, which at
71 cents w'ould be $90,000. On the
same basis of calculation thure would
be about'$3,000,000’ sent out of the
State for bacon.
To recapitulate:
Sent out of the State for pen
sions 4
Sent out of the State for tariff
Sent out of the State for rail
road bonds
Sent out of the State for mules
Sent out of the State for corn
Sent out of the State for bacon
2,000,000
7,000,000
2,7.50.000
1,500,000
1,250,000
;i,00o,ooo
Total
Nearly all
7,5oo,ooo
our flour, hay and
agricultural implements come from
other States.
Anti what do we produce that we
can sell ami get money to pay for all
these things? -Cotton—nothing but
cotton. Seven hundred thousand
bales at $40 per bale, brings iu only
$27,000,000, which is nearly all taken
out-again for purposes mentioned,
and for other purposes too numerous
to mention, leaving very little to pay
debts or to lay up “for a rainy day.”
No wonder we are poor.—W. II. Wal
lace, editor Newberry Observer, in
News and C’01 irier.
“When.”
STAVING THE HAND OF DEATH. The Darlington Htine Guard.
Most people who read a paper
W'ould like to have it come to their
hands without any typographical or
editorial errors. This is quite possi
ble when all the following conditions
come together.
When the contributor has written
correctly.
When he has written the* correct
tl ing distinctly.
When the compositor has only the
correct letters in the different csises.
When he does not take letters from
a wrong case.
When he sets them correctly.
When the “reader” corrects every
error.
When the compositor corrects the
“rough proof” projwrly.
When the “reader” reads the cor-
rected proof attentively.
When the compositor corrects the
second proof properly.
When the revised proof is carefully
“read.”
When the “reader” has sufficient
time to do this.
And when a dozen other circum
stances work together for good.—
Exchange.
There Is Said to be a Certain and
Rapid Means of Resns-
eltatlon.
Colonel Henry Fllsdale, of the Roy
al engineers, claims to have discover
ed a certain and rapid means of
resuscitating persons from the effects
of suffocation. A sapper among the
men under his command at Chatham
was one day found enveloped in the
folds of a half-empty war balloon.
The coal gas with which if had been
inflated had suffocated him, and to
all appearances he was a dead man.
But efforts were made to restore
him, though the pulseless heart and
cadaverous face of the man gave no
encouragement to persevere. In a
moment of something like inspira
tion it occurred to Colonel Elsdale
to send for some tubes of compressed
oxygen, which had been prepared
for the oxyhydrogen light.
This pure oxygen, at a very high
pressure, was hurriedly conveyed into
the mouth of the prostrate .'■upper by
means of inserting the nozzle of the
valve between his teeth, and the
supply was •‘gently turned on” to
the smallest extent. The effect was
absolutely instantaneous. In an in
stant he opened his eyes and seized
the nozzle between his teeth. In
short, the sapper was not only
thoroughly revived within a few
minutes, but in half an hour walked
away, quite well, to the barracks,
and refused to go to the military
hospital, as was suggested by his
commanding officer.
Of course the objection will be
raised that everybody has not tubes
of pure oxygen at high pressure iu
readiness to apply to such coses.
Happily oxygen in quantities as
large as those administered is not
needed, and it can be stored “in
small, strong bottles made of the
finest steel, with a valve giving an
absolute hermetic seal.”
These vessels may l>e as small as a
soda water bottle, and may be made
part of the medical stock of every
doctor. Oxygen at any degree of
compression required can, in fact,
now in* obtained, and the whole ap
paratus for restoring vitality can be
packed in a small box quite porta
ble.
What possibilities may not such a
discovery as that to which we hive
drawn attention involve! It is
equally available, we are assured, for
those persons who have boon* asphy
xiated by choke damp in coal mines,
or by ordinary coal gas. People ap
parently drowned, and those insensi
ble from long exposure in the rig
ging of a ship, might also be saved
from an untimely end by what
Colonel Elsdale calls “a close of oxy
gen.”
It would probadly l>e invaluable,
too, in casses of suffocation from the
fumes of ciharcoul, or iu caSc-s where
chloroform had operated injuriously
on a weak heart. Such a discovery
should at once occupy the attention
of the Royal College of I’hysicians,
with a view of ascertaining whether
Colonel Elsdale has overrated the
beneficient effects to be anticipated
from the administration of pure
oxygen.—London Chronicle.
People who have never attended
the bjg mid-winter fur anction in
London, can have no idea of its
magnitude. Buyers from all parts
of the world—America, China, Aus
tralia, Russia, everywhere,—come
there to bid for furs, and stay there
until they have secured their stock
in trade. The winter just passed
has been one of the coldest on the
Continent of Europe for fifty years,
and furs of all sorts have consequent
ly been higher in price than for many
a season. In the last sale, 900 silver
fox skins were sold; 2,700 cross fox,
and 56,000 from the common red
fox.
‘"rum that wrapping paper the
other side out,’ said a lady to the
clerk in a dry good store. ‘I don’t
want to he a walking advertisement
for your establishment’ The clerk
was astonished and looked at her in
quiringly for an explanation. Then
she added: ‘I read the newspapers
and as all intelligent j>cople do think
they are the proper place in which
to advertise your business, instead of
making your ctislonins carry your
tifu wound with each jiiu'eUitft.
A new pianoforte keyboard having
six rows of keys has recently been ex
hibited in Manchester, England. An
octave is formed by six keys in two
contiguous rows. All the keys are on
the same level, and each nota is sepa
rated from the next by ail interval of
two semitones.
How is thiH* In an interview at
Orangeburg hist Friday relative to
the alleged cotton . pickers’ strike,
President J. W. Stokes is reported to
have said, if half the cotton crap
were lost on account of the strike
the other half would tiring os much
money to the farmers us the whole
crop would bring if there should be
no such strike and the cost of pick
ing the part lost would be a gain to
the producer. • We suppose the idea
of President Stokes is that if the
supply of cotton were reduced to oik
half, the price for the staple would
advance; but we assume not on ac
count of demand, for his paper, tlu
(Jotton Plant, holds that supply and
demand have but little to do with
fixing the price of cotton. If Presi
dent Stokes contends for the correct
ness of his position that supply and
lemund are not the all-important
factor in adjusting prices, w ill he ex
plain how it could be that if one half
the cotton crop"wero destroyed, the
other half iveiildbring 11s much
money to the farmer as the whole
uop;-—liutit iiiil Herald.
The military comedy, "l'he Home
Guard, produced by the Darlington
Theatrical Company at the Academy
of Music on last Thursday night was
as fine an Amateur performance as a
Sumter audience has never witnessed.
The Academy was filled with the
most intelligent people of this city,
and they sVowed their appreciation
of the play by frequent applause.
The entire self possession which each
one displayed, the ease with which
they adopted themselves to the parts
jmrtrayed and the grace and natural
ness of gesture and movement evi
denced careful preparation and na
tural histrionic ability.
We would not attempt to criticise
individual excellences, or defects ii»
acting but cannot forbear to express
the genfcral appreciation produced by
the acting of Misses Emma William
son as Mrs. Lawton, ( a trie Spain, as
Nellie Lawton—she was undoubted
ly the bright particular star of the
performance—and Carrie Mclver, as
Mable Rutledge. Mr. R. E. .lames
as Cato was an artistic study in char
coal, who livened up the eveving
w ith Hashes of wit attributed to, but
usually so rare in the real brother in
block. Mr. F. 0. Spain, as Chester
Lawton, the hero, looked, as well as
acted, the gallant soldier hoy, to
perfection. W. J. Garner, as Gordon
Reid, T. H. Spain, as Hiram Jinks,
and J. L. Michie, as Hosea Jinks,
post master and punster, wore all ad
mirable.
One of the features of the evening,
which was not apart of the announc
ed program, but which was enjoyed
by many more than anything else
was the song by Miss Bessie William
son, who lias a voice of great purity
and sw'eetness.
We can assure the Darlington
Guards and their fair and talented
eo-adjutors a hearty welcome from a
Sumter audience when next they
grace the stage of our Academy of
Music.—Sumter Watchman and
Southern.
Something New In the Way of Cot
ton Seed.
The Spartanburg correspondent of
the Greenville NewS says, iu a letter
w ritten a few days ago, that the lint
less cotton seed plant whose discov
ery was announced in the Nows.and
Courier last year and was much de
rided at that time, “has come to
“stay.”
Mr. II. T. F’ergusou exhibitied a
stalk of the plant in Spartanburg on
F’riday, which contained three hun
dred 1 Kills, each boll filled with large
plump seed. He has taken much
pains to get the variety perfect, and
announces that he “will seed enough
this year to plan? the entire State.”
The estimated yield is four hundred
bushels Ui the, acre. The product is
easily harvested, but the boll must
be gathered as they begin to crack,
else the seed will fall to the ground.
The yield of oil, it is further reported,
is about one-third more than that of
ordinary cotton seed.
If all these statements are literally
true, it is seen that South Carolina
has developed another new and im
portant agricultural industry, and
will soon be able to supply the world
with a practically unlimited quantity
of vegetable oil, stock food and fer
tilizers. It would be a remarkable
result truly, if the cotton seed crop
should largely supplant the cotton
crop, but it may come to that in the
end. These arc record breeding times
and the cotton plant is as full of sur-‘
prises os a monkey.
A hundred years ago there was
some doubt about whether cotton
could be grown iu this country. This
year there is considerable doubt
wether wo can stop its growing.
Twenty years ago the seed were re
garded as a nuisance, Now they are
probably worth more than the corn
crop, hay crop, wheat crop, hog crop
all coml ined. Ten years from now
the lint may be a nuisance, and in
deed it is next tiling to that now.—
Charleston News and Courier.
Three Chinamen were baptized
and admitted into the communion
of the Church of England by Bishop
Sillitoc at Vancouver last week.
They received the names of James,
Henry and Samuel, respectively.
An exchange tolls how a girl’s
taste differs according to her age. At
sixteen she wants a dude with tooth
pick shoes and a microscopic mus
tache; at twenty a chief justice with
piles of tin; at twenty-five she twill
lie satisfied with a member of Con
gress; at thirty, a doctor or a preiipher
will do; at tUirty*livc, anything fcnuii
mi editor uj).
H HANGDOODLE BAXTER
Delivers a Lecture on Flattery.
Berlnbbed Bredderen and Histcrn:
—De subjee’ ob dis hear cbening’s
discourse- am flattery, or what am
commonly called taffy. De female
sex am perteckerleriy liable ter dis
dread disease. In de langwidge ob
de inspired psalmist. Ef you can
not inspire a woman wid love for you
jess fill her above de brim wid love
for herself, and all what runs ober
will be yours.
In de words ob de poiek:
De way ter please a w oman,
And nebber ter offend her,
la ter eall a slim one stout
And a stout one bony slender.
Et she happens ter he short.
You must tell her she is tall.
And if she is rather lengthy,
Say she is uol tall al all.
Howsuniebbcr, de men folks .lues
not always object tor large doses ob
taffy. Hasn't yer sett a man stop-
pin' around higher'den a blind boss?
How proud he i.> Ef Jie.bad wings
he would lly! fid rtu^bifd « notice
in sum paper, 'file editor lias said
that h6 is a typical American and
should lie in Congress. That nmn
mav have said he didn’t care what
the papers said about him, but he
would ride nine miles ter git a copy
ob de paper what called him a typi
cal American.
1 has always nolised' dat de. man
who writes de life ob a President ob
de United States am sure ter get
some fat office. If yer wants ter hub
a soft snap write de biography of de
coming man.
It am surprisin’ bow early in life
some folks takes to usin’ taffy. De
fullering story am taken from life on
de spot:
“Grandma,” said a small chile,
“how old is you?”
“About 65.”
“You will die soon, won’t yon,
grandma?”
“Yes, I ’speeds to,” said de ole wo
man.
“And when I die, grandma, can I
be buried side of you?”
“Yes, my little dear,” said de old
woman, as her heart warmed to the
dear little hoy, whom she folded
closer in her arms.
‘Grandma," softly whispered the
little boy, “ginimic ten cents.”
Dat’s de way it is all fru life.
When you hear a man say right loud:
“J fully agrees wid de President,”
you may be sure dat man has al
ready got a fat office, or he is looking
for one.
If it wasn’t for suj ar hit would
be impossible ter run a perlitical
campaign, nohow.
Some folks swallers flattery jest as
babies does a button, without having
any idee what trouble may foller.
Doy forgits dat some folks may be
flattered in order to bclaft at.
Dese heaTt\ complimentary talks
are called soft soap, bekase dar is so
much lie iu ’em. Flattery, like
counterfeit money, makes dose folks
pore what takes hit.
And now berlubbed awjience, 1
will make de concluding remarke dat
I hopes you will come down hand
some when de hat is being passed,
and don’t take it out in prayin’, for
yon must remember dat taffy has no
effec’ whatever on de Lawd.—Alex.
E. Sweet of Texas Siftings.
Plenty of boiling water should be
used in cooking vegetables, as the
greater the quantity of water the
greater the heat. If only a little
water is used the whole soon cools,
the vegetables become tough and no
length of time will render them
tender.
The body of .every Spider contains
four little masses pierced with a mul
titude of holes, imperceptible to the
naked eye, each liole permitting the
passage of a single thread; all the
threads, to the number of 1,000 to
each mass, join together when they
come out and make the single thread
with which the spider spins its web,
so that what we call a spider’s thread
consists of more than 4,000 threads
united.—Scientific American.
The secretary of the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange has secured com
plete reports from the Southern cot
ton mills of their business during
the year of 1890-91. There are now
340 cotton mills in the South, a gain
of seventeen during the year. South
Carolina now leads the South in this
branch of industry, consuming
164,957 bales of cotton, with Georgia
second, consuming 153,818 bales,
and North Carolina third, consnm-
140,508 bales. Thus South Carolina
takes .from Georgia the title, of
which Ucor^iau* were jumukit,
PROPELLING WOMEN.
Pretty Girls Permit an I'gly HaMt.
Speak English.
Jacob Grimm, the fine old German
philologist, is one of the most learned
linguists alive. He has studied care
fully the tongues of civilized peoples,
and after mature thought, German
though he is, writes this: “The
English speech may with full right 1
be called a world language.” If a! .
„ ,,. ,X i. the courtsy, if not the support, of
German can say this, then those citi- ,. - , , . 1 '
his own arm. It is one of the com-
CHOICE SELECTION
Don’t Flirt.
The “Girl of "91” has one l ad
habit which she should at once cor-
aect—i e, the habit of permitting
her escort to seize her arm instead of
playing the part of the well
Do you want to act it. lie? T
flirt. Do you car- to lose I he nm.li
charm of inauiier which is woma.
best heritage and man's -too. inf
. quently found attributed?
called a world language.” If ' pieman and gallantly offering l*er! play at love. Do
zens of America who arc trying by
all means fair or foul to make other
tongues than English the prevailing
language of their respective com
munities may well pause—think
what they are
monest experiences to see men pro
pelling .women along the side-walk
by the elbow. Now this is indispu
table evidence of lack of breeding on
the man's part and lamentable lack
, , > of self-assertion on the woman’s part.
They are going against nature and 1 . , , ... . , .
0 I No . right spirited girl will pyrimt
1 such cheap familiarity.— Press and
Banner.
yoir want
Th
ic
well pause-
endeavoring
to do. 1
common sense.
When SiMM-pt»tji lived .no
300 years ago, on the whole globe
there were less than a million more
English speaking people than now
inhabit London alone. ! lien were
between 5j>00,(>00 and O.OOO.OOO. So
. Seme peopl- Lhiok
j ers grumble too muc
1 nf that class. If our
1 bug at le>- ili in i\ i
recently as a century ago, even idler | u we W1JU ],|
Ml lie fill
. We arc I
paper was -
-l us to pr
0 I
future life embittered oy uienton
which will stab you when votn hen
is beating with happiness? Tin
cheat some one into giving tru. 1
g.iid for falseness. ]f you would
womanly, my woman reader, or m, o
unknown questioner, give
esteem to all who deserve it,
frieuCship, t<i those who
true friends, and your le ,n
earin-M an c loon-imm ,, ,
j ami let it be unsullied ie.
01
are you
: - w nap'
wolli.le
tiie ‘hit.; ’
.: nous w men mmo
j on the lingers of
e-UHit
both til;
tliis republic was founded, there)
were on I v 15,000,000 English spea k -j
g persons:
ing persona on the
same date 30,00o,0o0
globe.
spoke
At the
French j
One of the latest di vvlopnieip •
Western civilization is acluliof veimg
women in Moberly, Mo., who have
. organized a 10 cent bank, into which
and 1 (I,(>00,000 German. Now v.i j |] )( ,y pm a phne everv time they arc
find that w Inm the French and Ger-j kissed, the dime very approp’iab Iv
man tongues ore spoken by areasona-1 being contributed by the kisser,
bly increased number of individuals J Press & Banner,
in the world today! in Australia, the! Does our contemporary propose to
British isles and in America 115,- j introduce the custom in his section
000,000 claim English as their j ^tote?
mother tongue. This is 40 per cent, j
of the inhabitants of the
world.
It is not
clever old saying of a wit rnat nrj |; llwinn < ;, m .riimciil
would speak Spanish to his (lod, L t( . e j wc j,v} ls 235 ton,
French to a woman. German to » | calibre of 13 J inche
horse, but English to a man? Un-j fwt ;„ i W)glll . • j, u „ fchwt
mistakably this splendid tongue isjp,. t . , a nd each charge cost
the language of manifest destiny, IM300.
the speech of the future. 1’roof of I -»
Tnnrh.Mii Tmilix.
f i B llelteV, ;■ til., de.il wmiU I )
:u a piece of euraordinarv UKa:
I The credit of having manufact ured
civilized j (ll
d I
irgest
iv the
51111 iu existence is elan.i-
Krupp Company. The
commendation of that) gun> whidl is t | K . 0 f ,;„■
saying of a wit that hej i; llS sian Government, is made of ca.-t
and lias »
md a barrel to
this is not needed, but if it were it
would be found hi the fact that the
English race is spreading itself over
the globe far more rapidly than any
other nationality. It is probably th
language of the coming race.
English speaking nations are the
freest, strongest and most prosperous
011 the globe to-day. The greatest
light in literature this earth has pro
duced was Shakespeare, who wrote in
English. . Therefore let us maintain
this noble tongue of a-raising race in
its choicest purity. We may learn
other languages as an accomplish
ment if we will, but never to the
detriment of our national tongue.
Let us speltk and write the best Eng
lish we know, in the most musical
voices we can cultivate.—Times and
Democrat.
Curinsities of Foal.
What we need now is about one
month of sunshine, and we hope we
will get it,
A good advertisement in a news
paper pays no fares on railroads,
costs nothing
for hotel bills, gives
away no boxes of cigars to custom-
mers, or merino dresses to customers’
wives, drinks no whiskey under the
head of traveling expenses, but goes
at once and all the time about its
business free of expenses.
Ruralist came intoTallahasse, Fla.
and finding a uewi stand, ordered a
lot of papers, which he took from
the clerk with profuse thanks. He
was astonished though, when the-l^ . ,, ‘ J ’ ' ‘T”
, , . , , , . tropinc. Some of these are used for
clerk asked payment, as he ‘never
heard of charging for newspapers
before.’ He had been reading his
neighbors’ papers for nothing, and
never knew that they cost money.
Oh, lovely, gentle, unobtrusive mule,
Thou sUmlest idly ‘gainst the azure sky
And sweetly, sadly slngcst like a hired
man.
Who taught thee thus (0 warble
In the noontide heat and wrestle with
Thy deep, corroding grief and joyless
woe?
Who taught ihy simple heart
Us pentup, widly warring wasted.
Of wanton woe 10 carol forth upon the
silent air?
—Rill Nyc.
A new safety-match has been pa-
tciitod in England by a Belgian, who
places on different parts of the same
match two compositions, which in
ordinary safety-matches are generally
placed respectively on the box and on
the end of the match. In obtaining
a light, the match is broken across
the middle and the ends rubbed to
gether.
If it is to America we owe the in
vention of the type-writers which we
now possess in such perfection, we
should not forget that the idea of
that invention was born in France.
Before 1833, Xavier Progrin, of Mar
seilles, .took out a patent for a ma
chine of that kind, which, judging
only from the sketch, was very satis-
fttctwy.—Rent'v Swvutifi^ue.
11' -'.'. lie put:
: Oil l.i- Snn.l
V clwii,,;;
and a.<> -i lit
.. a.v.-ry
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fi c j d" ?:»i iff. :
rag.-ouslv >■.
long died j,,-!,;
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out fir-1 pc.
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jlldD'iJB’Ill !>v rl.ns Ii
tie "I I'eligiiui.
. N'oIhkIv le.l.J, |!, ( . |
than the devil d
U .'lei I iu- IU:.
Ill: ill
10 entircn
more r c
'•ever stay
s llWay eu
roads >.r I-
'■‘id weaf'i-
Crowd
the del i.
whenever
you will 1
Script Tiro
to 111a ke
-pectalde.
No mat
ter what,
do, from }iol voj’j
key, he w i
ill try I., 1
that lb.- I
’dde givpjj
do it. I.\
mn - 1 Ion
I bus anyone expect a praclical
chemist ever slop to flunk of all th*
substances which we get from coal
and the almost inconceivable \aricty
of their uses? Everybody is famil
iar with those of them that arc in
daily use, such as gas, illuminating
oils, coke, and parafino, but of the
greater part few persons know ever,
the names, science advances so rapid
ly and its nomenclature i> so exten
sive and obtruse. Though coal iu.-'
been known for some hundreds of
years, the discovery of its number
less products is confined to the pres
ent century. Illumhiating gas was
ifct known a hundred years ago, and
it is scarcely more than fifty since
some one discovered that stone coal
was inflamable. Nearly all the oth
er products derived from soft coal
have been discovered and applied in
the interests of science or fraud
within the last twenty-live years.
The first (bought in regard to coal i-J ,lmis ’l 11 -' 1 " '<p.
that *it is made to give heat i
his
ai,v ci'-.s r
-.1, L g, 1,,
•ui h-, 11,.
of roug q
a comer
position re
de,il
wants
n his-
Waiting for Something.
“Waiting lor Something To turn
np is a moral weakness v. iih .\onie
people who lack the energy and the
nerve to make a start in hfo or to
lake hold of any piece of work that
requires present action to move for
ward or accomplish. Depend upon
.it, fame or fortune cannot he reached
in this way. Things-iu tfij HOI -| ( i
do not “turn up” mile ,- <„ mi b,
rillil b ti, ,-y
warmth; the next, that one of its
principal uses is to illuminate. But
there are obtained from it the means
of producing more than for hundred
colors, or shades of colors, among
the chief of which are sallou, violet,
blue, and indigo. There arc also
obtained a great variety of perfumes
—ciumflnou, bitter almonds, queen
of the meadows, clove, winter-green,
anise, camphor thymol (a nev
Colne
mus!
yon, imj
it
ly
in
uounmin w ill i,,,t
if yon ri'iicli if nut
go to it yoursdf. Tin- chance
calculation involved in first
specification carries wiili it a verv
uncertain and involved conclusion,
which, ten chances to one, will never
materialize. For inertia means
nothing. It will not move matter or
embody spirit. B aiting for ‘•some
to tiivii up” means just ibis
It i.- an b/tiis
thiny
and nothing more.
French odor), vanahne, and hello- j ^^ous which lias no solid foundation.
ropiuc.
flavoring. Among (he explosive
agents, whose discovery has been
caused by. the war spirit of the Iasi
few years in Europe, are two, called
dinotrolienzine. or bellitc, and picra-
tes. To medicine coal has given
hypnsue, salicycle acid, naphtol,
phenol, and antipyrine. Benzine
and napthaline arc powerful insecti-
tndcs. There have been found in it
anxmoniacal salts, useful as fertili
zers, tannin, saccharine (a substitute
for sugar), the flavor of currants,
raspberry, and pepper, pyrogallic
acid, and hydroquinone, used in
photography, and various substances,
familiar or unfamiliar, such as tar,
rosin, asphaltum, lubricating oils,
varnish, and the bitter taste of beer.
By means of some of these we can
have wine, without juice or the grape,
beer without malt, preserves without
either fruit or sugar, perfume with
out flowers, and coloring matters
without the vegetable or animal sub
stances from which they have been
hitherto chiefly derived. What is to
be the end of all this? Are our
coal beds not only to illuminate, but
to feed and quench the thirst of
prostcrity? We know that they are
the luxuriant vegetation of primal
epochs stored and compressed in a
way that has made them highly
convenient for transport and daily
use for many centuries.—Hearth and
HalL
At best it leads only to dreamland,
and is jusl about as inteiligiiilu and
consistent.
■So, you may wait, and wait, and
wait, and that will be all vou will
get for it. In the meantime, valuu
ble time is lost and your ruin is uv
sight. Against this there i> a more
consistent outline and a far better
promise of realization and success.
If you expect any valuable accretion,
or what might be called a ••-ti.-a!, of
fortune,” you must work for ir. You
must earn your spurs and buckle
them on to your own heel:
move on mid win success Iu
the object for which you .dui.
ed.
Then
•clcct-
One of the duties a man owes to
himself is to live so that he can re
spect himself.
If there were no little sins there
would never lie any big ones. The
big snakes have all been little ones
sometime or other.
A man may go to heaven without
health, without riches, without
honors, without learning, without
friends; but he can never get there
without Christ.
— —-
There arc a number of otherwise
good people in this country who
seem to have forgotten that neither
gold, silver nor greenbacks are cur
rent iu the world to which they arc
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