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“IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” VOL. II. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, ARRIL (5, 1892. NO. 31 RAISE WHEAT AND BUILD MILLS. Facts which Shaw that South Caro lina can Make her own Bread. A dispatch published in the Sun day News last Sunday, states that Jlr. J. II. Johnson, of Blakely, Min nesota, who is 'described as being an ardent advocate of Farmers’ Alliance doctrines, has published a letter to the farmers urging them to organize Fajmers’ Alliance milling associa tions, which has a great deal of in terest and comment in his neighl>or- hood. Mr Johnson, who is himself the owner of a fifty barrel flour mill, maintains, as reported, that the farm ers of the Dakotas and Menncsota alone have lost $28,000,000 on wheat sold up to December 7, 1801, of this \ ear’s crop, and proceeds to show the farmers their folly in not building their own mills and thereby securing $1 a bushel for their wheat, with a ton of feed per hundred bushels, to gether with some minor advantages. Any community that can produce 75,000 bushels of wheat, he says,can thereby keep a fifty barrel mill run ning for a year, and such a mill can he built for $7,000. ' This is the testimony of a practical miller, whose experience has been ac quired in the heart of thechief wheat, raising and (lour making district of the country, and there appears to Ik; matter in it which is worthy of the consideration of some of the farmers in South Carolina. The main points are as follows: Any community, district or coun try, says Mr. Johnson, that can pro duce 75,000 bushels of wheat can keep a fifty-barrel flour mill running. South Carolina produced 902,000 bushels of wheat last year, as that number is reported by the United States agricultural department—and probably produced over a million bushels, if all were reported. On this basis the State, or the up per counties, where most of the wheat is raised, would support a dozen fifty-barrel flour mills, which would _ be a notable addition to the indust rial equipment of these counties, and of the State. No particular attention was paid to wheat raising in this State, last year, wo believe. It is probable, then, that could easily be doubled and if to then the one million bushel crop of last year the wheat growing sec tion could easily support twenty or more fifty laarrel mills. There is not a county in the section probably that could not readily grow 140,000 or 200,000 bushels, at least, and this would give prosperous mil ! s to each county. The cost or constructing a mill of the indicated capacity, as stated by an expert, is $7,000. This is much less than the cost of a cotton factory or even a cotton seed oil mill. There is not a community in the up coun try that cannot afford to build such a mill, and that Would not l»e glad to build one, with or withoutpreenninry aid from the farmers. The presence of a mill in any coun ty would be an inducement and a blip to the wheat farmers to raise more wheat; more farmers would go into the business, and a diversifica tion of crops would be effected in that region. The “minoradvantages” to the farmers of having for use or sale all the by products of their wheat brnu, seconds and shorts—we take it are fnlly understood to require more than mere mention. The mills need not be confined tn flour making. It was stated a few days ago by a business man of Charles ton that 00,000 barrels of grits are imported into this State every year— our people paying thousands annual ly for this one article which could as w ell bo produced at home and getting a product that is inferior in every quality except whiteness to the home made article. As much may be said of corn meal, which is imported at a cost of many thousands more—the aggregate for corn and corn products alone running up into millions an nually. The local flour mills could supplement their wheat products with corn products equally to their own advantage and that of the farm er, who would thus have a new and valuable outlet for their corn crop. Any community that can produce 75,000 bushels of wheat, says Mr. Johnson, can keep a fifty barrel flour hiill for a year. Any nsrricnlturnlor other community in South Carolina, therefore, that 'thinks such a mill and its attendants advantage worth the having would do well to look into the subject, consult Mr. Johnson, E nd 'nke steps to have a mill built y the time the next wheat crop mu tun*,—New* Mod Courier. The Future of Cottou. A New Orleans cotton firm has re produced in circular form a letter written by a Mississippi planter and originally published in the Grenada Sentinel. It is the most thorough going treatment of the cotton situa tion we have yet seen. After jaunt ing out that cotton now sinks the money invested and does not more than jaiy the bare exjieuse of the laltor that raises it, the writer insists that, without raising less cotton or employing more labor, every planter must raise his own corn and jiro- visions. ‘A negro,’he writes,‘can raise :otton, hut cannot produce corn without inti-lligent direction.’ It will hardly be believed ten years hence that cotton has sold as high as 10 cents. The natural increase in cleared land and the new land taken in the prairies of Texas will amount to at least 15 per cent. The present crop will be fully 9,000,000 bales, and t here is no prospect of one ever being smaller. When cotton gets so cheap that it can’t bear freight bur dens to distant jaunts, the factories will move to it. Every farm should be self sustain ing. It is perfectly clear that with 5 cent cotton we can’t I uy every thing, especially when we produce only half a crop. But there is as much money in 5 cent cotton, if it is produced with your own meat, bread and mules, as there is in 15 cent cot ton jtroduced with meat, bread and mules bought at a dealer's profit of from 100 j>er cent, togrand larceny. With unimpeded right of way to and from Eurojiean markets there will be a good living in cotton, but even under the present prohibitive arrangement at the custom houses the only way out for the individual farm er at the South is to put his fa*m on a self supporting basis in the matter of breadstuffs and provisions, and then to raise all the cotton he can. It is nonsense to desjtair of the negro. He can do any kind of work he is taught to do, and he can easily be taught to do the labor necessan for raising breadstuffs and jtrovisions— neither of which require as much work or as much skill in their pro duction as cotton does. The cotton croj>, as this circular jaunts out, will surely grow larger in stead of smaller. The farmers of the South cannot accept this as a con clusion too quickly. Is't them pro duce everything they can 'or their own snpjiort and its much surplus as" I hey can; and, doing so, let them work with the other agricultural exporting States, to enforce their right of way to and from market.—St. lymis Re public. Chairman Irby’s Game. FROM EARTH TO SIN. The Exact Distance as Measured by German Astronomers. A ])roiiiiiientTillmnnitc in Chcraw told the editor of the Rcjtorler the other day that Chairman Irby was j»rej>ared to grant the jwimary if the convention lead requested it, but on the other hand his plan was to have the Stale officers nominated at the May convention and thus put an end to the whole thing. In other words the chairman was willing to go con trary to his own constitution to grati fy his opjioncnts and violate it again in order to carry his own jwint and knock upThc whole thing. If this statement lie true it is only character istic of the unscrupulous methods of J. L. M. Irby. The projver way would be to have the constitution changed in May so that a primary could lie oidcred and then order it. We jirojihesy now that if the Till- mnnites secure the advantage in the May convention, which they jiroba- bly will, and if they have good rea son to supjwse that the movement against them is gaining ground, they will, in our opinion, nominate State officers right then and there. Cheraw Rejtorter. Doing aid Planning. son was bridge builder. useful man to Ktoncuull Jack- old Miles, the Virginia One day the Union troops hud retreated and burned a bridge over the Shenandoah. Jack son determined to follow’ them, sum moned Miles. “Yon must jmt all your men on that bridge,” said he; “they must work all night, and the bridge must be completed by daylight. My engineer shall furnish you with a plan and yon can go right ahead.” Early next morning Jackson met the old bridge builder. “Well,” said the genera), “did the engineer give you the pmu for the bridge.” “General,’ returned Miles slowly, “the bridge is done. I don’t know whether the picture is cruet!” Many of the readers of The Com- pauiou may have seen the transit of Venus in 1882, when the earth’s beautiful sister planet, moving in its orbit exactly between the earth and the sun, ujipcared upon the bright disk of the latter in the shape of a I round black sjsit a world in sil- houette. Although most tin years I have clasped, astronomers have j hardly yet completed the computa tions and discussions required to give ns the. knowledge of the sun’s dis tance that can he derived from the observations made at that time. Prof. Anwers has recently pub lished the results of the observations made by the German astronomers during both the transit, of 1.X.S2 and the previous transit of Venus in 1874. Aftir carefully comparing the mou- sureuicnis made on the two occasions i#id correcting as nearly as possible the known errors, he findy for what, is known as the sun’s jiarallax X,XS0 seconds. This simjdy means that half of the diameter of the earth as seen from the sun would subtend an angle of eight seconds and eight hundred and eighty-one thousandths of a second. The distance of the sun, as indi cated by t he paraliux given above, would be 92,059,700 miles; but owing to the jirohahle errors in the observa tions, which cannot he corrected, the jtarallux is uncertain to the extent of about one foilr-hundreth jiurt either way, so that the true distance may lie ns great as 92,289,700 miles, or as small as 91,829,000 miles. This German computation makes the sun’s distance somewhat less than has usually been assumed in the re cent text 1 s>oks of astronomy. Other measures based on the transits of 1871 and 18X2 have varied from 91,850,- 000 miles uji to 98,428,1)00 miles, the number generally preferred being about 92,900,000 miles, although the distance corre.sjioiiding lo the parallax adopted for use in the nautical alma nac is about 92,400,000. At first sight it may ajqtcar sur- pnsing that there should he such wide differences in the various meas ures, hut really the differeiiecs are not as serious as they apjicar to !«•. The sun is a body about 8(i(5,000 miles in diameter, so that the proba ble error, one way or the other, in any of the measures given altovedoes not amount to more than about one- quarter of the sun’s own diameter, while the variation of the distance in the course of every year, owing to the ellijitieal form of the earth's orbit, is more than a dozen times as great as the error in question and twice as great as the difference between the extreme measures.—Youths’ Com- jMinion. Cost of Krcjniig a Warship. 'I’lie first cost of a lirstclass battle ship is only a very small jmrt of the exj*nse which it entails jqxm the nation. Shijis like the Chicago, Baltimore and Philadelphia carry about thirty officers, 300 enlisted men, and a marine corps of from forty to sixty men and offices. The ottinrs of a first-class shiji of the line are the following: Captain, Lieutenant commander, four lieu tenants, one junior liiutcnant, two ensigns, nine naval eudets, medical insjieclor, sur geon, jiaymaster, chief engineer, as sistant engineer, chaplain, cajilaiu of the marines, gunner and carpenter. The exjtense of maintaining a first class modern cruiser, jiay of officers and men, coal, rejmirs nod general sujiplies, is estimated at $1300 jier day. This is in time of peace. If fighting is to lie done the exjieuse will, of course, he greatly increased. Repair.- may run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars after an en gagement while the cost of tiring one broadside from a ship like (lieChica go, 900 jh)iinds of metal at one dis charge from fourguns, is about $600, — Picayune. The Seven Sleepers. What Young Men May Do. THE LAND OF THIRST. An Eloquent Passage. THE FARMER’S INSECT PESTS, j Why lie Quit Cigarette-smoking. The history of our own country, ns well as that of other countries, furn ishes many instances in which young men have been entrusted with im portant public functions; nor is it a new thing with us for ytlflng men to obtain office. It is jiossible that at the present time the average age of local or municijml officers is less thau A Feature of the Great American George D. Prentice, jtrohahly Desert in California. of the most gifted writers that ever added lustre to American Journalism, 1 he most fatally famous j.art of | once sai(1; , t j K . Ilmt ihc Great American Desert is Death ; nmll - s al)i(lillg p | ilct . Valley, m California. 1 here is on ! • all the globe no,other sjiot more for- r bidding, more desolate, more deadly, j It is a concentration of the horrors It cannot be that our life is a bubble east ti]> by the ocean of eternity, to float a moment ujion its waves and sink into Marvelous Rcprodurtioii of Speci mens of Their Work. 1 not hi of that whole hideous area; and it! formerly; but.tlmt the high officers! | ms ;l | )ittel . | listory _ of the Stateamlthenation have from ()lK , of , llc interesting inii l i |«"«• of,e " lK ‘ hl 1, . v >•«>«“« | jfraphic stories I ever listened to was ! : ,,el1 is uul1 l, y 11 lir ' ,clu i that related to me, several years ago. _ in the Washington Star. At the very " | beginning of the Rejiubiie, Thomas y a j| ev I Jefferson, in the Continental Con ngnoss. Else whv these high “i in going to quit smoking eiga- | rotte.’," said a young man, wlijfc-bns Wasiii notox, - March 29.-0,,oof i .'** 0,,t ‘ ““ the most interesting portions of the i ""!' “ il V,lu ,mbit that is ! Agricultural Department’s exhibit at g01 "" ei "'7'. mc (,mv " an ear, - v | the World’s Fair will be the models I g !' i,Vl V’ r im - v " ,m f of ,hut80rt ’ W " e of plants illustrating the att: cks of | 1,,aCCtl ,m ’ ° r rather a - V0Un S lad - v > the various insects and diseases I U Vt ' ry t ' ni,mrrassm £ pos'lion. There of the survivors of the famous jiurty of 181!)—the Rev. J. W. Brier, an aged Methodist grc»i, "rote the Declaration of R'*! clergyman now living in California, dependence when he was thirty three. | A of five ) ium i m l emigrants lie had entered the V irginin Legia s ( :ir f e ,j ()11 j], c i ;ls t ( j ft y ,,f Septenilier, had ol)- latnrc at twenty six, and tained jiromineiicc there. Alexander Hamilton surpassed his great opponent, Jefferson, in early advancement. He was’a member of Congress at twenty five, and a mem ber of President Wushinton’s Cab inet at thirty-two. James Madison was a Congressman at twenty eight, and John Randolph at twenty six while John Quincy Adams was appointed Minister to England and the Netherlands at twenty seven. Washington himself had been a striking instance of precocity in the public service, for he was appointed adjutant general of the Virginia troops at nineteen, at twenty four received thechief command of the Virginia forces, and was hut forty three when he took command of the American army at Cambridge. Daniel Webster entered Congress at thirty, and Henry Clay was ap- [Kiinted a senator at twenty-nine, be fore he was of constitutional age. Clay had previously won a great repaint ion as a member of the Ken tucky Legislature. He was elected Sjienker of the national House of Representatives at thirty four. .toltll l'. ('nlli-.nii cntcie't lie' Xo 111 ij Carolina legislature at twenty live, and Congress at twenty-nine. At thirty live he hecaine Secretary of War aiul occupied the office seven years. Andrew Jackson was a marvel of precocity. He had carried n flintlock musket, as a soldier of the Revolu tionary Army, at the age of fourteen. At twenty throe he was njqiointed by Washington district attorney of Tennessee. He was a I’nited Slates Senator at thirty, lie did not reach the presidency until he was sixty-two. John C. Broken ridge was the young est Vice-President the country ever- had. He was elected on the ticket with Buchanan when he was thirty five, lie had Ikh-ii elected a mem ber of Congress at thirty. General Grant was the youngest President Hie country had ever had; he was elected at forty-six. But at thirty-nine he was unknown. In the present national House of Representatives seven members are under the age of thirty-three, and this is not an unusual proportion. Silver. 1X49, from the southern end of Utah : to cross the desert to the. then new, and glorious aspirations which leap like angels from tbe ti-mjile of our hearts, forever wandering unsatisfied? it the rainbow and clouds Iconic over ns with n beauty that is not of earth, and then jiass off to; leave us to muse on their loveliness?! Why is it that stars which hold their festival around the midnight throne, are set above the grasjtof our limited faculties, forever mocking us with their unajiproachahle glory? And finally, why is it that the bright forms of hunum beauty are jiresent- ed to our view and taken from us. mines of California. There wereoae hundred and five canvas-topped wagons, drawn hv sturdy oxen, be-1, • , . ", lea. mg the thousand streams of our side which trudged the shaggy men, | rille in hand, while under the canvas awnings rode I he women and children. In a short time there was division of opinion as lo the proper route across that pathless waste in front; and next day live wagons and their jieople went east to reach Santa Fe (whence there were dim Mexican trails to Los Angeles), mid the rest plunged bold ly into the desert. The party which went by way of Saute Fe reached California in December, after vast sufferings. The larger comjiany traveled in comfort for a few days until t hey reached about where Pioehc now is. Then they entered the Land of Thirst; anil for mor** than three monrhs wandered lost in that realm of horror. It was almost imjiossihle to get wagons through a country fur rowed with cannons; so they soon abandoned their vehicles, packing what they could ujion the hacks of tlie oxen. They struggled on toglit- j tering lakes, only to tind them dead ly poison, or but a mirage on barren sands. Now and then a wee sjn ing in tbe mountains gave tlieni new life. One by one Hie oxen dropped, day by day the scanty flour ran lower. Nine young men who separated from the rf jl, being stalwart and unencumber ed with families, reached Death Val ley ahead of the others,and were lost. Their bones were found many years later by Governor Blaisdell and his surveyors, who gave Death Valley its name. The valley lies in and is about one hundred and fifty miles long. In width it tajiers from three miles at its southern end to thirty at the northern. It is over two hundred'feet la-low the level of the sea. The main party crossed it at about Hu* i litldlc, where it is but a ’ j affections p) flow hack in Alphinc torrents upon our hearts? We were born for a higher destiny than earth. There is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be sprt'iul out before us like islands that slum tier on the ocean, and where the beautiful beings that pass before us will stay forever in our presence. Platform of the Third Party. finance. First—We demand a national cur rency safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the general government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and jirivatc; and that without tin use of hanking corjiorations a just; equitable and efficient means of dis tribution direct to the jieople at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent he provided, as set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers Alliance, or some bet ter system; also, by payments in dis charge of its obligations for public improvements. a. vie demand, free and nniimitua coinage of silver. t b. Wc demand that the amount, of circulatin'! to medium not less be sjieedly in- tlian $50 per creased capita. c. Wc demand a graduated in come tax. d. We believe that the money of the country should be kejit as much as possible in tlie bauds of the Jieo- ple, and lienee wc demand all nation-1 Inyo Countv, 1,1 al,d ^ ,a,L ' shall lie limited to I he necessary expenses of the gov- : I n eminent economically and honestly administered. , e. We demand that jiostal savings banks be established by the govern ment for the safe dejiositof the earn-j ings of the ncoplc and to facilitate | few miles wide, but suffered fright- exchange, fully there. Day by day some of i.axii. their number sank upon the burning! Second—The land, including all sands never to rise. .The survivors j R |0 "utural resources of wealth, is were too weak to help the fallen. which destroy them. To make these models, which have to lie absolutely tine to nature, two English artists of marvelous ability have been engaged. They are broth er and sister, and in this work far ex cel any others, having taken medals for their work at the World’s Fair held at London in 1X">| and at fre quent intervals since. The models of fruits are made of wax, mid such remarkable skill lias been exercised in their man nfacture that it is only by the closest scrutinv that they are to be tol.l from the real article. One specimen, a piece of apple containing a grub which has! eaten his way into its centre, is so perfect that, when compared with the original, not the slightest difference can be defected. Even when held to the light it. is translucent in thcsnmc sjiots as tin real apple. Marvelous dexterity is shown in making the most delicate leaves in the most jierfcctmanner. Avery skillful piece of work by these artists is a stalk of corn showing the car destroyed by worms. The husk is etrijijied back, exposing an car with the silk hanging down. The stalk itself is a work of art, but the ear is perfection itself. The destruction of a jiotato vine by jiotato bugs is an other very skillfully executed piece of work, though the bugs are sonatu- nl that it is rather unpleasant. The department will have many other interesting articles on exhibi tion. A case of reels, cocoons, and other articles jiertaiiiing to silk cul ture have been lately received front Japen, which of itself will form an interesting disjday, as silk culture being successfully carried on in this country. A number of cases of small animals will also be jdaccd on exhibition by this department. These will be ar- is a certain charni'iig young lady on St. Anthony’s Hill whom I should like very much to make my wife, so I know she feels as 1 do. But I am not able to support a wife, so I | have never said a word to the young j lady s parents. \\ ell the other even- | ing she and I took a stroll. It was ! about half jiust nine when we rc- : turned to the house so I did not go in. W e stood chatting a few mo ment, and I 1 ighted a cigarette. When she went into tlie house, I, of course, kissed her good-night. Well, without giving it a thought, she went in, hade her mother good night, and kissed her also. The old lady imme diately detected the odor of cigar- •n her daughter’s lips, and questioned her about it. The poor girl had either to acknowledge that I kissed her, or that she smoked a cigarette. When the young lady told me about it, 1 had not the cour age to ask her what course si echose. Now you know why cigarettes and I will be strangers in the future.” lie Mould if He Could. Sometimes when the reason is de manded why we have not done as we should, may all of us have as appro priate and exonerating an answer as Toby. Toby was a gnffankled deni zen of a neighboring rural district, who was summoned to Charleston as a witness before the United States Court. He was not forthcoming at the projier time, however, so a deputy was dispatched to the interior to find him. When he arrived in Charleston he was conducted to tlie magnificent Court ? House, where the sittings of the _Conrt are held. Toby’s natural f«C7 aaia. ipn.-pjised u hundred-fold at the grandeur of the t>uvwiv-. B , icJt). its lofty ceilings and Grecian col umns, and reached its climax when he was marched up before the Judge, ranged in the most realistic manner; arra J^ 'dhcial panoply, jKissiblc, the jiose of the animals and wb<>5 bi giavc, judicial tones, demand- thc construction of their dwellings j ed " he hud not been there at the being closely copied from nature. P 10 ! 11 ' 1 time, and w by had he made it One case will contain a robin which ! ,lw<w * : ' r .' 1° 8elK ! f° r bbu, dead or has caught a lx con an apple tree.! alivt " that it showed contempt for Close by is an English sparrow wait- 1 the august Court, and was an offense ing to take tbe bee from him as soon against tlie great Government of the as lit has a chance. The whole is so! Cubed States, and he ought to suffer realistic that one almost expects to | condign punishment. Then a “sol- see the sjiarrow dart at tlie robin and (,,ul1 stillness fiileil the air,” to be light for his breakfast in the case. Jo tier so it’s Ten (ominaudnifiils. broken by Toby: “Well, Jcilgc, I'll tell you the trnto. I’d acomeon de car, but I didn’t hub de money, and I’d a walk but I didn’t know de The Seven Sleepers were seven noble youths of Ephesus, who, in Hie time of the Deciun j)ersccutioiis, it is said, fled to a certain cavern for refuge. They were pursued, dis covered and walled in tlie cave, the jierjietrators of the deed hoping to meet out a cruel anil horrible deatb, However, according to the legend, they were made to full asleep, uud were miraculously kept alive for over two centuries. Their names are given as Muximiun, Mulclius, Martimiun, Denis, John, iHrapion and Constun- tiue. The jHissibility lhat Uncle Sam may be obliged to coin without charge all the silver offered to him causes the government to regard with peculiar interest the new discovery in Colorado of deposits of that metal which promise to astonish the world with their jirodnctiveness and jier- haps to reduce the market value of the precious substance itself. The silver output of this country is growing steadily greater—it was more t linn $70,000,000 last year—and it is realized that the argentiferous regions of the west have but begun to be drawn ujion. Bonanzas of fab ulous treasure remain yet to be dis covered, of which a mere suggestion is afforded by the recent finds of gi gantic ore masses at Greede and As pen. One of these, called the “Molly Gibson mine,” has yielded rock worth $12,000 a ton. A single car load jiroduced $75,000. A Star reporter a few mornings ago saw a chunk of it at the office of the geological sur vey. Silvercomjwsed oue-half of the muss, mixed with arsenic and anti mony—a rare combination. Work in this kind of stuff is almost like digging for wealth in the vaults of the treasury at Washington. A pocket in the “Park Regent” at Aspen ns '•ig as a good sized room, struck nine weeks ago, held $1000,000.—Wash ington Star. The strongest of the whole party was nervous, little Mrs. Brier, who bad come to Coloradoan invalid,mid who shared with her boys of four, | Seven and nine years of age that in- describaWc tramp of nine hundred miles. For the last three weeks she had to lift her athletic husband from the ground every morning and steady him for a few moments before he could stand. She gave lielji lo wasted giants any one of whom, a few mouths befmv. could have lifted her wi'h one hand. At last the few survivors crassed the range which shuts off (lint most dreadful of deserts from the garden of the world, and were tenderly nursed to health ut the hacienda, oi ranch house, of a courtly Spaniard. Mr. Brier had lost one hundred jHiunds in weigiit, and the others were thin hi projwrtion. When I saw him last he was a hale man of seventy-five, cheerful and active, but with strange furrows in his face to tell of those by-gone sufferings. His heroic little wife was still living, and the boys who had such a bitter cx- j>erieiicc as jierhaps no other Ikivs ever survived, arc now stalwart men. Potatoes were introduced into Ger many in 1710, into Russia in 1769, and into Scotland some years later. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are the lucky days for marriages in England and Scotland. A woman’s publication has been telling the many things that an onion can do, hut some how it forgot to mention that if eaten at tiie wrong time an onion can drive away the most devoted lover ever born, and sour the disjiosition of the most loving wife. The strength of an onion is powerful indeed. the heritage of all the people and should not be monojiolizeil for specu lative juirjKiscs, and alien ownership should lie prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other corpora tions in excess of their nctr.ial netds, and all lands now ownedliy alien:;, should be reclaimed by the govern ment and held for actual settlers only. TltA NSl’OUTATION. Third—Transjiortatioii being- a means of exchange and a public ne cessity, the government should own ami ojieratc the railrtjndsm the in terest of the jieople. a. The telegraplu and trlejihone, like the jiost-oftiee. system, being a necessity for transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people. A ('heap Disinfectant. A cheap portable disinfectant permanganate of juit ish; a bottle full of these crystals bought ut the store of any chemist, will last for years. It can be used when wanted by put ting a pinch of the jotush overnight in a jug of water, in the morning it will jirescnta reddish iipjicaruncc and can be need for drains, etc. A small quantity of this liquid kept in a basin ami renewed daily keeps a room fresh and destroys iliscase germs. The only drawback is, that if too strong, the liquid will stain liijen; at the same time it has the great advantage of being easily curried about, while it can be jirejiared in the smallest quan tity at a moment’s notice.—Boston Commnrcial. Never jiut off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. Never trouble another for what you pan do yourself Never spend your money before you have it. Never buy what you do not want because it is clieaji; it will be dear to you. Pride costs ns more than hunger, thirst and cold. Wc never rcjient of having eaten too little. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. How much jiain the evils that never hnpjieneil have cost us. Take things by their smooth handle. Wlieii angry count leu before you sjieak; if very angry, a hundred. The “Boss” White Oak Tree. wav. How the Word “Greenhorn’’ Origi nated. The in llii.- Wesi deer, early All the correspondence from the Vatican at Romo roncerning church matters it) carried pu in Latin. The largest jiieces of white oak that were ever probably sawed to or der anil sbipjied to this market have been received by Messrs. Rnlierts & fuse, of New York City. Thisjiiecc of timber was thirty inches square and lifty feet long, and measured 3750 feet iHiard measure. It weigh ed 22,500 jiounds, railroad standard weight for green oak timlier. The tree neasured over 3-5 feet in diame ter li fty feet from the ground. M Case says he Inis handled ship timlier fur flirty years in this market, and this m the largest piece of while oak suwihx to size he ever received. An other piece was also received at the sanus time which was 20x24 and sixty feet. long. The two pieces made GlfW feet and were all that was ship ped ia two cars, which came from Ohio.-—New York Recorder. term “greenhorn” originab d sway: “The jiionecis of Hie were much given to hunting It was a fact known to the settlers that when the horn of a fawn began to grow there was a ring of green hair nround the spot where the horn was coming out. It was considered a disgraceful thing for a hunter to kill a fawn—a cruel act—and the killing time was regu lated by tbe growth of the horn. There was a sort of unwritten law that no one should kill a male fawn before its horns could be scon. A person who was sonuthought ful is to kill a deer under the proper age was called a “green horn.” He was so named because the young horn of the deer and the hair around it were still green. The use of the aji- jiellation gradually spread until it was applied to all raw or inexjieriencd vouths or jiersons easily imjKised u[ion.—Indianapolis News. A Thicken That Killed a Child. The liec can draw twenty times its own weight, can fly more than four 11101^ an hour, and will seek a distance of four miles. A corresjioiident of the Statesville Landmark writes the following: The most singular circumstances that I ever heard of was ia the death of a little child of Jack Davis, of Gwanley township, Alexander county. The- child was about a year old. It was iu the yard about two weeks ago and an old rooster jumped on it and stuck its spur in the back jiart of thcchilds head. It was not thought fatal at first but the spar had penetrated through far enough tjpalject the ehilds brain, and in about a.iyyek the child died. : ,-(j The dogs in the. t nited States number 20,000,000, and it costs $200,- 000 per annum to keeji them.