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The Best CanitQl.

Integrity of character and truth in the
inner man are the prerequisites OF sue
cess in any calling, and especially so in
that of the merchant. There are attri-
butes which never fail to command re-
spect and win admiration. No one fails
to appreciate them, and if "they do not
pay"i in the vulgar sense OF the phrase,
they bring an amount of satisfaction and
peace to the owner that all the wealth OF
Croesus could not yield. There is no
better stock in trade than these princi-
ples-no capital goes 80 far or pays so
we'll, or is 30 exempt from bankruptcy
and loss. When known, they give
credit and confidence, and in the hardest
of times will honor your paper in banks.
They give you the capital to do business
upon, and the general faith of mankind
Will be your guaranty that you will not
fail. Let every young man, upon COM
mencing business look well to thesein.
dispensable elements of success, and
defend them as he would the apple OF
his eye. If inattentive and reckless
here, be willimperil everything. Bank
uptcy in character is seldom repaired.
in an ordinary lifetime. A man may
suffer in reputation and recover-not so
the man who suffers in character. Be
lust and truthful. Let these be the
ruling and predominating principles of
your life and the reward will be certain,
either in the happiness they bring to
your own bosom, or success which Will
attend upon all your business operations
in life, or both.
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Oratory versus Journalism.

The press is a great equalizer. The
adventurous advantages of rank and
position, the glamour Of manner and
delivery and personal presence, the
graces and efts of oratory, which give
weight to the spoken word, disappear,
and arguments and facts 60 for their
true value. The purpose of oratory was
TO sway to immediate efort-to fuse the
listening mass at a white heat to united
instantaneous action. The press is like
the mills of the gods-grinding slowly
but exceeding small. It's aim is the slow
upbuilding of ideas and the gradual incul-
cation of principles, which, after thought
and discussion, may in time bear fruit.
The aim of the Greek orator vas a direct
result, which, with a people 30 excitable
and volatile, was of frequent accomplish
ment. Carried away by the fiery out
bursts of Demosthenes, they would de-
clare war on the spot. "Let US go and
fight Philip |" was the cry which rose
and swelled as the ~deafening plaudits
which followed one of his rounded Pc
RODS died away. Had the same bitter
inyective and strenuous appeal appeared
in cold print and been read, stripped Of
its magnetism of tone and gesture, the
same men would have met each other at
the baths OF on the mart and said: "By
the way, did you Q that article LOT
Demosthenes yesterday on Philip OF
Macedon p eyes" "Well, now, that
was q pretty sharp editorial, wasn'ttit?
If Philip don't mind what he's abo0t, I
shouldn't at all be surprised if he had
war one OF these days."
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Some Interesting Dates.

Dates are generally dry reading but
there is sometimes 6 significance in the
mere grouping of dates ; and the reader
will find such significance in an atten-
tive consideration OF the following events,
all occurring, he will observe, within
the limits of a little over a century ::
Postofices were first established IN
1864 4; printed musical notes were first
used in 1473 ; watches were first con.
structed in 1476 ; America wa discov'
cred in 1892 the first printing press
was set. up at Copenhagen IN 1893 ;
Copernicus announced his discovery OF
the true system of the universe in 1917;
Albert Durer gave the world a prophecy
of future engraving in 1927 Jergens
set til. spinning-wheel in motion in 1880,
the germ of all the busy wheels and
looms of ten thousand future factories ;
modern needles first came into use III
1875; the first knives were used in
England, and the first wheeled carriages
in France in 1863 ; the first newspaper
was published in England in 1888 tele-
scopes we're invented in 1890 Spencer,
Shakespeare, Bacon, Keplers Tycho
Brahe were contemporaries III 1880 -
these are some of the more important
headlands of European history within a
single century.
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Experience Of Grave Robbers.

At Cleveland, O., Joiner, the grave
robber, gave in court a vivid description
of his expedition with Carlisle and Minor
for the body of Edwin French, which
was found in q Cleveland medical insti.
tute. At one time after the body had
been taken from the grave, Carlisle and
Minor came in hot haste to him and said
that the town had been aroused, and
that they would be discovered. He was
told to drive away as fast as possible.
He told them he must have his money
first. They told him he would get no
money unless they got something to sell
Tor money. He said he would go and
get the body himself, for he must have
money, and would as soon die in getting
the body as go home to a starving wife
and children and thus die. One Of the
others went up the street a short dis.
lance, and came back and reported that
it was a false alarm. Men were simply
at work on the decoration Of the town
for the next day, when the president
was to be there. They told them to
drive down by q back street while they
bagged the body and dragged it through
a cornfield to the buggy. The fright
which they received, however, induced
them to leave the grave in the condition
in which it was found by the watchman
when he returned and discovered that
the body had been removed.
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Modern Advertising.

We admire enterprise, we like to see
trade prosper, and we believe in adver-
Using. We don't care how many papers
O man employs or how many cards and
circulars he scatters broadcast through
the land, but we must express our
strong aversion to the methods used by
certain parties for giving publicity to
their wares.
For instance, it is not pleasant to find
ones fences and walls emblazoned with
huge, staring capitals announcing the
virtues of "Cheatem's Itch Ointment"
or an order to use "Catchem's Belly.
ache Drops" "Dothem's Cureall,"
"Squibob's Bitters," or some other
of the numerous nostrums Of the
day.
This method of advertising is, we
protest, a nuisance. Not a place of pub
lie resort, nor a depot, in fact, nowhere
that people resort, either for business
or recreation, but is besmeared in this
outrageous manner; fences, walls,
buildings, public and private, new and
old, are afflicted by this mania, and as it
is usually done without as much as say
ing to the owners, "by your leave" the
newspapers, the legitimate channels for
advertising, are swindled out Of what is
Justly their dues.
1t is high time this thing was stopped:
the evil is becoming unbearable, AMI If
these enterprising people will not pay
some respect to other peoples rights,
they should be made to understand that
the law provides a remedy therefor. II
We mistake not, the penalty for defacing
property is a severe one.-Honae Circle.
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The Paper AGE.

We have had the golden age and the
iron age, and now we are in the paper
age. There are paper boats and paper
car wheels, paper clothing and paper
money, and an English captain has dis
covered that a wal vessel can be ad-
vantageously coated with paper. When
the Seraphic last set sail for India Capt.
Warren had her bottom thoroughly
coated with paper, applied by means of
a cement OF his own devising. After
making the voyage and lying in port
three months the bottom remained free
from marine incrustations except in q
few places where the paper had been
rubbed off. As the material is very
cheap and the method Of its application
is simple, the discovery is likely to rev
olutionize marine construction in at
least this detail. 1t may also revolu-
tionize all modern warfare. May not a
paper ship with paper sails loom up in
the future, and may not another paper
ship batter the first paper ship topieces
with paper balls from paper cannon, and
then, of course, the full account Of the
fight will be published in the papers
of next morning,
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New ProyerbiaI Philosophy.

A short horse is O curried, but a
mule, short or long, will kick you into
the next township.
A wise man reflects before he speaks !;
a fool speaks, and then reflects while
his eye is getting well.
Who hath a cold hath sorrow to lis
sops, especially if his handkerchief hath
starch in it.
Who wants to beat a dog soon finds a
stick, but already has the dog shot
around the next corner yelling "ki-ki!"
What cannot be cured must be endur-
ell. but first try Jones' Magic Liniment.
Trust not q horses heels, nor aTdog's
tooth, neither a man who says he'll pay
You Saturday.
The fool never thinks higher than the
top of his house, and peuneth the fes-
tive joke at the expense Of the lightning
rod agent.
Rather go to bed ~supperless than rise
in debt, now that the bankrupt law has
expired.
A spendthrift lets go the bride, grabs
his steed by the name and yells, "Whoa,
Emma "-OH City Derrick.
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A New Orleans dispatch of the second gives
the number Of deaths on that date as seventy
five and refers to tho obstinacy Of the disease
in showing such vitality beyond the time when,
according to the experience Of former years, it
ought to haye declined. In Memphis there
we're forty-two deaths, ten in Holly Springs.
ten in Canton and many more in smaller places.
The following dispatch from Vicksburg, Miss,
gives an insight into the horrors OF the relent-
iees plague !: 1.-THE Howard Association has
received au earnest appeal from DIR. 4. Il.
Ferry, Of Haynes Bluff, for aid for the people
of that section. The doctor details at some
length the destitute condition OF the people,
and SAYS he has over 100 cases OF fever under
treatment, and that the epidemic is steadily
increasing throughout that section. The people
are terror-stricken and the panic is worse than
that among q routed army. Two well-authen-
tioated cases have occurred where the parents
Of two dying children abandoned them to the
meroies OF strangers, and when the children
wero dead they had to be buried by the kind
ness of colored friends. President Andrews,
of the Vicksburg Towards, quotes the above
statement in his appeal for aid as an example
Of many received by them in the last few days,
and, 10 conclusion, he says 7 b disease is
spreading all through the adjacent counties.
They all look 10 us for aid and assistance, and
We are doing all in our power to relieve their
necessities. Dolta, La, three miles distant,
has twenty-one cases, and three deaths have
occurred in the last twenty-fonr hours We
have sent physicians, nurses and medicines by
q steam-tug through special arrangements:
Tho demands are increasing upon us daily, and
God only knows where they will end"
On the third the number Of new cases OF
fever was GAL and 1923 deaths. 1t was esti-
mated that the loss from the suspension and
advancement Of business in the fevar-ln-
fected districts would reach upward Of $780,
900, 900. A St. Louis dispatch Of the third says !:
Lieutenant II. II. Benner, 18th infantry, and
Lieutenant Charles 8. Hall, 18th infantry. who
are to have charge Of the expedition for the
relief Of the yellow fever sufferers along the
banks of the Mississippi river between Mem
pbis and Yicksburg. arrived here last night.
Roth ara Northern men, and have never had
the fever. but have been stationed in the South
and do not fear the scourge. BALLS regiment
was at New Orleans when the fever broke ont,
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Words Of Wisdom.

Little minds are wounded by the
smallest things.
The truly generous man is oblivious
of a slight and never becomes angry at
a slur.
Keep the way always clear tor I'M
provement, by putting q gag IN the
mouth of Ignorance.
Great men undertake great things be-
cause they are great ; and fools, because
they think them easy.
The grandest of heroic deeds are those
which are performed within four walls
and in domestic privacy.
Fortune is ever seer accompanying
industry, and is as often trundling in a
wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and
six.
People who have nothing to do are
soon tired of their WI company. Idle
ness leaves the door open for graver sins
to enter.
It is a singular fact that those who
devote 30 much time to other peoples
business seldom pay proper attention to
their own.
Hard words are like hailstones in sum-
mer, beating down and destroying that
which they would nourish were they
melted into drops.
A man who shows no defect is a fool
or a hypocrite, whom we should mis-.
trust. There are defects so bound to
fine qualities that they announce them
defects which it is well not to correct.
Avoid the companion who iests at
everything! Such people d~isparage,
by some ludicrous association, all OBJ
iects which are presented to their
thoughts, and thereby render themselves
incapable of any emotion which can
either elevate or soften them !; they
bring upon their moral being an inAu.
ence more whitening than the blasts of
the desert.
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Where the Hardware Goes.

A correspondent of the British Iron
monger has been examining the monthly
reports of the United State treasury
department, to see what becomes Of ex-
ported hardware. He finds the destina.
ton of some of the principal articles to
be as follows:
Nails are sent chiefly to Great Britain,
Germany, France, Danish West Indies,
British West Indies, Porto Rico, Cuba.
Africa, British Guiana, Hayti, Columbia,
Brazil, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand,
and Canada.
Cutlery is sent chiefly to Great Brit.
ain, France, Cuba, Honduras, British
Guiana, Columbia, Brazil, Mexico, Ven.
ezuela and Australia.
Pumps are sent chiefly to Germany,
Great Britain, France, Cuba, Columbia.
Brazil, Venezuela, Australia, Mexico,
New Zealand, Sandwich Islands, the
East and West Indies, China, Japan
and many other countries.
Machinery is sent to Great Britain,
Germany, France, Cuba, Hayti, Sar
Domingo, all the South American States,
Mexico, Central America, all parts Of
Europe, Africa, Australia, China, japan
and elsewhere.
Articles classed as general hardware
go to Great Britain, Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, France, Germany, Spain,
Italy, Russia, British North America,
West Indies, East Indies, British colo
MES in Africa, British Guiana, China,
Japan, all the South and Central Ameri.
can States, Australia, New Zealand, and
many other countries.
Agricultural implements, clocks aud
watches, firearms, and many other
manufactures, seem to 60 in greater OF
less amounts to nearly every country Of
the world.
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Hair EalS.

In many parts OF the country the no.
ton has long prevailed that if horse
hairs be placed in brook and left there,
they will after q time become endowed
with life ; in short, that they will turn
into hair cells. Very recently, a cor
respondence on this subject was pub
lished in the columns of a prominent
Scotch newspaper, between an anony-
nous writer and DR.. Andrew Wilson, of
the Edinburgh school of medicine ; the
former alleging that a friend in Shet-
land had succeeded in effecting the
Transformation of hairs into chair eels,"
the latter denying that any such "spon-
taneous generation" of living beings
was possible. The life history of the
Gordius aquaticus, as naturalists name
the hair eel, is perfectly well known. 1t
passes the earlier stages of its existence
as a parasite, lying coiled up within
the body of an insect, such as the grass
hopper the worm exceeding its host
many times in length. In this condi-
ton it is immature, and has no power
Of reproducing its kind. When mature,
it leaves the body Of the insect and
seeks the water, being found in summer
at the breeding season in thousands in
some. localities. There the eggs are
laid IN long strings, and from each is
developed a tiny embryo or young gor-
dius, which gains admittance to an in
sect host, there to lie ~quiescent for q
time, and soon to repeat the history OF
its parent.
It is plain that in such a life-history
there is neither room nor need for the
supposition that hair cells are developed
in an unnatural fashion, and at the will
of man. The fallacy that hair cells are
transformed hairs arises frequently from
imperfect observation ; often from pre-
conceived notions, and from an inability
to perceive the unnatural nature OF the
supposition, or to reason out the pro-
cedure adopted to produce the hair eels.
Thus, for instance, it would be an alb
surd superstition were any one to main.
tain that hair cells could only be formed
artifcially from hairs. It is a perfectly
evident truth and demonstrate fact that
they reproduce their kind by e o.
eggs, and this fact shows us that they
possess a natural method OF reproduc,
ton, and further, that the statement OF
amy supposed infringement of a natura!
Law should be received with caution and
suspicion. scientific american.
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Where Edison Failed.

We remember meeGlnR MI. Eo1SOu,
some years ago, when he was most
deeply absorbed in his experiments re-
lating to the conductibility of sound
through various mediums, and had a
long and interesting conversation with
him upon that subject. We %conversed
upon the well-known fact that the same
medium of transmission has different
properties at different times. We both
cited instances in which a man forty
three years old, though using his ut
most strength of lung and voice, could
not shout loud enough, at half past six
o'clock in the morning, to awaken q boy
nine years old just on the other side Of
q lath and plaster partition, while at
eleven o'clock that night the same boy
would hear low whistle on the sidewalk,
through three doors and two flights of
stairs, and would spring instantly out
of a sound sleep in response to it.
It was a belief of Mr.. Edison's at that
time, that sound could be made to travel
as rapidly as feeling, and to test the
matter he had invented a delicate ma
chine called the spanctrophone. which
he was just about trying when we met
him. We were greatly interested in the
machine and readily agreed to assist in
the experiment. By the aid of Mr. Edi-
son and a street car nickel, we enticed
into the laboratory a boy about seven
years old.
After many times reassuring him and
promising him solemnly that he would
not be hurt, We got the machine attached
to him, and the great inventor laid the
boy across his knees in the most ap-
proved, old = fashioned Solomonic
method. On a disk of the machine deli
cate induces we're to record, one the ex-
act time of the sound of the spank, the
other the exact second the boy howled.
The boy was a little suspicious at this
point of the experiment, and with his
head partly turned was glaring fearfully
at the inventor. MIR. Edison raised his
hand. A piercing howl rent the air,
followed by a sharp conclusion like the
swapping of a musket cap, and when
we examined the dial plate Of the ma
chine infallible science proudly demon
strated that the boy howled sixty-eight
seconds before he was slapped. The
boy went down stairs in three strides,
with an injured look upon his fearful
face.
MI, Edison threw the machine out of
the window after the urchin, and we felt
that it was no time to intrude upon the
sorrows of a great soul, writhing under
a humiliating sense of failure. We have
never met Mr.. Edison since, but we
have always thought he didn't know
much about boys, or he would know
how utterly unreliable the best OF them
would be for scientific experiment.
Burlington HaWkeye.
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The Mother OF Forty.Four Children.

Mary, wife of William Austin, now a
resident of Washington, has had forty
four children, only eleven of them born
alive. She had twins thirteen times,
and triplets six times. Her sister, Mrs.
Carrie Kinney, aged forty-three, has
had twenty-six children, and her hus-
bands sister has had f~orty-one children,
making a total of Ill for three women.
This seems almost incredible, though
the figures are vouched for. Mrs. Aus
tin, q native of South Carolina, and
reared in Tennessee, is the daughter Of
John G. Kind, a printer. She is q reg
ular physician, and has practiced for
twenty-five years, having been n Of
the first women doctors in the country.
She studied medicine in New Orleans
under the well-known Dr. Stone. She
lost an eye while with the Federal army
in the Valley of Virginia, received
medals for the able and fearless manner
in which she had discharged her duty,
and was granted, likewise, a regular
commission. She is f~fty-four, OF good
proportions and appearance, and, as may
be inferred, of vigorous constitution:
Her husband was also in the Federal
army, and bears the marks of a score OF
serious wounds, which would have
killed any man less tough.
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and wss then moved to Holly Springs, thence
to Chattanooga, and is now in Atlanta. Benner
has been regularly stationed at Mcpherson
Barracks, Atlanta. The relief steamer Cham
bers is being rapidly loaded, and will probably
leave tomorrow. Several newspaper men have
asked permission to accompany the expedition.
DR.. Frank ". Reilly. representing the Chicago
and it is probable that arrangements will be
mado to enable him to test the value of tur-
pentine as a disinfectant during the trip.
A New Orleans dispatch Of the fourth to q
New York paper gives the following fearful
details: "The fever seems still to maintain its
hold upon the outer borders Of the city, more
especially in the rear and lower limits, with q
further extension out of Algiers up to GretnA:
In the center Of the city only q few cases still
linger. The best authorities say that there
have not been less than twenty-five thousand
cases of fever in this city up to the present
time. Last night and this morning, accom-
panied by two physicians of the Howard and
Young Mems Christian associations, Drs.
Grosart and George Stumpf, I drove along the
rear portions of the city, where large numbers
Of our population are now suffering from the
fever. In some places I found two, three and
four children in one bed, all down with the
fever. At one place there were eight in the
~family-father, mother and six c~hildren-ome
sick and some well, but only one bed for them
all. Several 1 found lying on the bare floor,
having under them only q few rags, and with
filth and vile odors in every corner. In this
house I noticed one Of the patients particu-
larry, q young girl Of about seventeen summers,
with handsome, regular features and large
dark eyes thai we're inexpressiHy sad. She
seemed sinking amid the squalor and indecen-
cy of the apartment. At another place I
saw four children lying in one bed, all OF
whom had been taken sick within q few hours
Of each other. Still another family was visited
where three children had been stricken down
within about fifteen minutes of each other. 1t
seems marvellous that many Of these cases ever
recovered. Some would take no medicine what.
ever; in one instance, through the ignorance
and stupidity Of the parents, the medicine Was
mixed all together, and all given at one dose:
The great tendency with the children seemed
to be- toward relapsing. One little creature
had had two relapses, once through eating
acorns after he hrd been up and about for
some days. A considerable number Of the
patients I saw had no strength; indeed, they
seemed to have been utterly broken down be-
fore they we're taken sick Some Of these had
not taken o mouthful Of food for several days.
There was filth, restitution, and almost starva-
ton everywhere"
The deaths from yellow fever in the places