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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-02
EMPLOYEES INCREASING THE RATE OF WAC

BALTIMORE, March l (|pccjdD.-The men in
the Baltimore and OHIO railroad shops agreeably
surprised to-day. In accordance with an order from
the General superintendent, David Lee, the employees
OF the division Of the road extending from Bat
to the Ohio River, we're put ten hours work
day. The order affects thousands of all along the
eastern DIVISION there being nearly ljO0 at Mount
Clare The increase is believed to be permanent It
means the laborers a Mount Clare increase from
eighty rs day to II 10 and proportonate
Increase among the mechanics
FALL RIVER. Mass. March 1.-The new schedule of
wages making average advance OF 10 per cent.
went into effect at all the mills here this morning
sPLtSGFIELD. Mass, March ii. Parker and Bros.
have advanced tho pay OF the help in the FIttsfed
Woolon Mill 10 per cent the Increase dating back TO
January.
WiBsrER, Mass. March 1.-The employees ut the Web
ster Linen Works had notice OF per cent advance in
wages this morning.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-02
STREET RAILWAY OFFICERS UNITING.

STREET RAILWAY OFFICERS UNITING.
TO ACT IN UNISON HEREAFTER IN CASE OF A
STRIKE.
Parlor one of the Fifth Avenue Hotel is on
tho right hand OF tbs ladies' entrance the Twenty
thr-t side. occupied Last night by eighteen
or twenty men, who found 1t a convenient gathering
place They were compatriots OF Jacob Sharp. They
In sngly by twos, during the hair hour after s
o'clock. Some Of them had previously appeared
In the hotel corridors. but all except went
ont into the cold aud passed. around 10 the Twenty
third-st door Jacob sharp seen slipping quietly
the shortly after 1t Was III M. Daniel COnOyer
with short and chunkey form, ehy'loped In
a huge gray oveocoat with cape, came
IN with tall and spare young man,
with a Hebrew look aud u stylish furtrimmed over
". G.. Richardson was the man who enjoyed the
parlor. There short and CHUNKY citizens OF ap
parent Irish extraction stylish looking men OF Wall
citizens tho gathering. They had
cling conference. There WAS sayage-tOUcd speech
about tho Organization" ana 1.-THE stock" and "thc
stockholders" Of somc railroad. Then Jacob sharp's
voice was raised In a surll and piping tone, Le
planned 1.-THE agreements" and read section aud
"scction B." strikes" and "strikcrs were also
ferred
It was learned that several OF these meetings have
been held lately When the gathering broke up It
rl man to come out, declared that all he knew about
the meeting that he had been called in
to give an opinion law point. Henry
Hart, President Foshay and others slipped
away quietly possible. II Is understood
that tho mcen. was composed Of representatives ~
nearly every street railroad IN tue city, inclodng ohi
directors aud suprrntrntentS aud that It's object
discussion OF the Labor situation An agreement
WI, partly reached by which the roads will act Ia uni
son Ia OF strikes or attempted strikes. Another
will 30 held next week rally tho
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
Tho Carp's Tenacity Of Life.

Certainly, the tenacity of life shown
by pond animals is very remarkable.
Our own English carp bury themselves
deeply in the mud in winter, and there
remain in q dormant condition many
months entirely without food. During
this long alternating period they can be
preserved alive for considerable time
out Of water, especially if their gills are,
from time 10 time, slightly moistened.
They may then be sent to any address by
parcels post, packed in wet moss, with
out serious damage to their constitution;
though, according to Dr.. G.lnther, these
dissipated products Of civilization pre-
fer to have piece Of bread stepped in
brandy put into their mouths to sustain
them beforehand.
In Holland, where the carp are not 80
sophisticated, they are often kept the
wholo winter though, hung up in 9 net
to keep them from freezing. At first
they require to be slightly wet from time
to time, just to acclimatize them gradu-
ally to SO dry an existence; but after q
while they adapt themselves cheerfully
to their altered circumstances, and feed
on an occasional frugal meal Of bread
and milk with christian resignation
Cornhiu Magazine.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
cs1crv as a Cure for Rheumatism.

In celery there must be some special
virtue, if we only knew what it is. Moth
inc is made in vain, and the powerful
smell and the extraordinary taste OF Gel
ery are intimations from nature that it
has some special mission. Mr.. Ward,
of Perriston Towers, Ross, writes that
rheumatism becomes impossible if celery
Is freely used as an article of diet. "Cut
the celery" he says, into inch dice. Boil
in water until soft. No water must be
poured away unless drank by the in
valid. Then take new milk, very
slightly thicken it with flour and flavor
it with nutmeg; warm with the celery
in the saucepan; serve with diamonds of
toasted bread around the dish, and eat
with potatoes.
aPermit me ;. say" he adds, "that
cold nor damp never produces rheuma-
tism, but simply develops it. The acid
blood is the primary cause and the sus-
tanning power of the evil. While the
blood is alkaline there can be no rheu-
matism, and equally no gout. Let me
fearlessly say that rheumatism is i'm
possible on such diet, and yet our med
ical men allowed rheumatism to kill
over 5000 human beings in 1s76-every
case as unnecessary as dirty face."-
Philadelphia Record.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
Why Low Ceilings Arc Preferable.

Low walls to rooms are being advocated
in England as really affording better
ventilation through not providing for an
upper strata Of all but irremovable foul
air, and tending to prevent draught.
The suggestion hos IS artistic value. We
have probably gone to the extreme in
the height of apartments to the disad-
vantage Of appearance of furniture,
which is thus dwarfed; also failing to
secure the most pleasing proportions to
all rooms not having large area. There
is a cosiness, too, in a low-ceiling room
which, under the reigning style, is sacri-
feed to emptiness. We recall at this
moment with pleasure the hunting box"
of Queen Elizabeth, formerly at the edge
of a forest, with its low wainscoted
rooms. In her days low ceilings were
the rule, and comfortable interiors rather
than imposing exteriors were studied.-
Boston Transcript.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
Insurance.

GOUTH CAROLINA BRANCH OF
- THE VALLEY MUTUAL LIFE AS
ISOLATION OF VIRGINIA, COLUM-
BIA, S. g., JANUARY 81, 1861 have
been appointed State Agent Of the Valley
Mutual Life Association of Virginia and
Col. LEE HAGOOD has been appointed
manager. The Office of the South Carolina
Department is at Columbia, No. - Main
street, (under City Hall.) ~.
I will make an active canvass OF the
State, and want the assistance Of number
of live men to canvass every county In the
State.
Thi Company was organized eight (8}
years ago by some Of the leading business
men of Virginia, with the view Of furnish.
ing our people with good sound insurance
at the lowest possible cost Its success has
been unprecedented, and far exceeding
that OF any company organized In the
South. Its liabilities from its organization
to this date have been fully met, its Reserve
Fund Of 100000 securely invested, with an
actual membership Of about 5000, aggre.'
eating over 2I5 900, 900 of insurance.
Any communications addressed to MO OF
the manager at Columbia will receive
prompt attention. =, =
WM. NJ. BOSIICK, Ja.,tc
Jan 28-lmo State Agent
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
Dinner q Ia Greeolan.

There is a Philadelphia club called
@The Commands, and it is said to be
rightly named. It's last annual dinner
was eaten on Saturday night, and was
supposed to be served in the Greek
STYLE" Everything was served whole
and ss natural as possible. Goldfish
were passed around alive is glass globes
and soon after served with their scales
on. a young wild boar, cooked, but
Iife-like, adorned the center of the table.
Several 'possums, looking very life-ike
in their furry pelts, stood around until
devoured. One of the novelties was 3
ME of baked blackbirds. s.-Exchange.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
Desert ption OF d Wonderful Machine.

Description Of Wonderful Machine.
when was laying the foundation Of
my mechanical fame and fortune, a few
wears ago, boarded in a house filed
with locomotive engineers and firemen.
A practice prevailed there OF enlivening
the supper table with social conversation,
and, the locomotive party being In the
majority, the leading theme of talk was
stupendous feats performed in railway
runs, varied by minor incidents and rec
ords Of narrow escapes. George Dew
hirst, who ran lathe in the shop, sat
opposite to me at the table, and he.got
tired Of being excluded from the CONVEX
sation. He became ambitious 10 hear
himself talk in that crowd.
zone evening, catching on in q lull in
the conversation, he called out loudly
to me, well, went over and saw the
machine to-day, and it is astonishing the
fine work it does!' How does it work?
I inquired. WELL said he, by means Of
q pedal attachment fulcrumed lever
converts vertical reciprocs.ting motion
into circular movement. The pyias;ssal
part of the machine is q disk which re-
wolves rapidly on vertical plane: Power
is applied through the axis of the disk,
and, when the speed of the driving arbor
is moderate, the periphery OF the ma
chine is travelling at a great velocity.
Work is done on this periphery. Pieces
of the hardest steel are by mere impact
reduced to any shape the skillful ope--
ator DESIRES What on ea.th is the ma
chinev demanded a listener. oh, it is a
new grindstone,' replied George; and a
silence that could be felt passed round
the supper table. ."-Mechanica Progress.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
A Flock of Sheep on Drill.

Alma Hill, of Bronwood, has about
200 head of sheep on his place and good
many cookie burs. One day not long
ago he was in the field and saw fifteen
sheep side by side, their heads all point
ing the same way, looking as if out for a
drill. He yelled at them to move, and
the whole gang moved at once. 1t was
some time before he ascertained that the
burs had got into their wool and they
were stuck together.-Americus (Ga.)
Recorder,
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
geVNo7s 70 eveogs9 M LtFE.
Es Il she specaaziss WAC suseoeds-Seaa
Of o Boys Felenae.

Es Il the Specaa8lst Who sueeoeds-Soaa
Of Boys Falenas.
President Richie, in takips leave OF the
high school boys the other day, gave
them the keynote to success In LIE when
he bade them, first, to be true, genuine
men, and, secondly, to acquire some
special skill or craft.
o 1t is the specialist, the man who can do
some one thing, however small, though
it be only to make bread or button-hooks
better than anybody else, who nowadays
is secure of his living. And it is the
man who sticks to his own trade, who
initiates and courts nobody, who hves
simply and sincerely out from his own
conscience, convictions and taste who is
secure of his social position.
John Burroughs studied birds, and
birds only. He knows them as nobody
else ever has done, and when he tells us
Of their habits, their vices, their oddities
and the meaning Of their song, all the
world stands stia to listen.
A man of wealth has conviction that
the sap of certain Indian tree can be
made useful to mankind. He gives up
his life to experimenting with it; sacr-
fees two fortunes; reduces wife and
children to want; fails again and again;
Is jeezed at by scientific mon, but never
gives up his belief or changes his work.
At last success comes. He has not only
earned enormous wealth for his family,
but he has given 30 mankind one Of the
most useful appliances of life.
1t is useless to dwell on this point. The
most careless lad beginning life now, in
this modern crush and struggle, soon
learns that it will never do to scatter his
shot. Only the specialist, and the thor
ough, able specialist, has chance in the
professions, sciences or trades. Parents
are beginning to find that ths natural
bent of boys talents or skill must be
discovered, and his whole training be di-
rected to stregthen and develop it if sue
cess is to be assured to him.
Teachers, unfortunately, have not yet
discovered this fact. Or, more proba-
bly,, they find it impossible to detect any
decided bent or talent in the great ma
iority Of boys. So in they go, en- masse,
to the preparatory school, and after that
to college, all toiling along together
on q dozen different paths Of knowl-
edge, on most Of which they
will not advance step after
matriculstion. So wide is the e1panse
Of possible learning now opened before
them that the textbooks are in fact
little better than indices to hint at vhaS
there is to learn.-Philadelphia Press
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
Capitalization OF Fruits Ia Franco.


The last volume of the reports fromsth
consuls Of the United States as to their
respective districts contains several aTti-
cles on the erystaliaation Of fruits as
practiced in France. In the opinion of
our consuls stationed in France, this in
dustry could be introduced into the
United States to good advantage. They
state that very large quantities Of crys-
talized fruit are exported from southern
France to almost every country IN the
world. Among the fruits preserved are
oranges, pineapples, apricots, peaches:
pluns, cherries, prunes, pears, figs and
melons. The orystallizing process is in
principle simple and nearly uniform for
all kinds of fruit, but requires certain
degree of skill, which can only be OBJ
tanned by experience.
The essential thing to be done is to e2-
tract the juice of the fruit anc replace it
in the pulp with liquid sugar, which,
upon hardening, not only preserves the
fruit from decay and Fermentation, but
retains it in its original form and consist
ency. The fruit to be preserved should
be free from blemishes and Of the correct
degree of ripeness. Fruit long picked
and transported considerable distance is
unfit for preserving by this process.
The "pits" Of stone fruit are removed,
and those that have thick skins, like
pears and peaches, arc pared, quartered,
and soaked in cold salt water for several
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
subdiyislons Of tho Legal Profession.

The tendency in this country is to the
subdivision Of professions. Lawyers are
recogizing this tendency now more than
ever before. Those who willingly take
any business that offers are growing
fewer every year. twill eventuate in
attorneys skilled only in corporation law,
others in insurance law, others in COM
nlercial law, others In the law Of patents,
trade marks and copyrights, etc. And
all these divisions are capable of almost
infinite subdivision. The growth of law
and the constantly increasing mass Of
decisions upon every conceivable point
render this division necessary. do not
think a further division of the work Of
the courts will be necessary, but there
will be one effect there-the judges will
be appointed or elected for hfe.-C. u.
B. Drummond in Globe-Democrat.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
Taking Acknowledgements OF Timber

Taking Acknowledgements OF Timber.
Photography is employed to recognize
good wood. Acknowledgements are
taken Of sections, longitudinal and trans
verse, of standard pieces Of timber bear
ing q certain known maximum or mini
mum strain. These are enlarged and
serve as comparisons for other samples.
ANY piece which the educated eye de-
tects to have fewer rings per inch OF di-
ameter, fewer fibres or fewer radial
plates per square inch of section is re-
iected. The advantage of this method is
that it allows all timber for important
positions to be tested before being used.
Ohio Lumber Journal.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
One Thing He Learned to Do.

One good thing has come out OF the
Imprisonment of Mr.. Stead of Tho Pail
Mall Gazette. Among other lessons he
learned how to sleep on bare boards.
"You will discover" he writes, that
the weight of your body rests almost
entirely upon your shoulders and hip
Joints. To alleviate tho circumstances
wrap a coat around your shoulders,
another garment around your loins, put
your waistcoat in your hat for a. pillow,
and you will be able to sleep without
waking at midnight with aching bones" !"
Chicago Journal.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
THE PIGS AND THE WEATHER.

Tho Habit Of Gathering Sticks and Grass
A Meaningless Couplet.
Of pigs, Ihave heard it said, very fire.
quently:
when swine carry sticks, the clouds
viii play tricks" but that-"When they
lie in the mud, 10 fears of a food"
The first of these couplets is of twofold
interest. I have watched them for
years, to see what purport this carrying
of sticks and punches of grass might
have, and have only learned that it has
nothing whatever TO do with the
weather, or at least with coming rain
storms, The drouth of summer is SO far
convenience as to throw light upon
this habit, as it did upon the uneasy
COWS. Pigs carry sticks as frequently
then as during wet weather, or just pre-
ceding shower. Furthermore, these
gathered twigs are not brought together
as though to make nest, but are scat
tered about in perfectly aimless man
ner. For some cause, the animal is un-
easy, and takes this curious method of
relieving itself. The probabilities are
that it is survival of some habit COM
mon 20 swine in their feral condition,
just as we see dog turn about half q
dozen timesbefore lying down.
In an interesting paper on local
weather-lore, read by Mr.. Amos w. But
Ter before the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, during the
Philadelphia meeting of 1884, the author
has another version of this saying:
sWhen hogs gather up sticks and carry
them about, expect cold weather" This
is wholly at variance with what have
observed, for my memoranda record this
habit almost wholly during the hot
weather, and this must necessarily be
the rule with New Jersey swine, or the
local weather-prophets would not have
coined the verse as I have given it.
As to the other couplet, it is about as
near meaningless as any saying can well
be. Some rustic rhymer, century ago,
may have added it as piece of fun, but
it has stuck most persistently. As it
stands now, it has stood for quite 100
years.--Dr. G. c. Abbott in Popular
Science Monthly.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
Ia sorno Fooso for yvou2a.8o oovnoyD.

Gono Facts for Wou2d-Go Cowboys.
To any one who oontemplates trying o
reasons riding would say this: You
will build up your constitution sor LIE,
you will meet rough fellows, hear hard
swearing, and see some fighting, but you
will hear fewer indecent stories on the
range than you will in the average club
smoking-room. Your @outfit," or bed
clothing, and equipments, will cost you
about half your earnings, and if you
smoke freely and do not try tosave
money the end of the season will leave
you'neither richer nor poorer. You will
often have wet bed, and thank heaven
for getting to it wet as it is; you will
always be up before daylight, and
generally two hours out of the night as
well; you will eat coarse food, every
thing fried in lard; you will be in the
saddle from twelve to eighteen hours
every day; you will often suffer for the
want Of food and water during long
days work in the hot sun; you will l-ex-
pose yourself to some peril Of life and
more of limb; you will be for much of
the time as absolutely cut off from, the
civilized world as IL you were on a vessel
IN mid ocean; you will VOW three: times a
day that when you strike the ranch
again you will quit; you will be sore and
bruised, cold at night and scorched by
day, wet to the skin one hour and
parched with thirst the next, and for
the rest OF your life you will look back TO
your life on the range with longing
thoughts Of its charms. -. g.
Very few men are rich enough to in
dulge their taste for riding by keeping
more than two saddle horses. "A
"puncher" often rides dozen, and does
much Of his work at full run. He
breathes the finest air on earth, eats beef
as freely as an ordinary working man
eats cabbage and potatoes, and fancies
the class to which he belongs are the aris-
tocracy of labor. He is generous, al
ways quick to appreciate pluck and kind
Gness in others, chivalrous to the few
women he sees, ever ready to help hang
a horse-thief, and undergoes more hard
ship and danger than a dozen soldiers.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
AFTER A TRIP ABROAD.
E7andoringo Of aPloasure-soeker-Ab1os;
Hono In Warrington.

E7andoringo OF ePloesure-Soeker@A6Insa
aHono In washington.
Wealth in the United States has flown
hither and thither, everywhere, to find
something to buy in the social and mat
rimonial line, and has come home not
eontented, but cornered. The fearful
fact has to be admitted that there is no
country like the United States, no peo-
pie like the Americans, no homes like
these, and no ruins such as we have.
Our ruins are seen in the penitentiary,
in ruptured families, in divorced wives,
where, in the mad contest for million,
the human fabric has become paralyzed
and fallen into decay, and nightshade in
stead Of ivy covers it.
The fine widow or the fine daughter
has been sent abroad, and has found how
hollow the old world Is, The English
man, she finds, considers her and his dog
Of about the samo value. The French
man she would otherwise marry expects
to give her o little Of bis time and the re-
mainder 10 his faithful old mistress. The
italian she took a fancy to srovels in his
guperstitions for half an hour and in hl1
dirt for hsf day. The Austrian she
met expects TO mako her feature Of tho
camp, and the north German prince she
would havo died for looks at her some
times as if he would lick har If he, ever
got her in his power. - al'. ..'I
So she comes home with all her money,
derived from dealing in scrap-iron and
whalebone, and says: 4Where can go
to be restless enough" She tries Florida,
and there sees nothing but invalids and
speculators, healthy wives and invalid
husbands. She tries Fortress Monroe,
and there if it is the height Of the season
she becomes the slave'of the waiter, who
has it in his province either to starve her
to death or to make her the envy of all
the hungry women in the neighborhood.
She tries Boston, and sits around gab-
bling about culture until her head
swims. She tries New York, and it
knows nothing but stocks. She tries
Philadelphia, and its heart is in fried
oysters and chicken salad. She tries
Baltimore, and it is always talking about
some Internal nonsence called conserv-
atism.
She hears of Washington, comes, and
is carried away. Here" she says, Il
will have house or rent a house, and
both sexes shall come and admire me-"
Hence, Washington has at last become q
capital. No public question gets moro
than enough consideration to digest yes
tsrday's terrapin. The man who rises in
the senate to take up the most moment
GUS question he supposea to be on the
dial sees everybody around him cape, for
they were up at the reception last night
until o'clock; and went home in car
riage with the widow and her daughter,
and are thinking about that lunch they
are to have tomorrow morning with the
same interesting folks.-4Gaths" Wash
ington Letter.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-08
Tons of Coul for q Steamer.

A correspondent asking how many tons
of coal a steamer will blan in the run
from New York to Liverpool, The New
York Sun says: "The consumption varies
with the steamer. The largest ocean
greyhounds burn from 1I5 to 300 tons 4
day, and make the passage in six and
thrce-quarters day. a consumption of
2,4OO tons, or a good big ship-load, is not
an unusual thing in a passage from New
York to Liverpool. ."-Exchange.