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ment of their execution have been in
operation The canal out from these
lakes to the east is equal to about any
thing of the sort you find in Europe.
The great locks at the 500, the Erie
canal, the tunnel under the Detroit
river, the cribs and water works out
far in orr lakes which supply the fresh
water, the cable cars, the elevated
railroads, the twenty millions we are
now about to spend to2drive the sewer,
age of Chicago down the Mississippi
river-these attest mental power, or
ganization, public discipline and coli
sent, and probably there are gathered
in and about Chicago to-day more and
more various men of bright gifts from
all parts of the-world than you could
find at this time'in London or Paris or
Vienna. Imean to say, the exhibition
has brought to us accessions from
everywhere, and we hold our own with
them"
After the above noticed that a very
conspicuous thing in the exhibition
was the head or picture or statue of
Abraham Lincoln. What did he do
for the arts? asked.
The reply came wondrously quick;
he did only one thing, and that was in
1S49 to patent an apparatus for buoy
ing vessels which had got aground or
snagged in the western rivers. The
patent lawyer whom Mr. Lincoln en-
ployed still lives in Washington city,
at the age of about s7-Mr. q. C. Rob
bins. The model is in the patent Of
fee. This was few years only after
Ericsson had patented the screw pro-
peller.
thought to myself again: "How
many reaping machines are there?"
Lincoln was lawyer in the McCor-
mick reaper case. Who are the Nc
Cormicks?
In the-yesr 1884 Silas 81. Mccormick,
Of Rocaxbridge county, Va, and that is
the county where the natural bridge
stands, took out a patent for cutting
grain of all kinds. It took the medal
&C the worlds fair in London of 1851,
cut twenty acres of grain a
day, was renewed in 1915, and
expired after the close of the civil
war, having yielded the patentee
between one and two millions of dol
lars. Soon after 1870 j. Reid, Of mi
nois, and w. K. Ketclsum patented
reapers. 1t is to be observed that the
great exhibition of 1851 mainly
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SOME ODD STORIES.

The Cruel and Cownrdly Blacks of tn.
Queensland Bush-Sad Story of Poo
Tom Redmond-The Last Words O
Mother and Child.
Copyright 1898, by American Press Associa
toni
1t was up In the Queensland bush in Aus
tralia 1t was, too, at time when thu
brutal blacks Of that wild land showed
themselves to be more cruel and cowardly
than the red Indians of our own country
were Of old.
Tom Redmond, an adventuresome Irish
man, anxious to make home for his three
boys and two girls, all still under theil
teens, went up with them and his wife tt
the Queensland bush, about $50 miles from
Brisbane, the capital city of the colony.
There was river called the Wellansbi
near his new home, and although he had
provided himself with firearms to guard
against tie savages he spent two years
without seeinO ona naar his cabin.
1t was Sunday, according TO the BEST OF
Tom Redmond's reckoning, and although
there was not church within hundred
miles. for the sake of the example it set the
children the father kept "holy the Sab.
bath day."
Outside the cabin Tom was smoking his
pipe in the by no means dense shade of q
knotted gum tree when he heard shrill
voices in the distance and the sound:
Swishl Swish! Hum -sw-swish Then til,
cry of his wife:
up, Toni up, for Gods sake, and save
the childherl The blacksl The blacks,
Toni The blacks!''
At the sound of the woman's voice Tom
Redmond's pipe fell from his lips. With
the bound of a tiger he was on his feet, and
unheeding the spears and boomerangs that
swished past his head he leaped into the
cabin and was soon out again with his re-
peating rifle in his hand.
For Gods sake, Kitty, keep yerseP and
the childher in the cabin!'' shouted Tom
over his shoulder. But forgetting the dan
ger to herself and children in the greater
danger that threatened her husband she
ran to him, followed by the screaming lit
tie ones, and Selling his arm as he was
about to fire she cried:
Into the cabin, Toni Into the cabin,
avick! The logs'n save you. and you can
IRE through the chinks"
"Backl One shot, Kitty, an I'll be wild
YEP said Tom.
Kitty ran back again, followed by the
children, who instinctively imagined that
only the mother could save them. Tom
fired, and as he did SO the foremost of the
savages leaped into the air, then plunged
forward on his face.
Satisfied with his shot, Tom leaped into
the cabin and took his post at the CLASHES
window
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bred and thirty improved mill sites
upon it, and one set of mills still stand
ing ground four hundred thousand
bushels of grain a year. In the midst
of this superior milling society Oliver
Evans commenced his inventions,
man well worthy q statue somewhere
in this country. He was the first inn
portant inventor of mill machinery for
grain, and he made millstones near
Philadelphia.
The course of inventors and inven-
tions is toward the newest fields of
conquest. A man who is doing some
thing in the east in limited field by
aid of an invention, transfers that in
vention to a greater field when he
hears of It. The old packers of hams
about Norfolk and. Baltimore moved to
Cincinnati when they found they could
cure so many more hams in that re-
gion. The McCormicks moved from
the high parts Of Virginia, where
mountain wheat was raised which
would export through the tropics in
-four, out to the far west, where they
could put their invention into the prai-
RE grain and NOV innumerable bush.
els.
1t appears that on the Santee river,
in South Carolina, they were manufac-
turing cotton by machinery in 1890,
but you will probably find the descend
ants of these spinners in New England.
The leather industry in the United
States was worth one hundred and
al ALL Sc
tration of Gen. Taylor, and employed
one hundred and forty-six thousand
persons. Having imported some big
cattle from Denmark, the Ingalls, FAM
lily of Lynn, near Boston, began tan
merry about 1880, and shoemaker fol-
lowed in FIVE years, and from these be-
ginnings we record the vast shoe in
dustry of Lynn, which has produced q
vice president in Henry Wilson.
They began to send shoes to England
in the seventeenth century, The rea-
son why leather in New York is made
in what is called the swamp, is that
butchers, curriers', shoemalzers and
tanners were expelled outside the walls
in 1876.
1t was only one hundred and six
years ago that a committee was ap-
pointed in Philadelphia to inquire into
the process of coloring leather as prac-
ticed in Turkey and Morocco. They
paid an Armenian, whom they found,
one hundred pounds and gold medal
to give them the information.
After the revolution all the shoe
manufacturers in this country we're
ruined by an avalanche of boots and
shoes sent over from England and
France.
Virginia led off just before the con-
stitution in putting tariff on foreign
leather and shoes, and congress soon
followed the example.
About 164S John Winthrop and
company began the manufacture Of
iron with corps of workmen from
England in the vicinity of Lynn, using
the bog ore. and the works were kept
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brought out the. superiority of Amer
lean agriculture machine patents.
In 1859 a great field trial of mowers
and reapers was held at Geneva, N. Y,
which was followed up, and in 1857,
at Syracuse, fifteen moving, nine reap
ing and fourteen combination ma
chimes were entered for competition.
We had then patented one hundred and
seventy-siX harvesters and sixty-two
moving machines, and have added
about one hundred to two hundred
every year since. One of these minor
machines, invented in Illinois by John
Fl. Nanny, became the basis of the
Hoosick Falls mower. Looking over
the history of such harvesters, it would
seem that they were almost invariabl
invented in the harvest field or in
shops adjacent to the harvest field.
The McCorrnicks have acquired fine
real estate in Chicago, have called a
hotel there from their native Virginia,
have given money to the University of
Virginia, where they have sent some
of their children to be educated, and
have intermarried with the Blaines,
Medills and other efficient families in
Chicago.
The west is full of windmills and
they were not much known until re-
cent years, and as / looked over the
wide range of -four and other milling
machinery, wondered if there was
any place to find the successful story
of the mill in this country.
It seems that the sawmill was an
American invention in very early days,
and that we employed windnills on
American coasts before they were used
in England. The Dutch colonists at
Manhattan used them first, no doubt,
and as their colony extended from the
Connecticut river to Virginia, they had
a wide introduction. The first mill
stones sent over here from England
paid eleven pounds freight in 1928. In
1885 one of the fremont hills in Bos-
ton was called Windmill hill. People
first used mortars and hand mills to
make their meals and -four; for good
while Virginia sent meal to Massachu-
sets. The alleged Runic or North
man ruin at Newport is part of the old
Colonial mill, and it was built in fact
by Gov. Benedict Arnold, ancestor of
the traitor, who refers to it in his will
as my stone-built windmill" 1t
seems that lingo Jones, a celebrated
architect, built the foundation of a
mill just like this at Chesterton, Eng
land.
The mills had SO extended around
Long Island and New Jersey that Gov.
Andres in 1878 gave New York city q
monopoly of the making and boiling of
flour, refusing to let any be imported
into New York but what should be
ground there.
The Rochester mills, which ground
eight hundred thousand barrels of flour
thirty years ago, had beginning in
1889.
The Brandywine creek, which emp
ties into the Delaware at Wilmington,
had two hundred years arc. one hun
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04
YANKEE GENIUS.
Gath Writes Of the Growth Of
American Ingenuity.
One of the Great Lessons of the Column
bian Expositicn-Neeessit the Mother,
Opportunity the Father of Inyen-
tion--A Few Interesting Figures.
lcoFYRIeHr, 1898.

tcoPYRIeHT. 1881
Said to- hotel-keeper with COS
mopolitan experience: "What estimate
do you put upon the Americans as ar
fists, manufacturers and exhibitors
here?''
'sI think there is more good hard
sense among the Americans than YOU
will find in another land. Sometimes
we fall out OF conceit with ourselves
because we see another man executing
some piece of fine work which we do
not try to do, but you will notice that
we never fail to employ the artist
Yonder is man making filirree work
in plaster and putting down ancient
Mosaic floor in one of our boudoirs He
works very cheap. Somebody else
probably controls his labor. Now,
why should we despair because we do
not furnish a native mechanic.who can
do just that work? It is derivative
from what took place in his coun-
try thousands of years ago; it
is European mosaic and a bit of
Greek cornice. At the rate we are
proceeding meantime, annexing all
other races, we shall have workers in
every branch right at hand. I see
nothing out there in that exhibition
which is not liable to be produced
within a very brief time in the United
States, If It is not here already. Out
in the west we have many German
sculptors, decorators, ETC., more,
think, than you have in the east, and
they are allowed to pursue the bent
of their own feelings in the west, as
they are not in the east. They can
erect in one of our parks statue of a
German poet. They are not interfered
with in their studios as to what models
they have, and they can work on Sun
day. That which deters American art
in its most imaginative performances
is the pressure of old religious and
moral IDEAS. For the same reason
we do not make native wines up to
the foreign mark; there are tens
of thousands Of native families
in Chicago which make it a
point never to have a glass of
wine on the table nor any liquor
in the house. But you must
understand that these buildings at the
great show which the world has re-
garded with favor were all contrived
in this country. A majority of them
were done by native Americans. The
building exploits of this country have
long been noted abroad. We intro
duced iron fronts to buildings when
they were thought, preposterous in Eu-
rope Here in Chicago we commenced
the raising Of buildings by screws and
hydraulic power, and that was the way
Pullman commenced. They have been
talking fifty or sixty years about the
Thames tunnel, which has no point of
genius not possessed by the two tun-
nels in Chicago, which from the mo
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up for one hundred years, until bet
ter iron was found farther west.
Among the workmen thus introduced
from England was Joseph jerks, who
began to make scythes in 1916 and got
a patent on them ten years later. His
parents were radical and consisted of
greater length and thinness of the
blade and welding bar of iron upon
the back to strengthen it. GATH.
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Eyes," said Captain Sherry, who Is a
confirmed bachelor and a renowned globe
trotter, there may be warmer lands than
Lapland and prettier women than the
Laps, but their marriage customs are the
fairest in the world, and let me say it's a
subject I've given much thought to-
why, it's death in Lapland for girl to
marry without the full consent of her fam
Nv and there would be fewer divorces if
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Dead at His Post.

Sherman had left his winter quarters at
Chattanooga and come face to face with
the only mar on the side of the south in
Georgia who could be at all considered his
peer
Joe Johnston must be flanked out of
Dalton, but before that could be done it
was necessary that Hooker should assault
and carry the well nigh inpregnable heights
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04
A Keen Rctort.

Ihere are hentucklans still living who
retain distinct recollection of the Rev.
Elijah Moore Mr.. Moore was a Presby-
terrain clergyman, famed for his adherence
to Calvin, his eloquence, his ready wit and
his fondness for conviviality.
Mr.. Moore never concealed the fact that
he drank a stiff glass of whisky before 60
ing to bed and after saying his prayers
every night.
He was great favorite of the legal pro-
fession in his state, and if one died within
reach he was always called upon 80 attend
and preach the funeral sermon, nor did ha
close his hand to fee on such occasions.
One night at the close of the, court Mr..
Moore was invited. to a bar dinner in Lex
ington, and as usual he letine opportunity
slip to score the lawyers in good natured
way.
When dinner was over and the glass be-
gan to pass round, young lawyer, eager to
measure swords with the dominic, asked:
why is it, Mr.. Moore, that you are so
down on the legal professions"
Because for money a lawyer is ready to
take either side, said the dominic with as
summed indignation.
And you think that wrongi"
81 do"
snow, Mr.. Moore" said the young man.
with look of triumph, ''if the devil was
to die, don't you think parson could be
found to preach his funeral sermon for a
fee?''
"Oh, yes. If the devil were dead, I'd be
reJolced to preach the sermon for nothing.
And, mark you, my friend, I'd give the
devil his entire due, just as have given
their due to his children of the legal PROBES.
sion that have been burying this many
year" ALFRED r. CALHOUN,
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the same rule prevailed here.
I'm Lapland, when a young man has
formed an attachment to a female, the
custom is to invite their friends to see
them run race together. The man is
handicapped, as he should be, by giving
the girl start Of about one-third, so that
it is impossible unless willing of herself
to be overtaken.
IF the maid. gets to the goal before her
sutton, the matter is ended She has sacked
him. She's given him the biggest kindof
a mitten, as they used to saySwhen was a
boy. Here's another good point--if that
unfortunate man should renew his atten-
tions to that girl, he would be bounced out
of the place in short order.
II have seen quite number Of these
races, but l am forced to confess that,
though all the girls started off with the
speed of sprinters on cinder track, with
one exception all stubbed their toes or fell
or came to halt that permitted them to
be overtaken before the goal was reached.
"And, my dear fellow, it is marriage Gus
toms like this that make divorce unknown
among the Laplanders. There love con-
tinues through life. There they run for
and not from each other after being we'd
ded. But Pm free to confess my govt
would prevent my ever capturing wife in
that land unless she crawled as slow as a
tortoise"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-04
!; CHAMBER SETS, ODD FURNITURE
From sV5 unwaras OF all Description.
u.nasoma SIT ), r.uu, o., > BED CHAIRS
piece cut from 30 10 6oOo
mmen any ana furnish
spare oeu' cae from o. 10 20
I 'V ~. MAHOGANY TABLE +
$500 ~ Centre Table, handsomely
$500 solid Mahogany, cut from is to
oval ''''0' OAK DRESSING TABLE
Set IN Bch lo pieces cut from
Aoo'VV AOVs reduced from to IL from 80.
n Eesan fr Sp sso ss TO- e White Maho CFFONER
piece Oak very Handsome Oak Chifn
rich cut from $3.50 to 90. bargain only 40
" e Natural Writing drawers,
t ed, plate Mirror, cut from LAS &c
-. Oak Roll Top very handsome
handsome SET IN mhte Mahogany finish and cheap at %.
18th Century coax Set. very solid STUFFED CHAIR
and RICH cut from 40 T,ronon char sof ona e.4
Tin English Oak.
6to 80 P edcued
n so
These Elegant
Bargains offer. from 225 to 1876.
Rich Mahogany SidebOard cut from +
a. 125 to So.

Summer Goods Freezer special
III there anything
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BOOTS and SHOES.

We have just added complete line
Of Russets for men, women and chill
dren. Remember, we carry all grades
from the cheapest to the best manufac-
tured. Visit our store today and
look over our stock.
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Misses and Chi|drens Dept.

Misses Dong. Butt. Pat.Tips and Sp.
Heel, 11.2, csc.
Misses Dong. Butt. Pat.Tips and Sp.
Heel, 11.2, $1.25.
Misses Dong. Pat. Tip or plain toe,
SIP. Heel, 11-2, $3.50.
Misses Dong. Pat. Tips or plain toe,
Sp. Heel, $500.
Child's Deng. Sp. Heel Butt. s l.2,
10 1-2, only 75c.
Child's Dong. SIP. Heel Butt, eli,
only Csc.
Misses Dong. Sp. Heel Ok, sizes
Ill.,, CSC.
Misses Russell Sp. Heel Ok, sizes
112, CSC.
Child's Dong. Sp. Heel, sizes 1-2,
10 1-2, csc.
Child's Russell SIP. Heel, sizes s 1.2,
10 1-2, 75c.
Infants Pat. Lea. Yamp Russell or,
CSC. ~
Infants Dong. Butt. soc.
Infants Dong. Butt. 25c.
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Do you want to know what is going on
in the world-Take the PRESS.
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We can allow you a discount of one
quarter the former price from a Fold
ing Bed this week.
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PARLOR SUITES
From $40 Upwards.

Plush Suit es, 5 pieces, former price
$75, cut to 5000.
Suite in Rugs; price $115, cut to
1000.
Handsome Suite in Silk Tapestry. al
ways sold at $50, now $500.
Rich piece Suite in Brocatelle,
good value at S167, now only $500.
piece Suite in Brocatelle, cut from
$125 to $500.
Suite in Brocatelle, piece, cut from
1892 to 10000.
Elegantly upholstered Suite, cut
from 1858 to 1850.
Rich piece Suite of magnificent
finish, cut from 1920 to 10000.
Magnificent Suite in the finest Bro
catelle and Silk Plush, 5 pieces, cut
from $3.50 to $500.
Plush Suite, 5 pieces, very fine, cut
from $3.50 to 10000.
piece Suite i'm Mahogany and Bro
caded Plush, cut from $217 to $500,
Elegant Suite i'm Silk Plush and Bro
catelle, sacrificed from $247 to $3.50.
These are but sample bargains but
they are actual values.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-04

The First Baptist church of New
burybort, Mass, a structure some
200 years old, has a wainscoting ex-
tending entirely around it from the
choir loft to the opposite end of the
church, directly over the pulpit, and
by placing a watch on the wainscot-
ing at either end it is possible to dis
tinctly hear its ticking at the other
end, distance of 210 feet The Bee
hive (Mormon temple) at Salt Lake
City is exactly the shape of bee
hive, only elongated. Here also
one can distinctly hear an ordinary
whisper from one end to the other,
and Nine. Patti, who once sang there,
declared it to be the most perfect
building for singing in the world. In
this case, however, the peculiar shape
of the roof explains the carrying of
the sounds so perfectly, but no such
explanation is present in the New
buryport case.-Sylvester F. Deacon
in New York Sun.
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What He Was.

The drummer sat down to the feed
on the table at hotel, and he did not
look as cheerful as some men look
who sit down to some tables. The
waiter brought in a glass of blue
milk and a piece of beefsteak that
looked like leather and set them
down before the guest. Just then
another drummer came in and took
a place opposite the first one. They
had been working the town together
that day.
by Jove, JIM" he exclaimed.
what's the matter with you? You
look as if somebody had been impos-
ing on you3"
Jim gazed sadly at the feast spread
before him.
That's it, Charlie" he murmured.
You see before you man cowed by
glass of milk and bullied by a beef
steak" and Charlie ordered some
thing else and got the ame.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-04
For Endowine Daughters.

In Germany when a girl is born
her parents make her member Of a
marriage association. The premium
the father keeps up until the girl is
old enough to contribute, if neces-
sary, this premium out of her earn
ings. When she marries or comes of
age, she is entitled to draw the entire
amount of the premiums, with inter
est and any dividends that may have
Rccrued. In England and Ireland
the daughters dowry is not a pre-
vailing custom In the middle class,
however, not infrequently the father
insures his life for the benefit of his
daughters severally. This sum they
may receive at his death, or by agree
ment when they come of age.
This form of insurance, it seems, is
an endowment for girls that will ap-
peal most readily to the American
mind. Here, as in Germany, the con-
tract made to run for limited time,
as when the girl marries or comes of
age, would put it into definite shape
and unlikely ever to become bur
den. The American girl in her pres
ent alert state of mind and body
would in any emergency be equal to
keeping up the insurance if it should
be necessary for her own benefit.
Thus her father would be relieved of
the responsibility of her future, and
her husband, if she marries, one may
hazard the guess, would not think of
her the less for her prudent dowry.-
New York Evening Sun.