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Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-06-28
FINE LIVERY!

No nicer turnOuts to be fonnd
anywhere than We now have sub
jeCt to your Ordere-single and dou-
hle teams, and saddle horses sult.
able for either ladies or gentle
men.
Send round or phone us when
aver y0u want 70 take a pleasure
ride or desire trip 10 the coun
try. Any number of tournouts
for picncs or other occasions fnr
nished on short notice.
While we pride ourselves n
the excellence Of our livery ser
vice now, we also continue TO
keep plenty Of Mules and Horses
for sale, as well as the best Wag.
ons, Buggies and Carriages ever
made. We are still headquarters
for the best and cheapest Har.
ness, single and double, Wagon
or Buggy.
ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-06-28

w. L. Davis, Ruby, 5. G., writes: DR..
VI. \. Simmons Liver Medicine cures
Pains in the Back, and that "Out Of
Sorts" Tired Feeling. | think il four
times as strong as Ieillin's and Black
Draught.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-06-28
CEDAR CREEK.

k"dOl Nv -pc1sia Cure completely
dig"-t> food within the tsOmaCh ana
iute~tiu"> an renders all classes Of
food "apobl. of being aSSimilateh and
converted iu'O strength giving tissue
building Substances. Crawford Bros
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06
AMERICAN VS.. ENGLISH.
Types of Locomotives Constantly secom.
ing More and More Alike.

There was a time when the chimney
offered an infallible indication of Brit
ish or American parentage. But 1--WE
have changed all that" The huge in
verified cone and the double cone Cor
"diamon1'D surrounding a cylindrical
column, which used to be the typical
American "smokestack," have been
succeeded by chimney which differs
little if at all in general design from
that seen in Great Britain. The ex-
tended smoke box, which in America
replaced the single inverted or double
cone as a spark catcher, has travelled
now to Great Britain as WELL and may
be found On the Great Western, North
Eastern and Glasgow Southwestern
lines.
In short, the distinctive features of
the British and American systems are
now but few. There is, think, a grow
ing tendency toward assimilation be-
tween the, systems of the two English
speaking nations, so far as this is fea-
sible, in view of the difference in the
conditions to be satisfied. England has
not the long journeys of America or the
American loa 1ing-gauge space which
would permit Of large vertical or later
al extension of existing maximum di
mansions. But / certainly anticipate
tina. the present Importation of the
Midland. Great Central and Great
Northern line of American Mogul goods
engines will have ar dppreciable infiu-
ance upon the future of British locomo-
tive engineering.-E Maya
zine
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06
RECOVERY OF ITALY.
Nation Becoming Yearly More Prominent
In Industrial World.

There is no country in the world
which, by reason of its mountainous
slopes, its needs It's absolute lack Of
coal and its scarcity of other fuels, can
be expected to profit more than Italy
by the development of electric power
stations for the utilization of the inn
mense potential energy of its rivers
and streams. II Italy had earlier at
tempted to substitute power derived
from her own waterfalls for that i'm
perfectly and extensively supplied by
foreign Goals, her present manufactur-
ing and commercial inferiorlty would
not be so humiliating.
Possessing, as she does. valuable de-
posits of iron ore and copper, yet near
ly all of this is exported, while the
manufactured articles are imported,
some of them from the very countries
which purchase the raw material from
Italy. If. therefore, electro metallurg-
ical processes could be substituted for
the older methods, the current required
could be developed from the numerous
water powers. At present the metallic
imports of Italy come from America
Sweden and England but with home
article in the market, produced by It.
allan water power and with cheap Ital-
ian labor, the double freight charges on
exported raw material and re-imported
products would form a natural protec-
tive tariff for the home product.-En-
gineering Magazine.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06

the breeze shall drift him landvard
When, with a backward stroke of !
single foot, a stroke without thought
without intent, without conscious pIIr.
pose, he regains his position and slaaps
on. The frogs may pipe, an owl nav
scream, he hears nothing. realizes
nothing. But let prowling fox steal
near his liquid bower never SO noise
lessly, never so softly-and the air is
iulI OF motion. A burst, a flutter. a
loud honk, and the little flock. lust over
the water, is sailing away for the
broader bosom of the open lake" One
can almost hear the "honk" when read
ing this passage.
King Philip does not appear promi
nently as character in the book. The
reader gets but a casual glance of The
ambitious redskin. Two of the char
acters are the authors own forebears,
Gershom and Jonas Rice. The former
is described as man of bovine" cour-
age.
THE Doom of Washakim" cannot fail
to amuse all classes of readers. Wor-
cester has cause to be proud of the new
that has appeared in
her midst. The novel is published by
j. S. Wesby & Sons Of this city.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06
REAR LARGE FAMILIES.
Mosquitoes Multiply and Increase With
Great Rapidly.

Mosquitoes believe in the good old
fashion of large families. Well they may;
they don't have to raise them. NThere is
no walking the floor nights with the
youngest, or sitting up to mend stockings;
no worrying about the second summer
you know if you bring them through the
second summer all right-there is no
scheming to put Tom through Harvard
or Dorothy through Vassar 1t is very
simple. Mamma lays from 20 to 40 dozen
eggs in some quiet pool along about 8
o clock in the morning, and considers her
duty amply done.
The inherited experience Of ages has
taught her that it is best to mass them
together in a pointed ellipse slightly con-
cave on the top, the eggs being little end
up The air so sticks to the mass that
it is impossible to wet it. In 16 hours the
larvae come out on the under side and
begin a most active existence They are
the wigglers that used to infest the rain
water barrel at the corner of the house
'in the airly days"
| The wiggler has two stages of existence,
larya and pupa. For seven days 1t has
hard work to get up to the surface to
breathe, but when 1t changes, it has hard
work to- get down to the bottom: TWO
| days later it's clothes begin to feel tight,
and when all the back buttons burst on,
| it crawls out, using its old frocks as a
| kind of boat, while it gets its wings
Strengthened out. This is a very ticklish
| job, and many a young life has been lost
| by drowning at the very beginning OF a
| promising career. The fact that so many
eggs are laid would indicate, If nothing
mosquito at all stages of its existence
| Ainslea's Magazine for August.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06

ter was driving Dexter every fine af-
ternoon in Central park. Said Mr..
Bonner:-
"You can see the bride, Mr.. Doble,
and have it if you wish, but it is not the
bride or bit, it's what is behind all
that-a feeling of sympathy between
the horse and the man."
Some time later, in 1869, after Dexter
had lowered the trotting record to
2.17&. Mr.. Bonner offered 100000 for
any trotter that could equal or surpass
that time. The offer was made on Oct.
IA. and held good until the end of the
trotting season, but no challenger ap-
Deared.
A year or two ago in his first pub
lished interview on his "reminiscences
of the trotters, Budd Doble said that II
was his firm belief that had Dexter
had the advantage of the bicycle sulky
and the modern improved tracks he
could have come very close to the best
record of today.
Everyone who knew Mr.. Bonner
knew what a stickler he was for the
fact that the 2:0S% made by Maud s.
was the champion record. 1t was made
to an old fashioned high wheeled sulky
and though of late years many horses
with faster records than Maud S. have
tried to beat it to pair of high wheels,
all have failed
Mr.. Bonner rarely bought a horse at
a public sale, though, strangely enough,
the last purchase he made was from
a sale at Madison Square Garden. This
was when he bought Praytell, by AK
tell, for $780,
Mr.. Bonner made a profound study
of the anatomy of the horses foot. and
many is the mixed. rough gated one
that he has converted into a straight
going, pure gated trotter.
Following is the list of the horses
bought and driven by Mr.. Bonner in
the forty years since he took to the
pleasures of the road:
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06
MILLIONAIRE SOCIALIST.
How Sam Jones, Mayor of Toledo
Changed Faith.

Sam Jones, mayor of Toledo, became
socialist after he had made fortune He
describes the manner of his conversion as
follows:
"Since 1870 have been more or less OF
an oil producer In 1898 l invented some
important improvements in appliances for
producing oil. Finding manufacturers IN
willing to make the article, went into
the manufacturing business. This brought
me in contact with the condition Of labor
in q city for the first time in my life. AS
a rule, workers in the oil field enjoyed
large wages. found men working IN To-
ledo for the fraction of dollar a day. l
began to wonder how 1t was possible for
men to live on such a small sum or
money in way becoming citizens of a
free republic. l studied social conditions,
and the inequality and injustice around
me led me to feel that some protest should
be made against the degradation of my
fellow-men. Lat once declared that the
so-called going wages rule should not
govern in the Acme Succor Rod Company.
said rather, that the rule that every man
is entitled to such share of the product
of his toll as will enable him to live de-
Gently and in such a way that he and his
children may be fitted to be citizens of the
free republic, should be the rule govern
ing the wages of our establishment. =
Ainslees Magazine.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06

the setting sun. even in the city," she
went on softly. 1T seems terribly
lonely without him. Oh, if could only
have brought him out into such a
peaceful place as this, he might be alive
now That last hot spell was so hard
on him. l thought perhaps he had a
sunstroke, but l could not tell"
Mothers eyes filled With sympathetic
tears as she laid her hand gently over
tenderly, How long is 1t since he died,
dear?"
six weeks" answered the widow.
and l have been so lonely ever since.
But please, Mrs. Curtis, / cannot talk
about it quite vet"
Nevertheless she did talk about It"
quite good deal in the days that fol-
lowed with the effect that l, who was
a wide-awake girl at that time, pc
culiarly susceptible to first impress
sions. imbibed an impression Of the
late Mr.. Knapp's eccentricities that
was not altogether complimentary to
the departed gentleman.
Poor dear" said she one day. "He
tried so hard to speak. If he only could
have told his wants." We never asked
her any questions. We just let her
talk on, feeling that this was kindest
and best. l inferred from this last re-
mark that her husband had been af-
fected by paralysis, particularly as she
said on another occasion, Il used to
sit at my window and James sat at
his, l sewing, he looking out of the
windows at what was going on in the
street. He seemed perfectly happy as
long as was there. But then, we can
never tell. l often wish now that had
done more for him, or could have
learned better what he wanted
What did the physicians say or do?"
/ asked
"They said 1t was the breaking up
of the system by old age, l never felt
that they quite understood the case"
Poor little thing Married to an aged
paralytic and yet regretting his death
as the breaking up Of the one tie on
EARTH What desolation, what utter
desolation her case seemed to me!
was moved to take her In my arms and
weep with her. which was a~great deal
for me.
) Not only was the late Mr.. Knapp old
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06
BIG FLOWERS IN HATS.
Not Considered Extravagant for Ladies' TO
Wear Six looms.

1t is not considered extravagant to
decorate hat with five or six clematis
blooms, each measuring four inches or
more across. Sometimes they are cho-
sen all of one shade, but the most eff
receive arrangements are in graduated
shades of mauve and lilac, or mauve,
lilac and white. Other g0Gdly- sized
blossoms that some milliners a"e af-
fecting are the arum and Japanese ill
les. The first is shown in white and
yellow, sometimes with a black pistil,
or in black and yellow pistil; the sec
ond in white only.
The most approved method of ar
ranging them is to lay them along the
edge of the brim, whereas the blossoms
of the clematls are generally grouped at
the side against the crown or upturned
brim. Some few nilliners affect a taste
for sunfiowers. but as III it's full blown
condition this is rather garish looking,
1t is Initiated in its earlier stage, when
the letl's, just unfolding, exhibit their
under sheath of green calyx
None of these flowers are mounted
with their own foliage. Iris leaves
hnotted into bows or otherwise, after
the manner of ribbons, or else in the
form pf couteaux, come in nicely as an
addition to such, decoration If these
leaves are considered too dark. ribbons
ere bstituted.-Millirery Trade Re
view
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06
USE OF ELECTRICITY.
Constantly Becoming More and More
Available In Different Ways.

In all sorts of portable tools, such as
drilling, rivetting, power chipping,
power caullxing.. countersinking and
tapping, the motor is far away ahead
of compressed air, steam, rotating
spirals or any other systems; and there
is no reason why portable riveters and
punches should not be driven electric
ally, too.
On board ship, there is a large OPP
portunity for the introduction of cleo
trio control Of steering gear, capstans,
wlnches, pumps, and all sorts OF dis
charging gear. In men-of-war cleo
tricity is also applicable for working
the guns, turrets, loading gear, and
similar mechanisms. One obvious adj
vantages is that the transmission sys-
ten-namely the mains, can be very
easily arranged in duplicate, so that a
shot is not SO likely to cause disable
nt-Engineering Magazine.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06
COSTLY MINING.
cheapness of Operation Will Settle Prob
lem Of kIondike Production.

The engineer. with his ocean steam
ers, wharves, railroads, aerial cable
ways, river boats. etc. has converted
what was once an expedition Of ex-
treme physical danger and hardship
and what next became journey of ex-
IRENE pecuniary danger and expense,
into a rapid. safe, convenient, and also
cheap trip to the Arctic circle. 1t is
this cheaDness that above all else will
develop the resources of those far-off
regions, making profitable great num-
bers of mines today unavoidable
In California, 81 avSls containing as
little as five cents of gold to the cubic
yard are washed at a profit, but in the
Klondike region all gravel that yields
less than fifteen dollars per cubic yard
is mined at a loss. 1t is too much to
expect that far northern gravels can
ever be worked as cheaply as in Cali
fornia, but it is not TOO much to ex-
pect that with cheaper labor, cheaper
supplies, and above all, better .apDli-
ances, five dollar gravels will In time
have Mountaineering Magazine,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06

that upon which I was already en-
gagged.
However. we were all ready for her
at last, and when father came from the
station and deposited upon the front
piazza a tiny little woman of about 90
years of age, with big, frightened gray
eyes, and delicate, sensitive features g
creature that would have looked small
alongside robust child of 10-the con-
trast between this little object and the
commanding figure Of my imagination
was so great that / almost had mt or
Mysteries on the spot l took refuge
in fight, while mother cooed and cod
died the poor dear" and took her up
to her room. You see, mother was just
in her element, while / had all my no.
tons to readjust to existing circum-
stances. My flights Of fancy will be
the death of me some day, father says.
caught mother on the stair a mo-
ment as they were coming down and
breathed softly in her ear, Miss or
Mrs. 2"
II don't know. I couldn't find out /"
answered mother in that awful stage
whisper of hers that sends me nearly
! into fits whenever she tries it, But
our boarder did not seem to notice. l
made a venture on a bold stroke. Il
shall call her Mrs. Knapp, and then
she can correct me If she doesn't like
it, I've always heard that It gives a
middle-aged married woman much
| greater offense to be called Miss than
! Il does to address a single sister as
| Mrs, so here goes
II hope you had a pleasant trip down,
Nm" l said pleasantly, allowing my
voice to die away on the last syllables
as found My courage oozing out at
the tip Of my tongue, COULDN'T say
Mrs Knapp, after all, to save me.
/ / noticed with much amusement that
father and mother avoided the pitfall
as successfully as I did. during that
first meal, and we all went out on the
piazza after supper to enjoy the sum
| set. Here our guest set our minds at
rest
-.How James would have enjoyed
, thisl" exclaimed she, softly. as II half
TO herself Mother nodded so vigor-
ously and triumphantly behind her
back that ! was afraid she would no.
| tice ii and SO FASTENED to nod in reply.
| We knew now. She was a widow.
"He loved 70 sit beside me and watch
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06
USE OF HELlOGRAPH,
instrument Has Flashed 1873 Miles-Re-
places Flags.


The heliograph, under present condi-
tons, can be used only during hours of
sunshine, but on bright days it's trans
mitted signals are so quickly displayed
and promptly read at any reasonable
distance that it replaces the flag on all
possible service. Dust and smoke which
would completely obscure the largest
flag are readily penetrated by the dash
of the Telegraph. Under ordinary con-
ditions, this flash is visible to the naked
eye at distances of thirty miles, but
with telescope of thirty powers can
be seen nearly two hundred miles. The
military value of the Telegraph was
strikingly illustrated in the successful
campaign Of General N. A. Miles
against Geronimo, campaign that put
an end to the Indian outbreaks that
for twenty years devastated Arizona
with it's horrible accomplishments of
murder and rapine.
To and from barren mountain peaks,
across and down into the arid valleys
the sun-flash messages of the signal
corps directing our cavalry, marked
the fitting of marauding Indian bands,
whose war trails were marked with
blood from their home Businesses of
Arizona to the Mexican frontier Gen.
Miles said: THE hostiles found troops
in every valley, and when they saw
heliograph communication flashing
across every mountain range, Geroni-
mo and others, who had already sur
rendered, sent word to Natchez that he
had better come in at once" and he
did The distance to which photographs
could be worked was tested under the
supervision of Major w. j. Vollkmar in
Arizona in 1890, when he established a
system aggregating 1000 miles in length.
Ranges of S., IS, 50 and 121 miles were
successfully worked over. Previously
the worlds record was that between
Mauritus and Reunion, where mirrors
Of 1900 inches of rejecting surface, cost
ing over $4,000, transmitted messages
III miles.
This was now surpassed by signal
corps mirror, of barely 20 inches sur
face, costing $40. These operations in
dictate the mechanical skill and dizziness
of manipulation of American instru-
ments and by American operators. The
most astonishing feat of long-distance
heliographing by the signal corps was
that accomplished by Capt. w. A.
Glassford, Sept. Z, 1895. With stand
ard instrument of the signal corps, a
station heliograph eight inches square,
messages were sent anu recelNeu pe-
tween Mt Ellen, Utah, and Mt. Uncom-
pahgre, Col, an airline distance of nc
less than 1873 miles. This exceeded by
IS miles the worlds record. The great
difficulty in establishing very long
ranges consists in selecting points OF
such elevation are necessary to over
come the convexity of the earth. Capt
Glassford says when we caught the
first glimmer of the Mt Ellen flash, II
appeared through the telescope a deer
reddish hue. 1t was about as bright as
the plant Venus, and with the same
apparent disk as presented by that
PLANET in our glasses. Gen. A. w
Greedy in Ainslee's.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06

You see, she was such a queer little
thing that we couldn't help taking her
to our hearts at once. But there! that S
just the way with me! 1t always seems
to me as if everybody ought to know
the people know, without any particu-
lar explanation.
Well, it was just this way. That sum-
mer that mother and / wanted to paper
the sitting-room though father would
have given mother his head IL she had
asked for it, heads didn't count 1t was
money we needed, and of that he had
none. Then after much hard thinking l
devised a plan, and though 1t was
great shock to father and mother AT
first. carried the day, and the upsnot
of 1t was that we advertised for a sum-
mer boarder for our spare ROOM Unless
YOU have done the same thing at some
awful crisis in your life you can never
for moment imagine, oh, reader, the
awful mixture of hope and fear that
held place in our hearts, until we re,
ceived a neatly written. briefly worded
note signed phoebe Knapp
Mother Yves taken with It at once, and
as she delights in all things miserable
because she can make them feel better
she was especially captivated by the
closing sentence, which ran: Having
recently met with a bereavement, tne
rest and quiet you offer Will be grea'
boon to me-"
widow, likely" said father, as we
read this note aloud in his presence
| (for the Attn finne).
aMiss or Mrs. Katie?" asked mother
although we both knew the signature
| by heart. Yours sincerely, Phoebe
| Knapp"
"Tm sure / don't know. ] can't read
between the lines" answered, rather
| filppantly, I fear
This unknown was beginning to take
a sort of weird possession OF me. u
seemed uneanny that everything should
turn upon the movements of stranger
whom we had never seen, and Wherever
/ turned / could not help seeing silent
figure in long chape veil lifting its
hand and commanding me to do this OF