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Year: 1879

ADVERTISING A TERROR 10 THIEVES
before ever steal anything" remark cd
citizen of this county yesterday, in con.
vcrsation with newspaper man, 81 am
going to kill all the editors and have all the
newspapers stopped" The occasion of this
energetic utterance was this: The speaker
sat on his front porch the other day reading
the ObserDcr. His eye had just fallen upon
an advertisement for stolen horse, when a
man rode up to the gate on horseback and
hailed him. He looked again at the adver-
tisemcnt and then at the borsc. The de.
scription fitted the horse at the gate to a
dot. lie went out and the rider engaged
him in conversation. He proposed to sell
the animal and offered it at such price as
to convince the citizen the more fully that
it was the one referred to in the advertise.
ment, and he thcrcupon took both horse and
rider into custody. His suspicious were
perfectly well-groundcd, and, thanks to the
advertisement, its Legitimate owner is again
in possession of the horse and the thief is i'm
durance.- Charlotte Observer
Year: 1879

l0'S oiS P'oSciuiaiiy Sreat cTodkeTS IN times
of adversely, it cannot be denied that they
are as great blowers in times of prosperity
During the late drought they were literally
burned up-the corn crop Was lost beyond
redemption, and the cotton Was too small and
backward TO promise more than half crop;
but the floods came, aud 10 what change
comes over the old croakers vision. Every
thing begins to assume the couleur de rose.
Now tassels and shoots put in an appearance,
and the cotton takes o start and flares out
its creamy and crimson blossoms the grass
espeatsas sfa shs gsrssssn
and everybody is clated at the prospect Of
the future harvest.


1t is queer how people will forget the
lessons OF experience, and halloo before they
get out Of the woods. Many corn fields
which give promise to the eye. when har-
vested will yield little but nubbius corn
cannot wait on work or the seasons; both must
come at the proper time, or il is labor LIST,


AS to cotton, a wet spell or a dry spell
may blast our hopes. The rainy season,
which has been almost incessant for a
month, has run the plant to weed. 1t is
beautiful to look at, but the forms will shcG
about as fast as they come, the lower bolls
will rot or mature imperf"ctly, and should
it even be good season hcnceforth, it is
too late to hope for much benefit from it.


This is not very favorable outlook for
the farmer, but there is consolation iu the
reflection that it might have been worse
The wheat ard oat crop has been good, and
the country has been provcrbially healthy.


But however uncertain the crop prospects
may be, there are are some things which
are Sery certain. Taxes have TO be paid,
that fertilizer bill will take the cream Of the
crop, that lien mortgage for supplies and
labor must be met, and preparations made
for another years struggle for success.


Don't fatter yourself with the hope that
better time is coming, that revival of
business is near, that flush times and plenty
Of money are back again, cotton fifteen
cents a pound, credit good and everybody
honest and reliable. We have heard this
sort of talk over aud over again it comes
from men who have "axes to grind" put no
faith in it. Times will never grow better
until the legions of loafers who have con-
gregated about cities, villages and railroad
stations take to the plow. The great want
of the times is good, honest, faithful work
in the field. We must have more produ-
GERS, fewer consumers. The balance of trade
is against US. We pay out thousands for
what We should produce at home. We
must reform all these evils if we desire bet
ter times. Put not faith in financial proph-
cts. Work, cconomize in all things, take
care of what you have, and don't 20 in
debt, arc the only roads out of the wilder
ness.
Year: 1879

TO YOUNG MEM-Do not work for fame.
Work to do good. Qualify yours ,lf to do
all the good it is possible for you to do.
Improve the mind Acquire stores of
knowledge, and use that knowcdg to bene.
fit mankind. Fame will come if you merit
it. If you do not merit it you may seek
it till you 90 OF your grave and never
grasp it. Have a definite object. Let
that be worthy one-a phlanthropic
one, if possible. March steadily forward
not daily, but hourly-towards the object
you have in view. No matter what obsta.
cles arc to be scaled, never yield till you are
victorious. Men who work for fame, never
get it. 1t comes, if at all, because it is
mcritcd; because of superior qualifications
exercised in the discharge of duty because
of noble deeds done for humanity-and, in
hundred other ways, because of W work
done mcriting it.


The only way to gain fame is to do some
thing worthy of it-but do not do that some. i.
thing to win it. If sought for in that way
1t will avoid your grasp like an apparition.
Year: 1879

WHY BEES Work IN THE DARK.-A


lifetime might be spent in investigating
the mysteries hidden in bee. hive, and
The formation Of the cell has long been a
celebrated problem for the mathematician,
whilst the changes which the honey under
goes Offer at least an equal interest to the
chemist. Every one knows what honey
fresh from comb is like. 1t is clear, vel


low syrup, without a trace of solid sugar in
it. Upon straining, however, it gradually
assumes crystalline appearance-it can
dies, as the saying is, and ultimately be-
comes solid lump Of sugar. 1t has not
been suspected that this change was due to
a Photographic action -; that the same agent
which alters the molecular arrangements of
the iodine of silver on the excited coliodian
plate, and determines the formation of cam
phor and iodine of crystals in bottle,
causes the syrup honey t. assume crystal.
line form. This, however, is the case
Nj. Scheibler has enclosed honey in stop
pered TASKS, some of which he has kept in
perfect darkness while others have been
exposed to the light. The invarable results
have been that the summed portion rapid
ly crystallized, while that kept in the dark
has remained perfectly liquid. We how see
why bees work in perfect darkness, and why
they are SO careful to obscure the glass win
dows which are sometimes placed in their
hives. The existence Of their young depends
upon the liquidity of saccharine food presen.
ted to them and if light were allowed access
to the syrup it would gradually acquire a
more or less solid consistency it would seal
up the cells, and in all probability prove
fatal to the inmates Of the hive.
Year: 1879

NiNNiNo AMI SPlNNlNG.--N w lnnSDOro,
September 6.-Tho Interesting article from
your Anderson correspondent, "W.," in IL
recent issue of your enterprising paper
upon the subject of manufacturing yarns
from, seed cotton, induces me to say word
or two explanatory of my resolution at the
late joint meeting Of the State Agricultural
Society and State Grange in Chester.


The resolution as adopted authorizes the
memorializing of the Legislature for q re-
ward of $40 900 to pc paid for an invcn-
tion which will enable farmers, upon their
plantations and at paying rates, to convert
their crops from the seed into yarns.


THO Priucipui object had In view when
oHetod sL;" -~-~i-. rvtr utro urrOvs s.~---s
tenton of farmers and inventors to tho
want OF such machine, as well as to the
practicablily Of perfecting il. l was aware
OF the experiment of Col Harrison with
the "Clcmcnt Attachment" which demon
strates the practicability of spinning from
the seed, but the machine is too costly for
farm use, and could not compete for tho
reward unless it was modified SO as to come
within the requirements. l remember,
when was boy seeing hand machine
which did the same thing. l. c., spin yarn
from seed cotton, the cotton being spread
upon an endless cloth band which carried
it to the saws, whence it was passed in
proper condition to six spindles and then
made into yarn, the whole operated by the
turning of a crank. This machine is as
much too small as the other is too large, but
equally well demonstrates the feasibility of
the plan Of spinning from the seed Now


if the State will do what was done in New
Il A.


Erie Canal, and iu Indiana, when q practi
cal road steamer was needed-offer an in.
duccment to inventors-I have no hesita-
tion in saying that ere long we will have
the intermedi-te of the two machines alu-
ded to- and, as the result each farmer will,
in addition to the questionable profits now
made by raising cotton, be able to pocket
the very decided premium which accrucs
by converting it into yarn.


There arc two other ideas that present
themselves in this connection. Spin YOUR
stained cotton into yarns and ten cents
worth Of bleaching material will make them
the Weddings OF bale-as white as snow.
You can now understand why special Or
ders are frequently given to buyers to Sc
cure this clas of cotton, but always at re-
duced price Of course. The other idea was
suggested by seeing this year and last year
an intimation by the New York Cotton Ex-
change that efforts would be made to deduct
the weight of bagging and ties from the
weight of the bale. If this is donc-and
it is wellknown fact that farmers arc the
victims in all combinations-thcn would
the price offered for this machine be indeed
paltry in comparison with the good that
would be done to the State by its invention.
Many of our best mechanics are too moor
to risk their labor upon venture, but offer
them satisfactory remuneration for their
talents and they will employ them.


IT, w. WOODWARD.
Year: 1879

A method of refreshing rancid butter is
published in many of the papers as follows:
TO pint Of water add thirty drops (about
half teaspoonful) Of liquor Of chloride of
lime. Wash in this two and half pounds
of rancid butter When every particle of
the butter has come in contact with the
water, let it stand an hour or two; then
wash the butter well in pure water The
butter is then left without any odor, and
has the sweetness Of fresh butter These
preparations Of lime have nothing in
furious in them" A writer who claims
to have tried this, says that the most rancid
butter was rendered SO sweet by it that
able Judges could not distinguish it from
new butter when placed along side the latter
on the table.
Year: 1879

In Lcesburg, Fla, when man is fined by
the Mayor and he can't pay, he is hired out
to a farmer, who pays the fine and takes
the offender TO work out the amount on the
farm. This is considered much better than
feeding such people in Jail at the expense
Of the county.
Year: 1879

JUDGE MEUsER, "a leading Democrat
in the late Ohio Legislature said few
lays ago, in the House, that Democratic


eeislatures in this State had always
shown such faculty for making asses
of themselves that they had invariably
turned the succeeding Legislature over
to the Republicans, and the only hope
the present Legislature had, lay in its
work of codification. Inasmuch as cod
ification was undertaken under the di-
rection of preceding Legislature, and
the late Legislation had nothing to do
with it but read over and receive the
work from the hands of the Codifying
Commission, it is difficult to imagine
where the credit comes in, unless it be
in the evidence given that some of the
Democratic members are able to SPELL
Gin. Gaz., 25th ult.
Year: 1879

and the army would be raised to thirty
thousand men, and the COnfederateS at
once restored to their old supremacy.
AS for the Supreme Court, Judges
enough would be added to give a Con-
federate majority, and the war amend
ments would speedily be declared un-
constitutional. Texas would be divided
into three States, and New Mexico and
Utah admitted, and the question would
arise whether it would be possible for
the country for a generation to escape
from the clutches of the Democratic
party-as every effort to do so would be
denounced as treason to the Union
(meaning the revised, re-established and
enlarged Southern Confederacy,) and
every earnest advance in support of
American nationality would be de-
scribed as arising from sectional ami
mostly, and subjected to threatenings of
civil war like those which we were IA
miliar when we ventured to oppose the
rights" that the Solid South of other
days asserted, to extend slavery over all
the Territories and reduce the North to
province of the slave power. The only
public safety is in checking the Confed-
crate Democratic party nOw-in over
whelming it at the next Presidential
election, so that even this Congress can
not even count in the candidates who
represent revolution backward; and the
first step is to defeat Thomas Ewing in
Ohio, for he represents submission to
the Confederate Caucus and advocates
the Confederate system of finance. which
would reduce the National greenback to
a level with the Confederate grayback,-
which would degrade the National
credit now, after triumphant war and
accomplished resumption, to the level of
the finances of the conquered COnfeder
ates, when the followers of jeff. Davis
rolled their last keg of specie into a
Georgian swamp Gin. Com.
Year: 1879

AMONG the evident signs of improving
business in the country, it may be noted
that number of manufacturing estab-
lishments which have either been idle or
working half force for some time are
now buster than they have ever been be-
FORE We may shut our eyes to the fact,
if we will, but we are in the midst of a
great trade revival, in which business of
every kind is receiving new stimulus.
Let there be an end to the growing and
croaking that have filled the air for
years, and let every man go to work and
do his portion to hasten our returning
national prosperity.
Year: 1879

In long review of the condition, pros
poets, and possibilities of the vast and
comparatively undeveloped country ly.
ing to the north and west of Minneapolis,
Mimi, the Northwestern Miller says that
the Northern Pacific Railroad passes
nearly through the center of the finest
wheat region on the face of the earth,
Nearly 300 miles north another great
trans-continental railway is being con-
structed, and our Canadian neighbors
even contemplate building railroad
having its northern terminus on the
shores of Hudson's Bay. 1t will thus be
seen that to the north and west of Min
neapols is vast and productive agri-
cultural region, extending far up into
the British possessions on one side, and
and losing itself in the mountains of
Montana, on the other. 1t is capable of
producing wheat enough to supply the
world, and the water powers of Mime
sofa alone are capable of converting the
larger part of its product into flour. 1t
embraces within its limits immense
forests of pine and hard wood, and mines
of coal, copper, silver and gold. Nature
has provided in abundance the elements
necessary to the support of a great pOpu-
latiOn is now coming.


1t cannot be doubted, the Miller re-
marks in another connection, that this
great accession to the United States will
have marked influence ON the milling
industry of the country. With an album
dant supply of breadstuffs prices must
rule low, and the margins in flour manu-
featuring be small. Every effort of in
ventiveA skill will be made to cheaper
the manufacture and better the product.
The inevitable result must be that the
making of wheat into flour will be done
in large mills employing immense capital,
and that the class of small combined
merchant and custom mills will become
thing of the past. The present high
standing of Spring wheat flour, which
many have thought and some have hop
ed would be lost with the exhaustion of
the Minnesota wheat fields, will be
maintained through the superabundant
supply of the choicest kinds of hard
wheat from the new fields now being
opened.
Year: 1879

Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, of the New York
Tribune, delivered an address upon the
future of journalism before the New
York Press Association. He takes the
ground that the great newspaper of the
futnre will not be bulk but brains. In
stead of papers containing more matter
than can be got through with in day to
the ordinary reader who has business to
attend to, greater ability will be forth
coming to sift the news and put it in
more condensed form. He states:


1--WE shall not have more news. The
world is ransacked for it now. Earth,
sea, and air, carry it to us from every
capital, from every people, from every
continent, and from every island. We
shall not have bigger newspapers; they
are bigger now than a busy people can
read. We shall have better newspapers
the story better told; better brains en-
ployed in the telling; briefer papers
papers dealing with the more important
of current matters in such style and
with such fascination that they will
command the widest interest. There
will be more care and ability in select
ing, out of the myraid of things you
might tell, the things that the better
people want to be told, or ought to be
told. There will be greater skill in put
ting these things before them in the
most convenient and attractive shape
Judgement in selecting the news genius
in telling it-that is the goal for the
highest journalistic effort of the future.
In making a newspaper the HARVEST
item Of expense used to be the white
paper. Now it is the news. BY and by,
let us hope, it will be the brains"
Year: 1879

TIE Cincinnati Commercial remarks
that the signing of the Army bill takes
the so-called bayonet out Of the cam
paign. and together with the veto of the
Judicial bill draws the line of battle
for the Republicans in the next presi-
Dental campaign on high and hard
ground, and gives them an impregnable
positiOn."
Year: 1879

IT is said that our next census will
show population approximating to
fifty millions. Our last was something
over thirty-eight millions, and the in
crease of ten years will not be less than
thirty per cent, and will probably ex-
ceed that figure
Year: 1879

Mr.. THURMAN's success as President
pro TEN. of the Senate has not been so
brilliant as to make his movement for
the executive chair Of the nation boom.
He has had to be helped along by two
experienced clerks, and he can't take
them up to the White House with him.
Year: 1879

THE failure of Congress to complete
any silver legislation at this session
compels the proprietors of the bonanza
mines to be satisfied with bullion prices
for their products for the present.
Year: 1879

The solemn session of Admiralty was
that which met at the Old Bailey, in May
1901, when Capt. Kidd and nine others
were arraigned for piracy and robbery on
the high seas. All were found guilty ex-
cept three, who were proved to have been
apprentices. Kidd was also tried for the
murder of his gunner and found guilty.
All the other men pleaded variousiy
and two of them had undoubted-
ly surrendered themselves within the time
limited by the proclamation. Col Pass,
the Governor of West Jersey (now the
State of New Jersey, adjoining that of
New York;, corToborated this statement.


1t was shown that they had not surrendered
to commission of four specially sent out
for the purpose, and they were condemned
to die. This was, as far as the writer can
Year: 1879

THE postoffice department has ap-
proved a design for new international
two cent postal card, provided for by the
universal postal union and the recent
act of congress. On the upper left cor
ner are the words, Universal Postal
Union, United States of America" in
English and French, the postal union
requiring that such inscription shall be
i'll the language Of the country from
which the card is sent and in French
and on the right upper corner is the
stamp, consisting of head of liberty
copied from the gold double eagle, sur
rounded by q ribbon border with q
monogram ~. s." at the top, and a
buckle al the bottom, with the figure
-" N octagon blocks on either side
In the upper half of the circle are the
words "Postal Card" and in the lower
half, 1.-TWO Cents" The card has 8
neat border around the edge or the ad
dress side. The plates will be prepared
as soon as possible, and forwarded tc
the manufacturer of the cards.
Year: 1879

WITHIN the last year several COM
plants have come from Europe about
the quality of petroleum exported from
the United States. A congress of Ger
man oil merchants assembled and their
report declares chat the complaints of
the poor quality of many of the recent
imports of refined petroleum from
America, especially of various brands
of the Standard Oil company, are per-
fectly just" and they therefore demand
of the American refineries, especially
of the Standard company, "that they
pay greater attention than they lately
have done to the refining of crude oil
in order that the petroleum turned out
in future, as formerly, may be free
from acids and heavy oils; and that nc
low qualities shall be shipped to Europe
that the American petroleum Inspector:
be more careful in examining the quail
ity of the petroleum, and that then
certificates represent most accurately
the merchandise" Various othel
causes for complaint are mentioned by
the German dealers.
Year: 1879

A local correspondent of the Cam
bridge Mass. Tribune writes ga few
days ago l heard my 5-year-old boy Of
fering to his scRoolmates tickets to a
circus. On inquiry | found the per-
formance was to take place in my
stable. On looking at the tickets pre-
pared for the occasion, [ discovered
that the child had been tearing up
some elegant coIored note paper my
wife kept for her fastidious correspon-
dents, and on each rude slip was written
in a coarse hand, "Admit the barer.
The price charged for the tickets was
six pins. | heard afterward that one
big boy, conscious of his power, offered
some old bent pins, and when they
were refused, threatened to visit the
show and break it up. [ do not pro-
pose to give an account of the enter
tainment, where there were six per-
formers and three spectators; [ merely
wish to state the results of the affair.
| heard that the affair broke up in q
general row, in which some boards
which had just been planed for shelves
in the house were broken up, two or
three panes of glass smashed in the
windows, and considerable damage
done to things generally in the stable.
The darling boy had carried out into
the stable nice sheet to divide off the
green room, and in the excitement at
the close of the moral show some one
accidently set fire to it. The fire was
easily extinguished with one or two
dippers of water, but one of the larger
boys was frightened and gave the alarm.
which soon drew two or three steaming
engines in front of my premises. At
night [ looked at my cherub with de-
light as he was sleeping beautifully
and peacefully, as only a calm con-
science will allow one to do"
Year: 1879

A small English terrier belonging to
a friend has been taught to ring for the
servant. To test if the dog knew why
it rang the bell, he was told to do so
while the girl was in the room. The
little fellow looked up in the most in
telligent manner at the person giving
the order This master or mistress, for
get which,, then at the servant, and re-
fused to obey. although the order was
repeated more than once. The servant
left the room, and few minutes after
ward the dog rang the bell Immediately
on being told to do so. give the fol-
lowing as told me by wife, now dead,
who personally witnessed the transac-
ton on various occasions: At her SIS
ter's house in Kent a donkey, which.
when not employed by the children,
grazed in a field with some COWS, was in
the regular habit of acting as follows:
At the usual hour for the COWS to come
home to be MIXED the donkey lifted
the latch of the feld-gate, opened and
held back the gate (which would other
wise have swung close again, till all the
COWS passed out, then allowed the gate
to shut, and went home with the COWS.
OF course no one taught the donkey to
do this
Year: 1879

The main cause of nervousness is in
digestion, and that is caused by weak
ness of the stomach. No one can have
sound nerves and good health without
using Hop Bitters to strengthen the
stomach, purify the blood, and keep the
liver and kidneys active, to carry off all
the poisonous and waste matter of the
sygtem. See other column.
Year: 1879

TIE rice fields on the Cape Fear river
near Wilmington, which have lain Idle
and grown up with weeds since the war,
have been reclaimed and planted this
season by several energetic parties, who
expect to raise at least two hundred
thousand bushels of rice the next five
yaars