JEFFERSON AS AN INVENTOR.
Sa^e o! Monticello Devoted Much
Time to Creation of Mechanical
Devices but Opposed the
Granting; of Patents.
W11 liam!F. Curtis, * Chicago Kocord Herald.
Thomas Jefl -won wau* himself
an inventor, t. t, consistent in
his belief in the *tural rijrht of
all mankind to i <re useful im
provement h with' at restraint,
he never applied for a patent.
His first original device was n
folding chair, which he used to
carry to church in early days,
when services were held in the
court house at Charlottesville,
and the sea ting conveniences were
insufficient. His grandson tells
us how he would " mount his
horse early in the morning, d u ring
the latter years of his life, canter
down the mountain and across
the country to thesite of the uni
versity, and spend a long day
there, dim-ting the work, carry
ing with him a walking stick of
his own invention, now familiar
to all, composed of three st icks,
which, being spread out and cov
ered with a piece of cloth made a
tolerable seat." Mr. Hacon, his
overseer, in his raminiscenses
says: "His servants came with
him and brought a seat, a kind
of camp stool of his own inven
tion. After Mr. Jefferson got old
and feeble a servant used to go
with him and carry that stool so
that he could sit down while he;
was waiting for anybody or at
tending to any work that was
going on."
He in vented the revoivingcnair,
now a familiar and necessary
article of furniture in all offices
and counting-rooms. The feder
alist newspupei-s used to call it
"Mr. Jefferson'swhirl-i-gig," and
declared that lie had devised it
"so as to look all wavs at once."
He also designed a light wagon
or sulky with a comfortable seat
and two wheels, with which he
frequently drove around the
country when he was too feeble
to ride horseback.
Mr. Jefferson invented the copy-1
ing press. He writes to vir.'
Madison in 17H7: "Having a
great desire to have a portable
copying machine, and having J
studied over some experiments
with the principle of large ma
chines mude to applv in the
smaller one, 1 planned one in
England and had it made. Itj
answers perfectly. 1 have set a
workman to -making them, and
they are of such demand that he
has his hands full. 1 send you
one. You must exjiect to make
many essays before you succeed
|>erfectly. A soft brush, like a
shaving brush, is more successful
than a sponge." He also sent a ,
copying press to the Marquis de
Lafayette as a present,.
Another of his inventions was
a hemp break, which lie says "has j
long been wanted by the cultiva-;
tors of hemp, and as soon as 1
can sjienk of its effect with cer
tainty 1 shall deserilie it anony
mously in the public pajiers, lu
ordt r to forestall the prevention
of its use by some interloping
patentee "
He invented a pedometer to
measure the distances he walked.
He sent one to James Madison,
with the fallowing explanatory
letter: "To the loop at the bot
tom of it you must sew a tajie,
?.nH nt. t,h?- ntht-r end of the taoe
a small hook. Cut a little hole
in the bottom of vour left watch
pocket, pass the liook and tape
through it, and dowu between
the breeches and drawers, and
fix the hook on the edge of your
knee band, an inch from the knee
buckle; then hook the instru
ment itself by its swivel hook, on
the upper edge of your watch
pocket. Your tape being ad
lusted in length, your steps will
be exactly measured by the in
strument."
His most important invention
was a plow. Mr. Bacon, his over
seer, save: " He was very ingeni
ous. He invented a plow that
was considered a great improve
ment on any that had ever been
used. He got a great many pre
miums and medals for it. He
planned his own carriage, build
ings, garden and fences and a
good many other things. He
was nearly always busy upon
some plan or model."
Jefferson's plow received a gold
tnedal in France in 1790. During
his European tours he had been
struck with the waste of power
caused by the bad construction
of the plows in common use. The
part of the plow called the "mold
board," which is aliove the share
and turns over the earth, seemed
to him the chief seat of error, and
he spent many of the leisure
hours of his last two years in
France in evolving a mold board
which shoull offer the minimum
of resistance. He sent the original
design to the Royal Agricultural
Society of the Seine. The niedai |
which they awarded for it fol- i
lowed the investor to New York,
and eighteen yearn afterward the i
society sent him a superb plow j
containing his improvement. I
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MAJAJE, THE WHITE QUEEN. ^
Mysterious Woman ot Caucasian |
Type wbo Ruled a Tribe in
South Africa. I
For more than half a century <
the rainmaker for all the native
tribes south of the Zambesi river,' \
in South Africa, was Majaje, the i
White Queen of the Mukatese (
trilte, which lived in the wood- 1
bush in the northern part of the i
Transvaal. The Zulus, the Hot- i
tentots, the Kaffirs, the ltusutos
and scores of other tribes recog
nized her as the great rainmaker, i
and whenever there was a drouth i
in their provinces they sent their
emissaries to her with requests
for rain. i
The tales which white men
heard concerning her led them to
lielieve that Majaje was a myth,
and Kider Haggard elaborated
the report in his novel 'She,- (
which laid for its leading char- |
acter a mysterious white woman
w ho ruled over a race of blacks ,
somewhere in Central Africa.
Haggard wrote his novel in the (
eighties, while he was in South
Africa, and long before it was
established that the WhiteQueen
was not a myth. I he fact that
such a woman really lived was
proved by three white men who
talked with her, and one of those
men, the late Piet Joubert, com
mandant-general of the ltoer
Army, was authority for this ac
count of the woman.
? ? ? ?> ? ? !? it.
I leaning rreionus, one 01 me
Transvaal's first cominandant
generals, and probably the most
fearless Boer that ever lived, re
turned from one of his frequent
-journeys into unknown regions
of the Transvaal in the latter
part of 1SH!) and reported to his
Government that he had suc
ceeded in seeing Majaje. In a
voluminous report which he made
of his journey he stated that the
woman was Queen of a section of
the Makatese tribe and that her
capital was surrounded by an
almost impenetrable forest of
small thorn trees. On the out
skirts of this forest he was met
by a large number of well-armed
tribesmen, who asked him and
his companions to depart from
the neighborhood immediately.
I'retorius refused to leave and
insisted upon seeing the Queen.
After a long discussion, during
which many messengers were sent
to the Queen's kraal, Pretoriusj
was granted permission to visit |
the monarch, lie was disarmed
and his companions were left be-'
hind under guard of a large num- j
ber of tribesmen, lie was led
along a narrow, winding path
through the bush and nfter a
journey of about 30 mileshecaine
to the Queen's royal kraal. In |
his report hedescribed the woman
minutely and at great length.
He said that she was absolute
monarch over her people, that;
she undoubtedly had the power |
of life and death over them, and
that she had established a gov
ernment that was far in advance |
of any negro government he had
ever seen.
mi_ j. x. ..i- i
1 IIU IIIOBV OHtUlllHllilli; JHI1 L *JI
his report was that tne woman
was not a negress. tie described
J her as having straight, soft hair
] of a light-brown color, thin lips
! and light-blue eyes. The colorof
i her skin was not black, but as
white as that of a Portuguese.
PretoriuB stated that she refused
to tell her age, or anything con
cerning her antecedents, and
added that she appeared to lie
I more than 100 years old?j>er
haps 115.
In 1804 the Makatese tribe
formed an alliance with MaTOeba,
the king of the woodbusli Kaffirs,
who lived near the same district,
ard Majaje's people were dragged
into a rebellion against the Boers.
Joubert, the commandant-gene
ral of the Boer Army, was sent
ugainst the rebellious natives
and he took with him a small
number of Swazis, who had been
driven into the Transvaal from
I their native country by Umban
i dine, the father of the late King
Bunu, who acquired the fattu
habit of drinking five quarts of
I champagne a day.
When Joubert and his forces
.reached the "betovert" (be
I witched) bush the warriors of
Majaje and Magoeba attacked
them and fought valiantly for
I several weeks. The natives were
defeated finally and fled into the
bush und mountains. The 8 wax is
t then asked Jouliert for permission
to follow the rebels and it was
granted. When thev returned,
severaljdays afterward, theSwazis
brought with them the heads of
Magoeba and several of his in
dunus. or headmeD, in order to
jrove to the Boer* that they had
?willy t>een victorious.
The day after the return of the
victorious 8wazis several messen- j
?er? came from Majuje, bringing i
>eace offerings in the shape of
wo ivory tusks and a beautiful I
white ox. The emissaries de- <
?lared that Majaje had been mis- <
ed by Magoeba and that she had I
10 desire to be an enemy of the <
Itoers. Joubert told the messen- !
;ers to tell their (.Jut*11 that if ;
die would surrender her arms uii- (
conditionally and jiermit some 1
one to go to her kraal the war
would be ended. In her reply she
accepted the first condition, but 1
[leclined to allow any one to visit i
her kraal, adding, however, that i
die would comeoutand grant an :
audience to the Boer leader. i
The following morning the bush I
resounded with the beating of I
drums and the shrill noises of i
crude wind instruments. Fore- ?
runners emerged from the bush
and announced thecomingof the
liueen.
When the head of t he proces
sion reached General Joubert the
priests deposited the palanquin
on the ground and drew aside the
curtains thatconceal'd theQueen.
She reclined on a beautiful quagga
skin and was clothed in a varie
gated costume of skins, furs and
bead-work. Joubert observed her
closely and found that Helming
I'retorius' description of her was
accurate in every detail. The
woman had light, soft hair, thin
lips, blue eyes and a complexion
as light as that of the majority
of white persons who have lived
in the tropics for many years.
Many persons have attempted
to explain the mystery of the
t Iiku.1i u uni.iwtrv nnd tlni
has been that many strange tales
are current in the country, each
being heralded an the only true
solution. The most plausible
theory is the one that Command
ant-General Joubert advanced.
From some old chieftains he
learned that there was a tradi
tion among the Makatese that
many generations ago a large
number of white men had come
into the Zambesi region to dig
gold. These men incurred the
enmity of the blacks, who mass
acred all except one or two. j
General Joubert believed, as did
the chieftains, that Majaje was
the descendant of one of these,
survivors, but the native tradi- j
tion does not explain the process
by which she rose to the position
of ruler of the tribe. Proof of.
the fact that gold was dug in j
that neighborhood has been
found in scores of places along'
the Zambesi, wherein recent years
many old shafts have been un
covered.?Howard C. Hillegas, in j
the New York Evening Post.
If people onlv knew what we
know about kodol Dyspepsia
Cure, it would be used in nearly
every household, as there are few
people who do not suffer from a
feeling of fullness after eating,
belching, flatulence, sour stomach
or waterbrash, caused by indi
gestion or dyspepsia. A prepare
tion, such as kodol Dyspepsia
Cure, which, with no aid from the |
stomach, will digest your food,j
certainly can't help but do you j
good, llood Bros., Hare & Son, I
J. R. l^edbetter.
The President's Tribute to Memphis.
By Memphians the introduc-'
tory remarks of President Mc
Kinley last night should be held i
in sacred memory. The nation's I
executive paid a tribute to the
commerce, the pluck and energy I
of this city and this people, which I
was not an outburst ot exhulier
ant rhetoric, but an analytical
estimate based on accurate ob
servation and information.
The storv of Memphis was well
told by William McKinley. No
other city in the great country
has suffered more, Tost more and
sacrificed more than Memphis.
No other citv has so completely
overcome ill-fortune and adver
sity as Memphis. And now that
Memphis is coming into her own,
has asserted her pre-eminence as
the leading commercial city of
the South, she feels keenly the
high compliment paid her by the
natiou's President. Nor are the
Memphians ungrateful when the
the President expresses without
reserve his cordial appreciation
of one of their prominent citi
zens, Luke E. W right, who is
doing his duty as an official in
the Philippines, just as he always
discharged his duty as a citizen
of MemphisandTennessee.-Mem
phis Commercial-Apjieal, May 1.
Skin affections will rpadilv dis
atijiear bv using DeWitt's \Vitch
lfazel Salve. Lookout for coun
terfeits. If you get DeWitt's you
will get good vaults. It is the
iinick ana positive cure for piles.
Hare & Son, J. H. I >ed better,
Hood Bros.
Failures in April.
Commercial failures during
\|?ril were 763 in number and e
?.?,">71,222 in amount, against ,
707 for $9,701,809 last year. t
Even in 1899, the year of lowest f
ieath rate since 1881, there were t
>00 failures for .7,790,090. Mun
acturing defaults numbered 108, i
with a total indebtedness of
HI,997,094. against 178 last (
rear for $4,514,008; of trading (
concerns 555 discontinued, with t
liabilities of $8,108,828, against ,
487 for $2,441,451 a year ago; ,
while in other commercial lines ]
the comparison is still more sat- <
isfactory,45failing for$404,705, (
against 42 in 1900 owing 82,- j
800,415. Of banking ana fidu- i
ciary institutions there were but ]
four failures in April with de- |
Faults ot $529,000against$050,- (
1)00 in the same mouth last year. ;
? Dunn's Review. I ,
i
Beware ot a Cough. ,
A cough is not a disease but a :
symptom. Consumption and i
bronchitis, which are the most
dangerous and fatal diseases,
have for their first indication a :
persistent cough, and if properly
treated as soon as this cough
appears are easily cured. Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy has
proven wonderfully successful,
and gained its wide reputation |
and extensive sale by its success
in curing the diseases which cause
coughing. If it is not beneficial
it will not cost you a cent. For
sale by "Hood Rros.
Pointed Paragraphs.
Remarks may be pointed and
yet blunt.
A hard head seldom goes with
a soft heart.
The baseball fan comes ahead
of the palmleaf.
The scissors grinder rejoices
most when things are dull.
Tears are a woman's safety
valve; cuss words are a man's.
Most youngsters would rather
be live boys tnan dead angels.
The colt doesn't starve who |
has never had a bit in ins mouth.
The fellow who goes around
looking for trouble doesn't need
a telescope.
The trouble about being a
celebrity is that you are not one
until after you are dead.
When a woman sends a tele
gram she doesn't think she is1
getting her money's worth unless |
she stretches it out to ten words. J
?Philadelphia Record.
In the Rush.
'?And did you," she asked cud
dling up to him and looking
wistfully into his honest bluel
eyes, "feel irresistibly drawn to!
me the first time we met?"
They had iust confessed their
love for eacn other. The first I
kiss was still moist on their lips.
"Well," he answered, "if I were
a poet 1 might say so. Poetic j
license woulil give me the right
to say irresistibly drawn,' I sup
pose. Still, to stick to the plain
lacts, I must say that I was;
rather irresistibly pushed toward
you.'
"What do you mean?" shej
asked half-indignantly, drawing
away.
"\ou see," he hurried toex-j
plain, "it was at the BlUndford's
reception that I first saw you."
"Yes," she answered.
"Well,you were up at the punch
bowl, and 1 get caught in the |
crowd that was trying to get'
there."?Chicago Record-Herald.
Biliousness is a condition char
acterized by a disturbance of the
digestive organs. The stomach 1
is debilitated, the liver torpid, the j
bowels constipated. There is a
loathing of food, pains in the
bowels, dizziness, coated tongue
and vomiting, first of the undi
gested or partly digested food
and then of bile. Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets allav
the disturbances of thestoinacli
i and create a healthy appetite. I
They also tone up the liver to a
healthy action and regulate the
bowels. Try them anu you an*
certain to be much nleased with
the result. For saie by Hood i
Bros.
A clergyman while catechising
his Sunday School had occasion
to ask the children the meaning
of the word "epistle." A little
girl in the youngest chiss was so
certain that she knew that she
did not hesitate a minute, but,
with the greatest confidence, an
swerer!, "An epistle is the wife of
anapostle."?New York Sun.
You are much more liable to I
disease when your liver and bow
els do not act properly. l)eWitt's
Little Early Risers remove the
cause of d seam. Hare Son, |
Hood Bros., J. R. Ledbetter. |
Kor::/ e.\s;ly made.
"I've got i! m .c rae," said the graft
ir, "that'll v*oin like a clock. I'm
fouij* to put un ad. in the paper
taking women to sciul their pnoto
traphs anil a b.ll and I'll tell t
hem how to become beautiful."
"But how can you make them
teautiful?" asked the chump.
"Don't have to. I'll send back
he photographs with letters some
hing lik? this: 'Dear Hiss: After
teeing your photograph we are sur
irised that you desire to become
nore beautiful than you already are.
It sometimes seems that the very
>ncs upon whom God bestows his
greatest favors are the least thank
ful. One bo divinely endowed with
tuch loveliness as you possess should
be contented. Although we have
idded to the beauty of such women
is Lily Langtry, Maxine Elliott and
Lillian Russell, our honor as gentle
men and our reputation as an old
established firm compel us to inform
you that you already possess beauty
far beyond the possibilities of our
system.'"
"But the $5 ?" asked the chump.
"Oh, I guess a woman wouldn't
make much of a howl over the five,"
answered the grafter.?Indianapo
lis Sun.
Sl'RGERY BY TELEPHONE.
Surgery performed by directions
given over the telephone is the lat
est innovation at the Hahnemann
hospital. A physician who is con
nected with its surgical staff was
called up by telephone the other
day by a nurse at the Children's
hospital, in Germantown, with
which institution the physician is
also connected, and was told that
his services were immediately re
quired for a child who had dislocat
ed its shoulder. "Bring the child
right up to the telephone," said the
surgeon. "All right, 1 have the
child in my aims," the nurse re
plied. "Now, then," said the physi
cian, "place the child's elbow against
its side and move its hand and fore
arm outward." His directions were
here interrupted by a sharp click
that sounded through the telephone
as the dislocated member snapped
back into place. "There you are.
Nicely done, wasn't it?" said the
6urgeon to the nurse. She replied
that the operation had been mo6t
successful, and the physician re
turned to his clinic.?Philadelphia
Record.
SPEED or SAILING CRAFT.
It is rather surprising to learn
that our modern cup defenders sail
no faster than a vessel of about the
same size built in 1803. That state
ment, however, is made by a noted
naval architect of Boston. He de
clares that the famous Salem pri
vateer America of the war of 1812
sailed faster on her best point?with
the wind on the quarter?than any
of the crack racing yachts of today.
Her log shows that she frequently
made 13 knots with the burden of a
warship, while the best speed of the
cup defenders of today is little bet
ter than 14 knots in racing trim.
It is an interesting fact that the ar
chitect in question, a lineal descend
ant of one of the builders of the
privateer, is himself the designer of
a boat to defend the cup this year.
He does not expect to surpass his
ancestor.?Youth's Companion.
RILEY GRANNAN'a LAST BILL.
During a recent engagement at
the Great Southern theater, Colum
bus, O., the treasurer took in a $10
bill upon which was written, "The
last of $20,000," and signed Riley
Grannan, the well known bookmak
er. The bill was paid out in the
course of business and fell into the
hands of ? business man, who at
once communicated with Grannan
who is now out on the San Francis
co tracks, and negotiations are in
progress for the return of the mark
ed bill to Grannan, who, since he set
it afloat on the sea of business, hae
made another fortune and is anx
ious to get the marked bill back
again.?Chicago Inter Ocean.
VKST-S GRIM UllIOR.
Senator Vest is older than his
years in fact as well as in appear
ance. He is ill and despondent and
refuses to take a cheerful view ol
life. Nevertheless his mind is one
of the brightest in the senate.
One day he sank into his chair,
saying to his neighbor, "1 am an old
man, snd I'll never get over this."
"Conic, come. Vest; brace up,':
replied his neighbor; "brace up and
you'll be all right. Look at Morrill
over there, lie's nearly 90 and is
*>? cprv as a man of -10."
"Morrill. Morrill!" said Vest,
"He's set for eternity. They'll have
to shoot Ititn on the day of judg
ment."
r*rn DtFFKnr.vr wars.
Among the odd changes brought
about by the succession of King Kd
ward VII is that while Victoria's
face on British gold coins looked te
to the left King Kdward's looks t?
the right. This is an accordance
with a long established custom that
makes each successive sovereign face
the opposite way on the coins from
his or iter predecessor.
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK ?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everybody who reads the news
papers Is sure to know of the wonderful
?i'M ma hv Dr_
Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver
L and bladder remedy.
I It is the great medi
cal triumph of the nine
teenth century; dis
covered after years of
scientific research by
Dr. Kilmer, the emi
nent kidney and blad
J__ )<?* O r*A i
1 "**"" '" ucr spcv,iaiisi, anu u
wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou
bles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root Is not rec
ommended for everything but if you have kid
j ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found
! Just the remedy you need. It has been tested
J in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
i practice, among the helpless too poor to pur
I chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that a special arrangement has
I been made by which all readers of this paper
[ who have not already tried it, may have at
sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
| find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble
When writing mention reading this generous
I offer in this naDer and tC-'K"
send your address to gf
Dr. Kilmer & Co.,Bing- B
hamton, N. Y. The
regular miy ceni ana womeoi Hwamp-iww
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
Tobacco Flues
Come and see me if you want the -
best flues for the least money. I
have them.
I have the Cotton King and Elmo.
COOK STOVES,
(the world's best )
Fine Breech Loading
Shot Guns,
A 1 at factory pricess.
Come and see tht m if you
want to get the best goods
for the least money.
Respectfully,
S, B. JOHNSON,
Smithfield, N. C,
Apr .'Mm
You NEED IT.
It is Good to have
on hand. X
Mozingo's Liniment
| Nerve and Bone
Made strictly by an old and reliable formnfa .
Has been used for thirty-live years.
For Man and Beast.
You Get a Large Bottle for 50 cts,
MADB AMD FOR PALE BT
J B /VlOZINGO,
Smithfleld, N. C.
For sale by Hood Bros., Sralthtleld; Haywood
Price, Heulah township; Hare At Son, Selma,.
N. C.; W. E. Smith. Micro, N. C.; G. F. Wood
ard, Princeton; Alex. Edgerton, Pinkney;
Pope Bros., near Kenly: J. K. Bains. Bagley.
March W-tf
MILLINERY, Etc.
I wish to snv to my friends and
customers that 1 have added to
my full line of General Merchan
dise a nice and up-to-date stock
of MILLINKRY,thecheape8tand
1 prettiest ever brought to Four
Oaks. Ladies, Come to see roe
and buy your
; Spring and summer Hals
from my Milliner, Miss Willie
Creech. I have also the latest
1 thing in the gilt and velvet belte.
AIho the spikes for the belts My
j goods are cheap and new stock.
Give me a trial.
A. Creech,
Apr5-t? Four Oaks.
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' Do not be deceived bv those who a<t
I vertihp a $60.00 Hewing Mnehitie for
$20.00. This kind of a machine can
be bought from us or any of our
? dealers from$l.'i.00to $18.00.
WE MAKE A VARIETY.
THE NEW HOME IS THE BEST.
The Feed determines the strength or
weakness of Hewing Machines. The
Donble Food combined with othet
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