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SALISBURY N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1887
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Looking ITp.
Agriculture is looking tip! Men are
eoiiHn,T careworn, and sick, and bank
rupt, from their counting-houses and
tUcW workshops to cultivate the smll
iff re s a hearty welcome to them on the
thiv.-hold of Eighty-seven, and let us
-11 old farmers, practical farmers no
Tone "as UUV use iui jiuiiimjui iiiimcio -
eail. avor to command resject for the
I'littivation of the sou. Lot us be ink
(liu-tnous, Honest, rigntiniiiueu ana weti i
behaved, nd let us improve the "good
lvheritage" left us by our fathers.
' Farmers have been crowded to the
wall about long enough, and made pay
two large a share of taxes. It was not
io in the gocd old times, when George
-Washington
was a rarmer at jiount .
Vernon, and Thomas Jefferson was' a
farmer at Monticello. and John AdaniB
was i a farmer at Quincy, and iTimothV
rickennir was a farmer at wennanw
UrrionhT was then thought of in the
council of the nation and of the State, production of food crops.- As for booms
When laws were passed, regard wajs they must be made. They never come
had to the .interest of the farmers, aujl to those who idly wait for them. Or-
these farmers in turn made their pro-I l- n r j r -
i , i i , ... 1 u ganize immigration societies and farm
ftssion honorable by selecting eaiidll- , n , . . .
dates from among themselves. Politics , f re c,ubsi as other enterprising people
r.iged Hlien, as they always will rage, in the State are doing. Stir things up
but the farmers kept a good gang of vourselves and yon will attract theatr
olficers in tfee fieldbf Governmeiit, and iention of others. A supine and ap
fliere was lume 01 the mean nnsrepre- i i , , .... , . . . -
M.tatlon and the Judas-like treachery VJ hV attitude, instead of ex
whieh is now practice in the selection citing sympathy, has a contrary effect,
of Candidates. Hen Perley J'oore in People seeking opjiortnnity for the in-
k (hietictrii ( 'ultirator.
PURELY VEGETABLE.
It ict with exif acrdinary efficacy on th
TIVER, KDNEYS
i and Bowels.
AN EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC FOR
Malaria, Bowel Complaints,
Uyitpepsla, Sick Heitlacli,
Conittipajtion, ItiUouKiieaM,
Kitluey AflecUons, Jaundice,
Mental Depression, Cnlir.
No Household Should be WUiioot It,
ami, by r itit;ko! ready lor immcdiuto use,
will .save many an hour of BUtlerine and
luuuy a duilur in timo and doctors' lulls.
THERE IS BUT ONE
SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR
See that you get the genuine with red Z"
on front of
Wrapper. Prepared only by
J. HuZEILIN
Philadelphia, Pa.
& CO ., Sole Proprietor,
n:ii i, si.uo.
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I'ttit rt -m r m ttt a y- yw -t
MADE AT
HICKORY, N. C.
CAN'T BE BEAT!
Thpy- staiixi wh(r6 they ought
to, pigiit square
at the mm
It Was a Hard Fight But They
Have Won It !
Just read what people say
alnu.it them ail if you want a
wagon conic quickly and buy
one either for cash or on time.;
Salisbury, N. C.
Sept. Lst,
Two .years ajio I bought u very lijjht two
horse Piedmont wajjon of the Agent, Job.
A. Uyden; have xisi it in-ar'y all the time
sincu. linve trit( it severely in hanlin; sjiw
lops and other heavy loads, and linve not
had to pay oue cent for repairs. I look
upon the Piedmont wagon as the best Thim
ble Skein wagon made in the United State.
The timber used in them is most excellent
uud thoroughly well seasoned.
TUKNKB P. TlIOMASOX.
Sai.isdury. N. C.
Aug. '27th, 1HSG
AboHt two years a so I bought of Jiio. A.
ihiydea. a (Htc horse Piedmont wagon which
lii ilrlue ill lie Ii serviee and no pait of it
h;is broken or given away and consequent
br it-mis cost nothing for repairs.
John I). IIkkly.
Samsbcuy, X. C.
Sept. 31, 18S6.
Eighteen nlonths.ago I bought of John
A. Hoyden, a 2 inch Thimble Skein IUed
Biont wagon anil have used it pretty much
ill the tune and it has proved to be a firt
rate waon. Nothing about it has nivcn
away and therefore it has required no re
fairs. T. A. Walton.
SalisbchYj. N. C.
Sept. m'h. 1886.
1s months ao I bought of the Agent, in
Salil,urv, a in Thimble Skein Piedmont
wagon tlieii lijjhteut onc-liorse natron I
have krjit it in almost constant use ami
'Junior the time h ive hauled on it at least
f? loads of wood and t'i:it wiritoul any
Make Your Own Hoom.
The New Orleans Picayune com-
ji 'lf
citing oil .remarks made by the More-.
oase Seutmei, says : i
men
house
Morehouse parish is one of the best
in North Louisiana. The land is rich
and the people are industrious, honest !
, xt
and I intelligent No people are j
uttijic ,io muse uv tii uvi cjp
j.1 rnt il i I
themselves. There are in the parish
magnificent forests of timber, while the
soil is capable of producing everything
the people can need. They have an op
portunity to make themselves inde
pendent if they will use the means
j - hcj cijnmi6 nMuui-u w
sustain man and beast, and instead of
spending all their energies on cotton
tl,em only make cotton as a cash
croP wnne attention is paiu to tne
vestment of capital or places to live will
always avoid a- dead community. It
will not do to sit still and lament dull
times. The only hope is in the mani
festation of a proper energy. Get up
and go to work on a new line if the
old routine fails. This is the age
of hard work and small pay. Then
work the harder. Make your own
lx)om."
1 :
This is terse, and to the point,
will do for us as well as them. If
display energy and enterprise we
sure td attract attention, and the
It
we
fire
re-
suit will lie such a
boom
as we
have
! nivpr li;nl
TAXES.
List-Takers and Assessors Duties of
Boards of Commissioners Under the
New Law.
The following sire the provisions of
the law p;issed tvt the recent session
of the Genera) seinbly in relation to
the appointment of ILst-tiikers and as
sessori :
Section 2. The Board of Commis
sioners of each county shall, at their
session held in the month of April, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty
seven, and every fourth year thereaf
ter, appoint three discreet freeholders
in each township, who shall list and
assess the real and personal property in
said township ror taxation, lheselist
taliers and assessors shall ascertain the
true value in money of every tract or
parcel of land or other real estate, with
the improvements thereon, and person
al pmperty, and assess the same in ac
cordance with said valuation. Said
hoard of list-takers and assessors shall
nir't't at some place in their resiiective
townships on or before the second Mon
day in May, and elect one of their num-
her chairman. The board is hereby
authorized and empowered to adminis
ter oaths in alheases necessary to obtain
full and correct information concern
ing any taxable real and personal
property in their respective townships,
so as to secure a proper assessment of
said property: The assessment, when
made, shall be in force until altered as
may be provided by law.
Sec. 3. The board of county commis
sioners shall have power to appoint oue
or more list-takers and assessors for
years in which there shall be an assess
ment of property, for any town or city
in their respective counties having more
than two thousand inhabitants, and
one or more list-takers for such town
or city for the years in which there
shall not be an assessment of property.
Sec. 4. The board of county commis
sioners shall, at the time of the ap
pointment of Hie "list-takers and asses
sors, issue a notice to thorn, summon
ing them to meet at the county seat on
the first Monday i.i June, for consul
tation with the board of commissioners
for the purpose of taking such action
as will secure uniformity in the assess
ment of the real and personal property
throughout the county.
Sec. 5. Each township board of list
takers and assessors shall advertise in
tive or more public places in the 'town
ship, immediately after their appoint
ment, notifying all tax-payers to re
turn to said list-takers and assessors all
the real and personal property which
each tax oaver shall own on the first
day of June requiring said return to be
J , i i
r a
made to said list-takers ami assessors
during the month of June, under the
pains and penalties imposed by law.
Each of s;ud list-takers and assessors
shall attend at two or more places in
the township for the purpose of listing taiuly be doubted if a fleet could peire
and assessing the property. - j trate. As a variation on this plan, the
Sec. 0. The board of list-takers and substitution for the oil in such a system
assessors shall make return of their as-'of pipes of gas, natural or nianufactur
sessnients to the board of county com- 'ed, is described. The air surrounding
missioners on er before the first Mou- the vessels could, be, charged with
day in July, and annex the following enough gas to form an explosive mix
afhdavit, subscribed and sworn to before t ure, which would ignite from the
- - i
:l iust ue o tie neaee. who shall certify
Hi.- same :
e, th.'lisUak.
in-
:is.jojsors
of
. township of
.county, make oathf that the
foregoing list contains, to the best of
Qurno edg(?- tbc
nnd peinal property required by law
to be assessed in said township, and
that we have assessed every tract or
If1 of 5ind; ?f ttbr ref! and I11-
al property, at its true value in money,
anJ have Jndeavowl to do equal jus-'
tlce to tne mimic ami to tne tax-payer-
ii
era concerneu.
Sec. 7. The chairman of the board of
list-takers and, assessors of the several
townships shall compose a hoard of
equalization for the county, and shall
meet on the first Monday in July,
The chairman of the hoard of county
commissioners shall be chairman of
' said board of equalization, and shall lay ble on such short notice being employ
before the board of equalization the re- ed. This includes the fleet of harbor
turns of the list-takers and assessors, and river vessels of every type, the
Said board shall equalize the valuations scows and floats of the larger sizes, tng
so that each tract or lot or article of pen- boats, and even canal barges. .;, Extem
soiial property shall be entered on the porized torpedo systems might" be pro
tax list at its thie value in money, and, vided. Neither should it be forgotten
for this purpose they shall observe the that we are but a few hours from Pitts
following rules : burg, with its supplies of iron and steel,
I. They shall raise the valuation of and that timber in eudkss Quantity
1 such tracts or lots of real property as,
in their opinion, have been returned VV ith these existing resources, we be
below their true value, to such price or lieve much could be done within the
sum as they may believe to be the true stipulated time. What we wished to
value thereof. elicit was an organized plan for utiliz-
II. They shall reduce the valuation of ing these ready resources only,
such tracts and lots or articles of per- Now, owing to the action of Con-
sonal property is, in their opinion, gress in providing large appropriations,
have been returned above their true it seems probable that the creation of
value, as compared with the valuation a navy is but a question of a few years
of real or personal property of such for us. The action of this Congress
county. In regard to real property, will doubtless influence its successor.
they shall have due regard to the rela-
tive situation, quality ofsoil, improve-
nient, natural and artmciai advantages
possessed by each tract or lot
ill. They shall not reduce the aggre
gate value of the real or personal pro
perty of the county below the aggre-;
gate value thereof, us returned by the
assessors.
Sec. 8. The board of countv commis
sioners shall allow each list-taker and
assessor such" compensation as said
board shall deem just and proper for
each day actually engaged m the p.r-
iomiance oi nis nuues; saiu . ooaru oi
county commissiouers shall also allow '
a- mm.:
each member of the board of equaliza
tion such jierdiem for the number of
days actually engageiMn the perform
ance of his duties as the said board of
county commissioners may deem just
and proper, and in addition thereto,
mileage at the rate of five cents for each
mile necessarily traveled in attending
the meeting of the board of equaliza
tion. The per diem and mileage allow
ed, as provided in this section, shall be
paid by the county.
Sec. 'J. The board of county commis
sioners shall, annually, at their April
session, excepf in the year when there
shall be an assessment of property, ap
point one competent person in each
township to list all the lands therein at
the valuation assessed on the same, and
all personal property in sajd township.
Said board of commissioners shall allow
such township list-takers such Compen
sation for their services as the board
shall deem just and proper, for the
number of days actually employed, or
engaged, to be paid by the county.
See. 10. Each township list-taker, ap
pointed under the authority of the pre
ceding section, shall advertise in tive or
more public places within the township,
immediately after his appointment,
notifying all tax-payers to return to
him ah the real and personal property
which each tax payer shall own on the
first day of June, and said returns shall
be made to the list-taker during the
month of June, under the pains and
penalties prescribed by law. Each
list-taker snail attend at two or more
places in each township for the pur
pose of taking a list of property for
taxation.
The Defence of New York Within Thir
ty Days.
We recently suggested a problem for
solution the defense' of New York
Harbor, and destruction of 1 a fleet at
tacking it, all operations to be com
prised within thirty days. A number
of communications have been received
in reference to this subject, but very,
few of the writers have fully appre
ciated the conditions. The thirty
day limit hits , been generally over
looked. One writer describes a gunboat with
turrets, protected by rollers, intended to
deflect the balls. Another proposes
submarine boats. Various more or less
elaborate plans for establishing fortifi
cations are suggested. Some plans suf
ficiently novel and ingenious may be
especially noted. The utilization of
the oil stored in largo quantity about
mxr city is proposed. Pipes are to be
laid under the waters of the harbor and
bay, and are to be provided with open
jets. On the approach of a hostile
; Heet, oil is to lie forced out through the
I . i : i.
proper lines of pipe, so as to confront
or surround the invader with floating
oik Ity fire boats or projectiles, the oil
is to le ignited. A sea of fire is thus
'produced, through which it m:ty cer-
boiler Ii res or tne snips tnemselves.
' I no iZiv mu
wo
old
overcome and
reader insensible the crews, if it attain-
ed such proportions in the atmosphere.
The barges and other such vessels, some
writers suggest, should le loaded with
stooe and ink an side of the
channel, so as to narrow it. Thechan-
nel thus narrowed could be filled with
torpedoes. A fleet entering the harbor
JuM necessarily come directly over
them, and could then be blown up. A
circular floating battery rotated by the
tangential discharge of water, and car-
i i .
ry"g comoinea wood and steel turrets.
is another siicreestion.
But as will be seen from this resume,
the full problem has not been grappled
with. The port of New York was to
be assumed in its present condition.
Within thirty days the defense was to
be organized, only the material availa-
could be sent down the Hudson River.
and soon the United States may be a
rival of England in the production of
ironclad ships of war and torpedo boats.
Scientific American.
How Postal Cards are Made.
To follow the process of making the
postal cards one has only to climb up
to the highest building on the hill,
where in a back room, a crowd of girls
snrf. thp rocs that, have inst coiin in
from tlje diff .rent rag collectors. The
girls cut off aU the buttons, take off
the buckles, and sort out the rajrs. The
sorted rags are placed in a chopping
machine which treats them like sausage
meat, and after making the old dresses
and trousers into squares and triangles,
too small for even a baby's crazy quilt,
it whiffs them into another machine,
where the dust is shaken out of them
and they are cleaned. From that on
the life of the rags is a succession of
baths in chloride of lime and other
bleeching and cleansing chemicals,
with occasional visits to vats and rips
through sets of sharp knives and fine
toothed rollers. Finally the many
colored rags come out in a nice white
mush that looks like thin flour paste.
This is shaken over wire to get the
water out of it. and put through a few
score rollers ami a glue bath before it
conies out as postal-card paper.
At the end of the long rolls that have
been squeezing it dowli thin enough
and putting the pale gloss on it the
long sheet of postal-card paper, several
yards wide, is either cut up into sheets
21x30 inches, as it is rolled up, four
postal-cards wide, to lie put on the
automatic presses that print from a
Iroll. Each sheet will soon lie forty
postal-cards. VV hen the paper has
been calendered it is taken from the
paper-mill, a few feet, to the postal
card factory. In the big room of the
postal-card factory are a dozen men,
t wo dozen girls, a Urge Campbell press,
four small cutters and a big cutter,
stack of boxes, large tables, and a web
of gearing ami belts overhead. The
sheets arc taken to the press, where
two feeders feed forty-one a minute
1,700 postal cards every sixty seconds.
The postal-cards are printed from steel
plates so hard that there, is not a. file in
the factory than will make an impres
sion on them. Each card has a sepa
rate steel plate, and the eighty that are
needed to make the impressions on the
two sheets are wedged in the end of the
press. The plates come from Wash
ington, and last two years without re
newal. The sheets of postal-cards are carried
from the press a few feet to the feeders,
who are women with long experience
at their work. They are paid 4 1 cents
per 100,XX, and can feed from 500,
(XX) to 000,000 a day. The sheets jus
they come to the feeders have previous
ly been cut into long slips one card
wide and ten long. The women feed
them through another cutter that
turns them out separate cards. Three
girls take the cards from one feeder,
one girl counts' them to see that twenty
five are in each package, and the other
two put paper binders around the pack
ages. In a press a feeder feeds double,
or two sheets at a time, and can feed
lour sheets at a time.
After leaving the girls at the fe ding
machines the postal cards are in bun
dles ready for sale, just as they look in
a country postottiee. But before ship
ment they are boxed. Twenty pack
ages of twenty-five each are put in a
pasteboard box that by contract must
be muslin bound. Five girls put on
the muslin binding and are paid fif
t?n cents tor binding 100 boxes.
Other girls take the packag s of cards
and put theiikin the boxes, which are
then ready for shipment. No smaller
orders fh;in 500 are filled. Orders of
10,000 and over are put ip in wooden
cases, the largest single package lieing
1kx that holds 2jJU0 card.s A
Sun.
WONDEEFUL, IP RELIABLE.
A Process Which will Revolutionize the
Art of Steel Toolmaking.
Washington, March 24. Two Ker.
tuckians one of them a blacksmith
recently called at the Navy Depart
ment and announced that they had
discovered a process of treating steel
which, if their claims are borne out
by the facts, will practically revolution
ize the art of steel tool making. They
did not divulge the nature of the inven
tion further than to intimate that it
related to the chemical bath in which
the tool is imraerged in the tempering
process. The callers asserted that by
their method of treatment the com
monest grades of metal, such as shear
or cast-steel, could be tempered, in the
matter of hardness and toughness, as to
fully equal the best grades of tool steel.
An ordinary pair of cheap cast-steel
scissors could be treated, without dis
connecting the blades, so as to cut
and hold an edge as well as the best
English tool shears.
An experiment was made on the
blade of Secretary Whitney's pocket
knife, with the result that it was pos
sible to cut or whittle Ian ordinary
steel key without apparent injury to
the bhwle. Moreover, the results of
the treatment are asse.ted to be so
under control that it is possible to
temper steel to any degree of hardness
or toughness that may be required by
the use for which it is intended. So
impressed was the Secretary by the
claims of the inventors that, after con
sultation with the chief of the Bureau
of Ordnance he decided to permit the
process to be tested experimentally at
the Washington navy-yard. Commo
dore Sicard accordingly ordered speci
men bars of steel to be prepared, and
and the experiments have already be
gun. Xenophon.
Xenophon was an Athenian wboliT
ed about four hundred and fifty yur
before Christ. He was a celebrated
general, historian and philosopher. He
was a learner at the school of Socrates
and counted as one of the most gifted
desciples. The life and the teaching
of the great philosopher haie been giv
en to us by the writings of Aenoybon
and his sober and practical style give
a good idea of the original. Qiiintiliai.
a iioman orator ana critic savs or am-
onhon : "The Graces dedicated his-lan
guage, and the Goddess of persuaeiou
dwelt inion his lips."
His style wiw pure and sweet. axw-T he
seems to have been a man of elegant
tastes and amaeible disposition as weU
as of extensive knowledge of the- vnkL
Perhaps his greatest exploit as a gen
eral was the leading of the Greek truops
across the mountain ranges and the
plains of Asia Minor. This was after
the battle of Cunaxa, where the young
er Cyrus was defeated and slain. Xen
ophon hiul joined this expedition against
the brother of Cyrus, Artaxerxe Men
onion, with ten thousand Greek tnxips.
After the defeat many of the Greek
leaders were treacherously murdered in
the Persian camp. The Greeks were al
most in despair. They were two thou
sand miles away from home, siirronndwd
by enemies, and the only way or reuvut
lay across mountain ranges, deep and
rapid rivers and broad deserts.
It seemed as if fatigue and starvation,
and the hostility of those whom they
must encounter would effectually pre
vent their return to their native land,
but Xenophon roused them from their
despondency, rallied the forces, and
they began to march. It was a time of
great suffering, for they had literally
to fight their Way. But when they
reached a Grecian city, after untold cr
ilt it was found that of the ten thou
sand led forth, eight thousand six hun
dred still remained.
During the latter part of his life at
Cornith, having been expelled from
Athens, though the decree of banish
ment was revoked, he never re
turned. His literary work was perform
ed during these later years. Of all his
writings, his Anibasis has been pro
nounced the most remarkable. It is a
work giving an account of the nations
of the interior of Asia Minor, and of
the Persian empire and its governmeiit.
He died at Corinth, in his ninetieth
year.
INFORMATION
MANY PERSONS
at this sramm
auffer j'rotti
f cither
IIeadaehet
Jfeuralglmt
Ith eumatistn,
r.iin.i in ths
I.imbs, Hack and
Side; Had Jiltxtd,
'Indigestion , lypeia,
Malaria, Const i pat inn Jl hidn ,j Trouble.
- VOLINA CORDIAL CURES RHEUMATISM.
Bad Blool anl KWiwy TronM. bjr cleansing ttto
blood of ul I iuluipurttivs, aircBfthcniDg all frU
of the lody.
-t VOLINA CORDIAL CURES SICK-HEADACHE,
Nrnraliria, Pain In the Uuifon, Back and Side, by
touing tuc nerves and strengthening the muscles.
h VOLINA CORDIAL CURES DYSPEPSIA.
rndigertlon and Constipation, br aiding the awlm
llutinsrofthe Food through the proper actttia of Ik
stomach ; it creates a healthy appetite.
i VOLINA CORDIAL CURES NERVOUSNESS,
Depression of spirits and Weakness, Ly enliven
tug and toning the eyfctem.
-h VOLINA CORDIAL CURES OVERWORKED
and IVlloaff Women Punr and Sickly Children,
it is di li'htful and nutritious as a general Tonic
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The Greatest of Great Walls:
Says a correspondent of the Milling
World, who has recently been travel
ing in China: Of course we had to go to
the great wall of China. This country
abounds in great walls. Her mural de
fenses were most extensive walled
country, walled villages, walled palaces
and temples wall after wall and wall
within wall. But the gre .test of all is
the great wall of China, which crests
the mountain range and crosses the
gorge from here some forty miles away.
Squeezing through the hut deep gorge
and a deep rift in the solid rock eut out
by ages ol rolling wheels and tramping
feet, we reach the great, frowning,
double bast ion ed gate of stone and hard
burned brick one archway tumbled in.
This was the object oi our mission, the
great wall of China, built two hundred
and thirteen years before this era; built
ot well hewn stone, laid in regular
courses some twenty leet high and then
topped out with hard burned bricks,
filled in with earth and closely paved
on the toy with more dark tawny brick
the ramparts high and thick and cas
tellated for the use oi arms. Right
and left the great wall sprang far up
the mountain side now straight, now
curved, to meet the mountain ridge,
turreted each three hundred feet a
frowning mass oi masonry. No need
to tell you of this wall: the books
will tell you how it was built to keep
the warlike Tartars out twenty five
feet high by forty thick, twelve hun
dred years it kept these hordes at bay,
nor mat, in tne main the material used
upon it is. just as good and firm and
strong as when put in place. Twelve
hundred miles of this gigantic work
Uult on the rugged, craggy mountain
tops, vaulting over gorges, spanning!
suemis netting tne nver arcn
ways with huge hard bars of copper,
with double gates, with swinging doors
ana oars set thick with iron armor a
wouder in tive world before which the
eitl time classic seven wonders, idl gone
now save the great pyramids, ware toys.
The great pyramids have 8TTU0OjUU0
cubic feet, the great wall (vi5(ji)t)UJl)(J0
cubic feet. An engineer in Stewart's
party here some years ago gave it as his
opinion that the cost of this wall, fig
uring labor at the same rate, would
more than equal that of all the 100,000
miles of railroad in the United States.
The material it contains would build a
wall six feet high and two feet thick right
straight around the globe. Yet this
was done hi ouly twenty years without
a trace of debt or bond. It is the great
est individual Labor the world has ever
known.
Prof . Kost, who is conducting a geo
logical survey of Florida, is making
smuc very remarkable discoveries.
The professor ha& made a report in
which he tike the position that Flor-
-
uia was not .dwavs a mere peninsula
Ages ago there was uo Mexican gulf.
From what is now the northern and
eastern shore of the gulf an area of
land stretched over the Antilles all the
way to Veneznela. The theory of the
geologist is that this tract of land rest
ed on no very solid foundation. Upon
innumerable cond columns, sea weed,
drift wood, and mud and sand from the
lulls of Georgia and Alabama, washed
and lodged for hundreds tf years, grad
ually forming ""a lake of lakes, moras
ses, sand beds, subterranean rivers and
enormous springs, ebbing and How ing
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Or.tWrprn K is Anr xrm In pay fhat I think I am er.tir ly well r,f frrw! n' haa
teken Swia'n Siuecilic. i jtv been tnuhll with it v.-ry hulc in my far ittw la4 atansv;
At lln- betriunin" of "ll weather U- tail it mjde a Iil;UI :i.pearanc. bat went aw aliJ
nas itever returned. 8.S.S. ihiUimiU lrokc it up: at hml it put my Kyatent iuifl miwiiiirti
stmI I if well It ali-o benedleal uy wife 'W-atly n i-a f nick UeatlachV-. uud I. ..!- jrlc.
tune .if a breaking t on my liul three year oiU l;iu;'tii-r la.- Mirnm. r.
WassUswviQe, Us,, Feb, IS. 1HW. Ii". J.O.Lo . -I. G...
Treatise Oil liiuxi and SLia Iieaacs maiWJ free.
Tan Swift Specifk; CVv . Iirawit 3. Atlanta, Go. -
with the tides of ocean."'
Concerning the inhabitants and deni
senaof this prehistoric land little is
known. Fossil revelations suggest
enough to satisfy the wildest imagina
tion. Prof. Kost says;
On the borders of these waters of
bays and rivers there grazed a unique
monster, semi-reptile fish, allied to the
present juanatea, but vastly larger, and
which existed in immense herds. In n
great buy that extended up northward,
between the Ocklockonee and Sope
hoppy rivers, these monsters also a n
ot heir coaster, the charc harodon exist
ed in amazing numbers, so that mom
there are depths of phosphate, deposits
there exceedingly rich in jhosnborio
acids, all afforded by marine and am
phibian animals. In these deposits
their fossil bones lie iinbedded:in great
numbers. But the times were .turbu
lent, as these bones were broken in
great fragments, there seldom being
pieces of more than two or three. pounds
weight. In Alachua comity, especially
in the south port, thereof, there was a
rich savanna, herded by the rhinoceros,
mastodon, camel, horse, ox, lama and
goat. Among these were-harboring in
the tangles of chapparul, cactus, palms
and divers vine, a tierce species of the
lion, and a variety of the leopard, tiger
and hyena, that were ever watching for
their prey among the smaller of the
laud animals. A very large bear also
was common.
But an earthquake period made a
wreck of this beautiful land. Shock
and volcanic convulsions shattered the
plateau, sending the fragments into the
sea, and leaving a few mountainous
islands and the projecting strip now
known as Florida, iso much for what
pwas perhajyie. tthe- fairest portion of the-
olii oouth nfljwri -ttfcua ages ago. remaps
a gieat civilbtatioci went down in the
teiiitH-;d wreck. lVis-siblr the ruins of
stately cities strew the bottom of the
Mexican gtlf. Who knows ? Atlanta
Comfit utiiMtL
A happy home is the brightest spot
ll ill S - i
on eart a tnai tne eye ot i looks
down on. Love and peace in his home
send sunshine around a man wherever
he goes; disorder and troulUe there is
misery everywhere. There are few
worries of which a man cannot how
and then shake otf. bat who can shake
himself free from the skeleton in the
closet, from the worry in the household,
and the blister on the heart? A day
will tell how many a man carried that,
without wincing, down to the grave.
When . a husband and wife are help
meet to each other in the best sense,
(worn wwer. tuvr auuwuutw piau
in the hkseT then the. man who has a
when order, love and jjoodness prevail
hard battle in life to fight can leave his.
straggles behind him when he enters
there. With all our faults, we are the
! most home loving of people, and that
i is- the reason why we are the greatest of
I 1 11'! . I I 1
people. Whatever helps home-life, is a
national blessing; whatever hurts home
life, is a national curse; and the greatest
curse that can't touch these blessings is
what would tamper with the home.
Oue of the finest kuatitieft in a hu
man being is tliat line sense f delicacy
which renders it iutpossilde for him ev
er to be an intruder or a bore.
A young man in Louisville, Ky., was
choked to death while kissing a girt
That girl had evidently not been kissed
for some time.
Goods.
J. ROWAN DAVIS.
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