North Carolina Newspapers

r ENTRAI H "A A G. K. GRANTHAM, Editor Render Unto Oaesar the Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. $1.00 Per Annnru,.in Advance VOL. II. DUNN, HARNETT CO., N C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1892. NO. 31. IIMES. Three patents on electric locomotives ! electric railway systems, applica for which have been filed since L-' .! 1, 1SS0, have just been issued to :.'..u:us A. Edison, t - There are four times as many words ia ; ! muage as there are in the Freaca : i, yet, a philologist estimates that the ,n ol new words in our tousrue oa at the rate of one hundred aaau- i '. 2 rapid growth of the habit of so : v an 1 temperance is, in the estima . ! f the Chicago Herald, one of the .: v teristics of the American railway v-;.je, the me of, intoxicants becoming r-.' ;nd more the exception, sltho ugh s ti-l to be the rule in the English cj. It was a subject for commeat Kngiish railway publicatioa receat- ; it the 5000 laborers employed in u win;; the grade of the Great West . !U ilroad were not allowed to refresh :i clve? during working hours with :,:'.tiug stronger than oatmeal water. 1 Xov York courts have just ren- i -x uecisioa which, the Detroit Free i , believes, will be of inestimable j.' if it shall be accepted as a pre-i-ill i;i other States or even regarded ,ii luiiy in the light of a warning. The '-. !).-. i"s Memorial Association having 1 1 to erect it statue at the World's -.It t'i the late Mrs. Hamilton Schuyler t i v .ical philanthropist," the family J tlio association to desist from its ; il jsia. The association ' persisting, j i : iiUy took the matter .into court i 1 association has been enjoined ).u carrying out its scheme. The i .. .;. 1 uf the decision is that family it i veness is entitled to consideratioa 1 1 h it uobo ly has the right, against i'j Fii'nily. protest, to even do honor, or n it is intended a? such, to a deceased i-.iiibcu of the famiiy. Ti c Washington Star maintains that : j: rent problem of the centuries has a. .. A j ' r at 1 (1 iraiisnoriaiion. rrom me aawn f history man has struggled to get him !f aud what he needs acro33 river3, i-se-rts, ficas and oce?.ns. It is a ques- iun of burdeu and, more than that, a jucstion of skill. Without means of ran?portatio'.i mm would never have fen civilize I. As the older civilizi- ions u-c J the shoulders of the people litid the cruder forms of invention to ranspori materials for temple3 and pal :ccr, ;ri I the backs of beists of burdea r art icle? of commerce, so more modern ;vili. itioa? with their increasing and t i l. t n . n - u':kt warns nave eveatuauy, niter a vimnu cvoiuuou, ueveiopea me steamer t i l the railway. This very generation tseit h i; suen the beginnings of the rail ' l I as something more tha a local icdtr for local ports, and the last saw In- iir-t locjiuotive draw the first train -ifcirs. Much of this almost incredible i n.'!t's has been witnessed ja the United it According to Poor's Manual J t r:y-as al the close ot last year 1VU, miies of track or 43.6 per cent, ol ;the w mM's total with only one-sixth of Karoje"s population. The value of the as (K in ) wis $10,590,605,000. ltailrofls constitute the third industry of the l'nite-1 State?, the first and second being agriculture and manufactures. Thc-e are facts that show the wonderful devtjupmcut of the httter part of th nineteenth century. A Washington correspondent says: The ini its will have plenty of work dur ing th" coming year, without any new k'gUl ti.:i to cjmpel additional coinage. Theiieiuml for the minor coins the bronze one cent pieces and the nickel t.vet, coutinue to keep the Philadelphia mint buy, notwithstanding the coinage of about t ,''.t!000 of these pieces aa nu illy for the past four years. Orders for them continue to conie ia from the variom sub-treasuries, and the mint at I'hila it lohia is unable to catch up with the orderi. The constant expansion of the business of the country makes the the demand a growing one for this and :dl ot.RT forms of money, and will prob ably soon require a more extensive coin age at the other mints. The mints at Nw Oilcans and Sin Francisco, as well a3 that of Puila lelphia, are worViag earnestly to recoia the worn subsidiary silver which is carried oa the treasury bojks, into quarters and dime3. There is no demand for the half dollar piece3, and there are plenty of them ia the Treasury, besides the 10,000,000 ot them which it is proposed to issue for the World's Fair. The coinage of silver dollars has not entirely ceased, notwith standing the suspeasioa of compulsory coinage by the silver act of 1890 aad the decision of Secretary Foster not to con tinue the coinage of $2,003,000 per month without necessity. There is a demand for a certain quantity of silver each year when Ahc crops are moved, and a certa'u margin is also required at the s'lb-tieisuiies to meet occasional de mand? aad settle balances. political World. Candidates, Conventions. Nomina tions. Elections. All the News of Political Movements of the Four Parties. Full returns from Vermont give Ful ler (Rep.) for Governor 39, 190: Smalley. (Dem ) 19,526; Allen (Pro.) 1,650. Judge Geo. T. Werts was noniiaated for Governor by the New Jersey Demo cratic convention last Wednesday, in spite of his letter saying he would not accept it. His friends have induced him to yield. The Massachusetts Republican State convention at Boston 5 - s j lv- Cimit'on for Governor, Lieut Gov. Haile. "The Democrat nf K -Ha-r-rmA v;- ugiuia district at Norfolk nominated for Con gress D. Gardner Tyler, of Charles City couuty. The nominee is a soa of ex President Tyler, aud was born ia the Nf uue nouse. The Democratic Congressional Con vention of the Ninth riU iiof ntRJrmin. ham. Ala., nominated Lewis V. TurnTn XDLJlI E. STEVE27SOX. Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson speke to large audieuces last week at A6heville, Raleigh, Charlotte and Winston. COLUMBIA CANAL IN A TANGLE The State's Sale of the Canal and the Probable Results. Columbia, S. C The State of South Carolina spent-years of time and thousands of money i uild Dg a canal around the fall atColumbia. The primary object was, we believe, to improve and extend navigation. Subsequently plans were changed, and since the war the purpose has been to develop a water power aud couduce to the development of manufactures. Sev eral j ears ago the fctate grew tired of the undertaking and sold out te the city cf Columbia. About year ago the city seld out to one Eretus Flood aud associat s, of New ngland, the entire canal, fran chises, privileges and immuuities. But when Flood and his associates had purchased the canal aud settled for it, they soon found that all available mill sites were owned by local parties. Amongst the responsibilities of the own ers of the canal was a statute compelling its extension to Granby. Those lecal partus who own the land between the present terminus of canal and its pro posed lower terminus have been threat ening to bring suit to compel the owners to extend the canal through their latdte Granby as required by law. But' sud denly it is found out that the Stata for meily owned all the land from the head of the oaaal to Granby ; that the State never sold these Usds but simply sold a usufruct interest in "them, till needed fof canal purposes. The present owners aver their readiness to comple'e the canal to Granby, but demand that they now need the land, the title in fee simple for which comes to them with their purchase of the canal with "all rights,' privileges, im munities, etc." A week ago the local land company felt that they had the canal owners bot tled up. At this writing the canal own ers have the whip handle, if their alle gations are true, and th prospect of a big lawsuit is substituted for Columbia's immediate prospect of one or more large cotton factories. A DESPERADO KILLED. In Resisting Arrest He Is ShotDown. Expires as the Sheriff is in the Act of Handcuffing Him, Nobfolk, Va. Saturday night Dep uty Sheriff T. J. Jackson, of Norfolk county, was called upon to raid the gambling hsuse on Western Branch. One of the parties made his escape, but was recognized on the road the following morning by Jackson and placed undtr arrest, but resisted and s'ruck the officer s powerful blow en the left cheek, stun ning him for the instant. The nfgr , who was a desperate man, ran away, and as soon as Jackson recovered he fired at the escaping man three times. The ne gro rin about seventy-five yards and hid behind a stack of fodder, where he wi s overhauled by Jackson. Heclnhu'd to have ben shot, but the officer not be lielirg him put a pair of handcuffs on him, who almost immediately fell to the ground and expired. Jacksen no itied the authorities A coroner's jury heard the evidence and brought in a verdict in accordance with the facts stated. It is reported that the deputy sheriff will be arrested. North Carolina Schools. Raleigh, N. C The annual report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction was made public. The re ceipts were $775,450; the expenditures $761,000. Of the latter, $39t,000 were for wh'te tuition and $59,003 for the school houses; $194,000 for the colored tuition and $21,000 for the school houses. The leceipts arc the largest on record, being $61 000 greater thin last year. The reports show that there are 3S6,000 white and 212,000 colored children of school age; total, 598,000. The value of school property is $790,000, and 6,990 schools were in ope atioj. TbiWoria'i Fair hu almdj uwly sifl.1 riUilcSi. COlt ' ' THREE STATES' BRIEFS. Telegraphic Dispatches From Many Points of Interest. The Fields of Virgina, North and South Carolina Carefully Gleaned For News. VIRGINIA. A rat flooded the office of the People's Bank at Charlottesvilleand drowned it self by gnawing a hole in a lead water pipe. Thirteen Syrian iramigraats, holding first class tickets for Suffolk, Va., via Norfolk, were stopped at Cape Charles and turned back to New York whence they came. A carload of Norton's Virginia and Ives wine, nearly 3,00 Jallons, was ship ped last -week from Charlottesville to New York by the Monticel.o Wine Company. Dr. Taylor, who was sentenced in Wise couuty to death for murdering the Mullius family, has been taken to Lynch burg to avoid lynching. A rule has been granted by the Court of Appeals against the town council of West Point, to show cause why they arc not in contempt in refusing to assess property of the Richmond & Danville Railroad Company at that point.. Bees are reported to be dying in Char lotte county for want of blossoms, result ing from the severe drought. A B. Clay, of Chesterfield county, has on hi j rarm a stalk of cora fifteen feet three inches high. He is goiag to stnd it to the State Exposition. It is the tallest stalk of corn ever rsised in that ccun:y. NOBTH CAROLINA. Hon. Donald MacRae, of Wilmington, died 1 hursday at Lenoir. He was a iicector of the North Carolina and Wil iington and Weldon railroads. W'uston's fifth tobacco warehouse was opened. ReTenue officers have seized a big gov ernment distillery in Yadkin county, owned by A. E bhore. It was for a vio la ion of the law. The plant is announc -ed to be sold. Gov. Holt was absent from Raleigh during the Stevenson reception, attend ing ths burial at Reidsville of Mrs Williamson, his wife's sister. Raleigh ladies gave a festival last .v ek to aid the Confederate monumeat, .ir.d raised $000. Mrs. Virgiuia Madison has been jailed in Tarboro on the charge of kiDing the new-born child of her daughter, Rosa. SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston has quarantined against New York . Two terrific cyclones passed through Newberry county list week, destroying much property. Tli2. D. Jervey, a veteran merchant ,t;id prominent man, of Charleston, died i.ist 'vcak. The digs of the city wer lowered to ha'f mast a3 a mark of mourn :og. In the second Democratic primary of i lie Second Congressional district Talbert, (Alliance) defeated Tillman. Attorney General McLauria is proceed ing against several phosphate companies for selling fertilizers, analysis of which by the State, showed to be one-half sand A Sumter company i3 the first on the list. The Creosote Lumber & Construction Co , of Feroandia, Fla., is engaged on an order for creosoting 600,000 feet of yel "low pine and 60,00 ) feet of oak, to bt used in the construction of the govein nient dry dock at Port Royal, S. C. OTHER STATES. Montgomery, Ala. Thomas II. Watts, cxGovernor of Alabama, and At torney General in the Confederate cabinet died here at 3 o'clock Friday morning after tcveral weeks illness. THE CLYDE FACTION IN CONTROL. The Richmond and West Point Ter minal's Status Fixed. Fichmond, Va. W.P. Clyde and these in sympathy with him are now in full control of the Richmond and West Point Terminal Railroad and Warehouse Com pany. At the general meeting of the stock holders the ticket proposed by what is known as the "Calhoun factioa" was de feated as were also rcsolutioas which Mr. Pat Calhoun trud to have passed. Ever since the meeting held here was called there h.ve been two committees at work receiving proxies. The one beaded by Wm. E. Stron j represented the Clyde people and that of which Alex E. Otr was chairman represented the "Calhoun fac.ion' To-day the supporters sf Clyde controlled 400,122 shares of stoek, while the other 6ide had only about 17,00J shares to vote. The meeting was called to order in the Times Building at noon by W. G. Oak man, receiver of the company, and im mediately adjourned to the Exchange Hotel. W. P. Clyde was made chair man. The inspectors of the election reported the following gentlemen had received the vote of 400,122 shares of 6tock voted and they were declared elected directors: Wm. E. Strong, Geo. F. Stone, Wm. P. Clyde, J. C. McBeao, Alex S. VanNest, Thomas F. Ryan. Geo. Blagden, C. A. Law, R. G. Erwin, W. H. Goadly, Jno. N. Hutchin son, Jos Bryau, j Edward Packard, Jno. A. Rutherfurd, R. 8. Hayes, G. J. Gold, Thos. Manson, Jr., and Chas. McGhee. This was the ticket put up by the Clyde faction. The names of the per sons on the Calhoua ticket were not nveu out. They received the ote of about 175,000 shares. The meeting adjourned to the 26th of October. Build Canning Factories. While the past season has not been al together favorable for the farmers and canncrs in Botetourt county, Va., the latter have found a stronger demand and readier sale for their output than was ex pected. Altogether over 50,000 cases of canned corn, tomatoes and okra will be made in the county by some forurteen canners. This indurstry seems to have taken a good hold w herever tried and should become more general. It is a benefit to the fatmer and to the town in which it ii located. ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. State Alliance Elections East and West. News of the Order From Various Points. The Alabama State Alliance met in convention at Cullman. The following officers were elected : B. W . Grace, pres ident; Merrill, of Randolph, vice-president; S. M. Adams, State lecturer: T. J. Carl sle, of Pike, assistant lecturer; W. I. Brock, secretary and treasurer; Elder tuackwell, of Madison, chaplain; C. C. Lee, of Barbour, doorkeeper; G. W. Jones, assistant doorkeeper; King, of Butler, sergeant at arms. The Maryland State Alliance elected as officers for - ensuing yer president, M. G. Ellzey, of Howard county ; vice president,J. W. Kerr, of Caroline county; secretary and treasurer, T. Canfiell Jea kins, of Charles county; State lecturer, Frank II. Jones, of Caroline county. Execu tive committee : Hugh Mitchell, of Charles county; N. A. Dunning, of Prince George's counry; Charles Gum, of Wor cester county. Committee on the good of the Order; E. S Heffron, of Caroline county; E. J. C. Parsons, of Worcester county; J. II. Downing, of Wicomico county. F. n. Jones and M. G. Ellzey were elected delegates to the National Alliance. Alonzo Wardell writes: I attended the State meeting of Missouri Industrial and Labor Union at Moberly, Mo., August 23 23. Had a good meeting. The old Hall difficulty has practically disappear ed and so has he, so far as the Alliance is concerned. The Ocala demands were fully indorsed. ; The national t id degree was adopted, and the officers were le- Susted to proceed at once to introduce it, oseph Miller, of G. anger, Scotland county, was elected president and J. Weller Long, Warrensburg, secretary; Larkin Wise, lecturer, and Brothers Wollard, Aldrich and Leenard were elect ed delegates to the supreme council. Missouri is in good condition and con be depended on for a big vote for Weaver and the Ocala demands. The new oflle ers are able, energetic and reliable, and will push matters. General Weaver made them a grand speech the evening ef the 23d. Coming Crisis (Colorado) reduces the national banking problem to ene para graph, and hits it right : Have you got a "bank" note in you pocket? Then know that somebody had to borrow it out of bank at the current rate of interest 10 or 12 per cent. Then know that your government made this bastard money especially for the poor bankers and loaned it to them at 1 per cent, per annum! And yet these bankers stick up their nose and tell you that the government cannot loan the peeple money at 2 per cent ! , CUBAN TOBACCO IN SOUTH CAROLINA. If reports be true there will soon be even stronger reasons for Cuban cigar manufacturers to move to thi? country than the high taxes imposed upon them by the Spanish government. It is said that on the Willcox & O'Neill phantatien at E6till, S. C, sixty miles frem Savan nah, Mr. W. P. Willcox has succeeded in raising some remarkable fine Havana tebacco from Uvclto Abojo seeds, waich is one of the best varieties grown in Cuba. Fifteen' acres were planted, but through insufficient knowledge of the proper methods' of cultivation and trouble with insects the crop was small. Even with these drawback-, however, the result have nettel nearly $100 per acre. With the experience gained by this trial Mr. Will cox thinks he can more than double his returns next year, and will give about seventy-five acres to it. The leaf has been examined by experts, who pre nounce it equal to any tobacco grown in Cuba. It may take some years to acquire a full knowledge of the methods most satisfac tery for growing Buch a crop, and the variety may change under the new condi tions of soil and climate, but the experi ment is well worth trying, and even though later crops should not be of as high a grade as this rirst'one, they will mora then pay the expense of cultivation. A careful study of what is needed, coup led wi.-h the ' judicious use of suitable fertilizers, shouldat least aid in prevent ing any material change in quality sr value of the leaf. Goaded School Boy Avenges Himself. A Vienna cablegram says: At Tarnpol,ia Austrian Gallicia,a school boy named Schwedt, exasperated beyond endurance by the harshness with which he had been treated by a Prof. Glowacki,sh A the pro fessor dead as he was leaving the chss room. Glowacki was noted for his severe trea men t of the children under his charge. Schwedt theu shot himself through the head, dying ins antly. 'Guilty, But Drunk. NAsnviLLE, Tenn. The case of Jo seph Smith and J. H. Lockhart, sheriff and deputy sheriff of Warren county Ala,, charged with the larceny of $ 2,000 worth of diamonds from a New York drummer, while in Nashville, were "noil ed" in the ciiminal court. The defend ers admitted their guilt, but said the robbery was committe 1 while they were in a drunken frenzy. A Fr sight Train Kills Them Both. Lyxchbvrg. Va. Frank Martin, of Lynchburg, and Joseph VanCleves, of Lexington, Va , both in the employ of Wm. Snead & Co., contractors of this city, were struck and instantly killed by a freight train near Green wav, a station on the C. & O. railroad. The remains of the unfortunate men were brought here. Director Leech, of Washington, his or dered from the Philadelphia Mint, in addition to large orders of small coins, 200.C00 new half dollars for circulation ia Washingtoa during the veterans' en camproe t. Treasurer - Nebecker is also prepared with large orders of small notes. Chicago brewere have formed a $6,-v 000,000 combioo to purchise local ftlfitm. CHOLERA IN NEW YORK. The Dreaded Disease Within The CitadeL A Number Dead and More Stricken. Precautionary Measures ' Taken. New York City. Fiva deaths in this city from Asiatic cholera were an nounced by the Board of Health. This is ine list oi tnose known to have died of Asiatic cholera : THE DEAD. Name. Age. Died. Charles McAvoy 35 Sept. 6 William Wiegman 52 Sept. 10 Sophia Wiegmaa 63 Sept. 11 Minnie Levinger 1 Sept. 11 Charlotte Beck 81 Sept. 13 Each has been reported by the attend ing physician as suspicious, but no no tice was given out uutil the nature of the disease had been definitely determined by a bacteriological examination, which delayed announcement of the presence of cholera. In but one case is these a clue to the possible origin of the disease. Four Hungarian immigrant? who arrived from Antwerp on the Friesland on Aug. 29 lived for several days in the house where Mionie Levinger died on Sunday. None of the Friesland's passengers were ill, but the vessel was disinfected and detained about forty hours. The city authorities express confidence that they will be able to keep the disease from spreading, and the announcement of its presence in the city does not seem to have created public alarm. The health inspectors have reported another case of cholera. The victim, Mary Connoly, 16 years old, residing at 692 Second avnue, has been removed to the St. John's Guild Floating Hospital at the foot of East 16th street. Two sus pected cases were found in Brooklyn. A young German girl, whose name could not be learned, residing at 56 State street, was one, and Simon Colinski, of North Ninth street Williamsburg, the other. The German girl died in a few hours. She had been ia this country siace last February. THE NAVY CLAIMS HIGH HGN0RS. Lieutenant Peary Discove-s Independence-He Travels 1, 300 Miles Inland--Loss of Mr. VerhofF. Washington. D. C. Lieutenant Peary, who with his party arrived at St. Johns, N. F., from the Arctic regions, after an absence of 12 months, has telegraphed the Navy Department from St. Johns that the" United States Navy claims the highest discoveries on the e st coast of Greenland Independence Bay, 82 de gress .latitude, 84 degrees W. longit ude, dlscoveredJJuly 4, 1892. Greenland Ice Cape ends south of Victoria Inlet. St. John, N. F , The steamer Kite arrived here from McCormack harbor af ter 12 months in the Arctic regions bring ing with her Lieutenant Peary, with his wife and party. All arc safe and wel', with one exceptiou. Lieutenant Peary made a stage journey with dogs of thir teen hundred miles over the interior ice, which he found available. He was out 9 J days and returned all right, August 4. He made importa&t discoveries, con firming his thory. Mr. Verhoff, the meteorlogist of the party, went on a two days' geological trip to a neighboring settlement Fail ing to return at the end of that time, the party started after him, but found no trace of him. For six days, the entire party seirched for him. On the sixth day they found. some minerals placed by Verhoff on a rock and traces of his foot steps to a large, wicJced -looking glacier, and here all signs of him were lost. No signsjofthe missing man were found and they were ferced to believe that he had me . his fate in one of the numerous crevasses. The expedition was a great success. Amsng Lieutenant Peary's discoveries, was one of a great bay, latitude, 81.37, longitude 41, opening outeas:and north east, which he named Independence Bay. in honor of the day, July 4, and the great glacier flowing north into it Acad emy Glacier. . WISE WORDS". Women's jars make men's wars. A womaa's tears are a fouatain of craft.. The cuaaing wife make3 her husbaad her apron. Women laugh whea they can aad weep whea they please. Truth travels ia slow boats whili hope and fear run ia slippers of light, niag. Ia maturity reasoa sometimes bailds a palace out of the ruins which the passions of youth have left. A little depressioa is more favorable to improvemeat thaa much coraplaceacy. Better pass through life droapiag with self-distrust thaa trip along elated witl a globule of gas in the braia. Prejudice is iatellectual aad moral im purity disturbing the balance of our faculties with a personal bias. It mixei our ignorant error and wilful desire witi what should be kept cleai aad free foi the troth. Disagreeable duties are better doni with quick resolve by a generous impulse of devotion than with careful delibera tion by a dogged perseverance. Whei one has to take au emetic it : a great economy to swallow it at one heroic gulp and not dribble it down in successiv disgusts. Rectitude is the normal condition foi religious peace; certitude the normal condition for iatcllectaa! coateatmeat. Rectitude is the regulation of personal conduct by the standard of univeria good. Certitude is the complacent re pose of the mind ia conscious union witi its object. The coal mine of Flenu-les-Mon, In Belgium, arc of jrreat depth, and a lecect urvcy has shown that rich veins .t ?ct At dnth of 3200 metre?, f -KtAh sis to be woikedia future, DOWN IN A SALT MINE. WHAT MEN DO THESE A THOU SAND FEET UNDER GROUND. Solid Masses ot Salt Broken Up by - Blasts HauliuR the Salt by Mule Power. " "X cr7"DEN tne signal for the car V to descend sounds, the first thing to do is to hug your hat down on your head for keeps, and by the time you have got that act accomplished it seems as though 'you were going down at about the rate of a thousand miles a minute. You have seen one streak of greased lightning chase another well, it's no comparison. It seems as though the cablo has been cut, and you are just dropping down to the bottom. You can't see, and the only thing" to be heird is that terrible roar of the air as you rush through space. Af ter the first two or three hundred feet there is a feeling it would be hard to ex plain, sort of a goneness as it were, and you don't carr much whether school keeps or not, and the changes are so dif ferent and varied that one begins to wonder what will come next. When near the bottom the car .on which you are riding begins to slow up, and tben comes the most peculiar ex perience of all. You imagine that you aro shooting upward, and you will soon be among the stars. You can imagine the sensation from going down at the rate of about one hundred miles a minute to going up at about seven times that rate. Finally the car lands at the bot tom of the shaft, and you breathe a sigh of relief as you step out. Well, the first thing you do is to look for salt; it's there, all around you, above, beneath, on all side, but it don'c look much like salt near the bottom of the shaft, as lights are burned constant ly aad the smoke has blackened the walls. You look away to the east, through a long, dark tunnel, and you discern in tho far distance some flicker ing lights, and you . are informed that they are lights used by the workmen who are engaged in mining the salt. Your guide steps up to a man near where you land and says 'Three light3, please," and three tallow candles are handed out. It may seem a little strange that tallow candles are used in this age of kerosene, gas, and electricity, but such is the case, nd they are the only lights used in the mine, and each man carries one, and they are hung up from the ceiling where the miaiag of salt is going on, aud they are the handiest tights that can be used. They don't purchase these lights by the dozen or huadred, but by the cartload. ' The candles were lighted, and with them in hand we followed the guide and (proceeded to make a tour of the mine ; we might add, a partial tour, for it would take a person something like a week to walk all over tho mined terri tory. We followed the guide along through dark and winding pathways, until we reached a point where the workmen were busily engaged mining tho salt. They were not at work with picks picking it out, a3 might ba sup posed, but were breaking up the large lumr3 and ahoveliag it iato the cars, tho salt having been blasted out ahead of them. While some were engaged iu shoveling the salt, others were drilling holes into the solid mass, making ready for a blast, machines ruu by compressed air being used for this purpose. As before stated, the main tuunelruns directly cast, and is nearly a half mile in lensth. Near the shaft two other tun tela bronch off from the main tunuel, one on either side, and run parallel with J. Theae, wc believe, arc termed air shafts. From these shafts rooms branch off both noith and south, and in these rooms is where the salt ismiued. Thesa rooms are nothing more nor lc3s than 'short tunnels, and ia time will probably be lengthened out as far as the main tun nel, or even further, as they can go miles in any direction aad still be in the salt. The roms are, perhaps, twenty or thirty feet wide, and from seven to eight feet in height. A section of salt some thirty feet in thickaess is left betwcea each rcom as a support to the solid mass above. A thickness of five or six feet is left above as a roof, and a substantial roof it makes, as the 6alt in its natural state is almost as hard as rock. There are no other supports than the columns of salt that are left. OT "ihese rooms mentioned' there "are fifty or sixty at the present time, and the workmen arc distributed about, working in several rooms at a time. There is no necersity of a foreman in each room, as the number of carloads of salt delivered at the shaft tells the tale as to whether the men aic shirking their duty or not. A railway runs through the main tunnel and branches extend in all directions. Tfco cars are -hauled from the several rooms by large, powerful males, and there are some thirty of these in the mine. There is a b'.acksmith's shop iu the mice where the tools are repaired and the mules are shod, and there is also a large stable where the mules are shel tered during the night. OI course they would be well sheltered iu the mine, aay wsy, but if allowed to ream about they could Cod nothing to cat but salt Hid thi niiroid track, nad the average mule cannot exist oa a diet of this kind. This stable i far ahead of the ordinary stables about the country, aad there is every convrnicnre aad luxury for his mulcship. The stablrs arc some forty or fifty feet ia length and twenty or thirty feet wide, with wood floor and wooden stalls and manners. Thh is the only combustible fu'jsfancc .ZriC's about" file mine, and there ?.re ro 7jcsod lights any here about it. Directly i:i the rer of the ftables i? w;r.l h kno-xr. so the baru- j-tru. i ms is iig- room cut in iub eo'.i-l -al fc-.'i here the miles are turned . ut fer r;rup'.'rsticn. One 3ity imagine thnt a salt mine is a bad plare to T.crk, bai aside from the lact iht ii is i little dismal, there arc ro bd features about it. Unlike a coal mine, i: s clem, snd thr-re is almost an even :c:pei.Mre tVo y:ar rcuad, rang-,n-r: frc uf!i tight fagitz to tixty de gieri, 7isitr tvA sunnier. The TatU anoa is periecr , ana tne system -for sup plying fresh air is not excelled by any mine in the world. In some of the pas sageways the air rushed through with such velocity as to extinguish che lights. The experience in going up the shaft is somewhat different from that while going down. The signal is given from below after you have been salely sta tioned in the car, and away she goes, your hat sinks down firmly oa your head, and your clothing seems to sit right down tight where it belongs. A person who is a little weak in the knees would also have a teadeacy to 6it right down tight on the bottom of the car. The roar of the wind as you hustle up toward daylight is about all that can hi heard. When near the top the speed i lessened, and it is then that one m agines that he is going dowu again at thet rate of about 1000 miles a minute, but finally the daylight begins to pce. down at you and you are landel sareiv oatop, oaly a few second having elapsed since you walked upon the car be!o Geneieo (N. Y.) Democrat. The Sullen Hamster. As the squirrel wa? slid by tha old Norsemen to brine; all the news of the merriest and most sociable of beasts, so in the talk of the Russian peasants the hamster is the synonym for all that ii sullen, avaricious, solitary and morose. Evea ia color he is unlike aay other aaimal, being light above and dark be low. This gives the hamster somewhat the same incongruous appearance that a pair of black trousers aad a light coat lend to a man; ia other respects he ii like a large, shaggy guinea pig, with very large teeth aad puffy cheeks, iato which he can cram a vast quantity ot ry or beans for transport. " Each hamster lives in a large, roomy burrow all by himself, in defense ol which he will fight like a badger against any other hamster who may try to enter. Family life ho wholly avoids, nevet allowing a female inside his burrow, but keeping her at a good distance aad mak. ing her find her own living for herself and family. The last burdea is, how ever, aot a serious oae, for by the tim the young one3 are three weeks old each discovers that family life is a great mis take and sets off to make a bachelor bur- row lor itseit aaa save up Deans ror tas winter. or, in aaaition to its oiner amiable qualities, the hamster has that of avarice ia a marked degree, aad heaps up treasures of cora, rye aad hor3e beans far ia excess of his own private wants for the winter. His favorite plan is to dig a number of treasure chambers, all com municating with a central guard room, ia which the owaer eats and grows fat until the hardest frosts begin, whea he curls himself up to sleep until the spring. But this life of leisure does not begin until the harvest has been gathered. While the crops are ripening, the hamsters work incessantly to increase their hoajrds, and as much as three hun dred weight of grain and beaua have been takei from a hamster's burrow. After harvest the peasants often search with probe3 for the treasure chambers of the robbers, and during the present scarcity ia Ceatral Europe they will no doubt exact a heavy tribute from the hamsters' stores. Spectator. Apricot Paste. Apricot paste, known as Karnar eT Dine, is, together with dried apricots, one of the principal exports from Damas cus. The fruit, when gathered, is crushed in a kind of large iron wire sieve, and the thick juice which results from this operation is collected ia earth en vats, and thea spread oa planks cov ered with a layer of oil, where it if allowed to remain two days exposed to the air. At the expiration of this time tho paste is removed and turned. Oa the fourth day the paste is again re moved, and it then has the appearance of a band of leather, very thin, and of a reddish-brown coior, about a yardand a half long and half a yard wide. This is the finest quality of paste. The same operation is repeated onc3 ot twico to obtain a second and third quality, each time a little water being added to th residuum of the former operation. The bands of paste are then folded so as to form buadles of about five pounds weight, which are sold accordiag to quality. Scieatific American. VanderMlt's War. A writer in the Figaro throws ao In teresting light upon Mr. Vanderbilt's method of buyiag pictures. Tha mil- i lionaire, it seems; went oace to Meisson ier and asked him which ' of his works was, in his own opinion, his chef d'ouvre. ' Meissonier answered: "The Chess Play-' ers." Whom does it belong to?" was Mr. Vanderbilt's next question. ."To Herr Meyer, of Dresden," was the an swer. That very night Mr. Vanderbilt dispatched a secretary to Dresden, who went straight to Herr Meyer and de manded to know his price. 0,000," replied-the owner, thinking that he had' effectually frightened his interrogator. "I take it," said the secretary to the, great astonishment of Herr Meyer, aadi take it he did. Pall Mail Gazette. - asy Way lo Biuore nint. It is very seldom now that you see a painter buru off old paint with a spirit lamp or torch, though there are still a few that stick to the old method. Th easiest way to clean paint off wood, ot evea metal, is to mix lime aad Balsoda pretty thickly in water and then apply treely with a brush. After a short time the paint can be scraped off without difficulty. Auy amateur can use this re ceipt, or!y a little care i3 advisable, as the mixture will remrc sStiu from the hnnds or face evea more rapidly than it will remove paint from wood or uietah New Yoik journal. In Philadelphia new milk Is g I en fre to 3 1 who ask for it, and is ditributed 'rum u tent betweea 11 and 3 o'clock. There were 1300 railroad. accHeati ia Kw Jvnej lut jar.