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VOL V
LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUG. 14, 1891.
NO. 15
II lilt III III III
Professional Cards.
f. fauj. J. (jojtaw,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Offers Lis profession a 1 serviceto Uie
citizens of Lincolnton and surroun
ding country. Room at O. A. Ram
eanr'a. Office at J. M. Lawing'a
drug store. All calls promptly ats
tended to.
Aug. 7, 1691 ly
lias located at Lincolnton and of
fers Lis services a.i physician to the
citizens ot Lincolutou and surround
ing country.
Will be round at night at the res
idence of B. C. Wood
Mulch 27, l9i ly
BAET.LETT SHIPP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
LINCOLNTON, N. C.
Jan. 9, 1891. ly.
Finley & Wetmore,
ATTYS. AT LAW.
LINCOLNTON, N. C.
ill practice in Lincoln and
surrounding counties.
All business put into our
hands will be promptly atten
ded to.
April 18, 1890. lv.
if. m i- fiii .
SURGEON DENTIST.
OFFICE IN COEB BUILDING, MAIN ST.,
LINCOLNTON, N. C
July 11, 1890. ly
DENTIST.
LINCOLNTON, N. C.
Cocaine used for painless ex
tracting teeth. With thirty
years experience. Satisfaction
given in all operations Terms
cash and moderate
Jan 23 ?91 iv
GO TO
BARBER SHOP.
Newly fitted up. Work awaya
Leatly done, customers politely
waited upon. Everything pertain
ing to the tousorial art is done
according to latest styles.
HeNRY Taylor, Barber.
FOR DYSPEPSIA,
In dilution, and Stomach disorders, dm
BROWN'S IRON BITTERS.
All dealers keep It, fl per bottl. Ganuine baa
trade-mark and crossed red lines on wrapper.
FIGURES DO NOT LIE.
1 advertise the largest stock of FURNITURE in the State, and the
lowest Drioes of any dealer North or South. I shall prove it by figures.
READ THESE PRICES.
A Rattan body Baby Carriage, Wire Wheels, on'y
Genuine Antique UaK uea xtoom duu pieces;
Walnut Fraaae Wool Plush Parlor Suit (6 pieces)
Antique Oak Sideboard, with large glass
Standing Hall Racks, with glass
Antique Oak High Back W ood Seat Rockers
ilexicaa Grass Hammocks, large size
llosquito Canopies with Fiames ready to hang
Bamboo Easels, 6 feet high
Ladies Rattan Rockers
Antique Oak Center Tables 16 in. square top
Holland Window shades, Dodo Fringe and Spring Rollers
PlatforafSpring Rocker (carpet seat)
Sterling Organ, 7 stops, Valnut case
tf.noKn.r Pionn CI flrturea TT.hnriTr mca
1 have just put m the Furniture for
ceiving orders from all over norm aDU oeutn uarouua uauy.
Or, ft nri trt all and that the lowest ksown. is mv wav of doing bust
ness. Jf you buy an artiele from me
sented, return it at my expense ana get yonr money uac.
"Write me for Catalogues.
E. M ANDREVS,
Leading Furniture and Music Dealer,
14 and 16 West Trade St. Charlotte, N. C.
yim . . ..iii.a ...L. MMMj.i. iihilihii"'"' .mm ii mi iwi i u iiuiuii i ( I i mi jiiu mmmmamm.
for Infants
'CmMtHM to to well adapted to ch&fceii tfe
I recommend It aa ruperior to any preacrijjtk
kaown to mo." H. A. achu, M. D.,
Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, M. T.
"The use of 'Castoria is so universal aad
IU merits no weU known that It aeema a work
of rupcreroiration to endorao it 1 f 6
IntelURent familiea who du not keep Caona
within easy reach."
CuaLoa Maetw, D. D
New fork City.
Late Paetor Eloomindale Baf onaed Church.
fjf CawrAC
OCH YSRT BIST PBOP1I
Confirm our statement when we eay that
Dr. Acker's English Remedy is in every
way buj erior to any and all other prepar
ations for the Throat ni Lungs- In
Whooping Cough and Croup, it ia magic
and relieves at once, We oiler you a sam
ple bottle free. Remember, thia remedy is
old on a positive guarantee. Dr. J. M.
Lawing, Druggist.
Try a cloth wrung out from cold
water, put about the neck at night
for the sore throat.
Itch on human and Horses and all ani
mala cured in 30 minutes by Woolforrts
Sanitary Lotion. Thia never fails. Hole by
J M. Lawing Druggist Lincolnton, H C
North Carolina furnished more
troops to tbe war and had more
killed and wounded than any other
State in the Confederacy. And they
were the best, bravest and most rea
olute. News Observer.
DO HOT SUFFEtt ANY LONGFU.
Knowing that a cough can be checked in
a day, and the stages of consumption bro
ken in a wee, we hereby guarantee Dr.
Aker's English Cough Remedy, and will
refund the money to all who buy, take it
as per directions and do not find our state,
ment coirect. Dr. J M Lawing, Druggist
m - - 1 . I r t .
j.iy au extra pan ut oiw&augjj
outside of your shoes when travels
lug iu cuiu wcaiuei.
NOW TRYTHIS.
It will cost you nothing and will surely
do you good, if you have a cough, cold, or
any trouble with throat, chest or lungs.
Dr. King's New Discovery for consump
tion, coughs and colds is guaranteed to give
relief, or money will be paid back. Suf
ferers from La Grippe found it just the
thing and under i'-s use had a speedy and
perfect recovery. Try a sample bottle at
our expense and learn for yourself how
ood a thing it is. Trial bottles free at
1. M. LawiDg's drug store. Large size at
50c and $ 1 00.
Try walking with your hands be
hind you if you find yourself becomi
ing bent forward.
Wlio Is Your Ilcwt FrieiMl?
Your stomach of course. Why? Becaus
if it ia out of order you are one of the most
niserablo creatures living. Give it a fair
lonorable chance and see if it is not the
)est friend yo i have in the end- Don't
moke in the morning. Don't drink in the
norning. If you must smoke and drink
wait until your stomach is through with
ireakfast. You can drink more and smoke
nore in the evening and it will tell on you
lees. If your food ferments andl doe3 not
ligest right, it you are troubled with
Heartburn, Dizziness of the head, coming
on after eating, Biliousness, Indigestion.or
iny other trouble of the stomach, you had
psbuse" Green's August Flower, aefs no
person can use it without immediate relief
Try a silk handkerchief over your
face when obliged to go against a
cold, piercing wind.
THE FIRST SYMPTOMS OF DEATH.
Tired feeling, dull headache, pains in
various parts of the body, sinking at the
pit of the stomach, loss of appetite, fever
i-shness, pimples or sores, are all positive
evidence of poisoned blood- No matter
how it became poisoned it must be purified
to avoid death. Dr. Acker 'a English Blood
Elixir has never failed to remove scrofulous
or syphilitic poisons Sold under positive
guarantee by Dr J. M Lawing, Druggist.
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three (3) large Hotels and am re
and it does not oome up as repre
and Children.
CMtorU eartm OoUe, Caotttt
Sour Stomach, Diarrnosa, Eructauoo.
Kiilm Wona, flT aUep, aad promotoa Ox-
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your ' Catoria, ' and shall alwaya continue to
co ao as It ba tnTariably produced beneficial
result."
swn r. PAnnsm. M
"Tbe WlntJbrop," 135th Street and 7th Are.,
New Tork City.
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IV E DO NOT liHTOW now
Mr on WE LOVE.
BY FINLEY JOHNSON.
We do not know how much we love
Until we come to part,
How strong the tendrils are that bind
An object to the heart ;
The tree,beneath whose branches we
In infancy have btrayed,
The flower8,the friends of early youth
With whom we oft have played,
Are things o'er which we mourn and
grieve,
.In pleasure and in pain,
As memory brings them back to us
From out the past again,
We linger still amidst the scenes
That we have loved ao well.
While recollections fond and pure
Within our bosoms swell ;
And to their shadows still we cling.
Even while they do depart;
For memories that we thought bid
Come crowding on the heart ;
And though the star of hope may shed
Its beams ui)0n our way ;
Yet "Farewell" 'a a bitter word
For those who love to say.
N. Y. Ledger.
New York Ledger.
MADAME ROLAND.
by James parton.
1XCEPT Charlotte Corday and
Marie Antoinette, none of the
female victims of the French
Revolution excited so much
interest and compassion as Madame
Roland. It was she who on the
scaffold bowed to the colossal statue
of liberty near by and said :
0 Liberty ! how many crimes are
committed in thy name !"
These last words ot a biave and
gifted woman have been since a
thousand times repeated and have
become domesticated, as it were, is
;;il languages.
Madame Roland, born at Paris in
1854, was a daughter of an engraver
iu extensive business. Of seven
children she was the only one who
fiurvived infancy, bat she possessed
vigor enough ot mind and body for
a family. , There has seldom been
f ,o precocious a girl. She tells us,
in her memoirs, that at four years
of age she read with so much ease
that nothing more was necessary
than to supply her with books, and
that she read all ordinary books
without having to refer to her par
ents. Her father was neither a
wise nor a good man ; bat he took
so much pride in the remarkable
talents of bis child that ne provided
her as liberally with instruction,
both in the useful and the orna
mental branches, as if she had been
a little princess.
All the day, she tells us, was em
ployed with her masters, or in pres
paring for their coming ; and as this
abridged her time for their reading,
she used to get up at five in the
morning, when a profound stillness
reigned through the bouse, and
steal softly without her shoes to her
mother's room, where her darling
books were deposited, and there she
would read and stady until break
fast time.
With all this passion for learning,
she was an obstinate and proud lit
tle body. Particularly, she revolt
ed against personal chastisement,
and gave her father, she says, many
a good bite when he whipped her.
She lefased one day to take some
nauseons medicine, and her father
attempted to whip her Into a com
pliance with tne doctor's prescript
tion. Two severe whippings iaiK
ing to accomplish the object, her
father prepared to administer a
third. All at once, she relates, her
tears ceased to flow, and the whole
force of her being wan concentrated
in the resolution to submit jto deith
itself lather than yield. Sne pre
sented her back in silence and
awaittd the crnel strokes without a
sob
"My lathei says she, "might
have killed me on the spot, but he
would not have drawn irom me a
single sigh. I experienced the
same inflexible firmness that I have
since felt on great and trying occa
sions ; nor would it at this moment
cost me more to ascend undaunted"
ly the scaffold toan it then did to
resign myself to brutal treatment,
which might have killed but could
not conquer me.'1
.Her mother, beeing her resolu
tion, drew ti6f husband from the
room, and put her daughter to bed
Returning at the end ot two hour.,
she implored her with tears to take
he medicine. The girl took the
cup and swollowed the medicine at
one draught. It a few minutes, na
ture itselt rose iu rebelion against
the noxions compouud and cast it
forth. She was but seven years of
age when this scene occurred, and
fiooi that lime she never received
a blow ; and her father discovered
tlinr, with so intellig6ut a childj
kindness succeeds better than vio
lence-
At an early period of her life, at
tacked by the picturesque ceremo
nies ot the Catholic church and the
gentle piety of the nuns of a neigh
boring convent, she became ex
tremely religious. She was weaPed
from the faith of her ance9sore, as
our Franklin was, by reading con
troversal writings. The arguments,
she says, which were quoted by
Catholic authors in order to refute
them, let her into the secret of the
objections usually brought against
the faith, and, instead of being cured
of her doubts she was confirmed in
them. From being a devotee, she
became a deist. In due time, also,
by reading the liberal authors of her
country, she became au enthusias
tic republican, and was prepared to
weleome the Revolution before it
came.
She grew into a young lady ot
commanding beauty, and many of
fers were made for her band. When
she had refused several matches,
which her father thought advanta
geous, he became a little impatient.
"TeU me," he said, one day, "who
it is that will suit you V
"Tell me, also," she replied, "why,
iu bringing me up you taught me
to think and allowed me to contract
ha hit 8 of study. I know not what
kind of man I shall marry. 1 know
only he must be oae who can share
my sentiments and to whom I can
commnoicate my thoughts." .
"But there are business men
naid her father, "who possess both
politeness and information."
"Yes," she replied "but not of the
kind I want. Their politeness con
bists in a few phrases and bows, and
their knowledge relates to the cash
box, and would little ass:st me in
the education of my children."
"You might educate them your
self," said the father.
"Hard would be the ta8k,r she
answered, "if not snared by the
man to whom they would owe their
existence. I conceive that the
stiictest union ot hearts is necessas
ry to happiness in marriage. My
husband must even be my superior ;
for since both nature and the law
give him mastery, I shonld be
ashamed of him if he did not really
deserve it."
"You want a lawyer, I suppose'
said her father. "But women are
not very happy with tho66 learned
gentlemen."
"Afon Dieul" she exclaimed "I
do not judge a man by the profes
sion he follows. I want a man I can
love."
Such conversations were frequent
between herself and her parents
They had educated her, in fact, to
such a point that no man whom she
was likely to meet would satisfy her
affections. Chance, however,
brought to her abode at iength a
gentleman and a scholar, John Ro
land ; a man of considerable learn
ing, respectable birth and moderate
fortone; who held a post under gov
ernment. After her first interview
wirh him she thus described him in
a letter to a friend :
"I beheld," she wrote, "a man
somewhat more thau forty years ot
age, ta 1, negligent in his appear
auce, and w th that kind of stiffness
in bis manners contracted by study.
His person was thin, his complex,
ion yellow ; his lorebead, sparingly
furnished with hair and very open,
did not injure the regularity of his
features, which, however, it renders
ed more respectable than pleasing.
When he became animated in con
versation an extremely subtile smile
and a lively expression which pre
vaded his countenance made him
appear quite another person. His
discourse, fall ot facts irom a ueaa
aboaoding in ideas, occupied the
judgment rather than flattered the
ear,r
Iu other word", he was a bald,
ungainly and studious old bachelor,
and very far from being worthy tbe
love of such a woman in the prime
of her beauty. She respected more
than she loved him ; but their ac
quaintance ended iu marriage, when
he was forty-six and she twenty
six. To this respectable mau she was
at once secretary, nurse and wife,
undifound a certain happiness in
the punctual discharge of her du
ties. The Revolution broke out. R.
!and was elected a deputy to pie
sent Lyons in the National Assem
bly at Paris, where he sided at first
with such radicals as Mirabeau,
Danton and Robespierre, who met
four times a week at his house
Called, at leugtb, to the Ministry
of the Iuterior, he bad a play which
was full of difficulties and danger.
It was during bis ministry that tbe
massacre of the 10th of August
took place, and of that massacre he
became the apologist.
"The people," he said, "I know
are terrible in their vengeance, and
jet there is a kind of justice iu their
vengeauce."
He did, however, try to save the
life of Louise XVL, by attempting
to have the question of bis death
submitted to the people. He de
sired to stay the f ary of tbe ex
treme revolutionists and stop tbe
thedding of blood; but he had
neither the nerve nor the command
i ig character needful at the crisis.
Dissmissed from the ministry, he
Lid from Paris, leaving his wife be
l ind him. No one then supposed
Mat her life or her liberty was in
t anger. Sbe, indeed, during the
f rst years ot the Revolution, was
t ie pride and boast of theextrem
i -ts. Her writings in the journals
it favor of tbe Revolution were
s nong tbe most popular of the
t me. But when her just and be
nevolent soul recoiled from tbe at
r )citie8 of Marat and Robespierre,
8 le fell under tbe ban, and a frivo
lous pretext was found for her ar
T3St.
During the five months of her de
tention, she was wonderfully cheer
ful and composed. She passed her
me in writing her memoirs, and in
a-inistering to the wants of the
poor wretches around her, who had
nothing but the prison fare. Sbe
denied herself coffee, chocolate and
wine, lived upon the plainest fare,
a ad appropriated tbe money thus
saved to her fellow-prisoners. She
was resolved not to be subdued by
h-jr confinement.
'If I remain here six months,"
said she, "I will engage to leave the
place with a bloom upon my cheeks
and a body not emaciated ; for I
have reduced my wants so that I
cau thrive well upon bread and
soup and tne blessings of the mis
erable."
After a ridiculous pretense of a
trial, she was condemned to die.
Her first thought was, as she says,
to spare her country the shame ot
another judicial murder by taking
opium, and thus terminating her
own existence. But, upon reflection,
deeming this unworthy of her, she
resolved to meet her fate. She was
carried to the place of execution up
on a cart. There was one prisoner
in the vehicle with her a man, who,
however, was less a man than she.
She confronted the hootiogs of the
populace with more than serenity
with cheerfulness and so raised
the drooping spirits of her compan
ion, that a smile at last appeared
upon his countenance. Sbe begged
him to ascend the scaffold first, that
be might not be afflicted and un
manned by tbe spectacle of her
deatb. But this the executioner
could not permit. Sbe asfced, also,
but in vain, permission to write, in
order that she might record tbe
feelings she had experienced and tbe
thoughts she had conceived while
on her way to the scaffold. Her
last words bave been given above
and a few seconds after she had ut
tered thdm the ax of tbe guillotine
severed her beautiful head from her
body.
Her husband had an ignoblerend
A few days after tbe news reached
him of his wife's execution, he left
the hou3e in the country, in which
he had loug been concealed, and,
drawing a sword from bis cane, he
placed the handle of it against au
apple-tree and pressed tbe point
t; nough his heart. He was found
the uext day eittiug upon tbe grass
a id leaning against tbe tree in so
nitural au attitude, that the passer
by at first supposed him to be asleep.
The .only daughter of this ill
starred pair survived the horrors of
tl e Revolution, and was afterward
happily marred to one of their
frieuda.
Keep a Scrap Ilcok.
I advise every boy and girl to
keep a scrap book. If you are ten
oi fifteen or twenty years old keep
a icrap book. Let me tell you why
ai.d now: Huureds ot things you
set) that you would like to keep, but
if you lay them away you will nev
er be able to find them when you
w;mt them, When 1 was a ooy I did
net have sense enough to keep a
scrap book. I begun some but did
net keep on long with them.
My memory was good, but I can
now remember many thrngs tbat I
cs.n't remember. Wdat that means
is this: I remember reading a
beautiful piece of poetry, of which
two or three lines I can call up, but
tie whole I can'c recollect. In
seine cases I do not know the name
of the writer.
I have seen many fine pictures in
magazines and papers that would
now be valuable and interesting.
Souielcut out, but tehy are lost.
Ciarming stroies, wise remarks,
P'overbs, directions for doing a
great many useful and curious
tt ings are also lost.
So much do I feel that I have lost
tl at I would give $50 apiece for the
scrap books of each time 1 was ten
ti.J I began to preserveathibgs, only
a few years ago.
There is a gentleman who has
kept scrap books since he was
euht years old. He is now forty?
acd has been arranging them in
volumes, with an index in tbe back
of each one. You wculd hardly
thtnk tbat tbe earlier woild be of
much use to him. But they are.
He often amuses himself as he reads
them for he sees how little he knew
when he was little ; but also finds a
little tbat he thinks valuable. Be
sides, his children are mnch inter,
ested to see what their father had
collected and pasted in books. The
older he grows tbe more useful tbe
books become. He can go to his
books and in a few minutes get in
formation about everything tbat
has happened iu hU whole life tells
you about the civil war, tbe Cri
mean war, the Italian war, tbe
overthrow of Louis Nepoleou, and
many other things just as they
were published in tbe papers at the
time the event happeued.
His scrap book also coutaius many
funny things, which provoke a
smile and often a merry laugh as he
reads them to his family in tbe long
winter evenings. Tbe children
would rather hear him read from bis
scrap books than from tbe newest
story.
If you have no scrap book get one
and put in it whatever pleases you.
If you bave one and have not used
it take it up again. I assure you
that you will be very glad of it af
terward. If I can persuade you to do this
for twenty years, or even bait that
time from now, jou Mill feel that
you have learned something valua
ble from this article. Christian Ad
vocate.
SPECIMEN CASES.
C. fl. Clifford, New Cfctsel, Wis., was
troubled with neuralgia and rheumatism
hi) stomach was disordered, hi liver was
affected to an alarming degree, appetite
fell away, and he was terribly reduced in
flesh and strength, lnree hottles of elec
tric bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, liarrisburg, 111. had
running sore on his leg ;f eight years'
standing Used three bottles of Electric
bitters &ai seve.i boxes of Bucklea's arni
ca salve, and bit leg is -ound and well
John Speaker, Catawba, O., had five large
fever sores on bis leg, doctors said he was
incurable. One bottle ot electric bitters
and one box of Buclen's Arnica Salve
cared him entirely. Sold at J. La wing's
Drugstore.
Tbe Atlanta Constitution's n-ws
is as untrustworthy as its morals,
and it has tbe same idea of correct
journalism as it has of political prin
ciple. Greenville Aews:
Ciirloiift T'lilnga bo ut the
FasIhI Kerf ice.
A few days siuco we received a
copy of tbe Congressional Record of
Febsuary 21, 188'J. It arrived here
safely ou July II, 18'Jl, having beeu
but little less than two years aud
five months makiug the trip, which
reminds us tbat we have uow before
us a letter directed to tbe Winming.
ton Journal and mailed at Cbinque
pin, Duplin county, May 1st, 1S50
lliortf was f eeuta due as under tbe
old laws let tela could lu- njai'ed
without prepayment. Tins letter
was sent to Washington City, ab
through tbe direction to Wiluiiug
tou, N. C, was a plain as daylight,
and took a long rest in tbe archives
oi gravity iu that city. It was
mailed there June -'1st, aud was re
ceived here the uext day, June 22J.
The postmarks show this. Veri'y
tLis latter is a cuiious iustance of
what might be 8tled the idiosyu--f
the postal system. Wilmington
Review.
Little Pitcher Have Uig Ear,
Mrs. Bumptious (to Willie, visit
iLg Tommy) Don't you like your
bread and butter, Willie
Wil le Pd like it better if they
wuz jui ou it.
"I'm sorry, but we haven't any
jam, Willie."
"Why, what da you keep in them
jars V
"What jars!"
"Why, ma said you had more
tamily jars 'n auy other woman sbe
knew."
HAT TKKRI HLK CoTOU
la tbe uioraiQg, Lurried or tlitli-jult breatb
in.sx, raising phlegm, lihtiu s in tbe chest,
quickened pulee, chiliintfs in the twninU
or ewjats at night, h1 or any of these
things are the first stages o! consumption.
Dr. Acker's English Cough Keuiely will
cure these fearful symptoms, and is sold
under & positive guarantee by Dr J M Law
ing, Druggist.
Ueiuocratic Majority 20 OOO.
Louisville, Ky., August .'J. To
day's was the last election by a viva
voce vote tbat will ever be held in
Keutucky.
Tbe new constitution, despite its
powerful opposition of railroads,
banks and corporations generally,
was carried by au overwhelming
majority and tbe last state constitu
tion that still recognized slavery is
a thiDg of the past.
The new constitution will tax
railways, banks and stock com pa.
nie, provide for a secret ballot sys
tem and municipal government re
forms and also carries an anti-loti
try clause which will wipe out the
dozen lottery charters uow being op'
erated with semi-daily drawings at
Covington aud Louisville in the in
terests of "Policy" games through
out the United States.
Reports from tbe cities and towns
throughout tbe State indicate tbat
the Democratic ticket has abjut tbe
usual majority probably 20,000.
DR. ACKKR S EN'GLliFI I'!LL9
Are active, effective and pure. For Sick
headache, disordered stomach , lofrs oi ap
petite, bad complexion and biliousness
they have never ben equaled, either in
America or abroad. Dr. J M Lawing,
Druggist.
ortli Carolina9' Fiixt Coke
For ii ace.
The first coke furnace ever built
in North Carolina is under contract.
The Cranbury furnace now makes
coke iron, which it sells at a high
price In Pittsburg for Bessemer
steel purposes, but this furnace was
not originally for using coke. It is a
small furnace lutended for charcoal
iron. The new coke furnace, tor the
building of which a contract Lias
just been let, will be located at
Greensboro, and will be owned by
tbe North Carolina Steel and Iron
Co., of tbat city. The Manufacture
era' Record has often referred to
thin company and Mated its inten
tion to build a furnace to make
Bessmer iron, but it had so long de
layed the matter that many had for
gotten the organization of the com
pany. The building of this furnace
opens the era ot iron making in
North Carolina on a large ca'e, for
tbe iron ore wealth of tbat State is
so great that it must become a great
iron producing section. Manuafct-
urers' Record,