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Tire Liberty of -tire Press miist "be JEreser v ed. Hancock:. TERMS : $2.00 per Year 3 VOL. II. WADESBORO', N.l C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1882. NO. 4G. R. H. COWAN, Editor and Proprietor. Ak Txm:es Succeeds The Pee Dee Herald. TERMS : CASH IN ADVANCE. One Year :..$2.60 Six Months 1-00 Three Months 50 ADVERTISING RATES. One square, first insertion, 1 1 00 Each subsequent insertion, 50 Local '.advertisements, per line, 10 Special rates given on application for longer time. advertisement on Monday evening o ach treeit, to lnKure rnsruim w. ncit noun. i O B- THE "TIMES" HAS BY FAR THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER PUBLISHED IS THE PEE DEE SECTION. rKOFESSION AL CARDS. SAM J. PEMBERT0N, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ALBEMARLE, N. C. XW Attends the Opurte of Alison. T'nioii. Cabarrus, Stanlv, Montgonrv and Kowan, and the Federal Courts at Charlotte and Greensboro. JEl- Allen DENTIST, jjf- Office S. E. corner of Wade and Mor an streets (iA-ar the Bank.) 25-u. A. J. DAEGAS, J. D. PEMBERTOX. DARGAN & PEMBERT0N, ATTORNEYS A T LA W, - WADESBORO, N. C. fif Practice in the State and Federal Courts. AS. A LOCKHART, Att'y and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO, N. C. X2BT Pratices in all the Courts of the State. R, K. 4.ITTLE. W. L. PARSONS. Little & Parsons, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WADESBORO, N C. Collections promptly attended to. SAMUEL T. ASHE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. f Special attention given to the collec tion of claims. P. D. WALKER. A. BURWELL. Walker & Burwell, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will attend regularly at Anson Court, and at Wadesboro in vacation when requested , CYRUS J. KNIGHT, ATTORNEY- AT-LA Wf SWIFT ISLAND, N. C. Will practice in the courts of Anson and adjoining counties. -'31-ly HOTELS. WAVERLY H0TTSE, CHARLESTON, S. C. This favorite family Hotel is situated on King street, the principle retail business street, and nearly opposite the Academy of Music The WAVERLY under its new manage ment has recently been renovated and refur nished, and is recommended for its well kept table and home comforts. . Rates $2 and $2 50 per day, according to location of room. The Charleston Hotel Transfer Omnibuses will carry guests to aud from the House. O. T. ALFORD, Manager. YARBROUCH HOUSE, RALEIGH, N. C. Prices Reduced to Suit the Times. CALL AND SEE US. pURCELL HOUSE, WILMINGTON, N. C. Recentlv thoroughly overhauled and reno vated. First-chm. in every respect. Loca tion desirable. hoirr situated near all busi ness houses. Post-office, Custom House, City Hall and Court House. Rates, 2 00 and $2 50 per day. Our motto is to please. B. L PERRY, Proprietor. D. J. GASIIERIE, Proprietor. 53f Convenient to all the trains. A full stock of Groceries and Con fectioneries always on hand. CHARLOTTE HOTEL, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Newly Furnished and Entirely Renovated. Sample Room for Commercial Travelers. Terms, $2.00 per day. Special rates by the week or Month. F. A. McNinch,, Prop'r. 20-tf VENABLE WILSON, Manufacturer of Boots & Shoes. Fine Goods a Specialty. Repairing solicited. Work done with neat ness and dispatch. Call and see him, in the post office building. 2-1 y. J. C. Brewster & Co., RALEIGH, N. C. vv uoiesaie aim xveuui. Orders promptly filled, and at the lowest prices. 23-1 y TITl , , J T-i-l CHINA, CROCKERY, Glassware, Lamps, Table Cutlery, Plated-ware, Refrigerators, . and Tea Trays. RALEIGH, N. C, TV t v 1 : it DARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. HooMhold Article tor tTnlvermt T Tor Scarlet and M Tn.lli f Eradicates Diphtheria, SaU vatlon, Ulcerated Bore Throat, Small Pox, Ylesslets and 2 all Costa gioiu Dlsetuten. Persona waiting on the Sick should use it fredy." Scarlet Fever lias Merer bees) tnown to spread where the Fluid was used. Yellow Fever has been cured whh it after black Vomit bad taken place. 'The worst Cases of Diphtheria yield to it. redaixiStcKXVr I "ft't-mw and Bed Sores prevent ed by bathing with Darbys Fluid. Impure Air made harmless and purified. For Sore Throat it is a sure cure. Contagion destroyed. For Fronted Frit, PITTING of Small Pox PEEVENTED A member of my fam ily was ulcen with Small-pox. I used the Fluid ; the patient was not delirious, was not pitted, and was about the house again in three Chilblain. Piles, (liaflnKi, etc. RhrninatiKin cared. Soft Wlii to Complex ions secured by its use. Ship Fever prevented. To purify the IlreatH, Cleanse the Te-th, it can't be surpassed. Catarrh relieved and cured. Erysipelas cured. I turns relieved instantly. Bears prevented. IJywiKery cured. Wound!) healed rapidly. Scurvy cured. An Antidote forAnim.il or Vegetable Poisons, Stings, etc. 1 used the Fluid during our present affliction with Scarlet Fever with de cided advantage. It is indispensable to the sick room. Wk. F. Sand Ford, Eyrie, Ala. I wccks, am no otners i had h. J. W. Faxk I inson, Philadelphia. The physicians here use Darbys Fluid very successfully in the treat ment of Diphtheria. A. Stollfnwerck, Greensboro, Ala. Tetter dried up. Cholera prevented. Ulcer purified and healed In cases of Death it should be used about the corpse it will prevent any unpleas ant smell. The eminent Phy sician, O. MARION V. ' SIMS, M. !., New Vorlc, says : " I am convinced Prof. Darbys Prophylactic Fluid is a valuable disinfectant." Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. I testify to the most excellent qualities of Prof. Darbys Prophylactic Fiuid. As a disinfectant and detergent it is both theoretically and practically superior to any preparation with which I am ac quainted. N. T. Lufton, Prof. Chemistry. "Darbys Fluid Is Recommended by ' Hon. Alexander H. Strphkks, of Georgia Rev. Chas F. Deems, D.D., Church of the Strangers, N. Y.; Jos. LeConte, Columbia, Prof .University.S C Rev. A. J. Battle, Prof., Mercer Un iversity : Rev. Geo. F. Piekck, Bishop M. E. Church. INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY HOME. Perfectly harmless. Used internally or externally for Man or Beast. The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we have abundant evidence that it has done everything here claimed. For fuller information get of your Druggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors, J. II. ZETLIN & CO., Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA. SCHEDULES. Carolina Central R. R. Comp'y. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.' Office General, Superintendent, I Wilmington, K C., Dec. '3fJ, 1881. f On and after Jan. 1, 1882, the following schedule will be operated on this Railway:. : PASSENGER, MAIL, AND EXPRESS TRAIN. : v ) Leave Wilmington, -rj'iOpm ) Arrive at Charlotte, o I Lsave Charlotte, ' .M "-)' Arrive at Wilmington; a- 10 lfl p ni 7 2 a in Trains Ifos; 1 and 2 stop at regular stations only, and points designated in the Gompan'y's Time Table" ' . ;. Tassxnger and freight traik. . ( Leave AVilmington at 5.40 A . M No 5. Arrive at Hamlet at - . . . , . (Arrive at Charlotte at 7.55T. M - ( Leave Charlotte at . ' 4.13 a. m No. 6. Arrive at Hamlet at ( Arrive at Wilmington at 5.55 p. m Trains Nos. 1 and 5 make connection at Charlotte with A. & C. R. R. for Spartan burg, Greenville, Athens, Atlanta and all points beyond. . , Train No.. 6. makes close connection at Wil mington with W. & W. R. R. for points North. ,-- . Through ; Sleeping Cars between Raleigh and Charlotte. V. Q. JOHNSON. Gen'l Sup't. Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line Railroad. ' CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Slterintejtdent's Office, ) Raleigh, N. C, June 5, 1870. f On and after Friday, June 6. 1870, trains on the Jlaleigh and Auprusta Air-Line Rail road will run daily (Sundays excepted) as follows: No. 1 Raleigh, Gary, Apex. -Leave 8 (X) p. M. 8 31 p. m. 8 5.5 P. M. y 14 p. m. No. 2 Leave Hamlet, 2 30 a. M Hoffman, 3 14 a. m Kevscr, 3 37 A. M Blue's, 3 54 a. M Manly, 4 13 a. M Cameron, 4 56 a. m Sanford, 5 41 A. M Osgood, 6 02 A. M Moncure, 6 25 a. m Merrv Oaks, 6 4J A. M New Hill, 7 (X) a. M Apex, 7 23 a. M Carv, 7 r'. a. M Ar. llaleigh, 8 30 a. m New Hill, Merry Oaks, 9 :0 P. M. Moiicure 9 5(5 P. M. Osgrxxl. Sanford, Cameron, Manlv, Blue's, Kevser, 10 17 P. M. 10 44 P. M. It 27 P. M. 12 0 A. M. 12 21) A. M. 12 4S A. M. 1 14 A. M. Hoffman, Ar. Hamlet, 2 (X) a. m. Train nuniK'rl connec ts at Hamlet with C. C. Railway for Charlotte and all pi ints south. Train numlter 2 connects at Raleigh with the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad for all points north. JOHN C. WINDER Superintendent, Oheraw & Darlington R. R. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. President's Office, ) Society Hill, S. C, Feb. 28, .1880.. f On" and after Monday, the 28th inst., the train on this road will run as follows mak ing connection at Florence with trains to and from Charleston, Columbia aud Wilmington both ways: . GOING DOWN. Leave Cheraw at -V If) SO A- M. " Cash's, 10 50 ' t " Society HiU, 14 15 . " . Dove't'-. i 11 45 Darliirgton,; : '. ' 12 13 P, M." " Palmetto " .:': ;' Arrive at FloriiSe, ' COMING. UP Leave Florence-et ' " 'Palmetto, ' DarliiSgton, . " Dttve'sv." ' : ' " Society v . ' flash's -,r 1 00" ..V 2 00 -k is. . 3 00 3 15 "' 3 40 . " 4 03'i4 Arrive at CherSw, ;jv i ; 4 50 ' " Close connection rado-,ati Florence' with trains to and. from Carjel.ajid Wilming ton, every day exoeptSunday. ' B. .D. TOTTN5E. Prudent. "".IT' T ! ' r ,. . Cheraw & Safcishury Eailroiad. CHANGtSF SCHEDULE. Until further notice, the trains on this road will run. as followai v i j Leave. Arrive. Wadesboro, 7.15 a. m.. Cheraw; 8.20 A. i Cheraw, 9.25 a. m. Wadesboro, 5.130 p. u Making close connection both ways at Che raw, with Cheraw & Darlington train, and at Florence with th Northeastern train. B. D: TOWNSEND, President. Silver and China. LAW'S S. &C. HOUSE, 1 Diphtheria- I Prevent! i autumn x w v e pi :,1N EST TRIPLE PSAJE ANDCHINA WARES, r3-1? MISUNDERSTANDINGS. I clasped her hand and I held it fast, While I gazed in her dreamy eyes, And a far-off look o'er her features Like the twilight of vesper skies. While, like one too happy or shy to speak, With a throb I could understand, She turned from my raptures her glowing cheek, And vieled it with faltering hand: And the gentle tremor which thrilled her frame, And leaped from her pulse to mine, To my thirsting soul with its message came, Like the magic of cordial wine. -Atlas ab prbia t&u hopeleas smart ?" Of the passion she long had scorned, And just as I felt she had opened her heart, She opened her mouth and yawned ! C. C. Carroll, in Harper's THE STOLEN WILL. When they told old Ethan Van Wirt that his days were numbered, the first thing he said to his attendant was, "Send for Miss Work; I must see Effie Work before I die." Singular as the demand was, no one thought of questioning it. Miss Work was sent for. Effie turned quite white when the strange, imperative summons first came, and she was told that he who sent it was dying. "Dying!" she whispered, her blue eyes dimmed with tears. ' 'What can he want ! Shall you go, Effie?" asked Pauline Ruble who was visiting her. "Oh. yes, yes. Poor old man ? I am so sorry for him! Certainly I will go. But I am so frightened, Paulihe. I never saw any one die." The pretty, childish creature was trembling from head to feet. Pauline put her arm around the slim figure and drew the golden head down upon her shoulder. She was several inches taller- than Effie, and much hand somer, in her own opinion. "Little fool!' she thought, as she caressed the pale face with her white hand. "Of course it is something about Louis Van Writ." Aloud she said inainuatingly, "I had better go with you, dear. Don't you think so?" "Oh, if you only would!" Effie cried eagerly. Mrs. Work was an invalid, and could not accompany her daughter, so she was glad to have Pauline go with her. As the carriage drove off with the two girls she sank back upon her couch with a thoughtful look. 4-It must be something about his grand-son. I do hope Effie won't be silly." The girls were shown at once into the sick man's apartment. "I wish to see you alone, Effie, my child," said he, with a frown toward Pauline. -"ni wait for you in the next room, darling," said Pauline, and with drew. "Mr. Louis has come, sir," the ser vant said as he was leaving the room, in obedience to an impatient gesture from his master. "Let him wait?" the old man said grimly. The night being warm, the windows were open. The sick room and the one next to it both looked out upon a wide veranda, which ran across the front of the house. It was easy for Pauline to step out upon this and go to the window of the sick room. "I want to know what he wants of her, and she is such an obstinate chit sometimes, she might not tell me." "I have sent for you, Effie,- to ask you if you love my grandson," the dying man was saying. Effie, poor child, was trembling so she could hardly stand. "My dear, I am dying or I would not ask you this question. If I die without a will my property falls to him as the natural heir; but the boy has taken to wrong courses lately. He gambles, I hear. That is a taste he inherits. It came near being my ruin at his very age. But I promised the woman I married that 1 would not touch cards again if she would have me, and I never did. My grandson loves you. In that is my hope. Am I wrong in thinking you care for him?" Effie's lips opened, but she could not utter a word. "If you love Louis, and promise me that before you consent to marry him you will exact from him the same pledge my wife did from me, he shall be my heir; If not, the money goes away from him. I want your an swer, child. My lawyer waits to make my will." Effie burst into tears. "I do love him! I will promise anything, fiut what if he does not care for me, as, you think ?" "I know he does. All I ask of you is your promise not to. marry him till he has sworn he will never touch cards again. Give your hand, child, and say the words after me." . Effie obeyed him, more calmly than might have been expected in her ner vous state. "God bless. you! You have made my last hours almost happy," he.said, as he letJiergo. . As Effie quitted the room, sobbing, Pauline was about to join her, when she heard the sick man mutter, "I am not sure, after all, that a will would not make everything safer." 1 Then he ordered the attendant to go and bring Mr. Scribe. "Can he make a will?" wondered Pauline. "I'll wait and see." To her amazement she heard the sick man dictating a will to his law yer, in which he left everything he possessed to Effid, absolutely. Mr. Scribe remonstrated, but it was of no use. I "I know what I am about," the old man said, and would hear nothing. The will duly signed, sealed and witnessed, he told; the lawyer where to put it in his desk, which stood within his view. ! "Is it safe here?"f Mr. Scribe asked. "I do not see any key." "Who would touch it? It would benefit no one but (he Van Wirts,and they are not thieves, whatever else they may be. Besides, I may want to destroy it yet. GO now, please, and tell them to send Louis to me." On going to seek Effie. Pauline found her so nervous and ill that the housekeeper had made her lie down, and was now sitting with her. Pau line took the housekeeper's place by her friend's bedside; and in a short time Effie fell asleep. As she sat there watching the white face of the girl she pretended to love, her mind was filled with wicked and envious thoughts. Why must Effie, who was rich already, have the Van Wirt property ! And then she envied her the handsome lover, with whom she was herself half in love. "But of course he will have to mar ry her now," she thought, bitterly. Suddenly the silence was broken by the sound of same commotion in the house. She sat and listened a few moments. Then she arose, and gliding down stairs, slipped through the open door aud passed swiftly along the veranda until she came to the window where; she had listened before. One glanae at the bed told her that all was over. A sudden fear seized her. She was about to flee the spot when her eyes fell upon the desk in which she had seen the will placed. "I wonder if it is there j'et?" she thought. No one was in the room, but the door was open, and she could hear voices. j "I am sure I can reach it from here. I should know it jat a glance," she mused. j An evil thought ; crossed her mind. What if she took it? The lawyer would think Mr. Van Wirt had des troyed it ; and besides, that will in her hands might help her to win Louis after all. At the thought she snatch ed the document, and hiding it in the folds of her dress, softly retraced her steps to the room in which her friend still slept. j i Ethan Van Wirt had been dead a bout a month, and his grandson had. taken possession of his estate. There were rumors about a will, but when it could not be found, Mr. Scribe con cluded that the old man had destroy ed it, and he refu$ed to tell who was mentioned in it. i Pauline., was still visiting Effie, though her welcome had grown some what cold, both on Effie's and her mother's part. Louis Van WTirt came to their house as often as formerly, but it was apparently to see Pauline. He scarcely ever spoke to Fffie except in the most formal manner; and though the gentle girl strove to feel the same toward her false friend, she could not quite, j There was a certain rejected suitor of Effie's, Robert Lester, whom she had never liked, but who, in spite of her coldness, seemed to be always be side her now, and more than once she had fancied that Pauline had contriv ed to fasten him upon her for the evening. i "I must bring; matters to a crisis soon," thought Pauline one night, as she wreathed her face with smiles and pretended not to perceive Mrs. Work's coldness toward her. Presently, when Louis called, she was watching him, and drew him at once into the garden. "I want to tell you something," she said in her insinuting voice; "and be side, Effie and her lover are so happy in there by themselves, it would be a pity to disturb them." The young man's handsome face turned quite pale. - i "Has she consented to marry him at last, then?" h asked, bitterly. "Oh, of course; I told you she would. He is Buch a very moral young man, and dear Fffie is so strict in all her ideas. I know if she thought he had ever touched a card she would not have him now." Louis winced, j "Do you know to whom your grand father left his tnohey, in that will which has never been found?" "I do not know." "I can tell you.'' "You!" I Pauline smiled. "It gave everything to Effie." "Impossible !' he said, yet looking at her uneasily, j "How do you know?" "Never mind, I do know. More over that will isi in existence.'' . Again he looked at her uneasily. "I know where it is." "You do?" I "Would you like to see it?" slipping her hand into bier pocket. . "Yes.". - j V "How shall ybu like to see Effie and Robert. Lester living in Van Wirt House!;" Louis ground his teeth with rage. That decided the bold, false ''girl. "Louis Van Wirt, if that will could be put in your possession "to" do what you like with it, would you marry a woman who loves you better than Effie ever could r She felt him start as she leaned upon pis artn, and her hand tighten ed upon the will in her pocket. His answer came after some moments, but in a voice so huslry and changed 6he wouhLscarcely have known it. -"f "would." ... Trembling with joy she drew out the paper and he took it, looked at it a moment, and thrusting it into his pocket began to go swiftly toward the house. An awful misgiving seized Pauline as she tried to keep up with him. "What are you going to do?" "You shall see," he answered stern ly, and there was a hard look m his eyes. "What a fool I was !" she muttered, but made one effort more. "Effie and Lester won't thank you for interrupting them." No answer, as he walked on and entered the drawing-room through one of the open Fieach windows. Effis sat there with her mother. No one else was in the room. He laid the will on her lap. "I find," he said, hurriedly, and in a shaking tone of voice, "that my grandfather left his money to you. There is the will that has been miss ing so long. I hope, Effie, that you will be a great deal happier as the wife of Mr. Lester than as mine. But he cannot love you any better than I do." Effie was white and speechless with bewilderment. "Effie detests Robert Lester," said Mra Work, taking in the situation at once. "She has never yet Cared for any one but you, Louis, and you ought to know it." "Oh my darling!" ejaculated Louis, wildly extending his arms, "is it true?" In another instant Effie was sobbing on his shoulder. Pauline went to her room and spent the night in packing. When, the next morning, she announced her in tention of going awayf no one od jected. Louis looked a trifle embarrassed when Effie told him of the promise she had made his grandfather the night he died. "I don't think I am in any danger of being a gambler, but I am willing to pledge myself never to play again." "Thank you my love my lover." Ancient Works iu Florida. The Travers Herald describes the finding of an ancient work in digging a canal between Lakes Eustis and Dora, to open up the more southern lakes of the great lake region of Florida. The first excavations revealed the existence of a clearly defined wall ly ing in a line tending toward the southwest, from where it was first struck. The wall was composed of a dark brown sandstone, very much crumbled in places, but more distinct, more clearly defined, and the stone more solid as the digging increased in depth. The wall was evidently the eastern side of an ancient home or fortification, as the slope of the outer wall was to the west. About eight feet from the slope of the east ern will a mound of sand was struck, embedded in the muck formation above and around it. This sand mound was dug into only a few inches, as the depth of the water de manded but a slight increased depth of the channel at that point; but enough was discovered to warrant the belief that here on the northwest ern shore of Lake Dora is submerged a city or town or fortification older by centuries than anything yet dis covered in this portion of Florida. Small, curiously shaped blocks of sandstone, some of them showing traces of fire, pieces of pottery, and utensils made of a mottled flint were thrown ' out by the men while work ing waist deep in water. One spear head of mottled flint, five and a half inches long by one and a quarter inches wide, nicely finished, was taken from the top of the sand mound and about four feet below the water level of the lake. Hearing the Aurora by Telephone. An observer of the recent aurora at Mont Clair, N. J., Aug. 4, writes that on connecting the two poles of telephone, one with the water pipe leading to a cistern near his dwelling, and one with the gas pipe leading all over town, he heard the electrical crackle going on, substantially the same as is heard when the same con nection is made during thunder storms. He however reports that the auroral crackle was more delicate in its sound than the thunder storm crackle, and that beside the crackle there were at intervals of perhaps half a second each, separate short taps on r the telephone diaphragm that gave a slight ringing, sound. A good medicinal tonic, with real merit, is Brown's Iron Biters, so all druggists say. A Bonanza. Millions of Money to pe Mae From Cotton Seed. Speaking of the new era of pros perity for the South, Commissioner Kenner, of Louisiana, said to-day: "I made the prediction five years ago, and the present state of the business justifies the prediction, that the manufature of oil and other products from cotton seed would within twenty-five years bring from one fourth to one-third to the South of what our section then got from the staple itself." "And that means how much in crease in your revenues?" "Probably not less than $100,000, 000. The business has entirely grown up since the war and it is only within the past ten years that it has attained any importance. There are now sixty-five or seventy mills in operation or being erected, and the progress and profits of the manufacture are alreadj' astonishing. When the chief mill in New Orleans was established some ten years ago we paid but from $7 to $10 a ton for the seed. Last year we were obliged to pay from $16 to 19 a ton. At first we could get such sup ply as we wanted along the water courses, and the transportation cost but little. The demand has grown to such poportions that we must now go into the interior, and the difference in the cost of getting the seed to market makes the difference in the price to us." "Why do you think the product will ever equal in value one-third of the cotton crop itself?" "For every bale of cotton 400 pounds there are 1,200 pounds of seed. The annual cotton crop amounts to about six million bales, which would yield, after reserving the necessary seed for planting next year, about two aud a half million tons of cotton seed. This seed, if manu factured into oil, oilcake and other produce, would yield in value not less than $75,000,000, and probably $100,000,000." "What are these products?" "All of this seed before the war, with the exception of that used for planting, was thrown away. We now buy all that we can get. With increased facilities of trttnepnrtoHnn. permitting the planters to ship their seed to the mills, the entire crop will be utilized, because the profits of the manufacture, with the price at not more than $20 a ton delivered at the mill, will induce the expansion of the business until the whole crop will be used. There will be always a ready market. All that is now made is readily sold. There are four products of the seed the oil itself, lint neces sary left on the seed in the process of ginning, the cake and the residuum left after clarifying the oil. The oil is used for table purposes and for cook ing; the oil cake for feeding animals and for fertilizers ; the residuum for soap stock. Out of one ton of seed we get thirty-six gallons of oil and about seven hundred pounds of cake, be sides the lint and residuum. The total ' value of the manufactured product yields a very handsome profit." "Where is your market?" "For the oil, Italy and the Mediterranean ports; for the cake, EngTancT and Germany. Of course, largo quantities of both are also consumed in the United States. Good judges., declare that where cotton seed oil is well made and clari fied, it is hard to tell the difference be tween it and the best quality of olive oil. Both are vegetable products, and there can be nothing purer or more free from injurious effects upon the stomach than is cotton seed oil. I have no doubt that the time will come when it will be used with fully as much favor as the salad oil from Europe. It is now used by thousands who cannot detect the difference between it and olive oil. I look to its manufacture as one of the great fac tors of the future prosperity of the South." hew York Herald. Deserters from the democratic par ty are the candidates of the republi cans for the highest offices. Xvhen ever a democrat deserts his party be cause he has been disappointed in ob taining an office, the republican "bosses" at once confer upon him all the honors (?) of their party and he is put forward as their candidate for some office. Of course this is done as a matter of policy, in order to in duce other desertions, hoping that other disappointed democrats may desert with the hope of preferment and promotion. While. such a policy may have some tendency to seduce disaffected democrats, yet it demor alizes the , mASses of the republicans and really weakens that. party. The old ''fire-tried" republicans cannot become very enthusiastic in a cam paign in which their leaders are dem ocratic deserters. They do not at all relish the idea of being made to take back- seats, while the hightest seats are being given to their former ene mies: Democrats need not fear an army led by Jeserters. We have gained too many victories over the regular republican forces led by their own trusted leaders, to fear now a demor alized rabble led by deserters! Chat harnTtecord; Lightning 1 1 oils. During a recent thunder storm at Carrollton, 111., the lightning struck the house of Mr. D. IL Gillespie, a resident of that city. The course of the electricity was as follows r Strik ing the lightning rod, on the top of the main part of the house, this con ductor was followed until a point was reached about the middle of the peak ; here, it is stated, was a bad connection which opposed the further passage of the electricity. It, there fore, here branched off down a tin gutter until arriving at the edge of the roof all conducting material ceas ed. The electricity then made its way across the wall, tearing off the weather boards en route, until anoth er conductor was reached, this time a good one a telephone wire with good earth connection ; after reaching this wire the current passed harm lessly away into the earth. We may here note that the houso referred to was protected first, by a lightning rod, and second, by a tele phone line. It appears also that the lightning-rod, as usual, was not a well constructed one; while tho tele phone line (we are afraid not as usual), was well constructed, and, wonderful to relate, had a good and serviceable ground termination. So long as irresponsible parties are suffered to carry on. the lightning-rod business, so long must trouble and disaster be expected to ensue. In the present case, the damago is ascribed to the defective connection at the middle of the roof. Partly, no doubt, such was the case ; other ele ments, we think, had their share in the matter. , In the absence of a detailed descrip tion, we may assume that the light ning conductor had an imperfect ground connection, was fastened to the house with insulators, and prob ably did not extend to a sufficient height ahove tho roof to be an efficient protection. Also from the fact that the elec-4 tricity left the conductor at a point on the ridge, it would appear that the said conductor extended for some distance horizontally; a position which for lightning-rods is to be dep recated. A llgmning OOnduc-Lu. fuUllls functions, it facilitates the discharge of the electricity to the earth, so as to carry it off harmlessly; and it tends to prevent disruptive discharge by silently neutralizing the conditions which determine sucli discharge in the neighborhood of the conductor. To effect these objects, the rod should extend to a sufficient height, to be the most salient feature of the building, no matter from which direc tion the storm may come. The size of the rod, if copper, should not be less than three-eights of an inch, or of iron, not less on any consideration than nine-tenths of an inch. (Wo are aware that such a size will be considered preposterous by lightning rod manufacturers, but such a size is the minimum of absolute safety.) The connection with the earth should be electrically perfect, should be branched in all possible directions, and if possible should be both solder ed to gas or water mains, and to a plate sunk in moist earth. All joints should be soldered ; and in no case should any portion of the rod run horizontally for more than four feet, unless ground connections are pro vided ; where corners are to be turned they ought always to be turned with a gentle curve, and finally; lightning rods should never be insulated from the building. Is it conceivable that a stream of electricity can jump from a cloud to earth, and can then be kept on an iron rod by half an inch of glass ? We may rest satisfied that if a rod is otherwise properly con structed, atmospheric electricity will never leave a good matallic conductor for a poor wooden one. Scientific American. Great in Death. The lives of the truly great are sim ple and void of ostentation. Love of display no more enters into the daily life of a genuinely solid man, a pro found intellectual man, than does water into the composition of pure wine. Men of genius and men who do the thinking for the world dwell for the most part away and far re moved from the showy things of fashion. They have no time to enter into the business of trifles or to mingle in the pastimes of the butterflies, that love novelty as a moth does the glare. Simple in all thfngs their simplicity is perpetuated to the ending of life, and even in their entombment on mocking display come to disturb their going out fiom the dwellings of men. What more simple life can be well imagined than that of Long fellow than that of his friend the poet-philosopher Emerson ? And yet they were great men. The world pronounces them such, and over their newly-mado graves two continents lately stood iu mourning. Not only in their works is contained the wis dom they wrote, but in their lives as well, and not the least important les son to learn is the simplicity attend ing their peaceful, unostentatious funerals in the quiet country church yards of Cambridge and Concord. The Drough of '40. "Stranger, I take it I" observed an elderly resident the other day, as I stopped him and asked if there were any blackberry trees around his way. "I jedged so. I was a strang er myself when I fust kirn here. That was in the summer of '49. Hottest summer .ever known in those parts. "Any warmer than this ?" I asked. "Summet, sum rue t ! That sum mer of '49 the cedar trees melted and run right along the ground ! You notice how red that ere dust is t" . "Pretty worm," I ventured. "Why, sir, durin' the summer of '49 we kept meat right on the ice io keep it from cookin too fast, and we nau 10 put uie cnicKcns 111 rnxigcr aters to get raw eggs ?" "Where did you get the ice t" ! "We had it left over, and kept it in VJ 11111 tl 1 1 A VO, Oil M. UU Wllljk ature of b'ilin' water was so much lower than tho temperature of the at mosphere that it kept the ice so cold you couldn't touch it with your finger !" "Anything elso startling that sea son ?" x "That summer of '49 ? Well, guess! The Hackensack river began to Vile early m June, and wo didn't see the sky until October for the steam in the air ! And fish ! fish ! They were droppin' all over town, cooked just as you wanted 'em. Thero wasn't anything but fish until tho river dried up." "What did you have then ?' "The finest oysters and clams you ever heard of. They walked right ashore for water, and they'd drink applejack right out ofademijolm. Yes, sir. You call this hot ? I feel like an overcoat." "What is your business ?" I asked him. "I'm a preacher," he replied. "By the way, you wanted blackberry trees. Just keep up the thumb-hand side of this road until you come to the pig-pasture and there you will find the trees. Climb up on my goonr roost, ana you can kdock uown an the berries you want, if you can find a pole long enough." Jlackenaack Letter in Brooklyn Eagle. The Irrepressible Small Hoy, The veteran Owen Conlin, who tor years did excellent service in "mend ing the ways" of the youth of the country, met a diminutive boy with a long cigar in his mouth, on the street, one day recently. "How old are you, my son?" in quired Owen. "Fourteen, sir," was the polite reply- "What are you doing ?" ' "Smoking." "How long have you smoked ?" "Four years." "Ah, my son, I have lived seventy years, and never yet learned to smoke tobacco. " Drawing himself up to his full height, the polite youth replied : "You darned old foolj nobody's to blame but yerself; you f might have learned! !" Owen declares that he shall never try to reform the youth of this coun try again. That Umbrella. During the shower yesterday a citizen carrying a very wet umbrella entered a hotel to pay a call to some one up stairs. After placing his uw brella where it might drain he wrote upon a piece of paper and pinned to it the sentence : "N. B. This umbrella belongs to a man who strikes a 260-pound blow bark in fifteen minutes." He went his way up stairs, and after an absence of fifteen minutes returned to find his umbrella gone and in its place a note reading: , "P. S. Umbrella taken by a man who walks ten miles on hour won't be back at all? Detroit Free Preta. A voluntary contribution "How did you come to get in jail !" asked a gentleman of a negro he saw behind the bars, "Dey put me in heah for borryin' money from a friend." "Why, they can't do that; it's no crime to borrow money." "Yes, boss, but yer see I had ter knock him he would loan it ter me, an' den I had ter take it outen his pocket myself." That was what Hubbell would call a voluntary contribution. Texas Sift' inn a "How far is it to Manayunk I" ask ed a weary Irishman, who was going there afoot. "Seven miles," was the reply. "Whom would you wish to see there?" "Faith, it's meself I'd loike to see there." was the retort.' Care-worn persons, students, weak and overworked mothers will find In. Brown's Iron Bitters a complete tonic, which gives strength and tone to the whole system. Seth Green says fish never sleep or close their eyes, and ttat the natural age of a trout is about fifteen yean?. A man never yet caught a fish as big as the one that got away from the hook just as it was being landed. Nine million eggs were found in examining a single bee.