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By the JEa<jle I’txbliKhing- Company. VOLUME XXXVIH. SHOES! We have just received the largest shipment that ever came to Gainesville. Over one hundred caseses of the famous HAMILTON-BROWN SHOES I From a stock of over 0,000 PAIRS. We can fit any foot from A to E E, and any O rc $ "7 pocketbook from to o Any and every pair is FULLY GUARANTEED and will wear like FLINT. I *2* Men’s Shoes in Black and i Chocolate, of Russian Calf, Box Calf, Harvard Calf, i Cordovan, Kangaroo, Vici Kid, Patent Leather, etc , in j all the latest toes, and any last from C to G. Women’s Shoes in Lace and Button, Chocolate and Black, wide and narrow, heel and spring heel, heavy and fine, cloth top and kid I top, in the newest toes, widths from A to E E, any I price from 75c to 13.50. Good line Ladies’ 1898 Bicycle Boots. Shoes for Boys and Girls : We have them laced, buttoned, chocolate, and heel and spring heel, in the prettiest toes. A big line of Babies’ soft soled Shoes. Men’s and Ladies’ Rubbers and Over-gaiters. Nice and convenient places for trying and fitting shoes. Buttons fastened on our shoes free of charge. R. E. ANOOE.& CO.. 11 Main St. Telephone if BIGWELL • (Mil'S-- I—i it or pipe lheyaie -L—’ '■"*=’’ THE BEST MADE. Oarriaees the most durable. “W ago n s, The y are GUARANTEED. Jphaetons. cheaper than ever. Big lot of Harness of best make. Come and examine our goods. WCSk’ s U /J -'W ®Vi ■" sSe? Ssa fcr THREE RAMBLER ROSES Will maken .:v»nifieent hedge. l»oaiitiful shade for the piazza, or a Channing bod. Constant bloomers, per fectly 1 .rdy. o ; plant will produce thousands of flowers. One each, only 40 cents, delivered VICKS a,| d GUIDE Ine Bus >* Man's Catalogue and the Ladies' Gardener and Adviser. M Floral . vJiuL. The only one containing full Descriptions and Directions for planting and. culture* so comprehensive, condensed. classified and indexed that lie Who 1* uus 3? ay K end. Many illustrations from nature. Colored plates of Sweet Peas. Nasturtiums, Tuberous Begonias, Golden Day Lily, Cactus Da.ilias, Daybreak Asters. Beautifully embossed cover; 120 large pages jnpletely filled with honest illustrations. FR EE upon application. ickS Seeds Never Disappoint. * JAMES VICKS SONS, - Rochester, N. Y. TREE! Vick’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine Famons G AVTHOKITY Is a veritable mine of inforimition about Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits, and how to prow and care for them successful Iv. A farm ■ .v be brightened at a slight expense and the grounds made attractive, instead o' bare and l.ir’iddm.: e of VICK S ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE is Fifty Cents per year, but u r u will return this • pun with six IWO-cent stamps the magazine will be mailed to yoii regularly i>r six uiuuUis fur trial. M ule at uucl to VICK PUBLISHING CO., Rochester, N. Y. LIME I Cement, Plaster Paris. LARGE SUPPLY always on hand. Can till orders at short notice. WILL OFFER Special induce ments to those preparing to build. Lime house and office No. 16 Grove St. C. L. DEAL C. H. WINBURN, , DENTIST. CROWN and Bridge work a Specialty. A lib eral amoun of patronage solicited. OFFICE. ROOM 3. GORDON BLOCK. VP STAIRS. PN. C. White & Son, HOTOGRAPHERS! Gainesville, Ga. All work executed in the highest style of the art, at reasonable prices. Make a specialty of copying and enlarging. Gallery Northeast Bide Sunare. We call special attention to our its Shoe Co's. • Own Make* I BB assrxa JR**-. ; J/ A, ! c ’ **’* ‘ HARRISON 8 HUNT, Marble Dealers. Monumental Work of all Kinds for the Trade. We want to estimate 1 p I TJJCQVIT T P PI all your work. j UfillUJiO I ILLCi, uA. A. K. HAWKES RECEIVED GOLD MEDAL I 1 Highest Award Diploma as Honor i r or Superior Tx>ns Grinding and Excellency in . he Manufacture of ?ja?ctacles and Eye Glasses. ■old in 11.000 Cities and Towns in the V. S. Most I ’opular Glasses in the U. S. ESTABLISHED 1870. It ■IITI ft II These Famovs GLASSXE II AU IIV n v.a Never Peddled. Mr. Hawkes has ended his visit here, but has | appointed M. C. BROWN & CO. as agents to tit ‘ ant sell his celebrated Classes. Dr.C.A.RYDER, DENTIST, GAINESVILLE, - - - GA. ‘ Dental work of all kinds done in a ’ j skillful manner. Crown and Bridge work a specialty. THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. ■ >■ A Small Sum of Mont 4 WILL BUY LOTS OF GOODS •< 11 £ Turner’s Cash Stos AAA AAA WORTH OF GOODS ,T$ y/ n nnn be closed out ■« UCIUjUUU AND BELOW COST.' * In order to reduce my stock and get ready for the spring ISA I will offer for next thirty days my entire stock of goodßt a very reduced price. A great many things will be closed out regardless of their former price, and regardless thf what they cost me. For instance: Dress Goods that 75c will be closed out now at 37 l-2c per yard. quality will be sold at 25c, and the all wool dress goods sold at 30c will go now at 15c a yard. Linings, Embroideries, Laces, and all such goods will be closed out*n this sale at and below cost. Now is your chance for a gain if you need goods in this line. bL< •’ Corsets at Cost. 74 Dr. Warner’a and the R. <t G. Corsets to be closed out in this sale. The regular $1.50 Corset will go now at sl.lO. The $1 quality at 83c. 75c Corset at 59c, and the 60c quality at 45c. A very good corseejora be had in this sale at 20c. t’ ' Clothing. ' $4,000 worth of Men’s, Boys’, and Children’s Suits, and Men’s and Boys’ Pants to be closed out al cost, and a great many odd Coats and Vists and odd Pants will go in this sale at less than first cost. * • * Ts you want a bargain this is the place to find it. Come and see. r U’j ’ ’ ' Very respectfully, ' G. F. TURNER,' West Side Square, - - . GAINESVILLE, GA. Fine hand made Harness a specialty. Repairing neatly and quickly done. Thomas & Olecrls.. Next door below Post-office, - - - GAIN HS VILLE, *A. f■ wMHbf* , flour that ; makes the whitest] ] X bread and cake, and<i the finest pastry, is milled ] j from the choicest winter wheat < [ £Lj_ I that grows. It is IGLEHEART’S!! SWANS DOWN Flour. It is the]' King of Patents. Try it. Cheapest, be- ] [ r cause it produces the best food and the most. <! Ask your grocer for it, and notice the brand ] ] ; Jr when you buy ; j 1/ IGLEHEART BROS., EVANSVILLE, IND. ]] l CATHARTIC i I as* so* druggists ;; 11 ARSDLTITRT.Y CRIP JNTPPD t 0 cnre #ny <•«**<>? constipation. Cascarets are the Ideal Laxa-i » i UUnliaHluDU tire, never grip or gripe, hut cause easy natural results. Sam- > , pie and booklet free. Ad. STERLING RE*IFDT < 0.. Chicago. Montreal. Can., or New York. 21*.i I Montevallo, \ flflll i Corona,’ Royal. ‘ uUAlli ’ Blacksmith. Stove and Fire Wood sawed to order. Prompt delivery. Office 91 Main street. Phone 41. ED. F. LITTLE. Vu\\/Wy [/ ? ? GAINESVILLE, GEQKJA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1898. Thomas & Clark, Mmufacturers of and Dealers in HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES, Blankets and Turf Goods. Established in 1860. THE IMPOVERISHED SILVER STATES. They Are the Most Rapid Accumulators of Wealth In the World, Says Mulhall. The inhabitants of the Pacific states of America (iu which term Mr. Mul hall, iu his concluding article on “The Progress of the United States” in The North American Review, includes Colo ' rado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyo- I ming as well as California, Nevada, ' Oregon and Washington) are by far the i rapidest accumulators of wealth in the ; world. ■ In the 20 years preceding the last j census they laid up four times treasure on earth as did Americans gen- I erally, their annual increase of riches . per capita being $156, as against $39 for the whole Union. Their farms yield more than twice as much grain as the average American farm —30 tons to the farmhand, as against 22 in the prairie, 7 in the southern, 8 in the eastern and 14 in all the states. They have nine folded their total wealth in 20 years, 17 of those years elapsing since the “crime” (which they invented and la ment) “of 1873.” They were worth $727,000,000 in 1870 and $6,811,000,- 000 in 1890. Since that year, as before that year, they have enjoyed annually the advantage shared by none of their fellow Americans of taking 55 tons of oqp precious metal (gold) and 1,800 tons She other precious metal (silver) out the ground. This yearly product, 'wjrth $100,000,000, “exceeds, ” accord ing to this authoritative statistician, “|he value of precious metals that any country has yet produced iu the history Qrinankind. ’ ’ But this wealth is a mere additional godsend, a windfall, to people enriched in the ordinary industries of Jtheir country. Their precious metal Output is little over a third of their “agricultural product of $294,000,000 a year .J|lt is not very much more than a fpurth of their manufacturing output ‘of $360,000,000 a year, which quad *rupled in the 20 years between 1870 ftnd 1890. These are the “whole states” whom and discreet “bimetallist” English authority on American affairs, Mr. moreton Frewen, saw “goaded in »to fury’ ’ by the lash of poverty which •the*aold standard laid on their ragged badfl. These are the people to whom 22? years we, the rest of the country, average wealth people, the 14 t»n average grain people, paid $450,- .000,000 for silver worth $252,000,000. These are the states which, one and all ’(saw,California and Oregon), threatened ■armed revolution because their sister states refused to take the whole of one ,pf ifieir less important products at two ■ prices and told them to go to the regu lar market with their silver as well as their lumber and their grain. These are the people who have made a national issue and are now making an interna tional wrangle of the question, not as to whether this single one of their in dustries should be suppressed, or even suspended, but as to whether they should receive a profit of 100 or 400 per cent on its product. It is with no feeling of anger or scarcely of irritation that the rest of us —we $39 Americans —contemplate the collected proof of the thoroughness with which we have been “done” by these $156 Americans, who have been crying all the time that we were eating them up with the interest on gold clause mortgages. Nay, it is with a more than national, it is with a family, pride, a pride which a thrifty Yankee father feels in being bested in a horse trade by his offspring, that we contemplate this magnificent record of bamboozlement. And when we realize the further fact that these brethren of ours, by plying threats of our repudiation of our foreign debts, have cozened the old lady of Threadneedle street into an offer to take some $35,000,000 of their wares off their hands, we fall prostrate in rever ence before their argent shrine of St. Bunko.—New York Press. THE BRITISH “MIDDY.” An English Writer Draws Comparisons Be tween Him and His American Compeers. Admiral Sir Vesey Hamilton pub lished not long ago an interesting conversation which he had with an American admiral, wherein the lat ter spoke with the warmest admira tion of the manner in which he saw our young midshipmen handling their boats and keeping their men in order and then drew comparisons between them and his own “fine gentlemen,” most unflattering to the latter. His young gentlemen, he said, knew how it ought to be done, but ours knew how to do it. The difference is great. The Brit ish midshipman is brought up in his profession, and when he finds him self suddenly in a tight place he knows what to do instinctively with out waiting to reason about it. He does the right thing at once, and as rapidity of action is one of the most important factors of success in nau tical matters he generally gets out of his tight place with credit to himself and his profession. Thus he gains confidence at every- step and prepares himself for more im portant commands. On what grounds, then, of logic or of com mon sense are we about to alter a system which has produced such ex cellent practical results? It is only fair, however, to see what can be said on the other side of the question, and thus we would frankly acknowledge that our naval officers are the worst educated in Europe, taking the word “educa tion” in the sense in which it is generally used. It is only quite nat ural and reasonable that they should be so, for reasons which we have al ready sufficiently indicated. For our own nart we do not think they are bv Easy to Take asy to Operate Are features peculiar to Hood’s Pills. Small in size, tasteless, efficient, thorough. As one man Hood’s said: ’■ You never know you have taken a pill till it is all Z I I over." 25c. C. I. Hood & Co., I I Proprietors. Lowell. Mass. ■ ■■ ■ ■■■- only pills tu take with H*u4’s Sarsaparilla. any means sucii utter ignoramuses as they are sometimes supposed to be and portrayed as being by some self constituted critics. For instance, a well known civil ian writer on naval subjects, mas querading under the title of Nauti cus, published lately a violent dia tribe on the gross and deplorable ignorance of British naval officers. He described them as being alto gether behind the times, as com paring most unfavorably in point of general knowledge with the offi cers of all European nations as well as with those of the United States. They were held up to scorn for not being “men of the world” and for not being able to “shine in society,” iu consequence of their faulty edu cation, and it was further stated that they were not sound scientific officers. It is quite possible that all three accusations might be true— the third modified—and yet that ours might be the best naval officers in the world. We say the third modified, as it depends a good deal upon what we understand by a sound scientific officer. It is proba ble—nay, almost certain—that, so far as abstract science is concerned, our naval officers are surpassed by those of most other countries and certainly by those of France and Germany, but when it comes to the practical application of such scien tific or other knowledge as the offi cers of the different nationalities possess it has been proved a hun dred times over that our officers are ahead of all. Ten thousand horse power which cannot be applied is not so good for propulsive purposes as 5,000 horsepower W'hich can be applied.—Blackwood’s Magazine. THEY ATE HORSEFLESH. The General’s Guests Got the Meat They Were Asked to Eat, but Didn’t Know It. A man who distinguished himself as a commanding officer in the re bellion was lunching with several brokers in Broad street when the conversation turned on the relative merits of French and American cooking, and he said: “In my opinion the French cooks lead the world, and they have shown us that many things are edible which we never dreamed of serving on our tables. I noticed an account in the newspapers of a horse meat, dinner that was given in Williams burg by a freak club, and it recalled a little experience of my own. The French peopkr-do not look upon horseflesh with the aversion of the average American. Ido not mean to say that horse meat is considered a choice article of diet in Paris, but it is used there to a certain extent. I happened to be in Paris 15 years ago, and several of my friends there assured me that horse meat might be prepared in a very appetizing fashion for the table. I was curious to try it, and I invited a dozen peo ple to breakfast on horse meat with me at my hotel. My guests were all Americans, and they were all anx ious to see what cooked horse meat looked like, though they were doubt ful about eating it. I got an excel lent steak of horseflesh and another of beef, so that my guests need not home hungry if they didn’t choose to eat the horse meat. “When we were all seated at the table, I told the waiters to serve the breakfast. In came a steak, and my guests eyed it closely. It was nicely cooked, and when it was served four or five of the men pres ent just tasted it and then pushed their plates away. “ ‘I can imagine, general,’ said one of them, ‘that if I had been cooped up in this city during the siege, when the provisions ran low, I might get hungry enough to en joy this horse steak. It is beautiful ly cooked, but of course one notices at once that it doesn’t taste like beef. In fact, I would be obliged to you if your waiter would remove it. I am satisfied at being able to say that I sat down to a horse steak breakfast in Paris. ’ “Several of the other guests said much the same thing and the of fending steak was removed. Then came the other steak and my guests ate a hearty breakfast. “ ‘Unless it comes to a case of famine,’ said one, ‘this beef is good enough for me. I don’t want to try any more horseflesh. ’ “When every one had lighted his cigarette after breakfast, I said that I had a confession to make. I told my guests that they had been invit ed t® come and eat horseflesh, and they had eaten it and pronounced it good. I informed them that the first iteak which they ordered off the ta ble was beef, and that the second, which they had enjoyed so thor oughly, was horseflesh. The looks of amazement faded into disgust, and then I said: “ ‘Now, look here ! There is no oc casion for you to look disgusted. A horse is more discriminating in what he eats than a cow, and there is no reason w’hy horseflesh should not be just as wholesome as beef. Your enjoyment of it has shown that it is a foolish prejudice that prevents it from becoming a staple article of food. I haven’t fooled you under false pretenses. You were in vited to eat horseflesh and you have done it. ’ “It was several days before my guests forgave me, and since that time I have lost all sympathy tot persons who were compelled be cause of famine to eat horseflesh, ” —New York Sun. Daniel O’Connell, youngest and last surviving son of the liberator, has just* died at Bedford, England, aged 81 years. He was a renegade to the cause of Ireland, accepting the office of in come tax commissioner from Palmers ton 40 years ago and subscribing regu larly to th* PaioßTst fuad to fight home rale. •OO Per Annum, in Advance. HE LEVIED ON THE DINNER.' How a Tennessee Officer of the Law Col lected a Debt. “The most interesting levy I ever heard of,” said Squire Bell to a re porter, “was one that I made some time in 1868 or 1869, when I was a marshal of the Memphis municipal court. I don’t remember the plaintiff in the case, but old Colonel Cocker ill, who used to run a hotel where the Peabody is now, was the de fendant. The case w r as tried and judgment given for the plaintiff. An execution was issued, and in those days the court had quarterly terms and all papers had to be serv ed during the quarter or a report made why they were not served. Well, I would go out and see the colonel and begin to urge him to do something toward paying the judg ment, but he would always invite me into his room to take a mint julep. Then he would become so plausible and make so many prom ises that I kept putting off the levy till the quarterly term was nearly up. About this time the attorney for the plaintiff came tome and said he was tired of fooling along like that and w’anted to know how many mint juleps I had been drinking with the colonel. This scared me some, so I determined I would do something at once. “I went to see the colonel again, and after refusing the usual invita tion to take the mint julep I told him that he would have to do some thing. He said that if I would just wait till Tuesday, which was the last day of the term, he would set tle up. “ ‘Suppose you make it Monday, colonel,’ I said, for I knew that if I failed to make the levy on Tuesday my execution was dead, and I want ed a day of grace. Well, the colonel agreed to settle up on Monday. “When Monday came, the colonel was awfully sick, and his three boys, who were in the office, would let nobody see him. There were in those days, just as there are now, a lot of men lying round and waiting to get on the jury. I had counted the doors of the hotel dining room, and I picked out a man for each door and gave them $1.50 apiece and took them down to the hotel. When the gong sounded for dinner, I had a man stand at each door and not let any one go in. There was a great deal of travel in those days, and the hotel was crowded. Pretty soon the people began to fill up the halls and wonder what was the matter. The doors of the dining room were glass, and the i>eople could see the tables set and the waiters standing round, but they couldn’t get in. “This didn’t last very long before the old colonel sent for me. ‘I call this a low trick, Mr. Ball, ’ he said. “ ‘No low trick at all, colonel,’ said I. ‘I have done a thing never dene before in the world. I have levied on a hot dinner, and I am go ing to hold it till that money's paid. ’ “The colonel waxed wroth and swore he would beat the attorney in the case just as soon as he got well. But, finding that his getting hot did not keep the dinner from getting cold, he finally sent for the book keeper, who brought up about SSOO, which lacked just $l5O of satisfying the judgment. The colonel wanted to get off with this, but I demanded security. He was lying in bed, and reached under his pillow and banded me a watch and chain worth twice as much as was still due.”—Mem phis Commercial Appeal. COMPROMISING SECRETS. In Some European Countries They Are Source* of Some Men’a Power. Perhaps no stronger illustration of the power conferred by the knowledge of compromising secrets need be cited than the immunity enjoyed by M. Daniel Wilson, the son-in-law of the late President Grevy. While living at the Ely see he made use of his advantages as son-in-law of the president and chairman of the parliamentary budget committee to obtain from the complaisant prefect of police, as well as from the minister of the in terior of the day, copies, and in some cases the originals, of what are known as the “dossiers” of nearly 20,000 of his fellow countrymen con spicuous in every walk of French life. When subsequently indicted as a principal in those disgraceful Legion of Honor scandals which caused the downfall of his father in-law and the condemnation of his associates to various terms of im prisonment, he himself escaped all punishment, thanks to the posses sion of these dossiers, which he threatened to publish abroad if any attempt were made to imprison him. The dossiers are nothing more ot less than the result of secret police investigation of the shadows on the lives of prominent men, the infor mation thus obtained being largely supplemented by means of more oi less anonymous denunciations. In deed there is an entire branch of the Parisian police force exclusively employed in making up dossiers, which often cover 20 and 30 years, and it may readily be imagined how great is the power which those pos sess who have access to these dos siers. That explains better than any thing else why ambitious and tin scrupulous statesmen usually prefei the portfolio of the interior depart ment to any other seat in the cabinet and why the chief commissioner ship of the Parisian police has of late become the stepping stone to the hiahlv naid ernbas«<adorsbi’'te AURE rheumatism by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla,which by neu tralizing the acid in the blood perma aently relieves sehes aid PAINS. NUMBER 6. tne court ot Vienna ana to tne equally lucrative and magnificent viceroyalty of Algeria. There is no statesman more hated in France than M. Costans, whose political and administrative actions have been so utterly regardless of public opinion, and, one might add, of pub lic requirements. Yet no one ven tures to attack him. His frequent possession of the portfolio of the in terior department and the access which he enjoyed while there to the dossiers of the prefecture of police have placed in his hands a power which every one of his many foes is forced to take into account and tu dread. In Germany, in Austria, and espe cially in Italy, the knowledge of a skeleton in the closets of public men is recognized as an instrument of political warfare, and it is not sc many years ago that a member of the opposition almost caused a min isterial crisis at Rome by suddenly bringing to light in the senate the fact that one of its most venerable and universally respected members, the Senator Achille del Guidice, the most intimate friend of ex-Premier Crispi, and a knight grand cross of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, had a quarter of a century previously- served not one but three terms of penal servitude for forgery and embezzlement. Washington Post. NATURE’S COMPASS SIGNS. Different Methods of Determining th* Cardinal Points. The many different methods to de termine the cardinal points while on the mountains, in both heavy tim ber and small bush, or upon the featureless expanse of a great mar -h, are exceedingly 7 numerous and reli able enough for all practical pur poses during an everyday life in the bush, unless a very 7 long journey is to be made, which would require a> number of days, and would make it necessary to hold on a very- fine point while making so long a dis tance. We will first take notes on the coniferous trees, pines, firs, spruces, cedars, hemlocks, etc. The bark of these is always lighter in color, harder and dryer on the south side of the tree, while it is in color much darker, is also damper and often covered with mold and moss on the north side. The gum that oozes out from wounds, knotholes, etc., is usu ally hard and often of beautiful am ber color on the south side, while on the northern side it remains sticky longer and gets covered with insects and dirt, seldom drying out to more than a dirty gray in color. On large trees that have rough bark, especially during the fall and winter months, the nests and webs of insects, spiders, etc., will always be found in the crevices on the south side. A preponderance of the large branches will also be found on the warmest or southern side of the trees. Also the needles of all the above mentioned trees are shorter, dryer and of a yellowish green on the southern side, while they will be found longer, more slender and pli able, damper to the touch and dark er green in color on the north side. The cedars and hemlocks, as if try ing to outdo the others, always la nd their slender tops of new growth to ward a southern sky. The hard wood trees are equally communicative and have all the characteristics, so far as regards their trunks, as the coniferous trees, except the absence of gums, but this is more than made up by the fungous growth of mold and mosses that is very noticeable on the north side of these trees. The ledges of rocks, which may be part of stupendous mountains or merely an occasional cropping out here and there in the woods or per haps some great bowlder alone by itself, a silent witness of the glacial period, all alike testify to the effect of light and shade. The sunny side will usually- be bare or at most only boast of a thin growth of harsh, dry kinds of mosses that will only grow when having the light, while the northern sides will be found damp and moldy and often covered with a luxuriant growth of soft, damp mosses that love the shade, while every crevice will bear aloft beauti ful and gracefully waving ferns. The forest floor on the sunny side of hills, ridges, clumps of trees, bushes, big rocks, etc., is more noisy 7 under the footfall than on the noi th em side of such places, where the dead leaves and litter are soft and damp, bolding more moisture than in places exposed to the light of the sun. In an open country, nearly void of timber, clumps of small bushes dur ing summer will furnish all the con ditions found to exist among the leaves of the trees, being equally sensitive to light and shade as are the monarchs of the woods. The landscape, green with moving grass es and beautiful to the eye, which feasts on the countless numbers of wild flowers, representing every form and hue known in the flowery 7 kingdom, also furnishes a reliable guide for locating the cardinal points, as most wild flowers, espe cially- the long stemmed varieties, hide their faces from the north and, like the sunflower, turn toward a southern sky.—Forest and Stream. Governor Black of New York was a farmer’s non and one of a family of 11 children, yet he prepared himself un aided to enter college at 18 and gradu ated from Dartmouth at 22. He is now angular, tall and smooth shaven and is often called “young Abe Lincoln. ” Westley Richards of Birmingham, England, who died recently at the age of 83 years, was one of the inventors of the enfield rifle and made the first capping breeehloading rifles and cartridges iu 1858. Later he invented the top lever breechloader and the falling block riflw, with the laetallie w.rtrihg* for it.