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jB r m GRANITE. Boot It la Qu»rrl«-«1 mid I’rapararf for fJia—Whcrit tha stone Conue* From. A reporter of the Cincinnati Sun, in an interview wffh nn ol«I-riit»<- contrac tor obtained tbe following information in regard to granite: “In the first place, granite appears to be the fundamental rock of the earth a crust, and is nearly always found in its perfect state in mountainous regions. 1o be sure, it is occasionally found as the superficial rock in flat’or rolling plains, but most always is found in bills and mountains. Jt i> the hardest to get at of any of the more valuable of the building rocks, but when uncovered and opened up is comparatively easy to work into rough shapes, but polishing is another mat ter. ’ ••How is it discovered?" ‘•Generally it crops out on the face of ael iff high un on a bill or mountain, hundreds of feet above convenient ave nues of travel. The first thing to bo done is to climb up and skin tin- <j*imr ry—that is, strip off sod and soil and blast out a ledge for the workmen. Then they hunt lor seams and fissures to lessen the work of blasting. Sometimes acres u|M»n acres have to be skinned be fore a single seam or crack can be found. Hut when they find a seam they have half solved the problem of quar rying, because the seams show which wav the granite will work most easily. •■Then granite has grain:' •*Yes, a sort of grain enough, any how, to make it split accurately by prop er manipulation. Frequently the seams traverse in parallel lines, in which eases the workman has a comparative picnic. First he drills long rows of holes from three mid a iialf inches to ten feet in depth and from five to ten inches apart.” . ••Then lie blasts it out and that’* all there is of it?" “Scarcely. When he lias drilled around a section ten or twenty feet wide by forty to eighty long lie takes a lot of half round irons, pointed like the drills, and acts them in the holes in pairs, llat sides together, of course. Next lie sets in his feathers, which are nothing but small, slender, und very lough steel wedges, lie goes along with a light • ainmer and begins driving in his wedges witli equal force., so that the strain increases evenly all along the line. Pretty soon there is a sharp re tort and the big granite rectangle pimps up out of its bed with a deep liol ,uw on its under surface, there being no means of getting at the bottom center with half rounds and leathers." “Is the granite then hauled to the cities to he worked up?" ••No. Do you suppose they have der ricks up there on the mountains big enough to lift two or three thousand tons? The same process is renewed along the •gram’ to break the stone into long strips, and it is then broken apart laterally by sharp tools and hammers. Os course there is enormous waste, hut when granite is found at all there is generally an abundance of it, so it isn’t much ot an object to save it. I lie diffi culty in working it is wluit makes it eo»L The granite blocks used in these streets are worked down from the great rectangular masses just as 1 have said." “Where does mlr paving granite come from, to be definite?" ••Hoek|s>rt and Quincy. Mass., and the coast of Maine are furnishing the most of wliat we are using here; hut fine paving and building granite is found in the Thousand islands and in New Uriinswiek.” I “How is it shipped?” “Pretty much as it’s laid on the side walks, only not in as great a bulk A boi-car will hold 1,200 blocks, which are worth only about #l2O a car. So you hoc the railroads get a mighty fat thing out of the transportation, as com pared with the value of the stuff.” “Where is the finest granite found?" “Aberdeen, Scotland. That is the ml grauitc, which is full of quartz. It take on a magnificent polish, Out you’ve probably noticed that they don’t carve it elaborately. If a man wants a monu ment of Scotch granite to hold his ca daver down he must be satisfied with very quiet designs, lint it holds its •harp edges, when they’re once on, for ages, almost The Egyptians had the granite business down to a liner point than any oilier people on the round earth. They weren’t satisfied with •hining it up. but they carved it and worked it as a baker works ginger bread. “Another thine the people don’t gen erally know, is that many of the so-call ed precious stones arc nothing hut quartz—one of the principal consti tuents of granite. Agate, amethyst, canielian, cat’a-eyc, chalcedony, geode, and jas|**r arc all quartz formations, and our pleasure traps end garbage carts arc trundling over acres of such rubbish every dev. Yet people call us Cincinnatians stingy. Science found a way to counterfeit these stones in paste, though, just about the same time >lie discovered how common is the natural article, so that the market is surfeited with both, and neither is wanted. 'Urn ailian pebble’ spectacles are made from quartz, and California diamonds, w hen not artificial, are worked from large, dear masses of quart/, which are found in Madagascar." A lieuutifut Country. The fervor aud glow of this tropical country, writes a correspondent lrom Mexico, i> incredible to one who has never experienced it. I’he earth seems to have reveled iu a thousand forms of frolic life in mere wanton ness. Every hair’s-breadth of soil is covered with a tangle of rare and strange forms; in terlacing vines leap from tree to tree, and luxuriant parasites cling to the boughs as if jealous of tilling every open space 1-avish bloom, in gor geous masses of red and yellow, glows alike ou tree and shrub, until one al most fancies the forests tilled with the gaudv plumage of birds, so large and striking are the separate blossoms. Here and there, as in the falls of the Atoyac, the water breaks through some mountain gap, to burv itself iu a fathomless depth of verdure below, and a rich, sensuous delight hold.- one enthralled in a delicious languor. It is s paradise for the body, but it is too union for the soul. Spiritual strength weakens before this luxurious mass of material force. 1 can not couceive of great work being done in this seduc tive world. Beautiful as Circe, it is the mortal and not the immortal to Whom its fascinations appeal. _ Our Sunday Night Teas. I believe in a good dinner on Sunday, the only day in the week when the gude man of my house has his dinner with his family. 1 also believe in making Sunday a day of rest and gladness for my faithful, hard-worked Chloe. How to combine these two tilings has long been a problem, which at last vve have solved, to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. We have dinner at half-past one, when we come from Sunday School. The table is laid with snowy cloth and the best china always, and generally for one guest. We like to bring home with us some borne-sick student or palo faced teacher, who only hoards, not lives, or a friend who loves a Sunday “sing," and can help with fingers or voice. Chloe, in a fresh calico and white apron, comes in to wait on us, when her dinner, nicely served and garnished, is ready. In summer we give up soup, aud have a lettuce or to mato salad between the meat course and dessert, and there is always coffee or tea last. The dinner is the pleasantest and most leisurely of the week, as well as the nicest As much as possible is pre pared on Saturday. By four o’clock Chloe has everything cleared away, her breakfast table neatly set, and goes smiling out of the side door in her best array, not to return till ten o'clock. <)u a side table in the dining-room she has set out a waiter, with a plate of thin bread and butter nicely piled, a basket of cake, a pitcher of iec-walor, another of milk, a dish of baked apples or fruit, over all a napkin. There is also the little Japanese tray and tea things, with which the tea is always made on the table, instead of being boiled and spoiled in the kitchen. If it is winter, she leaves tile tea-kettle ready to boil ut a minute’s notice. In sum mer 1 boil the water in a saucepan over the kitchen gas. It takes five minutes, and that is all the work to he done for our Sunday night teas. The meal is made perfectly informal. If wo are go ing to evening service, my hus hand and 1 sometimes take ours when we come home, and let the rest of the family have theirs when they choose. Sometimes wc have happy Sunday evenings at home, all together. These are the best, and will have a hold on the children, I am sure, while they live. There are long, quiet chats, with •I’apa” in the middle of the sofa, the little head > on each side nestled close; or our favorite game, each repenting a line of poetry, beginning with A, and so going through the alphabet; or sing out of our beautiful Sunday School Hymnal, which is so much underrated by people in general. Oil these even ings our tea becomes a real pleasure. 1 bring the waiter into the library, and put it on a little, round table before thu open fire. While the Souchong is brew ing in the little, blue china teapot, tho children pass the bread and butter, or every body helps himself in picnic fash ion without ceremony. 11l .summer tho little table is wheeled out on the piazza, and we have our tea there, with tho shadows of the vino leaves dancing over us while we watch the sinking sun. Ten minutes is more than enough to gather up the few dishes afterward. The children, happy in anything out of week-day routine, say, “How lovely Sunday is!” And we elders think. How good God is who gave us our home! Mrs. S. 11. Gilman, in (loud Honsi keeping. '“ Tlie Ocvil anil Brandy. Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russian novo 11st, has given a new turn to his imagi nation. He has produced a farce in six nets with the title, “The First Brandy Distiller.” The work is completed, and if the sanction of the censor can be at tained, and it is not expected that there will ho any difficulty, the novel produc tion will before long find its way to the stage. The work is neither of political nor religious character. It is based upon the Russian legends relating to the invention of brandy by the devil. Devils, indeed, are the only characters of the piece. The plot is as follows: Mankind is led astray by these satanie emissaries, and supremacy over their victims is heslowou upon the chief of demons. This chief divides his devils according to position and sex. Some arc commissioned to corrupt noble peo ple, others business people; others, again, arc charged with the corruption of women and girls, of lawyers, and so on. All the devils discharge their tasks to the lull satisfaction of their sovereign, saving one, who should have led the peasantry astray. This one is punished until, in despair, lie promises to do his duty well. After receiving a supple mentary cudgeling, lie goes among the peasants ami takes service as a simple servant. lle works so diligently for ids master that the latter becomes incalcula bly rich, his corn accumulating to such an extent that it can not all no used. Here the demon servant advises his master to make spirit of his corn. The experiment is made, and the farmer is delighted with the result. Ho calls his wife, children, ami neighbors together, and the general verdict on the liquor is that it tastes excellent. The company indulges to such a degree that singing, dancing, shrieking, then abuse, vio lence. and impropriety, become the or der of the day. Matters having reached this jHiint, the supreme devil makes his appearance, lie rejoices al the ingen uity of his subject, und awards him praise. Here is tho denouement The play certainly has a moral, which prob ably needs (minting in Russia as much as anywhere, Ball -Mali Gazette. lVliiee Join. amt Die I.ltllo Man. President Van Huron's son, familiar ly known as I’rimv John, was a mail of great natural ability, a good lawyer and a readv wit On one occasion he had taken some technical legal advantage by w nidi his opiionont’s client iu an ac tion was non-suited. The man was fur ious, and declared his purpose to give John a piece of his mind w hen he saw him; tic would wither turn. Happening to see John one day at Downing’s, standing at the bar, tie boldly confront ed the lVi nee. and, being a small man, looked up at hiiu fiercely anil burst out: ••Mr. Van Huron, is there any client so low and mean or any ease so nasty that vou wouldn’t undertake to defend hint !in it?" “1 don’t know," said John, stopping to put away another oyster; then bending down and confidentially drawling out ins reply in the little tnan s ear: “What you been doing?’’- Ben: I'liicy t'oore, in Boston Bud jit. HE MET THEM. A OraiiKßr’s Expert, nee With Sleek-Look tng Men as Told l»y Himself. A short, thick-set man, about 65 years of age, with little twinkling black eyes, a short, stubby gray beard, and a very red face, alighted from the F'alls train Saturday night. In one hand the little old man carried a massive oak walking stick and the other was engaged in clutching an old-time carpet bag that had evidently done service for ages. A wide-brimmed soft felt hat, from under which now and then a strangling lock of yellow hair was seen, and a red handkerchief around his neek did not ! make the farmer a beauteous creature to look ujKjn. When the train had made a stop the old gentleman commenced pacing up and down the platform in an excited way. muttering to himself. Seeing a baggageman, lie walked up to him and striking the oak stick on tbe floor with a force that would have been a credit to a trip-hammer, said: "Say, my name’s John Graham. I’m from Dutchess county, I am. and I’m in kind of a hustle to git hum. Can you tell me when the cars go?” “Where do you want to go?” asked the baggage fiend. “Ter Poughkeepsie, by gosh. I own a rattlin’ farm down there." On being informed that the train lie desired to take left at 11:30 the old man started for the waiting-room, where ho met a reporter, and asked: “Say, friend, where can an old man get a drink of water?” After following the direction indi cated, and relieving his thirst, the farmer returned to tiie platform aud as tonished the station men with his feats of pedestrianism as he went from one end of the station to tho other with pro digious strides. Finally he walked up to a number of men wno were sitting on a truck and again asked about the train. After being told, one of the men asked him where lie lived. "Down near Poughkeepsie,” he answered. “Been away on a visit?” was the next question. “Vans, I’ve sorter ben visitin’ my dater up iu llerrian county, Michigan. .She got married and moved up ttiar some years ago, and I haint seen her until 1 went up thar. I’m on my way hum tiow, bun I’m a blarsted old idiot. I am. I've been robbed, skinned right out of my money,” and lie jammed the stick down so fiercely that all of his auditors jumped. “How’s that, friend?" asked one of the listeners. “When 1 left hum,” replied the farm er, “I took about §1)0 with me, besides what it cost me to go and come. It didn’t cost me anything up at John’s, but blarst my skin if 1 hain’t out nigh on ter S3O. Jes’ after the cars left Detroit 1 was siltin’ iu the seat and a kinder good-lookin’ sort of a man came : in and sat down next to me and com menced talkin’, and I’ll be blasted es he wasn’t a darned nice fellei. Birueby another man came iu with a valise and asked if the other seat was taken. I said ‘No,’ and he sot down. We talked and talked and 1 got quite well ac quainted with him, and we eat lunch to gether. After a while one fellow took out a little box and laid a paper on his knee and said: •• T’ve just picked up something new, friends, and don’t miud showing it. It is a neat little gag.’ “Ho had three little silver things like a bali cut in two, and a little square button, and the trick was to tell where tho button was. Gosh. I guessed five or six times and hit it every jump. Bimebv the other man bet a dollar that lie could guess, and he guessed and got the chink. So 1 bet like a darned fool, as my wife says 1 allers was, and I got it. Gosh, 1 kept right on buttin' aud I’ll be blowed es 1 ain’t short S3O to the best callerlation, and those fellows are havin’ a good time on my money. I don’t know what Jolm'll do when lie asks me to pay the thrashin’ bill. Oh, but I'm an old fool, just as Mehitablo said. ” — liocheslcr Democrat. Counting a Million. An exchange has been making one of those foolish computations that period ically go the rounds of the press regard ing the shortest possible length of time in which a rery large number could be : counted—-in this instance a billion. As nobody outside of an insane asylum has any intention of counting a billion, liow ! ever, it is of no possible consequence j whether it could be done in less than ; the time given by the computer, which is over 9,000 years, or not. It is, how ever. a fact that a Buffalo family, while traveling over Europe in a carriage I years ago, made a test of the matter of ! counting a million. Fiv*> members of i the family performed the ta-k respect - i lvolv in three weeks, four weeks, live weeks, two months and six months. As j the time was spent entirely in driving aboutlheeontiiieiit.it was impossible to put in live or six hours steady count ing a day, and l>y the use of pebbles, which were shifted from one pocket to the other to mark tens and hundreds, the labor was greatly facilitated. It may readily be imagined that the count ing became a terrible boro to such of the party as were not participants, and one of the latter admits a n'folleetmu of sometimes in tiiose days finding him self counting when iie should have been saying his prayers, so median cal did the iiabil become before the task was finished.— Buffalo Courier. A Wise Huinmmjt-Hiril. Wisdom does not depend on size, as you all know, my dears. The a*t and the bee, in fact, often seem to know more than some of the largest animals. The humming-bird, too, though the smallest of birds, is not lacking in intel | licence. A friend of the Deacon tells a nieasant little story of one that was try ing to secure the honey from a flower with a deep cup, and at the same time was plainly very tired. The flower grew near a porch where a family was sitting, and, seeing the trouble of the bird, a youug girl walked slowlv toward him. holding out her linger. The tired bird looked sharply at her aud then ac cepted the offered perch, alighted on the finger, and, when it was held close to the flower, returned to his work of honey-gathering. The girl stood quiet ly. and he us<>d her finger vs a resting place till he had finished his meal, when Ir o flew away home. A wise humming | bird that, say I, and a wise girl, too. 1 •—BL Sicholai, . Till; DAKK CONTINENT. ' Only Five TThftr I’eopto in a City of 5 ; 00C —A Wild and Curious Country. Dr. Ralph St John Perry, who went from this city to Africa several month* ago, in a letter to a friend here writes from Cape Mount about his experience in the Dark Continent: “Monrovia is built upon a bed of iron-ore, part of which assays 90 per cent pure iron. The town contains 5,000 people, five of whom are white. it has no drug stores, no library, no public halls, no barber shop, no saloons, no streets, and very few fences. They have no need for streets, as they have no horses or vehicles. The population is divided in to three classes—the natives, or abori ' giues, the Liberians, or children born here of foreign parents, and toe enii * grants, or foreigners. The latter are on a par with those shipped to the United Slates of America from Europe—poor, ignorant, and lazy. “The Kroos. a native tribe, were formerly the slave dealers of this coast. Every Kroomatt has a blue tattoo mark down tlie middle of bis forehead, ex tending on down the nose. They cut their hair with bits of broken bottles, and cut it in all sorts of styles. Instead of tattooing, tbe women paint them selves from head to toot; it is no uncom mon thing to see a girl xvitlgthe Liberian flag painted on her forehead. Some ol the women, whose husbands or fathers work for Americans, wear the United States tlag, but nothing can induce them to wear the British llag, as they all hate Englishmen, and will havo nothing to do with them. We use live nations’ money hero —United States, English, Dutch, French, and Liberian, ami occasionally a Spanish gold coin, i “The country here is very broken and wild. The mountain above us is rocky, and only inhabited by goats, deer, and other wild animals. Monkeys are abundant, and play havoc with the gardens below at night. Our hill is planted vvilii coffee trees, and our coffee is excellent. it is picked, cleaned, roasted, cooked, and drank inside of twenty-four hours. We have fresh ven ison, chicken, and fish every day, with rice, cassava, plantains, and greens. The cassava is a tuber like the sweet potalo in shape, and looks and tastes like a mixture of beeswax and plaster of paris. Pepper is put into everything eatable, and very plentiful, too. Our native boy, who tends to roasting and pounding up tlie coffee, was not satis lied until he had put a big handful of pepper into it, which was not discover ed until we tried to drink it. We have a now coffee boy now. A small water melon a foot long sells liei’e for a shil ling, but two pineapples as big as your head sell for otic cent; bananas and plantains sell for 10 cents a bunch; mango plums, which sell in New York for 25 cents each, can be had here for | one cent a dozen. All these fruits grow | wild, and the only charge is for the I trouble of getting them to yon. Flowers are most abundant- magnolia every j where, and heliotrope is used for hedges, I while lilies- and passion-Howers are | trod under fool, so thick arc they. From j my oilice window 1 can see ferns twenty feel high, orange trees in ail stages of | production from blossom to fruit. The j boys use oranges to play cricket with. ! Birds, insects, fish, and snakes are ! plentiful. 1 had a young boa-constric | lor three feet long offered mo for 50 cents. Ivory is brought here occasion ally to sell. Our natives are not hunt ers, so there is not much done in that line. “The bank of our lake —Peso —is dot ted all along with native towns, called bush-towns. Two houses make a town; each town of 100 houses has a King or Governor. .Sometimes a King has sev eral small towns. All the people are called the King’s children, and dare | not do anything without his consent. | One man who wanted to come to see me j about a tumor had to send twenty miles to get permission from his King. The King sent me a message giving me authority to do anything i wished to the man, and he would be responsible so; all costs. When at Monrovia 1 engage! a Kroo boy at a salary of $25 a year U attend the office and do such work as I required, but be was so lazy I had to give him the grand bounce. He was too lazy to eat, and, rather than see him starve, 1 sent him home, where somebody could feed him. My new boy is about 20 years old, named Monio — Vex name for Mohammed —and he is heir to one of the Vev thrones, his father being an up-country King. Momo wanted to learn English, so he ran away from home and came to the mission, and I took him in and adopted him. His people came down with cloth and sheep, and tried to coax him back—no ;o. His elder brother ran away also, and has just left on the ship Liberia for the United States. By the way, 1 have she only United Slates flag in Liberia, the United States Consul having none. The medical school has opened xvith a fair attendance. We have a plant hero called ‘boolo,’ and *bonda,’ by the na tives, and ‘vegetable mercury’ by the whites, which is twenty times stronger than castor-oil, one drop of a 5 per cent tincture causing a very brisk cath arsis. "The girls, as soon as they are able to \ valk and talk, are put in the ‘gree gree bush,’ a sort of convent, where they are instructed in their duties as j women and wives. They are usually ' sold by their parents m marriage as j s*on as they are born. If not sold they must remain in the ‘gree-gree bush’ un til some one buys them. The old girls In the ‘bush’ instruct the new ones. A wife costs about sls. When the bidding *akes place the bride comes with pres ents to the groom, and he must trive in return double as much as she brings. A man may have as many wives as he can pay for—in fact, they are the African oranch of the Mormon Church. The boys are kept in the ‘gree-gree bush’ until of age, generally 14 years. Should one cf either sex disclose the secrets of their ‘bush,’ or oue be caught in tlie other's ‘bush,’ he or she is put to death publicly.— lndianapolis Journal. Country pardon (to city visitor) i “Didn't J see vou at church to-day?” City visitor—" Yes. aud, if you will be lieve it, it was the tirst time that I can remember when 1 didn't go to sleep be fore the sermon was half over.'' . Country parson—lndeed! but I am afraid you are trying to flatter me,” City visitor—“O, dear no; it wasn't , that: it was the flies.” Country parson —“O'” —Huston Transcript. Tin: EXCELSIOR GEYSER. Some facts About the Yellowstone's Ter rific Water Volcano. The famous Excelsior Geyser, which burst into active eruption in the Yellow stone National Park recently, is the most terrible water volcano in the world. It was discovered and made known to the scientific world by Prof. Hayden in 1871. At that time it was not distinctly characterized as a geyser, but it attracted his attention ax a mar velously active and sinister-looking cal dron of boiling water and was so im pressive that he charted it in his re ports and made particular mention of it both on his first and second explora tions of the Yellowstone geyser basins. The Excelsior, or, as it is called in some of the Governmental reports, Sheridan Geyser, is situated on the rio-ht or westerly bank of the Pil'e-llole River, about eight miles south of the fol ks of the Fire-Hole, where they form a junction with the Gibbon. It is the great feature of what is known as Hull’s Half Acre, a detached terrace of vol canic springs lying between the lower and upper geyser basins. In each of these two greater basins there are nu merous active geysers, but at Hell’s Half Acre the Excelsior is the only gey ser, the other thermal pools being sim ply hot springs—one of them, however, termed the Great Prismatic Spring, be ing of extraordinary size and beauty. The Excelsior and Prismatic are the two chief objects on the terrace. When Hayden lirst saw the Excelsior it was a deep blue cistern, scalding hot and greatly agitated by the subterranean heat. Its waters were level with the floor of the terrace; it had a narrow, lissure-like outlet, furrowed by the ac tion of the water, on the sinter of which the terrace had been formed and through which its water was discharged into the Fire-Hole. It was then of a diameter of something like fifty feet. On his second visit Hayden found that the basin had been considerably en larged by the action of the spring, and Unit its outlet channel had grown wider and more irregular. For seven or eight years it was an object of awe to the few travelers who found their way through this weird region. It was the night of Jan. 24. 1881, however, that the great pool suddenly and unexpectedly burst forth as a gey ser, xvith much of the dreadful roar and subterranean rumbling of a fiery vol cano and xvith most destructive energy against its oxvn walls. The outburst or explosion occurred after midnight, and xvas heard by George W. Marshall, a pioneer xvho had wandered into this wilderness of xvonders a year or txvo be fore and had made his camp at the forks of the Fire-Hole, where he lives to this day. It xvas in the dead of an icebound xvintcr in the Rocky Moun tain realm, but Marshal says the noise, the rumbling, the explosions, and the tremblings of the earth that accom panied tlie eruption awoke him at a distance of certainly eight miles and appalled him. Nevertheless, he sur mised xvhat tlie uproar portended, and early next morning he rode over to the Half-Acre to see xvhat sort of infernal excavation had been going on during tlie night. His anticipation xvas veri fied. The Excelsior Pool was then in a perfect frenzy, and the destruction it had wrought was terrible. The terrabe and the opposite bank of the river was strewn with masses of rock, bowlders, and huge as xvell as small masses of silicious sinter, of which not only the surface of the bank but its substratum and even the lower depths and chan nels of the great spring itself were com posed. In its terrible throes the mon ster had belched x-olleys of these from its throat, it had thrown up also per fect deluges of scalding water that had drenched everything for hundreds of yards around, had raised the level of the river a foot, and heated its current for miles. Thereafter the Excelsior became one of the marvels of the region, though comparatively fexv were fortunate enough to xvitness its eruption, xvliich took place at irregular iutervals of fif teen to twenty-live days, and lasted about six to eight hours. These great convulsions throwing a column of wa ter about 200 feet high, tore open the outlet and made it a deep and ragged channel, widened the margins of the pool itself, and lowered the surface of the water about twelve feet to the level of the lowest point of the outlet. The iiHsin has now a diameter of 200 feet. In the xvinter of 1888 it ceased its cm tion*, and since that time and un ;il its recent outbreak, had remained quiescent.—-V. Y. Herald. Kandfti.met risitina <'*rd» with you* « na'ue licit y printed 10 c^ntft. Bea i :iiul V hiOiiiu car ib, with name 25 rente. * K egant visiting cards, gilt or fanoj Sf J m Sedire, with nauie, 50 cents. F J 4 if trrand Hidden Marne cards, with name, 50 cents. 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Whr*i ordering. tar If lor Lad* <* lr« t. r or r*> .■’•'fed A warrantv «eot wth each watch. TaUlorue fne VICTOR M AT! H < 0.. a A bv Maiden L-iof, N. 1. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS WILL CURE HEADACHE INDIGESTION BILIOUSNESS nvcpppcTA NERVOUS PROSTRATION MALARIA CHILLS and FEVERS TIRED FEELING GENERAL DEBILITY PAIN IN THE BACK AND SIDES IMPURE BLOOD CONSTIPATION FEMALE INFIRMITIES RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA KIDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLES I-'Oh! SITE B V AT T. DRUGGISTS The Genuine has Trade-Mark and crossed Red Lines on wrapper. TAKE NO OTHER STEEL PENS. PA'BiNiZE HOME INDUSTRY, Wft are now offering to the public STEEL PENS <*' our own manufacture. Our Plowboy Eagle Is the 1> •!. luisiim'sj ]vii ;!i flip market, 75 cents |M*r gro. p . . . address bu receipt of price, Xml for line »: our Plowboy Favorite Surpasses any pen v : made, rKOO'per gross postpaid, on receipt of price. Samples on ap- THE PLOY/BOY CO., Eict Point, Ga. Tie filoln Otitis ail Cora Plaster AND fertilizer Distributor. Highest award at International Cotton Exhi biion. Atl nta, Ga., the Arkansas State F air the Ntional Cotton Planters* Association, the Great Beuthf rn Exuoaiiipn, Lcuisvi le, Ky., and the World’s Exposition, New Orleans, La., and which has NEVER failed in any contest, has b«*>r »t??l further improv “d is now full* adapted to any character of aoil and the most unskilled labor, twe styles and Eiaea bei g n-.w made. It it the meat durable Planter made, and will Save its Cost Three Times Over SINGLESEASON. As it plantu from eight to ten acres per day. with less than one and one-haif bushels of seed per acre, and opens, drops, distributes fer tilizers and covers at one operation, saving T*o HANDS AND ONE TEAM. The price has been reduced to suit the time*. Bend for circular giving full description an 4 terms. Globe Planter M’fg Co., 226 Marietta Street, Atlanta. Ga. THE PLOWBOY CO. 18 PREPARED TO DO NEWSPAPER "w oirfk: Os fvery Description in THE 3£HT POSSIBLE MANNER. And at the Shortest Notice. We Furnish READY PRINT -IKIES Oil OUTSIDES For Newspapers, OF THI Hitat Oiler ol EiceEsice. NEWSPAPER HEADS Made to Order From the Latest Style of Type. Publishers who desire to furnish their subscribers with the greatest smoant ol reading matter at the least cost, will d« well to communicate with ns at once. We will print the inside or outside, o< the entire paper, if desired. Samples of Heady Prints sent on ap plication, and prices quoted that are surprisingly low and defy competition. All we ask is am opportunity to serve our fellow publishers, confident that we can give satisfaction. THE PLOWBOY CO. East Poiat, 6v