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Hors** Frightened by Steam.
In order to render a railroad com
pany liabl* for injiirie# canaed by
horse* running away in consequence
of fright cansad by steam escaping
from the valves of an engine, the sn- ■
preme court of Nebraska holds, in the
recent case of Omaha A Republican
Valley Railway Company vs. Clarke,
that it must appear, not only that the,
opening of the valves was unnecessary, !
but also that it was done under such j
circumstances as to imply a failure to
exercise that care which a prudent
and reasonable man would exer
oise under similar circumstances,
And while negligence is an inference
to be drawn from the facts, the exis
tence of the facts themselves must be
established by evidence which would
warrant a reasonable man in inferring
negligence. Neither can negligence
be inferred from the more fact that
an accident happened. —Tennessee
Farmer.
Employes— Want to marry my
daughter, eh? And next I suppose
you’ll want your salary raised so that
yon can support her?
Employe—Oh, no sir! I shall ex¬
pect you to support us both.— Kate
Field's Washington.
Fibbt Tbamp —Do you believe that
the Coxey movement will cure all our
industrial troubles?
Second Ditto—Bill, do I act like a
man ment yho ever had any faith in move¬
cures?— Boston Transcript,
We should all like to learn how to
fly if our creditors and bores were dis¬
qualified to learn.
I.lkr the dentin Dew from Heaven
femes blissful peace to a turbulent, unruly
liver brought into subjection and disciplined
with that grand regulator, Hostetter’s Stem
ach Bitters, a boon of priieiesH worth, not
only the rlieuinatio, to the bilious, but also to the malarious,
the nervous, the feeble, the
constipated, bladder and those whose kidneys and
* are inactive The liver always
which chiefly the involved hitters in material complaints, for
is a remedy.
As a rule .man works the hardest trying to
avoid work.
Dr.Kilmer's Swamp-Root cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet Laboratory and Consultation free. •
Binghamton, N. Y.
What mammon has Joined together let the
divorce courtB put asunder.
To Cleanse the System
Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious,
or when the blood la Impure or sluggish,to per¬
manently cure habitual constipation, to awak¬
en the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity,
without Irritating or weakening them, to dis¬
pel headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup of
Figs.
Time saved Is not a blessing if the time Is
put to ignoble uses.
Teething Children.
Nothing on earth will take children through
the trying ordeal of teething so pleasantly, and
so very Bnrely and Weiy, as Dr. King’s Koyal
Germetuer. They all like to take it, and it
acts like magic in meeting the troubles of that
oritlcai period. Thousands have tried it and
it lias never been known to fail.
Good Times Ahead.
No doubt about It, wo aro rapidly leaving
“bard times” in the rear, and those who are
already working enjoying for good times fair and degree expecting them are
If, however, a of prosper ity.
tilings F. are not moving satisri ictor
ily, Va.. write and they to B. Johnson & Co., Richmond,
will give you a business oppor¬
tunity that will provo a surprise aud delight
We will give $100 reward for any case of ca¬
tarrh that cannot be cured with Hall's Catarrh
Cure, Taken internally.
F. J. UBENKY & Co., Props., Toledo, O.
HbiloliN Cure
Is sold on a guarantee. It cures inoipier il Con
sumption; it is l lie Best Cough (lure; 23c, 50c, $1
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“I was In the army 4 years, was wounded
and contracted sciatica and rheumatism.
Have suffered ever Binee and lost the use ot
my left leg and side. I must say that of all
the medicines I have over tried Hood’s Sar¬
saparilla Is the best. It has done me the
most good. I do not say that it will raise a
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but fellow nearest it from will to doing the come dead; it the of retires
any medicine I have
ever used.” T. H. Saunders, Osceola, Neb.
Hood’s Pills cure indigestion, biliousness.
Unlike the Dutch Process
(7h No Alkalies
— OR —
Other Chemicals
are used in the j
preparation of j
tv* W. BAKER & CO.’S |
{ akfastCocoa j |
which is absolutely
III pure and soluble.
It, has more than three tim es
the strength ot Cocoa mixed
- rith Starch, Arrowroot or
” Sugar, and is far
more eco
------- It is delicious, ..I’.:.} less nourishing, than one cent a cup.
and easily
DIGESTED. _
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s LIVER PILLS
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TREATMENT MKSSSE
THE TOOTHSOME PEANUT.
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Norfolk, V»., la the Peanut Market of
the World—Cleaning, Grading and
Branding the Nuts.
"Tf ~TROM 1866 to the present day
Vf the peanut supply has steadily
' <g“ increased, until now the gross
amount produced and ou t
upon the market is estimated at 4 000 -
000 bushels ’ ’
Peanuts per annum
with leaves grow upon a trailing vine
much resembling a small
four-leaved clover. The small vellow
flower it bears is shaped like the bios
earn of all the pea family ■ indeed the
agricultural bureau in Washington
does not recognize the peanut as a nut
at all, but classes it among beans
The soil in which it is cultivated must
be light and sandy; flower-stalk after the flower
falls aW ay, the elongates
and becomes rigid, curving in such a
way as to push the forming pod well
below the surface of the earth; if by
accident this is not done the nut never
matnres.
They are planted in rows about three
feet apart, and the vines spread until
the ground is covered by them Har
vesting is done after the first frost and
the yield is often 100 bushels to the
acre, making this a more profitable
crop than wheat or cotton. The vines
with the nuts clinging to them, are
torn up with pronged hoes, and alio wed
to dry in the-sun for a day or two,
and then stacked to cure. In about a
fortnight the nuts are picked off, the
empty ones, which are techically
called “pops,” being rejected. This
picking is done by hand, and is slow
work, as an expert laborer can pick
only three bushels a day. They come
into market in a rough, dirty state,
unassorted, and with vine tendrils
clinging to the pods.
Norfolk, Va., is called the “peanut
market of the world. ” This may be
somewhat exaggerated, for Africa sup¬
plies the demand of Europe, but it is
certainly the peanut market of the
United States. From the surround¬
ing countries come by sloop, by
steamer, by freight train, by wagon,
by ox-cart, into the hands of the com
mission merchants, thousands of big,
four-bushel bags, containing the pea¬
nuts farmer. as they leave the hands of the
All this, though the history of the
peauut is interesting enough, would
hardly have entitled it to be described
among our “American industries.”
But in 1876 what is now (mis) called 11
“peanut factory,” for the cleaning,
grading and branding of peanuls,
established in Norfolk. The value of
this product was at once immensely
increased, and there are now in Nor¬
folk and its immediate vicinity four¬
teen of these factories—several of
them large, five-story brick buildings,
filled with powerful and expensive
machinery, and each employing from
100 to 200 persons, both male and fe¬
male, for all the picking over is done
entirely by manual labor.
But though he did not hit on ex
actly the right name for his noiv es
fcablishmont, Mr. Elliot, the founder,
not only proved a blessing to the
farmers, by increasing the worth of
their crop, but made his own fortune,
and, standing now at the hoad of the
trade, is known all over the United
States as “Peanut Elliot,” or the
“Peanut King.” Ho is a fme-look
ing, middle-aged man, with a bright,
genial face and manner, and has a
cordial welcome for visitors. He con¬
ducted a party of us, the other day,
over his establishment, and after ex¬
plaining all the various operations to
us in a charming, clear and concise
manner, he sent us away bearing each
a large bag of “first quality” peanuts,
and the most pleasant recollections of
our host and visit.
When the peanuts arrive at the
factory they are rough and earth
stained, and of all sizes and qualities,
jumbled together. The bags are first
taken up by iron arms projecting from
an endless chain to the fifth floor of
the factory. Here they are weighed
and emptied into large bins, From
these bins they fall to the next story,
into large cylinders, fourteen feet
long, which revolve rapidly, and by
friction the nuts are cleansed from the
earth which clings to them, and pol¬
ished so that they come out white aud
glistening.
From this story the nuts fall
through shoots to the third and most
interesting floor. Imagine rows of
long, narrow tables, each divided
lengthwise into three sections by thin,
inch-high strips of wood. These strips
also surround the edge of the table.
Each of these sections is floored with
a strip of heavy white canvas, which
moves incessantly from the mouth of
a shoot to an opening leading down
below at the further eud of the table.
These slowly-moving canvas bands,
about a foot wide, are called “pick¬
ing aprons.” Upon the outer aprons
of each table dribbles down from the
shoot a slender stream of peanuts,
and on each side of the table, so close
together as scarcely to have “elbow
room,” stand rows of colored girls and
women, picking out the inferior pea¬
nuts as they pass and throwing them
into the central section. So fast do
their hands move at this work that
one cannot see what they are doing
till they cast a handful of nuts into
the middle division. By the time a
nut has passed the sharp eyes of eight
or ten pickers, one may be quite cer
tain that it is a first-class article, fit
for the final plunge down two stories,
into a bag which presently shall be
marked, “Electric Light” brand, aud
fetch the highest market price.
The peanuts from the central
aprons fall only to the second story,
where they. undergo yet another
picking over, on similar tables, the
best of these forming the second
grtfl* From the MBtrai apron of
these table* Mr. Elliott gathered Mare
lesalr a handful of peannta—-f*eat,
fine-looking one* that we thought
should enrely have gone into an “elec
trie light” bag.
; “I’ll give yon a dollar for every
kernel you find in these,” he said,
presenting them to us. We eagerly
^ rr ‘ ,rke ‘ i u,e ®. f°nnd them perfectly
om l ,t .V. and regarded Mr. Elliot as a
8ort °f magician, who con Id see through
a if not a mill-stone,
“ Tt is tbe amplest thing in the
world,” he said, laughing at our be
wilderment, “though it always puzzles
strangers.” And he showed us how a
stron 8 current of air blew the empty
8 k‘- bs at once into the central division,
Tbe tbird grade of peannts, or whut
remains after the second picking, is
tben tarned into a machine which
crushes thft sllells and separates them
from tbe kernels. These are sold to
m annfacturers of candy while the
8116,18 aro 8 round U P and used for
hor8,i b6(ldm «- 80 no P art of this
llttle fruit > vegetable or nut, which
ever it may turnout to bo, is finally
wasted ' bnt a!1861768 8ome nsefal P af -
pose.
The peanut is a little patriot, be
cau8e !t hel P ed the poor sokhers when
tlie war was over > ** bas stood by the
P oor faraerB during many a desperate
86a80n - aud now furnishes employment
f ? p tbou8au<l8 of laborers, not only in
Norfolk > but 111 many factories at
? ther townM m Assertion of country,
? creates a steadily increasing in¬
du8tl T. aud there begins to be a de
nland for oar P eanuts m foreign
c " untneB > as tbe y are far le88 oloagin
and moro ^eeable to the taste
than tho8H « row “ in Afrlca > 8 “ thero
« “fan-prospect r for t a profitable ! , ex¬
P ort trade in the future.—New Orleans
1 lca yuue.
WISE WORDS.
Backsliding often begins by looking
back.
It is the joy of truth to be looked iff
the face.
A fool sometimes builds his house
of books.
A genius is never taken to be one
by his looks.
True religion always puts sunshine
in the heart.
It isn’t the biggest horn that makes
the best music.
In the arithmetic of heaven nothing
counts but love.
Praise and doubt cannot both live
in the same heart.
Growth in knowledge is the only
cure for self-conceit.
There is as much kill in a selfish
heart as there is in a musket.
Be grateful for your blessings and
it will make your trials look small.
There can be no permanent or abid¬
ing good in unconseorated wealth.
Bencvolenoe without love has no
more heart in it than a grindstone.
A flower will have something sweet
to say to you, no mattei where you put
it.
Perseverance can accomplish won¬
ders, but it cannot make a bad egg
hatch.
Build a fence any where, and the first
boy who comes along will want to
climb it.
It takes moro than philosophy to
make a man smile when he has the
toothache.
One reason why some men swear, is
because it does not take any courage
or manliness to do it.
Many a man will open the front
door for discontent who tries his best
to keep burglars out of his house. —
Ram’s Horn.
How Indians Raise Hair.
Just when the mutilation of the
dead by tearing the skin from the
head began will never be known, for
the origin is lost in the mist of ages,
the l-eoord extending back beyond
even the mythical period of man’s ex¬
istence. In the Book of Maccabees it
is recorded that at the termination of
one of the battles of which that
bloody history is so full, the victori¬
ous soldiers tore the skin from the
heads of their vanquished foes. This
would be evidence that the custom of
scalp-taking was one of the indul¬
gences even of those people of whom
we have record in the Bible.
Be that as it may, it is an estab¬
lished fact that the custom is a uni¬
versal one, so far as savage man is
concerned. Whether ethnologists can
build a theory of a common origin of
man from this or not, or whether this
oan be taken as an evidence that the
Indians are the descendants of the
lost Israelite tribes because of their
habit of securing moinentoes of hair
from their fallen enemies, is some¬
thing time alone can develop. Be
that as it may, it is a fact that all In¬
dian tribes, to a certain extent, scalp
their enemies who have fallen in bat¬
tle. Some writers on the subject of
Indian habits and customs deny this,
but I believe that no tribe is abso¬
lutely free from the taint of having
taken the scalp.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
His Experience Account.
“When I lose anything,” says a
well-known Maine business man, “I
charge it to the account of experience.
You may think it strange, but I be¬
lieve the good-sized sum I have $ al¬
ready entered under that head is the
most profitable money I ever spent.
Adversity is the great teacher if we
but heed her lessons. I lost $500
once in a transaction that gave me
information and a proper respect for
matters I had deemed of little account,
from which I afterward made $5000.
I would not sell my experience
account, at my age, for five times
what it has cost me, for I shan't live
long enough to get sharpened up
again.”—-Lewiston Journal.
HOl'SEHOIJl AFFAIKS.
BATS IN A CBTXAB.
Cellar.* should be built always with
regard to safety from vermin, Once
these get a foothold in the walls or
under the floor it is almost impossi¬
ble to dislodge them, and if they are
poisoned the dead carcasses are as bad
as the live animals. So that the con¬
struction of the cellar is worth think
ing of. The floor should be made of
concrete, over a layer of broken
stoi;-, well rammed down. Rats can
not rrow under such a floor and
gain entrance in that way. Then the
walls should be built up of stone laid
in mortar, and all the crevices should
be filled with small chips to make the
wall tight. The foundation of the wall
should be made at least six inches
wider than the wall outside, as the rats
will try to make their way along the
wall, and never make the offset out
ward to get under it. The beams
above the floor of the cellar should be
bedded in the wall, and the wall built
close around the ends of them. This
also insures soundness in the beams
and prevents rotting, as there is noth
ing better for the preservation of the
timber than lime. It has been recom
mended that the holes made by the
rats be smeared with tar, which is of
fensive to them, or to place some con¬
centrated lye on the bottom of the
burrows, by which the rats’ feet are
burned. This so disgusts them that
they leave the premises. But there
will always be trouble unless the walls
are built at firstinthe way mentioned.
—New York Times.
MATTINGS AND BUGS.
In buying matting it pays to get a
good quality. Mattiug should always
be bound, aud unless you are an ex¬
pert in such matters let me warn yon
not to attempt much in the way of
cutting to fit corners. Unless you are
very careful you will have a frayed
breadth on your hands which will cost
more to replace than the price asked
by the dealers for making and laying.
Double-headed tacks, such as are sold
expressly for the purpose, are the
only satisfactory ones. The ordinary
No. 8 has a fashion of making its way
into the fiber and then catting loose.
Matting is not adapted for floor sub¬
jected to hard wear. The poor qual¬
ity will fray, and the finer grades will
wear off. Wherever it is used there
should be a plentiful supply of rugs
to protect it; for while worn carpet
may be tolerated, worn matting has an
air of shabby gentility.
Soiled matting may l>e cleaned with
a damp cloth, and whore there are
colors it is well to put a little salt into
the water in which you dip the cloth.
If you have been so unfortunate as to
drop grease upon the matting, do not
ammonia or benzine or grease ex¬
tractors; you will only make the spot
worse. Sometimes brown paper and
a hot iron will bo effective, but the
best eradicator is French chalk and
benzine. Cover the spot thick with
the chalk and moisten by sprinkling,
not pouring, the benzine upon it.
When the benzine has evaporated,
brush off the chalk, and lo! the spot
has vanished also.
Summer time, with its bare floors
and colorless matting, is when rags are
most needed. Here, then, is a hint
which some women may be able to use.
It is more than probable the house
holds an old, worn ingrain carpet,
rolled away somewhere. If this needs
brushing, brush it. Then cut into
strips an inch wide, being careful not
to cut across the warp, backstitch the
strips together and send them to a
weaver of rag carpets with instructions
as to the lengths you desire woven,
and the injunction to use the best
warp possible. If you think it too
much trouble to cut and sew the strips,
the weaver will doubtless do that work
also, for a trifle.
You will receive some handsome,
thick rugs, which those who do not
know the secret will think closely
allied to Turkish. The effect, where
the original carpet was of a bright
color, is really charming, and you
have the satisfaction of ordering just
such lengths as suit your needs, for a
bay window, or in front of a sofa, or a
bed.
These rugs which, by the way, will
not answer for stair carpets, as they
are too stiff and thick, will last indefi
nately. Some in my own house have
been in use four years and are still
good.—Atlanta Constitution.
RECIPES.
Cottage Pudding—One cupful of
BUgar, one cupful of buttermilk, two
cupfuls of flour, one egg, three table¬
spoonfuls of melted butter, one tea
spoonful of soda; bake and serve with
a liquid dressing.
Bread Sauce—Chop one onion very
fine; put it in a saucepan with four
ounces of sifted bread crumbs; add
salt, pepper and a piece of celery, aud
a glass of milk. Boil ten minutes;
add a glass of cream, remove the celery
and serve.
Brock Biscuit—One cupful of war g
mashed potato, one cupful of melted
butter or lard, one cupful of yeast,
one egg (beaten light), and one and a
half pints of flour. It intended for
tea, set to rise about 11 a. m. Bake
in gem pans, muffin rings or “shapes.”
Veal Cutlets—Salt and pepper both
sides of the cutlets and spread melted
butter on both sides also. Put on a
greased gridiron and broil. Baste
now and then with melted butter, turn
three or four times, and when done
serve with a maitre d’hotel sauce.
Apple Water—Bake two large, tart
apples until tender, sprinkle a table
spoonful of sugar over them, return
them to the oven and cook until the
sugar is slightly brown ; place the ap¬
ples in a bowl, mash them with a
spoon, pour a pint of boiling water on
them, cover and let them stand for as
boor; then strain an cool.
A SIDE from the fact that the
■L A- cheap baking powders contain
alum, which causes indigestion and
other serious aiiments, their use is
extravagant.
It takes three pounds of the best
of them to go as far as one pound
of the Royal Baking Powder, be¬
cause they are deficient in leavening
gas.
There is both health and econ
omy in the use of the Royal Baking
Powder
ROYAL BAKINO POWDER CO., 106 WALL 8T., INEW-YORK.
A Look Into the Future.
He was poor as far as having earth
ly possessions w as concerned, though
he had some salary, aud the girl was
worse off because she had no salary.
Yet he loved her. *
Love is a roaring lion going about
seeking whom he may devour.,
The girl loved him also, but it was
tempered by judgement and the cost
of house rent, clothes, social demands
and that sort.
As previously mentioned, he loved
her, and in time it came to pass that
he proposed to her.
“But, dear George, ” she urged
the negative, “ypu only have $1,200 a
year.”
This argument rather surprised him,
for he had an idea that $1,200 a year
was not to be sneezed at.
“Well,” he exclaimed, “we can live
on that, can’t we?”
She took both his hands in hers and
looked straight into his large, inno¬
cent eyes.
“Live on it? Of course we can, you
dear boy,” she murmured, “bnt we
would look too ridiculous for anything 1
going around without any clothes on, ;
wouldn’t we, dear?” and poor George j
went down all in a heap.— Detroit Free j
Press.
Puzzles Physicians.
James Wortham, a farmer living
near Senora, Ky., is puzzling the phy-!
sicians. Bright blue spots cover his
body at periodical intervals. When
the spots appear a knot the size of a
walnut presents itself and remains un¬
til the spots go away.
Inquiring Son—Papa, what is rear
son?
Fond Parent—Reason, my boy, is
that which enables a man to determine
what as right.
Inquiring Pond Son—And what is instinct ?
Parent—Instinct is that which
tells a woman she is right whether she
is or not.— Tit-Bits.
STAMPED OUT
—blood-poisons by Dr. of every name and nature,
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery.
It rouses every organ into healthy action,
purifies it cleanses and and enriches the blood, the whole and through
All Blood, Skin, renews and Scalp Diseases, system.
from
a common blotch or eruption to the worst
rheum, Scrofula, are cured by it. For Tetter, Salt
Carbuncles, Eczema, the “Discovery” Erysipelas, is Boils, direct and
a
remedy.
Mrs. Caroline Week
ley, of Carney, Bald
fn 1 , Ill a 11 /,-,!iifrfi bSpe e?er d nn! befn|
up of
well again. But I am
■x. bappy Dr. Pierce’s to say Golden that your
Med¬
V, ical Discovery made a
tried CAROLtNE different WEEKLEV. doctors SSSfiTSSSSfif and almost ail Wd known
remedies without effect.
PIERCE-SECURE.
Bayers of laclierj, Attenlion!
Deal directly with manufacturers and
write us for prices.
ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS,
Grist Millls, Cane Mills, Cotton
Gins and Presses,
And anything wanted in the machinery line.
SCHOFIELD'S IRON WORKS, YIncon,Ga.
LOVELL DIAMOND CYCLES.
HigH Grade In Every Particular.
LATEST IMPROVEMENTS, LI6HTEST WEIGHTS.
TFe stake our business reputation of over fifty years that there
%* . no better wheel made in the
world than the LOVELL. DIAMOND.
WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT.
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Exceedingly Modest.
The tramp who was asking for hia
dinner was an open-faced kind of a chap,
who might have done better than tramp
ing if he had started right, and the
lady of the house noticed this when he
preferred his request,
“I presume,” she said, in response
to his call, “that you are willing to
work for your dinner?”*
“Yes, lady,” he replied, doubtfully,
“Well, there’s a cord of wood out
there in the shed. Suppose you saw it
up?”
He took off his hat.
“Excuse me, lady,” he said, “but
f less , m hungry expensive enough dinner to than enjoy that.” a much And
tbo manuer of the man won him a
Frees. “jess expensive” dinner.— Detroit Frea
The Marked Success
of Scott's Emulsion in consump¬
tion, scrofula and other forms of
hereditary disease is due to its
powerful food properties.
Scoffs Emulsion
rapidly creates healthy flesh—
proper weight. Hereditary
taints develop only when the
system becomes weakened.
Nothing ifi the world
of medicine has been
so successful in dis¬
eases that are most
menacing to life. Phy¬
sicians everywhere
prescribe it.
Prepared by Scott k. Bowne, N. Y. All dropifiatt.
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Mills and Machinery, all
kinds, write MALLA11Y
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A PISO’S CURE FOR
Consumptive, and people I
who have weak lungs or Asth¬
ma. should use Piso’s Cure for
Consumption. It has cured
thousands, ft has not Injur¬
ed one. It is not bad to take.
It iB the best cough syrup.
Sold everywhere. 85c.
iCONSUMPTION.
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