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Interesting Facts About Iron.
Mr. W. J, Lampton contributes an
important article to the April num
ber of Ainslee’s Magazine, in which
he gives some interesting facts in
regard to the world’s output of iron.
Four hundred years ago the iron
mines of the world produced only
60,000 tons of ore annually. To-day
the output is 40,000.000 tons. This
marvelous increase has been brought
about by the demands which the
world’s material development has
made upon the supplies of iron. To
day there is no material factor of our
civilization which is more indispen
sable than iron. We use it in the
manufacture of stationery and loco
motive engines, iron rails, stoves,
boilers, implements of warfare and
agriculture, and countless other in
dustrial products. In fact, there is
scarcely any phase of our modern
life into which iron does not enter
to some extent. This necessity for
the use of iron has stimulated the
development of iron mines and led
to the discovery of the vast deposits
of ore which lie imbedded in the
mountain ranges of the globe.
Four hundred years ago the North
American continent was just discov
ered and consequently it made no
contribution to the world’s output
of iron. Iron was first. discovered
in-what is now North Carolina in
1585, while the manufacture of iron
was first commenced in Virginia in
1619. In 1643 blast furnaces were
established at Lynn, Mass. Parlia
ment interfered with the manufac
ture of iron for several years, but it
started up again with increased vig
or. In 1800 the output of our Amer
ican mines was 40,000 tons, and in
1900 it was 15,000,000 tons. We
have forged ahead of Great Britain
and now lead the world in both the
production and the manufacture of
iron.
Much of the history of our mate
rial progress has been written in the
history of this useful metal. What
we owe to iron can never be compu
ted in figures.
Astonishing Calculation.
John Temple Graves, in a recent
issue of the Atlanta Journal, thus
speaks of Rockefeller’s colossal for
tune.
“Rockefeller is easily the richest
man, titled or untitled, that the
world has ever known.
“I sat down the other day and
made this calculation: It has been
4,004 years from the creation to the
beginning of'the Christian Era, and
1,901 years of the Christian Era,
making 5,905 years from the begin
ning to .this day. Multiply these 5,-
905 years by 365 days and add two
cppgrs and we have 215,532,500.
“And this means that if our fore
father, Adam, had lived until this
hour, and from the day of his birth
had thoughtfully laid aside $100
each day until this day, he would
have been worth not quite half as
much as the lowest estimate of John
D. Rockefeller’s fortune.”
$25,000.00 Given Away,
In the past year Dr. R. V. Pierce
has given away copies of his great
work, The People’s Common Sense
Medical Adviser, at an expense to
him of $25,000.00 exclusive of post
age. This standard book on medi
cine and hygiene contains 1008
pages and more than 700 illustra
tions. It treats of the greatest and
gravest problems of human life in
simple English, from a common
sense point of view. It answers
those quescions of sex which linger
unspoken upon the lips of youth and
maiden. It is essentially a family
book, and its advice in a moment of
sudden illness or accident may be
the means of saving a valuable life.
This great work is sent absolutely
free on receipt of stamps to defray
tbs cost of mailing only. Send 21
one-cent stamps for the book in pa
per binding, or 31 stamps for cloth
covers.' Address Dr. R. V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Why Buchanan Never Married.
“Mr. Buchanan, who was the first
bachelor elected to the presidency,
was sixty-five years old when elect
ed, and had deliberately given him
self to a life of celibacy,” writes
William Perrine, in the May Ladies’
Home Journal. “In the days when
he was a young lawyer of Lancas
ter, Pennsylvania, he had lovad Miss
Coleman, a beautiful daughter of a
citizen of that town. They had been
engaged to be married, when one
day he was surprised to receive from
her a request to. release her from the
promise. According to Mr. George
Ticknor Curtis, the separation origi
nated in a misunderstanding on the
part of the lady, who was unusually
sensitive, over some small matter ex
aggerated by giddy and indiscreet
tongues. Soon after the estrange
ment she was sent to Philadelphia,
and there died suddenly. Through
out the rest of his life, or for nearly
half a century, Mr. Buchanan is not
known to have revealed to anybody
the circumstances of the romantic
tragedy. He would only say that it
had changed his hopes and plans,
and had led him more deeply than
ever into politics as a distraction
from his grief. In his old age, long
after he had retired permanently to
piivate life, he called attention to a
package containing, he said, the pa
pers and relics which would explain
the cause of his youthful sorrow,and
which he preserved evidently with
the idea of revealing them before his
death. But when he died, and his
will was read, it was found that he
had directed that the package should
be burned without being opened, and
his injunction was obeyed.”
Preacher Turned the Joke.
As a joke the liquor dealers of
Abingdon, Miss., recently nominated
Rev. Windsor H. Wyman -for con
stable, thinking that the proffer of
such an honor would make the min
ister angry. Instead of taking of
fense, however, he enlisted the aid
of the church people, canvassed the
town thoroughly and rolled up the
biggest majority ever given to a
candidate for the office. Now Mr.
Wyman says that he will make it his
business to see that the Sunday and
midnight closing laws shall be strict
ly enforced, and the saloon keepers
realize that they will have to toe the
mark. They are not quite sure that
the joke is on the clergvman, after
all.
Beautiful Word Painting.
Ex-Governor Bob Taylor is a won
derful word-painter, as the fallowing ■
extract from his lecture entitled:
“Sentiment” will show:
“I saw the morning with the pur
ple quiver and burnished bow stand
tiptoe on the horizon and shoot sun
beams at the vanishing night, and
then reach up and gather the stars
and hide them in her bosom and
bend down and tickle the slumber
ing world with straws of light until
it woke with laughter and song. A
thousand bugle calls from the east
heralded her coming; a thousand
smiling meadows kissed her gar
ments as she passed, and ten thous
and laughing gardens unfurled their
flowery flags to her. The heart of
the deep forest throbbed a tribute of
bird song, and the bright waters
rippled a melody of welcome. Youth
and love, radiant with joy, came
hand in hand tripping and dancing
in her shining train, and I wished
that the heaven of the morning
might last forever.”
Fought For His Life.
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of consumption,” writes J. T.
Weatherwax of Wyandotte, Mich.,
and I was saved from the same
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New Discovery. 1 An attack of
pneumonia left an obstinate cough
and very severe lung trouble,which
an excellent doctor could not help,
but a few months’ use of this won
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ever and I gained much in weight. ’ ’
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A bill which has just become a law
in New York makes the funeral ex
penses of a deceased person payable
from his estate before any other
debts. Besides being a boon to un
dertakers, this measure may have
some effect in encouraging reasona
ble simplicity of fnneral display.
There are, says the New York
World, 63 children among the 108
inhabitants of * the tenement house
at No. 40 Clinton street, and only
15 in the mile of mansions on Fifth
avenue, between Fifty-seventh and
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Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
A few days ago a train composed
of twelve refrigerator cars pulled out
of Newton, Kansas, for California,
and each car was laden with eggs
gathered in the vicinity of that town
by one firm, says the Kansas City
Journal. The twelve cars contained
144,000 dozen, or nearly 2,000,000
eggs. The train went as a special,
and it is the first instance of a train
carrying nothing but eggs which
has been reported by any road run
ning into California.
Counterfeits of DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve are liable to cause
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per. It is a harmless and heal
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A Chicago newspaper estimates
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States engaged in business is $21,-
000,000, and that Mr. J. Pieipont
Morgan has consolidated under his
control over one-third of the entire
amount.
Their promptness and x their
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For $3.25 we will deliver four t ull quarts
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Wholesale Liquor Dealers & Distillers’ Agents.
451 Cherry Street, Macon, Ga.
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