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UWSSS? SB 5SSMBMB8SB3I Tlie PLANTERS LUAN and SAVINGS RANK, AUGUSTA, GA., I Organized 1870. Oldest Sayings Ii ink in Eastern Georgia. Largest Savings Capital in City. l?ayK Interest and Compotinds crory G mont li?. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR, ' EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1898. VOL. LXIII. NO 16 EACH IN HIS A Aro mist and a planet, A crystal and n cell: A jellyfish and a saurian, . And caves whore the cavemen dwoll; Then asenso oX law and beauty And il faeo turned from tho clod Somo call it Evolution, And others cull it God. A haze on tho far horizon, Tho infinite, tender slcv; The rip? rich tints of tho cornfields, And tho wild Reese sailing high; And nil over upland and lowland Tho charm of tho golden-rod Some of us call lt Au tn mn, Anti others call it God. CUPID IN Dy STANLEY 'OTT non placet," wrote tue red headed girl in the hack of thc wide, oblong school room. Mr, Har rison Jenkins, the presiding genius of the place, stood scowling behind his desk, strug gling with the class iu Latin. Those young boys and?! girls, who looked pityingly up to his dark face, were struggling with the verb "sftni." The lesson had been poorly prepared, and the issue of tbuuderbolts were soon expected to shower from this pedagogical Olympus. At last if came. Mr. Jenkins brought his list down upon the plain deal board with a thump that awoke every languid mind iu the room. "Is this what you come to school for?" he began, as if addressing n jury. "Is this the way you use one of tho most precious gifts that God has given to you? Hero you are, a whole class of bright boys anti girls, with brains enough to do auything you de sire iu this great world, throwing away tho greatest opportunity of your lives. If this was au institution for weak minded children I would have some compassion for you. But your faces ure all bright and your eyes all clear, aud yet you will come to me with such a lesson as ibis!" Mr. Jenkins punct uated every sentence with that echoing thump on the desk which carried con viction and mortification to the minds of each boy aud giri before him. It was then that tho red-her .led girl ou the back seat wrote "Jovi non placet" ("It is not pleasing to Jupi ter"). Geraldiue Coffin was Mr. Jenkins* pride. He had no favorites; at least, such never appeared in the little com monwealth, which ho held in the hol low of his hand. But in Geraldine he .rras intonsely interested, and he often \ found iu her his greatest irritation. "While Mr. Jenkins held the whole of his fifty odd young spirits in the hol low of his hand, the red-headed girl war, thc ono person ho was not quite sure of. Geraldine had given him the name of "Jupiter," and it fitted so woll that it was at once adopted by ajl his subjects. "When he pounds his desk and that groatshnjgy bead snakes so, and his blue eyer. Hash, all you can think of is Jupiter sending thunderbolts to earth"-and in this remark Geraldine had christened him. Many times he had thought he heard the name "Jupiter Jenkins"-but he had never been able to capturo one of these err ing mortals. Of course, he kue.: he was called "Jupiter;" he had been told so by admiring parents, who knew he would be pleased, aud he was. But it is with the red-headed girl that this story is chiefly concerned. She was the only human problem that Jupiter Jenki-.is could not solve. Geraldine Coffin had been an inmate of thc school roam only a few days when Mr. Jenkins discovered that she possessed au unusual miud. He laid his plans to make tb? most he could of her. He was accustomed to us ? the parable of the talents in the school room,, and to say that of him to whom much was given much would be re quired. Tho getting of lessons was an ca*y matter to Geraldine Coffin. She not only learned them, but tbe truths and principles were digested, and sunk into her mind, clearly un derstood and stored away, until the day which would call them in uso. Jupiter Jenkins was accustomed to say that hardly more than one child in twenty really digested knowledge. He had como to complain to Ger aldine's mother that her daughter sometimes failed in ber lessons, aud that it was inexcusable in one who had .mell a mind. "I have come to tell you this, Mrs. Coffin, when I would not take the trouble to inform another mother, for this reason, and this alone: Geraldine has au unusual mind, and she eau make anything she pleases of herself. If she knows you and I are ons iu this matter, she will not care to trouble us by neglecting to get her lessons. " r Geraldine's mother was as much flattered as any other woman would bo, and, of course, Jupiter Jenkins was upheld. Thus bc dealt with Ger aldine, conscious of his power. He endeavored to make her fail, and whenever she did she was compelled to remain after school and get her les sons. But with a wonderful mind there w?3 a somewhat wayward nature in the texture of Geraldine Coffin's per sonality. She was often rough and hoydenish, and she caused no end of trouble. With thc deep interest the young master look in her a sense of power developed. When Mr. Jeu kins supposed he had her solidly in his control, th ore wanbi burst forth a fit of "don't care" in her, which as tonished and alarmed him. Then thc thunderbolts Hew lo punc tuate the master's fluent words of in dignation. "When ons has the mighty gift of brains," he thundered, "and life's road liss before, to choose wi.at is best and highest, to be lazy and languid, and not to reach the arm to grasp thc golden apple of the*intel lectual Hesp?ridos, is thc greatest Wi-ong." It was thea that Geraldiue, her c.^l or slightly brighter aud he-- head u trifle higher, wonld return to her seat und weite "Jori non placet" ("i1, is jiot pleasing to Jupiter"']. OWN NAME. I.Ike tho tides on ft crescent sea beach, When the moon is now and thia, Into our hearts high yearnings Come welling and surging in Come from tue mystic ocean Whose rim no foot has trod Some ot us call lt Longing, And others call it God. A picket frozen on duty, A mother starved for her brood, Socrates drinking tho hemlock. And Jesus on the rood; The million who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway trod Some cali it Consecration, And others call it God. -W. H. Carruth, in Christinn Register. SCHOOL, I - ?8? E. JOHNSON. c?0 mmmmMmmwrnii There were certain rare facts about Geraldine that Jupiter Jenkin::, in his teacher's euthusiasm, had not noticed. One of these was that she was u very pretty girl. But if he had been im pervious to this fact, there were otb er? who had not, and among those were some of the big boys in the school. Geraldine was growing, and she was now tall and lithe of figure, with her big blue eyes clearer and more ex pressive as she looked at people. The true soul of a rather designing maid en was showing forth from them. She was glad to receive attentions, and it smote Jupiter hard when he observed that .she walked with one and then with another in the still and balmy spriug evenings. Just why it smote him ns it did. Mr.|Jeukius never knew until a few years later. But it did, and Geraldine's face seemed to have framed itself into the centre of his thoughts. She recurred to his consciousness constantly, and when bc thought of these big boys he was truly uncomfortable. He had another conference with Mrs! Coffin, in which he suggested that G?raldine had better be kept iu the house and made to give closer at tention to her lessons. When he called her in recitations he was also doing his best to mako thc girl fall. And when she did fail he did his best to make it uncomfortable for her. She had to remain after school and get the whole lesson. Jupiter made her recite ?tall "precept upon precept," so to speak. He had conceived the ambition to make a teacher of the girl. He broached the subject to Mrs. Coffin. "Geraldine," he began, "is cut out to be a teacher." Mrs. Coffin started in astonishment. "Yes, she is," ho af firmed, with a thunderbolt, "and she ought to be sent to a normal school. I never went to one, and what I know abont teaching has been gained by ex perience. But "there is no mistake. The learning of methods m?ans some thing in these days, and I'm sure that if Geraldine is seut to a normal school she will make a first-rate teacher." Mrs. Collin thought it over for a few days and then came to the conclusion that Mr. Jenkins was right. That was the usual conclusion about Mr. Jenkins in the little village. The idea was placed before Geraldine, and when she heard of Jrpiter's proposal she smiled a smile that made her mother look at her twice. But Gerahliue had the key to certain kinds of human na ture which was far beyond her years. She thought she would like to go, and it was a great joy when she carno to Jupiter's throne and in her sweetest and calmest manner thanked him for his kindness and said she would do her best to deserve it. That was tho hippiest day that Jupiter had ever had in the school. He did not quite uu d er stand it, but there waa a singing heart as homelike as the singing of a tea kettle and as soft as a cat's purr. Geraldine took new interest in school. She tried no more of her subtle ways to disturb Jupiter, and the boys fouud a change in her which at oucc sot their former interest at naught. "She ain't no more fun," th'jy all agreed, and they troubled her no more. Geraldine entered the normal school, and passed her preliminary examina tion with extraordinary success. She was one of the three highest out of a large class. The veteran principal of thc school knew human nature at a glance. He wrote to Jupiter a letter which confirmed all that worthy had said about the baining Geraldine. When Geraldine returned at the end of her first year the townspeople be gan to relent in the hard opinion they had entertained of her, and saw an other person in the tall and earnest young woman who had appeared be fore them. Jupiter Jenkins had ended his work as schoolmaster in the little seaport town. He had beeu studying law. and was now employing the same forensic talents he had used before his schoolroom in a more lucrative if not a higher court. He was "up in the city," and was making a name. When Geraldine finished her course in thc normal school she received thc highest commendation, and the old principal happened to find a good place for her in the same city where Jupiter was making his way. When Geraldine came into his office at the end of her first quarter it was the iirsj intimation that ho had re ceived of her presence in tho city. She said she had come to make a pay ment, and while she sjioke poor Ju piter was turning all sorts of ruddy colors. "But I hadn't heard you were here, Geraldine," he said; "I have been thinking of you, too, wondering if I should hear from yon. Of course I knew T should. Rut somehow I can not get you ont of my head, girl;" ! this was punctuated with one o? the j old-time thunderbolts. "K*>*t is, ! ' Gerahliue, I've only just found out ! why T treated you so hard wheu in j school. And it was simply this-I . loved yon! I want yon always; I want ! you to make me happy, to be my wife!" Geraldine smiled as she raised her face and received tho salure from his ; lip?. "I knew thal was the matter all the time." fihe said.-Chicago Record. The Kaiser "Wilhelm Canal was i used in LSiiG by 20,008 and last year ; I by 21,-100 vessels. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. Dining Kooi? Temperature ??ever let the temperature of thc din ing room rise above sixty-five degrees, sixty degrees is not too low. If the lights and the number of people in the room raise it after the meal has begun, lower thc windows slightly from tho top. To Renovate Black Cloth. Mix a tablespoonful of oxgall with u quart of soft water; sponge the material thoroughly with the mixturo and after ward with clear water. A weak solu tion of ammonia is sometimes used, but it does not restore tho color of t io material ns well as the above. A Kitchen Aid. A double choppiug knife 'mould fiud its way into every well-equipped kitchen. Upon thc theory that time is money, how much of it is wasted in choppiug a]>ples for tho mincemeat, suet for the pudding, or ham for sand wiches, with a siugle-bladed, old fashioned chopper that -will only do half the work of a double one in the same time! Emergency Advice About Broken Tnmps. In case a lamp is broken and thc oil spilled and set on fire, or if grease of any kind becomes ignited, roineinber that water thrown on it only spreads the oil. Smother such flames with flour or saud or a heavj' rug or piece of carpet. If a person's clothiug is on fire, don't stop for water. Catch up a rug, a blanket,' au old coat, anything heavy aud of wool (which ignites much more slowly than cotton), and envelop the victim. To remember these things may some day enable you to avoid a fire or save a life. Salting Rutter In thc Brine. Those housekeepers who are using the old-fashioned dash churn may still salt their butter in the briue in the new mode in tho following mauner: Get a fruit strainer; set it over the cream crock; when the butter is in the granular form dip it out of the churn into the strainer. Thc buttermilk will run through the strainer, and a little sweet milk will rinse it. Then rinse the rhum, return thc butter, add the briue and you have your briue-salted butter just as good as anybody's, and without a patent churn. Wnshln? Clothes. Fill the boiler with water, leaving room for thc clothes, and shred into it half a pound of yellow soap. Let this boil till melted, then, when the water is boiling, add a tablespoonful and a half of paraffin. Throw the dry clothes into this, and boil fast for thirty minutes, taking care that the boiling does not cease, or tho dirt will settle iu the clothes. Binse in Ihre o or four waters, and the clothes will bo cleau without any waste, of elbow grease. Add fresh water, soap and paraffin to 'each boiling and pay great attention to tue rinsing, or the linen will smell disagreeably. Indoor Cure of Flnnts. Aim, always, to keop your plants clean. A plant covered with dust, or with dead leaves adhering to its brauches, will bc unsightly, no matter hov,- many fine flowers it may havo on it. lie careful about giving your plants more water than they need. If they are standing still, or making but very little growth, they will requirobut lit tle water. As growth increases, it will be necessary to increase the sup ply. A plaut cannot long remain in a Lualthy condition when the pores of its leaves aro clogged with dust. A plant breathes through its foliage, wo arc told, and if its lungs arc prevented from performing their fuuetions, dis easa must result. Therefore, as a sanitary measure, as well as in the interests of neatness, be sure to use a good deal of water on the plants them selves as well as on their roots. Let iu all the sunshine possible. And let in fresh air also in liberal quantities daily. Bat do not let cold air blow directly on your plants, for quite often a teuder plaut suffers as much from contact with a cold, frosty air as from frost itself. Opeu a door or a window at some distance from your plants, and let.the air from out of doors come iu and mix with thc warm air in the room before it reaches thc plants. .Stir the soil about your plants. This will allow the air to get to the roots, aud it will prevent tho forma tion of mold on the surface, also the growth of weeds. Turn your plants at least once a week. If this is not done they will bc drawn to thc light, and soon be come one-sided specimens. By giv iug all sides of them a chance at the sunshine 3-01; will secure symmetrical development. Do not make the mistake of giviug fertilizers to plants not maicing ac tive growth. They are not in a con dition to make use of rich food. "Wait until growth begins. Then giro the food, but inmoderate strength at first. Increase the amount as- the plant in creases in growth. If a plant shows a tendency to de velop une branch at the expense of another, check it promptl}'. Nip off thc oud of it. But do not throw away tho part cut off. Insert it in the soil by tho side of the old plant. In most instances, snell cuttings will root readily, and plants ?0 obtained can bc used to take thc place of old ones, or to jiiit out in Hie garden in summer, -Housewife. Observing riant-. Grow. To observe plants growing undet the microscope the American Monthly Microscopical Journal says: Procure a little collomia seed. Take one of tho seeds and with a razor cut oft' a very tiny slice, place it on a slide, cover with a cover glass mid place under thc microscope. The instrument must, bo in a vertical position. When il is well foenrad and lighted, moisten it with a d.op of water. Tho seed will ab sorb the moisture and throw out a vevy large number of spiral fibers, giv ii> :: tho appearance of veritable ger mination. Beginners will find it easier if one applies the moisture while the other looks through the instru ment. The most costly piece of railway line in thc world is timi between the Man sion House and Aldgate stations, in London, which required the expendi ture of close upon ??10,??O,000. MAKING How the Government Ht Weapons Are I Down on the meadows of the Passaic, on tho shore of Newark Bay, and within the bounds of the city of Newark itself, says the New York Herald, men are working day and night on guns for the Government. The complex and exquisitely adjusted machines that turn and bore "jackets" and "tubes" never stop, except for a "rest" of an hour or so or the replac ing of a cutter dulled by hours of skJw, steady ploughiug through the hardest and fine st steel. Steel is everywhere, in almost shape less, oblong ingots, fresh from the casting room; iu forged lengths, in cylinders, now bearing some resem blance to a "rapid tire," and in chips and shavings. There are strange and interesting scenes in these gun shops and the pictures presented each hour are dramatic in the extreme. Here i^ these processes is to be seen the acme of American manufacturing, the great essential fact being the machinery, that is almost automatic in its work, aud the few men needed to control and guido it. Except in the forging room scarcely a blow of a hammer is heard. The shops are almost as silent as the grave. Wheels revolve, cutters turn, mon stand plaoidlyby the side of machines, moving softly here and there; All this time, each second, the gun that somo day will belch forth fire and s'eel o? its own is coming nearer com pletion. Chips fall as the bars re volve, but the cutters are not heard. Tho guns, it would appear to the onlookers, are almost makiug them selves. Of tho stur .liest typo of American mechanics aro tho men employed. They are workmen who think and who know, men who can judge when a cer tain instant has arrived, knowing its approach by intuition, rather than men of brawn and muscle. The latter qualities are not so much needed in a gnu shop of to-day. Should a partially finished tube or jacket have to be moved there is tho electric traveling crane overhead, that, at tho jerk of a cord, swings over its grappling irons, and these need only to be, attached. The gun man of to-day needs only to guide and to know. These works are of the Benjamin BORING Atha it Illingworth Company, one ol the three concerns in this country that have the plant and the skill tc turn out guns of size. Their main ?hops are at Harrison, tho next station to Newark, and their casting shops across the Passaic, on the "Island." Dozens of pieces for the navy and foi coast defence aro being made here. ; Work of Great Care. Six weeks is practically the minimum of timo for the making of a modern gun, and to finish one within thal space everything would have to gc marvellously well. Tho "treatment" of thc steel would have to bc a snccest at the very first attempt-something that does not often happen-and tht first tests would havo to show that the Government standard had been reached. Oftener than otherwise these results can only be obtained through much trying and tho expenditure ol time. A batch of guns may thus take months in the making, while good luck may bring it down to weeks. It is in the casting shop, of course, that the process of gun making has its very beginning, in the furnace where steel is made from a medley of pieces of old iron, pig iron lengths, broken bits and odds and ends of castings, long since relegated to tho scrap yards. Here is the first stage of the modem gun-ragged and rusty metal that is MOULDS. tarted in wheelbarrows up to the fur nace doors The maws of blazing heat, several thousands of degrees iii intently, stand upon to receive it. Sc overwhelming is this heat that even the master melter har! to put on blue glasses to poer into Hie flames rising nver the bubbling-sea of molal when tho doors aro open. When the doors ure dropped down-that is, shut there is ouly revealed a single spot ol brightness, an oyo that looks into'tht BIG GUNS. irry-Orders For Great Being Executed. War furnace's flame, and even this cannot be approached too closely with the naked eye. Beginning tho Gun. The guu is under way. Ten tons of metal are 'already in tho furnace-a lake bf molten, seething metal held in by banks of sand. Other things of steel are to be made of. this mass, the gnu works being only a portion of the Atha. & Illingworth plant. Whethei used for peace or war, steel is steel, differing cnly in quality. It is all "boiled down" in tho same way. In shadow is the casting shop, ex cept when the doors are raised, when a flood of light, a wave of extreme heat, is thrown out. In the dusk of the shadows grimy men raiso the sea BOUGH CASTS of Jietal with long bars. Tho master mejfor, never still, steps now and then to Sis wheels, s"et pt ono side of the fnraace and looking lilco the brake whlels on a freight car, and gives one or tho other n sharp twist. By this he.fegulates his fire-five hundred de grees at a twist. Tho silica ?bricks wi^k which tho furnace ^is lined can stabil four thousand degrees of heat an<?more | before thoy commenco to me|. The master melter runs up the he?bto the extremo point and then letifci t down. ere are three "heats" a day in the casgmg shop. Three times metal is hefted, three times it is let go with a mighty rush into tho casting pot. Tho lasrajfew moments of each heat are the draj?atic instants. It is then, nt the MACHINE. judgment of the master melter, that tho furnace is fed with "medicine," shovelfuls and blocks of metal being tossed in. On this depends the qual ity, the strength, the elasticity of tho steel, essentials of the most vast im portance of the gun of to-dny. Into tho Castine; Pot. Two hours is usually sufficient for the boiling of this steel in its cradle of sand. At last the ono moment ar river The bar at the furnace's back is worked through the sand to make an opening. An instant, and into tho casting pot below thc mass runs, scat tering millions of sparks, a glowing, golden torrent that foams and hisses as it plunges down. The picturo of thc gun's second stage is superb. On every hand fly these sparks, and the mass bubbles and seethes in the casting pot. On its top, through the glow, can be seen a dirty mass-tho slag or tho scum that is of no usc cr value. But the picturesqueness of thc scene has not ended. The casting process is only half through. The liquid metal must get into its moulds, and that in short order. On a track the casting pot rests. It is pushed along this track until a gi gantic crane overhead seizes it, swing ing it aloft. Over mounds of sauds it is swung, and thc metal, by the move ment of a bar,is allowed to drop down in a thin stream. Again shower upon shower of sparks, surrounding the men who, with chains and slaves, control the clumsy pot and pull along the crane. The grim old shop, with its :3oor of sand, its unrelenting dust and and its dreariness, is made into a brilliant cavern for tho moment, and the toiling men are supernatural in the light. - In the Kough. A prosaic time follows, when the metal in the moulds must cool. When the sand is finally knocked away the gun that is to bo is only a rough mass of cast steel, indicating only to the ex pert its fine quality, and not even to him in any degree, for thc tests must come to prove that. In tho forgiffg shop this mass is hammered and worked until it becomes an octagonal ingot of just twice thc weight it "will possess when it is finally turned and bored in to a "jacket" or a "tube." Thc hoops, the third part of a gun, are cast and forged hollow, not in solid cylinders, as the jacket and tube are. With the carrying away of thorough ingot of steel from tho forging shop tho special work of gun-making com mences. The boring and turning factory is th" scene of the first step in this process. :4/.Complolcii gun"., ready for mount ing and for lire, ar? not turned out in these gun shops. The finishing touchea. tho actual putting together of the parts of the gun, the rifling it self, are clone at the ordnance works in "Washington. It is the business alone of a gun shop to make the steel and to hand over to the anny and the navy the three ?>arts of a great gun the "tube," the "jacket" (which is slipped on over the tube and then "shrunk on" by contraction) and the "hoops," two in number, which, for the purpose of strengthening, are fit ted on tightly over tho muzzle end of the tubes. Once these three parts are together the metal becomes, practical ly, one piece and it would be very nearly impossiblo, by any art or sci ence known to experts, to get the jacket off. Finished by tho Government. Only the ' 'rough machining, " in tech nical phrase, is done on these guns, this meaning that the final finish and the rifling is put on by the Govern ment itself. "Rough machining" seems, however, a strange term, for if delicate work requiring the utmost ac curacy and preciseness is not done here it never was anywhere. French Detectives. Tho ability of French detectives in the matter of disguising their identity is marvelous. Some years ago one of them made a bet that he would, in the course of the next few days, ad dress a gentleman with whom he was acquainted four times, for at least ten minnies each time, and that he should not know him on any occasion until the detective had made himself known. As a matter of course, the gentleman was on his guard, and mis trusted every one who came near him. But the man won his bet. It is need-, less to enter inuo the particulars. Suf fice it to say that in the course of the next four days he presented himself in the character of a bootmaker's as sistant, a hackdriver, a venerable old gentleman with a great interest in the Bourse, and finally as a waiter in the hotel where the gentleman was stay ing.-New York Ledger. Some lile Trees. Recently mention was made of a largo oak tree that was on William Mi ler's 'farm, Center County, Pennsyl vania, which measured over six feet across the stump. Another party down at Fiedlyer cut six cords of wood from an oak. Some persons thought that a little doubtful. H. T. Zcrbe, of A.ironsburg, tells of a mon ster white pine that was cut down sev eral years ago on the Adam Zerbe farm, near Sober, that measured five feet five inches across the stump. It measured ninety foot from the butt to the forks of the limbs, aud stood 176} in height. The tree was sound throughout. FMUU it they secured 9000 shaved shingles, worth ?90,' sawed lumber that sold for 862, and four cords of wood worth $6. Thal; made a total of ?158 from a single' ti-ec. A Checkerboard Fish. Joseph Evans, of Thirteenth street and Snyder avenue,-is thaowner f)? a very queer looking fish. It is four feet long and has a tail two feet in length, which is spotted and striped, like a snake. Evans caught the fish in au oyster dredger while at work, on the oyster boat Mary Cohaau. It lived nearly a day out of witter and caused no end of trouble before it fin ally collapsed. The skin of the strange inhabitant of the deep resembles a ? checkerboard, being uniformly colored with black and blue squares. Mr. Evans intends having a glass case j made for the pretty creature and will j exhibit it in his parlor. Several seien tifio men, who have seen the fish, are ? at loss as lo how to classify it, and all of them agree that a "svhat-is-it" fish would be tho proper name for it. Philadelphia Record. Water H Cure For Indigestion. "We must give special attention to thc outside of the body as well as the inside," writes Mrs. S. T. Rorer on j "What to Eat When You Have Indi- | gestion," in tho Ladies' Home Jour nal. "The skin must be bathed every : morning with tepid water, followed by j a brisk rub. This is equally as im portant as correct diet. A good rule J is to usc water freely inside aud out. | At least two quarts of water daily ? should be taken; half a pint the first thing in the morning and the last at night, a cupful of warm water before I each moah and the remaining quan- J tity divided and taken before meals." Centennial Celebrations. This year's crop of centennial cele brations includes observations of the four hundredth anniversaries of Vasco do Gama's discovery of the way to India by way of tho Cape of Good Hope, at Lisbon, in May; of the burn ing of Savonarola at Florence, also in May, and of the birth of Holbein at Basil, in Switzerland. Montpellier wiir celebrate the hundredth anniver sary of the philosopher, Auguste Comte; Ancona that of the poet L?o pardi, who was born atRecauati, close by, and Paris that of Michelet, the historian. Old Bank In'Nebraska. The building in which the oldest bank in Omaha is located is in a very dilapidated condition. Tho porches NEBRASKA'S ODDEST BANK. aro tumbling and its windows and tops of the doorways have been taken posession of by the sparrows. Not only was this the first bank ot the town, but the first financial institution under tho charter of the Territory of Nebraska. Its president wa? Thomas H. Benton, son of the Senator. Leroy Tuttle was cashier, and A. N. Wyman teller. In the panic of '57 the doors were closed. Tho ancient structure is decidedly picturesque in it.", dilapidation aud has frequently boen put into pictures hy local artists, Successful Fanning. This consists in making the farm pay, and it includes all the little odds and ends about the place. Economy is the first lesson for everybody to learn if he would succeed in his busi ness. But economy does not imply anything unreasonable. The picking up of a lost horseshoe, a strap, a bolt or nut, an ear of corn that fell from a wagon, a fork full of hay that dropped from a load, is a small matter, but a thousand such items, if put together, would amount to a good deal and would go a long way toward helping a man out of trouble. ? To save is better than to earn. To utilize small things is better than to strive for what is beyond our reaoh. The small farmer, he who has a small tract of laud, may be just as indepen dent, just as comfortable, just as hap py and quite as successful as the bo nanza farmer who tills acres by the thousand. A few acres well tilled, with the many small items of conven ience and use that every farmer may have as well aa not, will keep any rea sonable family in condition. A farmer who is out of debt and keeps out, that cultivates his land well, has a good garden for his wife, has a well-kept orchard and vineyard -no matter how small, that raises some cattle, some hogs, some poultry, always has fruit, meat, grain and vegetables in plenty and to spare. Ha does not want the earth, but he does waut a good, happy homo, and a good name for those to enjoy who come after him. This is 3uccessf ul farming. -Advocate and News. Dalry Notes. Ono hundred and twenty million pounds of oleo oil exported from the United States during the past year, say the records, and muoh of it taken by those European countries which supply England with butter. And they boast here that they caunot got butter from tho United States which will sell as readily as that they get from the Continent. But there is a reason for this. For mauy years eithor our exporters or the English deniers have felt that it would not pay to ship any butter from this country to England except tho lower grades, suoh as could be bought' at about one-half the price of strictly fanoy butter in New York or Boston. If in Denmark or Belgium or Holland they ^ mix oleo oil and butter fat in they contd make an article that would compare favorably with the ni no or ten-cent ladle-packed butter sont from here. And we have little doubt that some of them have done this thing. Tho amounts of butter they have been reported as exporting for the number of cows kept would be in credible unless we believed either this, or that the inhabitants of those countries used no butter, but bought ol?o and sold all their butter. If Secretary Wilson of the Depart ment of Agriculture succeeds in intro ducing to English markets some of otu1 strictly fanoy butter, such as bears tho highest prices in our .'markets, and Jiuds a demand for it there strong enough to warrant regular shipments of that grade, it will prove a boon, and a boom too, for the dairymen of this country. It will prove an incentive for them to keep better cows, feed moro liberally, and take more pains to furnish au article that will sell at the highest prices, or at least at prices profitable to the producer. There is no profit in making butter at ten or twelve cents a pound, but there may be at twenty-five cents. And wheu ? there is moro profit in butter the price ! of milk and other milk products must increase. We are sorry to se? that some of the Western papers are discussing so freely the question of the profit of *'baby beef," or steers and heifers sold as yearlings. It may be that there is more profit in fattening them young as long as English buyers will pay as much for such beef as they would for more maturo animais, but we do nol like to think upon likely, thrifty young heifers being fattened and slaughtered. If of the beef breeds they should bc worth more as breeders thau for fat taning purposes, and it' seems like "killing the goose that lays the golder egg" to select the best of them to fat ten. The demand of other countries ! for American beef is likely to increast instead of decreasing, and a few years may find a scarcity of good animals tc breed from. We cannot increase oui stock of cattle as wo could a stock o! swine or poultry. One calf a year ii all we eau reasonably hope for, and seldom half the herd will be heifers. Save all the really good heifers tc increase tho herd. Ol' to sell to those who want thom for that purpose, anti who would find it profitable to buj them at handsome prices, instead oi attempting to breed good grades from a lot of scrub cows. And we beliov? thip is no less true in the beef grow in0 seotions of the beef breeds as in the dairy sections with the milk 01 butter-producing breeds. A Western farmer who had been selling his milk for two cents a quart thought he would try for a part of the trado of a small town near him where the retail price was five cents. He in vited tho peoplo to come out to his farm upon a certain day, and he showed them over the farm, exhibited his stock and explained his system oi feediug and general management. Then came tho milking. The milk jnen came out with clean shirts and snow white aprons, bringing pails ol hot and cold water. They thoroughly washed their hands, and then the ud ders and teats of the cows, with wara water and Castile soap, rinsing then carefully and wiping dry. The ves sels for holding the milk were brighl and clean, the stables and stalls wen clean. The milk was strained, aerated, quickly cooled and placed in a cool, clean eel ?ar. All ibo details were ex plained to the visitors a? tho wor? progressed, and they went boms Batis I fled that there they could obtain clean i and wholesome milk. The next day he sought customers, and found market for all he could sup ply at six cents a quart, or one cent above the market rate in the town, and it was but little more trouble to deliver it than to have carried it to the railroad station and send it to Chicago for two cents a quart. Let us hope that the methods which attracted his customers were kept up after he had secured his market. The story well illustrates two points, at least: That a little extra care and painstaking can be made profitable, for the keeping of these cows was no more expensive when he sold his milk at six cents a quart than when ho sold it for two cents, unless the extra price tempted him tc be more liberal in feeding in the hope of obtaining larger yields. That when ono has ft good thing, better than the average, it will pay him to let other people know it by advertising it, and that an extra good article can often find a home market, while that which is only of ordinary quality must be sent away to some point where a larger demand can find customers less fastidious. . Unpleasant odors or flavors in milk are sometimes caused by unwholesome food or impure water, but quite as ofteu by unclean stables in which tho air is impure, and by the odors from soiled bedding. Often, too, they are plainly and simply tho result of a lack of care in preventing dirt from the udders and flank from falling into the pail during the milking.-American Cultivator. 328,500,000 HANDKERCHIEFS. ' That Number ls Consumed Yearly la the United States. "Very few people outside tho trade," said a leading wholesale dealer in handkerchiefs in New York to a Washington Star reporter recently, "are aware that the consumption of handkerchiefs throughout the United States amounts to about 75,000 dozen daily. This means 27,375,000 dozen yearly, or 328,500,000 singlo hand kerchiefs. To satisfy this enormous demand there are always kept in stock in this city at least 350,000,000 hand kerchiefs. It would be extremely, difficult to say what such a supply of goods is worth in the aggregate, aa handkerchiefs sell wholesale at any where from 30 cents to $?0 per"dozen, according to quality and finish. But of an important branch of the dry goods business. "A comparatively small number of handkerchiefs are manufactured in thi3 country, and those that are made hero arc mostly of the cotton and in ferior silk variety. Tho finest silk j goods are imported principally from Japan wdiich country sends us annual ly between 17,000,000 and 18,000,000 ' Japauese pongees. ' The best cambric ar liol oj comes from France and Bel gium, and linen handkerchiefs oome from the north of Ireland and also from St. Galls, Switzerland. Japaneso silk handkerchiefs aro worth from S3 to $10 per dozen, while the imported cambrics from Brussels sell for from $5 to $7 a dozen, and the cotton pro duct manufactured in Pennsylvania (fad New Jersey, may be had for thirty cents per dozen. "The capital invested in this busi ness is immense. It may posiibly amouut to $100,000,000, but owing to the fact that the trade is distributed, nothing like accurate figures can bo given. There are six or seven firms' in the dry goods district which deal exclusively in handkerchiefs. But only two of these houses handle the domestic article extensively. Most of the largo American factories are locat ed outside of the city, but New York, as in several other branches of the dry goods business, is the great distribut ing center for the trade." Artificial "Precious" Stones. The trade in artificial gems has be come very important, and the manu facture has reached a considerable degree of perfection. The products of some of the shops would almost deceive an expert, but the test of hardness is still infallible. "French paste," from which artificial diamonds are made, is a kind of glass with a mixture of oxide of lead. The more of this U6ed the brighter the stone and also the softer, ,and this is a 1 serious defect. These imitation stones are now so perfectly made and are so satisfactory to those who are not very particular, that their influence begins to be felt iu the market for real stones. By careful selection of the ingredients, tho luster, color, fire and water are, to the ordinary obserer, fully reproduced. There are a few testB that canuot be given perfectly, for they depend upon some undis coverable peculiarities and not on chemical composition; but the casual buyer knows nothing of that. A French chemist has nearly reproduced the peculiarities with a composition of which the base is phosphate of lime. Two other French chemists have produced rubies and sapphires having the same composition as genuine stones and nearly equal hard ness. A Bricht ltctort. An Austrian Princess once asked the Duke of Wellington: "How is it that we in Vienna speak French so much better than you English?" To ? which the Duke replied: "Well, Prin cess, if Napoleon had twice visited London with his armies, as he has Vienna, I have no doubt we should be much more familiar with the French language." , An Athlete's l'rizes. One of Harvard's athletes last sea- -, son won in prizes nine medals, nine watches, fifty-one diamonds, four silver tea sets, a silver water set, a rifle and no end of clothing, furniture and bric a-brac.