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THE EOPL'S JOUR VuL 'I.-NO. 29. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, igor- ONE DOLLAR A YEAR %jui. %*Uns44Ar Jany .aL I1i J Recollection of a Great Battl First Impression of Confedert Leader. Richmond Timc. I distinctly recall the famuous plI and the memorable conditions - rounding the great soldier when I .i him the first time. I was then at fair observant youth, in my twentieth ye a period at which we are aptto rece and retain vivid impiressioins of at noted event or fanious persona Iersonally seen and known. As o grows old there is a coniien(labje t dency to indulge the reminisceit mo0 As a matter of blended fact a sentiment, most of us like to It back and lovingly dwell on the pleasa and the notable thing's of the past which we were actors. A t times 1 a given to such moods of tender a Iathetic, sober and serious, reflectiot Then, over the kindly stretch of neai two-score years I Would Cail up lroudest, memory the fadeless ioItiLr Lure of that manly, heroic ligure, firmly and gracefully scated on I noble, trusty steed. In recalling i first view and iml)ression, I take it be well within the province of 1,1 sketch to state the )lace, circui stances, elivironti ts, as theay we all quite remarkable, now formi illustrious lges in American histor They also help to depict to sotme e tent the grraid character of one of t igreatest soldiers of the piasv 1 wo cc turies. It wais about noon of Septeliber 1 1862, at Siarpsburg, during the terl ble, santguitiary aln(d nuticleisi Ve bati of AntICtam. Here I tirst saw Ge eral RohUrt E. ICe, iding alongr ti firing line, Ie; was inquiring f General Jackson. I heard him mal the inquiry of several ollicer. I w; so impressed with tile noble bearin the stately al)parance of the man, i his good, substantial mount, that I wv induced to ask an olicer iiear me if' I was not some general ollicer. I receiv the Iromllt relly that the disti guished-lookinig mn was no l iss a p sonage than General Robert E. Lee. had tihought before I pit Imy questit that lie was one of outr geieral., but had no ideali he was our great cot ianider-in-chiet. Ile wore tio signi his exalted rank. His good, gray tr form displlayed no ornamiets of Ut kind, indicating the high gtradle of 1: ollicial position. Still tile p)Crsonal a Iearatince of such i wei-developi manly figure was very imiposing at attractive, and lie was veil muounti on a large, trusty-looking horse. I was not so greatly surplised being informed that tie dignlied, cot manding-lookiig soldier was It. Lee, but I was surprised and felt qui uneasy that he should be where he v likely to be struck down any second. so exlessed myself, at the same till remarking that I did not suppose Ge oral McClellan was in a mi1le of 11 battle-field. It, is not generally tl rule that the o vances with his men under a terrili sweeping fire of rifles and musketr' His subordinates, from brigadier-ge orals down, are CXI)CCted to do tii and, cccasionally, his major-gener lend their asauring presece iin a h a-1nd doubt ful struggle. I ,eadily reci two gallant old brigadier geterals Paul Semmes andA M. 1). Corse-that had the honor to servo under, VI always led their men in aniy and eve general engagement wvith the ene my. So it came abiout that I first Sil General ilcobert E. Lee, to knowii hii at Shairpsburg, September 17, 180C while the great battie otf Atititatm wv '' in full swving"'; wvhile ia was raginl while someC 120,000 1men1 were miakii the gatmest light of tibe inteteen cenltury, not exceptinmg WVaterh which, itt some1 respects, resembl Antietami, but wvith very different: 'sults, Napoleon beitng (idefeated a leavinlg the field wvith a badly-m out armly, Leei, with his heroic anuy o1cc cupjyinig an~d resting on tihe fieldl battle, the entire day after tihe batt attd thon the nlight, of Sepltemlber 181 retiritng deliberately, tind! itn good ord ciatryintg all hlis guns and1( baggag When I saw General Lee he look lirm andt resolute, perfectly self-poict confidietnt,<hignilied. ie evidlenltly f that, his 89,000 veterants could hold t field anid carry it over the 80,000 mi (compjosintg the Federal host. I saw outr great lace at, his best, w. the light of battle ill his eye, hieroi: in every feature. It was dutrinlg I mlost critical andt trying pa11t (of 11 mos0t1 d!esperaite day, whenct the (lead blloody tidle (of diubious contflict v' fiercely, turtbutlen tly ebbing and~ llk mug; whlen thte redl vintage of hun: gore Ilowved ini corn- fields and1( ap or'chiards; mi open1 hOllOWS andit wvoodled slopesH; 0often bilshing tihe p1 watter's (If theO mlodest, strealmms andi sta ing tihe shlapely leaves of the shell ing forest.. On this terrtile, this santgntinled ficld, at, middltay, the strug for supremacy Was most, eventful untctini. .It, could not 1be told wit thea bird( of' victory wvould folds wvearty and14 triumphan~ltl wings. It, here '' the red badge of courag ,flaunted its crimlson hues~ ovei all" fair face of pieacoful nature. It here thtat knighltly deeds far outsh, tihe mythical splenor~ll of thatt vaumi time '' when kn ighlthood was in ft cr."' It was hlere that '' capti comi aigeouls "' only emlteltd tile sui: coutrage of their mietn, ctachi an~d btravely doing amnid so manyil hiet deadl and dlying. Andt it was here thetn tile heroic tmanhood~ of Rtober Lee wvas triedi and~ tested, and~ f(I equl1 to the emergency of holditng b~attlie lin~es of offence and1( defc agintst, tile p)owerful enemly. Th'le night after the battle, after nog counsel with his gerais, ha Wa7 misse toni witn tne worus: wvoutte men, if General McClellan wishes to fiNht to-morrow, we will give him bat ite tie; se that your commands are hold ready. Good night." The Federal commander-in-chief did not see fit to .ee renew the battle the next day. As I ur- take it, upon a fair and reasonable e Ljw timate, the relative strength of the two ;y armies the morning of September 18th a would be about :30,000 Confederates and v7'0,000 I.derals. This would be plac ny ing the Confederate loss at from 9,000 ,, to 10,000 men; the Federal loss at from ne 12,000 to 15,000 the preceding day. n- In simply stating a situation of fact, >(. now a matter of history, I have no lid comment to make as to the reason en ok tertained by a generallwith 70,000 mna it dechning to engage in battle with anoth in er general who did not have 30,000 ,m available mcii. Id The two armies were convenient to is. each other; they were in plain sight of -ly one another; on the same field they in had fought on the (lay before; there u. was no long, weary marching necessary so to precede the deadly battle of muske [is try, the loud thunder of aitillery. But, iy forsooth, thore was no fighting at to Sharpsburg or Antietam the 18th day is of September, 1862. History will n. securely preserve the name and fame re of Itobert E. Lee among the truest, ig noblest, most peerless soldiers of any . age or clime. A Northern historian x- has been kind and honest and brave Ie enough to write (own the great battle n- of Sharpsburg or Antictam as "a drawn battle." In this brief sketch I have 7, only written of it in a general way, i- pricipally to recall the first time I saw le tile greates( of soldiers, the noblest of 1- men; a naime respected and honored le alike by friend and foe, far and iear, Lr at home and abroad-Robert E. Lee. :c C. A. It a1s Itichiond, Va., July 25, 1001. W AN IMMINSE POULTRY FARM As Incubators Holding zo,ooo Eggs Kettles That Cook 1,000 Gal r- lons. I A correspondent of the Kansas City Star, writing froi Dallas, Pnn., says: I This little village has what is prob. L- ably the largest poultry farm in the )f world. The Meadow Brook Farm, sit ii- uated a shorG half mile from the rail. ly way station, coveris eighty-two acres of is ground. The building and yards of p- this immense plant cover over thirty dl live acres and the amount of floor space Ld under roof aiounts to a little more ,d than 112,000 square feet. It is lighted by electricity, heated by steam and it watered by a system of pipes, which a- are fed by an immense living well on I. the preiises. Le The business of the plant consists of 18 supplying young (ucks and chickens I to surmmer hotels, clubs, restaurants, ic steanship lines and market dealers who 'i- cater to the best trade of the big cities. te Eggs are also furnished in large quan e titics for the table and for hatching - purposes. The planii of conducting such u, an immense business is an interesting . nc. - The incubator building contains fifty s, large incubators, each holding 400 eggs. Is The total capacity of the incubators in At use is 20,000 eggs. It takes twenty ,Il one days for a chicken to hatch in - these machines and twenty-eight days I for a duckling to come through. If io all the machines discharged their chicks :y and ducklings at the same time they could( not be handled to advantave, so w to ovteome this (iliculty some of the ni, ma11chines5 are loaded withl eggs each 2, day, so thlat some of them discharge as ilhe ir young broods (dally. By this sys gZ; tom the age of the stock is graduated, ig so that tihe nlumlber required for market thi matures daily, anld is coop~ed and ship o, 1)0d wihout being kept on tile premises 3(d an hiour* longer than is necessary. eI- Whenci the little chicks come1 from tile id inciubators they are hierdled into 1)en1. t'd Thley ad vance f rom stall to stall through u- these penis from (lay to (lay until they of are ninety days of age, whlen thley are e, dIriven) into thle coops anid sent to mar h1, ket. The squad that, leaves the ima r, cines to-day are supp~osed to keelp :0. each othler company from the incuba ed1 tor to the frying pain, barring those d, that are p)uny and1 have to be put back alt a few (lays, or thlose that are particu.. Le larly hlardiy and call staind to be mxoved Lin tip a 1p0n or~ two, consequently there mtll be thousands of birdIs 0on hand th constanlty to enable the proprietor to un fill his dlaily orders. he The sale of eggs for tihe table is an Liat other large source of revenue. Two ly, thiousand hiens will liay from 1,000 to 'as 1,200 eggs a (liy. These are gathered, wv- the (late stamped upon them, wvrapp~ed iau nicely inl tissue pap~er, packed in boxes ile holdinig at do0zen each, and1( in from six oni to twventy-four hours all are on1 the ire cook's table in tile dliterenit Eastern ini- cities. or- The killing house, where the poultry am- is dlressedl for tihe market, is dhescrvying Lle of especial mellntion. Inl the height of ,nd the seasoin tie men go to work at 3 Lare o'clock ini the morning. A little trillm. its way traverses the entire planit, and t~he ma tile live birds are birouight to the killing " ' house inl cars. It has long picking Lhe benches, which ext011nd the entire vals length of one sidle of the building, >n)c Each operaltor has a windlow to afford ledl him1 plenty of light. There are scald >w- iIng vats, feather bins, cooling trouighs , i dripping racks, packing benches, feath eror presses, billing desks, ice break all ers, laltform and1( banging scales, anit '00s numerous other contrivances, so thai andl thousands of birds can be turned ou -. with speed that seems incredible. .di~ Everythuing abduit tile place is conm his (ucted on a hargiu scale. There is n10e roof and vegeabl6 store house, whier thlousanlds of bushels of bcots, carrota Lak- turnips, cabbag9', etc., are stored awa dmi. every fall for winer.. Thi hou isUUIL UmLUW LUC leveI or tile grouilI to protect its contents from frost. In one of the buildings there is an immense food cooker, which will hold a thousand gallons. It Occupies two stories, being loaded from above and emptied from below. Several barrels of fresh meat and bone arc dumped in here at once, the door is bolted down and a pressure of seventy pounds of ste is turned into it for thirty miu ute at the end of which time the on tire substance, meat, bone and all, is reduced to soup. Mule meat is used almost exclusively in making this broth. The soup made from the flesh of the mules is used to mix with the food of the young fowls. Water is never mix ed with their food. They are given plenty to drink. Great quantities of bread are feed to the growing fowls. They consume from 600 to 1,000 loaves daily. Shell is purchased by the car load and ground by steam machinery on the premises., The food is carted about the place on the cars of the little tramway. When the track runs through the yards, as it must in some places, it is built on trestles, so as not to injure or disturb the young fowls. There are many curious facts in con nection with the-business. Little ducks do not get along as well as little chick ens. They are the greatest cowards in the world. When a stranger enters their pen they rush pellmell to the op posite side and pile upon cach other several feet deep. As a result of such a scare there will always be several dead ducks and a number of crippled ones. It is estimated that a duck loses in weight every time he is frightenCed, so it is a matter of good business to keep strangers away from the (luck pens, and few visitors are allowed to go there. One of the best ways to get a flock of young ducks to venture and forage for themselves is to put a young chicken among them. They are great to follow a leader, and when young Mister Chicken, who is not so coward ly, leads off the ducks are right after him. But they are a timid folk ; a light has to bc kept burning in their pens all night. If they are left alone in the dark it is not long until the vivid imagination of one of them will con jure up something to get scared at. Ile will sound the alarm and the panic that follows is something terrible. The keepers go through at regular intervals during the night. The ducks become very fond of the men who feed them and care for them, but any other breathing thing frightens them. The machine-made fowls that are raised so systematically lack a good many of the characteristics of the ordinary birds and have some ways not common to the others. The keepers have a peculiar call, which never fails to attract the fowls from all portions of the place. They also have another sound, which is in tended to imitate the whirring noise of a hawk's wings. In event of a storm coming up suddenly they can clear the pen yards quicker than it takes to tell it by sounding this alarm. The natural enemy of tile young chickens and ducklings is the rat, but several ferrets are kept on the place constantly and the loss from the de predations of the rodents is small. WHERE THE IIIJOUENOTS ORIG1 NATED.-The origin of the name IIuguenot, as applied to French Pro testants, has been a bone of contention amongst anltiquarianis and philologists for many years. No less than twenty one sep~arate derivations have been suggested, but all of them are open~ to (debate, and at this late (date it is ques tionable whether the matter can be carriedl to a conclusion. Legend says that near Troyes a ghost, known as "' le roy Ilugon," haunted the (dark ness, and~ as the Protestants often held their meetings in secret andl at night, they were called by the diminutive of this nanmc. Another suggestion is that the wordl comes from tile German word " Emdgenossen," in the sense of cnfederatecs bound b~y an oath. This term was indeed used by the Swviss, but, it, was usedl by Roman Catholics anid Protestants alike. At tile last mneetimng of the Paris Academic decs Inscriptions M. Charles deC Grand Maison showed by meanis of extracts fronm a manuscript, in the lhbrary at Tours, dating from the end of the fourteenth century, that '' II uguenot" and " IHuguenotte " were thein m use as masculine andu fernine dliminiu tives of the name Ilugues. In this lie had been partially anticipated by the encyclopaedic Littre, who mentions the existene in 1 387 of D r. Pascal Hluguenot, of Saiat Junien. The name as appllied to Protestants dates from 1560 and first appears under the form of Iluguenauix. In live years it, had found a place in English literature. What research has st~ill to -liscover is thec idlentity of the particular llugues whose nickname became the usual des ignation of a powerful religious and political party. An interesting r'ail road enterprise, reported by the Baltimore Sun, is the arrangement mnade b~y the Southiern Railway to plant a large colony cf Finns con its line in Georgia. "Some 10,000 acres of land," it says, "have been bought for tile pulrpose, and what was done years ago successfully for th( rapidl peopling of the Northwest will now begini to be done for the wast< places in the South. Steady effort foi a few years b~y a Strong corporatior like the Southern may b~e expected t< prodluce results. The Finns are an ad mirable peOPle, aind will b~e dlesirabli e The~ will of the late Mrs. Charlot~t ,, Bullock, of ILouisvilla, (divides the 1)ull y of her large estate among the severai o charitable institutions in that cit. THEi UNWISE3 CHOICE. A "Then Lot chose him all the ,lasin of Jordan. * * And Lot dwellet in tie cities of the plainl, and pitched Iis tt toward Sodom. But the men of odom were wicked aid sinners before the Lord exceeditngly."-uenlesis xiii, F-.13. Out of EIgypt Abraml brought vastiv iicreasedi wealth. Each time he en-i camped, quite a towni of black touts quickly arose 'round the spot where s his fixed spear gave the signal for halt- 1 ing. Along with him there journeved his nephew, apparently of almost equal t wealth. 1le was no't dependent on Abram, nor even his partner ; "1Lot also had hlocks, and herds, and tents." So rapidly was their substance in creasing that they found that the land was not able to furnish thom with pasture. As the inevitable result, the rival shepherds, eager to scoure the ta best for their own cattle, came to high l words, and probably to blows. 1C Thus early did wealth produce quar reling among relatives. The men who had shared fortunes when poor , no , sooner became rich than they have to part. a Abram prevented a quarrel by sepa ration. "Let us," he says, "comic to an understanding, and rather than be i separate in heart, be separate inl habi tation." It is always a sorrowful time N in the family when it comes to this, t and it is painful to confess that legal forms are more binding than at broth eri kindness. t As yet the character of Lot has not r been exhibited ; we await with eager ness his reply to Abram. We know R1 (and he (does, too) that Abram has a been the making of his nephew, and Li that all the land belongs to A brami and we should expect that im common dc.. 1C coney Lot would set aside the generous offer of his uncle and leave him to de terminc the whole matter. le mil'hrt say : "It is not for me to make choice. My future does not carry the import. of p" yours. It is a small matter what 1 get t, or where locate. Choose for yourself 1 and allot to me what you think right." What a safeguard of happiness i life is right feeling. The heart which to te fuels gratitude is beyond the naeed of being scheduled and compelled to do a justly. But such instinct was wanting ta in Lot. Generosity is not always I- t fectious ; it often, alas, encourages selllshness. And so Lot traded on the nobleness of his uncle, and, without demur, chose him all the plains of Jor- tI dan, the richest part of the land, adja- 1 cent and controlled by the wicke!d city I of Sodoin. He is the typo of a very large class of ien who have but one rule of con duct,. le was swayed solely by the hope of worldly advantage. 11e has n nothing deep, nothing high in him. He a recognizes no duty to Abram, no grat- c itude, no modesty, no perception of his is spiritual relations, no idea of his daily h dependeuce on God. It would be too great a change from the godly tents ana coillilpaiInhip of Abram to go at once and dwell in Sodom. Ile only took a short step aside and "pitched his tents towards Sodom," thinking, perhap s expecting, that after a little c1 lie would return to his former life. lit What vast isslue hung on that step I And on all steps not ordered by the Lord. This choice was the great mistake of r, atr 1os life. He saw a quick, though a dangerous, road to wealth. There 0 Bt seemed a certainty of success with only . a risk of m)oral dlisaster. ILot would have been horrifled that (lay he made his choice had it been p~redlicted his dlaughters would marry men of Sodom. Hie bhut his eyes to any risk that lie might grasp the wealth, and in so do ing ruined bo0th himself and family.0 Hlis family grew up ini a very (different atmosphere from that which had nour ished his owvn youth in the tents ofa Abram. We are safe to say that Lot c never againH enjoyed free andi happy (lays. The men b)orni and~ reared in Sodom were possibly happy after theira kind anid ini their fashion. Lot, was not. His soul was (daily "vexed.''") Many a time must, lie have gone out with a sore and heavy heart., looking t at the (listant hills, which hid the tents. of Abram, longed for an hour of the companiy lhe had once enjoyedh and W selfishly abandoned. c3 D)o youi blame Lot ? Look iinto your own heart and( over' your life and jud~ge for yourself, as memory br'ings brick, tn step by step, your past. Have you (i never turnedl aside for worldly gain ? d You cannot forget the thoughts you C once had, the Iriei.ds you once cher- e ishred, the hopes which an imatedh you. t You cannot blot, out the ideal t.hat oince I (dominatedl your life. Every (day there w is the sharp contraist of your past, and o the presenit life. You may dlesprise n your compaimons for their shallow, ai worldly ways, but you will diespise yoursclf still mor'e, being conscious that, they were what they arc through iginor'ance ; you in virtue of your own foolish and1( sordlid choice. Your life is. now taken out of your owin hands. You ar'e ini bondage to tire circumn stances you have chosen aind your aire, indeed, learning in bitter'ness, dhisap) pointmrent and~ shame tire everlasting truth, "A mair's life consisteth not in the abundance of' the thmngs whichr hre p)ossesseth."~ "Nonsense,'' saidl the faith healer to the man who was calling for more whiskey, " you have not been snake bitten. You only thnink you were.'' "Well,"' saidi the victim, pouring out anothier stiff one, ''that may be all right,, but the snake thought lie was Sgoing to bite me, and~ I can't think as qunick as a sinake can."'-Baltimrore American. Thre war ini South Africa coniinues I to cost Great Britain more than $1 , 000,000 a (day. ,S TO THE' WEATHIER KICKER. he Public Cannot b, Satisfied With the Weather as it Comes To Atlanti Constitution says that eather kicking is at conilrmed habit ith the public. No matter what the I of fare may be in the weatlher line otebo(ly always has at kick coinig. ain or shine, hot or cold, it is iiios ble to Ictase them all. One might think that perhaps half i public, at least, could be accomimo ttel with satisfactory weather, but 3re again is a fallacy. The holder of [ic at theory, similar to Linicoln's that J rou can fool all the people some of e time, anid1 some of the people all of e time, but you canl't fool all the -ople all of the time," has failed to t ke into consisderation that curious aracteristic of huanan nature that it ver appreciates what it actually has. s Becky Sharp says, "we never get hat we waunt, or Want what we get." is is truer of the weather than of iy other thing--being also at sad con entary onl tbe native dliscontent of t an aind his titter lack of philosophy accepting With notice neither pro )> con tle absolute inlevitable-of Idclh the weather is at typical illustra m. The weather has been froan time im eanorial regar(lo(d ats anl appropriate pic of casual coanvea-sation. Only ta cent years has there come a hetero ox hint atgamaitst, tis ime-worn insti tion. Until the present revolution- a y ain( iconoclastic tunes n1o one would 6ve venture( the irreverent sugge.9- t ) that tihe conditioni of the elements e rea ly not an inspiring topic for coal rsational intercourse. It is one of f 0se stolid, irreparable, unarguable bjects that (10 not stiamulate scintil Ling secretions of gray matter. The ssing of the weather ats at colversa mal caam]ping-grouind is about to take t acc. In Hlonolulu, which hats at "' monoto- t mus'" climate, and where no one would ink of referring to the state of the mperature any more than of remark- t ( that there was air to beaithe or ay other self-evident fact, they say L at this is one of the mot striking ings to travelers about tihe natives. niaginte at whole population with not at ugle weather kicker in it ! Think of ing transported to at place where Lere was never an allusion to the sun the elements, to heat or cold or in(d or caln. Vhat at cui tailment of conversation possibilities I People Woul( acttually D forced back on ical live ideas as atter for talk. There would seem )mething lacking if one inhabiteat nuaunittaty where hI was never greeted ith "Good morntig, at ite (lay to day, n't it ?" or "Hello, old chap, beastly t weather, (lon't you think so ?" or Well, ny boy, is it not hot enought r you ?'" etc., ad infinitun and aId tuseauil. Think of the revolution in mo(dern C nversation if the subject of weather I 3re entirely tabooed. As great at ange would be wrought in the pre ninaries of friendly intercourse as is effected in motive power by the tro(luction of steamn and electricity. igher mathematics (oes not supply iy nierms suflicient to neasure the ituber of wasted words that have atrte( eternal vibrations of sound aves, and all on account of this one mnecessary subject. It is responsibale r endless "idlle words," as the Scrip ~es call them. If some mniraculotus day should mne-and its daiwn is even now fatint breaiking- when people reatlized all a sudden thait thecy have been sim y wastmag time atnd breath in talking )oult the weather, wvhat a won~der ould taike platcc. T1hey will feel so ueaip to thiank of the serious way inl hicht mankinad for ages past hats hair gaed conatinualIly atnd habitually, in aison aand out of seaisona, oan thas one ablic topic. And thean it will be drop ~d-and when the weather is on1ce ially (dropped from polite conversa >n it will be the "d(roppedc~est" suaba et that, can be imaginedl. Nothing ill ever revive it, augain. And a new myvcrsationial era will be0 uasheredI inl. The olad Patterson home ian Lexing ml, Ky., is to be0 removed to D~aytoan, 3nt of the N'tiuonal Cash Register onmpany andta a granadson of the founad. of Lexingtona. T1hae hoame 1s 0110 of de haistoric spots which aakes the ~entuacky town famoul~is. Special catrc ill be0 takean to ra'ec it 0on the laiwn f the casha register comnpany juast ats it ow appeatrs. Sonme oh thea trees, also, re to be taken uap ad transplanated. D umabarton CJastl e, thec amost hiistoric scotch military fortress, naext to Ed in aorgha Caste, hlas fallen ona evil days. L'hae Britisha watr ollice has withdrawn1 ts one soldier -thea laust, of the gatrrison. ~or many haundred years it, lodged a anilitatry garar:soan and cnattiaie thou and~s of aincient, anad miodlern woaponas. maaong these was the "' Wallace swoad ,"' bout six feet, long, which has now aeon remnovedl to Sterlinag Castle. A project is oan foot in Philadelphia o combinte at least 3,000 of the 5,500 etail groceries i tile city unde(lr one0 toad, wit h a capital of $6,500,000. The >l-ma is to purchlase the stock and! stores it a cash average of $2,000, making a otal investment of $6,000,000, ina ada lition to which $500,000 would be puit Ip for a working capital. Th'le idea, riarther, is to employ former owners as managers of the stores. .Jaimes H. Iharvey, who dlied treently in Brooklyn, directed thant his bodly be0 cremated atdithela ashes thirowan in Eaast I river at a point where he htad crossed (lay after day n m his warn o habiliess. A CHARLATAN AND A MENACE Mrs. Eddy Once a Spiritualist Christian -Science a Fraud and Imposition. Tle Boston corrspon(ent of the Philadelphia Record gives the follow ng report, of ati address in which Mrs. [kddy, the ollicial head of the Christian icience movement, is iecle(l to be a :harltan aid mueiaco to somet v Lawyer Peabody, who waged such a tard legal battle for Mrs. Woodbury ill ter suit agamst ''Mother'' Mary Baker Cddv, spoke before a large audience in remuont Tcmple to-inght. Peabody legai his ad(resS by saying that ht loes not know Mrs. Eddy personally id has no personal feelinjg againlt ler, lut, that, lie was led to deliver hits alk by a full belief that she is a char eitn .1(1 an a mllnice to tile piblic. "Christian science," he sail, ''is a ralud inl that it falsely pretenls to be a evelation from God, cotilliulicatedl ireetly to its ounilor, Irs. Eddy.'' Pealbo(ly then went, oil to state that 4r. Eddy is inl feeble physical conii io, but tIhat she has become rich anl iowerful throtigh the teaching and >ictice of Christian Science. cotitii. tiig, he said : "NI ary Eddy was horn n Bow, N. 11., 85 years ago. Before ier alleged discovery of Christian Set ntCe, 50 years ago, Airs. E'ddy picked ipl a precrioui existece as a spiiritu list mediuim for motey in and about loston. "1In early woitanhiooI she married a 1an ntainted ("lover, by whom1 she hadl >ie child. ir. and Mrs. (Clover went o Wilmington, N. C., where (flover oon (lied. A teceit commntuniicaition rom a laIy living in Wilminigtont in ormed te that the remains of' this Mr. lover' repose inl the Wiliiiigtoni-'ot or's Field. "As a second maitn 1111iil vetiutire .Ira. Eddy alliedt herself with one Pat ersoi. She was (livorce( froi him. 1hen1 Mirs. Eddy ialde a t hird1( vi entlire tito married life anl conferred ipon tsa Edd.), M. D., the ldistintetioni of uccessor to the laimeiittd (lover and ie dI'rted 'atterson. 1)'. E (ly ied ilnally, and inany believe. tha-t inl he course of titne Widow &hitly he ame antd is to-day the wife of C. A. rye. "Frye is oItensibly M rs. EdIdy's ser ,ant, footmani , scCretary atnl man of 01 work, butli he holds the legal title to ter residence in Concord, N. 1., aind ,o all the grounds about it, anl to all he personal property 11pon the place .nd he is the legal owv'ner. of Ier costl jewels.'' Peabo(ly also said that, Ms. Edd3 Alaimed to have d iscovere( Christial icieive througli a revelationi from Uot in 1.1466, when, as a matter of fact, shi eceiv'ed it, from Dr. Phiineas P. Qu ini Jy, of Portlail, Me., in 186-1. Pea. )ody sid that Mrs. Edly estlablishe(l he Massach usetts M etaphysical (ol ege, in Boston, to edlucate Christianl )ice healers, and that the faculty onsistedI of herself, her hiusbatd and ier aloptel soi. The course consists of twelve hal If Ilys, an(1 the tuition is 300 cash, in dvaince. No revelatuaiis or (iplomas f credlit or the iistalmen t plan. leaboly then said : "This woman, vho ha accumulated a fortniie by .te aicthoIs stated, is the womtain, forsooth, vhom1 the Creator of the untiverse se ected to ie the successor to ,Jesi. "Mucht ha~s been nmade of Mr's. ld. ly's gift. (of the hind uploni wh ich te "irst Chturchi of Christ., Scienttist, ini lostoni, stands. It her' book cintit led Pulpit andc IPress,' coplyriighited by Mr's. .ddy and putbbshted in 1895, is thle utatenienut thatt the Cost oif the IirstM hlurcht of I Cnst, Scienitist, in Ilioston a $221 ,000, exclusive of' thie latlI, a ~ift fr'om M ir . Eddy, which is valued it $40,000. "Mrs. Eddy413 intends to convey a i mtpr'ession tht site gave $.-10,000 worth >f real estate. In nionie of her'i miany mliishted i efercesOC to this plthiari ranisaction has Mr as. Eddy tol the ruth. "TJhie land upon01 whtich the church tantis 'was mrigi nally niorttgatgid for' 0tt,000( to N athani MIatt hews, Si'. 'VT >:igmnal society, bly contriibuiont, lairs, ~te., raiisedh enouigh mtotiey to reduce he amnountt of the m'rtgage Li) abouit 5,000. M r's. Eddy, th rough hier ageni ts, AOk ani assign ent of' mor'tgage fot lie bahmeie oIf [85,t00, fore'elosed~ it, ~rowdedi out till of the oriiginaul con ,ributor's to the Churebcl of Chr tist, Sci. mntist, acqui red the title andi gave it tt ,he trustees for thte Fir't Chiurch~ o .3hriist, reserving a r'it, 01' enttry an< o r'epossess hter'self' of' the land, with any church that mightt lie constucten 11pon it. 'iThis cost, Mr's. Edy f5,000.' IPeabody stated that while Mu s. Ed dly is credited by hter' followers wit gr'eat, geniei'osity she has reserved ini a lheu' gifts the r'ight to r'epossess hier'.e) oIf all tihe handI she has givent away, u gethber with the builit:gs oni it, an that shte has a simiilar att'ring aittIachei to the Chruistian Science pl Iica tion she has traniisferred to the organiizationi~ llegauding the fact, that. Mr's. Edu; teaches there is such a thinilg as mtah cious5 aimial mtagneti~tim, Peabodilla qjuotedl liberally front her wnitings, ai11 then said: "i i' per'sonal I eaching t< heir studentse was even mor'e ext raiva ganit titan the lantgunage of her' publish ed work~s. "' I aflirmt and' charge thit th iis Mara Iahker G. Eddoy, thie alle(ged~ found1(er o Chr tistian Science, hats againI a itl agai1 sounghit to exrc'(l2 ise his piower1, mal cious anlil maign etism, ~ wh ich sit calls the highest degt ee of' htumant d. praivity, and1 this I will pr'ove by legt ' videntce anly timii Mr s. Eddy3 ny U Alaska has~ th( smiallest lppuat ic of ainy possession of the United State. My Hair " I had a very severe sickness that took off all my hair. I pur chased a bottle o Ayer's Hair Vigor and it brought all my hair back again." W. D. Quinn, Marseilles, Ill. One thing is certain Ayer's Hair Vigor makes the hair grow. This is because it is a hair food. It feeds the hair and the hair grows, that's all there is to it. It stops falling of the hair, too, and al ways restores color to gray hair. $1.00 a bottle. All druggits. If your druggist cannot supply you, fleid( us one1 di ar ani we winl express you a bottle. ie suro and giv the namno of your nearest expiresoffilo. Address, J. C. AVYER CO., Lowell, Mlass. IN A HUMOROUS V1nIN. Some folks' talk," said Uncle En is hiko a t u tIch of fire.-crackers. 1t, ina(es a big splutter, but d (lai' ' nulin' to show foh it."-Wash ington Star. " Why didn't you stildy the time Lta ble an11d theni you would not have miss ed your train'?" "1 'hat was the trouble. While I was trying to tratnslate the :time table the tramll pulled out.''--ostoni Jour nut. T - When (tie lirst tireman came till th ladder to carry her to safety she11 wouldn't go). .less -'atc-stricken, oh? Tess---. Not at. all. She waited for the seconid on1e who was coming up ano(1ther ladder, becaluse he was hand somer than the first.-ahiladelphia I 'ress. Child--Oh, mother, stop; I wiant to look at that maini iut, run over by the Comue iloig, do! There will be an Other pres4enltIy, a little farther on. Life. "'lDoes it hurt to be lyiclied?" asked ti tenderfoot, timidly. " Not after it's over," replied Latiat Luke, sagely.-Ohlio State Journal. (Gevneral-Stop that reporter. Aid -What I Don't you walt to ,i% hve himl) selnd homije ill account of yoll heroism ? No. I don't want to b,) nll Ameri cani hero for a week and ai pinching bairg for t'm rot. iof my life-- lf'b DIeacon Scrouge--No, palrson, I don't. rightly think wqought, to give you a vacation. You known, the devil never takes one. Parson Snatlpeig.h--1Ie would, (lea Col, it You I tn't keep) him so busy. Baltimnore Americani. Clara--Is Iletty happy in her mar ried life ? Esther-Slie outit to be. No less tiithniree girls in town were after her Chaurley.-Botoni Transcrirut.. trs* JBrownedirs. WVhitty is for ever talking about the repartee at her house whten she and~ her husband en Mris. Malaprop-Yes, .1 supplose that's sonie cheap kind. I always use (lotong mayself.-Phiadlplua~ Press. liegenide Blatter: " It's time, -mwethought of Ilulda's getting nm id--shte is already eightecen years "' Oh, let tier wvait till the right sort ofi mainh comes1 along I'' "' Why wait '? .1 didn't I'" "' I suppose your sonl gradluatced with high honors?"' interrogated the bosom friend. "' Blamed high 1" replied the candlid old4 man1. ''ie had to pay some literary chap $25i to write his commencement, sp)eech."-Chilicago News. D octer-There's nothing serious the matter with Michael, Mrs. Muldoon. I think a little soap1 anid water will (do huni as much good as anything. Mrs. Mldoon-Y1.is, (1octor'; ani' will Oi give it t' him bef'oor or' afther his males? -G. lahsgow T['imes. -" 1.ook at the stuiff thaut goes to waste i in the grocery buisimess,"' said the I Iliunger ini the store, "anoid thinik of I le f saillt inargiil on inost of the goode. W here does the profit come iln?' I "Thrie profit,"' saidt the impatient 1 mani with then basket, on his arm, (011come from having only one clerk to .wait on thirty six customers."-Chica go Tr'ibuniie. "' This,'' said the guide, ''is one ol the mlost, remalrkaible towns in the whole country.'' "What makes it remlar'kable?" asked the tiraveler. "' 1t hasn't madle alny plans for hold inig an exposition of any kind."-. Washington Star. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought rn 81 ture of