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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : TUESDAY , AUGUST 31 , 1880 , OFFICE SEEKERS AT WORK , Lancaster Politicians Getting Down toBnai- nftas as Conrantion Time Approaches , MOVEMENTS OF CANDIDATES. Ormul Nltiiiil'R O. A. It. C" ' < m A " f > clatlon TncorporiiKMl Capitol Itulid Ing .7otin-4 ( | Illiunan Hack , to Lincoln. tiEr' LINCOLN ni'tir.U'.l The caljing of the Lancaster county republican convention for the 20th of Si > ] ) tiMnbcr has opened the ball in local politics and coats are oft' in the ranks of the office cookers. The convention will bo composed of 181 delegates , sonic seventy of the number coming from Lincoln. As ha < been the custom in tlio past , so in the present convention it is understood that the honors will bo equally divided between the city nnd country ono senator and three repre sentatives from each .section. Consequently quently , as the city Is divided inlo four Wards , each wa\d will aim lohave a man , and the battle will therefore be largely fought In the primaries. To forecast re sults would not bo a very easy mailer , but to forecast how the powers Unit have been would like to have the contest ter minate would be no ditlicult matter at all. In tin ) Third want Candidate Court- liny had no sooner returned from Cali fornia and laid flown the law in a ua.to . make Hathaway practically retire , before he was confronted wilh another roof that has arisen out ot the dee ) ) sea and made the danger .signals necessary. This new opposition that confronts him is Iho candidacv of Mr Talbot , Missouri Pacific attorney , and it is whispered that Church Howe'is giving the latter a little imiot assistance during bis residence at the slate capital , for the success of Talbot would mean a , Missouii Pacilic man in tlio legislature , and a delegation in Iho county convention from that ward tiiat ooiild bo usud to thn ad vantage of Howe in the selection of con gressional dolegateS'-aeonsumniation lhat would be of direct benefit to both parties in tiio case. How Courtnay will jiioel this combination is to bo developed , and what part the candidacy of Mr. Champ may play in the disruption is , as yet , an open question. In the second ward Cald\\ell and "Si' ' Alexander are accredited as being Urn loading aspirants from that quarter , and In the lirsl ward O'Neill would seem to bo the man that is growing into popular favor. It is expected that the oleinunln in that locality will combine on him and. avoid H contest In the third ward il is understood that senators grow , and hence the backers of Wright and the opposition with Moore , and presumably ono or two more candidates that may be sprung , all will contribute to an animated time when the day of thoprimaricssmilcs upon the office loving people of Lincoln. Aiirnu.s OK iNroitroitAitioN of the Grand Island G. A. H. building association have been filed with the sec retary of state. Tlio object of the cor poration is to purchase real estate and to erect thereon a buildihg for the use of Lyons Post No _ . 11 of the Grand Army of the Hopubjiei and Ihe leasing of Ihe part of this building not used by the post. Iho capital stock of the corporation is $10,000 in 1,000 shares of $10 each , with the following named as incorporators : John M. Thnycr. J. W. Livcringhousc , Geo. F. llyan , both P. Mobley , J. 1 ? . Alter , C. Alilif.cn. C ) . A. Abbott , O. C. Halo. C. L. IIowoll , S. B. Jones , 1) . Ackcrman and James O. We.-t. STATK IIOL'Si : 1TLMS. It i.s stated that the asylum matter will bo ready to present in the shape of for mulated charges at the next meeting of tlio board of lands and buildinps , and the Bii : has already given numerous samples of Iho testimony that has boon taken. Ono wpuld suppose that In a matter in which tbo public and the state at large arc so directly interested that lhagover nor would bo anxious to lend a hand in the efforts to seek light on the quesiion , but the anxiety is all the other way. The state live stock commission report thirty head of glandcrcd horses killed during the last month in different parts of tbo state , and Ihe record is the largest produced iu any one month since the or ganization of the commission. Last week the commission was called to Sarpy coun ty , near Papillion , where they found cat tle alllicted with atitlirax , a number of head having died with it prior to their reaching the place. The commission the present week has duties to lilt , ono up in Cuming county and ono west of Grand Island. Dr. Gorth. the slate vcterinatvy surgeon , has gone lo Chicago to meet Mis Gorth , who has boon visiting in Now York City.Land Land Commissioner Scott is out at Kearney on business connected with the stat < ! reform school , and improvements being made in building there by tlio board. State Treasurer Willard was down at bis old homo at Hebron , Thayer county , over Sunday , among his own" immediate constituency. Attorney General I.ceso came in from Seward yesterday. HIN'MAN'S Kin'I'HN. Ilinman. the musical man who loft the cily and his creditors between two days , was found by Detective Pound down at FHIoy. Gage county , Mid yesterday was brought back to Lincoln. His ar'rost waa made on his jumping his bond ( or for gery in Saline county , and if new bonds- iiiou are not obtained for him he will rest in jail under that chargo. If lio. is bailed out from there , papers will bo served for a like crime in this countyuid the detec tive making ttio arrest says ho admitted half of his paper sold hero was bad , run I'isii i\iiinrr : at the state fair , which is nron.iiod to be the best as well as the most complete over made In the west , will be ono of the standing attractions. Yesterday Com missioner M.iyt of Fremont , and Snoer- imondont O'lJnon , of the slate hatchery at South Bend , were in the city and passed the afternoon out at the fair grounds Inspecting the now building Hint is being especially erected for their uso. Mr. May has been through the cast securing exhibits from Washington , New York and Massachusetts , which , coupled with tlio flno assortment of tlioir own , will make a great collection. rOLlCK COUliT NOTKS. Yesterday in police court F. C , Foun tain and W. A. Soybcrt were examined under the charge preferred Hgninst thorn of burglary. Tlio charge i ceiled that on Saturday night or early Similar morning thov broko.mto and entered the saloon building on llio corner of N'inlh and O streets and abstracted therofrom one bottle tle of whisky , ono dollar and a half in nickels and coppers and one coat con- taming valuable papers. On the hear ing ol the case the judge held Fountain to answer for burglary in the district court and discharged Soybcrt , Aaron Harris ; , colored , was arraigned for swearing , lighting and the use of in decent language , the parties making the charge recited that hu accompanied his vocal oihibitio.x of wrath with rocks in one hand and a ra/.or in the other. "I noor nso wcepms on anyone. ' ' ho pleaded in mitigation of Ins acts , ami ho escaped Iho court on payment off3 and costs , H. Tuck , for Snockinjr a man down , kicking him and running away fiom the ofllcer , was lined $10 , anit Charles J'lbnrt , for drunk nndjdisordorly , was , lined a live and cost ? CUItllKST CHAT. The uiagnliicinit silver semca that was presented to Patrick Kgan In Chicago and mention of which was mndc In the HUB at the time was on exhibition at Trie-key's show windows yesterday , at tracting an admiring crowd. The cily prisoner * , fifteen in number , struck josterday tinder the stereotyped plea of poor food and refused to work. They were made to stand in the middle of the street through the forenoon and take a sun b.ith for exercise. Ground was broken ypstoidiy for a new Miree storv block on 1-jlevontli street that will bo built by Coinoilman , Billing'- . ly and will bo a haniUome structure when completed. Judge Pound waslioldingcotntin cham bers yesteidny continuing a leal estate sale made by the sheriff Trackla > ingou the Northwestern road lo Lincoln was reported yesterday within six miles ot Wahon and work being pushed with all speed. A large number of old soldiers aio ore- paring to embark for the Grand Hand reunion to-day and more Will follow Wednesday. Among the NebrasUans registered at Lincoln hotels were noted the following : W. N.King. Omah-i ; W. L. May , Fre mont , M. H. O'Brien , South Bend ; C. M. Whitnev , Harvard ; I ) ( I. Klein , Milford ; F. A. Scoville. Valparaiso : E S. McMas- tors , Pawnon City ; Goo. L. Allen. Dun- bar ; S. Dixon. Omaha : John Gallagher , Hustings ; A. W. Ague , Aurora , John Hess , Plum Crook. HOW THEY WRITE , TlioPconllarmoMofSome Well-Known. Aulliorn. Philadelphia Press ; Authors and ac tors have a time-honored right to be ec centric , and in no way does an author display his or her eccentricity more nnuke'dlj than in the preparation of the manuscript. Of lite years the typewriter - writer is doing much to destroy the indi- \idualityof tin author ' : ) copy , but even here the man will show himself. For in stance , Hobort Grant's stories are fas tened at the corner \villi a legal rivet , his name and address with bin profe.i-.ion ( lawyer ) neatly printed in the corner , and thu title , in true oonye } ancor's style , is double underscored -villi red ink , while the names ot people in tho'dialoguo have a single red ink line drawn under them. The whole all'air is neat and in perfect condition for publication. Hialmar II. Boycson , on the contrary , writes his articles on the green , pink , or blue re-tors of Columbia college , where lie is professor. His work , as ho sends it for the press , is evidently a first draught , scratched and changed no end of times Prof. Sophocles , tlio late professor of Greek at Harvard , wrote .bis cnlire By/.an- tinejdictionnry on ribboii paper. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell uses the type writer and ties the unruled legal-dip on which ho writes with red tape. May Agnes Tinckor writes a neat small hand , and , although the pages arc unruled , the number of words will average l'.H to the page- with almost unfailing exactness. Joauuin Miller writes : . diminutive hand , spells badly , has a noble di.-rcftaid tor punctuation , and .so separates his sylla bles that it gives Ins manuscript the oll'ect of writing in a toreign language. Frank Der < > slcr Sherman's work is as neat and careinl as" his verse. Written on smalj'and highly-ghucd ncie-paper , the writing is so done that it gives the effect of print , and the blue ink which he uses enhances the dainty appearance of his written page. To turn to another popular poet and look at Ella Wheeler Wilco.x's poems be fore they appeared in print you will iiud an unformed hand , scrawled over a fools cap page , nnd when the poem does not reach a. full two pages the second page is properly reduced to Hip requisite- with commendable attention to economy. Edith M. Thompson uses linen note , and in a delicate hand writes her vqrscs , never crowding , and yet always giving the impression ot condensation. John llabborlon , whom every one knows as the "Helen's Babies" man , uses largo yellow paper with green lines ; the first page or so is exquisitely neat , but soon the connections become more fre quent until they reach a ported fortissimo of scratches. Brainier Matthews writes a llo wingeasy hand , and if ho has to cr.iso no human being can loll what it was he changed , for hu draws a square around the unfor tunate intruder and lines it over and over until it if literally blotted out of exist ence. Sidney Luska ( Harry Harland ) docs not nec'.l to resort lo any device to cover up his mistakes. From end to end his curi ous , forcible , jet-black and heavy ink lines run without a correction. lie uses common white paper with rough and ragged edges. Henry Grcvillo is just the opposite. Ono has to pick out the part that is to be printed from tlio nme of alterations. Julian Hawthorne writes a small legible hand , and with commercial care marks on the outside of his MS. the number of words it contains. George Alfred Townsend ulilizcs the typewriter. The matter is copied in a lump and afterwards properly punctuated and paragraphed by the editor in lead- pencil. Edgar Fawcett writes on journalist's paper in lead-pencil. An occasional hinenr indicates that the rubber has been used , und on the outside of his copy he usually places the price of the work. Marchioness Clara Lan/a uses large green paper with no lines. Her hand writing is neat and her work is bat little corrected. George MacDomild writes on thin , crossed French paper , a line , almost feminine hand , nnd if lie needs to change a passage simply draws his pen through il and writes on. Sidney Lanier wrote on n highly-glazed note-paper in bine ink , and corrected his cnpin a curious ink of a brown hue , His wcrk is very legible. Loulso Chan dler Muulton , . as the amanuenses of Philip Bourke Marston , writes an almost masculine hand. It i.s naturally , being dictated , not a liltb corrected. Proprietor of Iho Li'nvreSan Fr.incisco , cured a severe eoii h wilh Hed Star Cough Cure. The UlKlit onico. Wall Street News11 think 1 have .stumbled into Iho wrong ollicc , " ex plained a slrangcr who opened the door of a Cincinnati lawyer's den. "Well , that depends. If jou are in business and desire to fail and pav ton cents on the dollar this is the right ohico , " "Oh , qul I'm ouo of the creditors of just snob a man , and I wanted - " "Cerlainly , come in. I'll either gut your claim in full or have thu scoundrel indicted for fraud. " Il U ( SPECIAL flAVORih'5 " / \ BRACTS it ur : MOST PERFECT MADS Ptepar * ! vltbitrlcl icxtnJ to Parity SuenstU and lUdlliifulncM. Itr. I'rlco't lltitoe tvurrterronulnt w Aua > enl , I.lniecr Alum Itr l''i ? ' Xrsncit , \ * tIIU , I. n.onUrtnco , etc. , B vcr J.l.rioi.rly. t&lK SAU/ta fQWDZR 19. , Cttros.o MJ St. iwrf * HOW PEOPLE HIDE MONEY , Ourious Places in Which Wealth is Concealed , Treasure Stored Away In Old Stockings - ings , Itrlclc CHcns , Wagon- Tops and Many Other Cancer. I'lnccs , Lcwiston ( Me. ) Journal : "I've had a good deal ot experience in hunting for Inoney thai folks have concealed , " said a gentleman visiting at Park street in Lewiston the other day , "and 1 just as lief loll you what I know about it as not. "Fifty years ago folks , especially the elderly people , took the utmost pains to hide money. Old stockings , brick ovens , old wagon tops , china teapots , the tops of bedsteads , hair cloth furniture u < ed always to come in for R big share of in vestigation after the dear departed had turned ui > his toes and had been laid away. From that momentas you well know , the hunt began , and folks rum maged the house and pulled open the feather beds in search of thu sil\er sm- ners , the beautiful yellow boys , or tin ; crisp bank notes that it was supposed tins i.imented deceased had left behind. I suppose that this instinct of concealing wealth and of searching for it was bred out of a well-founded suspicion of thu old time .sayings banks , and they were rascally things , as 1 well know. Of course the hiding instinct was trans mitted from father to son , and in manv way of reasoning Ihe war of the rebel lion .bad more to do with stopping this foolish plan of hoarding money than any other one thing. It opened up more old stocking legs anil old colonial gold than a hundred ycai.s of peace would have done , and yet I don't doubt , trom niy own experience , that there1 are countless .stores of gold in buried places in Massa chusetts and Maim ; to-day. " 1 could count up any quantity of fe males who believe that u secret hoard , left by a mysterious deceased ancestor , c\ists somewhere tor them. 1 bejievo that Captain Ividd's treasure is awaiting thu coming of somebody keen enough to discover it , don't yonV" And hero the gentleman in the arm chair , winked mysteriously , laughed at his own conceit and continued : "A funny scheme.in which I once came pretty near being interested was : i stock company formed in Pennsylvania where I was then living. It was designed to m.iko a .specialty of huntiugup concealed ireasuros. 1 did some work for them , and a partner and 1 weie pretty success ful there and in New York state. " ' How do you go to work * * ' "Well , it is hard to saj. You have to bo ftuided by circumstances. Slr.uige mental freaks exist iiis-omc familie. . \ on perhaps know people who are built the wrong way. I used to know a Lewiston family of misers , extremely narrow and stini'y , and yet would take no care of the hay in the Held or the cattle in the stall. We had to sort of learn human nature. Get first at the habits of the man whose wealth you are .seeking to lind. It's the best cle'w you have. " 1 once was called by the friends of an insane man lo look after his money. He had hidden it while supposedly in his vigil t mind , and when the symptom ot his insanity came the money-could not be found , and he could not be induced to di vulge The family began to suller tor lack of funds , and they tried to starve him into telling , but that only seemed to please him When I was called 1 was jmizlcd. He wouldn't talk on the sub ject , but the moment it was mentioned at once Hew into a passion. 1 bird in wait for him , and didn't discover him doing anything that would lead to a clew. 1 finally rigged a plan , and one day I showed , him suddenly a roll of paper with a bill around it so that il looked like a big wad of money , remarking as I did so : "We stumbled on your hidden pile the other day. " "lie gave one quick glance. "It was directly inlo I the corner of the room near the floor. lie then shouted , 'You lie ! ' and laughed gleefully at me. 1 had him guarded that night , and while ho was asleep wo pulled aside the carpet and discovered a panel in the wall , and in it his wealth. I was sure that wo should lind it in the room , for I knew that he would not iio satisfied to stay in any place where hu could not bo in sight of his hidden treasure. ' 'I once was sisnt to take care of a curi ous case in Massachusetts. It was hyent.y years ago. A wealthy man was stricken with paralysis , llo was about to deposit about $30,000 in money and bonds when hu was stricken down. The hcir.s were wild. He couldn't recall a thing. All that was known was that ho was found silling on the front hull stairs , bereft of mind and snceoh. Wo couldn't make anything out of him. Ho had no money Wo made a hunt at randon over the house , through the barns and stables. We about inailo up our minds that ho had boon rubbed. We atopped the ttirniluro- brcaki'i/ ' : and cushion-pinching business and were he-mating whether or not to make anests or to searcii for some inys- toimuic clue. For my part , as I remem ber , I wits confident lie had boon robbed , most probably after the stroke of pa ralysis , nnd I was not .sure that some at tack fiom the robber had not precipitalcd the paralysis. We. sought tlio doctors and examined the man's pcrbon. A long black and blur ; mark was on his hip ; another was on his forehead. A sliver of blue-pamtod wood was on his clothing. Wo started out to hunt. Wo tried the pump and clothes-reel , and everything else. Finally , down in the barn collar among boxes and barrels I came across an old dump-cart top. 'Hero's the arti cle , ' said 1. Wo turned the thing out iut'j the light , and there in a pile of m.inure wo found the packet ot money and bonds where thu paralytic had fallen and where Iho packet had slipped from hia pocket. "Aly ) ; nrdiir > r and 1 divided ? ' 2,000 be tween us that evening. "Did you ever road Kdgar A. Poo's tale about Iho search of Iho Paris police coinniissionoi. ? after a mysterious letler ? Well , llioro iu a good deal of philosophy in hiding Ihingn. 1'vo often thought of the old saying , 'If it had been a bear it would have bitten you. " The very hardest things tu find are often the plain est before you. It's like playing odd and oven. Yon give the opponent too much credit for too mnc.li ( or Is it not enough ) sagacity. I v/oll rumembor another ease where attempts ot all kinds had been made lo lind Iho wealth of an old miser in J street , Boston , and that after months and months of hunting it was brushed one day from a dusty old shelf above the mnntlcnleeo littered with papers , periodicals , nud worthless stuff. Ho put it in plain Light , and nobody thought it possible that it was worth while to look thoro. "A sailor will almost always hide his nicnoy about him. Irish women always now bills inlo their pollicoates. I once went into Now Hampshire to hunt for the money of a retired sea captain who had dud very suddenly. Ho had been a queer sort of man , very taciturn and al ways taking trips out of town after Ins money. Ho wasn't a miserly man and I concluded iliat ho hadn't buried > t. Ho t'opt in no ono particular place , and so I was pretty suns that there was no place in the house where lie felt better eon- t-Mtted than another. So 1 said : 'Hrlng Ms clothes. ' We wont over them. The binding of ono of thorn was wide , and his wife said , M 1 tore it off. 'Ho always .sowed Ins clothes up himself. He was as handy as a woman with a needle , Queer , ' She uddeil , "Why he altvaya wanted to waar that suit to the last. Poor dear' ' and al\v \ dropped a tear. In the meantime t Ifad pulled out an oiled silk packet , holding six bonds for $1.000 each , and we found eighteen more in the same suit. His trips to town meant soim-thing , you sec. "Of course there arc men who bury money. Such men alwavs have its hid ing place marked oil' , and , ten to one , they want it buried where thov can sec. as "oon as they can see anything In the morning , that sump thiff has not discov ered its biding lUticc in the night and made oil'with it. , You can put it down that men who conceal money like lo have it as near ul hand as possible. I have Known ninne > to be concealed in the clock in thbbedroomand so arranged that no one conH touch the clock- with out alarming the household. If a man who hides his money has any special idiosyncrasy it N s.ife to look it up. The more ignorant and crafty your man , the safot lo go bj his eiankiness. " ' "What soil of places have you'known of money being hidden ? ' ' "O , everywhere' In the. upholstery and bedding , under carpets , behind tlio door casings between partitions or be hind the wall paper , in the old family Bibles , behind mirrors , nailed to the walls , in false ceilings , in false bottomed drawers , in clocks , siove.s , linings of old lials. steam railiatois ( disused ) , bottles marked 'poison , ' canes , shoes , vest and coat linings , tomato cans , tea canisters , powder horns , old stocking feet , and in c\crv oilier conceivable place. "The ways of the covetous arc manv and their tiicks are dark and peculiar. ' A PICKPOCKET'S HEROISM. AH Uncounted hy n Benevolent Old ( Scntlcinnn who Knew Him Ironi n ( toy. New York Sun : The subject was pickpockets , and a detective had given a number of interesting incidents of the skill and dexterity of this clas > of crimi nals , as well as .striking instances of tlieir complete reformation. "I met a reformed pickpocket once , " said a benevolent-looking old gentleman , and the means he took to reform himself were probably such as no other member of I he fraternity ever took. I say 1 mot this party once , but the fact is I know him from a boy. His family was one of the best that lived in Philadelphia , and the young man received a good educa tion and had everything that heart could desire to make him a good and useful cit- i/.en. Ho seemed to have no faults. Ho never drank or gambled , and it was not until lie was past his majority that the crushing fact was brought home to his father that his son was a professional pickpocket and an associate with crimi nals of his class. The lather for years paid largo sums lo keep his unfortunate son out of prison , but finally ga\u him up as totally lost , and cast him on" . 1 used to meet the young man fre quently , h s tamily being intimates of mine in fact , I baved trolled the boy on my knee many and many time and always pleaded with him to change his course. Ho felt his degradation keenly , to all appearances , but declared that he could not control his inelmalion for pockct-piekinm I finally lose sight of him , and did not meet him again until about a year ago. ' Then 1 came face to face with him on Broadway. Ho looked like a well-to-do young business manand when he recognised me he greeted me cordially. He noticed my embarrass ment in speaking with him , and said : " 'Oh , I've tnrnwl my hand from the old business long ago. The fingers that made me an outcast and a thief make me ono no longer. , And how do yon think 1 overcome their irrcaisliblo inclination lo enter every Docket they encountered ? ' "I replied tluit I could not toll him how , but assured bhii of my unbounded pleas ure to hdar that ho had overcome Ihom. "Til loll you'said lie , 'one day i bad been plying my delestablo vocation , and on leading the paper the nc.xt day I found that I pilierod Ironi a poor woman money that bhe had in her pocket to pay for a collin for her dead child , and that it was I he last cent she hud in the world. I was stricken witii rcmor-c. I walked about tlio streets haunted by the wrongs of Ihis poor woman. I thought of ending my miserable existence by suicide , and actually rus'.ied in a frantic sort of way loward the river. AS I hurried along , a prey to the most terrible thoughts , ! came to a shop where they were Tiammering bars ot iron with ponderous trip-ham mers. The doors of the shop were open on the street. I stopped in a listless way and looked in at the honest Avorker.s. As I watched the heavy hammers drop with their powerful blows , and saw how they ' flattened the tough metal beneath Iheni.'a strange thcught came suddenly to mo. It was a fearful thought , and J tried to put it away , but .something kept saying : "Bo brave ! Doit ! Save yourself I" Led by an irresistible power I entered the shop. I walked up to ono of thn great hummers. I watched it i's it was lifted up and came rushing down again on the iron below with the velocity of the winil. 1 iriod ono more great effort lo resist the power that urged mo on , but failed. I stopped close to the hammer. It was lifted high in the air. Before it fell again , and before any of the workmen divined my intention , I ulaced my hand on the iron beneath it. The hammer fell. Every ono of the lingers on my pilfering right hand was .severed. " 'Jhoy'll never lead me wrong again ? " I cried and fainted. When 1 eamo to 1 was in a drug slore , and the blooding stumpy of my savored fingers were being bandaged by skillful hands. In time they were healed , and now- sec ! " "llo pulled his glove from his right hand and showed me the stumps of his lingers , still red from the cruel hammer's blow. 1 could not find words to toll this bravo youth how noble his act was crip pling his good right arm lo save hiimolf from a life of shame. After a few min utes talk wo parted. J was filled with admiration of this exhibition of nervy manhood. I would bo filled with it yet 1 suppose , if I never had had occasion to consult my ? 20'J again. But I did have occasion soon after leaving my bravo young follow , ami the watch was gone. Sow as $150 in bills in my vest pocket when I mot him. i learned afterward that in trying to escape from a police man , three or four years before , ho had tiippod.and falling , his hand was crushed beneath tlio wheels of a truck. In my admiration of ( ho noble motive which he told mo had berefthim of thu lingers of his right burnt I had failed to notice that those on his left hand were as long " ' asoycr , , la it j { < ) t Singular. that consumptives Jiould bo the least ap prehensive pf tjeic [ own condition , while all their friends are urging and beseech ing them to bo more careful about ex posure and overling. It may well bo considered ono ol the most alarming symptoms of Hum disease , where the patient is reckless and will not believe that ho is in danger , Header , If you are in this condition , do not neglect the onlv means of recovery. Avoid exposure and fatigue , be regular in your habits , and use faithfully of Dr. Piorco's "Golden Medical Discovery. " It has saved thous ands who were steadily failing. Tlio Difference. Now York Tunes. Bobby Pa , what's the dilYcrcnco between a man who is a crank and a man who ain't a cranky Father ( who has boon accused offlng \ \ a crankl Tim man who is a crank , my boy , is thoroughly familiar with ono subj ject ; thu man who la not u crank knows a litllo , but not much , of several sub jects. Burns , cuts , bruises , sprains and scalds , yio to the ( supreme power of $ t. Jacobs Oil TtTT ) p i lint T\T < / > r t v f t Tpno THE CAROLINA CLAi-EATERS. Strange People Dwelling in the Sand- Hills Ncnr Columbia. to Ho One Hundred Yenrg Old I * pun a Diet IjiirRi-ly Consist- IHJ : ofVliUo Clay , uti Inlaltl- Ilo ItiMiiotly for lndlio - tlon or 1) } sppp lu. Columbia fS. U. ) letter in Atlanta Con stitution : Whilst sliiuiliiis in Mni street tu-tlny oouvei-siiiK wl/H / n talonled mid onterluiiiiug young physician of this oily , I wa aceo toil suddenly b.y an old man who thrust a paper into my nmull ing hand , ulturinj ; tlii' o pathetic word' ' as IIP did to : " 1'or ( .Soil's sakr , i-eiul il , gentlemen. " My frluiutvlio was prejudiced agahiMt befiRiirs in ceiieral , mid 'Sandhillers" in pnrtieitlur , \\as for sternly tlisjinisUnji tlin intnulur , but M > nietldnj | { leculiarly pleading in the agoil inundiuant look ar- ri'stod that purpose and tinpulli'd him to follow the dictates of his nobler nature , and to relieve the di tre.es of the poor wretch. 1 , too , could not restrain u charitable impulse , and placing n small coin in the itching palm wliieli pleaded for alms 1 turned to my companion as the old man shambled oil' , chuckling over Ids Rood luck , and jingling the money in his bony hand , Whilst bestowing our small alms 1 hastily scanned the old greasy paper , which contained thc.su words , with several illegibly-scrawled signatures at the bottom : "To whom it may coneern : Tlio bearer K 100 year- * old , worthy of assistance , for iie 1.1 unabio to work. " Here there was a genuine centenaiian , and w did not begrudge what wo had given him. Itut what a'straiigu-looking being he was ! How nneartliy his usi ; o , how yellow his eomple\ion , and how shrunken his chucks , wnat pleading but lustreless eyes , and what a miserably- cmaeiaud anil drawn-up body. A tyjm ol man but iiifrcn.iumll.v met wilii. J Inftt seen him bofoie , and hail encountered in the street * , of Columbia occasionally men and women not unlike him , but had never imagined that hn was more than .si\ty-Iive or seventy years old. The eyes ol my medical man followed the reti eat ing lorm , and he dryly lemarked. "Uo 3011 know that he is a genuine elav cater * " "A what1cMlaimcd - J. "Why , a man that lives on clay ; one whose principal aliment is kaolin , or a kind of smooth , grilles * , moist clay , that abounds in all sand hill regions.1 "Now. surely jou don't expect me to swallow that statement any more than I would expect that man to swallow a gob of mud. " "Whj , most assuredly I do , " said he , for 'tis as true as gospel , and I know what I am talking about. " "Hut you don't think I'm < = o gullible us to believe that this man , who is over a hundred years old , has been blessed with this remarkable longevity because he ate tasteless clay ? " "Ills strange , yet it is true. I have made a study of the. question , and have during my investigations witnessed some striking rovelatidns. Now , to basin with , 1 have seen 'sandliillciV in oertain parts of North and South Carolina , nnd some within ten miles of Columbia , while engaged in eating their dinners , and have observed them consume , with evi dent relish , large quantities of clay ; and , what's more , I Imvo joined in their frugal roimst and partaken of some of the stuff niy.ic.lf. " "Well , what does it taste like , and how does it allcel one ? " "Jt is nearly tasteless , but sonic of thn clay-eating epicures profess to enjoy it because ot a delicate Ihivor it possesses. It is white , devoid of grit , and not unlike the kaolin of which plates and saucers are made. There is nothing disagreeable about this clay , and it may be taken into the stomach with impunity. It is not injurious as an article of diet ; indeed many contend that it insures longevity and wards oil' several diseases. There are well authenticated instances of won derful longevity among 'clay-caters , ' and it is well understood by such ol the faculty as have studied tlio subject that of the ' .sand-hillers' none - ever suller with indigestion or dyspepsia , and lhavo never known one to die of consumption : in fact , foolisluis it may hcem , I am con strained to believe that this strange habit exempts tlic 'clay-eaters' from many ot the ailments to which the rest ot the human family are heir. Of course there is no thing very succulent or nutritious about a slice of clay , but it certainly allays the gnawings ol hunger. This it docs by distending the Avails of the stomach. U is not to be expected that a clay diet will take entirely the place of bread and meal , but it docs this to a car- tain e.Ucnt. " The doctor pau cd and I marveled at what he told me. Continuing , ho said ; "In my country practice , which occasion ally carries me out into sandhills ( occa sionally , 1 say. for although the sandhill- er.s arc the sickliest looking , most cader- vorous and wobegono beings in thn world , they are the healthiest ) , 1 have good opportunities to study their pecu liar habits. They can subsist on exceed ingly limited quantities of moat ; in faot , they gut very little to eat and that fat Dacon about thrice a week. They arc not lazy. but decidedly shiftless. They are troubled with few wants , however , and these are supplied easily , " "Do they eat only one sort of clay ? " 1 interrupted. "As a general thing , yes , " was the reply ; "but sometimes their table is gar nished by a kind of yellowish marl , some what scarce , which they consume with n keen relish. It is aid to taste sweet , and they USD it as a dessert. They , however , draw the line at rod clay. TIIIH not even their ironclad stomachs can digest. 'Don't you cat red clap ? ' I asked n gawky old fellow. 'No ' mirreu , ' was his animated response ; 'I have occasionally had erbrick in my hat , but I'll bo blamed cf I hanker after making my bowels a brick-yard. " Cure for a KuttlcNimko Itiio , Eighty years ago Joseph Gcor , the first settler at Long Eddy , N. Y. , 'earned ' the cure for n rattlesnake Into from John Johnson , a half-breed Dataware Indian , who had his wigwamonthoJ'imns lviniia side of tlio river , at the foot of Lonir Eddy , ami eked out a miserable existence hunting , fishing and supplying the set * tiers with lead from a mine iu the vicinity , to which lie would go and get u load and return the same day. Johnson , like most Indians , was an invutcriuo lover of whisky , ami for n pint of H would lot a rattlesnake bite him and then euro him self with his remedy , which , however , ho would not reveal. ( Jeer always kept Manor in his house , and on an occasion when Johnson was recovering from one of his frequent spells of drinking to ex- cesss , and was sullering terribly for the want of liquor , Goer promising never to reveal the secret while Johnson wns alive , succeeded in getting the remedy for a pint of whisky , A few years thereafter Johnson went oil' with a strolling band of Indians and never relurnod. ( Jeer kept the remedy u secret , however , till from old ago ho was unabio longer lo an swer the calls of the bottlers wh-w auv of them or their stock iiad been bitten , and then told it freely to all. It was as fol lows : Apply to the wound a poultice one- half each of common salt ami indigo , mKed with cold water , ami renew every two hours. Eat freely of the leaves , or ' " 2CPT drink often of the ton made from thoin. of a variety of the blue violet ( V Sagit- tnta ) , commonly known as the "arrow- Inaved''Moli-t If thn bite lie uj'on the leg or an arm. bind the leaves in a eirelo aiouiul it , above ami just beyond the swelling. Moisten with cold water us often as they get dry from the fever created by the pnNon. and renew two or tinco time * a day. During the time tliit remedy has been in use in Mr. ( Jeer's neighborhood It lint ellecled at lea t twenty cures upon human beings , ami : * great many more upon bemUs and has never failed with cither. Halph ( ieer and Mosps Thomas , Long Kddy , N. Y. , are the names and addre e * 'of imlividiials now living , who have been bitten by rat tlesnakes and eiired In tin * remedy with out tlio aid of v , hisky or nnj thing el-e. JULES VERNE S IDEA. It Was I'osictNcd Mntty Your * A so by A Spaniard , "I see by your evening K uo of Wed nesday , " said l'rofe M > r Jo-eph Cardona , an art-si of the cily , to a Chicago Daily News reporter , "that you have an article entitled Mules Verne's Idea , ' nnd de scribing a submarine torpedo-boat in vented by Professor Tuck , an American. I must siy ; about it th.it Professor Tuck is about forty years behind tune in this matter , and will do well to look , as 1 did , and tlioit > amls of others , at the subma rine boat invented and constructed in Ilarcelona. Spain , b.y Mr. Monluriot. of tlio same place. The boat was invented , not for war , btil for the peaceful oporn- turn of getting coral from the Mediter ranean's bottom. \\ascallc-l tliu 1'ish- boat v Marie Per ) . Its dimensions were about the same as Professor Tuck's , but its form was not of a turtle , but that of a Jiih , and il had two large glass eves just as a lish by u inch , like the headlight of a locomo'.he , it could Illuminate a cer tain spacu and the occupants could sue from insiilo. Then it was provided with what 1 may e.\ll iron jaws , operated from the inside , to si-j/.e or grasp ain tiling it came In contact with. Tins boat was provided with a propeller in place of a tail , and two others , ono on each side , where thu lish have Ilieir paddlc-lins. Four or live men could he placed inside for several hours under the w.iu r , v > hieh was successfully done. "Same years alter 1 was in the West Iiulies.whcro 1 was told that when Queen Isabella visited the provinces on her wed ding tour with the licet , she landed in Hareuloim.in which a trial of importance was made of the Fishboal. Il is said that -cveral miles from the shore in the Mediterranean ca a marked cannon was thrown to the bottom , from six hun dred to one thousand feet deop.lhc queen and cabinet watching the operation from the Hag-ship. The 1'ishboat was then launched and worked its way to the Hioty.and ) Uiially came up from the bottom tom with the gun or cannon in its jaws. For some time afterwards the idea was entertained that the government would ndopt it , but Hubicnuenl changes und revolutions put the Fishboat idea on the archho shelves of the past. "it i.s easy forjou to lind the pamph lets that were distributed about it at that time and at the birtli of Kinjr Alfonso. Tlio.so pamphlets contained full particu lars , with drawings and specific-aliens by Air. iMonturiot. The doubt should be dispelled bv facts whether Jules Verne got his idea from Monturiot or Monturiot got them from .Jules Verne , but , at all events , it will prove to your satisfaction that this problem was successfully solved about forty years ago. " Sickness comes uninvited , but if il finds us with healthy and active liver and kid neys with pure blood , we are impreg nable to its attack. The best invigorant is Dr. J. II. McLean's 1/iver and Kidney JtJalm , used wilh Liver and Kidney Pillcls. Dry Goods Clonk. ' Philadelphia North American : 'Hie Second street storekeeper looked despon dent when a call was made at his place to see what he had done with his now clerk. The biped in question wis : not in the store , and the visitor at once conclu ded that he had been lired. "Iiad to bounce him , didyouV" was the inquiry addressed to the storekeeper. "No , I haven't yet. Seems us if I'd have to , but somehow I can't bring my self to it yet. lie's gone to his dinner now. Heen gone an hour and a half , too. By rights 1 ought to give him ra.ts when he conies back , but really I am glad to got him out of the store a little while. It seems like a relief , yon know. I'm all the time afraid he'll do sonic awful thing. What do you suppose he did yesterday ? " "Really , I haven't the slightest idea , " replied the visitor. "Perhaps he sold all the silk out of the storr at live cents u yard for calico. " The Morokecper looked startled as if ho was wondering whether his treasure might not yet do that , but replied that it was not quite so bad jet. "I'll toll yon what ho did du though. A lady came in and asked to see some black ppool silk. He. said , 'wo don't keep it on spools here , mum ; we sell ! t by the yard,1 and whipped down before that astonished woman four dilTeront rolls of black dix-ss silk. She got red in the face , and before I could get down to the door she was halt a block oil' and looked mad as a set- tin" hen. "mil that wasn't the worst of it. There's a dressmaker that has dealt with mo for years , and she came in and asked to bo shown some lawn. Hetoro I could stop him he told her that wo didn't kaup a horticultural establishment here , and if .she wanted a door yard or anything else in the gardening line she had' bolter hunt somewhere else. I lost the bust customer 1 had by that Sh-h-h , bore ho comes now , " and tlio store keeper stepped modestly back , while the now clerk strutted by with a lordly air , picking his tooth with the small bl.uio of his pocketknife - knife , Kirk's Gornmn Pile Ointment. Sure euro lor blind , hlecdlnc , ami Itching IMi s. Ono box has cured the worst cases ot ten years stfxmlliiK. Xo one need suiter ton mhnilUa niter using this womluifut Klrk'a Ucrinan I'llo Ointment. It ubsoib ; Illinois , allays the lleliln at oar.o , art ) as a poultice , 1'lvcs Instand relief , Kirk's Clc ; 111:11 : ; I'llu Ointment Is prepared only for 1'ilin Mid Itciiiiin of the privRto purls , and nothing clso. Kvwv box in warranted by our aijonts. Kolij by drus islv , sunlby mall on receipt o pileo , f > fc per box. Wl , tO. . Uli.NTON , PHOP , Cleveland. O. Sold C. K. Oiooodiiian ami Kuhu te Co. , 1Mb mid loiii.-lis ) I Slli nnd Cumin Hidden Utulor tlio Wall Ktruot NewsA traveler over a country road in Ohio had his attention diawn to the taet that about every third fiirmor on the route was ; shingling his bain , and in his innocence ho remarked to the driver of the rig : "It is probably because slilnfj'cs tire BO cheap V" "Not exactly , " was the reply. "The comity $0,000 to build a poor hoiiso , voted and Incsn barns all Imlong to the Hi | > or > visors. " "Hut I--I don't the " , - - see connection , persisted the traveler. "Oh ! there isn't ' any. We've been Irving for the last five yoarMo liml Iho connection , but wo can't do it. Jt wo could we'll bounce the whole gang. " JiO-uitll'ul Women arc mndo inilihl and unntlrnctivo by functional irregularities which Pr. Plnroo's " > "avonto Prescription" will in fallibly cure. 'J l.oubumls oflcslimumals. Hy druggists. _ Auction ! Aut'llon ! Auction ! A public auction will be hold on Tues day , August til. at 10 o'clock a. in. , of all the household goods at 1017 Jackson street. A.V. \ . UOWAM & Co. , Auctioneers. SEWING WOMEN. How Mnny Stlclics Chlcntto Slnmifno- ttiroM ItiMiiiIro for n I'entiy. Chicago Inlor-Ucenir No phase of the labor agnation is more likely to attract popular attention and exei'le sympathy than the movement of thoM'wing women to increase the rate * of compensationnuil yet It is doubtful whether any slrik.i , or any resort \ \ > the method of strikers , will bum-lit tlio-c tno-t in need of help , it ap pears from unostigatlon that the cloak milker reecne on an average about 5-9 per week , that the \ost makers who do machine work make from $ ! ) to $11 a week , bastcrs from $0 lo $ t < , button hole sewers about the same Finishers who \\oik long Imur.s reecho only from$3 lo $ " > a week. I'lio wage * of coal makers range from $3 $ to $8. Pants makers , paid b\ the piece , can earn $0 to $ IS a week , ' 1 hi < is the work on what may be called high grade clothing. Where no skill i.s icmiirod the pu > is still lower , many girls working for ' , ' . , * > l ) a week. The manufacturers expect that clothing be made for them at a certain rate , lietween them and the sowing girls are thee \\\\f \ > lake Iho work and ni\o it out. The manufac turers claim that they cannot pay more than they arc now paving and compete with manufacturers in other cities ' 1 hey claim that the margin is now so small that no reduction can be made and busi ness carried on. The > question then comes up of who gets the profit Tim rate of pay , it is said , is loll largely to the bosses , who ji\e out the work , ami it nia.y be that here is a subject for negotia tion and arbitiation. The pay ot sewing women \ \ ho do low grade work is notoriously riously beggarly , but it appears from all that can be learned by those interested in the present movement that such women are not cm corned in the strike ) and will not be much benellted by eon- cessions made. M.inv sewing girls who are proficients and who are outside tlio influence of the tailors nud manufactur ers are getting good wates. These- wagon arc lived by a general nndor.standing be tween the workers and the people for whom they work , and there arc times when there is n greater demand for good seamsiresse.s than can bo met. 'Hioso people are not interested in the strike Why IH It That the sale of Hood's Sarsaparilla con tinues at such a rapidly increasing rate * It is 1st , Itpcause of the positive curative value of Hood's Sar.saparilla itself lid , Because of the conclusive evidence of remarkable cures oH'ooted by it , unsur passed and seldom equalled by any other medicine. Send to C. I. Hood & Co. , Lowell , Mass. , lor book containing many btatomcnUs ol cures. Cure without modi- 1 POSITIVE clno. r.Uontoi Oclo- bur Ii5 , 1.STO. 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