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OT bl TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW As THE ? NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN BY KEITH, SMITH & CO. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SBPTEMRBtt 15, 1881. VOLUME XXXII-NO. 44. A PERFECT STRENGTHENER.A SURE REVIVER. IRON BITTERS mo highly recommended for nil diseases re quiring a eenuin and efficient tonic ; especially Indigestion, Dyspepsia, ?nta miitent Fevers, Want of Appetite. Lots of Strength, Luck of hncrgy, etc. En riches thc blood, strengthens the muscles, mid gives new lifo to tho nerves. They act HIco a charm on tho digestive organs, removing all dyspeptic symptoms, such as lustiny thc ?bod, Belching, lieut ?? the Stomach, Heartburn, cte. Tho only Iron Preparation that will not blacken tho teeth, or g;ivo he?dnolie* Kohl hy ali druggists. Write for tho A II C Hook, 32 pp. of useful und amusing reading-tent free. BROWN CHEMICAL CO., Baltimore, Md. DELETE CT BALL SEWING THREAD. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. 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Cash sent with order will bc refunded and freight charges paid by us both ways if Piano is not just ns represented in thia Advertisement. Thousand* io use Send for Catalogue. Every instrument fully warranted f>>r live \cnrs. T)T A TVTf^? $100 to $100 (with stool oovor and book.) All strictly First class J JLx\.Li v^lJ and sold at wholesale factory prices. Those Pianos made MIC nf the fluent displays nt the Centennial Hs bibi t ion nnd were unanimously recommended for tho Highest Honors. The Squares contain our New Patent Seale, the greatest improve ment in thohistory Ofpiano making. Tho now pa tont son lo uprights mo the finest in America. Positively wo make the finest Upright Pianos, ol' the richest tone and greatest durability. They uro recommended by tho highest niu-ieal authorities in the cou nt rv. Over 14,000 in uso, und not ono disssutistied purc.hiisor. Ail Pianos nod organs sent on 15 days tC6t trial- froight free il unsatisfactory Don't fail to write us before buying Positively wo ( flor tho host bargains. Piano catalogue mailed freo. Handsome Illustrated nnd Descriptive Piano Outuloguo of 50 pages mailed for Go. stump Every Piano fully warranted for five years. Our New Styli-Jubilee Organ in Ju p?nese Case, culled tho 'Oorien tul," Stvle 09. is thc handsomest, 'tastiest nod mvi-otest toned Parlor Organ over offered the musical public, lt contains Piyo Octave*. Five sots of Keels, viz t Melodie, Celaste, Diapason, Sub Bass und Celestina. Also Fifteen Bountiful Stops, ns follows, viz.; Melod?a, Cclcsto, fa chnrming stop,) Diapason, S uh-Bass, Kobo, Du loot, Molodia-Forto, Expression, Trebier Coupler, Buss-Coupler, Qrand Organ, (which throws on tho entiro power of tho instrument,) lligght Knee Stop and Swell. Left Knee St ip and Qrnnd swoll. Height, 70 inches; Length, 47 inches: Width, 21 indict*; Weight, boxed, 350 pounds. The cuso is of solid walnut, veneered with choice woods, and is of un on tirely now und beautiful design, elaborately curved, with panels, musi? closet, lump stands, fretwork, &c, all elegantly finished. Possesses all tho latest and best improve ments, with great power, depth, brilliancy und sympathetic quality of tone. Beautiful solo o Meets and perfect stop notion, llego I ur rot,iii price ^2i5. Our wholesale net cash prico to hove it introduced, with stool and hook, only $87-ns ono organ sold sells others. Positively no d?viation in prico. No payment requited until you have fully tested the organ in your own homo. Wo send all ornns on liltcon days test trial and pay freight both ways if instrument is not us reptcsontcd. Positively, our Organs contains no .?Bogus" sots of Reeds, or '"Dummy" stops, ns do mahy others. Wo muko no misrepre sentations und guarantee honest und fair dealing, or no nala. Folly warranted for ? yours, Othor styles $35, ?50, $57. $05, $70, $75, $Kf> etc. Over 34.000 sold, and every Organ has given tho folios! satisfaction. Organ Catalogue mailed froo. Factory und wurorooms, 57th St. and 10th Avenue. H?-ffff?ftW IVH |TQ?d' '* nt ono third prico. Catalogoo of 3,000 dioico pieces *3M.M. A-A u.A M. iTJt ?J I.JJ.V sent for 3c. stamp. This outuloguo includes most of tho popular music of tho day and ovcry variety of musienl composition, by tho host aili {hors. Address, JtU3Nl>I31i$$01IN PIA IV? I?. <>. Mox 8058, tVcw VovH City. July 7, 1881. GEORGIA RELIGION.-Tho Hartwell1 Sun hos tho following to soy of tho be havior in oburoh of thc people in that vil lage. Wo grievo to seo such u sud state of morals: "Thero ?rc so culled Christians who go to God's house ond spit toboe?o juico over tho floor so that fl decent man cannot kneel for prayer. If you wcro to go to tho resi dence of ono of th o.-o tobacco nain ts und spit puddles of filthy ambicr upon thc floor he would put you out of his houso ond set tho dog on you. Bo theno filthy fellows think they would bo admitted into Heaven with their pockets full of toba<-oo. und bo allowed to squirt thc filthy fluid ovor tho jppur . . / ?.. n >-I>I . rsi* If they ennnot spend ono hour without it in wor ship on earth, how will they puss endless egos without it? It would bo for moro genteel to pull out a flail: of whiskey in elim<'h nd take ii pull. Any man or boy who - "s tobacco on tho floor of a church s'no d .. kicked out of the house by some .itaur mail who woora No. 10 heavy boots, and such a kioker should bo appointed ot ho'h tho Baptist and Methodist churches iii Hartwell. An efTcetual romedy for milk turning in summer timo consists in ndding to cooli quart fifteen grains' of biearbonoto of .'oda. This docs not affect the taste of the milk, while it facilitate:? tile digestion. . incut Henry O. Klipper tho colored West Pointor who graduated in 1877 BM proved to be ns big a fraud aa o'idet W'hlt loiter, tho other "nigger " Ho . hat* hc"?B urrostcd for stealing ?Sfi.OOO of thc OtiVkfflit ment money which ho had coneWed on his person und was about to run aw*'/. lflau's Fidelity. AH t auid good-byo at thc station lu a little country town, And kisso I tiwuy tho tear drops, While her hair full bewitchingly down And alic looked nt mo so sweetly, And said: "You will not forgot-" I sworo to her I'd bo faithful, And culled her a door little pot. Thou tho train boro mo back to tho oity To busily toil coch dsy; Thcro wussouroely time to remember My girl ao far away. But whon tho day was ended, And I Rut in oilcnoe alono, Thon 1 thought of tho littlo daisy I should oluim somo day ns my own. Three nights I bore up bravely, As I thought of the timo to annie; Three nights 1 tried to bc cheerful, But was onh silent ?md grutn, And then upon tho fourth bight i gave my moustache u twirl, Put on my killin?? necktie And-culled on another girl. I'^triuiBig' In 9)ul*ot;i. FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS' WORTH OP WHEAT FROM A FIFTY FIVE THOU SAND DOLLAR KAUM FARGO, DAKOTA. AuttUft 15 -What is . known us ibo Raymond firm is declared tu he pt-rfootion in crop, equipment and uinnngctoent. lt lies twelves miles North west of Fargo and contains about G.OOO acres. It is managed by John li. Ray mond. Unit d Stales Marshal, "ono of the men God maur," as they say up here, und is owned by hun und Mr. Greene, a bunker of Jackson, iMi.-s Mr Raymond is un Illinoisan, und went to (hu war as u mem ber of General Logan's old regiment, tho Thirty Mrat Illinois enlisted at Pekin. 11 o was one ol thoV'boy veterans," ontcriug tho war nt tho tige of IO. and serving with honor until (ho dissolution of the annies. When ho settled in Mississippi Mr. Raymond is welt known as the last man who spoke lo General M o Phot son before tho latter's death He was only a fe? feet fruin the G ?'ll em I whet; tie feb. ?nd w >.-> taken priso ner hy ihc squad tim killed hun. Tho I o ilion! revolution in Mississippi, and tho overthrow of the Republican party there, ny lim imf touch mont and leutiuation of Go vernor Ames, destroyed his business, and ho concluded lo go where tho despised oarpot baguer wa? welcome Ho sou ?bt tho office of United S'atrs Marshal of Da kola, in order to seeur? a foothold, and lifter scouring tho appointment anti looking the Territory over, concluded lo settle in Fargo and become a land owner In com pany with Mr. Greene, un old Mississippi friend, he bought, in Autrust, 1870, ll sections ol land, oom pr ?si IIB 8.000 acres. "Por four sections," said Mr. Raymond, whom I asked for a hi>tory of his lavin "which had been cultivated one year, wi? ti .id SS 50 an note; for the new land wo P'id 80 1111 acre to the railroad cou. pu nv We ?lld three sections ol' tho new land to Marshall Field, of Chicago, und have sbnul G.OOO acres in our farm." "When did you get your first crop?" "This your. List fall we broke three sections, 2.000 acres, for seeding, and pul Ut? our buildings." '.What is your crop going to he?" '.We will have an HVOrSgo of twenty-five bushels lo tho acre, or about 50,000 bush? el* of wheat " "What what was your entire invest ment?" "Hoforo wo reeeivo n return from om oi'op wo will have invested ?55,000. Thal includes the pundi ase of our land, the erection nf five birns, a d wolli njr-houso an elevator capable of holding 100.DOC bushels of whoat and oats, all tho stock and mnchineiy necessary to run tho farm and all (he cost of breaking I he lund, phot ing and roaping the orop and delivering il nt tho market, but you must rcmeiuhet that we have owned our farm two years, and (hut the first year it was idlo, HO that wc lost ?ho interest on our molloy by not cultivating it Wc have 2.000 uorcs in wheat nod chough oats (o keep our stock, Wo will yet about twensy-fivo bushel? to tho aorc, which will be 50.000 bushels from the ont if o place. Wc will save out our Seed wheat for next year, and omi then sell the crop for about 850,000.?' "That is your dividend upon n 855, 000 investment?" ''Yes, a two years' dividend; about 90 por cent tor two years, or 45 per cent, for one, If wo had worked tho farm lunt year wo should havo mudo us largo n crop nnd perh .ps largor, for that wno u better year " "Iluve you floured up what your first crop lins oost you, outsido nf what may be considered pormnucnt improvements?" "Yes, I oun tell very neatly. It cost usjust about, an even 010 an nore to make the first ere p. I( will cost tess to mnko tho second, because thcro is one less plouuhing. It takes from #7 to $8 nu nero to got off n crop, with prudent management." "How many hands nnd horses do you work?" "Fifty mules and horses and nbout forty five men." "What do you do with them in tho win ter?" "Send them nil to (ho pineries, the lum ber regions of Minnesota, under my fore man, who gocn alone losco (hut they are woll treated. Wo got. $12.50 a month for ??oh Ultim for six mouths in the year, thai ls $75 nod his keeping-about one-half thc Coat of .ibo nounal-during that time, ond thc rest of (Ito year wo work him our selves'' . >lt tfrecne, of Jackson, Mississippi, a native Southerner, but one of tho liberal kind, ounio up hero tho oilier doy to sec tho farm, of VT biol) hu is part owner, for the ?rst limo. Mr. Raymond made up a party of Indica and gentlemen, soino resi- | dcnt9 and aomo guests, and wc diovo twelvo j miles across thu pruirio, golden with yellow grain, to tho Raymond (urm-houses. Thero were no fonocs on tho way; nothing to di vido farm from farra except o strip of un ploughed turf that marks a section lino and whiuh, under tho law, must bo ro 8crvcd for a highway, but thc miles after miles of wuving grain strucbed before us, ? restless with a soft aud undulating motion j as tho gentle breeze swept over it. A j green lawn is charming in June, but there is nothing in trituro so quietly beautiful as a ripened harvest held. .'How far docs your land go?" some one asked of Mr. Raymond when wc roached his boundary lino. ?'lt runs six milos that way,'' he replied, with a motion, "and four miles tho other. Thero uro some jogs io it, and tight ia tho centre, only a stone's throw from our house, an old Boldier Ins a pro-eruption claim wliioli ho is working. Wu tried to buy him out, but he thinks too much of a good I thing." The farm house wis reached just as forty-live sun-burned, hard handed tuen were coming out from their dinner. They had boen nt work sine; ti o'clock in tho I morning, and had laid low thirteen strips ol grain, each four miles long. MoBt of them were Swedes. Many were "homesteaders.' who had one hundred and sixty ?ere fa rmi somewhere in the neighbor))) udt and wert trying to carn enough to build a house anti barn, or buy n team, so as to sot up or their own hook next year. They went tt the barns-long, low-roofed, but substantia buildings und brought out thc horses nm mules, which wcro drawn up before tilt house in military lino for inspection um thou sent to thc Held where tho th ?noel harvesters had been left, two miles away. i Cor. Chicago Inter - Ocean. OlinWcsfoii'g AtiBiual Ke vic w. _ [News and Courier 1st instant.] Tho trade <if Charleston, during thc cou un'roia! year whieh closed yesterday, wit satisfactory in must respects and in ot lu i respects W is decidedly encouraging As j market fur the chief staples Chhrlusto I has never stood higher. The receipts f< . cotton for the year were 538 187 bale . which is inure than was received in ur j provuus year, und l??.oOO bales moro th? , in 1879-80 Tho receipts of Sea Lalor. I cotton were about 17.-17 bales. Rico w I depressed in consequence of the inorcasi growth, in Louisiana in pirti cn lar, and tl decline in pri?es would havo been sorioi had the factors been less judicious in su? I flying the market The receipts wc ! 53,871 tierces, against 55,000 tioreca t j year before. Ln naval stures there was fair business. The receipts were 51.01 casks ul spirit? ol turpentine against 6( 000 hst yen-, and '231.417 barrels nf roi ag mist 250,000 in the year previous. In phosphate rock und enmmerc fertilizers a vast business was done. T receipts of crude phosphnto amounted 110,000 tons, and of commercial forlili/.i lt) 100,000 tons. This trade, already important, is only in its i ninney. In local manufactures thura is a murk improromcnt. Tho v-iluo of the artie produced in tho year just closed was ?1 j 045.000 During the present. yo>?r I ! advance will be more marked, ns I Charleston Cotton Mill will go into npei timi, together with two dditional phospl) mills and tho cntiuu seed oil factories oilier kinds ' Tho wholesale nnd retail trade of I 1 city is in a healthy condition, lite estim?t i in the faco of careful revision, showing ! increase iu companion with the returns 1870-80 Charleston has not yet been injured thc combinations which have been made railroad syndicates during tho lust yu nnd thc expectation grows strong that will not bo to the interest of un y exist? combinations to discrimin?lo against t port Cliark'Stun now hus two route? Augusta and in u mouth or two will hi two rout Od to Colutnuia. Tho oom men aooumiuodatioiis of the port, aro being r idly increased. New wharves und dop aro in course of construction, and tho ol wharves have been repaired and enlarg The South Carolina Railroad has som part of tho way to the water un tho Con] River, tho Northeastern Railroad has o largcd its iiocotumudations there, and quay of tho Charleston Canal will in course of a week or two furnish a wharf Ashley Uiver ono thousand feet in lem md wide enough for double railroad trac Work on the National Jetties progr?s favoiably and in u comparatively nhort ti thero will be twenty-five feet of water morn on tho bar, unless operations bc larded hy the unwise niggardliness of government in making appropriate These foots justify tho belief thut tho vantages of Charleston BS n shipping] will cnntintM' to increase aud that even s dientes which havo boon deemed unfrien will And it moro advantageous to al irado to force it out uf its course. Char ton, in flue, otnnds on its mon't) and hat foara for tho futuro . There is confide everywhere that what changes and dove mcnts luke placo will he for thc better. Thc people havo indeed good reason bo hopeful. Thero is a largo I ncr east tho amount, of exports and imports, wi is a token of " Charlestons growing siren and thero has buen during tho your a table improvement ,in tho valuo of estate and in tho prices of local securith A .Vi j y i ..JA How to Bohavo at Church It is rather late in thc day for tho discus- j sion of such a subject; but rccoot develop I uicuts bttvc shown that a 1 it'lo odvioo will not bc out of piuco, Now, by "at Churoh'' in our heading, wo do not mean "in Church" only, but out side and around about generally. Wc have an ?dca that ofter ooo determines to go to Churoh, tho beet thing for him to do is to go; then after ho gets there thc next best tiling is to go insideuud take a scut. Somo pernod? aro duli of hearing, or havo not very noute ond nervous sensibili ties and oro not easily disturbed during divine service; but others of us aro so constituted that u prattling child inside, or a low mumbling talk outside upsets our truin of thought and no benefit ?8 conferred by tho sorviuo. This being so, it seems that tho irreverent should respect our feel ings and inulto it a point uovcr to do any thing in vioiution of religious propriety. Thcro uro other pluoee where perseus may congrrgato for talking without having to repair to the Church steps, and we hope this gentle and purely impersonul reminder tuny accomplish soiuo good In tho direction referred to. Just as wo had finished tho abovo wc cuino across thc following in un exchange which tallies exactly tilth our idea. Bc good enough to read it: cuuitcn MANNF.Ua. l?e on timo. Noone Iiu3 o right to dis-' turd u congregation or a preacher by being tardy, Never look around to seo who is coming in when tho door opens. lt diverts your own and others' uttontiou from thu exercises und is dlsuourteous to thc leader. Never tp.lk or whisper in church, cs.? pccially after thc exercises ave opened. Never pull out your watch to eec what time it is when tho text is announced, or during thc sermon. Better feed ou a ser mon than to time it. Never lean your bcd on the pew rail before you us though you were indifferent to the preacher Conform, if possible, in cooscieuoc, to thc usages of the church in which you worship - kneel, stand, bosv accordingly. Never manifest your disapprobation of what is heine said ny unpleasant sounds, nr sinus, or t.y hastily leaving. Do not fidget, as though thc service were a weariness, lie quiet and decorous to tho very end Do not put on your overcoat or adjust your wrappings till after thc benediction. No gentleman ever defiles a place of worship with tobacco. Never be one of n st.-tring crowd about the door or in thc vestibule, before or after eervice. Do nothing out of keeping with thc timi', place und purpose of a religions as sembly. . - i- ?*>- - -. DETROIT, MICH , September 7.-Re ports ure beginning lo arrive from the North ern and Northeastern portions of the State, (showing a terrible condition of affairs Thc long continued drought has rendered every thing as dry us tinder, and numerous "flash* inga," or partly oloarcd traots of hud cov ered with brash, decayed timber and other iullimiuublo materials, afford thc best pcs sinle medium fur thc rapid spread of flames, carried by thc high winds, which havo been prevailing. In Sanilao and Huron counties are the soencs of grcatcct destruo lion, which is growing positively uppallling in chancer. Hundreds of farms have already been reduced tu blackened ashes Stuck crops, farm buildings and fences all have been swept away. Mon, womou and children have neon overtaken hy tho finn >8 and several lives aro known to have boen lust It is feared tlint when full accounts are received that tho loss of lifo will provo terrible. Tho little hamlets1 of Anderson, Richmond and Charlestun, in S mibe coun ty, ?rc all reported to havo hoon wiped out, while Purl hope, Verona Mills and Budao, in Huron county, ure reported wholly or partly burned up. People uro flocking to tho shores of Lake Huron fruin the interior of these oounties HP their only refuge during thc fiamos. Some wore overtaken by tho spreading Gre. Not less than twenty deaths uro already re ported, hut it is hoped thut these statements in iy provo incorrect. In Tuscaloosa, in thc next tier of counties back fruin Lake Huron and South of Saginaw fires aro also raging, hut with loss severity. Tho losses uro ovorsltadowod by tho moro tcrrihlo condition of things in the adjoining ooun ties. Thu samo state of affairs exists in La Pore county und tho wholo country around S agi now aud Bay City is in a blitze. A Sad and Sudden Doath QRBKN.VILTJE, September 8.-James P Monro, li sq., who waa lust night reported to have been two days absent from tho city, was found nhout 8 P. M. yesterday con cealed in his burn near bio dwolling, Upon the advico of friends ho .went into his dwelling ubout 9 or 10 o'chok, and after taking coffee retired to his room, undressed and went to bed UB Into ns ll o'clock. Mille in bcd. ho conversed with several motubers of his family and appeared to bo perfectly rational, and in his usuul health, (tut in a highly wrought nervous condition, Mrs. Mooro retired h tor, and sho did not get well to sleep till n vory . luto hedi. Awaking about daylight this morning sho discovered that Mr. Mouto was not breath log? A physioian was - immediately sum moned, but too late.. Lifo was oxtinot., , , Coroner Molico. summoned a jury of in quest, which rendered a -verdict that the lice nsed carno to his death fruin tho effects of n :?ody oe? ti d mi ni-. ten d by himself, whether with tho intention to ti;ko his lifo tiiey woro undeoided. Ho wus a member of tiin Knights of Honor aud insured with ?orno Northern .company for,82,000. His romuitis wero iutcrrcd nt G o'olook this evening. Great sympathy is manifested for his family by tho cutirc community. WISE WORDS Gaming is the child ot avarice, but the parent of prodigality. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. Act well at thc moment, and, you have performed a good action to all eternity. i True benevolence is to love all men: Recompense injury with justice, and unkindliness with kindness. Flowers sweeten the air, re joice the air, link us with nature and innocence, and arc something to love. The firmest friends have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by thc fiercest Hame. This above all-to thine own self bo tl'UCj And it must follow, as the night thc day, , Thou canst not then bc false to tiny man. Shakespeare. It is by what we ourselves have, done and not what others have done for us that wc shall bo re membered. To pronounce a man happy merely because he is rich, is just as absurd afi to pronounce a man healthy because he has enough to eat. Right habit is like thc thread on which westring precious pearls. The thread perhaps is of no great value, but, if it be broken, the pearls are lost. Tf'cre we as eloquent as angels, yet should wo picase some men, some women and thorne children much more by listening than by talking. TFhcrcver thc slanderer is found, there humanity is arrayed against itself, and there thc honey, and balm of life aro turned to gall and nettles, Thero aro 311 towns iu this oountry having over 7,500 populatiou, and a recent ObUAun bulletin presents on unalysis of tho bonded debts of these towns. Forty ono of theso towns oro in thc South proper, which docs not inoludo Delaware, Maryland and Missouri. Tho 311 owe 8GS2,09iMG0'. - mostly on account of water works, streets, railroad aid, parks, war expenses, public buildings, sewers, bridges, water improve ments, schools and libruricB, fire dopartmeris and cemeteries, in tho otd r named. Soma thing over six million of this indcbtodnctis bears ten per cent., of which amount At lanta furnishes a full proportion. Ten per cent is thc highest rate paid, und thr*cc and a half per cent, the lowest. Six per ocnt, is the rate paid on nearly half of tho entire debt. Thc por oopita debt varies grcBtly, from 82.G2 in Colorado to 8141.84 in tho District, where less than 1GU,OOO popula tion owe 822,386,709, with a sinking fund of 8211,310. Tho heaviest burdened Stato io tho South by thia rule is South, Carolina, 883,04; next ts Louisiana, 881.22; next Georgia, 878.39. Noxt to thc Dis trict of Columbi? is Mnino, indebted 898. 78 per enpitn. These figures represent tho indebtedness of tho oitics and towns, but not tho local debts of oountico or other divisions. Counties nnd even sohool dis-, triots have been reckless horrowors in somo States.-A (lan?a Const i tul ion ; No wiso woman who has flowers in her, houso or garden will throw awny her soap suds They arc a most valuable fertilizer for flowers, and especially for tho verbena. If this floral favorite is plentifully watered with ?oapsuda and its soed vessels pioked off it will flower profusely Soapsuds aro good for vines and currant bushos and fruit trees. Indeed they aro good for plants, corresponding to milk fur animals, and it is very wasteful to throw thom away if, thero oro p'nnts anywhere within reach that may bo benefited by them. A negro, ono night at a mooting, prayed, earnestly that ho and hi;; brethren might bo1 preserved from what ho oallod their "up-, settin' eins." "Br?ddcr," said one of his friends, "you ain't got do hang ob dat word, lt's besottin, not upsottin." "IJrud*-. der," Toplicd ho, "if dat'e so,, ile1 s6'. ...?iU? T was prnyin' do Lord nevo us from do hin of 'toxicolion, nn' if dat ain't a upHOtlili' stu I dunno what it am." . Squirrels in Arkansas, being deprived of their ordinary food, pro quiting .open many colton bolla and outing j he eeacte,