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TliR M S: . Published ovory Thursday morning. For subscription, *l.r>() por annum, strictly in ndvauco; for H?X ?nontliH, 75 couts; for four months, 50 couts. I Advertisements insertad ut ono dollar por square of ono iuoli or.loss for tho first insertion and fifty cunts for ouch sub sequent insertion. Obituary Notlcos exceeding live line?, Tributos of Jtospoct, Communications of a porsonal oharaotor, whon ndtuissablo, and Announcements of Candidates will bo ohargod for ns advertisements. Job Printing noatly and cheaply execu ted. NocosBlty compols us to adhoro strictly to tho roquiromonts of Onsh Payments. nm T# Thin? Owu M. ir Mo /true ima ii ?in?! i'o.W um ?ho Nigh,* ibo Bay, Thoa Caa?*t Not Thon Ho Veiw io Any Mun. HY THOMPSON, SMITH ? JAYNE8. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, S12PTI2M1IHH 18, 180O. VOLUMK XLI. co co Sixteen Pounds OF Whole Rice FOR tai) One Dollar. Ul fig UL. a ? "S Q. S CL su -J 1 g C < J o o ?j . < T CL (SHH CO o 9 sj O With One Eye Out ! Buy a *:i">.00 Bur v and yon will tako $15.00 for it in ono or two yonrs. Buy clioap ('art for $?10, $12 or $15 and you soon need anothor Cart. Now you hftVO good bu siness judgment enough to seo this ia solid talk. I proposo to givo you a fow dots on Carts: Savo your monoy, timo and talents and como and soo our (?arts. Collin's Cart IVIn-nxifitctiivinR" Company, At tho Furniture and Coffin Stand of S. M. VanWyck. The Gran o? Hie Mountains. rilllE highest town Fast of tho Itoekoy X Mountains, is fllolIf.ANnn, N. C.; altitude, Main Street, 8,8.17 feet. Finest all-round climate: summer heat rarely above 80?; ice-cold springs; grandest wa ter-falls and mountain scenery; linest timber and almost all known minerals. Groat summer and winter resort. Thc lllulilundft Slur, $1 per year; 5c. por copy; full of information. COE BROS., Pub lishers, Highlands, Macon county, N. C. In the Land of tho Sky. ' A \ k s -TIMO Farmers* Friends, THE WORLD, DAII.Y, EIOIIT PA..KS,$7 A VKAU THE SUNDAY BUDGET, TWKI.VH PAOKS, $2 A Y KA lt. (By MAH. ONI.V.) THU WEEKLY WORLD, TWKI.VM PACKS, $I a YKAM. Tlie b?rgest, Nowsiest, Bright est, bestand ONI.V Fearless Paper in South Carolina. THE CRESCENT MINERAL -WATEB= Will Cure Your Dyspepsia. SAMPLE COPIES FREE. -ADDRESS WO HZ I) BUDGET CO* CHARLESTON, S. C. Merchant Tailor. 1.1REDERIOK THEILKUHL, late of ' Cermany, a ]>rofessional tailor, is prepared to do any kind of work in his lino on reasonable terms. Uivo him a call at his (liiicc. on Main streot, next door to Bank, Walhalla, S. C. Qotobor81, J880. 44-tf oijB OF iQftijY m%m OP ' LIVB?{ ADD KIDDEY DISEftSE G5UPD. Mr. J. N. Smith, for twenty years an engineer on tho Oreen ville and Columbia lt. R., says: "Tho Oroscont Minorai Water is curing mo of a long st anding Kidney Troublo, and I am bettor to-day than I have boon for ten years, all through the uso of this water, and my wifo, who for many years has been obliged to tako medicine for her livor, has had no occasion for any medicine since using tho Orescent Water, and now feels liko a now porson." Loading citizens of <?reenvide add the following: "Tho testimony of John N. Smith, re garding tho wonderful curativo oitcets of tho Crescont Minoral Water will bo of f;reat val ne. for no man's word is stronger ll Greenville than his." C. H. Judson. President Pm man Uni versity. A. If. furet on, Superintendent Cotton Hoed Mill. Frank Hammond, President Pooplo's Hank. IL C. Markloy, Carriago Manufacturer. T, C. (lower, ProprietorStroet Railway. John IL Maxwell, M. I). J. W. Howell, M. H. O. T. Swandale, M. I). J. W. Earle, M. 1). John Forguson, Grocer. H. E. Allon A Bro., Grocers. J. Vt MlHor, Grocer. S. M. Snider & Co., Jowclors. G. D. Barr, Stovo Dealer, John Hart, Contractor and builder. Sond for book of testimonials. A Cuso of Orescent Mineral Water, con taining 12 ball-gallon bottles, will bo sont by express, prepaid, by US Oil receipt of $1.00, and ?1.50 a dozen will b<l allowed for bottles i(d urned nt one ex pi ii,e. If your Druggist has not <..droned a supply, order diroot of tho CRESCENT MINERAL WATER CO., Greonvlllo, S. C. July 8,1800 Tillman'? Biography. - j [From tho OhnrloBton Now?and Courier.] i Benjamin Ryan Tillman, tho nomi- | noo of tho "Farmer's} Movomont" , party e-?r Qovornor of South Cavo- \ lina, waa born in Edgefiold County ? on.tho 11th of August, 1847. Iiis ( plnco of birth waa nt tho Tillman ] li 01 DOM te ad, Chester, whioh is. but a ] part pf tlio family estates, whioh I cover about 10,000 acres. Thia < liomostoad has boon in tho possession of tho family for moro than ono lum- | fired and twenty yoars. Tho Till mnns came to America with Lord i Baltimore, and first settled in Mary land. Tho name was probably, at that early dato, spelled Tilghmnn, as tho well-known general of that name belongs to tho family which came ovor with Lord Baltimore. The settlement in . South Carolina of the ancestors of the subject of this sketch was made on Horse Crook, Edgofield Comity. Capt. Bon Tillman's father was named Hon ja mill Ryan Tillman. His colonial ancestors, Ryans and Tillmans, were Whigs and did good scrvico in open and guerilla warfare against thc To ries and other followers of Lord Cornwallis. They sufferer! nerflopn tion' and retaliated in kine!, as was tho custom in tho guerilla warfare of those days. On one tract of thc Tillman lands is a place known as Shelving Rook, which wrifi often thc rofugo of tho Tillmans and Ryans and other Whig families. At another plnco is an historic tree, on which a Tory paid the penalty of Iiis crimes. At a tin rd place is tho Murder Field, so-called from tho fact that in that an ancestor of Capt. Tillman, a Ryun, wns murdorcd by two of his shaves. Capt. Tillman now owns about 1,800 acres of thc originnl tract und lives nt his own homestead, cnlled "High View," noar Ropor's Station, on tho Char lotte, Columbio and Augusta Rail road. Capt. Tillman obtained his ele mentary education at the old field school of George Golphin, at which school Senator Butler and Mart Ga roy were prepared for college. He left school in 1804, and soon there* nf ter wns prostrated by a severe at tack of fever by which lie lost his loft oyo. This nflliotion made tho young Tillman nu invalid for two years. When he recovered he applied him self to rending and "read everything ho could lny his hands on. His chiof delight wns in poetry and nov?la. In poetry his taste was for tho British classics, Milton, Pope, Dryden and Scott; in novels ho had all tho standard works, including Scott, Bulwer, Dickens and Thacke ray. Tho library at. his home, at High Viow, contains a number of tho host books of this period nod tho ponod of the. others just nnmcd. Considering that tho bout of his mind lins boon in thc direction of pootry and romance, it is somewhat romnrkablo that his lifo work should havo boon mapped out ns one devo ted to political and economic reform. This is all the more romnrkablo ns Capt. Tillman has not rend nny of tho works on political economy or literature related to that subject. Ile paid a great deal of attention, however, to thc condition of the State, its finances, needs, etc, ns ho saw them discussed in thc newspapers. In 1807-68 Ca t. Tillman lived in Floridn, and on Iiis return to South Carolina in 1808 married Miss Snl lio A. Stnrke, of Elbert County, Ga. Miss Starko, although living in Geor gia, was of tho South Carolina family of thc Starkes who reside in Fair field County. On returning to South Cnrolina ho devoted himself exclu sively to farming, tho study of agri culture and general reading. When tho revolution of 1870 was being brought about dipt. Tillman took an active part in the Organiza tion of tho Democracy of his sec tion of Edgofield, and subsequently participated in sonto of tho most perilous undertakings on behalf of tho redemption of tho State. As early, however, as 1874, he was act ively engaged in tighing for white supremacy, and wns on hand in the Ned Tennant riots of that year. Under Capt. A. P. Butler, as a mem ber of the Edgofield Hussars, ho took part in tho Hamburg riot, tho history of which is familiar to tho country. Again, nt tho Ellenton riot, he went down from his town ship with a company to the rescue, but on roaching Rouse's Bridgo lie found that the difiieulty had been settled by thc United Stales Troops. Tile company which he commanded then wns armed and*equipped nt pri vate expense. Capt. Tillman followed thc for tunes of tho Democracy up to tho Stnto House in 1870, nt the timo of tho formation of the Wallace House. It wnB ho who took thc message to Hampton inviting him to attend the conference of thc straightout party on tho night before tho Stnte House wns invested by Fodernl troops. Ho wns due of thc six or seven thou sand who stood in front of the Caph toi protesting willi .lohn C. Shojipnrd against the high-handed exclusion of tho Laurens and Edgofield delega tions. It wns at this jioriod, rn thor than any other, in which ho laid tho foundation for his personal popularity in his county. He was next heard of as a delcgato to tho State Con vention of 1882, in whioh he voted for Gon. Bralton for Governor. In 1886 ho marlo h^B first speech at lionitettsvillo, ho novfr hoforo having ippoared beforo aijj auclionoo, ana Jus was tho boginnirjg o? tho oarcey which.led Iiis nommiition for Gov ernor to-day. It is?true, however, ihnt although lh$ liennottsvillo ipeeoh was his first ?tn general politi cal prinoiples, ho lijjjrt held tito, posi tion of chairman of j^igoiieid County in tho most trouble?! period of its ristory, and bad doilbtlcss addressed :ho conventions when occasion rc piired. After his wcll-knimu letter of ro tiromont from polices, which was Drought about by his^temporary fail iro at Honnottsvillojff ho kout up by moans of letters in, tho News and Courier tho ngitati?jr| for an Agricul tural Collogo and djmor reforms in favor of the farmers. Tho part which ho took in tfyy Farmors' Con tention of 1887 is ?rf too recent a late to need comnmnt in detail in ibis brief sketch, nor is it necessary to repeat the history of the famous Maren Convention of 1890, when Capt. Tillman was put forward as tho representative of the farming in terests of tho State.' No subject lins ever been more tully discussed in public than Capt. Tillman and bis speeches and writ ings within tho past four years, and tho discussion bas given him a wido reputation all over tue United States. Capt. Tillman is about live feet ten inches in height, and dresses usually in thc plain but substantial ^arb of the well-to-do Carolina far mer. His family consists of a wife md live children-three daughters md two sons. Ile is considered a tory successful farmer, his prosperity liebig due to an undivided attention to business, which has only been bro ken by tho necessities of his recent canvass of tho State. All the lines of his face indicate lolcriniuation and independence of spirit and action, and this impression is heightened by the firm set of his lips and a very direct and continuous y:\y.o when in conversation. To thc casual observer Capt. Till man appears to bo very ascetic in liabit and decidedly of an unsociable nature. On tho contrary lie is at all times iceessible, and while he is capable of tho most bitter and uncivil sarcasm Ihd denunciation, that is not one of Iiis methods of argument which is most generally exorcised. All of his (ligaments on thc campaign were very remarkable for being upon facts, actual or alleged. His favorite method in the campaign was the bold assertion of statements from which ho drew conclusions which became the real points at issue in the struggle. It was tho exception when ho was ever charged with misquot ing a public record. His construc tions and deductions were always tho solo causes of attaok both on thc stump and in the newspapers. It lins been conceded that Capt. Till man made a fearless, if at times reckless fight, and was congratulated on tho close of the campaign by his opponents for his endurance and pluck. The more notable of his faculties in debate are ins aptness in repartee or rejoinder, and his power of self control. During the heat of debate in the campaign there were, never theless, several lamentable failures of II?H efforts at self-control, a special instance being the Dargan inci dent during his Anderson speech. Thc amende honorable, which was subsequently made Lo Dargan, was the Bubieot of compliment in nearly all of the papers in tho State. In the house of his friondf Capt. Tillman is a type of the sociable Carolina farmer. Although not communicative, ho is always courte ous to visitors and strangers, and ho seldom talks polities unless the sub ject is broached. In this way he has succeeded in rctninii.g tho friendship of many who are opposed to him in policy and principle. The measures which lie will ad vise, aside from those to which he has committed himself on the stump, in all probability will not be known until the meeting of thc legislature. The compromise of thc two com mittees lins been the cnuse of great (ind unexpected reliction in favor of the nominee for Governor. The union of thc conilicting wings lins produced a very patent softening of the asp?rit?s between Capt. Tillman und- his hitherto bitterest enemies, nf whom there arc nevertheless some who aver that present or future reconciliation is absolutely imposai Capt. Tillman is credited with be ing sincerely pleased w/ith tho re union of thc Democratic party, and it is stated that he will assist in every way possible towards a porfoot recon ciliation. This, in fact, appears to be tho policy of thc Tillman wing, us wns evidenced by tho notion of Col. Irby in throwing no obstacles in thc way of the compromise between the factions. The policy of tho Anti-Tillman wing in great part is to accept the new Governor with all possible grace and lot thc futuro take uaro. of itself. The State already knows what kind of a friend or foo ('apt. Tillman cnn bo, and ho lins boon so much in tho glaro of criti cism that ali timi now remains to be criticised or commended is his policy while, fi?ing the office of Governor of South Cnrolinn. M.,K. T. Look upon the succoss and sweet ness of thy duties ns very much depending upon tho keeping of thy heart olosely with God in them. ?''.,*' Wv . ^' 1 fl ? .>? .. . -,,, v w .: . Tho Platform of tho Democratic Party of South Carolina. Tho following in tho Platform of tho Democratic party, adoptod by tho State Domooratic ' Convention, which mot in Columbia, S. C., Sep tember 10th, 1800 : 1. Tho Demooratio party of South Carolina, in convention assembled, hereby re-afllrms the platform and principles of the National and State Demooratio party, particularly favor ing tho froe and unlimited eoinage of silver, an increase of tho currenoy and tho ropeal of tho intornal reve nue system. Wo denounce the Mc Kinley tariff bill as unjust D the producers of raw material and the consumers of the country; and espe cially do wo eondemn tue unneces sary and burdensome iuoronso in the tax on cotton ties and tin, commodi ties JO largely used by tho poorer portion of our people. Tho passage of this bill by Congress will encour? age trusts, combines and monopolies, evils which have so long op/pressed tho people. Wo denounce tho Lodge force bill as iniquitous, emanating Irom minds whose nefarious puni?se is to estab lish tho supremacy of ignorance ovor intelligence in the Southern States, thereby engendering race antagonism and sectional animosity. W con demn tho action of Spcnkor Peed and his followers'as tyrannical, snd a flagrant degradation of the posi tion intended only for tho truo patriot and statesman. 2. We demand the ennctmont of laws that will removo the burdons of tho people, relieve thc oxisting agri cultural depression ?nd do full and simple justice to tho farmers and labo rers of our country. 8. We demand the abolition of National Hanks, and that legal tender treasury notes be issued 4n liou of National Hank notes in suflioient volume to do tho business of tho country on a cash system, and that all money issued by tho govern ment shall be legal tonder in pay ment nf all debts, both public and private. 4. We demand that Congress pass such laws as shall effectually prevent thc dealing in futures of all agricul tural productions, proscribing such stringont mothods of procedure in trials as shall secure prompt convic tion. 5. We demand that Congress shall provide for the taxation of in comes of individuals and tho surplus H! corporations, thereby equalising .oe burdens upon tho pooror classes. 6. We demand that our State Legislature shall abolish tho Board of Agriculture; that the privilege tax on fertilizers and everything ap pertaining to agriculture or mechan ics or industrial education, including the agricultural stations, be placed in charge of thc Trustoos of tue Clem Bon Agricultural College and upon said trustees shall dovolve all duties now performed by the present board of agriculture, exocpt tho control of the State phosphate interests. 7. Wc demand that tho South Ca rolina College at Columbia shall be liberally supported as tho classical and literary department of tho South Carolina University. 8. Wo demand that the school dis tricts in tho various counties of the Stato be as nearly as practicable square and of an area suflioiont to di low one. white and ono colored freo school separate and distinct in onch district, and that thc school trustees be elected by the people. 0. We demand rigid oconomy in public expenditures, the abolition of useless oflices, reduction of salaries and fees of all officers, Stato and County, to conform to the inoroasod purchasing power of monoy and the decreased ability of tho pcoplo to pay taxes; that publie officers bo paid in proportion to their labor and responsibility. 10. Wo demand that the railroad commission shall be given all power needed to protect tho rights and in terests of tho people without injuring the railroads, amt that tho Commis sioners be elected by the people 11. We demand that lhere shall bo a survey of the State's phosphate beds and their classification into three grades, and that a commission, composed of the Govornor, Comp troller General and Attorney (Jone ral shall control and direct the min ing under rigid rules, each river or phosphate district being leased at public auction for a term of three years after the commission has fixed minimum royalty according to the value as shown by their survey. 12. Wo dcm a nd that a Constitu tional Convention bo called to give us an organic law framed by our own people. We beliove tho present law a standing menace to our civilization and to our educational institutions and that we cannot obtain any groat relief from our burdensome taxes till this is done, and wc have lost faith in tho power to amend tho present constitution so that it will answer tho requirements. 18. We rely upon tho sense of justice and enlightened self-interest bf our fellow-citizons to onforce these demands and wo call upon ?nd invite every citizen who lins tho interest of his Stato at heart to assist us in enforcing these needed reforms. Wo condemn any attempt, either by word, deed or unholy alliance, with the enemy to disrupt tho Demo cratic party of ibis Stato. Whito supremacy is tho bulwark1 of our civilization and enn only.be secured by D?mocratie unity. Censos Surprise. IHK OBOWTH OF Tl IK SOI! TU KU N NKOBO liKSK THAN THAT OK TUB SOUTHKUN t ,> . WI1ITK. [JJ&lt?moro Sun.] The new connus, as far as abstract* of the population hnvu boon given out, H full of surprises. In the first plaoe, it has barned all tho calcula tion ? of persons of a statistical turn of mind with rcspoot to tho increase of population during the past ton years. If tho natural rato of in crease had been the same that pre vailed between 1870 and 1880, we ought to have had in 1890 a popula tion of sixty-six millions. Tho now census ir. round numbors puts it nt sixty-four millions. This loss of two millions is attributed to tho fact that tho natural increase among native American families lins d eel ii nui du ring the last decade. This tendency of the nativo stock to multiply less rapidly applies particularly to tho Now England States. Tho census shows that in Vermont tho birth and death rate were about equal; that in Massachusetts and Rhode Isl md the increase was about ono hui' of one pur cont., and in Now Hamp' ?uro as low as seven thousandths of ono por cont. Indeed, all the Now England States have shown a remarkably low rate of increase since the war. Tho cause of it, in great part, is attribu ted, and perhaps not unjustly, to the migration of tho younger generation to tho States Wost and South, but it duos not account for the fnot that, taking tho whole of the States and Territories covored by tho census, there has been a decline in thc natural rato of inoroase, as compared with tho rate of increase between 1870 and 1880. Stated in another way, tho inciense of population from all sources between 1870 and 1880 was 80 per cont. From 1880 to 1800 tho increase was but 27 por cent. Another surprise is this. It lins boon frequently assorted that tho colored population at tho South was increasing so muoh faster than the whito population of that section that it would not tnko many years before they would bo numerically so strong that they would tako practical pos session of some of those States. Tho now census docs not boar out these speculations. It shows that tho colored pcoplo have not increased so rapidly as was anticipated or in equal ratio with tho whites. The census of Mississippi has not yet been made public, but enough has been ascertained to indicate that while lhere has been a largo do orcase of the negro population in the central and hilly region of that State and a considerable inoroase in tho Yazoo district, it is not believed that throughout the State there lum been a not increase. In Louisiana and North Carolina there has boon "both an actual and a relativo de orease ot tho negro population." Some of this decroaso may probably bo accounted for by the migration of a largo number of colored people to tho new Torritory of Oklahoma. We have no definite accounts as yet from Alabama and Florida, but f'^ni South Carolina, which has scarcely been affected since the war by any increase from outside of tho State, wo Hud that while tho general increase in thc State during tho past ton years has been rather over nineteen per cont., the increase in thc seven counties comprising thc black belt has boon about cloven per cent. "Furthor comparisons," we arc told, "load to tho conclusion that thc in crease in tho white counties had been at toast twonty-fivc per cont." That is to say, "thc natural increase of the white over thc black popula tion in that State has been in the ratio of more than two to one. lt does not follow, of course, that there is not jptln an excess of colored popu lation in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, but it) docs indicate that the whites aro steadily gaining in natural increase ovor the colored race oven in the States where the latter most abound, and that if not interfered with tho question of white domination will in courso of timo naturally und quietly adjust itself. A contract has been awarded for extensive improvements on the fair grounds in Columbia. . The improve ments will include the building of ndditions to tho main building, giv ing a ladies* room, a oloak room, treasurer's room and an executive committee room, ' forty-eight new horse stalls and some cattlo stalls, and two double cottages for the accommodation of horso tenders. ?KE?WEE COURIER, . [WKKKI.Y,] -KHTAnMSIIfc?) AX-' Old Pickens in 1840, -MOYiCl? TO-- ' Walhalla in 1868. Destroyed by Fire 2 Ist, 1887. Re-Established August ii _ 1867. Precious Stones in Arizona. -- One day reoontly? upon fall with ?olopol Manuol Gomez, of Paritn, a Mexican mining engineer, who hag lately boon traveling exten sively in Arizona and. Old Moxioo, investigating the minorai resources of that part of the country in tho interest of e.mic Kastern and EilVO poan capitalists, r asked him, says a writer in tho /Star newspaper, what trutli there was in tho report that precious stones in paying quantities oould ho found in Arizona. Ito said : "I was not looking for precious stones, but I pioked up some infor mation about thom, for 1 go on tho imnoiplo that no sort of general in brmation eau do a mau harm. My, oxperienco in Brazil, howovor, taught nie that wherever thoro wero pre cious stonos to ho found there was a much larger number of fairy Stories alioat as to tho value of tho 'finds.' You know that precious stones aro simply crystallisations, and, with tho exception of the diamond, which is puro carbon, they aro water forma tions, colored with some minorai or vogotable impregnations. Tiloso found iu Arizona aro spinal rubies, uapphircs, emeralds, turquoises, an excellent garnet, amethysts, ' and small pearls. The ruby has hoon found m large sizes up to fourtcon oarets, but much inferior to tho Bur man rubies. The sapphires, omo raids, and pearls are vory small, and the amothyst orystals very large. They are otten found in ants' nests in the deserts, as those industrious insects have a habit of carrying shining stones to their nests. Larger turquoises are found thoro than any-, whore OIBC, hut very light in col?r. The majority of thom aro greenish, hut many aro light, blue. Tho rubies, sapphires, and emeralds aro corun dums, and aro generally found in a granite country. Tho pearls aro found along with petrified clams and oysters, showing that tho country has been, nt some remoto period, uudor water. I havo hoon told hy fgeologists that Arizona waB tho first and appoaring above the waters in prehistoric ages. "Thc turquoise is found in seams of nu eighth of nu inch to four mohos in width. Tho Spaniards mined them at a depth of about thirty foot. Thoro aro turquoise mines in both Now Moxico tyna Arb^'^i^i zona, which havo boon long aban doned, und in which aro found Indian hammers, made of stone, showing that the Indians workod thom. Thc large turquoise set in the Spanish crown, and which is as largo as a pigeon's egg. is supposed .to have como from Arizona. TurquoisoB are very popular among tho Indians, and a good sized porfoot stono oan gene rally ho traded for a pony to somo of tho chiofB. About twolvo yoars ago some unscrupulous Eastern man, finding that corundums aro in the^,^. desert, got up a diamond oxoitomopCj scattered sonic small rough diamonds at certain points, and on tho strength of the 'finds' orgnnizod a diamond mining company. Ho is said to have made money out of it, but tho com pany didn't. Tho emeralds found In Arizona are of vory good quality and vary olenr, hut they aro small. "hi tho Eastern part of the Terri tory, noni* where most of tho gems arc found, there is a petrified forest somo eighteen hundred acres iii extent, tho llltijor part of which seems to have boon California red wood. Thore aro n humber of p?tv N rifled trees lying about that looality that aro a hundred feet long, and some uro four feet thick at tho. butt. Where these trees aro ludlow, tho iiiBido is often coated with crys tals-amethists and topazos. Some of these are very largo. Tho treen take a very high polish, and have been used for table tops and other ornamental purposes, but on account of their hardness, and the neeessa rily great oxponse of transportation and working, they mc not used so much ns their beauty would warrant." A Scrap of Paper Saves Her Life. lt was just an ordinary scrap of wrap ping papor, but it savod her lifo, 8ho was in tho Inst stages of consumption, told by physicians that HIIO was Incum bi? and could livo only a short timo; She; weighed less than seventy pounds. : On a piece of wrapping papor sno road of D;v King's New Discovery, and got ? sampl? bottle, it helped hor, sho bought a largo bottle, it helped hor moro, bought another and grew better fast, cont inned its uso and is now strong, healthy, rosy, plump, weighing MO pounds. For fuller par ticulars sond stain), to W. H. Colo, Drug gist, Fort Smith. Trial bottles of this' wonderful dlsoovory freo at Novmau Drug Co.'s drug store. J R^ _ Christian lifo in our day is full of activity. It finds pleasure'in plan ning, giving, and working for the STOW" ?f Christ's kingdom. The spirit of consecration givos joy to all Christians who recognize it and inspires confident hopes in. ttio ag. Sossivo movements of tho oh uro li, ut il conceals, also, a grout peril, All Christian powor springs from communion with God, and from tho indw?Uing of divino grace. One can do toRwthors only ns Iiis o vu h emt pulsates with love to Jesus, mid han a prcBonfc oxporionco of Iiis lov?. We can impart only what we re?oive; Any spring will mn dry unless fed from unffo.ip.g springs. Any Chris tian labor will be fruitless, and Chris-' tian zonl bo like sounding brasn, unless tho soul waits daily upon ^od and finds now strength in travor MU? in the study of tho ?Jihlo.