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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 THOMPSON/, SMTH & JA YNES. WAIdHALLA, SOUTH CAKOIJXA, FEBRUARY 2, 1893. VOLUME XLIV.-NO. 5. DESOTO FLOUR cannot be beat, The bread it makes is white and sweet ; It is the Highest Patent made SCHUMACHER sells this fancy grade. MARVEL FLOUR is a Straight Patent, Can't be excelled by any combatant ; OVEN LIFTER is a aood Flour sure, But Marvel is better and costs no more. DAMON FLOUR is avery good grade, Called Choice Family, a name self-made ; Is white and cheaper than bolted meal, Of this grade Schumacher sells a great deal. DONT FORGET The Charleston House. GOODS ALWAYS NEK ADD FGESD < ? 1 t?<?spoft fully. O. H. Schumacher. GOODS DELIVERED FREE. Januarv 26. lsOS. <;.><><] Health. Straighten the Itack. One of the best ways to keep good < me of the greatest and most com-! health is nol to think or worry much : mon deformities of the day, observes aboat it. If you feel strong and j a writer in the Boston Transcript, is well, don't imagine that some insidi- [ one that with care and attention can ons. disease may be secretly attack--! be remedied. It is the most round ing your constitution. Kat and drink shouldered or stooping habit. Many what you desire, as long as if agrees of the most natural ligures show this with you. Your stomach knows tendency to stoop, while in the"nar-1 pretty well what it can digest. row chested it is marked to a painful Take all the sleep you can get. but degree. And yet, by raising one's remember that the necessary amount self leisurely upon the toes in a per vades greatly for different persons; pendicular position several times a Some must sleep at least nine thrive on yours< while othe don?t cheat really need. The "midnight oil" li of nours^ day this deformity could be easily six. < >nly rectified. To do. this properly one w hat you must be in a perfectly upright posi tion, the arms dropping at the side, a terribly the heels well together and the toes expensive, illuminant to burn, either forming a" :;;;^ie of fortv-ti ve degrees, for p?ir?">se> of labor or study-. The rise should be made very slowly Avoid sudden changes of tempera- ami from the balls of both feet, and .. t. y>.:\ cannot avotd them, the descent should be accomplished you can guard against them Uv ha the same wav, without swaying always wearing flannel undercloth- the body ont of its perpendicular line, ing. The exercise is not an easy one, but Al ways treat a common cold with may be accomplished bv perseverance great respect. Ninty-nine times out and patience: It can be modified, of a hundred it will get well anyway; too, by standing first on one leg, then but the. hundredth cold it neglected, on t he other. .Inflating and raising may lead to bronchitis, pneumonia j the chest at the same time is a part or consumption.^. It ts best to take of the exercise, and if "persevered in no such chances. will .ultimately show an increased Don't trie with patent medicines, chest measurement, development of if-you are sick enough *o need anyrlung power; and perfectly straight medicine at all, beyond he simple l and erect figure, ?household remidies famihar to alli I_ you are sick enough to need the at tendance of t physician. A change of occupation is usually better'.han a total cessation of activi ty. ?By all means take as-much exorcise as you can. and be in the open aie as muchas possible. < >ut 'door life is *the natura! condition of mankind, and the more one can 'nave .of it thc better. The practice must not be carrietbto extremes, however. Th#rfc- are many davs when one is Laughter. In his ^?'Problems of Health," Dr. Greene says that there is not the remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood vessels of the human body that does not feel some wave let from the convulsions occasioned by good, hearty laughter. The life principle of the central man is shaken to the innermost depths, sending new '? fido's of life and strength to the sur n+ftcM ttvtter orr irfa warm comfort- - . . n ? i- . . ,?- .... . race, thus materially tending to in abje, wen ventilated bouse than try- ' , , ,., . -, ? , . ,. . . .-, sure good health to the persons who sag to talfe outdoor exercise m a mid- . -, P tl ? T, ? , ? . , , , indulge therein. The blood- moves winter storm, or under n ..-ule sun. ? .-, ,, -V ,. - , more rapidly, and eonvevs a different rresh air, sunlight, good and . . . n .u ' ? .u i . . impression to all the organs ot the sufficient food, pure water, out- , . - ?. i j } ,, bode, as it visits them on the particu door exercise, temperance m all , " ' - . , ^. r \w ? ??" j I-, v ' -.- lar mystic journey when the amn is trr.rigs, and a yCneertul disposition, , rJ r . ?. , * . -., ^ 2t"3 r** r . r . . laughing from what it does at other ^re the chiet remedies m natures. .. - =V, ... , , times. ? or this reason every good, pbarmacona-ia. and are wort4i irfore , , . - , . , J 0 . V f. ,,-T sj .? , _ - , hearty laugii in which a person in to an all the drugs and medicines of , , . . ?, . , ? i, i c ' \r - dulges, tends to lengthen his lite, the shops.-XFopular Science Jj[eics.\ - . -. -, ? JJ-' 11 j conveying, .as it docs, new and dis t -: tinct stimulus to the vital forces. # ' <>>-_*_ Throughout all Spanish America " ne young man is considered thor f!? h i ono^b" educated until he can speak ll^c ; at leas* two languages besides his own. In-Chili, French and German ilurtfnl Members. r?iblHfcader.J You will fiid in everv pet)pie wh?.mnst be coaxed and pat ted and petted and coddled just as j are learned ^ H . now you would a spoikd cl.ild, rf yon beamingWfeshiofft? study Eng hold them to "the Church, and even fhen tbeyvwili pout and Md<?' away and refuse tb; 4? anything except according to their own "sweet" wills. Spoiled by seKishiiess. . _ . lish. Frussian education is more thor ough than that of any other country. Every child is in school from five to fourteen years of age. Parents must ^^t^^ms have been found ip i obey the law, pay a fine, or go to ?rater. {priscn. ADONIS. [For thc KEOWEK COTXSTEB.] His real name was William Camp bell, but he was called Adonis, or more commonly Ad, for the sake of brevity, on account of his personal appearance. Our hero was the only son of Peggy Campbell,an old widow. 'She said she was of noble Scottish descent, being the great- -oat-granddaughter of the chief cook in the house Of John MacCullum Moore, the great Duke of Argyll. -Nobody knew nor cared where they came from; in fact, no one ever thought of that. They were "permanent fixtures" in the settlement and had been from time immemorial. They, or rather Dame Peggy, earned a scanty livelihood by doing odd jobs for the neighbors and by dyeing and weaving, arts in wliich Peggy was an expert. Our hen) and his mother lived in a little tumble-down cabin on their own farm, a tract of six acres, situated high up on the side of a very poor and stony hill, whose soi! would hardly sprout a cow pea. When this old shanty finally came tumbling about their ears one blustry March day, the farm, or plantation, as Ad called it, was abandoned and they took up their abode wherever they found a deserted cabin. Ln appearance our hero was very remarkable. Ile stood six feet two in his stockings and weighed one hundred and twenty pounds. His legs were merely "pipe stems," and both seemed to "come out at one hole," as the neighbors said. His arms were long and dangling and his hands very red and skinny. His long nose was sharp and thin, his eyes blue and watery, and his head wasj crowned with a mat of very-bushy yellow hair. His beard . was scam indeed, or "one in a hill," as people said. Ile invariably wore a very tall and badly battered beaver and faded green frock coat,both of which looked as if they might have seen service in the Revolution. ' He had eight of the meanest, mangiest curs you ever saw, and they invariably followed at his heels wherever he went. Thc sight was half amusing, half pitiful, on a cold, windy day, to see him coming, his lon?;, thin legs dangling rather than stepping, his arms swinging awk wardly and his tattered coat-tails flopping gleefully in the wind, with his many canine friends stepping upon Iiis h^-' '. Ad md his curs were sure to put in their appearance at hog-killings, corn-shuckings and other rural fes tivities. He seemed to "scent the bat!le from afar," but he never appeared until near . meal-time, andi no one ever s.;iw bim help with the work. However, he was always in the front rank at the table, whether invited or not, and his appetite was something remarkable. Indeed, such were the quantities of "good'cheer" consumed by Ad that one involun tarily wondered where it all went to, unless his legs and number- twelve feet were hollow. Ad was very mealy-mouthed and a famous liar; and while the afore said edibles rapidly disappeared the mellowest lies imaginable rolled off his tongue, ile told tales ahout what he had seen, heard and done and what crops he used to make on "my plantation" that would put "Arabian Nights" to shame. But to%come to our story propcr.j Ad -nis believed that there was a hid den treasure that he was destined to find, ile said that, when a small boy, the spirit of an Indian chief appeared to him in a dream and told him this. So wherever he went his ; eves were bent upon thc ground, and every odd nook and corner was searched for the hidden treasure. Now, about this time there lived in that particular locality a young lady named Olympia W ashburn e, the daughter of a wealthy planter. ' When our story opened she had just returned from boarding school, j where sh?- mid taken on an excessive) degree of polished sentimentality. She affected extremely refined man ners and conversation. She would walk from one side of a crowded room to the other to get to a door to take a drink of water, and when she talked it was merely a continuous series of ohs, (dis, oh mys, did you evers, and yes indeeds. Notwith standing her faults Miss Olympia had j numerous beaux and was a very popular young lady generally, for her j father owned four thousand acres of j fine land and scores of slaves. But i the war caine on and her father, j Charles Washburne, mortgaged alli his property to raise funds with which to equip a regiment, of which he took command. During the war Adonis somehow became acquainted with Olympia and he fell deeply in love with her. At ii rsl she scorned him ami guyed him unmercifully, as did every one else. But Ad was not to be thus slightly put off. Ile could not take a hint. He told Miss Olympia the story of the treasure it was Iiis destiny to dis cover, and as it was exactly suited to her romantic nature, well schooled by reading -The Life of Captain Kidd," and so forth, finally she became interested in him; and when Olym pia's favorite canary died he wrote such a touching poem in memory of the event that she was completely carried away. From this time onward ?she regarded Adonis as a genius, \ merely hampered by poverty. At last the war was over; but in the meantime Col. Washburne was killed and Mrs. Washburne died of a broken heart. All the Colonel's property was swept away and all the grand estate disappeared like a fog before a July sun, and Olympia's numerous suitors vanished simultar neously with the property, only faster, if possible. But there remained one as constant and devoted as ever-poor Ad. Of course they were the laughing stock of the community, now that they were both poor, but neither paid any attention to what any one said. . "Time wore on," as the novelists say, and great was tbe sensation cre ated when it was rumored tbat Olym pia had fallen heir to a large sum of money, which v-a bachelor uncle of hers had made in. Peru and bequeathed to her at his death. When it was ascertained thai the rumor was cor rect suitors again flocked around Olympia, and she found herself again the belle of that section. Olympia spurned* these new suit ors, however, and continued to smile upon Adonis. Within a month after they were certain that the money was indeed theirs they were married. A year passed, and the legal proceedings having been terminated, fifty thou sand dollars in gold were paid to .Air. William Campbell, ns thc agent of Mrs. William Campbell. On the same day Lady Campbell presented her lord with a male heir, and his joy was unbounded. The spirit of the old Indian again appeared to William and told him that Olympia and her inheritance was his, the treasure that was prom ised him. A great charge now came over both William and Olympia. With the money they purchased and equip ped the Washburne plantation and ; commenced planting. The transfer- j mation was complete. William soon j became one of the wealthiest and most progressive planters in the coun- j try, and Mrs. Campbell was now j regarded as a model lady and house- j wife. "Years rolled by" and still Mr. Campbell's wealth increased ; and i with the appetite it was always his ! good fortune to possess, and his now ; plentifully supplied table, his girth j did likewise. Ile had now become a very rotund old patriarch, tipping the beam at two hundred and fifty pounds. Mrs. Campbell was now a plump, well-preserved matron, greatly remown?d as a housekeeper. "So, as the years roUe?Tby, they continued to live, highly respected and prosperous'1 and, of course, happy. JEFF PERKINS. ADVANCEMENT OF THE AGE. [For thc KJEOWEE COURIER. 1 One of the latest overpowering evidences of the celerity of progress in the mechanical arts is the umul~\ tum in parvo" "JE'JPluribus Unwn" \ grand combination, rocking and fan nine chair. This great invention is ' almost automatic in its operation. The "-Modus Operandi "1 is so perfect that the operator has absolutely nothing to do but send the butcher's and baker's collectors away from the door satisfied with an "I owe you ;" then pick up the latest pictorial volume of the popular "H?rtalo Bill" series, seat himself in the rocker and gently sway himself back and forth with the aid of a lever power, gene- ' rated by the pressure of the toe of. j bis patent leather boot against the! 1 Kr?ssels carpet, while the breeze from the wind generating apparatus above softly whistles "Home Sweet' Hume'' through his long flowing "whiskaws." Now, in the ever increasing, already ! longated list of improvements in the art of invention, there will appear tn the near future an invention designed lo relieve man of the necessity of laming and dressing himself in the moraine. With this invention man will simply have to consign himself to the tender mercies of this machine, which will probably be known as the " ?A Capite ad Calcem' Toilet Per former,'' which, by simply pressing a, button, thereby turning on an electric current, will ?ift the subject from the I bed, give him a "Cleanliness-is-next-; to-Godliness" bath, dress him, ar range his hair, adjust his tie, put a i four-ply professional hine on his shoes and place a cigarette between his lips, while the prayerful words of his morning invocation will ascend heavenward from the devout lips of a phonograph attachment. Already in projection for our fu ture enjoyment is a new model tele- i phone, by which one may keep his room and enjoy the play at a theater five miles distant, the conversations being distinctly heard, while the, entire action of the play will be re- j fleeted in a large French plate mir ror, placed near the telephone, while ' the streugth of every hit, with the denizens of the third gallery, will be faithfully recorded by an indicator upon a graduated scale dial attached to the [?hone. Another great and invaluable in vention of the near future will be the "Automatic typewriter and mailer.'' which, by simply starting the pendu- j lum of a clock work connection, will j type-write any epistle dictated to it, j fold the sheet, place in an envelope, seal it, address the same and stamp it ready for mailing. This will prob ably be the invention of some pru dent and thoughtful wife whose hus band's business required the services of two or three female stenographers. .Sometime since Mr. Edison con ceived the great, grand and g! orious i idea of utilizing a certain iron moun tain of huge bulk as a kind of dry battery to furnish the current for an inter-etherial telephone from "Terra" to "Sol" via "Luna'' and "Mars," no ground connections ; but Mr. Edison for some, no doubt, good reason lias called off his mental forces for awhile. Probably he is waiting the success of co-projectors on "Sol" in their efforts to raise by subscription, or otherwise, a sufficient amount.for the completion of the plant. This great inter-planetary tele phone will be an 'invaluable conven ience of the first magnitude. There will be no limit to its multiple bene fits. "Uncle Sam's" weather bea reau will be enabled to communient2 with the associated bureaus of "Sol" and thereby will be in a" posi tion to furnish any kind of weather desired by fickle humanity, imported directly, by telephone, from "Sol" free of duty and at a nominal price, j For instance, a regular June day is wanted for the celebration of Christ mas or New Year's day, application is made to the "weather bureau of "Uncle Sam," who will at once tele I phone the superintendec, of the weather bureau on "Sol" who will at once, without awaiting the action of a "Solar" congress or local legis lature, order the wicks of the heat generating lamrs to be turned up to sueh degree as may be required by the soliciting "terrestiai". bureau. When this line becomes thoroughly established it will furnisli employ ment to a great mary electricians in keeping thc wires in good order. It has not yet been, decided what kind of poles will be selected for the sup port ot the lines. This project should have thc hearty and Ijnar.ciaily mate rial co-operation of all enterprising citizens, as, no doubt, in time we will be in direct communication with the inhabitants of all the members of the "Solar" system, with a central office at the sun, replete with a sofii cient number of thc "Stronger Auto matic Telephone Exchange Switch ing Machines." When these lines aro completed our neighbors of Mars will be enabled to communicate with us withoi t the great expense of those signal tires, which they have been practicing so many years, regardless of non-reciprocity on the part of their "tcrrestial" neighbors. The ladies will, n<> doubt, hail thc completion of this grand system of telephouery with pleasure, as they will be in a position to adopt the latest styles in furs as worn by the fair ladies of Neptune; also, will bo enabled to get these infallible, unparalleled receipts for cosmetic compos'Lions for which Venus is so famous, and for the effi ciency of which, the divine beauty of the shining countenance of Venus, after ber morning toilette, is suffi cient substantiation. Thus the advancement of thc age is something wonderful to behold. It is written. "Lei lhere be light and there was light also electric light in overpowering abundance, for the lightnings have become as a cat-o nine-tails in the hands of man. VlRGILIUS RuSTICCS. SOFTENING 0? M BRAIN. [Dr. Henry 8. Williams, in thc North American Koview.J ( >f all tho diseases that menace the race, only a few are absolutely fatal. Indeed, there is but one common disease thal invariably brings its victims speedily to tbe grave. This most ruthless of maladies is that terrible form of insanity technically called general paresis or paretic dementia, and known to the layman as "softening of the brain." Its unvarying history entitles it to pre cedence over consumption, cancer, Bright's disease; in short, places it peerless in bad pre-eminence. And as if this were not enough, its malig nity is emphasized by the way in which it juggles with its victim be fore it extinguishes his life. It changes his personality, dethrones reason, almost, eliminates the mind, and steadily weakening the body, leaves toward the last a mere skeletal, vegetative being scarce recognizable as the vestige of "its former self; unknowing, unfeeling, mindless, to his friends at once a tearful memory and a terrible objective presence. Finally death comes in a form hor rible enough to be the lining climax of so awful a disease. Of course it is not to be understood thal the stages of this disease follow an abso lutely iixed routine. The abnormal is everywhere only a perversion of thc normal, and until we have two organisms exactly alike we shall never see two identical cases of any disease. Still, thc essential symp toms of typical cases of paresis are singularly uniform. It seems para doxical that the patient who during the carly stage thinks himself lost forever, will a few weeks or months later, win n thc fatal disease has more firmly fixed its hold, declare himself absolu lily well-better, stronger than eve- in his life before-and laugh to scorn anyone who contra dicts him. During the early stage of his disease he will not admit a ray of hope, because he feels hopeless. Later OH, though his "body is weak and every faculty and function is failing, he cannot bc persuaded that such is the case,'because he feels well. But why, it may be asked, does the pa tient experience feelings so at vari ance with the facts ? Usually a person feels ill because he is ill, or well be cause he is well ; why is it otherwise with the paretic? Now, the "whys" f things physiological are not always easy to make out; never theless, it happens that we are able to give at least a proximate solution of this seeming anomaly. Everyone knows that the brain is in some way indissolubly connected with the mind. It appears further that the activity of the mind depends, whatever the link of connection, upon the circulation of the blood in the brain. Under normal conditions, the blood supply is regulated and momentarily changed in accordance with impressions sent from the outer world. But in the brain of the paretic, the mechanism that should regulate the .blood supply is out of or der. During the early stage, a free flow of blood is not permitted, lb ncc the mind is persistently slug gish and depressed. Tell the patient that he has fallen heir to a fortune ; no responsive thrill goes through his mind. Entreat him to cheer up ; he cannot. Later-on, through a dif ferent maladjustment"of the controll ing mechanism, the brain of the pare tic is permanently surcharged with blood. A perpetual sense of well being then encompasses him. Tell him that he is ill ; he laughs at you. Assure him that he is doomed to an early grave ; he replies, "I will live a century." He feels, as he never felt before, the lust and strength of youth. The circulation in his "brain is persis tantly overactive; his ideas corre spond. But overactivity means excessive wear on the mechanism of thc organism, just as on an inanimate machine. Hence the brain in .which this abnormal activity prevails wears out rapidly. Its cells degenerate and become useless. At last it is so wasted that its functionings produce only the most rudimentary mental states. Then the tissues become so weakened that small .blood vessels burst, lacerating the brain, and bring ing on those convulsions which are "so painful a feature of the disease, and which finally terminate the pa tient's life. Post Ynorten examination will-show that the brain of the pare tic may not be ?'softened,T bat- that its cells and other tissues are every where more or less degenerated 01 decayed. It is inconceivable Lhat these wasted tissues could bo re placed with normal ones ; hence it cannot be even hoped that an ad vanced case of paresis will ever be cured. But of course there is a time in the history of every case when decay is only incipient. At the disease in this stage preventive medicine may hope some day to aim its shafts successfully. So much for the disease, paresis. Now as to its cause. It can be epitomized in two words: excessive action. Paresis is a protest of nature against abuse of function. Whatever act tends to bring too great or too continuous strain upon the blood vessels of the brain, tends to weaken them and thus invites paresis. All mental overactivity brings such a strain. But few of us are gifted with work ing enthusiasm thal will ever menace our minds.. Still, there are cases, doubtless, in wich mental overwork of a strictly legitimate kind has been an active factor in paving the way for paresis. Business stress and worry are far more common factors. Alcohol is a yet more potent acces sory. But in the vast majority of cases, though these accessory causes, have their effect, the chief causes of paresis are habits and excesses that I cannot properly nore than hint at here. It will now be plain why paresis is a disease of civilizations sac! commentary though th.at be ; more common with men than with women; more prevalent in the city ! than in country ; and one that is j claiming a larger coterie of victims y r by year. CHE SNOLLYf'OSTER. The celebrated Georgia politician \ and humorist, Col. Ham, has added a { new word to the English language I "snollygoster." This is thc way he gives the history of this wonderful word : '.Along in the forties there lived up-in the mountains of Rahun county, Ga., a man named John? Kelly. Ile had a limited education and an itch for office. Ile ran for everything, going up by regular graduation from Constable to Clerk of the Court and : j was defeated every time, but nothing daunted tried at the next election for the next highest office. In L8-?8 it came time for him t ? be a candidate for representative in the Legislature. As there was at the time some talk of war with England over the Niagara incident, he announced as I ?his platform that it was the duty of j the President to seize all -the roads I leading to Liverpool so as to prevent j a sait famine in case of war. As j everybody recognized the necessitj for plenty of salt, it was a taking j slogan and Kelly was getting on ? swimmingly. j "Kelly's opponent was a tall, gaunt I mountaineer named Jonas Gaines.! Ile was Justice of the Peace, and to use his own language 'know'ed all the j law what wasn't tore out of the I books.' Ile had a wonderful flow of ; language, using all the big words he j had ever heard and coining many more without any reference to what they might mean, and yet, as such a man naturally would, now and then said a really good thing. Superior Court coming on in the very heat and burden of the canvass, a number of the lawyers gathered at the county seat from all over the Circuit, and the bright idea struck them of bring ing about a joint debate between Kelly and < raines. '.Kelly hail the opening -\i>? I made a long, and as one of the lawyers de scribed it,'a very able-bodied speech.* Ile fumed and foamed and fretted, j and worked hissait platform for all it was worth and sat down amid great cheering. Then up ro-.- Gaines, his tall form towering higb in air, and working his long arms like the sails of a windmill and in a voice that could be heard half a mile, pro ceeded, as he expressed, to 'take the hide off Kelly in flakes as big as a hound's ears.' He 'skinned him belly-wise up and back-wise down,' dissected his record, enumerated his varions vices, and among other things, said if there is anything on i top side of earth that makes me mad, it's to see a snollygoster of a feller a continually a sidwipin' aroun' after the orthography of a little offis what he kain't never git, and hain't got sense enough to till it if he could git it.' Finally he reached thesalt ques tion and yelled : '"Liverpool, hell ! North Carolina salt is a durned sight saltier, and there's a dozen roads to the works.' The effect can be better imagined than described. Kelly and his fol lowers fled the scene, and Gaines was triumphantly elected. "And so to this humble, but pic turesque source, was the Georgia orator indebted for the won! that has now by common consent come to stand for thc Kelly class of dema gogic politicians. It is one of the curious specimens of native origi nality which now and then comes to enrich our language and lill a long felt want of something todo the sub ject justice." Twelve United States Senators have been elected from various States, as follows: Edward Murphy, Jr., (Democrat) of New York; Joseph R. Hawley, (Republican) of Con necticut ; m Henry Cabot Lodge, ( I Re publican) of Massachusetts ; Eugene Hale, (Republican) of Maine ; George Gray, (Democrat) of Delaware ; Mat thew Quay, (Republican) of Pennsyl vania; F. M. Coekrell, (Democrat) of Missouri- C. K. Davis, (Republi can) of Minnesota; David Tarpie, (Democrat) of Indiana; Stephen M. White, (Democrat) of California; Win. B. Bat#, (Democrat) of Ten nessee; Francis B. Stockbridge, (Republican) of Michigan. Thc Democrats have made gains in the election of Mr. Edward Murphy, of New York, and Mr. Stephen M. White-, of California. The Republi cans have made no gains. "Never- mind, dearest," cried a girl who had been cast off by her. family on marrying a ne'er-do-well; "with you I can be content tb live on? bread and wa ter," "Yes, beloved," was the earnest reply. "And if you'll just get the bread PU skirmish around and try to earn the water." I>^Vir) TO POLICY HOLDERS, >i32,000;000.00. . PAID US DIVIDENDS, $9,500,000.00. "THE PHOENIX POLICY/ ABSOLUTE GUARANTEES-NO ESTIMATES. Agc: 35. $10,000. 20 Payment Life. Cost per year, : $286.30. Cost for 10 years, : $2,863.00. O tirantees at End. of Ten Years : Eirst Option-Extended Insurance for 10 years and 7 mont. longer for. ? 10,000 Second Option-Paid up Policy - - - *4,S60 Third Option-Cash value - - - - ^ - $1,980 JPoiU'th Option-Loan at 6 per cent - - - $1,100 At end of 10 years, if First Option is taken, the policy holder gets 26 years and 7 months Insurance, for $10,000, at a net cost of $2,863.00, which is at the rate of less than $11.00 per $1,000 (guaranteed) per year. If Second Option, the Paid up Policy is in excess of cost, $?,997. If Third Option, the net cost of Insurance for $10,000, for ten years, is $883:00, or $8.83 per $1,000 per year. Guarantees at End of Twenty Years ; Cost for 20 Years : : : $5,726. First Option-Paid up Policy .... $10,000 Second Option-Cash value - - - * $4^980 Third Option-Loan at G per cent - - - $2,700 Options are given for every year in body of Policy in plain figures from 3 years upwards. Policy Incontestable after two years. W. M. HUTSON, Gen. Agt., Columbia, S. G. W. A. KAY, Dist. Agt., Greenville, S. C. THE PHOENIX MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, CONN. February "J, 1893. The two Rolers. In these <lays when the Bible is discredited, its authority rejected, or lowered to a literary level, the following is appropri?t-' especially for the young: "The Bible is so strict android fashioned," said a young niau to a graybaired friend, who was advis ing him to study God's word, if he would learn how to live. "There are plenty of books written nowadays that are moral enough in their teaching. and do not bind one down as the Bible." Tho old merchant turned to his desk and took out two rulers, one of which was slightly bent. With each of these he ruled a line and silently handed the ruled paper to his com panion. "Well," said the lad, "what do you mean ?" "One line is not straight and true, is it? When you mark out your, path in life, do not take a crook ruler." How it Works iu Athens. The new liquor dispensary law for South Carolina continues to be the leading topic of discussion. With a view to finding out how the law works where it has been tried, a gen tleman of Sumter recently wrote to j Athens, Ga., and received the follow- \ ing reply from Hon. Henry C. Tack, Mayoi of that city, under date of January 10, I*!'-'!. " Ile says : ".My reply Will necessarily be gen I eral in its nature. Hut, generally speaking, I would say that t he dis pensary has more than sustained itself, in the opinion of the citizens whf> formed its establishment in our midst. For the regulation of the whiskey traffic in a city no larger than ours (with 10,000 people) I think it solves the question. It is incom parably superior to bar-rooms, and as a prohibitionist from the beginning iu our county, I am sure that it is preferable to prohibition, so-called. I am not an enthusiast on the Sub- ! jeer, but for the country towns and small cities of the State, I think it solves thf v?xed whiskey problem, and will sc .1 bc adopted in all the places named, as a solution of the problem. . . "As a source of revenue, is sur passes the license. The net profits of our dispensary,for the first twelve month exceeded *10,000, or $1 per capita, as our Alliance friends would put it. . "And I would say further that 'law and order' under the present system is fully as good as it. was unc?er the prohibition regime, if not better." * ' 'The average expenses of. the stu dents at Yale,Jast year were: Fresh man, $786^96 ; sophomores, $831.34 ; juniors, . ?883.11 ; \ seniors, 4919,70. The largest expense reported was $2,90&V ? - * For Everybody in General. . For Epworth Leaguers in particu lar as the case may he, the Chris tian Standard gives this advice: "Everybody has moods and tenses, so everybody will.be interested in the following prescriptions: "If you are impatient, sit down quietly and have a talk with Job. "If von are strong-headed, view Moses.' KI? you are getting weak-kneed, look at Elijah. "If there is no song in your heart, listen to David. "If vou are a policy man, read Daniel'. "If you are getting sordid; spend awhile with Isaiah. "If chilly, get the beloved disciple Lo put his arms around vou. -If your faith is below par, read Paul. * "If you are getting lazy, watch Tames. "If you are loosing sight of the future, climb up to Revelation and get a glimpse of the promise?! land." The Voice has tin- following as to the contents of whiskey drains: "A minister in New York, says the Chi cago Inter- Ocean, visited a number of the best liquor stores in his neigh borhood, .uni brought pint samples of their best gin, whiskey, port wine, etc. In the analysis of the 'pure Holland gin' were found neutral spirits, rotton corn, juniper berrie-:, turpentine, and vitriol. Thefineold hand-made Kentucky whiskey con tained neutral spirits, glycerine, sul phate of zinc, chromic acid, creosote, unstacked lime, and fusel oil; and the rare old port had licorice, zinc, mercury, antimony, muriatic acid, and-alum. The man who takes mixed or straight drinks should make no complaints against the ordi nary microbe, after dissipating with these tissues .and brain-destroying elements." Young lawyer: "I really feel p'roud at the way I have. come out of lay first case. It was a claim against the government, you know, and-T won and secured a settlement in leis rban a week. What do you think of that-?"' Old Lawyer : "? think you jvr,sted a grand opportunity. A Juwcver.of experience would have made that case last a life time, and it would have been the foundation' of an independ ent fortune." . : Thirty young women students have entered Yale this fall. The. Yale males*, ar* said to be in quite a* stew about it. "What do you mean by thrashing your boy without provocation ?ft "Well, yon s??e, a busy man like me must discipline'his children when he happens to have time."