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Cnrfew Mnst Not Bing- To-Sight. The following poem is founded on an in? cident in English history. In tho days of the I-rotectorate a young soldier was con? demned to die "at the ringing of the Cur? few." His frieuds interceded for him in vain; and a fair young girl, who was at? tached to him, pleaded with his judges to spare his life, at least until the hour when she could see the stern Cromwell herself, but her efforts were fruitless. She then sought to bribe, the sexton to omit the Curfew4 for a single day, but he was also inexorable. The hour drew on, and the executioner stood awaiting the signal which, 'as the poem will show, did not sound that night. For the benefit of our young readers we may say that the ringing of the Curfew bell was "a practice established in England by its Norman conqueror. All the inhabitants were required to cover their fires, and ex? tinguish their lights, and rest at night-fall, and the bell was rung as a signal at the appointed hour. The poem was written by Miss Rosa Hartwick; now Mrs. Edmund C. Thorpe, in April, 1867. She was born in Mishawaka, Indiana, July 18th, 1850, and was in her seventeenth year when she road this little story of "Love and Loyalty" and told it so sweetly in rhyme. "CURFEW M?STXOT RING TO->-lGHT.M Slowly England's sun was setting o'er the hill-tops far away, Filling aU the land with beauty at the close of one sad day, And the last rays kissed the forehead of a man and maiden fair, He with footsteps slow and wear}*, she with sunny, floating hair; He with bowed head, sad and thoughtful, she with lips all cold and white, -struggling to keep back the murmur? "Curfew must not ring to-night." "Sexton," Bessie's white lips faltered, point? ing to the prison old. With its turrets tall and gloomy, with its walls dark, damp and cold. "I've a lover in that prison, doomed this very night to die, At the ringing of the Curfew, and to earthly help is nigh; Cromwell will not come till sunset," and her lips grew strangely white \ As she breathed the husky whisper, "Curfew must not ring to-night." "Bessie," calmly spoke the sexton?every word pierced her young heart Like the piercing of an arrow, like a deadly poisoned dart, "Long, long years I've rung the Curfew from that gloomy, shadowed tower; Every evening, just at sunset, it has told the twilight hour; I have done my duty ever, tried to do it just and right, Now I'm old but still must do it, Curfew it must ring to-night." ""Mild her eyes and pale her features, stern . and white her thoughtful brow, And within her secret bosom Bessie made a solemn vow. She had listened while the judges read without a tear or sigh ; "At the ringing of the Curfew, Basil Un? derwood must die." And her breath came fast and foster, and her eyes grew large and bright? In an undertone she murmured, "Curfew must not ring to-night." She with quick steps bounded forward, sprang without the old church door, Left the old man treading slowly paths so oft he's trod before; Not one moment paused the maiden, but with eyes and cheek aglow, Mounted up the gloomy tower, where the bell swunjr to and fro, As she climed the dusty ladder on which fell no ray of light, Up and up?her white lips saying? "Curfew must not ring to-night," She has reached the topmost ladder, o'er ,-Jww-jvimgtrtiia great dark bell; Awful is the gloom beneath her, like the pathway down to hell. Lo,. the ponderous tongue is swinging, 'tis the hour of Curfew now, And the sight has chilled her bosom, stopped her breath and paled her brow. Shall she let it ring? No, never! Flash 7 her eyes with sudden light. And she springs and grasps it firmly? .,? . "Curfew shall not ring to-night." Out she Swung, far out, the city seemed a speck of light below, 'Twist Heaven and earth her form suspend? ed,' as the bell swung to and fro, And the sexton at the bell-rope, old and - deaf, heard not the bell, But he thought it still was ringing fair young Basil's funeral knell. ? Still the maiden clung more' firmly, and with trembling lips and white. Said, to hush her heart's wild beating? "Curfew 8h.-dl not ring to-night." I It was o'er, the bell ceased swaying, and the maiden stepped once more Firmly on the dark old ladder, where for hundred years before Human foot bad not been planted. The brave deed that she had done Should be told long ages after, as the rays of setting sun k Should illume the sky with beauty; aged sires with heads of white. Long should tell the little children Curfew did not ring that night. O'er the distant hills came Crom well; Bessie sees him, and her brow. Full of Jiope and full of gladness, has no anxious traces now. At his feet she tells her story, shows her hands all bruised and torn ; And her lace so sweet and pleading, yet with sorrow pale and worn, Touched his heart with suddeu pity, lit his eye with misty light; "Go! your lover lives," said Cromwell, . "Curfew shall not ring to-night!" Gashing Brides. Every one will recognize the portrait of the over-affectionate bride, who makes love in public, and whose delight in her new-found felicity cannot be repressed even at a public hotel, or in a thronged railway carriage. Hanging on his arm, and gazing forever into his face, squeez? ing hands under the table, with sly em? braces where they think themselves safe, it is easy to see that these two young people are like spendthrifts living on their capital, and that they wilt exhaust their love betimes by dint of lavishuess. A little more reticence would be so much better! Some employment in the evening after they have done their sight-seeing?some book to read, some bit of work to do would be wiser in the long run than sit? ting close together on the sofa, talking love and destroying their future solid j friendship by the sweet extravagances of their present flatteries. Sometimes, if the husband is reserved, unsentimental, cold, and the bride just the reverse, she has all the love-making to herself, and pours oat in unstinted measure the fond? ness which maidenly modesty forbade ber to show while yet unmarried. Poor child, she is whetting the knife for her own throat! If her husband endures it all in the beginning, partly from courtesy and partly from gratitude, nud because his marriage is as yet young, and he is not sufficiently accustomed to her to re? pulse her, she may be sure that he will not bear it long; and that the moment will come when he will turn away from her, and make her understand that she bores him, and that all this folly might have been very well when they were first married, but now it is absurd, and she must be reasonable and like other women. And can any young wife suffer a deeper wound than this??a wound that hurts ber pride and her love in one, but the pain of which she has brought on her? self by her folly of excess. Even brides would do well to remember that it is bet? ter for their happiness to be sought than repulsed, and that husbands no more than bachelors appreciate being made love to._ ? A Wheeling inventor is getting up a new patent chair for dentist*. A con? cealed spring in it runs a tack up through tho seat, and while the patient is howl- J ,iog, and his attention is diverted by the 1 |ck below, the tooth is yanked out. -7 COUNTERFEIT MONEY. Paper Money Easily Counterfeited and Easily Detected. When the exigencies of the war caus? ed the old State banks to go out of exis? tence and the new notes of the national banks and the greenbacks took their place, a general relief was experienced by the absence of counterfeit, spurious, and altered notes. The forms of fraudu? lent money had become so numerous that the counterfeit detector had got to be almost as large as the family Bible. A long period elapsed after the issue of the new notes before the counterfeits made their appearance, and so great was the relief in this respect that the new notes found few opponents. But the security against counterfeit was short lived. The enormous quanti? ties of each denomination of the new issues proved an irresistible temptation to the counterfeiters, so that now the annoyance from fraudulent notes is al? most as great as it was during the issue of the old State bank money. This is signally illustrated by the growth of the counterfeit detectors. For a short time these publications almost went out of ex? istence, but now they are flourishing, and present an appalling exhibit of the ex? tent of counterfeiting. In Underwood's Counterfeit Detector for December a table appears showing that 562 different kinds of counterfeit money have been received. Every State in the Union is represented in this list, and so great have been the numbers of counterfeits on some banks tbat in some cases the issue has been entirely called in and further issue of like denomination has been suppress? ed. Some idea of the extent of these counterfeits may be obtained by the fact tbat the same counterfeit is found in cir? culation in many places. Thus the counterfeit fives un the Merchants' Na? tional Bank of New Bedford were sent to the Bureau of Redemption from 141 places. The counterfeit lives on the Hampden National Bank of Westfield, Mass., appeared at 117 places, including {laces in Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, owa, Florida, Oregon, South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and Maine?in short, all over the United States. Under the old State bank system counterfeits were somewhat circumscrib j ed in circulation, but uow they go un j suspected from one end of the country to the other. The similarity of so many good notes makes it profitable for the counterfeiters to pay enormous sums to procure one good plate, knowing that when once obtained they may use this one plate, with but slight alterations, for many counterfeits. The fortunate fact that the counterfeiters have omitted to notice the slight variations in the genu? ine notes?the different styles of num? bers and check letters?has been the principal means fur the detection of j counterfeits. Thus the counterfeiters often put on the name of n United Slates Register or Trensurer who was not in office when the note was issued. Underwood publishes a curious list of j about 280 notes of various denomina? tions tbat were stolen from banks before they were signed by the bank officers. In such coses, the notes would be proper? ly numbered, and would defy detection. But, in the case of most counterfeit notes, the chances of getting the right numbers and check letters are very re? mote. One method of detecting fraudu? lent United States notes is very simple. It is as follows: "United States notes are printed in sheets of four notes of one denomina? tion on each sheet. Those uotes are let? tered, respectively, in the upper and lower corners diagonally opposite, A, B, C, and D. Each United States note has a distinct number, and the notes are al? ways numbered in their order on the [ sheets; thus all notes of lettter A will be 1, or a number, which, if divided by 4, would leave 1 remainder; B, 2; C, 3, and D, 4, or the number will be divided by four without a remainder. This test, while not by any means certain, will en? able any one to detect one-third of the counterfeits in circulation. Any United States note, upon which the number can? not be divided by four, without showing the above result, is a counterfeit. Bear in mind that all genuine notes with let? ters A and C. will have odd numbers, and with B and D, even numbers." If a note will not stand thi3 lest, it should be rejected. Nevertheless, it is possible that a note that would stand the test may be counterfeit. But it is hardly safe for any one to receive sus? pected money without strict comparison with the detailed description of known counterfeits.?New York Sun. Mr. Blifkins' First Baby. That first baby was a great institution. As soon as he came into this "breathing world," as the late \V. Shakespeare has it, he took command in our house. Ev? erything was subservient to him. He regulated the servants, he regulated me. For the first six months of that pre? cious baby's existence he had me up on an average six times a night. 'Mr. Blifkins," said my wife, bring a light, do; the baby looks strangely; I'm afraid it will have a fit." Of course the lamp was brought, and of course the baby lay sucking his fist like a little bear that he was. "Mr. Blifkins, I think I leel a draft of air; I wish you would get up and see if the window is not open a little, because baby might get sick." Nothing was the matter with the win? dow as 1 knew very well. "Mr. Blifkins," said my wife, just as I was goiug to sleep again, "that lamp as ou have placed it, shines directly in laby's eyes?strange you have no more consideration." I arranged the light and went to bed again. -Just as I was dropping to sleep? "Mr. Blifkins," said my wife, "did you think to buy that broma to-day for the baby ?" "My dear," said I, "will you do mo the injustice to believe that I could over? look a matter so essential to the comfort of that inestimable child?" She apologized very handsomely, but made her anxiety the scapegoat. I for? gave her, and without saying a word to her I addressed myself to sleep. "Mr. Blifkius," said my wife, shaking me, "you must not snore so?you will wake the baby." "Jest so?jest so," said I, half asleep, thinking I was at Solou Shingle's. "Mr. Blifkins," eaid my wife, "will you get up and hand me that warm gruel from the nurse lamp for the baby??the dear child would die! if it wasn't for its mother, I don't know what he would do. How can you sleep so Mr. Blifkins?" "I suspect, my dear," said I, "tbat it is because I am tired." "Oh, it's very well for you men to talk about being tired," said my wife; "1 don't know what you would say if you bad to toil and drudge like a poor woman with a baby." I tried to soothe her by telling her she had no patience, and got up for the food. Having aided in answering to the baby's requirements, I stepped into bed again with the hope of sleeping. "Oh, dear !" said that inestimable wo mau, in great apparent anguish, "how can a man, who has arrived at the honor of a live baby of his own, sleep when he don't know tbat the dear creature will live till morning?" I remained silent, and after awhile, deeming that Mrs. Blifkins had gone to sleep, I stretched my limbs for repose. How long I slept I don't know, but! was i wakened by a furious jab in the fore beud from some sharp instrument. I started up, and Mrs. Blifkins was sitting up in bed adjusting some portion of the baby's dress. She had, in a state of j semi-somnolence, mistaken my head for the pillow, which she customarily used for a nocturnal pin-cushion. I protested agaiust such treatment in somewhat round teruw, pointing to several perfora tions in my forehead. She told me I should willingly hear such trifling ills for the sake of the baby. I iusisted upon it that my duly as a' parent to the immortal did not require my forehead as a pin-cushion. This was one of the many nights pass? ed in this way. The truth was that baby was what every man's first baby is?an autocrat, absolute and unlimited. Such was the story of Blifkins as he related it to us the other day. It is a little exaggerated picture of almost every man's experience. Leading Varieties of Cotton. There are two general classifications of the cotton raised in the United States, long stapled and short stapled. Of the former, the best is the sea island cotton of this country. The cultivation of the sea island, also known as the tree cotton, is local, and the amount produced as compared with upland or green seed is bat small. It wilt not flourish at a dis? tance from the sea, hence its growth is limited to districts along the shores of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Texas. The most favorite point for its cultivation is Edislo Island, on the coast of South Carolina, south of Charleston. The average yield per acre is little more than half that of the upland, but it is the finest cotton grown in this country and consequently commands the greatest price. Its staple or filament is long, sil? ken and delicate. The height of the plant varies from two to six feet. As, even with the application of fertilizers, the average yield of sea island cotton is not much more than half the average of upland cotton, to pay as well as the short staple it must obtain double the price per pound. Since 1820 the price has greatly advanced so that this long staple cotton has often commanded quadruple the market value of ordinary staple. Care? ful experiments have proven that, to keep up the standard of sea island cotton, manures rich in phosphates, rich in pot? ash, and having a considerable amount of sulphuric acid, must be freely employ? ed. A dressing composod of well-rotted cotton seed mixed with the excrements of domestic animals, when\used in suffi? cient quantities supplies the required el? ements. Ol fertilizers not directly the product of the soil, Peruvian guano, bone dust dissolved in sulphuric acid and the variot s refuse of manufactories rich in . potash tire numbered with the best. Sea island cotton is cultivated in very much the same manneras upland, except that more reliance is placed upoii the hoe and less upon the plough. Much more care is observed in picking, ginning and mark? eting the long staple than with the ordi? nary upland. In gathering from the fields it is kept free from trash and stains, and is transferred at once to the drying; scaffold, where it is sorted before packing away in the cotton-house. The ginning, if possible, is done in dry weather, when the cotton is again sunned and picked over; any that has been left unpicked un? til after rains is run through a thresher to free it from sand and loose dirt. The upland, known as short staple, is of Mexican or \Ve<t India origin, and ha* received the name of upland to designate it from the product of the islands nnd low districts near the shore. It constitutes, the great bulk of the crop of the United States. The improvement of this variety has not only enabled quite a number of prominent nnd enterprising planters to realize large fortunes but has resulted in choice developments. Among the very first of these was the well-known '"Petit Gulf," which in turn has produced some excellent varieties. These and other im? proved varieties, the seed of which are introduced from time to time and whose merits are loudly praised, are but the product of common kinds, grown in fa? vorite season on fertile soil and in the ,best portion of the cotton belt. The gen? erous use of fertilizers rich in phosphates has not a little to do in the improvement of the length and fineness of the staple of the upland as well as of the sea island cotton. As guano is rich in phosphate it is much employed in combination with a fertilizer that supplies some other prin? cipal constituent of the plant, as, for in? stance, lime. The effect of the one i? to stimulate the fibrous growth of the plant and give it size; of the other to increase its productiveness by enlarging the size of the seed*, increasing their vigor nnd thus producing a long and finely colored slaplc. Cultivators generally agree that all fertilizers are productive of best re? sults when applied early in the season nnd well incorporated in the soil by the plough nnd the harrow. Small Farms. It is an interesting question whether this country would not be richer and more powerful if the population were concentrated in the original thirteen colonies, leaving all the vast domain west of the Alleghanies to the Indians nnd buffalo that once possessed them. The concentration would certainly insure a more thorough cultivation of the soil, and save us the enormous waste of the time and energy now expended in traversing j a domain three thousand miles across. The expansion of our population over the vast area embraced within, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the British boundary and the Gulf of Mexico, forces upon us the habit of owning large farms and the vice of slovenly cultivation. That these are injurious both to individuals and to the country is sufficiently proved by the successive failures of the baronical farm? ers of Illinois, who one by one, have been reduced to bankruptcy during the last ten years. Large farming in this country, even with the aid of improved agricultural machinery andimplemcnts.is a dangerous business and it generally ends in disaster. There are few men who make fortunes on large farms; they generally make their fortunes, or the beginnings of them, on small farms, and loo them on large ones. It has been stated that the sub-division of France into small farms, which thor? oughly tilled, arc capable of supporting a large population, is the real secret of that phenomena of exceptional prosperity and contentment exhibited in that coun? try all through the last five years of de? pression and discontent in Europe. We arc not in the habit of regarding France as an agricultural country; but it is. It produces more wheat than .he United State, its crop for 1868 being 350,000,000 bushels, while ours for the same year was 240,000,000. Wines, silks, oil and fine fabrics are not the only exports sent abroad from that country. Immense quantities of butler, grain and fruit are shipped to Eugland?the surplus of a people whose diligent industry and care? ful economy enable them to feed them? selves and contribute very largely to the feeding of their hungry and voracious neighbors. The explanation of their ca? pacity to do this is that two-thirds the area of France is in actual cultivation every year, the farms being small, of course, but cultivated with a thorough? ness that causes them to yield three or four times as much, per acre, as farms yield, on an average, in our Western States. The advantage of small farms, well tilled, needs no demonstration, even in this country. Observation and uniform experience show that they are abodes of thrift and comfort while the history of large ones is extravagance, debt and bankruptcy.?61/. Iauis liq>ublkan. Pine Things Up.?We know a man who is quite particular about keeping everything in its proper place. We heard him say that he acquired this hab? it through the training of his mother. When a boy, even as far back as he could remember, his mother always made him pick up and put away his piny things after he had got through with them. If, bad weather the kitchen was at the disposal of himself and his broth? er, but ,il was understood that every? thing hijd to be cleared up at the end of the platf. No doubt there i? a difference in children, for we have known boys of the same family, of nearly the same age, brought up in all respects as nearly alike as possible, yet one of them was care? less, and became a careless, easy man, while the other was extremely particu? lar in all the details of his dress, sports and work. ? Still grant this difference, which many would call a natural dif? ference, we believe a persistent training in childhood would make an orderly man out of the most careless child.? Prairie Farmer. Shut-1.;im Accidents. Each recurrence of the hunting season brings with it the painful chapter of ac? cidents from careless handling of shot? guns, the sad accounts of which the news? papers almost daily present to us. It will be found upon investigation that in large majority of instances the acci? dents occurred when the hammer is car? ried down upon the cap?a dangerous habit against which boys cannot be too earnestly warned. The hammer should always be carried at half-cock, as will be readily perceived by taking the gun in hand nnd reflecting a moment. When the hammer is on the cap any sudden force applied to the hammer will ex? plode the cap ; or if the hammer should be caught and pulled back not quite to the half-cock the hammer will fall back with sufficient force to explode the cap. On the other hand when the gun is at half-cock the lock would be broken be? fore the hammer could be borne down upon the cap by any force applied to it. If the hammer should be caught in any? thing nnd drawn back not quite to the full-cock, the hammer will then catch at the half-cock; but even if it should be by accident drawn back to the full-cock then to explode the gun trigger would have to be pulled and this is prevented by the trigger guard. Boys prefer to carry their guns with the hammers down upon the caps, be? cause they are afraid of losing the cap at the propitious moment, and no amount of lecturing will cure them of the habit as long as the cause exists. Parents, therefore, when enjoining upon their sons the safety of carrying the hammer at the half-cock should urge upon them the importance of having the cap fit the tube securely, so that the temptation to carry the hammer down upon the cap may be removed. We know a youth whose life was preserved by obeying his father in the above particular. The boy was walking upon a log which had been thrown over a ret place in the road, when the gun slipped from his hand and fell, both hammers striking against the log with great violence, while the muzzle of the gun rested above the region of the boy's heart. The hammers were very much bent, nnd if they had been down upon the caps, from the violence of the blow and the position of the muzzle, both loads must have been discharged into his body. The introduction of the breech-loader will tend greatly to diminish the num? ber of such accidents on account of its greater safely, and when within the means of parents should be bought in preference to the old-fashioned and more dangerous muzzle-loaders.?Norfolk Vir? ginia?. How They Vote in Canada. Each polling place bas to b.e divided into two apartments, either by an or? dinary partition or by a screen. In the outer of these, where the ballot box is kept, will be llic presiding officer, his clerk, and llie certified representatives of the candidates. No others will be let into this apartment except the voters, and they will only be admitted one at a time by the constable, by whom the door of the polling place is guarded. One voter must be disposed of and retire from the polling place before another is admitted. Upon the voter presenting himself to the presiding officer, the Int ler will look over the list, and if his name is found upon it, he will have the right to vote, subject tu challenge from the certified representatives of the candi? dates present. The voter will then be furnished by the presiding officer with a ballot, on which the presiding officer will place bis initials, and on the coun? terfoil attached to it lie will place the number of the ballot, which number shall be the same as the number of the voter's name ou the voting lUt in the clerk's book. The ballot will contain in alphabetical order the names of all the candidates. On receiving it the voter will be requested by the presiding officer to retire to the inner apartment, or be? hind the screen, and there make across in pencil opposite the name of the cand? idate or candidates for whom he wishes to vote. Should ihc/votcr be illiterate, the presiding officer nnd the representa? tives, who have previously been sworn to secrecy, will retire with the voter, who will then be asked for whom he wishes to vote, and th presiding officer will mark, in the presence of the repre? sentatives, the ballot as designated by the voter. The voter on returning to the outer room will presint his ballot to the presiding officer, folded in such a way that the latter can see his initials upon it, nnd sec that the number on the coun? terfoil agrees with the number on the ballot. On finding that the numbers agree, nnd that it is the same ballot which he gave the voter, the presiding officer will tear off" and destroy the coun? terfoil and place the ballot in the box. The voter will then retire and another voter will be admitted to vote. A Fearful Kiik for ?Irl*. The pastor of a church in one of our large cities said to me not long ago : "1 have officiated at forty weddings since I came here, and in every case, save one, I have felt that the bride was running an awful risk. Young men of bad habits and fast tendencies never marry girls of their own sort, but demand a wile above suspicion. So, pure, sweet, women, kept from the touch of evil through the years of their girlhood, give themselves, with all their costly dower of womanhood, into the keeping of men who, in base associ? ations, linve learned to undervalue all that belongs to them and then find no repentance in the after years. There is but one way out of this thnt I can see, and ihntis for you?the young women of the country?to require in association nnd marriage purity for purity, sobriety for sobriety, and honor for honor. There is no reason why the young men of this Christian land should not be as virtuous as its women, and if the loss of society and love be the price they arc to pay for vice, they will not pay it. I admit with sadness that not all our young women are capable of this high staudard for them? selves or others, but I believe there are earnest, thoughtful girls in the society of our country to work wonders if faithfully aroused. De.ir girls, will you help us in the name of Christ? Will you, first of nil, he true to yourselves nnd Und, so pure in your inner and outer life that you shall have a right to ask that the young man with whom you marry shall be the same? The awful gulf of dishonor is close beside your feet, and in it fathers, brothers, lov? ers, nnd sons r-.re going down. Will you help us in our great work ? Rules Eor Ladies Travelling Alone.?A correspondent of the Chica? go Tribune, in view of the difficulties and dangers encountered by ladies traveling alone, suggests thnt they observe the fol? lowing rules: 1. Before starting on your journey, familiarize yourself with the route, nnd the names of all good hotels at the vn rious stopping places. 2. Never travel xrilhjutl enough money, but Always carry enough for a possible emergency. This will save much anxi? ety. 3. Wear but little jewelry, nnd keep the larger part of your money in some inside pocket out of sight. 4. Always ]r>ok after yourself, and do not allow a stranger to procure your tick? ets or checks for your baggage. 5. Avoid, if possible, making any changes in cars by night, but when una? voidable, go with the others. Do not become separated from the crowd. 6. Take no hacks, but go in an omni? bus, where there arc other people. These are perfectly safe. 7. If any doubt as to changing cars, checking baggage, etc., inquire in advance of the conductor. The conductors on our trains arc always po? lite and willing to be of service, especi? ally to women traveling alone. 8. Do not wait till late to make sonic change in trains before inquiring of the conductor, for, ten to one, he will then he hurried and you will only half in? form yourself. 9. Under all circumstances endeavor to retain your presence of mind. One who can do this will have no trouble traveling, and, instead of its being un? wise for womcu to travel alone, I think it an advantage for them to make trips alone, for there arc few people who are not at times obliged to do so, and experience does away with much of the possible dan? ger in traveling. THE GENUINE DR. C. McLANE'S Celebrated American WORM SPECIFIC OR VERMIFUGE. SYMPTOMS OF WORMS. THE countenance is pale and leaden colored, with occasional flushes, or a circumscribed spot on one or both cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu? pils dilate; an azure semicircle runs along the lower eye-lid; the nose is ir? ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds; a swelling of the upper lip; occasional headache, with humming or throbbing of the ears; an unusual secretion of saliva; slimy or furred tongue; breath very foul, particularly in the morning; appetite variable, sometimes voracious, with a gnawing sensation of the stom? ach, at others, entirely gone; fleeting pains in the stomach; occasional nausea and vomiting; violent pains throughout the abdomen; bowels ir? regular, at times costive; stools slimy; not unfrequcntly tinged with blood; belly swollen and hard; urine turbid; respiration occasionally difficult, and accompanied by hiccough; cough sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy and disturbed sleep, with grinding of the teeth; temper variable, but gener? ally irritable, &c. Whenever the above symptoms are found to exist, DR. C. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE will certainly effect'a cure. it does not contain mercury in any form; it is an innocent prepara? tion, not capable of doing the slightest injury to the most tender infant. The genuine Dr. McLane's Ver? mifuge bears the signatures of C. Mc Lane and Fleming Bros, on the wrapper. -:o: DR. C. McLANE'S LIVER PILLS are not recommended as a remedy "for all the ills that flesh is heir to," but in affections of the liver, and in all Bilious Complaints, Dyspepsia and Sick Headache, or diseases of that character, they stand without a rival. AGUE AND FEVER. No better cathartic can be used preparatory to, or after taking Quinine. As a simple purgative they are unequalcd. BEWABF. OF IMITATIONS. The genuine are never sugar coated. Each box has a red wax seal on the lid with the impression Dr. McLane's Liver Pills. Each wrapper bears the signatures of C. McLane and FLEMING Bros. Insist upon having the genuine Dr. C. Mc? Lane's Liver Pills, prepared by Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh. Pa., the niirket being full of imitations of the name JIcLaiie, spelled differently but same pronunciation. This important organ weighs but about three pounds, and all the blood in a living person (about three gallons) passes through it at least once every half hour, to have the bile and other impurities strained or filicrcd from it. Dil? is the natural purgative of the bowels, and if the Liver becomes torpid it is not separated from the blood, but car? ried through the veins to all parts of the system, and in trying 10 escape through the pures oi' the skin, causes it to turn yellow or a dirty brown color. The stomach becomes diseased, and Dys? pepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Headache, Iiili ousncss. Jaundice, Chills, Malarial Fevers, Piles, Sick and Sour Stomach, and general debility fol? low. MnitKr.ll's HnrATiNE, the great vegetable discovery for torpidity, causes the Liver to throw off from one to two ounces of bile each time the blood passes through it, as long as there is an ex? cess o: bile; and the effect of even a few doses upon yellow complexion or a brown dirty looking skin, will astoni.h all who try it?they being the first symptoms to disappear. J'he cure of all bili? ous diseases and Liver complaint is made certain by taking Hupatine in accordance with directions. Headaci-e is generally cured in twenty mrcutes, and no disease that arises from the Liver can exist if a fair trial is given. sold as a substitute FOR pills by all DRUGGISTS. Price 25 Cents and $1.00 The fatality of Consumption or Throat and Lung Diseases, which sweep to the grave at least one-third of ail death's victims, arises from the Opium or Morphine treatment, which simply stu? pefies as the work of death goes on. f 10,000 will be paid if Opium or Morphine, or any preparation of Opium, Morphine or Prutsic Acid, can be found in the Gloss Flo we* Cough Svnur, which has cured people who are living to-day with but one remaining lung. No greater wrong can be dune than to say that Consumption is incurable. The Glodb Flower Coit.ii Svxer will cure it when all other means have failed. Also, Colds, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, and all diseases of the throat and lungs. Read the testimonials of the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, Gov. Smith and Ex-Gov. Brown of Ga., Hon. Gco. Pcabody, as well as those of other remarkable cures in our book?frcs to r.t the dn:j stores?and he convinced that if you wish to l>: cured you can be by taking die Glorr Flower Coecu Svr.vr. Take no Troches or Lozenges for Sore Throat, when you can get Globe Flower Svxer at same price. For sale by ail Druggists Price 25 Cents and $1.00 Grave mistakes arc made in the treatment of all diseases that arisa from poison in the blood. Not one case of Serofula, Syphilis, White Swelling, Ulcerous Seres and skin Disease, in a thousand, is treated withc-ut the i:>cuf Mercury in some form. Mercury rois the h >nes, and the diseases it pro? duces arc worse than any niher kind of blood or skin disva.e can he. Di:. PRMSERTON'sSWLIJSi. cia or QpBBSt*S DaxiCIrT is the only medicine upon which :i hope nf recovery from Scrofula, Sy? philis and Mercurial diseases in all stages, can be tooably founded, mid that will cure Cancer. $io,oco svill be paid by the proprietors if Mercury, or any ingredient nut punly vegetable and harm? less can be found in it. Price by all Druggists 51.00. Glouu Flower Cttutsn Svrct and Mcekkll's Hbpatinr rox Tint LlVCR f<?r sale by all Drug? gists in as cent and <:.c?a bottles. A, P. HEBRELL & CO., ProwifitaB. PHILADELPF* Cheaper tha FREIGHTS REDUCED! And Goods Lower than Ever Known Before. WE arc now receiving from New York our FALL STOCK of GO<)HS. consisting largely of the following articles: GROCERIES, BAGGING ami TIBS, DRY GOODS, $4,000 worth of the best warranted Shoe* and Hoots, A large lot of Ready-Made Clothing, Hardware in abundance. A large lot of Men's anil Boys1 Hats. Yankee Notions, Crockery, WoodenWf.re. Saddles. A., &c. Oooils arc very cheap, and freights having been greatly reduced to this point, we are able to compete with any market.' We pay the highest price for Cotton. Bring it along, pov up what you owe us, and buy more Goods. BLECKLEV, BROWN Ac CO. Anderson, S. C, Sept 19. 1S7S_10_ B UT CALL in and examine our well selected stock of KEXTUCKY and SALEM JEANS, IIATS, SHOES. PRINTS, SHIRTINGS, SHEETINGS, DOMESTIC PLAIDS, TICKINGS, Ac., Tiiat >ve propose tu sell as low as they can he bought any where else. We aisu have on hand a full line of GROCERIES - Such as SUGAR and COFFEE. BACON. LAUD, CHEESE, CANDLES, STARCH, Ac., Which we offer at the very lowest prices for cash. Also, a choice lot of French Calf Skins, (Jak Sole Leather and Hemlock Leather, which cannot be surpassed. Those who are indebted to us for GUANO will remember that the 1st of November is the lust day that Cotton will he received in payment for it. Those wiio are owing us Notes and open Accounts will please coli.? forward and settle the same. WILSON ? KEED, No. 7 Granite itow. Sept ISTs _ 39 ly STILL FURTHER REDUCTION in FREIGHTS, AND PRICES OF ALL CLASSES OF GOODS. ?o WE have just received from the Northern markets a full line of thefollowing ar? ticles : Ladies' Drews GoodK, Boots and Shoes, IXntN and Caps, Clothing; and Undoiivcur, Ilurdwnrc, Ont.ler.v, (xla?? stud Crockery Ware, FAMILY AND FANCY GROCERIES. Wc arc paring the HIGHEST PRICES FOR COTTON, and will lie glad to have n call from all of our customers. Owyng to the Great Reduction in Freights lu Anderson, wc are selling Goods very low, and will not he undersold hv any house ill upper Carolina. BARR & FANT, NO. 10 GRANITE HOW, ANDERSON, S. C. Out 5. 1878 12_ ly Eminent Chemists and Physicians certify thut these goods are free from adulteration, richer, moro effective, produce better results than any others, and that they use them in their own families. UNIQUE PERFUMES are the Gems of all Odors. TOOTHEfJE. An agreeable, healthful Liquid Dentifrice LEMOK SUGAR. "\ substitute for Lemons. EXTRACT JAMAICA CIKCER. From the pure root. STEELE & PRICE'S LUPULIN YEAST CEMS. The Best Dry Hop Teast in the World. STEELE & PRICE, Manfrs., Chicago, St. Louis & Cincinnati. MICE'S Buy only the NEW It is Tits Only Sewing Machine ?ritten nas a jclf-|hrra(linij| h ha: Se'.f Setting ITcedlc. >"c7e: Treats the Thrcai >TeTcr Ships Stitches. Is the Lightest Itanniag. J7ie Simplest, the ilozt Dur? and in Every Respect achin The "NEW AMERICA!.'" i; Msiiy itemed, rices not getont of order, and will do more work with iess lauor than o: machine. Illustrated Circular furnished on application. AGENTS WANTED. J. S. D0VEV .Manager. 64 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Jld. C. A. HEED, Agent, Anderson, S. C. "Eft- Special inducements for cash. Reno. 1S7.S -il 1v Is a terrible dlscaer. Its fenrfnl efforts arc cornip tion ruunluif down the throat,week eye*,deafness, ws of Voice, loss of smell, disgusting odor*, nasal deformities, and filially consumption. From Brat to lust it is ever tig grcteiva, Ordinary treatment* are worse Ihiui useless. Thousands suiter with this disease without knowing Hi nature <>r the creat danger in nextecthix it. Many thou? sands .ire riving with consumption who a few years nr months before had only catarrh. If ncslccted while u ? is noxtiblc. it may rapidly develop and the symptoms nick consumption announce tlsat it is too Inf c. 01 tft c@^sy^PTBo^The,crror ASTHI ot'humiuiity ilint yearly retries lixmssiuts to ?u untimely crave, not sparing tbo yonns. the talented. n?.r t!ie lieautUiil. J A which niiikes lite so miserable i that ItSTlrtlmsarcfimost ready ; the advice of Job'* wife. '.'Curse God ?tut die." BRONCHITIS ?S^? approach of consumption.?Portlieseendall I'ulraouary UiSCaSCSjDr. M. a\ . Cn=c'a Tri i:< inn: ? '.y '.he U?C Of his I: iioei act require l-n minvtct to u"smon.-lrite tl:e value of C nrJiolatc of Tnr, tin wort henllui ? rcmftlM wyn' tmura r.? tcicner, it is iahaki?taken riebt to the diseased part. No lie*!, .oo hot ivatrr, simply tuhn'Miy nt hrttitkh n it, and you feel Its healing power at once. lMJALANTS lire n-ic powcrftil than w.-.r.s cr.:i tell or pen express. AH fatal Firftfonf'* ?re prripa :r.ied by rohnlaitott. /'. v;ir 5*i r.7. I: Isah ?> monucicvr/ifi f.-r <y"ii. The a:r. with ? lit n llleh wc .? i;i!>l nut '.':i.-'. a moment, \< uc universal IM;', n'nd when pure is u" nimtful to pro;.;. Wye nwlQroxr'h. CAT 1H A\L> CUSilVJiWlOSI, the twin terron <j hiimtinitu, are met and eonrj'ieretl by Cm kolatc of'i'lir lutealants. llnLsnns nn<l cordials ?* the most h-a'.in^ a.i.l mi ahtng pr ipcrtie^ ?re so r miLincd with line Tree Tnr that the mi rc breatliitig vapor'/cs tfcinj into r. dense unulce. TL:?> is taren Into the l.i::^s t.s ca-;ily avA fa: more agreeably than thoMiiobltnrofn efjrtr. 'i hn nroma i* i'.el!or.l ? and Ihe ?it!.>:iti.,ii> agrcvebtu in every n-:-""t. V '!:???.' practice lnv:irf*bly Increases i!cj eaiwcily the hinys. and ns tlo <^ ii? ami i?'-at i<; ? i ?>?? no the multittirilnous .-.ir vesh i>-scf the htnj^ their capacity i:. a-on ilertully etilatve.l a:ni i ie estemal meAsurcnient of the else>i gwatly inerca?:e?l, The hoibia i best in a few we U> ? ?r-.n-s rotimlctl nnii (nil. Tlscro lire, of course. >?;:?.??< of cour u-.n, i:on tvyond the pwlK?ty of care: t>;it the Inlmbuitaglvc sxvoi relief I > i^.tilids of this ci;us, aud iu many instances euro eitlen eonsidereil hopeless by all who know CATAItnit, >.o wry dl0lcr.lt to treat, and so teldom cared by ether mrtVi1!* of treatment, reailily yields to :U:s painless bimI pleasunt remedy. It is rcmarUoble b??vi >j liekly ibw i:hi r aietl teutilive niembniiies are healed by brcadilui; tlio va|wr niot t'nr?-i;.,r :t into lim ilbcaftil cr.vitics of the hctul and cut of tin: im, It is now mliydeai matmtcd titr.t ir.l.a'.aih.ii I- '^ic only nicthorl by which ihix terrible a:cl n>mo>t nnivcrHil disease can be permanently enre?'.. COMMENDATIONS t^^^^^1^^ In liemorrtiages of theluiiKS I have ticrur tnttwl u rcmcly thai equal* your' araelate ?f T?r ]niiatnitt.<. go-ealleil'hiinelcM ca es' need not dopair."? Ciia*. Hanilion V.w, v. limits villa, Ky. '"My tnii& were very rwc Mvl cmiiiUdrMrcxMH!!, H><1\ lire now great'.* reih ??it. and J cm :-o well ple: -i:d with yonr Cnrhoiatc of Tiir Inlinlaut tli.it I ivul't o r ?? ? ? hitcl any price."?.). J. 1I::nsini;to:;. VM Blra tHreet, I'liilailuluhlo. " Korthn?1 or ? of. It. t*asesCarb<i1atcorTarIiihabuit is ileciiic<llyeOlraeliML<i. 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(Established 1847.) ) Clearne-t'v sik pirMtmuffcring from RTTTTTtE lo .end me thc.r names and addreii. Ilu-v will learn idiu-.:hl::j 10 Uicii advantage-He: t, Truss. A.a W. TODD, Contractor and Builder, ANDERSON, S. C. ALL kinds of PLAIN and FANCY WORK 'lone nt shortest notice and lowest prices. ,lK<Mitf.?r T0AI.K MA NU KACT17 IUNU m.?noons, sash, blixds, paints, Jan in. 1878 2<< lr THE UMEQL'ALLED W LEFFEL L'GUELE j ji *7pj8rP*P^??' ? _ ?- ?umeVBmWSSStSO PORTABLE AND STAHCTSARY SAW, FLOUR AND GEIST flILlS, SEAFimS, PULLEYS AHD HANSERS' Address, P0GX.E t& HUNT. LU3IBER! LUMBER! ALAROPj lot of gootl Lumber is kept coiV'tantly <>n Itntnl at my Lumber Yard" at the ?lue Bidge Dep.?t in Anderson, and orders fur large or small lots ofanr kind desired will be |irnniptly filled at lovV prices. Mr. KnnV.ph Kaufman is my agent tor the .-alo of Lumber at Anderson, and will fttnii?b any information desired lo persons wishing to make an order. JOHK KAUFMAN. April II. IS7S 3!) x I BLACKWELL'S DURHAM TOBAOCO BURN HAM'S ML fijerf um i tSfi,' CHEAPEST. T??i,liI?,B MACHINERY. t:flfl;,'*'nalaB.|onlv?i*ilu? CS1*? *??. S?s"r* "-.-e. Crccc. Co, lud. ? -0? |bc iiii)s( *^(,dress TitwK *t Co. red ,,o r.-... I'oslly ontf.t tiud termsfree, .fuguita, Maine. U I -s'l- s 0w? |S%Jj*X.? riKhl i'n Iheir I'^'ve yn,'m :" <leub.rs and 1 ??'-- own loeailtim .,r|kht is ihc samples fr?*'. iii'I'rovcyn,,,. "? Psrtlrillars BM