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jMjwiw><rMiMrrrr-r^T---' .. ---?Nwwfg ^^^'^^^^v. : VOLUME XX.-NO. 31. ALWAYS GO TO HEADQUARTERS FOB DRUGS, MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, : ! Extracts, Patent Medicines, DYE STUBBS, &0# A FULL line of Paints, Varnishes, Combs, Brushes, Hair Oil?, Bay Kum, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Face Powders, Fine Toilet Soaps, Tooth Powders, Tooth Brushes, La dies' Hand Mirrors, Razors. Shaving Setts, Trusses, Shoulder Bruces, Sup porters, dec. Pure, High Toned Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powders and Soda, Pepper, Allspice, Ginger, and Finest Tens in the market. Cigars aud Tobacco. Best Coal Oil Lamps and Lamp . Gouda, and ?very variety of choice Goods and necessary articles usually kept in First Class Drug Stores and used in families. PATENT MEDICINES, all the Standard and Reliable ones kept in . stock. The Bwcotcst and most deli- . > cate Perfumes aud Odors, and a full line of Colognes and Toilet Water always in stock. Chapped hands, face and lips are very prevalent at this season of the year, and nothing will cure aud pre vent this aunoyiug affliction so effectu ally as a box of Camphor Ice, Coama lino, or some of our pure Glycerine. FANCY GOODS and Sundries, and a thousand and ono other arti cles of general use may be found in our completo stock. . SST Oblige us by giving us a call, and you will be surprised at our LOW PRICES and superior quality of our Goods. With the cora' ie Season, we are yours, dre, WILHiTb * WILHITE. Jan 8, 1885 BUT THE PITTSBURG BELLOWS, Tlie Beat lei tho Oheape.st. [SHOP TOOLS of ail Kinds, BLACKSMITH OUTFITS, Complete, and very low down aa to price. |10,000 lb. Steel Plows, Plow Stocks, Trace Chains, &c. BUY^jDB "MMBOB" AXE, QTHed for years and never found defective. 300 Kegs Nails, }o?ver than ever sold at in Anderson. SuiUvaa^ Bros. "BOBS" Hand Saw, Extra quality and warranted. Sold for $1.60. HARDWARE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION? Pocket and Table Cutlery a Speoialty. ?& Farmer?, Mechanics, Builders, come to us and get a desirable article for the | [least money possible. SULLIVAN & BRO., |l,oolc fox* ttl o jtlio SIGN of theOIBOULAB ?AW. Jan 22,1886 . 27 ; ;h IS NOW OFFERING GOODS AT AND BELOW COST ! So as to close ont his entire stock of Winter Goods. 1.1 " before lBtjfobruary,188B. :J JUST THINK Ol? IT ! . CLOAKS from $3.00 to $10.00. SHAWLS from 85o to $5.00. . M" BLANKETS from $1.00 per pair np to $3.00. > SHEETINGS at f3o per yard. _. . BED TICKINGS from 8c per yard to 25c. / JEAN8 cheaper than ever. DRB8S?OOnS from 10o per yard np. DKEB8 PL AN NELS' from 20c per yard up to $1.15. Best PRINTS 6c per yard. SHOES from fiOo per pair op to.$0.50 CI03? diem out regardless of coat. ? . Before buy mg I ask everybody to examine my^tock^ OHApjjAN. JDec25,1884^^-^ ? 23 Deny Your Wife and Children of one of the Greatest, most Elevating and Refining of all the Sciences, jgCONQMY SAYS GET THE BEST OP EVERYTHING 1 t?ht?keri?g Pianos and Mason & Hamlin Organs Ar. th. RECOGNIZED .LEADERS OP THE WORLD for'J^J^ff^ . They costa littlemere than cheaper iastromeate. simply because mote e.r. mna ^ter material lensed in their manufacture. . Only on. to buy in a life-tun*. GET THE BEST. I AbfcwBWDOTS^B^ ABP'S ANNALS. Uevlewlns; Article? on the late War. "Men of Masaachusetts, you have con quered everything else, now learn to conquer your prejudices." Daniel Web ster said that or words to that effect, and if bc wa? alive to duy ho could say it to all of UK, for we aro the slaves of preju dice. I was thinking about this while reading the last number of The Century. In the December number General Lew Wallace wrote an account of the battle of Shiloh, and I thought it was very fair and considerate, considering that he was a Federal General. I believed him to be sincere. And now comes General Grant in the last number and says that Lew Wallace did not obey orders and bungled up things terribly. General Grant starts out by abusing General Halleck, his superior officer, and digs him under tho short ribs severely. The biggest thing in his long article is Gen. Grant, and he takes up a good deal of ppaco in telling about his horse falling down and hurting his ankle, and about . his standing by a tree all night in the rain. Well, that was bad-very bad- { and we are sorry he bad it to doj but it was twenty-three years sgo, aud we are all well of it now. He says that the Confederates had over -10,000 men tho f first day, and he had only 25,000 tn line ; , hut he never had any doubt about whip- , ping the fight. Lie says further that t Lew Wallace came up after the first . day's fight with 5,000 men. und Bell came next morning with 20,000 more, aud this made a total of 50,000 for the [ second day. He aays he did not need t Bell's force, but was glad to see them nnd ] they did all that there was for them lo do. . Well, now let us look at Wm. Preston \ Johnston's account in the same number, t He says that Grant had an array of ? 58,000 men in camp, nearly 50,000 of c whom were effectives. Bell was near at t hand with 37,000 more, and Mitchell | sot far distant with 18,000. In all Grant c had 105,000 effective men, and opposed | to him ware less than 40,000 effective Confederates. So it seems that Grant was to have ? easily whipped tho 41,000 Confederates r with his 30,000 Federals without any help [ from Bell. And on the other side it seems that Grant had 105,000 men pitted against 40,000. Everybody ?B at liberty I sup Cose to believe either one or the other ; ut I reckon most people will do like the . juries do when the lawyers get them all befuddled-just split the difference and 1 hud a verdict. Beauregard and his friend Jordan make up a pretty good story for their side, and Wm. Preston Johnston handles them without gloves and makes up a better one for General Albert Sidney Johnston, uud BO it goes, and nobody known just how it was exactly, and never will know I reckon. I don't believe any of these writers can tell it just as it was, j for they ure all just human, and have prejudices, and it is impossible for them s to see il from 1^*3 same standpoint. And 1 we their readers will believe or not be lieve according to our prejudices, for we can't help it, We inherit a love of "our 1 side" just like we inherit our poli tien or J our religion. It is a trait in human na ture that contributes to our good and makes us happier, but like all othergood things it can be indulged in to extremes, j and then it makes us selfish and conceited and uncharitable. I know that the truth of history ought 1 to be vindicated, if it can be, hut I don't r sro that all this wrangle about the battle ? of Shiloh is doing any good. .Dis pretty 1 well settled that we got badly whipped 1 somehow ?ir somehow else, and the "ils" ? and the '"peradventures" are too oncer tain lo make up history. They remind J me of an article I read about General Jackson at New Orleaus. The writer said that "Old Hickory" was the second J saviour ofilia world, (or if he lindern commanded nt New Orleans aud killed old Packeuham, old Packcnbam would . have whipped that fight, and then gone back to England and taken charge of the English army, for he ranked Wellington, . and Napoleon would have whipped bim nt Waterloo, for Packeoham was a poor ? General, and then the French would , have whipped England and all the rest of mankind, and the whole world would by this time be under the French empiro J and be eating frogs or catching them for o a living. One thing is certain, though, the rebela % did some good fighting on several occa- h irions, for General Grant Bays BO and GOV- T eral other Federal Generals have enid PO. , ? believe they dc give us credit fer getting { upa little stampede;at Bull Hun, and j now there seems, to be a fuss' about that,' ( for General Patterson's son bas taken ? offense and comes to the front to defend c bis lather, who ladead.. That brings io j some more" "ifs," for- they say that if | General Patterton bad joined McDowell . in time the rebela would not bave whipp- . ed the fight at Bull Bun, and so it goes. c There is just about as much jealousy t among military Commanders aa among doctors in a one-horse town, and it- is. of a worse kind, for a doctor can dio out of J it and get rid cf it, but a general can't. They will rake bin* up and slander bim after be has been dead and buried for j twenty years. I confess to prejudices, and I can't help feeling a burning indig nation when j-hear the patriotism, the j genius or the generalship of Albert Sid ney Johnston questioned by anybody, especially by those who envied, him.. I lov? to love the memsry of the mao? and 1 don't like anybody who seeks to disturb my faith. Faith is. the comfort of a man. Faith in those we base been taught to admire-faith in friends, faith in religion. I would not try to abase tho faith of a Baptist in immersion, nor an Episcopa lian in the apostolical auccession, nor a Jew in the Talmud. Let them have their faith and let me have mino. But I would try lo enlighten tho beclouded minds of those who worship fire and the 1 sun and all sorts of idols and have no I intelligent conception of God and bia 1 goodness, The JeW is aa much a Chris ' lian as the Gentile, for he believes io a Savior-tho Savior who sitteth at the right band of God, and the only differ ence is that he does not believe He hss yet corns, but that He will come. We Should be thankful every day that reli gious intolerance has passed away, and with it the inquisition and the Smithfield fires, and tba drowning of witches, and thus our children are safe from martyr dom for opinion's sake.. The Intolerant end the rabid proselyter ] must go. There is but one God, sod Mo? hemmend is not Hia prophet, nor any thing else who claims the exclusive right tobe. The church militant is just li ko army militant. The privates do tue fighting, and there ia many a private who isa better man than hit: captain or hi? colonel. General Grant says, in bia Shi lob article, that his men stood firm, but j some of bis colonels were arrant cowards and left tho field* I am glad of one thing, and thai is that the people have at last mada a new de parture and elected ft man President wbo waa not a military hero. Tba country ia taos sick of hero**, but it ls tired of their c?alas foT civic honora and rewards. They: aro not statesmen, as a general tkfai, attattrw rta t o'f OrtSr cl cm eu t fa fd ministering tho affairs of a great n?tion. I hopft that Mr. Cleveland trill let them rest awhile when he makes up his Cabi net. General Grant had a sweet crowd around him, and they stole and plundered everything they could, but I believe '-t most of them are now dead or disgrac?.., or both, and the country has almost for gotten they ever lived. But everything looks quite peaceable now on this side the Atlantic, and the prospect is bright for the next four year? toc?me. We are at peace with all the world. There is a little hard feeling .\bout this dynamite business, and it iught to be fixed up. These dynamiters ire gelling entirely too impudent over here. I see they bad a recent meeting in Chicago and made speeches sud ap plauded that London explosion and de clared what they could do in Chicago. They have formed a partnership with the communist* nod nihilists, and would overturn our own government it they Jared, and they say they do dare. When i man threatens another man's lifo the aw puts him under bond to keep the :>eace, and these fellers who threaten the >eace and security of our people ought o be put nader bond or sent to prison, md it ought to be done quick and sharp, ind let their sympathizers take warning. The English arc our brethren and our inccstors, and the world owes to England nore for morals and civilization and ad vancement in the arls and sciences than o any other nation. Our government j bon Wi not permit these dynamiters to dot and plan their infernal schemes over ! tere. The next thing wo know they will ie try inc their hands on our capital, for he devil is in them and they don't care. ' They are tho turbulent disturbers of the j lublic tranquility. I don't want such or my nabors, for if they take offeuse j hey would shoot a man through the win- j low by night aud while'he was surround- j id by his family. They are assassins of j he worst type. If the poor Irish can't ive under British rule let them come i ?vcr here. Thero is plenty of room, and i et them behave when they do come. I tm Irish myself, and I love the Irish mart, and am proud of the noble sons of Srin, but there is no method in their >resent madnes und no humanity ?ti heir methods. BIM. A nr. . - - . A Defence of Hell, The Rev. Dr. Shedd, the distinguished j 2alvutii!t theologiau, contributes to the sst number of the North American Re- \ iew a logical and closely reasoned : Tgument to prove "the certainty of nd I ess punishment." Formerly such a paper from such a ource would have been by no means : emarkable, and would not have attracted ! ittcntion outside of the circle of theolog- ! ans lo which Dr. ?hedd belongs. It j von 1<J have appeared in some dull nnd j teavy Presbyterian or Congregational I leriodical, and not in a magazine which, I ike the North American, aims to treat objects of general interest only. But tow an argument in favor of the doctrino >f hell and of eternal torment for the . lamued is 60 great a novelty that a >. uagazine editor who desires to pique lur?osity is glad to obtaiu it for publica ion. Dr. Shedd contends that future punish- ' nent is retributive, and not merely ixemplary and corrective ; that it must JO endless, because the reason for it routinucM. "Suffering that is education d and corrective, he says, may come to in eud, because moral infirmity, and not ?lilt, is the reason for its infliction ; and noral infirmity-may cease to exist. P>ut mitering that ts penal can never come to in end, because guilt is the reason for its nfliclion, and guilt, once incurred, never ceases to be. The reason for retribution s a reason forever." lu human tribunals criminals are lunisbed mit merely retributely, but viih reference to the good of the offen lers, und still more to the protection of moiety ; and the punishment is varied br the samo offence. But Dr. Shedd ees a Judgment Dav when stern and inbending justice will be thus a?-rinis ered to tho t o nb ing impenitent : "The Divino Triouual, in the last great lay, is invariably and exactly just, )eeame it IB neither reformatory nor iorrective. It is righteous retribution, jure and simple, unmodified by consider ations either of utility lo the criminal or a fe ly to the universe. Christ, in the lay of final account, will not punish vicked men and devils, either for the ake of reforming them, or of protecting he righteous trom tho wicked. His junishment at that time will he nolhiug mi retribution. The Redeemer of 5?en s also the eternal Judge ; the Lamb of iod is also the Lion of the tribe of ?udah ; and His righteous word to wick id and*hardened 8atan, to wicked and lardened Judas, will be : 'Vengeance ?B niue; I will repay. Depart from me, re cursed, that work iniquity 1'. The vicked will reap according as they have ?owu. The suffering will be unerringly tdjusted to the iostrinsic guilt; no great tr and no less than the Bin deserves?' Dr. Shedd then goes on to argue that he doctrine of heil is supported by the luman conscience, which instinctively lreads eternal punishment. "Notwitb itauding all the attack mado upon the c.ct in every generation, by a fraction ii every generation," he says with trutb, men do not get rid of their fear of future punishment." There may be no ?icll, they say, but it is better to keep on iie safe side, for who knows? , Besides, contends this theologian, there is s prelter general conviction of the necessity for a bell. There are men so sicked that by common consen' 'hey do not and cannot get sufficiently punished in this life, and if there is not retribution for them hereafter the sense of justice is nntraged. Aa Dr. Sbedd puta it, "the aon-iofliction retribution upon hardened villainy and successful cruelty causes anguish in the morai sense." The thought that bell fire awaited their ene mies and tormentors has given vast comfort to thousands of bomsn beings, and it will be long before men give up the conviction that what is amiss in this life is to be made right by the compensa tions of a future existence, and those compensations imply not only reward, but punishment also. tWe take unusual interest in thia paper, because it ia the first square defence of the doctrine of eternal damnation from an orthodox Protestant theologian which we remember to have seen for several years- past. Even if the tenet ia not directly attacked, it is usually ignored by Protestant ministers as too disagreeable a subject for contemporary Christians. Dr. Sbedd deserves credit for the courage nnd consistency be shows in atend? ag by a doctrine which lies at the foundation of the orthodox system of theology.-New York Sun. - "I em aware that the commentators do not agree with me," said the Rev. Dr. Foster in his sermon. Next day old Farmer Taraiptop drove up to the rectory who half n cartload of pink-eye potatoes. "?lorain,' parson," said he. "Ye told us ytat'dy that con-mon taturs' didn't anee wiri ye, so I brought yea trifle o' toe doest pink-eyes ever ye laid jer own .on. Begs of hour-that's what they vt*!* ? OBSERVATIONS OX IRELAND. Hov. R. Latham In Yurkvllle Enquirer. "How does Ireland look?" is among the first questions asked hy those who feel any interest in the country. For many reason*, a very large per cent, of tho people of every Rection of America feel an iuterest in Ireland and Scotland, that they do in no other. Tho deseen danta of the Emerald Isle are scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Cape Horn to the Arctic lakea. Some sections of the United States are principally peopled by the descendants of persona who carno from either Scot land or Ireland. Hence, Ireland ia, to no inconsiderable portion of the people of North America, whnt Jerusalem is to tho Jew. In Scotland, tho grand princi ples of American liberty wero formula- , ted. There is something in the words ( Rothwell, Airdsmoss, Ruaterglen and , Queensferry, which kindles the fires of patriotism in tho bosom of every Amori- , can citizen of Hootch Irish der.cont. , Around thc name Eaglewing elliston a \ series of events far more interesting, be- ? causo far more tragical, than cluster ( around th name Mayflower ; and Robert . lllair, of llcngor, Ireland, is tho peer of , John Robinson, of Lincolnshire, Eng- , land. , In every section of tho Southern , States, and io some aectiona of every ( Slate in the United States, there are in- , dividuals who, "in dreamB, visit tho sea- , bathed shores of Ireland." It ia not at . all wonderful that these persons ask: , "How does 'Old Ireland* look ?" \ By a law of our nature, we map out, in ; our minds, the general appearance of every place In which we take any partic ular iuterest. This picture-making pro cess extends to every thing connected, in any way whatever, with the locality, no ? matter whether it be a email patch of ( ground or a continent of vast extent. ( Its rivera, ita mountains, its vnlleys, its ( cultivated fields, and its forests, are all j mapped out in their minds. This ^ map bas no material existence, but still t it bas a real being. To tho individul ( who sketched its outlines and dotted ( down on its surface tho mountain ranges | and the sloping valleys, it is a real some thing. The number of such maps of . "Old Ireland" is equnl to the number of J her wide scattered BOOB and daughters. No two of these mann, possibly,are alike. J They aro th? crcationa of imagination. t Facta collected from any and every avail- ? nble source, havo been arranged so aa t to present Ireland, not aa it renlly is, but c as it is thought to be. That "distance lendn enchantment to the view" is, in [ the case of Ireland, partly true end part- ? ly not true. No picture drawn of ? Ireland, by individ?ala on this side nf ( the Atlantic, is equal to Ireland, viewed j by tho eye-viewed as it is. Tho first t glimpse that the individual crossing the ( Atlantic gets of Ireland is totally differ- , ent from all hit preconceived notions of i the island. He expected, perhaps, to ? see a level plain, elevated, nut slightly j. above the sea. Instead of this, he sees mounlaina running down to tho very aea. ( To an individual who has seen no moon- t) tains except those in America, these , mountaina of Ireland pres ont a ntrange J appearance. At a distance they look ( like huge, dark grey rocks. On apprach- y ing nearer them, the atone fenuea como j into view. When these fences are first j seen they have ?-ery much the appear- { ance of gullies running up and down the ( mountain aide. From the top of one of j these mountains thc scene ia very differ- ^ ent from that presented from the top of a j mountain in America. There is usually j nothing, except a fog, tn obstruct the , view. The whole country, aa far as tho | eye can reach, lies nut before, or rather , beneath, the observer. ' Congeriea of t mountains and lovely valleys, watered by ( small, winding streams, are Reen in every , direction. In summer the fields present j a most charming appearance. Every vegetable wears a delicate green. The ? green is not that dark luxuriant green ( tbat is presented by vegetation in early | Summer in our Southern country, but | the whole country everywhere appears ? green. The ground ia covered all over , with a pale, delicate green carpet. ThiB t green, io contrast with the black aoi1, presents a most charming variety. It ia r ravishingly delightful. j A large amount of Ireland ia in grass. ? Thia of courte is green. Then tho crops ( planted in Ireland all cover the ground , in Summer with living green. The j housea in Ireland are all atone, and tho , pointing and plastering on tho outside, ( Sive them a wbito appearance. The ^ elds in Ireland are very small when . compared with oura, and are all surround ed with atone fences. The number of houses ia much greater than in our conn . try. The roads io Ireland are generally . macadamized and walled in with a hewn. i or dressed atone Wall on each side, ano , the face of the country changes often very abruptly. All these things, when tuken in connection with its mountains . and bogs, give to "Old Ireland" an ep- i tiearance grandly picturesque, charming y lovely, and strangely gloomy. The name of "Old Ireland'' Is apt to suggest that Ireland ia an old wornout , country. When wo Americana speak- of ( an old State or an old plantation, the im? . pression is made on the mind of those to . whom the fact ia declared, that it is a . wornout State or plantation. An "old plantation" in our country meana a plan- ' talion that ia rendered valueless, either by long cultivation or abusive cultiva tion. Whenever the words "old planta lion" nrc mentioned, in our hearing we picture to ourselves dilapidated hou-tes, and fields washed into gullies. In one sense Ireland is an old country. When and by whom it was first settled no one certainly knows. Part halon, it is ' claimed, led a colony from the coast nf 1 the vEgenu sea to Ireland before, or about, (ne time ol Abraham, the founder 1 of the Jewish nation. The Partbalon ' colony was followed by the Ncmedeans ; 1 these were succeeded hy the Firbolgs, ' and these by the Dedannans, who were succeeded by the Milesians from Scythia. Whether Partbalon came to Ireland and settled, as is claimed, near Bally Shannon or not, we need not inquire. It ls a fact, beyond all doubt, that Ireland was settled long before the Christian era, but bow densely no one knows. Julius Cresa r, in his Commentaries, describes it, I giving to it tbe name hibernia. In point of fact Ireland is certainly an old country ; that ia, lt bas been setted for a long time. It bas passed through many vicissitudes of fortune. More than once it has been laid waste with fire and sword, and parts of it abandoned for a tim) to the wild beast. In the sense that it is a wornout country. Ireland is not, how ever, an old country. There ia no worn out or exhausted land io Ireland. There is some unreclaimed land io Ireland, but no land exhausted by long cultivation, or rendered worthless by baa tillage. . Ireland is largely j engaged in stock raising. As an evidence of this, there are exported annually, more than seven hundred thousand ? bead of cattle, about the saine number of sheep, and about four hundred thousand bead of hogs. The increase in stock valeiog duriog the present century has baea eery great. On the other band, very large nuebt<?.!?3 of grain are import? by Ire Und. A The an* nrjBl Irnpbr?? oY grain ??tfd meal f more' than thirty-fivo billions of pounds. Cauned beef, pickles aod crackers are imported from America. I ate a dinner in Ireland at which everything on the table except tho milk and butter came from America. The rivers of Irelund are, when com pared with the rivers of tho Western Continent, small. Tho largest river in Ireland, and in fact, the largest in the British Islands, is the Shannou. It rises in the valley of Glengavin aud empties into Lough Allen. Its whole length is a little more than two hundred miles. The rivers of Irelund abound with fish of the finest kind. Moro than ten thousand men are employed in the salmon fisher ies alone. A salmon of full alto is near two feet long and about, I Rupposo, ono foot In clrcumfcrance. It is nearly round. Tho flesh is of a rich, yellow color, and delicious to the taste. In all Ibo cities and towns of Ireland fresh fish are eaten at all seasons of the year. Tho lakes of Ireland are not so noted is those of Scotland. Neither oro they m beautiful ; hut lakes are numerous in ireland and sumo of them are beautiful. Tho largest is Lough Neagh. This is ho largest lake in the British Islands. The average length of Lough Neagh is dxteeti miles, and the averago breadth ibnut ten miles. Its shores, noliko the dmres of the Scotch lakes, are level. In Vinter, the waters of the lakes spread ?var a large area of territory. This noor land along the edge of tho lake ?ives to the scenery a desolate and gloomy appearance. The average depth >f Lough Neagh, it is said, is about forty cet, and iu the language of an Irishman, t in "full of great fishes." Drunk Without Liquor. "I am afraid Tom has takon to drink nj' again," said a well-known club man o u Time* reporter, as a bat?dseme man, >f middle age, staggered by them on Chestnut street Saturday afternoon ead guored his friend's salutation. The man vas, to all appearance, very much uuder he influence of liquor, ile threaded n's way with difficulty through the :rowd of promenaders, and at times ounged heavily against passers by. | fl "You aro much mistaken," retorted a [ . mung doctor, a mutual friend of tho r ipeaker and of the mau who had ju'it | lapsed. "Tom is Biro ply Butlering from me of his sein?-annuni attacks. 1 admit hat ho seems to he drunk-and to all n te nts and purposes he is so-but it ia lot from the effect of liquor. His ia one ?f tho most curious cases known to the | t irofeasion in this city, although ibero are nany similar cases on record. You enow i h ?it Tom was for years a very I li leavy drinker. Ho began drinking long g lefnre he was out of bis teens and until io was nearly thirty years old his life vas utmost a continuous debauch. He vas ono of a crowd of young bloods, all f whom received handsome allowances I ? rom their wealthy .". hers. They were ill bard drinkers and some of their do miches were simply appalling." "They were my seniors, hut I can re? tolled ono of their adventures that candalizcd West Philadelphia for a time. ? \ Bister of one of them was married ono a light. The banquet was spread in the j lining-room, and while the ceremony | vns in progress in the drawing-room t ?arry-that was his name-admitted bis t riends through a window. They gath .red up the wedding feast in tho table sloths, carried it to two carriages in wait ngand after securing a case or two of | vino drove away. They drove directly to Mount Moriah Cemetery, spread their 'east iii the family lot and ate it there at nid night. Even the hack drivers were unrifled and drove back to the city vithout them. The family supposed that j t .hey had been plundered hy thieves and io tl fled the police, who recovered the | f amily plate in the cemetery next day. [n this way the story leaked out. | ( "This capped the climax and Tom's athcr kicked bim out of tho house and :ut ofT bia allowance. Theo he drank larder thau ever and got down pretty I ? uw. Three years ago he took the pledge md to my certain knowledge he baa lever taken a drop since. And now for .he point of story. Three months after iwearing off he waa taken violently ill. I \ Tho symptoms were those of a man suf- 11 eriog with delirium tremens. Within ew hours he became so violent that four nen were unable to hold bim and it waa leceaaary to put him in a atrait jacket, rle yelled constantly for brandy and vb en a small doso was proffered him he lashed it away and screamed : 'No I no 1 H vc mo a bucketful (' It waa necessary 1 0 keep him under the influence of a nor ?tic for days, but during that timo be lever tasted a drop of liquor, ne finally eft bia bcd, haggard and emaciated, and .vith the most intense abhorrence for iquor of all descriptions. The next at ack came in four months, but it waa less ie vere than the first. "Since then be baa had two attacks, at c ntervala of als months. During the * ast one he lost twenty pounds within E ina week. During these apella he is like a 1 man crazed with liquor and be tells me that the sensation is precisely the same. 1 The only physicinn who thoroughly un. * ieretood his exuto was my preceptor, wbc is now dead. It waa while uuder bia j tutelage that I became ao well acquainted with thia case from ita medical stand point." A Mew II ti lo. Perhaps, boys, you would like to know the day of the week on which yon.were born. If there are a dozen or so of you io the family, your mother can't remem ber the day, your father don't care, your older elster is sorry you were born at all and don't want to kuow, your aunt never knew and your grandmother ie dead, an i so you must rely on some rule as follows : Bet down the year of your birth lesa 1, divide by 4, throwing away the remain der, if any, and add to the date ; also add the number of days from January lat to the date of birth, divide by seven and if 0 remains, Sunday ia your birth day ; if 1, Monday ; 2, Tuesday, and BO on. EXAMPLE-Suppose you were born March 9,1876; theo 1 less would be : 1874 Divide by 4. 468 Add January. * 81 February.. 28 March, 9. ' 9 i Divide by 7)2410 . 844-2 rem. Thia makes Tuesday tb? day on which you were bom. Io computing don't forget to give February 29 dava, if your birthday waa In leap year, and if the above rule don't work we will forfeit a last year's alma nac. ' -" - - "Do yon love me dearest f" ?he atked of ber crusty old husband. "Did ?ou nay those billa yesterday?" "Yea, ut do you-" "ta there any th trig you want particularly to day ?" "No, but do ?oo love roe, deareatt" . "Well, I guest do," be theo cautiously replied, .aa. be, carefully placed a newspaper over the Dockc^|rhero he carried bia money.- J COTTON CULTIVATION IN GEO Util A. . ; Perdue'a Mod?. Net Profit? ?110.87 Fer ! 1 Aero. For some years past, tito farmers pf i ( Georgia have been experimenting in tho , matter of a closer aud more careful cul- ( tivation of the soil. Slavery left a loose , tystem behind as its natural result. A ? large area of ground was planted, but It ( was carelessly and slovenly worked and ? iho vleld per acre was consequently very j miall. j Thr ;<?ndency in Georgia to day is in ,' ii? eiitiroly diff?rent direction, and there ? il irtenBe rivalry among the farmers to , iee who can raise the greatest amount to ? he aero. The effect of this new depart- ? ire is seen in the fact that Georgia now j .roduccn a much larger crop of cotton . ?nell year on a smaller acreage. It is \ "cund, moreover, that this system of cul tivation is far moro profitable tbau tho ( >ld one, and that tho farmer who culti- , rates twenty acres of ground and raises ] l? i i ty bales nf cottou therefrom, nets j icnrly as much as bis neighbor who cul- j ivates eighty aerea and produces the \ lamo amount of the staple. a Mr. Forman surprised the Gcorgiuns a 0 hort timo ago by producing on eight icres of grout '-wild land that had t leen deemed scarcely worthy of cultiva- 0 ion-enough to support him com forte.- f >lv. He has bad many imitators and 8 'oflowere. A prize lately odored for the . argent yield ol cotton per acre on land j, ertilized only with colton seed has do- I " cloped somo wonderful cases. ., Tho prizo was won by Mr. D. W. Per- y lue, of Milner, who carried on a system %\ if fertilizing which bas, ho said, paid tl dm back fully 100 per cent, for every (i lollar expeuded and moment of time \\ ;iven. Mr. Perdue met with unfavorable a .?cather for his crop, which wasoutshurt oraetvhat thereby, as the cottou was gen- n rally throughout the South. Not wi th- g landing this, his yield was 1G45 pounds >f lint cotton to tho acre and 3000 pounds n if ?ced. I Looking at it from a (luancian point of rj iew, Mr. Perdue ligures a*> follows: a Jost of cultivating an nero of ground, tl 15.40; fertilizing,$12.50 ; picking $13.- ? 0; ginning, $0.18 ; total cost per aero of e aising the crop. $47.08. Sold 1545 a munda of lint cotton at 9 cent? per g mund, $130.05 ; 3000 pounds of cotton p ecd, $19.20; total, $158,25. Net prout , ier acre, deducting all expenses, $110.- \ 7. f, Tho Georgia farmers have evidently tl nado a great discovery that will add to c he wealth and prosperity of their State. 0 -Urnes- Democrat. e And the samo wonderful progress which \ ms been made by our neighbors in Geor ?ia, separated from us only by an imagi- n lury line, can bc made in South Candi j> m. and in fact in any part of the cotton \? 'el t. There oro salient fucts in the above g( rlicle which every farmer who would g dani fewer mortgages-the hardest crop a hat he eau raise-aud be more indepen- c lent in the futuro, should not loee sight a if. First, every farmer who would be g uccessful; should mako bis farm self sup- * lotting, and then adopt and intelligently e tursue the system aa to his cotton orop 0 d opted hy Mr. Perdue. With bis net ,, iroutB of $110.27 per acre ou every acre tl danted in cotton, we venture to assert, 0 hough we are uot informed on this point, p hat hi.-, farm produces its own provisions ( md stock. A larger crop of cotton on a a maller acreage each succeeding year is {, be true theory in successful farming. We do hope some few of the thousands ( it readers of the Golton Plant will un- a lertake this year to eqnal, yea exceed, a ?ur Georgia neighbors in making the \ mitigation of colton more profitable a ban it has been in the past, but to do so, I , hey must change their present system \ if planting m nu y acres and gathering ? ew bales. Are you In debt? How a nany hundred dollars will you need next j October to make tbs sheet balance? Chen plsnt, like Mr. Perdue, so many .cres and devote the rest of your time ind energy to making your farm eolf-sup ?orting, and our word for it. you will find 'ourself on the first day of January 1886, in the road to Fortune, and in one de- , ade or perhaps sooner will reach the ?nal which you bave so long sought. . "/lint has boen done can be dcuo again. . Ake causes produce like replies. c flt. PEBDUE'S liODB OF CULTIVATING. I Tho. fae tu and figures speak for them- ? elves, and they loom up before every luutbern larmer aa an inspiration and a c lope. s To begin, this piece of land was man* d ired lavishly for four years, and it is the | s lellberate judgment of Hr. Perdu o that c he gossypium paid h>T? fully 100 per t eut. i In the early Spring the soil wa? turned t vitb ao Avery pony plow three inches r leep, and followed with a twelve-inch j cooler, breaking nine more inches. I About the first of April rows were % ?pened five feet apart, with a ton-ineli r hovel. These rows were followed witb t ?, twelve-inch scooter, running north and t outh; . ' . - . , The next thing was to pot in the drills I . oout 300 pounds of gossypium, at tho i lame time covering ic with a twelve-inch I scooter, going close to tho drill. I About the 15th of April Mr. Perdue i put in 400 pouuds of gossypium, dividing ( it equally on each sido of tho row. About I the first of May it was finished with an I A very pony plow, except the last furrow, t which was run with a long shovel. I On the 10th of May Sandon.' Prolific < ivas planted, first maning a three-foot 1 board over the bed to smooth it, and also I to get to the moisture, as it was very dr; I st that time. By the 20th of May there i was a good stand. It was then run over I with a six-colter barrow, and five days i later it was sided with a small twelve- < inch scooter. On the 3Int of May lt was 1 chopped to nine inches, with two or four. I stalks in a bili. Then lt was plowed i with a scooter and serape shallow, going J four times in each row every twelve days, i On the 10th of June lt waa chopped to i eighteen inches, leaving two stalks io a 1 bill. It was plowed the last time on the I 16th of July, and gone over with hoei to I get the scattering bunches of grass. i The cotton was theo about 16 Inches ? high, and tbe growth waa Very slow until i the 20th of August, when the unusually heavy rains ceased. If it had not been fowthe exceptionally favorable Fall sea son Mr. Perdue thinks that the cotton would not have opened, os its growth had been io much retarded all Summer by the drenching rains. It waa Mr. Perdue'a intention to use 2,000 pounds of gossypium, but the wet weather discouraged nim, and he used , only 700 pounds. Aa it turned out. his-acre yielded bim 1,545 pounds of cotton, which at nine cents brought him $189,05, aud 8,000 pounds of cotton seed which nt twenty cents per 82 pounds brought $10.20, a total of $158.2.1- Cblton Plant. - "What's tho reason you didn't speak to Jones wheo passed tts just no? ?" "He insulted me the other day." "Whit did he say'to you?" "He called me an old SM." "Called you BP. old. aa?? How ridiculous! Why, yea ard not old ! You aro justin your prime. You will jtotba au old a? toi ton px flfitfcn years .u.-? ; - .. ??i BICH EST IN THE UNION, louth Cnrolina't.'OUlm to that EUgfa^Bank. Let us seo bow Gol. McClure's eatitnata >f South Carolina's progress, {to begin with, is warranted by the facts. Taking; mr banking capita), we bare about a fourth of wnat we bad before the war. Yo offset this, we have some 600 miles of railroad in excess of what we had before. This, at an average of 816,000 per mile for road and equipment, . amounf io ?9,000,000. This alone meets the w ?le ihriukuge in banking capital. In mt &. acturing establishments of all kinds, the :apital employed in total manufactories n South Carolina iu 1880 waa$6,000,000, n 1:80 $11,200,000, in 1884 $15,700,000, n 1885 $17,000,000. We thus see to day i grain of some $10,000,000 on the ante ?ellum period. Our agricultural product stands 700,000 isles of cotton (400 pounds,) average for ho present period, against 850,000 in 860. Our grain product in '82-83 in indian corn and small grain was some 18.000,000 bushels, sgaioBt 17,400,000 in 8G0. Our rico and sea island crops have unk about an averago of 80 per cent, on nu- bellum averages. The llcah crop has been necessarily auch reduced, owing to the years of rey* ilution and confusion encountered since he war, along with the great destruction allured in all kinds of live stock during ho war. Nevertheless, at no time in the listory of the State bas tbero been so ' mc!) interest ead enterprise in the im? rarement of stook in all parts of tbs tuto. So that to-day we have stock of de very beat strains in nearly ali seo* lons of the State, and more care ia being ovoted to this branch of agricultural . udnatry than ever before known in the iatory of the State. It is no idle word then of Col. McClure rben be speaks of the progress made by louth Carolina in the last eight years. Now, as to the superiority of resources aaigned us, there is this to be said : . luring tho colonial period the British loverument always held South Carolina s the favored colony of ali. Just before lie war Elwood Fisher astonished the forth and our own statesmen, uuinform? d then as now, with the startling ?tate* lent that South Carolina was tba richest' tate io the Union in proportion to ber opulation. When challenged to the roof bo proved it beyond all question. Ve need not repeat after him now the sets and figures which lie before us in he Federal statistics of I860. The arpet-bag Governor Chamberlain always ontended that South Carolina's resources xceeded those of any other State in tho Inion. Taking the whole thing together, we my proudly point to our exposition at lew OrleanB. In cotton we stand at the ead of the list. In the graiuB we are econd to none as to tho quality. We row tho best rice in the world. . Our weet potatoes are as good as tbs world an afford. Our exposition in hay is stounding. We show four kinds. Means raes, Burmuda, crab, pen-vino ana millet, ll showing that South Carolina can't be xceeded as a bay producer. Our wood ?position IIBS taken everybody by sur rise, comparing most favorably with bat of California. Wo have the very est iron ore in the Union. Our mineral iroducts are by no means insignificant. )ur water powor, all told, is tue most bundant, never failing and the cheapest a the Union. It is DO extraordinary claim for South karolina to say that she can comfortably ustain five times ber press?t population ind feed them ail from her aStaent losom. Col. McClure lt mistakes !s aving that South Carolina nnver fed ber ?opie from her own soil, ?Vho did do his before tbe war. For 'rh i ist. she im* mrted some food she exported more tbsn he got beyond ber b?rdete.-Columbia R?guler. Bread, Meat and Cotton. It is a plausible argument to say that in aore of ground will yield a larger re. urn in money when planted'in cotton ban when planted in corn or wheat or .. . ?ats, but that there isa fallacy in itsoroe vhcro almost every Southern farmer mows to bis. cost. He who can mut learly indicate where that fallacy is will io a benefactor to bis State and to thc . louth. If an acre planted in cotton bringa in aore money at the end of the year than n acre planted ia grain of any kind, or A voted to raising hogs and cattle, wbyc^v hm;ld it not be moro profitable to raise otton alone f The stmpieat answer to bis question ls that, while tho farmer cceives moro money from colton, he bas . 0 pay; out more. He makes a greater >rollt on the one article, he sells, but bo >ayaa larger perce a tage of profit'on a srgely increased number of articles vhifih be is compelled to buy in conse quence-of ^ralsiag cotton alone. The >are corn which he feeds to his horses md mules costs him less perhaps than lt vould cost to grow it. but be has to buy odder or hay. from hts neighbor and pay. 1 profit, on it. He hoi n? cows ; he buys suttor for bis family, therefore, and pays Forty cents a,; pound for what he could nake for nothing; he has no milk to rive io his pigs, and OO pigs iu> giva ??i?k io. For fresh meat, once In a while, he raye beef in the nearest town and' pays . .weivc cents a pound for what would lave cost him two or three cents a pound; >r nothing. He devotes his Sommer to tilling grass in the cotton rows and buys lay all tbe Winter, paying; a dollar a luodred pounds'for that which he de frayed so assiduously a few mouths bo oro. He pays for all tho fertilizers ho ises, pays heavy interest for tho Privileg* >f buying it nt all, pays to bavo 'it hauled from town to bia farm, ead alt tho while sails of the best fertiliser in* the world raes to waste in his stablest He sends lils cotton to market at last, and pays tba* ' sost of its pscking, hauling, sampling ind selling. When it is sold, both bia barns and Iiis pockets ar? empty. Half '; the Winter ls before him. He mortgages ; bis 'suds to obtain necessary supplies - sod begins to prepare his fields for the dext. cotton crop, which le to' pat htnv nut of debt and make film even with the world. This is the ronni* of his life and ls re peled without swerving year after year. Despite his figures and arguments, ?ad tong accouuts with his merchants ?nd factors he is as poor at tbs end of tbs year as he was at tbs beginning. On tho other band, his neighbor, who bas tried the plan of raising oread and meat first * and cotton last, has prospered. This ia the eonoloslon of the whole matter. Neus and Courier. -- i mM>m - : - A friend of oars in Washington tells tho following story on our Congress* mnn, Tom Robertson : When -?* first appeared nt Washington, in conversation with a brother Congressman one day, he said : . "A particular friend of mino nt homo orte day told me before leaving that after arriving here there would be two important Ulinga for nie to attend to. One ?aa to stop sa-earing art tbs other to app?ar in ,a swallow tail coa*. Well, I have 8t0^<1 swearing," remarked Bob