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ANDERSON. S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1885.
VOLUME XX.-NO. 36.
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[GODS AT AND BELOW COST ?
io as to close out Ma entire stock of Winter Goods
\U before 1st February, 1885.
CLO
**?HV THINK OJ5? ITT
BHAWt?^m Sfte to $5 do. ,
1 NKaTTS firrmt?n.00 per pairop to $8.00.
BUEKTINOS nt fie per yard, s
JUAN8 cheeper than ever. s ; . .' ft&?
* DB^GOODSIromJpejseryaM^
?jJJ^WEU from 90o pet yatrl upto|U&. Beet PRINTS (to per yard.
^?^^ on band I at? daUraunedi*
?.? obi mardle** of mat. - . .
regftrdlVee of coat.
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A Visit to Xe? Orl-oas.
NEW Oiti.BAMH, Merell 14. 1885.
Mit. EDITOR : At your kind suggestion
I will give you a short sketch of our trip
to this center of attraction. On Tues
dty afternoon, 10th inst., we left Ander
don with a party of twenty-eight in a
special through car. "Oo the .arrival cd
the up traiu we were j dited by a paru
of eleven, making thirty nine in ali.
We arrived without accident on schedule
time in Atlanta, where* our car waa at
tached to a train just ready to leave .for
Montgomery, over tbe Atlanta dc Weat
Point Hoad, where we arrived the next
morning for breakfast. Nothing oe
curred beyond the usual incidents td
railroad travel until after wc passed Mo
bile. After we passed thu point (at S
o'clock p. m.) the scenery became grand
indeed, and far beyoud my power to de
scribe, so I will uot attempt a description.
Suffice it to say that we were running ali
the way along the Gulf of Mexico. We
arrived iu luis city nt 7 J o'clock Wednes
day evening, having bern on the mau
only 27 hours sud traveled C50 miles.
The Louisville & Nashville Road land
its passengers at the foot of Canal street,
io the beart of the city, where strte;
cara are available for any point.
Our party from Anderson concluded
to go in a body to Caoal Street Hotel,
and after a churl ride we were soon de
posited at our quarters. The prico ol
board being more than we expected, sev
eral of oar number lett the next morning
to Sud cheaper rates. I am located with
Capt. Daniels aud wife and Mr. Tolly at
157 Osllipe street. We could not bavt
fatleu into better bands bad we searched
the city over. Our hostess ia kind,
obliging and sociable, sud exerts berseli
to make our sojouru pleasant; and attrac
tive. In fact, it is the most home-like
place I have ever stopped st in a strange
city. The rooms are well furuisbed, and
the fair first-class, and all for $1.50 per
day.
Of course, we have been to the Expo
aitiou. The first day we went hurriedly
through thc dover um ent aud Main build
ing, and although I have beard and read
au much about tho Exposition, I must
say that it far exceeded my expectation.
Io the afternoon at Music Hall io tbe
Main building I had ibe pleasure of li*
toning to Mr. Luther Benson and ex*
Gov. St. John on the subject of temper
ance. Thia ia temperance week here, !
and all the distinguiahed workers in tbs |
United States are present. The second
day I also heard addresses from Mies ?
Franois ?Villard, of Illinois, Mrs. La
throp, of Michigan, Col. Bain, o?* Ken
tucky, aud many others. Miss Willard
is certainly one of the most attractive
speakers I have ever listened to, but the
pleasure of her eloquent address was
very greatly marred by her concluding
rem ur Ls, ?dvocaiiug the right of suffrage
to the women of the couti try. *
To-day (Saturday) bad been set apart1
as Tennessee's day,'and the rostrum iu
Music Hull was filled with the members
of the Legislature sud tuauy other dis
tiuguiabed tueu of that State. Addresses
were delivered by several prominent
gentlemen from the State interspersed
r Ith music furnished by the Mexican
I band of 65 pieces. It is almost worth a
i trip to New Orleans to hear thia band.
The ceremonies of thu day bavo juBt
closed with the fint-st display uf fire
works I have ever reen.
Now a few word J ia reference to the
boarding houses /ind the way to reach
them,.and I will conclude this uusatii?
factory letter. I bave heard a great deal
said about the exhorbitaat charges for
board, aud that a person must start with
a pocket-full ol money if they expect to
be comfortably quarterei and see the
sigut*. I om prepared ti say after my
own experience, and tko experience of
others of our party., tl at these assertions
are not true. Of course, if parsons put
up ai the St. Charles they may oxpect to
pay SL Charles prises, and if they ex
pect to be taken in by every ca cb penny
show they had better atart with a well
filled purse. Good beard and comforta
ble quarters can be bad for $1.50 to $2 60 j
per day. Good roams can be rented for j
$1 00 per day. The beds will ascommo
date two persons, making the lodging
cost 50 cents each per night, provided
two persons are willing to occupy the
same bed. Coming down the river yes
terday afternoon on tbe elegant steam- ;
boat (Clinton) tba derk informed me
that be would furnish board and lodging
on the boat for $2.00 per day, besides
giving a free passage to and from the
Exposition every day. Dinner wasbelog
served ss- we come down, and I went
tb rough the dining ball and found that
the fare was all that the most exacting
epicure could demand. The fare on boat
to the ?xpositiou is 25 cents for round j
trip, which really makea the board only
$1.76 per day. The street cor fare to tbe !
grounds is 5 cents each way, and access- j
ible from any portius of tba oity.
I would advise every one who can poa* j
elbly do so to take the trip to New, Or
leans, as the opportunity to see the whola 1
world may not occur again In a life time. 1
L. p. a
- ' Now. Johnnie," said the teacher.
"If your father borrows $100 aud
promise?'"to pay $10 a week, bow much
will be owe lu seven weeksf "One
hundred dollars" said Johnnie. "I'm
afraid you don't know your leeson very
well," remarked the teacher. "I may
not know my lesson very well." Johnnie
frankly acknowledged, "but I know asy
lather."
- "Poor John waa m fond* of gamb
ling," said a bereaved widow- "His last
bat wa? $50 that he could eat 800 clams
tn twenty mloatse." "Did ha win the
bet IT ''Y**. be won tba bet," sighed
the widow, "bot the money didn't do us
any good. It took avery cent of it to
bury hiss."
L ?j_"AhJ von fiait ter me," lisped a dod?
to a pretty cirl wi*h wb? m he WRS con
versing. i^No, . r don't," ?M? ?ha reply ;
"t?? ?okJo-s bu aar #??
ADP IK TUB WEST.
Th? Yt Ip ?oia Mew Orltui to Tex**.
From New Orleans westward, we
passed through the cane growing region
of Louisiana, the laud of sugar, rich
.?weet and desolate. Negroes and mules
and scrub horses and dirty, dingy aban
iic3 along the line. The places whore
thc sugar planters used to live are there,
the ruins of old mansions set back in
untrimmed groves, and the housesof the
old slaven near by unoccupied and tumb
ling to the ground. Hardly a white man
>. to be seen between the ataliuns, but
when the stations are reached we seo the
smoke stack of a sugar mill and nome
tew signs of civilization and comfort. 2
was told that their vast sugar plantations
have all changed hands, sud now belong
to northern men who had mortgages on
them for money loaned before tbe war.
All they can do with then? is to lease or
rent to negroes, for the climate is not in
viting to the Southern whites, and they
will not go there. Texas is not far away,
tud has a better name. I crossed the
Sabin?. Hiver (or the first time and f mn-'
myself upon tho soil of thia wonderful
?jute. I paved through Houston io the
light, and on to Waco, which ac<o ding
"j Waco people, is the- center of Tex ss
?nd the world. An old Georgian said
io me, if you wi) draw u circle within a
mildred miles ri iius around Waco, you
will have tho fiu it territory in Texas or
.in the globe, A man at Fort Worth
?aid about thc same thing about that
'own, and a Denison man declared that
Denison wus the bead center. I find
that every man is for his i anted?ate sec
tiou, and all are foi Texas. They fight
Hid fuss over free grass and wire cuttiog
and foreign monopolies, hut they are all
fur Texas. Well, it is a wonderful
country. When a Georgia farmer owns
tony or fitly acres of neb bottom land
.io some creek or river, be feels like a
Ring, and his neighbors are envious of
aim, but here you ere never out of sight
>f better land than that. Aa your train
moves along there is a boundless atrip of
it on either side and hardly a tree or a
fence or a bouse is to be seen. It is all
<n cultivation or in pasture. I aaw a
nouse away off, a dark little house with
i s hid roo m and a stove pipe sticking out
of the roof and was told that was where
the owner or the renter of 2,000 acres
dved. There are no ioviting country
homes, no painted hot te*, no fences or
ornaments, no good b?rnn, no nothing ,
much, bul land and scrub bones aud
poor cattle. Every maa nf pretensions
ir ambition seems to live in the town.
There ere uo groves to build in the
country and they can't wait for nh nd o
ireea to grow, and no they live on as they
begun wbeu they first bought or settled
<n primitive simplicity-this is the case
wiibiu that 100 mile circle around Waco.
I But their farmers make a world of muff
to coll. I met a mao at Wax) who came ,
. rom Floyd County sixteen years ago
?bea be ?as just married. He was
wurtb nothing there but one old wagon j
?nd a yoke of steers-I bave bought
many a load of wood Irom him when he ,
! waa a poor back woods boy and I always ,
Celt sorry for him, for he looked pitiful j
ind overworked. That boy managed io "
<et here with bis young wife, and rented
?and a few miles from Waco. He now
twns 1,400 acres of good land aud bas
4?t to be rich from farming and stock
raising. Ile has a daughter at college
ind I was informed paid laxes on $42,
100. He worked bard, very bard to
make the first thousand dollars, aud after
that be bad no trouble; my opinion is
ibut if be bad stayed in Georgia be
would have been hauling wood now.
The reason is plain, lu Georgia he and ,
ils wife would have wanted to live in a
decent borne and wear decent clotbesaud
ceep up with tho neighbors in appear
suce, and when their kinfolks come to
iee them they must put up tbe-be-it they
could get, and so they kept on a strain
all the time. Out here ihey lived in a
shanty and could eat with their fingers
md go barelnoud half the lime und
dress in cheap chilling and there were ,
; uo kinfolks or uaur neighbor, and besides
I ibe laud was better and: there waa more
of it, aud the cuttle increased aud coal
.iothiug to feed thurn Winier or Summer,
l'b'-s Floyd Count; boy told me he sold
?MO bead of bogs and 200 head of beef
cattle In Wacolarx Christmas and hs bad
as many more at home to eell now. I '
saw the Montgomery boya at Fort Worth.
One of them stays out ou the prarie 800
miles further west and baa 2,500 bead of
callie. He ia 100 miles from a railroad
and lives in a dug out, aod sees nobody
but cowboys all the year round. But hu
is geltiug rich from the increase of bia
callie and says just as noon as be gets
rich be in gui tie to marry and settle
down. Maybe be wi 1, but I doubt it,
for be will never know wheo he is rieb
and my observation ia that if a young
mao dues out murry wheo the vuleuliuo
of life ia upon bim ho is not apt to marry
at ali. A mao caa travel around nod
watt and see ten thoasaud girls sud keep
tooling along until he don't care muco
.about marry lug any one for fear she will
oe io his wsy and bother him when bo
wants lo go anywhere. Those traveling
drummers don t marry. Not one ia ever
u>n will ever marry unless they can ruo
away with or captare some rich girl.
After a few yean of drumming they look
upon the cars as their hotel, their booie
and they are never satisfied unless they
are changing their base. If I woe a girl
I duu't tbink I would marry a drummer
for I koow he would be hankering to
leave me before 1 the honeymoon was
over. I like the drammers. I meet
them everywhere and they are civil aod
courteous sad aggressive io business, but
I um sorry for them, they have a bard
life-a life that weans them from ali the
endearaienu of home ead feciale society.
I am sorry for their mothers and sisters
and caa almost bear them saying with a
sigh, ''I wonder where William is to
night and what tba poor boy ta doing."
Tt'.ero are a doceo of them at my hotel
tc night and they ure ell huay writing
le sers to their eiordoyoea and fooling uo
th> day'a work. In th? morning they
wilt begone aj?o*. another dozen will take
their fiaee*
I aa ld that I aaw no pleasant inviting
country bornes io middle Tessa, co white
boase with green blinds abd a broad
?aranda with vines raooiog ap the
t rel I aces and evergreens ia the front
Jard. But 1 never saw more attractive
omea than they bevela the tow us aod
cu burbs. They bave ?prendid court:
bouses aod fails aud public school build
ings, much finer and costlier than any io
Georgia. These Texans do what they
do io a grand style. They are well np
with all the advances of modern times.
I fled the telephone every shem'nod it ie
used mach uore than tb? telegraph
one cao go to the telephone in ?ria hotel
fn any or these towns and converse with !
noy other town a hundred miles away.
There are ten times as many telephones
lo Texas as in Georgia. A friend-of :
mine while ic Gainesville talked to his '
'family ia Shermsn and. theo to bia
I agents lo Waco and Dallas. He la in
I the lamber bu? i neos, end when a mao la
Denison inquired by telephone what be
would sell bim twe ear loads of shingles
for, he immediately telephoned a shingle
. ' " ??'"?/?.>? ' -v1"'..
?aid he mede fifty four dolla/s by the
tram action. The telephone U hurting
the telegraph badly. It ia hurting the
street can ton. A toan unod tn get OD
the care and ride a half mile to see a
man, but be don't now. There are 240
telephones in Sherman and more io
Dui ia?, and aa many in Gainesville
They are everywhere in thin country and
all the towns are lied together by it.
Now I am here in Denlvm, in North
ern Texan, and Gnd this a much heller
country for advanced agriculture and
horticulture. I never saw any orchards
south of Fort Worth, hut this region is
full of them. They make fruit a speci
alty aod it is a lucrative occupation.
Vineyards, and orchard-?, and large areas
of strawberries and otbrr small fruits
may be Been all around tbe city. It ia
uot a prairio country like middle Texas,
hut is gently undulating and has a rich
deep soil that needs nn fertilizer. I have
seen Brown's Iron Bitters and Cuticurs
and so forth advertised all over the
country but I have not seen the Snlunble
Pacific; guano. They have no need for
f;uHoo here. But there ia one thing
ucking here, and that is manufactures.
There are no steam whistles except on
thu locomotives. There is nothing done
io Texas but farming and cattle raiding
and merchandise. This is a flne field
for the manufacturer to occupy. Train
load after train ioaded with wheal goes
north and passel just aa many trains
coming back with flour. But they don't
care-money is plenty and it goes free
aud easy-when I smoked cigars in
Georgia ? was a*hamed to pay more than
a nickle for one, but you can't find a
nicklo cigar hero. They are ten cents or
three tor a quarter, and it is the same
way with evrrythiug. Lumber is
eighteen dollars a hundred. They used
to weatherboard their Houses with raw
hidra, but they dou'i now. Texas is con
mopolitao. People from every land are
here, bul the native Texan prevails and
rules. Au immigrant bas to live bete
for years before they will trust bim. I
used to bear that our boya would come
back to Georgia if they could, but they
don't talk thal way to me. They love
In talk about old Georgia but they don't
want to go back. An old settler told me
that for a long time they use) to asia
our boya when they came and swindle
them out of what they brought here, and
that kept them from going back for they
bad nothing to go back on, and so they
went to work and after a while got re
conciled. I asked a mao where he waa
(rom and he said he was fotched up iu
Georgia but bo waa "raised" in Texas,
fur they raised bim out nf everything he
bad. But I am hurried now and will
give you more in my next.
BILL A BP.
A Double-Barreled Joke.
The other evening,'round at McGov
ern'?, the boya wore putting up an elabo
rate practical joke on somebody, and
ihey asked old Captain Skiddy, who had
just happened in, to take a hand.
"No, gentlemen/' said that estimable
sid gentleman, derisively, ''you don't
catch rae taking part in auy practical
jokes. I went out of that business for
good, over ten years ago."
"How won that?" asked the group of
beor exterminators.
"Well, it wai in the Winter of '70 ;
maybe 71. I was living in Davenport,
Iowa, and a man came around there giv
lng balloon ascensions. One day it was
advertised that the mayor of the town
was geing up with him. Now, the niayor
nf the town waa a big, fat man, whn
always wore a white suit of clothed and
a white bat. This put me io the notion
uf working off a joke on the people. I
got acquainted with the aeronaut, and he
offered io assist mn in the scheme. We
Iben got an old suit of light clothes and
fixed up a dummy, which we filled wilh
sand, so that it weighed about two bun -
dred poundB, and would, therefore, drop
straight and heavy like a mau. The day
of the aacention there were over three
thousand people on the ground, and the
excitemeut waa very great, ss thero wan
a light wind blowing at the time. After
the balloon got up about a mlle, and
maybe that far south of the toan, they
dropped the dummy over."
"Big sensation thea, eh?"
"W?U, I abould aay so. But that's
just where I l??t my grip. While the
caowd was shouting and going wild with
horror, I just laid down on the ground
and laughed till I waa just sick."
"Should think the crowd would have
taken a tumble, too," suggested the
audience.
"But just wait. Of course the crowd
made a oreak out of to wu to gather up
the remains, and I rushed home to get
my fishing tackle, for 1t struck me that
the most healthy thing I could do would
be to go a fishing for a day or two. Be
fore I left the hon?e, however, I waa ar
rested for murder."
'J Exactly. A lot nf the boy*, seco m
r-?*??ed by the sheriff, rushed in and col
a red me. Tbey claimed that the dum
my bad fallen oo a farmer aud driven
his skull cleat into the heel of hts boots.
They said that the baUaonatic had
turned State's evidence, and the chances
were ihat I'd be bung by a mob before
night,"
"That was rough."
" Woll, so I thought. I waa inst scared
plum to death, and I begged the boys
to stand by and protect me. I poined up
fifty dollars for legal expenses, and they
bid me io the garret of a neighbors
house. They kept me there ten blessed
days and there waa not a day but they
atruck me for a twenty or two for contin
gencies. One night the whole gang came
around full of beer-on roy money mind
you-and said that they bad concluded,
as additional precaution, to hide mo io
tbe hollow of aa old oak tree about three
miles out lo the woods. I saw through
the whole business theo, and drove 'em
ont with a c'?b. It wai a good square
case of the bitter bit, I know, but they
never let op calling me 'Dummy Skiddy,'
aft? that, until they actually drove mel
out of town, and I bad to emigrate to
thia jumping off place of creation," aod
tba c?ptalo snook his bead with a dis
gusted air aa he' walked out,-San Fran
cine P?tt.
What a Boy Accomplished.
A boy who attends one of our 8r??day
Schools went out in the country, the last
Summer, to apend bis vacation-a fiait
he uad lou* looked forward to wits
pleasure. He weat ont to.help the men
harvest. Ono of the men waa au invet
erate swearer.
The boy, having stood it aa long M be
could, said ip the mao. "Well, I gae?
I'll go hom? lo-morruw."
Tbe swearer, who had taken a great
liking to him, said, "I thought you were
going to atay all inp 8uranier "
*T waa." said the boy, "but I can't
atay whait? any body, swears ; so one of
oe moat go, I will leave.
The maa felt the rebuke, aod ssid :
"It you will stay, I won't swear." Ami
ha kept bis word.
Boya, take a bold aland for th? right ;
throw your inflaeuoe OK th? aide of
Christ, and you ?iii sow the aeed. the
harrest of wbie?i you will reap, both la
IS TOBACCO INJURIOUS!
Costars tay Canear* Ar* Kot Uonarally
Caused by Snotting.
General Grant's condition and the
causo t<> which the cancer has been at
tributed bave occasioned much comment
amnug smokers of thia city. Some of |
the more timid ones have reduced their
daily allowance of cigars and other pro
fess to have no fears of any trouble. A
W*rld reporter yesterday interviewed
many physicians, and they all agreed
that the danger nf cancer from smoking
is very ?light indeed, and that only a
small percentage of cases of epitheliotna
can the origin be,clearly traced to the
u?e of tobacco. Some physicians, in fact,
say that there ia reallv no such thing as
"smoker's cancer," and noe young doctor
at Bellevue Hospital stopped purling his
cigarette loug enough to assure the re
porter that "all thin talk about 'pipe
cancer' ia bluff and guff." Older sur
geons, however, *av that while very rare,
n few canea of smoker's cancer do occur.
Dr. Stephen Smith, ona of the oldest
surgeons at Bellevue Hospital, said that
there wero not probably more than a
doten canea a yetr of epitheliums of the
lip treated et that institution. "And all
ur.thone caf .ot be by any means attrib
uted to smoking," be coutiuued. "Soaie
of the patienta are women, and some of j
them men who do not smoke. Continued
pressure nod consequent irritation upon
any part of the skiu are apt to bring on
epithelioma in those predisposed to il.
Tbe pressure of the crown plate of a net
of false teeth or the irritation ccu uni by
broken tooth rubbing against the Hp
may start Ibo trouble. Where smoking
is responsible for its occurrence it will be
found that long continued pressura of
the*pipe stem upon the lower lip results j
in the formation of a fissure or aura spot.
It often develops into cancer, often before
the sufferer knows what the trouble ia.
Ooo case came to my notice recently in
which the patient did not smoke, but
waa in the habit of carrying an unligbt
ed cigar in hin mouth."
"Did the nicotine poison bis blood and
thuB produce tbe cancer?"
"No ; I think it was due to the press
ure of the cigar upon the-lip-nothing
more."
"What do ycu tbink ia the smoker's
bestprevontive of caucer?"
"To let pipes and cigars severely alone
is the beat plan I can aug -eat."
"Do the cases of cancer on the Up often
result fatally ?"
"No, not if taken in time. But peo
Cle generally walt until it ia too late
efore attending to it. The diseased
fiart ia cut out, but the malady recurs nt ]
ntervala of a few mouths, and death
frequently results after three or four
years. Th? most noted case which I can
recall is that of the Rey. Dr. Budingtnii,
the Brooklyn clergyman. You remember
he lingered a long while and died alter a
great deal of Buffering and several opera
tions bad been performed. I do not j
tbink he waa a smoker. The present '
alarm about cancer from smoking is
overdone. Pressure of tbe oigar or pipe ]
may be directing cause of cancer, but it
will be found that in the majority of I
cases there is a predisposition to tbe [
disease in the person attacked. Those
afflicted with the cancer of the lip do
not always auffer from much pain, and I
know of quite a number of instances ]
where there wan comparatively little or]
oo suffering from the disease. Very
often, perhaps in the majority of cases,
epithelioma resulta from the degenera
tion of the tissues incidental to old agc.
There see ma to be a general decay ot
tbe membrane. You will find that
most of those in whom cancer appears
are above fifty yeera old."
A World reporter called, upon Dr.
Uulkley at tbe Skin and Cancer Hospital
in Thirty-fourth street. In response to
questions he said : "I tbink tba alarm
about the disastrous consequence-, of I
tobacco smoking are much greater than
tho facts warrant. Cancer of the lower
lip ia comparatively small and cannot
always be traced to smoking, although
'pipe cancer' is a name long ago given to
the disease. The effects of moderate
smoking on tbe average man are not
Been at all. In persons of average
strength I consider three cigars a day
tbe number they generally cito ?muk?
with safely, an<! the strongest taan I
ever saw could not consume more than
len a day with impunity. Pipes goner
ally collect nicotine in tbe bowl or stem,
wblcb escapes to the mouth and coming
in contact with the mucous membrane is
apt to get into tbe system and cause local
cancera on the Una or tip of the tongue.
Excessive Brooking often brings on what
??? called 'smoker's patch.' It consists of |
irregular white patched, which appear on
tbe sides of i'm tongue and the inside of I
the cheek?. This la often, although. not
always, preliminary to cauter. If a
person stops smoking when 'smoker's
patch, appears, tbe troubla soon yields to.j
treatment : if not, cancer will pi "
set in. But, as I said, Ibis disease is
comparatively rare. Epithelioma of the
f lips ls almost exclusively seen in males.
It baa been asserted by several writers
that where lt occurs fa females lt ls
found Ibat they amoke. Dr Warren, of I
the Massachusetts General Hospital, in
Boston, reporta that in his experience of
forty years at that institution, the whole
number of cases of cancer on the Up waa
seventy-seven, of which four were fe
males. Forty-four of the men were]
smokers, and of the four women, three
admitted that they smoked pipes."
"How does ft manifest itself and de
velop T"
"lt commonly comes as a fissure, abra
sion or broken surface on tbe Ups. It |
nardana and retases to beal, and ta cov
ered with a darkish crust, beneath which j
the surface ls moist and bleeding, accom
panied by slinging pain. As time pro
gresses, measured by months rather than
by years, tbe sore spot enlarges and es
cesalve gran u lets una appear. Commonly
a ?welling of ona af tbe glans beneath 1
tba jaw occurs. Almost au applications ]
to snch a eora ara ineffective- to heal it,
and often only Irritate it. Caustic ap
plications but increase the growth. Io
early alagas the patient suffer o bot little
Kin. When, oura the - spot becomes
i tat ed tb* spread of tbe disease fa more
rapid, and in its later alagas olten pro
gresses very* quickly. If operaUd on
early, thoroughly and rapidly, however,']
cancer of the Up ls entirely curable."
"What other risks does the tobacco*
I smoker run ?"
"Aside from tba liability to heart
troubl?e, ?bo., which the berney smoker
locura, I arnold mention two caa ai of
blood-poisoning which recently cam?
nuder my notice. They were of a most
serious natura, cod wera occasioned hy
the Ups of tba person coming in contact
with cigar? that had been mads by
wurkmen tainted with the poison. There
have been nu tuerons inventions In pip??,
cigar Soldera, &c, brought forward for
tba. purpose pf keeping tba nicotine
away from th? scoter's aou tb. Bot tb?
trouble with all tfeeae things is that whll*
very good at fi rsi, they so?o become
worse, than ossie**. Tba smoker gets
careless and leta tba olcoUne accumulate.
Io tba stem, and thence it drop* loto tho
? nth of the lowkfr. Tbe only arran**-.
Haloed by passing tba aatoke through
water, which 'wathe* out' the nicotioo.
That ia the plan of the Turkish 'hookah'
but very Tew Americana like that atyle of
nicking very long. On the whole, it is
?fe for a man to smoke good cigare in
moderation, carefully avoiding drugged
?ml 'fixed up' preparations of tobacco,
whether in cigars or cigarettes.-New
York World.
Boiler and tl.? Cameron?.
One of tbe most interesting men in
national politics in M. C. Cutler, of South
Carolina. He name of one of the oldest
families in (Ito Palmetto State, and bia
uncle, Pierce Butler, wa? a Senator io
Congress while the man of whom I write
waa a DOV. The uncle was a very distin
guished looking; man. and waa a power
in the deliberations of our highest legis
lative body at a time when it was filled
with great men. His nephew, who bsa
?ucceeded him, occupies an equally frai
neut position in an assemblage that
hard'y comparea with tho gathering of
intellectual giants who sat in the Senate
chamber during the mighty event M of
IMO. Those who knew bia uncle say to
me that the present Senator has much of
his self poise, fertility of mind and in
tegrity of purpose. I saw bira aa the
lofty and dignified rh.-tracternf the recent j
meeting of public men in New York.
He would have a strong chance for Cab
inet honors were it not for the Hamburg
difficult kv. from which he suffer*, either
justly or unjustly, sn that he? does not
make the best use of his powern. Both
in relationship und the traditiona by
which he holds his own sent in the 8e':ate I
an interesting political reminiscence was1
recalled to me by his asking affectionate
ly after the health of Oeueral Siinoti
Cameron. But foran act of kindness by
Pierce Butler, which after generations
came back to bless the nephew, the
present Senator hom South Carolina
might never have held a seat ia the Sen
ate. The circumstuucea occurred when
General Cameron wan a second time
elected United State? Senator. The late"
Governor Bigler was bis colleague. Hf
made an effort to induce the Senate to
investigate the charges that Mr. Cameron
had secured his election by bribery. He
called the matter up one day and mades
speech detailing tho allega' mus and nu h
ing the 8enste to take cognizance ol
them. Pierce Butler espoused General
Osmeron'a cause and mane a speech, in
which he ?aid that the Senate of the
United 8tatee waa not the place in which
the ?tate of Pennsylvania.cnuld wash lt?
dirty linen, and moved that the r?solu
lion for an investigation be not agreed
lo. Tbe Senate followed Butler's lead
and Cameron's title to hia seat waa con
tested. When the vote waa aouounced
that settled the controversy. Butler
walked over to where General Gameroo
aat and sold :
"Now, Simon, you ought to send me a
bottle off whUkey with which to celebrate
this occasion."
"By the life, Butler." replied Cameron,
"I'll send you a barrel of the beat made
in Pennsylvania/'
Thu liquor was sent, and ever there
after the families of Cameron and Butler
were fast friends. It ia said that "time
at last sets all thlnga even." Nearly a
quarter of a century alter this occur
renee, which baa formed ooo of the
singular pagos of the biatory of tbb>
State, thu nephew of the msn who did
Cameron the service knocked for admis
sion to tbe Senate, with a contest on hi?
bsnda. A aingle Republican vote wouid
save bin title. The father called upon
Don to repay tho kiudnesa of Pierce
Butler to him when Governor Bigler was
seeking to keep bim out. Dun assumed
the obligation and voted against his
party, and M. G. Butler became a Sena
tor. To day tbe two families, differing
so widelv in politics and interests, nre
conspisuously friendly.- Walkington Cor.
Philadelphia Times. ,
A Warning to the Boomer*.
The following proclamation waa issued
by the President late this afternoon;
A PBOCLAM ATION.
Whereas, it ia alleged that certaio in
dividuals, associations of persons and
corporations ac? ia unauthorised posse? .
sion of portions of the territory known
aa the Oklahoma lands within lud?an
Territory, which ara designated^ de
scribed and recognised by the treaties
and laws of the United States, and by
the executive autburitj thereof, as In
dian land :
And whereas it is further alleged that
certain other persons or associations
within the Territory and jurisdiction of|
the United S tu tea, have begun anil sei
on foot prepsrationa for an organized
and forcible entry and aeltlement upon
aforesaid lands and are now threatening
auch entry and occupation :
And, whereas, the laws of the United
States provide for the removal of al!
persons reaiding or being found upon
such Indiau landa and territory without
permission expressly and legally obtained
of tbe interior department :
Now, therefore, for the purpose of pro
tee ti u g the public interests os well os the
interests of the Indian nations and tribes,
and lo tbe ead that no person or persoBs |
may be lodoced to enter anon said terri
tory, where they will not he allowed to |
remain without permission of the author
ity aforesa!-!, I, Grover Cleveland. Pres
ident of the United States, do hereby
I 'ara and admonish all and every person
i r persons now in occupation of such
lanas, and any snob person or persons, as
are now intending, preparing or threat*
ening to enter ana settle upon tbe same,
that they' will neither be permitted to
enter apon said territory nor, if already
there, to remain thereon, and that in
caso due regard for and voluntary obedi
ence to the laws and treaties of the
United States and of thia admonition
eod warning bo not sofficlant to effect
tbe purposes and intentions of tba Gov
ernment, as herein declared, th? military
power of tbe United Statea will ba In
voked to abate all such unauthorised
possession, to prevent such threatened
entry and occupation, and to remove all
such intruders from ssid Indian landa.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused tba seal bf the
Unfed Staten to he affixed.
; Done at the City of Washington this
18tb day of March. 1885. and of the
Independence of the United Sutes of
America the one hundred and ninth.
G BOVEll Cl.EVKLAND.
_"_ ' ?? ?? .
- Dr. Austin Flint, whose authority
ls beyond question, says that mankind
ehould eat when they tra hungry, aves
! if they happen to bs hungry at midnight.
Tba dork ages wheo lt was decreed that
? tba man or woman who partook of lata
i and. hearty suppers must die an untimely
j death have pissed away, and th? liga? of
a mora eu Ugh tened and uncomfortable
civ lunation is dawning.
.H-Re*. D. J: Qolgly and Rev. j. J.
Monoghan aro in town looking after the
new Catholic church. It will be let ont
IA a week or two and the building will
go forward, at o noe. The mnnev ia al1
rvfljf in hand. The. thurah will I? a
v* amati guilt sa csa'ssrs-atft ttt
flt^a^Rt^MBBBa^HB^H
IN THE SHADOW OF TUB KOON.
Tb? Aunular Eel I pao of Ul? Sa?.
Owing to the fact that annular eclipses
of the sun are of frequent occurrence and
that their coming is invested with littlo
or no information to the modern astrono
mer, comparatively little attention is
paid tn this now well explained pheuom*
ennn.
An eclipse of the sun is caused by the
monn passing between the earth and the
sun on, or nearly on, the same plane
ilth these bodies. The moon being
between the earth and the sun hides the
latter, in whole or iu part, from a portion
of the earth. It does not hide the sun
from all parts of the earth, because the
moon ts very near an compared with the
sun. an well as very email, and a little
away from the direct line, it seen either
above or below the sun. If you put two
discs of cardboard several feet apart In
such a relation that one hides the other,
and then step upon u chair, you immedi
ately sec over the nearer disc a whole or
a pert of ihm which is more remoto.
So, while a total eclipse nf the sun iain
'prugreB**, the spectator, in a higher or
lower latitude, looks over or under the
moon and sees the nun in whole or in
part. As everybody knows, a small
otject near ibe eye may hide a lanje
object ?-hieb ia at a distance. A nickel
seven feel from the eye will hide the sun.
In the aamn way the little moon, 240.000
miles away, occupies the ? rime an?jl0 and
hides the sun. When the contera of the
sun and moon and any part of the earth
are in the same line, ano the discs of the
sun and monn are centrical, or nearly so,
there ls commonly a total ec'lpse.
..jo mei i mt ??, however, the moon passes up -
or down across the earth's path a little
lo the right or left of the sun's centre,
and then its disc covers only . part of
the au n'a disc, and we have . partial
eclipse. Besides, the relative distances
of ibe sun and the moon are not always
precisely the same.
Both ibo moon cud tho earth, moving
in elliptical orbits, each iu sometim??
nearest to the earth. It happens, there
fore, that irr one eclipse the disc of the
moon is a littlo larger than that of the
nun, whi.le lu another the sun's diso is a
littlo larger than that of the moon. In *
the latter case a rim or ring of the solar
diso will be seen girdling the moon, and
the eclipso which otherwise would have
neon total over a certain geographical
area, is an annular eclipse, au caliea from
the Latiu word annuftu, which means a
ring.
The path of the. annulus lay on yester
day about two thousands miles due Weat
of San FranciHCo. and ended in the Are*
tte Ocean, just East nf Greenland, and
although the eclipse was visible ali over
the United 8tates, it was only seen ai aa
annular eclipse within the belt between
Gape Mendocino, Cal., and Greenland.
The weather yesterday in Charleston
waa favorable for viewing the eclipse.
At first the aky io the neighborhood of
the sun was tolerably free from clouds,
but during the Salter part of the eclipse
the face of t he sun became overcast with
light, bary clouds, which prevented the
perception of any diminution of light
?-.hieb might have been caused by the
[eclipse. Precisely at three minutes of
12 o'clock by standard tim?* the black
circle of the moon waa seen gradually
seeping upon the sun'* edge, several
degrees Westward of ita Northern point,
and alowly increased in size-Blowly et
least to tho observera here-butin reality
some thirty five or forty times faster than
the fastest express train on our railroads
.?vcr run. 8ome idea of the terrific rate
of speed at which the shadow of the
.noon was travelling may be gained from
ihe fact that it bas been calculated that
if a lightning express train, moving at
lull speed, bsd one hour's start of it, the
?diado? would have overtaken it in about
iwo minutes. At about fifteen minutes"'
?..liter 1 .o'clock yesterday the shadow
reached its maximum size, at which
time, tm. viewed from Charleston, a little
over a quarter of the sun's surface was
obscured ami that fiery orb resembled a '
large crocent, the points of which were
turued upwards to the north. About - N
twenty five mi roo ci after 2 o'clock the.
eclipse ended, the last point of contact ?
Oeing in nearly the same position on the
.?Jgo of tho sun's surface, as the first
i wi nt of con tact. This ia a fact which
probably struck the unscientific aa being
very peculiar, most of them thinking
tbat the shadow of the moon would
commence to obscure the surface of the
ann at one side, pass completely_?cross
i's surface and leave it at a point oppo* '
die to that point at which it entered.
This striking phenomenon was cause, by
the transportation of the heavens reith
regard to vhe earth. It is a self evident
fact that that portion of the sun's surface
which is first visible at ito rising Is the
first to' disappear at the setting oi in
other words, the opposite extremity of
the sun's surfsco ia tho last to be seen.
The eclipse commenced before 12 o'clock,
sud. at the midday hour the sun crossed
the meridian of the earth, and although
it appeared as if ibe same portion of tbe
?urface of the seo was turned towards'
the earth as bef?te J 2 o'clock, it was in
reality the opposite portion.
In truth it might be said that man
could desire tr* behold no more wonder*
ful or Jus>ructive spectacle than the hld*
irfg of one world in the shadow' of
another through the operation of iawaeo*
?imple that o eh lld can understand them,
but which in GI;.* h a case are displayed
upon a scsle of grandeur that nan can
only grasp by the exercise of the highest
faculties-Newt and Courier.
Tho Innumerable Cnmvnu.
j "The sanitarians have taken Che'wrong
view aa to the requirements of the dead/*
unid Mr. Duncan, of Trinity Cemetery,
New York, to n MaU and Exprea report
er. "People do not always use figures
io calculate on the snbject. They see
the dead hurried to tba gravo in targe
numbers, and think the cemeteries will
all soon be filled tip. Now, if any one.
will take the trouble to go Into figur?e,
he will find that all who bave died since
Adam, acordiug to our present chronol
ogy, could easily ha vo been buried in the .
Slate of Texas and leave room to spare,
eveu after allowing every person a omglc
gravo. The population nf the world ls
e? ti tun ted at about 1 500,000,000, but for
the purpose of this question we will cali
lt 2.000,000.000. : The average life of
humanity Is 26 years. The world is sup*
poned tn be 6.000 years old. This would
give 600,000,000.000 deaths lu that
period, allowing that there were as many
persona on the earth In the 'year one' ss
sr* have estimated for the present time.
Now, the average ?pace taken up by a :
dead bodr Is five feet by two, or ten feet
square. That would give about 5.000,000.
burials to tM square milo. ?j With this
round calculation kat than 230.000
(square miles would be required to bury
all tba dead from the tune of Adam,
?ven allowing there were a? many people
living oo the earth a-? now, which it ls
positively <knnra could not be the case.
A? Texas bsa a surface at 287,000 square'
miles, you see my argument atands good,
sud that the alarm ia not w?U founded.'*
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