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.?*.-< f??m?.,. MUM-m--.?. ?? R. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON. S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1885. VOLUME XX.-NO. 36. WILHITES' COLUMN AGAIN we como before you and solicit your trade, so liberally extended to us tn the past. Wo are better prepared than ever to sell you, and are still HEADQUAR TERS for Turo and Rcliablo Drags SMid Chemicals, Paints, Olin and Varniahcs, Patent Medicines. Etc., Etc., and lu fact anything in our lino. The most important branch of the Drug Business is - conceded by all to bo the PRESCRIPTION DEPART MENT, and we desire to call the attention of the publio to the fact that wc ninko a spociulty of compounding Physicians' Prescriptions, and guarantee all ingredients used by us to be absolutely PURE and FRESH. There ls probably nothing about which mankind aro BO de servedly particular as the Medicines which sickness com pel? them to take, and thc great desideratum is to feel assured that tho Apothecary fully understands tho prep aration of tho Physician's prescription. Wo guarantee nocuracy und purity, at prices as low as quality of samo will permit. WP make purchases from first hnnds, selact Goods with special reference to wanta of our custonif rs, and make them at such prices as will enstiro their ready salo. All we Mk of onr friends ia that they call and look over our Stock. It will be tho constant aim of our Home to please, and wo shall spare no effort to do so Wo take tho lead in Toilet Articles. You will find onr Stock complete, and also find that a dollar will go further with us in buying such articles than you have ever beforo experienced. We invite your attention to a fow of our Proprietary remedies, which we recommend to bo rcliablo Medicines and worthy of a trial. Wilhltes* Soothing Syrup or Baby'M Friend is an invaluable remedy fer children when teething, regulating the bowels and relieving p*in. It relieves the little sufferer at once, produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as "bright as a button." It is pleasant to take, soothes tho ?Uild, reliares wind, and is tho best known romcdy for Diarrhoea, whether ariaing from leaning or otherwise. Wilhite'a Congh Syrup-Cough, Cough, Cough. A cold neglected, a cough left to cure itself oftentimes leads to complications fatal in their results. A prompt visit to our Storo ot the inception of thc troublo, thc use of Wilhite's Cough Syrup, which we can confident ly recommend as a good remedy, will relievo much suf fering and anxiety on thc part of friends. Many children suffer from day to day-fretful, cross and peevish-and the causo of their suffering is not suspected. A pallid and sickly countenance, irregularity of appe tite or great voracity, bad breath, foul tongue, great thirst, gradual emaciation, irritable temper, redness of nostrils, disposition to be picking tho noso, ore all symptoms indica ting the presence of Worms. If any of these symptoms aro noticed or Worms aro sus pKtcd, procure a bottlo of Wilhite's Worra Syrup or Vermifuge, which ?osta but 25 cents, and give it according to directions. It any Worms are present they will soon be expelled, and you will have the satisfaction of seeing your darling restored to health again. If thero are no Worms present thc Liyrup will do no harm, but will move the bowels gently and leave thu system in a healthy condition. This Syrup con tains no Calomel, and no Castor Oil or purgative medicine is required with it. It should bc in every family. Try it. Tho largest bottle of Worm Medicine in tho market for 25c. Wilhite's Eye Water is a sure euro for inflamed or Weak Eyes, or any ordinary form (where no mechan ical or constitutional trouble exists) of Sore Eyes. It has boen used with great success for a number of years, nud amount paid for it will br. refunded if it falls to caro any common form of Sore Eyes after directions have been carefully followed. If it does you no good it will cost you nothing. Price 25c per bottle. Dit. JOHNSTONE S SAPONACEOUS ODUNTINE is the best preparation in the market lor thoroughly cleansing, preserving and beautifying thc teeth, hardening the gums and imparting a delicious odor lo the breath. Nothing injurious. A safo and pleasant dentifrice. Recommended by A. P. Johnstone, D. D. S., and prepared by WILHITE * WILHITE, PROPRIETORS, M.,o.MPERSOW' ? - s.e. " Go Tell all the People for Miles Around !" -THAT JOHN SYS. HUBBARD* BRO. ARE PREPARED TO SELL IVfcORE JEWELRY, MOUE WATCHES, MORE SILVERWARE, MORE CLOCKS, &C, AT PRICES MORE TO YOUR NOTION, THAN EVER BEFORE. ?&- EVERYTHING in the shape of a Watch, Clock or Jewelry thoroughly repaired. gah fr, 1885_ 30 FERTILIZERS FOR 1885. -.--:-0-; The Attention of the Farmers of Anderson County is re spectfully called to our OLD RELIABLE BRANDS OF. HIGH GRADE GUANO AND ACID Which are so well and favorably known throughout the County, ?&w>*? *eJL"?_* PMpared to offer them in any quantity, for Cash or Cotton. T* r*verJa lUen yon low prices, and are prepared to do so again. Call ana see ns. We are in a position to offer inducement? to CASH BUYERS of CORN, FLOUR, BACON, MOLASSES . - AND - GENERAL PLANTATION SUPPLIES. As w? ar? receiving large quantities of these Goods direct from the points of production Wo are Agents for the Celebrated WHH * WQf?0RY WAGONS-,uaren(?d the .VPsnsr of any make. F .nar lUsbawaba Sulky and Ordinary Turning Plows, . , , . : . J J| il Danlot Pratt Gins, Feeders and Condensers. - . Count's Home-made, 7-Flugored Oiain Ci^e-the Best Cradle ever offered on thiilor any other "?"f1-,,. , The Champion Mowers, Reabra and Binders, with The latest improvements, making thorn 1 The mest desirable Harvesting Machines In the World. , I ?** Our Stock of General Merchandise is com^ ?J .P*?tfally?*lidt ? callto^ WW ?iUUes ?MD? si? ?? .?ar tho beat Gooda at the niost reasonable pr???c McCULLY, CATHCART A CO. Anderson, 8. C., Feb. 19, 1886 , I,,,. . _SgSgg j ' ' a HAVE YOU WAITED F(S DBI??W?W IN BOOTS, SHOES, HATS,, OArU . ?RESS ??ODB?^? NmOV?MW p yeuhave, here ?your chance, as I wlUsellmy ENTIRE STOCK At ami below Cost fttr ?li ^??^?^^ : .ft RKMBMBBR, everything I bivs In Stock will be sold at and below Cost. lear ?? test lin* ofr Ladies* audOh?dreii's Shoes yon san find in tho CHy. OBSERVATIONS ON IRELAND. BOT. B. Latlmn lujtUo YorkvlUe Enquirer. One description, which bas sometimes been given of Scotland, is that it is a "wee bit countrie." This will also do for Ireland. Its greatest length-that from Miezen Head, in Cork, to Benmore or Fairhead, in Antrim, is 303 miles, and its greatest breadth, at right angles to this line, from Wicklow, on tho Irish sea, to Erris Head, on the Northwestern coast of Mayo County, is 189 miles. In extent of territory, Ireland is only a little larger than the State of South Carolina. The population of Ireland, however, is more than five times as great aa that of South Caroliua. The population of Ireland was, at ono time, nearly twice what it is now. Since the year 1851, three millions of Ireland's population have emigrated to other countries. During the year 1881, 78,419 left the island. I havo no menus of knowing, with certainty, where all these emigrants went ; but from what I learned, I think that the greater part of the Protestant emigrants went to Aus tralia. Tho Catholics generally came to the United States. A few year? previous to 1851, Ireland was visited with what is known as the potato blight. This blight continued for several years, and tho result was that great numbers of the people were reduc ed to beggary, and many of them actually died of hunger. Tho crops failing, made it impossible for the farmere to pay their rents. The landlords, in many instances, showed no pity. Tho tenants were turn ed, or rather driven, out of their houses. Some of those thus turned out of their houses emigrated, others took shelter under the caves of their former houses, while not a few congregated in the public high-ways and died of hunger. The houses out of which theso tenants were driven, or out of which they fled, are, at least many of them, to day with out an occupant. Tho failure of a crop in every country is attended with much suffering to the poor. This ir> one of the marked features of Ireland. The Irish potato is the principal food of the noor. In fact, I never, so far as I nev; remember, eat n dinner in Ireland, outside of a city, without potatoes being on the table. The potato will not keep over tor two years. Hence a failure of the potato crop for two years in Ireland is certain to produce a famine among a class of the inhabitants. Of the whole population of Ireland, more than one-twelfth are paupers. As some one will, no doubt, call this in ques tion, the facts are stated. The popula tion of Ireland in 1881 is stated to be 4,746,214, and the number of paupers to be 565,646. It in claimed that the larger number of these paupers are Catholics. I do not know that this is correct. I think, however, that it is. The province of Ulater, which is admitted by all to be the stronghold of Protestantism in Ire land, and the largest of the four provin ces except that of Munster, has a popu lation of 1,875,221, of whom 85,776 are paupers. Thc province of Munster, with :i large extent of territory, but a popula tion of 351,083 less, has 156,270 paupers or 70,494 more than Ulster. The great' sst number of paupers aro in Lienstei province, while it ia, except Connaught, the smallest in territory and in the nam ber of its inhabitants. The populatior Df Lieuotur proviuue is 1,449,599, ? iv hu m 178,094 are paupers. In ever; County of Ireland there are Protestants and the same may be said of tho Catho lies. There is a fact in connection with thu Irish pauperism that may be interesting to some persons. It is tho manner o supporting these paupers. In England Ireland and Scotland, there are what the; call poor laws. These laws are enactc< by the English Parliament, and have fo their object the support of the paupers The manner of executing these laws it when divested of legal technicalities simply this. The number of paupers i ascertained and a certain sum of moue; specified for their support. This moue; is raised by taxing the property holden using that word in itu Irish sense, to mea all those who are farmers and have othe taxable investments. In other wordi everybody who has anything is '.axed except the landlords. Those who hav the land of the landlords leased pay a the tax. either directly or indirects The lana of Ireland is valued at 15,766, 535 pounds sterling. On this there : raised by taxation, or by rates, as the call it, 1,151,878 pounds sterling for tb support of the poor. In other words, tl land of Ireland is valued at sixty-eigl and a half millions of dollars, and o that there is raised five and one-ha millions of dollars for lr . support i paupers. The County Antrim,- with population of 387,269, pays <\ poor i a of more than four hundred thouaar dollars; or more than one dollar for cac inhabitant. The three counties of Ireland whit have the greatest number of paupers ai Dublin, Cork and Antrim. The fin 52,685 ; the second, 56,198 ; and the la has 34,787. These are facts which I a unable, to account for, only in part. ] Dublin County is situated the city Dublin; in Cork County, the city Cork ; and in the County of Antrim, tl town of Belfast. Dublin city haa population of about 800,000; Cork, abo 100,000 ; and Belfast, about 250,0t These aggregate a population of 050,0( Of this number, a rage per cent., as the case io.all large cities, are no dou fiaupera. Io addition to these, there a n these counties several other towi which, -in aome parta of these Unit States would be regarded aa consid?r?t cities. These, no doubt, have a groat % cent, of paupers. Perhapa tho reader ready to conclude that Ireland preeei a repulsive aspect on account of ita pi pera. Such ia not the case. There ia, reality, nothing repulsive about Irelai except that system of landlordism whl has been in existence aince the daya James I. Even that haa been, in ma of ita features, greatly ameliorated, a the probability is, that the tim?is not distant, when tho whole aystem, at Ic io its most objectionable and oppress features, will bo swept but of existen That there are manifest signs of pov ty-squalid poverty-r-ln Ireland, no < who koowa anything about tho lair will deny ; but there are at tbe samo ti unmistakable signa of auch wealth a never aeen in tbe United Slates, exe lo the large cities. By far the grei Grtion tho inhabitants of Ireland corni atablo circumstances, and mi of thea are immensely rich. The bol class of the Irish live more comforts than the same class does in our c country. Their houses are better, t tbe conveniences about their houses far greater. 3 Tho difference betwec rich man in Ireland Is, it must be adi ted, much greater than lt is In the Uni States. This Ia one thing that tat America the pw.manVoo?ntry. I usual to apeak of tbe Irish-I mean inhabitants of.'Ireland--* uneot Hencr, to say that au indi*ideal fa comparison has ita origin ia igno^ and bas nota single fact to give it ( the shadow of tnithfulneta. The PH tant inhabitants of Ireland are ? intelligent people, and their hospitality is without a parallel. There are many persons io Ireland, who, it is conceded, r v% crossly ignorant. Such is the case in L. >don, and such is the case in every country. The whole population of a country is not to be judged of by these. The physical conformation of Ireland is very peculiar. It is mountainous on the coast, and comparatively level in the interior. The mountains which form a natural barrier around the coast, are not a continuous chain of mountains, but rather groups of what, in some parts of America, would be called high hills. These groups are often pierced by narrow plains which scorn to extend from the centre of the island to the coast. There are no long mountain ranges in Ireland. There aro no mountain ranges at all, but groups or clusters of mountains. Neith er aro Ibero any high mountains in Ireland. The highest is Carrantuohill in Kerry County. It is 8,414 feet high. Some of our peaks are nearly 18,003 feet high. A great plain, elevated above the 6ea, from two to three hundred feet, and about one huudred and fifty miles wide, extends from East to W-. jt across Ireland. This plain rests on a limestone substratum and embraces the finest portion of the island. Ireland is remarkable for the great number and large extent of its bogs. Tbcso bog? arouse the curiosity of stran gers in no small degree. Every individ ual who visits Ireland has numerous questions to ask about the bogs and ls never satisfied until be puts his hand on tho peat or turf, and sees it. There are two kinds of bogs in Ireland. Ono is called tbe fiat bogs and the other the mountain bogs. The fiat bogs cover an area of about a million and a half acres, and the mountain bogs about a million and a quarter. Tho two cover two and three-quarter millions of acres, or nearly one-seventh part of tho whole surface of Ireland. Tue flat bogs are chiefly in the interior, while tho moun tain bogs are confined principally to the coast highlands. The fiat bogs aro also called red bogs, because they are gener ally of a redial! or brownish color. I have no means of ascertaining the exact numbor of these flat bogs, but I feel safo lo saying there ara more than a thousand, varying ia size from a few rods to near forty thousand acres. Sometimes these bogs are separated by largo tracts of cul tivated land, while others are disjoined by only narrow ridges of dry ground. The largest bog io Ireland, ana so far as I know in the world, is the Bog of Allen. This occupies portions or Kildare, King's, Queen's, Meath and Westmeath counties. The principal part, however, is in Kildare County, ana covers about thirty-six thousand acres of ground. The mountain bogs cover the flat tops and sides of the mountains, and differ, chiefly, so far os I could see, from the flat bogs, in that they are smaller and are dryer. The American meaning of tho word bog will give us but a vague and incorrect idea of an Irish bog. A bog means, in our country, geiiC.ally, a spot of wet ground into which those who attempt to pass over it are liable to sink, or as is usually Baid, "mire dowu." A bog iu America ?B a small swamp. The only thing peculiar about eitbor an American bog or swamp ia that it is dan gerous to travel over it. All Irish bogs are not swampy. Some of them are wet and splashy, while others are dry. It is dangerous to walk over somo of the bogs cf Ireland, but over others an individual may walk with impunity, and, in fact, thu greatest comfort. The sensation experienced is tho same aa if ho wero walking on a carpet spread on a thick layer of straw, and the sound produced by the tread of bis feet ?B the same. Tho peculiar thing about an Irish bog is the peat or turf which it contains, lt is this peat or turf which makes the bog. This peat consists of several mosses which grow iu these bog localities. The princl fal moss is called spagnum, or bog moss, t is a curious looking thing, resembling rothiug that I over saw, except an arti ficial inoss that is Borne times grown in i'ars for tho purpose of making a peculiar tind of beer. Wherever, in the bog region, thero is any stagnant water this spagnum grows rapidly and dies in a short time. This is followed by successive crops which Boon die. The dead epagnum accumu lates, and it is this that makes the peat or turf which the Irish use extensively fer fuol. Some of the fiat peat beds are very deep or thick. The layer of peat in the Bog of Allen is, in some places, over forty foet thick ; its average thickness is twenty uvo feet. If the supply of water is sufficient, the bog continues to incrcnoo in depth and extent. The manner of preparing the peat for nse is very simple, lt is cut out with a Bpade, io blocks about a foot long and six inches thick. These peat blocks have the general appearance of large bricks, j After hoing cut, the peat blocks are stacked op to dry, very much as brick makers stack up bricks to dry. So aeon aa the blocks are dry they are hauled home and again stacked up under a shel ter. I cannot say that the Irish peat makes a good fire. It is too light or porous, but it does much better than those who have never seen it burning would suppose. The time for cutting the peat ia in the Spring and early Summer. It ia difficult to imagine m more in tensely gloomy and desolate appearance than that presented by a large Irish flat bog. Little Sermons. Mme. de Stael defined happiness to be, "A Btato of constant occupation upon some desirable object, with a con* tinned sense of progress toward ita at* talnmeut." All Impatience of monotony, all wea riness of best things even, are but' signs of the eternity of our nature, the broken human fashions of the divine everlast ingness.-Otorgc McDonald. Mot by literature or .theology, bot only by rare integrity, by a. man permeated and perfumed with aira of heaven-with manifest or womanliest enduring love can the vision be clear.-Emerton. The wealth of Mammon is locked pp in burglar-proof vaults; tile wealth of God i a stored in the h carts of man. The lock combination to open the finit ia only known to Lim who ec ts it, bat the oom* bination that open the latter is known to every Christian. Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian maxima are: "Do right, though tb? heavens fait;" "Do right because you are bound to do right." There ia a world of dlfferenco between "You had better'' and "You are bound to."-? I, Paiten. The way to argue down a Tico Ia not to tell Bea about it-to say that it baa ho attract!ons, when everybody knows that ii hos ; but rather to let it make ont Ita caso, just as it certainly wtii in the moment of temptation, and theo meet it with th? weapons famished Ly tho Divino wraorj.-^ffofme9. - Under proceed inga on a inquisition of idiocy, Blind Tom, tho famouc pianist, Wbeen ?laced auder the guardianship ot Ooo. Janea-N. Bethune. i- r v.. -J$? VJH X**"r5- *."*. - ARI? IN TEXAS. A Town That Reminds Him of Illa O cor gis Home. LAMPABAS, TEXAS, April 8.-This beautiful town among the bills-I can almost imagino I am at homo iu North Georgia or Teunessee, and can see the Allegauys away oil' in tho borium. Thero aro no neales hero or precipices, but tho elevations are roundly rolling and slope up gently, end ono can drive to their tops anywhere, and thoso Texas ponies cover break their tireless trot. This town is in the crescent lap of a range of these gently eloping bills and the sulphur fork of the Lampasas River flows in a winding way right through it. It is a rock-built town. Everything is built of a beautiful whito limeatono that is quarried hore, and ?B moro abundant ana moro desirable than brick. Tho new court houso is a handsome structure and cost thirty-five thousand dollars and looks like it must havo cost much more. Everything hero is on a rock basis. For a town of 4,000 inhabitants and only four years old, it is a wonder of substan tial growth. A street railroad and twe ice factories aro hero. Here you aro just over the border of Texas mud and can walk anywhere with comfort, whether wet or dry. If I was a rich man I would like to live in Lampasas. It may bo be? causo I love the hills bettor than the plains. There are good farming lauds all round here along the river and creeks and down in tho valleys, but there is many a break between that a Texas farmer would not like. Then there is health here. Pure air and pure water and more than that, for here aro tho sul phur springs that are already becoming famous, ?ad that will some day make this place tho Saratoga of Texas. I have soon sulphur springs before, but never any to compare with these. Their vol umo of water is amazing. Either of tho two lurgest ones afford enough water to turn a mill, and on one of the streams there are mills right in the town-mills run by sulphur water so strong and so odorous that you can smell it a hundred yards away. You get a whiff of il as coon as you land at the depot, and before anyone bas told you you exclaim, "I smell sulphur." One of the pools is 75 foot in diameter and is six feet deop and escapes through the bath houses and swimming pools, coating and galvanising everything as it goes. The pool bas a beautiful miniature forest growing in it, a plant that feeds and lives on sulphur and never gets above the surface, for if it does it dies. It will not grow in pure water or feed upon the air. A beautiful building of solid white stone masonry ouclose-3 one of the springs and is provi ded with splondld bathing rooms. A magnificent hotel is near at hand, one that cost ninety thousand dollars, and there are handsome cottages . jar by that are rented to Bummer visitors. The park is adorned with live oaks and pecan trees, and contains 75 aerea of ground. I don't know personally whether sui {>hur water is good for the ills that flesh s heir to or not, but I have been drink ing it freely with a hope that, even if I am not sick, it may rejuvenate my youth and make me want to live longer and ?rance around, as Joe Harris says, beso good people here tell of marvel* Ions cures, and they believe what they Bay, I know, for everybody drinks this water and seem to like it, though it is almost as nauseous to me as a dose of Balts. On Sunday eve I counted forty noven persons at one spring, each of whom bad a jug or a bottle or a pitcher and bad come for water. It is tue common rendezvous of tho torn-the piazza, the Central park. Lampasas is a town of exceptional moral character ; but few saloonB and no variety shows, and no saloons or ttore* kept open on Sunday. The Rev. R. H. Burnett rodo me all around, and I saw many lovely cottage bouses upon the bills. I am still most forcibly struck with the beauty of Texas towns and the lack of home beauty in the country. Now. in our good old State a traveler overland from town to town can find a cheerful homestead every milo or two-a place where he could say, "Let us stop bere and stay overnight." Not so in Texas. The country bornes are dark and dingy hutu-most generally a front room and a shed, with a stove pipe sticking oct-no barns, no stables no shade trees, no fence or palings to on close the yard-no nothing much, and I bave wondered where and now the farm*; . era live, and where they keep their gath ered crops. A few pens covered with poles ana straw keep the cora. The oats are stacked. Tho cotton hurried to the gin. I am sorry for the good wife and the girls who have to live this way. There ?B no sufficient excuse for it either. Lumber is high and brick are high, but they might plant shade trees and fix up a little. In this immediata region, from Temple to Lampasas, there ara some hopeful signs of better improvements, and I reckon it will come all right after while. Mr. Burnett took me to the Cc ut eu na ry college that he is building as a me* morial to John Wesley and Methodism, which is now 100 years old. He is one of nature's earnest men-tireless, aggres sive and eloquent-a Methodist pioneer who years ago made a violent assault upon Texas' lawlessness and iniquity. He preached here among them when it was perilous to do so. and they threatened him and tried to bulldoze him,'but they could cat. I was told that on one occa sion when they told him they would whip him with a lariat if be dared to preach, be mounted the rude platform and laid an open dirk knife on the shelf beside his Bible, and said : "My unpenitent friends, I have come here to preach the gospel and run the Gospel mill ; I am a free, white American citizen; I am 21 years of age : I have a right to preach, and, God willing, I am going to do it whether you are willing or not. I have no weapons bnt thia good knife, and if I can't preach lo peace I will preach fight* lng and fight preaching. If I have got to fight just let it begin and I'll get a piece of somebody's ear for my baby to cot teeth on." But it LB wonderful what one man can do. They tell me that Judge Hinkley made Sherman and Peter Smith made Fort Worth, and keeps oe making it, and I believe that Mr. Burnett will make Lampasas and the college too if they will let bim. Ho remind* me of our Sam Jones in bia "get-up-and-go-at-if' in his zeal and cheerfulness-io bia com panionship with everybody, whether rich or poor. Ho is not BO blunt in speech aa 8am nor so sarcastic and oses more genial method? among the people. There is one man power and one mao fitness for things, and it seems to bo a dispensation of a wiso Providence. Ono' time wheo in New. York i I saw a man nwoy np 400 feet tn tba air, repainting the cross on top of the spiro of Tri nit* church and I wondered that a terna ooah be found In nil that great city who wri?ld do it either for monoy or fame, and I was told that there were ont two. and they wera never -io happy &2 when swigging on a Utile scaflb.d front two to four bu o - dred feet In tho Air. Tboro I ore m cn for every duty that ia to bo peri*, med. Sara Jones is building the orphans' homo in Georgia and'Mr. Boaett has just Ugun bia grand scheme in Texas. Now let some ono man in Alabama and Missis sinpi, and tho other Southern States, follow suit. Latnpasaa ia tho second of tho great wool markets of Texas. About throe million pounds aro shipped from boro annually. Hides aro hauled here from a large area and constitute a good trade for the town. Pecans are shipped away by the carload and all the little hoyt; and girls make their spending money by gatheri ng'hem from the groves around the town. This County almost bordors upon the vast domain of freo grass, where the cat tle and sheep aro raised by tho million. But it is not all free grass now. Free grass must go, and is going. Many wealthy ranchmen aro fencing in with wire, and there are long parallel strotchos of it across the plains, all painfully ctrnigbt, and the highway lying between. Befoio long the nigh cuts from town to town and ranch to ranch will be closed up and free roads will pasa away with free grass. BILL ABP. A ?f an of hts Word. Tho war was over. General Lee and bis half-starved Con federate had returned to their desolated homes on their parole of honor. Tho victorious Northern and Western armies, under command of Grant and Sherman, wero encamped in and around Washington City. Jefferson Davis was an iumate of a casement in Fortress Mooroo and Edwin M. Stanton was the power behind tho throne who ran tho government while Secretary of War. Generals Grant and Rawlins wero playing a game of billiards in the Nation al Hotel and two civilians were indulg ing iu that pastimo on ah opposite table. A Major in tho regular army entered the spacious room in a hurry and. whispered to General Grant. Tho latter laid his cue on the table, saying : "Rawlins, don't disturb the balls until I return," and hurried out. Ono of the civilians said to the other ': "Pay for the gamo and hurry out. There IB somethitig up." General Grant had reached tho street, where, iu front of the botol, stood a mounted sentinel. Grant ordered the soldier to dismount and springing into the saddle put spurs to tho horse and rode up tho avenuo so fast 'as to attract the attention of pedestrians. The first civilian questioned the soldier aa to the cause of euch auddon haato on the patt of General Grant, but waa answered with the surprise of ono who know nothing. The second citizen appeared, saying, "What baa become of Grant?" On being told of tho Qeneral'a break neck ride up Pennsylvania avenue, it was decided to go to the War Department and learn tho cause, if possible. Colo nel Barroll, of the Second Regular In fantry and husband of Sue Donin, tho actress, waa disbursing officer in the Quartermaster's Department, presided over by General Bucker, and to the Col onel one of the civilians went for infor- ' mation. Aaking him if he knew the reason of General Grant's hasty action j and if he had seen the boro of the hour around the department, Colonel Barroll 1 answered, "\ea," but was surprised at anybody's knowledge of tho event. When told of what transpired in the billiard room of the National Hotel the Colonol said : "Well, as you are aware of tho coming of General Grant, I will tell you all about it, providing you prom ise not to repeat it." The promise being given, Colonel Bar roll eatd : "Secretary Stanton sent for me in reference to the execution of cer tain orders, and whilo listening to his instructions General Grant came in. The Secretary greeted tho General with a pleasant 'Good morning/ which tho latter returned, and in a continuation aaid : 'Mr. Secretary, I un dora t and that you have issued orders for the arrest of Geuoral Lee and others, and desire lo know if such orders have been placed in the hands of any officer for execution.' " 'I have issued writs for the arrest of all the prominent rebela, and officers will be dispatched on tho mission pretty soon,' replied the Secretary. Geueral Grant appeared cool, though laboring under mental excitement, and quickly aaid : "Mr. Secretary, when General Leo surrendered to me at Appomattox Court House I gave him my word and honor that neither he nor any oi his fol lo wera would be disturbed ao long aa they obeyed their parole of honor. I havo learned nothing to cause me to believe that any of my lato advoraariea have broken their promisee, and have come here to make you aware of that fact and would also suggest that those ordere be i canceled.' ? Secretary Stanton became terribly an gry at being spoken to in sueh a manner by his inferior officer and aaid : "General Grant, are you aware whom you cry talking to? lam Secretary of Quick ns flash Grant answered back: "And I am General Grant. Ia no those orders at your peril.". Then turning on his heel General Grant walked out of the room aa unconcerned as if nothing had happened. "It l? needless to say," continued Col onel Barroll, "that neither General Lee nor any of his soldiers were arrested. I waa dismissed fiom the presence of the Secretary with the remark that my ser vices in connection with the arrest of the leading rebels Would be dispensed with until ho took ttmo to consider and I now walt the result of hie decision." Like some cases lo law that decision of the groat War Secretary was reserved for all time, but whether the gamo of bill iards between Generala Grant and Baw Hos was ever played out lo au end bas never been definitely known, though Jt was surmised that with the aid of a con soling cigar the game was finished. Philadelphia Time*. J- ,{ . '-. '. ? ' Hoir to Drive Tour Husband Away. ! Henpeck him. Snarl at him. Find fanlt with him. Keep an untidy house. Humor him half to death. Boas him ? out bf his boots. Always havo the last word. Be extra croea on wash day. Quarrel with him over trifles. New havo meals ready In time. Bun bille -without ula knowledge. Vow vengeance ou all his relatives." Let him sew the \ buttons on his eh i rta. Pay no attention . to household expenses. Give as much cs , he can earn in a month for a new bon* net.. Tell him as plainly as possible that you married him for a living. Ra iso a ; row if ho dares to bow pleasantly to an J old lady friend.. Pr?vida any sort of pick-up meals for him when you do not expect Etrang?re. Get every tbiog the woman next door sets, whether, fon can > afford it or flot. Tell him tbs children inherit all their mean irai ta of character from hie lido of tho family. Let lt ont sometimes when yon are taxed thai yoqt wish yon bad married some' other fellow -thai you caed to go with. Gira, him to understand as coon aa possibio uO?r the honermoon that kissing ls well cnoogh for spoony lovera, but that for married folkalt la tery silly. ? . .-1--~ %. thiele av bed world, but lt ie ft good .vorldtodogoodin. { .,. V?'??-TM" . ' H* yu ??j cw? vu i-^->v CHILDHOOD'S FBAYER. A Literatur? Which Appeal? Strongly to the lleart. Everything has ita literature. Around the most prosaic duties of life, the fac tors of civilization, the aporta of ancient and modern times, a literature gathers, aa crystals gather around a central star. It may bo a literature of prophesies or a literature of memories, a literatura of airy fancies ; no rulo of iron can he pre scribed. Tho Bohemians, tho Greenland era, "our brothers in black," primitive man, the ?nan in the moon, war, peace, homo, Bkies and oceans have clustered around thom in literature profound, pa thetio, puzzling and peculiar. The liter ature of children, by which is meant not the diluted reading matter prepared for tho little ones, bub ?ho literature of their Brat loves and friendships and thoughts and unconventional ways, ia voluminous. Literary men delight to write of their early years, when tho trail of the serpent bad not yot appeared on their hearts. There is joy in remembering that we were onoe pure and not given to the er raticisms, "the pomps and vanities of thia wicked world." There is no "crown of sorrow" in recalling a mohr's emiio, a father's approbation, or even the snow covered graves in tho old homestead burying ground, where they are Bleeping in hopes of a glorious resurrection. Per haps one of tho tenderest recollections any man can have is that of the evening prayer at bis mother's kueo. Unfortu nate is that man whose mother did not teach him at nightfall to say : Now I lay mo down to sleep, I pray tho Lord my noni to keep ; Ir I should die before I wake, I pray tho Lord my soul to take. Men say that the opening contoneo of the Bible, "In tho beginning Qod created the beaven and tho earth," is sublimer in ita simplicity than all of Milton's rich poetry or description. Felix alend?is soho was impressed with tho passage in the first Book of Kings, "Behold, tha Lord passed by," and Baw in it so much beauty that he determined to write an oratorio in whioh he could set it to mu sic. "Tho Elijah" was tho result. The prayer of childhood, "Now I lay me down to sloop," to mo seems grander and truer in spirit than the elaborate liturgy of the Anglican establishment, or the stilted addresses to Deity delivered in legislative halls and religious assemblies. It is unaffected helplessness casting it self upon power : what io more or less than this cannot be prayer. I have seen children in time of dreadful storms, when dark clouds hung unusually low, and trees were uprooted and fences blown down, and wo expected tho houso soon to yield to the fury of the galo, steal into a corner and repeat these lines of siraplo faith. Qod knew what they wanted. What are words? The literature which has gathered Around this prayer has its burlesque, as well as ita pathos. Tho following in stance baa been ascribed to too many men for us to say positively it was such a one. Two Congressmen (be assured they were Congressmen) were conversing, and a freak of mind utterly inexplicable led them io refer to religion. Forthwith one of thom began to eulogize the Lord's ftraver as most touching and eloquent in ls diction ; ho concluded by ofloring to bet $10 that his brother could not repeat it. The $10 bill was covered, and the Congressman began: "Now I iay me down to sleep," and repeated that prayer to the end. "I am amazed," tho oilier said ; "J really didn't think you could doit. The money is yours." Perhaps the recurrence of the word Lord is what led to this ignorance. A large number of poems have been written on this prayer-from twelve to twenty lines being taken for each lina of the prayer. The shortest and one of tho cutest has gono the rounds anonymously. In the authology before me no name is attached. Here it is. "Now I lay rno"--~say lt, darling;. "Lay me," lisped the tiny lips Of my daughter kneeling, bending, O'er her folded (Inger ups. "Down to sleep"-"to sleep," she mur mured. And the curly bead drooped low ; "I pray tho Lord," I gently added, "You can say ii all, I know." "Pray the Lord"-the words came faintly, Fainter BtiU-"my aoul to keep." Then the tired beau fairly nodded, And the child was fest asleep. But the dewy oyes half opened When I clasped her to my breast, And a dear voice softly whispered, "Mamma, Qod knows all the rest." Ah, Mr. Preacher, here ls a faith that argues your theology down: "Qod known all tho rest." lt is like tho faith of David when he wrote in the most filaintive of psalms : "He knoweth our ramo: He remombereth that we are dust." A mother says she saw her youngest child die. be shrouded and buried, and did not shed a tear. The evening after the funeral she was listening to the prayer of her now only child, and when the weak voice piped, "If 1 should die/' she thought of the one whose spirit the Lord had taken. The prayer smote ber heart as the rod of Hoses smote the rock, and a flood of tears gashed to her rslief. The sketches of tho life of the Bev. Nott relate that he sank into second child hood. The last hoar of his life was pe culiary tender and impressive. He Jay on his bed blind and apparently uncon scious. His wife sat by bia bedside, and upon his request, sang the songs of hit youth. He was hushed to reposo bj them, like, an infant on its i pillow. Watta' cradle hymn, "Hush, My Dear Lie Still and Slumber," seemed especial.} BOC th in g. Visio ii 3 of home floated be fore him, and the name of hts i mothei was often on his lips. "Let us pray,? ht said, and all the family and friends, pr?t ent Lne?f. He clasped his hands and began, "Nor; I lay me down to ulcop.' They waited for bim to continue. Hil wife was first to discover that he bad fal len "asleep in Jeans." Ilia proposed in this article to do nc more thru suggest what o th o re can di better tbun tho pr?sent writer. ; Let th< literature of this prayer be collected Almost every mother can contribute t< it. and he Is to be pitied who would flo< no pleasure in "it. There are comm o i folks Io this world who do not care fo the protoplastic nomads or earth. worms who cannot appreciate the. essaye, will bard names whioh appear in many pe riodicals, bot the/ have smiles and tear for what Ka faithfni transcript of ever day lift. Tho literature of tho heart am of home is what they love, and, after all U the holiest and beat. . . .? .. '",",.; ; * : - Mrs. William Thompson, li vin near Johnson's awatop in Williamabur, County, wa? cerioualy and ls ia fear* fatally burned on Wednesday, April .1 She WM sitting with her back to tho fir engaged to eomo work when her dr?t ?adder/ry caught In a blaze, lt ia thong! that 'Ibero ls very little hope for hi recovery. - Tho Baptist congregations of A?g?i ta aro busily preparing for the ass?mblln of tho Southern Baptist Convention i the First Baptist church of that city I TUE QUININE HABIT. What nu Observant Old Doctor Has to Kay About it. Bald a distingaibbcd medical practi tioner who baa grown gray in bia profess? ion, speaking of the use quinine aa a stimulant il becoming a very common habit among men anet ladies in society : "Yes, it is unquestionably true tbat tho increase in the sales of quinine during the past five years by retail druggists ls very largely referable to what may bo styled tho quinine habit; and it is fully as frequent among women in society as ito with men whoso nerves aro overtaxed by bani work. And I may say to yon, though many will dispute it, that of tho two tbe quinine habit, io ito ravages, when euee thoroughly established, I? moro difficult and more dangerous In overy respect tban tbe habitual use of opium or ito preparations. Few, save practicing physicians, are aware of the potency of tbls drug in ito effects upon the nervous system. As you know, de* pending upon the quantity taken, quinine Iwssesse* four very distinct properties >eing, in very email doses, tonie and ner vine; and in moderate doses, directly stimulant ; in large doses, sedative ana soporific ; and in very largo doses, intox* icating-producing a peculiar species of drunkenness similar in ito features to marked epilepsy, in which, while per forming actions and talking with the coherence of a person in tho Tull possess ion of his senses, the victim ia really perfectly unconscious of what he ls doing and irresponsible. There is no question that the regular use of the drug aa a stimulant is n yid ly increasing among the higher classes. Tho fact Io one of the most lamentable that bas come under my notice for years.. The .way a man gets into it in tue first place is very sim* pie. He feels a little unstrung and out of tune, perhaps, and no cona ni tr, thfi family physician, who suggests a few doses of quinine. In a day or two he feels singularly improved; his brain is clever and bright ; his physical energies ncom to have renewed their youth. Ela ted with tho results, whenever ho feels down-spirited or out of sorts he resorts, of course-, to the remedy that bas once served his purpose so well; and very soon hos acquired the habit of using the drug in regular daily doses. In three months, solnsiduous aro its effects, the quinine habit is fully established, and the probability, is that the man (or wo* man as tbe case may be) has not five years to live. Worse ct ill, co peculiar aro the effects of the salt on the nervous Bvstem, there is a strong probability that tho victim will die of suicide ; for it ls a singular fact that no tonio in the mate ria medica acts so directly and rapidly to produce suicidal predisposition and im pulse. "Morphia has no such effect, deplora* ble as ito ravages are. The morphia hab it generally transforms a truthful roan or woman into an inveterate Uar in the oourse of two or threo years-a romancer of tbo wildest type. On tho other hand, wbilo quinine produces no perceptible effect on the veracity, it leads to a nerv ous irritability that io intolerable alike to its victim and his associates, and fre quently ends in the sudden development of suicidal mania. Again, a patient may be reduced to the verge of tho grave by morphia, and still recover a remnant of physical and nervous energy when the drug hos been eliminated from the sys tem ; but whon once the system gives nay under the cumulative influences of quinine the breakdown is irrevocable. In the course of an experience embracing thirty-five esses of the quinine habit In its latter stages, during the last two years, I have never seen a case in which the victim was good for anything after the habit was broken, and, as a rule, the Salient collapses and dies if the.' with rawal of tho stimulant is persevered in. ' Knowing these facto, I cannot toll- yon how I dread to prescribe quinine to men a little fagged out with overwork, and I think it is time practitioners began to be os cautious with it as they are with mor phia." ' , Wild Animals in Winter, One of nature's most important mein-. ods of preserving animal life is br by bera at ion. The lower animals, as insecto and some reptiles, become, to ell appear ances, entirely donnant, Jivo without cs sentlal chango during the cold Winter, and wake to active life only when food io again ready for them.. Others, like the woodchuck, after growing fat on the abundant food of Autumn, roll them selves up In a nest an? sleep. Vital action is lowered, they consume but lit* tie oxygen, and live upon the stores of fat with which they went into Winter quarters. The black bear generally hib ernates tn caves and under old tree topa, but he is never so sleepy that he is not ready for a battle if disturbed; and further south he does not hibernate at all. In Naw England ho grows fat on < green corn, roots, and nota in tho fall, and so he hos had the credit of growing fat by "sacking bis paws." This old notion in only an illustration of theories tn mechanic life that something caa come of nothing. The troth about the bear tbat he grows thin every d?y ho Ilea in bis den. The third general method of preserving the species through tho Win ter la by migration, aa best Been among birds, but practiced abo by tbe higher, mammals. As the Autumn advances many of the smaller birds from our midst abd from the far North, quietly make thelr: way Booth, to find warmer weather-, and now stores of food for, tho Winter months. Others assemble in flocks and seem to ha vo gravo consulta?ions o vor tho projected journey. Tho metniic noto of the wild goose comes to ns from among, the clouds, as, night and day, the flocks ive nd their way in long lines to the South/' Long before they appear with tis they collect their broods in the lakes and bays near , their breeding-places, and seem to be organizing for tbo long flight which most of them ara to take for first time to a land which most of thank havo never seen ; for, of every flock that st ar tr,. from their northern resting place, tho larger part aro young and have no vcr flown but a few mites before they ?om* meneo their long flight to au unknown fand. They follow, their leader, it is said. Wo have seen them in the bays of Newfoundland, gathering like a great army, practicing for days, and thon ono flock after another separates Itself from ?o great host, and follows its chosen ader ta tho South. They return In the Boring, even while the caovr and foo abound, to bo ready for tho opening of tho short Northern Summer. In tho long naya of tho Northland by tho un. molested bays of Newfoundland and Labrador, they find the best conditions for rearing their .young. - The McDtpelle'r'JMftalthlpkstbAt ?nether o? not smoking Is air exciting . of oancer, tba uso of tobacco o?i? i people ttom ;^mpm:^ot: - A groeOiyman at Keokuk, ??Wft, wno hast ? ?kt* eye to business, in sub scribing $1 to a church ?ntertfisis?V added after hu Signatare, "tho. only ia Xookuk where you can git B?x ? \bofwgarfor?.