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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. O, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1885. VOLUME XX.?NO. 43 AGAIN We come before yo?'an? solicit your trade;: so- liberally extended to us In the past. We are better prepared than ever to sell you, and are still HEADQUAR? TERS for Fore and Reliable Drags and Chemicals, Paints, Oils and Varnishes, Patent Medicines. Etc^JEtc., and, in fact any thing in our line. The most biportant. ?branch,oft the Drug Business is concededby,Sil to &$e PRES?RIPTT?N DEPART M^^endH^e desire to call*th'e-attention of the public ^ v^r "to the fact that we make a specialty of compounding Physicians' Prescriptions, and guarantee all ingredients used by us to be absolutely PURE and -FRESH. There is probably nothing about which mankind are so de? servedly particular as the Medicines wh ich sickness com? pels them to take, and the great desideratum is to feel assured that the^Appthecary fully understands the prep? aration of the ?j?ician's prescrir^Um. We guarantee accuracy and purity, at prices as low'as quality of same - will permit. v < We make purchases from first.hahdv select Goods with speojal^ference to wants of </ttr CMton&a, ahd'maJte flriem at wich5 prices' '?sNrill ensure'ttfelrreWdy sale.' All we ask of our friends is that they call and look over oar Stock. It will - be the constant aim of our House to please, and we shalhspare no effort, to do so. i'ji??r ii* >U,iuvt.t *)<ty-n ?> ?.}>'??? We take the lead in Toilet Articles. You will ' find our Stock complete, and also find that a dollar will go further with us in Jjuying such articles than.you have ever before experienced. We invite your attention to a few of our Proprietary remedies, which we recommend to be reliable Medicines and worthy of a trial. . i. ? -i c a 'sf? yW Wilhites' Soothing Syrup or Baby's Friend is an invaluable remedy fee children when teething, regulating the bowels and -relieving] pain. It relieves the 136tle.safliereratonce^ producesnatural, quiet sleep, by relieving ttiei child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as "bright as a button." It is pleasant to take, soothes the child, relieves wind, and is the best known remedy for Diarrhoea,'whether arising from teething or otherwise. . Wilhite?s Cough-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 Store at the inception of the trouble, the use of Wjlhite's Cough Syrup, which we can confident? ly recomrhend as a good remedy, will relieve much suf? fering and anxiety on the part of friends. Many children suffer from day to day?fretful, cross arid peevish?and the cause 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 the nose, are all symptoms indica? ting the presence of Worms. It any of these symptoms are noticed or Worms are sus? pected, procure a bottle of Wilhite's Worm Syrnp or Vermifuge, which costs but 25 cents, and give it according to directions. It any Worms are present they wiRsOcm.be expelled, and you will have the satisfaction of seeing your darling restored to health again. If there are no Worms present the.Syrup will do no harm, but will move the bowels gently and leave the system in a healthy condition. This Syrup con? tains no Calomel, and no Castor Oil or purgative medicine is required with it. It should be in every family. Try it. j."ho largest bottle of Worm Medicine in the market for 25c. Wilhite's Eye Water is a sure cure for. in flamed or Weak Eyes, or any ordinary form (where no mechan? ical or constitutional trouble exists) of Sore Eyes. It has been used with great success for a number of years, . and amount paid for it will be refunded if it fails to cure any common form of Sore Eyes after directions have been carefully followed. If it does yon no good it will cost you nothing. . Price 25c per bottle. DR. JOHNSTONE'S SAPONACEOUS ODONTINE is the best preparation in tfce market tor thoroughly cleansing, preserving and beautifying the teeth, hardening the gums and imparting a delicious odor, to the breath. Nothing injurious. A safe and pleasant dentifrice. Recommended by A. P. Johnstone, D. D. S., and prepared by 5 WILHITE * PROPRIETORS, ?March fJDERSON, - - S.C. HIGH GRADE ACID PHOSPHATE. GERMAN KAINIT,-(^p? PURE CHEMICALS FOR COMPOSTING. A BOUSING STOCK OF HEAVY GROCERIES, FARM SUPPLIES, a And PROVISIONS GENERALLY. 4,000 lbs. STEEL PLOWS. Complete Lines of Boots, Shoes and Dry Goods. COMPETITION for the above Goods is very SEVERE and RELENTLESS, but I ~ am BOUND TO SELL, and ask your inspection of Goods and Prices before buying. J. J. BAKER, Benson House. Feb5,1885 22 3m FREE PASS TO THE EXPOSITION -AT SMITH * CO.'S WE HAVE NOW ON EXHIBITION ONE. OF THE Finest Stocks Spring and Summer Clothing in the market. COME AND SEE US. We will pass you in free, and charge you nothing for look? ing. We have just received from market a beautiful line of MENS' AND BOYS' CLOTHING and FURNISHING GOODS. HATS for Men and Boys. Come and see our SUITS FOR THE LITTLE FELLOWS. The impression.has gone out that we were out of the market, but we want to in? form our old friends that we are here yet. Come and see us, and we will treat you right. ?&~ Don't forget the place. . ? . . SMITH & CO., WHITNER STREET, Opposite Auditor's Office. March 26, 1885 37 HAVE YOU WAITED FOR BARGAINS! ?*- IN BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, DRESS GOODS and NOTIONS ? JF you have, here is your chance, as I will sell my ENTIRE STOCK At and below Cost for the next Thirty days. REMEMBER, everything I have in Stock will be sold at and below Cost. I carry the best line of? Ladies' and Children's Shoes That you can find in the City. - JOHN M, McCONNELL. March 5, 1885 " 34 m ? ,f Go Tell all the People for Miles Around!" -THAT JOHN M. HUBS ARD *BRO. ARE PREPARED TO SELL MORE JEWELRY, MORE WATCHES, MORE SILVERWARE, MORE CLOCKS, &C, AT PRICES MORE TO YOUR NOTION. THAN EVER BEFORE. -< pgr- EVERYTHING in the shape of a Watch, Clock or Jewelry thoroughly repaired. F??5,18Bir' ' 30 BILL ART IN TEXAS. A State that Will Have Fifty Congressmen? Still on the war path?no?on the path of peace, for I find peace in Texas. I have now been in Texas seven weeks and have not heard a quarrel between man and man. I hijve seen but one man intoxicated ;^-have^riotrie'enA-'a,y-plstol or a bowie knife, nor a man with horns, nor an impolite, uncivilized man. The Texas Si/tings has many a rough joke and hard caricature upon Texas, but, I have not found the reality yet. The good manners and civility and courtesy of this people has surprised me. I have mingled with them on the cars and in the towns, at tbeir homes, and have to put on my best behavior to keep up with tbem. Tbey are free and easy and sin? cere. They put on no airs, either social or fashionable, and one family seems to be as good as another as long as they behave well. The tricks and nigh cuts of trade are not tolerated. If a man takes an unfair advantage of another, it is resented by the whole community, and he had just as well leave it, for he is like a bank note dishonored and gone to protest. If a new-comer thinks be can come here and get fat off of unsuspect? ing victims, he labors under a delusion and will soon get left, for these people are smar>?as rold Joe Bagstock says, "they are devilish' smart?? *Most all of these Texans are immigrants?folks who were bard up at home and on a strain, and so there is, or was, a common bond between them?the bond of poverty? and so they all go to work and stand up to one another and woe be the man who seeks to gain a living by tricking them. The old settlers who have made money and gotten rich sympathize with the new ones who come, and give them welcome and good advice, provided they come to work; There is no Eldorado here?no gold mines; lying around -loose. Work, work is the watchword, and work is re? warded. There are but few social dis? tinctions. The barber or the livery stable man, or the carpenter is as good as anybody as long as he behaves him? self properly. Of course there are cir? cles?social circles?but they are founded on mental and moral qualities, and not on occupations. The barber who shaved me at Ennis owned the hall I lectured in. The one who shaved me at Belton was studying law in his moments of leisure, and both of them were recognized as gentlemen. Everybody seems in good nmor. There is no stiff reserve?no aristocracy. The aristocracy of Texas is not yet formed. Well, of course there is some in a city like Dallas or Waco, but it lives on a 8train even there, and most of it is based on shoddy wealth?fortunes made by lucky speculation. They are always the biggest fools, the children of people who were poor and got rich sud? denly. These boundless prairies are now beau? tiful and lovely beyond description. Dame nature, like a blushing maiden, has put on her pantaletts and banged her silken hair and adorned her ringlets with the flowers of Spring and perfumed her breath with the sweet odors of jessamin and crabapple blossoms?one can feel the Spring poetry even though he can? not write it. For some days past I have been in Eastern Texas where there are trees and hills and valleys and glades just like they are in old Georgia?I have been on the border lines?the lines that divides the cross timber country irora the prairie?the lines that give the traveller a view of both at once?Hunt County has such a line and a man can take his choice or take both if he is able and be happy. I was at Campbell, a new vil? lage just a year old. It is ten miles east of Greenville, the County seat, and is filling up with good, humble, earnest people who work and meau business. Their farms are on the prairie, but tbeir town is in the woods close by. They have but one church and it belongs to the whole community, and is occupied by any good Christian minister who comes along. I heard Mr. Cocbran, of Greenville, preach there Sunday night and I have not heard such siogiog in a -long time nor such a sermon in ten years. It reminded me of the sermon that William Wirt wrote about, that was preached in old Virginia by a blind man. Mr. Cochran surprised and amazed and humbled me with his earnest eloquence. There is not a saloon nor a billiard table in Campbell, and those people declare there shall not be one. The little happy town seems just like one family, and half of them are from Georgia and Alabama. There is not a man in it worth ten thousand dollars, but they en? joy life more than they enjoy money. They are sociable and they are kind. They have a large school building and tivo excellent teachers.' I had an old friend there who was named for me in old Gwinnett, and I stopped to see him and had a good time with his family and with other friends. When they urged me to give them a talk at the school house I could not refuse, and the whole town- cams out, men,..women and -chil? dren. It bad to be in the daytime for I was billed for Greenville that night and so they closed their stores for an hour, and 'everybody came, and the large school room was filled to overflowing. It was a free show and we all got happy together. I owed that much to Campbell and gave it willingly for all it was worth. Hunt County is comparatively newly settled, for until recently it had no (rail? road. But now it is coming to the front ?and rapidly. Greenville is a beautiful town of 4,000 inhabitants. When they speak of population in this country they do not count the negroes as we do for there are very few to count. Negroes are of but very little consequenc in Texas. A Mississippi man said that be? fore he left Mississippi they were talking of colonizing the negroes somewhere, but his idea was to colonize the white folks in Texas, and let the negroes have Mississippi free. But this negro problem will settle itself if we give it time, and neither George W. Cable nor anybody else can hurry it. I used to feel some concern about it, but I don't now?so let it rip. The South is getting up out of the low-grounds, and can and will take care of herself. I see that Evarts and Hoar, two old soreheads, have been abusing us again in public, but we don't care. Georgia does not care and Texas is am used. Texas expects to have fifty Representatives in Congress by the next census and then Evarts and Hoar will be dead, I reckon, and fanaticism be dead, too. Judge Tourgee said in his "Fool's Errand," that the South ruled the Nation for fifty years, and if the North did not change her methods, she would rule it again. And she will. She is ruling it now. The North loves money, and the South loves life and lib? erty better. I am banking on Texas for the preservation of the Union." I see that a Texan up in Fannin County is aggrieved because I fou'- l some little fault with Texas, and your good paper seems to think I say too much for Texas. So I reckon I am about right. I have | not yet been up in Fannin where I sup? pose the country homes are all lovely and inviting, and I reckon ray friend j "Rah Hyde" has not been where I have been and seen them in their diny lone? liness. So we will compromise on the "truth" and be friends. That little mis take about the price of lumber being eighteen dollars a thousand instead of eighteen dollars a hundred is not worth mentioning. I don't know whether it was my mistake or the type-setters and it does not matter. It was not as bad a blunder as Mr. Memminger made when he was the treasurer of the Confederate States, late of said country, deceased, for when he was called on to state bow much confederate money he had issued, he 1 said it was either three hundred millions or three thousand millions, he was not certain which. I am now in the good old town of Jefferson?a town they call the Carthage of Texas?for it used to have seventeen thousand inhabitants, and now has only four thousand. But it has struck bot? tom, and got down to the rock and crys? tal i zed, and is solid and sure. It used to be the great cotton market of a large area of country, but the railroads came, and changed the programme?westward the tide of empire took its way. Dr. Terhune, of Floyd County, lives here; an honored citizen, eminent in his pro? fession and a good example for those who are coming after him?a splendid type of the Southern Christian gentleman. Most of the Georgians stop somewhere in this wooden country, where the hills and the valleys look like their own; but after awhile many of them go further west and land on the richer prairie lands. They take Texas in broken doses?and that is a right good plan. I see the dog? wood and the crab apple and the honey? suckle in bloom everywhere, and it makes me warrt to be at home and go a fishing with Carl and Jessie. Bless their little hearts 1 I want to see them mighty bad?and Mrs. Arp, too, of course, of course. Bill Abp. The Influence of a Mother's Prayers. More than' thirty years ago, one lovely Sabbath morning, eight young men, students in a law school, were walking along the banks of a stream that flows into the Potomac River not far. from, the city of Washington. They were going to a grove in a retired place, to spend the hours of that holy day in playing cards. Each of them had a flask of wine in bis pocket. They were sons of praying mothers. As they were walking along amusing each other with idle jests, the bell of a church in a little village about two miles off began to ring. It sounded to the ears of those thoughtless young men as plainly as though it were only on the other side of the little stream along which they were walking. Presently one of their number, whose name was George, stopped, and said to the friend nearest to him that he would go no fur? ther, but would retnrn to the village and go to church. His friend called out to their companions, who were a little ahead of him: "Boys! boys! come back here. George is getting religious. We must help him. Come on and let's baptize him by immersion in the water." In a moment they formed a circle round him. They told him that the only way in which he could save himself from having a cold bath was by going with them. In a calm, r 'at, but earnest way, he said: "I know very well that you have power enough to put me in the water and hold me there till I am drowned, and if you chooss you can do so and I will make no resistance; but listen to what I have to say and then do as you think best. "You all know that I am 200 miles away from home; but you do not know that my mother is a helpless, bed-ridden invalid. I never remember seeing her out of her bed. I am her youngest child. My father could not afford to pay for my schooling; but our teacher is a warn friend of my father and offered to take me without any charge. He was very anxious for me to come; but moth? er would not consent. The struggle almost cost her what little life was to her. At length, after many prayers on the subject, she yielded, and said I might go. The preparations for ray leaving home were soon made. My mother never said a word to me on the subject till the morning when I was to leave. After I had eaten my breakfast she sent for me, and asked if everything was ready. I told her all was ready and I was only waiting for the stage. At her request I kneeled beside her bed. With her loving hands upon my head she prayed for her youngest child. Many and many a night since then I have dreamed that whole scene over. It is the happiest recollection of my life. I believe, till the day of my death I shall be able to repeat every word of that prayer. Then she spoke to me thus: "My precious boy, you do not know? you never can know, the agony of a mother's heart in parting, for the last time, from her youngest child. When you leave home you will have looked for the lost time, this side of the grave, on the face of her who loves you as no other mortal does or can. Your father cannot afford the expense of your making us visits during the two years that your studies will occupy. I cannot possibly live as long as that. The sands in the hour-glass of my life have nearly run out. In the far off strange place to which you are going, there will be no loving mother to give you counsel in time of trouble. Seek counsel and help from God. Every Sabbath morning, from ten to eleven o'clock, I will spend the hour in prayer for you.' Wherever you may be during this sacred hour, when you hear the church bells ringing, let your thoughts come back to this chamber, where your dying mother will be agonizing-in prayer for you. But I hear the stage coming. Kiss me; fare? well !' "Boys, I never expect to see my moth? er again on earth. But, by the help of God, I mean to meet her in heaven." As George stopped speaking the tears were streaming down his cheeks. He looked at bis companions. Their eyes were all filled with tears. In a moment the ring was opened which they had formed about him. He passed out, and went to church. He had stood up for the right against great odds. They admired him for doing what they had not the cournge to do. They all followed him to church. On their way there, each of them quietly threw away his cards and his wine-flask. Never again did any of those young men play cards on the Sabbath. From that day they all became changed men. Six of them died Christians, and are now in heaven. George is an able Christian lawyer in Iowa; and his friend, the eighth of the party, who wrote this ac? count, has been for many years an earn? est, active, member of the church. Here were eight men converted by the prayers of that good Christian woman. And if we only knew all the results of tbeir examples and their labors, we should have a grand illustration of the influence of a mother's prayers.?Christian Union. ? "What's that you have in your hand?" asked Mrs. Gimlet of her hus? band as he brought home n roll of man uscript. "Brains, madam," replied Mr. Gimlet, pompously. "Are you surprised at that fact?" "Not in the least," she j replied. "I knew you didn't carry them I in your head," 1 BETSY HAMILTON. Betsy and Her Gang at the World's Expo? sition. Atlanta Constitution. "Wonders will never cease," as pap said when old Arminty Pendergrass got married, and I know in reason you'uns will say so too when yon hear that we'uns has flanted away down here to the big show at New Orleans. Caledony she sot her head to come when she fust hearn about it; 1 sot my head, too, but its easier to set your head than it is to get the money. I didn't know for the life of me whar the money was to come from. "Whar thar's a will thars a way," ingennerly speakin, 'cept when "the way" means money, but I scratched and scrimmaged around, and sold this, that, tother, and made the money. My dried apples and goobers and ingon buttuns, and chickens and aigs, fetched a good price, but my taters was sorter stringy, them and my punkins never fetched much, and I pretty nigh give away my "hit or miss" quilt, and my double wove cat track counterpin, but I let 'em go kase I was obleege to have the money. When t'other gals in the settlement hearn that we'uns was a gwine, they'd er come then or broke a trace, and they all come over to see what we'uns was a gwine to wear and tried to trim Iher frocks like owr'n. Me and Caledony bought owr'n offn the same bolt and they let us have it cheaper by it; they was orange yaller kaliker, trimmed in white terpentine braid and made j ist exactly alike; Cal she won't have a Sunday frock that hain't pine blank like mine. Aunt Nan? cy she lowed, "Gals, you'uns will out? shine ever body at the show; I know in reason them yaller frocks will take ever body's eye," and 'pears like they have, from the way folks gazes at us. Some gals down here told us not to wear our best out thar to the show, we'd git it ruint, but Cal lowed they wasjista fellin us that to keep we'uns from out shinin'. them, and Cat she would er wore her Sunday frock then or died. But I must go back, like Aunt Nancy, and tell you from the beginnin'. When we'uns got thar to Talladegy town we seed a sight of strangers a perusin around, and pap he gee hawed the steers up thar fernent Mister Dr. Yandiver's drug store, and made enquirements about who they was, and whar they all come from, and what it all meant, anyhow; and they lowed it was the Albany press association, and we'uns knowed about as much then as we did afore. Buddy he let on like he knowed all about it. I and Caledony and Cousin Pink and sister Flurridy Tennysy and pap was in the waggin and buddy a walkin, and some chaps sot in to clappiu tber hands and a hollerin, "Here comes Betsy Hamilton! Here comes Betsy! Here she comes 1" Buddy be was a beatin and a cussin of the steers, and when he hearn it he turn? ed around und was a fixiu to war his ox whip bardaciously out on them little boys when pap he hollered out, "Bets, honey, j ist look at that thar steam engyne with your name on it I that's what them younguns was a yellin about." Cousin Pink was a gittin terrible mad; she low? ed she thought they was a making small of me, kase I.wasaridin in a waggin, and she knowed I was as good as airy one of 'em, or any of her folks. Well, we'uns has been here to New Orleans a week and haven't saw all, but we seed a powerful sight of things?we've most looked our eyes out, and in or about trotted our feet off, and we've rid on a heap of different sort of things, too. First, the 'dummy;" hits a steam street kar without any fire; then the horse kar ?hit's pulled by one poor, little old mule, loaded down with three or four dozen folks; then we rid on the steam? boat on the Massyssippi river, and we rid on the electric railroad; that's the kar whar they use lightning instid of fire, and we rid on the railroad out to West End, and then ona sailboat on the lake to Spanish Fort, and at the Exposition we rid up stairs in the elevator, and we rid in a roller cheer shoved around by a great, big, double-fisted white man that had orter been put to plowin. So you see that was eight different things we rid on atter we lit out'n pap's ox waggin thar at Talladegy town. They say you can walk fifteen or twenty miles a day out at the exposition and not know it? but you may pend on it we'uns knowed it, when night come, by our feet. I pity folks that haint got no better sense than to wear ther new tight Sunday shoes?and that's just what we'uns done, and the fust night they hurt us so bad we couldn't skasely sleep, and while we was a bemeanin ourselves for not bavin no better sense, Cal she lowed : "Hush, gals, listen?mizery loves company"? and the crowd in tother room was a gruntin and a groanin with ther feet, too, and we over hearn 'em say: "I am mighty glad to git off these new shoes, they are hard and stiff and just a kil 1 in my feet." "Come over here and put 'era in this.salt water, its hope mine a ready." "Salt water nor nothin else haint a gwine to do mine no good, I've walked and walked tel they are plum blistered and sore and if I live tel mornin I bound I git me a pair that's big enough not to hurt. Ob, my head ! .That old machinery hall is enough to addle a body's brain." "Don't talk; that old Mexican band is wusaer'n all that machinery put. to? gether." "Oh ! I don't think so. I like music." "I don't; I've been mad all day bekase I couldn't find Gitteau's skeleton." "I don't know, for the life of me, what you want to Bee a man's bones for. Why'nt you go and see them bones of that critter that was 55 feet long? Laws', did you'uns see that dog and them pat ridges in that glass case ? and did you see the burial of Cock Bobbin ? Did you'uns let that woman weigh you?" "Yes; I thought she was advertising the scales, didn't you?" "Yes, I thought it was free, and I lit up thar and she handed me a paper with 140 pounds marked on it, and when I jumped down and started off she said, mighty sweet, with her head turned to oue side, 'You owe me a nicklo.' And she fooled one or two out'n every crowd that same way. Less all go to sleep." "I can't sleep. I am awful tired ; I could do mighty well if it wasn't j for ray feet." Then Cal whispered to I me: "How could she git along without her feet?" Cousin Pink she lowed, "I could get along mighty well without my uose; I kuow in reason they've got the dirtiest little old ditches here ever I seed ?how folks can stand to smell 'em all the time is beyant me to tell; hits euough to kill 'em all, and they don't pear to mind it no more'n if it was cin? namon draps or sweet basil." Flurridy Tennysy lowed, "My nose don't pester me none, kase I've got such a bad cold, but I haint had no water litten to' drink sense I been here." Hush ; dont talk so loud; them folks iu tother house lives here, and it makes 'em as mad to say anything agin the water as to talk agin ther chillun." "I don't keer. I dont expect to see none of 'em no more, no how, and they don't know me from Adam's cot." Somebody in tother room said, "That's a mighty big show out yander for 50 cents, aint it?" Hush I and go to sleep." "I cant Bleep, my feet hurts me so bad I cant; tbem shoes has riz a corn on my little toe?now I'm gwine to lay my hair pins right here on this table, and I dont want none of you gals to take 'em in the mornin." "I wish you'uns would make baste and git to bed. I'm awful tired and sleepy." "I aint a bit sleepy, but that old biack coffee is enough to wake the seven sleep? ers ; but I'll hush. Laws, gals, lemme tell you this, jist this, and then I'll hush." But they talked ou and on tel away atter midnight ; and the next day we'uns was glad to put on our old shoes. They say the main buildin kivers 35 acres of ground, and I know in reason it do; hits the biggest house ever I seed, and we'uns walked ourselves plum down a tryin to see ever thing in it, and baint seed all yet; they say you mought stay a solid month arid not see it all. Buddy he lowed, "Look a here, if hits a gwine to take a month to see it, it will have to go on-seed fur as I'm cousarned, and we'uns might as well go home, kase I'm about busted now." It don't cost but 50 cts, to git in, but it costs you a sight more to git out, lessen you are sharp enough to take your vittles along with you. If you eat a little piece of beef no bigger'n your hand you got to pay the worth of a yearling calf to git it, aud a aig cost you as much as the hen that layed it. The cheapest thing you git hero is the ride ou the street kar six miles out thar for a nickle. But its a tumble big show aud pays you for gwine; you see folks from all over the world, and kinnery meets kinnery that haven't saw one another for years, and it makes 'em glad and happy, and you see things you never seed or dreamp of afore in your life, aud when night comes you can shut your eyes aud see it all over agin. We'uns all tried to stick together kase its monstrous easy to git lost. You can be right in twenty foot of anybody aud lose 'em, and if they git lost from you, you might as well try to find a needle iu a hay stack as to look for 'em. We'un's all got scattered from one another the very first day, aud Cousin Jake Corbau he called us ''Ignorance Abroad." He thinks he's mighty smart. We'uns had been-a braggin too that we was'nt a gwine to git lost. We bad seed so many folk.? a huntin around for tber crowd it made us stick closer togeth? er. I and Caledony belt to one another's hands con tin uerly putty nigh all the time and we told Cousin Pink and Flurridy Tennysy to do the same and to keep up to we'uns, would try to keep up to buddy and pap?but it was like tryin to keep up to a steam en-gyne to keep up with pap, be putty nigh run bis legs off a tryin to find Mr. Director General Burke ?he had ruther saw him than the show. Cousin Pinks Sunday shoes had riz a corn ou her left foot aud a blister ou her right and her and Flurridy got away yander behind we'uns?and Cousin Pink she stopped whar tbey sell cider and Flurridy she come a huntin for me and Cal aud got lost. We'uns missed 'em and Cal lowed she'd go back to find 'em and streaked off atter a gal with a coat on like cousin Pink's and struck up with cousin Jake and forgot all about cousin Pink, and Flurridy and me too. We'uns was all lost, aud all hands a huntin for t'other, and when I found cousin Pink she was a eatin of a ginger cake and a cryin fitin to kill herself, aud lowed she was harngry and wanted to go home and stay thar when she got thar. She had been ever wbars a huntin for us, and a axin of ever body she met if they had saw anything of Betsy Hamilton ; like folks knowed Betsy Hamilton from Polly Hopkins or Sal Simmons or anybody else, and while we sot thar all our gang come up. I mought have knowed they would come around thar, kase the last bead of 'era is death on ginger cakes and cider. And while we was a settin thar a eatin a gal passed by a huntin for her brother, and a little boy a huntin for his pap, and a woman stopped and axed "Have you'uns saw anything of a man with black hair and red whiskers?" Yes we had saw about a hundred, but we could'nt tell her which away they had went no more'n the wind. "Well," says she, "have you saw a woman with a black bonnet on, she wasn't a very good lookin woman." Yes we bad saw about.a thousand of them sort, but didnt know one from tother. The poor critter was lost from her crowd and no body knowed bettern'n we'uns how she felt. We'uns all clung together atter that and Cal she hearu some folks say we'uns was from the country and wondered how they knowed. Cousin Pink's corns is better, but she run her head iu a glass show case yistiddy a lookin at some birds and broken the glass and nearly busted her head wide open. I'll tell you more next time. Betsy Hamilton. Fifty Tears Ago. An old gentleman, who was a boy fifty years ago, says that in his young days it was very .uncommon to see a young man with store ?clothes od, and' that a young man considered himself handsomely dressed with a pair of clean copperas pants and a blue homespun sack coat. The first pair of boots he ever had was when he was 17 years old, and it took a pair of No. 12 brogaD3 to fit him. He bought them Saturday, and the next day went to church, and thought himself handsomely dressed with his new boots, copperas pants, blue sack coat and wool hat. Iu those days it was fashionable for gentlemen to wear straps under their boots to keep their pants down. ' He cut him some strips' of leather about an inch wide, and strapped his pants (which were very tight) down under his boots, and when he made his appearance at church next day, thought he was very much admired. He thinks that if a young man were to make his appearauce in public now, dressed similar to what he was then, that he would attract the universal attention and ridicule of the public. He says he would willingly give $5 for a picture of himself at that time. This old gentleman now is one of our most prominent and prosperous citi? zens.?Elbcrlon Gazette. The Chicago Widower's Grief. "I want you to come up, Dan, and tell me what you think of the way I've got my wife's grave decorated. I tell you what it is, there's some few things I won't allow no one to get ahead of me in, and one of 'era is decorating wives' graves. I flatter myself there ain't a wife'b grave in Eosehill, from one end to the other, any more decorative or with any more money spent ou it than my wife's grave. It cost like sin, but it takes tho rag off the bush for decorating. I've done the whole thing up brown? got shells, bushes, cut flowers, rustic benches, tombstone and the whole busi? ness, aud I ain't ashamed to take any one, man or woman, to pee my wife'a grave." This is a true story, and raauy | of the readers of the Tribune have j paused with feelings of amazement at the variety of garnishing on the above mentioned resting-place of a wife who,1 if report be true, was never overburdened ? with decorations in life'? Chicago Tribune. ! BUTTEE" BT A NEW PROCESS. An Alleged Discovery of A Texas Man. New York Mail and Express. Rumors of a surprising discovery in butter-making bave been afloat for some weeks among the commission merchants in the city. Meanwhile the decline in the price of butter bas been marked, and farmers throughout the State have been grumbling at the prospect. A dealer said to a reporter for the Mail and Express yesterday: "A Texas man has discovered a way to make butter without wasting any part of the milk. It is claimed that by bis pro? cess butter can be manufactured for less tban five cents per pound. Only think what a wonderful discovery that is I In stead of wasting oceans of skim milk and buttermilk the farmers can utilize all the nutritive parts of the milk. The method is kept secret yet, because the persons who are making preparations to introduce it are trying to procure letters patent from the government. They want to sell State rights to use the process, and they cannot do that unless they are pro? tected by a patent. I doubt if they will succeed, because no new mechanical con? trivances are needed and no chemicals are used. Any farmer who knew the secret could make butter by the new process. It is not unlikely, therefore, that the new fangled butter may be man' ufactured by large creameries, and put on the market in competition with butter which is made only from cream." "Will not the health authorities inter? fere in such a case?" "I don't see how they could. No for? eign substances are introduced into tbe milk, and the butter therefrom cannot be called adulterated in any legal sense." "How is the new process butter made ?" "The milk is kept until it becomes a clabber, as the thickened mass is called by farmers, and then if it is pnt into a common churn at the right temperature it quickly turns to butter with scarcely any waste. Tbe secrets of the method are tbe length of time the milk must be kept standing aud the temperature at which it is churned. Of course the but? ter must be colored, but all butter is colored, more or less, and the coloring matter is harmless. Butter by the new process contains more water and less fat tban butter of the old sort does, but it also contains the caseine and sugar of the milk." "Who discovered the process?" "I can't tell you, but if you can find B. J. Gautier, of Galveston, Texas, who is iu this city now to negotiate the sale of right8forNow York and Massachu? setts, he may be willing to tell." Mr. Gautier was found at a Broadway hotel. He says he was in correspon? dence with .proprietors of large creame? ries in tbe State, and had his headquar? ters at No. 488 Broome street. The reporter was permitted to examine a sample of the new butrer, which tasted aud looked much like the product of the ordinary product of the cow. "This is more of a discovery than some people think," Mr. Gautier said, "but we are not willing to have much publish? ed about it yet. R. E. Moore, of Lam pasas, Texas, discovered the process by accident some months ago, and be bas sold a part of his interest in it to four other men. We have filed the necessary Eapers at Washington, and we expect to ave the process patented in a short time. Of course the secret will be known then, and the simplicity of the method will cause universal surprise. Butter can be made at the rate of four pounds for each gallon of milk. By the best old methods only one-half pound of butter has been made from the same quantity of milk. The new process depends entirely upon time and temperature, aud the butter contains all tbe milk except a very small part of the water. The butter will not be useful for cooking purposes, and will not keep long without becoming stale, because it contains so much caseine and so little fat, but for table use it will be just as palatable and much healthier than the old style butter. Of course it can be sold much cheaper than any other kind butter and will become popular on that account. People in this city will hardly pay fortv cents per pound for butter to spread* on their bread when they can buy it for five cents per pound. Oleomargarine will be swept out of tbe market, because the manufacturers will not be able to make that kind of butter as cheaply as pure butter." Dr. Cyrus Edson, of the Health De? partment, said: "The new discovery will strike most people as incredible, but I understand that the Commissioner of Patents at Washington has seen butter produced by the new process. Chemical analysis of milk shows that in 100 parts of milk there are about 87 parts of water, 3 of fat, 4 of caseine, 4 of sugar and 2 of salts. By the old method butter is made to contain little except the fat of the milk. It is claimed .that all the parts of the milk can be solidified, without the introduction of any forefgn substance, and that the product will so closely re? semble butter of the old kind that few persons would notice the difference in using it on bread. If butter can be pro? duced in that way there can be no objec? tion to its sale, but it ought to be sold under some name to distinguish it from that made from cream alone. Tbe dis? covery will have the effect to cheapen the price of both milk and butter, and there ?is danger that commercial fraud will be practiced when the new process butter is first placed on the market. If it is true that temperature and time are the only secrets of the new process, I do not see how the process can be patented." Attorney General Garland Non-Suited. I was told of another of Attorney Gen? eral Garland's peculiarities by a friend the other day. He hates doctors. When? ever he hears of a friend being sick, he takes the trouble to warn him tbat the medical profession is a humbug, and tbe only way to be sure of recovery is to let it alone. He says he never bad a doctor in his life, and consequently keeps well. But the other day he broke faith. He was taken with a peculiar aiiment. At first he thought he was getting fat, but it was all confined to his face, and he did not know what to make of it. Di? rectly his jaws swelled out to an im? mense size and became very painful. He endured it a long time, bui finally grab? bed up his bat and went to see a doctor who has an office within ,a square. He said he thought he was poisoned, but had no idea who had done it. "I don't think you are poisoned," said tho doctor, after examining his face very carefully. "You've got the mumps." The Attorney General left the office in a rage, "Mumps! mumps! I wonder if it isn't cholera-infantum ! Maybe it's a cancer I" and giving vent to other sarcas? tic expressions to show his contempt for the whole medical fraternity. But it was the mumps, sure enough, and all he could do was to keep out of the way and say nothing about it."?Philadelphia Telegraph. ? Troy Township, Abbeville County, has unanimously voted tbe subscription to the Cumberland Gap Railroad. THE MASON COTTON HARVESTER, A Clear Account of the Success of the Machine. From Bradslrcct's. The Mason cotton-harvesting machine, of which so mach has been said of late, and to the general introduction of which the cotton interests of the country are so anxiously looking, has reached a stage in its development as a new and useful invention which gives positive assurance of its practical success in common use.' Without indulging in speculation as to the great revolution in cotton culture which such a machine will bring about, and without entering upon a description of its merits as an invention or sounding its praises as a wonderfully ingenious piece of mechanical construction, it may be said without the slightest degree of extravagance that the problem of bar vesting cotton by machinery has been solved. The machine was thoroughly tested on the last cotton crop from the moment when the first bolls made their appearance to the time when the plants, having been frost bitten, were dry ana brittle as glass. In all the stages of the crop from first to last the machine de? monstrated its perfect ability to gather the open cotton from the field without the slightest injury to the plants or im matured fruit. The machine has been too often described to require a detailed explanation of its construction here. It differs essentially from all machines de? vised for the purpose of gathering cotton from the field in the important particular that the metallic stems or fingers which gather the cotton are so constructed that they will catch hold of only a fibrous substance. The machine is hauled up and down the cotton rows by one horse or mule, straddling the cotton plants as it moves along. The movement of the stems or fingers is so adjusted that at whatever speed the machine travels for? ward the stems travel backward at exact" ly the same rate of speed; or, in other words, the stems travel backward at the same rate of speed as the cotton plants over which the machine is passing. Thus it will be readily seen that while a large number of stems enter each cotton plant, they do not jostle or tear the plant in the slightest degree. At the very point in a plant where a stem enters it will pass out, and while in the plant, by its revolution on its own axis, will gather all the open cotton with which it comes in contact. After leaving the plant the stems pass into receptacles on each side, where by a reverse revolution they throw the cotton off and pass on around to enter the next plant for a fresh supply. An average size machine has from 150 to 175 stems in it. Only a comparatively small number of these enter each bush, probably not more than fifty. Up to the close of the experiments on the last crop, which were continued as late as January of this year, the percentage of cotton gathered in one passage of the machine over a row was a little over 50 per cent. By driving the machine up the row and back again seven-eighths of the open cotton was gathered. The condition of the cotton gathered was remarkably good up to the time when frost fell upon the plants. After that time the cotton harvested contained some trash and leaves. This was due to the fact that after frost the leaves being dead and brittle would fall by the action of the weather on the open cotton in the bolls and would adhere to it after it was picked. The average capacity of the machine in cotton well open was 336 pounds of seed cotton an hour, or 3,360 pounds a day. As soon as it became too late for fur? ther experiments on the past crop, the Cotton Harvester Company, of Charles? ton, S. C, which owns the patents on the machine, not only in this country, but in all the cotton-growing countries of the world, determined to spare no pains nor means in perfecting the machine for the next crop. A new iron shop has just been erected at Sumter, S. C, where Mr. Mason, the in venter, resides, and special tools of the finest type have been pur? chased. Several changes in the construc? tion of the machines will be made before its trial upon the next crop. These changes will relate principally to the shape of the frame work, the movement und construction of the elevators (which convey the cotton from the side recepta? cles and drop it into pendant bags at the back,) and to the movement of the pick? ing stems. Messrs. Pratt k Whitney, of Hartford, Conn., have just completed an automatic machine for cutting the teeth in the stems with marvellous rapidity and perfection, and Mr. Mason feels as? sured that it is within bounds to say that tho contemplated changes will double the capacity of the machine and will insure the gathering of the cotton free from any trash even in the last stages of the crop. Machines of different sizes will be ready to be tried upon the first cotton of the next crop. It is safe to say that it will be impossible to place many machines on the market next season. The com? pany will endeavor to demonstrate the perfect and practical utility of the ma? chine next season by testing a few ma? chines in all the cotton States, and will then lose no time in making ample ar-. rangements for their wholesale manufac? ture for the crop of 1886. It is doubtless very unfortunate that so much time should be required in the perfection of the machine, but consider? ing its vast importance and the apparent? ly insuperable obstacles which have had to be overcome, its development has been much more rapid than any of the other great inventions of the century. Can Such Things Be t An "ex-soldier" writes to the Boston Herald that he saw only a month ago a portion of the battle-field of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks near Richmond on which portions of skeletons strewed the ground. It was at the place where the 24th and, 25th South Carolina Regiments and Devens's brigade including the 10th Massachusetts poured a hot fire into each other, May 31,18G2. He says: "Now, incredible as it may seem, upon walking through this piece of woods occupied at the time of the battle by the South Car? olina troops, I saw on March 16, the present year?and twenty-three years after the battle?the different parts of human skeletons plainly exposed to the sight, their original burial having been effected by simply throwing a few shov elsful of dirt upon the bodies the night following the engagement; Mr. Jones, the Superintendent of the National Cem? etery located near by, informed mo that these were skeletons of Confederates, and doubtless they are, but if the old Con? federates in Richmond, only six miles away, do not retain sufficient respect for their fallen comrades to see that their bones are decently interred, would it not be well for the United Slates Government to detail a few men to conceal from view these ghastly reminders of that terrible struggle?" ? A good old Connecticut deacon, says Hon. A. Payne, when asked by a Rhode Islander if the people in Connec? ticut kept Sunday, replied: "Yes; and everything else they can lay their hands on."