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HW %nn ' " * 111 ''-< J ? I.Il BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1885. mut UtiM.? illiill III ?li||?tltl>fcMWIII<IM>|ll-MI>t>l? ill' ll'. ? ".Til IlTtlillin i n il Tri-wir **??rii'-| M Mi liri ' VOLUME XX.-NO. 43. WILHITES' COLUMN, AOA?N Wo como before ydu and solicit your trade, BO liberally extended to ns ito the past. We are better prepared than ever to sell you, and are still HEADQUAR ITKRS for Pnro *n<l Reliable Drags and Chemicals, Paints, otto and ?fernisbe?, PaJ*?* Medicine?. Etc., Etc., and in fact anything ia our line. The most important branch of the Drug Business is : conceded by ell to be the P?BSCRIPT?ON DEpART MBNTv'and.wo desire to call the attention of the public " to tho fact that wo moke a specialty of compounding Physicians' Prescriptions, and guarantee a'1 Ingredients used by us to be absolutely PURE and FRESH. There is probably nothing about which mankind ere so de servedly partioular as the Medicines which sickness com pels them to take, and the great desideratum is to feel assured that tho Apothecary fully understands tho prep aration of the Physician's prescription. Wo guarantee accuracy nnd purity, at prices os Iowans quality of same will permit. We make purchases from first hands, select Goods with special reference to wants of oar customers, und moke them at such prices as will ensure their ready sale. AU we' ask of our friends is that they oall and look over our Stock. It wUI be the coustant aim of oar House to please, and wo shall.spare no effort to do so. Wo take tho lead In Toilet Articles. You will find our Stock complete, and also find that a dollar wilt go further with us in buying such articles than you have ever before experienced. We invite your attention to a few of our Proprietary remedies, which we recommeud to bo reliablo Medicine? und worthy of a trial. Willi-tes' Soothing Syrup or Bsby's Friend ia an invaluable remedy f? children when teething, regulating the bowels and relieving pain, lt relieres the little sufferer at once, produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child/ from pain, and tbe little cherub awakes as "bright as a button." It is pleasant to take, soothes tho child, relieves wind, and is the best known remedy for Diarrhoea, whether arising from teotbiog or otherwise. Wilhite's Cough Sya?np-Coogh, Cough, Cough. A cold neglected, a cough left to cure itself oftentimes .leads to complications fatal in their results. A prompt Tisit to our Store at the inception of tho trouble, the usc of Wilhite's Cough Syrup, which we can confident ly recommend as a good remedy, will relieve much suf fering and anxiety on thc part of friends. Many children suffer from day to day-fretful, ?ross and peevish-and the cause of | their suffering is not suspected. A pallid and Bickly countenance, irregularity of appe tite or itreat voracity, bsd breath, foul tongue, great thirst, gradual emaciation, irritable limper, redness of nostrils, disposition to be picking the nose, are all symptoms indica ting the preseneo of Worms. It any of these symptoms oro noticed or Worms are sus pected, procuro a bottle of Wilhite's Worm Syrup or Vermifuge, which costs 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 Jo health again. If there are no Worms present the Syrup will do no hann, 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. Tho largest bottle of Worm Medicine in the market for 25c. Wilhite's Eye Water is a sure cure for inflamed 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 nny 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. DB. JOHNSTONE S SAPONACEOUS ODONTINE is the best preparation in the 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 Jilcasant dentifrice. Recommended by A. P. Johnstone, D. D. S., and prepared by WILHITE * WILHITE, PROPRIETORS, March Iff, 1 8. C. [HIGH GRADE ACID PHOSPHATE. GERMAN KAINIT,-<?* per cent Potash. PURE CHEMICALS FOR COMPOSTING. [A ROUSING STOCK OF HEAVY GROCERIES, FARM ?UPPIi?ES, And PROVISIONS GENERALLY. ?4,000 lbs. STEEL PLOWS. _ Complete Lines of Boots, Shoes and Dry Goods. ?/COMPETITION for the alwve Goods is very SEVERE and RELENTLESS, but I |U ' am BOUND TO SELL, and ask your inspection of Goods and Prices beiore J. J. BAKER, Benson House. Feb 5,1885 _ 22_ 3c?_ FREE PASS TO THE EXPOSITION l't-AT-. . SMITH * CO 'S WE HAVE NOW ON EXHIBITION ON,E OE THE [finest Stooks Spl^g ^d Sammer Clothing in the market. POME AND BEE US. We will pa? VT*? ?nd ?harpe you SOAlM^rJoe*> Come and see our SUITS FOR THE LITTLE FELLOWS. . The impression has gone ont thst we were out of the market, but, wo want to in form our old friends that we ara hero ye*. Comsshdseejus, and we will treat you right. ~ wm**?m?m " SMITH & CO., WHITNER STREET, Opposite'Auditor's Office. March 5?, 1885 _ 87 - . - ?? _ ?AVE YOU WAITED FOR BARGAINS ! -IN BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, OAPa, ^ j I > ??ifiSS . GO?D? ?nd ttOT?ONB ? v ? :;;.v?;f-i; --'iii/?i ?? /IM^.U''1 ' .i'*/'* [* you haye, here la your chance, as I will sell my ENTIRE STOCK I ,M and below Cost for tke ?oxt Thirty day* } {' ) h,K?^ everything I have tn Stock will be soldat and below Cost, I carry Ladies' anal Ch?dreii's Shoes lat you can find In the'cRy/ K : .~ ~T "Go Toll all the Pe?roloforMUesT Aroona I" JOHN M. HUBBARD * BRO. BILL ARI? IN TEXAS. A 8tato that Will H*vo Fifty Congressmen. Still on the war path-no-on the path of peace, for I And peace in Texas. I have now been in Texas seven weeks aud have not beard a quarrel between man and man. I have seen but oue man intoxicated ff havo^lotiieetf' a^?siol or a bowie knife, nor a man with horns, nor an impolite, uncivilized man. The Texat Si/tingt has many a rough joke aud hard caricature uj>ou Texas, but, I have not found the reality yet. The good manners and civility and courtesy of this people has surprised mo. I hove mingled with them on the cars and in the towns, at their homes, and have to put on my best behavior to keep up with tbem. Ihey are free and easy and sin cere. They put on no aire, either social or fashionable, and one family seems to bo aa good as another as long as they behave well. The tricks and nigh cuts of trade are not tolerated. If a mau takes an unfair advantage of another, it is resented by the whole community, and ho had just as well leave it. for he is like a bank note dishonored and gone to protest. If r. new comer thinks he can come here and get fat off of unsuspect ing victims, he labors under a delusion and will soon get left, for these people arc smart--a* .old Joe Bsgstock says, "they ai^,0ettilisb:: smart." Most all of . these Texans are immigrants-folks who | were bard up at homo 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 ono another and woo be the mao 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. Ibero ls 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 os 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 mo at Ennis owned the hall I lectured in, Tho one who shaved me at Belton WOE studying law in his moments of leisure, and both of them were recognized ai gentlemen. Everybody seems io good humor. There is no stiff reserve-nc aristocracy. The aristocracy of Texas is not yet formed. Well, of course there h Borne in a city like Dallas or Waco, bul it lives on a strain even there, and mosl of it is based on shoddy wealth-fortunes made by lucky speculation. They arc always the biggest fools, the children o: people who were poor and got rich sud denly. These boundless prairies are now bean tiful and lovely beyond description Dame nature, like a blushing maiden bas put on her pantaletts aud baoged bei silken bair and adorned, ber ringlets wit! the flowers of Spring and perfumed he breath with the sweet odors of jessamii and crabapple blossoms-one can fee the Spring poetry even though he can not write it. For some days past I have been in Eastern Texas where there an trees and hills and valleys and glade just like they are in old Georgia-I havi been on the border lines-the lines tha divides the cross timber country from th prairie-the lines that give the travelle a view of both at once-Hunt Count; bas such a line and a man can take hi choice or take botb if he is able and bi happy. I was at Campbell, a new vii l?ge just a year old. It is ten mile east of Greenville, the County seat, nm is filling up with good, bumble, eames people who work and meau buslncsi Their farms are on the prairie, but tbei town is ia the woods close by. The have but one church and it beloago t the whole community, and is occupiei by any good Christian minister wh comes along. I beard Mr. Cochran, c Greenville, preach there Sunday nigl and I have not heard such singing in dong time nor such a sermon in te years. It reminded me of the termo that William Wirt wrote about, that ws preached in old Virginia by a blind mai Mr. Cochran surprised and amazed an humbled me with bis earnest eloauenc There is not a saloon nor a billiard tobi in Campbell, and those people declai there shall not be one. The little happ .town seemB just like one family, an half of them are from Georgia an Alabama. There is not a man in worth ten thousand dollars, but they ei joy life more than they enjoy mono. They are sociable and they are kin They ha^v?^a. large school huilcUpg or tiro excelfenV f?achersr'' I Bad an o friend there who was named for me I old Gwionett, and I stopped to see hi and hsd a good time with his family ai with other friends. When they urgi me to give them a talk at the scho house I could not refuse, and tho. who townio?me ?ut^men, ?Bromen and .ch! dren. It bad to be in the daytime for was billed for Greenville that night an SO they closed their stores for rm hov and 'o very body came, mid the l?r| school roora was filled to overflowin Et was a free show and we all got hap] 3?ft%H ?T!pWc4|th^|sa^ toCappb* and gave it willingly for all it was wort Hunt County is comparatively new settled, for nntil recently it bad no Qra road. But now it is coming to the fro -and rapidly. Greenville is a beautil town of 4,000 inhabitants. When th speak of population in thia country th do not count the negroes as we do i there sre very few to count. Ncgrc .re of bot very little consequence Texas. A Mississippi man said that b fore he left Mississippi they were talki of colonizing the negroes somowhet but bis idea was to colonize the wh folks in Texas, and let the negroes bi Mississippi free. But this negro probh will BC ttl o itself if we Rive it time, a neither George W. Cable nor anybo else can hurry it. I used to feel soi concern about it, butT don't now-so it lip. The South ii getting up out the low-grounds, amman and will tc care of herself. I ale that Evarts a Hoar, two old soreheads, have bc abusing us again in public, but we do care. Georgia does lot care and Teo census and then Evarts and Hoar i be dead, I reckon, Jsnd fanaticism dead, too. Judge Tfeurgee said in "Fool's Errand * tbijt the Sooth ru the Nation for fittyj years, and if North did not chango ber methods, j would mle it again. jAnd she will. ? f ls ruling it now. The North lo money, and the South loves life and I erty better. I am banking on Texas the preservation of the Union." I that a Texan np in Fannin County aggrieved because I found some li Snit with Texas, and. your good pa seems to think I say too much for Te: So I reckon I nm nbout right. 2 h not yet been up In Fannio where I i noan the country homes aro nil loi nnd Inviting, and I reckon my fri "Bah Hy dov' has not been where I 1 been and seen them ?a the!? dint; 1< linens. Bo we will compromise on "truth" and be friends. That little J 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 docs uot matter, it was not as bad a blunder as Mr. Memmioger made when he was the treasurer of toe Confederate States, late of said count ry, deceased, for when be was called on to state bow much confederate money he had issued, h? said it was either three hundred million;? or three thousand millions, be 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 uow bas only four thousand. But it has struck bot tom and got down to the rock aud 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, aud changed the programme-westward the tide of empire took its way. Dr. Torhune, of Floyd County, lives here, an honored citizen, eminent in his pro fession and a good example for tho;o who are coming after him-a splendid type of tho Southern Christian gentleman. Moat of the Georgians stop somewhere in this wooden country, where the hills and the valleys look like their owu ; but after awhile many of thom go further west and land on the richer prairie lands. They take Texas in broken doses-and that is a rieht good plan. I see the dog wood and the crab apple and tho honey suckle in bloom everywhere, and it ir"-.kc-:-- mo want to be at nome and go a fishing with Carl and Jessie. Bless their little hearts I I want to seo them mighty bad-and Mr?. Arp, too, of course, of course. BILL Anr. The Inflaence of a Mother's Prayers. More than thirty years ago, ono lovely Sabbath morning, eight young men, students in a law school, were walking along the banks of a stream tbat flows into the Potomac River not far from, the city of Washington. They wero going to agrovo in a retired place, to opead the hours of that holy day in playing cards. Each of them had a flask of wine in his pocket. They were BOUS of praying mothers. Au 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 souuded 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 ono of their number, whose name was George, stopped, and said to the friend nearest to bim that he would go no fur ther, but would return to the village and go to church. His friend called out to their companions, who were a little ahead of him: "Boys! boys I come back here. Georgo 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 ne could save himself from having a cold bath was by going with them. In a calm, quiet, but earnest way, he said : ''I know very well that you have power enough to put me in the water and bold me there till I am drowned, and if you choose 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 teeing her out of ber bed. I am her youngest child. My father could not afford to pay for my schooling ; but our teacher is a warm friend of my father and offered to take mo 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 my leaving home wero Boon made. My mother never said a word to me on the subject till the morning when I was to leave. After I bad eaten my breakfast oho sent for nie, 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 ber oed. With her loving bands upon my bead abe prayed for her youngest child. Many and many a night since then I have dreamed that whole scene over. It is tho happiest recollection of my life. I believe, till the day of my death I shaii be able to repeat every word of that prayer. Then oho 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 last time, this side of th? grave, on the face of her who loves you as no other mortal does or can. Your father cannot afford the expense of yonr making us visits daring 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 . placo to which you are going; there' will be no loving mother to give you con ni-el in time of trouble. -Seek counsel and help from j God. ; Every Sabbath morning, from Un to eleven o'clock, I will spend tho hour in prayer for yo li.* Wherever yon may be daring 'this sacred hour, wheo you h ear the church bells ringing, let your thoughts come .back to tb chamber, where your dying mother will be agonising, 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. Bat, by the help oft God, I mean to meet her in beaven.'' AB George stopped speaking- the tears were streaming down his cheeks.. He looked at his companions. Their ?yea were xii filled with tears. ,v ! Io a moment the rlug was opened which they bsd formed about him. He Eassed oat, ead went to church. He ad stood ap for the right against great odds. They admired bim for doing! what they bad not the courage to do. They ?ll followed him to church. On their way there, each of them quietly threw away bis cards and h's wine-flask. Never again did any of those young then play cards on the Sabbath. From that day they all became changed men. Six of them died Christians, and ere now in heaven. George ia an able Chris ti an lawyer ia Iowa; aod his friend, tho eighth of the party, Who wrote this ac count, has beca for many y sirs aa earn est, active, mombo* of tho church. <*WhaVe.tt-$Vba ba?f ia> fodr bead *T*t*jdjlto^Jmlt.f JW?*n?r bus baad aa be brought homo ? toll of man uacript. . "Brains, m edam," replied Mr. Gimlet, pompously. "Are you eurprised at that tact ?* ''Not to the leeat,'? she replied.. ?: "I know you didn't carra theta [te joar bead.'* < BETSY HAMILTON. Setay and Her Gang at th? World's Expo sition. Atlanta Constitution. "Wonders will never ce*<e," as pap said when old Arniintv Pemergrass got married, and I know in reason you'uns will say so too when yon hear that we'uns has il limed away down here to the big ?how at New Orleans. Caledony she ?ot her head to come when she AiBt hearn about it ; I 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 tbe money was to come from. "Whar thar's a will thara 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 logon 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 counterpio, but I lut '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 ther frocks like owr'n. Me and Caledony bought owr'n ofTn the same bolt and they let IIB have it cheaper by it; they was orange yaller kaliker, trimmed in whito terpentine braid and made j int exactly alike ; Cal she won't have a Sunday frock that hain't pine blank like mine. Aunt Nan cy sho 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 UB. Some gata down hore told UB not to wear our bc.it out thar to the Bhow, we'd git it ruint, but Cal lowed they wasjista rollin us that to keep we'uns from out sbinin' tbern, and Cai she would er wore ber Sunday frock then or died. But I must go back, like Aunt Nancy, and tell you from the beginnin'. When wo'unB got thar to Talladegy town we seed a sight of strangers a perusin around, and pap he gee hawed the steers up thar fernent Master Dr. Vandiver's drug Blore, and mads enquirementsabout 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. wo'uns ktiowed about as much then as wo did afore. Buddy he let on like he kuowed all about it. I aud Caledony and Cousin Pink and sister Flurridy Tennysy and pap was in the waggin and buddy a walkin, and como chaps sot in to clappin tber hands and a holferin, "Here comes BetBy Hamilton ! Here comes Betsy I Here she comes I" Buddy he was a bea tin and a cUBsin of the steers, and when he hearn it he turn ed around and was a fixiu to war bis os whip bardaciously out on them little boys when pap ho hollered out, "Bets, honey, j ist look at that thar steam eogyne with your name on it ! that's what them yonnguns wan 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 Bhe knowed I was as good as airy one of 'om, or any of her folks. Well, we'uns has been here to New Orleans a week aud 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 ;" bits a steam street kar without any lire ; thon tho 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 MaPByssippi river, and we rid on the electrie 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 al the Exposition we rid up stairs in the elevator, and wo rid in a roller cheer shoved around by a great, big, double-fisted white man that had orter been put to plowin. So you Bee that was eight different thinge we rid on alter 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 yon may pend on it we'uns knowed it, wbsn night come, by our feet. I pity folks that baint got no better sense than to wear ther new tight Sunday oboes-rand th a i'u just what we'uns done, and the fust night they burt UB so baa we couldn't ekasely sleep, .and while we was a bemeanin ourselves for not havin no belter sense, Cal she lowed : "Hush, gals, listen-mizery loves company" and the crowd in tother room was a gruntin and a groan in with ther feet, too, and we over hearn 'em say: "I am mighty glad to git off these new shoes,. they are bard and stiff and justa killin my feet." "Come over here and put 'em in this.salt water, its hope mine a ready." "Salt water nor nothin else baint a gwine to . do mine no good, I've walked and. walked tel they are plum blistered and sore and if I live tel mbrnin I bound I ?lt mo svpair that's big enough not to art. Oh, my bead I That old machinery hall is enough to addle a body's brain." "Don't talk ; that old Mexican band is wusser'n all that machinery put. to gether." ? : "Ob 1 I don't think so. I like music." "I don't ; I've been mad all day bekase I couldn't, find Gi tte au's skeleton." "I don't know, for the life of me, what you want to see a man's bones for. Wby'fi? 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 Robbin? Did you'unn let that woman weigh you ?" "Tes ; I thought che was advertising the scales, didn't voa?" "Yes, I thought it waa free, and I lit up thar and she banded me a paper with 140 pounds marked on it, and when I jumped down and started off ehe said, mighty sweet, with ber head turned to one side, 'You owe me a nickle.' And ?he fooled ono , or two out'n every crowd that same way. -Less all go to el cop." 'ti can't sleep. I am awful tired ; I could do migbly well if it wasn't for my feet." Then Cal whispered to me : ''How could she git along without her feat?" Cousin Pink ehe Towed, "I could get along mighty well without my. nose ; I know in reason they've got the dirtiest little old ditches here ever I seed -bow folks can stand to smell 'em all the time is beyant, mo to tell ; bits enough to kill icm all, and they don'? pear to mind it no asore'n if it was cin namon draps or street basil." Flurridy Tennysy lowed, "My - note don't nester me nose, kase I've got such a bad cold, bull hoi nt bad uo water fitton to' drink sense I been Lore.". Ht?h ; dont talk sn loud; them folksiu tother boole lites here, and it makes 'em as ruad to eay anythteg. agin tho water as to talle agin ther chillon," "i don't keer. I dont expect to sae /iono of 'em no more, no how, ?pd thor don't know mo from Adam'? cot." Somebody in totnes' rocm said. That's * mighty big show out yandor for GO < cents* aint it?" Hush and go to Bleep." "I cant sleep, my fte! ; .'j:- .?, i-;. !..>?"?.?< hurte me so bad I cant ; them shoes has ris a corn on my little toe-now I'm gwine to lay my hair pins right here on this table, and I dont want nono of yon gals to tako 'em in the mornin." "I wish you'uns would make haste and git to bed. I'm awful tired and sleepy." "I aint a bit sleepy, hat that old black collen is enough to wake tho seven sleep ers ; but i'll hush. Laws, gals, lemme tell you this, jist this, and then I'll hush." Hut they talked on and on tel away alter midnight ; and the next day we'uns was glad to put on our old shoes. Tboy say tho main buildin kivcrs 35 acres of ground, aud I know in reason it do ; hits tho biggest house ever I seed, and we'uns walked ourselves plum down a tryin to see ever thing in U, and haint seed all yet ; they say you mought stay a solid month and not see it all. Buddy he lowed, "Look a here, if hita a gwine to take a month to seo it, it will havo to go on-seed fur as I'm consarned, and we'uns might as well go home, kase I'm about busted now." It don't cost but 00 els. to git in, but it coals you a sight more to git out, lessen you are sharp enough to take your viltles along with you. If you eat a little piece of beef no biggor'n your hand you got to pay the worth of a yearling calf to git lt, and a aig cost you as much as the hen that laved it. The cheapest thing you git herein the ride on tho street kar six miles out thar for a nickle. But ita a tumble big show aud pays you for gwine ; you see folks from all over the world, and Ginnery meets khmer y that haven't saw ono another for years, and it makes 'em glad and happy, and you sec things you never aced or dreamp of aforo in your life, aud when night comos you can shut your eyes and see it all over agiu. We'uns all tried tc stick together kase ita monstrous oas;* to git lost. You eau be right in twenty foot of anybody and loco 'em, and if they git lost from you, you might as well try to find a needle in a hay stack as to look for 'em. Wo'un'a all got scattered from one another tho very nrst day, and Cousin Jake Corban he called us "Ignorance Abroad." He thinks he's mighty smart. Wo'uns had been-a braggin too that we waa'nt n gwine lo git lost. Wo had seed so many fol kn a nuntin around for ther crowd it made us stick closer togeth er. I and Caledony heit to one another's hands continuerly putty nigh all tho time and we told Cousin Pink and Flurrldy Tennysy to do the aame and to keep up to wo'uns, would try to keep un to buddy and pap-but it was like try in lo keep up to a steam en gyue to keep up with pap, he putty nigh run his legs off a tryin to find Mr. Director General Burke -he had ruttier Baw him than tho show. Cousin Pinks Sunday shoes had riz a corn on ber left foot and a blister on her right and her and Flurridy got away yander behind we'unB-and Cousin Pink she stopped wbar they Boll cider and Flurridy she come a huntin for mo and Cal aud got lost. We'uns missed 'em and Cal lowed she'd go back to find 'em and streaked off utter a gal with a coat on like cousin Pink's and struck up with cousin Jake and forgot all about cousiu Pink, and Flurridy and nie too. We'uns was all lost, and all bands a huntin for t'other, and when I found cousin Pink she was a eatln of a ginger cake and a cryin fi ti ti to kill herself, and lowed ?ho was harngry and wanted to go homo and Blay thar when she got thar. She'had been over whars a huntin for us, and a axin of ever body she met if they bad saw anything of Betsy Hamilton ; Uko folks knowed Betsy Hamilton from Polly Hopkins or Sal Simmons or anybody else, and while we not thar all our gang come up. I mought have knowed they would come around thar, kase the last bead of 'em 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 "Havo you'uns saw anything of a man with black bair and red whiskers?" Yes we had Baw about a hundred, but we could'nt tell ber which away they had went no more'? the wind. "Well," says she, "have you saw a woman with a black bonnet on, she wasn't a very good lookln woman." Yes we had saw about a thousand of them sort, but didnt know ono from tothor. The poor critter was lost from' ber crowd and no body knowed bettern'n we'ans bow she felt. We'uns all clung together utter that and Cal she beam Some folks say we'uns wau from the country and wondered huw they knowed. Cousin Pink's corns is better, but she run her head in a glass show cone yistiddy a lookin at some birds and broken the glass and nearly busted her bead wide open. I'll tell you moro next time. BETSY HAMILTON. Fifty Tears Ago. i An old gentleman, who was a boy fifty years ago, says that In his young days lt was very.unoommon to see a young man with store clothes odi and' that a young man considered a himself handsomely dressed with a pair of clean copperas ?a ot-a and a blue homespun sack coat, 'he first pair of boots he. ever bad waa when he was 17 i years old, and it took a pair of No. 12 brogans , to fit him.* He bought them Saturday, and the next day. went to church? and thought hims?lf handsomely dressed with his. ne?r boots, copperas pants, blue ssck coat and wool bat In tbose days it waa fashionable for gentlemen to wear, straps under their boots to keep their panta down. J Hs cht Lim some strips' of leather about an inch wide, and strapped his panta (which were very tight) down under; his boots, and- when he made bis appearance at church next day, thought ne waa vary much admired. He thinks that , if a Sung man were to make his appearance public now, dressed similar to what he was then, that be would attract the universal attention and ridicule of the public. He says be would willingly give $5 for a picture of himself at that time. -This old gentleman now is one of our most prominent and prosperous elli? zen*.-Elberton Gazette. The Chicago Widower** Grier. . . J ! ... ! ill ?fifi "I want you to co-JO up, Dan, and toll me what you think of the way I've, got my wife's, grave decorated. I tell yon wost it is, there's some few things X won't allow no one to get ahead- of mo In, and one of 'em is decorating wives' graves. I flatter myself ?there ain't a wife's grave in Bosehlll, (rom one end to the other, any more decorative or .with any moro money spent on it than my wife's grave. It cost Uko sin, but it takes the rag off the bush for decorating. I've dono the wholo thing : np brown Kt - shells, boshes*': ?at flowers, i untie n ches, tombstone and the i whole bus*.? ness, acd 1 ain't ashamed to tako any ono, man . or woman; to see my wife's gravo." This is n truo story, and many of tho readers of tho Tribune havo paused with belinga of amazement at tho variety of garnishing ort the above mentioned resting placo of a wife who. if report bf truo, waa never overburdened with ?fl decoration* in lifo-- Chicoteo ?HWwVr.-f> JfcftW iiJ?V ^> ?} r-?*?.M J'f '-i-t >:... /'.i ? ' [i BUTTES BT A HEW PROCESS. An Alleged Discovery of o Tesas l?av. Neto York Mail and Kxprttt. Rumors of A surprising discovery iu butter-making have been afloat for some weeks amoug tho commission merchants iu the city. Meanwhilo the declino in the price of butter has been marked, and farmers throughout the State have been grumbling at the prospect. A dealer said to a reporter for the Mail and Exprets yesterday : "A Toxas man has discovered a way to make butter without wasting any part of the milk. It is claimed that by his pro cess butter can be manufactured for less than five cents per pound. Only think what a wonderful discovery that u ! Io* stead of wasting oceans of skim milk and buttermilk the farmers can ntllize all the nutritivo parta of the milk. The method is kept secret yet, because the persons who are making preparations to introduce it aro trying to procure letters patent from the government. They wan ' to sell State rights to uso the process, and they cannot do that unless they are pro* tooted by a patent. I doubt if they will succeed, because no new mechanical con* trivances are needed and no chemicals aro used. Any farmer who knew the secret could make butter by the new process. It ls not unlikely, therefore, that the new fangled butter may beman? 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 ouch a case?" "I don't see how they could. No far* eign substances aro introduced into the milk, and the butter therefrom cannot be called adulterated iu any legal sense." "How is the new process butter made?" "The milk is kept until it becomes a dabber, as the thickened mass is called by fermera, and then if it is put Into a common obum at the right temperature it quickly turns to butter with scarcely any waste. The secrets of the mothod are the length of time tho milk must bo kept standing and tho temperature at which it is churned. Of course the but ter must bo 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 than batter of the old sort does, but it also contains tho cas?ine 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 in this city now to negotiate the salo of rights for Now York and Massachu setts, be may bo willing to tell." Mr. Gautier was lound at a Broadway hotel. Ho says he was in correspon dence with proprietors of large creame ries in the State, and had his headquar ters at No. 488 Broome street. The reporter was permitted to examine a sample of the now butrer, which tastod and looked much like tho product of the ordinary product of the cow. "This io more of a discovery than some people think." Mr. Gautier said, "but we aro not williogto have much publish ed about it yet. il. E. Moore, of Lam panas, Texas, discovered the process by accident some months ago, and he bas sold a part of his interest in it to four o ,her men. We have flied the necessary Capers at Washington, and we expect tc ave the procesa patented in a short time Of course the secret will be known then and the simplicity of the method wil cause universal surprise. Butter can bc made at the rate of four pounds for each gallon of milk. By the best Old method) only one-half pound of butter bas been made from the esme quantity of milk The new process depends entirely upon time and temperature, and the butte; contains all the milk except a very srnal Cart of the water. The butter will no e useful for cooking purposes, and will not keep long without becoming stale because it contains so much cas?ine ant so little fat. but for table use it will bi juBt as palatable and much hcalthle than the old style butter. Of course i can be sold much cheaper than any otbe kind butter and will become popular 01 that account. People in this city wll hardly pay forty cent? per pound fb butter to spread on their bread whet they can buy it for fivo coat? per pound Oleomargarine will be swept out of th market, because the manufacturers wil not be able to make that kind of butte as cheaply aa pure blifer." Dr. Cyrus Edson, of the Health De partaient, said : "The new .discovery wi) strike most people os incredible, but understand1 that the Commissioner 0 Patenta at Washington has seen butte produced by the new.process. Chelmer analysis of milk shows that in 100 par) of milk there are about 87 parts Of wate; 8 of fat, 4 of cas?ine, 4 of sugar and of calta. By the old method'butter i made to contain little except tko fat c the milk. It is claimed tt^at all tho pail bf tho milk can be solidified, without th Introduction of atty'foreign subslanc add that tho product wilt co closely ti Bombie, butter of the old kind tbst fe persons' would notice the, difference j using it on bread. If butter can, be pr< doced in that way there cnn bo no Objet tion to its sale, but it ought to be sol ynder some name to distingu?an it froi that made from,cream alono. Tho di covery will have the effect to cheapen tl prico of both milk and butter; and the ls danger that commercial fraud will 1 practiced when the new procesa butter first placed on. the market? If it is tri that temperature and time aro the on secrets of the dew process, I do not st hov; the process can be pneeuted." Attorney General Garland Non*Sulte< . I was told of another of Attorney .Ge oral Garland's peculiarities, by a Mci tho other day. He hates doctors. Wbe ever be hears of ?rnfriend being sick, i takes the trouble to warn him that tl medical profession is a humbug, and tl only tray to be sure of recovo ry is to. ] it alone. Ho says ho never, hid:* doct in his lifo, and consequently keeps we : I But tho other day he broke faith.. I was taken with c peculiar ailment. . first be thought he waa getting ist,, b it was all confined to. his face, and did not know, what io moko of - it, J rcctly bia jaws swelled out to nn ii menso aizo and becamo very painful. I endured- i t a long ti mo, but finally gre bcd up his hat and went to see a doct who has nn office withiu .* VIM**. ?1 .aid ha thought ho wat- poisoned, but h no Idea,T?hohad done it. "I don't thi you aro poisoned," said the doctor, ail examining his face very careful "You've got tho mumps." : j Tho'Attorney General left ihn citace nragor'fttompsl mumps 1 I wonder it isn't cholora-infantum ! Mayne .H's ticnSr]l?iw^ tho^lol^S?icaUratornity! But itu tho mumps, sum enough,, and, nll,? could do was to keep ont of the way- a kay nothing about. W-Fhiladclpl Tete?rapK v&VJ it .iV;?c't'.--rr-.v-ju.- '.''-' Vi - Troy Township, Abboville Coun 1 hu unanimously voted the subscript! 1 to tho Cu^bcri^d flap Railroad. ; . ' '. >?.???' -?-n--i-r--r . . TUE MASON COTTON HARVESTER, A Clear Aceonnt of ibo Sue???? of ?Co lOaeblntf. Flrovi SrndttrecCi. Tho Mason ootton-barvesttag.raacblne, of which so mach bas boon said of lato, and to tba general Introduction of which tho cotton interests of the country are so anxiously .looking, bas reached a stage in ita development as a new and e*e!ui 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 machino will bring about, and without entering upon a description of its merits as an invention or sounding Its praises as a wonderfully ingenious Eiece of mechanical construction, it may o said without the slightest degree pf extravagance that the problem of har vesting cotton by machinery has beeil solved. The machine was thoroughly tested on the last cotton crop from the moment when the Ant bolla made their appearance to tho time wbeu 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* mouatrated its perfect ability to gather the open cotton from the field without tbo slightest injury' to the plants or im mature*! fruit. The machino bas been too often described to require a- detailed explanation of ito construction hero. It differs essentially from nil machines de* vised for the purpose of gathering cotton from the field in the important particular that tba metallic stems or fingers which ?atljor tho cotton are so constructed thal they will catch hold of only a' fibrous Buhstanco. The machine is hauled up and down the cotton rows by one horno or mule, straddling the cotton planta aa it moves along. The movement of the stems or fingers is so adjusted that at whatever Gpced the machino travels for* ward the stems travel baokward at exact ly the same rate of 'speed; or, in other words, the stems travel baokward at the same rate of speed as the cotton planta over which the machino is 'passing. Thus it will bo 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- ft 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 Bto-.-.-.u. pass into receptacles on each aide, where ny a reverse revolution they throw the cotton off and pass oe around io enter the next plant for a fresh supply. An average sise machine has from 160 to 175 stomB in it. Only a comparatively umr". number of these enter each boab, protably not more than ii Hy. Up to the ' close or the experiments oh the last crop, which were continued as late os January of this year, the percentage of cotton gathered in one passage of the machino over a row waa.a little over 50 per cent. By driving the machine up the row and \ back ' again c ven-cightha of the open cotton waa gathered. The condition of tho cotton , gathered waa remarkably good up to the time when frost fell upon the plants. After that time the cotton harvested contained some trash and leaves. This waa 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 tbs br'.lii and would adhere to lt after it wir picked. The average capacity of tht ?nacLine in cotton well open waa 386 pounds of seed cotton an hour, or 3,060 pounds a day. Aa soon as it became too late for fur* thor ctpci.."enta on the past crop, the Cotton Hat roster Company, of Charles* ton, S. C., which owns tho patents on the machine, not on\y in this country, but in, all tho cotton-crowing countries. of the world, determined to spare co pains nor means in perfecting the machine for the next crop. X new iron shop has juai. bc o.i erected at Sumtar, S.O., whero Slr. Mason, the inventer, resides, and special tools of the finest type have been pur* chuce d. Several changes in thc construe* Mun of the machines will be made before ita trial upon the next crop. . Thea o : changes will relate principally to tho shape of the frame work, tho movement andr construction of the elevators (which convey the cotton from the side rc cop ta des and drop it into pendant bags afc the back,) and to the movement of the pick*. ing stems. Messrs. Pratt & Whitney, of Hartford, Conn., have just completed an automatic machine for cutting' the ?teeth ia the elaina. with marVellona rapidity and perfection and Mr. Mason. feels as sured that it is within, bounds to Bay Ulai .' tho contemplated changes will double the capacity of the machine and will insure the gathering of the cotton freo from any i irasn even In tho last stages of the crop., Machin?e of different sises will be ready ' to bo tried upon the first cotton Of the hext crop. It Is safe to say that it will pe impossible to platte many machines On'the ' market next eeasoa. Tho com pany will endeavor to demonstrate tho perfect and practical utility pf the na? chine next season by testing a few ma* ' chines in all the cotton States, asd will" thon lose no time in making ample;.ar-1 rangements for their wholesale, manufrfc-. turo for thc croo of 1886. . ^ ? , . It! ls doubtless very unfortunate that' co much timo bbould ho required In tho . perfection of the machine, mit consider- : lng ita .vast impprtance and tho apparent-: ty Insuperable obstacles which have had to be overcome, its development hos been. much moro rapid than any cf thc other' great inventions of the Century. ! ?rt . >- ; ?j ?u Can Such Things Be t AD "ex-soldier" writes to the Boston; Herald that he caw only a month ago a., portion of tho bnltlo-flcld of Seven Pinea or Fair Oak? near ? BJohhiond" ou ? wh?ch. ?ort lons of okeletona strewed tho ground, twas at the place whew, tbeJ?tfa aad?p 25th.,South Carolina Regiments . and Devens's brigade Including the 10th Massachusetts poured a hot tiro into each other, May 31,1862. l?o sayer ?'Nerv, incredible aa it may seem, upon walking : through this pieco of woods occupied at., tho timo of Ute battle by tho South - Car olina troops, I saw on March 1G/ tho present year-and twenty-thres yenra ; after the battle-tba di?orcnt parta of; human skeletons plainly exposed to tho sight, their original burial having been . effected by simply throwing a few ?hov- ; elsful of dirt open the bodies tho uight following tho engagement. Mr. Jones, these were skeletons of Confederates, and doubtless they are, bot If tho' old Ooh federa tea in Rich mond, only six mites away, do not retain sufficient; reapsct for their fallen comrades to eco lb st theil.-., bones are decently inf errod, would it not! bo well for tho United States GolfernrhcBt to detail a fuw men to conceal from.view ?^8>^-f ; renjicdera of that fcrrtbie etruggV' . . ? . . . ; A good old Ctonuectlcu* dtracohi lieut keptSundav. replied; ?Yo?; and