The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, April 07, 1887, Image 4

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JTHE HEART'S ARITHMETIC. Though like the sacred lights above ! Mar 8hIno the poet's golden name, One little hour of simple love Outweighs a million years of fame. ?Henry W. Austin in Southern Blronac. E BUCKSKIN MARE. It was 12, midnight, when Private O'Bourke -went off sentry duty and bor \ rowed a chew of tobacco from his relief, . Privat*) Fenton. I "There's some divirs work afut the night, John," he remarked, positively, as he grounded his gun and began to strip s. off his white cotton gloves. He looked over the prairio to a point where the . moonlight became silver mist, and shook his head at the yelping chorus which came from beyond the limit of his vision. The air was so dry and the night other? wise so still that the sounds might; have \'. traveled a mile or more before "the vibra tions fell npon the tympanum? at the gate 'of the-fort "Manny's the night I've heard the ka< yow-tee's howl, but niver a wance have I , \ heard thim sing bo fortissimo and all to ? gifher as they have sung the last hour or ? more. They've got some live thing down and are stripping ets bones. At 9 et wuz ^ wan here, and wan in the sage brush, and *'"\Va*a"Nv?y down in the canyon. At 10 ?r they seemed to get thicker and closer to gither, and louder, like hounds on a trail. ' Thin, all at wance, I heard a scream?et wuz a harse, I lay my hat et wuz a harse that screamed?and frum that, minute they've been howling like banshees. God pity the baste they've killed, and et's sorra a taste will be left of him in the mamin' but bones, and it's bad-luck to the ka-yow-tee that cornea in rache of my gun, when I'm on duty or off?I'll give give hem a slug, sure as my name's O'Rourke, I'll give hem a slug." "Oh, come off, Phelim, and let the coy? otes alone. It's no funeral of ours if they have killed a horse.?'. "Ay! But that makes meremimber. i Ef the n'ise rouses Miss Bessie?God bless '^herfor the swatesfc div? thativer wore s silk?ef the n'ise rouses her, and she gets ?up and goes off with her hounds on a . chase after thim, don't let her set a' fnt outside the stockade the night. Et's the ' meejor's orders." "All right But it's little she cares for | her father's orders. If she wants to go, I and I refuse the gate, she'll be over the ?' stockade at the other end of the fort in? side of five minutes." "Ay! She's wild, she is that. Bnt \- Ivery inch the leddy. D'ye mind her in >&:step? And her heart"-' ? Tdie/5abie?t was too large for O'Bonrke's ?| limited vocabulary, and in sheer disability ^jtodo it justice he shouldered his gun and "Pepped away to his barrack. It was out of the fullness of his mind that the month . refused to speak. The evidences of the ' girl's tenderness of heart were so many that it was hard to select a single one from the embarrassment of riches. '?- Bnt it was not' her human kindliness, nor. her beauty of: face, nor yet her Juno \ like carriage, that came dangerously near ! to setting her npon the pinnacle beside O'Bonrke's other god and making him fall down and worship her. It was what he called her "divilishness" that made the major's daughter Bessie his goddess. Along with her first teeth, she took on ; the name of tomboy, and now in her 19th. year she was a tomboy utffl, without fear ~yol man or beast, and happiest when alone - on the prairie with her horse and her two greyhounds. She felt cribbed^ cabined I and confined within the four walls of a I room, and when the spirit moved her, by ?night or by day, she whistled to her hounds and was off for a run or a ride. The spirit had moved her to-night Bnt I instead of whistling for the dogs or calling "to the groom to saddle her horse, she stepped stealthily, to the stables, keeping ? in the Ptrong shadow cast by the moon as ? far as possible. She wore a visorless cloth cap bound securely to her head; her ; gown reached no lower than her ankles, ?and when she took.an upward step to p reach a saddle hanging from a peg her g?ro . showed that it was of brown leather buttoned to the knee. The saddle was one. of those double girthed, horn pom? meled ranchman's heavy weights?fitted [. .with-a rawhide lariat?which, when once ' Jin place, stick to the horse like another : cuticle, and by their shape help the rider F\to cling closer than a brother. Both the I -. girl's heels were spurred?the teeth on the rowels of half inch, razor edged steel?end the bit she-Belectcd was a curb with large ^-lev^rage. .bigbuckskin mare, which was teth? er end in the open, not far from the saddle f peg, threw her ears forward and curled her lips away from her teeth like a snarl? ing bulldog when the girl came toward her dragging the jingling harness.'. She |. had the deep barrel, long legs, wide reach, short pasterns and perfect hoofs of the 1. racer; but her ewe neck sailed her as a I.. beauty, and the quick switching of her J?tail and vicious "gleam, in.her eyes would J; have told the experienced horseman at once that her temper was treacherous. When the gM passed before her, within reach of her teeth, her ears went back, her -mouth opened and her head shot forward with that savage lunge peculiar to biting horses. But the . vicious head only en? countered a shawl, which dexterously blinded the- beast's eyes and was firmly knotted behind and under the tips of the soli dropping ears. The mare stood still. Only a slight trembhng,from her yellow withers to her :yeIIow pasterns, told:of the rage which ??he blind had dammed up. !? "Poor old Buckskin 1" said the girl, soothingly, as she patted the ewe neck, p-"are they going to saddle you and ride you when you don't want to be saddled andriddenr" Then she whistled the bugle caU, "Boots and Saddle 1" while she threw on the har? ness arid drew both girths up till the I buckle tongues fitted in the last holes. .. "My I But wouldn't father be angry if he saw me! He says that no man in the fort can ride Buckskin because she is so vicious?and the idea of having her shot to-morrow! I shall take her a long, long run to-night and show her that the mare who can work, and won't work, must he made to work, and then to-morrow she'll I he gentle as an antelope kid." ?iinA coyote trotted to the top of a little ridge a couple of furlongs from the stock? te, when it hired its. head toward the id gave out a long drawn, mourn ffulcry. "Yes, we are coming, my friend." The tether rope had been cast off now, and the girl was astride the mare. "We are com* ing? possibly to find ourselves at dinner where we cannot. eat." There was a tense look about the muscles of her mouth, and a gravity in her eyes which showed [that she appreciated the danger of the f^ide before her. She looked across the [barrack yard to the fence, and thence over i prairies to the ridge where the coyote od cut in relief against the background ot silver moonlight Then her fingers moved in the knotted ends of the shawl, and the next moment the shawl fell away. The mare's eyes were opened. Before she had fully gained consciousness the steel rowels stung her gldes, and instinctively she went away ~ nrard like a frightened deer. Her skill rider, with bit and spurs, lifted her over the six foot stockada, and then the struggle began. ? The coyote's howl changed to a yelp, and with its ta? between its legs it ran from the sight of the plunging, rearing _idkickiTig wild beast, which, struggle it [never so bravely, could not dislodge its ider.. Alter the first fewmements the anxious [look on the girl's face gave way to a smile. ?knew the brute's temper well enough i know that when it found it could not its burden it would set off on a gallop across the prairio, and alter it victory was only a matter of time? illf ul guidance alone being needed to ep the mare out of tho ravines and the irmot villages. But the race is not always to the swift, lor the battle to the strong, for time and lance happeneth to them alL When the gallop came the loose end of ie lariat affixed to the pommel of the Idle fell to the grass, and as the mare led over the prairie at. a headlong it the lariat gradually unwound, until i entire length was trailing.' The trail lg end caught on the-.trunk of a sage ush, and when tho mare's impetuous plunge toro .the hush from its roots, the ' xk sent the lariat flying from the )und and whipped it twice around tho ight body of tho girl, by a horrible lity. binding her hands close to her ?reas t and her whole body to tho saddle, is* far as guidance was concerned, tho ckskin more was practically without a ider. / The girl tried to rise, so as to loosen tho jbrnce of the cord, but she was bound She put all her strength into her and strove to tear her hands away. For the first time in her life she appre? ciated the tragedy In tho lives of the help? less. A coyote got up from a clump of wild roses, and instead of making of across the prairies struck up a courso parallel with that of the mare. Then the girl bent over, and with her little teeth?they were like grains of rice ?began to gnaw tho dried and weather toughened rawhide. Her face was white now; her heart choked her; her helpless? ness made her afraid. Another coyote slipped out of the mist on the other side of the wildly galloping mare, and apparently without effort kept up with her. There was a sudden scam? pering in the prairie dog village ahead, and dozeps of the plump little beasts popped head foremost into their holes. Then the mare's head suddenly went down. There come a muffled snap, like the breaking of a well seasoned hickory wand.. The mare's front teeth ground into the earth, and turning upon them as updn. a pivot her body fell forward and sidewise. Her right fore leg had gone to to the knee in a marmot's hole and been broken like gross. The saddle, with its burden, was under her, it was crushed, twisted and stained, and the stains?scarlet in the moonlight? were gradually growing larger. Further than the regularly recurrent rise and fall of the mare's yellow sides there was no motion in the recumbent heap. .One or two adventurous prairie dogs put out their heads and snuffed the the air for a moment, ready at the slightest motion to tumble back into their city of refuge; but upon finding that no move? ment came from the object of their fear, they grew bolder, and soon the whole vil? lage was scampering about as before. They had no fear of the coyotes, which seemed to "be mustering from every point of the compass. Was it a sixth sense which told the wolves that there was game afoot, or did their fine nostrils catch the distant scent from the mare's wounded leg and the slowly growing stains about the saddle? As they drew near to the quarry their long drawn howls were changed to shrieks; their cries became louder, like those of bounds on a trail, and when the reeking trail ended at the pros? trate bodies, they shortened into barks and savage snarlings. At first the brutes skulked among the bushes and grass, but as the hours grew older they gradually closed in upon the victims until one, more adventurous than the rest, made two sudden leaps forward, and with bis yellow teeth tore the mare's flftT)V. She lifted her head. It was then that P'Bourko heard the scream, which he was ready to lay his hat was the scream of. a horse. The more never screamed again. Before morning the prairie dog village was only cumbered with a few shreds and patches of leather, a buckle or two and a steel spur. The bones all had been dragged away to be gnawed in tho pri? vacy of the ravines.?Henry Newport in Detroit Free Press. Fate of a French Sculptor. M. Anatole France relates the following anecdote in the Paris Temr~ to illustrate the poverty which is the fato of many modern sculptors. In the Ecolo des Beaux-Arts can be seen a bronze Mercury without the right arm. It was tho last work of Briant, who, though the recipient of the Prix de Rome, could hardly earn enough to pay for his bread. He lived in a garret and never warmed his room unless a model was sitting. One night it became so cold that he took all his clothes and threw them on his bed. Suddenly he re? membered his Mercury, and that the cold might freeze the clay and spoil his master work, so he took his clothes off his bed again and put them over the statue. Next morning he was found dead in his bed, frozen, as was his statue; and when an attempt was made to remove it, the arm broke off.?Chicago Times. -How to Betaln Health. It is; impossible to lay down, any rules for health which may be followed safely by all persons. Health depends largely upon the diet. Some people cannot eat .newly baked bread; others cannot eat it .when stale. Much fresh' meat with some constitutions induces fullness of the head and a feverish state of the system, be? cause it makes blood too fast. It should therefore be. discarded, and a little salt meat or flshfif the appetite craves it, with fresh fruit and vegetables, will bo found probably to bo just what the system re? quires.; In'truth, with health, as in many other things, each person must be a law unto himself.?Medical Journal. at Professional Aristocrats. One of the worst signs of the times is the hardness and want of feeling in the professional classes for those they ore pleased to term beneath them, a survival of the old aristocratic leaven, working in new ferment in the warmth of wealthy college atmosphere.?New York Moil and Express. _ Scientists state that water once con? taminated by sewage never becomes puri? fied by natural means. Theodore Tllton's Contented Life. Mr. Tilton is passing now, he tells his ifriends, the most peaceful and contented years of his life. It is threo years since he domiciled himself in Paris, and he will probably end his days there. He has a fioor in a grand old mansion, once the homo of the Dues de Nemours, an ancient building on the He de Paris, back of Notre Dame, in the very heart of historic asso? ciations. Here he spends much of his time, writing, reading, living happily within himself. For the rest, he is free to dine wherever his vagrant fancy dictates, to find companionship wherever he chooses. Most often he is to ba met late afternoons at the Cafe Rege nee, one of the very few of the famous pre-revdlutioh resorts which the Haussmannization of the right bank of tho Seine has left intact. Here for a century and more havo tho best chess players of Paris assembled. Alfred de Musset was a habitue, and many of the older men remember him well. A far more distinguished frequenter of the Regence?whom few enough of tho company can recall having seen even in his later life?was a certain keen eyed, aquiline nosed young lieutenant of artil? lery, M. Napoleon Bonaparte. A little metal tablet is set into the dark marble of one of the tables recording that here the future emperor was wont to sit and school ?his mind for Marcngo and Austerlitz in tho mazes of chess. I fancy that no dreams of fame or of especial achievement come ; now to Mr. Tilton. Tho work upon which he is engaged is understood to bo ephem? eral in character?done as much for the soko of occupation and mental relief as anything else. His chief interest is to liko his life and to keep it smooth, uneventful, restful, within tho compass of simple de? sires and pleasant associations.?New York Times. Tho Washington Family's Wine. The Washingtons drank wine at their dinners, and the collection of Washing? ton's' household effects in the National museum in Washington shows that the family possessed much testhetic taste, ^eir china contained many choico bits. In the collection there is an immense punch bowl and several wine services, and ?the chaplain of congress the time Wash? ington was president recurds a presidential dinner at which he says that Gen. Wash? ington had a silver pint cup of beer at his plate, which he drank while eating. The Washington family had much fine wine in their cellars at Mount Vernon; but though Washington drank a gloss or so of Ma? deira at his meals, there is no record of his ever having drunk too much. That Martha Washington appreciated tho value of good wine is evidenced by her will. In it she gives a pipo of wino to George Washington Parke Custis, and directs that all the wine bottles in * o Mount Vernon vaults be equally divide., between her granddaughters and grandson.?Frank G. Carpenter. THE DESTINY MAKER. She came, and I who linger'd there, I saw that she was very fair; And, with-my sighs that pride supprcss'd, There roso a trembling wish for rest. But I, who had resolv'd to bo Tho maker of my destinj*, I turn'd mo to my task and wrought, And so forgot tho passing thought. She paused; and I who questioned there, I heard she was as good as fair; And in my soul a still, small voice Enjoin'd mo not to check my choice. But I, who-had resolv'd to bo Tho muker of my dest iny, I badt) the gentlo guardian down And tried to think alwut renown, She left; and I who wander fear There's nothing moro to see or hear; Thoso walls that ward my paradise Aro very high, nor open twice. And I, who had resolv'd to bo Tho maker of my destiny,. Can only.wait without the goto And sit and sigh: " Too latel too latel" WORK OF A MODEL. MLLE. ELIA WRITES OF HER OWN STUDIO EXPERIENCE. Beginning Work When a Little Girl?An Incensed Mother?Difference Between French Artists and American Painters. The Model's Ideas. My companions were many of them models, and one day, I remember it well, I was only 12 years old at the time, a friend said to me: "Elia, how would you like to pose for an artist? M. Corros, tho great painter, wants a little girl to sij for him. He is making a canvas of a village scene, and ho asked me to find somebody, and you are just the one that would suit him." I didn't dare to tell my mother, but next morning, with a fast beating heart, I knocked at the door of M. Coitos' studio. I had not long to wait, for a tall man with a kindly face and a musical voice opened the door and said: "Come in, little girl," in a manner that made me feel at home at once. It was an odd place and I confess I was not a little interested in the many things I saw. The room, a largo one, was littered with bits of statuary and bric-a-brac strewn about. The walls were covered with worn out tapestries and hideous helmets, shields and deadly battleaxes. M. Corros him? self was dressed in a red smoking gown, with a fez poised on the back of his head, and his feet were incased in pointed Turk? ish slippers. Indeed, it would mako any girl a bit scary. He took me by the hand and led me to an easel upon which there was a half finished painting of a little Swiss maiden milking a cow. "Takeoff your dress and put this one on," he said, handing me a skirt and bodice, such as are worn in the Bernese Alps. Without waiting ho began to loosen the buttons of my waist. Before I had time to realize what had oocurred I stood there with my peasant's dress on. Next ho showed me a photograph of a peasant girl with a milk pad in her hand and asked me to assume tho same position. I was rather clever then ? French girls usually are ? and naturally I fell into the position. "Goodl" exclaimed monsieur, and after making a few suggestions and arranging the folds of my skirt he filled a long pipe, and, taking up his palette, dropped into a seat before the easeL "Stand that way as long as you can and tell me when you get tired. Sing, laugh, do anything you please, only don't move more than you can possibly help till I give you permission." He daubed his brushes over the pate of paint on his palette, and through the thick clouds of fragrant smoke that rose from his pipe I watched him work away. I stood there half an hour at least, encouraged by the snatches of fa? miliar songs that monsieur sang as ho worked away. Suddenly he dropped the brush and came over to me. "Bravol" he cried. "You are a little brick, and now you shall have your reward." With that he opened an ancient carved cup? board, took therefrom the lightest cups and saucers I had ever seen and began to seta three legged table. He had no end of sweetmeats, biscuit, cakes and fruit and, best of all, coffee, which he himself made, using milk instead of water to cook it in. We sat down and ate and drank, M. Corros saying funny things all the while. During the meal he casually referred to my parents, asked me if my; mother was kind to me and if I had brothers and sis? ters. At his request, after I had gorged my? self to my heart's content, I resumed my position and monsieur painted away an hour longer, and I put on my things be? hind a screen and prepared to go home. "Come again to-morrow," said mon? sieur, pressing a five franc piece in my hand, "and say to your mother that I shall use you for a week to come at least." 1 I plucked up courage,- and just before I said my evening prayers I handed my mother the coin I had earned, confessed everything, got a sound beating and fell asleep. Next morning my mother escorted me to the studio, determined to rebuke M. Corros for having engaged me as his model without her consent. Like Gold? smith's scoffer she remained to pray, and in less than five minutes everything was settled and from that time forth I took my place in tho army of models that live in the studios of the Bue Clichy and Rochechouart. I posed for Corros three years, and oh1 we did have such jolly times. French artists are not at all like your American painters. They are kind and treat their models just as if they were boon com? panions. They don't say, like your Americans do to their models in a cruel, chilly way: "Ah, Miss X., you have come to sit for me. Just take your position and wait till I get ready. There, keep your back straight; don't wink and try to appear at rest" The idea of a person trying to assume tho natural, unre? strained pose of a simple girl before a spinning wheel in a stiff backed chair with her hands crossed in her lap! That's the very reason why most American painters can't paint. They don't choose their models from the right material. AU they want is a girl with a good figure and never care whether she is graceful or not. v Instead of allowing an experienced" model to assume her own positions, to an extent, they insist that the model should sit just as they wish and distort herself until she looks like a mannikin. In Paris it is different. The artist knows his model, as she is one of his best friends. "I want to paint a nun at mass or a prin? cess at a ball, mademoiselle," he says. Then perhaps he will takaup a guitar, strum a few bars of a waltz wh?e the model leisurely undresses in his presence and dons her costume. "How would you stand, suppose I was the prince and led you into tho ballroom, and wo were saluted by the guests?" Of course a graceful model catches the idea at once. She stands one way, then another, and so on until the artist hits upon the one he likes, and im? parting a few ideas about the arrangement of the drapery he goes about his work. Everything is natural, nnd that is the rea? son in a great measure why French paint? ers are so fuccessful in their efforts. Then again, from her friendly relations with tho artist, the model takes tho liberty of criticising the painting in its various stages of completion, and standing at a distance from the canv-T the model can better judge the effect than the artist, who is close to the canvas, and hundreds of times, while posing for Cabanel, Bac canvitch and Van Beers, I have called their attention to what I thought was out of harmony with the rest of the work. Kindly Baccanvitch?who, by the way, is' a coarse looking Russian, with barbarous manners, bnt as tender as a blushing girl at heart?would thank me for such sug? gestions. For a model to tell an American artist anything about painting would only incur his displeasure or perhaps bring forth a mild oath or two.?Mile. Elia in New York World. Poot Whlttler's Protest. The autograph fiend has exhausted even tho exemplary patience of Mr. Wbittier, who has written to The Critic that he finds it impossible to reply to solicitations which reach him by every mail for uuto graphs, notices of books and answers to questions on matters of no real interest to the writers or himself. He has neither time nor strength for the examination and criticism of manuscripts, and cannot be responsible for the care of them. Tho letters of friends, known and unknown, nro always welcome, and ho trusts that his age nnd state of health will excuse an occasional delay in responding to them.? New York Commercial Advertiser. Game of Yellowstono Park. A gentleman who has resided in the Yellowstone National park for many years, and is well acquainted with its con? dition, says that "the game in the park is increasing, while the number of visitors increases. At the present tiino there are two herds of buffalo, aggregating about 180; thero are about 5,000 elk, 700 or 800 mountain sheep, 50 moose, several hun? dred antelope, 500 blacktail deer, tho streams contain many beaver, streams and lakes full of trout, mountain lions are frequently met with, wildcats and lynx quite abundant, otter, martin and minks quite plentiful."?New York Post. Variations of a Single Form. A spectroscopio study of the sun has given Professor J. N. Lockyer, tho Eng? lish astronomer, reason for believing that the substances now regarded as ele? mentary are really compound; while Pro? fessor William Crookcs, probably ns ablo a physicist as any living, finds that tho observed phenomena of chemistry and physics point very strongly to tho con? clusion that all tho so-called elements nro but variations of a siuglo form of matter, which Ins Icnns "pmlyhv"?Arknns?vw Traveler. NOVELS FOR THE BOYS. ENORMOUS EDITIONS FOR JUVE? NILE AMERICAN READERS. Young- America An Insatiable Devourer of Cheap Literature?Instructions to Contributors?How the Copy Is Turned Out?In War Times. The boys of this country fire insatiable devourcrs of cheap literature. There are just a dozen cheap libraries in this city that issue half dime and dime novels for boj's. All except one issue a book every week, tho average of each edition being about 25,000. Some of the books run into several editions. One of Meredith's yarns ?was put on the press seven times. An? other story also sold enormously. About 400 authors are engaged in writing theso books. The prices paid vary greatly. One publisher says he pays from $10 to $15 to new men and gets his old writers very cheap. For the $10 to $15 a writer has to furnish copy of 80,000 words, or from twenty to thirty words for a cent. An? other library pays about $25, and goes up to $200 for reputation and popularity. Another pays $75 to $250, and won't ac? cept anything it doesn't consider worth $75. It issues printed instructions to all contributors as follows: "Authors who write for our considera? tion will hear in mind that: We prohibit all things offensive to good taste, In ex? pression or incident; we prohibit subjects or characters that carry an immoral taint; we prohibit the repetition of any occur? rence which, though true, is better left un? told; we prohibit what cannot be read with satisfaction by every right minded person, old and young alike; we require your best work; we require unquestioned originality; we require pronounced strength of plot and high dramatic inter? est of story; wo require grace and pre? cision of narrative styles and correctness in composition; authors must be familiar with characters and places which they in? troduce, and not attempt to write in fields of which they have no intimato knowl? edge." GRDvDIXG OUT TIIE COr*Y. The concern that issues theso instruc? tions requires 40,000 to 80,000 words, and at tho cheapest rate would be flvo and one third words for a cent. The cheap rate named thus pays three-fifths the price of ordinary copying. The authors of estab? lished popularity get very satisfactory prices. Tho number of persons who ex? periment with the business of writing these stories is declared to bo wouderful. Some of the libraries reject thrco out of four manuscripts, others eight out of ten, not counting the productions of the writers that are on the regular corps, and who can grind out the same kind of copy with the precision of machinery- The latter arc supposed to get up their stories on the principle of a game of cribbage, and they simply take the pegs out of one hole and stick them in another, adding variety and producing the originality called for in tho instructions by changing the starting point from tho center to tho corners, or vice versa, and picking up the pegs in a diagonal lino or around the circle, as the case may be. Some of tho best writers in the country are stated to have attempted this, lino of writing, but have failed, branching out into irrelevant dialogue and padding up with descriptions, not be? ing able to keep up the interest in situ? ation or dialogue. The latter is absolutely essential, as tho average boy has to slide down tbc bill of ono page very fast or ho -.won't try to climb the top of the next. One of the library publishers was stopped by Anthony Comstock from pub? lishing the Jesse James series, under tho law prohibiting the making of heroes out of notorious criminals. The publishers say it takes an edition of 7,000 to pay for a sixteen page dime book and 10,000 for the half dime work. The business is now - picking up from the depression of the past few years. During the war the dime novels sold enormously among the soldiers. The war library is flaying out, tho sales having dwindled to very light figures. Tho books of these libraries are sold all over the country.?New York Mail and Express. Indestructibility of Clay. Clay, when placed in any particular form, such, for example, as an embank? ment, will retain that form unchanged for centuries, when protected from strong currents of water. Whether from a knowledge of this fact, or from accident, the primitive inhabitants of this country built their mounds and*" other monuments invariably of clay, and the passing centu? ries have left no mark upon them that will give to tho antiquarian even a hint of their age. Had these monuments of a lost race been built of stone the progress of decay would have given us some data to estimate the period of the "mound builders," but a mound of clay in a dense forest, covered annually with a coat of leaves, is indestructible. A thousand years will pass and leave no footprints upon it. H clay was a rare article its wonderful properties would bo a subject of constant comment, but familiarity with any object is always unfavorable to care? ful c orvation and close scrutiny.?Bos? ton Budget. Tho Latest Word. The very latest is "jounce." Mash, masher and mashed are not obsolete, but ancient, which is worse. To bo up with tho times you must consider the young man whose eyes have rested on you in fond approval, not, as heretofore, reduced to the formless state of the jelly fish, but shaken up, jolted, as when encountering some obstruction in the downward sweep of the smooth going toboggan. "He's jounced," yon say as you observe the broken bones of tho victim and turn to fresh fields and candidates new. Great indeed is philology and great is tho young woman. Her capacities for enriching tho English language are without bounds.? New York Mail and Express. "On Ornamental Poles." Discussing the problem of disposing of telegraph and other electric wires, tho well informed and appreciative London Standard remarks that in American cities they are run along the streets "on orna? mental poles.'' Thus is tho stigma of dis? grace removed from a long suffering na? tional institution, and tho most con? spicuous feature of our urbane scenery en? shrined as a thing of beauty and joy for? ever.?New York Tribune. Imitators of Bliss Marfroo. Miss Murfreo's success has of course drawn outfli host of imitators, ono enter? prising young woman even going so far as to announce in her circulars that she had purposely gone to tho mountains and "crammed" on their manners and cus? toms, "in hope of bringing out certain phases of mountain life unpardonably neglected by those who have hitherto written of it. "?New York Graphic A Mexican Wlfo Abroad. Dut when a foreigner marries a Mexican woman he ought invariably to settle here, for it is very rare that his wife can live anywhere else. They miss tho beautiful climate and pine for that universal cor? diality and warmth of manner by which they havo been surrounded in Mexico; they yearn for tho lassics-ollcr and ab? sence of all etiquette in habits, toilets, etc. In other countries they find themselves surrounded by women so differently edu? cated as to be doubly strangers. A very few instances havo been recorded of Mexi? can girls who have been married and taken to Europe when very young who have acquired European ways of thinking and even prefer the land of adoption to their own; but these cases are so rare as scarce? ly to form exceptions. They aro true pa? triots, for the visible horizon bounds all their wishes. In France, Spain or Italy they might manage to exist, but in tho United States or England they would bo as much out of their natural element as fish out of water. An icy climate, not colder than tho manners of tho people, a harsh language almost impossible to ac? quire, a religion which they consider heretical, etiquette carried to excess, and insupportable order in tho toilet?rebosos unknown, cignritos considered barbarous ?they feel like exiles from paradise and live only in hopes of return.?City of Mexico Letter._ Derivation of "Boodle." A miter in a Washington newspaper suggests that tho word "boodle" is doubt? less derived from the Dutch word "boc del," which means property or goods. A "bocdeistcr,'' he says, is tho attorney or other person who finally possesses the "liocdel." Retained Her licauty. The celebrated Mine Tternmicr was 38 when Harras was ousted from power, and she was without dispute declared to be tho most beautiful woman in Europe, which rank she held for fifteen years. THE VICTIMS OF QUININE. An Insidious Drug "Which Enlivens but Does Not Intoxicate. A youug man with a pale face, close clipped hair, graceful mustacho, dexterous white hauds, and clad in tho neatest at? tire sauntered into a Fifth street drug store yesterday forenoon and glanced at that corner of the room where the mineral water spigots were displayed. "He's a lily, but he's gone on the drug," whispered a* clerk whose duty it didn't chance to be to wait on him. "Sec, ho don't oven have to ask for what ho wants," continued tho clerk, as another "capsule shooter" nimbly tripped up to the customer, produced a jar of pills, poured out a couple, and presented them to the customer with a glass of mineral water to furnish them transportation. Tho customer swallowed, the pills and mineral water as though they had been a part of his daily food ever since the war. They were evidently to him what tho gin nnd wormwood bracer is to tho saloon pet, and he bowed and smiled on the pro? prietor ^ he turned on his heel and dis? appeared. His shadow was still in sight when a thin, cadaverous looking man, wearing unmistakable signs of minstrelsy ?a plug hat that was not new and yards of hair on tho edges of his coat?entered the door. He was a stranger in tho place and he had to ask in his artless, burnt cork way for quinine pills before the ac? commodating clerk brought down the jar of little pellets. He took three, and, as an economic measure, undertook to make away with them without the mineral water accompaniment. They lodged, and he began in a disturbed tone, as the clerk was presenting his change: "Take out for a glass" "Yes, there is an increased demand for quinine," said the clerk who had called attention to tho first customer. "It is just like the drinking habit with men, the demand gradually increases. The cus? tomers for quinine arc, in the main, peo? ple who consider the use of intoxicating liquors a terrible vice. They are people of frail physique, whom a few hours' work exhausts. They discover that qui? nine is an appetizer for them, and they begin taking small doses of it. If four grains brighten them up in the beginning, it will take more than a dozen grains to produce the same effect in a year. Most of them drop into a drug shop in the even? ing, wdiilo on their way home to dinner, and get a dose of quinine pills propor? tioned in size to the time they have been slaves to the habit. It completely knocks out a confirmed feeder on tho insidious drug to stop using it, and only a few ever make the attempt. "The ladies, too, arc quinine consum? ers. More of them than you would ever suspect drop in after tho matinee or after they have made a long and tiresome round shopping to enliven themselves with tho seductive quinine pill. There aro not many ladies who are killing themselves with the stuff, like many frail clerks and business men are."?St. Louis Republican. An Invalid's Craving. I am a sufferer from nervous dyspepsia. I find from experience that when my nerves are calm I can digest almost any? thing that is well cooked and palatable, and no one should eat what is not. I once read in a French medical work an account of a young girl whoso stomach utterly re? fused to retain any food. She became im? pressed with the notion that raw onions would agree with her, but the doctor, al? though ho failed to understand'the nature of tho case, declined to gratify what he considered o mere whim. Tho result was that the poor girl died of starvation. An examination of tho body then revealed tho fact that a substance resembling gristle stopped the passage from the stomach to the intestines. Recollecting tho desiro of the patient for raw onions, some were sliced and placed upon tho substance. In twenty-four hours it had entirely dis? solved. I believe in and practice giving my patients what they crave, and merely exercise judgment as to quantity. I could cite a number of cases of successful treatment on this plan.?Herald of Health. Steam Under Pressure. Steam, as compared with water, occu? pies 1,728 times as much space. A cubic inch of water will make 1,728 cubic inches of steam at atmospheric pressure. Now, if this steam is compressed into half tho space it occupies at atmospheric pressure, it will be double that pressure or fifteen pounds above the atmosphere; it will then occupy only 801 cubic inches. If reduced again to half its volume, it will occupy 432 cubic inches, and will have thirty pounds pressure. Reduced again to half the volume, the steam will occupy 210 cubic inches, and will have sixty pounds pressure to the square inch. "We can go on reducing in this way until we find that a cubic inch of water turned into steam and compressed into a space of three cubic inches will have the enormous pressure of 3,840 pounds to the square inch.?Boston Budget. _ Tho Ping Hatted Youth. "When I was a boy," said a man on the rear end of a street car, "a woolen cap was good enough for any fellow. It has got so now, however, that a 10-ycar-old boy thinks he can't go to a party or to the theatre without a plug hat. H there is anything in this spherical earth of ours that makes me weary of life and sour on all creation it is.to see a scissored legged boy fifteen years from his mother's lap parading the streets with a plug hat perched upon his head. It makes me just itch to give him the gray hairs, the wrinkles, and tho aches of ago and then kill him off as soon as possible. These young men are getting too fast for their age."?Chicago Herald. Fibre of Milk 'Wood. American inquisitiveness and ingenuity united have produced thread made from the blossom of the common milk weed, which has the consistency and tenacity of imported flax or Jinen thread and is i\ro duced at a much less cost. The flbro is long, easily carded and may be readily adapted to spinning upon an ordinary flax spinner. It has the smoothness and lustre of silk, rendering it valuable for sewing machine use.?Frank Leslie's. Island of Juan Fernandez. The island of Juan Fernandez is to be rendered of more practical value than it was in the days of Robinson Crusoe. An enterprising individual in Valparaiso ad? vertises that ho will run a steamer so as to enable all to pass a vacation there who wish to escape the chances of cholera in Valparaiso.?Chicago Times. The Howard of Merit. A Burlington woman hailed a half frozen tramp the other day: "Say, come around to the back door and I'll give you something." When the tramp put in an appearance she exclaimed: '' There! j'on've done a good job for me. You've broken a path to tho clothes line, and here's a tem? perance tract for you."?Burlington Free Press. Scott In tho Mexican War. nis victories have never received the credit justly due them on account of the apparent ease with which thoy were gained. The student of military history will rarely meet with accounts of battles in any age where the actual operations co? incide so exactly with tho orders issued npon the eve of conilicts as in the official reports of tho wonderfully energetic and successful campaign in which Gen. Scott, with a handful of men, renewed tho mem? ory of the conquest of Cortes, in his tri? umphant march from Vera Cruz to the capital. Tho plan of tho battle of Cerro Gordo was so fully carried out in action that the ofllcial report is hardly moro than the general orders translated from the future tense to the past The story of Chapultcpec has the same clement of the marvelous in it The general commands apparent impossibilities in the closest de? tail on one day, and tho next day re? ports that they have been accomplished. These successes wore not cheaply attained. The Mexicans, though deficient in scienco and military intelligence, fought with bravery and sometimes with desperation. The enormous percentage of loss in his army proves that Scott was engaged in no light work.?Tho Century. An Unfathomable Mystery. I watched a womun weighing horsclf in a grocery store tho other day. She had just purchased a pound packago of saler atus and had it in her hand when she stepped on to the scales. "Why, I've gained a pound!" she re? marked to herself when she hnd finished manipulating the weights. Then, remembering her salcratns, she exclaimed: "Ob, Lord! I forgot I had this," and hastily popped the package into hor pocket Then she began lo work the weights, nnd wondered why she could get no dif? ferent result When she left the- store, with knitted brow, she was still evidently trvingto fathom tho myst er v.-?Pioneer COURTING AMONG THE MEXICANS. IJott the Mexican Borneo Wong Hit Juliet?"Playing the Bear." Speaking of the senoritas, notwithstand? ing the fact that they are prone to flirt, they are very circumspect as to some things to which wo Americans never give a thought. For instance, Mexican ladles seldom go out without some one of tho family or a servant. They do not have gentlemen visitors. There is no chance for a gallant youth to burn tho midnight oil or gas at his prospective father-in law's expense. If a young man has been acquainted with a girl from chilhood, or by some accident is allowed to visit tho family and becomes a lover, he is imme? diately forbidden the house and must continue his courting as best he can. It is then the balcony is of service. A signal is agreed upon, and the senorita with ears alert hears it and appears upon the bal? cony and converses with her lover helcw in the street. Notes are secretly ex? changed, but never through the mail. To give you an idea of Mexican courtship and how Cupid breaks down the barriers mnde by ignorance and supersdition, I will explain what is here termed "playing the bear." This is a very popular game ?at least it seems so?among the Mex? icans. It is played by two persons, a lady and a gentleman. Both are usually young, in their teens as it were, though there are instances of the game being played by couples who had passed that period by several years. A young man becomes smitten with a fair charmer at the opera or at church. He follows the lady to her home. Having that located he makes it his business to be in thnt neighborhood as much as pos? sible. He will stroll by tho house with his eyes expressive of the state of his heart, and if he should catch a glimpse of his fair one ho is happy. If he receives a smile he becomes intoxicated with love and is ready to play tho "bear" for an in? definite period of time. If the lady is seated on the balcony when Romeo ar? rives upon tho scene she usually with? draws, after exchanging glances with him. This programme is kept up for months. At last he receives a smile from fair Juliet. From smiles they get to exchang? ing a few words. There have been actual cases where the hear has frolicked about for a year or two before the fickle maid would exchange a word with him. Very often there are two or three bears casting longing eyes in the same direction. This frequently causes bad blood.- As soon as tho couple begin to know each other's voices matters pro press rapidly. After they arrive at an understanding the persevering lover has? tens to tho padre. The kind priest, find? ing that there is no reason for objection on either side, proceeds to intercede with the girl's parents and gain him admit? tance to tho domicile of his lady love. As soon as a young man enters the houso ho is considered as engaged to the daughter. A wedding quickly follows and there, is no more "playing the bear" so far as that young man is concerned.?City of Mexico Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Electrical Searches for Bullets. When President Garfleld was slowly dy? ing at Elberon, and the attending sur? geons were locating tho fatal bullet in spots clear away from whore, after death, it was discovered, an electrical apparatus was constructed by Professor Graham Bell for the purpose of finding the bit of lead. The failure was ridiculed, much to the chagrin of Bell and the doctors. The discovery has since been mnde that; Gar? fleld lay on a metallic mattress, which frustrated the electricity. Now, under the sanction of the Now York academy of medicine, a machine has been constructed and tested. The machino consisted of a battery, tolls and other familiar tele? graphic devices, but principally of a thin steel probe connected with tho wires in a manner invented by Bell. The surface of tho patient over an imbedded bullet was cocained, so as to deprive it of feeling. Then tho probe was thrust in. As the end of the steel came within six inches of the bullet, the surgeon with his ear to a tele? phonic cup heard a humming sound, which grew louder as the metal was ap? proached. The flesh was jabbed a num? ber of times, and tho trial was regarded as a success. Later, a war veteran sub? mitted to a search for a bullet that had entered his chest and remained somewhere In him for twenty years. Tho needle hummed its way to the lead's hiding iplace and it was removed. Dr. John H. Gird ncr, who operuted the instrument, said that its use would have saved Garfleld's lif e in all probability.?New York Sun. Cheap Books at Dry Goods Stores. Walking along with E. R. Pelton, the publisher of The Eclectic Magazine, and tho agent of Lippincott's, I inquired of him how it was that dry goods stores could sell books so much below regular rates, as I noticed in one store Grant's memoirs were marked at $2.27 a volume, and Chambers' Encyclopaedia and other books for little over one-half the adver? tised retail price. Mr. Pelton explained this by Baying that these big dry goods stores as a rulo did not invest any money in books. They sold them on commission, often small enough to only cover the ex? pense. Publishers and booksellers in this way worked off surplus stock, or as they did not hare to handle the goods they could afford to take a very small profit. Mr. Pelton said that this had sericusly injured the retail book business, which was now transacted on 5 and 10 per cent, margins.?New York Tribune. Bucklen's Arnnca Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi? tively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac? tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros., Ander? son, S. C. PIEDMONT AIR-LINE, Richmond & Danville R. R., COLUMBIA & GREENVILLE DIVISION. CONDENSED SCHEDULE, IN EFFECT DECEMBER 19, 1630. (Trains run on 75th Meridian time.) Southbound. No. 82 I 8.20 am 9.00 am 10.15am 12.00 m 10.45 am 8.20 am 0.25 am 12.4-1 pm 1.10pm 3.0-1 pm 5.15 pm 9.20 pm Northbound. No. 53 11.00 am l.Otptn 2.20 pm 2.42 pm 5.53 pm 5.55 pm 1.35 pm ?1.35 pm '1.50 pm ij.02pni 13.35 pm 10.40 pm Lyu Walhalla.... Seneca. Anderson... Spartanb'rg Abbeville... Laurens. Greenville.. Green wood Ninety-Six Newborry. Arr. Columbia... Augusta .... Lve. Columbia.. Ncwberry.. Ninety-Sir. Grcemvo'd Arr. Greenville Laurens".... Abbeville.. Spart'nbrg Anderson.. Seneca. Walhalla... Atlanta. No. 53 makes close connection for Atlanta. No. 52 makes close connection for Augusta and Charleston at Columbia. Jas. L. Taylor, Gen'l Pass. Agent. D. Cakdweel, Ass't Pass. Agt, Columbia, S. C Sol. Haas, Traffic Manager. LIFE OF J.B.JETER, D.D. THIS WORK will be issued April 15th. From a large number of testimonials I select the following : "I am delighted to know that Dr. Hatch? er is writing the 'Life of Dr. Jeter.' Ho is the very man for the work."?John. A. Brondus, D. D. "This book should have a very wide sale, for into whatever home itjenters there will go the inspiration of a noble life?the sto? ry of a pour mountain boy who made him? self great and useful despite every obsta? cle."?J. Wm. Jones, D. D. Tlie book contains about 750 pp., 8 vo. It is sold to subscribers at following prices : Elegant English Cloth, gilt edges, with sleel portrait of Dr. Jeter. ?2.50 ; Morocco, otherwise same, $:j 00; Cloth, without por? trait, $2.00. I have control of the book for this State. Agents wanted. Address U. F. WILLIAMS, Ridge Spring, S. C. Will send above on receipt of price where there is no ngent. Also, Broadus' Sermons and Addresses at same prices, and Broadus' Commentary on Mutt, for $2 25. March 31,1887 38 2 CARRIAGE AND "Wagon Shop. rpilE undersigned would respectfully in .L form the public that he is prepared to do 'dl kinds uf work in the Carriage and Wagon line. Now Buggies and Wagons put up to order. 1 make a specialty in hunting, ,-ls I have a first-class Painter; so bring "ii your old lliiirgies. } have in connection with nie Mr. J- A. Wallace, nn export Blacksmith, who will do all kinds of Plantation work, and Horse Shoeing a specialty, l'leas? call ami sec Um We will do you righ!. Shops, Depot Street, Anderson,*S. 0. W. D. MARONEY. ?Ian 20, 1S57 28 SAVANNAH VALLEY B. E. 11 33 a ra 12 03 p in 12 40 p m 113 p m 1 35 p in 2 02 p in 2 20 p ra 2 40 p ra 3 15 p m In effect Nov. 14,18SG. Time?1 hour slower than C. & G. R. R time. Going South?Daily, except Sunday. Leave Anderson. 5 30 am 11 00 a m Leave Deans.. 6 02 a m Leave Cooks. 0 32 a ra Leave Lowndesville. 7 05 a m Leave Latitners. 7 35 a ni Leave Hesters. 7 55 a m Leave Mt. Carmel.... S 21 a m Leave Willington.... 8 37 a m Leave Bordeau. 8 57 a ra Arrive McCorraick... 9 30 a ra Arrive Augusta. 0 05 p ra Arrive Charleston. 7 00 a ra Arrive Savannah. 5 55 a m Arrive Jacksonville.12 00 m Going North?Daily, except Sunday. Leave Jacksonville. 2 30 p ra Leave Savannah.8 10 p ra Leave Charleston. 4 00 a m Leave Augusta.12 15 p ra 7 50 a ra Leave McCormick... 4 15 p m Leave Bordeau. 4 49 p m Leave Willington.... 5 09 p m Leave Mt Carmel... 5 25 p in Leave Hesters. 5 51 p in Leave Latimers. 6 10 p m Leave Lowndesville. (i 41 p in Leave Cooks. 7 15 p ra Leave Deans. 7 43 p m Arrive Anderson.8 15 p in Connects with train to and from Green? wood, Laurens and Spartanburg. Connections at Augusta with Georgia, South Carolina and Central Railroads. At Spartanburg with A. & C. Air Line and Asheville & Spartanburg R. It. Tickets on sale at Anderson to all points at through rates. Baggage checked to des? tination. E. T. CHARLTON, G. P. A. W. W. STARR, Snpt., Augusta, Ga. ltavlnsr *olil your excel? lent ptepaiMIon known as O fot the past year or mora we are pleased to report that It has given entire satisfaction and we do not hesitate to recommend it. 10 15 a ra 10 il a m 11 07 am 11 22 a m 1148 am 12 08 p ra 12 38 pra 1 12 pm 1 42 p m 2 15 p ra Consta rl TO 5 DAY3. ^Guaranteed cot to^ cauac Stricture. Mrdcolybytt? litxi Chtaical Co. Cincinnati,! Ohio. j,C Williams ? Co., Syracuse, N. Y> SoleVby Droreists. Price, $1.00. For sale by ORR & SLOAN, Anderson, S. C. 45?ly P0W3ER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. a marvel of purity, strength and wholesoiuencss. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans- Royal Bakih? Fowdek Co., 10C Wall St., New York. 42?ly B1NOHAMTON. N.V. the invalids benefactor. Discoverer of Dr. Kilmer's q Complete Female Remedy ?^!f?li D H??e Treatment Special and Speciflo treatment for nil Complaints ana Diseases peculiar to Daughters, Wives and Mothers. Ea?U>ac,<azo contain*. 3 bottles. Each kind is also sold separately: FemalO Remedy, (Blood and Systomj$1. Autumn-Leaf Ext.,(Local Trenrm-ns i V <fc o .v no In tJlie/lt, (External " v jo SSTOr the throe In one PackageSu.M. Recovers the "run-down;" bed-ridden" or "abandoned." It Eliminates Ilumors and Blood Impurities that cause Scrofula, Cancer, Tumor, pimples and blotches. Tn6 o*? for Prwarie* and Expo-mrca Is met yeoman'* noalth and twofulucrs strain reatnrcd Dr. Kilmer tro^U internal Tumor. Cancer, loa atn'C afford to argloct cariv Fyniplorrm. Lptters of Inquiry promptly answered, n Dr.Ktlmor'? FemRle Dlirpensnn-, ninjrhmnton N T H "Invalids' Guide to Health" ($.'nt Free). H sold by all druggists. ? For sale by1 WILHITE & WILHITE, Anderson, S. C. 44?ly pH? Cures Bactocjjg, Lung TrouLIes, Kidney Diseases, Rbeunjatisn?? Etc. A trial will convince tho most skeptical that they uro tlie liest. They aro medicated with capsicum and the active principlo of petroleum, being fur itioro powerful la their action than other plasters. 1 >o not be induced totakeotbers, but he ?uro niul pot tho genuine " Potrollne, which is always enclosed iaan envelope with the signature of the proprietors, Tho P.W.P. Co., mid directions in four languages; also seal in green ii tnl gold on each piaster. Sold by all druggists, at ~5 cents each. CORN PLASTERS Aro tho best known remedy for hard and soft corns, and never (ail to euro. Price, SJ5 cents. PEDACURA INSOLES Cure Cold Feet, Gout, Rheumatism, FnralyKls, Swollen Feet, etc. The Peleg White Proprietary Co., 54 Church Street, New York. Manufacturers. Of first class drujj jf l.sts and WILHITE & WILHITE, Agents for Anderson, S. C. April 29, I88? 42 ly MADAME DEAN'S 9 A ^% B JE? HniCTffOtiO and irtcllhrent fat r% tL* 9 ?? ^ i;:;i:i ; want c?l to introduce our popuhr Corsct.H in every c-inrity. No experi onco required. At. r,'s nr.? nlsuMng ?100 monthly. l.'OdiiTen * (?!;? !cs to select from. Largest commissions, In '. icrr r. n"d most uul ablc (roo<lj?. Satisfaction/mnran'toi d. Kxchifivn territory given. :f.?:'. <)PT.k;t i*:?KJ5, Illus? trated Catalo-.'uo anil piriienl.: free. "Write fur terms at mice, Aal? tor -.vr r. .'.'00 Cwh Premium Osr :.? v: honk, entitled hukss ih? < n*.: van r..\Mva, with biography of iVorf'ji.:' 'i^raUil?. seul on receipt ?( nppih-aihtii ;v;t.?i r.w r.xrrcif: l .Ki'Eit Ali I .-> .. V? UlTK for TEKM.S. Don't delay if you iviah to ?csrure terri? tory. LEWIS SCHILLS * CO., 3S0 ESCaDWAV, hhw YCES. GET THE BEST ! The Cheapest and Finest Guano in the Market! THE undersigned having been appointed agents for the sale of the GEXEROSTEE FERTILIZER would call the attention of the Farmers of Anderson County to its merits. It is a home-made Ammoniated Fertilizer, of the highest grade. Its offi? cers are personally known to our people, and their character guarantees the honesty of the manufacture. Nothing but first-class materials are used in it. Many of our leading Farmers have tested it with entire satisfaction. We guarantee it t? be as good as last year, and as good as the best commercial manure sold in this market. TERMS?Cash, payable May 1st, 1887, $23.00 per Ton ; November 1st, 1887, $25.00, or 325 pounds Middling Lint Cotton. Patronize home enterprise, and at the same time get the best manure. "iasU Call and see us without fail before purchasing. It will cost you nothing to look into the merits of this Guano. BROWN BROS., Agents, Feb 17, 1887 32 ANDERSON, S. C. 3m FURNITURE! FURNITURE I Will be sold Cheaper than Ever at G. F. TOLLY'S FURNITURE STORE! THERE you can find tbe most Elegant assortment of all kinds of Furniture from tbe cheapest to tbe finest, in the whole up-country. Sold Cheaper than anywhere in the State or out of It. Full and complete Room Suits from $16.00 to $350.00. Elegant Plush Parlor Suits at $45.00. Lounges from $5.00 to $13.00. Washstands from $1.25 to $12.00. Wardrobes from $9.50 to $50.00. Bedsteads (hard wood) from $2.25 to $30.00. Chairs from 45c to $2.00 ; Rocking Chair from $1.25 to $10.00, And EVERYTHING ELSE IN PROPORTION. I will duplicate New York, Baltimore, Charleston or Augusta prices. Everybody invited to come and see my Goods and be convinced. Sor" P. S.?Persons indebted to me must pay up immediately and save trouble. Can't indulge any longer. G. F. TOLLY, Depot Street. Oct 14,1886 14 THE EARTHQUAKE HAS SHOOK DOWN PRICES on everything, and of course has affectod my Stock of? Harness, Bridles, Collars, Saddles, Whips, Etc. My stock is larger than it has ever been, and I must dispose of it. I use the VERY BEST material, and guarantee every piece of work that leaves my Shop. My work is scattered all over the County. Ank any person who is using it about it Here are some of ray prices: Hand-made Buggy Harness from $10.00 up. Hand? made Double Buggy Harness from $18.00 to $40.00. Give me a call, and I will convince vou that my work and prices can't be beat in the State. Over WILHITE & WILHITE'S DRUG STORE on Granite Row. Persons indebted to me must pay up by 15th November. Oct 7, 1886 13 JAMES M. PAYNE. Photograph Gallery FlTTED up with a handsome Landscape Background, painted to order by a fin Artist in the City of Baltimore, together with many other of tbe latest improved accessories, enables MAXWELL'S GALLERY to turn out FINE PICTURES in all tbe latest styles. PANELS A SPECIALTY.. Call and see some of our new work. We guarantee satisfaction. J- BYRON JEWELL. Photographer. 43 May 6,1886 5* 2* 1 ?S. ?? ?? ^2 <o "vJ c ? 2*7 ^4 co ? _ ?. g"s-D r ? 5m5"SoLi H 2 '-1 o s ?? s ? 5.a a55? o a a oca ST t'Tried . . ?. cnty ; ears r.go I discovered a little sore on tny cheek, and tho doctors; i: ? v: :i.-. :ii I have tried a number of physicians, Uta ivitl-otit r.*-eclv::>." r.r.y ;.: - B:"i ? .Vr.onr?thenumber were une or.twof;fc!;i!!s:.?. :?:??.:.'??::?.??:'.? .... .... i i.esusinjIntensepatn. I saw u ???.>u r.v. t:: ?? ? ' ._S. had done tor ot hers similarly afflicted. I pmcum:-*' t ? ; : .-? ; : it: t.;0 wcr.at! .Mittle the neighbors could notice that r.:y ? aiw .- \.:.r.... .* p l:i.-:t:i had Ijcenbai. for two or three ycais?I had a ^ae'tlti;; o?::; It ::: !. :i na.iy. 1 had n revere pain in my breast. After tskl?;:: :c '? -l .'. .?' : . : :::r> and I grew stouter than I had been for several jvsr.i. 3!y n.f.r, -. ? a i::tiu fj>ot about tho size of a half dime, a::d Ills n ;-Wly ..;. .. . I. every one with cancer to give S. S. S. a fair trial. Mas. NANCY J. McCONAUunEY Asbe Gruve. T:;>|"-t'nsiuc<?.?., Ir.-'. Fib. IC, 1SS6. Swift's Spceltlc Is entirely vegetable, and "cms tit euro canerrs bv forcing out i rltles from tho blood. Treatise on Blon.l nml Skin Diseases mailed frr.-. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO, Drawer 8, Atlunia, Ga. EARTHQUAKE AGAIN. ROCHESTER, N. Y.^Sep^mber 15,1886. j uiTT-iniMSACO of Anderson. S. C, our Agents for tbe ken Pha* and Creole astiba ter ,s ju.t ?u a warranted. They SS?S ?? when you wantHa Shoe and you will be pleased. 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