The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, June 23, 1887, Image 4

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TgOING FOR the cows.". * > before thejcrtasoa sunset ' [ on the farmhouse paces; ^before the misty purple D?OTtthadistant valley wanes; ^Wlatfuleyes are looking field wards -T,f; WMe-tbepatli^gra^^ ^ iiid^e old clock on themahtel, ^^K^'t^^'d^may gbei ? * X'.lrJDeac-jsa^-Jflnajir? c^tbe?Ta?fcwV-. X ^Withlierjlj?csLaborefier^teows;" :;> be qui>MV*** early, . .: ^^WtfoTttnieto fetchthe owrt" Shadows lengthen down the mountain, L the swallows wing their round; ..; ; ?anlight flashes t rightly >'er the daisy laden ground. r vi eyes ore at the window BWft the meadow lane; - ?#$ftly tapping . f.-chen-wlndow pane, ^;je^\rt'caUs'.aiagTandmiK .?ll^'aiiopeaMlna?tli?lioufle' *>?bj^tty?dcant bequiet? ~~ nitonce andfetch the cows!" hi the .step that bent the clover, ^Mpplniso.'er tbeiheadowwfdel l remember, . Indent Fern ??SMi EOMfflGE; ?&j&i&li&e}a& broke up In the 'rivet tire * *~ ?f:.the "stream were Imm&liately , \>Mpte->ho:\?eflm6d'to fill a - felt want" in.'their innermost b ouls ^fng/ThjaYgtuiatoigi rasping takes came crashing over the falls wn&-numerous Sttay logs, floating down, the turbulent had - been numeral1 inci character in the course e'forerroon, such as an incipient jam >i nasdv two;or three Ireokled sgwdutking) butftSvas not 1-auvVthe event of the day 00 '^th?; ice "had"swept dorm to a it&'Goat^Isiand>:a dark object1 i lying-in the center of one of cakes of ice.' Glasses were tA ?ifcmto.itse, anda thrill ol hor ;through the crowd as.it wati seen It the. dark object was evidently a man. ~ fcwaaixo boat above the falls, and if . /I^Sw^itwoulah^^ ^itfO or d^ti to Tenture out In that . :-'mixture . of Ice,, logs and ?,'with a likelihood of being drawn ?the'feDs. . Pi^.:rcan^ was - apparently dead; The ijgp^f?the crowd and the rough scrap J^a^roj^Vvfiich' some one. had thrown cross hteface, caused no stir in tho re " '' figure. - TheN block of ice rajpidly t the edge of the falls, and tho hor _,'8^ctators saw man"arid ice dive I^he-falls-lnto the foambeneatfc>rTwo ^pass^f-when^suddenly the block buj? up into sightv and, strange to ?the>mah .was atul; there. The Ice i>?att3ast got into an. eddy, ard aa it jrt around near the banks was lassoed ? a fikfllful throw, and the ice and its rdenwexehaulBd up to the edge. An J ^tempifc .vvas made to little rxdyofl^'hut ; ;^ygaa:foimd that the clothing was ttoaan tij^Jh^the ice, and rather than undress 1 *SyAchcpped Mm p^with an ice grocery ?? hastily sum the* people by ig. that'.--'lh&'<-':man.<wa8 not ueou, only, drunk.. As. soon aa the I^Hi&h- was thawed out, Bangs, the con -<:^!tal?^axrested--him andrlujggedhim .<bJT . ' to tbe-lock up on a chargefiaf drimkenheaa' r'?^f'vreyeling. - This - morning,*Bangs* "came.down to my house and; said he ? wanted me to go np and see his prisoner. Bangs^eald that-the judge didn't fciow ^^tX:to'-/aV)L':.irit^^]u^--and he got the judge to sentence the prisoner* to tliree ^^ya^hjardJabor in his (Bangs') garden. ; As we walked up the road to the bouse ^Raags explained what he wanted of me. ^ . ?'Xou see,1' said he, "my yard needs ?-?tu'eaxhjG', up\ and so t got him to. do a :'?c??pie;of days' vrark In it.. He Is an old 7:-v->Jnan;'has been a sailor nearly all his life. ?- He says he got lost up here on a tramp in 'the , country - Wednesday night, and he aboard a load of whisky to keep ? -took too much, he reckons?and ;^^?i^iy an*d laid down to sleep. I've -r ^ ^ctaball and chafavca his leg, so's he? r*. v C^t run away, and have got; my httUe. V .hoy to.watzi him. I went home an hour \:; ^or'twocago and found him seated on' the ; "/hal^\ telling the youngster a story, while' "'; :the hoy did the ?work. I heard part of i -the ito^.. It's so wonderful I thought ? ? ?? ycra'd hke to hear it,'! Just then-we entered the yard, went iX, romjdback of the'; house, and. Bangs in ; troduced me to the ancient mariner, as he py;jwcalled.':. He'bad refused to give, his ?f>iwij Tpassed over three "cart wheels," vj^and he. commenced >?'1t's a queer sort of story anyway, and i rm?yoe >y?u won't believe it;" To. begin i^fWlth,- whfl&I was a youngeater, some fifty :; - Tojr sixty years ago, I used to live in the ^next house to another young fellow, John i J. Jones. "He was different from the rest jf^of .us, and while we other hoys used to v play-'one,'two, three,' oa the how poptt VJ^rfgame ot base ball used, to be known* '?be used to be. reading up on natural [ history and such like, and after awhils ;, he gofr taken up with stock breeding~ ^ncy milch cows, fast trotters, big hogs, ? ^etcf -Before I ran. away to sea he had v taken first' prise at the state fair for a huge ox. " In the spring of the next year ^ihe - suddeuly left town, going nobody ' knew-^vhere. I rail away to sea shorter. !;a?erward. About two years ago I was washed : overboard" from the clipper Terror; bound from Chin goo k. ? -to* Boston with a load of: teal one had seen me go overboard and. ; bad thrown a hehcoop' over. I managed, to get up on the hencoop, lashed: myself there by my shirt, which I tore up into strips, and then I lay there, and every "time the hencoop and myself would come >trp .an the top of a big wave, I would ; Watch the sliip as it drove off before the storm and f Gradually disappeared in the flying mist. Before long the ship was ; out of sight, and, wearied as I was, I sank izinto a 'deep,'stupor like sleep. ' *T don't know-how long I remained in .??-'.that state, btit it must have been a day : or two, for vrhen I woke up I found my elf still on the hencoop and floating around in a ?ort of a little lagoon in a ' large island. A sort of eddy set in there, aha I-noticed that I was going round in a circle that was gradually growing larger. * A htmdredfeet away I saw to my horror 0hat there were three natives crouched .-' dowj 1 there in the- sun, anxiously watch i'lag: roe and the hencoop, patiently waiting ll-^for 1'he tlma when I would drift near enough for them to get me. I found that ^tcdul^ not move my body an inch, but : my head was; free and I could move it enough to keep those natives in I kept drifting by that poin^at in? tervals of an hour, and by and by the sun ?weht^dow? and the natives bu?t a fire - and sat around it. They kept as eye on bbneby.one of them came down ^tl^ watOT 'and watched- me'?s I floated Vp?tst,. evidently trying to determine ?mrch nearer I was to the land than before. /Pretty soon he went back to the flro again; and' I could hear loud talking and "-what seemed to be arguments. [ Bimeby one of the fellows ran down to f the shore, lookedat me awhile, calculated [:tho extent of the circle and hurried bock to the fire. Then they commenced an ar -gument, and pretty soon the fellow with [ She stick took off a necklace'of something [. that flashed in the firelight and laid it on ' the. sanl Quick aa thought the other I chap' took off. his necklace and covered fcthe other fellow's. "They were evidently betting on me I how many turns J would make. before. I they'd get me. The native with the stick pai&fhe most, nerve, for bimeby, after a fiemaxk from the other fellow, he took off 1 clout, which was richly trimmed and shook it in the other [chap's face. I guess he wanted to bet thai, but:the other chap wouldn't take the A-and -pretty soon ho dressed himself. 5 display of human nature eased me [somewhat, and pretty soon I went to [?leepu. When' I woke up the sun was oto tdgh, and I wa* Just drifting . / the point. The natives were still there and .the two necklaces still lay on the sand, y This time I was within twenty feet Of them. They w'era clean cut, hand ecintf looking fellows. One of them smiled. Vfce^tfcoughfc how^good I would most "ylaste, served up a la fricassee. The ade its last -circleand they waded rto" *he water. They carried me up ??3be beach. Then they carefully un hotoid; h?L! 35ndmg I could; not walk or 6vto::su^- frbhv-? long on-the ^'Ttiiifjrr^to work, and, after taking " j; remained off my clothes, rubbed j'tin the blood into drcula ?Some. 'how: fWlt&L tW^Wd my. lianas bo-" nind roe and hurried me oG through the j??o?a7,ttie t-otr. .lia?a-a^ -stopping to pick Tip the two necklaces. Putting them bttVon his h'eck he hurried! '?!ong 'a^^"^W6 went' through the! Woods and underbrnah in this manner for ?ah hoTrr 'or two, and presently we came outimto a clearing and strack into a sort "it ? road which, led hy tt??epifll to the Other sldeOfth* island. 'After getting by toe lull the . road led down, into a large, -H?eaVo? fleht We turned to cross thie> 'and ?s we did so I noticed thatsome parts Of the field were worn into paths "which, formed the shape of a diamonds At one I end of the diamond the ground appeared to be beaten dovm> and as we-hurried past I noticed a thus; flat bag7 'eVidentlf "made j Ut SMS, lymg'&L the -Agex 'et the triangle formed hy the toatha as they 'came to? gether-: It took*! for all the world like .a Reifte plate* in,.lr. base; halV.^uhtl' ?inph) Impossible, I argued to myself. JBfttJ >as?tf. ,1n support of ?; the; absurd though^ about thirty feet wyond this was a natural te?fte made 'of canes, which had been, planted,, and as they grew up, trimmed so as to form what looked like a fence six feet high and Vtfenty feet long, j But the thought was preposterous. The , idea of .natives oh an island in the Pacific r??a^|toying cur nationai-game f Ab vsittdfe;Ai>d I ga7o^ft;iio.mow.<totight.>- V ^'?^4ATOr.-t)ass)^i;a??8? th'ti/Idt wo folr TbWed^a path, which rah into "a -T?a? that and which led to a large cluster of well built houses which I cool4 see; in the dis? tance.,: As W^gjc-thearer we. were met by. a crowd of natives. Amid tiro chatterJof the natives I was hurried across a little PQiPrfpttgmfi front of > hut, which Was apparently built better than the ma? jority. VIknewuionce that their kmglived: ?here, and my heart grew faint as I con? ceived that I was to be presented to the king for his liecision, and as I thought of the reputed ferocity of the South Sea | islanders,'most lfkely death. The curtain at the entrance was suddenly drawn aside and my guides pushed tee forward into the hut, while they remained Outside and closed.the curtain. "The hut was lit up Well by aft aper? ture In the side of the building, and across the room in a corner I saw a figure which! Was strangely familiar to me engaged in! Wl?t l thought'{but! 1 put the idea away as untenable) was the. winding of what appeared to me as a broken baseball bat I coughed and the figure straightened up, looked at me a moment and came toward me with outstretched hands. As he came: ?5by the window I saw him With great dis?: tinctness. It was John J. Jonesv Y'l'-'-Vo be sure, he "was some fifty years older than when I last saw him, hut as. he was clean flhaVen I recognized his peculiar and clear cut features in an instant. ? Be did hot recognize me and I introduced my? self, and for. the rest of that day wo swapped congratulations, etc., and I ' talked.myself hearse 'in telling how. the! ' world, had progressed since he buried him? self on that uttle island some fifty years. before.1 All ofa sudden. I "remembered I was doing all the talking, and asked him what tmder the World he was doing, way off there ou a littlo two by nine island, ? living with a lot of cannibals. "They are not cannibals,' said John J-.-, ^ 'they; are people* who! I have had under, my eye for fifty years, in furtherance of a soheme Tthought of while breeding trot-; ters down in Connecticut. I came out here> and settling on this island, by judi? ciously giving presents to natives rounda? bout, got some forty or fifty families to settle with me,- and I haye brought my scheme to perfection But say,' he sud? denly broke in, What is the popular game in the United States now?' "I told him base balL He' jumped to his feet, threw his cocoanut hat into the air, and hurrahed'.until nearly black in the face, and: some of the natives came rushing in under the impression that he ? was getting killed. ? Ho drovo them out with a base.ball bat, and continued; " 'While raising those fat hogs and that prize ox, you remember, I thought to my Belf: If I can select the finest animals of a certain kind, trotting horses for in? stance, and breed still better trotters, why can't I select suitable people, train them to a particular duty, select the most' 'capable, mate them and after a while pro? duce people to whom that duty w?l be second nature? I acted at once on the suggestion, and I am happy to say I have . succeeded.' " *Why,' said I, 'some few years ago a Mr. Darwin expounded these views, and they are now universally held by all people.: By the way/what kind of duty > havei yon. brought them up to?'. >v 'Baseball,' answered John J. Jones. " "I gasped And then I told him to what extent the game had developedj how high priced-the players were and so on. John J.'s face flushed With delight, and he told me he'd got eighteen men and two umpires drilled so that they could do everything, ., Said he'd. tell me the next day when they went to the grounds to practice." ? And the Ancient Mariner raised himself; an inch or so, rolled tho ball over so as to find a softer spot, and begging a chew of tobacco sat down again and continued: ' The next morning, after a breakfast of boiled rice, stewed monkey and a. drink : made from sour cocoanut milk, we set off for .the baseball grounds. "While the nines were playing their practice games John J. explained bis troubles and triumphs in the past fifty years. He'said after he got settled he chose twenty of the best built boys and girls and set them to work playing ball; made 'em keep" at it ; all they did was to sleep, eat .and play ball. In that worm country, he told me, they get married at the age of 10, and in the fifty years he had been there he had raised four genera? tions of baseball players. Every genera? tion would be better and better, and he chose the best players from each genera? tion, mated them, kept them in the same positions in the baseball practice, and as a result, he told me, he had eighteen players and two umpires that he would back against the world "The- practice game was soon through. He said he had one pitcher?the fellow who won the necklace?who could take one of their ordinary base balls (the good ones were turned from ironwood), get a man to hold out a bat over the home plate, and he could give one of his regular de? liveries, and cut that bat in two, about a ' foot from the but end, as if it had been taken off with a cannon ball. "But it was while going back to the village that John J. told me a story that really does seem as if it might be a little stretched. It was about the umpires; said he had the hardest work toughening 'em up; almost gave the idea up one while. Said he bothered his head a long time about it But finally he got the clubs to? gether and offered to furnish them with all the Rhode Island clambakes they wanted if they would take some clubs after each game and pound the umpires all they could stand; not kill 'em or maim 'em, but just give them a good basting. [Here the Ancient Mariner explained that Jones had eaten a clambake years before in Rhode Island, and one day he baked some mussels and fed the natives on them, and ever afterward they were perfectly crazy after "Rut Hend caum bachs," as they pronounced it They would kill their own father for the succulent clam.] Jones said the umpires (he always had a man - and wife umpiring together, so that the I law of heredity would have full sway) were rather. indignant at first at being knocked down and trod over, but they got kinder used to it after awhile, Jones said, and didn't seem to mind it a bit As they got tougher Jones would use harder clubs, and bimeby he used to fill the ends of the clubs with bits, of shell and glass. He said it did cut 'em at first, but after a while their skin would give like India rubber. He kept the umpiring business all in one family, sort of an heir? loom, so to speak, handed it from father and mother* to son and daughter; and that evening Jones got his most toughened umpire to lay down on a big flat rock in front of his hut, and the first thing I knew there were eighteen men and three umpires all walking over him with spiked sandals and pounding him with big clubs with nails in 'em, and I'll be blessed, when the umpire got np he wasn't even scratched. Jones told me he used him to catch turtles.' He would go down to the shore and stick his foot into the water and wait till a turtle came along and took hold; then some other natives would lug both him and the turtle up to the village and Jones would pry the turtle's jaws apart with a hammer and a lot of wedges. Didn't hurt him a bit, Jones -said, but it don't seem hardly possible, does it?" And the Ancient Mariner looked at us rather tguoep. I told him I'd rather not express an opinion at present and asked him to go on. "Well, there ain't much more to telL I stayed there a month or two helping Jones train those natives and giving Jones points as to how the game is played at present. I came back as a sort of agent for Jones to make arrangements to play Ids two teams against any here, and I've Ijot twoor three western roanRgers cor responding Wit? Jones now. So if you see a. ;dark; colored i baseball;* team scooting ft across the coutffcry. lmocking 'out every Club tfiey come *ncross, and uccompabiea by umpires Who prUctteally cannot be killed, yon'lt kiibw who they are. Just the day before I left the catcher's family connected with Clnb No. 2 was increased by a new arrival, and on my Way to th*e sailboat the nest day t dropped in't? see it. It looked awful curious for a baby,. I thoughb. and wfileii Johes proudly took St Into the light, and unrolled the 'covering, [ Pll b? hanged if it didn't have long ridges '. running across his face, all the world like a baseball mp&'k, and on the bottom of its feet were some small,; sharp projections, Which Jones said was probably natural I spikes, caused by his ancestors for three generations bank continually wearing BpfkedSandals. I dunn?, though." .... And with a doubtful shake of his head, the aged friend of John. J. Jone.8 wearily recommenced his toil, and we came away and left him -apparently in deep medita? tion ever the question of evolution.?A. Boomer in Boston Globe. . The Plot of "She." I I never read a line of either "The Epi* enrean" or the poem "Alciphron,'* but I will give the real BOurce from which "She" was "plagiarized." Some time Ago a lady Well acquainted T^th Africa wrote me'some notes of native legends. One orthemTuns as follows: ? . _!iln. the Sneeuw (show) Bergen, Cope Colony, there are immense caves which stretch on and on under the mountains, and the end of which has never .hjeen found* It is tbelieved byboth Boers and natives that in the last cave there is ft spring of wafer*, which, if one finds and drinks of it, gives eternal youth. There are endless stories told of adventurous parties in search of this water of life los? ing their way, meeting dangers both ghostly and bodily, and failing ill their object at last. A newly married couple never wturned from their-search^ .-and It was believed that harm had happened to them, berause. of the crimes the woman had committed in order to gain her hus? band. She hod killed her first husband and his brother, whom by native law she would have had to marry, as she had no children, and she had bewitched the man (her second husband) so that he followed her about like a shadow and did every? thing he was told by her." Here I found the germ of "She," It will be seen, that, Without wishing to lay any particular claim to originality, I may fairly say that I haVe to some extent de? veloped the idea.?H. Rider Haggard in London Times. ? - A Venerable Man*. Mr. Boggs (reading English history)? "The Prince of Wales in 1798"-^ Mrs. Boggs (interrupting)?"The Prince ?bf'Wales to 1708!" Goodness! Fdidn't know the Prince of Wales was such an old man as that 1?Detroit Free Press. Of all the New York managers Lester Wallack is the only ono who was born in the drrmatic profession and brought up in the expectation of following a man? agerial career. The Next Naval War. Rear Admiral Simpson, from New York, sat comfortably in an easy choir in the drawing room of the Hotel Balzac and chatted for half an hour or so about a va? riety of naval matters. ? CfJYes," he said to reply to my inquiry, - "you are right. The next naval war will solve some puzzling questions. As to re? sisting the attack of a torpedo boat, of course no ships of war can do it if the blow comes from beneath, for the armor plates never cover the bottom; but the question is, can the torpedo boats get underneath to explode their charges ? You see with the modern arrangements of flashing electric lights and double chain nete at the sides, it is next to Impossible for them to approach a man-of-war with? out being detected; and if once detected, a shot or two from the ship's battery of Hotchkifls guns.Would put an end to the thing at once." I suggested that the torpedo boats might go under these nets and come up from below. ! 'In general, you may say,'' he replied, "that the experiments to that line have met. with very little success, but, of course, if such a system can be perfected, why" (and the admiral shrugged his brood shoulders), uwe hod better all agree to remain on shore. How? ever that may be, I think that the torpe? does will have their greatest application to the harbor and coast defenses. There we shall see some lively times, the defend? ers ready to touch on electric button and blow into pieces the first ship to cross the spot where the dynamite lies ready, and the enemy scheming, .on the other hand, and mostly at" night, to" destroy the.tor? pedoes or to cut th e wires. It will be like the old game of mining and countermin? ing." ? In regard to our own naval strength the admiral said: "We are; you know, supposed to be absurdly weak in our navy; but at least we have this advantage over any other country, that we con profit now by a long series of blunders and improve? ments made by them while We have been ' doing nothing. Our new ships will rep? resent oil that the engineers of Europe have found to be best."?Paris Cor. New York Sun. Speed of a Fast Train? Speed is hard to average. The 60 and 75 miles an hour train is generally a myth. An average of 48 3-10 per hour is the fastest time to the United States. This is made on the Pennsylvania "limited" to its run from Jersey City to Philadelphia, 90 miles, to less than two hours. The "Flying Dutchman" train is supposed to make the fastest time in the world, be? tween London and Bristol, 118 1-4 miles, to less than two hours. The average, though, of even this fast train is only 59 1-8 miles per hour. There are several other trains noted for remarkably fast time on short distances. Sometimes a straight and even grade for a distance of 20 miles will permit a train to run at the rate of more than a mile a minute. One train on the Canadian Pacific road, from Cotoneau to Ottawa, averages 50 miles an hour for a distance of 78 miles. On the Central road the late Mr. Vanderbilt traveled at the rate of 00 miles an hour. An average of 80 1-2 miles an hour is con? sidered fast traveling. Many of the limited, lightning expresses do not go at a faster rate. The value of railroads in the United States exceeds $8,000,000,000.? New York Mail and Express Interview. Hot and Cold Weather Cigars. "Have a hot or cold weather cigar?" asked the dealer. Being curious I asked him to explain, whereupon he said: "Probably you don't know that some men change the brand of the cigars which they smoke all winter for a different one* as the spring or summer advances. No? Well, I'm glad I've told a newspaper man something new. I could mention a dozen well known Brooklynites who smoke mild cigars to hot weather and strong ones to cold. Some men think that a strong weed has a debilitating effect to the dog days, and I guess they're about right. Cigarettes are more popular in summer than in winter. Even a dude doesn't care to smoke a cigarette when the ther? mometer is at zero. The paper sticks to one's mouth, and taken altogether the sensation Is disagreeable. Smokers, and more especially Brooklyn smokers, are fastidious. They want their cigars just so, and unless a dealer is particular he stands a good chance of losing much cus? tom. Most of my trade is done by the box, although I do quite a transient busi? ness."?Brooklyn Eagle. How Modern Hymns Are Written. Know that man? It's. William H. Doane, and he makes $20,000 a year writ? ing hymns, or rather that's the royalty he gets. He is engaged with Fay & Co., but to his leisure moments he hunts around and finds a touching bit of poetry and he words it into a hymn. Oh, it's a paying business; beats any kind of writ? ing I ever heard of, but it's not every? body that can catch on to that sort of a style. It's harder than writing variety songs or even Ledger stories or detective yarns of blood and thunder romances. You see, a man must have some of the divine afflatus mixed with a good deal of piety in order to be a success as an hym nologist.?Cincinnati Enquirer. The Plug; Hat Boycotted. The San Francisco Examiner colls upon all adult male citftens to boycott the ping hat and to indulge in the use of hair oil. "Much," it says, "as wo sometimes laugh in our sleeves at tho vanity of using hair oil, yet the experience of the African Nu? bians, who consume nil the grease they can get on their woolly heads, would seem to favor tho practice in preference to water, which mot. generally contains more or less matter that Is Injurious to the hair. There Is no baldness among the Nubians, whose hair is greased stiff all the time, beside living to the scorching sun." RARE AND BEAUTIFUL CHAT WITH A RECENTLY RETURNED ORCHID GOkkECtOft. 'Gathering the Weird and iftcBntilo Development^ of the Floral Kingdom. TAtC Among Savages?Beginning of a Craze for Orchids. r .. i tv> It was. my ??oa fortune to meet In Mr. Bergman's greenhouses a world renowned discoverer and dealer in these weird and eccentric developments of the floral king? dom, Mr. Fredrico Mam Who has fust re? turned from.his annual trip to South America in quest' of orchids, bringing with him a ship load of the coveted buds, tropical ferns and the flowering onion for the New York and Brooklyn markets, as well as for those of London, Paris and Berlin. Fifty thousand orchids of this iax portation are in Mr, Bergman^ bare. Some half dozen men were busily opening the crates in which the plants were boxed, While Others had already found place in the greenhouses among those already cul? tivated by tho florist. Some tropical birds brought by the merchant in orchids seemed, to have found a Atting home in such surroundings. As Mr. Man talked of bis methods of trade I cannot do better in this direction than to,repeat some por? tions of It in. answer to the queries pro .poundedby his curious visitors on this oc? casion, and as nearly as possible in his own language. 'iYou see,'? said he, "I haw been visit? ing South America for somo ten or twelve years on purpose to obtain orchids from the forests of Brazil, tho United States of Colombia and else where-. I have my own servants, guides, etc.-, who .are ready to meet me on.arrival. We travel 1,000 miles .into 'the interior, perhaps, before be g' inning operations. Of course I take an iterpreter with me, as in all my journeys I have not learned the low mixture of languages spoken by the natives." FOES TO BE FEARED. "Are you not timid amid such a rude people?" "Oh, no; my guides and myself are well armed. The foes we have most to fear are the reptiles and wild animals." "And now do you defend yourself against them?" "We travel by boat and. On muleback when we can, and sometimes through almost impenetrable forests, but at night we have one rule for shelter and protec? tion. Three fires are made and .bur hut placed in the triangular space between them. There are many tigers In the Bra? zilian forests, and as for snakes?well, I could spend hours telling you of them. I brought home the skin of one thirty feet long. Here on my thumb Is the scar of a reptile" "Don't tell us more of the snakes," said Mr. Man's audience. "No, no, it is of the orchids you want to know. . Well', orchids are parasites. They grow on rocks and trees and ore fed by- the moisture in the atmosphere, al? though there are orchids that grow in the earth. They are found in all countries, and the rares t and most beautiful are the parasites. Tho natives of South America ore very fond of them, cultivate them around their dwellings and call them fleur de santus, the flower of health. Sometimes a gorgeous flower is seen on the top of a forest tree, which is'only ob? tainable by cutting down the tree; some? times they ore found near the summits of mountains 10,000 or 12,000 feet high, as somo species grow where, it is cold and near the snows, and others Where the heat is constant and almost overpowering." "How do you transport these gather? ings of orchids?" "At times the natives carry them, but usually "on muleback to some sea port, and no freight is more costly, as the wooden crates in which they are packed must be so arranged as to give the plants air." BEGINNING OF A CRAZE. "Are many orchids sold in this coun? try?" asked the writer. "Oh, yes, there is the beginning of a craze for them in the United States, but as yet not at all in comparison to that which exists in England, France and Ger? many. It is becoming the fashionable flower hero as well as there for decora? tions, for dinner parties, for brides' bou? quets, etc." "Are these flowers very expensive?" "Decidedly. A small bouquet of them may represent $25. In England the wealthy people will give almost any price for a new orchid." "How long have they been known there?" "About 180 years, perhaps a little more; a missionary to India: sent some specimens home and sea captains brought them from .South America, the South Sea Islands, Mexico, Porto Rico and elsewhere. The English people liked them and gradually they have grown into great favor till the mania for them resembles the croze that once existed in Europe for the black tulip. ? Agents are sent everywhere that orchids are indigenous for new varieties. I have myself discovered seventeen new Varie? ties. Baron Shroder, who resides near London, has the finest collection In the world; the Duke of Marlborough has many rare varieties and so has Baron Rothschild. It was in Boston that or? chids first found favor in this country. Mr. Jay Gould has a splendid collection in his greenhouses near Tarrytown on the Hudson; Mr. Corning, of Albany, has the most extensive collection this side of the ocean, and Mr. Cornelius Yanderbiltis beginning to purchase them for his place in Newport."?Brooklyn Eagle. Marie Twain's Scholarly Attainments. People who know Samuel L. Clemens only as Mark Twain, the humorist, have no idea of the scholarly attainments of the man. Reading his books of travel, one gets only the impression of a newspaper man. A brilliant and witty one, it Is true, but with the shallow flippancy, the irreverence that is the characteristic of many journalists who hold few things sacred and would sacrifice most things to point a funny paragraph. Dora Wheeler, who has painted the por? traits of most of the literary men and women of to-day, painted Twain's not long ago, and said of him that she had never had among all her literary sitters one mcra^houghtful, learned and schol? arly. He would pass like a flash from the maddest and most irreverent waggery to a grave discussion of abstruse thought, and his favorite poet was?mlrabile dicttt ?Robert Browning. If one can picture anything apparently more at the antipo? des of thought than Twain's trenchant, obvious, aggressive humor and the subtle, Introspective, involved processes of Browning's mind, they may be able to comprehend how for ono is from knowing a man solely by his published works.? Brooklyn Eagle. Boys havo a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken pox. ?Henry Ward Beecher. The Persians Good Hitlers. Of the cavalry of the regular army of Persia there is little to say excepting of its famous regiment of Cossacks, so called not because they are of Cossack race, but because they are uniformed and drilled to resemble the Cossacks of Russia. They are Instructed by Russian officers, which appears to us a serious mistake, as tho enemies of Persia are thus able to corrupt the patriotism of these troops, which is made the easier because, as imitators of the Cossacks, they feel almost identified with them. All Persians are good riders; if not al? ways graceful they can always keep on a horse whatever be his action; it goes with? out saying, therefore, that the shah's Cos? sack regiment is unsurpassed for skill in equestrianism. Every feat is at their command. Nothing can be finer or more exciting than to see these Cossacks going through their exercises. Now dashing in lino ventre a terre with the speed of the winds; then, at the word, separating and flying in all directions like evening swal? lows, wheeling with lightning rapidity, threatening to overthrow each other in what seems a wild disorder. But they shoot by without collision, firing their muskets, tossing their sheepskin shakos on the ground and picking them up as they rush by, and suddenly coming to a full stop as if under an instantaneous spell. Such evolutions of cavalry can be seen in Russia, Turkey, Persia and Arabia. ?S. G. W. Benjamin in Inter Ocean. Ono Use for Snlt Urine Salt brine is used In Sheffield, England, for hardening steel, says an exchange. The mixture improves with ago and use, and to such an extent that its value is largely increased. In some cases these tanks are fifty years old, and have a value in proportion to their age. It appears that the constant dipping of the hot metal into the same solution alters in somo way its character.?Boston Budget. "" At THE SODA FOUNTAIN . ' i How "'CotiStitntio'A Br?fccrs," "Phosphat*. fers,1? ot'?.; Arc Fizzed Out". ... A;8ftd;eye4 youth mechanically biauipu, i'ated.tbe faucets of h soda, fountain op Broadway tho other day and fizzed out for a reporter a mixed drink poetically called> phosphate... It had a mixed taste and a lingering farewell to it, that caused the Bcrlbe to pause and listen to the youth; "Yes." he said, leaning against the counter anu making himself comf ortabi?? "the business la growing cornp1.ex; ?? NO mere chuckled headed chump" can squirt feoda- Water flew*. There are so many ?ahcy drinks, mixtures, 'nerve ticklers,' 'stomach bracers' and 'throat coolers,' you can't expect an inexperienced boy to come behind the counter and serve cus? tomers without an apprenticeship. He would be rattled if a customer should come in hurriedly and ask for a 'phoB* phated mixed herver,' Where would he he? Then there is the 'plain phosphate' and tho 'deep rofck slack,' all easy driults to. concoct When you understand the wrinkle. ...... : . . ;? '"Look at all these faucet Valves on the face of this fountain. They not only let \ out all the mineral waters .known, but tho various sweet extracts of fruit the ladies are so fond of. But the fountain is too small to contain the other ingredients ifor fancy and substantial drinks. We keep o shelf under the counter with bot? tles ready for use and a heater to furnish warm drinks. Some years ago Vichy, Kissingen, sorsaporilla and drinks of that kind were all the go, but now new f angled mixtures divide the honors. Men drink Vichy more than women. The latter do not care much for the mineral waters and .nerve drinks1, thby want sweet extracts fend soda. Women occasionally try a bouillon-snifter, but they aro few and far between. Some fellow who ain't much on science, I think, has started the report that Vichy is devitalizing. It has had an effect on its sale. "Men who patronize soda fountains regularly don't like straight drinks. They ask for a little lime juice, phosphate or ginger to kind of tone up the taste of the liquor, It appears to mo they look hap? pier When they hear the 'squirtj squirt, squirt,' from the bottle into their drinks. So you see .hd gawky, everyday hiaii can step in and do what it takes us years to learn. I ain going to try and get my boss to start a fountain higher uptown where nothing but 'nervers' are sold. What are 'nervers?.'. Why, I mean nerve drinks, 'constitution bracers' and 'phosphaters.' Hundreds of men every day say to me aside: 'Say, gimme snthing to brace me up, kinder I' That's the business I want to do, the 'brace up' business."?New York Mail and Express. Decay of Romance. "There is, after all, a deplorable lack of romance in this progressive age of ours," saida gentleman in one of our jewelry stores. "In days gone by the betrothal ring was considered as a sort of love to? ken, and the maiden who received it wore it and doted upon it because of the spirit in which it was given. Now, however, the girls are very particular, and it is no unusual thing for them to come .here with their engagements and have the settings changed, an alteration made in the in? scription or some other little matter that don't just suit them corrected. And the wedding ring is no longer held so sacred as it used to be. Why, do you know it has not been long since a prospective bride came in alone and selected her own wed? ding ring, had it fitted to her finger, left the order for the engraving to go within the band, and then had the cost charged to her fiance. Now that sort of thing is calculated to knock romance higher than a kite."?Williamsport Grit; A Very Dissipated Jap They ore telling in Boston of two or three Japanese students of rank who have been in the habit of dining each Snnday at the residence of one of the solid citi? zens of the Hub. On a recent Sunday one was absent, and when the host asked why, one of the guests said solemnly, "Oh, he cannot come. He very, very dis? sipated!" . The host thought it best not to make any further inquiry at tho time, but after tho meal ventured to ask the same young man in private. "You Bay Mr. Nim Shi is not well?" "No; he not well?he very dissipated." "He hasn't been drink? ing?" "Oh, no, no! He no drunk." "Not gambling?" "No, no! He no gamble." "May I ask what he has been doing, then?" "Oh, he very dissipated. He eat spongee cake allee time?he b}1 broke up now."?New York Sun. Bickerings of Royalty. Regrettably enough, the practical es? trangement between the queen and the Princess of Wales is deepening. During the past few months they have seen less of each other than ever. Her royal highness never disregards her majesty's positive commands when there is a family gather? ing in some vault or other for pocket handkerchief drill, but she avoids meet? ing the queen unnecessarily, and her majesty certainly never makes a pleasant, motherly call at Marlborough house. Were there no Princess of Wales it is pos? sible that In her old age the queen might abdicate in favor of her eldest son, but her majesty will assuredly never consent to play queen dowager to the princess' queen.?London Letter. What Vanderbllt Had Under His Arm. At the time when the French papers were full of the stories of the late Mr. Vanderbilt's purchases of Melssoniers and the rest, the Crcesus was encountered one early morning In Paris with a bundle un? der his arm. "How is this?" asked his friend. "Abroad so early! Ah, I see! You have been to secure a trouvaille, some object of art, another marvel for your collection." "Well, no," replied William II.; "I bought a pair of shoes yesterday which hurt me, and I am taking them to the shoemaker to have them put in order."? Chicago Herald. Whore Alexander Hamilton Bested. A favorite Sunday walk used to bo olong the western shore of the Hudson to the spot where the duel between Hamil? ton and Burr was fought. This spot is now covered with railroad tracks, and although a monument was once erected there, it is no longer to be found. B?t the large, red stone against which Hamil? ton rested while his wound was being examined is preserved on the King estate, on the bluffs overlooking the river, and marks the entrance to a sort of observ? atory called "The Fort," as If in rivalry with "The Castle" of the Stevens family, a mile or two away.?New York World. ( Unenlightened Pictnre Bayers. Tib ere is a curious idea among a certain class of unenlightened picture buyers that the value of a picture is injured if it Is ex? hibited to any one else. To gratify this whim the dealers keep many of their pur? chases a profound secret and exhibit the pictures' to one person at a time In their private rooms, which could tell many amusing stories. There is a great deal of nonsense nbout this mystery, but there is still plenty of provincialism among New York picture buyers, many of whom would apparently prefer to have their pictures come straight from the studio to some secret chamber in which they might be sealed up away from an inartistic world.?New York Tribune. Feminine Management. Little Dot (laughing)?Why, Dick, what's the matter? Little Dick?I's most dead. I just took' some awful stuff. "That what your mamma put on the table?" "Yes; she loft it there in the cup an' told me not to touch it 'cause it was for pudding, an' when she went out I took a great big swallow, an' it's castor oil." "Yes, she said you ought to take some, an' I told her how to fix it."?Omaha World. Production of Quicksilver. The lightest production of quicksilver in the United States for the last ten years was last year's, being only 27,750 flasks. Tho increased imports of nearly 8,000 flasks from England to the United States include the large transit trade of that article to the Mexican mines.?Chicago Times._ In Zanzibar's ltechcrcho Circles. In the most recherche circles of Zanzi? bar the ladies wear gold dollars on J^ngs inserted in their noses, and the more gold dollars a woman wears the more exclusive she considers herself. A woman who can Btring twenty-five or thirty gold dollars on her nose ring is acknowledged to be an aristocrat from away back, and can snub her less favored sisters with impunity.? New York Tribune. A colored man who Is 105 yea^s old, and who once blacked. Washington's shoes, was discovered the other day in Nashville, Tenn. Lnfgc?t vineyard on Earth; There his b.ebn a fcrfeat writtfeb about feenator Stanford's immense rancji at Vina,: but the only way.tb g?t an adequate idea of it is to pay the place a visit. This an EnUtKr'Hz reporter did a few days ago. Stanford's ranch begins at the Tahama county line, and the first view one gets of his land is not prepos? sessing. It is nothing but ? a 'Wrebj treelea% plaln? where tfo )?edirjc& crops out In &[Jote ana everywhere lies but a few feet beneath the surface. Nothing will grow here except a short, dry weed, but the sheep like this weed, and tbe plain ifi therefore one vast sheep range, for Senator Stanford is a man of varied resources, and manages to find a use for all the land be owns. As you approach Vina the aspect of tbe country suddenly changes, and you jump from sunburned plains into the midst of green alfalfa fields and vine? yards. The former are made productive by frequent flooding from . irrigating ditches. Thi3 flooding is good, for the soil, but bad for health, and if it makes alfalfa, it also make3 malaria. The water is brought in ditches from Deer Creek and turned into the fields until it stauds in a vast lake. As soon as one crop of alfalfa is cut, another is raised in this way, all tbe year round. It is used very extensively for stock, in place of hay. But the vineyard is tbe wonderful fea ture of the Stanford ranch. It extends for several miles up and down on each side of tbe road as you approach Vina, and back from tbe road as far as tbe eye can reach. In some places tbe vines are large, in others they have just been set out, and in the latter case they are sup ported by an army or stakes. This vine? yard contains 3,500 acres, and is the largest in the world, but still the senator is not satisfied, and proposes to have 5,000 acres. More vines are being Bet out every year. The prettiest sight of all are tbe old Greek vices which form the nucleus of Senator Stanford's vine? yard. These vines are al.l old and stand fully five feet high. Tbe trunks are larger than a man's arm. Tbe branches are trimmed off at tbe bottom and allowed to grow out at the top, until tbe vineyard looks like an orchard of young peach trees, and they are all pruned off so evenly that tbey make one level floor of green as tbe eye glances across them. The vines already in bearing require the attention of several hundred men, to take care of the grapes they produce; and it will take a small army of men to attend the crop each year when all the vines get to bearing. The winery already in U9e on the ranch is a large building, but now Senator Stanford is having a brick structure erected which covers two acres. The walls are already up, and 140 pillars are being erected, to support tbe roof. The building is to hold the wine vats and casks, and is a sort of wine cellar above ground. It is of mammoth proportions, but so is the vineyard, and so will tbe crop of grapes be. One could talk about the vineyard and winery all day, but there are other things to be mentioned. Next to bis vines, in Senator Stanford's esteem, come his fine horses. Of these there are large bands to be seen, all beauties and of the best blood. Tbe senator makes a specialty of raising fast horses, which he sells for fancy figures. Every animal is spirited, beautifully proportioned and looks sleek and smooth. The two stallions to which he breeds all his mares are Clay and Whips. The former the senator values at $10,000. Clay is a rather small, brown horse, kind and gentle in disposi? tion. Whips is a fine large bay, full of life and beautifully built. In fact, the senator considers Whips the ideal of horseflesh and beyond price. The ani? mal was expected to make very fast time, but was lamed in bis early training, at Palo Alto, and hence is used only for breeding purposes. Several fine horses have lamed lately m the Palo Alto track, which is considered too hard, and the senator intends 'to build a training track on his Vina ranch. Negotiations are now in progress for the purchase of the Copeland estate, which adjoins Stan? ford on the west, next to tbe river, and when these negotiations are completed tbe track will probably be built on this land. Then all of the fine stock will be brought to Vina, which will be made headquarters for the training depart? ment. Other features of this wonderful ranch deserve extended mention, The nine large barns for the horses, which are made as comfortable as most dwellings ,* the barns where the Holsteins have their uarters, k?pt as neat as a parlor; those ne old Holstein cattle themselves of monstrous size and beautifully marked n black and white; one cow in particu? lar, whicb is being fattened for beef, to weigh 2,500 pounds, and which now weighs nearly 2,000; Senator Stanford's handsome two-story residence, with its extensive lawns, flower gardens and statuary?all of these things attract the tention and excite the interest of the straDger. But then everything about this great ranch is of interest, and after the visitor has spent the day in examining the different features he still feels how littie he has Been. The ranch is one of the wonders of this wonderful State.? From the Chico, Cat., Enterprise. You Can't Do It. You can't make money so long as you scratch over thirty acres of land to get a yield which should be produced on ten acres. You can't make money on cotton, rbich you are forced to sell at eight cents, if it costs you twelve ceuts to pro duoe it. You can't make money on tobacco by selling it at four cents a pound, if it costs you eight cents to produce it. You can't make money by buying com? mercial fertilizers to use alone on poor land. You cau't make money by impoverish? ing your lands. __ You can't rrproveft^iug away from t^flgfrrtfLsM ve Rjaply A lady, ^K^m^mWm^mm^mmmi?? beautiful praj| Knf marrie_J spirit in the the relation oi would be less vv "Lord, bless1 person whom th husband; let hi comfortable anf become a greaL______^__^ unto him, a shg ?prTTws, a meet helper H ?nta and changes in iheV MpPnie amiable forever in hia eyl^M^Rforever dear to him. Unite hisVrtfl Bn*in the dear? est love and holinfl Ejljmine to him in all sweetness, c^H^BBawropliance; keep me from arr^^pPnejes?pd dia coutentedness and TlnreasonabreTiess of passion and humor, and make me humble and obedient, useful and observant, that we may delight io^|fii^)ther according to thy blessed worcrflajpboth of us may rejoice in thee, having our portion in love and service of God forever." ? At the services in Texna one time a collection for tho support of .missions was taken up. There was aS^xoluMtidy present, who dropped afl M*flpohl piece into the hat. I kol^ ^^va.s very poor, said the narrator, am not able to afford so much, and tbougnr she had iutended to throw in a quarter, but made a mistake. So next day I met her hus? band and said to bira: "Look here; your wife put a five dollar gold piece in the hat yesterday, I thins she must have made a mistake." "No, no," he replied, "my wife didn't make ho mistake. She don't fling often, but let me tell you when she flings Bbe flings." ? We are at a loss to know what dis? position the ''rum oligarchy" will make of the following, experiment with Prohi? bition. This information comes from Alabama and speaks, fur itself: "Said a merchant j-eoterday; Do yoti know that prohibition is .changing the character of business in the interior townB?,, Wher? ever prohibition has been auWea tne money formerly expended for whiskfiy ? dero-etl. f o something else, and t this has given rise to a larger general business, and in some instances new business. One country merchant told me this week that he sold 50 pairs of children's shoes where he formerly sold one. The fathers used to drink up the shoe money and the children went barefoot. He said also that he sells quantities of women's hats and bonnets, and never sold anything of tbe kind before prohibition was adopted. The husbands had no money, so their wives made their own bonnets out of calico and splits; now there is no gallon ?jug under the bed,.- and women have decent headgear and even ribbon. That is a solid fact and is &. whole sermon if yoti choose to lengthen it out a bit.1' ? Cleveland, Teno., is in the wildest excitement over the development in the shooting of Miss Irene Fann by Will Guess. It was supposed that the killing was accidental, but it is now developed that it was cold blooded murder. On Thursday Guess was passing the school where Miss Fann was teaching. He had a rifle in his band, and pointed, as was supposed, playfully at Miss Fann, when the weapon was suddenly exploded. Now it is learned that Guess killed Miss Fann because she whipped bis little sister for and infraction of the rules of the school. Guess has fled. Bucklen's Arnaca Salre. Tbe 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 Curbs files, ot no pay required. It is gti?rantbed to give perfect satisfac? tion, dr money refunded. Price 25 cents per bdx. For sale by Hill Bros., Ander son, 3. C. FJISONINTHEASHES What the Mt. Lebanon Shakers Found?Incident in the His? tory of a Quiet Community. The Mount Lebanon (New York) Shakers are a quiet com munity, secluded from the fret and woiTy of the outside world. They are widely known, how? ever, for their strict honor and probity in business. Tho Shakers believe that na? ture has a remedy for every dis? ease. A few have been found? the rest are as yet unknownu ? Many were" discovered by acci* dent; Others came to light as the result of patient experiment and research. Nervous Dyspepsia is a com parativt'.ly new disease, growing out of the conditions of modern life. It is a joint affection of the digestive organs and of the nervous system. These two were formerly treated as* sepa? rate ailments, and it was left for the clear-sighted Shakers to prove that the basis of this terrible and often fatal compli? cation lies chiefly in the disord? ered and depraved functions of digestion and nutrition. They reasoned thus:?"If we can in? duce the stomach to do its work, and stimulate the excre? tive organs to drive out of the body the poisonous waste mat? ters which remain after the life giving elements of the food have been absorbed, we shall have conquered Nervou3 Dys? pepsia and Nervous Exhaust? ion. And they were right Knowing the infallible power of Shaker Extract (Seigel's Syrup) in less complicated 1;J tough similar diseases, they resolved to test it fully in this. To leave no ground for doubt they prescribed the remedy in hundreds of cases which had been pronounced in? curable?with perfect success in every instance where their directions as to living and diet were scrupulously followed. Nervous Dyspepsia and Ex ! haustion is a peculiarly Ameri can disease. To a greater or less extent half the people of this country suffer from it? both sexes and all ages. In no country in the world are there so many insane asylums filled to overflowing, ail resulting f rom this alarming disease. Its leading symptoms are these: t Frequent or continual head ?ache; a dull pain at the base ? the brain; oad breath; nau? seous eructations; the rising of sour and pungent fluids to the throat; a sense of oppress? ion and faintness at the pit of the stomach; flatulence; wake fulness and loss of sleep; dis? gust with food even when K^ak from the need of it; sticky slimy matter on the teeth or the mouth, especially on ris? ing in the morning; furred and coated tongue; dull eyes; cold Lhands and feet; constipation; r dry or rough skin; inability to fix the mind on any labor call? ing for continuous attention; and oppressive and sad fore? bodings and fears. All this terrible ? group Shaker Extract (Seigel's Syrup) removes by its pos? itive, powerful, direct yet painless and gentle action upon the functions of digestion and assimilation. Those elements of the food that build up and strengthen the system are sent upon their mission, while all waste matters (the ashes of life's fife) which unremoved, poison and kill, are expelled from the body through tne bowels, kid? neys and skin. The weak and prostrated nerves are quieted, toned and fed by the purified blood. As the result, health, with its enjoyments, blessings and power, returns to the suf? ferer who had, perhaps, aband? oned all hope of ever seeing another well dav. JOHN E. PEOPLES & CO, Ate offering their iiiinieiisc St?ck of STOVES, TINWARE, CROCKERY, CHEAPER THAN EVER. They will sell Stoves on time to good parties for good papef; , , . . . They will seil their second-hand Stoves muck lower than cost. They buy remnants of Seed and Lint Cotton, Bags, Raw Hides, Otter and Kink Skins. Call and see their Stock of Lamps, Silverware, *sr BEFORE BITTING. Feb 17,1887 Potaaa Victim. Cured byS. S. 8. CAUTION. Qmtumert should not confute our] Specific with the numerout imitation*, tubttltufet, potash andptereury mixture* which are got? ten vp to" tell, not on their own merit, but on the merit of our remedy. An imitation It always a fraud and a cheat, and they thrir ''. only at they can tUalfrom the article ithitnted. Treatise on Biood and Skin Dutat* wnlkd free. For tale by all drujjitU. TUE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Draiccr 3, Atlanta, G*. S. S. S. vs. POTASH. I have had blood poison for tea Tears. I know I luve taken one hnndrcd bottle of Iodide or potash In that time, bet It did me no good. Latt summer my face, neck, body and limbs were corered with sores, and 1 could scarcely use my arms on account of rjjcu matismln my shoulders. I took S. S. S., and it has done me more good than si! other tin ill eines 1 bare taken. My face, body and neck are perfectly clear and clean, and my r'.i ?> matis m Is entirely gone. I weighed 118 pounds when 1 began the medicine, and I now w rt? li 152 ponnds. My Ant bottle helped me greatly, and gave roe an appetite like a strong man. I would not be without S. S. S. lor several times Its weight in gold. C. B. MTTCHELLT W. 3& St Perry, New York. i <? EARTHQUAKE ACAIN. ROCHESTER, N. Y./.8eptember 15,1886. WE have made HILL,' ADAMS & CO., of Anderson, S. C, onr Agents for the sale of our Ladies'.Fine Shoes. We make on the N. Y. Opera, Acme, Wau ken Fhast and Creole lasts; the latter is Just out and is very nice. We use the McKay Machine and sew with best Barbour's thread. Every pair warranted. They are nice, neat and stylish. Give them ja look when you want a Shoe and you will be pleased. We use the Gordian Patent Stay. Oct 7.1886 E. P. REED & CO. tu t> Ii.shed 1843. W. & J. SLOANE, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Carpetings, Floor Cloths, Rugs, Mattings, Mats and Upholstery Goods. Great Novelties at Very Low Prices. SAMPLES SENT IF DESIRED. CORRESPONDENCE INVITED. Broadway, 18th and 19th Streets, NEW YORK, AND oil to 647 Market St, SAN FRANCISCO. April 7, 1887_39_2m PORT ROYAL & WESTERN CAR? OLINA RAILWAY. In effect May 22,1887. Time?1 hour slower than C. & G. R. R. time. GOING SOUTH. Daily. Sunday Except Sunday. Train. Leave Anderson. 4 30am 6 15 am Leave Deans. 4 57 a m 6 42 a ra Leave Cooks. 5 23 a m 7 08 p m Leave Lowndesville. 550am 7 35am Leave Latimers.6 17 a m 8 02 a m Leave Hesters. (5 35am 8 20am LeaveMt. Carmel.... -652am 827am Leave Willington.... 7 01 a m 8 55 a m LeavegBordeau._. 7 27am 912am Arrive McCormick... 7 55 a m 9 40 a m A rri ve Augusta.J115 a m 916 p m Arrive Charleston... G 45 p ra 7 00am Arrive Savannah.... 653pm 555am Arrive Jacksonville. 7 aO a m 12 00 m GOING NORTH. Leave Jacksonville. 2 30 p m Leave Savannah.8 10 p m Leave Charleston. 4 00 a ra Leave Augusta. 7 35am 7 35am Leave McCormick... 1000a m 1000am Leave Bordeau.10 32 a m 10 30 a m Leave Willington....10 50 a m 10 47 am Leave Mt. Carmel...ll 05 a m 1101 a m Leave Hesters.11 30 a m 11 25 a ra Leave Latimers.11 47 a m 11 41 a m Leave Lowndesville.12 17 p m 12 09 pm Leave Cooks.12 47 p m 12 36 p m Leave Deans. 115 pm 102pm Arrive Anderson. 145pm 130pm 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 Asbevilie & Spartanburg R. R. 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, Supt., Augusta, Ga. Notice of Final Settlement. J. L. Tribblc, as Administrator, in re. the Estate of Elisa T. Elgin, deceased.?Petition /or Final Settlement and DUchargt. To J. T. Elgin, J. L. McCarley, Mary Ann Hanna, Samantha O'Brien, Narcissa McCarley, Tecora L. McCarley, Tura I. Davis, Wade II. Davis. Robert A. Davix, Dessic M. Davis, William E. Davis and Samantba T. DaviB, heirs at law of Eliza T. Elgin, deceased: TAKE notice that the undersigned will apply to the Jud;;e of Probate at Anderson C. 11.,S. C. on Monday, ?he 5th day of Septem her, A. D. 1887, at II o'clock a. in., for a Final Settlement of the Estate cif Elian T. Elpln, deceased, and discbarge fro u the uttiec of Administrator of said Estate. Dated 21stday of Mtiv, A 1>. 1887. J. L. TRIBBLK. Administrator. WM. S. BROWN, Atl'y, Pro Pet. To Mary Ann Hanna and Samantha O'Brien, dom icil in the State of Alahan.a: You will toke notice that a petition for final set? tlement of the Estate of Kli/a T. Elgin, deceased, and discharge as Administrator thereof, on Mon? day, the Stli day of September, 1887, was filed in the. office of the Probate Court for Anderson Cmin ty, Stale of South Carolina, on the 21st day of May, 1887; and you are further notified to show, cause on that day why the administrator thereof should not be decreed to administer said Estate. WM. S. BROWN, Att'y Pro Pet. 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