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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. tl I JOG BARBELS DF FtOUR!.. IV be sold within the next SO days at the following Low Prices: 200 barrels at $4.50?guaranteed. 300 " 5.00 " 8?0 " 5.?0 " SO? " 6.?0 ?09 u |80, ? f HEi?nGES#oM Of Ever brought to this market by any one. Prices running from 25c to 50c per pound .fet?il?rjyitbe bo^ ^ep. ball and seel . M SPECIAL GROCERY STd?E. McCEE & LICON. KW GOODS! NEW GOODS! E. W. BROWN & SONS! OUR DRY. GOODS DEPARTMENT COMPLETE. ?v?&Bbess* G?tirisr: . flan^ees, - ??,? HATS and CAPS, . . - . JEANS, . BOOTS and SHOES, &c. &c*&c, AT LOWEST ERICES. I OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT Comp'etely- filled with the Newest and Purest Staple ?nd Fancy Goods the markets, ?jyford. ? . j7* FLdTJ? at all prices, grading frohl good faintly to Finest Patent in America. ...... rndts^U*kinds, Nuts all kinds, Extracts all kinds, Spices, CloveB, Cinnamon, Mace, Nutmegs, Kaisins, Currants, Citron, Mince Meat, Apple Butter,, ) Fruit Cakes and Fancy Crackers, &c. We have, all yon need.'- Give us a call." ;1. ; j * E. W. BROWtf & SONS. m- - a sol THE OLD STORY Delicious Qualities will Delight Patrons and pay Dividends to Consumers. J. Pr SULLIVAN & CO'S. CONSTANT Altf IS TO SELL THE Best iRio Coffee Xliey Can Find. JP^TEISTT FLOUR, And all other Choice grades. They keep a close watch after, and are prepared to give bottom prices, notwith? standing the advance. Tlie Clothing Business. They have a nice stock of MEN'S, YOUTH'S and BOYS' CLOTHING cheaper than you can imagine. Tbey have taken time and pains to get up this stock, and are ready to offer good Bargains. KENTUCKY AND ATHENS JEANS, DRY GOODS OF ALL KINDS, From.the.cheapest Prints to ?ne Cashmeres boots and shoes, The. best stoofcthey have ever bad. ivERYTHING-^THEIR STOCK IS GENERAL. ?Kl?fc ?iallr^aii !? Co. a: ?S3- All communications intended for this Column should\N addressed to D- H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C. . We call attention to the timely article from the p6n of Mr. M. N. Mitchell. He is one of oaf thoughtful teachers, and is well fquipped for his work. The teachers of the County would do well to give his article a careful reading. Mr. Mitchell succeeds Mr. Sterling at the Midway School; and will, without doubt, leave bis impf ess on the pupils of that commuuUy. Miss L'elia Browne, after aa absence of two years, returns to her brat love, and is again enrolled among the teachers of the County. She has taken charge of the school four miles below town at the historic "Haynie's Old Field," where we were wont In boyhood days to put our eyes on gold lace acd gilt buttons, as our country's defenders arrayed themselves in all the "pomp and circumstance of Muster Day." We extend1 to lier acor? dial welcome. Do parents realize that they may be, in many ways, a great hindrance or a great help to the-yuccens and. usefulness of the teacher*? How can I help or bin? der either, says some astonished parent ? By speaking kindly of the teacher and his work. By encouraging him in all his laudable efforts. By manifesting an interest in the studies of the children. By- providing them with the necessary facilities to do their work. By not find? ing fault with him in the presence of your children. .You would not send your boy to hoe ootteu without giving him a hoe?no more should you send him to school without books and slates. -These are inspiririg days. An army numbering millions in its ranka ie being mustered all over our land for a mighty conflict ; a conflict none the less real, though not inaugurated with the rattle of musketry and the roar of artilllery; a conflict that has been going on for ages, .and will go On until time shall be no more; a conflict npon one side of which are arrayed all the forces of vice and ignorance, and .upon the other all the educational forces of an. enlightened civ? ilization^' About four thousand Ander? son County -boys'and girls institute a small division of this mighty army that is tripping along to the school bouses of the land on these Crisp, winter, mornings under the lead of more than one hun? dred and twenty teachers. It is grand and inspiring, and yet. the fearful responsibility is enough to make us quake and tremble. "What shall the harvest be ?" depends, in a large measure, upon what the teachers are. Under the leadership of the teachers are marching gaily along the future Governors, Legis? lator?, Judges and Ministers of the gos? pel, and it behooves the teachers to rise to the full measure of the height of their opportunities and responsibilities. Tbey control, in a large degree, the futnre des? tinies of their country. The teachers are moulders of character, and what the teachers are, is just about what the pupils will be. A great deal is said ia the papers'about the Conflicts going on between political parties, but very little is ever said about this conflict that is all about us and around us?very little said about this mighty army, that cheerfully rallies day by day . to the assault!. Some verses from Mrs. Sangster are very appropriate in this connection t They gather, this wonderful army, In field and In grove and in street; Ther voices are music to charm me, So.ringing and eager and sweet. Their cheeks are red as a cherry, Their eyes are as pure as the day. And the sound of their marching is merry ; 5Vhereyerthey pass on their way. There are people forever a sighing, And saying the world is all wrong: But somehow their doubts take to flying, At sight of this wonderful throng. The world may be clouded and weary, Of trouble and toil may be fall; But at least there is hope where the cheery Dear children are going to school. Editor Teachers' Column: IF I were permitted to say a word in regard to the adoption of the new school books recently prescribed by the County Board of Education for Anderson County, I would urge upon teachers who have charge of country schools within the limits of Anderson County, and have not already adopted for exclusive use in their respective schools the new books on spelling, Grammar and History, that tbey do so at once. The reasons that I advance for their adoption are the fol? lowing : 1. They insure more thorough work in the preparation of lessons on the part of tue pupil than did the old books: 2. They awaken in pupils a livelier interest in the pursuit of knowledge than did the old books 3. They enable the pupil to get a more accurate mental grasp of the matter con? tained in them than did the old books. 4. Tbey stir the pupil up to more orig? inal thought, and enable him to express that thought better than did the old books. 5. Matter learned from them is more likely to be stamped indelibly upon the mind than similar matter contained in the old books. 6. One of the prime objects of knowl? edge is to make its possessor a practical man or woman. Tbia is insured by these books in a higher degree than by tbe books they are to succeed. 7. Hyde's Practical Lessons in the use of English, (in two books) which are included in the list of new books pre? scribed by the County Board of Educa? tion, are models in excellence. In them technicalities lose their repulsiveness to the average pupi', and Grammar, as a study, is made exceedingly delightful and entertaining, as well as useful. 8. They enable tbe teacher more easily fo gain and .retain the, undivided atten? tion of the class during the time devoted to recitation, and, on this , account, are preferable to tbe text books on tbe same subject that have immediately preceded them... 9. 'If the books on Spelling, Grammar and History, prescribed by tbe State Board of Education in 1883, are contiq STDERSON, S.C., TB aed in any of the Couoty Common Schools for the ?nauing school term, and a regard for the proper classification and advancement of pupils is entertained at all by teachc'rs df stteb schools, an unnec? essary expense will be incurred by those patrons who have children just entering on these studies, since they will have to buy books which, at furtherest, will have to be discontinued in the Fall of 1889. . 10. if tiny te?chef should hesitate on the adoption of the new boots oft a?connt of the confusion likely to result from their adop'tibd too hurriedly made, he should bear well In rhino! tfiat afcch con elusion is lively io ipe'reifse rather than decrease id proportion as {he time is deferred. Besides, much time will be wasted in the study of the old books that might be profitably employed! in the use of the new ones"; . , 11. If any teacher should hesitate to take hold of the new books because he has not tried them, let him remember he has to tench them sometime, and the sooner he begins the better it will be for both himself and his pupils. If any teacher should, after carefully considering the matter, come to the con? clusion that it is cheaper" to a1 great ma? jority of his patrons to retain the old [ books, still he should bear in mine' that the coat of the change is trifling com [ pared with the great advantage to be derived from the use of the dew books, To facilitate classification and avoid confusion, teachers should have these on hand at the beginning of the term if pos? sible. I do not think teachers need be timid in this undertaking. I feel confi? dent thai the patrons' will generously lend both their moral and material support to the teacher in this matter, if the subject is properly brought before them. * M. N. Mitchell. November ^6,1888 A 40,000 Acre Farm. Those agriculturalists of New Jersey and Long Island who.fancy their farms are large may be interested to know the size of a really big farm. Tbe foliowing is a description of the Grandia farm of Da? kota, which is the largest in America. ] The big Grandin wheat farm, in Da? kota comprises about 40,000" acres, of which 13,000' are under cultivation, 11,000 being sown to wheat. There are used on tbe farm forty five gang plows, two plows in a gang, each cutting four? teen to fifteen inches. There are forty five gang barrOwsj these are six feet square, but are arranged together side by side to work twenty four feet wide. One long evener draws the fonr, with a pair of mules near each end. One man drives both teams. Tbe advantage of this sys? tem io worthy of notice by other farmers. It reduces the number of men usually required by one half. There are forty four broadcast sowers, sowing eight feet each, bat two of these are attached end to end with a span ot males before each, and one man drives both spanB, another saving of half tbe man force. There are I sixty-five self binding harvesters employ I ed on tbe place. Modern improvements have so perfected these that only .one expert is required for the whole, espe? cially since tbe experienced workmen on the machines are kept from year to year, and they are able to attend to any little repairs. The harvesters are drawn by three mules and one and one half to two men are required to shock the bundles from each machine. The thrashers, of which there are six, are quite extensive affairs compared with those .of former times or with those of the flail of the animals on the threshing floor of our boyhood. \ Each one of these machines, driven by steam power, thrashes oat from 1,900 to 2,000 bushels a day. They are set down in the center of a hun? dred acres of shocks, and when these are thrashed are moved to the center of another hundred acres. Tbe working force On a single thresher forms quite a little army. Thus there-is: First, the general superintendent, eight bundle teams to haul the shocks, with eight drivers and eight other men, part in tbe field and part at tbe machine as pitchers and unloaders. At the machine two men are simply required to cut the band. There are three feeders, two at work and an alternate. Then there is tbe engin? eer, the fireman, the waterman; tbe "straw bucker," who with two mules and a pole removes the Btraw accumulating before tbe machine, a barn man to take care of the animals and the cook and bis assistant. Tbe wheat is received into wooden tanks, holding 100 bushels each, wagon drawn by four mules each, one tank wagon at the maehine and three on tbe road, take the wheat to the elevators. This saves bags and bagging. It will thus be seen that there are thirty men employed to ran a single machine.? From the Mail and Express. A Steam Bicycle. Portland, Me., Nov. 27.?A bicycle locomotive, now in progress of construc? tion by the Portland Company, is nearly ready for trial. It is a novel machine. Its boiler is shaped about the same as the common locomotive boiler, not differing much in lenght, but rather smaller in diameter than that of a railroad locomo fcive. Its fire box is deeper and the cab will be two stories high, the fireman occupying the lower and the engineer the upper story. It has two cylinders of the same shape, but a little smaller than the ordinary locomotive cylinders, located quite close together under the part of the boiler farthest from tbe cab. Then under tbe middle of the boiler is one giant steel tired driving-wheel. It is eight feet in diameter and was cast at the Portland Company's foundry last summer. The tire is deeply graved, and on either side of the great driving-wheel is a crank to take the place of the treadles of a com? mon bicycle. The pistons of the cylin? ders are attached by means of a driving rod to these cranks, and by tbe power of steam tbe novel railroad bicycle will be propelled, it is claimed, anywhere from one to two hundred miles per hour. It will cost from ten to fifteen thousand dol? lars, perhaps more, and will weigh say twenty five tons. The inventor is E. Moody Boynton, and he is very enthusiastic over it, and seems to have plenty of money with which to carry oat his ideas. The cars will also be made to run on tbe rail, and will be two stories high to correspond with the cab of the bicycle locomotive, which will be some sixteen feet high. To prevent the whole thing from top? pling over the track will be built with a rail above as well as under the train. The upper rail will be supported by strong iron.columns planted on either side of the lower rail at a sufficient dis? tance apart to allow the train space to pass between them. Grooved wheels of a small size as compared with the driving wheel will be fixed to the top of the cars and locomotives will be run on the upper rail. In this way tbe train will be pre? vented from toppling over. Now, it is claimed that by this arrangement the friction will be much less and, therefore, tbe train can be propelled faster and with less power; the expense of constructing tbe roadbed will be much less than tbe cost of the roadbed of the railroads of the existing system, a very narrow roadbed being all that is required. ? Pay for your paper. [TJRSDAY M?EttIN< COMFORT IN DEFEAT. Bill Afp Wants to Import Northern Re publicans, Atlanta Consltiiitioil. These northern Republicans; who are meandering around,, talk very,, hopefully of the situation. They say that General Harrison is a gentleman and a Christian, and has no prejudices against the south, and though he may have friends to re ward, be ha* no enemies to punish. Tbey say that be has force of character and great firmness, and will be president and run the' machine. They Bay that northern people will be more willing to come south, and they will come, and by their conduct and dealing will command our respetit And confidence, and break up tbe Bolid sotitn. . ^ . A Well; we are willing to have' it broken np in that way. There 2b no issue in politics that is?filf as big as a' reconcilia? tion between tbe north and south. A northern man said to me, "I am making investments here,'and I expect to move here and bring my family. I am a re? publican, and nave been all 017 life. It is the next thing to my religion. Tbe more republicans you get down here tbe better it will be for you. They will be a breakwater between you and any oppres? sion yoti may fear from General Harri? son's administration. They cannot barm you without harming us. It is tbe best solution of tbe negro problem. If he is put over you her will be put over us. We expect to have Dome influence with the administration, and that influence will be for the good of your whole people." Tbere is some comfort in that kind of talk. I don't mean any offense, but I couldn't help thinking about tbat wicked old fellow who dreamed he diedfand went to tbe bad place and caw the old devil and the infernal fires and the little devils shoveling in the sulphur, and he saw bnndreds of bis old acquaintances, and when he waked up be was all jn a sweat of perspiration and was so thankful it was a dream. He told it to the boys and one said, "was the Are oneommon hot, Uncle Jake." ''Powerful hot/' said he, "but then it wasn't bo bad as it mout have been, for every white man I saw bad a nigger between bim and tbe fire." So I reckon we bad better begin to import a good lot of ofar northern breth? ren and put them in front about next April and tell the administration to fire away. Our Southern republicans will do pretty well, but there are not enough of them to go' around. Kabor Freeman has promised to Btand in front of me, but his limited diameter would not protect the flanks'of my corporoaity. Oor Carters ville republicans are generally thin in flesh and it will take about two to cover one Cleveland democrat. Governor Bul? lock would suit me mighty well but I understand tbat Governor Brown has bad bim engaged for three months back. Old Joe-is always ahead. ' My friend A. L. Harris would make a splendid bullwark for a whole family and 1 bopfj be will remember me when trouble comes. A Tallapoosa Yankee said to me, "We are going to build another town right away. We have got Tallapoosa establish? ed and she is solid as bed reck. Town property has not shrunk a dollar. Our glass works have been rebuilt and our fur nace is nearly completed and we have lots of smaller industries and tbere will be hundreds of Mtcbiganders and other ganders down there this winter. We have added four hundred and ninety thousand.dollars to the taxable returns of Haralson county in two years. In two years we have built a town of nearly 3,000 inhabitants, and expect to double it in two years more; and now we are going to build another town at Bluflton, ten miles below Cave Spring. Here is the plan and elevation of tbe hotel, which is to cost seven thousand dol ars. Tbe hotel is the first house that we build, and we get a first class^man to keep. it. Tbe stomach Of a rich man is the first thing to work on. Get bim satisfied with him? self?feed him well?and he will trade. When a northern man comes down here with his pocket full of money and finds a poor, dirty hotel, and none of the com: forts be left behind him, he geta disgusted and wants to get away *s quick as possi? ble. If you Carlers vi lie people bad any gumption, you would build a twenty thousand dollar hotel the first thing, and have hot and cold baths and gas light, and you would paint up that front block, and paint that old depot, and make the town look attractive. We will have a bigger town at Bluflton in two years than you have got at Oaftersville, and three fourths of tbe people will believe yankees tbat mean business. You have got the best country in Georgia?I bave been all over it and know all about it?and your natural wealth is just immense. There is notbiog like it or. equal to it tbat I bave seen in all my travels, but your people are asleep; you don't advertise; the northern people don't know anything about you ; you have spent three or four hundred dollars on printers ink and think you have done wonders. We spent seventy-five thousand dollars in advertis ing the first year in Tallapoosa, seventy five thousand dollars in cash, and wo got fi7e dollars back for everyone we put out. Old Zack Chandler when be was gover? nor of Michigan got tbe legislature to appropriate two hundred thousand dollars for/printers ink for advertising tbe state, and the result was an increase of four hundred thousand in her population in four years by immigration and eighteen millions in tbe valne of ber property. It takes people to make a town, and if you don't call tbem they won't come. If you can get half a dozen live yankees to locate in yonr town and hire tbem to go back and drum for you, and furnish them with half a million little pamphlets with some pictures in tbem and plenty of in? formation about your county, and then see the principal railroad lines and ar? range for excursion rates to Cartersville and return your little old hotel couldn't accommodate half the people who would come." "My friend," said I, "you alarm me. Your picture is beautiful, very beautiful, but?" "But what?" said he. "Well, I was thinking," said I, "that?that maybe too many would come and crowd us out. You see we are raising right smart chil? dren ourselves and we want your clever northern friends to come down and mix up and invest and all that, but we don't want a freshet. Let's sorter divide this thing about half and half. We haven't got any seventy-five thousand dollars but if we knew that a thousand dollars or so spent in printers ink would double our population and set a thousand little wheels in motion and tbat your people when tbey come would pay us back what we spent in calling tbem to this paradise, I think we could raised tbe money. I think they ought to pay it back, "don't you? Why the northern and western people are filling up Texas so fast that the state has quit calling and some of the townships require an immigrant to bring his credentials of good character with him just like they require a health certi? ficate when the yellow fever is around. In some towns a man has lo make an application for naturalization papers and they vote on it, and if he is blackballed, he muBt travel further. They say tbey want to preserve the purity of their poli ties and their religion. But we are not that particular here in Carteraville. We are still calling and we will tote fair and divide! We bad a big town meeting the other night and nominated a unanimous ticket for mayor and council and we put in five democrats and three republicans. We took a Scotchman and a Dutchman and mixed tbem up with the white men and you can hardly tell the difference, and we are all going to pull together for our town and our country. While you are up north working for Bluffton, tell those ganders to come and see us." DECEMBER 6, 181 "I will," he said, "I will, I like Car tersville, but she is slow, awful alow. Good by." Bill Akp. THE W?RLD'S-STRO?GEST MAN. Tremendous Feats' of ?setifaf Fotrer?A German Athlete WTio Surpasses all the Stories of History. New York Sun, When James Wilson, the expansion? ist, was described in these columns a few weeks ago, it was believed by the medi? cal fraternity and by all who saw Mr. Wilson in his wonderful performance that no other man on the face of the earth possessed such strength. But the Even? ing Sun's freak hunter has been prowling about town far a fortnight, seeking a parallel for Wilson and yesterday found him. The new man's name is Charles H. Sampson.. fie is SO ysars of age, of medium build and height, not a m'afl who would be picked out as ? giant in strength, but a quid, ordinary looking person: Mr. Wilson broke great trunk straps one at a time. Mr. Sampson breaks three of the. same straps at once. Mr. Wilson broke nino steel, is ire cables of eight strands each, with the potter of his chest. Mr. Sampson broke in the pres? ence of the reporter 125 thicknesses of the same steel wire cable, or, in all, 1,000 strandp.- He went still further and broke a steel trace chain such as are in use on truck harness,- fastening it about bis chest, and bursting its links like so much glass. The same chain, link by link, be deliberately pulls in two with bis hands. Gas pipe an inch in diameter he bends into elbows by striking the Jength of pipe across bis left arm. He has success fully pulled in tug of war against twelve strong men. The repofisr obtained .<n interview with Mr. Sampson in his private room in an uptown residence yesterday afternoon, The name of the man is at once looked upon as an assumed one, for the very reason that it fits bis profession so well. Nevertheless bis true name is Sampson. Charles H. Sampson was born on the 16th of April, 1850, in Baden,- Germany, and is, therefore, 80 years of age. He came to America only a short time since, after having traveled all over Europe ex? hibiting his strength. Selecting a pipe of steel chain about three feet long, Mr. Sampson forced open one of the links and formed a ring of the chain just large enough to fit over the biceps muscle of the arm.. A second chain was formed in the same manner and carefully fitted. When the arm was allowed to hang loosely at the side three chains were found to fit snugly about the biceps. Then Mr. Sampson's fingers began to twitch and close spasmodically, the muscles and tendons of his arm slowly swelled and increased in size, bis forearm was carefully carried upward and as the lbow crooked, the strain upon the chains became tremendous. The arm was fur? ther bent, when there was a sharp snap, a piece of each chain Hew to the ceiling, and the chains dropped to the floor, broken squarely in two. There was no "fake" about it. It was a genuine feat in strength which no other man, so far as is known, has ever accomplished. The chain is made from steel, three-six teentbs of an inch thick, and formed in double links an inch and a half long. The ten? sile strength is estimated at about 4,000 pounds. Mr. Sampson says it does not inconvenience him in the least to break them, and he apparently does it with as much ease as if bending his arm with nothing on it at all. Taking up a roll of the small steel wire cable previously referred to Mr. Sampson made a belt of it, containing 125 lengths of the cable, which be wrapped around his chest. "I don't propose to break this cable by expansion," he said, "for I have very little chest expansion. You will notice, however, that the muscles in my back and sides are wonderfully developed. By swelling them up I accomplish the same result, Mr. Wilson doeB with his wonderful lungs." A quick twist of his body, a sudden swelling of all the raus des of his chest, back aod shoulders, a strain on the cable and it parted with a metallic snap, in less than three seconds from the time he began, Next he bent the gas pipe as before described. "Have you ever tried wrestling?" asked the reporter. "Ob, yes; and here are some testimo? nials from high authority to show that no man ever yet threw me, unless by a trick. I do not claim to be a catch as can wrestler; but if any man can put me on my back fairly by main strength, I would like to see him do it. In St. Petersburg I bad a large ring made from inch iron, The ring was 8 feet in diam? eter. I stood in the middle of it and fourteen strong men had hold of the ring. They tried to push me or move me out of a certain limit marked on the floor, but could not. I can and will withstand the combined strength of any eight men you have.in this city, not barring Sulli? van, Mitchell or any one else." In 1878 Mr. Sampson started on a tour of the continent and was seen by many royal patrons of manly sport. He has received fifty-one decorations and medals for his prowess, forty-eight of which are from royal donors. Some of them are magnificent specimens of fine handiwork on gold. Among the names of the donors are found the engraved autographs of King William of Prussia, Emperor of the German Empire; Francis Joseph, Em? peror of Austri; Alexander, Czar, of Russia, presented June 19, 1878. Ibis last is a superb decoration in the form of a crown of gold, surrounded by 18 jewels. It bears the inscription: "Nature pro duces man with the force of an engine. To the German oak, dedicated by Alex? ander II., Emperor of Russia." Other royal gifts are from Prince Alexander of Roumania, the King of Wurtemberg and Bavaria, the Grand Duke of Baden, the Grand Duke of Hesse and more than forty more from lesser dignitaries. On August 10,1876, Mr. Sampson en? gaged to slay a steer with his fist. The feat was performed with a single blow in the presence of Emperor William and Emperor Francis Joseph. He wears a handsome decoration commemorating that event. This feat of skill and strength was re? peated at Ems, Germany; St. Petersburg and Paris, Mr. Sampson striking but a single blow upon each of the occasions except the last. In this case the steer was running and his aim was not true, but the first blow knocked the animal down and the second crnshed its skull. During bis professional experience this Hercules has suffered broken arms no less than seventeen times. He does not attribute his great strength to any freak of nature, but says it is the result of careful training and exercise. He has already been seen in public in this city, and is the wonder of all who see him. ~ It is wise to provide against emer? gencies which are liable to arise in every family. In sudden attacks of cold, croup, asthma, etc., a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral will prove a never fail? ing remedy. ? The Floridaorange crop is estimated at 3,000,000 boxes, which is more than double the product of the previous year. Each box holds, on an average, 150 oranges, which will be ten for every per? son in the United StateH. But these 450, 000,000 Floridas will not be one half tbe oranges sold in our markets. . ? Thore is no doubt about the honest worth or Ayer's Sarsaparilla as a blood Eurifier. Thousands, who have been enefitted by its use, will attest its vir? tues. This remedy cures liver and kid? ney complaint, and eradicates every trace of disease from tbe system,' 58. tlKCtE ABE'S LECTURE. A Verhatfnir Report of an' Address Deliv? ered In an AlaVam? church. "Frens. and bredren, ladies and gem men : I cams afore you to-night to pint out de way of de trnf. Sum folks is call? ed to preach and glorify de Lord, and sum is called to lecture and glorify de cullud nation, and I is dat man. We am de chosen people of de Lord, and I . will tell you afore why and show you how dat tfaing' stands. Wall, now you pin ted ly knows as how de good book dun say 'Dem de Lord idv7 he chasteneth.' Now ain't dat proof, case' ain't we dun sarved our time under de white folk ? Den again de good book says, 'Dem be luvs he will deliver,' and fore de Lord ain't he gone got un free?glory, hallelu? jah t" Here tbe d?rkey audience became much excited, and cries of "Date truf, brudder," "Bress de lord," etc., etc., were heard. The old man mopped off his face with bis gaudy colored bandanna and I contioned .' i "Yes, my bredren and Bieters, you is ' dun got so free,- and 2 is gwine now fur to show you ia fro\v fo? must duet and 'have yoursefs so dat you will be Samples to de whole world. In de fuct place, I ; says, carry a high bead and stiff neck, case you is de chosen people, and let de white folks know as bow you is as good as dey, if your skin is sorter dark and your hair kinky. Eight here' I brings in anudder proof?and data de way a* lecture man makes bis pint. Ain't it de aim of de white women nowa-days fur to make dar har kink, and cause* it don't kink natural don't dey have to screw it up in papers and barpins, and iron it too ? I tell yctij njy frens,- de time ain't fur off when I 'specie to see o?r Chilians cut all de shine offen de white nation,- and I hopes as how you will 'member dat de Bible says as bow you must 'turn good for* evil.' But time is pressus, as I beam a gemman say, and I is got anudder pint to to lay afore this cultivated audience. "There is one ebarge which is brung up again our race which is piutedly wrong, and dat is dip. When we picks up de things what de Lord lays in our paths, de white-folks say we steals. Now, biedren, when de good Lord pro? vides deSe things for you, you ain't in no wise stealing, 'case you is yarning dem by tbe sweat of your brow. Ain't He dun Bay so? Now, mind you, I ain't tell you for to break open de doors and de locks, but I says when dey is laid right afore you, pick 'era up.' Den, agen, when you is libin' with Mass Bob I ain't 'vise you for to go to Mass John's and kill his hogs, 'case wbats tbe uee when Mass Bob has got hogs, and you is working for dem same bogs? Derefore, bredren, I says be upright and jest, and don't steal from nobody, but jes take what de Lord pro? vides for His people'. "Dere 1b anudder matter We is noted for?beating our wive3. Now dare de scriptur comes again. De good book uayB: 'Husbands, keep your wives in sub? mission.' And how is you gwine to do dat thing? Why, beat 'em to be sure 'case they needs it. I see dem gals a nudging each other and tossing der beads, but I cums here to tell tbe troff withont fear of man or woman, and wid de Lord's help I is gwine to do it, too. Yes, gem men, weis de kings of tbe yeartb, and we must rule de women, 'case if we don't rule dem dey is mighty app .to rule us. Den, agen, we is de salt of tbe yeartb, and we is got to keep pretty sharp to keep de yeartb salted. Den, agen, if you give a woman an inch she ia more an app to take an ell. So I 'vises you all to do your duty and keep de women in hand. "Now si?ters, I ain't in no wise 'posed to you when you don't try to get 'yond yourself, bo I will close dis bere lecture by wihsing you all good luck, and 'vising you to devote your time, your, eddication and your accomplishments to us gemmen, 'case, as I said afore, we are de kings of de yearth, and you can bu'st tbat fac' if your tongues are longer and your heads pretty strong. I 'specs I dun made you sorter mad, but fac's must be spoken, an, as, I told you afore, de salt got to be rather sharp to keep this yearth salted, and it don't do in no wise to let the women think dey is nowhar nigh the equals of we gemmen, case dey is monstrous easy to spile, and if dey gets de upper hand dey is more 'an app to keep it. I speaks from 'sperience and 'sperience, my frens, bredren sisters, is a good teacher, case if any of you bad my Eliza Jane, for your wife you could tell den why I 'vises you to rule de women in de 'ginning, case, 'fore de Lord, when dey get de start you bad just as well try to move a mountain as to rule a woman what you is 'low ,d to get sot in her ways." Coming South to Raise Truck. Lue Gim Gong, an intelligent China? man located at North Adams, has been instrumental in organizing a company which has leased 400 acres, consisting of an island on tbe Savannah Biver, two or three miles above Port Royal, S. C, which will be devoted to raising garden vegetables, which will be sent North in tbe early season. He came from China to North Adams when a boy, laid up $3,000 or $4,000, and, after joining the Baptist Church, concluded to return to bis native land as a missionary. On his arrival in China his mother refused to give him anything to eat because be would not go to the Chinese temple and worship his dead father, according to the religious custom of tbe Chinese, and in consequence he nearly starved to death, was hunted by officers, and would have been killed bad he not escaped from his native village and returned to this country. Last winter, while be was in South Carolina, it occurred to bim bo might procure land in that region where he could raise vegetables for the Northern markets, and on his return to North Adams he presented the matter to some of his friends there. They were favora ble to the project, and a stock company was formed, leased 400 acres and intends to begin business at once. Lue Gim Gong will personally superintend the work upon the land, and will bave twenty or thirty Chinamen from California under bim to do the gardening. Their market will be New York city, and it seems to those who bave investigated the matter tbat tbe enterprise will be a paying one. There is much interest taken in the project, especially as the work is to be conducted by a Chinaman and tbe labor is to be performed entirely by Chinamen. ?Boston Herald. ? Tbe horse is unknown in tropical Africa, and a traveller who recently went on horseback from Landana, on tbe coast, to Borna, on tbe Congo, excited universal wonder. At first the people were nearly dazed by the sight of tbe horse, and were afraid of the animal, but when convinced that he was harmless ventured near. They bad no eyes for anything but the horse. As tbe party passed through tbe villages many of the inhabitants followed. The men turned back after a mile or so, but many of the women, who showed the greatest interest and curiosity, followed for three miles. They kept pointing the animal out to the babies tbat were fas? tened on their backs. From some of the villages deputations came asking them to stop a while in their towns, that they might bave time to admire tbe prodigy. Rczenia, Itchy, Scaly, Skin Tortures. The Bimple application of "Swayne's Ointment," without any internal medi? cine, will cure any case of Tetter, Salt Rheum, Ringworm, Piles, Itch, Sores, Pimples, Eczema, all Scaly, Itchy Skin Eruption, no matter how obstinate or long standing. It Is potent, effective, and costs but a trifle, ^ 15 VOLUM There are Fortunes In Patents. The commissioners of patents estimates that "from six to seven-eighths of the entire manufacturing capital of the United States, or six hundred millions of dollars, is directly or indirectly based upon patents" A calculation of the same kind in England, according to the London Inventor, reveals a still more surprising result, the cnpifal invested being enormous. It has been computed that Siemens' inventions have produced more than five millions sterling. "There is," says an eminent authority, "scarcely an article of human convenience or ne? cessity in the market to-day that has not been the subject of a patent in whole or in part. The sale of every such article yields its inventor a profit. If we pur? chase a box of paper collars a portion of tEo price goes to the inventor; if we buy a sewinf machine the chances are that we pay a royalty to as many as a dozen or fifteen inventors at once." Lord Brougham often said that he would gladly have exchanged his honor and emolu? ments for tbe profits and renown, of the inventor of the perambulator or sewing machine. Tbe profits annually divided by our several sewing machine manu? facturers are phenomenal in amount. "More money has been and always can be made ont of patented inventions than by any other investment or occupation." The telephone, tbe planing machine, and the rubber patents realize many millions, while the simple idea of heating the blast in iron smelting increased the wealth of the country by hundreds of mil Hod's, Tbe patent for making the lower end of candies taper instead of parallel, so as to more easily fit the sock? et, made tbe present enormous business of a well known firm of London chan? dlers, The drive-well was an idea of Colonel Green, whose troops during the , war were in want of water. He conceiv? ed the notion, of driving a two inch tube into tbe ground until water was reached, and then attaching a pump. This simple contrivance was patented and the tens of thousands of farmers who have adopted it paid him a royalty until tbe recent decision of tbe supreme court, which was adverse to sustaining the patent. A large fortune was realized by tbe investor who patented the idea of making umbrellas out pf alpaca instead of gingham, and the patentee of the im? proved "paragon frame" (Samuel Fox) lately left by will ?170,000 ont of the profits of bis invention. The weaving, dyeing, lace and ribbon making trades originated and depend for their existence upon ingenious machinery, the result of an infinity of inventive efforts. Carpet beating, from being an untold nuisance, has become a lucrative trade through the same inventive genius and mechanical contrivance.. Even natural curiosity has been turned to account in the number of automatic boxes for the sale of goods of all kinds, and fabulous dividends have been paid by the public companies own? ing the patents. In fact any one can be a successful inventor. In proof of this, the most profitable inventions are the improvements in simple devices, things of everyday use that everybody wants and which are in the power of everybody to invent. A lady derived a large income for inventing a moving belt for drying eggs, albumen, etsetra. Hog Killing; Time. The season is near at band when tbe town man wishes that he could live on the farm. It is the season of feasting on chitterlings, brains, sausage, spare ribs, backbones and turnips. Oh, how fondly memory reverts back to the happy days of childhood. - Bursting bladders, feast? ing on roast pig feet in a neighborhood where the very air seems to beladen with tbe odor of sage, pepper and bog skin. The time when neighbor Jones, Smith and Brown come over to our house to assist in tbe work of slaughtering the fat, grunting porkers and take dinner on new yellow yam potatoes and liver, lites, kid? neys, etc. Everybody is happy,' the neighbors have big stories to tell about their fat bogs and what a glorious time they are going to have when tbe next cold spell come along. How could they be otherwise than happy. They have made corn, peas, pinders and potatoes to fatten these hogs and will now enjoy the fruits of their toil. Such farmers are kings, and to say that town people envy them is nothing but plain truth. Now let us look at another picture. Here is a cotton grower who has been so very busy with his cotton that he has not had time to look after his hogs. He must get bis cotton to town to pay the merchant for the green meat and salt which he paid twelve cents for on credit in the spring. There will be no hog killing at bis home and we feel sorry for him. True he ought to be blamed a little for not having sense . enough, and business judgment enough to know that be will always be a tenant for the merchant in town- He has been told often enough that he will have to change his methods, and if be is determined to hang on to the old way and forever be poor, as a dog, why that's his fault. As we remarked in the Advo? cate not long since, this country will never be prosperous until it is plastered all over with spare ribs, bams, sides, jowls and backbones instead of mortgages. Now, you all cotton farmer read this article, think about it and then ?zt on its suggestions. We have in Georgia the best country on God's green earth, but we have not got sense enough to realize or appreciatr it.?Alliance Advocate. Parting tbe Hair. ' On the right, if you please," said a representative of tbe Call last evening to a tonsorial artist, who, brush and comb in band, was about to part bis bair on the left side of tbe bead. "All right, sir," said the knight of tbe brush and comb; "was going to part it on tbe other side from force of habit." "How many people part the hair on the right side?" "I should say less than one in twenty." "And why do so many part it on the leftside?" "Because," said the artist, brushing back a stray lock, '.'they've been brought up to it from infancy. A mother facing her boy always holds the comb in the right hand, and it being easiest to comb tbe hair from left to right, she parts it on the left. The boy when he grows up and is able to part bis own hair finds the part on that side, and follows the line marked out by his mother. That's why the majority of men part on the left."? San Francisco Call. How to Break off Bad Habits. Uuderstand the reason, and all reasons, why tbe habit is injurious. Study the subject until there is no lingering doubt in your mind. Avoid tbe places, the persons, that lead to tbe temptation. Frequent tbe places, associate with the persons, indulge in the thoughts that lead away from temptation. Keep busy; idleness is tbe strength of bad habits. Do not give up the struggle when you have broken your resolution once, twice, a thousand times. That only shows how much need there is for you to strive. When you have broken your resolution, just think the matter over, and endeavor to uuderstand why it was you failed, so that you may guard against tbe occur? rence of the same circumstances. Do not think it an easy thing you have un? dertaken. It is folly to expect to break off a habit in a day which may have been gathering strength for years. ?Typhoid fever is spreading to an alarming degree in New York and Brooklyn. , E XXIV.- -NO. 22, All Sorts of Paragraphs. ?Difficulties are overcome by diligence and assiduity. ? Don't start business and fast living j" at the same time. ? There are forty-five hundred , female )>? printers in England. ? A Norweigan savant estimates tbe age of the world at 1,000,000 years.' V-^.. ? There are 4000 theatres in IheTJi ted States and a million dollars a day . spent for amusements. ? A Kansas paper predicts that ii five years the State will make her bY sugar, and in ten years have millions of pounds to sell. ? . ? '??['" ? Fifty prominent citizens, of Mario! county, Ala., took the Mormon proselyt ing elders out tbe other night and tarred and feathered them. ;- ^ ? Wiggins, professional prophef, pre diets an earthquake wave of a moderate, nature to extend east across the continent to Europe in February. ? It is rumored tbat Gen. Harrison; in bis inaugural, will recommend a per* manent board of arbitration to settle dis? putes between labor and capital. ?The internal revenue collections in South Carolina for the year ending June. 30 were $102,456,19. Twenty-one illicit. '4 stills were seized during tbat period;" ? Patrick H.-Clark, found a masked: burglar in his flat in West 33street, New; York, and grappling the fellow, fastened.1 his teeth upon tbe burglar's nose-and . ?held on until help came. ? The faults and weaknesses of others . instead of being woven into gossip, scan- -' dal and useless criticism, should be used as danger signals, to warn us away .fromA' the paths which have led to them. ? According to the calculations bf-tfiej] Chicago News, Cleveland received a ma? jority of 14,065 of the popular vote, :but^ it was tbe falling off in bis electoral-: vote that played the mischief with him. ? Out of 870 females who went"into! business for themselves last year?-open^ ing stores and shops?573. made dead.V? business failures inside of seven months. x.i They're all angels, but they're not all' - business men. ? Tbere is a man in Hamilton county, S Ohio, who has run for a office twenty one successive times and been defeated ?| every time. He says it begins to look a _ little blue and that five or six. more ^ defeats will lead bim to pause and con- i sider. ? It is rumored that a prominent. New York magazine will soon adverffce#| the name of James G. Blaine as its edi- -> t tor. Mr. Blaine will be paid $1,000'-tf?^ month with an additional ?500, wbich^ will go to the man who is to do Mr.:.[ Blaine's work. ? ? Reports come from Western Kansas tbat many of tbe towns there will soon be > depopulated. Last winter they suffered for want of fuel and as winter is now . ;: approaching their outlook is gloomyrag Their crops were very light this year and absolute want stares them in the face. ? Tbe age at which most suicides^ take place'in the country, according totheSr^ Chicago Herald, is thirty five. It would seem that in early middle life the disap-J|| pointed hopes are most keen and the effects of an ill-spent youth moBt disas? trous. At thirty-five many Americana . feel the wearisomeness of old age. .'. ? The "meanest man" in Kansas has ? - been found. He lives in Reno county, ;^ and in writing to the treasurer of Sedg- t!? wick county he need a postal card thatf& had done duty once before, spending-^ nearly three hours in effacing the old}f? addreaB, postmark and message. . .Tbe ^ postal is to be framed and hung^ in fbe^S treasurer's office. ? She bad auburn hair, and he wanted :; to say something very cutting, so be bb^ro served: "In some parts of the West, I believe tbey light the Btreets with red- - beaded girls." "Humph I That never..;/ would do in your town," answered tbe'i^ girl. "Why not?" asked the young;fel?^; low. "Why you'd be hugging tbe lamp*5?| posts all day, as well aa half the night," was the crushing reply. ? Education has been carried to such . an extent in Germany that tbe govenC-^^ ment has felt itself forced to step in, and compel a lightening of the. weight of the school books carried by children. Ger- ->.' man children carry their books in a knapsack. Tbe police are now ordered to stop children weighed too heavily, get their address, and bring their'fathers to. , conrt to bs fined for overloading. ? Too personal: They were going to have a company and she was suggesting % the menu. "We can bave Oysters.cn. ' I tongue for one course," she observed. l"I >^ never bead of such a dish," he remarked. 'Didn't yon? It's a very good one all the sanre,/ she said. "I suppose^ if I ... get tbe oysters you can furnish tho ^ tongue?" he-inquired, innocently. Then 0 he wondered why she slammed tbe door T so viciously. ? How lonely the mother feels when for the first time her boy shows that he '.? feels too big to be kissed! As tbey ^ begin to feel like little men, too many:%;? boys think that any Bhow of affection" onTvTi their part is babyish ; they are afraid of being called "girl-boys" or milksops. Just aa if a man is ever more manly than when he loves and protects the mother who loved and protected him through, so& many helpless years. Such a boy is sorel^ to grow into the man who takes suchet good care of his wife.?Rural New York? er. ? The annual loss to productive in? dustries in tbe United States caused by .. insects is estimated at $150,000,0OOrHere^>; a fair battle between man and another sort of earth occupiers. They are small? 3 er, but if tbey can whip us, have un doubtedly as good a right to the world as " we have. As civilization advances, new;'t insects make their appearance, marching sometimes eastward, but generally west- ; ward. There are few, if any, forrjat^*M vegetation that have no parasites tbatde%| vour either foliage or fruit. The loss to'M tbe cotton crop is estimated at $15,000,000 || a year, while tbat to tbe apple crop is not ^ much less, and that to tbe potato crop at least one half as much. Bat the estimate/^ is not a fair one until into the loss is counted tbe time spent in fighting bv secure the proportion that is saved; ? James Bray, the eight-year-old son of Patrick Bray, of Mentclair, N. J., meVJ. with a horrible death from an overdose ? of whisky. The boy had been left in charge of two young children, his mother being confined to her bed. In foraging 9 through the closets he discovered a battle B containing half a pint of whisky. He drank nearly all tbe whisky and then went on the streets to play with the other children. His strange actions attracted^ the attention of the neighbors, but nothnig.flf was thought of them until he rolled into the gutter in a stupor. A younger broth-'c^ er tried to rouse him by kickingTrim, bnt}i~! as this failed, he was carried to bis home, and placed on a cot. He lay unconscious until about midnight, when be was seized - with convulsions. Drs. Leone and V Brown were called, and applied all knownM remedies, but without success, for theboy^l died in great agony. Habitual Constipation Any kidney and liver ills, depending on a % weak or inactive condition or the kidneys, liver, or bowels, are successfully and per-"^ manenlly cured only by the ose o^fjia gentle yet effective laxative and diuretic;^ Syrup of Figs. Its advantages are evi? dent ; it is easily taken, pleasing to tbbff taste, acceptable to the stomach, harm? less to the most delicate system," and ? - truly beneficial in effect. For sale-br^ Simpson, Reid & Co. ? - ?