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JBT CIINKSCALE! ? ?- IN THE ACCOMPANIED BY MRS. SLOAN, AVING jasfc returned from the East era Markets, where theytipenta long while in search of? RARE BARGAINS, Now take pleasure in istafting that we never bought a Stock of Gooda more to ouf own satisfaction than wa did this ) time. In our opinion, we can show not only? m !VV., 'K.: - -: The Largest, Handsomest, And most Varied SPRING STOCK Ever offered on this market but taking QUALITY of material into considera? tion? By Far k Ctejest! m m 3h is DRESS GOODS, Of every Style. Color and Texture, "including Challies, Henrietta!), Brillian j Uses, Mohairs, Silks, Satins, Velv e \%, Sateens and White Goods, world without end. In fact, all the NEW GOODS, in every imaginable shade that the markets afford. Our Stock of? TRIMMINGS Is replete with all this season's Novel? ties, including Persian Band Embroide? ries, Braids of all kinds?Silver, Gold in ii I 1 &fpand Herculen, in different shades. Also, those new and beautiful Felt and Braid Trimmings comBtrrctl^a^well as Guimps and jffarniturea of every description, BtJTTOlTS!. Never before has it been our good fortune to run upon such a handsome, tasty and elegant lot of Buttons as we have now waiting your inspection. Don't forget that as we were the first to introduce those soft-finish, elegant DRESS LININGS, we Btffl give this line our personal attention, MISS MALLAIJEU Continues her DRESS MAKING In our Establishment, and is better pre? pared than ever before to fill, in a thor? ough and stylish manner, all orders ^entrusted to her. A full and carefully ftelected? STOCK OF HOSIERY, Hankerchiefs, Gloves and Parasols. In Lsc33 and Mull Embroideries we defy competition. As usual we take the? LEAD IN MILLINERY Of every description. We have had exceptional advantages in buying this year. We begin with our leader?a nice shade Hat, in black and white, at 20c. Staying late enough to attend all the retail openings, we are not only laden with the most beautiful and stylish Goods ever shown here, but have a thor? ough knowledge of how to manipulate them. So that with stylish Shapes, beautiful Flowers, airy Laces and en? trancing Ribbons, the latest French and Ne* York fashions, and above all THE LOWEST PRICES ever offered, we are bound to bring joy to the hearts of our many customers, old aud new. . Very respectfully, R. S. HILL. 5 & LANGSTON. Tb}??h^?oi^umn, All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C. In one of our visits this past winter we met a geography class of two bright lit? tle fellows, and after pntting a number of questions to them that were satisfac? torily answered, we suddenly asked one of them what was the title of the highest officer in the United States. "The President," he replied. "Now, tell us his name," said we. "Mr. Harrison," said he, bnt, upon reflection, he said "it was Mr. Cleveland." "Tell ub their politics," said we. "Mr. Harrison is a Republican, and Mr. Cleveland is a Democrat." "What is the difference?" we asked. "One believes that the negro ought to hold an office, ond the other don't," said the little fellow. We donbt if the President himself could beat that definition. At the recent examination of teachers, out of thirty-six colored applicants,-not .one passed successfully, except one, who presented a diploma. Nearly all of them had been engaged in teaching pre? vious to the examination, and many of them under first and second grade cer? tificates, and yet in the face of years of experience in the school-room, they haye made no progress in the profession. What have yon been doing? Are yon teaching just for what little money there is in it? If so, it is well for^you and bettBr for the children that yon have failed, for we say to you kindly and can? didly that yon must- get upon a higher plane, yon must make progress, you must teach because you want to instruct and elevate your race, as well as make some money for yourselves. Teaching is an art, and don't let any one of you imagine as soon as you can read and write and cipher a little that, therefore, you can teach. It takes, in addition to a gift by nature for the work, both training and practice. We have no disposition to deny you schools and teachers, on the contrary we are anxious that you shall, have them, bnt they must come up to the foil measure of the standard prescribed. Next October there will be another opportunity, and in the meantime many of you should go to school yourselves, that you may learn something to teach, and how to teach it. The public school term is about over in all the Districts, and now is a good time for a retrospection?a good-time to take a reckoning and see where we are. Now is a good time to take stock, to have a searching self-examination, to strike a balance and see on which side of the sheet it is. Have we all done our whole ! duty ?- Have the little children of the County been uplifted: and':giveu an im? pulse forward by our coming in contact with them ? Have they been made more ready mentally and morally to meet the struggles and conflicts of the oncoming years? Have their virtues been culti? vated and their vices pruned away ? Has our influence and our example been always on the side of the right?. Have they been- taught to love justice and mercy, to eschew the evil and- cleave to the good ? These are all pertinent ques? tions for teachers to ask themselves, and are well calculated to make them pause, and quake and fear and tremble, in view of the awful responsibility that is laid upon them. Who can estimate the power and extent of a teacher's influence for good or evil ? Drop a pebble into a lake and it produces a ripple upon its surface, widening in concentric circles .Until its force is spent aginst the shore. Drop^fi^eed of good or evil into the head or hear tort^UjoH, and it, in like man* ner, widens uut^^^-?iq^loot upon the boundless shores of eternity. "TTo^ssUing in life, save only that of the gospel min? istry, is more heavily freighted with vast and far-reaching consequences than that of the teacher. The pupils are brought in daily contact with him, are daily under his control. Day by day, con? sciously or unconsciously, he is molding their modes and habits of thought and speech, and a teacher with force of char? acter ?nd deep and abiding convictions can, in a series of years, make the boys and girls of a community what he would hf.ve them to be. Then, be circumspect a cd careful, studying to adorn the high and noble calling of a teacher, not look? ing so much for a reward here as for a higher und grander reward in the great I hereafter. THE GRADES SCHOOLS OF GSEEKVILLE. In company with Mr. Thomas Simpson, of Anderson, and Mr. Haynie, music teacher, formerly of Anderson, but now of Greenville, we made the ?uspec.iuu oi the graded schools of Greenville, under the supervision of Prof. Morrison. To say that we were pleased doesn't express our feeling::;?we were more than delight? ed. Greenville has been justly held up to the public admiration for her factories and industrial workshops, thus attesting, to a remarkable degree, the enterprise and vim of her people, but these all pale before the splendor of her educational facilities, especially in her graded free school system. Here all classes of her people?the rich and poor alike?meet on a common educational platform, and enjoy all the advantages of the very best colture, by competent teachers, without one cent of coat to the individual patrons, except for books, &c. The Professor has his entire school of several hundred scholars graded in different classes, and in separate rooms, each under competent instructors. And what is somewhat remarkable, every one of his assistants are lady teachers. Misses Dorroh, Hoyt and Easley con? ducted the clasB rooms which we visited, and the performances of the scholars on the black board were truly wonderful. The children are taught in a scientific way the conformation of figures, and we never have seen the uniformity and per? fection of performance excelled. The j figures are made on a system, which gives elegance and precision to the whole. So with the other performances of reading, spelling, &c. Every depart? ment has a perfect system, both in study and decorum ; and the whole under the BUperviaion of Prof. Morrison, who is certainly the right man in the right place. The people of Greenville hkve volun? tarily taxed themselves some $40,000 to establish these graded public schools, two for the whiteB) and perhaps as many for the blacks, all supplied with compe? tent teachers, and under the supervision of the Professor, as aforesaid. This vol? untary tax is for the purpose of purchas? ing sites and patting up suitable build? ings; paying teahers, &c. The building where we found the Professor at work on the morning of our visit, stands on a commanding eminence, with a fine view of the mountains, and is built t o accom? modate several hundred pupils?boys and girls. It is located on the East side of the river, accessible to the postofBoe and most of the churches and business streets. They have another building on the West, and under the direct control of I Professor Thaxton, a young and accom? plished teacher. We did not learn the names of the colored teachers, but hear from the Professor that they an compe? tent and effective in tbeir work. The Professor has control thus of sctie 800 Or 1,000 white and colored pupik. So you can see that the educational work involved in these graded schools is a more impor? tant one to the future prosperity of Greenville than all the material interests of this growing city-put together. In these, and other like schools, are to be trained the men and women who are to adorn and fill all the responsible posi? tions of society in the future. Our principal object in penning these few lines is mainly to encourage the good people of Anderson in their pro? posed enterprise of establishing graded public schools for the benefit of her children. While we commend their enterprise in the establishment of a fac? tory and hotel, which will do credit to their sagacity in the future, let them not forget the higher and more important duty of educating the children, rich and ?poor alike. * * A Baby on the Track. A little child Bitting ou the railroad track. A passenger train sweeping down upon it at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour. These were the factors of what seemed a certain tragedy which confronted En? gineer Syphen of the Columbia and Greenville road, as, with hand on the throttle and eyes on the track, bis train rounded a curve two miles this Bide of Poiuaria yesterday afternoon. What was to be done must be done promptly, and not an instant was wasted by this vigilant engineer. To blow the whistle and reverse his engine, while his fireman put on brakes as if his life depended on it, was the work of but a - few seconds, but in that time the rushing train had fearfully nar? rowed the space between the' chi'd and the iron horse. Slowly it seemed to the anxious engin? eer and fireman, the speed of the train lessened. The impetus was too great to stop it before the child was reached, and sorely, but at greatly slackened speed, it reached and passed the spot. Before the train had fairly stopped, the train employees were off and seeking the child, fearing to find its dead body beside the track. When the whistle blew it had appa? rently turned its head, aud right across the forehead the end of the draw-bar on the pilot of the engine had barely grazed, and only struck the child with sufficient force to tbrow it gently to one side. When first picked up it was apparently a little stunned, but the application of a little cold water brought it to, and by vigorous cries it gave notice that it was Btill in the land of the living. "TSeanwhile the parentB of the child, Mr. and Mrs. JrSoon, whose house was but a few hundred yards from' the track, came rushing to the spot, the mother nearly distracted and filling the air with cries that her darling baby was killed. Naturally both were rejoiced at their little one's fortunate escape and the unconscious two year old heroine of the episode was carried borne, while the delayed train resumed its progress to Columbia.?Columbia ?eg?ier, 17th. ?A resident of Martin's Ferry, O., has two small boys and one big dog, a New? foundland, their constant companion. The other day the boys got to fighting, and the smaller was getting the worst of it, when the dog who had been an uneasy observer of the proceedings, rushv.d be? tween the lads, separated them by main force, and then dragged the larger boy away, without; hurting him in the lb \st or showing a particle of ill temper. ?An 8 year-old lad, Eichard Freeman, of St. Louis, while trying to see how long he could hold his breath, burst a blood vessel, and a few moments later died. Blind for Eleven Bays. Mrs. J. T. Love, of Leeaburg, Ga., widow of an eminent and successful phy? sician, says under date of Sept. 20, 1888 : My husband in a large and lucrative practice used Swift's Specific, and with it restored to health many persons in whose cases all other medicines proved useless. One young man who had been treated for six years for blood poison, his condition had gradually grown worse, and got to be horrible. He was helpless for twelve months and blind for eleven days. His case seemed incurable. But be was cured sound and well by S. S. S. and to day iB strong and healthy man. Permanent. At the time I began taking S. S. S. my body and arms were almost one solid sor^, and I had been taking medicine for twenty-six years to cure blood poison. In less than thirty days my skin had all cleaned off, and I was a welll man. John B. Willis, 31 Washington St. Atlanta, Oct. 28, 1888. Swift's Specific cured me of malignant Blood Poison after I had been treated in vain with old so-called remedies of Mer? cury and Potash. S. S. S. not only cured the Blood Poison, but relieved the Rheu? matism which was caused by the poison? ous minerals. Swift's Specific ia entirely a vegeta? ble remedy, and is the only medicine which permanently cures Scrofula, Blood Humors, Cancer and contagious Blood Poison. Send for books on Blood and Skin Diseases, mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga. ANDERSON, S.O., BILL ARP. How the Churches Have Bailt up Waste Places. Atlanta Contiitution. It looks very much like Cartersville has a slight touch of a boom. We have been trying to keep from catchi?g it, bnt I believe it is coming. Our preachers used to say that it will demoralise the people and they will set up Mammon as a God, and that all sorts of worldly minded folks will flock hither to speculate and get something for nothing, and I thought so too, but now that the preachers (have ta? ken up the trade I reckon its all right. They don't call it booming now?they call it promoting. Dr. Hawthorne and Dr. Eaton and four older Baptist preach? ers promoted Florence from a little ham? let up to a great manufacturing town with over three millions dollars already invested, and they did in it a short time and in a very creditable manner. And now we see that some Methodist preachers in Alabama propose to do the same thing at another town over there. All this I looks mights curious to a man up a tree, but if building up the waste places is a good thing I don't Bee why a preacher shouldn't take a hand in it, if they can do it without discounting their calling. The Methodists and Baptists have been the pioneers for a century, and carried their religion into the wilderness and establish? ed civilization. They rede mules and drove ox wagons and cleared the land and boilt log churches, and when every? thing was sorter comfortable the Presby? terians came riding up in their buggies and rockaways and settled among them, and planted out shade trees and rose bushes and built a church with a steeple, and Bet up the Shorter catechism and predestination and moved around as though they were the elect. By and by? when two or three railroads were built, and the shade trees had all grown up, and the green grass was growing all around and around, and the streets were macada? mized, and- an opera house built, the Episcopalians came along in apostolic succession, with stately steps and prayer books and Lent and Mardi Gras all mixed up together, and they bobbed up serenely into a fine church with stained glass windows and assumed to be the saints for whom the world was made in the space of six days, and all very good. And so it is all right all round, for folks are different and can't help it, and what suits some don't suit others, and the rule is to be liberal and tolerant to all. Dr. Hawthorne and bis brother preachers have done a great work at Florence and done nobody any harm that we know, and now they are going to build a great Baptist university and have it endowed, and all the money comes from those who are able to give it. I was thinking about this new departure of the preachers and made personal inquiry in? to it, for it did look like the whole thing was done by Aladdin's lamp. A friend who knew all about the facts told me that when Dr. Hawthorne happened there and saw the beautiful river and the rich highlands all around, and the iron and coal mines not far away, be told the hills people that it was a better place for a large industrial town than either Shef? field or Decatur or Tuscumbia, and that if they would set apart for his purpose six hundred acres of their land, he would undertake to bring half a million dollars investments there within twelve months. But how did be do it ? Why, he enlisted three brother preachers and they parceled out the territory, and traveled, and got capital from Virginia to Texas, and they had pamphlets and maps, and advertised a great Bale, and the venture was a grand success. Their Baptist brethren had con? fidence in them wherever they went, for Dr. Hawthorne is a brainy man with an an impressive manner and will power. Dr. Eaton was very much like him, and the whole thing was a close communion among the Baptists, and when the great sale came on they sold over a quarter of a million of lots in one day, and stopped the sale to rest and put up the price. My information is that not an original purchaser at that sale was hurt?not one who could not get back double his money and in some cases can now sell for ten times the price they paid. Manufacturers of many kinds have been planted there, from hundred thousand dollar cotton fac? tories and furnaces and woolen mills to smaller venturers of various kinds. The population has been threbled in twelve months and everybody is happy. Now there is nothing wrong about this method of building up a thriving industrial city that gives employment to labor. The south wants a hundred such and I be? lieve will have them before long. The north has had them for half a century and is rich. It is amazing to think how rich she is. A man who knows told me that there was over thirty millions lying idle in the banks of Cleveland, Ohio. Not the money of the banks, but of the depos? itors who left it for safe keeping until they could find safe investments. It is the same way all over the north. That money is looking south and is coming south. In the .'.o ng ago it used to take about twenty five years to build a southern town and finish it. There was the courthouse in the public square, the same old-time honored courthouse with two big eyes in each gable, and the clerk's office and jury rooms upstairs. Then there were two or three churches and a school house and half a dozen wooden store? and half a dozen law offices and doctor shops and two or three doggeries where corn liquor and fiddle music were dispensed. There was a wagon shop and a blacksmith shop and a jail and some horse racks, and these were all, except the unpretending residence;? and the humble graveyard, with here and there a marble slab lo mark Home of the graves. The town was fin? ished and from year to year remained the same, the very same. In these unpre? tending towns the best men and women were raised that ever were raised since the world was made. A noble, patriotic people, who loved honor and truth and a good name more than riches. That day and that generation has passed; we are now in a new role and have to fall into line and conform. Money rules the roost and all we can do is to put on the brakes and make money serve as good purpose as possible. It is refreshing to see such an outburst of enthusiasm as is now man THURSDAY MORNI ifested in providing for !be confederate veterans. It is action and reaction. If the movements to raise the money north had not been made, I doubt whether there would have been such an opportu? nity and such a response from the south. Every southerner felt humilated that the north had been appealed to, and mortified that it had so signally failed. .But I started to write about the Carters* ville boom?old Joe Brown had been slipping around here and is buying up large tracts of mineral lands. He had twelve thousand acre3 and has recently bought four thousand more and paid forty thousand dollars for the last purchase keep your eye on the boss, for old Joe is shy,, and knows a good thing when he sees it. A rich syndicate has bought the Etowah property, of seventeen thousand | acres, for one hundred and ninety thous- J and dollars, and are going to manufacture on a large scale. There is plenty of first class mineral lands still left all around us. Our hills are heavy with the weight of iron and manganese and slate and mar. ble. Our town is looking up and in a few months has planted gas works and water works, and ochre mills, and an ice factory and built many houses, and established public schools and a national bank. I know there is a boom coming, for I see some of the real estate men going down to meet every train, and they look anxious and scan every stranger who gets off. I see them go to the hotel to watch the register. I see them riding out with a new man most every afternoon. I see them in earnest conference in the back rooms and around the corners and in the alleys and as I pass I hear the word option, option, option, until I am out of hearing. The livery stables have bought more horses and vehicles to ride their stran? gers round, and everybody seems wide awake and expecting to hear something drop. A man who made ten thousand dollars by promoting Florence told me that Cartersville had more natural advan? tages than Florence, or any other town he knew of. Better lands for the farmer, better water power, better health, and a better climate, and as for mineral treas? ures right at our doors, there was no place in the south that could compare with it. With the wealth of hard wood and long leaf pine in our forests, he said we ought to manufacture everything that the south needs. I paid two dollars and a half for a wheelbarrow yesterday that came all the way from Columbus, Ohio. I looked at it and measured the wood and counted twenty little bolts and I have no idea the , whole material would cost us half a dollar and I am sure it could be made for anoth? er half dollar. With a little machinery one ought to make twenty-five in a day. But the Ohio man has got to send down South for his timber and pay freight, and then we pay another freight to get the wheelbarrow back. But we are going to quit doing that way. Towns are building up rapidly and the map makers can't keep up with them. You can't find Cor- j dele nor Bluffton on the latest edition) and yet Cordele has 2,000 inhabitants and a national bank, and Bluffton has a new hotel that cost ?20,000 and several brick stores, and has sold $50,000 worth of town lots in three months. Then there is Fort Payne, that is capitalized by 1,700 yankee stockholders at $6,000,000, and the cry everywhere is still they come. Let them come. Everybody is willing except the darkies. Old uncle Jake says he "don't like to work for dem yankees; day is so pertikler." He says "dey don't hardly give him time to eat his dinner when he is v. orkin' by de day." Bill Arp. A Cowboy Captures a Bank. Cheyenne, April 15.?A lone cowboy rode from the plains this morning into Grover, Colorado, a village of the Chey? enne and Burlington Kailroad. He dis? mounted in front of the Commercial Bank, and, throwing his bridle rein over a hitching post, entered the building. He walked directly to the window of Cashier O. C. Smith, who tellB this story: "The fellow was as polite as a drum? mer. He smiled at his six-shooter as be pushed it through the window and lev? elled it at me. Allowing me an instant to regain my composure, he inquired if I would be kind enough to hand him all the cash in sight. There was over $700 in view. I counted him out ?500 in gold and bills. This seemed satisfactory, and my visitor was profuse in his thanks. Then he looked about the place and said he would like an interest in the business. N "Seeing "a Winchester rifle, which I keep near the vault for emergencies, he grew more earnest in manner, and demanded the weapon. I handed it out, butt first, as he ordered. He then backed to the door, and leaning the rifle against the outside wall, placed bis revolver in its holster, landed into bis saddle by a leap from the ground, and, putting spurs to his horse, was off at furious speed." There were six persons in the bank at the time, but the cowboy did his business so quietly and so expeditionBly that he attracted no attention. Cashier Smith ran into the street as soon as be could, and seizing the Winchester, began firing at the rapidly moving horseman. The fellow ducked in regular Indian style, and cut loose with a cowboy yell 'at every crack of the rifle. Smith is a poor shot at best, and in his excitement to day failed to bit eveu so large a target as the horse. A possee of twelve men are now in pursuit of the bandit. Deafuess Can't be Cured by local application, as they can not reach the diseased portion of the ear, There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness iB caused by an inflamed condi? tion of the mucus lining of the Eusta chian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condi? tion of the mucus surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness (caused by Ca tarrh) that we can not cure by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. SSF'Sold by Druggists, 75c. NG, APRIL 25,1889 A GUARDIAN ANGEL. It is said every new-born child bas a guardian angel appointed expressly to attend it during all its earthly life, and to do whatever such angelic ministry can accomplish to aid it to be a fit associate of the white-winged company in the great hereafter. These attending spirits are never visible to our eyes, and their pres? ence does not kindle in our hearts a very warm glow of love for their timely help even in the hour of our greatest need. But we have seen some ministering spirits, wearing the flesh and blood of the race, in whom the angel was not all concealed, and it has occurred to us that it might be a pleasant introduction to present one of these to our readers. David William8'was a Welsh mechan? ic, many years in this country, a great respecter of folk-lore and homely super? stitions, a little easy-going in his indus? trial habits, and altogether too fond of what is known in the internal revenue law as "distilled spirits." His wife Jane, whose father was a countryman of her husband, inherited from her Scotch moth? er a stern and uncompromising intoler? ance of anything approaching to shift lesaness, and a sharp way of using her tongue that was apt to leave a little sting in her speech. David had his dreams and omens, and would stay away from his work whole hours in the morning, when warned by either of these that the day was not suited to industry. The interval was not passed, however, at home, but in the neighboring saloon, where much of his hard earnings were worse than wasted over the two familiar bar. If Jane had been tender and winning she might have done more than she did, perhaps, to correct this vice in her hus? band, but the stinging rebuke and angry prodding only made the matter worse David was a rare workman, and before he indulged so freely had come to be foreman in one room of the shop where he was employed; but this evil habit made it only a question of time when he would lose that promotion. One night he bad seen in his slumbers a snake and a goose together, and the union was too forboding for bis philosophy; bo the next morning he went to the saloon in? stead of the shop. His wife suspected this, and with her usual resolution, she put on her bonnet and shawl and followed to the liquor-seller's in search of him. When she found him, glass in hand and not a little inebriated, she berated both him and the saloon-keeper sorely. To escape her bitte:: speech poor David fled to the shop. He was in no condition to work, and as soon as he made his ill advised appearance his doom was sealed. The senior of Piper & Co. had seen him staggering in, and calling him . to the counting house, told him in plain terms that a man who had no control of himself was not fit to control others, and he was therefore discharged on the spot. The wife secretly blamed herself some? what for this result of her morning raid on the saloon,.and succeeded in having her husband accepted as a common workman, but under a. new foreman. David's spirit chafed at this, and his visits to the saloon was more and more frequent. The wife would try to control his earnings, but when he had no money he would get the liquor on trust, and altogether his a lairs were growing worse and worse. Just here we will introduce to our readers a sweet, thoughtful face, very pale but with a winsome look about the mouth and in the dark blue eyes, as we saw it framed in the window of that cottage home. She was the only child of the house?called Janie after her mother?and had then a slight, thin form for a giil of eleven years. What she had done or essayed to do to stay her father's downward course up to this we cannot say, for we never knew her before this sad hour, when her mother lay dead after only a few hours' illness, and she was at the window watching for his returning footsteps. He was not himself when he came in, but she led him up to the bed and the Bight of the lifeless face on the pillow quite sobered him. After the funeral he would go to work, and asked Janie, who was now his little housekeeper, to put up his din? ner for him. "I will bring it to you," was her quiet answer. He looked inquir? ingly into the dark blue eyes fixed on his face, and he saw all that was meant in this quiet answer. She knew how he had spent his "nothings," and as far as she could help it, there was to be no more of such miserable waste. When he was ready to go she had her little hat in her hand, too, and to his question, "Where to now, lassie?" she pleaded in answer, "Let me go with you, father, to the shop?" He could not say to her nay, but as they neared the saloon where he always took his morning dram, David paused a moment and said, "Run on, Janie, and I will overtake you at the corner," to which the little girl, clasping his rough brown hands tightly with both of hers, and twining the wee fingers around bis, replied lovingly, "We are all alone in the world now, papa : don't go anywhere you would be ashamed to have me go with you 1" He took a step or two onward and said, irresolutely, "I am afraid I can't go by, I am so UBed to ? going in." But she would not yield, and only answered, "Hold harder to my baud and don't mind it; it will be ever so much easier next time!" She saw him safely into the shop, and when the dinner hour came, if be bad cherished a thought of a noon visit to the old haunt, it was too late, for she was at the door of the work room waiting for him. How deftly she set out in the shadv nook selected for the occasiou the little array of nice things she had brought him. And as ho eat, she took out of her pocket the Sabbath school paper she had brought with her, the only literature upon which she could lay her hands at home, and read him the little stories printed for the children. He seemed to be a child once more, learning hymns and hearing Bible histories at his moth? er's knee; and the intermission seemed all too short wheu the boll summoned him again to his work. He was notsuprised, we think, fs see her again at the door when evening .am?, and it was easier, as she had said, to go by the saloon than it had been in the morning. After Bupper he insisted on I. taking hold to help the washing of the dishes and putting away the things; and then she brought out the Bible given him by his mother, which he had not opened for many years. The bed-time came before he was ready for it, and after his head was on the pillow he went back a long way in memory to search for a I pleasant evening that would parallel the* I one then closed. Every day the little band was put in his for the walk to the shop. Each noon came the faithful girl with the dinner but they had more money now, and she brought the morning newspaper to read to him. And he never missed these lov? ing eyes watching for him at the door when his day's tasks were done. After a few weeks he said one day: "Janie, dear, I can go by the saloon now, without your guiding hand, if you are tired of the walk." To which she answered sim? ply, "But I bo love to go with you papa V and he urged her no more. When twelve months had gone by since David lost the foremanship, a new foreman was to be appointed. Messrs. Piper & Co. supposed that he would apply for the place, but he did not. They had watched the little maiden in all her naintly work, and so they called her in one day and asked her about her father's habi t?. "He has not tasted a drop of li? quor t ince my mother's death," she answered. "But how do you keep him away from the saloon ?" they asked. "He holds my hand," was all she said, and they restored him to the old place. We will not say how long ago that was, nor how tall find shapely now is the form that was so slight when we first saw her at the window. Her mission work is not yet ended ; what the future has in store for her we cannot say, but she is still the Guardian Angel of a life that but for such loving ministry, would have long ago gone out in midnight gloom.? The Journal of Commerce. The Stantoo Twins. Newark, N. J., April 14.?Two years ago Miss Jansen, a pretty and accom? plished girl of eighteen, left her home in Stockholm and came to relatives at Caldwell, in this County. On the steamer coming over Miss Jansen met John and Henry Stanton, twin sons of an English merchant of Stockholm. Both the young men fell in love with her, but her pre? ference was so strong for John that Henry apparently gave up the role of suitor. The resemblance between the brothers wa3 striking and they were constantly j mistaken for each other. John and his sweetheart were soon engaged and last Thursday evening was fixed for the wed? ding. The Rev. Mr. Swenson was on hand to perform the ceremony. The groom arrived without his brother, whom he said was sick. The ceremony took place, and after a reception the couple left the house. Before tbey had gone a block the young man said he must go to New York and nurse his brother. The bride wanted to accompany him, but he refused. At noon yesterday a dejected and tired looking young man arrived at Bloomfield and asked for Miss Jansen. When she saw him she ran to greet her supposed husband. He repulsed her and wanted to know why she had tricked him, at the same time he handed her a telegram. It was from Philadelphia and was signed Jansen. It was dated Thursday. It requested him to meet her at the Conti? nental Hotel at eight o'clock that evening. AH was confusion, but gradually the truth came out. Henry Stanton had decoyed his brother to Philadelphia and, trusting to his close resemblance, had gone to Caldwell and married Emily. Mrs. Stanton will at once apply for a divorce. ? A Sister to Him. "No, Mr. Jackson, I cannot be your wife, as my heart is already in the keep? ing of another, but I can be a sister to you." "Ob! 'tis hard to thus be obliged to give up, Maud, and still your very gen? erous offer to be as a sister to me cannot go unaccepted. Will you be as near a real sister to mo as possible ?" "Yes, George, I shall endeaver to." "There is Jack Fourinhand's sister, for instance. Will you be as loving and attentive to me as she is to him ?" "With all my heart, George." "Very well, then, sister mine. I shall try to be worthy?ah I I really must be going, though?good night Bister." The next day Miss Maud received a package, and upon opening it discovered that it contained?horrors?two pairs of pants, six pairs of socks and a shirt. A note slipped out, and upon readiug it, this is what she saw: Dear Sister Maud?I ascertained from Jack Fourinhand that his sister wai in the habit of doiDg all of his mending, Thinking of our agreement, I bethougbl mo of these few articles of wearing apparel, which are sadly in need of but? tons and mending. I have long needed a sister that would look after my clothes, and since you have so kindly consented to act in that capacity you may com? mence your duties at once. Your loving brother, George. The Clergy Recommend It. Malaria is nothing more than a blood poison and when its attacks are felt something must be taken to completely eradicate the poison from the system. Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic is the most efficient blood medicine in existence and aU disorders of the vital fluid readily succumb' to its influence. A niinistei writes: Nashville, Texx. Gentleman?I find I need some tonic as an appetizer, and also to fortify mj system against malarial influence; from having tried it myself, andfrcm the testi? mony of others who had tried it, in whom I can rely, I know of nothing so good as your Calisaya Tonic. Please express me three or four bottles to the above address, and oblige, Yours sincerely, Wm. Henry Strickland, Pastor Edgefield Church. Buy Calisaya Tonic of your druggiBt, ? The inventor of the "Pigs in Clover'1 puzzle is now receiving, it is said, $10C per day royalty on his invention. VOLTJMI ANDERSON. What Editor Hemphill Has to Say About Our Town, Abba-ilk Medium, l&th. Last Thursday it was our pleasure to visit the thriving town of Anderson. It was our first visit in about eight years. We had heard much of her progress but supposed there was a good deal of brag about tbe reports that reached us. We were pleasantly disappointed, for the change in eight years has been wonder? ful. One has to see.her substantial pro? gress to realize what combined effort and the spirt of progress can do in so short a time. The town looks but little like it did in 1880. The old buildings are being replaced by substantial structures of the latest designs. The people are in high spirits, and are using all their ener? gies to keep up the spirit of progess that animates every one of them. The mer? chants are doing a heavy but safe and profitable business. The stores are crowed with customers and filled with goods. A man can buy anything he needs. Every line is represented, gro? cery, dry goods, furniture, jewelry, hard? ware and millinery establishments are thriving on every Bide. There are sepa? rate stores for each line, and sharp com? petition in every one of them. R. F. Divver has as extensive machine works as can be found in the State. He can turn out anything from a buggy tap to the finest engine. He does all kind of iron work, and repairs all machinery in the most workman-like manner. He is well patronized, and bis business extends to a long distance in every direc? tion from Anderson. A new cotton factory is going up. The Company is fortunate in the selection of its officers. The site is admirable. There is plenty of money behind the enterprise, and there will be big money in it. The city government is excellent and the rate of taxation reasonable. The treasury has a surplus. Anderson has a National Bank in suc? cessful operation, and another banking institution about to commence business. She has two brick yards and five planing mills. A new hotel" is going up, and will be an ornament to the town. The hotel company has a capital of $45,000, and will put a first class man in charge when the building is completed. The post office is a handsome and solid building. A new Masonic Temple is to be erected, and a number of additional stores. Anderson has good schools, handsome churches with full congregations, and an excellent Fire Department. Her people are refined, moral and pro? gressive. The day we were there the streets were thronged with as handsome women as we ever saw, outside of Abbe? ville. As they tripped along the side? walks, their pretty "feet like little mice creeping in and out" beneath their styl? ish costumes, their beaming eyes spark? ling with animation, their lovely faces wreathed with smiles, their cheeks rosy with health, their low and gentle voices, "like softest music to attending ears," they made up such a radiant picture of j beauty as to swell the bosom of any Car? olinian with pride aud admiration. The homes of Anderson should not go unnoticed. Friday morning, in a stylish turnout, escorted by Gen. W. W. Hum? phreys and R. R. Todd, of the Journal, two of the most honored citizens of the place, we had the pleasnre of viewing the j residences of this happy, people. Great improvement has been made on the streets. Handsome shade trees are grow? ing in beauty and luxuriance along these thoroughfares. The residences are com? fortable and of modern style, and hand? some flower yards indicate the culture and taste of the people. The modest daisy covered this mound, the crocus and the glowing tnlip adorned that, the charming wistaria, in profusion of beau? ty, hung from this piazza, and the flag lily, in blue and white, brought out in bolder relief this lovely green lawn. Our trip to Anderson was a relief from the drudgery of newspaper work. No word of encouragement is required from us to urge her on in her march of pro? gress. The future of a people of such intelligence and taste, and of such busi? ness energy, cannot fail to be one of wealth and happiness. How to be Beautiful. A very simple and excellent way to make the skin clear and smooth, is as follows: At night use the prepared mixture of vaseline and cold cream on the face and lips; rub it in well with the fingers, then wipe thoroughly, as suffi* cient is left in the pores without leaving the face greasy. In the morning wash with plain brown soap, rinse carefully in warm water and then in cold; this softens tbe skin but keeps the muscles firm, and if a little bay rum of the best quality is used after the skin becomes as soft as a piece of velvet. In drying the face rub it upward. This is said to pre? vent wrinkles, or at least postpone them, but its truth can only be tested as time goes on, Powder can be used if desired. The least injurious is the simplest?plain drop chalk. To improve tbe hair brush it for twenty minutes every night and braid loosely on retiring. Washing the hands in water diluted with vinegar will make them white. Two good recipes for removing freckles are: The juice of watermelon or slices of fresh cucumber. Nothing, however, will be of much benefit to the skin unless the first princi? ples of health are observed and the stom? ach is kept in good order. A woman with a cold in her head can never be interesting cither?therefore beware of getting your feet wet, and don't go out cold weather with underclothing fit for a spring day and a little jacket weighing about three pounds. Don't expect to have bright eye? if you use them much at night or wall: in the teeth of an east wind without a warm veil over your lace. To be graceful, don't wear grotesque bustles and tightly drawn skirts?From a New York Letter. ? A great sugar refinery is to be es lished in Baltimore, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. 5 XXIV.?NO. 42. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? Samuel Jordon, a colored barber of Kansas City, has amassed a fortune of $150,000 in fifteen years. ? One of the latest inventions is a three cornered steel nail that will drive easily and will not split the wood. ? P. T. Barnum, the gaeat showman, announces his intention of retiring from public view. He is a brainy man, and will be missed. ? When a woman who has been sewing puts ber thimble on the table as she sits down to eat, is a sign that she will be left a widow if she marries. ? The late Duches Galliera believed that everyone should have an object in life. She left a collection of .postage . stamps valued at $350,000. ? Kerosene will make tin tea kettle8 as bright as new*. Saturate a woolen rag. and rub with it. It will also remove stains from varnished furniture. ? The consumption of peanuts is 3, 200,000 bushels a season. They are all raised in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennesse, chiefly in the former State. ? It is not interesting to have a man tell how rich he might have been if he had had good luck. It is better to know what he has been able to do sgainst bad luck. ? An eighteen-year old girl was arrested in San Francisco the other day, who testified that for the past year she has been consuming $2 worth of mor? phine daily. ? Almost anything is insanity, says a New York doctor. If you laugh heartily ?get mad?forget any thing?drop a letter into the postoffice without a stamp, yon can be called insane. ? As the word of God, well studied, will help us to understand His provinces,. so the provincas of God, well observed; will help us to understand His word, for God is every day fulfilling His Scripture." ? ? A flock of wild gse8e were struck by lightning at Gonzales, Tex., and 78 of them killed. If their feathers don't pro- d tect geese from lightning, what becomes 1 of the popular theory that feather beds , are non-conductors of the electric fluid. ? It is a great comfort to people of , commonplace gifts and talents to know that the measure of success, in the Mas- ! ter's sight at the last, will not be the largeness of'result, but faithfulness in the use of what the Master has entrusted to us. ? Two young men of Three Rivers, Mich., John Yager and George Shultice, enlisted together during the war, served in the same company, fought in the same battles, came home, together, and on the 2d instant both died within an hour of each other. ? 'A Chicago man has invented a spring gong, to be attached to an umbrel? la or cane, so arranged that if r.ny unau? thorized person picks up the article so-: guarded the bell rings wita a whir that is . certain to attract the attention of every . one within a block. ? It is figured out that the railroads of the world are worth nearly $300,000,000, 000, or nearly one tenth of the wealth of the civilized nations, or mo:re than a quarter of their invested capital, and that all the ready money in the world would . buy snly one-third cf them. ? A fashionable young woman in New York has undergone a remarkable surgical operation, long and painful, by which her tip tilted nose became an organ of pure Grecian design. The cruel charge is made that the new nose does not suit the general conformation of her face. ? A movement is on foot to hold a convention (at Columbia) of farmers, fac-. tors, manufacturers, fertilizer men and all persons interested, directly, or indirectly in the cotton business, looking to the es? tablishment of jute mills, and other plans for the improvement of the traffic* ? Anton Werck fell dead in Philadel? phia the other day. At first it was sup? posed to be a case of heart disease, but upon investigation it was found that Werck had received a bullet near the heart during the war, and this piece, of lead had killed him after twenty-five years' delay. ? The ladies of London and Paris have fou nd a new dissipation. It is the smok-? icg of tea cigarettes. At first the effect is very pleasant, but after awhile the smokers feel a fluttering of the heart and a relaxion of the muscles. Ladies will do well to let tea cigarettes alone. They can wreck their systems in other ways and have more fun. ? A man while eating lettuce in a Boston restaurant, came upon a piece of gravel so suddenly that it snapped a tooth off. He sued the proprietor of the res? taurant for $500 damages. The judge gave the case to the jury. The latter found out what an entire ret of new false teeth would cost and made that the figure of their award. ? A lady living in Tocoa, Ga., claims to have discovered a sure cure for hydro? phobia. It has been tried in several in? stances and always cures. It is a tea made from a well known herb, which possesscss the remarkable power of enter? ing the blood, permeating the entire sys? tem- and neutralizing the effects of the dreadful poison. ? A number of prominent New Eng? landers have invested at Valley Head, Ala., $3,000,000, and have gone to work to build up another new town. The lo- \ cation is beautiful, and is higher than any other town in the State, being 1,068 feet above the level of the sea. The company proposes to build furnaces, rolling mills, etc. Tellford, Peabody & Co., the Boston bankers, are the heads of the syndicate. ? A conference of prophets has re? cently been held in London, and the result of their labors is that the world will come to an end precisely at 12:40 o'clock on March 5,1890. "Very well," as Ralph Waldo Emerson said when a Millerite told him that the world was about to shut up shop; "the world is about to end, is it? 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