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BY CLINKSCALE 6R?M) SUMMER SAf-E For Aug-oi^t, f. r;': September and ?Buy Now and Pay when Cotton is Sold, I SPOT CASH PEICES, aad just a little rash down to biod the bargain. Only a ?Eitlle. See?'..'.;" Pt&ftOS, ^li54Ja9h and balance December 1, ?80. ORGANS, ?10 Cash and balance : December i$ jg ? :/; - We wait your order, and will do our best tor you,; - Write ?r bill (r,. {'.', .'r' #1L. ^YNIE & DAtJGHTEB, 88 Westfield Street, GREENVILLE,. - . 8- C. Angl, 1889...: mencaTj; >.Powder and mm lme sold this valuable Prepara? tion fbriiseveral years, and take great pleas? ure iriWerirjg.it again, this" season." The frciifc cropi having oeen; short for several years, we ajjfvise our; friends to take advan? tage of the abundant crop in_prospect this i season, arid"providefor what may be?a short crop next; ' With;One Dollar's worth cf the Prepa? ration, and a great deal less trouble, than the oli-fasbjoned way of canning,' you can save enough to do a largo - family '? the ?whole Winter, and you can . open and use oui of the jar from time to time without injury. Of coarse it snits some people'to run , this Preparation down, "because it inter* ferss ..with their; bosiresa, but ask T. D, Sloanthis city, and a thousand others throughout the County who have tried it with* succeas, arid you will very soon see there is no humbug about it. ? - . ? \ i ? ? HILL BROTHERS. LAVA floor paints, \ Six Colors, Makes a very Hard Finish, And Dries' Hard overnight.. IT IS JUST THE THING! Also, all other kinds of PAINTS AND OllS, ? > . . ? ' *?' . ? -? ^" *.* ' ?' '' *" .*.v*'J*... '~ '; ,at^-: - ? " ? season* Bm% msj SAW MXLLSj Ginning Engines and Hors3 Powers For; Ginning Specialties; also, Grata Drills and Standard Implements, Send for Catalogue. AiBil-Ei jrq?ha? :C0., (Ltd,) ;;"_ . York, Pa. Session Opens Sept. 10,1889i Tj^OR Catalogue of Williamstcn Fc JD male College, a live,, thorough, progressive^ prosperous,cheap, up-country". School fo? young ladies, address Rev.8/ Lander. PresideufvWilliamston; ?. C. Its merits widely* known; One hundred .arid sixty-five pupils last year; More expected next ; . Jnly U,188g:V f / : 1 2m FOR SALE _0R RENT ! PBEMISES at Honea Path, 8. C, for? merly-belonging to Mrs. W. G. Smith. Two. and a half acres of land, with buildings thereon. Apply to ; GREIG & MATTHEWS, ? f : *j ?/ ? chariiMtori.-s: e.cr| April 18,188P-- --4T - - 6m - just received; j A fine lot of Children's Carriages, . *With Steel Wheels. ? >Xt4 ALSO, . A Lot of Befrigerators, xQCHwUl be sold at low prices at TOIXY'S FURNITURE STORE! May 23,1889 .46_ WiMIamston Male High School. THE Pall Term of 1889 will begin Sep temberllth. Advantages: Beautiful : locality, commodious .and. ^well-adapted . school buildings, attractive surroundings, chalybeate .mineral spring, thorough and practijal instruction, high moral and social I status;, of the-*-villsge proverbial. Rates of tuition low. For information, address 1 I V. H. WATSON, Principal, Anderson, S. C until Sept. 11th ; Williamston, 8.C. after Sept, lltb._" 1?6 A. C. STRICKLAND, UB?TTIST. VTITE01JS OXIDE given at all times ?jLi for the Painless Extraction of Teeth/ ?&~ Office on corner of Granite Row over Bleckley Mercantile Co. Nor 15,1888 19 ?Uli?-~~ S:& LANGSTON. Arp Talks Abcrat DU els GettferaUj-. Attttnta Constitution. . They , are tho funniest things?these duels.-' They are both funny and fantas? tic. They beat a circus?that is to say, the newspaper pictures of them beat the circus pictures) and it is reasonable to BUppose that -Iba antics of the performers ! beat the * clowns and the monkeys and horse . -tricks combined.; I .would like to btf ujjii Jiua tree I and see a. b\nel. No, I w?uldent, either,, for .it. would be safer to be in front of one of the performers. ?Sometimes I think that these little affairs of honor are just gotten up to amuee'tle public, and in that way they are a success.. They beat Sullivan and K.ilrain, and the only objection ia we don't know about it until the show is over. We don't have a chance to take sides and bet on anybody, and ,if we did we wouldent win or lose, for it is always a dra^. ; Nobody burt-^wonderful pluck ?amazing heroism?magnanimous con* duct-noble b eari a g -.-amicable adjustment ?bul; nobody hurt. That's what's the matter. When it leaks out that a great show is, coming, the people want' it to come. If a hanging, is advertised, it is an outrage if Bomebody don't bang. If a dael has to be fought to preserve honor, the public want some blood. Honor or Sdeath?honor or crippled?honor or hit somewhere above or .below the belt. . But this sldewiping around and fixing up the thing behind a woodpile or 'TU retract if ]y$ will ^ppJt," oj??I didnCme^n what yon though^ I meant," don't satisfy the public^ Some years-'ago one of our notable men called .another' notable man a thief and he got challenged for it and we thought there was blood on the moon, but friends interfered, and he retracted by saying that he didn't mean that he was a personal thief but was an official thief, and that was satisfactory and the affair was honorably adjusted.- When an affair of honor is settled nowadays we can't find out who whipped the fight or who was right and who wa3 wrong. The whole matter is left bo mystified that the stakeholder won't pay over the\money. In facrtt is sometimes hard to tell from the newspapers/who were, doing the fighting, whether it.waa.the principals or the seconds bf-^au amateur performer who recklessly rushes in where angels fear to tread? "The combat thickeusr-on ye brave? Who rush to glory, or the grave." Awful scenes! terrific beyond express? ion ! It reminds me of a little specta? cled Frenchman who was prancing around the big hotel in St. Louis and had a little impudent terrier dog following him about. The dog gave just cause of offense to a big whiskered Kentuckian who was talking to a friend, and with a sudden swing of his boot he sent the ani? mal a rod or two out in the street. Quick as lightning the Frenchman danced up to the Eentack, and with violent gesticu? lation, ? exclaimed i "Vat. for yon keek mon leetle tog?vot for, me say ? Here is mine card. I demand de satisfacsbion of devBhenteelmen." The Kentuckian seized him gently by the nap of the neck and lifted him np bodily to the door and gave him a kick onward, and then walked back and resumed his conversation. Tbe Frenchman spied .an acquaintance who wsb passing, and rushing up to him poured ont his hysterics: "Vat you call dis American honour ? He keek mon leetle tog and I geeve heem mine card and demand de sateesfacshion of deshen telmon?de sateesfacshion of de sword or de peesloledeartode Frenchman's heart. Ton ti ugB. he give, me satisfacshion ? No sare?r are time, but mondieu! he leef me up by d j collare, he speen me round and round like I was one tarn top and he keek me?be keek me more harder tan mon leetle tog. Yat you calls dis American honeur ? B?k I go pack to La Belle, France. I hoonts up some American and I fights him. Begar! I will have de sat? eesfacshion." If retractions are :o be made they should be very explicit. It is related of John Bandolph that on one occasion be expressed his contempt of a man by say? ing of him that be wasent fit to carry? offal to a bear. A retraxit was demanded, or a fight, and be promptly responded that he would withdraw the offensive dis? qualification and would now say thai, the gentleman was fit to carry?offal to a bear. This proved satisfactory and goes to show bow small a retraxit will satisfy wounded boner. But it seema to be a matter of great nicety' as to the time when the retraxit must be made. Among all gentlemen it-is admitted that an apology should be made just as soon as the gentleman has discovered he has done another gentleman an injury, or has without just cause wounded hia feelings, bnt these mysterious affairs of honor are very slow and precise about such things and the retraxits are no* r.?owed-to'be made ? until a challenge has parsed and the seconds are chosen, and the pistols loaded, and. everything gotten , in readi? ness for fights /Then the retraxit-is in order, and after that the honorable adjustment. The whole business is methodical, to say the least of it. It is like'a bill in equity that, has nine parts, and there is the accusation, and the join? der, and rejoinder, and Burrijoinder, and various refections, and butters and rebut? ters, and other mystaries. lo fact, con? sidering the funny and fantastic, and harmless character of most of the modern duels, I think that a justice's court would be the best tribunal wherein to settle such matters. I speak from some expe? rience, for the first case I ever had was in a justice's court, where I was employed to defend a man who was Bued for thirty dollars' worth of slander, because be had accused a neighbor of stealing bis hog and re-marking him with a swallow fork in tbe left ear. It was strictly an .affair of honor and had all its various parts and mysteries?after the joinder and rejoinder and swore joinder and f.he butter and rebutter and swore butter, the jury retired to a log and in course of time brought in a verdict. "We, the jury3 find for tbe plaintiff ten dollars and fifty cents for bis character unless the defendant will take back what he said." I have always thought that this was a just ver? dict and if ever any lunatic challenges me, I shall propose to leave tbe matter to a jury to a justice court. They give a man a chance without bis having to -n-ri 11-ni hui-it n i r practice with ? pistol at ? niark oh ? trefe, tt ic a straoge tiling how a man can hit the bull's eye on a tree every pop, but can't hit a man one time out of five and yet be perfectly cool and calm and serene all the time. There must be some pecu? liar difference between the attractions of wood and flesh to leaden bullets. 1 reckon there is, for once t knew a one-1 legged man to challenge a two-legged man and the letter refused to flgbt hint because he said his ball might hit the wooden leg and draw ho blood and it wouldn't be fair. The idea was that the wood would attract the ball and draw it from the flesh. And hence these one legged1 men are left out in the cold anil can't get any satisfaction at all. My good old friend McCormick can just go about and be insulted, and insult id, and insulted, and nobody will give him a fight. Ail this shows the exquisite fairness of the code but still it seems to me it ought to go a little further, and if a 'small, lean man challenges a big, fat man/ the small man ought to have hia figure marked ont plainly with chalk on the big man's cor porosity, and if his ball went otitslde the mark, it ought not to count ? The book says that dueling originated in the superstitious ages when it was be* lieved that the fates or the gods was on the side of truth and justice and alwayB avenged the man who had been wronged. Some philosophers declared that there was a mysterious connection between honor and courage, and between courage and-the nervous-system, and (hat when a map was in the .wrong his courage waver-, ed and his nerves became unsteady and: so^he.couldn't fight to advantage and was easily overcome by his adversary. There may be something in this, but not a great deal, for we do know that the pro* fessional duelist is generally in the wrong, and as generally whips the fight. In fact, the wrong man has generally been killed in all the fatal duels of mod? ern times. During the past century dueling has had its chief eupport from the army and navy where chivalry seems to have centered. They talk about chivalry as though they belonged to some knightly order like unto the olden time when Don Quiiote mounted.his flea-bit? ten gray and sallied forth with a lance about- twenty feet long and charged a windmill. The word chivalry comes from [{ch'3val," a horse, and so if a man was not noun ted and straddled there was no chance to be chivalrous. A seat in a buggy won't do at all. It won't churn up heroism like the canter of a horse. That was called the "fantastic age of famished honor," for honor was said to be always hungry for a fight, and the knights start? ed out periodically .o hunt up and pro? voke difficulties.. Happily for us that age has passed, but unhappily for us the tail of the comet still lingers and ever and anon some valiant knight looms np and strikes his breast and exclaims, "Mine honor, sir, mine honor." Eight there I want to rush- to his relief and mount him on some (rosinaute,' and give him a sharpened pole and escozt him to one of these modern wind mills and tell him to charge it until his honor is satis-' fled. Most of these chivalric gentlemen have a very vague, indefinite idea of what honor is or where it is located. Hudi bras throws some light upon the seat of honor when be tells of a man who was kicked in the place where honor is lodged and he says: "A kick just there hurts honor more Than deeper wounds when kicked before.'^ This locates the seat of honor in the back ground where we will leave it. Honor is like the chamelion that takes any color that Buits its surroundings. Aaron Burr challenged Hamilton in or? der to preserve his honor and yet he was a traitor?an enemy of Washington?a notorious libertine?a bully and boasted of his armours and his intrigues. If a man is going to fight for his honor he should be sure that he has got some and that he has not tarnished it by his own dishonorable conduct. If a man is a thief, or an extortioner, or a libertine, he has no right to challenge a man for call? ing him a liar, even though in that case he was not a liar. His honor was all lost in other vir-*?, for honor is a very broad quality, and does not split up in conve? nient parcels. It makes up the complete gentleman in all his conduct. When a man can look his fellowmen in the face and say whom have I defrauded, or whom have I wronged, or from whom have I taken a bribe, then let him fight for his honor, if be wants to. Ordinarily, if a man fights a duel about a matter that is personal to himself, he does it out of regard for public opinion, for no two men would fight a duel if they were living on an island by themselves. And this proves the duelist tobe a moral coward, for he hasmore regard for other people than for himself, or his family or 'his Maker. He knows that a fight proves nothing, and yet he deliberately lets the public opinion outweigh his wile and her children, and puts his soul within easy reach of the devil. From every point he is a fool and a coward and could be convicted of lunacy in any conrt, and ought to be. When will this foolishness Btop? The law is against it, and so is common sense, and humanity, ! and morality. It lowers our moral i standard at home, and belittles us abroad. They establish no man's character for truth or integrity. They gave him no better credit in bank, no moro friends in business. His code of morals is a silent insult to society, for be assumes a higher sense of honor than they do. He wilfully engages in a dishonorable business, and be knows it, for he has to skulk around in the night and hide and dodge like a thief. He does not dare to fight on the genial, loving soil of his own State, for that would disfranchise him and bo he seeks some other. The whole thing would be as funny as a farce if nobody but the principals and the neconds were concern? ed, but there are parents and wives and children, and hence the deep concern. Now let us all have peace. Let a man take no part in a show that he hau to keep a secret from his wife or his children. Let him undertake no peril that his preacher could not approve with a part iDg blessing. In fact I have wondered why the preacher was not taken along as well as the surgeon, one for the body and one for the soul, for where the devil is the man of God ought to have an equal chance. Bill Aitr. ANDERSON, S.O., Dome Cnri'on* Seetlsi BY FL?RENCE GRIST?OL**." I suppose every boy who has come into the house from some out-door ex? cursion with his clothes covered with "stick-tights'' or "beggar ticks" has won? dered why stidh things were ever made, and if they had any Use In the wOfldj Then, perhaps, he has Wondered why the greatest variety of lowers is found by the sides of the railroad track; and how flowers which he thought g*few only iii one locality near his home are found the next year in ever so many widely separa? ted places. Perhaps he will be interested to CnoW the reascn? of abibe. of these and other curious facts about flowers. If we are to have abundant vegeta? tion, and not a land barren, grassless and flowerles3, every plant must pro? duce and ripen seed, and provide some means for scattering it. So we find many curious contrivances, not only for scattering the seed after it is mature, but for fertilizing the platit ?nd perfect? ing the seed, The '"stick-lights" which are so troii ble8otne to ?s are tM\f a very interesting" example of the way Nature devised for disseminating plants. Each little brown pod is a seed, furnished with two horns; and on the horns are bristles pointing backward, sc that, while it is easily at? tached to cloth or fur or anything that brushes against it, it is difficult to detach* Thus the seeds of the plant are carried far and wide, and you meet with beggar ticks in the most unexpected places. There is a plant in South Africa, called the Marlinea, which has hooks three or four inches long. These attach' them? selves to lions by fastening in their flesh, and thus have the honor of being plant? ed by the king of beasts, when he rolls himself on the ground to get rid of them. Sometimes sheep are,killed by pointed seeds working into their flesh. Many plants, especially water plants, have gummy seeds, stalk?, or leaves, which stick to birds and other animals. Most fruits have indigestible seeds, to which animals are attracted by the color, fra? grance and flavor of the fruit. The in? digestible seed is of course cast away. Pigeons and monkeys scatter a great many seeds'in this way. Some seeds attract birds by their resemblance to jointed caterpillars, with woolly hairs. The seed of the castor bean looks like a small black beetle, and breaks away from the pod with its attachment, or placenta, which looks like a head. But some seeds could be digested if eaten by animals, and these are usually protected either by being the color of the soil, and even sometimes sculptured to resemble grains of Band, or by being buried. A plant called Arutida has a curious seed, with three tightly twisted awns. When wet, these awns untwist and cause the seed to roll about, sending the point into the ground, where it is held by the backward-turned bristles. Then the awns break away, and the seed is ready to grow. In feathergrass, the awn is plumed, bo that the wind moves it about. In the peanut, after the seed begins to mature, the stalk turns to the ground and buries the whole plant. In the rose of Jericho and the tumble plants of the prairies, the whole plant is rolled into a ball and blown about by the wind. Many plants have winged or plumed seeds, like basswood or milkweed. You have all amused yourselves by snap? ping the seeds of tbe jewel weed, or balsam, to hear the slight explosion. That explosivencs5 is found in many plants, as in the violet, and helps to spread tbe plant. I said there were curious contrivances, not only for scattering seed, but for causing the seed to be formed, which is called fertilization. You know there are two kinds of organs in a flower which have to do with producing seed : first, the pistil, tbe essentials of which are an ovary, or pod, in which the seeds are to be formed, and- a stigma, or .surface for receiving pollen. The Btem which bears the stigma is called the style. The second part of the flower which helps produce seed is the Eta men , consisting of a thread? like stem, or filament, and tbe anther, covered with yellow grains of pollen. Now, in order that a seed may be formed in the ovary, pollen from the anther must be brought to the stigma. It is wrong for a stamen to let its pollen fall on the Btigraa of the same flower, if it can in any way send it to some other blosBom. The reason of this is that the new plant is feeble if produced by the stamens and pistil of a single blossom. Sometimes the pollen even poisons the Btigma of its own flower. If the pollen must be carried to some other flower, who will carry it? There are three principal agencies of this cross pollination: (1) wind, (2) water, and (3) animals. Pollen from pines, which has two balloon-like sacs, is often carried three hundred miles, and has been taken six hundred, by tbe wind. The animals that carry pollen are snails, insects,?as flies, gnats, bees, butterflies, moths,-?and birdB, of which the humming-bird is best known. To attract flies and gnats, plants are of purplish or livid color, with very unpleasant odors, as the uristolochia, which has tbe color and smell of decaying meat.' Bees are attracted by sweet odors, pretty colors, and the honey or nectar in the flower. The sage has a curious- contrivance for getting its pollen carried away. The honey-cells are at the base of the corolla, and the stamen is bung loosely in the way, fastened at its middle. As the bee pushes in, he hits the end, of tbe stamen, which swings up, bringing tbe anther down to the back of the bee. So, when, laden with this dust, he enters another sage blossom, he brushes off tbe pollen on the overhanging stigma. The laurel, lobelia, barberry and lady slippers have equally curious arrange? ments for making the bee serve them. Butterflies fertilize those flowers which have long tubes, or nectaries, for honey, like the pelargonium and puccoon. In tbe pelargonium, the stamens appear first; and in getting at the honey in the long nectary the butterfly is covered with pollen. A few days afterward tbe sta? mens have withered and fallen down, and the stigma is ready to receive the i . 11 1 1 * "' " Thursday Umm pollen which the butterfly brings from dome flower not yet so mature. To attract animals, the flower must offer shelter and warmth" or food, which consists of pollen, nectar and small in? sects. Thus you see that the beauty and fragrance and even the veinings in flow? ers are to serve useful purpose in fertiliz? ing them, and that even the unsightly burrs and stick-tights ara a part of Nature's wisdom in keeping the earth green and fruitful.? Christian Register. Ttiien Womeii Sh??M Marry. Probably the best time for the aversge civilized woman to marry would be any age between 24 and 26. It is not said that no woman should! rfarry earlier or later than either of these ages; but youth and health and vigor are ordinarily at their highest perfection between those two periods. Very early marriages are seldom desirable for girls and that for many reasons. The brain is immature, the reason is feeble and the character unformed. The considerations which Would prompt a glfi to marry at 17 would ib in?ny cases have very little weight with bei: at 24. At 17 she is a child, at U a wottian. Where a girl has intelligent parents the seven years between 17 and 24 are the period when mind and body are most amenable to wise discipline, and best repay the thought and toil devoted to their development. Before 17 few girls have learned to understand what life is, what discipline is, what duty is. They cannot value what is best, either in father's wisdom of in the mother's ten? derness. When married at that childish period they are like young recruits taken fresh from the farm and the work shop, and hurried off to a long campaign with? out any period of preliminary drill and training, or like a school boy removed from school to a curacy without being sent to the university or to theological hall. Who can help grieving over a child wife, especially if she have children and a husband who is an inexperienced and possibly exacting boy-man? The ardor of h is love Boon cools; the visionary bliss of her poetical imagination vanish? es-like the summer mist; there is noth? ing left but disappointment and wonder that promised to be so beautiful and long a day should have clouded over almost before sunrise.?Hospital. -?Kiss the Fool and Let Him Go Home.? The story goes that a certain society young man, noted for his handsome bearing and winning, voice, accompanied a yonng lady to ber home snd, as all true lovers do, lingered yet a little while at the gate to have a lover's tete-a-tete with his fair companion. The night was beautiful, no one was near to intrude, and above all he loved her. Why Bboudn't she kiss bim? With true maidenly modestly she refused. He implored. She still withheld from him that which would fill his cup of happiness. The re? quest was repeated several times, and so engrossed did the young man become in wooing, he failed to notice the approach of the petemal step. The old gentleman had been there himself and did not care to intrude upon the happiness of the young couple, bo quietly stepping behind a convenient rose bush, waited, thinking the young man would soon leave. In this he was mistaken. The lovers tarried over the request until the patience of the old man was exbansted. A voice the couple knew, aroused them from their happiness, in a tone of impa? tient anger, by Baying: "Daughter, kieB the fool and let -him go home!" It is reported that the young man bit the ground in high places in his endeavor to comply with the old gentleman's com? mand. Weaker than Water, A man is never in a more debilitated condition than when he has weathered a case of measles. The system finds it hard to bear up under the weight of the dis? ease and almost rebels against the strain upon it. And yet there is a remedy which answers the requirement of such a case. A prominent druggist and physician waites: Darlington, ?. C. Gentleman?Your tonic has btjen goiog very well this spring. There has been a good deal of measles, especially among the factory operatives, which left them in a debilitated condition, for which your tonic seems to be the very thing, and it has sold well. Yours truly, John A. Boyd, M. D. ? A farmer named Soreson, at Nanti choke, Pa., arranged a trap to kill thieves who were stealing pigeons from his barn, by suspending a revolvet with the muzzle towards the door, and a line so attached that the opening of the door would cause the pistol to go off. In some way, he was the first person to try the trap, and was fatally shot by the suspended revolver, the bullet entering his body just below the heart, ? A French court has decided that murder is an accident, and compelled a life insurance company to pay a policy of thirty thousand francs on the life of a murdered man. A man who has practiced medi? cine for 40 years, ought to know salt from sugar; read what he says. Toledo, 0., Jan. 10,1887. Mefcsrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.?Gentle? men : I have been in the general prac? tice of medicine for most 40 years, and would Bay that in all my practice and experience, havo never seen a prepara? tion that I could prescribe with as much confidence of success as I can Hall'? Ca? tarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have prescribed it a great many times and its effect is wonderful, and would say in conclusion that I have yet to find a case of Catarrh that it would not cure, if they would take it accordiug to directions. Yours Truly, L. L. Goitsucn, M. D. Office, 215 Summit St. We will give $100 for any case of Ca? tarrh that can not be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken internally. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, Ohio. J6?*-Sold by Druggists, 75c. NG. AUGUST 29, 18 Lightning Protection. BY TROr. D. A DUPBE. The forces of nature which man atri% . to use are at times rn a condition of un control. The stiff breeze tha'c speeds the huge merchant ship may cease, and in a moment a tornado may Iesvo no trace of the graceful vessel. The gentle waters of streams which we bank up in our ponds and lakes to serve us for mechani? cal purposes may overleap their barriers and give us the spectacle of Mogul en? gines and stone piers borne along in a toL'rent through! a! ??nerhaugh Valley. Electricity is being used on land, on sea, in the air, in great and deep mines?everywhere, for everything." We are all ready to praise in glowing terms its wonders, its ready obedience to our summons. The "wings of the wind" are stupid and slow compared with its speed in executing our errands?it is our ser? vant, docile and quiet. But how about a thunder-storm? "When the lightnings of heaven flash down amidst our forests, or leap from tower to basement in their eccentric wanderings among our proud city edifices, roaring and crashing in absolute defiance of everything on earth, who is the servant now ? But man is not bold enough yet to demand that lightning do him service; he will be con? tent with some means of defense against its fearful "strokes." It is said that "the temple of Jerusa? lem bristled with iron points ; that the fires of heaven respected for more than a thousand years the edifice consecrated to Jehovah." "Lightning neither touched the first temple built by Solomon nor that which rose upon its ruins after the captivity of Babylon." When the third temple was being erected the "builders neglected to put up the armatures and points which had so successfully pro? tected the two templeB before the birth of Christ." "The lightning was not long in destroying the scaffolding and dispers? ing the workmen sent by Coesar." The points aud iron rods were placed on the older temples merely as ornaments, for the Levites knew nothing of lightning rods or electrical conductors of any kind. A flash of lightning produces less ter? ror than a "clap of thunder." But even among those who know the destruction there is much nervousness on the ap? proach of a thunder-storm. There is a general impression that metals draw ?ightning.' I saw in a paper of this State that a man was killed by lightning because he happened to have in his band an axe during a thunder-storm. I know a book that claims to be serious which describes how a young lady at some en? tertainment, one evening, walked out on a balcony, and, stretching out her hand to see if it was raining, had the beautiful gold bracelet upon her arm melted like wax by a sudden stroke of lightning, she remaining unhurt. Many persons at the first mutterings of a distant thunder? storm begin to divest themselves of every thing me tallic. I have seen thimble, needles, scissors, hairpins, hurriedly put aside for fear of attracting the iiightning. I know of a young l;idy who, on one oc? casion, at the approach of a storm, strip? ped herself of all her metallic appenda? ges and then jumped upon a bed for safety. After the Btorm was over she was horrified to find she had been reclin? ing upon a brass spring mattress. Is it reasonable to suppose that lightning that can leap from a cloud one or two miles high, that is aiming with all a light? ning's haste and fury to reach old mother earth, could be turned aside to disturb a' hair-pin that is quietly nestling in a lady's hair ? Lightning is indeed eccen? tric, but its "ambition is immense" and it never loses its self-respect. A Wall street speculator aiming after wealth could not be turned aside by a "copper cent"?a good conductor as far as it goes, but 'tis not enough. A French writer of note sayB: "It is known that the skin of our black brethren is peculiarly insu? lating?that a negro introduced into an electric chain generally arrests the shock." The same author seriously states that "big feet render their possess sor peculiarly liable to bo struck by light? ning." So defective are lightning rods gener? ally that many sensible people refuse to put any faith in them at all; while many others, equally sensible, have them placed upon their dwellings for protection against the next lightning rod agent, When electricity accumulates in a cloud it seeks the shortest patch to the earth or to another cloud. The shortest elec? trical path is not always the shortest in distance. The path that offers least resistance, though zigzag, is the one chosen. Metals are good conductors; hence large masses of metal, like a tin roof, iron stairway or gas-pipes, may de> termine the patch of a lightning dis? charge. Very few lightning rods are properly constructed. The metal is most often too thin and too easily fused. No rod is reliable that weighs less than eight ounces per running foot?it should weigh more. Thin copper rods said to be galvanized are worthless; there is no need for cov? ering copper. A twisted rod is not appreciably better than a solid rod. Little glass insulators are ' perfectly worthless. All rods should be securely fastened to the building by iron spikes. Copper is very expensive, and while a better conductor than iron, it ifi more readily melted aud may set fire to the building. Good authorities consider the following arrangement a safe protection for a duelling against lightning: A common solid iron rod, round or square, about three-quartern of an inch in diame? ter or on a side, protecting live or six feet above chimuey tops or gable ends, with a atout cone at top?not sharp points ?should be securely fratened to the roof. From this point it should be carried by the moat direct path to the ground, every few yards being firmly attached to the roof and walls of the building. It should be passed into the ground several feet from the foundation of the building. About four feet beneath the surface the rod should be firmly at? tached to a piece of plate iron, one eighth inch thick and five or six feet Bquare, which is to be entirely bedded in charcoal. This terminal to every rod 189. passiiJg info the ground ia very impor? tant. Nearly aft accidents to buildingB from lightning hare been attributed, after careful inspection, to rods defective at this point. Nearly all rods are pushed down five or six feet into the ground; thiii banters- lightning to do its worst. If lightniog haS not a safe and respect? able escort from a building it will not only refuse to go' at all but it will take possession for a lion fc on e-'mill ionth of a second, which is abundant for all ifs purposes. The rod should be painted to prevent rusting. If there are gas-pipes in the bouse, one of the rods should be in metallic connection with the main where it enters the building. The above plan is cheap, Any good blacksmith can readily earry it out. Where wire fencing Is Used about dwellings, or for enclosing stock, wires should be rrin down the posts every few hundred yards, connecting the fence wires all together, and then be passed into the ground?thus putting up a number of small lightning rods, which prevent an accumulation of induced elec? tricity from taking place in the wire fencing.?Southern Christian Advocate. Directed By a Dream. Thomas Cooper, a master mechanic of this city, says a Kansas City letter, can boast of one of the strangest and most thrilling experiences during the last few days which have ever fallen to the lot of any man. What great mystery lies behind his story, or at least his singular adventure, will probably never be known. A box filled with human bones, rotted by its long confinement in the earth, scarcely more than two feet long and not more than one wide, is now in Cooper's possession. On a table in his room, where any one would be allowed to see it, is another box of similar shape and appearance. In this box lie several sil? ver dollars which are rusted and stuck together, several bits of golden jewelry and two diamonds of small value, All these things go to confirm Cooper's story as to the remarkable manner in which a dream influenced and controlled his ac? tions for several days. During the first part of last week Cooper was foreman of a gang of carpen? ters at work on the Coates House. One morning he called the contractor to one side and said: "I can't work to-day, and would like to be excused." "Why, what's the matter, Tom ?" was asked. Cooper informed him that for three successive nights'he bad been troubled with a dream which never varied. The figure of a woman with a Utile child in its arms would appear to him and say: "Go to Westport, thence three-fourths of a mile West. There you will find a farmhouse, and off to the right a tall tree. Dig and you will find an infant's bones, and that which will reward you." At first Cooper said he thought nothing of the dream, but its singular repetition troubled him. The woman and child appeared in the same manner three nights and each time in the dream the woman uttered the same words. So sad did they sound that Cooper said be seemed to hear them all day while at work, and he was so troubled that he determined to cast the burden off his mind by following ont the dream woman's directions. Last Saturday morning he quit work and started out to Westport, So clearly had the dream showed him the way that he recognized the house at sight. He called and asked for a spade on the pretense that he wished to dig herbs. He then went to a tall tree off to the right, and dug according to the directions given in the dream. At a depth of three and a half feet he found a box filled with bones, but found nothing else. He returned home, but that night was again troubled with the dream, For three nights the dream was repeated to him and he again went to Westport. Digging in the same place at a depth of four feet he found another box similar to that containing the bones. He opened it and found $15.50 in silver stuck together, two small diamonds, Bicce valued at $50, and some jewelry. Without digging further he returned to the city, and now has the relics on exhibition to prove the truth of his strange vision. ? The Standard Oil Company's new steamers, for carrying oil in bulk, will be ready for service in September. The first vessel, named tbeBayonne, was launched on the Clyde on July 2, and has a capac? ity for 4,000 tons. She will have electric lights, steam steering gear and triple ex? pansion engines, and will carry 1," ,?,000 gallons, which can be discharged in 10 hours. ? Mr. E. Slattery, of Delhi, La., says her son, 14 years of age, had a dreadful time with ulcers, sorea and blotches which followed chicken pox. After using many remedies without benefit, she gave him Swift's Specific, which" cured him sound and well. ? We have sold S. S. S. since the first day we commenced the drug business, and have heard some wonderful reports of its effects. Many use it with best re? sults to cleanse malaria from the system, and for blood poison, scrofula and such diseases it is without a rival. COLDERV/OOD & Co., Monroe, La. ? W. S. Paullin, of Clayton, Ala., has a knife that was presented to him in New Jersey in 1833. It was stolen from him shortly after by Indians in the south, and was out of his possession until quite recently, when it was returned to him by a man who had found it years ago on an Indian battle ground near Pearl river. The recovery was due to an accidental conversation. ? Mr. W. A. Tibbs is a printer in the office of the Jackson, Miss., Clarion Ledg? er. He says that three years ago he was a victim of bad blood, which deprived him of health and threatened serious conse? quences. He further says that he took S. S. S., and it cured him. ? I have been subject to painful boils and carbuncles over my body during the spring season, and after much useless doctoring I found a permanent cure in Swift's Specific. It is the mon? arch of blood medicine. E. J. Willis, Augusta, Ark. VOL?TV A Terrible Scene on Stone Mountain, Stone Mountain, Ga., August .20.? Never since 1878, when Dr. George Goldsmith rescued little Miss Emma Jones, of Angusta, from the north or steep Bide of Stone mountain, has the citizens of this usually quiet town been bo excited as they were last night. Two gentlemen named Braswell and Chaslain, who live near Logansville, were in town yesterday evening, and started for their homo about sundown. In passing the north side of the mountain, they noticed upon the side and near the top of the mountain a "white object, which seemed to be moving backward and forward in a small space. For some time they watched the object, and finally concluded it was a child, that perhaps had wandered around on the top of-the mountain and had fallen over the preci? pice and lodged in a crevice. They lis? tened ?ntently for some noise, and finally heard it crying and hallowing? oh, lordyI oh, lordy ! Immediately they retraced their steps back to town and gave the alarm. By this time it was dark. In a few minutes, more than a hundred men with lanterns and ropes were on their way to the mountain. At the foot of the mountain the crowd parted, a number of them going on top, and the balance going around the north side to where the child was seeu with lanterns to signal those who had gone up the mountain. In less than thirty minutes the summit was reached. While waiting for the party who bad gnuo around the mountain to reach the north side, one end of a three-quarter inch rope was tied strongly to the waist of young John Hendricks; at the other end were twenty or thirty stalwart young men, who began to slowly lower young Hendricks over the mountain. Soon the rope gave out, it not being long enough, and young Hendricks was pulled back. Two or three young men were dispatched to town for more rope. While waiting for the rope, parties who were on the ground below could be heard hallowing to the child: "Remain perfectly still, honey; we'll soon rescue you." "Don't move an inch; if you do, you will be killed." "Hold tight to the mountain." In an hour's time another coil of rope bad been brought up the mountain, and young Hendricks was again lowered down the mountain's side. This time they had rope sufficient, and young Hen? dricks soon reached the object. At once those on the ground saw that young Hendricks had reached the object and signaled those on top to "heave to. In a twinkling the chi?no, the dog?was rescued, for it proved to be a fox dog that had chased a' fox. up the mountain, and in wandering around had fallen over the precipice and lodged in the crevice. It would be a hard matter to get the boys out again at night to rescue another dog. Some of them didn't use Sunday school words when they found it was a hound dog.?Atlanta Constitution. Sold. "I had an amusing experience once when I was a boy," writes a young far? mer to the Atlanta Constitution. "I con? fess that I was pretty green at the time. I lived with my father upon a farm near Columbus, and used to haul wood into the city and Bell it. "One day I had entered town with my customary load, when, as I passed a large building, some ono poked his head partly out of a window, and asked if the wood was for sale. I replied in the affirmative. " 'Well, throw it over this fence,' came back from the upper window. "The house was surrounded .by a high wall, but I managed to pitch it over, and then went around to the front gate to get my pay. I could not get in; I ham? mered and called in vain, when some passer oy, attracted by my frantic efforts to gain intrance, enquired what was the matter, and informed me that the build? ing was the jail. "One of the prisoners had played a joke upon me. I could not get my money or the wood back, and returned home with empty wagon and pockets." Timid. There is such a thing as too much in? genuity in finding excuses. A prisoner at the bar, who was charged with stealing a dozen apples from a poor woman's fruit stand, was cross-examined by the prose? cuting attorney : "You admit that you took this fruit from the woman's stock without paying her?" "Yis, sir." "Whatdid you do that for?" "I did't know how much the price wuz." "Then why didn't you ask the woman?" "Oh, ye see, sir, I wuz alluz terrible bashful with the ladies." The court thought such excessive bashfulness a criminal offense, and sent the man to jail. ? A swarm of butterflies, so thick as to almost obscure the rays of the sun, passed through Mott, Cal., recently. There were myriads of them, and many of them would alight on moist spots in the streets, and as they straightened up their wings they looked like miniature pyramids. They were all uniform as to size, color and shape. ? Mrs. Wallace, of Summerville, Ohio, was cutting up an old dres3 that belonged to her mother, who died a couple of years ago, when the scissors came upon something hard. Upon ex? amination it was found to be a $20 bill folded and sewed in a hem. Mrs. Wal? lace is not in the best of circumstances and the find was a very timely one. ? A "happy father" in New York wrote to an editor, asking him to suggest pretty names for twins, boy and girl. The editor printed a list of about five hundred fancy names, and the happy father hereinbefore' mentioned, after reading the suggested nomenclature, named the tmm John and Jane. The editor hadn't thought of.those names. IE XXIV.?NO. S. . ALL SO?TS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? New York city has a debt of $98, 000,000. ? Steamships six hundred feet long will soon be common. ? A cat that will drink beer is one of the curiosities of Calamet, 0. ? The only cross-eyed cow is owned ' by George Williams, of Comley, 0. * ? There are thirty-five thousand more women than men in the city of Philadel? phia. ? Dr. Nansen, the explorer, says the ice in Greenland is six thousand feet thick. ? In Para, Brazil, a license to sell liquor cost3 $5 ; a license to keep a school . costs $10. ? An Ohio man the other day counted up and found that he bad been concerned in 139 lawsuits. ? A live turtle was found waddling around among the mails in the postoffice at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, the other " day. . ? A church deacon at Galesburg, Michigan, claims to have a parrot which will lead a bymn at prayer meet- . ing. ? An Atchison man, says the .Globe, recently married a widow because she took such good care of her first husband's grave. ? T. H. Davis, of Clarkville, Mo., was three times married to the same woman, his own temper and two divorces making this possible. ? During a recent storm a stone weighing eleven pounds dropped from the clouds into the yard of a farmer living near Essex, la. ? It has been computed that the aver-, age growth of the finger nail is one-thir? ty eecond of an inch per week, or a little more than one and one-half inches per year. ? A young woman atKincol, Cal., has: began a suit for ?1,500? damages against a ? rancher for kisses that she says were forcibly inflicted upon her by the defen-. dant. ? Seventy thousand Arabs are reported to be ready to come to America, if a delegation of twenty, now at Castle ' Garden, cucceed in obtaining admit? tance. ? There are eight hundred thousand more widows than widowers in, England^ In France for every one hundred widow? ers there are one hundred and ninety-four./% widowa. ? Robert Marvel died at Indianapolis, : August 20 tb, after fasting for sixty-seven days. Since June 13th he had taken no nourishment except a little milk. This is the longest fast on record. ? A letter from Calcutta reports that .?*;. a herd of 100 wild elephants has been captured in Mysore. Also that there were 6,000 deaths by snake bites in the : northwest provinces last year. ? Why does the letter R hold an envp able position? Because it is never found * in" sin, but always in temperance, indus trjj virtue and prosperity. It is the be? ginning of religion and the end of war. * ? Cotton worms have appeared in Pulaski, Jefferson and Clark counties, Arkansas, within the last few days, and the farmers are greatly disturbed, and are using Paris green energetical iy. ? Maj. W. C. Stevens, of Ann Arbor, Mich., formerly of <he Ninth Michigan cavalry, still owns and uses the horse that he rode in the army. He bought him in Kentucky in 1862 and rode him in many,battles. ? A German lieutenant practicing with a balloon got his foot entangled in the valve line and was carried for two miles with his head downward. The balloon lit without breaking bis neck, but he was insensible. ? ? In a certain town in Ohio, where screens are not allowed to be used m saloons, a big fat man is hired by one cf the more enterprising saloon keepenrto ? staDd in his door all the time. He obstructs the view very effectually. ? S. E. Sweet, who claims to be a re3i- $ dent of Tennessee, has entered suit in the United States Court, at Little Bock, Ark, for $100,000 against thirty-five prominent citizens. He claims they drove him from his home on May .19 last, because he chose to vote his own sentiments. ? A natural bed of a substance resem? bling shoe blacking has been discovered in Rush Valley, Uuh. Analysis shows that it contains 19 per cent, carbon, 31 per - cent, alumnium, and 50 per cent, clay. When properly applied to leather it produces a fine polish that is not easily destroyed. ? William Ogden, of Fairfield, Neb., performed a remarkable trick. He laid a cocked gun on the ground, stood off about fifteen feet from it, threw a common - glass ball into the air, turned a hand? spring, picked np and discharged the gun, breaking the ball before it reached the ground. ? Physicians around Galena, Wis.J are puzzled over the case of an 8-weeks old child that lias been asleep ever since its birth, and which takes nourishment \ \ regularly but never wakes. Children can enter that house without being greet-, ed with, "Hush! don't make a noise, or | you will wake the baby." ? There were originally nineteen con? tested election cases to be brought before ? the next Congress, but two of them, hav-, iog been withdrawn, there remain sevens teen seats, all of which are being fought tor by Republicans. Over 20,000 pages of evidence have already been printed, so that these contests cost the dear public a good deal after all. ? Ben O'Hara, of Marinette, Wis., owns a dog which has made himscTr. famous as a banking institution. He feeds on all sorts of coins, without regard to denomination, and is always in readi? ness to receive deposits. The jingle of coins will cause him to run toward their possessor as eagerly as most dogs start in the direction of a piece of meat. The Ladies Delighted. The pleasant effect and the per(ect ' safety with which ladies may use 'the liq- ' uid fruit laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions make it their favorite rem? edy. It is pleasing'to the eye and to the 1 taste, gentle, yet..effectual uV'acting on ? * the kidneys, liver and bowelsj % ~$?