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BT GUNKSCALES & LANGSTON. DO MM BE?ttY EVER EXCEL THEMSELVES ? . ;: ?? : ? IRS m KD One is tempted to believe so while, looking through the Treihen ^dous Stock ofJLadies?, and. Children's Goods with which ?y? ? M?^s-Iizzie WilMamViias just returned from ; - T-v- Northern Markets. Tee taste anc care displayed in the present selection outrival even lier grandest 9ucces&e? in the past; and her reputation as a skillful Buyer, which has heretofore feee? tinsquatted, seems, if possible, to increase in strength greatly, t? the delight of her customers, who are benefited more than herself. -. : To see is to admire ! And to hear a quotation from prices is to wonder 1 Such Style P. Such qrAlUy I.' And in return lor such a small amount of money I Was he like ever seen before? If not, come to the? Xjaciies' ?to?? 1 IP. ?HVAN & CO'S. We extend a cordial invitation to any of our Friends who come to the City to call in an d see.us. Jhey certain y owe it to them ;? ? v'Tfizi vseJves to left no chance 'pass to buy their Merchandise Right 11 ..Wehaye a JETall Lino of STAPLE All SEASONABLE GOODS! 8,; I m m m 1 1 m mi m , PRESENT indications warrant the belief that * a large Fall trade will be realized, and we have never before since our start in business used more cautioii. in "buying and selecting our stock. Discounting every dollar's worth of goods that come into our house, whether it be Groceries or !' Dry Goods, which enables to meet any'and all competition. . \ Come, in then, and you will find us with our trends out of our pockets. Come in, and if 'we don't give yon cause to congratulate yourselves, why, we'll apologize, for we are here to do busi? ness, and whatever is not right we will make right. With thanks for past patronage, wo remain, Respectfully yours, J. P. SULLI?AN & CO. w E have already received a big portion of our large stock of Lamps for this season, and they are constantly arriving : - Library Lamps, Students' Lamps, Stand Lamps, Cltftfeh ^Lampa,: . ? . Store Iiampn, Parlor Lamps, Kitch.-,a Lamps cheaper than ever before. PAINTS, PAINTS, PAINTS ! ^e h^ve the'largest and most complete line of Floor Paints, Carriage and Boggy Paints, Mixed House Paints, Enamel Paints in all shades, White Lead and Oil. Brushes, all sizes, from 10c up. Don't forget that we keep the largest stock of? (? Drugs, Patent. Medicines, Brushes, Combs, Toilet Articles Of all kinds, including Perfumery, Fine Soaps, Face Powders, &c. Wo will take pleasure in showing you through our big stock. Call early and elegant line of Lamps. get a look at our el. WIEHITE & WILHITE. ROCERIES. OhR Establishment is now full and running over with the best selected stock of FAMILY and FANCY IGRO CERIES, CANNED GOODS, TOBACCO, Etc., iver brought to Anderson. We invite you to inspect our goods, and we guarantee please your taste as well as yocr purse. Just received a big lot of? T23XAS RED RUST PROOF OATS. MoGEE & LIGON. i ? - ? ? . ........ TEj??H?^'?oLUMN, ?' *Ug^ Ali communications intended for this Column should be addressed to T>. H. RUSSELL, School Commission 9r, Ander son, 8. C._ Will some of the pupils answer this question? Why does a ball of paper suspended from the ceiling of a heated room move about? At the recent examination there wore about ten whites and thirty colored, and of these not one received, a first grade license, and the teacher who came the nearest to getting a first grade was a ne? gro. It i3 not pleasant to us to write these things, but facta are stubborn things and we want the people to know the facts. It is true that in one or two of the branches, History and Geography, the questions were unfair, and were so regarded by all the Board, but they were no more unfair for the whites than for the negroes. They were qtieBtlons out? side of the line of the text books and of what the teachers are required to teach every day, but they wore not outside of what every intelligent man and woman in South Carolina is 'supposed ito know, but they were not, strictly speaking, questions on the branches taught. For instance, one question was: "Explain the Hampton campaign, its significance and its results/' No history yet printed tells any thing about it, and all the information to be had about it is from old newspapers or from tradition. An? other was i "How many provisional Gov? ernors has South Carolina had since 1865, and their names?" The same is true of this as of the first question, and in this connection we would like to call upon the first and second grade teachers of the Cnnnty to answer this question. What say yon ? Let's have your opinion. We wish the teachers of the County to send us their opinions on the follow? ing question. We will publish a con? sensus of their answers: "Name three points of similarity between the State and the National Governments." We do this for the reason that the questions for the semi annual examinations are partaking more and more of the nature of questions on Civil Government, and those teachers who have come before the Board have shown a deficiency on ques Ions of this nature that is to be regretted. Our institutions are founded upon the popular will, and these young boys now in the schools under the care of the teachers need to be trained to exercise the highest function of sover? eignty, that of casting a ballot, and they should have an intelligent comprehen? sion of our syetem of Government There are many things not found in the text'books that should be taught the children, and this of Civil Government is one of the most important. An. edu? cation is lamentably incomplete that does not qualify for the duties and responsibilities of life, and a great many points on which the pupils will need instruction the teacher must find outside of the common school curriculum. The teacher should not be an automatic ma? chine, wound up like a clock to pour into the pupils for sis hours a day a little reading, writing and arithmetic, but he should be like a fountain from which they themselves may be able to, in some measure, quench their thirst for knowledge. .Recently a teacher presented her arti? cles to a patron of her school for his sig? nature for another year. He declined to sign upon the ground that the public money ougbt to pa- for the tuition of his children, four in number, for the whole term, eight months. This man pays less than ten dollars school tax, and yet he expects his entire tuition for eight months to. be paid with lens tfian ten dollars. In other words, if he sends four children eight months at s. dollar apiece a month, it would amount to thirty-two dollars, and he expects the State to pay the bill with less than ten dollars 1 What is the right name for this? Surely our friend has not looked at the matter from, the right standpoint. If all his neigh? bors thought the same way how would they get a school ? We have no hesita? tion in saying that no good teacher can or will attempt to teach a school for just what public money there is in it, and to expect a , teacher $o teach an eight month's school for the public money alone, is to ask her to devote a portion of her time and services to the public. The public schools do not average one hun? dred dollars apiece all over the County, and an eight month's school at this price would not average more than twelve dol? lars and fifty cents per month, and this would not board atad clothe the teachers. No, no, friends, do not try to see how lo '. yon can let out the contract, nor put your teacher on starvation wages, but be just and liberalin your dealings with the teacher, so that she, realizing that she is well-paid, may be encouraged and stim? ulated to give you value received for jour money. Poor pay, poor teach. "Well, I guess I'll not sign the article, but I'll send to school if you get a good teacher," said one neighbor to another recently when presented with an article for a school next year. And yet that same man says he is interested in having a school, interested (?) in the education of his children ! How, pray ? Whore is the evidence of it beyond a simple state? ment of it? Men who are interested in a thing and believe in it will back their judgment with their money. This man believes in his farm and is interested about it, and he puts time and labor and money all into it, he gives evidence of his faith by his works, but when it comes to making up a school and he is asked to sign for one or two scholars at a dollar a month he says "No, I'll not sign, but I'll send." He is leaning upon his neigh? bors, and is depending upon them to do for him that about which he ought to lend a helping hand himself. In most communities a school cannot be made up unless all hands unite and pull together, and no good teacher will undertake to teach a Bchool if all should say "I'll not sign, but I'll send." If you want a school and consider it worth anything to you and .your community say so in dol? lars and cents, and Bay just bow much you think so. In one or two instances ANDERSON, S. C, T m ? ?i um i ii ???? ? ii ???? known t? the writer teachers have Under? taken schools upon the simple assurance of the patrons that, while tj^ey would not sign the article, yet they would send all the samej and in every instance those teachers failed to make enough to pay for board and clothing. This- is injustice, pure and simple, and deters our best men and women from entering the profession of teaching, and has driven out some of the best we had, "The laborer is worthy of his hire," and any calling in life that will not do more than feed aud clothe will be. and ought to be, abandoned. THE SOUTHERN FARM. A Batch of Practical Agricultural Infor? mation. Oapt. E. It. Walter and Mr. J. Weathersbe, two progressive farmers of Orangeburg, who have tried the Bailey cotton, a new variety for this section, have made the following report of their experiment: We will speak of the origin aa we get it from the Bailey Cotton Company, of Raleigh, N. C. During the summer of 1885 Hector 0. Bailey, a colored man, living in Earnett County, N. C, near 'Lillington, discovered on the banks of the Cape Fear River a plant resembling cotton. The growth and leaf of this plant being so peculiar he determined to watch it closely. In the fall he found that it had proddced cotton, the fibre of which was remarkable for its length, and very fine and silky in texture. He carefully saved the seed and planted them next season at a safe distance from other cotton. In the season of 1887 he planted a quarter of ah acre with these seed. Each year the parent plant was exactly reproduced in all its peculiar characteristics. So well known in Harnett and neigh? boring counties had this cotton become that in November, 1887, Bailey refused an off r of $86 per bushel for the seed, as this had proved to be such a valuable kind of cotton, both on account of its yield and the superior quality of the lint. In 1888 Bailey planted two aores with the seed he had stved. In the fall of 1888 this cotton produced on only fair land, without extra manur? ing, two bales to the acre, and of the same long and fine fibre. In November, 1888, Bailey sold bis entire crop of seed and the right to sell the-same to the Bailey Cotton Company, who offer them now to the faroiers of .the country and guarantee that-they are genuine. THE ADVANTAGES. First. It opens more regularly and evenly than other cotton. The peculiar formation of its leaves allows the sun and air to have free access to the bolls and ripen them nearly at the same time. Second. Its staple is as fine and silky and nearly as long as the sea island cot? ton. Third. It is more easily picked than the sea'island or any other cotton of the same grade. Fourth. It yields more lint per acre than Bea island. It produced two bales to the acre in the fall of 1888. Fifth. It is the only variety of cotton that can be successfully raised in the interior capable of competing with the sea island in staple, and it should com? mand its price. THE PECULIARITIES. FirBt. The leaves are different from all other varieties and form one of its most remarkable peculiarities. Second. It has very small seed. Third. It has usually nine seed to the lock. Fourth. The bolls of this cotton are larger than those of ordiuary cotton. Sixth. Having tested it and never having it attacked by rust, Bailey be? lieves it to be rust proof. It has never been known to be attacked by cotton worms, though it is not claimed to be proof against tbem. In the early part of this year we met an agent traveling in this country trying to introduce this new variety of cotton, but was going away without having any one to take hold of it, and we were some? what interested, and from the fair prop? osition made by the agent and testimo? nials in his possession thought it a good cotton, superior in many ways to the ordinary cotton, and from all we can see of it up to this date think it will do all that is claimed for it, and, should fur? ther developments warrant, we will offer the seed to the planters of this and Barn well County, which is the extent of our territory. We would be glad to show the plant to any one who is interested in the advancement of the growth, and would be glad to have them come at once. The crop of Mr. J. A. Weathersbee is in the corporate limits, so any who may can see it at any time they are in the city. Shonld any one wish to come from a distance by notifying either of us we will take pleasure in meeting them at the depot and carry direct to the field. This invitation is to ail and every planter in any-part of the State to come and look and Bee this peculiar cotton growing. If it is all that is claimed it will be the cotton to plant, and will be a great ad? vance to the industry. There has always been a great demand for a superior staple to the ordinary short cotton, and if this variety .should fill the grades between tue best of the short sta? ple and the lower grades of sea island, based on present prices, we think there will be a value of at least. 15 cents per pound, as the mills want just such a class ot cotton to mix with the manufacture of certain fine goods, which to reduce the price they would use this variety instead of sea island, at probably 10 cents ? more on the pound. The firtuiug interest of our country is making vast strides up? ward and onward, and should this cotton continue to do as well in the future as it has up to the present it will have done as much towards advancing their inter? est as anything could possibly do. We will, from time io time, make known any change that may occur which would alter the statements made in this com? munication. . ? The vein of ore in the Treadwell mine, ' Alaska, is 464 feet wide, and extends along the mountain Ibree-quar t-rs of a mile. The mine produces $100,000 in gold bullion montly, about 40 per cent, of which is profit, HURSDAY MOBNES BILL A IIP, fie tolls of 13.19 Boyhood and Its Trialtf. Atlanta Constitution. I wish I was a boy and had as much man's sense as I have got now. It makes me right sad to see Carl and his school? mates plotting and planning for their Saturday frolics. I want to go with them, but I can't. I see them cleaning out their guns and loading up their shells and patting the pointer dog and talking so merrily about the birds they are going to kill, but I can't go. 1 want to climb a walnut tree and shake the limbs and hear the music of the walnuts rattling down. I want to go chestnut hunting and cut off the top limbs with a hatchet or if the trees are large and tall show my skill in knocking the burrs down with sticks as I used to do on the old academy hill. We boys used to take our bundle of sticks with us to school and hide them under the house until playtime. I want to go 'possum hunting and hear the music of the dogs on the track and the welcome bark when they had treed one of the oul ky varmints up a 'simmon tree, or a black gum or uuder a clay f'etot. What a glorious frolic it was to cut him down Or dig him. out, and then split a stick for his curly tail and shoulder bim, and move on for another victim. I want to go coon bunting and see the fight. I want to go rabbit hunting in the snotf. I want to climb a muscadine vine &?4 hunt for black haws and May pops. I want to go to the mill,aad run a horse race back and cry "school butter" as I pass the country school house ou the way. Then the boys would lay for us the next time and surround UB-and attack us With sticks and rocks and thrash poles and . the way we ran the gauntlet was thrilling. I think of all these youthful frolics when I see these boys start out and I want to go, but I can't, I'm too old, my time's out, I couldn't keep up. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, very weak. It makes me puff and blow to run or fox trot a hundred yards now. My legs are over? loaded with corporcsity but my arms are all right. I can chop wood on a wager with most any young man and win it. I was looking at the races at Piedmont yesterday and it carried me back to the good old times when we boys used to mount our nags and ponies and slip down the Covington road to the race tracks? not your round course nor an oval, but two long straight parallel tracks about ten feet apart and the bushes cut away like the right of way on a railroad. From long use the tracks had worn into two little narrow paths, and the horses had nothing to do but keep them. We al? ways rode bareback, and it made good riders of-us. It was a rough young life in those days?rougher than it is now, for we didn't wear shoes much, nor coats, nor undershirts, nor drawers, and a homemade cap or a sealskin cap would last two or three years, and then be banded down to the next boy. Sore toes and stonebruises and burrs in the feet or splinters in the fingers were common to every boy, for there was no aristocracy then. Three yards of nankeon and a shirt and a pair of gallusaes sot a school boy up pretty well for summer, and a suit of country jeans and a pair of shoes was mighty fine for winter. Our mother cut our garments aud made them, and it didn't cost more than five dollars a year for a boy, all told. But now it takes about three suits a year of store clothes for the boys. Then there are ten dollars more for hats and shoes. And there are collars and cuffs and cravats and handkerchiefs and gloves and gold buttons and so forth. I went into a store in Atlanta yesterday to buy me a coat and a young man measured me and got out a coat and I put it on and he said it fit me beautifully, and I said it didn't and he said it was not the fault of the coat but my shoulders were awkwardly built. I asked him if he thought I wss deformed, and he said no, not exactly de? formed, but out of the proportion, and so I departed those coasts. I tried another store, aud they jerked me into a bobtail cutaway, and said it was just splendid/ I looked so nobby and genteel. I told him I wanted a frock coat?a black cloth frock coat and he curled up his lip and said that nobody but lawyers and preach? ers wore them now, and they didn't have my size. So I departed those coasts and kept on trying until I got what I wanted, but had to have the sleeves cut off a little to suit my arms. Mrs. Arp told me to buy her a hat?a black velvet hat with bright, modest trimming, and bo I crowd ed in among the women and told what I wanted. They sized me up pretty quick and sized my pocket-book, and Bhowed me a hat that I thought would do, and asked me $18 for it. They hurt my feel? ings and I departed those coasts. A friend met me and I asked him if such things had gone up that way on account of the Exposition, and he said he reckon? ed not, and took me to another place where the same hat or another one just like it, waB offered for $9, aud as I didn't think it prudent to go home without the hat, I bought it. It looked like a black velvet bat to me, but when I got it home it had changed to a bottle green, which I thought made it all the prettier, but my wife said no?that black would match a dress of any color, but green wouldn't. And so I had to take it back and change it, and now everything is calm and serene. It bus been a long time since she had a nine dollar hat, and it does look extravagant, but she says maybe it is the last one that I will ever buy for her for her heart has been fluttering very strange of late. I told her that mine had too, and I reckon we would both pass away simultaneously and not be separated at all. We had a big time at the exposition. There were folks and people innumerable. Thousands and thousands, and all of them were sober aud none were sad. A won? dering countryman said tome: 'Stranger I never seed as many people in all my life, and there's nary two alike.' Anoth? er man said: 'I can see now why land has gone up so. God Almighty aint makin' any more land, but keeps on,mak? ing people.' Betsy Hamilton made an assault on me iu the Agricultural Hall while I was peacefully meandering around and charged me with calling her Aunt Betsy. fG, OCTOBEE 31, 18 "Your Aunt Betsy'" said she. "The idea of such a patriarchal specimen of antiquity, as you are presuming to call such a young blooming beauty as I am Aunt Betsy. Aunt Betuy indeed." The Deople began to gather around to see the fight, and so 1 surrendered and apologiz? ed and begged forgiveness,.and retreated in good order with no loss on our side. Not long after that I met Kit. Warren and mentioned Aunt Betsy, and he brightened up and said : "Where is she? I must see her. She and I were school? mates when we were children." Iu a quiet, unconcerned way I asked Kit. bow old he was and he told me, but 1 shall not mention it for the present, I'm goine to keep that as ammunition to prevent another assault. Well,; Well, I do love Aunt Betsy?that is as a father or a brother, and I'l lnever'call her Aunt Bet By again. My wife and children and grand chil? dren were all delighted with the great show at the exposition. We took the ground rounds and I pointed oat the great men on the grand stand and ex? plained the Wild West show, and we visited the Indians' camp and saw M Comanche Bill and Mrs. Comanche Bill, and that reminds me of the letter I received the day before which is as fol? lows : Mb. Bill. Arp: My husband, and-1 desire to thank you for your kind allusion to our show. We have long known you and are much pleased at your apprecia? tion/ I take especial delight and pride in the success of the exposition as I urn a Georgian by birth, and my longings to Bet foot on the dear old soil had much to do with our making the pleasant engage? ment. If Mrs. Arp is not a literary myth we shall be delighted to meet ber and yourself when you visit the exposi? tion. I beg you to accept the enclosed bill (ten dollars) for the benefit of those soldiers' graves. With cordial regards I am Mrs. Comanche Bill. That's nice-that's all right. There's no Injun gift about that. When I was a lad and one boy gave another something and took it back again we called it Injun gift and made faces at him for h:is selfish? ness. And this reminds me to say that Miss May Waring, of Clement, has iu the art gallery of the exposition a beautiful oil painted folding genius, and it is to be refilled for the benefit of those same sol? dier's graves. Miss Maude Andrews has it in charge and wants everybody to take a chance. If you don't draw it your money will not be lost. Bill Arp. The Richest Ex-Slave. The wealthiest colored man in the South since the war, who has born a slave and set free by the emancipation proclamation, was Beh Montgomery, of Mississippi. He belonged . to Joseph Davis first, and then to Jefferson Davis. For years before the war he was the Sec? retary of Hon. Joseph Davis, Jefferson Davis' elder brother. The Davises were large planters and owned the "Hurri? canes" estate, consisting of three cotton plantations at the extreme lower end of Warren County, Miss., and about eigh? teen or twenty miles below Vicksburg. There were between 12,000 and 15,000 acres of the finest land on the Mississippi river in these plantations and over 750 slaves, All the letters respecting the business of these places for thirty years were writ? ten by Ben Montgomery. He frequently went to New Orleans on business for the Davises and carried with him once $90,000 in money. He traveled with Davis all over the North, and could have run away fifty times had he. wished. But he remained loyal to the last. The Davises were noted for tbear kindness to slaves. They had finer "quarters" on their plantations, probably, than any planters in the South, excepting the Hamptons. They kept a jphysician always on the places and in every way cared for their "colored people!," as the slaves were frequently called. When Jefferson Davis and his brother Joseph left their homes, one as the President of the Southern Confederacy and the other as a brigadier-general, they put every? thing under Ben Montgomery's charge. He made the crops of 1861-62 and 1862-63, about 3,000 bales of co tton, and shipped it to New Orleans and sold it to foreign buyers for gold. This money he carefully sent to Davis. In 1865, when the slaves were emancipated, Davis sold the "Hurricanes" to Montgomery for $300,000 in gold. When the federal "agents for the protection of abandoned property and lands" came to take pos? session of the Hurricanes, they found Ben Montgomery with a title so strong that it could not be upset and they left him iu peaceable possession. After the war be continued to plant these places, making every year from 1,100 to.2,200 bales of cotton, besides an abundance of corn and hay. In 1876 there being a balance due on the pay? ments, Davis took the property back, but left Montgomery in charge. These places now yield a handsome income to Davis, who lives on the Mississippi sea? shore at Beauvoir, but visits his old home once a year. Whenever he goes back to his former residence, all the old time negroes within fifty miles comes to see "Old Marse Jeff." When Ben Mont? gomery died, in 3881, Davis went to his fuucral, and there was no sincerer mourner than he who once had the fate of a people upon his shoulders, at the grave of his old and life long friend, though his slave. ? The first cannon which came into use after the discovery of the explosive properties of gunpowder, during the 141h century, were called - bombards. They consisted of irou bars bound together with hoops of the same metal. The first cannon balls fired from these primitive weapons were round stones. It is a mis? take to suppose that breech-loading guns were not tried till recently. They were made when cannon firsfcame into use, but were soon abandoned because no one knew how to make them strong enough. Among the early cannon were culverins, which were made four times the length of a man, the early artillerists having cuueeived the idea that the longer the gun the further it would carry. 89. HEROIC DEEDS. Old Sola let's Recount Acts' of Bravery In ttfar Times. Atlanta Constitution. Have you ever thought of asking, an old soldier "what was the bravest thing you ever saw done during the war 7" That is just what the Constitution asked a number of old Boldiers on yesterday. And here is the result", and a very pretty collection of gallant things it is, too! Governor Gordon was asked the most conspicuous example of bravery he ever saw on the other side. "The finest enhibition of courage I ever saw on that side," said he, "was at Sharpsburg. It wasi the major who led their men agaiust us. They had three or four lines, and he brought them up against us three or four times. We broke tbem as they came up, and when a line was broken he would put a fresh line in front of the broken one and bring them up again. In this way he brought them up until they w.ere all . broken. Then he tried to lead them up again but they would not Come. I had told my men to hold their fibre and I could see him gesticulating and urging his men on, but to no purpose. Finally he walk? ed out about a third of the way, stuck his sword in the ground and stood in front of us with his arms folded, now and then looking over his shoulder at his men as if to say, "I am going to stand here till I die or bring you up," and they did come at last about two-thirds of the 'way. I tried hard, to find out wbo he was, but I was knocked senseless about that time and never Baw him again. The men said the last thing I said before I fell was, "No don't hurt that man." "Now give us one on our side," said the interviewer. "I could give you a thousand that would make your hair stand on end," said the Governor, "but I cannot give you one.'it would do injustice to ten thousand." v Captain W. H. Harrison, who was on Gordon's staff in the army, tells the following: "It was at Harper's Fsrry, a short time before the surrender, and my company had been out all night on picket. Just at daybreak, when we began to see where we were, a man, named Miles Thornton, looked over his head and saw a pear tree full of ripe pears. " 'Captain, let me go up and get some o' them pears/ said he. ? "I told him to go ahead, if he wanted" to, but he might get shot. "Oh no, I won't," he said, and began climbing the tree. A yankee gunner on the other side of the river saw him, and just as he reached out his hand for a pear a shell went through the top of the tree about six feet over his bead. "Lookout, Thornton," said I, "don't you see the yankees are shooting at you 7 They'll get your range in a minute, and the next shell will knock yon out of there." "Oh, no, cap'n," said he, "I won't get hit, just let me climb up where that shell went through," and the fellow climbed up and plucked a pear from the very spot where the shell bad gone throughr "Tbat man was shot through the left leg soon afterward. It was badly bro? ken, but he got two muskets for crutch? es, and was hobling off the- field when another ball struck his left elbow and broke his forearm all to splinters, so that it had to be amputated near the shoul? der. He was captured and taken to Baltimore, and in less than a month from the time he was shot he bad whit? tled out a wooden leg, which he used for years. He sat up in bed, and with his one hand and the stump of the other arm managed to draw the piece of wood down with his pocket knife until it was in the shape of a wooden leg, with a long piece that came up to his hip, and was held in place by a leather strap. That man was tax receiver of my country for several years, and died since the war." Judge W. L. Calhoun : "At Vicks burg our men were all heroes. They had been through' a severe campaign, and every man wbo lacked grit had failed off by the wayside long before the siege. I saw one example of deBperate courage'. A half dozen men were out in the trench? es in front of our works, and a party of twenty of the enemy made a rush to capture them. They surrounded and captured tbem, but there was one man who would not surrender. With a doz? en guns pointed at him he defied them, and shot their lieutenant dead. The next moment his body was riddled with bullets, and the yankees buried him and put a stone to mark the spot where a brave man died. . "I saw another instance of dare devil daring which had a ludicrous end. When the enemy bad just corco up they brought out a little rifle piece and began out a little rifle piece and beflan shoot? ing at our works. Lieutenant B. F. Walker got up and danced on the para? pet, making all sorts of gestures at the gunners who were throwing shells over his head. I saw that they were getting down nearer to his range and told him they would take him off in a few minutes if he did not get down. 'No, they can't hit me,' be said, and as he could see the flash of the cannon he dropped down every time and escaped the shells. The first thing I kuev Walker came tumbling down with the whole top of the parapet and a shower of clay. The thing was so ludicrous that I could not help laugh? ing, though I thought he was killed. In a few momeots he came crawli? \ jut of the clay and brushed himself off, a very crestfallen individual." Captain John McIntosii Kell: "The engagement between the Alabama and the Kearsage guns lasted an hour and a quarter before the Alabama began to sink. The Kcarsargc guns were throwing eleven inch shells into us and wiping our men from the deck like chessmen from a board. The mangled limbs so covered the deck that I had to have them thrown overboard in order that the crews might work the guns. The shells had struck several times by the Bide of ono of our big guns, and one of them bad cut dowu nine of the gun crew. Then a shell struck the breast of the gun and dropped down on the deck with a short time fuse burning rapidly. VOLUM] The coxswain, Mars, who was one of that gun crew, picked up theshell and threw it overboard through the port. "A few moments afterwards when Captain Semmes saw that the ship was sinking, he sent the steward for the most important of the ship's papers lashed between two cigar box lids, and giving them to the coxswain told him to take care of them. Mars put the papers inside bis pocket and jumped into the sea. He swam to the first boat he couM see and climbed in. Looking back to the stern he saw the union flag flying. In an instant he was in the sea again swim? ming away. He was finally picked up by the Deerhound and" delivered the papers to Captain Semmes in England. Colonel Bob Hardeman: "The bravest or the most foolhardy act I ever saw was at Chancellorsville. The enemy was strongly entrenched in a brickyard and Wilcox's division was assigned to take it, and Thomas's brigade charged the brickyard. _ Wilcox bad made com? plaint about Thomas's troops in some actioD that had occurred recently and as he came riding up General Thomas said .to him, 'You say Georgia troops won't fight; you are ad?n cowardly liar follow me and you'll see.' With that he put spurs to his horse and rode right over the breastworks, his white horse single footing and the yankees shooting at him all the time. It so happened that there were not many of them behind the breastworks and he did not get hurt." Me. E. T. Sh?bbick : "Captain John Wingfield, who now enjoys the title of 'cow coroner' of the Georgia road, is a brave man. A shell fell in his mess one day with the fuse sizzing and burnt nearly to the iron. Wingfield jumped to the shell and put the fuse out." Colonel J. R. Towers: "The only time I ever saw the troops club muskets was at Farmville. Mahone was bard pressed, and sent a courier to Anderson Baying that if he did not get them beaten off his flank he would be overwhelmed. Anderson ordered my regiment to the rescue, and we charged down the hill on them. When we got to the foot of the bill they were there;, and to get out of the way it would have been necessary for them to go up a long slope with us right after them. Rather than do that they stood their ground and it was tough work getting them out^if there. The men clubbed muskets and fought hand to band. One man had bis gun leveled on me and a sergeant shot him just in time to save my life. It was terrible work, and as soon as it was over Mahone came riding by and said, "It was the finest charge I ever saw, and it saved me from being overwhelmed. I will see that you are prompted in a very few days.' That was just two days before the surrender. "I saw another instance in which men were terribly tried by a practical joke. We had trenches cut in a circle to escape the mortar shells and stakes were stuck up in sight by ao the men could see where a shell would fall and run round the curve where the fragments could not strike them it exploded. A party of men were playing cards in the trench one day when some fellows got an empty shell and filled it with fuse. They lit the fuse and rolled it sizzing toward the trench. The card parly heard it, and pretty soon it dropped over in right by them. ?Tbey could not get out of the way and had to sit there and see it burn and wait for it to burst. When they found out that it was a joke they would have killed the man who did it if they could have foiind who it was. "I have often seen men pick up a shell with a burning fuse and throw it over the breastworks." . In the Heat of Passion. "I hope I killed him !" The speaker was a slender girl of 19. She bad just been arrested by a New York policeman for slabbing her hus? band. During a year's married life the pris? oner's husband bad beaten, kicked and degraded her. She fled to her mother's house for protection. Her master fol? lowed and struck her a terrible blow in the mouth. Then she stabbed him, and, exulting in her new freedom, exclaimed : "I hope I killed him !" The reader of our news columns will almost every day read accouuts of horri? ble tragedies in which the survivors express their satisfaction with the results. ! The law has no terror for a man whose blood is on fire.. The certainty of pun? ishment will not check him. At the supreme moment?in the tempest of his passion?be cares nothing for the conse? quences. The law cannot control hot blood. The only human power that can do it is that sober public opinion which is the outcome of a Christian and sensible sys? tem of family government. The lesson of self control, instilled into children by precept and example, with the liberal use of the rod when necessary, will keep society tolerably straight. The child who, from infancy, has been taught to control his passions, will generally keen the peace ?nd discourage lawless violenc j in others. The proper training of children in every home would give us an ideal soci? ety under the reign of law and order. The courts can pnnish crime, but they cannot prevent it. The firmness and self restraint necessary to keep men out of temptation and lawlessness must be acquired at the family fireside.?Atlanta Constitution. You Know not Your Fate. If you continue to suffer with indiges? tion you will never know what your fate may be, and it must come soouer or later. Dyspepsia after a time will wear your system and digestive organs away and you will be worthless to yourself and obnoxious to others. Begin immediately to remedy the evil by taking Dr. West? moreland's Calisaya Tonic, the greatest remedy known for a torpid liver and dis? eased blood. It will set the liver to work, purify the bloodaud give tone to the whole system. Buy it of your druggist for 50 cents and $1.00 a bottle. ? A colicky baby at night ie athletic; it can raise the house. E XXIV.?NO. 17. ALL SOOTS OF PARAGRAPHS, ? There are 339 cotton mills in the^/ Southern States. -f* ? Mrs. Stonewall Jackson is said to be writing her husband's biography. ? Governor Biggs, of Delaware, made a big pile of money on his peach crop this year. ? The Japanese hifch their horses in the street by tying their forelegs to? gether. ? Wild geese are flying southward several weeks earlier than usual. A sign of an early winter. """^ ? It takes a smart man to tell a good lie, but nearly all men grow smarter the longer they are married. ? Many hnvo an idea that they are rM serving the Lord when they are meddling with what is notie of their business. ? The Kuights of Honor have paid to. sjjj the families of deceased members in the past sixteen years of their existence, $27 500,000. ? It is not putting thing3 in thejight place that bothers a man so much as find? ing the right place after be has put: u things in it. ? The Baldwin Locomotive Works have recently turned out, for the North-', ern Pacific railroad, their ten thousandths locomotive. ? Railroad men say that more cars are being built at present than ever before, owing to the great corn and wheat crop in the West. ? The late King of Bavarialleft debts which will be paid oh' at the rate of $275, 000 a year. The last payment will be ? made in 1905. * ? ? It is stated that over 17,000 horses 'i/. are slaughtered for food every year in Paris, and of this quantity two-thirds are: used for sausages, ? The longest distance over which conversation by telephone is daily main tained is about seven hundred and fifty' miles from Portland, Me., to Buffalo, N. y. ? Statistics furnished by manufacture r ? ers of Massachusetts ahow that 85 per cent, of the workers in that Stats receive wages ranging from 75 cents to'$l per day. ? According to tho preliminary report the receipts of the patent office for the year ending June 30, 1889, were in excess of the expenditures to the amount of $186,000. - fgg ? The heavy frosts last week did great damage t*o the tobacco crop in Eentucky and the Virginias. The Iotis in one county alone in Kentucky will amount to 500,000 pounds. % ? It coats four hundred thousand dol- ):\_ lars a year to keep up Central Park, New York. The land originally cost the city six million do lars and is now estimated to be worth one hundred million. ? The average annual death rats in America from cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid fever, ..d.ir;the*ia. and scarlet fever, all combined, does not^y? reach the enormous total of deaths from consumption. ? A carriage .junker of Armstrong county, Pa., has lately shipped to Persia ' a carriage, packed in boxes to facilitate transportation across the desert on cam el's back. The freight bill was about one hundred dollars. ? Ten well-known ladies are publish? ing articles on tho subject, "What We Would Do if We Were Men." It is to be hoped that one of them will be sufficient? ly practical to say g>tu she would learn., how to sharpen a pencil. ? Horace Sebring, who poisoned an entire family at Three Oaks*, Ind., for the purpose of securing property in order that he might ms.rry a girl who refused him because of his poverty, has been. sentenced to twenty-five years' imprison? ment. ?Edward Bellamy, in "Looking Back ward," says that one hundred years hence '. the servant girl question will be solved, and housekeeping will be conducted without servants. This is encouraging, but one hundred years seems like a long while to wait. ? The Campaign that is now. being carried on in Ohio is said to be one of the bitterest and most heated ever known in the history of the State. Both parties are thoroughly aroused and making des? perate efforts. There is no telling what the result will be. ? The growing of cigar leaf tobacco is proving a very successful industry in.. Florida. Her soil and climate are well suited to the growing of the weed. There are five large plantations containing 100 acres each and the yield, which is now being cut and cured from these planta tations, is estimated at 5,000,000 pounds. ? A teacner put the following question to a young Sioux: "How do you parse, 'Mary milks the cow?'" 'Tho last word was disposed of as follows: "Cow is a noun, feminine gender, third person and stands for Mary." "Stands for Mary! ? How do you make that out ?" "Because,"/^ said the intelligent pupil, "if the cow didn't stand for Mary how could Mary milk her?" ? The Australian government is building a fence of wire netting S,000 miles long to divide New South Wales>**' and Queensland, in order to keep the rabbits out of the latter country. Aus? tralia is paying not less than $125,000 per year to keep the pests down in what are known as crown lands. The offer h still kept up to $100,000 to any man who will produce something that will exterminate the pests. ? John Jacob Astor died worth $40, 000,000 after beginning on a salary of $2 a week for beating furs in a damp cellar. The $40,000,000 left by him in 1849 has grown in 40 years to $200,000,000. The Astors know the vs.lue of money, and never waste or spend it uselessly. Tho . habits of the elder Astor were as regular as a Dutch clock. His only recreation'^ was a game of checkers; his only bever? age was a glass of ale after dinner. Progress. It is verj impoitant in llhis age of vast material progress that a remedy be pleasing to the taste, and to the eye, easily taken, acceptable to the stom? ach and healthy in its % natures and effects. Possessing these qualities,. Syrup of Figs is the ono perfect laxative and most gentle diiuotfc ever - known,