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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. The PROGRESSIVE. AGE in which, we live and flourish demands? ENERGY, V v ACTIVITY, BOTTOM PRICES! , If you will visit our Store you will see a combination of. all the above, with a few - other things that are calculated to make competitors "Get up and Dust" to keep in sight We can and will shake the bottom out of any prices von can get elsewhere. We'll tell you the "Good Old Honest Truth" about every article we sell you. 'I We Pay Cash fc:- every Dollars' worth we Buy, And Give You the Benefit Every Time. jDon't Believe a word we Say. BUT COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF, ? JOHN M. HUBBARD & BRO., - Next to Farmers and Merchants Bank, Anderson, S. C. AT AND BELOW COST! H A VING determined t? close but our Mercantile Business in order to devote our entir? time aud attention to the Cotton Business, we now offer our entire Stock of Dry Goods, Ms, Slioes, Notions anfl Cloiii, REGARDLESS OF COST. ad some of these'prices: .Beat Calicoes 5c. per yard. ' Pelzer Shirting 4Jc. per yard. Checks 4Jc. per yard, Blankets $1.00 per pair, Hats 10c. up, Shoes?Womens'Balmorals?50c. v Hens' Brogans 65c. Msub' Boots $1.25. Mens* Overcoats $1.50 and upward. Theae are a few of the leading articles. We cannot begin to enumerate the BARGAINS we offer. We Have a Fall StocU of GROCERIES AM) PROVISIONS That we are selling AT COST. There are ONE THOUSAND BARRELS OF FLOUK in Stock that must go, if Cost Prices will sell them. And then there are . OHE HUNDRED BOXES OF TOBACCO That it. wilt pay every chewer in Anderson County to examine. Sugar at Cost I Coffee at Cost! Soda at 3c. per lb. ! And Everything Else at COST! BROWN BROS. Nat 21,1889 20 5' HEADQUARTERS ? CHRISTMAS! ONE CAR LOAD OF TOYS AND CHRISTMAS GOODS J?BT BECETVED, containing everything ever s,oid in Anderson, aud lota of things never seen in I his market before. PRICES ARE LOWER than you ever heard of before. Come and see for yourselves, TWENTY THOUSAND-POUNDS OF CANDY On hand, and you know it must be sold. My twenty Clerks will be ready at all times to show you through this immense Stock. See me before you buy. BEST CIGARS ever sold. Fresh CITRON, RAISINS and CURRANTS. One Hundred Boxes Fire Crackers . And other Fireworks in proportion ready for Santa ClauB. JQ?" Don't forget the place. Look for Sign?"Headquarters for Christmas Goods!" - G-. M. TOLLY.. Mot 21.188? -_ 20 _._5 SVPGEE $t LICON, WHOLESALE! RETAIL GROCERS, OfFER SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS to parties buying our Original Packages. We require the SPOT CASH, and sell Goods CHEAPER than ever known. LARGE LOT OF FA.1STOY G-EOCBEIES FOR CHRISTMAS. 8?, Agents for W. P. Harvey & Co., of Chicago, Short Ribs. J. P. SULLIVAN & GO'S. INVITATION ! We extend a cordial invitation to any of our Friends who come to the City to call in and see us. They certainly owe it to them? selves to let no chance pass to buy their Merchandise Right! 1 We have a Full Line of STAPLE AND SEASONABLE GOODS! 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 caution in buying and selecting our stock. Discounting every dollar'H 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 Sod us with our hands 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 '.hanks for past patronage, we remain, Respectfully yours, J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. T???H^'?oiVUMN, All communications! intended for this Column should bo addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C._ From now until tho close of the schools the School Commissioner will be found in the office only on Saturdays and Saledays, and parties having busi? ness with hie a will please govern them? selves accordingly. We spent a pleasant hour last week with Profs. Kemp and Breazeale at the Belton High School. These gentlemen have a well-ordered school io all respects, ! and have added this year an additional at? traction in the shape of an Art Depart? ment, in charge of Miss HoIIoway. We were shown some beautiful specimens of work by her pupils, which, to our unprac ticed eye, did credit to herself and her pu? pils. This is a well-equipped school in its teaching force, and it will be still better when the new school building goes up. And we heard a good mauy loud whis? perings about that, and some even whig pered about a graded school. That's right, friends, move right along on that line, and you will thus bring the cost of tuition to the minimum, and attract pop? ulation and business lo your town. We spent a pleasant hour last week at the Baptist Female College in the rooms presided over by Miss Maggie Evans and Miss Lois Watson. These young ladies gave us a very cordial reception, and let ua witness some of the exercises of their classes. Ia Miss Maggie's room we wit? nessed an admirable Chart drill -by the "wee ones." and also listened to a song by the same class. These little chaps could all read well, much better, in fact, than some of the older ones that we have heard try it. In Miss Lois' room the class was carried through an exercise in writing letters, which did credit to thorn selves and their teacher. We were glad to note this, for it is a matter in which most children are deficient in our public schools. We are glad to note the suc? cessful opening of this institution, and we propose, at " a future d3y, to call on the other teachers and pay them our respects, which lack of time prevented us from doing that day. Just beyond the shadow of Belton the Bleak Hill folks have caught the spirit of the march of improvement, and have erected a commodious school building, where we found Mies Nannie Callaham, with twenty-four pupils, hard at work. There is quite a contrast in her present comfortable quarters and the abandoned house where we found her last winter. This house is evidence of the hold Miss Nannie has upon these people and the good work she is doing for their children. Do not be weary in well doing, but keep on, friends, until yod get your tiouBe ceiled and comfortably seated. We know how hard up the people are, but "constant dropping of water wears away stone," and a little done each year will finally accomplish the result. Across the creek and almost in sight, stands Calhorn),- one of the educational landmarks af the County. More than forty years ago this spot had already become noted as one of the educational centers of the County, and it was here thatseveral men who afterwards figured prominently in the public affair?, of the County, first received an impetus forward iu the development of their minds. No? table among these was Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia. This school is again under charge of the Rame teacher they had last year, Miss May Russell, and while, of course, we must let others speak, it is not out of place to say that the fact that she has been chosen to pre? side over the school a second time, is some evidence of the favor in which &tie is held by her patrons. This school house is a good one, but it does need something in the way of furniture, such as seats and desks, that the children may be more comfortable, aud have better facilities for writing, and that the teacher may the better preserve order. The difference in the order and in the pro? gress of the pupil iB very perceptible in those school houses Where they have these. The Cedar Grove school is this year under the charge of Mr. Lewis M. Ma haffey, a former pupil of ours. We found this school much smaller in numbers than we had expected, though the pros? pect is good for a full school. Still we saw children in less than a mile of the school house playing in the yards. This ought not to be so. Here is a good teacher, and the State is furnishing the most of the money to pay him, and yet some of the people seem indifferent. L.t? ."ere only oleveu scholars present the day we called out of forty or more In the neighborhood. This house is too small entirely, and of this fact the pa? trons themselves are convinced, as they intend to build a twenty foot addition to it this winter. This is progress in the right direction, but don't stop when you get up a shell but carry it forward until you have it furnished and equipped. Hard by this school bouse stands a beau? tiful Church, a monument to the moral and religious sentiment of the commu? nity, and as a good school is the hand? maiden of tho Church, it should have equally as a good a house, and with all the appointments for running a success? ful school. Eureka School is again in the hands of Miss Zella Campbell, a .former teacher. When we went in there the other day we found the teacher with twenty pupils, and benches and chairs to the front of us, benches and chairs to the right of us, and benches and chairs to the left of as, and while they did not "volley and thunder" at us, yet they gieatly endan? gered our shins and those of the pupils. If we were the teacher at that school we would certainly pile up these benches and chairs somewhere out of our way. There is a good building here, and they have an experienced teacher at the helm, but sho hasn't any tools much to work with, and of course cannot do as good work as she otherwise would. But she iB working hard all the same, and has Borne good material to work on as we had NDEKSON, S. C, TI ocular proof in an arithmetic class that we had at the board, who were very ready and only forgot to put in the signs. This school and all the others that we have visited so far are made up for eight months. Advantages of the Intensive System. This year has proven beyond a doubt that we should adopt the intensive and diversified plan of farming. We have been plodding along in the way our fathers successfully pursued during sla? very times, when they could command labor, had the virgin soil to till, and then, tradition says, the net profit was in the increase of the negro. Things have changed, labor has to be handled by the example of the white man and the soi* almost exhausted. It was^a lonely time i indeed ; about the 1st of June, with no ! stand of cotton and depending on it almost alone to pay for everything we used. I can't conceive of anything to compare the situation to except in '86, when "the earth trembled." If we had commenced our farms with the above advised plans by the first of Juno we would have had good stands of cotton. Why? Because the ground would have been prepared early and ma? nured, thereby retaining moisture and giving warmth to germinate seed. Be? sides, we would have bad other crops. This lack of system and intelligence has reduced the cotton crop one-half. But fortunately the corn crop is good, and if we can only meet our obligations this fall the outlook for another year is rather encouraging, as the buying of corn and meal runs up our accounts so enormously.' The shortage in cotton will be quite a blow, coming at this time, when the far? mers are just organizing and need money. But let us redeem this beautiful God favored country of ours, with its lovely climate and longevity, free American Government, inhabited by the most pa? triotic and courageous people on the face of the earth, that will grow almost any? thing we need if properly haudled. With these ideas predominant in my mind, I submit the following to the plough: Twelve acres of cotton will make- say 8 bales at 10 cents per pound, $380; 192 bushels cotton seed from said cotton at 12* cents per bushel, $23; 7 of corn at 12J bushels to lbs acre, at $1 per bushel, $87.50; fodder off corn $1/5; peas off same laud planted between hills of corn, $21; 4 acres of oats, 25 bushels to the acre, 100 bushels at 75 cents per bushel, worth $75; 3 acres of wheat, 10 bushels to the acre, 30 bushels at $1 per bushel, worth ?30 ; 1 acre of Kaffir corn, 75 bushels, at $1 per bushel, worth $75; 2 acres of speckle peas, 10 bushels, at $1 per bushel, worth $10; A. acre of yellow peas for rough feed, 4 loads at $4 per load, worth $16; 1 acre of sugarcane for feeding stock, worth C10; 1 acre of Bor ghura cane, 100 callons at 50 cents per gallon, worth ?50 ; being in all 31 acres and only 24 to be cultivated. From this plough we have $732.50 of farm produce. With this firm diversified as it is, two hands with $25 to hire hoeing could work it well and gather it. Two hands and their board would cost $200, and $25 for hoeing $225, $3 for cotton seed to plant, $1 for seed corn, $4.20 for seed bats, $3 for seed wheat, $3 for seed pea?, 50 cents for Kaffir seed, $95 for feed and rent of mule,, and $15 for blacksmith account and farm.implements. This makes the whole expense $349.70, taken from from income ($732.50) leaves a balance of $382 80 in favor of crop. I have not said anything about manure and its cost. Any farmer can make enough manure at home, including cot? ton seed, to go over his entire crop if he will fill and cleanse his stables once a month with leaves or pine straw and put in a rail peu, without covering, and left oval shaped at top. Such a plan will only let in water enough to cause it to decay. Now let us compare this crop with the average. Well, I don't know how many acres to say, somewhere between one and forty, and all in corn and cotton. Five bales of cotton worth $200; cotton seed $15 ; fifty bushels corn, and fodder off it, worth $55. This makes the whole crop worth $270. - Counting this crop the same as the other as to hands, mule, rent, feed, hoe? ing, farm tools, blacksmilhing, cotton seed and seed corn, will amount to $338, which leaves the crop in debt $68. The other gains, $382,80.? Winnsboro .News and Herald. Scaled Like a Serpent. ? Policeman Edward Dawson of the Fourth district on Fridav visited the Zoological Garden, not to see the ani mals, but to seek medical advice, Bays the Philadelphia Press. On "officer ?Dawson'8 hand, between the second and third fingers, is a little open wound no larger than a pinhead, that has remained so since 1866, when he was bitten by a black snake in Australia. He wanted to find out whether the keepers of the Zoo had any particular specific for the bite of snake, and a remarkable story. Dawson passed his boyhood in Berwick township, Gibb's Land, Province of Vic? toria. When a boy of fifteen yoars, playing in the bush, he was bitten. He ran home and his mother sucked the wound to extract the venom. His father, who was high police official sent for Pro? fessor Halford, of the Melbourne hospi? tal, who injected ammonia into the lad's wrist, and no ill effects immediately fol? lowed from the bite. But for years Dawson has suffered from a most perplexing malady, which be can? not but attribute to the snake's bite. Ab soon as spring weather comes the palms of his hands develop a Bcaly eruption which looks like the under part of a snake's body, and a like trouble appears in streaks on the legs below the knees and on the feet. The very puncture in the wrist, where Professor Halford in? jected the ammonia, always shows a dark circle around it. The eruption is very painful, and Policeman Dawson hail dif? ficulty in gripping his club when it is necessary to have it ready in discharge of bis duty. ? What I know about that standard remedy?Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup':?I know that a twenty-five cent bottle cuied mo of a bad cough in 12 houn. It is a fact. IUESDAY MOBNIN< BILL ABF. How Arp Purchased Provisions During tho War. Atlanta Constitution. "Peace hath her victories?more re? nowned than war." We all accept this time honored maxim, but we don't think much about it unless we have been in war and can draw the contrast. Our children don't appreciate it, for most of us tell them the bright, thrilling heroic side of the late terrible conflict, and leave out the dark pictures of horror and suf? fering and oppression. Most young men have an idea that a little fighting is a big thing, and of course all the girls love a hero, but experience takes the glory ? away and leaves the mind the more deeply impressed with the victories of peace. Bed handed war and white winged peace makes the pictures of contrast perfect. The civil law isisilent during war. I sold a butcher a cow to day, and I was rumi? nating how I usedjtojtake a man's cattle by force and hardly take time to apolo? gize. While in camp at Winchester, General Bartow sent for me and put me on commissionary duly, and gave me no instructions except that the men of his brigade must bo fed. That evening we started on a forced inarch to Manasses to fight the first great battle. By torch light thesoldierocro?sed theShenandoab River, wading up to their arm pits and holding their guns and cartridges above their heads. Wet and hillarious they burricd on to Piedraont, where they were to take the cars for'the battle ground. General Bartow sent for me and inquired what I had for his boys to eat?I was surprised and said "Nothing, sir; nothing at all." He seemed surprised and said in a very positive tone, "Well, my dear sir, you must get something and get it at once; we have only three hours to stay here." He saw my helpless, despairing look, and added, "They have bread in their haver? sacks, but you must get them some meat. Probably Borne of the people around here have some bacon. I see that Major Ayer has got a load of corn for the horses and there is a very fine yoke of oxen that hauled it, perhaps you can' buy them. Those butchers in the First Kentucky will slaughter them in a few minutes." "But, general," said I, "I have no money to buy with"." "Why, my dear sir," said he quickly, "we are in war and you are not obliged to have money. The men must be fed. Agree with the owner upon a price if you can, and do it quickly and givo him a receipt?take tho oxen and take some bacon if you can find it?get enough for 4,000 rations?take them at once and do your trading afterwards. I tell you that the men must be fed at all hazards." His knit brows and com piessed lips and the commanding tone of his voice impressed me and alarmed me. All of a sudden I realized tbat this was war and that all individual rights were swallowed up?obliterated?and that the general was king and emperor and judge and jury and executioner, if neceesary. I hurried from his presence, interviewed the owner of the oxen, priced them at a hundred dollars, gave him a receipt in pencil on tbe back of an old envelope, turned thein over to the butchers, and in less than half an hour their fine, fat car? casses were disembered into steak, all ready for tbe fires. They weighed 2,800 pounds net. I found enough bacon in a store near by to complete the rations, and gave a receipt for it. The men looked astonished, bewildered and foolish, and the owner of the oxen inquired in a timid way how he was to get his wagon home. "HuBh, Jim," interposed one of his Da bors. "If you don't mind they'll lake the wagon, too." The man looked at the hasty scrap of paper I had given him. Then he threw it on the grouud and muttered something between his teeth. I saw him pick it up agaiu and put it in his pocket, and walk sadly aud slowly away. It grieved me to the quick?I thought of him ou his journey home, and of his meeting with his family?no steers, no money, no satisfaction?not even a promise to pay?nothing but a receipt signed by a man he never expected to see agaiu. He, too, had just found out that this was war. I don't know whether he was a patrot or not, but patriotism is poor comfort to a man when his only yoke of oxen are abruptly seized and taken away and killed. The people had not then learned to suffer and be strong. I remem? ber that on another occasion, I was in? structed to impress all the flour in the neighboring mills, as our army was about to leave the valley, and the fear was that the enemy would get it. I found 400 barrels at one mill, and I found two men who seemed desperately in earnest, as they would kill the first man who touch? ed their property?there was no reason in them, and at last I had to go to their houses and reason with their wives and cbildrcn. Like a fisherman who gives the trout plenty of line until it is tired dowu, I gave these indignant and deter? mined women plenty of line and put on my kindest, gentled demeanor, and made.1 love to the children and actually accepted a cold invitation to dinner and by sun? down I prevailed on the men to let me have three hundred barrels and urged them to send off the remainder right away. I am glad to say that all the properly I impressed was paid for at Richmond. There iB a right way aud a wrong way to do these unpleasant thing*., I remember reading about a kind-hearted thief who, rinding a man asleep in- his bed, robbed him of his watch and money and felt so sorry for him that he loaned over and kissed him before he left bim. Later on, toward? the close of the war, when our people were in a desperate condition, I knew an old man who wa3 approached by some lawless impress agents and the key of bis smoke bouse demanded. In vain he pleaded that his four boys were in the army and bis sous-in-law too, and he had a household of children and grand chil? dren to provide for, and begged them to let his limited supplies alone. At last he went upstairs and stood at a window tbat overlooked the smokehouse door and told tbem he bad two double barrel shot? guns, loaded with buckshot; that he had but a few years more to live, anyway, and tbe first man who approached tbat door had better say his prayers and make hiH peacu with God. In a few minutes they left him and found easier prey in the name vicinity, 3, DECEMBER 5, 18 I was ruminating about the slow pro? gress of our courts when contrasted with the quick dispatch of our military tribu? nals. I recall the trial of two men at Centerville during the war?two soldiers, who committed a crime one morning and were tried that evening and shot the nest morning at sunrise. Then I recalled the swiftest election that ever occurred in history. Captain Chandler, of the Banks County Guards, resigned, on account of ill health, and while we were on the re? treat from Yorktown an election was or? dered to fill the vacancy. The company stopped beside the road and began the call and the vote, and just then some couriers came galloping by and said the yankee cavalry was coming on like a tor? nado, and the boys hustled up and struck a trot to catch up with the rear guard, and as they hurried along ? du could hear the sergeant calling the muster roll and every man answered "Charlton," "Charl? ton," and so Bill Charlton was elected captaiu on the fly, but he and his compa? ny were not scared any to hurt, and this was about the last retreat they were engaged in, and they made good uee of that. Bill told us afterwards that he didn't know what might happen, and if he had to die he wanted "Captain" put on his tombstone. Not long after that General Lee took command and wouldn't let the boys have any electiocs at all, but adopted the West Point rule and when a captain resigned or was killed the first lieutenant stepped right up in his place, and the second lieutenant took the first lieutenant's place and so on. That is what made the fuss between General Lee and Bob Toombs and ended in General Toomb's arrest at'Goidonsville. Pm glad to say that Toombs surrendered and apol? ogized and-they made friendu. I was thinking about all this last night, and of the "piping times of peace," for we had a goodly little company at our house, and the evening entertainment was the delightful music of one of Edi? son's improved and perfected phono? graphs. We sent for Mr. Freyer to come and tune the piano, and he brought his phono with him, and a lot of New York music that had recently been made by fine bands and notable singers and was caught on the fly and imprisoned on the waxed cylinders of the machine, andl we had it reproduced in all its richness of harmony and inflection, even to the rapturous en? core that followed the performance. I sang a baby song myself in it?a song that I have raised ten children on?and when it was reproduced I knew that it was me, That machine is a.marvel of wonder and delight, and the'most enjoyable thing for a fireside entertainment I have over seen. No wonder that the Paris exhibition gave more honor to Edison than to anybody. Truly he ia a wonderful man. Bill Aep. Cocaine's Yietim, "Give me the sweet cocaine." These were the last words of Dr. J. W. Underhill a minute before he died a few days ago. Miles Beatty, his faithful at tendant, handed him the bottle. Tremb? ling like an aspen he convulsively grasp? ed it, but could not get the bottle to his lips. His teeth were clinched together. I He hung on to his attendant as be leaned back against several pillows. The at? tendant put the bottle to his lips. The dying man made a desperate struggle to force his tongue to the fascinating liquid, but the angel of death stood over his shoulder, and the teeth were as firmly glued together as tbe'sutures of a skull, and the mouth would not open. A 'second of exhaustion now came over the dying man, then a spasm, ?nd, grasping hiB attendant by the neck, his heart stopped, his pulse ceased, he fell back limp and was dead. ? Like all habitual cocaine fiends, the doctor was subject to horrible delusions. He imagined that somebody, some enemy, was continually pursuing him, trying to kidnap him. Delirium tremens patients frequently imagine tbey seo horrible animals, gigantic monsters all mouth and no body, of all colors, and with numer? ous legs and claws, but the doctor had none of these. His hallucination was always tho same. Some enemy was after him. The death certificate will read "death from lockjaw," as that was the immedi? ate cause of his death. A week ago Monday, while eating with a rusty silver plated fork, he dropped it with sufficient force to penetrate the exterior portion of the left ankle. Only one prong pen: etrated the flesh. No blood came'from the wound, which healed. Yet afterward the limb became swollen, and symptoms of blood poisoning set in. A specialist in cocaine last year pre? dicted that his death would be a sudden one, probably from pjieumonia or pleu? risy, or an accident, which a person with a less impaired constitution would resist and throw off, And so it was. The slight wound from the fork which a man in perfect health would have paid no attention to, in the doctor's case, with his constitution sapped by the use of cocaine, proved fatal. The quantity of cocaine he could take in a day amounted to forty or fifty grains. He wanted it every half hour or hour. He generally took it in three or five-grain doses. It produced a sort of stupor, and it was no uncommon thing for the children of the house to enter his room aud find him in a doze, cousctous, yet stupefied. He told a curious tale about his becom? ing addicted to the habit. Ha was at one time a director of the Cincinnati Hospital, about the time the anaesthetic quality of cocaine, was discovered (in 1S84) some leading physicians, he said, wished to try the experiment on him. ?He was hale and hearty, had no constitu? tional disease, no hereditary taint, and was possessed of great firmness of char? acter and will power. He tried it, and found it to be an octopus, out of whose grasp by no power of his own could he escape.? Cincinnati Enquirer. To Dispel Colds, Headaches and Fevers, to cleause the sys'.em effectually, yet gently, when cos? tive or bilious, or when the blood is im? pure or sluggish, to permanently euro halittjal constipation, to awaken the kidney aud liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or weakening them, Mi Syrup of Fijin. > 89. AN O'ER TRUE TALE. i A Characteristic Sketch of a City on Satur? day Nights. "Saryc" in Atlanta Constitution, "Brown knows more folks and more folks' names than any other fellow in Georgia," said Plunkett. "You're right," said Brown. "The reason I say this erbout Brown is from what I teed of him up at Atlanta last Saturday. We bad a little truck of one kind and another, and so we hitched up our team and driv up and driv from house to house till we sold out a big wagon body of such things as my old 'oman and his old 'oman bad gathered together for us, and he knowed every house we come to and everybody's name' and what they all followed for a living, and everybody knowed him and the chil? dren all knowed his voice when we driv up and hollowed." "You're right," said Brown. "Night overtook^us and we decided that we would stay and see the ways of Atlanta on a Saturday night. We were on the back streets at the beginning of dusk and the men were coming in to their homes from the^work of the week. We watched the brawny fellows, some with little buckets and some with baskets, some with arras piled up with good things and some with the grocerman's delivery, aDd it was a joyful sight to see the gleeful childreu run and open the gates and kiss and hug their papa?." "They knowed it was pay day," said BrowD, with a wink. "The homes where these kind of thiDgs were going on seemed so cheerful. The lights blazed brightly and the ring of the children's voices sounded like Christmas times, and we sold all sich a pound or two of butter, and some honey, and some potatoes, and a chicken or two, aud I know that sich folks have good eating on Sundays if they don't at aoy other times." "Day after pay-day," said Brown. "But there were houses on the back streets where we didn't sell these sort of things, and we didn't sell nothing, aud I know they wanted it, for the children would climb over our wagon wheels and look wistfully at what we had, and we'd hear 'em say 'dou't you wish our papa was here.' Brown took a note of these papas and they were the men we seed in the city that night, and these are the men I want to tell you erbout, and I'll not tell you Darry lie and can prove what I aay." "You're right,"-Baid Brown. "NothiDg would do arter supper but we should knock erround the town, and as we went from place to place Brown took notes." "Jack Simpson was the firet fellow we noted, too," said Brown with a show of pride for his good memory. "Yes, Jack was the first fellow we struck, at the first little Btore. He was on a trade with the storekeeper, and arter a good deal of parleying he paid for a peck of meal aud a quarter's worth of meat to be sent to his home, and swore that flour, was too high for poor folks to eat,a8 ho passed out of the door and started back into the city. I remember? ed his home, when Brown hunched me, I remembered that hie wife was setting on the steps of a dimly lighted house looking wistfully towards the town for Jack to come, and I remembered the two little girls who were swinging on the gate with the same loDging look of their mother, and I remembered his little boy, who was setting square up on the gate? post, and, as he looked up the street said: 'Our papa never does come home early Saturday nighta.'" "That boy wanted a nickel," said Brown. "Well, we followed on behind Jack into the city and kept right up with him till we come to a store where the sign read: " 'Sweet Mash Corn Whiskey.' "We went in when Jack did and watch? ed bis capers. He didn't parley a min? ute, but called for a quart of the corn and paid more money out for it than he bad paid for everything he sent home put together; then he throwed out fifteen cents for a plug of tobacco, and then, darned if he didn't step right outside where four or five fellows were sitting on a box and handed ?'em the bottle and they drank it up right there and then, and then Jack pulled out his plug of tobacco aud give 'em all a chaw and started on to his home thinking he wsb mighty smart, but I thought 'you're the darndest fool I ever seed.' " "You was right," said Brown. "We went on then?further up town ?to a fine place, a place with big mir? rors and pictures, and tables and chairs. We took a seat and Brown went to tak? ing notes; he punched me with his el? bow aud told me the name of every fel? low that come in or went out. He know? ed where they lived and what they fol? lowed. "A group of young-since the war fel? lows were just over at a table aDd we could hear them talk. Somehow they talked mostly erbout girls. "'I wish I was er girl,' said one of 'em. * "'If you was you wouldn't be respec? table,'answered another. "Then they all laughed, and the fellow that they got the laugh on rapped the table with his knuckles hard enough to take the skin off it seemed to me as he lowed: " 'Fill 'em up ergin ! Boys, what will you have?' "The drinks came to them, and one of the fellows who looked a little more sol? emn than the rest lowed: '"Speaking of girls, boys, do you know tbat if the girls were as particular about who they marry as the men are, that there would be precious little marrying in this world?' " 'You're right,' echoed through the barroom. "Fifty cents was tossed into the waiter to pay for these four drinks, and as it tinkled on the tin, Brown hunched me and lowed: 'That would give some of them poor families we seed yesterday a good roast beef dinner for Sunday,' and he made a note. "Thea another fellow called a crowd up t) tho counter, and when they had drank he throwed over seventy-fivo cents <o the clerk, Brown made another note. VOLUM end 'lowed that would have bough t a sack of flour. "Then another paid out enough in a twinkling to have got the lard and sweet? ening for a big dinner, and another set went up, a fellow with a beaver hat on, and he left enough to have bought a whole mutton, and when he was through the fellow next to him 'lowed it was his time and throwed over enough to have bought two or three loads ot wood, and eo it went. A fresh set would come and go and the old sot would come ergin, till Brown quit hunching me and just set thero and as the money was dropped he'd say: " 'There goes a fat hen !' " 'There goes a turkey!' " 'There goes the oysters and stuff? ing 1' " 'There goes a whole beef 1' " 'There goes a ton of coal 1' " 'There goeB a pair of shoes for the wife 1' ^ " 'There goes flannels and winter clothing for the children.' " 'TlierG goes a cheap lot to live on for some poor widow,' he exclaimed, as a fancy looking young fellow paid for a fine mirror he had broken. "When we got to our room that night Brown got out bis notes and we ?gured a little. " 'Now, this fellow,' pointing to one of his notes, 'lived there in that bouse where the vines growed up by the chim? ney. Where that pale woman wanted some of our butterso bad. He has spent according to these notes, enough to have, bought that pale wife two-pounds of our butter, two dozen of our eggs, a peck of Irish and of sweet potatoes, a peck of our apples, a gallon of our honey, and tur? nips and vegetables for a Sunday din? ner.' "Brown then went on with hi3 notes, calling every fellow's name and telling me where they lived and what they fol? lowed, and how many children he had and all their names, and wound up by swearing that if all the money that was spent in dissipation last night could have been spent in the right way, every human being in the city of Atlanta and in the county of Fulton could have a glorious dinner cn this blessed Sabbath day." Sad Suicide. Charlotte, N. C, Nov. 25.?A most remarkable case of suicide is reported from Thomasville, a small village on the Richmond &;Danville Railroad, between Lexington and High Point. It seems that Miss Essie Westmorelond, a pretty girl of sixteen summers became engaged to a young man of that place, but on account of her youth fulness her parents declined to consent to their marriage, and forbid the young man to call on their daughter. They kept a close watch' over the girl and would not allow her to meet the young man ou any occasion. Miss Essie thought such proceedings more than she could stand, and asked her pa? rents when they would allow her to marry She was told that under no consideration would they ever give their consent until she reached the age of twenty. To live four more long years without a husband was a thing the young girl did not care to do, and how it could be done was a question past her understanding or ways of finding out. a fatal note. On last Friday afternoon M;"s Essie's lover sent her a note asking if he could accompany her to church on that night. She was willing, but her mother sent the young man word saying no. The girl wept aloud and went out of the room saying: "This will be the last of me 1" Her mother, however, took no notice of the remark thinking it would all 30on pass off. It was then dark and Miss Essie, securing a rope, went quietly into the back yard and mounting the fence by the side of a big cedar tree, she quick? ly adjusted one end to a limb and then placing the other about her neck she eased off and was suspended at the end of the rope. Of course her neck was not broken, as there was no tall at all. The deliberation of the act is shown in the fact, that had she repented, she could have saved herself by throwing her hands up and catching the limb. But she made no noise, although it is thought she did not die sooner than twenty minutes after BwingiDg off. Her body was found before it bad become cold. It was instantly taken down and all manner of means ?vera resorted to bring life into it but it was of no avail and she was buried at Thomasville yesterday. ? Under an act of the legislature of Georgia the Okeefinokee swamp, lying on the confines of Georgia and Florida, is to be sold at public auction. The bids must: not start at less than ten cents per acre, and the estimated quantity of land is 450,000 acres. This swamp comprises the headwaters of the St. Mary's River, and ' 13 almost impenetrable. Sufficient ex? ploration has been made to show that it comprises an immense body of valuable timber, and it will be by no means diffi? cult to get this timber out. The sale has been ordered to be made in connection with a ship canal project chartered by the legislature of Georgia. ? Ex-President Cleveland attracted considerable attention the other day in a New York elevated railroad train because he got up and gave bis seat to a homely faced working girl, and then Btood hang? ing ou to a strap. How's Tlifc? We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, Ohio. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggist, To? ledo, Ohio. Walding, Klnnan & Marvin, Whole? sale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. E. H. VanHoesen, Cashier Toledo Na? tional Bank, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting upon the blood and mucous sur? faces of the system. Price, 75o. per bot? tle. Sold by all Druggists, E XXIV.--NO. 22. g ALL SO?TS OF PARAGRAPHS, ? The lace trade of France gives em? ployment to nearly 200,000 persons. ? The new Chinese consul atNew^ York city rejoices in the name of Shame^i Fun. ? The average number of fires in New York city is 2,800 a year, about seven ag day. ? Santa Cruz, California, reports a 13 months old baby that can swim like a duck. ? Turkeys are the most innocent of birds. The most silly woman in the trorld - can stuff one. ? Some girls are eo devoted to lempe- . ranee principles that they Won't wear tight sleeves. ? The Irish potato crop of the United States is estimated at 17,000,000 bushels more than last year. ? The taxable values of the Southern States this year show a total increase of $300,000,000 over 1888. ? Take pleasure in your work. A task which appears-'distasteful.At^first right ^. soon becomes pleasure. ? The good that men -do may be in? terred with their bones, but the coffinsjof some men are not crowded. ? William Sprague, war governor of * Rhode Island, and.once worth'.$10,000,- ? 000, is now living in poverty. ? The death rate on the earth is calcn lated tobe 67 in a minute, or',40,20air.?; hour, 96,480 a day, 35,215,200 a year. ? The wheat crop of the United States, this year is about 485,000,000 /: bushels, an '.increase of 70,000,000 overv^ 1888. ? Myriads of cases of rheumatism and neuralgia have already succumbed to that wonderful remedy, Salvation Oil. Pnce*^! only 25 cents albottle. ? A woman in Missouri boasta that she . r has been led to the altar ten times. No one need offer to lead her again. She knows the way blindfolded. ? It is again reported that there is . much suffering, and danger of actual % starvation, in Stevens county, Kansas, on account of a failure of the crops. ? It is estimated that human life has , been lengthened 25 per cent, during the \ last half century. The average life is now -. 40 years. This shows progress in civili? zation. ? According to an official statement, the contributions lor the relief oftae0 Johnstown sufferers aggregate $3,500j00O('rN' What a national exhibit of national be? nevolence. ' ? The grain which is used annually in the manufacture of liquors would give ninety-nine and one half four-pound loaves of bread to every family in the United States. ? "I wish I was a minister," said Bobby, one Sunday afternoon. "Why, . dear?" "Because he is the only onethat can speak out loud in church without go* ing to the bad place for it." ? During 1889 slightly over a hundred million dollars' worth of gold has been; digged from the earth on the four conti- .". nents; the largest quantity came from Australia, California, and South Africa. ' ?A mine of natural shoe-blacking has been discovered in Utah. It contains sixteen per cent, carbon, thirty-four per j cent, aluminum and the remainder clay. It produces a fine polish not easily de-" 8troyed. ? While Albert Ogle was. hunting a natural gas leak with a lighted ~ jnafch 2 in his mother's residence, at Muncie, Ind., the gas.'ignited, causing a terrific explosion. The house was blown pieces and Albert and his sister were se? verely injured. ? The late terrible enow storm in New Mexico attacked regions where snow was scarcely ever known to fall. The loss of sheep alone was not far front ^ 30,000. Since the memory of man no genuine blizzard was ever encountered in y southern Colorado or New Mexico before.;' . Perhaps one will be heard of in old Mexi? co next ' ""1 ? Legacies to the amount of $900, left J by Benjamin Franklin and John Scott to ^ be expended upon public improvements, have amounted by investment for nearly;&? a century to about $110,000. Of this, $100,000 will be devoted to the erection of a large public bath in Philadelphia, while the remaining $10,000 will be laid aside for another hundred years. ? Pennsylvania is going to present a claim of $2,000,000 to Congress for losses incurred in border counties ofthat State during the invasion of confederate % troops. The State has advanced at dif- -[ ferect times $900,000 for the relief of people who sustained losnes, and Con? gress, will also be asked to put that amount into the State treasury. Penn? sylvania is not at all modest. ? There are between five hundred and six hundred Chinamen in Sunday-schools and missions in New Ycrkcity. are there chiefly to learn to talk Eng for there are only fifty-three of the n ber who are out and out Christians,' is, members of the churches. A rellj worker among the Mongolians says the church people have got to realize that the Chinaman is a pretty hard subject to christianize. ? The beard of Henry S. Cook, a tailor of Norwich, Conn., is as long as he' is. Mr. Cook is a?8mall man, 60 years old. His beard is jet black and^gire-an silky, and so is his hair. When he erect.and his beard unfurled, he can step on six inches of it. He wears it ordina-^ rily coiled in a wad inside his vest. T*^^ num wanted Mr. Cook to"tra-*4 with his circus; but Cook is prosperous and does not care to be a freak. 1 ? loq Maybe too Modest, But you are certainly not afiaid to ask] for something to relieve you of a^ liver?of bad blood. You need if now, and Dr. Westmoreland's Calii! Tonic is the article. A leading physic! writes: RlDGEVILLE, 8. O. \ Dear Sir: You rill please send me; two bottles of Dr. Westmoreland's1 saya Tonic. The bottle you gave has given satisfaction beyond my expec| tation. * * * Hoping you verygr success with your Tonic, I amj truly yours, W. B. Way, This standard preparation la s{ fifty cents and a dollar a bottle.