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BY CUNKSCALES & LANGSTON. HEADQUARTERS *?* CHRISTMAS! J ONE CAR LOAD OF TOYS AND CHRISTMAS GOODS i) TJST RECEIVED, containing everything ever Bold in Anderson, and lots of things never seen in this market before PRICES ARE LOWER than you ever beard of before. Come and see for yourselves. TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS OF CANDY On band, and you know it must be sold. My twenty Clerks will be ready at all fimea'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 propo. Lieu ready for Santa Clans. J?&" Don't forget the place. Look for Sign?"Headquarters for Christmas Goods \" Gr. M. TOLLY. Nor 21,1SS9 20 5 The PROGRESSIVE AGE in which we live and flourish demands? EISTE It G^Y, PLUCK, 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 you can get elsewhere. We'll tell you the "Good Old Honest Truth" about every article we sell you. We Pay Cash for every Dollars' worth we Buy, And Give You tlie Btnefit Every Time. Don't Believe a word we Say. BUT COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF, JOHN M. HUBBAED & BBO., Hext to Farmers and Merchants Bank, Anderson, S. C. ? AT AND BELOW COST 1 HaVLNG determined to close out our Mercantile Business in order to devote our entire time and attention to the Cottoa Business, we now oiler our entire Stock of? Dry Ms, Hats, Sloss, Notions aid Mi, REGARDLESS OF COST. Read some of these prices: Best Calicoes 5c. per yard. Pelzer Shirting 4Jc. per yard. Checks 4Jc. per yard, Blankets $100 per pair, Hats 10c. up, Shoes?Womens' Balmorals?50c. Mens3 Brogans 65c. Mens' Boots $1.25. Mens' Overcoats $1.50 and upward. These.are a few of the leading articles. We cannot begin to enumerate the BARGAINS we offer. We Have a Full Stock of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS That we are selling at COST. There are ONE THOUSAND BARRELS OF FLOUR is Stock that must go, if Cost Prices will sell them. And then there are ONE HUNDRED BOXES OF TOBACCO That it will 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 ? Noa 21,1889 20 5 THE BEST IN THE WORLD ! OUR, OWN WHITE PINE EXPECTORANT GAVE such universal satisfaction last Spring that we have prepared a large lot of it for tlhis Winter, and want everybody? WHO , HAS A COUGH To try it. It is the Best Cough Syrup made, and is recommended by every one who has used it. If you have a Cough buy a bottle, and if that one don't cure you, it will do so much good that you will be sure to get unother. THY IT. ORE <Sc SZLO-AJST J. P. SULLIVAN & CO'S. INVITATION Wo 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! ! Wo have a Fall Line or STAPLE AND SEASONABLE GOODS! PRESENT indications wurraut 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 '.jvcry 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 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 thanks for past patronage, we remain, Respectfully yours, I P. SULLIVAN & CO. TeJ??heJ^'Column, All communications- intended for this Column should ho addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C. _ Never be afraid to say to your pupils "I was wrong," "I waB mistaken," or "I don't know." We are nothing but human, and should not place ourselves upon too high a pedestal, for when we 'fall, as fill we will, great will be the fall thereof. It is dangerous ground to occupy to expect a child to believe a thing be? cause we say it-is so. Children should be given a reason by both parents and teachers for what they are commanded to do. The Bible gives reasons all along why this or that should or should not be done, A child will naturally ask why he should be com? pelled to do a thing, and he should have some better reason for it than the mere arbitrary will of the parent or teacher. You may be wrong in giving a command, and if you are, rest assured your pupils will find it out. They may give you a mechanical obedience because you have the power to enforce your commands, but their judgment will condemn you. They are keen and logical to the last degree^and wiil easily see through any thin disguise. They are forming charac? ter, and should be led to give an intelli? gent and reasonable obedience, and to give it because it is right. They should be taught to see that there must be law, and that this implies a lawgiver, and the two together imply obedience, and that not mechanical but rational. What are the elements of success in a teacher? Is it to simply know enough of grammar, history, geography, &c, to pass the examination for a certificate to teach? The teacher who knows no more than this will be a failure, will lack power to attract, and no man or woman can succeed who has cot, in some degree, this power of personal magneusm. There must be a something in the teacher that the child feels that it wants, that makes it feel that if. has gained something by coming in contact with the teacher, just as the metal is magnetized by coming in contact with lue magnet. We think that a successful teacher should, by all means, be a great reader of history, poetry, biography and the current litera? ture of the day, not simply a cursory reader, but one who absorbs and assim? ilates what he reads, and is able to use it in his work. As a corollary from this he Bhould be able to talk well and enter? tainingly, for a good story well told occa? sionally, or Bome fact or incident clev-1 erly related awakens an interest and attracts the pupils. Then, again, the successful teacher must live for his school, work for his school, study his school and think about his school. He should make his school the object of his ceaseless attention, the one thing about which all his thoughts center. He Bhould feel as the great apostle did: "This one thing I do." He cannot be a successful preacher and teacher, too, any more than he can serve two maflters. One or the other will be a failure. Every man must stick to his trade. Growing out of what has been said above, a suc? cessful teacher must be in love with his work. He who goes to his work in the school room day by day, as a gaily slave is driven to his task, is a foregone failure, but he who goes with a light heart and elastic step and a sparkling eye and a kindly greeting for his pupils and eager to impart instruction, has taken a long stride toward success. Then he must be approachable, he must invite the confi? dence of b)3 pupih, there must be that in him that assures them at once that they have found a friend. A little girl was standing at a street crossing in the city of London watching an opportunity to cross without being run over. She looked wistfully in the faco of one and another, and finally asked an old gentle? man who was in the act of crossing to take her over. The gentlemen was none other than the Earl of Shaftsbury, who had had honors without stint showered upon him by nobility and royalty, and yet he says this was the h?hest compli? ment, ever paid him?the unquestioning trust of a little girl. No sour, discon? tented, misanthropic teacher will ever succeed. From the very nature of the case he repels and drives away. A Preyentiye for Divorce, Edward J.Phelps, ex-Miuister to Eng? land and lecturer on law at Yale, has turned his attention to the subject of di? vorce in the United States, with an effort to discover a practical means of lessening the evil. How great that evil i3 may be seen a glance from the fact that dur? ing the' last twenty years more than 000,000 divorces have been granted, whereas, during the preceding tweuly years, only a few more than 325,000 were granted. This rapid increase is the main fact which has directed the atten? tion both of social and legal reformers to the subject. Mr. Fbelps treats it from a practical legal point of view, and con? siders the means whereby the law may be best used as a preventive. A uniform divorce law in all the States ho regards as impossible over to obtain, and his view of the Federal Con? stitution is that it would be illegal for the United Slates to enact a law on this subject, this being a mailer which falls within State jurisdiction. Uo addresses himself, therefore, to Stale laws; and after a discussion of the main features of all these laws, reaches the conclusion that the remedy will be found in a prohibition of marriage by either divorced party so long as the other lives. He shows his? torically that it is the liberty to marry again that has caused such an increase iu divorces, and he coucludes that it is tho desire for another marriage alliance that is the main cause of most separations between husband and wives.? The Forum. ? T. V. Powderly, tho Chief of the Knights of Labor, possesses a remarkable memory. Although he meets thousands of people every year he never forgets one face. ? Quick, safe and sure. This is said of Salvation Oil, the great rheumatic remedy and greatest cure on earth, Price 25 cents a bottle. NDERSON. S.O., TI BILL ARP. His Experience of the Uanlsbtps of Travel, Atlanta Constitution. Here I era a belated traveler in a strange town, The Memphis train won't go until the Knoxville train comes. "Hour and a half late," says the ticket nf leave man, and that means that I will lose connection at Memphis and fail to meet my appoint? ments beyond. Wish I was at home. Homo is the best place in the world. A woman with two children said in a pitiful voice, "did he say au hou- and a half?" "Yes, mam." "Will that delay me at Memphis from going right on ?" "It will mam." She turned her face away, but I saw her distress and heard her say to her boy: "I'm afraid we will be too late." Too late?too late for what, I wondered. I found out afterwards. It was "too late" to see her daughter, who wa3 dying when tho telegram reached her. what a world of trouble. That poor mother's trouble swallowed up ray owu vexation and disappointment for a time. "Hour and a half late," I heard again, and a northern man bound for Florence said, "That's the way with these southern railroads. Yon cau't rely upon them.- You never know when you will reach a place ?util you get there. Why dident the Memphis train leave on time anyhow. Why should it wait on Knoxville." A big round face Irishman took up the wager and.said: "TheKnox ville train has got some of your kinfolks on it, and it wouldn't do to disappint 'em 1 when they get here. Thoy are from the 1 north, you know." "Hour and a half late," said a good naturcd old man. 1 "That means two hours and a half, and ' ray little boy will be waiting for me at 1 Scottsboro to take me four miles home in 1 the country. He will feel so bad sitting i there in the rain ; but it ain't as bad as ; war, thank the Lord." The hour and a 1 half passed, and two hours and a half, i and I heard the good natured man recit- ] ing an old ditty, "pray rope, hang butcher, I make butcher kill ox, make ox drink water, make water quench fire, make fire 1 burn siick, make stick beat kid, make kid 1 go?time kid and I were home hour and < a half ago," but I knew he was sighing 1 while he sang, for he was TlIINKIKO ABOUT that COY. What a world of love and comfort there is iu sympathy. But the belated train did come at luat, and I reckon the trou- \ bles are over; I hope they are. While | waiting in the large reception room of j the Reed house, it was curious to watch ( the busy people come and go?to see ^the j traveling merchants writing their business E letters and their home letters and their , love letters, at the long table under the , incandescent lights. I could almost tell | what kind of a letter it was, by looking ? npon their various fa ;es and expressions. | "What are you writing, Jim ?" said one. j "Writing to my sweetheart I" what are ( you writing ?" " Writing to my mother 1" j he said, and they leaned earnestly over j the paper. It did me good to hear him j say he was writing to his mother. Heard ] anothei say: "This is a hard town for my ( business j I did twice as well in Binning* , ham?did better in Anuiston; I will ^ shake the dust off my feet in the morning and try the great city of Atlanta." The f people moved to and fro?every train , brought iu some and took out some. The , elevator was all the while ridincr up and , riding down. Three Italians came in j with a harp and two violins and gave us j delicious music, and then passed the hat j around and took in the dimes and nickels j from most all the folks who were not j reading. I have noticed how diligently | some folks read on such occasions. . They didn't hear the music at all, I and of course didn't want to pay for what 1 they didn't hear. The Italians played > "Home, Sweet Home" with variations, ? and the sweet melody touched me so I 1 put a dime in the hat, for it was worth it, ' and I remembered that the poor friendless 1 wanderers who played it so well had no 1 place, no home, aud the deep blue sea was between them aud their native soil. . It always seemed to me that a fine musi- ; ciaa must have some loving and lovable emotion, for music is close akin to heaven and is said to be the only thing upon earth that is commou to angels and to men. The Knoxville train came in at last, just three hours late, but I did not take it for Memphis. About midnight I Bteamed away tor Nashville and tumbled dowu on my valise and overcoat and wont to sleep; sleep that is tired nature's sweet restorer. The next evening found me at Troy, which was my destination, and I was ou time for my appointment aud an all night's rain that limited my audience. We held a little love feast for an hour or more, and I met some of my old friends? friendd of tho old war times when Dr. Caldv.'ell was commander of the post at Rome and Forrest captured Strait and brought him in a prisoner with his 1,600 men. Dr. Galdwell is living here in Troy and wo got together and retold the events of that thbilli>:y time, how he organized the meelish 300 strong, or rather 300 weak, for they were the halt a?d the lame and the blind and the su pcranuatcd, and he armed them with old guns and pistols and a cracked cannon and loaded the camion with nails und tacki and scraps cf old iron which was the best he could do, and then marched tue meelish across the bridge to meet the foul invader if he should daro to come. About the critical juncture it wasperceiv td ihut some of the meelish were coming back across the bridge, f nd so Colonel C? Id well had the plank of the iloor torn up und exclaimed : "I'll bo dogond if they shall have any chance to rotreat. We must fight. I repeat it, sir, ve must fight." And I believe to this day that if Strait had have come those meelish would have fought for they had got down behind the bank of the river where tho yaukees couldn't sea them, and they were obliged to Sght, or swim, or Riirrendcr. But the fighting time Devcr came, for General Forrest with his three hundred men had captured SlraU with ^ his one thousand six hundred away down the road aud brought him in, aud tho plank floor was put back and the meelish marched up in tho rear and received a [TJESDAY MORNIN' share of the bouquets and gratitude of the women and children, Tho doctor asked me in a dreamy way about his old friends, Judge Underwood and Colonel Shorter and Tom Perry, and Jim Berry and Judge Maguire, and Co? hen and Burwell and old man Noble and Sam Noble, and Dr. King and Mr. Raw lins, and Colonel Printup and many oth? ers, and all I could say was "dead, dead? dead. Everyone you have named is dead." He looked down sadly and said ; "Well, it baa been a quarter of a century and nearly everybody I used to know right hero in my old home is dead. Death is the common lot. How does it happen that you are alive and look so young and vigorous." After the lecture we look a hack for our home?six of us, and two of them were ladies. It was dark?dark E3 Ere? bus, and raining, and the mud ivaa deep, and the ditches full, and as we crossed a little bridge one of the horses missed it, and fell six feet into a ditch, and the tongue was snapped like a pipe stem, and the hack careened, and the women screamed, end tho men jumped out and caught them in their arms, and, as I was the last lo leave the sicking ship I just fell out in a tumultuous way right in the mud and water, and we all waded away from the Wreck with alacrily and gratitude. A knife?a knife I Baid the driver, and I handed him mine as I run, fori could dimly see that one horse waB in the ditch with his legs uppermost and the other looked like he was trying to climb Mt. Vesuvious, The driver de? clared his horse wa3 dead?neck broken. We didn't stay to the inquest for a Trojan horse never was a reliable institution. These little episodes when they come all unexpected and are soon over are quite delightful after they'have passed. They impress themselves upon you and give von something to talk about and maguify ind tell to the children when you get uome. Troy is a good town and has good people and I hope that Union City won't be allowed to steal her courthouse. Whenever a town gets ahead of her aeighbors it looks like her people want jverything they can get, regardless of jonsequenccs. I'm for Troy, I am, horse )r no horse. Bill Am?. Rich and Racy, A dispatch from Findlay, Ohio, says : L'here was great fun out in Delaware ;owuship, this county, last night. Merle sours, 05 years old, married a young girl )f about 17 summers, and the boys in the leighborhood determined to give them lomething out of the ordinary in the vay of' a charivori. Those mischief nakers came to this city and purchased ;wo pails full of blood, fresh from a ilaughter house, and carried it out where ;he newly-married couple were to spend ;he night. As eoon 33 everything indi jated that December and May had retired, ;heae boys slipped into the yard surround? ing the house and poured a stream of >lood entirely around the premises. Saving accomplished this without detec iiou, they drove half dozen cows into the ran! and then concealed themselves to iwait developments. Tha fun began at once. Tue cows no loouer sniffed the blood than they com nenced bellowing frantically, and could jasily be heard a mile or two. Other lows "caught oa," and there camo a procession of bovines from nearly every [arm in the township, all bellowing in :he most vehement manner. They fought and stamped and pawed the ground and bellowed in chorus until the Dridal couple fairly went wild from the mnoyance. When the tumult was at its height, the bridegroom, wearing do thing but a red Elannel undergarment, was seen to emerge from the door with a huge club in his hand, but his appearance, iu such a sostume only added fuel to the flame and what followed cannot be faithfully described. The old man made one run around the house, which would have beaten the World's sprinting record, and just managed to get back within the door as the horns of the foremost auimal in the procession tore a generous piece out of his red flannel shirt, the bride, in the meantime screaming at the top of her voice. Again and again during the night did old December attempt to dispose of bis unique charivari party, but without avail ; as often would they return to their bloody trail. All this time the cows augumeuted in number until not le?s than 200 cattle surrounded the house, while from every direction came the answering bellow of new recruits hasten? ing to the bridal demonstration which was eo freely being bestowed on old man Sours and his youthful wife. Paid for Loss of Beauty. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 22.?One of tho biggest awards of damages made in many a year by a jury was given this afternoon iu the Law and Equity Court in the case of Michael J. Tierney against the Standard Oil Company. Tiorncy sued for $25,000 for personal injuries and the jury gave him a verdict for the full amount after being out only three min uix-s. The jury cast one ballot. Tierney was a freight conductor on the Louisville and Nashville Road. A car loaded with n.nptha belonging to the Standard Oil Company began to leak. It was night when this was discovered and Tierney, being unaware of (he dangerous contents, entered the car with a lantern. An explosion followed and he was badly injured and burned. This was the second trial ; at the first the jury was unable to figree. Tierney's whole face was badly burned and disfigured and the jury doubt? less allow rd hin) most of the damages for the wreck ul bis manly beauty. ? Hundreds of men were seen at the Van West, Ohio, fair sucking lemons bought on the ground, and they enjoyed the fruit so much that an investigation was made. When a tip was removed from the end good old rye oozed out. Three lemons would lay a man out as still h.s a mummy. -- "Down in the coal mints underneath the ground" coughH and colds are very frequent and there is where Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup ia invaluable. B, DECEMBER 12, 1 STEAK REARED COLTS. Wunders ol a Rich Cillfurnlnn's Eqv.inc not House. "Why do these California bred horses, both trotters and runners, develop such tremendous speed at an early age, and then retire lor the ieit of their lives?" That is a question that has been put to every horseman of uote in the country, ?but not one seems able to auswer it. A geutlcman, a homo fancier and now and then a buyer at the California sales, being much interested in the phenome? nal trotter3 that come from that region, went down t? Palo Alto to sec the famous breeding farm, and of it ho .Haid: Palo Alto is about forty miles from San Francisco in what is known as the Santa Clara Valley. The hors," part of the estate comprises about thu-e thousand acres, though a good many more acres are in vines and forests and the private grounds of the railroad baron's summer retreat. Talk about princes and princesses of effete monarchies being reared in velvet and fed from gold spoons; the nearest approach to that in this great republic is this equine principality at Palo Alto. Dean Swift's celebrated Houyhuhums never had a better time in their kingdom than have the modern Houyhubums of the Stanford place. AN IMMENSE ESTABLISHMENT. As soon as the babies have forgotten their mothers comes tbe beginning of their life's work. The leading halter and soft rubber bit kept iu the mouth for half an hour a day is the ABC. Then comes tbe kindergarten track to discover if any of them have a natural gait. Half dozen are put into the saw dust circle at once. A man stands iu the middle with a long whip, which he waves furiously, but no little ono is ever permitted to feel its sting. All start around the ring, first in a coltish canter, and then some little pupil more promising than the others will strike a trot. Soon auother will do the same. An apple or a lump of sugar is the reward of merit. Usually before the class has finished all of them will be jogging about on a trot. Then a new batch is taken, and in a few weeks forty or fifty fillies and a3 many colts-have gone through the kindergarten course. Meantime every little one of either sex is handled and fondled! The colts ami fillies arc relentlessly parted at weaning time and never see each other again except at a distance. Co-education of the sexes is frowned upon at Palo Alto. The little oues are very tame and follow one around like a lot of kittens. If you Btop in the paddock they instantly sur? round you like a lot of chattering school girls and begin to search your pocketB with their velvety noses for a.bit of fruit or sugar. Not ooe is ever scolded or permitted to be frightened in auy way, nor is the whip ever used except as a badge of authority. When the infant aristocracy is bridle trained and thoroughly tractable, say at nine or ten months, and from that to a year old, comes the first introduction to harness. The colts are not quite so proud of this as a boy with his first pair of boots, nor do the fillies seem to enjoy it as much as the girl does her first long dress. Indeed they are pretty "scary" at first aud require the presence aud expe? rience of an old stager beside them at the pole of the breaking cart, But their timidity Boon wears off, and it is aston? ishing how fast they learn. It must be remembered that by this time these youngsters are to the non critical eye almost full growu horses. Their legs are strong, their bodies well filled out, their necks plump, their eyes bright and intelligent and their coats shiue like satin. All this is the result of the forcing process. On the Stanford farm the 2 year-old colt looks like the well matured horse of 5 in Illinois. At 1J- years old begins their hard work on the track. It is then that the best and most promising are selected for a yearly record. HOW THEY ARE TRAINED. The railroad station for Palo Alto is Menlo Park. A mile from Menlo you enter a broad gateway, pass a por? ter's lodge and enter upon the big domain. A magnificent broad avenue, lined with stately oaks, and winding through a dense foliage, leads you to the senator's house, another mile away. You pas3 that, and the same avenue, still winding for another mile as only Fred? erick Law Omstead can make it wind, brings you to tho crest of a sight eleva? tion. Descending from the slight elevation you pass through a lane 100 feet wido. This is the main street of the horse vil? lage. On either side for nearly half a mile are half acre paddocks, each with water tubs, feed troughs aud an oak tree or two for shade. These are divided, not by the ordinary board fence of a Ken? tucky farm, but by palings painted white, with each gateway done in brown. There arc nine huge hay barns clustered about the ceuter of the village. These are painted in brown, with v/hito trimmings. A great grist mill, wish steam power for grinding the food, is near at hand. Another huge bars h for, the work horses and mules of the place?nearly one hundred and fifty iu number?the servi? tor.! of the pampered aristocracy of the kingdom. A magnificent race track lies on the outskirts of the village, with a training track for colts within the outer circle. Another building is set apart for tbe "kinder garten"?a great canopy covering a sawdust ring au eighth of a mile long. This is when the little 'weanlings; fix nr.d eight months old, are brought to bo taught, their first paefs. "Right here," said the enthusiastic horse lover, "is where I got tho first inkling of what it is that enabled a 2 year old in California 1? trot a mile in 2:18, ns Sucol did. It is forcing and feeding. Trainer Gallagher gave me the history of Sunol aud tho life sho led there for two years is the life of all of them. When Sunol was six months old sho was brought in with twenty other fillies from tho pastures in which their mothers roamed. The weaning process i-j quite easy. Trp youngster? are put onr,tcamrd??{Train food atones. Ic th? I morning a quart of steamed barley mixed wish brau, in the evening two quarts of ground barley nteamcd and mofcloned 889. with lime water, is about their daily diet. That is pretty high food for a weanling. When I was a boy on the old farm in Pennsylvania it was a pretty lucky celt or filly that ever saw anything but hay or grass until it was 2 years old. But at Palo Alto the babies are stuffed with grain from the start. I was there in July, and there was no green food to speak of, with the exception of green corn tops, of which the little ones had three diets a week. Even then it was chopped in a steam cutter and mixed with bran.* Chlcago Herald. Speaking to People. "Who in the world is that you're speaking to'?" said one young lady to her companion of the same sex and age as they walked down one of the avenues the other day. "That man? He is the man that mends my shoes wisen they need it," wr.B the reply. "Well," said the first speaker, "I wouldn't epeak to him ; don't think it's nice." "I do," was the rejoinder. "I speak to everybody I know?from Dr. Brown our minister, to the colored man who blacks our stoves and ?hakea our carpets?and I notice that the more humbler the one in social state to whom I proffer kindly words, the more grateful is the recognition I receive in return. Christ died for them as much as He died for me, and perhaps if some of them had had the opportunities my birth and rearing have given me they would be a great deal better than I. That cobbler is really quite an intelligent man. I've lent him books to read, and he likes quite a high style of reading, too." The two girls were cousins, and they finally agreed to leave the question as to recognizing day laborers, mechanics and tradesmen, to a young lawyer of whom they had a high opinion. So the first time the three were together, one of the girls asked him: "If you met Mr. Myres, the grocer, on Broadway street would you speak to him?" "Why, yes, certainly; why do you ask?" "And would you speak to the man who cobbles your shoes ?" ? "Certainly, why not ?" "And the janitor of the building whore you have your office?" "Of course." "And the boy that runs the eleva? tor ?" "Certainly." "Is there anybody you know that ycu don't apeak to?" "Well, yes; I don't speak to the Joneses, who cheated a poor widow out of her house; or to Brown, who grinds down his employees and gives them star? vation wages; or to Smith, whom I know to be in private anything but the saint he sesms to be in public. I speak to every honest man I know whom I chance to meet. Why do you ask ?" "Because we simply want to know," replied the young lady who had taken her friend to task for speaking to a cobbler. In fact, she was ashamed to tell him that he was referee in the discussion on this point held a day or two before. It i3 the privilege of nobility to be gen tic and courteous to all. Kindly words hurt no one, least of all him or her who speaks them. ? Spurgeon, the great Baptist preach? er, generally devotes thirty minutes to the preparation of a sermon. ? The present head of the Mormon church, President Woodruff, says that each person now on earth is individually beset by 100 devils. He declares that he has actually seen devils, and says that they frequently appear in the flesh before the eyes of men. President Wood? ruff scares the younger Mormons into fits when he talks in this fashion. ? Neighbor of ours, whose hens, to our exasperation, kept laying on when eggs were 45 cents per dozen, while ours persistently laid off during the same season, on being questioned, revealed the fact that his hens had a pailful of skim? med (perhaps clabbered) milk each day, and no other drink. On comparing notes we each found that our fowls was almost exactly alike, with this single difference?a difference that had put many a dollar to the credit aide of bis ledger, while our owu was left blank during the same period. This thing has been going on for year3, with the results in favor of a milk diet.? Texas Slock Journal. ? Stanley had a harder time than any other explorer in his recent African march. He traversed thick forests swarming with man-eating savages, vast tracts of sandy wastes and rugged moun? tain ranges. His skirmishes and battles would 1111 a respectable catalogue. His owu men in their misery cold their gurjs and ammunition, to their enemies, and were then forced to devour each other. At one poiut in tho wilderness Stanley was supposed by his followers to be ou his death bed for twenty-eight days. The rescue of Emin Bey was aflifficult thing. Emin did uot know what course to take, and at one time Stanley thought of tak? ing him forcibly in charge. Finally, however, the hopelessly dazed Emin j consented to be saved and trotted off with the explorer. Stanley reached the coast white-haired, wrinkled, shaky and load? ed with fever germs. How's This ? We offer one hundred dollars reward fcr any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. .1. 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 busiuess trausactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truas, Wholesale Druggist, To? ledo, Ohio. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole? sale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. E rt. VanHoesen, Cashier Toledo Na? tional r.auk, Toledo, Uaio. i'ihi'.'c Calaiih Curcia taken iuterualiy, acting upon the blood and mucous sur? faces of the ay atom. Price, 75c, per boL tl?. Sold by all Druggiot?. VOLUM THE LARGEST YIELD OF COO. A Marlboro Farmer Beats the World's Record for Ono Acre. Chebaw, S. C, Dec. 8.?Captain J. Drake of Marlboro gathered 20-1 bushels and 40 pounds of corn from one acre on his farm iu Marlboro. This breaks the world's record, the higbtost Iiertofore being 212 and a fraction, raised by Dr. Parker, near Columbia. Captain Drake is competing for the thoasaud dollar prize offered by the American Agriculturist for the largest yield of corn per acre.? Colum? bia Register. Columbia, December 3.?As The News and Courier has had occasion to remark once in a while, there is positive? ly no place like South Carolina. A few days ago the Atlanta Constitu? tion, in a moment of premature ecstacy at beating a South Carolina record of 110 bushels of corn to the acre, published under conspicuous head lines the an? nouncement that a Georgia farmer had made 130 bushels, 2S pounds to the acre. It did not take the News and Courier long to produce a South Carolina farmer who, this season, made ISO bushels, 50 pounds on oue acre. This was sufficient to establish the supremacy of the Pal? metto State, but the margin was too small to be entirely satisfactory, and fur? ther returns from our formers were await? ed, with full confidence that this State would do a little better still. The following information is in good time, and is better by a big majority than was expected. There is a South Caroli? na farmer who has made this year 254 bushels, 49 pounds of corn upon one acre of this Stale's unsurpassable soil. Senator C. S. McCall, of Marlboro, himself one of the largest and most suc? cessful planters in the State, tells the News and Courier Bureau that this yield has been 'made by Mr. Z. T. Drake, of Drake's P. O., in the southern part of Marlboro County. The Senator has not seen the corn measured, but he saw the crop while it was growing, and then thought that the yield would be 200 bushels, and he knows the men who measured the corn and the surveyor who marked the boundaries of the acre. Mr. Drake told him yesterday that this had been the yield of his prize crop, as measured by the committee, it being understood, of course, that ho was com? peting for the ?500 prize offered the farmers of the United State by the American Agriculturist for the largest yield of corn on one acre and the addi? tional prize of $500 offered by the South Carolina department of agriculture to the farmer iu this Slate who should win the American Agriculturist's prize. Senator McCall has written to-night to Mr. Drake urging him to have tue report of the committee published at once. It is understood that Mr. Drake put $175 worth of fertilizers upon his prize acre. The laud was a sandy bottom of the incomparable Marlboro type, and the crop was made, it is understood, without irrigation. Mr. Drake i? a thoroughly reliable man and the report of the com? mittee will verify the statement to Senator McCall. Heretofore this county, Richland, has had the honor of producing the lar? gest crop of corn ou record, Dr. Parker having made on the outskirts of Colum-. bia, before the war, two hundred bushels aud twelve quarts on one acre. Now the championship goes to Marlboro Couniy, for it is hardly credible that this enor? mous yield can be exceeded auywhere else in the world.?News and Courier, Department of Agriculture Dots, Mr. R. E. Ferguson of Buffalo, N. Y., who has been in correspondence with the department with a view-of establishing a colony in South Carolina, writes that he has about made arrangements to send out twenty-five or thirty families to tbia State, to be followed by other colonies, if the first Bhould prove successful. Mr. Ferguson is advertising the State exten? sively iu his city. The Sunday Times of a week ago contained an elaborate arti? cle on South Carolina, in which were quoted extracts from the publications on South Carolina, sent Mr. Ferguson re? cently by the department. Parties in this State desiring Buch people as Mr. Ferguson wishes to send out are invited to write the department, aud those having lands for sale are asked to send list and description. Mr. W. K. Thompson of Kershaw, who, as Master of the State Grange, has recently attended a National Grange meeting in California, which recommend od that the patrons of husbandry through? out the Southern States urge their respective legislative bodies to memorial? ize Congress to appropriate an adequate amount for tho advancement by experi? mentation of the cultivation of ramie, julo and other textile fibres, and to offer inducements for tho invention and im? provement of appliances for decortication and processes for degumming the fibres. Charles Reyiiders, of Yonkers, N. Y., wishes to invest in lands along the Savannah River valley. These wishing to sell such lands are requested to write the Department of Agriculture. Mr. C. Mcnelas, of Savannah, Ga., writes that he has been interested by the articles on stock, food, etc., published in the monthly report? of the department, and in the name offctveral leading North? ern papeis, offers to give these articles wide circulation for the benefit of agri culturists throughout the Smth.?Colum? bia Register. ? A marriage having unusual features was celebrated at the home of the bride's parents, at Maaillon, Ohm, Friday nighi. Ihe bride was Miss Annie Crone, aged 24, daughter of Frauk Crone, a leading dry goods merchant. The groom was Valentine Fries, of Huron County, O., a grand uncle of the bride, aged US, who is preside^ of a bank at Huron, owner of six vessels on Lake Erie, r. stockholder in the Lake Superior Copper Company, president of the Cleveland Iron Ship Building Company, and also interested in other enterprises in the Forrest City. His wealth is estimated at $1,500,000. ? A lady's gold ring wa^ found in a very singular wsy. George W. Austin, after a drive from Ellsworth, fsursd Iba ring pressed lightly aroitud onz of tho c:;!bj of his horse's shoe. The horse had fttdpped iuto tho ring and taken it along. E XXIV.- -NO. 23. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. _Arithmetic is the sum of many^ small boy's trouble.' _Kansas expects to make two willt pounds of sugar this year. ? A two legged horse has been on ex hibition in a New York museum. ?Madisou, Ga., claims to have a horse;, that took part in the Indian wars in 1830. ? An Aicbison, Kau., farmer recently I offered to trade a barrel of sorghum for a - wife. ? The average number of humaniisth$? is thirty-two, but one tooth williiametimes:.; "ache like sixty." ' . j ? The world's output of tobaceoir^ said to be increasing more rapidly than ? I either wheat or corn. ? The year's sale of horses hrfour counties in Kentucky will foot up over three million dollars. ? The Virginia Methodist conference > at Richmond has passed a resolution, for. bidding women to speak in mixed aBsem--. . * blies. ? A St. Louis doctor saya that every? body is fleshier than usual thisyear'L--;ilo'V. attributes it to the atmosphere- and the . fact that this is a vegetable year. ? In nailing on shoe heels one worker " and a boy with machinery can heel three hundred pairs of shoes per day. It would v. require five workers to do the same by .; hand. ? The Garfield monument at Cleve- v land, that is to be dedicated next Memo- . rial day, cost ?150,000 which was contrib- _ uted by ?00,000 people in nickehTand pennies. ? San Francisco has a Cbinese.phy sician, Li Po Tai, whose professional in? come is stated to he $6,000 per month. He has been established in that city for \ thirty years. ? The man who says sarcastic things about his wife "going through his trousers~> pockets while he is asleep, is generally the one who dosen't give his wife any . money when he is awake." ?House builders in Japan begin their work at the top, constructing the roof first, supporting it with scaffolding of long poles. Then they begin to build the walls and construct the interior. ? Chris Miller, a Louisville underta? ker, started to prepare a corpse for burial the other night, when the supposed dead man suddenly flopped over and asked Mr a drink, the undertaker skipped. --?J ? The Willimantic spool cotton facto? ry's daily output of thread is 144,000,000 feet, or a single thread 28,000 miles long.' Theve are 1,500 operatives, and ?e build? ing covers three and one h.alf acree of ground. ? The bes'. association that a ycung nun can belong to is that of a good wife. There ia not, under Heaven, such a pow? er for good iu the early life of a young man as a wife that will love him, be true to hira, and never forsake him. ? President Harrison approached the' presidential chair with quite a gay step . and announced his intention of breaking the solid South, but it appears that the gun went off at the' wrong end,and , knocked a largo hole in the solid West.' ? A railroad passenger agent adverti- ? scs in Memphis that he can furnish to - Western planters 1,000 negroes in fami? lies at ?19 5? per head. This refers, .of course, to the railroad fare, which the planter is to refund. It look3 like a col- - 1 onization scheme. _ ? There is an amusing 6tory told-of-a?j a man who received a "horning" because he married within a month after his firsOj wife's death. Ho told the serenaders that j he didn't think it showed good taste to come banging around a man's house eo soon after a funeral. ? King Kalukaua, of the Sandwich island, offers his throne for sale for $SOO,000. Here is a chance for a giddy^ American heiress. If an English Prince is worth ?2,000,000 a king's throne is surely worth $SOO,000, to ssy nothing a king for a husband. ? Many of the school houses of j ta are being provided with barrels '< ter, potatoes, beans, coffee and utensils, and in case thirty or scholars are penned up by a blil rd , two or three days this winter, there will;/ be no danger of starvation. ? There have been big gold nuggets found in various countries, but the largest:'? ever discovered was found ia New South;;; Wales, Australia, on May 10, 1872. Its| weight was G40 pounds; height, 4 feet 9;j inches; width, 3 feet 2 inches, average|j thickness, 4 inches, and it was ?148,800. It was found imbedded!^ thick wall of blue slate at a depth of feet from the surface. An interesting feature of its history was that the owner of the mine were living on charity whe they found it.?Jeioelcrs7 Circular. ? Col. Darious Alden went 1 Mo., "without a cent in his opened a fur and hat store, and die Thursday, at the age of 80, worthy ?1,000,000." There is a leseon for young men who havent a centh I pockets. Instead of bemoaning J j poverty they should open a fur anc store, and die worth over ?1,000,1 Jt-.st how a ycung man without a cent uij pocket ia going to open a hat and store, may bo difficult to ttndorstand, he shouldn't let a little thing like .l?tor him. ? The following facts in reference the new postage stamps may be est: The one ceut stamps are blue^ ba/c the head of Franklin/; tixeiwe are carmine, and have the head of WashT ington, the three cents are violet, and bear the face of Jackson ; the four cen* arc dark brown, with the head of Li coin ; the live cents are light Lfown, wit the head oi Graut; the six centajjs Garfielu's head, and are veriniHoir iii lea cents are greea, with, the head,. Webster; Iho futeeu cents are. bro wir.h the face of Clay; the thirty cents a" biuck, with the vigoette of Jefferson; an the liinoty cents are orange, with the 1 of Pen -;. To BIspt-1 Colds, Headaches and Fevers, to cleauBe. system effectually, yet gently, when live or bilious, or when the blood is pure or sluggish, to permanently habitual constipation, to awaken kidney and liver to a healthy acljv without irritating or weakening t" UHe Syrup of Figu.