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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. HEADQUARTERS ">? CHRISTMAS! ONE CAR LOAD OF TOYS AND CHRISTMAS GOODS JUST RECEIVED, containing everything ever sold in Anderson, and lots of things never seen in this 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, RAISINSand CURRANTS. One Hundred Boxes Fire Crackers And.pther Fireworks in proportion ready for Santa Claus. J5@*' Don't forget the place. Look for Sign?"Headquarters for Christmas Goods!" ? Gr. M. TOLLY. Nov21,1889 20 5 E PROGRESSIVE AGE in which we live and flourish demands? ENERGY, PLUCK, ? ACTIVITY, -AJSTID BOTTOM PRICES! If you will visit our Store you will Bee a combination of all the above, with a few other-things that are calculated to'make competitors "Get up and Dust" to keep in Bight. We can and will shake the bottom out of any- prices you can get elsewhere. We'll tall you the "Good Old Honest Truth" about every article we Bell you. We Pay Cash for every - Dollars' worth we Buy, And Give You the Benefit Every Time. Don't Believe a word we Say. BUT COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF, - JOHN M. HTJbBARD & BRO., Next to Farmers and Merchants Bank, Anderson, S. C. AT AND BELOW COST! TT '-"*? fl AVING determined to close out onr Mercantile Business in order to devote our entire time aud attention to the Cotton Business, we now offer our entire Stock of? Dry Goofls, Hats, Shoes, Mm ai (Mil, REGARDLESS OF COST. Read some of these prices: j Best Calicoes 5c. per yard. Pelzer Shirting 4Jc. per yard. Checks 4Jc. per yard, Blankets $100 per pair, . * Hats 10c. op, Shoes?Womens' Balmorals?50c. Mens' Brogans 65c. * . .JHens' Boots S1.25. Mens' Overcoats $1.50 and upward. These are a few of the leading articles. We cannot begiu to enumerate the ?BARGAINS we offer. _ We Have a Full Stools of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS 9 That we are selling AT COST. There are ONE THOUSAND BARRELS OF FLOUR in Stock that must go, if Cost Prices will sell them. And then there are ONE HUNDRED BOXES OF TOBACCO That it will pay every chewer in Anderson County to examine. Sugar at Cost i ? Coffee at Cost! Soda at 3c. per lb. ! And Everything Else at COST ! BROWN BROS. Noa21,1889 20 5 THE BEST IN TBE W?KLD~! OUR OWN WHITE PINE EXPECTORANT AVE such universal satisfaction last Spring that we have prepared a large lot of it \JC for this Winter, and want everybody? "who has a cough To try it. It is the Beat Cough Syrup made, and is recommended by every one who has used it. If you haye a Cough buy .a fjottle, and if that one don't cure you, it will do bo much good that you will be sure to get another. TRY IT. QJEITI Sz SLOA3^. FINE GOODS FOR BEST Four Crown London Layer Raisins, - Best English Currants, Best Citron, Best Almonds, Pecans, English Walnuts and Brazil Nuts. Best Gilt Edge Flavoring Extracts, in two ounce and one quart bottles. Largest variety of Sweet Crackers ever brought to Anderson. Hugler/s Fine Cocoa?best ever sold. Bummel's Fine Candies, Plain Candies, Cigars, Cigarettes, &c. Full Cream Cheese 12$ cents per pound. 25 pounds Rice for one dollar. 50 pounds Grits for one dollar. Canned Fruits and Vegetables of every description. Special Prices made in Quantities. Call and see us. GEE * LIGOR?, Wholesale and Retail Grocers. THIS WILL PLEASE YOU! The*undersigneti have opened A- First Class Bakery, At the old stand of J. M. Hubbard & Bro., next to L H. Seel. AFINE, NEW OVEN hasbeen bnilt, and our Establishment is equipped with every? thing needful in the Baker's occupation. We will have FRESH BREAD, CAKES, PASTRY, etc., every day, and we want the public to give us a trial order. We guarantee satisfaction. We will also keep in stock? A NICE LINE OP CONFECTIONERIES, Etc, Which will be sold at very low prices. We will sell Twenty-Five Bread Tickets for $1,00, And deliver fresh Loaves to our customers every day. ?SF We will Roast Fowls, or any kind of Fresh Meats, and Bake Cakes to order. E. BOCK & CO. Dec 5,1889 . 22 LAND FOR SALE. MAXWELL'S GALLERY BY virtue of Deed of Trust made me by ' TS now open for business, fitted up with Cornelia Morris, I will sell for spot X. the finest instruments that are made, cash at Anderson C. H. onJ3aleday in Jan- New scenery and accessories, and all work guaranteed to be first-class or money re? turned. J. A, Wren will remain in Amler nary next, all of the said Cornelia Morris' interest,'being one-seveqth, of a Tract of Land containing 250 acres, more or less, situated in Rock Mills Township, on wa son only a bhort time, and will be glad to see all of bis o'.d friends. Enlarging pic tere of Seneca River, adjoining lands of tures to life size a specialty, and at prices A'ex. Campbell, Welborn Freeman, and j cheaper than ever before heard of. Baby others. Purchaser to pav for papers. i Picture*, also a specialty. J. BOYCE BURRIBS, Trustee. | J. A. WREN, Photographer. Deo 12, 1889 '23 4 ! Anderson, Oct. 10.1880 T^??H^'COL?MN, All communications? intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C. Miss Julia Burroughs is again at work at the Oat- Grove School. Miss Julia seems to have become a fixture with those people up there, judging from the fact that they generally keep her at work for about eight months in the year, and the term she is now teaching is to run eight mouths. We witnessed a reci? tation there in Physiology, and we are glad to note the fact that our teachers are paying attention to this study. Miss Nettie Hall again has charge of the Cross Roads school. It speaks well for her that the patrons have chosen her again to preside over this Bchool. We called to see her one day last week, but found her with only seven scholars present. She is doiog her best with this little handful, but'where there are bo many she ought to be better sustained. There are lots of children in the neighborhood, and the least of the children ought to be going while tbe weather is good and the school not crowded. At Concord we found Miss Nannie Pool at work with something .over twenty pupils. Tbe people there have taken a fresh hold on school matters, and have started off well. Miss Nannie is a former pupil of ours, and a recent grad? uate of Due West, and 1b now making her debut in the work of the school room, and we expect to hear good reporlB of her. She 'is making a good start, and experience will teach her many things that she can learn only in that way, and having a trained and disciplined mind, she will be able to apply the results of experience. At Trinity they have swapped horses again, and this time Miss Leila Browne is at the front, and having been there before, she knows how to lead the little ones in the way they ought to go. Miss Leila has introduced a feature in her school that is to be commended, and that is short talks every day on Physiology. We found the children much delighted with this exercise, and eagerly picking up scraps of information about tbe hu? man form. But this school was small, too, the day we called, and we propose havifig another peep^at some future time at all these schools mentioned this week. In passing we gave our old army com? rade, John M. Hamlin, a call at Hope well. He is a veteran teacher, and is at home in the' school room, and knows exactly bow to handle a class of boys and girls at tbe blackboard. We wit? nessed some very interesting exercises in map drawing by a class, a part of which were very small children, and the execu? tion would have been creditable to much older pupils. We were called upon to grade the work, and, after inspection, we were forced to give nearly all of them 100 for it. The exercises in spelling and phonics by some of the little ones were delightful, and we coma' but wish that some of our old-time teachers could have been present and have seen the difference Between laboriously spelling over col? umns of words, and being able to wrke those words readily on the board with the proper diacritical marks to each. Would that we had raore'bf such teach To parents we would say, don't let your boys and girls mres a day from school for any and every trivial excuse. It may seem to you a small matter just to stay at home one day in the week, but to your child and to the teacher it amounts to much more tbau simply the lime lost. The consequences do not stop there. Your child gets behind in his classes and soon becomes discouraged and gives up and comes to the conclusion that you think going to school is not of much importance, and hence loses his interest in his school duties. See that they go to school, and that they have time to prepare their lessons at home, and in every way you caa second the efforts of the teacher. We once had a boy and girl in our school whose father and mother were fond of visitiug, and, on an average, about once a week these two children were kept at home to take care of the other children, while tbe parents went visiting, and every teacher who has had experience knows the result without our telling it. We hope to see every teacher ?;t Bel ton who can possibly get there. These meetings are for our mutual improve? ment and elevation. We exchange ideas and get fresh inspiration from contact with each other. These meetings tend tu bind us together in a common brother? hood, and gives us an isprit du corps that nothing else can. They tend to raise our calling to the dignity of a profession, and remove us farther and farther from the business of school-keeping. They tend to give us prestige with employer?, and put us in position to demand recog? nition of the value of our services. More and more each yoar patrons are inquiring into the antecedents of the teachers, and of the special fituess for their work, and if you expect to teach for a living turu out to the meetings of the Tescbera's Association and keep in line with those who are earnestly striv? ing to go forward. Skilled labor is always in demand at remunerative prices, and this is as true of teachers as of me? chanics. Then let more of us who can 'do so fail not to attend, and thus put our? selves in reach of the means of acquiring new ideas and new m"Thods and new sug? gestions. Whether wt are able to adopt them or not, it will put us to-thinking and cause us ^o make a fresh examina lion of our own ideas and methods ? Col. W. W. Spivey, of Henderson, Texas, came to death the other day iu a singular manDer. His physician was trying to cure him of drinking, and was taking him ou a train to Waco for the benefit of the artesian water. The med? icine given to the colonel was of such a nature that he could not safely drink whisky. He was duly warned, but a friend slipped him a bottle on the train. The unfortunate man drank from it, and was dead beforo he reached the next station. NDEKSON, S. C, TE THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. Bill Arp'a Misguided Conception of Its To? pography. Atlanta Constitution. The valley of the Mississippi! I have been thinking all my life that it was a valley sure enough?that you could see it for miles and miles, and that ever and anon the raging waters overleaped their banksand overflowed Ibis valley and destroyed the cattie and washed away the houses and barns, and even the people who were too careless or too helpless to get away. For a week I have been up and down on this Mississippi Valley railroad as it is called, but I haven't* yet seen the valley. I have been in sight of the great river, and have seen large tracts of bottom land, but agreat deal of the country is round and rolling and the towns are generally on high land, and nobody ever bears of an overflow that ?does much damage. We thought that it was rather dangerous to stay out here long at a time for we might get cut off and be hemmed in and surrounded and have to send out a dove and wait for the waters to be assuaged. But I don't see very much difference between our country and this except in the black land and the big trees. I don't see any difference in the people except there are more natives here and less mixture. The old confed's seem as thick over here in west Tennes? see as if death bad never thinned them out. They have a reunion every year, and say they can blow a horn and rally a thousand or two most any time. I meet them everywhere and they are still talk? ing about the war and are FULL OF HISTORY AND ANECDOTE. It is astonishing how far one good war anecdote will travel, and how much en? joyment it gives as it goes. They told me things out here that I have been hearing for twenty years, but I never let on. When I ventured to tell some that I thought were pretty good and had never got away from home, I found that they knew it all and could locate it exactly. I was riding around with some new made friends, and as we skirted some timber lands that seemed to be low and watery, I said "that land overflows does it not?" "Oh, yes, that's Tom Mabry's hog bottom. Tom is a keen, shrewd laud trader, and is always looking out for strangers. One day a Micbigander came along and was inquiring for some bodies of good land that be could put some money in,, and Tom got hold of him pretty soon. Every? thing was dry then, for it hadent rained in a good while. Tom rode him around that bottom that in flood times gets ten feet under water, and the water mark was on the trees everywhere, and got higher and higher the further you went into the forest. Along the edge the mark was only about a foot and a half high, and was sorter muddy from the mark down. The stranger seemed pretty grqen about such things and asked Tom what made these dirty places at the base of the trees. "Hogs, hogs," said Tom. "They get in the wallows about and about, and then rub the mud off against the trees." They rode on further, and the stranger observ? ed that the marks got higher, and called Tom's attention to it. "Oh, yes," said Tom, "there are some awful big hogs in this timber. I've seen era three feet high." The strauger seem satisfied, and they rode on until they had to cioss a still lower place and TOM TALKED RAPIDLY to divert attention, but still the Micbi? gander discovered the dirty places as high up as a horse's back and all of such uni? form height that suddenly he took in the situation, and when they started home Tom asked him whnt he thought of the land. -Well," said he, "my friend, I believe I don't care to invest any money in that land ju&t now ; but I am a stock raiser and if you wili get me up a thous? and or so of those high back hogs I think we can trade." It got out on Tom, and that's why we call it his hog bottom. I find these people concerned. about tbe negro?not troubled or alarmed, but con? cerned. They all look upon Georgia" as a progressive State, a leader in shaping things and solving things, and they fre? quently ask me how the negro is doing and behaving, and what are we going to do with him. They say he is doing very well here outside of the towns, but in the towns they get hold of some northern literature, and are getting more insolent and aggressive, and it takes more of the sidewalk to do them than it used to. There ate no colored cars on these rail? roads and I have seen big, rusty rascals in a fine car and their dirty boots cocked up on the back of a seat in front of them. A lady has 'no protection against their company except she pays for a seat in the sleeper. But they do not travel as much as they do in Georgia. The negro's worst enemy is the poor white man?the man who works in the lumber business or in the field fur daily wages, and the man who has to rent'land and work it himself. He feels I hat the negro is in his way, and he is. While at the hotel in Clinton, a prosperous Kentucky town, I listened to the drummers TALK ADOUT THE NEGROES. Most of-these drummers were from the north. They were sociable, pleasant gen? tlemen, and have convictions and dare to express them. A Chicago man said: "I have traveled all over the South, and like your people.; but I tell you you will never catch up until yon get rid of the negro. He is your dead weight. You dpu't farm right, nor work right. You sleep too late. Your farmers come to town too much. Why, I see this little lown of Clinton thronged with country people to dny just because it is county court day. Our people don't do that. Up north you can't tell a court day irqm auy other day. Now, if you could get rid of the negro, and put the working German in his place, they would make more stuff"on one acre than you make on two. Why don't your people get up sooner and work harder?" A big whis kerd countryman, who had been a silent listener, spoke up in a solemn voice and said, "we don't have to." The answer surprised the northern man very much, and set him back for a moment, but ho rallied and said, "Well, I know you don't have to, but, my friend, don't you want to make more corn and more pota? toes than you do?" "I don't," said the solemn man. "Fotatoes ar? ten cents a [UKSDAY MORNIN( bushel now, and corn is twenty-five. What do we want with any more. There's too much now. The price won't pay for the hauling to the railroad ; and if your Germans were down here and doubled the supply, our stuff wouldent brirjg any thing." But Chicago rallied again and said: "But you must admit that the northern farm^ are managed better than yours. You can't help but see that as you travel through our country. The Germans are splendid farmers." "Splendid," said the solemn man, "and if you could pick 'em it would be all right, but they are mixed ?powerfully mixed. Our niggers have kept furriners away from here, thank God, aud that's about all the use we've got for em. But as betwixt the nigger and your lawless set of furrener3 and an? archists and tramps and thieves i'll" take the nigger everv time. I don't want to have to lock up and hide and stand guard over every? thing I've got. Sly friend, you don't understand our people. We have &o idea that there are bigger things in this world than money." After a pause in the conversation a New York man put in and said: "Well, I'm a traveling man, too, and my trade has been more west than south until the past two years, and I tell you I have been undeceived. The south? ern people don't show up like the north? ern people, especially in their mode of farming. But, let me tell you, the north? ern farmers are fearfully in debt. The farmers don't own the farms?not half of them. They are covered all over with mortgages from New -York to Kansas. Boston owns Kansas pretty much, and don't dare to sell her out, for there are no buyers. It is a common trick 'in Kansas and Iowa for a man to borrow two thousand dollars on a farm that was not worth a dollar more~than that. The agents of these eastern syndicates that bad millions to lend got a liberal commission on every dollar they loaned, and so after the farmer had already got all it was worth he wanted to get more, and he would go to the tax assessor and say: "I Bee you have got my farm down at two thousand dollars. It is worth every dol? lar of four thousand. I don't want my farm slandered in any such way." And so the assessor would put him down at four thousand, and then he would go to the money king and say, I want to get another thousand dollars on my land, and he would pull out his tax receipts and show them, and get some more money. Well, after his notes fell due be didn't care a cent. He had virtually sold bis land for more than it was worth, and the money king let him stay, for he had rather he would stay and take care of tbe place than not. I know of hundreds of Buch cases. New England money is locked up there by the millions, but in the last few years they are turning their attention to the south and find a better people to deal with and a more inviting field for investment.-xfThe north is at last opening her eyes a?d sees tbe south iff a different light and I believe that a better time is coming." The solemn man had straightened ap and said, "My friend, you talk to please me. Talk some more." This reminded me of a letter I had in my pocket?a letter about that confeder? ate monument that the Maryland boys built at Gettysburg. That monument to the dead comrades who are buried there, and that the Abe Patterson post of the Grand Army of the Republic ordered to be removed. Here it is: Sandy Lake, Pa.?Dear Brother Arp?I was reading your letter and notic? ed your remarks about that monument. I was on the field last September and saw the monument and I dident hear any un? kind remarks made about, it by the boys in blue, and I thought how pleasant it was that the time had come when the graves of the blue and the gray could be marked together where they fought and fell for the cause they thought was right. But, aifs! it looks like death will only close the bitter contention. Surely no refined mind would make a fues about such a thing. I am a Republican aud a northern man, but I feel like we were all of one country and ought to love one an? other, so I call you Brother Arp. I have picked a sprig of golden rod that grew at the base of that monument and I send it in this letter to Mrs. Arp in remembrance of tbat monument aud as a token of my good will and esteem. Yours truly, James Yanney. Oh, for a thousand such letters from the boys in blue. Bill Arp. Ono Sin. Satan knows that one sin lived in and allowed, will as certainly shut the soul out of heaven as many. One sin allowed and countenanced, will spoil the sweet music of conscience ; one sin allowed will make death as terrible and formid? able to the soul as many. One hand? writing on the wall made King Belsbaz zar's countenance to change, his thoughts to be troubled,, and the joints of his loins to be loosened. Oh, sirs, remember that as one glass of poisou will kill a mau, as one act of treason makes a traitor, so one sin loved and practiced, will ruin a man forever. Satan can be conteutcd tbat men yielded to God in many things, provided they be true to him in son e one thing ; for he knows very well tbat one sin aPowed and lived in, gives him as much advantage against the soul as more. It is said of Naaman, the Syrian, that he was a valiant man, and a vic? torious man, aod a great favorite with his prince, but it is emphatically said .that he was a 1 c-per; so it may be said of many, that they have great excellencies, and perform such and such glorious duties, but their one sin, allowed and lived in, mar* the beauty of all their services. There never was a false pro fes?or who did not live under the power of ono sin ; and he who can say that it is otherwise with him, I dare assure that man, in the Lord's name, that be is no hy pocr i te.?Brooks. ? Dr. Talmage says that he would as Boon drink a bottle of laudanum asHmoke a cigar. ? No man is so high I hat the law is not above him. ? Broken promises do more harm than fulfilled threats. 3, DECEMBER 19, II JEFFERSON DAVIS IN PRISON. Barbarous Treatment to Which ho was Subjected. Hugh McCulloch, secretary of the treasury under the administration of Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Arthur, in his recently published book, "Men and Measures of Half a Century," speaks as follows of his official visit to Mr. Davis, while a prisoner of Fortress Monroe: The question, "What shall be done with confederate leaders?" was referred to but not discussed at Mr. Lincoln's last meeting with his cabinet.. Mr. Lincoln merely remarked in his humorous man? ner. "I am a good deal like the Irish? man who had joined a temperance society, but thought that he might take a drink now and then if be drank unbe? known to himself. A good many people think all the big confederates ought to be arrested aod tried aa traitors. Per? haps they ought to be ; but I should be right glad if they would get out of the country unbeknown to me." This ques? tion came up in the case of Jefferson Davis Boon after Mr. Johnson became president. Mr. Davis had been captured while attempting to escape after the fall of Richmond, and was a prisoner in close confinement in Fortress Monroe. Some action must be.taken in his case. What should it be?* He had been the president of the confederacy, and there? fore was the most conspicuous of the enemies of the government. By a large part of the people of the north he was regarded as the arch-traitor, upon whose head vengeance should be visited. Should he be liberated in the face of the BtroDg feeling against him, or Bhould he be arraigned for treason, and if arraigned, should he be tried by a military com? mission or a United States court ? These were interesting and important questions, requiring the moat careful consideration both in their legal and political bearing The legal question, Has Mr. Davis been guilty of such acts of treason that he can be successfully prosecuted ? was submitted to tb.9 attorney-general, who after a thorough examination of it, and consultation with some of the ablest lawyers in the country, came to the conclusion that Mr. Davis could not be convicted of treason by any competent and independent tribunal, and that there? fore he ought not to be tried. The con? clusion was undoubtedly correct. It was a revolution which had been attempted by the Southern States?a general apris* ing of the people of the South against the government. It was war in which they had been engaged?war of such propor? tions that belligerent rights had been accorded them by foreign nations. The same rights had been acknowledged by the government in exchanges of the prisoners and other acts. They could not, therefore, be charged with treascD, nor could one of their number be singled out and legally convicted of the crime. Aside from these considerations it was clear that whatever treasonable acts Mr. Davis might have been guilty of, were committed in the Southern States, where, under the constitution, the trial mu3t take place, and where conviction would be impossible. The president was chagrined by the decision, which was forced upon him by the opinions of the attorney-general and other eminent lawyers. It was the direct opposition to his committals in the vindictive spreches which he made at the commencment of his administration; but be saw the cor? rectness of it and from thai, time he pushed his generosity to those whom he bad denounced as traitors to au extreme. Mr. Davis; wasrOnly one of many thou sands who were engaged in war against the government. His position made him the most conspicuous, but he was no more guilty than many others against whom no proceedings were contemplated. There was no evidence that he was responsible for the horrors of Anderson ville, or the general bad treatment to which union soldiers were subjected in Southern prisons. He was, however, kept in confinement unLil the spring of 1867, when he was brought before the United States court at Richmond, on charge of treason, and admitted to bail. He was not tried, although he expressed a desire to be, nor was he among those who asked to be pardoned. While the question was pending, the president sent for me one day and said that he would like to have me go privately and unoffi? cially to Fortress Monroe and asr.i-rtain whether or not the reports th&t bad reached him about the treatment cf Dt'vin were true. "He waB,"said the preside atf "the head devil among the traitors, and he ought to be hung; but he should, have a fair trial and not be brutally treated while a prisoucr. A lew days after the request was made I was able to comply with it. On ray arrival at the Fortress, Mr. Davis was walking upon the ramparts accompanied by a couple of soldiers. I was glad to notice that his gait was erect, his step elastic, pud when he came up where I was standing that he had not the appearance' of one who was Buffering in health by imprisonment. I spent an hour or two with him in con? versation. "I was," he said, "in the first two or three months of my imprison? ment, treated barbarously, but now I am permitted to have a daily walk, and my present quarters, as you perceive, are such as a prisoner, charged with high treusun, ought not to complain of. -A cot, a B'.nall pine table and two cane bottomed chairs. The cot and chairs were hard, and of the plainest and cheapest kind ; but the room was clean and well lighted. There was not g^ich need of light, for the only book in the room was au old treatise upon military tactics?a subject which was not especial? ly interesting to the prisoner at that time aud in that place. Newspapers were forbidden him. My interview was very pleasant. There have been few men more gifted 'than Mr. Davis, and few wboae opportunities for intellectual cul? ture have been better improved. I had not known him personally, but I knew what his standing was among the able meu of the country, and expected to meet in him an accomplished gentleman. To thoso who knew him well it is not necessary for mjpto uay that I was not disappointed, and that 1 was most favor? ably impressed by his manners and con? vention. I Wh b'N first visitor aud bu 389. seemed to be pleased with my visit, and with the opportunity which it gave to him for a free talk. He wa3 indisposed to say much about himself, and it waB only by direct questions that I learned the facts in regard to the barbarous treatment to which he had referred. "I was," he said, "when brought to the fortress, not only strictly confined in a casement, which was little better than a dungeon, but I was heavily ironed. As I had been a submissive prisoner, and was in a strong fortress, I thought that chains were unnecessary, and that I ought not to be subjected to them. I resisted being shackled, but resistance was vain. I was thrown violently upon the floor and heavily fettered. This was not all: the casement in which I was confined was kept constantly and bril? liantly lighted, and I was never relieved of the presence of a couple of soldiers. My eyes were weak and sensitive, I suf fered keenly from the light, and you can judge now my sufferings were aggravated by my not being permitted for months to have one moment by myself." I listened silently to this statement, given substan? tially in his own language, but I felt, as he did, that for a time he had been barbarously treated, Chains were un? necessary, and the constant presence of the guards in the casement must have been, to a sensitive man, worse than sol? itary confinement, which is now regarded as being too inhuman to be inflicted upon the greatest criminals. I happened to know some of his personal friends in the west and he had a great deal to talk about without saying much about him? self. He seemed to be neither depressed in spirits nor soured in * temper. He could not help saying something about the war, but he said.nothing i^.. the way of justification or defense. He had the learning of a brave and highbred gentle? man, who, knowing that he would have been highly honored if the confederate States had achieved their iudependence, would not and could not demean himself as a criminal because they had not. The only anxiety he expressed was in regard to his trial, not as to the result, but the time. He thought the delay unnecessary and unjust. He was kept in prison for two years before he was arraigned, and released on bail; and strangely enough, Horace Greeley and Genit Smith, the distinguished abolitionists, were among the signers of his bond. On my return to Washington, I made a verbal report of the manner in which Mr. Davis was then being treated. No executive action was considered necessa? ry in his behalf, and nothing was done in his prosecution except what has been mentioned." What Next ? John Dervent and Peter L?tz were graduated at tne same college oh the same day with equal honors. Both men went West, and ?ettled on ranches. After six years one of their old preceptors visited them. John was prosperous, but he knew nothing of the world outside of his own ranch. He took no interest in politics, in religion, in books, or in social ques? tions ; he hardly knew who was Presi? dent; he had long ago lighted his fires with his text books. For two.days he talked to his visitor of his cows ?nd bul? locks, of the rates of cattle on the hoof in Chicago, and of beef in New York. Vmen the professor tried to interest him in any other matter, he stared at him vacantly, or fell asleep in his chair. The visitor* went on with aoxicus foreboding to Cotz's ranch. Peter, too, had been successful; he was shrewd and alert in his business, bui; he was a man of broad general information and sympa? thies.- His interest was as keen in the questions of the day as if he lived in New York or Chicago. His friend asked him presently how be had contrived to keep himself thus alive and young in thought. "My father," said Peter, laughing, "was a fruit-grower. He had one max? im : 'Never let your orchard run down.' He incessantly set out new trees, that were growing and ready to bear when the old ones wore out. "When I left college, my brain was very much like an orchard with plenty, of plants in it ready to bear fruit. I resolved not to 'let it run down,' I would not be satisfied with the knowledge I already had. I would bring in new Blips and seedlings. I took the best newspapers, the best literary magazine, the best religious journal in the country. I helped build a church aad school-hcuse ? in the neighborhood. I got up reading clubs, lectures and concerts. In short, I followed my father's rule and set out new plants in my brain instead of waiting calmly until the old ones should wither and die." It is easy to tell, when we meet middle aged or old people, whether they bave, like John Derveut, left the intellectual growth of their youth to wither and die, or, like his class mate, have taken in daily new ideas and knowledge. "What next?" sayB the busy farmer as he looks at the ground from which one crop has just been reaped. He makes baste to sow another. Many of the boys and girls who read thejo words have lately received a diplo? ma at some collego or school, and gone out into the world. What next? Is your intellectual life to end now, is your brain to feed, during all these coming years, on the small portions of Greek, mathematics and history it has received ? Or will you daily plant the seed of a fact here, or set the graft of a new thought there ? The man of to-day must work hard if he means to keep himself up with the life of his time. So rapid is the march of iutellectual development that the man who does not do this is soon pushed aside and forgotten.? Youth's Companion. ? "We are coming, Father Abraham, 300,000 more" to endorse the good effec? tive qualities of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup in every case of coughs, colds, etc. ? Idaho Territory has 2,000 miles of irrigating ditches. ? As a cure for chapped and chafed bauds nothing equals the celebrated Sal? vation Oil. For sale by nil druggists. Price only 20 couin p bottle, VOLUM A Mean Bit of Vandalism, Washington, Dec. 9.?Imbedded in the Cabin John bridge, noted as the largest single span of masonry in the word, is a tablet setting forth that certain high officials of the United States gov? ernment participated in the laying of the corner-stone of the structure which conveys water to the national capital. This arch was commenced in the spring of 1853, when Jefferson Davis was Sec? retary of War, and for four years he superintended every detail of the great work, and it was deemed only just and proper that his name should appear on the tablet in question, together with that of Franklin Pierce, who was President of the United States at the time the work was inaugurated and who turned up the first spadeful of earth, an example which the Secretary of War followed. After the war had been in progress for a short time it tfas noticed one day that the name of Jefferson Davis had been chis? eled out of the tablet of the sandstone, and there was merely a long line before the title of Secretary of War. Numerous versions have been given as to who authorized the erasure, but all have wound up with the commonly accepted theory that it was done by order of Ed? win M. Stanton, Secretary of War. General Montgomery C. Meig3, who, as Captain of engineers, was assigned by Jefferson Davis to duty jn connection with the construction of the Washington aqueduct, puts an entirely different com-' plexion on the matter, and when ques? tioned on the subject replied that he remembered the circumstance very well. "It will be necessary to digress a little," said General Meiga, "and show what Mr. Davis' connections with the aqueduct was. In the days when he was Secretary of War work wa3 being pushed on the wings of the Capitol, the north wing of the post office building and the aqueduct. These matters rightfully belonged to the jurisdiction of the President, and when? ever they came up in Congress they were referred to as presidential matters. But President Pierce had too much other business to attend to, and consequently he transferred the supervision of these buildings and works to the Secretary of War, who was Jefferson Davis. When he left the War Department in 1857, the work was still being performed under the direction of the War Department, and this was continued until the war broke out. At that time it was important for army officers, and especially engineers, to go to other stations and duties, anl the work of supervising the construction -of the civil building and works was turned over to the Interior Department, whose Secretary was Caleb B. Smith, of Indi? ana. One afternoon, in company with a party of gentlemen, Secretary Smith drove up to Cabin John bridge to see how the aqueduct was progressing, and the tablet bearing the name of Jefferson Davis attracted his attention. He re? marked that such a distinction was too great for such a traitor as Jefferson Da? vis, and next morning a workman was sent up to cut out the objectionable name with his chisel. Upon my return from a trip West in connection with my military duties I visited the new aque-v duct span and discovered what had been done during my absence. It did "not meet with my approbation at that time, and I have ceased to deprecate the erasure of the name of an oficial who took such an interest in the aqueduct, and who, while in the Congress of the United States, had been foremost in urg? ing appropriations for the work. By attempting to obltberate the name of Jefferson Davis from the tablet where it had been properly placed, mere promi? nence was given him than was ever con? templated, for the invariable questions of visitors to big arch bring out tho story of the dead Secretary of War. I am only too glad to bear witness to the fact that Mr. Stanton had nothing whatever to do with the transaction, and it was purely a personal matter on the part of Secretary Smith of the Interior Department."? Baltimore Sun. A Romantic Story. A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch says a romantic story in real life was made known Tuesday by the arrival in that city of Mrs. Dandrige Harrison from New Mexico to visit relatives. Two years ago Mrs. Harrison, then Miss Child ress, was teaching school on Sand Moun? tain, Ga., and she became the object of the affections of one of her older pupils, Jim Majors, who, failing to Lave his affections reciprocated, began to circulate injurious stories concerning her character. Miss Childress procured a shotgun, and, hunting him up, demanded a retraction, which he made io the most abject terms. The facts were published at the time and attracted the attention of a wealthy mine owner in New Mexico, who wrote to her asking her to correspond with him. She paid no attention to the letter, ? as she received hundreds of letters at the time from all parts of the country, but after a few weeks, for some reason uu known to herself as she states, she answered this letter, and the result was a correspondence which has now culmi? nated in her happy marriage. Mr. Har? rison, the successful suitor, is the.owner of valuable mining property, and the brave young school teacher returns a wealthy lady. How's This? We offer one hundred dollais reward for any case of Catarrh that car, 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, aud financially able to carry out any obligations, made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggist, To? ledo, Ohio. Walding, Kinnau & 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 snd mucous sur? faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bot? tle, rjold by all Drtiggiole. E XXIV. -NO. ALL SO?TS OFTA?dlil ?New York expends $100,000 a in street-cleaning. ? Money makes the man, but to make the money first. ? A man is not necessarily/; calibre because he has a larg ? New Hampshire compels worl children of from fourteen to abet] years to go to school three months ofj year. ? "You can't do anything witl money, my boy." "O, yes, air, yoi can." "I'd like to know what?"" in debt." ? The Florida orange crop is reported! to be shorter than usual owing to al drought that prevailed in that State/lastj Summer. ? The Kentucky University this^yeari opened its doors to female etudentsTaudl now the names of twenty? young women., are entered upon its rSlls. ? The recent fire at Lynn, Massacbu chusetts, rendered 160 families homeless and threw eight thousand laborers out of employment just in the beginning"~cif^ winter. ? ? There are two wings by which a man soars above the world?sincerity and purity. The former regards the intention, the latter the affection, that aspires and aims at a likeness to Gcd, that matt really like him. ? There are more than forty thousand^ Chinese in San Francisco. They form nearly one-seventh of the city's popula? tion and it is computed that they send twelve million dollars a year fromytheirf; earnings to China. ? Horse meat is said to be selling at seven cent3 per pound in Berlin, and ( such is the increasing scarcity of beef tb< price of horseflesh constantly increases^ and the supply of it has so diminished that butchers can hardly cupply their;] customers. ? The Norwegians are said to be the longest lived people in the world. Oflk cial statistics shew that the average dura? tion of life in Norway is 48.33 for theri men, 51.30 for the women, and 49.77 for -* both sexes. The duration of life has in? creased of late years. ? The skin of the whale is from t?0^ inches to two feet thick, that of"a"larg specimen weighing thirty tons. 11 rhinoceros is the thickest skinned quac ruped, with hide so tough as to resist the claws of the lion or tiger, the aword or th( balls of the old fashioned musket. ? Wife?"Don't you think I have kept my looks pretty well after our thirty years of married life?" Huaband? "Certainly; there is only one slight change perceptible. At the start you had white teeth and black hair, and now you ,' have black teeth and white hair." ? Much of the so called ivory now in ? use is simply potato. A good sound pc- ? tato, washed in diluted sulphuric acid, - then boiled in the same solution, and then "' slowly dried, is all ready to be converted j into buttons and innumerable other' things that ivory wan.used for once upon a time. ? The current of public opinion is running a little atronger towards Grover ? Cleveland" for 1892. He refuses to sell] his property, Oakview, near Washington, having been offered several as he gave for it. He has faith in Wa ington dirt, or the Democrat country, or both. ? There is a secret orga Baltimore, Md., the object of whi{ protect its members from ur marriages. When one of that he is falling in love he. his fellow-members and thej committee to investigate the ; I advise him therein. ? A correspondent of the Manu/octers' Record has discoj the okra plant hasxi fibre bet manufacture bagging for c&.ttor cither cotton on jute and chz ; easily worked. The next thing I they will be making bagging oc grass or potato vines. ? According to the New Yo") mercial Advertiser, since 1860 mo 60,000 bodies have been buril Potter's Field on Hart's Ialaac are placed in trenches, dug ir rows, forty-five feet long, fopi wide, and ten feet deep, pits will hold one hundred anc ies. ? Evidence exists that deaf^ not confined to the human r?.< farmer's herd for 12 year which never gave any aignB ofj and the evident attempts qpA lowing had only resulted i?j guttural. (Nothing abormal; discovered in the ears or the: gaus. ]? ? A small boy in Luzerne, 2 said to be able to ''play Taisif{ blade of grass held between his t Such musical prodigies are name four year old boy in a country: 1 play airs on a tin pan, by ?impl| it with a hammer, which' tinguished from selections fn nerian opera. ? George H. Short, a negro, will cry for ten mis\ watch for ten cents, or at t paltry cent a minute. It weep, with regular tears, hoos at intervals, and why,"! been secured by the museums! that should be explained^ Detroit Free Press. ?Truth, absolute truth in wc . in life, is the pearl of great price'.-?? this if you have to sell all your] possessions. A house may'be the] ever buiit, perfect in all its^pl equipments, but if the foundation ij ky and insecure, the house'isl vaiu. So with the character ! not rest on truth. Wit, fin^axrpel attractive manners, great-accoi meuts, profound learning ?tviflin^ peosate for a want of trutfr~j1iirtqj vidual. -? SLgg To DispelCoia?f:^ Headaches and Fevers, j Jte_cjea.i system effectually, yet gen/ly^h^ tive or bilious, or when thjB^toadi| pure or sluggish, to per^ajderlt habitual constipation, t&?r_ kidney and liver to a he^UhJr^.Bclj without irritating;or wsafcc?to?; Use Syrup of Ffg?,