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iB^ grJESTlISCALES & LANGSTON. M CHRISTMAS! 03X33 ' "'CAJR, LOAD OF ' TOYS AND GHRIStiyiAS GOODS JuST RECEIVED, containing everything ever sold in Anderson, and lota of things never seen in this haartet before. PRICES* ARE LOWER than you ever heard of before. Come and see for yourselves. TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS OF OANDY On hand, and you know it must be', sold. My twenty Clerks will be ready at ail times toahow you through* this immense Stock, See me before you buy. 7%:':,: BEST CIGARS ever sold; Fresh CITRON, RAISINS and CURRANTS. One Hundred Boxes Fire Crackers And other; Fireworksiin proportion ready, for Santa Clans. : - i S?'* Don't Torgit the place. Look for Sign-?"Headquarters for Christmas :;Goduat" ' ' WM - > Gr.. M. TOLLY. ,. Nov 21,:1889 20 5 E PROGRESSIVE AGE in which we live and flourish demands? ? ENERGY, . ACTIVITY, j&l2sTID BOTTOM PBICBS! If you will visit cur Store you will aee a combination of all the above, with a few other things {hat are calculated to make,competitora "Get up and Dust" to keep in fight. We can sad will shake the bottom out of any prices you, can get elsewhere. . We'll tell you the "Good Old Honest Trnth" about every article we sell yon. We Pay Cask.for. every Dollars' worth we Buy, ^ AjqdL Give You the Benefit Every Time. Don'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. IND BELOW COST! JlIaVING determined to close out our Mercantile Business in order to devote our entire :ime and attention to the Cotton Business, we now offer our entire Stock of? ft Goofls; Is, Slifis, Moist i Cite, REGARDLESS OF COST. :^^ R*aoisome of these prices:, fflra^i:-"'': Beat CalicoesSc. per yard. Pelzer Shirting 4Jc. per yard. Checks 4ic. peryard, Blankets $100 per pair, ? Hats 10c. up, Shoes?Womeus' Balmorals?50c. t . Mens* Brogana 65c. ^ ' ; : : Mens' Boots $1.25. ' Mens'Overcoat8 $150 and upward. ..These are a few of the leading articles. We cannot begin to enumerate the BARGAINS we offer. ." ' We Have a Full Stock oi GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS Thai we are selling;-AT COST. There are ONE THOUSAND BARRELS OF FLOUR in Stock (:hat must go, if Coat Prices will sell them. And then there are . one hundred; boxes op tobacco That it will pay every che wer in Anderson County to examine. Sugar at Cost ! " . Coffee at Cost ! Soda at 3c. per lb. ! 1 And Everything Eisest COST! BROWN BROS. No/. 21,1889 20 TELE: !KEST IN THE WOELD 1 OUR OWN WHITE PINE EXPECTORANT (T^ AVE such universal satisfaction last Spring that we have prepared a large lot of it \3T for this 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. . It youTiayea Cough buy aoottle, and if that one don't cure you, it will do so mhctf good that'.yon will be sure to get another. TRY IT. OER &c SLO-A-HST F1NE GOODS FOR "i"v.. BEST Four Crown London Layer Raisins, ? r"V " " '' Best English Currants, Best Citron, )r-iv Beat Almonds, Pecans, English Walnuts and Brazil Nuts. Best Gilt Edge Flavoring Extracts, in two ounce and one quart bot Lies. Largest variety of Sweet Crackers ever brought to Anderson. Hnglier'a Fine. Cocoa?be?t ever sold. - Bummers Fine Candies, Plain Candies, Cigars, Cigarettes, &c. > Full Cream Chei3se 12h cents per pound. 25 pounds Rice ifor one dollar. 50 pounds Grits for one dollar. \Canned Fruits and Vegetables of every description. Special Prices made in Quantities-. Call and Bee us. CEE * LICON, Wholesale and Retail Grocers. THIS WILL PLEASE YOU! The undersigned have opened A- Thirst Class Bakery, At the old stand of J. M. Hubbard & Bro., next to L. H. Seel. AFINE, NEW OVEN has been built, 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 OF 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. We will Roast Fowls, or any kind of Fresh Meats, and Bake Cakes to order. ? E. BOOK & CO. Dec 5,1889 22 LAND FOE SALE. MAXWELL'S GALLERY T>Y virtus of Deed of Trust made me by j TS now open for business, fitted up with K Cornelia Morris, I will sell for spot X the finest instruments that are made. * ? 1 ??1*"1^in-Tftn-: New scenery aud accessories, ;and all work guaranteed to be first-class or money re? turned. J. A, Wren will inremain Ander at Anderson C. H. on Saleday in Jan; SSynext, all of the said Cornelia Morns' Interest, being one-seventh, of a Tract of land Staining 250 acres, more or less, rituated in Bock Mills Township, on wa tos of Seneca Kiver, adjoining lands of - A16X Campbell, Welborn Freeman, and where. Panmaser to pay for papers. ^ S BOYCE BUKRISS, Trustee. Deo 12, 1880 28 4 son only a short time, and will be glad to see all of bis o'.d friends. Enlarging pic? tures to life size a specialty, and at prices cheaper than ever before heard of. Baby Pictures also a specialty. J. A. WREN, Photographer. Anderson, Oct. 10,1880 THE DEATH OF DATIS. Hill Arj) Writes ot the Leader of thoiCon federacy. Atlanta Oojislitution. Old Father Time is a wonderful doctor. It is a real comfort to the south to read the words of the northern press touching the death of Jefferson Davis. My faith is that tho spirit of the illustrious dead is reading them too, and is comforted. How sweet and tender are the benedictions upon the dead. This is right, and it is Christiani? ty; for when a man has gone before his Maker it becomes all earthly judges to be sileut if they cannot be generous. "How would we bo if He, who is the top of judgment, should but judge us as weare ?" The New York Sun dared to say: "There is now no one to revile and there are many to honor and respect his memory. He has oulived sectional comity and per? sonal detraction." Is that so ? I wish that I could believe it. The Sun says: "Many years of .peace have been required to con vi oca the "men who fought and suffered for the union that JeffersoiuDavis was entirely sincere and was powerfully fortified by teaching and example, and the ill-started president of the southern confederacy did but carry to their conclusion the doctrines formu? lated by John C. Calhoun and avowed by such representatives of New England as Timothy Pickering and Josiah Quincy." Yes, and be might have named scores of other northern men who were of the same State's right faith, and theu include the Hartford Convention, which made the first secession from the union. New England never produced a nobler, grand? er man than Quincy, and he wae in all respects of the faith and principles of Calhoun and Davis. Young men of the south listen for a moment to what the great Webster said about Mr. Calhoun : g?" He had the indispensable basis of all high character, and that was unspotted integrity and unimpeached honor. There was nothing groveling or low or meanly Bel fish that came near the head or the heart of Mr. Calhoun, whether his politi? cal opinions were right or wrong, they will descend to posterity under the sanc? tion of a great name. He is now an his? torical character. We shall indulge in it as a grateful recollection that we have lived in his age?that we have been his contemporaries?that we have Been him,' beard him, known him?we shall delight to speak of him to those who are rising up to fill our places. And when one after another we shall go to our graves, we shall carry with us a deep sense of his honor and integrity?the purity of his private life and of his;exalted patriotism. Isn't that splendid, and yet every word of it fits Jefferson Davis. You might substitute his name for Mr. Calhoun with the utmost propriety, and Webster would do it if he were here. Daniel Webster had no prejudices, and his great regret was that.his people had not conquered theirs. How we all do love and honor a great man?a pure man?men like Web? ster and-Clay and Calhoun and Jeffereon Davis. It used to be a triumvorate but another name has now to be added and Mr. Davis will go down into history as the peer of tbnge historic names. He was their equal in everything that makes a man a statesman and a patriot. He wa3 their superior in one thing; for he was a great soldier, and illustrated his patriotism on the field as in the forum. "Papa, what did. Mr. Davis do that makes everybody talk about him bo?" "My boy, I will tell you in a few words. The north and the south had been quar? reling for fifty years about (.he negroes and the tariff and the rights of the States. At last they concluded to fight it out and Jefferson Davis was chosen as our leader. He did not seek the place, for he was a modest man, but we made him take it. He believed that the Stales were greater than the government at Washington, for the States created that government as their agent. But the government at Washington eoon became very bold and powerful and began to control the State-. It was a question whether the dog should wag the tail or the tail wag the dog. Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Davis and most all of us down south were for the rights of the States, but the people up north thought the government at Wash? ington was a bigger thing and ought to control, and so the quarreling went on for years and years and at last it broke out in a war. We left the union and wanted to go back where we were before we went into the union, but they whipped us and bo we are in the union still. It was much like little children who gather together to play, and some of theia get mad and Bay, Tin going to take my ithings and go home ?you don't play fair and I shan't play with you any more.' Then the others get mad, too, and say, 'We do play fair and you shan't go home,' and so they take bi.ld of them and keep them and make them stay whether they wish to or not. And so the Stales had to give it up and now the tail is wagging the dog." The Ohio River is before me while I write. This is a part of Mason's )and Dixon's line that I never saw until yes? terday, and I wondered how a river could make such a difference in people. "Do your people in Maysvilie mix and mingle with those across the river at Aberdeen ?" aaid I. "No, sir, not at all. They never have and they never will. They don't like ub and we don't like them. We pass and repass like the feller did bis Jersey bull, but we don't affiliate nor associate nor assemulate nor amalgamate. The fact is our negroes won't mix with them. There is not a dozen negroes over there, but there are 2,000 here in Maysvilie. When our negroes cut up and misbehave we threaten to run them across tbe river and it has a good effect upon them. Now in Cincinnati you can't hardly tell the difference between a yankee and a Ken - tuckian, but out in the country there is a big difference." "But I don't under? stand," Baid I, "what you mean by the difference. In what respect do those people over the river differ from you Kentuckians?are they not good citizens ? "Oh yes," said my friend," they are peace able enough, but they are as cold as an iceberg. They are selfish and stingy and pickayunish. They live close and work their wives and daughters for all they are worth. They don't like us because the negro does like us, and because we make the negro do what they have to do for NDERSON, S. C, TB themselves. Oh, I can't tell you exactly what is the matter, but we wan't them to shinny on their own side of the river? ?*I do not like thee, Dr. Fell; The reason why I cannot tell." "Are the negroes givi?g you any trou? ble ?" said I. "Not a bit-not at all. The negroes never gi7cs a gentleman aDy trouble. He respects him and loves to live with him, but just let a man level himself with the negro aud then comes the trouble. The race problem will never bother old Kentucky. The lines are drawn and they will stay drawn." "Well, what about the negro votiug hero 5' I see tbat Mr. Harrison is still harping upon the suppression of bis vote." "Not a word of it true, sir?not a word of it so far as this portion of Kentucky is con? cerned. We thought that Harrison was hitting at you people down in Georgia." "Maybe he was," said I, "butI have been diligently hunting for the place where the negro vote is suppressed, and I have not yet found it. Mr. Harrison's message upon tbat subject has let him down at the south and Wanamaker's appointment of negro postmasters has widened the breach. The administration have wantonly in? sulted our people and hence the south will remain solid. If a negro was ap? pointed postmaster in my town the Re? publicans there would mob him. Many of our best citizens are Republicans, but the negro question is not a political one. It is a social one and there is not a white man in the town who would submit to it, and there is not a negro who would dare to aak for it. The rights of the States are fast fading away under the power of Federal domination, but the'social status of the people will be maintained at all hazards, Maysville is a beautiful little town of 8,000 people, and has street^rs and electric lights and waterworks, handsome churches and a proud, old fashioned peo? ple. Albert Sidney Johnson lived near here, and so did Daniel Boone and other notable men. The border warfare that was kept up here, for four long years had much to do with alienating the people from their nabors across the river. From all I have heard that warfare was.terrible and th;s generation will not recover from it. The Kentuckian is a being of high emotional character.. Like the Indian, he loves and he hates and never forgets an enemy. Bill Arp. The Farmer Who RoDbed His Boy. Last spring a farmer found in-his flock Si lamb which the mother would not own. He gave it to his son, a boy fifteen years old, who saved it and raised it. The boy called it his and it was bis. But this fall when the father sold the other lambs, he let this one go with them, and taking the pay for it he tucked it into his wallet and carried it off to pay taxes' or put in the bank. Now this farmer did not intend to do anything wrong. Least of all did he in? tend to wrong his boy. Probably he did not give the matter much thought any? way, and if he did he considered the boy's ownership of the lamb a sort of pleasing fiction, or reasoned that the boy, having all his needs supplied out of the family purse, did not need the pay for the lamb, and it was better to put it into the common fund. But, for all tbat^taking the lamb and selling it in tbat way, and pocketing the proceeds, was stealing. No, it was roDbery; and, as between this boy and his father, one of the meauest robberies that could be perpetrated. Not only this, but by robbing the boy of that two dollars, the farmer did- more to make the boy discontented and drive him away from home than he can undo with ten times that amount. A boy is a little man, and if he has got any of the gather and grip to him which will make a successful man of him when he grows up, he begins *t an early age to feel that desire to own something, to add to the property Bubject to his ownership, which is at once the incentive to effective work and the motive which reconciles men to their condition. No matter how well the boy's wants are supplied from a fund which is common to the whole family, he takes no particular interest in adding to that because he does not feel that it is his, and ho tires of which he must share with several others ; but give him a piece of property of his own, to manage as he pleases, to keep or sell or change, and let him feel that his . ownership is secure and that his loss or gain depends upon his own endeavors aud he will work cheerfully and content? edly. How a Kiss Effected a Cure. A good story is . being told about the wife of a prominent gentleman of Scran ton, Pa , who has long been a confirmed invalid. A few weeks ago she took to her bed and bid fair to lie there helpless the rest of her life, and there seemed to be little the matter with her. Her hus? band prepared a novel teat for her. He took their pretty colored servant into his confidence and by a pre-arranged plan the two met in the invalid's bed chamber. As they passed the man reached out and em? bracing the irirl planted a fervent kiss on her black skin. The wife's lost powers returned to her at once, and she jumped out of her bed and drove the girl from the house. She now does all the housework herself with ease. How's This t 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, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole? sale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. E. n. 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, 75c. per bot? tle. Sold by all Druggists. lUESDAY MORNIN( A Blood-Sucking Plaut. New Orleans, Dec. 14.?Leroy Dun stan, the well known naturalist of this city, who has recently returned from Cen iral America, where he had spent nearly two years in the study of the flora and fauna of the country relates, the finding of a singular growth in one of the swamps which surround the great lake of Nica? ragua. He was engaged in hunting for botani? cal and etymological specimens in this swamp, which is known as' San Sebas? tian's, when he heard his dog cry out as if in agony from a distance. Running to the spot from which the animal's cries came, Mr. Dunstan found him enveloped in a perfect network of what seemed to be a fine, rope-like tissue of roots or fibres, the nature of which was unknown to him. The plant or vine seemed composed entirely of bare, interlacing stems, resem? bling more than anything else the branches of the weeping willow denuded of all foliage, but of a dark, nearly black hue, and covered with a thick, viscid gum that exuded from the pores.. Draw? ing his knife, Mr. Dunstan endeavored to cut the animal free, but it was only with the greatest difficulty that he suc? ceeded in severing the fleshy, muscular fibre. To his horror and amazement the naturalist then saw that the dogs body was covered with blood, while his hair? less skin appeared to have been actually sucked or puckered in spots, and the animal staggered as if from weakness end exhaustion. In cutting the vine the twigs curled like living, sinuous fingers about Mr. Dunstan's hand, and it required no slight force to free the. member from its cling? ing clasp, which left the flesh red and blistered. The gum exuding from the vine was of a grayish dark tinge, remark? ably adhesive and of a disagreeable ani? mal odor, very powerful and nauseating to inhale. The native servants who accompanied Mr. Dunstan manifested the greatest hor? ror of the vine, which they call la sagenas de liable, the devil's seine, or snare, and were full of stories of its death dealing powers. One of these stories was of an English? man residing in Mada'gue, who, while hunting in thejswamp a few years, ago lay down beneath a tree where a large and powerful specimen of the singular plant was growing and inadvertently falling asleep, awoke to find himself enveloped in its web, and in spite of every effort made to extricate him, perished in its deathly embrace. Another story was of an escaped con? vict who had hidden in the swamp, and whose bones had been found in the folds of the sagenas only a short time before Mr. Dnnstan's visit. These stories, re? markable as they seem, are firmly believed in by the people, but the only three specimens which Mr. Dunstan was able to find were all small ones, though the meshes of the largest would probably, if extended in a straight line, measure nearly, if not quite, one hundred feet. E!e was able to discover very little about the nature of the plant, owing to the difficulty of handling it, for its grasp can only be torn away with loss of skin and even of flesh, bat bo near as Mr. Dunstan could ascertain, its power of suc? tion is contained in a number of infini tisimal mouths or little sucker, which ordinarily closed, open for the reception of food. The gum exuded seems to serve the two-fold purpose of increasing its tenacity and of overcoming a victim by its sick? ening odor. The plant is found only in low wet places, and usually beneath a large tree, and while dormant seems only a network of dry, dead nines cover? ing the black earth for several feet, but coming into contact with anything will instantly begin to twist and twine upward in a horrible, lifelike manner, breaking out with the gum like sub? stance spoken of before, and en wrap the object with a celerity that is almost incredible. If the substance is animal the blood is drawn off and the carcass of re'fuse then dropped. A lump of raw meat being thrown in it in the short time of five minutes the blood will be thoroughly drunk oif and the mass thrown aside. Its voracity is almost beyond belief, it devouring at one time over ten pounds of meat, though it may be deprived of all food for weeks without any apparent loss of vitality. Mr. Dunstan attempted to bring away a root of the sagenas, but it died during bis return voyage, growing so foul with a strong odor of real animal corruption that he was obliged to get rid of it. The Touch of Sin, When an earthly touch once mars a heavenly gift, it cau never be restored to its primitive beauty. Rufflo the snow just fallen, and who shall lay it again ? Displace the dew as it has fallen on the blushing fruit, and no skill can replace it. Press tho rose leaf and wound it, and none can give back the perfection of its tints. So it is with human character. When youth has lost its innocence, when sin has once blasted the soul, when the firBt freshness of a God given life is gone, no after repentance, reformation, or de? votion to God will ever make it the same. Memory is polluted, the imagination as? sailed by impurities, habits of virtue aro weakened, aod the force of vice strength? ened. The vileness may be healed, but the scar remains, God may forgive the Bin, and man may forget it, but it is never beyond the vision of him who committed it, and however distant it may be, it hovers over him like a gloomy cloud. Let us keep our feet from evil; blessed is he who escapes it's foul touch. "The knowledge of good and evil" now, as in the beginning, hath death in it. West Point, Miss. I used half dozen bottles of Dr. Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic with the happiest effect, having been an invalid for eight months, suffering most of tbo time from Chronicle Malarial Toxrvmia. I would recommend it as one of the best Tonic that I have ever Been, and admira blv adapted to the character of malarial troubles iin this section. Very respectfully. T. W. Sritun.T.., M. D. For aale by all druggist.", X DECEMBER 26, II Can Laugh at Fire. "The great fires in New England fur? nish evidence of the absurdity of the term 'fire proof buildings' as generally applied," said a veteran contractor yes? terday. "Everyone of those burned structures, which the flames licked up so ravenously, were, at the time of their erection, pronounced thoroughly fire proof. The term is really without sig? nificance. A hay slack or a tinder box might as well be proclaimed fire proof as many of the great buildings that tower skyward along our business streets. Iron, because of its malleable qualities, and granite from its liability to crack when overheated, arejuat as dangerous and destructible in the event of a big confla? gration as the lightest wood. Yet a real fire proof building is not, on that account, an impossibility. The invention of so called hollow bricks has produced a means by which houses may, with proper precaution, be rendered impregna? ble to the devouring element. "Of course, if a building is to be quite fire proof it must be constructed of materials that are not only incombustible, but also perfect in respect of tenacity aud durability when subjected to excessive heat. For this purpose we must suppose the outer wall of our model house to be of brick, and, while iron will, of course, remain essential for girders, columns, and beams, these must be incased in from two to three inches of burnt clay mate? rial, so that every particle of ironwork shall be covered. This brickwork is thoroughly fire prorf, but to insure still greater security the bricks must contain cavities in their centres, which will not only increase their lightness, but by furnishing air ducts, act as insulators that will stay the progress of heat. "The partitions of this ideal building must rest on fire-proof floors and be made of burnt clay blocks. Furring blocks of the same material must bo substituted for the usual wooden furring along the inside of the exterior walls, and the roof muBt be of thick porous terra cotta brickB. The floors are, of course, a very important feature of the structure, but if they are made of rolled iron beams, properly spaced and thoroughly protected by hollow burnt clay arches, I warrant they will be absolutely invulnerable. The wood work, of course, may catch fire ; so may be curtain, carpets, chairs, tables and whatnot that fill the room. But it will be impossible for the flames to spread. Floor, ceiling and walla?all will present surfaces that are redly and truly fire proof, and your building will stand complete and secure. If you don't believe that such a pile would endure even a century of fiery rain build one yourself aud see. "But there's still another and equally valuable virtue in the hollow bricks. It is the immunity from cold and dampness which a building thus constructed enjoys, The air cells in the centre of every brick absolutely prevent rain or moisture from permeating the walla. The roof, too, is rain proof, and in the good time comipg, when every well regulated household will embody thiu excellent feature, there will be no.Biich thing as water-soaked ceilings and rain stained walla. Just as these brick can not carry heat, so they are a protector against cold. The air that is within them can not by any means conduct the frigidity of the outside world into the home circle. Boreaa will roar in vain around the chimney pots of the family housed in a hollow bricked anuggery. One thing more, these bricks are impervious to aound. Your neighbor may sing all day about the unfortunate man* who was dressed in his beat of clothes and will never know it. Or the baby may squall in sixty different sharps and flats from midnight till the dawniDg, and you, soundly Bleeping in the next room, will Buppose the infant, too, in slumberland. The tones of tintinabbulating piano8 and medireval hand organ? can never pene? trate through hollow bricka. Can you, in view' of all this, doubt that the mil? lennial age is knocking at our hollow bricked gate ?"?Philadelphia Record. Good Common Sense. A Duluth manufacturer baa.recently increased the wages of his married em? ployees and given single men notice that after a certain time if they are not mar? ried their services will not be required. This will perhaps be regarded by many as a mere whim, but it is based on sound business principles. As a rule married men are more trustworthy and conse? quently more valuable to their employers thau single men. A man who has no place that he calls home is not altogether a man. To be a full grown, manly man one must have something to love and cherish, upon which to bestow his manly affections. The man who packs every? thing he has into a grip sack and is ready to change his place of residence as soon as the next train goes, is a rolling stone that gathers nothing. The man who has a wife and children to love never becomes a tramp, and the man who has a speck of manhood in bis breast tries to be respectable for the sake of his wife and children, if not bis own sake. It is easy enough to see that a man who feela that he has something to live for ia more trustworthy than one whose affections never go out to anything out of his own vest. Marriage may sometimes be woree than a failure, but in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is a man's fault. The man who cannot hold the affections of a good wife to the extent of making his lot a hundred times more pleasant and happier than that of the homeless wanderer's, ia a failure whether married or Bingle, And whether he be penniless or worth his millions, he is a failure all the same. There is nothing illogical or unbusiness like in the position of the Duluth manu? facturer. The man with a wife and a homo is a more trustworthy employee, as he is also a better citizen.?Kno.rville Journal. ? A woman in Wilkesbarre, Pa., uued a saloon keeper, because her husband, while drunk on whiskey, sold by him while in a slate of intoxication, was kill? ed by a train. She recovered $2,500. c? No one now thinks of a domestic or foreign tiip without a supply of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. 20 ?K 389. How to Make Rico, Every farmer should cultivate a little rice for home use, where his land and the climatic conditions will permit. One acre of land well cultivated (which may be land already under fence and not suitable for any other crop) will generally produce thirty to forty bushels of the rough grain, turning out about eight hundred pounds of cleaned rice. (As much as seventy-five bushels of rough rice have been gathered from one acre in this section of the country, grown by cultivation, but this was an unusual yield). It is safe to say, I think, that no crop will yield as much food, for the amount of labor and land employed to produce it, as rice, one or two acres pro? ducing as much as an ordinary family can consume in a year. The manner of cultivating it is simple. And allow me to say first that there is no distinction between upland and low? land rice; there are no two distinct species, though we have different varie? ties. The rice grown by irrigation becomes upland rice if planted upon upland and cultivated. The "manner of planting and cultivating are substan? tially as follows: If new land or first year's land is selected (and it.is best to select this if you have it, as it will pay better in rice than anything else) run furrows in the new land about two and a half feet apart, drill the rough rice -and throw two furrows on; an occasional chopping down of weedB and eprontawill suffice, which may generally be done during wet spells when but little else C8n be done in other crops profitably. The middles may be ploughed out when the rice is well rooted. The mode of culture in old land is different, as we have grass to contend with. The land may be thrown up in ridges, say two and a half feet apart. Open ridges about three inches deep with a small plough, making a small straight furrow. An old fashioned block cotton opener is preferred; cover with harrow and board when the rice is up about an inch high; if very grassy or foul take a very sharp cotton scraper and shave off rice, grass, etc., all together, being careful not to go deep enough to disturb the roots of the rice. In a few days the rice will be out thick and clean! As soon as the rice will bear it work the dirt to it with a sweep. The rice will soon be independent of any grass that may come up, and the crop easily kept clean. It is best to plant about the first of April, (it will, however, do very well to plant in the month of May,) putting in about one bushel to the acre. Eice intended for table use should not be harvested until thoroughly ripe, which is about the last of August. It may be cut with a common reap hooklet it be tied in bundles of convenient size, and thrashed out by taking a bundle at a time and bring the grain end one or two good raps across a barrel or log, having a sheet spread out on the ground to 'catch the grain. There i3 always more or less of the grain not fully matured which shonld be left on the straw for stock, as it is too soft to hull. One or two good raps will be sufficient to get all the matured rice. The straw should be preserved as it is valuable food for stock in winter. I would remark here that a quart of rough rice once a week to a horse will keep him healthy, and have been creditably informed that a little thrown to hogs occasionally will prevent cholera and other diseases. As to the mode and machinery used for hulling the grain and preparing it for table ubb, I have .this to say: There are but two processes known or used; one is scouring or robbing; the other pounding or pestling. The machine constructed upon the rubbing principle is not durable and will not remove the inner coating. Not durable because the husks of rice, being more like sand paper than anything else it could be compared to, soon wearB it out. The machine con? structed upon the pounding principle removes both the outer and inner coat? ing, (or hulls,) and if made of good material is very durable. The machin? ery used in our large rice mills is very expensive, hence it cannot be adopted by the people to clean rice at home for their own use, and it will not pay to send the whole crop to large mills paying toll and freight both ways, besides losing the greater portion of the rice before it can be consumed. Bice is a delicate grain, and will soon must or be attacked by insects after it is hulled, but may be kept perfectly sweet in the rough for two or three years. On account of the trou? ble and expense of shipping it off to have it cleaned, as well as the loss sus? tained from spoiling, and the old process of beating it by hand in the common mortar being loo slow and laborous, but few of our people raise it. Owing to these facts, the idea was suggested to me of perfecting some simple, cheap and durable contrivance for this purpose. I worked at it about two years before I succeeded in perfecting a machine that would answer the purpose. I soon found that nothing upon the rubbiDg princi? ple would do as the machine (for reasons already given) would soon wear out and be worthless. I finally concluded to take the principle of the old hand mortar and pestle as a starting point, and endeavor to utilize it so as to reduce the time and labor, and am happy to 3^3* that I have succeeded in penciling a machine upon the pounding principle that does the work well, removing the inner as well as the outer hull, that can be bought for $25. As an evidence of its success would Bay that I buy rough rice, hull it on the hand machine myself, giving my family all they want at 8 cost (the cleaned rice) of less than three cents per pound, and it is sweeter than that usually found in store. If I raised the grain (taking cut the value of the straw as food for cattle and mules in winter) would consider that it cost me nothing.?Southern Culti? vator . ? A sharper who gets fifty cents for a receipt for killing insects sends this reply: "Get your insects to smoke cigarettes. It will kill them. To the Proprietor of Salvation Oil. Thou has built a living monument, A cure for hurts with little money spent, ^.dvation Oil, the granted liniment, VOLUM] Don't Talk too Much, To be & successful salesman one must maintain a certain amount of reserve. Too much talk has spoiled many a good trade. It is tiresome to purchasers, who frequently prefer to be guided by their own judgment than by the suggestion of store clerks. People who buy- goods, particularly the ladies, generally think over what they want and make up their minds before they start out on a shop? ping expedition about what tboy want and about what they feel they can afford to pay for it. When they enter a store and call for a certain quality of goods they expect the salesman to placb before them what they desire?not to suggest they know something a great deal better, which they are sure will give them far greater satisfaction. Customers, as a general thing, do not like talkative and garrulous store clci&s, they prefer a quiet, obliging, dignified salesman, who will Bhow them goods without any ostentatious display of his person or intellectual imbecility. Clerks should never be impertinent or t jap pish, even to their inferiors. They should learn to treat all customers with courtesy and impartial politeness. Jokes, stories and sloppy sentiment should never by manner or expression do or say anything to offend the dignity of amatrou or bring a blush to a modest maiden's cheek. They should never remind any homespun agriculturist of any unpleasant mistake be may have made in bis past career, for such men are always more or less sensi? tive and do not like to be made a butt Of. Many a clerk by trying to say some smart thing has lost a good customer to his employer and made himself an object and subservient aversion to the party whom he has offended. Salesmen should talk just enough and should have suffi? cient common sense to know when they have talked enough. They should be polite and patient under provocation and use their utmost endeavors to make friends for their employers, thus aidiugin building up and successfully carrying on business. Some may think these re? marks common pjace, but they play a more important part in the success or failure of the retail store-keeper than many imagine.?Grocer's Criterion. What They Excel In. Alabama ranks fourth in cotton. Arizona ranks second in silver. California ranks first in barley, grape culture, sheep, gold and quicksilver. Colorado ranks first in silver. Connecticut ranks first in clocks. Delaware is way up in peaches. Dakota is the finest wheat growing State. Florida ranks third in sugar and mo? lasses. Georgia ranks second in rice and sweet potatoes. Indiana ranks second in wheat. Illinois ranks first in corn, wheat, oats, meat packing, lumber traffic, malt and distilled liquors and miles of railway. Iowa ranks first in hogs. Idaho ranks sixth in gold and silver. Kansas ranks fifth in cattle, corn and rye. Kentucky ranks first tu tobacco, and has a world-wide reputation for thor? oughbred horses and cattle. Likewise beautiful women. Louisiana ranks first in sugar and molasses. Maine ranks first ic ship building, slate and granite quarries, lumbering and fishing. Maryland ranks fourth in coal. Massachusetts ranks first in cotton, woolen and .worsted goods and in cod and mackerel fisheries. Michigan ranks first in copper, lumber and Bait. Minnesota ranks fourth in wheat and barley. Mississippi ranks second in cotton. Missouri ranks first in mules. Montana ranks fifth in silver and gold. New Mexico's graziug facilities can't be beat. Nebraska has abundant crops of rye, buckwheat, barley, flax and hemp. Nevada ranks second in gold. New Hampshire ranks third in the manufacture of cotton goods. New Jersey ranks first in fertilizing marl, sine and silk goods. New York ranks first in value of manufactures, soap, "printing and pub? lishing, hops, hay, potatoes, buckwheat and milch cows. North Carolina ranks first in tar and turpentine. Ohio ranks first in agricultural imple? ments and wool. Oregon takes the palm in cattle rais? ing. Pennsylvania ranks first in rye, iron and steel, petroleum and coal. Khode Island, in proportion to its size, outranks all other States in value of manufactures. South Carolina ranks first in phos? phates. Live Like Lovers. Married people should treat each other like lovers all their lives; then they would be happy. Bickering and quarreling would soon break off love affairs; conse? quently lovers indulge in such only to a limited extent. ButBome people-men and women both?when they are once married think they cau do as they please, and it will make no difference. It will make all the difference in the world. Women should grow more devoted and men fon? der after marriage, if they have the slight? est idea of being happy as wivea and husbands. It is losing sight of this fun? damental truth which leads to hundreds of divorces. Yet many a man will scold his wife who would never think of breath? ing a harsh word to his sweetheart, and many a wife will look grum and moorse on her husband's return, who had only smiles and words of cheer for him when he was her suitor. How can such people expect to be happy ? ? The doctors ivho attended the late King of Portugal during the last few weeks of his illness presented bills for their services amounting to nearly $100, 000. There is one thing that doctors never disagree about, and that is that ihero should bo no limit to their Charge?, E XXIV.?NO. 2 ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS ? When money is tight it is qc That is more than can be said of a: ? It is said that there are forty-e?1 languages and dialects spoken in Mesi ? During the period from Janhanbto October, 82,000 Germans emigrated to America. ? Cotton is king, and yet he is* continually sent out of the country where; he reigns. ? Tenneesee made 80,000,000 bushel of corn and 1G0.00O bales of cotj this year. s ? There are some things ? dwarf cau't do, but he can catch just as big a cold as a giant. ' ? There were sixty steam engines at work at one time at the great fire in Bee ton on November 28th. ? Josh Billings says: "The best med isin I kno for the rheumatiz, is to (hank the Lord it ain't the gout." ?President Flager, of the Standard Oil Company, has built four churches during the past year at a cost of $400,000. ? Happy is the bride who does not hear all the comments and criticisras__of her dear friends who make up the nudi ience at the wedding*. ? Hon. James M. Smith, ofOglethorpe County, the biggest farmer in Georgia, has ordered 100,000 mulberry trees, so' rumor says, and proproses to go into silk culture on a large scale. ? On the west coast of Africa there are now about 200 churches, 35,000 converts, 100,000 adherents, 275 schools, 30,000 pupils. Books.have been translated hito 3 languages and dialects. f ? It is expected that by another yesr fresh figs, raised in Florida and Georgip, will be put on the Northern market in considerable quantities. Several large fig groves have lately been planted. . ? Rev. Dr. Furness, of Philadelphia, has been a smoker from his youth up, and he is now eighty-eight years old and in robust health. The anti-smokers will probably agree that the doctor is pretty tough. ? The American Agriculturist annuon ces that its $500 prize for {he best yield of potatoes goes to Charles B. Coy; ot Arostook county, Me.j whose yield was 738 bushels 25 pounds of Dakota Reds on an acre. ? Hostetter, the great stomach bittern man, left personal property valued at over $6,000,000. His real estate will foot up several million dollars. Our patent medicine men rival the great railway kings in wealth. ? An exchange makes the remark that "money is easy." This is true. Money is the easiest thing in the whole country. It is easy to spend, and easy to stay spent. Nevertheless, hurrah for the dol? lar of our daddies! ? Pin up two facts to be considered when you are discouraged: There are fewer business failures among farmers than among any other class. More men begin without capital and become owners of good business in farming than in any other vocation. ? At North Lansing, Tompkins County, N. Y., lives the oldest postmas? ter in the United States in point of ser? vice. His name is Boawell Bardley, and for sixty-four year he has distributed mail to his neighbors. He haa held this office under nineteen successive Presi? dents. ? "Have you anything to say?* asked ? a judge of a prisoner upon whom he was about to pass sentence. "Yes,"; was reply of the prisoner, whose been- assessed at imprisonment* "I think that the time wasted that long-winded speech by galoot you appointed to defend; to be taken out of my sentenl ? The following from the Pj underwriter seems appropriat are made quickly in this they are lost quickly, too. days a million dollars' worth of! is destroyed by fire. It is a the nation, whether insured or t and the discreditable part most of the fires are preventable ? Some of the' novelties Philadelphia wedding are thusi The parlor was arranged in: chrysanthemums, to represent the of a drawing room car. The be under a marriage bell, and at six whistles were blown, and; rung all over the house, denotii bride was starting on herjournejj life. ? H. P. Cheatbam, North negro Congressman, recently di3 and, for him, noble act. He the retention in office of-ayc Democrat in office, saying that good industrious boy, and ham) had been given to the be as a bridal present. Now the reduced circumstances, and he occasion to show his love for the ? About midnight Friday tweft made a daring escape from tbe;I tiary. They were Wesley Gjr Dick Jones, both colored, andg about three years yet te serve., through the wall of their < partition, with a chisel, aud? it an easy matter to reach the} cell on the opposite side into! had effected their entrance bei pied and unlocked and no j s'dj cf ihe building. ? John Wesley's advice t& is worthy of deep consider classes of Christians. He i to "take heed to their docfc experience, their practice, cipline. If they take heed.f only, they will become Anti* they take heed only to expexii will become enthusiasts; if I ly to their practice, they Pharisees; and if they do not"] to their discipline, they man who bestows much cr'i his garden, but leaves it without be devoured by the wild boar est." To Dispel Colds, : Headaches and Fevers, tO; system effectually, yet gentlj tive or bilious, or when tbej pure or sluggish, to pei habitual constipation, tiftt kidney and liver to a heaUL without. irritating or weakei uw Syrup of Fign.