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IPOLINXSCALES & LANGSTON. AMPAIGN OPENED! m : r'. Tin,/_jpiwiclVW?J?otrosr, ? But ?aim-carrying on -. : ,'.V :? r ? " - . A WAR OS THE Campaign on Cotton Is over for this Seauon, and we are going to make a campaign on high prices in Groceries. We intend to. make this the oheapeit crop the farmers have ever raised in Anderson County, by. selling*:Groceries and ProvlsionB so CHEAP that no man ban complain of not being able to live economically. We a re bujing for Cash, and propose to sell thesame ;^a^^-vWVs*6 fanning only one line oft Goods, and buy in large lots, ao gefr.-.Goods"cheap; 'we sell- at;the closest "margin for handling, so we cannot bo undersold, even if pur comi?titors sell for coat. We mean what we say, :';:andBay:what'?'e mean. . ? We buy for SPOT CASH, And We propose to sell only for SPOT CASH. So don't ask to have Good* charged at these prices. SEAH>, ? .. RllPiBCT, aud ACT. These! prices; "make the r: old jadei wince." ' WE GIVE A FEW PEICES: . Granulated Sugar 7c per pound. :.< Coffse?best Kio^-20o. per pound. Soda?pure?8c. per pound. Flour?Patent, 84.85 per Barrel. ^Flour?Good Family, 83.85 per Barrel. Flour?Family, 83.45 per Barrel. Bacon, Lard, Corn, Oats, Tobacco, And all other Goods in proportion. fe>^r^esome^A^rS^SHOE8, NOTIONS, and oth 4er':i)ry^5;?obd8 ?left.'that.'.we are selling so.low that tha. ?^?c&9^^^^j^l-\-^^o.are no shop-worn, oldgoods, \;jbn?*^ These goods arein:.tto-wfty,'a^;:we;nee^ .the room for an immense . ? Stock' of Groceries; so they must' and shall go.- .. THE IiAST OH ANCO TO GET SOME DEBIRABLE COODS At and BEIiOW COST. ER?WM bros. THE PUBLIC. I have a Pine Stock of jgies, Wagons, S?rreys, . Harness, Muies and Horses. On hand that can be bought at a Bargain for Spot Cash. AJSi situated so at present that I had rather have the money than the Goods, ?.even.if I.have to cell at about cost. Will continue until my present stock is ex? hausted to sell on time to good, responsible parties. Always prefer cash payment, i 3 OaHl on Mesara. L. L. Gailaard, John D. Beard and J. 'A. Shanklin. Tanking the people of Aodersou and country for their kind and liberal pa? tronage, I am ?> v ? Very truly yours, CTOT?nST IB- EFIEOiFLElS. I am EMM IS YOUR MULE! BCECKLEY & FRETWELL'S Exposition Building is now open for the patronage of the Public?we refer to Oiif intense Sales Stable, . On Corner Mtaffle and Benson Streets, :d:e3:r,so:n% s. g. .-^rjS'CE our opening we have received Three Oar Loads of Fine young Kentucky ? MTJL1S3, :and * Jp* of Fine HORSES. We assure our friends and customers of? FAIR AND SQUARE DEALINGS, As it is hot our intention to misrepresent Stock, but to sell them ju?t for what they weY If you neeil. any Stock at any time, call at the Stablw on MAJ. J. N. VANDIYEBi who is in charge 0/ them, and will be pleased to show you around. We have now a good large assortment of? YOUNG MULES AND HORSES ON HAND, And can sell you also? BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS, HARNESS, COLLARS, BRIDLES, &c, ??E _A_ IP I v?.i ? %x ???? -. ? "'.We do not propose to deal in old ripa?we handle only clean, nioe young Boiaaiite, and excaH#at bargaioa,tren be had at our Stabl? every day. ni mm l FRETWELL TE}A?HE}r$'G0LUMN, . All oonimnnicationsj intended for this O?lomn should be addressed to E. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C. , The colored school at Mt. Moriah is in charge of Charity Guy ton, who seems to have her school well in hand, and to be doing good work and putting in honest time. The school is full and the pupils show up very well for a third grade teacher. Mr. A. J. Watt is again in charge at Deans, but the character of the school somewhat disappointed us, as from what we saw last year we expected to see a school of advanced pupils, but instead found only a school of primary pupils, and mostly small ones. Them ould be a better school here, for then, . Oood material at hand out of which to organ ize it, and we believe it can be done. At Starr we found a new teacher at the helm in tbe person of Miss Jennie Cowan, who seems to be at home in her work, and to have secured the lovo and confidence of her pupils. We have nowhere in tbe County found as many pupils studying grammar, and it has been made a pleasure to them. We spent tbe night with the teacher at the home of friend Wilson, who, with others in the community, is earnestly holding up the bands of tbe teacher. From here we proceeded to the col? ored school at' White Hollow, taught by Margaret Bowie, who is quite an im? provement on their last teacher. She seems to have something to teach, and to be trying to do it, but has a miserably poor bouse to work in. Back from here to the school at Ivy Hollow, where we had many pleasant recollections of our former visit to Miss Sallfe Gosb, who has a worthy successor in Miss Lena Johnson, an earnest, capa ble and conscientious teacher. Her pupils were ready, prompt and eager, and gave us a welcome to the house and a cordial invitation to come again. We think the people of this community have been fortunate last year and ibis in se? curing teachers, and we feel confident that good results will follow. We spent a pleasant night with the teacher at the home of Mr. E. P. Clinkscales. At Mountain View we found a colored teacher who had just changed her name from Burdette to Hayes, who is doing some good work. She made a class give a drill in phonies that was creditable, indeed, and in fact all her classes did reasonably well. It js a pleasure to go to Moffattsville always and witness the orderly methods of a man who understands his business, and is fearless and faithful in tbe dis? cbarge of his duty. Everything inside the building has an air of busy work, and all seem earnest and interested and working for a purpose, and it could not well be otherwise with the earnest exam? ple set them. This school is a great blessing to this community, and radiates its good influences for miles around, and deserves and should receive the cordial support of every head of a family within its radius. Not many boys and girls can go away from home to receive a higher education, and here it has been brought to them and offered at a minimum cost, and ono of the great advantagees is that it is removed from all the temptations of | town life, and tbe pupils are still under home influences and home restraints. And we take an especial pleasure in not? ing tbe fact that tbe good people of this Bection, knowing that they have a good thing, are sturdily standing to the sup? port of the teacher, and besides having built him a good house in the past, bare recently added a room for tbe primary classes, and hare installed an admirable teacher in the person of Miss Kate Hoi lemao, of Walhalla, who is ably second? ing tbe principal in his work. We spent the night with tbe principal and his ex? cellent wife, and we discussed schools and school methods until a-Into hour, and after a good night's rest and ?n excellent breakfast we left, feeling Hint the school interests of those children are in safe hands. From Generoatee to Old Fellowship, and what a transformation met our eyes from what we saw there a year ago. Then huge cracks were yawning at us on all .sides, and a fire-place into' which might be dumped almost a wagon load of wood, and pupils timid, shrinking and Borne crying, never having seen a School Commiaaioner before. Now a comforta? ble house built out of the material of the old Church, a good chimney and pupils not a.'raid but ready and willing to talk to us, and giving us a cordial invi? tation to return again, and but of oil and most important is tbe capable and com? petent teacher in charge in tbe person of Miss Faunie Bronuer. Just- ono more pull, friends, and gel thoBe sash in and keep that teacher ut work, and our word for it your childron will make progress. Through rain, freezing as it foil, we drove from Fellowship to.Moseley, where we found our old friend, Mis*) Bertie Cunningbum, in charge. This is a new school house, but the strauge thing about it is that it is built out in a bleak and open field, where it will be exposed to the fierce blaeta of winter and the scorch? ing ray* of a summer sun, and every stick of fire-wood has to be hauled. Timber is cIobo by, ;and we sug? gest that it be put upon wheels*, hitch several yoke of cattle to it and pull it over to the woods Children will soon have au aversion to a place where there is ho nice, cool, Bhady playground. Misa Bertie has a nice school here, but has a great hindrance in tbe lack of classifica? tion, which ia produced by the want of suitable text books, and those ought not to be purchased until the teacher has been consulted. REPORT OF THE SALTJDA SCHOOL FOR JANUARY. First Claas?MisB Cora Elrod, 92. Second Class?Master Joe Singleton, 83. Third Clace?Master Harvey Merritt, aa, v NDERSON, S. C, T. Fourth Class?Master Jimmie Elrod, 94. Nellie M. Stenhouse, Teacher. Brushy Creek Hoir He Excelled Himself. by ike philkins. The lamented Sargent S. Prentis?, of Mississippi, has righfully been considered the most brilliant orator of tbis age. He is to American oratory what Chatterton was to Eoglish literature. For his years he was a phenomenon which promised to outblaze the brightest sun in his sphere. A characteristic anecdote is related of one of his brilliant efforts. He was to defend a man accused of murder, and tbe evidence appeared to be plain. No one expected he would be acquitted, and almost every one was sure he would hang. Prentiss told some inti? mate friends that he could only hope for a long sentence, instead of hanging, even if he could obtain this much. But on the day be was to make his speech he was, as too frequently occurred, helpless from drink. But be was on baud, in spite^of tbe protests of his colleagues in the great case, When his name was called, he got up in a dazed sort of way and insisted on speaking. He made a most powerful speech, but, to tbe amaze? ment of his colleagues, and to the horror of the prisoner, be made a terrible speech on tbe side of the prosecution. It was said that there had never been heard sucb a convincing argument to a jury in New Orleans, where the trial occurred, against any man. As he closed with one of his matchless bursts of eloquence, be started to take hia seat, as the other law? yers for the defense exclaimed: "Great God I What have you done? You have hung your own client!" It flashed on Prentiss all at once that he had, in his drunken stupor, made a speech for tbe State instead of for his client. He was thoroughly sober now. Beaching for a pitcher of water standing near, he said, as if he had only paused for new strength: "Mr. Sheriff, give me a glass, please." He then took a drink of water, set tbe pitcher down, looked around on the jury, the judge, the lawyers and the audience, amidst a profound silence. Every one, who had beeu under the spell of bis argument and amazed at his change, was breathless with expectation at this strange conduct. They all knew that something unusual was about to take place. What they could not guess. But that they were to be treated to something great, even for Prentiss, all felt, and not one in the rast throng so much as breathed for a few ?econds. The fiery orator did not keep them waiting but a moment. He settled himself on his feet, Blowly wiped bis mouth, raised hia hand, pointed it at the array of talent and learning on tbe side of the prosecution, and began : ? "May it please the court And gentle? men of tbe jury, I have given what I be? lieve to be tbe strongest argumenta that the prosecution could possibly bring against my client; arguments which, I admit, seem to involve him in a network of convicting evidence more inextricable than the meshes of the silken web woven about his victim by the cunning and alluring spider. But, gentlemen of tbe jury, I will now address myself to tbe arguments in favor of the accused, and I think I shall be able to sweep away the entangling web, even a9 the hand of man sweeps away the spidrr'a Bilvery threads of B?ken fetters and sets free the captive fly." He then proceeded to make not only the most eloquent, most remarkable speech he had ever made, but the most remarkable, perhaps, in the English lan? guage. Tue jury, judg?, audience, and ev?n counsel for the prosecution were dumbfounded, overwhelmed with amaze? ment, Applause and tears came at the bidding of Ihe great <raior. When he ceased speaking br- k>ll back exhausted ; and, when he rVeoveud his Btrength, he was told that lie jury, without leaving their seat^, had brought in a verdict of J "not guilty," aa the prosecution submit? ted the case 4ter his Bpeech without making itirlhci argument. When Ksked how he came to be in? spired with the idea of making B?ch a speech for tbo prosecution, and then knocking it all to pieces, he remarked: I was never inspired with such an idea. I didn't know what I was about until my colleagues told me what I had done. Then my brain seemed to take fire; I saw that I must redeem both my reputation and my honor, and had to do something quickly. The only thing that I could do, without acknowledging that I had played the drunken fool, was to pretend that I did that on purpose, and then try to undo my blunder. That's all there is to it." But we have only bad one Keats, and one Chatterton, and one Prentiss. As a gentleman once remarked to a young man who excused his drinking habita by saying tbe brightest men we had drank, and naming Prentiss especially : "Yes, my yoang friend; we see what Prentiss is, in spite of drink. But, great God, just reflect what he would have been bad he not drank intoxicating liq? uors at all."?Chicago Ledger. State op Ohio, City of Toledo, "I Lucas County, j t,Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is tbe senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my presence, thia 6th day of December, A. D., 1886. f^T 1 A. W. Gleason, j seal j Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly upon the blood and mu? cous Burfacea of tbe system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists?price 75 cents. ? There is nothing bo natural as to 119) EXJKSDAY MOENIN BILL ARB'S PHILOSOPHY. Atlanta Constitution. To read or not to read, that is the ques? tion. Newspapers, I mean. The newspapers that make us mad or sad. Sometimes I think a man had bet? ter swear off and read no politics?no do? mestic scandal?no hangings or Iynchinga ?nothing about the race problem, or the tariff, or woman's rights?nothing that will excite his indignation or keep him from feeliug calm and serene. Sometimes I meet a clever, hard-working country? man, who hasent heard the news, and I envy him. One asked me the other day if congress bad begun to ship the negroes to Afriky. But then we must keep up with the times, or we will get behind. It seems like we are living in an enemy's country, and must keep posted or forti? fied. The newspapers are our scouts, our sentinels. They hoist the danger signals, and somebody must read them, or the enemy will slip up on us. I thought that we were getting along pretty well with the yankees since Henry Grady made his Boston speech, aud I still believe we have gained some ground, if we can hold it. But it begins to look like the most of our northern brethren were more in love with the boy than with what he said. Moat all of. them praise Grady, but very few indorse his sentiments. It is just like an earnest, eloquent lawyer pleading for his client until the tears are seen fall? ing from the eyes of the jurymen, but they retire and convict his client all the same. I thought that as the south was on trial she was about to bo acquitted when Grady spoke, but slas, for us, he dident have the conclusion. Admiration is short lived, and prejudice is long. Even IngalU praises Grady, while he abuses the South and winds up with the dagger and the torch. But there is a bigger sigh than Ingalls. The northern press has already settled down to its usual business?not only the Republican pre3.?, but the religious press. Editors of great papers either mold the opinion of their readers, or they reflect them, some of them do both. The preacher editors generally mold them. They are a bold, aggressive class, and ! hence the danger if they go wrong. Dr. Phelps is the president of Andover Col? lege. He is a learned and notable man, aud whatever he writes for his paper, I "The Congregationailst," is taken by New England as the law and testimony. His readers will swear by bis convictions. In a'late number of hii paper he arraigns the south and makes demands upon us. He ridicules Grady'a speech as the "elo? quence of the banquet,"'as a "remarkable succession of irrelevances," as the "tick? ling with feathers of only a feather's weight," with the coolness and arrogance of a king, he tells us that we should "refuse the negro no place by reason of his color." And then be adds: "Ib Georgia doing this?wo have the right to ask? Is it her civil and her social policy to educate the colored citizen up to the level of the Republican ballot?" Was there ever such ignorance and impudence combined in a great man. Educate the negro to vote the republican ticket. Good Lord and maBter, why don't you educate Grover Cleveland and Governor Hill and all the Democrats up north to do that? Why dident you edu? cate the negro before you gave him the right to vote. Yea, you have the right to inquire, and you can keep- on inquir? ing, and Georgia will keep on attending to her own business. The Rev. Dr. continues his impertinent remarks and says: "Having educated the negro to the level of the Republican ballot, will you count the vote if it will elect?" Now, he really believes that the negro vote is not counted in Georgia. He won't be? lieve us when we tell him that it id. He won't believe even the negroes when they tell him so. I have been watching and wondering for twenty years to see a negro intimidated at the polls either directly or indirectly, and I have never seen one?I have never Been his vote miscounted or fail to be counted. But we would like to inquire why you suppressed and mis? counted Sam'l. J. Tilden'b vote and stole the presidency from him. But what is the use in quarreling with such fanatic. Here is the negro the hap? piest creature upon earth, and the most contented, and away up in New England you can hear the hypocritical howl of "Vote, vole, vote"?won't educate the negro to vote the Republican ticket. His precious, vote is all they are concerned about. It hasent been but forty four years since Rhode Island wouldent let anybody vote unleaB he was the eldest son and was worth $134. That is what Appleton Hays in his biography of Thom? as 0. Dorr, And because Dorr called a convention to change the constitution and extend the franchise, they arrested him and put him in the penitentiary. But the reverend doctor says that we must not refuse the negro any place, civil or social. He would invade the sanclty of our homes and .firesides with his phi* lantbropy. He does not seem to know or believe that the white Republicans/of the south are as much shocked at his demand as_ we are. He does not know that the white people of the south are a unit on the color line?the separation of the laces in schools and churches, and hotels and theatres. Here in my town are Republi? cans with whom we affiliate and associate in our churches, in our city councils and scboolboards. They are banker? and merchants, aod lawyers and manufactu? rers and we arc naturally tolerant and considernto of each others' political preference, but you can't find one who does not draw the color line, no one but who will say that Dr. Phelps is' a foolibh fanatic. The grand army post ut Macon has somo colored members, but they were not invited to the banquet. The north had just as well quit wasting their sweet? ness on this question. The negroes don't want that sort of equality, and they could not get it if they did. And here is what another crazy, cranky preacher says. He is the editor of the Examiner, a great Baptist paper publish? ed in New York : "No doubt it would be desirable for all concerned if the spirit ot emancipation was pu?hed to its logical and human extreme, but the question is, oan the hostility of amalgamation bo se G, FEBEUAKY 13, 1 He is considering the propriety of this thing, this unnatural union. We don't know that he is hankering after a negro wife, but he is ready right now to pasB a law that would encourage tbe amalgama? tion and make it legal. He would force it upon us but for the hostility. Now if he was just one man speaking for himself nobody would care, but he speaks for thousands and tbey hear him and approve. It does look like most of the people up north are cranky about something. It is no wonder that they are cranky on this question, for they have been crossed and recrossed and mixed and amalgamated and bred in and bred out so much, that it is a wonder they have any established principles about anything. The masses are a mixture of al! nations. You might as well try to raise a good stock of horses by mixing tbe blood of the racer and the trotter, and tbe Fercheron, and the mustang, and tbe Couestoga, and the Texas bucker, and Balaam's ass combin? ed. You can't take up a northern paper but what you see the oulcroppings of this degeneracy. The Puritan blood has about petered out. In the days of the I blue laws of Connecticut it was a penal offense for a man to kiss his wife on Sun? day, but now, in some places, tbey kiss anybody and everybody every day and every night at home and abroad, in the church and out of it, if the following be true. It is taken from a telegram to tbe Associated Pxess from Tauntnn, Mass., and is headed "Osculatory Chris? tians." "The peace of the brick church at Dighton has been broken, up by the pro? miscuous huggiogs and kissing that has been going on in the church at the spell? ing bees that are held in the saucluary as nightly entertainments. Tbe new pastor, Rev. Mr. Dyer, was shocked to find that males and females, ripe spinsters, elderly maidens, and blushing damsels, were engaged in these osculatory perform mances, and counting the number of times that each had been favored and the church had been turned into a house for hugging and kissing, he dared to put his foot down, and the result is pandemonium and persecution without end. The young men defied him and burned powder at the door of the cburcb, and blew tbe smoke through the keyhole, and tho?e who were inside left their empty whisky bottles in the pewB as contributions to the church collections. Tbe pastor had to Bend for the sheriff to keep tbe peace, and as the church officials wouldn't pay the sheriffs fee, tbe pastor bad to pay it himself." Not much Puritanism about that, is there. And here is another in the Boston Herald of Jaat week, which says: "The committee on tbe public schools of Boston report that in one of tbe schools, a dozen boys have, within a Bhort'time, been ar? rested for stealing. One boy struck his teacher such heavy blows as nearly killed her. Another boy fought bis teacher with a loaded bludgeon two feet long. Three other boys kicked their teacher and one drew a revolver on her. Eight of tbe boys belong to a band called the Forty Thieves, who meet regularly and plan stealing expeditions. And there are three other schools that are worse than this one." Now, we have a right to inquire when these osculatory and'Ursine performances are going to be prohibited, and when will those boys be educated up to the lerel cf republican manners? Will Massachusetts do it? You may traverfrom Virginia to Texas and you can't find anything to compare with it. Isn't it .strange that ti^ey will presume to lecture us on moral-* ity. McOauley says in his essays : "The Puritans hated bear-baiting?not because it gave pain to the bear, but bee?use it gave pleasure to tbe spectators." And so I reckon the north abuses us about the negro, not becauae of any love or pity for him, but because we mako such good use of him. In a late letter to tbe Charleston Courier, Dr. Phelps is more considerate in language, and admits they made a great mistake in giving the negro the ballot. He says it struck nature a blow in the face, and what the eud will be God only knows. "It would not aurpriae me," be Bays, "if it cost the nation more blood than the civil war." He Bays we.have his aympathy. Thanks!?we don't care for sympathy now. All we ask is to be let alone?just let tbe negro alone; keep your.mouths abut and your hands off, and there will be no blood. I wonder how that fight is getting on at Alton-that fight tbe negroes are making to force their children into the white school? I do hope they will whip it. The white folks mixed that medicine for us?now let them drink it. The hair of the dog is good for the bite 1 Bill Aitr. An Iron Rivet in his Neck* Rome, N. Y, Feb. 1.?Michael Finn, who formerly kept; the California House, near here, served in the war of the re? bellion in Company E., New York Volnn teora, from 1861 to 1863. Ho was wounu ed twice?once in the left hip and once iu the neck. The latter wound, he sup? posed, was inflicted by a spent ball. The surgeons, however, failed to discover any trace of a ball and said the man waB mistaken. He wa3 awarded a pension of $4 per month for the wound in the hip but nothing for the one in the neck. He always felt a pain in hi? neck, and eventually loat all power of speech and became a pbycical wreck. In 1883 Dr. N. C. Scudder examined the man and grive it as bis opinion that a ball or some auch substance was lodged at the root of the laruyx. Mr. Finn died in 1885. In order to enable the widow to obtain an increase of pension, if possible, Dr. Scudder and Justice Bowera, of this city, made an examination of Mr. Finn's neck on January 19,1S90?five yeara after hia death?and found imbedded therein a button shaped rivet of iron, which he had carried for twenty-five yeara, and which was the immediate cause of hia death. ? A York County (Pa.) schoolmistress baa got into trouble through faatening sticking plasters over the mouths of her pupils to keep them from talking. ? Who can foretell a sudden bruiae on tho leg of a favorite I Keep Sfilffttion Gil ?5 \hi staWi. 890. nOW SOME RICH MEN LIVE. They Hustle as If they Had Not the Price of a Dinner. Jay Gould is at bis desk in the West? ern Union building shortly after 9 every morning. His office is in the Southeast corner on the second floor. A long-dis? tance telephone, a private telegraph wire running into his home at Irvington, and another wire running into the heart of Wall Btreet, are all handy to Mr. Gould's desk. Mr. Gould doe3 not have private equipages. He usea the horse cars and the elevated trains. Sometimes at night he rides in a hired hack. He drives away at his desk until 4 o'clock. On Bome daya he talks with 200 visitors; 200 minds, acute and marvelously incisive minds that cannot be matched anywhere out of the financial world, rubbing against one I The friction is frightful. Besides, there are a thousand important matters associated with the Gould corporation which require his attention. When he starts for home Mr. Gould is very much more exhausted than a laborer on the acqueduct. The day's frictiou frequently brings on nervous headaches, which completely wilt the ovrner of $70,000,000. John Jacob Astor is on the go from his early breakfast hour to duek. He trudges about Wnll street like an errand boy. He does this for about twenty-four days in a month, and by that time he calls in his cab. He is fagged out, and a week in his cab so revives his energies that when the new month is ushered in .he is ready to start again on hi? daily tramps among his real estate agents and bankers. Every day in hia lite is devoted to the hunt for substantial in? vestments for his money. He has other folks to collect bis income. It is his business to see that it is reinvested satis? factorily. Great labor, untiring indus? try and relentless attention are necessary to do this. He is in the city winter and summer. Hib fortune of $100,000,000 chains him to the city just as tight as the driver of a leased hack with a big family on his bands. Cornelius Vanderbilt is at his office in the Grand Central station ahead of some of the Central's clerks. He works bix times harder than any one of them. He has a dozen meetings of directors on hand nearly every day in the week, with all their conflicting interest and myriads of important details. He could not work harder if be really wanted to earn the interest on his individual fortune of $100,000,000. After a long day of this monotonous drudgery he frequently lectures at night to the Young Men's Christian Association and other bodies of tbe same character, On other nights he dances until nearly dawn. He was in every dance at the McAllister ball. But the lectures and tbe dances are in a meas uro recreations, and they revivify him for the daily struggle to retain hia im? mense fortune. It is well known that the old Commodore,and William H., after him, remarked that it was "easy enough to get rich in New York. It requires a daily Gettysburg, a Seven Years' War, a stern battle every day, to keep your fortune after you get it and to ecuttleand ward off tbe pirates and bri? gands bent on getting it from you." Collis P. Huntington for two months has hobbled on one foot in and out of his offices, in the Milln building. A bookkeeper in a dry goods Bhop would have bad every excuse to have remained at home until his aprained ankle was cured. Mr. Huntington couldn't do that, and yet he can point to bank accounts and personal investments aggregating $50,000,000. But the vast, machinery by which he obtained this fortune was in full motion and steaming ahead like a Pennsylvania flyer. It was absolutely necessary that the engineer should be aboard. His powerful and determined hand must be upon the throttle valve or wrecks and disaster would follow. So Mr. Huntington has been assisted in and out of hia cab, had many a wince and wrack, but has been compelled to watch his millions or lose some of them. R?ssel Sage is in town every day in tbe year save holidays and Sundays; Ho hasn't bad a day's vacation in years. The bleakest and most miserable samples of winter weather and the most exhaust? ive days in summer find him at his desk in hia Broadway office opposite Trinity churchyard. With thirty minctes' notice he can lay before you $30,000,000 in cash. (He prides himself on keeping more ready money than any other man in the world.) With another half hour's notice ho can produce $20,000,000 in securities, all his own. Tbe only recreation of his life occupies half an hour each day when he joins Mr. Gould and Sidney Dillon at luncheon in the Western Union build? ing. He gets bis midday meal for noth? ing there, and, between ourselves, mil? lionaires are as anxious to get something as the poorest men are. Sage works eight hours a day. He would be -posi? tively miserable at a picnic and would fret and 6dget through a Thomas concert. He would consider it an expensive even? ing that he had to spend in such a man? ner. The Rockefellers, William and John D., with $250,000,000 at their back, and their satellites, Henry H. Rogers and John Archibold, with other numerous millionn, work more hours every day of their lives than a driver of a Broadway car. In fact they have more wear and tear than any driver on that or any horse cur line in town. Few can appre? ciate the possibilities of the human in? tellect for crushing speed and high teu sion uulil he attempts to understand the pace set by this quartette.?Chatter. ? A Hopkinsvillo (Ky.) special to the Cincinnati Enquirer saya : This city has a prodigy that i* attracting great atten? tion. It is a colored infant named Lou clla Graves, a daughter of Rev. J. C. Graves, that is only 3 months old, but can talk distinctly. The. child could pro? nounce many words ere it was 3 weeks old, and now, at the age of 3 months, it can talk plainly. Great crowds have vUited the minister's home to behold this infant prodigy. ?The early bird catches the worm, and sometimes a bad cold, which, however, does no injustice to the old proverb, for with the aid of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, colds ?ro of no c?nnenp.?R5c? Prise, ?$ VOLUM At What Age Should a Girl Marry? The New York World has received quite a number of answers to this very important question. They all come from elderly women. It might have been better to have published the opin? ions of some of the girls, for they are the ones interested. Mrs. Johu'A, Logan thinks about 25 the proper age, for a woman is then at her best, both mentally and physically. Mrs. Harrison, the President's wife, being asked if a girl should choose a husband for herself, said: "Yes, as a rule, but not when she is very young. Marriage cannot concern any but the parties to it and they should decide, although I must confess that they sometimes make poor work of it.'' The first lady of the land has this to say about marriages for position: "Love and respect, but never position, should decide a woman's choice of a husband." Mrs. Harrison believes the proper ago fot a woman to marry is 25.7 Mrs. W. B. Astor thinks that 25 is the right age for a woman to marry, but she married at 17 and her daughters have all wedded before they were 25. Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt and Mrs. Henry Clews both think that early mar? riages should be deprecated, Mrs. S. Van Renssallacr Cruger is fre? quently mentioned as the most "fashion? able woman in New York," whatever that may mean. So her opinion on the proper marriageable age ought to carry much weight. "Really," she raid, "I scarcely know what to say in reply to sucff a question. It is so clearly a matter to be decided by circumstances and the persons most con? cerned. I think, however, if-a woman intends to marry at all, the quicker she does it the better. Some women have found that while they were waiting for the proper marriageable age to come along, their marriageable chances have quietly passed them by altogether. We all know, after all, that marriage is a lottery, and I think women have just as good chances early as late?young or old. The great mistake about marriage is, that very youngbrides are apt to compare married life to perfect bliss. Married life, as a fact, is very single life, happy in various degrees, but, from its very na? ture, never perfect bliss. Indeed, I am getting to believe that all the women ought to marry and marry early, but that the men ought not to marry at all." Mrs. Chauncey Depew thinks that 25 is the right age except in certain cases. She says: "But,-after all, marriage is bo purely a personal matter that it is hard to decide a proper age by theorizing about it, or on general principles." Mrs. John R. Brady, who evidently had an attack of love, Bays: I should say love has no age. The modern bride is no doubt often afflicted with a genuine attack of love, and in such a case I do not eee why age should be taken into consideration, I will say, however, that in my estimation 25 is the most suitable age, under most circum? stances, to marry. By that time a wo? man will doubtless have Been many vari? eties of men and her experience, even if uneventful and unvaried, will enable her to make a more judicious choice than she would have done at an earlier age. But, after all, love has no age, and we can never tell when a woman will fall a vic? tim to the tender passion, so the modern bride may be ssid to have no abiding age." A well known Philadelphia lady, whose marriage occurred some seven or eight years later than Mrs. Harrison's limit, but who desired that her name should not be revealed, said : "For many reasons I think it is advis? able for women to wait until they have reached the age of 25 years, for by that time their mental and physical faculties are fully developed and in order. Phys? iology shows that the mortality of wo? men as regards maternity increases as you depart on either Bide from the 25th year. The demands of higher education do not allow a woman to avail herself of all the privileges offered to hor before that age. Ac 25 years of age a woman should have had a liberal share of social enjoyment and be prepared to settle down as a wife and mother. The woman who marries very early in life may settle down to family cares at once, but the chances are that a few years later she will realize that she baa lest many of the pleasures of single life and will long for the freedom of early womanhood from which hor marriage has shut her off. As I look at the matter every consideration points to 25 years as the most desirable, the most prudent and the most happy age for a bride." When Dancing Is Wrong. If you are wise, if you hope that the future holds much for you, you will learn to be particular as to your partner in dancing. Dance with no man with whom you have only a ball room acquaintance, and if you really are anxious to gain the respect of the people, in your own set, you will number among partners only your own brothers, or some very intimate friends. It's all very well to say there is no harm in dancing. There isn't. But there is harm in having about you, a sweet pure girl, kept aa much aa possible from the wickeduesa of the world, the arm of a man who may be a profligate, and not possess the first instinct of a gentleman. He may, aa you say, dance divinely, but even for a partner in a round dance, more than that is necessary. My little girl, dancing indiscriminately will teach you to forget how to bluah, and with that knowledge departs one of your greatest charms. Dance, sing and be merry, but remember, not oulydoe3 the world judge us by the company we keep, but juat as you and I arc made belter and nobler by being with those who are true and good, eo we aro insen? sibly made meaner and poorer 'in heart and brain when we consort with those oi leas degree in morals.?Ladies JTomt Journal. ? Interviews had with mauy lending business men, as to tho prospect for 1890 reveal an almost unanimous belief that the year will one of mrusmrI ttfwpsrl If. CB XXIV.?NO. 32. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? A true friend is one who id not afraid to tell us of our faults. ? A goat in Tenneese died of grief from losing its young master. ? Woman's hand may be pale and delicate, but she can pick up a hotter plate than a man. ? A married maa of Rome, N. Y., eloped with a widow and sis children, carrying off the entire family. ? "Ma," said a little girl, "Willie wants the biggest piece of pie, and I sink I ought to have it, 'cause he was eatin' pie two years 'fore I was horned." ?There is a slight additional difference between a hill and a pill other than the difference of one letter. The first is hard to get up and the second ia hard.to get : down. ? Illinois is staggering to the front with what is claimed to be the largest hog on record. A Olark county farmer has a porker that tips tbe scales at 935 pounds. ? The Wiiisky Trust, representing a capital of moi^ than $30,000,000, has thrown up the sponge, and will resolve, itself into au every day corporation in fear of inimical State legislation. ? There have been heavy blockades in the Sierra mountains, where the snow is in some places fifteen feet deep. In parts., of Utah there has been more snow this winter than for tbe last twenty five years. ? A little tot, Baying her prayers, was a?ked by her mother;iwhy she had notjl asked God's forgiveness for some special act of disobedience. "Why, mamma, I - didn't s'pose you wanted it mentioned outside the family." ? A Massachusetts man, 75 years of age, baa just found in his leg a pin which he loat when be was 8. Some boys would have let the pin go, but those Massachusetts people are so saving they never give up anything. ?The Centerville Alliance, of LaurehV: County, has passed a resolution requesting merchants not ?o sell pistols or pistol ' cartridges; and the members pledge.; themselves not to trade with any merchant ' who disregards this request. ?-It costs $100,000 a day to run tbo city government of New York. There is a large suspicion that the taxpayers in that town do not get their money's worth. Tammany, however, manages to have a good time.?Baltimore American. ? The longest bridge in the world is said to be at Language, China, over an . arm of tbe China Sea. It is as much as . five miles long, built entirely of stone, and has 400 arches, each seventy feet / wide. The roadway is aleo seventy feet. . ? The largest tea and coffee importer in the United States is J. W. Doan, of - Chicago. Mr. Doan keeps one man ; buying teas in China at a salary of $12,-J i 000 a year. Another gets the same amount^ in Chicngo for grading teas by inhaling ? tbe aroma. ? The potato er. p of the country is estimated at 213,000,000 bushels, an in-. .-, crease of 17,000,000 bushels over that of last year. Estimating the population at 65,000,000 souls, it will be seen that there are over three and one half bushels for each man, woman and child in the Uni? ted States. ? To show the capacity of his stomach a Pennsylvania man a few days ago ate a mixture composed of a pound of figs, fifty raw oysters, and a pound of sugar, and topped off the mess with a pound of lard. He said on a wsger he-would eat a box of wagon grease, but tbe spectators would let him go no farther. ? An eagle was killed near Holman, Ind. After being wour led made a des? perate fight. It was estimated that the '? bird was 250 years old. H9 measured 7 feet and 4 inches from tip to tip, and weighed 104 pounds. His talons .were 7 inches broad and his claws 1J inches in length. It was the largest eagle ever | shot. ? The snow blockade in [tbe western mountains is the worst ever experienced. Many passenger trains are caught in the drifts, which are reported to be from 10 to ' -v to 30 feet. The chief trouble is on-the Central Pacific near Truckee, Cal., and on the Union Pacific, near Baker City, Oregon. There has been much Buffering among the imprisoned travelers. ?"Do you feel any change?" said the - minister solemnly, as he walked - badr?:? during the revival meeting, and placed; his hand gently on the sailor's shoulder. - The sailor, thinking he was expected contribute something, quickly ran his bands down into bis pockets, then looking up into the minister's face with a bland amile, answered: "Not a cent, parson." ? A farmer writes that twenty-five years ago he set split white oak-posts for his garden fence, putting a peck of air slacked lime around each, and they are all good yet. He attributes their good condition to the effects of the lime .ifl? which he is doubtless correct. It is said that a board that has been used in a mor? tar bed, and thoroughly saturated with lime, is almost indestructible from de? cay. * ? It is no trifling manner to open a letter addressed to another, even if that' other be one of your own family. An-'"?J Ohio girl has just had;her father arrested for opening a letter addressed to her by >;? her lover, and the old man was-placed under $300 bond to answer the charge in - the United States Court., He was curious to know what the lover had said about- ; beiog bounced from the front porch on the toe of the old man's boot. ? Some statistician reports that the number of lynchings in the United States' last year was 1-75, while there were only 98 legal hangings. Most of the latter were in the Southern States, but the "wild and wooly West" contributed a large proportion of the lynchings. In fact it is said that all the hangings in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin and ? Michigan, and a majority of thoaeE? in Indiana were done by Judge Lynch. Entitled to the Best. All are entitled to the best that their money will buy, eo every family should have, at once, a bottle of the best family ;v:: remedy, Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the , system, when costive or ' ",4:?si. For salo" in ?0ci and $1.90 hcM *n'ti41fig>>*