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Wm Cl?MKSCALES & LANGSTON. ? THE CAMPAIGN OPENED! Bat we-are carrying-on ":;'A BOBBCIIJESS' W? &5 ?V-,; THE Campaign on Cotton is over for this Season, and we are going to make a campaign on high prices in Groceries. We intend to make this the cheapest crop the farmers have ever raised in Anderson County, by selling- Groceries and Provisions so CHEAP that no man can complain of not being able to live economically. We are buying for Cash, and propose to sell the same Way.;', We are rauning only one line of Goods, and Luy in largo lots, so get Goods cheap;.we sell at the closest margin for handl ing, so we cannot bo undersold, even if : ' om* competitors, sell for cost.' We mean what we say, ? and say what we .mean. ? . We buy for SPOT CASH, And Wo propose to sell only for ' SPOT CASH. So don't ask to have Goods charged at these prices. :Y ItEFJLECT, and ?|l&;3ACT. i:^Xbm?'/vA?da\ "make the. old jade wince;" WE GIVE A FEW PPJCES: Granulated Sugar 62c per pound. ?Coffee?beat Rio?20c. per pound. Soda?pure?3a per pound...; Flour?Patent, ?4.85 per BarreL Flours-Good Family, ?3.85 per Barrel. FlouxTr-Family, $3.45 per Barrel." Bacon. Lard, Com, Oats, Tobacco, And all other Goods in proportion. ... -c Weiwve some HATS, SHOES, NOTIONS, and otti l<^}j^^6o?B left that .we: are selling so low that the I pices"sT^rTseyou." VThese.are no shop-worn, old goods, but are new and in first-class condition. These goods .areJh.ihe^ay, as we need the room for an immense ?g8Soolc:of Groceries; so they must and shall go. . , THE LAST CHANCE TO GET SOME DESIRABLE C00DS ' At and BEI?W COST. m r.'r ' BROWN BROS TO THE PUBLIC. m I have a Fine Stock of ? Buggies,^ Wagons, Surreys, pit' ? Harness^ ' ??: Mules and Horses, On hand tha t can be bought at a Bargain for Spot Cash. jl. AM eitnated so -it present that I had rather have the money than the<GoodB, evisn If I have to Bell at about cost. "Will continue until my present stock is ex baa a ted io sell on time to good, responsible parties. Always prefer cash payment; Call on Mec8rB..L. L. Gaillard, John D. Beard and J. A. Shanklin. ThankiDg the people of Anderson and country for their kind and liberal pa? tronage, I am ? . v.. ? Very truly yours, 0"OH3ST IE. EEOPLIB. ULE! BLEGKLEY & FRETWELL'S Exposition Building is now open for the :'' ' patronage of the Public?we refer to felniM Sales Stable, On Corner McDuffle and Benson Streets, Since our opening we have received Three Car Loads of Fine young Kentucky 1IULBS, and a lot of Flue HORSES. We assure ocr friends and customers of? FAIR AND SQUARE DEALINGS, As it ia not our intention to misrepresent Stock, bat to sell them just for what they are. If you need any Stock at any time, call at the Stables on MAJ. J. N. VAMjIVES, who is in charge of them, and will be pleased to show you around. :.Wo have now a i?ood large assortment of? m YOUNG MULES AND HORSES ON HAND, And can cell you ako? BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, V WAGONS, HARNESS, COLLARS, BRIDLES, &c, H ,H1 _A_ 3? I We do not propose to deal in old rips?we handle only clea Wk TOOOg aalmalsj and exoellant bargains osn be had at our Stables every day. {?? m r iCKLEY & FRETWELL All communications! intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. 0. Flat Bock school is presided over this year by Mrs. L. M. Nance, a veteran teacher of many years' experience. Her school is more than foil, and the day we called she seemed almost disheartened at the insufficiency of the accommodations. There was hardly room for a class to recite. The house utterly fails to meet the necessities of the community, and should be replaced by a larger and more comfortable building, and we hear that this is being agitated 'among the neigh? bors, and it is to be hoped that a new building will take the place of the old oue before another school term begins. At Hebron we found Miss Onie Black, of Abbeville County, who is just making her debut into the ranks of the teachers. Her school is small, but she seems to be earnestly striving to do her duty, and we hope will#8ucceed. All teachers have to make a beginning, and she will learn by experience, which is the very best kind of a teacher. Mistakes will be made, but experience will correct them. We found Miss Onie yMai tin teaching in an abandoned house in the extreme corner of the Township. The house is ill-suited for the purpose, but, we sup? pose, is the best that can be done under the circumstances, but it makes it hard work for the teacher and this pupilr Soth of whom are constantly laboring under disadvantages. The teacher, however, seems to be struggling bravely in the face of difficulties, and deserves success. We spent the night with, the teacher of the McKee school, Mrs. G. E. Spear? man, where we called on the following day and found .a full house, and all in good spirits and busy. Her classes seemed in good shape, and gave evidence of attention to business. She seems to be giving serious and thoughtful consid? eration to her?work. The Wilson's Creek colored school is in charge of W. S. Lot, who says he is no relation to the fellow who lost his wife. This is a large school, but orderly and kept well in hand by the teacher, who is well spoken of by the neighbors, and daring our visit to the school he im? pressed us favorably. - Having spent the night with our old army friend, Col. W. E. Walters, we repaired early the next morning to the Carswell Institute, taught by B. E. Nich? olson, who has good help as an assistant in the person of his sister, Miss Mamie Nicholson. We confess we felt a little for Bob when we knew he expected to take charge of this school, because of the fact that the farmer teacher was brim foil of work and energy, but his mantle seems to have fallen on worthy shoulders, and the school is full and prosperous, and the work progressing satisfactorily. The people, too, have shown a commend* able spirit in fixing up the ell to the house, and supplying both with comfort? able seats. We purpose having another peep at this school in the spring after we get around tho County. Across the river and driving through the rain we found I. B. Latimer teaching a colored school in a very poor house, with the wind whistling through the cracks, no lights in the windows, and the children shivering with the cold. Of course under such unfavorable conditions not much can be done. Miss Lillie T?te, who has just entered the -ranks of the profession, is holding the reins at Ebenezer, and seems to be keeping them in her own hands, too. She has some bright boys and girls there, and seems to be making strenuous efforts to develop them. Our sympathies always go out to the young teachers just beginning, and we propose to have the pleasure of another call there at no dis? tant day if the school goes on. A pleasant night with our old friend, Drake, and we started on to the Enoree school, taught by Miss Lou Drake, where wo found a house full of boys and girls, and for two or three hours we bad an enjoyable time with them. They were quick and ready in their responses, and did credit to themselves and their teacher. Miss -Lou is one of the veteran teachers, and is justly appreciated by her patrons. ? A new school building is in the air, too, and will donbtleas become a realty in the near future. At the time of writing the article in reference to the Broadaway school we did not know the name "Glory" was a misnomer, nor did we know that an eight months' school had ever been run there before, and it was our intention to commend the action of the people in taking a step forward in tbe right direc? tion. But it gives us pleasure to make the correction, both as to the name and the fact that an eight months'school had been run there more than once under Miss Allie Major, and other teachers. We cheerfully make this correction as an act of simple justice to those people there. , A night's rest at friend Yeargin's (everybody knowB Jerry) with his pleas? ant family, and we started for Cook's, where they have built a new school house out in an open field, too. We may be mistaken in our ideas about it, but an open field does seem a most unsuitable place for a school house. No wood, no trees, nor anything to relieve the barren? ness of the prospect, it is likely to become a dull and uninviting place for children, Trees will grow there in twenty years, but trees are already growing all about, We have some^ery painful recollections of our experiences as a teacher in just such placeB, which cling to us closely, This a good school, full of good material and in a good place, and the teacher, Mr V. H. Watson, is competent by nature and by edncation, and ought to com mand success by reason of this if he is properly sustained, but the same dim culty presents itself here, as in some places: want of proper classification fm laok of proper tcxl**booket A tuagheJ lNdeeson, s. c, t: cannot do good work without good tools to work with any more than a farm hand hand can do good work without good tools, and the text-books are his tools. Fathers sometimes fail to buy books on the plea of poverty, and then go off to -the store and invest fifty cents to one dollar per month in tobacco, which would more than buy the books. These things ought not to be so, but true it is, they are so and the little children of the Connty are the losers. A New Kind of Baptists. There is no more queer religious sect in the world than the "Shermanites." of North Alabama. In nearly auy town in this section you can see among the countrymen who bring in cotton aod garden truck to Bell, several with long uncut beard and flow? ing hair, reaching half way to the waist. In Birmingham, which sits in Jones' Valley, as the queen of all these townB, those men with long hair and beard can be seen by the dozens every day dnring crop selling season. They are Shermanites and belong to a religious organization that is confined to the mountain fastnesses of North Ala? bama, but has many thousand followers. About twenty years ago a man named Sherman went through the mountainous regions of Alabama on horseback and preached in all the hamlets and villages. In fact, he preached at isolated farm houses, with only a single family as a congregation, His doctrine was of Jesus Christ, but he departed from all the creeds of all the established churches and laid down some new religious laws which found favor among his backwoods bearers, and it was not long till he had many followers. Immersion was the foundation of hui new religion, and it had to be done in a running branch, so that the water could carry off the sin as it was washed from the regenerated believer. The next be3t thing in Sherman's doc? trine was for the men not to cut their hair or their beard. This law, he said, must be followed strictly. Neither scis? sors nor razor was to touch the head or face under any circumstances, for Christ had neither bis hair nor bis beard cut, and his followers must not depart from the example. They were to have no church build? ings, for the Son of Man preached in the fields and in ships and on tbe moun? tains and bo should his disciples. "The only temple," said Sherman, "erected to God during the old dispensation was dis? countenanced by Christ, and he pre? dicted its overthrow when it was pointed out to him by his apostles." They were to have no paid preachers, but evory Sbermauite was to be a preacher. All were to exhort and to pray, and instead of paying money to support preachers, the collections taken up at the gatherings were to go to a com: mon fund for tbe relief of the poor and destitute. . I call this sect "Shermanites," for that is tho name they are known by to the outside world, because they are followers of Sherman ; but as a religious sect they give themselves no name except "follow? ers of Christ" for their leader taught them that Christ did not call His established church by any name, then why should they? All of the church meetings are either held in tbe open air or at some private residence. Anybody can "open meeting," and anybody can give out a hymn, offer prayer or make a few remarks. There is another peculiar thing about the teachings of Sherman, and that is a man must be possessed of only a certain amount of this world goods to bo a true Christian. He should have just enough to give himself and a family a comforta? ble living. To possess any more than this is considered iniqoirous. He requires a tithe of every 'follower's' possessions and the money is put in the fund for the poor. He himself would receive no pay for preaching, but owned and worked a farm and contributed like any of his followers.' I do not kuow whether Sherman is living now or not, but five years ago I saw and talked with bim in Birmingham. He was a middle-aged, pleasant looking man, with keon gray eyes, and, although using the backwoods dialect, talked like a man of considerable learning. He knew the Scriptures by heart, and, when once induced to discuss his religion, would quote verse after verse in support of his ideSs and theories. "I teach," be said to me, "men to love their fellowmen as well as to worship God." "Are you a prophet ?" was asked. "Yes, a prophet thus far: I am Bent to establish a church that is free from phar isees or hypocrites and devoid of UBelesB forms and one that teaches its members to follow the footsteps of the Saviour." To join this band of mountain wor? shippers one has only to get some of the "followers" to baptise him in a running stream and'theu make known to the guardians of the fund for the poor what his earthly possessions are so he can be assessed. These guardians are selected from the regular election districts, or "beats," as they are called iu Alabama, and are appointed at an annual meeting, A mining engineer, who inspected all the coal and iron districts in Alabame a few years ago, slated that he did not think there were less than five thousand Shermanites.?Atlanta Journal. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) Lucas County, j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he iE the senior partner of the firm of F. J Cheney & Co., doing business in the Citj of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum o) one hundred doliaro 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 me and subscribed it my presence, this 6th day of December A. D., 1886. {seTl! ? A. W. Glbason, I ) Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acta directly upon tbe blood and mu cous eurfaces of tbe system. Send fo: testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. jSold by Druggints?price 75 cents. H?RSDAY MORNIN BILL AI?D THE GRIP. The "Prevailing" Attacks the Philoso? pher. Atlanta Constitution. La grippe, la influenza, la catarrh, la epizoot, a nose and mouth and throat and cheat?la ten handkerchiefs a day and one under the pillow at night?la blow and sneeze and cough and expectorate, and nobody wants your company and you want nobody's company. When will this thing stop? The ragged edge iB worse than the beginning; the tail is worse than the comet. Take quinine 1 Done taken it, and my head aches and there's a roar? ing in my ears. Take some cough syrup. Done taken it and it makes me sick at the stomach. Put some turpentine or kerosene oil on a strip of flannel nndjap ply it to your throat and breast. Done done'it uutil I am burnt raw and smell like a drugstore. Maybe you had better take a Dover's powder and go to Bleep, which I did, and dreamed of fighting a black snake that was trying to make me swallow it, and I wouldent, and Anally I got choked with the slimy thing, and woke up and cleared my throat in the foot tub. But I am convalescing now, sorter, and cross enough to spank a grand child if the mother wasent 'about. I think I would enjoy a small fight with somebody. I would like to try Tom Reed if he was in reach and wasent too big. I reckon its all right, to fight Tom Reed and to abuse him and denounce him, and raise as big a rumpus as possible, but for the life of me, I can't see what good it does. Tom Reed is only the mouthpiece of his party. His tyrannical rulings have already been agreed upon. They have got the power, and where there is a will there is a way. Why not give them rope and let them run the machine for three year's longer. We don't care about the offices, nohow, but what does trouble me, is that the administration is manifest? ly against the south, and does not want peace. Mr. Harrison has disappointed us. We had hopes of him as a Christian gentleman. He had an opportunity?a glorious opportunity?to make peace and harmonize the sections. We thought that he wasent a politician, butj a pure man and a statesman, but be seems to be small and selfish and vindictive. He wants the southern Republican vote in the next nominating convention. That means the vote of the negroes, and so he must throw them a bone or two to pick. Buck tells him that Matt. Davis must have the postoflice at Athens or else Matt will kick and Matt is a high kicker. There are a score of clever white Repub? licans in Athens who would like the office and are fit for it, but Buck says they can't control the negro vote and so Athens classic, refined Athens?must be insulted, A negro is to have the postoflice?an of? fice that brings him in daily, hourly con? tact with six thousand white people. Ah, my country?somebody hand me the cologne?my bead aches and my eyes are running water. Now, General Harrison knows that the surest way to make a race trouble at the south is to appoint negroes to such of fie bs . Our people will not stand it. We have enough to bear without being "insulted. It is enough that we pay our part every year of one hundred millions of pension money to northern pensioners. That we pay our part of the public debt that grew out of the war. It is enough that our land was swept with fire and desolation and our negroes set free without compen? sation. And now we are taxing ourselves to educate these very negroes and their children, and we tax ourselves to pension our own invalid and maimed soldiers. But the time will come when our people will rise up as one man and say: thus far shalt thou go, and no farther. Please hand me the camphor bottle, somebody 1 oh, my long-suffering nose. Yes, boycott him. Let every southern merchant boycott John Wanamaker. He bos proved himself an unprincipled, unrelenting enemy. He has been en? treated to give Athens a white man, and will not even give a respectful answer, Now, if Buck is moving him, then let the people of Atlanta boycott Buck. Don't speak to him. Ostracise him. 'Rule him out of all respectable society. Let him feel what it is to insult our people with his appointments. This is not a party question?why even in Missouri Judge Field has just nonsuited a negro who sued for damages because he was not allowed to sit in the dress circle with the white folks. All honor to Judge Field. Yua, boycott him?I wouldn't buy a.bat or a cravat from a merchant who would trade nith Wanamaker, Let the south stand firm on the color line. The north does not understand us on this question and never will until they come down and stay long enough to see It just as it is. Gen. Grant knew all about it, and hence be declared that be was not fighting for the negroes. There are thousands of north? ern people who don't know yet that Gen. Grant was a slave owner when the war began. I was talking to a Boston rann the other day and he smiled a smile of utter incredulity when I told him about it, and I bad to get Appleton's biography, and rend old Jesse Gran't letter to him, the letter that the old man wrote to Gen. Grant Wilson in 18G8, and told him how Ulyses broke down in St. Louis in 1860, and couldn't make a living, and so he sent him to Galena to clerk for his broth* er Simpson at ?800 a year, and told him that he must live on that and the hire of his slaves in St. Louis. Then I told him that Mrs. Lincoln's brother Captain Todd fought on our side all through the war, and he was amazed. It is most astonishing hew little the ave? rage man does know about the war, or what it was fought for. Why, you'ean't make a negro believe that Goneral Grant ever owned slaves. They have been made fools and puppets of for twenty-five years and are fools yet. Historical lies are still in force. Even so responsible a magazine as the Century is still allowing them to be published in its columns. The January number has dark hints from Hay and Nicolay that Jefferson Davis countenanced assassination during the war?and the February number has a re? hash of that same old lie abont Mr. Da? vis being arrested in woman's clothes. A lie that has been long since nailed to the wall by Senator Reagan and Burton Har? rison, and the faithful body servant, G, FEBRUARY 20, 3 Jimmy Jones, and now since the great man's death, his slanderers have come to life, and even admit that they searched Mrs. Davis's trunk to find the clothes while she was their helpless prisoner. Oh, the Bhame of it?somebody bring me another handkerchief. Oh, my poor throat. But we are glad to see that the "Con? federate Veteran," of Atlanta, is equal to the occasion, and has in the February number republished the true version of the capture. When a man happens to be the hero of any big thing he will natu? rally overlook the occurrence and make himself a bigger hero than he really was, Those men who arrested Mr, Davis have told that He so long and often that they are just obliged to stick to it. In face, they have told it so often that maybe they believe it. Some men will do that..' I knew an old msn, who, fifty years ago, used to tell us how he settled in the forks of the rivers at Borne befoie the Injuns come, and that he knowed the Coosa riv? er when it was a little spring branch and had jumped across it a thousand times. Old Uncle Jake had told that and told it until he believed it, and would get fight? ing mad with anybody who intimated that be waB mistaken. But the question is not about that re? vamped lie, but that a great national magazine should lend its columns to the publication. For suppose it was all true, what does it amount to?who is ben efitted or who is injured by it ? Is it of any historical consequence ? Mr. Davis was tryiDg to escape capture, and what of it? The northern papers used to publish how Mr. Lincoln disguised himself in a Scotch cap and cloak when he first went to Washington as the president elect, but suppose he did and suppose he didn't? what of it?b?t they are a curious sort of of people. Only a few days ago the northern press told us how Mr. and Mrs. Blaine were hissed in the Catholic church because they did not make the .sign of the cross as they entered the church on the occasion of their, daughter's funeral ?what kind of people are they?have tbey no feeling?no consideration for the grief that is most crushing. Who is not sorry for Mr. Blaine and his wife?who is not sorry for poor Mr. Tracy ? When such afflictions come let all hearts throb with pity and sympathy. But the south is fust coming to the front, and the true history of the war is being written?even Brick Pomeroy has dared to publish a beautiful tribute to Mr. Davis. A few more years and our slanderers will be dead, and then maybe the nation will have peace. The Confed? erate Veteran of Atlanta has made'a good beginning in making up the rocord, and it is to be hoped that our people will patronise it, and sustain it. It will cer? tainly be worth $2 a year for its influence upon our children and grandchildren. The veterans will soon pass away. Ours will, I know, for they ate notlempted by pensions to over live their time, The federal government has 489,725 pension? ers upon the rolls?twice as many as we had soldiers at the close of the war. Just think of it. And they increased thirty seven thousand during the last twelve months. Those are the figures from the New York World. They do not seem to be dying, but are multiplying. Like the feller who took a contract to gather up the bones of the ecattered dead, who were buried for miles around Missionary Ridge. He was paid by the coffin, and so be di? vided the bones and mixed dog's bones and cow bones with tbem and so he man? aged to fill two coffins from every grave he dug up. They say there is many a grave in the national Cemetery at Chat? tanooga that has no skull in it. But let us all have peace, I wish that I could unscrew my head and clean it. Bill Arp. A Friendly Joke. Some time ago a young married man, named Johnson, in Chicago, who was drawing a liberal salary, told his devoted wife that every $2 bill that came to him in change should be hers for pin money. Gradually Mr. Johnson's friends learned of the promise and began to conspire to help out the popular young married lady. If they owed their friend anything they would invariably pay him in $2 bills, Finally they got to borrowing from him on purpose to liquidate in ?2 bills, and still unsuspecting Mr. Johnson continued to allow the $2 bills to flow into the willing lap of his better-half. Finally the cashier or the firm that em? ployed him learned of the generous promise, and he, too, entered the con? spiracy, and on the next pay day hand? ed Mr. Johnson a roll that staggered him. Every dollar of it was in the denomination of "two." Sweating under the burden the repentant husband wend? ed bis way homeward. "Mary," he said, as he met her at the door, "I've got to break my promise with you, for the gov? ernment at Washington has ceased to print any money but in $2 bill denomi? nation. All the V's and X's, double X's, L's and C's are bciDg rapidly sent to the paper .mills to be reissued as two dollar bills. Gold and silver have gone out of circulation entirely. Nothing left but coppers and two dollar bills. If you don't believe it, Bee' this roll of bills I was paid to-day. Sorry es I am to do it, I've got to break my promise with you or else go into bankruptcy. Can't we compromise the matter by my giving you regularly fifty dollars a week?" They compromised.?Cincinnati Times, ? Mrs. Jefferson DaviB is preparing a life of her husband . In a circular she says: "In order to make the book as complete as possible, I shall be greatly obliged if our friends, whose personal recollec? tions of Mr. Davis would throw light on any event of his life or tend to illustrate his character, will record them and for? ward them to me. As I Bhall endeavor as far as possible, to tell the story of Mr Davis's career ia his own words, I shaV regard it as a real service to be furnishec with copies of any letters from tm husband relating to any public topi< that his surviving friends may have pre? served," ? To Manufacturers.?Accidents ar< constantly occurring among your met eutailing los3 of time and suffering Keep Salvation Oil handy. Price, 21 cent*. L890. SAM JONES IN NEW ORLEANS, BY REV. S. S. KEENER. From the Southern Christian Advocate. After many attempts daring the two past years the Methodist Pastors of this city obtained from Rev. Sam Jones the promise of a three weeks' service during the month of January. Ever since the promise was given, during last Summer, the Churches have been looking forward to the meeting with great expectations. The three weeks' services ended this morning, January 27th. The bombard? ment of sin in high places, in the alleys and along the streets, in the churches and the homes was terrific and relentless. "He came, he saw," but he did not con-, quer. The opposition aroused was out? spoken and infamous in the lies they circulated against him. During the first services the daily papers reported his sermons, but as soon as he turned loose bis guns upon the lottery company the papers became as silent as death. With this public opposition there were a thou? sand lies circulated ou the streets by this corporation or its servants. Joined to .this was the passive opposition of all the Episcopal churches and two of the lar? gest of the Presbyterian churches. ? The Baptists, Methodists, four of the Presby? terian congregations and Campbellite were united in their support during the whole meeting. "Sam" had an up-hill business, just such bard, steady pulling as Methodist preachers have been doing here for sixty years. He ridiculed the slow movements of the people aud preach? ers, and began with the assertion that "this old city needs a shaking up," and "before I get through there will be hair and dirt torn up for a mile around here;" but, alas, the longer he stayed the more deeply convinced he became that fight? ing against wind and. current was work After preaching three times a day for a week, with the night audiences not ex? ceeding fifteen hundred, and those in the day hardly reaching five hundred, he acknowledged that the odds against him here were greater than at any place he bad been, aud one of his assistants advis? ed him to leave in disgust. But by the end of the third week his audiences had increased to about two thousand five hundred or three thousand, which is the largest audience ever gathered here at a Protestant service. The last night he preached, Sunday night, while he had gathered three thousand together, there were two theatres at the same?hour that had au/audience each of about the same number. His courage in denouncing sin in the forms of gambling, profanity, drinking and licentiousness was very fine, and will be of lasting benefit. He excelled him? self in his continuous, unrelenting and scathing denunciations of the State lottery. At every night Bervice, and many of the day services, he brought out this institution of robbery and ruin, and ridiculed, anathematized and denounced it as "that Damnable State Lottery." Then he would turn upon the daily press for being owned by such an insti? tution, and the myriad of fuola in the Church and out, far and near, who bought the tickets, month after, month, year after year. Along these lines his visit will be of lasting benefit. The numbers added to. the Churches will not exceed fifty all told ; the genu? ine, sound conversions will not reach that number; the backsliders reclaimed will be but a small number, and such a meet? ing to "Sam Jones" is a failure as far as immediate results are concerned. His sermons impress one as a "potpour? ri,"? a literary deliverance which is a conglomerote?Borne sermon, some lec? ture, much of the histrionic art, some of the stump orator and hustings. It is like a French gumbo, a soup which has three or more vegetables, two kinds of meat, condiments without number, and more water than anything else. It is a pala? table dish, but a man could not do a good day's work on such diet. So with these "so called Bermons," there is anything you may call for in them, from a stale joke to a grand inci? dent, from, the most courageous and scathing denunciation of sin and crime to the most disgusting and silly witti? cisms. He says many Bublime things, many hackneyed, silly things, many very beautiful things, full of brilliancy and pathos, many trifling and worthless things; and they are so mingled, chained together, that you cannot separate them. He pours them into your ear with a voice that is . irresistible in its tones; he stamps them upon your memory with the actor's gesticulations and the mimic's tricks that makes them a part of your being. The good, the indifferent, tho bad are stamped upon you forever by this man of strangely superior voice, of surpassing mimicry. He advises you to take the good and leave the "bad in the rack," but he mixes them so that you are like an old cow in a sage field; she eats three-fourths sage and one-fourth nutri? tious grass, but her three Btomacha can get rid of the sage by gradual elimina? tion ; but man not only cannot get rid of the bad, but he assimilate* the bad more rapidly than the good. His mimicry and acting is wonderful, for he can infuse life and power into the old witticisms, the stalejokes that have done service upon many a stage. He takes them out of the labatory, shakes the old skeleton up, and Bays "make the boys laugh," and they do service to interest tbe rabble as well as the so-called higher classes for the thousandth time. Almanac jokes do service, along with a few original phrases and "many slang expressions, but all would be flat with? out his mimicry. This, some have denominated the gospel of wit. What a preposterous statement! What a dis gusting task this must be to go from place to place repeating these jokes aud mummified witticisms. To repeat a sermon takes deep, earnest piayer on the part of a conscientious minister; but, "my, my," how this man must have to agonize in prayer to repeat over and over again these stale, musty jokes and this almanac wit. For one to give himself such a task seems passing Htrange ; and, with keen sensibilities, the man has n burden beyond computation in weight, Who longs for auch r tnokf VOLUM "Sam Jones" is a crowning success on the money line. He is emphatically a financial success, for he quietly and adroitly works at the rate of nearly one hundred dollars per day, and the "dear people" think he makes no charges and the money is given to his orphans' home. From his owu statement he has made a thousand dollars a week from his book as royalty for three years. And the congregations generally give him one hundred dollars a day for his eervices, besides an extra collection for the orphans he has to support. The collection is kept before the audience by direct and indirect- methods right through a meet? ing. Here there was anxiety on this subject from the very start, and the subject of money was alluded to at every other service for ten days, sometimes in the morning, sometimes at night, but come it would, either morning or night. Firet, the Bubject came up indirectly by his denouncing the accusation that he was just preaching around to make money. Then he told of the thousands he bad been paid "more than any American preacher." Then, to the preachers, at a morning service, he said: "I take all they will pay, and don't every preacher here do the same? It is our duty to I make the good brethren give all we can, I for their sake, you know." Again, he [ said :? 'I am a charitable institution j like your lottery, therefore you all toler I ate me," and "if you all don't pay me anything, I can get along somehow." But the most daring of all his assertions was when, in a very loud and defiant tone, he said: "Ask any preacher on this stage if I have said anything about money to any one of them since my arrival. I defy any to say I have." But the price of his. services was known to most of those preachers, for had he not written (in substance) months before, in answer to a letter asking his charges: "I make no charges, as I am so deeply interested in your city ; but for the same time spent in lecturing I would receive two thousand dollars." This is the sub* stance of the letter. He had not said money, but had mitten very definitely what he expected, though he charged nothing. "No charges? how liberal/" the people said'; but the managers behind the curtains saw the expense account rise to three thousand dollars. They collected and collected for two weeks, and got enough to pay the hall expen? ses, then the third week was the inter? esting time. Mr. Excell had his books on hand ; the boy traveled up and down the aisles "hawking" loudly and persist? ently. Three different^preachers exhort? ed at different times on this song book, and the young man worked the audience. But four nights before the end of the meeting a layman was thrust forward to take up two thousand dollars. After much straining they got seven hundred. The preachers then took charge, turning themselves into collectors, but after much sweating and many appeals they raised eight hundred more. With a few private checks the amount reached about seventeen hundred dollars for Mr. Jones and his helpers, and the people thought it was for hie orphan asylum. When the last sermon was over, the last hymn sung, Brother Sam arose and said: "Now all those who want to help those orphans I have to care for ard wish to bid me good bye can come up and put your contribution in this basket and shake my hand as you pass. Those who cannot give anything I will think as well of them as I can." He drew a chair to the edge of the platform, sat down in it. put the collection basket on the floor between his feet. Excel! sang a tnne; the people, trooping by, thook his hand and dropped a dollar into the basket. It looked like a man milking a cow. Jones, Excell and Stewart got the pail of milk, and the "Strippings" went to the orphans. Rev. Sam Jones will be ruined by money. That is the impression made upon the best of our people. The audi? ences were thoroughly convinced that he likes money. Once he said to a friend, who approached him on this subject: "If the people are fools enough to give me the money, I am fool enough to take it." Whether this rumor is true or not, he impresses you as one who loves mon? ey, As he sat over that basket Excell came to the front and leaned over and looked down upon the money; the preachers came forward, learned over the rail and peered around to see how much were the Strippings. To have gotton that scene photographed would have been a picture worth the whole amount that dropped into the basket. The writer was in the audienco tremendously amused and?disgusted. Will it be written "Sam Jones ruined by the silver dollar" ? God grant it may not be so. A Curlons Case. A curious case is reported to us from Goose Creek township. Mr. J. F. Belk, of that township, has a daughter 8 years of age, who, although she has perfectly good use of her tongue and talks freely with all other members of the family, cannot be induced to speak to hex fath ther. She will sit upon bis knee and allow him to fondle her, but has never been known to speak to him. He has tried every device to get her to do so, but witboul avail. If her mother sends her to the field on ao errand she will take one of the other children along to deliver the message. The circumstance, as is to be imagined, gives Mr. Belk a good deal of uneasiness, as be does not know how to account for it. It seems to be simply a freak of the child. There is not a doubt of the truth of the above. We doubt if it has ever had a parallel.? Monroe Enquiercr and Express. ? Few people are aware of the im? mense extent of the traffic in live cattle and dressed beef that is now carried on between this country and England. In one week recently there arrived at Liver? pool seventeen Bteamers, each of which had in the neighborhood of 700 beef cat* tie and from 1000 to 2000 quarters of beef, besides large numbers of mutton carcas? ses. Large imports of cattle and beef are also made at other ports in the United Kingdom. ? Brazil has a law for the medical ex? amination of persons about to marry tc determine their fltneeq. E XXIV.--NO. 33; ALL S0?TS OP PARAGRAPHS. ? The Bible was translated into 6new' laogusgea last year. ? The value of the fruit yield of. Cali? fornia this year is placed at thirteen^ million dollars. ?Cbauncey Depew sajs that Cleveland^ will be nominated for President in 1892 v with great parade. ? Marry your sweetheart on her birth? day, it you can, young man. It will save you money every year in anniversary presents. ? Nine girls in the family of John Meieter, of Ewan's Mills, Gloucester County, N. J., aggregate 1200 pounds Inj^ weight. The oldest is but fifteen years 'ih old./ ? A man who was -told that he wasl about to die asked the doctor for his bill, saying that he did not wish ^o^dero from bis life long rule, "Pay as yim gO.? . .. ?When a Coreen man marries it is t'iie cuBtom for him to present his wife with a wild goose. In this country a man, when he marries, often receives a tali goose. ? ? It is estimated that it will take -42j-.v. 000 enumerators, 2,000 clerks, .between 800 and 900 special agents, 175 supervi? sors and 25 experts to complete tho eiev^ enth census. ? It has been estimated that India raises one bushel of wheat per head of '.J her population, the United States Beven% bushels per head, and South. Australia nineteen;bushels. ? A Southern editor, evidently iu^^ pecked, says that "if in our school dsyB * the 'rule of three' is proverbially trying^ how much harder, in after life, do weieeT; the rule of one I" ? Examining physicians say that al? cohol and tobacco are largely responsible--^'*: for the color blindness with which large numbers of applicants for position on, railways are effected. ? During 1889.slightly over^a hundred 1 million dollars' worth of goldTiasbeen^ dug from the earth on the four contir The largest quantity came from Australia/ California and South Africa. , ? "Yes," said the oldest inhabitant, "this is a pretty mild winter, batVI re^:V^ member a season that was much wanner than this." "How long ago was that ?" queried his listeners. "Only last sum- .'; mer." ? The Germans have a very simple name for the "grippe." They call it- - "shaffkrankheit." No wonder there have been 400,000 cases of the influenza, and 650 deaths from it, in Berlin alone 1 The Germans shouldn't call it hard names. ? "Whew! I can hardly d\aw my breath," aaid an exhausted. individual^--! who had climbed a long flight of stairs to a friend's office. "By Jove!" said the other, who had got a whiff of the breath,' "why dou'fc you* draw it with a cork-:: , screw?" ? The County of Custer, in Montana, is the largest county in the United States. It contains 13,569,921) acres, and is 150 ?J miles long and 125 miles wide. It is a place of historic interest, containing, as it does, the site of the great battle of the'|j?| Little Big Horn, where Custer and his forces were massacred. -"The Finger Bible," which the Oxford University Press has just brought out, will doubtless soon be brought over, Th;a Bible is so mounted that it can be worn on the chatelaine. It is 3?xl inch'in> :; dimensions and weighs only three-fourths ;S of an ounce; yet it contains the whole Bible, and is the smallest book ever printed. ? A remarkable spot in Vermont is the farming town of Waltham,. which contains 9760 acres of land and has 248 inhabitants. It has no postoffice, church, town house, poor house, store, lawyer, doctor, blacksmith's shop, nor even a bridge, and yet it is one of the thriving towns of Addison County. Its taxes arc merely, nominal. ? The oldest horse in the world is claimed by a farmer in Chili, ill. His father purchased it forty-nine years ago from the Indians, when it was supposed to be two years old. It served all through,-?^ the war, but escaped all injury. It hasp'' not a tooth in its head, butis fed'on^ cornbread and soft brand mash, and is~~~~ tenderly cared for. ? Deacon: "Young man, I think Xo will give you an order, but I much, fear that you have not told me the exact truth : regarding your goods." Drummer: "Well, air, the fact is I have not. Why, ? sir, (sinking his voice to a whisper,) were I to tell the truth about those goods Fd be murdered for my samples before_I reached the next town." ? The natural cunning of the fox was shown at New Ipswich, N. H.f the other day. A fox that was started by a hunter ).:?? ran directly to a pond and passed around the edge on the ice as near the open wa ter as possible. The dogs followed close-^S; ly, and, coming upon weak ice, Broke through .and but for help given them would have drowned. Meantime Beynard escaped to a place of safety. ? Here is a short sermon by a woman though not preached from a pulpit. It is a good one, and is pretty sure, to hit your own case somewhere, whatever may ? be your age and circumstances: "The?;; best thing to give your enemy is forgive-^_ nesa; to an opponent, tolerance; toia^n friend, your heart; to your child, a good|| example; to your father, deference; to'M your mother, conduct that will make her " proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." ? Mr. H. M. Flager, one of tho coal oil millionaires, is building a church for the Presbyterians at St Augustine,, Fla. v It is nearly completed, and will be, it is said, one of the finest ecclesiastical etniet^ ures in America, It is composite in architecture and will cost, it is estimated, $400,000. Mr. Flager intends it as a, me? morial oi his daughter, who died sudden? ly on a yacht off Charleston harbor a . few months since. Mr. Flagler has also ? built a handsome church .for the Metho^ dists in St. Augustine. Entitled to the Best. All are entitled to the best that their;, money will buy, so every family should' have, at once, a bottle of the best family i remedy, Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the' system, when costive or,; ,M**r?.- For salo-v in 50c. and 31.00 botf v.Veadto'g druggists,