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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. WE GIVE YOU, ONE AND ALL, A Cordial Invitation to come and inspect our D SPRING, 1890, Will long be remembered for its Pretty Goods, and we have used every means to select for you only the Choicest things of the Season! Our iSlillinery Department We are Proud Of! i LUACH day brings orders from the neighboring Towns of Greenville, Seneca, Bel ton, Spartanburg and other Towns. Several orders have been received from other States. Why is this? Simply because we carry the largest Stock of Milli ry in Upper Carolina. We can fit you up with as stylish a HAT.as can be built in any of tbo larger cities. Trimmed Hats from 25c up. Flowers, Ribbons and Laces in endless variety. Leghorn and Lace Flats are favorites for the little ones. The Famous Ribbon Hat?New York's latest fad?is our specialty. Be sure and Bee our French Pattern Hats. In this Department you will find always on hand a complete stock of Butte rick's Patterns. We are Butterick's agent for Anderson, and you can't buy them except through us. DRESS C3-003DS. This .Department is replete with all the choice things of the Season. French Pattern Suits at $8.50, $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00. A Lady buying.one of these will have the only one of the kind, as they are .all different. Trimmin gs to match all shades. Mohairs in all the popular shades, Half wool Dress Goods at 7Ac. WHITE C3-OOIDS. This Department is our pet?we are always tempted to buy pretty White Goods whenever we see them. We bought a Tremendous Stock, but they are pretty and cheap. India Lawn at 5c, 10c, 15c, 20c, up to 50c. Plain India Linen at 5c, 9c, 10c, 12ic, 15c, 19c, 20c, 22c, 25c, 30c and 50c. Full stock of the "New Hemstitched Lawns. , Novelties in Bordered Lawns, 42 inches wide. This makes a big saving in making a dress. . VanDyke Flouncingo and Edges are the correct thing for the season. Laces of all kinds. Drapery Nets 50c, 75c, up to $2.00. Parasols from 25c to $10.00. Our Puritan Silk Sun Umbrella is warranted by tbo manufacturers not to split Gloria Parasols at 95c. Mourning Parasols. . Full line of Low Out Shoes. Our Hue of Oxford Ties is complete?75c, ?1.00, $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00 Patent Leather Dongola. Glace, Kid, Goat in Common "Sense and Opera Toe. We have scarcely commenced to tell you of our Stock, but our space is already taken up, so we will have to finish next week. Yours truly, '9 Manager. THE NEW BLOOD MEDICINE. Compound Syrup of Red Clover! WE wish especially to call the attention of Physicians to the above remedy, and ask that they examine into its merits before making their prescriptions for the usual Spring disorders We would be glad to furnish the for mala for this preparation to any Physician who will call at our Store. This Syrup combines, in an agreeable form, the medicinal properties of the more recently dis? covered and most approved Alterative, Tonic and Blood Purifying remedies of the vegetable kingdom. It will be found much superior to the Blood Purifiers usually sold, and very much cheaper. OER & SLOAN , ANDERSON, S. C. SULLIVAN MANUFACTURING CO. NEW MACHINERY, NEW PLANT THROUGHOUT, A FULL STOCK OF LUMBER, dressed or undressed, SHINGLES, LATHS, WOOD-WORK, and BUILDING MATERIAL of all kinds. ILL ORDERS EXECUTED PROMPTLY. CAB LOAD OF DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS, To t>e sold at Bottom Figures. Oar Works are conveniently located near the C. & G. Depot, with Mr. JESSE M. SMITH Superintendent. COTTON PLANTERS. The Brooks Cotton Planter. Also, the justly popular ELLIOTT COTTON PLANTER. Take your choice between these two Planters. They are the best on the mar? ket. No other Planters can compare with them. Remember that we are selling? The Best Side Harrows on the Market. Simple, strong, durable and cheap. Headquarters on Plows, Hoes and Agricultu? ral Implements of all kinds, SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. T^AGH^'?OL?MN, All communications^ intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C. [Owing to au oversight of the printer, this piece was left out last week.] A pletsant night's rest at Mr. John W. Rosamond's, and morning found us ready to start again, with the clouds low and threatening and the rain pouring down. We drove to St. Paul's, expect? ing to find Miss Minerva Drake with a handful of children, but instead there were over forty present, and, under the force of the inspiring example of the teacher, as busy as bees. We spent some two or three hours with her classes, and could have enjoyed spending the whole day, but there were other places to go to, and we took our departure, feeling that the interests of that school were in safe hands. The progress made since our last visit was manifest on all sides, and besides the credit due to the teacher, something is due to the people who hold up her bands [&ud keep her at it for the greater part of the year. From Cedar Wreath we turned our horse's head toward home, and expect* ed to call at the colored school at New Pisgah, but when we arrived the school bad been dismissed and teacher and pu? pils were all gone, although we thought it was a trifle early, so driving on we took shelter from the cold and rain in the comfortable home of Mr. John M. Glenn, and with these relatives and friends we passed the hours talking over the present and the friends and incidents of the long ago* On our way back the next day we took occasion to call on Miss Eugenia Ellison, at Liberty Springs, but she hardly had : enough pupils present to constitute a school, and seemed a trifle discouraged, we thought. We were favorably impressed with the teacher, but with the meagre materials before us, we could not form much of an idea of the work being done. Back into Brushy Creek the second week, the distance from home and the extent of the territory to be gone over making it impossible to do it all in one week. Our first call was upon Miss Flora Richey, at the Three and Twenty nchool, where we found a full school and alive teacher, bubbling over with work. Miss Flora is putting into practice the excellent training she bad at the Win? throp school, and affords ocular proof of the value of a professional teacher. Her pupils seem to be imbued with her spirit of energy, and work is the order cf the day. There are signs of progress here, not the least of which is the fr.ct that the patron* have put sash in the win? dows, and doubtless in the near future some convenient desks will follow. This is a fine community; able to sustain a good school and equip it with all the ne? cessary appliances ?>r effective work. A pleasant night with our friend, I. W. Pickens., and our first call was upon a colored school near him, taught by C. T. Miller, but the teacher was sick, and we did not get to inspect his work. At Hamilton there is a small school, taught by Miss Leola Russell, which has labored under great difficulties from its inception from the want of a bouse, hav? ing been compelled to move from one tenant bouse to another until the school is almost broken up. This a great pity, foi there are some thirty or more chil? dren in close proximity, who have had no school privileges whatever, and being the children mainly of tenants, they do not feel able or willing to build a house where they may move away within a year. It seems that something ought to be done toward supplying this commu? nity with a house. The teacher being a near relative; we will refrain from any comments upon her work, bui let it speak for itself. ?--? From here we crossed over into Gar vin to visit a new school, known as Beth? lehem, recently started near Mr. E. A. Allgood's, and taught by MiesT. J. Wil? liams, of Spartanburg. We found a good, new, Bchool building due, largely, to the enterprise of Mr. Aligood, assisted by some of his neighbors, a school of more than forty pupils, and what ap? peared to be au efficient teacher, and everything in working order. From what we heard there we supposed the school was going to continue, but learn that it has closed since we were there, but we hav3 put the patrons in commu? nication with another teacher, and hope to bear of its going on. We spent the night with Mr. Larkin Newton, and called the next day on Miss Lucy Dunwoody, at Bishop's Branch. Miss Lucy had a small school., many having stopped to work on the farms, but those she had present did her great credit. We spent two or three very pleasant hours with her, and were greatly pleased with the exercises, and espe? cially with the exhibitions of penman? ship mado by all, from the youngest to the oldest. Our next call was upon Mr. W. P. Holland, at Lebanon. We got there in time to dine with the teacher, at Mr. Breazeale's, and we spent the entire afternoon in his room, and that of his assistant, Miss Rosa Milford. Since our last visit an ell has been added to the building, and Miss Rosa now has her little ones to herself?and bright little fel? lows they are, too?and show careful training. Prof. Holland still retains his hold upon these people, and a visit t) his room will furnish the reason why. Everything bas an air of order and method, and teaching is done because the teacher haB something to teach, and this, of course, secures the attention of the pupils at once, and excites their interest. Progress is vi?ible all along the line here, and affords another in? stance of the great value of professional work. This school i3 a great blessing to this community, and affords a practical illustration of one of the elements of suc? cess, patronB and teacher heartily united in the earnest effort to establish a good, permanent school. What we have seen here at different times speaks volume? in behalf of the educational spirit of the community. ANDERSON, S. G., 1 BILL AUF'S PHILOSOPHY. Atlanta Constitution. What do we believe? Easter Sunday is at band, and twenty millions of Christians in this republic profess to believe that this day is the anniversary of the resurrection?the ris? ing of a wonderful man or God from the dead. Twenty millions, six hundred and fifty-seven thousand communicants of Christian churches! This va3t number was made up from the records of the Churches last August. Yerily, this is a Christian Country, and the faith of all. these people centers upon Easter. It is a more notable day?a more vital day than Christmas, or any other day. A man can be born and a man can be put to death, but who can rise from the dead ? The world has a hard old time in set? tling down upon dates aud names and creeds. It is not known yet whether the word Easter came from Oatera, the god? dess of Spring, or Oster, the old Saxon word for rising. It is not known what day is really the anniversary of the resur? rection. For near 300 years the oldtime fathers of the Church disputed over this, and it was at last settled by force in the year 325, at the great council of Nice. Constantino and 318 bishops settled it, and the Christian world had to conform. TbiB notable council was called together to settle some other controversies, the chief of which wao whether JeBUs Christ existed in heaven before he was born on the earth or not. This was called the Arian heresy, and Arius was excommu? nicated and banished. Force and power settled everything then. For centuries the learned men quarreled over such questions, a3 the Trinity, and original sin, and falling from grace, and election, and trans-sub3tantiation, and purgatory and the worship of images and the Vir? gin Mary, and these things are still tin settled among Christians. So late as the seventeenth century a man was not allowed to believe what he believed. The fires of Smitbfield were lighted and many good men were burned at the stake for denying the full divinity of Christ. Unitarianism was planted in the persecu? tion. What a change has come over the world. What intolerance and persecution scandalized and disgraced the ages. Only a few centuries have passed since those who called themselves Christians made it a part of the Easter festival to beat the Jews wherever they could find them. The boys turned out With whips" and sticks and siones, and ran them to the woods and caves, and the briar patches. The dean of Paris made his chaplain beat a Jew to death on Easter day just to amuBe a distinguished guest. They were forced to eat hog meat and tansy pudding as a humiliation, and the boys ran about the streets singing, "Christ is risen?Christ is risen, And the Jews must go to prison." What horrible creatures our forefathers were. I thank the good Lord every day that all this intolerance and inhumanity has passed and that we live in an age of true Christian civilization and can wor? ship God according to conscience with none to molest or make us afraid. Faith cannot be forced, nor can man's convic? tion be changed by the arbitrary rules of courts or king3. Not long ago I heard a jury polled in court, and each man an? swered upon oath that the verdict was his verdict. But it was not, for it turned out that four of the jury were opposed to it and felt that they were forced to swear a lie. They had agreed to leave it to a vote and to go with the majority. Why will not our law makers change this un? reasonable law and let a majority make the verdict, instead of requiring that every one of the twelve shall agree to it. How can a man agree ngaiust his honest convictions? Even the judges of our supreme court are allowed to dissent, but the common juror, unlearned in the law, is forced to agree or to stay there without food until his internal suggestions force him to surrender. It is appetite against duty, and appetite generally whips the fight. What little concern our people have nowadays about their religious faith? about creeds and doctrines and dogmas. How many members of our Christian churches know what is meant by Calvin? ism, Arminitauism, old school and new school election, original sin, total deprav? ity, regeneration and free agency. In the days of Calvin and Luther and John Knox these things were discussed in every household with as much vigor and earnestnesses we discuss politics now. Everybody had a faith and could defend it?yes, die for it. But now we join a church becauae our fathers did. We like the forms of worahip that we were brought up in. The faith is not the thing. A Presbyterian man marries a Methodist girl and she quits her chnrch and goes to his without the slightest sacrifice of faith or conscience, and she does right. While she was a Methodist she was supposed to believe in falling from grace. When she became a Presbyterian she was supposed to believe the contrary. But the fact is she didn't believe anything about it. She cared nothing about it, but she did care for and did believe all that was ne? cessary. "Ye believe in God?believe also in me" was creed enough. Love God and love your neighbor was duty enough. A creed can be nursed ^into fanatacism, but love to God and love to man cannot. Pope says. ?'And e'en for virtue may too much zoal be had, The worst of madmen is :i saint run mad." What the world wants is more of love and leas of creed. Half a century ago the preachers were further apart than they are now. They did not hold good fellowship nor union meetings as they do now. They afllicted us with long doc? trinal sermons that nobody understood. I shall never forget tho weary hours in which a learned divine UBed to expound to us the harmony of free agency with predestination, But we rarely hear a doctrinal sermon now. Our preachers tell us more of love and duty. Up north there are still some fanatics left like Gregg and Cook who would like to scorch us a little for being witches or rack us awhile on the wheel as they did in the times of the Spanish inquisition. But the world is growing better. The preachers are PHTJRSDAY MORNI] more tolerant aud the people have more respect for the church. A century ago Daniel Defore wrote: "Whenever God erects a house of prayer, The devil builds a chapel there, And 'twill he found Upon eiamlnation, The latter has the largest congregation." But he would'nt write that now, for the church has ceased to be the nursery of hate and intolerance. The devil is run? ning money now; money is his trump card. A long time ago he tried his band on Job and took away all his property in a vain effort to seduce him from his in? tegrity. "ButSalau now is wiser than of yore,. And tempts by making rich?not making poor." May the good Lord preserve us from his machination. He has not endanger? ed our community in that way very much aa yet, but I'm afraid there are some in these parts who are waiting willingly for him to try. They have got a chip on their bats and are daring him to knock it off. This Easter Sunday is a good time to fortify against him and renew our vows and strengthen our resolutions to deal justly, love, mercy, and obey the Lord our God. Bill Arp. Hogs TS. Cotton Seed. Washington, D. 0. April 9.?By request the House Committee on Agri? culture to-day re-opened the hearing on the Conger lard compound bill and tho Butterworth anti-option bill, both of which bad been reported to the Houbo with favorable recommendations. On the first named bill A. Graves, repre? senting tho Georgia Agricultural Associ? ation, and J. Pennoger Jones, represent? ing the colored cotton farmers and plan? ters ot Arkansas and colored men, made arguments against its passage. Graves, in addition to the arguments already presented, pleaded for the protection of the cotton seed industry against the im? position of the burdens contained in the bill on tho ground that it had contrib? uted more tban anything eise to improve the condition of the colored farmer of the South. To paes this bill be asserted w?uld be the entering of a wedge which when driven home would separate the colored people from the Republican party. In the course of bis argument on the bill Jones said: "If cotton seed oil must be taxed why not tax western hogs? Wby break down one industry of the country that another industry should be protected? The Republican party is committed to the policy of protection of American industries. It is so enuncia? ted in its platforms aud to that music it has marched to victory. But, Mr. Chair roan, if the Republican party at Chicago had placed in the platform of its princi? ples the singular creed that one industry of our country should be taxed to death that another industry at home be pro? tected and live, on an appeal to tho country, they would have been buried so deep by the weight of public disfavor that the trumpet of Gabriel would not awake them, if the last Canvas settled one thing or principle, it was protection. But that protection was upon the broad lines dictated by common sense, to wit, protection to American industries, American mechanics and American labor against foreign manufacturers, for? eign mechanics and foreign pauper la? bor. The System inaugurated by the Republican industry to protect another is an innovation, and one that will be resented by ihe great mass of our people and hurl any party from power that in? sanely attempts it. So far as the Demo? cratic party is concerned, it is committed to free trade. It claims to be in favor of lessening taxes and reducing the tariff. ?If there is anything" in tbeir professions or in the principles laid down in their late platform, then we confidently look to them to defeat this most pernicious measure. How they can do otherwise and be true to their creed as laid down by their leaders is a matter that sur? prises and surpasses us. Gentlemen of the committee, this bill, stripped of all disguises, resolves itself into these condi? tion?the Western hog against the South? ern negro. Which will win ? "There is another phase of this indus? try. There are supposed to be over 200 oil mills, mostly located at the South. They employ somewhere in tne neighbor? hood of 75,000 persons. More than three fourths of this great number of employees are colored men. It would be safe to say that there are at least three persons who rely upon each of these 75,000 persons for their support and are living from this enterprise. The wages paid these people aggregate ?3,500,000 at the least calculation, The passage of this bill would close up many of these mills and perchance throw thousands of de? pendent people out of employment and entail hardship and want upon people who are least able to stand it?and all this to protect the western hog." One Tillman Plank. To the Editor of the Greenville News : That plank of the platform of the Farmers' Convention which recommends that the school districts be made smaller, with 2 schools, one white and one colored, in each district, and that the trustees be elected by the people, should be heartily eudorsed by all friends of our public school system. Neither idea is new. Fifty years ago, Robert Henry, writing from Columbia, recommended that the State be laid off in school districts five miles square, and that a free school be located in the centre of each district. A year or two ago the Legislature passed an act authorizing and requiring the board of examiners of Lexington County to lay off school districts, about five miles square, and to establish two schools in each district. In nearly all the special districts of the State in which a local supplementary tax is levied, the trustees are elected by the property holders ivho levy the tax. W. S. M. ? A woman, says, Sheridan, may be idle, but she is never a loafer. She can? not knock a man down, but she can break his heart, and when disappoiuted she goe3 to God, while a man goes to the devil, STG, APEIL 17, 1890 THE BEAUTY OF DEATH. The Dangers or Arsenical Toilet Prepara? tion. A woman of ordinary intelligence ?ught to know without being told that arsenical toilet preparations are danger? ous to the health, and yet not a week passes that I am not in receipt of letters, most of them showing thought and abili? ty, asking me to recommend some cos? metic for the eliminatio'' of pimples, aud requesting to be told if arsenic is as safe for an internal medicine as it is for a complexion wash. These correspondents know that arsenic is a deadly poison, and yet they talk about its use as if it were the simplest and safest drug in the world. Arsenical dose3 will put an end to pim? ples, and, what is more, an end to the life of the person using them. I am not now speaking from generalizations or from what I have heard, but from abso? lute personal knowledge. Ono friend of mine, a beautiful young woman, was afflicted with an eruption upon the hands. , This was not only exceedingly painful but very mortifying. Her own family physician, a man of common sense as well as-of scientific attainment, prescribed certain blood remedies, but refused to give her anything to act upon the condi? tion?in other words declined to doctor symptoms, the^pellets of arsenic. The patient became irritable and dis? satisfied and finally consulted a newly fledged M. D., who, through some adver? tising dodge, had been brought promi? nently before the public. She returned to her horns with pellets of arsenic to be taken during the day, and an arsenical lotion to be used morning and night, and a piece of advice. This was not to notice any criticism of the treatment, and to say to those who condemned arsenic that such an objection was only an old wo? man's whim, which medical science had satisfactorily disposed of. A permanent cure was guaranteed in six weeks. At the end of that time my friend's bands were as white and as smooth as an in? fant's, but ray friend was in the agonies of death. The eruption bad been driven inward instead of out of the system, aud quick consumption' was the result. Another victim, a young man, was also a friend of mine. His life was embittered by pimplec which literally eovered his face. "A bad tenant is better out than in," his own good doctor sententiously told him. But he could not wait for slow methods, and so fell into the hands of another murderer. The last time I saw this promising youth before he died he called my attention with a good deal of pride, to the improved condition of his face. "Yes," I replied, "but you are very pale, and how about that cough ?" "Oh, the doctor says th?t is only bron? chial, and he is giving me medicine, for it, but I don't care a cent for the cough." killed by the use of arsenic. Such cases could be indefinitely multi? plied, but I have dwelt Upon these because I watched (hem from start to finish, and am as sure as I am of my own' existence tb?.t my friends were killed by the use of arsenic. That arsenic in the hands of ?killful physicians is some? times a help in certain acute diseases I am ready to admit, ?8 I admit the value of strychnine and stomach pumps,'but for steady or even occasional use in erup? tive diseases, chronic or otherwise, it is simply a deadly cure. I do not know that all the complexion lotions contain arsenic, but 1 do that every woman who has an intellect above that of a jelly fish, should know the ingredients of the stuff she uses as a medicinal wash or beauti fier. In a late interview with one of our most distinguished physicians I was told that the ioliy of women with their poi? sonous face washes, their compressed and, in many cases, lapped ribs, their heavy petticoats and elaborate dress skirts pull? ing down and inflaming the most delicate of the vital organs, was quite equal to the folly of men in driukiug and carous? ing, and for his part he thought that the effect of woman's folly upon her health was greater than the dissipation of men upou theirs. " Why do not women do more for each Other P" this gentlemau asked. "Why do not those who have lo3t it, or who never hr.? it? Look at the immense lemperar.ee societies organ? ized, and controlled by women all over this country." He went on, "Look at some of the leaders of these enterprises, as they address their meetings in excell? ent English, but no breath to speak of. Look at their girted-in waists, their hips. Because these women do not drink intoxicating liquors, they imagine they are temperate. The fact is, that many of them are quite as far off the track of health and common sense and decency as men, and need missionaries quite as much ns men. Then look at tho candy that women eat. It seems fully as re? spectable for one to ruin a digestion by wine as by bonbons. So you see after all, that bad as we are, it is six of one and half a dozen of the other." truth in the lecture. There was so much truth in this little lecture, that nettled as I certainly was, I no argument to combat it with, I could have urged the old pica that woman's folly had its origin and development in her wish to please a men, but this was such an antiquated chestnut and besides made a woman seem so much more a fool, that I forebore. My intention in this paper was to warn my friends not only against the use of arsenical preparations, but against the use of anything for the complexion that they did not know to be perfectly harm? less. A lotion that is powerful enough to remove pimples will usually move them inward instead of outward. Out of door exercise, tho exercise that starts the blood to tingling and the Per? spiration from every pore, careful bath? ing, well ventilated room3 day and night, caro about diet, and lighl; weight clothes which hang from the shoulders will so oxygenate the blood aud work upon tho general health as to cure eruptive diseas? es. If such obedience to the rule3 of health do not have this effect them uoth ing will. An excellent cold cream, bosh for chapped lips and rough skin, and a de? cided complexion softener, is made of the following ingredients: Two ounces oil of almonds, one-half ounce spermacetti, one drachm white wax, and a little rose water. This cream is very inexpensive as well as effective, and a pint of it put up by one's druggist will cost but a little and last a long time. Eleanob. KirK. Earn Your Success. One of the moat futile things in life is the attempt to make meu fill places for which they are not equal. There are few things which cause ao mueh disap? pointment and general irritation as the mistaken acts of friendship which push a man higher than he can stand, and, in a blind desire to serve him, load him down with responsibilities which he cannot bear. A true friendship is always wise and candid. It recognizes the limita? tions of one whom it would aid, and does not endeavor to pass over those limita? tions and set at naught that general law of life which creates an affinity between a man's capacity and the work he is to do. There is, in fact, very little which friendship can do for a man beyond se? curing him a good opportunity; it can? not, with the best intentions and utmost zeal; make him equal to the opportunity. Friendship stands at the door and holds it open, but it cannot make him who enters at home ii a new place unless there is that within himself which makeB it possible for him to adapt himself to his new surroundings. There are a great many men who seem to think that by the assistance of their friends all things are possible to them, and who hold their friends responsible for their failure to secure the places and emoluments which they believe are their due. Such persons are entirely ignorant of that great law of life which imposes upon each man the necessity of working out bis own salva? tion. Character can never be formed by deputy, nor enn great works be done, great responsibilities met, and great re? sults realized, by delegation to another. For our opportunities we may well look to our friends; but for our Jiuccessful dealing with our opportunities we must look only to ourselves. Friendship can put a man in the right place and give him the proper tools, but it cannot direct his work, nor can it bring out the skill which nature has denied or which ineffi? ciency has refused to acquire. There is a broad justice running through life which is only the more apparent because one sometimes finds exceptions to it, As a rule, men achieve the success which they deserve, and obtain the places for which they are fitted. There are some who, by the ac? cidents of the time in which they live, are thwarted of results which might properly have been theirs under more favorable conditions; but the great ma? jority of these who fail are responsible for their failures. Their intentions may have been good, but they bav* lacked either the wise discernment of their du? ties or the resolute industry which turns opportunity into achievement. A Napo? leon without social or political backing will somehow come to the bead of the army and will une it as if it were a part of himself; a McClellan, with the best intentions in the world and the most sin? cere patrotism, when an army is placed at his hand and every possiblB instru? ment of success put into his bend, will remain paralyzed and, to a large degree, impotent. He has the opportunity, but it is too great for him, and in the light of history it is seen to be a misfortune that he was advanced to a place which he could not hold and from which he could not progress. All that we can ask justly from our moBt devoted friends is that they shall help us to the possession - of the things wo need- to work with. When they have done that, we can ask nothing more of them which they can wisely render to U9. If we fail, the re? sponsibility is upon us and not upon them. Neither their love, their services, not their resources Can fit us for posi? tions to which nature or our own ineffi? ciency has not made us equal. It is easy to lay to our aouls the flattery of having been defeated by forces against which no human will could have striven success? fully, or to have thwarted in our effort to work out whatever is in us by lack of opportunities; but if we analyze the causes of our failures ho neatly, we shall generally find that they have been due to some defect in ourselves?a defect which could not have been remedied by all the friendship and co operation in the world, and a defect which ought not to have been remedied by any one but ourselves. There is a fundamental immorality in the attainment of success for which a man has not Btriven: there is an element of falsehood in the holding of a place which has not come to one as a recognition of his ability to 611 it. Better a thousand times obscurity and humble work than prominence or opulence gained by acci? dent secured by favor. There is a kind of aid which it is immoral for a friend to give and equally immoral for another to receive; it is the aid which takes the place of some work we ought to have done, some energy we ought to have put forth, some strength and power of char? acter we ought to have attained. No success is real or lasting or worth having which docs not come as the outward recognition of some inward quality by the man who achieves it.?The Christian Union. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be? lieve him perfectly honorable in all busi? ness transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by that firm. West &Tkuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Walding, Kinnan & Makvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mu? cous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. ? When money talks of course it talks cents. yolum: "Wounded Unto Death." At Groveton, where the gallant Phil Kearney was killed, as we were trying to keep Jackson back, writes a soldier in the Detroit Free Press, I was struck in the right leg by a bullet which scraped the bone. Had I been in health and vigor I could have crawled away off the field of battle, but I had been out of the hospital only a few days, and really had no business in the ranks. I got out a bandage and checked the flow of blood as well as I could; and then got into the most comfortable position to wait the turn of events. The knowledge that my wound was not a fatal one, and the belief that I would not even lose my leg, kepi me in pretty good spirits, and I saw and heard all that went on around me. Nearby were three men who were mortally wounded. The one at my feet was a strong and robust man, and had his left hip shattered by a piece of shell. He had been unconscious from the shock for a long time, but when he came to he began to swear in the most vigorous manner. He had a wife and children nt home, but he did not seem to give them a thought. He swore at his wound, at the enemy, at (he battery behind us, at himself for enlisting, and at me when I asked if I could help him. He died while indulging in a strain of profanity, and he bad scarcely fallen back when one of the others roused up, and went through the same proceedings, and died exactly the same way. When Joe Hooker flung at the terrible stone wall at the foot of Mayre's Hill, in the streets of Fredericksbnrg, I had my cap knocked off by a bullet. Thee a second struck my musket, and a third tore the cloth on my left shoulder. I knew I should be hit, but I did not foel the bullet which plowed into my right shoulder. The first I knew I began to grow dizzy, and all at once I sank down in a heap. I am sure I fainted away, for things had changed when I once more opened my eyes. Our lines had been driven back, and the Confeder? ates were cheering. The first thing was to reoch for my canteen, which was fortunately full of water. The next was to feel for a bandage, and stuff the soft cloth into the wound as well as I could. Dead and dying men were lying all about me, and here I saw two different pheses of human nature under the suffering. A young man, who lay on the broad of his back close to me, and who had been shot in the stomach, swore like a pirate for about five minutes before he died. Another soldier, who was older and a far heavier man, sat up at my right hand. A piece of shell had struck him in the side. Instead of swearing he fell to weeping. He hadn't a word about home or friends, but muttered that it wasn't fair to shoot him down that way, and that he was always in bad luck, and there were tears on his eheeks when he breath? ed his last. It touches the heart to read of a burial party finding a dead soldier with his Bible or some loved one's photograph in his hand, but I never came across any? thing of the sort. I helped bury the dead on thirteen different fields of battle, but never found anything of the sort. A man wounded unto death will ekber swear or cry. Where he does neither, he will crawl away by himself to die and hold bis peace. What he thinks of no one can tell, but I have found plenty of them who evidently lived for an hour after being hit, and who had Bibles or photographs with them and could have got them out, but did not. I have always believed that the man who was mortally wounded and had only a short time to live fully realizes the situationi Their actions always proved it in a pitiful way. I knew three broth? ers to be mortally wounded by the same shell at Antietam. They were very affectionate towards each other, so much so that it was a subject of remark. The sentimentalist would picture them dying in each other's arms and bidding ?ach other good-by; but this was far from the case. One of them, as a wounded man told me, swore in an awful way, a second wept, while the third kept his peace. Each crept away in a different direction to die, aud there was a distance of a hundred feec between their. dead bodies when we found them. In assioting to bury the dead at Gettys? burg, our party came across a soldier from a New York regiment whose dead face was almost laughing. He had been wounded in the breast, and could not have lived over fifteen minutes. He must have suffered terribly while dying, but at the last moment the pain left him, and he was free. This was no doubt what brought the smile to his face?a. smile of rejoicing and relief. After the fight at Williamsburg we found a soldier who had died from a shot in the groin. He had taken thirty dollars from his pocket and placed it under his body, torn up two letters, and had spread a hand? kerchief over his face and passed away so quietly that his countenance betrayed none of the pain which must have been his. ? Here is pointer for farmers who use high price guano. A citizen of Newton district says that while he was putting in guano last spring preparing to plant cot? ton, he killed a black snake six feet long. Not knowing anything the snake was good for, he concluded to experiment a a little, and see if snakes would m?.ke a good fertilizer. He put the snake in a furrow where no guano had been scatter? ed, drove down stakes at each end of the snake, put guano in the balance of the row, but none where the snake was. This row was planted and cultivated just like tho balance of the row, and it grew six inches higher than the others. It may be that some enterprising man will profit by this man's experience, and go to catch? ing and grinding up snakes, and by another year black snake guano will be placed on the mirket?Alpharetta Dem? ocrat. ?The man with the largest foot in t*:.e world is probably the Rev. John Farn ham, of Charlotte, N. C. He wears a number 3M shoe, which requires a. sole twenty inches long and seven inches broad. The business of manufacturing his shoos is conducted at Philadelphia, aud it constitutes one of the mo3t exten? sive industries of that city. E HTT.-IO. 41. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? The Democratic gains in Illinois ar d Wisconsin, if continued, will make them Democratic States in the nest Presiden tial election. ? Although quite an old lady, Mrs, Henry Ward Beecher is quite active, and attracts a good deal of attention at P?Iatka, Florida. ? A small comet, the first of the year, ha3 been discovered by astronomer Brooks of New York. At its brightest it will scarcely be visib'e to the naked eye. ? The first block of tin produced from an American tin mine has been received in Pittsbnrg. It came from the Black Hills, where the ore is found in inex* haustible quantities. ? "Don't feel badly over what my wife said to you to-night. You shouldn't miod what she says." "Well, I don't see why I shouldn't mind what she says. I notice you always do." ? George Murray, a colored man, of Baltimore, Md., is 115 years of age. He walks about and is in possession of all his faculties. The most remarkable thing about him is that he never saw George Washington. ? The jury system of Louisiana is a little different from that of other States. In civil cases, nine oi* the twelve jurors, are all that is necessary to return a verdict instead of the whole number of twelve. An effort is being made to have the same rule apply to criminal case. ? The number of liquor saloons in New York city is estimated to be 7,500 and in Brooklyn,. 5,000?12,500 in all. The average income of each saloon is es? timated at not less than $4,000 annually, making ?50,000,000 taken from the peo? ple of the two cities to support the liquor traffic. ? A little girl on her visit to the country for the first time, an exchange relates, had never seen a cow before, and after watching the milking process with eyes full of astonishment drew near, and placing her hand on the cow's side, ex? claimed : "Why, she's chock full of it, isn't she!" ? The great Methodist University near Washington is taking shape. Bishop Hurst-has secured the site and made some payments on it. He says the plan is a broad one and they intend to go on a cash basis. They will do no college work, but will make it strictly a University, He believes the money will come in to endow it very liberally. ? As an illustration of the queer blunders sometimes made by compositors, the following is noted: A country corres? pondent, in giving an account of a certain pastor's address to a Meadville paper, wrote that he was full of fire and vigor. When the proof came in it gave the somewhat startling information that the minister was full of "pie aud vine? gar." ? Miss Ida Cass, of Kansas City, is a daisy. Her sweetheart, Harper Grofton, ran away two days before the wedding. She started a deputy sheriff after him, and when he was brought* back she cov? ered him with a revolver until he consented to have the ceremony performed on the spot. Mr. Grofton need never fear that his wife is unable to take care of herself. ? For over twenty five years Fletcher Wright, who lives near Dawson, has carried a bullet in bis head, a wound re? ceived in one of the battles in Virginia. This minnie ball shifts about, at one time in the front of his head, at another time in the back. At times the bullet gives Mr. Wright much uneasiness while at work in the field by its shifting about and the rattling noise it made in the head.? 3Tacon(Ga.) Telegraph. ? "The soil of California is so fruit? ful," said a native of the Golden State, i "that a man who accidentally dropped a box of matches in his .field, discovered, the next year, a fine forest of telegraph poles." That's nothing to my State," said a native of Illinois. "A cousin of mine who lives there lost a button off his jacket, and in less than a month he found a bran new suit of clothes hanging on a fence near the spot." ? The Congressional House of Repre? sentatives has passed the bill for the big new bridge across the Hudson River be? tween New York and Jersey City. The bridge is to have six railroad tracks, with capacity for four more; is to be of a single span, and stand as high from the water as the present Brooklyn bridge. Its construction must begin within three years, and end within ten yeara. This bridge, if built, will excel the famous Forth bridge. ? J. T. Price, of Saline County, Mo., is the first candidate for President in l?i?. in the field. He is a graduate of several German universities and is well to do. Ho has long studied the politics of this country from a metaphysical standpoint, and has felt the need of a Christian element in the conduct of the government. In the circulars he is pre? paring he announces himself, "John T. Price, of Saline County, Mo., as your candidate for President of the United States subject to a vote of the whole peo? ple in favor of Christocratic labor elec? tors." ? A phosphate man recently said "the farmers this year are using a great deal more guano than ever before, and are gradually adopting the intensive system of farming. The sales in this State, as well as to neighboring States, have been very large. South Carolina fertilizers are getting to be universally known and ap? preciated. Almost every State in the Union has ordered more or less of South Carolina's pulverized fossils during the . past season. The shipments to the States of Texas, Louisiana and Alabama have greatly exceeded those of previous years. The foreign market has demand? ed a larger supply of phosphates than usual, and altogether phosphate magnates have had a most prosperous year, not? withstanding the Florida scare." Confirmed. The favorable impression produced cn the first appearance of the agreeable liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs a few years ago has been more than confirmed by the pleasant experience of all who havfl used it, and the success of the proprietors and^manufacturers of the California Fig ' Syrup Company.