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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. WE GIVE YOU, ONE AND ALL, A Cordial Invitation to come and inspect our NEW SPRING STICK! SPRING, 1890, Will ng be remembered for its Pretty Goods, and we have used every means to select for you only the Choicest things of the Season! Our Millinery Department We are Proud Of I EjACH day brings orders from the neighboring Towns of Greenville, SenecR, Bel ton, Spartanburg and other Towns. Several" orders have been received from other States. Why is this? Simply becanse wo carry the largest Stock of Milli ry in Upper Carolina. We can fit yon up with as stylish a HAT as can be built in any of the larger cities. Trimmed Hats from 25c op. Flowers, Ribbons and Laces in endless variety. Leghorn and Lace FlatB are favorites.-for the little ones. The Bamous Ribbon Hat?New York's latest fad?i3 our specialty. Be sure and see 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. ' ID"R,"E3SS GrOOIDS. This Department is replete with all the choice thiog3 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. Trimmings to match all shades. Mohairs in all tbe popular shades, Half wool Dress Goods at 7 Ac. WHITE GrOOZDS. 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. - - Foil stock of the New Hemstitched Lawns. Novelties in Bordered Lawns, 42 inches wide. This makes a big saving in making a dress. VanDyke Flouncings 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 the manufacturers not to split Gloria Parasob at S5c. Mourning Parasols. Full line of Low Out Shoes. Our line of Oxford Ties is complete?75c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00 PatenfLeather 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, 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 tbe usual Spring disorders. We would be glad to furnish the for mula for this preparation to any Physician who will call a: our Store. This Syrup combines, in an agreeable form, the mpdiciudl 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 tbe Blood Purifiers usually sold, and very much cheaper. ORR & SLOAN , anderson, s.c. NEW MACHINERY, NEW PLANT THROUGHOUT, A FULL STOCK OF LUMBER, dressed or undressed, SHINGLES, LATHS, WOOD-WORK, and BUILDING MATERIAL of all kinds. ALL ORDERS EXECUTED PROMPTLY. A CAR LOAD OF DQ0RS, SASH AND BLINDS, To "be sold at Bottom Figures. Our Works are conveniently located near the C. & G. Depot, with Mr. J. H. WREN, Superintendent. ASTONISHING, BUT ACCURATE, Are the following low Prices at the Come and Investigate matters in the Millinery Line. HaTS from 20c up to $150?untrimmod. No. 12 RIBBON only 10c. FLOWERS and PLUMES at all prices. GAUZE and TULLE in solid and fancy colors. Now go to the other side, where you will find ROBES, SUITINGS and DRESS GOODS in all the new shades and designs. SILKS ! SILKS! CHINA SURA HS and BROCADES from 50c to $2.50 per yard. VELVETS at 20c and upwards. Just step around to our WHITE GOODS countor and examine these CHECKED MUSLINS, varying from 5c to 35c. APRONETTE! APRONETTE ! with fancy bor? ders, in various dosigns, from 12ic to 30c. NECESSARY NOVELTIES JUST LISTEN : Ready-made TENNIS SUITS from 50c to $2.00. JERSEYS, BLOUSES and Chil? dren's KILT SUITS in all sizes, colors and qualities, from 5Uc to $2 50. Misses' and Ladies' CORSETS as low as 25c?also look at our Special Ventilating. Latest styles in PARASOLS ! THREAD GLOVES at 10c. Ladies' Hemstitched HANDKER? CHIEFS only 5c, leading to our specialties at 25c nnd 30c. LACE and EMBROIDERY beginning at 3c and running to $1.25 per yard. ???~ I have just returned from the Northern Markets, and carry? NOTHENC BUT STYLISH GOODS. A"ll orders promptly nil?.?. iss Lizzie William s. T^A?H^'GOLUMN, All communications intended fo this Column should be addressed to D. H RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C. We regret to learn, in a private note from Miss Lou Carpenter at Pel/.er, that she has been compelled to give up her school for the remainder of this session on account of "grip." We wish her a speedy convalescence. In the meantime it is pleasant to know that Miss Lillie Hard has her hands on the helm, and will try to see that the interests of the school suffer no detriment. _ ? Prof, and Mrs. Kemp spent a pleasant half hour with us recently, having come up on the "cannon ball" train. As we have not been to see him lately he thought be would turn the tables on us and call on us. All right, "pard." Come again and bring the better half along, but in the meantime we intend to do some calliog oureelf, for we have always found Belton a good place to go to. ' Prof, and Mrs. McElroy, of the Mof fattsville Academy, deserve and will receive the hearty sympathy of all our teachers in their recent afflictions in the death of their little baby boy. They have the great consolation of knowing that "it is well with the child.'' Miss Lucy Gambrell's school at Broad away has closed for vacation, afler a very prosperous session ol five months. We have no doubt, fiom the well known earnestness and zeal of the teacher, that good results have been secured, and hope she may be continued there in the future. We would have been pleased to attend the closing,exercises if we had known of it. ^ Mr. L. M. MahafFy, of the Cedar Grove sohool, has closed for the present, and will resume after the crops are "laid by." We feel Bure Lewis will have left his impress upon the boys and girls of that community when ho shall have finished his work. In a private uotc just received from Mr. R. I. El rod, one of the Trustees of Brushy Creek Township, he informs us that petitions are circulating asking the Trustees to call a meeting to consider the propriety of levying the additional two mill school lax provided for by the recent Act; of the Legislature. This ia a move, we think, in the right direction, as we consider this Act the best and most practical we have had on school mattera for years. It gives the people of each Township the right to levy the tax upon themselves; by a majority vote, after a petition has been presented to the Trus? tees, Bigned by a majority of the resident landowner). This tax is to be voted upon at a public meetiug of the tax? payers of the Township who pay tax upon one hundred dollars worth of prop? erty, and this meeting ia to be held in a central locality after two weeks' notice. Furthermore, ea^-b taxpayer has the right to designate to the County Treas urer at which school house bis money is to be used, aud no part of this money can go outside of the Township. It is all for the use and benefit of the Township that levies the tax. Now, this all plain aud practical, aud puts it within the reach of any community to have longer terms and better schools. Everywhere we have beard it said that the school terms are too short, and they are, and here is the solution of the problem. It just takes more money to have longer schools, aud here is the simplest way to get it. It equalizes the burden, and makes every man pay in proportion to bis property. In the case of Brushy Creek it would add about between seven and eight hundred dollars to the school fund. It would place the Trustees in a positiou to nego? tiate for the best teaching talent, because they could offer coustant employment at remunerative prices. And the lack of this is the reason why so many of our best teachers have left the profession for something that prom? ised better. They could not afford to undertake employment for only four or five months in the year, and then be turned loose in the spring too late to prepare a crop, and with no certain em? ployment ahead of them. But a Town? ship that can offer employment for eight or nine months of the year at good prices will be crowded with applications from the best teachers in the land, and they can take their pick and choice. Here is the opportunity to use your own money to educate your own children, and we are proud to know that Brushy Creek is about to take the initiative in the matter. No? body doubts the wisdom of some sort of school system. It is one of the questions that has passed beyond the domain of debate, and has been settled by the results of human experience, and the further fact being true that about ninc tenthaoftbe boys and girls in our dis? trict schools will never receive any other education than what they receive there, we ought to do all we can to foster and encourage and build up our district schools. They are our "people's col? leges," and Jrom them are to come, largely, the future leaders of thought and action. The world is demanding more and more educated men and women, and more aud more the uneducated man or woman is sinkiug below par. The world has positions of honor, profit and trust for the former, for the latter it has noth? ing but to be "hewers of wood and draw? ers of water." We are not living in a dead past crowded with bitter memories, but in a live, bustling, busy present, big with the hopes of a future., the firmauent of whose sky '.'ill be studded with opportunities. Then we must educate. We bid our B rushy Creek friends a hearty God sped in :heir efforts. ? Wort? Kxowix?.?-Hughes' Ton? ic, the old time, reliable remedy for lever and augue. Reputation earned by 30 years' success. You can depend upon it. Try it. Drugs&i-its have it. ? William L. Scott recently said that he would give his s20,UOO,000 for a good digestive apparatus, and it is now said of John D. Rockfeller, the richest man in the United States, that he looks as though in iill health, and his face is almost ashy. It is the face of a man who is never free from worry and responsibil? ity. His brow has settled into a perma? nent frown. The poor multi-millionaires are having a tough time of it. USTOEKSON, S. C? BILL ARP'S PIIILOSOPHY. Atlanta Constitution. I'm going to quit thinking about the race problem, and the tariff, and Speaker Reed, and John Wanamaker, and every? thing else of a turbulent r.nd transitory nature. I'm going to boycott everything now except domestic affairs. I'm going to attend to my own business. I'm going to stay at home and work, and if I read a paper at all it will be with one eye on the head lines and nothing else. They say that exercise is a remedy for trouble?trouble of mind or trouble of body. Get up and move around lively. My old father was afflicted with rheuma? tism, and when the sharp pains began to worry him he would take his long stick and start out over the farm and limp, aud grunt, and drag himself along until he got warmed up} and in an hour or so would come back feeling better. A man cau mope and brood over his troubles, until, as Cobe says, "they get thicker and more agi;revatiner." He told me he had tried liver medicine and corn juice and various "anecdotes for disease, but that a right good sweat of perspiration was the best thing for a man or a beast." He used to cure mules of the colic by trotting them around until the sweat come. I havent got the colic nor the rheuma? tism, but I feel such a constant uxorial goneness, that I have to step around lively to forget mj'self. I feel just like I had lost my tobacco. The sparrows are regaling on my strawberries. The happy mocking birds are singing their tee diddle and too doodle, and the lordly peacock screams and struts and spreads his magnifi? cent tail, and all nature seems gay and joyous, but how can the lord of creation sing a glad song when his lady is far away in a strange land. A letter from there says: "Mamma is haviug a good time and behaving so nice to everybody." Of course, of course. And I'm nice to every? body here?especially the ladies?some of them come every day, come to comfort me they say. I'm having a pretty good time considering. We had some fine music last night?some of the boys came home with Carl to practice for a serenade to the spring chickens. They had a guitar and some harps aud a triangle and were right good singers beaides, aud I enjoyed it im? mensely. Jessie is a musician too, and when sho struck the wrong key with some salatory notes like, "Oh Jinny is your Ash-Cake Done," and "The Highland Fling," and "Run Nigger Run," accom? panied by the sweet harmonicas and the guitar I just could'nt keep my old extrem? ities subdued, and they got me up and toted me around on light fantastictoes amazing. I was all by myself in the next room, but I had lots of fun. It does a mau good sometimes to unbend himself aud forget his antiquity. I like a littlo hornpipe or a pigeon wing on the sly sometimes. It may be original sin or it may be that there is a lime to dance, as Solomon says, but I like it. My beard is growing gray, and there's not many hairs between my head, and the cerelean heavens, but I'm obliged to have some recreation, especially when Mrs. Arp ia away. You ought to see me caperaround to the music with a little grand child, a three year old who chooses me for a part? ner whenever the music begins. She knows the dancing tunes as well as I do, bless her little heart. My boys have got a Dew step now that they call the buzzard lope, that is grand, lively aud peculiar. The story goes that an old darkey lost his aged mule, aud found him one Sunday evening lying dead in the woods and for? ty nine buzzards feasting upon hie carcas3 Forty eight of them Hew away, but the forty-ninth, whose feathers were gray with 8ge, declined to retire. Looking straight at tbe darkey, he spread his wings about half and half, like the Amer? ican eagle on a silver dollar, and tucked his tail under his body and drew in his chin and pulled dowu his vfst and began to lope around the dead mile iu asoiitary manner. He was a greedy bird and liked his meat served rare, and rejoiced that he now had the carcass all to himself, and so he loped around with alacrity. The old darkey was a fiddler and dancer by in? stinct and inspiration. He had danced all the dances and pranced all the prances of his neighborhood for half a century. He had played prompter for the white folks at a thousand frolics, and knew every Rtep and turn and Hing of the heel tap and the toe, but he had never seen such a peculiar double demi quiver shuffle ns that old buzzard loped around that mule. He stood aghast. He spread his armsju?t half and half and bent his back in the middle, tin limbered his ankle joiutB, stiffened Iiis elbow3,and forgetting both the day and the place he followed that bird around that mule for four solid hours and caught the exquisite lope ex-' actly. At dusk the tired buzzard soused his beak into ouc of the dead mule's eye and bore it away to his roost, while the old darkey loped all tbe way borne to his cabin door feeling ten years younger fur his masterpiece. The buzzard lope suita an old man splendid, for it is best performed with rheumatism iu one leg and St. Vitus dance in the other and is 6aid to be a sovereign remedy for both of them. Some folks don't care much about mu? sic?some don't care anything about dancing, but some folks like both, because it is their nature and they can't help it. It is just as natural for children to love to dance to the harmony of sweet sounds as it is for them to play marbles or jump the rope or any other innocent sport. The Church allows its members to pat the foot to music, but condemns dancing, because it leads to dissipation and bad company, but wesbouldent led it lead the young folks that way. The Church condemns minstrel shows and minstrel soDgs, but have lately stolen from them some of their sweetest tunes, and set them to sacred verse, and is all the better for it. Who does not appreciate the "Lily of the Valley" that is now sung to the "Cabin in the Lane." Puritanism, and penance, and long faces, and assumed distress are passing away. The Methodist discipline that forbade jewelry, and orna? ments, and iine dressing has become ab solete, for it was against Dature?what our creator has given us to enjoy let us enjoy in reason and in season and be all tho more thanklul for His goodness. I believe in music. Joseph Honry Lumpkin, our great chief justice, said there was music in all things except in the braying of an ass or the tongue of a scold. I believe in the refining influences of music over the young, and if an occa? sional dance nt home or in the parlor of a frieud will make tho young folks happy, let them be made happy. I read Dr. Calboun;s beautiful lecture that he delivered before the Atlanta Medical col? lege. A lecture ou the human throat as a musical instrument, and I was charmed with its science, its instruction and its literary beauty. I read part of it to those boys who were practicing for the serenade ?about the wonders of the human larynx ?that an ordinary singer could produce 120 different sounds, and fine singers like Jenny Liud could produce a thousand, and Madam Mora, whose voice compassed three octaves, could produce 2,100 differ? ent notes; and abuut Farinelli, who cur? ed Philip V, king of Spain, of a dreadful malady by singing to him, and after he was fully restored he was afraid of a re? lapse and hired Faiiuelli to sing to him every night at a salary of fifty thousand francs, and he sang to him as David harped for Saul. Music fills up so many gap.) in the family. The young people can't work and read and study all the time. They mu*t have recreation, and it is better to have it at home Iban hunt for it elsewhere. If the old folks mope and grunt and complain around the house it is no wonder that the children try to get away. And they will get away if they buye to mnrry to do it. I have known 'HURSDAY MOROT girls to marry very trifling lovers because they were tired of home. This reminds mo of a poor fellow who was hard pressed by a creditor to whom he owed forty dol? lars. He came to employ us to get a homestead for him to save his little farm. "Are you a married man ?" said L "No, I ain't," said he. "Well, you will bave to get married before you can take a home? stead." Said I: "Is there no clever girl in your uaborhood whom you have a lik? ing for?" He looked straight in the fire for a minute or more and then rose up and shook bis long, sandy hair and said : "Gentlemen, the jig are up. I'll have to shindig around and get that money, for I'll be dogond if I'll get married for forty dollars. Good mornin'." We are working hard now, renovating and repairing the home inside and outside. We have whitewashed the fence all round, and the barn and coal house and chicken house and all. We have painted the gates a lovely red and striped the green? house, and Carl wanted to stripe the calf with the same color, but he couldent catch him. I have planted out Madeira vines and Virginia creepers and tomato plants, and we bave declared war against the English sparrows that destroy more strawberries than we get. We will have things fixed up when the maternal comes borne. I reckon she will come some time. Come home spoiled like 1 do a=? when I take a trip off and am potted up by genial friends. It will take us a week to get her back in the harness, but it won't take her half that long to get us back, We've got two picnics on hand and a fishing frolic and there are 6ve pretty girls from Cemen coming here to night, and on the whole I don't thiuk 1 am as lonesome as I think I am. "So here' a health to her whose away." Bill Am*. What arc the Farmers to Do? Produce of all kitid is low, and the markets are dull. There is more food raised than cau be eaten by men and the domestic animals. The result i? that the farmer doesn't get enough to pay his family expenses and his taxes. We hear the complaint on all sides that our busi? ness has ceased to be profitable, and that there is little prospect for any improve? ment in the future. The increased pro? duction of the necessaries of life keeps in advance of the increase of population. We Were talking this matter over at the blacksmith shop the other day, and it was amusing to hear the variety, and contra? riety of opinions. Some thought the trouble was with the tariff, and that free trade would be an unfailiug panacea. Others thought that the railroads were to blame. Others thought there, was too much farming machinery, which enables a few men to cultivate farms of one thous? and acres, aud so glut the market. I lis? tened in silence for some lime. At last they asked my opinion.' I frankly con? fessed that I hadn't any to give. The facts are undisputed. We have been bringing millions of acres under cultiva? tion within a past few years. Iti3 virgin soil, and, of course, produces heavy crops. The railroads push out into the prairies to take the crops to market, and thus en? courage the cultivation of more iand. And so matters have gone on, and are are going on, to increase our surplus and depress prices. There will be a reaction, of'course. Human affairs always swing like a pendulum, But will not the very reaction ruin many of the farmers? Those who can worry through until, by the operation of the law of supply and demand, the production of cereals comes down to the consumption, or the consump tion increases until it equals the produc? tion, will do well enough. And the questiou is: How can we worry through ? 1 see only one way. We must economize. Wc must keep out of debt. We must raise all our supplies that we can, aud buy only what is absolutely ueces?ary: If the butcher's bill is high, wo mii9t raise our own mutton; and so with many other things. We have departed largely from the system of diversified farming which prevailed fifty years ago. Our fathers did not have a great deal to sell, but they did not buy near as much as we do. A little money with them went a great ways. They lived plainly, of course, but they kept out of debt, and gradually improved their farms and their homes. We have had seasons of wonderful prosperity. They have tempted ua to habits of extravngauce. Let us come down to bedrock, be patient and saving for a yesr or t wo, aud all these matters will regulate themselves. The outcome does not depend upon Congress or the railroads, but on the farmers themselves. Senex Smith. Honoring Lee. Richmond, Va., May 7.?Richmond never witnessed or participated in such a scene as the ceremonies incident to the removal, this evening, of the trucks con? taining the equestrian statue of General Robert E. Lee from the railway station to Allen Plat, where the statue is to be erected. Shortly after 5 o'clock the pro? cession was formed with a squad of police in front, followed by Chief Marshal Tho? mas A. Brander and assistants, mounted. Then came the Lee camp of Confederate Veterans, under whose auspices the removal was made, followed by the Old Veterans organization. Immediately be? hind them came four trucks in single file, with men, women and children tugging at the ropes. The route of the procession, which was about one and one-half miles in length, was down Broad street to First, through First to Franklin, out Franklin to the point of destination. The line of march was literally packed with people from the Btarting point to finish, while cheering and waving of flags was contin? uous. Here and there grown people would drop out of line, and a rush would be made to fill their places. The boys and some of the girls, however, kept their places on the ropes to the end. At Mon? roe Park, which was the best vantage ground along the route of the procession, the ropeft were so crowded with people that they were constantly treading on each others heels. Aa they passed the park there were 500 grown ladies and girls whose fair hands held the ropes. Little tots were carried out into the streets in their mothers' arms and their small hands placed upon the ropes. When the destination was reached there was a scramble by relic huntera for the ropes with which the trucks had been drawn, and despite the efforts of the police, they succeeded in cutting them to pieci-s. But for the guard of the Old Veterans the boxes containing the statue would have shared the same fate. All the trucks were handsomely decorated with pictures of General Lee and the flags of the Southern States, while here and there Confederate battle II ag^ floated to the breeze. Deafness Can't be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach thn diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Euilachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, aud when it i3 entirely closed Deafness is the result, aud unless the inflammation can be taken out aud this tube restored to its normal condition, heariug will bo de? stroyed forever; nine cases out often are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous sur? faces. Wc will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that we cHtinot cure by taking llaii's Catarrh Cure, f^end for circulars, frre. F. J. CHENEY ft CO., Toledo, 0. TG, MAY 15, 1890. UNCLE SAWS BIG SEK? ?ABK. A Hushing Business Done at tills Season. Uncle Barn's seed barn isjuslnow in a bum of activity. It is so for about a month every year at this season. Go into it, as a Star reporter did the other day, and you will find it a scene of bustle aud industry?hundreds of women put? ting up with rapid fingers myriads of paper packages, men draggiug heavy sacks hither and thither and other busy workers pasting and addressing labels. They must needs be quick, for within a few days $100,000 worth of seeds of all sorts have to be sent in small parcels to a million different individuals in all parts of the United State*. This is the sum annually appropriated by Congress for investment in germs of things vegetable, to b8 distributed throughout the coun? ty in order that products of the soil may be improved in quality. If you would like some you cau geL a share by simply writing without delay to the de? portment of agriculture, making the request. Mention what you want and it will be mailed to you free of charge in a bundle marked "official business." If you have no place to grow beans and potatoes in ask for flower seeds and you will receive enough to make your garden bloom for an indefinite period. It is stated that Uncle Sam is distribut? ing this year seeds of a better <|tialily than ever before. Some time ago the seeds given away by the Government acquired such a reputation for badness that naoy farmers would not oveu take the irouble to plant them, considering it improbable that they would ever come up. But things are managed differently now, and the seeds you get from Secre? tary Busk are accompanied by a guaran? tee that they will sprout. They are all tested, in fact, before they are sent off, and the manner of this testing is exceed? ingly interesting thiers the seeds come from. First, however, it will be best to tell where the seeds come from. Hither they have been bought from farmers and seed growers, who sent samples to Washington and received orders on the strength of them. But this year an agent has becu employed to travel all over the country and buy up whatever seemed best. The result is that all the seeds uow being distributed are exceedingly fine and the department represents a certain potato that it h sending out as probably the mo3t excellent article in the shape of an Hibernian tuber ever obtained by cultivation. It never offered potatoes before this season, by the way. The germs of this wonderful vegetable will be sent to you, if you niafco the request?twenty-five "eyes" iu a woodeu box, ail cut up and ready to plant. Of course, the notion is that the farmer, ob? serving that the potatoes grov/n from these twenty five eyes are superior to any others of his crop, will keep thorn for seed, and other agricultural persona in his neighborhood will obtain from him specimens of the vegetable for planting, the product of All that particular district being iu this way improved. Such* indeed, is the whole idea and purpose of the seed distribution?that the vegeta bles and flowers grown in this country shall be as good aud pretty of their kinds as possible. }V*iiat is done With the heeds The seeds bought of the farmers by the agent are sent to Washington in bags, and in this shape are piled in the storage departmeuts of Uucle Sam's barn, which is a big brick building just back of the main structure. An enormous room adjoining ia filled with pretty young women sitting at little tables and measuring out seeds from Gacks into brown paper envelopes. Some of them use quart pots, others pints, and so on down to mere thimbles with long han? dles for such little seeds as carrots. Obviously, too, the envelopes differ in size. Each envelope, having received its measure full, is sealed up nud a label is pasted on it teliing what seed it con tains, giving directiona for planting them and saying at the bottom : "Please report results." Tt ia desired to know, you see, how the seed turns out. Finally the packets are put up in bundles of fives and tens, and after being addressed they are sent off in this shape. If you ask simply for "some vegetable and .'lower seeds" you will probably receive ten envelopes of the former and five of the latter. A sample bundle of leu vegeta? bles would very likely contain a quart of corn, half a pint of beans, half a pint of peasant! some small envelopes of cab bage, pumpkin, tomato, pepper, radish, cucumber and beet seeds. Quarts are also given of buckwheat and lawn grass. A separate room in the bam is devoted to the putting up of flower seeds, which are purchased from the big seed hcui?es. now the seeds are tested. But, as has been said, all the seeds arc tested before being sent out, and the way in which it is done is very curious indeed. Shallow tin pans half full of wafer are employed, and across tbes? parallel are laid thick wires in pairs. Each two wires have a strip of muslin sewed he tweeu them, so that when they are laid together across the pan a fold two inches deep haDgs into the water. In this fold all along from one side of the pan to the other seeds are put, and the water, rising by capilliary attraction, soaks the muslin and causes the seeds to germinate. The forming roots poke Iheir way in every direction through the muslin and the plants grow famously. One tin pan two feet long will hold a wonderful number of sprouts, aDd it is a simple matter to couut and find out what percentage of those put iu germinate, one fuld of mus lin being devoted to each kind of seed. Any seeds that do not prove entirely satisfactory ero srnt to the gardeuer of the department to be tried in earth. Thus Uncle Sam is able to guarantee all the seeds he distributes this year. a ktxiature garden. The tin pan idea is a new one. The tin pans are attended to altogether by a pretty enthusiast in petticoats, who thinks it great fun to have a whole bolanicnl gardeu withiu half a dozen square feet of room. She does the whole business on a window ledge, and simply in the water that way she has grown beans big enough to eat. Try it for yourself. Use a good-sized tin pan from the kitchen and fix wires and muslin in the wny described. Write (o the department for the seeds you want and yon arc all ready to go into business. Own your own kitchen garden ; every city family should have one on the window ledge. Flower* v/ill do as well. Two-thirds of the $100,000 worth of seeds go to Congreus, each member of which gets about 5,000 envelopes of them yearly. Usually the department .sends them off under instructions from the Cnngressmen. The remaining one-third is distributed by the department as it sees fit. Its generosity is often abused, for people sometimes send as many as a dozen limes for seeds in one year. As a rule they get them, too, for it is the policy of the department to be very amia? ble and to conciliate everybody. ? Wash imjton Star. ? Professor Rein, a scientist, who h:>s been investigating the material resources of Japan, says : "They reveal a national frugality and economy of marvelous type. The area of Japan is less than that of California. Its cultivated land is less than one-tenth of its total acreage, yet its products suppor' about SS.OOO.OOO people. In Japan 2.500 persons subsist from each square mi'e of tilled lend." It the land were divided up among the peo? ple n singlp- taxor wouldn't have room enough on his own plot to swing his the? ory without knocking down his neighbor's fences. Ben Butler Talks. Froiii the New York Jfcrold. Boston-, May 2.?The Butler Cluh held it.3 annual dinner at the Parker Ho'tsu tlm evening, celebrating in con? nection therewith the twenty-eighth anuiversary of the capture, b7 its name? sake and Admiral Farragut, the city of New Orleans. About one hundred gen? tlemen constituted the attendance, among whom were included many noted representatives in political and military circles not confined to party lines. After an hour had been spent in dis? cussing the menue, Colonel Plympton iuLroduccd the evening's festivities in a few pertinent remarks as to the occasion they were called on to celebrate. He then introduced General Butler in highly eulogistic terms. The speaker was warmly received and addressed them at iength upon "the possibilities of improv? ing the farmer's condition." He referred to tho Farmers' Alliance, which, if held together, will be irresislable. If it suc? ceeds it will destroy both political par? ties and become a political party itself. The General then compared the condi? tion of the farmer as a workman with tint of a carpcuter, showing that while the farmer's profits would be but $112 50 for his crop the carpenters for a less expenditure of time and energy would be ?9D0?figuring upon the basis of the present value cf corn within twenty four hours' ride of Chicago. FARMERS BANKROTT. What ha3 been the effect upon the farming interests of this condition of re? ward of farm labor? Tho first is that the farms are passing out of the owner? ship of tbe tillers of the soil, aud they are becoming simply tenant farmers, the worth of the hud having escaped them in spite of tbeir industry." A single fact, however, which speaks volumes, is all upon this topic that I can give you. In 1877 the State Assessors of New York made their report after a careful investi? gation of fourteen of the best farming Co unties of that State. They say that they found, as a rule, that farm lands had depreciated in value, while city property had increased in value for a. series of years. State Assessor Wood reports that, in his opinion, "in a few decades there will be none but tenant farmers in this State. Year by year the value of farm lands depreciates." Taking simply the agricultural lands, the farms of the Western Stales, exclusive of city, County and town property, there will be found to be invested in farm mortgages the stupendous sum of $3,450,000,000, at a rate of interest averaging from seven to nine per cent, to say nothing of costs and the commissions of agents, which have been taken from the farmers for procuring tbe loans of the money, which may be safely said to be not Ies3, on the average, than seven per cent. The human mind at once does not take in the results of these vast sums. To give you an illustration?the whole national debt of this country in 1865, at the close of the war, was $2,800,000,000, very nearly one quarter lew than this mortgage debt. But there is another fact or two to be taken iuto consideration. This country has been twenty five years, with all its immense resources, eDgaged in paying some time anticipating its payment?the national debt, and has reduced it only to ?1,(100,000,000, or fifty-seven per cent. Aud the national debt has had a much lower rale of interest, and may be refunded any day at three per cent. CHANCE TO RECUPERATE. There is no way of refunding or reduc ing the fabulous debt, with ilo oppressive and destructive rates of interest. To redeem it, if done within the same time that the national debt has been can? celled, so far as it has been cancelled, would require the payment of considera? bly more than double the amount of the national debt nt the end of our war. So that the payment of these mortgages is simply impossible. The payment of the interest upon them is also impossible, because, a3 wo huvo seen, they call for from seven to nine per cent., and all sta? tistic?! show that the average profits on farming iudustrics are between four and five per cent, only?hardly over four. Theae mortgages will never be paid, if fur no other reason because they never can be paid, if the debtors were ever so much disposed to pay them. But they will not be disposed to pay them, for by reason of the deduclious of tbe commis? sions und cofts at the rate of seven per cent., there was left a burden upon the mortgagors of over $241,000,000 of debt, for which they never have received any value, which, therefore diminishes so much their ability to pay, and which they look upou as having been a cheat upou them. IMPENDING FINANCIAL CYCLONE They have cyclones out West, accom? panied with thunder, lightning, heavy rains and hail, which are very destruct? ive Look out for a finaucial cyclone where no building or institution will be strong and light enought to protect the business of this country from the destruction which will follow its path. True, we hare the silver bill now on the tapis in Congrc-ss, which is to be the panacea of all financial difficulties, cer? tainly in tho views of some Western men. But it would take all the silver that the mints of the United States can coiu, at the rate of four aud a half millions a month, and all The f<ilvcr that the silver mines can produce In that time, to pay one year's iuteresls on these mortgages, supposing that no more money is bor? rowed. General Butler then ridiculed the pro? ject of tke government building store? houses and loaning the farmer money on his garnered crops. He called atten? tion to the ante bellum mortgage by the Southern planter of his crop to tbe com? mission merchant and hoped that this custom had died out. Who does not know that all these certificates will be bought up by the brokers and others, speculators in" the products, and so the wheat speculators would control the wheat, and the cotton brokers would control cotton futures with an iron hand, and the middlemen make all the profits, aud the farmer will thus sell his crop at I once and pay the interest on his mort { gage, if he wants to pay it, which he I probably doesn't very much, and then starve for a year. Besides all this, prop? erty being safe in the custody of the United States, it would be free from attachment lor debts, and :nus the gov? ernment would become ivyerer up of the property of fraudulent -iebtors. It would then be fully, what sou*!; think it ought to be, a "paternal government." He concluded by saying thut when the bill was introduced into the Senate that tue government loan the farmers #3;000i000 to relieve them frcm their financial dificultics, he calculated that thp full amount would ouly pay two thirds of a mill on each dollar of West? ern farm mortgage debts alone, or, in other words, would only pay the interest on those mortgages for five days ?Mr. 10. G. Graydon, of Abbeville, has published n statement showing that the rale of taxation is less in only four States than it is in South Carolina, and that in only t<vu States is there a less amount of t ix collected per capita. ? An old Wyoming hunter estimates that there are not over five hundred buf? falo on the globe now. There are less than ono hundred wild bisons, about two hundred in captivity and two hundred in Yellowstone Park. Nearly all of the wild ones havo been located. Twenty five nri' known to tic in Texas, twenty in Colorado, twenty-six in Wyoming and Montana, and fifteen in Dakota, The big hcid said to be in the British pos? sessions is but a myth. r VOLUMI The Fanner's Wire. In his now famous, Bethlehem Alli? ance speech Larry Gantt, of Athens, i pays the following tribute to the far? mer's wife; "But I will not waste all of my sym? pathy on the farmer. There is one class I even more deserving of pity and relie;* than you, my alliance friends. I refer to the farmer'o wife. There is not a bur? then that you bear but the little woman, who is the light of your home, shares ii with you. Your trials and cares pierce her tender and sympathetic heart as a dagger. She bears equally with you your every load; but, I say with pain and regret, that che is, alas! too often deprived of a share of your pleasures. Did ye horny-handed lords of creation ever consider that while you are working in the field, your wife was at the house toiling just as hard a6 yourself; and that while you had but one task before you, she has a host of duties to perform, each pressing upon her at once and the same time ? When you return to your noonday meal, and find a welcoming smile and everything ready to your hand ?as if the confusion of the morning had been touched by a fairy's wand and order produced from chaos?do you ever con? sider the vast amount of work that these pleasant surroundings have cost the poor wife? "At night, when taking your ease, does it occur to you to look around and see if your wife is having her season of rest? You will find the old couplet verified in her case, which says: 'Man works from sun to sun, But woman's work is never done.' "We men are all too selfish and self conceited?and I am no exception to the rule. We imagine that because we are the bread winners of the family, the women's work is mere child's play. "Never was there a graver error. There is not a farmer beneath the sound of my voice but who, if he were made to exchange places with his wife, would be begging her to rue back in less than twenty-four hours. "At night, when you are locked in the arms cf Morpheus, and your weary frame's drinking in the rest that nature demands, the wife at your side is trying to quiet a fretful child lest it disturb "poor, tired papa." The dear, unselfish creature ! She never thinks of her own weary frame and aching brow. "By the dawn of day that poor wife is on her feet, preparing the best repast the ( larder will afford. You return to your work in the field, while the wife resumes the old tread mill existence, that is rarely broken by a ray of pleasure. "You men can go to towD, and there meet and mingle with friends and discuss the Dews of the day. How many times during the year does the poor wife cross the threshold of her home, except to attend divine worship od Sunday ? Aud even then you expect her to look after or prepare a dinner for your friends. "I do not believe there is a man living who appreciates his wife as he should. He loves and cherishes ber; but ho should do even more than this: We should resolve never to take a pleasure but the wife equally enjoys it with us. She bears her full part of our toils and trials, and it is only just and right that she should also reap the fruits of our prosperity. "It should be the first duty of a good allianceman. when he has lifted the mortgage from his home, to look to the comfort and pleasure of his wife. Before you add another acre of land to your poseasions; before you build a new barn ; before you purchase an implement to expedite your work, or before you im? prove your stock, look through your home?go into the kitchen, the wash? room and the dairy, aud see if there is not some utensil or invention that you can buy to lessen your poor wife'3 labor. Lift a part of the burthen from her shoulders, that she has so long and un? complainingly borne, and see that her remaining days are made as happy and as comfortable as your affairs will war? rant." Tips on Table Topics. If wine is served, do not attract the at tention of every one to the fact that you do not drink it. The time for a temper? ance lecture is not at the table of a friend who has done you the honor to invite you to her house. Quietly shake your head and let the matter rest. Id the old country you begin to eat as soon as you are helped, but in America it is better taste to wait until the others are ready. This is a mooted question ; differ erent localities have different customs. Do not ask for a second help of anything at a dinner party. Of course at home and where there is but one principal dish this is not obeyed. Always take the food offered in a course, even if you do not wish to eat it. It is much better to quietly wait and talk while the others eat than to call the at tion of the whole table to your likes and dislikes. Never pile up your small dish? es upou your plate when the servant comes to remove them. Never fold your napkin unless you are making a stay in the house and have a napkin ring provi? ded for you. Lettuce, when served without dressing, is always pulled to pieces with the fingers. Water cress is also taken in the fiDgers. It is usually served in a a shallow basket or dish, upon a folded napkin, which covers the bottom aud sides. Heaped up with the delicate green herb it makes a very ornamental dish. Asparagus is eat? en both with a fork and also with the fingers. But the former is perhaps the most elegant way. Celery is always ta? ken from the dish with the finger3. If individual salts are not used, then lake some salt from the large salt stand, place it on the corner of your butter plate or on your own plate. When corn is served on the cob take it in the fingers. Somo housekeepers provide little doilies for the purpose. The etiquette of eating a soft boiled egg is rather a vexed ques? tion. The English eat it directly from the shell, using a cup made to hold the egg upright and steady. Americans usuaUy break the egg into a cup. Be careful not to monopolise the table talk. Do not interrupt others. If you are a dyspeptic do not talk of what does or does not agree with you, but quietly eat what you can, and say nothing about it. I know a celebrated man who eats nothing but potatoes, crackers and choco? late. But so nicely does he manage, in chatting gaily, and making jokes while the others eat. that very few people have observed his scrupulous care as to diet, and he is one of the most delightful "di? ners out" that I ever knew. It is always proper to help yourself to bread, cheese and lump sugar with your fingers, if tongs are not provided. Never use your own fork or knife or spoon to take from the common dish. If a plate of hot, unbroken biscuit is passed, you may break one off with your fingers, and also for your neighbor. When dishes are passed, help yourself as quickly as possi? ble, and never insist on-some one having it first. It is supposed that the carver knows what he iutetids for each guest, so you must take the plate that is offered by the waiter. ? George Deuson, a merchant at Randolph, Ala., declared Sunday night that he would die suddenly at -1 o'clock on Monday afternoon. On Monday he selected his coffin, made his will, and gathering his family and friends spent the day in prayer. At 4 o'clock he seated himself in a rocking chair, aud in three miuutes waa dead. The doctors say death was caused by heart disease, brought on by mental aud nervous excitement. Denson was about forty years old and ap? parently in excellent health. S XXIV.- -NO. 45 ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? Luck is ?i good think to have, but it is a poor thing to wait for. ? Iu Bengal there are 1S,6-14 widoua under ten years of age. ~_ Which is tho most questionable letter in tbe alphabet? A qujer-E. ? The Alpha and omega of Christian patriotism is honor to God and gocd will to men. ? The worst mistake a funny man can make is to be funny at the wrong time. ? More bridal couples are said to have visited Washington this spring than ever before. ? La Grippe cured a crowd of lunatics in a Massachusetts asylum, and they have been released. ? W-hcn a barrell is full it generally gets bunged up. And this in the case with a man. ? The two great wants of the day is better mail service abroad and better fe? male service at home. ? Bob, Ingersoll says he will smoke as loDg as he lives. And probably a good deal longer! ? More than two thousand farmers have applied to the agricultural depart? ment for seeds ot the sugar beet. ? It is said that the Georgia railroad is the only road of its size in the world that has never killed a passenger and never had a mortgage on it. ? The work of rebuilding unfortunate Johnstown has heen going on at a rapid rate, but there is a shortage yet,it is said, of over 1,000 houses. ? A cedar stump on a farm near Sho homieh City, Ore., measures twenty feet in diameter. A photograph was taken of it with thirty men and five horses stand? ing upou it. ? It is estimated that only 12 per cent of the population of Russia can read and write. The number of primary schools is 38,000 for the population of over 100, 000,000. ? The highest salary paid to any man, official or semi-official, in the United States, is $100,000, which amount is paid to tbe president of the Equitable Life In? surance Company. ? There are said to be three or four ladies well known in London society who are determined to appear at the next meeting A the Coaching Club, on horse? back, astride. ? When one man sees another with a hat exactly like his own he compliments the other fellow on his taste; but when a woman sees her new hat duplicated she cither buys another one or sits down and crie3 because she can't. ? Mrs. Jefferson Davis writes that her daughter, Mrs. J. A.'Hayes, of Colorado Springs, and her husband, have changed their little son's name to Jefferson Hayes Davis, "so that there shall be one to bear the beloved and honored name of his own blood." ? According to figures given by a San Francisco newspaper, California is the bloodiest State in the Union. In 1S89 it had one homicide to 3,479 of the popula? tion. In the other States it runs up from one in S,G12 in Kentucky, to one io S0, 000 in other States. ? An organization of saloon keepers in New York has under consideration a proposition to sell beer by weight. A good idea. The man who knows how many pounds he can carry would not be so liable to attempt to stagger home un? der a bigger load than he jean hold up under. ? A pair of curled poplar logs were shipped to Germany from Swain County, N. C, each twelve feet long and six feet in diameter at the smaller end. The logs will be hewed and polished for exhi bition at Berlin this year. The farmer who sold the logs was paid sixty dollars for each. ? The sacrifice of widows on the funer? al pyre still goes on in Bali, an island near Java. They are burned along with the remains of their husbands. The lat ter's slaves also 3bare the same fate if he be of high rank. A short time ago three wivea of a chief were cremated there. ?? The total land grants made by the United States for educational purposes during the first century of its existence, amounts to over eighty million acres, or one hundred and twenty-five thousand square miles, a territory greater than tbe area of Great Britain and Ireland, and equal to one half the area of France. ? A pair of curled poplar logs were shipped to Germany from Swain County, N. O, each twelve feet long and Bix feet in diameter at the smaller end. These Iocs wiil be hewed and polished for exhi? bition at Berlin this year. The farmer who sold the logs was paid sixty dollars for each. ? James Hines took up a squat claim in Arkansas. He was warned off, tut decided not to go, and he held out for the three years. During that time he was shot at thirty-three times, wounded four times, had his cabin set on fire twice, hi3 wife was driven to suicide and his boy ran away, and at last the man grew weary and hanged himself. ? Out in Montana the minister began : "Will you take this woman to be your wedded wife?" when the strapping groom interrupted as follows: "Say, Mr. Minis? ter, quit yer fooling' and get down to biz ne33. You know I'm here .to take this lady, au' so what's the use of askin' me ? Besides, I don't allow nobody to call her a woman. She's a lady, she is." ? A woman has been found living in New York city whose expenses average four cents a day. She makes button holes ?when she can get them to make?and finds that the revenue derived from her toil compels her to depend for sustenance on bread without butter, and tea without milk. A five cent loaf of bread lasts her two days. ? He who is auxious to tie his tongue in knots will do well to attempt the fol? lowing exercise in pronunciation: A day or two ago, during a lull in business, two little bootblacks, one white and tho other black, were standing at the corner doing nothing, when the white bootblack agreed to black the black bootblack's boots. The black bootblack was, of course, willing to have his boots blacked by his fellow boot black, and the boot black who had agreed to black the black bootblack's boots went to work. ? Wc were shown on Tuesday a Span? ish spur of pure silver, the rowel being of wrought iron. It was found some years ago by Mr. L. J. Weathersbee of Jackson Station, this County, on the banks of the Savannah River, ac Silver Bluff. It is of ornamental design. The washing away of the river bank brought it to light four feet uuder ground. Mr. W. says it may have belonged to one 'of De Soto's men. History informs us of De Soto stopping at what is now called Silver Bluff ;n 1540 at an Indian camp on his way tcward tho Mississippi, and from the curicus design of the spur, which is undoubtedly Span idi, there is a good deal to support this theory?Aiien Recorder, Gratifying to All. The high position attained and the universal acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, as the most excellent laxative known illustrates the value of the qualities on which its success is based and are abun? dantly gratifying to the California Fig Syrup Company.