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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. AVING juBt retarned from the Northern markets, while the ring of the Auc? tioneer's hammer still re-echoes iu my ear, I am now in a position to convince the most credulous that my? LARGE?AND VARIED STOCK la so far ahead (in style, pattern, design and texture) of any Goods at the same price, that there is actually no comparison. Any weak minded person can sell goods, but it requires soundness and years of experience to become a success as a buyer. Having been in the business for 35 years, I have filled the position of buyer iu London, England, Dublin, Ireland, and while in the employ of the great A. T. Stewart of New York, I reached the highest pinnacle of success as a buyer. I acknowledge few equals, and no superior, and the monied force of our combina? tion in the New York auction rooms for the past fifteen days will ring the death knell of many a high priced concern that has grown rich on the farming communi? ty, and their friends and acquaintances. Now read carefully, when you meet the Cierk or the Merchant. They invite you, with a smile, to come and Bee them. And for what? They want to fatten on you 1 That is what! NOW, A WORD TO THE WISE : PAY CASH FOR YOUR GOODS And buy where you can buy the Cheapest! That is, quality and quantity considered! How long will you continue to follow in the old rat trap of the high priced, old acquaintance system, with its qnaint and weird music of dry bones, poverty and servility, the relics of a by-gone age, when the world moved slow, and the eternal : promise to pay was accepted as a basis of settlement ? But times change, and men change with it, until today, like the radiations of the noonday sah that gives light and heat to the busy world, the? It- "i5".' ?? ? ? Iron Laws of Cash Down Before Delivery Is recognized as the only sure and certain road to prosperity, beneficial alike to both buyer and seller. Then, if you have not got the money borrow it, And Trade where yon. can do the Best. In a word, you might as well go to find out an unmarried lady's age, who is over 30, as to beat my prices. The first is considered impossible, and I will con? vince you that the latter is also impossible. Do not wait nntii the Goods are all Picked Over, But come at once and get first choicer I will give an absolute guarantee on prices . against any house in the United States. I invite all Merchants to examine my Stock, and I will guarantee to sell them Goods ten per cent less than any Drummer that comes into the State, and will also save them freight from the Northern markets. Plenty of Money is a Good Thing and Don't yon Forget it. ID. CL FLlTIsrisr, Leader of Low Prices. WALK IN, HOP IN, TUMBLE IN! ANY WAY TO GET IN! It will pay you to come in and devote a little time in looking at CHAPfVIAf^FS iSE STOCK OF MST CLASS DBY GOODS. HANDSOME SILKS, Silk Warp Henrietta, All Wool Henrietta, Beautiful Sebastopols, Lovely 46-inch All Wool Serge, The famous "G. L." Cashmere, Mohairs and Alpacas, Ladies' Cloth, Flanuels?all shades. Handsome Plaid Flannel, Cashmere Plaids, Eiderdown Flannels?all shades, Lovely Percals, Ginghams and Satteens. Our stock of Flannels is complete?in Twills, Red, Blue, Brown, Greys, Plain Bed Twilled White Flannel, Canton Flannels?all shades, 72 inch Felts?all Bhades, Handsome Table Linen, Napkins, Doylies, Towels, White Quilts?come and see them. Our Domestic stock is full. Shawls, Shawls, Shawls. OUR NOTION STOCK IS GRAND. But don't forget that drive in PANTS?bought at a sacrifice, and must bo sold, So come and see. S?L Come soon and often. W- A.. OHAPMAN, No. 9 Granite Row. Sept 18, 1890 11 "AND THE DAYS BROUGHT CHANGES AFTER." So has our Trip to New York and other Northern markets, as you can see by a mere Glance at the well Filled L A D I ES7 ST O "R> 33 I HAVING completely exterminated our Summer Stock, our shelves and coun? ters are uow packed and filled with the most varied and elegant Stock we have ever offered our customers. Each department is complete, from the gayest to the gravest, the cheapest to the highest, and all can be suited, from the youngest to the oldest! Oar line of Dress Goods is complete in both the Domestec and Imported Goods, which we can show in all the leading colors and latest combinations in Plaids. We have every requisite necessary to Fashionable Millinery in ail the new garnitures. And our stock of Bibbons is simply huge, from a No. 7 Silk Ribbon at 5c to the uew mixtures of Ottr -jan, Satin and Plush, which are so universally used. We can show the handsomest line of Trimmings in Velvets, Plushes and Brocades to be seen in the city. Of course our reputation as Leaders of Novelties is increasing according to our just deserts.' Limited space forbids a quotation of prices, so we can only say that our stock of Wraps, Jackets, Shoes, Corsets and Table Linen is also larger than ever, and our Notion Department complete. We cannot be undersold, and a cordial invitation is extended to all, and courteous treatment guaranteed. Very sincerely, 91 ISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. CONCENTRATED SWEETNESS Fills One of our Show Cases. It is pronounced the Choicest in the City ! And it is FRESH ! To those who "Indulge in Burning the Weed," we would say if you have never tried the? RENOWNED SABOROSO CIGAR, Call at our Store and try one, and if you don't agree with the Jury that has de? clared it to be "The Beat Nickel Cigar on the Market," it won't cost you a cent. GLENN SPRINGS MINERAL WATER, By the glass, bottle and gallon. ? ?? .. n? . TODD BROS., Druggists. ffo. 4 Hotel Ohiquoia. ANDERSON, S. C, LEY MPAN Our Buyers, Messrs. W. R. Dillingham and Willie R, borne, have just returned from New York loaded down w Goods. They have selected a large and varied Stock of? Dry Groo els, Notions, Clothing, Hats, Trunks, "Valises. Clement & Ball's Fine Shoes for Ladies. J. B. Anthony's Fine Shoes for Ladies. Marey Bros. & Co. and Bay State Shoe The above well known brand of Sboes are sold under a full guarantee, and y run no risk whatever in buyieg Iben). If a pair should prove defective, alt j have to do is to return them and get anotber. The Ladies Especially are Invited To Examine our Splendid Stock of Dry Goods, Novelties, &c., And our two Lady Assistants? jfiiss Lou. Gaillard and Miss Willie Harris, Will take great pleasure in waiting (in them. CALL AND SEE US. SYLVESTER BUCKLEY CO. MY COLLECTING HORSE I Must have Money and Mean what I Say. I HAVE a word or two to ?a?< to those who owe me. I am determined to COL? LECT MY MONEY this Fall, and short crops will not be taken as an excuBe for not paying Notes due me I MEA.1ST THIS! And will not carry paper that is due, unless in cases where it is so agreed in wri? ting. I hope that this will be sufficient notice, as I do not want to wear my "Col? lecting Horse" out this season. With a big notiou of Collecting, I am yours truly, J. S. FOWLER. Sept 11,1890 10 4ra THE ENTERPRISE FURNITURE CO. Is now receiving their IMMENSE and VARIED Stock of FURNITURE AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS, TO which they respectfully invite your careful inspection before buyirjg. We cannot begin to cnuraerato our entire line, but to announce that we are stocking to the rafters our Double Store Booms with the Useful, Ornamental and Decorative in Furniture aud House Furnishings, Our entire stock will be FRESH and LATEST in DESIGN. Suites in Walnut. Antique Oak and Sixteenth Century. Chairs in endless variety, Your special attention is called to our line of Carpets, Rugs, Ottomans and Haversacks, Which was bought fresh from the looms, and at prices that will enable ua to SAVE YOU MONEY on these good-.. Our Mr. E. H. POORE will repair your Furniture, and repaint and varnish it. OST COFFINS and CASKETS can be furniehed at any time. J. J. BAKER, Manager, South Main Street, below Orr & Sloan's Drug Store. BIQ IMPEOVEMENT9. HAVING had our storeroom enlarged to double its former size to keep up with our steadily increasing trade, we can now oiler you as fine and fresh a lot of Family and Fancy Gnicories, Fruits, &c, as is kept in city at Tillnian prices and Alliance terms. Fresh Cheese every wock, fresh Can Goods of every kind, fresh pure sugar Candy every week. Uig line lunch baskets at cost to close. Onr Motto?Fair and square dealing, coupled with push, perseverance, energy and a big lot of politeness, wc hope to succeed. Very respectfully, K. ^V, TAYLOR ? CO. I fo ?Per : > ? Bee Set ?od r I to ?be led ?id ' Hin Bot ?a By ? Bre ?he Br Is' ?y> Bry ? Kb By , ? Be. -. Bs? . Bso ?d, jfajf g : B^e Bor I BBu ??of " Bans ' Be v Hof ?at ?id Hbn Bs. Was ' ' Wfet. || I a Bn - ~ Be - Bt Be ? ?. By Br Be Bf Bi Bs ?e> ? By jective standpoint instead of from an objective; i. c, as to its effectB on the i ? dividual himself instead of its effects ito his hearers, and his mauner of proceeding in order to render it effective. Let us observe (a) the quality of the reading. It should be wholesome. As poisonous food would either destroy or greatly im? pair the body, so poisonous reading mat? ter will either destroy or greatly impair that which is best and noblest in mind, soul and character, (b) It should not be in too great quantity. It is not what we eat, but what we digest, that builds up the body ; so we should not read more than the mind can digest. But we should remember that it is possible to read too little as well as too much for the proper development of the mind. When we compare the bodily and the mental digestive apparatus, we should keep tbi3 distinction in mind: Bodily digestion, or digestion of food in the body, goeB on without any direct volition of the will, while it depends upon our wills whether we digest what we read or not. This brings us to observe (c) that we must digest well what we read, else it were better not to have read. Ii we were to eat and then not to exercise our bod? ies at all after eating, but sit or lie all the while, the food that we ate would soon sour in our stomach, and gases would be generated that would injure our digestive organs, and the derangement and weak? ening and Buffering of the whole bodily system would be the result; in like man? ner, if we read and do not exercise our mental faculties, our minds will be weak? ened instead of strengthened by our read? ing. If food is thoroughly digested, the body gets all the good from it that is contained in it, and we know this from the healthful and vigorous condition of the body; and this is evident to others as well as ourselves, so it is with our minds: if they have well digested the matter they have been exercised upon we should be conscious of it, and it should be evi? dent to others. As the food is constantly agitated and acted upon by the digestive organs until it is thoroughly digested and then taken up for the nourishment of the body, so what we read should be constantly revolved and repeated in our minds, and compared with our other knowledge until it is made available and useful. Keeping in mind Bacon's widely known aphorism, "Conference makes a ready man, reading a full man, but writ? ing an exact man," it would be well for us, in order that we may know that we have an accurate mental grasp of what we have read, to go through the processes: 1. Of relating orally what wo have read in well chosen words, and in as clear and concise a manner as possible. 2. Of re? ducing to writing all the thoughts con? tained in the matter that we have read, as near as possible, of course having the book closed. After we are done we should compare what we have repro? duced with the original as contained in the book, and note minor faults and de? fects. We should not read what would not be serviceable in some way. In this connection we will quote a passage from Buskin, as well as wc shall be able to do so from memory: "A book that is not worth much is not worth anything; and a book, to be of service, must be read and re-read, and loved and loved again, and its choice passages marked for future ref? erence, so that we can seize upon and use them, just as a woman would seize the spice Bhe needs from the pantry, or a soldior the weapon he needs from the ar? mory." (d) Beading should be suffi? ciently varied. As in the body, it is not enough that food should be whole? some, but it should contain all the ele? ments neceesary for the building up of fG, OCTOBER 16, 18 the body and the proper proportions, so our reading should bo so varied as to meet the requirements of every faculty of the mind, and thus give us a beauti? ful and symmetrical character, (e) It should be suited to the mental constitu? tion of the individual. The lame dish is not alike healthful to every iudividual. Wbat would prove hurtful to one stom? ach, is, sometimes, just what .another stomach needs. Our mental constitu? tions also vary. Different minds some? times require different mental food. In this matter we ought to be the judges. (f) Matter taken into the mi od by reading must be thoroughly sifted, and the nour? ishing parts, as it were, stored away. He who would try to retain all would be un? equal to the task. What we read ought to be so systemat? ically stored away in the minds, or pigeon? holed as it were, that we may readily avail ourselves of it, just as a man in his office is enabled to put his hands ou the paper he needs. Our reading habits should be regular. We should have a special time in our daily programme for readiDg,and should let nothing encroach upon that time. We should not let indolence cheat us out of our proper amount of readirjg. M. N. Mitchell. Belton, S. C. AN' APJfEAL FOR HARMONY. True Democrats Should Vote for Tillman and bis Ticket, To the Editor of the News and Courier : No one who knows Judge A. C. Haskell doubts the honesty of the convictions which have led him to decide to refuse to vote for Mr. Tillman for Governor of South Carolina. There are many good Democrats in the State who feel as he does in regard to Mr. Tillman, who be? lieve that he secured his nomination by misrepresenting and slandering the State Government and the best people of our Stale by posing before them as the friend of the farmers and the only man with brains enough to redeem the common people from political Blavery, charges which Mr. Tillman knew to be untrue and injurious to the moral, social and political well-being of the State; but, with the shrewdness of an experienced political demagogue, he secured the re? cognition of the Democratic State Exec? utive Committee, made the fight under their auspices and worked a revolution in South Carolina unparalleled in its history. That he had a majority to con? firm his nomination there can be no question, and however distasteful he and those associated with him may be to the minority, I feel that the success of the party and the peace and continued pros? perity of our people depend upon our supporting the nominees of the Septem? ber Convention. In advising this I do not for a moment endorse the charges contained in the Shell manifesto, the slanders heaped upon our State Government by Mr. Till? man and the lawyers on his so-called farmers' ticket. Nor do I hesitate to condemn these and the insults offered by Borne of his blind followers to Senator Hampton, Judge Haskell, Gen. Bratton, Col. Earle and the minority represented by them. These insults show the great? est ingratitude to men who have con? tributed to the good name of South Car? olina, and a lack of appreciation for any faithful service rendered shows a de? cline rather than an improved condition in the body politic which demands the attention of the majority who are respon* sible for this condition of affairs. To submit to these and the action of the State Convention, which entirely ignored the rights of the minority and has since abused instead of trying to conciliate them, and in the face of all these support the ticket headed by Mr. Tillman, requires considerable sacrifice ; but, of two evils, I think it is better to vote the ticket and put the responsibility upon the Democratic farmers than to divide and appeal to the negro vote to elect an opposition State and legislative ticket. I am, therefore, decidedly of the opinion that Judge Haskell has erred in judgment, and the action of his friend3 in Marion and other portions of the State, asking him to allow his name to be used, is a mistake. The abuse of Judge Haskell since the State Conven? tion, the renewal of the appeal to the passions and prejudices of the farmers in the 3rd Congressional District by Mr. Norris, who was defeated, and the friends of Mr. Shell in the 4th District, whose only hope of success is from this source, and not on account of his fitness for the place in comparison with Mr. Duncan, and for this reason he should be defeated, has done much to widen the breach be? tween the two factions in the State, and, if au opposition ticket is named, it will be due very largely to the greed of Mr. Tillman's friends for office, using any meaus however injurious to the party at large to accomplish their purpose. My interest in the future welfare of our State has prompted me to say this much in the interest of harmony. A. C. Jones. Columbia, October 6. Col. Alfred Aldrlcb. Tabes a Different View. To the Editor of the JSTeics and Courier : On the eve of taking the train for Ten? nessee I learn that Judge Haskell has consented to be a candidate for Governor and his friendg have called a conference of Straightout Democrats in Columbia. I regret that I cannot be present at the conference. Allow me to say that Judge Haskell's couse i3 not only patriotic but wise. I thought that he should have been nominated by the last conference. There has beeu no day since the adjournment of that conference without action that I have not been sore the omission to put a ticket in the field was an error. During the debate on the Kennedy and Haskell resolutions there was a mo? ment when I wa3 in doubt of the wisdom of making a Straightout nomination, and that was during Col. Orr's able argument when he said that an appeal to the negro vote now would result in the Tillman party doing the same thing two years hence. Reflection, however convinced me that the Tillman party \.iil do that in any event. Men who will slander their party and State as they have done would put themselves on a higher plane by ceasing to do that and content them? selves by appealing to the negro vote to acquire or retain power. My judgment is that Judge Haskell will need few, if any, negro votes to elect him. The men who won the great vic? tory of'7G will help him now. It is in politics as in war?the real winners of victory are not those who fight for pay or promotion, but those who fight for principle. A'lfukd Aldrich. Barnwell, October 5. Our dear little daughter was terribly sick, Her bowels were bloated as hard as a brick, We feared she would die Till we happened to try Tierce's Pellets?they cured her, remarkably quick. Never be without Pierce's Pellets in the house. They are gentle and effective in action and give immediate relief in cases of indigestion, biliousness and con? stipation. They do their work thorough? ly and leave no bad effects. Smallest, cheapest, easiest to take. Best Liver Pill made. ? It is said that people in China rare? ly attain the age of sixty, BILL ARB'S SUNDAY CHAT. Atlanta Contlilulum, Our iron mills and manganese and slate quarries and cement works and ochre mills are all big things, but nothing has impressed me like the magnitude and magnificence of the marble works on the North Georgia railroad. I have been up to Nelson and T?te, and for a time dwelt in the marble halls. All other mineral treasures are dug or blasted out of their beds, and come unwillingly with the hard labor and toil of human muscle. All of them are hidden in the hills and moun? tains, and when removed leave behind them unseemly holes and chasms, and great heaps of waste and fragments. It is all a rough and dirty business, and a strain upon man and beast to keep it go? ing. But these marble works are in a level plain?a valley, where for half a century the best corn and wheat and oats grew?unconscious that a few feet below there was a sleeping mountain of marble that was worth millions. Our route was overland, and took us across the country by a farmer's road and over the crest of a young mountain, and from its brow I saw for the first time the little white, shining marble city down in the valley below. It seemed to me that I could almost throw a stone into its midst, but it was a long three miles by the slow descending road, and, when we reached it, the little city and the valley that enclosed it had expanded into extent and beauty beyond conception. My first emotion was amazement, and my next was a regret that my wife and children were not there to see?I am going to take Mrs. Arp there very soon, for she does love to look on beautiful things. She does love to talk about marble mantles and hearths and vases and marble walks and fountains and statuary, and frescoed walks and other things, and I have heard her mention diamonds and pearls with a savory unction. TheBe things, I tell her, are scarce in this world, but will abound in heaven, and I refer her to St. John's vision on the Isle of Patmos as an en? couragement to us all to be good and travel the road that leads to the pearly gates. At first I saw the immense derricks that were slowly swinging the great block of marble around, and I wondered where the shining masses came from, for I saw no sign on the mountain's side. "Where does it come from," said I. My companion led me a few steps away, and I looked down into a marble cham? ber. Just think of it?a chamber in the ground with perpendicular marble sides, and a marble floor and nothing to mar its beauty but the marks of the drill. Floor after floor has been lifted out in regular layers of five feet in depth until a depth of eighty feet has been reached and still the work goes on. Just think of a mar? ble chamber a hundred feet square and eighty feet deep and not a speck of earth or foreign matter in all that ha3 been re? moved. Lookiog down into the dizzy depth the men seemed as children and the engines as little toys. In the largest chamber there were four engines at work drawing the drills, and every puff of steam advanced the stroke until the line was punched. They drill and cross drill until the five foot floor is all bisected and then the horizontal work begins that loosens these huge blocks from their movings, The derrick seizes them and lifts them to the top as easily as I could lift a brick. The mighty power of steam does it all, and the work of the men is play. A locomotive on an elevated railway kindly takes these marble blocks from the derrick. A monster chain is let down?a chain with great hooks, that clasps the marble sidesjand itswiugs easi? ly aloDg under the railway as the engine moves until it finds a resting place oppo? site the gang-saws that are soon to cut it into ten or twenty or perhaps a hundred pieces. They are called saws, but they have no teeth, and make no noise except the hissing through the sand and water that is fed from pipes into the narrow opening as the saws descend into the rock. After the sawing comes the polishing. The marble has been disected until it is light enough to be handled, and is then transfered to the horizontal plan of an immenso cast iron wheel that is swiftly revolving on its axis?water and sand are fed upon this wheel, and it takes but a minute to bring the marble to a perfect plane and to smooth every irregularity upon its surface. This great wheel is twelve feet in diameter, and has cross? beams of wood that span it, but do not touch it. These Dearas are stationery and prevent the marble from revolving with the wheel. But it will take too long a letter to tell the wonders of these works. The owners are increasing the force and the products every year, for the demand is exceeding the supply. The mighty north that, be? fore the war, supplied the nation with its marble, is now buying from these works. It is cheaper and a better quality than Vermont has been furnishing for a cen? tury. I saw many beautiful columns that are being prepared for the new Dresel building in Philadelphia. I saw them in the rough and in the turning lathe and then set up finished with base and capital all complete. Every day the products of these works go north and east and west. There are now over 700 hands employed in the marble business in Pickens Coun? ty, and their daily wages is from 25 cents to ?4. The 25 cents is paid the appren? tices. I saw a good looking youth of twenty-one, who, two years ago,' entered as apprentice at 25 cents a day. He is now at the turning lathe and gets $2 and 75 cents ? day. He has taken himself a wife who does all the domestic work and [ is a help-mate according to scripture, for I she helps meet the expenses. That young man has a good, easy and cleanly trade, which rainy days do not hinder. He works in a comfortable shop that is cool in summer and warm in winter, lie is laying up about $10 clear money every week and ought to be happy as he looks. What better can a young man want? About 500 of these workmen are white and most of them are natives and this great enterprize that our northern friends have established is a boon and a blessing to Pickens County. The T?te family owns this property and have leased it up on a royalty of 7 cents a cubic foot.' Just think of it, nearly $2 on every cubic yard and 50,000 yards already taken out. Royalty used to meau the allowance or toll exacted by the king, and it does make a man feel kingly aud proud to have money coming in every day and every hour lifee meal from a hopper. And yet you will find men right there in Pickens who are jealous and envious of this great work, and are ready to swear that these men are getting rich off of the poor farmer. Over $1.000 a day are paid I out in wages to the people of Picken3, and its influence is felt for miles around, and yet there are some who are ready to com? plain of these things as monopolies and trusts. Just so you will find farmers vrho cry aloud for a railroad, and just as soon as it is built they will become its enemy and cry out extortion and oppression. ! But a few days ago there was a train of seventeen loaded cars burned up on the Georgia railroad, and the loss to the company was $100,000, aud nobody cares but the owuers. Large verdicts are ren? dered on every case of damage, and the controlling motive of the juries is that the plaintiff is poor and the defendant is rich. What makes our people do so ? When will they conquer their prejudices and do justice and feel kindly towards those who are doing ao much for our country?ao much that betters the condition of the poor as well as the rich? Not long ago an Alliance not far away expelled two of its members, farmers though they were, because they owned some stock in a cot? ton factory. Just think of that? What VOLU^ would their cotton bring without the factories ? We thought that the Alliance would make a special business of building small factories all over the south. By CO'operation they could establish many industries that would give employment to their children and a market for their products. But we still hope on. After the elec? tions ate over and politics has ceased to absorb them, maybe they will turn atten? tion to material things?maybe they will. Bill Arp. Satisfied her Appetite, An old man was walking to and fro in front of a small frame house that stood near the roadside. A traveler came along, and just as he had begun to ask directions of the old fellow, there came a startling shriek from the house. "Gracious alive! what was that?" the traveler asked. "Oh, nuthin' much?jest my wife. She's in thar having her tuth pulled, but a-body out here not knowing' whut was up would think that thar was something the matter with her. She tuck up the idee some time ago that her nat'ral born teeth want good enough, an' lowed that she must have these here teeth whut folks make. The preacher's wife had hern tuck out an' some new ones put in, an' then my wife was jest like a hen sitting on a hot gred-iron. She kep' adigging at me an' adigging at me, an' lowed at last that if 1 didn't agree to her bavin' as good teeth as the preach? er's wife, she wouldn't live with me no longer. Wall, I commenced to give in then, for if tbar's a woman in this world that knows how to bake a shot, she is the one, an' I jest kain't do without her. I sorter agreed, and' she sold her best cow an' a feather bed that her mother give her when she was married, an' to-day we come over bere to the dentist. I don't know how many teeth he has pulled, but as nigh as I kin calculate, I have hearn her squal about six times, an' if she baint' had but six snatched out, she's in a right bad fix yit, fur I reckon she must have ten more to come. Ah, thar comes another one," be added as the woman shrieked distressingly. "Let's step in an' see how she's gittin' along." "No," said the traveler, "I'd rather not see her," "Oh,"but you mu3t." "But I will not." "All right, but if you don't I won't give you them directions, an' then you will be in a fix. You kain't find yo' way thar to save you. I don't mind givin' a man whut information I've got, but when a feller has so little iutrust in my wife as you have, why I won't have notbin' to do with him." "Oh, well, if you put it in that light, I'll go in." "All right; come ahead; an' mind now that I want you to sympathize with her. I do reckon that she do like sym? pathy better than anybody you ever seed, an' as I hain't got enough, I want you to help me. Do you understand ?" The traveler, declaring that he did un? derstand, followed the old fellow into the house. The woman, extremely fat, was sitting on a sort of bench, and the dent? ist stood over her vowing in soothing tones that the next one wouldn't hurt at all. "How-are you gittin' along?" the hus? band asked. "Very well, indeed," the dentist an? swered. "How many have you snatched out?" "Seven, and I am about to begin on the eighth." "Do itturt much, Mag?" the husband asked. "Oh, don't talk. It nearly kills me." "Wall, then, don't have no mo' pull? ed." "What!" she snapped; "have no mo' pulled an' let that preacher's wife havo better lookin' teeth than I've got! Wall, I reckon not. She ain't as good lookin' as I am, barin' the teeth, an' I ain't goin to let her hold her head over me. Here, now"?turning to the executioner?"tear out another one." The dentist soused his tonga into her mouth, fumbled around a few moments, braced his foot against the wall and surg? ed. The woman shrieked and the tooth came out. The husband, nudging the traveler, reminded him, that it was time that the bonds of sympathy were issued. "Madam," said the traveler, stepping forward and bowing to the woman, "I? I, that is, doe3 it hurt you very much?" The woman looke? at him for a mo? ment and then said: "Have you come all the way from the place whar you have come frum to show me whut a fool you air ? Why, confound yo' ugly picture, I I oughter skelp you right here." "Madam, let me assure you that I meant no harm." "Ob, no, you haven't got sense enough to mean nothin'. Why, I never saw sich a man in my life." "If I have offended you, madam, I humbly beg your pardon." "What, you come here to make fun of me jest because I don't want that preach? er's wife to hold ber head above me. Oh, you wretch! Let me get at bim." Sho jumped up with surprising agility, seized the traveler and jammed his head against the wall with such force that a foot square of plastering fell. The trav? eler escaped, after a hard struggle, and ran away. He had not gone very far when the old fellow whom he had just left, climbed over a fence and approach? ed. "I wanted to see you agin, so I cut through the woods to head you off," said he. "Well, I am glad you did not bring your wife with you." "Oh, you neenterbe fretted about that, fur I never take her nowhar if I can he'p it. I jest want to explain matters." "I don't care ao much for an explana? tion as I do for the directions you prom? ised me." "All right. I'll give 'em to you." After telling the traveler which way to go, the old fellow said: "I reckon I am about the sharpest man in this cummu nity." "How so ?" "Why, by gittin' you in thar to sym? pathize with my wife." "But what good did that do you ?" "Why,-you see, I know'd that ef I got you in thar an1 got you to say suthin' foolish to her, it would take her mind offen me. If you hadn't went in she woulder hopped on me jest as soon as she got a chance, but as you satisfied her ap? petite she will let me alone for awhile. Wall, I am much obleeged to you." "I am Head of the Family." Sir John Swinburne tells with much gusto how, whenever he is introduced to anyone, he is oskedj "Are you related to the poet Algernon Swinburne?" to which he invariably replies, "Bless your soul I am head of the Swinburne family, and he is related to me." Sir John has just here happily bit off the relationship of Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic. It is the bead of the family; it ranks first, 3ntl the superlative merits of a tonic are embodied in it. It is pre-eminently the favorite with practising physicians and they generously prescribe it. The for? mula combines the powerful virtues of the Calisaya or Cinchona bark and other valuable tonics and alteratives. For in? digestion, generally debility, dyspepsia, torpid liver, impure blood or malarial poisoning, is an invaluable remedy. For sale by all druggist. ? A guu ha3 been invented which shoots GOOtimes without reloading, car? bonic acid being used in3toad of powder. ? One Colorado County has one hun? dred Artesian wells. New ones do not decrease the flow of the old ones. [E XXV.?NO. 15. i ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS, ? The postage on letters between the United States and Mexico is two cents. ? A man's stomach is the only t toward which he never feels stingy. ? South Carolina will get this seh astic year $9,655 of the Peabody fund ? Land is three hundred times as va uable now as it was two hundred yea ago. ? Over 70,000,000 pairs of suspende were made in the United States las year. ? Be true to yourself and injure none of your neighbors and you will be hap? py- 1 ? The greatest secret of success in life is to be ready when your opportunity comes. ? The postal card factory at Shelton, ?] Conn., is at present turning out 2,500,00?S postal cards a day. 5 ? A few applications of Salvation Oil will instantly relieve stiffness in the neck i or joints. 25 cents. ? Chicago produces an average of about lOsuicideB per week; or 500, inui round numbers, in a year. ? There are in France about 30,000 elementary schools where teachers having^ passed an examination train boys in gar dening. ? A chemist says that wood can be made palatable and nourishing. But that isn't the kind of board we are han kering after. ? It is stated on good authority that the factories of England, France, Ger? many and Holland produce about 77,000, 000,000 pins daily. ? The corn crop having proved a fail? ure, the Kansas farmers are preparing their land for wheat, and the acreage of ' that grain will be very large next sea? son. ? The crops in Eastern Colorado are a complete failure this year in conse? quence of drought and many families are suffering for the want of the necessaries of life. ? A man's gains are according to his pains, as a rule. It is steady, persistent^, attention to business that brings the re? ward. Business must come first, pleasure after. ? The United States is by far the lar? gest consumer of stamped envelopes of any nation in the world, upward of 500, 000,000 having been used during the past year. -I t ? Mrs. Talmage, wife of the celebraietTT preacher, is said to be the financier of the family. It is she wLo makes all the doc- I tor's engagements, and does his banking business. ? The export of canaries from Germa? ny is very large. Every year about 130, 000,000 of these birds are sent to America, 3,000 to England, and about 2,000 ti^ Russia. ? The coming Florida orange crop will be below the average, bu'. the esti? mates vary a good deal. They range from a maximum of 2,100,000 boxes down to a minimum of 1,200,000 boxes. ? The most densely populated square mile in the world is in the city of New York. It is inhabited by 270,000, thelarger portion uf whom are Italians, who speak only their native language. ?"Does your mother know you're out," said a boy to his little brother. "Yes, she does," was the answer, "for one bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup has knocked my cold into a cocked hat, you bet." ? C. F. Reed, of Wake County, N. C. has a vine on which there are forty-one pumpkins, weighing on an average of thirty-one pounds each, making a total of 1,271 pounds of pumpkins on one vine. ? Russell Sage, in an interview, says that Jay Gould is the heaviest owner of securities in the world, his income alone from dividends being ?2,000,000 a year. Outside of this he has an income of from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000. ? A diver who was working on the foundation of a railroad bridge near Boise City, Idaho, gave a signal to be drawn up quickly. When he got to the surface he held fast a 65 pound salmon that he had caught by the gills. ?After they had jailed a tramp in Indi? ana as "poor friendless and having no home," be invited the sheriff to dinner, sent out $100 to buy champagne and tur? key, asked him to take charge of $2,600 he had been carrying in his boot-legs. ? A wonderful popular tree was re? cently cut in Logan County, Va. The log measured 97 feet long, is 63 inches in diameter, cubes 1090 feet, or 21,125 feet board measure. It will be run oat on the first water that will carry a log of such dimensions. ? Experts say that there will be scarcely any apple crop in the apple belt of western New York, which usually ships 1,000,000 barrels, with but half a crop of winter fruit in the famous Anna? polis Valley of Nova Scotia, southern Ontario and Michigan. ? Ex-Governor Cameron, of Virginia, who recently abandoned tho Republican party, states that he daily receives a large number of letters from persons formerly Republicans who have decided upon tak? ing the same step which he has' taken. ? The failures in this country during the nine months ending September 30 were 7,538 against 8,334 lor the corres? ponding period in 1889. The total lia? bilities were $92,000,000, a decrease of $9,000,000 as compared with last year. ? "The worst of my husband is that he's always praising up his first wife to me." "Ah, you ought to he very thank? ful for that. It shows be has a faithful heart. Now, if you were to die, think how he would praise you up to number three." ? S. S. Karr, of Almond, a new set? tlement in Dakota, claims to be the own? er of the rebel flag which floated over the Andersonville prison. He says he was the last man to leave the horrible place, and managed to secure the flag and take it along without discovery. ? The pension department at Wash? ington has upon it rolls the names of twenty-seven widows of revolutionary soldiers who have regularly been paid pensions up to the present time. Three of them are 97 years of age and two 96. The youngest is 71 years of age. ? A public clock is to be erected at Philadelphia that will take one year to place in the tower. The minute hand ts to be twelve feet, and the hour tu.nd nine feet in length ; the bell will weigh 20,000 pounds; a steam engine will be put in the tower to wind up the clock. ? Almost in the exact geographical centre of Wyoming is a mountain of solid hematite iron ore, with 600 feet of it above ground, more than a mile wide and over two miles in length. Besides the iron, the mountain contains a bed of lignite coal large enough to warm the entire world for a century, a dozen of dried up lakes of soda, where the soda is deposited to a depth of over 300 feet, some of the lakes being over 600 acres in extent. In a mountain adjoining there is a petroleum basin larger than those of Pennsylvania and West Virginia combin? ed. Out of some of the springs pure rectified coal oil is trickling at the rate of twenty to thirty barrels per day. Entitled to the Best, All are entitled to the best that their money will buy, so every family should have at once a bottle of the best family remedy, ?yrup of Figs, to cleanse the system when costive or bilious. For sale in 50c. and $1.00 bottles by all leading druggists,