Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'S-'. BT CLINESCALES & LANGST0N. WM AGAIN! IL, ?VTNG just returned from the'Northern markets, while the ring of the.Auc ioneoVaii;?mm.er.'&^i?-re*eoho:ea'iQ my ear, I am now in a position to convince the ;;: ? most credalbus that my? LARGE?AH"D VARIED STOCK f^?^'^f^'^wd\ia?\^Ui pattern, design and texture) of any Goods.- at thie isame price, that there-Is-actually no comparison. Any weak minded person can sell ? g^^sj bat it^requiras soundness and years of experience to" become a success as a .boyer,-' Ea^?g^een-- in.;tbe. .business for 35 years, I have filled the position of V boyeir in London, England, Dublin, Ireland, and while in the employ of the great ';-i\AvT. Stewaitof NewiYdrk^ I reached the highest pinnacle of success aa a buyer. ;: : I acknowledge few equals/and no superior, and the monied force otour combina ; ' lion in the[Hew 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 i w Cierk or thei ^er^ant".^ Thej ibvite you, with a smile,, to come and see them. i^'?^rlfor^li?t ? They want to fatten on you! . That ia what! NOW, A WORD TO THE WISE: ^^Si?tf?^ 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 quaint and weird music of dry bones, poverty and - aery^^tbe relics of a by-gone age, when the world moved slow, and the eternal ;i; promise Xo pay was accepted as a basis of settlement ?_ .;Bct times change, and men change with it,'until today, like the radiations of j :.cthe/noondaysun'that gives light and heat to the busy world, the?' Iron Laws of Cash Down Before Delivery : Is recognized as the only sure and certain road to prosperity, beneficial alike to ; ^thii)uyer1 and seller. I^en, if you have not got the money borrow it, * ^rrti Trade wliexre you can do the Best. In ? word, you might as well go to 2nd out an unmarried lady's age, who is ivWverSO^B&tO;beat my prices. The"-first is considered impossible, and I will con flksfnce you that the latter is also impossible. Do not wait until the Goods are all Picked Over, - : . ? & -. , Eat come at once and get first choice. I will give an absolute guarantee on priceB ? ? Bgainstahy bouse in the TTnited States. ?I invite all Merchants to examinjernvStock, and I will guarantee to sell them Ooods ten per cent less than any Drumme^?^t comes iuto the State, and will also - save tbem freight from the Northern-markets. j *" Plenty oiKoney is'a Good Thing and Don't yon Forget it. Leader of Low Prices. mere's'Your Horse ! i AND Meris' -Your Mule! j_ DESIRE my friends and patrons, aod the public generally, to know that I have 3UBt returned from the West with several Oar Loads of the FINEST HORSES AND MULES ;- .:;That haye'ever been put on the Anderson market,-and that I am offering them at j wonderfully low prices. . J ?all at my Stables and see the Stock.. Don't buy until you see my Stock and "^C\get miy' prices. ;???'-*'. ;-v' Respectfully, !1? J. L. McGEE. P. 8.?I have a few more WAGON3 on hand, and to get rid of them at once, ?will Bechern F ACTUAL COST. "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 3-i .A. ID I ES S 7 S T1 OBE! - HAVING completely exterminated our Summer Stock, our shelves and coun: ' - ters are now packed and filled, with the moBt varied and elegant Stock we have ? ever, offered our customers. Each department is complete, from the gayest to the . gTaveat, the cheapest to the highest, and all can bb suited, from the yonngest to the . oldest I.-Oar line of Dress Ooods .is complete in both the Domestec and Imported Goods, which we can. show in all the leading colors and latest combinations in ; Tlaids. We bar a every requisite necessary to Fashionable Millinery in all the new garnitures. And our stock o: Bibboos ia simply huge, from a No. 7 Silk Ribbon at 5c to the new mixtures of Ottoman, Satin and Plush, which are so universally used. We can show the handsomest Hoe 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, Oorsets 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 sincerelv, ^iM'r ? MISS 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 8ABOR?S0 CIGAR, j Call at our Store and try one, and if you don't agree with the Jury that has de? clared it to. be "the Bent Nirfcd Cij-v on tlie Mirkel" it won't cost you a cent. GLENN SPRINGS MINERAL WATER, ?J ' By the glass, bottle and gallon. ^ j TOBB BEOS., IMuggists. No, 4 Hotel Chiquofia. \" ANDERSON, S. C, T SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY Our Buyers, Messrs. W. B. Dillingham and Willie R. Os borne, have just returned from New York loaded down with Goods. They have selected a large and varied Stock of? Dry GroocLs, INTotionSs Clotliiiig. Trunks, Valises. Clement & Ball's Fine Shoes for Ladies. J. E< Anthony *s Fine Shoes for Ladies. Marcy Bros. & Co. and Bay State Shoes. The above well known brand of Shoes are sold under a fall guarantee, and yon run no risk whatever in buying them. If a pair should prove defective,' toll- you have to do is to return them and get another, The Ladies Especially are Invited To Examine our . Splendid Stock of Dry Goods, Novelties, &c, And our two Lady Assistants? ' Miss Lou. Gaillard and . Miss Willie Harris, Will take great pleasure in waiting on them. CALL AND SEE US. SYLVESTER BLECKLEY CO. COLLECTING HORSE I Must have Money and Mean what I Say. I HAVE a word or two to sa<<j lo those who owe me. I am determined to COL? LECT MY MONEY this Fall, and short crops will not be taken as an excuse for not paying Notes due me I MEAN 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 notion of Collecting, I am yours truly, J. 8. FOWLER. Sept 11,1890 10 4m 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 buying. We cannot begin to-enumerate our entire Hoe, but to announce that we are stocking to the rafters our Double Store Rooms with the Useful, Ornamental and Decorative in Furniture aod 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 us to SAVE YOU MONEY on these goods. Our Mr. E. H. POORE will repair your Furniture, and repaint and varnish it, 8?* COFFINS and CASKETS can be furniijhed at any time. J. J. BAKER, Manager, South Maiu Street, below Orr & Sloan's Drug: Store. BIG IMPROVEMENTS. HAVINQ had our storeroom enlarged to double its former size to keep up with our steadily increasing Irade, we can now offer you as fine and fresh a lot of Family and Fancy Groceries; Fruits, ifcc, as is kept in city at TiUiua-n prices and Alliance terms. Fresh Cheese every week, fresh Can Gooda of every kind, fresh pure sugar Candy every week. B'm line lnncli baskets at cost to close. Our Blotto?Pair and square dealing, coupled with push, perseverance, energy and a big lot of politeness, we hope to succeed. Very respectfully, _ E. TP, WAVfcOK A CO. HURSDAY M0RNI1S T^A?H^'?OI/?MN, -TS^ All communications intended fo this Column should be addressed to D, H RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C. VISITORS IN THE SCHOOL BOOM. One morning recently a parent ap? peared at the door of one of the city pri? mary grade rooms to "see about" her child whom she thonght had been badly treated. She was evidently filled with resentment against both teacher' and methods. The teacher gave her a hearty welcome, persuaded her to remain, and as time permitted, endeavored to explain to her the principles and plan of the exercises. At the conclusion of an hour's visit the parent, on rising to de? part, shook the teacher's hand warmly and said, "I am so glad I came. I see your work in a very different light now; we shall understand each other better after this, and I think I can help you a little." From that day' forward the teacher noticed a marked improvement in the child who had previously been de? cidedly troublesome. A feeling grew upon her that this parent who had been in her room, instead of antagonizing was aiding her in all her undertakings, and thus a common bond of sympathetic effort was established between parent and teacher and the child was quickly lifted into the light. . This comparatively commonplace ex? perience from actual school life, suggests a plan of reform which if practicable is fraught with great' possibilities. If a similar change could be effected in all such parents how soon the enthusiastic and earnest teacher would reach her El Dorado! On investigation we find that the most serious objection to school visi? tors arises from certain adverse condi? tions almost entirely due to a mistaken public sentiment. These facts are the most clearly appre? hended which are experimentally known, and in the majority of cases public senti? ment in regard to school consists in a bundle of conclusions based npon im* preBsionB made upon school visitors. It would seem then that the administration of any remedy in this particular case, depended npon the pfeviolis partial re? covery of the patient. There will no doubt be days when, owing to indisposition or for other rea? sons, it will be almost impossible for the teacher to be "at home" to visitors.' Even as the harmony of the home may be disturbed by too many visitors, or vis? itors at inopportune times, so in a lesser degree will the school be affected if the I doors are thrown open at all hours. Let it be understood that parents are spe j cially requested to be present on a cer? tain day of-each week, not to Bee the ' pupils "show off" but to study the school life of .their children in its relation to that of the home. Teachers who have never tried such a plan will be surprised to find bow quickly many supposed diffi? culties disappear. That shrinking from i observation, experienced by so many good teachers, soon gives place to a feel i ing of positive pleasure at the entrance j of a visitor. The teacher may find it I necessary to revise her methods some I what, so as to allow her more leisure on ; the visiting day. This will be a gain to the pupils who will thus be led to see what important spokes they are in the wheel of progress. There is something radically wrong with a class which cannot be left to itself for a single moment. All true education is self education, and in a system of all sided natural and rational culture self activity must ever bo the prominent fea? ture. .One of the chief business of a. school is to develop character, and this can be done only where the pupil puts forth a conscious effort to concentrate the will upon those motives which will lift him toward the highest ideal. It is pos? sible in every school-room for pupils to receive a Divine impulse which will make the work a glad, united search for truth, and completely submerge all vio? lent cases of insubordination. The teacher who tries will surely succeed and will find that the presence of parents can be used as a means to the attainment of her highest ends.?By S. B. Sinclair, B. A., Principal [of the Teachers' Training School, Hamilton, Ontario, in the Teach? ers' Institute. THE WOEK OF THE TEACHER. To recognise what is good is the work of the teacher, and there is no human soul in existence in which some divine life and light may not shine. You have seen the so-called bad boy. I have sometimes said there were no bad boys, and teachers have been very much shocked. We were discussing bad boys once in an institute I held at Estes Park, in the Rocky mountains, and talking about the treatment of so-called bad and dull boys. My dear teachers, when you look into the child's soul with a prayer? ful desire to find the good that is there, and awaken it unto life, you will find it just as Bure as there is a divine nature to lead you, and you will find the remedy. Look at the child and not the results to be obtained externally. One teacher told of a boy who came into the school house and crouched into a corner with a sullen, dogged face. What did that mean? Some teachers would say: "That is a bad boy. I shall have to whip him." What does that crouching, cowering attitude mean ? Nothing very bad. It means: "Nobody cares forme, and I care for no one." He went into the school-house hating arithmetic and grammar, but the teacher said: "I will find that child's soul; find the spark and awaken it to life." And she found it. She knew the boy - loved to fi?h, and loved birds, and searched for them on the Platte river, so she got the conversa? tion directed that way about birds, and fish, asked one pupil after another ques? tions about them, and at last she saw that he began to look up, and she said : "John, do you know anything about the fish in the Platte river 7" Now he did not say this, but this is what came into bis soul: "Enow about the birds and fish? Why, is thaijknowledge? Is that what school is lor? Yes, I do know " and the spark was fanned into a flame, and a man sat there in the image of his Maker. Find that spark and often you will find it is in some deep loye the boy or girl "has for the study of nature. It is Bometimes well for us teachers who are burdened with work, and who have our routine to follow day after day, week after week, to look up and see something brighter and higher.?Col. Parkcrin the Teachers' Institute._ How Far Can You See. How far can we see from any given height? This is a question that occurs to the inquisitive mind frequently. From the Eiffel, tower, the high test arti? ficial structure in the world, say 1,000 feet, we would enjoy a circle of vision bounded by a horizon 39 miles diatant. From Mount Everest, the hightesk peak in the Himalayas (27,000 feet) one should see, if the air waa clear enough, nearly 200 milea. Though the horizon is restricted, the business or professional man, housewife or social queen paritularly, suffering from loss of appetite, general debility, dyspep sia or from a threatened attack of malari? al fever, should see their own well-being sufficiently clear to secure a bottle of that j King of MedicineB, Dr. Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic. Overworked men and j enervated women cannot do without it.' For sale by nil druggist. -r The Michigan University has twenty-five Japanese Bludents this year.1 IG, OCTOBEE 23, 18 BILL AUF? The Contrast Which is Drawn Between Youth and Age. . Atlanta Constitution, . We see that Dr. Curry, that great arid good man, is writing the reminiscenses of his youth. How lovingly he proceeds with his work 1 How gushingly He tells of his old school days, and the balos and rainbows that gilded his Childhood I How reverently be writes of the grand old men of the olden time, for there were giants in those days ! How feelingly he records his companionship with the family ne? groes?the servants of the household who were contented and happy and trusting, and who loved and honored every mem? ber of their master's family and were loved by them I Oh, the tender and teary recollection of 'possum huntn and 'coon hunts and rabbit hunts and corn shuckings, and eating watermelons in the cotton patch and sometimes finding them while pulling fodder in the hot and sultry cornfield I What frolics in going to mill and going in washing, and jumping from the springboard into, ten foot water! What glorious sport in playing townball and bullpen and cat and rollyhole and knucks and sweepstakes. Baseball has grown out of townball; it is no improve? ment. The pitcher used to belong to the ins, and threw, the best ball he could, for he wanted it hit, and knocked as far away as possible, but now he belongs to the outs, and wants it missed. We used to throw at a boy to stop him running to another base and we hit him if we could, but these modern balls are hard and heavy and dangerous, and many a boy goes home with a bruised face or a broken finger. We nsed to take an old rubber shoe and cut it into strings and wind it tight into a ball until it was half grown, and then finish it with yarn' that was unraveled from an old woolen sock. Our good mothers furnished everything and then made a buckskin cover and stitched it over so nice. Oh, my how those balls would bounce, and yet they didn't hurt very bad when hit by them. They were sweet to throw and sweet to catch. - I heard lying Tom. Turner say he had one that bounced so high that it never came down till next day, and then his little dog grabbed it, and it took the dog up, and he had never seen the dog nor the ball since. I used to believe that, but I don't now. - When we played townball some of the outs would circle away off 200 yards, and it was glorious to see them catch a ball that had nearly reached the sky as it gracefully curved from the stroke of the bat. We had an hour and a half for re? cess, and most of it was spent in tonrnball or bullpen. Bullpen was no bad game, especially when the ins got down to two and the juggling began. I nsed to be so proud because I could stand, in the mid? dle of the pen and defy the jugglers to hit me, for I was slender and active and could bend in or bend out or squat down or jump up and dodge every ball that came, but I couldn't do it now, not much I couldn't, for alas 1 I can neither squat nor jump and a boy could bit my corpo rosity as easy "as a barn door. Oh, these memories, how sweetly they haunt usy "I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun,N Came peeping in at morn." Of course I do?everybody does. The other night there were ten of our. school board in session, and the special business was whether to give a longer recess at noon or not, and it was curious to bear the various opinions on the subject. Our president listened patiently to all and' then made a speech for himself, and said that the children should have more time to go home and get a good warm dinner. "Cold dioners," said he, "are unhealthy. The lawB of hygiene teach us that the processes of digestion are much more easily carried on when the food is warm and fresh from the oven. More than half of the pupils take their dinners to school shut up in tin buckets or wrapped up in baskets, and they, get cold and clammy, and are crammed in the stomach in a hurry, and the children go to playing before digestion begins, and of course the stomach rebels and won't do its work, and after school is out they go home and cram in a lot of cake and jelly and pickle on top of the cold undigested dinner, and the first thing you know the boy or the girl is sick and has to stay at home a day or two to recuperate. I am decidedly in favor of a long recess and warm din? ners." That was a good speech and a sensible argument, but it hurt my feelings so bad that I rose forward and in tremulous ac? cents told how I went to school three miles from home for three long and happy years, and carried my dinner in a bucket, and how I enjoyed those cold dinners that my good mother so carefully prepar? ed and how I had often tried to write a poem to that little tin bucket?such a poem as Woodworth wrote about, "The old oaken bucket that hung in the well." My poem began just like his, but always ended with, That dear little bucket, That bright shining bucket, That little tin hucket I carried to school. Ob, those delightful cold dinners that were so nicely arranged! the tender and luscious fried chicken, with the liver and gizzard and all 1 the hard boiled eggs, with the little paper of salt and pepper close by ; the home made sausages, linked sausages; that in the language of Milton, "were linked sweetness- long drawn out," the little bottle of syrup and the round hand made biscuit that were beaten from the dough and had no soda in them?and last of all, the good old fashioned ginger cakes and the turn over pies. Ah, those rights and lefts, those delicious juicy pies that were made of peaches that my moth? er dried. Just then there was a racket behind me and Will Howard .was seen falling over in his chair, with his hands clasped below the belt and bis eyes rolled up to heaven. He gasped piteously as he whispered, "Hush, major, hush, for heaven's sake." Martin Collins shouted, "Glory," and Judge Milner heaved a trouble'd sigh and murmured, "Ob, would I were a boy again." For fear of a scene I suspended my broken remarks, and our worthy presi? dent gracefully subsided. Major Foute wiped his eyes with his empty sleeve and moved for an adjournment, and so the reces3 hour remains unchanged. I believe it is best for children to walk a mile or two to school, especially if there are other children to walk with them a part of the way. Every step of that 3 mile way is dear to me now, and I love to recall the boyish frolics as morning and evening we meandered along, playing lag, mad dog, or running foot races, or jump? ing half-hammered, or stopping at the halt way branch to wado in the water, or dam it up, to catch th<- tadpoles, or drive the little minnows i?t their holes. It was there that I saw for the first lime a tadpole turning to a frog, and it was there we killed a water moccasin, with a frog in his throat, and saw hie frogship kick out backwards and hop away. I can go now to the very gully, that had a vein of red chalk, and another one that had white. I know every persimmon tree and chesnut and hickory, and where the red haws were, and the black haws and the fruitful walnut that we climbed in ?b season and rattled the nuts to the ground and stained o'.t hands and clothes in hulling them. All such things are around me now, not far away, but there is no charm, no fond memory about them, for they were not mine, All these are for another genera? tion?another aet of boys and girls. By and by they will be looking:bnck at theirs as I am looking back at mine. In a few more years they will reverse. Until I 90. , was past thirty I looked through the little ! end and saw life expanded and magnified before me, and the distant things were brought almost within reach, and I was neanng the goal of my hope and ambi tion, but alas I I never reached it, and by de? grees hope weakened and ambition be? came chilled, and with a sad humility I began to look backwards. I reversed the telescope and saw my life away back in the distant past. The picture was far? very far away, but it was beautiful, and now as the years grow short, I find myself looking through the large end almost to? gether. The memories of the past grow sweeter as the years roll on. The capital stock of the young is hope?but the treasure of age is memory, Bill Arp. Ill Requited Gallantry, A good story has come to light con? cerning a well known and popular young man of Athens, which is vouched for by several witnesses. All were pledged to secrecy, but it was to good to keep.and the affair was given away to a reporter yesterday, It happened during the past Bummer at Tallulah, while our hero and others were partaking in the pleasures to be found at this resort It seems that he became very much smitten with the charms of a certain young lady, claiming Augusta as her home, und lavished a great deal of atten? tion upon her. One day he proposed a trip a to spot about five miles from the hotel, and on her acceptance hired a dog cart and horse, and with her set off for the place a little while after dinner. He drove as near the locality they desired to visit as was accessible to a horee and buggy, and then took the animal out and hitched him to a neighboring tree. They set out on foot, find after enjoying for some time the beauties of the spot, re? turned to take their team and return to their hotel. But no horse could be found. The cart was there, five-miles from the hotel, and only an hour or so before dark. No houses were near, and they either had to foot it or stay there all night. Of the two alternatives the latter was of course preferable, but jqst here arose another difficulty. The young lady suddenly sank to the ground with a cry, exclaiming, "Oh, my ankle; it hurts me so." The young man was all pity, and ten? derly tried to assist her and relieve her pain. But she refused his aid, saying if she could only get to the hotel she would be all right after a day or two's- rest. Here was a dilemma. To walk to the hotel and come back would take him until way after dark, and he couldn't leave her alone. To keep her out all night was worse, and she couldn't walk. But one alternative remained, and he tenderly picked her up and put her in the cart. Then, getting between' the shafts, he manfully started on his five mile pull. The sun poured down upon him and the perspiration rolled from him, the dust covered him, and still he heroically tugged. When a steep hill was reached he would stop at the bottom, and carry her up it, pull up the cart, and after put? ting her back in, start out again. It took a long time to reach their destination, and it was after dark when the queer team pulled up. As they stopped the tired out young fellow started to help his enchantress out, but with a merry laugh she leaped- from the cart and ran up stairs. She met a group at the door and, telling them something, they all broke out in a loud laugh. Several of Jhe boys came down where our hero was standing, amazed at the proceedings, and explained. The young lady had not hurt her ankle at all, and merely adopted this ruse as the easiest and quickest way to get to town. Imag? ine the poor fellow's feelings. The laugh was too much for him and he left the next day. Of the Athens people all were begged to keep mum, and conse? quently nothing has been heard of it here. Our informant says the young lady felt very sorry for her "horse," but she just couldn't walk, and wouldn't stay alone until be got a team, and as for Btaying all night?why of course, that was not to be thought of. The state of our gallant Athenian's mind concerning her must be considera? bly different from what it was.?Athens . Banner. A New Cotton Picker. Considerable interest is being manifest? ed iu Chicago in a cotton picking machine invented by A. Campbell, of Chicago, of which great things are expected. The inventor claims that it will save 90 per cent, in the cost of picking. A company for the manufacture of the machine has been incorporated under the laws ot Illi? nois.' It is called the Lone Star Cotton Picking Machine Company, with a capi? tal of $5,000,000. George Gurley, of Waco, Texas, is the president; Seth Tur? ner, of Chicago, secretary. They will establish a factory in Chi? cago, they say, at a cost of at least $500, 000, and will employ 1,000 men. Each machine will cost between ?300 and $500. Last year, tbey say, it cost nearly $100, 000,000 to pick the cotton crop, and they claim tnat their machine will do it for one tenth that sum, aud that the quality of the cotton will be improved. One machine will do the work of twenty meu. The cotton picker consists of a two -wheeled cart, with a boxed receptacle to catch the picked cotton. The wheels give motion to the machinery by simple cog connections. The cylinder looks like a grain thrasher cylinder, except that the teeth, or fingers, are from four to six times longer and revolve with the cylinder. I They also have another distinct, different I and more rapid revolution. The forward I motion of the'cart corresponds exactly to j the travel of the fingers or spindles on j the cylinder, or mechanically offsets the forward motion of the car wheels, so that while the spindles are permeating all through the cotton stalks they at the same time remain perfectly motionless as far as the forward motion is concerned. Mechanically the fingers extend through the bush spinning on all ripe cotton, and from the fact that there is no forward movement of the individual lot of spin? dles than in the bush, the plant aud the unripe cotton balls are not injured. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, V Lucas County, j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State afore? said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that can? not be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th dav of December, a. d. 1886. i A. W. GLEASON, 1 '!^iL J - Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally aud sets directly on the blood and mu? cous surfaces of the system. Send for tes? timonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO , Toledo, O. B@~Sold by Druggists, 75c. ? The Ladies' Memorial Association of Raleigh has decided to erect a monu? ment in that city to the memory of the Confederate soldiers from North Carolina who fell during the late war. The mon? ument is to cost $10,000, and will be erected in Capitol Square. Each County is to be requested to contribute its pro ra ta share in proportion to its population. VOLUM Keeping Honse-Plants In Winter. As to the plants that bate been kept through the Winter, is it best to keep them for another Winter, or to set them in the ground and let them bloom all they will and not take them up again 7 If they are strong, healthy plants, they will be good for another year; but if not, don't keep them. If a geranium; with long lank branches with a few leaves on the ends, turn it out of the pot, shake off the soil, and repot in fresh soil. Wash the pots inside and outside with soap? suds and rinse off. To insure nice healthy plants, either use new pots every year or thoroughly wash the old ones in soap-suds and rinse at every repotting. It pays. Why? Because the pores of the old pot get filled up and the water cannot evaporate as quickly as in a new pot. When a new pot is used, be sure and soak it several hours before using, so that it will soak up all the water it needs. If plants are put into new pots, all the moisture of the earth and plant will be absorbed by the pots and leave the plants dry. The more porous the pot, the better the plant will grow, pro vided just enough water is used to keep the plant moist, not wet or muddy?and that is where judgment has.to be used. Consideration must be had as to whether the plant is growing fast or slowly. Is it a soft-wooded plant, like a geranium or heliotrope, or hard-wooded, like an abutilon 1 The former grow fastest and, therefore need the most water. Is the weather cold or hot? Evaporation goes on more rapidly in the hot weather, so plants need more water. After repotting the geranium, take a sharpe knife and prune it, cutting every branch off within three or four inches of the main stem. Kill it? Not at all I After watering, set in the shade a few days, then sink the pot in the ground in a sunny spot. Properly grown, that old geraninm will give more flowers another Winter than two young plants?if the plant was a good one to start with. The tips of the branches will make good cut? tings, if they look green and bard, but if they look soft and watery throw them away. A fine plant cannot be grown from a poor cutting. If a heliotrope, it can be served in the same way, and they may be kept several years by this repotting, not allowing' them to bloom in Summer, and giving them plenty of room when repotting, with fine rich earth. One such large plant is worth half a dozen small ones, both in looks and in the quantity of bloom it will have. If hard-wooded plants, like abutilons or cytisus, do not hesitate to cut in the branches so as to make them good shaped plants, as they will "break," or send out new shoots, even from the hard brown wood. In the Fall, if the pots seem crowded with roots, repot again into one size larger pot, or take off the top soil, as far as possible without disturbing the roots, and put on fresh soil. Chinese primroses should be thrown away, unless they are choice double ones. They are easily grown from seed, and young plants bloom best. To get a va? riety of colors, buy the mixed seed. Plant in June. It is sometimes difficult to get the seed np in the hot weather. Primroses like to be kept cool. Take a box about three inches deep; put in some moss or fine drainage, then fill with soil that has been sifted until fine and soft. Press down with a bit of board or the. hand and scatter the seed. Do not cover, but press the seed down with the finger, then lay over a pane of glass to keep in the moisture. If the soil gets dry, water with a fine sprinker. Keep in a good light, but not in the direct sun. Do not keep too,wet, as the tiny plants may "damp off." As soon as they have two pairs of leaves, transplant to other boxes, and later on to three inch pots. In re? potting, keep the crown of the plant well above the soil, and do not let the soil get into it, as it may cause rot.- It is best not to water the leaves, for the same reason. If the pot gets full of roots, repot into four or five inch pots. They should begin to bloom in September and continue un? til Spring. Cyclamen can be left in the pots, and sunk in the ground or cold frame. The first of September they should be repotted in rich sandy soil, with the bulb or corm nearly all above ground. Water bnt little until they commence to grow. Amaryllis can be treated in the same manner.? Good Housekeeping. A Charge of Shot When standing within a few yards of a gun's muzzle at the time, of a discharge, a person would be ^amazingly astonished were be only able to see the shot as they go whizzing by. Experiments in instan? taneous photography have proved to us that the shot not only spread out, comet? like, as they fly, but they string out one behind another to a much greater dis? tance than they spread. Thus, with a cylinder gun, ./ben the first charge of shot reaches a target that is forty yards away, the last shot is lagging along ten yards behind. Even with the choke bore gun some of the shot will lag behind some eight^yards in forty. This accounts for the wide swath that is mown in a flock of ducks on which a charge of shot falls just right. About five per cent, only of the charge of shot arrives simul? taneously at the target, but the balance of the first half of the charge is so close behind that a bird's muscles are not quick enough to get out of the way, although those who have watched sitting birds when shot at have often seen them start as if to fly when the leaden shot whistled by them, only to drop dead as they were overtaken by the leaden hail. Confederate Chicken Pie. Mr. Candler, of Georgia, told a good one on himself the other day, says the Washington Post. "During the cam? paign in Mississippi," said he, "we were short of rations, and one of the boys and myself went oat foraging. We had only gone a short distance when we met a couple of young boys coming toward camp with some pies. They were chicken pies, the boys said, and we purchased them without hesitation. We paid the boys and sat right down and began eat? ing, for we were as hungry as wolves. Just as we had about consumed the pies ! we heard the boys quarreling over in the woodsr-about the division of the money. Listening, we heard one of the boysj iu a whining voice, say: " 'Now, Bill, gol darn your eoul, you've got to give me half that money, for you know them puppies was half mine.' "Well, in about half a second we were the sickest Confederates you ever saw, and from that day to this I have never been able to eat any kind of meat pie." A Beau of 1S29, When grandpa went a wooing, He wore a satin vest, A trail of running roses Embroidered on the breast. The pattern of his trousers, His linen, white and fine, Were all the latest fashion, In eighteen twenty nine. Grandpa was a fine looking young fel? low then, so the old ladies say, and he is a fine looking old gentleman now. For the past score of years he has been a firm believer in the merits of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. "It renewed my youth," he frequently says. It is the only blood purifier and liver invigorator guaranteed to benefit or cure, or money refunded. It cures liver disease, dyspep eia, scrofula sores, skin eruptions, and all diseases of the blood. For lingering coughs and consumption, (which is lung scrofula in its earliest stages) it is an un? paralleled remedy. E XXV.?NO. 16. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS, ? If you want to feel right, do right. ? There are fourteen candidates for the office of County treasurer in Union County,, Ga. ? An Albany, Ga., baby has been born with two teeth all ready to. start business with. ? A mother and three children died in . North Carolina recently from the effects of a bite of a mad dog. ?'? What is so wonderful as a severe cough cured by Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup for 25 cents. Try it I ? Arabs and strangers are dying of cholera by the thousand on the Bed Sea. In the interior of Arabia many are - dying. ? Mrs. Mary Wing, of ^Fayette, Mo., . eighty years old, does the washing, cook? ing, Gewing, knitting, etc., for a family. of four. .? There is a negro in Athens, Ga.,, who is suffering from a severe case of blood poisoning, caused by the'bite of another negro. ? There is a township ? in- Sumner County, Kan., in which a crime against - the laws of the State has not been record- - ed in sixteen years. ? It is stated that a woman in White? hall, Pa., has gone without food or water for 185 days and the doctors think may last a month longer. ? A Connecticut negro bootblack has inherited proper^ in Georgia worth over f4 $100,000, but decided to go on with the boot blacking business. ? A bank embezzler at Detroit, who two years ago stole $300,000 in cash arid - securities, has given rip the stolen prop? erty and pleaded guilty. ? The average age when men marry in America is 29. It might he interest? ing to know how much this would be.; reduced if all the girls were widows. ? A prominent widower of Richmond, " Va., who was engaged to be married; ^ suicided because of his love for his first f, wife, but left $25,000 to his affianced; ? A seven-year-old boy in West Vir- .; ginia fatally shot his little five,year-old t' sister because she threatened to tell her . <; father of some misbehavior on his part. .]? ? A great many of the oranges on the west coast of Florida have been sold for- " one dollar per box on the trees. This is , a better price than in any previoiis ye^r. ^ jr ? A bigamist under arrest in Akrq'ri, ^ ; 0., is said to have seven wives. They live in various parts of the country, and he has married them all in the past ten < years. . ? A strange condition of affairs exists ,; at Hydetown, Pa. The village has three churches and only one solitary member of any of them lives in the-borough ;;: limits. ? A machine that cuts match sticks, makes 10,000,000 a day. They are ar-: ranged over a vat, and have the heads . put on at the" rate of 8,000,000 per day.bv y one man. ? Feather beds Oi pillows should never ? be put in the sun, for the heat draws"out^:* the oil from the feathers and gives theriV;.;; a rancid smell. Air them on.a windy V day where the sun will not touch them.. ?I've been a sufferer from rheumatism , for years, and have been unable to obtain j : any relief at all. Salvation Oil gave me ;:'r entire relief and I heartily recommend it. Henry Winkel, Baltimore,' Md. ? Two brothers were hunting near Guthrie, I. T., last week, when they became separated and one climbing a tree ; to secure a squirrel, was mistaken for a catamount by the other and fired upon with fata! effect. . i ^.' -v ? Husbands are valued high in Ne York courts. Mrs. Ada Richardson re: ceived $20.000 from Mrs, Ella T. JBurt fo; alienating her husband's affections. This amount ought to solace Mrs. Richardson some what. ? William Rackard, who lives near Baymnette, in Baldwin County, Ala., is the smallest man in America. He is 21 . years of age and weighs only 49 pounds. He is only three feet nigh and perfectly formed. ? Ex-Lieutenant Governor Gabriel; Cannon, of Spartanburg, is over 81 years of 8go. In all his long life he has never been intoxicated, -never used tobacco, arid . has never been confined to bed a day by" sickness. ? Shall Newberry College be opened to young ladies is a question that the board of trustees of that college will soon have ? to consider, the faculty having decided to recommend such action to the board. ?Prert and Reporter. ? "Say, Doubleup," said Engleman, looking up from, his paper, "here's a meteorologist who says the severest storms always begin about" midnight."' "He's right. That is about this time I frequent lyreach home and find my wife awake." ? Apparently Kentucky is a good/v: place to go to if you want to live to be very old indeed. Aunt Matildy Ruley, of Ray wick, has recently died at the ad? vanced age of 123 years. Her mother, Charlotte Shuck, was. 135 when she . died. ? A Pitt9bu;g hardware dealer tells of a man who entered his store the other day and asked to look at some nippers or. pliers. Some were shown him, where-, upon he calmly affixed a pair on one of his teeth, pulled the molar from his jaw, laid it with the nippers on the counter, - and asked for the bill. ? Abbeville is to have a great railroad I jubilee on the 6th and 7th of November. in honor of the completion of the Geor? gia, Carolina and Northern rosd to that point. All the world is to be invited and a dozen or more big men are to make speeches. We congratulate Abbeville on the completion of the road to that point. ? A man was brought to the hospital at Eastburn, London, who bad driven four nails into bis skull three or four- . inches deep. He suffered from severe headache, and took that means to cure it. ' The nails were extracted with difficulty, To the amazement of the doctors, he completely recovered from hia self inflict? ed injuries, and is able to attend to bis business. The doctors pronounce the case as being unparalleled in medical annals. ? One of the most remarkable cases ^ ever tried in any court in this country S was tried in Cleburne County circuit court, Ala., a few days ago. Over twenty | years ago a man named Zaner killed another man named Hogan in a row over a hog. Zaner was arrested, but his trial has been continued from term to term for the past twenty years, and now he is sentenced to a term of only one year for his deed. ? The Hon. Josiah Patterson's speech accepting the Democratic nomination for Congress in the 10th Tennessee district was a very bright one. One sentence, in;Q which he touched on the tariff, was espe cially epigrammatic. Said Mr. Patterson: "The country tributary to Memphis can? not afford to sell 2,000,000 bales of cotton^ annually at a price fixed in the open fre? market of the'world and then buy pro- . tected goods with the money. If such a p. crime can be prevented, it is the duly of your representatives in Congress to work their energies in that direction." Entitled to the Best, All are entitled to the best that their money will buy, so every family should r ; have at once a bottle of the best family remedy, Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the system when costive or bilious. ? 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