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BY GLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. THE PIERSON MEETING Has closed, so we will no longer close our doors, but re-open with renewed Life, lip:- Hope and Energy. We re-open and welcome "one and all where they will find Honesty, industry, Best iS ^^fi Goods and Low Prices. ?:. V ===== do net display so extensively as some, bat the solid foundation is here. There i3jQothing needed for Farin or House, Rich or Poor, Man, or TToman, but J:-;vwbAfc:can;be found here at? ?STONISHiNGLY LOW PRICES. . enjoy many advantages, all of which our customers share with us. Mr. Samuel D. Stradley, our Resident Buyer in New York, is ever ready to look out for " the latest and beat, promptly fills all orders, and keeps us posted in all phases of the ? market. He is a thorough business man, and you may depend on what he sends us ^;Wbemggood and cheap.! Leave the order for your WEDDING OUTFIT with ' ria, And Mr.: Stradley wiliepare.no pains to send all necessary, together with the ? J?test Pad^, that your Trousseau "may be different from others. In the Dress Goods Department i Wefearno rival, and will only mention pur all wool, double-width Flannel at 25c. ; Tb? Dress Triraming stock is complete, headed in beauty by the Ever-iu-Demand Steel Passementerie. In the Millinery Department ;^^e*"J?ride of the House," you will always find? THE LATEST, r THE BEST, > THE CHEAPEST. ^Trimmed Felt Hats 25c up. The Unique, Petite Togue of the Season $2.50. Our French Patterns.cannot be surpassed. The designing and making. Hats and Caps for Httl i ones is our specialty. These are in endless variety, and 'tis necessary "only to give .your price, and we wiH send your little girl a Hat that will keep her ; ; vhappy until Santa Clans comes. Our room is too small to exhibit goods, but in ?^tWa^epartmentare five Ladies ever ready and anxious to show you the prettiest. j; >They are quite husy just now filling orders for various parts of the State, but not vnot too -busy to give you due attention at any time. \" . . ' Come, letus show you? The Best Cooking1 Stove In the. market, and so cheap that you can put the surplus in something to cook, and *bat also we furnish yoa. - . ^:i^^'A;cordial invitation and hearty welcome to all. MANAGER. IHertfs Your Morse 1 AINU Here's Your Mule ! I DE3IRE my friends and patrons, and the public generally, to know that I have just returned from the West with several Car Loads of the .That have eyer been put on the Auderson market, and that I am offering them at 'wonderfully low prices. Call at my Stables and see the Stock. Don't buy until you see my Stock and .get my prices. . Respectfully, J. L. McCEE. ^ P. S.?I have a few more WAGONS on hand, and to get rid of them at once, will sell them at ACTUAL COST. "AND THE DAYS BROUGHT CHANGES AFTER." So lias 'our Trip to New York and other Northern markets, as you can see by a mere Glance at the well Filled LADI ES' SI? O IR, E ! HAYING completely exterminated our Summer Stock, our shelves and coun? ters are now packed and rilled with the most varied and elegant Stock we have ever offered our customers Each department is complete, from the gayeft to the gravest, the cheapest to the highest, and all can bb suited, from the yuungest to the oldest I Oar line of Dress Goods in complete in both the Domestic 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 all the new garoitares. And our stock of Ribbous is simply huge, from a No. 7 Silk Ribbon at 5c to the new mixtures of OttomaD, 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 Bay 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, MISS LIZSIE 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 Besl Nickel Cigar on the Mar/set," it won't cost you a cent. GLENN SPRINGS MINERAL WATER, By trio glass, bottle and gallon. TODD BEOS., Druggists. No. 4 Hotel Chiquplt*. ,/v'4-- ? _ ANDERSON, S. C, 1 3W IE ST E Rl LEGKLEY COMPANY Our Buyers, Messrs. W. R. 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 Goods, Notions, Clothing, Etats, Tmnks9 Valises. Clement & Ball's Fine Shoes for Ladies. J. B. -Anthony's Fine Shoes for Ladies. Marcy Bros. & Co. and Bay State Shoes. The above well known brand of Shoes are sold under a full guarantee, and you run no risk whatever in buying them. If a pair should prove defective, all 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. MY COLLECTING HORSE I Must have Money and Mean what I Say. I HAVE a word or two to sa<< to 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 bo 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 line, but to announce that we are stocking to the rafters our Double Store Rooms with the Useful, Ornamental and Decorative in Furniture and 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 t!:o looms, and at prices that will enable us to SAVE YOU MONEY on these good*. Our Mr. E. H. POORE will repair your Furniture, and repaint and varnish it. COFFINS and CASKETS cau be furniahed at any time. J. J. BAKER, Manager, South Main Street, below Orr & Sloan's Drug Store. BIG IMPROVEMENTS. HAVING had our storeroom enlarged to double its former size to keep up. with our steadily increasing trade, we can now offer you as fine and fresh a lot of Family and Fancy Grocfivif-s. Fruits, &c. as is kept in city at Tillman prices and Alliance terms. Fresh Cheese ovwy week, fresh Can Goods of every kind, fresh pure sugar Candy every week. Bi? line lunch baskets at cost to close. Onr Blotto?Fair and square dealing, coupled with push, perseverance, energy and a big lot of politeness, we hopo to succeed. Very respectfully, * ?f E. W, SAY&Ott & CO. :hursday MORNIl TflAGHB^'GoiUMN, tSS^ All communications intended fo this Column should be addressed to D. H RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C. DO GOOD WORK. Every human being who knows of something better than he has, wants that better thing ; nor is this desire wholly confined to human beings. We aspire, we strive, This effort causes progress, causes civilization ; it is at the bottom of the historical movements of the human race. The teacher who has a narrow horizon desires a wider one; it ia right, that he should. The teacher who gets $20 per month wantB to receive $30, $50, and passibly $100. It is right that he should strive to get all the money he earns. That he should strive to be worth more every day whether or not he gets more ; compensation?is truly noble; and, "as a fact, the one who is worth more than the money he getB is pretty sure to be advanc? ed to a more remunerative position. Those who are striving to be paid more money Bhould strive to be worth that money. But there are other things: 1. A teacher in a small suburb of Albany, where the parents were mainly foreigners, was paid a very small sunr-of money. He labored until he had brought his school into a state of efficiency, and then asked some citizens from the city to visit the school. They were pleased; through these he then got a member of ' the city school board to pay a visit. This man expressed his satisfaction, and then the teacher applied for a principalsbip in the city; when a" vacancy occurred he got it. He did good work and put that work on exhibition. This was the means he took to get a good position, and it was a just means. Thousands demand a good position and have nothing to back up the demand with. 2. A teacher was employed in a coun? try school at a very moderate Balary. She determined to be paid more, and put out extraordinary efforts to make the school a good one. All the parents were pleased; very many were induced to visit the school. The teacher asked the visitors to write their views of her efforts, and putting these with the testimonials of . her teacher and the school officers, sent them to a school board of a town where there was a vacancy. The school officers were struck with the testimonials of over forty parents, and gave her the position. Here again the teacher did good work and relied on that work as the means of getting her.a better position. The great thing is to resolve to do good work. Nor is this so very easy. It is the art of arts to teach it well; it requires persistent study. Excellence does not come with a Bingle effort. The foundation ia a knowledge of the child; it is gener? ally supposed that it is a knowledge of the text book. The teacher should begin at once to investigate his stock of child knowledge, or perhaps we should say mindknowledge. What does the teacher know about mind ? Along with this constant study of the pupils, there must be an extension of knowledge' concerning the eight great divisions of knowledge: (1) earth, (2) (self, (3) people, (4) ethics, (5) doing,- (6) numbers, (7) things, (8) language. Each of these has several divisions; for instance, take that of "self." There will be'the division of anatomy, physiol? ogy hygiene, pyschology, gymnastics, calisthenics, music, manners, habits, soci? ology. Each will need investigation; each may have its division. Then again, supposing the teacher to be sure he is worth a better salary, he must, as in the instances given above, employ the right means to let his worth be known. Shall he apply to a teachers' agency. Certainly, if ho knows of a good one. But he will find the agent will scan him as closely ks any one; he will want to be sure that the one be aidB to get a place is worthy of "that place. This is often for? gotten. It will not do to sit down and wait for the position to come to you. In quire of friends; if you hear of the ercc lion of a new building, or of the organiza tion of a school system write for informa? tion. Keep posted as to the salaries tnat are paid in the various cities iu your State Keep informed concerning educational matters, resignations, removals, etc. l3o ready to send in your application when a vacancy occurs. As final advice it is said to all: "Be come worthy of a good position, and then use all honorable means to get that posi? tion."?Teuchertf Institute. One Fragile Creature. A cynical doctor, withal a man-of won? derful resources and a quick mind, lives on one of the avenues on the south side. He was in his Btudy a few nights ago when a young man came in and began questioning him about his (the young man's) propriety of marrying. The young man foolishly raved over his sweetheart and called her angelic and so on. He wdB afraid that she was too fragile for this world. The old doctor grunted. "Fragile, eh ?" he asked. "How frag? ile? Ever test her fragility? Let me give you some figures about her and wo? mankind in general, showing how fra? gile they are. Let us suppose that this piece of perfection is in moderately good health. She will live to be, say GO years old. Women don't like to die any more than men do?not as much?for women never grow old, you know. Listen to me: She will eat one pound of beef, mutton or some other flesh every day. That is 365 pounds of meat in a year. In sixty years it's 21,900 pounds. How's that for fragile ? She will eat as much bread and as much vegetables per diem, and there you have in sixty years 43,800 pounds of bread and meat. If she is not too angelic ehe will drink daily no less than two quarts of coffee, tea, wine or beer. And by the time she is ready to have a monument she will have con? sumed 175 hogsheads of liquids. Fragile ? "Now, young man, these figures do not include the forty or fifty lambs sbe will worry down with mint sauce. It does not take into consideration the 2,000 spring chickens, the 500 pounds of but? ter, 50,000 eggs, and the four hogsheads of sugar she will consume in Bixty years. It doesn't take into consideration her ice cream, her oysters, her clams, and such. All this means about forty-five tons. Fragile? Think of your affinity in con? nection with these figures, and then rave over her being fragile. Young man, you are a fool. Boof I"?Chicago Tribune. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) Lucas County, j Feank J. Cheney makes oath that he iB-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. FitANK J. Cheney. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, a. d. 1886. , ^ , A. W. GLEASON, j seal J Nolary PuUiCt Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and 8cts directly on the blood and mu? cous surfaces of the system. Send for tes? timonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. BgkSold by Druggists, 75c. SfG, OCTOBER 30, II BILL ARl', A Colored Orator Who Is Doing Some Good. Atlanta Constitution. We are not having very much fuss now with our nothern brethren. They have either stopped to restor have blowed out since Congress adjourned. We haven't heard anything against the poor darkey in some time. There is a Washington City negro preaching through this region, and he knows how to preach and what to preach. His name is Shields. He is a born orator, and could make some of our candidates for office ashamed of them? selves. He preaches in the Church or out of it. He comes a missionary to tell the negroes the truth and give them good advice, He preached in the street of our town last Saturday, and had quite a gath? ering of colored people to hear him tell how the northern people treated their race; how they were shut out from all trades and occupations but the lowest; how the white mechanics wouldn't em? ploy them nor work with them ; how the colored barbers had all been boycotted and run out of that country; how the ho? tels that used to have them as waiters had substituted foreigners. "Your best friends are down here," said he, "and if is your duty to tie on to them and keep their good will^by honeat good work and respectful deportment. Until you are able to stand alone you will have to lean upon somebody, and the southern people have proved themselves your friends. They have given you work and wage3 all the time. I see white and colored car? penters and masor a working together on the same buildings in every southern town, I see colored draymen, colored porters, colored barbers all about. Up north they will call you Mr. Johnson or Mr. Jackson, but that is about all. Down here they call you Tom and Dick and Bob, but that is not all. They will befriend you and protect you. Now let me advise you to keep out of politics. Some of you have been voting and voting ever since the war, and generally you have been voting right against your southern friends, but it has never done you any good. I don't advise you to be Democrats nor Repub? licans, but always vote for the man who stands fairest in good works; vote for the man who has the respect of the communi? ty in which he lives; vote for the man that good men yote- for. You have no time to devota to politics. Work, work, work and save your money, and before anybody knows it buy you a lot and build you a little house and own it, and plant trees and vines around it, and you will feel more like somebody than you ever did before. I am proud to know that so many of you are doing that around Car tersville." That preacher is doing good, and he ought to be employed to travel all over the State and talk that way. A thought ful gentleman remarked to day that Shields had more sense than half the members of the American congress, and was doing infinitely more good. I believe that the day is hear at band when the southern negroes will feel identified with the whites in everything, including poli? tics, and then there will be no further discussion of the race problem. Even now it is rare to find one who proposes to vote for Major Hargrove, the Republican candidate for congress, whereas he used to hold them solid. Great changes are g">ing on, both north and south. National politics is changing base, and finding new centers. The tariff will divide the two great parties in the next election. McKinley or no McKin? ley will be the battle cry", and both sides will find adherents above and below the line. The tendency of this will be to wipe out the line and destroy sectionalism. Then the war will be over and national fraternity be restored. What a glorious picture 1 "Let us have peace," said General Grant, but he died without see? ing it. This reminds me of a story that was told me not long ago about Mr. Richard's dream, Mr. Richards is a genial genius who superintends the waterworks in At? lanta. He visited Boston as a delegate to the great waterworks convention where the superintendents and engineers of the craft had gathered from every respectable .city in the union. It was about the time that Mr. Cleveland restored the rebel Hags and Fairchild and Foraker and company raised such a howl about it. The president had them taken back and put away in the old garret. The bloody shirt was raised all over the north, and all the Republican papers screeched amazing, especially those in Boston. Nevertheless, Boston gave a banquet to the watermen, and after the ladies had retired the gentlemen were called on for speeches and talks and stories. By and by Mr. Richards was called upon to say something for Georgia, for Atlanta, or for the south generally. He iB a very mod? est man and tried to excuse himself, but as they pressed him, he said he was not feeling well and had a strange dream that night that troubled him, and he would be glad if some Joseph could be found who would interpret it. Of course they clamored for his dream and he said: "I dreamed that I was dead, and had found my way to the gate of heaven, and there was arrested by the guards and asked for credentials. In my confusion I examined my pockets and found a late copy of the Atlanta Constitu? tion. The guards were dressed in blue uniforms, and, to my surprise, had guns in their hands. They looked at my paper and threw it aside with contempt. I tried again, and found the New York Tribune, which seemed to nollify their displeasure, and they gave me permission to go in and look around awhile, and I was put in charge of another soldier in blue with instructions to show me through heaven, and bring me back in an hour, for I was a suspect. The place was beautiful be yond all conception, and I forgot myself in a delirium of joy and wc??er at what I saw. Everything and everybody was dressed in blue. There were thousands and thousands of them frolicking and sporting, and I observed that the favorite game was football, which was played with skulls. I suppose they were the skulls of lost sinners, but my guide informed me they were the skulls of the rebels that were killed in the war. For the first time I began to realize that rebellion was the unpardonable sin, and that I, too, was among the lost. Suddenly I heard the booming of cannon and the terrific ex? plosion of musketry in the distance, and my guide, seeing my alarm, told me that it was only a sham battle; that it was a favorite sport to fight over the great bat ties such as Gettysburg and Petersburg, and Vicksburg, and Fort Donelaon. I inquired whether they ever fought over the battles of Manassas and Chickamauga' and Chancellorsville and Gaines' Mill. He replied that be thought not?he did not remember any such battles. Strange ly bewildered, I turned to my guide and said, 'My friend, tell me is this heaven.' 'Yes,' said he ; 'this is the G. A. R. heaven?the heaven of the Grand Army; but St. Peter has a little annex over yonder. Grant is over there and Lincoln and Lee and Stonewall Jackson and many others. Grant was in here a few days, but he kept on saying, 'Boys, let us have peace,' and so we fired him out. "By this time we had returned to the gate, and I said to the sentries: 'Is there not another gate somewhere that 1 can enter aud see St. Peter and Grant and Lee aud Stonewall Jackson?' 'Oh, you. are for peace, too, are you?' said they, and with that they, gave me a kick and such a thrust in tbe side that it awaked me and to my great joy I found myself in the land of the living where peace may be sought and parden may be found notwithstanding my rebellion. Now, my friends, please tell me where is Joseph ?" 390. The newspaper men were there, of course. They saw the point and joined in the cheering, and many crowded around Mr. Eichards and congratulated him and gare three cheers for the rebel who was ejected from heaven in a dream. _ Bill Arp. COMBING THE COLONEL. There was a great political ferment in Simpson county, Ky., over the approach? ing election of a County judge. The nominating convention was to meet on Saturday, and on Friday night two well known-politicians caught in a rain storm stopped at the house of old John Perdue. The politicians, Maj. Bloodgood and Col. Noiz, were sly candidates for the coveted position?so sly, in fact, that neither one knew of the schemes of the other. After supper, while old John and his guests were sitting on the porch talking over the coming struggle and listening to a wet katydid that held vesper servi? ces in a locust tree, old John, getting up and stretching himself, said to the major: "Let me see you a moment, please." . The major followed him to the end of the gallery. "Major," old John whis? pered, "lam compelled to tell you some? thing. You gentlemen are welcome to stay with me as long as you like, but ability to accommodate cannot always be measured by willingness to do so. The truth is I haven't but one spare bed." "But can't the colonel and I sleep to? gether ?" the major rejoined. "Yes, you can, but the truth is the colonel is awfully peculiar." . "How so?" "Well, as rational as he appears while Btirring about, he's a strange man in bed. Our families,you know, are well acquaint? ed, and I therefore know all about him. Hi3 peculiarity comes from a scare he received when he was a child. ~ It seems that a dog once tried to bite him, and now, just before he dozes of to'sleep, be begins to growl, and unless something is done to stop him be begins to bite fear? fully." "Humph," the major grunted, "that's odd, but what can be done to stop him after he begins to growl ?" "Well, his brother told me bow be used to work it. He always took a course comb to bed with him and would rake the colonel with it when he began to growl. As strajge as it may seem, it was the on'" thing mat would quiet him. The family doctor said that a comb was somehow the only thing that would start the blood to circulating." "That's very odd. And would it quiet him?" "Would make him act just like a lamb. Why, he uster insist that his brother should take the comb to bed with him. He don't like to have any one mention the freakish misfortune, as he always terms it, but it would be doing him a great favor if you would take the comb to bed with you and give him a rake in case he should begin to growl. I am telling you this because I am your friend, and because I know that you are good timber, and especially because I hope that you may secure his influence if you should ever desire any office. Don't you know that we always respect the man that understands our peculiarities before we are asked to explain them to him ? He is sensitive that way, and if be sees that you understand him he will then know that you have had your eye on him, have held-him in your mind." "All right. You get me the comb, and I will go through with the ceremony when the time comes." "Here's one, put it in your pocket." They returned to the colonel, and after a while, when the major stepped into the house to get a drink of water, the old man said: " You and the major are good friends, I am glad to see." "Yes," replied the colonel, "I think he is a first rate fellow." "Glad you like him, for you and he will have to sleep together to night, for the fact is I have only one spare bed." "That will be all right I reckon," said the colonel. "Yes, but the truth is the major is tbe most peculiar fellow you ever saw." "In what way?" "As a bedfellow. I am very intimate with his family and know all about him. It seems that* he had a nervous trouble when he was a boy, and could not go to sleep until some one growled like a dog. I have known him to lie tossing in bed for hours at a time, and then when 1 would go to his bed and growl he would doze off like a lamb." "I never before heard of an affliction so strange," said the colonel. "I either, but then it is a very easy matter to relieve him. He and a fellow named Buck Johnson were, once oppos? ing candidates for prosecution attorney. Well, they had to sleep together one night. Buck knew of his peculiar afflic? tion, and shortly after they went to bed Buck began to growl. The major didn't say anything that night, but next day be withdrew from the race, declaring that he would not run against so good a man as Buck. "You don't say so?" exclaimed the colonel. "Yes I do, and know it to be a fact. I would advise you to humor him in the same way." "I'll do so." "Hush, he's coming back." "We are going to have more rain, I think," said the major, as he resumed his seat. "Yes," the colonel responded, "but I hope that it will not interfere with the convention. If tbe attendance is large and tbe proceedings harmonious, the result will be of great benefit to the County." "Who do you think will be nominated for judge?" old John asked. "Neither of the candidates that have beer, named. We have better timber than any'of those fellers.'-' "Well," said the major, yawning, "I reckon we better go to bed, so as to be in trim for the work to-morrow." "I will show you the room," the old man remarked, arising. The politicians were shown into an upper room, and the old man, placing a candle on the mantelpiece, bade them good-night and went down stairs. "What noise was that?" the major asked when tbe old man bad quitted the room. "I didn't hear any noise," the colonel answered. "I did; it sounded like some one gasping for breath." He might have heard a noise?might have heard old John struggling to sup? press his laughter. "Suppose we go to bed," said tbe ma? jor. "All right. You go ahead and I will blow out the candle." They talked for some time before lying down; then, after, a long silence, the colonel uttered a deep growl. The major reached over and gave him a rake with tbe comb. "What the duceareyou doing?" ex? claimed the cnlouel, springing up in bed. "What do you mean ?" And in his rage he began to grate his teeth. The major, supposing that he was get? ting ready to begin biting, reached over and gave him another rake. "You infernal idiot!" yelled the colo? nel, feeling for the major's hair, "if I don't wool you I'm a shote I" "What are you doing?" howled the major. "Let go, or I'll hurt you I Quit, I tell you 1 Haven't you got any sense ?" Tbe mnjnr had found his hair. "I'll let you know what it is to rake the life out of me with a crosscut xaw." "I was doing it to oblige you, you con founded wolf 1 Let go my hair I" "Oblige me I po you take me for a volt? saw log? Look out I If you hit me again I'll pull everv hair out of your head 1" They tumbled out on the floor, rolled over and over, and then overturned a tottering old wardrobe that came down upon them with a crash. The major swore that he was dead, and the colonel yelled, for a light, but no light came. Had they listened they.might have heard another noise that sounded as if some one was breathing hard. The old man was in the hall shaking the railing of the stairway. The major was the first to scramble to his feet. "I will throw you out of this window I" he exclaimed. "And if I can fiad my pistol I'll shoot the top of your head off!" howled the colonel. This threat so frightened the major that he gathered up his clothes as best he could and rushed from the room. * "Why, what's the matter?" the old man asked when the major came down. "Nothing, only I am going away to get a cannon and then come back and blow that fool into eternity." "Did be try to bite you ?" "He tried to kill me, that's what he tried to do." "Why didn't.you rake him ?" "I did rake him." "Humph I" grunted the old man; "he must have lost his peculiarity. What, you are not going out in such a night as this?" "Yes, I am, for if I see that fool again I'll have to cut bis throat. Good by." Shortly after the major left, the colon? el came down. "Why, look here," said he: "I growled just as you told meto do, and I wish I may die if that fellow didn't come within one of ripping my life out of me." "Mighty sorry to hear it. He must have changed since I know'd him so well." When the convention met next day the major and the colonel fought each other so violently that neither of them could win, and at an opportune time, old John Perdue stepped in and.received the nomination.?Opie P. Seed, in New York World.. A Mao Skinned Alive A dispatch to a Western paper from Indianapolis says that Wesley Keller, "the man who was skinned alive," re turned to work to day. His case is curi ous. As an illustration of the nice pow? ers of modern surgery it will be talked about from one end of the country to the other. On Wednesday, July 30, Keller fell in? to a steam vat at the Indianapolis veneer works. He was taken out as quickly as possible, but he had been scalded from the soles of bis feet to the middle of his chest. One arm was all right, but the other arm was blistered to the shoul? der. Huge blisters puffed all over the man's body, and the fluid which had exuded from the flesh to fill them bad been cooked to a jelly. In removing his clothes great strips of the outside or scarf skin came off, leaving exposed the true. skin underneath, cooked until it looked like a par-boiled lobster. His toes and ankles were so blistered and swollen as to lose nearly all resemblance to human members. . "one chance in a thousand." As soon as his fellow workmen got Keller out of the vat, they telephoned for the company's Burgeon, Dr. Ralph Perry. "There is, perhaps, one chance in a thou, sand of saving this man," said the sur? geon, when he had looked at the burns. He set to work, however, and greased Keller from top to toe .with a mixture of linseed oil and lime water.' Then he swathed the body in cotton wadding from which all possible impurities and disease germs had been removed. by chemicals. the shock withstood. For two days and nights the case huug without loss or gain. A teaspoon ful of brandy was given every few hours. Tnen a change came. Keller seemed to be choking. The throat became swollen but this swelling was checked. The man's temperature rose a little. Fever set in. This gave great hope. The next morning Keller asked for something to eat, and actually ate a piece of pie and drank some coffee. The news of this shocked the surgeon at first, but be said: "I guess we'll win this fight, for a man who can eat pie with no skin on him has life enough left to grow a new one." "off "with the old." When suppuration began great care was taken to let out the pus at every point. The first dressing took three hours; the second still longer. Five days were consumed in taking off the bits of old skin, four hours each day being spent with the forceps, scissors and scalpel removing the skin layer by layer. Not a piece as big as a dime was forced. Keller's pluck was marvelous. The raw surface were dressed with iodo form mixture and bandaged with soft Stuff:). "on with the new." Meanwhile the swamps of South Bend were being scored for two pound frogs. A bushel basket of these were cleaned with a germicide mixture and fed on pure food. The raw surfaces of Keller's body were tenderly washed with clean warm water; then with peroxide of hy? drogen, which destroys pus. The utmost cleanliness and wholesomencss were in? sisted upon. Just before applying the frogskin the raw surface was washed with a weak solution of corrosite sublimate. Everything ready, the first frog was brought out. With a quick snip of the scissors its spinal cord was severed at the back of the neck. Then the loose, pearly white skin from over the abdomen was quickly taken out and thrust into a dish of water which had been boiled; but which was now merely warm. In the water had been dropped a little of the corrosite sublimate solution. Be? ing cleansed, the skin was cut up-into bits about a tenth of an inch equare and applied to Keller's body?inside in out? side out. Powdered iodoform was dusted over the graft, which was sealed tightly from impurities. Dr. Perry made grafts on forty-two occasions. Thirty-two operations were unsatisfactory; ten" were satisfactory. From each of the ten centres healthy skin radicated, until now Keller is as "good as new." So to-day Keller went to work?the only man in the world who has been boiied and skinned alive, and who has frog skin where he once wore his own. TTlieu Doctors Fall Out. "A philosophy for dogs" is what Car lyle pronounced one of Prof. Tyndall's carefully prepared lectures, He said it with a disdainful snort, too. When emi nent authorities like these disagree, you cannot blame the public for being chary in the premises, but when from all sides a subject i8 showered with universal commendation, it is becoming in you to be of a similar mind. It would require columns to merely note the many emi? nent sources from whence have come praises of Dr. Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic. Its popularity is phenomenal. Mr. J. S. Buckhalter, of Augusta, Ga, finds the Tonic a rare anti periodic and an eradicator of malarial poison from the syptem. He is pleased to recommend it' to his friends. It is for sale by all drug? gists._ ?. It is proposed that the Sunday schools of America erect a building in connpcrion with the World's Fair, in which there may be such an exhibit as will illustrate the Sunday School institute^ lasting an hour or more each day,'and extending through sixty or ninety dayBr :e xxv.?no. if. ALL SO?TS OP PARAGRAPHS. ? An average reader gets through four hundred words a minute. ? A man's heart is blamed for lota of ; things for which his liver is responsible. ? Twelve "members of the United States Senate are native? of New York State. ? Everyone who has once used Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup invariably resorts to it again for colds, etc. ? Twe men in Tennessee lately ran a ' race of ten miles, the prize being the h md of a blushing mountain maid. 5 ' ? ? A woman at Wilkesbarrei Penneylr vania, has eight living husbands. She evidently does not believe marriage a failure. ? In Colorado lately a wife recovered $11,500 damages from her mother-in-law S for alienating the affections of her bus- - band. ? When a woman says anything mean ? about a man, she always winds up her remarks by saying: "And tbe men are all alike." ? . .<4^ ? When a man and woman have-been made one, the honeymoon is the time spent in endeavoring to diseover which is that one. ? South Carolina's rice crop will be a fair one, while it is apparent that prices ~ will be good, as short crops are" reported from India and Japan. ? Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at 83 is a sprightly, soldierly-looking old gentle? man. To the ordinary observer he appears to be twenty years younger than he is. ? It is the opinion of conservative ob? servers that the Florida orange crop will fall below estimates, and will hardly bo half of what it would have been under; favorable circumstances. ' ? "When vice prevails and/ impious-.'. men bear sway." When cuts, sprains, , bruises torment all the day; Then Case. ? from pain?from care and hart are sent By great'Salvation Oil, the standard, lini? ment. ? Mr. J. T: Skinner,-a contractor of | Columbus, Ga., who lost oat of his buggy, ? wbHe driving through the streets of that city on Saturday last, a shot sack con? taining $1,126, has not yet found any,. trace of it.- . ~ ? The agent of a New- York firm has just completed the. purchase in Kentucky of 645 head of cattle, which wjll be .ex- | ported to "England for Christmas' .beef. They are thoroughbred Shorthorns and ; , average 1,800 pounds e?ch. ? Mr. H. C. Angel, ' of Weatherford, Texas, was in .good health last Sunday, - but he told his wife that he would-die^ Monday night. He then made hin will, attended to business Monday as usual,| and that night lay down'and died. ; V .'? ? ? A Connecticut man. wantedt? "sell his house and'lot. His wife refused 'to sign, the deed. He shut her down ^cellar for forty days, giving, her only bread: and ; water and thrashing her every other day 1 with a Btrap, and on tbe foriy-firsVday -r. she attached her signature, - went into ? convulsions and died. ? They tell of a Kansas farmer/ w?o sent this'mixed order to a Chanute Jner- : chant: "Send me a sack of .flour,, five pounds of cofe and one pound of tee. .My wife gave birth to a big baby boy last night, also five pounds of corn starch," a screwdriver and flytrap. It weighed ten pounds and a straw hat." . . ? An Idaho bank on which there was a run piled upon tbe counter what was supposed to be $40,000 in gold. This stopped tbe run and brought in depositors, and when the trouble was over the gold was taken down. The packages contain- -v ed iron washers cut to the thickness and- ?-? size of $20 gold/pieces. ? A gentleman from Barnwell'County , who intends to move to Arkansas early next year expects to carry fifty families of colored people from that County with him.. \ And it is said that a strange negro preach- . er is now in Orangeburg County making engagements for some two thousand col? ored laborers for plantations in Louisiana. ?Lexington Dispatch. ? Our townsman, Major A. H. White, - planted this year an acre in tomatoes for the canning factory from which he clear- . ed a handsome profit. He spent $6 in the cultivation of the acre and me gathering - of the tomatoes cost $10 20, making a to? tal expense of $16.20. He gathered from the acre- 340 bushels, for which he ob? tained 20 cents per bushel, or $68 for the ? crop?leaving as his profit $51:80.?Each Hill Herald, ' . ? The eighth-annual convention Qf the Woman's Christ!ah Temperance Union of South Carolina will.be held in tbe city-of Newberry'on the 5th-, 6th and 7th^of 'No-'?j vember. On the evening;of the;.4th a most interesting .meeting* will be held.- - Addresses of welcome and responses will be given. The elegant new State banner will be presented by the State President to the State Union and received for the Union by tbe secretary. There .will also i be recitations and fine music, ? All watches are said to be compasses, and the matter is explained in this way: Point the hour hand to the sun and' the south is exactly half way between'.-the hour and the figure XII on the watch. : For instance, suppose it is 4 o'clock. \ Point the hand indicating 4 to the sun and II on the watch is exactly south. Suppose that it is 8 o'clock, point the hand indicating S to the sun,"and the fig? ure X on the watch is due south. This is a good thing for woodsmen and hunters . to remember. ^ ? Miss May Fuller, of Tacoma, Wash., has lately made the ascent of Mount'Ta coma, which only twenty-eight men, and ?o woman before hei, have ever accom? plished, says the New York Commercial. The mountain it 14,444 feet high. At 12,000 feet the wind blew" a hurricane : over the unbroken snow.' Miss Fuller,?* with the rest, slept in a cave on the sum? mit, where the stream jets from the crater looked like a row of boiling'tea kettles, but where her shoes were frozen stiff, and the blankets, wherever the steam" had touched them, covered with ice. - The descent was even more perilous than the ascent had been, and the resolute young woman suffered much from exposure and exhaustion, but never once flinched. ? In a communication addressed to the ?j New York Evening.Poet, Mr. T.. Schoen hof, a well known writer on economical subjects, shows that the crops of 1889. in the United States exceeded those of 1880 by 733,000,000 bushels, while the salable value was $193,000,000 less than in .1880. This the writer considers progress back? wards for the farmer. The latter does more work and gets less return for it than ever before. Mr. Schoenhof expresses the conviction that this bad state of values, ? from the farmer's point of view, is destin? ed to continue.. "From an earnest study of the situation in Europe, Asia, and America I cannot," hessySj "but see that the influences which contribute to these results are destined to be permanent." In view of this fact, it ought, he thinks, to bo of interest to the farmer to understand to what extent the higher tariff rates of the McKinley bill will increase his ex? penses. It will be painful knowledge but useful. With his income declining the farmer's expense ought to decline, but owing to the tariff lords' influence with Congress they are mounting skyward. Entitled to the Best? All are entitled to the best that their - money will buy, so every family shoold nave at once a bottle of the best fam ly remedy, Syrup of Figs, to cleanse "he system when costive'of"bilious. Tor salt ir>50ci and $1.00 bottles by all leading - druggists. > - * -.