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BT CLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON. SYLVESTER BLECKLEY 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 GroocLs, Notions, Clothing, Hats, Trunks, 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 riBk 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 ON THE WAR PATH. I Must have Honey and Mean what I Say. ?iFv*rNi>h-fii?-. 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 sot paying Notes due me I MEiUST THIS! "And will not carry paper that is due, unless in cases where it is so agreed iu 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 witb 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 the looms, aod 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. COFFINS and CASKETS can be furnished at any time. J. J. BAKER, Manager, South Main Street, below O; r & Sloan's Druff Store. BIQ IMPROVEMENTS. HAVING had our storeroom enlarged to double its former size to keep up with onr steadily increasing trade, we can now offer you as fine and fresh a 5, lot of Family and Fancy Groceries. Fruit.?, &c . as is kept in city, at Tilhuan prices and Alliance terms. Fresh" fowKe over: week, fresh Can Good1? of every kind, fresh pure sug*r Candy every week. Biji line-lunch baskets* at cost to close. t , OarMotto?Fair and ~,riaredealing,-coupled with push; perseverance, energy knd a big lot of politeness, we hope to succeed. Very respectfully, B. W, IAVM>B A CO. ?NDEKSON, S. C T The Statement is made a Hundred Times a Day " THAT ICI BEAT ULlfflU PRICES." J^OW, this is all wrong in every sense that it is intended to convey?what would yon call it? I claim it is untrue, and I consequently brand it as false. Of course a man can sell his goods for half what they cost, or give them away if he wants to. But it appears to me this town is not very well stocked with the half-cost or giving away kind of merchants. Goods disposed of in this manner are bard to find. Ever since the Indian warrior roamed at will through the ancient forests of Carolina the trader's and merchant's object was always to get as much as he could for his goods. But now, at the closing of the nineteenth century, during which science and art have made such wondrous strides, all these old fogy syetems have been gradually crowdeo out, and in a few years will permanently disappear from the mercantile records of this generation. Now, the perplexing question of the hour with me is, How low can I sell and live? When this will be accomplished I know I will commence rapidly to^ascend the ladder that leads to success. People may hold back and be a little cautious for a time, but-my sledge hammer prices will work like magic in the end, and my Store being strictly a? "ONE-PRICE STORE," It is gaining ground as rapidly on the others as an Express train on an old stage coach. Advertise! Advertise ! Advertise! The public have been fooled so long by flaming advertisements they have justly lost confidence in them and scarcely read them, because the parties advertising never do what they claim in their advertise? ments, but I herewith strike the bogus advertiser a home lick, and offer A REWARD OP TEN DOLLARS To any person that can prove I do not sell just what I advertise. I also offer a reward of Ten Dollars to any person that can match the following matchless prices, for they are stunners : Pretty Calicoes at 33 c sold elsewhere for 5c, Good Calicoes at 4ic, sold elsewhere for 6?c. Beautiful Calicoas at 5c, sold elsewhere for 8c. Nice Torchon Lace at lc, sold elsewhere for 2Jc. Nice Torchon Lace at lie, sold elsewhere for3Jc. Nice Torchon Lace at 2ic. sold elsewhere for 5c. Best Pins, "needle points," at 2c, sold elsewhere for 5c. - Best Sewing Needier at 2c, sold elsewhere for 5c. Prices like these strike terror into the hearts of other merchants, as high prices have received their death blow, and people who want to buy are happy. Read on : 488 Buttons for 5c, Kold elsewhere for 20c. Hairpins for lc, sold elsewhere for 5c. Yardwide Sheeting for 5c, Bold elsewhere for 7c. Irish Linen Towels?my importation?at 10c, 12Jc, 15c, 20c, 22Jc, sold elsewhere at 20c, 25c, 30c, 35c, 40c. Irish Linen Napkins and Doylies at 75c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 per dozen, would be considered cheap elsewhere for double the money, My Linen Table Damask will beautify any dining room at or little over half the price asked in other Stores. My Black and Colored Henriettas and Cashmeres should be seen to be appre? ciated. They are marvels of beauty in richness of shade and superb finish, and the only thing that is wrong with tliem is the price, which is 25 per cent less than they can be bought in the up country. I import these goods myself, and therein lies the'mystery. My stocks of? Clothing*, Hats, Shoes, Overcoats and Jackets Are immense. In these goods you can save from 10 per cent on coarse Brogans to 35 per cent on Clothing. Dress Goods in all the Fashionable Shades, And prices from 5c per yard up with trimming to match, are much admired by all ladies of cultivated tastes who lUve examined my stock, and to examine is simply to purchase. Ladies and gentlemen of g.*>ml fast? who are in need of something stylish and fashionable at much less than it can be bought elsewhere, need never leave the Store of ZD. a. FL"Y"isr^r7 Leader of Low Prices. "Red House," Granite Row. 6 ATTENTION, GENTLEMEN! THE undersigned desires to inform Iiis friends and customers that he Jibs moved to the room Over TPiiSiite & Wilhitc\s Drug- Store, Where he keeps a full line of SAMPLES fiom the best markets in the North, and is better prepared than ever before to give satisfaction in tht? MERCHANT TMLORma BUS3NESS. I have now ii stronger f'oroc employed, and can make up a Suit on short notice. I now have several orders for .Vi?. ?dios Ruit?, awl trinke u Specialty of such work. Suits altered, cleaned and repaired neatly, and at reasonnole prices. JOHN IX. CLARKE, Mercliaxit Tailor. Aug 28, 1800 - 8 HUKSDAY MOEN? I l^A?ffl$r$'Coi,UMN. -r^. All communications intended fo this Column should be addressed to D. H RU.7SELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C. TEACHING BEADING IN A COTJNTEY SCHOOL. To teach a child to read is to teach him to get thought by means of the printed words. He gets thought in sev? eral ways?in the. language way he gets thought by seeing words arranged prop? erly one after another; then if he utters these words he is expressing the thought he has gained, but bear in mind that he must get thought; in other words, that reading is a thinking process?not a me? chanical one. Select an object as a hat; place it be? fore the child. Put it on your head, put it on his head; he begins to be inter? ested. "What is it?" You write the word he gives, "hat." "That is the word hat." "What is this?" (Pointing to the word.) The idea is grasped that the word represents the thing?a grand dis covery whether made by the individuall or the race. You bring up a boy, named John. "Who is this?" He answers and you write "John." You give John the hat. "What was John ?" "Tell me what John has ?" You write "John has the hat," and read it. "You may read it." Now all thiu writing is to be in script, not in print, remember. You may now take out a ball, and use it in the eame way. In the course of time you will come to the thought that "John has the ball." Now your fault will be to go too fast. You will waut to do the thinking. Let me beg of you to go slow, to make the child do the thhking. In fact you can not teach him to read unless you let him think. Shall you teach the alphabet? No, no, no, you stop his thinking by doing that. Shall he spell his words? No, no, no. That stops bis thinking too. Well, you have used the objects "hat" and "ball." You can now show pictures of a hat and a ball. You can talk about them and the child will get the same idea from a picture of a hat as from the hat itself. Now you will use some other objects in the same way?no book being in the hands of teacher or pupil. A start has been made in getting the child to think and to express his thought. You take up a book and you start him off in the use of it slowly. You write, "I see the cat," for example, and repeat it. You point to it, "What does it say ?" You question and talk. Then you show him the sentence "I see the cat" in his book and read it. He will grasp the idea. You write, "I see the hat," and after it is comprehended?that is, when he "gets the thought," you turn to the book. And so you go on until he has learned to read?some words. He will soon learn a stock of words, say 40; and if you can write these on cards, do so ; if you can buy them printed on cards, do no. Let him set them up at his desk, as "The cat has a rat," "I see the cat," and so on. After the ground is solid under his feet as to a knowledge of words, you can begin to give him a knowledge of the sounds of the letters. Take "cat," for example. You point to c and give the sound of k, then to a giving its sound, then to t giving its Bound. He will ivatch you and wonder; you do it again Blowly. "Try it." He tries and you Bmile. You take up "rat" in the same way, and when he has given the sound as best he can you leave him to think it out. A chart is a great help, and you should have one: but you can do with? out one. One thing you cannot do with? out and that is a right use of a right method. You must study the child and learn how he learns. Do you own "Par? ker's Talks on Teaching?"? Teachers' Institute. SOME HINTS A8 TO SUCCESS IN TEACH? ING. Success in teaching does not depend solely upon experience. We have already said that a teacher who has marked natual gifts as an edu? cator, will be compelled to assume a me diocral standing in the profession, unless these natural endowments are supple? mented and re-enforced by the results which are always a sequel to persistent, intelligent study of the great problem of education. On the other hand, it is none the less true, that the experience of the most aspiring teacher will be of slight intrinsic value unless preceded by such a preparation and such a clear ap prehension of the requisites of the true teacher as will cause that experience to be educative in the fullest sense. This is not mere rhetical doctrine; it is repeat edly proven by the success of one class of" teachers, and also by the failure, total or partial, of another class. Many people argue that the teacher of ordinary natural gifts will be best devel oped by experience. This is doubtless true, but there are a few conditions abso? lutely essential to any kind of develop? ment. The trite saying that "experience is the best teacher," has been too liber erally interpreted. Experience is a good teacher of teachers who have prepared themselves to properly and fully improve its golden opportunities, and so intelli? gently study and turn to good account iis practical phases. We are not inclined to view the rank and hie of teachers through the pessimis tic spectacles of distrust and fault find ing; but it is Bafe to say that much de? plorable mischief is done by thoBe who attempt the work of teaching, with the mistaken idea that experience will quickly and easily remedy all their de? fects. Many of our educational maxims are misleading because they fail to receive needed qualification and limitation. Our argument against experience us the only teacher will serve to disprove the com mon construction put upon the old Comenian sayiug: "We learn to do by doing." The ability to begin to do pre? supposes some knowledgo of how to do, on the part of the doer. The practice of any art may and should be a tolerably intelligent performance at the start; and this will be true only when the practi tioner is not blinded by conceit and mis takeu conceptions of the qualifications necessary to beginning. Dr. White has said in substance that blind experience (not the adjective) is always and everywhere a plodder, and only the inspiration of true ideals and correct principles can transform it into teaching skill and power. Was anything truer than the following ever uttered? "Theory alone never made a good artist; practice unaided by theory can never correct errors, but must establish tbem." ? W. E. Bissel, in Teachers' Institute. "How delicious is the winning, Of a kiss, at love's beginning." sings the poet, and his sentiment is truo with one possible exception. If either party has the catarrh, even love kiss loaes its sweetness. Dr. Sage'H Catarrh Remedy is a sure euro for this repulsive and dis? tressing aflliction. By its mild, soothing, antiseptic, cleansing and healing proper? ties, it cures the worst cases. $000 reward offered for an incurable case. ? According to the Detroit Free Press a man named Willis hos takeu up his residence on the. coast of Florida for the piirpnes of killing sharks, because ooe bit hi< wife in two. In one month he killed over 100 by exploding giaut powder in the water. Wc should think he would fiud it cheaper, easier, and even less dan? gerous, to get another wife. TG, NOYEMBEK 6, 1 BILL AltP'S CHAT. The Investment of Money in the Southern States. Atlanta Constitution, John Bull and Brother Jonathan are circulating among us now. They are persuing our country with a pocket full of money, and if anybody has got any? thing to sell there is a good chance for a good price. They don't like each other very well, for both are manufacturing and are competing for the trade of the civil? ized world. But both are candid, and seem to like us very well, and say we have got the richest mineral treasures in the world. Brother Jonathan has not yet got tired of protection and high prices, but Johnny Bull says that that is all that is the matter with us, and that free trade is bound to come in the near future. Last week I mixed and mingled with a hundred yankeesfrom Boston andBangor and Portland. They came down in their own palace cars and camped at Bluffton, a new embryo town about thirty miles below Borne, and by invitation I met them there. My Eon and myself sold that iron property to Borne Yankees about two years ago, and I wanted to see what mon? ey and braina were doing with it. I hardly knew the place. Three of my boys had mined there for months, and shipped their ore to Chattanooga, and Birmingham, and made some money, but it. was hard, dirty work. The natives were a rough, rude perple, and knew how to strike for higher wrges just as well as the Knights of Lahor. Sometimes we had eight or ten ox tisams. and sometimes we had none. Sometimes the steers were turned loose iu the woods, and the drivers were running blind tigera fo-a living. In wet weather the roads to th? bluffs were awful, and the poor steers suffered the usual barbarities. If my soul has to be transmogrified into an animal, as some old philosophers believed, may the good Lord save me from becoming a steer. I have been sorry for them all my life. But we sold the property, and now they have broad streets and graded roads and a fine hotel and electric ligbts and hand some dwelling houses and grassy lawns. They are building an arms factory 220 feet long and 70 feet wide. Just think of itI a factory to make guns and pistols so that our boys can have plenty of them ready for the next war. They have near ly finished a plant for car wheels, and before long the busy hum of machinery : will be heardalon g the banks of Terrapin creek. These viBiting Yankees were charmed with the scenery arouod Bluff ton ; for it is, indeed, grand and beauti? ful. They were charmed with the climate, the air and the water, and when the sale of town lots began they bid freely, and most that were sold brought from $30 to $50 a foot. In about two hours over $75, 000 were invested by them, and it took but five acres to cover it. Much more was purchased at private sale and no noiBe made about it. Theso men mean business and Bay they had rather build a town than boom one. They are all rich ?you can tell that by looking at them. A man who has succeeded in life and got rich from long years of work, moves about with a satisfied, comfortable manner?you can tell them. I've studied them iu At? lanta. I've watcbed Msjor Wallace aud ! Moore and Marsh and Kiser and Lowry and Wvlie and Markbam, aud even George Adair is beginning to carry him ! self proudly. That ia all right. I like to see it when a man hes earned his own I money and earned it honestly. Will those Yankees at Bluffton all look that way? I don't suppose there was one j but could draw a check for ?100,000. How different appears the man who lives on a strain. He has a hacked aud subdued look. He may be pleasant and smile and tell anecdotes, but he.soon relapses into a careworn appearance and seems to think that everybody knows he hasn't got any money. Most of these Yankees were Demo? crats. Even the Republicans were of a mild type, and all were friendly and gave us right smart taffy. A real mean Be publican won't come south. He has abused us so long and so much that he feels ashamed to look us square in the face and so he won't come. Tom Beed wouldn't come for a thousand dollars, but General Anderson came, and he is a gen tieman from head to foot. His son is the president of the Bluffton company. The General ran against Tom. Reed for Con? gress once, and came within 112 votes of being' elected?what a pity?but our comfort is "The Lord loveth whom he chasteneth." Bluffton has just started out in life. They have but 300 or 400 people there, but they know what they are about. Al? ready they have a public school with near a 100 children in attendance. Not many of them are their own children, but all the little chaps of the neighbor? hood have been invited and now they waah their faces and comb their hair and are looking up and have a hope of being somebody. Some of them are the chil dren of the steer drivers and the rough men who dig in the raiues. These Yan kees are civilizera, and are doing good, and I hope that lots of them will dome down and live with us and give us the benefit of their money and their brains, their economy and contrivance. Just such invasions will BOlve the race problem and many other problems. Mrs. Arp wants to know if it will solve the race problem, Yes, it will. I never saw a darkey in that Bluffton hotel, where thereat were 150 guests. White girls waited upou us at the table. They were pretty and neatly dressed and knew exactly what to do and how to do it. But I wouldu't give one good faithful darkey for any servant iu the world. The trou? ble is how to keep one when you find one, for it does look like they are dying out or getting ashamed of their busi? ness. I found Dr. Mann very jubilant over j his great Methodist University which is located on a beautiful hill that overlooks Bluffton. The work of laying the foun dation is to be bpgun at once. He in? formed me that he had ample funds to put up the building, and was now secur ing the endowment. "How do you go about that," said I. "Why," said he, "we work for it, write for it, plead for it among the rich men of the nation, and every now aud then some man like Rock afeller surrenders, and gives away a mil lion. The world is full of rich men, and I have no fears about the endow raeut." A few days ago I happened in Chatfa nooga while Johnny Bull was there, with his 300 iron and steel men, who had come over to spy out the land. They, too, were all rich, and some of them were of the nobility. They had been to Bir? mingham and all about and seemed to be amazed at the possibilities of the south. What struck me most was their assortion that the south had hardly begun to work out her manifest destiny, and that noth ing was iu her way but the false theory of protection. An iron master from Sweden declared that their labor did not cost half as much aB ours, but had better food, belter houses, and better clothing, and every child was educated free of ex? pense. "I paid $20 for Ibis overcoat in New York," said he, "and lean duplicate it at home for $7. The wages we pay our laborers will buy for them more nf the necessaries of 15fe than the wages you pay. Your tariff will keep your common people poor, and it is a wonder to us that they don't rise up as one man and over throw protection and crush it to the ground." Another speaker said that no president could be elected on tho platform of the McKinley bill, for tho^ people were now amused ti> its oppress'-:! upon the poor mail and protection ha>. .uu its course in tho United States aud was on its last legs. 890. I believe that with all my heart. The tariff will be the next issue, and tariff reform under Cleveland will whip the fight?such is my faith. Bill Arp. GEORGIA'S RETIRING SENATOR. A Graphic 1'cn Plctnro of Old Alan Joe Drown. The Senatorial contest which is now waging in Georgia means the retirement of Senator Joe Brown. Gen. Lawtoo, of Savannah, who was minister to Austria during the last Administration, tells me that Brown is on the edge of the grave. "Senator Brown has not been to Wash? ington this winter," said he, "and he is a very sick ^ man. He has, flowever, as many livesas a cat and he may recover I and outlast the century. Eight years ago he was worse off than he is to-day. Everyone in Georgia was talking about his dying. The doctors couuted his hours and sent him to Florida, telling him he could not recover. The change of climate put new blood in his veins and he has been worth a dozen dead men since then." Joe Brown is the queerest bird in the Senatorial aviary. He looks more like a broken down preacher who has turned book agent than like a Senator, but he is one of the shrewdest of men. His sar? castic remarks make Iogalls wince, and though Iogalls gave Brown a good lash? ing with his vitrioloic tongue, Brown's words sunk into Ingall's soul and made him thoroughly respect him. The only innocent thing about Brown is bis face, which iB wholly non committal. Bob Toombs, who was the direct opposite of Brown in every respect, and who hated him with all the power of his big eoul, used to say that Brown was smart enough to steal the shortening out of a biscuit without breaking the crust, and so mean that he would carry an umbrella up in the air on a dry day to save the waste in wearing out the ferule. These were the words of an enemy. Brown and Toomb3 were men of different schools and their lives were as far apart as the poles. Toombs was a patrician and came of the first families of Georgia. Brown is a plebian of the plebisns His father was one of the poor white trash of South Carolina, who emigrated to Geor gia when Joe Brown was a barefoot boy in his teens. Brown drove into the Siate in an old cart harnessed to a bull had a bad a bell on his neck, and there is a story that when they came to a ferry Brown had no money to pay bis way across the river. He made a trade with the ferry man to take him across for the bell, and Bob Toombs once said that he wished the old boat had gone down and drowned Brown and his bell and his bull. Now Brown is many times a millionaire. It is hard to tell just how rich Joe Brown is. I have seen bis fortune esti mated at $60,000,000, but this was years ago, and be once wrote me that his for? tune was greatly overestimated. Gen. Lawion tells me that he is the richest man in Georgia, if not in the whole South, and he says that Brown's coal mines in the northern part of his State, near Tennessee, are as valuable as if they were underlaid with gold. In addi? tion to these Brown has railroad and mining stocks, und I was told the other day that he owns the greater part of a town in Texas. He is one of the best business men in the United States, and he is more of a Yankee in this respect than a Southerner. He began to make money as soon as be was old enough to crawl, and before he got into his teens he used to bring vegetables to the tavern of the South Carolina village, near which he lived, and sell them. He did the same in Georgia, but the family was large and the amount he made was small. He went from Georgia to South Carolina to school and drove his steers along, selling them to the keepers of the academy for eight months' board. He went into debt to pay for bis tuition and taught during bis vacations to get money to pay his debts. He was a good school teacher, and after he was through with the academy be studied law while he was teaching school. As soon as be was admitted to the Bar he borrowed money enough to give him a year at the Yale Law School, and as soon as he was through with this he hung out his shin? gle. Brown made money at the law. His first year's fee netted him $1,200. His practice grew and he was soon making $3,000 a year. He invested his fees and made money in speculation. He bought a piece of land for $450. A copper mine was found on it, and he Hold a half in terest in it for $25,000. He married well and his wife brought him another $25,000 He was then elected Judge, and while Judge was nominated for Governor, and Ben Hill was his opponent. Hill was one of the most popular men in Georgia and thought he had a walk over. Brown canvassed the State, and talked like the common people, exhorted at the prayer meeting, kissed all the babies, and was elected by ten thousand majority. The war came on while he was Governor, and it is said that be even made money out of the war. Oue story is that be saw the need the South would have as soon as the war would close for cotton cards. Dur? ing the year all industry was practically at a staudstill and the ordinary tools of the farmer were lost. Brown bought a great amount of these cards cheap and sold them at good prices. He made money later on in convict labor, and it is said that a great many of his mines are now worked by convicts. He has $750,000 in Atlanta real estate, and although the bouse be lives in there did not cost more than $5,000 to build, it adjoins the mansion of his son, Julius, which cost $75,000. and it is surrounded by four acres of unkempt grasR and trees, which are worth at least $50,000. Brown cares but little for appearances, and he pastures his cows and horses in the back yard. He lived just as simply while he was here at Washington. He had, for a time, Henry Clay's old room at the National Hotel, and he afterwards had quarters in a modest flat on Iowa Circle. Ho did not keep a carriage here, although his income must be over $10,000 a month, and both his dyspeptic stomach and his inclinations call for a moderate table His gastronomic tastes are very simple One day, iu the cloak room of the Sen ate, Hampton, Butler and Brown were chatting of the good things of the table. Wade Hampton said that the best thing on earth was canvass back duck, washed down with champagne. Senator Butler went into ecstasies over terrapin and good sherry, and told how he liked to have a dinner served with a royal old crowd of boys around him. Brown listened, and finally broke in: "Well, gentlemen, you may talk of your terrapin and cbampngne, of your sherry and your canvas backs; you may have your crowd of hoys and all that; but the best dinner on earth to me is a quiet little table with my wife and a dish of puddle duck and sweet potatoes upon it." When Brown first came lo Washing? ton he had nover worn a dress suit. He concluded to go into society ouo winter, and he had one made for him. Instead of using broadcloth he had it made of beaver, the same material of which over coats are made, and in thin, with n good chest-protector, he defied the White House draughts. Of late years he has not gone into society at all. He is a great family man, ami his wife has dono much to help him in his work. She keeps ,the scrap books for him, and he has two; in one of which all the good things paid about him an5 pasted, und in the other all thn mean things These *erap bonks are quite lar^e. and they contain many interesting stories. Brown used to read his speeches over to his wife _VOLUM j before he delivered tbem in the Senate, I and I am told she helped him considers bly in looking up his references. He was a good speaker, and though be lack- j ed oratorical elegance his words always carried weight. Geu. Gordon is a different man in every respect from Brown. He is showy, has aristocratic tastes and bis speeches will be full of brilliant sentences well uttered. They will not, however, con? tain the meat that Brown's did, and it is doubtful if he will have as much influ? ence on the floor as his predecessor. "Gen. Gordon," said Gen. Lswton, "is a man of more than ordinary ability. He is tall and fine looking, and were it not for his battle scarred face he might be called handsome. He was a fine officer during the war, was rapid in his move? ments and was not afraid of anything. He has a capacity of saying or writing the right thing at the right time and he is a nice speaker and has a good address He will, I doubt not, be the next Sena tor." "Do you know anything," I asked, "of Joe Brown's duel with Bob Toombs ?" "There was no duel," replied Gen. Lawton, "and I think Toombs acted very foolishly in that matter. Toomb* charged Brown with bribery in engineer ing a bill through the Legislature. Brown replied that Toombs' statement was false, and declared that Toombs was an unscrupulous liar. Upon this Toombs discussed the matter of sending a chal? lenge with his friends. Said be: 'What cac I do with this hypocritical old dea con ? If I challenge him he will dodge behind the door of the Baptist Church.' He then sent a note to Brown asking him if he would accept a challenge. Brown replied to this note, saying that he was responsible for bis own actions, and giving Toombs to understand that it would be time enough to state whether be would accept tho challenge when the challenge was made. The result was that Toombs dropped the matter. I doubt not that Brown would have fought if be had been challenged. He is a brave man, and it is by no means safe to count on his being anything else"? Washington Correspondent New York World._v Iu the Hands of Swindlers. William G. Cook is an ambitious young resident of South Carolina who arrived in this city three days ago in the f.md expectation of making a fortune. His amount of capital was not very large, however, and on the second day after his arrival he set out to look for a lucrative position. He was not very critical as to what kind of employment be secured so long as there was a reasonable amount of compensation attached to it. On reading a seductive advertisement in a morning newspaper, in which a young man, not afraid of work, who is I sober industrious, careful and smart, was j requested to call, "in person" at 593 3rd avenue, he realized that an opening had at last presented itself for which he had been yearning. The advertisement further stated that the young man pos sessing the requirements set forth would receive good wages and steady employ? ment. Cook thought he could fill the position, and applied at the address given. Be fore he bad entered the house he was ap proached by two dapper young men, who told him tbat they belonged in the house, and that (hey supposed be was a young man who called in answer to the adver tieement. Yes; Cook was looking for work, he told them, and would like to see the parties who had advertised. "I advertised," said the taller of the two men who accosted him. "I have already bad three acceptable applicants, whose names I have taken. But you look like an intelligent young man, and I think you would fill the bill. I don't want, however, to employ you, myself The position is in one of the largest dry goods houses in tbe city. They did not want tbe applicants to the 'ad' to bo run ning to their establishment and annoyiog tbem, and so that is the reason I was iu trusted with the selection of a promising young man like yourself." Cook was delighted with tbe prospect of employment, and inquired the panic ulars aud the amount ot salary he would receive. "Well, you will have to go out with the delivery wagon for a week or two in or? der to get acquainted with the city," re? plied his new found friend, "before you will be placed in charge inside. The salary wiU'be?20 to begin with." "I'll take it," said Cook. The two men then told Cook that the firm which was to employ him was Macy & Co's, on 6'.h avenue and 14th street. The two men then took him to the corner of 13cb street and 6th avenue, where the delivery department of Macy's is situated. Oue of the men told Cook that he would go inside aud get him au order for a wagon, while he remained outside with his companion. The man went in by the delivery door and came out in a few minutes. He gave Cook a paper and told him it was an order for the horse and wagon he was to drive. He then instructed him to proceed at once to the Metropolitan Van Stables on Mercer street, present the order, secure the horse and wagon and drive to the corner of Canal street and Broadway. The man spoke in such a tone of authority tbat Cook suspected notbing/and when one of the raeu said he must give him ?10 as security for the horse aud wagon "just to show good faith," as the man expressed it, his suspicions were not aroused. At the Metropolitan stables he gave up the order and securjd the horse and wagon. The order was imilar to one the atuble almost daily .eceives from the firm of Macy & Co., and thus Cook had no diffi culty iu getting a turnout. Ou the corner of Canal and Broadway tbe two men were awaiting Cook's arri val. When be drove up to the curb, the shorter man of the two, who h?d a dark mustache, jumped into the wagon, and gave Cook a second piece of paper, which, he said, was an order for two dozen revulveis. He also told Cook that the firm was in a hurry for the revolvers, and to make all haste to get back to tbe same .;omer. The order was drawn on Woodruff, Graham & Co, of No 19 Maiden Lane. Cook drove to the address and received tbe revolvers. He was about driving off when Mr. William J. Bruff, a salesman, noticed tbat the order had been forged, aud ran after Cook, whom he succeeded in overtaking without much trouble. Au officer was sent for, and much to Cook's astonishment be was placed under arrest aud driven to poiice headquarters. Cook told his story to Inspector Brynes, and gave a good description ot the two meu. Cook said he had no idea that he was in th6 hands of swindlers. It was evident to tbe Inspector that Cook was innocent of any intention to do wrong, and he allowed him to go. Tho horse and wagon were brought back to the stable. The police say that the two men were formerly drivers for Macy & Co., and we-e consequently fully inform ed of the methods of doing business there. The men will be traced and captured. It is evident that they intended to use Cook as a proxy to enable them to obtain possession of a large quantity of goods, and then escape. Cook says tbe men had plenty of orders, and told him he would have to work hard that day. Cook goes back to South Carolina to day very much crosrfallen over his unfdeasaut ad venture?From the New York Star, Octo? ber 25. ? A friend induced mo to trv Salva lion Oil tor my rheumatic foot, I used it and rheiinmtiMn ij cntirelii gnue, JOHN H. ANDERSON, Baltimore, Md. EE XXV. - NO. 18 all sorts of paragraphs. ? Edison's talking doll speaks 135 words. It is a girl doll. ? The Texas State prisons this year pay $75,000 over and above all expenses. ? There are eaid to be 13,000 different kinds of postage stamps in the world. ? There are about 14,000 colored children in the Washington public schools. ? From the oil of grasshoppers a Spanish inventor claims to make the fin? est soap yet produced. ? Why are our girls like flower gar? dens ? When they are happy they are daisies, and when they are sad they are blue belles. ? With a Baw made out of a tin buck? et, a Terrell county negro escaped from jail in Dawson, Ga,, the" other night. ? Snow fell to a depth of four inches in Greenfield, about two miles from Saratoga, N. Y., on the the 24th of Octo? ber. ? The cheapest place in Missouri to live is at the penitentiary. The daily cost of maintaining convicts at that in? stitution is only 7} cents per capita. ? There is a township in Sumner county, Kan., in which a crime againat the laws of the State has not been record? ed in sixteen years. ? Positive and unsolicited testimony from every section confirms every claim made for the wonderful efficacy~.of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrnp. Price 25 cents. ? The ancient Peruvians believed that the sun once came down to earth and laid two eggs, and then went back again. From theeo two eggs men sprung. ? It is expected that the low railroad rates (one cent per mile) will bring a vast crowd of tourists and home Beexers into Florida this winter. There are no epidemics to scare the people. ? Ex Lieutenant Governor Gabriel Cannon, of Spartanburg, is over 81 yeaiB of age. In ail bis long life he bas never been intoxicated, never used tobacco and has never been confined to bed a day by sickness. ? The oldest man in the world is probably Osman, of Cavallovit, Turkey. He has lived 160 years, and bas docu? ments to prove it. He is an Arabian widower, and is supported by a small pension from the Sultan. ? The latest "boy orator" to come for? ward ia Irving Jay Steeninger, the child phenomenon of Rochester, Ind. He is not quite 6 years old, but he can deliver a fifty minutes' address with astonishing eloquence and self possession. ? Since the recount of New .York has panned out with nearly 200,000 more population than Porter's men gave her, the Mayor of Philadelphia has determin? ed to have a recount of that city by the police. ? "No, Charles," eaid Emma, "I'll not go driving; I don't want any ice cream ; and you must not send me any candy." "Why not Emma?" asked her fiance. "Because, Charles, Christmas is coming, and?ah?I think you would better save your money for the holiday season." ? Looking at the present cotton crop, tbe Boston Journal of Commerce says that there is a good promise of a yield per acre of 169 pounds of lint, aa was the case last season, which would give, with an acreage of 20,852,320 acres, at least 7,500,000 bales of cotton. ? The king of the Sandwich Islands lives in a $1,000,000 palace, that was built by his loyal subjects. Tbe natives do not seem to mind expense where tbe king's pleasure is involved. When the princess died they spent $50,000 on her funeral, and $60,000 on a mausoleum to her. ? A new industry is proposed in Flor? ida : the cultivation of the camphor tree. There bas beer an increase in the price of gum of late, and a large demand is anticipated in the future for the man- . ufacture of smokeless gunpowder, of which camphor is a necessary ingredient. ? Fannie Talbert, the 14 year old daughter of a prominent farmer, living near Oneonta., Ala., was instantly killed last Monday by a corn crio tailing on her. She was gathering turnips near the crib, which was perched on some timbers, when tbe wind blew the crib over on her. ? Old Fiiend?"I s'pose girls are a (rood deal more expensive to rear than boys, ain't they?" Old Family Man? "Wall, they is ler awhile, but mos' gen? erally as soon as a girl marries the ex? pense is through with ; but just as quick hb a son gits married he wants to borrer all you've got." ? The kid glove trade in this country is enormous. Last year there were im? ported lully 2,000,000 dozen of fine kid gloves. This ia iu addition to the large number of American made goods con? sumed. The trade in fabrics, the lisle thread, tbe silk and tbe cassimere, is very much larger than tbe kid glove traffic. It is simply enormous. ?Mrs. Edith Howcott, of New Orleans, perhaps owns more land than any other American woman. In Louisiana and Mississippi alone she has over 50,000 acres of valuable timber lands, and is buying more whenever she sees a bargain. She has just completed a purchase of 1.000 acres of pine lands in Texas and 6,500 acres of hardwood and cypress lands iu Louisiana, ? Mr. Nick Purvis, tbe other day, while working near a branch on his place, heard a setting hen making a big noise and went to see what was the trou? ble. He found that a chicken snake had swallowed tbe ten eggs on which she had been eetting. Mr. Purvis thereupon took a stick and pressed the eggs out of tbe snake and put them back under tbe ben and she hatched them all.?Cheraw Re? porter. ? It is estimated that it will require the labor of 2,000 men fifty four years to extract all the coal from the territory be? tween Reyuoldsville and Sykesville, in the Punxsutawuey region of Pennsylva? nia. The coal, which ia now being opened up, ia of superior quality, the vein ranging in thickness from five to ten feet. It will be drawn out by electric ca? bles, and tbe mines brilliantly illuminated by electric lights. ? A no?v scheme to raise money for churches is for the members of the con? gregation to drop into the basket as many pennies as agree with their age. At a recent diversion of this kind, the men dropped their pennies into one basket, and the women deposited their offerings into another. The minister said, after counting the collection, that up to that time he had no idea that the female por? tion of his congregation was so youthful. ? The exodus of people from the western part of Kansas, where the corn crop was a total failure, continues. The most of the inhabitants are poor, and all who can are leaving the conntry. In ad? dition, many are going who havo proper? ty, although they must sacrifice their possessions to get away. An Atchison railroad man, who is ju*t from the coun? try which includes the Fifth congression? al district, says the people are leaving by train and wagon, and so many are getting ready to leave before winter sets in that the railroads have sgents working among them to carry them. Tourists Whether on pleasure bent or business, should take on every trip a bottle of Sy? rup of Figs, aa itacts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys, liver and bow? els, preventing fevers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For *ale in 50 cent and $1.00 bottles by all leading druggists.