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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. The Statement is made a Hundred Times a Day " THAT I CAN BEAT FLYM'S PRICES." 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. Bat 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 hard 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.. Bat now, at the closing of the nineteenth century, during which science and art have made such wondrous strides, all these old fogy systems have been gradually crowded 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 1 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 OF TEN DOLLARS To any .person that can prove I do not sell jnst 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 3?c. sold elsewhere for 5c, Good Calicoes at 4Jc, sold elsewhere for 61c. Beautiful Calicoes at 5c, sold elsewhere for 8c. Nice Torchon Lace at lc, sold elsewhere for 2?c. Nice Torchon Lace at He, sold elsewhere for 3ic. Nice Torchon Lace at 2*c. sold elsewhere for 5c. Best Pins, "needle points," at 2c, sold elsewhere for 5c. Best Sewing Needles 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. Bead on: .? iv -; - 48S Buttons for 5c, sold elsewhere for 20c. ? , . Hairpins for lc, sold elsewhere for 5c. Yard wide Sheeting for 5c, sold elsewhere for 7c. Lrish Linen Towels?my importation?at 10c, 12?c, 15p, 20c, 22*c, N sold else where 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 them 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 Bave 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 have examined my stock, and to examine is simply to purchase. Ladies and gentlemen of good-taste who are in need of something stylish and fashionable at much less than it can be bought elsewhere, need never leave the Store of ID. C- FLYU]^3 Leader of Low Prices. 1 "Red House," Granite Row. MY COLLECTING HORSE ON THE WAR PATH. I Must have Money and Mean what I Say. \ ?<>*? I?i HAVE a word or two to savj 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 MEAJST 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, rjlO which they respectfully invite your careful inspection before buying. We JL 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 Heoorative in Furniture and House Furnishings, Our entire stock will be FRESH . nd LATEST in DESIGN. Suites in Walnut, Antique Oak and Sixteenth Century. Chairs in endless variety, Your speciai 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. COFFINS and CASKETS cau be furnished at any time. J. J. BAKER, Manager, South Main Street, below Orr & Sloan's Drug- Storo. BIO IMPROVEMENTS. HAVING had onr storeroom enlarged to double its former size to keep up with our steadily increasing trade, wo can now oiler you as fino anil fresh a i?.t of Family and Fancy Groceries. Fruit?, ifcc . as is kept in city at Tillman prices and Alliance terms. Fresh Cheese every week, fresh Can Goods of every kind, fresh pure ng*r Candy every week- Die line lunch baskets at cost to close. Our Motto?Fair and square dealing, coupled with push, perseverance, energj h-j a big lot of politeness, we hope to succeed. Very respectfully, 6 B. TV, & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, 1 CRATS! E BOLTERS. LET THE MAJORITY RULE-AS IN POLITICS ALSO IN BUSINESS. Now, the majority of the good people of this County say that KAY & BAKER carry the? THE LARGEST STOCK OF FLOUR To be fouud in Anderson, and save them from 25c to 75c on every Barrel they buy from them. Also, sell? COFFEE, TOBACCO, SHOES AND JEANS For LESS, and all other Goods as cheap a3 anybody. This is a fact that only needs an investigation to be substantiated. ElNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, KAY & BAKER, do solemnly declare the above statement true, and moreover do steadfastly believe that any person whatsoever who will inspect the Goods, Prices and Quality of Kay & Baker, unbiased by prejudice or preference, with honest intention of buying where the best goods are sold for the least money, will be thoroughly convinced of the above statement, and always trade with Kay & Baker. Signed, sealed and de? livered, this 27th day of October, A. D. 1890. 'TSvahmvbb, KAY & BAKER. C. C. CTJMMINGS, L. 0. PEAL._ $25,000 W?RTH OF GOODS! - BOUGHT FOR - SPOT CASH, - TO BIS CLOSED OUT BY - J-JLISTTTA-HIT 1, 1891. \Ve have mutually agreed to dissolve our Copartnership on above date,and pro? pose to close out our Stock between now and that date, consisting of? NOTIONS, - And, also, a nice lino ot - MILLINERY AND DRESS GOODS, And anything any Lady may nenl in the Fancy Goods line, all to be sold cheaper than the same Goods have ever been offered before, and we cordially invite all to come and inspect our Tremendous Stock, As a new Firm will take charge on above date we must urge every one indebted to ua, either by Note, Mortgage, or open Account, to come forward at once-J and settle, as we must have our money by December 1st, 1890, and will place all unpaid Accounts in the hands u! our Attorney for collection on that date. Now 18 your chance of a life-time. Come one, come all. Yours, very truly, LEWIS & M00RHBAD, BELTON, S. C. Oct30,1890 _17_ 2m GIVE ME THE LAST CHANCE 1 I DO NOT ASK THE FIRST BUT THE LAST. [Y STOCK has been well selected, and bought at the very lowest figures, and am determined to give the public inside figures. Come and see rne, and get my prices be? fore you buy is all I ask. Dress Goods in all shades, Trimmings to match and blend, Black Goods?the best and most stylish stock in the city, Flannels in all styles and shades, Table Linen in all grades Blankets, all kinds and prices, Lap Htobes, handsome line- ? Ginghams?the best selected stock, Teazle Cloth?a beautiful line, Shoes?a No. 1 stock, Trnnks?first class and cheap, White Quilts?I can beat them all, And Everything Else Kept in a First Class Dry Goods Store A.T PANIC PRICES. My Dress Making1 Department is in full Blast, And we can make you a Fine- Dross in short order, and guarantee you a first class fit and elegant finish. call and see me and get the lowest prices. W. A. CHAPMAN, No. 9 Granite Row. A.TST> BUSINESS iVIOTT? : We Sell the Best Goods for the Least Money. OUR PRICES apeak for themselves. As to Price and Quality our Stock stands second to none. We intend to sell more Goods than ever before. Our motto the one that the people appreciate mostly?"Honest weights and measures, a fair count, and prompt and courteous attention to customers." . We strive to please and benefit our customer?. Our good? are arriving daily. We carry all lines of goods, making it tedious to mention prices. Our Fall Stock of Clothing Just Arrived. Now is the time to get the pick and fit. Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes a Specialty. Our Stock of Dry Goods and Notions is Complete In all lines. Also, a great variety of Trunks and Valises. Our Grocery Room is filled with? All Kinds Staple and Fancy Groceries, Wooden and Willow Ware in great varieties. Also, a full line Crockery ware, At Prices to suit all. BAGGING and TIES. Money saved will bring happiness around your family circle. All we ask is for you to call on us, get our priw? and be convinced. Don't Sell your Cotton until you Sec Us. Yours truly, 33. W. BBOWN SC SOUTS. :huesday moknb Te}a?hej^'?oi,umn, -ta^ All communications intended fo this Column should be addressed to D. H RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C. The Education or Young Farmers^ Education is properly the care and charge of the State. We owe it to our? selves that every other citizen should be prepared to fill his or her place in life with advantage to the public. This is a fundamental principle of our system of government, in which every man has a share by his vote, and needs to be edu? cated to use this power with safety to the public. And it may well be extended so far as to include that every person who must support himself by his labor should have every facility for fitting himself in an effective manner for" his work. Doubtless it is on this principle that the Agricultural Colleges have been insti? tuted and that experiment stations have been added to them for the technical in? struction of farmers. But the farmer who neglects or refuses to avail himself of these"public means of education fails to perform the part of the duty which devolves upon him as a citizen, which is to make himself useful to the ;'tblic which provides means for the training of his children, and when he declines to send bis sons, or 'one of them at least, to an Agricultural College when he is able to do so, he neglects a plain duty. No doubt many farmers suffer disability in their occupation for want of a sufficient education. Farming is not to be carried on by a rule of thumb or by servile imitation of obsolete practices. Years ago all mechanical vocations were carried on without knowledge of scien? tific principles upon which they were based. But this ignorance no longer prevails. Every worker in wood knows the strength of the timbers he uses, or at least the master workmen do, or should, and may if they will. Every worker in metals i3 guided by scientific knowledge. The brewer and the tanner understand the chemistry of their arts; and so it is with all technical trades. But the far? mer, as a rule, knows nothing of the science of his art. He plows, but does not know why his plowshare has a particular curve, nor does he know why certain lines of draught cause the plow to run easily and do good work; he turns the soil without knowledge of the reason for it, he harrows in like ignorance, and when he sows his seed it is regardless of the necessities of the soil for its proper germination and growth. He purchases and uses fertilizers without intelligent i knowledge, and wastes his money in ineffective use of the plant food he buys. At least, this is the rule, and the excep? tions only make the failures the more conspicuous. Agriculture is thus exces? sively hampered by this common igno? rance of the science upon which the art is based, and the profits of the farmers are less than a fourth of what they might be under a better system. Labor and material are wasted and the public wealth is largely reduced in consequence. This is a public calamity, and it justifies the actB of the government in providing means for the education of young far? mers by which the public interests may be advanced. It is obviously the duty of the farmer to avail himself of the op? portunities afforded for relief, and, ss he cannot do this in any other way, he should see that his successor is better provided in this respect than he has been. But the colleges should do their part fully. Those in charge should be actu? ated by a sense of public duty and re? sponsibility. This is not always the case. Generally the Professors are capable, en? ergetic and conscientious, but the officials in control are too frequently otherwise. The funds provided are in some cases di? verted from the proper use. Competent teachers are hampered and interfered with and leave\the college in disgust. Two cases of this sorb have recently happened in the Southern States?one in Missouri and the latest one in Texas?where the Profesaora have been forced to leave because of the interference of politicians, who usurp the management for base pur? poses. Other similar cases are known in which the funds are used for the support of incompetents who have political friends and the offices are sinecures. At the same time there are other insti? tutions which for some reason cannot entice students even with bribes. This may be due to the apathy and neglect of the farmers themselves, but, as this has happened in some of the Northern States where the farmers are unusually intelli? gent, it may be otherwise. Perhaps it might be advisable that in such cases the Colleges which fail of their purpose should be brought under the supervision of the Agricultural Department. Such a provision has been ingrafted in the recent Act increasing the endowment of the Colleges, and requires an annual statement of the way in which the now grant above referred to is to be made aud the withdrawal of the grant upon even a reasonable supposition of its misuse or failure to be effective. Unquestionably the success of these institutions rests with the farmers. There are farmers enough in all the States, who are competent to supervise the manage? ment of them instead of lawyers and superannuated Doctors of Divinity, who, however well-intentioned they may be, are scarcely fitted for such technical business. A strictly professional educa? tion generally unfits a man for general business, even for farming, while a suc? cessful farmer is usually a good business man and understands what is required to make a student a good farmer. Farmers would have more confidence in the man? agement of one of their own vocation, aud ready to send their sons to an insti? tution under such management. It is futile to look for the attendance of far? mers' sons at a College in which the parents have no confidence. The far? mer's money is hardly earned, aud the man who earns it wants value for it, and he hesitates to risk disappointment in the failure of his son to go through an expensive course of two or three years unsuccessfully. It would be interesting to know how the first installment of the grant is to be disposed of, and if it is to be paid over to those Colleges who are without students or whose original grant having been squandered or diverted has left them without adequate means for their sup? port, and if any guarantees are to be ex? acted from these for the better use of the money in the future. A sum of about $725,000 will be required the first year and nearly half a million added each year in progression thereafter increasing by this sum until the tenth year, when the whole cost will be ?1.125,000 annu? ally. The sum is trifling compared with the amount of good that may be done with it, but it is too large to bo thrown away even iu part. ? To promptly and permanently cure rheumatism or neuralgia use Salvation Oil. Price 20 cents. ? The Kansas Farmers' Alliance lias enrolled 130,000 members. The greatest political power within its ranks, its ablest organizer and most powerful speaker is a wornau, Mrs. Mary A. Lesse, a lawyer of Wichita. Mrs. Lease is possessed of ora? torical powerB and a comprehension of the political situation, which are, for a woman, wonderful. ? The people's remedy for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Croup, Influenza.- Whooping Cough, Incipieut Consumption, is Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, the old reliable. Vice 25 cts. *G, NOVEMBER 13, BILL AliP'S CHAT. Atlanta Constitution. Verily the southland is looming up. I dident realize hov7 rapidly until I visited North Alabama last week, and with my own eyes saw the wonderful growth of new towns and the prosperity of the old ones. Millions have been added to her wealth in the last two or three years, and millions more are coming. There is no let up in her progress. When a little, old-fashioned village like Florence rises from 1,200 people to 7,000 within eighteen months, and build furnaces and foundries, and factories and colleges, and her taxa? ble property increases from ?50,000 to ?3,000,000 it all seems like a dream. This does not include any of the numerous works in construction, among which is a cotton mill of 53,000a spindle. It would take half a column to enumerate all her industries and those in construction. Money flows in and around her as free as water, and it takes three national banks to transact her financial business, It seemed to me that everybody was rich, judging from the beautiful bouses and homes of her people. Everywhere is heard the Bound of the hamper and the saw. Streets are being graded for electric cars, hills dug down and hollows filled up. The town grows so fast that the city fath? ers can't keep up with it; can't grade the new streets nor pave the sidewalks. It is yet a city of magnificent distances. Dr. Hawthorne's groat Baptist University is about completed; a magnificent structure and will soon be opened for educational ! purposes. Sectarian colleges are now the order of the day, and seem to prosper more than any other. One thing I saw at Florence gave me especial comfort. The wagon factory that is turning out thirty first-class wagons every day, and will soon increase its work to fifty. Ever since the war we have paid millions in annual tribute to the north for our wagons and buggies and carriages. The time is near at hand when we will make our owu. A few years ago we paid $90 for a wagon, ?a wagon that did not actually cost more than $40. Studebaker and White? water, and other northern companies got immensely rich from Southern patronage. The Florence Wagon Company sells a better wagon for 850, and is making mon? ey now. In fact, they wholesale them for about $40, for I saw them in the neigh? boring towns where the meichants keep 'them, and the merchant pays the freight and sells them to the farmer for ?50 and makes a profit. There is a world of mag? nificent timbers around Florence, and this wagon company invites an inspection of the stock of ash and hickory and white oak that is put in their wagons. Why can't we duplicate this factory in Georgia and save our timbers from wan? ton destruction. Florence has built a very line hotel, and it is hoped that the business part of the town will soon grow to it, but at present the commercial trav? eler suffers and sweats and frets down town and gets away as soon as possible. A good hotel is the very best advertise? ment for a growing town. It would pay Florence ard Sheffield to build one each for the commercial traveler, and have them well kept, even if the hotel lost money. The drummer wants a home for the time being. His hard life demands it. I persue them and ponder them with intense interest and warmest sympathy. Everywhere I go I meet them, and won? der that they can be so cheerful. At Tuscumbia eight of them left the hotel at night on the 10 o'clock train, and seven came in to take their places. The night is to them just like the day?all broken into pieces. Their schedule is made up, and, like the Wandering Jew, they must keep on moving. Around the big, dirty stove in the reception room they gather, and talk, and tell of their ups and downs, and compare notes and whistle or sing until train time, whether it be early or late. At Huntaville a score of them waited from 11 to 1 o'clock on a belated train. It waa cold and cheerless, but I beard no complaint, no bad language. I was tired and sleepy and it was a struggle for me to keep calm and serene, but I thought of the drummers and kept my temper down. I thought of the father and mother, the brothers and sisters and the pleasant home that was far away, and how happy they were all to receive a vis? it from the boy they loved. I thought of the midnight travel and the cheerless room where, as my old schoolmate wrote once in bis composition, he was ''all sol? itary and alone, all by himself, with no? body at all with him?" Wasn't he lone? some ? Florence is on one side of the great river and Sheffield on the other. Five great leviathan furnaces are continually breathing out fire and smoke in Sheffield, but the town is not making very rapid progress now. It is beautifully located and has broad, graded streets and band some drives. Montgomery avenue is just lovely. No more beautiful street can be found in any city in the south, and all it wants is to be filled up compactly with such residences as now adorn it. There is much wealth there, but not many in? dustries besides the furnaces. From Sheffield I ran down to the little unpre? tending town of Russeliville. I did not know there was anything there but an old fashioned primitive village with a courthouse and a jail and a Baptist and a Methodist Church and a few humble dwellings and store?, but I found the town on a boom, and every man, woman and child on a strut?even the dogs wagged their tails proudly. Town lots had goue up from $200 an acre to $10 a front foot. Iron ore had been found in the naboring bills and iron men from Birmingham had come up and bought it and were tearing up the face of the earth. They have built a branch railroad around it and had a reservoir that held 10,000,000 gallons of water, and were operating im? mense steam shovels, and washing the gravel ore with ponderous machinery of the latest improved models. Whole train loads of this ore were moved every day to Birmingham and Sheffield. Houses for the workmen were thick iu the su? burbs and everythiug was lively, A new hotel is on the way, and it is to be hoped that the same good lady will preside over it that presides over the humble teuement that gave us food and shelter. What clean nice beds and bedding. What cheerful fires. What good old-fashioned cooking and shining table ware. The drummers like to rest there, I know, but space is scarce, and they have to double and treble in a room or take the first train and get further. But they leave their blessing with the widow. I don't like to room with a stranger, for maybe he is a nervous man and don't like nasal trombone music away in the dead of night. But then a man ought to be will? ing to endure for a n'^Li, what some of my family have eudured for years and years. I am not a, very hard case, how? ever, and always turn over and hold up when my name is called. But Huntsville is the grand old town of north Alabama, and grand folks live there. I don't mean proud folks or vaiu folks, but the old-time aristocracy of the south, the refined and cultivated people who will be gentlemen and ladies, whether poor or rich. There is nothing small or mean or selfish about the aver? age Huntsville citizen. Honor and prin? ciple are cardinal virtues, and her chil dreu aud youth grow up imbued with the best ideas of true manhood and woman? hood. It has always been marked as the home of virtue and beauty. If I was a rich man and could call back about 25 years, and Mrs. Arp could do so, too, I think I would move to Huntsville aud luxuriate with her people But we can't all be rich and so we can't all go to Huntsville. It is easily possible to be happy in other places, and it is generally our own fault if we are not. Happiness is not far away if wc will only 1890. seek it. Happiness is at home by the hearth stone with a contented and lovirjg family. I found it while I was gone even in the little village of Leighton that put on no airs, but where good people nabor with each other in friendship and love and good will. I never miDgled with a better people than I found at Leighton, and shall never forget the love-feast wo had on that rainy night in the little schoolbouse in the grove, where music and song gave welcome to the stranger in their midst, and "Bonny Doon" and "Araby's Daughter" carried me back to the songs of my_ childhood. Peace and prosperity to Leighton; may her people never get poor enough to steal nor rich enough to be proud and take the name of the Lord in vain._Bill Arp. Cabbage and Romance. Romance and the rose go hand in hand, and the dainty violet and the modest lily have often opened the portals of love, but it has been left to California to produce the only cabbage that ever led to real ro? mance that wound up in a wedding, says the San Francisco Chronicle. Eighteen months ago, according to the unquestionable statement of Granviile W. Alexander, a grain merchant of this city, there stood in front;of the door of one of San Francisco's real estate dealers a cabbage from San Barnardino CouDty weighing ninety-two pounds, and said to be the largest ever raised. While this production of California's greatness was on exhibition the Oregon express landed from England two Britons, so fresh from their native soil that they walked along the dry and dusty streets with surtouts down to their ankles, and their trousers rolled up to meet their coatB. They were both bound for Australia. Passing along they espied the wonderful cabbage. Both men stopped short. Up went two single eye glasses. "By Jove, old boy, but that's a doosed ly large cabbage, doncher know." "Doosedly large," replied the second surprised son of Albion, and then they both went in and inquired of the real es? tate man where it was grown. Both men were wealthy. Both men were cousins, and while unknown to to them the busy hand of fate was now at work, it only seemed to the curiosity seekers that in deciding that life would be misspent unless they saw the land upon which this cabbage grew, that they were only obeying the idle whim of idle gentlemen in going to San Barnardino to do so. And so they went. Englishmen as a rule are not garrul? ous, and these two friends were no ex? ception. Once in San Bernardino they were directed to the farm where the cab? bage grew. They remained two weeks. At the end of that time one of them said to the rancher: "I want so much of your land in a certain section. How much is it worth ?" "Four hundred thousand dollars." It was paid for. The other friend said to the rancher: "Your daughter is very beautiful, and I love her. I want to make her my wife." Two months ago there was a wedding at the ranch. There were a number of people present, friendB of the family, and the groom 'brew aside his taciturnity long enough aL '.lie supper table to tell how the big cabbage had led to his hap? piness. A Bird Story. On a sultry night last month Mrs. A. H. Ellsworth, of Jackson Hollow, was awakened by the flapping of wings at one of the windows of her bed room. She struck a light and found that a female whippoorwill had got wedged in between the screen and the spsb, that the bird was unable to free herself, and that one of her wings was broken. Mrs. Ells? worth took pity on the wounded bird, bound up the broken wing as well us she knew how, and placed her in a canary's cage for the night. * In the morning Mrs. Ellsworth found that the whippoorwill, with the excep? tion of the broken wing, was all right, and she fed the bird and hung the cage on the porch, intending to set her free as soon as she was able to fly. During the morning the whippoorwill sung out a number of times, and along in the fore? noon Mrs. Ellsworth noticed that another whippoorwill was flitting around the cage. She concluded that the wounded bird had succeeded in calling her mate from a row of willows down by the creek, and her conclusion proved to be correct. The male whippoorwill alighted on the rim of the cage and coaxed like a good fellow for his wife to come out and sail away with him to their homo among the willows, and then they put their bills together between the wires and had a real sweet domestic kissing spell for three or four minutes, the wife seeming to convey to her anxious husband an un? derstanding of the fact that she would be delighted to accompany him if she only had two well wings. Anyhow, the male appeared to under? stand pretty soon that his wife was a cripple, and in prison, too, for when they had kissed one another all they cared to, just then the male flew away toward the brook. In a little while he returned with his bill of food, which he liberally dealt out to bis wife from his perch on the rim of the cage. It tasted better to her than the food that Mrs. Ellsworth had put into the cage. Mrs. Ellsworth left the cage out at night, so that the wife might be as near to her husband as possible and the male roosted on a lilac bush close by. He carried lots of food to his wife each day and in about a fortnight her wing got well. Then Mrs. Ellsworth turned ber loose. Her mate joined her immediately and the happy pair sailed off toward the row of willows, singing a song of gladness on the way. Likes the Combination. A close observer tells us that when a woman on horseback passes, the French? man looks first at the woman, the Eng? lishman first at the horse ; the Ameri? can looks at both together. Our coun? tryman ia quick to appreciate the com? plimentary relations of both. It is this broad perspective that lead the American to so prepare his medicine, a complimen? tary mixture, one iugredient enhancing the medicinal qualities of the other. It is in this way that nature has an ally in furthing the curative power of her rem? edies for man's ailments. Dr. Westmore? land's Calisaya Tonic is the embodiment of the latest and kest known of these, compounded according to a formula most extensively endorsed. It has stood the tests of many years' trial. General de? bility, loss of appet:te, enervated facul? ties and dyspepsia are entirely cured by its use. Malarial symptoms, or poison and blood poison are quickly banished by its U3e. It is the most powerful of all anti periodics. For sale by all druggists. ? A new hotel, in the new State of Washington, stands high up ou a steep hill, the business portion of the town be? ing at the base of tbo hill. To provide access to the house without compelling its patrons to climb the hill, the latter has been tunneled to a point eighty feet under the hotel; to this point electric cars run, and au elevator does the rest. ? Mr. Nick Purvis the other day, while working near a branch on his place, heard a setting hen making a great noise and went to see what was the trouble. Ho found that a chicken snake had swallowed the ten eggs on which she had been setting. Mr. Purvis thereupon took a ptick and pressed the eggs out of the snake and put them back under the hen and she hatched them all.?Che raw Re? porter. voLira JOE BR0W>\ Senator Brown Given a Sketch of His Own Life. In his great speech at the State Fair in Macon, Hon. Jos. E. Brown gave the following brief sketch of his life, for the encouragement of the struggling young men of to-day: My father was a farmer with small means, and had a wife aud ten children to support; and I was raised upon a farm and worked hard as a farm hand until I was 19 years of age, when, with the consent of my parents, I left the farm, in Union County, Georgia, in November, 1840, with the view of going to school at Calhoun Academy, in Anderson district. South Carolina. My only education was that I could read and write and I had been in arithmetic as far as the "rule of three." My only earthly goods were a comfortable home-made change of cloth? ing, made by my good mother and sis? ters, and a fine yoke of steers which I drove before me as I walked on my way to Calhoun Academy, about 125 miles, where I entered the school" under the control of Mr. Pleasant Jordan. I sold my steera for eight months' board, and as I had no money with which to pay tuition, Mr. Jordan was kind enough to give me credit for that. Suffice it to say that after the end of the eight months I taught an old-field school for three months to get a little money to 1 aid me. Under the encouragement of Dr. 0. P. Broyles, of Pendieton. S. C, and of his father, Major Aaron Broyles, of Calhoun, and of the late Judge J. P. Eeed I returned to school and got board and tuition on credit for the nest two years. In the meantime, by close appli? cation and hard study, I had prepared myself for teaching in an academy, and I went to Canton and took charge of the academy there in 1844, where I bad a fine school, and made some ?500 or ?600, with which I paid most of my past in? debtedness. Having obtained the text books while teaching, I studied law by myself, but never read a day in a lawyer's office, and in Sept., 1845,1 was admitted to the bar in Canton by the Hon. Augustas Wright, then presiding, who was very compli? mentary to me on the examination which I then stood. With the aid of Dr. John Lewis, so well and favorably known to the people of Georgia, 1 was furnished the money to go to Yale College to the law school, where I graduated in 1846. I was married to Mias Elizabeth Gres ham, in South Carolina, in 1847. Soon after this" came the period when I held my first official position, and the people delegated to me their first trust. In 1849 I was elected Stale Senator from the Counties of Cobb and Cherokee. So that the period of my entrance into public life dates back forty-one years. In 18521 was a member of the electoral ticket that cast their vote for Pierce and King. In 1855 I was elected judge of the superior court of the Blue Ridge circuit over the Hon. David Erwin, who was then presiding. In 18571 was nominat? ed by the Democratic convention of Georgia without any knowledge on my part that my name was being used for the office of Governor. I was elected in October of that year. In 1859 I was again elected Governor, and in 18611 was elected for a third term. In 18681 was appointed chief justice ot the su? preme court of the State for a term of twelve years. After serving a little over two years my health failed and I resign? ed the office and went into the business of railroading. I thought I had permanently retired from politics; but in 1880 when the Hon. John B. Gordon resigned his posi? tion in the United States Senate, Govern? or Colquitt tendered me the appoint? ment to fill the vacancy. I accepted it and served for about three weeks under the appointment before Congress adjourn? ed. I then became a candidate for re? election to the office of Senator to fill the vacancy of between four and five years which remaned unexpired. The con? test was a heated one and the race an exciting one, but it resulted in my favor by over two-thirds majority. Again in 18841 was a candidate for the term of six years in the Senate. I had no oppo? sition and was elected by the general as? sembly with practical unanimity; was but one desenting vote. My present term will soon have expir? ation of the term. I will under no cir? cumstances be a candidate for another office of honor, trust or profit. The few remaining days of life, if I have any, I hope to spend in the State where I have been so often honored and among the people to whom I feel the greatest grati? tude and to whom I am under everlasting obligation. As a member of the State Senate, I presided temporarily over that body. As chief justice of the State I was the regular presiding officer of thejudicial de? partment of the State, and as Governor I presided over the executive department. I never was defeated in any race I ever bad where the question was to be decided by popular vote. Ab already stated, at 19 years of age, in November, 1840, illiterate and with? out means, I left my father's farm on foot to go 125 miles to an academy to school. In November, 1S57, just seventeen years later I was inaugurated Governor of Georgia, being then a little over 36 years of age, and probably the youngest man that had filled the place. If the example is worth anything to the young of the State, my egotism will be pardoned. The intention at least is right. What one boy, under the^ cir? cumstances mentioned, has accomplished 1 may be accomplished by another, and if not to the fullest degree, there may be many approximations by boya of pluck, energy and perseverance. The way is open "to every bright boy to better his condition. May you all determine todo so. Auimals Using Fire. A knowledge of the use of fire and arti? ficial lights hag always been regarded as distinctly human, and as marking a defi? nite separation line between man and the lower animals. It would appear from a paragraph in Stanley's new book, "In Darkest Africa," that this distinction can no longer be claimed. On page 423 of the first volume of that work the author says that among other natural history notes which he gleaned from Eui'g Pasha was the following: "The forest of Msongwa is infested with a large tribe of chimpanzees. In sunnier time, at night, they frequently visit the plantations of Mawa station to steal the fruit. But what ia remarkable about this is the fact (bat they use torches to light the way I Had I not witnessed this extraordinary spectacle personally I should never have credited that any of the Simians understood the art of mak? ing fire."?Chambers' Journal. Catarrh Can't be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional dis? ease, and in order to cure it you have to take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is no quack medi? cine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is com? posed of the best tonics known, com? bined with the best blood purifiers, actiug directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredi? ents is what produces such wonderful re? sults in curing catarrh. Send for testi monials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. BS^Sold by Druggists, 75c. IE XXV.- -NO. 19. ALL SOJITS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? Sunday is now generally observed in Japan as a day of rest. ? In many transactions the middle man very soon gets in the first place. ? Some people take the world ca they find it. Others want the world and can't get it. ? Happiness is a great deal like butter in one respect?it goes further when it is spread on thin. ? A peasant woman near Nantes', France, recently gave birth to five chil? dren, who were still alive at the last re? port. ? When^a man and woman have been made one, the honeymoon is the time spent in endeavoring to discover which is that one. ? "Say, dad, when I grow up I want you to make a minister of me." "What induces you to make that, choice, my boy?" "I want to go Europe every summer?" ? A male child of Mrs. Michael Mc Guin, of Newark, N. J., weighs only three-quarters of a pound, although it is three months old. ? One af the shortest names in the country is possessed by Mr. Ye, who is secretary of the Corean legislation at Washington. ? Rio de Janeiro has reduced the ex? port duty on coffee from 11 per cent, to 4 per cent., to take effect January lBt, 1891. This will cheapen America's most popu? lar drink. ? The pay roll of the servants alone of George W. Child's country place at Bryn Mawr amounts to $1,000 a month. This is said to be the finest country resi? dence in the United States. ? A large part of the drill of life con? sists in overcoming hostile dispositions. Every time we have conquered some re? sentment or prejudice we have made a distinct gain in the way to a well-regula? ted behavior. ? Ex-Congressman W. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, has tried buttermilk that has been heated to the boiling point without boiling and then permitted to cool, and universally recommends it as a cure for dyspepsia. ? "What did de doctah say ailed yer mostly, Rill 1? "He lowed dat I had a conflagration of diseases. Fust, de sal? vation glans don't insist my indigestion; dat makes a torpedo liver, cose I'm liable to go off any minnte." ? A genuine case of leprosy has been discovered at Chester, Pa. The disease i has shown itself by a swelling of the skin^_ all over the body, but as the victim has a robust constitution, it may be many I years before he succumbs to the deadly , malady. i ? A Georgia editor, says the Atlanta Constitution, borrowed a mule to ploW'his garden. When quiet was restored the editor was found under an outhouse, four panels of fence were gone, and the mule was eating roasting ears in a neighboring truck patch. ? Said a very old lady, in a peneten tial mood induced by illness, "2've been a great sinner more than eighty years, and didn't know it." "De land sake!" ex? claimed an old colored woman who had lived with her for for years. "I knowfed it all the time." ? Louis Wolf, of Louisville, inherited $20,000 a year ago. He went to New New York, drank up his money, and went to Grank Rapids, where he went to work as a porter in a saloon. The other day his friends bad him locked up for twenty days to sober him. ? "My son, stop! You must not dis? pute your mother that way." "But she's in the wrong." "That makes no differ? ence ; and you might as well learn, my child, once for all, that when a lady says a thing is so, it is so," and then he added earnestly, ''even if it isn't so." ? The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution ; who resists the sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. ? The color line is being drawn. In New Orleans a mulatto girl is suing a man for $10,000 for calling her white, " and in Atlanta a white girl is suing a man for calling her black. It is danger? ous to talk about a dark complected white person or a blue-eyed negro nowa? days. ? Application will be made to the nest legislature of Georgia for an act to amend the prohibition law of Hart county and provide a system to establish an agent in the county of "Hart for the purpose of Belling liquor for medicinal purposes only, and for no other pur? pose." ? A boy named Charlie Mason was recently tried for horse stealing and ac? quitted at Paris, Texas. The evidence was ail dead against him, and he had no lawyer. His face saved him. It was an honest face, and the jury took his state? ment in preference to the sworn testimo? ny. ? Mrs. James Proud, of Hazardville, Pa., ran away from London thirteen years ago to marry Mr. Proud. Last Tuesday she received a letter stating that her father had forgiven her on his death bed and had left her $10,000. She read the letter and dropped dead. The shock killed her. ? "Have you boarded long, at this house ?" inquired the new boarder of the sour, dejected man sitting next to him. "About ten years." "I don't see how you can stand it. Why haven't you left long ago?" "No other place to go," said the other dismally. "The landlady is my wife." ? During the forty years jost passed 12,925,643 immigrants have arrived in this country from all corners of the world. The largest number came be? tween 1S81 and 1SS5, when the immigra? tion returns show an income of 2,975,683. From 1SS6 to the present, 2,266,847 im? migrants entered our ports. ? At West Sparta, N. Y., recently a number of men were engaged in butch? ering hogs on a farm. They were making a scald, when Charles A. Thompson, los? ing his balance, fell headlong into a boil? ing caldron of water. When taken out he presented a fearful appearance, the flesh dropping from his body. He died after several hoars of terrible agony. ? Charming people, these exceptional people! Here's a medicine?Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for instance, and it's cured hundreds, thous? ands that're known, thousands that're unknown, and yet yours is an exceptional case? Do you think that bit of human nature which you call "I" is different from the other parcels of human nature? "But you don't know my case." Good friend, in ninety-nine out of a hundred cases, the causes are the same?impure blood?and that's why "Golden Medical Discovery" cureB ninety-nine out of every hundred. You may be the exception, and you may not. But would you rather be the exception, or would you rather be well ? If you're the exception, it costs you nothing, you get your money back? ?but suppose it cures you? Let the "Golden Medical Discovery" take the risk. Tourists Whether on pleasure bent or business, ; should take on every trip a bottle of Sy? rup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneyB. liver and bow? els, preventing fevers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For eale in 50 cent and $1.00 bottles by all leading druggists.