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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. r\ OOD NEWS for the people of Anderson and out of Anderson who come to - \JT pay a flying visit to our beautiful and picturesque city, nestling in the de? files of the Blue Ridge Range,and possessing many advantages over any city of its size in the State. And to the good people I now exclaim with emotion that? I have just returned from New York, ' The scene of the greatest excitement since the panic of 73, Banks and wholesale houses bursting, and men who were worth thousands on the morning of Tuesday were penniless before sundown on Saturday, and with the bursting of those houses down went the Goods with a crash, like a traiu through a broken bridge. And remember, I WAS THERE WITH THE CASH, '? Which is the best companion you can have in a case of that kind. The bargains that I got?"don't talk .'"?they are immense. No such bargains were ever offered before, by me or anybody else. The truth is that I am astonished myself at the ridiculously low prices I can afford to sell at. These prices will bring to many a household as much unspeakable joy to housewife and husbandman as the annual visit of Santa Claus will bring to the little three year old darlings. ; Excitement is Now over Fever Heat, And strong men turn pile while Wall Street, the great monied centre of the United States, trembles as if shaken by an earthquake. During all this1 excitement the auctioneer's voice is heard above^he deafening noise, and at the words, "Going, Going, Gone," down comes the auctioneer's hammer. Then there is a lull, while the clerk cries out, "Gone to the Flynn Crusade ?" To quote prices would be im? possible, the stock is now so large it would fill one Bide of this paper. My stock of Clothing and Overcoats is now decidedly the largest in the Up Country, and the prices not more thaa 65c on the dollar. My stock of Shoes I have not got half enough room for, and will run off a lot . at your o?m price for a week or ten days to make room. I have everything now in stock, from a Baby's All Wool Undershirt to a Fine California Blanket. My stock of Ladies' Capes, in Seal, Plush and Astrican, Jackets, Wraps and Newmarkets (all tailor made) catches the ladies of good taste. Something new and pretty in Ladies' Dress Goods and Trimmings to match, . lately imported. All Wool Scotch Plaids for Ladies' Suits. They are very nobby. These are sold at a price not over 68c on the dollar. DOWN CO THE PRICES. ???:".;?./..-/..'?' *. - 40c Double Width All Wool Dress Flannels at 23c. 50c Double Width All Wool Dress Flannels at 29c 50c Fine Imported Worsted at 27Jc. Hundreds of yards of good Calico at 31c, sold elsewhere at 5c. Children's good solid leather copper tip Shoes at 25c. - Children's Boots, solid, at 50c. A big bargain in Ladies' Fine Glove Grain Congress at 88c, would be cheap at $1.75. > Pricee like these will knock out any merchant that cannot keep abreast with the times.. I bought Thirty-Seven Hundred Dollars' worth of Boots and Shoes /?."??t*V:.'U2vv- ' "? From a house that failed, and my customers get the goods at the small profit of 5 percent. I can show everything that can be found in a Firsi. Class Store, and will now guarantee to sell as many goods for $10.00 as can be bought elsewhere for $13.50. Remember that I Sell Goods at Living Prices, And there's no "get as much as you can for the goods" about me. Leader of Low Prices. "Red House," Granite Row. A MERRY OHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL ! Ladies, Gentlemen and the Little Od es! WE cordially invite you all to.come in and see our immense Stock of Goods. We are prepared to show you through, and give you some very low prices. If you do not want to buy anything come and see ?-hat great bargains we have to offer you, and let your neighbor know what great bargains we have to offer this Christmas, viz: Dolls, Doll Carriages, Talking Dolls, Baby Jumpers, Toy Wagons, Iron Axle Wagons, Hook aud Ladder Wagons, Steam Fire Engines, with horses attached, Velocipedes. ITheel Barrows, Hobby Horses, Croquet Seta for parlor use, Harmless Guns, Air Guns that will kill bird* and chickens, Doll Beds, Doll Hammocks, Doll Wash Sets, Bureaus, Parlor Sets, Wash Stnnd*, Tool CbestB, And many other Toys which we cannot me!iti.?n fur want of space. We also have a full and complete stock of? CHINA, GLASSWARE and CROCKERY, Imported from England, which we cau sell cheaper than ever before. These Goods must be sold, and to do so we are going to .sell CHEAP. STOVES, WASH POTS, HOLLOW WARE. Wq have just received another Car Load of Stoves, which was bought much cheaper than usual. Now we are in position to sell you a good Stove f >r le?d money than you can buy anywhere, and better goods. We sell you a Stove and guarantee it not to crack inside of one year's time. Give us a call. Yours, very truly, PEOPLES & BCJRRISS. THE ENTERPRISE FURNITURE CO. Is now receiving their IMMENSE and VARIED Stock of FURNITURE AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS, i f}0 which they respectfully invite your careful inspection before buying. We 1 ? cannot begin to enumerate our entire line, but to announce that we are Bfocking to the rafters our Double Store Rooms with the Useful, Ornamental and ' decorative in Furniture and House Furnishings. Our entire stock will be FRESH od 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, Wn''.-. bnnght fresb from the looms, aud at prices that wilt enable us to SAVE YUU MONEY on these goods. O-ir Mr. E. H. POORE will repair your Furniture, and repaiDt and varnish it. COFFINS and CASKETS can be furnished at any time. J. J. BAKER, Manager, South Main Street, below Orr & Sloan's Drug Store. FOR SALE. Two Good Houses itnd Lot*, ON MfiDuffie Streer., near the Public Square Terms?One third cash, balance one and two ycais time, with in? terest, secured by mortgage. R A. JACKSON, ? Nov '20, 18?0 5 20 4 ORR, WELLS & ORR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ANDERSON, - - S. C. Cfncc over National Bank. OctSO.lSOO 17 I THIS COLUMN BELONGS TO THE ALLIANCE CO-OPERATIVE STORE ? of ? ANDERSON, R, S. HILL, Manager, Who is too busy this week to call particular attention to the Daily comiug in. Our stock was never so attractive as just now, and our New York Resident Buyer, Mr. Stradley, not? withstanding the stiff advance in many lines of Goods, has recently secured Tor as some? RARE BARGAINS ? in - CLOTHING, Men's Miis Ms, And be has also added many more pretty NOVELTIES - to our ? Ladies Dress Goods - AND - Millinery Department Wc liHvt superior faciii'.ies I i I'liyiiig got id* "vrr our C"U!|.>oii:cti.-?* u.i"g in much largrr !u>s?hucJ giv. -???>h mid every mit* :it nur ru?Miiii?-r* !-e? efit of our purchtidts. 86?^, All wo ask is a lair ami impartial comparison of prices Very respectfully, MANAGER. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNII HO, DEMOCRATS! DOWN WITH THE BOLTERS. LET THE MAJORITY RULE-AS IN POLITICS ALSO IN BUSINESS. Now , Ihe majority of the good people of this County say that KAY & BAKER carry the? THE LARGEST STOCK OF FLOUR To be fouDd 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 as anybody. This is a fact that only needs an investigation to be substantiated, KnOW* 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. ATTi%: vandivee, KAY & BAKER. C. C. CUMMINGS, L. C. DEAL. 525,000 WORTH OF GOODS! - BOUGHT FOR - SPOT CASH, - TO BE CXOSED OUT BY - -jj^nsru^K/ir 1, i89i. VVe 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? HATS, SHOES, JEANS, NOTIONS, - And, also, a nice lino ot ?? MILLINERY AND DRESS GOODS, And anything any Lady may need 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. fiSF*" As a new Firm will take charge on above date we must urge every one indebted to us, either by Note, Mortgage, or open Account, to come forward at once and settle, as we must have our money by December 1st, 1890, and will place all unpaid Accounts in the hands of our Attorney for collection on that date. Now is your chance of a life-time. Come one, come all. Yours, very truly, LEWIS & MOORHEAD, HELTON, S. C. Oct 30,1890 _ 17_2m AND SONS. 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 thai 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 customers. Our goods 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 Gaps, 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 Crockeryware, 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 prices and be convinced. Don't Sell your Cotton until you Sec Us. Yours truly, e/w. BBOWN" &c sonsrs. for Infants and Children. " Castor! a Is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to mo." II. A. Ancnzit, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Castorla cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, gives deep, and promotes di? gestion, Without injurious medication. Tab Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. LAKD FOR SALE. BY virtue of the power ou me con/erred by Mrs. Lina M. Prince in a Deed of Trust, I offer at private sale tho following Tracts of land, to-wit: TRACT NO. 5, containing forty-two acres. TRACT NO. 4; containing forty-five acre?. TRACT NO. ;!, containing forty acres. This is the Eastern portion uf tho Tract of laud whereon M. Mid Prince lives. It lies within a few hundred yards of the new Piedmont Mills on Anderson sido ?f.Tliver. Plata of same mayhe seen at niy ottice at Anderson, S. C. Purchaser to pnv extra for papers. G. K. IMtlNCJEj Trustee. Nov. ia, law, id s Tillinan is Elected! AND everything is settling down to bus? iness, and the way to do business is to do it on business principles. Money saved is money made. So if yon want a good HORSE or MULE if you will see mo before buying i will save you money. i mean wlmt I nay?if you. don't believe it come and see. I am not selfish enough as to want nil of tho patronage of the town, but I do want my share of it, and I tell you I am goinp to have it if low prices and fair dealing will get it, and I believe it will in the end. So come right along down on De? pot Street and see me, and if I don't sell you I will mako.sonichodyse.il on mighty short profit. J have also two IIoii3ns and Lots for sale, well improved, and in a hun? dred nr two yards oT the Public Square. W. B. MAORTJDER. sTG, DECEMBER 4, 1 TEjAOHE}r$'tfoLUMN, 155^ All communications intended fo this Column should be addressed to D. H RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C. LOVING READING. A parent was visiting a school-room and the Third Reader class was brought up. They held the books properly,stood straight, p.nd pronounced the words accurately. When they had been din missed to the seats the teacher received some compliments from the nnrent and waa pleased. The parent i^marked, ''They don't love reading, that is plain, and you do wonderfully well when that is taken into consideration." This was intended to please the teach? er, but it did not. She felt convicted of a failure. For she remembered Prof. Sheldon had said to the class in the nor? mal school, "If your pupils don't love school it is because it is not the right sort of a school; if they don't lovo arith? metic it is your fault." After the visitor had departed the teacher determined to ask the class some questions, They were called forward to their places. Beginning with the head one she asked "Anna, do you love to come up here in the class and read ? Remember, 1 want you to speak frankly: I have a curiosity to know what you think of it." All were asked and the teacher found that a few "liked it some;" others "did not dislike it," a few "liked geography much better," two "really disliked it." The teacher thanked them for telling her, and told them she was determined they should like to come up and read : she said frankly, "It is my fault if you don't like it. This surprised the pupils. The teacher began to look back over the facts. She remembered how inter? ested she was in some of her classes, how uninterested in others. She began to look for the reason ; she felt it was in the teacher. She determined to study up the method of teaching her reading class? es so that they should be interested. The geography class wa3 very much interested; that she knew. Why was it ? She thought and thought, and feit eure it was because they understood it. Could she apply the name plan to her reading classes? She determined to try. "The words in a reading lesson are not the words a child would use to describe the same event." This had been said at the summer school by Prof. Frye, and the teacher wondered just what was meant. She took up the lesson for the morrow. Here was a paragraph: "Beautiful, indeed, said she when she saw them; but the band that gives to the poor is more beautiful than the one that is washed in the clear stream, stained by fruit, or garlanded with fragrant flowers. She felt here were many words the pupils would not have used. "To really read, the reader must use words that arc in his own vocabulary." For reading is getting thought; if ono reads aloud he must give his thought. Reciting lines from Virgil or Homer (the pupil not knowing the meaning) would not be reading. Upon this subject the teacher thought, a great deal. She read and re read what Col. Parker says in his "Talks on Teaching," "Reading is think* ing." She felt sure that most of her class were doing no thinking when they read. And then as'to the structure of the sentence?the teacher felt that none of that class would have said?"washed in the clear stream, stained by fruit, or garlanded with flowers." She determined to have the class study the words so that they would be a part of their vocabulary; so she wrote dispute, aside, color, staff, perfume, wrinkles, gar? landed, fragrant, unadorned, unstained, on the blackboard. Which words do you use ? "Color." "Wrinkles." I wish you to copy the other words and use them at home, or anywhere, and tell me to morrow. On the morrow she asked, Who used dis? pute? "I said at the tea table,'1 will not dispute with any one.' " "I said to Henry that 'my grandfather leaned on a staff;' he said it was 'a cane,' and so the talk went on. Then the class read on previous pages. In a few weeks that teacher could say, "My Third Reader class loves reading as much as they do geography."?Teachers, Institute. COMPOSITION WRITING. The teacher says. Let us make a story about something to-day. Mary, may we talk about your hat? Thank you! I will put it on the desk so every one can see it. This hat is prettily trimmed. Some one may tell me something about it. Charles? "It's on the desk." Yes, it is; but I don't like your way of telling it. "The hat is on the desk." Better! I will write your sentence on the board. Who else can say something for me to write ? "It is Mary's hat." "It is a pretty hat." "It is a brown hat. "It is a new hat." "It ia a straw hat." It is trimmed with brown ribbon." I see something else. Who will tell me? Annie looks as if she knew. "It is faced with brown velvet." "Mary wears the hat to school." That is very well. I have all the thoughts written on the board. Now I shall read them. Listen carefully, please, and tell me how it sounds. "The hat is on the desk. It is Mary's hat. It is a pretty hat. It is a brown hat. It is a straw hat. It is trimmed with brown ribbon. It is faced with brown velvet. Mary wears the hat to school." You don't like it, I see. Why not?. "There are too many it's." Yes, it is jerky, and not pleasant. Can you mend it? "We might say Mary's hat is on the table."' "Y-s, or we might say. Mary's pretty Growu hat is on the table." What next? "It ia a now straw hat." It is trimmed with brown ribbon, and it is faced with brown velvet " Ii is trimmed with brown ribbon mid freed with brown velvet." Yes, :bat is better, Now I will read our thoughts ahout the hat again. "Marv's pretty brown hat isi on the table. Ir. is :i new straw hat. It is trimmed with brown ribbon and faced with brown velvet. M:iry wean the hat to school "?Teachers, Institute ? Jack Drennan, a nfgro employed at a sawmill at Crapheli, Ala., on Monday, fell upon a saw and his head was split from the crown down to the middle of hi3 nose, He did not lose consciousness and three hours afterwards was still alive and talking clearly. ? It was Mr. Emerson who said the first wealth is health, and it was a wiser than tbo modem philosopher who said that "the blood is the lifo." The system, like tbe clock, runs down. It needs 'winding up. The blood gets poor and score* of diseases result. It needs a tonic to enrich it. A certain wise doctor, after years of patient study, discovered a med? icine which purified the blood, gave tone to the system, and made men?t;red, nervous, brain wasting men feel like new. He called it his "Golden Medical Discovery." It has been sold for years, sold by the million of bottles*, and peo? ple who discovered it, now feel warrant? ed in selling it under n positive guarantee of its doing good in all cases\ Perhaps it's the medicine for you. Yours wouldn't be the first case of scrofula or salt-rheum, akin disease, or lung disease, it has cured when nothing else would. The trial's worth making and costs nothing. Money refunded if it don't do you good. 890. BILL ARP'S CHAT. Hill Arp asks What Is to Uecomo of the Girls. Atlanta Constitution. Oh, ray country. It makes me sad and tired to get so many letters askiug for help and advice. Help that I cannot render?advice that I cannot give. The letters are alw.iys welcome, for it ia good for a man to know of bumau trouble and to lend his sympathy. It is better to go to the house of mourning than the house of feasting, but still these letters make me feel helpless. They make me to wish that I was rieb and wise so that I could respond to every call of misery. I Wish that^ome great millionaire would die and leave his money to me?to me in trust for misery. Sometimes when I look around upon my cheerful home it alarms me for fear I have not had my share of trouble, and it will come yet before I die, and fall upon my children. They are not f-trong yet and trouble would go hard with them. The child never gets strong while the pa? rents live. If the old folks have nothing else to give they can give comfort and sympathy and advice, and when they die a prop is gone. But the girls?the girl?what is to be? come of tbe girls? That is the question that is uppermost in the minds of thous? ands of parents. It did not use to be so half a century ago, and what is the matter now ? Of course the old time parents felt anxiety about their daughters, especially about 8feiog them happily married and settled down, but as a general rule they did marry and the young couple weut to work prudently and sensibly and began to raise children and chickens, and with a little help were comfortable and pros? perous There was no great hurrah about how or w here the girls should be educated. The old field school was good enough if the teacher was a good one. Richard Malcolm Johnston taught one of them for twenty years, and a college didn't turn out any better scholars than he did. My numerous and lovely wife went to just such an one until she was sixteen, and I didn't want her to get any smarter, and so we mated, and she knows as much about books rnd everything else as her college bred daughters. There is not a school boy that can speak Marco Bozzaris like she can. But what is the matter with the girls? The New York World is chock full of letters about them?whole pages of letters that tell bow they should be educated and what they should do for a living, it seems that an old gentleman wrote the first letter and bitterly denounced the prevailing methods and the modern col? leges, and he accused woman of invading the sphere of man and doing unwomanly things, and said she had better stay at home and raise thechildren and let science and art and politics and temperance alone. His letter was pungent and sar? castic and has aroused the fair sex, and now we are havi?g it hot and spouted on both sides. Such notable women as Ella Wheeler VVilcox and Marion Harlandand Mrs. Austin and Mary E. Bryan and Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher have entered the field aud given their opinions in a vigo? rous and spicy way. A score or two of other writers, male and female, have re? sponded, and the cry is still they come aod nothing is settled. It is hard to tell who is ahead, for some of the women are on the old gentleman's side, and some are half and half, and some say he is a luna? tic and ought to be arrested. The old gentleman has no patience with the short-haired, pushing, brainy women, but wants woman to be lovable and retiring rather than cold, defiant and self sup? porting. He wants them to stay at home and make it comfortable and inviting, and expresses his disgust at tbe whole tribe who are everlastingly writing nov? els and dreamy analytical stories. Wo? man, he says, was created to be a mother and to nurse children, and that is her highest and best vocation. Some of the women go for him like yellow jackets come out of a hole in the ground, and they sting him fearfully. I think|tbat he has taken to the bushes to get rid of them, for he has not yet put in a rejoinder. They say that thousands oi their sex are not yet supported by the men, and they are compelled to go out in the busy world and support themselves. They would willingly marry if the right sort of a man was to come along and ask them, but he don't come, and but few of the men are fitten to marry, and not fitten to get fitten, and those who are, are get? ting scarcer and scarcer as the years roll on, and 60 tbe girls prefer to toil rather than be pensioners upon the bounty of their kinsfolks. Well, it does look like the old man is right, and the women are right, too. He is looking backward at the good old times, and they are contending with the hard facts of the present. Halt a century ago who would have thought of seeing a nice youug girl in a store or counting room, or a printing office, or a theater, or singing in a church for pay. It would not have been tolerated. They were al lowed to teach tbe village school or keep a milliner's shop, aud that was about all. Housework?domestic work?was their employment until they got married, and they had plenty to do afterwards. Mrs. Arp did, I know. Her good mother taught her to sev and to knit and make cake and play upon the piano and ride horseback, and she can now work a neat er buttonhole than any child she has got, and the little dresses she made aud hem? med, and hemstitched and plaited, were marvels of beauty. From sixteen to for ty five no woman ever made more IiUle garments or knk more stockings or was more diligent in household business And yet she has not suffered, nor felt oppress? ed, nor lamented her lot. The maternal pressure was constantly upon her, and 8be had no time to lament?no time for dreams and reveries or Utopian desires. When s'ie tvas weary with work she rest ed by reading?reading books that were fit to be read, aod she never forgets them. She is the standard of the household upon all literature, from Milton tu Mother Goose. That's tbe kind of a wo man she is, and never went to college. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wikor begins her letter on the old man's siuj of the ques lion, and she blames the mothers and teachers for encouraging the girls to showy accomplishments and public dis? plays. She blames the young men for paying more attention to showy and en tertuioing girls than to practical and iu dusirious ones. The young men want their sweetheart* to be showy and their wives domestic, and as the average girl cannot be both she docs not marry, or if she does a separation or a divorce soon follows. Our own sensible Mrs. Bryan says the old man is both right and wrong. She defends the health and muscle of the wo? men of to-day, and says they understand the laws of health better than did their mothers or grandmothers. That their rooms nre better ventilated, and they have quit lacing their waists and cramp? ing their limbs and wearing French heel slippers. It was not uncommon in the old gentleman's time for a lady to faint in the ballroom and have their stays cut in a hurry to gire them breath. But Mrs. Bryan does lament the decay of what she calls the maternal instinct among the educated classes. She says that but few children are born to them, and the uumber is constantly growing less. The time was when it was a reflec? tion upon a woman if she did not bear children, but not now. The society wo? man of to-day does not want them. They are a trouble, and are in the way of her selfishness, for motherhood means self sacrifice. Mrs. Bryan hints that possibly this is intended to solve the problem of over production and excessive population in the future, and that maybe if there arc lower childreu born, they would be better VOLUM ones. The mouse in the fable taunted the lioness with having so few offsprings, and the lioness retorted, "But they are lions." Well, I don't believe in that. I don't believe in anything that ia not according to nature. I never eaw a right healthy, mature woman who was not a mother. I never saw a good one who did not wish to be. Mra. Austin wrotes most tenderly and truthfully about that, and asserts that maternity brings back youth and keeps it fresh and buoyant. She says : 'I was born over seventy years ago, and now in my serene old age I look upon my chil? dren and grandchildren as a workman looks upoD a piece of work with which he ia satisfied. My children are still my babies, and their little ones bring back my youth." That's so. I know it is so. My wife has nourished on it. She has gone to see a sick one now. What would we be without them? Why, I wouldn't enjoy my last illness if there were no children around to Io7e me and weep when I was gone. But old Mrs. Beecher writes a cold, hard letter, too hard, I think, and tells how she had to do the washing and iron? ing, and make cheese and cool', and sew and darn and plait straw, aud was never idle except when asleep, and she thinks the girls should be raised that way. All that is well enough if she was happy, and she says she was, but she declares that if she had a dozen girls she would make thc^3 do the same thing, and would never mention mariiage to them, and if they did not marry she would send them out to service?yes, hire them out to work in somebody's kitchen. May the gocd Lord forbid! That ia what I call poverty hard, pinching poverty when an educated girl has come to that. She says: "Our little girl had a beautiful shock of golden hair that curled in ringlets, and one day a lady called and said to the child: 'What beautiful hair you have got?you are so pretty I;want a kiss.' In the after? noon I saw my child standing on a chair looking at herself in the mirror. Her father saw her too and lifted her down aud told me to cut off those curls. I did so and the little lamb was sheared." If I had ever done the like of that to my child I woulden't own it now. Bless God I never did nor bad any desire to. That child's maker gave her that hair as an ornament, and it was no more harm to be proud of it than to be proud of her beautiful eyes. The mother might, with as much reason, make her go barefooted to crush her pride. The old lady closes her letter with "Cut off tbe curls, close the piano and the fiddle box, and give the girls plenty of work to do." This puts me to thinking either Mrs. Beecher is a hard woman, or I am a very soft man, for I shall not cut off the curls nor close the piano or fiddle box. They are all a pleasure and a treasure at any house. But in all these letters there are good thoughts and food for reflection. The gist of the whole matter is that every re? spectable family ought to do the very best tbey can for the girls, and I reckon they will. Good example and good pre? cepts and a happy fireside are the best safeguards. If the girls do not have these at home there is no security abroad. Bill A bp. The Xew Tariff Bill. The McKinley tariff bill, which went into effect last month, is the most mis? chievous piece of legislation that has ever been enacted in this country. Con? sidering its motives?the purpose for which it was enacted?it is the most in? famous. There was a time when the Constitution, together with a great many Southern people, believed that the cry for tariff reform might be carried too far toward free trade for the interest of the young and growing industries of the South. It was a belief based on tbe idea that as the industries ot the North had been built up to some extent by protection, a rea? sonable amount applied to Southern in? dustries would not be out of place. It was a fond belief, but it has been cured by this infamous measure. Here? after the whole South must stand togeth? er in favor of a reform of the tariff that shall be as extreme in the direction of removing from the people and from all business interests the burdens of tariff taxation as this McKinley law U in the direction of imposing them. This must be the issue. The new tariff law is in the highest degree sectional. It is an attack on the prosperity of the farmers and other tax payers of the South. It ia an attack on the fanners and people of the West. It ia class legislation of the most iniquitous sort?a robbery of the people for the benefit of the monopolies and trusts who are expected, in return, to swell the Quay corruption fund to such proportions that the honesty of this country cannot prevail against it. It ia an issue on which the South must present \ solid and invincible front. Fortunately it ia an issue that has no other matters to embarrass it. It is free from the heavy and deadening influence of the negro question. It stands by itself, and tbe farmers of the west, who are not willing to be robbed by the fol? lowers of Quay for the benefit of the trusts and monopolies, must take their place with the solid South in the cam? paign that ia to be made. It must be an iudignant campaign?a campaign in which the hearts of the tax paying classes of thia country must be inflamed with a high and just wrath against those who have placed thia iniquitous burden upon them. In the stress and despair of a tremen? dous war the tariff against which Mr. Cleveland and the Democratic party justly made complaint was thought to be high enough and burdensome enough to meet the demauda of a desperate silua tiou ; but here aud now, in a time of profound peace, and in the midst of the greatest prosperity, especially in the in? dustrial lines, the Republican party largely adds to the burdens of taxation that are already oppressing the farmers and the rest of the people who earn their bread by the toil of their hands. No infamy of oppression could exceed this in a republic like ours, and it paves the way tor a campaign ol freedom that shall sweep away this corrupt "organize tion which crushes (he people with taxa tioii in order that the monopolies, and trusts, and millionaire manufacturers may grow richer still. It paves the way for a campaign that will sweep the coun? try like wildfire, culminating in a reform of the tariff and a lifting of tbe burdens of taxation that shall be far reaching and complete.?Atlanta Constitution. How's This? We offer one hundred dollars reward for any eise of Catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Mall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, 0. We, the undersignei], have known F. J. Cheney for the last lo years, aud be? lieve him perfectly honorable in nil bus? iness transactions, and financially able to carrv out any obligations made by their firm' West $l Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Waldix?, Kixxax & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mu? cous surfaces of the system. Testimo uiala sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. ? If yon want a man's candid opinion of you make him anirry and you'll get it. [E XXV.- -NO. 22. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS, ? There are 30,000 Americans who constantly resido in London. ? The Kansas legislature just elected will contain 115 farmers, and but three lawyers. ? The next Legislature of North Car? olina will be composed of 103 Alliance members. ? Mrs. Palmer, of Chicago, has been elected president of the lady managers of the World's fair. ? Do not consult anybody, but invest twenty-five cents in a bottle of Salvation Oil. It kills pain! ? The man who is always ready to speak or believe evil about other people has the wrong kind of a heart. ? A man no sooner gets old enough to know how to talk well than be afso learns the value of not talking at all. ? It is estimated by the potato men that at least S,000 barrels are used in New York city alone every day. ? It is estimated that the number of passengers carried by all the railroads in the world averages 6,500,000 a day. ? A little 6-year-old daughter of Mr. W. Phillips, of Warm Springs, Ga., picked 270 pounds of cotton in a day. ? A man died in the Maine State prison last week who had been about fifty years in prison during a life-time of 76 years. ? Though this is said to be not a great year for corn in the United States, the crop is estimated to exceed 2,000,000,000 bushels, ? If you go through the world with a long face you will some day find out that your life has been more of a curse than a blessing. ? A little Maine girl, in whose family there came an addition, remarked with a sigh, "Now we will have to cut the pie in six pieces." ^_ ? A horse is like a man. The way to his heart is through his stomach. Put a bit in his mouth and he will do almost anything for you. ? Statisticians have figured it out that the average cost of construction a mile ef railroad in the United States at the pres? ent time is $30,000. ? Fifty tons of ochre have been ship? ped from Carter3ville, Ga., to Europe. This is said to be the first shipment of .. ochre from this country to Europe. ? The largest cargo ever taken out of Savannah, Ga., by a steamship was that of the British steamship Restitution. She carried 10,000 bales of cotton. ? Itch on human and horses'and all animals cured in 30 minutes by Wool-, fold's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by Hill Bros. Druggists, Anderson. ? Jeff Pearson, of Reidville, Spartan burg County, son of Thomas Pearson, was kicked in the stomach on Saturday night by a mule and died on Sunday night from the injuries. ? There is no dependence to be placed on the promise made in necessity. Help a man out of a ditch and if he does not pay you while the mud is still wet on his clothes he will never do it. ? About 859 species of birds are now known to make North America their home, and representatives of eighty-two additional species find their way to this continent from other countries. ? The discovery of a cure for consump? tion by Dr. Koch, of Germany, appears . to be well authenticated. It is the greatest discovery of the age and will prove a boon to humanity. ? The Confederacy issued eleven kinds of postage stamps. They are all, if on used, worth double their face value. The 10 cent blue stamp of 1863, if unused brings 83.00, or if used ?2.50. ? An exchange says: A careful sur? vey of the whole matter ought to satisfy' any rational mind that the present finan? cial panic will result in great good to the South by turning the tide of capital in this direction. ? Mr. J. P. Neel, a son of Mr. Thos. Neelj of Newberry, was robbed of about $160 while at the Fair last week. He had his purse in his hip pocket. His pocket was cut and the money gone. ? "How pleasant it is to see husband and wife of one mind I" "It is, indeed. There's the Robinsons, for example. She thinks there's nobody in the world . like Robinson, and he thinks so, too." ? When we reflect that so many hu? man beings die of Consumption we must come to tbe conclusion that everybody should be provided with Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, the poor consumptive's friend. ? J. H. Perry, a farmer of the vicinity of Tuscaloosa, Ala., walked out of his house on Tuesday night last, telling his wife he had a headache and would goM out into the open air, since whicJ^?|| nothing has been heard of h\mJSBK&&?i^ ? The late Mrs. Astor had a rSpi^es which cost $15,000, and it is stated tu, another was recently sold to an America* lady for $25.000. There are a number Of"**, ladies in New York who each own laces valued at from twenty thousand to fifty thousand. ? "If a young man loves a woman and at the same time indulges in liquor to a great extent and feels that he can give neither up, it would be better for him to tie a millstone around his neck and jump into the sea than drag an innocent wo? man into a drunkard's home."?Sermon. ? On Saturday, near Chapin, in New berry County, a colored boy, about eight years of age, was handling a loaded gun, aDd in a playful manner pointed it at~a~ child and snapped it, when the load was discharged and entered the head of the child, killing it instantly. ? The Jelegattons of Anderson and Pickens Counties have united in request? ing Hon. W. D. Mayfield, State Superin? tendent of education, to appoint Mr. D. H. Russell, of Anderson County as chief clerk in this office, and there is a proba? bility that the appointment will be made. ? It is said that the postmaster gener? al is working out a plan fcr a free mail delivery in small towns, and thinks it can be applicable to towns of 400 to 500 pop? ulation, in from one to two hours daily at . an expense of about $100 per year for the one hour service and $200 for the two hour service. ? A gargle for sore mouth and throat is to take four large spoonful of good cider vinegar, four of water, a teaspoon ful of common salt, and a very small portion of red or black pepper ; gargle every .'iour. It is worth more than all the chlorate of potash in the country and it cannot harm you. ? Mr. Jason Gould doesn't look like a man who had much fun, but it is said that while the panic was at its worst in Wall Street, he used to go home every night, fall on the floor snd scream with laughter un'il he was almost exhausted. Jason is an American, and Americans know a funny thing when they see it. ? A negro wman apparently died in Shreveport, r-x, but when the funeral procession arrived at the cemetery next day she rose up in her coffin and wanted to know what was going on. The mourn? ers were terror stricken and dispersed in a hurry, leaving the woman to take care of herself. She is now as well as ever. Progress It is very important in this age of vast material progress that a remedy be pleas? ing to the taste and to the eye, easily taken, acceptable to the stomach and healthy in \i3 nature and effects. Pos? sessing thes<-> qualities, Syrup of Figs is the ono perlect laxative and moat gentle diuretic known.