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BY CLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON. FURNITURE, FURNITURE, FURNITURE! A MAMMOTH STOCK FURNITURE! Three Big Stores full of Furniture from Cellar to Garret? The best Selected and Largest Stock of Furniture ever shown in the State of South Carolina at G. F. TOLLY & SON'S. Now, if you want BARGAINS?BIG BARGAINS?in Furniture, and every? thing that ia kept in a FIRST CLASS Furniture Store, come to the Old Reliable Furniture Store of G. F. Tolly & Son, that has been in existence for over a quarter of a century, and has successfully competed against all competition, having beaten two of the largest Western Manufacturers in furnishing the new Hotel Chiquola; Having, daring the last month, sold and delivered Furniture to Allan*a, Ga., Macon, Ga., Greenville, S. 0., and sold at wholesale to a large number of Furniture deslers along the line of both Railroads. The question may be asked, how can you do all this? The answer is plain : Experience I and buy ng in larger quantities than any Furniture Store in the State, and having selected the largest snd best Factories to be found, and having exclu? sive sale of their goods. We can off?r better Br.-gains than any one else. All we ask is to come and.see our Stock, full of the best kind of Goods, (no shoddy good sold.) We have fine Bureaus, full Burl fronts, large fine glass standards, large boxes and brackets, for Five Dollars. The very best strong Maple Beds, with bracket raila and steel hooks, (no pine or poplar in any part of them,) for Two Dollars, and EVERYTHING ELSE in proportion. We invite everybody to come and see our fine line of goods, whether they buy or not.; We would like to, show them through, as we have some of che FINEST Parlor, Dining Room and Room Suites in the State of South Carolina. So come one, come all. Come everybody, to G F. Tolly & Son's Furniture Store, and see the IMMENSE STOCK and be convinced. Caskets and Coffins furnished Day or Night. G. F. TOLLY & SON. MY COLLECTING WILL TAKE A NEW START ON AND if you OWE me anything, and don't want him to come to see you, you can avoid the annoyance hy coming to see me FIRST WEEK IN JANUARY, 1891. My instructions to my Collectors is to make the MONEY, or stay with you until he GETS IT. So don't blame him if he takes your Horse or Cow. I TOLD HIM TO DO IT. My Creditors want what I owe tbera, /tnd I must have the Mon6y from you to pay them off. Your prompt attention will SAVE EXPENSES. This is plain talk, but MEANS BUSINESS. A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL ! Ladies, Gentlemen and the Little Ones! WE cordially invite you all to come in aud 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 wnat great bargains we have ro offer you, and let your neighbor kuow 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 TFagons, Steam Fire Engines, with horses attached, Velocipedes, rFheel Barrows, Hobby Horses, Croquet Sets for parlor use, Harmless Guns, Air Guns that will kill birds aud chickens, Doll Beds, Doll Hammocks, Doll Wash Sets, Bureaus, Parlor Sets, Wash Stands, Tool Chests, And many other Toy3 which we cannot mention for want of space. We also have a full and complete stock of? CHINA, GLASSWABE and CRQCKEKY, Imported from England, which we can sell cheaper than ever before. These Goods mast be sold, and to do so we are going to sell CHEAP. STOVES, WASH POTS, HOLLOW WARE. We have just received another Car Load of Stoves, which was b?.ugh?. much cheaper than usual. Now we are in position to sell you a good Stove lor less money than yoa can buy anywhere, and better goods. IFe sell you a Stove and guarantee it not to crack inside of one year's time. Give us a call. Yours, very truly, PEOPLES & BCJRMSS. THE ENTERPRISE F?OTRE CO. Is now receiving their IMMENSE and VAF1IED Stock of FURNITURE AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS, TO which they respectfully invite your careful inspection before buying. We : cannot begin to enumerate oik entire linp, but t'? announce fbat we nre stocking to the rafters our Double Scnr; Rooms with tlie Uscfu:, Ornamental a;id Oecorative in Furniture and House Furnishings; Our entire stock will be FIIESW od LATEST in DESIGN, Suites in Walnut, Antique Oak and Sixteenth Century. Chairs in end leas variety, Your speciai attention is called to our line of Carpets, Rugs, Ottomans and Haversacks, Which was boueht fresh from the looms, and at prices Iba' will ?nabir! us to SAVE YOU MONEY ou these good*. Our Mr. E. H. POORE will repair your Furniture,and repaint ind varnish it. COFFINS and CASKETS can be furniehed at auy libie. J. J. BAKER, Man tger, South Main Street, l>elo\v 0;. r & Sloan's I?jt r.jr Store, ANDERSON, S. C. IN DEY GrOOIDS ? A.T ? c1 BLECKLEY'S For the next Thirty Days. . REPARATORY to a cbtuig? in business on January 1st, we desire to greatly reduce our Stock, and in order to do this we have REDUCED PRICES materially, as the following will show. We can sell you a? Plain Red Flaunel, all wool, at 10c per yard, worth 15c. Red Twill Flannel, extra heavy, all wool, at 1G 2-3c, worth 25c. Red Flannel Shins, ail wool, at 37ic, sell at 50c everywhere. BLANKETS, BLANKETS. A large stock of Blankets, all kinds, worth from 75c per pair to $10.00; DRESS GOODS. In endless variety, consisting of Worsteds, Cashmeres, Serges, Henriettas, Mohairs, Flannels. Robes, &c. A special drive in our Double Width Twilled Cashmere at 16 2-3c has always sold for 25c. SILKS. A nice assortment of Silks of various kinds cheaper than ever heard of before. BLEACHED GOODS At prices that will surprise you. "Fruit of the Loom" at 7ic, worth 10c. NOTIONS, NOTIONS. Aii Sorts of Notions. CLOTHING, CLOTHING. We womd not have you forget that we have a large Stock of Clothing, and that wo propre closing it out, aud any one wanting a Suit of Clothes can save money by seeking us before buying. Also, a large stock of HATS and CAPS. SHOES, SHOES I Our stock of S ioe3 is a regular Jumbo?simply immense. We can sell you a Woman's Poika at 60c, a whoie -.lock Brogan at 75c, warrauted. Women's Ashe ville (N. C.) Home Made Shoes, whele stock, at $1.00, worth $1.25 anywhere; the same in Men's at $1 25, worth $L 50, every pair guaranteed to give satiwfaction or money refunded. The above g???ids can't be bougnt today by wholesale at the prices we offl-r them. BOOTS, BOOTS. Also, fifteen ca-M Boots that must be sold. A good Boot at $1.25, worth $2.00. A first class, whole stock Boot for >2.50, worih $3.00. TRUNKS, TKUNES. We are headquarters for Trunks sind Yaiises. The above prices are. only a few ot the many we have in store for you, and they are no eaten or take-i>: imces, but merely a fair sample of the low prices at which we propose selliug our '-mire stock within rhe time above stated ; and we would ask the public generally call and in-pecL our stock and prices. Our stock is large and complete in every r*.-pect, AND MUST BE SOLD. We do hereby extend a cor :i il invitation to all, when in town, to come in and see us, even if you dou't buy? *e .viii uke pleasure in showing, and will promise you polite and careful attention. THE LADIES ARE ESPECIALLY IN? VITED. TO COUNTRY MERCHANTS: We will sny that we can SH^-t yon mouey. We are agents for the Hazzard Powder Company and J. & P. O'als' Spool Thread, andean sell them to you as cheap as-anybody in America. Having bought our goods in large quantities and for cash, thereby getting the beBt discounts possible, we are papered to sell them to you as cheap as anybody. And if y:-i don't believe us, And riiir.k wa are telling lies, Just c?'??ti-? to mir store, And si-.c with your owu eyes( Yours, determined to -ail, ESTER BLECSCLEY CO. for infants and Children. "Castorf* Is so well adapted to children that I recommend itae superior to any prescription known to me." II. A. Abcher, M. IX, 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Caatorta cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sluep, and promotes di? gestion, I Without injurious medication. The Ce-ntacb Coupamt, 77 Murray Street, V. Y. BEST SAW THE MILL \N THE ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY. HARDWARE OF EVERT KIND. Steel Plows, Handled Eoes, And all kinds of Agricultural Implements. HEADQUARTERS IN OUR LINE. N. B,-Remember that you enn always buy the best Lumber, Doers. Sash, Blinds, &c., and all kinds of Building Material md Shingle?, of S ULLIVAN MAN ?FAGT ?EING CO. , THURSDAY MOK TeJ??heIr.S'Goiajmn, AH communications intended fo this Column should bo addrossod to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An-' derson, 8. C. Send us a contribution. g?We extend to all the readers of this Column our best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. "Count that day lost whose low descending sun, Views from thy hands no worthy action done." Let us all adopt the above as our New Year Motto. The Teachere, Association, which met in the chapel of the P. M. I., was well attended and real interesting. The sub? jects discussed were such as should be well understood by the teachers and pa? rents. "The relation of parents to the schools," and "the extent of the teachers authority." These subjects, if properly understood in the light of sound reason, would make fewer misundpretandings in the school," and secure better relations between the teachers and patrons. It was the unanimous opinion that there should be a genuine sympathy and hearty co-operation between the teacher and the patrous. That they should under? stand each other thoroughly, and that the parents should visit the schools oftener. There was no difference of opinion about the teacher's authority. All agreed that he should have the entire control and managemeut of his school and that his authority should be supreme. If the parent cannot trust the teacher, he should not send his children to school to him. The teacher is in loco parentie, and he should suffer no one to interfere in the management of his school. Ot course, he should be practica? ble and use common sense in the exercise of his authority. "Which is the more potent factor in the management of children, love or fear ?" This was discuss? ed pretty freely, and with Borne degree of interest. Love was declared to be the more potent, but it was understood that coupled with this love was a fear of offending the one loved, and consequent? ly it was said that love and fear in this sense should be combined. Not fear of corporal punishment, but fear of forfeit? ing the love and respect of the teacher, and fear of incurring the teacher's dis? pleasure. These questions should inter? est every one who has the cause of edu? cation at heart. Misses Nettie Hall, Leila Russell and Bettie Earle were appointed a committee to prepare a preamble and resolutions concerning the death of Miss Lucinda Drake. Miss Olivia Newton, who ha? charge of the Walker-McElroy school in Garvin Township, requested the Association to bold its nest session with her school, which request was agreed to by the As? sociation. It was alto agreed to invite the Pickens County Teachers' Association to meet with us at our next meeting. The patrons of the Wallrer-McElraoy school and the community generally are cordially invited to ba present at our next meeting. The programme will be arranged and published in due time. The teachers should not miss the meet? ings of the Association, if it is in their power to attend. The time of the next meeting will be published with the pro? gramme. Senator Irbj's Ancestry. To the Editor of the News and Courier : It may be safely said that no public speaker in South Carolina has ever said more against "the aristocracy" than Capt. B. R. Tillman. At the notorious "March Convention" he spoke of the organization of'the common people against the aristoc? racy." After all this talk about aristoc? racy it seems somewhat singular that one of the greatest results of Tillmanism should be the election of an aristocrat to the United States Senate; for, if proper? ty, family, position, prominent ancestry and promiueot family connections make a man an aristocrat in South Carolina, then Colonel John Lawrence Manning Irby can be considered one; he certainly can't claim to belong to what Captain Tillman calls "the common people." Col. James H. Irby, his father, was prominent in State politics. He was once Lieutenant Governor and afterwards came near being made Governor by the Legis? lature. He was a successful lawyer and planter, and was a large slave-owner, At the time of his death his estate was worth $400,000. Col. J. H. Irby married the daughter of Dr. Robinson Earle, who spraug from a family that has been distinguished in the annals of upper South Carolina for the last century. Three Congressmen have been produced by that family. They were Samuel Earle, a Revolutionary Captain, Baylis J. Earle, who was also Adjutant General of the State, and Elias Earle, the great grandfather of the re? cently elected Senator. Among the other prominent men whom this family can claim are Judge Baylis J. Earle and Ex Attorney General Joseph H. Earle. The wife of the celebrated Southern Orator, William L. Yancey, was also a member of this same family. Dr. Robinson Earle (Col. Irby's ma? ternal grandfather) married the sister of General Waddy Thompson, a Congresa man and minister to Mexico. I think that I have shown Col. Irby to be an aristocrat. His election to the National Senate by the Tillmanite legis? lators (who are supposed to represent the "common people" more than the "aristo? crats") shows what a peculiar thing poli? tics sometimes is. McDonald F?rman. Ramsey, Sumter County, Dec. 27,1S90. A man who has practiced medicine for 40 years, ought to know salt from sugar; read what he sayB: Toledo, O., Jan. 10,18S7. Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.?Gentle? men :?I have been in the general prac? tice of medicine for most 40 years, and would say that in all my practice aud ex? perience have never seen a preparation that I could prescribe with rb much con? fidence of success as I can Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have pre? scribed it a great many times and its ef? fect is wonderful, and would say in con? clusion that I have yet to find a case of Catarrh that it would not cure, if they would take it according to directions. Yours truly, L. L. GORSUCH, M. D. Office, 115 Summit St. We will give ?100 for any case of Ca tRrrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken internally. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. 5?*Sold by Druggists, 75c. ? Live leisurely unless yon nro nnx ioua to die in n hurry. > NTING, JANUARY 8, BILL ARF'S CHAT. XIo Talks about the good Old Christmas Times. Atlanta Constitution, For forty years I have been wrestling with old Santa Claus every Christmas, and he always gets me and takes away my pocketbook, and spends my money, and throws the purse back to me empty and laughs and shakes his fat sides and twinkles his eyes and puts his thumb to his nose and wiggles bis fingers at me and says, "Goodbye /or a year," and is gone. The old rascal. He sets my wife against me, and while we are wrestling, she stands off and laughs and%ays, "Hur? rah, Santy?go it, my Santy?get his pocketbook, Santy," for she knows that her children are to share in the money, and she pats me so lovingly on the cheek and sings, "Christmas conies tat once a year." Well, it is all over now. Christmas has come and gone. The banquet hall is de? serted. The Christmas Tree has served its night and now lies hishonored and wilted on the woodpile, with none so poor as to do it reverence, How stately and proud it stood erect in the parlor, il? luminated with its little candles, and bending with its burden of dolls and toys and books and candy and fruit for the children and richer gilts for the parents and kindred and the servants of the household I It was a family tree and on? ly two of the household had charge of its secrets. Old Santa had chosen them as his deputies. The parlor doors were locked and ever and anon mysterious messengers came with' mysterious pack? ages that were slipped in at a side window while the little chaps were frolicking in another room. Out doors the silver moon was giving its holy light. Bright lamps were burning within, and soon the clans began to gather and get ready for the feast and for the frolic. The extension table had been stretched to its utmost limit and was laden with good things that Mrs. Arp and the good old cook had prepared At each end reposed a large, brown, oily turkey. With legs pinioned and knees drawn up in posthumous pray? er and wings closed serenely upon the breast, they seemed reconciled to their fate and meekly surrendered to the sacri? fice. How kind it is in Providence to keep all animals intended for our food in ignorance of their destiny 1 Good things abounded in all the space between the turkeys, and everybody enjoyed the feast and lingered at the feative board. Ever and anon there was a bang of fireworks, aud a flash from a rocket aud some rebel yells in the distance, and all of a sudden the children heard a horn tooting on the roof and a racket on the shingles and a jingle of bells in the parlor and their ap? petite was gone. The doors were throwu open wide and there was an eager rush to dee the old man, but he wa3 gone. Amaz? ed and bewildered, the chnpa stood off and looked and wondered. The paternal and maternal ancestors were given the patri? archal chairs and lent their dignity to the sceue. It was worthy of a picture to see the happy faces that beamed expectant all around, and the servants in the ba ground and old Uncle Sara bringing up the rear with his big, massive, antiquated frame, and his dark face fringed with his snow-white beard. Good, kind, old uishioned ante-bellum Sam. He slipped a package in at the window, the laBt of all, and said to Jessie: "Put dis down dar sumwars for your ma and mark it frum Uncle Sam. She been good to me," and he vanished in the darkness. It was a fireplace set of shovel and coal tongs and poker and a stand to hold them. He knew how she loved to clean up the ashes and punch the fire. By and by the tree was stripped of its treasures. The wagon? and dolls and furuiture and chairs and knives and scis? sors and haudkerchiefs and gloves and rings aud breastpins and books and dressing gowns and other presents had found their delighted ownera and every? body had to see everybody's things aud talk and talk and admire. Verily, it is more blessed to give than to receive, but receiving is powerful good, and has more willing advocates. It is mighty bard for some folks to open their hearts aud their purses too, but if anything is easier than to accept a gift I have never discovered it. They alwayt? make me calm and serene. The world is getting better, I verily be? lieve. The people are more unselfish and humane. It is easier to gather up funds for charity. Dr. Jacobs writes that the Christmas money came pouring in for the orphans, and it was all because the good people were told of their wants. Folks give more slily than they used to. Many sent money to the orphaus and gave no name. One sent five dollars and signed, "Only a Drummer." A friend saluted me on the street and took me by the hand aud left a dollar in it as he hurried on, and whispered "orphans." An old man from the country, who was my neighbor, and worked bard for a living, and bas a good, kind heart, met me with a smile, and said, "Hi read about the orphans, and j av brought ye a dollar for them." "Hold Hengland" lost a good citizen when she j lost John Allen, but we gained one. ' I know he is a good man, for I tried him once. I shot his cow. We had a poor fence between us and he had a bad cow, and I had run her out of my corn several times and sent him word to put her up, but he was working away from home and didn't get the word, and the next time she was found in my field I shot her. I waB mad I was. The Alliance knows I was mad, the Alliance always gets mad under such circumstances, but John Al? len didn't. He looked hurt in his feelings when he met me. He looked disappoint? ed aud said with a trembling voice: "Hi know she were a bad hanimal, but the fence were bad too, and Hi were away and dident get the word. Hi reckon it is hall right, Major, but Hi wouldeut av shot yours." The cow got well aud John forgave me and we remained friends. A man who loses John Allen's good will is not much of a ra.^n. But the worst discomfiture I have met with of late was the los.s of my bill before the farmers' legislature. It wusu't even read the first time. It never found a friend. It was a bill requesting each member to give a dollar lor the soldiers' monument at Fredericksburg. The 1,800 graves have all got marble headstones, with the soldiers' names, and company and regiment, but. there are GOO graves right in the center, with no name?. They are the unknown dead, and Mrs. Barry wants $S00 for a single monument ?a soldier on a pedestal, who will stand guard over his sleeping comrade. She wants $100 each from eight Southern States, and has already received it from North *nd South Carolina and Arkansas. Our legislature has adjourned. Maybe the speaker of the House and the Presi? dent of the Senate forgot it. Maybe the members didn't have the money. Maybe they want to give all they havo to spare to that encampment fund of $25,000 ; or maybe they don't care a dogon about our dead soldiers. I wonder what was the matter. Only a dollar? Why, I could get that much from Job, or Lnzarus, for a cause lite that. Half a dollar would have raised the money, but I dident want the farmers' legislature to split up their patriotism, and look small before their countrymen. Maybe I could get the 50 cents. Who knows but that money must come and it will come. There are a few people outside of the Georgia legislature and 1 will enter an appeal to them. There is a poor widow up here iu Pine Log district whose husband was buried in one of those graves, and she wanted to send $2 to Mrs. Barney for a hcadstono. Mis name was on the book; but not ou any grave, and she could do nothing. There is something to mc that is peculiar? ly touching about these unknown aud un 1891. recorded dead. The dim distance of 20 years has not obliterated our sympathies for those humble patriots, who, foremost fighting, fell, and were hurried into their shallow graves and quickly covered aud left alone, as the order to march came to their surviving comrades. No wife, no mother, no child, no sister, no tears, no flowers, not even a board with rude letters to tell his name. In his last agonies what would the soldier have given for a mother's kins or a wife's embrace, and what would the mother or the wife have given for the precious privilege! These widows and these mothers are a'l over the land. The world was electrified to tears when Wolfe's beautiful lines ou the death of Sir John Moore appeared. "Not a drum was heard?not a funeral note." But there were thousands of our boys laid away in their graves with Ires atten? tion than Moore. Of those 600 at Fred ericksburg the poet could say, "Wc carved not a line?we raised not a stone, But left them alone in their glory." Bill Ar.p. WORK OF THE SESSION, Thirty Laws of Interest oat of 233 Acts and Joint Resolutions Paused by the Legislature. Act to authorize Richard W. Simpson, executor of Thomas J. Clerason, to pay certain legacies to Isabella Leo. Act to amend an Act entitled "Ac Act to provide for the redemption of that part of the State debt known as the Brown consol bonds and stocks," approv? ed December 24, A. D. 1890. Act to reorganize and provide for the University of South Carolina, constitut? ing a Board of Trustees of the same and defining their powers and duties. Acts to create a Board of Phosphate Commissioners. Act to amend Section 621 of the Gen? eral Statutes of the State relating to the annual meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of the several Counties of the State. Act to ratify the amendment to Article 4 of the Constitution of South Carolina, relating to the Judiciary department, by repealing Section 19, which provides a Board of County Commissioners. Act to amend" an Act entitled "An Act to an end Section 2,236 and 2,237 of the General Statutes, in relation to juries." Joint Resolution extending the time for the collecting of State, County, rail? road and other taxes due for the fiscal year commencing November 1, 1890, until the first day of February, 1891. Act to provide for a license for the sale of pistoia and pistol cartridges within the limits of the State. Act to amend Section 5 of an Act en? titled "An Act to provide for the forma? tion of certain corporations under the general laws." Act to amend Section 5, Subdivision 6, of an Act entitled "An Act to alter and amend the law relating to the territorial jurisdiction and pay of trial justices and constables in several counties therein mentioned," approved December 24, 1888. Act to raise supplies and make appro? priations for the fiscal year commencing November 1,1890. Act to provide for the election of chap? lains of the Senate and House of Repre? sentatives of the State of South Carolina and for their compensation. Act to authorize School Trustees to sell any school property, real or personal, in their several Districts, and to apply the proceeds to the school funds of their several Districts. Act to amend the General Statutes re lating to the appointment and collection of taxes for school purposes, and to add two new sections, to be known as Section 239 A and 229 B. Act to incorporate the United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Act to~regulate the practice of Trial Justices in equity causes. Joint Resolution to pay Mrs. Ann P. Boubam, widow of Governor M. L. Bon ham, deceased, the balance of salary due the said M. L. Bonham, deceased, as Railroad Commissioner. Act to abolish the Department of Ag? riculture and the office of Commissioner of Agriculture and to devolve all of their powers and duties on the Board of Trus? tees of the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, except the control of phosphate interests of this State. Joint Resolution providing for the in? vestment of all funds in the bands ol the State Treasurer under the Clemson be? quest. Joint Resolution appointing special Commissioners, and authorizing them to lay out and construct a public road from Pendleton, on the Blue Ridge Railroad, to the Clemson College. Act to provide fcr the sale of the lot and building known a3 Agricultural Hall, the fish pond lot and the Agricul? tural Experiment Stations with their personal property at Columbia and in Darlington and Spartauburg Counties, and to appropriate the proceeds thereof. Act to punish frauds of misrepresenta? tions in the manufacture, analysis or sale of fertilizers and commercial manures in this State. Act to amend Section 2 of an Act en? titled "An Act to regulate the fees of physicians and surgeons for testifying as experts in criminal cases," approved December 2G, 1885. Joint Resolution directing the Execu? tors of Thomas G. Clemson to mark his grave and procure a good portrait of the deceased. Act to provide for the appointment of County Board of physicians to examine diplomas of physicians and surgeons in this State. Act to prohibit any person from trans? porting horses, mules or asses into this State infected with glauderp. Act to regulate the appointment and term or office and define the duties of Trial Justices in this State. Act relating to the renunciation of dower by minors. Act to amend Sub-division 2. A, of Section 1,012 of Chapter XIX of the General Statutes, entitled "Of .the free public schools." ?It was Ben. Johnson, we believe, who when a?ked Mallock's question, "Is life worth^living ?" replied, "That depends on the liver." And Ben Johnson doubtless saw the double point to the pun. The liver active?qick?life rosy, everything bright, mountains of trouble melt like mountains of snow. The liver sluggish ?life dull, everything blue, molehills of worry rise into mountains of anxiety, and, as a result?sick headache, dizziness, constipation. Two ways are open. Cure permanently, or relieve temporarily. Take a pill and fiuffer, or take a piil aud get well. Shock the system by au over? dose, or coax it by a mild, pleasant way. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant. Pellets are the mild moans. They work effectively, without pain, aud leave the system strong. One little, sugar coated pellet ia enough, al? though a whole vial costs but 2-5 cents. -o Mild, gentle, snDtbiuir and healing ie Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Only fifty cents; by druggists. ?A pet monkey, in Atlanta, was care? fully trained to watch a baby and rock its cradle when it cried. He was consid? ered a very trustworthy and useful brute, but ouc day, being left alone with the in fant, and finding himself uuablo to stop its crying, he jumped into the cradle scratched the child's face, bit its ears anc nose, tore off its clothes, and when <lis covered was stuffing the bits of cloth in< to its mouth. He is no lonjrer tjmploy? us n nurao. VOLUI POINTS ABOUT PHOSPHATES. The Sew Law and the Commission. To the Editor of the News and Courier: I have ju.-t read the phosphate com? mission bill i% your issue of the 20th instant, and beg to call the attention of my brother farmers to some points in thai remarkable document. I call it remark? able because it is certainly the first in? stance in this State wheu the Governor has ever proposed by the passage of an Administration biii to vest "the exclu? sive coutrol" of more than $250,000 of the I revenue of the State in a board of which the Governor himself is the chairman, i and of which himseif, the Attorney Gen j eral and the Comptroller General shall ! constitute a quorum "for the transaction J of any business" pertaining to said board, 1 one of whom may and doubtless will become the secretary of the same. It is true that the bill provides for the appointment by the three statutory mem? bers of two other members thereof, citi? zens of the State, etc, but it is easy to see that these two citizen members will have small share in the deliberations is care? fully provided agair-st in the bill itself. A fellow once applied to a merchant friend of miue for the position of clerk in his Btore. My friend protested that he had plenty of clerks and could not j afford to pay any more. "Oh, it will net cost you anything," said the appli cant. "I will not charge you anything; I will just depeud om what I can pick up around the store." Strange as it may appear, he did not get the place. Such disinterested patriotism as is evinced by our newly installed Adminis? tration by tho wi!':ngness of three of them to assume the onerous and respon? sible duties imposed upon them by this bill, without other compensation than the payment of their traveling and other necessary expenses, cannot be too highly extolled. Tne approving voice of a grateful and admiring constituency will doubtless prove their adequate reward. When, howe7er, we consider the oppor? tunities furnished by this bill "to pick up things artend the store" and remem? ber that the State may not always be able to secure the services of gentlemen on whose \?isdom, conservatism and integrity the whole people can so confi? dently rely; when, Mr. Editor, we recall the horrid condition of "political leprosy" from which the State Government has just been rescued, the peculation, fraud and corruption t>o eloquently described by our present Executive as incidental to "Bing rulo," and then reflect that (for as the presci.t Administration is above the suspiciou even of such rule) we may yet live to ee? a returu to that evil con? dition; whet: we remember the uncer? tainty of all human affairs, and especi? ally of the result of popular elections, I am sure we may be pardoned for the fear that sometime in the future, perhaps in the near future, we may lose the services of the presen: statutory members of the proposed board, and find that in their guilelessuess and conscious honesty the iramers of the phosphate commission bill have placed n dangerous power in the hands of a very small and very close cor? poration, th.it such power has been abused, that somebody has enriched him? self at the expense of both the State treasury and the phosphate miners, and that "travelling and other necessary ex? penses" are a* nothing in comparison to what somebody has been able to "pick up around the store." That part of Section 2 which provides that the Comptroller General shall con? tinue to receive the reports of rock mined and dug and the royalty paid into the State treasury is of small value as a check, considering the fact that the Comptroller General is a member of the close eorporaiion himself. Section G provides that the said board shall also be empowered, if upon full investigation and examination they deem it advisable, to require all persons or corporations digging or mining phos? phate reck -)c phesphatic deposit in the navigable streams of this State and in the marshes thereof, to pay to the State a royalty not tc exceed two dollars per ton for ail and any phosphate rock so dug and mined, etc. Now, so long as we are blessed in the possession of an Administration, selected by the people themselves by an unprece? dented majority and pledged to reform the abuses which h:id almost unconsci? ously crept into every department of the State Government, such power as thi3 cannot be al-used. But let us suppose that the people, failing to appreciate the eminent character arid disinterested ser? vices of these patriotic gentlemen, should, say in 1892, elect a new set of officials as corrupt, inefficient ar.d irresponsible as those whom we hav>; been told ruled the State from 1876 to 1S%, what then is to prevent this new sei from making deals with the pho ?pLate miners 1 What is to prevent them (mid who is to know) from' pocketing, say 50 cents per ton for all r^ck mined instead of increasing the royalty to the, say, $1 per ton as is authorized? As al' river rock is ex? ported and sold iu markets unaffected by our local laws, every cent of additional royalty will come directly cut of the pockets of the river miners, and it is hardly conceivable 'that they would prefer to pay the State $1 royalty to paying 50 cents on private agreement with a corrupt board. I greatly fear that our present Administration has overlooked and not heeded the weakness? es of their less favored brethren and forgotten that "Och, mankind is unco weak And little to be trusted ; When self the wavering balance shake "Iis rarely, ran-ly right adjusted." The main point; however, to which I beg to call attention is that if, as we are bound to conclude, the one only and single object of this bill is to increase the revenue of the cftate from the phosphate royalty by doubling the tax on Bame, then the title of same should be changed to "A bill to increase the tax upon the agricultural interests of the State for the relief of all other classes of taxpayers therein." The present royalty is let us say $230,000 per anuum All this is paid by the river miners. Yet the farmers pay perciseiy thai amount into the hands of the land roei. men each year in this way. Land rock i-= so much easier worked and gives so much belter results upon manip? ulation that the manufacturers pay for the land rock $1 more per ton than they would have to pay for river rock. The prices of riv^r rock being fixed abroad, the price of laud rock (which pays nc royalty) is fixed by adding say $1 pet ton to the va'ue of river rock. Now if $1 more of royalty is added to the river rock, if it costs that much more to put the river rock od tho market, the borne pri:c at which domestic manufacturers can buy tha* r^ck. will be increased by just that am >unt, and consequently the laud rock uv.-u v.iil be enabled to get jusl $1 more for iheir product from the man ufacturers. Then the manufacturers will be compelled or at least able to charge :rl more, per Io:j i'or t.hcir product, which fa used exclusively by the farming clas? and the whoie of Ibo increased revenue say $250,000, will become a tax upoi the farmers, puid by them as a bonus t< the land roc": men, who pay no royalty The revenue of the ?taie is increased b] that amount, and presumably other taxei reduced, so that Charleston, which pay one-third of rhc entire taxes of the State will be benefited to the extent of $S3,30l in reduction of taxe:*. and enriched in tin further sum of a quarter of a millioi dol?rs per annum, bonus paid to he miners aud owners r.f land rock. It may be that "the powers that be' am striving to afford relief and protectioi to the good people of the "old City h; the Sea" in a sort of clandestine mannet ME XXV. -NO. 27. not letting the left hand know what the right doeth. I protest that if such is the object the peopie who pay the piper have the right to know, that they may join in the pleasurable consciousness of having performed a generous and noble deed. Farmer. all Sorts of Paragraphs. ? When a man cannot have what he loves, he must love what he has. ? The people are taxed in the United States for Federal purposes $890 a min? ute. ? Earthquakes and volcanoes have been quite active in Alaska during the past few weeks. ? Go where you will, you will find people using Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, and unanimous in its praise. ? San Francisco has been without rain for nine months. Settlers are leaving the dry districts of California. ? The people of Americus, Ga., have ordered five hundred white servants to taae the place of negroes. ? Two million and a half is the num? ber of persons who are said to work on Sundays in this country. ? An old lady fell in New York, the other day, and hat pins were driven into her head, killing her instantly. ? By the way, do you make your wife an equal partner in the farm plans ? She may be the better half of the farm if you will. ? Rev. Dr. Armitage, a popular Baptist. preacher, received a $20,000 house near New York for a Christmas present. ? In Georgia and other States the Al? liance are moving in the matter of mu? tual insurance organizations, for fire, life, live stock, etc. ? If a man could live a thousand years he would probably spend the last fifty fretting over what he might nave done in the previous wasted time. ? I suffered most severely from rheu? matism during winter. After using Sal? vation . Oil two days the pain entirely subsided, and now I am a well man. ? When a man wants an idea he scratches his head. When a farmer " wants a crop he scratches his land, and the harder he scratches the better the crop. ? Itch on human and horses and all animals cured in 30 minutes by Wool ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by Hill Bros. Druggists, Anderson. ? Advertising pays. A Georgia editor advertised for the owner of a lost pocket book, and that night a burglar entered his office and robbed him of everything be possessed. ? An old darkey says that during the winter season his motto in regard to the chicken roost runs thusly: "Thou shalt take the chickens off the roost to keep them from feezing." ? Zoo Gaytoo, a San Francisco wo mau, is walking across the continent for a purse of $1 a mile, providing she walks more than fifteen miles a day. She is in Nevada, about 100 miles ahead of time. ? There are about 75,000 persons in prison in the United States. There are, at least, as many more persons out ot prison who belong to the criminal class, making 150,000 criminals, or one for ev? ery 400 inhabitants. ? At Sitka, Alaska, the shortest day in the year, December 21, is only six hours long, the suu rising at nine and setting at three. The longest day. June 21, is eighteen hours, the sun rising at three and netting at nine. ? A member of. the Ohio legislature proposes to introduce a bill to give a per? son sentenced to death a choice of wheth? er he shall be shot, hung, drowned, pois? oned, thrown off a high building or sent to State prison for life. ? Representative Lanham, re-elected from the 11th Congressional district of Texas, represents ninety seven Counties that are said to exceed in area ten States. One of the counties in his district i31,000 miles by rail from his home. ? La Villa, Fla., boasts a snake charmer. His business is a dangeronj?| one, but he pursues his calling dayJ?M ^ day and makes considerable J "He shipped 34 rattlesnakes< to Cfo0^^ last week and sold them for $25 eae?? ?Mrs. Perling, who was elected to office of road overseer in Kansas, is* wide-awake woman, with snapping black- 4 eyeB and determined mien. "When she'1' has occasion to say 'No' her voice can be heard a mile away," says a correspon? dent. ? J. T. McBride, who lives near Courtland, Ala., and is a minister of the Free Will Baptist denomination, was ar? rested in Decatur a few days ago for at? tempting to cash a forged check. He was bound over in the sum of $1,000, and failing to give bond was committed to jail. ? Mr. Lewis Brad well, of Aiken County, last weet killed five hogs eigh? teen months old that averaged 446 pounds net each. Their individual weight were as follows: 470,516,419,420,400, makng a grand total of 2,225 pounds. This is a fine record and it is one that is hard to beat. ? David Miller, of Arlington, Ohio, has for several years been depositing his savings in a bee hive, trusting to the bees to guard it. But one night last week a thief kicked over the hive, and secured the treasure, about $500 in all. Howmany stings he got for his gains is not reported. ? Two men have found near Fresno, Cal., what is claimed to be the genuine petrified body of a man. It is remarka? bly well preserved, and even the lines on the back of the hand are visible. The head is of good size and features of Cau? casian type. The body measures nearly seven feet in length. ? The Governor of Minnesota official? ly announces the adoption of a constitu? tional amendment in that State, to make a verdict by five sixths of a jury in a civ? il action a good and valid verdict. In other words, the old time unanimity is no longer necessary, the concurrence of ten of the twelve sufficing. ? A young fellow, not quite so wise us Solomon, was eating some Cheshire cheese, full of mites, one night at a tav? ern. "Now," said he, "I have done as much as Samson, for I have slain mv thousands and my tens of thousands." "Yes," answered one of the company, "and with the same weapon, too?the jaw bone of an ass." ? "Bredderen and sisteren," said the pastor, "yo' hab been tole datde McKin-1 ley bill done gwine to raise eberyting; but whacher want ter recommember am dis yere: Necder prayer nor de McKin? ley b?l am a gwine to raise de mortgage] whad de butcher an' dc grocery man done' hole on your pastor. De collection will now be collected." ?Thero is jrrent destitution among the people of Oklahoma Territory. There are hundreds of farmers who arc very noar the point of destitution, and will certainly reach it unless further measurea of relief are devised. Governor Steele may go on to Washington with a view to askiug Congress to take action in the matter. The Ladies Delighted The pleasant effect and the perfect safety with which ladica may use their liquid fruit laxative, Synip of Figs, under all conditions make it their favorite rem? edy. It is pleasing to the eye and to the taste, gentle, yet effectual in acting on the k. Wwyu, liyer and