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BY CIJ?SfKSCALES & LANGSTON. at and THE DEATH OF A PARTNER COMPELS the closing out of the entire Stock within the next 60 days. Make i?po-mistake, the goods must be aold in-60 days at whatever price they bring. This ^ia an opportunity without a parallel to buy a great many .goods for very little ^?ttooney^-V-'xrba' can-buy. more now for $5.00 than you can bayJn 90 days for $10.00. "\ ~ '-..All goods bought within the past 90 days will be sold at actual New York cost, - and goers'previous to that time will be sold at from 5 to 25 per cent, less than cost, . ^-reguiated in: the following list of prices. Goods at actual New York coBt'are as ^loll?wa ^ 1 i Sheeting3 Shirting," Calicoes, Ginghams, Checks, Hosiery, Notions, and a part of. the Shoe, stock. _ ? Gxic^ atfrom.5 to 25 per cent off C03t are Clothing, Jeans, Blankets, Flannels, Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Wraps, Capes, Skirts, Scarfs, Collars, Guns, Neck ? wear, Hats; Trunks, Valises, Grips, Hamburg Edging, Inserting Laces, Bed Spreads, -Counte^an^ Waterproofs, Ladies' and Gents' Underwear. - Goods at from 25 to 50 per cent off coat are some that got badly injured by being rained on in a railroad wreck, and are consequently soiled, .and some Shoes badly scratched. The goods at those ridiculous prices include Shoes, Clothing, I'^ercoats, Boya* Suits ?11 sizes, Boys' Overcoats, and a great many, other things too ? numerous to mention. Read these prioea?we mean basiness: ?4c Calico for 3}c., 5c Calico for 4}, the best Calico for 5c. 8c Gingham 5Jc, 9cGingham 6Jc, 10c Gingham 7c. 8c Worsted 5c, 10c Worsted 7c, 121c Wonted 91c, 15c Worsted 11c. ; . . . Double width, all wool, plain braid and fancy Flannels, Cashmere and Hen ^Ineitaa'at lesa than their invoice, prices. ; ^ : . Our:Si?e stock, slightly damaged by rain, at the following figures: ^ Children's Rubbers 15 and 20c, Ladies' Rubbers 20 and 25c. ? ' Children's copper tips 20c. Ladies' hand turned Congress Gaiters, worth $1.50, for 75c. ? " Gents'.1.25:Slippers for 85c, Ladies' Goat Kid and Dongola Buttoned, formerly sold at 1.25, 1.50, 1.75, 2.00 and 2.50-now 95c, 1.15.1.35,1.60, 1.75, . Brogana, P Calf, Polkas, Oxford Ties, Rubber Boots, Brogan Boots and Dress ir?^ts^?ll must be sold at a sacrifice, or at whatever they may bring within the next 60 days, when the entire stock must be sold to the highest bidder in order to wind cp the estate of one of my partners whose death occurred in New York last month. $.2.00 -Boys' Suits, 4-^12 for $1.25. ?2.50 8.00 4.00 4S0 " " 5.00 " " 7.50 " - " -4.00 Men's Suits ? 5.00 6.50 " " " 10-13 1.65 2.10 2.85 3.25 375 4.95 295 3.85 4 95 The lent in the price of Fine Suits and Overcoats will surprise everybody: - $10.00 Suits for ' - 6.50 ..-?"-'.V'; 12.60 " 875 v .15 00 " 10.25 17.50 " ? " 12.25 . '?? .- 3.50Overcoats for 1,75 5.00 " " " 3.00 6.00 " " 3.75 -7.50 ? " " 4.85 . 3 50 Boys' Overcoats ' 2.85 400 " " 2.75 ? 5 00 " .'? ? 3.65 We.are badly overstocked in Men's Sunday Shoes 5, 6, 10,11,12, and they will >;be sacrificed: Men's 1.75 at' 135 ' - " 2.00 ? 1.50 Blsf*' : " 2.5? 185 ;?->;;'??"?"?? " 3 00 .2.25 Respectfully, id. a. -^js5risrisr.9 56Bed House." Granite Row. COLLECTING HORSE Wlli TAKE A NEW START ON dr^A^xj^^-x- i_7 1891, AND if you OWE me anything, and ?'*;?.'?;' don't want him to come to see you, you "-"v can avoid the anaoyance by coming to see me FIRST WEEK IN JANUARY, 1891. My instructions to my Collectors is to make the MONEY, or stay with you until be 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 , . them, and I must have the Money from you ? to pay them off. Your prompt attention will SAVE- EXPENSES. This is plain . talk, but MEANS BUSINESS. J> JS. FOWLER THE ENTERPRISE FURNITURE GO - . 7 's now receiving their IMMENSE and VARIED Stock of fMNIT?RE AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS, rpO which they respectfully invite your carefal 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 Room3 with the Useful, Ornamental and i^ecorative in;Furniture and House FurnishingB, Our entire stock will be FRESH ? nd LATEST in DESIGN. Snites In Walnut. Antique Oak and Sixteenth Century. 7 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 f YOU MONEY on these goods. ^'l^OarMr. E. H. POORE will repair your Furniture, and repaint and varnish it. COFFINS and CASKETS can be furnished at any time. J. J. BAKER, Manager, South Main Street, below Orr & Sloan's Drug Store. IsTEW FIRM. 9 A HAVE associated with me Mr. T. A. ARCHER, well known to you all. We are prepared to do all kinds of work in Sheet Metal, and we respectfully ask you patronage. . .We sell Stoves, Tinware, Guns, Rifles and House Furnishing Goods. ; Come and see us, and we will convince you we mean business. Baoffing and (jutfcering and putting up Heaters a Specialty. ' SEEL & AE?HEE. 1 ANDERSON, S. C, [T?RE! FURNITURE! hree 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 6. F. TOLLY & SON'S. OW, if you want BARGAINS?BIG BARGAINS?in Furniture, and every? thing that is kept in a FIRST GLASS 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 haB successfully competed against all competition, having ben'en two of the largest Western Manufacturers iu furnishing the new Hotel Cbiquola; having, during the last month, sold and delivered Furniture to Atlanta, Ga., Macon, Ga., Greenville, S. C, and sold at wholesale to a large number of Furniture dealers 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 i a the State, and having selected the largest' and best Factories to be found, and having exclu? sive sale of their goods. We can offer better Bargains than any one else. All we ask is.to come and.see our Stock, fall 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 Bed*, with bracket rails 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 the 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 eee the IMMENSE STOCK and be convinced. Caskets and Colins furnished Day or Night. G. F. TOLLY & SON. A HAPPY NEW YEAR. AKE iLESAMJVGr IN LOW PRICES / OTS FLOUR, CORN, HAY, MEAL, MOLASSES, TOBACCO, SUGAR, COFFEE. ARMOUR & GO'S. AGENTS FOR 5?" No Firm shall undersell us FOB CASH. BROWN BROS. fORIA for Infants and Children. "Castoriaifisovell adapted to children that I Crwtoria ceres Colic, Constipation, I recommend itassuperior to any prescription I ?our Sumach, Warrhrsa, ErucUUee, iiwuuuuuiu?.IMou^iuiwuujr^r ^ fl Kiiia worms, fdvea Eicon, and sromotea A> known to me." H. A Auchee, M. D., 1 ^TesUuiT^ ^ 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, If. Y. | Witnout injurioua medication. The Centaub Compakt, 17 Murray Street, K. Y. COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE. T HE undersigned have this day formed a copartnership, under the Firm name of McGEE & DILLINGHAM, for the purpose of conducting a Livery, Sale and Feed Stable in the City of Anderson, at the old stand of J. L. McGee. We ask a continuance of the liberal patronage heretofore bestowed upon our Mr. McGee, and will guarantee satisfaction to each and every customer. J. L. McGEE. W. R. DILLINGHAM. Jan. 1, 1890. 9 Buggies, Wagons and Harness. We have now on hand a FINE lot of young Mules and Howes, which are being offered at very LOW PRICES. We also can Bell you a BUGGY, WAGON or a set of HARNESS? Cheaper than any Dealer iff Anderson, ffir Before buying, ?e B?ro to call and we us. It will PAY YOU. THURSDAY MORE 'TlU?HEftS'GoUJMN, "tts* All communications intended fo this volnmn should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, Scbool Commissioner, An? derson, 8. C. GONE 70 3EAP THE EEWABD OF A WELL SPENT LIFE. Professor Wm. J L'goc, who is so well and favorably kncwn throughout this en tifo section as a teacher, died last Thurs? day afternoon after an illness of several moatbs. He was a teacher by profes? sion, not having given his lime or atten? tion to any thing else. Since his gradu? ation from the Sauth Carolina College in 1840, he was engaged in the school room, until about two years ago, when his health began to fail. Few teachers were over more successful than Prof. Ligon, and very few ever enjoyed the rerrard of seeing more of their pupils take high position in the various callings of life. In entering Colleges Prof. Ligon'a pupils invariably took and held favorable posi? tions. In competitive examinations his students were generally successful. There are now in this County hun? dreds of men engaged successfully in the various callings of life, who got their education and training under Prof. Ligon. And he leaves behind him thou? sands who will ever remember him as their friend and instructor, and whose love and respect and admiration for their deceased teacher is the best testimony that he could leave behind bim of a well spent life. His pupils loved him notwith sanding be was strict and firm in disci? pline; Professor Ligon wan a Christian gentteman of unimpeachable character, and carried down to the grave with bim an untarnished name. He was an edu? cator. MB??HBOM IH 11 Mill IIIIMIIII Miss Clara Wham, of Greenville County, is teaching at Friendship, near Piercetown. Miss Julia D. Roberts is located at Centennial school house, in Belton Township. The schools are very full, is the report from all sides. - mutm ?. The school house at Mountain Creek was destroyed by fire last week. Miss May Russell, who bad charge of the school there, is now using the Church. There are several Charts and Maps in my office. If they belong to any certain school or TownBhip ihey should be taken and used. If they are not taken aoon, I ?hall put them in some of the schools. "In planting beaus the old practice was to put three iu each hill: One for the worm, one for the crow and one to live and produce the crop. In teaching chil? dren, we must give^ine uponjine; and ?precept upon precept, repeating the truth wejvould inqujeate, till, i^e.comes impossible fjr the child to forget it. We may Well give the lesson once, expecting the child's frail memory to lose it, twice reckoning that the deVil, like an ill bird, will steal it, and thrice hoping that it will take root and briog forth fruit." Patience U absolutely necessary in train? ing children. Henry Ward Beecber once said: "I plead for education, not because it is the highway to prosperity in law, or in med? icine, or in the pulpit, or in political life, or in science, but because it means manhood. I plead for education as the indispensible condition of a continuing, complete and perpetual happiness." Oh 1 how I do wish our young people could so see education, and seek it for the happi? ness its possession gives, and not for the dollars and cents they can see in it. So often we hear young, men say, "I don't need education, for I never expect to be anything but a farmer, or blacksmith, or carpenter, or b .me other mechanic." What a mistaken idea of the real need of an education. That man who never as? pire? to any development, and who is satisfied with what he knows, U a dwarf. Seek an education for the happiness of yourself and family. Seek it so you may know and understand, as far as possible, your duties and obligations to your God and your fellowman. It is your duty to develop the mind God has given you. Your failure to d j this id a sin against nature. TEACH TREE TO BEAD A3 THEY TALS. "A teacher should teach children to read as they talk." This Is an old say? ing and it is as true as it is old, but the saying of it does not help.tbe teacher ia teaching reading nor the child in learn? ing to read. It baa been said in insti? tutes by the instructors, and the teachers have gone to their schools and said it, and yet there is not one pupil in a thou? sand nor one teacher in s hundred who reads as be talks. Why? Because be does not think before he reads as he docs before be talks. A little girl was asktd why she talked so much, and she an? swered, "Betause Pa dot someflb to say." L?t us read because we have Bomethiug to say, then we will read as wo talk. But to gel something to say from our reading,'will require some study on the part of the pupils and more on the part of the teachsr as to h m to guide them in their study. It is not enough to tell the pupils to ktudy their reading. It is about on a par with telling a aixycar old to study his a b c's. Teachers should furnish their pupils with questions or topics vs guides for a general study of the lesson, and during the recitation they should ask questions upon each sentence that, would compol the pupii to get the thought of each sen? tence. The pupil should then express his though' by- reading orally the sen? tence under consideration. U-e oral reading as a mans not an end?Geo. F. Bats, in the Carolina Teacher. TEACHING. A teacher teaches when be causes the pupils to exercise their own powers in the acceptance and use of knowledge; when he makes sure that the truth he teaches takes effect. In doing this the teacher must secure obed.iout attention. The obedient intellect, the obedient FING, JANUARY 22 j heart, the obedient will, always come into harmony^ with the truth taught. The teacher should, therefore, seek to apply the truth effectively,? 1. To the pupil's perception; 2. To the pupil's imagination ; 3. To the pupil's memory ; 4. To the pupil's reason j 5. To the pupil's affections ; 6. To the pupil's will; 7. To the pupil's daily life. Knowledge may be like the cloth on a Bhelf, or knowledge may be like cloth made into a coat; but he makes the best use of knowledge m who takes the cloth, measurea tho pupil, fashions the garment, and sees that tho pupil wears it, and that it is to him a protection and an orna? ment. To teach is to arrest and arouse a mind, and sot it at its legitimate work of mind is to think?to think with a wise purpose. It is the business of the teacher to set the mind of his pupil to thinking. 1. Thinking?to feel its need of truth. 2. Thinking?to explore old truth. 3. Thinking?to find new truth. 4. Thinking?to grow by truth. 6. Thinking?to make a wise use of all truth.?Exthange. He Escaped After All. They sat side by side on one of the long seats in the Grand Central depot. Her face looked hard and rugged as a stick of cord wood, while his nose resem* bled the blush of the early beet variety. He twisted and shuffled his feet for fully ten minutes, then broke the silence. "Hannar, I'd better go out and see 'bout that thar trunk and basket." "No yon don't. Yon jist sit right thar. That trunk and basket 1b all right. I've got the checke. I know ye." A silence of twenty minutes, broken again by I "Oh, Hannar, I hear the fire bells, and I want to see the engines go by and find out wher the fire is." "You juBt keep still, 'taint none of your property, I'll warrant, a-burning." He subsided once again in his- Beat with a sigh, but came once more to the attack with: "Lord, Hannar I that's a dog fight across the street, and I must see it." He started again for the door, but was pulled back by the old lady with the re-? mark: "You stay tight tbar, Ebben neezer, 'tain't none of your honery hounds er figh tin'. I know ye." He was quiet for ten minutes more, evidently deep in thought, then broke loose once again with : . "Hannar, I jist bet this train's met wither accident, and it's behindhand, and I'm going to find out. You can't count on these here clerks telling the truth. I know 'em." "Yes, and I know you. Don't you stir. This train is on time, I'll warrant ye." The old man collapsed once more, but there was a glitter in his eye that meant he had not given up the struggle by a long shot. "Hannah, thar's going to be a fight 'twixt two hackmen out thar, and I'll find out all abou t it aud tell ye." "You haven't got no call to interfere, and you stay quiet; and besides, you might get locked up for a witness. I know ye." Just then & lady acquaintance of the old lady entered, and wnile exchanging greetings the old man saw his chance and made a dash for the door, and in the twinkling of an eye was acrosB the street in a beer saloon. The old lady missed him instantly, and, turning to a man in tbe seat, asked : "Which way did that baldheaded, red nosed man go 1" ' "Across the street, ma'm." "Didn't I know it? ?idn't I jist know hit ? I gave him a plugged quar? ter, and he's jist been itching to spend hit and fill his honery hide full of Cin? cinnati whiskey. My only hope of sal? vation1 is he can't pass hit, and he'll git fired out." Eut he passed it, and came back in half an hour as drunk as a delegate to a one-horse political convention, and with a wink and a leer at me, he softly re? marked : "I hain't no fool if I do have fits, mister, you bet."?Cincinnati Post. A Bich Colored Woman, Richmond, Va., January 5.?Judge Leake this morning rendered a decision, which if not Bet aside by the Supreme Court, makes Bettie Thomas Lewis the. richest colored person in Virginia. The suit has been pending for two years and involved tho estate of the late W. A. Thomas, worth $250,000. Mr. Thomas was a retired dry goods merchant of this city. Bettie was his daughter. Before his death he gave his bank book and the key to his box in the bank, containing all his Stocks and bonds, to her. The legal fight turned upon the question whether th!:i constituted a gift of all the property. Judge Leake holds it did. A man who has practiced medicine for 40 years, ought to know salt from sugar; road what he says: Toledo, 0., Jan. 10,1887. 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 rry practice and ex? perience have never seen a preparation that I could prescribe with as 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 Bay in con? clusion that I have yet to find a case of Catarrh thptit would not cure, if they would take it according to directions. .' Yours truly, - Q L. L. GOKSUCH, M. D. Office, 115 Summit St. We will give $100 for any case of Ca? tarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall's Oatacrh Cure. Taken internally. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. j&S^Sold by Druggists, 75c. ? Isaac N. Cox., Jr., was killed on Thursday afternoon by p. falling tree, near his ho-ne, not far from SimpBonville Mr. Cox wes chopping some stove wood, The wind was blowing hard, and without warning a dead tree fell on him crushing him to the Harth and killing him almost instantly. Mr. Cox was a wfll-known citizen of tl-e County. He leaves a wid? ow.? Greenville News, , 1891. BILL ABP'S CHAT. The Old Alan Has the Grip/ and His-13cttcr Half Not at Homo. Atlanta Constitution, It is bad manners to afflict the public with your troubles, but nevertheless I am sick, sure enough sick?been in bed two days, off and on?up and down?grunt? ing around with my mouth open, for I can't breathe any other way. Got the big head, and my eyes and nose are weeping, and there is neuralgia in my face, and my teeth that have been cut for teu years are aching. Got wet the othor day and dideut change my clothes be? cause Mrs. Arp waeent here to raako me. She has been gone for nearly two weeks nursing some of the sick children at Koine, und wo are running the machine. I used to could get wet and then dry my? self by the fire, but I can't now. I've caught cold all over. There's a pain in my breast or my diagram or diaphram or epigram, or whatever they call it, and these children have got my aged bosom plastered all over with turpentine and I flannel. They found some capsules in a I box and made me take them because it was medicine and was in mamma's draw ar. I've no idea what it was, but I can't be worsted. 1took them heroically and said let 'em rip. I got to thinking about wills and codicils, and what would be? come of the family, and who would wake up the children in the morning and get them off to school. Who would keep up the supplies ? Who would do this and do that 1 And I dropped off to sleep and dreamed that I was dead, and that gentle hands had hurried. me into an elevator that reached from earth to heaven, and it was crowded with disembodied spirits whom I did not know. They had visible forms and faces, but their material bodies were gone, and they passed through each other without impediment. And these are spirits of the dead I thought, and I wondered if I too was a spirit. I looked at my hands and they seemed to be there; I tried to clasp them and found them only shadows?pictures of hands. . I touched my cheek and it was not there. Timidly I touched the form of one beside me and there was nothing to touch. An angel stood by the golden cord that eeem ed to run the elevator and I said: "Where are we going ?" "To the city of Jerusalem," said he, "the holy city This elevator reaches to the lowest gate." "To heaven ?" said I. "Yes," he replied, "to the lowest heaven. Only the saints go higher. There "is another elevator for thorn." Thank the good Lord for his mercy, thought I, and I felt calm and serene beyond all expression. By the time we were up among the stars and I was about to inquire how much farther we had to go, Jessie leaned over me and asked me if the turpentine burned me, and 1 never reached the golden gate at all. I wonder where heaven is?I won? der where this universe ends 7 When I am sick my mind runs on these things, and I feel so little, so contemptible, so mucu like an atom, a microbe, a bacte? ria, a nothing compared with the bound? less universe?when I get well and strong I can strut around and talk big and mag? nify myself and feel almost as conse? quential aa the Atlanta nabobs do when strutting around in the Kimball House. The idea of a microbe strutting and put? ting on airs?jest ponder it for a mo? ment. I was talking to the children the other night about astronomy and I said, I am a traveler, a great traveler; I have travel? ed forty thousand million of miles in my life. I was born traveling. I c&n beat railroads and telegraphs. When. I travel I make 6S,fi00 miles an hour, and don't exert myself a bit. I can make over 1.500,000 miles in a day and turn a sum? merset 8,000 miles high in the bargain. I turn one every day when I am on the road. I traveled nearly 600,000,000 miles last year. And so I made the children figure it all up so as to impress upon them the im? mensity of space and the mighty power of God, 1 knew an old man?a lawyer ?who didn't believe in any of these things. He said it was not according to scripture. He didn't believe the earth was round or that it turned over. He said the scriptures spoke of the ends of the earth and the four corners of the earth, and that Joshua commanded the sun to- stand still just like he did the moon, and they both stood still. We used to argue with him and tell him that navigators had sailed all around the earth, but it was no use, and we gave him up. I know lots of sensible people who don't believe that astronomers know any* thing about these immense distances and orbits and weights of the planets. They say it is all guess work, pretty much, and that it is impossible to tell how far it is from one place to another, or one planet to another, without measuring it with a chain or a rod-pole or a string or some? thing. And here is where a higher edu? cation comes in and broadens the mind and elevates it to a higher plane. There is no science so exact and so fully estab? lished as astronomy. The distance from here to Atlanta is not so accurately known as the earth's orbit around the sun. A great astronomer like H?rschel or Newton or La Place can look through the telescope at Jupiter's moors when they are in an eclipse and then mix up a few lugrithms and fluxions and parallax? es and tell how fast light travels and how far it is to tho remotest planet in the uni? verse. The children wanted to know why the new year began with January, and I couldn't tell them. Christinas would have been a bettor day. jThe new era should have begun with the birth cf Christ instead of a week later; or the year should begiu with the birth of spring ?the 21st of March, wheu nature is put? ting on new garments. Thosa old phi? losophers got things awfully mixed up auyhow. Their years used to be meas? ured by the moon, and they had thirteen months, but that didn't fit, and so thev feil back to leu mouths of thirty-six days each, and that didn't fit, and next they put in two months and had no leap year, ami at last Pope Gregory fixed tho meae ure all right, just as we have it now. II was only in the fcwi century that the civ? ilized nations adopted tb,e new time, Bussia hr-sn't adopted it yet, btjt I dcn'l VOLUM know whether she is civilized or not. January was a right good name for the first month. He was a watchful old fel? low and had two faces, and could look before him and behind him at the same time. It is a good idea for a man to look back over the year that has gone and re? view his conduct, and then look forward and promise to do better. But most of the months were named for heathen gods who never existed, and bo were the days of the weck. I wish the school children would read about them and be able to answer what March means, and April, and "Wednesday and Thursday, and the other names. Gather knowledge as you go along?useful knowledge?and store it away. If you havn't got the bookB, borrow them from somebody and read. I asked two young men yesterday how far it was to the Bun, and they had no idea. But I am sick, and don't care very much how far it is. Bill Abp. Tail, Taller, Tallest, Mr. Robinson, six feet high, builder of Trement Temple, and the Rev. Phil? lips Brock?, six feet two inches bigb, both of Boston, and the Rev. Dr. Mc Vicker, six feet four inches high, of Philadelphia, in company made a trip over the water. En route they determined that when they should arrive on the other side they would travel apart, lest three such tall men in company wonld provoke re? mark. But, arriving at Leeds and learn? ing that a lecture was to be delivered to working men on America, our friends determined to hear the lecture. Entering the hall separately they took seats apart. As the lecturer proceeded his ntter ignorance of America soon be? came manifest to the three Americans. Finally, however, a statement concerning the size of Americans was too absurd to be endured in silence. The speaker had barely time to conclude a sentence asserting thr.t Americans are proverbially short of stature, never exceeding at the. ntmost five feet ten inches, when Mr. Robinson aruse and said: "My friends, I am an American, and, as you can see, I measure fully six feet. If there is any other American in the house I request him to stand up." An expression of surprise was followed by roars oflaughter as Dr. Brooks arose and said: "I am an American, and my size, six feet two inches, occasions no particular remark in America. Jf there is any other Ameri? can in the Louse I in turn request him to stand up." After a lapse of a few seconds, in order to give the lecturer a' little time to recover himself, Dr. Mc Vicker slowly raised his majestic figure to its full height of six feet four, and* began: "I am an Am-" But he got no further. The audience had lost all j control of themselves, and the speaker's disappearance from the stage brought the entertainment to a close? Christian Nation. Fad of Boston's Duskj Belles, The colored women of this city have learned that it is possible to take the kink out of their hair, and there is quite a sensation over the discovery. The rush to have crisp locks straightened is becoming general, although but few of those who have successfully been smooth? ed out are willing to admit that their hair was ever otherwise than straight and : glossy. The fad as yet has not reached the male sex, and at the Sunday evening meeting of tue A. M. E. church one of the deacons warned the sisters against their sinful pride in attempting to im? prove on the Lord's handiwork. He was followed by an aged sister, who said: "If God had; intended us to have straight hair He would have given it to us in the beginning. God never intend? ed it, and I, for one, shall be contented with what I've got. It's a sin before the Lord and a vanity to have your hair straightened." The idea was Introduced by a young colored woman from Virginia. She her? self has'a glossy bang and back hair as straight as that of the late Sitting Bull. She says her own hair was for? merly crisp and kinky, but that an old Canadian woman told her how to make it straight, and this information she is now imparting for a consideration. The customer is told first to wash her hair and come with it well dried. She doeB bo, and then the operation begins. A preparation that is amber-colored and of the consistency^ cream is taken from a large jar t nd rubbed thoroughly into the hair, and where it was entirely lustreless before it begins to assume a gloss. This is rubbed bo thoroughly into the scalp that none of the hairs can fail to have received a portion. Then vigorous brushing is restored to, and the short hair begins to lengthen. If it were an inch long, and if before itfhad;been]"done up in what old fashioned- Southern people term "plaits," it is now ready to be roll? ed into a loose coil.at the back. The operation takes about four hours and ia permanent in its effects. It gives the colored wonan a very Indian like ap? pearance, at-.d the few who will admit having beer- treated claim they did it merely to make the labor of combing their hair bo much the^easier. One oi them said: "One thing I know, and that is that is terribly convenient tc have straight hair. I never before real? ized what a blessing it was. Before,! dreaded the task of combing it, and now I don't mind it at all." Hair.-traighten ing promise* to be.the fad for the wintei among the colored women of Boston.? Boston Globe, The Lover's Lament. ! Your face like a drooping flowor, ; Sweetheart! ? I see you fading, hour by hour, Sweetheart! i Your rounddd outlines wa3te awny, - In vain I weep, in vain I pray, i What power Death's cruel hand can slay' r Sweetheart, Sweetheart I i Why, not iing but Dr. Pierce's Favor ' ile Prescription. It imparts strength ti , the failing system, cures organic troubles ? and for debilitated and feeble womei t generally, ia unequaled, flesh an< ? strength. Guaranteed to give aatisfac . tion in every case, or money paid for i \ I refunded. DE XXV.?NO.-29. All Sorts of Paragraphs, ? In Yckhoma, with a population of 70,000, the number of electors is nnd<r 300. ? The United States uses more tin plate than all the rest of the world.com bined. ? Breeding of buffaloes in captivity i a new industry in the Dakota agricul ral world. ? Two thousand two hundred trai leave London ordinarily every twe four hours. "? ? Tho people of the United States consume, it is said, 200,000,000 bottles, pickles annually. ? Go w :ere ycu will, you will find people usirg Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, and unanimous in its praise. ? Mrs. Amelia Barr, the story wri is aaid to make more monery than does the Chief Justice of the United States/ ? Adam and Eve had the earth at one time. Their experience Bhould be a warning to those people who want it to? day. ? The Pennsylvania Republicans hajfQ^V endorsed Don Cameron's opposition to ? the force bill by re-electing him to the Senate. ? Religions life needs culture. NourV ^ ish it by the study of the Bible, by prayer, and by the faithful performance of Christian duty. ? I suffered most severely from rheu? matism during winter. After using Sal-x vation Oil two days the pain entirely subsided, and now I am a well man. ? Two Havana journalists are in jail, one for mentioning the formation of a new political party, and the other for ad vocating annexation to the United States. ? Itch jon human and horses and all animals cured in 80 minutes by Wbl ford's Sanitary Lotion. This neverJaps. Sold by Hill Bros. Druggists, Anderten, | ? In BuoDOs Ayres the police alone I have the right to whistling in the streets. 1 Any other persons whistling are at once arrested. ? The hottest day of the year in New Zealand generally comes at Christmas. The day is a great occasion for picnics in , the coolest nooks of the woods. ? A" suckling pig, carelessly wrapped in brown paper, with both ends open, was ; an article sent through the English! post- ; office and dolivered to the addressee, %sflfil ? It is declared that a* law recenaggfl promulgated in Hardanger, in Norwj prohibits the marriage of any girl un she is proficient in spinning, knitting and baking. ? Foodie bright says be never could see why am thing with quinine in it has to be shaken before taken, when that's just what you take it for to prevent doing yourself. ? The prohibition party of Mississippi"^ have perfected an organization in that * State and say that they will support the Rational prohibition candidate for the Presidency in 1892. ? Life assurance was introduced into-"'" this country by a few Episcopalian cler- " gymen whe formed a society in The first puoiic assurance company- was - J established .;n 1812. I - A Rook Prairie, Wis., farmer has discovered that lime slaked in buttermilk:^ makes a first-class paint for houses. He says the mixture will withstand rain,and ^ that it only costs about one dollar to fur- . nish paint for an ordinary house. ? Governor Francis T. Nichols, of ^ Louisiana, is dismembered to a remarka? ble extent. He'has lost a leg and an arm and an eye. He lost his leg at Chancel lorsvilie, and his arm was carrie by a cannon ball at Winchester. ? There are probably 100,000,000 _ people in Europe to-day who do not eat*^ meat more than once a week; and the number is not inconsiderable?it must be reckoned in millions?who have that;: privilege not oftener than once or twlca^j a year. ? "Uncle, what is the hardest lesson you ever had to learn ?" asked a young $g lady of a veteran statesman, known for his strong prejudices. "That the man who differs with me not in opinions, but in principles, may be as sincere and hon?-a est as I am," was the reply. ' ? A person born in hot weather stands the heat a great deal better than one born in the cold months of winter; of course,t the rule works vice versa. Those born^ in the spring are usually of more robust constitution than if born at any other - time of the year. ? A farmer in northern Maine recent? ly drank three bottles of Jamaica ginger ~; to drive away the "blues." He after? ward went to sleep in the barn, and a cow laid down on him and broke two of his ribs. He hasn't done a day's work since, and at last accounts he was "bluer" than ever. ? An Idiiko bank, on which there waa,. a run, piled upon the counter what waap supposed to be $40,000 in gold. This! stopped the run and brought in deposit- fi ors, and wh>n the trouble was ov?^?e*"| gold was hdcen down. The packages contained iron washers cut to the thick? ness and sizes of $20 gold-pieces. ? Apothecaries have some very queer applications for prescriptions. ? An-old war veteran limped into a shop one day, and said to the druggist: "I want some medicine." "What kind of medicine?" "O, some scrt of vermifuge, I suppose." "Where dots the seat of your difficulty _ seem to be:'" "In my wooden leg, mis? ter. It's gcttin' all worm-eaten !" ? > ?Poor ". 31ind Tom," the erratical mu? sical genius of a decade age, is driveling > away the remaining months of an event- \ ful lifo at a private retreat. Ho has been there for e ?me time an idiot, and now consumption ha:: est its iron grasp upon his once ttugh frame, and hi3 days aro numbered. "Blind Tom" earned in-his . day s?metti; ug 3 ike;?500,000. ? Tc-day he is comparat vely a pauper and the won? der is what ias become of the fortune bei made, as h)was always in charge of a guardian, and was never allowed to spend it._?? TLe Ladles Delighted The pleiHant effect and the perfect safety witt which Iadios may use their , liquid fruit ?axative, Syrup of Figs; undert all conditio J8 make it their favorite rem? edy. It is dealing to the eye and to the. taste; gentl;, yet effectual in acting on tho kidneys, Hvac and bowels".