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BT CLINKSCALES <fe LANGSTON. AT AND THE DEATH OF A PARTNER COMPELS the closing oat of the entire Stock within the next 60 days. Make no mistake, the goods must be sold in 60 days at whatever price they bring. This is an opportunity without a parallel to buy a great many goods for very little money. You can Ijny more now for $5.00 than you can buy in 90 days for $10.00. All goods bonght within the past 90 days will be sold at actual New York cost, and goods previous to that time will be sold at from 5 to 25 per cent, less tban cost, aa regulated in the following list of prices. Goods at actual New York cost are as follows: Sheeting, Shirting, Calicoes, GingbamB, Cbecks, Hosiery, Notions, and a part of the Shoe stock. Goods at from 5 to 25 per cent off cost are Clothing, Jeans, Blankets, Flannels, Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Wraps, Capes, Skirt?, Scarfs, Collars, Cuffs, Neckg wear, Hats, Trunks, Valises, Grips, Hamburg Edging, Inserting Laces, Bed Spreads, Counterpanes, Cloakings, Cassimeres, Waterproofs, Ladies' and Gents' Underwear. Goods at from 25 to 50 per cent off cost are some that got badly injured by being rained on in a railroad wreck, and are consequently soiled, and some Shoes bat?y scratched. The goods at those ridiculous prices include Shoes, Clothing, Overcoats, Boys' Suits all Bizes, Boys' Overcoats, and a great many other things too numerous to mention. Read these prices?we mean business: 4c Calico for 3Jc.j 5c Calico for 4}, the best Calico for 5c. 8c Gingham Sic, 9c Gingham 6}c, 10c Gingham 7c. 8c Worsted 5c, 10c Worsted 7c, 12*c Worsted 91c, 15c Worsted 11c. Double width, all wool, plain braid and fancy Flannels, Cashmere and Hen? riettas at less than their invoice prices. Our Shoe stock, slightly damaged by rain, at the following figures: Children's Rubbers 15 and 20c, Ladies' Rubbers 20 and 25c. Children's corner 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, 175. Brogans, P Calf, Polkas, Oxford Ties, Rubber Boots, Brogan Boots and Dress Boots, all 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 op 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 3.00 " " 4.00 " " 4 50 " " 5.00 7.50 4:00 Men's Suits 5.00 6.50 " 10-18 1.65 210 2 85 3.25 3 75 4.95 2 95 3.85 4 95 The cut in the price of Fine Suits and Overcoats will surprise everybody: S10.00 Suits for 6.50 12.50 " " _ 8 75 15 00 " " 10.25 17.50 " " 12.25 3.50 Overcoats for 175 5.00 " " 3.O0 6.00 " " 375 7.50 " " 4S5 3 50 Boys' Overcoats 2.35 4.00 " " 2.75 5 00 " '? 3.65 We are badly overstocked in Men's Sunday Shoe's 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, and they will be sacrificed: Meu's 1.75 at 135 2.00 150 11 2 50 185 3 00 2.25 Respectfully, id. c. iPLirisriEsr. "Red House." Granite Row. MY COLLECTING HORSE WILL TAKE A NEW START ON Cr^ZKTTJ-^IRY 1, 1891, AND if you OWE me anything, and don't want him to come to see you, you can avoid the annoyance by coming to see me FIRST WEEK IN JANUARY, 1891. My instructions to my C-dlectors is to make the MONEY, or stay with \ou until he GETS I r. tSo 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. THE ENTERPRISE FURNITUR Is now receiving their IMMENSE and VARIED Stock of FURNITURE AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS, / nO which they respectfully invite your careful inspection before buying. We JL cannot begin to enumerate our entire line, but to aunounce that we are stocking to the rafters our Double Store Rooms with the Useful, Ornamental and Oecorative 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, Which was bought fresh from the looms, and at prices that will enable us to SAVE YOU MONEY on these goods. Our Mr. E. H. POORE will repair your Furniture, and repaint and varnish it. COFFINS and CASKETS can be furnished at any time. J. J. BAKER, Manager, South Main Street, below Orr & Sloan's Drug- Store. ItsTIEW FIRM. I 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 Gouds. Come and see us, and we will convince you we mean business. Roofling and Guttering and putting up Heaters a Specialty. seel & archer. Jan 8,1891 27 k ANDERSON, S. C FURNITURE, FURNITURE, FURNITURE! A ItllOnf STOCK 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 ft 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 ha9 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, during the last month, sold and delivered Furniture to Atlanta, Ga,, Macon, Ga., Greenville, S. 0., and Bold 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! and buy ng in larger quantities than any Furniture Store in 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 a9k is to come and see our Stock, full of the best kind of Goods, (no shoddy good Bold.) We have fine Bureaus, full Burl fronts, large fine glass standards, large boxes and brackets, for Five Dollars. The very beat Btrong Maple Beds, with bracket rails and steel hooks, (no pine or poplar in any part of them,) for Two Dollara, 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 see the IMMENSE STOCK and be convinced. Caskets and Coffins furnished Day or Night. G. F. TOLLY & SON. A HAPPY NEW YEAR. S3 ABE LEADING I1V LOW PRICES ON FLOUR, CORN, HAY, MEAL, MOLASSES, TOBACCO, SUGAR, COFFEE. ARMOUR & GO'S. AGENTS FOR *&? No Firm shall undersell us FOR CASH. s. for Infants and Children. "Caatorla i? so well adapted to children that I Castorla cures Colic, Constipation, I recommend itaa superior to any prescription I Bow S^u^^Bi^nh^^cUi?m, , , ,, tt . . _ _ I Kills Worms, give3 sleep, and, promotes ol known to me." H. A. Akchek, M. D., I gestionT^ 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious medication. The Cektado Company, 77 Hurray Street, N. Y. COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE. The undersigned have this day formed a copartnership, under the Firm name of McGEE & D1LLINGHAM, 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 bentowed upon our Mr. McGee, and wiil guarantee satisfaction to each and every customer. J. L. McGEE. W. R. DILLINGHAM. Jan. 1, 1S90. Buggies, Wagons and Harness. We have now ou hand a FINE lot of young Mules and Horses, which are being offered at very LOW PRICES. Wc also can sell you a BUGGY, WAGON or a set of HARNESS? C " ?r than any Dealer in Anderson. rjgr Before buying, he euro to call nnd see us. It will PAY YOU. McGEE & DIXiLINGHAM, ., THURSDAY MOR] T^A?H^'GOLUMN, All communications intended fo this Column should bo addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. "How many States and Territories in the United StateB ?" To this question, which we asked two weeks ago, we have received three an? swers: The first from Master W. D. Spearman, the second from J. Bachman Shirley, and the third from Miss Mamie Erskine, a pupil of Mies Allie Major, in Broadaway Township. The last is cor? rect, the others not exactly so. There are forty-four States and six Territories, and the District of Columbia, in the United States. We appreciate the an? swers of all three, and hope in the future to have other answers. Real letters are worth more to pupils than imaginary or sham letters, and the pupils will realize benefit from writing answers to the ques? tions asked. Deleware is "The Blue Hen," and Brooklyn "The City of Churches." NEW YEAS' B DAY. How the First of January Came to be Gen ally Adopted. F. E. Earpham, in the Young Men's Era. Bright, frosty first of January has had the honor of being "New Year's Day" only about three hundred years. In the selection of the day [which should mark the beginning of each year, and in the length of the year itself, seriou9 difficul? ties were encountered. It was reasona? ble enough to suppose that a complete revolution of the Beaaons, during which the sun appeared to travel round a whole circle of the heavens, should mark the length of the year, but the puzzling part of it was to decide just when the revolu? tion began. The ancients undertook to settle the matter by selecting a certain star in the sun's course which should be considered as the starting point of his journey. When the sun came round to this Btar again, the year was past and a new one began. ThiB worked very well until the advance of astronomical knowl? edge revealed the fact that the Btar itself had a motion of its own. Having no stationary starting point, then, it was difficult to establish the exact number of days and fraction of a day which should determine the length of the year. Most of us are familiar with the devices by which the wise men of various ages en? deavored to solve the difficulty until the calendar made by Julius Csesar, about the time of Christ, virtually settled the matter. Our calendar as it now stands is the calendar of Cseaar with a few im? provements. But after having established the length of the year, there was Btill a freedom of choice as to which particular day of the three hundred and sixty five should have the honor of being the first day of the year. As no one seemed to have author? ity to decide, each nation settled for itself as to whether that day should be when the sun stood highest in the heav? ens or was lowest; when at the nearest approach to the earth, or his greatest distance from it; when the days were longest, or when they were the shortest; or when the days and nights were equal all over the globe. From the record of the ancients it was impossible to tell when their year began, as frequently in two nations side by side, the length of the year would be different. But when Christianity began its pro? gress over European countries, it seemed appropriate that the year should begin upon some church festival day. The choice was narrowed principally to two ?Christmas and Easter Day. The Jew? ish nation, not looking with favor upon either of these two dates, refused to change ita New Year's day, claiming that theirs was based upon scientific knowl? edge, since they celebrated their New Year upon the first new moon after the autumnal equinox. Among the others, from the seventh to the thirteenth cen? turies, the first of the year was upon Christmas day. From the thirteenth to the middle of the eighteenth centuries, March 25 was selected for the beginning of the ecclesiastical and legal year, but long before this historians and the com? mon people dated their year from the first of January. France was the first nation to realize the importance of an international first day of the year, and accordingly in 1560, King Charles IX established New Yeare' day upon tbe first of January by royal decree. In bis intelligent appreciation of this fact, he surpassed in wisdom another king Chanes (Charles V) of the same country. It is related of the latter that the inventor of the watch, having presented one to his majesty for inspec? tion, asked him if be could criticise any part of it. Unwilling to admit its per? fection, Charles replied that he had but one fault to find with it?the fourth fig? ure of the dial plate should be IUI in? stead of IV, as tbe inventor had it. All reasoning failed to convince the monarch that he himself was in the wroDg, the royal decree was given and to this day the faces of clocks and watches are a per? petual reminder of "stupid Charles V." Germany established the New Year upon January first, three years after France, and the other nations followed. The most confusion was caused in Eng? land where the year 1751 lost nearly I three months by the change. Indeed, Lord CheBterfield, who was mainly in? strumental in bringing about the change, nearly fell a victim to the fury of a mob who followed him through the streets, calling upon him to give them back their months. England was almost the last to adopt the first of January as the begin? ning of tbe year, except Russia, who still clings to her own system of dates. "New Year's Day" is celebrated in almost every civilized country of tbe globe. It was observed as a holiday by the Romans, and nations of modem times celebrate the occaBion with great joy and festivity. In households of the early English monarchs, New Year's items of expense for gifts were consider? able ; Kings both received and gave. The eve and morning of the new year I weio observed with peculiar honor and 1 ceremony, Scotland, celebrates the day NTNG, JANUARY 2i with the "wassail bowl" and merry com? panies who go from house to house wish? ing the occupants all blessings for the year. France and Germany follow nearly the same custom, with carols and chants. In Persia, also, every class of society joins in spending the day in so? cial .'pleasure. Still farther east, China celebrates the day in appropriate festivi? ties, while we are all familiar with our national custom of New Year's calls. All over this beautiful world of ours, as the day approaches, kindly hearts will echo tbe Scottish sentiment :J. "A happy New Year, a happy New Year To tho friend and., the foe, to the far and the near; Here is wishing them health, meikel wisdom end wealth, And many a merry and happy New Year." His Education. "What is your name?" asked the young lady school teacher, addressing a boy wbom she called up. "Dave Black." "Well, Davey, have you ever been to school very much ?" "Nome." "Do you know your letters?" "Reckon so." "Can you Bpell ?" "Kain't spell cow, but I can spell hoss." "You must say horse; not hoBs." "That's whut pap says." "Well, he's wrong." "Blame ef he is." "You must not Bay that." "Whut must I say, damn ?" "Gracious, no." "Pap says it." "Well, but you must not. Are you tbe only child at home ?" "Nome, I ain't at borne." "I mean are you the only one when you are there ?" "Not ef any uv the rest uv em air thar." "You have brothers and Bisters then, I suppose ?" "Yas, got a brother an' a sister, but sister married Fool." "Married whom?" "Fool." "Is that his name?" "I reckon so, fur I heard pap say that Sal had dun run away with that fool." "That will do. Go over there now and Bit down." "Tired a settin'; wanter go out and slosh around a little. Wall, er good-bye." Davy's education was complete. Wade Hampton's Farewell. That was a noble and impressive appeal made in tbe Senate by Wade Hampton, of South Carolina. He urged upon the country the fatality of any such partisan measure as the force bill, upon the indisuptable ground that it would injure the very race it waa designed to protect. That speech was a notable one, not only because it was the last one delivered by Wade Hampton in the Senate chamber, but because of the record of tbe man who uttered the words. When Gen. Hampton went before the people of South Carolina for Governor in 1876 he made oo sectional appeal. He asked for suffrages of white and black alike. One of the features of that cam? paign was tbe formation of colored Dem? ocratic clubs for bringing out tbe black ballot and enlisting the colored man in bebalf of good home government. Thousands of negroes in that campaign voted for Hayes and Hampton. Gen. Hampton proved himself true to all his promises and showed himself in tbe best sense Governor of the whole people. He has been one of the most liberal and con? servative of Southern statesmen and his testimony as to the emptiness of any force bill was one of the most valuable contributions to the debate. This was practically Senator Hamp? ton's farewell to the Senate. It is no less memorable and upon no leas vital a subject than when Senator Mason read Calhoun's farewell address on slavery in March, 1850. He declared what every man in South Carolina knows to be true and what is to bis eternal credit, that he has never been a candidate for office except at the urgent solicitation of bis people. Senator Hampton's words were those of a statesman. His familiar figure will be missed in the Senate. He pos? sessed in an emiueut degree those quali? ties which Senator Hoar declared mark the Southern man?"an aptness of com? mand which makes the Southern gentle? man wherever he goes not a peer only, but a prince. They have a love of home; they have, the best of them, and the most of them, inherited from the great race from which they come, the sense of duty, the instinct of honor, as no other people on tbe face of tbe earth. They are lovers of home. They have not the mean traits that grow up somewhere in placeB where money-making is the chief end of life. They have, above all, and giving value to all, that supreme and superb constancy which, without regard to personal ambition, without yielding to the temptation of wealth, without getting tired and without getting divert? ed, can pursue a great public object in and out, year after year and generation after generation."?Augusta Chronicle. ? Takes 1000 people to buy Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, at 50 cents a bottle, to make up ?500. Oue failure to cure would take the profit from 4000 sales. Its makers profess to cure "cold in the head," and even chronic catarrh, and if they fail they pay $500 for their over confidence. Not in newspaper words but iu hard cash ! Think of what confidence it takes to put that in the papers?and mean it. Its makers believe iu the rem? edy. Isn't it worth a trial ? Isn't any trial preferable to catarrh? After all, the inild agencies are the best. Perhaps they work more slowly, but they work surely. Dr. Pierce's Plea3 ant Pellets are an active agency but quiet and mild. They're sugar-coated, easy to take, never shock nor derauge the sys? tem and half their power is the mild way in which their work is done. Smallest, cheapest, easiest to take. One a dose. Twenty-five cents a vial. Of all drug? gists. ? A European statistician tells us that the Sultan of Turkey has five wives of the first claps, twenty-four of the second olaas and 2G0 of the third class. ), 1891. BILL AUF'S CHAT. He Says the Northern Papers Have Laid Axide the Negro for the Indian?The Poor Furniers In the West. Atlanta Constitution, The northern press seems to be in a very hopeful condition. It has ceased to be so deeply concerned about the South and the Negro and is now devoting more attention to their own morals. I like that. The publican's prayer was a more accept? able one than the Pharisees, The Coun? try Gentleman in lamenting the condi? tion of the farmers in western Kansas, Bays that over 10,000 families in one dis? trict are now suffering for the necessaries of life, and would perish but for charity. This is an awful state of affairs. It sounds like the famines we sometimes read about that come over China and India and Ja? pan. The explanation given is interesting and peculiar. There ia a large territory lying east of the Rocky Mountains that used to be called the American Desert, upon which rain seldom falls. In the spring and early summer it is covered with buffalo grass that is green and rank and beautiful to look upon. The great railroad companies that were crossing this desert en route for the Pacific got immense areaa of this land as subsidies from the government. Of course they wanted to sell it, and the emigrants must be the victims. The companies had their sweet-talking agents at Castle Garden, and every foreigner who had $100 or $200 to spare was given a free pass to this beautiful country in the spring and sum? mer, and they took the poor fellow's money and located him on a quarter sec? tion and patted him on the back and told him to go to work and be happy. The companies seemed to think that a Dutch? man could make his crops grow, rain or no rain. The money-lenders from the east came right along and loaned the poor fellow enough money to build him a little house and a big barn and to buy some stock and some tools and they took a ten year mortgage and told him to work like the dickens and pay the interest and not bother about the principal. But the rain didn't come and by midsummer the grass had dried up and blown away, and the poor farmer couldn't carry enough water from his shallow well to water bis perishing crop; and bo he struggled along and lived on his garden from year to year hoping for better seasons, but they didn't come, and now he can't get away, for he has nothing to get away on. The Country Gentleman suggests that as the railroad companies moved them there to get their money tbey oiight to move them back to the eastern States free of transportation. All that rainless coun? try will have to be irrigated by water companies just as California is now, and the government was urged years ago to withdraw those lands from the market until irrigation companies were formed. This accounts for the suffering among those 10,000 families, and I reckon ac* counts in part for those 70,000 farms that are under moitgage in middle and eastern Kansas. A Georgian writing from there says they are the best farmers in the world, but they are overloaded with debt and will never get out. When they have good seasons and the grasshopper does not come tbey make so much corn the price drops to 15 cents a bushel, and it won't pay to haul it over the mushy roads to a railroad station. The New York Evangelist, that great and good paper that is edited by Henry Fields, is now troubled about the poor Indian. It Bays they have been exasper? ated to a merciless war by the perfidy, of the white man, and that we would do just as they have done if we bad been treated as they have been for half a century. They gave up their lands under pressure and under promises that have never been performed. Government agents and oth? er plunderers have cheated them out of their money and their supplies and left them to linger out a miserable existence on roots and nuts and the scattering game that is fast disappearing. In their des? peration tbey show fight and our soldiers shoot down men, women and children all alike and all that accords with Sherman's cold hearted idea that the only way to re? form an Indian is to kill him. That's the way they tried to reform us when they were marching through Georgia burning and destroying and making des? olate. Forty-five year3 ago Sam Houston, who was the best friend the Indians ever had, went to Washington and publicly de? nounced the men and the methods that were swindling them, and he got into a fight with a Mr. Stansbury, a member from Ohio, and mauled the juice out of him on the street, but the same sort of men and the same methods have prevail? ed ever since, and it looks like the poor Indian has got to go. And all this provokes the inquiry: Who cheats and swindles the Indian? Who cheats and swindles the immigrant? Not our people. Another trouble with the northern press is the late report of the commission? er uf internal revenue, which shows that duriug the year just passed there were exported from this Christian laud to for? eign countries 1,600,000 gallons of spirits ?not ghosts nor "sperits of just men made perfect," but spirituous liquors, and all of it but 60,000 gallons was manufac? tured from molasses in the lovely city of Boston and was shipped to Africa for the negroes, and the bills of lading called it New England rum. The shippers are respectable members of orthodox church? es and contribute liberally to the cause of foreign missions. Their idea is to es? tablish the doctrine of man's free agency ?to go to the African with a Bible in one band and a bottle in the other and let him take bis choice. That's fair. A century 8go the Yankee went to Africa aud brought the Negro over here to the rum, but now be takes the rum to the Negro. Stauley aays that the worst thing be had to contend with over there was New England rum. The trading, speculating Yankee is a curiosity. He will cheat you if he can? and be generally can. He lies awake of nights ruminating how be can adulterate what be. manufactures so as to undersell the honest man. His baking powders and pepper and <ugar and candy iind cof fee and butter :md lea are nil adulterated. The average Yiwkee will cheat au Indian VOLUB or an emigrant or an African or a white man all the same, but he will contribute libmlly to help them when they are humble or in distress. Who was so gen? erous as the Yankees when Memphis and Charleston and Jacksonville were visited with the pestilence ? Who is so generous now to the Kansas sufferers? Who so charitable in their gifts and legacies to science and the poor? They are a cu? rious people. In a 25 cent trade they would cheat a preacher out of a dime, but they would give him $5 if he needed it. That reminds me of the Dutchman, John Kitsmiller, who had a mill and was suspected of taking too much toll from bis customers. One night he dreamed that he died and went up to St. Peter and knocked for admisaion, and St. Peter brought up that mill business, and John said: "Veil, sometimes ven de vater vas low and de stones vas dull and de times vas hard, I deed take a leetle too much toll, but den I always geeve some of it to de poor." St. Peter finally let him in, but John admitted that "it vas a tarn tight squeeze." We see that some writers in the north? ern press are suggesting a compromise on the Negro question. They seem willing for us to exclude them from voting in our State elections if we will let them vote for members of Congress. That would give the Republican party more membera from the black belt, and that seems to be all they want. One man suggests that we debar the negro from holdiDg any office, State or Federal, and so he woulden't be counted in our voting population. Of course that would suit the grand old party, for it would reduce our number of representatives in Georgia from eleven to seven, and in the same proportion in the other States, but we are all getting along very smoothly now, and I reckon we had better let well enough alone. The Country Gentleman says that the tide of emigration to the west will have to roll back upon the older States and populate the abandoned lands of New England. It does not mention the South at all as a fit place. It never has, And so now is the time for the direct trade movement to take shape and build the ships that are to land at our ports. The Atlanta movement is a grand one and we are glad to see Gov. Northern giving it his earnest attention. This movement looks more like business than any that has ever been started in the South. The emigrants will not settle on those abandoned lands if our people start them this way from Europe and we let them know what a country and what & climate we have got. Juat think of Kan? sas and then think of Georgia and the Carolinas and the States west of us. It really eeema strange that everybody don't come south and come a-running and grow up with the country. I was rumi? nating about our Bartow County farmers who are now selling corn at 75 cent per bushel right here in town. The criba on Puukin vine Creek are swelling with ?Le weight of com. Tbey make fifty bushels of corn to the acre and punkins worid without end. I saw some that weigbi d 100 pounds apiece. Those farmers have got fat hogs :uid fat cattle and ought to be happy, and I reckon they are, though one of them told me corn ought to bring $1 a bushel and that labor was entirely too high. May the good Lord have mer? cy upon us ail and keep us from breaking the tenth commandment. Bill Arp. Advantages of Being a Man, Agnes Rankin, the venturesome young girl, of Fulton, Ky., who got into the penitentiary through her penchant for wearing boy's clothes, and who was par? doned and immediately ran away from home again, ia in more trouble. She went to work as a farm hand near Ken ton, Tenn., and her sex was discovered, whereupon a very proper old magistrate of the neighborhood sent her to jail for further investigation of the case. Agnes gives a reasou for her conduct which is worth Bome consideration. "I prefer to wear men's clothes," she said, "for the same reson that first led me to put them on. They ensure me employment wher? ever I go. Were I to come into thia community dressed as a woman and ask to be allowed to do a hard day's washing for50 cents, I would neithergei tbc work not be allowed to stop in the house without being endorsed by fome respon? sible person, or showing a pocketful of recommendations to satisfy the house? hold of my respectability. But if I come rigged as a man Iget plenty of work atjl a day and no questions asked. I dis? covered a good while ago that it doesn't pay to be a woman. Women are no good."?Louisville Courier Journal. A man who has practiced medicine for 40 years, ought to know salt from sugar; read what he says: Toledo, O., 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 my 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 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? tarrh that cannot be cured by takiiig Hall's Catat:-h Cure. Taken internally; F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props. Toicdo. O. ft^SoId by Druggist, 75c. ? It is st: ted that the Chun It of Eng? land ba? rai. cd and expended ;-vc?: f 175, 000,000 on church buildiur;. repairing, etc., during Jie twenty-five ira ending with 1SS0. The church spends a million dollars yearly on those objects. BncUIcn's Arnica Salve The beat i-alve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Soies, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver Sores, T-tter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Pilea, or no pay required. 1" is guaranteed to give per? fect sfitisffti tion; or money refunded. Price 25 cet la per box. For sale by Hill Bros, IE XXV.- -NO. 30 All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Steamboats will soon be running on the Sea of Galilee, ? Men who are failures to date will easily get the time extended, ? The men who talk dress and the women who talk politics are ideal bores. ? A 16-year old girl secured a divorce in the Pittsburg, Pa., courts a few days ago. ?The editor of the New York Dry Goods Journal is named George Wash iDgton Bible. ? The best cure for rheumatism or neuralgia is Salvation Oil, used accord? ing to directions. 25 cents. ? Mrs. William Walter, of Easton, Pa., is over 100 years of age. She has just been photographed for the first time. ? Itch on human and horses and all animals cured in 30 minutes by Wol ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by Hill Bros. Druggists, Anderson. ? Samuel Dey, of Wesley, Mo., is one of the greatest bear hunters of his time. During his life he has killed 220 bears and cubs, receiving over $2,000 in boun? ties therefor. ? Emma Abbott, the great prima dona who died two weeks ago, in her will left $5,000 each to a number of churches, one of which was the Citadel Square Baptist church of Charleston. ? The Prince of Wales is a direct descendant of Xing Alfred, being the thirty-third great-grandson ; thus the English throne has remained in the same family for over 1,000 years. ? The Confederacy issued eleven kinds of postage stamps. They are all, if unused, worth double their face value. The ten-cent blue stamp of 1863, if unused, brings $3.00, or if used $2.50. ? The news from the seat of war is constantly contradictory; but not so-far from Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup; every re? port concerning it proves it to be the best Cough Syrur known. Only 25 cents a' bottle. ^ ? There are said to be twenty widows of the revolutionary soldiers still living and drawing pensions. The soldiers of that war are all dead. Their surviving widows must have been married by them long after the war was over. ? The Good Luck mine, in New" Mexico, was first located less than six months ago, and in the last three months has produced $20,000 worth of ore, and""^ during that time there have not been more than five men at work on an aver? age. ? English Good Templars are fitting out temperance wagons and sending them off on tours through Great Britain. Good speakers and singers go with the wagons, who hold meetings and distribute litera? ture wherever possible. The idea is an excellent one. ? Mr. J. B. Turner, of Fairfield County reports the milk record for seven days of his Guernsey cow Eolette, No. 1500, is 36 gallons and 1 pint. This is a remarkable record. This cow has had her udder measured and it measured 60 inches in circumference. This cow won the milk prize in Atlanta in 18S9. ? The "black death" is killing thou? sands of people in Asiatic Russia. In the middle ages, and as late as 1665, it visited England every generation. It was in France in 1820, and in Italy as late as 1815. In the 14th century it killed 100,000 people in Venice. -r ? Mrs. Pering. who has been elected to the office of road overseer in Kansas, is a wide awake woman, with snapping - black eyes and determined mien. "When she has occasion to say 'No' her voice can be heard a mile away," says a cor? respondent. ? Senator Squire, of the new State of Washington, is said to be rich enough to spend $250 a day and not feel it. It is a noticeable circumstance that men who have the means 3f paying spot cash for what they get Lave no difficulty in get? ting the office of United States Senator in the new States. ? The inspired writer has truly said, "He that will not plow by reason ol cold, shall beg in harvest and have noth? ing." A great deal of poverty is suffer? ed because men will not work unless the conditions are favorable. It is the con? stant, steady, every-day effort that wins success and comfort. ? The Salvation army has money and^_ property in the different countries where it is established valued at $3,213,690. The trade effects, stock, machinery and goods on hand are valued at $560,000. Some idea of the trade department may be gathered, suggests the Chicago Herald, from the fact that they sell 22,000 army bonnets every year to the female sol? diers. ? By the explosion of a 60-ton mogul - - engine on the Alabama and Vicksburg railroad, neur Vicksburg, Miss., Engi? neer Vickers was blown fully 200 feet up hill, and the negro fireman as far in tbe opposite direction. Both were horri? bly mangled, scalded and cut. The fire? man's left arm was blown off, the right leg of each was broken, and each receiv? ed severe internal injuries. ? The agent in charge of taking the live stock enumeration of the Kansas range, J. G. McCoy, recently stated that enough data was in to show that *'_io total number of cattle now on range would not exceed 9,000,000, or 4,000,000 less than in 1880, while sheep would show 28,000.000, or 9,000,000 more than in the last census. The last census showed 8,000,000 hogs on the range, but this census will scarcely show half that number. ? Mr. A. S. Wallace, who lives a few miles from tbe town of Yorkville, was notified of t ie tragic death of his son by a Mr. Latin-er, of Yorkville. When the mournful nrws was conveyed to him he expressed n > surprise, for he said that he had been hi urly expecting such intelli? gence, having dreamed a few nights be? fore?about the time Captain Wallace was killed?that his son had been mur? dered by lb.; Indians.?Lancaster Review. The Ladies Delighted The pleasant effect and the perfect. safety with which ladies may use their liquid fruit laxative, Syrup 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 kidneys, liver ?od bowels,