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by cltnkscales & langston. To the good People of Anderson who have for the past month thronged our Store, and in many instances had to wait for a considerable time to get waited on. IT faHy demonstrates that the people are dow awake to their own interest, and are no longer to be carried away by flaming advertisements, in which there is do real merit. In this advanced stage of the mercantile world there is only one sure road to success?that is, always do exactly what you advertise. The iodividual or firm chat fancies that he or they can fool the general pub* - lie will be sorely left. They must not advertise to sell goods at cost, and then make an effort to get 25 per cent profit. If they think they can do this they will find out to their grief that they V will get sorely left, which fact is demonstrated by the crowds that flock to our Store, while other Swes would remind you of the deserted village. The way of the transgressor is hard, and fic? titious advertisers must pay the penalty with empty Stores, while we are tired out from wait? ing on an intelligent public. Customers entering our Store are treated with the utmost courtesy. They are not trested in the rude manner that they are elsewhere when they enter some of the other would-be first class Stores .? with a package not bought therein. The pack? age is, without their consent, torn open, exam? ined, inquiries made as to the cost of the same, i and when truthfully informed as to what was paid for the goods, the person who opens it will sneeringly assert that he could have sold the same article for half the price, when he knows in his heart that he is stating what is false, cow? ardly and malicious, and such a person will never be pointed out as a genuine type of a South Carolina gentleman, whose loftiest obi iga-' tion is truth and honor.' * I will dow leave these geuilemen ot question* able mercantile intelligence and integrity, and inform the public what we intend to do for the temaioiog fifteen days of our Great Sale. We will just simply slaughter everything iu the Store, and make a clean sweep, if cutting prices will do it. New York cost not considered any more?all the goods must he sold at some price, ~ at 15 to 50 per cent off cost. The fact is, the goods must be sold at some price between now and the first of March, and any offer, in reasoo, for goods from now until then will be favorably considered. If the buyer docs not want a gold dollar for S5c he will be almost sure to make the trip. If you have made up your mind to look around, do so before you come to see us, and be sure and have the money with you. We have grown tirod of waiting on people twice, and they will do us a great lavor if they will do all that kind of business before they call to look over our immense stock, and then we will boat all the other Stores so bad you will think the goods munt have beeo stolen. 3D- C. FLlTZr^nET, Leader of Low Prices, Ued House, Granite Row, WILL TAKE A HEW START ON m m m J'jLlSr?'JLJElir 1, 1891, - AND if you OWE me anything, and don't want hitafio come to see you, yon can avoid the annoyance 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 he GETS IT. So don't blame him if he take3 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 attentioa will SAVE ESPENSES. This is plain talk, but MEANS BUSINESS. FOWL for Infants and Children* "Caitoxtmla so -reH adapted to children that I recommend It aa superior to any prescription known, to me." H. A. Abcbeb, IL D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, jr. T. Cantorla cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills "Worms, gives stoep, and promotes dt pestion, Without injurious medication, Ths Csxnva Company, 77 Murray Street, k. Y. nsriEW firm. X 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 wo 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. Rooifing and Guttering and putting up Heaters a Specialty. SEEL & AEOHEB. TflA?HEftg'CoLUMN, All communications intended f? this Column should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. memory oems. "Kind words aud smiles so loving, And duties promptly done. Oh I these will make our school-life As pleasant as the sun. Then let us all keep trying, To do the best we can To make our school-life pleasant, For 'tis the wisest plan." a plea. for letter school houses. Mr. Editor : Doubtless everybody is ready to say they thought the above sub? ject threadbare long ago, but, be that as it may, I want to put in a little filling. I have taught school nearly ten years in my life, and during this period I have never taught in a house that was decently respectable and comfortable. Many men work and toil and worry for years to erect a comfortable dwelling bouse?one that will protect them and their children from the wintry blasts. Fact is, some of our people have better barns than our school bouses. How is it that our parents can have the heart to send their children out from a warm, cosy, fire and comfortable dwelling to one of these bam school houses and expect them to learn much is passing strange to me. And yet, such is the case. And that is not I all; they expect first-class work from the teacher, I feel like exclaiming, "Con? sistency, 0 thou jewel I" I notice that in about three or four weeks school children usually have severe colds and coughs after they start to school. Parents exclaim, Oh! just a bad cold. A lapse of time, a change of weather and the growth of the child brought it relief for the present. Bat in reality, the germs of disease, such as catarrh, and that yet more fatal of all diseases consumption, were planted iu that child's system by exposure in an old barn Bcbool house. Our country schools are a power in the land for good, ami the education of the masses; but they can never be'made as effective as tbey might be until the people are willing to make their tcbool house more comfortable. No wonder that so many of our people are moving into cities and towns for bet? ter educational facilities. Some of the bright intellects of our country, and whose names adorn the pages of history, got their Btart in the country school room. Arise, O ye people 1 Arise in your man? hood and let us rave better country school houses. D. Edward King, Mountain Springs School Boom, Febru* arg 6th, 1891. provincialisms and other thoughts. Waco, S. C, February 7,1S91. Mr. Editor: V'am glad to see the "ice has been broken" by some of the teachers, and perhaps others will send in contributions, thereby exchanging ideas aud helping to make the Teachers' Col? umn more interesting. I heartily agree with Miss Roberts in regard to the phonic method preferred to the old A B 0 method. The advantages of the former over the latter are too nu? merous to mention. From what I can ascertain, the A B C teachers are greatly in the miuority, and I hope the time is not far distant when such a thing as teaching a child to repeat again and again ABC will be a thing of the past. No wonder a child thought that school was "next thing to jail," when he was pinned down to the old "blue-back spelling-book" day after day, and maybe wear out two or three pages of the A B C's before he mastered Ihem. But learn them ho must, forwards and backwards, and "skip about" until the poor little fellow wished there never had been such a thing thought of as schools or teachers. I have been along there myself, and know whereof I speak. Mr. Few's remarks on "Provincial? isms" called forth to my mind my stay in the low*counlry, having taught school eight months in Orangeburg County, and used to laugh to myself at what I considered their "funny way of talkiog." Along with all those Mr. F. mentions I will note a few more. To my ear, one of the most outlandish expressions was to "ouleu the tiro." If a chiid carried an order from the mother to another child, it would be delivered in this way: "Ma say how for you," &c. If they wanted to kuow where anything was it would be: "Where it is?" Speaking of anything boiled, it would be "boilt." Where we would say, "I never Beo them now," with them it would be "I never see them any more," that any more being used wher? ever they can make fit it. I can't recall many of their expressions I picked up while among them. It was iu vain I tried to get some of my pupils to sound the h in which, what, where, &c., that being their mother-tongue. I was among first-clans, well-to-do people, but have oi'teu heard adi?" (this), "dere" (there) and "dey" (they). No doubt they would think we talked as funny as they. Here are some provincialisms 1 have heard In our own County. Your hostess will say "Take out some ham" (or whatever It may be). "Pass me the but? ter," I have heard often. There is that word "tote" that worries me, to hear peo? ple who know better, use constantly; how often do I have to reprove my pu? pils for using it, but use it they will. Ab it is not my intention to set myself up as a critic, I'll leave the subject and talk a little about our ?choul. I will just bore Btate that the children aud I are delighted with our Arithmetical Chart, with which our Trustees have provided us, and to whoa wc extend sincere thanks, for I find it of much help. Come to see us again, Mr. Editor. Hope I have not trespassed too much, but hav? en't said all I wanted to. Respectfully, Lelja Browne. the boy and the monkeys. The following story was written by lit? tle RuLbie Riuh, after looking at the picture of a boy aaleep with a whip in bis hand and several monkeys sitting around intent on some mischief. Ruthie ANDERSON, S. C, is a bright little lassie of about ten yeara, and a pupil of Miss Lelift Brown, at Trinity School: Once there was a little boy playing with several monkeys, and when the lit? tle boy got tired playing he wanted to go to bed, and so he got the whip and whip? ped the monkeys and made the monkeys stay still until he went to sleep and rested awhile, but as you know, monkeys are always in some mischief. They said let's ali go when the little boy gets asleep and take him off and wake him up and scare him. All said well. In a few minutes the little boy was fast asleep. They were looking around for a place to slip in and not wake the little boy up, wheu the little fellow raised up and said: "Please go off and let me sleep." So they went offand stayed until they thought he was asleep again. They went and carried him off and told bim that they were going to kill him, and so the little fellow said next time that be was going to close the doors up next time he tried to go to Bleep, and be knew that the monkeys were about be told them that he would not play with them any more if they didn't let bim go, but when they let bim loose be said that he wasn't afraid of them. When he said that to them they said to just try it again and they would show him how to fight, but the little boy said no he didn't want to, because he was too good a boy to do such a thing aa that. The old monkeys said that he was afraid to, but he wasn't, you know. I didn't mean that he was, though I put it that way, but you know people are apt to make mistakes, Rothie Rush. Distinguished Plely on the Field of Battle. Colonel Jame3 A. Hoyt, editor of the Baptist Courier, pays the following tri? bute to the late Rev. William Thomas, of the South Carolina Conference, whose memoir we published a few weeks ago: In a recent issue of the Southern Chris? tian Advocate we find a tender and beau? tiful tribute to the late Rev. William Thomas, a member of the South Caroliua Conference, who died at Florence on the 1st of December, 189?, after a brief ill? ness. He was on his way to attend the annual meeting at Anderson, although sick and suffering when be started, and it is told of him that 'he spake and sang his joy and hope till death sealed his lips.' The sketch ia written by our friend, Rev. John O. Wilson, and brings to mind the only occasion upon which we ever saw Brother Thomas, to which allusion is made in the sketch. It was at Campbell's Station, in East Tennessee, in the Fall of 1863, r/hen Longstreet was pressing the F?deral forces back towards Knoxville, aud we bad been pursuing the enemy from daylight until the mid? dle of the afternoon. General Burnside made a halt at the little railroad hamlet,' and the lines were joined for a desperate conflict peemingly. The artillery was brought into action immediately, and hurtling missiles were filling the air with death and destruction. Jenkins's Bri? gade of South Carolinians was supporting. the artillery of the Confederates, and was fearfully exposed in an open field without protection, while ehot and shell were thinning ranks here and there. Not far from us, in a most exposed posi? tion, a gallant soldier received his death wound, and soon after he called earnestly for prayer to be made in his behalf. Then took place the scene described by Brother Wilson, in which the brave and loving Christian manifested the spirit of his Master, and went to the relief of his fellow man unmindful of danger and heedless of the consequences to himself. We cannot recall the words used in the petition, though they were distinctly heard at the time, amid the clash and fury of the battle, but we will venture to say that no soldier witbin sight ever forgot the scene where Wm. Thomas poured forth his soul in behalf of a dying comrade. Brother Thomas was a private in the Hampton Jiegiou infantry, which was commanded at that time by M. W. Gary, and in the official orders issued a few days afterwards bo was promoted to the Chaplaincy of the Legion 'for distin? guished piety on the field of battle,' if we remember the words correctly. The Legion was shortly afterwards transferred to the cavalry Borvice, and we believe that Brother Thomas continued to fill the position so honorably won until that famous command cut its way through the linea aud refused to surrender at Appomattox."_ ? The Wadsworth lease land cases b'lvo been exciting considerable atten? tion. A hundred years ago old man Wadsworth gave an immense quantity of ':u)d in the upper part of this Stato to a school in Laurens County. The Legisla? ture passed an Act removing from it the operation of the statutes of limitation. People leased the land and settled on it; sold it and new parties are now occupy? ing it. The hundred years are just ex? piring, and the trustees are now trying to dispossess the parties and recover the property. Tho first case in this County is now pending in court over some land r.aar Wellford. The case wa3 to have beeu tried this week but has been com? promised?so says Mr, Harm, one of tho attorneys for the WadBworth trustees.? Spartanbury Herald. ? Let's reason together. Here's a firm, one of the largest the country over, the world over; it has grown, step by step, through the years to greatness?and it Bells patent medicines 1?ugh ? "That's enough."? Wait a little? ? This firm pays the newspaper's good money (exp6nsivo work, this advertising) to tell the people that they have faith In what they sell, so much faith that if they can't benefit or cure they don't want your rnonoy. The guarantee is not indefinite and relative, but dofinito and absolute?if tho medicine doeBn't help, your money ia "on call." Suppose every sick man and every fee bio woman tried thoso medicines and found them worthless, who would be the loser, you or they ? The medicines are Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery," for blood diseases, and his "Favorite Prescription," for wo? man's peculiar ills. If they help toward health, they cost $1.00 a bottle each I If they dont, they cost nothing. THUKSDAY MOEN BILL ARP'S CHAT. The Rent of the Folks Gone to the Wod diiig. Atlanta Constitution. Gone to the wedding. All gone but me and the baby. I'm good for something yet. I can take care of the grandchildren when the mother and grandmother are away. I sorter wanted to go to the wed? ding, too, but I made out like I dident, for I knew Bomebody had to stay with the child, the sweet little girl that loves me and calls me "danpa." I never Baw a woman that dident love a wedding. The men do, too, except some. Heard a sour old bachelor say, "A marriage always make me feel sad. It is a transition from freedom into slavery. It reminds mo of a religious fanatic going to China as a missionary, or a beautiful girl taking the veil and going into a nunnery." And there are many old saws and sayings such as "Marry in haste and repent at leisure," and ''Marriage is a lottery in which nine? ty-nine draw blanks and one gets a prize," and "Matrimony is a cage and those who are in wish to get out, and those who are out wish to get in," and ever so many more insinuating reflections. But it does not matter. The weddings are going on and they will be talked about and pa? tronized and enjoyed just as they have been for-6,000 years. It is a cold, dark night and the road is bad and the creek up, but my folks have all gone, and they will stay gone until midnight, for it is an old fashioned ? wedding at the family mansion, and' there is to be a great feast and fine music, and the big house wili be full and running over. This is the first wedding iu the family, and will be the last, for the bride is an only child, and of course it is a big thing. Kindred and friends have come from far and the nabors are invited and everybody will be on their best behavior and arrayed in their best clothes, and that is according to Scripture, for folks who go to weddings should have wedding garments. In fact, that is a good part of the wedding, espe? cially with the women folks. Fine clothes are just as natural to woman as long hair or baby talk. It has been bo for all time. Aunt Sally Abraham and Mrs'. Rebecca Isaac and Mrs. Rachel Jacob were all dressy. Isaac caught Miss Rebecca by shining her eyes with a pair of earrings that cost him 75 cents. Mrs. Jacob didn't have but one daughter, and Jose phus, the historian, says that the reason Mies Dinah irent over to Shechem was she wanted to see the finery of the women of that city. Just so. It's like our Cartersville folks running down to Atlanta to Bee the latest fashions and how the city women dress. That's all right, if the husband or father can afford it. Everybody who is any account likes good clothes. If there was nobody to wear fine goods what would become of the poor people who make them. I don't know what kind of finery the ladies had on at this wedding, but I will know in due time. It is to be an old-fashioned wedding?a grand affair and they have been fixing for it a long time. Turkeys and pigs and ducks and oysters and crabs have been sacrificed in reckless abundance and there's a big closet right full of cake and another closet full of syllabub and floating islands and crystal mountains and Queen and Charlotte, and Tom and Jerry and Punch and Judy, and jams and jellies, world without end?enough to feed a regiment they say, and my folks have hinted that they will bring me a sample if I take good care of the baby. * * * * She is waking up right now and will bo calling her mamma in a minute?so mote it be. * * * * A man can't do much with a baby in the night when the mother is gone. For nearly two hours I have worked with that child and every few minuteB she begged for her mamma. I got her picture book and talked dog and cat and monkey, I showed her Santa Claus and Bluebeard. I walked and walked and sang all my little songs and patted her back, as I marched to my music. I twirled silver dollars on the marble-top table. I got the fiddle and let her saw on it with the bow. I hunted up her dolls and nursed the cat and tickled the dog's foot as he slept on the rug, and so by shifting the scenes I managed to keep her little mind employed until the little eye began to droop, and with a sigh and a sob she went to sleep. It was a struggle against time and her mother came soou after I bad whipped the fight. They all came and they came a talking and they were bo sorry I missed it, for it was a fine wedding and a fine feast, and a fine party, and ev? erybody was so nice and the young folks were lovely, and the old folks woro splen? did, and the bride was a picture, ami her maids were charming and the music ex? quisite and the presents were just magni? ficent and other adjectives and adverbs, interjections and exclamations too tedious to mention?"oh, you ought to have been there?you don't know what you have missed." I know it all now?I think I do?every bon mot, fox pas and Jew do sprit, I know which had the prettiest face and which the most beautiful dress and which the sweetest manners. I know who was the finest looking gentleman and who was the hungriest, and who the thirtiest, and who was the most captivating. I know all about the beautiful presents and who gave them, and how lovely the bride looked, and how long was her train, and all about her pearls and diamonds, and what the preacher said. But it wascht an old-faBhioned wedding after all, for tho bride and groom left all that goodly company about 11 o'clock and came to town and took the midnight train for Florida?slipped away liko they were ashamed of the business. I never did liko that. They might have stayed a few days, anyhow, and comforted tho poor mother, who has given up her only child to a man who is no kin to her and novcr did anything for her except to givo her o ring and a bird and a poodle dog, and a few other prcnonta that won't euro the heartache nor stifle a pain nor a sigh. They might have stayed n day or two and had an infaro at the groom's mother's like we used to do in the good old times. But we never hear of infares now and our grown up childron didn't know what an infare was until thoir mother told them. It ia an old Scotch custum and I like it. When we were married we had a big time, too, accepting the silver presents, ING, FEBRUARY 1 and I stayed that night at my father-in- j laws, and the next day we had another big time, and my wife stayed that night at her father-in-law's, and that was the infare, and wo never took no train for nowhere, for I had work to do, and so we jQBt lived back and forth.among the old folks until we were able to build a 2 room bouse and set up for ourselves family fashion. I was ruminating about these beautiful wedding presents, these Bilver forks and spoons by the gross and silver tea service and other silvery things, and bow they , may possibly come into service sure 1 enough and to be very handy Bometimo if tho wolf ever comes to the door, or if we Bhould have another war and the curren? cy get worthless like it did in tho last. I remember when some of our best people had to slip round on the sly and sell a few spoons or a few forks to get something to live on. One time I gave a broken down man ?1,000 for half a dozen old time honored table spoons that had been in his family for four generations and kept as a family relic. It hurt him bad to part with them and so after the war was over I gave them back to bim and thanked bim for using that much of my worthless money. Silver things are very ^ beautiful to look at, but Solomon says: "He that loveth silver shall not be satis? fied with silver." On the whole, I don't know that there is much difference be? tween these silver wedding presents and the kind that we got when we mar? ried. Ours were black and tan color, and could walk about and didn't have to be kept under lock and key, but they eat up and wore out a power of vittels and clothes, and I never could make the ac? count balance until the war was over? with an exception they were an expense and a care, and gave us trouble. Of course I don't count Tip, for Tip was never our Blave, but was our friend. Tip grew up with the children and was one of them. Tip was my trusted, confidential servant. No, I don't think there is much difference between the presents now and tho presents then. One gave us the love of dominion and the other giv.s us the love of show. Then let the procession proceed, the procession of marriages aud births and deaths, and if we can't all be happy let us be as happy a3 we can. Bill Aep. P. S.?A friend has sent me the Chica? go Herald of January 14th, and marked a paragraph, which says: "It is not an uncommon Bight for whiskey to be retail? ed from wagons on the public square in Oartersville, Ga." Do you reckon the scavenger of that paper found that lie, or did he make it up and then look over his map to find a southern town to lay it on ? I'm going to write the editor, and if he is a gentleman bo will take it back and apologize. If he don't, he had better look out for Sam Jones on the war path. Bill Aep. Put the Plaster ou the Wrong Mau= "Speaking of accidental cures," said an old physician to a Chicago Post reporter, "re-ninda me of an incidont in the offi? cial career of ex-Governor Paddleford, of Rhode Island. The Governor wa3 a very- corpulent man, and shortly after his instalment an abscess formed in his stomach. It was most painful, and, to eaae the pain, his physician instructed bim to travel. The Governor, accompa? nied by his wife, set forth, and pretty much over the entire country they went. One night, iu a sleeping car, tho pain attacked the Governor with extraordi? nary force, and, as usual at such times, his good wife got up to prepare a mustard plaster. So accustomed was the Gover? nor to such applications that, like drinks for an old toper, they had to be made extra strong to be made effective. With the assistance of the porter, however, sbo fixed up a large, fat plaster, which, she calculated, would come pretty nigh drawing the very abscess itself out of her liege lord, then, holding it carefully be? fore her, trotted back to the berth, and, parting the curtains, she placed the poultice on the proper place. As ehe gave it its last pat, she looked up for a smile of thanks from her husband, when to her horror she discovered that she bad stopped at the wrong berth, and opera? ted upon a strange individual, who was a drummer for a liquor house. That she had not before discovered her mistake, or that he had not awakened, was due to hia being a person of about the same size 83 the Governor, and considerably under the influence of liquor. Shuddering with fright the good lady found her husband's berth and stammered forth what she bad done. The Governor, although in great pain, aud notwithstanding thivt 'he pias? ter contained his entire Btock of mustard, laughed loudly and vowed that if he died he would not stir till the man with the gubernatorial plaster on his common clay stomach should awake. The time was not long. A piorcing yell that brought the conductor and porter to the drum? mer's berth announced its arrival. As they tore aside the curtains the drummer, putting bis hand to bis stomach, felt the soft plaster. 'My God!' be Bcreamed, as visions o; premature decomposition danced before his eyes, 'I'm spoiling!' In an agony of mind he tore tho plaster, which he supposed to be a layer of de- j cayiug flesh, from him, and with a scream of despair flung it away. It struck tho porter iu tho face, and that | individual, fancying that his brains bad j beeu knocked out, fled. "What's tho matter with you?" the! conductor inquired of the drummer. "'Matter?' echoed that personage with misery iu bin face. 'Matter? Great heavens, can you a?k ? Look there,' he said, pointing to his stomach. 'I am rotting away; and to thick that it was my own wLidkey that did it!' "The conductor looked at the spot in? dicated, but saw nothing unnatural. He so told the drummer, who cautiously j placed his hand on his stomach. Uis lightning change of countenance told tho | relief he felt. 'I must have had a night- j mare,' he said. The conductor, consid? erable mystified, withdrew <iud obtained j an explanation from the Governor, who, having overhead the drummer, was just recovering from a paroxhm of laughter j which had broken the abscess, Its breaking was what had been sought, and j in a few hours the Governor was entirely J cured. ' d, 1891. a visit to mvr englaxd, BY REV. D. F. BONNER. Associate Reformed Presbyterian, Since writing last I have made two trips to New England. In the first trip I was absent one and in the second two Sabbaths. As this is a part of our coun? try which few of the readers of the Presbyterian have ever seen, some im? pressions respecting it may Dot be unwel? come. It was not my first trip to Boston, nor did I go as an entire stranger. My wife's youngest brother has for years been a resident of one of Boston's sub? urbs, and last fall my oldest Bon went thither to enter business and make his fortune. There is a choice of routes, but in each case for different reasons I made the same choice. I first went to New | York and then to Boston via the Fall Kiver line. This is the most comforta? ble routs. The boats that ply between Now York and Fall Biver are palatial. They are large and elegantly furnished, are heated by steam and lighted by electricity. You enter your Btate room and you do not even need a match. You Bimply turn a cock as in a gas bur? ner and you have your light?turn again and you extinguish it. There is an electric call-bell to connect with your room. A push on a button will ring it and bring a servant to supply your wants. The boats leave New York at 4.30 p. m.; and an orchestra furnishes music in the grand saloon from the start till about 10 o'clock p. m. Sometimes there are addi? tional attractions of a voluntary charac? ter. We had snch on the first trip. There was first an address, illustrated by a historical chart, by a religious crank of New Port. He carried a teacher's Bible and began his address with a prayer. His forte was prophecy of course, and his points were that the kingdom that is to possess all other kingdoms is the United States, and the one like the Son of Man was Qoorge Washington. Other? wise his interpretations of Daniel's sym? bolic figures were for the most part in acccrd with current views. Ho took up the usual collection. Then we bad a treat by a musical negro. He was a great-mimic, and succeeded in affording considerable amusement. But we had no such iucidents on the other trips. Excellent meals are served on board also on the European plan. The distance from New York to Fall Biver is 180 miles. The latter point is reached about 5.80 a. m. You then have choice of two beautiful Pullman vestibule trains for Boaton, fifty-one miles further. The one leaves on the landing of the Boat and reaches Boston at 6.50 and the other about two hours later. It would be difficult '.o find a nicer trip than this one. Beturning, the train leaves Boston at 6 p. m., and the boat reaches New York at 2.80 a. m., next morning. One of the first things whicb impresses the traveler in New England is the abun? dance of waste land and the number, size and thriftiness of the citie3 and villages. You ride along through an unimproved, unproductive reach of country and ihe first thing you knew your train is whirl? ing by a thrifty village or passing through a populous city. There is a vast amount of unimproved laud in New England more than there was probably fifty years ago. And yet in many respects it is an attractive region. The people live at homo. Their houses for the most part are taaly and convenient. For out? buildings, even to the stables, are quite generally so connected aa to allow of going from the parlor to the barn with? out stepping on the ground or passing from under a roof. At the same time you feel that it is a region of country by itself. Boston ia getting unlike New York. You feel the difference the mo? ment you enter either city from the other. Which of the two is preferable will depend upon whether one is a Yorker or Bostonian. On my recent trip I spent some ten days in Manchester, N. H. As I was then in the heart of New England and studied it somewhat I will devote the rest of these New England notes to that It is a great manufacturing place and is one of the most rapidly growing cities in New Eugland. It is Baid to be one of the prettiest citie3 in the region; and it certainly is a beautiful little city of aome 20,000 inhabitants. When I reached the city the streets were very icy. The first thing I noticed was that all the sidewalks had been sprinkled. The substance was yellowish and at first I look it to be sawdust; but I found it to bo Band. The city, as I afterward learned, stores away great quantities cf sand in the summer and always when necessary sprinkles the pavements with it. A heavy fall of snow having occurred while there I saw their snow plows. These are wooden arrange? ments exactly of the form of the letter N. The horses hitched at the apex, and about midway back a seat is constructed for the driver. They were out all over the city before the snow had ceased fall? ing. They do not wholly clean the side? walks, but greatly lessen the amount of bhoveliug required. The Amoskeag Manufacturing Com? pany?the largest cotton manufacturing company in the world?is located in that city. So are also the Manchester Paint Works. It was my privilege to form the acquaintance of superintendents in both these establishments and to go all through them. Amoakoag Company employs 7,000 operatives?4,000 females and 3,000 males, and turns 01111,750,000 yards of cottou cloth each week. There are five other establishments there. Altogether, in round numbers, they employ 13,000 operatives?8,000 fernale3 and 5,000 males. They produce unnnally 170 million yards of cloth ; dye ?3? millions and print 47 millions. In doing this thoy consume 54 million pounds of cotton. These figures look large, but they aro official., except that I have given simply tho round numbers. ThG Amoskeag Company house a largo part of their operatives. Quite a section of tho city is absolutely owned r.nd con? trolled by it, Tho house3 are all sub? stantial brick structures of 21 and 3 3tories in height?none of them more. Some of them are boarding hoii?C3, but moat are residences. It is a favor to VOLUM secure the occupancy of these as there are not enough to go round and rents are much lees than in the city elsewhere. The company establish tho price of board; and see that the price is not ex? ceeded and that the board is good. Some of these houses are for families and others for males exclusively. They are not sheltered promiscuously. Tho most of the residences ate 2} story buildings. These accommodate in each house two families. The ground floor has four rooms of good size and the necessary hall?the second the same and the half story two large rooms. The rent for the first floor is 5-4 per month; that for th6 upper floor with the attic, six rooms, ie $7 per month. Tho company keeps the house painted?painliug even the boors, except in the best room which is to be carpeted. They also put on the paper but the tenants furnish it. I was in sev? eral of these houses aud found them all exceedingly comfortable. In fact one of the surprises to a stranger all through New England ia to eee the neatness of person and dress of tho operatives, male and female, as they go to and return from work. Bat for your knowledge of the circumstances you would not think that the cleanly, neatly, often stylishly dress? ed young people you see are neither going to or coming from "the mills." New England is devoted to education. It was my privilege to be present at the opening of a new school building and to hear an address from the State's Commis? sioner of Education. I could devote a letter to this incident, but will not. The building and ground was to cost some $50,000. It contained seven school? rooms. It was beautifully located on an eminence commanding a fine view and having ample room. Iu the cellar is the beating and ventilating apparatus of the latest and best invention. Connected with each school-room are cloak-rooms and a wash-room with marble bowls, etc. Electric bells and speaking tubes connect the different rooms and bring all within easy reach of the principal. All the addresses recognized the need of the moral element in the schools. You read of the gradual change in the character of the population of New Eng? land. I was painfully impressed with the fact on this visit. Manchester was originally Bottled by Scotch Presbyte? rians. In some adjacent neighborhoods that element still predominates. In a few instances the old establishment ar? rangement is perpetuated, and the Pres? byterian is the parish church of the town. I attended an installation service in one of these some twelve or fourteen miles from Manchester. But this change is most manifest in the cities. Already Manchester is about half French Catho? lic. It is the Cathedral City of New Hampshire, i. e., the residence of the bishop of the State. They have six churches, and even the Congregational ists have but threo. They have schools of all grades and have an enrollment withiu them of 8,762, while the enroll? ment of the public schools is only twenty five more. Our own church has undertaken work in this field. It has two churches?one among the Germans aud the ether among tho Scotch and Scotch Irish. It was to look over the field in connection with the latter that I visited Manchester, There seemu to bo a field there, but I didn't feel that I was the one to cultivate it. But I enjoyed my visit very much and gained a knowledge of the general character of our Now Eugland work that I could not otherwise obtain. There are other matters I had intended speaking of in this connection, but as the letter has already grown to be a good leugtb, I will forbear. Montgomery, N. Y, Jan. 27, 1891. None of That for Him. A seedy looking individual walked in? to the Lafayette bar recently and request? ed a group of young meu, who were im? bibing, to purchase him a drink. One of the group said he would buy him six if the tramp would allow himself to be hyp? notized. As the yonng man uttered the last word the tramp uttered a cry of despair, and started for the door. He ran down Sansam street until he bad to Btop to re? gain bis breath. One of the group fol? lowed, and catching up to the vagrant, asked: "What is the matter? It wouldn't hurt you to be hypnotized." "Hypnotized, is it ? No, Sir! I read in yesterday's paper about a hard drinker out west whose wife got him hypnotized to cure him of getting drunk. The hyp notizer actually made it impossible for a drop of liquor to ho Bwallowed; the pal? ate would low it to pass, and ejected it. Young man," he continued solemnly, "before I'd consent to be hypnotized I'd go to work for my living."?Philadelphia Press. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) Lucas County, J Fkank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County aud State afore-" said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and overy case of Catarrh that caunot be cured by the ueo of Hall's CaTABBH cure, FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before mu and subscribed iu ray presence, this Gth day of December, A. D. 18S6. A. W. G LEASON, 1 S**Z I Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Ouro is taken internally and act.ad:r:otly on tho blood and mucous iiurfftces of the syhIodl Send for testi? monials; free. F. J. CHENEY ? Co., Toledo, O, fl*^ .Sold by Drugs isla, 7 ">c. j ? The uow iuduati-) ot' camphor pro- ! duction gives promise of being perma? nently established iu Florida. It is be-l lievtid that in tou years' lime there will be nioro camphor trees than orauge trees i in Florida, uud thai ibe camphor iudus try will bo more profitable than that of sugar, It is stated that Iho camphor obtained from the Florida trees approach? es moro nearly to that uf Japan than to Ohiueso camphor, since the odor of safrol is distinctly recoguizable. E XXV.?NO. 33. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Freemasonry was Introduced in the United States in 1733. ?An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise. ? There are in the world 3064 lan? guages and 1000 religions. ? Georgia has three hundred life time prisoners in the penetentiary. ? It is hard for a msn to face the world when he is flat on his back. ? It is suggested the Legislature' prohibit drinking men from marrying. ? A severe cyclone struck Helena, Ala., Monday, wrecking several build? ings. ? The Bank ol France employs about one hundred and sixty women as their clerks. ? A pretty picture.?A sunny-haired child curing the Newfoundland's cut foot with Salvation Oil. ? The man who wants to'.diejought to die; the seraphs don't need him, but he finds that out later. ? The muster rolls show that no less than 21,000 Union veterans answered death roll call during 1890. ? The number of suicides in the Uni? ted States in 1890 was 2640, while in 1889 it was 2224, and 1888 1487. ? There has been>n increase of elev? en million acres'cultivated in the cotton belt in the last twenty years. ? The Alabama legislature has indefi? nitely postponed the bill to prohibit the running of freight trains on Sunday. ? Gen. Wade Hampton's old brigade will have a reunion in Augusta, Ga., some time in April, probably the 26th. ? The deepest ocean in the world is the Pacific. Near the Ladrone Islands a depth of 4,475 fathoms, or over 5 miles, was found. ? Reports from various portions of the West indicate that the number of cattle being fattened is much lees than at any . previous time for several years. ? The blood of goats is being injected into the circulation of consumptive pa? tients in Paris with favorable results. The goat is not subject to the disease. ? The number of emigrants who left * Germany for the United States in the month of November was larger than for the same mouth in the last five years. ? Itch on human and horses and all ? animals cured in 30 minutes by Wol- "j ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by Hill Bros. Druggists, Anderson. ? The man who loves God with all his strength does not sit in the front room and sing while his invalid wife is out in the back yard doing a two-weeks' wash? ing. ? A Missouri town has advertised for a schoolteacher "who will thrash both boys and girls if they need it." That must be the Missouri idea of co educa? tion. ? The numerically smallest religions denomination discovered by Porter's census takers is that of the Schwankfel dianB. There are 306 of them und all dwell in Pennsylvania. ? Caroline Dodge, who is seeking to enforce a contract entered into by a rail- ? '? road in behalf of her grandfather, argued her own case before a full bench of the Supreme Court in Boston last week. ? ? The surprise of Bip Van Winkle when awaking from his long slumber not have been greater than the consump? tive's, upon finding himself entirely relieved by Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. 25 ceuta. ? During the forty-nine years of his life, the Prince of Wales has drawn sixteen million five hundred thousand dollars from the public treasury of Great^ Britain, and his debts amount to etgftt million dollars. ? Edwin B, Winans, who is the first Democratic Governor that Michigan has had in thirty years, is a conservative, bald-headed old farmer, with a neatly trimmed beard and kindly eyes beaming out of gold spectacles. ? Governor Tillman has declined with an expression of his thanks and regrets, an invitation from the Eukosmian Liter? ary Society of the Presbyterian College at Clinton, to deliver the honorary oration at its commencement in June. ? Thomas F. Harmon of Newberry shipped one bale of broom corn of hia-'-^ own raising in that County to Atlanta, Saturday. This is the first shipment of broom corn made from that place, and Mr. Harmon thinks it will prove more profitable than cotton. ? Prof. Vaughn, of the Ann Harbor University, has manufactured a lymph for the euro of typhoid fever npon the * same principle as Koch's lymph. He has experimented with the' lymph npon email animals. He will try it upon hu? man patients as soon as he has thorough? ly tested the Koch lymph, 1,000 injec? tions of which have been received at the university. ? The pension bill, which passed the Senate on Thursday, appropriates the net sum of $133,173,0S5 for pensions, and enough more for fees, salaries and other expenditures to increase the amount to $135,000,000, or $100,000,000 more than the annual appropriation for pensions when Gen. Garfield, as chairman of the committee on appropriations, declared that "we may reasonably expect that the expenditures for pensions will hereafter speedily decrease, unless our i legislation should be unwarrantably ex j travagant." "As the expenditures have j increased to the extent of $100,000,000 a j year.' says the Philadelphia Times, ' 'instead of decreasing, the inference is I plain that the pension legislation has been unwarrantably extravagant, accord \ irig to the Garfield standard. But it is ! not at ail probable that even the $135, I 'JOO.OOO will be enough, as Mr. Allison, I during the debate, admitted to Mr Mc ! Pherson that there might be a deficiency I of six, eight or lea millions. That it I will be much greater than the highest I sum mentioned by Allison is more than I a possibility. Tt is a strong probability." Children Enjoy * Tho pleasant flavor, gentle action and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a laxative and if the father or mother bo costive or billioua, the most gratifying results follow its use, so that it is the best family remedy known and ev? ery family should have a bottle.