Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. SELLING OUT AT COST. Contemplating a Change in Business E. W. B?OWN * sons Are offering their entire Stock of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES At and Below Cost fur the next 60 days. So come on and be convinced, for low prices will tell the tale. We have on hand $1800 worth of Clothing which must be eold, and the present prices will soon do the work ? so if you are needing anything in the way of Clothing now is your time to bay. Will sell Quilts, Blankets and Jeans cheaper than any house in the city. Oar line of Dress Goods is complete?Worsted from 4?c to 20c, and Cashmere from 16c to $1.00. All kinds of Plein and Plaid Flannels at the lowest prices. Calico, Gingham and Checks almost at any price, so come on and buy before these ba^uuNroall gone. . . . ^IPp ^TOOK OF FLOUR. 'Bem^D%^f?i?g^that we carry as big line of Groceries as any house in tfoe o]j^e&p^ will sell as cheap ?s the cheapest. Our stock of Flotfrv.Sagar^Goffee- Molasses, Tobacco, Hay and Bran are all fresh, and bought at the lowest figures, and will be sold the same way. Ifl^b?vejatf'^^ be sold very cheap. ^^^^Iftkeepfdxr'-habdataUtiiueitaUkiDd of Canned Goods, such as Tomatoes, Pears^Peaches;"Peas, Okra; Cherries, Pine Apples, Oysters, Salmon, Sardines, Potted Ham and all kinds of Jelly and Pickles. Be sere and get our prices before bnying, and yon will bo convinced that we osn.eave you money. Very respectfulIy, IE, W. BEOWir Sz SOIsTS. S;-^We are CASH COTTON BUYERS, and also Agents for High Grade FERTILIZERS. See as before selling your Cotton. E. W. B. & S. WE THANK OUR PATRONS For their Liberal Patronage, and assure You there is a Treat in Store at our Place of Business. ? - WE will quote yon some prices that yon have been made to believe would tend to make as restless at night, and some articles yon can buy 10 to 15 cents cheaper from as than you have paid for the same article that you are not familiar with. We are not asking you more than they are worth: 2 quart Coffee Pota.10c 3 quart XJoffee- Pota.11c 4 quart Coffee Pots.:.. 13c 2 quart Covered Backet. 8c 5 quart Covered Backet. 9c 4 qaart Covered Backet..12c 6 qaart Covered Backet.15c 8 quart Dish Pans..... 10c 10 quart Dish Pans.14c 14 qaart Dish Pans.20c 10 quart pressed Dish Pans. 15c 17 qaart pressed Dish Pans.25c No. Wash Pans. 5c No.-7 Wash-Pans.... 6c .JSTo..8.Waah Pans*.*.v...:. 7c 2 qaart Oil Cans. 10c 4 qaart Oil Cans.15c 1 quart Dairy Pans. 3c 2 qaart Dairy Pans. 5c 3 qaart Dairy Pans. 6c 4 quart Dairy Pans.... 7c 6 qaart Dairy Pans. 8c 2 qaart deep Dairy Pans. 5c 3 quart deep Dairy Pans. 7c 4 quart deep Dairy Pans. 8c 6 quart deep Dairy Pans. 10c Gem Toilet Sets.1 10 8 piece Toilet Sets.1 35 i bnshel Barn Basket. 4c Flower Pots cheap. GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, ?^And everything kept in a Honie Famishing Store can be bought from us at rea ' sonable prices. A NO. 7 COOK STOVE FOB $10,00. Now look at onr Goods and you will say we advertise what we mean to do? sell yon^good\Goods CHEAP. Bk)oflti^ Guttering and Felt Roofing done very Low. We have Mr. JOHN Q. DONALD with us, who has had Beveral years expe? rience in roofing, and he knows the importance of putting on a roof that will not leak. Give him a trial. Don't forget we sell more Stoves than any one when you want to buy. PEOPLES & BCTRRISS. THAT'S THE WAY WE ARE SELLING, ?..-?Cf?-;?5'-r??. NOW ALL WE EXPECT. SHORT PROFITS ALL WE WANT. CARLOTS We will give yon lowest WHOLESALE PRICES ou FLOUR, CORN, HAY, BRAN, OATS, &c, &c. ARMOUR & GO'S. WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR HAMS, MEAT, LARD, CA MED MEATS. ? I&* LOWEST CHIOAQO. PRICES made on Cases and lots weighing one ?'iuindred"poundsaad over.-" -. PATENT FLOURS, : Oar BILLARD*S BLUE BIRD FLOUR the best in America for the price. Tr7^eb - mm No Firm Can Sell you TOBACCO as Low as we Can. BROWN BROS. CASTO mum n for Infants and Children. ." C as t oria Ls so well adapted to children that I recommend it aa superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Archer, M. D., 111 So. Oxford St,, Brooklyn, N. Y. Cast or In cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di? gestion, Without injurious medication. The Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, N. T. NEW GUM SHOP. - S J. C DAVIS, Proprietor. TJNS, Revolvers, Sewing Machines, \3r " Locks and Keys, Trunks, Umbrellas and Parasols repaired at short notice. Saws Filed and Set- . . All work warranted. -Don't trade ofF your old SewiDg Ma 7 chine, no matter what kind it is, as a small I ontlay will make it as good as new. Don't '^?iUi'itr a Way yonr old Gun Locks?have the old plates refilled at less than the cost of ; n p w locks. Bring your old Umbrellas and Parasols to me, and fdr a few cents have loto-of service from them. Remember, all work guaranteed.. Shop' over W. A. Chapman2* Store? Anderson, S. C. Jan 1,1801 26 ly THE ATLANTA I ASSOCIATION OFFERS superior advantages to parties having money to invest. Money loaned on easy terms to Stockholders for building-homes. ANDERSON BRANCH. C. F. Jones, President. M. P. Tribble, Vice President. J. Boyce Burriss, Sec. and Treas. G. E. Prince, Attorney. For fall information apply to CHARLES W. WEBB, Local Agent, Sept 25,1890 12 T^??H^'?oi/?MN, IS^ All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner,, An? derson, S. C. MEMORY GEMS. Prefer knowledge to wealth. Money will not buy knowledge. ?A TEACHER SHOULD BE EDUCATED. We imagine some one is ready to ex? claim, who ever for a moment doubts the assertion that a teacher should be educated. Well, no one may have ever denied it, or really doubted it, but really we have some teachers who are not edu? cated. We have some very ignorant teachers. We do not say they cannot speak correct language, nor work cor? rectly the problems in arithmetic, and are generally up in the studies taught in our common schools, but this is not educa? tion. No, no. A man or woman may be versed in books and literature I pretty generally, and yet be very igno? rant. A teacher should study carefully human nature, and especially the nature of that human that bears his own name. "Know thyself should be heeded by each teacher. The teacher should know that to edu? cate is to draw out the man to a proper understanding of the relations that exists between individuals. A ad to rightly know bow to so controll and govern human thoughts and passions as to turn them to good account. Education is not the pouring into the mind, but the draw? ing or leading out of the mind itself to tho discovery of new trulh and beauty. The teacher who has never studied himself or herself with an honest desire to know how to live and controll self? the most stubborn pupil he or she ever has?is not educated. That person who has never studied carefully how to cause others to think with himself or herself, and who has not seriously considered the question of how to best lead the human mind in search of truth and knowledge, can not say he or she is ready to be a teacher. Education is what is wanted, not cramming with the contents of books. A thorough mastery of the uses of knowl? edge is most important. The finest set of tools without a knowledge of how to use them is not worth much to the owner. Some people have enough book learn-, ing to hear a lesson, but are not educated enough to teach the pupil the lesson, if it does not understand it. Teachers, pre? pare yourself, and be able and ready to teach the lesson, and do not just simply hear. Lead the mind upward in its efforts, don't sit quietly by and merely Bee it advance step by step. Help it. Encourage it. Do not sit quietly until the pupil Las, by its own efforts, gained knowledge, and then undertake to claim the honor of teaching that child. If you can't do anything but hear leBsons, get out of the way and let some one take your place who can teach. Daring the summer vacation study, a good work on pedagogy, or something else that will help you in your efforts to teach. If you have no such book call on me, and I can supply you. Ask yourselves the ques? tion, am I educated ? If honesty forces the answer no, then find the defect and correct it. The teacher who does not rightly use vacation will suffer from it in the end. Reader, .are you educated ? THE NEED O&BYMPATHY. - The teaching profession may some? times get a valuable and suggestive insight from the views of others. This extract from a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhuret, of this city, we' heard with great satisfaction ; its appear? ance in the Independent and a re-perusal leads us to feel that it will be of value to every thinking teacher: "We are surprised often that very learned people make very poor teachers. Here is the-reason of it. .- Teaching is not the aft of telling what you kjnow; that is an exceedingly small part of It. It is all of that, but along with that far more difficult art of experiencing?not knowing, but experiencing?the limita? tions of the mind that you are trying to teach. It is being teacher and pupil both at once. No salvation anywhere without this .-quality. You must be yourself and be he. If you say'that this is poetry, I reply that it is as solid prose as ever was built. You must be your? self and be he. You must feel yourself pinioned by his mental limitations. If, when his mind falters and his mental machinery creaks at the strain you put upon it; if then you, his teacher, feel like saying to him: "You little fool," you ought to be scourged out of the school room with a raw-hide. Pedagog? ics is, first of all, tho science of translat? ing yourself as a teacher into your pu? pil's exact environment und putting yourself at his exact stage of develop? ment, so that you will be able to think with his mind and so be able to experi? ence in yourself the embarrassments under which bis struggling little brain labora and be able to view your own tui tiooal approaches to him through his eyes. "This is the art of teaching. It is ex? perience of the truth, coupled with expe? rience of the pupil that is trying logetat the truth. I have in mind now a little fellow who, at the age of eight, was regarded by the rest gf us boys as being only a quarter-witted. It was the result of some infantile disease. His father, whose name is known almost everywhere in our country as one of the foremost among educators, took personal charge of his dear boy's education. We despised the boy and pitied his father. If the little fellow bad been sent to a common school ho would probably have been in the mad house before now. As it was, be ended by going to Oxford and carry? ing off a prize. That great strapping father, six feet high, got clear over on to the inside of the poor, pinched possibility of a boy, and incarnation Baved the little chap. That wa3 his genius as a teacher, that he could, in the same instance, be a great, wise, gifted man and a puny, feeble minded child. He was so great that he could get into a email place without feeling cramped by it. You must remember, though, that he was the ANDERSON, S. C. boy's father. Love had something to do with it; a good deal to do with it. No one can feel another's condition as his own condition unless love is enlisted. "You can imagine another's condition, you can cipher out another's condition by a process that has no heart in it, but you cannot feel another's condition except as you love that other. So that our little incarnations, just as God's great Incarnation, begin with a 'so loved the world.' "School Journal. A gentleman, high in position, the other day was heard saying to a small circle, in a somewhat impassioned man? ner, "Merit, merit, superior merit, should be the sole qualification for appointment in a school system I" His manner was earnest, and his tones sincere. A listener asked the orator, "Will you tell me how you expect to get it ?" "Get it ? gel it f why, get it as you get anything else. Buy it! How do you expect to get any? thing unless you pay for it ? If I want a good horse I put up good money and a good deal of it, and get one every time. Money makes the mare go, and money will make the schools go. Nothing else will. I can buy anything for money." The orator looked around upon his audi? ence with an air of triumph that seemed to say, "Didn't I tell the truth?" The quiet questioner ventured to ask another question. "Where is justice for sale? You say your money will buy anything, can your cash purchase justice?" The orator seemed confused, but answered, "I wasn't talking about justice, but merit; that means good teaching, merit." "But," continued the questioner, "you didn't buy your wife, neither do you buy the esteem of your friends, nor the good will of the people, and it is very plain you cannot purchase faith, hope, charity, uprightness, earnestness, or love. Some things you cannot buy, and among these things .is a good teacher" The words were uttered with an emphasis that com? pletely stopped the orator's eloquence; the meeting closed, and the little crowd dispersed.?School Journal. No More Sitting Hens. To the Editor of i/ie News and Courier: As I have never seen anything in your paper about incubators or their manage? ment, I thought that I would give my experience, as it may interest some of your readers. A few years ago I pur? chased a second-hand incubator (the ThermoBtatic) from a party who had failed to run it. successfully. I soon be? came much interested in artificial incu? bation and determined to combine pleas? ure with profit. With this object in view, I visited Mr. James Rankin at South? eastern, Mass. He is one of the largest, if not the largest,''duck raisers in the United States. What I saw there strengthened my determination, and after .purchasing one of his machines, carrying three hundred and fifty eggs, I returned home and commenced opera? tions. I have beea running two machines for three years, and in that time have built an excellent poultry house, or rather brooder house, containing fourteen rooms, with seven yards or rooms back and front, which costs only $75. One large brooder room opening into and joined to my incubator room cost $20; six large poultry houses cost $20 each ; with large runs or yards attached^'with each cost $20 extra. I have purchased and paid for my stock, all first class fowls, and have; .paid for'all my supplies and fur? nished the family abundantly with poul? try and eggs.' -Now I have some money laid by. My stock consists of Fekin ducks, bronze turkeys and the beet blooded fowls. . I have just taken from my large ma? chine three hundred and fourteen strong, healthy chicks, and have lost only six since placing them in their brooders of my own make and like better than any I have ever seen.' I set my Thermonstatic three days before the Monarch. In this way the hatch is cleared out and the small machine comes in to dry off the chicks from the large one. I do not agree with Mr. Rankin about leaving all the chicks in the machine until the hatch is complete. I obtaiu the best batches by removing the chicks, keeping the tem? perature of the machine always at 103?. As soon &B the chicks show a disposition to eat I place them in their brooders that are already warmed up to receive them, seventy-five chicks to each. Coarse grits is put on small wooden trays, and one tray placed in the centre of each brooder. I give no water until the sec? ond day. I fill a pint fruit can with wa? ter, set in a saucer, pour a little water around the edge, and give each brood one. The Warm floor of the brooder keeps the water at just the right temperature and they cannot wet themselves. They soon learn to eat, drink and grow exceed? ingly merry. After four days I add one third bran to their feed and a little bone meal, mixing with milk just enough to crumble. At three weeks ground meat scraps are added. I now have chicks three weeks old feathering nicely, and my ducks weigh ten pounds to the pair at Beven weeks. I always give two meals of finely cut rye per day after the young? sters are four days old. Mrs. Franklin Johnston. Suebelle, Hampton County. DeafneFs Can't be Cured By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous lining of the Eusta chian Tube. When this Tube gets in? flamed you have a rumbling sound or im? perfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases' but of ten are caused by.?.catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous surfaces. We will give one hundred dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by cat arch) that we cannot cure by taking Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Soid by Druggists, 75 cents. ? In the Japanese language there is ' no word for kiss. , TH?KSDAY MOKI> BILL ART'S CHAT. Why the Slothers on Mount Vernon lie jolco. Atlanta Constitution, A letter from Mt. Vernon says: "A kind providence has blessed us with the most delightful climate, the prettiest women and the sweetest babies in the world." I have no doubt of it, and I am glad of it. A kind providence has done exactly the same thing for us, although we live two hundred miles north of Mt, Vernon. Last week a friend wrote to me from Dayton, up in Tennessee, and said "Our little city is the gem of the moun? tains, and we have a prosperous, happy people," and I heard an intelligent, truthful citizen of Murfreesboro declare that "Our Heavenly Father never created a lovelier country than that of which our beautiful city is the center." The good people of Spring City wonldent exchange with anybody, and everywhere I go it looks like providence has bestowed His blessings with a lavish hand. Nashville is proud, Chattanooga is jubilant, and Atlanta is the hub of the southern uni? verse. It is a beneficient trait in our na? ture to be content and even proud of our home place?our surroundings. "Be it ever so homely, there's no place like home." The focus of our affections is the fami? ly, the friends. From there they radiate and expand to our town and our county, and then to our State and our section, and last to our country. When the Ital? ian business was bot I beard an old Con? federate talking about that law that pro? hibited our veterans from ever holding any office in the army or navy, and he said he would go to New Orleans, if ne? cessary, and tender his services to the mayor, but he wouldent go to Boston nary foot until they repealed that law and begged his pardon for passing it. "Why," said ho, "they would put their officers over us like they did over the niggers du? ring the war." We even love our own troubles and misfortunes. "It is none of your funeral," has more truth than romance in it. The other day as I journeyed to Chattanooga I found a vacant seat in front of a pretty school girl, who > was going home, and I was not long seated before she handed me a paper that gave an account of the great fire. I thanked her, and as I perused the firey column she leaned forward and pointed with evident satisfaction to a paragraph, and said: "That was my father's property, but it was insured. Chattanooga can have awful big fires? don't you think so ?" The sweet girl was proud of her fire. The TennesseeanB have a right to boast, and I hope they are grateful in propor? tion to their blessings. I have never seen such wheat as there is around Murfrees? boro this season. One farmer told me he had 400 acred. "How much will you make to the acre ?" said I. He said : "Of course no one can tell the result of a wheat crop until it is harvest? ed and threshed, and measured, but I have a reasonable expectation of twenty five bushels to the acre." Just think of it. Ten thousand bush? els of wheat from one acre, and the out? look is that it will bring $1 a bushel. The farmers are getting on top again. Corn is worth $1 a bushel right here in Cartersville. The farmers who have it to sell are happy, but those who have it to buy are miserable. When will the mil lenium come, so that everybody can be happy? When will the good time come that everything a man has to Bell will be high, and everything he has to buy will be cheap ? Everything is going up except, sugar. I bought a whole barrel at 6 cents a pound and now it is down to 5 cents, and Mrs. Arp thinks I had better buy another barrel so as to reduce the average. Not long ago she bought a roll of matting for $8 because it was so cheap, and it. went down to $5 in a week and hurt her feelings so bad I had to buy another roll to comfort her. On the whole, I think the Tennessee farmers are doing pretty well. I saw great stacks of country meat in the stores at Murfreesboro. I saw cattle and sheep grazing upon the beautiful clover fields. I saw the people who owned the Oarms, and they diden't look like they were tot? ing a mortgage or were in debt for ad? vances. It is not hard to tell a man who is in debt more than he can pap. Debt gives a man a subdued, careworn look. He looks henpecked, and I reckon he is. He doesn't sleep well, and his food don't digest. I don't believe those Tenuessee ans are in debt to any serious extent, for never heard one of them mention the Bub-treasury. They have some surplus change, I know; for while we were wait? ing at a station for another train that was to meet and pass us, a tall, slim old man stood up about midway of the car and said, "Good people, I ask pardon for what I am going to say." His hand grasped the arm of the seat and his voice trembled as he spoke. "I am old and I am blind as you see, but I am not a beg? gar. These eyes were put out at the bat? tle of Sharpsburg by the explosion of a gun. I belonged to an artillery compa? ny and was honorably discharged. Here are my papers which any gentleman can examine." And he unfolded and held out a soiled and sacred document. "All these long years," said he, "I have not troubled anybody but my kindred. My father and mother cared for me and little children led me about. But my parents are dead and my kindred'are poor, and it hurts me to be a charge upon them. I know that I can go to the poorhouse, but that would separate me from those I love, though they be poor and bumble, and so I thought that I would venture upon the train where people travel who generally have a little money to spare for charity ?if I am wrong?excuse me for troub? ling you?my trust is in the Lord." It was a very short speech?but it was elo? quent. His well-worn clothes?bis sharp, thin features and the sunken sock? ets, where his eves bad been, made a pic? ture. A gentleman and lady were ju9t opposite to him, and I saw" her give the sign. He took some change from his pocket and held out hia open hand for her to take choice. She took the largest piece?a dollar?the sign for the next to begin. It broke the seal, and all around they took or Bent their contributions, UNG, MAY 21, 1891 Two drummers were behind me, and one said: "Let's stake him, Jim?I'll go half a dollar." The other said: "We don't have to pay ours; they draw pensions ; but I'll go a dollar on the old Confed." Two half grown lads were going to a pic nie. They looked at each other thought? fully and drew a dollar each from their May day money. The silence that had marked the waiting passengers was bro? ken, and everybody Beemed brighter and more friendly. The old man was a bond that bound us ell together. I knew that "charity hideth a multitude of sins," but I did not realize how quick it could make friends of strangers. Mankind are better than they seem to be. They are kinder and more charitable when the case is he* fore them. There are some we know whose hearts are hardened; some "who grind the faces of the poor." I was thinking about that expression of the wise man, "grinding the fleBb off the bones;" and Shakespeare says of the poor apothecracy, "sharp misery had worn him to the bones," and another poet Bpeaks of "pinching poverty." "The poor ye have always with you," is a ringing text and needs no expounding from the pulpit, The world is full of bread-winnere, and when they cannot work, they suffer. Not unfrequently I go to Atlanta and visit our doctor boy who is in Dr. West? moreland's office. I always find a num? ber of sufferers waiting their turn in the anteroom, and I talk to them about their troubles?most of them are poor?but white and black, poor and rich receive the same attention from that eminent surgeon. Morning and evening he is busy with knife and forceps and.'splints and battery, and his patients go and come again for treatment until they are well. Broken arms and legs, and shoulder blades, tu? mors and strictures, and gun shot wounds, and hands crushed in coupling the cars. An anxious mother comes with her child to have a deformed foot made straight, and another comes to have her hare-lip? ped darling operated upon. I met there little boys and girls on crutches?little sufferers from hip disease or white swell? ing, and it all makes me sad, for it looks like the world is full of trouble, and it will never cease. Every day this skillful Burgeon cuts and talks and smiles as though he bad no deep concern and would. soon restore the sufferer to health and strength. Blessings on the doctors, for they do a world of work for poverty. They are all good Samaritans, and I hope their charity will not hide only a multi? tude, but blot out all their sins. Bill Aep. Swallowing a Cork, People will be very careful how they put corks in their mouths. Dr. George W. Bothwell was the name of an eloquent and accomplished Congregational preach? er in Brooklyn. On Saturday, April 18, he attempted to give one of his children Borne medicine. He placed the cork from the vial in his mouth, and during the operation swallowed it. He was soon seized with a fit of coughing, but the cork slipped out of his reach, and sank into the trochea. On Sunday he preach* ed two sermons, but became hoarse, and suffered much pain. After forceps failed to reach the obstruction Dr. Bothwell was put on a horizontal bar, head down? ward. He was pounded on the back and made to cough and gag. On Tuesday a pair of long forceps were inserted into the trochea. The cork was located, but could not be reached. Then a long catheter, in which was a strong but small corkscrew, was inserted. A small piece of cork was withdrawn?about one fifteenth of it?but the rest of the cork could not be extracted. An hour and a half was Bpent with the screw, and the patient became much exhausted. A consultation was held, and it was decided that the only method left was to cut open the breast, break and push back two ribs, and get at the bronchial tube that way. Dr. Bothwell never rallied, however, and died Sunday night, sixteen days after the accident. His right lung, which for two weeks has been compelled to do the work of both, went into a collapse from the overwork, and death followed. Seldom has a man made a stronger fight for his life than Dr. Bothwell made. The cork has attracted wide attention. A Philosophical family. Amelia has pimples and sores in the head, From humors internal her nose has grown red, She's a boil on her neck that ia big as a bell. But in other respects she is doing quite well. And pa has dyspepsia, malaria and gout, His hands with salt rheum are all broken out, He is prone to rheumatics that makes his legs swell, But in other respects he is doing quite well. And ma has night sweats and a trouble? some cough, That all of our doctors can't seem to drive off. She wakes every night and coughs quite a spell, But in other respects ehe is doing quite well. There is nothing like philosophy to help one bear the ills of life, but in the case of this family, what is moat needed is a good supply of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It would cleanse Amelia's bad blood, cure pa's ailments, and check ma's cough. "The Golden Medical Discovery," by its action on the liver, cleanses the system of impurities, It cures tumors, ulcers, boils, scrofula, salt-rheum, erysipelas, and all kinds of sores and swellings. The only guaranteed blood purifier. ? Crows are commonly said to live for one hundred years, and turtles are said to have even longer life, but the greatest amount of longevity is possessed by fishes. A naturalist once said that as a fish had no maturity there is nothing to prevent it from living indefinitely, and growing continually. He cited, as proof, a pike in Kusaia, whose age is known to date back to the fifteenth century. In the Eoyal aquarium at St. Petersburg there are hundreds of fish that were put in over one hundred and fifty2 years ago. TVRESTL1XG 1TITH A BUCK. A Thrilling Adventure of a Hunter in South Carolina, From the New York Times. An extremely handsome pair of antlers adorns the dinning room chimney piece of a coeey flat in this city and the writer having expressed admiration of them in the course of a recent visit the owner replied: "There is a thrilling personal experience connected with those horns. If any truth be in the old Scotch proverb that there iB death in the wound of horn of hart they came very near being fatal to me.u Urged to tell the story, the owner of the antlers responded as fol? lows: "You know I run down to South Caro? lina every year about Christmas time, partly on business and partly for the sake of keeping up old associations. I believe when a man once acquires a fondness for hunting he never loses it, and so when? ever I find myself in the woods my thoughts all involuntarily run to the chase. Every Cbarlestonian, I may say every South Carolinian, knows where Old St. Paul's is. It is not a church mind you, but a parish, or sub-division of a County if you like. It is truly his? toric ground, having been the scene of more than one battle in the Revolution, and the seat of very active hostilities during the late unpleasantness. There are parts of South Carolina where game is more abundant at present, but in days gone by St. Paul's was a famous hunting ground. Still, a few deer are left, and their scarcity increases the zest of hunt? ing them. "On two successive annual visits I had sought to bring down an old buck, which, judging by the size of his track, I knew to be a veritable Titan of the deer family; but so cunning was the old rogue that although we had as fine a pack ot hounds as ever followed a deer and hunted him diligently we never once succeeded in getting him up. The dogs would trail him to and fro and around about for hours and finally come to fault. But successive disappointments increased my desire to get at least a shot at the coveted game, so on each recurring visit to the spot I found myself quite mechan? ically looking for his tracks as I rode along tbe forest road. On my recent visit I found the track as before and promptly informed my previous compan? ions in the chaee. We met by sunrise ou a crisp December morning at a place in the pine forest convenient to the sup? posed lair. There were six guns and eight hounds. As we bad approached the rendezvous from different directions each had kept a lookout for the track, and it was my good fortune to find it less than a quarter of a mile from the place of meeting. It was scarcely two hours old. "Four of the party were hurried off to tbe stands, while I elected to go into the drive with Dick, the master of the hounds. As soon as the dogs were put on tbe track they broke into full tongue and went down into tbe swamp on a brisk trot. In the stillness of the early morning the woods resounded with their cries and no sweeter music was ever sung in hunter's ear. On they went to the south, clear across the swamp, at least a mile in width. Then they came to a halt, yelped for a time in an uncertain sort of way, and finally made out the trail to the eastward along tbe edge of the swamp. A mile or a mile and a half in that direction they came to another halt, then recrossed the swamp and turn? ed back to the westward on the northern border. Half a mile west of the point where tbe trail entered the drive tbe dogs came to fault upon a knoll of one or two acres extent in tbe heart of the swamp. " 'The same old story 1' exclaimed Dick. 'Darn me it I ever saw anything like it. It's almost enough to make a man believe that old buck has wings and, after walking around the woods till he is tired, finally flies into his lair." "The knoll was covered with the leafy underbush of tbe Southern swamp, and dotted with dense clumps of sweet-gum bushes. One of the largest of these grew around the foot of a huge fallen pine which, having snapped off about eight feet above the ground, lay lodged upon the stump. The dogs, completely at fault, circled around that particular clump for at least twenty minutes, and Dick and I, who sat upon our horses about fifty yards distant, supposed they had gone all through it a dozen times. "At last, when it was clear that the dogs had lost the trail for good, I said to Dick that it was somewhat strange they had made bo many circles around that clump of bushes and suggested the pro? priety of riding through it. But Dick was disgusted and worn out. It was now after 10 o'clock, and we had been on the trail since the sun was rising. I had hardly finished speaking when Beauty, a big blueish bitch, the most active trailer and swiftest runner in the pack, leaped upon tbe fallen pine and trotted leisurely, somewhat despairingly, up tbe incline toward the stump. It is wonderful how much can be expressed by a simple action. When that dog reached the stump she looked down into the bushes beneath her with a sudden interest that said as plainly a3 words, 'Why, here, under our very noses, is the old rascal we were about to give up.' "At the same instant it seemed as if a whirlwind had struck the clump, and Beauty, with a wild yell, disappeared in the vortex. The buck was out of satis? factory range when he came into view with spreading antlers and snowy tail, a truly magnificent animal, and, besides, he was making straight for one of the Standers. So Dick and I held our pow? der, and we were soon rewarded by hear? ing two shots in quick succession. The buck, as if by the same subtle instinct which enabled him so long to baffle the dogs, had made for the worst shot of the party. When Dick and I charged up cloBe on the hecla of the dogs, we found this hunter in a state of high excitement. He ran to meet us, bareheaded, flourish? ing his gun on high with his right hand. " 'I hit him 1 I hit him !'' he exclaim? ed frantically. 'Which way did he go?' asked Dick. "The question was answered by tbe dogs, which at that moment doubled back into the swamp iu full cry. The VOLUM course they now took was slightly west? ward of that by which they had come out of the swamp, and I inferred there? from that the buck would take his way up the swamp. There was a ridge in the heart of it, which I felt sure he would follow. This ridge could be reached by a road which crossed the swamp two or three miles higher up, and if I ccul i get there ahead of the buck I might bring him down after all. All of this came to me like a flash, and my horse was off like the wind before my fellow-huntsmen bad time to ask any questions. My nag was a small mare, but of good blood and en? durance sure-footed, and as fleet, almost, as the buck himself. "With her ears flattened back against I her head she laid herself down to the , chase till the tall pines fairly whirled I around us. On we went, up hill and down dale, over the long stretch of sandy road a flying dust cloud. There was no need to ply the spur; the intelligent little animal knew what was expected of her and required no urging. The rumble of her flying ;feet and uthe [rushing of the wind around my ears prevented my hear? ing aught else with [certainty but I fan? cied that Lcaught the. peal of the hounds from time to time and felt satisfied that they were coming up the ridge. At last we wheeled into the crossroad, but the ridge was still nearly a mile distant. Then I distinctly made out the baying of the swift Beauty far in advance of the rest of the pack. The buck was close to the crossing, and it was a hard race to get there ahead of him. The little mare was in a lathe of sweat and her nostrils were widely distended, but she did not falter or relax her pace, and the pines whirled about us in a giddy waltz. "Ah! There is the morass that bor- i ders the ridge. But close, provokingly close, at hand on the left is the baying Ceauty. And now we are on the ridge, and not a moment too soon, for there, in a long, steady lope, with head and tail high in air comes the buck. He fancies all danger is past, is taking it easy ahead of the swiftly-following dog, who has distanced the other hounds fully a mile. His attention is given to the dog, so he does not notice us. "The mare sees him as soon as I and stops short of her own accord. At the same moment the buck perceives us and stretches himself in a magnificent out? burst of speed. Instead of coming direct? ly for us, as at first, he swerves and crosses the road broadside on, about thirty yards distant. Aiming for the front of the shoulder blade I fired the right barrel. Down goes his tail, an infallible sign that he is hit, but he does not waver, and I send the charge of the left barrel at his haunches. Aha! His pace has already diminished perceptibly; he will not go far now. The thought comes to me to run him down, and the little mare and I go tearing through the underbush. But we had not gone a hundred yards before Beauty flashed past us like a me? teor, no longer running by scent, but leaping high over the bushes, her long ears streaming behind like two tawny bannerets. In a thrice she is up with the wounded buck, has seized him by a hind leg and dragged him down. 'I rein in the mare, fling myself from the saddle, throw down my gun and rush up to cut his throat. . "If ever you find yourself in a similar situation do not follow my example, but put fresh shells in your gun and approach your buck cautiously. Before I could reach mine he had shaken himself, free from the dog and regained his feet. He paid no further heed to her, but rushed at me head down. In the presence of imminent danger a man does not think; he acts. How I came to do it I am sure I do not know, unless it was a purely in? stinctive act; anyhow I sprang behind a tree, and the buck turned his head so quickly that his forehead struck the trunk squarely and the tips of his antlers passed on either side of it. When I came to realize what had hap? pened, I found myself on one side of the tree holding on for life to the antlers and the buck on the other side struggling des? perately to free them. The animal was so large and powerful that the task I had undertaken taxed my strength to the utmost, Indeed, had it not been for the aid of the tree, which greatly hampered the buck's movements and effectually prevented the sidewiee lurches of his head, I do not think I could have main? tained the struggle for two minutes. Beauty also gave me noble assistance by nagging at bis hindquarters and flanks. "Next to his horns a buck's most effec? tive weapons are his fore feet, which are capable of cutting like daggers, and with which ho strikes terrible blows. He used these so furiously and with such good aim that I found the greatest diffi? culty in avoiding them, partly shielded though I was by the tree. The sleeves of my hunting coat were torn into shreds, and I several times narrowly eacaped a blow on the head that would have in all probability laid rae out. So uncomfor? table did this incessant Bhower of blows make me that more than once I seriously thought of releasing the brute and trust? ing to his seeking safety in flight, but I dared not risk the chance of another rush. "There was still another cause for un? easiness. My strength was fast giving out. I could not disguise the fact that I must soon give up from sheer exhaustion. And as I had left the other hunters too far behind to expect them to join me speedily even if I could have sounded my horn, my case seemed hopeless unless, indeed, I could manage to hold on until the rest of the hounds came up. Just as I was on the verge of despair the buck began to struggle less violently, then he suddenly became motionless, and venturing to peer around the tree I notic ed that he had sunk down on bis haunch es. The battle was over. He was dead. "I may add that he was the biggest buck killed in St. Paul's within the mem? ory of the oldest inhabitant." ? There is only one railroad into the interior of Africa. It is under the aus? pices of the Portuguese government and runB 180 miles from Loando toward the interior. When finished it will penetrate several hundred miles farther. Meantime it is in full operation as far as it has gone with daily trains. It was built by native negro labor. LE XXV.--NO. 46. 7e for met, All Sorts of Paragraphs, ? The Chinese cultivate an onion that does not smell. ? The Farmers' Alliance has been in? troduced in Germany. ? A vain woman may be cured o vanity, but a vain man, never. ? It is said that President Harrrison's/' trip to the Pacific will cost him$100,000. * ? The old man who has no youthful^^ follies to chuckle over is a most unhappy being. ? There are six medical Colleges for women in the United Slates and five for colored students. ? A Wellington, Kan., couple, were married in 2 weeks after they -tifet, parted in two weeks after they were mar? ried. ? The fire loss for the first 3 months ~v of this year aggregates $35,197,053, and for the first two weeks of April, $5,435, 845. ?The output of whiskey last year was 120,000,000 gallons, and the transactions in whiskey are by no means confined to the output. . ? A married man by the name of Faulks has lately eloped from Montezu ma with three girls. This is a poetical illustration of the rule of three. ? A Massachusetts man with more money than brains proposes to erect a $7,000 dog house, and still there are peo? ple who wonder at the discontent of the ? poor. ? A New York girl was rendered ao * ? desperate by an attack of the grip that she attempted suicide twice, and failing in this she attempted matrimony and succeeded. ? A magistrate in Georgia recently re? ceived four silver dimes as a marriage fee. The groom, a boy of eighteen, said it was all he could afford. The bride was a widow of 40. ? Mr. Eugene Drake, of Oglethorpe^^ County, Ga., together with his brothers and sisters, have become heirs to a two hundred million dollar estato in England, and he has gone after it. ? Tongue cannot describe the love of Christ; finite minds cannot conceive of it; and those who know most of it can only say with inspiration that it "passeth knowledge." ? Ninety-nine men out of every hun? dred believe in their hearts that a day of judgment will come, and ninety-eight of them secretly believe that somehow they will be overlooked in the jam. ? At the close of a long prayer by a father who had prayed for a poor family his son said: "Father, if I had as much wheat in the barn as you have got now, I would answer that prayer myself." ? Advocates of the phonetic system of spelling are making an effort to have the United States government adopt their mode of spelling in all government pub? lications, and in tbe printed proceedings of Congress. ? John Wright, of Spring Valley, Minn., bet $1 that he could run across"^ tbe Milwaukee bridge in advcp^^fan approaching train, but the train ovStefr him, and he lost the bet and his life at the same time. ? The following is the new hair flirta? tion : Hair hanging over the left shoul der, "I am engaged;" over the right i shoulder, "I am married;" and banging straight down the back, "Go for me, boys, I'm your oyster." ? A native of Syria who is now in New York has invented a process for manufacturing silk from the leaves and twigs of the mulberry tree without the aid of silk worms. He will probably start a factory in Georgia, so the story goes. ? If a tablespoonful of kerosene is put into four quarts of tepid water, and this , is used in washing windows and mirrors, / instead of pure water, there will remain?* upon the cleaned surface & polish no amount of mere friction can give. ? A german geologist says that the ? sides of the face are never alike ; in two cases out of five the eyes are out of line; one eye is stronger than the other in sev-. en persons out' of ten, and the right ear ; is generally higher than the left. . i^r^ ?? There are about one hundred and five women to every 100 men; one-quar? ter of the population of the world die be? fore the age of seventeen years; only one in a thousand lives to be 100 years old, and only six in a thousand reach seventy-five. ? Never condemn your neighbor un? heard. Every story has two ways of be? ing told, and justice requires that you should hear the defence as well as the--** accusation. Remember that the malig? nity of your enemies m3y place you in a similar position. ? A New York farmer raised an acre '??-'?? of sunflowers for seed, and found that the seed was an excellent addition to hogs ^ and poultry, a small mill being used to grind it for hogs. The stalks made ex- ~~ cellent kindling wood and the heads and seeds were ground together.. ? Alabama owns about four square miles of oyster beds, "and these beds are among tbe most valuable in the States Every barrel of oysters taken of the State is to pay a tax of ten which will pay the expense of inspection, and put into the State treasury about $15,000 a year." ? Mrs. Henry K. Updegrave, wife of a hotel keeper at Tower City, Pa., is probably the youngest great-grand-moth? er in the United States. She was born August 11, 1S43, near Gratztown, Daul phin County, and is not yet^orty.eigo~t**S| years old. In 1856, in her fourteenth 3 year, she married Emanuel Shoffstall. ^ Aggie, her oldest daughter, married at fifteen, a Mr. Rumberger, and had one daughter, Maggie, so that Mrs. Shoffstall-'^ was a grand mother at thirty. Maggie ^ Rumberger married at the age of sixteen Daniel Measner, and to this pair a eon was born a couple of months ago. Eman? uel Shoffitall died in 18S8, and his widoT married Henry K. Updegrave^?^Co^ City._^ Commendable. All claims not consistent with the hij character of Syrup of Figs are purpc avoided by the Cal, Fig Syrup Compal It acts gently on the kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the system effectually,] but it is not a cure-all and makes no pj tentions that every bottle will not sat stantiate.