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. . . . LEAVING this' beautiful and healthy City, with its delightful climate,
"v^an&the prosperous and fertile country that surrounds it, thickly populated
>>with-a warm-hearted, generous and liberal-minded peoplo, is certainly a hard
:]g?i^^me^to swallow, but circumstances have so ordained it, when I thought
tie ^^i^f}in^e<dining years would .be spent in this paradise of health
v ^^ro^^stgt^ut now, with.heavy tread and downcast spirits, I must and
?^*$ffi?:^^^lei?l^''ihe combined wishes of my partners'to, seek new fields of
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?: - xCtf ^^^?tb:*go'stdrv?.agusta, ? G?.> to open a large;Wholesale and Retail
;-:?tt^^^^^:r^iiii?-aU my undivided attcntion"from this time forward^
i:- No^&;ordet-t07avoid paying large local freights from here to Augusta,
r/ "we'vhave^
A IrEAT , SLAUGHTER SALE,
; And we will-sell every article of our immense stock for any price that is in
: the neighborhood "of cost. Remember, WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY?
prices will be literally slaughtered for the next thirty days.
10c. Towels for 6ic.
; 15c. Towels for 8 Jc
-20c-towels for 12ic.
25i? Towels for 16c.
' -*; 75cl Linen Damask for 47*c.
60c. Linen Damask for 35c.
Napkins at half price.
I Dress. Gob'ds prices just half.
(Nothing slaughtered at your own price.
We are badly overstocked in Shoes?in Children's in numbers 10,11,13
and 1; in Ladies 3, 3J, 4 and 4J ; Men's 7, 8 and 9. These Shoes we will
selTst 75c. on the dollar of what they cost. Russet Shoes and Slippers at half |
v^coet. Boys' 3,4 and 5 must go at some price.
Checked Homespun 4c.
; Yard-wide"Sea Island 4?c."
Window Curtain Scrim 4}c.
' Lace Curtains half price.
White Counterpanes away down.
I18cl Socks and Stockings at 7ic.
' (3hair Tidies half price.
^ "White Laundried Shirts 50c. on the dollar.
Ladies' Jerseys at half price; also Notions, Gloves, Hamburg Edging,
Ties, Scarfs.. .
Table Oil Cloth 15c. 35c. Nelly Bly Caps at 10c. The best Ginghams
at:7& lOo: Outing Suiting at 7c.
Odd Coats, Vests and Pants, slightly scorched by fire and discolored by
smoke, that will be sold at less than half the cost of the cloth.
' , All and.every article to- be found' in a first-class Dry Goods, Clothing and
% Shoc^tbre will be sacrificed rather than ship the goods from here. *
Six Show Cases, one Platform and one Counter Scales, and three first
class Combination Iron Safes will be sold at half New York cost. Every
;?i-person having valuable papers should have one in his house.
Now, we want it distinctly understood tfiat Ladies or Gentlemen drawing
up to our Store, either in a Carriage, Buggy, Cart or Wagon, will receive
prompt and courteous attention. Polite and respectful attention to the Ladies
is always the duty of a gentleman all the world over, which is and has been
the case in all the Stores that the undersigned has ever had the management.
. Respectfully,
D. C. FLYNN,
LEADER OF LOW PRICES,
Bed House, Granite Bow.
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COTTON GOING HIGHER.
'E are glad to be able to inform onr friends and customers that Cotton is bound to
go up, if you will not be in too big a hurry to sell. In the meantime you can
buy all kinds of?
Groceries, Fireworks and Xmas Goods
Qfall kinds as cheap or cheaper than anywhere in Town from?
Yours, witk '.hanks for past patronage,
E, W. TAYLOR & CO,
TtfAGH#$'Goi,UMN,
All communications intended for
this vJolumn should be addressed to C.
WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An?
derson, S. C.
MEMORY OEMS.
"Besolved, That I will do my profes?
sional and other duties; whether agree?
able or otherwise, as unto God."
"The wise is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more."
"That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives ;
Whom none can love, whom none can
thank,
Creation's blot, creation's blank."
Can a man teach others what he does
not know ? Is it not a fearful mistake
for a teacher to undertake to teach what
he or she does not understand ? Have any
of our teachers been trying to do this ?
If bo, look back over your work and see
what mistakes you have made, and en?
deavor to prepare yourself before another
session opens to not repeat them again.
We will have on hand soon a lot of
books on teaching, discipline, pedagogy
and other interesting subjects, sent for
examination. We would be pleased to.
supply any who may desire such books.
In fact, we have catalogues of all school
"books, with liberal discounts, which we
would take pleasure in ordering for any
desiring.
During vacation it would be verv profit?
able for the teachers to review their
last session's work, and plan for improve?
ments on it. You are not yet perfect,
either in discipline, ability or informa?
tion. There is a great deal yet to be
learned, and one who does not intend to
go forward may expect.to be left behind,
for the world "do move." All other pro?
fessions are constantly buying new books
and literature to keep up with the march
of progress, and that teacher who expects
to make teaching a profession must do
the same thing or fail to make his pro?
fession a success.
The hospitality and sociability of the
people of Honea Path is not to be sur?
passed anywhere. They made all the
teachers at the Association have a delight?
ful time. The acquaintance meeting on
Friday night was one of the pleasantest
evenings we've spent in a long time.
There were several recitations that were
just as good as could be, especially the
one by Miss Watkins. To hear that was
worth the whole trouble and expense of
the trip. The people of Honea Path
turned out and the social feature of the
evening could not be spoken too highly
of. ThoBe who did not attend missed a
real treat. Honea Path is the biggest
town to its size in the country.
CLOSING EXERCISES
Of White Plains school will take place
on the 30th inst., beginning at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, at which time addresses
will be made by Revs. S. H. Zimmer?
man and ?>. W. Hiott, and the School
Commissioner, Tho school exercises
will begin at early candle light, The
public generally are invited to attend.
Mr. J. B Harris, the teacher, has done
a good work, and his patrons appreciate
his labors and the success he has
achieved. An interesting program is ar?
ranged. _
TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.
The meeting of the Teachers' Associa?
tion at Honea Path, on the 16th, was an
occasion of great pleasure to those who
were present. All weal;:away. saying.we.
are glad we came. 'Theprogram, as pub?
lished, was carried out, except those ap?
pointed to open the discussion were gener?
ally absent. We regret to see such a lack
of interest in this important work, if it be
lack of interest. However, we trust all
who were absent bad good reasons for not
being with us. We wish every teacher
io the County could have heard and
helped in the discussion on "How to
make the study of History interesting?"
"What kinds of knowledge should a suc?
cessful teacher have V and "The differ?
ent methods of calling our pupil to recite,
and advantages of each."
A great many teachers are anxious to
do good work, if they only knew how.
Most of them regard history as their
hardest and most uninteresting class.
Others do not have a proper appreciation
of the influence and position that a
teacher holds in the vicinity, and conse?
quently do not supply themselves with a
well-rounded fund of knowledge and in?
formation, such as a successful teacher
Bbould have.
In many schools we find the old plan
of calling on pupiU to recite by asking
the questions in the book in their order,
and calling on the pupils to recite con?
secutively, beginning always at the
"head," as it is termed. In this way
each pupil is enabled to prepare the
questions which fall to its number, and
disregard the others.
However, our best teachers are not to
be beat in this way. But the pupil is
required to be prepared on all the lesson
in order to pass the recitation in class
credibly. The Teachers' Association
will help solve the problems that rise in
these questions if those who are con?
fronted with them will only attend.
During the summer vacations may we
not rightly expect our teachers to help
each other with such suggestions through
this column as each one feels to be of in?
terest? Don't be sel?sb ; if you have any
good plans or methods of work give them
to the other teacher?. This is the pur?
pose of the Teachers' Column.
A lady in this city, (N. Y.) who has
been a successful teacher for several
years, somo time since took charge of the
child of her sister, whose death left the
infant without a guardian. At once she
was confronted with a problem somewhat
different from those she had met in her
classes. Here was a live boy, to be fed,
clothed, amused, trained, and, in fact,
educated into a successful manbood. The
whole responsibility for bis future suc?
cess or failure was thrown upon her, and,
it is safe to say, she was overwhelmed
with the responsibility of the work.
Heretofore she had looked upon her pu?
pils in mass, feeling no special care for
the future of any one, but here the case
ANDEKSON, B.C.,
was different: Her work waB to be con?
centrated, concrete, and tbe application
of all her theories was to be made. Here
was a grave problem, surely. A new
world opened upon her?the world of a
human soul. This boy is now Bix years
old, and just like other healthy boys iB
full of impulses, strong determinations,
and desires. Although this lady con?
fesses that she has made some mistakes,
she is, on the whole, satisfied with tbe
result of her labors, but Bhe is a changed
teacher. The work of educating looks
different from what it did six yeara ago.
Before that time everything, outside of
the class-room, was theoretical, now it
is practical. Bhe now sees before her
men and women, not boys and girls.
Her aim now is character building, not
recitation cramming, or fact collecting,
She knows childhood, as she never knew
it before, and instead of complaining and
scolding Bhe iB helpful and commenda?
tory ; in fact, she is a changed teacher.
Each pupil in her classes is before her as
an individual unit, to be provided for
differently from other units, and although
she is outwardly teaching classes she is
in fact teaching individuals. It has coBt
a good deal for her to come to this posi?
tion, but it now payB for all it has cost.
She now thinks that she cannot do too
much for her pupils, and regrets that Bhe
has not more time and strength to give to
her work. She is literally wearing her?
self out in her labors. Does it pay ? It
certainly does. There is no danger in
over-loving or over-estimating the teach?
er's work. There is no danger in over
aelf-forgetfulness in behalf of those com?
mitted to tbe care of teachers and
parents.
It would be a gocd thing if all teachers
would studj the child more concretely;?
the child?one child, not children in
masses, but one individual specimen in
particular. This would be studying psy?
chology on its feet, not in theory.. This is
what we are coming to?leas of specula?
tion and more of practice.?School Jour
London's Slave Mart.
The correspondent of the London Times
writes from Paris that plans are forming
to prevent the continual dispersion of the
Jews, whom the sternness of Eussia ex?
pels from its soil, and who are being
scattered abroad among all. civilized
countries. It is proposed to set up bar?
riers to this continual invasion and to',
imitate the United States.
The measures taken by Russia, be
points out, are only the natural conse?
quence of its terror on account of the
tremendous increase in numbers in this
prolific people, which threatens to sub?
merge the national race. The Emperor,
under pressure of the synod, spurred on
by orthodox subjects, has had to take
some note of this formidable increase in
the Jewish population, which has reach?
ed at this moment the numbers of 5,000,
000, and which, with that capacity for
increase which characterizes it, will
exceed in forty years the orthodox popu?
lation of Russia. It is for these reasons
and in this connection that a very serious
inquiry has been made in all the great
centres of Europe, and reports have been
drawn up, from which it appears that in
almost all the great centres there have
been established in the midst of the nine?
teenth century, and full in the face of
Europe, actual markets for slaves, and
that under the form of legal fictions men
are bought and sold and become, like ?
beasts, the property of the buyers.
According to these reports, there exists;
in the city of London, in the east end, a
quarter of 25,000 Polish, German and
Russian Jews, who have established
themselves almost autonomously, and
are fast increasing, both in the course of
nature, and in consequence of forced emi?
gration from Eussia. This population,
already formidable, is step by step becom?
ing menacing, because its interests are
absolutely removed from those of the rest
of London. This entire population of
dealers, as disgusting as the goods they
Bell, speaks the Hebraico Germanic jargon
seen upon the signs, preserves the origi?
nal type of its Northern race, lives in a
retreat close and unwholesome, and forms
a permanent focus whence issue pestifer?
ous germs that prevade the metropolis. .
But by the side of this horrible market
exists an enslaved population, having no
connection with any other, which remains
at this very hour a startling fact, a market
of men hidden in a corner of this noisome
enclosure. Every Sunday at the hour of
the general market;--says the Bpecial
report on London, is to be seen in one of
the streets of.this market a varying num?
ber of men of various ages, but always
able-bodied, drawn up in line against the
wall, and in front of them a man who
sells them to purchasers who have come
for the special purpose of getting what?
ever man or number of men they: may
need. Of course a man is not' sold in a
fashion clearly agreed upon ; but these
men, driven out of Eussia, and wander?
ing from place to place without a home
or resources, reach London knowing
neither tbe town, nor the language, nor
any living person. There they become
the prey of a man who is an actual slave
dealer. He keeps and feeds them till the
day of the sale, when they sign, in return
for a certaia sum given for them, a very
lorjg engagement as workmen or servants,
according to their capacity, in considera?
tion of a certain salary, feeding and lodg?
ing.
Now, the sum given for them varies
from ?2 to .?3. Their salary varies from
2 shillings to 3 shillings a week. Their
feeding is horrible, and so is their lodg?
ing*, jThey suffer hunger, cold, heat,
vermin and work from early morning
until, late in the evening. They have
agreed to pay back a certain sum if they
break their engagement. They are
deprived of relations, paper, acquaint?
ances, of protection. They remain slaves,
working for nothing, depriving thereby,
for the profit of their master, other men
of work, and especially English workmen.
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THURSDAY MOE*
THE END OF THE WORLD.
Kev, E, P.. Carswoll Becomes a Prophet,
Atlanta Constitution.
Douglasville, Ga., May 1G.?Fol?
lowing the predictions as to the second
coming of Christ, which have been pub?
lished throughout the world recently,
Dr. E. B. Cars well's sermon on that sub?
ject last Sunday has created much com?
ment.
Dr. Carewell is a man of advanced
thought, and has given this subject much
study. He does not claim to know defi?
nitely the exact date of the millenium, but
predicts that all indications go to show it
will be in the near future.
The Constitution saw Dr. Carswell and
asked him for his views on the subject.
The doctor said:
"Your special from Douglasville touch?
ing my sermon last Lord's day calls for a
brief statement, ex-cathedra, which I am
glad to make.
"You justly stated that I specified no
date as to the precise time when our Lord
should appear."
"On what do you base your conclusions
concerning these predictions ?"
Here the doctor entered into quite a
discussion of the subject, the substance
of which is given below :
Having shown that the prophecies are
all fulfilled, only fragments of the last few
remaining1 to be translated into history,
and having demonstrated that the leading
"signs" already emblazon the sky, by the
appearance of which the Savior himself
declared, "So likewise ye, when ye shall
see all these things, know that He is near,
even at the doors," the preacher proposed
an arithmetical calculation, based on
Daniel's numercal prophecies, which
point to November 8, 1894, as the date of
the expected command to re-build the
temple at Jerusalem ; to March 5,1896,
or sixty-nine weeks after the last, as the
probable time of the actual coming of
Jesus as bridegroom to receive his bride;
to April 11,1901, as the date of the close
of-this dispensation and the opening of
the millennial age?that is, conformable
to the preceding dates in the calculation.
Special pains were taken to emphasize
the fact that these dates are not so many
predictions, but that, inasmuch as three
other great events suspended upon the
same calculation have come to pass on the
precise day pointed to by the prophetical
numerals .of Daniel, we should not be
surprised if the fourth and last event
likewise fell upon its date; and that, to
say the least, these figures seem so in
harmony with the undoubted stage of the
signs and the prophecies, that we may
"know," as Jesus says we should know,
"that he is nigh, even at the doors." It
was repeated that the calculation was
displayed simply to arouse our dull sense
to a sense of the importance of studying
God's word and the signs of the times,
bearing upon this great event for which
all other events were made.
By believing what our Lord said, Matt,
xxiv., 15,16, and looking out for the sign
of the destruction of Jerusalem, every
believing Jew escaped unharmed from the
beleaguered city to Pelham, whereas hun?
dreds of thousands perished because of
that unbelief that laughed to scorn the
very idea of such a doom and heeded not
the .warning. Even so with reference to
our Lord's coming. The promise that he
will "appear the second time without a
Bin-offering unto salvation" is made only
'.So SichsaB#I?ok for him."
* The occupancy of Jerusalem once again
by the Jews?nearly 50,000 already there
and tho. number increasing daily, as the
last week's papers announce, and their
turning to Jesus of Nazareth, as their re?
deemer and hope, indicate, beyond ques?
tion, that we are in the twilight of the
present age. Compare, Bom. xi, 25 with
Luke xxi, 24, and "be not faithless, but
believing."
The one special sign now just in the
near future, according to all indications,
is a command to rebuild the temple. This
I must be preceded by a war in Europe
that will restore the ten-kingdom empire,
for which portents already appear on the
horizon of the east. I would simply say
to the people, be wise like the Christian
I Jews who lived in the awful times of the
typical destruction, and read the secular
press each week to see when the command
! to restore the temple goes forth?when
that comes, the remaining events will
rush in upon the world with more than
electrical rapidity. And the Jews may
be expected soon to prepare the restora?
tion of the temple. Like the Franco
Prussian and Turko-Bussian wars, which
were wars of prophecy?this last great
prophetic war may be sudden, sharp,
quick and decisive.
We are living in an hour of startling
events?this is denied only by scoffers
and such as willfully negotiate the study
of these great subjects.
It becomes all to set their houses in
order. Let the saints of God say, "Even
so, come Lord Jesus." And let every one
who reads these words make haste to pre
pare to meet the descending Lord. "Be?
lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
shalt be saved."
The doctor's views have created much
comment, and many speculations.
He is giving this matter special study,
and may be heard from egain.
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ittNG, MAY 28, 1891
WHITHER DRIFTING 2
Flunkett Discusses the Craving for Sensa?
tion.
Atlanta Constitution.
So many changes?so many depart?
ures.
. As in the purity of the judiciary stands
the hope of constitutional government,
so in the purity of the ministry stands the
hope of the church and the survival of
virtue.
Say what you may about lawyers, but
to day they are the safeat?I do not say
the purest?class with a great prestige of
brains and numbers in all this free
America.
Judge Bleckley could no more be made
to prostitute his high office by entering
political wrangles with his judicial cloak
about him than Stone mountain could be
moved away with a blowgun. As long
as suoh as he are at the helm to guide the
judiciary of Georgia, we're safe, mighty
I safe, on that line, but there are other
highly important points to watch, and
we should often stop, look around and
ask:
J "Whither are we drifting?"
Up to the time that Guiteau killed
President Garfield, I believed mightly
strongly "inspiration." Guiteau sorter
shook my faith on this "inspiration" bus?
iness, and I went to ^studying. Forty
years ago I believed strongly in the
"calling" of preachers, and so did all the
folks of my age, and as long as the "call?
ed" stuck to the plow and done their
preaching without so much passing
around of the hat, I never thought about
anything else but its being all right, and
all folks of my age thought the same
thing, but when so many fellows begin to
be "called," and "called" from mingling
with the senms to enter right into run?
ning the whole machinery of tbe Chris?
tian world, it put me to studying.
I am a great believer in the church,
and I am a great lover of preachers, and
I believe yet that God "calls" 'em to
preach His word, but these called ones?
these truly called ones?are scarcely ever
heard of these times, and they' verify the
old-time saying, that "Jordan is a hard
road to travel." They could no more
be made to enter any wrangle for the
purpose of gain or self aggrandizement
than you could turn Judge Bleckley from
a conscientious discharge of his official
duties, and they were not "called" while
the scent of liquor was yet. upon their
breath. The Lord would get all the
liquor outen a fellow before calling him,
is my notion?tbe devil, though, ain't bo
particular, and he's subtle, mighty subtle,
and a fellow with liquor in him for a long
time could be deceived in the matter of
voices. After studying and studying, I
have decided that tbe purest of preachers
and the best of. women are the ones who
are never advertised, and boast not.
Good Lord deliver us from politicians,
is my prayer, and I do hope that the
prayer of a wicked old man will be
I answered one time. But politicians have
the virtue of playing their part just to
win and everybody knows it?deceit in
tbem is legitimate, science.
When the "grangers" were booming
and looked as if they were going to
"plump out the middle man" in commer?
cial affairs; there was great commotion,
and nobody could tell where it was going
to end, but the politicians settled it all?
they worked the "grangers" into politics
and then they had 'em.
It was the talk, not so very long ago,
that if the "Farmer's Alliance" could be
got into p'ilitics they would be settled.
I don't know about this; I don't see how
they are going to get along without going
into politics, but I do hope that it will
be a purified politics if they do go in, and
if they can purify political matters in
this country it will be a great thing, but
it'b a big job, and remember I told you so.
And the church?can they enter poli?
tics? There are lots of these "suddenly
called" fellows who bravely enter in with
coats off and sleeves rolled up, and they
are making a great success financially,
for themselves, but I'm er feared they'll
down the church; not down it either,
for there will be the pure old ministers
left hammering away at the devil, preach?
ing scripture, free from sensation, with?
out price and without desire for fame,
till the Lord will hear their crieB and
take us back to old-time ways and old
time Christianity?wickedness may flour?
ish for a while, but the reaction will
come and there will be great hustling to
get back.
Old Lorenzo Dow was one of these
traveling preachers?and he was a good
one. But there was much difference in
his methods and the methods of these late
day "evangelists." Any fellow can be
an "evangelist" these days, and if he
draws well and has a good fellow along
with him to attend to tbe hat-passing, he
soon gets rich and can take it leisurely
along on the "sleepers" and "dinning"
cars, only stopping at such places as needs
stirring up. Old Lorenzo traveled the
trails through heat and cold, rain and
snow, swimmiDg tbe streams and going
hungry, and there was no sizing up of
congregations, no passing of hats, but
upon the principle that where a few were
gathered together there waj the Lord
also; he preached and went on his way
rejoicing.
There are too many departures these
days from old wayB, and where is it to
atop ? This young generation are begin?
ning to think very little of the church.
Where there are so many societies?all
claiming to bo about as good as tbe
church?it i3 not strange that the youths
are drifting.
There is nothing as good as the church!
There is nothing as good as Bible
teachings, and anything which diverts
from that line is dangerous, is damnable,
is tbe notion of an old man, and remem?
ber I told you so.
I have been watching this drifting
away. You couldn't get a crowd togeth?
er to listen to your sure enough minister
when there was some fellow over the way
that would tickle their ears with anec?
dotes, some of 'em pretty questionable,
too, to save your life. I uster think it
was wrong for the PresbyteriaoB to think
their church better than the Baptist or
vice versa, but I've changed my notions.
Teach the youths that their church is
better than any other church, any other
society and that the leant departure Is
?
dangerous, because there is no end to
them.
Stick to the old church, to the old
preachers, and get back to old-time ways
as soon as you can, or the country will
be lost.
Sarge Plunkett.
A War Waif.
I enlisted as a private in the Second
Louisiana Volunteers in 1861. My nrst
real soldiering was on the Yorktown Pe?
ninsula. While there or at Suffolk (I
forget which) there strolled into camp a
young boy, not over ten or twelve years
of age, who attached himself to one of
the neighboring regiments. Who he was,
his name or where he came from, I can?
not now recall. He was looked upon as
"No Man's Child," as such found genial
fellowship among the soldiers.
I soon realized that he was a cosmopol?
itan, and at home anywhere, for I next
saw him the pet of the First South Caro?
lina Volunteers. How long he Btayed
with them I cannot say. It was nearly a
year before I saw him again. Hjs small
form and boyish face were a great contrast
to the men among whom he mingled. I
remember then how odd it seemed to see
that child in a camp, but he was truly
"the child of the regiment."
After we had fallen back to Eichmond,
and after those terrible seven days' of
battle, the army was reorganized, and the
troops brigaded by States, so I lost sight
of our Carolina neighbors, and also the
boy.
At the second Manassas, on the 29th of
Augnst, 1862, our brigade (Starks, poor
fellow, h6 fell at Sharpsburg) was lying
in the woods nearly opposite "that terri?
ble deep cut." When the dripping, spat?
tering fire of the Yankee skirmishers
drove in^our outlookere, (as "old Jack"
didn't have a counter skirmish line,) the
cry "Forward" rang along our lines, and
we advancedJand/ran almost into the
Yankees, who, giving us a deadly volley,
fell back rapidly across a field, and into
the woods beyond, where a battery, sup?
ported by a swarm of troops, was
posted. Nothing checked us. Under a
withering fire of minies and canister we
pressed on, Bushrod Johnston riding
ahead, and with his sword run through
his hat, waving us on until we waved him
out of our line of fire by yelling to him
to clear the way.
When we arrived within about a hun?
dred yards of tho battery the line was
baited, and under this raking fire the
alignment was corrected and the men
"right dressed" to be shot down.
I have often thought that that command
of "halt" might have been heroic, but it
certainly "was not war;" however, not a
man faltered. Again forward, and we
drove straight for the guns.
Just then I felt a thud, a sting, a twist
around and I fell. A minie had struck
my pocket Bible edgewise, and, passing
nearly through the New Testament part,
dug a trench across my left side into the
flesh. With the blood spurting from my
side I started rearward, while our boys,
brave fellows, went up to and over the
battery, scattering its supporters like
chaff.
As I struggled back over the field, the
dead and wounded, blue and gray alike,
lying all around, I heard a great rum?
bling on my left and noticed that our
guns were plunging to the front under
lash and shout, to seize the hills whence
to pour shot into the now retreating foe.
I can see them now tumbling, bouncing,
surging to gain the front.
What else did I Bee ?
So close I-could almost reach him, the
little boy, sitting on the limber of one of
the pieces, his eyes aflame, his hat wav?
ing, his treble voice shouting excitedly,
and his' whole being lit up and aglow with
the terrible magnetism of battle?cheer?
ing on the line.
I have never seen him since. He passed
on and was lost in the cloud and smoke
of the field, bnt the memory of that in?
spiring scene will never fade
_ A. L. S.
Washing out the Stomach.
During the past year several physicians
in Now York have tried, with a gratify?
ing success, a novel treatment for dyspep?
sia and cancer of the stomach by wash?
ing out that organ. The process is very
simple ' and not dangerous. A long
flexible pipe is passed down the throat
until one end is in the stomach. The
upper end has a funnel attached, into
which hot water is poured until the
stomach is filled. The weight of water
in the pipe and funnel gives a hydraulic
pressure sufficient to diBtend the [stom?
ach. The pipe has an aperture big
enough to hold a lead pencil. After the
stomach has been filled, the funnel end
of the pipe is turned down until it 1b
lower than the bottom of the stomach,
and the stomach is emptied as a
barrel of any fluid is emptied
through a siphon. The process may
be repeated several times. The
result is that the undigested food and
mucus are washed out, and the hot water
closes the blood vessels and reduces in?
flammation. Tho relief is immediate.
The dyspeptic may have his stomach
washed out before a meal, so that he can
take a fresh start. After the lapse of a
sufficient time for ordinary digestion, the
stomach may be washed out again. This
process has been in use at the New York
Hospital, we are informed, for sometime.
?Scientific American.
? Talking of patent medicines?you
know the old prejudice. And the doctors
?some of them are between you and us.
They would like you% think that what's
cured thousands won't cure you. You'd
believe in patent medicines if they didn't
profess to cure everything?wn? so, be?
tween the experiments of doctors, and
the experiments of patent medicines that
are sold only because there's money in
the "stuff," you lose faith in everything.
And, you can't always tell the pre?crip
tion that cures by what you read in the
papers. So, perhaps, there's no better
way to sell a remedy, than to tell the
truth about it, and take the risk of its
doing just what it professes to do.
That's what the World's Dispensary
Medical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
does with Dr. Tierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre?
scription.
If they don't do what their maker's
say they'll do?you get your money
buck.
VOLUM
A PATHETIC APPEAL.
An Incident of Gen. Johnston's Surrender.
"The details of the surrender to Sher?
man have never been told," said Gen.
Joe Johnston, a few weeks before his
death, relates Eugene Field in the
Chicago Neics. "They will probably
never be known to the public?I refer, of
course, to personal incidents that seem
amusing now, but which at that remote
time were full of tragic and pathetic
meaning to us. I recall one day that I
went over to Sherman's headquarters to
talk over the preliminaries of the proposed
surrender. 01 course, it was my wish
to secure the best terms I could; I want
ed to spare my people all unnecessary
humiliation. It occurred to me that if
Sherman's feelings could be worked
upon?if his heart could be touched?I
would be able to secure more advantage?
ous terms from him. Accordingly, on
this particular occasion, I asked him if
upon the following day I might bring
John C. Breckinridge over.to talk with
him.
"And who is Breckinridge?" asked
Sherman.
" 'He is our Secretary of War,' said I.
"'No, sir,' said Sherman, harshly; 'I
shall allow no civilian to interfere in this
matter. We are to conduct this affair
upon a basis of war and as between sol?
diers.'
" 'But,' said I, determined to bring
Breckinridge's eloquence to my asaistancej
'our Secretary of War is a major-general
in our army.'
"'Very well then,' said Sherman,'I
should be glad to talk with Gen. Breckin?
ridge. but I intend that no civilian shall
have to do with this matter.'
'Next day Breckinridge and I started
for Sherman's headquarters. Now Breck?
inridge was a man who had been used to
his ten or twelve drinks per diem. Cir?
cumstances over which none of us had
any control had finally cut off all sup?
plies. Breckinridge was simply perish?
ing for want of a drink. I recall how, as
we toiled along in the heat, poor Breck?
inridge sighed dolorously, and kept
reiterating his pining for a keg of fine
old Kentucky sour masb. At last in
sheer despair, he reached around and
whipped out of his pocket a 'long, thin
plug of green tobacco. That, too, was a
rare luxury at that particular time. A
friend bad given it to him only the day
before. He bit off an ample chew, and
as we trudged along on our way, he
solemnly masticated the cud, as though,
forsooth, he hoped thereby to allay the
cravings of his parched fauces. When
we reached the headquarters Sherman
was not there, but presently he came in
with a Bet of saddle-bags over his arm.
He was as cheerful as a breath of early
spring.
"'Gentlemen,' said Sherman,'I have
brought Borne hospital supplies. Will
you honor me, Gen. Breckinridge, by
sampling this brandy?"
"Breckinridge made no answer. I
shall never forget how deftly he got his
hands up to bis lips, gathered that tobac?
co out of his mouth, and hurled the
odious quid into an obscure corner.
Upon my word, 'twas pathetic.
" 'You say when,' said Sherman, tip?
ping up the bottle and pouring out the
cool, delicious beverage.
"But, bless you! Breckinridge was
not the man to 'cry enough.' No, sir, be
just let Sherman fill the glass to the top,
and then at one prodigious draught he
drained off the amber liquid. The effect
was instantaneous; all at once he was
the Breckinridge of old. And eloquent ?
Never before had the man pleaded for hia
fellows as John C. Brecdinridge pleaded
for hia fellow-Confederates that day.
Antiquity was ransacked for instances
illustrating the benignity and mercy of
conquerors to conquered; the realms of
poetry were invaded, and bitB of tender
verse were utilized to soften the auditor's
proud heart; history, biography, philos?
ophy?yes, every art was employed to
gain the speaker's end; it was 8 master?
piece of scholarahip, of oratory, of elo?
quence, of pathoB.
"Sherman was visibly affected. With
his hands thrust down into the pockets
of his trousers, he paced restlessly to and
fro. I never saw a man more deeply
moved. He strove to but could not
conceal his agitation. When finally
Breckinridge ended and sat down, Sher?
man said not a word for several momenta,
but continued to pace the floor nervously.
Breckinridge reached around, drew forth
the plug of green tobacco, and bit off
another chew. The silence, so long un?
broken, became painful.
"At last Sherman turned to the saddle?
bags, picked them up, produced the
brandy bottle again, and poured out a
noble horn of the fiery substance. As
deftly as before, Breckinridge put bis
hands to his lips and made away with
his quid of tobacco. But no, the brandy
was not for him this time; Sherman
tossed down the coveted draught him?
self.
"The draught was fiery; it rasped
Sherman's throat and brought the water
into his eyes. But, pulling himself
together, Sherman looked straight at
Breckinridge and said:
"'General, you find a virtue in this
brandy that I do not find. It was hop?
ing it might give me, too, the errudition,
the eloquence, the tenderness and the.
power with which you have wrought
upon me. Gen Breckinridge, I believe
that it I were to give you another tum
bleful of this brandy, you would be in?
spired to efforts so godlike that before
sunset I should surrender the Union
arms to you, instead of demanding the
surrender of your arms to me!'
"Sometime after this incident," coni:n
ued Gen. Johnston, "I was talking with
Breckinridge, and Sherman's name hap?
pened to be mentioned.
" 'Joe,' said Breckinridge, I can never
forgive Sherman for denyiogme a second
drink that day. Do you know, I bad
half a notion to say that day, when ho
paid that tribute to my eloquence: Gen?
eral, if I have not accomplished the
melting of your heart, I have at least
earned , another chance at the hospital
stores; suppose we compromise to that
extent ?"
? The hardest people on earth for an
editor to please are those who borrow the
paper from ?eme of hia subscribers,
E XXV.?NO. 47 /
All Sorts of Paragraphs,W
? Three hundred and ninety-eight
millions speak English.
? You can't tell for certain what a
man will do till he does it.
? The highest exercise of charity is
charily toward the uncharitable.
? An Orange wine factory is soon to
be started at Jacksonville, Fla. _ m
? Nothing keeps a stingy man from ?
stealing but the risk of the thing.
? The pretense of saintliness deceives
no one so much as the pretender. ?
? America has 200,000 telephones?
more than the rest of the world combin- I
ed. I
? A dove that had reached the sge of Jf
thirty-two years, died at Greencastjfl^*
Penn., last week.
? The whole of human virtue may be
reduced to speaking the truth always and ^
doing good to others.
? A small box filled with lime, and
placed in a pantry, will absorb dampness
and keep the air sweet.
? A mahogany tree lately cut down in
Honduras, Central America, made three
logs, which sold in Europe for $11,000.
? Adam and Eve had the earth at one
time. Their experience should be a I
warning to those people who want it to?
day.
? Do you ever think that a kind word
put out at interest brings back an
enormous percentage of love and appre^
ciation ?
?Sixty years ago the aggregate
of the United States was less than j
000,000,000; at present it is estimated at
$55,200,000,000.
? Pensions are now paid by the gov?
ernment to the widows of three presi?
dents, eighteen generals, one colonel, and
two rear admirals.
? Men of science declare that the
orange was originally a berry, and that
its evolution has been going on more than
a thousand years.
? The prospect now is that there will
be a large crop of peaches and other
fruits grown this year in every" fruit?
growing section of the United States.
? Dr. Martha Robinson, of Cleveland,
has been her father's partner in dentistry
for five years past, and the old gentleman
leaves all the difficult operations to her'
especial care.
? The last Republican Congress spent.
so much money that the secretary of the
treasury has been obliged to get up a X
scheme to put the 10-cent pieces in circu?
lation to pay the bills.
? A Kansas farmer sent a boy to the
pasture for the cowa one evening last
week, and the lad found that ten of them
had been struck by lightning ampere
lying dead in the pasture.
? "Bridget, w.hat is that child crying
so wildly for ?" "Sure, mum, he's just
drinked all his soothin' syrup, and et the
cork, and I don't know what ails him
unless it's the bottle he wants to schwal
ly."
? Donna Isidora Causino, of Chile, is
supposed to be the richest woman in the
world. Her monthly income is eighty
thousand dollars. She is a stately widow]
of thirty-five years and a fat
woman.
? It is now said that the la grippe has
numbered more victims than the small
pox, cholera, and yellow fever combined.
In Chicago, alone, there has been 10,000
deaths from it this winter. The doctors
do not know what to do with it.
? Eight thousand acres of land in
Missouri have been bought by a syndicate
and will be planted in corn and used as a
fattening ground for range cattle^?-RflT"~"
projectors of the scheme expect to make
Missouri the leading cattle State of the
Union. ; ~"
? It is believed that the last census
will disclose that nearly, or quite, one
third of the entire population of this na?
tion are twenty-one years of age, or un?
der. This means that we have more than
20,000,000 of minors?youth and children
?in this country.
? Last year the Texas and Pacific
railway carried 1,250,000 passengers, and,
strange to say, out of this vast number of '
people not one was killed or injured.
During the past four years not a passenger
traveling on this road has lost his life by %
accident while on the road.
? When Queen Victoria is traveling
by rail in her special train she exercises
no deadhead rights. She pays at the rate
of $1.92 a mile, whatever the distance, in '
addition to first-class fares for all the
party, servants included. Her saloon
carriage cost $30,000.
? Some people Bay that we should al?
ways look on the bright side of things. If
that means that we are to look only on
the bright side, we question its wisdom.
Better look on both sides, rejoice in ail
the brightness we can see, and then go to
work and brighten up the dark aide all
we can.
?Recently at Ligonier, Ind., Rev. Jas.
Atchison, aged 84, was married to Mr?.
Mary Ann White, aged 77. Fifty years
agn he officiated at the marriage of Mr.
and Mrs. White; baptized herself and
husband thirty-seven years ago, and a few
years ago conducted the services at Mr,
White's funeral.
? The Squire?It's no use for you^trjr?I
deny your guilt, Johnson. The chickens
were actually found in your coat tail
pockets. Bre'er JohDsing (stoutly.)?I j
kain't help dat, sah. Hain't it pooty -
tough to hold a poor niggah responsible
fo' what's going on behind his back ?
? In a new hotel in Florida is to be
placed the great orchestrion from the
Paris exposition, which is to be connect?
ed by telephone with every room In the .
house, aud simply by touching a buttca^
each guest can have the music transmit-"
ted in full volume to his apartment.
? Americans arc the greatest newspa?
per readers in the world. There are
17,000 newspapers published in the
United States. It is said that a new
publication is born every four hours and
forty eight minutes, day and night; bat
fortunately. or unfortunately the death
rate is very high._
Commendable. <r~>*~y^~*
All claims not consistent with the high
character of Syrup of Figs are purposely "
avoided by the Cal, Fig Syrup Company.
It acts gently on the kidneys, liver and
bowels, cleansing the system effectually,
but it is not a cure-all and makes no pre*
tentions that every bottle will ne>jreb
utautiate. 'S&sS'