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BY CLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON. LEAVING ANDERSON I i LEAVING ANDERSON! ..?> - LEAVING this beautiful and healthy City, with its delightful climate, and the prosperous and fertile country that surrounds it, thickly populated with .a warm-hearted, generous and liberal-minded peoplo, is certainly a hard pill for me to swallow, but circumstances have so ordained it, when I thought the winter of my declining years would be spent in this paradise of health and prosperity.';:but now, with heavy tread and downcast spirits, I must and am com^elted-.by the combined wishes of my partners to seek new fields of "conquest^;: ;. |.t.tkve.:.;to. go to Augusta, Ga., to open a large Wholesale and Retail Hous^%Mch will require all my undivided attention from this lame-'forward. Nowiin order to avoid paying large local freights from here to Augusta, we have determined on? ?REAT 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.~ l5c Towels for 8 Jc . 20c Towels for 12*c. 25c. Towels for 15c. ' 75c Linen Damask for 47 $c. 60c Linen Damask for 35c. Napkins at half price. Dress Goods prices just half. Glo?iing slaughtered at your own price. We are badly overstocked in Shoes?in Children's in numbers 10,11,13 and 1; in Ladies 3, 3J, 4 and 4*; Men's 7, 8 and 9. These Shoes we will sell at 75c. on the dollar of what they cost. Russet Shoes and Slippers at half | cost. Boys' 3,4 and 5 must go at some price. Checked Homespun 4c Yard-wicie Sea Island 4?c Window Curtain Scrim 4$c Lace Curtains half price. White Counterpanes away down. * 10c. Socks and Stockings at 7$c. Chair 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 GiDghams at 7c 10 c. 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. . i All and every article to be found in a first-class Dry Goods, Clothing and ? Shoe Store 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 ? person having valuable papers should have one in his house. Now, we want it distinctly understood that 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, LEADEB OF LOW PRICES, Bed House, Granite Row. THAT'S THE WAY WE ARE SELLING. SHORT PROFITS NOW All WE EXPECT, ALL WE WANT. IN CARLOTS We will give you lowest WHOLESALE PRICES on If ATR, CORN, HAT, BRAN, OATS, &c, &c. - ABH0?S & CO'S. WHOLESALE AGENTS FOE HAMS, MEAT, LAED, C4OTED MEATS LOWEST CHICAGO PRICES made on CaseB and lots weighing one hundred pounds and over. i INTENT FLOURS. Oar BALL ARU S BLUE BIRD FLOUR the best in America for the price. Try a Barrel. No Firm Can Seil you TOBACCO as Low as we Can. m 1?B?BgHm wen CASTORlA for infants and Children. "Castoxia Is bo well adapted to children that I Ca* t or 1 a cores Colic, Constipation, IrecomnienditasfluperiortoanypreBcription I &>wrStomach, DiaxrbcBa, Eructation, , _. ,, tt a a v n I Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di known to me." H. A. ahchkh, m. D., I gesfcion, 111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, K. Y. g Without injurious medication. Ins CEhTi.ua CoiiPiNT, 77 Murray Street, N. T. COTTON COINC HIGHER. WE are glad to be able to inform our friends and customers that Cotton is bound to go up, if yon will not be in t?o big a hurry to sell. In the meantemo you can buy all kinds of? Groceries, Fireworks and Xmas Goods pf a|1 kinds ais cheap or cheaper than anywhere in Town from? Yoojp. witL Quacks Tor past patronage, 15? W. TAYLOR & CO, I^A?H^'?OI/?MN, -r?a All communications intended for thisCtolumn shonld be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMORY GEMS. "Honor and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honor lies-" " 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus." We have arranged to pay off the teach? ers by an arrangement with the bank at Pelzer. We know this will make glad many hearts in this County. We all ap? preciate this kindness on the part of the Chicora Savings Bank. Teachers please read carefully the defi? nitions of education given below, then think over your work and see if yon have been educating in the full sense of these definitions. Before we undertake to educate we should know what education is. Study these definitions and Bee if any of you can send in a better one. The Memory Gems of this week should be studied by the teachers, for the appli? cation is as much to them as any others. "Act well your part" should be hbeded by every teacher, pupil and parent. Then we'll have a model school. The pupils and teachers have their parts to perform, but no less so than the parents. Let them all study their own individual responsibility and relations to the school and its success. "Act well your part." MEANDERINGS. During our visit to the Male Academy at Williamston, we were very much pleased to note the splendid school house they have erected and furnished, since we were a pupil in "the old school house that stands upon the hill." Prof. Earle Grady, who is in charge of thiB school, is a young man who is deeply interested in the work he is doing, and who is doing a good work. He is patiently at work, and his patrons will find it hard to get a teacher who will strive harder to ad? vance their children. Williamston in the past has produced more young men who are holding places of honor and profit than any town in the country to the nnmber of its inhabitants. But the boys of Williamston should remember the Pickles, Hortons, Browns, G. E. Prince, John G. Glinkscales, John Anderson and others, were hard students, and applied themselves while in school. And if they keep up the former record of William? ston in this respect, they, too, must not trust to anything except their own efforts and application in the school room. In this particular young men are peculiarly the architects of their own fortunes. While in Williamston we called at the Female College, and Bpent an hour or more very pleasantly, indeed. Verily it is a pleasure to see the good work being done by Dr. Lander and his assistants. It would be impossible to say to what extent Williamston and the surrounding country generally, is indebted to the Wil liamston Female College. To this in? stitution we may attribute, in a measure, the success of the young men above referred to. From it they drew their in? spiration, and were urged on to a nobler manhood full of usefulness. This Col? lege is one of the best equipped in the County, being supplied with the latest and best improvements and helps. They keep posted on the current news of the day, which is read at the close of each day's work. Chemistry is taught by actual practical work, and not simply by theory. The closing exerci?es are very impressive. The school at Pelzer is one among the best in the County, being supplied with good maps, charts, black-boards and teachers. Miss Lou Carpenter, the Prin? cipal, is not to be excelled, and her assistants, Misses Hard and McLees, are following close in her stops. The people of Pelzer should appreciate what has been done for them by Capt. Smythe. They enjoy rare educational opportuni? ties. We think they do appreciate these advantages and privileges, and are im? proving them. At Piedmont we found Mrs. Goldsmith and Miss Carrie Marshall faithfully teaching on the Anderson side. The Piedmont Company have erected a very handsome building on this side for a school house and Church combined, We were very much pleased with the efforts of the teachers, and the liberality of the Company. The Anderson Bide has a primary and intermediate department. Mrs. Clara Rowoll, the Superinten? dent, is the right person in the right place. She is doing a great and good work at Piedmont, and we regret to learn that she has resigned the Superinten dency of the Piedmont schools. It will be difficult to get another as good. The schools at Williamston, Pelzerand Piedmont hold two sessions each day. One in the morning and one in the after? noon. DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS OF EDUCA? TION. From the Teachers' Profession. The educators are rare who, like Lockie, have written formal treatises on education without defining it, without collecting into one single formula the elements of their system. In general, ?ach writer on education has his own definition, and tbie diversity is chiefly due to the fact that the greater number have wrongly included in th >fiuition8 the indication of the particular methods and different means which education calls to its aid. It will not be without interest to men? tion in this place the principal definitions that are of note, either on account of the nameB of tbcir authors or of the relative exactness of their connotations. One of the mo?t ancient, and also one of the best, is that of Plato:? "The pur? pose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which tlioy aro capable." The perfection of human nature, such indeed is the ideal purpose of education It is in the sums sense that Kant, M?damo Necker de Saussure, and Stuart Mill have given the followingdefinition3: "Education is the development in man of all the perfection which hia nature per ANDEESON, S. C. mite." To educate a child iB to put him in a condition to fulfil aa perfectly as possible the purpose of his life." "Edu? cation includes whatever we do for our? selves and whatever is done for us hy others, for the express purpose of bring? ing us nearer to the perfection of our nature." Here it iB the general purpose of edu ucation which is principally in view. But the term perfection is somewhat vague and requires some explanation. Herbert Spencer's definition responds in part to this need:?"Education is the preparation for complete living." But hrwhat doeB complete living itself con? sist? The definitions of German educa? tors give us the reply :? "Education is at once the art and the science of guiding the young and of put? ting them in a condition, by the aid of instruction, through the power of emula? tion and good example, to attain the triple end assigned to man by his reli? gious, social, and national destination." ?NlEMEYER, "Education iB the harmonious and equable evolution of the human faculties by a method founded upon the nature of the mind for developing all the faculties of the bouI, for stirring up and nourish- - ing all the principles of life, while shun? ning all onesided culture and 'taking account of the sentiments on which the strength and worth of men depend."? Stein. "Education is the harmonious develop? ment of the physical, intellectual, and moral faculties."?Denzel. These definitions have the common fault of not throwing into sharper relief the essential character of education prop? erly so called, which is the premeditated, intentional action which the will of a man exercises over the child to instruct and train him. They might he applied equally well to the natural, instinctive, and predetermined development of the human faculties.?Compayre's "Lec? tures on Pedagogy." Mrs. Snrratt's Execution, Washington, May 24.?The Eev. J. A. Walter, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, this city, has prepared and presented to the Catholic Historical Society in New York a paper on Mrs. Surratt, which he thinks will throw new light on the char? acter, trial and execution of that unfortu? nate woman. It will be read before the Society to-morrow night. Father Wal? ter was fpastor of St. Patrick's Church when President Lincoln was assassinated-, and Mrs. Surratt was a member of his congregation. On the very night that Booth fired the fatal shot she was at Father Walter's Church, and that cir? cumstance alone, in the mind of the cler? gyman, was partial proof that ehe knew nothing of the plans prepared by the assassins at her house. He became deeply interested in her case, was her confessor and adviser after her arrest as well as before, and did everything in his power both by appeals to President Johnson and hy bitter denunciations of the unjust measures adopted by the Gov? ernment in its prosecution, to save her from the gallows. Although the occurrences which Father Walter describes in hie paper occurred so long ago, he still feels freshly and keenly the injustice which led to Mrs. Surratt's execution. In speaking of the matter to a Sun representative he said: If President Johnson had been a man of courage the execution would not have taken place. He simply acted in accordance with public clamor, and signed the death warrant without even reading the testimony on which the wo? man had been convicted. I went to him and told him that I had read every line of the testimony, and that there was not enough evidence to hang a cat on; that I did not ask a pardon for Mrs. Surratt, nor a commutation of sentence, but merely a reprieve for ten days, in order that I might prove her innocence, but President Johnson did not have courage enough to comply with my request. He feared if he did so he would bo accused of commending the deed that had put him in the Presidential chair. So he consigned an innocent woman to a shameful death in order to escape the adverse criticism of a frenzied populace. The whole trial was an outrage, and there is no doubt that the Government re? sorted to fraudulent measure in order to obtain a conviction. "Mr. Bradley, who defended John Sur? ratt, had among his papers a telegraph book showing that John Surratt was in Elmira on the night of April 13, yet when a search was made for the hotel register, that would have shown his presence there on that date, it had disap? peared and not until a year ago was I able to ascertain that the Government had taken possession of it and had with? held it in order toodeprive the prisoners of the benefit of this bit of evidence. "John Surratt was allowed to escape a trial because the Government know it had no case against him, and if he were innocent, his mother was also. It has been charged that I forbade Mrs. Sur? ratt's speaking, but this is not true. She declared her innocence up to the time of her death, and beyond thiB declaration she had nothing to say."?Baltimore Sun. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local reme? dies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, proncunced it incu? rable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore re? quires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any eise it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo/Ohio. Soid by Druggist*, 75 cents. ? The art of paper-making haB reached that point where a growing tree can be cut down and converted into a newspaper, all within twenty-four hours, , THTJKSDAY MOB* BILL ART'S CHAT. The Cnndy-Palllnr; Mrs. Arp gave to the Little Children. Atlanta Constitution, "What's all this rumpus about?" I camehome to dinner and found the house full and yard full of children?grandchil? dren and other children. "Oh, nothing much," said Mrs. Arp. "I promised them a little pirty and they have come over to spend the day and brought some little friends with them." "Well, but these door-knobs are all st?ck up with candy." "Yes, they had a' candy-pulling, and, I expect, have messed up things just like children will, I will wipe off the door-knobs." "Well, but here I've gone and set down on a lump of it in this chair," Mrs. Arp smiled and said: "Well, there's the washboard and a rag." I meandered out in the piazza, and found candy knee deep in everything. The chaps were in the backyard cooking dinner on a little brick furnace they had built. Some were toting water and some bringing wood, and they had potatoes and rice and eggs and butter and pepper and everything they could beg from the ccok. The waterspout was running all over everything. I stopped that part of it and surrendered to the rest, and retired to my accustomed Beat at the desk. "Who has been here projecting with ray pens and letter pads, and turned over my inkstand and messed up my papers?" "Oh, I don't reckon they have hurt anything. Rosa wanted to show me how she was learning to write. There was very little ink in the stand. I wiped off all the spilt." I got up and walked in the garden as King Ahasuems did to let my choler down, and I found where they had been picking peas, and broke the twine that held the vine up?I always stick my peas with twine, and so I came out of the gar? den to let my choler down somewhere else. I looked all round for the children to give them a blessing, but they had become alarmed, for Mrs. Arp had told them to run and hide. "I'll wear them out,"/said I. "I'll wear them all out, big and little, old and young. I'm awfully mad. I'm as mad as a mad bull. Broke down my pea vines I" and I mocked a bull and pawed dirt. The chaps had run up the ladder and got on the shed roof of the house and as I pranced and bellowed around the house they smothered their laughter until I was out of sight and then turned loose in full chorus. I found the buggy pulled out of the shed and the whip gone and the calf was tied up in the back lot with a saddle on, so I took my seat in the front piazza and put my feet on the railings and ruminated. My thoughts carried me away back to my childhood when I took delight in such things, and the whole picture came before me like the turning of a kaleidoscope. What a pity that folks can't always be as happy as when they are children. About this time Mrs. Arp came out with a bun? dle of stuff and remarked that she brought home some pinks and chrysanthemums that must be planted out. "Are you do? ing anything," said she. "I am rumina? ting," said I, solemnly. "Well, you had better ruminate around for the garden hoe, and I'll help you put them out? your back Deeds exercise." I was picking peas the other morning, and aa they were of the low kind, I had to bend over smartly, and by and by when I tried to straighten up, I couldent straighten. There was a hitch and a pain in my veins, the same old trouble I had once before when I worked in the water half a day damming up the branch to make a washhole for the children?so I hurried from the garden to the house half bent, and made my usual fuss for help and sympathy. I was down for two days, and took medicine and chicken soup, and they putabellydona plaster on my back as big as a letter pad, and it is there yet, and I'm not well by a long Bhot, but my folks seem to think I am. If I get up and creep to town they put me to work bb soon as I get back. I used to have boys of all sorts and Bizes to wait upon me and do my bidding, but they have all grown up and left me but one, and he is at school) and when be isn't he is off at baseball or tennis, or pic nicing around. I am the boy now?the waiting boy. I was ruminating, but I found the hoe and dug around according to orders, Last night at the supper table Mrs. Arp remarked as she was making the coffee that to-day was another anniversary. I thought she meant a birthday, for they seem to come about once a week in the family, and she always wants to make a little present of some sort?a spoon or napkin ring or sleeve buttons, or some? thing. I tell you what is a fact?where there are ten or a dozen children in a family to start on and they grow up and get married and multiply and replenish, and the posterity keeps on getting "more thicker, more denser," as Oabe says, and the maternal ancestor is a large-hearted woman, these birthday gifts and wed? ding presents will keep the old man's surplus down as effectually as the Re? publican party keeps it down in the Uni? ted States treasury. It is the easiest thing in the world. I never saw a mother with a numerous flock of lovely offsprings but what she wanted a big house and a bush? el of money. My wife is always scratch? ing around hunting up something for the childreu. She reminds me of an old hen with a brood of young chickens?always a clucking and scratching?and Bhe says that I remind her of the old rooster who every noiv and then finds a bug or worm, and make3 a big fuss and calls up the little chicks, and just beforo they get there he gobbles it up himself. No, she didn't mean a birthday. She said that twenty-seven years ago to-day we were running from the foul invader aa fast as our good horse and a rockaway could carry us. "Just about this lime," said she, "we were hurrying across Eu hnrlee bridge, and I trembled all over for fear it would'break in two, for it vibrated up nud duwu to old Buckner's heavy trot, but.you never slackened up a bit, aud we fairly flew through old Vau Wert, and took the mountain road until we got to Mr, Whitehead's, about dark." "Yes," said I, "and we stayed all night there, and they did the best thoy could for all the runnagees, bijt they ?i^ent JING, JUNE 4, 1891 have room for the men folks, and we slept outdoors under the wagon Bhed, and the fleas kept us so lively that we got up in the night and run through the bushes to brush them off, just like cattle do when the flies are after them." "And the next morning about day? light," said she. "the news came that the yankees were coming, and we started up that long mountain, and it did seem to me that we never would get to the top. It must have been three or four miles up, and wo felt pretty safe then and stopped awhile to rest, and then we 3cooted away to Dallas, and rested there for dinner, and that night we camped out somewhere near Powder Springs. The wagon and our tent and baggage kept up pretty well, but we found out we dident have anything to cook in except a copper pot." "Yes," I remember," said I, "and we sent Tip off to a little farm house to bor? row a skillet, and he came back without it, and said the old woman told him the old man was washin'^.his feet in it, and we would have to wait until he got through. She said his feet had sores on 'em, and the dishwater was powerful good for sores, Tip tried another place and got a skillet that wasn't so popular." "And next morning," said Mrs. Arp, "we stopped to get some water at a house, and the well was in the front yard, and it was locked with a chain and a padlock, and they wouldn't let us have a drop, and you gave the woman 10 cents for a cupful for the baby. Oh, it was just awful." "I believe," said I, "that we had about seven children then." "Yes," said she, with a sigh, "poor lit? tle half-starved things." "Why, they enjoyed it," said I. "They thought it was a big frolic, and that we were running a race with Joe Johnston, trying to see who would heat to Atlan? ta." "Stella was the baby then," said my wife, looking at her earnestly, "a little, fretful, black-eyed baby, and now she is sitting here a mother with a child of her own that is so much like what she was then that sometimes I imagine the child is mine and I am getting ready to make a new run from the yankees." "May the fowl invaders live long, when the devil gets them," said I. "They kept you trotting, and you bore it like a hero? ine ; you have seen a good deal of trou? blous life, and I'm thankful that now your days are calm and serene." Bill Arp. Pat the Horse to Bed, One of the beBt known society women of Philadelphia spends the spring months in her country place, a few miles out of the city. This lady, who may be called Mrs. Stellcart, although that is not her name, went out there with her family a few weeks ago. Soon after opening the country house her husband arrived from the West, where he had been on business, bringing with him a magnificent Kentucky saddle horse, which he gave to his daughter Eleanor for a birthday present. Not long after? ward the gentleman was again called away from this part of the country, and that same afternoon his wife discharged the coachman for being imprudent. When evening came on Mrs. Stellcart was in a quandary. She knew that the horse had to be taken care of, and she didn't know exactly how to do it, so she said to her daughter: "Eleanor, we've got to putTong to bed. I recollect bearing your father tell John to be very careful to bed him'down nicely, so we must do as well as we can." They went to the stable, and took from the carriage house the cushion of a wagon seat, and a couple of horse blan? kets. Then they repaired to the stall in which the Kentucky saddle horse was rapidly growing hungry, likewise weary. Mrs. Stellcart and Eleanor placed the cushion where they supposed the horse would use it for a pillow, and managed to arrange one of the blankets to serve in lieu of a mattress. Then they tried to coax Toag to lie down, in order that they might throw the other blanket over him and tuck it nicely about his heels. But, for some unaccountable reason, Toag would not lie down. They tried to coax him and throw him off his .feet, but the greatly astonished horse at last protested so strongly that the ladies gave up their work. Their house is situated half a mile from any other, nnd they didn't know what to do. But at last a bright idea struck Eleanor, and she with her mother hurried to the front gate and stayed there uutil two men passed by. These were called; the situation wa3 explained to them. They didn't under? stand it at first, but Mrs. Stellcart finally burst into tears and begged them to come in and put the horse to bed. The men willingly walked to the stable and looked at the stall for a moment. Then they leaned against the wall and laughed until they were nearly exhausted. Toag went to bed as usual that night, but he didn't sleep on the cushion of a wagon seat and covered with blankets. Every day since this occurrence those two men have made it a point to walk past Mrs. Stellcart's residence, stopping by the front gate long enough to roar with laughter so she could hear them.? Philadelphia Press. - ? p i. ? We'll write it down till everybody sees it, Till everybody is sick of seeing it, Till everybody knows it without seeing it that Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures the worst cases of chronic catarrh in the head, catarrhal headache, and "cold in the head." In perfect faith, its makers, the World's Dispensary Medical Associa? tion, of Buffalo, N. Y., offers to pay ?500 to any one suffering from chronic catarrh in the head whom they cannot cure. Now, if the conditions were reversed? if they asked you to pay ?500 for a posi? tive cure you might hesitate. Here are reputable men, with years of honorable dealing ; thousands of dollars and a great name back of them and they oay?"We can cure you because we've cured thous? ands of others like you?it wo can't we will pay you $500 for the knowledge that there's one whom we can't cure." They believe in themselves, Is it not worth a trial ? Isn't any trial preferable to catarrh ? ? The Prince of Wale's life is insured for eight hundred thousand dollars. It Was a Bad Day for Gold. Baltimore, Md., May 18.?Fivo Bal? timore merchants were victims of the same kind of swindle which Edward Pinter, alias "Sheeney Al," played in London about three years ago, and came out about $100,000 behind the game. They believe "Sheeney Al" was the swindler. ? A man came to Baltimore about that time and engaged a suite of rooms in a boarding house on North Charles street. He called at the office of a successful real estate agent and introduced himself as Mr. Gephart. He said that the agent had been re? commended to him as a discreet and en? terprising man and he desired to secure his aid in developing a matter that would surely bring fortune to both them. He then unfolded his scheme of increasing the bulk of gold and assured the agent that he did not wish him to invest a dollar in the enterprise until all doubt had been removed from his mind of the ability of Gephart to do all he claimed. He invited the agent to call at his rooms in Charles street, when he would sub? stantiate his claim by practical tests. The agent accompanied him and gave Gephart a gold dollar with which to make the first experiment. This dollar was placed in a small crucible and a white powder was added by Gephart. The two men took turns at a blowpipe in increas? ing the heat in the crucible until the gold was melted and mixed with the chemical. It was then allowed to cool, after which Gephart took it out, gave it to the agent and told him to send it to the United States mint to be essayed and recoined. The mint officials returned a report show? ing three times the amount of gold that was put into the crucible. The same tests with larger amounts were continued, and always with the same result. The real estate agent became convinced of the value of Gep hart's secret, and introduced Gephart to several wealthy citizens with the view of enlisting them in the enterprise. The same tests were made before them, and they, too, became convinced of Gephart's ability to increase the bulk of gold. A stock company was formed, and the basement of the house of one of the men interested was selected as the place of operations. This was fitted up with a furnace and iron vats about the size of an ordinary bath tub. One of the Gold Increasing Company furnished about $50,000 in gold and the other four about $10,000 each. They were to share proportionately in the pro? fits. In the presence of the whole party Gephart apparently put all his gold into one of the vats and placed it on the fire. He then put in a quantity of the powder and other chemicals. In doing this, however, he declined to permit any of the party to approach the vat, saying that the fumes of the chemi? cals would overpower any one not prepar? ed to resist them. A top was put on the vat, and at the suggestion of Gephart extra strong locks were procured and the vat was securely fastened with them. The same precautions were taken with the door of the basement. The keys were given to the gentleman in whose house the experiment was being tried. Gephart said that the vat must not be opened for three weeks. After remaining about the city for sev? eral days Gephart said he was called to a distant city on business, but would return on the day appointed for taking out the gold. He did not come as promised. The real estate agent became suspicious and porsuaded the party to make an in? vestigation. They went to the cellar and upou open? ing the vat found the gold bad all disap? peared, while in its place was a lot of rocks and scrap iron. The men were dumbfounded. The cellar bad been enter? ed surreptitiously and the gold Btolen.? New York Herald._ The Victim of the Science. St. Louis, May 22.?A great deal of comment is iudulged in and not a little severe criticism over the death of Miss Lucy McKeegan, daughter of Judge E. McKeegan, one of the foremost lawyers in the city. She died last Tuesday at the home of her parents, 74 Vandeventer Place, and developments show she waB clearly a victim of Christian science. She was seventeen years old, beautiful, and .talented, a student of Mary Insti? tute, and a favorite in school and with the younger class of society. Nearly three weeks ago she was taken sick, and her absence from school caused eome of her classmates to visit her house. They found her sick, but learned that no phy? sician was in attendance. She grew worse, and last Saturday at her own earnest solicitation Dr. Walter Coles waB called in. Ho saw at once that she was entirely beyond his skill. Her disease was typhoid fever. When questioned to-day, the doctor refused to discuss the matter, as he has for many years been an intimate friend of the family. He did say, how? ever, that the parents were believers in Christian science, and had placed their daughter under the care of "two teachers" instead of calling a physician, and when he was finally called the disease had made such progress that no skill or medicine could save her. She lingered, however, until Tuesday. Her fuueral took place yesterday. The Christian science feature of the case was suppressed until comment grew so gener? al, owiug to the social standing of the family, that the whole sad story came cut. _ ? Some two weeks ago Mrs. Martha Forsythe missed a favorite Cochin roos? ter, and, thinking that some one had stolon it, she purchased another. Oue evening about two weeks later Mrs. For? sythe went out to lock the coop, and see? ing a box near the coop, determined first to put it in the dry, that it might be used when occasion required. On picking up the box she was surprised to find the lost rooster, for Sir Chanticleer stepped out as gaily as if he had lived on coru by the bushel. The chicken had not had oue grain of food for fourteen days. He had been picking his way through an old cel? ery trench, and stepping on the box it had overtilted and imprisoned him like Gi nevra in the chest,?Mononaahela Repub tiw, VOLUM The Stake. Some eighteen or twenty years since a well known resident of Tipton County was put on trial, charged with the murder of bis wife. As usual in such cases, popular feeling was largely against him, and the elo? quence and ingenuity of counsel were required to make an impression in his favor upon the jury, which, however im? partial it might desire to be in the con? sciousness of sworn duty, could not but see the waves of popular prejudice surg? ing in upon it. The case was ably argued. The coun? sel for the defense made most vigorous and passionate appeals. The case was submitted to the jury and they retired to make up their verdict. Time passed, and as the setting sun warned all of the approaching night, the large throng in attendance, the judge, counsel, etc., retired, all anxious, the accused not the least so, to learn the ver? dict of the jury, and some wondering that the jury hesitated for one moment to bring in a verdict of guilty. In the meantime the jury had come to a point beyond which they could progress no further. The appeals ct the counsel for the defense had not been without their influ? ence, and the jury stood unchangeable, six for conviction and six for acquital. Something had to be done. In those days twelve good fellows could not be got together for a night and sleep. Cards appeared mysteriously from the depths of pockets, and exercises in sevenup and poker were zealously commenced. About midnight one of the number, Colonel P, proposed that they should play a game of seven up, and the result to decide the verdict. The proposition was heartily and unanimously agreed to, in all seriousness, and the whole crowd gathered around Colonel P., and his opponent, who proceeded to play the game on which was staked a human life.1 Colonel P., played to save the accused. The backers, five and five, stood behind them encouraging the champions, and watched the game, dimly seen by the light of two candles, with the most in? tense interest. The game proceeded with very equal fortune till both parties stood at six and six. It was Colonel P.'s deal; he dealt and turned jack. The prisoner was acquitted, aad every member of the jury joined in the shout, which startled even the revellers in "the groggery." Next morning the jury went into the court and gave, to the astonishment of the many, the verdict, "Not guilty." The juryman who played an unsuccess? ful game for human life still lives, and is a much respected citizen of the district. One of the counsel is a very distinguish? ed member of the Memphis bar, and the accused has, we believe, gone to a higher court; but neither of them, nor any of the assemblage, nor the court, who mar? veled at the verdict eighteen years ago, has ever known that a human life was saved by turning jack. Why Women Marry. You see, the day has gene by when a man would do anything for a woman; countries need to be either very young or very old when this sort of thing happens, but after all I can't help but remember that question, "What do women marry for?" S?me women marry because they want a home of their own, and these are my conclusions: Some women marry because they haven't the moral courage to remain single. Some women marry because they want a little more money in their purses and a little larger credit at the shops, Some women marry because they want to put "Mrs." on their visiting cards. Some women marry because their mother wants them to. Some women marry because a man asked them to, and they don't like to say no. Some women marry for money?money, and nothing else. These women get the money, and with it great responsibilities they never dreamed of. Some women marry because they love the man, because they want to be his wife, his friend and his helpmate; because they want to make him feel that there is one woman in the world whom he can love and cherish, and from whom he will receive love and consideration in return. Because they want him to feel that if sorrow comes he has a sympathiz? ing, loving friend close beside him, and that in the day of joy there is one who can give him smile for smile. These are the women worth marrying. The others are of little worth, and never would be missed if they suddenly dropped out of the matrimonial bonds.?Bab's New York Letter. - Couldn't Undersell Htm. A proprietor of a country store was noted for being particularly affable and obliging to his customers, and he had a clear headed and smart young man for clerk. One day one of the best customers of the concern called to buy a dress pat? tern. The price was seventy-five cents, and after a long talk the clerk closed the bargain at seventy cents. While the clerk was selecting trimmings, etc, in another part of the store, the genial pro? prietor came along rubbing his hands, inquired after the family of the customer, praised her taste in selecting that partic? ular piece of goods, and, as a special favor, let her have it for sixty-eight cents per yard. The clerk returned and the lady told of the reduction the proprietor had just made. The clerk was furious, but not in the least disconcerted. He saw that if the customers thought that he was selling higher than others in the store they would avoid him, and his discharge would follow, so he says: I just looked at the bill and can sell you that piece at sixty-five cents a yard." When the deal was completed the pro prictor was as angry as the clerk. "Do yon know that I made tbe price sixty-eight cent3?" said the proprietor, "Yes," said the clerk, "but I want you to understand that no man can undersell me in this store."?Dry Goods Chronicle. ? Of tho 1,900 policemen in Chirjago, 1,550 are IrishmeD. E XXV.?NO. 48.; All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Charles King, of Dany^ claims to be 110 years old. ? Above all things speak the truth; your word mast be your bond through life. ? Irale Parent, (catching his clerk kissing his daughter)?Now, now, young man. I don't pay you for that kind of work. Clerk?N-no sir, and I don't pro? pose to charge any extra for it. ? Resident Southerners are now con tributiug toward the erection at Luray, Va., of a monument to the unnamed Con- Jk federate dead. It is to be a bronze atatu/?^ 1 of heroic size and the coht of the wojk^J will be $5,000. ?The great seltzer spring at Saratoga, ? N. Y., has been sounded to a depth of? 3,300 feet without touching bottom or en? countering any obstacle. This strength? ens the belief that this great Northern summer resort is built over a subterrane? an sea. ? A well-known Providence clergy? man, believing tbat other things than charity should begin at home, made his wife's low-necked dresses the subject of recent exhortations. She became so in? dignant that she has sued for a divorce. ? Austria still adds to her revenue by the lottery business. According--to a circular report from Vienna, the Govern? ment realized $8,500,000 from lottery transactions last year, of which $5,000, 000 was returned for prizes, leaving [. $3,500,000 net profit to the State. ?Over seventy thousand acres of cotton have been partially and much of it total? ly destroyed in Texas, due to three severe storms that have recently-passed through tbat State. A special says: Twelve thousand acres of cotton, wheat, corn and . oats in cultivation?in Montague, Clark, Denton and Groyson counties were level^-^ ed to the ground. ? On'.the 13th of last December, Mrs. Horace Smith, of Evansville, said to her - family: "I shall die on the ilth of April and you can prepare for it." On the 11th she flopped down on her bed to die as per programme, but her husband was right there with a syringe of cold water to make her jump, and the dying performance was therefore declared off until next winter. ? Although statistics as to the number of divorces that have been granted in the United States since its history began are not easily obtainable, data gathered for a period of twenty years 13 at hand and is alarmingly interesting. During that length of time the record shows the grant? ing of 328,716 divorces, of which 129,382 were of couples with children. It is also a fact of general knowledge that untying . of the marriage knot is each year becom? ing more common. J ? A most destructive wind, rain and / hail storm passed over Morley, Mo., a ? few days ago. Hailstones as large as eggs fell, completely demolishing crops of every description. The wind blew a perfect tornado. The rain fell in such quantities as to completely inundate fields, drowning small stock. During the storm, which lasted about an hour, the darkness was appalling. It is believed the damage will reach $300,000. Fortunately no lives were lost. ? A railway train, at a continuous speed of forty miles an hour, would pass from the earth to the moon in a little more than eight months; to the planet Venus, in twenty-one and a half yoars; and would reach the sun in two hundred and sixty odd years. A ray of light will pass from the moon to the earth in a tri- . fie over a single second; from Venus to the earth in a little more than two min? utes, and from the sun to this little Zi sphere of ours in about eight minutes. If this same comparison were applied to the fixed stars it would be still more start? ling. ? Mr. D. Pagin, a wealthy retired physician of South Bend, Ind., takes is? sue with Prof. Totten, of Yale College, as to the last dsy of grace and repentance for this generation. Dr. Pagin has made Bible chronology a careful study for many years, and has prepared an exhaustive work on the subject, which be hopes to give to the world at no distant day. He has written a letter in reply to Prof. Tot? ten. Dr. Pagin, by figures which he is satisfied in his own mind are beyond dis? pute, calculates that the end of time is 171 years in the future. ? The tower of a public building now in course of erection at Philadelphia is to be provided with a clock, which, for size alone, will be one of the marvels of the world. The centre of the dial (25 feet in diameter) will be 351 feet above the street. The bell is to weigh between 20,000 and 25,000 pounds and will be second in weight to the great Montreal Cathedral bell, which weighs 28,000 pounds, and it is calculated that its peal will be heard even to the most distant part of the city. Chimes similar to those of Westminister will be used, ringing at the quarter, half, three quarters and hour. The minute hand is to be 12 fee^and the hour hand 9 feet in length, ..nile the Roman figures on the dial will measure 2 feet S inches in length. ? "We Jews like republics," said an intelligent Russian Jew. "We are well treated in all the republics of the world. In the Republic of France we enjoy all our rights, and likewise in the Republic of Switzerland. In the Republic of the United State.3 we are on political equality with citi7ons of other races and creeds, and are at no disadvantage in business life. Tne Republic of Mexico protects the Je ws, and we are protected in all the Republic of South America. In Eng? land, which is as liberal as a republic, the Jews are under no disabilities, and you have heard of the Jewish lord mayors of the city of London. It is despotic Gov? ernments only that have persecuted the Jews and Russia is now the only auto? cratic Government in Europe. We waa>^ to see republics established in ailr the countries of the world, for the Jews feel that they can live safely in any repub? lic." ? _ A Pleasing Sense Of health and strength renewed arid of case and comfort follows the use of Syrnp of Figs, as it acts in harmony with nature * - to effectually cleanse the system when costive or bilious. For sale in 50c. and one dollar bottles by all leading drug* gists. ^