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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. LEAVING ANDEF LEAVIN RSON! 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 aud liberal-minded pcoplo, is certainly a hard pill for rue 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 compelled by the combined wishes of my partners to seek new fields of oonouest. I have to go to Augusta, Ga., to open a large Wholesale and Retail House, which will require all my undivided attention from this time forward. Now, in order to avoid paying large local freights from here to Augusta, we have determined on? A GREAT 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 61c. 15c. Towels for 8*c 20c. Towels for 121c. 25c. Towels for 15c. 75c. Linen Danyisk for 47he. 60c. Linen Damask for 35c. Napkins at half price. Dress Goods prices just half. Clothing slaughtered at your own price. We are badly overstocked in Shoes?in Children's in numbers 10, 11, 18 and 1; in Ladies 3, 3?, 4 and 4*; Men's 7, 8 aud 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-wide Sea Island 45 c. Window Curtain Scrim 45 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 Ely Caps at 10c. The best Ginghams I at 7c. 10c. 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 Goodi, Clothing and Shoe Store will be sacrificed rather than ship the goods from here. Six Show Cases, one Platform and one Counter Scales, aud 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 und 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. G. FLYNN, LEADER OF LOW PRICES, Red House, Granite Row. THAT'S THE WAY WE ARE SELLING. SHORT PROFITS NOW ALL WE EXPECT. ALL WE WANT. CARLOTS We will give you lowest WHOLESALE PRICES on FLOUR, CORN, HAY, BRAN, OATS, &c, &c. AEJIOTTE & CO'S. WHOLESALE AGEflTS FOE HAMS, MEAT. LARD, CA MED MEATS. LOWEST CHICAGO PRICES made on Cases aud lots weighing one kv ired pounds and over. PATENT KLOTJRS. Our BALLAR?S LIME BIRD FLOUR the best in America for the price. Try a Barrel. No Firm Can Sell you TOBACCO as Low as we Can. for Infants and Children. "CastortaisuoTvolla'Inptv?! to children that I Cnxtorla cures Colic, Constipation, I recommend itaa superior lontiy prescription ??.'!)r ??'."'""><. Diarrhea. Eructation, ; . * . . Vt i. 9 hi"* V. units, gives sleep, aud promotes di kaown to me. II. A. Ar.cnr.iv 31. !>., B grstion, 111 So. Qsfurd St.. llr'^oklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious medication. Tub Ce.stauk Company, VV Murray Street, !?. V. COTTON GOING HIGHER. WE we glad to be able to inform nur friend* iiml customers Hint Cotton is lionml to go up, if you will not he in l?<> loir, :t hurry t-> soli. In tin1 mcimriiiHi jr\i run buy all kinds of? <3-i*o?ci*i?'K, Firoworks sin?! Xnuis Cioixlss Of all kinds as cheap or cheaper than anywhere in Town from? Y'.urs?. will, ''iii-'k- for past |??tronngo, w, TAY^O? -V CO, Teja?he^'Goujmn, All Communications intended for this 'Jol?mfi should bo addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An dorson, S. C. MEMORY GEMS. The man who is anxious to do rigbt has friends in Heaven who want to help him. If you have never tried to make any? body happy you have no idea how far you are away from Heaven. The fact that a man wants knowledge is proof that he has some already. SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY. If the citizens of Anderson and Ander? son County let slip the opportunity to secure the Industrial School for women, they will illustrate the old sayiog "penny wise and pound foolish." Like the Air Line Railroad, such opportunities are not always before a community, and con? sequently they must be seized as they pass, or they are gone forever. There may never be another occasion that offers so much, both in education and pecuniary advantages. It must be seized now or elBe be lost forever. This affords the golden opportunity for this section of the country, and we trust our people will sec it, and put forth their very best efforts and most liberal offerings to secure it. Never did the following lines by Shakespeare apply better, than to this very occasion: "There is a tide in the affairs of mon, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to for? tune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full tide are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures." COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. Below we give the programme of the Commeucement exercises of the Female College of this place, which takes place on Friday eveuiug the 12th inst., in the Opera House. All are cordially invited to be present on this occasion. Mi3s Maggie Evans and her assistants have done a successful work: PROGRAMME. Chorus. Instrumental Duett?Edna DivveraDd Lizzie Cray ton. Recitation, "Cause"?Eloise Duckett. Instrumental Solo?Marian Taylor. Motion Recitation?Fosy Marshall. Instrumental Trio?Gertrude Jone?, Mary Sullivan and Sadie Watson. Calistheuics, wand drill and marcu. Instrumental Solo?Mrs. Laugblio. Recitation, "Seven Ages of Man"? Elma Osborne. Instrumental Solo?Daisy Barr. Recitation, "Brier Rose"?Eilleen Mauldin. Solo and Chorus by pupils. Instrumental Duett?Sudie Watson and Sadie Watsoc. Recitation, "Archie Dean"?Nellie McGee. Instrumental Solo?Eilleen Mauldin. Tambourine drill by eighteen girls in picturesque costumes. Instrumental Duett?Lilly Fant and Nellie McGee. Recitation, "Nora Brown's Sister's Wedding"?Emily Divver. Instrumental Solo?Mittie Tribble. Recitation?Moutie Riley. Chorus. Instrumental Duett?Mittie Tribble and Miss V. Evans. Those who attend may expect a very pleasant evening. DEFINITION OF EDUCATION. We will now attempt to give a defini? tion of education. Education, in its widest sense, is a general expression that comprehends all the influences which operate on the human being, stimulating his faculties to ac'.iuu, forming his habits, mo-ding his character, and makiug him what ho is.-- Though so powerfully affected by these influences, he may be entirely unconscious of them. They are to him as "the wind which bio weih where it listeth; but ho knows not whenco it cometh nor whither it goeth." They are not, however, less real on this account. The circumstances by which he is surrounded?the climate, the natu? ral scenery, the air he breathes, the food he eat?, the moral tone of the family life, that of the community?all have a share in converting the raw material of human nature either into healthy, intelligent, moral, and religious man, or, on tho con? trary, in converting it into an embodi? ment of weakness, stupidity, wickedness, and misery. Thus, external influences automatically acting upon a neutral na? ture, produce, each after its kind, the most opposite results. In this seuso the poor little gamin of our streets, who de? files the air with his blasphemies, whose thoughts arc of the di rt dirty,who picks our pockets with a clear conscience, has been duly educated by the impure atmosphere, the squalid misery, the .-ad examples of act and speech presented to him in his daily life?to be the outcast that he is. Such instances show the wondrous power of the education of circumstances. It is a noticeable characteristic of this kind of education, that its pupils rarely evince of their own accord any desire for improvement, ami are in this respect, scanrly distinguishable from barbarians. The savages >,( our race remain snvages, not because they have not the same orig? inal faculties as ourselves?faculties gen? erally capable of improvement?but be cau-ie they have tin desire lor improve- \ metit. Nature docs indeed furnish her children with elementary lessons. She teaches them the use of the .senses, lan? guage; and the qualities of matter, but site leaves llieiu t<? procure advanced knowledge for themselves, while-she im? plants in their mind neither motive nor desire for its acquisili >?. The differentia of the savage is, that I 'as rarely any wisit for self elevation. . -sad to think how many ravages of this kind we have still amongst ourselves! I lit I education ie conscious as well as uncotfcious S line cause or other sug? gests the desire for improvement. The teacher appears in the field, and civiliza? tion bfgioH iin qareor. Tho eivUmition ANDERSON, S. C. which we contrast with barbarism is sim? ply the result of that action of mind on mind which carries forward the teaching of Nature?in other words, of what we call education. Where there is no spe? cific conscious education, there is no civ? ilization. Where education is fully ap? preciated, the result is high civilization ; and generally, as education advances, civilization advances in proportion, and thus affords a measure of its influence. It follows, then, that all the civilization that exists is ultimately due to the edu? cator, including of course, the educator in religion. ^"Whatever," says Mr. J. S. Mill, "helps to shape the humau beiug, to make the individual what he is, or bin? der him from what he is not, is part of bis education."?Inaugural address ?V livered at St. Andrews. The Inhumanity or Man to Man. StTMTER, S. C, June 2.?The sensi? bilities of the citizena of Sumter have seldom experienced a greater shock than they have to day upon witnessing the conditiou presented by a squad of sixty seven convic's which have been lying over at the Coast Line depot here, en route for Columbia. In the whole batch there is not a single decent suit of clothc-s. Jackets, shirts and pantaloons are in latttrs, and nearly all are bare? footed. Fortunately it is warm enough for the prisoners to escape actual eutier? ing on this account. The Equad arrived here from Darling? ton about 11 o'clock this morning, by way of the C, S. & N. R. R., and will have to remain till they can be trans? ported further by the Coast Line. These convicts have been working down on the Fee Dee in the construction of the C, S. & N. road. Their work being finished for the present, Capt. C. E. Wheeler, who has had charge of them, broke up the stockade at 1 p. m. yester? day and came over to Darlington. The sick prisoners were brought in a wagon ; the others walked. Mr. R. H. Baker, bookkeeper for Louis McLane, who has charge of the construction of the road, came along with the guards, and informed the State correspondent to day that one of the prisoners, William Gray, died on the road to Darlington, of typhoid fever, with which he had been sick for some time. He was wrapped in a blanket and buried on the roadside. The State correspondent learns that the prisoners were fed just before leaving the Pee Dee, aud after their arrival in Darlington in the evening, but since then have been given no food by the State au? thorities. They left Darlington at 7 this morning without having eaten since the night before, aud have had nothing here either for dinner or supper except what was given in charity by the citizens of the place, who had learned of their con? dition. The convicts, it is stated, usually get meal and bacon furnished them, and sometimes beef. The food is cooked by the prisoners, the pots, etc., being kept in the stockade, and meals are dished out in pans three timea a day. These things have not been forwarded yet, and there will be nothing for the men to eat as long as they slay here, except what is given in charity. Mr. Baker and Mr. Weeks each gave one of the convicts uO cents aud sent him up town to buy a dollar's worth of bread. This made the midday meal for sixty seveu negro meu. This evening some negroes iu the neighborhood of the depot cooked some victuals aud sent them over. The people here are horrified at such a state of things. Nothing of this kind was ever heard of a year ago, when the auperiuteudeucy of the Penitentiary was in other hands, though the same equad lay over here for some time. There eurely must be something wrong. The peoplo of Sumter believe in economy, but not in starvation. One of the meu is a paralytic, and has been for mouths, yet he has been kept at work on the road; two others have dropsy, and one has a severe wound on the knee.? Columbia Slate. Farmers South and West. We wonder if the Alliance leaders ever stop to think about, aud discuss the cross purposes to which they are striving. For instance, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa and other Western farmers are contending for an adjustment of trade so that they can get a bigger price for their corn, wheat, pork, beef, etc., which they have to sell to consumers in the States that do not produce them. On the other hand, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, .Mississippi and other Soulhern States that raise cot? ton, potatoes, watermelons, etc., are con? tending for such an adjustment of trade as will enable them to realize a better price lor their produce and at the same time enable them to buy Western pork, corn, wheat, beef and the like for less money than they now pay. The Missis? sippi, Alabama and other States South want Tennessee mules for less money, while the Tennessee farmer is bent on getting more money for his mules than he is now getting from these notion rais? ers. Florida wants belter prices fur her oranges, and Tennessee is bound to have at least a couple of dollars more per bar? rel for potatoes that go to Florida. The Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia farmer, pay too high for their field seeds, while the North, which supplies them, kicks against the price of strawberries and tomatoes. And so this game of cross purposes goes on and on, and the Polks, Macunes and other ollice seeking leaders have never made a suggestion a sto how these farmers in different sections! of the country are to improve their respective Conditions?Xathrifk Amerimn. When you're languid and dull in the Spring of the year, When stomach and liver are nil out of gear, When you're stupid at morn and fever? ish at night, And nothing gives relish and nothing goes right, hon't try any nostrum, elixir, or pill, "Gnldcn .Medical discovery" insl fills the bill. The surest and best of all remedt s for all disorders of the liver and blnnl, is '>r. Pierce's Golden Med ten I ftiiwrovery.. , THURSDAY M0K1N RILL ATU"S CHAT. The Women anil Children Kmjdoyed in JFnctoricH, Atlanta Constitution. The pictures in last week's Youth Companion?Mny 21st, of the poor sew? ing women of Boston are not so bad as the Georgia factory girls in the Century, but the description of their miserable condition is worse and arouses the most intense pity and indignatiou in the mind of every reader. Is it possible that such inhumanity to helpless women and chil? dren is allowed in a Christian laud '? We do not know Fletcher Osgood, but he seems to be well accredited by the pub? lishers of that great Boston paper, and as the scene is laid in Boston wo take it for granted that he has uot overdrawn the painful picture. The head line says, "Starved and Hopeless Lives." Mr. Os? good has been investigating and tells us of sixty contract shops in Boston that are operated by liussian or Polish Jews in the manufacture of ready made clothing. Their workrooms arc in the cheapest old buildings that can be found in the worst sections of the city. Some of the shops are reached by six or more flights of stairs, and are invariably foul with accu? mulated litter and dirt. The rooms are crowded with toiling women and girls, with here and there a boy. The atmos phero is fetid and fatal to health. The workers have an art of suppression about them such as characterizes a gang of prisoners. The majority of these workers arc American?, their ages from seventeen to thirty, but there were some women of fifty-five and some girls not over twelve. They were poorly dressed, many of the faces drawn and haggard, and the expres? sion hard and sad. The work hours are from 7 o'clock in the morning to ft o'clock in the evening, with forty-Live minutes for luDch at noon. The most expert girls earn as much as So a week in the busiest Beasou, but their average wages are from $2 to ?4 a week. The exacting oversight of the bosses force these workers to an unnatural tension, and then there is the fetid air, the abounding dirt, the forced associations of the girls with men of unclean habits and filthy speech, and the lowering of the moral tone of the females. No girl is free to "look up from her work," and a minute late loses her half a day. But the girl's can't stop, not for a day, to look for a better place. If they do they are boycotted, and can't get work anywhere. Some of the bosses have a way of "'slowing" the clock so as to get extra time out of tbn girls. The foreign? ers are all filthy and use bad language, and the girls cannot escape it. Some of the girls won't tell where they live. They are ashamed to. They find rooms in old dusky attics in bad localities. They can't keep up but a;few years at most, and then they die of overwork and destitution. This is an abstract of Mr. O.-good's sketch?of these starved and hopeless lives?these human machines, whose daily work is killing the body and starv? ing the soul?these creatures of God from whom "hope has withering fled and mer? cy sighed farewell." Sixty factories in Boston?how many more in New York and Brooklyn and Chicago and Cincin? nati ? Will history keep on repeating it? self? It is less than fifty years since Tom Hood wrote "The Song of the Shirt," and now in cultured Boston it fits the time and the place a3 well as when he said: Stitch, stitch, stitch; In poverty, hunger and dirt. SI * # Sowing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And llesh and blood so cheap. Women and children working, as pris? oners work for crime, and no hope of a better time coming. When farmers feel that they are oppressed they cry aloud, and their wail is heard from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. But tho poor and friendless arc too weak to cry. They can't be heard as far as the nearest Church. Compared with the wretched women and children the poorest farmer in Eartow County is a prince, for he always has enough to oat? And the sky is above his hoad, And the grass beneath his feet. He is a freeman and cringes not be? neath the tyranny of any man, much less under the frown of a liussian or a Polish Jew. Friends, Americans, countrymen, can such things be and we bo silent ? It matters not where such suffering and mis? ery arc found?whether in the workshops of Boston or the factories of the north or of the south?let our philanthropic men and women seek it out and cry aloud and spare not. Georgia has her trusted agents who are always guarding and protecting her prisouers from inhumanity, but who is to protect those who have committed no crime? It takes a great heart to do it, for it is an assault upon capital?an accu? sation, an arraignment of the rich at the bar of public opinion. It is said that Yanderbilt once exclaimed, "The public be d?d," but tho public won't be d?d. Public opinion is a mighty river, and sometimes overflows its banks and sweeps everything before it. Illiteracy is not the question before iih now. Iiis never the question with the' poor ami the oppressed! Slow, pitiless, wasting death that stare-1 one in the face every day is not concerned about reading or writing. Bread is the first thing. Good food, good clothing, gocd shelter, some fresh, pure air to breathe, some medicine for the Kick and a decent burial ! for the dead conies before bonk;'. If many of these pour girls need reform in their morals, begin with their temporal wants. Hunger and rags won't hear preaching. A hospital is a good thing j for the forlorn and desperate, cases, the | sick and the dying, but the great work is j to do away with the necessity of the ho.*- I pita), iSenility work and fair wages and | comfortable homes will do it. God said to Cain : "The voice of thy brother's blood cries unto me from the ground." And it seems lo me that tho wrong- of the suffering poor and every death in their miserable homes cry unto (Jod against us. Then let the investigation go on, the search, the ariaiiigmenl ami the reform. Il is a lonely, pitiless task. Hut one man in all Kiiglaud was found who would dare visit the prisons and cry out for re? form, Mut .lohn Howard did it, null he TNG, JUNE 11, 189 reformed them all aud brought blessings to thousanda of tho oppressed; Our peo? ple read the papers eagerly to see Lhc lost big advertisement of cheap goods. Cheaper and cheaper they get every week-, especially clothing for men and for women. Fine linen bosom shirt:! for 49 cents. How cheap! we all exclaim? we must buy some?how eau they afford them at that price ? These sewing women can tell you. I never sec one of these displayed advertisements, but what I feel a pain, a shadow and another verse of Hood's song conies over me : Oh, men with sisters dear, Oh, men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you arc wearing out, But human creatures' lives. The newspapers tell U:< there is to be a third party and its watch-word will bo. "Down with the plutocracy." Does that mean relief for the poor and friendless? the sewing women, the factory girls, the starved and hopeless in the slums of the great cities?or is it just for the farmers and the politicians? Who are the pluto? crats, anyhow. Am I one? Arc you one? I am rich, compared with Cobe. Maybe I am his plutocrat. My nabor Munford is mine aud Joe Brown is his aud Jay Gould is Joo Brown's. Every man is a plutocrat to somebody. When the downiug begins I reckon wo will all go to wrestling and try to down somebody else. I'll give. Cobe a powerful tussle be? fore he shall down me, but I'm afraid to tackle Munford. I think I will let him keep what he has got, if he will promise not to get any more. Now, if the new party will put tlieae poor toilers and bread winners on the middle plank in their platform and pro? vide homes for them and good work and living wages, I will join it. There are over 2,000,000 of them, according to the census?2,000,000 of people who live by the day and have no comforts, no spare time, no re3t, no medicine, no delicacies when sick, and no privileges when well. Tariff reform and the free coinage of sil? ver are nothing to them, but every cent that is added to the price of cotton or corn or potatoes is something to them. It makes their food and their clothing cost just that much more. Six months ago corn was 50 cents a bushel?now it is si, and the poor are paying it- BuL I reckon the new party will fix it up some? way so that the farmers can get a big price and the poor pay a little one. The plutocracy ought to be made to do some? thing? something fur suffering humanity. Boston is the richest city in the United States. She has over $1,000,000,000 of wealth according to the last census? ?more than $2,000 per capita. New York has less than $1,000 per capita, sud yet there are G,000 sewing women aud girls in Boston whose shivery is more pitiful than the worst fabrication in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Talk about literacy and illiter? acy?what docs it prove ? What is edu? cation worth if it does not make people better? An eminent New York preacher said the other day that great wealth was the curse of the city churches. They gave of their money freely, but it was like buying indulgences to commit sin. Their hearts were not in the prayers nor the preaching, nor in the Christian work, but were .-hut up in their pockets. When he tried to interest them the substance of their reply was: "How much money do you want?" Now, if the plutocracy will do that much, the poor will let them oil'. Let the preachers go to them, and keepgoing aud plead fur charity. It is a bigger thing than trying Dr. Briggs for heresy, or Dr. Woodrow or any other doctor. There is no time for abstrue theology now. It is the day of practical Christianity, such as was preached and taught and acted by the friend of humanity. Frieuds, coun? trymen, north and south, let us awake to the loug smothered cry of the poor. Plutus was the ancient god of wealth. He was a very meau sort of a god, for he distributed his gifts without regard to merit. Iu fact, he didn't like to give at all, but Jupiter forced him to divide oat his money ns fust as it accumulated. When he approached a person to make a gift he was lame- and slowiooted, but when he left him to go back to his treas? ures he unfolded a pair of hiddeu wings aud flew away. Some of our plutocrats are well named, for it is like drawing their eyeteeth to get any charity out of them. But after all, there is .something to be said iu the aver? age rich man's favor. None of them are misers, that I know of. They do not hoard and hide aud keep their money to count and look at. The Astors build more houses to rent aud that mr.kes rent cheaper. Jay Gould builds more rail? roads aud pushes them farther and farth? er into the wilderness, and that opens up new territory for the emigrauts, the mi? ners and the caitie men. I never knew a commuuity but what begged for a rail? road, and I never knew one but what made war upon it as scon as they got it. There are many plutocrats in Atlantik and Chatlauooga, but my observation is their money iu always doing good work. It is building houses or railroads, or invested iu ironworks or manufactories of some kind, and giving employ men I to labor. If there were no rich men, there would Le no progress; It certainly is no .-.?in to get rich ;i it is done fairly. Every man would get rich if he could. 1 would I know. I have got r. gold lot, ?u called, that I have owned fur thirty years, and if I Cuiiid sell it fo: $10,000 it seems to me that 1 would be quite happy. Iu fact, I would tejn.ee to get $"?,000?and rather than break a trade $500 would make me feel calm aud serene. There are thousands of rich men who came by their money honestly. Elias Howe invented the sewing machine after years of thought and experiment and the sacrifice nl every dollars woilh ot his property. It proved a blessing to the world and $?,?0?,000 in his pocket. Mc Conniek did tiie same thing with hi? reaper. In both cases lhc world got value tie received and iias no right to begrudge them their money. Some men get rich by good luck, i know a man who used to be poor and hard run, but his father in-law left him twelve acres of poor, marshy land in the suburbs of old Bir? mingham. It was thought to he worth $1,000 that time, but he sold it a lew years ago on the bulge of the boom for $2oO; 1)00. There is nothing wrong about thai', is there? And yet he is now a plutocrat. Moore ?n?l Marth und Ihe K'ineri ?.?d 1. : ICcely ami Chamberlain raid High and Scott and Winkle ami many others have worked hard and long and gotten rich, but who dares say they are not entitled to their earnings? Put yourself in their places and say. It is only the money ob? tained by fraud that should excite our indignation, Then again there is n big pile of money made by the bulls and the bears ofl' of each other. They say that more than half of Jay Gould's for? tune was made of!' of the millionaires who tried to corner him and failed. That does not concern us except for the bad example. If half a dozen gamblers play poker in a room and one of them wins all the stakes it doesn't matter?tho outsiders are no poorer. Fortunes are sometimes inherited and there is nothing wrong about that. And so before we make a sweeping condemnation against the rich let us inquire how the money came. This cry of "down with the plutocracy" is an insidious, incendiary, revolutionary sen? timent and feeds the baser passions of mankind. The plutocrats may love money for money's sake, and that is a sin, but the envy aud covetotisness that would rob them are worse sins. But, after all it is better, safer and no? bler for a rich man to divide out liberally before he dies. George Peabody and Pe? ter Cooper are in heaven and their mem? ories are enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen, but if Jay Gould or Astor were to die to morrow nobody would care ?outside of their kindred. They have made no name yet that will endure?but it is not too lato. Maybe they will. Bir.i. Aur. A Sinking Hill. HARTFORDi May 27.?Jeremiah Tut tle, a wealthy farmer of Bloomfield, has a hill on his big farm in that town that is sinking into the bowels of the earth. Mr. Tuttle has a beautiful farm, most of which is in a normal condition There are great fertile meadows, wide reaches of noble forest and here and there spa cioua pastures in which his blooded cows graze on herbage that is almost knee deep. The queer sinking hid is one of the big pastures, in what Mr. Tuttle calls the "rock pasture." The grass is fiuerin that one than in any other pasture in the whole region. Exactly in the centre of the big lot is a hill, capacious of girth, but not more than twelve feet high. The oldest inhabitaut iu Bloomfield, vtho is upward of S5 years old, aHirni3 that the hill is as familiar with him as any room in his own home, for many BloomGeld people have been in the habit of taking a "short cut" home across Jerry's rock pasture, and that he never noted any? thing odd about the hill until lately. Now, since the hill is said to be sinking, Bloomfield people avoid the rock pasture, for they believed it is enchanted. A few weeks ago Mr. TuUle sent his hired man, Michael Flanuigau, who has worked on the Tuttle farm fur years, to the rock pasture with the cows, and in hall an hour Michael came home hur? ried with a startled luuk in his face. When he euteved the pasture, he said later, he stopped iu amazement, for he saw at a glance that the hill had gone dov/u into the earth several inches since his visit to the lot a day or two before. To be sure that his opinion of the hill was a correct one, he went close to it aud took an estimate of its height, Sighting across its top" at old-time aud trustworthy landmarks, and was satisfied it had gone down not less than ei^ht or ten inches After he had told his story, every one?Mr. Tuttle, too?guyed him mercilessly. But Michael doesn't drink, so he took the gibing good-naturedly, and persisted in affirming that his state? ment was correct. His earnestnesa finally impressed others, and Mr. Tuttle and some of the neighbors visited the rock pasture with Flannigan, whose declaration at once was seen to be true. The hill had sunk several inches since Michael's previous visit. Moreover, the hill is still sinking daily. Slowly aud persistently it is being swallowed up. It is now only a slight undulation in the lot. aud its top but a foot or two cbovc the rest of the laud there. What is the cause of the phenomenon no one attempts to explain, but the Bloomfield people are certain that within a week or two the hill will have entirely disappeared 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 prououriL-.d it a local disease, and prescribed lucal reme? dies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incu? rable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease, aud therefore re? quires constitutional treat incut. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on tho :inirket. It is taken internally in doses from lO drops tu a teaspoon ful. It act:' directly upon the bloud and mucous surfaces of the system. They oner one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure, ."rend fur circulars and testimonials. Addrc.-s, F. ,1. CHKXFV & CO.. Toledo, Ohio. So id by Druggist?, 7."> cents. ? It is bad policy to be too good to a man?it don't pay. He nearly always take.- advantage of it iu some way. ? Dentist: "A dollar, please." "A dollar forjust a minute's work ? The F>t dentist who pulled a tooth for me dragged me i'.roui.d his shop for half an hour and broke the tooili off twice, and he charged me only 7"< cents'." ~? The people of Alphareua, Ga., are waking u;> tri the fact that the L>i:o of the average frog is almost as dangerous that of the rattlesnake. The little son of Mr. Deveree, who v.a* bitten by n frog last week, i.- in a dangerous condition. A dog that was bitten by the same frog shows signs of hydrophobia. ? Cincinnati is c msiderably stirred up over the discovery that hundreds of i!l< gnl marriages have been contracted in lb at city, involving some of the pillars of society. The law reads that a minister may solemnize marriage s' while a regu Inr society or a congregation." Probate Judge Penis hold-? that if the minister resigns t>r i-< deposed ho losen hi-* privi - lego;and is under 'his view of the law tluil many e?iiple? fr?. 1?v*in unlawful Wcdiyck. VOLUM \ LOOK FORWARD, Tills Continent Will Some Day Sink Otil <>l Sifilit. A scientist-calculated lately thai if the people upon onr plp.net continued to in? crease at the same rale as they have for the past fifty years, they would have in? creased iu 1S1 years front the- preseut year to such an extent that the earth would not produce sufficient food to nourish all of this enormous population. This leads to the inquiry, how much of our plauet is really inhabited by our species at the present time? At tlie North Pole, from the meat northern point to a latitude of 'SO degrees, no habitation i-:- possible under our present changes of seasons in winter nor in summer. The island of Spitzbergen, also the peninsula of Nova Zenibla in the Eastern Hemis? phere, and from the center to the north of Greenland in our own hemisphere, aro very sparsely settled by hunters and seal? ers in the depth of summer, and even to the 70th degree of latitude the population is very sparse, and only exists in sum? mer, with the exception of the North Cape of Norway. This shows 2d degrees of latitude as almost altogether uninhab? ited by men upou this globe. From the 70th to the 00th degree, with the exception of Norway, a portion of Sweden, European Russia to the Ural mountains, the population is very sparse, as all through Siberia and Kamschatka. Upon our side of the globe very little population is found in Greenland, the northern British possessions, and Alaska. F.ven down to the 50th degree northern latitude we find in the Southern British possessions, Labrador and a northern part of Newfoundland very few peoplo upon an enormous area of land ! But upon the western part of our globe, Scot? land, England, Ireland, Denmark, Ger? many, Holland, Belgium, and the South? ern part of Russia contribute a very large portion of the people living at preseut upon our plauet! Down to the -10th degree of latitude France, the northern part of Spain aud Portugal to the center, almost the entire kingdom of Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, the Balkan peninsula, the ! northern pari of Ada Minor, with the entire Chiuese Empire and part of Japan, again furnish a very large contingent to the great army of men living upou this earth. Canada and the northern portion of the United Slates are also well popu? lated in the east, hut very sparsely in the west, as far as the JOtfc degree. When we proceed further down to the SOlh degree on oue side, we see the most popu? lated laud in the east and very thinly settled iu our western country. In the Western Hemisphere upon the same degree of latitude we find the same there; pr.rt of Spain aud Portugal, the island of Sicily, the Grecian isles, Asia Minor, Persia, Thibet, the south of China and Japan contribute largely to the pop? ulation of our globe. The great desert of Sahara exhibits a very large country almost uninhabited ; but Egypt, Arabia and India arc well represented with a very large number of people to the 2uth degree. Upou our side Mexico a;:J a part of the West Indes in the Atlantic, and the Sand? wich Islands, in the Pacific ocean, are all that we have of the solid land in a vast body of water Moating over the solid part of our eanh ; to the lG;h degree Central America and the Southern portion of the West Indes and Cape Verde Islands upou the western; and the Southern Sahara desert, the latter almost uninhabited, with a well-populated part of Eastern Africa, Southern Arabia, Iudia Asiamand thePhillippiue Islands, form all the solid laud upon the Eastern part of the globe. At last the equator shows us a sparse population in Central Africa, Sumatra, Boruea aud Celebes, upon the Eastern portion, and the Mar? shall aud Gilbert islands in the Pacific ocean, and the northern part of South America net much more populated than the tormer. The population from the equator to the 50th degree of latitude South, is very scant, raid with the exception of a nar? row strip upon the Pacific and Atlantic seaboards, large portions of this vast ecu tin er. t have never been explored by our Caucasian race. New Zealand and all the South Pacific groups of islands, fur? nish but a small portion of people to the total population upon our globe. Prom the ">0th degree of South latitude to the South Pole, with the exception of Terra del Fuego, and the Falkland islands, all is a waste of water, and all this Southern portion of our planet is in constant silence, as far as the voice of man is con? cerned. In the Eastern Hemisphere, from the Equator to the -P?ih degree, the .Southern part of the center of Africa, with the large islands or Madagascar, Java and New Guinea, mid the continent of New Hoiland, or Australia, furnish but a very small number of people to the population upon the earth, in proportion to their enormous area of very productive land. To the South of this degree the island of Tasmania, Crosetts islands, and ICergue . Ion Land are the only portion* of solid land, the rest ol the Southern portion of the Eastern Hemisphere being covered with water. 'ibiH we see that only a very small portion of our plane: is at present Inhabi? ted, aud nil the whole enormous surface of the land, risen abuve the water by I successive upheavals, containing about . lD2,0?0,U0O square miles, oniy abt ut ; i7,??i'.y:?.'<? are inhabited by a :?tal popu , lation of about S7O,?.H)0,0uu people, the ocean covering still about ;!0 l.OOfU'OU ? square miles. The best portions ol Africa, the Southern portion of the great liussian Empire, the South Pacific Islands, thehirgest part of the continent of Australia. North America westward ;.:!.! pretty much all South America can be made just as productive a* the present European Slates aud a portion ol the United Slates, and thus, in spite of n'A llie great prospective increase of our present population, the earth can be made to produce sullicient food to nourish all the coming generations for thousand of : years to come, until the next flood sh:.!l send the waters from the Southern hem? isphere to the northern, covering once I more the solid hmd in lhc north, and only allow the chains of mountains (<t I show ,h,.'ir topi abuve itie surging .fi?.?^! E XXV.- -NO. 49. as they do mow iu the vast Southern Pacific ocean, giving still tangible evi dencoof the universal Hood upon our k planet. It equinoxes proceed one-nail ^ second a year southward beyond the"'. Tropic of Capricorn, the tropics will be * across the present South Pole in about 2C,fiO() years from the present, causing the next universal flood. At ihat time the United States will be a surging sea, whose wateis will wash high up to the ton of the Rocky mountains. The latter will then form a continuous group ofj islands from Central America to Gyr Uathurst. A few of the highest peafcs ?* the Allegltauies and of the Appalachian I mountains may reach just above the wJS^/ of waters, covering with ;thousands fathoms all our cities, railroads, a?d great monumental structures, and all the signs of a busy and progressive civilized life," and of the arts of man will be destroyed. The mighty Mississippi, Ohio, Missou? ri, Cumberland and Hudson Rivers will flow no more among the thirsty farms and happy abodes of men, but all will be ' desolation after they have been obliterat? ed by the immense northward surging and all-destroying flood. In its turn, the bed of the South and Middle Paciflc ocean will be laid dry and form vast continents. Here new rivers will commence to flow and form their primal courses to the sea. Veg tion will spring up, and year after ycfP will contiuue its usual resurrection upon the time of the vernal equinox, as it does in the present year, and as it has been wont to do in our latitude for thous? ands of years. Then, after a great many years, the foot of man will press again this virgin soil, and man will briDg with him his sorrows and his joys, and begin again his fight for existence between hope and fear until the end.?Brooklyn Union. All Sorts of Paragraphs, ? When fruit falls, it indicates los3 of fertility in the soil. ? As a rule, eat less and work more, and you will feel better. ? In prosperity wo know not our friends. Adversity gives our enemies a chance. ? Capt. William Bruce, of San Fran? cisco, has just cut his third set of teeth at eighty-two. ? Whenever a man concludes that he has got enough religion it is a sure sign that he hasn't got any. /.'?-Men are more afraid of ?rhat somebody may say or think abou!. them than they are of cannon balls. ? The time when the devil finds it the hardest to get hold of a Christian is when he is busy for the Lord. ? The mau who has a kind word for everybody dees more good than a surely cne could do with money. ? Two million and a half is the nu ber of persons who are said to work on Sundays in this country. ? Iu Italy twenty thousand people live in cedars. Many laborers there average only twenty-five cents a day. ? There are now 200 regularly ordain? ed women preachers in the United States, where forty years ago there was only one. ? Why does an old toper always close his eyes when taking a drink? Because he don't want to see the bottom of the glass. ? A mahogany tre- j lately cut down in Honduras, Central America, made three logs, which sold in Europe for $11,000. ? A new boot cleaning machine cleans boots at the rate of a pair a minute, acd is worked iu the same manner as a sewing machine. ? Ex-Governor St. John pronounces the third party a "whiskey party." This was because it foiled to put in a prohibi? tion plank. ? By the way, speaking of an eight hour day, we notice that farmers, railroad and newspaper meu arc working eighteen hours a day, as usual. ? A fierce hyena escaped from a cir? cus iu Sumpter County, Ga., and has made dogs missing, terrified the negroes and excited the populace generally. ^~ ? Of the 1,-jOO abandoned farms in New Hampshire two years ago, G00 have been purchased by wealthy people who desire pleasant summer homes. ? Save the egg shells, put them into the oven and burn them brown; then raa-h them up fine and mix with the feed. It is healthy and beneficial to the fowls. ? No less than 17,000 young girls and women; homeless, friendless, helpless and food less, sleep in the open-all-night shelters of Stepney Green, London, in a year. . ? ? "Papa, why do they always call a railway train'she?'" "Because it takes three or four men to manage her, my son," replied Mr. Dawdle, glaring towards his wife. ? A Now York girl was rendered no 1 desperate by ac attack of the grip that she attempted suicide Iwice, aud failing i.\ this she attempted mr.Lrimouy aud succeeded. --A native of Syria, who is now New York, has invented a process manufacturing silk from the leaves twigs of the mulberry tree wit :.i-.i of silk worms. ? - At the close of a long pr father who hail prayed for a pr his son said : "Father; if I had . wheat in the bar:: as you have got now, 1 would answer that prayer myself." ? There is a mocking bird in Katon toii, Ga., that can talk and whistle "Johnay, Gel Your Hair Cut," and, iai fad, any simple tune which anyone" hum.-, or whistic to it as an example. ? .1. i.. Watkins has been ticket agent oi i!:e Uur?ngton at Mendota, III., for^ thirty years, the greater portion of whicl lime he has spent in his uiiico, acting night agent as weil :.; day agent. It; averted that in ail this time hehasnj riddcr, on (hecars am as ''ever stej| abo.-.rd a train until .. n?v, wlW wa ? sub| ii-nai .1 as a w mess in a law sufl i' Wheat' v.. III., am! was obliged is. A flensing seilte Of health arc' strength renewed an1 c:- -e and comfort follows the use of Syrup of Figs, as it acts in harmony with naturej to effectually cleanse the system wj costive or bilious. For sale in -5*1 one dollar bottle* by all 'ending drj gists,