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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. LEAVING ANDERSON I 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, hut circumstances have so ordained it, when I thought .the winter of my declining years would be spent in this paradise of health And prosperity; hut now, with heavy tread and downcast spirits, I must and am compelled by the combined wishes of my partners to seek new fields of conauesL-. I have to go to Augusta, Ga., to open a large Wholesale and Retail House; which w^ require all my undivided attention from this, time'; forward. 7%3Spw, in order to avoid paying large local freights from here to Augusta, we have determined on? 1 gIeat 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 8ic. * . 20c. Towels foEl2Jc I .25c. Towels for 15c. 75c. Linen Damask for 475c. . 60c. Linen Damask for 35c. -? Napkins at half price. JDres3 Goods prices just half. t-h. Clothing slaughtered at your own price. We are b?dly overstocked in Shoes?in Children's in numbers 10,11,13 it-.andl; in Ladies 3, Zi, 4 and 4J; 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-wide Sea Island 4Jc. Window Cnrtain Scrim 4}c. Lace Curtains half price. White Counterpanes away down. 10c. Socks and Stockings at 7Jc. r ; Chair Tidies half price. White Laundried Shirts 50c. on the dollar. Ladies' Jerseys at half price;' also Notions, Gloves, Hamburg Edging {SSea, Scarfs. Table Oil Cloth 15c. 35c. Nelly Bly Caps at 10c. The best Ginghams at 7c. IOq. 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. AH 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 Geotlemen 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. ?c Respectfully, D.G.FLYM, LEADER OF LOW PRICES, .l i^i ?efl House, Granite Eow? ? .~ 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 FLOUR, CORN, HAT, BRAN, OATS, Ac, &c. ARMOUR & CO'S. WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR ^ HAMS, MEAT, LARD, CiMED MEATS. J0? LOWEST CHICAGO PRICES made on Cases and lots weighing one haadred pounds and over. PATENT FLOURS. Our BALL ARB'S BLUE BIRD FLOUR the best in America for the price. Try a Barrel. No Firm Can Sell you TOBACCO as Low as we Can. BROWN BROS. CASTOR IA for infants and Children. " Caa torla Is so well adapted to children that i Cantoris cares Colic, Constipation, known to me." H. A. Akcheb, M. p., J gestion, *\ 111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious medication. Thjs Cssrxxvu Company, 77 Murray Street, If. T. cotton coing higher. "1X7" ? are gUd to be able to inform our friends and customers that Cotton is bound to Y?*'- ??? go up, if yon will not be in t?o big a harry to sell. In the meantime ycu can buy all kjnds.of? . Groceries, Fireworks and Xmas Goods Yhore in Town from? k ftanJcs for past patronage, E, W. TAYLOR & CO, Qf all kinds as cheap or cheaper than anywhere in Town from? Yours, witk Mianlce for past patronage, TflA?H?l$'?0I,?MN, All communications intended for thisC?olumn should be addressed to Ci WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. 0. MEMORY GEMS. * * * "To thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day. Thou can'st not be false to any man." "Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou bttt thine." Teachers, write for this column during 1 vacation. Send me . some good sugges? tions for next years work. I would suggest to every teacher to get ' a good work on school management and read it during vacation, and practice it during next session. V7e regret our inability to attend the closing exercises of the schools at Pen dleton and Lebanon. But our promise was out for that evening before we were notified of the time. The Commencement exercises of the Honea Path High School, notice of which was given in this paper last Week, afforded an occasion of great pleasure to those who were present. The house was crowded to the overflowing at each hour of this literary feast. Prof. Watkins and the pupils and patrons and friends of his school should feel greatly encour? aged by the success during the session just closed, and in the closing exercises. There is no power that surpasses the influence of education in elevating and civilizing a people. We do not mean in this connection to refer to higher educa? tion, but to the education obtained in the common schools. Give all the peo? ple a good chance to get a common edu? cation, and then encourage them in some way to improve that chance, and yon will then boIvo the problem of a higher degree of morality and civilization. Help the masses to get an education, and encourage all who will to get a higher and better education. The hope of the country is in the education of the masses. The few will take care of themselves. Give us better common schools. On Friday night, the 5th inst., the closiDg exercises of Miss Hubbard's Home School took place in the Opera House. A very large audience were present to enjoy the occasion. The pro? gram from first to last was well selected, thoroughly prepared, aDd most admira? bly delivered. There is no doubt about MisB Hubbard's ability to train the hu? man mind. This she has fully demon? strated, and her closing exercises were only a confirmation of this already estab? lished fact. Mr. Gonzales, of Columbia, gave a very laughable and enjoyable fea? ture to the program?personating Jim Kinlaugh, colored. Mr. G. is certainly well up on the low country negro dia? lect. One of the most worthy and com? mendable parts of this occasion is that it was the beginning of an effort to raise funds and erect a monument to the mem? ory of Anderson County's fallen braves. For this Miss Hubbard has secured for herself and her school a warm place in the affections of the people of Anderson County. "_ THE PROPRIETY OF EDUCATION. The propriety and importance of a good and early education is not consid? ered by many, but let it be remembered whatever is learned in youth remains pierced for life; whereas what old people learn is like writing on the Band, which is washed out by the first rain There? fore, bend the tender miud, like a youDg branch, the way you would have it grow, otherwise it will be hard to effect by art, what would become easy and natural, if timely performed,-provided we are not to be governed on such principles as igno? rance and terror compose. Then we must insist on the opposite theory, viz: General information and proper motives, such as are noble in their nature, and calculated in their consequences to pro? mote the welfare of society, aud every one must strive to do his part, both in cultivating and practicing the work. The subject properly digested Bhows the propriety of inculcating the doctrine of first principles?our relation to God and man. Without this how shall people judge of natural justice aud moral obli? gations, or how perform their moral duties ? In proportion to the ignorance of the people, vice and imposition have ever abounded, whilst on the other hand in proportion as light has shown, true dignity of soul has appeared in a line of virtuoUB conduct, natural justice attended to, aud the moral government of the Su? preme Being acknowledged. In propor? tion as any nation of people have been just and good, bo prosperity has attended tbem; bub when their conduct haB been reversed, though God may have borne with them for a season, the day of their visitation will come at last. Walker C. Barnett. Denver Sc/ioolhouse, S. C. 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 di?ease, and prescribed local reme? dies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced 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 teaBpoonful. It acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the syBtem. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Soid by Druggists, 75 cents. ? From Georgia comes the story of a cat that has two bodies, the eame num? ber of mouths and seven legs. In other respects the feline is nothing out of the ordiuary. It lived but a short while af? ter birth, and has been preserved in alco? hol by its owner. ANDERSON, S. C, Attention? [The following is an essay which ?a? recently read before the Piedmont ?n ion Sunday School by Miss Emma All good, and which we have been requested to publish.?Editors.] Attention is enumerated with reaBon, imagination, memory and will, which are the most important powers of the mind. It is derived from two Latin words?ad, towards, and tendere, to stretch ; therefore its literal meaning is "a stretching towards." The act of attending or heeding; due appreciation of the ear to sounds, of the eyes to visual objects, or of the mind to any objects presented to its contemplation, is atten? tion, says Mr. Webster. Let's see if this is true. Suppose We enter a place of worship, where only a few have assembled for the purpose of engaging in Sunday School work, and occupy a pew far back in the rear so we can talk and laugh during services. Will we gain anything by bo doing? Nothing, nothing at all. Sup? pose the next Sunday we go up nearer the front, join one of the classes and give our attention to the reciting of the lesson. Will we gain anything by doing this way ? Yes, we will get a new idea or two. Mr. King says he never entered a Sunday School in his life but that he got a new idea. He is getting to be quite an old man, aud has entered a great many Sunday Schools. If older people can get new ideas at a Sunday School, would not children get ideas there; too? Then will it not be a good plan for parents to go to Sunday School every Sabbath and carry their children along with them, too ? It has been said by some one that it is impossible to do any great work without giving attention to it. If this be true, will it not be best for us to give attention to the smaller things, as the larger things are composed of smaller ones ? If the gentleman who translated the first Bible into English had paid no attention to the construction of the sentences, might he not have made their meaning quite different from what they are? Then look at the many errors that would have been made. Should we pay any atten? tion to fun-making or nicknames? To illustrate that we should not, here is a little true story: In a certain country there were two schools near each other. Some of the pupils of one of the schools nick-named the pupils of the other "Pos? sum Trot." One little boy said to his teacher one day, "those people had bet? ter, not call me 'Possum Trot,'" The teacher told him that they could not hurt him by calling him by nick-names. The little fellow studied a little while and then said: "No, they will hurt them? selves more than they will us?" The teacher says "yes." Then the little boy seemed to be thinking again, and directly' he looked up into his teacher's face and said: "They may be just talking to our Bhoes anyway, mightn't they?" The teacher told him yes, and thought that this was a bright idea. When we hear any one making fun of us when we do the very best we can, or calling us by nick names, would it not be a good plan to do as if they were talking to our shoes, which care not how much fun is made of them, nor what they are called, but go along the same as before ? When we walk along very near a prec? ipice, if we pay no attention where ne step, we will not go very far until down the precipice we will tumble. Just so, if we never pay any attention to our Sun? day School lessons, nor our Bibles, will we not fall down that precipice which leads into everlasting punishment, where we must forever dwell with Satan aud his angels ? Give your attention to that which is good, but to that which is bad do not give your attention, How can the atten? tion of a Sunday School class of "talka? tive" young men and young ladies be ob? tained ? When two young men or two young ladies are seen talking in the clasB, will it do to speak roughly to them and tell them to pay attention to the lesson ? This may not prove to be the best plan. Here is a way that has been tried, and one that proved to be tolerably good. Ask one of the talkers an easy question in the lesson, just as if you did not know they were talking. If they do not Btop talking, ask some one else a question and then ask the other one something else. If they will talk on in spite of the ques? tions, speak to one of them about the talking in a friendly way after Sunday School is over. Memory is dependent upon attention, therefore, if we want to remember our Sunday School lessons, or what is done at the Sunday School Union, or anything else, we must give our attention to the reading, questions and answers of the lesson, to the proceedings of the meeting, or to whatever it may be, must we not ? Every person has some influence, either for good or evil, over some one else. How careful then we should be to give our whole attention to that which is good, knowing that only we shall derive benefit thereby, but that some one of our neighbors will be benefited, too! Would that every one would think more about what Paul Bays in the last verse of the eighth chapter of first Corinthians: "Wherefore, if meat maketh my brother to offend, I will eat no more flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." If we want our Sun? day Schools, Union Meetings and all other meetings to be interesting, will tbiB not be a good way to make them so? give attention to what is being said and done, and do a little ourselves ? Emma Algood. May 26, 1891. ? The drinking man knows what ho ia about until he is about drunk, and then he thinks he is sober. ? The Hebrew Journal publishes a long list of Jewish institutions in New York city. The list includes thirty places of worship, twenty charitable institu? tions, eight benefit societies and seven clubs and libraries. According to tho Hebrew Journal, 158,000 Eussian Jews have come to New York city, a number, which, it says, is equal to the rest of the Jewish population here. By these esti? mates there must be about 300,000 Jews in the city; but perhaps tho estimatea are too high. THURSDAY MORIS BILL ARP'S GHAT. Atlanta Constitution, I am going in search of liberty. Twenty-six years ago about this time the old soldiers were dropping in upon their old homes?some on foot and some on old army mules that were too poor to utter a decent bray; These old veterans were so changed that their wives and mothers hardly knew them. Unshaved, unshod, unwashed, ragged and tired they were a pitiful contrast to their own pictures when they first went forth to war. If it were not sad it would be funny to say that they reminded us of Falataff, who said of his soldiers i "There's not a shirt and a half in all my company." Ab they dropped in On the old homesteads most of them found Bomebody dead?a mother, a wife, a sis? ter, ot perhaps a child?and the poor fel? low would sit in the old split-bottomed chair and listen and sigh as the tale of sorrow was rehearsed. There is more of tender, touching reality about the return of the veterans to their humble, desolated homes than will ever be told in history. Within the limits of the Sherman belt they found nothing as they left it. There were no horses or mules or cattle or hogs, The fences had been burned?the once happy fields were growing up in weeds and briars. The tires were off the wagon wheels, the plows worn out, the corncrib empty, the bagging had rotted off the cot* ton bales that had been packed three years before. A bushel of corn was a granary, and was kept hidden from the deserters and robbers of both armies, who infested the country. Crumbling walls and lonesome chimneys marked the home of those who fled before the march of the foul invader. But there were thousands of the' old and helpless and the widows and orphans who had to stay, for they had nowhere to go and nothing to go in. Many of them were like Cobo says he was: "Had nothin' and nothin' to get nothin' with and nothin' to put it in," and when he moved from one place to another he started his wife and children ahead in a drove, and then he put out the fire and called the dog and followed them. But these war worn soldiers were al? ready hardened to toil and trouble. They smiled at peace and poverty, and comfort? ed their families with love and hope and determination. No more was heard the midnight order, to get up and march. No more the rattling of musketry or the booming of cannon. No more the famil? iar news that "old Bob Lee had whipped 'em again." These soldiers went to work. It did not take long to make an inventory of what was left. There was no corn for the mules, but there was grass. What they would dp for bread was the most se? rious question, for they had no money. There was none in the country except Confederate, and a bushel of that would not buy a bushel of potatoes. For two or three months they bad struggled along, and divided out their subBtance and lived; yes, lived and sometimes laughed and told an army joke, or a aickly, measly anec? dote on old Bob, or old Tige, or old Rock. But slowly and surely the supply of hid? den corn was giving out. Lean and hun? gry fingers were scratching the bottom of the sack, when all of a sudden?yes, just in the nick of time I received a letter, a good, kind, sympathetic letter that had come 1,000 miles, and in it was a check ?a bank check for $3,000-$3,000 in greenbacks, and it was to buy corn for the poor who lived in the fiery belt?that let? ter came from Liberty, away up in Mis? souri, north of Kansas City. It was to us an amazing charity. There was not $100 nor 100 bushels of corn within fifty miles of us. The letter gave us the names of good men in St. Louis who would send us the corn without commission, and we or? dered it at once and divided it out with five counties and put good old Tom Perry in charge of it. Rome was our Egypt, and Tom was our Joseph, and they came every day to get their share. Poor con? federate widows walked for miles with their little sacks; wagons were patched up and hauled for a settlement. There was no leakage or ratage or stealing. The corn was bought at 35 cents a bushel, and the freight was put at half price. What a glorious gift was that. But where was ? Liberty, and what kind of a people lived there, and how did they hear of our des? titution ? That was the question. For four long years our Boldier boys had been fighting for liberty and failed to find it, and now in our despair and desolation Liberty had found us and laid her treas? ures at our feet. And so I am going in search of Liber? ty. They have a college there?a time honored institution, and the young men have called me to come and dispense my wit and wisdom and I am going. Our people owe Liberty a debt and the inter? est has been running for twenty-six years, and all they ask is an hour's talk to the boys. I remember well the glad surprise when that check came, and a few days after a newspaper from Liberty that told how their people had heard of the desti? tution that was in the wake of the march to the sea, and how gladly and generously they raised $6,000 and scattered it along the line. To whom shall we send North Georgia's portion was the next question, and a crippled veteran by the name of McCarty, an Irishman, who had followed Sterling Price as long as he had two legs, rose up and said: "Gentlemen, I don't know but one man there, and his name is Arp, and I've been reading of his letters for live years, and I be d?d if I wouldn't trust him with all I've got." I have the paper yet, and that is one of the compli? ments I prize and one of the oatha I nev? er shuddered at. And so I am off in the morning in pursuit of Liberty. I have never been on Missouri soil, and I have been told that there is no region more generously southern than northwestern Missouri, and no region more blessed of heaven in soil and climate and beauty. I shall soon see for myself and write you. Bill A nr. Bncklen's Arnica Salve The best salve in the world for Cut?, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 conta per l os, For ea'e by Hill Bros. FING, JUNE 18, 189 THEY ENRICHED COOSAW* ?gly Monsters High Walked and Flow a Contrary Ago. "Reptiles as they are found in the world at the present day are hut degener? ate survivors of their kind as they existed in epochs long ago,'* said Prof. Cope to a wrilor for the Washington Slar. "The ?rst ropiile? of th? world made their ap; pearacce at the close of the paleozoic period, when the coal was in process of formation. They were all land animale. AmoDg them there were no flying crea? tures, no marine swimuiers, no gigantic types and no especially herbivorous kinds. "At the close of the coal-forming period there occurred a great emergence of land from the water and reptilian life rapidly spread and grew. The reptiles which had previously existed were all of one kind. Their remains are found in this country wherever the deposits in lagoonS; lakes and estuaries have been calculated for their preservation. "From this point of time, however, be? gan what may be appropriately called the epoch of reptiles. The paleozoic period was brought to a close by a great upheaval, due to the contraction of the earth's cruBt, by which the Allegha uies and the Ural systems were uplifted. "Then began what is called the 'meso zoic epoch,' during which the reptiles may be said to have run creation. That is to say, they were the highest order of beings at that time alive. What man is now the reptile was then?that is, lord of all existing things. Reptiles walked upon land, navigated the water, flew through the air and, In short, pursued every avenue of existence that is zoologi? cally conceivable. "Early in the mesozoic epoch there ap? peared marine reptiles which, though derived from land species, became more and more aquatic through the necessity of living in water, developing an that account swimming organs, etc. "Land reptiles also began to develop in huge proportions. Why they grew so big no one knows, but it may have been because they had no rivals in the struggle for existence; they had all they wanted to eat and naturally increased in bulk. At all events no creatures are known to have ever existed in this world compara? ble in size to these reptiles of ages ago. "What the mammals are in the scale of creation to-day the reptiles were in the mesozoic epoch. They swam the seas, climbed the trees and were most phenom? enal jumpers. Some of them even flew, While some were herbivorous, living upon plants, others were carnivorous preserving existence by devouring their vegetable-eating cousin. "The vegetarian reptiles were enormous beasts, often as much as seventy feet iu length. They afforded food for the car? nivorous reptiles, which were smaller than the herbivorous kind, just as lions and tigers nowadays are smaller than oxen. Though bigger, the vegetarian creatures usually had no armor nor weapons to defend themselves with. Their most powerful defense was a kick, which, delivered with a hind leg fifteen feet in length, was assuredly not by any means to be despised. The herbivorous reptiles ofthat epoch were mainly of three descriptions: "First was the biggest of all animals known to the world from the beginning thereof to the present day. Its name was the 'camarasaurus.' It went on all fours, and the vertebrse composing its backbone were holluw?mere shells, in fact?filled with warm air from the lungs, just as is the case with the bones of some birds to? day. Undoubtedly it lived in the sea, walking alone in water deep enough to cover its back. It fed upon the vegeta? tion along shore and its neck was long and crane like. "Other herbivorous reptiles of the same period had enormously long hind legs, on which they were able to wade far out into deep water after sea weeds and other food. These creatures were particularly extraordinary in point of their dental equipment, inasmuch as each of them had about 2,000 grinders to chew with, arranged iu magazines of 500 each, like cartridges. "Another specieB of herbivorous re tiles lived upon land, but they were bo powerfully armed that they were able to oppose a formidable defense against at? tack. Some of them had huge horns ou their heads like bulls, while others bore similar weapons above their noses, like the rhinoceri of to-day. So well able were they to defend themselves that they lived and multiplied in the same regions with the most ferocious of the carnivorous monsters. "Thus you will understand that there were three kinds of herbivorous giants iu the mesozoic epoch. There was the''cam? arasaurus,' which fed neck-deep along the seashore, its hollow backbone serving as a float and its solid legs and tail for auchors. Next was the kangaroo-like 'hadrosaurus,' which waded out upon its long hind legs into deep water in search of food, and finally there was the dan? gerous 'agathaumas,' with euormous horns. "The carnivorous reptiles of that won? derful age were more uniform in their structure. They were mostly built in the kangaroo style and of lighter frame. Early in their history there were aome of them with hollow bones, which were probably the greatest jumpers ever known among vertebrates. Certain varieties of these developed flying powers, with a spread of wing, if such it may be termed, of twenty feet from lip to tip. Some of these latter had teeth, while others were provided merely with peaks like those of birds, diving in the water for the fish on which they lived. Thus, you observe, there were land saurians, water Baurians and air saurians. "The so-called 'mesozoic epoch' was brought to a close by the cataclysm, due to contraction and subsequent crumpling of the earth's crust, which upheaved the Rocky mountains and the Andes on this hemisphere, and the Alps, Pyrenees, Balkana and Himalayas on the other side of the world. Incidentally to this tre? mendous alteration in the face of the earth, all these giant reptiles were wiped out of existence. This event opened what is called to-day the 'tertiary epoch.' It is in the tertiary epoch that we live now. At the beginning of this epoch lii9 L. only reptiles which survived were the snakes, lizards, turtles and crocodiles, all of them resembling closely thos.e ol their kind which exist to-day. Of the turtles t may be said that they represent the most ancient type of all vertebrates, resembling as they do the reptiles of their kind which existed so far back as the mesozoic era. There were sea tortoises during that epoch which measured 20 feet in spread of flippers, while some tertiary tortoises were not less big in body, measuring 12 feet from head to tail. "Reptiles have uot changed much since the opening of the tertiary epoch. Per? haps the most marded feature of their development is found in the poison glands of snakes, which are simply salivary glands modified. However, such reptiles as we find to-day on the earth, where once they reigned as the most highly developed beings, are but degenerate types of those which lived long ago." A Bostonian's Awful Discovery, Chicago, May 31.?One year ago Dr. Arthur Greaves, of Boston, went West to do misBionary work among the Indians. For the last ten years he had been an active member of eastern societies formed in aid of the red men. but he wished to visit the savages in person* and to ad? minister spiritual and worldly blessings to them. He visited a number of the agencies and conversed with hundreds of Indiana, faithfully he labored for nearly a year. Then he quit. Dr. Greaves was at the Richelieu. He is totally disgusted with the aborigines. "I have worked like an apostle of the olden times with the Indians," he said laBt evening, "and have retired from missionary work for good. The western Indians know more than most of the people of Boston, and they are as crafty as a veteran detective. For years I pitied them, for I thought they had been treat? ed shamefully and were innocent and ignorant. They know considerable. I would tell them Bible stories at the Rose? bud agency, and they would listen most attentively. When I had finished they would get together and guy me unmerci? fully. When I was with the Sioux, Chief Bed Cloud said that I could make a hun? dred Indians happy by getting our society to send out fifty plows and other farm implements. I got the people at home interested in the matter, and they shipped me two carloads of heavy tools. These were distributed to the Indians, who ap? peared overjoyed with the prospect of having the means of tilling the soil. Shortly after this I went further west for a month. When I returned I could not find any of the implements sent from Boston. After a diligent search it was discovered that the heathens had pitched them all in the White river and made a bridge of them. The costly tools sent out for farming purposes were used as you would stuues, and a bridge across a little river was all the good that was ac? complished. This is one instance, and there are many more similar cases. At this time I begau to lose faith in the sin? cerity displayed by the Indian, and sub? sequent events proved to me that the Indian could only be an Indian. All the teaching in the world could make no difference. The beBt way to solve the Indian problem is not to bother with it at all. Leave them all to the western people and they will treat the red men fairly and keep him in his place at the same time. Eastern philanthropists, who meddle with affairs of which they have no accurate knowledge, do more harm than good." Needed an Inspiration. A merchant had a clerical friend, be? tween whom and himself there existed a warm intimacy, says a writer in the New England Magazine, Every Saturday night, as the merchant was balancing his cash, there "would come a note from the minister requesting the loan of a $5 bill. The money was always restored punctu? ally on Monday morning. But what puzzled the lender was the identical bill was always returned. On Saturday night he sent a $5 gold piece instead of the usual bill, and marked it. Still the very same coiu was returned on Monday. The merchant became nervous about this strange fact. He was becoming consumed with curi? osity, when a note came from the rev? erend borrower on Christmas Eve asking for a loan of $10. He resolved to call and inquire into the mystery, and when he was shown into his friend's study he found him plunged in melancholy. "Mr. Bowersox," said the merchant, "if you will answer me one question I will let you have $10. How does it hap? pen that you always pay me the money you borrow on Saturday night in the very same coin or note on Monday." The parson raised his head, and after a struggle said: "My friend, you are a gentleman, a Christian, and a New Yorker?I know that I can rely on your inviolable secrecy. You know that I am poor, and when on Saturday night I have bought my Sunday dinner I seldom have a red cent left in ray pocket. Now I maintain that no man can preach the Gospel prop* erly without having something in his pocket to inspire him with confidence. "I have, therefore, borrowed $5 of you every Saturday night that I might feel it occasionally as I preached on Sunday. You know how independent I "do preach ?how I make the rich quake in their shoes 1 Well, it is owing to my knowl? edge that I have a five-dollar bill in my pocket. Not having to use it for any other purpose, it is not changed, but re? turned to you next Monday. But to? morrow I want to make a special impres? sion on my congregation, and I thought I would see what the effect of a ten-dol? lar sermon on them would be." ? Montana is larger than the Empire of Turkey. Texas is larger than the whole Austrian Empire by 30,000 square miles, and New Mexico is larger than Great Britain and Ireland together. ? A man named Knight went to St. George's Church, in the Fcrk, Orange burg County, on Sunday and disturbed the congregation by shooting at girls with a sling shot. On being remonstrated by A Mr. Wissenhant Knight undertook (c tight and was beaten nearly to death. VOLUM A Plow Handle Ylew. Exactly why we do not know, but we have had something of a weakness for Joshua Ashley, of Anderson County, since we first knew him. He is a repre? sentative up country farmer. There are a good many better men and a great many worse men. He strikes a good average and all his traits are thoroughly develop? ed. He is big, burly and inclined to be rough and aggressive sometimes', but he says What ho thinks, has a large quantity of hard horse sense and has made money farming and, starting with little or noth? ing, has become one of the most extensive and prosperous farmers-of one of the most prosperous Counties of the State. Mr. Ashley is a representative farmer and a veteran Alliance man and was one of the strongest and loudest Tillman men in this section. Here are his views on some pending questions: "To the Editor of the Greenville News : You ask if the Alliance or any member of the Alliance can answer some ques? tions. I am a member of the Alliance and I can answer the question whether or no I would quit the Democratic party for any organization. I say I would not. I as a true Democrat would not believe anythiog that any radical or member of any other party but the true Democratic would promise. "Mr. Editor, I believe we have some men in our country who would not care where they led our government, so they could get fat offices; but I believe the time is coming when men will do their own voting and vote only for men who kaow how to manage their own business successfully. "I believe there is no better organiza? tion than the Alliance if its members will only follow the constitution. A man can be an Alliance man and a good Christian and a good Democrat. The order prom? ises not to interfere with any member's religious or political views. "I am astonished to see J. W. Bowden's piece in the Anderson Intelligencer where he Bays our Governor does not know what he is talking about and claims that the Governor was induced by a reporter to discuss something of which he is ignorant. I as an Alliance man and farmer and a true blue Democrat believe Governor Tillman is correct in saying that the majorty of the farmers in this State are againat the sub treasury. I as a farmer do not believe that one fifth of the farmers of Anderson County are in favor of the sub treasury bill." Nobody can call Mr. Ashley a kid glove farmer or a failure. He has made what he has out of tho ground and by hard licks with his own hands. All he has learned was learned on the farm and by it. He writes from between the plow handles and looks at matters as a practi? cal farmer who knows his business, knows his fellow farmers and understands what they need. He believes as a matter of principle and common sense the Demo? cratic party has first claim on his loyalty and as an Alliance man does not consider that his religious or political opinions are to be controlled and directed by the Alliance. He has prospered as a farmer under conditions as they are and cannot see where or how the sub-treasury scheme would help him or any other farmer.? Greenville Neios. Uow to Decline a Treat, The following conversation was heard between two collegians, who were dis? cussing a class dinner: "Of course," said one (with a conse? quential touch of self-complacency and patronage which only length of days can cure,) "if a fellow hasn't wit enough to stop, he'd better be careful at first. Some heads are built weak, you know." "Careful in what?" interrupted I, and both laughed. "Why, drinking, of course," said the first speaker. "A fellow has to take his seasoning sooner or later. Some can stand it. Some can not, at least for a while." He was, as I have intimated, a fresh man. His friend, a bearded senior, the only son of a rich man, slapped him good-humoredly on the shoulder. "When I was your age, old fellow, my father said to me, 'If I bad my life to live over, I would never take a glass of wine or smoke a cigar.5 I answered, it would be foolish not to profit by what such a sensible man says. "I have never tasted wine or touched tobacco, and lam glad of it?gladder every day I live. I might have been 'built' with a strong head?and then, again I might not." "What do you say when you are offered a treat?" "I say, 'no thank you, I never take it. Generally that settles the matter quietly." "And if they poke fun at you ?" "I let them 'poke' and then stand ready to put them to bed when their heads give out." There are?for the comfort of mothers be it said?many a "fellow" strong enough to maintain this stand, sensible enough to see that the risks are not worth taking. It is the fool who med? dles with firearms, the coward who car? ries a loaded revolver.?Home Mahr. Some fancy the charms of the lily-white maid, Of etherial form and languishing eye, Who faints in the sunshine, and droops in the shade, And is always "just ready to die." But give me the girl of the sunshiny face, The blood in whose veins courses healthy and free, With the vigor of youth in her move? ments of grace, Oh, that is the maiden for me. She is the girl to "tie to for life." The sickly, complaining woman may be an object of pity and love, but she ceases to be a "thing of beauty" worn down by fe? male weakness and disorders, subject to hysteria and a martyr to bearing-down pains. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a sure cure for these distressing com? plaints, and will transform the feeble, drooping sufferer into a healthy, happy, blooming woman. Guaranteed to give satisfaction in every case, or money re? funded. ? The time when peoplo need religion the most is when they can't have thcii own way about things. :e xxv.?no. 50. 1 All Sorts of Paragraphs, ? Not to enjoy life, but to employ ought to be our aim. ? Not a single infectious disease known in Greenland. ? Love is free, but it takes money to go to housekeeping. * ? The less a man know3 the more he finds fault with other people. ? Chicago boasts of 1463 hotels, with a total capacity of 158,500 guests. ? The Buresf way to become poor in earnest is to try to keep all yon get. ? Kansas farmers planted 2,000, acres more of wheat last fall tha vear before. ?It has been estimated that 23jQ0?7)?O | bushels of oysters are opened annually in the United States. ? A dove that had reached the age of thirty-two years, died at Greencastle,.^ Penn., last week. ? Man has only one life on this earth, and there are grave reasons to suspect that one is too many. ? There are nearly 6,000 pieces in a modern locomotive, and it's no small job to put themltogether. B? It has been calculated that a bee must suck 218,750 flowers for evgr^-^ ounce of honey gathered. ? There are nearly fourteen hundred sub-Alliances in Virginia and th ber is steadily increasing. . ? Light through the new LiC^ scope is ccarly 2,000 times as brigL. j/> that seen by the naked eye. ? Nobody wants to keep a run-a-way horse, but a good many keep run-a-way tempers, and think nothing of it. ? Beware of the man who says he "does not owe a dollar on earth." Per? haps the people compel him to pay cash. ? Ripe melons delight the peoplft of ^ South Georgia. The acreage in that State is the highest on record, footing up-21j-?^ 000 acres. ? Last October nine women were ap? pointed station agents on the elevated railways of Brooklyn. They have been so successful that the managers will ap? point more. ? A San Francisco man proposed to three sisters in turn, but they all rejected him. He got even by marrying their mother, a widow. ? Since January, 1890, a record thatr has been kept shows that 3,004 wives : have been murdered in the United States by drunken husbands infuriated by intox? icating drinks. ? President Harrison has issued % proclamation opening to public settle? ment about 1,600,000 acres of the land of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. ? The United States has now become the greatest iron producing nation in the world, haviug produced 9,202,703 gro^s tons in 1890, against 8,000,000 produced in Great Britain. ? Mathematicians figure that a man sixty years old has spent three years buttoning his collar. How mucb?timehar,'"~, been consumed by a woman of forty-five in putting her hat on straight? ? An English Judge sentenced a We? rnau to five minutes to jail for having married a man without obtaining a di? vorce from a former husband. Thisstauds as the shortest sentence on record. ?The most beautiful stone ever known belonged to the king of Caubul, and was called the Mountain of Light. It was of the size of an egg, of great brilliancy, and at one time valued at ?350,000,000" ? "What are your qualifications as a boys' teacher? Have you had any expe-' rience?" "Yes, sir, the very best." "Mention them, please." "I used to be an animal tamer in Jones' Menagerie." ? Four thousand children are said to be employed in the mines of Pennsylva- ~ nia alone, and there are probably over one million children at work in the mills and factories throughout the United States. ? Lightning played a queer freak in a New Hampshire town recently. It took off the tail feathers of each of twenty hens Bitting on a roost, and effected a rooster so that he has not been able to crow since. ? You must desire to improve your heart, and so become good. You must desire to improve your head, and so be? come well informed. But you must de? sire first to become good. That is the first and great end of life. ? An Irish doctor announces the pos? tulate that when the earth was young it went around so fast that the day was only _ three hours long. He also says that at that time the earth was liquid. A great deal of it is liquid now, but the hours of duty have amazingly increased since the initial days. ? A colored man living near Ninety Six was killed by a mule running away with him one day last week, He was on his way to the field, when the mule took fright, throwing him. His foot getting caught in the gear, he was dragged about 300 yards through the woods and killed before he could be released. - _ ? The earth's surface over No 2 mine, in the heart of the town of Edwardville, f Pa., a few days ago caved in, three acres." being affected. The earth sunk down 6 feet in some places, and the people bad to flee from their homes, the houses in many cases toppling over. Two women who were ill were seriously injured.. ? Miss Mary Breckinridge, daughter^ of Congressman Breckinridge, of Ken? tucky, is not satisfied with being a social belle at the Capital, and has begun the study of law in her father's office. Miss Breckinridge is pretty and popular, and it goes without saying that she is a sensi? ble girl and will make a good lawyer. ? Lightning performed two unusual feats at a house on Bean Hill, Norwich* Conn. It cut half an inch off the rim of an inverted goblet on a table, and left the goblet sitting as it found it. This work i is said to have been done as neatly as'It it had been done with a diamond. The electricity also sent the hands on the dial of the clock four hours in advance of the-J true time, without stopping the clock. A Pleasing Sense Of health and strength renewed and of ease and comfort follows the use of Syrup 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.