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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. OTJR STOCK OF STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Xs more Complete than Ever, FACT you can bay from its almoBt anything that the market will afford. We are now selling? Hard-Head Cabbage, Beans, Squashes, Potatoes, Onions, Beets, And all of the Vegetables grown here?of onr own growth. Now on hand one Car Load of FINE GEORGIA MELONS. All of which we offer at prices that will defy competition. D. S. MAXWELL & SON, No. 5 Chiquola Place. MACHINERY I Engines \jB& * ?T |^3W. 0otton Gins AND THE CELEBRATED -TTST With Feeders and Condensers. THIS GIN partakes of the.BEST FEATURES in others, and corrects the DEFECTS in all. EOBBBR and LEATHER BELTING, Sold under a positive guarantee that will protect every bnyer. By recent special contracts with Manufacturers we are in shape to com? pete, with the world. All we ask for Is a fair opportunity and no favors. ^JHA#WARE, CUTLERY, IMPLEMENTS, &c, In such-quantity and variety as to give us the lead not only in Anderson but in this State. DOORS, SASH, BUNDS, AND FINISHED BUILDING LUMBER, A SPECIALTY. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. iiggies, Buggies, BUGGIES! E HAVE NOW IN STOCK AND ARRIVING DAILY A LARGE STOCK OF BUGGIES. Tyson & Jones* Celebrated Buggies, : Made in North Carolina, are the best sold in this market. They are superior in ' material, style, workmanship and finish to any other make, and present, with their elegant silver mountings, a very neat appearance, besides combining durability and strength with lightness and easy riding qualities. In fact, there cannot be said too much in their praise, and all we ask is for you to eome and see them before buying elsewhere.:. to^reli-known Haydock Rice Coil Spring Buggies, ! Of which we have sold so many during the past two seasons, have given universal satisfaction, and the demand for them is constantly increasing. They are conceded to be the easiest riding Buggies made, and IesB tiresome for long distance travels than any other. We keep a complete stock of these constantly on hand. Besides the foregoing we have a variety of other manufactures, and are there? fore prepared to suit all classes of trade. Prices Low and Terms to Suit Purchasers. fi *J ... We also keep a large assortment of all kinds of? HARNESS FOR SALE. |&? Before buying elsewhere be sure and call and examine our stock and prices. > SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY. for Infants and Children. ? 'Castorla is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Abcbes, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. Castorla cores Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes dl s peetioD, I Without injurious medication. Thb Ckxtadb Company, 77 Murray Street, M. Y. COTTON COING HIGHER. WE are glad to be able to inform our friends and customers that Cotton is bound to go up, if you will not be in too big a hurry to sell, In the meantime you can buy alt kinds of? Grocerief?, Fireworks and Xmas Goods Of all kinds as cheap or cheaper than anywhere in Town from? Yours, witk *,haoks for past patronage, ' E, Wi TAYLOR & CO, T^??H^'?OLUMN, -*gBfc All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, 8. C. MEMOET OEMS. "Meet each trial, never fly it; Face misfortune and defy it." "The work of the world is done by few; God asks that a part of it be done by you." There will be no public money in moat of -the Districts this summer. Teachers will, therefore, make their arrangements to get their pay from their patrons. Next year we hope teachers will make their arrangements or contracts with Trustees before they begin school. Dur? ing the summer ne shall endeavor to give the Trustees a few suggestions in reference to their duties under the law in the locations of schools, and other things connected with the educational interest of the Connty. We find the Trustees, generally, not well poated in reference to their official duty. We are not much in sympathy with what is known as "summer schools." We doubt if they pay the community. Generally they are too much crowded; and children are sent there to get them out of mischief in the neighborhood. The summer term usually lasts about two months, and during this time the chil? dren, beginning at the first of their books do not get through, but probably get to I just about the place they left off at be* fore. Also the weather is so intensely hot that it is almost cruelty to require > from 25 to 75 pupils to set a whole after? noon in a small room. Let yonr schools begin about the first or middle of Sep? tember, and continue for ten months. Send your children to school as a matter of business, and not merely for conven? ience. Give us more ten-month schools and fewer summer schools. The Court that closed last week was a sad commentary on the civilization and moral training of our young 'men. Eleven young white* men were tried last week for various crimes, such as forgery, perjury, assault and battery with intent to kill, riot, &c. These were young men fresh from our schools. In most cases whiskey played a part in the commission of these crimes. A very sad sight to see four young men charged with riot in consequence of a Ohristmas spree. Our young men should be taught the real and true reasons for the observance of Ohristmas. They should also be taught that obedience to law and a failnre to do the things that the law says we must not do is one of the characteristics of a gen? tleman. That brave men do not carry concealed weapons, except on special provocations, and then for the purpose of J protecting themselves, and not for the purpose of offense. Just think of the eleven youDg men before the Oonrt of Session at one time charged with crimes of all grades. Teachers, forget not to teach your pupils that the heart should be kept right, and if either must be neg? lected, let it not be the moral training of your pupils, because it is more important to give themoral training than it is to give them intellectual training. It is more important to keep the heart right than it is to develop the mind. ''The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wis? dom." We commend to the Trustees and patrons of the Oounty the following: "It is not right to abolish a school be? cause it is small, for it may be one of the mOBt necessary schools in the country. The Superintendent of New York Oity schools recommends the consolidation of small city schools with larger ones, on the plea of economy, but it is possible to economize too much for the good of the pupils so consolidated. Massing large numbers of children in one building is good for the pockets of the taxpayers, but bad for the brains and characters of the children. It is possible to save the expense of a teacher by uniting two rooms into one, but at what an expense I The added strain, the increased necessity for text-book work, and artificial stimu? lus cannot be estimated. It looks grand to see a thousand children in one large room Bitting or marching in military order, and reciting with text-book accu? racy, but to a student of nature it is one of the saddest sights on earth. Freedom is the essential of healthful growth. A child in a straight jacket is in prison. A small Bchool, where all the pupils can be permitted to do as they please, for all are pleased to do right, is one of the most beautiful sights on earth. The day of mammoth public schools is passing away, and it is a good thing it is."?School | Journal. DENVER SCHOOL. The Denver school has just closed1 a very successful session under the very efficient management of Miss Mamie R. Bailey, who is a full graduate of the Cooper-Limestone Institute. During our visit to this school we were very fa? vorably impressed with the ability of Miss Mamie as a teacher. (Our failure to speak of this school before is purely an oversight or neglect.) This vicinity appreciates the advan? tages of a good school, and show their appreciation by their hearty support of this .school. We found the pupils well up on the studies in which they were ex* amined while we were present. And we must confess that Miss Mamie impressed us as a real good, common sense, well prepared teacher, and we trust the peo? ple will retain her for years, for we do not favor swapping teachers, but in order to get the best results, secure a good teacher (this they have done) and then keep that teacher for a long time (this I hope they will do.) Remember, friends, your school is the greatest lever you can have to raise the standard of morality and civilization and prosperity of your community Slick to your school and keep it up. ? An English army officer says it has rained only twice in twenty-nine years in Aden, and then only enough to lay the dust. The last time it rained there was three years ago, after twenty-six years of drought. ANDERSON, 8. C, IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL AND ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. BY B. B. "^'ARTHUR, T>. D. Fromthe GSiriatian Inquirer. If the doctrine of eternal punishment of the impenitent be not true, in what way shall we dispose of the soul ? Vari= ous opinions have been held. Is the soul annihilated? So some have affirmed. Gross materialists make thought a Beere tion of the brain. It is, they Bay, the brain in motion. They know no soul. According to their teaching man is an animal; he is a vegetable; he is what he eats. Oarlyle calls this "the gospel of dirt." Its "god is its belly." It is abom? inable. It degrades a minister to refute it. Its refutation is an insult to hearers or readers. Are men no better than beaBts? Annihilation is the vain hope of men consciously wicked, and, there? fore, fearful. It is weak and cowardly. I unhesitatingly affirm that no satisfacto? ry evidence in its support can be found in the Bible. The Bible, legitimately interpreted, conveys the opposite mean? ing. Any man who will affirm that the words "life" and "death" in the Bible are to be used in the limited and degrad? ed sense in which Annihilationists use them, advertises his utter inability to interpret any document. Can God anni? hilate a Bonl ? The question is asked with all reverence. He haB degraded, but, as Dr. Parker suggests, He has not annihilated Satan, The immortal in Satan and man is a spark of the divine flame. Can God annihilate himself? A belief in this doctrine unspeakably de? grades the whole scheme of redemption. Did- God give His only begotten son to the shame agony of thecroBs merely to save men from annihilation ? Was thiB the purpose of Christ's wondrous birth, glorious life, atoning death, victorious resurrection and triumphant ascension ? If annihilation be the "end all" of the wicked, the cross of Cavalry was a stu? pendous blunder. To say that annihila? tion is the eternal punishment of the wicked is nonsense. Can we punish those who have ceased to be ? Can we punish a nonentity? As well might we talk of punishing those who are not born. Oh, men and women, you are immortal 1 Intrenched within its own immortality, the soul defies death. It smiles at the assassin's dagger; it defies the marks? man's bullet. It cannot die. Christ came to seek and to save, not from anni hiliation, but from Bin here and from hell hereafter; to save to purity here and to eternal bliss hereafter. Does a second probation help the mat? ter ? Some have assumed that punish? ment is reformatory; that when it accom? plishes its ends it will cease, and that all sinners, men and angels, shall yet be re? stored to the favor of God. This assump? tion contains many errors. It assumes that men who have despised one. proba? tion would improve a second. What right has any man to think be would do so ? What inducements to repent could God offer men which He does not offer now ? The atonement of Christ and the sanctifying power of the Holy Ghost are the means of Balvation. These are never offered in hell. A man's Balvation is less likely then than now. It is hard for ns to be Christians now ? Now we have Christ with extended arms and loving heart; we have an open Bible > we have a preached Gospel; we have prayer meetings and Sabbaths; we have praying parents and friends. Will it be easier to repent in hell? There men will be ban? ished from God; they will be, bo far as we know, without grace, without hope, and with lost men and devils for their companions. A second probation 1 Why not a third, a fourth, a tenth ? Repen? tance, salvation in hell 1 Then the cross of Cavalry was a stupendous blunder I What can God do for men there ? He has already exhausted Himself I But is punishment reformatory? Is this its natural effect ? Are there not thousands of men in prison who are hardened ten? fold by their punishment ? Even while the law haB its firm grip upon them, they are plotting deeper wickedness. Suffer? ing, per 8e, has no purifying power. Penalties cannot cleanse the heart. They may satisfy human law for past crimes, but cannot insure against future sins. God does not always inflict punishment with the design of reforming men. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah can scarcely be called a reform measure. Their cup of wrath was full; God held it with outstretched arms over the doom? ed cities- His servant ceased praying; the cup was poured out. The terrible monument of God's wrath was all that remained of the great city in the beauti? ful vale of Siddim. The death of Ananias and Sapphira was rather more than a reform measure. In these cases God has permitted us to get a glimpse of His workings. Could we Bee His "ways" aa plainly in other cases, do doubt the histo? ry of the race would show tens of thous? ands of just such reform measures. How terrible must be the ingratitude, and how awful the blindness of men who are despising the means of grace to day, and are looking forward to perdition as a school of reform 1 Satan has suffered long. Has he reformed? Is suffering likely to convert Satan ? Mr. Spurgeon said a little time ago, in conversation with Dr. William M. Taylor, of this city, that if hell could do what the grace of God and the cross of Christ had failed to do the redeemed in heaven ought to sing forever, "Glory be to fire 1 Glory be to fire!" Truly purgatory, on this suppo? sition, would be worthy of praise here and of eternal glory hereafter. But grant that this view were true. Why should men go to heaven by way of hell ? Why spend an age in the flames of woe, or even a day, or an hour; why go at all to the chambers of perdition, when God has opened a way by the cross? Is not this sound sense? God invites now. Jesus waits to welcome now. Soon the doom of all will be sealed. The eternal allot? ment will be made. The "great gulf will be fixed; and he that is unjust and filthy will be unjust and filthy still. On this whole subject it may be said with the utmost emphasis that God sends no man to perdition. The Bible nowhere represents God as Bending men to hell. We know no orthodox preacher who so presents God. God offers life; men choose death I God cannot put men by physical force into heaven. It would THURSDAY MORN not be heaven to men entering it in that way. If all hell were transferred now without a change of heart to heaven, it would still be hell. The ruffian from the street or the vile saloon would find the sweetest prayer-meeting ever held a very dull and stupid place. He would long for his revelries and debaucheries. Such a man, if taken to heaven, would find it an utterly intolerable place. Take a savage into your library and drawing room, show him your treasures of art and your gems of literature, and the man will be inexpressably miserable. He needs a change of taste ; be needs conversion, It is merciful in God to banish from His presence those who hate him, There is no heaven anywhere for a man who hates Godi God cannot make a heaven for such a man. There is no hell any? where for a man who loves the Lord Jeaus. The devil cannot make a hell fox such a man. If we can imagine such a man's going to hell, it would cease to be such to him, and would become heaven. A man who hates God has the beginnings of hell in him now, as Milton's Satan says! "Which way I fly Is holl; myself am hell." An ungodly man carries hell in his heart. He cannot get away from him? self; God cannot help him except he comes to God's terms. This is true? every man will go where in h? deepest nature he desires to go. That statement will bear examination. It is said no man desires to go to hell? Thousands desire to live a life which must end in hell. Look at their lives. They are in it, bo far as possible, now. Look at their haunts; look at their hearts They love sin. They must reap its fruit. What men sow they reap. They mast not expect to bow the seeds of vice and reap the fruits of virtue. Many a man desires the honors of wealth, but is not willing to make the necessary sacrifice to earn it. Then he in his deepest nature does not desire wealth. He likes ease better. Many a man wonld like .the fame of learning; but he is not willing to pay the price in honest work. Then he does not desire learning so much as ease, If men are lost they will have committed moral suicide. There are men who pray for the rocks and mountains to fall upon them, and to hide them from the face of Him who sits upon the throne 7 The great day of His wrath is coming; who will be able to stand ? The colored wo? man was right, when, in answer to the flippant objection that there was not brimstone enough to burn the wicked, she said to the objector, "You take your brimstone along with you." It is sol? emnly true. No man in perdition will suffer more than he has merited. The sufferings will be indescribably great; but they will be proportioned to men's deserts. Those who have sinned under the law, will be judged by the law. Those who knew their Master's will, and did it not, shall be beaten with many stripes, Punish? ment is not a matter from the outside bo much as from the inside. You cannot punish an innocent man; you cannot help punishing a guilty man. All who Bhall be lost know they are guilty, Their mouths will be stopped before God. The heathern cannot be punished for not believing in a Saviour of whom they have not heard. Theirs is a different standard of judgment; by that they will be judg? ed. According to it their punishment will be. Sinning without the law, they shall be judged without the law. But how terrible will be the guilt of those who reject Christ I Hell was prepared for the devil and his aogeh, and not for men. If men belong to Satan, they must dwell with his family. The Judge of all the earth will do right. He knows all the mitigating circumstances in every case and He will do absolutely right. This is a thought of wonderful comfort, Does a man shrink from the thonght of God's inflicting eternal punishment on the ungodly ? Is he wiser, and more loving than God? Compared with His love a mother's is "as moonlight unto sunlight, as water unto wine." He gave the Son of His love to save us. He be? seeches ua now to accept His proffered love and to be saved with an everlasting salvation. Make the Experiment. We clip the following from the Home and Farm. Suppose some of our farmers try it in a small way and report the result, The statement is originally from an ex? change : The Ohio experiment station has made some interesting experiments showing the effect of removing tassels from corn. They were made to test the theory that if the tassels were removed from corn before they have produced pollen?pollen being an exhaustive process?the strength thus saved to the plant would be turned to the ovaries and a larger amount of grain be produced. From each alternate row of a plot of corn the tassels were removed as soon as they appeared. Briefly, the result of the experiment was that the number of good ears and the weight of merchantable corn were both a little more than 50 per cent, greater on the rows from which the tas? sels were removed than on the others, Tbia is a subject of profound impor? tance. It is a theory that can be easily tested. Try it on a small patch of corn first. Remove the tassels from each al? ternate row and see what the effect will be. $100 Reward. $100; The readers of the Intelligencer will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a consti? tutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have bo much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hun? dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Bjld by Druggists, 7? cents. I o ING, JULY 2, 1891. Tbe Eldorado of America. To the Editor of the News and Courier : When the original grants from the Crown to lands in Sonth Carolina were made, a proviso was inserted that secured to the grantor one-sixth of all the proceeds of any mines discovered and worked. Of' [ couree at that time gold and silver were the only minerals from which such a revenue could be expected. The King I and his lieutenants did not dream of phosphates, those precious nuggets that have contributed so much directly to the prosperity of South Carolina and indirect? ly to that of all tbe Southern States. It was reserved for a later and more practi? cal people to learn the value of these wonderful deposits and to utilize them, but it is a singular coincidence that the State has received in royalty since mining operations began about one-sixth of the value of the river-rock mined, and under the terms of tbe plan to tax land rock on hand it is possible that the same propor? tion of income may be also derived from that source. Bich as are her phosphate deposits, these do not constitute tbe entire ' mineral wealth of the State. Says Col. Wm. Pinckney Starke: "South Carolina is rich in mines." Lo^ gan, in his valuable history of the up country, says: "The old English traders among the Cherokees were confident in the opinion that their h?ls and mountains were as rich in precious metals as any part of Mexico or South America." Lawson declares that the Indians from time immemorial were acquainted with valuable miueB of gold and silver in up? per Carolina, but that nothing could in? duce them to discover their locality to Europeans from fears that if their mines were known they would be overrun by them. Adair says that "shortly after the settlement of Augusta a company of des* perate adventurers were found working with success a silver mine at the head of Little Biver in Fickens District. They found the ore at the depth of thirty feet, and so rich did it prove that they were soon able to combine with their mining the then lucrative business of Coining large quantities of counterfeit money. A load of it was on one occasion seized by 1 the public officers." Gold is found in Spartanburg, Union, York, Lancaster, Fickens and Abbeville. Silver in Spartanburg. Copper in Spar? tanburg, York and Picke ns. Iron in Spar* tanburg, York, Greenville and Fickens. Lead in Pickens. Manganese in Spartan* burg, York, Union, Chester, Lancaster, Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, Abbeville and Edgefield. Bismuth is found in Chesterfield and Lancaster. Plumbago in Spartanburg and Anderson. I Vanuxem's report gives ten species of rocks to tbe State and thirty species of minerals. Two mines in South Carolina have each yielded over one million dol? lars in gold?the Brewer in Chesterfield, and the Dorn in Abbeville. From a I pocket in a Lancaster mine a few years ! sioce over $10,000 worth of gold was ta? ken. There are valuable mines in Spar? tanburg, Union and York that only await sufficient capital for their development. The recent operations in tbe iron mines of York give much encouragement for the future growth of this section. The copper deposits of York are of great ex? cellence and are said to be abundant. Since tbe establishment of Government mints South Carolina has sent to them for coinage alone over $1,700,000. In 1890 the production of manganese in this State was not mentioned in the census reports. In 1890 124 tons were removed and over $5,000 wa? invested in the conduct of mi* ning operations. The phosphate beds of South Carolina have, until quite recently, been considered the most valuable in the world. This statement would now be challenged by Florida, but we are not yet ready to yield our supremacy in this particular field. The extent of the phos? phate deposits here is unknown. No sys? tematic survey has been attempted. The amount of accessible rock is estimated all tbe way from five to five hundred million tons, More than the smaller estimate has been removed already without any appre? ciable effect upon the deposits. In 1870 there were four companies engaged in mining and they produced 19,989 tons of rock. In 1891 there are twenty-eight companies at work and these produced last year 540,000 tons, valued at some? thing like $3,000,000. These figures elo? quently declare the wonderful develop? ment of this important industry, as well as famish an approximate estimate of the extent of the deposits. The granites of South Carolina take rank with the best found in any other part of the country. Says Col. Starke: "The granite of Newberry is of fine quality. The porphyritic granite of Kerehaw is one of the most beautiful in the world, and the same may be said of the syenites of Lexington and Abbeville. Charleston formerly had to import flag? stones from Yorkshire, England, but by our railways she may get them from our York, as well as from Edgefield and Fairfield. Soapstone for furnaces, form? erly brought from New England, may be had of fine quality in various localities of the State. Mill stones, equal to tbe fi? nest French buhr stones, are to be bad in Barnwell, Orangeburg and Lexington. Fine whetstones are found in Edgefield, grindstones in Chesterfield and the fork of tbe Saluda. Earth for the manufacture of glass and the finest quality of earth? enware abounds in Aiken, where beds of the purest white kaolin of great thickness are being profitably worked merely for the excavation and shipment of the clay." South Carolina's granite production was not accounted in the tenth census, but in 1890 nioe quarries were at work, employing ninety-nine persons, and these produced-in that year 214,419 cubic feet of granite, valued at $46,614. The State House at Columbia was dug out of tbe ground within two miles of where it now stands. The United States Court House, standing at the extreme end of Main Street, from the Capitol, came from Fair field, an adjoining county. The granite in this beautiful building posses the mer? it of hardening and whitening with age. The kaolin of South Carolina is an im? portant element in the mineral wealth of the State. The most extensive mining has been done in Aiken County, where the deposits are remarkably pure, and in Ricbland County. In the former the clay is shipped crude, and is manufactured in? to porcelain ware and used in sizing cot? ton goods and In the manufacture of pa? per. In Eichland tbe clay is manufactur? ed largely into Are bricb; where mined, and tbe industry is proving a profitable one. As the mineral resources of South Carolina become better known capital will be attracted to them and their de? velopment will follow rapidly. L. A. Kansom. Columbia, S. C.} June 10,1891. The Low Prices of Cottoo. Atlanta, Ga., June 20.?Some months ago S. M. Inman, of the firm of S. M. Inman & Co., whose long experi? ence, big business and close connection with the great markets enable him to speak with much weight on tbe cotton eubject, pointed out tbe great danger of over production. It appears now that the effort to reduce the acreage did not succeed to tbe extent that was antic? ipated, and tbe situation is anything bnt encouraging. "The situation is something almost unprecedented in the history of the cot? ton trade," said Mr. Inman recently. "The American crop, which was believed by many conservative people in the be* ginning of the year to be not over 7,500, 000 bales, promises to turn out nearly 8,750,000 bales. That is, about 8,750,000 will be sold off the plantations and come into Bight, while there will probably be from 100,000 to 200,000 bales which will never leave the plantations this season on account of the low prices. Hence, it looks now as if the 'yield of this crop, gathered between September 1, 1890, and August 31, 1891, if it could all be counted, would be somewhere between 8,800,000 and 9,000,000 bales. "Now, take the increase of the Ameri? can crop?say 8,800,000 bales, against 7,300,000 bales last year, giving an in? crease of 1,000,000 bales?and deduct tbe 300,000 bales shortage in the crop of India* and you have an increase in the world's supply for this year of probably i 1,200,000 bales. Whiie there will be a large increase in consumption, it will be nothing like sufficient to absorb this enormous increase. Nearly all evidence points to the fact that the acreage in cot? ton this year is approximately the same as last year. While there has been some trouble with the crop in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee, the crbp in the balance of the cotton-raising States is doing very well, and unless some disaster occurs we will have another reasonably large crop. "It is tbe fear of another large crop which is at present depressing prices more than tbe burden of the cotton that has been made during the past year, be? cause if the world were assured that the next crop would not be 7,500,000 bales, I think there would bo a considerable rally from the present prices. "As to the future of the market, it ap? pears to me about this way, that if we make another crop in anywise approxi? mating the size of the one just grown, we may look for a year of tbe lowest prices which have ever prevailed. You see, we are on untrodden ground." An Awkward Mistake. A farmer who had bought a calf from a batcher desired film to drive it to his farm and place it in his stable, which he accordingly did. Now, it happened that very day that a man with a grinding organ and a danc? ing bear, passing by that way, began their antics in front of the farm. After amusing the farmer for some time, the organ-man entered the farm-house and asked the farmer if he could give him a night's lodging. The farmer replied that he could give the man lodging, but that he was at a loss where to pat the bear. After musing a little, he determined to bring the calf inside the house and place the bear in the stable, which was done. Now the butcher, expecting that the calf would remain in the stable all night, resolved to steal it ere morning. The farmer and his guest were in the night awakened by a fearful yelling at the out? building. Both got up, and taking a lantern entered the stable, when the far? mer found, to his surprise, the butcher of whom he bought the calf in the grasp of the bear, which was hugging him tremendously, for he could not bite him, being muzzled. The farmer soon under? stood the case, and he briefly mentioned the circumstance to tbe owner of bruin, who, to punish the butcher for his in? tended theft, called to the bear, "Hug bim, Tommy," which the bear did in real earnest, tbe butcher roaring hide* ously tbe whole time. After they thought that he had suffered enough they set him free, and the butcher slunk off, glad to escape with his life, while tbe farmer and his guest returned to their beds. ? There are some patent medicines that are more marvelous than a dozen doctors' prescription, but they're not those that profess to cure everything. Everybody, now and then feels "run down," "played out." They've tbe will, but no power to generate vitality. They are not sick enough to call a doctor, but just too sick to be well. That's where the right kind of a patent medicine comes in, and does for a dollar what the doctor wouldn't do for less than five or ten. We put in our claim for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. We claim it to be an unequaled remedy to purify the blood and invigorate the liver. We claim it to be lasting in its effects, creating an appetite, purifying the blood, and preventing Billious, Typhoid and Malarial fevers if taken in time. The time to take it is when you feel tbe first signs of weariness and weakness. The time to take it, on general principles, is NOW. ? At the homo of Mr. Joe Cranford, at Draneville, Ga., Mrs. Cranford had taken off a hen with fifteen chickens, the little chicks being only two days old, and placed them in a coop under a plum tree to protect them from tbe heat of the sun. Lightning struck the tree and killed the hen and two chickens, leaving thirteen motherless little fellows. It is thought that the hen was hovering the chickens at the time. This is endeed a remarka? ble instance of lightning freaks. VOLUM] For Lore or Gold. Speaking of the power of the passion of avarice when once it takes complete pos? session of the human heart, a gentleman related the following; "Something like 100 miles south of here there lives a fel? low scarce forty years old, who r all illustrates what the inordinate lo-e of money will do for a man. I do not sup? pose he ever spent $10, all told in his life. When a lad, being a natural me? chanic, he constructed a box in the shape of a cube, with a slot in the lid, which later was nailed down and further secured with iron bands. The box was about three feet square. His whole am bition in life is to fill that box with gold and silver coin. For full thirty years he has bent all his energies to that end. He has no idea how much money is in the box, though it is nearly full. For the past fifteen years he has put no silver in it?holding that coin till he could ex? change it for gold. He lives with his parents, who support him, and who take as much pride in his efforts to fill his 'bank' as he does. He is a tinker, and can do anything in his line from repair? ing a watch to constructing a turbine wheel. He is equally skillful in working metals and woods. He has one excel? lent maxim, and that is to lose no time. If he cannot make $1 a day at labor, he j will work just as assiduously for a quar- j ter, and he has been known to work all j day for a dime. It has never entered his j mind, and a surgical operation could not get such an idea into his brain, that his store would be greatly increased if he would invest his money in some safe in? terest bearing security; Jay Gould conld not borrow $5 from him, though he put up as security every bond and. stock he owns and gave all the Vanderbilts as personal security. It is doubtful if he ever loved, or hated; certainly he has never been twenty miles from where he first saw the light. His wants are the simplest; his garb is coarse, patched and cheap; in summer he goes barefoot, and a pair of shoes, with frequent patchings and solinga and greasings?blacking is criminal prodigality?will last him five years. His parents think he is a credit to them and to his kind, and he is fully persuaded that his life will be a glorious success as soon as he fills that box. On the whole, he is a happy man; he has but one anxiety, and that promises to be relieved soon, for the box is nearly full. This is a wide world in which we live, and it contains a great many sorts of peo? ple." Lots of Money. "Yes, if I had lots of money, I know what I'd do," said a little boy one day, and he gave his head a knowing shake, as if he thought a great deal more than he chose to tell. "Poor child," said a friend, who over? heard, "you don't know every thing yet; you'll be a great deal wiser when you are older." "Let me tell you the story of the Duke of Brunswick and his diamonds. He had more than two million dollars' worth of diamonds, and they made a prisoner of him. He never dared to leave home even for a night, lest some one would steal them. He lived in a house built so he couldn't take any comfort in it. It was much like a prison, it was made so thick and strong, with the doors and win? dows barred and bolted. A very thick high wall was built outside the house all around it, and on the top of the wall was an| iron railing tipped off with sharp points that would cut like a knife, and so contrived that if a person touched one of them a chime of bells would instantly ring. This railing cost a great deal of money, what would seem a large fortune to us. "He kept his diamonds in a safe built in a thick wall in his bed room, where he could look at them whenever he wished. And his bed was placed against this wall, so that no thief could get at them without waking or killing bim. The safe was very strong, made of stone and iron. If any one should try to pry it open a number of guns would go off that would kill the person at once, and at the same time bells would be set ringing in every room in the house. "He had but one window in his bed? room, and that so high up he could not see out, and no one could get in. The door was made of the stoutest iron, and no one conld get in without under? standing the very curious lock. Besides all this, he kept a case of pistols, all loaded on his table. "What a room I What comfort could that man take, although he was so rich ? Poor man 1 Poor rich man ! He didn't have half the enjoyment in life that you children have, who have no diamonds to take care of, and run in and out and play as you have a mind to. "You see that it is not money that makes a person happy. No, indeed, holy Scripture says: 'Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures and trouble herewith.' It tells us also to lay up for ourselves 'treasures in heaven, where thieves do not break through and steal.'" B ncklen's Arnica Sal Ye The best salve in the world for Cuts, 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 -cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. ? The great treasury vault at Wash ingtookcovers more than a quarter of an acre ahd is twelve feet deep. Recently there was $90,000,000 in silver stored there?an amount that -weighed 4,000 tons and would load 175 freight cars. ? The neighbors of James Striebel, of Brownstown, Ind., are inclined to believe that he is an object, even in bis grave, of the Divine vengeance. Striebel was kill? ed by lightning last summer just as he had shouted out a blasphemous curse at the elements. His friends buried him and erected a stone monument nine feet high to his memory. A few nights ago this monument was struck by a thunder? bolt and shivered into pieces, and the superstitious people are much exercised over the circumstance. 3 XXV.?NO. 52. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The many gifts to Yale College year exceeded $150,000,000. I ? There are thirteen thousand diffii ent kinds of postage stamps in the woi ? A Oadeden county, Fla., farmerf 45 years old, yet he is the proud father i thirty-two fine, healthy children. ? The longest word in the Winnebagcj language is: SbonkbatarakizanhonikonJ kcinena. It means: "I will giro yon a horse." ? The large steam plow that was start ed up in Chino, Cal., lately, will ran day and night, and will plow, sixty acres ev? ery twenty-four hours. ? A new statute enacted by the Mi?- ] aouri Legislature provides that. every storekeeper or corporation employing J[ women must furnish them with seats. ? One firm in Chicago in the cattle j business did a business last year amount? ing to $66,000,000. The area floor of j their building amounts to 140 acres; cold storage area, 40 acres. ? Bulfinch?Well, Wooden, old man, I hear you are married. Wooden?Yes, been married six weeks. Bulfinch?Why, I thought you were always a perfect wo? man hater. Wooden?I am, ? Lucy Snowball-Look heah, Missns j Johnsing, I loaned you two-aigs yeater- j day, and yer has only brurjg me?aci one How am this? Sallie Johnsing?Am datj so ? I muster made a mistake in countih* 'em. ? There is a spring in Bear Valley,: near Chambersburg, Fa., from the surface of which babbles of sand and air ascend about ten inches and there burst. The spring is ten feet in diameter. The water is pure and refreshing. ? It is estimated that at least fifty*^*| million dollars of the government's paper,;; money, supposed to be in circulation, has been lost or destroyed. By the sinking of one vessel off the Atlantic coast, some years ago, one million dollars in green? backs were lost. ? John Clark, of Pittsburg, is . the richest colored man in Pennsylvania. Ho began with an humble blacksmith shop twenty years ago, and has made a fortune of $200,000. He Beems to have Bolved \ the problem of bettering the negro's con* , dition by the simple remedy of bard work. ? It is a striking fact that corn is never found wild. It seems to have been created for the use of man, in its perfect state, and, if once allowed to run wild, can never be brought back again. It can only be reared by being sown by man's own hand, and in ground man's own hand has tilled. ? The Confederate veterans of Geor/ gia have adopted a resolution thankii Mr. Charles B. Rouse, the New Yorkr merchant, for his gift of ?7,500 to be de? voted to the erection of a fence around the Stonewall Cemetery, in Winchester, Va. In this cemetery 4,000 Confederate soldiers are buried.. . ? A lady in Aurora, after being se rated from her old sweetheart forty years, wrote for him to come on and marry her. When he came the lady fainted and re^VrJ fused to wed. Instead of the handsome . youth she parted with she saw a bald, - wrinkled, toothless old man. She bad not expected such a change. ? A few years ago a gentleman bought . 100 acres, several miles below Macon, Ga., ] on the East Tennessee Boad, for which he paid $10 an acre. He improved the prop? erty at a cost of only $7 per acre, and within four years from the date of the purchase cleared $27,000 from the sales oP> fruit grown on this land. ? Belgian railway officials, after three years of investigation, report that under ordinary circumstances the average rail? way train in passing over one mile of track wears from it two and one-fifth pounds. The natural destruction of track - amounts for the whole world to abont 1,- ? 300,000 pounds daily. ? There is not a mile of railway in Brown County, Ind., nor within six miles - of it. Nashville, the county seat, has 400 inhabitants, and but one brick structure, the court house. The jail is built of logs. The county has not sent any one to the penitentiary for several years, and there is not a saloon within its limits. ? According to .a recent law passed by;^ congress, any person who shall use the national flag, either by printing, painting or affixing on it any advertisement for public display or private gain, will be -:J held to be guilty of a misdemeanor, for which the United States Courts may. mulct him $50 or send him to jail for a period of thirty years. ? A self-acting sofa just big enough for two has been patented by an eastern yankee. If properly wound up it will ring a bell at 10 o'clock, at one minute j past 10 it splits apart, and while one-half carries the daughter of the house up stairs and puts her to bed, the other half | kicks the young man out the door and . locks it. ? President Palmer says that it may be necessary to open the World's Fair on. Sundays, and adda that though he is not without moral'doubts as to the expedien? cy of doing so, he is afraid that the other] 1,100 commissioners may not have simi^ larly strong objections to such Sabbt desecration. Mr. Palmer is clearly afraj that Chicago Piety will not be able withstand New England depravity. - ? Georgia boasts a wonder in the form of a petrified bird, found in the heart of a tree, which was blown down by a storm at Barnesville. The head of the bird was perfect, every outline being very plain^ How the bird got into the tree is a ques- ' tion. There was no hollow in the tree, and it has caused considerable specula? tion. It is an interesting curiosity. - One day, in 1830, says Invention, when a working jeweler, Joseph Gillott, now the famous steel pen maker, acciden? tally split one of his fine steel tools, anc being suddenly required to sign i not finding his quill pen a^hflfld", heuBedt the split tool as a ready substitute. -This, accident led to the idea of making pe of steel. Entitled to the Best. All are entitled to the best that their money will buy, so every family should have, at once, a bottle of the best family remedy, Syrup of Figs, to cleaaaajthe, system when costive or bilious. For in 50c and $1.00 bottles by all leading druggists.