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BY CLINESGALES & LANGSTON. OUR STOCK OF STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Xs more Complete than Erer, Jn fact you can buy from W almost anything that the mtiket will afford. We are now selling? Hard-Head Cabbage, Beans, Squashes, Potatoes, Onions, Beets, t?~i And all of . 'the Yegetobles grown here?of our own growth, ^^^^g^ ' 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. 5Chiquola P!ace. KiNERY! PROGRESS! Steam ^gineS ^^^^^^^^^^ Gott0??ins -THE CELEBRATED Witli Feeders and Condensers. - THIS GIN partakes of the BEST FEATURES in others, and corrects the DEFECTS in all . . EUBBER and I^ATHER BELTING, ^?^^>ld undcr a positive guarantee that will protect every buyer. 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. K 1MDWAEE, CUTLERY, IMPLEMENTS, &c, In aucii qoaatHy and variety as to give as the lead cot only io Anderson but in this State: ... DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, AND FINISHED BUILDING LUMBER, A SPECIALTY. SULLIVAN 'HARDWARE CO. piggies, B aggies, I^.H&VE NQW IN STOCK AND ARRIVING DAILY A LARGE STOCK: OF BUGGIES. ?mm Tyson ? Jones' Celebrated Buggies, Mado in North Carolina, are the best sold in this market. They are superior in t^terialjiJtyla, workmanship and finish to any other maky, and present, with their elegant silver mountings, a very neat appearance, besides combining durability and r; ?trength with lightness and easy riding qualities. In fact, there cannot be said too mach in their praise, and all we ask is for you to come and see them before buying ^^w|e?.^' .. ? ... The Haydock Bice 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 Babies made, and less tiresome for long distance travels . - tlutn any other. We keep a complete stock of these constantly on hand, fc 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 Snit Purchasers. A. prices 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 SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY. for Infants and Children. "Castorla is so weH adapted to chfldren that I recommend It?a superior to 0117 prescription known to me." H. A. Abqbte, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Castorla cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di? gestion. "Without injurious medication, Tbk Cehticb Coupaht, 77 Murray Street, If. Y. COTTON GOING HIGHER. E are gLul to be able to inform our friends and customers that Cotton Is bound to go np, if you will not be in too big a hurry to sell. In the meantime you can buy all kinds of? - jjGrJ^OMDeries, Fireworks and Xmas Grooctai Pf all kinclajtt sbeao or cheaper than any where i n To wn from? r Youif, witi^hanks for past patronage, ip?HEj^'?OLUMN, ;f -."fBfe; All communications intended for thisSolumn should be addressed to 0. ?y7AEDIiAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, 8. 0. MEMOBY GEMS. " Do your best in the very best way. " Do all the good yon can, in every way you can, to everybody yon can, and as long aa you can. : Miss Lucy Gambrell, who attended the (Greenville Female College this year, has returned. We learn that an effort is being made to take Miss Lucy out of this County. We are glad to hear of her good luck, but we regret to lose such a promising teacher. She will, however, ba engaged in teaching. We wish her 'success, and feel sure she ia worthy of it A EE AX GOOD IDEA. j Me. Edxtob : Allow me a few lines in 'your own especial corner of the Intel? ligencer, for the purpose of entering a petition for a little less arithmetic in the Piedcdont curriculum for our bonny eweet girls, and one hundred times more attention to the intricacies of their mother tongue. In answer recently to a friend's question as to what I was doing, my reply, was: "Trying to teach a for? eign language?English." For truly what with the Africanisms still extant, tue idioms of the upper country and the fearful and wonderful structure of Amer? ican elangj that unmusicial bnt sonorous ? old tongue may be considered as having received its second apoplectic stroke. Shades of Addison and Steele ! Wander not towards cosmic shores, if you do not wish to witness the decadency of the lan? guage to which you gave such positive tone and richness of color that the page becomes a canvass, and the world form a softly shaded picture. English .of course has not the softness of Spanish, or the luscious sweetness of the old Ionic Greek, but properly spoken can be made very effective. I should call it the Wagner of languages?like his music, turbulent and strong, but yet with something picturesque about it "for a' that." . Arithmetic is very well, (so are the tin pans and cooking utensils in our kitch? ens) and if a girl is fitting herself for the position of a clerk, would be of great use to her ; but women are generally the central stars of home-life, the goddesses of the drawing rooms, and as such their charm is exquisite?highly cultivated conversational powers. Why not have in onr female Colleges lady, professors of English literature and English poetry ? Of course I am speak? ing of the girls only. As to the boys, let them become paradigms of arithmetic, but pray do not let the peachy-cheeked Misses of this decade become automata, wound up by clock work and warranted to solve at a given time so many geomet? rical problems. But I will draw my philological mantle around me, at least pro tempore. Kil Cotjbtland. Below we give the program of the closing exercises of Miss Lena Johnson's School, at Ivy Hollow, on 80th June ult. This was one of the most enjoyable oc? casions we have had the pleasure of at? tending. Miss Johnson is a good teacher, and her services are highly appreciated. This exhibition showed her training powers, and was complimentary to both pupils and teacher. There were present a large crowd to witness and enjoy this occasion. The order was very good, in? deed. We trust Miss Lena can be in? duced to teach at Ivy Hollow again next year, for it would be hard to get another teacher that would give such general sat isfation. rrayer. Chorus, "Happy greeting to all." Piano Duett, "Heavenward March," Misses Va? leria and Florence Clinkscales. Speech, "Good Evening," Willie Clinkscales. Speech, "Be Polite," Lester Sadler. Speech, "a Double Accident," Richard Harris. ^Speech, "However% bo," Leroy Harris. Speech, "a Boy's Beliof," Sammle Clinkccales. Speech, "a Boy's Troubles," Charlie Clinkscales. Speech, "I know a little Girl," Edgar Clink? scales. Chorus, "Never say FalL" Reading, "Jimmy Butler and the Owl," Eugene McGee. Dialogue, "a Schoolmistress' Trials." Dialogue, "Tom's Practical Joke.'' Piano Solo, "Song of tftc Robin," Miss Valeria Clinkscales. Recitation, "Harry's Mistake," Xenia Clink? scales. Recitation, "Dolly's Education," Annie Sadler. Recitation, "Did you ever get a Letter," Essie Sanders. Recitation. "HelpingMamma, "Delia McConnell Recitation, "After School," Emma McGee: Recitation, "Grandpa's Spectacles," Ophelia Clinkscales. Recitation, "Her Name," Lucy Clinkscales. Recitation, "Making Daily's Dresses," Hatile Sanders Chorus, "Oh, the Sports of Childhood." Dialogue, "Knowing the- Circumstances." Piano Trio, "The Three Friend's Sleigh Ride," Misses Florence, Mary and Ophelia Clinkscales. Dialogue and Tableau, "The Months." Recitation, "Driving the Cows," Miss" Lizzie Harris. Recitation, "a Little Light," Miss Florence Clinkscales. Recitation, "A Good Financier," Miss Mary Clinkscales. Recitation, "Asleep at the Switch," Miss Ola Hewln. Chorus, "Leafy Dell." Dialogue, "Tho Art Critic.". . : Recitation, "The lips that touch liquor," Miss Lula McConnell. Recitation, "Tho Polish Boy," Miss Pearl Sadler. Piano Solo, "Cheorfulness," Miss Mary Clink? scales. Dialogue, "Playing School." Piano Duett, "Irresistablo Polka," Misses Sadler andMcGeo. Speech, "A Boy's Complaint," Hordy Sadlor. Speech, "The Careful Messenger," Eugene McGee. Speech, "Whero arc the Coming Men ?" James McConnell." Speech, "Boys will be Men." James Sadler. Speech, "Warren's Address," Ishstn McGee. Speech, "Charge of the Light Brigade," Pringle Clinkscales. Dialogue, "Incompatibility." Chorus, "The Brook." Dialogue, "Have a Shine, sah?" Vocal 8olo with Chorus, Will Mayby and Lucy Clinkscales. Recitation, "Annie and Willie's Prayer," Miss Valeria Clinkscales. Piano 8olo, "Around the Maypole," Miss Flor? ence Clinkscales. Recitation, "The Famine," Miss Ncta McGee. Tableau, "Death of Wlnnohalta. ' Fan Drill. Dialogues, "Woman's Rights." Chorus, "Good Night." ? The total yield of winter wheat is estimated at three hundred and forty millions, and the experts generally con? cede the crop will be the pest on record, ANDERSON, S. C, ARP IN MISSOURI. He Keeps Bis Eres and His Ears Open. Atlanta Constitution. Two million bushels ! That is the es? timate for one county in Missouri. Two bushels of wheat and the harvest has begun. I was at Marshall last week> the county site of Saline, which is said to be the richest County in the State. I was in other Counties, and their good people boasted in the accustomed way of their county, and claimed that it was the best in the State, except Saline. Marshall is a beautiful little city ot 5,000 people; It is embowered in shade and environed with beautiful homes. Homes is the word; not fine palatial places to live in; not mansions to be afraid of, but lovely, inviting homes that seem to speak to you and say, "Come in." I am awfully afraid of a fine house. I am afraid I will hurt its feelings, or get lost in it, or take the wrong door, or walk through a looking glass. I was in one the other day, and thought I saw some people in another room. There was a dim, religious light, and I can't see very well no how, and I wondered what they were doing in there, and why they did not come into the par? lor and be introduced, when suddenly it flashed upon me that I was looking into a mirror and saw myself and my friends who were entertaining me. On another occasion I was in the library room, and when I took my departure I opened a cioBet door before the good lady could stop me. It was full of nice clothes, but I dident panze to admire them. Some? times I get turned round in a strange place and would go the wrong way if my judgment dident tell me better. Two million bushels of wheat?forty bushels to the acre?80 cents a bushel. Just think of it?Missouri is set down for 100,000, 000 bushels. It takes a pound of flour a day for each man, woman and child. That is the average. It is the army ra? tion. One bushel of wheat makes forty pounds of flour. Nine bushels would make enough for one person for a year. Then it will take about 600,000,000 of bushels for all the people of the United States, and Missouri will make one-sixth of it. Besides this she will make millions of corn and oats and hay. A banker of Marshall told me that there was paid out through his bank Iaet winter over $100, 000 for apples grown in Saline County, and shipped to the east, Then there are the horses and mules and cattle and hogs and sheep that flock the land wherever you go. I mounted the stairs of the fine courthouse and climbed and climbed until my knees ached, and from the lofty pinnacle I viewed the landscape o'er and feasted my soul upon its beauty. It was like a great carpet of buff and green mo? saics. "Are your people happy ?" said I to my friend. He smiled and answered, "They ought to be." "Are your farmers grum? bling because they have nonubbins to feed the steers on ?" said I. "Some of them are not content with their lot," he said. "How about the alliance and the sub-treasury Bcheme?" I asked. "Well, we have the alliance pretty strong, but not much of the sub-treasury. Our far? mers don't want to borrow money. They are not in debt in this region and have no mortgages to carry except when a man boys more land and gives a mortgage for part of the purchase money. Mr. Hall, the head of the alliance in this State, has just published a general order warning the members to be careful lest while complaining of the government for rob? bing them they be seduced by politicians to become robbers themselves." Sam Jones is up there pitching into both of the old parties in a very hostile manner. He said he used to be a Democrat, but it got to be a whisky party and was run by whisky men and a whisky ring, and be had quit it and washed his hands of the old rotten whisky-drinking concern. Then he looked around and said: "Now you old Republican sinners, you needent be a grinning at what I said. I thank God I never did belong to your old beer swillin' party. Whiskey will turn a man into a devil, but beer will make him steal, and your old party is a party of beer and plunder, and will bankrupt the government in four years more." And bo the newspapers out there accuse Sam of favoring a third party, and may? be he is. Certain it is the masseB of the people are unsettled, and nobody knows which way the cat is going to jump. Certain it is that the rising generation has not that affection for the old parties that their fathers had, and as for the for? eigners who have come since the war, they have no attachments at all, and a large portion are like the Irishman who was asked about his politics and he said: "Faith, I don't know anything about your politics, but I'm agin the government." Certain it is the old party leaders are feeding the alliance on taffy and both will promise all that is asked and more, too, but the whole business is a new game on the chess board and nobody can tell the result until the game is ended. Certain it is that the great army of laboring men, who are jealous and envious of the rich, are ready for any change that will make them disgorge, and hence they will com? bine with the alliance to form a new party, notwithstanding it is the farmers' interest to get more for his produce, and it is the laborer's interest to pay less, How they will reconcile all these conflicts we cannot see. The political pot is not boiling yet, but it will be in a few months. If I was an office holder or an office Beeker I would feel a deep concern, but as I am neither, I feel no alarm and no great anxiety. The damage has already done and can't be undone for ten years to come. The treasury has been emptied to pay pensions and will stay emptied. The McKinley high tariff will have to stand, for it will take it all, and more, too, to run the Government. It is all very bad, but the good old Methodist prayer still fits us and is a comfort, "Oh, Lord, we thank thee that it is as well with us as what it iB." A friend at Marshall wanted me to move there and said they would fix me up. "Give me a nice, pleasant home like one of these?" said I. "Ob, yeB." "A pair of good gentle horses and a carriage for Mrs. Arp V "Yes, of ccurse," said he. "Garden and orchard and pasture gronnd VI "Everything complete," said he. % ruminated awhile and looked THURSDAY MORN away off towards old Georgia and said: "My 'good friend, it ia home where the heart is, and my heart is down among the hills of Cherokee. If yon had Aladin's lamp yon could not move those beautiful mountains whose crests are gilded by the rays of the morning sun?you could not transplant the springs and crystal streams that flow in onr valleys. But more than all of these, my kindred and the friends of my youth are there, and the graves of our dead and the sweet memories of childhood. I am too old now to get weaned from these?yesj too old. We have some good things that you have not. Providence is always kind and happiness is not far off from everyone of us if we will seek it. It is not in New York or Washington or across the sea; but is by the hearthstone where affection lingers, and contentment dwells. Excuse me, my friends, t cannot change my base, but I will come to Bee you sometimes and you must come to see us and drink our pure spring water and breathe onr mountain air." My visit to Missouri was a delightful one, and nothing marred its pleasure but a regret that was ever present?the regret that my wife and children were not with me to enjoy it. How they wonld have admired the luxurious equipment of those fine railways, the Missouri Pacific on the south of the river, and the Chica? go and Alton on the north?both parallel lines from St. Louis to the west. I went by one and returned by the other, so as to peruse more of that delightful country. How they wonld have delighted to ride on the cable cars of Kansas City, said to be the most perfect cables in the world. They traverse the City at right angles, one series of parallels being level for five miles and the other series that cross them leaping from one street to another down the slopes that remind you of Lynchburg, Va. The passengers brace themselves for the steep descent, and it almost makes you hold your breath with apprehension. If you dident see everybody riding you wouldn't take the risk for money. I wanted the children there to ride them up and down for half a day at a time, for it is Bplendid toboggan. But they will see enough I reckon enough before they die?enough of pleas? ure and of pain. May they take life fairly is my prayer. "Carpe diem" is a good motto?enjoy the day. "Carpe diem"?enjoy every day whether at home or abroad, and be thankful to God for his goodness. Bill Abp. How Fast It Travels. Philadelphia scientists are preparing to find out. how fast an electric current travels. An experiment will be made, probably from the Franklin Institute, by connections over the Atlantic cable to Liverpool and return. The most recent experiment was tried at McGill College, Montreal. The cur? rent was transmitted in Montreal, was transferred to the cable at the Newfound? land cable station by means of Thomp? son's mirror galvanometer, sent across'to the station at Liverpool, and returned to Montreal by the same method. The dia tance traversed, partly by overhead wire and partly cabie, was 8,000 miles. From the time the current left the key in Montreal until it returned to the re? ceiver in the same office just one second and one-twentieth of a second had elapsed; but the conditions were not as good as they might have been; hence the further experiment to be made here. The rapidity with which the current travels over short wires with no delay in? dicated unlimited possibilities in the di? rection of practical testa. Prof. Marks, of the Edison Electric Light Company, is authority for the assertion that if the globe was encircled with a continuous cable, a current would travel the entire distance in a trifle over three seconds. At this rate a current would travel to the sun, covering the distance of 96,000,000 miles, in three and a half minutes. "In this age of science," said one of the gentlemen who will participate in the ex? periments, "people have an idea that we know so much now there is nothing more to be discovered. Why, we are yet in our infancy as far as electricity goes. New discoveries will yet be made, and we will live to see them put into practical use, which will revolutionize the entire world. The experiment which we are abont to make in telegraphy is only a feeler, which will lead to other and more startling ex? periments. The establishment of tele? phone communication between the hem? ispheres is already being seriously dis? cussed."? Philadelphia Record. They poulticed her feet and poulticed her head, And blistered her back till it was smarting and red, Tried tonics, elixirs, pain killers and salves, (Though grandma declared it was nothing but "narves,") The poor woman thought she must certain? ly die, Till "Favorite Prescription she happened to try, No wonder Its praises so loudly they speak, She grew better at once and was well in a week, The torturing pains and distressing nervousness which accompany, at times, certain forms of female weakness, yield like magic to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre? scription. It is purely vegetable, per? fectly harmless, and adapted to the deli? cate organization of woman. It allays and subdues the nervous symptoms and relieves the pain accompanying function? al and organic troubles. Guarantee printed on bottle wrapper and faithfully carried out for many years. ?Such goods aa are in common use by laboring people, pay a tariff of about 75 per cent. Yet, some of these third party advocates say the tariff is a secondary is? sue. ? The New York Journal of Commerce wkich usually knows what it is talking about, Bays the exports of gold to Europe are being made by western silver mine owners to force a scare on this couutry and free coinage legislation. ? Professor Thomas E. Sherman esti? mates that the tariff takes about one-sixth of the earnings of the people, and falls most heavily on women. Men can do without ribbons, laces, artificial flowers, gloves, etc., but the women roust have them. ING, JULY 9, 1891. Remedies for the Cotton Grower. The price of cotton haa been steadily falling dnring the past few years. The prices of other things?including money ?have been falling also? The prospects now, however> are that the price of cot? ton will fall below the proportion of other things so that the profit in growing it will be destroyed. A big crop was made last; year and another big one is pitched this year. We have made more cotton than the factories could or would take, and there is a big surplus of bales to Carry oVOfi YariouB remedies are suggested. -The alliance tried last year to keep the price up by inducing farmers to hold their crops for ten cents and many loyal alli? ance men obeyed orders and lost heavily by doing it. The next scheme suggested was to decrease the acreage planted. That has been done in some neighbor* hoods while in others as much as ever or more than ever has been'planted. Some men got the idea that the lessened acre? age would cause a small crop and high prices and hastened to get in as much as possible to secure a big share in the rise. Then Bomebody suggested that all far? mers agree to plow up every fonrth row in all their cotton fields so as to cut the crop off twenty-five per cent, at once. This was seriously urged. Now comes Major Harry Hammond, of Aiken, with the suggestion that . hes?y special tax be levied on the business of cotton plant* ing so as to limit the number of persons who can engage in it and thereby keep I the yield down and the price up. One great difficulty in the way of in* telligent discussion of the subject is the absence of a knowledge of the difference between the cost and selling price of cotton. A railroad man can tell to the fraction of a cent how much it costs to ran a train one mile, how much it costB to stop a train, what rates he must charge to make a profit. A mill president can give you to the fraction of a cent what every yard of cloth or pound of yarn costs. A merchant marks on every piece of his goods what it costs him, in? cluding freight, cartage, discounts or interest. We have never yet found a farmer who could tell anywhere near what his cotton cost him to make. Some men claim there is a profit in cotton at seven cents. Others say it will not pay out at less than ten. We can not see any sense in trying to I change the laws of supply and demand. : When more of anything is made or offered than there is use or demand for the price must go down. When less is made or offered than is needed prices must rise. It is equally hard to change human nature. People who think there is money in cotton will plant all of it they can cultivate, and when they be* lieve that prices are to be forced up they will strain themselves to make all they can find ground for. Such things regulate themselves in process of time. When cotton is found to be unprofitable a few years the men who are loeing money on it will quit making it or be forced to quit. The truth is, however, the South has grown rich on cotton despite the steady fall in price. Everybody who travels in the country muBt see that people there have been prospering on something. The general verdict is that the men who live at home, who make their own food and the food of their stock and raise cotton for a money crop have done well. That must force itself on the people presently and cause cotton to be the side or sur? plus crop. We believe that will be the final solution of the problem, the means by which the supply will be regularly kept within the limits of the demand. Meanwhile the quickest and best way to help the farmer is to give him mate? rials and supplies cheaper. We thought and hoped that was the chief purpose of the farmers, alliance?that it would put dealings between the farmer and the merchant on a more business like and mutually satisfactory basis, give the mer? chant good security and thereby enable him to sell at a close margin and the farmer to buy cheaper. That would have helped everybody and hurt nobody. It can yet be done. It is a sure, safe and natural remedy.?Greenville News. - Not on Improbable Story. "What is the matter old man?" he said as they met the morning after. "You look blue." "I feel blue." "But last night you were the jolliest member of the party." "I felt jolly." "You acted like a boy just let out of school." "I feel like one." "You said your wife had gone away for the first time in three years and there wasn't any one to say a word if you went home and kicked over the mantel clock." "I remember it." "You said if you stayed out until 4 o'clock there was no one to look at you reproachfully and sigh and make you feel mean." "YeB, and I atayed out until 4 o'clock, didn't I?" "You certainly did." "And I gave an Indian war whoop on the doorstep." "Yes, and you Bang a verse from a comic opera Bong and tried to dance a clog." "And my wife had missed the train. Now go away and leave me. I want to kick myself a little more for not taking the precaution to get an affidavit from the Oonductor that she went with the train."? Chicago Tribune. Bncfclen's Arnica Salve The best Balve in the world for Guts, 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 BrosL_ ? The best coffee that is exported from Mexico is raised by a colony of confed? erate refugees who settled in Cordona in the State of Vera Cruz, at the end of the war. They have devoted all their attention to this industry, and it has proved very profitable to them, The Beggar's Fountain, There is in Italy a fountain over which is the statute of a beggar drinking at a , spring. It is called "The Beggar's Foun? tain," and this is its story: Once upon a time there lived a very proud and haughty man, who hated the poor and set himself above all the world who were not aa wealthy and well-dressed as him? self, and his want of charity was so great that it had become proverbial, and a beggar would no more have thought of asking bread at his gate than of asking him for all his fortune. There was a spring on his land, a sweet spring of cold water, and it was the only one for miles; many a wayfarer paused to drink at it, but was never permitted to do so. A servant was kept upon the watch to drive such persons away. Now there had never been known before any one so avaricious as to refuse a cup of cold water to his fellowmen, and the angelB, talking among themselves, could not believe it, and one of them said to the rest: "It is impossible for any but Satan himself! I will go to earth, and prove that it is not true." And this fair and holy angel disguised herself as a beggar woman, covered her golden hair with a black hood, and chose the moment when the master of the j house was himself standing near the ; spring to come slowly up the road, and to pause before the fountain and humbly asked for a draught of its sweet water. Instantly the servant who guarded the spot refused; but the angel, desiring to take news of a good deed, not of an evil one, back to heaven, went to the master himself, and said, "I am, as you see, a wanderer from afar. See how poor are ! my garments, how Btalned with travel. It is not surely at your bidding that your servant forbids me to drink, and even if it is, I pray yon bid him let me drink, for I am very thirsty." . The rich man looked at her with acorn j ful eyes and said: "This is not a public fountain; you | j will find one in the next village." "The way is long," pleaded the angel, "and I am a woman and weak." "Drive her away," said the rich man, and, as he spoke, the beggar turned, but on the instant her black hood dropped from her head and revealed floods of rippling golden hair?her unseemly rags fell to the ground?and the shimmering robes that angels wear shone in. their place. For a moment she hovered, poised on purple wings, with her hands folded on her bosom and an ineffable sweetness of sorrow in her eyes. Then with a gush of music and a flood of per? fume, she vanished. The servant fell on the earth like one dead. The rich man trembled and cried out, for he knew that he had forbidden a cup of cold water to an angel, and horror possessed his soul. Almost instantly a terrible thirst fell upon him Which nothing could assnage. In vain he drank sherbets, wines, draughts of all pleasing kinds. Nothing could slake his thirst. The sweet waters of the spring was salter to him than the sea. He who had never known an ungratified desire now experienced the torture of an ever unsatisfied longing; but through this misery he began to understand what he had done. He repented his cruelty to the poor. Alms were given daily at his gate. Oharity was the business of his life. The fountain was no longer guard? ed, and near it hung a cup ready for any one who chose to use it. But the curse ?if curse it were?was not lifted. The rich man?young when the angel visited him?grew middle aged, elderly, old, still tortured by this awful thirst, despite his prayers and repentance. He had broken bread for the most miserable beggars who came to his door. And at eighty years of age, bowed with years of infirmity, and weary of his life, he sat beside the fountain weeping. And lo along the road he saw approaching a beggar woman, hooded in black, and walking over the stones with bare feet, slowly she came and paused beside the fountain. "May I drink ?" she asked. "There is none to forbid thee," said the old man, trembling. "Drink, poor wo? man. Once an angel was forbidden here, but that time has passed. Drink and pray for one athirst, Here is the cup." The woman bent over the fountain and filled the cnp, but instead of putting it to her lips she presented it to the old man. "Drink, then," she cried, "and thirst no more." The old man took the cup and emptied it. 0 blessed draught! with the torture of years departed, and as he drank it he praised Heaven. And lifting his eyes once more he saw the beggar's hood drop to the ground and her rags fall in pieces. For a moment she stood revealed in all her beanty of snowy skin and golden hair and silvery raiment; and she stretched her hand toward him, as if in blessing, and then rising, vanished in the skies. A strain of music lingered, a per? fume filled the air and those who came there soon after found the old man pray? ing beside the spring. 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VOLUM] Alabama Changes Place with Pennsyl? vania, I Washington, June 25.?Within a week the Census Office will issue a bulle? tin for iron ore, which will be, perhaps, one of the most remarkable, as well as one of the most suggestive, of the series of bulletins issued by that office. For the first time in the history of the coun? try, Alabama will change places with Pennsylvania, as producing in one year more iron ore than the old Keystone State. This significant statement means that the South will be the future iron producing centre of the United States. "The forthcoming statement will show that in no part of the United States has the industrial progress been more satis? factory than in the South," said Super? intendent Porter to day, when interview? ed on the subject. "It Is a fact our sta? tistics will show the South to be produc? ing as much iron ore now as the whole country produced in 1870. The same is true as regards pig iron and bituminous coal. In my opinion, the changes that! ? will come about in the near future in the manufacture of iron will make the South the great iron-producing region of the United States. This will not affect Pennsylvania, for we have abundant proof that in all these migrations the old centre takes up another class of manu? facture, which is generally an advanced product of the same article. In England the old centres of iron manufacturers were Sheffield and Birmingham, but when South Wales and Barrow took the lead the former cities engaged in the produc? tion of steel and other things. The three future centres of iron manufacture will be Paget Sound, on the Pacific coast, Bir? mingham, East Tennessee and North Carolina, in the South, and the Pittsburg region in the North. Schooled in adver? sity, the South is already beginning to realize the blessings that follow from turning the sword into a ploughshare, and the truth of President Harrison's state? ment in his inaugural address is now ap? parent; that the Emancipation procla? mation wes heard in the dark depths of the earth, as well as in the cerulean depths of the sky." Taking Quinine. A permanent partial loss of hearing | power is not such a very infrequent con | sequence of quinine. Large doses are ! capable of causing blindness, which is likely to last for weeks and even months, j It has generally been held that this re suit is the consequence of congestion of ' the brain and nervous system ; but lately the theory has been advanced that, while it congests the ears, it acts directly the reverse upon the eyes, producing a local poverty of blood. Among the less serious effects of quinine are an irrita? bility of the kidneys and associate or? gans. Small doses of it also, in some ' persons, give rise to skin eruptions. [ But for this quinine can scarcely be blamed; for people sometimes have strange indiosyncrasies, and some of them are similarly affected by that harm? less of fruits, the strawberry. While quinine is an agent capable of doing harm, it is also a potent one for good in quite a number of disturbances and distresses. It is the remedy of all in chills and fever, not only as a means of prevention, but as a cure. If enough of the drag is taken between six and eight hours before the time for the chill to ap? pear it will not be likely to occur. It takes about sis hoars for the drug to freely act; that is why the chill must be anticipated by at least that period. At j first the popular way of treating chills and fever was in a few large doses of qui? nine, but the disagreeable effects of the drug were pretty sure to appear in con? sequence. So most, if not all, physicians prefer to give it in about five grain doses every six hours, commencing the same at the time of the last chill, and contin? uing until the next one is expected. But if another chill does not occur the quinine is only given in such dosea about three times a day for about two days; then the dose is quite rapidly lessened, until only one or two graics are being taken, and the use of the drug in small doses is continued for a week or two, to make sure that the disease has been en? tirely overcome.?Boston Herald. Curious Facts abont Beer's Boms. Why and how is the deer so peculiarly unlike any other of the bovine race?the horn differing so materially from all the horned cattle in its composition, growth maturity and decline? It presents all the phenomena of animal and vegetable growth. It sprouts from the brain with? out any prolongation of the frontal bone. It rises and breaks through the sinews and takes root on the bone, growing the same as a vegetable. It is nourished by and secretes albumen upon the surface, and disposes of the fibrine the same as an animal. It is clothed with a skin and hairy coat very different from that on the rest of the body. This covering and hair pos sesses a property unknown in other ani? mal bodies?that of being a stypic to stanch its own blood when wounded. It carries marks of the age on the buck by putting out an extra branch each year, which shows an additional power each year to produce them, and this power does not exist in the female, so this dif? ference is more distinctly marked than in any other class of animals. Again, the horn possesses properties unknown in any other animal matter. It is entirely inod orous, capable of resisting putrefaction and almost impervious to the effects of the atmosphere. And still, water at 300 dega. Fahren beit will dissolve these horns readily, even though they are not soluble in alco hol and resist the action of acids and alkalis. It is the only vegito animal substance that we know of that does not perpetuate itself by procreation. The male and the female are sustained by the Bame nutrition and elements, and the male only produces hornB. This phe nomenon is quite as much of a curiosity as the absence of the horn in the buck after shedding.?St. Louis Republic. ? In Pennsylvania, the other day 800 men left their work and searched Wilkes barre mountain for a lost child. Human nature has its soft side, and people have kinder hearts than they get credit for. E XXVI.- -NO. 1. All Sorts of Paragraphs! ? ? Bengal has lately had sixty earth? quake shocks of more or less severity. ? The cotton acreage of North Caroli? na averages a little more than one million^ acres. This year there is a falling off of. I two per cent. ? Straight streets are unknown in J China. They are purposely made crook ed to confuse Satan, as. the Chinese, be? lieve the devil travels in a stright line.; _ ? The Eev. Frank L. Stevens, a bril? liant young student of the Yale divinity school, has been driven "insane by Lieutenant Totten's theory that the world will come to an end in 1900. ^ v\ ? ? Thirty-six "wet" Counties ofX-reor gia have one convict to every 960 people. One hundred and one "dry" Counties in' the same State have one convict to every 1,320 people. ? The Eev. Sam Jones.says: "The . membership of a Church is divided into four separate and distinct classes. The first will pray but won't pay; the second will pay but won't pray; the third won't either pay or pray; the fourth are'tho few who both pay and pray," ? It is said there is a tract of forest trees in southern Oregon embracing about ?' 16,000 square miles, which, cut and sold - .. at $10 per 1,000 feet, would pay. our na- >'-; tionaldebt twice over. It is estimated ~ that the amount of merchantable timber --| standing will reach 400,000,000,000 feegM ? Capt. J. C. Boyd owns a fifteen month's old heifer that has never'calvedj but is giving a half gallon of milk every day. The mother of the heifer, also gate' milk before calving. Captain Boyd. be- f lieves the animal will give a gallon or more of milk in a few weeks.?Gr?m Newt, ? The political revolution in Kansas' becomes easy of explanation when it is considered that twenty-two newspapersiia^ the State are edited by wbmeo;'^&Bf this enumeration does not embrace the many wives of editors who write editbri-; al as well as society matters for the husbands'journals. ? Japan's Emperor has decreed that every man who provokes a duel or accepts ^ a challenge shall pay a heavy fine and * : serve from six months to two years , in the galleys. The taunting of a man for r ? refusal to fight when challenged wnrbe||| regarded as slander, and will be so treat- - ed by the courts. ? It is expected that the Grady Memc< rial Hospital in Atlanta will be completed by the 1st of next December. So. far $80,000 has been subscribed to the fund for its erection and there remains anX-;'' amount of about $18,000 still to be raised. This is the best monument that could be - reared to Grady. j? ? The bottom s?ems to have dropped out of cotton. It is reported that the <j? acreage in the trans-Mississippi country ^ will show an increase of 10 per cent, andjgl the crop prospects-are better all over the^ cotton country than they were this time, last year. If we make anolfier large as last year cotton will sell for 5 cents per pound by January 1. ? The grip, which has been such a scourge in this country and in Europe,^ appears to have been peculiarly destrnc-r,::" tive of life in China, and greatly puzzled;-fV ; the doctors of the Flowery Kingdom. The Chinese thought that an evil spirit was at work and beat drams and gongs in the streets of the cities to drive it off. - ? George Washington knew the value of newspaper advertising. In a reproduc- : tion in a fac simile of its erst number, printed 118 years ago, the Baltimore American displays a half column "ad"' by";V' the father of his country announcing that he had bought 10,000 acres of land wbjch' - he divided into homesteads and was ready ^ to place upon the market. George ^a'^ great man, buthe'hadaaeye to business.^vl: ? Squire James Sitter,' believed to' be;; ?? the largest man in the South, died at Elm - < Springs, Ark., Ia9t week. Ritter was sev-7 enty years old and weighed 540 pounds.)0 He had his coffin made two years ago, and -.]?? for two seasons used it as a granery. It was made of walnut and held twenty-two ''../. bushels of wheat. Twelve men acted as pall bearers, and it took four strong ropes . to lower the coffin into the grave. ? A man at Jansen, Fla., will realize \ ),000 this year from an acre of pineap- : pies, while Major Ryals, of Chatham^;? County, Ga., has a truck farm of 125 acres, near Savannah, which yields him $100,-' 000 a year. His chief crop is Irish pots*.. toes, of which he has 80 acres.. In addi? tion he raised cabbages, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, onions and other small vege tables. His income from onions is $700 ''-I an acre. A little oblong steel box opening with combination lock, passed through: the Chicago custom house the other morning, consigned to an Illinois watch ? ~ company. This insignificant looking af- - fair contained diamonds and rubies by. the hundred, that were for settings for \ watches. The value of the stones was V.; placed at $150,000 and the duty on them . 3 was a small fortune. The goods were delivered by a special messenger. Most of cur readers heard of the i calf case that went on in the courts for twenty years and bankrupted fifty or > more persons, the calves in the first place M being worth jost $7.50. The Iowa calf^ case is now paralleled by the Arkansas shoat case. A shoat was killed. Two :Jj men were accused of the deed. They be-; came bankrupt defending themselves, ^ spending $6,000. Besides that the coun- |j ty is out $1,000. The nig was worth ^ $2.50. ? Before the war there was no such; X* flower as the daisy in Virginia, Now the fields just around Richmond are white with them. This is especially so of the late battlefields about the Chickahominy - River, and wherever the Federals had encampments. An investigation shows that the seeds of the prolific daisy were brought here in the bales of hay brought^ by the Union soldiers to Virgjnja-^hen"1 they were encamped near the" city. An old battery west of Richmond is the spot j$ from which the daisy began to spread. Entitled to the Best .>!M ?: Vv 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 cleanseUh$^^ system when costive or bilious. For sale^" in 00c and $1,00 bottles by ill leading druggists, ...