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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. OUR STOCK OF ? STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Js more Complete than Ever, FACT you can bay from us almost anything that the market will afford. We are now selling? Hard-Head Cabbage, Beans, Squashes, Potatoes, Onions, Beets, , And -bllef the Vegetables grown here?of oar own growth. v Now on hand one Car Load of FINE GEORGIA MELONS. Ail of which we offer at prices that will defy competition. D. S. MAXWELL & SON, No. 5 Chiquola Place. : Steam Engines AND .Boilers. THE CELEBRATED -TTvT With Feeders and Condensers. - fSEGS GIN partakes of the BEST FEATURES in others, and corrects the DBF&GTS in all. RUBBER and LEATHER BELTING, Sohlender a positive guarantee that will protect every buyer. By recent special contracts with Manufacturers we are in shape to com ^jpele with the world. All we ask for is a fair opportunity and no favors. HARDWARE, CUTLERY, IMPLEMENTS, &c, In ?ach quaotity and variety ss to give us the lead Dot only in Anderson bnt in DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, AND FINISHED BUILDING LUMBER, A SPECIALTY. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. ggies, Baggies, BUGGIES! w E HAVE NOW IN STOCK AND ARRIVING DAILY A LARGE STOCK OF BUGGIES. Tyson & Jones' Celebrated Buggies, Made in North Carolina, are the best told in this market. They are superior in ?.material, styl?, workmanship and finish to any other maku, and present, with their elegant silver mountings, a very neat appearance, besides combining durability and ?trength with lightness and easy riding qualities. In fact, there cannot he said too much in their praise, and all we ask is for you to come and see them before buying claewhiii. T&eireU-known Haydock Rice Coil Spring Buggies, Of which we have sold 90 many daring the past two seasons, have given universal satisfaction, and the demand for them is constantly increasing. They are conceded to be the easiest riding Baggies made, and less 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. We also keep a large assortment of all kinds of? HARNESS FOR SALE. Before baying elsewhere be sure and call and examine our stock and SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY. prices. for Infants and Children. "Castorfs is so weU adapted to children that I Castorf? cores Colic, Constipation, I reoomnienditaB superior to any prescription I ^ur ^mach, Diarrhpa, EructaUon, known to me." H. A. Abchib, M. D., I kiu|e?8' glve8 bleep' ^ promotefl <u' 111 So. Oxford Et, Brooklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious medication. The Ckktaub Company, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. COTTON COINC HIGHER. . A7CTk B*<mJ 5? be able to inform our friends and customers that Cotton is bound to 'T go up, if yon will not be in too big a hurry to sell. In the meantime you can buy.all kiqd^of? --. Groeerios, Fireworks and Xmas Goods Ot aU Mode us aheap or cheaper than anywhere in Town from? rx r Yowrs, wtfk ThaukaTor past patronage, tO / E/W; TAYLOR & CO, I^??H^'?oL?MN, All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARDL AW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMORY GEMS. "Go and do thon likewise." "Some have entertained angels una? ware." We regret that bo few of our teachers are members of the State Teachers' As? sociation. We publish below the story of a horse, written by a member of Lebanon School. Most, if not all, of the story is real. We trust our people will do all they can to make the members of the State Teachers' Association enjoy themselves while among us. We extend to them a cordial welcome. We trust Miss Lenora Hubbard and Miss Maggie Evans will each favor the teachers of the County with a report of their trip to Toronto. We ask it as a spe? cial favor. We should have the cause of educa? tion at heart as well as the accumulation of money. The only hope of the country i? in a better education. If we do not advance along the educational lines, we really make no genuine progress. Edu? cation means everything that lends to make a man or woman what God designed that he or she should be. So give ub education?the more the better. STOBY OF A HOBSE. When I was very small I followed my mother everywhere she went. I could not do any work, but ran, played and kicked up my heels. I held a high head and curved neck. I was the pride of my mother, and was admired by my boss. He called me Coltie. One day I went with my mother to the bottoms, she to graze, but I to play. I was making some circles and half moons around. I had noticed that weeds and shrubs seemed to grow in straighter and more regular lines than in the old pine field, but I thought they were simply better educated. So wishing to enlarge my stamping circles, I went dashing through the nearest and proudest looking hedge, and into the branch I fell. It is true it was not very deep, but I was scared, and leaped and jumped to get out. Indeed, all my plans were broken up. At last I found a friend in a dog which came, and, mistaking me for some wild animal, barked and yelled until help came. All tried to get me out, but they failed. It was not very deep, but was nearly full of water. They got me almost to the top, but let me fall back, then I jumped and kicked all I could. This cured me of all my dudish ways. As I grew larger and larger I was taught better manners, and that I was here for useful purposes. Bat colts, as well as anybody, must have some fun. I v?as put into the pasture with the cows, and I would cbase them until I had them run down, and I was real tired, too, but it was real colt fun.' When I was three years old my master tried to teach me to work. He let a man have me to break, and it took him a long time to do so. My first lesson was to carry a person on my back. He put his sod Guy on, and told him to ride me to the spring and water me. When Guy got there I threw him off and ran to the house. When I got to the house the groom was not there, so I passed on up the road to bis near neighbors, where I overtook him. They beaded me off into the lot and brought me back.. He just thought I got out of the stable when his son put me up. The groom said, "Where is Guy," and began to hunt for his little boy, and could not find him. He went to the branch where I had thrown him off. He found bira with his arm broken. The groom did not like it much, and Bent me back to my master, but he hated to, but finally did, sell me to a preacher for a hundred and fifty dollars. I did not like the preacher's home very well, because I had to stay in the lot most all the time, and could not get any green grass. I cut up and he was afraid of me, and would not work me much. He tried to make me a fine horse and drove me to Church every Sunday. I began to get so proud because the preacher was my boss, that he had to Bwap me to a Doctor, and I thought I would worry him a little. So one day the Doctor drove me out to see some people, and he trotted me, I thought, long enough, so I thought I would get scared at the very first ugly thing I saw. While be was proudly sitting in the cart admiring my black, flowing tail, a little brush tangled about my heels, and I thought this was my chance, and kicking would be most in place. I very well knew that the preacher had told the Doctor that I would not kick, but preachers have not horse-senBe, as every? body knows and every preacher ought to know. At any rate I kicked. Horses with blind bridles can't see where their heels go, so the Doctor got a black place on his knee, which put him on three feet. I knew the joke must be carried farther than this or we would have trouble. I ran out into tho woods, and before I was aware of it, was tangled in a grape vine. This pudden stop piled cart, horso and Doctor into one common heap. The turning of the wheels and sawing of vines across his face rendered him much less handsome than usual. This unfortunate Doctor gives lectures on pbyBiology in Lebanon Bchool. Ever after this be came to his class leaning heavily upon his cane, making a short and a long step. His instruction is now more forcible. When he Bpeaks of a dislocated pattella, a fractured tibia or tibia, the elongation or contraction of the gastrocnemiu* muscle and tendon of achillep, tho development of the biceps aud triceps, and disruption of the facial nffrve* and muscles, the lecturer seemed really to know about what he is speak irjg. Things are easy going now with me. I have plenty of green forage and yellow oats, and all the attention a good grooms? man can render. Every day the Doctor ANDERSON, 8. C has me led out, and with stick in hand, he limpa around me two or three times with an admiring amile saying, "I am every inch a horse." How things will yet tarn out is not known, but it is whispered around the stable that I am for sale. I have no apologies to make for the past, nor prom* ises for the future. I believe that horses, as well as women, should have some rights. What I said by acts to the preacher and Doctor, I say now to all, "watch." Louetta Hutchinson. Lebanon School, June 19,1891. Final Resting Place of Px-Presldent Davis* New York, July 11.?The World will publish to-morrow a letter from Mrs. Jefferson Davis, in which she selects Richmond, Va., as the final resting place of the remains of her husband's body. Mrs. Davis's letter is as follows: To the Veterans and People of the Southern States: After much anxious thought, I have finally decided to give to Virginia the care of my husband'a.'mor tal body, and feel that my reasons should be made public, as be was in many senses the property of the whole coun? try. Immediately after the death of Ex President Jefferson Davis Louisiana pressed her desire to keep his hallowed remains for all time, but she claimed only the right to guard him until some perma? nent place could be selected for his final rest. Georgia claimed him, and has conse? quently renewed the request, because bis father had long been a citizen of the State. There the ex-president had re? ceived the same royal welcome which Alabama had extended, and lastly she pleaded her great love for him as a rea? son for granting the request. Kentucky expressed her pride in being the State of his birth, and urged her claims. Virginia asked for his honored re? mains, because the most strenuos efforts of his life had been made upon her soil, and in defense of Richmond as the capi? tal of the Confederate States. At short intervals during the last eighteen months she has renewed her tender insistence that he should rest among the heroic dead of all the States who fell in defense of the Confederacy. She urged the fact that he did not, in the fullness of bis fame, belong exclusively to any part of the country. Every hillside about Richmond would tell of the valarous resistance which he initiated, and desired with tireless vigi? lance as chief magistrate; that there he received generous and unwavering sup? port in the darkest hour of our unfortu? nate country's defeat. All these claims have touched my heart, and contended together for the mastery. It has been hard to give up the hope of dwelling near my husband's resting place in Mississippi, where my home and interests are, but unfortunate? ly Beauvoir is on the coast of the Mexi? can gulf, and a peninsula very little over a mile wide, and the half mile of shallow water in front covered with submerged stumys of large trees, shows that the sea has been steadily encroaching on the shore for many years. I feel therefore, that as the monument is for all time, it would not be wise to place it there, and I Bubmit to the personal sacrifice with the hope that the States of the Confederacy will also relinquish their cherished plans for the sake of gratifying the majority of the veterans, who have written countless letters to me from each of the before mentioned States, to urge Richmond as the proper place for the grave of him who loved them all, and labored for their glory with all hi? might during the heat and burthen of the days granted to him here. Your country woman, Varina Jefferson Davis. New York Hotel, July 11,1891. What Constitutes Wealth. Many a man is rich without money. Thousands of men with nothing in their pockets and thousands without even a a pocket are rich. A man born with a good headpiece is rich. Good bones are better than gold, tough muscles than sil? ver, and nerves that flash fire and carry energy to every function are better than houses and land. It is better than a land? ed estate to have the right kind of a father and mother. Good breeds and bad breeds exist among men as really as among herds and horses. Education may do much to check evil tendencies or to develop good ones, but it is a great thing to inherit the right proportion of facul? ties to start with. The man ia rich who has a good disposition, who is naturally kind, patient, cheerful, hopeful, and who has a flavor oi wit and fun in his compo? sition. The hardest thing to get on with in this life is one's own self. A cross, selfish fellow, a desponding, a complain? ing fellow, a tired and care burdened man ?these are all born deformed on the in? side. Tbey do not limp, but their thoughta sometimea do. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of the Intellicjencer will be pleased to learn that there ia 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 beiDg 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 so 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. Sold by Druggists, 75 cents. ? A few years ago Isaac DeGarmo was a New York millionaire. He died the other day leaving property worth only a few dollars. And yet he did not equan der his fortune. He lost it trying to in? crease it by speculating in ieal estate, THURSDAY MORN KfXGORE'S BEATER FARM. A Georgia Farmer's Latest Flan to Got Bich. Bascomb, Ga., June 30.?"Yon have never heard of Dick Kilgore's beaver farm ? That's queer." The Bpeaker was old "Mud Cat" WilliamB, who haa been a fisherman in the Southeast Georgia .streams for forty years. "Dick's going to make a pile of money this year," he continued, "on. account of this country and England getting togeth? er and agreeing to a closed season in Behring Sea. You see there will not be any sealskins for market next season, and beaver skins, which make a splendid substitute, will be largely used, and will bring about ten dollars a skin in New York; "Dick has about two hundred beavers, yonng and old, but there are not more than twenty to be killed for their skins this year. It's a new industry, an exper? iment with him, and he don't want to kill any except the surplus males for the pres? ent. But suppose yon go out with me and see the farm." "A drive of ten miles through the swamps along Briar Creek, and the Kil gore place, on Beaver Dam Hollow, was. reached. "Now, here's the farm," said Williams, pointing to the creek, across which every few yards were rough dams and above them, in the almost still water, were mounds of earth, rocks and sticks coming out a few feet above the surface of the water. "Yon know beavers don't Bhow them? selves much in the day. They do their work at night. Dick owns abont one thousand acres, running up and down the creek. He has the land posted and keeps everybody off, but it is not fenced. Fences would not keep the beavers in, but there is no danger of them going off, for this is a natural home to them, and every beaver here knows old Dick. He feeds them every night, and they come home when he calls them, like bogs." Kilgore has been a farmer down here for years, and beavers have been in the creek for all time, but it was not until recently that he began to protect and care for them, with a view to making beaver raising a regular business. It will be a profitable business, for the scarcity of sealskins has increased the value of bea? ver skins, and they will continue to in? crease year by year. A few years ago beaver skins sold as low as $4 per skin, but they should now bring at least $10 each. Beaver skins sent to London and prop? erly dyed a seal brown are splendid imi? tations of the seal. The seal fur, you know, is naturally a gray. The reason I say send beaver skins to London is be? cause that is the only place in the world, it seems, that fur can be properly dyed. However, the fur of the beaver is natu? rally a reddish brown, and is a beautiful fur. The beaver is a queer little animal. When full grown it weighs from fifty to sixty pounds. Its hind legs are its prin? ciple propellers, both when in and out of the water. The hind feet are webbed and the front ones have claws, which are about as convenient to the beaver as a monkey's claws are to him. They can carry stones or sticks about in tbem with ease. In the water, especially, a beaver can carry a quantity of freight, for he swims with his hind feet and carries his load in his mouth. Just after dark Mr. Kilgore went down to the edge of the stream to feed the beavers. "I don't often feed them in the sum? mer," he said, "for they get all they want along the banks of the stream. They eat the bark of yonng trees, and at this sea? son there is an abundance of fresh, ten? der bark and grasses and roots. In the winter they lay up a supply of food for themselves along the banks and in their holes in the dams, which they build of roots and sticks and stones. I feed them nearly ail the time in winter, when they -flock together and unite in building dams, but in summer they scatter?every fellow for himself?and I only call them up occasionally, just enough to keep them tame. As they are scattered off for miles around, bat few will come to a call for food." But there were a dozen romping about in the stream then, and in a few minutes quite a nnmber had gathered. Among them were a score or more little fellows, born only a month ago. The females have from two to six young ones annual? ly, and as a conseqnence the young ones increase very rapidly. A mixture of green food and a little grain was thrown ont on the ground to the herd of little animals, and they scam? pered around and picked it up like so many hogs. Some of them would gather up an ear of corn or a young cornstalk and dive off with it into the stream, They were tame, but like hogs, would scamper off if you tried to catch one. A beaver seems to be almost human in intelligence. They actually gnaw, down young trees, drag them into a stream and let them float down, swimming with tbem to the place they want to build a dam. Then they will drag stones, roots, sticks and grasses, and, indeed, everything used to dam a stream, until they have practi? cally as substantial a dam as a man could construct. They do this to make the wa? ter above deep enough to sport in and placid enough to build their homes of sticks and mud in, which are very warm and comfortable in winter, and large enough for a family of eight or ten. The beaver's principal tool in building these homes is his tail. The tail is a scaly, trowel-shaped appeudage, about ten inches long, and four or five inches broad. The beaver's main strength is in the tail. He can take up soft mud on it, place it against the sticks and stones used to build his home, and pat it down with the tail as firmly and well as a man could do with a trowel. Besides its fur, which is the main revenue from the bea? ver, it furnishes castoreum, a product used in medicines, and its flesh is a food that, when prepared properly, is deli? cious. While Mr. Kilgore has never yet ship? ped any large number of Bkins, by next year h? will have something like 200 or 300. As it costs practically nothing to raise beavers, the business should be a paying one.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ING, JULY 28, 189 Twelve Tears In Florida, As I Have spent twelve years in a quiet and pleasantt par of We3t Florida, t have come to the conclusion that it might benefit some persons who have an idea of coming here, and others perhaps to know some things that 1 have learned by experience. While I like to live here and want to say the best things that I can trdthfdlly of this country, I do hot wish to persuade any man to move here and make this his permanent home, if he is doing well enough where he now lives. A great many persons when they learn that a few bearing orange trees that are well kept, pay handsomely for the money invested in them, naturally suppose that a large orange grove would bring quite a fortune. Indeed, it costs no small sum even to have a large gfove set out and cultivated until it is even self supporting. Some orange trees bear a little when eight or ten years old, but generally they are about fifteen years old before they pay for the cost of keeping them. I do not think that orange trees need much plowing and hoeing, but they do need very careful attention in several re? spects, and, if they .'are not well fertilized each year, will not give a good yield of fruit. More than once I have seen a young man start to raise orange trees here, and have ventured to advise him to plant just a few trees, not more than fifty and to give those few extra good atten? tion. Invariably, however, one could not be satisfied with planting less than one or two hundred trees, although he had no income to support him during the time that his trees had to be cultivated by his own labor. Hence, Borne have become discouraged and abandoned their places, after letting them run down, and others have sold out at a sacrifice. Thus, it is obvious why not many young men make a success of oraDge culture. Patience and perseverance are needed in this as well as in any other pursuit. Florida is regarded by some a very unhealthy coun? try, but I have not found it so much so as a great many imagine. We have chills and fever here quite of? ten, but generally the chills are Blight and are easily controlled. I believe ob? stinate chills and fevers are not any more common here than they are in a great many parts of the United Statea. Then we seldom have any sickness here except chills and fever. A case of typhoid fever is something very rare in this vicinity. Then if a person will avoid exposure to the night air, and working out in the middle of the hot summer days, he need not have chills and fever much. I dare Bay this climate is somewhat debilitating, but I believe that the timely use of a few simple remedies will counteract that in? fluence. Some, who live here, think they must spend at least two weeks on the coast every summer, but they like the strong wind and salt baths better than I do". I have spent only one week on the coast during the twelve successive sum? mers that I have lived here. But some fifteen or twenty miles from the Gulf of Mexico, one can enjoy gentle sea breezes during the greater part of the year. Here we seldom have a sultry day or an oppressively warm night. In October, 1883, having a desire to live near some relatives I moved away, but became dis? satisfied and returned the next March. I do not know of a more delightful conn try than this, but I think it is best suited for those who like a quiet, retired life and have merely a sufficient income upon which to subsist. I would advise those who are food of gaiety and have good health in a cold climate, to remain there. Insects and reptiles are not so dreadful here as I expected to find them. I fre? quently Bee a lizard on the window, as if looking for; a fly, but they seem to be harmless little creatures. If one happens to be shut up inside the house I turn it out gently, but when a snake comes near the house it is fortunate if it escapes a sudden death. A few times I have found one in the house. They come in to hunt mice, Phave been told, but I cannot toler? ate such a mouser. When I first came to Florida I lived near a large lake, and very often in the spring I could hear several alligators, each making a great noise similar to the roar? ing of a lion in a circus tent, but since this conntry has become more thickly settled I seldom hear one. Mosquitoes are very annoying to those who like to sit up late at night and read, but if one will retire early and dispatch the lights from the house quite soon, he will hardly be troubled by them a great deal. I sleep with my window blinds closed near? ly every night in the summer and prefer to do without mosquito nets. I can keep the house pretty clear of roaches by searching, brushing, and shaking them out where the chickens can catch them ; but bedbugs used to put me to the greatest task of any pest with which I had ever contended. When I found them first on my beds here I thought the washwoman had brought them in on the clothes, but later investi? gations have led me to believe that they may have gotten into the house by some other means. A neighbor once told me that she found a turkey's nest that was full of bedbugs. She removed the eggs and burnt the west. For eight years I was annoyed by them at times, and I thought no one could live in Florida and keep a bouse free from chinches. How? ever, more recent efforts have proved that to be a mistaken idea. About two years ago I varnished the largest bedstead that I had?the one that gave bugs the most hiding places.'? and after washing the slats with wetk potash water and wiping off the unvar? nished parts of the bedstead, I applied with a feather the following'mixture: One teaBpoonfnl of "Rough on Eats," one tablespoonful of spirits turpentine and two tablespoonsful of kerosene. Ever since then they have been extermi? nated. Although another application of the mixture has not yet been needed I intend to apply it again soon, to pre? vent any future invasion by the savage vermin. A quinine bottle ia something convenient in which to carry the mix? ture. It should be shaken around light? ly right often, and the feather twisted into the powder, which settles in the bottom. When eggs are found about the beds they should be rubbed or mashed and not brushed off to be swept around for they may be lodged in oomo crevice about the Bide of the room, where the wall and floor meet.?S. D. Bryjsns, in Some and Farm. 1. To Make Bain to Order/.! Washington, July 11.?Sometime within the neat few days there is going to be a noise out In Western Kansas. Uncle Sam's fain-makers are bound thither with a provision of explosives sufficient to stock a fair shied volcano in active operation. They take with them threescore ballons, each ten feet in diam* eter when expanded j likewise abont one hundred kites five feet high, a freight car fall of Wooden mortars to fire bombs from, and many ihousands of pounds of dynamite and gunpowder, nitron-glycer? ine and other powerful agents for agitat? ing nature with spasms. If there is not a second deluge in the region mentioned within a fortnight it will not be for lack of .effort on the part of Gen. Dyrenforth and the Department of Agriculture. Seven thousand dollars yet remains of the $9,000 appropriated by Congress for this purpose, and so there is no need to economize on the fireworks for the pre* liminary experiment. Because it is a matter of history that storms have often followed heavy canonading in warfare, it has been thought desirable to attack the sky for this meteorological purpose with a regular line of battle. A convenient a d excessively arid plain will be select? ed for operations, and the wooden mor? tars will be planted across it In drills, as it were, for a distance of about two miles, They will be loaded with dynamite, rackarock and other materials calculated to agitate the atmosphere as much as possible, while at suitable intervals of space the balloons will be arranged for ascension. Simultaneously a flight of kites will be let loose in the air. The three-score balloons will in them? selves represent an extraordinary seien? tific novelty. They are completed now, and each one is calculated to hold about five hundred and twenty-five cubic feet of gas?one-third oxygen and two-thirds hydrogen. The oxygen is put in first, and then the hydrogen. Each balloon upon being inflated ascends under con? trol of a double wire, which serves instead of a rope to bold it by. When it reaches the desired height the button of an electric instrument on the ground is touched, a spark ignites a fuse in the balloon and the oxygen and hydrogen suddenly combine with a terrific explo? sion. Experiments made within the last few days in this city show that such an oxyhydrogen balloon, thus ignited, pro? duces a tremendous detonation, the cloth or paper vessel itself appearing for an in? stant and by daylight like a ball of fire. Few things can be imagined more cari? ous than this phenomenon, which signi? fies that the two gases, at the touch of fire, have united in the shape of a drop or two of water, which fluid consists of two parts of hydrogen and one of oxygen. But, as has been said, the balloons will be supplemented by great kites, each of which will be held by a doubled wire instead of a string. Their tails will carry dynamite and other explosives, which will be set off in the same way by the elec? tric spark. Meantime, while the oxygen hydrogen bags explode and the kite tails go bang, the buried mortars will vomit forth rackarock to the heavens all along the two-mile line. For at least two, and possibly three days, the racket will be kept np. Then the expedition will hoist its umbrellas and calmly await the down? pour, consoled for the inconvenience by the acclamations of the agricultural pop? ulation. It must not be supposed, however, that this bombardment of the heavens will be conducted without scientific method. Before it is begun the observers of the expedition will ascend in a suita? ble balloon, and find out by the way the hygrometer works at what level the ex? plosives may be nost advantageously set off. If they discover the greatest amount of moisture at an elvation of one thousand five hundred feet, that is the stratum of air in which they want to work. The theory of the matter no one pretends to understand very thoroughly, but it is imagined that the artificial com bustification, as scientific men would say, makes a sort of vortex or hole in the air, into which the heavier moist particles rush, so as to occasion condensation and precipitation of rain, It is surmised also that the small particles of water made by the explosion of the combining oxygen and hydrogen form a sort of nu? cleus for other particles to gather about. Another important idea is that the watery particles in the atmosphere, being heavier than the rest of the air, are shaken out of it by concussion and fall upon the earth. If the efficacy of explosives for produc? ing rain is proved, it Is supposed the far? mers will make it their business to estab? lish detonating plants, employing for the purpose balloons, kites, mortar bombs, or what not. The balloons to be used in the approaching Government trials cost abont $22 apiece, but the expense entailed for a score or so of these would be of no consequence to a district for which a Bingle good shower might sonify $10,000 or even $100,000 of value. Banana reel on the Sidewalk. The street car had passed, but to catch it he reckoned, So he ran like a deer and shouted and beckoned, Till he planted his heel, On a smooth bit of peel, Then he saw half a million stars in a second. He was in too great a hurry; better have waited for another car. There are cases, however, where haste is necessary. If you have night sweats, feverishness, weak, sore lungs and a hacking cough, do not lose an hour in obtaining a supply of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Delay in such cases is dangerous; it may be fatal. Before the disease has made too great progress, the "Golden Medical Discovery" is a certain cure. In fact, it's guaranteed to benefit or cure, or money paid for it promptly refunded. ? Why Johnny did'nt graduate: "De? fine millennium, Johnny ?" said the tired school teacher, in the last half of the closing hour of the last dsy of school. "The millennium," said Johnny prompt? ly, ''is the time when it will be vacation all the year, and there won't bo any old school teachers around to ask little boys fool questions." 4 VOLUM] For a TklrfliParty. Atlabta, Ga., July 15?Atlanta was the central paint of a great alliance rally to-day, thousands of people being present at the Piedmont exhibition grounds. The alliance was noticeable so agricultural one, hundreds of farmers coming many miles, and thousands from this and surrounding counties to hear the distinguished speakers. Mayor Hemphill welcomed the visitors to At? lanta in an address and introduced Colo? nel Livingston, president of the Georgia alliance and Congressman from this dis? trict, who was received with enthusiastic cheers, and who In turn introduced Gen? eral Weaver, of Iowa. Weaver declared in the beginning that the alliance movement was greater than the Republican party, Democratic party or people's party because it was the people. He asserted that the pools and trusts of America were skinniug Repub cans and Democrats alike. There was no politics in trusts. It was with them as with the Dutchman. He was asked what his politics were, and his reply was "fifty cents a bushel for corn and five cents a glass for lager beer. My poli? tics is business." He said it was high time for farmers to make their politics their business. "I am in favor of the politics of Jefferson," continued. the speaker. "I worship at his shrine polit? ically. When he said eternal vigilance was the price of liberty, he did not mean the vigilance of politicians, but the vigi? lance of the people. Weaver brought forth the wildest applause from his hear? ers by declaring that there are now 38,000,000 more people here than there were twenty-five years ago, but strange to say there is $502,000,000 less of money. He laughed at farmers for saying times were dull, and asked what made them dull. He told them to feel in their pockets and they could answer that question for themselves. "I feel," said the general, "that the time has come when we don't care a baubee or figs for any party." (Applause.) "We know what we want and we are going to have it. If the old parties get in the way why we'll run right over them. There won't be as much left of them as there was of the Republican party in Kansas last Fall." Continuing Weaver exclaimed, "I tell you, my friends, the industrial people of this country can not afford to lose another presidential election. (Wild applause.) We must meet the capitalists of this country in open field and we must conquer them. If we are kept another four years under the laws now in opera? tion we shall be the veriest slaves to a lot of plutocrats." He advocated the free coinage of silver and concluded with a paternal message from Northern alli ancemen to Southern brethren. Weaver waB followed by General Polk, President of the alliance, in a lengthy speech which was heartily cheered throughout. Jerry Simpson was next introduced, and was cordially received. A Missionary Hanged by His Hair. "While traveling from village to vil? lage in the Shantung district," said the Rev. John Anzer, missionary bishop in northern China, in an interview with a reporter of the San Francisco Chronicle, "I preached one afternoon in a place of fully 1,000 people. While conducting the services I was roughly seized by four big Chinese and borne to a place outside the gates of the town. A large crowd followed the captors. When a spot was reached that suited them, they put me down. The leader of the party informed me that the people in his town wanted me to promise that I would go away and preach no more. The man said that Shantung was the birthplace of Confuci? us, and was the holy land of China, and that no missionaries were allowed there. I refused to go away, so they hung me up to the limb of a tree by my queue?in China we missionaries follow the styles and dresa of the country in every partic lar?so when my queue was tied to the tree I hung by my hair, part of whicn was pulled out by the roots. All the protests I made against such treatment were ot no avail, and I was powerless to protect myself. Not satisfied with dang? ling me in the air, they took my clothes off and whipped and beat me at intervals from 3 to 9 p. m. The pain was excruci? ating, and there was no escape from my tortures. One man, with a leather whip, lashed me; another occasionally struck me on the head, neck and shoulders with a fiat club, until my face bled, and the blood ran down and dried on my body ; still another tickled and struck the soles of my feet until my mind wandered. At one time I lost consciousness for a little while. About 8.30 o'clock the people came out from the town in crowds to wit? ness my punishment, and my tormentors renewed their fiendish work with great vigor. Some one cried cut to burn me and a pile of faggots was arranged for my benefit, but before it was lit sympathy from some source was found for me, and the wood was not set on fire. So weak and helpless had I become that when the bell rang at 9 o'clock for the people to go inside the town I was left for dead. A forest was near and I heard some one say in Chinese: 'Let us leave him here for the wild beasts to devour.' Another wanted to cut off one of my legs and take away with him. After I was left alone I became unconscious. But I had a friend who had hidden himself away, and after the people had left me he came to my as? sistance. As I could move neither band nor foot he carried me to a place of safe? ty, .-vhere the mandarin found me and had me taken to his house and treated by his own doctor. Had I died the manda? rin would have been beheaded, which is according to the law of China when a missionary is put to death without cause in a mandarin's district." ? Many of the children brought up from the cities in Mexico never go to school, and never learn to read or write. On the great farms or "haciendas," thousands of children are born, grow old and die without seeing or knowing any? thing of the great outside world. Some of these farms are larger than certain whole counties in the United States, and some of them have hundreds .of laborers, all of whom, from father to son, are born, live and die on the same farm. 1 I XXVI.--NO. 3. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Ihe laborer is worthy of his hire? the student of his lore. ? The sweet meats of life?visiting the object of your affection. ? The mind is the most difficult thing to bridle ; the tongue comes next. ? A Wisconsin woman was recently turned out of Church because she snored in her pew. ? Queen Victoria has ordered the re? moval of all check rains from her horses. ? The July pension payments calls for the disbursements of $12,000,000 by the national treasury. ? A man never wants anything bo bad as when he. is told he will have to fight for it to get it. ? When lightning tries to be funny it is very liable to make even^the strongest oaks split their sides. ? A man is never so sure that his rights are being infringed upon as when his wife gets sick. ? The facility with which a man for? gives his own faults and condemns those of others is surprising to superficial ob? servers. ? The Delaware peach crop will be very abundant this season. The estimate is six million baskets. The Pennsylvania crop is also very large. ? Borrower: Well, I never , borrow trouble, anyhow. Lender: Oh, no yon always give that to the people yon bor? row other things from. ?It is doubtful that a cheap coat does make a cheap man, but he's no man at all who says the girls are not dear, no matter what they wear. ? There are eighty-two national cem? eteries in the United States, and they have 327,179 graves, about one-half of which are marked "unknown." ? An old soldier in Medway, Mass., had both legs paralyzed fifteen years ago by a fall. Recently another fall restored the circulation, and he is now able to walk again. ? According to Professor Foster, the well-known weather expert, we are to have the stormiest and coldest winter known in many years. The thing to do is to get ready for it in time. ? It is a matter of record that 19,570 dollars were coined in 1804, yet only eight samples are known to exist, and those that are in good condition are valued at $1,000 each. ? At Gordon, Ga., during a thunder? storm the other day, a buzzard attempted to soar above the clouds, when he was struck by lightning and fell dead to the ground. The bird's body was badly burned. ? Besides keeping dogs to watch over camps, the German army is training . them to hunt for soldiers hidden in the woods and fields, bo that after a battle the wounded might all be found and brought in. ?A Western law question involves the possession of a set of false teeth. A wife bit her husband severely through the medium of these remedial agencies, and be took them from her month. She new sues for damages and a divorce. ? The deepest measurements ever ta? ken in the Atlantic were made^y?tbe^-^ Ch all enger expedition eighty miles north of the Virgin Islands, the.depth at that point being 23,250 feet, or about four and a half miles deep. ? If a gentleman takes a gold band from his finger and places it on the third finger of a lady's hand while repeating a marriage ceremony before three or more - witnesses, the laws of New York State make her his wife. ? A shrewd old lady cautioned her daughter against worrying her husband too much, and concluded by saying: "My child, a man is like an egg. Keep him in hot water a little while, he may boil soft; but keep him there too long he hardens." ? "Madam, are you a woman suffra? gist?" "No, sir; I haven't time to be." "Haven't time 1 Well, if yon had the ' privilege of voting, whom would yon support ?" "The same man I have sap ported for ten years." "And who is that?" "My husband." ? The Rev. 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'.bnt won't pray ; the third won't either pay or pray; the fourth are the few . who both pay and pray. ? A colt was born on Mr. Watson's | place, near Richwood (Ohio) which had instead of two eyes bat one, and it in the center of the forehead. The month was cut across the face resembling a human mouth, and bat little indication of nos? trils. Otherwise the animal was well shaped. ?Lima, Ohio, boasts the possession of gjl the smallest baby in the State. It is the child of John Vonstein, and is five weeks old. Its weight is not quite two pounds" ' ? and its body is perfectly formed and can easily be placed in a common cigar box. The babe is a bright and healthy boy, and no increase in his growth has been noticed since his birth. ? He had been out very late, and, .as v?5p he rolled into bed, his wife began to give . him a curtain lecture. He turned his back, and, in the lull which followed,^^ managed to get a word in. "Mary I" "What ?" "It's a mighty mean woman who would talk behind a man's back." John scored a point and slept peacefally ^ the rest of the night. ? A negro woman near Dublin, Ga^ aftes hoeing cotton for some time/Bdaght a shady nook and went to sleep. She was barefooted, and as she slept a huge black snake approached, and, evidently, taking her big toe for a frog, forthwith swallow? ed it. The woman was awakened by a tickling sensation in her toe. Looking down she saw the snake. The next sec? ond that snake was being jerked through the woods at the rate of a mile a minute until be relinquished his grasp of the toe. Entitled to the Best All are entitled to the-^jesTthaTthll money will buy, bo every family should* have, at once, a bottle of the bes^amij remely, Syrup of Figs, to cleanse system when costive or bilious. For sa^ in 50c and $1.00 bottles by all leadirj druggists,