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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. OTT? STOCK OF ^ STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Xs more Complete than Ever, Xn FACT yon can boy from na almost anything that the market will afford. Wo 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 Cbiquola Place. MACHINERY! PROGRESS! Steam Engines AND Boilers. Cotton Gins AND Presses. THE CELEBRATED With Feeders and Condensers. > THIS GIN partakes of the BEST FEATURES in others, and corrects the DEFECTS in all. ? RUBBER and LEATHER BELTING, Sold-ander a positive guarantee that will protect every buyer. BSP* By recent special contracts with Manufacturers we are in shape to com? : v pete with the world. All we ask for is a fair opportunity and no favors. HARDWARE, .... ' CUTLERY, IMPLEMENTS, &c, In such quantity and variety as to give us' the lead not only in Anderson but in ? thi? State.-- ' SASH, DOORS, AND (FINISHED BUILDING LUMBER, A SPECIALTY, m y-~" '? SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. ggies, Baggies, BUGGIES! W^E HAVE irOW IN STOCK AND ARRIVING DAILY A LARGE STOCK OF BUGGIES. Tyson & Jones' Celebrated Buggies, Hade in North Carolina, are the best sold in this market. They are superior in material, style, workmanship and finish to any other maku, 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 mach in their praise, and all we ask is for you to come and see them before buying elsewhere. The well-knom 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 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. prices. Before buying elsewhere be sure and call and examine our stock and SYLVESTER BLEOKLEY COMPANY. for Infants and Children* "Otttoviabso well adapted to children that I Castorfs cores Colic, Constipation, ir^.ndit^^orto^prcscnption ^^'g???^ dt inowntome." H. A. Aucheb, M. D., 3 gestion, 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious medication. The Centaob Cohtaht, 77 Murray Street, rf. Y. TO RENT. The STORE ROOM now occupied by tb?* Alliance at Honea Path. Possession givi-ii 1st September Terms reasonable. Apply to J. R. DONALD, Honea Path, S. 0. July 23,1891 3 -3* F- L. N AR A MORE, DENTIST, ANDERSON, - - - S C. OFFICE over Merchants* and Farmers' Bank. ?&* Preservation of the Natural Teeth and Roots a specialty. June 25,1891. ? ly TeIa?h^'Golumn, All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. TOB ONTO HEARD FROM. Mr. Editor : Sister and I are still on the wing, and have enjoyed ourselves im? mensely up to date, with a prospect of more to come. According to promise, I will write you an informal letter for the Teachers' Column. Our last stop was at Chatauqua, N. Y., which place is so re novtned that I know you will like a full description of it. The railroad took us to Jamestown, a city at one end of Lake Chatauqua, and from there we had a steamer ride sixteen miles to the other end, where the resort is situated. The ride waB delightful, the water being so smooth that the boat bad no motion ex? cept a forward one, and as the lake *s ; narrow, pretty stretches of scenery and numbers of hotels and cottages could be seen on either side. The band played a lively tune as we approached Chatauqua, and nearly all the passengers got off there, the attraction being an organ recital by Prof, Flayer, and a concert in the even? ing by the Apollo Quartett (male) from Boston, interspersed with recitations by Miss Donally, of the Chicago Conserva? tory. Besides these, lectures were given during the afternoon on historical sub? jects. The organ recital was especially instructive and entertaining. Prof. Flayer took for hie subject the celebrated musical composer Rossini, gave a sketch of his early life and opportunities, and best of all, played several overtures and selections from the composer's most noted operas, the one "William Tell" being best, and the only one with which I was familiar. There is a change of program, lectures and artists every day, so that if one could stay July and August, he would have a hundred or more celebri? ties. Chatauqua contains one large hotel and about five hundred cottages. The place is kept op by rents from the cot? tages and the gate receipts, and after admission into the grounds all the enter? tainments are free. The concerts, and a great many of the lectures, are given at the amphitheater. From pictures that I have seen, I imagine this roust be an im? itation of the famous amphitheater at Athens, where Demosthenes delivered his Philippics, and which was hewn out of the solid rock on the bill-side that led up to the Acropolis. This one at Cha? tauqua is dug out of the hill-side, is semi circular in shape, with a wooden canopy, and the audience looks down on the performers, who occupy a stage that would be in the center of the building if it were a complete circle, instead of half circle. Other lectures and meetings are held at the Hall of Philosophy, which is not a hall at all, but a roof supported by pillars in imitation also of the early Gre? cian style; and to make the picture more complete, if a night meeting is to be held, instead of turning on electric lights they use flaring torches. By the way, the hotel is called the Athenaeuna, and the pretty streets and avenues have high-sounding literary names. During July numbers of teachers, and many others who wish to improve them? selves, come here for instruction in spe? cial branches. There are clashes in elo? cution, teaching, music, cooking, swim? ming, rowing, cycling, Delsarte system of gymnastics, and everything else imag? inable. These being special courses are paid for extra. In August the members of the Chatauqua Literary and Scientific Circle bold their assembly, and it is the wish of every member to receive his diploma from the hands of Chancellor Vincent at the assembly hall of the C. L. S. C. Chatauqua is a go-as-you-please place. Some dress up and put on a good deal of style, but most of the ladies wear easy, comfortable looking costumes, and go about the grounds to the different classes and entertainments without hats, the shade of the trees being a sufficient pro? tection from the sun. Girls are Been riding bicycles and rowing on the lake, and altogether it is a quiet, refreshing place to rest and improve oueself at the same time. I forgot to mention that there is a miniature representation of the Holy Land just on the edge of the lake. It is laid off on the scale of two feet to a mile. The lake is supposed to represent the Mediterranean Sea, dirt and rocks are piled op for the low ranges of mountains behind the Bea and the valley of the Jor? dan ; and Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Naza? reth, Dead Sea, Eiver Jordan and many other places in Palestine are placed among the hills in correct positions and distances from each other, showing the topography of the country so exactly that it proves a great help to Bible students. We are now at Clayton, N. Y., a sum? mer resort on the St. Lawrence River, just at the entrance to the famous Thou? sand Islands, and yesterday we had a sale of fifty miles among them. We have been on the water a good deal since leav? ing home?three days out from Charles? ton to New York, several excursions on Lake Ontario, twice acn ss Lake Chatau? qua, and a ride on the sprightly steamer "Maid of the Mist," at the foot of Niag? ara Falls, but this trip among the Islands is decidedly the prettiest of all. As the boat winds in and out among them, lovely scene* succeed each other so rap? idly that it is impossible to take them all in. Bouys and light houses are placed at all the dangerous places, and the careful pilot steers us through before one has time to tbink of what might happen. Nearly all of the islands are built up with fancy summer cottages and hotels, and as the regular steamer stops at only a few of the large ones, there in no way of getting to fhore except in a light skiff. Warner, the patent medicine man, has bis house on an island so small that the water washes against the very founda? tion, which is made of rock to resist the current. One of the handsomest homes belongs to Pullman, of sleeping car fame. It is built of rough stone, very tall and rugged looking, in imitation of aboronial castle. The author, J.-G. Holland, owns a Bteel gray cottage on an island just by Alexandria Bay. After two days here, wo will prceged ANDERSON, S. C, down the St. Lawrence, shooting the rapids on the way, and stop at Montreal, the metropolis of Canada, or "British North America," as the natives call it. From there by steamer through Lakes Chaplain and George, and Hudson River day boat to New York, where we expect to spend several days. I should like to say something about Niagara Falls and the Educational As? sociation at Toronto, but the papers gave such a full account of the N. E. A. tbat anything from me on the subject would be superfluous. Toronto is a beautiful and wealthy city, and a visitor is partic? ularly struck with the number and mag? nificence of its Churches. They are very mnch trimmed up on the outside and built after the cathedral style. One Church that we saw was modeled after the design of St. Peter's at Rome, on a smaller scale, but was not very pretty for all that. No street cars or funerals are allowed on Sunday, the streets are per? fectly quiet, and everybody keeps the Sabbath. Toronto is the home of John Hanlan, the celebrated oarsman, who has, for several years, enjoyed the cham? pionship of the world. The citizens are very proud of him, and take great pride in poining out his handsome residence. The prettiest island near the city is called Hanland Island after him. In the business part of the city, where two streets cross each other at right angles, are four buildings on the respective corners, viz: a university, court of justice, Church and bar room. In driving over the city the cabman stop? ped here and pointing to the four build? ings called out, "Education, legislation, salvation and-;" left the last one to be supplied by us. Every one in Canada loves the Queen of course, and at the close of the concert at Horticultural Gardens the performers came forward and began singing "God save the Queen." Immediately every one in the audience rose and joined in the singing, just as we do at home when the doxology is sung at the close of church service. I will say nothing at all about Niagara. To attempt a description of the sights to be seen there would end in failure. I have read of them and had them describ? ed to me and seen pictures of them, but no one can form a correct idea of their grandeur without visiting the place and seeing with their own eyes. The body of the poor old man who committed Buicide by jumping over the American fall last week, had not been recovered when we again stopped there for a few hours on Saturday. It seems to be a favorite place of .rendezvous for those bent on putting an end to their lives, and it is so common an occurrence for some unfortunate to throw himself over the falls that very little notice is taken of it. Yours very truly, Maggie Evans. July 20,1891. A Short Engagement. Columbus, Kansas, can probably boast of the shortest acquaintance and engage? ment before marriage of any place in the world. One of the eccentric charac? ters of the county is a middle-aged farmer living four miles north of here. The man, James Watson, was an old bachelor, and was noted the country round for the neat manner in which he kept his house. A lew days ago a friend of his who bad stopped for a few moments to pass a pleasant word said in jest that Watson ought to get a wife to take care of such a neat house. Wat? son said tbat if his friend would get a good woman and a preacher and not keep him too long from his corn he would like a wife. The friend took him at his word and came here and told a most esti? mable widow, Mrs. Warren, that he had a good home for her. He told her of Watson's circumstances and peculiarities, and said he believed he would make her a good huBband. Mrs. Warren appeared to be pleased with the idea, and told the gentleman to call again next day. Next morning she told the match? maker that she would follow bis advice. A minister was procured and the party drove to the farm of Watson. The farmer was plowing corn, but when told that his friend had brought him a wife he went to the house. Mrs. Warren was introduced, and, after five minutes' talk, Watson told the minister they were ready to be married, and the reverend gentleman tied the knot. As soon as the ceremony was concluded Watson told his bride tbat the house was her charge and the fields were his, and as the corn need? ed plowing he would go to the field. He gave the minister a liberal fee, and with? in half an hour after he was called from the field be was back again plowing. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of the Intelligencer will be pleased to learn tbat there is at least one dreaded disease tbat science has been able to cure in all its stages, and tbat 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. 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He was lying beside a stack when a man on top dropped his fork, and the prongs entered and passed through Hepburn's head. He lived only a few minutes. THUKSDAT MOEN BILL ABP. The People Running Crazy on Societies Atlanta Constitution. "Sorrow endureth for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." That is unless, the cook has quit and you have to rise before sunup and cook breakfast your? self. But I don't mind it much and it's a fair compromise for me to cook breakfast and the girls to clean up after my mess? ing and cook the other two meals. In fact, I would enjoy the frolic, if the old cranky stove would bake the biscuits brown on the bottom, but this morning they were as white as cotton and were blistered othtop, and Mrs. Arp said it would take me two or three days to get my hand in, and she hinted that the old stove was about burnt out anyhow and that it had to be fired up an hour or two sooner so as to get properly hot in the lower chamber. So I reckon I will have to rise with the chickens and flap my wings and fire up. The children beg me to wake them up and let them do it all, but tbeir mother says it nearly kills them to get up so soon, and she had rather do it herself. But it is most astonishing how late at night these children can set up at a party or frolic and still keep their health, and I have admired the alacrity with which they rise when they are going on an excursion or picnic and have to take an early start. There seems to be a power of stirring around this summer, considering the hard times, and I have thought that maybe all this going to and fro had something to do with the hard times. It don't cost so much to travel, but there is always some fixing up to do beforehand, and that costs mon? ey. My folks told me last summer that the excursion rate to St. Simon's and back was only $6, and the children had never seen the ocean, and it did look like we could afford that little sum and ought to embrace the golden opportunity. , And so I surrendered, and prepared my finances for the $6 apiece and two or three days board, but they stayed ten days, and that with all the preliminary fixings, I never got over the golden op? portunity and the strain for six months. But Mrs. Arp declares it was worth it, and she wouldn't mind going again this summer if I had the money to spare, which I haven't and never expect to have again. I Old Dr. Kirk says that these excur? sions and conventions will break the country, and that nobody can stand it but the negroes. And here they go and there they go, like a fiddler's elbow?the lawyers to Columbus, and the doctors to Augusta, and the editors to New York, and the dentists to Atlanta, and the Roy al Arcanum to Savannah, and .the Ma? sons to Macon, and the conductors to Gainesville, and the school teachers to Brunswick, and the military to Chicka mauga, and the legislature to Salt Springs, and some more editors to Chi? cago, and the college boys and the col? lege girls everywhere in squads, and then there are the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Honor and Knights of Pythi? as and Knights of Labor and Knights of Jericho and Scylla and Charybdis, and the baseball teams that are all on the go somewhere, and besides all these there are a big lot of women and girls and fan* cy fellows visiting the Bprings, and a heap of them dance and gamble and drink and carry on scandalous, and a heap of them don't, but it all costs mon? ey, and our young men haven't got it to spare, and they come home broke and don't lay up a dollar, and they can't marry, for they haven't got anything to marry on, but they flirt around amazing and make a mash and go home and brag about it. Why there are boys in all these towns that are clerking or working for thirty or forty dollars a month, and it takes it all for clothes and buggy rides and excursions, and they are not laying up a dollar, and the old man is kept bowed down and hard run to help them along, and its all wrong, all wrong, and the boys ought to put ou the brakes and stop it." And the good old doctor came down with his cane hard on the brick; and about this time old Uncle Simon Peter came along and took up the subject as the doctor left of! and said: "Yes, they have got too many societies, and I used to be sb big a fool as anybody and jined every one that came along?the Masons and Sons of Temperance, and Bible so? cieties, and I don't know how many more, and what with preaching and traveling and the conference and all the societies I like to have never got acquain? ted with my family, for I was out some? where every night; and one day my wife saw a notice in the newspaper that there was a new society just come for the pro? tection of henpecked husbands, and she called my attention to it and asked if I hadn:t better join it and run for presi? dent ; and that put me to thinking, and I quit for a while, until it occurred to me not long ago that I could do some good by joining the Alliance and helping them to reform tbe world and save the coun? try, and so I joined, and I've been talk? ing to them about whiskey and tobacco and extravagance and corruption at Washington, but my ideas don't seem to be popular, and they say my views are all right, but they are impracticable. There are ?900,000,000 spent in a year for whiskey, and $600,000,000 for tobac? co, and ?100,000,000 wasted in extrava? gant salaries, and if the Alliance would just come down like an avalanche upon those three things and save that $1,000, 000,000 a year, all that money would be put into useful and profitable industries, and it would get scattered among the people and make everybody comfortable and happy, and the farmers wouldn't need any Bub-treasury, Why, if they will just tackle the whiskey ? alone and atop every still and importation of spirits our courts would mighty nigh dry up for want of business, and our jails would be empty and our taxes be reduced 50 or 75 percent. But tbe Alliance can't see it for they want -a little something for snake bites themselves, and the whiskey ring is a tremendous power in the nation, and so I have despaired of reforming tbe people by myfielf and have concluded to go along and preach the gospel and leave mankind to the Lord who made them." And the good old .man gave a sigh and went on hiB way. And I met James Gilreatb, another ' ING, JULY 30, 1891 good man, and a good, industrious citi? zen be is, and he, too, belonged to the Alliance and is desperately in earnest, and he said the bottom was about to | drop out of farming as a business, for everything he raised waB below the cost of production. Said he, "Here I've got a carload of wheat right here in town for sale, and all I can get is 77 cents a bush? el, and I've kept an account fair and square and it has cost me over SO cents to raise it, and my cotton is worse than that, and I've worked harder last year and this than I ever did in my life, and you can just look at my bands, and I tell you Major Arp there is no use in talking something has got to be done for the far? mers?77 cents won't grow a bushel of wheat in this country." Jnst then a carpenter came along and said: "Well, I'm glad to hear wheat has come down. I hope now we will get flour a little cheaper. I'm getting mighty tired paying ?3 a hundred for flour," and he hurried on to hiB work. And so, Mr. Editor, I don't know what to do. I would fix it all right if I could. I would arrange matters so that every man could sell high and buy low ; but I don't see my way clear, and so, like Un? cle Simon Peter, I believe I will give all people my benediction and leave these troubles with the Lord. But these youngsters dun't care a cent about the price of flour nor the third party, nor where the money is to come from. They have about ran away with the country. To morrow there is to be another baseball match game. They have had three this week, and because I slip around the back way and get in the back ground and look on they say I'm in favor of it, but I ain't. If they would en't play I woulden't go; but I don't want to Bee Dalton or Cedartown or Marietta come up here and beat onr boys, and so I slip around to do a little holler? ing and sick the boys on. The boys oughtent to lead an old man into temp? tation. They can't play much nohow. They don't hit one ball in ten, but we boys used to knock the old town ball a quarter of a mile, and if we ever missed one we were caught out behind sure. And the girls are just as crazy about tennis. They play all the shank of the afternoon, and sometimes don't get back in time to fix the table for supper, and my wife has got to go down town nearly every evening for a spool of thread or something, and I've just found out she slips over to the tennis court to see the young folks play?next thing I know she will be playing football. She takes rides with the children and says tbey ought to have some sport while they are young?something to look back to when they get old and full of care and trouble. "It has been forty years," said she, "since I had any time to enjoy such things, for there was always a baby in the way, and now I am going when I feel like it." Well, let her go. I don't care. Let her mew her youth, as Milton says. She ought to have a pension right now as a confederate widow; but she is spoiling these children. When I came home from Missouri I inquired for Carl, and she said be was at Chickamauga with the military. "How i? that?" said I. "Ho diden't belong to any company." "No," said she, "but he went over to Borne, and Captain Byrd took him in on the tail end of his company, and be borrowed a uniform and I let him go. He has been studying very hard, you know, and need? ed a rest." Well, I bad two grandsons up there?military boys right fresh from Auburn college?and they got into the company, too, and wanted to rest, and bo I acquiesced and ruminated, and sung my old song: "Sorrow endureth for a night, but joy Cometh in the morning." Well, it didn't cost a cent, for the State footed the bills, and the boys say tbey had a splendid time?never had so much fun in all their lives. Two of them bell? ed a cow and rode her bareback through the camp one evening, and never got in the guard house for it. Only had to do double guard duty for two days, and that wasent nothing, they said. A new com? pany from the wiregraas got there one night about ten o'clock, and the cadets found out thf>y were pretty green and met them at the depot and marched them a mile away and drilled and double quicked them for two hours just as though they had orders to do it. They eat up all their own rations and stole everybody else's thac were not under lock and key. They kept the whole camp in an uproar and I'm afraid my lineal descendants were at the head of it. Captain Phil Byrd, of "The Hustler," had better mind how he attaches the Arp family to his company. It has been 46 years since I helped to take the clapper out of the college bell and hoist a billy goat into the tutor's room, and now the Bins of my youth are being vented upon me in the devilment of my children and grandchildren, and the State and the governor and the legislature and my wife are responsible for it, But its all right, I reckon, and all's well that ends well. "Sorrow endureth for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." Bill Abp. What Tour Great Grandmother Did. She hetcheied tbe flax and carded the wool, aud wove the linen, and spun the tow, and made the clothes for her hus? band and ten children. She made butter and cheese, she dipped tallow candles to light the house at night, and she cooked all the food for her household by an open fire-place and a brick oven. Yes; and when she was 40 years of age, she wa3 already an old lady whose best days were over. Her Bhoulders were bent and her joints enlarged by hard work, and she wore spectacles and a cap. Her great granddaughter, with all the modern conveniences for comfort, refinement and luxury, may be aa charming and attrac? tive at 45 aa at 20. Especially is this true if ahe preserves her health and beau? ty by the use of Dr. Pierco'a Favorite Prescription, which wards off all female ailments and irregularities, cures them if they already exist, keep the life current healthful and vigorous, and enablea the woman of middle age to retain the fresh? ness of girlhood upon brow and cheeks, the light of youth in her eyes, and its elasticity in her step. Sold by all drug ginta. Almost a Fatal Case of Mistaken Iden? tify, Chicago, July 16.?Recently John J. DeQaris, a well known young business man of Milwaukee, registered with his bride at the Tremont house here. One day they attended the Washington Park races, returning somewhat late to the hotel and retiring at once to their room. Without the slightest suspicion on their part a private detective had follow? ed them from the race track. Of the elevator-man the spy inquired to what room the couple had gone and learned that they had gotten off at the third floor. This meager information he at once communicated to his employer, who was no other than John J. Coughlin, the well known owner of a string of horses which is now at Washington Park, and the pro? prietor of the Turkish bath establishment under the Brevoort house. Presently Coughlin appeared at the hotel, and with visible embarrassment, but with an air of candor that commanded sympathy told his story. At the races, he said, he had seen his wife in the company of a stranger, with whom she appeared to be decidedly inti? mate, and even affectionate. A detective whom he had employed located them at the Tremont. Would the hotel people help him to find them ? They would, and they did. The third floor was carefully searched for the guilty couple. Every room with a light in it was entered, but the people wanted were not found. As Mr. Coughlin was excitedly pacing up and down the hotel rotunda, at his wits' end to know what to do next, Mr. De Caris descended the stairway to the office. "There's the man. What's the scoun? drel's name ?" whispered Coughlin to the clerk. He was told. "You are Mr. De Garis, I believe," said Coughlin to the Milwaukeau as he came up to tbe desk. "I am." "Well, sir, you have my wife in your room, and I insist upon seeing her at once." Mr. DeGaris was for a moment struck dumb with astonishment. Then he opened his mouth to deny the charge, but was not allowed to proceed. "I know what I am talking about," exclaimed Mr. Coughlin. "I saw you with your arm around her waist at the races, and a detective has followed you to this house. Great God, man, don't you suppose I know my own wife? I stood within ten feet of you this after? noon, and there is no hope of a mistake. I tell you I will not leave this house without her." Mr. De Garis maintained his compos? ure. He insisted that Mr. Coughlin was mistaken, and asked if the latter's wife had been at home the night before. Coughlin admitted that she had. De Garis then called the entire office force to prove that he and his companion had been at the hotel for the three previous nights. Still Mr. Coughlin was far from satisfied. "I'd take you up, and by introducing you to my wife prove that she isn't yours," said Mr. De Garis, pathetically. "But the trouhlg is I've only been mar? ried four days, and I don't want to spring this sort of a thing on her just at the start. Now, isn't there some one you could call in who knows your wife and could tell whether or not this is she or not?" There were many such persons, and Mr. Coughlin agreed to leave the ques? tion to such a settlement. A boy at Coughlin's place was sent for. On his arrival it was decided that he should impersonate a bell boy and carry up a pitcher of ice water to Mr. De Ga ris's room, where he would take a care? ful look at its occupant. The plan was carried out, and tbe boy returned with the positive statement that the woman was Mrs. Coughlin. He saw her every day, and could not be mistaken. At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Eden and his employees were in great fear lest Mr. Coughlin, who was evident? ly laboring under great though fairly well suppressed agitation, should draw a revolver and kill the suppressed Lotha? rio. Happily this denouement was averted. It was presently decided to send the boy again to the room and allow him to enter into conversation with its occu? pant, who was unconscious all this time of the excitement she was causing below. On his return the second time the boy said that he had been mistaken. The face was the same in every feature and the dress was identical, but the voice was not that of Mrs. Coughlin. This report only served to increase Ooughlin's indignation. He insisted that the boy had been bribed. It was suggested that perhaps his wife was all this time retiring quietly at home, and that he had better go there and discover if this was not the case. Coughlin, however, looked upon this as a trap, believing that the woman up stairs would be smuggled into a cab and arrive home before he could reach there. He agreed, however, to an ar? rangement by which he should guard the door to see that his wife did not leave while the detective should visit his resi? dence. The detective presently returned from 32 Sherman street with the amazing in? telligence that the counterpair of the woman up stairs was really at that ad? dress. Mr. Coughlin at once called a carriage and was driven to his residence. The next day Mr. Eden and the un? fortunate Mr. De Garis received letters of the most sincere apology, and the lat? ter continued his wedding tour without further delay, his little bride still in ig? norance of the tremendous consequences that her resemblance to another woman might have occasioned. Bucklen's Arnica Salve 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 Sill Bros. VOLUM] THE FAMILY ALTAR. NocessUy and Advantages of Prayer In the Household. A variety of excuses are offered for a failure to erect the domestic altar, or for the negect of the morning and even? ing sacrifice where it has been erected ; but in most instances, if not in all, they are excuses only, not reasons. If the plea is a lack of ability on the part of the head of the household, whether a father or mother, the answer is, that all with rare exceptions, are capable of read* ing the Bible, and tbat those who regard themselves as incapable of offering ex? tempore prayer may use a form. They may write their prayers and read them, or they may make use of the one of the many excellent volumes tbat have been prepared for the benefit of this class; and all who are able to read may unite in the service. But if the excuse is a lack of | time, the answer is, "Prayers and .proven* der never binder the journey." However pressing our work may be, we cannot afford to neglect our daily food; and pray? ers are no less necessary or important. No man accomplishes more daring the year by neglecting family worship. It was Martin Luther, if we remember, who said: "When I have an unusual amount of labor to perform during the day I spend more than the usual length of time in the morning in prayer." But this was the wise and reasonable course. If it were necessary to do more than his ordinary amount of work, he had more than an ordinary need of the divine blessing, and if he would secure this he must be willing to take more than the ordinary pains to obtain it. But those who negloct the worship of | the family altar do so because they have no adequate conception of the impor? tance of a faithful discharge of this duty, The family r'lar should be con? scientiously maintained, not only be? cause it is by the discharge of this duty that the blessing of God upon the family for the day is secured, but also for the sake of its influence upon the household. It is an educating proce; in a spiritual sense which no household can afford to neglect. It is needed by the parents and it is needed by the children. And if there are domestics or boarders or visitors it. is needed by them. And though they may not understand its value and refuse to avail themselves of its benefits, the knowledge that family worship is reg? ularly maintained will leave an impres? sion. It will prove to them a spiritual educator. In many instances the im? mediate influence is very marked. Vis? itors who have not been accustomed to this exercise, daring a stay of a very few days, or even of a single day, have re? ceived impressions which have led to their acceptance of Christ. But the im? portance of the family altar is to be meas? ured, not by its immediate results, but by the influence exerted during a series of years. Its quickening and restraining power is felt by the adult members of | the household, and to the young it is prominent among the home influences by which the character of the future man or woman is molded. For a day or for a month its formative influence may not be perceptible, but during a series of years the impression becomes deep and abiding. Parents and other heads of families who -!;ve in neglect of this obligation make a very grave mistake. They wrong their own souls and tbey wrong every member of their household. No one can afford to live without the family altar, so far as relates to his own spirit? ual interests, and to do so is to neglect a most important means of doing good to others.?National Presbyterian. ? An inventor in Germany has made a clock that he warrants will go to the year 9999 without winding. ? The $10,000 rewards offered for the apprehension of Gideon W. Marsh, the absconding president of the Keystone bank, have failed to locate him, though it is generally believed that he^is still in this country. The authorities of Phila? delphia are said to entertain very little expectation tbat he will be captured, and probably some of them have as little desire for his capture. ? God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to them who are to come after us and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; aud we have no right by anything that we do or neglect to involve them in un? necessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath. ? At the Van Dyck mansion, in Rut? land, Vt.; the other day, a cat was killed by lightning, and was found to be com? pletely electro plated with silver. The lightning struck a silver-plated sword on the wall, completely stripped it of the sil ver, and transferred it to the cat sleep? ing on the sofa just under the sword. It is thought that the plating of the cat's body will prevent decay. ? On the farm of Col. W. B. Worsh* am, of Henrietta, Texas, there is a re? markable well. It usually contains about eight feet of water, but when the wind blows from the north the well goes dry, and remains so until a change of wind, when the water again flows in and re? sumes its normal height. This strange phenomenon has been observed for seve? ral months. ? Milton Moshier, of Shelton, Conn., heard sounds from his piano the other morning, and knowing tbat no one was in the room he began to be a believer in spirits. On investigation he found his cat prancing up and down on the key? board, seemingly delighted at the sounds produced. After that she was watched, and whenever the piano is left open she will play upon it to the best of her abili ity. ? The hotel keepers out in Dakota claim that they are unable to keep them? selves supplied with dining-room girls because as fact as they are imported from the East they are swallowed up in the vortex of matrimony. In consequence of this exasperating state of affairs a no? tice is said to have been posted to this effect: "Guests are warned not to talk of love to the waiter girls. Any one con? victed of making a proposal of marriage to them will be promptly Phot, J^sinesa Is business" 3 XXVI.- -NO. 4 All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Women think more of flattery than men, but they believe in less of it. ? A machine has recently been inven? ted for making shoestrings ont of paper. ? One day last week three thousand people sailed from New York for Eu? rope. ? In Austria women are employed as hod carriers and get twenty-five cents a day for it. ? Of the 5,000 new patent medicines put on the market every year not 100 survive. ? Teachers' salaries in the United States annually amount to more than $60,000,000. ? Never was there such a closeness in the money world of New York as now, so say the capitalists. ? Women'kissing each other is some? thing like voting the Independent ticket. It doesn't do any good. ? A tract of land at Cape May Court House, N. J., is advertised for public sale to satisfy a debt of 37 cents. ? Forty years ago a New York man marked a quarter and put it in circula? tion. It has just returned to him. ? An immigrant girl who landed in New York the other day has a nose five and seven-eighths inches long. ? Africa is a land of many tongues. The Bible has now been translated into sixty-sis of the languages and dialects of Africa. ? The king of Ashantee has 3,333 wives. That is just 3,332 more than any king of a shanty is entitled to, luckily for the wives. ? An old drummer says that the way to Bucceed in business is to wear out the soles of your shoes instead of tbe seat of your pants. ? The citizens of Athens, Ga., beseech their council to pass an ordinance for the muzzling of cats. The animals are too noisy o'nights. ? Michigan has followed the example, of California by refusing to tax the prop- . erty and also the mortgage which repre- . sents the property. ? Cotton prophets are predicting a shortage of a million bales of cotton, in the present crop. Such a calamity might be a blessing in disguise. ? A Philadelphia young man recently advertised for a wife, and his Bister an? swered. In most cases, however, tbe young man does not escape so easily. ? The young man who starts out in life with a bottle of whiskey in one pock? et and a pistol in the other, is on the straight road to the devil, with down grade all the way. ? Mrs. Eosetta R. Hostetter, of Pitte burg, is one of tbe five richest women in. America. She is the widow of the man? ufacturer of Hostetter's Bitters. In. her case bitter is sweet, undoubtedly. ? The third party is to take a whack at things in Kentucky in the August election. The fusion will be with Re? publicans in many districts and the effort will be to defeat the Democratic nomi? nees. ? One member of the legislature in? troduced a bill prohibiting citizens of Georgia from getting drunk. Another' member has offered a bill prohibiting county or State officials from getting drunk. ? A Maine farmer who recently sent 10 cents to a man who advertised to send for that amount directions how to run a farm without being troubled with potato bugs got this reply by postal card: Plant fruit trees instead of potatoes. ? Sixty persons have for two months been counting the money in the United States treasury and found it correct to a cent. As the cost was about $15,000, If is hoped there will be no change soon in the treasurership necessitating sucther. count. ? Jasper county, Texas, has a wide range of latitude. Crops may. safely be planted in the southern end of the coun? ty a month earlier than in the north? ern part. Oranges may be raised in' the south end of the county with more safety than figs in the north end. ? A gun thirty and one-half feet long, weighing thirty-one tons, firing a five hundred-pound projectile with 240 pounds of powder, has reached the Brooklyn Navy yard. The projectile will go through forty inches of wrought iron or wrought steel at a distance of one mile. ? "I've a great notion to go and jump into the river," said Mr. N. Peck at the end of a little domestic discussion, as he picked up his hat and started ont. "You come right back here," said his wife. "If you intend any such tricks as that just march up-stairs and put on your old clothes before you start." ? There are 46,000 oil wells in the United States, representing a capital of $120,000,000 with an output of 130,000 barrels per day. The refining capacity of the country is 140,000 barrels per day while 15,000 barrels are consumed as fuel. A surplus stock is held in tanks of more than 35,000,000 barrels. ? Probably the most remarkable rail? road in the world is that rnnning from Gloggintz to Lounering, near Vienna. It is only twenty-five miles in length, but. cost $9,000,000. It begins at an elevation of 1,400 feet and has its terminus at 13, 000 feet. It has fifteen double viaducts, seventeen tunnels and crosses itself nine times. ? One of the longest and most cost' railway bridges in the country is now being erected in the western pottion^of* the United States, almost at its extreme western boundary, the great steel bridge which the Union Pacific is building across the Columbia River at Vancouver, Washington. The length from the : Washington to the Oregon shore will be 6,000 feet, and the draw pier will be over 400 feet long. Tbe cost of the structure will be over $4,000,000. Entitled to the Best. All are entitled to the best that money will buy, so every family s have, at once, a bottle of the best fa remedy, Syrup of Figs, to cleanse t system when costive or bilious, in 50c and $1.00 bottles by ?Ines, druggist*.