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BT CLTNESCALES & LANGSTON. THE LITTLE BOY'S SPEECH ! LADIES AJfI> GENTIiEMEN?My -worthy opponents have endeavored to dis? courage you by telling you of the low price of cotton, but let me entreat you not to stop to look at the dark side of this thing, but go to the? GREAT BARGAIN HOUSE And see what a great heap of things them boys are offering for such a little money. Oil Ho. per gallon, Axle Grease 5c. per box, Candy 10c. per pound, and oh! so many tbines, hat I have not the room here to tell yon of. ? D. C. BROWN & BRO, 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, Said (Ader a positive guarantee that will protect every buyer. SST 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 do fa vor?. HARDWARE, CUTLERY, IMPLEMENTS, &c, ;-In such quantity and variety as to give ns the lead not only in Anderson but in ythisState. DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, AND FINISHED BUILDING LUMBER, A SPECIALTY. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. Buggies, aggies. BUCCIE We have NOW IN STOCK AND ARRIVING DAILY A LARGE stock of BUGGIES. Tyson # Jones' Celebrated Buggies, '//]2?ti? laNorth-XJaralina, are the beBt sold in this market. They are superior in material; style, workmanship and finish to any other maker, and present, with their elegant silver mountings, a very neat appearance, besides combining durability and \ ~. strength with lightness and easy riding qualities. In fact, there cannot be said too much in their praise, and all we ask is for yon to come and see them before buying elsewhere. The well-known Haydock Rice Coil Spring Buggies, Of which we have sold so many during the past two seasons, have given universal satisfaction, and the demand for them is constantly increasing. They are conceded to be the easiest riding 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. 89" Before buying elsewhere be sure and call and examine our stock and prices. SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY. for Infants and Children. "CMforlalssowehadaptedtochildrenthat I Castorla cures Colic, Constipation, Ircc^endh^ S ^^X^?otcs dl iawwntome." H. A. Aucheh, M. D., I geetioi^ 111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious medication. Tea Ckntacb Cohpast, 77 Murray Street, N. T. M O NEY.MO N E Y.MONEY. EVERYBODY is willing to admit that the people need more money, and we hope they will get it. We would not mind having a little more ourselves. It is ter? ribly scarce, but we have? ONE FIVE DOLLAR GOLD PIECE Jjeft, and are saving it for the man that will raise the? HEAVIEST TURNIP FROM OUR SKR?. A Big Lot of Fresh Turnip Seed Just in, and for sale at lowest market price. All Turnips competing for the Five Dollars must be brought to our Store by ?he4?th of November. iS" ORR &? SLOAIT^ TeJ??h^'?oi^umn, -tfe All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARD LAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. 0. MEMORY GEMS. Wrong is wrong, no matter what you believe. Believing a thing is right does not make it right, even to the one so believ? ing._ The school at Ebenezer is taught by Miss Delia Browne. We found every? thing in good order, and Miss Delia faithfully at work. Her pupils seem to be advancing very well. The discipline is good, and indications favorable. Mr. L, M. Mahaffey had seventy-five pupils present the day we visited his school at Bethany, in Martin Township. He is a real teacher, who is doing a work that will tell wonderfully in the elevation of that vicinity. The people around Bethany are interested in educating their children._ Miss Minerva Drake had sixty-five pupils present the morning we spent with her. She is equal to the emergency, but sixty-five is too many for one teacher. Her work is thorough, and of a very high order. No risk is taken in committing children to her care. She gives them moral and intellectual train? ing both in full measure. We do not remember when we have ever speut a morning more pleasantly. Mr. B. B. A. Eobinson is the master at Mt. Bethel. He has a good opportunity for work, and seems to be UBing the op? portunity. We regret to see a commu? nity so full of children not have a school for the full school year. It is a great mistake to depend on summer schools for education. The citizens of Mt. Bethel vicinity are able to pay a good teacher by the year, and we hope to see a good school at this place for the next school year. It is impossible to estimate the benefit of a school to a community. There will be no white Teachers' In? stitute in this County this year. We have enjoyed the greatest edncational meeting ever held in the State, and with? out a single cent being taken from the public school fund. It was a great meet? ing, but -cost nothing except the enter* tainmeut given by the good people in and around Anderson. Teachers and officers think it best not to have an Institute this year, becauee it would not be well attend? ed, and we have enjoyed the Teachers' Association, which was such a great suc? cess. The colored Institute to be held will cost the County nothing. The Bchool at Generostee is now with? out a teacher. Mr. McElroy, who has done such a good, thorough and satisfac? tory work there, is going to North Caro? lina. We regret to give up Mr. McEl? roy. He will be missed, and Anderson County suffers loss in his departure. He is a real teacher, and a man that will be an acquisition to any community. We regret to eee him leave, but we commend him and his good wife to the most favor? able regard of all good people. He car? ries with him the good wishes of the School Commissioner, who has been so well pleased with his faithful work and successful efforts. _ We would urge the patrons of all the schools to put their tchool houses in good repair, so that the children and teachers will be comfortable. Also make your arrangements for teachers. Do not wait and just take anybody, but go to work and secure a good teacher just as any bu? siness man would secure a good clerk, salesman, book-keeper, &c. It is a most important business with parents to en? gage a teacher. Do not deal carelessly and loosely with the training and edu? cation of your children. Be exceedingly careful in reference to their training, Trust not their future life to just any? body. Protect their training with jeal? ous care. The community, the State, the Church, and God requires this of you. A man is responsible for not knowing what he might have known. This will fix a dreadful responsibility on some of us. We will not be allowed to plead that we did not know better when we neg? lected the opportunity to gain such knowledge. When an opportunity once passes it is gone forever. Another may come just like the one past, but it will not be the same opportunity. The young do not fully appreciate this, but they might be taught to realize it nearer than they do. Parents fail to seize the pass? ing privileges and opportunities to edu? cate their children. In some instances they fail to supply their children with sufficient and proper books and papers. A newspaper is an educator. No family should be without one. Children will learn to read with very little help if pro? vided with proper reading matter. That man or woman has a false idea of econo? my who thinks it does not pay to buy books, (that is good books) and take pa? pers, not too many, but enough. It would be a good Christmas gift or birth-day preseut to send a good paper to your own boy or girl for a year. Such a course would give handsome returns. Parents try it. Subscribe fur a paper for your boy or girl, and you will be pleased with the result. Sonic Bible Questions for Children. 1. Who first ueed a saddle as recorded in the Bible? 2. What was the text of our Saviour's first sermon ? 3. Who carried a little coat to her son every year ? 4. Who had a coat woven without scams ? 5. Of whom does the Bible speak of plowing with twelve yoke of oven ? 6. Six women once took a journey which resulted in a wedding ; who was the bride and groom ? 7. Who prayed, "Give me neither pov? erty nor riches ?" 8. What is the shortest soug iu the Bible? _ ? If the scarcity of money causes the low price of cotton, what causes the high price of corn.?Ncxvbcrry Observer, ANDERSON, S. C, BILL ABP. How Time Is Destroying Sectional Animos? ities. Atlanta Constitution. It waa good to be there, Twenty years ago a re-union of the soldier boys was a lively gathering. They greeted one another with loud hilarity, They stepped around with a double quick and joked and laughed and cheered immensely. Most of the boys were then between thir? ty and forty, but now they are nearing sixty, and these twenty years make a dif? ference. B?lling yearB will change a man. Anno Domini will tell. The years are all coming this way, and every one gives us a lick somewhere. I used to think that General Young was the finest looking man in the State, and was getting the best of the fight with old Father Time, but I noticed him at this re-union, and he carried a caue and limped. Old Anno Domini struck him on the hip, they say. Mo?t all of the veterans look? ed older than usual?a little stooped?a little stiffer in the joints. As they sat to? gether in front of the speakers' stand they made a goodly picture, and the pic? ture should have been taken. How solid, how thoughtful, how serene they looked. A consciousness of duty done was set in every feature?no shame, no repentance, no fear, no boasting?they went through the fires and were refined. You can tall a veteran when you meet him in the road. It is said that Jerry Simpson, the sockless statesman, looked upon a gath? ering of Georgia farmers and said : "My friends, this is the first time in my life that I ever stood up before a native American audience." Where he came from more than half the people are for? eigners. If the institution of slavery did our region no other good it did that. It kept the foreigners away and is doing it yet. We are all one people?the descen? dants of revolutionary sires. Senator Ingalls has been down here and profesB ed conversion. He ought to have been baptized just as soon as be finished that speech so as to make his conversion stick. It was such a sudden conversion that our people are dubious. If a northern man will come down here and live awhile he always get converted. I never knew but one exception, and that was William H. Seward. He taught school in Putnam County when he was a young man, and the old settlers told me that he courted a pretty girl, and her plantation and nig? gers, too, and because she wouldent have him he gave up his school and went back and began to write us down as barbarians. Because he couldent get the niggers he dident want anybody to have them. But all the other yankee school teachers that I ever knew became good, warm-hearted southern men. Dr. Alonzo Church, the time-honored president of our State college, and Hiram Warner, the chief-justice of our BUpreme Court, were two of them. I have before me now the News-Democrat, of Canton, 0., which has a marked letter written by a citizen of that town and State, who Bays he came to Georgia in 1839, and taught school in Danielsville, Madison County, for two years, and then studied medicine, and in a few years his personal advantage called him back to Ohio, where he is now prac? ticing medicine- But even the two years in Danielsville implanted a love for tbose people, and his letter is tender and kind concerning the South, and this last spring on his return from Florida he went to Athens and rode horseback from there to Danielsvillo, eighteen miles, just to see the old place that had lived in his memory for fifty years, and to inquire af? ter his pupils. What devotion, what af? fection is that to come from a stranger, a northern man who came south with pre? judices and went back without them. Strange to say, he did not find a man, woman or child in the village who lived there when he did. He heard of four of his pupils who still live, only four. Sad and lonely he walked about and repeated to himself the old song: I feel like one wbo treads alone, etc. He says he visited the same old court? house, where he used to see Garnett An drewB presiding and where he heard Toombs and Stephens and Howell Cobb and Bill Yancey speak. He attended the old-time barbecue and heard the band play Old Dan Tucker. He went coon hunting with the young men and helped to hold the doga while the darkies cut down the tree. He defends our people from the slanders that have so long been heaped upon them and says, "My rela? tions to the school and its patrons and the outside public were most pleasant and agreeable. There is a quality of southern blood whether derived from Hugenot or Cavalier which gives them a hospitality unknown in the north?a cordial wel? come and a sociality to which we are strangers." In speaking of Blavery he Bays, "I have Been them Bold on the block and at ad? ministrators' sales for division, but I never witnessed any such scenes as are depicted in Uncle Tom's Cabin and kin? dred works of fiction. The internal sug? gestions of humanity and self interest were as rife in slave sb in free territory." * * s While this happy re union was going on it occurred to me that it had been about two hundred and forty years since Milton said, "Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war." It has been over one hundred years since Ben Frank? lin said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." This seems to be the common verdict of mankind, and yet bo long as the devil runB loose there will be wars. In fact, I don't know but what there would be some if the devil was dead, for we are taught to believe that there is such a thing as original sin, which the devil nurses into total deprav? ity. Nevertheless, it is our duty to get all the good that we can ont of the evil that befalls us. In fact, we would hardly know whet good is if there was no evil. We wouldent enjoy health if there was no sickness. We wouldent enjoy pros? perity if there was no adversity. And ho if there had been no war we would have no reunions of the old soldier?, no plensantgrcetings, no camp-fire anecdotes, no thrilling recollections; in fact, we wouldent bn here at all, and there would not be any eloquent speeches, and, worst of all, nothing to eat. Very frequently wc are asked questions THURSDAY MORN by our children or by the youths of this generation concerning the war that wc cannot answer. How many soldiers did Georgia Bend to the war? How many were killed in battle ordered in the ser? vice? How many have'since died ? Most of these things are guessed at. Only a few months>go onr legislature determin? ed to pension the Confederate widows and the committee had no data to go by and guessed there were about six hundred and fifty, and so they voted them $100 apiece and appropriated $65,000 to pay it. But most of the committee were youngish men who dident know how long a Con? federate widow lived, especially if she lived in Carroll County. They say now that over four thousand have been heard from and 140 of them are from Carroll and only half the county heard from. Now, there is some explanation for this. Those were game women who sent their husbands to the war. "Go and fight, and whip them yankees," they said. "I'll run the farm and take care of the children till you come back." Game women are like game chickens?they live a long time?and as for Carroll having so many it was because Sherman ran all the women and children out of this region, and. they just dropped over in Carroll, where there was no railroad and a heap of hiding places, and after the war they were too poor to get back again, and they are there yet. The trouble that now concerns the leg? islature ia how to get out of the scrape, for they have pensioned these widows $100 apiece, and it will take half a mil? lion dollars a year to pay it. Now there are some facts that we do not have to guess at. For instance we know that there were Bent from Georgia to the war? 66 regiments of infantry numbering.5(3,000 25 battalions of infantry numbering.12,500 11 regiments of cavalry numbering.9,350 8-1 battalions of cavalry numbering.10,200 60 companies of artillery numbering.4,800 Making a total of.. 92,250 These were the original volunteers, and there were added to them by recruits, 25.000, making a total of 117,350. Not including the home guards. Now, this is about one-sixth of all the Confederate army. Georgia showed her faith by her works. But what proportion of all the soldiers still survive is a question where guessing is in order, but it ia record that over 30, 000 of them fell or died during the war, and 4,200 of these died in northern pris? ons. It is probable that 40,000 have since died, and if that be a fair guess, then about one-third of the Confederate Army still lives. The veterans are pass? ing away very rapidly now, and we see before us many old soldiers who will not attend many more re-unions. We have no pension rolls to tell us from year to year how many have fallen before the reaper. I believe that pension rolls would tell us down here, though they do not seem to show any deaths up north. I waa talking to Dr. Headen about it yes? terday, and he said the men who lived on pensions and the bounty of the govern? ment and had no care or apprehension about food and clothing, did naturally live a long time. Well, that may account for their not dying, but how does it ac? count for the number increasing. They have now about seven hundred thousand on the rolls, just about as many as the Confederacy had soldiers, and their re? cords say they lost about seven hundred thousand during the war. Good gracious, what a record. These veterans helped to do it. They did their full share in swelling these pensions to $160,000,000 for the year 1891. They ought to be ashamed of themselves for saddling such a debt upon the country. But they keep opening the pension door wider and wider. A man can now get a pension if he can't see as good or hear as good or walk as good as he used to, provided he will swear that he believes it came about by reason of his service in the war. The Youth's Companion, of Boston, told us not long ago about a man applying for a pension because he had recently cut his foot with an ax that he brought home from the army. And another paper told of a Boldier who re? cently died and bad been drawing three pensions for eleven years. He volunteer? ed as John Tomson, got sick and was discharged ; got well again and hired as a substitute, and put his name down as John Thomson, got wouuded and dis? charged, and hired again as a substitute with the name of John Thompson, with a F. He soon became an invalid and drew three pensions under three different names, and they never found it out until his widow applied and got things mixed up. But enough of that. It is all mighty bad, but the good of it ia they have to pay more of it than we do, and they are getting awful tired of it. Our re-union was of the survivors of the Fortieth Georgia, commanded by Colonel Abda Johnson, and Phillip's Legion, commanded by General William Phillips. Colonel Johnson is dead, but General Phillips was present in the flesh, and looks like he is good for many years to come. It ia said that the Fortieth Georgia is the only regiment that never changed its staff officers. The legion was not bo fortunate. Excepting the general, the staff was changed many times. In? deed, there were six different lieutenant colonels, four majors and four adjutants. I remember that the Eighth Georgia changed its commander four limes, and that Company A. in the First Georgia regulars, that went out under Captaiu H. D. D. Twiggs, changed its captain eleven times during the war. Most of these changes are marked "k. i. b," killed in battle, but some are from resignations and some from promotions and some from transfers. The privates did not change much. Death was their main chance. Sometimes the company fought down to the ragged edge. I heard Captaiu Neel say yesterday that oue company in his regiment fought down to one man, and he had to stack his arms with another compauy, for one gun won't staud alone. This reminded me of Jonas?poor faith? ful Jonas?an iBraelite, indeed, whom any town boy could alap around before the war and ho never resented it. But he joined one of the Rome companies, and never lost a roll call or missed a bat? tle or straggled on a march. I remember that after a hard day's march Colonel TNG, AUGUST 27, 1 Towers called up his companies to see how many men he had, and when he called for Company I, poor meek-hearted sore footed Jonas stepped forward and saluted the colonel. "Where is your company ?" Baid the colonel. Jonas gave another salute and meekly said: "I ish der kompny." He did not go to the war from courage or for glory, but from a sense of duty. That duty he performed. Bill Ar.p. Six Unlucky Sprees. One poor man?he is now dead?I know, who was ruined half a dozen times i by drink in a very curious and, I believe, unique manner. *He was miserable enough about his sins, but his penitence never drove him to get drunk. Quite the contrary. Drink ruined him, andjyet he was drunk exactly sis time3 during the whole of his lifewind no more. ' Most un? fortunately these were the very days when he ought not to have got drunk, He had, I believe, a weak and excitable head. As a rule he drank very little. Now the first time that he got drunk was when he was made captain of his school and got a scholarship for the university. He drank champagne and it went to his legs and he met the head master. Re? sult, loss of his place and scholarship. The next, time he got drunk was the night before the final examination for his degree. It was of the highest importance to him that he should take a good degree; if he did himself justice he was sure of a good first and of a fellowship. Unluck? ily, he got drunk on the very evening when he should have gone sober and early to bed; the next day he wa3 a wreck and failed altogether. In the end he took a third, After this he renounced scholarship and went into journalism. He did pretty well, writing articles and making a good income and being per? fectly steady, though, of course, he had the reputation of the man who had got drunk and lost his first. Then there came a moment when a certain editorial chair was vacant. He knew that he was mentioned for it. He got drunk and was seen by the proprietors in a condition of hot coppers and imbecility. So he failed. He then got engaged to be married. Will it be believed that he got drunk the very evening before the wedding, and was seen in that condition by the unhap? py bride and all her friends? Result: marriage ceremony not performed. So he remained a bachelor. And there was once a lawsuit in which his evidence was all important. He got drunk the day before the case came on. When he went into the box his brains were addled and the case was ruined. Lastly, he got drunk en his birthday?I believe his six? tieth?went home in a pelting rain, took pneumonia and died. "I've only been drunk six times in my life," he lamented, with his latest breath, "and each time it has ruined me. For a tenth part of the penalty that I have paid for these six times most men might have got drunk every night of their lives. If I had it to do all over again I would too." And in this impenitent frame he departed.? Waller Beasant. A Convention or Fanners. St. Louis, August 18.?The executive committee appointed by the Fort Worth Farmers' Alliance convention, with U.S. Hall, president of the Missouri Alliance, as chairman, has issued a circular to the members of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union and of the farmers and laborers of the United States, call ling a convention of the members of those bod? ies who are in accord with the resolu? tions passed at the Fort Worth meeting. The convention will be held in St" Louis on Sept. 15th next at a period when fall festivities are in full blast, streets illu? minated, exposition wide open, and the fair only a few weeks distant. Nearly all the railroads have agreed to make re? duced rates for the convention. The basis of representation will be fixed at three delegates from each and every County in the jurisdiction of the Na? tional Alliance. All members are cordial? ly invited to take part in making this man festation of the farmers of this country a grand success. It will be remembered that the resolutions referred to reject the Bub treasury plan and appeal to the farm? ers to vote against all schemes that would make a loan establishment of the United States Treasury. The circular concludes as follows: "This meeting will be a protest on part of {lovers of the constitution of the Alliance against seeing that organi? zation prostituted by a body of men who have no interest in farming and whose love for the organization is limited by the amount of personal gain they can get out of it. This is au effort on the part of conservative members and real farmers of the order to emancipate the Farmers' Alliance from the control of scheming politicians and designing dem? agogues. That we will succeed in this effort we entertain no doubt." The letter wub signed by U. S. Hall, Chairman, of Hubbard, Mo.; W. S. Mc? Allister, Canton, Miss., and W. L. Sar? gent, Hayner, Texas, The brusque and fussy impulse of these days of false immpression would rate dowu all as worthless because one is un? worthy. As if there were no motes in sunbeams! Or comets among stars! Or cataracts in peaceful rivers! Because one remedy professes to do what it never was adapted to do, are all remedies worthless? Because one doctor lets a patient die, are all humbugs? It re? quires a fine eye and a finer brain to discriminate?to . draw the differential line. "They say" that Dr. Tierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Dr. Priece'a Favorite Prescription havo cured thou aauds. "They say" for a weak eystem there's nothing better than the "Discovery," and that tho "Favorite Prescription" is the hope of debilitated, feeble women who need a restorative tonic and bracing nerve. And here's the proof Try one or both. If they don't help you, tell the World's Dispensary Medi? cal Association, of Buffalo, N. Y,, and you get your money back. ? The majority of tho people live poor in order to die rich ; it is a great deal wiser to live rich and die poor, 891. A Prairie Fire. All night we have seen a red glow in the northwest. It is a prairie fire but it is miles away. The harvest has been late this year and our wheat is still in shock on the dry stubble. But we have turned thirty furrows about the field fifteen furrows and fifteen more twenty feet from the first?and burned off the dry grass between. It is an excellent fire-break, although these prairie fires have been known to "jump" greater dis? tances than this. There is yet no call for worry. The fire is miles from us, there is no wind and for the present, at least, we are safe. The next day, however, brings a change in the situation. The sun shines like an indistinct fiery ball through a hazy atmosphere. The wind is refresh? ing?it is growing to a gale and, oh, hap? less fortune! it drives the fire toward us* Rains have been plentiful the paBt summer. The grass everywhere has grown rank and high. But the sun has dried it into tinder and it only awaits the brandVo leap into flames of de? struction. See I Those little charred embers that fall about us are from the fire. It is ap? proaching us and the haze grows heavier about the heavens. The sun is a mere flush of yellow in the zenith and we smell the burning grass. There is no time to be lost. Bun! Harness four horses to a breaking plow and let us turn up wider furrows about the house?our home! With a tingling of nerves and a smothered feeling at the throat we begin. The first furrow is hardly completed when a neighbor with his family and a few household goods piled in the wagon drives past. "Stop ploughing fire breaks?it is use? less?the fire is the worst ever known? there is no fighting it?Logan County is all burned over?fly! fly for your lives. Our very horses catch the terror of that warning. They rear and plunge and will not pull the plow another inch. Can nothing be done? We look around us in desperation. We can hear the crackling of the fire now, and see the smoke tumbling and writhing in the fierce wind. But the calamity is at our very door? the air is oppressing hot?we must go. The snorting horses are hitched to the wagon, into which a few odds and ends of the household furniture are thrown, and then?we look around to say fare? well to home. Home! It is a rude, house, built of rough boards and tar-papered on the out? side for protection against the wet. A poor place, indeed, but yet we have work? ed for it and struggled, and toiled and lived in it; it was built with our own hands and sanctified with our own hearts and shall wo leave it ? No I Unhitch the horses and tie them se? curely in the barn ; then we will fight to the bitter end. The flames are close upon us, now, and coming with race-horse speed. Oh_. what a wind! Will the fire-breaks pro? tect the wheat field ? We have our an? swer in the next minute when like a huge, gaunt monster, the fire pauses an instant to lick its red jaws and then leaps upon the stubble and we see shock after shock of goldeu grain melt into its capacious maw. So goes the fruit of one long year's toil in a brief moment?but we have no time to weep for the fire is dangerously near the house. Then what a battle do we wage j Here, there, at every point, we meet the red demon.and fight with the desperation of life and death. Our faces are set, and clothes and hands are burned, but we throw ourselves like madmen into the hottest portions of that seething fur? nace, and at last we conquer but fall, scorched and lifeless upon the field of battle. Still, our home is saved, and as for (he crop that once stood on that black? ened field?why mourn for what is gone. Our hopes must center about the year to come.? William Wallace Cook in De? troit Free Press. Why Senator Irby is Happy. When a Record reporter "dropped in" at the Capitol to day and entered the ante room of the Governor's office he found quite a notable assemblage gath? ered in Private Secretary Tompkin?'s den, swapping yarns that were all wool and a yard wide. Col. John Lawrence Manning Irby, our farmer representative from Laurens in the United States Senate, was holding down a conspicuous seat at the round table. The Colonel was very exuberant and was chatting merrily away at a 2,40 pace. "Well, I have good reason to laugh a little and feel way up," said the Colonel, when some one remarked upon the jubi? lant expression that played over his face. "What's the matter ?" said one. "You look like ycu might be drawing your salary from Uncle Sam." "That's the size of it, friend Tillman ite," said the Colonel, "I've been getting those little checks for some time. They only call for iMlG.GG a month, but then, you know, it helps to take the hayseed out of an old farmer like me. Shell and Johnstone get theirs, too, and we are con? siderable of a happy trio." How's This 2 We offer one hundred dollars for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheuey for the last 15 years and be? lieve him perfectly honorablo in all bus? iness transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Walmng, Kinnan & Marvin; Whole? sale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal? ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testi? monials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, ? An Arkansas man ou his death bed confessed to three murders, VOLUM A Famous Suicide. In these days a murderer or a suicide docs not acquire worldly immortality by his crime. But in"the good old times" men often acquired.'everlasting renown by killing others and sometimes one gained "an immortality of fame" by killing himself. One of the most famous of the old time Btiicides was Cato, miscalled the philosopher. He is sometimes styled Cato of Utica, because it was at Utica that he killed himself. He was born ninety-five years before Christ, and showed in his youth the austerity of character which had distinguished his illustrious ancestor, Cato the Censor, who was born two hundred and thirty two years B. C. Like all Romans of rank, he served in tbo|army and won consider? able renown in suppressing the insurrec? tion of the Blaves, which was excited and led by the gladiator Sparticns. Like the ancient Cato, he disdained the luxuries usually enjoyed by officera of rank. He refused the rewards for his valor offered him by his commander, and appeared upon the march in dress which differed little from that of a private. When the liberties of Rcme- were threatened by Cresar, he took service under Pompey; and after his general was slain and Cxs&t was master of Rome he thought it unbecoming a Roman citizen to continue to live. He carried out his suicidal intention with singular calmness and resolution. After supping cheerfully with several of his friends, he went into bis room where he embraced his son with such uriusuai tenderness as to awaken the suspicion that he intended to terminate his life. He lay down upon his bed and read for a while Plato's "Dialogue upon the im? mortality of the soul." When he had finished reading, be looked round and observed that his sword had been taken away. He called for it; and when his son and friends rushed into the room in tears, Cato cried out: "How long is it since I have lost my senses and my son is become my keeper ? Brave and generous son, why do you bind your father's hands, that when Cresar comes he may find me unable to defend myself? Do you imagine that without a sword I cannot end my life ? Cannot I destroy myself by holding my breath for some moments, or by striking my head against the wall?" His son made no reply, but retired weeping, and the sword was at length sent into Cato by a slave. "Now," said he as he drew it, "I am my own mas? ter." When he found himself alone he again took up his book, and when he had once more read the dialougue, he lay down and slept. Toward the dawn of day he took his sword and pressed the point into his body a little below the chest, inflict? ing an extensive through not fatal wound. As he fell he overturned a table, the noise of which gave the alarm. He was found insensible, welteriDg in his blood. While the surgeon was dressing the wound, Cato recovered his conciousness, thurst the Burgeon from him, tore out his bowels with his hands, and immediately expired. Thus perished Cato, miscalled the philosopher, in the forty-eighth year of his age. A glamour was thrown over his suicide by the muse of Addison, who in his tragedy of "Cato" has glorified the self m?derer with the unfading splendor of his poetical genius. A Shrewd Artist. I called on a certain portrait painter in Indianapolis last week. We had gone to school together. Since then he has acquired a national reputation as an artist. I complimented him on his life? like work. "Yea," he replied, "I sup? pose it is creditable now, but it was not always so. I remember the first job I ever had. A wealthy lady come to me and wanted a full length portrait paint? ed. I did the best I could, but that was nothing to brag on. When the lady came to look at her picture she gave a cry of disappointment. " 'Why, that's not at all like me," she said, 'I shall not take it!' " I assured her it was a perfect likeness and declared that even her little poodle would recognize it. I am willing to take that risk, she said. I'll take the picture. Later in the day she brought in the canine, and the sagacious little animal, after surveying the portrait for a moment, ran up and licked the painted hand. My lady took the picture without any further objections. But the likeness must have been strik? ing, I said, to deceive the dog. Not necessarily, replied the artist. I took the precaution of rubbing a piece of bologna sausage over the hand before the dog arrived. |i Buzzard Struck by Lightning. Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock just before the heavy shower, several gen? tlemen were sitting in front of a store in WeBt Nashville when one of the party observed a large turkey buzzard that was sailing majestically across the sky, and remarked that if the buzzard did not look out he would get wet. Their atten? tion was thus called to the bird, and all were lazily watching its flight when sud? denly, when it was opposite and above them, they were bliuded by a flash of lightning, which seemingly exploded on the back of the buzzard. They were astonished somewhat, but recovered themselves and looked for the buzzard, but alas the majestic bird was out of sight. All that was left of him was a few black tail feathers which fluttered pathetically to the ground. Those who witnessed the phenomenon succeeded in catchiDg several of the scorched feathers, which they exhibit in corroboration of the story.?Xashrille American. flucklcn's Arnica Salve The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver Soros, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. :e xxvi.?no. 8. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? If there were no little sins there would never be any big ones. The big snakes have all been little ones sometime or other. ? The true and safe course lies in this direction: Let evey farmer see to it that he has plenty of corn, oats, peas, hay and other farm products, keep stock, and when this is done make every pound of cotton he possibly can. This we think is the true solution of the difficulty, and atten? tion cannot be too often called to it.? Darlington Herald. ? When a man thinks nobody cares for him, and he is alone in a cold, sel? fish world, he would do well to ask him? self the question : "What have I done to make anybody care for and love me, and to warm the world with faith and generosity?" It is generally the case that those who complain the most have done the leist. ? An exchange remarks that it is not much wonder that the human race finds it uphill work to be decent and keep straight. The first man was a liar and a sneak, the first woman kept bad com? pany and pried into things that did not concern her; the first child born killed his brother. Our first parents were a tough lot and it is hard to get it out of the blood. ? Governor Eagle, of Arkansas, is one of the many men whose success in life is due to the encouragement and stimulus of a clever wife. Ever since her mar? riage Mrs. Eagle has pushed her hus? band forward. She even educated him. Naturally, Arkansas is proud of Mrs. Eagle, and her position in the State is not unlike that of Mrs. Logan in Mis? souri. ? The Egyptians had a very remark? able ordinance to prevent persons from borrowing imprudently. An Egyptian was not permitted to borrow without giving to his creditor in pledge the body of his father. It was deemed both an im? piety and an infamy not to redeem so sacred a pledge. A person who died withont discharging that duty was de? prived of the customary honors paid to the dead. ? It has been claimed that the seeds taken from ancient Egyptian tombs are capable of growth, but proof of the claim is lacking. It has been demonstrated, however, that seeds of a very great age are capable of development. Raspberries have been raised from seed taken from the stomach of a man who died during the time of the Emperor Hadrian who reigned in the second century of bur era. Think of it. a seed springing into new life after lying dormant sixteen cen? turies. ? Thoughtfulness of others is the chief mark of good breeding, and nowhere does it show plainer than in the hostess. Some of the schools in this country have adopted a course which teaches girls to enact the part of the hostess. One of the exercises requires the students to enter the room with ease aud to be re? ceived by the hostess, who in turn pre? sents them to the guest at her side. They are taught to walk, sit, stand, stoop, bow, to move with ease, precision, flexi? bility and the grace that is the natural result of physical training. ? The heaviest modern ordnance is the English 110-ton gun. Its charge is 9G0 pounds of best prismatic gunpowder, and the cylindrical steel shot weighs 1,800 pounds. At the last test this enor? mous shot penetrated entirely through compressed armor (steel faced iron) 20 inches thick; then through iron backing 5 inches thick ; then it pierced wholly through 20 feet of oak, 5 feet of granite and 11 feet of hard concrete and 3 feet into a brick wall. No existing fortress, much less armored vessel, could with? stand such a shot. ? Of the late Bishop Ames the follow? ing anecdote is told: While presiding over a certain conference in the West a member began a tirade against univer? sities and education, thanking God that he had never been corrupted by contact with a college. After proceeding thus for a few minutes, the bishop interrupted with the question: "Do I understand hat the brother thanks God for his ig? norance V* "Well, yes," was the answer, "you can put it that way if you want to." "Well, all I have to ?ay," said the bishop in his sweetest musical tone, "is that the brother has a good deal to thank God for." ? Very frequently a champagne bath has been referred to in illustrating some freak of profligacy. Less than a half dozen years ago a Louisville man took a genuine champagne bath in Rufer's hotel. - His name was?and is, for he is living? Crow, and he was a sporty man. A rela? tive died near Lexington and left him a big lump of property. He bought enough champagne to fill a bath tup at Rufer's and plunged into it. On the side he had champagne to drink and a dozen companions to drink it. Two years later he was on his uppers and hadn't a nickel. ? The Wilmington, N. 0., Star notes the success of Mr. William H. Dunn, owner of 'be riverside farm, near New berae. N. ft, who believes in the inten? sive system of farming, and to which he attributes his success. His farm of sixty acres he bought in 18S1, paying for it ??30 an acre. He values it now at a thousand dollars an acre. The farm has netted him this year over 20 per cent on this valuation. His net profits over and which is doing pretty well on sixty acres. He raises nearly everything for~which there is a demand in the Southern mar? kets, but banks on the Irish potato, which he says always pays well, and with which there is no danger of overstocking the market. On three acres he raised 140 barrels to the acre, while twenty-three acres averaged 110 barrels to the acre. He insists that the man who understands truckiug, knows what to raise and farms right, can't help making money. Whether on pleasure bent or business, ahould take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys, liver and _ bowels, preventing fevers, headache and other forms of sickness. For sale in 50c. and ?1.00 bottles by all leading drug? gists, above all expenses have Tourists,