The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, October 15, 1891, Image 1

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BT CLMNKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEESON, S. C, THUESDAY MOENING, OCTOBER 15, 1891 VOT.TTTVrrc XXVI.- -NO. 15. AT.COST! BEGINNING OCTOBER C, 1891, OTJR ENTIRE STOCK OF STATIONERY. J.N order to make room for the immense Stock of BOOTS and SHOES that we are opening up, we are compelled to clone oat our entire Stock of Books and Sta? tionery at the earliest possible date. Come at once and secure a real Bargain. JAS- P. GOSSETT & CO.* Boots and Shoes, Under Hotel Chiqnola, Anderson, S. C. NEW STOEE. New and Elegant Stock of STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. EVERYTHING FRESH, FIRST CLASS, AND GUANA?TEEI). FLOUR, MEAL, MEAL, GRITS, SUGAR, COFFEE, LARD, HAMS, MEAT, MOLASSES, PIC5LE3, CANDY, CRACKERS, In short, EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT. ??r~ Delivery Free to any part ol the City. This is a new departure for me, and I want my friends to give me a trial. My chief thoaght shall be to please my customers. Yours truly, W. W. WHITE, No. 16 North Main Street, just above C. A. Reed's Music House. HOW TO MAKE YOUR HEB! NEVER, try to wear a Shoe too small, or that is not the shape of the foot. Never let your Shoe get hard or dry. Don't let it ruu d^wn at the beel nr t-ide. A.Sfaoe repairtd in time will retain its shape aud comfort, and it is true economy. Never put wet Sboes by tbe fire to dry, but dry them gradually and carefully. Never dry a wet Shoe without first applying Biine oil aud grease. Don't allow a thick crust of tracking on your Shoes. Wash it off occasionally and apply a little cms Lor oil; you can polish it over in an hour or two. We now have a complete line of the Celebrated Hamilton & Brown Shoe Go's, goods in stock, and it is a duty you owe to yourself to give these goods a trial. Our Ladies' $2 50 Dongola and Go.?t Button Shoe?made on Opera, Half Ope :ra, and Common Sense lasts?we believe stands without a rival. Oar Gents' $2.50 Calf, Button, Ball's and Congress?made on London and iPrench toed lasts?will simply astonish you, to s^e how the Shoe could be gotten up Tor that money. We have the Largest and Most Complete Line of Shoes in the State, And considering the CLOSE PRICES at which we buy, and SMALL MARGIN tit which wc pell, we can safely say you will lose 15 to 25 per cent in buying else? where. Very respectfully, R. S. HILL, Manager, No. 10 S. Main Street. for Infants and Children. " Cast or I a Is so well adapted to children that I recommend it oa superior to any prescription known to me.1' H. A. Aacmta, M. D., 111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. Castorla cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills "Wcnna, gives aloep, and promotes dl j gestion, I "Without injurious medication. The Centa'cr CostPAxr, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. HAVE YOU D THIS ? MY COLLECTING HORSE \VlLL go on the war path October 1st, 1891, and, with several years experience and about six months rest, I think he can win the race. I have been runniog for -the seond prize, but now I must havo tue FIRST. If you don't want to lose your Btakes, call and see mc with your first Cotton. I have- no promise to make for ex teosions, or loDger time. When ?be race is up I want my money. You know when your poper is due. Lute Cotton a:;d other debts to pay is no excuse. Take fair warning-SAVE COST AND TROUBLE. WE HA VE A LARGE STOCK OF Carriages, Photons. Buggies, Carts, Wagons and Harness, That we will sell Cheap for Cash, And a few goo.l HORDES and MULES. You can buy anything in my line at a Bargaio, and get goods well worth i-e money. J. S. FOWLER. All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARPLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMORY GEMS. "Justice is a constant and perpetual will to render to every one that which is his own." "The great fact is that life is a service; the only question is, whom will you serve?" Mr. C. B. Burns will teach at Twiggs the coming session. Miss Lucia Beed is teaching at the Varences school, near High Shoals. The people of the TJniou District have erected a good school house, and are about ready for work to begin the first of November. We request the Trustees to notify the School Commissioner of the time fixed for openicg, giving the amount to be paid to teachers, &c. "Do not govern your pupils; help them to govern themselves," is probably the best advice or suggestion that could j be given to teachers. The attention of Trustees is called to the fact that they are not authorized to employ a teacher in the public schools who has not a certificate in force, either from the State Board or the County Board of this County. If "every man is worth ju3t so much as the things are worth about which be busies himself," the teacher who busies himself or herself about education is worth a great deal. No community should be without a good teacher. It is getting to be the rule now in edu? cational papers to refer to teachers as in the feminine gender. Even in the re? cent examination the word "teacher" was almost universally parsed as a com? mon noun, feminine gender, &c. This is hardly fair to the men who are teachers. The history of S.<utb Carolina, written by John L. Weber, of Charleston, is a very interesting little book. Thentyle is such as will please the children, and cre? ate a desire fur more information on the points touched. It is well bound, neatly printed in clear type, and pnt at the low price of fifty cents a volume. The teachers have grand opportunities for wonderful usefulness. The education of the heart, bead or body alone is not sufficient, but all should be educated together. If every teacher was an earn? est, working Christian, what inroads might be m?de ?n fin and vice of every kind in the next fVw years 1 "To be the good genius of some dwared existence, to be the first band that points out the flowers, the sunshine, the stats to gime blinded soul, and to open the first door that leads to the up? lands of hope and noble ambition, are not these thing* worth years of weary and self-sacrificing labor ?" The teacher has a great field in which to work. The only way for a neighborhood to have a good school is for them to be united and work together with the teacher. They should all be in sympa? thy with each other. They should make it a real neighborhood, not just simply a lot of people who live near each other. If you expect to make a successful fight against illiteracy you must unite your forces. Be not a community divided against itself The October examination of teachers was not ho severe as it was bard to grade the answers There were 27 applicants. In looking over the papers, we are led to believe eome of the applicants lack in attention to the questions asked. Fre? quently the first part is answered and the balance left unnoticed. This occurs so often that we ore of the opinion that it is due to a want of attention to the questions. We endeavored to impress on those present the importance of first comprehending fully the question, and then answering it. Eight got 1st grade, eight second, five third and six failed. Mr. Frank W. Roberts, the efficient teacher at Slabtowu, called to see us a few days ago, and gave a very favorable account of the Teachers' Institute that was conducted at Liberty, in Pickens County, by Col. John G. Clinkscales. It could not be any thing but a success in such hands, for everything Col. Clink scales undertakes be makes a success of. Andcraou County knows the benefit of j Institutes, having bad them for several years. And this year we had the State Teachers' Association, the biggest edu? cational gathering ever assembled in South Carolina, and a colored Teachers' Institute, both without taking a single cent from the school fund of the County. With these meetings the teachers, both white and colored, co far as we have heard, are entirely satisfied. A petition was presented to the County Board of Examiners at their meeting in October, asking that a new District be formed, iucluding the town of William? ston ; the shape to be a circle three miles in diameter, with the Female Col* lege as the center. After consideration of the subject, the County Board grauted the petition. The new District thus formed will be known as School District No. 20. A new School District was als'o granted to the people of the Union Grove vicinity, but the boundaries were not fixed. This wiil be known as Union District No. 21. A request was also made to constitute the Slabtown District No. 18 3 permanent School District, but the matter was not in sufiicieut shape to be acted on. These new Districts will begin with the next school, which is from first of November, 1S91. ? De Witt's Little Early Einers never gripe or cause nausea. Mild but sure, assist rather than force. Best little pill for sick headache, chronic constipation, dyspepsia. For sale by Wilhile & Wil hite. I BILL ARP. America the Place for Poor Boys. Atlanta Constitution. Dr. Xunnally was tolling about a poor boy Who was working his way through College. Ho worked for hire on a farm at ?20 a month and his board, and saved his wages and went to school, and during vacation ho hired out and lived hard and did his own washing. That boy is in ear? nest and needs watching. I am going to watch that boy if I live and see what be? comes of him. They are not common. I knew one in college forty-five years ago. Ho walked from North Alabama to Athens, Ga., and his clothes wore all homc-mado and coarse and didn't fit well. I remember that his pants wcro too short, at the bottom and too long at the top, and the waist seam of his brown jeans coat was high up on tho back. The boys laughed at him on the sly, but tbey dident laugh long, for he soon took tho lead and kept it. If ho hadont got killed in tho war ho would have been a leader in his State right now. This is a great and glorious govern men t. There is none like it upon tho faco of tho earth. Tho fact that the highest places in tho nation aro in tho reach of the hum? blest citizen?that a tailor can bocomo a president and a millboy a senator, and a lad who plowed a bull for lack of "some? thing better" has held more officos and higher offices in Georgia than any three of her most gifted citizens?is a wonderful thing. England and Germany have good governments, but over there a poor boy has got to have help to rise. He must be kin to somebody who has power or influ? ence. He must have a cousin in Berlin or an uncle in parliament, but the field is open here?open to all. Aristocracy is not the passport hero. It is merit and diligence. Honor and shame from no conditions rise. A vonerablo gentleman quoted that to me and said: "I used to be proud of my lineage, and was inclined to boast of tho good blood that was in my veins ; but one day I was talking to an old kinsman about our ancestors, aud he said: "Well, yes, my son, there was some goo'd peoplo away back there, but the stock sorter run down. Your pap and 3rour grandpap be? haved mighty well, but some of the boys dident. Your Uncle Dick stole a bag of taters often a fiatboat, and they cotch him at it, and took him down in the canebrake and whipped him. And there was so much talk about Tom's marking every stray sheep and shote in his mark that ho took a sudden notion to move to Arkan? sas, and I haint heard of him since. Somo of the stock was good, but some was powerful covychus." Well, of course thero is something in luck, for Solomon says, "Timo and chance happeneth to all," but as a gener? al thing merit and diligence are rewarded in this country. Andy Johnson became a president, and John Tylor, did, too, but John was reduced after his time was out, and the County Commissioners made him an overseer of the public road, which shows tho ups and downs of fame and politics. But good conduct and good principles pay in tho long run, if they don't in tho short. I was ruminating about this yesterday as our train passed a lot of convicts who were working tho road between Atlanta and Decatur. It is a sad and melancholy spectacle to see them in their striped uniforms and hear the clink of their ankle chains as they came down with their picks into the hard ground or tossed tho earth away with their shovels. They looked healthy and strong and contented, but I don't know how they felt. They wore all negroes, and they don't feel much?not much pen? itence and less mortification. Thero aro 1,737 convicts now in our Slate?that many in our Stato system under lease. Thero aro somo more on the public roads of the Counties, and nearly all are ne? groes. Thero are only 170 white convicts, and not a white woman. Nearly sixteen hundred colored aro wearing the stripes, aud forty-seven of these are women. What is tho matter with the negroes? When will thoy do bettor ? Nearly all of these convicts are bot ween sixteen and forty, and but a very few ./ore ever in slavery. They have been to school most of them, and most of them aro from the cities and towns. Tho old-timo negroes arc not in tho chaingang. Thoy had no schooling, but they had moral training. What is to beoomo of the negro ? Ho has less excuse for crime than a white man. His want* aro few; it takes less to do him; ho is not cramped by society nor social temptation ; a day's honest work will support him for two days; ho pays no tax ; and 3'ct the devil seems to be in him. There aro 30 per cent, more v/hites than negroes in this State, and yet the negroes commit nine times more crimes. The problem is not solved. I have beforo me a very ablo papor on tho race problem by a hurnano and gifted citizen of Louisi sianti. It was written some years ago, and he then thought that education would solvo it. He is mistaken. Crime among tho negroes increases with their educa? tion. It does that at the north among tho whites. Their criminals are nearly as numerous, according to population, as among the negroes at the South. Bishop Turner is a xory smart colored man, and is a good man, and we see he wants the negroes to go to Africa. I believe that our people aro willing and ready for tho exodus. Twenty-live years has made no satisfactory progress. Tho south has done her duty. Where you liud one good, honest, industrious negro you will find ten shiftless, immoral ones. We aro tir? ed. I saw a crowd of them in At'.anta tho other day who were gathered around a black man with a plug hat, and I heard him say, "Wo tnustall get away from this country?a colored man has no chance hero at all. Tho. white man has got him down and his heels on him, and wo is bound to go." He is as much an auareh ist as Herr .Most. Every ono oflhoso darkies can gct?l a day and live on 25 cents. Thero aro millions of whito peoplo across the water who would thank God for so good a chance to make a living. If this restless, trillng, insolent, crime-lov? ing class would go somewhere it would bo a great relief. Tho fact is thoy should bo inado to go. Abolish tho chaingang and ship them to Alrica. I wonder if it can be done. England used to send her bud men to Botany Bay. Wo aro tired of having to uso lynch law for their outrages] Lynch law docs not reform or intimidate. There has been more of these horrible outrages within tho past year limn any year since tho war. Aud yet there arc many good negroes, negroes whom we respect and love to befriend, and there is tho trouble with Bishop Turner's plan. Ho wants tho good ones to go and set up a government. Wo want them to go and tho good ones to staj*, and that would toko a large majority. At all events they should l)C thinned out, and wo will give tho bishop choice and h.lp him to thin them. It is the common sentiment by our people that the whites and tho blacks cannot live together in peace much long? er. The generation that is now com ing on right out of the schools is worse than tho last. Every town is full of young negroes who are vagabonds and thoy keep tho police continual^' on tho watch. Tho jail and the calaboose aro never "without boarders. Over five hun? dred colored convicts have been sent to tho chaingang during tho last twelve months. When will this thing stop ? Their own race, with few exceptions, don't seem to be much concerned about it. I overheard one telling his experience as a convict, and ho had a good time. IIo said: "Now, cnildrcn, you know I was a trusty, I was. I didont wear no spurs, nor chains, I had charge of do dogs, and when a nigger got away ray boss holler for me, and I jump for do mules and put do saddles on quick and ontio tho dogs, and away wc go. Wo had two dogs?a big, long-cared houn' dog, and a small dog, sorter half fico, and a short tail. Dey was both powerful good track dogs. Ono mornin' about daybreak do alarm was given, two niggers got away. T)o boss call mo, and I got do mules and tho dogs quick, and ho bounce on ono mulo, and I bounce on do other and ws let do dog smell of do niggers bunk whar dcy sleep and den put em' on de track and away wo go. De niggors and dc dogs run and wo keop up behind. Do niggers run and do dogs run. Dime by do track got hotter and do niggers run and do dogs run. Do old houn' opons bis mouth wide and say, come on, como on, and atter wo had run om about four miles de olo dog change his tuno, and wo knowed dem niggers was treed. Shore cnuf, whon wo got dar, do two niggers was up in a postoak sotten on a limb. Do olo houn' was scttin' off a piece lookin' up in do tree, and ho say t-o-o-o-o of'em, to-o-o-o of 'em.' De lit? tle dog was setting on his short tail, and ho say, dat's a fak, dat's a fak. Well, we make dem darkies get down from dar and and take 'cm back and do boss give 'em a right smart whippen and put 'om to work again. Dey was mean niggers and dare ain't no other sort dare hardly. I nobor 'sociato wid dem convicts. I was a trustyjl was." Bir.i. A nr. Relics of the Buffalo. After travellers on tho Canadian Pa? cific are fairly launched upon the great plains west of Manitoba they see many reminders of the buffalo. Stretching over tho plains as far as tho eye can reach, crossing one another in a perfect net? work, aro the innumerable paths in which the buffaloes trod one behind anothor in almost countless numbers. The little knolls, too, are thickly dotted with buffa? lo wallows, where tho animals had dug up tho earth with their horns and rolled in tho dust, or, what suited them bettor, visited tho wallow after a shower, and enjoyed the luxury of a mud bath. Here and there, too, one sees the skeletons of tho noblo animal. But not many of them arc seen from tho railroad cars, for near? ly all the skeletons within seven miles of the track have been gathered together and brought to tiio railroad, where they aro piled up, ready for shipment. At many of tho places far from the stations, these great piles of buffalo bones are heaped. They aro laid up as regular as so much cord wood. The piles aro about eight feet high, twelve feet wide and any? where from fifteen to fifty feet long. Tho outer layer is mado by piling up tho skulls, with tho frontal portion outside, and within this wall the bones aro heap? ed promiscuously. It will give an idea of the enormous quantity ol these skeletons when tho fact is mentioned that within a radius of two miles of a station on tho railroad to Prince Albert 3,800 skeletons wero picked up. Out of sight of tho railroad track these skeletons may still be found in countless numbers, and tho industry of gathering them will be continued until they have all been removed from tho prairies. These animals were the victims very largely of the Indians, who killed tho stupid beasts frequently, only to get their tongues, which were esteemed by tho In? dians as a particularly delicate morsel. Tho bones are tauen to Chicago and othor places whoro sugar is refined, aro ground up aud play some part in the work of re? fining. A favorite diversion of many of tho tourists when the train stops is to vis? it ono of tho bono heaps, knock out a few buffalo teeth and carry them away as rel? ics. Tho wood bull'alo, closely allied to tho bison, now exterminated, still roams in tho forests far north of tho Saskatchewan. His numbers, howover, arc constantly decreasing, and there is every prospect that ho will moot tho fate of his prairie relative. In tho course of time, as ranches aro extended and grasses arc sown, tho buffalo paths and wallows will bu oblite? rated, and no relics of the cison will then be found on the great prairies which wero onco all his own. lie Loved His Teacher. A schoolbo3r, about 10 years old, was baited tho other day by a benevolent minded citizen on Second street, aud ask? ed him if lie liked to go school. "No, sir," was tho prompt reply. "Thou you don't love your teacher?" "No?yes, sir. That is, I didn't until yesterday; but now I do. I think she is just bully." "Why havo you only loved her since yesterday ?" "Well, you know Jack Cain? Well, he's the worst fighter in our room. IIo can lick mo and two other boys with ono hand tied behind him. Well, ho was go? ing to lick mo last night, and ho was shaking his fist at mo in school, and showing his tooth and getting me all ex? cited when the teacher turned round and saw him. "Did, oh?" "You bet she did, and tho way she took him out of that and wolloped him, and humbled him down, made mo feel as if she wero a mother to inc. When school was out, Jack. d;isent touch anybody. He was wilted down, and when J hit him with a hunk of dirt he never even look? ed around! I guess I'm going to try and lick him before he gets over fooling humblo V?Detroit Free Press. State or Ohio, City or Toledo, ) Li'das County, j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F, J. Cheney & Co , doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State afore said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catakru that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catakru Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6tb day of December, A. D. 188G. \ seal \ A' Wl REASON, I ! 1 Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mu? cous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. JB^Sold by Druggists, 75c. DRUNKENNESS SURELY CURABLE. Story of a Man TCho Conquered His Appe? tite. North American Review for October For twenty year* I had been a victim to the disease of drink. It seized me at odd times, usually tho most inopportune, and in spite of all my struggles would gain the temporary mastery. Mouths of peace might pass, but suddenly the fever would break loose and run riot in my veins, aod I knew then that it must have its course. I have as much will-power as the next man, but my will was a straw in the grasp of this horror. Men who have not felt the clutch of drink as it sweeps through and possesses the wholo system, have no conception of the agouy of the struggle which the victim makes. There are no grander heroes under God's sunlight than the men who honestly fight against drink. I had battled for year3, had gone voluntarily into exile in homes and asylums to escape my enemy, and only in late years recognized the fact that drunkenness was a disease, increas? ed no doubt by indulgence, but for which a man was do more responsible than for a fever he had c&ught by exposure. I regret the disease. It has brought sor? row and loss tome for years of my life that should have been most prospered. But it has not been the unalloyed curse that fanatics would persuade man to be? lieve. Out of my eufferi?gs the pictures drawn by Felix Olrlboy have been wrought, and through struggles as fierce as death and blackness that was de- pair have come gleams of the sunshine of memory, painting the quiet old home in which the little lad sat by the side of his grand-mother and her cat. If the pres? ent had been prosperous, I should not have carried my life into memories of the past. And so, as I believe, God send:? compensation for the battle lie gives each one of us to fight. AN UNAVAILING FIGHT. It was because I bad found no perma? nent benefit from seclusion in an asylum or home, but rather the contrary, because I fretted against restraint thai could be of no use to a periodical driuker, that I was ready to give a fair trial to the promise made me by Dr. Leslie E Keely, of Dwight, that he would guarantee me a cure for my disease. I told him that for more than two months my life had been one of entire sobriety, and asked him if he would undertake my cure under these circumstances. He replied that he would. It was something of an assurance to find that bis experience of thirty yenrs as a medical man, and fur twenty years a spe? cialist in alcoholism, coincided with my experience as a sufferer. His ideas were common sense. My own diagnosis told me that my trouble was a disease, and I felt that it was an insult to medical science to suppose for a moment that no remedy could be found for it. * * UNDElt THE KEELY TREATMENT. The patient's first visit is paid (o the office of Dr. Keeley, where his case is stated aud where ho receives a hypoder? mic injection in the upper left arm, aud there is given to him a bottle of the bichloride of gold ruixiure, a dose of which is to be taken every two hours while awake. The hypodermic, called iu Dwight the "shot," is the supporting medicine, which sustains the frame un? der treatment. Its preparation, and the form in which the bichloride of gold is mado up fur its special purpose, are Dr. Keely'a secret, and it is manifestly absurd for those nol in the secret to pre teud to criiici-a it. The treatment is ad? ministered fuur times a day?at S a. m., 12 uoon, 5 p. m. and 7 30 p. tu., and for three or four weeks usually, though sometimes a week or two loDger, accord? ing to the personal diagnosis made by the doctor from day to dr.y. If a new arri? val needs whiskey it is given to him in a bottle, and he can have more until his palate loathes it and he returns his un? opened bottle to the doctor. From this point the work of his physical recon? struction begins. He finds that the treatment is not a mere tonic, as some have supposed. Sometimes his eyesight is affected, but only for a few d^ys; in some cases the memory is temporarily weakened ; in every case he becomes conscious of a feeling of latitude and conscious of indifference to tlie outside world, as the gold searches into the weaker parts of his frame, acd purifies and builds tbc-m up iuto new strength. Nor is this all. The treatment at Dwight removes such physical ills as are caused directly by drink. Dr. Keeley's pro? gramme promised this, but I had scarcely been able to credit it. As a matter of fact, I found myself relieved of twenty pounds of superfluous flesh, and am the hotter for it. Another patient, a native of this city, a relative of America's great? est prose writer and bearing his name, came to Dwight on crutches while I was there, suffering from partial paralysis caused by drink. In ten days his crutches were abandoned, and in four weeks he went away sound of frame, and with new lifo in his body and fresh hope in his heart L'ELTERS STRANGELY IUIOKEN The physical experience varies in dif? ferent cases, but to each there comes at last a time when the patient discovers that nil weakr.es- and depression have vanished, and that the fetters of old ap? petites and habits have fallen away from him, and when he steps out of the dark? ness of the wilderness into the full light of day and knows that once more he has a man's strength to do a man's work among men. My own experience was somewhat r,ire, because I went to Dwight free from any direct effect of alcohol. I experienced no ins* of memory or defec? tion of eyesight, but after a week had passed I fell that it 1 had been anywhere else I would have had a reluru of'.he pe? riodical appetite, and might have yielded to it because of my depression. 1 re? member the terror this feeling gave me. As I stood in line I said to Dr. Keely : "I am glad that I came at this time. 1 think that 1 have hit one of my periodi? cal attacks, lor I feel so blue and wretched that if I were in New York I should yield aud drink." '"'And the boy," inquired the doctor, looking search ingly at me, "you wouldn't leave him?" "Of course nou," I said ; "I do not intend to drink, but I thought it iright to lell you the symptoms," Uc bade ine weit until the line of patients had gone through their treatment, then took mc into his owu office, poured out nearly half a tumbler of whiskey, with a little water added, and said: "Drink it." "What is it?" I asked. "No matter," was the reply ; "drink it." I drank half of it and said: "Why, it's whiskey." "Drink it all," said Dr. Keeley. "When you need whiskey, I would as readily give you that as anything else." I drank, went to dinner, weij walking in 'he afternoon, and never thought of it again until I went back to the oflice at the reg? ular hour. Nor did I want r.ny more, nor want to take the two ounco bottle of whisky which was handed me f.t noon next day with injunctions to take tho dose in about twenty minur.es. That was the end of my drinking, and all :hat has passed my lips since the Gist day of Jan? uary. Formerly a drink of whisky would have set my brain on fire, and in an hour's time I would have walked ten miles to get the second ono, and had it at all hazards. When I saw that it had ceased to make me its victim and slave, I could have cried for joy. I knew from that moment that the bichloride of gold had gotten the upper hand, broken the fetters of disease and made me whole. Yet I wa3 not entirely out of the woods. When this hour of temporary temptation bad gone by, I passed through such an experience as is apt to follow a prolonged debauch, and for two weeks could scarcely eat or sleep. Then, suddenly, a3 if I had stepped out of the blackness of an African jungle into the quiet sun? shine of Central Park, I broke out of my living tomb and knew that I was cured. The knowledge came to me like a bene? diction from heaven. life with a new meaning. I had taken with me for company my son, a little lad who had not quite reached hid 10th birthday, and who, as "Master Felix," is known to thousands who have never seen him. He saw and heard everything at Dwight. The stake was a large one to him, and he watched the process anxiously. When we came away life had a new meaning for us both. He has had a happy summer, for he has never doubted, and has never had a fear, whether I was with him or absent. To him, as to me, the memory ofthat hand? ful of white houses set among stately cot touwoods on the prairie, will always come up steeped with the fragrance of the May blossoms that first taught hope, and then impressed faith iuthe work that was doing. Master Felix knew every patieut there, and studied them all without prejudices. Elected an honorary member of the Bichloride of Gold Club, to which I had also been elected, he attended every meeting, aud by a gifc of books laid the foundation of the club library which was Cilled by his name. His companions there and mine were Mr. Opie Bead, edi? tor of the Arkamas Traveller; ex Con? gressman Tarseny, of Michigan ; George Work, of New York; Judge J. D. Thayer, of Warshaw, Ind.; State Sena? tor Bust, of Wisconsiu ; Captain Robert Ayres, late of the United States Army, a graduate of West Point and a veteran of the war, and many others who have given me permission to use their names, and who are sound and enthusiastic in the faith. They are ail members of the Bichloride of Gold Club, at D.vight, a voluntary association of patients and graduate of the Keely Institute, intend? ed, like other clubs, for the convenience aud benefit of its members. The number of its members enrolled in the books up to August 27 was S??, and of this total only six had come under discipline and had their ni.mes stricken from the rolls. Dr. Keeley guarantees a cure of 95 per cent, of his patients. The club keep3 a paternal and watchful eye on all who go out from under its roof, and it repurts a lo:s of less than 1 per cent. Those are from the ranks of men sent there unwill? ingly by their parents or guardians, and in no case cf men who voluntarily-ought freedom from disease. an undoubted cure. No one who has not been similarly cursed with the disease of drink can kno w the joy of the moment in which my cure came to me as a fact. I do net be? lieve, I know that I am cured, and am satisfied as to its permanency. I did not doubt twenty years ago that I was cured of the chills and fev?r; I did not doubt, when this last May came around with its blossoms of spring, that my cure was per? manent, and that the appetite for drink was eradicated. I do not understand the proces3es; but I kuow the fact. Said Mr. George Work, of this city, who was one of my companions at Dwight, "I tell my fneods that all I know about it is that I went to Dwight. and there Dr. Keeley cured roe ;" and as he said this I thought unconsciously of the blind man by the pool of Siioam. and his reply to the doubters who gathered around and tor? mented him. To all of us who Buffered and have been healed it is a resurrection. As I passed along the street a year ago, and was greeted by my friends. J knew that they looked upon r o as a slave to habit. They knew how well I had fought, but they bad belief in my final victory. However strong and healthy I might appear at the tiaie, they Ipoked on me as doomed. I felt it and i?uld see the pity in their eyes. I always moved among them as the gladiator of old Rome, who, with the blue sky of Italia over his he?.d. Ciesar before his face, and a shouting multitude surrounding, him, know that whatever temporary triumphs ho might win, the white sands at bis feet would one <!:<.y drink his blood. Always, as .1 walked among my fellow?, the words of doom came to my Ji;>!, 'Morituri ?Je salutamus." To d:iy I meet my fellow man with open gaze, knowing that I have conquered the black lion of the desert; and my sense of freedom and hsppine? no man can paint. JuitN Flavel Milks, (Felix Old no y.) Itaeklcn's Arnica Salve The bebe .salvo in the world fur Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, aud positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 2? cents per box. For eale by Hill Bros. A RABUN COUNTY FROLIC* From Dave 17? Sloan's Fogy Days and Now. In olden times, dancing was by odds the favorite amusement with the young people, and in my youthful days leu gaged in all kinds of terpsicliorean lelic ities, paiticipated iu the fashionable co tillions, waltzes and polkas, at the balls, weddings and parties, with the elite of that day ; have been to the pincy wonds holies, shin dig3 and stag dances, but in Raybun county, Ga., where once lived our Chief Justice Bleckley and the sil? ver-tongued H. V. M. Miller, I attend a frolic that, for intensity of enjoyment, cast a glamour over all the balance of my experience. I had recently returned from Califor? nia, and ray father was a contractor on the old Blue Ridge Railroad, in South Carolina, and had taken a contract in Eabun county, Ga., known as the YVhit miro fill, and said by Col. Walter Gwinn chief engineer, to be the deepest railroad fill then known, measuring 10S feet from the culvert top of lhe grade, and a de? scription of which was given by our Judge George Hillyer, in au Athens pa? per, in bis youthful reportorial work, and where I first made his acquaint? ance. In this contract I was to be a partner as well as a manager and had made a horse-back trip into Rabun. I was riding through the rich valley, at the very head waters ot the Tennessee river, with a resident young man named Major Gib? son. Lato in the afternoon (dusk had already commenced to throw its eable mantle over the beautiful valley), as we passed a store we were informed of a log rolling and quilting close by, and de? cided to attend, but as we had partici? pated in the labor of rolling logs, and did not like to intrude without some equivalent ou our part as a contribution, so bought a jug of mountain dew and had it sent over to the frolic ; we were wel? comed and our preseut was well re? ceived by the boys. We were introduced as the men from Californy and we all took a familiar smile from the afore-meDtioned jug. The quilts having been finished and removed, the frolic had already com? menced. Our host, Jack Bradley, was the fiddler; his tune was au old time fa? mous one, and widely know as "Rye Straw," and Jack's performance was en? tirely confined to the bottom part of the tune, but after a bit (like the Arkansaw Traveler) I ventured to ask him if he never went up stars on that tune? He answered that he didn't because he didn't know where the steps was, and handing me the instrument asked me if I could play the fiddle ? I acswered that some? times I sawed a.iittle and put the upper story on "Rye Straw" the best I could. It proved a ten-strike, as I discovered that I had become a very popular person. I ahowed Bradley the stairsteps and soon had him educated so he could go through the upper story of the tune. Suddenly I felt a slap on my shoul? der and turning, discovered my assault? er to be a splendid specimen of fresh mountain girlhood, a beauty with rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes. She said, "Californy, less you aud me take a turn." " 'Nougb said," says I, as quick as a cat could wink his eye, and calling on Bradley to give us the best he had in tbe shop, he promised to empty out the gourd for us and added: "Go it, Californy, if you keep up with that gal there aint uothiDgin this valley too good for you." Now the floor of the house, like many others of that section, was made of puncheons, split out from the forest trees and laid on chestnut or wild looust sleepers, and consequently quite springy. Chairs in Rabun county then were not as plentiful as they now are in Atlanta, and it was not an unpop? ular custom for two of the young peo? ple to ait on the same chair together and in a dance, frequently a couple would oc? cupy the lloor, especially iu a break down. I bad been challenged by the belle of the valley to single combat and I knew I was in for it, but had fully determined to be on hand when she got through. I led Miss Mary D. a few turns up and down the hall, stopped in the center where we made or.r bows, forwarded and back, swuug corners and circled all, crossed over and back, then the fun com? menced. I made a pass and ^he croquet ted, I cornered aud she chassed, I shuf? fled and she sidewized, I pigeon-winged and she wire-toed, I double shuttled and she gave the toe whiz, I gave a jim crow lick aud she kill krankled, I struck a break down and she hit the hurricane, I went into a jig and she jiggareed, and for ever lead I'd make she would call me aud go one better; now and then we'd change sides and cross back into another breakdown, and it was go it Miss Mary, hurry Californy, and Jack Bradley seemed to have got the inspiration on "Rye Straw." Major Gibson beat the fiddle strings with straws, one fellow beat a triangle, several were patting and every gal was keeping time 0:1 the floor with her feet, and tho heads all around the room wore bobbing up and down with the spring of the elastic lloor. Now and then noinechap would sing out, "go it frolic, ye; dsdy'a rich and no poor kin." "hurry Miss Mary, come down to it Cati forny," aud we were both doing our very level best. Miss Mary was a pic? ture?In say she looked a thing of life would be but a feeble and emaciated ex? pression. I can still see her after the lapse of time in the miJ.u of one cf those dead setto's her lithe and willowy form swaying from aide to nde !n the- quiver of action, athletic and graceful in her every motion, head and shoulders a little inclined to the front, the folds of iur blue checked home spun frock grasped In her hands <.;i either side, a tittle raised 1 > clear ber shapely ankles, her skirls artistically spread out and in, toaper j feet harmony of motion, and her dainty I feet would -trike that puncheon floor 1 with,the quick beat of a knitting ma ? chine, and she skimmed the floor -.;s j a full rigged brig, as .-he cu'.s tho great ! deep, rocking from side to side before ' a spanking breer.e (talk about your Oer of this advanced day and of the enjoy ; ment of your young folks, all tame to ! that). Aud I was right abou'. there, i too, head and shoulders thrown back to the break-down, a little to the front in pigeon wing, arms Hying to help the feet keep time with the music, the weath? er was getting equatorial, the perspira? tion streaming, and we were just getting down properly to our knitting in what is called the cyclone movement, when the music suddenly ceased. Jack Brad? ley had sawed his treble string clean in two and it was a draw between me and the belle of Tennessee Valley. We re? tired to a chair amid the plaudits of the crowd, were pretty well blowed and a little fatigued, but I found a delightful repose for my arms, and my partner rest? ed one of hers on her lap and the other round my shoulder. Miss Mary felt a little warm but not all agreeably so; our temperatures ranged about the same de? gree farenheit. The caloric gradually cooled down to its normal state and we spent several very agreeable moments to? gether watching the other couples as they would take a turn. We danced nil night till broad daylight and went home with the girls in the morning, and as we passed the store treated the girls to torter shell side combs and sacrament wine. The Miss Mary D., of the valley is still there, but now a silver-haired mat? ron and a faithful mother of a crowd of excellent children. My locks too have changed to frosty hue, though now and then I still saw on my old fiddle and and never strike old "Ryo Straw" but I think of Miss Mary and the Rabun coun? ty frolic, and when I compare the good old usages of those old days with the present fashionable arm clutch, it is im? possible for me to restrain a feeling of contempt. AH Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Seme genius has discovered that tho ordinary watch gives 116,144,000 ticks a year. ? A very few people in this life know tho advantage of keeping troubles to themselves. ? It is said that one-eighth of tho wine produced in California last year came from a single vineyard. ? Umbrellas are now made of paper in France. They are made waterproof by gelatincd bichromate of potassium. ? When a Frenchman marries, under tho law ho becomes responsible for the support of his wife's father and mother. ? The crops are on the move, and it is a grand sight. During August tho re? ceipts in Chicago amounted to 7,000,000 bushels of wheat, against 1,905,000 bush? els in IS90. ? An egg, the shape of a small clay jug, with mouth and handle all complete, has been received at the office of tho At? lant i Constitution. ? The national committee of tho World's Pair have arrived in Now York. They report that every country in Eu? rope, with the exception of Italy, will bo represented. ? Verv popular, very small, very good. De Witt's Little Early Risers, the pill for constipation, billiousness, sick headache. For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite. f ? Caterpillars.from ten to twelve inch? es long are said not to bo uncommon in "n Australia, while species which vary in length from six to eight inches are stated to hf* numerous. ? If food sours on tho stomach, Jig?W tion is defective. De Witt's Little Early Risers will remedy this. The famous little pills, that never gripe and never disappoint. For sale by Wilhite & Wil? hite. t ? A curious story from Oregon relates that a young child in Eugeno City is growing fastor on ono side than on the other without any apparent cause. ? At Aden, in Arabia, rain has fallen only twice in twenty-nine years. Besides tho excessive drought, the place is known as one of tho hottest in the world. ? Purifies the blood, increases tbe circulation, expels poisonous humors and builds up the system. What more do you want a medicine to perform ? DeWitt's Sarsaparilla is reliable. For eale by Wil? hite and Wilhite. f ? "We return thanks," writes a Goor gia editor, "for a box of paper collars; but as wo have no shirt to wear with them, we exc now offering them cheap for cash. Call early and avoid tho rush." ? A beautiful skin, bright eyes, sweet breath, good appetite, vigorous body, pure blood and good health result from the use of De Witt's Sarsaparilla. It is sold by Wilhite and Wilhite. f ? Tho question of drunkenness and its cure is cue of absorbing interest that seems to concern tho press of tho North aud West. It is one that applies itself to good morals and sound government ev? erywhere. ? Constipation, blood poison, fever! Doctors' bills and funeral expenses cost about two hundred dollars; DeWitt's Little Early Risers cost a quarter. Take your choice. For sale by Wilhite & Wil? hite. t ? < me of the queerest names for a street is that borne by a public thoroughfare in the annexed district of New York called Featherbed lane. It is supposed to have been so christened because it is full of rocks. The name occurs iu tho city di? rectory. ? It is quite the fashion now to take Do Wilt's Little Early Risers for liver, stomach and bowel disorders. They are small pills, bul mighty good ones. Wil? hite and Wilhite sells them. f ? The Richmond Tavern, one of tho oldest landmarks in Augusta, is to bo torn down. The date of its erection is not within the memory of tho oldest inhabi? tant. Many interesting incidents aro as? sociated with the old hostlery that was very popular in its (lay. ? Catarrh, neuralgia, rheumatism and most diseases originate from impure blood. Cleanse it, improve it, purify it with Do Witt:s Sarsaparilla and health is restored, strength regained. Sold by Wilhite & Wilhite. t ? S. V. White, who failed in Wall Street the other day, came near being s successful in his attempt to corner corn. A Chicago paper states that if lie had had iuf?cicnt money to purchase 500.000 bushels more, he would h&ve had tho whole \ iaiblo .supply of corn in the coun? try, and could have dictated his own price for it. He hold 7,000,000 bushels, for winch he paid $1,200,000. The com? paratively small sum of $200,000 moro mid have made him master of the sit? uation, and enabled him to add several million dollars to his fortune. For tho w mt of that amount tho price drooped, and hi- forluuc was swept away. The Ladies Delighted. The plca.-ant effect and the perfec safety with which ladies may use the li? quid fruit laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions, make it their favorite remedy. It is pleasing to the eye and to the taste, gentle, yet effectual in acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels.