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.
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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.
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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.
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Li'das County, j
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm of F,
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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.
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A. D. 188G.
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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?
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aud positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. It is guaranteed to give per?
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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.