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m CERTIFICATE ANDERSON, S. C, September 28, 1891. I hereby certify that the Shoes manufacturer! by the ANDERSON SHOE AND LEATHER CO. are made of first-class material, that the workmanship is second to none, and that no pasteboard, wood, chips or scraps are used in their manufacture. The Goods turned out by ns are as good as those made by any of the Eastern Facto? ries and are fully as cheap, and guaranteed to give satis? faction. We have appointed? The Sylvester BlecMey Company Our sole Agents for the City of Anderson, and hope that the people of Anderson County will support a worthy home indostry, by buying and wearing the Shoes made by the Anderson Shoe and Leather Company, T. S. CRAYTON, V * Secretary and Treasurer, AT LAST WE HAVE MOVED To our Elegant New Store Room, i. 16 sot Ii Street oie Hour Mot Alice Store, Where we ?ovite our friends and customers to inspect our splendid line of HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS, &c. Cold weather is upon us, and you should put in your Grates and ^Prepare for Winter. We have a nice line of them. Also, Coal Vases, Blower Stands, &c A Nice line of Builders' Hardware, All kinds of Plantation Tools, Plows, Plow Stocks, Harrows, Hames, Traces, &c. > Iron, Steel, Horse and Mule ShoeB. Come and see the world-renowned French Eat Trap. It is a veritable rat exterminator. The first time we baited one, it caught twelve rats, and not a good night for rats, either. TERMS CASH. Yours truly j CUWNIMCHAM & HUMPHREYS. FURNITURE, FURNITURE, FURNITURE! A MAMMOTH STOCK FURNITURE ! nree Big Stores full of Furniture from Cellar to Garret The best Selected and Largest Stock of Furniture ever shown in the State of South Carolina at 6. F. TOLLY & SON'S. OW, if you want BARGAINS?BIG BARGAINS?in Furniture, and every? thing that is kept in a FIRST CLASS Furniture Store, come to the Old Reliable Furniture Store of G. F. Tolly & Son, that hat beeu in existence for over a quarter of a century, and has successfully competed against all competition, having beaten two of the largest Western Manufacturers in furnishing the new Hotel Cbiquola; having, during the last month, sold and delivered Furniture to Atlanta, Ga., Macon, Ga., Greenville, S. C, and Bold at wholesale to a large number of Furniture dealers along the line of both Railroads. The question may be asked, how can you do all this? The answer is plain: Experience I and buy ng in larger quantities than any Furniture Store in the State, and having selected the largest and best Factories to be found, and having ezclu sive sale of their goods. We can offer better Bargains than any one else. All we ask is to come and.see our Stock, fnll of the best kind of Goods, (no shoddy good sold.) We have fine Bureaus, full Burl fronts, large fine glass standards, large boxes and brackets, for Five Dollars. The very best strong Maple Beds, with ! bracket rails and steel hooks, (no pine or poplar in any part of them,) for Two Dollars, and EVERYTHING ELSE in proportion. We invite everybody to come and see our fine line of goods, whether they buy or not. We would like to show them throngh, as we have some of the FINEST Parlor, Dining Room and Room Suites in the State of South Carolina. So come one, come all. Come everybody, to G. F. Tolly & Son's Furniture Store, and see | the IMMENSE STOCK and be convinced. Caskets and Coffins furnished Day or Night. GL F. TOLLY & SON. for Infants and Children. "Castorfs if so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Abcheb, M. D., 111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. C ax tori a cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di? gestion, 'Without injurious medication. Tus Centaub Company, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY! CHEAP AlVD BEAUTIFUL. THOSE vrho have an eye for the beautiful should take a peep at my line of MILLI? NERY. I am prepared to furnish you with the ? LATEST STYLES AND LOWEST PRICES. Have just opened a full line of FANCY FEATHERS, WINGS, RIBBONS, and all material required to make a stylish Hat MISS 1GLEHART, a Northern Milliner, has just returned from Baltimore with fresh ideas for the Fall trade. She will be pleased to show my Goods, and will do all _jn her power to please her customer?. (Jive her a trial and be"convinced. My Stock of DRY GOuDS is complete, and I invite you to eail and examine them before buying. But don't forget me when you want a Hat. iS- Those indebted to me are earnestly requested to come promptly and settle. Thankful for past patronage I solicit a continuance ot same. MISS SALLIE BOWIE. -fER All communications intended for thisCtolfcmn should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School ComnZ-sioner, An? derson, S. C. When a boy ceases to respect his father the world ceases to respect that boy. God has no use for a boy who does not love and respect his father, for God is our Heavenly Father. We have not heard of a single person who is opposed to the method being adopted to secure longer school terms. We all sen the need of a longer school term. Let us have it. We are glad to see the people becom? ing more interested in having good aud comfortable school houses. Good news comes from almost every section of im? proving the school houses and making them more comfortable before the cold weather is upon us. The new school year is now upon us, and with it the responsibilities of duty and service. May we not expect from each teacher an increase of interest and energy. Do not be satisfied with your werk, for there is still room for improve? ment. You are not yet perfect in your work. After a thorough examination by a spe? cial Committee, the Grand Jury says: "All the offices are well conducted, and are in good condition, showing the offi? cers accurate and attentive to their du? ties." Thanks, we are one of these offi? cers, and we have tried to do oar duty to all without fear or favor. We would again ask the Trustees to call and get the Poll lists from the Au? ditor, if they have not received them. After they are received look over them carefully, and add all names not on the list subject to pay polls. This is an im? portant matter, and we trust the Trus? tees will give it their special attention. Mr. John C. Bailey, tbe efficient and most energetic School Commissioner of Greenville County, paid us a very pleas? ant business call on Wednesday of last week. The purpose of his visit was to confer with the writer in reference to the Piedmont Graded School District. There was no difference of opinion be? tween us. Mr. Bailey is exerting him? self to improve.the public schools of his County. We are always glad to co op? erate with any one for the betterment of the educational interest of the country. Please give the meaning of the follow? ing stems: "cor," "fa," "hospit," "mun," "bas," and "nunci." D. Akron, N. S. Cor; cord?heart; concord (agree? ment of hearts); cordial (hearty). Fa? speak; affable (easy to be spoken to) preface (spoken beforehand.)' Hospit? host-guest; hospitable (kind to stranger guests); hospital (a retreat for tbe sick). Mun?fortify; munition (a means of de? fence). Baslow; basement (lowest part of a bui'ding.) Nui ci; nounce, to bring tidings, to tell, announce, denounce (tell full) ? Teachers' Institute 1. It corrections have to be made in' the reading class should they be given immediately after ao error has been made, or should they be withheld until the paragraph is finished? 2. Should third and fourth reader pupils be requir? ed to learn definitions such as are given some of the leading text books. Loudon,0. F. M. 1. It is usually best to wait till tbe pupil has finished reading before correc? tion ia made. 2 It is much better to develop definitions than to learn them from bonks Would never have a dry definition learned till the pupil, had been taught to understand the word.? Teach ers' Institute. 1. What would you do with a pupil who is lazy and tries in all wajB he can to annoy me? 2. How would you ex? plain to a first reader class the difference between to, too, and two ? Maples Mill, III. W. 1. Get in sympathy with that trouble? some boy it you can. If you were thrown with him in some out door ex? cursion, you would become better acquainted with each other and no doubt return good friends and his annoyance would cease. You are in a false relation to tost boy in some way. 2. It is best never to mention "to, too, and two," to any child in the same connection. Teach the word in connection with the thought, and never allow it to be used in any other way. Teach the sentences contain? ing these words several days apart that tho pupil shall not see any connection between them.? Teachers' Institute. We have often said that we regretted to see such a tendency on the part of young men to flock to towns and cities. We always feel a certain amount of sad neBs when a boy, we might say, leaves the farm, the home and home influences, without completing his education, to seek his fortune in towns and cities. The boys need the restraining influences of home life until they really become men. And at that most dangerous age of transition from boyhood to manhood, when they feel that they are wise enough and strong enough to enter the battles of life with some great promise of success, they most need the tender love and care of a mother, the sober and sound advice of a father, who feels a deep interest in the future of his boys. This interest aud love of father and mother are not appreciated by the big boys, who feel that the "old maa," as they like to call their fathers, is a fogy and not up with the progress ol the times. When trouble aud misfortune seem to be settling over the life of the wayward boy, he then re? calls tbe lo\e and counsel of father ; the tears that that best of all friends, on earth, moth3r, shed when her darlingboy just would go out to battle for himself. When the angel of death comes and we look for the last time ijto the pale face of our dean 3t and best friend, who of us would not fill at her feet and beg for? giveness that we should ev&r so have acted as to have caused one ache or pain to pierce tb:it dear heart that beat only for our good and our interfst! Ah! boys do not think father and mother out of date. You are the one who have not yet come into date, so to speak. How we admire a boy who loves his mother with a tender, gentle love, and loves and re? spects and reverences his father. "Honor thy father and mother." ClcmsoQ College. There arc now at work here one hun? dred and forty seven State convicts?all negroes whose terms run all the way from two months to a life sentence. Captain Perry has had charge of this camp ever since the work began on the College. He has employed under him eighteen guards who are paid $16 per month with board and washing furnished by the State. While the convicts are com? pelled to work regular and steady, they are well fed and Bnow that many of them are in a better condition than they were at home. The stockade has been increas? ed In sisse, and they have plenty of fresh air, and yet will be kept warm enough in cold weather. There is a room twen? ty by forty feet Bet apart as a hospital. It i? provided with better cots than tbe regular quarters. The aick are kept clean aud everything possible done to alleviate their sufferings both by nur? ses and the surgeon, who comes every day to see them. The bill of fare consists of meat?pork and beef alternately, corn bread, vegetables, and soup occasionally, with water. They have tbeir meals at 6,12 and 6 every day in the year. At the time of the visit of the Sentinel rep? resentative, there were sixteen in the hospital, but fatalities have been slight, only 3 or 4 having died in this camp and were buried in tbe graveyard once used for tbe servants of the Calhoun estate. There is now kept on the farm at Clemson, aud for hauling building ma? terial, fifty seven head of mules. ThiB department is under tbe control of Mr. Jule Shanklio, and the conditiou of the animals show that he U attentive and understands bow to manage mules and negroes. Besides the old stalls and barn used last year, there has been erected a first class modern structure that would hold fifty or sixty tons of hay, besides harness and feed rooms. It has an eight foot drive way the full length of the building. The hay is taken up in the mow, or loft, by oue of the patent hay carriers that will unload two teams of hay in ten minutes when properly han? dled. The barn loft is now filled with provender enough to feed the mules the remainder of the year. There is also a herd of fifteeb blooded cattle on the farm at present, all registered stock, from some of the best dairy farms in the South. The stables for the cattle is almost com? pleted and it will be, when done, the finest dairy barn in the State. It is 41 feet wide by 225 feet in length. One hundred head of cattle can be housed on the lower floor, while tbe second floor has ample room for provender for six months feed.. Each cow will be held in her place by the patent stanchions with which it has been fitted. This building aleo contains the three silos built un? der the supervision of Prof. Duggar and are estimated to hold 120 tons of ensilage which it is estimated will feed one hun? dred cattle for three months, allowing them twenty pounds each per day. A cutting machine has the use of this barn. The material for the filling ofsilus and all the feed used will be raised on the farm Green corn and sorghum are the princi-. pal articles used in the making of this class of feed. The farm this year has procuced, under the management of Mr.. Duggar, a very fair crop of corn and a good crop of bay, which has been put up for the mules aud horses, is especially fine, comparing fovorably with the best northern article. Tbe mules and other Btock in charge of Mr. Jule Shaukliu are in extra good condition, considering the large amount of heavy work done by them for ihe past nine months in hauling brick and stone for th j College build imgs. As to the cost of the work that has been done, aud that which is yet to be done, to which will be added tbe many thousands that will have to be expended in machinery, utensils and the hundred and one other things that will yet be re? quired to fit the Clemson Collegs, for use of those io charge, it is too early to give them out, but that it will be a large sum no oue can doubt who basseeu anything of the plans and she amount of labor re? quired to carry on the work. It is one of the questions left for the future to solve.?Pickens Sentinel. Catarrh Cau't tie Cured, with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Ca? tarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to euro it you lmvo to tako internal romedics. Hall's Catarrh Curo is taken internally, and acts directly on tho blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is no quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of tho best physi? cians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of tho best tonics known, combined with tho best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of tho two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY <fc CO., Props., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, price, 70c. ? "No wonder the papers talk about political extravagance," said Mrs. Gil hooly. "Didn't I hear my husband talk? ing the other day about a convention that wanted a silver platform ?" ? Henry S. Bragg, colored, :s the pos? sessor o: the greatest curiosity ever before exhibited in Lincoln County. It is a double lamb, born some time mnee on the farm of Colonel Brnady Hull, in this County. The lamb, or lambs, it is hard to tell which, lived but a short time after birtb, and may be described as follows : The monstrosity has one head, four ears, eight legs, oue body until midway, then two. The body is uatural about half its leugth, wheu it divides, the remainder beiug two separate and perfectly formed bodies. About where the sboulderB should be is the breast of one of the lambs, and hero two perfect legs come out and bend backward. Instead of the shoulders is a breast out of which comes two legs. It is beyond doubt the greatest curiosity of (be kind ever seen in this section and hundreds have cailed (o see it.?Troy (il/y.) Times. TUE DRINK HABIT. Can it Be Cared? What Atlanta Physicians Say About It. Atlanta Constitution. The question "Is Drunkenness Cnra Me?" interests millions, and there is no oiibjecr, to which newspaper space may he more profitably given, so long as there is ground for hopo that the question may bo settled in the affirmative Happilyt tho doctors arc agreed that many, if not all, cases of drunkenness are curable. As to certain cases of hereditary weakness, long standing habit and special physical derangement, tho physicians bavo different opinions. As a matter of information tho Constitution prints below tho opinions, briefly expressed, of four of the loading physicians of Atlanta. They aro so explicit that comment is unnecessary. It is noticeable, however, that while tho enfeebled will Is to bo re? inforced, there appears to bo hope held out in these articles for A treatment en? tirely independent of tho will of the pa? tient. Tho articles of Drs. Baird, Cooper, Olmstead and Avary will bo found inter? esting and instructive. Sometimes No, Sometimes Yes. Atlanta, Ga., October 8.?Is drunk? enness curable? Drunkenness may bo a transient condi? tion only, and not a disease. Under these circumstances, the omission of tho excit? ing cause?namely, tho overingestion of alcohol or of alcoholic liquors?is suc? ceeded by a more or less prompt subsi? dence of tho symptoms of intoxication. Chronic alcoholism or habitual drunk? enness may follow, as a consequence, tho excessive and prolonged use of alcohol in any form.' Tho habit of immoderate indulgence may be a result, primarily, of physical disorder, or of mental defect congenital or acquired?which, upon the one hand, provokes a morbid craving for tho stimulant, and which, upon tho other hand, weakens the individual's power to resist tho inclination or to repel the temp? tation. Fortunately this class is not numerous, for tho prospect of a permanent cure in these cases is not encouraging. Tho forced withdrawal of tho stimulant, even for a conslderablo period of time, could not likely correct the constitutional infir? mity or materially increase tho individ? ual's power of resistance. The drinking habit may bo formed without pre-existing physical or mental derangement, but the excessivo and pro? tracted use of alcohol is often followed by disease er by structural changes or de? generation In tho tissues of the body, es pecially in the brain and in other parts of tho nervous system, some of which changes are incurable, and any of which may, perhaps, becomo so. In this class of cases tho possibility of effecting a euro depends in a largo degree upon tho character and the extent of tho resulting lesion. The damage may not be of such a nature as to preclude the possibility of restoration, and if the vic? tim can be surroundod by proportious in? fluences and, when required, be placed under suitablo restraint, recovery iu many?in most?easos may bo confidently expected. Iu extreme cases, howevor, the percep? tions may bo so blunted, tho intellect may be so warped, the emotions may bo so confused, the volition may be so en? feebled?in a word, all of the facilities and forces of the mind may bo so oppressed and distorted that the individual is om bruted, and is rendered utterly incapable of regulating his passion or of controlling his appetite. On the contrary-, it is undoubtedly true, that even after tho long continued abuse of alcoholic stimulants, tho habit may be abandoned, tho taste for strong drink may cease and restoration to a life of sobriety may ensue. This result may bo reached without ex traueobsaid, butfavorablo environments, judicious management, and tho employ? ment of appropriate remedial agents adapted to the individual circumstances and conditions contribute directly and powerfully to the successful accomplish? ment of this ondi Thus, it will bo perceived that drunk? enness, even in its worst forms, and yet more in its milder manifestations, is sometimes curablo, while in other cases ! alas! it must be considered a hopeless malady, and must, of necessity, be con? signed to a position among the incurablo diseases. James B. Baird. Dr. J. C; Olmstead's Views. "Is drunkenness curablo?" That de? pends upon tho circumstances and condi? tions, surrounding and pertaining to tho individual afflicted. What is tho constitutional condition? I.l.a3 there been an inherited tondency to drunkenness, or is there inherited weak? ness and disease especially of the nervous systcrai of that particular character so of? ten inherited from an intemperate parent or parents, and which is so liable to de? velop the habit? Or has the individual one of thoso chronic diseases which makes him :i tnartry to pain ? Tho length of time that tho habit has been indulged iu, is another most impor? tant consideration, it being true that tho outlook iu long, continued, chronic alco? holism is very gloomy as regards "cure." Again, what aro tho surroundings cf the individual? Aro they favorable or unfavorable as regards social advantages-, heal thfulness of occupation and freedom from grinding want, and "carping caro or exposure to severe weather?" etc., etc. All of these considerations, arid many more thnt could bo mentioned, profoundly affact and bear upon the question of "cure." In general, then, it may be staled that tho "curability of drunkenness" depends upon tho particular form of the habit presented, together with its environ? ment. First, as to habit. Some individuals havo a babit of going on a spree once in six months, or maybo once a year. This is none the less a habit, however long the intervals between tho sprocs ma}' be. Yet these cures differ from those habitual "soakers'' who "are full 'all the time, for in the intervals ot their sprees they may not touch liquor, and may bo perfectly correct iu all their habits. This class is, I think, favorable for "cure.'' Everything, of course, depends upon their desire lobe cured, and the amount of will-power possessed. .Some, I think, have no desire to be cured ; others have. Prior to the breaking out of their "sprees" they arc apt to become nervous and excitable, and are often depressed ; a condition of perturbation of the system exists which causes them to crave drink. They aro truly sick, and if taken at this time and properly treated by competent medical moans tho attack can be warded off, and by judicious treatment with tonics, and care as to their entire habits of personal hygiene, the tendency may bo ontiroly recovered from. As regards tho chronic or habitual "soakers,"' the outlook as to euro is very unfavorable, although a great deal de? pends upon how long they have been in? dulging in the habit. "Where the physical liesons of various organs, which so com? monly result from chronic alcoholism, arc not far advanced, certain cases by discontinuance of the habit and proper treatment may bo cured. I have known such and also a few who had will-power enough to light it out alone and unaided. Habitual drunkennucss I regard ris n disease, and it must be admitted that long continued habits of excess are very unfavorable in heir outlook: "cures" being usually temporary, and not perma? nent; "relapses'' being the rule, tho force "of habit" proving too strong. In the inherited form tho outlook is gloomy in tho extreme, if not hopeless. Such cases inherit a weak, easily deranged nervous system, which is readily thrown oil" its balance by tho cares and strains, both mental and physical, of life. Such are usually "cured" as long as they remain in the "retreats" provided for them. Epilepsy, insanity and imbecility, be? ing not infrequently an inheritance from intemperance, also give a warning to those who arc "oating sour grapea," that the "chicken's teeth will be set on edge?" John C. Oi.mstkao, M. I>. Editok Coxstitutiox?Yours asking my opinion on "Is Drunkenness Cura? ble," noted. T presume drunkenness from alcohol is meant. Whether drunk? enness is curable is dependent on contin? gencies. We have in drunkenness, as in other diseases, different grades of disor? der, varying from the mild to the gravest forms. Wo have drunkenness resulting from inherited predisposition. Wo have tho habitual drunkard developed from so? cial drinking without an especial predis? position. We have tho drunkards as a re? sult of taking stimulants lorolieyo pangs of an accidental drunk preceding. Wo have habitual drunkenness creep on una? wares from taking stimulants to reliove tired nature. Wc liavo drunkenness gradual!}- developed from taking alcohol for tho relief of insomnia. At first only a small amount being necessary to induce sleop, the amount is increased until tho subject is unable to sleep at night unless in a beastly state of intoxication. And we have drunkenness in creatures whose low natures, idle habits and vicious asso^ cintes combine to create an ambition to reach and maintain a state of stupid in? toxication. The successful treatment of drunkenness is in my opinion dependent on as many contingencies as therenro causes of tho disorder, conspicuous among which are environment, grade of disease) temperament and tho all impor? tant, indeed the indispensable clement in tbe cure of any grade-the will. For without tho consent and co-operation of individual treatment all efforts at cure will prove futile. Nothing short of regeneration is ade? quate for the cure of tho individual whose highest ambition is drunkenness. Im? prison him. depriyc him of all stimu? lants for a year, release liitn and his first act is to realize tho dream of his prison lifer-Drunkenness. Proper treatment, in connection with the will ofthesubji .t, in my opinion is capable of curing many drunkards whose will power is so shat? tered by nerve disease, resulting from drunkenness, that tho will is no longer potent against the cravings of a vitiated appetite. Respectfully, Auch Ava it y. Is Drunkenness Curable^ Editor Constitution?Yes aud no. Many cases arc curable, others aro not. It is difficult in the limits of so short a article to discuss this subject properly, but 1 shall endeavor to mako my meaning clear. By drunkenness I understand not occa? sional intoxication, but the habitual and excessive indulgence in liquor, eitlior Continually or periodically. Tho habit? ual and excessive use of spiritous liquors sooner or later produces a diseased condi? tion of tho stomach, liver, kidneys, heart and brain. These morbid changes not only impair a man's physical ability to resist the craving for liquor, but also weaken his moral nature, and particular? ly his will power. Tho craving for liquor in such an ono is due; first, to tho flagging of tho nervous system as the effects of tho last indul? gence dies out, and, secondly, to the con? dition of tho stomach, which will not di? gest food unless stimulated moro or less all the time. In a case where the indulgence has been so long continued a cure is practi? cally impossible, with certain limitations which I will mention later. On tho other hand, if a person has drunk liquor to excess, but not for along enough period to produce organic changes 'n the stomach, liver, and brain, a euro I may be often effected by appropriate measures. There are several factors to be consid? ered in judging of any particular case. 1. Tbe length of time the habit has lasted, i Tho patient's heredity. 3. Tho pres? ence or absence of moral influences around the patient. The drunkard descended from drunken parents and grandparents, or with a strain of insanity, opilcpsy or other diseases of the brain in his family history, is a "tnau Vais subject." Again, the drunkard who is without home ties, who has never known a moth? er's or a wife's devotion, who is by na? ture as well as liquor brutal and degra? ded, stands a small chance of over with? standing the temptations of tho wine cup. On the contrary, where the family his? tory is free from alcoholism, epilepsy nr insanity, the patient may be considered to have a good nervous system to treat Successfully. Aud again, when- tho drunkard is hedged about by the lender lovo of wife or mother, or where bo is by nature a man of 'ino moral sense, a euro may often bb effected In order to make the cure permanent, it is almost a necessity that the patient should bo upheld and strengthened by love, moral principle ard religion. It is an easy thing to break the whisky habit in .'in inebriate asylum, but unless one of the factors Just mentioned bo present, a relapse will almost inevitably take place. Finally, there aro drunkards, ever aud anon, so besotted and degraded, so reek? ing with the tilth of the gutter, as to be wholly past all human help, aro lifted up by the mighty arm of God himself, and tnadogood and useful men. HUNTKIJ P. COOI'KK, M. I >. To Dispel Colds. Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse tho .system effectually, yet gently, when costive or bilious, or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently euro habitual constipation, to awaken tho kid? neys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or weakening them, use Syrup of Figs. ? In Southeastern lttissia, where dogs are Rioted for their sagacity, ami are made to carry burdens and discharge other do? mestic duties, the famine has caused the ? peasants to kill them for loud, A MILLION A YEA'? Southern I'liuitcra Can Sure by New Tti vi) r.I ion, .-I llantt ? CanttUutlon. One of the most important inventions of the age, which will cause a revolution in the cotton world and which will save from one to two and a half million dol? lars a year to the planter? of Georgia, and from seven to twenty million dollars annually to the South, is ou exhibition a'. i;:e Piedmont exposition and U daily attracting the deepest interest of visitors. Indeed, there id no other industrial dis? play there which draws so much atten? tion as this, the- Rimbert cotton com? press By a process simple in principle and using no more power than is required for the plantation h?le, this compress turns out a bale of less bulk, greatei density and more even and smooth exterior, than the large steam compresses make. The invention is intended to take the place of both the plantation press of to day and the big compresses scattered over the country. And it is going to do that. Substituted for the ordinary plantation press, it will take the cotton right from the gin and turn out a five bundred? pound bale as small as, if not smaller, than a bale that has been crushed in the powerful hvr!r?,ulic presses, such na there are here in Atlanta, and at Macon, Au? gusta and elsewhere. A bale from the llemberi roller compress is ready to be put ou the cars and shipped direct to Manchester. It never goes into the huge compress ntd that charge and the ex? pense of unloading and re loading are saved. In fact, it just does away with one sot of middle men altogether. The machine is a Texas invention. It was patented last November and last February. It has been operated iu Gal veston, and the owners of the large com? presses there saj that it solves the prob? lem of making a compressed bale at the country giD, and does the work of the great compresses There is a big saving in the expense of getting the bale to markei. A hundred or more planters stop every day and make a careful study of the compress at the exposition. It does its work in the rao*t perfect manner and i3 the admiration of all who see it and can appreciate it. There is no secret about the principle, which any one can see and understand in a moment. Without going into a minute description of the machine, it is enough to say that as the cotton is ginned it passes between two rollers, which press the air out of it and make the cotton into a soft web which falls layer upon layer into tk? presa. The web is smooth and even, and the bale is a delight to the spiuners The rollers really do the compressing. After the cotton goes into the press no more p^wer is needed ou the screw than is required to make the plantation bale. And the bale that comes out of this compress is a beauty ! It is completely covered with bagging, and though it has one more tie than the old process, being less in hulk, saves ten feet in lies and a yard of bagging on every bale. There is quite a pile of bales made by this compress in machinery hall and every one is handsome. The bales range iu weight from 470 to 501 pounds and are the prettkat eyes were ever laid on. This compress is bound to introduce itself. A ginner, who was looking at it work a few days ago, said that it would save him $2,500 a year and he applied for one on the spot. To the planter, this roller process ranks in value right alongside of the gin. In a few years the process la bound to be the universal compress. To the railroads it will be a great blessing because the bales being Ism lhau half the size o! the plan? tation bales, only half so many car- will he ueoded for hauling them. Then us they are uniform iu tize thc-y can be stowed to belter advantage in the :.hlps and a larger cargo of them oxn be carried. The invention is a perfect success and is one of tho most valuable of the age. As a labor saving and cos: reducing machine it is invaluable. THE DIRECT BENEFITS. Renaming some and mentioning others anew here are the direct benefits to be gained by the adoption of this roller pro? cess : 1. A saving of labor at the ginhouse, as the process is automatic throughout; the cotton not being touched by band from the time it enters ihe gin until it is re:idy for the bacds to bo tied. It is claimed tin t tho service s of two bands arc dispensed with, the work of picking the litt into the baling box being auto? matic. 2. Great having in insurance. This process has been investigated by numbers of insurance cxp; ris representing fire 3nd marine companies, both foreign and domeslh . awl from their opinions, freely expressed, as io the great improvement in the risk, this company confidently be Heven that rates now prevailing will be reduced at least one half on "inning esiabli."hmenia where the liembert prn ce-s is u.-c-i! -'! Ease of handling acd saving of room. Tiii-! needs d:- explanation, whc:i il is considered lb .'. the liembert bale is iess than half the s-ize of the common baie, therefore occupying only h*ll the space in wagons, warehouses, freight cars, i to, which the plantation bale requires, ?l Its compact size enables iL Lj be entirely covered with bagging, and it is therefore mucb bettrr protected in every way, and less liable to lire, or damage iu bundling, or transportation. ",. By thi* process the cotton is laid r vi nly in the bale and draws agond sam? ple. Competent judges claun that it samples at leas! half a grade higher than the same c< lion prepared i? the u-ual way. The pacfesge is a desirable wie in every respect, and its attractive appear auce and e'-'id?.::t immunity from damage cannot fail to secure preference t?,r it over the ordinary bale, both from ship ' pi rs and consumers, f?. More cotton per gin cau be made by I this procv-?H than by any other, the full ; capacity of the giu being utilized, and as ih" bale is no! formed i:i the unlit!-.: bnx, j but o'i a separate table, the gins d ? not i have to wait for.- the box to bs cleared, Xnla makes a gain of two to three bah s per di<y lo each L'in operating. This company is now turning out from two seventy saw gin-, eighteen to twenty bales, averaging over five hundred j pounds each per day of ten hours, without <ivf ycrowding. 7. Railroad managers and 3gen!s who have seen the machines at work and the bales turned nut by them say that they will gladly carry such cotton over their respective roads at compressed rites, which ii equal to 50 cents per bale less than the rate on ordinary- bales ?8. Its acceptance by the railro?.ds as a compressed bale insures its prompt trans? portation to destination, as the cars are loaded from the local stations and the cotton goes through in unbroken lots; whereas the present bale is taken to a compress somewhere along the road where it has to wait; its turn, and often ha? to wait two or three weeks. Even then the lots are frequently broken up, aud it is by no means unusual for frag? ments of a one-hundred bale lot to come struggling in after a mouth or six weeks, thus entailing great annoyance to both shipper and receiver, as well as a direct loss in interest, insurance, depreciation in price, and many other items that are only too familiar to the cotton trade tiuder tbe present system. 91 Ship brokers express a willingness to take tbe cotton baled by the Rembert process at a less rate of freight than they do the ordinary oppressed bale, as, owing to their uniform six?, they stow to better advantage in the vessel. Swindling Negroes. The Lowrysville correspondent of tbe Yorkville Enquirer relates as follows: Some lime last spring a medicine wagon remained her? for a week or two selling medicine. No one supposed they met with any success. They were very reticent with the white citizens, aud con? fined tbeir business exclusively to the negroes. The fact ba3 been developed that they sold almost entirely on credit, taking a mortgage on a pig, calf or poul? try, as th-a ignorant dupes were led to believe. The collector was here on the 17th inst., and early in the morning tho negroes btgau to flock in and the col? lector was kept busy tearing the mort? gages out of hi? book until the middle of the evenicg. The crowd reminded one of election day in the good old time?, and it is estimated that the fellow col? lected six or seven hundred dollars in amounts ranging from %\ to ?10 Run? ners had been sent all over the country notifying the negroes that "their paper" was due, and those who could not pay were very uneasy. After a good deal of money bad been collected, one of our citizens got hold of ous of tho mortgages, and at once saw through tbe whole scheme. The mortgage not only covers the calf, pig, chicken, etc., that wa9 understood in the verbal agreement, but there is a printed clause which enumer? ates every known article of household and kitchen furniture, and winds up with a sweeping stake of greediness, which includes "everything else owned, or in our possession, herein described or not." The poor dupes were advised not to pay another dollar, as tbe mortgages were fradulent, and tbe swindler was no'.ified to make himself scare?, which he did without standing on the order of his going, and without paying those who had served hin: &?. runners. Many of the negroes tiuable lo p.uy wanted to return the goods?a bottle of pills worth twe-nty cent* for which they agreed to ,iay a dollar?but of course the fellow refused to take them back. The Rock of JIosc-s, How many readers know that what is believed to be the identical rock struck by Moses, when he commanded water for tho famishing thousands who were wan? dering iu tho wilderness, is still to bo seen, as natural as it was in tho days of the great law-giver? Dr. Thomas Shaw, 1). D., at one time rcgius professor of Greek at Oxford, one of the greatest of English Seventeenth Century travellers, gives this description of it on page of his travel.;. "It is a block of granite marble, about six yards srjuarcj variously known as the 'Rock of Horob,''Rock of Massah,' aud 'Stone ol Moses.' It lies tottering and loose in the Valley of Rcphidim, and seems to have formerly belonged to Mount Sinai, which hangs ill a variety of precipices all over the plain. The waters winch flowed out and the streams which flowed withal (Psalms lxxvii, 20,) have hoilowed across one corner of this lock a channel about two inches deep and twen? ty inches wide, which is now crusted all over like the Inside of a teakettle that has been long in use Resides several mossy productions which arc still preserved by the dew, we sec all over this channel a great number of holes, some of them four or live inches in diameter, lively tokens of there having been so many fountains." Dr. I'oeock's description of the "Keck of Moses," and that of "Prefetto of Egypt;" both of which the reader may lind in llishop i logher's "Journal of a Trip from Grand Cairo to Mount8inai," page 14, second edition, corresponds with the above in every essential feature The b'xil of the Locomotive. Oodex, N.J , Oct. 25.?Steam locomo? tive ha?? had thc:r day, and electric j motors will take their place. This new device foi whirling trains of railroad cars at ;:. minimum speed of 100 miles an hoar is the invention of Thomas A. Ed? ison. Tbe Wizard of tbe Electric Kiuiu h:.s completed his motor, tested it, and is assured o( ii- completeness, and backed by Eleary Villard, tho well-know New Yorker, wiil operate a railroad between Milwaukc aud C licago with electricity. Thus the era of steam locomotives, those tremendous machines that have been j the wonder of this ago, will end on the I 4?0iii anniversary of tuo discovery of I America. J Mr. Edhofl talked freely of the elec? tric motor yesterday, aud said it would j displace til locomotive for three reasons, i viz , it war speedier, safer aud cheap h "It will get one horse power, he rc ! maiked, "out oi from one to two pounds I of cheap coal, whereas six pounds of ex I pensive coal are used to make one horse ! power in a steam locomotive. "It will carry-a-iain as 100 miles ot , i even :iix> miles an hour, while it strain:* r locomotive to cove.- -ixiy roiies iutbit lime. ?'The motor will bo safer for the rea son that b; meaos of an indicator in th" power-houses which supply the elec? tric current the exact location of every (rain on ihe r- ad will l.e known at every moment. That will be au ab.-olutely perfect "block system," acd will insure I't-r.'cct safety ?o for as collisions of trains are concerned. This will also be a saving of expense in maintaining the road. Mr. Elisen said the trains would be rim by electricity furnished the ;rc.o tors from stationary power-houses. The current will pass from the stationary en? gine t.i a central rail between the tracks, thence through the mechanism attached to the bottom of the cursor motor. A freight train, cf course, would need a motor because of the number of cara, al? though a single passenger car could be ruu carry ng its uwu motor beneath it? thence to the wheels, and thence back by J the side rails to ibo power h'juse or sta? tionary engine. Three stationary en? gines, each with a horse power of 10,000 or 10,000, would run the^whole Pennsyl? vania Railroad system between here and Philadelphia. "For practical purposes I feel sure that a 100 pound rail on a rock ballasted track would stand the speed of 100 miles an hour. The train .will be stopped by air brakes, the same as now. On the road between Milwaukee and_Chicago we will ran trains every twenty min? utes At the lightning speed of not less than 100 miles an hour." A "pressure a little heavier than the one I use would make a horse lift bis foot so," and Mr. Edison lifted one of his own feet about a half an inch from the ollicc floor, "hut the pressure I do U3ea horse wouldn't feel at all, nor wxmld a mac. Y-..u see, I employ the heavy cur reut with the low pressure. That is the whole secrd of safety. The principle is this, that a stream of water 100 feet wide which lulls a foot gives the same power ; as a stream one foot wide and falls 100 feet. The wide stream is my way." The third rail for street railways will be discarded. Mr. Edison says ihe diffi? culty of picking the current out of the mud has been solved. There i3 absolute? ly no danger to vehicles', pedestrians or horses. Mr. Edison said that if the Chicago road was the success anticipated, Mr. Villard would undoubtedly put the tlec trie motors en the Nrrtcern Pacific for carryirg freight sr.d passenger traf? fic. What Plants Live Upon. Trees and plants don't grow out of th* ground, as most people vainly talk, but directly out of the air; and when tbey die or get consumc-d, they return once mere to the atmosphere from which tn.-y were taken. Trees undeniably eat car? bon. Of course, therefore, all the ordi? nary, unscientific conceptions of how plant? feed are absolutely erroneous. Vegetable physiology, indeed, got beyond these conceptions a gocd hundred years ago. But it usually takes a hundred ycar3 for the world at large to make "t**^ its leeway. Trees don't suck lip their nutriment by the roots, they don't derive tbeir food from the soil, they don't need to bo fed, ^ like babies through a tube, with terres? trial solids. The solitary instance of an orchid being hung up by a siring in a conservatory on a p'ece of bark, ought to be sufficient to at once dispell forevei this strange illusion?if people ever thought; bat, of course they don't think. The true mouths and stomachs of plants are not to-'-?I be found in the roots, bat in the green ? leaves; their true food is not to be suet: ed from the soil, but inhaled through tiny channels from the air; the mass of their material is carbon, and that carbon the leaves themselves drink in, by a thousand small green mouths, from the atmosphere around them. But how about the juice, the sap, the qualities of che soil, the manure rerjojred? is tho incredulous cry of the people. What is the use of the root3, especially of the rootlets, if they are not the mouths and supply tubes of ihe plants ? The plant requires drink as well as food and the roots arc the months that sup? ply it with water. They also suck up a few other thiugs as well, which arc nc c?--ary indeed, but far from forming the bulk of the nutriment. That is to say some parasitic plants are practically to ^ all intents and purposes, animals. To put it briefly, every plant has one set of a.-rial mouths to suck in carbon, and many plants have another set of subter? ranean mouths as well, to suck up water and mineral constituents The young plants being supplied rith water by their roots, and with carbon by ihe air around, have a!! the little they need below, aid grew and thrive in these conditions won dcrfully. But if you were to cover them ~ up with an air tight glas' case, so as to exclude fresh air, they'd shrivel up at once for want cf carbon, which is tbeir solid foeJ, a3 the water is their liquid. The way the-plant really eats is little known to gardeners, but is very interes? ting. All over the surface of the green li af lie scattered dozens of tiny mouths or aperture.-', r?.ch of the m guarded by two small pursed up lips, which have a re diculous human appearance when seen through a simple microscope. Whej conditions of air acd moisture i able, the.-c lips open visibly gasse?, then the tiny snouti Tri carbonic acid i;i abaudance^rolSr^Hcr air around them. A series of pipes con vcys the gaseous food thus supplied to the upper surfac.-; of the ieaf, where the sun ; . i ?. falls upon it. When the sunlightl plays upon ibid mysterious chlorophyll j> ?Overs the oxygen from the carbon : That is the whole process of feeding in^ j plants; they eat carbosic acid,df?_ in tbeir leaves, get rid of the oxygel j with which it was formc<4j^ombined! I r.r.d kern the carbon stored u^^sr tbe.?^ i own purpose*.? CornKUl, - Buckleu's Arnica Salve i The best salve in the world for Ci : Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, ? ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruf ami positively cure??^^a, ^r-. required. It is guaranteed to giv? feet satisfaction, or money refan^ Price 25 cents per box. For-sale i: Hill Bros.