The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, December 10, 1891, Image 1

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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1891. VOLUME XXVI NO. 23 te** 8m. WATCH THIS ADVERTISEMENT. WE are opening op a BARGAIN COUNTER, upon which we will, always keep a special drive. I?* Come and Bee it. P- ? ? JAS- P. GOSSETT & CO.. Under Hotel Chiquola, Andereon, S. 0. AND ? f A SUPERB LINE OF Breech and Muzzle Loading Shot Guns. REPEATING and SINGLE SHOT PISTOLS and CARTRIDGES of ALL KINDS. Our Stock Simply Immense. MM* ' Our Prices astonishingly Low. m EVERY DESCRIPTION. MACHINE SUPPLIES, , ; ~AGR^^ AND MACHINERY. Never have we been so well prepared to meet the de la?nds of the Trade and Batisfy our cnstomers. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO ANDERSON, S. C. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO., ELBERTON, Cr A.. DON'T FAIL TO VISIT I Ii I toiO; oiji rvi >Uiv^{\:.'Hin V uo?u&l DEALERS IN DRV GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS and CONFECTIONERIES. We are selling Goods CHEAP, and will treat yon tight. Give ns a call. Yonrs trnly, E. W. BROWN & SONS. for Infants and Children* -CostorlalssowenadaptedtochOdrenthat | fSSsS^^S&SSS^ M I recommend it as superior to any prescription r yntR worms, gives sleep, and promoiea di Jmowntome." H. A. Archer, M. D., gestion. Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. J Without injurious medication. Thk Ckstacr Company, 77 Murray Street, K. Y. FALL AND WINTEfc MILLINERY! CHEAP* AND BEAUTIFUL. THOSE who have an eye Tor lue beautiful houli take a peep at my line of MILLI? NERY. I am prepared to furnish you with the? LATEST STYLES AND LOWEST PRICES. Havejuiit opened a full line of FANCY FEATHERS, WINGS, RIBBONS, and all material reqnired to make a stylish Hat MIS3 JGLEHART, a Northern Mil'.iner, has just returned from Baltimore with fresh ideas for the Fall trade She will b? pleased ro show my Goods, and will do all in her power to pleaso her customers. Give her a trial and b? convinced. My Stock of DRY GOuDS isconiplete, and I invite you to call and examine tbem before,buying But don't forjret mo when you want a Hat. . . $SB- Those indebted to me nro oarnewtly requested to ct'?uie promptly and settle. .Thankful for past pationsge I solicit a continuance of same. ' MISS 8ALLIE BOWIE. TeJ??h^'Golumn, ?"fKj All communications intended for this Col imn should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMORY GEMS. A true heart and a lovirjg disposition is the perfection ?." all beauty in an indi? vidual whom God has created for His own glory. "The*beauty of the face is a frail pos? session, u short-lived flower, only attach? ed to the nerve epidermis; but that of the mind is innate and unchangeable." Me?srs. W. C. Cobb, W. E. Owenp and L. C. GaddiDgs have been appointed Trustees for Pelzer School District. Keep the school houses warm and comfortable if you want good results and the health of the children preserved. Just after Christmas we propose the publication of a series of Normal lec? tures by one of the best Normal School instructresses in the United States. The teachers, we hope, will find them help? ful. The: following gentlemen have been appointed Trustees for College District, which includes the town of Williamston, .being in ?. circular shape three.miles in diameter; the Williamston Female Col? lege being the center: Rev. D. W. Hiott, Capt. G. VV. Snllivan and Prof. W. T. Lander: We would again repeat the suggestion of a Chris'.mas exercise on the last after? noon of school before Christmas. Teach the children that Christmas does hot mean a time to over eat and over drink and frolic and commit crime. Teach them that we are merely celebrating the birth day of our blessed Saviour. Let us do this with due respect and reverence to Him. _ The Male Academy at Williamston is in good bands, at least the news comes that the patrons are very much pleased with Mr. J." W. Gaines, the Principal. He is a young man, but is up with the progress of the times, and is doing a fine work. Mis* Anna Dargan, of Greenville, has been chosen as his assistant, and will enter upon her duties in that capac? ity the 1st of January, 1892. She is too well and favorable known to need com? ment. We congratulate the people of Williameton.. & * ? .Patent desks have been placed in the .schools at Townville, Calhoun, Pros? pect, Humer'8 Spring, Concord, J. Bel ton Watson's, Lebanon and several other schools in Garvm J?iairiofcr-^i^lr&v* also been ordered for the Woodland School, in Belton District, where Miss Lizzie Brock is teaching. This is a step in the right direction. The double desks only cost $2 60 each delivered at Ander? son. This is remarkably cheap. Any other school that wants them had better order now, as we may not be able to get them so cheap agaio. The following is the boundary ot Un? ion D is trie1., which is composed of parts of Hopewell and Broadaw&y Districts: Beginning at the fork of Beaverdam Creeks; thence up the little Beaverdam to the ford on the road through the plan? tation of Mr. P. C. Opt; thence follow? ing said road east by P. C. Opt's, D. C. McCohneirs, J. R. Wyatt's John Ash more's and B. N. Rollins' to a mulberry tree on the public roads near B. B. Brooks'; thence south by B. B.Brooks' and M.-E. Mitchell's gin house, follow? ing the road to J. T. Drake's.; theDce westward through the Bleekley place to the beginning point at fork of Creeks. All tames meutipned On the'line are in? cluded, in .'the District, .except *E?rCL Opt and J. R. Wyatt. Messrs. J. N. Gam breli, E. J. Kay and L. W. Harris have been appointed Trustees of said District. Their school house is about completed and Mr. M. N.- Mitchell has been elected teacher. _ HOHOE ROLL OF TOWNVILLE HIGH HIGH SCHOOL FOR NOV., 1891. High School Department: Lizzie Grant, 98.4; Emma Farmer, 98; Pleas. Ma haffey, 97.9; Maggie Tribble, 97.6 ; Lil lie Grant, 96.7; Mamie Harris, 96 6; Frank Farmer, 96.6 ; J. V. Johnson, 96; I Emma Compton, 95.9; Lewis Ligon, 94 9; Vendiver Sharp, 94.8; Ben. Craw? ford, 94.5; Annie Compton, 94; Janie Benjamin, 93 9; Chebes Ligon, 93.8; Jack Harris, 93.6; Hallie Grant, 93.4; Kate Shatp, 93 3; John Sharp, 92.7 ; Jimmie Grint, 92 3 ; Daisy Moore, 91.8 ; Gus Grant. 90 8. Primary Department: Eulah Compton, 96.8; Ovaline Sharp, 96 4; Mat-.ie Ledbetter, 96 3; Mary Ligon, 96 ; Lida May Johnaon, 96; Wil? lie Burns, 94 9; Nora Tribble, 94.4; Frank Crt.wford, 93.4; Clyde Boggs, 91.6. Maximum 100. The secoid month of Townville High School ended Nov. 27. We have en? rolled 66 f u pi is, and the attendance is remarkably good. The patrons are cor? dially invitad to visit our school and eee its management at work. J. F. Rie?, Pincipal. How's This 1 We offer one hundred dollars for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Curo. P. j. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. We, the andorsigned, have known P. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and bo l.eve him perfectly honorable in all busi iness transitions* and financially able to carry out a ly obligations made by their li rin. West & Trtunx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walmno, Kinnan it Maknin, Whole? sale Druggists, Toledo, (). Hall's Cacarrh Cure is taken internallj', acting directly upon tho blood and mu? cous surfaces of the system. Testimo? nials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. ? ' The mewl," wrote a school boy, "is a larger bird than the guse or turkey. It has two legs to walk with, 2 more to kick with and it wears its wings on the side of its head. I is atubbonly backward about going forwt.rd.:' ? While you live right nothing goes wrong. A e.'jul at peace wit.. God cannot be greatly disturbed by the world, for it has its pleasures in God and its pleasures from God. BILL ARP Has His Memory Stirred Up by General Jackson's Speech. Atlanta Constitution. General Henry R. Jackson's recent ad dress delivered in Atlanta before the Young Men's Library Association has impressed me more than any speech or writing made in the South since the war. I did not hear it, but I have read it aDd pondered it aDd read it again. It has a historical value that exceeds anything that has been said or written upon the subjec; of slavery and the slave trade. It is safe to say that no other man could have delivered it, for there is no living man so familiar with the facts and whose peculiar business it was to become famil? iar with them. Let me say, farther, that S3 an argument it is exhaustive and un? answerable. Nothing more need be said. As a literary and scholarly effort it is a masterpiece of cultured thought and beauty of expression. The truth is, I was charmed and comforted, and my thanks go out to the noble man who, having passed his allotted age, was un? willing to leave his people without put? ting on record that defense of their fath? ers that truth and honor required. Now, let him depart in peace. Young men of Georgia and of the South, have you read this address? Have you got time and inclination to read it? Do you wish to know the trutLof history ? Do you wish to cherish your Southern pride and have established the good name and the honor of your ancestors ? Had I been a mem? ber of that Young Men's Library Asso? ciation I would have moved the publica? tion of a hundred thousand copies and sent them all over the land North and South and some across the waters to Gladstone. Had I the authority I would insist that every professor in every Southern college, male and female, should read this to his class and teach it and linger and dwell upon it until the truth it contains was established in the minds of the pupils. I would declare it a substitute for that portion of every history that treats of the late war and its causes. I have long believed much that is sta? ted iu this address and lamented that I could not provo it. The data nor the re? cords were within my reach, but I knew enough to feel the sting of every reproach that was cast upon us. In spite of everything that we veterans could do or say, Northern literature has insinuated itself into our borders and poisoned the minds of many of our youth. Northern histories have crept stealthily into our Schools and Colleges, and even the his? tories of our own Southern meu have only timidly and tenderly defended us for fear of giving offense. Why should the ?historians smother the fact that slavery began in New England, and the slave trade was born there and rocked in her cradle and was nourished and cherished there long after they had sold us their slaves and abolished -the institution? Why smother the facts as established by General Jackson from the records that New England continued in the slave trade until 1859 and eighty-five vessels left New York iu 1859 and 1860 for the Afri can coast and carried to Brazil over 30, 000 slaves? These vessels were owned and equipped by capitalists of New Eng? land, who had for half a century been engaged in this business, and who, despite and in defiance of Judge Story's charges to the grand juries of his circuit, never a man was prosecuted. Friends, countrymen, read what Judge Story, the great jurist, said in that charge about the horrors, of the middle passage and your blood will curdle in the veios. Eugene Sue uor" Victor Hugo ever de? picted (-uch horrible scenes?horrible enough, as Milton says, to "create a soul beneath the ribs of death.'" From 1807 down to 1860 New England vessels, manned by-New-Eogland-eailorfl,- carried on this trade, and as Judge Story's son sayp, "many fortnnes were msde with the blood money of the cargoes that survived the awful horrors of the middle passage." And they never stopped it until the war began in 1861. Perhaps they are at it yet if there is any market for the poor wretches. Certain it is that New Eng? land is every year doubling the quantity of rum that she ships to Africa to sell to the natives. Now, in contrast to all this there never was but one vessel in all those years that was even partly owned or controlled by a man from the South?only one, the little yacht called the Wanderer?and she waa built, manned and equipped in a North? ern port. This vessel brought her little cargo of black humanity to a Southern coast, and immediately her officers were pursued and arrested and imprisoned at the instance of Southern men?a pro? ceeding that would have never been in? stituted in New England had tho offen? ders and the offence been there instead of Savannah. No wonder that the God-like Webster was disgusted with the greed and the hate and tie prejudices of his country? men. No wonder he said when they threatened him: "A man cannot suffer too much or fall too soon if he suf? fer or fall in support of the liberties aDd the coDstitution of his country." No wonder that Franklin Pierce stood by him and said: "Sir, if your party overthrows you for this we will take you up and lift you so high that your head will touch the stars." No wonder that when Nathaniel Haw? thorne was asked if ho was in favor of the war, ho replied: "I suppose so but I don't see what we have to fight about." Aod in 18G3, when he took a manuscript of a book to his publisher, with a dedication to his friend. Franklin Pierce, the publisher ad vised him to leave it out, because Pierce was opposed to the war. Then Hawthorne replied: "It shall go in. I will gladly sacrifice a few thousand dollars than retain the good will of such a herd of Jolts and meau-spirit ed scoundrels." No wondor thtt Emerson insisted on tendering to the South 82,000,000 in pay tnent for the slaves, as an act of justice and as a substitute for war. Ah ! we had friends up there?noble men, but they ould not sign*-*he tide They were helpless. The devil was run ning the machine. The slave trade might go on, and the money be paid for the car goes, but Blavery was a sin against hi^h j heaven. They brothered the men who I brought them, but damned the men who bought them. But Brazil was their mar* ket after 18-10. Maryland and Virginia ceased to buy. The South had enough. The natural increase supplied her plan? tations and a reaction of public sentiment set in. The example of Jefferson and Randolph in freeing their slaves was fol? lowed by huudreds. The colonization Society shipped thousands of manumitted slaves to Liberia, but they did not go willingly, and they perished soon after they got there. It was a cruel exile into the jaws of death. My father, as executor of Major Water's will, sent thirty seven of his slaves to Savannah, from whence the colonization Society took them to Liberia in 1849. They were well-provid? ed with clothing and given $100 apiece in gold. Thirty of them died within two years and the other seven escaped by strategy and came back to Georgia to live with their old master's children. In I860 free negroeB were common all over Vir? ginia. In 1861 we found at Winchester, more freedmen than slaves. The Old Dominion was flecked with them and the sentiment was fast working Southward, and but for the threats and bulldozing of the abolition party, Southern slavery would have passed from us by gradual emancipation as advocated by Henry Clay and Berrien and Joseph Henry Lumpkin. The truth is that the blood of the million who fell in the war ia upon the abolition party and its followers?the higher lawsaints who broke the compact and were the first to set aside the consti? tution and the laws and the decisions of the higher courts in the government. The fanatical, malicioua and mean spirit? ed scoundrels, as Hawthorne calls them, are up there yet exercising themselves in their peculiar religion, which ia to abu3e the South and preach temperance and ship rum to Africa. We are reviving no animosities against the Northern soldiers who fought to preserve the Union, for they had patriotic motives and followed the lead of General Grant, who owned slaves in Missouri and lived off of their hire up to 1863. He has been sainted. Fortune or fate cast him on that side. The dice fell that way. His battle cry was the "Union," but New Eugland de? nounced the Union as a league with bell and a covenant with the devil, and the battle cry was "Free the negroes and turn them loose to kill, burn ard to destroy." What a disappointment awaited their malicious desires and expectations?not a hand was raised, not a firebrand was lighted, but faithful, loving and true, moat of them stood by their old masters, and their wives and their children, until freedom was forced upon them. Verily, aa General Jackson says, a monument should be erected to their loyalty that should reach the stars. And -now, Mr. Editor, I think I will feel better, sometimes the" pent-up feel? ings must be ventilated, indignation must explode, or it will fester and corrode in our vitals and blood poison our better nature. Yes, I think I will feel better for a good while. I will cultivate peace and harmony with all who love it. There are some signs up north that are comfort? ing. A Northern man who fought on the other side sends money to mark the grave of a soldier, and an 111 in ia man writes me that General John M. Palmer is not even a member of the Grand Army of the" Republic. Nobody seems to know the John Palmer who raised all that rumpus about the flag. A northern lady writes a nice letter about her father, who was killed at Chickamauga in 1863.. He fell within the Confederate line, and his sword and watch were taken. He was, Colonel of the Thirty-eighth Regiment,' Illinois infantry, and his name was Da? vid Harvie Gilmer, of Pittefield, 111. Thia lady would rejoice to find that sword, and if any confederate veteran haa.it or knows of it he will please inform! me. ' And now it ia in order for the North to act the gentleman and apologize and shake hands and aay no more about flags or rebellion or treason. We are ready to forgive everybody except some. Bill Ari\ How Indians Sell Horns. At various stations along the Canadi? an Pacific road in ABsiniboia and Alber ta groups of Indians, chiefly women aud children, are found on the platforms. Sometimes they are rather picturesque for the many colored rags that cover them. But, as a rule, they are dirty, squalid, and a sickly looking lot, and are anything but attractive. A few men are among them, and they are all engaged in the not very lucrative occupation of selling buffalo horns to the tourists. On tbe plains they pick up the horns of the noble departed bison. Then they set to work improving the horns in such a way as to destroy all their value to an intelli? gent person ; for what ia the use to have buffalo horns as relics of that departed animal unless they are like the horns that the buffaloes used to wear. First the Indians scrape the horns with a knife until the surface is com? paratively smooth. Then they file them for a long time, until they are smoother yet. Finally they take a stone and begin to polish, and keep up tho process until the horns are a3 smooth as glass and as black and shiny as a well polished boot. Some travelers think tho product is very pretty, and so tbe Indians have an occasional customer. Some? times they make a hat rack of r.cveral of the horns. A pair of fine horna brings from 75 cents to $1 50, and other specimens con? taining several horns arc valued at from $3 to?4. Of course the Indians will ask a good deal more than they will take. During the bargaining not a word is spoken on either side. The Indians pretend ignorance of English. If the price is only ?2 the tourist offers only $1. The squaw will shake her head, and fi? nally he decides to do a little better. So he shakes one finger at her, and then crosses that finger with a finger of the other, which means that lie will give $1.50. After agood deal ofgostilations on both Hides a bargain is at ruck.?Bos? ton Herald. ? Our expfrienco covers many ills, many pills and many bills, our ills am si nailer, our pills are smaller and our hills are smaller when wo use Do Witt's Little Early Risers. Wilhitc k Wilhite. Stranger Than Fiction. Atlanta Constitution. Thousands of newspaper readera were astonished a few days ago when it was telegraphed all over the continent that Dr. Talmage had made the Keeley cure the subject of his Wednesday evening talk in the Brooklyn tabernacle. The great preacher knew what he was about. After seeing numerous victimB of the liquor and opium habits almost snatched from their graves and recalled to life, he felt that he could render a priceless service to his fellowmenin call? ing attejtion to this new triumph of sci? ence. Many months ago Editor Medill, of j the Chicago Tribune, took Dr. Talmage's view of the matter. He saw men more dead than alive go to Dr. Leslie E. Kee ley's Institute at Dwight, III., and return iu three weeks restored to health, and as vigorous mentally and physically as they were in the days of their youth. The veteran editor has a big heart. He re? solved to try an experiment. Going to work quietly he took six men who were well known in Chicago as hopeless wrecks, completely ruined by liquor and opium. The men were sent to Dwight, and Medill looted the bill. In lese than a month six robust citizens returned to the city and settled down to active work. They were clear-headed, bright-eyed, rosy checked, and able to do any amount of work without fatige or nervous de? pression. After this experiment the Tribune edi? torially endorsed the Keely cure. The New York Sun then spoke a good word for it, and other great newspapers fol? lowed on the same line. It struck these liberal minded journalist that the new remedy promised bo much for the good of mankind that it was their duty to make its merits known, without making it a matter of business in the advertising line. Of course there are many busy people who know little or nothing about Dr. Keeley and his institute, and they will naturally desire further information. It is a wonderful story and it cannot fail to interest every man whose heart is in the right place. For more than twenty years Dr. Keeley has been exper? imenting with the bichloride of gold. It has long been known as a powerful rem? edy for all forms of nervous diseases, but it was reserved for Dr. Keely to"develop and make known the fuil measure of its usefulness. The central institute at Dwight now has over one thousand pa? tients, and the branch institutes recently established in other States have a rapidly increasing patronage. It has been estimated that not more than 5 per cent, of the patients relapse, and this is probably too large an esti? mate. The history of two or three typi? cal cases will give a very fair idea of the treatment and its results. A man who has been the slave of liquor or opium for years goes to one of "the institute. with his nerves completely shattered. Bichlo? ride of gold is hypodermically adminis? tered four times a day, with a nerve tonic. When the patient feels that he absolutely needs liquor he is given a small dose at the institute, but in three days time even the hardest drinker vol? untarily refuses to touch the stimulant. In a few days the patient feels that it would be impossible to swallow a drop of spirituous or malt liquor. He recovers his natural appetite, sleeps naturally, forgets that be has any nerves, and feels that he is iu the best sense of the phrase a new mu;i. It makes do difference whether the man suffers from the liquor, opium or tobacco habit?the bichloride of gold straightens him out and causes him to voluntarily abandon every poison and stimulant that be has been taking. At Dwight may be found an assem? blage of the brightest men .in the coun? try?statesmen, capitalists and business men.- So well satisfied are the patients that they have organized a "Bichloride of Gold Club," with 1,000 members. The club ha* its regular meetings and ia making known and popularizing the cure at its own expense. Will this wonderful remedy cure every case? No, and its friends do not make such an extravagant claim. Sometimes a poor fellow becomes mentally unbal? anced, or is overwhelmed by some great misfortune; and loses all desire for life. When a man gets in that fix he is hardly responsible. But the majority?fully 95 per cent?feel aa they did in the bright and hopeful days of their youth. They suddenly realize that life is worth living, and their will power restored to it9 nor? mal strength is their safeguard through the remainder of their lives. Occasionally an attack is made upon Keeley and his method-*. Some physi? cians say that it is his duty to give his secret tu the inedicnl profession, others deny its virtues, and another class sim? ply express doubt, and argue that such marvelous cures are impossible. Then a few temperance people take the grouud that nothing but the power of the gospel will cure a man. Many of the greatest and most valua? ble discoveries in science havo been bit? terly opposed. After a satisfactory test vaccination it, still denounced by thou? sand*. Dr. Keely and nis co werkers iu the branch institutes understand the situa? tion. They have resorted to scarcely any advertising. The thousands of men rescued from insanity and death by their treatment are new scattered all over the country, and no better adveitiseinents could be desired. Tho Keeloy institute here in Atlanta started cut very quietly. Major W. J. Houston, its president, is widely and favorably known all over tho South. The manager, Mr. W. W. Houston, is a j gentleman who is rrcognized as a medi? cal expert. The physician in charge, Dr. ,T. W. Janes, stands high socially and professionally, and his personal study of tho Keeley cure at Dwight enables him to speak with authority. Some people have very vague ideaB about the Institute and its work. It is do sense au asylum, and the pa? tients are under no restraint. The patients lose no time from their work or businen?. Many of those treated'are from distant cities and States, and some of them are not victims of either liquor, opium or to bacco. During recent years nerves pros? tration and nerve exhaustion have^ict ed many professional and business m^n. They are not addicted to stimulants ?l, opeals. These sufferers never fail to find s speedy relief in the bichloride of gold cure, and in a few dayn they feel that they have nerves of iron, equal to any strain. Perhaps a new remedy was never sub? jected to a closer scrutiny than the Kee ley cure. Sensational newspapers pub? lish every alleged relapse, and the three or four cases found in the past year have been thoroughly shown up. On the other hand, there is hardly a large town in the United States where the people do not see every day one or more men in perfect health, who, a year or two ago, were nearly dead from the use of stimulants or the exhaustion of their nerves. The writer of this article has seen the moderate drinker, the periodical drunk? ard, tbe opium eater and the nervous wreck all completely cured under this treatment. A few may fall in years to come, but the percentage will be very small. No man who gives the institute a fair and honest trial is likely to relapse, un? less organic disease has mastered him and destroyed his will power. Occasion? ally, too, there will be a patient who de? ceives his friends and tbe physician by pretending to try tbe cure, while all the time his will combats it, and it is his se? cret intention to return to his old habits. Such a man naturally is not benefited as a rule, although in some instances men have been cured against their will. Perhaps we are at last solving the liq? uor problem. In most cases men drink or take opium because their diseased nerves force them to seek temporary relief. When their nerves are restored to their normal condition they are alright, and canuot be persuaded to try stimulants or opiates. Every man who feels any interest in the welfare of his fellows should look into this matter and make up his judgment. What is said here is purely voluntary? such a discovery is beyond the province of advertising, and its merits should be freely made known to the world. Broke Up His Own Funeral, "I had the pleasure of reading my own obituary notice," said a western man on a visit to New York the other day. "I was so sick that it was thought I would surely die one night, and the doctors gave up all hope of me a little after mid? night. The reporters who came up to see how I was, made up their minds that I would be dead about the time their papers went to press. They did not say Mr. H-died early this morning; but tbey said the doctors had given up all hope at midnight, and tbey penned a fifty-line sketch of my important career, never thinking that I would be in posi? tion to point out a few trifling errors in it. You will, never know though how queer it seems to read "what people say. of... you after you are dead till you've tried It" "I suppose not," replied a Southerner, "but I bad a curious experience with death myself in Texas some years ago. Yellow fever had got into our town and was playing havoc with us almost before we realized it. As usual a panic set in and almost all those who were able to move without sacrificing everything they had did so. I decided to stay, and we set to work to rig up a temporary hospital for the victims. Before long yellow jack struck me, too, and I lay on a cot in the hospital I had helped to build. I was pretty bad but not too bad to feel worse when a rough coffin was brought in and put under my cot to be handy f r me. We lost no time in burying the dead ; that was dangerous. "Pretty soon I became unconscious?I learned this afterward?and being taken for dead was rolled into my handy coffin and put into the hearse. The driver was a negro who had been condemned to be hanged and was taken out of jail and put at the job of burying the dead under promise of pardon if he survived. There were no mourners to follow the body to the grave. The mourners were busy try? ing their best to keep out of the grave? yard. "The jolting brought me back to con? sciousness, and your feelings at reading your own obituary were nothing, I take it, to mine when I realized that I was going to my own funeral. The coffin had been made in such a hurry of rough boards that the cracks were wide enough for me to see through, and one nail at the foot and another at the head were all that held the lid down. A couple of kicks sent the lid up and I got out of my coffin without much trouble, the excitement of the occasion lending me strength. An? other kick threw the doors of the hearse open, and I stuck out my head and yelled to the driver to stop. "With-a yell of horror the negro leaped from the hearse and started to run away. The mule that was pulling us stopped gladly euough, and I got out as best I could and started out after the driver. We were a long way out of town, and I felt my strength giving out. When the negro saw mo following him, he fell to his knees, paralyzed with fear, and began to pray to God, the devil and ray ghost for mercy. I soon rcaciured him that I was real flesh and blood, and persuaded him to drive me hack to town. The coffin we took out of the hearse and put it upon lop, as I might want it yet, I argued, and I lay down inside with the negro's coat for a pillow, and we drove elowly back to the hospital in that style. "You may imagine the stir we created there, but that was only one little inci? dent in the plague, and it was soon for? gotten. I recovered after awhile, but I shall never forget my sensations as I woke up to find myself nailed in a coffin." Now York Tribune. Bueklcn's Arnica Salvo The best salve in the world for Cut*, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. ? Musical notes, as now used, were invented in '380. A Visit to the Tlioruvfell Orphanage. Having visited the Thornwell Orphan age I wit,h to tell your readers o! my ob? servations and impressions. \Tbe orphanage is located at Clinton, a plgasact and rapidly growing town in Lauren! County, S. C, through which three raufO&ds pas3. The most impor? tant of the fkree roads leaves our own State at ilouro&snd will be completed to Atlanta, Ga., D^ore the opening of the new year. It is\a well constructed road, evidently intended- for rapid tran? sit and heavy transportation) The orphanage was founded in 1875, by the Presbyterian Church of Clinton, led forward in the enterprise by-that wise and indefatigable worker, Rev.^W. P. Jacobs, D. D., theu the young pastoY of the church, and who is still pastor of the church and president of the or? phanage, too. The buildings, eight in number, stand in a beautiful grove of medium sized trees and on a plain almost level, just inclination enough to make drainage easy. The ground is covered with native grasses, and intersected with clean sandy walks. The buildings dif? fer one from another in architecture and materials of construction, but all are of the most" substantial kind. Some are built of granite, one of quirtz, and others of concrete. The last makes an ex? ceedingly stroDg wall being composed of stones of every conceivable shape held together by a liberal supply of lime mor? tar, Where the materials are conven? ient this makes a cheap kind of building. The new domitory building of the Pres? byterian College of South Carolina, now in process of erection, is of this material. This college, manned by energetic and enterprising young men, occupies grounds near the orphanage. The buildings of the orphanage are not crowded together, but separated by in? tervals of various lengths, in some cases I would suppose by a hundred yards or more. Everything is arranged with ref? erence to health and convenience. There is no crowding anywhere, or of anything. The chapel and school rooms occupy one buildiDg. The kitchen, provision room, dairy and laundry a third, and the print ting office a fourth. The four remaining buildings are occupied by the children, a matron having charge of each cot? tage. The children are divided according to sex and age. Boys over 12 years old occupying one cottage, and those under that age another?the girls observing a like arrangement. All meet in the dining ball, the chapel and school rooms, but the inmates of different cottages do not play together, or visit each other without permission. Each cottage has its own parlor, sitting room, guest cham? ber, study room, bath room, &c, in other er words is arranged not only for the comfort and convenience of its regular inmates, but also of friends visiting the institution. ^The.diniDg hall deserves special men? tion, being the most- admirable ^one - I ever saw anywhere. A system of three tiers of transoms on three sides, and run? ning their whole length, gives light and ventilation. When the transoms are thrown in a horizontal position, which can be done in a moment, there is noth? ing to obstruct a breeze from any of these points of the compass. On the fourth side are rooms for receiving the cooked food from the kitchen on the floor below, and washing the dishes and shelving them. So perfect was the ar? rangement of the room, and so neat and orderly the management of it, that there is no use for a fly brush of any kind, for there are no flies there. Before seeing it I do not think I could have believed that there could be a dining room in this latitude in daily use by more than a hundred persons, entirely free from the annoyance of the flies in the month of June. The laundry is a two story concrete building, in which the lower floor is oc? cupied by rooms for drying the clothes in damp weather and for ironing. The washing is done on the second floor. The water is supplied by a tank still more elevated, which is filled by a pump operated by a wind mill. By a system of pipes water is supplied from two pumps to all the buildings needing it. The ninth building?two stories?for library and reading room, is in process of erec? tion?the material, grauite and concrete Materials are collecting, too, for an ad? ditional cottage, to be built by Georgia funds, and to be occupied by orphan children. But the most admirable part of the institution is the living part. One hun? dred fatherless children are fed, clothed, carefully taught and prayerfully guided there. The moral tone of the institution and social standing of the inmates are the highest. These are secured by pru? dence in the reception of the children and great wisdom and the untiring care in training them after their reception. No child i* there who is not of legiti? mate parentage, whose mother did not lead a repnable life and whose father is not known to be dead. Mr. Jacobs tells mo Ibr t the same is true of bjth Spurgeon's and Muller's orphanages as he learned himself from the lips of the illustrious serv-nts of God and benefac? tors of their race. Ifau unworthy child gains admittance, and proves irrespon? sive to good training aud injurious to his companion;-, he is quietiy retired. Dr. Jacobs moves among the children as a prudent ajd affectionate father. The diliident aud less favored receive his special attention, and if a warmer salu? tation is giveu to any, these arc sure to be tho recipients. The children visit in the best homes in Clinton and their com pauiouship is sought. The school idea is made the prominent one iu the institution from beginning to end. Cuiliren are admitted it six years of age, and the course of study embraces eleven years. At graduation, diplomas are given, and the holders of these can easily obtain first grade certificates iu the public schools as teachers. The mornings are given to work and the eve? nings to study. But I cannot tell you, in reasonable space, all I saw and all 1 felt. As I re? tired from t.he place the inmost thought of nij soul was, here is an institution founded in love, guided by wisdom, biess od of God und to stand for :'.-('BHHH benediction* of ir.anv of God's rB |j f_ upon it May it enter tbe ear;!.] leniurn with doors wide op> u BOYD, in Clinton Gazette. All Sorls of Parnj ? Soil not the splendor of tions by boasting of them. ? It takes nearly 3,000 cil produce one pound of silk. ? Everything good in ^Ban th| best when properly recogr ? The man who is most slow in pi ising is most sure to keep his word. ? Thou shalt always have joy evening if thou hast spent the. ( , ? Horse sense is a pretty go\jn to have at times. It teaches a fellow jay neigh. *7 Two of the hardest things to this^iife are a new diary and lead pencil. ? Mrs. Ha'-key now 0WD8 ball dress mate/or theEmprt It costs S10,000.\ ? Five things a^esseutial to buc? in life. One thing is\? good wife; four othere are money. \. ? No rain has fallen inSt\den, Egypt, since three years ago, when a brought of twenty-six years was broken. \ ? A trial convinces tho most ske^ical. Carefully prepared, pleasant to the ?h-J6? ' Do Witt's Cough and Consumption Cofl^ is a valuable remedy. Wilhito & WilhitSV ? She: Will you instruct ^ur daugh-"' ter in the different lanr^tges. Great Man : No ; one tongue is. sufficient for a woman. ^ ? No girl in Norway is allowed to have a beau until she can bake bread. Over there when a fellow gets married he doesn't find that his cake is all dough. ? What measures are you-taking to stop that cough? Let as suggest Do Witt's Cough and Consumption Cure. It is infallible. Wilhite & Wilhite. ? Apples weighing three pounds each have been grown in Southern California, ^ and apples that weigh two pounds and a half are so common as to excite no com? ment. ? Sonoma, Cal., has no fear of her wa? ter supply. A subterranean river runs under the town, and three artesian wellB^ close together yield a daily output of 3,r; 000,000 gallons. ? It is an established fact that l>o Witt's Little Early Riser's have an enormous sale, and why ? Simply because they ft plesant in taking and happy in results, pill for the multitude. Wilhite it Wilhi' ? Sunday School teacher?Miss Fa: ny, what are we to learn from the para ble of the wise and foolish vi Miss Fanny?(aged ten)?Th always to be on the lookout groom. ? Judson Smith, American board of fo, over one half the heathen, and that t slightly decrease hundred years. ? "An hone of the apoth Early Risers ness and sick bite. ? A gentl "the wild an having seen the a railway station cents, Good Square feet Gorge, Si. ? The natives of have in use the ?malles world, it is a wafer made froto1 ous juice of a tree, and its vald mated to be one ten-thousandth penny. ? Ignorance of the merits of Do Witt's. < Little Early Risers is a misfortune. These little pills regulate the liver, cujja/head- .( ache, dyspepsia, bad breath, constipation and biliousness. Wilhito & Wilhite. ? It is a very unusual sight to see grain standing in tbe field ready to cnt while three inches of snow covers the ground; but this could have been seer on the first day of October, 1891, ij Snake River Valley, Idaho. ? A curious fact in the early hist of pins is that wh an they were first in "open shop" there was such a_j;r??, demand for them that a code was passe permitting their sale only on two dayrjn the year?the 1st and 2nd of January. ? You don't want a torpid liver. You don't want a bad complexion. You don't want a bad breath. You don't want a headache. Then use De Wittls Little Early Risers, the famous little pills. Wilhito & Wilhite. ? As George folded the fair youc?~~ creature to his heart a dull, cracking sound smote his ears. "Ah, it's goodby to those imported cigars in my ?est pock-""" et," he said, grimly, "but dam the ex? pense at a moment like this." ? "You are getting very fond of coffee,'* Mr. Hunker," said Mrs. Small to her stai? boarder, as he passed his cup for the third replenishing. "It isn't that, Mrs. i Small," replied Hunker; I'm taking th*. ? hot water treatment." ? It is reported that a shark twenty-^*, four feet in length was recently caugh^ in the harbor of Panama. The skin wi--^ about half an inch thick. It was captur^ ed by a harpoon thrown from a steamer, and the vessel was turned completely1 around by the powerful fish when first made fast. ? The canal which is to connect Man? chester, Englacd, with the sea, is one of the greatest undertakings of modern times. Its total length'will be 33 miles. It will be twenty-six feet deep, 120 feet wide at the bottom and 230 at tlf It is about three fourths completed will cost about $45,000,000. ? While a man was fishing necticut pond recently, he capU immense pickerel. On openinj found ft handsome gold watch and c! which was recognized as having 1 to a man who mysteriously disappeare from t'ua* locality about two years fore. ? Cutton of a red color is being grot lu Middle Georgia, it is said, wiiere, acre of cottou plants have stalks, lei and flowers, every stalk of which deep red color. This crop is tbe pre of a seed taken three years ago frot stalks of red cotton found in a field. Syrup of Figs. Produced from tie laxative and ... cious juice of California figs, combi with tho medicinal virtues of known to b^ most beneficial to_? man system, acts gently, on tho kidni liver and bowels, ellbctually cleausingi_ system, dispelling colds and headaches; and curing habitual constipation.