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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1892. VOLUME XXVI.?NO. 30. RIGHT THIS WAY NOW RIGHT THIS WAY We are going to hare the Grand Act by C. S. MINOR? who never fails to do the Correct thing at the Correct Time! I DONT be canghfc by any of the shrewd tricks of sharp traders, who set so many traps at this season of the year, bnt go at occe to the bazaar and TEN CENT STORES and see how impressive the business done there has gotten to be. We don't want the world, but we do want the lion's share of it, and we make ATTRACTIVE figures to secure it. SPOT CASH. ONE PRICE ONLY, AND THAT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE, GIVES US THE TRADE. Tours always truly, THE BAZAAR, C. S. MINOR, THE TEN CENT STORE, 17 to 21 S. Main Street, Anderson, S. C. NOW IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! On and after January l, 1892, all % Heavy Mr Boots ni te i our EslilsH Will be Reduced from 10 to 20 per Cent in Price. COMB early and secure a REAL BARGAIN, fur we will surely offer you one. We cannot and will not carry over Winter Goods from one season to another. Shoes are not like wine?they do not improve with age Heuce we will not allow goods to lay upon our shelves from season to season. We need the money to buy Spring Goods, and the room to show them. This reduction includes a large lot of the famous Bay State Prison-made Shoes, consisting of Plow Shoes, Brogans, English Ties, and twenty Oases of Boots. Remember, that all 8hoes bearing our firm name, or the name of the Manufactu? rers, are guaranteed to give a reasonable amount of wear. We will exchange Shoes or refund the full amount of money paid to all parties not satisfied with their pnrchases, provided they return them to us immediately nnsoiled. ENERGY. V FIDELITY, }? INSURE 8UCCES3. DISCRETION, i JAS. P. GOSSETT & CO.? Under Hotel Chiquola, Anderson, S. C. *sg i i _ WANTED! RaG3, Hll'ES aud beeswax by peoples & burr iss, SECOND HAND STOVES As good or better than most of the new ones now offered you, which we are offering at a l??w price. We hope y<>u will bear in mind that we deal in? Tin, China Crockery, Glassware, And EVERYTHING.i i the Hou-n Furnishing line, and at prices that cannot be beat by any one. Price elsewhere, then come to see us and you will be convinced. TIN HOOFING. GRAVEL ROOFING and GUTTERING, k Promptly done by experienced men. % Yours very truly, PEOPLES & BURRISS. * usm mw i KEEPING PACE WITH THE HARD TIMES! For the next sixty days our Mammoth Stock is at the MERCY OF OUR CUSTOMERS. CoME ONE, COME ALL, and get the BARGAINS. The Stock'must be re? duced to make room for oar Spring Goods. Wishing one and all a happy and prosperous New Year, Respectfully, MISS IJZZIE WILLIAMS. NEW YEAR'S GREETING ? OF ? .A.. IsT. TOIDD & CO., And would say that we have made our New Year's resolutions, viz : 1st, To keep everything necessary to constitute a First Class Drug Store. 2nd. To giro a big dollar's worth of goods for every dollar, and one Almanac thrownJn 3a. To give prompt and polite attention to every person. 4th. To invite the early investigation of the above facts by every person through? out the entire county. Yours as ever, A. X. TOPP A CO. DON'T FAIL TO VISIT I I. MI k DEALERS US DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, , BOOTS AND SHOES, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS and CONFECTIONERIES. ?? We are selling Goods CHEAP, and will treat you right. Give us a call. Yours truly, E. W. BROWN & SONS. TeJa?hej^'Golumn, All communications intended for thisColunin should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMORY GEMS. Be careful! The way in which you go others are trying to go. The nest way to teach tho young to walk right, is to walk right before them. We desire it understood that we will not be in the office except on Saturdays and Salesdays and other puhlic dayB, un* less the weather is so bad we cannot well get out into the rural districts. We would be glad in our rounds to hear the pupils recite "Wanted," pub? lished in this column. It is the very thing to encourage boys and girls who do not feel like pressing forward in the faca of what seems to be opposition. How many of the pupils in Anderson County desire to become "Junior Partners V THE TWO CEABS. "My dear," cried oat an old crab to her daughter one day, "Why do you sidle along in that awkward man? ner ? Why don't you go forward like other people?" "Well, mother," an Bwered the young crab, "it seemB to me that I go exactly like you do. Go first and Bhow me how and I will gladly fol- j low." ?JEiop. The fable of "The Two Crabs" has in it a fine lesson. We publish it for the lesson it teaches, and for the further pur? pose of getting as many of the pupils as will to write us letters bringing out the moral contained in the fable. What does it teach ? For the five best letters we will give each a book of standard re? citations. Children, let us hear from you. We heard a sermon not long since from the text "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." From this sermon we caught the idea, and fixed it in our mind, that the road to freedom is through the knowledge of the truth. Teachers, the way to be free from the failures and mistakes of life, is to know the truth. Notice please it is Me truth, not just any truth, or a truth, but the truth. If we only knew the truth of life and life's duty, it would make us free from many of the sins and blunders we make. PupilB, if we only would know the truth of our duty to our play? mates, our teachers and ourselves, how free we would often be from such rude? ness, disobedience and failures. Let us all know in school "the true aim is char? acter building." To build character it is essential that the teacher direct his work toward developing the thinking powers. The whole circle of knowledge is now called into requisition. Natural science should be taught in the schools from the very loweBt grades ; through nature their hearts and minds are expanded, and di? rected toward the wisdom and goodness of God. Cramming is a crime. It is only digested food that makes muscle; not what a man knows hut what be is and what be can do is the test of true education. Industrial training is all important. By it it our boys and girls are not only taught the principles that underlie many of the trades, but it is a most excellent mental discipline and is most conducive to the cultivation of the intentive faculty. Natural science should be a part of the teacher's prepa tion. To speak of mental culture as a result of a classical education and to in? sist upon it as necessary to the highest degree of mental culture is a mistake. There are but two books, the Bible and Nature, one written by the pen of inspi ratiou and the other by the finger of God. Teachers ?hould study God's works as manifest in bis nature and His will as revealed in the Scriptures if they would attain the highest degree of mental cul? ture. The mistake of the schools has boen ignoring God's work for man. How many of us can say "I know the truth and am free?" Study your lessons to know the truth in them. WARTED. There's a junior partner wanted Ry Will Succeed & Co., Who do a rushing business 'Way up in Fortune Row. I've seen their advertisement? '?No capital required;" But boys with pluck and courage Are just the kind desired. They want a boy who has no fear Of steady, plodding work; Who does not wait for luck or fate, Who scorns a task to shirk. Who slowly, surely digs his way Through problems hard a score, And still has grit and courage left To try as many more. Who takes each school-time lesson And makes it all his own ; Thus laying up his future On good foundation stone. Who does not wait for help to come From fairy, witch, or elf, But laying hold on Fortune's wheel Turns it around bimself. And if it grinds and will not move With all h;s care and toil. He rubs .acb shaft and gearing well With "Perseverance oil." Who knows that luck is but a myth, And faith is but a name; That plod and push and patience At last will win the game. And lad? like this are just the kind, For Will Succeed & Co., Who arc wanting junior partners 'Way up on Fortune Row. Selected. Buckle ns Arnica Salve The best salve in the world for Cutb' Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver Sores, 1 etter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skiu 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 Broi. ? The creature having the greatest number of distinct eyes is the chiton, a species of mollusk, in the shell of which has bseu found as many as eleven thou? sand separate and distinct eyee. TEN TEARS WITH TOBACCO. Kcsnlts of the experience of a Practical Planter. To ihc Editor of the Newa and Courier : Perhaps the easiest part in the manage? ment of a tobacco crop is that of culti? vation. If the plants have been careful? ly grown and tenderly set in well- prepar? ed laud, and tbe seasons are at all favor? able, the growth of the young weed is rapid and pleasing to bo behold. From this time on until maturity the planter has but to watch the fields closely, keep the land well stirred and protect the crop from the ravages of grass and weeds. Still those who have served long in the apprenticeship of growing the golden weed have discovered things to be done here and there which it is well for every planter to know. The experiences' of such men are valuable, and the writer has secured from two of the oldest and beet known planters in the South the gist of what tboy know on the subject of crop management. One of these, Major R. L. Ragland, of Virginia, perhaps the best known tobacco planter and seedman in the South, condeaseB his advice to plant? ers in the following language: "It is important to commence cultiva? tion soon after planting, to loosen the soil and start the plants growing. Just at this point many planters lail to do their duty, which no subsequent work can atone for. Early, rapid and thorough cultivation is necessary to produce first class tobacco. If the preparation has been thorough, thrice ploughing, followed each time with a hard hoe, will suffice for the crop. "For the first ploughing no implement is better than the wing coulter, the next best the cultivator or double shovel, which the coulter points. The second ploughing may be efFectually doue with the turning'plough or cultivator; if grassy use the first. The last ploughing is most effectually done with three fur* rowB with the single shovel?a furrow on each side?then splinting the middle with the third and last furrow. "Never scrape down tobacco with the hoe without putting back on the hill or bed as much dirt as is scraped down. This will prevent baking and save many plant should a dry spell follow the hoe working. "Any process which stirs the soil ef? fectually and often and keeps the plants free from grass and weeds will constitute good cultivation, no matter how and with what implement done. Old lands will require more work in cultivation than new and dark grades more than bright Short singletrees should bo used after the plants are half grown to prevent tearing and breaking the leaves." The other expert in tobacco crop man agement referred to is Col. Davis, of North Carolina, who for many years was the foremost tobacco planter in bis State, and one who has used bis pen wisely aud well in giving his fellow planters the benefit of his experience. Colonel Davis condenses his advice in the following paragraphs "The cultivation of the tobacco crop, though thorough, should be superficial? that is to say only the Burface soil should be stirred, the subsoil being left intact. "As uoon as the plant has taken root, which is shown by Its changing color, it should be worked with the hoe only by removing the crust of the hiil, and draw? ing loose earth around the plant. This destroys the first crop of grass and helps to destroy the cut worm. But if the land between tbe rows has become foul it should be ploughed with the bull tongue or shovel at the first working. "When the plantu have covered )the hills?say a breadth of twelve inches? they should be worked thoroughly with both plough and hoe. Thi3 ploughing should be with the bull tongue or shovel, using short singletrees, and running it close to the plants and throwing out the row with four or five furrows. If the land has become very foul a turning plough is preferable. With the hoe all tbe surface soil should be drawn into bills around the plants as at fii*3t This work ing is a lay-by with the plough, which should never be used after the plants have come to top. But later than this, should the land become foul, it should be scraped with the hoe only. Any vegeta tion which springs up after the plant has attained its growth does it no harm, but is beneficial rather in keeping tbe lower leaves from being sanded. But to the eye of the genuine farmer it is unsightly and is disadvantageous if a wheat crop is to follow. It had better be kept down to the last." With such comprehensive advice the planter need not go astray in the man? agement of his tobacco crop, so far as the cultivation is concerned. Care should be taken never to work tbe land when too wet, or sure damage to the plant will fol low. As already hinted above, the plan ter must also be watchful not to bruise the leaves of the growing plant. With new hands this precaution is necessary, as reckless hoeing or ploughing can do great damage to the crop. H. E. HABMAN. Winston, N. C. How's This? Wo offer ono hundred dollars for any caso of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by taking Hairs Catarrh Cure. P. J. CHENEY et CO., Props., Toledo, 0. We, tho undersigned, havo known P. J. Cheney for tho last 15 years, and be? hove hirn perfectly honorable in all busi? ness transactions, and financially ablo to cany out any obligations made by their firm. West & Tnunx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o. Waldimj, Kinnan it Marxist, Wholo salo Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is takon internally, acting directly upon tnu blood and rau oous surfaces of tho system. Testimo? nials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. ? The potato was introduced into Eu? rope from the Western hemisphere. His? tory has it that Christopher Columbus was the first European who ever tasted a potato, but the vegetable that he ate in 1192 and brought to Genoa was the sweet potato. The first potato grown East of the Atlantic Ocean was planted by Clau? dius in the bouatical gardens of Virginia in 3533. Sir Walter Raleigh found the potato in Virgiuia and took specimens back to England. SARGE PLUXKETT. The Ohl Man has Pity for tho Poor Toini People. A Hanta Constitution. Just a little of the gralituous advice which has been pouring out to the far? mers for so long a time may now bo turn? ed to the poor town brethren. Ho>v steadily and surely have we been drifting away from tho cldeu customs. And how steadily and surely has the current of trade, of industries and of population been pointing toward central? ization. There won't be but three or four?cities left in the United State under this system of concentration. Chicago butchers fur? nish Georgians their steaks and chops today, St. Louis and Cincinnati will fur? nish the bread, some other place will supply farm implements and vehicles and another place will concentrate on cloth and leather goods, and so on, till the whole business of the country will be centralized. This disposition first showed itself when the cross roads blacksmith and shoemaker and wagon maker began to flock to the towns. It was a steady current from the country to the towns, then from the smaller to the larger town, then from these larger town3 to the city, and now the smaller cities must drift on to greater ones, which will resolve at last into a concentration of trade and indus? tries that will force the current back and let it spread itself over the rural districts and all will be proud of being a country? man. What great hopes were builded upon the prospect of more echools and better schools, of more towns and bigger towns, of railroads and great inventions; all these things were looked forward to as if they were the salvation of the country and great coming opportunities; people run to meet it and took near cuts to get to it. The children were taught to believe that the plodding life of the farmer was a great hardship and the balance of the world had an easy life. How sadly mis? taken these ideas have proven you have only to look at the suffering and discon? tent that is rife in the land to be con? vinced. The railroads that were expect? ed to bring the world's products right to our doors to be had for a song have proven a disappointment to the masses. Meat and breadstuff's are higher and harder to get now than before. Meat that uster be driven through Georgia on foot and sold in towns at three cents a pound, now sells at ten cents brought here by fast freights. The old-time hog drover was not a very polished fellow but he sent sunshine into the poor homes by his liberality. Then the butchering was done in the town where the meat was to sell, and poor people were welcome to flock to the pens and get hogs' foett livers, melts, chitlings, all such as this, the poor could get just for nothing. Them were old ways in Georgia and it would be a blessing if the same old ways was here to-day. Who knows how many thousands of people there is to-day who are yearning for a return of the old-time customs? How many have strained through prime to old age in the hope that something would bring relief, but it comes not. Hope, the phantom that it is, pointed to the polish and accomplishments that was being dossed to the children by that great thing "opportunity," and held the old man up while the children were small, but steadily ?nd surely demands have grown, incomes have fallen off, and this hard winter weather finds many a family stuffed with big notions and with not a thing to keep the sifter going nor warmth to cheer the fireside. If there was ever a family that needs to be pitied it is the poor folks of town who have learned to crave modern style. When I thiuk of one of them as shiver? ing in this bad weather, it brings to mind the roaring fires of the country homes, the old-time country homes, where the bright blaze throwed out its light from the old fireplace, lending warmth to the great old room and making cheerful the maids who spun and the matrons who knit and the boys who scrambled over walnuts in the coruer and giving to the old folks a freedom from anxiety that poor people of the towns have never known. What a contrast is there in these old time fireside scenes as compared with the poor folks of the towns. There is no cracking of walnuts, no zooning of the spinning wheel, no plyingjof the knitting needle. A kerosene lamp gives out a dim light for tho young people to read by and the oid folks droop over the coke in the grates. Anxiety is impressed upon the faces of the old and a "banging" of the hair in paper rolls i3 the only indi? cation of a thought for to-morrow among the young. Calico can be bought so cheap now, is the argument, cheaper than they can make it, and they can buy stockings that reach away above the knee lor ten cents, and get them ringed, streaked and striped at the boot. A wo? man's pretty stockings is a thing sweet to look upon, but the white, homo knit and home spun aud a cotton Hiring for a gar? ter answered every purpose and kept the ten cents at homo. The boys of these days must join clubs for an opportunity to exercise themselves. It tickleB me to see them struggling with great dumb bells to create a muscle and jumping poles in the gymnasiums for the exercise. These same boya couldn't be persuaded to go out and hoe a tquart,* in the garden for a breakfast appetizer? that would bo work and not high toned enough. And the girls mu3t go off to industrial schools to learn the art of cooking and housekeeping in theso days. They could not be persuaded to go out into the kitchen and rub and scrub to help their tired mothers?that is too commou. But I can tell you all we have got to get back to the old ways, the signs of the limes are pointing that way aud tbe quicker it is done the better it will be for all. The young men who have developed their muscles in the city gymnasiums must go out and swing the ax and follow the plow along side of the country young man who had sense enough to stay away from town; and the town girls may aB well understand that it is not a question as to "which oue of tho cows gives butter r but know that it take3 many a . i, up and down, up and down, of the churn daBber to enjoy the milk or to set tho table with butter. She must arise in the morning and go to tho cow pen and stand abrjg side of the country girl who thinks nothing of grabbing a young heifer by the ts.il and frailir.g thunder outen her with ?, beard. There is but few of these country girls and boys, but what few there is should thank their stars that it is so. As sure as time rolls on the white population hf;s got to return to the country. It will ba mighty hard on them to do it, but it's got to come and speedily. There are three men to every town situation in the land. Of the mechanics the e :reets are full fit them, the roads from town to town ar^ dotted with them, the shops are over run and the technological schools are still turning them out. The professions are crowded and the mercantile business h overdone, in fact, farming is all that will be left in a few moro years, and I think that poor man the smartest who gets to the country and gets over it the quickest. Sarge Plunkett. Going Back to Georgia, I met a sturdy-looking young farmer coming out of the Texas and Pacific ticket office yesterday with a ticket in hia band. When he asked me to lend him my pencil for a moment it furnished me an opportunity to draw him into a con? versation. "Going home to spend the holidays?" I asked. "Yes, sir," he said, sb his eyes gleamed with joy. "Yes," he continued, "I am going home in the morning?back to Georgy. I came to Dallas County fifteen years ago and have been workin' bard ever seuce. Fva got me a good farm now, but times i3 awful hard and money is scarcer than I ever seed it afore. Five years ago I begin to think about going back to see the old folks?paw and maw isygetting ole now?but somehow or other I didn't think I was able and I put it off, waitin' for better times. I thought sho' that I was goin' last year, but cotton got so low I couldn't afford it, so I put it off until this year. Well, sir, cotton is lower now than I ever seed it afore, and it keeps a getting lower and lower. So this year I allowed that if I waited till next year I mought get nothin' for my cotton, and then I couldn't go at all." "I expect you will have a great time," I observed. "Yes, sir; I will be the happiest man you ever saw. I can see my ole mammy now settin' down at night by the fire, and an ole hickory backlog on the dog irons, knitting some socks for sister Jinnie's children, and paw, he's smoking his ole pipe, and they are talking about me coming home. Lord, just to hug my ole mother again?it makes me feel good to think about it. And to see that ole house where I uster live I I remember how I uster lay awake of nights and look out tbe winder at the stars and think about comin' to Texas, and now I lay awake of nights thinkin' about home. Thinkin' about the ole spring down the hill and the gourd banging on tbe rock; I can see the old path just as plain as if I was there now. Wonder if things have changed much around there, anyhow? Wonder if paw has ever fixed the old paster gate ? When I git back I'm going rabbit bunting and 'possum bunting. I know where all the rabbits and 'possums are. I'll gil there in time to help at bog killin'. I used to do the riddin' when I whs a boy, and when I got bigger paw let me scrape. But yon bet I'll get lots of souse and liver pie, and maw cooks back? bone better'u anybody I ever saw. They made a plenty of 'simmon beer, too, and that's tbe best stuff I ever drunk, except the water out of that old spring. "Then I'll go over to Shady Grove Church about a mile and a half from home, and see where my sister and two brothers are buried. Sister died just after I was born, and my brothers, they was killed in the war. Upstairs in the closet is two gray jackets and two old muskets that's been there ever since I can remem? ber. When I was a little feller I recol? lect seeing my mother going to that closet. Every time she'd look at them old coats she would down and cry, and I uster cry, too, just because she did. I expect this will be tbe last time I'll ever git to see the old folks alive. Maybe next year twon't make any difference whether cotton brings a good price or uot. Goodbye, sir, here's your pencil." The last reflections brought a aad ex? pression to the young man's face. "I expect this will be the last time I'll ever get to see the old folka alive," he said. Ah, yes! The hairs on those aged brows are now very white. Father and mother, sitting around the heanhstone, look back over the years that have gone and know that soou they will join the dust of their children iu tbe churchyard. Theie are many of these old loved ones back there now, wondering if that boy in Texas will come and see them once more before they join that innumerable caravan that has gone before. There is many a boy in Texas, who, failing to spend this Christ? mas at home with the old folks, will never have an opportunity again. When the foliage of spring brightens the earth and the birds are aingiugagain, someday the message will cume that mother has fallen aulcep aud that her last words voiced a blessing upon the absent boy.? Dallas, Texas, News. Modern Miracles. A singer for breath was distressed, And the doctors all said 3he must rest, But she took G. M. D., For her weak lungs, you see, And now she can sing with tho best. An athlete gave out on a run, And he feared his career was quite done, G. M. D., pray observe, Gavo back his lost nerve, And now he can lift half a ton. A writer, who wrote for a prize, Had headache and pain in the eyes; G. M. D. was the spell, That made him quite well, Aud glory before him now lies. These are only examples of the daily triumphs of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, in restoring health and re? viving wasted vitality. Sold by ali druggists. ? The tramp is a man who has tried nearly all the wal ks of life. n V UNCLE SAM'S SILYER MINE. Two Hniidrcd Millions of Silver Dollars Stored Away?How This Princely Trr.ns uro is Constantly^Guardod. E. P. Speer, in Augusta Chronicle. Washington, D. C., Jan. 15,1892. Tbo new subsidiary coins, halves quarters and dimes, are beginning to circulate quite freely in trade channels The designs adopted for this change money is quite pretty and show great improvement in an artistic sense over the old issues. It will requiro seme years for the old coins to entirely dis? appear. As fast as they are received at a sub treasury or at the main treasury tbey are stamped with a die, condemned and thrown iuto the bullion scrap heap from which they ultimately find their way to the smelling furnaces of the various mints. A Treasury official esti? mates that there j,are $41,000,000 of halves, quarters and dimes of the old de? signs now in circulation. Some of them were minted only last year, but no par? tiality will be shown to these. All will be condemned as fast as the government comes into possession of them. It is not generally known that only $61,000,000 of standard silver dollars are in circulation. The government is un? able to pay these heavy coins out. People prefer the paper currency, se? cured by their deposit- in Treasury vaults. It is only in the agricultural districts of the South and West that the silver dollar is acceptable. In the great trade centres the people refuse it because of its weight and receive coin certificates in lieu of them. a mine of great wealth. In a great underground vault in a court yard of the Treasury building there are Btored to-day nearly $200,000,000 of these silver dollars. Time and again the government officials have Bought to get them into circulation, but they drift back and paper certificates are exchanged for them. The building of this immense silver storehouse was no small undertaking and it cost the government many thousands, It is constructed of steel and hard bricks and the inner part is seperated into cells similar to the cells of a jail?the par? titions being latticed with fiat steel bars. As a matter of course this gloomy cav? ern is well guarded. In every portion of its walls and flooring delicate wires and other apparatus are introduced con? nected with the alarm system of the building. The removal of a single brick or the intrusion of an instrument of any character would serve to notify the alert watchers above that the treas? ure was in jeopardy. At one period all of this silver wealth was secured in bags containing $1,000 each and to each chamber or cell, was alloted $10,000,000, but owing to the dampness of the vault the bags quickly decayed and so wooden boxes have been substituted, which are piled one upon another like a merchant arranges his wares. how it is all guarded. On of the interesting features of the great Treasury Department is its guard system. The stranger rarely notices the fact that all the entrance ways have in addition to their ordinary wooden shut? ters, heavy iron doors of chilled steel through which openings is left for the purpose of defence. At the main por? tal the watch room is located, and in this chamber are arranged switch r oards representing the fire and burglar sys? tems. Here, too, an officer is constantly on watch and these boards are his es? pecial charge. Grouped in gun racks like those of a military armory, are for? ty deadly Winchesters and as many re? volvers and short swords. These are numbered and each member of the treasury watch is instructed to instantly lay his hands on his weapons in case of emergency. In addition to these ordinary military precautions there are other means of defence. In all the corridors of the building at regular distances there are water plugs, so arranged that they may be used as the means of fight? ing a mob as well as the fiery element. These plugs have double connections, one with the water system of the city, and the other with the water in the boilers of the great engines in the base? ment of the treasury building. In the event a mob should march upon the treasury the brigade of firemen would be instantly drafted to aid in repelling it. From the upper stories of the building it would be easy for them to send volumes of scalding water into the streets below, and it is estimate d that no mob would withstand euch punishment very long. how honey is destroyed. Some years ago the Government peo? ple destroyed all mutilated paper cur? rency by burning it In one of the basement rooms the old bills after being duly counted and punched were thrown into a retort or furnace, and a fan was started to intensify the heat so that the inceneration might be complete. Even with this precaution the plan did not work and it was no unusual occurrence for citizens to pick up pieces of half charred notes blown through the chim? ney stack, and offer them at the Treas? ury counters for redemption. Finally some genius suggested a macerator and such a machine was rigged up and is still in use. If the reader has ever visit? ed a steam laundry he has doubtless ob served that washing is accomplished by means of metal cylioders which are filled with clothing, and then revolved at great speed. So with the Treasury macerator. It is Hilled with old worn out bills, after which it is carefully locked and sealed by a committee and then steam is applied inside, and after spinning at a frightful speed for thirty minutes, the old bills were crushed into pulp. The refuse is then turned over to the engineer, and he deftly manufactures it into toys, which are sold most gener? ally to stangers who are in search of curios. It would require more space than is usually allotted to this letter to detail all the wonders of the United States Treasury building. It is a vast work shop with nearly three thousand labor? ers, men and women, who are daUy in nicely is the whole system adjusted thr-t a loss of a penny i3 an unusual occur? rence, and the loas of a large sura is rendered quite impossible. Probably in no single building in the world is so much actual wealth assembled. A Social Element With the Lost. Much is spoken and written about tho social element with the saved in heaven. No doubt this will be one of the joys ex? perienced. But the fact that there will be a social element with the lost, aud that this will add to their punishment and misery, is not often thought of. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ said of those whom He shall place ou His lefc band in that great day: "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment." Just what the nature of that punishment will be, we may not now fully know. But we do know that it will be severe and without end. And wo know, too, that one element in the misery of the lost will be their associa? tion with devils, and those that will be like them in character. All the dwell? ers in that wretched abode will be un? holy. They have no love to God, nor to another. There will be no benevo? lent feelings in any heart. All will be "hateful and hating one another." Malice will reign in every heart. There will be no sympathy, no kindness, no good will. All will be derelict iu their nature and in all their conduct. There will be gathered all tho oflscouring of the earth, all the vile and the vicious, all that indulged in all sorts of wicked? ness. The wretched dens of infamy and of iniquity will pour their inmates into that prison of despair, where they will be mutual tormenters, and use their power to augment each other's wretch? edness forever and ever. Were there no other source of misery this would be enough. This would cause every cu'p^to overflow. This would be a heltHndeed?a punish? ment greater than could be borne. Pres? ident Dwight, in his sermon on the Fal? len Angels, says: "Perhaps there is not a more affecting, more overwhelming consideration to a serious mind than this : that evil men will hereafter be confined in tbe same habitation with these hateful beings who are possessed of a disposition to do everything which is injurious to God and their fellow creatures, and to perpe? trate all the crimes dictated by malice, ciuelty, deceit and revenge. To be im? prisoned in this world with a collection of abandoned villains; to be -bated and despised, deceived and betrayed, op pressed and insulted, wounded to the soul with unceasing cruelty and treach? ery, and broken down with scorn and insolence, even for our present and mo? mentary life, would, I think, be a lot sufficiently dreadful to lacreate the soul with agony. What then must be the nature and misery of a confinement with these powerful, active, sagacious beings, whose minds are all malices, fraud and cruelty, and whose endless being is only a succession of rage, revenge and de? spair I" We wonder not that it should be the earnest prayer of the Psalmist: "Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men." If we would avoid that misery we must here cast iu our lot with tbe peo? ple of God. It must be the language of our hearts: "your people shall be my people, and your God shall be my God." We ourselves must be tbe people of God. Iu the separation at the great day, each and every one will be put with his own class, and his everlasting abode will be in his own proper place?the right? eous with the righteous, and the unholy with the unholy; the friends of God with His friends, and His enemies with His enemies.?Presbyterian Banner. A Mute in the White House. Washington, January 12?Conspic? uous among the callers at the White House on Saturday to attend Mrs. Harri? son's first afternoon public reception of the season was a little girl who is deaf, dumb and blind. She was presented to Mrs. Harrison and the ladies assisting her as "little Edith Thomas, of Boston." Being deprived of the gifts of speech, hearing and sight, Edith has been taught to receive information through the sense j of touch, and ehe has cultivated the sys? tem to a phenomenal degree, although but 12 years old. 3 |It was observed that her companion held on to her nght hand constantly and by a code of signals, telegraphic in their character, transmitted to her a descrip? tion of what was going on around her, what was said about her, and also what she was thinking of persona and things about her. She appeared greatly pleased wheu Mrs. Harrisoon took her little hand, pressed it cordially, then placed in it a beautiful rose from the bouquet she was holding. In return the little girl expressed, through her interpreter, pro? found gratitude, and asked permission to look around the other apartments. Mrs. Harrison summoned Capt. Disbmoreand requested him to show Miss Edith into tbe State dining room and tbe conserva? tory. She could not hear the beautiful music of the Marine Band nor could she see the lovely flowers in tho conservatory, but her faco wore an expression of supreme joy wheu informed of the courtesy ex? tended to her. In tho State dining room, which was used for a cloak room for the ladies who wore assisting at the recep? tion, it was with delight that Edith was permitted to feel some of the magnificent < wraps of fur, silk and other fabrics, spread out upon the dining table. She examined all tbe ornaments in the room, including the statuary on tbe side table? a miniature of the Jackson statue in La fetto Park. She quickly discovered the peculiarity of that wouderful piece of sculpture, which is tho equal balance of the horse on his hind legs, without any other support. At her home in Boston she is regarded as a prodigy because of her remarkable accomplishments aud wonderful memory. She writes fluently and her descriptive powers of what she has learned and the impressions formed of tho various places she visits are aston? ishing. Her replies to her companion are made by the one-hand deaf and dumb sign language, All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Anger is like rain, it breaks itself upon that on which it falle. ? There ia not a native-born white grandmother in all Colorado. ? There ia many a silent, throbbing corn beneath a nice dress boot. ? "Convince a man againat his will" and you will have him to whip. ? Thirty-four pounds of raw sugar make twenty-one pounds of refined. ? To keep your own secret is wisdom, to expect others to keep it is folly. ? The man who never gives up misses the answers to some awfully good conun? drum?. ? There's many a man who would run away if he did not have to lake himself along. ? We are rocked when young and clubbed when we grow old. 'Tis a cruel world. ? It ia strange, but true, that when a man is short of brains ho is generally long on collars. ? You can't argue with a bigot with? out agreeing with him in thinking that you're a fool. ? A trial convinces the most skeptical. - Carefully prepared, pleasant to the tasto, Do;Witt's Cough and Consumption Curo is a valuable remody. Wilhito & W?hlte; ? A check for over $25,000,0000, paid for the Kimberly diamond mines, is said to be the largest check ever drawn. ? Don't pen missives to your beat girl on postal cards. She may have a suspi? cion that you do not care two cents for her. ? You may cough and cough and cough and cough and cough, but you willjnot if you take Do Witt's Cough and Consump? tion Cure. Wilhito <fc Wilhite. ? Women know men better than men know one another; probably for the reason that it is women who marry them. ? This world is so crowded that you can't pat one man on the back without stepping on another man's toes when you " do it. ? What measures are you taking to stop that cough? Let us suggest Do Witt's Cough and Consumption Cure. It is infallible. Wilhito & Wilhite. ? Twenty one lawyers in the United States have their wives for business part ners. Double barreled lawyers are com? ing to the front. ? A woman of Memphis has jwt had fifteen corsets stolen from her. This looks as if the corset were quite extensively worn, all opinions to the contrary not? withstanding. ? "An honest pill is the noblest work of the apothecary." De Witt's Little Early Risers curo constipation, billious ness and sick headache. Wilhito & Wil? hite. ? The purchase of Alaska has already proved to be a pretty good speculation,, goods being exported from that country last year to the Rvalue of $1,000,000 in excess of the price paid to Russia for the territory. ? Pennsylvania has twelve towns or postoffices with very peculiar names, viz: Stumptown, Bulskin, Shintown, Jugtown, Puckerty, Sin, Sis, Scrubgrass, Her's, Man's Choice, Maiden's Choice, and Bird, in Hand. ? It is an established fact that Do Witt's Little Early Riser's have an enormous sale, and why ? Simplj' because they are plesant in taking and happy in results. A pill for the multitude. Wilhito ds Wilhite. ? When once a home is regarded as only a place to eat, drink and sleep in, the work is begun that ends in disap? pointment. Young people must have fun and relaxation comewhere. If they don't find it at their own hearth-stone, it will be sought at other and less profitable places. ? Don't repress the buoyant spirit of your children. Half an hour oLwerrf ment around the firelight of a home blots out many a care and annoyance daring the day, and the best safeguard they can take with them into the worfd is the un? seen influence of a bright little domestic circle. ? Our experience covers many ills, many pills and many bills. Our ills are smaller, our pills are smaller and our bille are smaller when wo uso Do Witt's Littls Early Risers. Wilhite & Wilhite. ? The young king of Servia is one of the best educated boys in the country, and at 15 years old is admittedly a mar? vel in mathematics. But he doesn't have much fun, for his tutors rarely leave him and he has small chances of knowing anything about the good times which or? dinary boys enjoy. ? The wheat crop of Kansas would supply a population of 13,000,000, or^ one-fifth of the population of the coun? try. It would take 45,000 cars of 400 bushels each to haul the wheat grown in Kansas last year. No other State in the Union has ever produced so much sur? plus wheat. ? Ignorance of the merits of De Witt's Little Early Risers is a misfortune. These little pills regulate the liver, curo head? ache, dyspepsia, bad breath, constipation and biliousness. Wilhito <fc Wilhito. ? A Maine weman sent to the house of her nearest neighbor and requested the loan of a new pair of ecissors. The neighbor was uaing them and sent back word accordingly. The neighbor was not to be rebuffed so easily, and presently her little girl appeared the second time to say: "Mother wants to know if you will lend her a quarter to buy a pair of ecissors with ?" ?The practice of "trotting" a child on the knee of the nurse or the mother, though it has the sanction of long prac? tice, Las not the sanction of common sense, and should never be indulged in, especially with infants. Treating the adult body in the ratio of correspor *'ng strength, the exeicise would be about equivalent to being ourselves churned up and down on the walking beam of a good sized steam engine. ? 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 uso Do Wilt's Little Early Risers, tho lamous little pills. Wilhito it Wilhito. ? A Mrs. Johnson, of Kansas City, predicted that the world would come to an end on the 24th, the day before Christ? mas, but Gabriel failed to blow his horn, and the expectant crowd are still on terra firma. Some rascally dealers took ad? vantage of the excitement and sold the negroes ascension robes a^d wings with . which they were ready to fly to he The colored people have a good stock of wings and ascension robes on hand which they will probably appropriate to earthly uses,