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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1892. VOLUME XXVI.- -NO. 32 THE HAS BEEN STRUCK Prices Cut in Half! i 11 ter Goods to be Closed Out make room for Spring stock. THESE ARE FACTS, p r.-And we want you to come and see for C t. yourself and get some of the A.I2STS WE ARE OFFERING. Don't delay, bnt come while the good things are going. Money saved is money made. W. A. CHAPMAN, Agent, Next to Masonic Temple. NOW IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! On and after January 1,1892, all Heavy Winter Boots anil Shoes in our Estalstaent Will be Reduced from 10 to 20 per Cent in Price. />OME early and secure a REAL BARGAIN, for we will surely offer you one. We \_j cannot and will not carry over Winter Goods from one season to another. Shoes ire not like wine?tbey do not improve with age. Hence we will not allow goods to lay upon our shelves from season to season. We need the money to buy Spring Goods, and the jroom 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 Gase? of Boots. Remoniber, that all Shoes bearing our firm name, or the name of the Manufactu? rers, are fcuarauteed to give a reasonable amount of wear. We will exchange Shoes or refund the fall amount o.f money paid to all parties not satisfied wath their purchases, provided they return them to us immediately unsoiled. DISCRETION, l JAS. P. GOSSETT & CO., Under Hotel Chiquola, Anderson, S. C. ENERGY, FIDELITY, > INSURE 8UCCESS WAITED I AOS, Hll.ES ?od BEESWAX by PEOPLES & BURRfSS, at guoii prices. SECOND HAND STOVES At g<>.-d or better than most of the new one* now offered yon, which we are offering at a low price. We bope you will bear in mind that we deal in? Tin, China Crockery, Glassware, And EVERYTHING io the Houit- furnishij.g Hoe, mm) at prices that cannot be beat by any one. Price elsewhere, then cum? to ?r? uh and you will be convinced. TIN ROOFING. GRAVEL ROOFING and GUTTERING, Promptly dune by experienced men. , Yotirn very truly, PEOPLES & BURRISS. LADIES' STORE! KEEPING PACE WITH THE HARD TIMES! For the next sixty days our Mammoth Stock is at the " mercy of our customers. OoME ONE, COME ALL, and get the BARGAINS. The Stock muBt be re duced to make room for our Spring Goods. Wishing one and all a happy and prosperous New Year, Respectfully, MISS 3LIZZIE WILLIAMS. DON'T FAIL TO VISIT 11 mm k DEALERS IN i DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS and CONFECTIONERIES. * J?~ We are Belling Goods CHEAP, and will treat you right. Give us a call. Yours truly, li?? JE. W. BRO^N & SON) *3SR All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. 0. memory gems. One example is worth a dozen pre? cepts. Your example in the school room and on the play ground, may inculcate les? sons that your precepts may never be able to eradicate. "Actions speak louder than words." Be ready, teacher, for you know not at what hour we may enter your doer. The averages have been very small since Xmae, owing to the very severe weather. On the 29th of this month would be a good time to teach the causes of leap year. _ We want a meeting of the County Teachers' Association in the near future. Every teacher should attend it. Washington's birth day is the 22nd of this month. We suggest that this would be a good time to have a Washington's Day, jn which the history of our coun? try in which he took part should be brought out. One teacher says the patent desks are about equal to an assistant teacher, with ! the old slab benches. Every teacher who has them is delighted with them. We are ready to assist other schools in securing them at a very low rate. We publish this week several ans ivera to the questions asked. Also we give two articles on the lesson of "The Two Crabs." We want a great many letters on this lesson, and we trust the boys and girls will write us. It is a good subject for a long letter. We have now ready for distribution blanks for the teacher's monthly reports that we believe will give entire satisfac? tion. In filljog out these blanks teachers should insert the m.me of the school, the name of the school district and fill in every blank. We do not ask any un? necessary questions in this blank, and hence we want all we ask for. We have taken considerable trouble to aid the teachers, and in that way facilitate the work of the trustees, and we trust to get in return complete reports. Over the words, "For white or colored?" write white if it is a white school; if a colored school write colored. In filling out pay certificates leave the blanks for amount of money for trustees to fill. But fill out every place you cau. Teachers should not leave all the blanks to be filled by the School Commissioner. questions answered. Roberts, S. C, Jan. 29,1892. Mr. C. Wardlaw?Dcar Sir: In an? swer to your question of last week I tend as follows: Cause of war of 1812 nraB? 1. England claimed the right of stopping American vessels on the seas to search for seamen of English birth, and press them into the British navy. 2. The British emroissariea aroused the Indians against the Americans. The impreatment of our seamen and the capture of our ships continued. The British refused to relinquish their course, so finally war was declared against Great Britain June 19, 1812. Respectfully, Grace Gilmer. Mr EniTOB: We, as school girls, take great pleasure in answering your questions: The cause of the war of 1812 was that several years before it begun France, beaded by the great Napoleon, was at war with England. The United States said they wuuld he neutral and would not side with either nation, but Napoleon would not have American ships trade with the British. England, also, was not willing to have American ship3 trade with the French. Napoleon made an order closing British ports to American vessels, and England did the same with regard to the French ports. England pretended that American vessels were not obeying this order, and so British men of war begun capturing them. Hundreds of American ships were thus taken. Besides this, England said that she bad a right to search American vessels to see if they had on board of them any Bailors belong* ing to Great Britain. On this pretence our ships were searched and many seamen were taken from them and forced to serve in the British navy. In some cases the sailors taken had been natural? ized in this country, others were Ameri? can born citizens. The English naval officers behaved in a very insolent way. At last the American Government would not put up with this high handed con? duct any longer, and in 1812 declared war against England. James Madison, the fourth in the list, was then President. We are in the same class and like to study Geography the best of any study we have, because we like to study of all human races and their habits, and of other climates as well as our own. Your school girls, Mamie Callaham, Josie Spearman, Friendship School. "THE TWO CRABS." Piercetown, S. 0., Jan. 30,1892. Mr. Wardlaw?Dear Sir: I noticed your offer in Ibis week's Intelligencer of five copieB of a book of standard reci? tations for the five beet letters bringing out the moral of one of iEsop's fables. My version is this : Wo Bhould be very careful of the example we Bet others, especially people younger than ourselves. The very beet way iu all the world to lead others in the right path is to walk that path ourselves. I am not. attending any school now, but went to Mies Nettie Hall, at Cross Roads, last summer. Very respectfully, Oba Smith. Piercetown, S. C. Belton, S. C, Jan. 31, 1892. Mr. Editor: My opinion in regard what "The Two Crabs" teaches is tbitt Parents need not think that their chil? dren will go in the way they should, unless the parents are going right them selves. The parents>hould go first and show their children the way, and then they will gladly and willingly follow. My teacher is Miss Anna Grnbbs. Yours respectfully, Madge Wardlaw. Recent Electrical Device?. In view of the present rapid develop? ment of speed in ocean steamers it is in? teresting to note on which still greater improvements is looked for. Oberlin Smith, in a recent lecture, has pro? pounded the idea that the ships of the future will probably be driven by elec? tricity by means of a simple rotating ar? mature fixed on the shaft of the screw itself. The source of the electric current for driving the motors of the prospective three or four day Atlantic liners, Mr. Smith considers, would probably be i storage batteries planted in the extreme bottom and along the whole length of hold, where they will serve as excellent ballast, or else the current will be genera? ted by some process from coal or other fuel, either burned or otherwise chemically disorganized during the passage. All is not gold that glitters, and many and wide spreading as are the benefits conferred upon mankind by the electric light, it appears that there are conditions under which its use is fraught with grievous inconvenience and distress. This has been shown by the institution of a recent suit against an electric light? ing company by a householder. Two arc lights of the company threw their bright beams all through the night over the show windows of a store on the ground floor of the house. The lamps, however, fill with a flood of light the rooms of the flat above, in which the suitor resides, much to his disgnst. A third nuisance consisted in the my? riad of moths, bugs and insects which the intense light attracted. The suitor claimed that he had suffered tortures during the hot weather. If the windows were left open to admit the cool evening air, clouds of insects drawn by the bright light, swooped into the room. If the windows were closed and the blinds were pulled down to keep out the light and the moths the room became hot and almost intolerable. The extent to which electricity is being used in legitimate medical practice is rapidly on the increase, and many of the hew devices for applying it have distinct merit. A recently invented apparatus fox the cure of deafness comprises a bat tery, a belt, an electrode supporter on the belt and shaped to rest on the ear, an opening on one side to receive the ear and connections between the electrode and the battery. This provides a conve? nient and efficient mode of receiving the current, which can be applied in finely graduated strength. Dentistry owes, much to electricity for having largely added to its possibilities in the way of skillful and scientific prac? tice. It is found that many of the flaws which mark incipient decay in teeth are so minute as to be invisible in ordinary Iigbt. The importance of being able to detectthese minute and tell-tale indica? tions before serious mischief has been worked by decay is evident, and for means of accomplishing this the dentist hau had recourse to the electric light. By this means the dentist is enabled to explore with thoroughne?b every corner of the mouth, and ho perceive instantly the slightest shade of change from the normal color of idh teeth. One of the greatest enemies of the sugar planter u darkness, or the imper? fect light in which most of the operations incidental to ibw night work of taking off his crop are uecefesarily carried on. In the boiling house where the juice of the cane is boiled down to sugar, the overseer keeps watch and ward day and night, knowing that if he relaxes his watchfulness even for a moment the negro laborers will promptly take ad vautage of the chance and fill their bas? kets and pans with sugar or boiling "liquor," and the estate will suffer by that amount. All the strain on the resources of a sugar estate is to be removed by the in? troduction of electricity. The enter? prising proprietor of a down South plan? tation is the first to realize the impor? tance of this weighty actor, and he is in? stalling a plant which will give him light wherever he wants it. Twenty five lampB will be used for lighting up the sugar house and the field and the works will be as light as day. The farmer has had another resource added to the list of devices for controll? ing wild or refractory stock. All he now has to do to insure the safety of cattle is to connect all his wire fence to an in? duction coil and a primary battery. A vigorous current is thus maintained, and if any of the cattle should touch the wire with the idea of breaking the fence or otherwise they will experience a new sensation, which will insure caution so far as future negotiations with the wire fence are concerned.?Philadelphia Press. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fra? ternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treat? ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in? ternally, actiog directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, there? by destroying the foundation of the dis? ease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprie? tors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails "to cure. Send for list of testimonials. . F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. HrjA,.Sold by Druggists, 75c. ? A fur establishment in Chicago has just completed for a feminine resident an ulster in which are 125 mink skins and tails. TEN YEARS WITH TOBACCO. Results ot the experience of a Practical Planter. To the Editor of the News and Courier : There have been great changes in the tobacco curiog process within the past five years and changes along this line are still being made. The old system of cur? ing was to go in to _ the field when about half the leaves on the stalk were ripe, cut down the entire plant and hurry it off to the curing barn. Here the planter had a hard time trying to cure the stalk after the leaves wer6 cured, which usual? ly require so much heat that the oil cells in the leaf burst and .the oil escaped in the highly heated atmosphere of the barn. This system of curing is still in vogue in many of the older tobacco sec? tions of Virginia and North Carolina, but wherever tobacco growing finds a foothold in the new sections the new system is usually adopted and with ex? cellent results. This has been the case with the people around Florence, who are now growing tobacco and making more money out of it than is made in any of the old tobacco sections of other States. The modern system briefly told is this: As soon as the bottom leaves on your to? bacco begins to yellow, which is likely to occur in June, your hands are put in the field with open flat baskets and gather off the ripe leaves one by one, and lay them carefully in the baskets. Under the old way these bottom leaves were taken off and thrown away. As soon as you have gone over the entire field the leaves are strung on patented sticks, having wires attached upon which the leaves are strung. When these sticks are filled with leaves they are taken to the curing barn and placed in the racks.. This pro? cess of gathering the leaves goes on nntil you have the barn well-filled, when the eurer begins his work. In a week's time more leaves will be ripe and a second picking is necessary, and so on through the entire season of ripening. The first leaves gathered will be email, getting larger as you approach the mid? dle of the stalk. After that they get smaller until the tips or tops are reached. This system of plucking the leaves as they ripen has many advantages over that of cutting the stalk and curing the leaves thereon. As the lower leaves are taken off those remaining ripen much faster, thus lessening the danger of frost. Under the old system the cutting of the stalk always insured a lot of green tobac ro, which, is generally worthless. All the leaves on a tobacco plant rarely ripen at the same time and hence it is impossi? ble, under the old way, to save all the leaves. When the barn is filled with tobacco the eurer begins his work. The fires are started up, which are to be kept going until every leaf is thoroughly cured. No definite rule can be laid down as to the time required, as different classes of to? bacco require longer or shorter periods. The eurer must size up the size and qual? ity of the leaf, and regulate the heat ac? cordingly. As a general rule the following formu? la can be taken as a guide, but frequent? ly it will require modification: First, The yellowing process. Let ther? mometer stand at 9U? from twenty to thirty hours. Second. Fixing the color. Make the following changes: 100? four hours; 100? to 110?, two hours; 110? to 120?, four to eight hours. Third. Curing the leaf?120? to 125?, six to eight hours. The curing process is the most particu? lar of all the work about a tobacco crop. It requires time for one to master the art, and even then the closest watchfulness is required while the process goes on. Let? ting the heat go a few degre s too high will often destroy the entire barn, or let? ting it remain at a certain figure will of? ten cause heavy loss. For this reason new planters should not attempt curing themselves until they have gotten an in? sight of the work and mastered some of its details, at least. In the old tobacco Coanties of North Carolina and Virginia good curers can be had in the fall at moderate prices. Along this line, however, a word of caution is in order. The increase in to? bacco culture southward has recently created quite a demand for tobacco cul? ture in South Carolina and Georgia and many worthless fellows have entered the business. The planter should be careful to get only such men as come with cre? dentials which can be verified and trust? ed. In many of the older sections good tobacco croppers can be had at reasona? ble wages, and quite a number of planters in the Florence section have found it an advantage to secure this experienced la? bor for their first crop of tobacco. Many North Carolina tenants have thus become permanent residents of the northern part of South Carolina. H. E. Harmax. Winston, N. C. Result or the Hard Times. The stringency in the money market and the general financial depression which iB effecting the farmers directly and through them the railroads and otn er businesses, is at last striking at the bead centre of all. Several times already in mentioning the bad condition of the railroads, the fact that the purchase of fertilizers by the farmers had absolutely ceased bad been referred to. Last night a well-known phosphate man, just from the mines, said that near? ly all the large land mining companies had suspended operations in^this State, and only those which had Italian miners employed under contract for a specified time were Btill at work. These compa? nies, he says, have profited by last year's losses, and have decided to reduce the supply until the demand is equal to it. One company that minad 30,000 tons last year has taken out but 18,000 this year, and can find a market for only one third of it. He regards the outlook as very discouraging.--Columbia Slate, February 1. ? You don't want a torpid liver. You don't want a bad complexion. You don't w/;int a bad broath. You don't want a ?fieadache. Then use De Witt's Little Early Risers, the lamous little pills. Wilhite L?^^it0' SARGE FLUNKETT. The War Talk Causes Him to Grow Re? miniscent. Atlanta OoJislitution. Such patriotism as inspired "Give me liberty or give me death 1" has passed away with other old time things. Everything is business now. There has been no enthusiastic patriot? ism in this Chilean war matter. "Will it help business ?" "Will it relieve the pressure?'' These are the thoughts that control!. How different was it in 1860, when the Southern folks?men, women and chil? dren?throwed up their hata, and carried torches and wore cockades, and the air was full of auch sougs as: Dixie forever; she never will be lost; Down with the eagle and up with the cross ; We'll rally 'round the flag, We'll rally once again; Shouting the battle cry of freedom. We'll rally 'round the flag ; We'll rally once again ; ?houting the battle cry of freedom. We will never see such patriotic en? thusiasm again; never snch a country again. The women are the ones to keep your eyes upon when you are weighing senti? ment. When women are not enthused for a cause, the cause will drag. What soldier would step high and feel big as the band plays "The girl I left behind me," when he knows the girl has not his cause at heart ? The proud step and the roaring yells that were always present under the inspiring strains of "Dixie," was because of the devotion of Southern women. Qod bless 'em, their like will never be seen again, and the coming generations will never know what they suffered nor how they should be appreciated. I know much of their suffering and much of their loneliness, for it fell upon me to go upon many an unpleasant mis? sion to inform them of things that wrung their hearts. When their loved ones were killed :t often fell to my lot to break the news, and it was in the fulfillment of these sad missions that I witnessed the most heart rending scenes. Fresh in my memory is the death of John Pryor. He was a near neighbor of mine and it fell to me to carry the news to his wife. It had to be done by some one, so with my old 'oman I made my way to John's house. It was full dark when we got the news, and so it made it away along toward bed time when we arrived at the house. We stood outside and watched John's wife as she flitted from room to room arranging for the night. She was singing the chorus of that old war song all the time?just the chorus, o'er and o'er: Weeping sad and lonely, Sighs and tears are vain, When this cruel war is over, Praying them to meet again. We sat for some time out on the horse? blocks dreading to break the fearful newB. We could see her plain by the light in the house but she had no notion that we were anywhere about. She went to the bed and tucked the cover around the children, kissed 'em, turned and shut the door and then sat down by the hearth with her Bible. We moved up to the door then and could see her through the chinks. I started to knock upon the door, but my old 'oman caught my hand. John's wife hsd just knelt down beside a chair and was praying. Such a picture and such a praver! I shall never forget that prayei ami I shall never forget my feelings as I stood there. She prayed for all the world, for her own little chil? dren, and that the cruel war might end, and then, with sobs and tears, she prayed for John?her far away soldier husband. She didn't know that we were there trembling, to let her know that John was dead. How hard it was upon that poor wo? man's heart this young generation can never know. There in the loneliness of the night she poured out her grief till the children, ignorant and scared, joined their cry with the mother's grief. "Their papa was dead 1" Something the little things could not understand, for they bad been taught that he was a great, brave soldier, and that the cruel war would soon be over and they would have him at home again. I only refer to such as this to let this young generation know that war has many dark sides, and that its conse? quences should not be measured by "business opportunities" nor brought on to "remove pressures," or to boom poli? ticians. It is uot all of war to step proudly to the time of music, nor is it all to die upon the battlefield. War blights. The land is not the same, the sky is not so bright, things change, people change. Sorrow was everywhere in the South in the sixties. Crying women wrung tbeir hands upon the highways ; stations along railroads were crowded with peo? ple, gapping for the newe. Trains were not loaded wkh com? merce; they hurried troops to the front and brought the wouuded away. Car boxes were hacked into holes and split in splinters to let the air in to the men who were crowded like cattle into the tight freight boxes. Repairs were fearful; bridges were down, tracks were danger? ous with "suake heads," and trestles wabbled and cacked and screaked under the engine. People buried their jewels in the grouud, run their horses and cattle into the swamps and thickets to keep them out of sight; hung theii meat in the tree tops and saved bread the best and in any way they could. All this is just as much a part of war as the fighting and march? ing. To see a squad of cavalerymen around premises feeling for soft places with their sabres was nothing uncommon. To see your pet cow or last horse driven away was no suprise, but under it all the spirit of patriotism held the people up, and I often wonder if it could ever be again. But I don't want to discourage "Young America" from waring if it be pure and patriotic motives that prompt it. If the Chileans treat you wrong, stand up for the old flag and assert your manhood. But let there be no big boy at school spirit in it?imposing on a little fellow. Because you could catch Chile by the nose and shake her ankles outen joint is more the reason that yon should be the slower to anger. Watch the women, boys; they are more sensitive to the nice points in these war matters, and whenever tbey begin to tune their voices to "The Star Spangled Banner," and are worked up to throwing their arms around you to kiss you good? bye, with "wait till the war is over" and a "God bless you," then go, and not till then, or your cause will drag. Sarge Plunkett. The Uses of Adversity, Did it ever dawn on you what a con? summate fraud Shakespeare was? How could he ever sit down and write, "Sweet are the useB of adversity ?" The uses of adversity are not sweet at all. Adversity has driven more men to the mad house and more women to the devil than any? thing in the world. Bread and cheese and kisses are good for awhile, but the bread begins to be tasteless without but? ter, the cheese grows moldy, while a constant diet of kisses does pall on one. I don't believe poverty is ennobling, and that is the reason why I have an im? mense amount of respect for men who work themselvr? out of it and get the good things of life. I think it is in the power of every man who has got even a half of a brain to get rich if he wants to. What is there en? nobling in seeing your children want for things that some other people's children have? What is there ennobling in wishing for books to improve yourself, in comforts to make yourself stronger, and I in all the beautiful things that money will get to make you better and happier ? I don't say money will get everything. I don't believe it will, but it will go a very long way towards it I tell you it is not^easy to sit down and be poor, and I don't care if I shock every reader of the divine William all over creation, I say it with intense em? phasis, and with two lines under it, that "he was an absolute fool" when he wrote about the uses of adversity being sweet. If he liked it, is a pity he didn't live for? ever and enjoy it; nobody else wanted it. In a play now being presented in New York the rich man asks the workingmeo not to strike because of his daughter, and there she stands beside him, sweet-faced, gentle mannered and refined. One of the men who is asking for more wages throws open a door leading into the mill and calls to his daughter. She comes out, delicate, ill-clad, gasping for breath, with a headache that never ends, and aaks with fear if she is going to be discharged, and the man says: "Look at my daughter; I must care for her." And then you remember that this is labor and capital facing ?ach other in the form of two women. I am not upholding the so called shouting labor man. I am just saying in my own -vay that it is not nice to be poor. It is your girl who is sick and delicate, and ot whom the doctors says she must be sent where it is warmer, and you have not got the money to send her. How do you like the uses of adversity ? It is your boy who has gone through all the free schools, and whose great desire is to go to College, that he may become a great man some day, and you haven't the money to send him. How do you like the uses of adversity ? It is your wife, who, long after the day's work is done, is mending over the old clothes, freshening up the best ones and trying to see what may be turned, so that the girls will not be ashamed to go among their friends. You think how well she would look in a new gown ; you remember bow pretty she was before the cares of daily life made the wrinkles come on her face, and you wish, how you wish, that you could get her a fine warm coat for the winter days, but you have'nt the money. Huw do you like the uses of adversity? Is your baby sick, weak, crying, mak? ing a pitiful moan because it does not have the proper food. Before it was born its mother was not well nourished and cared for; you hadn't the money to do it. How do you like the uses of adversity ? ?"Bab" in New York Press. Concluded Without Ceremony. A good story is related of the Hon. B. Lawless, a former member of the Louis? ville bar, and who came to this city from Glaskow, Ky., says the Chicago Press. He was a long winded talker, and when he arose to make an argument he didn't know when to stop. On one occasion he was making a speech before Judge Bal lard, in the United States Court. He had spokeu several hours, and the judge and everybody else were thoroughly tired out, though they were helpless. At last Judge Ballard beckoned his brother, Jack Ballard to him, and implored him to stop Lawless if he could. "Ob, that's easy enough," replied the brother. "I'll stop him inside of three minutes." There was a great deal of curiosity to ' see how this could be accomplished, as the orator seemed to be nowhere near the end of his speech. Jack Ballard took a pencil and a sheet of paper and wrote : "My Dear Colonel: As soon as you finish your magnificent argument I would like you to join me in the clerk's office in a bumper of fine old bourbon." The note wa? handed to the orator, who paused at the end of a soaring pe? riod, drew his glasses from his pocket and read the note. He put it in his pocket and said: "And, now, if it please your hono^ and gentlemen of the jury, I leave the case with you." He picked up bis hat and was in the clerk's office in about a minute. Our dear little daughter was terribly sick, Her bowels were bloated bard as a brick, We feared she would die, Till we happened to try, Pierce's Pellets?they cured her remark? ably quick. Never be without Pierce's Pellets in the house. They are gentle and effective in action and give immediate relief in a case of indigestion, billiousness and con? stipation. They do their work thorough? ly and leave no bad effects. Smallest, cheapest, easiest to take. One a dose/ Best Liver Pills made. The Wild Horse. Very young students, in their at? tempts at composition, often informed us that the horse is a useful animal. This sweeping generalization is subject to important modifications before it is accepted in all communities. There are many thousands of horses that toil not like their progenitors, but like the wind where it listeth, and are looked upon as intolerable nuisances in the civilized re? gions they sometimes invade. Our Aus? tralian friends, for instance, are no lover of the horse in his untamed state, and some of the colonies set a price upon his head, and do all they can to stimulate movements for his destruction. Several thousand wild horses were shot in New South Wales alone in 1S79. These rovers of tho plains play the mis? chief with the domesticated animals when they come among them, and the colonists are very much disgusting to observe that the noble horse relapsing into barbarism, and forgetting his oats and other comforts of civilization, runs off with his wild brethren who have not enjoyed his superior advantages. It must be confessed that our horses need the restraint imposed upon them to prevent them from disgracing their ancestors, who were certainly domestica? ted when they were introduced into this country. Years ago it used to be the custom in our southwestern territory to brand the young stocic and even many work animals, and turn them loose to shift for themselves for a year or two. Wheu they were wanted they were a'? ways as wild as Mexican mustangs. Mr. Powell wrote a book on the best meth? od of taming wild horses. The specimen on which he exerted his talents as a tamer were for the most part formerly domesticated animals, who bad forgot? ten all about their restraints while wan? dering over the plains of our southwest era territory. Travelers in western territories are no longer in danger of such an eruption of horseflesh as Murray described in his "Travels in North America." He not only witnessed a stampede of thous? ands of panicstricken horses, but a liv? ing torrent swept along toward and over camp, trampling skins and dried meat into the ground, knocking down some of the tents and taking with them all its horses except his riding mare, who vain? ly struggled to break her fastenings. They still range in much smaller herds than formerly on the plains on the upper Colorado, but the wild horse, like the buffalo, had practically disappeared be? fore the advance of the white man. In spite of the experience of the Aus? tralians, many peoples, chiefly savage, have been able to turn tbe wild horse to good account. Hundreds of thous? ands of Mexican mustangs have been re? duced to servitude. The wild horse of the South American pampas, which three centuries ago bad spread to re? gions as remote as Patagonia, has been tamed by the thousands and has become the useful servants of Indian tribes. Naturalists often discuss the question whether there is now in tbe world such a creature as an aboriginal or truly wild horse. We know very well that the wild horses of the western hemisphere are all descendants of domesticated ani? mals. Where, then, is the aboriginal wild horse to be found ? Tbe question will probably never be settled. Mr. J. H. Steel thinks tbe evidence is in favor of the existence of the wild horse in cen? tral Asia. Gesner, the great authority in zoology of the Sixteenth century, was of tbe same opinion, but the fact has often been questioned and tbe assertion ' cannot positively be made that tbe wild horse of the great mountain region which the Russians are now exploring, and of which they have secured some specimens, is not himself the descendant of ancient domestic animals.? Goldthwaite's Geo? graphical Magazine. She Did not Sleep There. Senator Squire recently played a scur? vy trick on Senator John B. Allen. They were traveling from Washington. When they want to secure sleeping berths there were only two to be had?one upper and one lower. The two Senators "tossed up" for choice and Senator Allen won, tak? ing the lower berth, of course. During the night the train stopped at a station in Missouri, where a large, heavy woman entered tbe sleeper looking for a berth. Squire yoked his head out between the curtain, and, seeing the ponderous lady, said: "Madam, the berths are all taken, but if you wish you can occupy the one just under me, where my Itttle boy is sleep? ing." This was satisfactory to the Missouri amazon, who removed her shoes and then I swung around into the bunk. Just about this time the disturbed occupant attempted to rise to see what the intru? sion meant. With one fell swoop of her palm she clapped it squarely over the gentleman's mouth, saying: "There, little boy, don't speak. Your father said I could sleep here," Again the little boy attempted to rise, and this time he managed to say: "Madam, I want to tell you that I'm uo boy." "Who are you, then?" "I'm Senator Allen, from the State of Washington ?" "My conscience!" she yelled, and sprang up and dashed out of the car, ex? claiming, to the consternation of every one but Squire, "Ob, what would Hiram say if be knew !" Bnctlcns Arnica Salve The best salve in the world for Cuts' Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and ail 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 Brob. ? The exportation of apples from American ports to England during the fall and winter, shows an enormous in? crease over last season, the aggregate be , ing 1,017,404 barrels, against 848,000 I barrels in 1890. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Poverty is no crime; it is only the result of the sin of failure. ? Most of your troubles arise from the fact that you talk too much. ? "The tongue is an unruly member" and there are 3,000 languages in the world to sass back in. ? Reducing the cotton acreage will not affect the supply of yarns spun by the country store loafer. ? The police of New York city found and restored to their parents 3,128 lost children during 1801. ? What measures are you taking to slop that cough? Let us suggest Do Witt's Cough and Consumption Curo. ;J.{ is infallible. Wilhito & Wilhite. ? Almost every man in the world eays he can't help his peculiarities, but he will not admit that his neighbor can't help his. ? The constitution of Ohio gives the Governor no veto power, a distinction enjoyed by no other State save Rhode Island. ? Reports from Idaho say that the J snow storms of Idaho were very sever? j upon the cattle?the most fatal for~a^ number of years. Many of the herders have los*, half their stock. ? Our experience covers many ills, many pills and many bills. Our ills are I smaller, our pills are smaller and our bille J are smaller when wo use De Witt's Lit?s Early Risers. Wilhite & Wilhite. ? Some men who are too lazy to work, ~ and too proud to beg, and consider them? selves tco honest to steal, don't seem to mind buying on a credit when they have , no earthly prospect of paying the debt. ? "I had to be away from school yes? terday," said Tommy. "You m uet bring an excuse," said the teacher. "Who from?" "Your father." "He ain't no.: good at making excuses; ma catches him.. every time." ? Don't plant any oats, let the stock prune your fruit trees, plant your beat land in cotton, buy things on a credit, . ; chaw flat tobacco, drink bust head licker, ' continue to scratch a poor man's head and cuss the monopolists. ? You may cough and cough and cough and cough and cough, but you will not if you take De Witt's Cough and Consump? tion Cure. Wilhite & Wilhite. ? That the New Jersey crank who advertised that be would give a ten-acre farm, $300 and a team to any man who would marry his daughter, -has only re? ceived 5,000 offers, shows that: the young men are not keeping their eyes open for business opportunities. ? One of the great attractions of the Chicago exposition will be an orchestra of 400 pianos arranged in a pyramid and played by a single pianist. By the use of an electrical contrivance these 400 pianos will sound all together. ? A trial convinces the most skeptical Carefully prepared, pleasant to the taste, De'Witt's "Cough ana Consumption Cure is a valuable remedy. Wilhite <fe Wilhite. ? Recent experiments have shown that in the dog and the cat, as well as in . the rabbit, the removal of more than ? three-fourths of the liver is not followed by serious consequences, and that the organ regains its weight within thirty-. six days ? Such help as we can give each other in this world is a debt to each other, and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity is a subordinate, and neither 5 con fesses nor assists it, is not merely a withholder of kindness, but the commit ter of injury. ? "An honest pill is the noblest work of the apothecary." Do Witt's Little Early Risers cure constipation, billions ness and sick headache. Wilhite & Wil- ? hite. ? A great obstacle to the manufacture of lead pencils will soon arise in the scar? city of soft cedar wood. At present the wood used in all the lead pencils in the world comes from Florida, and that sup? ply is expected to be exhausted in five yeara. ? The Iowa farmers are still harvest? ing their corn. Farmer Wheeler, whom Boies defeated for Governor in November, has nearly ore thousand acres to gather. His corn crop for the year will almost reach one hundred thousand bushels, so the pangs of political disaster are some? what mitigated in Farmer Wheeler's case. ? It is an established fact that De Witt's Little Earlv Riser's have an enormous sale, and why ? Simply because they are plesant in taking and happy in results. A pill for the multitude. Wilhite&WUbite. ? The tools used by a blacksmith of the present day are almost identical with those used in the same trade over 300 . years ago. In a book on "Mining," pub? lished at Basle, Switzerland, in 1557, one of the illustrations represents a black? smith shop, in which the anvil, hammer and tongs looks like the tools still found in every shop. ?A North Carolina tourist in Cabs had bis watch stolen on the street. In less than two hours a police judge had sen? tenced the robber to three years' impris? onment. He also awarded the North Carolinian twenty-three dollars damages for the injury sustained by his watch in the struggle for its possession and order? ed the convict to work it out. This beats American justice. ? Ignorance of tho merits of De Witt's Littlo Early Risers is a misfortune. These little pills regulate tho liver, eure head? ache. dvspopsLa, bad breath, constipation - and biliousness. Wilhite A Wilhite. ? One of our physicians recently re? ceived the following letter from a country physician: "Dear deck I hav a pashunt whose physical sines shoes that the win pipe was ulcerated of, and his lungs has dropped intoo his stummick. He is una bei to swallow and I fecr his stummick tube is gon. I hav giv him evry thing without effeckt. his father is wealthy Onerable and in/luenshial. he is an ac? tive member of the M. E. chirch, and god nos I don't want to loose hyra. what shall I due. ane. buy returne male, yours in neede."?Medical Newt. ? Kisses were sold for a quarter apiece at a Lutheran church sociable, at Burns, Mich., on the 24th ult. The so? ciable was in the Church parlors, and after the regulation program of such af? fairs had been carried out, a curtain at one side of the room was withdrawn and six pretty maidens, blu?hing to the ears, stood there, each with this legend on a card: "You may kiss me for 25 cents." Thre was not a youth or old man present who did not exchange at least a dozan quarters for two kisses from all the girls^ The older women then objected andTIJ oscillatory bee was stopped. |