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; - z ?= = =?: == = = === : = = =====?===== = = = = ~ ^ ===== BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1892._VOLUME XXVI.- -NO. 33. --? - THE HAS BEEN STRUCK Prices Cut in Half I Winter Goods to be Closed Out to make room for Spring stock. THESE ARE FACTS, And we want you to come and see for yourself and get some of the WE ABE OFFERING. Don't delay.but come while the good things are going. Money saved is money made. W. A. CHAPMAiCAgent, Next to Masonic Temple. NOW IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! On and after January 1,1892, all Heavy Winter Boots an) Ste in our Estalsbleit Will be Reduced from 10 to SO per Cent in Priee. /~1QME 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 are not lik% wine?they do not improve with aze Hence we will not allow goods to Jay upon our shelves from season to season. We need the money to buy Spring Goods, and the room to show tbem. This reduction includes a large lot of the famous Bay State Prison-made Shoes, conf.ist.ing of Plow Shoes, Brogans, JIngllsh Ties, and twenty Casea of Boots. Remember, that all Shoes 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 lull amount of money paid to all parties not satisfied with their purchases, provided they, return them to us immediately unsoiled ENERGY. V FIDELITY, ^INSURE SUCCESS. DISCRETION, I JAS. P. GOSSETTN& CO.. Under Hotel Chiquola, Anderson, S. C. WANTED! * :> i.G3yH[l<ES and BEESWAX by PEOPLES & BURRISS, at good prices. SECOND HAND STOVES As go .-d or better than''most of the new ones n$w offered you, which we are offering at s low price. We hope you will bear in mind that we deal in? l^n,, China Crockery, Glassware, , And EVERYTHING io the Home Furn'sMr.g line, ?nd at price* that cannot be beat by any one. Price elsewhere, then come t?? <*-e us und you will be convinced. TIN ROOFING. GRAVEL ROOFING and GUTTERING, Promptly done by experienced men. Yours very truly, 'i PEOPLES & BURR1SS. IBM STORE! 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 our Spring Goods. Wishing one and all a happy and prosperous New Year, Respectfully, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. DON'T FAIL TO VISIT fli i DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS and CONFECTIONERIES. J?-"' We are selling Goods CHEAP, and will treat yon right. Give us a call. Yours truly, E. W. BROWN & SONS. -83^ All communications intended for this column should be addressed to C. WARDLA W, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. memory gems. , What a blessed thing it is that our kind Heavenly Father conceals from us the future, Prepare for the greatest events of life. You know not what awaits you. The report of the Townville High School for January makes a very fine Bhowing. Oar want of space excludes its publication. How many pupils will give us the names and dates of all the wars in which our nation has takeu part,. with a brief account of theircau.es? -? We commend the answers of children as to moral of the "Two Crabs" to the teachers, parents and even to the older pupils. The children have the tight idea about it. i Every teacher who has seen them ia pleased with the new monthly reporta that we. have had printed. If we have done the public schools a benefit, we are satisfied. In their interest we spend our whole time. Daring our visits we have been enter? tained by the people at whose houses we stopped with that open-hearted and unbounded hospitality that is so common in the country. It is so pleasant to meet genuine open-hearted neighbors every? where we go. The colored school at Deep Creek, in* charge of Starke Adams, Is oue iu which ia needed the process of quickening. The pupils seem to be pretty well upon i their studies, and the methods of the teacher reasonably good, but too much time is lost in hesitating about the an? swers to questions. ? Possibly our pres? ence may have caused this hesitation, but it existed, from some cause or other. report of saluda school, in bbushy creek district, fob JA2TOABY. First CItss?Edward Gambrell, 98. Class average, 91. Second Class?Josie Elrod, 96. Class average, 84 Third Claas?Essie Richie, 98. Class average, 87. Fourth Class-Lake Elrod, 99. Class average, 83. Total number enrolled, 86. Average attendance, 25. Nellie M. Stenhouse, Teacher. questions answered. We have received answers to the ques? tions in reference to cause of war of 1812 from E. T. Anderson, George Shearer and Jiramie A. Winters, of Rubamah school Belton, 8. C, Feb. 8,1892. Mr. Editor: T will attempt to write you a letter. I am a little girl. 14 years old, and Jivo three miles south of Balton, on Cherokee Creek. It has beautiful shoals, and we have a nice time playing on them in .'he summer. I am going to Bchool as BVlton, aoc*Mr. and Mm. J. T. Smith are my teachers. I liketbem very much. I am studying grammar, geogra? phy, history, word speller and arithmetic, I like grammar best of all. We gener? ally have to write compositions or have speeches on Fr'day. I had rather Bpeak than write a composition. Yours respectfully, Meddie Major.. ? the two crabs." Bklton, S. C, Feb. 3,1892. Mr. Editor: I saw the prize in the Anderson Intelligencer for the fable of the "Two Crabs," and have concluded to write a few words. I think it teaches that mothers should set a good example for their children to go by, and that they ought not to try to make them do what they never do themselves. I go to school at Dorchester to Miss Anna Qrubbs, and/am 12 years old. Pawnee Sutherland. Bruno, S. C, Feb. 5, 1892. Mr. Editor: I noticed that you offered a prize for the four best moralB to the fable of the "crab." I send the follow? ing in answer to the question : Youth is instructed by the example of older per? sons. ' Age, 12 years. Yours truly, (Miss) Robbie Wakefield. meandeeings. Mr. M. N. Mitchell, the faithful teacher at Union school, in District No. 21, has a very good echool. The house, if ceiled, would be one of the best in the County. In this school good .Beats are very much needed. It ia impossible to Bay how mueh effort is lost in the school room for want of good desks. But with the good work well begun at Union we may hope for-its completion next fall or winter. They have already ordered a cha::t. Evf ry investment in fitting up a good school will bring good results. At Dorchester MisB Anna Grubt? is favored with a reasonably good attend? ance, and is doing faithful and efficient service. She, too, needs better seats and writing des'rs for her children. Miss May Ru?sell, at Calhoun, has a school largo both in numbers and inter* este. Her grammar classes are very in? teresting, r.b is her whole school. The new desks put in that school are giving entire satisfaction. With them she is enabled to manage her large number of pupils with ease. At Woodland Miss Lizzie Brock is doing as good work as any teacher. She is a real teacher. One of our best. Her work is thorough and progressive. She is delighted with the new de?ks recently put in her echool. She got up the money to buy them by her personal efforts. Wo saw her classes in arithmetic recite, and were impressed with the idea that they understood it. Mr. Win. H. Shearer is the teacher at Cedar Gro^e, in Fork District. In this school we begun to find the old blue-back spelling book and no charts. But we must say with the classes more advanced Mr. Shearer is doing valient services. Since our visit he has charts, and will endeavor to show that a child can read before it can spell. At Townville in one school we found Mr. Monroo Fant busily at work. He has his charts and Webster's blue-blacks, too. Having been trained up in the lat? ter himself, Mr. Fant is very naturally prepossessed in favor of Webster's plan. We are not surprised at this, but we ven? ture the assertion that if both plans are given a fair test the charts will be given the preference for the first few months. Mr. Fant'a classes in geography are very well up, and in fact we can speak well of ail his classes that we heard. Mr. J. F. Rice and Miss Kate Holle man have charge of the other school at Townville, and on entering this school we could immediately see that the pa? trons had made no mistake in the selec? tion of teachers. It is always a pleasure to enter a school and find the teachers and pupils pleasantly and earnestly at work. We had never met Miss Holle man before, but we soon saw that she ia doing successful work in the primary classes. Mr. Rice's classes in Algebra had well prepared lessons, and showed a desire to know what the lessons taught. In this school, also, are good patent desks recently purchased. If both schools at Townville could bo combined, Townville would, in all probability, be? come a rural educational center. At Tugaloo we found Miss S. J. Mc Clain with a school that was all aglow with happiness and interestedness. We were very favorably impressed with this teacher and the brightness of the pupils. She has received her charts since our visit, and will send out ere long readers who cannot spell. This may seem to those who have never seen it tested im? possible, but we have seen it and know it is possible for a child to read before it spells. She has a great many in the blue back spelling books that ought to be reading and cyphering. Mr. Ertzberger, at Smith's Chapel, we found hard at work. He is from the empire State of the South, and from what we could gather during our visit, is giving value received to his patrons. Hia school needs better seats. lie Had to bo Brave. What I relate are facts which actually befell me. The greatest cavalry battle evsry fought on the American continent took place at Brandy Station on the 9th of June, 1863. At early dawn the Fed? eral advance guard crossed the Rappa hannock and charged our outposts with such vigor that they entered our camp at their heels. Moat, of my regiment (Sixth Virginia) had turned their horses of the evening before, and not more thau fifty of us were prepared to mount. The fifty men were quickly mounted,-formed and ordered to charge. Not a moment was to be lost, as some of the enemy's advance were in our artillery camp. I was the unfortunate possessor of an untamed Bucepnalus chat no rider on earth could control. I had experienced this on three former occasions. But what could I do charge or not charge? That was the question. Although I knew full well that my wild charger would lead the van, of course, I must charge. In oar front was a heavily wooded forest of pine shrub and black jack, through which rao a narrow country road. No time waa to be lost; therefore, there was little ceremony. The mual commands? trot, march, gallop, charge?were omit? ted, and tbe gallant Shumate, who mus? tered the fifty, simply yelled "Charge!" and away we flew dowu the winding road through the dark lores;, all. yelling like Indians. My horue bowed bis neck, and placing his mouth against his breast I was help less, and ?way he fairly flew. What could I do'? Pull tiff the road I could not; Btop I could not. Away he went. I looked abound, but there was no one in Bight. We had left the others far behind. I knew that in a few seconds one solitary cavalryman would be rushing into the midst of the foe. One moment more, and I saw drawn up across my path :a double line of Federal cavalry. It may be, I thought, they will Bee my predica? ment and let' me through; it may be that they will not fire, but how could they know that my horse was running away? They must have thought the devil was coming, for up went at least 100 car? bines, a crash, a cloud of smoke, and with one terrible plunge and groan my steed fell in the woods, pierced by several balls. How I escaped God only knows. In a few moments I heard our boys com? ing down the road. A volley from the federal line, but onward they went; and I, mounting a horge belonging to a lieu? tenant of Company H, who was killed here, joined in. We broke this regiment ?the Eighth New York?Lieut. Owen Ailing killing its brave commander, Col? onel Davis. Then came the Eighth Ill? inois, and quicker than some of us came we went. That night, after the battle was over? for it labted all day?the boys over? whelmed me with compliments. Never saw such dash I such courage! Charles O'Malley! Murat! and so on. But what was the laughter and merriment when I innocently remarked: "Confound it, boys, my horse ran away with me."? Richmond Dispatch._ $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, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, there? by deBtroyiog tbe foundation of the dis? ease, and giving tho 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 oiTer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails *to cure. Send for list of testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. KS^Sold by Druggists, 75c, TEN TEARS WITH TOBACCO. Results of tho experience of a Practical Planter. To the Editor of the News and Courier: After the tobacco is cured in the barn it is then to bo made ready for market. If the weather is very dry the leaf cannot be handled, and frequently planters wait until nearly Christmas before the weath? er is damp and soft enough for handling tobacco. But there is a way of producing artificial moisture which comes in very handily sometimes. Take green bushes with leaves on and place them on the floor of the curing barn and sprinkle them with water. Then start small fires in the flues?just enough to raise the temperature a few degrees, and you will soon find your tobacco soft enough for handling. Th.s method ot bringing the leaf in order is safe and can be relied on at all times. It will be remembered that if the weather is damp and warm no ar? tificial method is needed to put the leaf in handling order. If the tobacco has been cured off the stalk the work of preparing the leaf for market is much easier than when cured on the stalk. The only thing now to be done is to select 'he different grades and put them in piles to themselves. This requires experience, and the new planter should not attempt to grade his tobacco \ without aid from an experienced grader. I These jean usually be had from the older ! tobacco districts at very reasonable prices. If such help cannot be had the tobacco can be shipped to any well established warehouse, and the grading done there at the rate of ono dollar per hundred pounds. Most ware-houses now keep a full force of graders at work, grading leaf from new tobacco planters. For grading there will usually be about three grades of leaf according to*color and size and about two grades of lugs or lower leaves. About eight leaves of the larger grades dhould be tied together and about ten leaves of the smaller. Negroes generally make excellent graders, and especially the negro women, who seem to have the faculty for distinguishing color highly developed. Wrappers, fillers, cut? ters, smokers and lugs should be laid in its respective pile?care being taken hot to let a leaf of one grade get among that of another grade. In assorting the planter should also be careful to do the square thing all the time, as it never pays to grade or pack to bacco dishonestly. The buyers are gen? erally keen enough to discover the fraud, and then look out for a boycott of all such tobacco. The planter who is known to "nest his tobacco" has his name pot on what is called a "black list" by the buy? ers, and in buying his crop due allowance is always made for an unfair mixture of the grades, and lower prices is the result. Therefore, it pays the planter to grade his tobacco honestly ell the time. After the tobacco is graded the next step is packing, preparatory to shipping or hauling to market. When the tobacco is hauled on wagons no packing is neces? sary, aside from properly packing in the body of the wagon. If the leaf is to be shipped, pack in strong wooden boxes or hogsheads; the latter are generally sup? plied by the tobacco warehouses free of charge to the planter. If you have a whole package of any one grade, let it all go in the package together. If there is less than a package of one grade, place strips of paper between the different grades, so as to keep them separate from each other. When the package is full nail on the cover; if box, securely ,* if a hogshead, have the head securely fastened in. Mark the package plainly to the warehouse where it is to be shipped and write your directions to the ware house man about selling. If to be sold at once you will wait only a short time before re ceiving your check. As the reader may know, the tobacco business is still in the control of the Government, and has some restrictions still clinging about it which moat people in the business would gladly uee abolish? ed. So far as the planter is concerned these restrictions do not amount to much, though it is necessary to know what they are. The present revenue law requires the planter to keep a record of all the tobacco he grows each year in pounds, to whom Bold and at what price, though he can sell his crop whenever he wishes. These accounts of the planters are seldom ever examined by the revenue authori? ties. Still it is well for every planter to keep all his bills of sale on file, so if call? ed upon at any time he can render a cor? rect account. Failure to do so will sub? ject the planter to a severe fine. H. E. Habman. Winston, N. C. Nose Bleeding. A mild attack of nose bleeding is ben? eficial and clears the system as would an attack of illness. In the old or full blooded such an occurrence may stave off an attack of apoplexy. If much blood 1b lost, or if the attacks are frequent, great prostration will follow, and in some few cases even death has resulted. Slight attacks Boon stop of themselves, the es? caping blood forming a clot over the bleeding part. It is always wise not to blow the nose or pick it for a day or two after an attack or another one ma> come on. A person suffering from nose bleeding should rest and lean forward, so that the blood which escapes may run out of the nostril in front, for if the blood is swal? lowed it may cause vomiting or sickness. Simple attacks are quickly cured by ap? plying something cold to the spine, as a cold door key or cold stone, as boys stop it. More obstinate cases may have the whole of the spine sponged with cold water, and even the chest and neck as well, the revulsive action of the cold wa? ter often stopping it. To insert the fingers up the nostrils and press on the bleeding part is some? times successful, so also is snuffing cold water up the nostrils, while Borne recom? mend raising the hands above the head to atop it. If very great loss occurs I: will be wise to call in a doctor, who will plug up the nostrils if he thinks it nec? essary.?Hall's Journal of Health. ? What measures are you taking to stop tbat cough? Lot us Haggest De Witt's Cough and Consumption Cure. It is infallible. Wilhito <t W?hit?. Satan Joyous. By Tyree Green. It was a great day in hell. Satan held a council with his chosen cabinet regarding the matters which concerned the interests of bis kingdom, not with the great host of his rebel crew, whose crude and undigested opinions might perplex and dash maturist counsels, but with those of whose great deed? all hell bad rung, whose sagacity and cunning had ever been at the command of their great chief; whose power had been felt by nations, and who had defied and con* tended with the Omnipotent One?some? times even leaving upon his heel marks of their might. Great deeds have been recounted ; man made in the image of the Most High deceived and beguiled into dis? obedience, a faithful, loving subject made a rebel and offender; the earth pronounced of God very good, over whose glory and beauty at creation tbe morning stars had sung together and all the sons of God had shouted for joy, made to drink a brother's blood shed by a brother's hand, almost before the echoes of that song had died upon tbe air; the chosen people, the seed of Him who was called the friend of God, made to reject him and clamor for other gods; even the Most High made wroth with His inheritance and giving them into their enemy's hand. These they rehearse, and, like war? riors telling of honors won on many a hard fought field, their hearts burn within them as they tell of plans con? ceived, persisted in, matured, of dan? gers faced and braved, of opposition thwarted and overcome, and of final suc? cess. The council breaks up, confirmed in their opinions of their sagacity and pow? er, and encouraged to continue tbe struggle even against Infinite wisdom and might. Surely such triumphs in their past point to eucces and glory in. the end. But there is one who has been stirred to lofty ambition by memory and re? hearsal of these mighty deeds. Satan sits and muse3 of the long black cata? logue of sins and crimes, and the thought is suggested: "May I not do something which in blackness and wickedness ex? ceeds them all ? Something exceeding? ly hateful to the Most High ? Secret, yetdeadly, a sin within reach of all? A sin that he who has a reputation of a saint may commit and yet not lose men's good will ? As he further muses, let us ait be? side him and read as best we may bis thoughts: "There are many passions that make men like devils. There is re? venge, there is pride, there ia last, and there is covetousneas. I must choose some one of these to make the, ground? work of my doings. Shall I try revenge ? This aiu I love well, no offering can bo made to me more acceptable than hot human blood drawn in wrath by man from his fellow. But human law forbids its indulgence. Men hare set bounds that it mayi not pass, they have found that to live in peace, revonge muat be forbidden. Thin sin I may not try. Shall I try pride ? Thia sin too I re? gard with favor. There was a time when my first estate was with the cbief est of tbe sons of God, but I kept it not and aspired to bo equal with the Most High ; and now imwi offer to me no incense more accep able than when they regard me prince of the powers of the air?sa? lute me gor1 of this world. And now when men filled with pride aspire to be great I like it welt. But all men as? pire not to be great; there aro those to whom the lowliest ways are best-the safest and the most secure?and in them they live and die. Shall I try lust? This I have seen enter households of patriarchs and kings and cause estrangement, confusion, mur? der, and with it I have dono my work well. But shall I tempt tbe aged with lust's delights ? Can I approach those with whom desire has failed with its pleasures? Shal I try covetousneos ? It must be a matter of grievous offence to the Most High, and if iudu'ged in must greatly mar the peace and greatness of His kingdom, for from Sinai in majesty and authority He forbade it. Surely I may do much damage to His kingdom, and thus give aid to my own by tempting men to it. I have gone to and fro ia the earth and have walked up and down in it, but never yet in lands rude and savage or in climes where men have advanced in knowledge and in power, have I found one who may not be tempted to it, nor have I seen old men of hoary hairs or a child of tender years who has not learned to say : "My" "Mine" ; men on the land or on the sea, with their bands free or hands fettered feel its power. Men may not legislate against it, for it dwells in secret places. Dowu deep in the hidden chambers of tbe heart it lurks, sometimes even deceiving the man who concealn it under specious guise of other names as "prudence," "care for one's household." A heart given to covetous practices may hide itself under the Pharisee's robe and men greet him as, "rabbi," it tarnishes no man's good uame. And Satan took his sin?the sin which had so much to commend itself to his special favor?aud brought it into that circle made holy and sacred by the presence and power of the Son of God Himself, and with it he wrought tbe betrayal of the Lord Jesus and His death upon the cross. And Satan smiled and said: "Great is covetousne33! Whenever I want a mean black deed done cheap, I will use a covetous man. And when next iu conclave he and lilc mighty men did meet, he grve com? mandment that when innocent blood was to be shed, friendship's tenderest ties betrayed, a crown of life bartered for a bauble, devils should Heek covetous men.?Southern Christian Advocate. ? You don't %vnnt a torpid liver. You don't want a bad complexion. You don't want a bad breath. You don't want a hoadache. Then use- Do Witt's Little Early Kisers. the lamous littlo pills. Wilhito & Wilhite. A .Successful Farmer. The Augusta Chronicle makes an in? teresting statement about Jas. M. Smith, of Oglethorpe County, Ga. His exten? sive farm of 15,000 acres, teeming each year with such products of the soil as are needed for home consumption, to? gether with the surplus crop of cotton* shows him to be one of the largeot as well as one of the moat successful farm? ers of the South Atlantic States. He is a practical business man and stands as a living demonstration of the success of farming in the South when properly conducted. His plans are wise in conception and satisfactory in opera? tion. His barn and smokehouse are at home, and whatever may be the fluctua? tions of prices in Chicago, he is safe and independent. Half of his farmis planted in cotton. The other half is planted in field crops for home consumption, That is all. This plan, says Mr. Smith,?aud he speaks from experience as well as from information?if followed out year by year, is bouud to be successful in the long run. His cotton is converted into ready cash, and wijh an abundance of corn, wheat, oats, hay, as w ell as pota? toes, peas, cabbage, onions, etc., he feeds his wage hands and tenants, sells a con? siderable quantity, and still has a suffi? cient quantity to feed his horsea and mules and to the bogs and cattle which further afford a handsome income. Last year bo raised 5000 bushels of rust proof oats, which he sold for seed at $1 per bushel, after saving enough for his own and his tenants' use. The average yield was thirty bushels per acre. From 600 acrea he raised 6000 bushels of wheat. A portion of this he aold for $1.25 per bushel. The balance he ground into flour, with which hia hands and tenants were supplied. The bran was fed to his stock. He raised 175 hogs which averaged 155 pounds net. He keeps a herd of 600 cattle, among them a number of registered Holsteins. He is now fattening 60 steers, which he will sell the latter part of March, and which he thinks will average 1500 pounds gross. He milks 75 cows, and after amply supplying his plantation, sells quantities of milk and butter and feeds quantities more to the hogs. Mr. Smith, therefore, naturally con aiders oats and whea: a profitable crop. Aside from the grain itself, the straw and bran are valuable for the stock-. Cottonseed hulls and meal in proper proportion, he thinks the best food for cattle. 'He allows that the average farmer in the South is not very successful, but this is, in many cases, the farmer's own fault. What Mr. Smith has done can? not be disputed. Starting at the close of the war without a dollar, he now owns a fine plantation, well stocked, on which a private railroad fifteen miles in length is operated, and otherwise is supplied with every advantage. What he has done others can do. He advises them to live within their income and avoid the credit system. Cotton has de? clined 30 per cent, but by reducing ex? penses 30 per cent., they will keep on a level. If they raise their supplies at home, they may not handle eo much money, but they will still be better off. In two years this plan wonld show grat? ifying results. Nor are these the hardest times which the South has ever seen. Mr. Smith re* members that in 1846, when be came to Augusta, cotton sold at 4 cents, and good shirting was considered high at 3 cents. Times were then bard, indeed. The animus of his argumet is con? tained in the advice that farmers "raise everything for man and beast at home." Thereby hang* all the law and the gos? pel. He believes it and has demon? strated it. There is much in the above which every farmer in Georgia and Carolina should take home with him. The facts should be burned into his heart until he realizes that he can and must live at home, and when careful plans diligently executed on this line become general throughout the South many cf the ohimertrical oppressions which distress the farmer will be ex? ploded, the real ones be remedied, and, self-sustaining and independent, he will ride in on the flood-tide of prosperi? ty. _ A Diver's Bold Contract. Alpexa, Mich., Feb. 5.?M. F. Chalk, an expert diver of Detroit, has arrived here to attempt to raise the wreck of the Fewabic, which sank in Thunder Bay, in 120 feet of water, twenty-five years ago. Four attempts have been made to raise the vessel, in each of which the diver lost his life. The depth at which the work was to be done was so great that the consequent pressure of the icy waters was bo enor? mous that life was squeezed out. Chalk has behind him several wealthly men, who pay him $1,000 for each at? tempt, guarantee his life insurance in case he dies, and in case they are able to bring up the wreck they agree to divide the cargo equally with him. The Pewabis is loaded with pig copper valued af $165,000. The diver has had a helmet made that will resist a pressure of 450 pounds to the square inch. A Beau of 1829. When grandpa went a wooing, He wore a satin vest, A trail of runniDg roses, Embroidered on the breast, The pattern of his trousers, His linen, white and fine, Were all the latest fashion, In eighteen twenty-nine. Grandpa was a fine looking young fel? low then, so the old ladies Bay, and he ia a fine looking old gentlemen now. For the past score of years he has been a firm believer in the merits of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. "It haa re? newed my youth," he frequently says. It ia the only blood purifier and liver invigorator guaranteed to benefit or cure, or mooey promptly refunded. It cures liver disease, dyspepsia, scrofulous sores, skin eruptions, and all diseases of the blood. For lingering coughs and con? sumption, (which is lung scrofula in its early stages) it is an unparalleled rerae dy. Restoring Mind to nn Idiot, Washington, February 9.?If a novel surgical operation which was performed here to day is successful there will be one less idiot in the world. Ex-Surgeon General William A. Hammond, assisted by three surgeons, opened the skull of an imbecile, removed a large amount of bone, closed the skull, and expects that the patient will not only recover, but will be a level-headed man. This is the first operation of the kind ever performed up? on an adult. I saw General HammoLd to-night and asked who the patient was. He refused to give me his name, but said that he wa3 the son of a prominent foreign family. "This gentleman," said the doctor, "w38 placed under my care a few days sgo by his father to be treated for imbecility. Ho is a young man of 24. Up to the age of 20 he was possessed of a remarkable, you might even say a brilliant intellect. He bad been through college and stood well in his class. Soon after reaching tbe ago of 20 he began to show evidence of failing mental power. "When I saw him four years after that he was almost a complete idiot, at which time he was placed under my charge. He would sit by the hour staring at va? cancy, and laughing in a silly way. His speech was incoherent and ho rarely gave a logical answer to a question. His gen? eral physical health was very strong. Af? ter a thorough examination I came to the conclusion that his failing mental power was due to the disproportion in tbe growth between the brain and tbe skull ; that his brain bad grown faster than the skull had grown, and as a consequence was compressed against the inner surface of the skull, subjecting tbe whole brain to pressure, and retarding its develop? ment. "Trephining was decided upon, and to? day I performed the operation, having first obtained full sanction from his fath? er to do anything I thought proper to do. I was assisted by Drs. Fisher and Tomp kins and the late Surgeon-General of the Chilean Army under Balmaceda, Dr. Middleton. "I first made a semi-lunar incision in the scalp at a point about two and a half inches above tbe eye on the left Bide, turned back the flap and .:ith a trephine removed two buttons of bone, leaving two holes in the skull at a distance of about tbree-fourths of an inch from each other. Then with a pair of gouging for? ceps removed the intervening bones so that it made one large opening in the skull about three inches and a half in length by an inch in width. The scalp was then brought forward and theu the wound closed. A corresponding opera? tion was then perforated on tbe other side, immediately over the right eye, so that I had two holes in the skull, such as I describe, covering them with the scalp, tbe patient, of course, being all this time under tbe influence of an acmUhet ic of ether. "Antiseptic measures were used during the operation, so that I anticipate that the wounds will heal in a healthy way. The patient came very near dying from heart failure, not rallying well from the ether, but by hypodermic injections of whiskey repeated several times he was brought out of his weak state, and at this time, eight hours after the operation, his pulse is 66, respiration 14, temperature normal. "Now, what I hope from tbe operation is that the removal of this large quantity of bone from the skull will euable the brain to expand and take off the pressure. I may Bay that the brain after the remo? val of the bone rose up more into the opening than it usually does, giving the appearanee of the pressure having been removed from it. It will take three or four weeks to determine what has been the result upon the mind of this young man, and in the meantime he may pos? sibly?although I do not think he will ?die from inflammation of the brain as a direct consequence of the opera? tion." Inheritance By Degrees. It is doubtful whether there has ever been a more singular testament than one which the family of a rich inhabitant of Warsaw, in Poland, have had to submit to, on pain of losing their share in the estate. - Early in 1884 there died in Warsaw a merchant who was known to possess a comfortable fortune. He left a sealed will which bore a superscription forbid? ding tbe opening of the document before tbe 10th of March, 1885. On that date the family assembled at tbe notary's in whose charge the will had been left. The package was opened and found to contain another envelope which was not to be opened until tbe 14th of April, .1(*S6. On this second date the family assem? bled again, only to find themselves put off another year, and this was repeated from year to year until, in 1S90, the last envelope was opened, and the will found. 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