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_C_ '^^^^^^ ' II ? ... I ? I I ? T ! BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ~ ANDERSON, S. CM THURSDAY MOBNING, JUNE 30^892,_VOLUME XXVI.?NO. 52. ????? ?????????????? -_-.-?? VINEGARS ! We have in Vinegars the very Best Qualities obtainable and at Reasonable Prices. Apple Cider Vinegar?four years old. White Wine Vinegar?extra quality. Claret Vinegar?for table use. West India Spiced Vinegar?our specialty. ? Our Spiced Vinegar is made from Pure Grape Wine Vinegar, boiled down with West India Spices. The combination of imported Spices for the production of this Fine Vinegar has been skillfully made, after many years of experiment. The result is an absolutely perfect Spice Vinegar, retaining the delicious flavor and delightful fra? grance of West India Spice. It is the only Vinegar you can heat, warm or boil that will throw off the same fragrance and flavor as when cold. Especially desirable Meats and Vegetables. When ased to make Spiced Beef or Spiced Onions it will satis? fy the most fastidious taste. taylor & crayton, 4S Granite Rovr. ? to close ? SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, Iq order to clear out all kinds of Goods to make room for a new Fall Stock. WE have decided to make the people of Anderson an offer to secure good, first-class Goods AT AND BELOW COST, WE MEAN JUST WHAT WE SAY?all Summer Goods to go regardless of what they are worth. Embroideries, Laces, Lawns, Muslins, Bedford Cords, Cliallies, And, in fact, a nice clean Stock of Spring Goods. A big lot of REMNANTS, all kinds oi Goods, to close. Now is your time to get the Childrens' Winter Cloth 38 cheap. * s ?* Gome and see me, W. a. chapman, Agent, Next to Masonic Temple. literally washed with blood. Ponce do their Duty without respect to Persons. The Wall Still Covered with Bloody Gore. Tj . HE fight was on South Main Street at the Bazaar and Ten Cent Stores of G. S. Minor & Co. It was an attack of the combined forces of seven other merchants on the famous C. S. Minor. They fought in defence of their prices, wh? h they claimed had been crushed out of all respectability by the said C. S. Minor, and they fooght with desperation to restore the former prices, but down they go in the dead of the fight, and their blood on our Store-front only is left to tell a pitiful tale of woe. Stranger than Strange. One man claimed that we had reduced the price of Pants to 25c. and 50c. per pair?leas than cost to make. We don't care. Another claimed that we sell the best quality Mason Fruit Jar at less than he can buy the second quality. We don't care for that, either. Another said our 10c. Hosiery was the same that he had to sell at 15c, or two pa ir for 25c, and that we sold his 15c Suspenders at 10c, and his 25c Suspenders at 15c Well, what of that ? ' Another man believes that we are Belling his 40c Cups and Saucers for 30c, and hu 85c Plates at 25c. Why should we care ? A certain millinery man thinks we have knocked him out of more than a hundred sales. We don't have to pay a milliner, and he don't believe we pay for onr goods. What concern is that of his ? Another man claims that we sell Tobacco at a starvation price. HaB he any right to object ? These are some of the complaints made against us. We ask you whose busi? ness is it, if not that of our customers and ourselves ? Can't we make such figures as we: see fit without being hounded down and forced to fight for our lives ? We'll fight to the death?we'll pnt their blood on our walls and their scalps on our doors, and their customers in possession of undoubted bargains. Say, would you wash that blood off the wall, or would you let it stay as a warning ? Tours for Spot Cash, _C. S. MINOR, THE BAZAAR and the 10c. STORE. ?| ILLS, EVAPORATORS Ai COTTON ?S! "VaTE are agents for the Celebrated Kentucky Cane Mills and Hall Sell V T Feeding Cotton Gins. It will pay any person to call and see our Ma chlnery and get our prices before buying, as we feel assured we can sarj. you money, and can Bell you on easy terms. We can bottom and repair old Evaporators, making them as good as new at a small cost. We also manufacture Smcke Stacks, Spark Arresters and Suction Pipes, which every Qinner should have, as it saves time, labor and expense. Our Stock of Stoves, Tinware, Crockery and House Furnishing Goods is complete. We have a large supply MASON FRUIT JARS and TIN CANS which are going cheap. It will pay you to buy as soon as possible, as Fruit Jars are going to be scarce and higher latter part of season. Call and see our Cherry Seeders, Apple and Peach Pealers?something that every household should have. It saves much time and labor, and are so very cheap. When you come to Town be Bure to call and see us. We will make it to your in? terest to buy your Goods from us. We BtLU buy RAGS, HIDES and BEESWAX. All kinds ROOFING and GUTTERING done on short notice, and in a thorough workmanlike manner. Yours very truly, PEOPLES & BURRIS8. SEASON OF 1892. Womens/ Misses' and Childrens' Fine OXFOBD TIES! Duchess, Langtry, Brighton, Elite, Souvenir, Theo, Adonis, Everett and Southern Ties. Juliet, Strap, House and Opera Slippers. YACHTING and LAWN TE&tfIS SHOES. JAS. P. GOSSETT & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Boots and Shoes, Anderson, S. C , under Hotel Chiquola. TflA?Hr^'GotfJMN, -SR All communications intended for thisColumn should be addressed to C WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMOEY GEMS. "God's purest gifts to man were wo? man and flowers." "One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it." The oration published bolow was de? livered by Mr. Fred. W. Nardin at the Commencement of the P. H. I. TEACHESS' INSTITUTE. Tho Teachers' Institute for Anderson County convened on the 20th of June and continued through the week. Prof. C. W. Welch was the conductor, and Miss Helen Graham McMaster and Mr. Sligh assisted. We will not undertake to give an idea of the work of the Institute, for we can not put it on paper. Every teacher present seemed delighted. Mist; Hub hard, Miss Maggie Evans and Prof. J. B> Watkins took part in the work. Prof. Welch is a gentleman of ability, and gave some Very good suggestions. The tenchcra were all charmed with Miss McMaster's work. She is so animated, clear and enthusiastic. Some of us failed to see the application of Mr. Sligh's work in the Institute He was not satisfied with any book he discussed, and diiecU'd hi.* remarks more to fault finding with lite books, than to pointing out thb best methods for using the books we have. The attendance has been very good, I and great results have been accomplish I ed. Association of the teachers is very helpful. We wish the people of the County could have been present to wit* nes3 the work. Every teacher will go away deter? mined to do better work in the future, and feeling better equipped for work. It was slated by one of the instructors that it is conceded throughout the State that Anderson and Newberry are the two foremost Counties in the cause of education. We do not occupy a fourth, third or second place, but first among the Counties?no retrograding. The teach? ers of Anderson County have been re? peatedly complimented by the instructor. We wish in closing to say that we will always cherish a pleasant recollection of the hours spent in the Institute, and will especially retain the very pleasant* est remembrances of the instructors. "THE PRESS." I have chosen "the press" as my theme more with the desire to post and inform myself, than with the hope to add new interest or uovelty to so weighty a subject; for, with my youth and inex? perience, such an idea would be gross presumption. It is.a truth few will care to controvert, that all great things have their origin in very small beginnings, and nowhere have we a belter illustra? tion of this fact than in the printing press. In its first conception it consisted mainly of a wooden bcrew and two blocks of wood. This simple machine originated in the brain of a German by the name of Gutenburg, about the year 1450. Little did its inventor anticipate that from it would spring the huge, ponderous mass of machinery that is to-day propelled by steam, printing thousands upon thou? sands of books, newspapers, magazines and pamphlets. In my opinion no science of the present age has made such gigantic strides towards improvement as has the press. Before the year 1400, printing was unknown. Books there were, but they- were written by hand upon parchment. Just imagine for one moment the strain upon body and mind that was necessary to accomplish the task of writing five or Bis volumes in this way, to say nothing of the equally as wearisome task of reading. Now, in this nineteenth century of ours by a few rev? olutions of machinery volume upon vol? ume can be printed in a single day, and nothing but pleasure is experienced in the reading. Of course the invention of printing by movable types greatly re? duced tho cost of books, and from this date their number rapidly multiplied and knowledge was more widely diffused than ever before. The press becoming then, as it has ever since been, the great est educator in our midst. In this busy world of ours we cannot all be called to stand upon the high places of authorship, or hope to tread the world's great stage as solons. But there is no excuse for the busiest or the very poorest not being in? formed on all live issues and current events of the day. Never have the facil? ities for learning been so great and so cheap, and for this we must thank the "great arm" of the press. Take, for instance, one of the daily newspapers of New York or any of our large cities. It is a compendium of use? ful knowledge in itself. Its advertise? ments will furnish food for the hungry and mediciue for the sick for a few cents. It informs the poor man where he can get employment, and who will give him most for his labor. The stranger, weary in body and de* spondent in mind, listlessly scans the pages 'of a daily, aud lo! his eyes rest upon that which he most wishes to find ?a home for his family and an opening for his business, The traveler, perplexed with doubt as to time and trains, has only to search the papers, and he will find a schedule that can be relied upon, for, if the slightest change is made in railroad or Bteamboat time, it is immediately cor? rected in the newspaper. There is no medium for the dissemination of truth and knowledge so convenient and perfect as the "press," and yet it is oftentimes abused and made the instrument of ill will and hatred between families and factions. Newspaper controversies are often productive of harm. This is the abuse and not the proper use of the press. Therefore tbey should be conducted with due regard to the rights of othere. They are essential to the settlement of all great questions. But, like any other power, they may be abused and made the means of evil, rather than good. How? ever, this is not the fault of the press, but; of t]ge persons using it. Conse quently tha people should seize this power and control it for high and noble purposes. It was Bulwer who said: "The pen is mightier than the sword." This being true, he who villifies another anonymously through the press is as bad as one who stabs his neighbor in am* bush. Therefore, we should not say or write anything of another which we would not like to have said or written of us. The influence of the press upon society is untold, and it is one of the most potent factors in civilization the world has ever known. It cheers the weary, and is the poor man's best friend, giving employment to teeming thousands it uplifts struggling genius, and carried brightness and solace into the darkened chamber of the sick and Buffering. It is: "Mightiest of the mighty means, On which the arm of progress leans, Man's noblest mission to advance, His woes assuage, his weal enhance, His rights enforce, his wrongs redress Mightiest of mighty Is 'The Press/" Potato Meal. Messrs. Editors s A. few weeks ago I wrote an article to the Cotton Plant recommending the manufacture of sweet potato meal as food for both man and beast. Experiments made and facts as? certained since ?b publication, have convinced me that the subject is really of more importance than I bad Bupposed although I bad no doubt ofitspracti cabi'ity and utility at the time I wrote. There la yet ample lime in which to increase the potato crops and I urge the importance of po doing on all our farmer-*. Cbemis's tell ue that potatoes com? pared with corn are as 3j to one, or that one bushel of corn is equal to 3} of po tatoes as they come out of the ground. Sliced and kiln dried one bushel of po? tatoes is equal to one bushel of corn. Any farmer will corroborate the state? ment that an acre which will produce ten bushels of corn could be safely counted on to yield an hundred bushels of sweet potatoes, which, dried, as above, would amount to 28 4 7 bushels of corn, or an incresae over 10 bushels of corn of 18 4.7 bushels. Practically then the corn acreage of the potato growing section of the country, if plant? ed in potatoes, would increase the amount of food product about three times. Most persons still have some of the last year's crop on hand. Let me ask them to peal about a dozen, slice them about one half inch thick, dry in sun away from flies, and grind in your coffee mills, passing throngh twice or until the meal is about as nee as corn meal. Then beat three eggs with half a cup of sugar, a spoonful of butter, one cup Bweet milk, and half a cup of the potato meal. Bake without crust in a pan and the product is the most deli? cious custard ever tasted and enough for three or four persons. But its great val? ue is for stock. Mules, horses, cows, hogs, and poultry are very fond of it. My scheme is to brush by machinery the dirt off the. potatoes, then without peeling slice by machinery also, dry in a kiln erected for the purpose, then grind in mill made to suit, and instead of put? ting up our crops in banks and cellars to rot, put it in bags and barrels for home use and for export; making it practicable and profitable to ship to dis? tant markets with the risk of frost and divested of the great bulk of water which adds so much to freights. In a future ar? ticle I will go more into the details of my plan, having accomplished the ob? ject in view by calling attention to the important matter of planting larger crops.?If. T. Woodward, in Fairfield News Herald. The Fight Aga hi st Bum. Columbia, June 11.?The indications are that the Prohibitionists will take some part in the election of members of the House of Representatives. Letters received here from the committees throughout the State indicate that con? siderable quiet work is being done, and that the movement is in pretty good Bhape. Sub executive committees have been organized in meat of the counties, and the fight is likely to be made more on the candidates for the Legislature than on the special Nettles box. This box will be of importance chiefly in Charleston, Eichland, and counties of re? cognized non-prohibition sentiment, to get at some idea of the true strength in those sections. Mr. L. D. Childs, the chairman of the executive committee, will make a number of campaign speeches during the next two month?. He will await the arrangements of the executive committee. There is evidently something wrong about the special box. Secretary Net? tles, immediately after the adjournment of the Convention, as instructed, wrote Chairman Irby to inquire whether the box would be placed at the pools, as re? quested by the Convention under the new condition. It is stated that Chair? man Irby has written directly to Chair? man Childs, but as yet no correspondence has been made public, although asked for. It is said that in about a week the executive committee will announce its plan of campaign and the outlook of the movement.?Dispatch to the News and Courier. ^_ ? Last year? Her eyes where rheumy, weak and red, Her breath?you could smell.it afar, She had ringing and dizziness in her head, And the cause of it all was catarrh. This year? Her breath iB as sweet as the meadow hay, Her eyes are as bright as a star, And the cause of the change, she's ready to say, Was the Dr. Sage Cure for Catarrh. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy will poai tively cure catarrh in the head, no matter how bad or of how long standing. Fifty cents, by all druggists. ? John Smith, a prosperous farmer living eight miles east of AnniBton, Alabama, was stung to death by bees two weeks ago. Ho was hiving a swarm of bees, when the limb on which they had swarmed broke, falling upon him. In a moment he was covered with the bees and stung so badly that he died within a few hours, despite all the efforts of two physicians who were called in to attend him. BILL ARP'S TALK. Birthday* have been Quite Numerous In the Arp Famllly. Atlanta Constitution. Yesterday there was another birthday in the family; most everybody has a birth? day, I believe. It is the paternal this time, just two weeks behind the maternal. I am alwayB behind and it looks like I'll never catch up in this sublunary world. Of course, I dident expect anything? nothing hui a kiss or two from the chil? dren and a smile all round. They used to give as many kisses as there were years, but they had to quit that long ago, it would take all day. I found a note on my plate at breakfast and on the outside it said : "Lines to My Husband on His Sixty-Sixth Birthday." I looked and wondered, for I knew it wasent poetry. She never writes poetry, but she speaks a good deal of prose sometimes. When I opened the letter there was the identi? cal check on the bank that I had given her just two weeks ago for her birthday present. She had saved it to give it back to me. Thoughtful woman! Wasent splendid ? Drexel & Co. couldent beat it for financiering. Each of us got $20 and nobody out of pocket a cent. I'll try that again next year. Sixty-six years old I Just beginning to learn something?be? ginning to think, to reflect, to ponder. It is a fact that when a man gets wise enough to live he is about ready to die, and that is right. When we wear out the old clothes we want new ones. Death has no terror to those who live right. There is a beautiful sentiment from a song which says, On parent knees a naked, new-born child, Was weeping, while those around it smiled, Bo II tc that, sinking In thy last long sleep, Calm, thou may'st smile while those around theo weep. A venerable friend of mine who died in heavenly smiles used to say he wished for no warning, but would like to go all at once, like the one horse shay that we read about. He loved to recite from Mrs. Barbauld's verses Life! Wo'vebeen long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather. ? ? * * * * Bay not "good night,'1 but in some brighter clima, Bid me "good morning." Won't that be delightful? For one's own self to wake up in the spirit land with new clothes on and the old ones buried three feet in the ground?buried with all the aches and pains and miseries ?buried and coffined and sealed so that they can't follow you. Poor old carcass ?couldent run nor jump, nor prance nor dance around! Poor old eyes, nearly blind, and ears that couldent hear! Poor old bald head and toothless gums and skinny fingers! Liked to have lived here too long, dident you? What a glorious relief to wake up with your mind and soul and spiritual emotions unfettered and free, and suddenly to know it and feel it! Who wouldent say, "Good morning," to his new self, new clothes and new experience? Who wouldent look with pity upon his mortal remains and say, "Goodby, old, friend, goodby, old torpid liver; farewell, old aching kidneys; farewell, rheumatism and bile and spleen and all internal commotions; farewell, Dr. Kirk and Dr. Green, and the drugstores; goodby, Warner and cod liver oil and S. S. S. and B. B. B. and the Royal Germeteur end Tutt's pills and all your kinsfolks?" But I'm not that far along yet. Sixty six is not bo awful old. I don't compare myself with the young, but with the old? er men, like Gladstone, and with some of the patriarchs, like Moses. We have a grandson who has my name and my birthday. He was twenty yesterday just out of bis teens?and I'm not much older than he is. Fifteen years ago I was ton times as old, but now I'm only three times and a fraction. I'm gaiaing on him, or maybe he is gaining on me, but it is certain we are coming nearer together as the years roll on. His father has al? most caught up with me, and Btrangers take him for my brother. No, I'm not so old. I still love company and jokes and candy and chicken pie and flowers and pretty girls. I still love to go fishing and to see circus processions, and climb to the mountain's top and look down upon the distant prospect and thank my Maker for this beautiful world. We have to climb for everything worth having, and I am willing to climb a little longer. Only sixty-six?but the trouble is I keep getting older every day. If one could stop and call a halt and rest awhile under the shade it wouldn't be so bad, but there is no rest for the wicked. These birthdays are like milestones that mark the journey of life?vsry curious miles, indeed, for they get shorter and Bhorter as the journey goes on. Every? thing shrinks. When I was twenty it seemed a long way back to childhood, and still longer ahead to old age, but tho last forty six years are less than those that were before. I am not far away from tho children now. I can sit on my milestone, and, like a telephone, hear my grandson as he sits on his, "Hello, my boy!" "Hello, grandpa." I hear him faintly, but I hear him, and he is coming on. Poor fellow, ho thinks he will find some? thing great when he gets where I am, and maybe before, but he won't. He will find just what I have found?much care, much trouble, much disappointment, and a lit? tle pleasure It is mixed, badly mixed, but it won't do to brood over. If a man broods over trouble he will hatch it sure. Burns tells us about the old woman who "nursed her wrath to keep it warm." Just so we can brood over little things until they swell up and burst, and a gang of little devils come out of them. Then the good hook says, "Fret not cbyself," which means that it is not somebody else who does it, but it is ourself, and1, it means that wr can keep from it if we try. Fret ting is a bad business, and fret is a bad word, fur it means to oat away, to gnaw, and it does look like a very foolish thing for a man to do, to gnaw on himself. Good gracious, what hills and mountains of trouble we have all conjured up and brooded over that never materializ? ed. But I am Bixty-six years old?too old to be fooled about some things, too old to be alarmed or pain stricken about poli? tics, nr to believe all that tho newspapers say, too old to fear that the nation will fall to pieces if a Democrat is not elected, too old to get scared when Albion Tour gee predicts a horrible massacre in the South within ten years. The viperouB old slanderer, he has been pegging away at us for twenty-five years and will die in the harness, I reckon. Then the old devil will snatch him before he gets cold and make him a trusty over those brute3 and fiends he says we murdered. He keeps a tally sheet and says we murder about one a day. Suppose we deduce half for guessing and lying. That leaves 180 a year for all the twelve Southern States? only fifteen to the State. We will com? promise on that. New York State ave ra? ges a hundred and fifty, so the last cen? sus gays, and they were all white but two or three. I thought maybe that Fort Jervia affair would stop old Albion's mouth, but it dident. That was the fun? niest concern. The coronor was a ring leader in the lynching and then sat upon the body, and when asked about it said he didn't get anything for killing him, but would get $25 for sitting on him. His verdict was that the negro came to death at the hands of persons unknown and yet the State's attorney was there pretending to hunt for the murderers. He and the coroner played blindfold, they say. What is old man Albion going to do about it? I am too old to believe that legislation will do anything for a lazy man or a bad manager or for one who sits down and broods over his misfortunes. I know some who won't mend the front gate nor put a pane of glass in the window nor chop the stovewood nor bring the water, but they go tramping around talking politics, while their wives and children are sup? porting the family by raising chickens and picking berries to take to town. And there are politicians mean enough to fool tbese people, and to make them believe that somebody is imposing on them and has gobbled up their share of the money. Heard a man say not long ago that labor was too high, and corn ought to bring a dollar a bushel. He is worth $50,000, and now he is slipping around as a third party man, and now be wants to go to Congress. A poor man who would vote for him is mighty close kin to a big fool. But there have always been such people, and always will, I reckon, and I am too old to fret about what I cannot help. Nevertheless, I love all my fol lowmen, except Borne, and I love all my fellow-women. May they live long and prosper is the wish of _ Bill Arp. Coming Together for Good Purposes. Anything that will bring the people of the world together will do good. There is everywhere too much mistrust and coldness and staying apart. In general assemblages people are made to know themselves and each other. In crowds where men miogle the conceit is taken out of the conceited, and the timid are encouraged. In union there is strength. The enemy passes between pickets posted too far apart. The house of a political party that is divided against itself cannot stand. A commercial firm cannot continue prosperous when the partners do not speak as they pasB by. Birds of a feather are expected to flock together, but that is not enough. All birds should fleck together, and sing together, and fill the world with their singing. A solitary hunter in the woods is not lonely. Everything that lives there bears bim company. The loneli? ness of a great city is terrible. Men are sheltered under t tie same roof and do not know each other. Iu a garret a man may be starving. In another room is a man who has eaten too much and has more money than he knows well what to do with. Such men need a getting together. A great danger, like a burning house, or an earthquaking, might make friends of them. Shipwrecked men, clinging to a raft in mid ocean for days, have ever Sifter cause to remember each other. Veterans of the war, who touched elbows in the front lice of battle, do not forget the perils they were in together. There were real Christians in the world when men and women suffered martyrdom for their religion. Now that religion is made easy by all modern appliances, and made fashionable by those who have an easy religion, it is not so easy to pick out people who are Christians all the way through. Men readily get together for evil in all sorts of waya. They are not so apt to get together for good. When a stranger comes to town he has no diffi? culty in finding places where he can sin and Bpend his money, llopers will con? duct him if he is willing to be roped. There must be more getting together for good right here and now. Commercial men must get together. Let all the get tings together be for good and much may be accomplished.?Kcowee Courier, Deafness Cannot be Cured By local applications, as they cannot reach the disased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condi? tion ofthemucouB lining of the Eusta chian Tube. When tlm tube gets in? flamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect bearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can te taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, O. JSfSold by all Druggists, 75. ? On the old battle fields of the Ci7il War, shells remaining in the ground are exploded accidentally sometimes. Last summer a tree that had been struck by lightning and which was smoking, was climbed by a negro who was bent on find? ing the source of the myaterious smoke. Just as he was getting up near it, a shell, lodged in the tree daring the war, caught fire and exploded, without hurting him, but it nearly scared him to death. He got down in a hurry and exclaimed, "Fore de Lawd, I thought de war was done ended long 'go." Another History of Flat Hock, This church is located about six milts south of Anderson city on the Leather deal road. It is not without history and usefulness. Some 200 yards west of the public highway is a large flat rock show? ing a surface of one fourth of an acre from which the church derived its name. On the 17th of November, 1832 the church was organized with sixteen mem? bers, ten males and six females. The Rev. John A. Davis was called to the pastorate and Aaron Hall, clerk, all of whom have passed away. The church was organized with members from Moun? tain Creek church. Aaron Hall, Joseph Hall, Jesse Davis, and others were at a log rolling on a cer? tain day, and that day the conversation came up a 3 to the importance of having a church in the community. Doubtless the spirit of Qod suggested the idea to these humble believers as they were en? gaged at hard labor for the temporal sup* port of their families. It was determined either that day or soon thereafter and settled down upon the site near which the present house of worship now stands. Mr. Joseph Hall, father of Aaron and Sanford Hall, was the oldest settler in the community, and owned all the land in and around Flat Bock. He agreed to give two acres of land, and Jesse Davis and David T?te agreed to pay him for two more acres. However, no measures were taken to secure a title for the said j four acres of land. Time passed and the above-named property fell into the hands of Mr. Joab Hall, who made a warrantee title to Mr. Grief T?te for four acres of land on which the log house of worship was built. Mr. Grief T?te holds the ti? tle until this day. Nothing was done towards building a house until they were through working their crops. The above named brethren, together with many others, then went to work and built a large log house of wor? ship which lasted until the year 1856. Joseph Hall and Joel Davis were the first delegates to the convention. The church went to work at once for the Master with that love and zeal that always characterizes the true followers of Christ. In January, 1833, Elder John Vandiver was chosen pastor during that year. The church attracted the atten? tion of the entire surrounding country and the sympathetic eye of other church? es was anxiously looking to the interest of the church. Members would visit them to encourage them in their work of labor and lovo. Nothing of this kind is done nowadays. As a general thing preachers do not now like chem meddling with their pastorates. The church at FlatRrock wasasbarer in the mission? ary troubles in its first few years. In 1839 a petition from the church wa3 sent to the association asking a letter of dis? mission from that body. The petitioners were in the majority. They were all op? posed, not so much to the spread of the gospel, but to the giving of their means to accomplish the end. Tbey, like thousands of others, believed that the gospel would spread itself at its own proper time. The minority also sent a communication explaining the reason why the petition was sent and asked for counsel. A committee composed of El - der A. Williams, Wm. McGee and M. Gambrell were appointed to investigate the condition of the church. At the next meeting of the association the committee reported that serious troubles existed in the church which they could not recon? cile. They found that the majority had declared non-fellowBhip for the associa? tion, but the minority, who consisted of the deacons, clerk, and other prominent members, were recognized as the church, and were advised to keep up regular church services, which counsel '.hey heed? ed, and were fiaally victoriouo. From the year 1833 to the close of 1840 Elder John Vandiver served the church as pastor. At this time the mem? bership numbered 75. In the year 1841 Elder Wm. McGee succeeded Elder Van diver. McGee continued until the close of 1844, at which time from come cause, we cannot tell, the membership had gone down to 20. Elder B. Burriss was the next pastor aud continued until the year 1860 when the church numbered 38. The church worshipped in the log house until the year 1856. The church assumed a new attitude, not through any point of doc? trine which was unbaptistic, being very few in number and some becoming old aud feeble, felt themselves unable to build a new house of worahip?a thing that bad to be done or very eoon th ey would be out of a house. There we re at this time several good Presbyterian fami? lies in the neighborhood, and the late Andrew 0. Norrie being an elder among them. He acted for the others and made a proposition to the Baptists to build a house of worship jointly. After some consideration and the place agreed upon, the two denominations went to work and built a new house of worship, which is now standing. Elder B. Hays preached the first ser? mon in the new house, March 28, 1856. The baptists continued their organization and church work after they entered the new house. The Presbyterians never or? ganized until the year 1888. The Pres? byterians purchased and donated four acres of land adjacent to the first four acres in the year 1856. 4 By an act of the Legislature the property was under the management of a board of trustees. Equal rights and privileges were guaranteed to both de? nominations. No difficulty eve r grew out of it. The Baptist church prospered aud had many gracious revivals. A house of worship is one thing and the church of Jesus Christ i3 emphatically another thing. From the year 1SG0 Elder B. Hays served the church as pastor until the year 1866. Elder J. M. Landers was the next pastor and continued till the close of 1870. In 1871 Elder W. P. Martin was elected pastor and served until the close of 1875. In 1876 Mike McGee was called to the pastorate of the church and served three years. From 1879 Elder W. H. King served the church as pastor un? til the close ol 1884. In 1885 Elder B. Hays was called to the second term and served the church one year. In 1887 El? der H. M. Allen was elected pastor and served the church two yean?. In 1888 Elder W. H. King was elected pastor the second term and served one year. In 1889 Elder T. H. Qarrett was elected pastor, who now stands as watchman npon her towers. The church now numbers 100. It is in a good condition and is doing faithful and earnest work for the Master. In 1889 the church took another new posi? tion, which was universally commended. It determined to have a house of worship of its own. The land being equally owned by the two denominations, the Baptists deemed it unwise to build a new house upon, so Bro. S. C. Hall agreed to deed to the church one acre of land adjacent to the original lot, upon which to erect a new houee. It was accepted by the church and during the year 1890 the new house of worship was completely finished inside and outside. It is valued at $1000 It has a good Sunday school and weekly prayer meeting. The original eight acres of land and house is still equally owned by the two denominations. At this time there are four trustees: Samuel W. Webb, Grief T?te, J. O. Haynie, S. P. T?te. Flat. Female Politicians. The women folks are very active, polit? ically, in this end of the century. They are an important element in running the prohibition movement, which has taken a hand in national contests, and they are now prominent at conventions of all kinds. f At Minneapolis several women were delegates from Oregon and Wyoming, and female lobbyists were on hand from other localities. Many other women took an active part inside and outside of the Republican wigwam. Mrs. Donaldson, of Oregon, was once a j model for a Liberty statue. She is de? scribed as stately, tall, golden-haired, blue-eyed, with a large, resolute mouth. She made some rousing speeches for Blaino. Mr. Donaldson, who, perhaps, has neither a resolute mouth nor deter mined chin, was not alluded to in the newspaper annals. Another Oregon delegate, Mrs. Wol ver? ton , is only 22 years of age. She is witty and oritorical. Her style is theatrical, but effective. Nothing is recorded of her personal pulchritude, and her husband is not even spoken of. Mrs. Blaisdell is called the "Minnesota Blizzard." She is an elderly woman and compared by the scribes to certain hero? ines of the French revolution. Her bus band is probably dead, but may be only left at home to keep house. She was a strong Blaiue partisan. Mrs. Jenkins was a delegate from Wy? oming, and favored Benjamin Harrison for President. Mr. Jenkins -was presum? ably kept in the nursery while his wife was helping run a Republican Conven? tion. There were many women in the audi? ence, wives and widows of distinguished men, who bad vociferous part in the pow? wow. Perhaps man is becoming the weaker vessel, or it may be that many women are getting unsphered, and so doing more harm than good.?Augusta Evening News. His Canary Bird. A Baltimore lady asked Geo. T. Angell, President of the Society for the Preven? tion of Cruelty to Animals, to Bay some? thing for caged canary birds, uept in the hot sun, neglected and suffering, and he responded as follows: I believe that cruelty to a caged bird is a sin in the sight of God, and if those who do it or permit it, are not somewhere held accountable, there is no such thing as justice. I have a canary myself. I would not take a thousand dollars for him if I could not get another. I permit him to fly about our rooms several hours a day. I don't starve him on poor canary seed; I feed him what I think he would like if he could help himself?crumbs of coarse bread and flour bread, crackers, fruit, lettuce, chickweed; and he takes what he likes and refuses what he doesn't like, and is tough and strong and happy as a bird can be. I have had him now going on three years. He p'.aya with me, comes ;o my ringers, shoulders and head. I chase him, and he chases mo, and sings little songs of triumph when I fail to get him. I never leave him in the hot sun. I never hang him up in a hot room to suffer and wilt. I never put him in a cold room to shiver. If he was 3ad, I should be sad, and if be should sicken and die I would shed more tears than I should over some of those who abuse little birds and other so-called dumb creatures. I make him very happy when he is caged by giv? ing him a little mirror, which I hang so that the sun''or lights shall not dazzle him. When I want him to stop singing I always give him the mirror, and he will stand and look at his pretty self for hours, and keep perfectly quiet. He sings in the morning his happy song of thanksgiving, and just before sun? down his evening hymn, and sometimes later I hear his soft, sweet notes, as though he was saying his little prayer to his Maker and mine. 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