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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C WEDNESDAY MOBNIN6, JULY 20, 1892._VOLUME XXVTL?NO. 3. 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 febleuse.. West India Spiced Vinegar?our specialty. Oar 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 yean, of experiment. The result Is arc 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 flavot as- when cold. Especially desirable lor Meats and Vegetables. When used to make Spiced Beef or Spiced Onions it will satis? fy the most fastidious taste. TAYLOR & CRAYTOfS, 4S Granite Row. ?-.TO CLOSE SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, ' In order to clear out all Muds of Goods to idm for a new Fall Stock. I a 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, Lacesv lawns, Muslins5 Bedford Cords, Challies, And, in fact, a nice clean Stock of Spring Goods. A Mg lot of REMNANTS, all kinds oi Goods, to close. Now is your time to get the Childrens' Winter Clothes cheap. . ?r Come and see me. . W. A. CHAPMAN, Agent, Next to Masonic Temple.. LITERALLY WASHED WITH BLOOD. Police do their Duty without respect to Persons. The Wall S?ll Covered with Bloody Gore. T> HE fight was on South Main Street at the Bazaar and Ten Oent Stores of 0. S. Minor & Co. It was an attack of the combined forces of seven other merchants on the famous G. S. Minor. They fought in defence of their prices, which they claimed had been crashed out of all respectability by the said C. 8. Minor, and they fought with desperation to restore the former prices, bat down they go in the dead of the fight, and their blood on onr Store-front only is left to tell a pitiful Uleof woe. - Stranger than Strange. One man claimed that we had reduced the price of Pants to 25c. and 50c. per pair?loss than cost to.make. We don't care. Another claimed that we sell the best quality Mason Fruit Jattat less than he can buy the second quality. We don't care for that, either. Another said onr 10c Hosiery was the same that he had to sell at 15c, or two pair 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 Cops and Saucers for 80c, and his 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 our goods. What concern is that of his ? Another man claims that we sell Tobacco at a starvation price. Has 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 put their blood on our walls and their scalps on our doors, and their customers in possession of undoubted bargains. Say, would yon wash that blood off the wall, or would you let it stay as a warning ? Yours for Spot Cash, _C. S. MINOR, THE BAZAAR and the 10c. STORE. CANE ELS, EVAPORATORS Ai COTTON GINS! TVTE are agents for the Celebrated Kentucky Cane Mills and Hall Seit VY Feeding Cotton Gins. It will pay any person to call and see our Ma? chinery and get our prices before buying, as we feel assured we can save you money, and can sell yen on easy terms. We can bottom and repair old Evaporators, making them as good as new at a small cost. We also manufacture Smoke Stacks, Spark Arresters and Suction Pipes, which every Ginner should have, as it saves time, labor and expense. Oar Stock of Stoves, Tinware, Crockery and House Furnishing Good* 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 sure to call and see us. We will make it to your in? terest to buy your Goods from us. We still hoy RAGS, HIDES and BEESWAX. All kinds ROOFING and GUTTERING done on short notice, and in a thorough workmanlike manner. Yours very truly, PEOPLES & BURKISS. SEASON OF 1892. Womens,' Misses' and Childrens' Fine OXFORD TIES! Duchess, Langtry, Brighton, Elite, Souvenir, Theo, Adonis, Everett and Southern Ties. Juliet, Strap, House and Opera Slippers. YACHTING and LAWN TENNIS SHOES. JAS. P. GOSSETT & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Boots and Shoes, Anderson, S. C, under Hotel Chiqrjola. I^??H^'?OI/?MN -BfiR All Communications intended fo this Column should be addressed to C WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An derson, 8. 0. MEMOEY GEMS. "The Devil does not love any one, but he hates the Christian." ? ? * "True freedom is to Bhare All the chains our brothers wear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free." Miss Lottie Crosby is still at work at Hopewell. She is conscientious in her work, and tries to do her duty. Mr. W. H. Shearer is teaching at Ridge Spring, in Rock Mills District Ho is a competent teacher. ?Prof. Clayton is in charge of the school at Slab town. He has the reputation of being an able instructor and trainer. Mr. J. L. Eskew is again at work at Carswell Institute. The patrons of this school made a wise choice in his selec tiou. Mrs. 0. 0. Burriss is at work in the I Hunter's Spring school, in Centerville District. She has nn superior as teacher,_ j Miss Janie Gray, of Williams ton, has charge of the Viola school near Pelzer We have confidence in her ability, and shall expect good work f?Vm her. Mr. W. M. Strickland, is the teacher at Whiteplains. He is a young man able and willing to give good reBults. At an early day we will call to see him, Miss Lelia Browne has re-opened her school at Trinity with a good attendance, which has been continually increasing. Miss Lelia. is a teacher of merit add worth. Miss Rose 0. Greer has takes charge of the Cross Roads School, in Hopewell District. She, ranks among our best teachers. Her patrons will regret to give her up at the end of two months. "THE MODEL FUPlL ? In the beginning of this composition I will first try to give a good definition of the word '.'pupil" A "pupil" is a learner. It is often thought by many that ft "pupil" is one who^learns only from a book or a special instructor* It is -a mistake. A "pupil" is one who learns from anything, whether it is & book, an instructor, nature, or anything else.. , A "model pupil" is a pupil who con? ducts himself so well and properly in every respect that he sets a good exam? ple for others to follow. To be a "mode) pupil" many different things are to be observed. Many people, and especially the pupils themselves, seem to think that to be a "model pupil" the ? pupil must conduct himself properly only at the school house, and that when he is at other places it makes no difference in what manner he behaves himself. They are badly mistaken. "Papilu" are not judged in the school room. They are judged by the way they conduct them? selves in all places, at home and abroad. The "model pupil" is always punctual. Whenever the school bell rings, in the morning or at recess, he is at bis post of duty. He never loiters on his way to Or from school. You never see a "model pupil" hanging around bar rooms and other places of bad reputation. But, on the other hand, as soon as school is dis? missed you see him going peacefully and quietly home. A "model pupil" is always obedient. He obeys every command and every wish of his teacher. If an unusually long les? son is assigned him he does not say, "I can't" learn it, but his motto is, "I will do the best I can."' A "model pupil" always studies well, and, as a consequence, has perfect les? sons in the school room alone. He must study both at home and at school. The "model pupil" studies both at home and at school, and does not lay his book down until his lessons are perfect. The "model'pupil" is agreeable and attentive to every one. He makes no enemies, but on the other hand makes hosts of friends. Does any one doubt the pleasure of the "model pnpil ?" For can any one be unhappy when he has no enemies, but can safely regard every ac? quaintance as a friend ? The good that comes * from being a "model pupil" is great. It is obliged to come. It cannot be kept back. It Is needless to say anything of the success of a "model pupil.'' A "model pupil" is bound to and will succeed, whether the fates are with him or against him. ? It's sometimes said patent medi eines are for the ignorant. The doctors foster this idea. "The people," we're old, "are mostly ignorant when it comes to medical science." Suppose they are! What a sick man needs is not knowledge, but a cure, and the medicine that cures is the medicine for the sick. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures the "do believes" and the "don't believes." There's no hesitance about it, no "if" nor "possibly." It says?"I can cure you, only do aB I direct." Perhaps it fails occasionally. The makers hear of it when it does, because they never keep the money when the medicine fails to do good. Suppose the doctors went on that principle. (We beg the doctors' pardon. It wouldn't do!) Choking, sneezing and every other form of catarrh in the head, is radically cured by Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Fifty cents. Sold by druggists every? where. ? Rev. Mr. Moore, of Bo3ton, has in his possession a diary kept by his great? grandfather, in 1853, at which time the latter began his sixty years' labor as a minister in Portland, Maine. The old time parson records in the diary that on Sunday bis opening prayers lasted an hour and a quarter, and he remarks that he was "wonderfully sustained through? out." And in those days it was the custom farthe congregation to stand during the THE GENTLEMAN. Annual Address Dellve ed by Mr. P. A. S to vail, of Savannah, Ga., at the Recent I P..AI. I. Commencement. How many generations make a gentlo man ? How long does it take to evolve from culture and wealth and training that peculiar product of our civilization of which we hear so much and see so lit* tie ? As the world goes, every man is a gentleman. The lawyer before the jury box assumes, for the sake of his client, that there are gentlemen before him. The statesman on the stump takes it for granted that every member of bis party, at least, is a gentleman. Society accepts every man as a gentleman until he shows himself the contrary. You can find a fight anywhere in this State by telling the first man you meet, however aban? doned or depressed you know him to be, that he is no gentleman. And yet a gentleman is not such a commo n article after all. Not every man who wears fine clothes and shows good manners is a gentleman. Not every coin bearing the words, "in God we trust," ia a sound dollar, no matter how polished or shapely. Frequently it lacks the ring and weight of an honest dollar. It may not when melted down bring its face value. A gentleman has a dollar's worth of true metal in him. There is nothing base or deceptive in his alloy. He may be bright and well kept, or dull and blunted by age, poverty or use; he may not bear upon his face the sharp stamp and showy eagle of his nation, but when he is sounded or measured in any coun? try in the world he proves that he is all that ho pretends to be. Every nation has had itj type of gen? tlemen. He abounds in all history, and dignifies every page of literature. Bru? nos Benedict and Hotspur were gentle* men of Shakespeare's creation. Nicho los Midleby and Tom Pinch and Sidney Ooulton, of Dickens, were gentlemen, and brave Col. Newcome, whom Thack? eray has made immortal, was par excel? lence the gentleman. Fortunately for mankind the gentleman has not been rare. He has flourished in lands of snow and lands of sun. He is not confined to class or continent. Jap or Hiodo, Ma lay or Cancassian, the gentleman io known by his words not by his nativity. Bat if I had to point out the perfection of the gentleman I should say he lived in the South. Here in this land where the skies are sunniest and the stars are brightest; where flowers spring peren? nial from the time that "spring winds,her merry hum to call them from their win? try bed;'' where nature Is softer and man more careful and considerate, here time has built up from generations of good men and women that composite of character, culture, courage and chivalry which. we call the gentleman. He has been the occasion of much satire, the object of some envy. He has been car ricatured?.bia broad hat, his long hair, his effusive hospitality, his keen sense of honor, his quick sympathies. His pe? culiarities have been the butt of puritan? ical reform, which assumes all virtue, which tends to meddle in everybody's affairs and make everybody good. His provincialism, his lordly superiority may have been at the bottom of the four years war?the cause of the civil and political revolution. Possibly the corner-stone of the Confederacy was the Southern gen? tleman, not the Southern slave. The Southern gentleman was quaint and provincial. He was a trifle lordly and independent. His lineage was long, but his oaths were short; his coat and his prejudices were ample; his vest-coat was as bright as his courage, and beloved God and feared no man. He was quick to pay his debts or to resent an insult. He seldom failed to endorse a note for his friend. He was ready to share with his guest the product of smoke-house or sideboard. He swore by Calhoun and believed in the code. He lived very numerously in South Carolina. But we love the quaint old gentleman for the enemies he has made. He had little in common with the thrifty son of New England, who planted his mill on every stream and chased every rainbow for its bag of gold. The two men were antagonistic from their birth. The hustling Yankee lad who beat the snow from his boots and started out from his rug? ged hi 11s" to make his home in other fields, "Where stern New England's mother seut him forth abroad, even as the eagle shakes her fledglings from her back and bids him seek the glories and the dangers of the air," was made of different stuff from the leisurely Southern farmer, who lived in green fields by the still waters and followed his life in the same laud where his father and his grandfathers and great grandfathers lived before him. It was the Southern gentleman who went out to meet Oglethorpe when he landed, and with true courtier courtesy offered his help and his protection to es? tablish the young colony of Georgia. It was the Southern gentleman who met the English at Cowpens and King's Moun? tain and dedicated this land to liberty. It was the Southern gentleman who stir? red up rebellion jn the hornets' nest of North Carolina, who signed the delara tion of Mecklenburg; it was a Southern gentleman who framed the Philadelphia declaration of independence. The names of Geo. Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Mon? roe, Lee, Jackson and Hampton made illustrious for a half a century the sta? tion of a Southern gentleman. He framed the Game law of this land, and when he was confronted by a serious cri? sis in his country's history he declared that the Union, without the Constitution, bad no claim upon him. He braved the shifty oensure of shame, And on the field of battle pledged a sol? dier's fame. I know that in this practical world the model of the old-school gentleman is not too popular. He is looked upon as vis? ionary and obsolete. His dignity and courtesy and chivalry mark him as the product of another civilization. But with all his provincialisms and devotion to the past, we still regard him as the balance wheel of the Republic. Wealth did not allure him from the straight path ; poli? tics did not tempt him to baseness. The demagogue had no following in his household. The speculator was^oot a man after hjs own heart, lifce David, He did not ran after false gods, or worship, mammon to the exclusion of all else. He worked for wealth, but he valued some? thing more than wealth. His patriotism did not lead him into office. His cupid? ity did not sink him into scandal. It was Justice L. Q. C. Lamar who made immortal the sweet and pure asso? ciations, the pure and refining atmos? phere, the tranquil yet active operations of a large Southern landowner. How full of interest- and high responsibility, how generous the hospitality, how care* ful, patient, provident and industrious the head of the farm. These were the qualities that enabled him to take a race ' of savages with no arts or traditions of civilization and make them the finest body of laborers in the world. He pene? trated the dense forest, the tangled swamps year by year amidst exposure, hardships and BicknesB. With prudence, foresight and self-reliance subdued all the forces of nature, and brought the slave up near the level of an American citizen. He was the man whose life fit? ted him to emerge from the solitude of his farm, preside in the County Court, or become a member of the State Legisla- i tare, to discharge the duties of local magistracy, or to take his place in the National Council. The habits of indus? try, of firmness of purpose, fidelty to dependents, self-reliance and adherence to justice in all the relations of a life of a Southern slave-holder, which were nec? essary to the management of a well or? dered plantation, fitted him to guide legislatures and to lead armies. Senator Geo. F. Hoar, of Massachu? setts, declared that the Southern gentle? man, wherever he goes is not a pier, but a prince. They have a love of home; they have, the best of them and the most of them, inherited from the great race from which they came a sense of duty, an instinct of honor as no other people on the face of the earth. They have not the mean traits that grow up somewhere in places where money making is the chief end of life. They have above all, and giving value to all, that snpreme and superb constancy which, without regard to personal ambition, without yielding to the temptation of wealth, without getting tired and without getting divert? ed can pursue a great public object in and out, year after year and generation after generation. Southern leaders in Congress, said Mr. Blaine in his book, occupied a commanding position. These leaders constituted a remarkable body of men. They were admirably trained as debators, end became highly skilled in the managements of parliamentary bod? ies. As a rule they were liberally edu? cated. Their secluded mode of life on the plantation gave, them leisure for reading and reflection. They took pride in their libraries, pursued tha law bo far as it Increased their equipment for a public course, and devoted themselves to public affairs with an absorbing ambi? tion. Their domestic relations imparted manners that were haughty?sometimes offensive. They were quick to take offence, and not unfrequently brought needless personal disputation into the discussion of public questions, but they were almost without exception men of high integrity, and they were especially and jealously careful of the public money. Too often ruinously lavish in their personal expenditures, they be* lieved in an economical Government, and throughout the long period of their domination they guarded the treasury with rigid and unceasing diligence against every attempt at extortion and against every form of consumption. If there was one thing which marked the Southern gentleman it was his gen? tleness to woman. Not obsequious like the Spaniard, or intrigueing like the Italian, yet be bore in his heart that tender and considerate feeling, which made him a protector without being a lover, a champion without being a quix? otic knight. He mentioned her name without reverence; he approached her with respect; he treated her with kind? ness, and he loved her in the gentler and finer qualities which graced the Southern matron. He accepted religion?this Southern gentleman. He studied philosophy and followed science in her tending, but he did not become a skeptic. The sacred Scriptures were accepted as the best guide in earthly conduct?the best hope of the hereafter.- Old ideas like these are worth cherishing, my young friends. In many respects we have made progress since then, but the simplicity and noble mindedness of our fathers are things to be venerated and revered. I said we had progressed since that elder day. So we have. I am glad to say we have lived and moved, and have turned our faces toward the morning. Old institutions have moulded, and a younger generation has come up in the light of newer duties and newer problems. The gentleman lives to? day just as numerously as he lived before; but let us have a care in this restless, rushing world, that we do not miss some of the softness, simplicity and sincerity of the olden times. Oh! this is a vital age. Civilization and commerce are forging ahead with all the impact of brains and push. Every man is an ocean steamer with a twin screw propellor and a compound engine. Every nation ia the camp of mighty armies, driving forward with impetuons speed and swiftly forming iu the ranks of war. 0, it ia good to be here amid all this energy and mind and action. The air of this century is bracing. Frizes glisten like icebergs before us, and the ground is criBp under our feet. But, young men, have a care, lest in this overpowering charge to be great and prosperous, we miss the best essence of life?that some? thing in the home and heart of man that marks the perfect gentleman. Birth will not make a gentleman, Not all the blood of all the Howards will dignify and ennoble cowards, and a gen? tleman must not be either a fool or a coward. Wealth will not make a gentleman. Money will buy houses and lands, and wives and offices, the flattery of fools and the consideration of the inconsiderate, the jealousy of the weak and the admira? tion of the vulgar. Education will not make a gentleman, There ia no purifying influence in the mere acquisition of knowledge. Scoun? drels and ruffians have been cultivated and intellectual. Chesterfield nor Bean Brammel nor Ward McAllister ever christened a people gentlemen. Sailors cannot produce him, society cannot fashion him and colleges cannot perfect him. He comes fresh from the hand of | God, with the lessons learned at the knee 1 offcis mother, with virtue and honor and dignity, truth and gentleness, He loves his neighbor, but scorns a lie, He hates a demagogue, and he clings to his native State?his country. The words upon your banner, "Truth, Duty, Honor" should be blazoned upon his shield. Shooting Affray at Central. Greenville News, July 13. The people of the city were anxious all day yesterday to learn the particu? lars of the shooting at Central of Wil? liam F. Gary, well known here, by Ma? jor Whitner Symmes,* of this city. The facts could not be obtained until last night. Gary ia almost as well known here as Major Symmes. He was for many years a deputy marshal, but for some time has been a constable for Trial Justice Gar vin, at Central. The following special was received from Central by the News last night: . -Centeal, S. C, July 13.?At 5.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon W. F. Gary entered Maj. Whitner Symmes' office and five minutes afterward leaped out of | a rear window with a No. 38 pistol ball in his cheat and with a contusion in his groio made by a ball fired through a back door. As he rsn around behind the ho? tel a third shot was fired, but did not strike him. Major Symmes had asked Gary into his office and began to ask Gary about some money that he Gary had collected for Symmes and for which he was said to have made no return, Major Symmes says that Gary called him a G?d d?d ??-, whereupon Ma? jor Symmes says he ordered Gary out of | the office. He went out, but immedi? ately returned, cursing and threatening. Symmes went to a satchel, took out a pis? tol and fired aud kept firing until Gary escaped through the window of a rear room. Gary closed the pertition door as he went into the back room and the last shots were fired through the door or one of them would have killed him. Symmea was carried to Pickens court house this afternoon where he will at? tempt to get bail. Gary Is slowly sinking and the physi? cians think his death is only a question of J time. A fuller statement of Major Symmes has been obtained by a News reporter from another source. Major Symmes owns much property in Central and Pickens county, and has an office at Central. After Gary bad used the vilest epithet to Major Symmes, the latter, the statement is, ordered him out of the of? fice twice. Gary did not go at once and Major Symmes stepped into a rear room to get bis pistol which was in his satchel. He returned but Gary had gone out. Major Symmes laid the pistol on his desk and began writing. Gary reentered the room and attempted to pull Major Symmes from the stool on which he was sitting. Major Symmes got away from Gary, seized the pistol and shot him. Gary ran into the rear room, closing the door between him and Ma? jor Symmes. Then he appeared to be endeavoring to ^et back into the front room, and, not knowing but that he had some weapon, Major Symmes fired through the door. Major Symmes exhib? its a bruise) on one hand which, he says, was made in the scuffle with Gary-. Gary's statement is that he was shot without the least justification or warning He says that Major Symmes polled the pistol from his pocket and shot him. The feeling at Central is said to be against Major Symmes. Gen. Jos. H. Earle, of this city, who has been at Pickens attending court and who was ready to return here, received word to remain there to represent Major Symmes in his application for bail. It is not likely that bail will be granted until it is seen whether Mr. Gary will recover. Tbare were no eye witnesses to the shooting. ? There is more Catarrh in this sec-1 tion of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local rem? edies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and there? fore requires constitutional treatment, Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They oner one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars aud testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. ??*Sold by all Druggists, 75. ?I remember to have heard Dr. Deems, of the "Church of Strangers," in New York, say this good thing to those who think they count for nothing, and that there is nothing in the way of moral or religious work which they can do: "You can at least put yourself on the right side. If you can do no thing yourself, take your stand at the right hand of some one who can, and you may multiply his power." ? Bright people are the quickest to re? cognize a good thing and buy it. We sell lots of bright people the Little Early Ri? sers. If you are not bright these pills will make you so.?Wilhite & Wilhite. ' ? A farmer near Sherman, Texas, un? earthed last week what he and the local scientists believe to be the skeleton of a mastodon, The ponderous jaws are in? tact, and one tooth taken from them weighs three and a half pounds. One of the tusks, in a fair state of preservation, is five and a half feet long. ? It is a fixed and immutable law that to bavo good, sound health one must have pure, rich and abundant blood. There is no shorter nor surer route than by a course of Do WHt's ?Sarsapavilla.?Wilhito $ Wilhite, BILL ABB'S TALS. Arp says Everything Is all right. j Atlanta Constitution. Everything looks hopeful. Even the pessirr' ts and third party folks must admit t,hst the prospect for better times Is bright and grows brighter as the rea? son advances. I have recently travelled overlive States and have never seen more promising crops, The wheat and oats are already harvested. The corn is on a strut and much of it is secure even though a drought should set in. Of course there is enough cotton made and as the reports show less acreage, then the price must go up in proportion, Be? sides all this the people have been re? trenching in their family expenses. We are at my house, and we are trying to follow the Irishman's advice, who said that the way to get rich was to buy nothing that you are obliged to have. I never saw such gardens, and it is a luxu? rious pride to me to go out before break* fast and dig the potatoes and I can almost hear them murmuring in the ground and saying "Git further?make room quit scourging me." We are on the second' crop of beans and the third of peas and the tomatoes are six feet high and loaded with fruit. I have got them staked and ridered and tied and can al? most see them grow. Squashes and onions and cucumbers and beets and okra are abundant, and green corn and sweet potatoes are in sight and with a little piece of bacon for seasoning what more does a poor man want ? Then there are apples and berries all over the country and sugar is cheap and any body can have a dessert if they are not too lazy to make it. One of my little grandchildren was trying to learn her chatechism for Sunday School and when her r .other asked her "Why should you love God ?" she answered "Because He makes preserves." She was very near it?near enough for a child of four years old. Even politics seem to be in a healthy condition and the conservative press all over the country admits that both Har? rison and Cleveland are good men men of principle and honorable in their conduct and pure in their domestic re? lations. In fact, Harrison would be a gentleman but for his prejudices against the south. I told my wife that the country was safe, for Harrison and Cleveland and Beid and Stevenson were all Presbyterians, and in any event the doctrine of election would be confirmed. She never even smiled at my wit but plied her needle and thread as she said, "Will we never have a Southern presi? dent again?" "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth," said I, "and our chil? dren will live to see the south on top again. Mr. Oates, of Alabama is the man for me. He has got his bill through at last. It passed without a dissenting voice and now rebels can hold office in the army and navy just like the yankees." "ind confederate money >will be good again 7" said she. She has some hun? dred-dollar bills that are drawing inter* est and she looks at them sometimes and ruminates. I think she counts the inter? est. Now, let everybody strike for Cleve? land and if we can elect him I believe it will be the dawn of a new era?an era of better feeling between the north and south. Another Mr. Oates will come to the front and demand equal rights for our liviog and oar dead and the north will grant them. They are relenting now and have backed down from the force bill and even :he Tribune says there is no issue but protection. That's fair and square. That is the way it used to be in the good old times. The whigs were for protection and the democrats against it. The whigs were for internal improve? ments and the democrats against them. The whigs were for a strong central gov? ernment and the democrats for state rights. The whig changed their name to republicans and carried all their meas? ures but it took war to do it, and they spent the nation's money like it was water and they have fastened upon the people a programme that takes a bil? lion dollars a yoar to run it. This thing must stop. This tariff must be reformed, or I will have to quit buying pocket knives for grandchildren. The very same two-bladed knife I used to by from Bain & Kirkpatzick for 50 cents is now 65, and they say it is the McKinley bill. Thsy have got in Borne one of the best ar? ranged post offices in the south and the rent was only $600 a year, bat as all the smart young cities of the nation were getting an appropriation for a govern? ment building, Rome put in for one and Mr. Clements log-rolled with the other congressmen and got one for Rome that will cost $75,000; and Mr. Grimes got one for Columbus, and I saw a splendid one at Vicksburg, and, as Cobe says, "they are getting more thicker and more denser all over the country," and if this great paternal government is to be run this way, we want one at Cartersville, and one at Acburaville, and one at Kingston, and a few small ones at Finelog, and Possum trot and Shake-rag and Bluegiz zard?why not ? But this thing has got to stop or the government will be bank? rupt. In fact, a man told me that an? other man told him that Dan Rountree had the papers already draws up to put the whole concern in the hands of a re? ceiver-if Mr. Olevelacd wasent elected. And Dan will do it. I asked Captain Tom Lyon how come the Alliance to bust up and drop the suWeasury so sud? denly and be said it was because they found out there was no treasury to sub. The boys are holler in for free silver now and they expect to get a lot of it as so on as the bill is passed and the president signs it. They remind me of young birds in a nest and every time the old bird comes they open their mouths ana stretch tbeir necks and say "Daddy, drop a bug in here." And now the peoples, party is yelling for bugs and every delegate who went to Omaha wants an office. What we want in congress as our representa? tives are true men, honest men, able men, such as Turner and Blount and Nat Hammond. We want no hypocrites, or time-servers, who ride a hobby until it is worn out and then jump on another and gull the people and say: "Justsend me back again and I'll fix it all up. I've almost got ifc fixed now," Thsy j want to be vindicated. There is bat one issue and that ia reform. Not only tar? iff refor_ but reform in the expenses. How can the tariff be reformed to do any good unless the waste is stopped ? If ev? ery congress is to spend a billion it will take a higher tariff than we have got for it now, for it is through the tariff that the money comes. The force biH was a right big booger for awhile but it- will play out. They couldent pass it if they wanted to and they couldent execute it if they passed it. It is a politician's scarecrow?a hobby to ride on. The sooth owes a duty to herself and should give Mr. Cleveland every vote she has got. I went in the postoffice at Yicks burg and bought a money order from a nice young lady and I saw several more in there?all white?and when I asked a friend who the postmaster was, he said he was a negro by the name of Hill and he lived at Jackson but came, over occasionally and stayed a day and went back. And now Mr. Harrison has ap? pointed a negro politician as postmaster of Charleston. Of course he promised these offices to them for the colored vote of their States in the nomination and it is all light for him to keep his promises and pay his political debts ,* but it was dishonorable to make such a bargain and it is]an insult to our people. That is the way to keep the south solid and he knows it. Some of his. own delegates at Minneapolis were refused hotel privi? leges there except at the hotel for col? ored --pple, yet he maliciously thrusts upon us negro officials with whom we have to como in constant contact. Mr. Cleveland would not do that. If Mr Cleveland is elected it will be by the vote of the solid south and I'll bet be will do a good part by her next time. I think I will take a good little fat office myself next year, for I'm getting too old to work much and I want "sinecure" orja "tine qua non," or some easy office with big pay and little work. Then hurrah for Grover and reform 1?hurrah for Frankie and Bath ! There is one good about Mr. Cleveland's candidacy?they can't tell any new lies on him. He is a better citizen than he was before, for now he is a family man. He has some? thing better than fame to live for. All other things being equal, I had rather trust a man with a pretty wife and baby to match than a man without them; and speaking as though I was not present, I had rather trust a patriarch with ten children than a man with one?especial? ly when the patriarch is a woman ivhose surname is Arp. Bill Abp. Bermuda Grass. One of the most remarkable grasses known to man is the Bermuda grass, common throughout the Southern States. Once thoroughly set it forms such a com? pact mass of roots that the washing of j river backs and levees on which it is planted for their protection is effectually prevented. It has many a time saved hundreds of valuable plantations from disastrous overflow. It will grow on almost any soil, rich or poor, sandy or loam, clay, or anywhere else that its roots are dropped and cover? ed they take hold and rapidly spread; in a short time, comparatively speaking, if j taken care of and given sunlight, will make the finest meadow on earth. It will grow in the shade to some extent bat not eo luxuriously as in the open mead? ow. If not pastured?and no meadow grass should be until after the hay is taken off J for the last time in the fall, and not then (and indeed never) in wet weather?it will yield remarkable results in superb hay. If desired to pasture only, it makes the most desirable green food known to science, containing more fattening and strengthening elements than any green grass ever discovered. It possesses anoth? er valuable property, unknown to many people familiar with it. Its closely mat? ted roots grow so dense and near the sur? face that the largest proportion of them decay into vegetable mold daring the winter and early spring months, furnish? ing its own fertilizer to old wornoutland; and yet there are enough roots left to send this remarkable plant out into the early spring sunlight before other grass roots come to life. And still another remarkable fact?this grass does not exhaust the soil by taking its elements to sustain growth. It draws its sustenance from the air?-taking in the (to animal life) poisonous nitrogen and converting it into food suitable for all the beasts of the field. Instead of exhaust? ing the soil, it taken that which the soil needs from nature's great atmospheric storehouse, and with it enriches the most barren soils of onr hills or valleys, be they composed of poorest clay or richest sandy loam. Engaged in cotton planting we fear our people have never appreciated this wonderful forage plant, which we predict will in the not distant future prove the j greatest boon ever known to the Southern farmers. Driven out of the cotton busi? ness, after a desperate struggle of a quar? ter of a century, our Southern farmers ! have discovered that the longer they bow allegiance to King Cotton the poorer they become. They must and will change their tactics. The limit has been reached when the merchants of the country are compelled in self-protection to decline advances on cotton as they are doing tL> year. The Southern farmer cannot do better, iu the face of the present situa? tion, than to begin, if even in a small way, to get a little fine live stock around him. This can be easily cared for by starting a few acres of Bermuda grass pasture. As the stock increases let him increase the pasture, and then set some of it apart for a hay meadow. Once start? ed in this line his future is assured. Ber? muda grass, a fine cow or two, a brood mare or two, some blooded sheep and a little attention will lay the foundation of prosperity, and in fact if pursued long enough will bring any small farmer a competency if not a fortune in* this fa? vored climate.?Southern Cultivator. ? A Portland (Me.) man has invented a bicycle engine which he claims will propel the 'cycle at a speed far greater than that of our fastest passenger trains. ? Mrs. L. R. Patton. Rockford, 111. writes: "From personal experience I can recommend De Witt's Sarsaparilla, a euro for impure blood aud g?poraldebility."? Wilhite & Wilhite, All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The forts around Paris have suffi? cient food to last three years. ? In an artificial light the waste is over ninety per cent. ? A woman in Oregon has worked twenty-three years as a professional stone* cutter. ? Seventy per cent, of the railroad passenger cars of Massachusetts are heated by steam. ? ? There are 413 species of trees found within the limits of the United States and Territories. ? The woman question: Now isn't this a pretty time of night for you to get home ? ? The banana yields a larger supply of food for man than any'other plant on a similar extent of ground. ? It has been scientifically demonstra? ted that the earth's axis once every 487 days undergoes a distinct oscillation. ? The microscopists say that a mos? quito has twenty-two "teeth" in the end of its bill?eleven above and eleven below. ? Do you use nightcaps ? asked hia sweetheart. Yes, love, he replied, with . a little sugar, and she could not think what he meant. , ? Jeus: I think it's nice to be married on one's birthday,don't you? Bess: ! don't know; I have known it to bring bad lack,; look at Eve. ? The highest bridge in Pennsylvania is at Bradford, McEean County. It is. about 2,000 feet long, and its height from the stream below is ?01 feet at the-center of the structure. ? From Maryland comes a curious remedy for chilis and fever. Take the skin from the inside of an eggshell, go to a yonng persimmon tree three days in succession and tie a knot in tbe skin each,' day. ? Quill pens are still much in use in Qreat Britain. A tradition exists in the law courts there that no document woujd be strictly legal if written with any pen other than a quill. ? A. man on a wedding tonr may be recognized even if his bride is not with him. When be meets women he looks at their clothes instead of their faces. He is beginning to wonder what such duds cost. ? She: I think a girl is very foolish to marry a poor man. He (piqued): Yes, she is, but not half so foolish as another person whom I might name. .Whom? The poor man who marries that sort of a girl. ? So you enjoyed yonr visi!< to the Zo? ological Gardens, did yon ? inquired a ' young man of his adored one's little Bis? ter. "Oh, yes! And you do know, we saw a camel there that screwed its mouth and eyes round awfully, that sister said look- . ed exacsly like yon when yon recite poe? try at evening parties." ? Wolves are so plentiful in South Dakota that the cattle men are arranging for the biggest hunt on record. Rewards of ?10 a head for old wolves are offered, and it is expected that thousands of the animals will be killed. They have in? creased enormously within a few years,2' as there has been little or no hunting. ? Fran Prcbsti, who enjoyed the dis? tinction of being the heaviest woman in Europe, has just died in Traubnrig, iu Bavaria, at the age of 41. At her death she weighed 550, and on account of her i enormous weight it was impossible to car? ry her coffin from the first story nfthe'"*" house in which she lived. Consequently' boards were put down the staircase, over which the coffin was slid. -~ Younger Brother?Nellie, if you'd lived in the days of Annanias and Sap- ? phi ra you would have been dead long ago. Nellie (ind/gnaut)? I am sure, Bobby, I never told what wasn't true in my life. How can you be so unkind. Younger Brother?Why, they lived about 1,800 years ago. You wouldn't have hung on as long as this, would y ou. ? Mr. V. M. Eogers, of Cavins, S. C, had a minnie ball cut out Of his body re? cently, which he had carried for twenty eight years. He was wounded at the blow-up of Petersburg, the ball entering the upper part of the shoulder, shivering the shoulder-blade, and lying under it. The ball was taken out below and a little back of the armpit. It has been movi^ downward for several years, giving Mr. Bogers severe pain. The operation was performed by Dr. Lanham, of Cavins,' and Dr. Allen, of Blackstock. Mr. Eog? ers is doing well, and his physicians and friends hope for a speedy recovery-for him. i ? Among the other great things, the ? number of high mountains in this country.:* is a remarkable feature. Including those of Alaska, there are three hund/ed and , sixty mountains in in the Unit/ States/ exceeding ten- thousand feet-'' i height. Most are in the Rocky and Sierra Nevada ranges, and the greatest number are found in Colorado and Utah. In Alaska, however, are the highest, there being in that territory five which each exceed fif? teen thousand feet, and Mount Elias, also in Alaska, nineteen thousand five hun? dred feet high, is the loftiest peak in the United States territory. ? An Athens widow was in great luck yesterday. A few days ago she purchased a dozen chickens from a popular dealer. There is nothing unusual about ..that. She had killed all these chickens but one old hen, and had concluded to save it, as she thought the hen to be a very good "setter." Yesterday morning, however, the hen being chased by a dog, snagged one of her eyes out by flying into a barb? ed wire fence. The lady at once killed the hen and began to prepare for a chick? en pie. When she cut into the chicken's craw imagine her surprise to find a bright $5.00 gold piece. She says it beats buy? ing prize boxes to invest in such chickens. Perhaps if the owner of the hen knew of it, he would claim the money as his. The good lady says she would like to know if she has "killed the hen that laid the golden egg."?Athens, (Ga.) Banner. - . - Bucfclens Arnica Salve The best calve in the world for Outs Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Cbft blains, Co?no, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded, Price 25 cents per box,, For sale by Hill Bros, 1 I