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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTOK ANDERSON, S. C WEDNESDAY MOBNING, AUGUST 25, 1892._ VOLUME XXVn.-NO. 8. jesse b> smith. a. a. bristow. WHEN YOU GO TO GREENVILLE Call and see the Handsomest and Newest line of Olotlimg, Hats and Farnishings, Tp l>e Found in the City, Ob send US an order, which we will gladly fill, and if not satisfactory to be returned at our expense, SMITH & BRISTOL Clothiers and Furnishe;s, Greenville S. C. > We have in Vinegars the very Best Qualities obtainable and at Seasonable Prices. Apple (Cider Vinegar?four years old. c 7 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 'wtth Wcsi India P 'ces. The combination of imported Spices for the production of this Pine Vinegar ^as 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 ( wi'J. throw off the same fragrance and flavor as when cold. Especially desirable for Meats and Vegetables. When used to make Spiced Beef or Spiced Onions it will satis? fy the most fastidious taste. TAYLOR & CRAYTON, . 42 Granite Bow. TO CLOSE - SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, In or der 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, Challies, And, in fact, a nice clean Stock of Spring Goods. A big lot of REMNANTS, all kinds ot Goods, to close. Now is your time to get the Childrens' Winter Clothes cheap. *&" 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 Still Covered with Bloody Gore. Jl HE fight was on South Main Street at the Bazaar and.Ten Cent Stores of 0. S. Minor & Co. It was an attack of the combined forces of seven other merchants ou the famous 0.8. Minor. They fought in defence of their prices, which they claimed Jjad been crushed oat of all respectability by the said C. S. Minor, and tt ev fought with desperation to restore the former prices, but down they go in the diitxiof the figbtr^d their blood on our Store-front only is left to tell a pitiful tste ot woe. ': '' ' . Stranger than Strange. One man claimed that we had reduced the price of Pants to 2?c. and 50c. per piir?leas than cost to make. We don't care. Another claimed that we sell the bsat qualify Mason Fruit Jar at less than he can buy the second quality. We don't cure for that, either. Another said our 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 mao|believes that we are selling his 40c Cups and Saucers for 30c, and hi* -65c 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 ? i Another man elaims that we sell Tobacco at a starvation price. Has he any light to object ? *s These are some of tire complaints made against us. We ask you whose busi? ness ? it, if not that of oar 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 oar doors, j sod their customers in possession of undoubted bargains. Say, would you wash tnat 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 AND COTTON GINS ! *ttte are agents for the Celebrated Kentucky Cane mills and Hall Sell 7 V 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 you 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. Our Stock of Stoves, Tinware, Crockery and House Furnishing Goods is complete We have a large supply MASON FRUIT JAES 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 Pealera?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 erest to buy your Goods from us. Wo still buy RAGS, HIDES and BEESWAX All kinds ROOFING and GUTTERING done on short notice, and in a thorough workmanlike manner. Yours very truly, PEOPLES & BURPJSS. OS. U. KARLE, J. W. QUATTLEBAUV, OreonY?le, 8. C. Anderson, S. C. Earfe & Quattlebaum, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AOTD&R&plV, - 8. C AprU28,18^ fS 3m INSURANCE! IAM prepared to issue Al Policies on first class Gin risks, Cottou, and all other kinds of Country and City property, in the best of Insurance Companies, and shall be glod to furnish rates or any otber information concerning the Insurance bus? iness. Call on or address J. H, Von EA8SELN, Anderson, S. C. July 20,1893 3 3m TlS??H^'CoiyUMN "SR All ccmmunications intended fo this Column should be addressed to C WARDLAW, ?chool Commissioner, An? derson, 8. 0. MBHOBY GEMS. Truth, crushed to earth shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. "Yet in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed stake my spirit clings: I know that God is good." The schools are now very fell, and the teachers are put to their wita Co know how to do more work in the time allowed. We like to enter a school and find a teacher who is really trying to develop the mind, not simply to fill the mind with the thoughts of men who write hooks. The main work of a baacher is to train the mind how to think and reason cor? rectly. Education is not filling the mind, but drawing it out. Ganse the pupils to think and reason for themselves, and thus develop their faculties of mind. Since our last report we have visited the Schools at White Plains, taught by Mr. M. W. Strickland, at Viola, taught by Miss Janie Gray, at Sbiloh, tangbt by Mr. John A. Major, at Gedar Wreath, taught by Miss Jennie Rosamond, at St. Paul, taught by Miss Blanche Hudgens, at Three and-Twenty, taught by Mr. W. B. Wyatt. These teachers are doing good work. They understand the p'ans and methods and have the cause ?t heart. We are always glad to find teachers who see more in the work to be done than the mere book learning. We like to find teachers who tee in every pupil an im mortal soul to he saved or lost; aud who tries, as the mind is being developed, to direct the thoughts to things above. The teachers have golden opportunities and should seize them. Lose no chance to impress boys and girls with the right ideas of the real and stern duties of life. Call to School Children. President Harrison, complying with the Act of Congress of June 29th, has issued his proclamation making Friday, October 21, a general holiday. This is the recognition of the movement to put *he discovery of America into the hands of all the people and by giving it to the institution closest to the people and most characteristic of the people?the public school. .i The movement was undertaken by the the National Educational Association, through an executive committee, which has so presented it as to gain the en? dorsement of the press and general popu lar acceptance in advance of this procla? mation is as follows: Whereas, by a joint resolution approv? ed June 29.1892, it was resolved by the i Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Oongresi assembled, "That the President of the United States be authorized and directed to issue a proclamation recommending to the people the observance,in all their localities of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, on October 21, 1892, by public demonstration and by suitable exercises in their schools and other places of assembly Now therefore. I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of Amer? ica, in pursuance of the aforesaid joint resolution, do hereby appoint Friday, October 21, 1892, the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, as a general holiday for the people of the United States. On that day let the people, so far as possible, cease from toil and devote themselves to such exercises as may best express honor to the discoverer and their appreciation of the great achievements of the four completed centuries of American life. Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightment. The Bystem of universal! education is in our age the most prominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the people the center of the day's demonstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship. In the churches and in the other places of assembly of the people let there be expressions of gratitude to Divine Provi? dence for the devout faith of the discov? erer and for the Divine care and guidance which has directed our history and so abundantly blessed our people. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set; my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 21st day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety two, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeetb. Benj. Harrison. By the President: John W. Foster, Secretary of State. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleas* ed to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Oatarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the on* ly positive cure now known to the medi? cal fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu? tional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surface of the system, there by destroying the foundation of the dis? ease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that tbey offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of Testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, 0. J?TSold by all Druggists, 7fl ? Lord Chesterfield once remarked that even Adam, the first man, knew the value of politeness, and allowed Eve to have the first bite of the apple, BILL ARP'S TALK. Bill Makes Another Vlalt to the State of Texas. Atlanta Constitution. After eight years, here I am in Texas again?the same great, wonderful State, only with more railroads, more people, more homes and more farms under cul? tivation. Eight years ago I wanted to come to Brownwood, for I believed it to be a good town with bright prospects, and, as I had a little spare money, I wanted to pat it there. I wish, that I bad, but there was no railroad then, and I dident have time to ride 100 miles overland. It then bad about 1,500 people and now about 6,000, and is still increasing rapidly. It has a large territory to draw upon southward and westward, and has a manifest destiny be fore it. The surrounding country is said to be the best poor man's country in Texas, and as it fills np with immigrants the business ofBrowawood must increase. The Georgians abound here, and they flock around me to give me welcome and to talk about the friends and kindred they left behind, and they want to know all about Georgia politics and what the third party is doing. I talk very care fa 1 and conservative about that, for I don't know who I am talking to, and State politics is awful hot here in Tex? as. The Hoggites and the Clarkites are very bitter, and the third party is saw? ing wood, for there are thousands of democrats here who swear that if Hogg Is nominated they will vote for Nugent, the third party candidate. Everybody Bpeaks well of Nugent, Hogg is very unpopu? lar in railroad circles, such as Fort Worth and Dallas, bat it is generally conceded that he will be nominated and elected. I found on the train that brought me here from Fort Worth six men from Murray and Whitfield coming oat to Oomanche to bay land. Every train briogB some from north Georgia. Yonng men come by the score. The negro is not in their way here, and if I was a young married man I'd come myself. The truth is, the negro is in the young man's way. There are not a dozen ne? groes in the town of Weatherford, where I was last week?a prosperous, lively, Dusy town of 5,000 people?a town where they handle 60,000 bales of cotton and immense quantities of wheat and corn and oats and vegetables; where every dray and hack and carriage is driven by clever, wide-awake young men; where white barbers shave yon and white folks do everything* and are not ashamed of it. I know young white men in my* town who are clerking for $25 a month who could make $50 or $60 running a dray, bat they won't do it because it looks niggery. I know poor girls who won't hire to cook or to clean np the house for the same reason. All labor is honorable here. A yonng white man has just made up my bed here in the hotel, and he talked to me intelligently and pleas* j antly while he cleaned np my room, j He is earning honest money, and will get a better place after while. There are but twenty-five or thirty negroes in Brown county. There is bat one in Co manche coun ty, that joins this. He runs on the train, and said his name was Newton Fields, and he had the honor of being the only darky that was allowed to stay. It seems that, there were about a hundred in Omanche county, and one of them committed an outrage, and citizens gathered and made them all leave the county within twenty-four hours. I be? lieve it will come to that in Georgia. Visiting summary punishment upon one does not seem to do any good, and the way to do is tc hold his kinfolks and his settlement responsible. These Texans use no timid measures about anything. They are the most independent and self reliant people I have ever met. They ask no favors. It does not concern them, what the north will say, and as for the negro he has to behave himself and be humble, and he does. In our State we help them in every way, and yet they show no gratitude. We employ them as blacksmiths and carpenters and draymen ( and at every election they vote against ub. Yon couldn't make them believe that General Grant was a slaveowner until Mr. Lincoln's proclamation Bet them free. A few weeks ago our school board elected a negro girl ad teacher in the colored school and her impudent, insolent father said he would let his daughter teach school, but none of his folks should cook 'or wash or nurse for the white folks. If you hire one she quits when she pleases. No contract will bind them. We have borne with all this for peace, bat there is a growing aliena? tion between the races. I didn't realize bad it was until I got here and seen for myself how much better it was to get along without them. They are an ever? lasting worry at my house and among my neighbors.' It costs twice as much to live when you have a negro cook. A friend out here who was raised with the ne? groes and owned them said that in almost every family in Weatherford the father and the boys helped the mother and the girls in all the household matters, and eo the burden was light?very light. The family washing is all done at the laun? dry, and the laundry wagon comes round as regularly as the ice wagon. Weatherford is a delightful town. The first thing that strikes you is the $60,000 courthouse that is built of native stone? stone that is of a rich cream color and is bordered with smooth, white trimmings. The next thing is that the stores all around the square and the beautiful cbnrcbes and seminaries are all built of the same material, and it gives the town a clean, cheerful appearance. They have street cars and water works and electric lights. Tbe Chantauqua grounds are only one mile away, situated on a high pla? teau that welcomes a cooling breeze both day and night. Good people gather there once a year and bring their tents, and they bave talks and lectures and es? says and normal school exercises and music, and it is all refining and instruc? tive. Every day the good people of the town go out to enjoy these delightful and social luxuries that purify both mind and body. I found there some of the most eminent ministers of the Sooth, for al? though this chautauqua is under the auspices of the Cumberland Presbyter? ians, jt is pot by any meaq? sectarian. Rev. B. W. Lewis is its master spirit, and he reaHy believes it a bigger thing than the nomination of a Governor, This country around Brownwood is al? most right fresh from the Maker's hand. Not one acre in ten has ever had a fur? row run through it, and it is all nearly alike in virgin fertility. There is room here for ten times its present population. Indians roamed over these prairies and bred their ponies and cattle since the war and killed and scalped the few set? tlers who dared to venture this far from the settlements. I am glad they are not here now, though its my opinion that a Oomanche would make poor job in scalp? ing me. ''Go west, red man," is the white man's fiat, and they have gone. I see that the Government is educating quite a number of young Indians at Car ly.e and they seem to make good scholars and like their new civilization. Wheth? er the tribes will continue to decrease in number remains to be seen, but it does look like they are going to join the Az? tecs and the mound builders. Bill Abp. Grapes and Their Uses. A pyramid of grapes of different va? rieties makes a handsome centerpiece for the table and delicious desert. Grape shears are very unique and onld be used on the table, as many 01 .he clus? ters are too large, and with shears can be easily separated. Iced Grapes.?Take perfect bunches of grapes and wipe them, dip into white of egg well beaten, then sift sugar over them and lay them on a sieve in a warm place, where they will dry quickly. These are very ornamental. To Prepare Qrape Juice for Winter.? Select ripe, perfect grapes, pick them from the stems, leaving out any that are unripe or imperfect, wash and measure, and put them in a porcelain kettle with one pint of water to three quarts of grapes. Cook slowly ten minutes, skim off anything that rises; while hot pour into a jelly bag and drain; wash the kettle and return the juice, pat over the fire, and as soon as it comes to a boil, dip Into fruit jars same as fruit. Put the covers on securely. Keep in a cool, dark place. Pack the jars in a wooden box which is a little higher than the jars are, then put a cover over the top; this will keep them from the light. This makes a pleasant and healthy beverage with the addition of a little sugar and cracked ice. Spiced Grape*.? Allow five pounds of grapes, three pounds of sugar, two tea?' poonfuls of cinnamon or cloves. Wash the grapes and take the skins off; boil the skins in water un':l tender; cook.the pulp and strain a sieve; when the skins are tender add them to the pulp; then put in the sugar and spices and cook slowly, watching them closely that they do not burn. When thick enough put in jars and cover closely. Keep in a cool place. Grape Catsup.?Pick over, stem and wash the grapes, then weigh, mash and cook in porcelain kettle; when soft, strain through a colander. Allow two* thirds as much sugar as you have grapes, add the sugar to the pulp and return to the kettle, and cook until thick; then add spices, allowing for every nine poundB of grapes, one tablespoonful of ground cloves, one of cinnamon, one of allspice, oae teaspoonful of black'pepper, one quart of vinegar. If too tbic, cook slowly a while longer. Fut in bottles for winter use. , Grape Jelly,?Wash and look over the grapes; put in a kettle on the stove until hot, mashing them fine. Strain through a jelly-bag; if you wish the jelly clear, do not squeeze, but let the bag hang over night and drain; tie a knot in the strainer, and put a stick through the knot. Measure the juice, aud allow one pound of sugar for each pint of juice; boil fifteen minutes, and dip into glasses. A little white sugar sifted over the top is used as a preventive of mold. All jam and jelly should he kept in a dry, dark cupboard. Grape Jam.?Pick over and wash the grapes, choosing if possible those not very ripe; put in porcelain kettle and mash fine over the fire; when warm pour into a colander and sift, weigh, put back into the kettle, allowing three-fourths of a pound of sugar for each pound of fruit; boil rapidly twenty minutes. Put in jelly tumblers to use with meats, seal and keep in a cool place. To Can Grapes.?Wash the grapes and take off the skins, and cook the pulp until the seeds are loose, then sift through a colander to get the seeds out, add the skins; then weigh, allowing one pound of sugar for four poundB of fruit, cook in a porcelain kettle five minutes and drop into jars and seal. Grape Sherbet.?Wash a quantity of grapeB, pick off the stems and put in a porcelain kettle, heat until tbe juice comes out freely, pour into a jelly bag and drain until you have a quart of juice; squeeze the juice from oranges until you have one pint of juice, then add half a pint of sogar; sweeten the grape juice until it suits the taste; mix the grape and orange juice. Put over the fire until the sugar is dissolved, cool and put in the freezer. Turn slowly, and when it begins to get thick, beat tbe whites of two eggs with the egg beater, add two heaping teaspoonfulB of powder? ed sugar and mix well, stir into the Eher bet; pack the freezer with fresh ice and salt, turn a while and let stand until ready to,uie. Serve in sherbet glasses ? M. J Ashton in New York Observer. Bucklens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Bheum, Fe? ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded Price 26 cents per box. For sale by Hill BroH. . ? New York city is going, to build the biggest dam in the world in the town of Cortland. It will join two hills nearly 2,000 feet apart. Back of it will be a monster reservoir where 44,000,000 gal? lons of water will be stored. The city will then be without fear of a water fa? mine for fifty years to come even |n the driest summer, BULES For Governing the Membership ot Demo? cratic CInbi, the Qualification of Toter?, ar d the Condnot of Primary Elections of the Democratic Party of South Carolina ?Amended July 26,1892. The following rales shall govern the membership of the different subordinate Democratic Clubs of this State, the qual? ification of voters at the primary elec? tions held by the party, the conduct of the primary elections to be held on the last Tuesday (the SOth day) of August, A. D. 1892, and the second primary held two weeks later, if one be necessary : Rule 1. The qualification for mem? bership in any subordinate club of the Democratic party of this State, or for voting at a Democratic primary, shall be as follows, viz.: The applicant for mem berahip, shall be twenty-one years of age, or shall become bo before the succeeding general election, and be a white Demo? crat, or a negro who voted for General Hampton in 1876 and who has voted the Democratic ticket continuously since. The managers at each box at the primary election shall require every voter in a Democratic primary election to pledge himself to abide the result of the primary, and to support the nominees of the party, and to take the following oathr viz: "I do Bolemnly swear that I am duly qualified to vote at this election according to the rules of the Democratic party, and that I have not voted before at this elec? tion." Rule 2. Every negro applying for membership in a Democratic club, or of? fering to vote in a Democratic primary election, must produce a written state? ment of ten reputable white men who shall swear that they know of their own knowledge that the applicant, or voter, voted for General Hampton in 1876 and has voted the Democratic ticket continu-. ously since. The said*statement shall be placed in the ballot box by the managers and returned with the poll Hat to the County Chairman. The managers of election shall keep a separate list of the names of all negro voters and return it, with the poll list, to the County Chair? man. No person shall be permitted, to vote unless he bas been enrolled on a club list at least five days before the said primary election. The club lists shall be inspected by and certified to by the President and Secre? tary, and tnrned over to the managers to be used as the registry list. Rule 3. Each County Executive Committee of the Democratic party in this State shall meet on the second Mon? day''in July of each election year, and shall appoint three managers for each primary election precinct in their respec? tive Cou n ties, who ahal 1 hold the primary election provided for under the Demo? cratic Constitution, in accordance with the Act of the General Assembly of this State regulating primary elections, ap? proved December 22d, 1888, the Consti? tution of the Democratic party of this State and the rules herein set forth. The names of such managers shall be pub? lished by the Chairman of each County Executive Committee in one or more County papers at least two weeks before the election. Rule 4. Each voter in Bald primary shall vote but one ballot, on which shall be printed or written, or partly printed and partly written, the name, or names, of the person, or persons, voted for by him for each of the offices to be filled, togeth? er with the name of the office. The tick? ets to be voted shall be in blank in the following form, with spaces to suit the different Counties: -Delegates to the State Convention -For Congress,-District, -For Solicitor,- Judicial District, -State Senator, -House of Representatives, -Sheriff,-1 -Judge of Probate, -Clerk of the Court, -County Commissioners, -Coroner, -School Commissioners, -Treasurer, -Auditor, -Trial Justices. The respective County Executive Com? mittees are authorized to adopt such rules as will prevent plumping candidates. Rule 5. The managers of election shall open the polls at 8 o'clock, a, m., and shall close them at 4 o'clock, p. m. After tabulating the result, the managers shall certify the same and forward the ballot box, poll list and all other papers relating to such election, by one of their number, to the Chairman of the respec? tive Democratic County Executive Com? mittees within forty-eight hours after the close of the polls. Rule 6. The County Democratic Ex? ecutive Committee shall assemble at their respective Court Houses on the morning of the second day after the election, at 11 o'clock, a. m., to tabulate the returns and declare the result of the primary, so far 83 the same relates to delegates to the Convention, members of the General As? sembly and County officers, and shall forward immediately to the Chairman of the State Executive Committee at Colum? bia, S. C, the result of the election in their respective Counties for Congressmen and Solicitors. Rule 7. The protests and contests, (except in the election of Congressmen and Solicitors,) shall be filed within five days after the election with the Chairman of the County Executive Committee, and said Executive Committee shall hear and determine the same. The State Execu? tive Committee shall hear and decide protests and contests as to Congressmen and Solicitors, and ten days shall be al? lowed for filing the same. Rule 8. Candidates for the General Assembly and for County offices shall, ten days previous to the primary election file with the Chairman of the County Executive Committee a pledge, in writ? ing, to abide the result of the primary and support the nominees of the party. Candidates for other offices shall file such pledge with the Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee. No vote for any candidate who has not com plied with this rule shall be counted. Rule 9. In the primary elections here? in provided for, a majority of the votes shall be necessary to nominate candidates ! and to elect delegates to the State Con? vention. A second primary, when neces? sary, shall be held two weeks after the first, as is provided for ander the Consti? tution of the party, and shall be subject to the rules governing the first primary. At said second primary the two highest candidates shall alone run for anyone of? fice, but if there are two or more vacan? cies for any particular office, then double the number of candidates shall run for i the vacancies to be filled. For instance, in a race for Sheriff, the two highest shall run. If no County Commissioner is nominated, then the six highest shall ; run. Rule 10. In tbe event of a tie between ' two candidates in the second primary, the County Chairman, if it is a County office, and the State Chairman, it it is a State office, or for Congress, or for Solicitor, shall order a third primary. The ques? tion of a msjority vote shall be de terrain j ed by the number of votes cast for any particular office and not by the whole ! number of votes cast in the primary, j Rule 11. The credentials of delegates ' to the State Ovnvention shall be certified to by the Chairmen of the respective County Democratic Executive Commit? tees within five days after the result is declared and forwarded immediately to the Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee at Columbia, S. 0. Adopted March 1st, 1892, and amend? ed July 26th, 1892, by the State Demo? crctic Executive Committee. John L. M. Ieby, Chairman. G. Duncan Eellingex, i Secretary. Slate. In the minds of most people, especial? ly if they are young people, slate is chie? fly associated with mathematical comput? ations and with roofs; but it is now used for many things besides school dates and roof coverings. Of it are made sidewalks, the walls of dwelling houses, floors, stair? ways, door and window sills, chimney tops, fence posts, bath tubs, mangers, mantels, blacbboards and many other things. It can be sawed and worked so accu? rately that bath tubs and cisterns are made perfectly water-tight simply by joining the edges of the slate blocks. So useful a material is naturally a source of wealth where it is found; and there are deposits in Great Britain, Italy, France and other European countries, as well as in several of the United States. The most productive American slate beds are in the central and Eastern parts of Pennsylvania. Slate is got out of the ground by means of blasting, holes being bored into it with steam drills. With derricks and hoisting chains the rough slabs are lifted to the edge of the quarry, and then they are rolled upon trucks to the shanty of the "splitter." The slate forms naturally in layers, and the "splitter," following the grain or "ribbon7' with a large chisel, separates tbe blocks into strips of about the proper thickness for roofing slate. Then the slate passes through a cutting or trimming machine, where, by the blows of a heavy knife, the irregular pieces are cut into rectangular shingles. Boys often operate this trimming ma? chine. Afterward the slates are piled up in "squares," each Bquare containing enough to cover one hundred square feet of roof. In the neighborhood of the Pennsylva? nia quarries one will find houses whose walls are entirely of slate. The blocks of which they are made are smoothly sawed, and the walls are exceedingly substan? tial. A Pennsylvania factory where various articles are manufactured of slate con? tains three horizontal saws, twelve feet in length, each of which is furnished with seventy-five cutting diamonds. Probably these are the most expensive saws in the world, for each one costs five thousand three hundred dollars. There are also in the factory diamond jig-saws, a circular saw, four planers, and other slate-working machinery. The huge horizontal saw, which works upon one of the blocks of slate, is lower ered by a ratchet at the rate of a quarter of an inch a minute. The saw would cut iron or steel at tbe same rate. Water plays upon the saw to keep it cool and wash the slate dust from the cut. After the sawing, the block is planed by being moved back and forth, by ma? chinery, under a firmly-fixed chisel. Then it is polished, much as marble and granite are, by means of a rapidly re? volving disk of cast iron, called a rub? bing bed, which is kept covered with a sprinkling of fine eand continually satu? rated with water. The slate ;.& bored by means of diamond-pointed drills. Slate land was once so little valued that the tract upon which the famous Chap? man quarry in Pennsylvania is situated was sold for a pint of liquor. Its subse? quent owners have taken millions of dol? lars from it.?Youth's Companion. ? Talk's cheap, but when it's backed up by a pledge of the hard cash of a fi? nancially responsible firm, or company, of world-wide reputation for fair and honorable dealing, it means business! Now, there are scores of sarsaparillaB and other blood-purifiers, all cracked up to be the best, purest, most peculiar aud most wonderful, but bear in mind, (for your own sake,) there's only one guaran? teed blood-purifier and remedy for torpid liver and all diseases that come from bad blood. That oue?standing solitary and alone is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discove? ry If it doesn't do good in skin, scalp and scrofulous diseases?and pulmonary con? sumption is only lung-scrofula?ju*t let the makers know and get your money back. Talk's cheap, but to back a poor med? icine, or a common one, by selling it on trial, as "Golden Medical Discovery" is sold, would bankrupt the largest fortune in a short time. Talk's cheap, but only "Discovery" is guaranteed. ? A girl ran away from home, and the father advertises her as "Jennie, aged 1$; dressed in a brown straw hat," What a fix she'H be in if that bat blows off | Popular Fallacies. Mrs. Frank Leslie, in writing of popu? lar fallacies, gives a bit of information about the discovery of America, which is not generally known: One of the most astonishing facts in this very astonishing world is tbe persis? tence shown by people of every nation and every tongue in perpetuating certain platitudes, truisms and stupidities. Cer? tain foolish proverbs are to be found in nearly every language, and generation after generation repeats them with an owl-like solemnity suitable to the first enunciation of a profound and newly dis? covered truth. For Instance, the proverb that "a roll ing stone gather* no moss" implies that no man should try to improve his condi? tion by seeking new fields of effort. It 1 is just as true to-day as it ever was, but I if in 1849 some millions of men hearing I of gold in California had announced to each other, "a rolling stone gathers no moss," and settled comfortably down in the mosB of New England farms, or in ! Pennsylvania and New Jersey swamps, the world would not have been so weal i thy to-day 's it has come by the rolling j of those enterprising stones. So with I Kimbedy and its diamond fields, bo with Australia, and bo with all explorers and adventures by land or sea. They are j talking largely now of celebrating the discovery of America by Columbus, and I would suggest that over tbe statue, sure to be elaborately displayed, should be a scroll with the motto, "A rolling stone gathers no moss." But speaking of Columbus reminds me of another peculiar platitude grown into not a truism, but a falseism, if I may coin a word, and that is our habit of sen? timentalizing over the discovery of America by Columbus, when in point of fact it has been clearly and repeatedly proven that the Norsemen, notably Bad Eric and his son Leif, not only discovered America 400 years before Columbus was born, but made a permanent settlement in Greenland, explored the coast line as far south as Long Island, and named it from its abounding growth of wild grapes, Yineland. They furthermore wrote of their dis? coveries and they were placed on record in the famous Heimakringia, and the Veddas, those great Norse records to be still seen m the library at Copenhagen, and which doubtless were studied by Christopher Columbus when he visited Iceland, some 400 years after the record of the voyages of Eric and Leif. That he did thus visit Iceland is proved by a letter written by him to his son Fer? nando, mentioning in so many words that in February, 1477, his father visited the Island and noted the great rise and fall of the tides. Not only is this letter published in various historical collec? tions, but :he younger Columbus has embodied it in. the biography of his father, called "Vita dell admiry?a Chris toforo Colombo." We all have been taught that Columbus was an industrious student of the travels written by explor? ers of his own end previous times, and his son especially mentions that "his searching mind Bought out the writings of Adam of Bremen." Now Adam of Bremen's principal work treats largely of the Norse discoveries in the new world, and especially of the tract called Vineland, known to us as New England; and it is almost certain that Christopher Columbus, having read this account and intending to prosecute the search for riches in the new world, went to Iceland to study tbe records of former navigators and try to make more 'out of the expedition than they had done. Naturally he took all the glory that he could, and, as people have done ever since the world began, "he built upon another man's foundation," without tak? ing any especial pains to give him the credit of it. The uncertainty of the voyage was naturally very great, and we can well imagine that with only the vague and general directions left behind by the Erics as guides the great naviga? tor's anxiety was intense and his landfall very uncertain. 'Nobody objects to Christopher's re? ceiving all the glory and all the posthu? mous honors which the Chicago exposi? tion choos es to give him, but it is time that t;he world left off asserting that he was the discoverer of America, especially as he never set fc t on the continent, while Leif, the son of Eric, "came to stay*1 and was buried upon the coast of Massachusetts, with a cross at his head and another at his feet. But although the facts so briefly refer? red to are patent to all men who choose to step into a library and look them up for themselves, the world will go calmly on for several hundred years more speak? ing of Columbus as the discoverer of America merely because it has done so for the 400 last years. Believes In Madstones. Eatonton, Ga., August 15.?There is a citizen of Putnam County who is a firm believer in madstones. He was recently bitten by a mad dog, and as he claims to have been saved by a madstone, his opin? ion of those things is worth something. We refer to Mr. Leverett Batchelor, who was bitten in two places by a mad dog a few weeks ago. Mr. Batchelor is all right, so far as appearauces go, and he attributes that fact in a large degree to the use of the madstone. Soon after he was bitten, he heard that Mrs. W. J. Martin, of this County, had a madstone. It seems that Mrs. Martin obtained it fresh from a deer while visiting her daughter in Mississippi some while ago. Mr. Batchelor procured it. It <vas placed carefully in the pocket and the first application was soon made. The stone was put in boiling sweet milk, and applied to one of the wounds, It stuck several hourn, and when replaced in milk that fluid took on a greenish hue and a slimy appearance, showing that the madstone had absorbed some of the poison from the wound. Other applica? tions were made w>.th like result, until Mr. Batchelor thought all the poison had been absorbed. Mr. Batchelor is feeling as well as he did before he was bitten, and his friends hops thai the efficiency of the madstone has been proved. ? There are 7,500,000 young men jn 1 the United State?. III Sorts of Paragraphs. ? It's knotty, bot it'a nice?marriage. ? Tbe Suez canal is eighty-eight miles long. ? The friends of labor are generally those who like it in others. ? The negro lives longer in the South than he does in the North. ? The kind of salvation that tells is the kind that can be seen in us. ? Wine charifiers in France use more than 80,000,000 eggs every year. . ? The number of dwellings in the United States in 1891 was 8,955,812. . ? In Australia no newspapers are published or railroad trains run on Sun? day. ? When a man is about to be hanged, there is always a hitch in the proceed? ings. ? The capacity of the largest flouring mill in Minneapolis is 15,800 barrels a day. ? There were more than eighty-five thousand Churches built in the United States last year. ? Look out that you do not discuss politics, religion, or love affairs, in a pub' lie conveyance. ? In Wisconsin, the other day, Mr. Theodore Mint was married to Miss Georgiana Julep. ? Fifty-one metals are now known to exist. Four hundred years ago only seven were known. , ? Some one says that liquor strength? ens the voice. That is a mistake; it on? ly makes the breath strong. ? Between Paris and Berlin mail nat? ter is now transmitted in thirty-five minutes by the pneumatic process. ? Twelve out of the twenty-tliree presidents of the United States have had military training and experience. ? "Gently the dues are o'er me steal? ing," said the man who had five due bills presented to him in one day. ? It is estimated that there are less than 10,000 paupers in the Japanese em? pire, with the population of 237,000,000. ? Germany, in anticipation of a war with France, has a golden treasure of 960,000,000 marks stowed awfty in a safe place. ? On the icy peaks of the Himalayas, . in India, there is a "snow maggot" weighing nearly a pound, and is excel? lent to eat. ?- Bonds to the amount of $220,000, 000 are held by the United States Gov? ernment as security for national bank circulation. ? There are over 2,000 tons of silver f bam, 55,000,000 silver dollars, and $35, 000,000 in gold coin stored in the Phila? delphia mint. ? Donna Isadora Couisino, of Chili, is said to be worth $200,000,000, and, therefore, she is said to be the richest woman in the world. ? There is an old saying, and a true one, that there is no telling what a man is worth until he is .dead and all of his funeral expenses paid. ? Truckee, Nevada, had a shaving contest recently. The successful artist scraped off his man in forty-five seconds, and no blood was shed. ? An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game because revenge is a much stronger prin* pie than gratitude. ? A Lansing, Mich., schoolboy drew a revolver on his teacher, and an investi? gation showed that thirteen of the boys ? were similarly armed. ? Tramp?Could you give a poor man a bite or two without much trouble? Housewife?I can. Joe, unchain Nero and take his muzzle off. ? The value of fur-seal skins shipped froLi Alaska since the territory came in- ? to the possession of the United States is given at more thai. $33,000,000. ? Chromatopseadopsis ia the medical term for color blindness, and statistics show that men art. much more chroma topseudopsistically inclined than women. ? Bismarck is what in Germany they call a "chain smoker"?that is, he smokes "*rom morning till night, without - a break, lighting one cigar with the end of the other. ? The latest cure for neuralgia hails . from Russia, where a physician claims to be able to cure the complaint by casting a beam from an arc electric light on the . affected part. ? The largest opal ever found in the world is on exhibition in San Francisco. It is 11 inches long, 5 inches wide and 1} inches thick. It was found in Mexico, and is valued at $10,000. ? The Bishop of Chester, England, has given express permission for dancing. He finds Biblical authority to be on the side of dancing and does not see why people should not indulge in it. ? For a sluggish and torpid liver, no? thing can surpass Ayer's Pills. They contain no calomel nor any mineral drug, but are composed of the active principles of the best vegetable cathartics, and their use always resalts in marked benefit to the patient. ? Some idea may be formed of' amount of money invested in hotel prop? erties in this country, when it is stated that within the past ten years twenty-five million dollars have been put into hotel enterprises in New York alone. ? "Mercy!" exclaimed Mrs. Home? spun, when she read in the paper that Jay Gould made ten cents every time the clock ticked; "I should think he'd be worried to death for fear the clock would run down." ? Africa is 234 times as large as the State of New York. It is the most re? markable of all the countries as respects its animal distributions. Out of a total of 523 known species, 427 of them are to be found in no country outside of Africa. ? A young and handsome man was J once asked why he had married a rich | old woman. "My friend," he replied, "let me ask you what poor young man, in a hurry to get an enormous bank note cashed, troubles himself to look at the date of it." ? ? Many bodi y ills result from habitu? al constipation, and a fine constitution may be weakened and ruined by simple neglect. There is uo medicine, for regu? lating the bowels and restoring a natural action to the di rective organs, equal tc Ayer's Pille,