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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1892. VOLUME XXVII.?NO. 9 f. 1BSSB R. SMITH. A. A. BRISTOW. WHEN YOU GO TO GREENVILLE Call and see the Handsomest and Newest line of Clothing, H&ts and Furnishings, , To be Found in the City, _ O-R SEND US AN ORDER, which we wrill gladly fill, and if not satisfactory to be , returned at our expense. SMITH & BRISTOW, Clothiers and Furnishers, Greenville, S. C. VINEGARS I We have in Vinegars the. very Best Qualities obtainable and at ? Reasonable Prices. Apple Cider Vinegar?four years old. White Wiue Vinegar?extra quality, t Claret Vinegar?for table use. , * ' West India Spiced Vinegar?our specialty. Our Spiced Vinegar is made from Pure Grape Wine Vinegar, boiled down w.'fh West India Z "ces. The combination of imported Spices for the production of this Fine Vinegar has been skillfully made, after many years pf experiment. The result is an absolutely perfect Spice Vinegar, retaining the delicious flavor and delightful fra* grsmce of West India Spice. It is the only Vinegar you can heat, warm or boll that will 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, 4S Granite Row. ? TO CLOSE ? SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, In order to clear out all kinds of Goods to make room for a new Fall Stock. WE have , decided to make the people of Anderson an offer to isecnre good, first-class Goods AT AND BELOW COST. WE MEAN JTJST WHAT WE SAY-ali Summer Goods taigp 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 Childrens1 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. IT J.HE fight was on South Main Street at-the Bazaar and Ten Cent Stores of C. S. Minor & Co. It was an attack of the combined forces of seven other merchants on the famous C S. Minor. They fought in defence of their prices, which they claimed had been crushed out of all respectability by the said C. S. Minor, and they fought' with desperation to restore the former prices, but down they go in the dead of the fight, and their blood on our Store-front only is left to tell a pitiful tile of woe. Stranger than Strange. One man claimed that we had reduced the price of Pants to 25c. and 50c. per pair?leas than cost to make. We don't care. Another claimed that we sell the beit quality Mason Fruit Jar at less thau he can buy the second quality. We c.on't care 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 l0c,.and his 25c Suspenders at 15c. Well, what of that? Another msnjbelieves that we are selling his 40c Cops and Saucers for 30c, and ' his S5c 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 1 These are some of ibe complaints made against us. We ask yeu whose busi ness is it, if not that of our customers and ourselves ? Can't we make such figures I 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 you 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. Op MILLS, EYAP0BAT0E5 Al COTTON Gl! WE are agents for the Celebrated Kentucky Cane Mills and Hall Sell Feeding' Cotton Gins. It \. ill pay any person to call and see our Ma? chinery and get our prices before bnying, 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. Oar Stock of Stoves, Tinware, Crockery and House Furnishing <?? coda is complete. We have a large supply MASON FRUIT JAjitS 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 nigher 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 nee us. We wiil make i! to your in ereet to buy your Goods from us. We ?tili buy RAGS. HIDES and BEESWAX. All kinds ROOFING and GUTTERING done on short notice, and in a thorough workmanlike manner. Yours very truly, PEOPLES & BURRISS. O >. H. Eibls, j. W. Quattlbdaum, Graenvllle, ri. C. Anderson, S. C. Earle & Quattlebaum, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, A1VDX2JECS01V, - S. C. April 28, 1892 43 3m INSURANCE! IAM prepared to issue Al Policies on first class Gin risks, Cotton, and all other kinds of Country and City property, in the best of Insurance Companies, and shall be glad to furnish rates or any other information concerning the Insurance bus? iness. Jail on or address J. H. Von HASSELN, Anderson, S. C. July 20,1892 3 3m Tl^??H?'?oif?MN, -SR All communications intended fo this Column should he addressed to C WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. 0. MEMOHY GEMS. "Be sure yon are right, then go ahead." "The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men." v . ?? We urge again upon the attention of patrons the importance of perfecting, as soon as possible, arrangements for their schools next session. Do not put this off too long. Yon have no interest higher or more important than the education and training of your children. In travelling through different com* munities and meeting so many different people, we cannot help being very seri? ously impressed with the great lack of moral training on the part of some young men. Tbey have no; the faintest idea of self respect, nor do they know the very first and simplest principles of what con? stitutes a real gentleman. There must have been in some sections a neg? lect of this, or some younng men must have been totally incapable of receiving such training. Some people, and espe? cially a few young men in Anderson County, need moral training. This is plain talk, but it is true. When a boy does not know how to behave he is to be ' pitied. People should not be offended at his misbehavior, but they should pity him. We are sorry for Buch young men. Men and women are what the world needs, and not merely people who have no regard, for themselves nor self-respect, and consequently cannot have any re? gard or respect for others. Teachers should always endeavor to imprest) their pupils with the idea that "all things work together for good to them that love God." Therefore, whether we think a thing is right or cot, if we love God he has concealed in every dis? appointment some blessing. We may never see or know what it is, but W6 be* Heve the Bible and it so tenches us. This is a great'source of comfort to every one who puts his trust in God and loves Him. How miserable would any one be if he or she had no hope for any help except what arises in himself or herself. Disappointments are often blessings in disguise, and unfortunate, indeed, is that person who can not bo feel. If we could only have our own way in this world we would certainly be very miserable. Like the vines, we must be pruned for our own' good. We should also regard the rights of others just as we would have others to regard our rights. Children should be taught these principles while growing up. A Locomotive Race. A trial of speed between English and Americrn locomotives, which will set at rest the conflicting claims; of superiority made by both countries, will be an inter* ejtirjg and novel feature of the World's Fair. The scheme has been broached to both the Pennsylvania and New York Central Companys, but no definite action has yet been taken by either. It is not known which of the two great roads will undertake the contest. The plan is to bring over an English locomotive of the latest pattern, which will burn English coal, with a crew who will speak with an English accent. The run will be made from New York to Chi? go and return, either with a heavy or light train, or possibly both. The run West may be made with a heavy train and the return with a lighter one. The American engine will carry the same weight and go the same route, and the palm will be awarded to the one making the run in the shortest time. In view of the claim made by England that she turns out the best, fastest and most economical locomotives in the world no contest could take place that would arouse more interest. Uncle Sam knows a little something about building loco? motives himself, and it is safe to say that John Bull will have no easy time of it when he runs against one of the new Baldwin locomotives. The English locomotives are built for use upon tracks without such heavy grades and sharp curves as are construct? ed in the United States, and they are not supplied with a system of springs such as are used upon the American locomo? tives. A fair test of the merits of the two machines as could be made on the New York Central Railroad, the route of which to Chicago avoids the monntains, so attractive to every through passenger upon the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio railroads. ? If the trial ia made soon after the opening of the fair, and the two locomo? tives are exhibited so that (.hey may be contrasted they will r "tract much atten? tion. _. $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 iu all its stages, and that iB Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the on? ly positive cure now knowu 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 they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of Testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props , Toledo.O. JSFSold by all Druggists, 75 ? Harry wanted to give Lucy a birth? day present but could not make up his mind what it should b.v so the next time he called he frankly told her the difficul? ty under which he was laboring. "Want to make me a present, Harry ?" exclaim? ed Lucy, in well counterfeited astonish? ment. '-Why Harry, you forget yourself." Harry took the bint and offered himself on the spot, BILL AKP'S TALK. I A rp'M visit to Fort Worth and Crown wood. J Atlanta Constitution. A few days ago I left Fort Worth for I Brownwood, which is 150 miles South? west. The Fort Worth and Rio Grande railroad is a new one, and its recent com* pletion has bronght all that beautiful country within the limits of a new civili? zation. It is a splendid road, and its of | fleers and its management are in general ( favor with the people. Governor Hogg is said to be a prosecntor and a persecutor I of railroads, and this has rendered him very unpopular with railroad towns that are bnilding up all along the lines of the new roads. I believe that it is within the 1 power of any railroad company to make i friends of the people. This road is an i example. It has no enemies, and there are no heavy damage suits and no outra? geous verdicts. Everybody speaks well of Mr. Hornsby, the general manager. I went to Coleman, which is thirty-five west of Brownwood, on the road to San Angelo. The names of towns and Coun? ties in this great county are peculiar and impressive. The saints and the angels and the holy land (Palestine) are all rep? resented. The heroes of the Texas Re? public are all before you on the map. Sam Houston, Crockett, Travis, Bowie, Fanniu and Lamarand many others have counties named for them, and there are Tom Green and Deaf Smith Counties. They were pioneers who left a name and a record. Deaf Smith is the man who burnt the bridge behind them at San Ja cinto. These Texans go the whole hog on names, -for they have a Jeff Davis Connty, and it is pretty well settled that they will go the whole Hogg in a Gover? nor. Since the war they have honored the Confederate heroes without fear, for they have made some new Counties and called them Stonewall, Lee, Jackson, Bee Hood and Joe Johnston, and they boast that they have plenty of unnamed terri? tory that they are saving for the heroes of the next war. Coleman is a brand new town of 2,000 people?not an old house in it. They have one of these seventy-five-thousand dollar courthouses that are so common in Texas. "What makes your people build such magnificent and costly courthouses?" said I to a friend. "Anchors," said he; "they are anchors to hold down the County seat They are building so many new roads across this country, and so many towns spring up along the line or at their intersection that sometimes they move the County seat by a majority vote and that leaves the old town out in the cold. But they can't afford to sacrifice a seventy-five-thousand-dollar courthouse. It is just an anchor?that's alL I saw that proven at Stephensville, which is the County Beat of Erath. It has but one railroad, but Dublin in the same County has two, and Dublin is progressive and ambitious and has street cars and water? works, and wanted the courthouse. It was an old-fashioned, common one, and they thought they could move it to Dublin. There was great excitement and money was spent on the election, but Dublin lost and now they have just purchased a seventy-five-thousand-dollar courthouse at Stephensville, which they say will an* chor the County site down. Coleman is full of Georgians. They flocked around me there and I was told that half of audience was from the good old State. The truth is I don't see how we have so many people left in Georgia, for they all over this country. I found several men on the train that I took- for Brownwood?seven from Murray ami Cobb and Wbitfield Counties?all going to Comanche to buy land. I am told that every train takes as many or more from Georgia. They all know me and I know some of their fathers. Georgians come to the train to meet me at every station. They want to say "howdy" and welcome me to Texas. I was so sorry for old Judge Mobley at Coleman, who had jnBt heard of the death of his noble son who taught school in our town of Cartersville. He was a good son and one of the m ost talented and exemplary young men that I ever knew of. His nntimely death was a great loss and it grieved me when I heard of it. I met my venerable friend Judge Yarborough atComanche. He was my father's friend and the friend of my young manhood. After the war he emigrated away out into this unsettled wilderness to get away from the free negroes, and here he has lived until a railroad has come to his town, and now, in his eighty-fourth year, be begins to realize that a railroad is not such a bad thing, after all, for al? most every day it brings to him somebody that he used to know and he Ib comfort? ed. How tenderly he inquires of every visitor, "Are you from Georgia?" When I left him in the evening be pressed my hand and said, "Can't you come back in the morning before you take the train ? It will do me so much good." Of course I went back. His good wife is still well preserved, and we talked lovingly about Rome and her people, especially those who have crossed the river. Comancho boasts that there is not a .ne? gro in the County, except one?just one who runs on the railroad and is allowed to pass through. He is a Democrat, they said, and behaves himself. I found an educated negro over here by the name of Bailey, who publishes a Democratic newspaper. H 3 is from Rome, Ga., he said, and be made a speech the other day at Granbnry- -a Cleveland speech. I did not hear it, but tbey Bay he speakB well and handles the people's party without gloves. He is, however, working for rev? enue only and be gets it from his white friends. Some of these immigrants get homesick very soon after they get here. They nev? er took a journey before and it seems like tbey have come so far they can never get back again. Ic's like burning the bridge behind them. One of the seven that I found on the train was looking very sol? emn at the immense unsettled plains that were swiftly passing by and nud(red his companion with his elbow and said: "Jim, yonders a gully?don't you want to see it?" One thing that strikes all new? comers is the bigness of tbe country?the long distance to the horizon. A buy would hardly undertake to go to the end of a rainbow here to find the historic bag of money.. But the Bky doesn't Beem any higher nor the moon any smaller and I see the big dipper every night, just as I did at home, and I suppose that Texas is just as near to heaven as it is in Georgia. Indeed, it may be nearer, for I have not seen but one intoxicated man in the State and he was a Georgian. Politics is pret? ty hot, but nobody gets mad but the edi? tors. This a grand country and it impresses you with awe and wonder. The bound* less extent of it as you go miles and miles and miles and see the vast area of beautiful and fertile plains and not a tenth of it occupied by anybody. It is only around the towns that it is settled up. There are millions of acres here that can be had from $3 to $7 that will produce more grain and cotton than the beat valley lands in Georgia and with less labor of cultivation. I saw one farm of 2,000 acres near Brownwood that was all in cultivation and had 11,000 pecan trees on it. They are three years olu and are forty feet apart and will be in full bear* ing ten years from now. They showed their tops just above the cotton all over the vast area. Of course it was not an American who owned this farm and planted these trees. It was an English? man. An American won't wait ten years for anything. But the Englishman plants for posterity. He figures now for bis children that in ten years h 111 have 11,000 trees that will average at least five bushels to the tree, and as the pecans are I of the best variety, they will bring $4 a bushel. There is an income. Just think of it; $220,000 a year and no work to do. Oh, if I had only come out here fifteen years ago and planted even 200 acres in pecans; do you think that I would now be travelling a thousand miles from home I to sell my talk for more than it is worth. No, sir; nary time. * Bill Akp. - ? ? mm A Visit to Calbonn's Home. > It is not generally known that there was once a Washington county, S. C. The name may not be found on the old? est maps of the State, yet a land grant in possession of Mr. Henry Sbanklin, of Pendleton, dated in the last decade of the eighteenth century, was written and signed in Washington county, S. O. This county is said to have embraced the ter? ritory now occupied by Oconee, Pickens and Anderson counties, with Pendleton as a county seat. Why this name was . dropped one would find it as difficult to say as a South Carolinian to explain why no county, no town, in our State has been named for her greatest statesman. Even the little post office, Calhoun, will soon be erased from the Iis' * the postal clerk. A pleasant drive of three miles from Pen* dleton, a village whose inhabitants for the most part live out of town?brought us to Fort Hill. The place gets its name from a hill near Calhoun's house, where there are remnants of an old fort. Here a few days ago, workman in making an excavation unearthed what seeme to be a magazine. On our way we crossed branches whose names were numbers, for instance, Four mile Branch. These streams, tradition says, an Indian girl named as she ran from Fort George to Ninety-Six, marking the distance from the fort. We are on the grounds of Clemsou College, several hundred acres of hills and dales of original forest, and fer? tile river bottoms. On one side of this, charming spot is flanked by the home of the Bavenels,, and on the other by the productive lauds of the Lewis family. A more beautiful and healthful place for a school could not be found in our State. A stranger is impressed with the extent of the grounds, the number and size of the buildings. Everything is on a large scale. A more magnificent school plant can be found nowhere in the South. The dining room will seat eight hundred sons of farmers, and the well ventilated dor? mitories will accommodate with comfort the same number. With a little crowd? ing one thousand boys can find a place to sleep and eat; to study and be instruct? ed in those branches which may fit them to transform the wornout red hills of the Piedmont Belt into productive farms, On an imminence, surrounded by grand old oaks, is a large white house, which in some* respects it reminds one of Mount Yernon. John C. Calhoun, when be was U. S. Senator, could be found at Washington or at this place. He hurried from one to the other as fast as "the old time stage could carry him. Under the shade of the oaks the great statesman thought out those State papers which made him famous. This is his? torical ground because it was the home of Calhoun, and but for this fact there would have been no Clemson College. The name of Calhoun looks as well, sounds as well, yet a little flag station on the Air Liae Ii. B., three-fourths of a mile from the college, is all that bears the name of the illustrious Carolinian.? J. A. Gamewell. ? The poets sing, in dainty rhymes, . Of summer days and sunny climes, Of beauteous maidens, passing fair, With witching eyes and waving hair, Till, near the end, you're apt to see, 'Tis but an "ad" for P. F. F.; that is, Di. Pierce'8 Favorite Prescrip? tion, the infallible and guaranteed reme? dy for all kinds of female weakness, which cures the ailments of feeble, "run? down" and debilitated women, and re? stores them to youthfulness and beauty once more. The price of this royal rem? edy, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, is but $1.00 a bottle, and money refund? ed in every case if it doesn't give satis? faction. See guarantee on bottle-wrap per. ? He: Oh, Mabel 1 ask me to go and do some deed of daring to prove my love. She: Go and ask papa to let us get mar? ried right away ! [He collapses.] ? Papa, said Harry, as he looked at his new baby brother, I wish we had sev en more, because with him and me and then seven more we'd have a baseball nine. ? Perhaps the moat wonderful deposit of salt in this country is at Petite, Anse, La., where at a depth of sixteen to Bixty feet below the surface, a deposit of salt over 1,000 feet thick is found. This salt is of remarkable purity. SAUGE PLUNKETT Give* a Betrospe et of tins Tears Xhnt Have Gone. Atlanta Constitution. Everything will regulate itself in the near future, ia my judgment on the situa? tion. The towns were builded up out of all proportion to the advancement of agri? cultural interests aronnd them, and a collapse had to come or will have to come where it has not already taken place, A reaction is just now the natural thing, and it will prove to be the healthy thing ?it is needed. The flow of population from the coun? try to the towns was the outcome of de? spondency on the part of the older gen? eration. Times were not "what they UBter be" to the old Southerners, and everything seemed mighty gloomy to them, but happier thoughts have taken possession of the rural districts, and a spirit of independence has crowded out deepair pnd gloom and old Georgia will soon be herself again. There is much disposition among some few just at this time to array town against country and vice versa. It won't be done; it can't be done. The whole of Georgia is mighty nigh countrymen, and there are precious few people who are not attached by kindred ties that bind stronger than iron the hearts of country and town to one another. We guy each other as "hayseeds" and ''town tacks," but it is only talk; we do not mean it, and for all there iB a love natu? ral and lasting. ' The little town cousins like to visit the country cousins, and they are welcomed with warm hearts and natures true. The little cousins from the country like to be on a visit to the town, and they are wel? come and everything is done that love can do to to make their visits pleasant. The town boys go into the country to court the girls, and they marry them, and the country boys marry the town ?girls, and so we are all mixed up, and around that there can never be a clash nor bitterness that is lasting. True, that for a long time, ever since the war, you may say, there has been too much fleeing from the ills of country life. I say "ills," bucause we all know that the farmers had a hard struggle after the war, The older set did not know how to accommodate themselves to the changed, conditions. Tbey were poor, very poor, but were too proud to ac? knowledge it, and so kept in a strain themselves and deceived the young around them into the belief that it was all owing to the hardships of agricultural pursuits. "Hard times," was the cry. Fathers and mothers talked to their chil? dren of the hard life on a farm, and the children grew u p with this idea ever buzzing in their ears. It vras chronic? this grumbly?and it was not strange for the young folks to flee from the old homes to ills tbey knew not of. In proportion as the farms were de? serted the towns grew. But it was an unhealthy growth?neglected farms could not give the towns support, and a reaction must come. It came and it is upon us right now. A return to the country is the natural thing; it is the only thing that can be done, and I pre? dict that the next year will see such a returning of the people to rural pursuits as was never seen before. The negro has already the key to the situation that ie bound to force the white mechanic and the laborer from the towns. The cry of "hard times," "hard times" is through all the streets of the towns, and the whites are beginning to realize that they must succumb to the inevitable and return to the spreading shades and cool? ing streams of a country life. It is "lay-by" time with the farmera now and show me the thousands of your over-worked town men who know what "lay by time" means, and I will point to them as longing in their hearts for the peaceful rest it brings. Yes, the farmers are laying by now, with an abundant spirit of thankfulness, tempered with a tranquil peace only found in rural life. The politicians may foam at the mouth and rant through the land?as tbey are doing?but the farmera are reveling in peace and plenty, and don't care if these fellows rant themselves to death ; all the same, though without any great ado, when election day comes they will walk proudly up to the polls as Georgians and put in their ballots without fear or favor. But there will be not a sentimont of "country against towu" in a ballot that falls, but as true Americans they will as? sert their strength an they have a right to do, and if at first they don't succeed, they'll try, try again, and at last, and all the time, the hand of friendship and brotherly love is held out to the town people with a welcome to share and share alike. And I know the same kindly feelings exist in the hearts of town folks toward these "hayseeds," so let ub all be cheerful and thankful as the clouds roll away and divide the bright rays of sun? shine with all of mankind?even the pol? iticians. While the farmers have been blessed with good crops and have already schooled themselves to a practice of economy, that is very essential to suc? cess, I am grieved to say that the poor people of the towns are not prosperous in proportion. I have been around the city the past week, and I know that it is mighty tight times with the poor, and I feel sad to think of it, but I believe it to be true, that these same poor people have yet to pass through the crucible as the farmers have been doing. The farmers are about through with their hardest struggles, but these poor folks of the towns are just now beginning. It will be a hard row, but they have the example of these country people before them, and may profit therefrom. Hard living and hard work, with a firm resolve to live within your means, is the nearest way to success. What a comfort can the wives and daughters of these poor me? chanics be to their household in this struggle that is sure to come. Get in touch with each other?sympathy goes a long ways in a matter like this. Throw aside all of your haughty spirit and let false pride go to the dogs. Keep no strain upon the family for appearance sake, but cheerfully shake bands and re? solve tu strive to belter your conditions, and it won't be half eo hard. Get the children enthused upon this ides, and it will take away half the ills of the ragged way. Different people give as many different reasons for these hard times in the towns. Some of them tickle me, for many of j them lay it all to progress. A few years ago when I talked about progress being a "bust," they hooted at me?called me an old fogy, fool and crank, but you talk to thes9 same people now. Some lay the hard times to the multi? tudes of labor saving machines, some say that it's the nigger, and some lay it to the Chinaman, and one fellow raised thunder to me because of the fact that the good Christian folks of Atlanta are receiving these heathenB into their Sun? day schools. He says that our young white women are teaching them and that they set up among white folks at Sabbath school as big as life. This fellow wants these Chinamen left alone?he wants them to go to Hades, but I don't, for I know one young lady who teaches a class of them and I would liko for them to be saved on her account?but who would have thought it ? But I must not let this "Chinese prob? lem" throw me off my subject. I was telling of what these people out of work complain of as the cause. Some think there are getting to be too many folks for the amount of work, but they can't give any practicable way to remedy this?at least they suggest no "probable" way to stop the overplus?folks will be born, you know. But now I come to a fellow who lays the whole trouble to our "working girls." They are worse than machines, Chinese, niggers, "overplus" and all, he says. I talked to this fellow at his home. He stays at home all the time now, poor fel? low, and he is sad over the situation. He has done give up; he dou't wear no boots, nor shirts, nor coats, nor vests?be don't wear nothing that men folks wear any more. He had on, when I seed him, one old faded frock; it was a warm day then; I guess he will put on some other skirts in winter, but I don't know, for he swears that he can only get such things as they throw away. This fellow is mighty downtrodden and swears that the boy children had better be killed hereafter. He was a book? keeper once, hut he says a young woman crowded him out, and then he went from one thing to another, crowded out every time by a girl, until he just give it up and went home and is keeping house while his females work up town. The whole.nature of things is being reversed, he says, and nothing would surprise him now, nothing, for he has to pinch him* self sometimes to decide whether he is sure that he is or is not some female wo? man, j This poor downtrodden fellow impress ed me so strongly with his notion of the situation that I have put myself to a sight of trouble to get at the facts?get the figures on this "working women" matter. I don't like to figure much, but here are some pretty nearly correct fig? ures as to the number of women working in the towns named, and when we take in consideration that these women are filling places that men uster fill it ac? counts somewhat for the "overplus," Here are the figures : Atlanta.2,760 Augusta.1,750 Rome. 350 Total...4,860 Now here is just three towns that give us nearly five thousand women who are filling the places of males?for milliners were not taken in this account, sewing is their natural business land does not con? flict, so we did not number them as men's competitors. , I also had the figures from Columbus, Macon and Savannah, but I was fearful that the estimate was a little wrong, and I had rather be silent than wrong, Any* how, the three places above are sufficient to show to what extent this female labor business is being carried. In closing this letter I wish it to be understood that I am not making any war on these ladies. I see them going to and comiog from their places, and I could say nothing but in praise of their deportment, their tidyness and their sweet looks, but girls, don't you think it would be better for you to go and take places as "servants" in households ? In a few more years there won't be any wo? men who know how to keep house, make preserves and pickles, and raise gardens and children, and milk cows and make butter. The word "servant" is where the rub comes. It is a false notion and there is lots of false pride that betterbe thrown away than mixed up in the matter. There should be no more odium attached to hiring out to do household work than in hiring to do shop work. * Men folks can never change positions with you in these things and the country is all out of joint for some reason, and there must be a reaction. It will come. Sarge Pltjnkett. Webster's Opinion. In the year 1840 the locomotive was a small, weak machine that was em? ployed to drag a few coachlike cars at a speed of about ten miles an hour, Daniel Webster, in describing the Amer* ican railroads, said: "They are made of two stringers of scantling notched into ties that often get loose in the ground. Upon the stringers two straps of iron, the width and thickness of wagon tires aie nailed. "These Btraps of iron frequentlyget detached at the ends, which turn up like snakes'heads and pierce the floor of the car." Such an accident actually happen ed to a car between Elizabe th and New York. "Then," said WebBter, "the wheels slip on the iron strap?, in winter espe? cially, so much that little dependence can be placed upon tbe time of arrival, and many people think it is not certain that railroads will be a success." ? Arsenic and quinine are dangerous drug3 to accumulate in one's system, and it is to be hoped that these poisons, as a remedy for ague, have had their day. Ayer's Ague Cure is a sure antidote for the ague, is perfectly safe to take, apd is warranted to cure. Conscience In Work. The policy of right doing cannot be doubted. Every intelligent man and woman must see that in nearly every in? stance it pays richly and fully for what? ever labor or self-sacrifice it may involve, and in the few cases where they cannot see this result most of them have suffi? cient faith in the law to trust it. Yet, if this be the only motive in action, it can* not be called right doing in the beat sense. That which is done solely from the hope of gain or advantage cannot be of the highest type. The habit of doing what we have to do as well, as thoroughly, and as speedily as possible, without immediate reference to its probable or possible effects upon our? selves, is one which would of itself secure at once the best success for ourselves and the greatest good of the community. It would settle many vexed questions and solve many knotty problems, In? stead of this, the common course is tc consider closely the comparative benefit that is likely to accrue to us in return. There are all degrees of this calculation from the strictly just to the grossly self? ish. One man tries to estimate the true worth cf his labor and performs it ac? cordingly, another gives as little work, secures as large returns as possible, and between these there is every shade. But in all such reckonings there is one im? portant element left out. No one can count np the value of the labor which is both generous and conscientious. Even its money value can ne . er be calculated. The youth who enters business deter? mined to do all that cornea to his hands as well and as quickly as he can, who is anxious to learn and anxious to please, who never measures his labor by his wages, but freely gives all the work, and the best work in his power is vastly more valuable than the one who is always bearing in mind the small pay he is re? ceiving and fearing that he should give too much in return. So the mechanic or the clerk, who beyond bis stated salary, beyond even his obligations to his em? ployer, or the demands which public opinion could make upon him, exerts himself to make his work as perfect as he can, and delights in its thoroughness and excellence, apart from any private benefit it can render him, has a value which can never be computed. It mat? ters not what the work be, whether it be done with the spade of the laborer, the pen of the clerk, the brush of the artist, or the voice of the statesman. Such people are sought far and wide, there are places always open to them, and their services are always at a premium. Tal? ents and skill tell for much, but con? science in work tells far more. He whose integrity is unquestionable, who can be trusted far and wide, who will work equally well alone as when every eye is upon him, and will do his best at all times, is an invaluable member of soci? ety. And he cannot do this simply from the motive of self-interest. It is the re? sult of something more than intelligence and foresight, it is conscience, vitalizing every detail of labor, and raising it to its highest pitch of excellence.?Confection? er's Journal. ? -at ? The Day of Fast Running. But few are aware of the difference in time required to traverse the country now a,i compared with a few years ago. Thir? ty-eight hours, Indianapolis to New York, was, not many years since, and forty-six to Boston. Now two lines make the run between Indianapolis and New York in twenty-three hours, and could, without trouble, make it in two horns quicker. Within the last five years the agreed scheduled speed of the Northwestern lines out of Chicago was twenty-fivo miles an hour for their fastest trains; now a number are scheduled at thirty eight to forty miles an hour, and these are only cited to show what has been ac? complished in this direction, as all over the country, thirty-five miles an hour for, express trains is as common as twenty-five miles an hour was ten or fifteen years ago. Many expert railroad men say that the highest speed has not yet been attained for fast express trains, citing the New York Central as leading out in this di? rection. It is not many years ago that the running time between Buffalo and New York was twenty-two hours; now the Em? pire State and its answering train make the run, respectively, in ten hours and ton and a half. Either of these trains covers much of the distance at a speed of a mile in fifty-five to fifty-six seconds. Of course, on the New York Central, curves are alight and grades light, but there are many Western lines which offer equally good advantages for high speed, which, within the near future, will doubtless be realized. An impression exists that running fast trains involves a great strain on the men and locomotives. This is not correct. The anxiety of the engineer is that his engine be in good condition, as with fast trains the question is one of power and weight?the power of the locomotive equaling that of the weight of the train the engine is hauling, or, in other words, he wants an engine which "will make the time without crowding," as engineers express it. An engineer on a fast train knows every man on the line is alert and looking for his train, that every possible precaution is taken to insure a clear track, and the chances of obstruction are reduced to a minimum. Recently a re? porter approached an engineer who had just arrived, having made a remarkable speed some of the distance of sixty-five to seventy miles an hour, and asked him if he was not "rattled" when making such fast runs; he answered, "No; I never stop to think of ' hp'. and in fact, so far as that in concert ed, if my engine leaves the track at forty miles an hour it is Che end with me, the chances are, and that is no more than it could do when I am running seventy miles an hour."? Indianapolis Journal. Bucklens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the worl x for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, 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 25 cents per box. For sale, by Hill BroB. AH Sorts of Paragraphs. ? A revolver has been invented that shoots seven times a second. ? The better a m&r knows himself the more be knows he needs God. ? Seven eights of the bread made in London is made of American wheat. ? Self conceit is abont as uncomforta? ble a seat as a man can have for a steady thing. ? If you don't want your boy to turn out bad, don't bear down too hard on the grindstone. ? H? The man who always speaks the truth in love will always speak words that weigh something. ' ?? If we put off repentance another day we have another day to repent of, and a day less to repent in. ? Those people who are always going to pay their bills "tomorrow" generally oversleep themselves. ? Among the relics to be exhibited at the World's Fair is a necklace which once belonged to Pocahontas. ? The fastest time in which a train has been known to travel a mile is forty-nine seconds and a fraction. ? ? Cruelty and religion don't fit to? gether. How can a man love God who mistreats a helpless dumb brute ? ? No bird can fly backward without turning. The dragon-fly, however, can do this, and can outstrip the swallow in speed. ? The man who says that every man hae his price, simply means to. inform you that yon can have his services at a bargain. ? The horsemen say that whipping s horse unmercifully for something that the animal cannot help spoils many a good one. ? Statistics show that women live lon? ger than men. This gives the dear crea? tures the opportunity-to have the last word. ? The great anaesthetic, chloroform, was discovered by Guthrie, 1831, and was first employed in surgical operations in 1846. ?The Cottonwood Eiver at Emporia? Kansas, varies in width during the course of the year from three feet to aev- Ss en miles. ? The extremes of temperature on the Sahara Desert are such that while the day may be oppressively hot at night it is r freezing cold. ? Harry: I've come to believe the summer girl has a heart of stone. Jack: Nonsense! It's india rubber?melts .in summer and hardens in winter. ? The man who gets mad at what the newspapers say about him should return thanks three times a day for what the - newspapers know about him but do not say. ? A Mr. Haynes, of Quincy, Minn.,, has been asleep for the last 17 years, with the exception of eighteen months in 1881 92, two mouths in 1886 and two weeks in July, 1892. ? An old distillery kettle has been un? earthed at Beading, Pa., which, to fool the revenue officers, ran water if the spi? got was turned one way and whiskey if turned the other. ? If we would always remember that for every idle word we speak we will have to give account in the day of judg- _ ment, our words would be fewer and far more weighty, wise and worthful. ' ? j?ifty years ago a house of one room was sufficient to raise ten children in; now it sometimes requires a house of ten rooms in which to raise one boy, and often he is not very well raised then! ? Kansas has a wonderful wheat crop this year. That now being harvested promises a yield of nearly 70,000$^'*' bushels, exceeding last year's crop by 15, 000,000. The crop of corn is estimated at 100,000,000 bushels. ? It is only a little over forty years ago that a Bussian farmer began the cul? tivation of the sunflower in order to ex? tract oil from the seeds. Now 700,0-*U: acres in Bussia are in sunflowers, and the original founder of the induutry is s \ millionaire. ? The Cherokee form of marriage is perhaps the simplest and most expressive of any. The man and woman merely join hands over a running steam, emblematic of the wi/tb that their future lives, hopes^. and aspirations should flow or in the same channel. ? You can never have a really gcolj complexion nntil the impurity is cleansed from your blood. What you need is a thorough course of Ayer*8 Sarsaparilla, which is absolutely free from all harmful ingredients, and therefore is perfectly d safe. ? The underground railroad in gow begun three years ago is now ala completed. The total length of the i which extends into the subt bs, is seve_ and a quarter miles, but n< . all of tbk is underground. The great .est distal below the surface is one hundred feet, th^ average distance being twenty There are a great many grades, quite steep, and some sharp curves, contract price of the road waschet over $5,000,000. ? A man recently answered""**... tisement which read: "Send us a doEftl and learn how to make money easily ana quickly." Anxious to acquire a compel tency without too much mental or physi j cal exertion, he folded up a dollar bill forwarded it and anxiously awaited thl answer. It came in a few days, and as explicit as he could desire: "Follow om plan, look up all suckers and get a ?dollfi out of them. The amount in every casi is small, but the sucker harvest never] gives out." ? A yonng lady in Montana will an< answer unconsciously! questions put t< her. She is courted by a timid youfl man who has never had the courage t| ask her to marry him. He called onj night last week, and entering the frofl door, as wc s his habit, without ringiJE the bell, saw her asleep onJty2ViQjM$t fa. He heard his own '?ofUy^B pressed between coral lijw ImediabH the pent up burden of \ eart brofl out in words: "Dearest, do. -;love mem "Ye3," wa? the resrrSse of % sleepJf "Will you marry me?" "Yes." "SiJB it be in a year ?" The lips again rfefrjffl and the young man distinctly VB| "August." He stepped cautiously?Ii and glided quietly from the horn August was too soon to suit his purssS