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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C? WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1892. VOLUME XXVII.?NO. 18. For Asthma, Bronchitis Colds, coughs, la grippe, pneumonia, and all disease* of the throat and lungs, take "For more than twsnty-lre years I was a sufferer from lung trouble, attendod with eoughing 10 isTere at times as to causa henv orrnace, the paroxysms frequently luting three or four hours. I was Induced to try Ayert Cherry Pectoral, and after taking (our bottles wai thoroughly cured I can confidently recommand this medlelna."? Franr Holman, Clay Centra, Kan*. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Pi?parcdbyPr. J.CAy*rkCo..Lowtll, Utss. PfOmpt tO SCt, SUTO tO CUfG 300 Bushels Seed Bye, 500 Bushels Seed Barley, 1000 Bushels Seed Oats. New Crop Blue' Grass, Orchard Grass, Bed Top Grass, Clover Seed, FRESH STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES ArriYiMff every day at the Itoweet Prices for Oaah. D. S; MAXWELL & SON, WD. f HOTBL OHIQTJOLA. OUR LEADER FOR 30 DAYS ONLY! ALL OF OUB O-OOIDS AT COST FOR CASH, Irteludin.tr, ail our Fall Purchases. HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES, SERGES, BROADCLOTHS, BEDFORD CORDS, LADIES' CLOTHS, in blacks and colors. Tha OcJihmerta you pay elsewhere 10c. for wa will let yoa have at 15o? The J0s. lint at IsOo. the iOc. line at 35c, and the 50c. line at 33*0., the 73*. line for half 'a dollar, and the dollar: line for 70?. Yoa will save on s, $2.40 Drees Pattern 00 cents, on $3.00 Pattern the same amount, but the difference on the finer goods is greater: On $4.80 yon save $1.80, oa the $?.00 line yoa save $2.00, on the $8.00 line yoa save $6.00, on $1300 line yoa save $4.00, Eemember, this sale will be <[>nly for Thirty Days. LADIES' STORE STILL LEADING IN HANDSOME GOODS! Buyer has been in the Northens majkets for three weeks, and has bought the handsomest stock of ladies GOODS that has ever been brought to leia mattet at p3i0e8 to suit ALL. We have added a new feature in toe way ef? A B4RGAIN COUNTER. *?- Don't Call to inspect oar entire Stock, for yoa will SAVE MONEY I Thanks for the past and hopes for the totere. Beapectfnlly, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. Successor to Peoples & Burriss, stilt Headquarters for House Mil Ms, Fancy Cffina, Dm Sets, Vases, Holiday Goods, &c. JPhE celebrated IRON KING COOK STOVE is mach improved over the old pattern. We have a fine Stove, No. 7, for $10.00, with 25 nieces, as ornamental as any first class housekeeper need want. A big lot of Second. Hand Stoves maet go at some price, so come in and price them. TINWARE LOW DOWN ! *&. Bring your BAGS, SIDES and BEESWAX to ua Those indebted to the firm of Peoples & Bnrriss are respectfully invited to call in as soon as possible and settle their Account at the same old stand with W:P.- ^fl_ JOHN T- BUBRISS. WHY ORDER JPXJLJSTCDB and OrRGKA-ZtNTS From any other Market when THE O. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE Can and will Save you Money by Buying at Home. ?-w^dafA-H-^ OUB Gooda art bought in large lots Ilit^iiS^Bil^Tlm ft"om tli0 Manufacturers for CASH. SHS?jP ?1 Y wl Ouraxpcnsea ar6 mnoh lighter than 7 ?T ^^fra, Kdealere in larger cities, who sell almost |LJ */ "^?<e exclusively through Sub-Agents, thns ^* adding largely to the prices charged you And, "besides, we have th. LARGEST 8TOCK IN THE STATE to select from, and every Instrument is sold under A POSITIVB GUARANTEE. Ws respectfully solicit yonr patronage, which will be highly appreciated. Respectfully, C A REED MUSIC HOUSE. ANDERSON. 8. C. M-cGree & Dillingham. We are very much obliged to oar friends for their liberal pationage for the pas year, and will say that we will have oo hand at our Stables? FIRST CLASS MULES AND HORSES, AND WILL GIVE ydu LIVING PEICES. Be sore to tali and see us if yoa want a First Class Male or Horse cheap for eaah, or with good security. We also can furnicb you a first class Turnout at any time. Our Livery De? triment is equipped w;tb fir*t class Horses and Buggies. We also have on hand a lot of? PEPTONS, BUGGIES and HARNESS $fttft we will sell at Rook Bottom Prices. MoGBB & DILLINGHAM, BULL AST'S TALI. Arp Writes Another Letter Frum Texas. APCanta Oonatiiution. This is the jumping off pi act, I reckon, and ought to bo oallled Laed'a End in? stead of Midland. It Ii S10 milM west of Ft. Worth aid i? another 810 miles to El Faao. I did not know I was on the plaint until 1 waked up this morning. It is all cattle tad horses aid sheep oat here. .Ne eotten or c?:a, no potatoes or cabbage, no nothing but grass and bonndlois prairies. No vegetation caa stand the long summer droughts except the grau and that suffers sometime*. But there ii plenty of water about thirty feat underground and tlii windmills bring it up, for the wind is over blowing, and the air is full of ?aad much of the time. A drummer aald "they have to climb for water and dig for fuel," as moat of the wood they me is roots dug out of the ground, roots of the meaqaite trees. This town supplieu the ranch mea for a hundred mileii north and south, and has a fine trade. The mer? chants carry large stocks of geoda, espe? cially canned goods and California fruits. The windmills are everywhere. I count? ed seventeen in view from my window.' One man who has a ranch twenty miles square told me he had forty-eight of them oct there and keeps a mechanic hired to keep tbem lu order. But ranch? ing is a hard lifo, and if there is any fun in it, it ia of a coarae, rugged kind. It ia not so demoralizing as it uied to be. The preachers and the teachers have j brought schools and churches within reach of the cow boy i, and they don't mind riding twenty or thirty miles to mingle with Christian people about once a week. A ranchman's home is like the Arab's camel?it is bi? ship of the desert. All along the line from Abilene I watched the prairie dogs from the car window. There are thousands and thou? sands of tbem, and they are no tame that the older ones will not run to their holes on approach of the train. The young ones scamper away and tamble in like a school boy tumbles into the millpoud. Their burrows have a funnel-shaped top with dirt around like an ant hill, and you can eee them twenty or thirty feet apart among the mesquite trees as far as the eye can see at all. This little ani? mal is a rodent about the sue of a gray squirrel with brown back aad whitish breast. Tbey stand up like a squirrel and use their fbrepaws for hands and eat the roots aud grass in the same way. They are a species of guinea pig, though aot so pretty. It is said that if you hold up a guinea pig by the tail his eyes will drop out. The prairie dog'a eyes will not for he has a tail while the guinea pig baa none. The old story that a rat? tlesnake and an owl and a prairie dog all lire in the same bole ia oot true. Bev. Dr. Cochran, who ia a man of ob? servation, told me that sometime* the snake did go down into the borrow, but it was either a dos or ted one, or else he was after the dog aud he got him, too. He says he has seen a dozen dogs carry? ing grass aad roots and gravel to stop up a snake that had crawled in a hole, and they packed it tight by thumping it with their heads and so destroyed, the snake. In such cases they raise a great commo? tion, and show signs of skill and inge ouity. What these little creatures are good for has not been discovered. They would be good to eat if it was not for their musky, musty odor. Mexicans are quite common here and some of them aro good looking, espe? cially the children. There are more Mexicans than negroes. I have seen but one negro in Midland. I asked a Mexican last night on the train how far it was to Midland. He smiled, Bhook his head and said (something about "Ma? heko," which meant that he did n jt un? derstand me. They are allowod to travel in the white, folk's car, while the negroes are not, though we sometimes see mu? latto negroes who are whiter that tho Mexicans. Conductors are very strict about that in Texas, fox it is $25 penalty for every breach of the law. No white man is allowed to ride in the negro's cat* and vice versa. Eren a Sheriff with a negro prisoner must ride in the car for the whites, so saye the Attorney General of the State. "Turn Texas loose" is the battle cry of the Olark men now. They say that Governor Hogg's policy is against rail? roads and aliens aad foreign capital, and that be has shut down on all progress and has driven foreign capital away. "Turn Texas loose" is seen everywhere ?heard everywhere. Hogg Bays in re ply: "You tried bo inflate your towns like a balloon aud because the bubble burst you lay it on Hogg. Around Dal? las and Fort Worth and other cities you turned your cotton fields into town lots aud because you couldea't catch suckers you say Hogg did it." Even no me of the preachers have taken the siump and they draw upon the sacred scriptures for their witnesses, just like ours did during the war and just before. In the meantime Nugeat and the People's Party behind him are still hunting for votes and as usual are claiming the State. I met tho noblest Roman of them all at Mexia. Judge Pendergrast is his name. He is the candidate of the Prohibition party, a wealthy banker, a gentleman whom everybody loves and honors. Of course, he does not expect to be elected, but says that he feels it his duty to hold the fort. When told that he is talking away votes from Cleveland he says: "Yes, that is bo down here where Mr. Cleve? land does not seed them ; but our party will take away more Harrison votes up North where he does not need them, for up there the prohibitionists are generally Republicans in feeling." You don't know how much these Tex? as Democrats rejoiced over Governor Northen's great victory. The Georgians who live here are jubilant. Georgia ranks higher in Texas than any other State except Texas. When I meet an old Georgian he talks as lovingly about his old home as a college boy does about the girl he left behind him. And they go back again every now aud then to re visit their kindred and the scenes of their youth. Of course we regret to see our young men leaving us, and it is a move that is environed with risk and even with peril, for there is no El Dora* do anywhere. I was touched with pity and smuBsd at a young man of my town who had just arrived at Gainesville a few days before I got there. He was as glad to see me as If I was his rather. "Found anything to do ?" said I. "No ?not exactly," said he, "but I'm going to work to-morrow." "What at?" said I. He looked rather sad and said, "Well, I'm goiisg to work in a cotton* seed oil factory. I can get a dellar and a half a day to shovel up seed and I'm going to do it"?and he looked away off dreamily towards Georgia. Well, he cob!u?a't get anything to do back there and no boy ?rot tried harder. If any young man thinks he can just step right into a pleasant business out here he is mistaken. He will have to begin at the bottom and work up?but labor does command a better price out here and it is easier to get a place. Western Texas is but little settled yst. In fact not set? tled at all far away from the railroads. The Texas Pacific has opened it up within the last ten years. It is a won? derful line of railway and gives good service to the people. It is nearly 900 miles long in one unbrokea stretch, and I have been over 600 of it. It seems to be crowded on every train. This side of Ft. Worth there Is but one train a day, and when night somes these western Texans oall on the porter for a pillow and give him a dime and they double up and tumble down. It is the only road I know of that rents pillows to the night passengers. Last night I watched the prairie sun go down and nothing could be more grandly beautifully brilliant, for it illuminated the fleesy clouds with all the hues of autumn. It is said that when a northern woman was one night walking with Tom Ochiltree she went into rhapsodies over the beautiful Texas moon that was shining on the boy and Tom sighed and said, "Ah, madam, you should have Been our moon before the war." There must be something in the rarified atmosphere that makes even the Btarry heavens more brilliant out here. For an hour or two after dark I gazed at tba stars and took comfort in v tching the Big Dipper as it slowly descended beneath tho horizon. It made me feel as if I was not so far from home. Van Alatyne is a good little town?so clean, so neat and everybody so fri endly. I rode out with some lady friends and they chatted with and hailed the good nabors all along, just like it was all one family. I like that. Whei society gets so stiff and stuck up that they must pay their calls in a oarriage and are so glad when the folks are not at home and so leave their cards and count it a visit?a debt paid?I want none of it. Visiting ought not to be a debt. It should be a pleasure or be nothing. Van Alatyne baa a bran now college that her own peo? ple built and established. A graduate of Vauderbilt, Mr. Piner, has it in charge, and he has already gotten a mu? seum and a labratory and some astro? nomical instruments and a library, and everybody is prond. Gianbury is an older town and has a college, too, in oharge of Mr. Williams, and there Is another one only two miles away. Eduoation is a big thing here, and it is within easy reach of the rising generation. Bat I mnst halt for the mail is about to olose. Bill Abf. Here's Profitable Cotton Raising. The statement is often made that cot? ton can not be profitably raised at the present prices, This may be so with the majority of farmers, but there are some who make money ait it. Among them is Z. Frank Foster. In conversation a few days ago Mr, Foster gave an illustration of how he makes cotton raising pay. On one part of his farm he planted six acres in cotton. He put on the land fifty one horse loads of stable manure and six sacks of guano. He has sold six bales of cotton from it from which be realized $204. He has picked oat 1,100 pounds and is sure of getting at least three more baleB, making at least nine balee. From the cotton, at the present prices, he will realize ,$304; from the seed $38; total $342. Here is what it cost him to make nine bales: Fifty loads of mannre, including cost of hauling.$ 41 50 Five sacks of guano. 11 25 Hoeing. 45 00 Plowing. 5 00 Preparing ground. 8 00 Picking. 40 95 Seed. 1 00 Total cost.$152 70 Profit $119.80, or $86.55 an aore.? Greenville News. They poulticed her feet and poulticed her head, And blistered her back till 'twas smart ling and red, Tried tonics, elixirs, pain-killers and salves, (Though grandma declared it was noth? ing but "narvea.") The poor woman thought she must cer? tainly die, Till "Favorite Prescription" she happen? ed to try.? No wonder it praisea so loudly they speak; She grew better at once, and waa well in a week. The torturing pains and distressing nervousness which accompany, at times, certain forms of female weakness, yield like magic to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre? scription. It is purely vegetable, per? fectly harmless, and adapted to the deli? cate organization of women. It allays and subdues the nervous symptoms and relieves the pain accompanying function? al and organic troubles. Guarantee printed on bottle-wrapper, and faithfully carried out for many years. ? At Cavendish Falls, on Black Elver, Vt., a vertical cliff is known as Lovers' Leap. It's a poor town that has not one such feature in this country. A man actually went over this Vermont leap along in the "40s." He did not mean to, and a companion orept to the edge and looked over, expecting to see him dashed to pieces below. The man was crawling out of the river. "Hello," shouted his friend, "are you hurt much ?" "I ain't hurt much," was the answer, "but I'll be darned if I haven't lost my jack-knife." CATTLE RAWING I"OR PROFIT: Ttro FrofrreMlT* Parmern Demonstrate the Feasibility. Prom tht YorhrUU Enquirer. Cattle raising for profit in York Coun? ty! Ttn yearn ago nobody would hare thongbt of inch a thing. The poeieasion of a few head of fine cattle wai looked upon ai a luxury that none but the wealthy could afford, and the idea of raiting cattle, and flue onee at that, for the money that was in them, would not have been entertained for a moment. When eotton was ten cents a pound, an acre would yield something like $20 worth a year, and as the same amount of land would not begin to support a cow that would only be worth from $12 to $16 at three years old, how could there be any money in suoh a business ? That was the old way of looking at things, but things have changed somewhat. A large per cent, of the general public to? day have the same old ideas as to tho ex? pense and profit of the two business, but a few more advanced farmers here and there, are beginning to demonstrate that although she figures say that there is no money in eattle raising, the actual profits, no matter how they come about, say that there Is money in it, and not only money, but good money. Of course there is nothing wrong with the figures aud estimated expenses. Or? dinarily anybody oan coant up expense, omitting not a single item. But some? times some people lose sight of the profit, and especially is this the case in this business. There are many sources of profit in the business of cattle raising that cannot be at all appreciated except through actual experience, and actual experience never fails to bring about a great many gratifying surprises. A representative of the Enquirer went down to see Mr. J. W. Betts, at Leslie station, about five miles south of Rock Hill, recently. A few years ago Mr. Betts was a cotton farmer. Now he is rapidly drifting into the stock business. When he quit cotton, be was very much discouraged. Then he was in debt; now he is getting out of debt just as fast as any other farmer in the country. Here Ib the whole history in a nutshell. Surely all farmers will understand it. Along about 1888, without any previous experlenae, Mr Betts commenced raising eotton. He ran a two mule farm and got along splendidly; sometimes clear? ing over and above all expenses as muoh as four or fire hundred dollars a year. Although this was first rate, none of us are doing as much as we want to do. Mr. Betts thought he would enlarge his operations, and undertook to run a six or seven horse eotton farm. He did not run it long. He landed just where ninety nine cut of a hundred who try the same thing, under the same ciroum stance*, will land. Now, be h paying his debts. He will be square up again before a great while longer, but it will be so with very little thanks to cotton. Mr. Betts has now had four or five years' experience with cattle, and espe? cially in view of his former experience with cotton, it is reasonable to presume that he knows what he is talking about when be discusses the subject. "Cattle an expense 1" he says. "Whv no more profitable economy was ever in? troduced on a farm. I have always been a ioyer of stock, and especially flae stock. It used to be my ambition to have money in order that I might ind-'^e myself in this hobby. Now that I -ave tried it, without any money, I find that I have wasted years waiting to get able to go into a business that would have paid me from the very start. Of course I may fail, but I am satisfied now that if I do, it will either be my fault, or the result of accident?it will not be the fault of the business. "And how do I manage it? Well, it is getting easy enough now. When I I first came to this place I succeeded a man who bad been forced to leave be? cause he conld scarcely make a living. The land was so poor that it wouldn't pay for the working. I bought a few head of cattle, turned them on the worn out land, and began cleariog fifteen acres or more of new ground every year. It has been an uphill business?expense without any return?from the very start. But now things are getting better. The old worn out lands have been greatly enriched from the droppings of the cat? tle, and I am just now getting my new grounds in fine trim for making good crops. "But aside from the manure, here is how the cattle can be made to pay. Last year I milked four cows, two of them full, and the other two half Jerseys. From these cows, in addition to all the milk aad butter used at home, I Bold 881 pounds of b: .?jr in Rock Hill at 25 cents a pound, receiving in all $220.25. With this money I hired a hand at $10 a month, and with very little- help from me, ha made fifteen bales of cotton and 800 bushels ot corn. The entire crop coat me only $4.40 over and above what I received for my butter. "Now, as to the expense of my cattle," continued Mr. Betts, "I hardly know how to count it up. Last year I win? tered eleven head, and about all the money paid out was for two loads of wheat straw. This year I have fourteen head, aad unleas I can get a fair price for a few of them, I intend to winter them all. If you will joat raise your own clover and hsy, cattle will pay you more for it than anything else. ' And by tho way, I never sell any hay or roughness of any kind. If I have more roughness than I need, I buy more cattle. You see it works this way; the more roughness, the more cattle, the more manure, and the more manure the bigger craps. "Up to a year or two age, I was always puzzled every spring to know how much cotton I should plaat. That question does not trouble me any more now. I have adopted a new rule that is infalli? ble. It is juit this: Regulate your cot? ton crop by the size of your manure pile, and don't plant any more cotton than you oan fertilize with home made ma? nure." Though Mr. Belts hss not gone into the cattle business exclusively, it is clear from the above that he has struck the right line, and it is only a question of a very short time until he will be realizing larger returns from hii farm than is pos? sible in any other way. A few head of his cattle axe paying the expense* of the entire herd with their milk and butter, and besides this, the herd is paying a clear profit of not less than six per cent, on the amount Invested in it In manure. In the face of such a showing as this, it is a very poor business man wko claims that there is no money in oattle. a jehsky dairy. Nobody in this County is ahead of, or even up with, Mr. Wade H. Hioklin, of Guthriesville, in the dairy business. Mr. Hicklin has a small hard of pure blooded Jerseys, and ia realizing as big a profit for the capital invested, as is derived from any other legitimate business in this country. "I am a great lover of fine cattle," says Mr. Eieklin, "but I would not think of spending any time or money on them if it didn't pay." Mrs. Hicklin takes the same view, and both taking a hand in the management, they have a splendid I thing of it, They not only derive a great deal of pleasure, but a handsome profit from the business. A lepreseutative of the Enquirer visit* ed Mr. Hicklin recently. He had only a short while to Btay, but he saw and learned a great deal that was of interest. The first thing was the herd. It consists of fifteen or sixteen head of blooded oat? tle, including nine sleek, well-fed Jer? seys, all registered or entitled to registry, and having pedigrees running back to the days when progressive people first began to take an interest ia fine stock. "That is my bull, over there," said Mr. Hicklin, indicating an animal which bears all the marks of the full blooded Jersey. "He is just twenty-five months old, and is ont of Bom ping Dolly by King Koffee, Jr. Romping Dolley's butter record is thirteen pounds in seven days, and Xing Koffae, Jr., now owned in Tennesseo, sold for $3,500 when only five months old. I don't bslisve a finer bull than this was ever brought to this section. "We are milking six cows now," said Mr. Hicklin, in answer to a quei tion, and two more will be in within a few months. Everything in the lot will givo four gallons of milk a day when fresh, but seme of them are not giving bo much just at this time. We make some* thing over six pounds of butter a day, and have no trouble In selling all we can make in Columbia at twenty-five cents a pound, We just ship It in a bulk any where from twenty five to fifty pounds at & time, and parties in Columbia take all that we can send them." From the cow lot, Mr. Hicklin led the way to tho silo, "I have just built this," he explained. "It is just like that of .Or. Black's, recently described in the Enquirer. It is nine and a balf feet wide, nineteen feet long;, sixieen feet high, and contains about forty five tous of ensilage, composed of thirty five loads of sorghum-cane, fiva loads of green corn stalks, and ten loads of peavines. With me this silo is an experiment. I bad the cane, cornstalks and poavines, and having no place to put them, just decid? ed to convert them into ensilage. If it spoils why it will just spoil, and if it keeps all right, then so much the better." Mr. Hicklin's cow stables, which were next visited, are arranged in a manner altogether worthy of the fine stock for which they are intended. There are a number of stalls, each provided with mangers, and a passage way, with a trough in the middle, running by all the stalls, the full length of the stable, to a manure pile outside, which contributes to the ease and convenience with which the droppings may be cleaned up. This is attended to every morning, and the surroundings present an appearance that give evidence of the utmost care and at? tention. "My oattle were brought hers on the 10th day of last December," said Mr. Hicklin, "and Binge that time I have hauled out thirty two loads of solid ma? nure. This is a source of considerable profit to cattle raisers, and it alone will go along way toward paying the ex? pense of feeding the stock that make it. "But of course," he continued, "the butter is the biggest thing in the busi? ness. I would like you to stay over and see our system of making it, and of handling milk; but as you say you can't, I will have to try to tell you about it," and with this, Mr Hicklin proceed to ex? plain the operation of his improved creamery cans, and different arrange? ments for convenience, and for securing best results. "We don't churn anything but the cream, he aaid, and of course there is very little buttermilk. The skim milk we feed to the calves, which we always take from their mothers when they are three days old. The churning is done in a sixteen gal? lon swinging churn, and it takes from 30 to 85 minutes to convort a churn full Into butter. And such butter I Mrs, Hicklin supervises the working up of it herself. It is a beautiful golden color, almost as firm as cheese, has a perfectly delightful taste, and will keep nice and sweet for weuka. Mrs. Hicklin did not toll how these results were produced,lasd the writer did not think il exactly fair to ask her. He felt that that was her se? cret?the reanon why her butter always brings not less the five cents a pound over the regular market price. - wm ? -a? There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pro? nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to oure with local treatment, pronounced it inourable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and there? fore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Oure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional oure on the market. It ia taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonfu 1. It acts directly on the blood and mueous surface of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case K fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggist3, 75c. ? Good sense is the best frif nd a man can have in an emergency. A ROMANCE OF TEE WAR. Recalled by the Blgkt of a Woman In Man's Gart) Waikius In an Orange Grove Frow the Detroit Free Press. "While oh Ihe train coming from Louisville I read a story which remind? ed me of a romance in real life which occurred ig the picturesque South," said M. P. Oorcorau, of New Orleans. "I was half dozing in the smoker, after having finished my cigar, when the train boy threw a lot of books into the compart? ment and I picked up one of them and mechanically began to read. It was the story which opens with a scene in a con* vent and an interview which took place when a soldier saw once more a society woman whom he had adored in the world of fashion. I even forgot the name of the story; it was the Duchess someone, As I read, the occurrences of a Summer spent on tho Golf of Mexico came to mind and although I am not much on romance, the details of a certain story which I had heard came vividly to me and I saw once more the characters in the startling drama which was enacted some time ago. "That Summer was one of delight for me, for was not my dally companion an old /fiend of the family, Father Bailey, one of the most scholarly priests whom it has been my good fortune to meet, a gentleman of affable manners and an irrepressible wit ? He was a broad, big man, with a hearty red face, and a voice like a fog-horn. He was the life of the neighborhood sod could tell a story or sing a song in a most remarkable manner. When any entertainment was in pro? gress the good Father Bailey was always central figure. The children of his parish were always giving pleasing socials of one kind or another, and somewhere in the middle of the programme Father Bailey would be announced, and then be would lift up bis mighty bass voice in 'A Warrior Bold,' delivering it not perhaps as an ar? tist would, but with a hearty feeling that was capivating. A storm of applause would follow, and then be would come forward, and, seating himself at the piano, sing a rollicking Irish ditty in a manner that was all his own and which caused the children to laugh so heartily that it actually did one good to be pres? ent. "It was the time of the year when ev? erything was in bloom; when the flowers fairly overran the bouses, and when the orange trees were loaded with fruit. One day I was strolling through the orange field with Father Bailey, and he was tell? ing me a particularly good story in Irish dialect, when suddenly we approached the figure of a nun. She was tall and stately, and, although her face was per? fectly white, her beauty was such that I pau.ed unvoluntarily and exclaimed: 'There is a picture for an artist, that magnificent woman in dark array, stroll? ing in this paradise of nature.' "Father Bailey returned dryly that hers was not physical beauty, but beauty of the soul. I replied that I could not believe that, having looked for a moment into her dark, soulful eyes. 'Such a wo? man must have a history,' 1 added. 'That is true,' he responded. 'But her history belongs to the past.' The woman pass? ed slowly away. Then Father Bailey re? turned to his story, and I aiked him no more questions about her. However, I saw her frequently thereafter, and bad no difficulty of learning of her past, for ev? ery one seemed acquainted with her ro? mantic career. "Before the war Bhe was the only daughter of an extremely wealthy plant? er, and lived in one of the large, hand? some homesteads which then wero so of? ten seen in the hind of Dixie. She had been educated in Paris, and bad acquired all the graces which are supposed to ac? company a perfect education in tbe fine arts. As she was an heiress she bad many admirers, one of whom was a Southerner, while the other resided in the North, having met the accomplish? ed girl in Paris. There was a hot race for her hand, but her heart evidently in? clined to the latter suitor, who was grace? ful and talented and altogether a worthy young fellow. The Southerner witness? ed his rival's success with much chagrin, and when tbe announcement of the engagement was made was heard to re? mark ihat he would kill his hated rival at the altar. However, the wedding bells did not ring, for war troubles were im? minent. The lovers took a sorrowful farewell, vowing to be loyal to each oth? er, although he, perforce, was going to join the ranks of the enemy of the South, and assist in putting down the Confeder? acy. "Tho denounemcnt to the otory was sad aud startling. One day a man, worn out and travel-stained, sought refuge at the house and was admitted into the young woman's presence. She gave a cry of rapture, for it was her Northern lover, and then exclaimed with conster? nation : "?How did you get here?' " 'By crossing the line.' " 'But if you are found here they will kill you.' " 'I could not resist seeing you.' "Then in an agitated manner Bhe in? forms him that a detachment of South? ern soldiers was encamped beyond tbe small wood and that tbe officer in com? mand was bis former rival. " 'You must go at once,' she urged. 'They come here for supplies, and if they find you the; will hang you as a spy.' " 'I know that,' he returned in a gloomy manner. "At this moment the door was burst open and a number of soldiers entered tbe room. " 'Ah, here U the spy,' said a voice. It was the Southern rival. " 'I am no spy.' " 'What are you doing here?' " 'You should know.' 'At this the Southerner waved his arm to his men. 'Leave the room,' he said. The men obeyed. " 'Now, Bir,' said tho Southerner, 'you are aware what your fate will be V " 'You cannot take me alive,' was the sollen answer. "The young woman threw herself bo* fere tbe Southerner. " 'Yoa know he is no spy I' she ex? claimed. " 'Well, he will be shot as one.' " 'Have you no mercy V " 'What mercy have you had for me 1 He shall die like a dog.' " 'See,' she implored, 'I beg on my knees. Could you not withdraw your men, or so arrage It that he may return ?' " 'PosBibly I could.' "'And you will?' " 'On one condition.' " 'Name it.' "He boot over and whispered in her ear. " 'Never!' she exclaimed. " 'Then he shall die.' "'Not as a spy!' exclaimed the Northerner, rushing for the window. There was a sharp report. The North? erner staggered, placed his hand to his breast, and then fell to the floor, dead, shot by his rival before the eyes of the young woman who bad been the occasion of the bitter vendetta. That strange fate which bad permitted the meeting of these two men under such circumstances had occasioned one more tragedy among the many remarkable and sorrowful events of tbe war. The opportunity for a bitter revenge had been offered and accepted. The Northerner was buried, the yoang woman became a nurse, and after tbe war retired to a convent, where doubt? less she still cherishes the memory of her lover. That is the reason one could Bee a past in her eyes as she strolled through the orange grove." Watched fer the Fox a Week, Cjcranton, Oct. 21.?Yankee, a fox bound belonging to Farmer Willis W. Parke, of Cranberry Creek, went on a fox hunt of his own accord on Monday afternoon last week. Tbe folks heard biiu baying on the hills for several hours, and a little before sunset they lost the Bound of his voice. Yankee didn't come home that night and no one in the neigh? borhood saw him or heard him baying on Tuesday forenoon. After dinner Mr. Parke went in search of the hound and late in the afternoon he found Yankee lying close to a hole in a ledge of rocks near a piece of woods over the hills on the adjoining farm of Marcus 0. Hull's. Yankee was as bright as a dollar, but he was lank and hungry. He had run a fox into the ledge and he was watching for it to come oat so that he could nab it. Mr. Parke ordered the hound to fol? low him and Yankee cringed and whined and begged bis master to let him stay by the hole. He couldn't coax the hound to come away and he decided not to force him. On examining tbe ledge Mr. Parke was convinced that the fox couldn't get oat except where he had gone in, and he made up his mind to let Yankee stay at the bole as long as be wanted to. Then he went home and got a jug of spring water and a basin lull of meat for the vigilant hound. Yankee drank two quarts of water from the basin before he would touch the meat, and while he was drinking and eating he kept one eye on tbe hole in the rooks, though he was afraid the fox might give him the slip. When the hound bad devoured tbe meat, Mr. Parke again coaxed him to come away, but in vain. Mr. Parke left the basin of water for Yankee to drink dur? ing tbe night, and when he started for home the bound was eagerly watching tho bole. There was a thick white frost on the ground when Mr. Parke trudged over to the ledge on Wednesday morning with a jug of water and a package of food for the hound. Yankee was still watching the hole. He k_d drunk the basin of water, and Mr. Parke filled it, placed the food near the hound, and went away. On Thursday and Friday mornings he again fed and watered the watchful hound. At sundown on Friday he found Yankee watching tbe hole with more eagerness than he bad shown at any time. He had gone up with the intention of leading the hound to the house, having come to the conclusion that there was no fox in tbe ledge, but when he saw that Yankee was as vigilant as ever he dacid ed to let him stay there that night. On Saturday morning Mr. Parke started for the ledge without any food or water for Yankee. He carried a strap I and a whip, and be was going to lash the hound away from the rocks, and not have any more fooling. When he ap? proached the ledge he didn't see the hound in his uaual place near the hole. He wasn't anywhere in sight, and Mr. Parke made up his mind that the hound had got tired and gone home on his own hook. There was some water in the basin and a lot of meat near it, but no signs of the hound. While Mr. Parke stood looking around Yankee gave a loud bay down in the bushes several yards below the ledge, and Mr. Parke called to him. He continued to bay, but he didn't run to his master, and Mr. Parke hastened down to where he was. Yan? kee had bis paws on a dead fox, and he jumped up, made a great fuss around his master for a moment, and then ran back and lay down by the fox as though he feared it might scamper off. The fox was cold, and looked as if it bad been half starved. It had been dead several hours, and Yankee had not lain in wait all the week for it in vain. Mr. Parke said on Sunday that no amount of money would bay that hound now. Yankee is an ordinary black and tan fox bound, 3 years old, and two weeks ago Mr. Parke would have sold him for $20.?Nxo York Sun. Bucklens Arnica Salvo. The best salvo 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 \)&y required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. ? "Traveling stones" have been found in Nevada. They e.e perfectly round, and about the size of a walnnt. When placed on a smooth surface, such as a floor or table, and separated two or three feet from each other, tbey move unt?.l they meet at a common center, where they rest like eggs in a nest. Tbey are formed of magnetic iron ore, All Sorts of Paragraphs. I 3 ? The speedjof a wild duck is 90 mile an hour. ? A falsa friend and a shadow alten only when '.he sun shines. ? Churches built in the United State in 1891 numbered over eighty-five hur^ dred. ? A man who lives fast cannot ex pect that enjoyment will keep up witl him. ? Sunday School Teacher: Who lorefl everybody, Johnnie? Johnnie: My p; does, cos he is running for office. ? We often hear people say there I only one good cough medicine and thai is Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, the specifii for cold. ? Salvation Oil gives perfect satisfac tion for horses with cracked heels, d W. Lee, 414 W. Balto, St., Baltimore! Md. ? Mrs. Susan Conrad, who died the! other day in Chicago weighed 6oM pounds, and much difficulty was had in obtaining a coffin. ? Priscilla: But don't you think it a girl's duty to ask the consent of bei parents ? Prunella: Oh, yes; unless shcj thinks they won't grant it. ? John Boss, aged 18, and Johr Vogt, aged 15, had a fight at PaducahH Ky. The latter broke Boss'neck witbl one biow of hia fist. ' ? "I overheard Maude and Tom talk ing in the moonlight last night.'' "What were they talking about?" "Tfc^ weather. She didn't know whether she'd have him or not." ? The highest temperature on the] globe is at Death Valley, Inyo County, California. Its surface is 159 feet belo sea level, and in summer the thermome? ter has occasionally marked 122 degrees, ? First Friend: Heard old Smithson'ej going to be married for the fourth time j MuBt cost him something for licenses. Second Ditto: Think he oaght to appl for a season ticket. ? No death has occurred in the family] of Bev. Samuel Wakofield of Latrobe,j Pa., in 61 years. He is in his 94thyear his wife is a few years his junior; they were married in 1821, and have 10 chil? dren. ? Some of the native women of Aus? tralia have a queer idea of beauty. They cut themselves with shells, keep thaj wounds open for a long time, and when they heal huge soars are the result. These scars are deemed highly ornamen? tal. ? A pear tree which was set by Gov ernor John Fndicott in 1680 is still stand ing near Danversport, Mass. It blos? soms freely, ,ili hough 262 years old, but the fruit, Use most of the pears of that date, is of poor quality. ? To relieve headache, correct disor? ders of the stomach and Increase the appetite, and for the cure of liver com? plaint, use Ayer's Cathartic Pills. They are perfectly safe to take, and inva? riably promote a healthy action of the digestive and assimilative organs. ? For tbe cure of headache, constipa? tion, stomach and liver troubles, and all derangements of the digestive and assim? ilative organs, Ayer's Pills are invalua? ble. Being sugar-coated, tbey are pleas? ant to take, always reliable, and retain their virtues in any climate. ? While George Washington was on a visit to Turk Hill, Conn., in 1785, says the New York Becorder, be dropped a bright copper penny near the site of the Ira Meads homestead. It was one of thej few coined that year, and diligent search was made for it?all to no purpose. The property changed hands a few weeks ago and the new owner began improvements. In throwing out the dirt near the old foundation the old penny was unearthed. ? The trunk of a rose bush or tree which has been in full bloom at Ven? tura, Oal., ail summer is 3 feet in circum ferecce at tbe ground. The first branch, which juts out at a height of about 4 feet from the ground, is 8 inches in diameter, or about 2 feet in circumference. It was planted in 1876 from a slip obtained,.at the Centennial Exhibition, and, although several wagon loads of limbs are annual? ly pruned off, it now covers an area of| nearly 2,000 square feet. It is predicted that by the time it is 25 years old'it will have outstripped the gigantic rose tree! at Cologne, which is known to be morel than 300 years old, and Is lees than 4] feet in circumference. ? This la a trick which will provide amusement and valuable instruction to the young. Place upright on the month of a bottle a stiff ring of paper about 4 inches in diameter. On top of this ring, exactly over the opening of the bottlej lay a dime. Pot the end of small rod] into tbe ring and give it a sharp blow! sideways. Tbe ring when it Is struckf will fall down, bat the coin, instead of being carried with it, will fall directly into the mouth of the bottle. In conse-f quence of the sudden noes of the shcrckf the coin, by virtue of the principles ofl inertia, has not time to feel the hgtc-T ment given to the paper. There are] many similar experiments showing thej inertia of matter. One is to place onf the forefinger of the left hand a visiting card, in the oenter of which is a 50 eent piece. Give a hard rap on one of the corners of the card and it will fly away, leaving the coin on the end of your fin ger. I ? A correspondent writing from AI? bany, Ga., says: The greatest nimrocl of the age, Bink Savage, told Bill HilsmsS that there were several flocks of turkejl doing great damage to his pea cfcpoa the swamp. He, therefore, baited sever-^ al places with corn, and on finding thai the game was sating hia bait, decided tc go next morning and kill a lot of them That night he examined "Old F?tsjr carefully and found her ia fine fix, bpj on looking up his ammunition founc that he had not a grain of powderur arJ ounce of shot. An old darkey standing near by saw his dilemma. He hadjuyj returned from town with a gallon of purl corn whiskey, and says he, "Mars' Bink let's soak the next lot of corn in the whiskey, an' if dey eat dat dey is sha drunk." Bink caught on. The resul was be found a flock of sixteen fine wil< turkeys on a high old drunk, and with] his walking stick soon killed the who! flock. Steve Price has wired for fivl barrels of corn. Look out for a glutJl the turkey market. so I