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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. = ANDERSON, S, C WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1892. _____ ^ VOLUMl^ For That Tired Feeling Nervous and general debility, depression of spirits, loss of appetite. Insomnia, ?? For over twelve mouths I was afflicted with Rcueral debility, langulduess, depres? sion of spirits, headache, and loss ol appe? tite, followed by chills. I was scarcely able to drag myself about the house, aud no medicine did me any good until I began to tike Ayer's Sarsaparilla and Ayer's Pills, since which I have entirely recovered my health." ? Mary Henriclcon, Ware, Mass. Ayer's Sarsaparilla PrepsredbyDr.J.C.Ay?r*Co.,Low?ll,M?ii. CufCS OtherSiWillCUTeyOU WHOLESALE. AND RBTAIL One Price Dealers in BOOTS AND SHOES, ANDERSON, ? - - - So Co have again broken the record. ThET iw telling some lino* of Boote and Shoes by the single pair fcr leas mosey than the same goods can be bought again at by wholesale. They Buy Bargains and tliey Sell Bargains. They have the tinaat opporeanitio* for buying and handling Shoes of any Howe in South Carolina. Teey are tho only house in upper Carolina having a Bin directly connected with the Manufacturers? their Mr. Jas. P. Goisett being (tm Agent and Salesmae for tho calibrated Bey State Shoe and Leather Co., of lftw York, one of the largest Boot and Shoe Manufacturing concerns iu the world. They axe the only exclusive Shoe House in Anderson. They are the only ONE PRICE HOUSE in Andenon. Tbey iure one of the largest aad but assorted stocks of Shoes in;the State. They are carrying a full line of SOLE LEATHER?Hemlock and Whiteoak ??from 13?. per pound op. A full law 0/ Cut Half Sole* from 10c. per pair up. jBuir One Dollar Bargain Counter is a great aueceu. KLXm The bigg eat and hottest Stove in Town, and a weloome and a warm to all. COME AND SEE TJS. FURNITURE The Greatest Bargains in Furniture ever offered in South Carolina are offered at C. F. TOLLY & SON'S, DEPOT STREET. They have the Largest, Cheapest and Best Selected Stock in the State, and challenge any Furniture House in the State for a comparison of prices. WALNUT and OAK SUITS cheaper than they can be bought from any Factory. BUREAUS at prices unheard of before. PARLOR SUITS cheaper than any. AND EVERYTHING in the Furniture line. Come and tee for yourselves and be convinead that what we say u true Coma and look at our Stock, whether you want to buy or noL We will be pi mad to show you around. Caskets and Coffins furnished Day or Night. G. F. TOLLY & SON, Depot Sateei, Anderaaa, S. C LOOK HERE! CATCH 03ST TO THIS 1 E kave too many Good* to carry, therefore for the lext SIXTY DAYS we offer our LARGE and HANDSOME STOCK? AT CRBATLY REDUCED PRICES, OONillTING OF Millinery, Notions, Shoes, Handsome Dress Goods, Priest'eys Henriettas. Also, tke handsomest lot of SILKS, in all she new shades, that has ever been brought to this markst. Ladies' and Hisses WRAPS and JACKETS ia every style. 19" Glance at oar Bargain Ooeater and see what you eau do. "Coaae one, corns all, Aad get yonr share of all." Thenkc *ir the past. Reapacefully, LADIES' STORE. f*0 OUR LEADER FOR 30 DAYS ONLY! ALL OF OUR ZDZRIEJSS GrOOIDS AT OOST FOR GASH, Including all our Fall Purchases. HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES, SERGES, BROADCLOTHS, BEDFORD CORDS, LADIES' CLOTHS, in blacks and colors. The Oftjbraftrai yeu pay eUtffb?r# 20c. for wo will let you have at 15a The &%. Hue at 20c, the 40?. line at 25c, and the 50c. lioo at 33ic , the 75c. line for half a dollar, and the dollar line for 75c. Yob will Siva, on a $2 40 Drtti Ptttero 60 ceuU, on $3 00 Pattern the same amount, but tho diffareaca ou Lb* 6ugr good* is greater: Oa $4 80 you save $1.80, oa the $6.00 line you tave $2.00, on the $9.00 line you Bave $3.00, ou $12 00 line yoa sits $4.00. Remember, this sale will be only for Thirty Days. Sfltt lif Company. BILL ARP. The Groat Meteoric Shower or 1833. Atanta ConttUuHcm. Shakespeare says "there are mere things is hoavou and earth than are dreamed of in ojr philosophy." The fall of meteors on Wednesday night was quite a wonder to the geaeratiou and made the young people serious aad solemn. Tor? nadoes and earthquakes anr* "ometa and moteora are alwayB alarming",N " they bring home to us our utter belplessv^^ under the mighty hand of God. From 8 o'clock until near midnight we watched these meteors. Part of the time we were standing out iu the freezing air but most of the time we looked through the uncer tailed windows, and there was hardly.a moment that they were not seen some? where in the heavens. I hoped for another visitation like that of 18S3, which I distinctly remember, for my fathor awaked me and dressed me hurriedly and we all stood iu the piazza and watched and wondered for an hour or more. They seemed sure enough like falling stars and came down in myriads as gently as snow flakes. They nearly touched the eartk before they went out and I rementber hunting aronad in the potato patch next morning for some sign of them, but found none. If there was any keat in their glittoring light there was no sign of it in the tree tops among the leaves. I re? member that Aunt Miuiy, our good old cook, prayed aed exhorted long and loud and a white woman across the Btreet screamed out: "Come, Lord Jesus; take me, Lord Jesus. God, save un; God, forgive us," and she was kneeling on the door with her hands stretched up toward heaven. I remember that Mra. Lester, the widowed mother of our late Attorney General, lived very near u? and came over to our house, stooping as she came for fear the stara would touch her. I remember that my father was calm and serene and gave us all assuraace that there was no danger, for be was a well read man and know that such phenomena had happened several times before and did no harm. Several times within the past century there had been a fall of meteors on the same date, the 13th cf November, but none bs brilliant or that came so near the earth. It was in August 1854 that we were awakened about 2 o'clock one night by the crowing of the cocks for daybreak and our negroes got up and fed the stock and prepared to go to the field when our attention was attracted to the clock and on going out to see what was the matter we found it as bright as day and the aurora borealis was flashing a brilliant light that illuminated the heavens and the earth. Such things are always alarm? ing to the timid and the ignorant. I heard Professor Proctor, the great astron? omer, deliver three lectures at Lake Weir a few years ago and he lifted me up on thought among the starry heaveas and made us realize our own insignifi? cance as he approached the very confines of eternity and told us of things wo bad never dreamed of. He was a great and good man aad I loved him as much fur his humi!hy as his learning. One night he lectured on the birth and growth and maturity and decay of a world, and he proved by the most convincing argumuut that this world had long siace parsed its Maturity and was in the decline and that the scriptures would be fulfilled and this earth be burned up and pass out of exist ance. He said that worlds had passed away and that worlds had came into ex? istence since the Christian era and that comets had appeared that had no reeord in the past?that creation was not finish? ed but was changing and this little world of ours was but a speck iu the universe. He said that if a straight line from the eye was drawn and extended in any direction it would sooner or later be stopped by a heavenly body. We can enjoy this and be am&zed but when a cyclone comes along or an earth? quake begins to rock the little world about, there is no philosophy that can make us calm and serene. We don't uaderstand these lystema of nature nor ean we fortify against them. I never saw a man or woman who was not super? stitious about ghosts and it is because of the mystery that hangs around the dead ?where &re the spirits? Where had Samnel beeu when the witch of Eudor called his spirit up?what kind of virtue was in the bones of Elijah that brought to life the dead man who was buried in bis tomb? What kiad of spirits were roving about distressing good people 'until they were sect into the swines and the swine into the sea? If we knew where we were going wo could be less troubled no matter how terrible our fate. It is the mystery that hangs around that undiscovered country from which no traveler returns. I wish that we all had ;he faith of the little boy that I know whose mother asked him where he thought hGaven was and replied promptly "why, its over at grandma's house." "Ah I no," she aaic, "heaven isn't there at all. What made you think that ?" "Well, it isn't more than about a mile from there," he said. Grandma was enough heaven for him. This seems to be an off yosr anyhow. A year of surprises. Just a few weeks ago and everything looked lovely for the Republicans and distressing to the far? mers but Mr. Cleveland beat oat tbo administration and all its patronage to the surprise of even the moat Bangutne Democrats. Eight on top of Ibis cotton jumped from 7 to 9 cents and the New England manufacturers of the great staple raised the wages of their operatives 7 per cent. The Republican party tried before the election to make the country believe that wagen, had already been raised under the McKinley bill, but these operatives know it waB a lie. Mr. Cleveland's election or something has raised tbem and th -> capitalists seem to have received new confidence in the stability and moaotary affairs. Stocks have advanced and everything looks lovely. And new comes shooting stars and the aurora borealis aad a comet and I reckon Governor Northern will get up an appropriation for the world's fair and the legislature will buy the Soldiers' Home and we will soon be building more railways all over the South and our folks have busted the People's party and driven politics out of the Alliance and torn up the Ocala platform and retired Weaver and Mrs. Lease and everything looks lovely aud the goose hangs high. So mote it be. Bill Am?. The Sundews of Christmas. In the very prime of the year appears tho hectic of its decay. Sitting upon tome happy June lawn, or strolling in some whose branches "high overarch and embower," while still the roses are blowiog and the dog-dayi are far away, ooe little yellow leaf forecasts Autumn, frost and Winter. Shall we say because of the startling hue, as of that bright spirit, "far off his coming shown," or as is LochUl'a warning, "and coming event* cast their shadows before" f This will depend upon the mood of the mind. If it be a pensive or minor mood, anticipa? ting decay or sorrow, the coming event will cask a shadow. If, on the contrary, it bo a major mood, a feeling of cheerful anticipation, then far off the comiDg event will shine. Coleridge speaks of a melancholy both in the Spring and in the Autumn. But he discriminates between them. One it soft, buoyant, evanescent, the mist of the morning. The) other is a gathering shroud of storm. Every pleasant anni? versary ii anticipated with pleasure until as time posses, it cornea to record inexor? ably the lose of time, and the heart be? gins to ask itself, "How many more shall I behold?" One of Hawthorne's grew* some tales is the "Christmas Banquet," whoae company is never to be enlarged. With tha inexorable years the guests dwindle and dwindle, until oaly one re? mains, and the happieat of festivals be? comes a ghastly feast. The reader ia ready to chide the Btory-teller who can find it in his heart to cast a shadow upon that day of happiness, and turns to Irving and Dickens and Thackeray for the Christmas of good cheer and general joy Irving's "Christmas," we are told, is his most delightful paper. There ia a peacefulness, a freshness, a simplicity, a domesticity in his treatment which breathes the very spirit of the day. It iB very Christmas that he describes whether in the Sketch Book or in Brace bridge Hall. It ia a Boft, idyllic picture, blended of the spirit of Christmas and of England. But what is the substance of the pic? ture ? Ii it vast and ostentatious ex ponce, a lavish, display, a toilsome and exhausting endeavor to give something to ail your acquaintance, a wearisome an? ticipation, and a painful suspicion that somebody has been omitted ? Thackeray describes a little dinner at Timmins'. A modest couple make themselves miserable and epond all their little earnings in or? der to give a dinner to people for whom they do not care and who do uot care for them. It is a series of mortifications, aud the young make themselves needless? ly miserable and at a damaging cost. Tney know it. Their good Bense accuses them of it. But other people do so, and they cannot do otherwise. What would Mrs. Grundy Bay T Awful thought! She might tell the truth, and say that they could not afford it. They cannot afford it. Timmins and his wife cannot live aa the Duke of Westminister lives, nor even as the water-tax collector. But in Btead of living pleasantly as they can live, they must needs pretend to do as their richer neighbors do, and ludicrous? ly fail in the pretence. Christmas is made miserable to the Timminses because they feel that they must spead lavishly to buy gilts like their richer neighbors. They thank God with warmth that Christmas comes but once a year. It is becoming a vulgar day, a day not of domestic pleasure, bnt of ruinous rivalry in extravagance, a day to be deprecated rather than welcomed. Are not the Timminses legion ? Is there not reason in their dread of Christmas because of the sordid and mercenary standards by which it is mearured ? The same good Bense that sees the folly of Timmins' little dinner and avoids it can stay the abuse and regenerate Christ? mas. It is essentially a day of human good will. It commemmorates the spir? it ef the brotherhood of men. You can? not buy Christmas at the shops, and a sign of friendly sympathy costs little. If the extravagance of funerals is such that a great society ia organized to withstand it, should uot the extravagaice of Christmas causa every honest man and woman prac? tically to proteat by refusing to yield to the extravagances.?From George Wil Ham Curtis' last contribution to the Edi? tor's Easy Chair, in Harper's Magazine for November. $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 bsoa able to cure in all stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a consti? tutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly up-on the blood aud mucous BUrfacea of the system, thereby destroying ike foundation of the disease, and giving the paliant strength by building up tho 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 eure. Send for list of Testimuu ials. Addreat, F. J. CHENEY & CO.,Tolede, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. ? Doctor: Why, how is this, my dear sir? You sent a letter slating you had been attacked by measles, and I find yon suffering from rheumatism. Pat? ient : Well, you see, Doctor, it is like this: there wasn't a soul in the house that know how to spell rheumatism. ? Says the Western, N. 0., Advocate: A minister annoyed by tobacco chewing thuB spoke to his congregation : "Take your quid of tobacco out of your mouth on entering the house of God, and gently lay it on the outer edge of tho sidewalk or fence, t will positively be there when you go out, for a rat won't take it, a cat won't take it, a dog won't take it, nraither will a hojr, yon are certain of your quid when you go cut after it. Not tho filthiest creature cs earth would touch it. It will even kill fleas on a hog." SARGE PL?NKETT. A. Pica for the Old Bed Hllla of Georgia. Atlanta Constitution, I circulated all around Atlanta on Thanksgiving day and saw many things to be thankful for and some few things to be sorry over. When we got from the carB at the de? pot we were thrown among a number of emigrants, people leaving the dear old homes in Georgia and the Carolinas to try the uncertainties of a new life in the West, Some of these were old people old fathers and mothers, going along to be with their children, There is mighty little hope for these old folks in the new homes to where they will go. The change of climate and water pretty gen? erally sends these old folks to their last homo, and that settles it so far as they are concerned. How natural is it for these old people to desire to cling to their children, but how unnatural does it seem for these young, vigorous sons and daughters to drag these old people away. One group of these emigrants?some three or four families?impressed me more than the rest, for the reason that they were trying hard to be cheerful and thankful in keeping with the spirit of the day. Tho morning was crisp and cold and so the warm waiting room, at the car shed, was comfortable and caused us all to linger there. These Carolinians, for they were from Abbeville and Law? rence Counties, had opened up their provision boies and wore feasting upon the cold chicken, ham, etc., they had brought along. While this whole group eeemed determined to make the beat of the eituation, thors were an old couple, who sat over in the corner, whom I knew were suffering agony from leaving the eld home behind them. These old folks got the best of attention from their grown up sons and daughters, and espe? cially did the little toddling grand-chil? dren vie with each other in giving grand? ma and grandpa something of all the eating; but as a little fellow would tod? dle over to them and place a sweet-cake, or what not, into the old, wrinkled hands, I could see the tears trickle down the furrowed cheeks. These old folks knew they were leaving the old home where their children had played about the doors?the old home with all its happy associations; leaviog Carolina, their dear old State, to try a strange land a mi a new people. But so is life, and these young people did not intesd to be cruel Another class of these emigrants who always call for my sympathy are the moth? ers?the young mothers?mothers whose children have not grown to the station of being companions?little fellows too young to cheer the mother with words and yet loved with all of a mother's love and burden the heart with all the pain of a mother's anxiety for their welfare. And, then, a little grave iu a nook of the old-home buriaJ place, or the country churchyard?this is another source of sorrow for these youug mothers. They hate to leave these little graves behind and the rich west can never cause them to be disremembered. But I would notstrivo against the dis? position to go West from the older States for purely sentimental reasons. Georgia's old rod hills are as good as the rich prai? ries, is my notion. Not a day, hardly, but what I see these emigrants returning. Many mere would return than (Ioob, but they got too poor to do so. They exhaust their substance in getting to the West and have to stay there. They shake with chills and burn with fevers, thus balanc? ing up matters, so that when you come to size the whole thing, there is no more profit and far less comfort than is to be had in Georgia. And if you will take a trip out on any one of the apranglo rail? roads from Atlanta you will see that there is no good reason for stagnation in youthful ambitions. The old towns of Georgia and the Carolinas are taking n new life and new enterprises are spring? ing up everywhere. The young meu who have settled down on tho old farms are living illustration? that there is life in this old land yet, and as a rule they have succeeded in accumulating worldly goods and have as sweet little children and as happy homes aa will ever be builded in any wild West country. It is wonderful to me that this disposition to go West does not atop?for State pride if nothing else. #* #*> ## # I could not tarry with the emigrants longer, for I had an invite to eat a Thanksgiving dinner and nevor lose such opportunities. I promised not to mention names, but I can tell of a few of the things I noticed during the day. On ray way out (for I walked) different localities showed the different observance by as many different people. One bright little fellow passed by me cu the. sidewalk with a hop, cL'ip and a jump. Hia face waa joyous and he was swinging his arms vigorously. I hefcrd tho quarter he had held in his baud ?triko the stone pavement with a ring, and houace away through a sewer grating. The little fellow stopped nhort and an expression of blank astonishment together *;ith a fluah of disappointment passed over hU face as his quarter went out of sight. I thought the quarter was gone, and lli6 little feliow did, too, but a kind policeman raised the grating, let the little fellow down by holding to his hand aud drawed him up again with the lost quarter restored. No happier look? ing boy could have been found than this one as he got upon his feet with hia money in his baud. While I aieisud the policeman in putting tho grate back the little fellow rushed away to a neighbor? ing ulore, got tho money changed, aud came back with a generous offer to divide with us. Of course, neue of his money was taken, but I am sure that tho police? man wont away fooling well paid for his kindness to the little boy?f did, would not you ? ***** * * Jii3ta little way after leaving the little boy with hia quarter, I came upon some more boys goiug my way. They w&lked along leisurely aud took no notieo of me, but I could hear thtm aa they talked. One of thb li?le ones whs telling of the dinuor thev '.vere to have. The other one listened with hi.-* eyes cast to the pave? ment and his mouth, I think, watering for some of the good things, but he aud-1 denly raised his head and smiles beamed j over his face as he remarked that they had put off their fine time to Christmas. His "papa would be oulen debt then," be Baid, "and he told mamma this morn? ing that be was never to drink whiBkey again, and that ia enough for us to be j thankful for one day." ***#?*? J One more little child, a little girl, ! stood at the fence putting a part of her cake and "goodies" through the crack to another little one who had not beon so fortunate. These little ones were per? fectly happy?one iu giving, the other in I receiving?and their childish prattle was a plenty to make any one better who t heard and watched them. So it was, all the day, there was more of cheer than of sadness, and if our young people will just quit goiug westward, I will be thankful and entirely happy. Sarge Pluxkett. Democrats Warned of Dangers that May Arise. New York, Nov. 18.?The speech which Mr. Grovor Olevelaud made at a dinner given by Mr. Henry Villard last evening is just made public. It was as follows: Mr. Villard aud Gentlemen: I find it impossible to rid myself at this moment of eonflicting emotions which stir within me. I see here assembled good and staunch friends who have labored inces? santly and devotedly for the success which has crowned the Democratic effort in the canvass juat closed, and I cannot forget how greatly these efforts have been characterized by tho peraosal attachment and friendship for the candidate selected to carry the Democratic banner. This awakeus a seuao of gratitude which it is a great pleasure for me to thankfully acknowledge. I confess, too, that I have fully shared in tho partisan satisfaction which our great victory is calculated to arouse iu every heart so thoroughly Dem? ocratic as mine. It is seldom given to man to contemplate such a splendid cam? paign, so masterfully arranged iu his behalf by such good friends, followed by seen a stupendous ami complete triumph. I ?hould not perhaps introduce any? thing sombre on thin occasion, but I know you will forgive me when I say that every feoling of jubilation and even my sense of gratitudo ia wo tempered as to be almost entirely obscured by the realization, nearly painful, of the respon? sibility I have assumed in night of the American people. My love of country, my cttachmout to the principles of true Democracy, my appreciation of the obli? gation I have eutsrod into with the best and most confidiug peopla in the world, and the consciousness of my own weak? ness atd imperfections, all conspire to fill my mind with aober aud oppressing roflectiou when I couiider all that we | have to do us a party charged with the control of tho government. I fool that our campaigu, instead of being concluded, is but just begun. What shall our performaace be of the contract we have mads with cur country? men, aad how well shall wo justify the truat they have imposed on us, if we see ao.htng in our victory, but license to revel in partisan spoils? We shall fail at every point. If we merely profsss to enter upon our work, and if we make an appar?:it endeavor to do it to cover a seeking partisan advantage, we shall invite contempt and disgrace. If we attempt to discharge our duty to the people without complete party harmony in tho patriotic action we shall demon? strate our incompetency. I thank God that far above all doubts and misgivings and away beyond all difficulties we may constantly see the lights of hope and safety. The light we see is tho illumiuatiou from principles of true, honeat aud pure Democracy?show? ing the way in all times of danger and leading us to the fulfillment of political duty and tho redemption of all our pledgee. The light is kindled in love of justice aud in a devotiou to the poople'3 rights. It ia bright in a constant patri? otism and in a nation's promise. Let us not be misled to our undoing by the lights of false Democracy which may be kindled iu broken faith and will, if fol? lowed, lure ua to rocks of failure aud dis? grace. If we see eteru labor ahead of us and if difficulties loom up upon ourhori sou, let us remember that in the thickest weather the mariaer watches the most auxiously for his true light. ' Who iu our party charged with any responsibility to tho people has not pledged hid devotion to the principles of true Democracy, and who among us has made pledges with the iuteut to deceive? I have faith iu the manliness and truthfulness of dhe Democratic party. My belief in our principles and my faith in our party oustitute my trust that we shall aaxwrr ths expectations of our countrymen, and skill raise high aloft the fcUudard of true Democracy to % fixed gaze for many yeara to come of a pros? perous, happy and contented people. A. Back Number. This id tho slightest remark that is oftou applied to womc-n who try to seom young, though they no loogor look so. Sometimes appearances aro deceitful. Female noaknas, fuueticual troubles, displacements and iiregularitiss will add fifteoa years to a woman'* locks. These iroublos are removed by the use of Dr. Piorce'a Fa?orits Prescription Try this remedy, all you whoso beauty and fresh? ness is fading from such cauaes, and no longer Qgurs in society as a "back num? ber." Its guaranteed te give satisfaction in every case, or money paid for it re turied. See guarantee on bottle wrap? per. ? A statistician has compiled a curi? ous table of the oxpoctaucy of life, drunk and sober. At age of 20, drunk 16 years, sober 44 years; at age of 40, drunk 11, sober 29 ? One of the largest hides ever taauad woe received in Boston the other day from a Sau Francisco tannery. It is 14 feet in length, S fast in width and weigh* 700 pounds. ? The largest volcano in tho world is at Mauna Loa, in the Sandwich Islands. Tho crater is 20 miles in diameter, and the stream of lava flowing from it h 50 miles long and in places four miles wide, I The Bird's Moving Time. I The Fall ia the time of year whei hum drsds of tkousands of birds migrate, by night and by day, in large battalioss, from the frost-bound North down to the sunny South. These migrations form ons of tho most interesting studies of orni? thologists, who tell us that the little voy? agers mate their long journey with the precision and discipline of an army on the march. Tbey have their advance and rear guards, while the main body is kept compact. Of course there are strag? glers who are unable to keep up with their companions, but these fall out of the ranks, and unless they perish make their way as best they can lo their desti? nation. Now that cold weather has set in at the North, millions of birds of almost every species aro on the wing for the South. They are traveling along the same high roads over which they have passed from time immemorial. Some of them go in vast congregations down the Valley of the Mississippi, and will not on any accoust depart from that route until they reach their winter abiding place. Others skirk along tho fringe cf the Eocky Mountains, thousands and thou? sands in a flock, halting at any stopping place, so leng as the weather is mild, and, whou it is cold again, rising high I into the air with a tumi'lt of noises and coutinuing their Southward march. One of the most interesting things in connection with the night flying birds is tho apparently perfect sy3tem of signall? ing that they maintain when sometimes they are a half mile high iu the air. They seem to have arranged a code of signals by whiF'Ung. Tho note is, of course, peculiar to a bird, and is used among other note3 when einging, but for the purpose of signalling this note only is used. The boboliuk, for instance, which ba3 a wide range of song, when on the pa38age has but one cry, and he advises the main body of any threatened danger by whistling "spink, spiuk." The birds that lead the main body are veterans who have made tho march North and South for half a dozen years. The signal of & wild goose is a loud "honk." The kingfisher, who chatters in his Summer creek and scolds so that you might almost imagine that he was a human being, simply gives a scream or a single resonat note, which keeps his forces together. The thrush and the robin each give a single shrill whistle, which can bo heard across a storm at night for a distance of nearly a mile. Those birds aro all great travelers. Some of them travel every Spring and Fall from the shores of Hudson Bay, from Labrador and even Greenland, to the tropic of Capricorn, a distance of 6,000 miles. The massing of these forces in the early Fall is very carious and highly in? teresting. Not a single bird starts South? ward until the cutting Northern winds begiu to pipe. Then all the families er broods for miles around begin to collect, until hundreds, end sometimes thou? sands, get together and form into a body on the edge of a wood. Here the younger birds whoel, and scream, and frolic, chasing each other through the air; but the elders sppesr sedate, and seem to be waiting to collect together every bird that should join in the march. It has long been a matter of conjecture as to how thoae birds can make their way at night, but it has been held latterly by the best ornithologists that they are guided by the stars. This is proved from the fact that on clear nights they fly often to a height of three miles, and at that distance it would be utter impossi ble for them to be guided by the topog? raphy of the route. Moreover, when the stars are covered the birds become bewildered, and have at ones to seek the ground. The captaiu of a schooner trading be? tween Prince Edward Island and New? foundland told the writer how on one occasiou, ho had left Newfoundland coast with ;a steady Northeaster which blew straight across the gulf, but, after being out a short time, the wind veered and blew from tho South and it became very foggy. On th6 morning of the second day tho crew were surprised to find about fifty wild ge?e on the deck of the vessel, some of them clinging to tho hatches, deck, or wherever they could get a hold. Now, a wild goose never starts out for a journey across the sea, unless the wind is fair, and it will thou start in the day, but not in tho night. Theso birds mu3t fly by the stars, because they would have no other guide for 600 or 700 miles of water. Sometimes, however, the wind veers, and as a wild goose will not alight ia the sea, it takes refuge on the first ob? ject that comes in sight.?iVeu; York Re? corder. The World's Coal Supply. Tho coal pit is not inexhaustible. The bottom may not be ia sight, nor its future cl?uuiog up bo of any immediate con? cern, but its eventuality is none the leas a predotormined fact. It may or may not be of any appreciable concern when its last contribution to human service is dumped in a coal bin, as in the unseen process cf its manufacture and storage it has evidenced a creative design, iu which tho provisions of fuel for man's use was not limited to an oxhtuative article. The fomation of fuel was uot arrested wheu authracito aud bituminous coal became a minoral fact, nor was the pro? cess of formulation, stopped when what is known as tho creative week had its Saturday night. This may qualify, but it does not annul the fact of a limit to future coal supplier. The world's annual output of coal has, it is estimated, reached a total cf 485, 000,000 tons, and the countries contrib? uting to that enormouB total were as fol? lows, together with the amounts they produced in 1800: Great Britain and Ireland, 12S.000.000 tons; America United States (estimated for 1891), 141, 000,000 tons; Germany, 90,000,000 tons; France, 2S,000,0000 tons ; Belgium, 20, 000,000 tons; Austria, 9,000,000 tons ; Russia, (188S), 6,000,000 tons; others, 9,000,000 tons. During the last twenty years there has been a matked increase in the consump? tive of coal, which was no doubt, com? mensurate with increased industrial activity, Thus, comparing European countries alone, the average annual out? put for the period of 1890-91 was upward of 02,000,000 tons greater than during the previous decade, and that rate of in? terest bade fair to be maintained, so that the world's consumption of coal would soon reach 500,000,000 tons per annum, if it had not already done so. Iu an investigation made by a Eoyal Commissioner as to tho a6certainable sources of coal iu Great Britain it was ascertained that not more than 146,773 - 000,000 tons were available at depths net exceeding 4,000 feet from the surface, a reserve which, at the present -ate of in? crease of population and of coal con? sumption, would be practically exhausted in less than 300 years. The law of limit in this, as in all other mineral products, is, of couree, without exception. It is simply a difference is tonaage. Industrial activity, to which under present conditions the use of coal is iadispensable for steam and power purposes, is not only multiplying the demands of consumption, but b-is a wid? ening area of use, to which the map of the two hemispheres is the only limit. We cannot add a pound of coal to Na? ture's deposits or build an addition to the planetary cellar, but it is possible to econ? omize a product in the use of which civil? ization has been ignoraitly wasteful. A Pathetic War Episode. About the saddest thing I ever encoun? tered was a pathetic little incident on the battlefield after the siege of Atlanta. It was night, and I had been ordered to go out and work on a casement near the enemy's lines. They knew we were there for they kept up a continuous ping, ping, ping or minnie balls, now and then vary? ing the amusement by sending a hot 10 pounder, scorching tho ground and play? ing havoc with the bushes unpleasantly close to our ears. As I was running about suddenly one of our boys rushed up and said, "There's a dying man wants to see 3'ou, Captain. You'd better come qnick, for he's got a hole through his head." I hastened in the direction he indicated, and soon found the poor fel? low. He was being propped up by a corporal, but by the way he acted and talked I knew he was settled for. "They've got me this time, Captain," he said slowly, the blood choking him as he spoke. He'd been wounded a couple of times before, and was a brave man and a good one, too. I said what I could in the line of sympathy, telling him that it was the fate of war, and that all his old comrades would follow him sooner or later. It was only a matter of a few days, anyhow. "I want you (e do me a favor, Cap? tain," he said, the death Bweat on his forehead shining like beads iu the fitful gleam of a candle we bad lighted. "Of course I'll do it, my boy," I said. "There's my knapsack and canteen;" he choked pitifully, "tike them or send them to my poor old father and mother up in Vermont. Tell 'em that their only son died like a soldier on tho field of battle. Tell,' them that I died thinking of them and?and?and there's another matter, another-" Here a stream of blood gushed from his lips, and his eyes took ou a look of' horror that almost frighted me. "Another matter," he gasped, "another matter. Beach down in my blouse and get a picture that is there." I did as directed, and saw in the faint light that the card bore the face of a young woman. "It's?it's the girl I was going to marry !" sobbed the dying man. Tell her that? that I died with my lips on borsi Put the picture on my lips, Captain, that I may?may kias it 1" He kissed the senseless cardboard over and over again, and though I turned my face reverently away I caught a glimpse of the love-lit eyes that told his devotion. As he caressed the likeness for the last time the ambulance drove up and be was tenderly loaded in for the hospital, where his last moments might be at any rate a less painful than on the rough rock strewn battleground. The first chance I got I sent that knap? sack aud that sweet face to the ones who loved the soldier. That isn't all of the story. In October, if I recollect aright, just before the battle of Altoona, and after Gen. Hood swung round to Grant's rear, I was riding along a very dus'iy road with my company. Suddenly I saw a spectable before me that nearly knocked me off my horse. There, in the middle of the road with his arms wildly waving toward me, was that same dying soldier. His head was bandaged up, and when he spoke bis voice was much impeded. "I've got a furlough," he said, trying to grin good naturedly, but failing be? cause of the bandages round Iiis. face. "I've got a furlough and I'm going borne to marry that girl." And he did. Bnckleat? Arnica Salve. The bust salve in the world for Cute Bruis**. Boras, UIcsm, Salt Bhcuat, Fe ver Soraa, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Ohil blaias, Coras, and all Skia Eruptions and positively cart* Piles, or no pay required. It is gaaraaleed to give pes fect a&tfsfactiou, or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by HillBroa. ? William Dickney was sent to the Maino Legislature in 1S42, and they are sending him there yet. He wan re-slect ed at the r?C6ut election and ia now 81 years old. ? Seeing pumpkins in a show windows in St. Louis reminds me of a flood I saw in Alabama several years ago, said Wil? liam Redwin Mcore of Ohiilicothe, Ifo , now stopping at Hotel Mosor. "I was down in Alabama on a visit when the Tombigbee River began to riae and soon coverad all of the lowlands. On the Whitfreid plantations, noar Dsmopolis, thoro wero 1,000 acres in pumpkins, and when tho water got over the field they became unfastened fiom the vines, found their way to a current and came floating down the river. Thf>y came so thick and so fast that two steamboats going up stream wero forced to tie up until they had passed. The negroes at Tuscahoraa used flatboats and skiffa and gathered them in for a day and night and recover? ed enough to feed their Block on all the winter. There is nothing a cow loves better than a pumpkin, and there is no winter food more nutritious." Ail Sorts of Paragraph*. ? "Wanted, a young woman who can cook and dress tho children." Poor little dears! ? A good deed ia never lost; he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ? Truly tain ia a year of record break? ers. A Michigan boy has written 206 words in a minute on a typewriter. ? It is hard to find people in misfor tuie who will not stick to it that some? body else kas bean to blame for it. ? In a year the food eaten by a horse is nine timcH his weight; that of a cow nine times; that of an ox six times. ? The readers of our publications are requested to use Salvation Oil for any ; and all pains. It is a sure cure. 25 I cents. I ? The old Bible land is not very large when you measure it out by miles. Pal? estine is about one-fourth as large as the State of New York. ? "So Bingdad is married at last 1 I'll bet he is a No. 1 husband." "No, j he is not. He is a No. 2 husband. Ho married a widow." ? Why throw away your money for every new cough syrup, when you can buy that standard remedy Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup ? "Our Father" is doing for us every moment what is best for us, according to our capacity to receive. How could He do more. ? School Teacher: Why were the prisoners who were executed called "poor sinners ?" Scholar: Because rich sinners always get off. I ? May: Why have you quit using powder ? Was it injuring your com? plexion ? Mollie: No, but it was just ruining Charlie's new coat. ? A woman is on exhibition in New York who is 8 feet 6 inches high, and a New York paper in speaking of her says, "She is tall and well formed." ? The 2,700 tons of bullion now piled up in tho Treasury would, if coined into silver dollars and placed edge to edge, make a chain 10,800 miles long. ? He who fully rests in Christ is rich though deprived of all earthly treasures, while he who possesses worldly riches without Christ is poor indeed. ? He: But couldn't you learn to love me, Ida? She: 1 don't thiik I could, George. He (reaching for his hat): It is as I feared. You are too old to learn. ? A Brunswick (Me.,) man recently paid for a suit of clothes with 8,000 cop? pers which he had been accumulating for years. Tho lot weighed 21 pounds. ? In a shingle mill at Gray's Harbor, Wash., recently, the entire works were kept running all day on a single cedar stick, which made 188,500 shingles. ? Jones complained of a lad smell about the post office, and asked Brown what it could be. Brown did not know < but suggested that it might be caused by the dead letters. ? If ske calls the dress she pots on before breakfast a "breakfast gown," you j may kuow she is a bride. After she has been married a year il becomes an old wrapper. ? Within three years the United States have bought from the Indians about thirty million acres of land, yet them remains in their possession about five times that ares. ? Gedney: That waa a very pretty new figure they had in the cotillon the other night. Marlboro: What was it? Gedney: The gentlemen exchanged sus? penders with tke ladies. ? "Truth is stranger than fiction," he happened to remark. "Yes," his wife replied very gently, "It sometimes seem so to me when you are explaining what kept you out so late." ? When a healthy horse is eajoying perfect rest bis pulse beats at the rate of 40 times per minute, that of an ox 52 times, while in sheep and hogs the aver? age cardiac pulsations are 76 per minute. ? A London woman has patented a machine for making watch screws that is provided with a thread cutter so delicate as to be almost invisible. It will cat perfect threads on the finest human hair, ? The salary of the Prince of Wales is $200,000 per year; Duke of Connaughs, $125,000 ; Duke of Edinburgh, $125,000, and the Duke of Cambridge, the Queen's cousin, $60,000. Tho royal family costs the British taxpayers $40,000 a week. ? Thousands of lives are saved ainn* ally by the use of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. In the treatment of croup and whooping cough, the Pectoral has a most marvel? ous effect. It allays inflammation, frees the obstructed air passages, and controls the desire to cough. ? Residents of Elm Grove, W. Va., had a census taken last year, and gave out as the actual results these figures;. Males over two years of age, 148; males under twenty one yetre, 148; females over sixteen years, 148; females under sixteen years, 148. ? For every variety and phase of the many diseases which attack the air pass? ages of the head, threat, and lungs, Ayefa Cherry Pectoral will he found a specific. Thia preparation allayi inflam? mation, controls the disposition to cough, and presents consumption. ? There are 20 well-built towns in Kansas without a single inhabitant to waken the echo of their deserted st'eetsT Saratoga ha? a 130,000 opera bonne, a large brick hotel, a $20,000 fcb.oolh.inB8 and a Large number of flee baiiness house.-. At Fargo a $20,000 scboolhouse stands on the side of the hill, a monuv ment to the booming erase. ? Mrs. Prater?I consider Mr. Prater a model husband in one regerd. He keeps family affairs to hlmael/, as a hut bajd should do; whatever 1 confide to him he holds sacred from the scrutiny of the world. Mrs. Pertleigh?Yes, I know that, for he was telling my husband yes? terday that he had a letter in his pocket you'd given him to mail r?" r a month ago. ? The first wight of the planet Mara through an observatory telescope is almost, terrifying-, even for a peraon of good nerves. It U as if one saw the whole earth, with ita icy poles, as a solid globe doating overhead. One distinguishes, clearly the dark blue ee?.s and the bril? liant, many hued dry land?and on this dry beds of a multitude of lakes, bays, gulfs, streams and canals.