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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 14, 1892._VOLUME XXVII.- -NO. 24. For Asthma, Bronchitis Colds, coughs, la grippe, pneumonia, and all diseases of the throat and lungs, take "For more tiiwi twenty-five years I was a sufferer fron Lane: treaDIe, atteadod wtlta eouching so sovsrs at tints as to oause henv erreaje, the paroxysms frequently lastinf three er four hcurs. I was induced to try Ayefs Oherry Pectoral, and after taking four botUes was therouajhly eured. T eaa confidently recommend this noodleUM." ? Franz Hofman, Clay Centie, Kana, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Pispared by Dr. J. 0. Ajar * Co., Lowell, Mass. Prompt tO act, SUTQ tOCUTO JAS. F. GOSSBTT& CO, WHOLBSALK AND It KT AIL One Price Dealers in rt - BOOTS AND SHOES, AIM DZRffiOW, tzat?aa;&ih bbok:sn the eecokd. HEY an telling torn* lixv of Boots and Shoes by the single pak i>r Um snojaay than the same good* can ba bought again at by wholesale. They Buy Bargains and they Sell Bargains. They bare the finest oppoxainUiej for buying and handling Sboea of any Howe in South Carolina. They are the only house in upper Carolina having a nan directly connected with the Manufacturers? thoir 1fr. Jas. F. Gossett boing tfea Agent and S&leeuas for the celebrated Bay State Shoe and Leather Co., of JTew York, <ja? of the largest Boot and Shoe Manufacturing concerns in the world. Tbey are the only exclusive Shoe House in Andcrsoa. They are the only ONE PRICE HOUSE in Andenton. Tbey hare one of the largest aad beet assorted stocks of Shoes IniJtbe State. They are carrying a fall line of BOLE LEATHER?Hemlock and Whiteoak ?/rom ISo. per poand op. A fall lia* ot Cat Half Soles from 10c. per pair up. Vajtir One Dollar Bargain Counter is a great sneceae. Tba biggeet and hottest Stove in Town, and a welcome and a warm to all. COME JLTHT> SEE TJS. FURNITURE AT The Greatest Bargains in Furniture ever offered in South Carolina are offered at G. F. TOLLY & SON'S, depot street. They have the Largest, Cheapest and Beet Select**! Stock tn the State, and challenge any Furniture House in the State foe a comparison of prices. WALNUT and OAE 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. t&* Gome and eee for your&fjvej aud be cenvineed that what we say t> true 1?T Comp and look at our Stock, whether you want to buy or not, We will be pLsaaed to show you around. Caskets and Coffins furnished Day or Night. G. F. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street, Andewea, S. &. twm-mm t i sjejsja LOOK HERE! catch onsr to this i E have too many Goods to carrf, therefore for the aext SIXTY DAYS we ofler our LARGE aad HANDSOME STOCK? AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, CONSISTING OF Millinery, Notions, Shoes, Handsome Dress Goods, Priestleys Henriettas. Also, the h&ndsomeet lot of SILKS, in all the new tthades, that has ever bee breutrht to this markpt. Ladies' aud Mi**<* WRAPS and JACKETS in every style U&* Glauoe at oar Bargain Counter and see what you can do. ''Ctuue oae, come all, And get your share of all." Thanks for the past. Respectfully, LADIES' STORE. OUR LEADER FOR 30 DAYS ONLY! ALL OF OUR DRESS G-OOIDiS AT OOST FOR CASH, Including: all our Fall Purchases. HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES, SERGES, BROADCLOTHS, BEDFORD CORDS, LADIES' CLOTHS, in blacks and colors. Tbe Caihmtr*3 y?u P*7 elsewhwr* 20o. for we will let ?ou hve at l?a The tte. Hue at 20c. the 4)a. Hue at 26c, aud the 50c. Hue at 33J-c, the 75c. line for half a deUar, aud the dollar line for 75?. To? will nva on a $2 40 Dnjt, Pattyn 60 eecta, ou $3 00 Pattern the same amount, bat the diSV??f s ou the tiV*r goods is greater: On $4 80 you ?ovo $1 80, oo ehe 90.00 line you gave j*.90, od the JV 00 line you aavv p, ?0, ou ?I2 0? line yoa save $4.00. Remember, this sale will be only for Thirty Days. BILL ART. Cash and Crodlt. Atlanta Constitution. It's two weeks to Christmas, but they are ploting against me right now?I was taking my evening repose and they thought I was asieep and began to dis? close their plans, and so I snored a little gently ever and anon just to get the bot? tom facts, and find out the family secrets, and especially what they were going to do for me. I dident seem to be in it except to foot the bills, but maybe they will think of me later. Yesterday, while I was dosing, I noticed the arrival of a lot or ladies' cloaks which they said were j 'ist sent up for them to look at and try on?only this, and nothing more. And so they looked and tried on, just to oblige the accommodating merchant, and I over? heard him say that these cloaks were E9nt out as very superior scmples and would have to be returned to New York if he couldent dispose of them at prime coat. Well, it looks like a pity to send such beautiful cloaks away back to New York. It is a reflection on Cartersville. And when fine goods are offered at cost it is a great temptation to anybody to buy them, especially when the kind hearted man says he will wait until January for the money. Credit for a month or so makes a wonderful di {Terence. It seems sorter like getting a thing for nothing, for when the first dun comes it is only a warning. Tt don't mean busi? ness. The bookkeeper does that as a matter of form. Pay day is away off somewhere, and tbere'h no tolling what might happen before then. Somebody might die and leave you a legacy, or your ship might come in, or the world might come to an end, and bo it is a great inducement to buy on a credit. The only trouble is that the days are all coming this way. But still credit is a wonderful thing. Most all great enter? prises are done on a credit, and the lon? ger the credit the better the debt. A bond for thirty years sells for a higher premium than one for ten years, and so I don't Bee why a merchant shouldeot wait on a man forever and let the debt get gooder and gooder all the time. These are idle speculations, I know, but it Is nevertheless a fact that the kind hearted merchant diden't carry back as many cloaks as he brought to my house. The girls kept two to look at a little lon? ger?"first look, then linger, then em? brace," sayB the old song, and when I gently inquired if they had made a pur? chase I was affectionately informed tbat tbeir mother said she would pay for them. Of course she will. She always does wben nbe makes up her mind. She hasent got a dollar in tbe world that I know of, but when she takes a notion to dress up her children or make Christmas gifts or pay missionary money, I recog nize the fact that we twain are one flesh, "wiin all my worldly goods I tbee en? dow" has been of force in ray family ever since I married her and her opinion is tbat a healthy man who is aot an idiot has do excusa for not having a little money for his wife when she wants it. Thanks to the good Lord I have main? tained her respect in tbat line up to date and I will have some Christmas money ! for her if I have to go u> Texas again to get it. The home and the heart are ! about all tbat the gentler sex have to live for, and it's a man's business to keep both happy if he can.-"Mamma pays she will pay for them" and I conld see a mischievous twfokle in their eyes as they added 'they won't cost you a cent.' They know who the family broker is?the ban? ker, the quee*, tbe "ipse dixit." For yet.rs and years I have been work? ing in the harness?pulling the family wagon, wearing out my collars going up hill, and wearing out my britcbing hold? ing back wbea on the down grade ; but they comfort me all along the line, and say tbat pulling is healthy and that it is better to wear out than to rust out, and they call me a good old horso and pat me and rub me, and so I keep on pulling and expect to continue until something breaks. When the maternal ancestor has raised ten children and laid by the crop, she can have some rest, And ought to have, but the old noao must keep peg? ging away. Sometimes I think I have softening of tbe brain, nod not long ago Mrs. Arp hinted that my perceptions were not as bright as they osed to be? but ciy load is not lightened, and that I perceive. The monthly bills are all the same or samer, and I have to shin dig and kite ana* lap over as much as ever. Not long ago I got behind a little with tbe bank, and I got a notice of it Sunday morning through the mail, and it disturb? ed my tranquility at church and liked to have cured roe of opening my mail on Sunday. Just %r>. behind with a bank if you want to loftra what "effoctoal call? ing" i*. My bnnkfr called roe the next day tnknow if I got his note. But they are mighty good to me all round?mer? chants and bankers, too. In fact, every? body, but tbe State aDd the County and the town. This lax busiuens is inexora? ble ax death, and the devil is at the bot torn of it. If everybody was a good citi? zen, there would be no tax, or so little tbat we wouldeot feel it. There would be no conrte, no jails, oo calaboose, no sheriff*, or const able, or town marshal Is, no locks or iron bars or night watch or pistols. Good gracious I what a millen ium that would be. But bhre we go and there we go. Everybody in trying to roform something, and it's all theory and but little fact. They have gotten up a "rtiagie tax" a?d "looking backwards" and trade unions and subtresauryschemes, and I don't know what all ; hut if a roan wilt devote the >itne be wastes on these t.!iii*gs to working for hi* family my opin? ion is he will be better off in the long run. If we all 'light the devil while we are working it is the b?*t thing we can do, for hi- is going about as a roaring lion. Tlii* lit a fact and sot fancy, and fie old*>r I grow the more I am convioc ?d thnl be is a power in this sublunary world. I don't know why nor wherefore, but there is some evil influence working against us. My little grandchild that I love ho well sometimes gets mad and strikes her mother and there in bo reason for it except the devil. He is a bad citizen. Wben David was all right and in harmony with everything that was j good he wrote from the abundance of his heart: "If I reward evil to him who is at peace with me may mine enemy per? secute my soul and take it. Yea may he tread my life into the earth and lay mine honor in the dust." Was there ever a more terrible curse invoked and yet the old devil got after him and made him plot the death of Uriah, a man who was at peace with him. Poor fellow, how be did sin in haste and repent at leisure. With what anguish he exclaimed, "I acknowledge my transgression and my sin is ever before me." I heard old Dr. Axson preach from that text once and if there it any bigger text in the Bible I don't know it. "My sin is ever before me." Booth and Forrest nor McOready could have thrown more of anguish into the recollec? tion of crime than he did. A thousand timeB have I thought of it. My sin is ever before me. There is no retreat, no hiding place, no extinguisher. Young man, young woman, don't commit any sin that will be ever before yeu. Life is the unsolved problem any how and the best we can do is to try to do right and be humble and hopeful. Life is uphill and down hill and on a level, but a good I horse will never stall going up and he will hold back going down, just so it ought to be with a man and I think of that Bometimea when the load is heavy and tbe bill is steep, but I do went somebody to scotch occasionally and let me get breath. Alexander Stephens s?.id be wanted to die in the harness and he did, but I don't. I want to die grazing around in the clover field or tho barley patch and have nothing to trouble me but conscience and not much of that. I don't wan't many of the luxuries of life, but I do want all tbe comforts for MrB. Arp and myself in our eld age and enough spare money for her to pay for cloaks and hats and make Christmas gifts to tbe grandchildren. Somebody will take care of ns I know, but when the old folks have to quarter on the children it looks like they had made a failure aud dident die when their time had come. It is a piti? ful sight to see them outlive all their property and sot leave enough for a tomb?tone. I kuow some graves of grand old people that are still unmarked and will be, I reckon, until Gabriel blows his horn. But maybe they can vise sooner without tbe marble over them and I reckon that is why tbe children left the parents uncovered. I reckon bo. Bill Arp. Tobacco Raising in Georgia. WaycroSS, Ga , December 6.?The experimental tobacco farm near here was started last winter. It was made a stock company, composed of about twenty stockholders. Enterprising farmers and business men are at tbe head of tbe con? cern. A lot of laod was bought, and a superintendent was engaged to bave tbe work done properly. About thirty acres were planted in tobacco. Tbe spring season was dry, and there was some trouble in transplanting the plnnts. This caused a delay in getting a good stand. About this time, W. A. Paschal, an ex? perienced tobacco grower from North Carolina, was engaged to superintend the farm. He put bis experience and energy to work. Tbe farm was soon green with tbe weed. Up to this time the scheme was looked open with disfavor by the farmers generally. They would 'lake their heads, when asked their opinh. of the enterprise. But when the ft was covered with healthy growing tob'cco, would go over and watch tbe work going on. Their interest in the farm was in? creased with each new leaf that branched out from tbe plants reach maturity and the leaves began to ripen, a feeling of uneasiness came over them. "How was the tobacco to be cured?'' was asked by every one. The superintendent erected suitable barns, and began to har? vest the crop. Tbe leaves were carried to the barn and filed on hooks for the purpose. When the barn was filled to its capacity, the furnaces were made hot to a certain temperature, and then the work of cur? ing begAn. The first bam of tobacco was cured successfully, and this was followed by others, even with better results. At last the entire crop, t-as harvested and cured. The quality of .he tobacco was pro? nounced by experts to be equal to tbe beat Havanna fillers. A cigar factory was started here, and tbe tobacco raised on this farm is being used for making cigars. The cigar made from this leaf is of a superior grade. This farm will be conducted on an extensive plan next year. New land will be put under cul? tivation, and the best facilities for cur? ing tbe weed will be secured. Mr. Paschal will employ experienced laborers on the farm, aod it is hoped that, with good seasons, tbe experiment next year will prove far more gratifying than tbis year's. But the farmers are interested in this new industry. They are now convinced that tobacco culture in this section is a success. A prominent farmer, Mr. Strickland, says he is going te plant ten or fifteen acres next year. He will build a barn. His neighbors will plant pome, and use a barn for curing their tobacco. In the upper part of the county the farm* ers will plant tbe weed extensively next year. They propose to form clubs and build barns wherever they will be need? ed. This plan will help the farmers gen* erally to engage in the growing of tobacco. There will be a large acreage of tobacco grown in this county next year. A movement is on foot to erect a plug-tobacco factory here. It is believed that this will be the bauner tobacco county in the State, and Waycross will be tbe tobacco center of this section. A warehouse will be built during next. year. Bceklem Aratta Sai>e. Tk-o h**t eaWe iis the world lor Outs BruiNetn, ?oree, TJlcase, Salt Rheum, Fe ver isVjaw, Tetter, Chapped Hansfc, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions and positively eerea Pilen, or ne pay nequirod. It is giaraitced to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Brae._ ? Doctor?My good woman, does your son stutter all the time? Parent?Not all the time, sir. Only when he attempts to talk, REMARKS ON TROUBLE, A Philosopher's Though)! on Matters Which Come Home to Every One of us. Abbeville Prest and Banner. Without stopping to define trouble, taking it for granted that we all know what it is, yet it would take a chapter or perhaps a book to give its meaning. We will proceed to consider a few of its causes and effects, its good and evil. The causes are so numerous and often so vague that it is difficult to enumerate or to classify them. They come from every quarter and in every guise, from where we least expect them, and in shapes never thought of. They come like clouds of devouring locusts, Bapping our vitals, sparing neither mind nor body, and from whence or why they come we can hardly realize, yet they get here and come to Btay. There is no remedy ; there is no eacape, be we ever so good or ever bo bad, they consume us all the same. They come in hatred, they come In love; they come with foes, they come with friends; they come with the stran? ger, they come with the darling of our bosom ; they come alone, they como in I pain, they come in multitudes; they come to the poor, they come to the rich ; they come in the day, and in the night; they come all the time. None are bo Btrong as to be able to overcome them ; none are bo feeble as to be spared by them. Tbey are present in victory, they hover over ns in defeat. There ia no refuge, no shield, no protection from them, tbey are ever with us. A* for causes. We can name uotbiDg tbat is not a cause. Our pleasures are clothed with them ; our pains are com? posed of then; onr wishes gratified end in them. Go where or when we will they are with ua. They are the firBt to greet us in life; the last to part with us in death. Tbey come in all shapes, some times small and pointed like needles piercing us In every pore, aome times ponderous like mountains overwhelming us in despair, some times as twisted cords of pains drawing their tightening, crush? ing bands aronod ns, some times tbey come from within and like dynamite tear us asunder and go forth from every fig? ure, caused by every imaginable circum? stances, resulting from every imaginable exertion. The effects are almost, if not quite, as numerous as the causes. They blunt ev &ry pleasure and sharpen every pain ; they wither us in youth, and weigh us down in age and offlictioa; tbey blight ambition, cripple prosperity, and crush hope, often making life itself a burden, almost unendurable, while torturing us with death. They are contrary to human arrangements, and thwart all human cal? culations. While children and loved ones are sick, and it seems as if we are to lose them in death, we are pressed down by trouble, and try every remedy, endure privations and fatigue, with unmurmuring patience and fidelity to restore them to life and health, only to become a source of new and untold troubles, by ungratefully spending their health and ability in do? ing those things tbat add new and sharper stings to onr troubles, and be? come tortures rather than comforts dur? ing the balance of our lives. Who can describe the anguish that wrings, as it were, bloody sweat from our hearts, when we strain every nerve in our power to as? sist our loved ones on in the struggles of life, and they do all tbey can to thwart our efforts and desires in their behalf. We are told all things have their use, aid if properly used are beneficial and good for ns. tt takes the eyes of wisdom with spectacles on to see the use of troubles when they come at us with a hump on, casting and tosning us in dis? tress, and swallowing and consuming us in despair. While writing the above a friend called in and read it. He remarked, "Your preliminary is too long, get to the other end?tbe good end of yonr subject, and let na see whether it is any better than tbis'end or not." And while be did not say so, I suppose he meant if the other end was no better than this it would be as well to drop it, thu? knocking tbe spots out of my vaoity. The whole thing is preliminary. Wo are going through a preliminary trial by troubles to see what we are fit for. Wo are curried, scraped and scrubbed by troubles all through life. Odo never ends until at least two more have begun. It was remarked in the beginning of this piece that troubles were the first to greet us in Life, and the last to say farewell in death, and now the question arises, will the parting then be final? May they Dot follow ns in the great unknown fu? ture? May they not be improved in ex? cruciating power and durability by the change of base ? ThM is the most impor? tant question in the problem, how will it be in tbafc life that ha* nn end ? Some of onr Christian friends tell ns tbat they harness and ride troubles through life as comfortably as if tboy were on downy beds of ease. If it be true that troubles furnish transportation to the fields of glory in the far beyond, then tbey are blessings in disguise, and should be used as sucb. The same au? thorities tell uh if troubles are not bridled and controlled they will surely ride and drive us in the road that leads to tor? ments unspeakable. It is well for u>< to look into this mat? ter. The great Master voluntarily took trouble on himself, knowing that it was a proper preparation for redemption and salvation. Another friend came in here and the foregoisg was reed to him, and he stated that he agreed with all except that he ?ever knew trouble to come alone, that they always come in pairs or in tbe plu? ral. So we beg to stand corrected when we said they como alone, in pairs and multitudes, by striking out alone. We would be glad to record it, if there was pome other way of getting into tbe king? dom without troubles, but as there is no escape we had as well face tbe music. There is nothing equal to troubles and especially financial troubles, to take pride and vanity out of us. If wo had the resources we would sot up a little kingdom of our own, and strut around with 8h much pomposity as a jackdaw with peacock feathers on, hardly deigu ing to speak to or have iotercoiirse with ordinary mortals, only to show our supe? riority and tboir inferiority. By finan? cial troubles we find out tbe smallness of our make up and bow much less opinion others have of ua than wo thought they had. People that have never felt want can? not appreciate pienly. As hunger sharpens the appetite, so troubles sharpen our enjoyment of ease and repose. Trouble tames the haughty and restless spirit and causes it to yield to proper control and rule, and paves the way and increases the denire for rest and tran quility. Rest is sweet to the worn-out mind and body that has been prostrated and cast down by troubles, while those who have never boon fatigued tire of rest and ease. We cannot properly enjoy wealth and honors that we did not win by our own exertions. Parents that have had to sac? rifice their own comforts and pleasures, endure fatigue and want in the rearing of their children, have a deeper rooted feeling of love and affection for them than those who have had no such neces? sities. Perhaps Heaven itself would not be a fit place for thine who h?u never done or suffered anything to merit. Re? ward implies merit, merit implies duties done, duties done im pies self-sacrifice, and self-sacrifice fits us for reward. Souls and bedieB tbat have never suffered are unworthy of existence, and are nonenti? ties or nobodies, only fit to fill the slums of creation. Man must be tented and se? verely tried before he can be pronounced the noblest work ol God. All nature is subject to tumultuous convulsions. The waters are in eternal commotion, the air is never at rest, mountain? are torn asunder by volcanic fires, while forests are riven with the bolts of heaven, and tbe earth is k wept and devasted by storms and quivers and quakes under the terrible power of the unknown internal forces; everywhere we turn or look, whether to tbe clouds above, or the billews of the bottomless deep, commotions rule supreme. Nations are built or destroyed by tur? moil, end a life without incidents is not worth living. In the final great count up, he that can show most troubles en? dured and subdued, will count for morv than a myriad of soft shell, easy going bodies unworthy of souls. The day will come when perhaps the gratification of our grandest pride will consist in recounting the victorious con? flicts with the great multitudes of troubles in life, which wo dispersed like phantoms in a wind mill. The man tbat is able to perform his duties under all circumstances, that bures his breast to misfortune aud accomplishes bis pur? poses, let what will come is the man to lead where but few dare to follow. He is a hero of the grandest type and worthy of all admiration. There is no crown so illustrious as the crown of thorns worn by the Master of Heaven and earth. From the creation down to the present the Ohurch and State have been in a con tinual state of eruption, and as a matter of fact the Church or State would die of black rot if allowed to remain at rest. Tbe Church built on a rock, though meek as a lamb, has been battered by the hosts of ito enemies for centuries, is still frmer and brighter than when first as? sailed. If the Church or State were al? lowed to remain in a state of luxurious ease they would become mouldering masses of corruption. It takes convul? sions and upheavaie to keep them clean and bright. Like the members of the body they must bo kept in constant use or they perish, and as a rule, that has been tbe cause of tbe most suffering, has in the end been the cause of the most good. Religion itself has been the greatest trouble endured by the human race, and has caused as much pain and bloodshed as all other causes combined. It breeds more discord than all else, and yet there is nothing equal to religion in soothing and consoling tbe afflicted. Trouble is a two edged aword, cutting each way, building and destroying at the sume time. Without it neither good or evi). could exist. It seems not best for all things to be good. Tbete is a stop? ping place in good, and if you go beyond it is not good. I fear I have gone beyond the stopping place, so good-bye. Kejlefg Watehes. Keyless watches, now so popular, have long been known, but have not been in general use more than a dozen years. Napoleon I. was the owner of a wonder? ful upecimen of this species of keyleBS timepioces. It was continually kept in running order by a small weight at the end of a lever which worked on a weak spring. Every step taken caused a small "dog" to drop into tbe cogs of a tiny raehet wheel, this in torn acting on the barrel to which tbe mainspring was attached; ordinary movements about the house were mfficient to keep the spring tightly wound up. In the Kensington mnsenm, London, there is a pedometer, operated in a similar manner, combined with a watch, so that the one instrument tells the time and the distance walked by the wearer in a day or any other given time. There is a watch on exhibition at the United States patent office which is wound by the simple act of closing tbe case. It also ha* au attachment that throws the winding device out of gear as soon as the spring is well wound up. The Beanty Standard. The standard of female loveliness varios greatly in different countries and with individual taste*. Some prefer the plorap .icd buxom type; some admire the slen? der and sylph-like, and some the tall and queenly meiden. But among all people of the Caucasin race, one point of beauty is alwayB admired?a pure, clear and spotless complexion?whether the female be of the blonde, brunette, or hasel-eyed type. This first great requisite of loveli? ness can be Ruaurred only by a pure state of the blood, active liver, good appetite and digestion, all of which are secured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medi? cal Discovery. It is guaranteed to ac? complish all that ip claimed for it, or money refunded. If you would have a clear, lovely complexion, free from erup tious, moth patches, spots and blemishes, use the "Gelden Medical Discovery," ONE OF SAM JONES' LECTURES. Humor and Wisdom on the Suhjoct of Monoy and Manhood. I used to sing "I want to be an angel, and with the aDgels Btand." Now I have begun to pray over tbe matter, and I 6ny "I want to be a man?and with the ladies stand." I met a grand roan once. The longer I stood with him the smaller I got, and the bigger he got. After a while I bad to get up and go to have anything to go with. I have met some little fellows who-e eyes were so close together that they could see through a keyhole with both at once. I do not believe in evolution, of course I don't. I do not believe we sprang from monkeys. But when I see a great many people I believe they are headed that way and tbat they will got there if tbey don't stop. I have a great deal more respect for Nancy Hanks tban 1 have for Sullivan and Corbett. Nancy la a daisy. She can go in 2:40. God made her to go. But two old Sop-eared mules can stand up in a lot and do as much at> Sullivan and Gorbett, knocking tbe filling out of one another. I never go to horse races?not because I do not like to Bee them, but because of the small, scrubby set that is always there. Some rich men say when you go to them for money for a good cause; "Wait until I get fixed I" Fixed I Fixed 1 Fix* ed when you are dead ; fixed for the fire; fixsd into a hack long for the devil's sitting room I "Country facts" are a scriptural ani? mal, and you need not be afraid of it. There was an old farmer in North Georgia who said one day : "I am going to save; I am going to lay up; I am not going to be poor when t get old and can't work." And he did save $150,000. One day a neighbor went to see him and said: "Brother, how are you off for meat?" I have got enough in my smokehouse for thia year, and until hog killing next year," be said, "and enough hogs to kill then, aud enough pigs to kill tbe next year, but what I will do after that the Lord only knows." Then be left the old fellow starving on three years, rations. A dude is a kind of wart on the devil's nose. You may bow corn and reap corn, but sow dudes and dudines and you will reap one-half a thimble full of calf-foot jelly. ^ Msj. Black says, "money per capita," but its "per pocketa." I am afraid that we preachers are af? fected by money. Of course we don't work for money, but yon stop our salaries, and we will quit. Ah, bat I believe in decision. You see these fellows wbo think they will and think they won't, but rather think they won't? 10 cents a dozen like eggs in warm weather, and for the same reason. There was a darkey wbo had a mole, and be said be bad to hitch him by tying him to a tree by his tail to keep him from going through bis collar. You get after a great many people and they lay it all on Adam. Poor old Adam 1 Adam is too far off. Yon put two drops of water in the Atlantic ocean, and the poison gets mighty thin wben it gets to the other side. Adam is too far. It is our own devilment that is kicking op thunder. When the devil got Job's wife on his side he got a trump card. A mule kicked a negro on the bead, and couldn't put bis foot down. I have got a government job keeping Sam Jo..es straight. There are a lot of people who like to ?ay other people are soft headed when tbey are doing right. They got the im? pression from their own heads. I go into some churches where tbe preacher looks like some big monument and tbe people look like bead stones and I go down among them and I say "3am Jones, you are among the dead." Men and money are two antagonistic forces in this country. Men and money are eaeh striving for the mastery with the odds largely la favor of money. There is nothing sublimer than man. There is nothing more hurtful, more dwindling to manhood than the misuse of money. David said to Solomon his son, "Be thou strong and acquit thyself a man." Nine tenths of the people of the conn try are after money, and the other tenth are after a good time. I would not give one gr?nd man for all the cotton that was ever raised in the South. Yon can raise cotton with a cegro and a mule, but it is a big job to raise a man in this country. You say, "Every roan has his price," I don't believe tbat. Selfishness it the meanest tking on earth. Selfishness is the first-born of Avarice. There is not a good institution or en? terprise born of God to-day but what is going begging from door lo door. Ca?Bin' is a ve?y low down type of a rascal. Sin is in the blood like a cancer, A man may stop cussia' on his tongue, but it will break out on his hand, and he will get to stealing. He who can eliminate selfishness and avarice from himself, is enabled to stand on top of everything that ever ruined a man. The grandest manhood and woman? hood is that which has forgotten self aud is consecrated to the service of others, There it the statu re of a we man in New Orleans. She has her hair eombed in tbe Bweet, good old way, down over her temples sod *he is holding out bask* ots of fruit and children are crowding around her. She lived working for and helping the poor of New Orleans and when she died tbe bankers and the brokers and the capitalists all came out In front of their offices and stood ia tbe nun with their bats off while the fnneral procession of her who was one of the grandest women in America went by. Convince a man in the church that he will reap two for one and he will plank down. Tkis country is running on the dollar, and just as certain as Rome fell because of a too greatly centralized military power, bo certain will the United States run into destruction on silver dollars as wheels, unless the course is changed, It is not how much money have yon, but how did you got it? and then which is most important, what are you doing with it? SA reckless fellow always wanta to fight. But a brave man wants a victory. There is a great deal of difference between the two. A dog can get a fight. I can say dispassionately that my broth't Tom Watson in this district seemed at every point to say, "I want to fight." But my brother Black, with noble courage, eeomed to say, "I want a victory." And he got it. There isn't but one way to do a thing and that is to do it I like to spo a man map out his course and stick to it aad go it?like the train on the Georgia railroad, which goos on tbe course mapped ont and sticks to it, and has not been to any other town but those on the route. The only absolutely unselfish man was Jesus Christ. Of all the acres of land in tbe world he did not stake off one acre, aud say "th... ia mine." When a fellow makes up his mind he never gets left. You may talk about a man being in? telligent. I have seen such men failures. But whenever you find him with a will he succeeds. The will of a man is that which is in command of a man. I always did have a contempt for one of those fellows who is waiting for an iron to get hot. But I have respect for the fellow who pounds on tbe iron until it is hot. I always did have a contempt for the fellow who is always waiting for something to turn up, but I have the profounddst respect and admiration for him who turns it up and rolls it to where he wants it. * Get in a hurry. The obstacles will get out of your way. I like a man who believes in possibil? ities. I believe in a hard head and a soft heart. These wishy-washy fellows, they don't amount to much. Brother Tim sons is a hard headed man, but he bas a big heart. I know him. He wants to do tbe right and tries to do the right. Cotton Meed Hulls oe Steck Food. While cotton seed hulls are admitted on all sides to be an excellent rough feed, I do not tbiuk they have yet been esti? mated high enough in comparison with hay or other provender. Having fed large quantities for two years, I regard them being worth more pound for pound than average bermuda or other grass bay. I feed per day about 8 to 12 pounds hulls, 4 pounds wheat bran aud 4 pounds cotton seed meal, thoroughly mixed together, with very satisfactory results. This ration is very cheap, about 10 cents per day, and the yield aud quality of milk highly satis? factory. Hulls are much more easily handled than hay and there is less waste in feeding, as tbe cows will eat up the bulls very clean. In tbe spring of 1890, about the time I thought there was getting to be abundant grass in pasture, my hulls gave out. The milk yield began to fall off eo that I in? creased tbe bran and meal, but never did I, during tbe whole spring, get as good results as when I used bulls. So I con? sider hulls (fed in connection with bran and cotton seed meal) equal to tolerably ample bermuda pasture as a milk pro? ducer. Having found them such an excellent food for cattle and knowing tbat cotton seed meal is being fed to some extent to horses, I reasoned that hulls ought also to be good for horses. So I procured some corn meal, and by mixing only a very small quantity of cotton seed meal and bulls with bran and corn meal, suc? ceeded in making them eat it. The quantity of bulls and meal was increased gradually until each animal consumed about three pounds of meal and consid? erable hulls. The oil mills have star!3d up again, and I will commence right away to feed bulls and meal to my horse stock. I never succeeded in getting them to eat bulls and meal without mixing with other food, and do not know whether a well fed animal can be made to do so or not. I will feed it as largely as I can. It will very much lessen the expense of horse feeding. Eight cents a day in hulls and neal will keep a thousi.nd pound work-ox fat. We find horses and oxen in their natural state eating tbe same kinds of food. What difference I can exist between tbe digestive organs of ! tbe two animals, tbat ono can thrive on a food unsuited to tbe other ? I am sure that the homes and mules that work the cotton fields of the South will eventually be fed largely on cotton seed. This writer can very veil remember (having been raised on a cotton farm 32 miles from a railroad) when teams of oxen would haul loads of cotton away from the gin where hundreds of bugbolB of seed were rotten, and would have to pull iu addition, enough $1.50 corn to s-: on the trip, and it might be that this v:ry wagon would return loaded with Western corn to feed the hon.es on to snake tbe next crop. Cotton seed was then theught to be unfit for oxen. That was economy with a vengeance, but we are doing much the same thing now. The South is paying literally millions of dollars for horses and mules, corn, meat, hay and other products of other sections, while the oil mills of the South are burning a million tons annually of the finest feed (c. s. hulls) for want of purchasers at $2 to $4 a ton, and that here in the land of cheap coal and wood. Enough hulls are burned, if fed to a good class of animals, to produce two hundred million pounds of beef, worth six million dollars; or, if mixed with a little more skill and made into butter, to produce twelve million dollars worth. If made to take the place of tbe hay, corn and oats, purchased abroad, the saving would be enormous, probably twenty million dollars at the prices prevailing the past year,? W, C. Wclborn, in Smith crn Farm, All Sorts ol Paragraphs, ? If Arabian tradition amounts anything Eve was over 2,000 feet tall. ? Every year tbe population of tl United States is increased by 1,000,0C ? Millions of butterflies are eat' every year by the Australian aborigine* ? A frier>d of ours hss earned t horse "Nail," because his wife can't dri* him 4 ? A Russian can plead infancy for long time, a? be does not become of sj till he is 26 years old. ? Dearborn Fox, of Wolf thorough, I H., harvested a squash that measured i inches in circumference. ? No farmer can afford to buy mann until he has first made use of every poor, produced at home. ?Brandy is an invention of tbo Front and has beou known to the world f nearly six hundred years. ? Cruelty and religion don't fit t gether, How can a man love God wl mistreats a helpless dumb brute? ? The proprietors of Salvation C will pay a large reward, if any certifies published by them is not found genuin ? Neither individuals or communiti can know more of God than their mor condition and character permit. ? The AuBtriaas consume more U bacco than any other nationality race on the globe, civilized or savage. ? 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The smallest coin ever struck J this country was a half-cent, which wa issued between 1793 and 1857. China the only country that has a coin so ema as our mill; the Chinese "cash" is wort abont one tenth of a cent. ? Mamma: Well, Georgia, I hop, yen paid close attention . to what yoc teacher said at Sunday School. Oan yc tell me what you remember ? Georg!? Yes, we're goin' to have a Christmas tri and as dandy a time as you ever saw. ? A Wyoming Justice of the Pea( has sent her husband to jail for contem] of court. He ought to have bad moi sense than to court a Justice of tt Peace in the first place. It serves hit right. ? In each wing of the ostrich thei are 26 long, white plumes that reqitii eight months to grow to maturity, and 7 short feathers, which are called "tips"j the milinery trade. The tail furnishes 65 feathers of commercial vj ue. ? 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Tbe coldest known spot on earth's surface is on the Eastern Slop shelving mountain that runs doi u.?8r tbe water's edge, on the East bank of tbe Lona River, in Northj Siberia. The spot in question is and a fourth miles from Sorkercf about latitude 67 north, and lonj 134 east. Dr. Woikoff director ?f] Russian Meteorological Service the minimum temperature of the pl? baing 88 degrees below zero. It is a i of almost perpetual calm. In the mt tains near by, where windy weaj the rule, it is not nearly so cold.