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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1892. VOLUME XXVII.- NO. 25 For Constipation Dyspepsia, headache, nausea, and all the common disorders of the Stomach, Livei. and Bowels, the best and most popular physic Is Ay er'3 Fills. Their sugar-coating, which rapidly dissolves in the stomach, preserves their strength, and makes them easy to take. They are purely vegetable, coutain neither calomel nor any other harmful ingredient. The best family medicine. Recommended by the profession. Easy to take. Ayer's Cathartic Pills Prepared by Dr. J.C.Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mima. Every DOS6 Effective. JAS. f. GOSSETT i Cd WHOLESALE AND RETAIL One Price Dealers in BOOTS AND SHOES, ANDERSON, - - - - S. C, HAVE AGAIN BHOKEN THE RECORD. ThEY are selliag aome lines of Boots and Shoes by the single pair for leas n?wy than the same goods can be bought again at by wholesale. They Buy Bargains and they Sell Bargains. They have the finest opportunities for buying and handling Shoes of any Bonje in South Carolina. They are the only house in upper Carolina having a man direetly connected with the Manufacturers?their Mr. Jas. P. Gossett being 4k? Agent and Salesman for the celebrated Bay State Shoe and Leather Co., of JTew York, oae of the largest Boot and Shoe Manufacturing concerns in the world. TSiey a#e the only exclusive Shoe House in Andersoii. feey are the only ONE PRICE HOUSE in Anderson. They have one of the largest and best assorted stocks of Shoes in'the State. They are carrying a full line of BOLE LEATHER?Hemlock and Whiteoak ?fro hi 18c. per pound up. A full line of Cut Half Soles from 10c. per pair up. 'Bheir One Dollar Bargain Counter is a great success. BS? The bigfteat and hottest Stove in Town, and a welcome and a warm to all. COME AND SEE US. FURNITURE ? ATD ^PJl-ISTXCD prices. The Greatest Bargains in Furniture ever offered in South Carolina are offered at G. F. TOLLY & SON'S DEPOT STREET. 9 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 see for yourselves and be convinced that what vre say is true S&* Come and look at our Stock, whether you want to bay or not. We will ha pleased to show you around. Caskets and Coffins furnished Day or Night. G. F. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street, Anderson, S. C. LOOK HERE! CATCH OUST TO THIS ! ? have too many Goods to carry, therefore for the next SIXTY DA.YS we offer our LARGE and HANDSOME STOCK? AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, CONSISTING OF Millinery, Nations, Shoes, Handsome Dress Goods, Priestleys Henriettas. Als?, the handsomest lot of SILKS, in all the Dew shades, that ha? ever been brought to this market. Ladies' and Misses WRAPS and JACKETS in every style. Hzf Glance at our Bargain Counter and see what you can do. "Come one, come all, And get your share of all." Thanks for the past. Respectfully, L?D8ES' STORE. OUR LEADER FOR 30 DAYS ONLY! ALL OF OUR ID IRISES GOODS AT COST FOR CASH, Including all our Fall Purchases. HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES, SERGES, BROADCLOTHS, BEDFORD CORDS, LADIES' CLOTHS, in blacks and colors. The Cashmeres you pay elsewhere 20c. for we will let you have at 15c. The 2oc. line at 20c, the 40c. line at 25c, aud the 50c. line at 33$c , the 75c. Hue for half a dollar, and the dollar line for 75c. You will save on a $2 10 Dress Pattern 60 cenls, on $3 00 Pattern the same amount, but the difference on the finer goods is greater: On $4 80 you save $1 80, ?ft the $6.00 line you save >2.00, on the $9.00 liue you save $3 00, on $12 00 line you save $4.00. Bemember, this sale will foe only for Thirty Days. 1 bill arp. Arp Says Times are Urlghter 8Inoe the Election. Atlanta Constitxdioiu Our cotton buyers say that 90 per cent of the crop in this country has been 9old, and it has averaged 8J centB a pound. That does pretty well. I said in a for? mer letter that the great staple went up 2 cents just as soon as Cleveland was elected. Several men and one woman have taken offense at this and write me rather malignantly about the sin of de? ception, and the good woman says she had always esteemed me to be a gentle? man and a Christian until now. She sayB that unless I am an idiot I must know that it was the short crop that made the price advance. Well that is so. I take it all back. I was just jubilanting. That's all. Her party jubilated so much before the elec? tion that we coulden't keep from crow? ing a little afterwards. It did us so much good. Z am just a? sorry for my Republican friends as the circumstances will admit of, especially for the women, and I remember them in my prayers and hope they may receive an abundance of resignation and take comfort in that Scripture which says, "The Lord loveth whom he cbasteneth." Let us rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. Sometimes the good things we haven't got are more comfort? ing than those we have. It is sorter like our preacher who had to get up away in the night and nurse his little colicky boy for *wo long hours, and when at last he had sobbed himself to sleep the fond father patted him gently and whispered "you dear little suffering darling 1 Papa woulden't take a million dollars for you ; no he woulden't?but he woulden't give a nickel for another." Eight cents is a fair price for cotton in Texas?just as fair as 9 cents is here in Georgia. It is a pity that the price couldn't be regulated by the cost of pro? duction and let every man make 50 per cent. Some farmers right here in Bar tow County swear they can't make it for less than 8 cents, but I v> * talking to Mr. Shedhker, who is a small farmer near our i;owo, and always has a little money to lend. He bad made nine and a half bales on :en acres this year and did it with hired labor, for he has no children and he says he keeps a strict account of every cent, and knows exactly what be is doing and that the crop cost him 4} cents a pound. He sold it for gJ and is satisfied. He has something to Bell all the year round?some corn, or hay, or a cow or some potatoes. He came here poor and has improved his little farm and built a new house out of the profits of farming. He envies nobody, troubles nobody, and is a good citizen. Another farmer who sold a few bales at 9 cents told Mr. Mil am that hediden't know what it cost him, for bis little chaps chopped It out and picked the most of it, and if they hsden't done that they woulden't have done anything else. Counting fair wages for the children he Baid he reckoned his cotton cost him about 6 cents, but not counting the chil? dren it cost about S cents. A sorry farmer on a sorry farm is a very poor spectacle, and if it wasen't for his wife he would perish, but somehow, in the dispensation of Providence, most every no account, or unlucky man is tied onto a bustling, hustling woman who never surrenders and manages somehow to maintain the family. This is not fancy, but it is a fact that the more trifling or unlucky the man the more dil? igent is the woman. From time to time I had various tenants when I was farm? ing and I noticed that the most indiffer? ent men had the smartest women tied onto them. Farming with diligence and good man? agement is the best business I know of, and I am glad to say our farmers are improving in their methods and their industry. I heard an observing farmer say to-day that, as a class, they were 25 per cent better off in this country than they were three years ago. They are generally out of debt aud own good stock and good implements. If a healthy man with a healthy wife has a good little farm that is paid for he has as good a chance for happiness and success as anybody. I shall never cease to cherish the memory of my farming life. And now when Ihe children gather around the fireside they love to recall and relate the trials and tribulations, the pleasures and delights of the ten years they lived upon the farm. They worked bard and made good crops and mixed a little sport with their labors and kept everything lively and cheerful. Almost every night we had music and neighbors would drop in to enjoy it. I lifteued to them last night bh lbey alternated with each other in re fre?bing memcries. ' Dou't you remember when Old Bess kicked me over backwards and put her foot square down in the milk bucket?" "Yes, aud you mauled her with the hoe handle and broke it and you used to make me set upon the fence while you were milkiug and hold Old Bess's tail to keep her from switching yon in the face with it, aud the way you pulled the milk from her with both bandit was a sight. Sho was a cow, she was. D) you reckon you could milk one now or have you lost the lick since you've got muck up bo fine in New York ?" "And don't you remember when old Meg fell on that stub and made a bole in her breast that you could hide a rabbit iu ?" "Yes, and didn't I run my hand iu it and wash it out with lye soap and tur? pentine and then sew it up with a bag? ging needle and she got well and that was my first experience in Bnrcery, and right there papa naid he wus going to ranke a doctor out of me." "And don't you rentemberwhen I gave Mr. Jenkins three merino sheep for that old long horned goat and how he knock ed the breath out of me the fir<*t day and papa got mad and nent him back to Jen? kins." "And what fun we u^ed to have with O^d Pete, the meriuo ram, and how wa trained him to butt and nobody dared to get in fifty yaids of him, and one day papa was going alon:,' on hi? dignity like he thought Uld Pete wouldn't dare to interfere with him and before he knew it Old Pete was after him and I never saw a man run like papa did?you could have played marbles on his coat tail. "Asd don't you remember when Ralph fell out of the top of that tall persimmon tree in the meadow and we all took him up for dead and carried him to the house and the blood and froth rua nut of his mouth ?" ' Yes, and I rode Molly five miles lo town in twenty minutes after the doctor and if she haden't been the best mare in the world it would have killed her. And don't you remember how Molly used to stall when she took a notion, and one morning whea I bad on a load of clover down in the low ground she took a notion and after I had begged her and whipped her and worked with her for an hour I unhitched Old Queen and rode her home and left Molly there hitched to the wagon all day long without food or wa? ter, and late in the evening I went back with Queen and hitched her alongside and got up on the wagon and said, 'Get along Molly,' and she started right away and pulled every pound all the way home and Queen could hardly keep up with her. That's the best way to break up a stalling horse that ever I tried, and it lasts, for Molly never did stall again." "And don't you remember how tho Guyton hogs used to raise up ?ur water gaps and get in the corn field and how Nabor Freeman eaid if we would catch a hog and mash his tail between two rocks he never would come back and more, and we tried it. Wo caught them with the dogs every day they came and there was hardly a hog in the neighborhood that diden't have a broken tail, but it diden't break them of breaking into our fields and the Guytons threatened to law us, but tbey didn't. And papa brought a big Poland China sow from Mr. Keever aud she ate up fifteen or twenty chickens the first day we got her, and when papa asked him why he didn't tell him sh? was a chicken eater, he laughed and said he thought we would find it out soon enough. And don't you remember when Paul was taking his first lesson in plow? ing in the field over the creek ha oouldeu't keep his muie in the furrow, but the muld woule step aside to bite every bunch of graBS and Paul got mad and used cursory language for the first time ia his life, and when tha horn blowed for dinner that mule diden't wait for the aid of tho row, but just turned square round and made for home drag? ging the plow and Paul, too, and he got so mad he turned her loose and ran to a sassafras bush and tore it all to pieces for switches and revenge. "Then the girls took it up and talked about their frolics over the fields and in the meadow aod going to the mill and to school and getting black baws and may pops and how we raised popcorn and goobers by the bushel, and hauled up walnuts from the low ground by the ! wagon load and bow tbey used to ride on top of the bay from the clover field, and what a big time we used lo have getting mistletoe and evergreens for Christmas and how Victor got on top of the house one Christmas uight when tbe house was full of children waiting for Santa Claus and be tooted his horn and raised a racket and all tho little chaps thought the old fellow had coma sure enough, and they love to thiuk so yet. Yen, and how I datpmed up tbe branch in tbe wil? lows and made them a washhole and a springboard, and wbatglorions fun it was and nobody to molest or make them afraid." "Yes," said their mother, "you chil? dren hare a good time and a hard time, too, and it is a wonder that you are all alive to-day, for you had some terrible accidents and not a doctor nearer than four or five miles. When that brick fell from the top of tho chimney and laid Carl's head open I never expected him to live until the doctor got there, and there was some fast riding done that time, too, for Dr. Griffin at Cass Station. You were all very fortunate witb your mishaps, but I was all the time under apprehensions, and I never want to live again so far from a doctor. You may all praise tho country, but I will take tha town every time." Bill Arp. Would You Comfort an Invalid. Look hopeful, and never despairing. When requested to read the news omit the death list. Tell only the pleasant tidings; there is no fear of forgetting the evil. 'Sigh, if you must, after leaving the sick room, not in tbe presence of the suf? ferer. Leave stiff linen cuffs outside?in England, where they are fashionable, if you like. Refrain from telling about a similar case iu which the individual died a shock? ing death. Let every article of food be delicately dished, taking only small, tempting quan? tities. If you chew gum, munch popcorn or nuts, wait until half a mile away from sensitive ears. Make the most of the luxuries at hand without expatiating upon the charmB of the unalaiuable. If your t-.ick ones think the curtain is green when it is really blue, what harm in allowing them to think so?? Good] Housekeeping. -^ ? m ? $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper wilJ be ptaas ed to learn that there is at l*e*t ooe dreaded disease that s???ee hen been able to cure in all stages aod that is Catarrh. Hall's Oaterih 0?w is ttse only positive cure now known to tbe medical fraternity. Catawh being a constitutional disease, requites a ormati tutional treatment. Hail's Cuturrh Cure is taken internally, acting direeily npon the blood aud muotus snrfaoes of tha system, thereby destroying Hte foundation of the disaflpe, and giving the parent strength by building ?p the eonstimisn aod aviating ??h?re i* doing its werk. The proprietors have so mtioh faith in it* curative powers, that thoy offm-On? Hundred Dolkra for any ease that it foils to ouw. Send for lwt of Testimsm ials. Addnow, F J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. ? There is something wrong with the religion of the man who will uot pay his debts because he canuot be made to, LEE'S SURRENDER. General Grant'* First Demand for It. Atlanta Constitution. The story of General Lee's surrender must ever have a Bad interest for those who admire the brave. While much has been written about that event, etil I there is lacking that iDside information of the incidents which led up to it. A most interesting paper read before the Confederate Veteran's Association of Atlanta spreads much light upon the subject. It is from the pen of Colonel Herman H. Perry, now of Waynesboro, Ga., who was assistant adjutant general on the staff of General Sorrell. Colonel Perry was himself the officer who received from the hands of General Grant's messenger the written demand upon General Lee that he should sur? render. The letter of Colonel Perry is address? ed to Hon. Robert L. Rodgers, of West Bind, and is by him made public : Dear Sir : I received your favor to? day, with request to send to you an account of the transactions of my receiv? ing the first demand for the surrender of General Lee's army before reaching Ap pomattoz. I remember having written to you last year that I would write it for your use as a matter of history. I did it in pencil at the time, and I laid it away, and have not referred to it since. I have now disinterred it from a lot of old papers in my office, and send it without any further polish or correction. I wish you would read it to Captain ,j. W. English and see if his memory and mine agree about it. I have been often importuned to write this before, but 1 hava refrained from doing it because so many "heroes" have appeared since the war ended who never handled a sword or gun then, and have been so injudiciously lauded by the press, that I did nob care to have the ap? pearance of being on the list. But let us refer, now, to the scenes which were the closing acts of the glorious Southern Confederacy, as the closing history of the times. It was the night, April 7, 1865. We had crossed the river, near Farmville, and Lad taken up a position about, as near bb I remember, a mile from the crossing, which the Confederates had attempted to burn, but unsuccessfully. General Miles, commanding a Federal brigade, made a mad attempt to throw the Confederates into confusion on their left by a flank movement (perhaps that was his purpose,) but it was a very un? fortunate move, for his lines were in a few minutes nearly cut to pieceB and his brigade placed hors de combat. A furi? ous picket firing and sharp shooting be? gan on both sides, while tho wounded and dead Federals lay between the two lines. Mahone's division was now the rear guard at this point of General Lee's army, General Lee's forees were reduc? ed now to their minimum strength, but a fiercer, more dfiterrained body of men never lived. They simply waited for General Lee's orders. About 5 o'clock p. ra. a flag of truce appeared in front of General SorrelPs brigade (General Wright's old brigade,) of which the writer of this account was the Adjutant General. A courier wan sent to division headquarters to announce it. Colonel Taylor, a splendid young Virginian, had been assigned temporarily to the command of General Sorrell's brigade, General Sorrell having been almost mortally wounded near Peters? burg. In a short while Colonel Taylor was ordered to send a staff officer to answer to the flag of truce. The writer was assigned to this duty, at the Confederate front lines As the top of the earthworks wbb reached a number of Federal sharp shooters fired at me, and two balls passed through the uniform coat I wore and one ball wound ed a Confederate soldier in the hand, who had risen up with others from behind the works, out of curiosity to see what was going to take plaee. That ended the truce business for that afternoon. After nightfall and after everything on both sides had lapsed into silence pickets were put in front of our lines about pne hun? dred yards. Captain James W. English, one of the bravest, coolest, most faithfui, and vigilant officers in the Confederate army, was in charge of the line in front of our brigade. I had selected him for the reason that I knew that he would not fail me if I depended on his courage and faith. Colonel Taylor knew nothing of our command or it& officers, and the re? sponsibility rested on me to select the right men in the crisis there was now on ns. We apprehended a night attack. About 9 o'clock at night, as the moon was about to rise, Captain English report? ed that a flag of truce whs again offered on the Federal lioe on nur front. It was reported again at ou1: division headquar? ters and I was again sent out fo answer it as before. I put on an army revolver, put aside my sword, and advanced about fifty yards from our pickets, halted and called for the flag. Where I stood there were scattered around several Federal dead and wounded. One of tbe latter asked me to do some thing for him. 1 told him I would very Boon, making this promise only to en? courage him, for I eotild really do noth ing for lack of authority as well as lack of means. I asked his narue and was rather astonished when he said he was General Mile's Adjutant General, and that bis name was Bovd, as I now re? member it. A response to my call in front took my attention, though I remem? ber that the wounded officer eaid he had been shot through the thigh. I advanced some distance and met a very handsomely dressed Federal officer. We stopped in front of each other, about 6even or eight foet apart. I soon recog? nized the fact that my worn Confederate uniform and slouched hat, even in the dim light, would not compare favorably with his magnificence, but as I am six feet high, I drew myself up as proudly as I could and put on the appearance, as well as poFsible, of being perfectly satis fieri with his personal exterior. The officer spoke first, introduciog himself as General Seth Williams, of General Graut's staff. After I had introduced myself he felt iu his side pocket for document-), as I thought, but the document was a very nice looking .silver flask, as well ns I could distinguieh. He remarked that he hoped I would not think it was an unsol dierly courtesy if he offered me eoine very fine brandy, I will own up now that I wanted that drink awfully. Worn down, hungry and dispirited, it would have been a gracious godsend if some old Confederate and I could have emptied that flask between as in that dreadful hour of misfortune. But I raised myself about an inch higher, if possible, bowed and refused politely, trying to produce the ridiculous appearanco of having feast? ed on champagne and pound cake not ten minutes before and that I had not the slightest use for as plebeian a drink as "fine brandy." He was a true gentleman, begged par? don, and placed the flask in his pocket again, without touching the contents in my presence. If he had taken a drink, and my Confederate olfactories had ob? tained a whiff of the odor of it, it is pos? sible that I should have "caved." The truth is, I bad not eaten two ounces in two daya, and I had my coattail then full of corn, waiting to parch it as soon as an epportunity might present itself. I did not leave it behind me, because I had nobody I could trust it with. As an excuse which I felt I ought to make for refusing his proffered courtesy. I rather haughtily said that I had been sent forward only to receive any com? munication that was offered and could not properly accept or offer any courte? sies. In fact, if I had offered what I could, it would have taken my corn. He then handed to me a letter, which he said was from General Grant to Gen? eral Lee, and aBked that General Lee should get it immediately if possible. I made no reply, except to ask him if that was all we bad to transact, or something to that effect. He said that was all. We bowed very profoundly to each other and turned away. In a moment I was called again by General Williams, and he asked if I would meet one of the colonels of General Mile's brigade, whose name I have forgotten, but who, if living and remembering the incidents, I hope will write to me at Waynesboro, Ga. I hesitated a moment and replied that I would. The Colonel came up and pre? sented to me some of the effects taken from the trunk of General Mahone that evening, which had been captured by the Federal Forces. They were pictures of General Mahone's family, and if 1 remember rightly, letters from his wife. I took tbem, and promised to deliver them, thanking him for his kind consid eration. He a?ked me if I knew any? thing of Lieutenant or Captain Boyd, who was either killed or wounded, and was in our lines. I related what had occurred ns I came forward. He asked me to send him to them. I bad no authority to do this, but I said for the sake of humanity I would take the authority, at the risk of a court martial, and I asked him if any of our men were suffering in his lines, to do likewise in relieving them. I went back, met Cap? tain English, and asked him to attend to it, and he took four men, as he afterward told me, and sent Captain Boyd forward to a detail of Federal soldiers, who re? ceived him. Is Captain Boyd alive now? I would like to know. He can thatik Cap>ain English and bis Confed? erate pickets for saving him from a long night of suffering. In twenty minutes a^tei I got back in our lines a Confederate courier, riding a swift horse, had plaoed io General Lee's hand the letter which was handed to me, the first demand for the surrender of his devoted army. In an hour's time we were silently pursuing our way toward the now famous field of Appomattox. We marched all day of the 8th of April, and slept in biovuac not more than three or four miles from Apponoattux, where the demand was made again, and was acceeded to, and the Confederacy of the South went down in defeat, but with glory. We arrived on the field of Appomat? tox about 9 o'clock on the 9th day of April, the day of capitulation. The negotiations lasted during that day. The general order from General Lee was read to the army on the 10th of April. ThiB is as I remember it. General Lee publish? ed his last order to his soldiers on that day. I sat dowu and copied it on a piece of Conledera'e paper, using a bass drum head for a desk, the best 1 could do. I carried this copy to General Lee, and asked him to sign it for me. He signed it, and I have it now. It is the best authority, along with my parole, that I can produce why, after that day, -I ,o hmger raised a soldier's band for the South. There were tears in his eyes when he signed it for me, and when I turned to walk away there were tears in my own eyes, too. He was in all re? spects the greatest man that ever lived, and as an humble soldier of the South, I thank Heaven that I bad the honor of following. ? Those who believe that Dr. Page's Catarrh Remedy will cure them are more liable to get well than those who don't. If you happen to be one of thoee who don't believe, there's a matter of $500 to help your faith. It's for you if the mak? ers of Dr. Sage's remedy can't cure you, no matter how bad or of how long stand? ing your catarrh in the head may be. The makers are the World's Dispensary Medical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y. They are known to every newspaper pub? lisher and every druggist iu the land, and you can easily ascerlaiu that their word's as good as their bond. You wind your watch once a day. Your liver and bow? els Bhould act as regularly. If they do not, use a key. The key is?Dr. Pierce's Pleasaut Pellets. Oue a dose. ? A happy and vigorous old ludy In New Hampshire gives these rule for the secret of the success of SO years' living on this planet, which brings bo much care and worry to her sisters: "I never allow myself to fret over things I cannet help. I take a nap, and sometimes two, every day of my life. I never take my wash? ing, ironing or bsking to bed with me, and I try to oil all the wheels of a busy life with an implicit belief that there are a brain and a heart to this great universe, and that I can trust them both." How to Grow Rich, The shortness of the cotton crop be? comes more evident every day, a?.. whether it is to be considered a blessing or a corse, dependsupon how the farmers utilize it. That it has raided tho price of the article is evident from the selling price of to day, compared with the price of one month ago. That it will go up higher, despite the efforts of the bulls and bears in their operations of fu? tures, seems to us certain. That it will reach 12* cents per pound is almost a certainty, and with perhaps still higher figures. That this rise is based upon tbe law of supply and demand, notwith? standing tbe gambling procsssof futures, ?eems almost self evident. The cotton crop of the whole South is now practi? cally gathered and housed, though much of it has not yet been ginned. Every? where through this country the cotton fields are black and dingy, while cattle roam over tbe fields, eating the frost bit ten useless fruit, and nowhere do we find anybody bo sanguine as to pay that the crop will go over six millions of bales, and it will lack perhaps a quarter million of bales to reach that. Now if our farmers would be governed by these facts, and plant the crop of the ensuing year by the standard which Providence, in the seasons, has estab? lished this year, cotton would be a profit? able crop, not only because it brings a good price, but because the limited acreage would leave ample room for the cultivation of all other crops needed on Souther farms. What a happy condi? tion of affairs would this superinduce were it rigidly carried out? Six millions of bales of cotton at iO or 12 cents per pound, would make the aggregate sum of three hundred or three hundred and sixty millions of dollars to be divided amongst tbe Southern farmers. With this sum roceived from cotton, with all of their own pork or haeon, mutton and beef, with all of their bread, both corn and wheat bread, raised here amongst us ; with corn, bay, peas, turnips, pota? toes, etc., all of which is within eur province both of right and even duty, what condition of a country could^be more pleasant and hopeful, This is no far-fetched conclusion; it is but the sequence of laws and privi? leges within our grasp. All that we have to do is to consult the laws of na? ture and political economy, and the work is d"ne' Experience is a hard teacher, but is a true one that never makes a mis? take. Will the Southern people, or at least the Southern farmers, improve the lessons of the past and the present ? It was a law of ancient mythology that Hercules helped those that helped them? selves. Those ane'ents struck on some ideas that are now fully understood and better established now than then. God Almighty, under the Mosaic and the Christian theology, teaches that we must do something ourselves, before He ap? plies his helping hand. So look where you may, Southern farmers, you are con? fronted with the law that you must help yourself first before you call on others. We have the lesson of a very short cotton erop, when you planted for a very large oce. Will you allow this short crop, ap? pealing to your common sense, to go by without improvement? In other word-?, will you allow the lesson of a small mod? erate crop of cotton, for which you rc eeived adequate prices, to plunge you into the absurdity of planting another la::ge cotton crop, to the exclusion of other crops, and bring the price down to zero, as wa3 the case some weeks ago, when it sold at five and six cents per pound. Surely these severe and bitter experience of the past should have learned the most ignorant colored man that tbe right way to keep cotton up is to raise the minimum and not tbe maximum crop. Try it, farmers of both races. Put in light crops of eotton for big prices, with everything raised at home, that en? ters into your domestic wants, that is suited to the climate and soil against large crops of cotton at low prices, with hardly anythiug raised at home, with high prices for all you eat, which you must buy if you do not raise the same at home. To make the country rich and happy, give us light or small erops of cotton and big prices, with all home sup plies, against big crops and low prices, and almost nothing raised at home. You have neither the land nor the labor to raise great cotton crops and everything else that you need. Large cotton crops and nothing else have impoverished this eountry to a degree uukuown.? Grenada [Miss.) Sentinel. Two Miserable Sinu?rs. At a revival iu Rocky Hollow, Deaeon Budd arose to relate his experience, and gave himself a very hard name, and so did everybody el&e, that he did not deserve the half of it. But it was the style for Ihe saintB to give themselves a settling down for the benefit of sinners, and Brother Budd played it for all it was worth. "Yes, brethren aud sisters," he said, in conclusion, "I'm such a poor, misera? ble sinner that it's a wonder the Lord b?.s mercy cn me, and lets me live. I feel as if I hain't no business in such a place as this, and my plaee is in the cor? ner behind the door. Sister Beiny, who was a widow, and suspected of a fondness for the widower, Deacon Bud, arose and toll her story, and a sad one it wat. There had never been such an utterly uuworlhy object, such a continual monumeut of mercy, as Sister Briney, if her showing up of her? self was to be taken for truth. "Yes, brethren and sisters," she said, at the windup, "I'm such a poor, miser? able sinner, that it's a wonder I'm allow? ed to stand here. I feel as if my proper place is behind the door along with Brother Budd."? Travellers' Magazine. ? m ? ? Biwkfotn Anaioa Solve. The nest salve in the world for Cnts Braraes, Sores, Uleers. Salt Rheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions and positively eares Pile3, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded Price 25 oents per box. For sale by Hill Bros._ ? A physician Bays practice at singing wards off consumption. Scones In a Hospital. The eager man, the selfish man, the busy man, the self-absorbed man, the man who repines at his fate or who ex? ults under his fortune, ought now atd then take a stroll through some great hospital. There is a whole page of les? sons to he learned in making such a round. It i* a grpat snbduer of mortal pride; it is a great damper on human egotism ; it is a mighty notice to poor mortality that however bright and strong a man may be to day, however much he may pxult in life, there is, after all, only a thread that holds him to existence, which is liable any moment to be broken. The first thing that will be noticed is an odor of antiseptics. Then the operat? ing table will be seen rolling after some patient or carrying some patient back from the operating room. There is every conceivable form of wound under treat? ment, every form of disease, every devel? opment of deformity. There is a light of hope on some faces ; there is a look of suffering on many other faces ; on others there is thai quiet look of despair which comes when a poor wretch knows that he is beyond tbe relief of either medicine or surgery. Here is a man starving to death because of a cancer which has closed to him the capacity of taking and assimilating food ; here is a woman swol? len with tbe dropsy and gasping with the heart diseased ; here is a child with de? formed feet; here is a man who was strong three weeks ago, but who has un? dergone the operation of amputation of a limb at the hip joint; here are others whose bodies have been explored for tu? mors ; others delirous with fever; a little child, with a beautiful face, lies mnte and helpless under hip disease. There is no end to the catalogue. Some troubles come from accidents, some from expos? ure ; some f rom the breaking down of tbe vital forces. As there is no end to the diseases, there is no end to causes, It is a phantom, ghostly crowd. The nurses move around mechanically; the sur? geons without emotion, apparently per? form their work. Whatever of human sympathy they feel they have to keep it in tbe hack ground. They whisper hops while there is hope, and where there is none they tell their patients monstrous lies for which they will get credit in some other world if not in this, because ft is justifiable to soothe the downward path of a dying man by any deception, any hypocrisy, any subterfuge. As the shoemaker pegs away on bis lust all the day, as the merchant vends his wares from early dawn to eve, as the mason builds his wall, and as tbe editor spins out bis inaecuracics, so those phy? sicians, surgeons and nurses all day and all night go their rounds. And when one goes and looks over the list of all the patients that have been in the great in? stitution for half a dozen years; sees tbe record of names, the residences, the cause of their coming to the hospital, and tbe results, he more than ever real? izes what a work a physician's and sur? geon's work is, what a life a nurse's must be, and over all bow endless is the train of ills that seek relief in such an institu? tion. Tbe proud man grows bumble; the avaracious man, at least for a mo? ment, realizes that let him build up as he pleases bis pyramid of wealth, it will not last him but a little while; tbe healthy man realizes that to-morrow or next week he may be like any of the others whose wan faces he has been watching ; and so the everlasting procession goes on and at the best poor mortality is a pitia? ble humbug. Still, not quite all a humbug. There are miracles being performed nowadays in surgery. Diseases are treated now successfully in ninety cases in a hundred where ninety out of the hundred died be? fore anaesthetics were discovered and before antiseptic treatment was adopted. With each success the surgeon became b)lder, and now operations are being daily successfully performed that the whole profession would have shrunk, paralvzed, before fifty years ago; and this complicated machine called the human body, in the hands of a successful surgeon, can be about half disposed of and still retain the glorified life within it. But that does not prevent a mere scratch from killing a man; that does not prevent the ?oming of insidious dis? eases, the very first appearance of which is a notice that the patient is doomed. So a walk through the great hospital ought to bent down in any breast any thought of pride or selfishness, for it brings a swift realization of bow much tbe human family is suffering and what a pretty hold man has at best no mattet how strong or how rieh a man may be, how soon the windows are to be darken? ed and the mourners to go about the streets.?Loyal Workman. Jacques Will Fast Fifty Pays, Alexander Jacques, who clai-.us to be the champioa fasting man of the world, will begin a fifty days' fast to day in the I hall above Koster & Bial's piace on i Twenty third street. I Jacques is a native of France, but lives [ now iu England at Crayford, Kent. He has fasted in various places in Europe for periods of thirty, forty-two and forty seven days. During these fasts Jacques sustains himself on a powder which he cleitns is composed of certain herb3. He will not teil what the herbs are. Daring s. forty two days' fast iu London he used two and oue-half ounces of his secret powder. Peculiarly enough, he is fre? quently attacked by gout during his fasts He declares, too, that he gains in height, when he abstains from food. Succi, the Italiau faster, grows shorter during his experiments, and at their finish is great? ly prostrated. Jacques, on the contrary, finished bis former fasts with considera? ble strength, and on the last day carried heavy men without showing signs of fa? tigue. Jacques is a silk printer by trade, and claims to have served with credit iu the Franco-Prussian war. He says the knowl? edge of this powder has been in his family for generations, and was handed down to him by his grandmother. He thinks the power would be of great value to soldiers in war time and to ship wr eked people. He will be closely watch? ed for the next fifty days by physicians and medical students.?Xew York World, All Sorts of Piirngrnphs. ? Japanese children are taught t write with both hands. ? Better be called a fool for doin right than be a fool in doing wrong. ? An ounce of cheerfulness is worth pound of sadness to serve God with. ? We aro not surprised that peopl will not take a new cough remedy, when they know the value of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. ? I heartily recommend Salvation Oil for neuralgia, for it acts like a charm. J. S. McCaulley, 638 N. Gay St., Balto. lfd. ? "Do von have chestnuts with your turkey 1" "I should say no," replied the small boy "Pa always tries to be funny on holidays." ? She: What did we do at tbe farm? Oh. the girls hugged the stove and tbe men smoked. He: Why didn't the men hug the girls and let the stove smoke. ? Fanny: How the trees moan and sigh I Bobby (speaking from experience): I guess yon'd moan and sigh if you were as full of green apples as they are some? times. ? The United States now spends over one hundred and seventy million dollars a year on its schools, not including over ten million dollars annually spent in its colleges and universities. ? A glass factory at Liverpool has "glass journal-boxes for all its machinery, a glass floor, glass shingles on the roof and a smokestack 105 feet high built wholly of glass bricks, each a foot square." ? Rush Valley, Utah, has a mine of natural shoe blacking. An analysis of tbe peculiar stuff reveals tbe fact that it j composed ef 16 per cent, of carbon, 18 per cent, of bitumen, anu?he remainder alumnium, almost pure. ? Charlie (sadly): Since you've been married, Tom, you never ask me to break bread with you. Tom: There's a good reason for it old fellow. Y >u couldn't break tbe bread we have at unr house; you couldn't do more than bend it. ? One of \be features of a recent chureh fair out West was a grab bag, and among the contents was a slip of paper on which was written: "Good for one grave. Will be dug any time during the ensuing year. John Smith, sexton." ? Everybody knows that tbe condi? tions for health are not favorable when the stomach, liver, and bowels are disor? dered. In such cases, headache, indi? gestion, and constipation are tbe result; for all which ailments the proper remedy is Ayer's Cathartic Pills. ? Be not anxious about to-morrow. Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's tempta? tion ; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to thone things which you cannot see, and could not understand ifyou saw them. Enough for you that the God for whom you fight is just and merciful, for he rewardeth every man according to his work.? Charles Kinsley. ? Feeble and capricious appetites are best regulated by the use of Ayer's Cathartic Pills. Tbey do not debilitate, by excessive stimulation ; Out cause the stomach, liver and bowels to perform their functions properly. As an after dinner piil, they are unequaltd. ? After thirty years of wedded bliss a Reading, Pa., couple have concluded that marriage is a failure. And all this'' because the husband's cose is cot under his absolute cootrol when he is as'.eep. He snores. And his wife says it is a most horrible noise, which wears on her nerves, prevents ber sleeping and makes her Hnhappy generally. The divorce court is considering tbe case. ? A disappointed man with his soul oat of gear walked into a Lewiston drag store recently and sat down,, after throw? ing a prescription at the druggist the way one might throw meat to a dog. After a silence he breathed a sigh. "It's bard, luck," said he. "Here it is. My wife's been sick, been sick a month; sickeren ever this morning. Drat if I don't wish she'd git well or?something?" ? The Alliance people of Washington and Choctaw counties, Ala., are excited about a trial of twelve of tbeir cumber who are charged with lynching Chris Chamblis because he publicy denounced the Alliance. As a warning his house was burned. He had a man arrested on suspicion but he was acquitted. Soon after that Chamblis was arrested and held in custody all day and killed at night. For this murder they are cow up for trial. ? A witty individual oce morning, wagered that he would ask the same question of fifty different persons, and receive tbe same answer from each. The wit went to first one and then to another, nntil he had reached the number of fifty. And this is how he won tbe bet. He whispered, half audibly, to each, "I say, -have you heard that Smith has failed?". "What Smith ?" queried the whole fifty, one after another; and it was decided1 that the bet had been fairly won. ? A Kentucky Baptist minister says that some years ago a Baptist church in thit State tried a man for kissing his wife. The formulated charge was enter? ed "Unbecoming levity." The gentle? man accused had been from home several weeks on business, and on bis return he met bis wife at the meeting house, and in the presence of the congregation em? braced her with a sounding smack on tbe lips. Some of the staid old deacons were, so shocked at such levity in the house of God that the gentleman was arraigned ou the above charge, and escaped dis? missal from tba church by agreeing to do his kissing at home in the future. i ? The exact situation of the geogra? phical center of the United States is a surprise to any one who has not given tl e subject careful attention. The most eat* tern point of the United States is Quod? dy Head, Me.; the western, Attoo Island, Alaska; the moat Northern, Point Bar? row, Alaska; the most Southern, Key; West, Fla. T.3e center of the quadran? gular figure formed by unitibg these four points is located at the crossing of fifty five degrees north latitude, aod 110 degrees west longitude, about 420 miles north of the northern line of Montana. It is also true of the United States, as of great Britain, that the sun never seta oa our territory, for when it is 6 p. m. on Att)o Island, Alaska, it is 9.36 a. m. on the following day at Eastport, M$