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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1893. VOLUME XXVII.?NO. 38 To Cleanse the Blood Of Scrofula, au6 other poisons, Ayer's Sar sapaxilla tu the best, the superior medi? cine. It does what no other blood-purifier - mexisteuco can do. It searcbes out nil im? purities In the system and expels them harmlessly through the proper channels. It is the great health-restorer and healtb-main * talner. Be sure yon get Scrofula, catarrh*, boils, pimples, carbuncles, running sores, eczema. Ayer's Sarsaparilla rr^>w*dbyI>r.J.C.Ay8r&Co..I^well,Ma68. Cures Others,Wfll CUfe YOU HOME IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT MUSIC I Having Just Received a Large Addition to our Stock of HIGH GRADE PIANOS AND ORGANS! We can supply any who may wish to puichase an Instrument at Manufacturers' prices. The justly celebrated Wheelock, Ivors & Fond, Everett and Kim ball Pinnos are our leaders. Finished in latest style Oases of Walnut, English Oak, Mahogany and Ebony. 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Next to Farmres and Merchants Bank. WILL. R. HUBBARD, JEWELLER. J.f you want to see the LARGEST STOCK and the BRIGHTEST PLACE in Town just drop in and sou WILL. HUBBARD'S JEWELRY STORE 1 SOUVENIR SPOONS, LC.VE CHAINS, DIAMONDS, GOLD and SILVER WATCHES. SILVERWARE anD NOVELTIES. pa~ I*, will pay yon to give me a call before buying. I don't sell at Cost nor throw in a Chromo, but make a living profit on every article. ?Sf Correct representation. Polite attention aud promptness. WILL. R. HUBBARD, Next to Farmers and Merchants Bank. EASY WAY TO MAKE S5.00! We will pay our usual premium of FIVE DOLLARS for the LARGEST watermelon raised from OUR SEED?the Melon to be brought to our Store ?od weighed on or before AUGUST 15, 1893. Fresh Seeds of all kiuds Just Received. ORB & SLOAN*. DON'N FORGET Syrup Bed Clover is the Best Blood Purifier, And tho PARLOR MATCHES at 5c. dozen Boxes*. ORR & SLOAN. AUF'S REGULAR CHAT. He Thinks Everything Is Looking Lovely Now. Atlanta Constitution. The spring is fairly upon us, and it is really the birth of a new year. The sweet odor of violets is in tbe air and tbe alder tags are blooming in the glades. The robiuB are bobbing around and tbe set? ting hen comes clucking from ber nest. Fire is on the mountains, and the busy farmers are burning brush and cleaning up tbe fence rows or hauling guano to make tbe biggest crop of cotton the world ever saw. That is what tbey told me in North Carolina, and I reckon it is so all over tbe cotton belt. Tbe poet says "Whatever is right," and so we have to be reconciled and let the farmers do just as they please and take the consequences. In fact, it is risky and impertinent to advise a man about his business. But editors will do it, and I heard a farmer tell one not long ago that he could run a better newspaper if he would give it more attention and give the farmers less advice. Well, it stands to reason that a man who has been farming all bia life knows more about it than a town raised editor who never farmed a day. The farmers are in earnest now. Poli? ties has settled down in the old ruts. The Ocala platform is dead and buried, and all the vain hopes that inspired it have vanished away. Just as the "forty acres and a mule" played out with the darkey, so have all the expectations of ?ome big thing from the government played out with the people's party. It was a delusion and a snare, and nobody but a few politicians profited by it.' It is at last an admitted fact that tbe farmers must depend on themselves and not on the government. Paternalism is the curse of a state or a nation, and I am glad to Fee that Mr. Cleveland is goiog to put his foot down upon it. Protection for protection's sake must go. We want no more infant industries. They must start full grown and compete with the world. This pension outrage most be re? formed, for it grows bigger as the years roll on. It is tbe politician's bobby, and he rides on it into office. Over eight hundred thousand are now on the rolls, and not one-fourth of them ever saw a battlefield. It is nothing but paternal? ism, and it has gotton to be an epidenvc. Most everybody wants some help from the governmment, and if they can't g et it one way they will another. Our revolu? tionary fathers, who were wounded and disabled, drew pensions, but, in courne of time, they died, and the pension stopped, but now the pension keeps running on and spreading out to widows and chil? dren and grandchildren, and moBt of them are to foreigners who fought for the money that was in it and nothing else. Just go into the national cemetery, at Chattanooga, and see the names on the headstones, and you can't pronounce half of them without a corkscrew. For the honest patriotic soldier, we have the pro foundest resf e:t, but we rebels know' something about tbe foreign hirelings we had to fight the last two years of the war. Paternalism is run mad?one hundred and eighty millions of pensions is more than the government can stand. The nation has put Mr. Cleveland there to re? form, and we believe he will do it. The salaries of tbe Government officials are too large. Millions could be Baved by a healthy reduction, aud then there would not be b? many office seekers. How is it that our Governor and our Supreme Court Judges get only about half as much as a United States Marshal or a Clerk of a United States District Court ? How is it that a little postoffice like Car tersville pays $1,600, when there are ten men and twenty women who would take it for $1,000. Let us get back to tbe economy of oar fathers, and then the duties on the nec? essaries of life can be taken off, and the common people can get their shoes and blankets cheaper. Washington is called the father of his country, and now wo want Mr. Cleveland te father the coun? try some, too, besides little Ruth, and take tbe burdens off tbe people. That is a? tbe paternalism we ask for?a clean aud honest administration. Kill the monopolies and the trusts. Let Hawaii alone and the Nicaragua canal and everything else that calls for more money and more taxes. Don't fret so much about tbe money or tbe scuffle between gold aud silver, it is doing very well. I once was young and now I am old, but I have never peen tbe time that there wasn't enough money in town to pay for everything tbe people had to sell. I farmed for eleven years, and my corn brought me fifty cents a bushel for every crop. It if n't the kind of money, whether gold or silver or paper, that concerns us, but it is the solvency aud honesty of the banks, for 95 per cent, of all the business is done by checks and deposits. There are enough dollars and dimes to do all tbe rest. Who ever sees a piece of gold coin? Who ever looks at a national bank bill to see what bank issued it? They are all good, from Maine to Cali? fornia. In my opinion, the world has no better currency, and I dread to see the day when any man or set of men can issue their own bills and 'oist them upon the country?we have tried that and suf? fered. Let well enough alone. What old Georgian doea not recall tbe failures of Georgia banks in the ante-bellum days?not only the wild cat banks that were intended to fail, but good banks that failed through great financial revul? sions? There were failures at Macon and Columbus and St. Marya aud Rome and Riogold and Atlanta, and many of ua have got relics bid away that we sometimes look at and lament. I know one man who has a package of $4,000 of Ringgeld money that broke before tbe war. It is the common people who suffer from spurious money, the smart, shrewd traders get rid of theirs before tbe col? lapse comes. Now let us all go Blow. Mr. Cleve? land's election does not mean a bonanza to anybody, but it does mean honesty of administration, if it is possible for him to control it. And I believe he will con? trol it. Mr. Harrison was honest enough but not broad enough. He wanted to jump on Chile with both feet, and nearly the last thing he did was to annex Ha? waii on paper. But he was a pure man and did the best be could. Let us not idolize any man, for we are all men and not gods. When Mr. Hayes died a friend of mine expressed bis surprise and said be thought he had died several years ago, but remembered now that it was Arthur. Blaine will soon be forgot? ten, for such is the nature of political fame. Wbat a troublous life they live I Think of Tcombs and Stephens and Gor? don and Oolquitt and all their heart? burnings, and then turn away and say it is better to live calm and serene under your own vine and fig tree and take com? fort with those you love and those who love you. There is nothing in this life that will compare with the love of wife and children and the daily intercourse with good nabors. May the good Lord give this blessings to us all and make us content. - Bill Abp. On Joining the Church. I have no sympathy whatever for these men outside of tbe Church that are too good to unite with aome Church. 1 believe the best people in this world and the best people during the last six thousand years have always identified themselves with God and God's people, and taken their stand. The men that stand outside and throw stones at the Church are not much help to the cause of Christ. What we want is to build up, and if the Church is not wbat it ought be let us try and purify it?do what we can to make it better. I think it is just as much t\ command, if we believe, to take our stand among Christ's disciples and bear the heat and burden of the day, as it is for us to believe. The first step is to belies. The next step Is to confess and come out from the world. I think it is just as natural for a true disciple to go among God's people as it is for water to run down hill. I do not understand how it is that a man truly born of God should not have a desire to identify himself with tbe Church of God. It is not only a duty, but a glorious privilege to be in tbe bosom of some Church. Now, I have found a great many people. that find fault with the Church?that the Church don't look after the sick and those in trouble and all that. I never found it to fail that those who complain are those who have left tbe Church. They were members, they wonld go Sunday morn? ings, but they were not known as active members of the Church. I never knew a real active member of a Church go to the poor house. I never knew of real ac? tive Cburcb Christians, doing what they could to build op the cause that the Cburcb did not turn out in a mass and wait upon them. These people that are finding fault with tbe Church may be members, but that is all they are. They never have lifted a hand to help tbe Cburcb; and then tbe Church don't know them in time of trouble and sick? ness. It is a glorious thing to belong to the Church of God. I expect to be a member of the Church so long as I am on earth, unless, they turn me out. I have no desire to be outside of the Church. I believe it in the best institution under Heaven. It is the only institution I want to belong to. "He purchased it with His own blood." It is the dearest thing He has got on earth. Every one that loves the Lord Joans Christ ought to be in some Church doing what he can to build it up, and not be outside throwing stones at it. Of course, mistakes are made in the Church. I have to speak of them to wake people up?show them their mis? takes. If I have said anything that tbe 1 enemies of Christ have taken up and that has given the impression that I am not a member of a Church I want them to un? derstand that I am an officer in the Church, and I shall remain an officer in that Church until my time expires, and I shall remain a member, unless they turn me out, as long as I live, of some Church. Another thing, I find it is a very com? mon thing for people to move without taking a letter from their Church. I met a case of that ikind but yesterday. A man said to me, "I expect to leave here in about a year." "Well," I said, "why didn't you bring a letter ?" "I am only going to remain here a year." "You can bring a letter easier than you can your trunk." Bring your letter along if you can't reman over a year and go into some Cburcb, and identify your? self with some Church, and give all the influence you have towards building up that Church. If you stay here a year you may do a good deal toward winning bouIb to Christ. If you go to another place, and don't expect to stay but three months, ask for your letter and identify yourselves wherever you are with the Church of God.?Dwight L. Moody. ? There is more Catarrh in this sec tion of the country than all other disea ses put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local rem edies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, prononuced it incu rable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is takeu internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of tbe system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. F J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggi8t3, 75c. Threw her Children iuto a Well. Gal vest ton, Tex , March 18.?A Newt Belleview Bpecial saya : Otto Sanders has a wife and five children?three by a de? ceased aud two by his present wife. While returning from work and missing his wife and her two children, he insti? tuted a search and found them in a well on tbe premises. The cbildreu were dead, and their mother, who had thrown them into a well, then jumped iu herself and will die. No cause is known. ? A North Carolina man is Haid to have traded one of his boys to a neigh? bor for an oli mule. He remarked, on making the trade, that "tbe boy was too lazy to work and all tbe mule needed was fattening." TRAINING HORSES TO DO TRICKS. BY PROF. GEORGE BARTHOLOMEW. Most people look upon a horse as a piece of machinery, Others believe he possesses a certain degree of intelligence. My own experience, ranging over many years with almost every variety of the species, has taught me that the horse is gifted with an amouDt of intelligence far beyond what he is credited with by his very beat friends. KIND OF HORSES TO TRAIN. A horse of any breed can be trained on the Bame principle that uncultivated per? sons can be educated and attain a com? paratively high degree of intelligence. Some people think that Llie Arabian horse only is used for exhibition pur? poses, but in my opinion the Arabian horse has no more natnral ability than any of our native breeds. I have trained an Arabian horse and he showed consid? erable intelligence, but I have trained American horseB that could lay no claim to pedigree and they showed just as much intelligence as the Arabian. A horse to be susceptible to training must be spirited, full of sensibility, quick to understand and to put bis conceptions into action. The fact that a boree is spirited is one indication that he is pos? sessed of force and intelligecce. It makes no difference as to the age or ~ of the animal; of course young hor? ses are preferred to old onos. But when they are once trained, as there is no tax made on their strength, they do their work just as well at the age of ten or fif? teen as they do at tbe age of three. Old borses have been trained as successfully as young ones. . In selecting a horse for trick purposes I decide beforehand what I want the animal to do. I look in tbe open market for an animal capable of it, just as a ship? builder or a carpenter will go out and select a certain kind of timber which he needs for a special piece of work. Of course tbe horse must be Bound and nice looking. WHAT I ALWAY8 DO FIRST. I turn tbe new horse into a lot with a number of other horses. I stir him up a little with a whip so as to observe his action. I take note of what he looks at what he seems to fear. Sometimes I want a horse that will take the lead in a party of horses, one that is imbned with the spirit of self reliance, that can "general" for himself. I select one that "looks out for number one." The horse that looks out for him? self is a good deal like a financier, he knews how to calculate. If a borae trainer does not understand his business a horse will take advantage of the situation as soon as he finds him? self able to do so. But remember that though at the outset a horse will natur? ally try to free himself from work that is strange and disagreeable, a human being will do the Bame thing. THE BEGINNING OF TRAINING. First of all, tbe horse trainer, if be understands his business, tries to make a favorable acquaintance with the animal. He introduces himself in an agreeable way as yon would do if going to see some man upon whom ycra wanted to create a good impression. For some time' I don't request tbe horse to do anything. I pursue this course until the horse feels at home with me and looks upon me as bis friend. I do not use force in training?noth lug but kindness. I give tbe newcomer a lump of sugar or a handful of grain. Then he will come to me of bis own accord for these things. That I have got him to come to me is a point gained. I have taken the most vicious borses, runaways, "man eaters," and by my methods trained them bo that they could be driven with perfect safety. Kindness and firmness will accomplish wonders in training horses. There is a great differ eaco between firmness and cruelty. I do not believe in being cruel but I do in being firm. I have to have my "system," bnt it can be carried out without tbe use of physical force. I will now explain how I train horses te perform some of tbe tricks which meet will popular favor. I tell what is done under ordinary circum? stances; of course tbe method might vary slightly under peculiar conditions. HOW TO MAKE A HORSE STAND ON A PEDESTAL. To do this trick, first of all I teach the animal to stand still in one place. Then I call him, alternately, to step backwards, to step forwards. I may lead him, but when I give him tbe word it must be followed up at once by tbe action. Next I take bold of bis foot, keeping it for a few moments in my band. I con? tinue that lesson until he begins to think that all I want to do is to hold bis foot in my hand. I practice that until be knows it perfectly. Next I take a small box, about a foot high and place it in front of him. I lead him up to it, I take up his foot and try to place it on the box. He will pull it away. I take up his foot again, bold it awhile, rubbing bis leg gently with one hand. After a few lessons he will allow his foot to remain on the box. After he consents to put one foot on the box I raise tbe other foot aud hold it in my left hand, so as to keep tbe other in position on tbe box (which he is likely to do) I place tbe other one on the box When I have trained bim to bear bis weight on the foot which is on tbe box, I have made great progress, for then he will allow tbe other one to be put up. I keep both hands behind his legs; if he attempts to take down either one I catch it and give it a light rap, at the same time pushing his head forward bo that he raises it and allows his weight to rest on both feet on tbe box. Being taught gradually be finds the experiment quite easy. After awhile be will approach the box aud put up one foot. Then you tap him on the other foot, and in a few more lessons he will consent to get up on the box. You gradually raise tbe height of the box. In tbe same way you teach him lo place bis foot on an upright bar, placed on tbe corner of tbe box. I can take a uew horse aud in three days so teach bim that he will strike a position with his foot on a pedestal. But, of course, a novice in horse training could not do that. I constantly atudy tbe characteristics of an animal just as a gnod school teacher will note the peculiar disposition of tbe boys under her charge. Do not keep a trick horse at the outset too long in one position. Remember that be is assuming what to bim is an unnatural attitude. If I see be is tired I tell him to get down and I push bim a little; he must understand that he gets down at a command from me. I also give bim to understand, if necessary, that be must not attempt to do any of these things voluntarily. * KEEPING A HORSE IN POSITION. People often wonder how, in my "horse school," I keep the animal in position; they would like to know how you can train a horse to remain in one place. First of all I put the horse in a certain place and leave bim there. He is to learn to stand there without being tied. Then I walk around bim several times, each time getting a little further away from him. I go up to him and get away, and keep enlarging tbe distance. Pretty soon he discovers that though 1 get away off I always return to him. He expects me to come and I do not disappoint bim. Finally I will go away for half an hour and he will remain in that same position. He is contented because he expects me to return. If, during lesson?, be moves away from his position, I place bim back, at tbe same time giving him a gentle pat. Then for a while, I do not test him for so long a time as 1 did before he moved. He may move quite a number of times during tb is effort at training, but, in order to gain his confidence, must deal with him the way I suggest. I pursue, separately, tbe same course with the other members of the school. Then I put them together, adding one at a time to the class. Having their regu? lar mates beside them tbey soon get used to this arrangement and so my school is formed. A NE'W SCHOLAR. Sometimes I have to add a stranger to the group. By talking and pantomime I give the others to understand that tbe new coiner is to be a mem ber of tbe class. And in this as in other respects, tbe hor? ses behave a good deal like boys in school when a strange boy comes into the class. The horses look critically at the visitor, "size him up," as boys say, and, as boys do, sometimes persecute him. Tbey will bite him, and he, seeing that be is not welcome, will make an attempt to leave. If be does I put him back in his position. I pit tbe others on the back and make them-understand that tbey must allow tbe newcomer to remain. I can truly compare their conduct to the actions of school boys. Tbey will pick at the new horse and seem to try to test him, or, as boys Bay, "to see what he is made of." And will shrink away by himself; but, in tbe course of time be will gradually become acquainted with the rest. And then,-with the others, he too, will "pick" at tbe next new horse that is added to tbe group. Another curious thing. After the horses have been trained to perform various tricks they not only enjoy taking part in an exhibition, but sometimes, wh?n a horse is negligent or reluctant in going through his act, those next to him will urge him out, and, by biting or crowding against bim, tbey seek to pun? ish him for not performing promptly or properly. TEACHING A HORSE TO FIRE A PISTOL. This is a long and difficult piece of work. First, I teach him to hold a small, fiat piece of soft pine wood, about half an inch thick, in his mouth, or, rather, his front teeth. At first he will spit it out. I put it back again, carefully, without hurting him, holding bim by the halter with ene hand and gently pressing the bit of wood against his teeth. Finally he will relax bis grip to allow the stick to pass in easily between his teeth. After awhile he will shut his teeth and hold on to it. Then I let go of it. If he drops it I pick it up and gently replace it. As soon as be shuts his teeth down I pat bim approvingly on the neck and, in the course of time, he finds that I wish him to hold the stick between his^teetb. Wben he has learned that you wish him to do this and discovers that it does not hurt him to do it, be is willing to do it. The next step is to bold tbe stick down below his head ; make him lower his head a little and then put tbe stick in bis mouth. That drill is followed until tbe stick is placed on the ground and he consents to take bold of it and pick it up with his teeth. You can finally throw tbe stick on the ground, say "pick that up; give it to me," and he will obey. He will turn his bead towards you and allow you to take it out of his mouth. I now take a strap of leather and so arrange a pistol that it can be fired off by pulling the strap. The pistol is not loaded when the horse is first taken up to begin bis training in regard to tbe strap. This is a very different thing from the wood, but he must be taught that the strap is the object be is to take, and wben he tries to fasten his teeth on it they slip off and you have to keep exper? imenting with bim. Next you take a common blank car? tridge, which nowadays is used altogether for tbeee tricks. Extract from it about two thirds of the powder and put the cartridge into tbe pistol. Then let bjm pull the strap. The report of the pistol makes a slight noise aod the horse will probably start back. Without reloading the pistol you may let him pull on tbe strap a few more times to convince him that he is not going to be hurt. The cartridge experi? ment is then repeated. If he is not quite as scared as he was at first, you can, after an interval, try another. You stand Dear him and grad? ually seek to show him that tbe cartridge will not hurt him any .nore than the strap. Reduce or increase the sound, according to tbe way he behave?, until, finally, you can use a full cartridge. Just as a boy will gain confidence in himself in learning the art of swimming, so in this course of training a horse will gain confidence when he finds that he is not going to be hurt. In teaching six of my horses to fire off a cannon, each one was taught separate? ly. It takes months of hard work, giv ing two lessons a day, before yon can train a horse to fire off a pistol. I trained my school nf horses three years before they were introduced to the public. I taught them euch tricks as to bring my mail, pick up my handkerchief, fetch me a chair, erase an example on the blackboard and to turn forward the bands of the clock bo that the school may be dismissed early. the most difficult lesson. Probably the most difficult thing to teach a horse is tbe meaning of words and sign language. Still, it can be done. Horses are taught everywhere the meaning of such words or phrases as "whoa," "get up," "get over," "back," etc. I am careful when I utter words to make a physical movement to indicate their meaning. Give tbe horse the word, and at the same time in some other way show bim tbe movement you wish him to make. All this is very tedious, because you have to go through the lesson over and over. You want to teach him to obey the command to turn to the right. Each time you give the order turn him to the right, pat him approvingly, go away, aud again tell him to turn to the right until be knows ihe meaning of the command. It is by this process that one horse will learn another horse's name. In the presence of tbe animal I call another horse, which may be standing over in a corner, by name. He comes to me. The horse who is learning his lesson knows it is not his name that is called and that he is not called for. He bears mo continu? ally call the other horse "John," and he learns that "John" is tbe other horse's name. Ho learos this, not only by hear? ing, but by observation and seeing that horse come to me after being called "John." Iu tbis way my group of twenty-four borses, of their own accord, have each learned to know the name of the other. teaching a deaf horse. But the most interesting task I have ever undertaken in training horgea was the teaching of a deaf horse. About three years ago one of my most valuable performing an'mals, "Ccesar," who understood spoken commands from some unknown cause lost his hearing. It then became necessary for me to teach him again the movements he was requir? ed to go through, using an original deaf and dumb language, or rather certain motions of the whip. That Caesar could learn tbis language of signs seems uuexplainable to almost everybody. By means of signs he not only under? stands right from left, but can tell tbe difference between a circle and tbe figure eight. Moreover, he will obey commands given by persons in tbe audience and does not have to go through the same act at every performance. When I am train? ing s horse for any particular trick and be does not go through his work in a proper way I tap bim gently with the whip, but only enough to attract his.at tention to the fact that I am not exactly pleased with his conduct. I never "lash them into submission," for I do not be? lieve in that theory of training. Such a course only tenJs to scare the horse. - If a horse has successfully gone through a difficult performance I pat him encouragingly, as much as to say, "That's good, old boy; you're all right." After such acts a horse, just like a gymnast or an acrobat, will draw a long breath and seemingly Bay, "Well, I got through that without making a break." If I see the horse is in trouble or he has hurt hiuself by a Blip or a fall in some difficult act, I let him off easy and do not insist that he shall go through tbe act again. While you must be firm with a horse and not allow him to "play off sick," as a boy will sometimes do to escape going to school, yon must exercise consideration; by so doing you will keep his respect and strengthen bis affection for you._ The Lexicon or Tontb. Parents cannot be too careful how they answer the apparently trivial questions of their children. It would almost seem as if a child's dictionary were a necessity of the age. Here is a beautiful illustra? tion. "Pa," said a little chap to his father, "what does a man mean when he says, Til fix you.'" "Means that he'll do him up," answer? ed the father briefly. "But, then, what does 'do bim up' mean V "Bother! You ask too many questions, child. It means that he is going to kill him." The little fellow was silenced for the time; but as events proved, he thought over the subject. Soon after he was taken ill, and the family doctor being absent a strange physician was summon? ed. Left alone with him for a few mo? ments the little fellow began to ask ques? tions. "Going to cure me, doctor?" he in? quired. "Yes, yeB, my little man," said the doc tor, who was preparing a dose, "I'm going to fix you." What was tbe doctor's surprise to see a small, white robed figure dart from the bed and make a bee line for tbe door, through which it disappeared. Tbe as? tonished medical man followed bim and found him sobbing in his mother's arms. To her be was relating his fears that the doctor intended to "fix" him iu the sense that his father had defined the word to him a few weekB before.?Detroit. Free Press. ? Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup has always been kept up to the standard. It is the same it was forty years ago, tbe best sold. ? Some idea of the cost of maintain? ing a navy may be derived from the fact that the recent voyage of Ai-erican war vessels from San Francisco to Washing? ton entailed an expense of $120,000, for fuel alone. ? Astonecoflin weighing 1,500 pounds was completed in Lexington, Ky., a day or two ago for Stephen Laugford, an 80 year-old land owner of Madison County. He is in the bc?t of health, but eays he wishes to preserve his body from pole? cats, minks and uther like animals. CHANTED ON DEATH ROCK. An Indian Murderer Executed after an old Custom. Caddo, I. T., March 10.?Elias Loring, a full blood Choctaw Indian, was to-day executed according to the Indian custom at Apnckshunuble, a village thirty miles west of here. On January 20 Loring murdered an old woman named Cavette, aged eighty-five years. She was repnted to have money, and Loring killed her while trying to steal her bidden wealth. Loring was ar? rested and tried in the Circuit Court, and sentenced on Feb. 20 to be shot on March 10. In compliance with the decree of the court Loring was guarded by a de tachment of the Choctaw Light Horse Comr-?ny until this morning, wben he waB taken to the place of execution. Just as tbe first streak of dawn appeared Loring was awakened from his sleep and taken to tbe inclosure which surrounds tbe council chamber. The inclosure is in tbe form of a stockade about fifteen feet high, and is a strong prison of itself. The entrance is through a massive gate : which is strong enough to resist the at? tack of a regiment. About fifteen feet from tbe eastern side of the inclosure is a square rock half sunk into the ground. This is the famous and historic death rock. This stone is flat topped and it sunk into the ground until its top is two feet above the surface. Here all the ex? ecutions of tbe tribe have taken place in tbe last thirty years. The Choctaws are greatly enlightened, but tbe form of execution is one of the relics of barbarism that has been retain? ed, and, while the court proceedings are according to the latest forme of jurispru? dence, the executions must take place ac? cording to the long-established forms and ceremonies of tbe tribe. The murder? ers in the tribe must be executed by the family of the murdered person. The death penalty has been exacted many times, and the blond of many victims has assisted the sun and rain in staining the brown rock around which a queer and motly group assembled. Within the enclosure were the relatives of tbe'murdered woman and also those of .her slayer. Tbe tribal council and tbe Light Horse Guard, with but a few visi? tors, completed the number that were al? lowed within the inclosure. The death rock is so situated that the son does not strike it until about 11 o'clock in tbe morning, and according to the law of tbe tribe, the execution cannot take place "until the sun has kissed the rock." It was while waitins for this time to arrive that a scene that could notbe dupli? cated in no other portion of the globe took place. It was fate that Loring should die, and the savage was so strong in him that be was ready to die and make no sign that be felt the penalty. There was no fear in him, for he knew that his time bad come and be would go. Just as tbe day broke this morning the sound of a drum aroused the inhabitants of the village and called together the members of the Light Horse Company. It was the death signal. With the dying away of tbe sound men, women and chil? dren came from the huts and houses, and the village was alive with the prepara? tions for a holiday. Breakfast was hur? riedly eaten, and then every one went towards the inclose. Neither the dead woman nor the man who was to suffer tbe penalty had relatives in the village and from the surrounding country came those who were to be the principal actors in the tragedy. As the sun rose there came from tbe woods, along tbe creek that runs north of tbe village, those who had camped there over night, ready to be on hand at the earliest possible opportu? nity in the morning. Loring bad been kept under guard in the council chamber, and at the beating of tbe drum was given his last breakfast. He ate heartily and marched between two files of the Light Guard into the en? closure. Here had already assembled those who were to witness the closing scene. The condemned man was loosen? ed from the bonds that had been placed about his arras, and was permitted to mingle freely among his friends and rel? atives. To all appearances he was as free as. anyone in that inclosure. He passed from group to group and chatted and laughed as if he had no thought of death. He talked as if he was going on a long journey and laughingly bade his friends farewell. The whole scene was that of a pleasure party, and to one who did not know of the meaning of the gath? ering it would have appeared as a holiday assembly. All morning the merriment continued, while the sun slowly crept towards the death rock. This was the only place in the inclosure that was shunned by the crowd. Finally the latal hour drew near, and then a silence came over tbe assem? bled people. The relatives of the mur? dered woman drew away to themselves and selected those who were to fire the shots that would <wd the bloody feud be? tween tbe two families. This was soon decided, and then the doomed man walk? ed to the death rock. As he proceeded be began singing in a low tone a peculiar monotonous song. Louder and louder it came until tbe sound could be heard far beyond tbe enclosure. Those on tbe outside knew that tbe hour of death was near, for tbey beard the death song of the Choctaws as it had been -ung in all the ages of the tribe since its beginning. Calmly seating himself on the stained rock, Loring continued his song as two members of the Light Horse bound his arms and feet and bandaged his eyes. Not a sound indicated that he feared the end. As the six men stepped forward from the ranks of the relatives of the dead woman and advanced to tbe place where tbey would fire the fatal shots tbe song of the doomed mpo swelled forth in increased volume. The rythra of the chant was in unison with the ring of tbe steel of the locks of the guns, and then tbe men took their stand, ten paces in front of tbe condemned. The song con? tinued, and then there mingled with it a roar as tbe six guns belched forth their loads at a signal from tbe captain of the Light Horse. The song was stilled, and the body of Elias Loring pitched heavily forward and lay quivering on the ground j at the edge of death rock. The work was well done, and with the death of tbe murderer was wiped out all the stain and the body was treated with the consideration due a dead member of the tribe. The, whole tribe joined in j paying a tribute of respect to tbe dead man, and he was buried with the honors that would have been'.accorded him had he died in battle. The decree of the court had wiped out all blood feud be? tween tbe two families and all were united over the dead murderer. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The man who picks his own cross never gets the right one. ? If the toDgue could kill, not many won Id live to old age. ? The first workman who made pens got $1 apiece for them. ? A human skull as large as a bushel basket has been found in Sicily. ? The manufacture of bogus Confed? erate money is an established industry in Van Buren, Missouri. ? Sixty-four of the United States Senators are lawyers, one a preacher, one a doctor and one a journalist. ? Customer?Why do you refer to tbis folding bed as "she?" Clerk?Because, sir, there is no danger of it's shutting up. ? Do not be hoodwinked. Use no . "just as good." Salvation Oil is what you want when in need of a good lini? ment. ? Mrs. Ellsworth Miller of Cold Springs, N. Y., is 31 years old and the mother of 16 children, including three seta of triplets. ? The Atlanta Herald makes this sug? gestion : "Look in the bottom of your wine cnp, young man. You may see a pair of handcuff* there." ? It is a little discouraging to a man to carry a yowling, squalling baby around' for half a night, then sit down and reflect that "of such is tbe kingdom of heaven " ? A Mississippi man is suing his wife for a divorce on the ground that she makes him do the cooking. There is no' knowing what might happen if be tried to make her do tb'j cooking. ? It ia one of the hardest tasks in the world, to bring tbe heart to a sincere persuasion that sin is indeed as vile an God's word represents it; and that it I deserves all that his law threatens against : it. ? Old Gravely: If you do not care to be my wife, perhaps tbe prospect of being a rich young widow might tempt you ? Ninnie (eagerly): Oh, Mr. Grave? ly I If I were only sure I could trust youl ? "There is but one way of fortifyii g against all gloomy presages and terrors of mind, and that is by securing to our selves tbe friendship and protection of that being who disposes of events and govern!, futurity." ? "You don't seem to be one of tbe people who think the office should seek the man." "Yes," replied tbe politician, a little doubtfully, "I am, but I believe it's tbe man's business to keep in hailing distance." ? Green?"There was a time when I thought I knew everything." Brown? "Yea. And you think differently now ?" G.?"I do." B.?"What made you change your opinion?" 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Its anodyne and expectorant effects are promptly realized. It is a chemical success and a medical triumph. ? An Irishman once worked all day on the promise of getting a gli "w of grog. At night the employer brought; out the grog to him, and the Irishman tasted it and said, "Which did you put in first? the whisky or the water ?" "Oh," said the employer, "the whiskey." "Um-hum," mused the Irishman; "well, maybe I'll come to it by-and by." ? A man and his wife went into the dentist's. "How much do you charge for fillin' teeth?" asked the farmer. "From two to five dollara." "An' how much for pollin'?" "Fifty cents." "Mariar," he said, turning to his wife,; "you'd better git it pulled." ? A lady who enjojB the unique dis? tinction of being the only woman presi? dent of a national bank in tbe United States is Mrs. Annie Moore, of Mount Pleasant, Texas, who probably is tbe youngest bank president in the country. This bank has operated for some time as/ a private concern with Mrs. Moore at tire head, and so capable bad she proved her? self that the vote to keep her in command was unanimous. ? Gen. W. H. Jackson, proprietor of tbe famous Belle Mead stock farm, says 'that, though the 5,300 acre domain seems perfect to visitors, he himself is far from thinking so, and spends from $50,000 to $75,000 on it every year. It has been in the family for a century. There are twenty-five miles of stone fences, which cost $1 per yard th construct. There is a park of 500 acres, filled with rquirrels, partridges and 300 deer. Backlens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Bheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros,