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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1893. VOLUME XXVII.?NO. 48. For That Tired Feeling Nervous and general debility, depression of spirits* los? of appetite, Insomnia, '? For over twelve months I was afflicted with goneral debility, languiduess, depres? sion of spirits, headache, and loss of appe? tite, followed by chills. I was scarcely able to drag myself about the house, and no medicine did me any good until I began to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla and Ayer's rills, since whioh I have entirely recovered my health." ? Mary Henrickon, Ware, Mass. Ayer's Sarsaparilla Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ay er & Co., Le well, Mass. CureSCther3,WillCUreyoU Josh Berry Grain Cradles! THE ORIGINAL, THE ONLY GENUINE JOSH BERRY GRAIN CRADLES). There are many imitations bat no equal. BUY. THE JOSH BERRY, And yon are sure to get the best. The Josh Berry is tho only perfect Fourteen-Pinger Grain Cradle made. SWEEPS, HEEEL SWEEPS![ The "Victor" and the ^Terrell." 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Atlanta Constitution, Every Bian has his weakness in some form or other, is the notion I have come to. A remedy for the great weaknesses is what should be sought for. A night spent in & barroom with watchful eyes, and open oyes, would not give to you the most prudent insight of life, but it might give you the most frightful picture of man's worst weaknesses. You watch the different forms in which these weak* nesses take shape and to see with what looseness whiskey causes men to air themselves is a study, a mystery, perhaps a shame. Some "fill up" while others "blow off," some get cunning while others get open, Bomo get generous while other i grow closer with every drink and as mean as they are close. Watch them as they come and go or loiter in the room. All have their con? ceits. With one the waters are troubled, with another the sun shines bright. One must pose as the picture of sadness while another is the soul of wit and aumor. The air of business is not absent from these resorts, for here comes in a man who would impress you with his easiness importance, and it is wonderful how well he plays his part. He wears a business suit, walks to the counter with a business stride, brushes a little flour from the sleeve of his coat in an easy business way, Bpits like a business man, takes a sip of water in a business style, drinks, pays his money and away he goes out of the door?all business, and you might thick he waa rushing to his business, but it ia only to the next bar he is going to go through the same thing once more. This business conceit is one of thu most fortunate turns that the drinking weak? ness could take. It wonld not be busi? ness for him to get extravagant. H 3 must hold his balance, his dignity and vim he is happy iu the thought of doing this, and it will save him from tbe gutter long after the witty fellow, who sits over in a chair by a table, haa fell to be a common bum and arrived at the stage where he can neither laugh himself uor wiing a smile from others. Ah, how many of these witty men could one aee go under if he would watch through a long life mine, for at last he finds that little jokes are only the conceits of an . addled brain. No reflection upon barrooms ia intended by me. The barkeeper fills a demand. Tbe weakness of this very wit demi.nda a bar. No drinking from a bottle or a jug would suit thia fellow. One drink mag? nifies him into au Artemus Ward and he must have listeners and companion 1. It is easy to have them along with plenty of money, and how they do laugh at aU the jokes between drinks. These laughing people are it part of barrooms, or they always linger there. Last Saturday we hustled arounc and got up a nice load of marketing. Our little wagon looked inviting as we drove along Atlanta's streets. Fresh milk and butter, some egga and a few chicrens, fresh from the country, was in den and, but-we had decked our wagon off with "green truck," strawberries and currants, and these caught the eyes of the children at the houses where we stopped. It waB late in the afternoon, the working puople were gathering to their homes and we aold out eastty. At one place where we stopped the inmates from three or four of the little houses gathered about our wagon. Hunbauds with their week's wages tinglic-g iu their pockets camn out in a romping way witb some of the chil? dren and they bought generously of what we had. The little one skipped away from us 00 every side with sirma full and happy hearts. Among them all I noticed three little fellows who never came outside their yard. Two of them sat upon the gate-post while the third swung upon the ricketry gate. This was as near our wagon as they came, but we could hear them talk and saw their long? ing looks, after the happy children who had been supplied. Just as we started off they looked up the street in a wistful way and one of tbem said : "Don't you wish our papa would come homr, too ?" We Buspected that these were the chil? dren of some man whose weakness was drink and who lingered too long at tbe bar, so we stopped again found out their names, let them have such of our "truck" as they chose and weut away feeling happier ourselves, while the sound of merry voices tiugled in our ears as ihey ran with their load into the bouse vith their mamma. When we had put away our team at the wagon yard we sauntered up town and into a popular barroom, just to see if we could not get a sight of the father of these children. Lie was there, thero in fill bis glory, and he was not oue of tbe sad, woe-be gone ones, either. He was what they call a generous fellow in these resort*?. Reckless of money, he seemed to be, as he would knock upon the tnble aud call for the drinks for his crowd. I pitied him as I thought upon the three little fellows at the gare who watched up the Btreet so anxiously for his coming ind uttered so pitifully : "Don't you wish our papa would come homo, too ?" Generous fellows' can always be found iu these resorts. So to give their little children one poor nickle would be like pulliug their tooth. Thus they feel in their ?ober moments, and it is stra-sge that in this feeling they are perfectly honest, while they will linger in these barrooms and throw money away with reckless abandon. I know that the weakness of these generous fellows is strong drink, but in them I can trace no reason for so doing but that they are nat? ural born fools?without excuse or one redeeming trait. Because I have mentioned barrooms ia connection with these weaknesses, it is no reason that I mean to reflect on bars or that there are not weakuefses otherwise. The baseball weakness 1 nd the theater ic the amusement world huve their devotees. Religion has its fanat-cs. Some) men eat, some smoke, some one thing and some another, all of wh ch might be encouraged into weaknesses. It is my notiou that we have ?11 got to have something to "relieve the pressure"? something to "blow off' on or "fill np" with. Let as take the least weakness that we can make out with and the best one that our natures will allow. I eat off on a stump at the pic nie of the Orphans' home the other day and watched the happy movements of the good women and men who have been ac? tive in helping along this sweet occasion. One of the men, "Mr. Bob," I will call him, and single him out because I know him well, was there in a perfect state of intoxication, from this standpoint. He was drunk, blind drunk, as drunk as ever the "witty man" or the "generous man," spoken of above, dare to be. But it was cot a whiskey drunk, nor a base? ball drunk; it was a drunk on goodness, intensified by his happy surroundings. He was "full," the pressure must be re? lieved, and this was a most happy way to do it. Blessed is the man whose weak? ness ia goodness! They should desire no plaudits from the world nor thanks from the unfortunate. Juat thank the Lord for the quality of your weakness and be aa happy aa you ahould be, is the advice I would give every one who is bUssed with the lesser weaknesses of whose weakness is charity and goodness together. Sarge Plunkett. Cow Peas Again. We care not if it be said because of our frequent recurrence to this subject that everybody has got "cow peas on the brain;" we are content if we may in the meantime fully impress upon the readers of the Constitution the importance and value of thia crop. Under the old regime the farmers "planted peas" in a aorf of desultory way, making it a sort of hei, out towards fattening the hog crop. * there never was that substantial recogni? tion of the value of this plant as a factor in upbuilding the soil and restoring it to its original fertile condition. Indeed, it has only been of late years that farmers in the older cotton States are universally recognizing the fact that their soils have become impoverished by careless and ex? haustive cultivation and cropping. Even in its virgin condition a very small proportion of our soil area would now be considered rich by the wide awake, pro? gressive farmer of the present day. Our policy?fifty years ago?should have been to subdue the original forest by re? moving its natural growth, and then im? mediately to commence building it up? making it better and better, until by this time the original, first cleared land would have become the richest aud most productive acres for cultivation. Under auch a system ou. forest lands would only have been valued for their timber and fuel, and a well managed farm would have been highly valued in pro? portion to the larger area reclaimed from its wild condition. Even now we would prefer to undertake to improve and build up an average acathed "worn out" farm to a high degree of productiveness, than try to subdue and improve to a corres? ponding degree an equal area of origi? nally similar but still uncleared land. It may be done by a judicious system of rotation of crops, including high ma? nuring and the extensive planting of peas. Farmers generally accepted the theory that cow peas will renovate land. Bat the trouble has been that their aim has been, not to improve the soil, but to get all out of it that was possible, and to give back as little aa possible. The too prevalent idea has been that what ia called naturally good land waa good enough, and that the business of the far? mer was to cultivate as much of it aa possible, wear it out as a matter of course ?as if such result was according to nat? ural law. Even now there are probably thousands of farmers on the virgin prai? ries of Texas and Kansas who would rid? icule system of rotation and manuring. The cow pea is the best helper the farmer of the South can employ in this work of restoration. But as we have be? fore insisted, it is idle to expect any very rapid improvement of an exhausted soil, especially one that was not originally of high quality, by simply "planting peas on it." Land may be so poor and tired that it will not produce a paying pea crop without some help. Fortunately the kind of plant food that is most re? quired by the pea is that that coat the least in market, viz, acid phosphate and potash. Give an acre of this tired land one bushel or five pecks of speckled peas, two hundred pounds of acid phosphate, and one hundred pounds of kainit, plow all in together and the result will sur? prise one who has not tried it. Then cut the vines down when in full bloom and make hay of them, and the hay will much more than pay all expenses besides leaving the ground in a much improved condition.?R, J. Redding, in Atlanta Constitution. ? .? ? i - How's This 1 We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. We, tbe undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be lieve him Derfectly honorable in all busi? ness transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. Weot & Truax, Wholesale DurggiBts, Toledo, 0 Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal? ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucuous surfaces of the system. Testi? monials sent free.' Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by Druggist3. ? It is a peculiarity of President Cleveland that he uever wears gloves, either on ceremonious occasions or as a protection from tbe cold, or when he handles office seekers or other things he doesn't like.?Boston Globe. ? A remarkable story of woman's devotion comes from St. Petersburg, where a young woman was married to a convict in prison, and will accompany him to Siberia, and undergo a banish? ment of ten years. ? At the beginning of the century the Bible waa accessible to but One fifth of the population of the world. Now it may be read by nine tenths of the people of the globe, so rapidly has jts translation been carried on. PROFITS OF THE FARMERS. Secretary Morton Gives Reasons for their Decline. From, the Philadelphia Ledger. Washington, D. C, May 17.?There have been published recently in leading newspapers and magazines articles on agriculture, in which the writers argued that there has been a steady decadence in that field of labor, and that the decline was progressing with disastrous effects in the United States. A few evenings ago, while visiting, the Public Ledger bureau, the attention of the Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture, was directed to this subject, and be agreed to submit to an interview. What follows was dictated by the Secretary to a sten? ographer, and, after having been written out, was submitted to and approved by him. "It has been alleged," began the Sec? retary, "that the general condition of ag? riculture the world over is much worse than ten years ago, and that this is true of each country almost without exception. It is true that the profits of agriculture have declined in the United States very materially during the last ten years, and while very much of the depression among farmers may be logi? cally traced to the protective tariff, which compels them to buy in a market whence competition is shut out, and to sell in a market where the competition of the world is free to come in, yet a principal cause of the decline of the profits of the farmer may, I think, be found further back. In 1866 the Homestead law came into operation. During that year the first homestead was given away. Under the operations of tbat law in the last twenty-six years, because of the landed gratuities of the Government, the plough? ed area of productive land in the United States has about trebled, but the market has not trebled?tbat is to nay, the sup? ply has increased with more celerity than the demand. improved farming implements. "In addition to the increased area of tilled fields, farming implements have been improved so much in the last quar? ter of a century tbat one man with the improved machinery of to-day is capa? ble of producing of all tbe staple food products of the farm as much as six men of twenty-five years ago. And while foreign governments have not copied the I homestead laws of the United States pre? cisely, all have emulated, so tbat Eng? land has been giving homesteads to her colonies in every part of tbe habitable globe. In Australia and everywhere else the British Government is bestowing land and gratuities upon colonists. So far has this gone that even little Belgium is giving them in the Congo State. Thus the whole world has ploughed up and planted more than ever before, and tbe improved implements are in every coun? try. The world is better and oftener fed to day than ever before, and the profits of agriculture has declined because sup? ply has run ahead of demand. This condition merely demonstrates the truth of the economic axiom tbat tbe relation of supply to demand is the sole regulator of value. decline in farmers' profits?cause and effect. "But, while the farmers' profits have declined, the world has not suffered. The producers, to be sure, make smaller pro? fits, but the consumers have less to pay for everything tbat enters tbe household as staple food, and I cannot Bay this is a bad thing for the race. The fact is, the profiits of all other legitimate voca? tions have declined, except where artifi cially raised by protective duties or other class legislation. The heresy promulga? ted by the propaganda of protective tar? iff has taught tbe public mind to consid? er almost always producers en tbe only beneficiaries of Government. Of course, tbe money fallacies come in here and play their part in the general diabolism of tbe Populists and other vagarists, who would have citizens all look direectly to tbe Government for extrication whenever they are in difficulty, financial or other? wise. Thus the farmers iu tbe West and South have been made to believe that there was not enough money per capita in circulation, and that was tbe cause of low prices. They complain tbat tbe money is concentrated at New York, Chi cago, Boston, Philadelphia and other populous centres, but money is a mere measure of value and medium of ex? change, and it seeks always the plaees where the exchanges are to be made and values are to be measured. During the year 1887, when town lots in Kansas City, Omaha and other municipalities along the west bank of tbe Missouri River changed bands two or three times a week, always at an advance, there was no complaint tbat there was too little mon? ey for the amount of business transacted ?on tbe contrary, there was plenty of money with which to meet the demands of all exchanges?but the real estate speculations of the West stopped becauee the confidence in the high prices which had been reached could not be main? tained. Then the money undoubtedly sought other avenues of trade and com? merce. There never has been a farmer having pork, beef and cereals for sale who could not find money that desired to pur? chase them. "what the south and west need "What the f th and West need is not more money so much as more com? modities or products with which to buy money. A prominent fallacy of the Populists is, tbat money is the end-all and be-all of human effort and desire, But money is the ono thing for which men struggle tbat never confers a blessing unitl after it leaves us. All through the South and West to-day money is to be had at lower rates of interest than ever before in tbe history of this country. Everywhere money is as anxious to be had as the people are to have it, and ev? erywhere it is obtainable upon good security at moderate rates of interest. Iu Nebraska I have seen money loaned frequently on highest grade i,f real ostate at 12 per cent, per annum, payable semi annually, and to day you can borrow any amount ou good farms at 7 per cent, per annum, and tbe longer time you take it for tbe better pleased tbe lender is. I cannot see. therefore) that farming is in auch a deplorable condition as represent? ed by some of tbe calamity bowlars, who seem desirous of arraying all of those who, by industry, economy and thrift, have saved something, as the enemies of those who have, by shiftlessness and intemperance, secured nothing. FALLACY OF THE POPULISTS. "It is pronounced a crime by many of the leaders of the Populists to have ac? quired competency, no matter how hon? estly, and they teach those of small means to hate thoBe of large. Under a Gov? ernment like ours, where the capitalist of to day may be the laborer of to-morrow and the laborer of to day may be the capitalist of to morrow, there is no pos? sible danger of a conflict between labor and capital, except it to be the evolution of class legislation. The first strike in the United States of any moment was the strike of capital for higher profits when it demanded a protective tariff to give them a monopoly of American mar? kets and artificial prices for their goods. Since then labor, seeing that wealth could be legislated into one class, has asked for similar legislation in its own behalf. Labor demanded and B^ured a statute declaring eight hours a day's work. It only emulated mine owners, who asked legislation to declare 65 cents' worth of silver bullion worth a dollar. It is just as easy to make 40 seconds a minute and 40 minutes an hour, as it is to make eight hours a day, and there is just as much sense in it as thore is a statute declaring that 65 cents' worth of any metal is equal to a gold dollar. Farmers will learn af? ter awhile, I presume, that mankind has never successfully manufactured money to continuously circulate as a measure of value and a medium of exchange out of something which had no commodity value before it became money. THE RELATIONS OF MONEY AND FARM PRODUCTS. "All the talk that our Populist friends evolve as to the intrinsic value of gold or silver is, to my mind, the merest bosh. The value of gold and the value of silver are always relative. If the farmer sell a hundred bushels of wheat to-day for $75 in gold, he has established for the time being the wheat value of gold and the gold value of wheat; and if to-morrow the cables from Europe indicate that the crops of tbe Old World are a total fail? ure it may take $100 in gold to purchase 100 bushels of wheat, because the rela? tions have been changed, by the failure of foreign crops, between gold and wheat. The protective tariff being removed from articles which the farmer has to buy, the profits of manufacture will assimilate, in their decline, tbe profits of the farmer. Then, all being equal before the law, manufacturers and farmers alike, the latter will be on a par with the former. FARMERS MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN MER? CHANTS. "Because of tbe enchantment by virtue of tillage and building improvements, the same number of acres of land in a given county of Iowa or Nebraska may, in 1889, carry mortgage five times as great as they could carry in 1879, and yet be in debt a less per cent, of their value than they were in tbe latter named year. Statistics shew, I believe, that, in the dry goods business, only about S per cent, of the merchants who have entered the trade go through life successfully with? out failure, leaving 97 per cent, as fail? ures. Can any of our Populist leaders show as bad a state of affairs among the farmers? Is not the percentage of fail ures among farmers less than the per? centage of failures in any other avocation in the United States'? How often do you bear of assignments complete failures in farming, compared to the assignments and failures which you hear of in the clothing business, in banking and in merchantile pursuits. Everyone acquain? ted with tbe West understands that many of the mortgages upon farms represent tbe very money which constructed the house in which tbe farmer lives, the barns that house bis cattle and the fences that surrround his land. Of course, tbe conditions have changed very much. The railroads have brought the markets for the great populous centres to the doors of the farmers of the Northwest, less the cost of transportation, and that cost is not so extortionable as would seem, when you may buy a barrel of flour at retail de? livered at your house in New York for $1 more than you pay for tbe same qual? ity in Minneapolis, and that twenty-five cents out of the dollar goes to the dray? man who hauls it from the grocer's. The profits in railroad transportation have declined with the same and, possibly, with greater rapidity than the profits in farming in the last decade. Farmers, however, are very easily led astray, and their worst foes are not the chinch bug, the grasshopper, nor the drought, but tbe pseudo-economic teachers, naturally created by tbe class legislation of the Republican party during the past thirty years, and who now teach that all the farmers' woes, whatever they be, may be remedied by legislation. THE FARMERS ARE MISLED. "There is no farmer of good sense and good health who cannot any where in the Northwest by sobriety, industry and good management make a good living for himself and an ordinary family, and hundreds of thousands of them in Ne braska have not only made a good living during the last ten years, but have dou? bled and trebled their number of acres in their farms by purchasing adjacent ground. The farmer, aside from being led ftstray on money and the tariff, is now being worked to sign petitions to Con? gress asking large appropriations of tbe public money with which to irrigate the arid lands of the plains. That is to say, he asks that he may be taxed to create his own competitors. If it is a proper use of the taxing power to raise money with which to fertilize with water tbe arid lands of tbe plains, it seems to me it would be equally legitimate to make ap propriationn for the purchase of guano and other fertilizers to restore abandoned farms in New Englaud. The New Eng land farms are worn out just as those in the West may be by non-rotation of crops and nou-mnnuring. Under the operation of tbe inexorable law that the relation of supply to demand is the sole regulator of value, the owner of farms in the United States have a corner on the greatest pro fits of the coming twenty-five ye^rs. 1^- I cause, while the demand for land will have beoh doubled as our population has doubled every twenty-five years since the Government was established, and tbe area of arable land will remain tbe same, or be diminished by poor tillage, the owners of land must more than dou? ble tbe present value thereof if they hang on to them and till them intelligently. Therefore I take rather an optimistic view of the land owners and land tillers of tbe United States. They own all tbe food producing fields of to-day, and the Government is no longer offering millions of acres of equally good land as a dona? tion to all comers from all over the world. The Bupply of land is about absorbed, and tbe demand for it is growing from day to day and year to year, and he who holds land and takes care of it intelli? gently as a farmer will twenty five y ears from now leave an estate twice or three times its present value. Demand will have doubled or treble and tbe supply will have remained stationary." A Boa Wound About Her. A Danbury (Con.) woman is tbe latest daughter of Eve to discover what her primary ancestors learned so many cen? turies ago, that serpents are dangerous things and not to be trusted. She is Mile. De. Granville Knox, the wife of Dr. A. H. Knox, of Danbury, and she has won renown as a snake-charmer. For many years Mrs. Knox has been the proud possessor of a large and valu? able collection of reptiles. She gave ex? hibitions with them. They were to her what a collection of tea-kettles is to a woman whose taste runs iu that direc? tion, or a store of laces to one whose collection mania takes tbat form. Be? sides, Mrs. Knox's snakes were a source of revenue to her, and she valued them even more on that account. She was in North Attleboro, Mass., the other day exhibiting her pets to an admiring throng. She bad probably told the audience about tbe delightful intelli? gence an^ the companionable qualities of the s; .*e; bow the goddess of wisdom used it as an emblem; bow Cleopatra found it the best means of ending her sorrows; how "wise as a serpent!" was the highest commendation a? to sagacity ; bow Medusa was so fond of tbe society of snakes that she wore them in her hair, and how tbe acme of grace was the Loie Fuller serpentine dance. Then Mis. Knox, having exbaused her eloquence, began to lock up her pets. She was tucking away her boa con? strictor in his large box bed when the snake turned upon her and began to coil bis body about hers. Mrs. Knox, star? tled out of her confidence iu snakes, screamed aloud. Tbe boa stuck his teeth into Mrs. Knox's arm, biting a large piece out of it below the elbow, mean? while tightening his coils. The employes of the exhibition rushed to ber assistance. Mrs. Knox had mean? while clutched the boa firmly by the neck with her left baud while it dug its teeth into her arm. This prevented the animal from coiling itself as tightly about her as its clinging disposition probably tempted it to. According, it switched its tail, bitting i Mrs. Knox on tbe head and briog her to her knees. Tbe men who had come to her assistance had a tough struggle with the snake, but finally succeeded in re leaning tbe suffering woman and forcing it back into its box. Then the huge reptile in its rage be? gan an attack on itself. It tied itself up in a big knot and bit two large pieces ont of its own body. Mrs. Knox.was taken to the Warnsutta House, where her wound was dressed by Dr. Foster. Tbe bite of the boa is not poisonous. She had handled this snake for a long time and thin was tbe first time it ever showed signs of unfriendli? ness. She bears on her left band a scar made by a lion's bite twenty years ago in Texas, where she was performing with a circus. But as that triffle didn't dis? courage her, this one will probably have as little effect. She will doubtless go on charming snakes with the same indiffer? ence to their unpleasantly uncertain ways tbat she maintained when she bad only tbe experience of Eve to deter her. And as Connecticut is full of tbem, she'll have euough to keep her busy for some time yet. A Good and Sufficient Benson. In the time wheu political warfare waxed hot and relentless, there was a town in tbe West country iu which the two parties were so equal that tbe vary? ing of a single vote one way or tbe other might be a matter of most serious conse? quences. It was iu America, where ev? ery male has a vote when he attains tbe age of twenty-one. Of course on both sides sharp eyes were open and watchful. A young man came up to the polling place on election day and offered to vote. It was his first appearance in the cbarac of an elector, and he bad tbe indepen? dence or audacity to differ politically from his father. His father challenged his vote. "On what grounds?" demanded tbe presiding officer. "He isn't 21." "I am 21," asserted the youth. "No you are not," said the father; "you won't be 21 till to-morrow." "I say I will," cried the youth. "I was born on the 12th day of November. It's down^on the old Bible." "Then it's a mistake," said tbe old man. "You weren't born till the morn? ing of the 13th day of November, I can vow." "How can you ?" "How ?" repeated the old man indig? nantly. "Goodness gracious, wasn't I there ?" "Well," returned the son, with proud defiance, "wasn't I there, too?" The young man voted.?London Tid Bits. Bncklens Arnica Salve. The best salve in tbe world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Eheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions and positively cures Files, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded Price 2fi cent? per bot, FOT 8*18 by Sweet Potato Meal. Greenville Mountaineer. A few weeks ago we printed an article from tbe Cotton Plant, giving some infor? mation In regard to the preservation of sweet potatoes, as the result of experi? ments made by our friend, Maj. Thomas W. Woodward, of Fairfield County. The statements contained therein have been the cause of much inquiry as to the mode of keeping the potato, and as the plans adopted by Maj. Woodward for cntting and grinding the potato into meal cannot fail to prove valuable to the farmers, we have procured from him a more detailed statement of his experi? ments. As he is known far and wide as one of the most intelligent and practical farmers in the State, the letter of Maj. Woodward ought to secure a careful perusal from eveiy man who is desirous of improving hie condition, and we are sure that the directions given are baaed upon an actual knowledge of tbe facts, which will enable any one to follow the example of our distinguished friend. By the way, if the man ia regarded aa a benefactor who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, surely the man who discovers a plan to keep tbe sweet po .ato indefinitely deserves to be canonized aa the patron saint of the farmer in South Carolina. No crop that ia grown loses so large a per centage after it ia gathered as the sweet potato, because it ia subject to the changes of climate, and often a farmer loses one half ofhia crop in a single night. By converting the potato into meal, the danger of loss \i reduced to the lowest figure, und the crop is thereby greatly enhanced in the value. The letter of Maj. W jod ward ia as follows: Eockton, S. C, May 20,1893. My Dear Hoyt: You desire the details of the manufacture of sweet potato meal. This does not require me to treat of the culture of tbe potato and its advantages to the land, both aa a preventive of washing?each row being a terrace?and as a source of humus, supplying aa it does an immense) amount of vegetable matter. But all farmers will readily un? derstand that these advantages are part and parcel of the scheme. We will, then, begin with the potatoes harvested. If much dirt adheres, wash or pass through a series of revolving brushes, so arranged as to clean the pota? toes ; tben pass them through a machine which crushes and cuts them into pieces, the smaller the better?a New England vegetable cutter will do, although cutting lather large; or if on a small scale, slice by hand about a quarter of an inch thick. The problem now in to dry and grind. Having purcbaaed a roll of wire netting, with meshes not larger than one-fourth of an inch and about two feet wide, cut the roll into pieces four feet long and tack on the bottom of a tray, made from strips three inches wide and three fourths of an inch thick. These form the vessels for drying tbe greon mass upon. With erdinary aunahine two days will suffice to fit it for grinding, but for greater safety and more expedition a kiln must be provided where fire takes the place of sunshine, and where tbe work can be done in a few hours. I have been using a kiln made just as is used for curing tobacco, the potatoes spread upon the wire bottom vessels, about a buahel in each, and stacked so the hot air can permeate to the best advantage. This kiln, although answering the pur? pose, is not as efficient aa many of the more improved plans now in use to sup? ply currents of hot air to buildings, and I iecommend investigation in this direc? tion. The potatoes are now ready to be turned into meal, and can be ground on any corn or wheat mill, provided arrange? ments can be tnade to feed them into tbe stones, which can best be done by crush? ing tbe dry mass into smaller shape. For this purpose I use a Kelly duplex corn and cob mill, set so aa to pass the coarser particles aa large aa cow peas. This should fall upon a vibrating sieve, which separates the coarser portion suita? ble for stock from the finer for family purposes. If extra family is desired, pass the coarser portion through a grist mill, into which it now readily feeds, and you have a substitute for corn starch, for boiled custard, the finest Ingredient for baked custard, and mixed half and half with flour or corn meal, the basis of the finest potato hoecake, johnny cake or biscuits you ever tasted. Horses and mules eat the potato meal ravenously, and cows delight in it, while hogs and poultry rave over it. The agri? cultural chemists tells us that three and a half bushels of green potatoes make one when dried, and that the dried buahel in equal to one of corn. But in my expe? riments it has taken only three to one, but I probably did not dry so thoroughly. Now a few ideas in closing. Five hundred bushels can be made to an acre; two hundred ia an ordinary yield, and certainly the standard can be raised to three hundred. Three hundred bushels, if I am correct, will make one hundred when dried, equal to one hundred of corn. It is tben practicable to cease raising corn at about seven bushels to the acre, and make one hundred?feeding a horre on tbe product of nue acre. Not only this, but weight anu bulk and ability to rot being removed, the potato crop becomes merchantable, and can be sent all over the world, and may be made to compete with wheat, corn, oil-cake, and the other products now sought after by stock men everywhere. In conclusion, let ou aay to my brother farmers, that I conscientiously believe there is more in the culture of potatoes than we will ever get by promulgating the political heresies of the day, or by blindly following dastardly dung hill demagogues who would use us perma? nently as stepping t tones to office. Let me, then, ask you to d.ibble less In poli? tics as now practiced, and give more attention to home matters, before the ancient gentilites of our people are forever obliterated, and ourselves trans? formed permanently into cut-throats and blackguards. Sincerely yours, T. W. Woodward. ? Georgia " first in tbe production of watermelou , second in that of rice, and third in that of rotton, iml All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The first American fire insurance company began business at Philadelphia in 1794. ? People never think of whistling in Iceland. It's a violation of the divine law. ? From the spinning-wheel to tbe bicycle is a long stride for woman's inde? pendence. ? Accomac County, Virginia, ships nearly 1,000,000 barrels of sweet potatoes annually. ? The Dakota river is tbe longest un navigable river in tbe world?over 1000 miles. ? h is estimated that 1,700,000 square miles of the earth's surface are still unin? habited or ownerless. ? It is estimated that one out of every one hundred and eighty inhabitants of tbe United States owns or rides a bicy? cle. ? 'There is wan thing Oi am thank? ful for," said Mr. Grogan; "Oi won't ha?e to wor r r-k for a livin' fwin Oi'm dead." ? There was an insurance of between I80.CO0 and $100,000 on tbe life of Mr. Bobort H. Wbitlock, who died in Bich- . moad, Va., recently. ? There is in Greenville, N. C, a colored woman forty-two years old who is_ tbe mother of eighteen children, twelve of whom are living. ? "Do you think a porous plaster can cure him of stuttering ?" Doctor?"Yes; when he comes to take it off he will swear right along without stopping." ? Alabama boasts a woman who was struck by lightning seven years ago, has a never spoken since, and whose eyes grow luridly brilliant at tbe approach of a thunderstorm. ? There is a scheme to celebrate the opening of the twentieth century of the Christian era by a great international world's fair, or somethiag of that sort; at Jerusalem in 1900. ? "Now, supposing I borrowod $5,3 from you ; that would represent capital, wouldn't it?" "Yes." "But, Myporfng^ after awhile, you wanted to get It back-" "Tbat would represent labor." ? "I wish I were an ostrich," said Hicks, angrily, as he tried to eat one of his wife's biscuits, and couldn't "I wish you were," returned Mrs. Hicks. "FdC get a few feathers for my hat." ? The human race includes two-kinds^ of people?those who know too much and those who don't know enough,. From the first class, tbe knaves are most recruited, and from the second class tbe fools. ? Mamma?I wonder what we shall call the baby ? Johnny?I don't think . we'd better call him any of the names papa called him last night, when be was crying. He might not like it when he growed up. ? The Village Pastor: "Johnny, yotfc tell me you have been to Sundavlffinttfi The Bad Boy : "Yes, sir." Th'^WIH Pastor: "Bat,Johnny,yourhairV^r^ The Bad Boy : "Yes, sir; its a Bjrjtfst I Sunday school." J ? "Won't you give me just one little kiss, my darling?" he pleaded, in a low and tender tone. "I can only say," she answered in her brisk aud breezy-swetesosi style, "that I am a true Chicago girl, and the motto oi Chicago is, 'I will.'" ? An occasion bottle of Ayer's Sarsa? parilla does more to correct tbe. tendency of the blood to accumulate humors, and keep the organs sound and healthy, than any other treatment we know of.. "Pr?? vention is better than cure." Try it this month. ? A little hoy asked his mother what; blood relations meant. She explained tbat it meant near relatives, &c. After . thinking a moment, be said; "Then, mother, you must be the bloodiest rela? tion I've got." ?jjjfl ? Miss Yellowleaf (i3ntimentally).-S "Ah, Mr. Sampson, it makes me proud tM think tbat my father died fighting for h iaSj country." Mr. Sampson (with interesJjH ?"So it should, Miss Yellowleaf. Wfl your father kHIed in the Mexican waH or the war of 1812 V'?Puck. H ?Eczema causes an itching so persisB tent as to produce, not only sleeplessnessH but, at times, even delirium. Locafl applications will not remove the caus<?| which is impure blood. Ayer's Sarsafl pari IIa cures this disease by cleansing the* blood and eradicating all humors. ? Mrs. Henpeck: Seems to me you buy a great many trousers, Alfred. I notice yon have on another new pair to? day. Mr. Henpeck: Well, my dear, when a man and his wife and his mother* in law all insist on wearing the sam( garment it can't last very long. j ? Mollie was weeping quietly, an<^ her mother asked her why she wepta "I'm so sorry for poor g wan pa," she saidS "Why, grandpa is very well, dear. There* is nothing wrong with him," "But,'V sobbed Mollie, "isn't he an orphan,! mamma?" m ? President Waterbnry of tbe defunct! cordage combine ate his breakfast a few" mornings ago the possessor of a fortune estimated at $3,000,000. At night his millions were swept away and he was penniless. It was the most sudden reverse ef fortune, perhaps, ever recorded in this country. ? Several lots in Cornbill, London, in the immediate neighborhood of the Bank of England, were sold recently at a price tbat averaged ?50 per foot, or something over $10,000,000 an acre. Several neigh-v boring lots of equal size were offered for sale pome weeks ago and were bought in by the owner at a price considerably higher. ? There is no city in the United States which might be called the city of churches with more appropriateness than Washington. They are not particularly large or imposing, these Washington cbu rches, but there are an immense num? ber of them. As a matter of fact, tbe capital contains nearly 200 churches most of these belonging to the Methodist denomination, which claims 52. The Baptists come next with 45, tUn tbe Episcopalians with 26 and the Presby? terians with 21. The Roman Catholics have 13, the Lutherans 10, the Congre gatioualists 4, the Hebrews and the Christians 2 each, and the Unitarians, tbe Universalistii and the Swedenborgians 1 each. Beeiden these there are ha'f a dozen uoosectarian bodies.