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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEESON, S.O., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1893. VOLUME XXVLL?NO. 50 To Cleanse ' Of. Scrofula, anft other poisons, Ayer's Sar .i-apariila is the best, the superior medi? cine. It does what no other blood -purifier la existence can do. It searches out all im lmrities in the system and expels them ' harmlessly through the proper channels. It h the great health-restorer and health-main tainer. Be sure you get ood Scrofula, catarrh, boils, pimples, carbuncles, running sores, eczema. Ayer's Sarsaparilla j-TBpmwi by Dr. j.c.Ayer&co., Lowcii. mm;." Cu res others,wiII cureyou Berry Grain Cradles! THE ORIGINAL, THE ONLY GENUINE JOSH BEERY GEAIN CRADLES. There are many imitations bnt no equal. BUY THE JOSH BERRY, And yon are sure to get the best. The Josh Berry is the Only perfect JPonrteen-Finger Grain Cradle made. HEEL SWEEPS, HEEEL SWEEPS ! The "Victor" and the "Terrell." SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO., 15LBEBT0H'> GA. ANDEKSJON, S. C. PEOPLES' BLOCK! FRUIT JARS.? 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The Governor's Nophew Gives a Graphic Account of the Governor's Greatest Act of Statesmanship. J. S. Tillman in the New York Sun. Columbia, S. C, June 3.?One mil? lion five hundred thousand gallons 1 That is the eatierated quantity of liquor heretofore consumed by South Carolin? ians in three hundred and sixty five daye and nights. The present Legislature of this State, although of a decided rustic caste, knows a good thing by sight as well as by taste. South Carolina in days past has pro? mulgated many unique things, hatched vague theories and gone mad after dismal phantoms, bat it remained for an Alli? ance Legislature of to-day to place upon the statute books what is known as the dispensary law, which, aside from the miserable and mandatory feature of con? fiscating more than $3,000,000?the entire belongings of the retail whiskey sellers?and annihilating a hitherto legit* imate private business, if a success, will prove a bonanza to a once proud but now pauperized State. Necessity is the mother of all great measures, and there is a bit of romance connected with the enactment of the dispensary system by the Palmetto State. It was purely an accident, for which a. woman is responsible. Last summer a prohibition Wave swept, over this State, and in the Democratic primary polled a majority of about 30,000. The line, however, was not sharply drawn, as the main issue of the campaign was "Tillman and Anti-Tillman." The State Democratic committee, which in controlled by the Tillman faction, fearing a clash with the Prohibitionists, passed r, resolution permitting the white ribbon element to have a box at all the election precincts in which ballots were to hi cast, so that the popular sentiment on th? prohibition question might be ascertain ? ed. The whiskey men made no organize-1 fight?in fact, no fight at all further than te poll an indifferent vote?while tb3 prohibition men and women,, preachers and lecturers, made an active canvass, even visiting school houses and discuss? ing it from the pulpit. The result of the election was, as has already been stated, an overwhelming victory for the Prohi? bitionists. Emboldened by their partir.1 success in obtaining a majority of the voting population of the State, the prohi? bition leaders introduced at the last sit? ting of the General Assembly a prohibi? tion bill. It was during the debate on this proposed measure, which lasted for several days and nights, and was at timus stormy and personal, that the woman, ever ubiquitous woman, appeared on the scene. The galleries were crowded with friends and foes of the bill under consid? eration. Governor Tillman, who is avowedly opposed to prohibition, but did not wish to assume the responsibilisy of defeating the bill by his veto, had sent a message to both bodies telling them tb it h<s would sign any measure which tbuy in their wise judgment might pass. The Prohibitionists loudly cheered this new development, and it looked for a time as [!f South Carolina was doomed to prohibi? tion?in name at least. During this excitement Governor Tillman was seated in the gallery of the house in company with a number of ladies, and among the number was a bright Georgia womiin from the classic city of Athens. While evervthiog was in confusion in the hnll below and accusations and rejoinders were being burled across the aiBle, she turned to Governor Tillman and told him of the law then in force in Athens, known as the dispensary system. That settled it, Governor Tillman immediately left the gallery, and going to the execu? tive office dispatched his messenger lor his leaders in the House and Sena te. Within five hours the caucus bad assem? bled, and the present law was framed and introduced in the Senate as a substi? tute for the Prohibition bill. It pasted both Houses and was approved by the Governor within a remarkably short space of time. Th us the General Assembly rose to the occasion and met a condition with a theory?instead of a prohibition they enacted a law which is claimed by its opponents to be socialistic and in direct contradiction to the Alliance war cry, "Equal rights to all." The building to be used for the St*te dispensary is the old Agricultural H til, which is the property of the State. I; is three stories high, more than ' 200 feet long, and about eighty feet wide. A I macadam wine cellar runs the whole length. A twenty- horse power engine will run the corking, bottling and washing ma? chines, and pretty women, instead of men, will see that the work is neatly done. The stock with which South Carolina will open up her great bar room will consist of 570 000 corks, 60,000 gal? lons of whiskey, half a million bottles, several thousand gallons of wine, hun? dred!! of kegs and jugs, and thousandu of crates to be used for shipping. Mr. D. H. Traxler, the commissioner, is a thorough business man, and up to the time of his appointment was a successful merchant. He is a member of the Bap? tist Church, and his wife is a prominent official in the Woman's Christian Tem? perance Union of this State. No one doubts that Mr. Traxler's administration of the office will be honest and economi? cal. If there is a man in South Carolina who is capable of making a success of the law it is the present commissioner Although the Legislature only appro? priated $50,000, a Bum hardly sufficient to buy the necessary bottles, much less the contents, the commissioner has found no trouble iu purchasing a full stoc c of whiukey on credit. In fact whiskey manufacturers all over the country are anxious to sell the State as much liquor and on such terms as may suit the board of control. It in claimed that the S'ate will clear not less tbau ha'.f a million dollar* the first year. The counties should clear a like turn, less expenses, which would reduce their profits to about four hundred thounand dollars. Thus the total profits from the whiskey traffic for twelve months will amount to nearly one million dollars. This sum is sufficient to run the e it.'re State Government; or, if divided between the State and counties, would reduce the percentage of taxation, fer both just one half ; or if turned into a school fund, would be a sufficient amount, if added to the present appropriation for that purpose, to run all of the public schools of the State the year round. Its friends also say that a better grade of whiskey will be furnished the public and the per? centage of drunkenness largely decreas? ed. But it is claimed by far seeing men that the ultimate aim of the bill zb to enlist the co-operation of other States in forcing the Federal Government to abolish the internal revenue tax and in its Btead levy an income tax to make up the deficiency. And after this has been done the States severally will levy a high license tax on the retail sale of whiskey, beer, and tobacco, and thus derive the benefits and emoluments now being en? joyed by the Federal Government. If this scheme could be worked in addition to the dispensary system, some of the States, so far from having to levy a direct tax for Government purposes, would soon be refunding taxes long ago collected. Any measure that promises a reduction of taxation is bound to be popular. Any law that demonstrates, however delusive the demonstration, ila ability to educate those unable te educate themselves, will touch a chord in the {public's heart. The farmers of this Stale are growing poorer and poorer each day. It is no unusual sight to see men who were once wealthy and numbered their slaves by hundreds doing menial labor for a livelihood. They are grown desperate. Mutteringa of angry dissent and wails of defiance are echoed from every rural cottage. Fac tions are arrayed against factions, whites against whites It can only be a question of time, and a very short time at best, before the negro element will be appealed to as a balance of power. Everything is unnatural and unsettled/ Parties in power do things to-day and undo them to-morrow. Demagogues are groping along craters where angels would shudder to tread. There is a conservative element, not conservative iu the political 3ense with which the expression has been nsed in this State, that look upon the dispensary bill as a wild, impracticable scheme, Utopian in character and utterly impossi? ble of enforcement; a law, in short, that if it fails will bankrupt the State. They resent it as a shackling of their personal liberties, and under the protective tegis of the Federal Constitution they propose to disregard that section of the law which forbids the purchase of whiskey in another State and bringing it into this. Such traffic is Inter-State commerce, and they claim the protection of Inter State commerce laws. If this idea is carried out it means thousands of dollars for Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta, Asheville, Charlotte and Wilmington. i The cheapest corn and rye whiskey c' the dispensaries wild be sold at the rate of three dollars per gallon, while the same articles can be purchased in the towns of the adjoining States for one-half that amount. The temptation is too great for even law-abiding citizens to resist. But Governor Tillman is a man of vigorous policy, and does not mince mat* ters when it comes to discharging what he deems to be his duty. He has just ordered badges for npecial constables and detectives, and will have a large corps of them to make arrests, seize whiskeys and see that the law is rigorously enforced. But the conservative element art indig? nantly opposed to such methods, and claim that the law will turn loose thous? ands of State spies and informers to harry and prey opon the people as a reinforcement to the army of Federal officials employed in iforcing national internal revenue laws. They avow that this double dose of espionage and vexa? tions regulations will not be tolerated. The Act has been declared valid by the State Supremo Court, bnt it is not thought by able lawyers that the Federal Courts will brook for a moment any interference with the rights of citizens or trespass opon the Inter-State laws as provided in this bill. They also declare that it has gaps and loopholes through which a coach and-four can easily be driven. Prospective litigation promises to yield a rich harvest of fees for the lawyers, who are smiling with joy at the reckless career of the Beform Adminis tration. Retailers are disposing of their stoekB at heavy reductions and preparing for the worst. Bar rooms wear a gloomy aspect and their once gaudy windows are now empty save a few fly specked chro mos. There is a popular belief that the South Carolina dispensary system is the same as that in Scandinavia, but there are vital differences, and success in Nor? way and Sweden does not necessarily mean success in South Carolina. The Scandinavian Government merely leases to associations or companies a total or partial monopoly of the supply of drinks in particular districts, and all the money they make over 5 per cent on their capi? tal, which is regarded as legitimate interest, is placed in the Government treasury, and is devoted to purely public and philanthropic objects. Roads are built aud substantial aid is given to edu? cation, museums, libraries, hospitals, homes for the poor, orphan asylums and the fund even contributes to the support of the total abstinence movement. It must be remembered also that liquors in these two sister countries are sold in retail quantities at the usual retail profits, while South Carolina pro? poses to sell her stimulants in sealed packages, and necessarily cannot clear near so much money as she could have done under the real Gothenberg system. Smuggling is another contingency that cannot be disregarded. Norway and Sweden constitute a peninsula which is cut off from the rest of the world, making this practice well nigh impossible; whereas South' Carolina affords as good facilities for contraband trade as even the most timorous smuggler could wish. Scandinavia haB a monarchial Govern men t with monarchial rights, wlr^^^uith Carolina has a Republican Government and her inhabitants are a liberty loving people. Mud interest is everywhere manifested | iu this, the latest adventure of the Pal metto State, and its success or failure is watched for with eagerness. The cam? paign next summer gives promise of bitterness and billingsgate. A successor to Senator Butler is to be elected, and tbe race will most likely be between the present incumbent and Governor Till man. Both of these men are eloquent; and exhibit wonderful powers on tbe stump. The main issue of the campaign will be made on the dispensary law. Few People Wholly Sound. The autopsy performed the other day on tbe body of a murderer disclosed tbe fact that he was a very much diseased man. Judging from the statement of the physicians it seems as though nearly every >ital organ from the brain to the spleen had something the matter with it. Reports of post mortem examinations ways seem to disclose a remarkable number of such abnormalities, even in tbe apparently healthy person who has been suddenly killed by an accident. "The fact is, that hardly any human be? ing, even in the flush of youth and health, is wholly sound," said Dr. D. S. Lamb, of the Army Medical maBeum. "Even the sturdiest children are not so. The reason of It is that all human beings are constantly liable to injuries which are apt to be permanent. Onr lungs are affected by tbe dost we breathe. The exposures to colds which we must en? counter now and then leave their traces. Of all tbe people whose bodies I have dissected after death not less than one* half have exhibited indications of an at? tack of plenrisy at some time in tbe past. Donbtless most of them never knew that they had suffered from the complaint. Beginning life as a squalling infant, one goes threngh the world meeting injury after injury through exposure, accident and disease. These injuries leave their traces on various organs of tbe body. When an autopsy is performed they are apparent to the eye of the physician. However, even the vital organs may work very well, notwithstanding the ex isteuce of acquired abnormalities. Though you yourself have every appear? ance of being sound and healthy, you are not completely so in reality. Do you not wear eye-glasses because tbe shape of your eyes is not normal ? And are there not gold fillings in your teeth where they have decayed ? "As I have said, none of us is wholly sound. An autopsy would not give either you or me a clean bill of health. As we advance in life the complete in? tegrity of our physical structure is mere and more impaired. By the time we reach old age it has got to be shaky. What, then, keeps us from dying ? It is a power of resistance inherent in the in? dividual. Nobody knows where that power lies, but exists. People of tem? perate and careful habits live longer than hers, because they avoid injuries and exposures. We often find abnormalities 'n the skeltoas of human beings. Occa? sionally a man or woman will have twenty-six ribs?thirteen on a side?in? stead of the nsnal twenty-four. This is regarded as a reversion to a primitive type of structure, inasmuch as many monkeys have thirteen ribs on each side. The anthropoid apes have only tweoty fonr ribs. Of all mammals tbe bat has the least nnmber of ribs. Man at his fullest development has the smallest number of bones among all mammals, and rodents possess the greatest number. All mammals have seven bones in the neck, with two exceptions. The sloth has nine and the sea cow eight. No matter how long tbe neck is it always has Beven vertebrae. The giraffe has only as many bones in its neck as a man has, the difference is that they are longer."? Watkington Star, Ten Years Between Drinks. Mr. Samoel Blackwell, of Alabama, the newly appointed Third Auditor of the Treasury, is an instance of what a genuine man can do in the way of curb ing his appetite or shaking off a danger? ous habit when he makes up his mind for a long but winning fight. He're? turned to Selma at the close of tbe war a young and very attractive fellow of a strongly social disposition, and promptly fell in love with one of the bells of a town that is noted in tbe Southland for its beautiful women. The affection was mutual, but Blackwell, like so many other youngsters in the ranks, bad ac? quired a thirst which he proceeded to slake whenever the humor seized him. The lady of his heart finally told him that she would marry him, but upon one condition only. "What is that?" he asked. "That you shall not swallow a drop of intoxicating liquor for ten years." "That is a long time between drinks," said he. "I kuow it is," she said, but-" "Will you wait that long?" he inquir? ed. She replied that she would. He re sponded, "All right," and went out. Tbey were faithful during the decade of his probation. At the end of the time they were married. Mr. Blackwell has rigorously refrained ever since tbe day when he set his bat squarely on his head and walked out of his sweet heart's par lor._ Bocklens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, 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 BroB. ? "Where did you get that cake, Anuie?" "Mother gave it to me." "She always gives you more'n she does me." "Never mind, Harry; she's going to put mustard plasters on us to-night, and I'll ask her to let you have the biggest." ? Two negroes in cutting a great tree in a swamp near Snow Hill, Md , the other day, came upon an old cannon ball completely embedded in tbe trunk. The *me measured 3 feet in diameter and much of its growth had taken place since the ball found lodgment in tbe trunk. There has been no artillery fir'mg in that region since the Revolutionary War. THOU SHALT NOT KILL. NOTES OF A SERMON BY R. W. LIDE The frequency of murders shows an alarming state of society. Almost every issue of the secular newspaper has some harrowing account of murder committed. Men seem to be losing their respect for human life, and are forgetful that life is sacred.' God's instruction to Israel when they were leaving off living in tents, and be? gan to build houses for themselves was (Dent. 22: 8.) "When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a bat tlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence." The houses of the East were built with flat roofs, and the housetop daring the warm season was the pleasant spot, and if one wished retirement for meditation and prayer (see Acts 10: 9, ff) he went upon the housetop. Now God shows how much He regards human life by saying, "Build a railing around (o keep the unguarded from falling off." Some man might say, "There is no use in all this; if a man hasn't his wits about him sufficiently to keep from falling off be de* servea to die." But nol accidents may happen to the most careful, and we must guard against tbem. On the Canada side of the Niagara river there is an iron railing along the river bank. The bed of the river is more than a hundred feet below a sharp and perpendicular precipice, a^d the iron railing is to keep the people who visit there from falling over into the surging torrent below. Human life needs to be hedged in by the Law of God; and the railing of a healthy public sentiment needs to be built around life to protect it against the surging passionB of death to which we are exposed. Men commit murder, and we are fa? miliar with the various excuses that they offer; drunkenness, insanity, self defence, or they commit murder and buy their ac? quittal with money. The public con? science is blunted. We need to reset our faith on this important subject of the sa credness of human life. Let us notice then? I. The teaching of Ood's word on this subject. Here among the commandments setting forth our duties to our fp'low men, we have the explicit injunction, "Thou shall not kill." Some one has said, "this law is old but not antiquated." It is old because important. In Genesis 9:6, we read, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man." David's murder of Uriah brought upon him the displeasure of God. And afterwards when he wanted to build a house for the worship of Goi, very commendable in it? self, he was denied the privilege. God said, "Thou shalt not build an house unto my name because thou hast shed much blood." Jezebel's murder of Naboth for his vineyard was visited upon her in the death of Ahab, her husband, the king, and in her own ignoble death, In Exodus 21: 29 31, we are told that if an animal known to be vicious took the life of a man, the animal was killed, and the owner also if be took no steps to prevent the killing. In the sermon on the mount the Lord says (Matt. 5: 21,22,) "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, thou shalt not kill; and who* coever shall kill shall ba in danger of the judgment; but I say unto you that who? soever is angry with his brother without cause shall be iu danger of the judg? ment." When Jesus uses the term "brother," He does not mean brother according to the flesh, but brother man.^ JesuB taught the fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man. In verse 25 He says, "Agree with thine adversary quickly; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison." In cases of personal difficulty how proud and un bending is each side 1 We are exhorted to settle our troubles outside of the courts if possible, for when we are once in the hands of the law we must pay the "utter? most farthing." In 1st Corinthians 6:7, the Apostle says; "Why do ye not rather take wrong ? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to bo defrauded?" Better take wrong than commit the least wrong. There are wrong and foolish ideas among men with reference to courage and bravery. The irrational lion has more bravery than any man, but courage ia a moral quality, and it requires true mor? al courage to do right when you know you will be misunderstood and even call? ed a coward. Here are two men prepar? ed to fight a duel. They face each other, each with a deadly weapon trying to take the life of the other. Men call that cou? rage. But the truth is it requires more courage to refuse to fight than it does to fight. It is easy enough to fight, but it is hard, requires courage to say, "I will do right, I will not fight," although it is known that thus to speak will cause a man to be branded as a coward. Now there are two influences that instill this wrong idea. First, 1 blame parents all over the laud for teaching the idea that to resent injuries, whether real or su^- I posed, ib courage. And then the trashy literature, the dime novel that the boy reads, teaches the same thing. In John 8: 44, Jesus said to those who boasted that Abraham was their father, "Ye are of your father the devil; he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth." In 1st John 3 :15 we read, "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer bath eternal life abiding in him." In Acts 28: 3, 4 we read that the barbari? ans at Melita thought Paul a murderer, because when he gathered the sticks the viper fastened on his hand, and they said, "He hath escaped the sea, but ven? geance suffereth him not to live." Even the heathen had the idea that a murderer could not escape. In Galatians?: 19 21 we read, "The works of the flesh are these: wrath, strife, seditions, envyings, murders, drunken? ness, and such like; of the which I tell you that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.' In Rev. 21.- 8 we read, "Murderers shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire mid brimst?ne." And in 22:14, 15, "Blessed are tbay tb?i do bis commandments, that they may have right to tbe tree of life and may enter in j through tbe gates into tbe city; for with I out are dogs, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." In cases where men were slain without "malice aforethought" there were cities of refuge provided for then- either they might flee and escape ' .venger. So tbe courts of our land areEbe appointed means of deciding a man's guilt or inno? cence, and in all cases he ought to have tbe privilege of fleeing thither for refcge from the hot anger of man. _ II. Some of the causes of frequent mur? ders. Tne depravity and selfishness of the human heart are sufficiently great to make men at times unjust and even cruel, bat I wish to mention two things especially. 1. First, intemperate habits lead to crime. A man takes into his body that which steals his reason, shatters his nerves, arouses his passions, fires him with mad fury, and while under the in? fluence of strong drink he commits mur? der. The man, instead of being excusa : ble, is doubly guilty before God. 2. But I wish to mention especially what to my mind is the most prolific cause ?f murder, and that is the barbarous and cowardly practice of carrying concealed weapons. The ready pistol is a cuite I Why do men carry pistols? for "self defepce," they say, but not so; they wish to have every ad van tage of a possible an? tagonist, and they are prepared to take life if they are interfered with. Every man who carries a pistol is a moral and physical coward/ It has sometimes happened, yes often happen? ed, that a man has had a difficulty with another and afterwards said, "I am glad Z didn't have a pistol tbe other day, for I m. ,'ht have killed that man." So our law makers have recognized tbe fact that no man can trust himself with a deadly weapon while in the heat of passion, and have made a law against carrying con? cealed weapons. This law should be rigidly enforced. Tbe Bible plan of set? tling our difficulties is by arbitration, without recourse to tbe courts. We should cultivate respect for other rights, and respect for human life, and when this shall be the universal sentiment crime will cease. Manifestations of Fear. It is said that Emperor Charles the Fifth, reading an epitaph: "Here lies one who never knew fear," remarked, "Then he never snuffed a candle with bis fingers." It is certainly a somewhat absurd, though a favorite claim for a popular hero, that he "never knew fear." No one possessing human nerves and brains could Bay this with truth. That a brave man never yields to the emotion may be true enough ; but to say that at no period of his life he experienced fear is simply impossible. As Lord Lytton expresses it: "It shames man not to feel man's mortal fear, It shames man only if that fear subdue." There is a story of a young recruit in the "Thirty Years' War" going into ac? tion for the first time in his life in the highest BpMt: "Look at Johann," re marked one of his comrades as the troops were drawn up ready to charge, "he ia full of jokes; how brave he is." "Not at all," replied tbe veteran addressed; "be knows nothing of what is coming. You and I, old comrades, are far braver; we sit still on our horses, though we are ter? ribly afraid." Fear is certainly one of the most irra? tional of the passions. It is not always excited by tbe presence of danger. Men who can be cool and collected in cases of real peril will tremble at some fanciful alarm. Tbe Duke of Schomber could face an enemy with ready courage, bat fled from a room if he saw a cat in it. A very brave French officer fainted at the sight of a mouse. The author of tbe "Turkish Spy" states that he would rather encounter a lion in a desert than be alone in a room with a spider. Many people have similar fanciful antipathies, which excite their fears in a manner real danger would be powerless to do. Fear of infection is a dread that embitters the lives of many sensible people. There is a legend of an Eastern dervish, who, kuowing that a plague was about to visit a certain city, bargained with the disease that only a specified number of victims should fall. When twice the number perished, the plague explained its appa? rent breach of contract by asserting "Fear killed the rest." In all times of epidemics doctors can tell similar tales. During the Great Plague of 1865-6, an unfortunate man died purely from fright; a practical joker who met him in the street preteuted to discover the fatal "spots" upon him and tbe poor man went home and died, not of the disease, but of sheer terror. A long obituary list might be compiled of tbe victims of fear; from tbe criminal in the Middle Ages, who, reprieved after he bad laid his head on tbe block, was found to have died ere the axe could touch him ; down to the poor nun mentioned by Horace Walpole, whose disreputable abbess literally "frightened her to death" by visiting her at night and telling her that she was dy? ing.?London Daily News. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deaf? ness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect j hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inilammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars; free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists. ? The greatest song writer was Schu? bert, He produced over 1,200 songs. The Troubles of Being a Woman. Upon the whole it is a dreadful thing to be a woman, and do the business up in good shape. In the first place, you've got to look well, or else you're nobody. A man may be homely and still be popular. Whis? kers cover up the most of his face, and if he has got a large month, nobody mis? trusts it; and, if he wrinkles bad on his forehead, his friends speak: of his many cares, and of his thoughtful disposition, and tell each other that his wrinkles are lines of thought. Lines of thought, in? deed I when, in all probability, his fore? head is wrinkled by the habit he has got of scowling at his w.re when the coffee isn't strong enough. A woman must always be iu good order throughout. Her hair must be frizzed and banged as the fashion demands and she must powder if she has shining skin; and she must manage to look sweet, no matter how sour she may feel, and she must hang just so, and her laces must be always epotless, and her boot buttons al? ways in place, and her finger nails clean, she muRu't whistle nor climb fences nor stone cats, nor swear, when she is mad. She can't go out alone because ladies must be protected. She can't go any? where when it rains, because her hair won't stay crimped, and she'll get mud on her petticoats, and things. She can't be a Freemason, because she would tell their secrets, and everybody would know all about that goat and that gridiron She can't smoke becann it wouldn't be feminine. She can't go courting because it is unwomanly. But she moat get mar? ried before she is twenty-five or every? body will feel wronged. People will sigh over her, and wonder why it is that men "don't seem to take," and all the old maids and widows will smile significantly ?and keep quiet. Ob, these'smiles and these significant look*! They are ten times worse than open slander. It is a terrible thing to be an old maid ?terrible 1 Everybody hnows it is, and the women who are married to drunken husbands, and who manage to qusrrel with them six days out of the seven, will groan in agony of spirit over the sin? gle woman, and call her the poor old maid I A woman must marry rich, or she doesn't marry "well." To marry well is the end of a woman's existence, judging from a view which people in general take of the matter. It is everybody's business who a woman marries. The whole neighborhood pnt their heads together and talk over the pros and coos, and decide whether she is good enough for him. And they criticise the shape of her nose, and the way she does up her hair, and relate anecdotes of how lazy her grandfather was, and how her Aunt Sally used to sell beans and but? ter milk. A woman must wear No. 2 boots on No. 3 feet, and she must manage to dress well on seventy-five cents a week; and she must be kind to the poor, and be ready to dress dolls, and make aprons and ties for church fairs. She must be a good cook, and she must be able to "do up" her husband's shirts so that the heathen Chinese wash? erman would groan with envy and gnash his teeth with the same unholy passion, at sight of them. She mnst always have the masculine buttons in the family sewed on so that they never will come off while in use, and she must keep the family hosiery so that nobody would mistrust that there were toes inside of the stockings when they are on. She must hold herself in continual readiness to find everything her husband has lost?and a man never knows where anything is. He will pnt his boots care? fully away on the parlor sofa, and when he has hunted after them half an hour he will appear to his wife with a countenance like that of the aveng? ing angel, and demand to know "What in the thunder has she done with my boots?" She must shut all the doors after her lord and master, and likewise the bureau drawers, for a married man never was known to shut a drawer. It would be as unnatural as for a hen to go swimming for recreation. She must go to bed first in cold weath? er, so as to get the bed warmed. Her hus? band, if he be a wise man, asks her to do this, but be sits up to finish a pierce in the paper," and waits while his wife gets the sheets to a comfortable tempera? ture. Ah, there are a good many tricks in the trade of what is called "living togeth? er." A woman is expected to take care of the b?.by, even after the first infantile wonder multiplies into a round dozen. And if he doubles up with cplic, or the trials of cutting teeth, necessary evils of the mumps, and measles, and whooping cough, and scarlet fever, and rash, and throat distemper, and short sleeves, and bare legs, and pins sticking into him, and too much candy and a bad temper, why her husband tells her that "he does wish she'd try and quiet the baby." And he says it just as if be fully believed that she alone was responsible for its be? ing in existence; and as if he thought she was considerably to blame for it, too. And when she has a headache, nobody thinks.of minding it! A woman is al? ways having headache! And if she is "nervous enough to fly," nobody shuts the doors any easier on account of it, or tucks her upon the lounge with a shawl over her, or coddles her to death, like a man has to be coddled in such circum stancess. We might go on indefinitely with the troubles a woman brings; and if there is a man who thinks a woman has an easy time of it why just let him pin on a pound of false hair, and get inside a new pair of corsets, and put on a pullback overshirt, and be a woman himself and see how he likes it. ? Mrs. Harriet A. Marble, of Pough keepsie, N. Y., was for years a martyr to headache, and never found anything to give her more than temporary relief until she began to take Ayer's Pills, since which she has been in the enjoyment of perfect health. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Even though we do not see God God is very near to us all and always. ? Be the kind of man that yon would like to have your boys become. ? A quarter of each generation is said to die before reaching the age of seven* teen. ? Tbe fellow who is always boasting how he itches for s fight seldom comes to the pcratch. ? It is one thing to tell a man he can't sing, and another to make him believe it. ? Indianapolis claims to have the biggest man on enrtb, his weight being 907 pounds. .. ? Freeman Biggins, who lives near Charleston, HI., has killed during his lifetime 21,000 eqnirrels. ? The United States is the first nation in the world's history to have three cities of over 1,000,000 each. ? A dollar loaned for 100 years and compounded at 24 per cent will amount in that time to $2,551,799,404. ? The town of Newton, Kan., boasts of a man who says his wife is a better coek than his mother ever was. ? "Ten dollars fo' stealing' dat chick? en ?" cried Rastus. "Why jege, homV now, I could/a' bought dat hen fo' fifty cents." ? The fourth verse of tbe twentieth chapter of Revelations contains more words than any other verse in the New Testament. ? She: Are you certain you'll love me when I'm old ? He: Yes, I'm posi? tive. False bair and teeth may even be an improvement, yon know. ? Do not be concerned about the question "Shall we know each other in heaven ?" when you pass your next door neighbor without speaking to him. . ? "Have yon received any pie yet?" said one officeseeker to another." ''No, but I've received provisions of another" sort." "What sert?" "Cold shoulder." ?John Habe, of Elkhart, Ind., has an eight dollar bill, which he claims to be the oldest specimen of United States money extant. It was issued in 1778. ?- Johnfttowo, Pa., which was practi? cally swept away by the floods three or four yearn ago, is now more prosperous than ever, and has a population of 36, 000. ? Our fellow creatures can only judge of what we are from what we do; but in - tbe eyes of onr Maker what we do is ef no worth except as it flows from what we I are. ? There is an old Mexican law which prohibits a ninth marriage. A much . married American, in ignorance of the I law, violated it and is now in jail in Gollma. ? "Prisoner, can you show that yon have done anything for a living these last six months?" "No, your honor." "Where have yon been during that time ?" "I was a member of a State Leg? islature." 7^4; ? Customer?"Didn't yon tell me this horse was afraid of nothing ?" Dealer . -"That's just what I .said." "Why, be shies at his own shadow." "Well, a shadow is about as near nothing as any? thing I know of." ? ? Hicks?"The Rhode Island courts have decided that the father has the legal right to name the baby. What do yon think of that?" Mrs. Hicks--"! think Bhode Island is about tbe smallest . State in the Union." ? At the first indication of disorder, the deranged or enfeebled condition of the stomach, liver, or bowels, should be promptly rectified by Ayer's Cathartic Pills. These Pills do not gripe, are per? fectly safe to take, and remove all ten? dency to liver and bowel complaints. ? "Wonderful climate in Arizony," . said the returned wanderer. "I knowed a feller to have twenty seven bullets shot j into him an' still git as well as ever." "He must have suffered a great, deal." "He did, pardner, he did. The pore ^ feller was sc full o' holes that he couldn't - hold whiskey." ? An old gentleman finding a couple of his nieces fencing with a broomstick, ? said: "Come, come, my dears, that kind of an accomplishment will hot help yon In getting husbands." "I know it, uncle," responded one of the girls, as she gave a lunge, "but it will help to keep our husbands in order when we have got 'em." ? The question was once raised^sTT? which was the more content of tbe two, the owner of half a million of money or the man with seven daughters. "The latter, of course," was the reply: "for the man with half a million is always wanting more, while the one with seven daughters has plenty." ? A postage stamp, equal in valne to * two-pence half penny, is pasted each week in a little blank book which every servant girl in Germany carries. Tbe stamp is tbe donation of her mistress, enforced by law. Should the girl get sick the stamps are redeemable by the Government, or she may keep them on* redeemed until Bbe is old, when the Government pays their face value. ? If a child cries because be goes to bed in tbe dark, be must be humored and given a light, according to the latest.. scientific theory. ' Modern psychologists have discovered that children are subject to hallucinations, and that their imagi? nation that they "see things" is very, vivid and real. They should not be "disciplined" or punished, but given means to lessen these fears. ? A chain of compressed cakes of gun cotton tied around the trunk of the largest sized trees and exploded will, by the action of their violence, cut tbe tree down instantly and as smoothly as' though done by an ax in the hands of an experienced woodman. Timber cut? ters working among tbe forest giants' of Montana, Idaho and Washington declare it to be the cheapest and most economi? cal mode of felling trees that has yet been devised. ? A cow that gives milk which chan? ges to butter without churning is a rare thing. Mr. Lawson E. Brown, of Rozier, Burke county, Ga , says be has one. When the milk is strained off after milking, the cream which rises on it is very thick, I changes, or rather hardens, into the con- m sistency of butter, and it is used as butter, I and it is used as butter without goirgfj without going through the process of I c .turning, i