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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1893. VOLUME XXVni.?NO. 7. The Best Hair Dressing To restore and preserve the fullness, beauty, and color of the hair is "A number of years ago, by roeomineada* tion of a friend, I began to use Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop the hair from falling out and pie rent its turning gray. The Ant effects were most satisfactory. Occasional appli? cations since have kept my hair thick and of a natural color. I should not think of doing without Ayer's Hair Vigor."?H. E. Baabam. McKlnney, Tex. Ayer's Hair Vigor ftwpared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by Druggists Everywhere HEADQUARTERS FOR FIRST-CLASS iMUGGIES AND WAGONS!! HAVE JUST RECEIVED a nice assortment of the BEST and LATEST STYLE Buggies, Phaetons and Carriages, among them a number of the celebrated May dock Blee Coll Spring Baggies,' the easiest riding Buggy in the world. We have be<n selling them for five years, and they have given universal satisfaction in every respect. We also have the exclusive sal ? of the Tyson & Jones Buggies, made In Carthage, N. C, the beat and most stylish Buggy sold on this market. Tennessee Wagons. THERE IS NO NEED for ns to praise the merit of these Wagons, as they are too well known by everybody. We have a complete stock of them on hand now, and are ^prepared to serve our numerous friends; ' These Buggies and Wagons will be sold cheap for cash or on time to good, prompt paying customers. k BAGGING AND TIES. THE NEW CROP will soon be on hand and wo would suggest that you make your arrangements in ample time for what Bagging and Ties you may need'. Be eure to see us before buying, as we are in a position to make it to your interest to buy from us, and can sell you cheaper than you ever bought before. Yours truly, SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY IS MONEY MADE. JlP YOU AJtE I NTERESTED, just' listen to me .for three- quarters of a minute?if y6u are not, then just pass on : - IN BUYING AND ORGANS. Like almost every thing else, we like to have a nice lot to select from, and that we cer tainly have. Our stock is large and complete, embracing a very handsome line of .more than a dozen different popular makes, each make being represented in a variety v of styles, so that, altogether, we have one of the handsomest ana best-assorted stocks of these goods t> be found anywhere, larger cities not excepted. If you want a nice ? new Piano or Organ come ana see us; or, if you can't come, just drop us a card and _we will go to see you. ( We will Sell you an Instrument for cash, on time, swap, or most any other way to keep.the wheel in motion. So don't be afraid, but just drop in c as soon as you can.and look through our stock and talk it over?confidentially. ' BTjG-G-IIBS I [BEBOb, my! those mice little "Hug-Me-Tight" Buggies that just came in a. few days : ago, are Hole beauties; Tbeyoung men, especially, are invited to come in and see tbem A good stock ef heavier Buggies and Phaetons, Harness, dec, always on hand, and all ?to be sold very low. Second-hand Buggies at a bargain. Sewing Machines. We have tie largest stock in the up country, with the worlcfrenowned "NEW HOME" as our leader, and .want to sell a few of them out right away, too. Like the pianos and Organs, will sell you one for cash, on time, swap, or most any way to please the children. We also carry a stock of all kinds of Attachments, Needles, Oils, &c for all kinds of Machines. . Our friends and the trading public generally are invited to call in and see us and . inspect our stock as often as convenient. Hoping to see most of you soon, we are yours anxious to sell, THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE, ( ANDERSON, S. C. P. S.?Piano Tuning and Voicing is one of our Specialties. FRUIT JAKS. W E HAVE REDUCED THE PRICE WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL. LISTEN t HALF GALLON MASON JARS..... .90c. per dozen. ONE QUART MASON JARS.,.75c. per dozen. ??f Come early and get a supply of Jars and extra Rubbers, as the price may ad lCe when we get out. WEBB & SIMPSON. Below Alliance Store, Main Street FAST TIME FROM Asheville, N. 0. to Chicago, Ills. Through Pullman Car. Lv.ASHEVn.lb, Lv. Knoxville, ^ Ar. Harriman, ' Ar. Lexington, Ar. Louisville, Ly. Louisville, Ar. Indianapolis, Ar. Chicago, (R. & D. R. R.j (E. T. V. & G. Ry.) iE. T. V. & G. Ry.) (0^ & C. R. R.) (Lou. So.) (Penn. R. R.) (Penn. R. R.) (Penn. R. R.) 4:08 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 9:50 p.m. 4:30 a.m. 7:59 a.m. 8:15 a.m. 11:40 a.m. 5:45 p.m. f VIA The Richmond & Danville, Bast Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia; Queen & Crescent and Pennsylvania Railroads. NOTE THE A through Chicago Sleeper via Cincinnati, secured at Harriman arrives at Chicago by Big Four Route at 5:15 p.m. Stop-overs allowed at Cincinnati, Louis? ville and Indianapolis. OAXjXj ON OB. WRITE C. W. Murphy, Ticket Agent. Asheville, N. C. B. W. Wrrnn, G. P. & T. A., John L. Mil am: Trav. Pjss. Agt., ? Knoxville, Tenn. C. A. Benscoter, Div. Pass. Agt BNOXVXXiZi T El w XT. THE s ROLLER TRAY TRUNK ? the most Convenient trunk ever devised. rfHE TRAY Is arranged to roll back, leav? ing the bottom of tie Trunk easy of ao fleaa, Nothing to break or get out of order. The Tray can be lifted out if desired, and to buy this style Is a guarantee that you will get . the strongest Trunk made, / If your Dealer cannot furnish you, notify the manufacturers, Hi w. ROUNTREE & BRO., \ Richmond, V*. BOTTOM PRICES. Buckeye Milk Churn! On the Concussion principle?a boy 8 years old can churn 8 to 10 gallons easily. Refrigerators, ' Water Coolers, Fly Fans, Fly Traps, At Cost. MASON'S FRUIT JARS One quart 85c. per dozen, two quarts $1.10 per dozen. L. H. SEEL. JOHN K. HOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ANDERSON, - - S. ?. Feb5, 1891 31 8m THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Cleveland's Clear Solution ef the Financial Problem. Washington, August 8.?The fol? lowing is the Presidential message: To the Congress of the United States: ? The existence of an alarming and ex? traordinary business situation, involv? ing "the welfare and prosperity of all our people, has constrained me to ci-,11 together in extra session of the people's representatives in Congress, to the erd that through a wise and patriotic exer? cise, of the legislative duty, with which they solely are charged, present evils may be mitigated and dangers of the future may be avoided. Our unfortunate iinancial plight is not the result of untoward events nor of conditions related to our natural resources, nor is it traceable to any of the affliotiona which frequently check national growth and prosperity. With plenteous crops, >with abundant prom? ise of remunerative production and manufacture, with unusual invitatio^ to safe investment and with satisfac? tory assurance to business enterprise, suddenly financial distrust and fear have sprung up on every side. Nu? merous moneyed institutions have sus? pended because abundant assets were not immediately available to meet the demands of frightened depositors. Surviving corporations and' individual? are content to keep in hand the money they are usually anxious to loan and those engaged in legitimate business are surprised to find the securities they offer for loans, though heretofore! satisfactory, are no longer accepted. Values supposed to be fixed are fast becoming conjectural and loss and fail? ure have invaded every brancY of bus? iness. I believe these things are principally chargeable to Congressional legislation touching the purchase and coinage of silver by the General Government. This legislation is embodied in a stat? ute passed on the 14th day of July. 1890, which was the culmination or much agitation on the subject involv? ed, and which may be considered a truce after a long struggle between the advocates of free silver coinage and those intending to be more conserva? tive. Undoubtedly the monthly pur? chases by the Government of four mil? lion and five hundred thousand ounces of silver, enforoed under the statute, were regarded by those interested in silver production as a certain guaranty of its increase in price. The result, however, has been entirely different, for immediately following a spasmodic and slight rise the price of silver began to fall- after the passage of the Act and has since reached the lowest point ever known. This disappointing re? sult has led to renewed and persistent effort in the direction of free silver coinage. Meanwhile not only are the evil effects of 'the operation of the present law constantly accumulating, but the result to which its execution j must inevitably lead is becoming pal- j pable to all who give the least heed to J financial subjects. i how the sherman act operates, j This law provides that in payment for the four million and five hundred thousand ounces of silver bullion, which the Secretary of the Treasury is commanded to purchase monthly, there shall be issued treasury notes redeemable on demand in gold or sil? ver coin, at the discretion of the Sec? retary of the Treasury, and that said notes may be reissued. It is, however, declared in the Act to be "the estab? lished policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio or such ratio as may be provided by law." This declaration controls the action of the Secretary of the Treasury so as to prevent his exercising the discretion nominally vested in him, if by such action the parity between gold and silver may be disturbed. Manifestly a refusal by the Secretary to pay these treasury notes in gold if demanded would necessarily result in their dis? credit and depreciation as obligations payable only in silver, and would de? stroy the parity .between the two met? als by establishing a discrimination in favor of gold. Up to the 15th day of July, 1893, these notes had been issued in pay? ment of silver bullion purchases to the amount of more than one hundred and forty-seven millions of dollars. While all but a very small quantity of this bullion remains uncoined and without usefulness in the treasury many of the notes given in its purchase have been paid in gold. This is illustrated by the statement that between the 1st day of May, 1892, and the 15th day of July, 1893, the notes of this kind is? sued in payment for silver bullion amounted to a little more than fifty four millions of -dollars, and that dur? ing the same period about forty-nine millions of dollars were paid by the treasury in gold for the redemption of such notes. The policy necessarily adopted of paying these notes in gold has not spared the gold reserve of one hundred millions of dollars long ago set aside by the Government for the redemption of other notes, for this fund has al? ready been subject to payment of new obligations amounting to about one hundred and fifty millions of dollars on account of silver purchases, and has as a consequence for the first time since its creation been encroached upon. We have thus made the deple? tion of our gold easy, and. have tempt? ed other and more appreciative nations to add to their stock. That the oppor? tunity we have offered has not been neglected is shown by the large amounts of gold which have been re? cently drawn from our treasury and exported to increase the financial strength of foreign nations. The ex? cess of exports of gold over its imports for the year ending June 30, 1893, amounted to more than eighty-seven and a half millions of dollars. Between the 1st day of July, 1890, and the 15th day of July, 1893, the gold coin and the bullion in our treasury de? creased more than one hundred and thirty-two millions of dollars, while during the same period silver coin and bullion in the treasury increased more than one hundred and forty-seven millions of dollars. impossibility op obtaining parity under present law. Unless Government bonds are to be constantly issued and sold to replenish our exhausted gold, only to be again exhausted, it is apparent that the op? eration of the silver purchase law now in force, leads in the direction of the entire substitution of silver for the gold in the Government treasury, and that this must be followed by the pay? ment of all Government obligations in depreciated silver. At this stage gold and silver must part company and the Government must fail in its establish? ed policy to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other. Given over to the exclusive.use of a currency greatly depreciated according to the standard of the commercial world, we could no longer claim a place among the nations of the first class, nor could our Government claim a performance of its obligation, so far as such an ob? ligation has been imposed upon it; to provide for the use of the people the best and safest money. If, as many of its friends claim, silver ought to occu? py a larger place in our currency, and the currency of the world through general international co-operation and agreement, it is obvious that the Uni? ted States will not be in a position to gain a hearing in favor of such an ar? rangement so,long as wc are willing to continue our attempt to accomplish the result single-handed. THE CAUSE OP LOSS OF CONFIDENCE. . The knowledge in business circles among our own people that our Govern? ment cannot make its fiat equivalent to intrinsic value, nor keep inferior money on a parity with superior mon? ey by its own independent efforts, has resulted in such a lack of confidence at home in the stability of currency val? ues that, capital refuses its .aid to new enterprises, while millions are actually withdrawn from the channels of trade and commerce to become idle and un? productive in the hands of timid own? ers. Foreign investors, equally alert, not'only decline to purchase American securities but make haste to.sacrifice those -which they already have. It does not meet the situation to say that the apprehension in regard to the future of our finances is groundless and that there is no reason for lack of confidence in the .purposes or power of the Gov? ernment in the premises. The very existence of this apprehension and lack of confidence, however caused, is a menace which ought not for a mo? ment to be disregarded. HOW M?0H SlLVEft CAN 5VE CARRY? Possibly if the undertaking we have in hand were the maintenance of a spe? cific known quantity of silver at a par? ity with gold our ability to do so might be estimated and gauged, and perhaps, in view of our unparalleled growth and resources, might be favorably passed upon. But when our avowed endeavor is to maintain such parity in regard to an amount of silver increasing at the rate of fifty millions of dollars yearly, with no fixed termination to such in? crease, it can hardly be said that a problem is presented whose solution is free from doubt. The people of the United States are entitled to a sound and stable currency and to money rec? ognized as such on every exchange and in every market of the world. Their Government has no right to in? jure them by financial experiments op? posed to the policy and practice of other civilized States, nor is it justi? fied in permitting an aggravated and unreasonable reliance on our national strength and ability to jeopardize the soundness of the people's money. This matter rises above the plane of party politics. It vitally concerns every business and calling, and enters every household in the land. the wage-earner s interest. There is one. important aspect of the subject, which especially should never be overlooked: At times like the pres? ent, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may antic? ipate a harvest gathered from the mis? fortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding, or may even find profit in the fluctuation of values, but the wage-earner?the first to be injured by a depreciated curren? cy and the last to receive the benefit of its correction?is practically de? fenceless. He relies for work upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condi? tion is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor. One of the greatest statesmen our country has known, speaking more than fifty years ago, when a derangement of the cur? rency had caused commercial distress, said: "The very man of all others who has the deepest interest in a sound currency, and who suffers most by mis? chievous legislation in money matters is the man who earns his daily bread by his daily toil." These words are as pertinent as on the day they were ut? tered, and ought to^.impreBsively re? mind us that a failure in the discharge of our duties at this time must espe? cially injure those of our countrymen who labor and who, because of their number and condition, are entitled to the most watchful care of their Gov? ernment. prompt action necessary. It is of the utmost importance that such relief as Congress can afford in the existing situation be afforded at once. The maxim. "He gives twice who gives quickly,' is directly appli? cable. It may be true that the embar? rassments from which the business of the country is suffering arise as much from evils apprehended as from those actually existing. We may hope, too, tbat calm oounsels will prevail, and that neither the capitalists nor the wage earners will give away to unrea? soning panio and sacrifice the:r prop? erty or their interests under the influ eace of exaggerated fears. Neverthe? less, every day's delay in removing one of the plain and principal causes of the present state of things enlarges the mischief already done, and increa? ses the responsibility of the Govern? ment for its existence. Whatever else the people have a right to expect from Congress, they may certainly demand that the legislation condemned by the ordeal of three years' disastrous fin? ance shall be removed from the statute books as soon as their Representatives cr.n legitimately deal with it. importance of tariff reform. It was my purpose to summon Con? gress in special session early in the coming September, that wc might en? ter promptly upon the work of tariff reform, which the true interests of the country clearly demand, which so large a majority of the people, as shown by their suffrages, desire and expect, and to the aceoinplishmcnt of which every effort of the present Administration is pledged. But while tariff reform has lost nothing of its immediate and per? manent importance and must in the uDar future engage the attention of Congress, it has seemed to me that the financial condition of the country should at once and before all other subjects be considered by your honor? able body. repeal tiie sherman Ad! I earnestly recommend the prompt repeal of the provisions of the Act passed July 14, 1890, authorizing the purchase of silver, and that other leg? islative action may put beyond all doubt or mistake the intention and ability of the Government to fulfill its pecuniary obligations in money uni? versally recognized by all civilized countries. Grover Cleveland. Washington, D. C, August 8th, 1893. BILL AKT Has been Reading a Work on the Me* - gro Problem? Atlanta Constitution, Bishop Turner lectured here last Sunday night on "Africa." He has been there and went for a purpose. It is on his mind and in his heart that his people in the South must sooner or later go back to the land of their, fathers, and he went out to see. what kind of a land it was. His narrative sounds like a Munch aus en tale to those who have not read Livingstone and Stanley. The "dark continent" is looming up and is now attracting the attention and the wonder of the civil? ized world. Bishop Berkely said: "Westward the tide of empire takes its way," and it did when he wrote, but now it is rolling back to the east. Dr. Henry M. Field, the gifted editor of the New York Evangelist, is now in northern Africa and the weekly letters of his travels are full of interest. All that beautiful region on the coast of the Mediterranean is filling up with the best class of.French; German and English civilization. iThe historic land, where Carthage was and where Hannibal and Hamilcar marshaled their mighty armies, isnow the peace? ful, prosperous home of Protestant Christians. After a thousand years of sleep, northern Africa has been awak? ened by a new birth and in the grow? ing city of Borie, that was the ancient Hippo, a magnificent cathedra] is being erected in memory of St. Augustine, the last great man of Africa. Some years ago Dr. Field traveled over that country and rode hundreds of miles on camels and-slept with the Arabs in the desert, but now rides in palace cars to Jerusalem and rests in hotels along his journey and all along the line arc towns and: villages and cultivated farms, and all this wonder? ful change is the fruit of Christian civilization. The inscription on the statute of the good St. Augustine'in the new cathedral' explains it all: "If I do not perish I owe it to my mother." His father was a pagan, but his mother was a Christian, and her constant prayers and pleadings and teachings made him the wonderful man that he was?the most wonderful, per? haps, who ever lived, considering his lifework and the result of his labors; But for the negro, the Congo region seems to be designed by Providence for a permanent home. It is described by all the travelers as the moBt fertile basin in the world?having200,000,000 of square miles as fertile as the valley of the Mississippi and the hill coun? try adjacent abounding in copper, tin and iron mines.. General Sanford says it is destined to become the granary of the world and Bishop Turner declared the climate, to be exactly suited to his race. Well, now it is becoming more and more apparent that they must and will go somewhere. The conflict be? tween them and us is irrepressible. It is widening and deepening as the years roll on. There is no rest, no abiding place, no seourity for the negro in the United States, neither North nor South. - It is idle to discuss - whose fault it is. The duty of our thinking men, white and black, is to look the facts straight in the face and take some bold and decisive action. There is a race trouble now in North Carolina that has required the militia to suppress. The negroes who recent? ly were sent from Birmingham to the Nvrthwest to take the places of the strikers were not allowed to stay. From several towns in Ohio and Indi? ana they have been banished. Even in Atlanta, the cosmopolitan, conser? vative city of the South, complaint is made in the newspapers that the ne? groes monopolize the sidewalks and will not give way, and are growing more and more insolent and aggressive. Every day papers publish new outrages and the usual lynchings that follow them. I have been re-reading "An Appeal to Pharaoh" by Carlyle McKinley and am more than ever profoundly impress? ed with its truth, its argument, its philosophy. The author is one of the most advanced thinkers of the age and deals with the race problem in such a fair, candid and considerate way that until his name was disclosed it was impossible to surmise where he lived, whether North or South or in England or America. I am pleased to know that he is by birth and, education a Georgian. By some it was attributed to Hinton Rowan Helper; by others, to Senator Morgan, of Alabama, and by others to Rev. Josiah Strong. It is a book fit to be read and pondered by every patriot. Mr. McKinley proves every proposition as he goes along, and does it so tenderly and kindly and modestly that the reader is obliged to fall in love with him, and if not convinced, he admits that he can? not answer it. The negro must go, go somewhere, not in a hurry or at the point of the bayonet, as did the Cher okees, but he will go willingly and gladly when the ways and the. means are provided. It may take ten years or twenty years, but it is no very great matter so far as the cost is concerned. During the ten years just passed, over 6,000,000 of pauper foreigners hnvc been brought here from Europe and it will be nearly as easy to take 6,000,000 of negroes away. Ten millions of dollars a year will do it, and that is but a trifle compared with the peace and prosperity of the races. Just let the ships be ready in the ports and the money be provided to plant the families in Africa, say ?100 per capita, and they will flock to the seashore at every port. They are troubled and so are we. We used to think that it was slavery that kept immigration away from the South, but now wc know that it was not. It was the negro and is still the negro and will continue to be the negro. It is the negro that keeps up the alienation between the North and the South, that makes a solid South, and a hostile North and will perpetuate the entanglement as long as he is here. Now, if he was not here, docs any? body suppose that he would be allowed to come here ? If they were all in Africa and wished to emigrate would they be permitted to land at Castle Garden ? Of course not. Africa could not do what China cannot. Races to be happy and prosperous must be homogeneous. Of course they will not all go. The old and the decrepit will stay and be cared for. There will be no forcible separation of families. Certainly no more than is now, for they scatter far and wide in their present condition, but it is safe to predict that the ma? jority will go whenever the means arc provided and the government is at the head of " the movement. The large planters in the black belt will perhaps be the chief objectors, for they now fatten and grow rich off of the negro's labor, but they will soon have white labor in their stead and in the end it will prove profitable. I sincerely wish that every thinking citizen of the South would get Mr, McKinley's little book and read it. It is by far the best and most grateful statement of the race problem that has yet been written. It is not only instructive and entertaining, but reads like an essay of Maccaulay, and the book will not be laid down until the perusal is finished. General Fitzhugh Lee said of it: "It is the best state? ment that I have ever read upon the great subject it treats with so much clearness ability. The work displays not only much historical research, but great knowledge of the question, and must draw the attention of all thinkers to this great problem." '..The Boston Traveler says : "It is an audacious, ingenious volume and will well repay reading and provoke thought," and Henry Stanley says: "The author is a seer of a type rare nowadays and handles his subject wisely." The price of the book is 50 cents., and can be had, I suppose, at the book stores or from the publishers, Ford, Howard & Hulbert, New York. I do not know Mr. McKinley nor have I any interest in advertising his book, but I sincerely believe that its perusal will do more to direet public opinion in the right channel than any? thing that has yet been written upon the race question?the greatest ques? tion now before the American people. Bill , Abp. The Joke on the Parent, "Thanks," said the reverend doctor, taking the match and lighting the ci? gar. "This reminds me of another match. Did you ever travel on one of those branch line, independent, go-as you please Southern railways? I did once, and the monotony was varied by a lovely incident. As we waited for the conductor at a station (he had stopped off to visit his family) a young couple came aboard in a hurry. Be? fore long, we learned that they had eloped and were bound for Gretna Green just over the State linej where they didn't call for a license and other delays in marrying. They were great? ly flustered because the irate parent was in pursuit. But finally the train got away without the parent appear? ing. I say got away, and meant that it left the station; but the station you know wasn't any kind of a racer. Fi? nally the State line was passed and the long desired town was reached, and as we all alighted who do you suppose appeared? None other than the irate parent. His patient mule had gone ahead, beaten the train, and there he stood (the parent, not the mule,) a conquering hero, ready to intercept the two. We found he'd been waiting nearly thirty minutes." "But, doctor," interrupted a listen? er, "why didn't you perform the cere? mony on the train when you reached the State line?" "I did," said the doctor. "That was the joke on the parent."?New York Sun. ? A Suggestion for a Poet. Martin F. Tupper was at one time immensely popular, both in England and America. Grace Greenwood says of his poetry that it was of a "brief though furious fashion," and she goes on to illustrate his British ina? bility to take an American joke by a story of his mystification by Senator Tom Corwin. One evening the two sat together at a public dinner, and Mr. Corwin pro? ceeded to discourse on the divine art of poetry in a manner delightfully ab? surd, but rather puzzling to Mr. Tup? per. "Why, Mr. Tupper," he asked, "do you poets always make the heart the seat of love? Now, I should locate that passion in quite another organ? the liver." "Why, bless your soul, Mr. Corwin, you're not speaking seriously!" "Perfectly, my dear sir! For exam? ple, when a young man is in love, his heart is seldom affected, but his liver always is. He loses his appetite. If there are . obstacles, he peaks and pines. You surely have observed it. Now, you poets ought to let the heart alone and deal with the liver. I would even have changes made in old poems in accordance with physiologi? cal truth." "But, my dear, sir, what about the rhyme and the rhythm?" "Oh, those little things could be arranged. For instance, take the first two lines of Byron's 'The Maid of Athens:' "Maid of Athens, era we part, Give, Ob ! Give me baok my heart." "Now, how simple the change and how satisfactory, "Maid of Athens, ere we sever, Give, Ob ! Give me back my liver." ?Youth's Companion. ' Catarrh Cannot Be Cured . with Local Applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular pre? scription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combi? nation of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.; Props., Toledo, 0. B@J5old by druggists, price 75c. ? Master Meadow?"Pop, I wish you'd buy me a bicycle." Farmer Meadow?"Can't afford that, my boy ; but never mind, the next time we have any tools to sharpen I'll rig up a saddle so you can turn the grindstone with your feet." ? William Dragon, a fanner, fearing that the bank at Munsic, Ind., in which he had $500, might suspend, came in last Saturday and drew it all out in silver. When ho reached his home, after dark, he tied his horse in front of his house and went in, leaving the money in the buggy. When he returned, a few minutes later, the silver and rig had disappear? ed. ? A granddaughter of Delacroix received the following proposal of mar? riage from the famous Champflcury: "Mademoiselle : "If you believe, as I have heard, that an unmarried person is like the half of a pair of scissors, which is useless without the other half, I offer you my sympathies, my love and my best efforts to cut togeth? er the material of life." The young j girl's answer was the gift of a pair of I scissors, followed bv a marriage three weeks later.?Ne'tJVork World, Au? gust 4. M SAB6E PLUNKETT. A Philosophical Dlscnaalon of Atmospheric Conditions. Atlanta Constitution. If signs held good in olden times I can't see why they should not now. I have been studying the weather and calculating atmospheric conditions upon the human disposition. . And I have been watching the "signs" and refreshing my memory upon what the same conditions produced at other periods. Going backinto the "fifties" and dealing with that period, because so many are yet living who remember the times, one will bi? struck in the similarity of that date with the present time. Old folks in the "fifties" were laughed at because they asserted that the "signs" pointed to war, just as I would be laughed at were I to assert that the signs of the present point to some great upheaval?to war, if you please. Take the date of 1859, and you who are old enough, remember the atmos? pheric conditions of that year and call to mind the unsettled state of the public pulse. The-weather of 1859 caused the expression to grow common ?"did you ever see the like of it ?" This "did you ever see the like ?" grew monotonous, but the conditions justified the remark. Great black clouds would gather in the northwest while the panting people would watch them with bated breath, anxious to be deluged by the floods they promised, but never a flood. Black and heavy, these clouds would pass over Georgia without so much as a "sprinkle" to cool the parching earth, but instead, a withering wind scorched the vegeta? tion and filled the elements with! stifling clouds of dust and sand. The "dry storms" of 1859 can well be remembered by many Georgians, and the terror they caused could not be exaggerated. There was not enough corn made in the State for seed the next year?1860. I The year of 1860 was ushered in under the most excited condition of the public mind that had ever been witnessed. "Problems," too familiar for me to make mention here, held the politioal caldron at red heat, while the distress of the times caused the strong? est to tremble for the consequences. Amid the "panicky" condition of the year, .the great Northwest was drawn upon for supplies to feed man and brute. Western corn had to be used for seed corn, and it is well to state that this was the first of using Western corn in Georgia in any way?up to that date Georgia had been self-sus? taining in abundance, and has never been entirely so since. On top of the corn failure of 1859 came the disap? pointment in the western corn as seed. This added terror to the existing depression, as. the corn, which, by this time, had taken the name of Lincoln corn," began to "tassel" at knee high. Who can say but what the anxieties of 1859-60 had much to do with bring? ing on the war that followed ? The atmosphere was out of joint, people's livers got out of fix, men got desperate and were ready for anything for a change. This "anything for a change" is liable to take a hold on peo? ple'when the liver is tore up by depressing atmospheric conditions, and, altogether with the anxieties that these conditions create, stand a men? ace to everything that is, and gives the bold, bad man his opportunity to "get there." Revolution is bred out of the distress of the masses. Hungry folks are dangerous, as well as are the folks who have too great a load of anxiety about their financial or social standing, and the pressure must be relieved. When a damp, gloomy east wind is blowing you can safely count on many disordered livers ; therefore, an east wind is a "sign." When drought is burning up vegetation in 1893 it is a "sign" that we are to be without corn as in 1859, and as the discontent and restless spirit of the masses in 1893 so closely resemble the days of 1860. unless a crosstie gets on the track we may look ou( for the same schedule. I have read in the newspapers of a great drought in the Northwest. And I read of the fiery temper of the people there on the subject of finance. The atmospheric conditious are such as have existed prior to war, and the agi? tated people are affected as are people before they fire on the fort. Old Fort Sumter won't be in it this time, though ther?; is a plenty of the "east wind" conditions blowing over the South to give the masses an air of don't-care-a-cent what comes. I am watching the "signs," and wouldn't it be something if the Northwest would have to draw on us for her seed corn in 1894. It would be conditions re? versed, but so plain a "sign" of war, to my mind, that I would at once go to work hunting up a good dry cave in the river bottom?no war will ever slip up on me. It is nothing to treat lightly, this agitated condition of the country, together with the signs. Many of us shut our eyes and refused to see in 1860. Some went so far as to swear that they would drink all the blood that was spilt. It is wisdom to watch the signs and try to counteract the at? mospheric conditions. This govern? ment is ponderous and you can't tell what changes may come over people under oppression and depression. Men howled about "our rights in the territories" along in the fifties who had just as much prospect of having goats in the moon as they did of ever getting out West. Agitation grows popular as it grows dangerous, and agitators arc always to be found when the people arc willing to listen. The story of "Jenkins's Ear" is familiar and is a good illustration of what agitation will do. Jenkins was op? pressed, he was treated cruelly, and slowly, persistently, he told his story till he was avenged. It is the com? mon talk these days to hear of the people. In the first instance it may be imagination, or the cause for the assertion mighty small, yet, if it keeps on, it will soon be verified as a "sign" of a great upheaval?war and revolu? tion. This talk of oppression should be frowned down if it is without foun? dation and corrected if there be foun? dation. While I believe in signs, I yet believe that they arc in the nature of danger signals, and it is the part of wisdom to profit.by them. Recently the Governor of a great State has pardoned the Haymarkct anarchists who were in prison. This pardon gives color to the idea that there has been terrible cruelty and oppression somewhere. If these anar? chists are patriots of a just cause op? pression cannot keep them down, but if they are bad folks they should never receive the pardon of a great State. I mention these anarchists for the rea? son that it suggests a very corrupt method of politics in the State of Illi? nois. If so high a personage as the Governor of a great State will prosti t^e his i>fl\ce for votes, then this is a great v\rn" that the times are" out of joint and that we are searing a oalamity. The same will apply if these men were convicted through pre? judice and chicanery. Corruption in politics is a much louder complaint throughout this land than was the voice of Jenkins as he went from man to man showing his ear, and it must be corrected or the calamity comes upon us. The voice of the loud-mouthed adventurer is easy to distinguish from the earnest protests of "the people" against real grievances, and in all justice and in all wisdom their demands should receiva at least the thoughtful attention of the thinking men of our government. While I know, from my own obser? vation, that the demands of mobs will not do to cater to, for they are liable to hang a fellow to-day and build him a monument to-morrow, yet I doubt if a long continued appeal of the masses was ever far from the line of justice and right, and I doubt if their wails of wrong ana oppression, continued for length, were ever without a good foun? dation in fact. But after long suffer? ing, and with a patience that amounts Kto prostration,, they are liable to break forth at last like a raging volcano, un? controlled and uncontrollable. The "signs" warn us; let us heed the warning and avert the calamity. Sav.<tb Plunkett. Kol Nobori, or Carp Flag. Southern Christian Advocate. , Dear Children : Japan is a land of many curious and interesting customs, and I want to tell you of one in this letter. If you could stand on the second story porch of the house-in which we live in Kobe and look over the city, you would see in all directions hun? dreds of fish swimming in the air. Just as you would if you were to look through the side of a glass aquarium at the fish and turtles mo/ing about in the water. In some places we see only one fish, but in others there are four or five together, and even more. Some of them are very large, larger than any living fish you have ever seen, unless perhaps you have seen a whale, such as swallowed Jonah. Just to th*. North of our house we can see a great big fellow swimming in the air by himself. He is about twenty feet long, while immediately in front are four or five together, the smallest one being about two feet long. If you would look closely, you would notice that the fish, although they seem to be moving all the time, remain in about the same position. They are, all day and all nightlong, swimming in the air but making no progress, and the reason is that .they are tied to the top of a high pole, just like a flag. Of course these fish are not alive, for you know that if they were they would die just as soon as they were taken out of the water. They are of paper, and arc made to resemble the fresh water fish called "carp," or "koi" in Japanese. They have large mouths, that are open all the time, and the wind blowing into them keeps them inflated, so that they look very much like a living fish. But the most curious thing about this strange cus? tom is that they are used to celebrate the birth of a boy baby in the house over which they float. On the 19th of every June, if a little boy has come into the family during the year, the father and mother purchase one of these paper fish and tie it to a long pole and let it float in the air. In this way they announce to the community that they have had a son. If there are more than one koi or. carp, then they have been presented to the fam? ily by friends or by relatives. There are two reasons why the carp is used instead of some other kind of fish. First, it is a very strong fish, being able to go far up the rivers, into the mountains and over the rapids; and, secondly, the Japanese people think very highly of it. I have been told that the Chinese consider it a sacred fish. And so, when the Japan? ese fathers and mothers hang out the koi nobori, or carp flag, they not only announce that they are the happy pos? sessors of a baby boy, but they also express the wish that their little boy may grow strong and be preserved to them, and also that he may be a good and obedient son. There is a very pretty custom that is used in celebrating the birth of girl babies in Japan, but as I have written* you a long letter to-night I will have to tell you of that some other time. Your friend, W. E. Towson. Kobe, Japan, June 21,1893. Saving Pea YIne Hay. "A Subscriber," in the Barnwell People, says : "Now for my plan for saving pea vine hay. Three years ago I was cutting early in the morning, when an old neighbor came over to spend the day with me, and very soon ! after the clouds looked very threaten? ing. I said to him that I was afraid that I would lose my hay. He .told me to go and stack it. I said not green. He said it would not hurt it if stacked as he said. I went out and piled it in piles, when there came a right hard shower of rain. I said to him then that my hay was gone, as there was a very heavy cloud coming on behind fhe shower. He told me to go and stack it. Well, I thought that it would be worth nothing if much rain came on it as it was, so I went and stacked it while wet and I green, as it was cut in the morning, and this was before noon. This was in August, and in February following I hauled it in, as bright and fine hay as ever I saw, and I have followed that plan successfully ever since, with just the pea vines, and when they are mixed with grass, and have never had any mouldy or dark hay since, and it don't shed the leaves in handling. the plan. Procure your pole same as for fod? der, but in trimming leave about two feet apart limbs two to three feet long. Have your pole as high as you can well throw the vines with forks. 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Mrs. Nagge?Why were you so sure you would receive an answer to that telegram you sent me yesterday^? Mr. Nagge?Because, my dear, I knew you would have the last word if it cost you a quarter. ? Young Wife : Yes, father always gives away expensive things when he makes presents. Husband: So I dis^ covered when he gave you away. AifW then he went to the library to. draw a check for the monthly millinery bill. ? Th^ musical department of the World's Fair costs eighteen hundred" dollars a day. Theodore Thomas' con? certs come high. They have already cost the Fair Association $300,000. This may be said to be high grade mu? sic. ? Be sure and put a box of Ayer's Pills in your satchel before traveling, either by land or sea. You will find them convenienc, efficacious and safe. The best remedy for costiveness, in? digestion and sick headache, and adap-_ ted to any climate. ? He?And so your answer is final. You will not be mine ? She?Yes, absolutely. But pray don't go and blow your brains out. 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It is reported that an Italian living in Jamestown attempted to remove his trunk and va? lise from one boarding house to an? other on Sunday, and was arrested and fined four dollars for desecration of thr Sabbath. 7 ? Governor Tillman tests ~~the drunk-producing qualities of patent medicines, by having the convicts take them in large quantities. The plan is j certainly a novel one and reverses they old Newberry r.lan. Before, the war/ just as Drake's Plantation BitterS came to the front as the great "anti chill medicine, a planter in Newberry county, whose slaves were troubled with chills, was induced to buy^a jjase of the bitters. He said he would ?gg home and try it on "the boys," mean? ing his sons, and if it did not hurt them he would then give it to thejne^ groes. In that day a $1200 field handj was not to1 .be experimented with.?* Carolina Spartan.