The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, August 23, 1893, Image 1

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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C, WEDNESDAY MOENING, AUGUST 23,1893. VOLUME XXVIII.-NO. 8. Gout and Rheumatism Sciatica, white swelling, neuralgia, dropsy, .and rickets cured by " My little son, during.,lie past year, baa suffered terribly from Inflammatory rheuma? tism, for which we tried a variety o! reme? dies, but none afforded more than temporary relief.. At length we gave him Ayer's Sarsa parilla, and tbe result has been so satisfac? tory that I can confidently recommend this medicine to all similarly afflicted."?J. R. Cornelius, Editor .lewitburgh Chronicle, Lewlsburgh, Pa. Ayer's Sarsaparilla "ft?psredbjr.I>r. J.C.Ajer&Co., Lowell, Maw. CliTeS OtherSjWUlCUre YOU f E h Ave oa hirnd for sale at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES-in fnct, IT COST, and'ieas than Cost?the following Machinery. They must go : Orie Ahorse power Erie City Detached Engine. ?Due 20-hoise power Erie City Detached Engine. One 30-hoi-se power Erie City Return Tubular Steam Boiler. One 20-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Steam Boiler. One 20rhoi3e power Erie City Portable Steam Boiler. Two 15-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Boilers. One 12-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Boilers. Three 12-horse Nagle Detached Engines. One 12-horse power Nagle Portable Boiler.' One second-hand 5-horse power Engine. Several Cotton Gins, Feeders and Condensers, Cane Mills, Evaporators, &c. Now is the time for BARGAINS. If you mean business got our prices. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO., BLBERTON, OA. ANDERSON, S. C. IS MONEY MADE. T . 'J IP YOU ATiE INTERESTED, just listen to me for three-quarters of a minute?if I rou are not, then just pass on : IN BUYING PSANOS ahb ORGANS, Like almost everything else, we like to have a nice lot to seleofc from, and that we cer? tainly have. Our stock is large and complete, embracing a very handsome line of more than, n dozen differen; popular makes, each make being represented in a variety 5f styles, -so that, altogether, we have one of the handsomest and best-assorted stocks - M these -goods U> be found anywhere, larger cities not excepted. If you want a nice aew Pia'jo or Organ come and see U3; or, if you can't come, just drop us a card Mid fve wiU goto,seeyou. We will sell you an Instrument for cash, on time, swap, or Q3os? * .ny other way to keep tbe wheel in motion. So don't be afraid, bat jast drop in i3m>n as yon can and look through our stock and talk it over?confidentially. BUG ? ,Oh,my! those nice little "Hug-Me-Tight".buggies that just came in a few days ago, are little beauties. The young men, especially, are invited to com ein and see them. A good Btock ef heavier Buggies and Phaetons, Harness, &c, always on hand, and all to be sold very low. Second-hand Buggies at a bargain. Sewing Machines. { We have the largest stock in the up country, with the world-renowned "NEW HOME" as our leader, and want to sell a few of them out right away, too. Like tbe Pianos and Organs, will sell you one for cash, on time, swap, or most any way to please the children. We also carry a Btock of all kinds of Attachments, .Needles, Oils, <tc, for all kinds of Machines. Our friends and the trading public generally are invited to call in and see us and Inspect oar 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.,0. P. S. ?Piano Toning and Voicing- is one of our Specialties. FRUIT JARS. E HAVE REDUCED THE PRICE WITHIN THE BEACH OF ALL. LISTEN: HALF GALLON MASON JARS._,. 90c. per dozen. ONE QUART MASON JARS.'.. 75o. per dozen. ?ST- Come early and get a supply of Jars and extra Rubbers, as the price may ad? vance when we get out. WEBB & SIMPSON, Below Alliance Store, Main Street. FAST TI :Asheville, N. 0. to Chicago, His. Through Pullman Car. Lv. ASHEVILLE, Lv. Knoxvillb, Ar. Harriman, Ar. Lexington, Ar. Louisville, Lv. Louisville, Ar. Indianapolis, Ar. Chicago, (R. &D.R. R.) (E. T. V. & G. Ry.) (E. T. V. & G. Ry.) (Q.&C. R. R.) (Lou. So.) (Penn. R. R.) (Penn. R. R.) (Penn. R. R.) VIA The Richmond & Dan villi; East 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. WRITE C. W. Murphy, Ticket Agent. ASHEVILLE, N. C. C A. Bknscoter, Div. Pass. Agt, B. W. Wrknn, G. P. & T. A., XNOXVXXfZiB, "X* 33 W SO*. John L. Mil am: Trav. Pass. Agt, Knoxvillb, Tenn. THE ? S^FOLlER TRAY TRUNK the most convenient trunk ever devised. - ? 'JJHE TRAY Is arranged to roll back, leav? ing tha bottom of the Trunk easy of ac? cess. Nothing to break or get out of order. Tha Tray can be lifted out it desired, and to buy this style is a guarantee that you will get the strongest Trunk made. If your Dealer cannot furnish you, notify tbo manufacturers, h. w. rountree & bro., , RICHMOND, VA, ' BOTTOM PRICES. Buckeye Milk Churn! On the Concussion principle?a boy 8 years old can churn 3 to 10* gallonB easily. Refrigerators, Water Coolers, Fly Fans, Fly Traps, At Cost. MASON'S FRUIT JARS One qur-rt 86c. per dozen, two quarts $1.10 per dozen. L. H. SEEL. JOHN K. HOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ANDERSON, - - S. G. Feb5,J89i 8". ftn BILL ARP, Good Advice to TV'anderlng Boy?. Atlanta Constitution, I was ruminating upon the Presi? dents' message and hsve come to the conclusion that perhaps I am the only reading man in all the cauntry who does not understand the question. The trouble is I read both sides and have got all tangled up. If a man wishes to preserve his peace of mind and his self-conceit he should read only one side of politics or religion. This may make him wrong in his path, but he is more, contented and more zealous. He can just rip around and raise Cain in politics and he can go it "blind for his Church and his preacher. An intelligent fr.end who is just from Washington told me yesterday that Mr. Cleveland was the grand imper? sonation of the National Government; that he was greater than parties or platforms and would run* the maohihe mdependeLj of all restraints. "If," said he, "Grover Cleveland should die to-morrow the country would go to rain in thirty days." Another friend said the mos sage was an abortion and Mr. Cleveland was a huge mistake? the most overrated man in the nation. But I am not going to worry about it. If there are not enough brains among the Statesmen at Washington to fix up this money business I can't help it. So let it rip. I read the message on my way home from the postomce and when I reached the piazta where Mrs. Arp was sitting I said: "Here is a letter, a message from the President, would you like to read it ?" "No," she said. "Did you bring me any letters from the boys ?'' ?"None," said I. "I am afraid they are sick," she said. "They haven't written for three or four weeks. They never write "when they are sick." 'There it is. A letter from a son or daughter who is far away is a bigger thing to a mother than Grover Cleve? land s message. Everywhere all over tfce land the old folks at home" are waiting $or letters from their absent eh;ldren. I have seen them sitting on ithe piazza or by the fireside with a shmfte of sadness on their faces and as d?hey look dreamily away I know Whxt they are thinking about. There is nothing sadder in life than the sep .aration of aged parents from their children. Dr. Samuel Johnson said: "I have always looked upon it as the worst condition of man's destiny that most persons are torn asunder just as they become happy in each other's so? ciety." If this be true concerning the friends and companions of our youth, how much more touchingly does it ap? ply to the aged ones w^ose children have removed far away from the old homestead. Love and memory is about all their earthly capital and from day to day and week to week they look for letters?kind letters, loving letters from the absent ones whom perhaps they will never see again, but hope to meet?yes, hope to meet?on the other side. Letters, from the children are the next best thing to their prosence, and the children ought to write them? write them often?write regularly. While I was ruminating about this I heard the sweet strains of that pretty song, "I Sent a Letter to My Love," and then I got to thinking what a blessed contrivance these letters were, the daily mail, the government post, the swift messengers that like Mercu? ry speed over sea and land to comfort U3. Memory went back to the time when I was away from homo for a long year and how happy I was when a let? ter came?a letter from home espe? cially when there was a little money in it. Heard a college boy say the other day that a letter from home with money in it was the best letier and the best money in the world. Parents are sure to write them and to send a little money when they can, and so when the parents grow old and feeble the children should pay them bfcck and let no sad memories make furrows on their brow. I would plead with the boys everywhere to comfort their old mothers with kind and lovi ng letters, the good old mothers who havo them and nursed them and comforted them and took their part in all their troubles?never let a mother feel the truth of the proverb, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." I have heard of boys going away to the far West to seek their fortune and not writing a line back home for years. I have seen aged parents who have not heard from their boy in so long they had given him up for dead. They had written to where he was last, but had no answer. But he was not dead and in one case he came back after eleven years of absence?came back and com? forted them for he had sown his wild oats and reaped the crop and was tired. Boys, don't do that way, please don't, write letters, write from every place, your letters are treasures, thsy are read and re-read. I know where is a bundle now, a big bundle tied around with tape and it gets big? ger as the years roll on. If tihe writ? ers should get killed or die from sick? ness the tape will be untied and the letters read again while a ter.r drops here and there upon the open ieaf. Writing letters regularly to kindred and friends re-acts upon the writer and makes him better, gentler, kinder. They take but little time arid cost only two cents to send and aro really the most valuablo things for the cost that can be found in the world. A good loving home letter that cost only ten minutes in time and two cunts in money is worth ten dollars to any mother who loves her child. The mails are a blessed privilege, and one that was almost unknown to our fathers. One hundred years ago there were but seventy-five po^oniccs in the United States, now there are nearer 75,000. It is not generally known that Benj. Franklin was the first Postmaster-General in this coun? try held his office for twenty-one years under the Briti?h Government. One mail a week was considered quite enough between the large cities, I re? member when one mail a week was the allowance in our country towns. By and by we got it twice a week and felt our consequence. Four times a day we-have it now in Cartersville. I re? member when the sound of the stage horn as the mail coach came over the distant hill was the most inspiring music that ever greeted the small boy's ears. "Oh, if I could only drive that team and crack that long lashed whip, and blow that bugle how happy would I be." It was the ulti? matum of my hopes, and my ambition. I remember when a book came out that was called "Ten Years Among the Mail Boys," and it had pictures representing the "Pony Express" that Wells Fargo had established from St, JjQUis overland, fco QaJtfQrnia, They had hundreds of boySj tough, hardy, lightwood boys, weighing from seventy-five to ninety pounds, and each had to rido 100 miles in a canter in twenty-four hours and carry twenty pounds of letters in his ?addlc bags. Every ten miles his mounting was changed, but he was not relieved, nor was he rested until he had made half his journey. He had to eat his lunch on the fly, and at the stations he was lifted from his pony to a fresh one and Was oft with a word and a bound. These pictures nearly ran me wild and I longed to go west and ride the ex? press and have the Comanche Indians take a crack at me and miss. What a change has come over tho world. The English postal system is only 250 years old. Before that the kingB had special messengers to carry letters, but the people had nothing save the passing travelers. Horses had been substituted for footmen. That Was the only change since the days when the prophet wrote, "How beautiful upon th\ mountains are the feet of those who bring glad tidings," and Solomon said : "As cold water to a thirsty eoul, so is good news from a far cquntry." If such rude contriv? ances were lovely then how ought we to prize our privileges now. Cheaper and cheaper is our mail service made as civilization advances. I remembur when letters cost us 6^, 12$, 18| und 25 cents, according to the distance they had been carried. A letter from Arkansas or Texas or New York was 25 cents, and they were never prepaid. Many a time while I was the postmaster's clerk a poor fel? low would inquire for a letter and if there was one he would look at it, and turn it over and handle it awhile, and say: ""Well, it's from Jack. I know, and I would like to take it nome the best in the world, but you will have to put it back and keep it until I can get the money." Sometimes he would borrow it from a neighbor and take it home, and the next Sunday all the neighborhood would gather in to hear what Jack said about "The Arkan saw." There were no envelopes then and no paper but foolscap. This was a long paper and was called by that name because the watermark was a cap and bells. The letter was written on one side and then the sheet was fold? ed in such a, way that one side slipped into the other and it was then sealed with a wafer or with sealing wax. The poorer people sealed them with soft rosin from the pine. When a letter was not sealed there was no penalty if it was opened and read by any one, and hence, it is said, came the word sincere (sine cerum) without wax and having no secret nor anything that the writer desired to conceal. It is a pretty word and has a fitting origin. My father was postmaster for thirty years. He Ihiew of my ambition to ride the pony express and so he pre? pared me for it by mounting me on a big, long dromedary of a horse and made me rido the mail to Roswell and back twice a week during a long, hard winter. I had to make fifty miles a day and some days I liked to have frozen, for I was but a lad of twelve summers, but this service cured me and since then I have not aspired any more to 1;hat business. Bill Aep. No Extra Session of the Legislature Probable. Columbia, Aug. 13.?From time to time there has been talk about calling the legislature together about the 1st of November. Officials connected with the senate have gone so far as to say that the order has gone forth that preparations should be made for the early assembling of the general assem? bly. Nothing, however, has come di? rectly from the governor, who is the one authorized to speak upon the sub? ject. Some time ago, when a report was published to the effect that Gov? ernor Tillman had decided to call the legislature together about the 1st of November, I usked him about it, and he said that as the newspapers had al? ready taken the matter in hand he did not care to say anything about it at that time. A day or t;wo ago, while talking about the matter of the condification of the laws, Governor Tillman seemed to intimate that he saw no necessity for the calling of an early session of the general assembly for the purpose of considering the report of those in charge of the arrangement of the law. His idea was that it would be better to have the legislature meet, submit the work in parts to appropriate and competent committees and then have the reports adopted by the general as-, sembly. It was his opinion that this would result in more satisfactory work than the racing through the mat? ter which might be expected if the reports were read and then adopted. He thought that such a reading of a thousand pages of printed matter would be little less than a farce and result in but little good. The mat? ters are of too much consequence to be considered in a hasty way, and he thought that special committees coulJ secure very much more satisfac? tory Tesults than by the reading of t'ae reports before the house with a bare quorum present. From the the general tone of his conversation it/is not at all probable that any extra or early session of the legislature will be called for the spe? cial purpose of considering the reports upon the codification, of the laws.? The News and Courier. Catarrb 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, Q 86kJ3old by druggists, price 75c. ? Swedish women often work as farm laborers. Those who have ba? bies carry them in a leather bag, as squaws carry their young. This plan permits the mother to use both hands at her farm work. ? "Rattlesnake Pete," who was one of the competitors in the recent cowboy race, has a suit of clothe3 that is made of 125 snake skins, which took him nearly four years to gather. The buttons of his coat are rattlesnake beads mounted with gold.. SAUGE PLUNKETT. A Chapter on the Progress of Boad Mak? ing. Atlanta Constitidiont The progress of road building would make some interesting reading if it waB done up with care. One could also go back to the trails of Indian days and follow their prog? ress to its present state, together with the modes of travel all along the line. The heavy sawed wheels before the days of spokes that superseded the saplings that drug behind the Indian ponies along the "trails" were the first things to demand a widening of the Way. These cumbrous old carts gave the oxen of Georgia an importance they had never had before and never will have again. From these heavy sawed wheels we progressed to spokes with iron tires. The first of these spoked wheels were great for lightness and height, and two wheels only were used instead of four. They were mon? strous easy to turn over and this put the people to being more careful in opening the ways on level ridges, avoiding the slants. From the old ox carts we moved to wagons, buggiesjand carriages, all the time improving the roads with the progress of vehicles. "A hard road to travel" was avoided, and the words were often applied to distressful situations in life. A few ye. *'ve who can remember the "trail" period; many yet live who can remem? ber the old ox cart and they look in wonder at the changes' with us now and know not where it is to stop. I know not whether the improvement in vehicles brought better roadways or. better iroads made lighter and faster vehicleit, but anyhow they have pro? gressed along together till after awhile I guess: we can go where we please without pony, ox or wagon. The bicy? cle seems to be the coming thing and the roads will progress along with them to suit I reckon. I took to thinking about this road business from hearing the Egyptian commissioners who are down in Georgia on a visit from the World's Fair, talk? ing of the paved ways they ese about Atlanta. I had a small chat with one of them who talks United States and I am sure from the cut of his eye that when they get back to Egypt they will no longer waste their time on the cot? ton problem of that country, but will at once proceed to corner on al! the pyramids and blast them and scatter them to thunder. Farewell, pyramids, they are gone, and you who have never been to Egypc had better go mighty quick or you will miss seeing these great wonders of the world. When the pyramids are all gone in Egypt to making roadways aud paving streets then Stone Mountain will have its opportunity of being the greatest wonder of its kind. This should be Buggestive to the preservation of the mountain. Even these Commission? ers who hail from the land of pyramids look in wonder upon this great rock of oura. The next legislature should take Bteps to preserve the highest part of it at least. Not an inch should this mountain height be redu' -'d. It is a wonder?a natural wonder, and if progress must use it they should at least leave standing a towering shaft in all its naturalness. All of Georgia should take a pride in preserving this wonder, but especially should its own? ers and the town of Stone Mountain work to save it. Some day people may come from Egypt to see this mountain as people have went from here to see the pyramids. But folks are more apt to call me a crank ? than they are to do as I say about any? thing. These Egyptian visitors make an? other thing plain to my mind?we must make cotton very cheap. Com? petition is what will come and force lower prices still if we do not make it unprofitable for these Egyptians to experiment. Plenty of people living can remember when it was thought cotton could not be raised north of the Chattahoochee River. We need not shut our eyes and think that cot? ton cannot be raised in Egypt. The thing to do is to make it so cheap here that the Egyptians will have no stim? ulant to force them on in its culture. The way to grow cotton cheap is what should engage the attention of the Southern planter, not how they can get a higher price for the product, for with high cotton comes Egyp? tian competition, maybe. Africa will take a hand, too. It would be some? thing if the negroes were colonized in Africa and put to raising cotton there. I look for it, but let 'em go. A free use of improved farm implements is the thing to arrive at cheap cotton with. Southern farmers must arrive at the point where they can have two or three men's work performed with one good hand. .This can be done by improved machinery and farm imple? ments. I have digressed from the roads, but never mind, if I can save old Stone Mountain from the ruthless touch of progress I have done well. And if I can stimulate a line of thought which will save us from the competition that we are sure to have in the culture of cotton I have done better. But with it all we want more roads and better roads. I was plum carried away with the notion of work? ing the roads with thechaingangs, but I see there is much dissatisfaction about that. I don't know who is right, but I would like for some one to show me what better way to work roads and what better way to dispose of the chaingang system. Till then I shall say work the roads with the criminals. Sarqe Plunkett. ? The man that will scrub the bins thoroughly with boiling brine just be? fore he fills them will hardly be troubled with weevil. Whitewashing the bins with thin whitewash, being careful to get it into the cracks and corners, makes assurance doubly sure. ? An industrial statistician comes out with the startling announcement that the population of the world, which is estimated at 1,400,000,000, if divided into families of five, could all be accommodated in Texas, each fam? ily with a five acre lot, and have 50, 000 lots over for parks and things. ? "I wonder," said one of the loungers, ' what was the origin of the swallow-tail coat?" "It is my idea," said the grizzle-whiskered man from Montana, "that they were cut away in the first place to make it handy for a man to git at his gun." ? Mr. Fondhusband, an aged New York widower, got married recently for the fourth time, notwithstanding he had a house full of grown-up chil? dren, says the Texas Si/tings. While the marriage .ceremony was being per? formed, one of the guests, hearing sobs in the next room, asked one of the children what was the matter. It's 'only Emily," was the reply. "She howls when, papa g?ts, married, ABSURD SOCIAL StIAMS. The Giving of Wedding Presents the PH* mary one. Philadelphia tfimcs. There is nothing commoner in ev? eryone's experience than to hear refer? ence made to the good old times when life was more genuine, men more hon? est, women sweeter and truer to her domestic ideals, in short, existence, generally, running along lines of su? perlative excellence rarely attained in the degenerate days we call our "own times." Most frequently these wails come from those who, from the van? tage ground of the years, claim a largeness of the vision that ad? mits of no possible squint in favor of to-day. These backwark glancers are prone to attribute all of the shoddy, sham sleaziness that undeniably enter large? ly into the woof and warp of the so? cial fabric of the present to the rapid pace at which the world is driven. The electric current on which we are being whizzed through the loom of time consumes material so rapidly that when the genuine gives out, the inexorable weaver must perforce re? plenish his shuttle with shoddy and send it glittering in and out the wo? ven texture to make a gaudy showing for a brief while, but not warranted to bear the strain of necessary or hard usage. Perhaps, after all, if the backward glancers would do their work with the thoroughness whose absence they de? plore in the methods of to-day, they would find that the past had its shams, its social masks, its tricks that were dark, and its ways that were vain, no less patent to the pessimists of their day than are ours to the croakers of to-day. Starting out with the proposition that all of goodness and genuineness were not consumed by our great? grandfathers and our great-grand? mothers, we can afford to give the go-by to the shams of a century ago while we concern ourselves with those which seriously mar the fair face of to-day. If that trite old couplet, "A sin confessed is half redressed," have the germ of truth in it let us make quick shift before the altar of public opin? ion, acknowledging some of the many existing shams which will assume the proportions of sins against good taste. That they are going in num? ber and in conspicuity -no ob? server of the social current can fail to note. Perhaps the . most conspicuous among a long list of patent encroach? ments upon the boundary line between good will and good form is the uni? versal pactice of giving wedding pres? ents. That it has its advantages no one will deny, especially those who have entered into the holy bonds of wed? lock since the era of compulsory wed? ding gifts has dawned. That it has its seamy side no one will deny, either, especially those who, by reason of a large social circle of friends and relatives, are called upon frequently to exercise a gener? osity that springs more often from the iron dictates of custom than from any heartfelt desire to experi? ence the blessedness of giving over re? ceiving. The heart and the hand don't al? ways act in accord on these occasions, and when the head would act as um? pire, it is speedily made to under? stand that reason has nothing to do with the giving of wedding presents. You are expected to do it. That is all there is in it. That man or woman would be hard to find?I prefer believing?who can see two ardent young souls agree to take up the burden of a joint exist? ence, its pain? and its pleasures all to be taken upon trust, but must find their own hearts swelling with sym? pathetic interest and feel impelled to wish them most cordially a happy and prosperous voyage upon the untried waters of the matrimonial sea. But such mammoth importance is laid of late upon the giving of wed? ding presents that the friend who brings nothing in his hand slinks timidly in and offers his empty con? gratulations, oppressed with such a sense of omission as never in his hon? est and upright life has he experienced before. We do not offer our good wishes in words nowadays. We do not dare. We offer them in gold and silver, in precious stones, in rare bits of porce? lain, and even in cumbersome furni? ture. In effect we say to the iutended couple: "My friends, you are about to precipitate yourselves into a mud? dle that will require all your ingenuity to pull through. You are utterly in? capable of making a home for your? selves, but we will give you a start and hope you will scramble to your feet eventually." _ What else arc " of us bidden for ? Are you quite sure, you Miss X?, that you would have been invi? ted to Miss Z?'s wedding if your well-established reputation as a free giver had not gone before you ? You did not know Miss Z? at all. You and she do not visit in the same set. But, several years ago, her in? tended clerked for your husband, three whole months, perhaps, and then, of course, it is expected of you." Thank heaven, you will not be com? pelled to go yourself?you' 'really could not stand a whole evening of thu Z?'s but-" Your present goes with your card attached. It is assigned a conspicu? ous place on the display tables. Your peaee is secured, and the pride of the Z?'s satisfied by having you repre? sented by a costly present and a bit of engraved cardboard. "You are there" in the most high? ly approved and altogether satisfactory shape. For days before the fateful one ar? rives, which is to bring the delight? fully exciting weeks of preparation to the solemn climax of the prayer-book and the preacher, every ring of the door bell, every rumble of wheels sug? gesting express wagons, has stirred the entire household to a flutter of ex? pectation. The air is thick with an? ticipations. The Z?'s prepared tfleir list of invitations judiciously. Of course, one-half the people were too far off to come themselves?but, the express lines are far reaching, and a house is never too small for wedding presents galore. Noostarter is only a clerk, and fii.'ty, let us say thirty, or even twenty years ago, he would have thought a while longer before asking for an alliance with the Z? family. For house-fur? nishing and all that sort of thing would have to come out of rather a meagre salary. But, under the existiugorder of things, the knotty problem is re? duced to a simple sum in addition. Add the friends of the family to the friends of all the Noostarter family?plus an employer and the clerks in the store?and visions of a home practically furnished, with noth? ing but the kitchen range and a few washtubs, perhaps, not on display among the wedding presents, gladden Noostarter's prophetic soul and em? bolden him to ask Miss Z? to link her fate with his. "What a popular young couple Noo? starter and his bride must be!" Not necessarily. They are simply the beneficiaries of a pernicious cus: torn of compulsory giving, which so? ciety has winked at as harmless and laughed at as "funny," until it has virtually grown into a species of black? mail. The sufferings of the wight who dares to accept a wedding invitation literally, and goes to it because he has been assured, in black and white, that the "pleasure of his company is requested," can be better imagined than described. Perhaps he is a fellow clerk of Noo? starter. Not a dashing, daring fellow like Noostarter, who feels warranted in risking matrimony while friendship fills the sails, but a timid, cautious, plodding sort of fellow, conscious of a small salary and many claimants upon it. He is fond of Noostarter and would like to see the "old fellow" married, and he goes?to suffer. The gorgeous display rooms convict him of being a mean, miserly curmudgeon, who has not purchased his welcome. Not a single bit of that glittering array of silver and china and bric-a-brac is tagged with his name. The hot color mounts into his cheeks. He is ready to take oath that every man and wo? man bending over the display and reading the tags which give the pub? lic the benefit of knowing to whom Noostarter and his bride are indebted for each article, knows of his derelic? tion, and is ready to point the finger of scorn at him, if only the usages of society would permit them that genu? ine expression of contempt. In better case than this is the young woman who "swears of entirely." Said one of these wise virgins in hearing of the writer recently: "I cannot afford to accept invitations to weddings now-a-days. At the very lowest calculation each one would cost me five dollars. I have lots of girl friends. All of my class are out and ready for matrimony. No use trying to hold fast by simplicity. Simplicity is clean out of date. "I began by manufacturing my of? ferings. My creations excited wonder and awe in the home circle. They were all 'perfectly lovely' in the eyes of my partial critics. But after I had been thanked at two weddings ili-con cealed scorn for 'my nice little remem? brance,' conviction seized upon me. I must not do it again ! I must invest. "To what extent must depend upon the exigencies of the case. That is, the probability of other folks giving. One does not care to inform the whole world of one's own poverty-stricken condition. One must either try to keep up with the procession or one must drop out. I have dropped out. "I found it too difficult to grade my good wishes on the established scale. Bisque figures, at $2 a pair, might be admitted to display rooms untagged. They were serviceable as chink fillers in the obscurity of the background. But the sender of them is sure to hur? ry pass them with the stain of guilt upon his cheek. Five-dollar testi? monials of affection will pass muster as second-class matter, warranting a tag, but it is only after one has recklessly passed the $10 limit that he or she can accept a wedding invitation with a clear conscience and walk through the display rooms head up. Who is prepared to deny the faith? fulness of this picture ? In ye olden times?those good old times that were perhaps a little better in some respects, very much slower in all respects?marriage was a solemn undertaking to a young couple not overburdened with pelf. The bride elect was not an idle lassie who cold? bloodedly calculated the possibilities opposite-each name on the lis t of the invited. Her chief concern was in beautify? ing herself for the tremendous occa? sion, bestowing weeks of industrious toil on the trousseau, which was largely the out-put of her own skilled labor and delicate fancy. The groom-elect was haunted with grave apprehensions touching the solemn duty of making home comfort? able for her coming. This duty had not been transferred to his friends and acquaintances then. He was the home maker. Custom makes cowe :ds of us all. In nine cases out of ten we give simply because we are expected to give and because others are giving. The fashion of displaying wedding gifts with the giver's card attached was a bold stroke for diplomacy on the part of its origiuator. One needs an unusual equipment of hardihood to pace around three sides of a room de? voted to the drplay of gifts sent in response to invitations, in company, perhaps, with agift-bringer conscious? ly satisfied with the commercial value of his own offering, and not wince with dishonest shame. There are but two courses left open. Either to give on a scale not commen ? surate with your ability, but with that of other givers, or "drop out," as the wise virgin expressed it. The wed; ding gift shame has reached the pro? portion of a public tax, and we doubt if many will be found to pronounce the picture here drawu an exaggerated one, or the strictures here passed un? just to any degree. ? "They say,"' says Spriggins, "that it will take three generations to make a gentleman." "That," replied Wiggins, "opens up a pleasant pros? pect for your grandson."?Life. ? Nurse (as she puts Robert to bed)? and what would you say if your mamma should have a little baby brother or sister for you when you wake up in the morning. Robert? Tell her I'd rather have a dog. ? A female codfish will lay 45,000, 000 eggs during a single season. Pis? catorial authorities say that were it not for the work of the natural ene? mies of fish they would soon fill all the available space in the seas, rivers and oceans. ? Types are not used in printing Persian newspapers. The "copy" is given to an expert penman, who writes it out neatly. The various articles arc then arranged in page form, and lithography multiplies them. ? The progress of invention and discovery and applied sciences is con? stantly adding new words to our lan? guage. The words and phrases under the letter "A" in Worcester's dic? tionary are 6,933, in Webster's 8,358, in the Century 15,621 and in the I Standard, now in progress of publica? tion, J9,736. A True Story. Judge Sampson W. Harris, of the Coweta circuit, who is in the city at? tending the Judges' Convention, told an interesting story to a party of friends in the corridors of the Kimball house yesterday evening. Judge Har? ris was reared near Montgomery, Ala., and it was in the days of his youth that this story commenced, and subse? quent years added more interest to its development. It was away before the war when Judge Harris' father, whose name was also Sampson W. Harris, owned a fine farm near Montgomery, and the old ante-bellum residence was one of the best in the country. It was here that Judge "Samps" Harris, as he is fa? miliarly called, spent his boyhood days. Near this old home lived a poor man who delved hard from day to day fctr the scanty food that kept body and soul together. Mr. Williams had sev? eral children, the oldest of whom was named Tom. Tom was a very bright boy, but as his father was poor his chances for education were limited. The boy'8 poverty did not discourage him, though, and he put in his long, idle indents at study. At length he concluded that he wanted to go to col? lege, and he commenced casting around for some friend who would loan him the money. He called on Judge Har? ris's father and his earnest and honest talk won the admiration of the old f;entleman, and he loaned young Wil iams thp necessary money. Tom Williams went to the University of Georgia and put in every spare mo? ment to his study, and he soon went through and went back home. His education was all Tom Williams had and he owed for that, but he did not owe for it long. Very soon after Tom William's re? turn from college he met Miss Rebecca Judkins, the only daughter of Captain Judkins, who was one of the richest men in South Alabama. He owned more slaves than any man in the State, and his landed possessions were im? mense. Tom Williams, in the mean? time, had been admitted to the bar and began the practice of his chosen pro? fession. He made a few visits to Miss Judkins, but later the father informed his daughter that she must no longer allr- "-oung Williams to visit her, for he j poor and he could not think of agreeing to a match between them. Miss Rebecca heard her father's re? quest, but she did not heed it. Tom Williams, however, discontinued his visits to the fine Judkins mansion, but now and then he and the young lady met at neighbor's houses, and soon an agreement was made to marry. Tom Williams would not marry the girl till he had made known their intentions to the father, who oreated a scene. In his wrath he told his daughter that he would disinherit her if she married that poor chap, but this did not change the girl one bit. One night when the full moon shone in brilliant splendor a small urchin entered the elegant Judkin mansion about 10 o'clock, bearing a short note to Miss Rebecca. The parents had gone to bed. The note read: "Meet me behind the garden in one hour." Tom." Rebecca was dressed in her "every? day" plain dress and put on her large sunbonnet and went to the place des? ignated in the note. In a few mo? ments Tom Williams came up alone, and after a few words were said Tom and Rebecca ran, hand in hand, down the cotton rows to the Atlanta and Montgomery Railroad and then count? ed the crossties to a little station three miles away. They just reached the station in time to catch the night express from Montgomery, and in a very short time they landed at West Point. Ga., where they were married by the light of the moon. The happy Tom and Rebecca took the first train home, where they landed u-e next day at noon, and immediately went to the humble cottage of Tom William's fath? er. Tom Williams was a hustler. The next day after his arrival at Lome he bought thirty acres of land, and he would practice law all day in town, and at n'ght he built a snug little cot? tage in less than two months. Tom, in the meantime, had been elected a justice of the peace, and the salary of his office and his law practice kept him and Becky up very well. The young wife had been raised in affluence?had never worked a day in her life, but she soon learned to cook and to do Tom's darning. Tom Williams made money, as the saying is, "hand over fist." He was one of the strongest Democrats in the town. He worked hard for his party and had an abiding faith in its success. It was in the presidential race of 1856 that Tom took the greatest inter? est. He said from the start that Buch? anan would win and he backed his judgment with some of his hard earn? ings. In this race Tom Williams, who had already accumulated several thou? sand dollars, added twenty-five to thirty-thousand dollars. When the election was over Tom Williams built an elegant mansion. This was five years after his marriage. He nor his loving wife had ever visited or spoken to Rebecca's parents. One day a ne? gro arrived from the Judkins home, bearing a note from the Captain to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Williams, in which he begged pardon for his former conduct and cordially invited a visit from them immediately. Tom consulted with his wife, and it was agreed that the wife, who was then the mother of two beau? tiful children, should make the visit alone, as Tom was very busy in court. So Tom had his fine carriage brought out. and the wife and the two little children went to the Judkins' home. The meeting between father and moth? er, brothers and sisters and the daugh? ter who had been apart so long cannot be described, but after the week's vis? it Mrs. Williams went home and along with her were fifty of her father's choicest negroes, which were a gift to Tom Williams. The old parental love which had been hid for a long time re? turned. Tom Williams still continued to prosper, not only in this world's goods, but in everything. He became one of the foremost lawyers of his sec? tion, and later was called on to be the standard bearer of the Democracy of his district for Congress. He was , overwhelmingly elected and served his I people and State four terms. Such prominent Georgians as Judge Buch? anan, Henry Persons, H. R. Harris, Judge Crisp, J. H. Blount, N. J. Hammond, and a host of others know Tom Williams to love him.?Atlanta Constitution. Bucklens Arnica Salve. 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The report comes fronrP' ~"VthaV' a colony of 2,000 Waldenses a. . likely-,}' to settle in North Carolina next spring. ? There has never been a man strong enough to keep his mouth shut'V when he should, without God's help.. ? The two largest trade concerns in the country are the Standard Oil company and the Armour Packing company. ? Educate the whole man?the head, the heart, the body: the head - to think, the heart to feel, 'and the body to act. ? We are doing a great deal toward , making ourselves look old and ugly .'. when we give way to worry and fret fulness. ? A tombstone in a cemetery near a small Vermont town bears the in? scription : "Sacred to the memory of three twins." ? Russian Jews are reported to have settled in South Africa in large numbers, and are among the most prosperous colonists. ? Germany has one postoffice to every 1774 inhabitants. In propor? tion to population, the United States has twice as many. ? 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