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m BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEKSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOENING, SEPTEMBEK 13, 1893. VOLUME XXvTEI.?N?. 11J The Best Hair Dressing To restore and preserve the fullness, beauty, and color of the hair is "X number of years ago, by reoomnerda tton of a friend, I began to use Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop the hair from falling out and prevent its turning gray. The Unit effects were most satisfactory. Occasion il 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. Baaham, McKinney, Tex. Ayer's Hair Vigor Prepared by Ihr. J. 0. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Kau. Sold by Druggists Ereiywfce-% SPECIAL ! At G'A. Reed's Emporium. Step in some pleasant day, To see'his handsome line of goods, * Andjhear the music'piay. You'll find polite, attentive Clerks To show you all around, With J. A. Ruddock in the lead To give the tone and sound. Of Harvard, Kimball, Everett, Pianos of high grade, Of Ivers & Pond and Wheelock, Too much cannot be said. Organs in combination grand, With cases sure to suit; There are parlor styles and chapel styles, And baby styles so cute. Some good sheet music then you want For melody and rhyme, A nice assortment here you'll find, 'Twill cost you but a dime. Then if you want a new Machine, Step into No. 1 ; You'll find a varied stock from which To choose from e'er you are done. There's nothing on the market Can match the famed New Home, Yet others in our stock may suit The pocket-books of some. Then we want to show our Buggies, And you know it is but right That We should bave u leader? Well! pur leader's "Hug-Me-Tight." The girls I know'll be willing, ? And their smiles be sweet, indeed, If you are fortunate in buying From the firm of C. A. REED. BUGGIES, WAGONS AND HARNESS. I |N the lafe sale of the General Stock of Goods to Brown, Osborne & Co., we reserved Buggies,. Wagons, Harness, &c, which we now offer to the trade at reduced prices, and ask for a call from all wanting such articles. The business of the old concern, and also that of Bleckley & Fretwell, for Mules and Horses, must be wound up, and we beg everybody owing us a cent to come on and pay up. at once. We will take Cash or Cotton in exchange for debts. Remember, that settlement must be made. We want no costs or proceedings in the Courts. We have helped j/ott. Help us now by paying your honest debts. Very truly yours, SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY. Anderson S. C., Aug. 19,1893. BROWN, OSBORNE & CO. HeREBY respectfully inform the public that they have bought the Stock of Goods of Sylvester Bleckley Company, and will continue the business at the old stand. The new Firm is composed of Fred. G. Brown, W. R. Osborne, James T. Pearson and J. H. von Hasseln, who desire to extend thanks to their many friends and customers for the liberal patronage so generously bestowed upon them in the past, whilst connected with the Sylvester Bleckley Company, and to assure them that they will do everything in their power to merit a continu? ance of the same. Our Mr. F. G. Brown will be found on the Square at all times prepared to give ypu the highest price for your Cotton. Our Buyer, Mr. W. R. Osborne, has gone North to buy a large and com? plete stock .of Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Boots and Shoes, &c. &c. BAGGING AND TIES?We have on hand and arriving 1200 Rolls Bagging, 1500 Bundles Ties, and will make it to the interest of Farmers and Ginners to'buy their supply from us. Yours very truly. xBROWIM, OSBORNE & CO. STEAM ENGINES. [E have on hand for sale at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES?in fact, AT COST, and les3 than Cost?the following Machinery. They must go : One 25-horse power Erie City Cached Engine. One 20-horse power Erie City Dv ic ed Engine. One 30-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Steam Boiler. One 20-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Steam Boiler. One 20-horse 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. Oue 12-horse power Nagle Portable Boiler. One second-hand 5-horse power Engine. Several Cotton Gins, Feeders and Condensers, Cane Mills, Evaporators, &c. 8?, Now is the time for BARGAINS. If you mean business get our prices. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO., EIiBERTON, GA. ANDERSON, S. C. THE ROLLER TRAY TRUNK THE MOST CONVENIENT TRUNK EVER DEVISED. - -* 'TEH TRAY is arranged to roll back, leav lag the bottom of the Trunk easy of ac C^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 got the (Wrongest Trunk made. If your Dealer cannot furnish yon, notify the manufacturers, k H. W. ROUNTREE & BRO., RICHMOND, VA. BOTTOM PRICE.. Buckeye Milk Churn! On tbe 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 qnart ft>c. per dozen, two quarts $110 per dozen. L? H? SEEL*. JOHN K. HOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ANDERSON, - - 0. C. Feb 5,1891 81 8m v FACTS TS. THEORIES. Mr. Editor: So much has been written and said on the silver question in the last few months that we ordi? nary readers are almost bewildered. Possibly no single question has been discussed so much in American poli? tics, and it seems now that a large part of our people have reached that point where assertions and theories are more readily received than facts. It requires no talent to start a theory, and hence the country is full of them. It is the only stock in trade of the av? erage politician. What does he care for facts ? What regard has he for truth when a bold assertion, regard? less of truth, receives the applause of the rabble ? Having read several articles on the money question pro and con, and hav? ing seen statements that were not in keeping\ith the facts, led me to in? vestigate somewhat historically.. the legislation on the subject of the coin? age of gold and silver, and by request of some friends I am induced to let those of your readers' who may desire to know a few facts on the subject have the benefit of them. This sum? mary is not complete. I have not the time to give details, besides it would be too tedious to the reader. I do not propose to state anything on the au? thority of the politician. His author? ity is never trustworthy. He has but one idea, and that is a fat office. "Give me office or give me death," is his patriotic (?) battle cry, and if nec? essary to get it, truth and honesty must give place to dark and devious way. There are men, however, who still have regard for truth, and who will state facts as they are for truth's sake, and upon such authority we can safely rely. Our people?hot, impet uoup Southern people?would do well to take a calm, dispassionate view of public questions: especially the money question that will affect them more in the future than* it has in the past. Denouncing every man as a fool who will not shut his eyes and swallow without question the asser? tions of some cross-roads politician is a very unhealthy sign, and inspires contempt for the man who has no stronger argument than passion and prejudice. Adam and Eve never realized they were naked, and would have remained in blissful ignorance but for the tempter. The South has been united ?rsolid, prosperous and happy?and who told her she was not ? The temp? ter in the garb of the oily-tongued politician. Like his protypc of old, he simply lied, and the people, like foolish Eve, have believed it. But the people say we need money. Well, some of them do, and"Bome have already had too much. Men some? times . imagine they need whiskey when they don't. It is quite amusing to see a sick man calling upon a doc? tor to prescribe whiskey for him. One man will insist that we need more money, because if it becomes plentiful prices will go up and the people will get more for what they sell. The writer still remembers, while a boy during the late war, money was so plentiful that he paid $25 for a pocket knife worth ten cents, and was offered $400 for a silver watch that could be bought for about $4 or $5 to-day. What fortunes can men make?on pa? per ! But they are "like bubbles which on water stood." The more whiskey the toper has the more he will drink, the more money the spendthrift has the more he will spend. Plentiful money begets extravagance, and noth iug demoralizes society faster than ex? travagance, which begets licentious? ness, luxury and wantoncss. "Give me neitheir poverty nor riches" was the prayer of the wise man, but possi? bly we arc ncaring that time when the great Apostle to Gentiles speaks of strong delusions being sent "that they should believe a lie." "The love of money is the root of all evil," yet the people cry give us money. We arc becoming impatient of the restraint of the Bible teachings upon our passions. Make us a "calf !" As for this man Moses, we care not what has become of him. "As for honesty, truth and morality we care not what becomes of it?make us money! This be. our God," seems to be the cry of a large part of the Amcr can people, and it remains to be seen whether Congress, liko Aaron of old, will yield to the importunity and make for the peoplo a "silver calf," and then prepare "flat money" on which to feed it. Let the people be- J ware. Blind leaders in every age succeed in dumping both themselves and their blinded followers in the ditch. Money is alright and proper in its place, and is necessary for the busi? ness transactions of life. It may buy conveniences and necessaries of life, but beyond that it is practically use? less. What is money ? What is its value ? Why is it that apioce of brass or iron the size of a silver dollar, Stamped in the same way, is not mon? ey ? Why is not a piece of paper stamped $5 money ? Is not iron more useful than gold or silver for or? dinary purposes ? ?an not paper be made cheaper and easier than forcing the bowels of the earth to yield up the shining particles scattered here and there in mountains of worthies.1; rub? bish ? Ancient history reveals to us the fact that at one time skins was the earliest form of money, but we have not time to discuss money philosophi? cally nor historically. We will take a single definition comprehensive enough for all to understand. It is defined as '"that which passes freely from hand to hand throughout the community in final discharge of debts and full payment for commodities, be ing accepted equally without reference to the character or credit of the pcr jon who offers it, and without inten? tion of the person who receives it to consume it, or enjoy it, or apply it to aiy other use than in turn to tender ? to others in discharge of debts or piyment of commodities."?Money, T\adc and Industry by F. A. Walker. .the value of money depends upon th\ amount in circulation and the amount of goods sold?without stop? ping to show what are the requisites of honey, suffice it to say that the civiized governments of the world hav^ adopted gold and silver as the two petals that fulfill these requisites. In tin earlier development of govern? ment, these metals passed by weights, and iristotle points out that it was aftenbrds determined in value by men pitting a stamp upon it in order that i might save them from the trouble of weighing it?Cyclopedia Brhania, VoljpVI. It oujht to be perfectly obvious to every rim of intelligence why this stamping of coins should be done by the Go^rnment, instead of by each individu^ for himself who might pos? sess the ietals. Passing to the proposition, viz: that the -v,lue of money depends upon the amout in circulation, there are those whoinsist that-the volume of currency irithis country is too small ?not enoug per capita?and, there? fore, the gcernment ought to coin more money and if she has not the bullion, thei issue "fiat money." What a hoby is this for the politi? cian 1 Let tri reader think for a mo? ment. Sy th last census the popu? lation of the tiited States, putting it in round numlrs, now would be six? ty-six millions Suppose the government should inflate our curacy and was to make the startling a?ounccmcnt that on the 1st day of Icember, through its agents, would plje $10 in each inhab tant's hands, thl would be $660.000, 000. How muchyould that money be worth unless tho;overnment had the gold and silver tdedecm it ? People might fool themllves with it for a while, just as sde men' do in over stimulation, but Isincss men would no more take it th| they would coun? terfeit money, unlla there was a ba? sis of gold or silvejfor it. The Cen? tury for August shvs that until the outflow of gold bfen the per capita of the United Stati was $25.62, and at the beginningjf June it was $23.83. That woulmake the volume oi_ currency, on aiasis of Bixty-six millions, $1,576,0/,000. No other civilized governmit has such a vol? ume, except Frai}, her per capita being $43.11. ThtJnited Kingdom has $17.60, Germar$16.40. Since that time^ leston, acting di? rector of the min has prepared a statement, or tabHshowing the ag? gregate stock of goland Bilver in the principal countries (the world. The gold is" stated to b;$3J582r,605,000, silver $4,042,700,00 Gold of the United States is pi down at $904, 000,000, silver $62530,000, the full legal tender being $5i00O,O0O in sil? ver. The per capitis all classes of money: France $403, Cuba $21, Netherland $28.88, Atralia $26.75, Belgium $25.33, Unit<States $24.34, United Kingdom $13.4Russia $7.16. The countries using Id and silver bimetallic, are United l,ates, France, Belgium, Italy, Switz<and, Greece, Spain, Netherland, Tury and Japan. Gold?United Kingch, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Soajnavian Un? ion, Australia, Egypt,*Janada and Cuba. Silver?Russia, McxicCentral and South America and Indii The aggregate of uncgred paper money is put down $2)5,872,000, distributed as follows: Sch America $600,000,000, Russia $0,000,000, United States $412,000,*, Austria $260,000,000, Italy $113,0.000, Ger? many $107,000 000, Fran'$81,000, 000 and Great Britain $50jo,000, Still some of our wise I political leaders say we have too sril a uper capita," and that it is leshan $10. The question is whbh willle people believe, the man who has .ken the pains and trouble to examinee mat? ter, adds up the figures andjikes a balance sheet, or the inanhat has never seen the figures, bi, simply raves and makes loud asserti?. We are so blinded by passion a preju? dice, and inasmuch as mahof us have never experienced the easure of knowing that I, Tom, DiciHarry and the Devil, has never had Hexact $23.88 at one time, therefore ,e per capita is less than $10. Of Cvse it is so, we have not had it. aw, I must believe when those in cfge of the United States Treasury refts in 1891, for example, that the go sil? ver, copper, gold and silver rtifi cates, Treasury notes, United ates notes and National Bank notes ^vc gatcs $1,500,446,389, it is trueAl though gold was exported very ely during the last year, when wecotler the fact that the mints were still in ing money as directed by Congrc \ am disposed to believe those 10 have an opportunity and arcpre.su.,i to know, rather than some voluble v. itician or partisan newspaper edit to the contrary. Man can believe. much of truth as he can of falschooc unless his moral perception has ben buried beneath passion and prejudice. Some men, however, prefer that which is false, because the bent of prcjuditc lias deflected them in that directior. 1st Without stopping to discuss the sec? ond proposition upon which the valui of money depends, the government ol the United States at the beginning saw the necossity of having its own currency, and it is to the history oi chronological order of these Acts the reader's attention is now directed. Without going back to the Continental Congress and its diro dilema in 1782, or 1786, when the proposition for es? tablishing the mint was inaugura? ted, let the reader remember Mr. Hamilton's Report in 1791 .started the question. It is needless almost to re? mark that Mr. Jefferson took issue with Hamilton, and these issues have never yet been settled by the Ameri? can people. But let the reader re? member that nothing in this world is ever settled until it is settled right. Each party, Republican and Demo? crat, presumes to represent the right, and every four years the contest rages around the ballot box and on the stump. April 2, 1792, the Act establishing the mint was approved. Jefferson suggested the silver dollar as the unit. The Spanish pillar dollar was taken as the basis, (The pillar dollar, so call ed from the two piUars on the reverse, representing the '^Pilfers of Hercu? les." Called also the milled dollar from its milled edges.) The weight was fixed at 3714-16 grains of pure sil? ver, 412 grains standard silver. Gold was directed, to be coined in eagles, half eagles and quarter eagles. The ration was fixed between the two met? als at 1 to l?^that is one pound of gold was equal in value to fifteen pounds of silver. The first publio building erected under the Federal Government was the mint in Phila? delphia, -where by Act, 1792, it was put into operation by coining sil? ver half dimes. A few cents and half cents, authorized by the Act, were coined in 1793. In July, 1794, the Bank of Maryland made the first de? posit in silver French coins valued at $80,715, which was' coined into dol? lars and half dollars. The following year, 1705. a Boston merchant depos? ited some gold, which wns coined into half eagles. By the Act of 1795, the director of the mint was authorized in coining to give the preference to. gold or silver bullion deposited for coinage, so far as respects the coinage of the same, but this in no way affected the Act of 1792, that directed in the exchange to give silver coins for silver bullion, and gold coins for gold bullion, weight for weight. But the amount of currency was so small * series of^Acts were passed from time to time n)aking cer? tain foreign coins a legal tender. The paner money issued under tne charter of the first Bank\?f the United States without a solid:;hasis did ndt fill the bill, and. the ^Government'si name added no strength, not having the gold and Bilver to back it up. Besides the Bank of England resumed specie payments in 1819,v and nearly all the gold and silver had crossed the water. The second Bank(of the United States had been chattewH, but the institu? tion never foimdsavor with the Dem? ocratic party, ag? in 1832, when an Act was passed ??extend its charter, President Jacksm vetoed the bill. Its days were njmibered, and as its bills would necessarily be called in, the time was ripe^or gold, which by 1834 had beoome'n^Qjre plentiful. Its most conspicuous^ champion Was the celebrated Thomas Af:Benton, of Mo., and on Juno 25, 1834^tl|e gold coinage Act was passed, when :jold went up and silver went down/ -The ratio be? tween gold and silver /was changed 1 to 16.002. The eagle j .which contain? ed 247 4-8 grains of pure gold under the 'Act of 1792, under this Act of 1834 was made to contain 232 grains of pure gold, a gain of. 15 4-8 grains in favor of gold. In six years $18.000, 000 in gold was coined, and the "Ben ton-mint-drops" rolled like sweet morsels into the pocketsof the people. In 1837 again Congress tinkered with the currency. Silver Ayas content to take a subsidiary position. Its standard was fixed at 4121 grains, the eagle at 258 grain?, .. and out of 1000 parts by weght 900 was to be pure metal and 100 alloy*,v In 1849 again gold s$)od forth as the recognized currency^of the coun? try, and the mint was directed to coin the gold dollar weighing 25 8-10 grains, 9-10 fine, 23'22-100 being pure gold. jf I In 1853 the free coinage of frac? tional coins was sWpcd: ? The weight of.the half doll$r was fixed at 192 grains, quarters, jdimes and half dimes at one-half, onerfifth and one-tenth, respectively of the half dollar and made a legal tender upf to $5. These could be paid out . "only in sums of $100 in exchange for gold coins at par, and the Act also authorized the coinage of the $3 piece. February 21, 1857, the legal tender of foreign coins was taken iway, and coinage/of half cents stop? ped. In 1865 the)three cent piece was luthorized and:the words "In God we Trust" ordered io be stamped on coins. May 16, 1866j.;ithe nicklc was au? thorized to he coined. February 12, 1873, silver was qui 3tly laid aside... As the heathen Chi? nese had his heart set on silver, the 'Trade Dollar" was authorized?420 irains?specially for the Chinese. Dwners of silver bullion of $100 vorth, oould get 100 "Trade Dollars" u exchange. The champions of sil? ver called this demonetizing silver, [n 1876 Congress declared the "Trade Dollar" no longer a legal tender. The iggregatc amount., of "Trade Dol ars" issued underlie Act of 1873 is ixed at about $35,965,924. It is stated that about four-fifths were ex? ported. The dollar found so few "riends, after being kicked from pillar ,o pest, was bought up by its own 'fathers" at seventy-five cents on the lollar, and redeemed by the govern ncnt at one hundred cents on the dol lollar. If any one besides Itepubli tans ever got the benefit of that short ?,ut to wealth, he still remains in ob icurity. July 22, 1876, silver began knock ng for re-admittance. The Secretary if the Treasury was authorized to is lue $10,000,000 in exchange for an squal amount of. legal tender notes, ind was authorized to purchase a ccr ain abount of silver bullion at the iiarkct rate. Its managers not being mtircly satisfied with this slight re ognition, like the camel in the fable, ?eing cold, pleaded with the Dcino ratic Congress that it might be al owed to put his head inside, and on February 28, 1S7S, Congress restored he coinage sf the standard silver dol ar, 412* grains, but the gold dollar cmaincd the unit of value under Act, >f 1873. The Secretary was aulhor zed to purchase silver bullion at the neo'ket int.ee thereof from time to time, lotless than two, nor more than four milion dollars worth per month. President Hayes, captain of the shop, refined admission to the head, and ctod the bill, but the bill was passed ver the veto. Samuel J. Randall, Minorat, was then speaker of the hus. Under the Act holders of $1 cold deposit it, and get a certifi cat fSni the Treasury receivable for cusiji* taxes and public duos. Mr. Blail of Mo., has been the chief uianrc" of the "silver camel." and aftcroiing its head in, persisted in takinh'.s body in also, and in 1SD0 the lli.se of Representatives said ad? mit lu. Mr. Sherman shrewdly guessethat if he got in he would say lo golojf y0lI are not satisfied with my cor^inv you can get out," quietly switchtone leg to one side and says we willalce you in part at a time, 4,500,Otouiices per month, and for provendyou shall have certificates payable gold or silver. This was entirely ^factory to the managers, as they kw it would he but a short time bet. the government would have no gjj ;,t the rates of $54,000,- 1 000 per aUIUl and there would be nothing lofcut tli?- "camel" for the govemmen Fortunately for the ; country a i },avc been wise enough ? to see the V, it had nut turned out l just as Mr.-) ornian expected, and as theDemocu, propose to cutoff the supplies oijhe "camel" before he i wastes all the government's gold, the silverites arc regaling the country with howls, gnashing their teeth and threatening vengeance dire. "Robbery of the people." "Oh, the dear, dear people !" "Down with the traitors!" "Hang and quarter the traitor!" People, let the demagogues howl. You keep cool and don't make fools of yourselves because some of? fice-seeker chooses to make an ass of himself. If you will take the trouble to examine the reports of the director of the mint you will find that up to June 30, 1888, the United States pro? duced in Gold.$1,367,015,450.44 Silver. 461,049,459.34 Difference ' in favor of gold.$ 905,965,998.10 Of this amount of gold the South, to-wit: Alabama, Georgia, South Car? olina, North Carolina, Maryland, Ten? nessee, Texas and Virginia produced over $33,000,000, while she produced only $69,178 in silver. The large sil? ver mines in the West, being now worked at a much larger profit than gold can be obtained, has increased the supply of silver, and just as long as the South will play cat for the monkey, the silverites will have your gold, then what will you do ? From the best sources that can be obtained the stock of silver in the principal countries of the world, ex? clusive of the United States, is near $3,397,000,000, the commercial value of which is thirty to forty per cent, except in the countries where it is in terconvcrtable with gold coins. Do you wish to seo the flood ? Then raise the gates. "Wherever there is a free market, thither will the silver pro? duct go, and down will go your own. You may dam up a branch or creek, and direct the water for your own uses and needs, but you cannot dam for a flood. I would like to pursue the subject' further, but this article is already too long. Except in France, silver does not seem to be regarded as money in any of the strong governments of Eu? rope. France retains the double standard, Italy in name only, and she is now floundering in financial dis- j tress, wholly unable to maintain her ; standard. History repeats itself of- j toner in finance than on any other subject. "We are not in the first panic the country has survived, and from each financial panic the country has emerged richer and more prosperous. The September Forum has an ex? cellent article showing our periodical spells. We arc a spasmodic people, and have our spells. First, 1814-18 ; second, 1826-29 ; third, 1837 ; fourth, 1848; fifth, 1857; sixth, 1864; sev? enth, 1873; eighth, 1884; ninth, 1890-93. In all nine attacks of finan? cial colic. Don't heed the cry of "stop thief" uttered by Republicans and howling Populists. The Republi? can party insisted in doing business at the old stand in 1890 and 1892. The want of confidence in American securi? ties commenced long before Mr. Clevelands' election, and foreign inves? tors prefered taking chances with their gold in their own country instead of ours. I am not a "gold bug." I have not had a dollar of the stuff for many months. Silver is more familiar, and a few fractional coins now and then enables me to purchase a few supplies from agricultural friends, yet I am not a silverite. Still I would not object to a little more of the article. We do not want a money that will take $10.00 of it to buy a 25-cent pocket-knife. Any money that is not worth one hundred cents on the dollar in any country is a cheat and a swin? dle. Our country should have a currency sufficient for its business. If the currency is paper, it should be worth one hundred cents on the dollar in gold and silver. The silver dollar should be just as good as gold and vice versa. It is utterly futile, nonsensical to talk about running the finances of the gov? ernment upon any other than the strickest business principles. If there were $5.000,000,000 of gold or silver currency in the United States to-day, I would not be any the richer, the farmer would be none the richer, nor the mechanic, unless he had some pro? duce of sonic sort to exchange for that money. But the poor debtor ! That is what causes visions of horror to arise in the mind of the politician ! Who made nie a debtor ? Who made you a debtor ? Surely in vain is the net spcad before the bird. Yet we are asked to believe, that the creditor quietly spreads his net before our very eyes and into it ive walk, with less sense than the birds of the air. And the politician .vants to get us out. And what for ? He wants office. He don't care any? thing about your debts?not a straw, [f he could get you out, he knows you rvill be in again, heels-over-head, be? fore the next "campaign of education." How grievously disappointed would he 3e at the next stump-speaking should fie find the people free from debt. The mullcnium would be unhealthy !or his schemes. Do you not sec that ic would not be i'i it. Lotusremem jer that one wiser than the politician jays, "The rich ruleth over the poor, ind the borrower is the servant of the endcr." Again, remember that the nspircd writer says, "The wicked bor roweth and payeth not again." Would rou cease to be servants, then pay up ind quit borrowing and speculating on i credit, hoping for a rise in prices. )rink less whiskey and beer. When he South quits borrowing her corn, lour, meat, wagons, buggies, mules ind farming implements from t-M iVcst, her shoes and clothing and noncy from the North and East, then, ind not till then, will she cease to be a icrvant to the lenders. The wildcat heories of government would not dis urb her people. Labor riots, strikes, raud and corruption would not flour sh in her borders, but bountiful har est from her generous soil would nil lor bams. The fleecy staple would ill her coffers. Her never failing ivers would turn her mills with pro it, the fragrant air and balmy sun hinc will bring brightness to the hecks of her fair women, and health 0 her .sturdy sons. Contentment, joy nd happiness would linger around very fireside. Charity would cement very virtue, and with the sweet angel f peace brooding over the land, in nc united voice all could exclaim ;tliis is my own, my native land/' j. L. Tri bulk. Bncblens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Jruises. Sores, Ulcers'. Salt Rheum, fever Sores. Tetter, Chapped Hands. Jhilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup- i ions and positively cures Piles, or no 1 my required. It is guaranteed itogive icrfect satisfaction, or money refund- ; d. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale y Hill Bros. 1 ? Beware equally of a sudden friend i ud a slow enemy. ^ BILL ARP. William Talks About Bees. Atlanta Constitution. There is one good thing about get? ting stung by a bee. It makes you forget all other troubles for a little while. I have had lots of fun with these bumblebees for the last few days and it renewed my youth. Time was when I thought it a big thing to fight "yellcr jackets" and take my chances with the other boys. The bravest boy was the biggest fool and would stay at the hole the longest and thresh all the leaves off of his brush and get stung before he surrendered. I am not that brave now, and I fight with exceeding caution, but I have killed over two hundred in two days and fought fair and square. My weapon is a crum pan and I take 'em coming and going, but they crowd me sometimes and my antics attracted attention among the nabors, for they can see me in the upstairs piazza, and one good lady in? quired if Major Arp was subject to fits. The bees come out where the weathcrboarding joins the floor and my repeated assaults have made them mad generally. Up .to this time they have stung every member of the fam? ily, even to the little grandchild who lives with us, and I'm going to exter? minate them if it takes all summer. Wc triod hot water, but it will not reach them. Just think of that poor little child going round with one eye closed and afraid she will lone the other one ; find Mrs. Arp's head all swelled up with two bumps that a phrenologist couldn't diagnose. We can't sit in the downstairs piazza with any security. It is a bigger thing right now than bimetallism or free coinage or the tabernacle meeting. In fact, it is a relief from politics to fight bees and study them in the books. I wish the editors would hold up awhile and go to the woods and fight yellcr jackets or wasps or hornets and get stung a few times. It would be a relief to the country and I have heard that such things are good for rheuma? tism or any nervous affection and I know that it takes the conceit out of a man for awhile. My book says that the proper name is "humblebee," but there h no humility about these at my house. There are from 70 to 300 in a colony and so I know I have nearly whipped the fight. They live only one summer and never rebuild in *-he same place. The books say there are three kinds ?the masons and the carpenters and the diggers, but vi>at they are good for I don't know unless it is to make a man more willing to quit this world and prepare himself for another. If there were no snakes and tarantulas and stinging things and deadly conta? gions and demagoguges and thieves and fusses we wouldent want another world. The little honey bee is a trump and a wonder from stem to stern. It is good to ruminate about their wisdom and skill and their government. Just think of one queen being the mother of 20,000 and controlling them all more absolutely than any human mother controls her children. Just think of 19,500 workers and only 500 drones in a colony. These drones are the gentlemen, and remind you of our gentlemen loafers and swells who set about on the piazzas of the hotels and watch the girls go by. But the droaes don't enjoy themselves but a month or two. The queen gets tired of them and gives her orderE and then the massacre of St. Bartholomew begins. In an hour's time every one is slain? stung to death by the workers, and their puffy, bloated carcasses dragged out and tumbled on the ground. There is no little thing in nature more wonderful than the honeycomb that these little workers make. Its mathematical construction gives the most space with the least enclosure, the arched top and bottom of every cell, the exact and uniform thickness of every division and the wisdom shown in shaping the whole storehouse to suit the shape of the hive is, indeed, marvelous. Then there is the division of the workers into brigades and regi? ments and companies, some to gather honey, some to make wax, some to build the cells, some to stand guard, some to wait on the queen and be her escort as she moves around, and a whole regiment to keep their wings going like revolving fans and supply fresh air in the hive. That fan busi? ness makes the humming that is heard in the hive day and night. It is the flutter of the wings of the fanners. How in the world they do everything in the dark is a wonder to me. I was talking to my friend, 'Mr. Bussey, about it on the train some time ago, ind he told me confidentially that he was experimenting to see if he could not cross honey bees with lightning bugs and get up a bee that could see liow to work at night or in the dark. He has applied for a patent on the idea, but whethor he has succeeded or not in his experiment I have not heard. He was very sanguine, and the only trouble, he said, was about the cross Snding room in the tail for the fire? works and the. sting too. But Mr. Bussey is an engineer on the State ?oad and knows what he is about. The sting of a bee is said to be the nost perfect war weapon ever invent }d. It is cquisite in its mechanism, [t is a hollow tube, and yet the point jf the finest cambric needle is immense vhen compared with it. Under the nicroscope the sting is perfect in its shape and smoothness, so much so hat the point is almost invisible, vhercas the point of the needle under he same glass rooks like a great rough Towbar with seams and ruts and idges all over it. This is the differ mce between the works of God and nan. And yet the same Almighty land that made the little bee with his wonderful instincts and attachments nade the universe?the boundless, imitloss universe where there arc stars 0 be seen by the Lord Ross telescope, phosc light takes b'0,000 years to reach is. Contemplate that for a moment, ?e little conceited minds who think it mart to say, "I don't believe in God. am an agnostic." Sixty thousand ?ears for the light to reach us, and jord Ross said that the star was in he near edge of the universe. Light ravels through space about 190.000 tiiles in a second of time, which is lore than ten billions of miles in a ay. Then count it for a year and hen for 60,000 years and give it up. Vc may well exclaim, "Lord, what is nan that Thou are mindful of him." t is well for us all to stop a little rhile now and then and ponder upon he works of creation from the little usy bee to the confines of that uni ersc that wc may some day occupy as pirits unfettered by the flesh. Rut Imust up and fight some more umblcbees, for one has just stung the og, and he is rolling over in the grass 1 a tumultuous manner. ?ILL Aap. A Queer Family, At the mouth of a coal bank in Nes shannock township, six miles rrom New CaBtle, Pa., stands a little two roomed cabin, built mainly of logs and plastered with mud. The roof is made of clapboards and the one door of the cabin is a plank that swings on a pair of rude wooden hinges. Everything about the cabin has anairof antiquity, says the New York Advertiser. The occupants are miners and their appearance is in keeping with their surroundings. The father, John Lewis, is a widower, seventy-three years of age, a little stooped by his continuous work in the mine, but still enjoying good health. There is noth? ing about his appearance to indicate eccentricity, except his long beard, which reaches below his waist. While working he keeps it tied in a knot, and on coming out of the coal bank his fi.rst attention is given to his beard, and he never ceases washing and scrubbing at it until it is as white as snow. For over fifty odd years a razor has never come upon his face and he regards his whiskers as?almost sacred. Mr. Lewis has four sons, who arc no less odd in appearance than himself. They are John and Edward and George and William, two sets of twins, aged about fifty years. None of the boys has ever shaved, and as they are almost exact counterparts it is next to impossible for even those intimate with the family to distinguish them apart. This curious family is of Welsh attraction, but the boys were all born in New Castle. Their mother dying shortly after the birth of George and William, Mr. Lewis bought the coal bank in Nesshannock township, put up the cabin above described and removed thither. For one year he had a housekeeper take care of the children, but since that time no woman has ever crossed the threshold of his humble home. Mr. Lewis has an aversion to their society, and when he makes his month? ly visit to New Casile for supplies he buys at the stores located on the out? skirts, and if perchance he sees a wo? man on the sidewalk he will take the middle of the street. The sons very seldom visit town, and when they do always in company with their father, to whose side they oling more closely than a ten-year-old boy. None of the family is able to read or write and they are consequently very superstitious. They have no faith in banks and, although worth probably ten thousand dollars, hoard their money. The income from their coal bank is quickly changed into gold, to be deposited in their safe. This safe, according to neighborhood gossip, would baffle the ingenuity of the most expert bank robber. It con? sists of a stout iron box three feet square. This box is placed at tbe bottom of a well twelve feet deep located underneath the cabin. The well is filled with stone and from a trap door a common gas pipe three inches in diameter leads to the box. Deposits in the safe are made by drop? ping the coins down the gas pipe.. The men never take anything out and a coin once dropped there is supposed to be salted down for life. There is said to be three pounds of dynamite secreted in the well which can be touched off by a secret fuse at any time in case of an attack by rob? bers. A knowledge of this fact has doubtless kept the Lewis family free from the notorious gang that has been committing depredations in Lawrence County during the last year. The family is not known to have any rela? tives .in the country and who will get the contents of the iron box and their real estate is a matter of much specu? lation. They have no intimate friends, their dealings with the world being confined to selling coal, and in this connection it might be mentioned that five large dogs are used by the men in hauling the coal from the bank. These dogs are treated as members of the family, sharing the same roof and eating the same victuals. Father and sons take week about at cooking. They do their own baking and wash? ing and three pounds of sugar, it is said, lasts them nearly a month. Every member of the family is an in? veterate smoker. None of them is ever sick and they attribute their good health to the use of tobacco. A Ouery Ahout Time. R. D. W. asks : "Give a history of our time reckoning system. Is it cer? tain that wo calculate from the time of the birth of Christ?" To begin with, I will say that there is not a man living to-day who can tell exactly why one day is called Satur? day, July 1, 1893, or what the calcula? tion is based upon which give that as a result. There has been so much tinkering with and changing of time reckoning systems, that I frankly con? fess that I hardly know how one would go about even attempting to answer R. D. W.'s puzzler. It has been clearly established that Christ was not born on January 1 of the year with which the Christian era begins, but some time in the spring (believed to be April 7) in the year A. 1). 4! Here is an insurmountable chronological error to begin with. Then, again, others take an entirely different view of the matter (most notably Professor Sattler, of Munich) and have proved to their own satisfac? tion at least, that we are five years be? hind in our mode of reckoning instead of being four years ahead; thatChrist was born in the year 5 B. C, accord? ing to chronological reckonings, which would make this the year of our Lord 189S instead of 1893! One curious thing is claimed by astronomers, which the editor, being a common mortal, is not able to verify?viz: that we are gradually losing time, and that by the end of the year 12,893 (which is a con? siderable way in the future) the sea? sons will be completely reversed. All this is being brought about by what is known as the "procession of the equi noxes."?St. Louis Republic. How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Re? ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.. Toledo, 0. We the under signed, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially ible to carry out any obligations made jy their firm. ^Y'est & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, rplcdo, 0., Walding, K-'nnan & Mar? gin, Wholesale Druggists Toledo, Jhio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intcr mlly, acting directly upon the blood md mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. ? When you tryjto be good try to )c good for something. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? "Who purposely hurts his would cheat his God. ? ? The man who takes the cJm thinks he is only receiving hisdesseH ? Why is summer the pride of tfl year? Why, because it goeth beforJH fall. 1 ? If brevity is the soul of wit afl we who are "short" ought to be veil ! ? The head of the rattlesnake hnl been known to inflict a fatal wounJ after being severed from the body, j ? The value of the coal product of} the United States is nearly four tiraeq the value of the silver product. ? "Do yon call your wife your bet? ter half. Mr. Henpeck?" "Better half ? Hfm! My friend, she is more than three-quarters." ? A letter mailed in London April 7 and remailed in Hong Kong made the circuit of the world in the fast time of sixty-two dayfi. ? Fifty-six years ago the block on which the Chicago postofiic'e now stands, was sold at aactfoa Xor/$ft)ffif It is now worth $5,000;C00. ?: According to the tracks found in a stone quarry in Conr/Jctiout, a bird with a foot eleven inches in length: once inhabited those parts. ? j ? "There goes Van Dabble, thl artist. Is he rising in his profession ^ "0, yes. Why, he has got so he can borrow five or ten dollars at any time." ? To rise in the morning with a bad taste in the mouth and no appe? tite, indicates that the stomach need* strengthening. For this purpose, theH is nothing better than an occasional dose of Ayer's Pills taken at bed time. ? Wife?"You are just as ugly as you can be. Before we were married you. used to hold me close in your arms by the hour." Eusband?"Did I ? Hum! Well, I suppose it was to keep you from talking." ? A summer hotel youngster wai talking with a lady on tho piazza, and her father appearing, -the lady said ?facetiously, "Who is that gentle? man ?" "That's not a gentleman," replied the youngster, "that's papa." ? A cute little three-year old Cari? bou, Me., girl was eating candy and watching a monkey the other day. Her mother asked if she thought the monkey liked candy. "I think so," was the reply, "papa does." ? People who live in new countries are liable to be prostrated by malarial fevers. Inhabitants of cities,' by reason of bad drainage and unwhole? some odors, suffer from similar dis? eases. Ayer's Ague Cure is warrant? ed a specific for all malarial poisons. ? Warner, the big corset manufac? turer of Connecticut, has found .it necessary to discharge several hun? dred of his women employees and has provided board for them until such time as he will rcquire"their services. This is another example of what helps make both the times and the world better. ? An execution in the Indian Ter? ritory is a unique proceeding. A few days ago it became the duty of a sher? iff to legally slay a ' Choctaw. Two men held the criminal's hands. The sheriff knelt five paces in front, aimed at a bit of white paper pinned over the Indian'8 heart, and shot him dead. ? The largest stationary engine in the world is used to pump out the zinc mines at Fridenville, Pa. Its driving-wheels are thirty-five feet in diameter and each weighs a little over forty tons. The cylinder is 110 inches in diameter, and the engine raises 17, 500 gallons of water every minute./'v ? An old toper, who once attendee! the exhibition where a learned pro? fessor caused several explosions to take place among gases produced from water, said: "You don't catch,mc putting water in my liquor after this. I had no idea that water was so danger bus, though I never take much of it.'? ? According to an old tradition, silver was first used as a coin in Great Britain 1,900 years ago. A mint is said to have been established at Col? chester, in the County of Essex, Eng? land, by one of the native kings dur? ing the reign of the Emperor Augus? tus, and gold, brass and silver coins, to a small extent, were issued there? from. ? The "wigglers" in standing wa? ter, which afterwards develop into mosquitoes, can always be killed by pouring a few drops of any kind of oil ?coal oil will answer?on the surface of the water. The insects breathe through their tails, and when the wa? ter is covered with oil, their air tubes become clogged an 1 they die of suffo? cation. ? A country fellow, anxious to see the queen, left his native village and went to London to gratify his curiosity. Upon his return his wife asked him what the queen was like. "Like !" cried Hodge. "Why, I was nev'r so cheated in all my loif. What does think, Margaret ? Her arms arc loike thine an' moine, although I have heerd a score o' times her arms were a lion and a unicorn." ?? May is considered an unfortunate marrying month. A do/wn east editor says that a girl was asked not long since to unite herself in the silken tie to a brisk lad. who named May in his proposal. The lady tenderly hinted that May was an unlucky month for marrying. "Well, make it June then," honestly replied the swain, anxious to accommodate. The damsel paused a moment, hesitated, cast down her eyes and said with a blush, "Wouldn't April do as well ?" A Mystery Explained. One of the most learned and digni? fied members of the Austin bar pot a terrible rebuff from Old Uncle Mose last week. The o]d man had Jim Webster hauled up before Justice Gregg for stealing his Spanish chick? ens. As Jim Webster has political influence, he was defended by two lawyers, f'nclc Mose was put on the stand and made out a bad case against Jim Webster, testifying to having found some of the chickens in Jim's possession, and identified them by the peculiarities of the breed. One prominent law .vor then under? took to make Uncle Mose weaken on the cross-examination. "Now, Uncle Mose,"' said the law? yer, "suppose I was to tell you that I have at home in my yard half a dozen ihickens of that identical same' breed?" "What do you suppose I would say, boss ?" "Yes, what would you say if I was to tell you I've got that same kind of shickcris in my yard ?" "I W'iuld say, boss, that Jim Web? ster paid up ycr fee with my chick? }ns," and a pensive smilecrei under the old man's^eajg^ the back of his hcj