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BY GLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S.C., WEDNESDAY MOBNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1893._VOLUME XXVIII. -NO. 13 A FREE TRIP JUST now around the world would be a most enjoyable thing, but the undersigned wants to inform the trading public that he has Just opened business at the old Hubbard stand, in the McCully Block, and will be more than pleased? TO Greet his old friends there. His Stock consists of Staple and Fancy Groce? ries, Cigars, Tobacco, Confectioneries, Fruits, Etc.* and? THE \ Prices on the same are so low that the stingiest man in the County would be so well pleased as to take a trip to the? WORLD'S FAIR. Come to see me when j ou want anything in the Grocery line. I want to build up a good trade, and will make it to your advantage to ;rade with me. .*3r* All orders from City patrons will be highly appreciated, and will be delivered promptly and FBEE OF CHARGE.- Bteptctfully, G-. F. BIG-BIT. D. 8. MAXWELL. B. C. MAXWELL. D. S. MAXWELL & SON, WHOLESALE ? AND ? RETAIL DEALERS US STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, No. 5 Chiquola Place, ANDERSON. s. c, SPECIAL ! 1 At C.'A. Reed's Emporium Step in some pleasant day, To see his handsome line of goods, Andjhear the music.'play. 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 shew our Buggies, And you know it is but right That we should bave a leader? Well! our 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. STE?A ENGINES. w E have on hand for sale at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES?iu faat AT COST, and less than Cost?the following Machinery. They must go: One 25-horse power Erie City Detached Engine. One 20-horse power Erie City Detached 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. | One 12-horse power Nagle Portable Boiler. One second-hand 5-horse power Engine. Several Cotton Gins, Feeders and Condensers, Cane Mills, Evaporators, &o. Now is the time for BARGAINS. If you mean business get our prices. . SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO., ELBERTON, GA._ANDERSON, S. C. GLENN SPRINGS WATER ? WILL CURE ? Dyspepsia, Liver Complakt, Chronic Heptatitis, Jaundice, Torpor of Liver, and general debility following upon malarial diseases. Dropsy, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Uterine, Renal and Cystic Dbeases, Htematuria and Catamanial derangements. -FOR SALE BY a., nsr. todd & OO. May 81,1893_48_6m THE ROLLER TRAY TRUNK the Most Convenient trunk ever devised. THE TRAY Is arranged to roll back, leav? ing the bottom of the Trank easy of ac? cess. No thing to break or get oat of order. Tho Tray can be lifted oat If desired, and to buy this iityle Is a guarantee that you will get the ttrongest Trunk made, If 'jam* Dealer cannot finmlsh you, notify the nianqfactnrera, ? h. w. r?untree & SRO., RICHMOND, V*. BOTTOM PRICES. Buckeye Milk Churn! On the Concussion principle?a boy 8 years old can churn 8 to 10 gallons easily. Refrigerators, Water Coolers, Fly Fans, Fly Traps, At Cost. MASON'S FRUIT JARS Otie quart 85c. per dozen, two quarts $1.10 per dozen. L? H? SEKT;? JOHN K. HOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ANDERSON, - - S. C. Feb 5,1891 81 8m Some Farther Remarks Upon the Sil? ver Question, Mr. Editor: With your permis? sion I will offer some further remarks upon the silver question. I have no hopes, however, of satisfying such of your readers as have already made up their mind to go with the populists. The "silver craze" has Beized upon some of our people, and their percep? tions are so one sided, it is utterly impossible to make them comprehend the force of an argument. Every intelligent man knows that under the Silver Act, known as the Sherman Act, that silver is there re? garded as a commodity, subject to the fluctuation of the market like corn, cotton, wheat, or any other product, and that it has depreciated in value. Mr. Leech, director of the mint, in discussing this question, asks this question : "What is to be gained by discontinuing the use of one of the money metals and throwing all the work upon the other ? Not stability of value, for as already shown for nearly a century, when the bimetallic system existed in France, the relative value of gold and silver did not vary appreciably. These considerations lead to the query: is there any reme? dy for the evils which have resulted from the depreciation of silver and the consequent appreciation of gold ? No settlement of the present monetary confusion is possible without interna? tional action. The solution lies in the adoption of international bimetallism. International bimetallism is eminent? ly practicable and just." Possibly Mr. Leech's authority may be doubt? ed. I turn to Vol. 2, Report of the Silver Committee, 1679. Mr. Bland, an avowed silverite, "was one of that Commission. The testimony, ques-. tions and answers of the witnesses ex? amined are quoted fully. Henri Cer nushci, one of the most eminent wit? nesses, and an avowed silverite, to question put by Mr. Willard : ? "Is tl^re any probability that the remonetization of silver in the United States would either affect the public credit of this country or influence the value of American securities ?" Answer: "My conviction is abso? lute on that point. If you are alone in coining silver it would be impossi? ble for you to place other bonds in Europe, and then I do not see how you could .resume specie payments." Question : "Is it the general belief among the leading economists and financiers of the old world that the mat? ter of the adoption of a money stand? ard in the United States is one which our own people are fully entitled to determine and settle, provided the national debt is paid in the coin in which it was stipulated to be paid at the time the debt was contracted ?" Answer: "Certainly you have the right of choosing for your domestic use a monetary standard, and to main? tain for the national debt 4 different standard, biit in so doing you would create great confusion." Question by Mr. Bland: "If the United States resumes specie pay? ments, adopts the bimetallic system and makes coinage free, will not France remove the restrictions on coinage of silver ?" Answer: "Certainly, but she can hesitate if bimetallism is only nomi- ! nal in the United States, and if, in fact, you continue to make your pay payments with paper money." I call up another witness, President E. Benjamin Andrews, of Brown University, a member of the recent Silver Conference in Brussels. I quote bis letter in full in the Septem? ber number of Review of Reviews. Dear Sir: "It seems to me clear that the commercial world can never again know stability until the pedes? tal of full money, on which the world's business stands, is enlarged by the addition of silver to the world's volume of full, final, exportable mon? ey. To such restitution of silver to its ancient'function I see no safe or sure road save through international agreement, and to this there is, to my mind, no other certain means but the cessation of silver purchases by the United States. So long as' we con? tinue to purchase silver, Europe will fully expect to see us soon upon a sil? ver basis. That, of course, would re? lieve the silver troubles of Great Britain, Holland, Germany and France for an indefinite time to come, and would render it unnecessary for those nations to take any action on the sub? ject. But if we stop buying silver the gold price of silver will so fall as to render the new British experiment in India a total failure. Another result would be a further appreciation of gold (fall prices) in England itself, so terrible that the most nbdurate raono metallist would at last begin to see the ruin which the execution of his theory must entail. In consequence, I believe that Great Britain would be forced to make common cause with us in this important interest. The other nations of Europe would also join and the problem be solved." If Economists are to be helievod, upon testimony, accurate, logical rea? soning from cause to effect, and from experience and observation, the Gov? ernment of the United States cannot safely enter alone upon the work of remonctizing silver. But our fledgling politicians of an hour can settle the whole business in about two and a half minutes! What magnificent financial talent stalks through our land wholly neglected ! It looks as if we might furnish the gnat Govern? ments of the world just the men they need to run their finances ! They are much like the darkey's "doc." He had been tried for everything and proved a failure, therefore he must be good for something, and, therefore, catching coons was his special fort. If it takes brains as well as money to run a small business successfully, afortiori, will it take greater brains to run a large Government successfully. But make us money say the silver ites and populists, and let the matter settle itself. If the leaders of the populists think they are the first dis? coverers of "wild-cat" banking schemes, they are very much mis? taken. The land-loan and sub-treas? ury idea is not a new one. The Eng? lish Land Bank, of 1696, tried just such a scheme, and it proved a great failure. Then little Rhode Island tried a cheap money scheme, and won for herself the sobriquet of "Rogues Island." Who has not read of John Low's gigantic swindle in France in 1718, and of the moral and financial ruin that follwed ? And the same scheme obtained a foot-hold in the Argentine Republic, and notwith? standing the financial ruin and wreck, and the frequent revolutions of Gov? ernments in that part of the world, Senator Stewart seriously proposes to take the United States into copartner? ship with those shifting Govern? ments, South and Central America and Mexico. Between 1837 and 1843 Michigan experimented with "wild-cat banks," and only financial disaster was the result. Oh, but we South Carolinians are so smart! Lord ! how smart! Well, we have succeeded more than once in proving to the world that we are about as big set of fools politi? cally as could well be packed in one small territory?we seem to want the balance of the country to turn fool so that it may be in the fashion. Noth? ing iB so sensitive as capital. Every time Congress tinkers with it it cre? ates distrust, and the panic was the logical outcome of the politioal fool? ishness on the part of the people clamoring for cheap money. We can ,not catch birds with chaff. We can not lift ourselves over the fence by tugging at our boot straps. We can't save ourselves from drowning by pull? ing at the hair on our head. If wc will not learn from our past experi? ence and observation, then there is no hope for us. Just so long as we are buyers, the sellers are going to demand in ex? change good money. Just so long as we are borrowers, the lender is going to see the security is gilt-edged before he will part with his money. If the farmer did' not have to pay for sup? plies to run his farm, he would have money to lend. Will we undertake to build a Chinese wall around our coun? try that we may foster cheap money. If we had a money so cheap as to make a bale of cotton worth $100, how would the farmer be the gainer? Would not his supplies cost him in proportion ? When the South was blockaded we thought we were inde? pendent?would run our own finances to suit ourselves. I have before me a receipt, of which the following is a copy: 1863. Mr. Daniel Brown, To J. Scott Murray. To 200 pounds sugar at 70 cents per pound.$140 00 Received payment. J. Scott Murray. Theo how can we reason to our? selves that a cheap money would make us better off. The man who owns $100 worth of assets, on which he can realue only $50, i6 not worth a cen? time more than $50. But I will for? bear. I would refer your readers to an article written, not by a politician, but by a scholar?the author of the ablest Political and Constitutional History, perhaps, that has yet been written of this country?Prof. VonHolst, of the Chicago Uni? versity, a German scholar of recog? nized ability and authority. The reader will find no claptrap stuff about it, but plain, practical common sense, to which but few men can lay claim. His article may be found in the September Review of Reviews. The reader might do well also to read the article of Prof. J. Lawrence Laughlin, University of Chicago. These men are not in the arena of pol? itics. Prof. Laughlin says: "A good currency should be permanently es? tablished on general principles, a panic should be treated as an acute disease?a state of things not perma? nent. The condition of our currency is anomalous. It is a disgrace to a civilized country. Like Topsy, it 'has just crowed' without reasou or rhyme. It has been created or modi? fied, not according to monetary science, but according to the demands of poli? tics." And now all our wiseacres?masters of economical science?learned in a night from no one but inborn preju? dice, demands another modification to suit the political whims of the hour until the next upheavel of office-seek? ers and public plunderers. The mighty puessant Governor of the great silver State, Colorado, wants his peo? ple to wade through blojod up to the horses' bridles, while the more cold? blooded Governor of South Carolina, recommends the South Carolina pro? cess of hanging all who dares stand in the way of the free coinage of silver, and such, alas ! is the education of our country. TTow long the people will continue the rule of that class of men who re? gard no law but their own sweet will, who are so blinded by prejudice as to vilify and abuse those who may choose I to differ with them, remains to be seen. Water never rises higher than its source. Every nation is judged by its own standard. Each individual of society may reach, but never passes, the standard of excellence in politics, virtue, morality and religion he sets up for himself, but almost always stops just before he gets there. J. L. Tribble. BILL ARP. The Old Blfle That Did Good Service In Our Grandfather's Time. Atlanta Constitution. The ages have their names historic and prehistoric. There are the stone age, the bronze age, the iron age, the golden age and the dark ages, but the age in which we live may well be called the age of invention. Never before in the history of the world has there been such an era of wonderful inventions and contrivances for the use and comfort and conveniences of mankind. And it does not stop or even call a halt. Every year brings new surprises, and now when we hear pf some bold, incomprehensible propo? sition we do not dare to say it is im? possible. There is no advance in literature or painting or architecture or oratory or many other arts that require the highest order of intellect. Indeed, it is to be lamented that we no more have a Shakespeare or Milton or Goldsmith or Burns or Tom Moore: no more a Raphael or Michael An gelo ; no more a Cicero or a Burke or Webster. Ripe scholarship has de? clined, and this generation has neither time nor taste for it, but in everything that lessens labor and cheapens the necessaries and comforts of life we are far ahead of'our ancestors. I was ruminating about this because I happened to come across an old time rifle with a flint lock and I handled it with reverence, for it had fired and fought in Jackson's war at New Or? leans, and was still preserved and honored by the great grandsons of the soldier who loaded it behind the cotton bales and waited to see the whites of the enemies' eyes before he pulled the trigger. The name of this rifle was etched in a rude way upon the barrel, and it was' 'Betsy.'' All of them had names in the olden times?feminine names, such as Betsy or Betsy Jane or Betsy Ann or Susan or Polly or Mandy or Kalline. Many of these old-time rifles are still in use, but the old flint lock has gone. Such x lock is a curiosity now. A town-raised boy has never seen one. The hardware stores have ceased to keep them. The gunmakers have ceased to make them, and yet these are the locks that did the "work in the revolution and the last British war and the Mexican war and made many an Indian bite the dust, many a deer and turkey give their meat to the hunter. I used to sell these locks when I was a boy clerk in my father's store, and could talk fluently about the hammer and frizzen and roller and tumbler and the dog and the pan. We sold flints by the score?flints that were warranted sure fire. The flint was made fast between two clamps in the cock or hammer, and when the hammer was projected forward against the steel frizzen the contact made sparks to fall and they fell into the little powder pan that was attached to the touch hole. If the touch hole was stopped up there was a "flash in the pan" and that was all. If the flint did not make a spark, then the rule was to "pick your fliut and try it again." The powder in the little pan was called the priming, and if it was not securely covered by the frizzen and got wet in the rain, it would not ignite and hence the soldier was enjoined to "keep your powder dry." These old time expressions are still familiar and historic. Some times we still hear a backwoodsman say "now cut your patches," which is an expression of defiance and comes from the manner of loading a rifle. A small piece of cloth or rag was laid over the muzzle, the bullet laid upon it and pressed down into the bore just enough to clear the knife and then the cloth or patch was cut off smooth with the top of the gun. The patching had to be just thick enough to make the bullet go down tight when forced by the ramrod; some times it went too tight and would get lodged hard and fast and had to be blown out by putting powder in the touch hole. The bul? lets were all molded at home, and if the necks were not cut off very smooth, it made them deflect a little and miss the gunner's aim. The deflection was very bad until rifles were invented. Rifles mean little spiral grooves ex? tending from the muzzle to the breech. They give the ball a rotary motion before it leaves the gun and keeps that motion in its flight, and even if a ball is a little one-sided or irreg'ular, it will go straight to the mark. The gun 'took its name from the grooves that were called rifles. For years and years a man by the name of Rogers made rifles in Augusta, Ga., and they were celebrated all over the South. The equipments of a rifleman were many and peculiar, and were all home made. His powderhorn was a cow's horn, that had been boiled and scraped and filed until it was thin and clear and translucent. The charger was a small tube, made of a turkey bone or 'possum leg or boar's tusk, and held just a charge for the gun. A charge of powder is just enough to hide a bullet when in the open palm of the hand. The charger held that much and had a lip on one side. The pow? der was carefully poured in the gun and then the patchin was next in order. Now put on your ball and cut your patchin and rani her home. Then the frizzen was thrown back with the thumb and the touch-hole and the pan were filled from the powder horn, while the gunner held the Stopper between his teeth. The frizzen was shut down and Betsy Jane was loaded. The shot pouch was made of deer skin or coon skin and ornamented with the tail of the animal and some times with beads and embroidery. It con? tained various things besides the bullet molds and the bullets and the patchin. There was grease for the lock and gun wipers and flints and screw driver and a wire for the touch hole. Betsy and her turn-out was as much a part of the household as the baby. 1 used to trot after one of these old riflemen and carry Iiis squirrels and see him walk round the tree or watch and wait until the little fellow slyly exposed his head and crack went the gun and away sped the ball into his eye. A good rifleman never broke a bone in the body of his game. I know one now who will shoot a chicken or a guinea in the eye at sixty yards off hand. When his wife wants one for dinner he takes down Betsy and stands in the piazza until one comes in sight. * But the old locks passed away when the percussion caps came. Then I got to selling caps instead of flints. And now the caps have almost-passed away and the muzzle-loaders are going. There is no powder horn nor ramrod. Betsy and Jane are out. Good graci? ous! If Jackson's men had had these breech-loading double-barreled guns, with abag full of shells, there wouldn't have been a man left of all Packcn hani's army. But I don't like these; modern mur? derous weapons from Krupp's groat 1 guns down to the mean, little, sly, devilish, hip-pocket pistol. I wish they were all abolished, especially the pistol. I verily believe that Judge Hammond told the truth when he charged the grand jury that every man who carried one about with him was a coward. "Yes, gentlemen, I charge you that a man who carries a pistol habitually has got a streak of cowar? dice running down his backbone as big as a fence rail?and that's the law." But the old-time rifie is a quiet, peaceable gun. It is dignified. It makes but little noise and it takes a cool, unexcitcd man to use it in a proper manner. A man who is mad enough with another man to kill him never says "I'll get a rifle and shoot him." But he says: "I'll get me a double-barreled shotgun and blow his brains out," or else he slips upon him with one of these little, dirty, sneak? ing pistols and shoot him unawares. But the millenium hasn't come yet, and folks will keep on killing folks awhile longer. Ever since Cain killed Abel and Lamech killed the young man, folks have been killing folks and the devil is at the bottom of it all? will the time ever come when a man will not resist evil; when the Chris? tian who is stricken on one cheek will turn the other to his foe? Did the Saviour mean that? If he did, how many Christians are there? Bill Arp. Governor Dye. Elberton, Ga. , September 13.?The contest over the will of the late George Washington Dye promises to be much like the famous Dickson case which is still fresh in the public mind. "Gov norDye,"as he was called, was fa? miliar to all the citizens of Elbert county, and his familiar characteris? tics in life have furnished food for many a fireside talk. Indeed there are few persons who knew him well that have not regaled them? selves and friends with stories, some true and some exaggerated, concern? ing the strange man's ways, doings and sayings. To say he was strange but mildly expresses it. It is not putting it too strong to say that every element in his nature was strangely abnormal. This is true from the carriage of his person to matters of choice, taste, apppetite, habits and environments. He was a man of exceptionally strong mind, really approaching the high order, yet without much cultiva? tion. He was so modest and unas? suming it required much acquaint? ance with him to be able to form a correct estimate of his mental gifts. Owing to some physical trouble in early life, he acquired the habit of walking one sided. In his younger days he had a brisk and energetic gait, and to see him coming with his cane under his left arm with his right hand behind him, pre? senting one side ; furnished a spec* tacle not often seen. In early life he began his career as a merchant and it was then he began to manifest signs of strongmindedness. But he did not continue long in the pursuit of this business before he purchased a farm, and that day until his death tho world lost sight of him. He was never married, and the /only woman who lived at his home was his old slave, Lucinda, to whom and her eight children he left the bulk of his fortune. He seldom left his home, and never wanted man or woman to invade the premises. It is said that he had not slept on a bed for upwards of forty years before he died, but had used a pallet on the floor with several pillows under the quilts under different parts of his body, to suit his peculiar ideas of physical comfort. On this pallet he died attended by the faithful Lucinda and her children. When he was taken sick Mr. Dye told those about him not to let any of his white friends know of his ill? ness, as he wanted nobody hanging around his house after dark. He fur? thermore requested that he be laid away on his own land, and so he was quietly laid away in sight of the un? comfortable house in which he had lived so long. "Governor" Dye was very wealthy He had on hand ninety-one bales of cotton, and scattered around through some old trunks and boxes his execu? tors found $20,000 in cash. Besides this he held a check on a bank in Au? gusta for $10,000 more. In connec? tion with this property he had 7,000 acres of valuable land, all, or nearly all, of which he willed to Lucinda Dye and her children. He had one living brother, who is very old, and to whom he willed the interest on $1,000. This old brother, who spent the great? er part of his life in Alabama, moved back to Georgia a few years ago, after absence of about forty years. He went at once to pay the old "Govern? or" a visit. It is said that he was re? ceived very coolly. Whether this is true or not, the brother did not trou? ble him any more. The old man was suspicious of ev? erybody and seemed to feel that the world was his enemy. He was said to be a thoroughly honest imfh. He was true to his principles in politics, was harmless to his neighbors, and su? premely indifferent to religion. He had no desire to harm any man. There was no malice or spirit of re? venge in his disposition. He lived a secluded life and even his neighbors did not sec much of him in his latter days. How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Ho? ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their linn. West & Truax, "Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. ()., Wilding, Kin nan Qc Mar? vin, Wholesale Druggists Toledo, Ohio. . Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter? nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. ? Mason and Dixon's line, to which frequent mention is made, is the line between Pennsylvania and Maryland and Virginia, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between December, 1703. and December 20, 1707. It ix the parallel of latitude 39 degrees, 43 minutes, 20.3 seconds, north. The line as laid out, began at the northeast corner of Maryland and runs 244 miles due west. The impor? tance of the line was due to the fact that it marked the northern limit of slave territory before the war, ? Balti? more News. \ SOME THINGS HE LIKES, Sam Jones Is Fond of Fast Horses and Fast Trains-Extract From one of his Sermons. Up in Kentucky, where I have preach? ed, they have tried to get me to preach against three blooded horses,but I don't doit. I like them. I tell you when you walk out and look at blooded horses you see something. You know I believe Nancy Hanks is a greatly superior being to Sullivan and Corbett. Your old mules can get into a lot and kick the filling out of one another like Sullivan and Cor? bett, but when it comes to getting there in 2:06 it takes Nancy Hanks, and I believe Hanks is a higher bred animal than Sullivan and Corbett. I am candid in what I say. 1 like go. I like it. I tell you when you walk around these race tracks and see these horses, when you see five or six thoroughbreds prancing around, ner? vous, waiting for the word, and finally to see them leap and lunge with nos? trils distended and muscles quivering and see them at last come in on the home stretch neck and neck and every horse doing his level best ,God bless bless you, I will go one eye on that, preacher that I am. But I haven't seen a horse race in twenty years, and never expect to see another, I don't. I will tell you why. Not that I don't like thoroughbred horses, but I can't stand the dirty scabs standing around betting. I have seen some of those fellows. If you don't bind them up they are going to turn to razor-backed hogs. I like blooded horses, anything that will get up and go. I want to see Cartersville rise up in character and manhood and start to nob1 r achievements and grander liv? ing. I want to see that. LIKES A RACE. I love to see a race. I always did like a race. When I was fifteen years old there wasn't a boy in the town that could out run me. I don't like to get myself left, never did like that. I don't know what it is in a man,.but there is something in it that makes a man not want to get left. I want to head the procession. I was going in on the Ohio and Mis? sissippi railroad some time ago? going into Cincinnati, and just sev? enteen miles out of Cincinnatti the Big Four comes around a curve and runs paralell for seventeen miles, and after our train came to that point I looked out and saw the Big Four train, and there it was coming right along with us, and I reckon we ran for a mile. I could have held the ha,nd of the mau in the car opposite to me, but we didn't run far. I felt that we were racing and I looked around ?.nd saw everybody else feeling it, and it did not take me long to determine that everybody else was feeling it. We were racing. Now, you couldn't have pleased him better. Well, we ran along for a mile or two right along together, neither gaining on the oth? er. Our grand old engine had four teen cars counting four sleepers, and the others had a small engine with six coaches, counting one sleeper. Their little engine picked up and I saw the rear sleeper of that train was passing on by me and I said well we arc beat. It was no race at all, and I felt bad too. I never did like to get left. It is something in me, I cannot tell you what it is. Some of you fellows remind me of the old darky who had an old mule th .t just could put one foot before the ouier and a fellow came up and said, ''Uncle, have you passed anybody going up the road on a bay horse ?" and he said, "I meet as many folks as any man in town, but I never has passed any in my life." He never passed anything. God bless you, some of these fellows in this town have met as many fellows as anybody, but have passed nothing. Directly our grand old engine com? menced getting in her work; there was a little decline in the track, and with every pulsation I could feel her getting there, and as the momentum increased we had gotten so far ahead that the little engine was playing along by my side, and I sat there and watched the little fellow and saw the parallel rods playing up and down, I said, "Good-bye, little fellow, you will never get there now." I sat there and looked at that little engine. The firemen were throwing in the coal and he threw three or four scoops of coal into the furnace of the little engine. Then I saw the engineer shut off the water from the boiler and I saw him draw the noise lever still one notch higher and I saw him catch the sand rod and shake it and take hold of the throttle and jerk the lit? tle engine wide open, and the little engine seemed to lay down and the sparks just seemed to fly from every inch of her, and she began to recover the space she had lost, and she had run four or five cars ahead and I thought she was gone sure enough. But directly our grand old mogul be? gan getting in her work. I felt her mighty pulsations, and directly we were getting the space back, and di? rectly the little engine was playing at my side again and 1 said, "Good-bye you are gone this time," and we were running, it seemed to me at that very minute, seventy miles an hour down the track. The same old fireman was heaving in coal, and I saw the engineer again shut the water off, and I saw him again raise the noise lever and tussle at the throttle a minute or two, and the sparks flew from every inch of her, and bIic seemed to be rolling all over and began to get ahead and beat the race, and I said, "Go it; good eve? ning," and took off m^ hat. I had rather be beaten by a first-class fellow than to just beat a little pup. on the road to heaven. As T look around on my way to hea? ven I say I do wish I could sec the I grand old Presbyterian church and her grand old engine start away and see her move but, and see the grand old Methodist church out in line, and the grand old Episcopal church and the grand old Catholic church, all these mighty engines of power with their freight out on the track, with their throttles pulled wide open, the track 3andcd, and the sparks just flying, from all over there, each trying to heat the other, and as we roll on to? wards God a mile a minute and look down the river and see the Baptist and Christian steamboat coming up the rive just as fast as they can come. Oh, my Lord, help us to whip in the right, win the prize and wear the crown. Get up, shake the dust off ami bo a man. ? Brauford, Ct., has a. curiosity in the person of a man who can see like an owl. In the daytime his vision is poor, but in the night ho has no diffi? culty in distinguishing objects. It is -aid that prior to His birth his mother became frightened at an owl, Japanese Criticism of American Man? ners* America is large, strange and cold. The. climate seems to me to affect the people and make them rough and noisy. I never heard so much noise in my life. In ray home we do not make great noise. Our emotions are displayed, but they are quiet and me? lodious ; here joy and displeasure ap? pear to'call forth harsh sounds. They all seem to be in great haste and they chew something, all the time. The ladies are the most beautiful things in America, but they are very strange to me. They always want to Bhake hands. Then they kiss each other. I don't like that. In my country we only kiss our mothers and sisters. Their dress is beautiful. Their form is strange. I think they must wear something around the waist to" hold them rigid. They are all much larger than we are, yet their waists are smaller. The other day one of the lady visitors asked to come into my house to arrange her dress. She was as beautiful as the Java twi? light. Her dress was the same. But very strange. She wore jewels be? neath her garments where no one could ever see them. This seemed strange to me. If the American wo? man wears jewels on her knees, why does she not wear her skirt short .so people can see them ? This one had much lace on her clothes. We never wear any but a single piece on the waist. She had great quantities. She had r" so many skirts that I do not know how she walked. She never could run, I am sure. It is a wonder to me how they keep their hats on. I am sure that the thin cloth they wear over their faces would choke me. I like the children the best. They look so clean and always have their faces washed. I do not like the men in America. They are not polite. Since I have been here many men who have been with ladies have pointed their canes and fingers at me and said some? thing. That is very impolite. We. bow, but never point. The men do not take their hats off when they talk to us in our houses. It is not what they do in Java. At home we are happy, and live our JiveB slowly. Here people live lives in one day. A very strange thing here is the ques? tions asked. Everybody asks ques? tions. I am asked if I am married ; if I am single ; how old I am ; if I wash my hands and face every day; if I paint my hair black ; if my feet hurt me, and when I answer people laugh. That is very bad taste. Some day they will learn better, for they tell me this is a young country.?Chicago Record. Ills Grievance. A Boston man, at present number? ed among the bachelors, was talking with a young married man the other night and learned several inside secrets about experiences during his enjoy? ment. "Do you know," said the young man, "that just about three months prior to my marriage I began to get disgusted with everybody. I couldn't turn my head but some one wanted to give me advice like this: 'Oh, John, you're so foolish to get married now. Why not wait five or ten years? No man ought to marry until he has a competence. Why, it is absolutely foolhardy.' "Of course I knew that my fiancee was a very economical girl and thor? oughly understood my financial condi? tion. So you can imagine how I felt when a maiden aunt approached me to talk over the matter and began like this: 'John, this isdcwnrightfoolish ncss and I protest against it. These girls nowadays .think of nothing but spending money ; they never know how to save a cent. Now, don't you be foolish. If she loves you, and I don't think much of girls' love nowadays, she will wait for you all right.' This made me absolutely tired. "Then, again, when my relatives and friends began offering advice about my course after marriage I be? gan to internally squirm with rage. 'Going housekeeping ? Don't you do it. Grace is young and not used to household duties and it would just tire her out. Take my advice. I am older than you and have been through the mill, and just board for a year or two.' "Then another friend would say: 'Well, I hope you won't board with your wife's folks after you're married. There never was a couple that got along well when they lived with their wife's mother. She'll want to run everything, and you must remember that every mother still thinks her girls are babies. If you want to be absolutely free go to housekeeping. Then you can have things just as you want them. Now, I know all about it, for I have been there myself. "There, I won't talk any more on this matter. These areafew samples. Did I bore you ? I feel better at any rate. I might add that I have boarded with my wife's folks a month and we got along like?well, I suppose you'd smile?but in fact?we get along without clashing at all. School learning, ? A female teacher of a school, that stood on the banks of a quiet En? glish stream, once wished to commun? icate to her pupils an idea of faith. While she was trying to explain the meaning of the word, a small covered boat glided in sight along the stream. Seizing upon the incident for an illus? tration, she exclaimed? "If I were to tell you that there was a leg of mutton in the boat you would believe me, would you not, even with? out seeing it yourself?" "Yes, ma'am," replied the scholars. "Well, that is faith," said the schoolmistress. The next day, in order to test their recollection of the lesson, she inquir? ed? "What is faith?" "A leg of mutton in a boat," was the answer shouted from all parts of the schoolroom. Bncklens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup? tions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It, is guaranteed togive perfect satisfaction, or money refund? ed. Prise 25 ceilts per box. For sale by Hill Bros. ? Ciertrude Vanderbiit, whose com? ing out will take place this winter, is the daughter of Cornelius Vanderbiit, and will be the richest girl in'the United States. She is" 18, quite pretty, well educated and has enough fondness for outdoor exercise to please those who would not find her other attractions sufficient, All Sorts or Paragraphs. ? Hats for this country cost $300, 000,000 a year. ? The world uses 650,000 tons of coffee in a year. ? Happiness is not the end of life ; character is. ? Soap and water don't make an honest hand any less attractive. ? When people once begin to devi? ate they do not know where to stop.. ? Better live in a house without windows than in a house without books. ? Free coinage or not, South Caro? lina couldn't get along without a little "mint." ? A man never says as bitter things about a woman as a woman says about another woman. ? The growth of girls is greatest in their fifteenth year, and that of boys in their seventeenth.' ? Fran ce has more persons over 60 years of age than any other country; Ireland comes next. ? They tall of a person in Detroit who has two tongues. They say he is a man, but we know better. ? There are two things in the world upon which there have never been any improvement?the wheelbarrow and. j kissing. ? A North Carolina turkey-gobbler recently scratched up eight potatoes in a garden and has been sitting on them for several weeks. ? On lower Broadway in New York, in corner plots, land is worth from fif? teen thousand to twenty thousand dollars per front foot. j ? Every wife occasionally wishes she could vindicate herself by letting some woman her husband praises have him for a few weeks. ? A young lady in Philadelphia broke an engagement because her young man refused to shave off his moustache. She knew what hurt her. ? She?-"It'8 no sign because a girl is engaged to a man that she is willing to marry him." He?"No. Butitis a sign that the man is willing to run the chances." ? "Her religion is very much like her dress; she 'jan put it on or off, just as she pleases." "Yes, and.like her ball dress at that; there isn't very much of it." ? It is said that when an Indian dies his surviving relatives pay, alibis debts. We are acquainted with a man who we heartily wish would turn In? dian and die. .<; ? A recent wedding at Jamestown,, . N. Y., has resulted in nearly a score of cases of diphtheria, which arc said to have been contracted by kissing the bride. ' . ? A cotton boll, containing the unusual number of twenty-six pods, is claimed to be in possession of James* F. Williams, of Villa Rica Ga. Four pods are generally all that are found in each boll. ? Of the nine hundred and forty six papers and magazines pubjishe&in^, New York city, exactly one"*half?four hundred and seventy-three?are issued monthly. The dailies number forty six. ? Should misfortune overtake you, retrench, work harder, but never fly the track; confront difficulties with unflinching perseverance ; should you fail, you will be .honored ; but shrink, and you'll be despised. ? When the first Bible was printed in America it took three years to print the Old Testament. When the revis? ed version of the New Testament was j telegraphed to Chicago, in 1881, it was put in type and stereotyped in twelve hours. ? When an Armenian maiden at? tains her seventeenth year, and is not engaged tobe married, she niustun-. dergo a strange punishment. She is ? forced to fast three days; then, for twenty-four hours, her food is salt fish and she is not permitted to quench her thirst. ? "I notice," said the woman^witjr. the steel bowed glasses, '^kattf married woman happens to get killed the papers announce that "Mary'v Smith, wife of John Smith, was run over by the cars, for instance. If John himself gets killed there is not a word said of Mary, except to mention . that he leaves a widow. And that'.s why I'm kicking." ? The practice in early English history was to bury the heart and bowels of a prominent man in one church and his body in another. In 1838 the body of Richard Coeur de Lion was found buried in Rouen Cathedral, confirming the his? toric statement. His body was laid to" rest at Fontevaud, his bowels at Chaluz. ? It has been reported in Washing? ton that the Chinese telegraph syster. has been connected with the Russiab. system, so that messages may now be sent overland between any part of China, Russia and Europe, and by cable to Africa, North and South America and Australia. The whole world is now wired and telegraphically connected. ? One of the biggest dams in the world is the new one at Austin, Tex., over the Colorado river. It is 1,200 feet long, of solid limestone overlaid with red granite from Texas quarries. It is 60 feet high and has created a lake 25 miles long. It supplies the city with water and light, besides fur? nishing about 14,000 horse power in running manufactories. ? A New York chemist, accom? panied by two friends, has started on a foot journey to California. They expect to be 170 days on the way and to subsist exclusively on an elixir which the chemist claims to have dis? covered, and of which he says half a . teaspoonful three times a day will enable a man to dispense with food and sleep. ? When your shoes squeak go to a shoemaker and have him put a peg in the middle of the sole and there will be no more loud proclamations. An? other thing, when you buy a pair of new shoes and they hurt you put water in them and let it remain for a ' minute, and then pour it out, and if*" your shoes burn or hurt you after that you can say this is wrong. The water takes all the natural heat out of the leather and makes the shoes comforta? ble. ? The figure 6 played a prominent part in the life of a young woman who recently died at Americus, Ga. She was born on November 16, 1846; moved to Americus in 1856, joined the church in 1864, was married August 26, 1866, was the mother of six chil? dren and was buried January 6, 18T**,' at the age of 46, after having been married 26 years. There are eleven 6s in the facts, and 11 times 6 makes ' .the year of the century in which she was married, 1866.