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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. O, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1893, VOLUME XXYITI.-NO. 17 J. S. FOWLER WANTS TOUR ATTENTION. ALL PARTIES WHO ARE INDEBTED TO ME, By Note, Account, or otherwise, will please take notice that I have determined to collect money due me this Fall, and unless payment is made? By 1st of November, 1893, I will be obliged to force the collection of my claims by Law. &nd all parties who have given me Liens or Mortgages on Crops, and other prop? erty, and dispose of same, will be prosecuted? In conclusion, I wish it distinctly understood that this notice is intended for ALL who owe me, and that I mean to collect what is due me, regard? less of circumstances. Take notice, make payment, and save COST. J. S. FOWLER LADIES' STORE! 42.PATTERN HATS.42 PERFECT beauties, all different shapes and exquisite colors. All who have seen them exclaim, "I have never seen the like in Anderson 1" Forty-two Pattern Hats at prices ranging from $3.00 to $10.00. We have never had as Complete line of Millinery! In fact, our stock of BILKS, SATJNS, VELVETS, DRESS GOODS, NOTIONS and HIGH NOVELTIES has no equal in the up-country. Oar prices are as low as the lowest, quality of Goods unsurpassed. We cordially ask an inspection of Goods, and? DEFY COMPETITION. Oar polite Sales-ladies are ready and willing to show Goods and qnote prices. If yon are pleased with Goods and prices they will be delighted to sell you. Thanks for the past, and hoping for the future, we are Respectfully yours, , MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. A FREE TRIP JUST now around the world would be a most enjoyable thing, bat the undersigned : wants to inform the trading public that be has just opened business at the old Hubhard ptand, in the McCuily Block, and will be more than pleased? TO Greet hi* 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 Count? v/buld be so well J pleased as to take a trip to the? WORLD'S FAIR. Gome to see me when yon want anything in the Grocery line. I want to build up a good trade, and will, make it to your advantage to trade ""h me. ?&- All orders from City patrons will be highly appreciated, and will be delivered promptly and FREE OF CHARGE. Respectfully, q. F. BIGBY. FOR SALE. Fresh Stock Dixie Plows. . Big Lot of Castings for same. Stacks of Lace Leather, Rubber and Leather Belting. Machine and Cylinder Oil. "Big lot of Manilla Rope, For Presses, all sizes. Select Stock Builders' Hardware. ? Anything you need in Hardware. Prices way down on Hardware. Steelyards and Scalebeams. Yours, anxious to sell, CUNNINGHAM & HUMPHREYS, 16 S. Main Street. D. S. MAXWELL. B. C. MAXWELL. D. S. MAXWELL & SON, WHOLESALE .? AND ? RETAIL DEALERS IN STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, No. 5 Chiquola Place, ANDERSON. - S. O. GLENN SPRINGS WATER ? WILL CURE ? Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Chronic Heptatitis, Jaundice, Torpor of Liver, and general debility following upon malarial diseases. Dropsy, Diarrhani, Dysentery, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Uterine, Renal and Cystic Diseases, Hamiaturia and Catamanial derangements. - FOB SALE BY - -A.. IT. TOID3D Sc CO. May 81, )893 48 0m 00 > ? 4a K , -t o H U o H ft . oi LJ - a 0> 03 U <d n < m fa ^ O .t?SHii < 03 03 5 ?-"co S h " wj? "o m*~Vb. a S e a o b ? O 0)? O-43^ O 2 _a od t, o i- C? ^?1 <>?a5? .o ja 3C 5 g 3 co 0 * ? S w 3 >>a 5 - S3 ?3 g >, <5 o ? o ill* 3 E-i tuP* Trustee's Sale of Lands ! -o BY virtne of the power conferred on rae in a Deed of Trust executed by John Martin on the 4th day of October, 1893, I offer for sale the following property, to wit: A Tract of Land containing 440 acres, more or leas, adjoining lands of Robert Martin, Thomas Shearer,-Webb and others, situate in Rock Mills Township, Anderson County, 8. 0., on Seneca River, it being the Tract upon which said John Martin resides. This Land will be divided and sold in three or more Tracts to suit purchasers. - Said Land is offered for sale at private sale, and if not so disposed of earlier, I will sell the same at public outcry to the highest bidder, in front of the Court House door at Anderson, 8. C., between the usual hours for public sales, on Salesday in No? vember next Terms of Sale?One half cash, balance on a credit of twelve months, secured by bond and mortgage, with interest from day of sale at eight per cent per annum, paya? ble annually, with leave to anticipate pay? ment. Purchasers to pay extra for all ne? cessary papers. For piats and further information apply to J. J. Fretwell, Murray & Watkins, or the undersigned. JEPTHA HARPER, Trustee. Oct 11, 1893_15_4 MASTER'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Anderson. In the Court Common Pleas. J. H. Wardlaw, et al. ys. E. M. Stone, etal. Foreclosure, PURSUANT to an order made by Judge J- J. Norton in the above stated case, I will sell in front of the Court House at Anderson, 8. C , on Salesday in November next, during the usual hours of sale? ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND, Containing cr.e hundred and thirty-two acres, situated in Ga'vin Township, on Three and Twenty Creek, adjoining lands of A. W. Pickens, E. M. Stone and others. This is a fine Farm, well suited to stock raising and general farming. It has good bottoms and upland, plenty of timber, and very well watered. It is known as the John Wardlaw place. Mr. E. M. Stone will show parties wishing to purchase the land and lines. A plat of the place may be ses u in C. Ward law's office. Terms of Sale?Half cash, baiance on a credit of twelve months, with interest from day oi sale at eight per cent, per annum, secured by bond and mortgage of the premises, with leave to anticipate pay? ment. Purchaser r.o pay for papers. R. M. BURRISS Master. Oct 11,189a_15_4 MASTER'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Anderson County. In the Court of Common Pleas. Allen ?fe Cooley, Partners, Ac., vs. B. F. Morrow.?Foreclosure. IN obedience to the order of Court to me directed by his iionor J. J. Norton, I will tiell at A-riderson C. H., 8. C, on Sales day in November next, during the usual hours of public sale, the lands described as follows, to wit: All that ceitaiu Tract of Land, contain? ing 260 acres, more or less, situate in Cor? ner Township, County and State aforesaid, on waters of Little Generostee Creek, wa? ters of Savannah River, bounded by lands of Win. O. Eiriant, Wm. Hall, John W. Daniels and others, it being the same on which said B. F. Morrow now resides, and a part of the Tract sold by Win. Mc Gukiu, Sheriff, at sale of John Hutchinson in Ma-ch, 18117. Terms?One-half cash, balance in twelve months, wit'i interest, secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage of the premises, with leave to anticipate payment. Pur? chaser to pay for paper*. R. M. BURRISS, Master. Oct 11, 1803 15 3 MASTER'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ? Anderson County. In the Court of Common Pleas. L. H. Brock and T. H. Brock, Partners 4c, Plaintiff*, vs. D. S. Branyan, N. C. Branyan, 8. Bleckley and J. J. Fretwell, Partners, 4c, et al, Defendants.?Fore? closure on Rc al Property. PURSUANT to the order of Court here? in, I will expose to sale on Salesday in November next, at Anderson C. H., S. C, during the usual hours of public tale, the Laud described as follows, to wit : All that certain piece, parcel or Tract of Land, containing 254 acres, more or, lees, adjoining lands of Mrs. La vi ink Sea wright, R. B Kay, R. H. Branyan, J. C. Williams and others Terms?One-third cash, balance in twelve months, with interest, secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage 0f the premises, with leave to anticipate payment. Purchaser to pay for papers. R. M. BURRISS, Master. Oct II, 1893_15_ ? MASTER'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County ok Anderson. In the Court of Common Picas. Ezekiel Harris vs. H. Watkins and Reu? ben Watkins.? Complaint to Foreclose Mortgage on Real Estate. IN obedience to tbo order of sale in the above stated action, I will sell on Sal cud ay in November next, the Land described as follows to wit: All that certain Lot, piece or parcel of Land, containing 9b* acres, more or less, situate in Anderson County and State aforesaid, on waters of Barker's Creek, waters of Little Rivor, adjoining lands of John T. Green, Robert Branyan, and others. Terras?One-half cash, balance In twelve month3, with interest, secured hy bond of purchaser and mortgage of the premises, with leave to anticipate pay? ment. Purchaser to pav extra for papers. R. M. BURRISS, Master. Oct. 11,1893, 15 3 SECURE A HOME! -o OW IS THE TIME TO 8E0?RE A HOME, in a propperous City, for about the same money you pay for rent. We have Improved and unimproved Lots, in desirable localities, which we offer for sale on the Installment PldJ). Don't fail to take advantage of this offer. Call on or address McCULLY & CATHCART, Anderson, S. C, (Mil, 1*9) 16 4 BILL ART'S LETTES. Young Hen Should Insure Their LIycs for the Benefit of Relatlyes. Atlanta <rJon3tiluiion. If I had my life to live over again I would insure it. I would begin at twenty-one. I would take a life policy for the benefit of my wife or my moth? er or my sister or somebody very near and dear to me. If I was poor I would insure for $1,000, for that would take only $9 twice a year. Any young man could pay that much and if he died young the thousand dollars would help his mother or his wife or his sister so much. Funerals are ex? pensive nowadays, and a poor man can't afford to die unless his life is insured. If a young man who is get? ting from $50 to $100 salary does not spend anything for whisky or cigars he- could safely take a policy for $3,000 and pay $27 twice a year.' If he was twenty-five years old it would cost him only $30 semi-annually?not as much as his cigars. If his Balary was $150 a month, he could afford $10 of it each' month for insurance, and that would carry a policy of $5,000. What a blessing that sum would be to the wife or the mother or the sister. I know a young man who carries $10, 000 for his father and mother. They are old "and poor. He supports them out of his earnings, but fears he might die before they do and then they would be helpless. If he outlives "them the policy becomes his own. Life insurance is the best savings bank in the world for a young man. He gets it so cheap. Now, here I am, old and poor, and am carrying only $2,000 on my life and it costs me $175 a year and it is a hard struggle to meet the premiums. I began only five years ago. Too late, too late, but I must hold on until I whip the fight. I'll whip it sure if I hold on, for old Father Time is backing me. If I had begun at twenty-one or twenty-five the premiums would have been about $40 and the dividends would have paid that long' before this. Heard a man say the other day that he paid on $10,000 for twenty years and now has a paid up policy and draws dividends on it just like it was stock in a bank. 1 wish I had done that when I was a young man. Wouldn't it be glorious if I had such a document for my wife and the girls. But if young man seriously objects to make money by dying for it let him take out an endowment policy for twenty or twenty-five years. It will cost him about twice as much, but he can, if he lives, walk up to the cap? tain's office ana call for his money and do what he pleases with it. If he happens to die before hand his wife or his mother or his sister can draw it for him. Every young man should take out two policies i?he cau, one for life and one on the endowment plan? one for others and one for himself. It is a comfortable thing for a man of forty-five to have a paid up policy that is drawing dividends. It is still more comfortincLfor a widow or a sis? ter or a chua to inherit both policies if he should die before he expected to. Insuring one's life for the benefit of others is the most unselfish act that a young man can perform. No selfish or thoughtless young man will do it. It is like looking death square in the face, but few young men will do that. It is the next thing to getting reli? gion. It is a confession of mortality. But death is a fact and if the young man weuld stop and think, he would take a business view of it and leave the religion out of the question. Let him ponder upon the fact that not half of the men at twenty-five live to be fifty?that half his life is already gone, that the chances are against him, that he will leave somebody be? hind him who has been dependent upon him and may suffer without him. Then if he is a reasonable man he must admit that he ought to insure his life, while it cost so little, and not wait until it costs so much. Why not ? For forty-four years I have insured my house and furniture j and no fire yet. The insurance com? pany has got all that money for good and yet I have taken comfort all that time. I have slept better at home and j felt better when abroad in knowing that if a fire did come and destroy my dwelling the loss would be made good. That fire may never come, but here is a case where death is sure to come ?a death which most cases of man? hood deprives the family of one of its pillars?perhaps its chief support, and yet how few of the young married men are carrying a policy for the wife and children. They arc j?st going it blind. It looks like defying fate for a young man whose only income is his wages to live a day without a policy. He can't afford to. Even the rich in? sure their lives as an investment. In fact if I could make the laws I would require every young man to take a pol? icy for at least $1,000 when he applies for a marriage license. If he couldn't raise $18 or $20 to protect the girl he loved for one year", he is not fitten to have her nor fitten to get fitten. If he begun with a policy he would be very apt to keep on. The Ordinary should be prohibited from issuing a license unless the policy was produced and was approved by him. A young married man has no right to die and leave a widow and one or two children helpless. A policy of one or i;wo thousand dollars would be a good doc? ument to court on. Every man should pay his own fu? neral expenses and not die a pauper. There is a family pride about such things and the parents or the widow will sacrifice everything for the loved one. The doctor's bills, the drug bill, the burial case, the burial lot, the car? riages, the hearse and the mourning all cost money. A few months ago a young man of our town died away from home. His life was devoted to his mother and his si sters, but it was not insured and the express charges and other expenses have been a grievous burden. How easily he could have caried a policy of $1,000, out of which he could have been buried and left a good sum for his widowed mother. I wonder how many of these travel? ing young men carry a policy for their mother or their sisters. Filial love is a sweet and blessed thing and the oc? casional visits ot? the boys to their homes is a comfort and joy, but when death conies untimely and unexpected the bereaved ones can't live on sor? row. I was ruminating about all this because one of our boys has sent home a duplicate of a policy that he has ta keu out for the benefit of his sisters. He will keep italivc as longa? he lives. He will do more. He will look after and protect them when the parents have passed away. That is a parent's great concern?what will become of the girls?the unmarried ones?when we are dead. Will they have to live in penury or accept a home with kin? dred?a home where they are perhaps not wanted and where the feeling of dependence is ever before them. And so I thought I would write a letter and encourage -young men who love their sisters to carry a reasonable policy for their benefit. I know many girls who have been to the world's fair on a brother's bounty and that is alright, but it will be still better to take a life policy for their benefit and keep the premium punctually paid. Twenty five years ago I carried one in the old Knickerbocker for the benefit of my wife, but the company failed and I quit in disgust. But they don't fail now. There are ptanty of good com? panies Bolid as a rock and there is no excuse. Stop young nan?stop and think and I know that you will agree with me. Let us all take care of the girls, married or unmarried, if they are needy or dependent. Bill Arp. A Foreigner's Impression of America. Mr. Walter Besant, the English novelist has been traveling in this country, and in an interview with a representative of the Pall Mall Bud? get he relates his impressions of the people arid some of the cities he visit? ed. We copy in part: "What do you think of Chicago?" "The business part of the city is ugly. It consists of vast blocks of buildings. -Three of these blocks? they ar^e contiguous, and each is eighteen stories high?accommodate no fewer than 9,000 people?princi? pals, clerks, storekeepers, warehouse? men and others?every day. This part of the town is empty in the eve? ning and is silent on Sunday; it is, in point of fact, very similar to. our own 'City.' Outside the region of business there arebeatiful villas form? ing suburbs like those which encom? pass London. "And the inhabitants of this great city?what about them?" "There is one great point to note in these towns." said Mr. Besant, by way of reply, and that is the vast number of foreigners. In Buffalo, for example, there are a Polish quarter, a German quarter, an Irish quarter, and a native-American quarter." "But the English, have they no quarter?" "They generally merge with the Americans. The Irish do not. They keep to themselves and form their own little political caucuses; but it would be an exaggeration to say that they are greatly beloved by the peo? ple in whose midst they have conde? scended to take up their abode. Some day, indeed, the Americans will rise and?but there, we had better not talk politics." . "But the other races?the Poles, the Germans and the like?" "These will merge, like the Eng? lish, with the Americans. And that very soon, I think. Listen to this little anecdote. While in New Ha? ven, I was asked one day if I would have my boots 'shined.' It was a bright-faced, pretty little boy who ac? costed me. I asked him for his name and he said it was Bobolovoski, or something of the kind?spell it in your own way?and that he was a Polish Jew. He was only ten years of age, he said, and he got up every morning at six and went out to shine. From nine ft> twelve he was at school. He shined from twelve until the af? ternoon, when he went to school again, and in the evening he shined once more. Now this little fellow was, in fact, a perfect American? there can be no question about it? although by birth he was a Polish Jew." "And now, Mr. Becant, I would like a few of your impressions of America." "I have not overmuch to say," re? plied the novelist. ? "The thing which struck me most was the' fact that you have not seen America at all until you have been to Chicago. New York is not America, New York is a cos? mopolitan city ; Boston is not Ameri? ca, Boston is old ; Philadelphia is not America, Philadelphia is asleep. But at Chicago you are at the very heart of the country?you are at the centre of everything. Chicago will be to America what Babylon formerly was to Asia. The city and its inhabitants are young. They are rich in resource. They are full of confidence. They do not care what they spend. Consider what sums they have laid out over the Exposition. 'We do not mind,' that is what they seemed to say, 'let the thing be a dead failure if it will; we can get plenty more millions later on.' These good people do not want to save, and they have no desire to endow a family. They give away enormous sums. During 'Commence? ment' at Harvard University, the president announced the receipt of donations, amounting to something like $750,000. Harvard is, indeed, richer than Cambridge. Yes," said Mr. Besant in conclusion, "America, i in spite of the many years that have rolled by since she first became a na? tion, is still young?young, vigorous, and rich in hope for the future." $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a con? stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direct? ly upon the blood and mucuous sur? faces of the system, thereby destroy? ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by build? ing up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro? prietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testi? monials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. USaT'Sold by Druggists, 75c. Better Roads. We trust the farmers will not per? mit the subject of better roads to sleep. It is of first importance to have good roads, at least to your nearest railroad station. One docs not realize the expense of bad roads when he has been used to them all his life. But a little investigation of the subject, a trip through a country where the roads arc good, opens one's eyes. , He sees that the horses arc in better condition; that the various vehicles are cleaner and firmer and better; that the loads carried arc lieavier by far, and the teams move more rapidly. Then he begins to count it all up and discovers that one of the great leaks on the farm is bail roads ; roads which are bad on the horses, bad on the wagons, bad on the health, bad on the temper. Let us have belter roads,?Home and Farm, THE STORY OF BILL. ~From the Chicapo Itecord.'^^ The change in ?Bill was"noticed the very day that Bill got back from the East. It^surprisedgand-Jshocked us all. C Before he wentTaway Billowas the liveliest and genuincst thorough? bred in the camp ; I dare say that in all the Red Hoss mountain district there wasn't a gentleman who could lay his tongue to stronger oaths and more of 'em than could Bill?that's why he was known far and wide>as Damnation Bill, for the name that'a fellow was known by out in that God's own country in them days was not the name given to him by his sponsors in baptism, but by the other fellows who, having pardnered with him and studied his idiosyncrasies, were qualified to give him a name that, clearly and di? rectly, conveyed a succinct idea, as the saying goes, of the most salient features of his character. Damnation Bill was a name that fitted Bill to a T. Curiosily enough, when Bill got hack from the East he didn't do no more swearing, and it was that cir? cumstance which created the scandal ?the first'scandal Bill had ever been identified with. Talking it over among ourselves, the rest of us fellows figured it that Bill must have got religion while he was down East, and this seemed all the more likely when we found out, just by chance one. evening, that Bill had been down East to see his mother. ! "Well," says Barber* Jim, "if he has got religion and has broke away from the old traditions, supposin' we call him Parson Bill." Just then Bill come in on us. He had overheard what Barber Jim said, although Barber Jim hadn't any idea that Bill was within gunshot of Carey's, where we was all confabulat? ing. "Boys," says Bill, as calm like as I you please, "you can call me the old name if you want to, or you can call me any other name and I won't kick. I guess the worst name you could give me wouldn't be too good for me. But I want you to know that I hain't got religion, and, there bein' no objection, I'll tell you somepin' that, bein' pard ners of mine, you ought to know. "I wasn't more than a kid," says Bill, "when the war broke out. I lived with the old folks down East? was the countryest boy you ever seen. Readin' the Springfield Republican from day to day as how the flag had been insulted, how forts had been fired on and how the Union was in danger, I?why, of course, my boy blood was up and I just overlastin'ly bilin' over to jine the war and go to the front and save the country. So I run away from home. It was hard on-the old folks, for I was their only child, and I can understand now that their hearts was just sot on mo. Well, I walked all the way to Chatham Corners and join? ed the cavalry they was musterin' in there. I was only sixteen then, but I was big enough for twenty; they needed recruits and they didn't ask too many questions. At Washington I wrote back home, and after that I got letters from mother or father twice a week, and it wasn't long before father sent me the colt he had raised and broke and great hopes of for the next county fair trotting match, if I hadn't gone and joined the cavalry. They never scolded me for running away ; it was always 'God bless you' and 'do your duty' and things of that kind they wrote, and mother always put in a p. s., saying. 'Willie, don't forget to say your prayers.' "Some of you," says Bill, "were in that war, and - you know what army life was. 'Say my prayers ?' "Why, who thought of prayin' in the midst of that wild, hard, exciting life ? Least of all the boy who had known only the quiet andhundrum of country life. Pardner, it does me good to lift the weight off my mind and tell you that I grew to be the toughest of the lot. And swear ? Why, they used to sit around and laugh at me. I got so accomplished at it. No wonder they called me Damnation Bill?I earned that title, sure. "The end of the war found me in Kentucky. Some of the boys were going to the mountaius, for they had no homes to call them back; they meant to get rich quick and the gold mining fever caught 'em. Why shouldn't I go with 'em ? I had no hankering for the old life in New England with its quiet folks and hum? drum, go-to-meetin' ways?not I. The war had give me a taste of adven? ture ; I wasn't long makin' up my fool boy mind to take my chances with my soldier comrades; so across the plains I come and with the rest at Pike's Peak I busted. There was harder times after that. I tended bar two years in Denver, then I drove a hack a spell, and after that I dealt in Charley Sampson's hank ; last thing of all, gcttin' desperate, I bought an outfit and come up to Red Hoss moun? tain, bavin' heard Casey and Three Fingered Hoover tell of the prospects in this country. You see I was too proud to go back home, bein' broke. A good many times I'd have given my skin to be there, eatin' mother's pies and snoozin' in her feather beds, but I was too proud to go back broke, so I stayed right here and done my best with the rest of you fellows. "The home folks kept writin' the same old kind of letters, cheerful and ?patient-like, sendin' lots of love and tellin' nie over and over again about things I had entirely forgotten. They never scolded me about bein' so way? ward ; it was always 'God bless you' and 'do your duty,' and just as she had done when I was a boy in the war, mother always put a p. s., sayin 'Willie, don't forget to say your prayers.' I used to laugh when I read that; the idea of Damnation Bill savin' his prayers was comical. "Istruck it rich last fall, as you all know. From bein' a grubstakcr one week I was in a fair way to be a bonanza king the next. And I was I startin' to Denver one morning to see about fixing up sonic arrangement with Dave Moffatt's bank when along came a telegraph telling me father was dead and would I come at once. "Things have shrunk up down East since I was a boy. I found that out when I went home for the first time in twenty years. The wood lots an if home pastures ain't as big as they used to be; the lanes are only about half as wide and they turn oftener ; the houses arc smaller and the front stoops and front doors are so low that a fellow like nie. and that's 6 feet 2, don't have much satisfaction doiii' business with 'em. Only mother hadn't changed?she was white-haired and she was fatter than she used to be, and sometimes (though she didn't complain^ I noticed that it hurt her to walk much?but she was the same mother 1 tuUl run away from twenty years ngn Suenieil funny tube call???] Willie after bavin' been called the other uanijc -? ou know?so long. But, ' bless our mothers' hearts I us fellows is .always Willie to them. "I went to bed at 9 o'clock that night?went to bed in the same room that was mine when I was a little kid. The pictures on the wall came back to me. Little Samuel, Uncle William Fosdick, that I was named after, the first Sunday School card I got and Flora Temple and George N. Patehen in their great trot. (I got that one myself). The bed was high and feathery, and the comfortable smelt good and old-fashioned. It made me sleepy an' dreamy-like just to be there. Hadn't more than got into bed before in come mother, carryin' a candle. 'Willie.' says she, 'niaybe you'll laugh at me, but I'm gettin' old an' ohildish like, may be, and now that.you've come back to me I want to take up with you just where I left off when you?when you?went away at your country's call." You see she put it ?my running away?she put it ten? derly to me. 'Willie,' says she, 'I want to tuck you up in bed, just as I used to do. Used to worry when you first went away, because I was afraid you'd catch cold nights?you always was such a hand at kicking off the clothes in your sleep.' 'Why, moth? er,' says I 'I don't need tuckin' up. I'm as snug and as warm as a meadow mouse under a haystack.' Butmother wouldn't take no for an answer; she just pattered around that bed an' kept tuckin' in the clothes, tellin' me all* the time what a comfort it had always been to her and father (before he died,) to feel that I had been a good boy and said my prayers and lived by their teachin' and never done a dis? honest thing, or learned to lie an' swear an' gamble an' race horses as other boys of the neighbors' had. Yes, mother said all this, and there I lay like a great big baby an' let her believe it and her hands sorter lingered around me an' seemed to careas the very blankets that covered me. "When she went to go out she stopped sudden like and turned as if she hed just thought of somethin'. 'Willie,' says she, 'have you said your prayers ?' " 'No, mother, I hain't,' says I. " 'You waited till you got into bed,' says mother; 'that's what you used to do when you was a boy, because it was 'so cold,' you said; Maybe it's foolfah of me, Willie, but just to please me, who hain't had my boy with me for twenty years?just to kind of humor me, Jet me hear you say your prayers to-night, as you used to.' 'Say my prayers ? After twenty years of back-slidin' an' neglect, say my prayers ? I just lay there and shivered. How could I tell mother I had forgotten 'em ? " 'Say 'em after me, Willie, as you used to,' said mother. ? "So mother began : "Nowl lay me,' says she. " 'Now I lay me,' says I. '"Down to sleep,' says'mother. "'Down to sleep,' says I, and so through it all to the end, mother lined it out to me and I repeated it. Dam? nation Bill wasn't there at all; there wasn't any such man as Damnation Bill any more ; it was just me?Willie, Damnation Bill was done forever ! "I was there a fortnight, and every night mother came in and tucked me up and said my prayers with me. It done her good, and so it did me. She wasn't afeared when I told her that I must come back West an' settle up business before I went to live with her in the old homestead the rest of her days. She had always had faith in me because she an' father had been so careful about bringin' me up in the way I should go, an' she allowed that with him an' her a prayin' forme (an' with me a prayin', too, as she believ? ed)?why, it would have been impossi? ble for me to learn to lie an' gamble an' swear. That's what hurt me most boys?what she said about the swear in' ! It's all right for you to call me the old name?that's my punishment, and I've brought it on myself. I'm notkickin'. I hain't got religion; I hain't no better than anybody else. But may God forever paralyze my tongue if ever in heedlessness, or jest, or anger I lay that tongue of mine to any word that, if she ever heard of it, would open mother's eyes to the truth of my old life and give pain to her confidin' heart." We fellows never oalled him Dam? nation Bill after that; no, from that time on, it was just plain Bill?out of respect to him and his mother. Cnra for Perrons Headache. It has been a hard day and the tired lines in your face show it. The mus? cles of the face have lost their firm? ness and the lines about the cheeks and mouth and eyes droop wearily. You look ten years older than you know you are, and you feel sadder than you know you have a right to' be. Worse than all a sharp pain shoots from the left temple over the forehead and down the sides of the face. You know that means a nervous headache, a night of agony, unless something it done very quickly. Try this : Slip off your bodice and bare your neck. Twist your hair into a loose knot on the the top of your head. Then take a sponge and a ba? sin of hot water?just as hot as you can bear it. Pass the hot wet sponge slowly and steadily over the face and forehead for eight or ten minutes, keeping the sponge as hot as caB be borne. By that time your face will look and feel as if it were parboiled. But do not worry. Then bathe the back of the neck as you have done the face, carrying the sponge each time well up the back of the head. Keep this up for some length of time ; then without looking at your? self in the glass?because that would be sure to disquiet you?dry your face and neck softly and go and lie down flat on your back. Close your eyes and think just of one thing?how hea? vy you are on the couch and how easi? ly it supports you. That is really an important part of the cure, j Lie there for half an hour, if you don't fall asleep, as you probably will. Then get up and take the deferred look in the glass. That tired look has gone, the muscles have regained their tone, the wrinkles have disappeared. You look like your younger sister. Best of all, the shooting pain in the head and the pessimism of the soul have left you. ? 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 to give perfect satisfaction, or money refund? ed. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. ? The houses of the leading mil? lionaires of New York are mostly gu.ir.led by scc:.t police. FOBTF-SIX TEARS AGO. Sow wo Went to War With Mexico and Bow we Came Out. In 1335 the people of Texas, mostly colonists from the United States, find-, ing the despotism of Mexico, of which country Texas formed a part, intoler? able, ::ose in rebellion, and after a year's fighting achieved their inde? pendence. General Samuel Houston, the most conspicuous Texan soldier, became president of the new republic in September, 1836. Six months later, t;he United States acknowledged I the independence of Texas. Mexico did not relinquish its claim to Texas, although making no further formal at? tempt to subjugate it. Then as now the Sabine river formed the eastern boundary of the Texan republic and Rio Grrande the western. After so? licitation on the part of Texas it was annexed to the United States in 1845, the act of Congress which brought it about being signed by President Tyler on March 1 of that year, three days before the expiration of his* term of office. This led to the war between the United States and Mexico. James K. Polk, who succeeded Ty? ler, as President, had been nominated and elected because of his advocacy of annexation. One of his first official acts was to send Gen. Zachary Taylor, with a force of about 4,000 men, to occupy the territory between the Neuces river and the Rio Grande, in Texas. The United States contended that the latter river formed Texas 's westerly boundary, while Mexico in? sisted that the former, about one hun? dred miles to the eastward, consti? tuted the westerly line. Taylor reach? ed the Rio Grande, opposite Matama ras, on March 28th, 1846, and erected Fort Brown. The Mexicans also be San fortifying their aide of the river, reneral Ampudia, the Mexican com? mander, ordered Taylor to retire be? yond the Neuces, saying that non com pi iar.ce would be regarded by Mex? ico as a declaration of war. Taylor refused to fall back, and said that if Mexico insisted on a conflict the Unit? ed States would not avoid it. A col? lision occurring, in which the Mexi? cans were the aggressors, President Polk asked Congress for men and money to carry on the war forced upon the country by Mexico. Con? gress at once appropriated $10,000,000, which was deemed a large sum for any such purpose in those days, and em? powered the President to call for 50, 000 volunteers. This force was quick? ly raised, but before they were placed in the field hostilities had actually be* gan. General Arista, who succeeded Am? pudia as commander of the Mexican army on the Rio Grande, crossed that river into Texas on May 8, 1846, with 6,000 soldiers, and attacked Taylor, who had only 2.300 men. The Mexi? cans were defeated with great loss. This wan the battle of Palo, Alto, the first regular engagement in the Mexi? can war. Arista retired to Resaca de la Palma, where he was attacked the I next day by Taylor and driven across [ the ri' cr into Mexico. Taylor, who ! was then promoted to the rank of ma? jor-general, invaded Mexico and occu I pied Matomoras. Receiving reinforce? ments, he began his march into the interior of Mexico in September, and on the 24th of that month, after des? perate fighting, which continued sev? eral days, he captured Monterey. The American force in that battle was 6,625, nearly all volunteers, while the Mexican consisted of 10,000 regu? lars. Part of his army was then sent to reinforce Gen. Scott, who entered Mexico from Vera Cruz. On February 22, 1847, Taylor, with 5,000 men, de? feated 21,000 Mexican veterans under Santa Anna at Buena -Vista. This was the last battle of Taylor's campaign, the Mexicans not attempting to inter? fere with the Americans in that por? tion of Mexico during the remainder of the war. In August, 1846, General Stephen Kearney marched from Fort Leaven enworth and wrested New Mexico from the mother country. He went to California, which had also been a por? tion of Mexico up to this time, and found that Col. John C. Fremont and Commodore Stockton had conquered that province in the name of the Unit? ed States. The victorious career of the Americans was continued by 1,000 Missouri volunteers under Colonel Doniphan, making a desCent on the city of Chihuahua and capturing it. Fifteen days after the battle of Bue? na Vista, General Scott, with 15,000 men, invaded Vera Cruz, the princi? pal seaport of Mexico, defended by its strongest fortress, which was soon captured. Then began another series of American victories as brilliant and conspicuous as those won by General Taylor, 5,000 miles to the northward a few months before. That at Cerro Gordo took place on April 18th, fol? lowed by the capture of Jalapa on the 19th, Perote on the 22nd, and Puebla on May 15. Being re-inforced, he stormed and captured Contreras and Churubusco on August 20. An armis? tice ending without result, Chapulte pec was taken by assault on Septem? ber 13th, and the following day the American army entered the City of Mexico, the capital of the countnr, and flung the stars and stripes to the breeze from the tower of the national palace. This ended the hostilities. The Americans, whether under Tay? lor or Scott, had been successful in every battle fought, although con? fronted with superior numbers, in a country which interposed great nat? ural obstacles to the march of an in? vading army. Considering the results attained and the difficulties surmount? ed with the means at command, those campaigns should rank the most con? spicuous military exploits recorded in the annals of war, and deserve a place in history beside Alexander's subjuga? tion of Asia, Caesar's conquest of Gaul, Bonaparte's overthrow of Prus? sia, and Nathaniel Green's campaign against Cornwallis. j On February 2, 1848, about five months after Scott entered the Mexi-! can capital, the treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo was negotiated, and a few weeks later Mexico was evacuated by the American tro >ps. Mexico, in this treaty, conceded the Rio Grande as the westerly boundary of Texas, and gave New Mexico and California to the United States, our country paying Mexico $15,000,000 and assuming Mexico's debts to American citizens, provfding those debts should not ex? ceed $3,500,000. Thus ended the third and last war waged by the United States against a foreign power. The principal of the public debt was $15,550,202 on July 1, 1846, which had grown to $47,044,862 on July 1, 1848, an-increase of $31,494,660. nearly all of which growth was caused by the war._ r? Education is all right, just so it does not make the victim too smart to work and not smart enough to get along without work. All Sorts of Paragraphs, ? An English corset firm made 838 corsets for men last year. ~ ^V. ? "Johnny, get up; the sun has been up three hours." "Let him; I don't hare to shine for a living." ? Much of the trouble in this world happens because men take too much time to make money and too little to J enjoy it. ? Little boy?"The preacher said their is no marryin' in heaven." Little girl?"Of course not. There wouldn't be enough men there to go 'round." ? There is such a thing as marrying a man and reforming him, but only muscularly women who knows well how to wield a club should undertake it, says an exchange. ? Base Deceiver?"How could you;: conscientiously tell Miss Elder tha* she is the only woman you ever loved ?" Tillinghast?"It is a faot. The others were all young girls." ? The thimble was first called tW "thumb bell," because used on th^ thumb instead of upon the finger,|f at present. "Thimble," therefore^ u obviously a contraction of "thumbs bell." ? A bar of steel costing $1 may be 9 worked up into $350 worth of needles; f made into knifeblaids it is worth $3,285; made into balance springs for watches the same bar would be wbrth $250,000. ? Mrs. Portly Pompus?"TVTiat does that young man do all thei&ven ings he spends with you in the kitch? en ?" Bridget?"Sure, mum, and what' did Mr. Pompus do when he called on |?you before you were married ?" "I'm going to "have party next week, Mr. Nicefellowr "The members of your family always celebrate tfieir birthdays, I believe." "Yes, all but sister. She's got so careless she's beginnin' toskip.hera." ? "If you want to be lucky never I raise your umbrella under a roof," ? said Mr. Wiseacre to his friend. 'T always raise mine over a roof," said his friend. "Over a roof?eh?" J "Certainly. The roof of my mouth." ? A horse that fell down a well oh the Bailey farm, in Polk County, Ore.,, recently was rescued in a novel man? ner. Straw was thrown down the well, and the horse tramped it and, rose until he was able to climb out. Precise Maiden Aunt (trying to amuse Kate, who has come to spend the day): Oh, see pussy ^washing her face. Infant (with scorn): She's nofr-1 washing her face, she's washing;her j feet and wiping them on her face. ? The poor men who get rich are those who save a small sum, invest j and make a hit and keep on repeating^ the profitable performance. An oioVl writer, Ben Franklin, has said that J the road to wealth is as plain as the road to market. ? In Texas there is a rock which J presents in the morjTdigkj^striking * resemblance to an immense caSti'c? ffUh* many windows brilliantly lighted. . The effect is produced by the reflection ] of the moon's rays from the polished ' surfaces of quartz. The pastor of a church in the State of Washington when a boy stole a ride on the cowcatcher of a locomo? tive on a eastern railroad. His con? science recently pricked him and he has sent the company $3,45, the amount of the passage, with interest. ? Efforts to domicate the quail have been persisted in by many people, but generally with indifferent results. Robert Jenkins of Richmond, Ind..cj however, claims to have recently tamed a brood of quail, live on his premises, j showing no indication that they prefer the woods and fields. Very queer fish are caught in the ' waters of Puget Sound. One kind is called the candle fish. It is dried and packed in boxes like candles. We are told the fishermen use them to light their homes, and that at one time all the boats on the SounjLjD-Bed tlj instead of sperm oil lamps. ? In this country 2,500 women" practicing medicine, 275 reaching the] gospel, more than 6,od0 managing postoffices, and over 3,000,000 earning independent incomes. Since 188f the patent offiee has granted ove^t^^X) patents to women, and in New-aor* city 27,00^0 women support their h? bands. ? Father: "See here! Why/ you put things where you fin' The saw is gone, the nails are.' /fhc and I can't find the hamm/ mother says you had them aL o-day.' Son: "I left them right where I foun| them." "Youdid,eh? Wht find them ? Just tell m&tfrfit. in the back yard, where you had tl fixing a box last week." ? "What do you call that the! thing you rid up here on ?" asked farmer man of the y ^ who hi stopped to get a drink t- .ater at tL? well. "It's ? bicycle." "Seems to \ me," said the old man, "that I'd druther have a wheelbarrer. Wheel barrer's somethin sc you can sit down in and rest when j ,u get tired pushin' the thing." ??w ? The United States as a nation is increasing in wealth faster than any other country on earth. Its weakh is evident in many ways, not the least of wh.ch is its comparatively small debt. The interest-bearing debt of the United States is $500,000,000; of England, $4,000,000,000; of France, $6,000,000,000: the United Statesjf the richest of them all. "I tell you, sir, no woman can"_ fully trusted !" exclaimed a cynici man to a friend. "Why, just look poor Sniffson. Didn't he love thl wife of his ? Didn't he consider Jij an angel ? Didn't he fairly worth! her ? Didn't he think nothing was; good for her? And how has she re? quited him ?" "How ?" asked ' the other. "Gone and had twins?these 1 hard times." ? A recent writer asks whether ants talk, and relates that he saw . droves of small black ants moving apparently to new quarters. Ev?ry time they met they put their, heads together as though they were chat? ting. To investigate the niatftn hPh killed one, and the eye-witnesses of the murder hastened away and laid * their heads together with every ant they met. The latter immediately i turned back and fled. ? "Husband in?" asked the rate collector, cheerfully, after ten min? utes' knocking at the door. "No," answered the woman, "he isn't at home." "Expecting him soon?"'* asked the collector. "Well." the J woman replied, thoughtfully, "Idon't know exactly; I've been looking for>s him for seventeen years, and he hasn't1 j turned up yet. You travel about good deal, and if you see a man jd looks as though he'd make me a pre! good husband, 'tell him I'm still waiting, and send bim along."