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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON._ANDERSON. S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1893._VOLUME XXYHL-- NO. 21 " ._ m ? - ? - - - - - ' i -T*~^ SEED BARLEY AND RYE, FLOUR, LARD, And a Fancy Line of Canned Goods, For sale at Low Prices by D. S. MAXWELL & SON, NO. 5 CHIQUOLA PLACE. <ar 160-acre Farm to rent. J. S. FOWLER WANTS YOUK 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. And 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. GROCERIES. GROCERIES! GROCERIES ! LARGEST STOCK EVER SEEK IN ANDERSON! COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES ! OF course we can't put in print exact amounts of Goods, as one day we may have a full Stock of? Floor, Meat, Sugar, Coffee, Hams, Lard, &c., And the next it will be very much reduced. Our sales some days would astonish an" man. Now. there is certainly a reason for this, which we will try to explain. First, we carry as large Stock of Flour of all grades, Bacon, Lard, Hams, Sugar and Coffee, as anybody in Upper Carolina; and second, we give good weight* and thu lowest prices on first class Goods,. We have exclusive sale of Chase ?fe Sanbom's Roasted Coffee, which are the best in the world. If you don't believe it, ask any friend who visited thu World's Fair if he drank a bad cup of Coffee oc the ground while there. They had the es elusive sale of their world-renowned '! Seal Brand" at the Fair. .. FRESH RAISINS, CURRANTS and CITRON arriving every day, and we are ready for Xm a3. Call and see us. Yours truly, LI CON & LEDBETTER, Wholesale and Retail 'Brosen. Pocket Knives, Table Knives! One TEousand Varieties! The Rangoon Razor Every Razor Warrantee^ Price, S1.50 SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. Ton Miss Half Tour Life when you Fail to See Witt. R ftUBBARD'S JEWELRY PALACE. JVToRE Goods than you can shake a stick at, and at prices that will astonish the natives. You will certainly lose money if you don't see me BEFORE BUYING. My Btock of Gold and Silver Watches cannot be surpassed in the State. Plain Gold and Set Rings. Sterling Silver and Plated Knives, Forks and Spoons. Japanese Good?, China Novelties. China Tea Sets, Chamber Sets, &c, in great variety. JEWELRY WORLD WITHOUT EIVX). p&* Promptness in everything. ?&- Watch Work a Specialty. ?S?- Engraving free on all Goods bought of me. WILL. Pi. HUBBARD, Next to Farmers and Merchants Bank. GLENN SPRINGS WATER ? WILL CURE ? Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Chronic Heptatitis, Jaundice, Torpor of Liver, and general debility following upon malarial diseases. Dropsy, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Uterine, Renal and Cystic Diseases, Htematuria and Catamauial derangements. -FOR SALE BY JL. IT. TODD &c CO. May 81,1893 48 6m BILL ART'S LETTER. Arp Takca Xxoeptlons to Page's Article In the Forum. Atlanta Constitution. The Forum is a most excellent mag? azine. It has ever been fair and lib? eral in sentiment towards the South. It is a medium for advanced thought, a conservative educator, and is always welcome at my fireside. But I con? fess that I am not pleased with the editor's article on the "Suthern Bul? ly" in the November number. In dee;"., I did not know that we had such a professional institution in all our borders, and Mr. Pages's twelve pages of philosophical anathema against him have failed to convince me of his ex? istence or of our danger from his law? less conduct. Distance does not always lend en? chantment to the view. If Mr. Page lived here in Cartersville he would be soon surprised to find that the bully was not in these parts but was, per? haps, a little lower down where the mosquitoes aggravate a man or some foul malaria poisons his liver and dis? turbs his serenity. When I was a boy studying my first gc.graphy, J found there a picture of a heathen Chinese carrying on a pole a long string of rats for sale, and so for forty years 1 believed that rats were the Chinaman's national food. Indeed, was disappointed when I learned that they did not eat rats. I had believed it so long I wanted to continue in the faith. In the same book there was a picture of a scene in Florida. It was a dark, slimy lagoon surrounded by a tangled growth of trees and vines cov? ered with long moss, venomous snakes hung from the branches, greedy vul? tures perched in the treetops and wide-mouthed alligators were sunning themselves upon the logs. That hid? eous vision of Florida lasted me for years. Just so some of our Northern breth? ren have grown up with an idea that the South used to be full of despera? does, and fs even now spotted with bullies who are clinging to barbarism I and brutality. They want to continue in that faith. Mr. Page says "the bully is an old acquaintance to those who know I Southern life. He had much to do with the war, the penalty of which other men who had nothing to do with it, had to pay with his oaths and his honor; he has strutted through all the quiet ways of Southern life calling himself the South and he leads mobs to avenge 'our women' * * * It has been left for commerce by infus? ing its influence into the body of local public sentiment in the South to rid us at last of this historic red-handed, deformed and swaggering villain." Well, I am glad he has gone, if he was ever here, for he must have been an awful bad man. Strange I did not come across him in my youth?stran? ger still that in the induction of the war "minima pass fui" I did not re? cognize him, and now in my old age I do not see him with his last hold upon the throat of law and order. It seems to me that Mr. Page has set up the tenpins just to have the fun of knock? ing them down again. If he means that those who voted for secession were the bullies, then I plead guilty along with many of our noblest Christian gentlemen, such as Howell Cobb and Tom Cobb and Joe Brown and General Evans and Col quitt and Gordon and Nesbett and a host of others whom the people of Georgia have delighted to honor. Surely he is not making a fling at these men. The right to secede has long ago been settled, settled when the i North did not dare to try Mr. Davis for treason, their greatest lawyers"de? claring that he could not be legally convicted. The South seceded?that was all. It was the North that made war about; it. Then who does he mean by the bully who had much to do with the war ? Maybe he means the com? mon soldiers, the high privates, the "hoi polloi who mainly did the fighting. No, he cannot mean them, for they were patriots. Patriotism was their only motive, for they owned no negroes whose slavery was in peril. And besides red-handed, swaggering villains do not fight. They are cow? ards. I remember but two or three town bullies in Kome when we were mak? ing up our companies, but they didn't join us. They dodged the war. They had no influence in bringing it on and took no perilous part in the conflict. They never do. Who the bullies are that now have their "last hold," as Mr. Page says, we are at a loss to know. If he means the lynchers, we must defend them from everything but lynching. They are neither red handed, deformed nor swaggering. They are not villains. They do not "pretend to the traditions of the old Southern gentleman." They are not a class. They are a community. You cannot go into any town or settlement and pick them out and say this man will be a lyncher when the horrible crime is committed. Mr. Page professes the highest re? spect for Bishop Haygood, as every? body does who knows him, and yet does not seem to respect his assertion that "the Southern people are not cruel and never were. They are a kind-hearted people; good to one an? other and to all men. They are kind to dumb brutes. Whatever may be true or false about them, they were never cruel-hearted. They were kind to the negroes when they were slaves ?they are kind to them now." If this be true then where are the bullies that these sweeping reproaches are hurled at, for it was this same kind-hearted class of people who burned the negro at Paris ; the same kind wr-3 slew the negro rapist at Port Jervis, in New York; the same kind that have avenged the purity of wo? man in Illinois and Michigan. The same red-handed, swaggering villains. The only difference between the North and the South is that the female vic? tims are hundreds to every isingle one at the North. Over 500 have been re? corded within twelve months. The human nature that prompts the lynch? ing is the same everywhere where the innocence and virtue of woman is re? spected, and let me add the greater the respect the more speedy and terri? ble the punishment. Bishop Hay good says "the South has always been peculiarly jealous of its women." Mr. Page throws a sneer at this when he says it is the swaggering villain who struts around and leads mobs to avenge "our women." Perhaps he is not aware that the marriage relation is much more sacred at the South than at the North, especially among our common people, who have not much else to live for beside wife and chil? dren. Divorces are very rare in our courts, especially among the country people who compose the mobs when the outrage happens, but who in all other things are the best citizens the world ever saw. Compare them with I the North for obedience to law and order and for every white convict for felony in Georgia I will show ten in Massachusetts and twelve in New York in an equal number of popula? tion. Those are the tables from the last census. We have but two white female convicts in Georgia. There are hundreds in New York. And the State board of charities of Massachu? setts in summing up their report uses this language, "And now we find that there is hardly a country in the civil? ized world where atrocious and fla? grant crime is so common as in Massa? chusetts." Now I am not arraigning any North? ern State for its sad condition, but I am defending the South from slander? ous assertions concerning its morals? not only its morals, but its good, in? dustrious citizenship. For every pauper and every tramp that can be found in Georgia I will show you fifty in New York and nearly as many in any Northern State. If idleness is the parent of vice, as Ben. Franklin said, then our people are not idle, nor is "over the hills to the poorhouse" any song of ours. No, the red-handed swaggering bul? lies are not domiciled among our peo? ple, but woe be to the negro or the white man who violates the sanctity of the household. How low down this sanctity can fall I know not, but Mr. Stetson, the statesman of Massachu? setts, says in his report, "Within the last ten years divorces have increased three times as fast as marriages, not counting the separations that do not get into the courts, and now it is stated that not more than eight fami? lies in ten have preserved the honor and purity of the marriage relation." This is enough on the subject of that myth called the Southern bully. As to the lynchings for outrage and the murder of a child, Dr. Haygood tenderly says, "It is an emotional in? sanity, and if it was my child who had been thus disembered I, too, might have gone into insanity that would have never ended." There it is in a nutshell. Does any one think that a father would say, "No, let us wait; let the law take its course." Could he say it while look? ing upon the violated and mutilated corpse of a darling child ? I coafess that I could not and would not. Let me be classed with the bullies for this, but this only. In all other things let the law reign supreme. Outrage and murder combined removes the brute at once from the human code and places him along with wild beasts, with mad dogs and hyenas. If a burglar enters my room in the night I may shoot him before he takes my watch or while he is taking it, or as he jumps from the window to make his escape. I may continue to shoot at him and to kill him if I can, even though I do not know whether he has my watch or not. What is that but a lynching?lynch? ing by one?an execution without trial by jury. But for a crime infin? itely more horrible it is said that we must await the law's delay, wen though caught in the act. I have no patience with such theories, nor would I trust Mr. Page nor Judge Bleckley nor Governor Northern to carry them out in a case that came home to his house and his heart. Bill Arp. Whooping Cough. Whooping cough is one of the dis? eases of childhood dreaded by mothers on account of its duration and general troublesomeness. If the attack is slight, all are to be congratulated; but the mother must not relax her vigilance, for the slightest cold -will make the cough more severe. It is best for young children not to have the whooping cough, if one can keep them from it. I have heard many say : "Oh, a nursing baby won't be apt to take it, and if he should, he won't have it hard." Now, whooping cough is more apt to be fatal with ba? bies, as they have not the power to throw off the phlegm, and are more apt to choke to death. They should be watched carefully asleep and awake. Never put one to rest on his back; but when one begins coughing, raise him up immediately, and tip him, so the phlegm will run out. Much can he done to alleviate the severity of the disease. The feet must be kept warm, and the hands from paddling in cold water. Chil? dren with whooping cough should be kept from crying and giving away to fits of anger, as excitement will bring on a paroxysm of coughing. As for medicines, it is best to con? sult a physician, but as that is out of the question sometimes, home 'reme? dies may be used. The best medicine I could find for my children was made of beets. They were sliced thin, sprinkled with sugar, and set in the oven to draw out the juice. Dose, a teaspoonful three or four times a day. This loosens the cough, and stops the spells of suffocation. This medicine keeps well in all kinds of weather, al? though it has some tendency to go to sugar. In that case add a little warm water. It is pleasant to the taste. Another excellent medicine ?but one which will not keep in hot weath? er?is made thus: Slice one lemon into a quart of water with half a pint of flaxseed and two ounces of honey ; simmer two hours, strain, and if less than a pint of the mixture, add water. Dose, a tablespoonful four times a day.?Selected. State of Ohio, City op Toledo, ) Lucas County. j Frank J. Cheney, makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney* Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before mc and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. [seal] A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter? nally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. flSTSold by Druggists, 75c. ? The points of the compass may be determined with the aid of an ordi? nary watch. It is simply necessary to bring the watch in such a position that the hour hand is directed towards the sun. The South then lays midway between whatever hour it may happen to be and numeral XII on thu dial. Suppose, for instance, it is 4 o'clock and the timepiece is held in the posi? tion indicated. The direction of the number II will then be the exact South. If 8 o'clock the numeral X will indicate the exact Southerly point. SA?GE PLUNKETT. The Hard Times and the Ganse Thereof, and the Remedy. Atlanta Constitution. Everybody has a theory for the hard times?I have a right to my opinion. I am sure that not more than one third of the land in Georgia is in cul? tivation. Place yourself upon any high point where you can overlook the surrounding farms, and the sight that greets your eyes i s distressing. Sedge, briars, sassafras bushes, ruts' and washes are turning the old hills of Georgia into waste places. Thousands upon thousands of acres of land any? where in Georgia are lying idle, going to waste, unsightly to the eye, and distressing to contemplate, while from the towns comes the wail of hard times, and thousands of idle men pre? tend to wonder why the times are so out of joint. There is not enough folks making bread and meat. No use to howl about silver, nor tariff, nor par? ties; the cause is in the idle hands. Invention has overdoue itself. Every genius is strained and has been strain? ed for years to lessen the labors of man and flood the land with luxuries. The carpenter's j&ckplane is laid away to rest, the fire at the blacksmith's forge has died out, the shoe and boot? maker is a common, cobbling patcher and half-soler; all the trades have been revolutionized by the inventive genius and the men turned out of work by the easy plans find it hard to accept the changed conditions. Agriculture, the only thing that the inventive genius has lagged in, is the very thing that all else depends upon. Agriculture has not at all advanced in proportion with other things, and sad it is that all the time the* people have been fleeing from the pursuit. The climax is upon us. Out from the towns the tides must turn. No use to wait, there is no other relief, no other hope. The poor town man need not delude himself with the notion that any kind of fiancial legislation will bring him relief. The production of more bread and meat, the reclaiming of the waste places, the training up of all the household to produce some? thing, help the old man, and save in everything?this is what is wanted in Georgia and it must come. Any sensible white farmer should see that the towns are to be left to only the very rich and the negro?this as a rule. No use to discuss previous conditions nor inferiority. The ne? groes will get the work and the work? ers will be the survivors. It is a pain? ful truth that right now four negroes are at work to one white man. If you don't believe it, walk about the towns and count the workmen?four to one is short, I think. The negro is just as natural to the towns as the English sparrow. He is the town laborer. If rents pinch them they will live three and four families together. If they can't get new clothes they will seek for old castaway garments. If the man can't get a dollar a day for his labor he will accommodate himself for 50 cents. The women will cook for some white family and feed her own household from the scraps she picks up as waste. I say not this in disparagement to the negroes, nor do I intend to reflect upon them. It is plain truth. It is the thing that makes him so formidable as a com? petitor that the white man cannot compete, and all sensible white men should heed the hand-writing on the wall, and as right now is the time to procure farms for another year they should stir themselves to do it. Within the next two months all the land will be rented for another year. The land owners must do their part in this matter. The town people are too poor to get to the country without some help and sympathy?ye owners of thousands must help them. Immi? gration is invited from foreign coun? tries. The money it would take to bring over a ship load of immigrants would start many a poor town fellow on toward making a crop. The dispo? sition to hold great bodies of land idle must be gotten over. Land owners must turn it loose or rent it out. It makes old Georgia too unsightly; and, then, even now, the question is asked as to whether one man has the right to hold so many acres while his fellow man begs for a home to shelter his little ones. This might get to be a great problem some day and disturb the country, a thing we would never see if these waste acres were blooming with bounteous crops and dotted with happy homes. Mr. Grady said a mighty pretty thing as well as a mighty truthful ^thing when he said : "Every man who kindles a fire upon his own hearthstone burns incense to liberty." While the land owners must be gen? erous and charitable the town people must be sensible. A false pride will keep many a poor town family from moving to the country. They hate to humble themselves and acknowledge their poverty. There must be a sight of humility and hard living?and above all things, the lemales in' the poor families must enter into the spirit of the thing. The old man and the boys pulling one way and the old 'oinan and the girls pulling another will cause any effort to fall flat. Industry, econ? omy?live hard and work hard, is the nearest way to the solving of these hard times that are upon us. The poor whites have not had the consideration they should have had throughout the South. Everything has been crowded on the "poor nig? ger." I tell you that your anxiety about the "poornigger" is notneeded. He will take care of himself?but he will accept every advantage you thrust upon him and thank you, too. Who blames him ? On the other hand, the poor whites must develop a humility in keeping with their needs. No. use to put on any more airs. Just acknowledge the corn, come out to the country and help to make the waste places bloom with good crops, raise a pig and next year this time you can whet your teeth to eat "fatning bread," sausage and chittlings. I do hope that some of the poor fellows from the towns will go out. Go, as many of you as can. It has been gathering time in the country for awhile, and all the time I wished the little town children could be out "watching the gaps" and roasting 'ta ters, swinging on the coupling pole behind the corn wagon and playing in the cotton seed. The little niggers are missed at gathering time by old folks like me. The melody of the nigger's songs from over the fields is missed on these frosty mornings, but if the whites will bestir themselves and reap the fruits, the joys and com? forts that the old red hills will yet yield I will be thankful and praise the Lord. A new era is dawning in Georgia. The pursuit of agriculture will be magnified. The old "hayseed" will know and assert his importance and will persuade all mankind of its great dignity. The pretty town misses will come out and mate off with our country boys and our country girls will mate with the town boys and a generation will soon fill the land with songs of joy and tidings of plenty. Hard times will vanish, and on the air will float the loud acclaim, "God bless these old red hills !" Then I will be ready to wink with my left eye at the old 'oman and say : God bless each bouse with good supply, That they may thrive and multiply, Till Georgia children bcru and bred Shall verify what I have said. Sarge Plunkett. The Big Cotton Bale. It would seem that the cotton bale has finally reached its maximum size, and that it is likely, if anything, to grow smaller. The average weight of the bales received this year is mate? rially less than those of the previous one. The September bales in 1892, for instance, weighed 523.1 pounds, but this September they weighed only 516.63, a decrease of 6.47 pounds. For the two months of September and October the average was 503.08, as against 510.38, or 7.3 pounds less. It will be seen that the bale continues to grow smaller as the season progresses, the indications being that for the whole year it will fall below 500 pounds. The decrease is marked everywhere in the South. In Texas, famous for its big bales, their average weight has fallen off 15.14 pounds; in Louisiana 4.70. The decrease is less marked on the Atlantic coast, but even there the disposition is shown to put fewer pounds of cotton into a bale than formerly. This tendency is all the more mark? ed because hitherto the disposition was quite the other way?to increase the size of the bale until it threatened to reach 750 pounds, or even more. Starting at about 420 pounds, it had steadily increased until monster bales were frequently met with of 800 to 900, and in some few cases of 1,100. The example is simple. It costs to move and handle cotton in many por? tions of the South and especially along the Mississippi, so much per bale, whether the bale weighs 300 or 1,000 pounds. There was the same charge for transportation by boat, and for hauling and storage in the press. When the Mississippi levee districts were organized and began raising money for levee building by means of a tax on cotton, it was placed at so much per bale, and it sometimes ran very high?$2 to $2.50 per bale. The planter, therefore, who put up his cot? ton in bales of 1,000 pounds or more saved just half his tax. Altogether it was possible to save $2 or $3 a bale by adopting the heavy standard, and that was no small item in a large crop. This little trick, however, was soon understood, and those who lost by it took steps to protect themselves. The railroad freight charge was by the pound, so th^t there was no profit in putting up big bales that had to be transported by rail. The levee dis? tricts levied their produce tax on cot? ton by the pound instead of the bale as formerly, and the laborers in the presses began demanding extra rates for handling the heavier packages. This cut out all the profit on the big bales, and the planters, finding that they secured little if any benefit from them, have ceased trying to put too many pounds in a bale. The result is shown in the decreased weight this year. The change is a matter for congrat? ulation. The big hale was a nuisance, hated and detested by all. It was clumsy and required more labor to handle. The spinner also complained that the cotton thus packed reached him in a more or less objectionable and uncovered condition. Complaints have poured in from England of the manner in which cotton was packed and baled in this country, and sug? gesting that we adopt the methods in vogue in Egypt or India, the cotton from which countries reached Europe in better condition than ours. The suggestion that we adopt a standard bale used in other countries of 300 or 350 pounds is not likely to be adopted here, however, because most of our presses and machinery are not adapted to packing cotton as compactly as is necessary in these small packages ; but the returns of the cotton exchange would indicate that the big bale is equally objectionable, and that the South had about concluded that the weight best adapted to this country, most easily and cheaply handled, is about 500 pounds.?New Orleans Times-Democrat. The Roots of the Corn Plant. Professor King, of the Wisconsin Experiment station, has been conduct? ing some remarkable experiments i| regard to the root growth of the corn plant. In order to ascertaiu the root growth, it was necessary to invent an arrange? ment for getting out the entire mass of root without breaking any of them off. To get this out whole, a trench was dug across the rows deep enough to reach the bottom of the root growth, leaving a block of earth containing the roots of the plant. The dirt was then carefully washed out by a force pump, which, of course, left the roots just as they were in the soil. These exami? nations were made at different periods of the growth of the plant. In eighteen days after the seed was put in the soil, the roots were twelve inches below the surface, and had spread laterally to a distance of eighteen inches. In twenty-seven days after planting, the roots had sunk to eighteen inches in depth, and later? ally had gone out twenty-four inches. It is easy to sec that these tender root3 cannot make this rapid growth unless the soil conditions arc just right for them. They never could do it on rough, hard land, and thus we sec the need of doing all we can to prepare a light, porous and warm sur? face soil. But the most remarkable showing is made by observations made at a more advanced stage. Professor King found that, by the laying by stage, the roots occupied the entire soil to a depth of two feet. When the corn was in full tassel, the whole upper three feet of soil is occupied, and the small feeders arc very near the surface. At the time of maturity of the crop, it was found that the roots filled a space four feet deep. As Professor King says: "Nothing could illustrate more forcibly than these observations, how deeply and broadly this great American food plant is able to send its roots foraging thorugh the soil." Just think what the effect is upon this necessary part of the plant growth, when you go slashing and tearing between the rows with your deep-running plowB. ? It's rather remarkable thinjr; that we can see through almost any kind of glass but a glass eye A War Story. The lines of the union array were closing around Petersburg like a shroud of iron, when Gen. Lee resol? ved to break and drive them back, if possible. To that end he ordered an attack in force to be made on Gen. Grant's line of circumvallation on July 19, 1864. The point selected for assault was in the vicinity of an old country inn called "The Yellow Tavern." Gen. Johnston F ood, whose bri? gade of South Carolinians was assiged to the right of the attacking force, found that daylight had broken before he could align his command. It met with a heavy fire of artillery and musketry and it faltered. As a merciful suggestion, no doubt, prompted by the admiration for a body of brave men, doomed otherwise to certain slaughter, the union soldiers called out to them to surrender, but the call was unheeded. At this deadly jucture a mounted officer was seen to emerge from the sally port of an earthwork at a re-en? tering angle of the line of intrench t ments nearly opposite the center of the brigade. He galloped up to the color-bearer of the South Carolina regiment, and holding out his right hand demanded the surrender of the colors. Although mounted, the uniform and shoulder straps of the oaring I union officer indicated that he was a captain of infantry. He was, appa? rently, thirty years of age, with a no? ble and handsome face, and tall, hero? ic form. The color-bearer, seemingly dazed, or perhaps paralyzed by the sublime ef? frontery of the demand, surrendered the colors. The Hag was especially dear to the regiment, for it had been presented by the ladies of the district in which the regiment had been raiseed, and it had been borne aloft with honor on many battlegelds. It was a State flag, with the ams of South Carolina -upon i t, and a coun? terpart of that which the famous Pal? metto regiment in the Mexican war. had planted on the walls of the capi tol of Mexico, the first foreign flag to wave there since the time of Cortez. Gen.. Hagood, who was distant about seventy-five yards, saw with amazement the surrender of the flag. He was on foot, his horse having been shot from under him, and he came forward on a run to intercept the of? ficer who was riding slowly along the front of the regiment, obliquing somewhat toward his own lines. Gen. Hagood, on coming up with him, seized the bridle of the horse, and, levelling his revolver at the cap? tain's breast, said to him, "Give me that flag, sir!" The answer was, "Who are you?" The general replied, "I command this brigade. I admire your bravery. Give me that flag and you shall return unmolested to your own lines." The captain, who had furled the flag, and was holding it upright with the ferule staff resting on the pommel of his saddle, responded: "General, you had better surrender to me your? self. Look behind youp The general looked to the rear and saw a large force had sallied from the int'renchments on his left was moving to cut off his retreat, all other com? mands having retired from the fruit? less assault. Turning to the defiant captain, he exclaimed : "Once more, sir, will you give me that flag?" The answer was in a loud voice, "Never." With the answer, Gen. Hagood fired, and the officer fell, shot through the breast. He still grasped the flag? staff, as he fell backward, and it was wrested from his grasp. The general Lien mounted the horse and ordered a retreat, which was affected with the loss of nearly one-half of the bri? gade. The captured horse was killed on the retreat by a shot from the union lines, and as he fell he kicked out his heels and, as if to avenge his fallen master, struck Dr. Taylor, the brigade surgeon, in the hea.d, inflicting a wound from the effects of which he never recovered. Often within the lines of Peters? burg, around many a campflre, con? federate soldiers discussed the strange incident of the flag surrender at Yel? low Tavern. How it was that such a famous regiment should have allowed its flag to be surrendered in. battle to a force consisting of but one man, was most puzzling. The occult power of hypnotism might have furnished a solu? tion, but it was then unheard of, and is still unknown to the arts of war. AH agreed, however, that no braver deed was ever done than that of the Yankee Captain who fell, sti ll grasping that flag. Sixteen years later Gen. Hagood was the honored chief magistrate of South Carolina. The writerwasa cir? cuit judge, holdiug courtin Columbia, and called on the governor atthe capi tol to pay his respects. "You recollect that federal officer that I was obliged to shoot in the bat? tle of Yellow Tavern, to recover the flag?" he asked. "Well, thank hea? ven, I did not kill him. He is still living. Here is a letter that I have just received from him. Please read it." The following is a copy : Council Bluffs, lA.,Dec. 5, 1880. Gen. Johnston Hagood, Columbia, S. C.?General: If I am correctly in? formed, you are the confederate officer who shot me in the right breast in the battle of Yellow Tavern. This wound was inflicted to recover from me a regimental flag which was surrender? ed to me by one of your color-bearers. I had apparently recovered entirely from it, but it has troubled me for some time, and I now find myself ob? liged to apply for a pension. As I was in your lines, and out of sight of my comrades when shot, I am obliged to request that you will aid me to prove that I received the wound in the line of duty. You will do me a great favor if you will make affidavit stating the facts and forward it to me. Please state, also, that you have no interest in my claim. I am, General, yours respectfully, James Bailey. Late Captain Fourth Iowa Volun? teer Infantry." In his letter enclosing an affidavit Governor Hagood extended a most cordial invitation to Capt. Bai? ley to visit South Carolina as his guest. Ho said further, that the flag with which Capt. Bailey's wound was so honorably associated, was still preserv? ed not1 as a hostile symbol, but as a souvenier of comradeship, and that he would be pleased to place it in his hands, and have him view it in the midst of friendly sur? roundings. For the Hothers? As boys grow up make compauions of them; then they will not seek com? panionship elsewhere. Let the children make a noise some? time : their happiness is as important as your nerves. Respect their little secrets. If they have concealments, worrying them will nevermake them tell, and patience will probably do the wort. Allow them, as they grow old? er, to have opinions of their own; make individuals and not mere ech? oes. Remember that without physical health mental attainments are worth? less ; let them lead free happy lives, which strengthen both mind and body. Bear in mind that you are largely re? sponsible for your children's inherited character, and have patience with faults and failings. Talk hopefully to your children of life and its possibilities ; you have no right to depress them because you have suffered. Teach boys and girls the actual facts of life as soon as they are old enough to understand them, and give them the sense of responsibility without 3adden ingthem. Find out what their special tastes are, and develop them, instead of spending time money and patience in forcing them into studies which are repugnant to them. As long as it is possible, kiss them good-night after they are in bed; they do like it so, and it keeps them very close. If you have lost a child, remember that for the one that is gone there is nothing more to do ; for those remain? ing, do everything; hide your grief for their sakes. Impress upon them from early infan? cy that actions have results, and they cannot escape consequences even By being sorry when they have acted j wrongly. As your daughters grow up teach them at least the true merits of house? keeping and cookery j they will thank you for it in later life a great deal more than for accomplishments. Try and sympathize with girlish flights of fancy, even if they seem ab? surd to you; by so doing you will re? tain your influence over your daugh? ters, and not teach them to seek sym? pathy elsewhere. Remember that although they are all your children, eaoh one has an individ? ual character, and tastes and qualities vary indefinitely. Cultivate them separately, and not as if you were turning them out by ma? chinery. Encourage them to take good walk? ing exercise. Young ladies in this country are rarely walkers. Girls ought to be able to walk as well as hoys. Half the nervous diseases whioh afflict young ladies would disappear if the habit of regular exercise were encouraged. Keep up the right standard of prin? ciples. Your children will be your keenest judges in the future. Do be honest in small things as well as in great. If you cannot tell them what they wish to know do not deceive them. Reprove your children for tale bearing; a child taught to carry re? ports from the kitchen is detestible. Remember that visitors praise the children as much to please you as they deserve it, and their presence is of tener an affliction than not. Ill Temper. One fruitful cause of a vast number of the miseries of married life, of most of the divorce cases, and the ma? jority of murders and suicides, is ill temper. And yet our spirituaiguides do not seem to recognize bad temper as a sin, or. if they do, they calrftejk "little sin, instead of which it is eft very big one. Even parents will pro? fess to admire what they call the "family temper" in their children, and there is not one in a hundred who ever points out to the hoys and girls the folly and wickedness of giving way to it. "Better is he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city" is a maxim of which but little heed is taken ; and self-control, which is the real ruling of the spirit, is seldom taught or preached. A girl condemns herself to a life of perpetual torture if she marries an ill tempered man, a man who has no no? tion of controlling his tongue or his temper. It is frequently said that good words mean much and cost noth? ing. It may be just as well said that hard words cost nothing and sink deep. There is nothing that so surely alienates a wife's affection as the hard words and crossness of a husband. It may be the woman's part to bear, and - bear meekly; but she has the right to her own life, and better a quiet life than one of perpetual irritation and misapprehension. A vast number of men marry appa? rently that they may have some one on whom to expend their spleen. Hard words to a wife do not count. She must expect them, and make the best of them. That is the creed of the ages that profess to have raised wo? man's status and position. Agirlhas just as much right to decline the at? tentions of a man who shows her that he has a bad temper as she has to de? cline those of an impecunious or im? moral man. She does the latter far too seldom, and men would lead far whiter lives if they knew that women would not condone the shades and blotches for the sake of a home and position. Not so very many years ago a good and gifted man lost the chance of wedded happiness through an exhibi I tion of temper. He saw a girl to ' whom he was truly attached, in a time of political excitement accept the loan of a newspaper from a man who was a comparative stranger, in a rail? way car. He immediately rolled hi 3 own paper into a ball, stood up, and flung it out of the window. The girl, who was not engaged to him' (though she felt intuitively he would ask* her as soon as he was in a position to do so), argued, "If this man can behave in this manner now, what may I ex? pect if I marry him ?" He lived and died a bachelor for her sake, but it was entirely his own temper that came be? tween them.? Worthingtons Maga? zine. Bncklens Arnica Salve, The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Uluers, 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, All Sorts of Para graphs,^ H| ? He is a miss guided youth-"v7w||| does everything his sweetheart a?Mp| ? Any one can be a weather prophiMpI if he will just predict that it is goinll to rain and stick to it. niflnTMl ? The man who can nav M&?My&'i and won't do it, wouId^s^Wflpig^ that he wouldn't get caught; ? "How many foreign lang?|jp|p can your wife speak ?" Three. ^R|yH man, French, and the one she^t^ || ? ? Uptown little girl's cflfi m hearing that a friend haA brothers ^M"Why don'tsb^^^^^? ? The fellow who cal^^^^^^^lS comfortable, defended hj^^^^P^^ saying they made a mar^^^^^^^^ other miseries. ??_ OSM*"*1**" S ? Mr. Brown?How often have I J told you not to play ball in the house ? I Fred Brown?Every time you've ? caught me at it. ? A New York husband, who isM very jealous, ties his wife when hq^ goes out. The trouble is that they|? were not well tied at first. '^|M ? It stated that a pail of- water containing a handful of hay, is placed in a room where there has been smokr ?| ing, will absorb all the odor of the tobacco. ? gtudions boy (writing a composi? tion)?"Should we say a man marries a woman, or a woman marries a man ?" - Father?"I should think that depends a good deal on whether the woman was, a widow." ? "I have enough to support you, Ethel. Will you be my wife ?'.' J "Well, Charlie, youmuyt excusejnvJ if I am cautious. But you"SayS'ojffl have enough to support me. Who ?fc going to support you ?" ffljg ? At the beginning of the centujHI the Bible was accessible to but qmhH fifth of the population of the worflttl Now it may be read by nine^tenthEj^l the people of the globe, so rapidly Wm? its translation been carried on. iffi Hi ? "Why did Adam and Eve M to put on skins to clothe themsefljiPs after eating the forbidden frujS Si "Because it was winter then.".. '?BSP* do you know it was winter-?J***TBe- v cause it was immediately' after the i fall." ? Mrs. Mettie?"Next month, the 15th, we will have been married tw^ a ty-five years. Shall we celebrate our^J silver wedding?" Mr. M.?"Great fi Scott, love ! After what we have suf- /< fered for three months from the Un ited'' States Senate ?" , ? An old Negro, who had.busiriess in a lawyer's office, was asked if^e could sign his name. "How is dat^ sah ?" "I asked," the lawyer answer? ed, "if you can write your name ?" "Well, no, sah. I neber writes my name ; I jess dictates it, sah." j ? "I have^a&ejI^SQme^prefe^enerntj people amung the f^mtti&ttdeffM my wife takes every yeaf,"" said old ? Mr. Jason, "but they ain't never nOnefl of them come up to the young womanfl that wanted to know if apple butterfl wuz made from feedin' apples to theM cows." S ? It is computed that the deathH rate of the world is sixty-seven an minute, and the birth rate seventy a I minute, and this seemingly light pejr-fl centage of gain is sufficient to give'a I net increase of population each year of 1 almost 1.200,000 souls. Shoes in I small numbers ,viII always find a sale. * ? A man in Connecticut is said to jj have made so many pairs of shoes in J| one day that it took him two days to J count them. He was a smart one, I but not quite equal to the one who 'I built so many miles of wall that it< J took him all that night and the next-J day to get home again. If ? Tommy?My father is a church |I member. Johnny?So's mine. Tom-"p my?But my father says your papi^ ain't 'cos he don't nevergome tir;" j I ~^.urch nor put noth^^j^^rortlW^" tion: pdr.-^^hnnjdpSravely)--Well, my pppa is afnin'026rary member, and honqfary memDCTS don't have to chip ? Electric light :is beip^ used as c fl bait by fshermenwhopiy^iieir calling" 3 along the Pacific Coast. The Yankeefl adaption of electricity brings bin hauls. The fish are attracted by th<9 bright light in the water and theifi investigations generally end in theiflB being hooked while trying to swalloiB the glass globules. E| ? A piece of string makes a simple^ barometer. Take a piece of strinjH about 15 inches long, saturate it in strong solution of salt and watery^Jnr it dry and then tie a light weight on one end and hang it up r-gainst a wall '; and mark where the weig \t reaches to. |l The weight rises for wet weathenrnci^ falls for fine. The string should be a placed where the outside air can freely 1 get to it. . ? ? The latest development of the insurance business is interesting. You can buy suspenders which en/^le your next of kin to $500 if yr- are killed while wearing them, and there are also hats which entitle jour heirs,_ to a similar amount if you are found dead with one on your head. If the hat is found by your side, both it and the insurance are off. ? In Austin, Tex., there is a figure of the Goddess of Liberty surmount? ing the .Capitol 300 feet above 2^ . ground. The lady is 17 feet h^o, with a hollow cranium. Inspection has recently divulged the fact that a swarm of bees have deposited their honey to the extent of several buck-^ etsful in her head and used her nos trils as the front door. ? It is believed that the custon of raising the hat in saluting ladies is derived from the days of chivalry, when the knights unhelmed bel'ore ladies, that by so doing they might forego the advantages which their armor conferred upon them?rendering - them defenseless and at the same ti.me by such act declare their belief that woman was the soul and fountain of honor. ? A man went into a dragstore^aniL, asked for something to cure a"liead-^ ache. The druggist held a bottle of hartshorn to his nose; and he was nearly overpowered by its pungency. As soon as he iecovered, he began to rail at the druggist. "But didn't it help your headache?" asked the apothecary. "Help my headaehe!" gasped the man. "I haven't any headache. It's my wife that has the headache." ? It is a strange fact, but one said to be true, that every one of the week days is for some nation a Sunday, or day of rest. Monday is the Greek Sunday ; Tuesday is the day of rest^ among the Persians; Wedneg^j^ among the Assyrians: Tb4? H among the Egyptians^Jrjda^^^^^ ?Sabbath day "^j^^^^^^^^^^M among the Jewsj^^^^^^^^^^^B