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^^^^' ' _ ' . ' _',' _ m tJLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. _ANDEBSON. S.C., WEDNESDAY MORNING^ JAN?ABY 3, 1894._VOLUME XXVni.-NO. ^ Ton Miss Half lour Life when yon Fail to See WILL R. HUBBMtD'S JEWELRY PALACE. 2d[o?EL Gooda than you <tsn ahake a stick at, and at prices that will astonish the . satires. Tea will certainly loee money if you don't see me BEFORE BUYING. Mj stock, ofGold and B?ftv Watches cannot be surpassed in the State. Plain Gold and Set Slags. ' 8tarline Silver and Plated Kairo, Forks and Spoons. Japanese Goods, China. Novelties. China Tea Sets, (Chamber Sets, &c, 1 n great variety. JEWJSLRY WITHOUT JENI>. J** Promptoessin everythkig. Watch Work s Speoislty. ^?J~ Engraving free on all Goods bought of me. > WILL. R. HUBBARD, Next to Farmers and Merchants Bank. SEED BARLEY AND RYE, HAMS, I, ARD, And a Fancy lape qf Canned Goods, For stile at low Price* by ? " - v-v # , :D, S. MAXWELL & SON, NO. 5 CHIQUOLA PLACE. 160-acre r&rat to rent. From now until Xmas offer SPECIAL BARGAINS H? lYBry line of Goods.. . \i will do you good to see what a^power the Circulating Medium will have with us for the balance of the present year,. Come and see our Bargains in Sipes, Jeans, Prkts, Giflgiiams, Flannels, &c. We can please any oae in Andewor 1 Ooauty on? FL??K, {JOFFEE AND TOBACCO. They are oar Specialties, a^ d we propose to lead on these articles. , We fear no h nest comjoetition?in fact we rather like it, Don't be too quick to believe any one when they say they can beat oar prices. They may be handling the truth in a careless manner. So come and see for yourself. . Hoping to. see every one of you in our Store before Christinas, we are? Yours, anxious to please, - BROWNLEE & VATOIVERS. P. 8.--Casli Cotton Bayers. GROCERIES. GROCERIES! GROCERIES! LAR8SS?STOCK EVER SliEII IN ANDERSON ! Ml* AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES! 0 ^sffS'stocVof * fa Prlni eX<,C**m0Unts ?' Good*f **009 day we may have Floor, Meat, Sugar, Coffee, Hams, Lard, &c* And the next it wfll be very much reduced. Our sales some days would astonish any ?ao. ?OW. there Is oartainl j a. reasoia for this, which we will try to ezplaia. First. we cajiy? laii?Stoak6f Flour of iiU ^rao?, Bacon, Lard, Hams,-Su*ar and OofleeL SlSSS?i-*^0?1^?? ;Jand 8000na? we Kood weights and the lowest prices od first class Soods. ^5^iw ^uaive^ tale of Chase * Sanborn's Boasted, Co fle a, which S^TrrS??*^ F?on do5%talieveit' Mk ^?M'.wfco visited the World's Fair if he drank a bad cup <af C6?fee on the ground while there. They had 0x9 ^S?S?SJP3^ world-renowned ?JSeal Brand" at the Falri FRESHERAISXNB, CUilRAHTS and CITRON arriving every day, and ?e are ready for Xmaa. Call and see us, YourstruV, * ? LIGON & LED BETTER, Wholesale and Retail Grocers. Pocket Knives, Table Knives! One Thousand "Varieties! The Rangoon Razor Every Razor Warranted. Price, S1.50. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. H. B. FANT. H> SIMPSON. PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS! > -BY GOING TO FANT & SIMPSON'S, WHERE YOU WILL FIND THE Choicest Fruits, viz: Clrannes,-Apples, Bananas, Cocoanuts, Raisins, i Grapes, Nuts, &c. ,:! A T?f9l.* ^otiful awortmeut of Vases, Gift Cups and Sauce?, Fire Crackers, Can JHLt A^.l2"?r/rt!c,es too numerous to mention. Come, everybody, arid set the nicest Goods at the lowest prtees. Yours, readv to preise, 7 W ? -' ? FANT & SIMPSON. If. S?~If yon want the best FLO?? in Tosrh for the money you can get it here, fcfcFREEOIIJY DELIVERY. F. is, ' IB ILL ARP'S LETTER. He Talks of How Cbrf?tma? Nhonld Bo Spent. Atlanta Constitution, Only a week until Christmas?the day of hallowed memories?the day of peace on earth and good will to men, and especially to women and children. The day of firecrackers and fuss for boys, and dolls and dainty things for the girls. The day when everybody ought to smother their troubles aud try to make all around them happy. Selfishness is a sin at all times, espe? cially on Christmas, and so let us all open our hearts, and if we have noth? ing else to give to others, let us give our smiles and benedictions. We are all poor now?poor in purse, but love and good will -cost nothing and there are many ways of showing it besides making presents that we oannot afford to buy. I see my folks working over their scraps of silk and lace and stuffing home-made dolls?making cravats and hemstitching handker chiefs, and doing some, other things on the sly just for little tokens and surprises, but we will have no Christ? mas tree this time. When I was in my teens we had a debating society, and one of the favorite questions was, "is there such a thing as disinterested benevolence ?" I was for the affirma? tive then and I am for it yet. With many people I know that it is more blessed to give than to receive, and it is a comfort to me to believe that I am one of them. Sometimes I wish that I was rieh just to have the pleas? ure and the fun of helping the unfor? tunate. I would like to go about in disguise as King Rupert did and look in upon the huts and haunts of poverty by- night, and see their wants and miseries, and send round my charity wagons next morning and make them happy for a few days, if no more. I would like to follow the wagons along and linger at the doors and see the eager-wondering faces of the children as the good, things were handed out. I would have something good to cat and good shoes and stockings and blankets and quilts and soap and towels and a few simple medicines and some second-hand books with pictures in them. I would raise the family up for a week or so any how and.leave my card, "From a friend who wishes you well and begs you to look up and not down. Be a true man.and a true wo? man and raise your . children to be good and happy. Don't despair." Yes, I have at times had just such Utopian 'dreams as that, but I will never be rich, and it is all right I know?best for me and best for the children. Old Agur's prayer was put in the good book for a good purpose. Solomon was trusted with riches but he came to grief. We have scores of millionaires in our day, but the Peter Coopers and Peabodys are few and far between. Most of them hold on with a selfish grip until they die, and even then they let go unwillingly and would take their treasures with them if they could. I knew a rioh man who would never make a straight out deed to a piece of land when he sold it, but would only convey it by a lease to last "as long as trees grew and rivers ran." He actually olaimed a rever? sionary interest in every acre that he sold, and seemed to imagine that he would get it all back some day. If the time ever comes when there shall be a new heaven and a new earth, I'm afraid he oan't locate his boundaries. We have got the grip at our house. The worst thing about this new fan? gled disease is its depressing influence upon our emotions. I don't feel like doing anything, or saying anything or writing anything. I feel blue and have lost my hilarity, and so we have concluded to go to Florida for a sea? son. We will divido the family. Four of us will go to Clearwater Har? bor, on the gulf coast, and bathe in the salt water and breathe the salt air, and we will fish and eat oysters and oranges until we get well. Board is very cheap there and I will radiate around to the beautiful little town and mix with the yankees and sell my talk for more than it is worth at home. I have long wished that they knew us as well as we did them and I want a fair chance to tell them some things that they do not know. I am now calm and serene and won't quarrel with anybody nor hurt their feelings, but it is a relief to a man to express his sentiments. I have recently written a little book?a history of Georgia, and I was just obliged to give a his? tory of the late war and who was to blame for it?nothing to extenuate or set down aught in malice, but I had a time of it with my publishers. Ginn &^Co., are Boston men. They are pinker Hill yankees and love their fatherland with its glorious memories, which is all right, of course. Patriot? ism is to be admired everywhere. They engaged me to write a school history of Georgia and when they pe? rused my manuscript and got to that part, about the causes of the war, they were surprised and shocked and wrote to me to know where I got all that. I had written that Eng? land never freed her slaves until 1843 ?only seventeen years before the late war, and I had to prove it before they would go on with the book. I had written the Massachusetts carried on the slave trade for years after their own slaves were freed, and I had to prove that. They had never heard that General Grant was a slave owner up to Lincoln's proclamation. They denied many things and required proof pfoiy^fjjourse, they felt respon? sible for the book. ^They even felt a kind of reverence for old John Brown, for they are -.young men who have grown up since the war and hacl* never read but one side, and that wasUheir side. But I had my way and my Bay, and established what I asserted and I found them to he reasonable and courteous gentlemen in all of our cor? respondence. I had the advantage in age and memory. A good friend said that I should have got a Georgia pub? lisher. Of course I would have pre? ferred that but no Georgia publisher would have paid me as well for my work. No Georgia publisher would have given away 1,600 copies to edi? tors and Bohool boards. No Georgia house would have done such good work for the retail price of 60 cents. Boston can beat us in book-making and book-pushing, and our publishing houses had better take lessons from them. I have tried both. This reminds me of old Squire McGinnis, of our county, who, way before the war, ruled "Greenleaf on Evidence" out of his court because it was pub? lished in Boston. But the war is over and the old squire is dead. Let us eat their codfish and ship them our oranges in peaee, and when they visit us, let us give them welcome and put in our missionary work with alacrity and good will. Bill Arp. A Harrow Escape. Fredericksburo, Texas, Dec. 29. ?-The bite of a tarantula is almost as dangerous or as fatal as that of a rat? tlesnake, and without prompt atten? tion the sufferer dies in an hour or two. It was from one. of these creatures that Johlh Thrummer, of this place, received a fright lately that nearly turned his hair while in a few min? utes. Patting on his outer shirt a few mornings ago he felt something fall from one of the sleeves onto his breast, and through the opening of his undershirt onto his naked flesh. Looking down he saw an enormous spider coiled up and seemingly half dead with cold. But getting warmed up with the heat of his body, it pres? ently began to straighten out its long limbs, covered with coarse, red bris? tles, and, before Thrummer could knook it out, was plainly its old ag? gressive self. Mr. Thrummer did not dare seize it with his fingers, lest it fasten on them, nor did he dare to make any movement to dislodge it for fear that it would instantly fix its jaws in his flesh. He called his.wife softly, but she was still asleep. He dared not lean over to touch her, so he continued to call her until at last she opened her eyes. Then he told her to get up and take the. tongs and remove the creature as quickly as pos? sible so as not; to give it warning of what she was about lest it might bite him. Mrs. Thrummer from her husband's quiet tone, thought at first that he was jesting, and pulled open the shirt to look for herself, when she saw the tarantula. The creature also saw her, and still clinging to the man's breast, bristled all over with menace. Therefore, getting up without more noise than oould be helped, she ran for the tongs and approached the spot where the insect lay. But, as if it divined that she was about to seize it, it suddenly ran up Mr. Thrummer's left shoulder and over on his back. Only able to guess at its exact whereabouts, Mrs. Thrummer was at first afraid to seize it, for fear that she would not locate it right and that it would bury its ter? rible fangs in her husband. But at last, seeing it move slightly, she made a sudden plunge at it, and, catching it well between the prongs of the tongs, held it firmly, squeezing it as tightly as she c.JT^d, endeavoring to kill it, or at least render it so that it would not be able to bite. Another of the fam? ily now coming in,the shirt was out away. Thrummer was so nervous that he sobbed like a child. Mrs. Thrummer let go her hold, and the giant spider fell to the floor. But, though badly crushed, it was not dead, and showed fight at once. It ran at Mrs. Thrummer fiercely, at? tempting to get at her bare foot, and had to be beaten off with a broom. It was finally captured and confined in a box with a glass top, but in a few days stung itself to death. It would fling itself upon the walls of its prison and endeavor to seize the wood with its mandibles in a sort of fury. Mr. Thrummer is of the belief that were these creatures substituted for snakes that the whole world would be prohi? bitionists. The one that paid him so unwelcome a visit was one of the largest ever seen in these parts, near? ly covering, with its legs extended, a Jarge saucer. It had probably sought the house for warmth at the beginning of cold weather. How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Re? ward for any case of Catarrh that can? not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. P. J. CHENEY & Co., Proprietors, Toledo, 0. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Truah, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Waldino, Kinnan a Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Tole? do, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter? nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials free. JJSfSold by Druggists, 75c. ? "Your husband comes home very late, doesn't he ?" asked a prying wo? man of her neighbor. "Oh, no, ma'am, he's always in very early," was the misleading answer, j Tiro lf?j? to Improve the Firm Foal try, At the Middle Tennessee Farmers' Convention, held in Pulaski, Tenn., the following paper was read by Mr. Geer, and, at the request of Commis? sioner Allisou, is published in the Southern Cultivator: In this essay I shall briefly discuss poultry as meat, and poultiy for eggs, and give my opinion as to how it should be managed and sold so as to I bring in the most money to the pro? ducer. In the first place, I am a strong be? liever in the superior value of pure? bred poultry, and advocate the breed? ing of thoroughbred stock of every kind, in preference to the common sort. In raising fowls for the market, the half breed or grade chicken is mnoh superior to the dunghill, and is just as easily raised. No great outlay is required at the start to raise half breeds, as it is only necessary to dis? pose of the common cocks and replace them with thoroughbreds. This is the course the market poultryman shonld pursue. The best purebred cocks for this purpose are those of the larger or Asiatic breeds, suoh as Lang shans, Brahmas or Cochins, or the American breeds, Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes. If a smooth legged chicken is preferred, then the Ply? mouth Rock or Wyandotte cocks should be used. My choice would be the Plymouth Rock. The latter, in its purity, is a very popular variety, and one that stands in the front rank as a market fowl. The time has not yet arrived, however, when purebred Plymouth Rocks can be bought in the regular market. But cocks of any of the above named varieties may be ob? tained, however, at reasonable figures at this season of the year from breed? ers of purebred poultry, of which there are a goodly number within the State. The advantage in crossing males of the larger purebred varieties on the common hens of the farm consists in the fact that chickens from such a mating grow faster anot grow larger, are capable of taking on a much heav? ier weight when fattened, and they are also more healthy and vigorous than the ordinary inbred mongrel chickens. The present system of buying and selling poultry, however, operates against the interests of the purebred poultry industry, the raising of grade stock and the fattening of the fowls before they are marketed. The cus? tom of buying and selling chickens by the head or a dozen, instead of by the pound, either dressed or alive, is wrong, altogether wrong. It is un jnst to the producer, it is of no advantage to the middleman and it often disgusts the consumer with chicken meat. Gentlemen, is there one among you in this convention who would take poor, unfattened, scrawny hogs to market, or wlio would drive cattle or sheep to market too lean and bony to walk steadily? No, of course not. But you know, and I know, and city and town housekeepers everywhere know that in the spring of the year some old hens and roosters are brought to town for sale, so poor and tough that no one can eat them. Now thiB is all wrong, very wrong. It comes of a system of buying and selling that is based on the idea that "a chicken is a chicken," no matter what kind of a chicken it is, or what it weighs. ? In France, the greatest and most successful poultry raising country in the world, all market fowls, dead or. alive, are bought and sold by weight. Over there they fatten their poultry before taking it to market, just as carefully and as thoroughly as they fatten any other kind of market stock. The result is better prices, more money and greater satisfaction to the consumer. In selling poultry by weight, the producer has some incentive to im? provement. He has cause to fatten his fowls and to make them as heavy as he can, because every pound of ad? ditional weight means so many cents additional cash for his produce. If this system were adopted in this country, if it was the custom here in Tennessee now, it would revolutionize the market poultry business of the State. It would give the purebred poultry industry a lasting boom. It would place the thoroughbred fowls where they shonld be?on every farm in the State. As it is, the farmer is handicapped and the purebred poultry breeder is handicapped by a system of marketing poultry that works injustice to both, and to the consumer as well. When we consider, gentlemen, that an ordinary mongrel fowl weighs from four to seven pounds only, and then remember that a purebred Brahma, a Coohin or a Langshan fowl weighs from nine to twelve pounds, and Ply? mouth Rocks and Wyandottes from seven to ten pounds, then we can readily see the great advantage that would accrue to both the farmer and the fancier, if justice should be done to all, and fowls sold by the pound in? stead of by the head or the dozen. The system of selling by weight, onco adopted, would open a new mar? ket for the surplus grain and vegeta? bles of the farm. Corn and wheat and potatoes and other surplus pro? ducts, besides the general forage of the farm, such as fowls live and fat? ten on, could be turned into poultry meat and sold by the pound, just the same as it is now turned into pork and beef. The poultry would be fat? tened before being taken to market, for every pound then will have its value in cash and the fowls would at the same time be much tenderer and sweeter in flesh, and therefore much more satisfactory to the con? sumer. \ Gentlemen, this is a vital question with the poultry raiser, and I hope this convention will consider the mat? ter and pronounce itself in favor of buying and Helling poultry by the pound instead of by the head. This I consider is one way to im? prove the condition of the farm poul? try ; the other way is to improve the laying qualities of the hens. This can be done also by the introduction of purebred male birds among the com? mon hens. The old dunghill rooster must go. He is a back date! He stands in the way of. progress, and must be set aside. I would first abolish the dunghill cock and then I would go to the breeders of such thoroughbred varie? ties as the Leghorn, tieMinorcas, the Spanish or the Hamburgs. My choice would be the Brown Leghorns. The other varieties juut named are all good layers, and th|:re are some breeds that I have not nataed that are good layers, but with mi the Brown Leg? horn stands first. [The weight of tes? timony from the gjneral poultry fra? ternity is in favor df the Leghorn as the best layer of all! So then, I would get Brown Leghori cocks and mate them with the common henu of the farm. This I wou i do for economy's sake the first year, instead cf buying Leghorn hens too. The pullets' fro n such a mating would lay much 3 junger than their dunghill mothers, and lay at least one-third more egg a year. A com? mon hen lays on 1 le average ninety eggs in 365 days, whereas a purebred Leghorn hen lay! from 150 to 175 eggs in the same] length of time. Nearly twice as mu h as the dunghill. These are well attt sted faotd. It is true that it the market "an egg is an egg," anc one egg is as good as another, provide I it is not a bad egg. But it caono ibe denied, gentle? men, that two eggs fare better than one and is worth just tiiceasmuch. This is the point for us to keep in view :ln grading up farm pjmltry. We want more eggs, and thearay to get them is to introduce the blood of the best laying stock an:ong..our common hens. I would take thefcrade or half-breed pullets of the first grossing - and mate them the second yew with other pure? bred Brown Leghorn cocks, and I would continue thit system of mating until the farm hen&should be elevated to the standard of pure Leghorns in blood and laying characteristics. l This course would, in a few years, oause two eggs to k found where only one is found to-day] and result in a general increase in the value of the farm poultry of theState quite beyond calculation. ?;? . Where large market chickens and grade Leghorn pullets^are both desired on ths same farm, they may be easily raised by simply mating part of the common hens with a cock of trie lar? ger breeds, and part with a Leghorn cock, keeping the two flocks separated either by distance for fencing during the laying and hatching season.?S. B. Geer, in SoutKqn Cultivator. The Meupj We Waste, One of our Washington specials yesterday quoted.' jome internal reve? nue statistics showing that in spite of the hard times we have wasted enough money in the past|year to make every? body in the country comfortable. The American! who were howling about the financial depression spent in the past twelve months .$600,000,000 for whisky 1 The same crowd spent in that period $617,268,460 for beer 1 For cigars and*tobacco they spent $275,750,0001 j These grumblers and growlers who talked economy to their wives and children and prayed for the return of good times-managed .to sorape up about $l,6Q^00i60 for their oommon drinks and c \ flf%?rs, and what their wines and* agine! ^ 9 cost we may im This en volume of cite 0 capita more r 3 capita circulate each head of United States! c This money w priations of a b and leave enoT pay the expejlj Congress. It [ over for our a would pay the \ war. It woulcfl plain fashion union ! We do not p figures with th bring about a but we believe influence thoq readers and ere extravagance a a temperance \ a statement of the eyes of mi tion of most 0 ing now pre liquor and ft frightful enoq perity, but wh these hard ti tion. a-^han correspon our entire jjr H It is $27 per ?f jjjjp present per ? is $195 for ry family in the d pay all the appro on dollar Congress h to more than half of another such luld pay six times al cotton crop. It it of a long foreign !cd and clothe in a |ery family in the ent these startling hope that they will onomic revolution, t they cannot fail to ds of thoughtful a prejudice against ?ste. This is not orial. It is simply ts which must open 0 the true explana poverty and suffer ng. The American co bill would be in a period of pros hall we say of it in ?Atlanta Constitv ? Counter! circulated in fraudulent bilj photo, pernk" counterfeit't dangerous i~* at first sigh'?lf' point is of $ !)| letter B, fory and is signed, N. Huston. H is in the piety a very poor^n deuce that circulated. j $100 bills arc "nein ?5 York. T'"e latest 1 eduction of the process. Such fronounced to be general appearance [cellent. The bill in jeries of 1890, check ry number A 91,418, IS. Eosccrans and J. only striking defect |)f Farragut, which is liteition. There is evi ulls are being liberally Drtth to Worthless Dogs. To the Editor of the News and Cou? rier : It is gratifying to see that there is at least one man in the Legislature ! who has enough courage to face the cur dogs and the demagogues that are in position to benefit the State, but who prefer their own elevation to the good of their constituents. The bill has met the usual fate of such bills. In the absence of arguments that can? not be found to use against such a law they .resort to ridicule, and such non? sense as comparing the valuation of sheep and dogs, to show that it was to the interest of the people to have dogs instead of sheep. This is certainly nonsense, and ought to cause the de? feat of any man who uses it, as an evidence of his incompetency to rep? resent a people who are trying to make a living on a farm. Whenever a member brings up the poor man's dog you may look around and you will see a demagogue who has not the in? terest of poor people at heart, or is too ignorant to know what is best to do. A wholesome dog law would be one of the greatest boons that the poor can have; to him more than the rich would the benefit go. As it is, with the dog above the law, at liberty to range the country and kill sheep at will, the poor man ean't have his lit flock of sheep, that would clothe his family and give them the luxury of a lamb for the table, all at but little cost, for fear of his neighbor's worth? less dog. A tax of a dollar a head would bring all such to the gallows, and the sheep would grase day and night without being molested. Aj flock of sheep is often ruined by dogs hunting in the pastures where the sheep are ; because of their great fear of the dog they become stampeded and run for life as if the dogs were after them, and this habit often causes the young dogs to chase them and kill them. The sneep regards the dog as his natural enemy, and the dog seems to regard the sheep as lawful game for him to kill at will. If any man prefers dogs to sheep let him have them by all means, as this is, or ought to be, a free country but he should pay a per capita tax to assist to pay for damages done by dogs I know this is unconstitutional but it oan be gotten over easily by calling it a license to own a dog. I have never advocated the total ex termination of dogs, only to cut off the worthless ones, on which the own ers refuse to pay the tax. This would take at least 90 per cent of them, and those who own valuable dogs would cheerfully pay the tax, and ought to be protected in the ownership of their dogs, as is done with other animals, and, like other animals, the owner should be held responsible for dam ages done by his dog. I hope to live to see sheep properly protected against dogs. Then I would expect to see a prosperous country. We cannot make crops without ma nure, and we cannot have manure without animals to eat the products of the farm, and there is no other ani? mal equal in this respect to the sheep. A well managed flock of sheep will give its owner three crops; two, or per? haps one of these will pay all expenses on the flock. Is there any other ani? mal, except perhaps the Angora goat, that will do this ? Give u3 the proper protection and we will raise the sheep. J. Washington Watts. Laurens, S. C, Dec. 16, 1893. m a ?' - . The Coop De Grace. The true animus of the liquor law enacted by the last Legislature is clearly indicated by recommendations contained in the recent message to the Assembly. It is now as clear as the noonday sun that the State authorities desire to force liquor upon the people regard leu s of their wishes. The osten? sible aim of the dispensary is to regu? late an evil; its real aim is revenue. No one in his senses, it seems to us, can for a moment doubt this. The revenue feature has not been a con? spicuous success, as shown by the fact that the Governor has been forced to include in his estimates, in order to swell his figures to respectability the theoretical profits on the jug of whiskey to be sold next Christmai Perhaps the whiskey will be sc/d, But to say that such a procedure is unfair and deceptive is statj^^^he case mildly. ThiaJs not though bad enough- A pretext is found in the ncce-isity for revenue, to strike a fatal b;,ow at the prohibition counties i? the State. It is claimed that the ^fcensary is paying a "hand? some rejp1??" and yet the Pe?Ple of the prjjVition counties must submit to a sJr' fcax t0 enforce prohibition in thoHf counties. Prohibition is to be cw^ or blasted by this "heroic measlJre," because prohibition is the enCmiy of revenue, not of morals. The {friends of temperance who have been,* fondly cheating themselves into the) belief that the dispensary was a stej? toward prohibition may now open th?ir eyes upon the lurid prospect and iri the day of 'j^Jjjfnity "Moab may },Jowl for Moab." The utter and Remediless rooting out of prohibition and the emphatic damnation of moral principle is simply a question as to whether the Assembly will be found 3ufficiantly servile and instrumental to adopt the suggestions made in the message. With local option dies the last hope of prohibition.?Baptist Courier. ? "Please, ma'am," said the boy, "can't you help *ne ? I has to support a wife an'three children." "You? Why, you're not old enough to be married." "No, but my father is. It's his wife and three children J has to support," State War Belle Museum. A determined effort is to be made looking to the establishment of a State museum of Revolutionary and Confed? erate war relics, such as flags, etc., in which the State is so wealthy. The object is to establish this museum and set apart quarters for it in the State Capitol building, where all strangers and lovers of relics can go at any time and inspect the exhibits. Some weeks ago Adjt. Gen. Farley received the following letter from Gen. M. C. Butler, which letter has caused the inauguration of this effort which will likely result in the estab? lishment of such a museum: Edoepield, Nov. 30,1893. Gen. H. L. Farley?Dear Sir: Let me make a suggestion. I find there are a great many relics of the Revolu? tionary as well as the Confederate war in the hands of private parties that ought to be in a State museum. As time goes on these parties take less and less interest in them and my sug? gestion is that you arrange to have them deposited in the Adjutant Gen? eral's office for osafe-keeping. Some" plain glass cases along the walls would not occupy muoh space and would not cost muoh. Don't you think you could get the Legislature, to allow you a small appropriation to start it and then invite- people to deposit their relics ? Yours very truly, M. C. Butler. Gen. Farley has been thinking over the suggestion of Gen. Butler for some time. Yesterday Gen. Eershaw came to the city and after a brief con? sultation he and Gen. Farley called upon Governor Tillman. A consulta? tion was held by these three for quite a time. It was decided to undertake the establishment of such a museum: at once. Governor Tillman and Gen. Farley will not ask for an appropria? tion at this session of the General As? sembly, but will appropriate so much of their contingent funds as may be necessary to carry out the scheme, request all parties who have relics of either war to send them to Adjt. Gen. Farley, together with a brief histori? cal sketch of the articles. They will be properly taken care of and marked with the name of the owner. Any ar? ticles that may haver* belonged to dis? tinguished men, any battle flags, or any articles with associations of an historical nature, eto., are wanted. The object is to get as many of these relics as possible into the hands of the Adjutant General by next fall, when a grand meeting of the people of the State will be arranged to be held in the hall of the House of Representa? tives, at whioh the' notable relics will be presented and displayed by men who know their history. This accom? plished, the Legislature will be asked to establish an attractive museum in the Capitol building. No doubt the plan will meet with general favor and Gen. Farley's office will soon be the depository of many valuable relics.?Columbia State, Travel to and From Texas; It is surprising to observe the num? bers of emigrants passing through At? lanta every day on their way to Texas | and the far west. There was a time when the traffic was not so much a matter of surprise. Away baok yonder in the days when everybody was going west or thinking of going every train that left the city about this time of year carried hun? dreds of emigrants to the land beyond the Mississippi. But for the past few years this rush ceased and there have been but few to go west and grow up with the coun? try. The cry of hard times that has gone up all over the country for the past twelve months has given birth to an? other movement among the people of the South, for the most part the agri? cultural class. . '/\ They are going West agajjL/not in such droves as they wjytfonce, but to a greater exten^iban has been noticed by the namsenger agents here in At? lanta Uh several years past. Bu/t while this is true, there has libjfwise alsp been a great rush of old j^reorgians back to this State. The cry of hod times last summer pre? vailed in eslEry^quarter of the republic. Of course, r theuj. it has the effect to cause emigration? to start with a new jpn in Texas,back..to^Georgia, *ust as lfTlTotiB in Georgia ottKto Texas. Hard times always develops a heavy emigrant traffic in the following fall.^. It is interesting to hear the stories of those who are coming back from Texas. Some of them have been out there for years, while others have just been there one or two seasons, but they all say they prefer to live and die in old Georgia. It is still more interesting to see the effect of their talcs of woe on the emigrants around the waiting rooms on their way out to Texas. Some of them have been ob? served to change their minds after their tickets were bought and paid for just on account of the uncanny stories of their friends whom they met here in the Atlanta depot and ventured to ask about the advantages of the coun? try out beyond the rolling waters of the Mississippi.?Atlanta Constitu? tion. Bucklen8 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. ? No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for ?notier. All Sorts of Pw^^pto.^^B ? The wall-flower is ofteh^e. oa^|l girl in the hall that can. make eakeV|| ? Twenty-five per cent, of the-j^-a ulation of England have theirj^^H ? The average r?heat orop;ofit^^P country yields' - :*Dout:- ;.6%,'0(%wlfe ? In marriage announcetr^^R Spain the ages cf. bo^^iiB many piecen that ^'^^^i^^jj^^^ blade losing its tern per alit^^? I that the former isbecorniingdui^ ?the latter more cutting?-|^: ,' ;^^H| ? Most men bre^3^^E^w^|B| afflicted with rhettmatijx^ would try ?Saiyatibn:;^flg^|SP^ find relief at once. . -^^'.-M ??Brown?V^t$^of^K^9 fills the bill." :^6nt^^0t0m.t^ than does it. The .last 01 s.fcha^i in ran clear over to thVn| SflB^^p ? Over 90 per cenfe??||^SHi5wS of this country is said W^i^m^?gm check, says.an exohance.||MM other 10 percent is Aon ^t^a^P/.^? ? "I do not- think Mr; i^os^^jiS his wife any pin mooey|i^H you think he doesn't ^'r^^^jffS a pin the ottar d!a^ pushed into the mai^^by |ip^.aj^^^ tisements, ;Dr.';B??^ ;'C^0^),^^^M still takes thelead; ^^gg^J^^^S Kock, sir," said the^^^^^^^^0 lady. "Ahl thank yoii:.^*^!^ knew it was rock: o^somjj^^^i^^^J^ of draw at my best girTjgM Harvey?"With'her fati^He;'^^ me to the front door: a^il?y-t^^i rake-off from there to tli^xr^D^m^k Two young mea^wer^l^^p^ similarly in .Brooklyn/a:'few^^s^s^^ about the same hour^in /the'^*jM^^ street and within a \)i6^M:'>.eiSij^# other.- Both were pickifeto^pc^ scious and removed to^e'^s^b.hw-'o; ? A hen's egg rece'ntlyjipl^^j^jl St. Johnsbury (Vt.) bakerywa^SUB to contain a well develop*.???'if?^'^ nearly two inches, l?hy^^li^^ separated from the bodyofW^BfiSvm a fi I m o f album en. Thefn^^HHB to the egg. shell, is :??f?^^^^^f| believed to have been the^^^^^^l small fire which o:riginat^m^|^ nice cf the girls' - high--"t Louisville, Ey., one day lately I ^ of the professorsjthinks. that .tSell I flagration was caused :'bjf;a^^tofiSS the birds' nest tiliat became ignited in somejtfystmeus-in&j-?k-'m ? A Mr. SIocuiD,- of illegah;:cfljjM ty, Michigan, had a piece ofMf States money in hie po??e?iu'orrj^jl he declares he wonld ' npt^ex'?iyjj I evenly for 100 times its face l^ya^M gold.' The piece in question/f HH very first legal tender "grefehB I note struck off by the United/]? government. It bears date of An^Mf 2, 1862^d is marked^'Series^||H ? The eastern fad of having diarl monds set in teeth filling has reached: 1 this city. A Cleveland woman .now J has a "sparkler" in one of -het'fecnt ? teeth. A Euclid avenue dentist fille^? her teeth the other day, and set thefl diamond in where it-T^show^^nffl best advantage, an<t oJot^riflianjjH when she smiles;' The sweetertbjfl smile, probably.. t}ie''brighter.vi th^H "sparkler" wili' "appear.?Cfetefan^lj t ~? Those who believe that thirfeorjjJ| is an unlucky number should:figp^'shy^' of the American 25^?irtj^lece.. It has thirteen eta.*,/hirteen letters in the scroll held in the eagle's beak, thirteen marginal feathers on each. .* wing, thirteen tail feathers, thirteen % parallel lines in the shield, thirteen horizontal bars, thirteen arrow-heads and thirteen letters in the "quarter dollar." But most of us are mighty glad to get them, thirteen or no thir? teen. T*"1^?' "** *>,_??v ? The_A?*yssinians drop on their"" knees and kiss the earth when they meet. In saluting a woman the Man dinkas take her hand, put it to thci^ nose' and smell it twice. Tbjgjj tians stretch out one hancl^xS^^^* it on ?ekibttast.and bow thPnCuiu"^ Among the less civilized ^tribes of the old world, say, the RalmtngtegOjl in Polynesia, the custom- ^f^^^^j^ noses is pretty general. PerhapsSSa^S I most extraordinary form of salutation is to be found in Tibet, where the natives put out their tongues, gnash their teeth and scratch their ears. ? Hundreds of queer theories have been advanced to account for the phe? nomenon of hair turning gray in the genus homo, the latest being this: Each hair is a hollow tube filled with granules of pigment and air bubbles. As old age approaches the pigment diminishes both in quantity and ' quality, the air bubbles enlarging and expanding to take the place formerly occupied by the coloring matter.. The hair which is filled with these bubbles;, turns white for the same reason-that the crystals of white sugar appear of that color, the phenomenon being due to the reflection and refraction of light. Why hair sometimes turns'" "white in a single night" has never".: been explained.^. True, a microscopic-^ examination of such hairs shows that the granules of pigment have either , been abolished or forced out byth<? air .bubbles,^hn^-ciactly how orwhy S mystery. -. '>