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SILLO! STOB AND LISTEN! CE I cp?i?d business two months ago, my trade has been increasing every and I i*el very grateful to my friends and patrons. They know that mj Stock Staple and Fancy Groceries, Confectioneries, Canned Goods, Tobacco, Cigars, Etc., it Class iin every respect, and that my PRICES ARE VERY LOW. iov.-tauje In Store some, very line FSUITS. ilso caw j a nice selection of Currants, Baitions, Ci iron, and a lot of the ^lavorSng Extracts. jme and see zne. I am confident my Goods and prices will please you. S- FR!:E CITY DELIVERY. Gr. F. BIGBY. AND WINTER MILLINERY! OKOELAJP AJST> BEAUTIFUL. i>S5 w&5 have an eye for the beautiful should take a neep at my line of MILLI ?4SEB.V. I am prepared to furnish you with the Latest Styles and Lowest Pn ?avejuiiit opened a full line of Fancy Feathers. Wings, Ribbon?, and all mate ?quired make a Stylish Hat. My Stock of DRY GOODS is compete, and I iu? ra to e&U and examine them before buying. But don't forget me when you want Tbc? indebted to me are earnestly requested to come promptly and settle, cfalftttjpast patronage I solicit a contmu^noe of same^ BwWIE# IEW JEWELRY STORE! JOHN mHUBBARD, 1*H$ SEW STORE..IN.HOTEL BLOCK. LOTS OF SEW GOOD*. NOVELTIES IN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. 1c. TO $100.00. 55?- No Charge for Engraving. 3pr*J?he Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it's a pleasure to show them. . 8.?If you have Accounts with J. U. HUBBARD & BRO- make settlement 5-e?tsb;>ve.place. J0HN M. HUBBARD. dirty "aiviraal, but we couldu't get along very well without him. His gsretilei into a variety of very useful articles, such as? Sairi SJaiL Goat, Tooth and Hat Brushes, 0.mention the numerous Paint and! Artists' Brushes. A full line of the products always on hand at the new Firm of? TODD & EVANS, Pharmacists, experienced men in oar Prescription B SIXTY DAYS w Prices will be made to Cash Buyers for the next 60 days on all OS, ORGANS, SEWING-MACHINES, HARNESS, LAP ROBES, Etc. sk is large and complete in every department, and we shall be e you call and examine same, and get our SPECIAL PRICES |fbr wejeel sure we CAN and WILL make it to your interest jit of? AND SEWING MACHINES arge aid attractive. So be sure you see them before you buy. SPECIAL CUTS IN PBICES OH ORGANS TO SCHOOLS and CHURCHES ways anxious to serve, O. A. REED, Agent, lilo ?ND $10.00 STOVES! IF LOW PRICES ny inducement to secure a first-class Stove, and a guarantee with it, call and see my Ehtfit and Ten Dollar Stoves. I also have the IRON KING and ELMO, in ;riced Staves, which are superior to any Stove. They are sold to suit the times. Eft Lamp, Crockery and Glassware iveau abundance, and at prices that down competition anywhere. And don't when you need? GOOD TINWARE, shoddy s'aff," call on the undersigned. 3% hav*. a nice line of GRATES, tal:e this opportunity to thank all my friends in the country and city for their [ j?itron?;t?iin the past, which I assure you has been appreciated, and to show jy appse? ation Lh?ye marked my Goods very low for the season, and I ask a tuancs pf an InspecttoiTof my Goods. Respectfully, JOHN T. B?RRISS, PEOPLES' BLOCK. AT bianco Greatest Bargains in Furniture ever offered in South Carolina are offered at , F, TOLLY & SON'S, DEPOT STREET. key hare the Largest. Cheapest and Best Selected Stock in t?te, and challenge any Furniture House in the State for a arison ijf prices, F?LN?T and OAK ?UITS cheaper than they can be ht fron any Factory. JUREAUS at prices nnheard of before. *ARL0R SUITS cheaper than any. iND EVERYTHING in the Furniture line. jr- Come and gee for yourselves and be convinced that what we say.is true [p Come and look at our Stock, whether you want to buy or not. We will to j&qw you aroond. fftwketsand Coffins furnished Day or Night. G. F.! TOLLY & SON, topot Street, Ander *w&. & j %nitwn Intelligenter* BILL AUF'S LETTER. BUI Is Down In Florida, Telling Hnako Btorlest Atlanta Constitution. Clear Water Harbor?It is a glori? ous comfort this winter weather to bask in the sunshine of the gulf by day and luxuriate in the moonlight on the waves by night. No wonder that Tom Ochiltree was inspired to say to the ynnkee lady at Galveston, who was in ecstasies over our moonlight: "Ah, madame, you should have seen our moons before the war." We do not know what kind of weather you have had the past week in north Georgia, but it must have been right bitter, for it is cool enough here to enjoy fires in the early morn, and these people are apologizing for it as though they were afraid the weather would hurt our feelings. This delight? ful climate is a good part of their capital stock, and always will he. Money is nothing when compared with good health, and I ruminated over this when all night long I heard the consumptives coughing in their berths on the sleeper as we" came down. They were coming to Florida to die or perhaps prolong their lives. That the climate is good for all lung diseases or bronchial affections I have no doubt, for the grip has certainly left me since my arrival, and the little orphan, for whose sake we came, seems like a new child. She is bright and hajipy all the time, and has ceased to cough. We were all caught in a hard rain at Tampa, and I was alarmed for the child, hut no harm came of it. Yes? terday we came over here from Tampa by private conveyance, thirty miles. It is only half that distance by a straight line, but Tampa bay was between and we had to cirole its north? ern boundary. We could have trav? eled by rail, but it was 1-20 miles by Lacoochee and ten hours' lay over there, or we could have gone down to St. Petersburg by boat and from there by rail next morning, and so we choose the piney woods, and were- delighted with the journey. It is a beautiful road, about eight feet wide and quite firm for a sandy country. It is wide enough, for the houses are ten miles apart, and we passed but one vehicle the entire journey. At some places the bay is in view, and at others there are small lakes, with white cranes adorning them for ornaments, We saw fox squirrels and quail along the road and ran upon two* buzzards who were greedily dissecting a monster rattlesnake, that somebody had killed the day before. The girla?want?d the rattles, but the driver had no knife and I would not put mine into, the venomous oarcass. Its head had rot been mashed and was as large as a biscuit, nor was there any sign to show how it had been killed. No tracks of feet, no stiok, no stone., If the buzzards did not kill it, it must have been shot from a vehicle, for we did meet some Tampa hunters, one of whom told us he shot a rattler that had seventeen rattles, and left him in the road. The one we saw had only seven, but rattles do increase in num? bers as the story is repeated. A day's journey through these piny woods is very monotonous. We longed for a change of scenery, a hill, a creek, a few rocks or stones, a noise, a habitation, with dogs to bark. At one house where there was a luxuriant orange grove we stopped to inquire the way, and the whole family came to the front. I have no idea that the chil? dren had seen any strangers in a month, and it was a feast to them. The house was a miserable hovel, but it was a shelter, and that is all that the averaae piney woods settler wants. But, as we neared the gulf, we found some pleasant homes, and a better class of people. I said to our host, "what is the name of the man who lives three and a half miles from here in a large white house? He came to< the gate and took his hat off to the ladies, as we stopped to ask some questions." ?"Oh, that is little Dan MoMullen,*' said he. "There is little Dan and big Dan and Uncle Dan and some other Dan, and there is Jim McMullen and Jimmy McMullen and Jimmy Jim McMullen and a few more, but no Jim Jams. They are all clever people,, who came here before the war, and have multiplied and named most of the boy children Dan or Jim." Clear Water is a hamlet of three or four hundred people. It is on a bluff that is from twenty to thirty feet above the water, and overlooks the little islands and the dark green waters of the gulf that lie between and beyond them. This bluff is orna? mented with a dense growth of moss covered oaks and hickories, while just behind them are the beautiful homes of wealthy people who winter there. All around are orange trees laden with golden fruit, fruit that is not enough for sale, but abundant for use. From almost every residence there is a plank staircase descending to the beach and a walk to a bath house that is a hun? dred yards out in the water. Boats are near at hand for rowing or riding or sailing -at your pleasure. The wharf is still farther from the shore, and from there you can see the por? poises turning their summersaults among the schools of mullet. One of them was shot this morning and brought ashore?a huge black monster, with a snout and teeth just like a long-nosed hog. Tarpons are caught here, and sharks are not uncommon in the passes between the islands. But these sharks are notmaneaters, though I heard that a boy made a narrow escape from one last summer. Boys frequently go in bathing near the islands while the sharks are in sight, and it is easy to drive them away. In fact, everything is afraid of human kind, except when driven by some hard necessity. I don't believe in the horrible narratives about lions and bears and sharks and snakes. Clear water is a very old place that has recently taken on new life on account ot' its health and beauty of location, and its summer breezes that blow softly from the gulf. These wealthy people represent nearly as many States as there are homes on the bluff. They are kind and courteous, and seemed pleased to offer to us the privileges of their bath houses. Most of them are past middle age and have retired from active business. Their houses and grounds are beautiful, hut there is no ostentatious display and no frigid seclusion. There is a shell mound near the bluff that occupies about an acre of ground, but it is gradually disappearing, as the shells are taken away for paving streets and other uses, The origin of this mound is hidden away back in the centuries when the Indians were lords of this land and this was their seat of gov? ernment. The ruins of Fort Harrison are very near a fort that our govern1 ment established during the Seminole war. All this region for some miles around is rich in soil, much richer than the piney woods. In fact the pines are scarce and in their stead are seen oaks and hickories and palmet ' toes and a growth of ch apparel that is almost impenetrable. Everything seems strango to those who have not visited Florida. A stroll along this bluff with the beauti? ful houses and groves behind you and the green sea of waters before you, and the shell covered beach below you, with the balmy breath of the tropics inflating your lungs, one feels like he has just found the fairy land that we read about in our childhood. I think that I shall buy a lot here and get somebody with Aladdin's lamp to build me a house in a night. No, I won't either, for I am happy where I live and I don't see anybody who is happier even in the gorgeous halls of Tampa Bay hotel. It is well to admire everything that is beautiful, but fine homes and gardens and sylvan views do not bring contentment, thought they may conceal the skeleton that is in the closet. As we journeyed from Lake City to Tampa along the Florida Central railroad we were charmed with the lakes and groves that alternated that beautiful country. When we rode around Tampa with our hospitable friend, Mr. Fall, we were charmed again. Our stay at the Pal? metto house *was made pleasant in every way, and now we are delighted here. ' But with all this I am not happy?delighted, but not happy, for my home is broken, my loved ones scattered and when I return it will still be broken, for some will remain here, and-that little child who is my comfort and delight will soon forget me. I sing the old song "This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given." Bill Aep. Short and Sweet* When we have the flood tide how does it get loose ? Men who have horse sense know when to say neigh. One tall, thin man at a party makes a slim attendance. You can't raise a window by simply planting a pane of glass. Give some men rope enough and they will start a junk shop. A small soul has plenty of elbow room in a narrow minded man. Merchants are like yachtsmen in one respect?they like big sales. When a real estate agent begins to go down hill he loses ground very fast. A baby always helps to make home happy?particulariy when the baby is asleep. . Western train robbers who rifle the mailbags use their rifles on the train men, too. It takes a "bull" to elevate the stock market, but a mouse can make dress goods go up. Good manners require that all let? ters that are not positively discour? teous should be answered. Raised letters are intended for the blind, and we suppose raised checks are for the same purpose. The Chicago couple that were mar? ried in a hansom cab probably took each other for wheel or for whoa. Woman is a powerful weak creature but she can move the biggest kind of a man without touching him. Superstitions Women. Ladies who are afraid to behold the new moon over the left shoulder are very numerous in St. Louis, says a local paper. An instance is given of one lady who looked at the new moon over her left shoulder before she thought of what she was doing, and two days later her husband lost his position and was out of work for six months, which, of course, was directly due to her carelessness. Another St. Louis lady when she sees the new moon, always shakes her purse at it, thus securing good luck in monetary affairs as long as the moon lasts. Oth? ers will not read epitaphs for fear of losing their memory; none of them like to hear dogs howl, and one, at least, is able to counteract the malign influence of the uncanny sound by taking off her shoe and spitting in it. Ladies who carry slips of paper and bits of parchment which have had cer? tain characters written upon them by gypsy women are numerous, these charms being effective to preserve the wearer from harm when the parchment slips arc placed in the bosom or in the pocketbook while repeating a formula of gypsy jargon, though, if this be forgotten, the Lord's Prayer will an? swer the purpose. 11,000 WOMEN Become afflicted and remain so, suf? fering untold miseries from a sense of delicacy they cannot overcome. BRADFIELO'S FEMALE REGULATOR, by stimulating and arousing to healthy action all her organs* r ACTS AS A SPECIFIC.-; It causes health to bloom on the cheek, and joy to reign throughout the frame. It never fails to cure. The Best Mediane ner Made for Women. " My vif? hat been under treatment of leading phyticians throe yean, without IxneJU. After UtinQ three bot Ua of Brad field's Female KeffillatoY the can do her own cooking, milking and toothing." N. S. Bbtah, Henderson, Ala., BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, 6* Sold by drogglflte at f 1.00 per bottle SARGE PLDNKETT. Tho Old Man Spends a Glorlona Day at Brown's ? Atlanta Constitution. "Ring out the old! Ring in the new !" ZZ3 CZDD CZZ3 CCD CD L ThereVas "never "anToIdryear?rang out with so little regret as will be the year 1893. The year has been one of calamities; political blunders, finan? cial failures, floods, storms and epi? demics prominently mark the old year. There seems tobe a willingness among all classes for the old year to pass, and every heart bounds with the I hope that the new will be kinder than the old has been and that prosperity will come with the change. As for me and my folks- and Brown and his folks, we have spent the last week of the old year in songs of rejoicing and the pleasures of feasting. But one thing?a little mishap to Brown?has marred the pleasures of all the week. Brown had his alarm ciock in the shop up at Atlanta for repairs, and he went there on a Texas pony he had swapped for, to bring it home. The horse only shied a little when the clock was handed up to Brown and it ticked along in his lap for several miles in a social way, but the alarm had been set by the jeweler and it went off while Brown and his new horse were going down a pretty steep hill. The horse had been roving all his life on the prairies of Texas and had never had a good chance to hump himself down a hill before, and the alarm seemed to be a plenty of provocation for him to do his best in that line. As the alarm of the clock sotnded out, the horse bounded forth and helter-skelter they went, horse and rider, down the hill. No reader acquainted with the capacity of a Texae horse would doubt j as to who came out victorious?the horse, of course?and Brown was a j little scarred up in the fray ; but he held to his little jug and all was serene in a little while, but the horse is for trade. j I spent last. Thursday at Brown's j house, and a happie:- day I have never had. His good wife was at her best, and that means much. A jolly crowd had gathered there?no one would pretend to be other than jolly at Brown's house. It took three tables I to feed us all; but there was plenty and to spare of the best dinner we had set down to since the war. There was plenty of variety all the day through, j and old and young strove with -each other as to who should give the most cheer. There were some nice people out from Atlanta without a city air, and jolly old Mrs. Kimbrough had to J stir herself to* hold her reputation as j the jolliest person of all crowds against I a lady from the city who was almost as j fat as she?fat folks for happy folks j ?but all were happy, and all of us I will ever hold in happy remembrance our Thursday at Brown's in 1893. j Not far from Brown's is the grave j of an old blacksmith, which I have I mentioned before, but it will do to tell on every new year. This grave is marked at its head by an old anvil. I The oldest inhabitants have almost j forgotten the brawny smith who sleeps I in this lonely grave, 'till the passing I away of an old year and the ringing in j of the new refreshes our memories, and then we saunte; over and tap the old anvil which murks the spot, j Close by the grave to this day a I little mound Bhows where the smithy's J forge had stood. There were yet some remnents of great oak trees where the old smith's children played in the shade and the little spring still runs out from a bluff and sparkles across a valley in the field. The old smith was unlettered himself, but he worked cheerfully at his forge to give to his I children opportunities he had never known, but with all the advance of j progress, there was one custom of his he never departed from. It was ring? ing out the old year and ringing in the new upon every New Year eve by hammering upon his anvil. It was only a whim of this old I blacksmith to begin his new year in this way. People said it was a super? stitious notion that if he did a great day's work on the first day of the year, that he would be blessed with health and plenty of patronage throughout the year. Anyhow he was always found at his anvil in the little j shop at midnight of the old year, and his good old wife would heartily join with him in making the old anvil ring out in the stillness of the night. The old people learned to hammer the anvil into sounds of tingling melodies that sounded out upon the night loud and weird. Every child would be awakened and drawn to the little shop. The chickens would crow, the hogs would squeal and the dogs would prance, J howl and bark, Of course the chick? ens would have their sport, and good cheer, prepared by the weather of the occasion, and all in all, the New Year's morn found the old smith's home a place of bustling energy and happy merriment. For years these people were contented with their lot in life and were blessed with an abundance of the suhstantials of life, but a change came. The children grew, and with their growth grew the idea of progressive ness. The old smith's whim got to seem coarse with them, and theie was many more elegant ways of making a living than by swinging the heavy hammers. To the towns was the thought that took possession of these children, and to the towns they went. From one town to another till to the west they found their way. They were soon in the whirly-burly of busi? ness. One of them went to railroad? ing, another to merchandising and another at something else. They were fairly successful, and upon one New Year eve they chanced to meet at a hotel in a great city. They had heard from their childhood home often, but never a complaint had come from their old blacksmith father. A "God bless you," was always received, and one time the sad news of their mother's death and that the old smith was all alone. It was natural for the thoughts of these young men to turn to the old home. Would not the old father hammer upon his anvil as he used to do ? Would it not be just the thing for them all together to pay the old home a visit ? It was no sooner pro? posed by the oldest than they all agreed, and in less than an hour they were speeding that way. A fp.?tride soon brought them to the little station t. here they were to take it ?ioot to the old home, there to sur? prise and make the heart of their old father feel glad. They were soon at the place after leaving the cars, but the sun was shining brightly on a New Year's day. The night before the old anvil had rang out, but it was not so strong or as long-continued, the people around had said. The sons went into the dwelling first. The old fireplace was cheerless?no blazing fire was there, as in days of yore. The old clock had ceased its ticking. There were no walnuts upon the hearth. A cake was found upon the table under a cloth, but it lacked the soft touch of a mother's hand. Not a chicken moved in the yard, not a hog squealed anywhere, not a dog was to be seen as they stepped into the yard, but one barked from the old'shop and the brothers hastened there. By his anvil the old smith lay, cold in death, the hammer clinched in his right hand. His faithful dog was all that kept watch over him and the dog refused to allow the sons to touch their father. "Right," said the oldest son, "hurt not the dog?he was kindlier than we!" This is the story of the grave with the anvil for a headboard, which was placed there by a long-standiny request of the old smith, and is a solemn re? minder upon every New Year that comes upon us of three neglectful children to a dutiful old blacksmith father. Sarge Plunkett. KEW USES FOB MAIZE, Indian Corn a More .Valnale Plant than Sapposed. Washington Star. The demand for paper in the world is growing steadily. In order to sup? ply it many new vegetable materials j have been made to serve as stock, rags to-day furnishing only a minor frac? tion of the raw stuff employed for the purpose. Among these substances wood pulp stands first. A very im? portant contribution is made also by the famous esparto grass of northern Africa and Southwestern Europe. But the time is approaching when the leaves of Indian corn will be utilized in this way to an enormous extent. In Vienna the manufacture of pa? per from maize is already conducted on an extensive scale. TheAllcgeme ine Zeitung, a scientific journal of importance, is printed on sheets of this produot, the yellowish tint of which is restful to the eyes. It has a number of other advantages. Very little sizing is required; it bleaches well and it is stronger than rag paper. No machinery is required for tearing up the corn leaves. The latter are merely soaked in hot water for a few days, after which they are easily sep? arated into three parts?the large veins and ribs, the material between the ribs and a coarse paste. The first are utilized for making gunny sacks, cordage and certain kinds of cloth ; the second furnishes mate? rial for a peculiar sort of bread, de? scribed as having an agreeable flavor; the third is employed for paper pulp. All of these uses for maize are new ; as is likewise the process of obtaining a valuable oil from the corn. For this last purpose the grain is crushed, and the germs, which contain the oil, are separated by winnowing. The germs are then subjected to hydraulic pressure, yielding 15 per cent, of oil, which is of a pale golden-yellow color and has a pleasant taste and odor. It is employed in dressing wool and to lubricate machinery. The yield is sixteen pounds for every one hundred j bushels of maize. Maize oil is well adapted for illumi? nating purposes, giving a bright, white flame. It is also good for heat? ing, developing a high temperature in burning. In the West, where the supply of coal is often precarious, corn cobs are frequently used in stoves, three tons of them being reck? oned as equal to one ton of hard coal. Sometimes, when there has been a fuel famine, the whole ear has been employed. In France, the cobs, sat? urated with resin and tar, are utilized as fire lighters, fetching, when thus prepared, for $2.00 to $4.00 per thous? and, according to size. The husks are used for packing oranges and cigars, as well as in stuff? ing pillows, mattresses and lounges. As stoppers for bottles also the cobs are sometimes employed. Toasted cornmcal is utilized in some parts of this country as a substitute for coffee. The cobs yield a large amount of pot? ash. A mill shelling 500 bushels an hour turns out 7,000 pounds of cobs every sixty minutes, or 70,000 pounds for each working day. The cobs are consumed as fuel in the mills, and the refuse ashes are collected for the ex? traction of the potash. A factory of the abo\<j mentioned capacity will fur? nish as a by-product 535 pounds of potash per diem. Science has devoted much attentjon to finding out where this most valua? ble of American farm products had its origin. An overwhelming weight of testimony goes to show that the earli liest home of the maize was the high? lands of Central Mexico. All of the plants closely related to Indian corn arc indigeneous to that part of the world. It is believed that the vege? table originated in some circumscribed locality, above 4,500 feet elevation, north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and south of the twenty-second degree of the north lattitude, near the an? cient seat of the Maya tribes. There is hardly a doubt that the Mayas were the first to cultivate maize and that they distributed it in every direction. From them the use of the cereal spread North and South. It is considered probable that the plant was known along the Rio Grande by 700 A. D. Three hundred years later it had reached the coast of Maine. In Peru the Incas used it be fore the year 700. By the time of Co? lumbus it was found everywhere. It was one of the products of American soil which the great navigator took back with him to Spain and showed to Queen Isabella. From Spain it soon spread over Europe, and in the sixteenth century grains of it were sold in Italian, French, German and English gardens. Before long it was cultivated upon a larger scale upon the fields. It became widely known as "Turkish wheat," because the new world was confused in the popular mind with the East Indies, the trade with which was carried on by way of Turkey. The ancient Mexicans, to whom the development of the usefulness of In? dian corn is due, were a a highly civ? ilized people. Thoy were skillful builders, made utensils of copper and tin, worked gold and silver into orna? ments, had an elaborate religious sys? tem, preserved a large literature on parchment of the maguey plant, kept calendar and understood the art of ag? riculture, raising beans, pepper, gourds and many other fruits of tillage. Their country was so densely popula? ted that floating gardens were con? structed, upon which all products of the soil known to them, particularly maize and beans, were sown. There gardens were constructed with logs overlaid with earth. They have been described by historians as "fairy islets of flowers overshadowed by trees of considerable size." Even to this day such floating islands are built and anchored in Mexican lakes for pur? poses of pleasure. The ruins of great irrigation works testify to the extent and development of the cultivation of maize by the an? cient Peruvians. Their tombs com? monly contained corn, either in the ear or the grain. The bodies of these people were buried in a squatting po sition^with the knees drawn up be? neath the chin, and were rolled and tied in mats. Heads of corn and cop? per agricultural implements were in? cluded in the rolling. With the corpse were usually placed a water vessel and a pot with grains of maize All along the coast of Peru for 1,200 miles are scattered thousands of such prehistoric tombs. Darwin unearthed some ears of corn on the seashore, in a stratum which had evidently been raised by geologic action from nearer the sea level, and to them he assigned a great antiquity. In the houses of the ancient cliff dwellers, in southwest Colorado and northern New Mexico, stalks, husks, tassels, cobs and kernels of corn are found. That some of this material is as old as the buildings is proved by the fact that the stalks were used in the construction of the floors, being imbedded in the abode. The cobs were also utilized to fill up chinks in the walls. They were about three feet long. These habitations have been deserted for at least five hundred years. Further south is the land of the living cliff-dwellers, in the Sierra Madre, between the Mexican States of Chihuahua and Senora. There re? side, on cliffs or in caves, savages who worship the sun and plant* a lit? tle maize on the steep hill sides with I out cultivation, though otherwise they ' do not till the soil at all. During the long winter that follow? ed the landing of the Puritans, in 1620, they subsisted in large measure on corn purchased from the aborigines In the next year an Indian named Squant, taught them how to plant it and how to fertilize the soil with fish. Thus they were enabled to grow about twenty acres of it. The Indians had many ways of preparing maize, mixing it with beans, chestnuts and whortle? berries. They made a pottage of it by boiling it with fresh or dried meat and dried pumpkins, sometimes sweet? ening it with maple sugar. They also boiled pounded hickory nut kernels with the meal, and sometimes they made a bread composed of corn meal mixed with smoked eels and oysters or clams. Like other vegetables of the garden and field, Indian corn has been much improved nnd altered by cultivation. The form in which it now appears would soon ?anish save for the agen? cy of man. To preserve it the kernels must be sown, for the latter are too large to be carried by the winds, and the sheathing husks prevent animals from getting at the grain and distrib? uting it. The provision made by na? ture for the reproduction of maize is even unusually ample, the number of pollen grains furnished by each plant being about 18,000,000. Of course, each kfirnel must be fertilized by a grain of pollen in order that it may ripen. Allowing two ears of 1,000 kernels to each plant, there arc 9,000 pollen grains for every kernel. A kernel of corn is a wonderful thing in its way. It is a box of starch, its outer coat being of a woody mate? rial and very hard, for the protection of the germ in the middle. The latter is surrounded by grains of starch most beautifully packed, their arrangement under the microscope having an ap? pearance resembling a crystalline structure. They are the baby food of the future plant, designed to furnish it with nourishment in the earliest stage of its growth. The so-called germ is itself merely an oily and high? ly nutritious envelope for the actual microscopic germ of life which it con? tains. If you are troubled with% BOILS, ULCERS or; PIMPLES, SORES $your blood is bad. A few bottles of S. S. S. will? y thoroughly cleanse the system, remove all im-3< ^purities and build you up. All manner of blem-tf wishes are $ I CLEARED AWAY ? &by its use. It is the best blood remedy on earth.? (/Thousands who have used it say so. j? SJ " My blood was badly poluoned last year, which got ojjrw ?Jwh?le system out of order?diseased and * con?tantsource<j> Vgof suffering notppctlte, noenjoyuent of life. Two bottles'// ?lfrSJSTiHrTS brought me right out. Thtrc is no better/) $B??*,(sv4*j remedy fur blood diseases. y) jKCJCJ^fl JOHN GAVIN, Dayton, Ohio. y$ $ Treatise on blood and skin diseases mailed f ree.? ? SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. ? Can Look in and See His Heart Beat. A remarkable case was presented to the students of Starling Medical col? lege a couple of weeks ago by Dr. Lov? ing. The patient had been subjected to an operation for pleurisy by a Buf? falo physician, and five ribs in front and four in the rear wore removed. The left lung was entirely gone; an open cavity extended through the chest. The heart was laid bare, cov? ered only by the pericardium and could be clearly seen pulsing in its normal activity. Dr. Loving stated that there was probably not another case like it in the United States. The man is 38 years old and is in fairly good health. It is a marvel that he is alive.?Cleveland Leader. ? When an old black Walnut tree 23 feet in circumference was cut down at Fiatbush, L. I., the other day a four-foot hole was found in its center from its roots to its branches. At the first branch a red currant bush had thrived for years, and this, it is thought, sapped the life from the tree's heart. ?3 H e M r H < 93 p ? ? ? o 3? z * c? D s? o g a HO 4 0* 3 a> o Ii c o ??3 *? 5 MB) O C5CS C SWT si q g ?1 CO H > S m X 3 > ? 2 s 51 -? ? n 0 ? 1 ga a 5 a? 51 ? c ?1 00 w> < B o ? o -< o S3 o o m w s> <l H a w H O H Bj W ? a ? H a) o I CHEESE^COPPEE, Ac. IWANT everybody to know that I have the Finest Cream Cheese to be found. Finest Tea, Roosted Golden Rio Coffee very fine- Candles, Soda, New Orleans MoJaase.?, Green Corn, <fec. WALL PAPER! A Jarno and hand home assortment of Wall Paper and overhead decorations. Canvass and Tacks for putting up paper* All for sale at low prices. Call and see my baudsoine patterns. A. B. TOWERS, No. 18 Whitner Street. BOTTOM PRICES. Buckeye Milk Chum! On the Concussion principle?a boy 8 years old can churn 8 to 10 gallons easily. Refrigerators, Water Coolers, Fly Fans, Fly Traps, At Cost. MASON'S FRUIIT JARS One quart 85c. per dozen, two quarts $1.10 per dozen. L? H. SEEL. [WOOD'S TPHOSPHODINE, The Great English Remedy. It cures nil forma of Hereout Weakness, Emissions, Bperm* atorrhea, impotencvand alt tffecis of Abuse or Excesses. Been prescribed over 35 years In thousands of oases; la tho only Reliable and Son* est Medicine known. Ask _IdruffKist lor Wood's Phos i Before and After* shodim; if to offers somo t ^ ?W* worthless medicine In place of this, leave his dishonest storo, inclose prlco la letter, and we wUl send by return maU. Price, ono package, $1; six, 85- One teilt please, rix tcillcure* Pamphlet lnplaln sealed envelope, 2 stamps. Address THE WOOD CHEMICAL CO., 131 Woodward avenue* Detroit. Hieb, Sold in Anderson and we:, wuere by al responsible Druggists.' May 10, 1893 45 ly J. F. FAIMT.& BR?77" ANDERSON, S. C.,' WHOLESALE ORANGE DEALERS. Write for Prices. Nov 8, 1803 19 3m THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ANDERSON. IN THE COURT OF PROBATE. Ex Parte B. F. Cray ton, Executor, In Re. Personal Estate of Mrs. M. C. Liudaoy, deceased.?Petition for Final Settle? ment. To A. E. Brooks, Executor, Eliza J. Reeve?, Benjamin Dickson, Mary E. Dickson, Sarah J. Willis, Lucy R. Mar? tin, John A. Stevenson, Mary Simpson, and other heir* and distributees of Mrs. M. O. Lindsey, deceased, names and number unknown: TAKE NOTICE, That I will apply to Hon. W. F. Cox, Judge of Probate for Anderson County; South Carolina, on the 15th day of January next for a Final Settlement of cbe Estate of Mrs. M. C. Lindsey, deceased, and for my discbarge as Executor of her Will. B. F. CRAYTON, Executor, Nov 21, 1893 22 6 Wives and Daughters Often lose the benefit of life assurance, taken out for their protection, because of ill-ad? vised investments* Again, the intentions of the assured sometimes fail of realization through the prodigality of a son to whom the sudden pos? session of so much money proves too great a temptation. The Equitable Life has provided against these contingencies by offering The Tontine Installment Policy. The premiums per thousand are much less than under older forms of insurance, and theamount is payablein 20,25 or 30 annual payments, thus sccuringa comfortable income for the beneficiary. Write to W. J. RODDEY, Manager, For the Carolinas, ROCK HULL, S. C. JOHR! K. HOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ANDERSON,; - - 8* C. SUMMER SALE] BUY in July. August. September or October. Pay wbon your cotton is turned into cash. Spot cash prices ! No interest! Justs little cash down and the balance next No? vember 15th. That's tbe proposition. That's our spe? cial summer sale. Pianos $25 cash and balance November 15th, 1893. Organs $10 cash and balance November 15th, 1693. Remember, lowest cash rates. No ad? vance- No interest. If you can't come in, talk it over and just drop us a line. JOHN L. HAYNIE & DAUGHTERS, Greenville, 8. C, A. C. 6TRICKLAND J. P. ANDEBaOH Strickland & Anderson, DE1TTISTS. OFFICE IN MASONIC TEMPLE. ?St-One oof the ?rra will be at their Peudleton fflce every Wednesday. Port Royal & Western Carolina Railway. J. B. CLEVELAND, BeaoiTea, IN EFFECT SEPT. 24. 1893. _(Trains ran by 75th Mcridai tl?e.) BETWEEN McCORMICK AND ANDERSON. Eastern Time. No. S Sunday, only No.* Mixed DaP.y Ex Son Lt Andersoi'. Lt Lowndesvilic... Lt Calboun Knills., Ar McCormick...... Ar Augusta.. 8 00 am 8 59 am 9 25 am 10 80 am. 1 40 pml ! 7 00am 9 25am 10 OSam 14 50am 140pm i NO. 5 I No. 21 Lt Augusta.. Lv McCormick. Lt Calhoun Falls., Lt Lowndesvillov Ar Anderson. 1 45 pm 3 40 pm 5 25 pm 6 07 pm 7 40 pm 1 4dpm 5 SO pm 4 35 pm 6 01 pm 6 00 pm BETWEEN AUGUSTA. GA, AND 8BARTAN BURG, 8. C. Eastern Time. No. 3. Daily No. li Daily Lt Augusta..?, Lt McCornilck..., Ar Greenwood.... Ar Laurens. Ar Spartanburg., 9 60 am 10 45 am 11 43 am 12 47 pm 2 40 yjr. 1 45 pm 3 28 pm 4 20 pm 5 24 pm 8 43 pm INo. 4 lNo.2 Lt Spartanburg. 8 40 am 8 30 pm Lt Laurens.?. 10 05 am 6 00 pm Lt Greenwood.?. 1105 am 6 04 pm Ar McCormick. 12 02 am 7 02 pm Ar Augusta..\ 1 40 pnV 8 50 pm Passengers leaving Anderson at 10 20 a m reach Charleston at 8 35 p ra. and Savannah at 6 20. Close connection made at Calhoun Falls with Seaboard Air Line going north. Through Palace Sleeping Care on iralns Nos. 8 and 4 between Augusta and Savannah, Ua. Close connections at Augusta for all Florida points. For any other Information writ? or call on W. J. CBAIG, Gen. Pass. Agt, Augasta, Ga. R. L. Toud, Pass. Agt. J. B, FANT, Agent._"_ COLUMBIA & GREENVILLE R. R. CO. 8AM?EL SbESCRI, F W. HUIDEKOPER ASD BBU BEX F08TEE, BECEIVKBS. Cosdenskd Schedule n Evfect AUG. 13,1893. Trains rnn by 75th Meridian Time. BETWEEN CHARLESTON, COLMBIA, 8ENECA AND WALHALLA. Daily. Noll 7 30 am 1120 am 12 03 pm 12 18 pm 12 35 pm irSO^jm is54 pm 1 30 pm 218 put 2 37 pro EGO pm 520 pm &35 pm '35 pm 100 pm ill pm 4 58 pm 5 30 pro 5 35 pm 6 0) pm STATIONS. Lt.Charleston .....Ar ".Columbia." ".-Aiston?." **.Pomarla.'* " ...-Prosperity." ".Newberry." ".-Helena-....- " " ...-.Chappells." "...-Ninety-Six...." " ...-Greenwood...- " ".Hodges." ".Donald's." " ....HonfiftPath...-" Ar.Helton ........Lv Lt.Helton.Ar '? .... Anderson." ".Peudleton...- " Ar.Seneca.Lt Lt.Seneca .Ar Ar.Walhalla.Lt, Dally. No. 12 8 45 pm 4 15 pm 3 30 pm 8 14 pm 2 55 pm 239 pm 2 S3 pm 1 56 pm 1 32 pm 12 55 pm 12 35 pm 1216 pm 12 03 pm 1145 am 1141 am 1118 am 10 36 am 10 00 am 10 00 am 9 30 am 6 15 pm1 f r.Greenvllle-LTilO 15 ami BETWEEN ANDERSON, BELTON AND GREENNILLE. STATIONS. 3 8pm Lt.Anderson.Arli2 07pm 3 40 pm Ar.Belton.-Lt 1145pm 4 00pm Lt.... Belton.-A'|ll8)pm 4 20 pm Ar...WlIliamston.... " 11 0) pm 4 26 pm ".Pelzer.." 11 03 p m 4 40 pm. ".Piedmont_" 10 48 pm j 5 16 pmlAr...-GreenTille...-LT|10 15pm BETWEEN HODGES AND ABBEVILL Daily. No. 9. Daily. No. 11. STATIONS. Daily. No. 10. Mixed. Ex.Sun No.64. 12 40pm 1 00pm 115pm 3 05pm f3 25pm 3 40pm It...Hodges... ar lvDarraugh's ar ar-AbbeTilIe-lv 2 55pm f 2 35pm 2 2tpr* 12 25pm 12 05pm 11 50am CONNECTIONS VIA SOUTH BOUND BAIL ROAD. Daily. I No. 371 CENTRAL TIME, j I 3 20pmjLv.Columbia-.Ar|10 20ami I SCGpmiAr.Savannah-.Lti 6 00am| Nos. 13 and 14 are solid trains between Charles? ton and Asbeville. Through coach between Savannah and Asherllle on 14 ana 13. Trains leave Spartanhurg, 8. C A. A C. Dhrisioa Northbound, 1 43 a. m., 5.05 p. m., 6.12 p. m. (Ves buled Limited; Southbound. 12 25 a. m., 2.51 p. m., 11.37a.m. (Veatibuled Limited): Westbound, W. N. C. Division, 6.20 p. m. and 3.10 p. ra., for HendersonTille, Asbeville and Hot Springs. Trains leave Greenville, 8. C, A. A C. Division, Northbound 12.42a.m. 400p.m.,5.23p.m. (Vea? tibuled Limited); Southbound, 1 20 a. m., 4.C0 p. m., 12.28 p. m. (Vestibuled Limited). Trains leave Seneca, 8. C, A. A C. Division, Northbound, 11.30 p. m? 2 37 p. m. and 4.10 p. m. Southbound, 2 32 a. m.; 5.35 p. m. and 1.37 p. in. PULDMAN CAB 8EBVICE. Pullman Sleeper on 13 and 14 between Charles? ton and AshcT?le, via Columbia and Spartan bunr. Pullman Falaco Sleoplng Car on Trains 35 aflft 36, 37 and 38 on A A C. Division. W. A. TURK, S. H. HABDWICK, Gou'l Pass. Agt., Ass't. Geu'l. Pass. Agt., Wash i kotos, D. C. Atlasta, Ga. V. E. McBKE, SOL. HAAS, Uen'ISupt., Traffic Mgr., CotxmnXA, S. C. WAsnisoroH, D. C. W. H. GRLEN, Gcn'l Mg'r, Washim;tos, D. C. SEABOARD AIR-LINE SCHEDULE. IN EFFECT AUG. 27, IS93. NORTHBOUND. SOUTHBOUND No. 38.1 Daily 6 30a in 10 05am 11 13am 12 15pm 12 46pm 1 40pm 5 00pm 8 05pm No 134. Daily. 5 05pm 8 ISpin 9 11pm Eastern Time,"INo. 117.! Except AUanta.| Daily 3~si 10 00pm 10 25pm 11 12pm 12 23ara 1 50am i lv... Atlanta... ar( ,lv... Athens. ...ar jar...Elberton?lv ar.Calhoun F.17 ar.. Abbevillo.lv larGreeuwo'd lv lar...Clinton ...lv 6 10.un i 5 22am .I 4 27am I 4 02am I 3 17am, iar...Chester ... |ar...Monroe... lvt 2 00am 1 v i 12 50am No.41. r?a?y. 6 45pm 10)1 5 f'Spm 4 08pm 3 09pm 2 41pm 145pm 9 42am 5 45am 6 15am 7 39am 9 Oi'ani 11 07am II 45am 3 40pm 6 24pm 7 49pm lO&lptn 5 00am 9 (Otim ar...Raleigb... ar..IIi'Dders'n. ar...WeIdon... ar Peter>burg ar Richmond ar Watfh'gton jar Baltimore ar Phii'delp'a lar New York 8 15pm 6 53pm 5 35pm 3 43pm 3 10pm lv 10 57am 9 42am 7 20am 12 15am iar..f harlotte- lvl 10 00pm I. larWIIrai'gl'nlvi 5 00pmI. 3 3Upm 4 18pm 4 34 pm 5 5'pni 7 25pm 10 15pm .v...Clinton... ar ar Newbeny lv ar Proyperiiy It ar Columbia lv ar....Suroter....lv ar Charleston !v 1 30pm 12 43pm 12 29pm 1115?ra 9 50am 7 15am f- Kflnn - nr ''?rlli ston lv -t" 00?m ! 15?;n I 15pm I 00am ) 4"ain'ar i 20pm: ar "pm [lv i .Oam lar ; 00am 'ar WeKlon ar| Pnrtsm'ih arl Norfolk |v! Norfolk (b)ar Baltimore lv PnilodePlalv New York lv P i!-m'th(n)ar ! biladel'ia lv New York lv i fi 00pm I It rv'th ftr) ar ? 6 3fiam ar WaiOiing'n lv 5 35pm 3 20pm > 00pm 8 OOam 5 30pm 4 41pm |2 10 pm 9 10 am I 11 16pm 8 Oflpm1 P OOara j 7 00pm i tDaily except Sunday. (b) Via Bav Lire, (o) Via New York, Philadel? phia and Norfolk R. R. (w) Via Norfolk an-! waahirgton Steamboat Co. Twins Nos. 134 sn?f 117 run '?olid with Pullman Buffet sleeplngcara h*. tween Atlanta and Washington, and Pullcnn Buf? fet parlor cars between Washington and New York. Parlor car Weldon and Portamonth : aleer Ing car Hamlet and Wilmington. Trains No*. 88 and 41 carry through coaches between Atlanta and Pbarleaton. 8. C. Tickets at P B- A W. C. depo O.V.^mith. Jons C. WrSDKIt, Traffic Manager. General Manager. H. W. B. Glover, Div. Pass. Agt, Atlanta, Ga. Caaa.. j. Hoard, 8. P. A., AugustaJGa,