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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON ~~ _ ~~~ ~ANI^^ _ _ _ _ ^_ VOLUME XXVIIl.---NO^M COME TO SEE US ! In our New Quarters, 15 South Main Street, . Broyles New Building. - - 1 In order to close out our Stools ot CLOTHING AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS, AT ONCE, we ofier every article in this department at a SACRIFICE Don't fail to see the Stock. Yon certainly need some of our Bargains. Don't buy a pair of SHOES until you see our Stock. Our Motto: "Best Goods for Least Money." TAYLOR & CRAYTON. ?515 LADIES'STORE! BEGINS A GRAND CLEARANCE SALE! f OR XT SIXTY DAYS WE WILL SELL OUR ENTIRE ^eocK? H AT AND BELOW COST ! In order to be ready for a large ''Spring Stock," We are determined to have a clean Store to begin the Spring with, so we propose to give our Goods for COST. All who want BARGAINS can have them by calling early with the CASH.' This is a bona fide offer. We invite all to come and see for themselves, and be convinced that we mean just what we say. With thanks for the liberal patronage you have bestowed this season, - ? " ? We are respectfully yours, _ MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. 1845. 7 ' 1893 THE m OF NEWARK, N. J. AMZI POPP, President. ? Assets: ^ Market Values, $51,395,903.59. Paid to Policy Holders since Organization : $124,5587722.56. Surplus : - / 'Massachusetts Standard, 553,661,250.01. PoMes Absolutely Non-Forfeitable after Second Tear. DTcase of lapse the Policy Is contiuued in force as long as ita value will pay for ; or, if preferred, a Paid-up Policy for its foil value is issued in exohaDg*. A ftar the second year Policies are incontestable^ and all restrictions as to zesidence *nd occupation are removed. Cash Loans are made to the extent of 50 per cent, of the reserve value, where V iii 1 assignments of the Policies can be made as collateral security. [Losses paid immediately upoa completlon^and approval of proofs. WEBB & MATTISON, Managers for South Carolina, Anderson, S. C. aai^iB?vi<n??MW-HinnttMi?g?ir immingTttntriirtn.iru? ?-wl niMmnm,itihmm wm i? iiunwrmma Ion Miss Half Tour Life when you Fail to See WILL. R. HUBBARD'S IWELRY PALACE. 'RE Goods than you can shake a stick at, and at price? that will astonish the jutiv s. You will certainly lose money if you don't see me BEFORE BUYING. U y slock of Gold and Silver Watches cannot be surpassed in the State. Plain Gold and Set Rings. Sterling 8ilyer and Plated Knives, Forks and'Spoons. Japanese Good?, China Novelties ? ?^ Chios Tea Sets, Chamber Sets, Ac., in great variety. JEWELRY WORLD WITHOUT ETST>. ?S? Pjomptnesa in everything. ?&- Watch Work a Specialty. ^5J- Engravinn free on all Goods bought of me. WILL. R. HUBBARD, Next to Farmers and Merchants Bank. SEED BARLEY AND RYE, FLOUR, HAMS, LAED, And a. Fancy Line of Canned Goods, For sale at Low- Prices by D. S. MAXWELL & SON, NO. 5 CHIQUOLA PLACE. sar 160-acre Farm to rent. GROCERIES. GROCERIES! GROCERIES! LARGEST STOCK EVER SEEN IN ANDERSON 1 COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES ! OF ooarse we can't put in print exact amounts of Goods, as ooe day we may have a tail Stock of Flonr, Meat, Sugar, Coffee, Hams, Lard, &c, And th 2 next it will be very much reduced. Our sales some days won Id astonish any 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 anyI otSy in Upper Carolina; and second, we give good weights and the lowest prices on first class Goods. We hare exclusive sale of Chase it Sanborn's Roasted Coffee, which are the best in the world. If you don't believe it, ask any friend who visited the World's Fair if he drank a bad cup of Coffee on the ground while there. They had the exclcsive sale of their world-renowned '!Seal Braud" at the Fair. FRB9H RAISINS, CURRANTS and CITRON arriving every day, and we are ready for Xmas. Call and see us. Yours truly, LICON & LEOBETTER, Wholesale and Retail Grocers. ONE MOMENT, PLEASE I "We may be able to Save you some Money, provided you need any ? kind of Groceries. TF you aver expect to buy FLOUR CHEAP, now is the time to buy, as a man don't JL usually stumble on Bargains like we are offering more than once in an ordinary liie-time. FLOUR! FLOUR!! FLOUR!!! Jost received a big lot of Blue Ribband Flour?the best Flour on top of dirt for $4.00. Don't forget thejjrand. Remember, too, that you csn on lv get this Flour from JOHN A. AUSTIN & OO. 'It is the nearest approach to tbe $5.00 article to be bad. We have had a nice trade, indeed, for which we retnrn our sincere thanks to our friends: but we want a larger trade, and to get it we will make special inducements in ill kinds of Groceries. AUSTIN & CO. is the place. Call on us and we will give you a cordial welcome. PALACE GROCERY. J, Ai AUSTIN & CO. ? - ?3 ?3. B. FANT. W. H. SIMPSON. PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS! -BY GOING TO FANT & SIMPSON'S, ; WHERE YOU WILL FIND THE Choicest Fruits, viz: Oranges, Apples, Bananas, Cocoanuts, Raisins, Grapes, Nuts, &c. ALSO, a beautiful assortment of Vases, Gift Cups and Saucers, Fire Crackers, Can dieti and articles too numerous to mention. Come, everybody, and get the nicest Goouu at the lowest prices. Yours, ready to please, FANT & SJMPSON. P. 8.?If you want the best FLOUR in Town for the money you can get it here, ^ FREE CITY DELIVERY, F. & S. SARGE PLU?KETT. The Old Man Monrns for the Wickedness of Chicago. Atlanta Constitution. Christmas is over, the weather is fine and the fanners are beginning to stir the ground for the next crop. That the farmer feeds the world is too well known to waste time stating the fact. So important he is, and yet he has less to do with forming or dic? tating the policy of the government than any other class of folks in all the world. The nigger is getting clear ahead of the farmer in political im? portance, and the heathen Chinee is gaining ground mighty fast. The farmer knows his importance and he feels the slights, but it is next to im? possible to get them to profit by the knowledge of their importance or to resent their slights by united effort. As in politics, so it is in the matter of pitching their crops. They pay but little attention to each other in this and so lose benefits rightly their own if they were to plant, intelligently and act in concert. Right now one neigh? bor is nosing round to see if he can't slip in a big cotton crop unbeknowing to the other neighbor, while all of them know and preach the doctrine of "less acreage." Let 'em rip; I don't care, for next fall I will have a good time laughing when they are cursing the low prices. Anyhow, we of the south should be thankful. I feel that we should when I read of the great distress in Chicago. But I am not surprised at anything that happens to Chicago. I have been there and a more ungodly place was never upon this earth. It was in this gren.t city that I felt more than ever before in my life like exclaiming "God bless old Georgia! God bless the. South 1" The immorality one sees there is enough to inspire the sentiment above. It is a city of for? eigners. No America there. Every? where and everything smacks of the foreigner. I would not give one day of hearty greeting that is present al? ways in Georgia for all the sociability that a life time would bring from these immoral, cold, business-bent foreign aired people of Chicago. The wonder to me is that the Lord does not smite the whole State of Illinois, much less Chicago, for the sins of this great city. I have talked to men from London and they tell me that Chicago has more sin in one day than London in a year. And it is licensed immorality. A wicked city it' is, but I am sorry, for the women and little children who are suffering there, and I am sorry for any who may scorn the idea of the Lord punishing for such immorality as is to be met with in Chicago. I have heard that man's extremity was GocKs op? portunity. I hope that Chicago will be bettered morally by her trouble. I told Brown this morning that I felt like calling upon all the world to pray for Chicago, but I. know that I would be laughed at if I did. Anyhow my remarks to Brown caused him to re? member a little story which I had for? gotten, and Brown wants me to give it here as an evidence of there being yet some efficacy in prayer. Brown's little story dates from TVe dowee, Randolph County, Ala. We dowee, from an Indian village, came to be the County seat of Randolph when bhe County was organized. The little ;;own does not stand now where it was iirst intended that it should stand, and where it was first located. At iirst the town was on the banks of Wedowee creek, and there the Smiths, the Heflins and others started on the road to eminence. Beneath the shel? ter of a bush arbor, which was then the court house, these men clashed their legal swords and made the wild woods resound. As an adjunct to this busharbor court house was the County's first jail?a poplar log. The jail was simply a big poplar log lying upon the banks of Wedowee Creek. The prisoner was thrust into the hol? low of this great log and a sliding door at the end shut in. * * * * * * There had been a bloody murder committed on the Tallapoosa river, one of the rivers of the County. A coroner's inquest placed the crime upon a young man who had always borne a good character and who was the only support of a widowed mother. He was convicted by circumstautial evidence and the day was set for the hanging. The young man was innocent. He knew it and his mother knew it, and subsequent events proved it, but for a time the people were much stirred up and clamored for his execution, and so it was he had resigned himself to meet death as coolly as possible. The night before the hanging was to take place on Friday was a terrible night for that poor mother. All night she had walked the floor of her little cabin, wringing her hands and shud? dering at the thought of the rope pressing her dear boy's throat. The rumble of wagons and the tread of horses could already be heard upon "the road as the citizens were making their way to Wedowee Creek to be at the hanging. The mother gave way to despair as she heard these reminders. Tears gushed from her eyes and with hands clasped she fell beside the bed in the darkened room and there poured out her soul in sorrowful prayer to God. "Oh, Lord," was her cry, "have mercy upon my poor, poor boy !" The wails of the poor mother at? tracted the passer?-uy, they dropped a tear, some of them, but shook their heads and muttered : "No hope, he must pay the penalty," and went on thei.: way to be at the hanging. "Oh, Lord, have mercy !" was the wail of the mother, there all alone iu the darkness. "Oh, Lord, have mercy and save my boy I" and away from the south there came the souud of distant thun? der. "Oh, Lord, save my boy !" and the thunder roared and the lightning flashed. "Oh, Lord, have mercy and save my innocent boy !" and a storm broke upon the little cabin and drowned out the wails of the mother. ***** * As I have said, the jail was a big poplar log, which lay upon the banks of Wedowee creek. It was here this son was confined with the extra pre? caution of having a guard to watch. The terrible storm had raised the wa? ter until the creek had burstcd its banks, the guard had to flee for his life and the log jail was swept away toward the Tallapossa river. * * * * * * The storm was over and streaks of day were beginning to show in the east when gentle raps at the cabin door called the mother from her place of kneeling beside the little bed. At the door she met her boy. He had made his escape from the hollow log and stood before his mother in seem? ing answer of her appeal to the Lord. Before the joyful meeting of mother and son had subsided the sheriff with a great crowd was at the cabin to tell the news?to tell the dying confes? sions of a bad man of the County who had been killed in the storm by a fall? ing tree. This bad man had confessed to the crime for which the widow's son came near being hanged. Brown says he was saved by prayer ?a mother's prayer?but I have al? ways said he was saved by a flood. Any how, there is no harm in trying to let us all pray for Chicago. But Christmas is over, the hard, old year of '93 is in the past and we hope for a kindlier year in the one that is upon uj. I have turned over a new leaf in everything? I've done gone jined the 'liance, And Brown will pretty soon, He says that we will "spoil a born" Or else we'll "make a spoon." I don't know mnch about it yet, Bat one thing I do know, We can't get in mach worse:' fix Than we were in before. I tell the office banter this, Right square op to their face, When they begin on politics And of the coining race, They swear that wo'll be worsted But failed to show us'how The times are to ge!. harder Than what it h right now. I hope, and smile and tell 'em That in the bye and bye, The "hayseed" and the workingman Will eat the "chicken pie." Sarge Plunkett. Tige Retrieved the BomD "The hero of my story," he began, according to the St. Louis Republic, "and "he was a hero of the first water, was an Arkansas farmer who sailed under the honorable name of Miller. Of course, you all know that in Ar kansas it is against the law of the commonwealth to use dynamite in the public waters. Well, to hurry through the statement of the case, a lot of us came to the conclusion that if we wanted to make a big haul of fish it would be necessary to use a little force. Accordingly, dynamite bombs were secured anu we asked Miller to go up stream and throw the bombs in, while we, his guests, would gather at a ford a few rods down and secure the floating fish. Miller, accompanied by a highly educated water spaniel, went up the bank and prepared for his at? tack upon the denizens of the water. He hurled one missile, fuse attached, into the stream. An instant later his dog was in the water, and in a moment he had the bomb in his mouth, swim for the shore. "Drap it, Tigel" shouted the farm? er, "Drap it, I say!" "But the dog would not obey. He swam wildly forward and in twenty seconds had landed. Miller started to run, the dog coming after him at a break-neck gait. Miller ran toward the fisherman below. They realized the situation in an instant, and leveling their guns warned the farmer to head in another direction. The situation for all its seriousness, was the funni? est that I ever saw. Miller ran down the hill, yelling at the dog to go back. " 'Stop!' he yelled, 'Drapit, Tige. Go home!" but the dog only in? creased ais efforts to reach his master's side. "But the end soon came. The fuse burned its length and then?Miller never recovered even the collar of poor Tige."_ _ _ lion's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Re? ward for any case of Catarrh that cr.n not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. 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 & Tbuaii, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Waldixg, Kinn an & 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. JS@-Sokl by Druggists, 75c. ?- John Walters, who lives near Catonsville, Md., is 66 years, old, and is an expert shot. Notwithstanding his advanced age, he takes great pleas? ure in gunning. Recently he walked about twelve miles in pursuit of game, and in the afternoon walked to Ca? tonsville and return, a distance of six? teen miles, in one day, A Doctors Waiting Room. To the best of my recollection there is an old saying, not in the least com? forting to an outsider?the man on the fence?which assumes that "misery loves company." If there is any place where this axiomatic proverb finds a complete and peculiar halo of glory attendant upon it, it is in the waiting room of a medical specialist; say, for an instance merely, that the waiting room of an oculist be taken as an ex? ample, or, better, as an illustration.' It was only a few days ago that while coming from Macon I succeeded in getting a cinder firmly transplanted in my eye. All of my efforts to get it out were unavailing. The rubbing and amateurish efforts to relieve the pain only made it the worse, and when I stepped into the office of an oculist my injured eye was considerably irri? tated and swollen, while the other was bloodshot arfd pained from what I afterwards learned was "sympathy." Sitting in the room were two patients who had preceded mc?a little girl and a very old man. I was surprised at this, since it was only 8 o'clock in the morning and I had thought to be the first patient. The old man had a large red cloth tied firmly across his mouth and wore a pair of large, dark blue glasses. When he became tired of sitting down he hobbled about the room with the aid of crutches, as one leg was gone. The little girl had rather short, curly, red-tinged hair, mischievous brown eyes, a snub nose, a saucy little mouth. A silk hand? kerchief tied carefully about her throat was the only indication of the necessity of her presence in this room of affliction ?nd malady. She was hardly more than ten years old. I walked in, stood by the sto^e a min? ute, took a turn about the room and finally sat down in a chair near the little girl; she was the preferable company, I thought. She wasn't long making my acquain? tance. "say," said she, "you're anew one, ain't you ? Well, I thought you was, 'cause you looked like you felt kinder scary. I was scary w'en I first come, too, but I've got over it." I told her that this was my first trip. "It won't be your last, 'cause I know how 'Doc' does," she continued wisely. "You've got somethin' the matter with your eye, ain"t you ?" I nodded and told her I had. "Well, Doc'11 take you in an' look at you, an' shake his head like somethin' awful was the matter; but don't you get scary, 'cause they ain't. That's the way he does. Then he'll take amiky scope and look in your eye and shake his head agin. Thqn he'll set down and commence to write out a prescrip? tion for you, an' he'll get up an' look in your eye agin. Then he'll finish writing the prescription and tell you to be mighty careful of yourself, to come back again to-morrow an' two times'll cost you $6, and 40 cents for the prescription. > "I been comin' here most three months now, and I ain't well yet. I had the dipferia and the doc says I haven't got over it yet; so you see it costs somethin' to be sick. Now, there's that ol* fellow over there now. He's been comin' longer than me. He use ter come blindfolded, but he's wearin' glasses now, an' somethin's the matter with his bronchis . tubes, and he ain't got but one leg. That's worse. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have but one leg. I guess he's use ter it. He always goes in ahead of me, no matter how soon I come. Doc ain't come yet or he'd be inside." At this interesting portion of the naughty girl's conversation a lady in furs entered the room. She was richly dressed and wore a pair of gold glasses. "You see her?" whispered the little girl. "She's rich folks. Doc told me it was a case of eye-open'r with her." "Myopia," I suggested, timidly, and the naughty girl frowned and said, "maybe." "Well, anyway," she continued, "I don't like her. I kinder think she's stuck on the doc, 'cause he's awful clever to her, an' he says she always pays spang-up all the time. I wouldn't be him," she suddenly branched off, as a middled-aged mau with a heavy bandage about his head came in the room. "He's only got about a half a head, an' I don't think he ever was much. I'd heap rather have no voice at all than be like him. I saw him with it off?I mean the cloth, not his head," she commented aeriously, "an' he ain't good looking one bit. His eyes twirch all the time, an' he looks like-he's scany !" The door was opened quickly and as quickly closed. The new-comer was a boy about fifteen years old, in knee trousers. The naughty girl turned red. "Who is the last one ?" Iasked. "That's a sorter nice one," she replied. "He's better than most boys, an' I reckon it's cause he's always got the earache. One time doc told me that he was a real hero, 'cause they let 'em cut his head open. There's another boy that conies that I don't like. He's got a cataract, though," she added, reflectively, "an' he's the only one that's got one that comes here. I wish you could see him." In the meantime patients had been coming in by twos and threes and the naughty little girl had to talk fast to keep up. "I've got a joke on that old woman in a green dress." continued she, most irreverently, for the lady was a mother? ly looking soul. "Doc went to look down her throat and when she opened her mouth her false teeth dropped down her throat. She liked to choked to death, an' Doc was awful scary about her. She always takes her teeth out now. Do you have false teeth ?" she asked suddenly, allowing the con? versation to drift into an extremely personal vein. "Mamma has, an' I guess I will too wlien I'm old enough." I might have been told a great deal more, but the "Doc," who happened to be a personal friend of mine, opened a side door and beckoned for me to come. When I went out a few minutes later the old man with one leg hobbled in. while the naughty girl glared at me in the most indignant style because I was called in ahead of her?and she a regular?in direct violation of the Doc's waiting room ethics.?Julian Harris, in Atlanta Constitution. Economy of Labor, In these days of close competition, combined with low prices of farm products generally, and the scarcity of money, it becomes necessary for every farmer to study closely and in? telligently the best methods in the preparation of his soil for the next year's crop. Te begin with, it is to be presumed that every careful and progressive farmer has made every exertion possi? ble to save as much manure as his means will allow, for the next season. For the purpose of illustration, we will assume that a farmer who runs a two-horse farm and cultivates fifty acres of land, and employs two hands, is ready to begins his operations for 1894. By the use of the proper tools, on a two-horse crop he will need one hand only until the 1st of May, or until he begins the cultivation of his crop. He should break all of his land that he. expects to cultivate with a two-horse plow, turning at least six inches in depth during the months of January and February and March, and during this time, especially when the ground is frozen, the manure should be hauled out and put in convenient piles for use. One hand, with a two horse team, can break the land and haul out the manure for a two-horse crop by the 1st of April. Then the same hand, with a two-horse team, can, by means of a Corbin disk har? row, thoroughly pulverize and prepare the land for planting. Then, by the use of a planter, which opens the fur? row, drops the seed, and puts in the fertilizer, if any is to be used, the en? tire crop can be planted by one hand and two horses. By this plan you save the hire of one hand for the months of January, February, March and April. Then with the Planet, Jr., cultivators and horse hoes combined, he can work the entire crop without paying one cent for the hand hoeing. The old fashioned way of farming with imperfect tools and doing much of the work by hand that should be done by horse power, makes the crop cost so much that there is no profit left. The way to remedy this is by the means of improved machines in place of hired hands. When you'be gin to talk to some farmers about im? proved tools, they say, "I can't afford, to buy these machines?I haven't got' the money ;" yet he can afford to pay a man fifty cents a" day to hoe cotton or corn for him, when, with the aid of a horse-hoe and cultivator, he can plow and hoe his cotton anicorn at one-half the expense.?YorJcville En? quirer. Sort Drinks In Haverhill Temperance people in Haverhill, Mass., have determined to open what they call a "temperance saloon" in opposition to the saloons which make no claim to temperance. It is not to be a coffee house. In fact neither coffee nor any of the milder liquids are to be sold in the temperance sa? loon. Beer and wine will be the sta? ple beverages of the temperance es? tablishment. The temperance people will cut rates from the start, Everything will be sold at actual cost. Beer will go at two cents for a schooner and one cent for a skiff. Perhaps the other saloons will meet these prices, but whether they do or not it is clear that if the stock of the temperance saloons holds out Haverhill is going to have a glorious time, and "not go home till morning." The mistake of the temperance sa? loon managers will be found to lie in the fact that they have refused to in? clude whiskey in their bill of fare. There are but few Germans in Haver? hill, and where a population is com? posed largely of Americans and Irish? men whiskey is the favored tipple in preference to cither wine or beer. This fact will be recognized by the temperance saloon keeper before he has been long in the business, and he will not be much longer in learning that he must either sell whiskey or put up his shutters. People who arc in the habit of drinking whiskey can? not be induced to mix their drinks. The Haverhill experiment will be watched with as much interest as that of South Carolina. Governor Ti 11 man, who has nothing but an Ameri? can trade, declares that beer is the most unprofitable drink for temper? ance saloons to handle. Whiskey, he declares, is the only drink that will pay expenses. The temperance peo? ple of Haverhill should profit by the Governor's experience.?St. Loin's Republic. Bncklms Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Bheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Cnilblains, 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 bos. For sale by Hill Bros. The Counsel's Good-Bye Words. A prominent lawyer of the Lone Star State, who recently visited New Orleans, related to a reporter the fol? lowing story of a murder trial in his Texas home : The prisoner was on trial for his life. The evidence had all been heard. The State's attorney had just taken his seat after a most incisive statement of the evidence, wherein he demonstrated the utter failure of the prisoner's theory of self-defence. The counsel for the prisoner was a stranger, known only by reputation to the Judge and Bar, and that reputa? tion was one of great ability, perfect integrity and a marvellous knack of "snatching verdicts" each time by some new turn. This gaunt, yet graceful, gray-haired man arose, seem? ingly without looking at the jury, though each man felt he was under the power of that wide-open eye. Af? ter bowing to the Judge and saying a few almost inaudible words of courtesy to his Honor, he turned to the pris-' oner and said: "You must die, John?die by hang? ing. It will be for no fault of yours, by no fault of the Judge, or of his jury, or of the good people of the country : neither will it be any fault of the law. The law of Texas is all right, though you die innocent. The law, though its machinery may some? times expose perjury, can't always prevent the false swearing of wit? nesses. Judge and juries have not the power, though they sometimes exercise the authority of Almighty God. They couldn't look into the souls of those perjured witnesses and see the malice, hate and private pur pose that colored and twisted all the facts. We can't help it now. You must die as you have lived, like a brave man. I don't need to tell you that. The woman who bore you, three months before you saw the light of heaven, carried in ber arms from one of the bloodiest fields of the late war the bleeding, senseless form of your father, while shot and shell still shrieked and the groans of the dying filled the air. And your father, whose maimed body we laid to rest last week was not mashed in all this land. These trusted you, and their blood can betray no trust. The only mes? sage, he sent you was, 'Tell him we believe in him.' We will lay you be? side them. In a few days this old white head will be laid next to you. I'll not be ashamed to be buried soon beside you. John. You are so like the other John that I see the visions of happy boyhood while gazing into tne same true eyes?confused with these is the pride I have taken in my friend's boy. While we lay these bod? ies in the churchyard over the moun? tain we'll appeal this case. We'll try it all over again up yonder." -Then, in a few of the boldest and grandest figures he sketched his idea of a trial in Heaven, where, as he said, "In that glorious presence the false witness is dumb and the inerrant Judge needs not the aid of counsel or jurors." Then he pictured the ea? gerness with which the mother and the calm confidence with which the father awaits Heaven's verdict, the quick rush, the entrancing, soul . satisfying embrace of both at the words "N ot guilty.'' Then, taking up both hands of the prisoner, he looked down in his face for a moment stead? ily, then, bending forward with mother-like tenderness, kissed him twice on the forehead, saying, in a whisper audible to all, "We can wait for that; so good-bye, John? my boy." Bowing respectfully to the Judge he took his seat, still holding one of the prisoner's hands. The district attorney, who through all this sat with his back half turned to the speaker and to the jury nerv? ously and excitedly chewing his tooth? pick and crossing and recrossing his legs, began a reply which quickly end? ed after a good look at the jurors' faces in a stammering request to them to do their duty.' The Judge's charge was scattering. He seemed to scarcely know what he said. The jury did not hear him. Not the slightest incident occurred to break the spell. They went out, returned, and in a very few moments the verdict of "not guilty" was recorded. What was the force that "worked" this result 1?New Orleans Picayune. Eighteen Hnndred .Million. "Goodby, 1893, and better times next year," is the universal sentiment in trade, manufacturing and financial circles. The depression in business, shrink? age in values and general poverty that have followed the panic are without precedent. The panic of 1873, which was the reaction from the inflation of the war period, sinks into insignifi? cance in comparison with the rocord of the year which closes to-day. Liabilities of commercial, banking and railroad concerns that failed dur? ing the twelve months aggregate near? ly $1,800,000,000. These stupendous figures arc unparalleled. The pheno? mena of this remarkable panic, occur? ring in a time of profound peace, and with good harvests and an unprece? dented abundance of all the raw mate? rial of wealth and in the absence of any physical disaster or destruction of property, will remain a subject for the curious study of political economists for many generations to come.?New York Ilrrald. ? He?"You are the most beauti? ful woman-" She?"You are try? ing to flatter me." He?"But, in? deed, it is true." She?"Oh, I know it is true, but T doubted whether you really meant i:." The Sea and Its Uses. It is a common thing in speaking of the sea to call it a "wasteof waters." But this is a mistake. Instead of being a waste and a desert, it keeps the earth itself from becoming a waste and a desert. It is the world's foun? tain of life and health and beauty, and if it were taken away the grass would perish from the mountains, the for? ests would crumble on the hills. "Wa? ter is as indispensable to all life, veg? etable or animal, as the air itself. This element of water is supplied en? tirely by the sea. The sea is the great inexhaustible fountain which is con? tinually pouring up into the sky pre? cisely as m.my streams, and as large as all the rivers of the world are pouring into the sea. The sea is the real birth-place of the clouds and the rivers, and out of it come all the rains and dews of heaven. Instead of being a waste and an incumbrance, therefore, it is a vast fountain of fruitfulness and the nurse and mother of all the living. Out of its mighty breast come the resources that feed and support the population of the world. We are surrounded by the presence and bounty of the sea. It looks upon us from every violet in our garden-bed; from every spire of grass that drops upon our passing feet the beaded dew of the morning; from the bending grain that fills the arm of the reaper; from burst presses and from barns filled with plenty ; from the broad foreheads of our cattle and the rosy faces of our children. It is the sea that feeds us. It is the sea that clothes us. It cools us with the Summer cloud and warms us with the blazing fires of Winter. We make wealth for ourselves and for our children out of its rolling waters, though we may live a thousand leagues away from its shore, and never have looked on its crested beauty or lis? tened to its eternal anthem. Thus the sea, though it bears no harvest on its bosom, yet sustains all the har? vests of the world. If like a desert itself, it makes all the other wilder? nesses of the earth to bud and blos? som as the rose. Though its own wa? ters are as salt and wormwood, it makes, the clouds of 'heaven to drop with sweetness, opens springs in the valleys and rivers among the hills. The sea is a perpetual source of health to the world. Without it there could be no drainage for the lands. It is the scave nger of the world. The sea is also set to purify the atmos? phere. The winds, whose wings are heavy and whose breath is sick with the malaria of the lands over which they have blown, are sent out to range over these mighty pastures of the deep, to plunge and play with its roll? ing billows and dip their pinions over and over in its healing waters. There they rest when they are weary ; there they rouse themselves when they are refreshed. Thus their whole sub? stance is drenched, and bathed, and washed, and winnowed, and sifted through and through by this glorious baptism. Thus they .fill their mighty lungs once more with the sweet breath of the ocean, and, striking their wings for the shore, they go breathing health and vigor. The ocean is not the idle creature that it seems, with its vast and lazy length stretched between the conti? nents, with its huge bulk sleeping along the shore or tumbling in aimless fury from pole to pole. It is a mighty giant, who, leaving his cozy bed, comes up upon the land to spend his strength in the service of man. Thus the sea keeps all our mills and factories in motion. Thus the sea spins our thread and weaves our cloth. It is the sea that cuts our iron bars like wax, rolls them out into proper thinness or piles them up in the solid shaft strong enough to be the pivot of a revolving planet. It is the sea that tunnels the mountain, and bores the mine, and lifts the coal from its sun? less depths and the ore from its rocky bed. It is the sea that lays the iron track, that builds the iron horse, that fills his nostrils with fiery breath and send his tireless hoofs thundering across the longitudes. It is the power of the sea that is doing for man all those mightiest works that would else be impossible.?Swain. Ran Away With the Money. "Just like a man," women will say when this is read. He hails from Rockingham. He courted a girl, got ready to be spliced, didn't .have the money to buy a license, so the "party of the second part," to wit: the girl, gave him $5.00 to buy it. He took the boodle and ran away. "Sat down and cried did she? Not much. She got a hump on herself." She ascertained whether he had gone and followed him. He came to this county?in Deep River township?where she found him, had him arrested, put in jail and this morning an officer took him back to Wentworth to answer a charge of -eloping with $5.00 instead of with a girl. He went away singing "the girl I left behind me," but about the time he faces the State prison he will sing another tune. He will be indicted for obtaining money under false preten? ces.? Greensboro (iV. C.) Record. ? "I wants Kurnel Breckenridgc, who lib3 next dore tor me, put under a million dollar bond ter keep de peace," said Sam Johnsing excitedly to an Austin (Tex.) Justice of the Peace. "Has he threatened your life?" asked the Justice. "He has done dat berry ting. He tole me dat he was gwinter fill dc next niggah he caught after dark in his henhouse plum full of buckshot." AU Sorts of Paragraphs. ? A cat with "eight wellfc legs" is owned by Edward Frnr of Athens, Ga, ? Shigaken, Osaka, claims to a dwarf 36 years old who is inches in height. ? Two-thirds of the gold" use in the world was discovered/ the past 50 years. ? Coal is' dearest in South than any other part of the worl| is cheapest in China. ? Sparrows have so much curie that they will gaze in mirrors by} hour if not disturbed. ? The first public library in world was founded in AthensJayJ?i! tratus about 540 B. C. ? The valuation of wealth in tt United States is three times as gre^ as in I860, and twice as great pej capita. ? The royal families of Europe fcr more closely connected by ties of kin? dred and marriage now than ever] before. "? The healing^and purifying qua ties of Salvation Oil render i t the bos article for the speedy cure of ulcerat sores. 25c. ? Sir Andrew Clark's fortune, ev? dollar of it made in the practice medicine, is just over $1,000,000. took time and patients. ? There are two mountains i| Lower California that are estimated to contain 1,000,000 tons of purfrj alum. ? Look out for cheap substitutes Beware of new remedies. Dr. Bull'J Cough Syrup has stood the test for] nearly fifty years. ? She : Now, dearest, you knowj that when we are married you havej promised to go right to housekeeping. He (doubtfully): But, my angel, you ] cannot cook at all/ She (brightly): That's all right, love ; but mother can. ? The Marquis Van Dickens (at the swellest ball in London)?"Surely j I have seen your beautiful face before, Miss Saintlouis?" Miss Saintlouis? i "More'n likely. Pa used it on all his' patent-medicine ads as 'after taking."* " ? "Why is a man sitting on a red hot stove like a man that has gone to heaven ?" "Why is a man sitting oh, bother, don't ask me conundrums." "No; but why is it?" "Give it up?" "Yes?tell me why." "Because he is better off." ^ ? A millionaire of Vienna has^ provision in his will for the cqz illumination of the vaujt wherein, now lies. An electric light is, kept burning for a year, and eve coffin is to be lighted in the intj by electricity. < ? The best farmer is the one thinks as well as workYj-frfio kr what he intends to do a dVy, orj least at night, in advance lieves that thought has as muc1 with successful farming as plenty of muscle, if not more. ? An Indian woman who hadn't, spoken a word for twenty-three years, aroused her husband just before the down of 1894 by screaming aloud his name, since when she has talked volu? bly. Was it a happy New Yeariwr him or was it not ? ? According to the law of Holland,:! a man cannot be punished for kissing a strange lady in the streets against her wish. The Appeal Court at Am? sterdam has just decided that "to kiss a person cannot be an offence, as it is in the nature of a warm mark of sym? pathy." ? The Cherokee tribe of Indians have perhaps the most odd form of marriage. The happy couple, join hands over a running stream, anil they become at once man and wife. It must be rather -compromising for a Cherokee youth to assist a lady across a ditch. ? The girl had yawned behind her cambric handkerchief until it actually had a nap on it. Still he stayed anoP"" and talked. The girl's evident weari ness at last appealed to him.^ "Bless my soul!" he exclaimed, "what time is it?" "Time," she replied; "it must be eternity." ? In Johnson county, Wyo., there is what is called the Burning Moun? tain. It is an immense coal bank that has been on fire ever since the first white man visited that country. There are many traditions among the Indians . as to the origin of the fire; but all point to its great antiquity. ? Killiknick, or kiniknick, which the Indians are in the habit of mixing., with tobacco, is rapidly becoming ex tict. Several plants have received this name, but they have no right to it. The true herb is the inside bark of a young willow, and when smoked alone, makes a mild and pleasant smoke. ? In China women who mourn for dead husbands wear' old, dilapidated garments, neglect to wash their faces, comb their hair and look as unattrac- - tive as possible. The Punxutawny Spirit has discovered that here it is different. The dear creatures, out of pure respect for the deceased, try to make themselves appear neater and sweeter than ever before. _ ? The ouly instrument used purely tor punishment in English jails nowa? days is a crank, handle weighted heavily with lead and working heavily inside a box, an indicator at a slit recording the number of revolutions made?8,000 to 11,000 constituting a day's work. Among the purely me? chanical labor is included the working at the crank handles of the huge water pump, and by cranks, too, all the meal used in the prison is ground, too, all the meal used in the prison is ground, but in the case of corn-grind? ing the prisoner may rest as often as he likes, provided he gets through hia allotted task.