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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEKSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOKNING, FEBE?AEY 21, 1894. VOLUME XXVIIL?NO. 34. PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, PUTTY. "We hvt? always believed tbat a good business c mid be done in tbis Town in Paints aud Oil, provided a man would pnt money enongb in it to keep a Stock and furnish the people what they want. We have kept out. of it heretofore for lack of Che afore? said consideration, bnt have concluded this Spring to venture, and have placed orders for a fall line; and when we say full line we mean foil line, because we believe tbat only thus can a business be done. We, therefore, ask a share of the patronage, confidently believing we will be enabled to please both in quality and prices. As everybody know* whilst It takes lots of money to do a successful Paint business the profits are quite small. We shall, therefore, sell strictly for cash. We Cat Glass to any size. Don't loaafcice we are not "in it" on Drags, Medicines and Garden Seeds. ? HILL BROS., Druggists, Anderson, S. C. ASK FOR "CHOLERAQIPE," SULLIVAN "~ HARDWARE COMPANY'S Special Offer: BLACKSMITH BELLOWS, BLACKSMITH COMPLETE OUTFITS.' Wo such Prices, No such Goods, _ Ever offered before. iAEBED WIRE-~-50,Q00 pounds: POULTRY and GARDEN FENCING. AGRICULTURAL HARDWARE, AND IMPLEMENTS. EVERYTHING USEFUL. tsr- PRICES down with any market in the United States. COME TO SEE US ! In onr New Quarters, 15 South Main Street, Broyles New Building. In order to close out onr Stock of CLOTHING AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS, AT ONCE, we offer every article in this department at a SACRIFICE Don'1; fail to see the Slock. .You certainly need some of our Bargains. *3r Don't boy a pair of SHOES until you see our Stock. Our Motto: "Best Goods for Least Money." TAYLOR &ORAYTON, LADIES' STORE! BEGINS A GRAND CLEARANCE SALE! 'OR THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS WE WILL SELL OUR ENTIRE STOCK?" AT AND BELOW COST I In order to bejeady 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 yen have bestowed this season, We are respectfully yours, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. 184:5. 1893. OF NEWARK, N. J. AMZI DODD, President. - B==== Assets: Market Values, $51,395,903.59. ?- Paid, to Policy Holders since Organization : $124,558,722.56. Surplus : Massachusetts Standard, $3,661,250.01. Policies Absolutely Non-Forfeitable after Second Tear. IN case of lapse the Policy is continued in force as long as its value will pay for ; or, if preferred, a Paid-up Policy for its full value is issued in exchange. After the second year Policies axe incontestable, and all restrictions as to residence and occupation are removed. i Cash Loans are made to the extent of 50 per cent, of the reserve value, where valid assignments of the Policies can be mad* as collateral security. Losses paid immediately upon completion and approval of proofs. WEBB & MATTISON, Managers for South Carolina, Anderson, S. C. SEED BARLEY AND RYE, FLOUR, HAMS, LARD, And a Fancy Line of Canned Goods, For sale at Low Prices by D. S. MAXWELL & SON, NO. 6 CHIQUOLA PLACE. ??- 160-acre Farm to rent. ONE MOMENT, PLEASE ! We maybe able to Save you some Money, provided yon need any kind of Groceries. IP yon ever expect to buy FLOUR CHEAP, now is the time to buy, as a man don't usually stumble on Bargains like we are offering more than once in an ordinary lite-time. FLOUR! FLOUR I! FLOUR!!! Just received a big lot of Bine Ribband Flour?the best Flour on top of dirt for $1.00. Don't forget the brand. Remember, too, that you can only get this Flour from JOHN A. AUS TIN & OO. it is the nearest approach to the $5.00 article to be bad. We have had a nice trade, ind*ed, for which we return our sincere thanks to our friends; but wo want a laruer tradu, and to get it we will make special inducements in all kinds, of Groceries. AU.S'fIN & CO. is the place. Ca'l on us and we will give you 'cordjitf We}<}V4)fir PALACE GROCERY. j, a*5austjn:& co, BILL ABF' LETTES. Mountain Climbing ig Fan, He Says, to Walking In Florida Sand. Atlanta Constitution. Gainesville is a beautiful town, but it is not ripe. The people do not pull together. They are not "discordant, dissevered, belligerent," as Daniel Webster, said, but they do not har? monize on public matters. They lack an unselfish, enterprising leader in whom everybody would have confi? dence. They have been trying for three years to build waterworks and can't do it. Towns have character just like individuals. Take Cedar town, in Georgia, for instance. Half a dozen of her best men determined to have waterworks and electric lights, and within twelve months they had both established and everybody is proud. These men sold their towns bonds at par in New York about the same time that Atlanta sold, hers for 95 cents. Both plants cost less than $50,000. Now Gainesville is a larger and richer town and has three times the trade, but her people do not pull together. Atlanta is the most re? markable city in the South for her perfect harmony in public affairs. Her newspapers quarrel, her preachers get into bitter controversies, her so? ciety falls into scandal, but her com? mercial people are a unit for Atlanta. They spend money like water on pub lio enterprise. They have cheek enough to invite the world to come to Atlanta and they dare to rival Chi? cago in an exposition. In the office of th($ Constitution there is every year conceived some new venture thafr will draw thousands of people there, and straightway all the newspapers and preachers and merchants and manu? facturers and railroads fall into line and the movement is a success. Gainesville is the oenter of Florida's best agricultural region. More long staple dotton is grown in this region than any other. Larger areas are put in oabbages, lettuce, and potatoes for early shipment to' Northern markets. Strawberries are grown in fields in? stead of patches. They were shipping while I was there. These early ber? ries bring 50 cents a quart at home. It is a lovely surrounding country and is not at all dependent on oranges for a support. I was the guest while there of an old friend who was with me in the last white man*s Legislature in Milledgeville during the dark re? construction days of 1866. His looks are white * now, but there is the old rebel fire in his eye. I wonder how many Georgians are left who remem? ber Major Teuch?remember him as a co-member of that body ? How we did talk and talk about those perilous times and about those who are dead. Dead ! We could hardly recall half a dozen who still live. Old Father Time seems to be cruel and relentless. I met another old friend at Archer ?a man of God who, for twenty years, preached at Cartersville and had to leave there for Iiis health. Rev. Theodore Smith and his good wife are known from Chester, S. C, to Cedar Keys, and they are loved wherever known. Moving from Cartersville to Florida saved his life. There is no doubt about t.hat. The truth is, if a man should live all his life in Florida I one lung would do him, and he might have been built that way, especially if I he lived near the gulf coast. I went from Archer to Cedar Keys, which twelve years ago was the proud empo? rium and trade center of western and middle Florida. Oceam steamers come in there and all roads pointed to Cedar Keys from the Tampa arid Lees burg and Ocala country. It is sad to bear the history of a ruined town? ruined by the mighty progressive power of railroads. It is the same old story. "Ilium fuit." Cedar Keys is commercially dead, but there are still a few good ?people holding the fort. Fish and oysters are still shipped in large quantities, and the cedar pencil factories give employment to a hun? dred hands. It is still quite a resort for invalids who testify to its delight? ful and curative climate. I visited some phosphate plants in this region around Archer, and it looked like a solid business. Great banks of the lump phosphate are seen along the railroads, waiting transpor? tation. The lump phosphate looks like stained chalk and is full of the remains of animal life. Mining it gives employment to thousands of people, white and black, but all the dirty work is done by negroes. They get their dollar a day every Saturday night and gamble it away Sunday. They are uncertain, unreliable and take no thought for the morrow. Ben Akerman, of Cartersville, is in charge of a large plant and says that some Saturdays he quits with fifty negro men and does not know whether he will have fifty or five when Monday comes. They go and come like tramps. He became so disgusted with them last week that he went up to Cartersville after negro labor that he knew. He came back with thirty and says he had rather have one north Georgia negro than a dozen of these Florida tramps. This phosphate business is just im? mense and is on the increase in that region. Some imprudent ventures have come to grief, but it was not the fault of the phosphate. I was told of one plant that cost $20,000 to get started getting out $1,500 worth and then the bottom fell out. The phos? phate was only a smallopocket and no more could be found on the property. But most investors arc now very care? ful what they buy. They have many tests made and pits sunk, but even then the pockets will sometimes un pcetedly give out. Returning from Archer to Clear Water I tried a new road known as the sl}ort-cut to Tampa, It is a short cut and goes through a lovely country along by Blue Springs and Dunellen?a long moss and lake country, with orange groves alternating. It crosses the orange belt near Lacoochce, and I ex? pected to get off at the crossing, for the law says that all trains must stop at crossings. When I told the con? ductor to put me off at the crossing he respectfully declined and said his train never stopped there; that it slowed up a little, but I must get off at Macon, which was two miles from Lacoochee. Well I never fight a rail? road, of course, and so I got off at Macon, which was no town?no noth? ing, but a station, and so I took my heavy valise in one hand and my cloak in the other and turned tramp myself for Lacoochee. If you never walked two miles in Florida sand you don't know anything about an uphill business. It is on a dead level, of course, but it is worse than climbing a mountain in north Georgia. My va? lise got heavier and heavier all the way. I sat down or laid down every hundred yards and looked he hind me to see how far I had got, and ahead of me to the distant spires of Lacoochee. I had two hours' time to make it in and took nearly all of it. I sank down in Mr. John's horel piazza and faintly asked for water. I tried to appear calm and serene, but I couldn't. My legs had grown shorter and my arms longer than they had been in ten years, and I trembled all over like a whipped school boy. But old Father Time is a good doctor, and by the time I got a good dinner I was ready for the train that brought me to Clear Water again. My candid opin? ion is that I am too old for this sort of business, and if Mr. Plant wants me to ride on his short-cut again he must isBue a special order to have me drop? ped at the crossing and" the Orange belt must have me carefully picked up when it gets there. The railroads ought to be made to have a good sta? tion house at these crossings, with chairs and couches to recline on and ice water and the morning papers. But now I am at rest again I found seven cousins here from Louis? ville, Ky., and some other friends and acquaintances. The town is filling up and the boarding houses are on a strain, but if anybody else wishes to come rooms for them will be provided. This is the place and we are the peo? ple. Bill Asp. It Will Core Hiccoughs. Atlanta, Ga., February 14.?Edi? tor Constitution: On reading in the Sunday Constitution of the case of John Cranberry, of New York, who is suffering from an acute attack of hic? coughs, I was reminded of a simple remedy for this very distressing com? plaint, which I learned of some ten or twelve years ago. At that time I was foreman in the Western Electric Com? pany's shops in New York. One day I Jiad a severe attack of hiccoughs and one of my men, an old Englishman, told me he could relieve me in one minute. He did so and I have tried this same relief on myself and others on several occasions since then and always with success. It might be termed an "electric cure," and is op crated as follows: Let the person afflicted hold out his or her hands just in front, the palms of the hands upward, the ends of the fingers turned slightly up. Now let another person of the opposite sex hold his or her hands over the other ones, palms downward, then lower the hands till the tips of the fingers of each person lightly touches the wrist of the other. This completes the cir? cuit. In a few seconds a prickling sensation will be felt by each person like a slight shock from a galvanic battery, and the hiccoughs will stop. It may not be successful in every case, but I have never seen it fail. Should you think this deserving of a space in your valuable paper, it might be the means of relieving some of this truly distressing ailment. G. C. u tm - 9100 Reward, $100. The reader of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh, being a constitutional disease, requires a con? stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direct? ly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by builing up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Proprietors, Toledo, 0. JJ^Sold by Druggists, 75c. ? The air brakes on railroad trains are being built with a view to their use on trains of one hundred cars. The plant on each train is being built so that it can be used in such a way as to bring the speed down from eighty to thirty miles per hour within five seconds. Great power has to be used, and every part of the apparatus has to be perfect to stand the strain. ? A Paris beggar has been living very comfortably by hanging himself. He would choose a tree nea'- where young children were playing, string himself up and groan to attract atten? tion, so that they would run for help. He would be cut down and restored, and a letter in his pocket would ex? plain his attempted suicide by a state? ment of his destitution, lie knew how to attach the noose so a' to avoid strangulation, ONE WOMAN'S PERFIDY, Result of her Trifling With trro Brothers. From the Philadelphia Times. Arkansas City, Ark., Jan. 3.?A recent cave-in of the bank of the Mis? sissippi carried away a ruin of ghostly reputation, which has been left aban? doned for a number of years to the unearthly tenants which are said to have claimed it as their own. Situa? ted as it was some seven or eight miles from this place and no longer a stop? ping place for the boats as they pass, few white people ever visited it, while the negroes could not be prevailed on to go near the spot even in daylight. This shell of a house was all that remained of a once splendid country place which some years before the outbreak of the war was the home residence of a wealthy family named Bentley. From the landing wharf here, which has long since decayed and fallen into the river, hundreds of cotton bales were sent away on the steamers, which were only too glad to stop and partake of the good cheer of the hospitable owner, a veteran of the Mexican war. But a cloud fell over the home. One of the sons went mad in St. Louis and killed himself over the gambling table where he had lost the proceeds of the crop of an entire year, which he had just sold in that city. Two of the other brothers were the .devoted lovers of the daughter of a neighboring planter. It is said that this girl, a finished coquette, led both young men to believe that she would marry them, pledging them to secrecy* But one night the elder, going to call on his sweetheart, found her absent from home, and was riding back through the plantation, the sound of his horse's feet being hushed in the wet earth, and came upon the lady and his brother standing beneath a tree, oblivious of the driving rain, and by a flash of lightning saw his brother bend and kiss the woman he loved without any objection on the part of the lady. The lovers did not observe that they were watched and the other rode on resolved, on punish? ing what he looked on as the treachery of his brother. He waited for him for some time, nursing his wrath, and when at last the young man ran down the stairs to meet him the younger brother saw him coming and seeing, too, the gun in his hands ran up to seize the weapon, crying to his brother to hear him and to tell him at least what he had done. But the jealous man wreuched the gun from the hands of his victim and,, placing it against his heart, killed him instantly. The mother, hearing the scuttle, ran out of her room and slipped upon the blood of her youngest son, who had fallen on the stairs. She fell with her face against her dead one, while the murderer ran from the house to where his horse still stood, and putting spurs to him rode like one possessed for the homo of the lady. He threw himself at her feet, begging her to fly from the country with him, and suspecting something of the truth she parleyed with him until she wrung from him a confession, of what he had done. Repulsing him the moment the dreadful truth was told her, she told him that she had never loved him nor his brother; that both had served only to pass the tedium of country life, announced that she was about to be married to a wealthy Frenchman in New Orleans. The madman, for such he now was, rose to his feet and dragging her by one hand, while his other stifled her cries, he flung her upon the hearth of the open fireplace and buried her face in the burning coals, and held it there until both her eyes were burned away, with portions of her face. Releasing the suffocating, half-dead woman he galloped "back home and hung himself to a tree before the house. The mother went raving mad, and would wander about the plantation wringing her hands and bewailing her loss. The father, who was away from home at the time, returned now to die of a broken heart, leaving as sole heiress of the place his only daughter, a young girl who had been in the con? vent during these frightful tragedies. Filled with the idea that it was her mission to atone for the sins of her brothers by prayer she returned home and spent her days and much of her nigrrts in praying and scourging her? self until her mind also gave way under this strain, and one day she flung herself from the top of the stair? way that had been the scene of her brother's crime, and was found by the frightened servants dead with a broken neck. The place now fell into the hands of a distantrelative, who rented it out to * tenant. But this man only remained a few weeks and left, de? claring that he would not stay a week longer if the entire plantation was made his. Tenant after tenant suc? ceeded each other, none remaining, however, more than a month or two, though all were reticent as to the cause of their leaving so abruptly. The owner began now to sell off the acreage in small lots, and so was able to turn the place to account. But no one would buy the mansion house itself, and stories each more weird than the other were soon in circula? tion concerning it and the sights and sounds to be seen and heard within its gloomy portals. Thinking to raise the cloud of superstition from the place the owner brought his family from the East to make it their home during the summer months. He did not tell his wife of the uncanny repu? tation of the house, thinking that if she was not prejudiced against it her presence might prove there was rjobrV> ing in the stories, For a few days nothing occurred, but one evening, as the family sat down to tea, a loud, piercing shriek rang through the house, and brought the household rushing out into the lower hall, where it had seemed to bo. But, though the place was well search? ed, there was not a trace of anyone, and at last the family retired. Scarce? ly, however, had they fallen asleep when the whole house once more rang to that fearful cry, and there was a sound of a heavy body falling, follow? ed by feet flying out of the house and. the slamming of a door. Mrs. A. was so alarmed when nothing could again be found to account for these sounds that her husband, to calm her, insisted that it must have been some of the servants romping somewhat noisily in their rooms above, but who denied it for fear of reprimand. The lady was at last calmed bv this explanation, and for several dayWhere was nothing of importance to further frighten her, although her little son, aged 4, complained that there had come into his room a woman with her hair down and her dress cut away from the shoulders, showing her bleeding flesh. This was dismissed as a fancy of the child's until a day or two later one of the maids employed in the bouse ran screaming into her mistress's room crying that a man with a gun and covered with blood had passed her in the hall, and thathe had groaned ^fearfully and disappeared even while her eyes were on him. The girl was so unfeignedly frightened that Mrs. A.'s fears were again arous? ed, and she besought her husband to quit the house, at least until these ex? traordinary occurrences were ended, but he laughed at her for listening to child's and servants' gossips, and she consented to remain a few days longer. The servants now began to complain so loudly of the place that Mr. A. was obliged to promise them higher wages and that their stay would only be for a short time longer. Though far from satisfied they agreed to remain, and, as if peace had again come to the old place, nothing whatever of an alarm? ing character happened until the night of the 10th of September. On that evening the entire house appeared to be filled with a powerful, though invisible, atmosphere of a sulphurous odor, that seemed to oppress the breathing of all within. But nothing was thought of this beyond the idea that in all probability an electric storm was brewing, although the sky without was clear, and there was no other indication of any atmospheric disturbance. At last, as the night grew older, this I oppressive state of the air in the house became more and more remarked until it was necessary to open the windows. All at once the lights throughout the house went out simul? taneously, and the whole place was shaken as if by an earthquake. The family tried to leave their seats, but were held still by some power unseen, but which seemed to chill their limbs with a deadly cold. There was the sound of a woman's voice crying as if with inexpressible grief, mingled with the blows of a whip, while bare feet seemed running about the house. One of Mrs. A.'s daughters, a young girl of 16, fell half fainting from her chair and then cried out that there was blood on the floor, when a hand as cold as ice caught hers in it and some? thing said in her ear, "Pity me, for you are as young as I was." The girl then fainted quite away and when it was possible for a light to be obtained she was found to have her clothes all stained with what seemed to. be fresh? ly-spilled blood, while about her wrist was the mark of bloody fingers. It was some minutes before a lamp would burn at all, during which time the groans and lamentations were continu? ed, rising every now and then to shrieks of heart-rending despair. Mrs. A. now insisted on leaving the house at once, and would not consent to even remain for the night, but sought shelter with a neighbor until she could make some arrangements for another home. Her husband consent? ed to her going, bat himself remained to look after the household goods till daylight. The servants left the house in a body frightened out of their wits, and Mr. A. was left alone. He loaded a shotgun, and, building a fire, watch? ed by it for some time. He finally fell asleep and slept for an hour or two, when he was awakened by finding a man seated near him, bending over the fire as if cold. He saw that the visitor was gaunt and haggard, as if by long illness or sorrow, and was about to address him when the phamtom looked at him wistfully, and said: "This house is accursed and is no home for living creature. Depart and leave it to the unhappy beings doomed to walk in it till their punishment is fulfilled." The phamtom continued for a few moments leaning over the fire warming its thin, transparent hands, then with a sign went toward the door and dis? appeared into the hall. Mr. A. got up hastily and ran after him, but on reaching the bottom of the stairs could see nothing of him. Since this, over fifteen years ago, no one has ever tried to live in the old house, which has been untenantable for some time. Superstition or respect for its unhappy history has kept it from being demol? ished, until the river gathered it to its bosom with all its stains and curse. Bocklens 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 emits per box, For t*:ile 1 by Hill Bros, Hard Times and t lie Remedy. There is now, as well as for several years past, a spirit of discontent and restlessness among our farmers caused by a lack of prosperity. A casting about for some change more profitable; something that will give more ready money than the farm, with its short crops and shorter prices, and the little demand for the little that is to sell from the farm. There are only two courses open to us. The one to leave the farm and go to the town and seek a better paying business. The other is to stick to the farm and change methods, and add new lines and more intelligent meth? ods until the farm will pay. Now which will you choose? It must be the one or tho other. There is no escape from making the choice ; there is is no way out of it. We have gone on with poor farming from year to year until we have gone about as far as we can go. Our lands are im? poverished, many are in debt, and the general condition of many of our farms are pitiful to behold. We spoke last week of the increase of population in the towns at the ex? pense of the rural districts, as shown by the United States census. This is due to the causes above spoken of. These farmers who are abandoning the farm for the town, will tell you that they are making the change in order to educate their children, and to give them social advantages. But the real cause is that they have failed of success. They have either lacked the energy, intelligence or business habits necessary to success in any business requiring these qualifi? cations. So far as educating their children is concerned, in the cases of most of those who desert the farm for the town for this purpose, the expense of house rent and the increased cost of the necessaries of life, as well as many other expenses that would not_ be incurred in a life upon the farm, would hire a good teacher in the country ; and as far as society is con? cerned, it is a matter of grave doubt whether or not any advantage that might result from association with this so-called town society, might not be overbalanced by other disadvanta? ges. If you want your boy to learn how to tie his cravat in the latest style, to gracefully handle the seduc? tive cigarette, or to do many other things more. ornamental than useful or manly, he will get this kind of education faster, and more perfectly in the town, than he would in the country. My opinion is that in a majority of cases the reasons above given are not the true one.. The farmer has tried one way of farming and has found that it does not pay. He has not had the vim, energy and perseverence, if he had the intelligence, to start out aright in the right way to success on the farm. There is a way to farm and farm successfully. We have examples be? fore our eyes'in every community. It is of no use to say that poor labor and poor prices prohibit successful farm? ing. It has been done and is now be? ing done. There is no royal path to success in any pursuit. Success is the reward of patience, toil, care and the employment of intelligent meth? ods. There are no remedies pleasant to the taste of the ills that our fann? ers are now suffering from. The med? icine is unpalatable, but it must be swallowed regularly and continued for a long time before we recover from our diseases. The quack doctors will be around this summer. I mean the politicians. They are going to many of your hou? ses to see you and to tell you why you are not prospering, and those they do not visit they will invite to come out to public meetings, and they will get upon a stump and tell you exactly what is the matter with you, and if you will some out and vote for them ?that is put your case in their hands for treatment?they will remove all your diseases; that the doctors you have had in the past did not under? stand your case, and some of these quacks will tell you that the doctors you have had in the past wanted to keep you sick so they could make mon? ey out of you. If you want a day's amusement, it is well enough to go and listen to these fellows; but the world over, these quacks are a bad lot, and it won't do for you farmers to take too much of their medicine. I believe in our own home-made remedies for most of our ills. Improve the farm, make home attractive so the boys will not want to leave it, get good stock and keep them nice and comfortable, and, above all, make farm life enjoyable and abandon the prac? tice of loafing at the stores and talking hard times, and keep out of debt. If you can't pay fora thing; don't buy it. The farmer who has a good home and plenty to eat for man and beast, should be happy without money in these days when he knows that mil? lions of his fellow creatures in the cities are destitute of food. How much work has been done on our farms since last July except sowing a few acres of small grain and gathering a small crop? Idleness has been the rule among our farmers?work the excep? tion. Those who have worked the least complain the loudest of the hard times. But when the farmer, like the mechanic and business man, is found with his business every day in the year, he is succeeding and is satisfied with results. You need not say there is nothing to do. Every farmer wor? thy of the nninc and of his high and honorable, ^lii'ir, has bo much to do that he wishes that there were more than 365 days in a year. Don't for? get what I told you about those quacks that will be around this summer. They can't cure you; you must apply the remedy yoruself.?Soland Black, in Yorkville Enquirer. Cariosities of the Calendar. The ycjir 1900 will not be a leap year simply because, being a hundredth year, although it is divisible by four, it is not divisible by 400 without a remainder. This is not the real rea? son, but the result of it; the real rea? son being the establishment of the Gregorian rule, made in 1582. The Nincteeth Century will not end until midnight of Monday, December 31, 1900, although the old quarrel will probably again be renewed as to what constitutes a century and when it winds up, and thousands will insist on a premature burial ofDecember 31, 1899. But as a century means 100 years, and as the first century could not end until a full 100 years had passed, nor the second until 200 years had passed, etc., it is not logically clear why the Nineteenth Century should be cur? tailed and broken off before we have the full 1,900 years. April 1 and July 1 in any year^ and in leap year January 1, fall on the same day of the week. September 1 and December 1 in any year fall on the same week day. January 1 and October 1 in any year fall on the same week day, except it be a leap year. x> February 1, March 1 and November 1 of any year fall on the same day of the week, unless it be a leap year, when January 1, April 1 and July 1 fall on the same week day. May 1, June 1 and August 1 in any year never fall on the same week day, nor does any one of the three ever fall on the same week day on which any other month in the same year begins, except in leap year, when February 1 and August 1 fall on the same week day. To find out on what day of the week any day of this century fell divide the year by 4 and let the remainder go. Add the quotient and year together, then add 3 more. Divide the result by 7 and if the remainder is 0 March 1 of that year was Sunday ; if 1, Mon? day ; if 2, Tuesday, and so on. For the last century, do the same thing, but add 4 instead of 3. For the next century add 2 instead. It is needless to go beyond the next century, because its survivors will probably have some shorter method, and find out by simply touching a knob or letting a knob touch them. Christmas of any year always falls on the same day of the week as Jan? uary 2 of that yeai, unless it be a leap year, when it is the same week day as January 3 of that year. Easter is always the first Sunday after the full moon that happens on or next after March 21. It is not easy to see how it can occur earlier than March 22 or later than April 26 in any year. New Year (January 1) will happen on Sunday but once more during this century ; that will be in 1899. In the next century it will occur 14 times only, as follows: 1905, 1911, 1922, 1928, 1939, 1950, 1956, 1961, 1967, 1978, 1984, 1989 and 1995. The in? tervals are regular?6-5-6-11, 6-5-6-11 ?except the interval which includes the hundredth year that is not a cen? tury, when there is a break?as 1893, 1899, 1905, 1911?when three inter? vals of six years come together; after that plain sailing till 2001, when the old intervals will occur in regular or? der._ _ Cold Waves. Cold waves are those sudden chan? ges from high to very low temperature which constitute the most noteworthy feature of the United States. They are produced by the flow of masses of cold, dry air from the regions east of the Rocky Mountains in British America, toward the south and south? east. During the long winter nights of the Arctic region, dry, clear air accumulates in deep layers which is cooled by radiation to a temperature many degrees below zero; and then commences to flow towards any place where warm air is ascending, as it does in the low pressure areas or storms which constantly pass from west to east across the United States. A "low area" is produced by the air, somewhere becoming heated from unknown causes, above the surround? ing atmosphere. This excessively heated air ascends and air is drawn in below from all sides to replace it. That drawn -in on the south to east side is warm and moist; that drawn from the north to west side is dry and cold. The cold wave follows after the low area as it moves eastward. The severer and prolonged cold waves are associated with extensive areas of high pressure. Their rate of progress aver? ages 1,800 miles in twenty four hours. It is of great advantage to many business and agricultural interests to know in advance when the temperature will fall quickly and decidedly, he sides affecting the comfort and health of thousands of people.?C. F. von Ilerrman, Meteorologist, M. C. Exper? iment Station. ? The parson was complimenting the tailor on some mending which he had done for him. In the course of the conversation he, however, incau? tiously observed: "When I want a good coat, I go to Lond.on. They make them there." Before leaving the shop he inquired, "By the way, do you attend my church?" "No," re? plied the tailor. "When I want to hear a good sermon, 1 go up to Lon? don, They preach them there.'' HI Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The man who breaks a law of nature mocks God. ? Out of every 1,000 births in Eng? land 12 are twins. ? Oranges are grown in every con? tinent of the world. ? Prior to 1657, tea was sold in England for $50 a pound. ? Ninety-one per cent, of the far mers in Utah own their farms. ? Condors have been killed in Per with wings of 40 feet spread. ? Few persons have courage to appear as good as they really are. ? Many small animals eat their own weight in food in a day. ? In giving the devil his due you are liable to give yourself away. ? The only way to curb a young man nowadays is to bridal him. ? It is the reply rather than the statement that makes the quarrel. ? Blue paper of every conccivablo shade is the present fad in stationery. ? Those who complain without a cause may soon have cause to com? plain. ? It costs England $1600 a year in maintenance for every man in her navy. ? No man can worry about how he l looks and keep his bank account grow? ing. X ? No man will ever be celebrated for his piety whose religion is all in his head. ? The latest musical phenomenon in Paris is a monkey that plays the violin. ? The man who would have done so and so if he had been there never gets there. ? Nearly 10,000 men were enlisted in the United States army during the j past year. ? The man who is waiting to be happy will next year at this time be waiting still. ? The prices of medicines are fixed by law in Prussia, and a new price list is annually issued. * ? It is estimated that on an aver? age each penny in circulation changes hands eleven times a week. ? There are people who seem to lose all their religion the minute they can't have their own way. ?? It is estimated that last year 1,285,000,000 bananas were consumed in the United States alone. ? You will discover what a number of things you can do without when you have no money to get them. ? In many.parts of California quail pick up grain with the domestic chicken and roost in orchard trees. ^> ? Some man who is good offfigure < says that 10,000,000,000 tubers can biv raised from a single potato in 10 years. ? No Japanese is ever guilty of swearing, for the simple reason that oaths are unknown to the Japanese language. ? An instance of misdirected e*erc__ gy?the man who blows in, his soup to warm it and on his fingers to cool them. ? We find plenty of people who don't average well; they know.-too much for one man, and not quite enough for two. ? A New York hotel is said to use a machine that washes and dries 1,000 dishes an hour. Two "persons attend to it. > ? An advocate of electrical cooking claims that of every 100 tons of coal used in a cooking stove 96 tons go to waste. ? The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures. ? Josh Billings says, "When you strike ile, stop boring ; menny a man has bored clean thru and let all the ile run out at the bottom." ? A sensible woman will not fail to keep a bottle of Salvation Oil on hand for cuts and bruises. It is unrivaled. 25 cts. ? The Alaskans often have eating matches, at which great numbers of the villagers compete. The one who eats the most is consideged the biggest man?. ? Kettles for boiling purposes are now made with tubes running diagon? ally through them, on the principle of . the locomotive boiler. Water will boil quickly in them. ? Some one sent to Luther to know whether it was lawful to use warm water in baptism. Luther replied: "Tell the blockhead that water, warm or cold, is water." ? Every season brings a new crop of cough remedies, but they cannot compete with that grand, old Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. ? An Illinois man has been amus? ing himself lately by advertising an infallible cure for drunkenness for one dollar, and sends in reply this pre? scription : "Drink nothing but wa? ter." ? A treasury official says that a man had better have a live rattlesnake in his pocket than a counterfeit dollar, carried as a pocket-piece. It is con? trary to law, and the official cites sev? eral instances where much trouble has been caused. ? Russia still has many odd and curious marriage customs. One is for the bride and bridegroom to race rapidly down the aisle as soon as the bridal procession enters the church, because of the belief that whichever places a foot first on the cloth in front of the altar will be master in the household. ? At a church meeting in one of the suburbs of Chicago, the inquiry was made whether a certain lawyer of the congregation, whose financial affairs were somewhat involved, had "got religion." To which another lawyer present responded: "No, I think not, unless it's in his wife'g name,"