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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1894. VOLUME XXVIII.?NO. 40 LADIES! DON'T send your $1.50, $2.00 or $2.50 Money Order to New York or Boston for a pair of FIN? , OXFORD TIES when? 'GOSSETT & BROWN nvill not only be glad to fill the order, but even give you somethiog BETTER at the SAME PRICE. Send them from $1.00 to $2.75 in either Money Orders or Checks, and they will send you by Ex? press just what yon order, and if not satisfactory money will be refunded. The prices of our line of Oxford Ties range as follows : 50c., $1.00, $1.25, $1.75, $2.00, $2.50, and the prettiest line on top of the earth .at $2.75. Either send your money or come to see us. We are still giving Bargains on the 75c, $1.00; $1.25 and $1.50 Counters. ?" \ ? ? ... Men's Fine Shoes arriving everyday. * r A big lot of Bicycle Shoes just received. GOSSETT * BROWN. " AFTER THE RUSH IS OVER," YOTJ CAN FIKD ?> ' WILL. K. HUBBABD, JEWELER, ||iazt Door to Farmers and Merchants Bank. WITH A PINE LINE OP EVERYTHING IN THE JEWELRY LINE ! Promptness in Everything. ? Largest Stock, Lowest Prices. Finest Goods. ' Polite Attention to All. 8?. DONT FORGET that I can and will save you money on any? thing in my line-WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, 60?VENIR SPObNS of Clemson Agricultural College of my own get op ARE YOU HUNGRY ? v JUST NOW it is a difficult matter for the housekeeper to get up#a good ?qnare meal without a great deal of worry and trouble, but if they will visit my Store I can soon make them happy. I have everything needful for the Appetite, My stock of? ? Hour, Syrup, Grits, Rice? Cream Cheese, Potatoes, Canned Goods, And many other good things too numerous to mention, is always-complete. I also keep a fine stock of CONFECTIONERIES, TOBACOS, CI? GARS, Etc. t Give me a call.? No trouble to show goods and quote prices^ Yours to please, GL F. BIGBY. THE BIGGEST LOT OF READY MIXED PAINTS, OILS, COLORS, VARNISHES, STAINS, CLASS AND PUTTY," - Ever Brought to this City. GUARANTEED?your house repainted without extra charge if Faint does not give entire satisfaction. TODD & EVANS, Druggists, ANDERSON; S. C. 1845. UU., OF NEWARK, N. J. AMZI I) ODD, President. Assets: Market Values, $51,395,903.59. Ptvid to Policy Holders since Organization : $124,558,722.B6. Surplus : Massachusetts Standard, $3,661,250.01. Policies Absolutely Non-Forfeitable after Second Year. 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 are incontestable, and all restrictions as to residence and occupation are removed. Cash Loans are made to the extent of 50 per cent, of the reserve value, where valid assignments of the Policies can be made as collateral security. Losses paid immediately upon completion and approval of proofs. WEBB & MATTfSON, Manager? 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. 5 CHIQUOLA PLACE. 160-acro Farm to rent. ONE MOMENT, PLEASE ! We niay be able to Save you some Money, provided you need any kind of Groceries. IP you ever Szpeot 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 life-time. FLOUR! FLOUR!! FLOUR!!! Just received a big lot of Bine Ribband Flour?the best Flour on top of dirt for 14.00 t D m't forget the brand. Remember, too, that you can onlv get this Flour from JOHN A. AUSTIN A OO. It is the nearest approach to the $5.00 article to be bad. We have had a nice trade, indeed, for which we return onr sincere thanks to our friends; bat we want a larger trtdp, and to get it we will make special inducements in all kinds of Groceries. AUSTIN & CO. is the place. Call on us and we will give you a cordial welcome. PALACE GROCERY. J, A< AUSTIN & CO, 'Sqnlre Feweil GIres Some Good Ad? vice, Editors Intelligencer: The far? mers of this section gained five points last week in farming operation. We got in five full days work in the field, and had one day too wet, which we put in in replenishing our compost heap. It is a good idea to have a pen built of rails or pine poles, say about ten feet square and four, five or six feet high, according to the number of cattle and horses you have, and fill it at odd times with cleanings from your cow stalls and horse stables. By keep? ing your stalls well beded with oak leaves or pine straw, saw dust, or any dry stuff which will furnish a good dry bed for your stock, you will be sur? prised at the amount of good manure you can save in a year. It will dimin? ish your guano bill and replenish or increase your income to a considerable extent. Well, as I stated last week I got the sixteen acres of corn planted, but it looks now like it would be better for me if I had my corn back in the crib, but I will risk it. If it don't come up I can plant it over. That is one advantage in planting corn early?you have time to replant. My thermome? ter is down to 29 degrees above zero this (Monday) morning, and it pinches a little after being up to 80 degrees just a few days ago. I see some correspondent of the Peoples (?) Advocate, writing from Ceda* Grove, who signs Himself "Big U and little W gives it to this "ad? viser" pretty heavy and goes on to say that he is very sorry for me. I am not sorry for him, but I am truly sorry for his father, if he is living. See Proverbs, 17th chapter, 21st verse. I searched the city over the other day and inquired of several about the "blind tigers" Mr. Douthit and Gov. Tillman have been complaining so much about, but couldn't find them. I was told by some one that Mr. Leo had restored their sight, and that they could see alright now. So I reckon the Governor will let the city have its share of the profits of the bar room. I believe that any law that has to be continually propped up to keep it from toppling over may as well be erased from our statutes at once. ' If the dispensary law was as beneficial as is clamed by its most ardent sup? porters, why is it that so much is be? ing said and written in its defense ? Why not let it stand on its own mer? its ? I noticed something wrote about it in the Advocate a few days ago by a lady extolling thb whiskey spies very highly and comparing their sacrifices for the good of their country, as being equal to our Confederate soldiers, or something to that effect. I take that as an insult to all of the old veterans of the late war, whether they be dead or living, and "would respectfully refer this fair writer to the 17th chapter, 15th verse, of Proverbs. If we will wait patiently yet a little while I think it, will all work out I right, and I think we have been very patient so far. So let us continue, as the Irishman said, to be patient, and "if we can't be patient to be as pa? tient as we can." Whiskey is not necessary to "life, health or the pursuit of happiness," and can therefore be dispensed with altogether, and I can't see how it is that some people who call themselves Christians and belong to some Chris? tian Church, are trying so hard to up? hold a business that is, in the very nature of things, so much in opposi? tion to the Church and Christianity, ^fow, I have ho argument to give you against the use of intoxicating liquors outside of which you already have, and that which past experience has taught. Mr. Ashley?our Josh?has exercised a great deal more judgment and common sense in regard to this infamous (if I am correct in the word) law than Borne of our most devout (?) members in the Legislature, and a great many other foolish Acts passed by that body as to that matter. Let us reduce our cotton crop a lit? tle and increase the acreage in corn to make it up. Don't forget, brother farmers, to put a little compost or cot? ton seed in the drill with your corn. It will double the yield and make you feel happy next fall, when you can be inquiring around to know who wants to buy a little corn, instead of inquir? ing who has any to sell. Plant a lit? tle corn every week or two from now on until the first of June, or even to the 15th of June?it will make good corn. Corn planted on stubble land after wheat is cut, and manured a lit? tle is made with but very little work. It will not require but one working over until you get your earlier planted crop laid by, and then you can give it another ploughing or two at your leis? ure. I wish all the farmers in this County would try just a few acres that way. It will not exhaust your land if you will manure it just a little and plant a few peas with it. E. W. Lee was visiting his brother in the Shiloh section on Saturday night and Sunday. He reports every? thing quiet at Pelzer. The thermometer read? 20 degrees above zero this (Tuesday) morning. I wish the Yankees would keep these cold waves to themselves ; they never have a~ big snow and blizzard up North but what they divide and send us some of it down South, I reckon, as they think, to keep up the fraternal relations between the two sections. Well, I think they might as well di? vide some of the good things with us while they are so liberal with us? some of the pension, or gold, or Wall Street riches, or money in any shape ?it would be very acceptable now in these hard times. Squire Fewel. . Hurricane Creek, March 27, BILL ART'S LETTER. Arp Disoaasen Shark* and Glrlo. Atlanta Constitution. It was about 9 o'clook and the moon was sinning bright upon the dancing waters, when old man Braem, the old soldier who followed Colonel Frazer all through the war, and follows him still, was heard to cry for help ! help ! help ! away down at the long dook that leads out from the Colonel's home on the beach. And so they ran?ran down the bluff and on to the gangway, one and all, armed with pistols and guns and thresh poles. But youth and blood and beauty will tell and so Miss Phebe Frazer out ran the rest and with her pistol in hand, got to the channel just as the old man was about to give up the contest. He had hooked a large shark and struggled with him hard and long before he cried for help, but help came just in the nick of time, for Miss Phebe, who is a sure shot, fired from the dock as the malicious beast lifted himself from the water to make another plunge for freedom. The shot was fatal. It struck the fish in a vital part and he sank limp and languid in the foaming water just as the old man had fainted upon the floor. They seized the line from his grasp and pulled the shark into the shallows and tied him to the railing. He was dead and when all hands raised him to a perpendicular he looked to be about seven feet long and as big and white as a Christmas hog in killing time. His back was a dove color, but three fourths of his body was as white and velvety as a bridal glove. Even his big, yawning mouth was white inside and outside and his thousand teeth shone like pearls cnt into triangles. I said a thousand teeth, for besides the front row that line a curve of two and a half feet, there are four rows more that lie flat behind them and are only elevated when needed for crushing its animal food and making mince pies for dinner. These four rows lap on each other like layers of saw teeth and look about as venomous. And yet they say that this species of shark are not man-eaters and will shy away from a boy in the water. Miss Phebe is a mighty pretty ^ girl and deserves a medal, and so like a good newspaper man, I modestly ad? dressed her with pencil and pad in my hand and said: "Your name, please ?" "Phebe Frazer," she said with a look of surprise. ' "Your age, please," said I. She did not reply, but her look said, "It is none of your business." Instinct that is?feminine instinct. A girlish girl who is yet in her teens begins to be shy of her age because?because possibly she may not be wanted until her age becomes uncertain, and so to keep it an unknown quantity she be? gins early. I wonder if a woman ever gets so old that she is willing for her age to be known. I never heard my wife tell anybody how old she was, but ?1 know. Ten years before we were married I was twice as old as she was and now we have justpasBed our forty-fifth wedding day. What lad or lassie can tell our ages ? But sharks are not all the horrible things that navigate these waters. The other day some fishermen har? pooned a monster that carried the boat five miles out in the gulf and got away at last. It is a species of devil fish that will gulp down a keg of nails as quick as if it was a nigger baby? that's what the fishermen say. To? day I was shown the sting bone of a large stingaree that was killed yester? day. It was four inches long and was awful to look at and awfuller to feel of its poisonous barbs. When it strikes you the' bone breaks off and if you don't have it cut out instantly you will die of lockjaw in fifteen minutes by the clock?standard time. That is what a fisherman told me. I saw a young octopus yesterday with its hooks and grabbers and manacles and tentacles squirming around like a fish bait and its goggle eyes and jelly mouth. I wonder what all these hor? rible creatures are made for. Old Un? cle Sam says "the debil made 'em. The Lord make everything that is pufty and good and He look at it and say it was all very good, and so de Lord He was tired by Saturday night and went to sleep all day Sunday and shore enuf de debil cum along Sunday morning and make up a lot of snakes and spiders and scorpions and sharks and debil fish and stingareesand pisen oak and tread safts and so on and hides 'em and mixes 'em all up with the good things and dat's how dey come here?sho." But the world is very lovely any? how, and I'm thankful that I live. I have been three months in Florida, and found but three unpleasant days. I have not heard a mosquito, nor felt a flea in Clearwater, though my wife says I am a little deaf and unfeeling. The mocking birds sing all the day and the whipporwills all the night. My wife has been to the islands sev? eral times and never tires of picking up the beautiful shells that line the gulf side of the beach. But she has done more than this. She has been bathing in the surf. Hush 1 Don't mention it. Tell it not in Gath. Publish it not in Ajalon. There was nobody there but the girls and some other female women, but the scandal has leaked out. The maternal ances? tor has been buffeting with the foam? ing billows of the deep blue sea. She has ridden upon the waves and sang "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. I was away off on the heel of the is? land, and thought the tide was rising out of its time, but I understand it now. It was hard work to get her down here, but she is enjoying every day, and every night, and I'm afraid will not go home with me by the 1st of April. Nevertheless she still brags on her home in Cartersville. Well, this is indeed a lovely spot, and, if I was rich enough to have a winter home here I would have it. Why not ? It is certainly the place for health and comfort. It is a never tiring feast to the eye to look upon its beauties. It is a cheap place to live. It is Becluded from the temptations of city life, and the exactings of society. A railroad from Tampa to Clearwater has just been projected, and that will, of course, add to our population and bring us in close contact with a city and a grand hotel and a few thousand Cubans and Colonel Hall's circus. Our people can then glide over there in an hour and see the finery of that country and return before the sun goes down, but they will never be happier than they are now. But we want the railroad. We need it and it looks like we are going to have it. My daughter's house is nearly done, and will be ready for boarders by next winter, and my wife and I will make two of them. She has had built a vory pretty house of nine rooms and four fire plaoes and broad verandas on two sides for $1,200, whioh is much less than it could be built for in Car tersville. The work is well done, and the Florida pine is beautiful. Bill Asp. Manners Tor Children. Manners cost nothing. Every pa? rent, though the veriest pauper?can give them to every child. You may not be able to send your boy to Har? vard, nor your girl toadanoingschool. They will never upbraid you for that. But bring them through childhood Burrounded by and solely taught coarse, common, slovenly ways of speech and behavior, and no matter how devoted and unselfish you have otherwise tried to be, as surely as they live will they see the day when your memory is stung by the bitterest reproaches. Start them in the world with faultless manners, and though they have no other inheritance they are immeasurably far from poor in the world's moot cherished coin. Money does not rule everywhere. Does some busy, tired mother or care worn father cry out, "How shall I study all the intricacies of etiquette to teach them again?" I reply: There are a dozen broad rules that are suf? ficient to pass muster. The rest are very good to know, but not absolutely necessary. I set down some of them here, with this excuse, that I see them constantly violated by bright, gentle little people, who would be glad to "act pretty" if, poor, small souls! they had had the faintest stimulus of example, or even precept to guide them. Teach a boy never to wear his hat in the house, ^o.r while standing be? fore a woman; to allow a woman al? ways to preoede him, even (as latest advices say) in ascending stairs; to be quick to open doors for her, to carry her parcels, to wait upon her and never to sit while she is standing. .Teach boys and girls good table man? ners. Make them wait by their chairs until their elders are seated; eat noiselessly; not fidget nor talk with full mouths nor upon unappetizing subjects; nor leave knife and fork trailing off the plate, but always laifct" side by side, never crossed upon it, every second that they are not in use, not to soak and sop their food; not to bite off bits from a slice; to half fold the napkin when it is not to be used again; not to reach;: to push the chair against the table after the meal. Teach them always to knock at a closed door; not to call from one room to another; not to loll in their seats, nor if in a rocking chair to rock. With speech there are more .than a dozen "don'ts." They certainly are vulgar who use "havin" and "doin," and "run" for "ran" and "come" for "came;" who are not early taught to abstain from subjects and words?all proper enough in their place?that are not agreeable to the most sensitive ear. A child almost surely learns from the beginning to wash their hands of? ten; not to take bones in his fingers nor to drink from his saucer; to take off his hat when he meets a lady (but i t should include even little girls), and to use "done" and "seen" in their proper placed. I wish some el? ders were not content with this very slim outfit of polite baggage when as much more would be -as easily taught. Some day the ehild will wish so, too, says the writer in Good Housekeeping, from whom we quote. . He Knew his Strength. A Georgia fruit dealer had about his store a man of color who was noted for his honesty; at least, he had been for the six months he had been employed., When the first load of watermelons for the season was received, Zeke be? came worried and nervous, and just before closing for the night, he went to the proprietor. "I spec, boss, TSC got to resign," he said, twirling his hat in hand like a shamefaced boy. "Why, Zeke what's the matter?" was the surprised response, "I'm sat? isfied with you and I thought you was satisfied with me." "I wuz, boss, twel terday." "What's wrong now?" "I cain't stan' hit, boss," he said vaguely. - "Can't stand what?" "Cain't stan.', de grat tem'tation, bo?s." he went on rapidly. "De or ringes ain't nothin', ner de bernan ners, ner de peaches, ner plnms; ner grapes, ner noner dem. Dem's noth? in' to a man ob my princ'ples, boss, an' 'tain't no tem'tationferme not ter pick urn up when you ain't lookin'; but, boss, hit am dem yar water mil lion s wot's rasslin' wid dis chile, an' dey's gwin'ter fling 'im, sho. Dem's wot I cain't stan', boss, an' ef I hain't dun resigned my job, dis yer very night, dar's a commandment gwineter be busted wide open, an' I'se 'sponsible fer hit. Lemme go, boss," he plead? ed, and to save a good man. Zeke was invited to take his pick of the pile and carry it home with him. Lack of Interest I A Yankee with some gift for brag? ging as well as for getting out of a corner was talking with an English? man. "We can lick you right smart," he said. "We've allus done it, and we can do it again. At Lexington. Concord, Saratoga, Bunker Hill ana lots of those plaoes wc jest give you fits." "Yhs," said tho Englishman, "I do remember those places, but then there was the battle of White Plains, We rather beat you there." "Well, you did," admitted the Yankee, "I forgot all about that. I shouldn't "V thought of it if you hadn't 'a' spoke of it. But then, you sec, at that battle somehow the Amer? icans didn't seem to take any interest in the fight." Beware of Olntmimts far Catarrh that contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physi? cians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., contains no mer? cury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J.. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. J^Sold by Druggists, 75c. ? The first line of railroad in the United States was from Boston to Quincy, four miles, opened in 1827, The Crow as a Military Genius. There is muoh being said just now about "The Last Days of the Con? federacy," but how to outgeneral the : crows is what is uppermost with our !folks. You have only to watch and study the crows to decide that they are nat? ural military geniuses. It would be easy to convince an old soldier of the Virginia army that Longstreet failed in his duty as a general as it would be to convince Brown that the average crow was not possessed with military instincts. These crows are coming out from their winter quarters just now and forming into companies, regi? ments and brigades, and their maneu? vers in the fields show that they are under the control of some master hand in military tactics. Their changes in "base of operations," their knowledge of all the fields, their speedy movements and strict discip? line speaks well of their commanders as generals and of them as a military tribe. Never can your catch them off their guard. A company of crows were never surprised. No matter where they halt or for how short a period they expeet, pickets are always posted. From some eminence which overlooks all the ground these pickets stand ready to sound the alarm and make a surprise impossible. Their discipline is so perfect that it is next to impossible for an enemy to get upon them. There is no straggling, no "personal" indiscretion, but at the sound of the alarm* up they rise and away they go to pull corn some other day. Ever since I can remember it has been a fight between the farmer and the crow. Away back in the long ago a "scare-crow" was common in every farmer's field. Old suits of clothes were stuffed and put upon poles and some of them looked ugly enough to scare anything, but the crow has outgrown all that. Thev have progressed with all the rest of the world and laugh at such old fogy ism. Soaking seed corn in poison has been resorted to, but still their in? crease is apparent, .and to-day the 1 'problem'' how to keep the crows from pulling up our corn is as much a ques? tion as ever. ? There is but one way to combat the crows that me and Brown haver found with any degree of success. Find their nest and then you have them. I want every farmer to join in a fight against these pets this year, and so I give the process: When you have lo? cated the nest then build a "blind" close by it; when your blind?or sev? eral blinds?there should be one on every side of the tree?is ready, gath? er your neigbors with good guns and plenty of ammunition and place them in the "blinds." Have a cat ready with plenty of good string to tie with. Tie the cat securely to the limb of the tree close by the nest and await developments. An old crow will pretty soon visit the tree and find the cat. Such a fuss trill then begin as you never heard from a crow before. The alarm goes out and pretty soon from every direction crows begin to gather. The elements about the tree where the cat is bound will soon be black with crows and you can kill them to your heart's content?kill them all. The crow is a game bird, and will stay by their nest fighting the cat till the last one has fallen. They die without knowing from whence it comes.?Sarge Plunkett, in Atlanta Constitution. Wild BUI a Solid Man. The climate of Colorado is so ex? ceedingly dry in the greater portion of the State that ordinary objects such as potatoes, vegetables of various sorts, and even small animals, petrify when covered with ? sand. A consid? erable source of revenue to the guides and vendors in the Grand Canyon and other famous resorts is the sale of petrified wood and other material to tourists. Human bodies have been known to undergo the petrifying pro? cess in many instances. The body of Wild Bill, the famous desperado, is to-day solid stone. He was buried in a sandy country, near Telluride, and the Washington Post says that about four years ago his friends decided to put up a monument to his memory. They went out to his grave, which is in the open prairie, and one of the party, an old scout, was taken along to exactly locate where he was buried. The sand had shifted and swept in great heaps, as it does all through that country, ard the scout had a good deal of difficulty in absolutely locating the spot. Finally he struck a mound that he said had Wild Bill under it. Owing to the uncertainty of the situa? tion and hesitancy, the party decided to dig down and see whether he was right. They didn't want to put a monument over a sand heap unless it Lad Wild Bill under it. So they dug down. Presently the spade ran into a rock?a scarce thing in that country. They shoveled all around it and soon revealed the petrified image of Wild Bill, as perfect as the day he died, with not a trace of decomposition. Even the clothes and shoes were turned to stone. Some of the party wanted to take the body up for pur? poses of exhibition. But one of Bill's old pals, Shorty Jake, as he was called, remarked that the first man who tried to do so would find a bed in the hole that Bill filled. So the idea was abandoned. But if some adven? turous museum man wants the great? est drawing card on the earth he can fiud it under Wild Bill's tombstone. | Tortnred by Bobbers. Parkeburq, W. Va., March 26.? About midnight robbers entered the house of Basil D. Hall, a wealthy far? mer at Great Bend, and demanded his money. Hall recently sold a farm and a few days since received $5,000 in cash, which he kept concealed about the house. The thieves knew this and they threatened to kill Hall if he did not deliver the money to them. Hall said he had sent the money to the Bavcnswood Bank. Then they tied him to a chair with ropes and tortured him by holding a burning lamp under the palms of his hands, burning them to a crisp. Hall still refused to give up his money, when the robbers caught him by the head and forced it down over the burning lamp and burned one car to a crisp, when Hall consented to turn over the money. Hall handed over $5,000, a gold watch and other valuables. Hall says he can recognize the men, who, it is believed.will be arrested soon. ? In these days of disappointments it is a gratification to know that one can btfy a bottle of Salvation Oil for 25 cents. ? Some people claim to be trusting God to save their souls whe appear to' be afraid to trust Him with very much of their money, What la Chemistry. Everybody who thinks must be im? pressed by the great variety of things found on this earth, and the question, What does the earth consist of ? must often suggest itself. Among the im? portant results reached in stdying the things around us is this, that notwith? standing their great variety they are made of simple things and these in turn of still simpler?that there are in fact only about seventy distinct kinds of matter, and that all the complex things around us are made up of these seventy elements. The solid crust of the earth, as far as it has been possible to investigate it, all living things, both animals and plants, the air ana water, consist essentially of twelve elements. The elements do not, as a rule, occur as elements. They are generally found in combination with one another. Oxygen and nitrogen are, to be sure, found in the air as elements, uncombined; but such fa? miliar substances as water, salt, and quartz consist of elements in combina? tion. Thus water consists of hydro? gen and oxygen. Hydrogen, the ele? ment, is a colorless, tasteless, inodor? ous, and very light gas that burns readily. Oxygen, the element, is also a colorless, tasteless, inodorous gas. It does not burn, but burning things burn with much increased brilliancy in it. When hydrogen and oxygen are mixed together in a vessel under ordinary conditions, no action takes place. They mix thoroughly, forming a mixture that is also a colorless, tasteless, inodorous gas. If a spark is applied to this mixture, a violent explosion occurs, and this is the sig? nal of a great change. The two gases have entered into chemical combina? tion ; they are no longer the gases hydrogen and oxygen ; they have en? tered Into combination and now form the liquid water, a substance with properties entirely different from those possessed by the constituents. Again, chlorine, the element, is a grenish-yellow gas that acts violently upon other things and causes changes in them. Inhaled even in small quan? tity it gives rise to distressing symp? toms, and in larger quantity it causes death. Its odor is extremely disagree? able. Sodium, the element, in an active substance, that has the power to decompose water and set hydrogen free. When chlorine gas is brought together with sodium, the two com? bine chemically and form the well known compound salt, or, as the chemist calls it. sodium chloride. From this, the element chlorine and sodium can be obtained by the chem? ist. These two examples serve to show what is meant by chemical com? bination and by a chemical compound-. Chemical compounds are generally found mixed with other compounds. This is shown, for example, in many of the varieties of rocks, as granite, which consists of three different chem? ical compounds. It is shown much more strikingly in living things, all of which are made up of a large number of chemical compounds, mixed, to be sure, not in a haphazard way, but beautifully adjusted and working together in wonderful harmony. Just as elements combine chemically to form compounds, so elements act upon compounds and cause changes in their composition. Thus, oxygen is constantly acting upon other things, sometimes slowly, but, in the case of fire, rapidly and with tremendous energy. It is commonly said that fire destroys things. In fact, it changes their composition, and the principal products of the change are gases. This kind of chemical change is the most familiar that is brought about by the action of an element upon com? pounds. Compounds, too, act upon compounds, and cause an infinite number of changes in composition. Thus the food we partake of consists of chemical compounds. In the body these compounds find others and they act upon one another so as to repair the wasted tissues and cause growth. The gas known as carbonic acid, that is contained in the air, acts upon the compounds in the leaves of plants and causes changes that are absolutely essential to the life and growth of the plant. Look, then, in any direction and you will see evidence of changes in composition that are constantly taking place, and that are essential to the existence of the world as it is. %These changes in composition and the com? pounds themselves that are involved in the changes form the subject of chemistry. In the light of what has been said it is clear that chemistry must be a very broad science. Re? membering that chemical action is the cause of the formation of chemical compounds, that without chemical action the compounds would cease to exist and would be resolved into their elements, it is impressive to think what would take place if chemical action should cease. Most of the things familiar to us could not exist. The solid portions of the earth would to a large extent be replaced by the element silicon, something like char? coal, and by oxygen and a few metals such as sodium, potassium, and alumi? num. Water would be resolved into the two gases hydrogen and oxygen. All living things would fall to pieces, and in their place we should have the gases hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, and the solid element carbon, most familiar to us in the form of charcoal. Life would, therefore, be impossible. ?Prof. Ira Bernsen, in the Chautau quan. Sam Jones on log-alls. Nevada, Mo., March 24.?The Rev. Sam Jones arrived in Nevada to? r-ay to deliver a lecture at Moore's Opera House to-night. He was asked if the world was growing better or worse, and replied: "The world is growing better. It is true we are living in a materialistic age?every fellow working for what is in sight?but it is a fact, nevertheless, that saloons and gambling-houses ana bawdy-houses are getting down lower in the estimation of thinking people; hence, morality is going up. I reckon there arc more good men than there are bad ones ; the good ones are get? ting better and the bad worse." "Did you convert John J. Ingalls at your Nashville meeting ?" "I had a very successful meeting at Nashville," replied the reverend Sam, "and John J. Ingalls was one of my penitents. He came up and gave mo his hand, but you can't convert an old politician in one night," which caused laughter in the hotel corridor. Mr. Juups goes from here to Mem? phis, Tenn. Rudy's Pile Suppository is guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, or money refunded. 50 cents per box. Send stamp for circular and Free Sam? ple to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa. For Sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, drug? gists Anderson, S, 0, The Amertc&n Hen Defended. The American hen is now, paradox? ically speaking, "cock of the walk." She has gallantly broken the interna? tional record of gallinaceous fecun? dity. Eggs were never before so plentiful. The receipts in this city are much larger than ever before. During the last six days 118,702 cases, each con? taining from thirty to thirty-six dozen eggs, have been received. Of these 25,182 cases were received on Monday, 26,745 on Tuesday, 23,988 on Wednes? day, and 28,041 yesterday. Tuesday was "red-letter" day in the egg trade, the receipts being the largest ever re? corded in a singlo day in this city. The largest daily receipts hitherto re? corded were on March 28 and 29 last year, when 49,777 cases were received, against 51,927 last Monday and Tues? day, the excess being 2,150 cases. From January 1, 1894, to yesterday, inclusive, 504,200 cases were received against only 353,281 during the cor? responding period of last year, being an increase of 150,919 cases in less than three months. The total re? ceipts during last year were 2,225,903 cases, or over 900,000,000 eggs. The present year is expected to be the "banner" year, bo far as receipts in this line are concerned, and it is esti? mated that they will considerably ex? ceed 2,500,000 cases, containing more than one thousand million eggs. Eggs are now the cheapest food pro? duct in the market. Their wholesale price yesterday was only 12 cents a dozen, and several sales.were made yesterday for 11J cents for next week's delivery ^ seller's option. On the corresponding date of last year the price was 17 cents, and four weeks earlier it was 40 cents a dozen. The stocks of ice house eggs and lined and pickled eggs have been completely ex? hausted. So many of those eggs had been eaten up to a few days ago that "sensitive palates palled," but now eager appetites may have toast or ham. J The egg trade last year did not bring rewards, dealers having stored im? mense stocks costing from 14 cents a dozen upward, and being compelled to sell them, largely to peddlers, at such ruinously low prices that many hun I dreds of thousands of dollars were lost. That unfortunate experience has induced dealers this year to re? frain from storing their eggs as long as ?possible, and this fact, with the unprccedentedly extensive receipts, has a strong tendency still.further to depress prices. * I The American hen has at last achieved for herself an honored place I in the history of the hens of all na? tions when it shall come to be written ; for the impartial historian will surely see to it that, like AbouBen Adhem's name, hers shall lead all the rest. She has well earned the distinction she now enjoys, and all gallinaceans should be proud of the prominence into which she has brought their re? spected family. She is both alert and active. She scarcely waits until the "early village cock twice doth saluta? tion to the morn," ere she starts out, or rather in. with cheerful alacrity for I her day's labor, and, when she cackles forth a joyous roundelay, announcing its accomplishment, he, proud on his own dunghill," with more pompous strut and more exultant crow, eggs I her on to essay still greater achieve? ments. The American hen, however, has one source of regret from which she may never be relieved. In laying eggs, as far as is known up to date, she has not yet been able, as 'twere, to pro? duce twins or triplets, but there is no telling what the hen of the future may with persistent industry be able to ac? complish under more propritious cir? cumstances. Perhaps she ought tobe satisfied with herself as it is, for bi II I ions of grateful people are deeply in? debted to a single hen, primarily, and a single egg. secondarily, for having made possible the discovery of this I vast continent. The best eggs in this market are re? ceived, mainly, from Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. They are known in the trade as Western eggs, and their highest grades always com mand the highest prices, except those of a limited supply of choice Leghorn I eggs from this State, which are now selling at from 18 to 20 cents a dozen. A large supply of Southern eggs is re? ceived, mainly from Virginia, Tennes? see and North Carolina. They are smaller, less nutritious than Western eggs, and are always from i to 1 cent a dozen less in price than the latter. The supply of Long Island eggs is I comparatively insignificant, and, in fact, so limited that those eggs exist I rather in fiction than in fact, nearly all of the so-called "Long Island eggs" I being simply choice grades of Western j eggs. There is a duty of 5 cents a I dozen on Canadian eggs, and very few are received here. The tariff "tink? ers" are ungratefully trying to have the duty removed, which would be detrimental to the American hen, whose "industry," though not an "in? fant" one, ought nevertheless to be I protected against the invasion of her j "Canuck" competitor over the border, I and she herself heartily enoouraged to put forth greater efforts for the home market. The American hen is an honor to the I nation, and the nation ought surely to "do her reverence." Duck and goose eggs are scarce and dear, the former selling at from I thirty-one to thirty-three cents a dozen, and the latter at from seventy five to eighty cents. The favorite duck eggs come from Maryland, and the goose eggs are received mainly from the West. Ducks are deemed unprofitable property. They are rav? enous eaters, and lay during only about two months in each year, while the hen is less of a gourmand and is almost a perennial producer of her "meaty" and toothsome spheroids. The duck may excel the hen in aquatic accomplishment, but when it comes "to tackle'r her on her own "layout" it speedily becomes a very "lame" duck. The American hen may truth? fully say and with pardonable pride : "Ducks may come and ducki may go, but I lay on forever."?New York Tribune. Backlens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refund? ed. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. Hall's oCatarrh Cure for sale by Wilhite & Wilhite. ? In the next Warthe German army will enter the field with over a million and a quarter of infantry, over 50,000 cavalry, and more than 2.000 field All Sorts of Paragraphs. ?-Happy is the man who has faith to leave all with God. He is at peace. ? Wild tobacco, said to be equal to the real Havana, has been found grow iug in Texas. ? The religion of Christ docs every? thing for man that he cannot do for himself. ? It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues than to cor? rect ourselves of a single fault. ? Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup takes the lead of all cough preparations on our shelves. Carpenter & Palmeter,. Jamestown, N. Y. ? "In |he matter of family," sighed the poor man, who had married a j widow with nine children, "I seem to x have bitten off more than I can shoe." ? A little girl who was looking at a peacock for the first time grew enthttr:" siastic. "Oh, mamma," she said, "hasn't it got a beautiful bustle 1" ? Every single action of our life . carries in its train either a reward or a punishment, however little disposed we are to admit that such is the case. ? ? It.takes seven days after death, according to Siamese belief, for the, soul to reach heaven, and prayers are kept up during that period to help it on its way. ? The man who gets m id at what the newspapers say about him should return thanks three times a day for what the newspapers know about him I and don't say. J ? Observations recently made un? der the auspices of the Australian fs?Ternment, prove that there are pffiaces in the Mediterranean sea that are over three miles deep. ? Ministers may not be allowed to carry their politics into the pulpit, but they are surely called upon to teach their people to carry religion into their politics. j ? "Tommy," said his teacher, on the first day of school, "have ju for? gotten all you know ?" "Well," re? plied Tommy, doubtfully, "I don't^j exactly know all I have forgotten.". '-'?'> J ? Father?"You don't f?eem to be I lieve in the adage 'Business before J pleasure.' " Son?"Of course I don't." Father?"You ought to ; it's an ex I cellent one." Son?"Aw, pop, come I off. Doesn't a fellow always court a girl a long time before he goes to see her father ?" I ?We may not be able to win. friends or to hold them, b?t every one I of us ought to be able to be a friend I unfailingly. Friendship consists in . j loving rather than being loved, and I the measure of our worth in friend* j ship is in our faithfulness as friends. I ? A young doctor said to a girl, j "Do you know, dear. I have a heart" affection for you V "Have you had it lung ?" she coyly inquired. "Oh, j yes, I feel I will liver troubled lifeI without you," he responded. "Then I you had better asthma," she mur I mured. I ? Several wise men are discussing the question of "greater freedom for the girls." As they do pretty much , I as they please now and make the merH do what they want besides, what does this greater freedom movement mean ? Are the ladies going to wear wider sleeves. J ? "But, papa," wailed^ the young woman, "you can have no idea how he loves me. He is willing to die for me this very minute." "Well," said the., old man, scratching his head, thought? fully. "I don't know as I have any objection to that. I was afraid he wanted to marry you," ? A maiden lady, suspecting that I a female servant was regaling her beau upon the cold mutton in the larder, called Betty, and inquired whether she did not near some one speaking with her down stairs. "Oh, no't~ ma'am," replied the girl. "It was ' only me singing a psalm." "You'.' may amuse yourself, Betty," replied the maiden, with psalms, but lets have fno'himsV' I ? A lecturer resently asked dra? matically : "Can any one in this room tell me of a perfect man ? There was silence for a moment. "Has any J one," he continued, "heard of a per? fect woman?" Then a patient little woman in a black dress rose from a j back seat and answered : "There was one?I've often heard of her, but she is dead now. She was my husband's first wife." j ?A boy named James Hawkins, living near Casey, Illinois, was in? duced by a eang of rowdies to drink a. large quantity of alcohol. They thought it would be fun to see him drunk. Shortly after the boy -died I from the effects, and the man who gave him the alcohol was arrested and placed under a bond of $500 for man? slaughter. [ ? At the New York Woman's Hos-; pital they say that boys weigh from eight to 20 ounces more than girls at birth. The weight of the average ba? by boy is seven pounds, while that of the wee sweet sister is only six and a quarter pounds. Boys are more deli? cate, harder to raise and "crosser" than the girl babies, who only want regular meals and prompt attention to grow stroug, beautiful, lovable and sunny hearted. ? Do not be discouraged at the duties that seem so great before yon. They may seem great a little way off, but somehow they always diminish or vanish altogether as we come near them. Some one has said duties and difficulties arc like the nightmare?as soon as you stir, they vanish. Learn to look on the bright side, and you will be surprised at the number of things that will turn up to help you. ? The greatest natural wonder of Hawaii, if not in the entire world, is Lake Dana, or Dana Lake, a body of molten lava 10 miles in circumference. To the sightseer the surface of this wonderful lake appears as if it were a sea of red hot water dashing against the cliffs which surround it on all sides to a height averaging 100 feet. J. J. Williams of Honolulu, who probably knows more about the vol? canic condition of the island than any other living man, says that "this rushing, restless, heaving lake of boiling fire never remain* silent or calm for a single instant." ? Some years ago an old deacon in Pennsylvania was very self-willed, and on two or three occasions made endless trouble in church. After some years they got started again, but another row soon broke out. At last the church clerk got up and said: "Breth? ren and sisters, I wish that Deacon Jones was in hell." The new pastor and the members were horrified,, and the pastor said: "Brother Smith, such a remark is unkind and unchristian.: Why do you use such expressions about a brother ?" "Well, pastor " ho replied, "I calculate if Deacon Jones was in hell about six months, he would1 bust it op."