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Send them from $1.00 to $2.75 in either Money Orders or Checks, and they will send you by Ex? press just what you 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. A big lot of Bicycle Shoes just received. ISOSSETT * BROWN II IF YOU BELIEVE MONE^iSAVED IS MONEY MADE It wfiU pay yon to examine the BARGAINS in Coatsv and Vests! TAYLQR & CRAYTON Are^pfiering this week! ? ??A-?- , I I I II " AFTER THE RUSH IS OVER," YOU CAN FIND WILL. fe. HUBBARD, JEWELER, Next Door to Farmers and Merchants Bank, WITH A FINE LINE OF EVERYTHING IN THE JEWELRY LINE! S\ Promptnessto Everything. Largest Stock, Y Lowest Prices. Finest Goods. ) Polite Attention to All. 8@i DONT. FORGET that I can and will save you money on any ^duftomy lint?WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, SOUVENIR SPOONS of Clomson Agricultural College of my own get up. THE BIGGEST LOT OF READY MIXED PAINTS, OILS, COLORS, VARNISHES, STAINS, CLASS AND PUTTY, Ever Brought to this City. GUARANTEED?yonr house repainted without extra charge if Faint does not give entire satisfaction. TODD & EVANS, Druggists, ANDERSON, S. C. 1845. . 1893. ? THE OF NEWARK, N. J. AMZI POPP, President. 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 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 & MATTISON, Managers far South Carolina, Anderson, S. C. SEED BARLEY AND RYE, PLOUB, HAMS LARD, And a Fancy Line of Canned Goods, For sale at Low Frices hy D. S. MAXWELL & SON, NO, 5 CHIQUOLA PLACE. -sere Farm to rent, BILL ABP'S LETTER. Bill Goes Fishing In Florida. Atlanta Constitution. My head is swimming now?every? thing is swimming. We have been on the gulf to-day, anchored far out on the coral reefs, and while we fished the boat was gently heaving and rook? ing on the restless wavesj and now that we are dt home the same motion has followed us. The room Is swing? ing like a pendulum. Sandford Bell, the old veteran conductor on the state road, told me that he could tell where the train was in the darkest night by the swing of the cars around the curves, and just so the old sailors and fishermen can tell how deep the Water is by the breathing of the billows. Major Shaw is an old sailor. He lives down the bay a few miles and came up this morning in his own boat to take the family to the grouper bank. My wife was afraid to venture, but the girls and I and Joe took passage on the fast little craft, and with a good wind we crossed the" harbor and through the pass and were soon away out a couple of miles into the dark green waters of the gulf. The old ma? jor knows the haunts of all the fish? the tarpons and grunts and groupers and red snappers and sharks. He has passed his three score years and ten, but is as lively and cheerful as a school boy. The girls sang some of their seafaring songs as we scudded along and the major joined in the chorus and led the heavy bass like a true chorister. He took his bearings from objects on the shore and when the two lines met he gave Joe his or? ders to let down sail and cast anchor. "We are now in the center of the grouper bank," he said, "and if the groupers are not at home they ought to be." "Now, if you girls get seasick you must brave it off. Feed the fishes but don't stop fishing. I had some Bos? ton ladies out 'here last week and one of them fed th 2 fishes every ten min? utes, but she never stopped fishing and caught more grouper than any of us." ^'What did she feed them with ?" said I very innocently. They all laughed at me as he replied: "I can' tell you, for she did not take breakfast at my house.'' He had soon rigged up six lines of ten fathoms and each mounted with a large hook and a small hook and double leaded with minnie balls. We cast out into six fathoms water and then began the sport. There was no time to say "have you got a bite ?" no watching a cork, no pole to swing round, no limbs overhead, no nothing but to let the lead drop and the cord slip through your hand and then a vigorous twinge at the bait and a pull upwards as the grunt or the grouper struggled against his sudden elevation. In three hours' time wo caught forty-five groupers and 250 grunts. The first bait vras live meat from small conchs, but as soon as we caught fish v,e cut them into bait, using the heads on the large hooks. The groupers weigh from two to twenty pounds and are without scales. They are baked or roasted like chickens and taste like channel cats. The grunts are a species of large bream, averaging about a pound apiece. They are known as the sai? lor's joy, and are the best pan fish. When taken from the hook they grunt, making a croaking noise just like little pigs when sucking. We were out about five hours, and oar catch half filled a dry goods box that was three feet square. I never had such fishing before. One of the girls caught two large groupers and seventy-one grunts. Another caught seven groupers, but her grunts were not counted. Joe sometimes brought up two at a time?one on each hook. We fished until the cords wore tender hands to the quick and we were actu? ally tired of catching fish. I thought about Murphy and Theodore Smith, and wished that they had been there. Poor Murphy, who, when the dogwood is in bloom, goes down to the river and watches his cork all the day long and comes home swinging two or three cats and an eel and a redhorse and is happy. We were not after tarpon this time, but we saw a school of them, with their silvery sides shining to the sun as they sported on top of the water. The old major caught a balloon fish. It was about eighteen inches long, and had as an attachment a balloon fila? ment on his breast, and this was ex? panded or contracted with its breath. It was pure white and velvety, with beautiful lace points in regular rows all over it and when distended would hold a hatful of air. The major said he had been fishing here for eight years and had never seen one before. Even Joe, who had seen everything, had never seen one. Its mouth was small and full of sharp teeth, audit was puckered as if getting ready to whistle. And Joe speared a stingray, a venomous creature with a kind of whalebone tail about three feet long and a sting at the base?a sting that looks like large thorn from a black lo? cust tree, but it is barbed instead of smooth. The barbs of the grain or or spear sank into his body and off he went for life and liberty, carrying the boat with him, until he was exhausted. The girls brought home its tail and sang as trophies, but left the horrible creature in the sea. What did we do with the fish we caught ? Why the old major walked up town after we landed and told the people there was a box of fish down there and they could go down and help themselves. Our girls are supplying our table with fish now?fresh fish that cost nothing but sport. In fact, ?it is sport all the time, for it is bath? ing or fishing or shelling or crabbing nearly every day in the week. They went out crabbing the other day when the tide was unusually low and had uncovered the sand banks. In the skim of the water were numerous holes from four to six inches in diameter aad in every hole was a crab. An ex? pert runs his hand down and seizing a claw pulls with a strong, quick jerk and lets go just as quick, as soon as he is out. The creature when in the hole is folded up and helpless, but as soon as he is out he can strike a terri? ble blow with his claws?a blow that will go through a man's hand and never let go until it thunders. They brought home some that measured eighteen inches from tip to tip of their savage fingers. Their flesh is fine eating, they 3ay, but somehow I don't like to eat anything that is ugly ?except, perhaps, a hog. Mrs. Auns paugh gave us a treat on Friday. She chartered a boat and took thirteen of us down to the Indian pass and gave us a splendid pic nie there among the palmettos and cactus that adorn the island. Old Dad whetted his appetite on the raw coon oysters that abounded there and he said they were good. The women folks all bathed in the surf while we men hunted for rare and beautiful shells. At the dinner hour we gathered at the festive cloth that was spread upon the sandy beach and such a generous feast could not be found outside of Florida. In fact, the winter fare in Florida excels that of anywhere else. I have been here since tlie^tStir of December and we have riot been without fresh grown vegetables since I came. For three months we have had strawberries nearly every day for dinner, and still they come. We had strawberries on that pic nie and ice water and three story pies and cake all mixed up, and chicken and eggs and etceteras too te? dious to mention. We spent a happy day and when our boat touched the wharf we were told to keep our seat for a few minutes. Mr. Anglin, of Atlanta, was one of our party and he gdt out his kodac and stood on the wharf and took us alive, boat and all and has made a fine picture of the thirteen. And so we keep on staying in Clearwater for somebody invites us to a sail or a ride or a frolic of some sort almost every day. We all stay well and good digestion waits on ap? petite. Such delightful breezes don t blow everywhere every day in the year. Such uniform good health was never enjoyed. Mrs. Aunspaugh remarked yesterday that there had been but two deaths in Clearwater since she came here three years ago. There has not been one since I came, four months ago. The old Major Shaw said he came here eight years ago to die easy of consumption, but soon got well and is now strong and active. And so al? most everybody has a similar story to tell. The wonder is that every inva? lid who can get here docs not come. Bill Abp. A Revolutionary Hc.-oine. One of the most heroic actions in the history of the Revolutionary times was that of Marion Gibbs, a thirteen year-old girl, who lived on a planta? tion near Charleston, in the State of South Carolina. Marion's father had been a brave soldier in the Continen? tal army, and been horribly wounded by a cannon ball, which left him a cripple for life. Shortly after the invasion of Char? leston, the British soldiers under Colonel Tarleton ravaged the sur? rounding country, stealing the horses of the planters, and setting fire to their barns and homes. One morning while Marion was busily employed with her spinning wheel, one of the plantation slaves made his appearance in the room where the young house? keeper was at work, and in great ex? citement begged his mistress to hurry to the swamp as the English soldiers were ncaring the house, adding that they had already fired some of the buildings and shot several of the ne? groes who attempted to escape. Hastily summoning the servants, Marion had her father and the chil? dren conveyed to a hiding place in the swamp but a short distance away, and directed the negro nurse to get the baby, and join them while she should get together a few needed articles. As soon as the red coats of the soldiers were observed approaching through the orchard, Marion slipped out of the rear door and sped away to the retreat provided for this emergency. Upon joining the frightened group our little heroine discovered that the nurse and the baby had not been Been by any one in the party. Without ut? tering a word she darted back along the intricate path that led through the lonely morass, fear and distress adding wings to her feet. Upon emerging from the gloomy forest she beheld the house in flames, and sur? rounded by soldiers, while, flying to? wards, her and wringing her hands in agony came Aunt Dinah, who sobbed out: "Honey, honey ! is you not got de baby ? Aunt Dinah jes stop one min? ute ter go tcr de wash-house for de baby's clothes an' when she go back de house all on fire 1 Oh ! tell me, honey is you got de baby ?" The next moment a little form flashed between the ranks of the dra? goons, and disappeared within the structure, from which greedy tongues of flames were spitefully thrust out of doors and windows, accompanied by rolling volumes"of black smoke. Be? fore the startled soldiers had finished their cries of consternation, Marion reappeared, bearing in her burnt, brave little arms a white bundle, from which a child's frightened cry was heard as the heroic girl once more rushed away in the direction of the swamp. Instead of impeding her flight, the English soldiers swung their hats and cheered her until the dark forest hid her from their view.? Harpers Young People. . A Farmer's Experiment. A correspondent of a North Caro? lina paper gives the following account of his experiment in planting corn : I want to give the farmers the benefit of a little experiment that I made with guano last spring on corn. The land was checked four feet one way three and one-half the other. I used one sack putting it in the check on every other row till it gave out. I had 48 rows with guano by the side of 48 rows without. In two weeks after the corn came up the fertilized rows began to show, and by the first of June they were a foot higher than the one by their side. I gathered two rows and weighed one row of each. The row with no guano weighed 61J pounds; the one with 86} pounds, a gain of 25 pounds to the row, and in 47 rows I made 1,224 pounds or 17* bush? els of corn more by using one sack of guano. Counting the guano at $2.60 and the corn at 50 cents, I have a clear profit of $6.25. I also tried the difference between two stalks in a hill and one. The rows without guano side by side one stalk weighed 61J pounds and the other with two to the hill weighed 73* pounds. With guano the single row weighed 86* with two stalks 94} pounds. You will see that the rows with two stalks weighed a few pounds the most, but in the single rows I had just half the number of ears and the corn was worth more than the corn in the double rows. It pays to thin well. 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 perbox. For sale by Hill Bros. Hall's Catarrh Cure for sale by Wilhite & Wilhite. ? Assuming the working age to be from twenty to sixty years, and count? ing only male workers, four hundred and forty persons in this country live on the labor of every one hundred workers. BOUSIRG REPUBLICANS. Brayton Calls on Members of His Party to Register. Columbia, S. C., April 18?The following is a portion of a rather sen? sational circular which has appeared here signed by Ellery M. Brayton, a member of the national republican committee: "Republicans, hasten to register. Only three registration days remain. It is the duty of every Republican who is not registered or who has lost his certificate, or changed his resi? dence to go to the supervisor at the County Court House, on the first Monday in May, June or July and ob? tain his certificate. The approaching election will be one of vast importance and great opportunity to Republicans. The scheme to set aside the State con? stitution and make a new one should instantly arouse voters. It is fraught with danger and involves momentous changes among which probably are the annulling of the two per cent, tax for schools, fixing an educational and property qualification for elective franchise, establishing the chain gang and whipping post and other obnox? ious provisions. The new constitu? tion will not be submitted to the peo? ple for ratification, so that the only chance to defeat the scheme will be at the next election. The hostility and disintegration among Democrats af? fords a chance for Republicans to ex? ercise their political rights. Do not throw the opportunity away. If re? miss or recreant, it may be the last chance many will have to vote in South Carolina. The whole country is sick of Democratic rule and inca? pacity. A revolt against the deplora? ble condition into which it has plung? ed the country and the distress and poverty brought upon the people is now sweeping over the land. The strongholds of democracy in the North have been overthrown and the South is doomed to break up. The principles and policy of the Republi? can party are being vindicated. In this State the way is open to elect several Republican Congressmen and defeat Democratic legislation as well as to preserve constitutional rights from destruction." Warning From Brayton. It appears that the Republicans propose to complicate the already complicated situation in this State by making an attempt to develop their voting strength. How much that strength is nobody knows. There has not been a serious contest at a general election in this State since 1878?six? teen years ago. Great numbers of colored voters are disfranchised, but great numbeis of white voters are in the same condition. It is impossible to know which race could show the largest number of legal registration certificates if they were called for. The subject is not understood as it should be in the upper counties.of South Carolina. North of Columbia the colored vote may amount to little, but south of that city it may be enor? mous. Down in the rice field districts and on the Sea Islands where at some precincts negroes poll a hundred to one a tremendous vote may be rolled up. With a Republican Congress at least three districts would be in danger and a determined effort in Williamsburg. Georgetown, Beaufort, Colleton ana even Orangeburg and Sumter might result in Republican delegations to the Legislature. We have been warning the "domi? nant element" against this very dan? ger. It is time we ?white people were learning some sense. The solid black vote in the lower counties backed and sustained by disaffected whites may gives us very serious trouble to over? come up here. The policy of perse? cuting men because they are not in sympathy with Governor Tillman is a bad and dangerous one. The time may come when we will need all of them to help us pull through. It is a poor plan to give such men the idea that they can have no hope of politi? cal advancement or recognition inside their own party. Human nature is weak and passion, greed and ambition are strong. Where one man will stand by his party on principle regardless of personal ambitious and factional ani? mosities, ten may stand back when they are needed or give their influence and active aid to having the black vote cast and counted. We have been drifting along fight? ing and persecuting each other and abusing and weakening the Democratic party and administration forgetful of the facts that there is a black vote, that with a little white backing it can be made a very serious menace and that with one more Republican Con? gress and President the South will re? ceive attention which it will not like and be put under a force bill. A united white population can defy even such an election bill as was narrowly escaped in the last Republican Con? gress, but with divided whites such a bill would be cruelly effective. The "dominant element" is in full control and is running things to suit itself. It will be wise to heed the warning given by Brayton's circular and to remember that the colored voter is not yet entirely out of poli? tics.? Greenville Neics. Rare Presence of Mind. "I knew a sea captain, who died some years ago, who displayed great presence of mind at a most critical time," said Henry S. Roberts, of Bos? ton. "His ship had caught fire and the passengers and crew were com? pelled to take to the boats in a hurry. The captain remained perfectly cool throughout all the confusion and fright of the embarkation, and at last every one but himself was got safely into the boats. By the time he was ready to follow the passengers were wild with fear and excitement. In? stead of hurrying down the ladder the captain called out to the sailors to hold on a minute, and taking a cigar from his pocket, coolly bit the end off and lighted it with a pice of the burning rigging. Then he descended with great deliberation and gave the order to shove off. 'How could you stop to light a cigar at such a mo? ment ?' he was afterwards asked by one of tho passengers. 'Because,' he answered, 'I saw that if I did not do something to divert your minds there would be a panic and upset the boats. The lighting of a cigar took but a mo? ment and attracted the attention of everybody ; you all forgot yourselves in thinking about my curious behavior and we got safely away.1 "?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 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 hy Wilhite ? ^Yilhite, drug? gists Anderson, S, C, ? PHANTOM WORLD. It Follows in tho Track of the Earth Tear Arter Tcrfr. The mist of sleep was slowly drift? ing from the valley of consciousness, and I had passed into that strange land which lies between walking and sleeping, that half-consciousness which many of us know so well, when a peculiar fancy?I could hardly call it a dream?passed before my mind's eye. A spirit form came to me?it could noi be called a being, for it had no well defined shape. It was pleas? ant to feel its presence, and to listen to the charm of its voice, which was wafted to my ear as of from afar, and which came in sweetest cadence, and must have been akin to the songs of the mermaids. Lifting me from my bed of repose, it carried me off by its unknown power. I could feel myself rising rapidly from the surface of the earth, and when I looked below it seemed that now I stood still, and the earth moved from me, and left me there alone in space in company with the mystic spirit. Fright did not overcome me, for the spirit infused a feeling of confidence which put to banish all feeling of fear. Inquisi tiveness, though, had hold of my brain, and I cried out in the awful stillness of our loneliness, "0, spirit of Goodness, for thou must be good, for evil could not have such charms as are thine, tell me, why hast thou brought me here ?" How strange to me did my voice sound. I had tried to speak so softly, but the clouds had taken up the words, and threw them here and there, send? ing them back to ring in my ears, and then tossing them back again until I thought their echoes would never cease. At last they left off their thunderings, and nothing but their distant rumblings could be heard, and the mystic spirit answered me in words that were rhapsodies of euphony and harmonies of sound. The lan? guage was never heard by man before, and though strange to mortal ears, made its meaning clear. I can not transcribe those heavenly utterances. I am mortal, and they came from the immortal. They were learned at the throne of the Infinite, and the finite can never learn to speak them. When put in the tongue of man, the meaning of the spirit seemed to be to tbis end : "0, man, thou fortunate creature, thou favored one of all the universe, thou hast a soul, and through that soul thou maye8t see the every vision in the realm of the Great One, of whom I, Ailema, am but one of the least of His myriad of handmaids. To you, now, 0 mortal man who hears my voice, has been given a privilege never before bestowed even upon the most worthy. To you has been allowed the vision of sight through the shadow, and you shall see the spirit of the world upon which you live, and which follows year after year the track of the earth in its ceaseless orbit around the sun." The melody of the sound of the Spirit's voice died gently away, and having thus had my hearing satisfied, my eyes turned in search of the vision which the spirit had promised. Far, far away, at the very verge of space, there glistened a star of emerald hue. While I gazed it grew larger and lar? ger, until at last it had gained the proportions of my earth, which had, so short a space of time before, van? ished from my view. It seemed to bear down upon us, and in fear I now cried out to the spirit. "Oh, Spirit, save me, or this phantom earth shall dash me to pieces, and I shall be no more I". "Fear not, trembling mortal; Aile? ma, thy protecting spirit, is at thy side. Only watch and wait." By this time the phantom world was all but upon us, and then, with an ease of which no man has even an idea, the spirit Ailema, bore me on before the flying phantom earth. We were so near it that my eyes could plainly see the flowers which grew and blossomed on the valleys and the hill tops. Such a land of beauty no man in dreams or fancy has ever seen be? fore. Such flowers no efforts of nature has ever grown for human?such deli? cacy of color and blending of shades not even the rainbow has ever boasted. The grass was so green, so fresh, so sweet. The flowers so fragrant, so lustrous, so beautiful. An aroma greeted my nostrils which put me into a transport of ecstasy, and in my delirium of joy I called aloud, saying: "Ailema, aweet spirit! if it is in thy* power, let me live on forever in this paradise of beauty ; nothing else do I want, nothing else could I wish." "Mortal man," Ailema replied, "you are mistaken; thy ancestor in the Garden of Eden had much more than this, and he grew lonely. This can be thine, and much more beside, to enjoy,if thou prove thyself worthy. This country which is before your sight is the field of endeavor. We shall move around this world, and thou shalt see countries which, when com? pared to this, are as much more beau? tiful as the sun is brighter than the flickering flame of the candle." Around this phantom world we flew, and beneath my view passed the coun? tries of patience, of goodness, of love, of charity, of hope, of faith, of ear? nestness, of zeal, of worth, of piety, of steadfastness, of endeavor, of purity, of morality, of virtue, and of every good act or practice which ever existed through man. I can not tell which of these lands was most pleas? ing, which most desirable, which most to be enjoyed, for they were all so beautiful, so utterly indescribable that human pen can not picture them, nor ear hear them, nor sight discern, nor mind imagine them. No intellect of mortal mold can decide a choice. All were desirable, and happiest thought, all were open to man. All of thciu can be enjoyed by those who wish them, and all will enjoy them who prove themselves worthy. My spirit guide turned to me and said: "Much have you seen; much more is there yet to see. You have not been to the borders of these coun? tries ; you do not know what kinds of lands lie beyond these ; you do not know the inhabitants of this country, nor their occupation, although of their occupation you may have gained some idea from their names, which I have told thee." Saying this created another flood of inquisitiveness on my part, and the willing spirit conveyed me at my request, to the country spoken of, and there I saw the lands of listlessness, impatience, wickedness, hate, penury, despair, doubt half-heartedness, laxity, sloth, blasphemy, immorality?the Confederation of Wrong. These lands are bleak and cold, ice-bound cliffs and rugged mountains. Some parts change suddenly to dried, heated, burning sands, and parching winds blow constantly over them. There are no gentle zephyrs, laden with the sweet perfume of the viojet and jas mine to tf??l tfte brow's of ?he inhabi? tants of these God-forsakgn lands. "Inhabitants, Ailcm?/' I said: ffI see no inhabitants, neither in these' desolate lands, nor in the country of s iff passing beauty over which we have travelled. "Where are the inhabi? tants ?" "Did I not tell thee/' Ailema re? plied, "that this is a spirit w'oYid} the inhabitants are here, but you can riot see them now." "Ailema, let me see them now. You have given me the power of vision to see through the shadow of darkness, and I behold this phantom world; give me the power, I pray thee, to see the inhabitants thereof." "You ask too much, 0 man; death only can make them visible in the spirit. I shall give you, though, the next thing to that which you ask?the power to see the inhabitants that are to be." Then, within the twinkling of an eye, we returned to earth, and I beheld man. Poor, toiling, struggling man. On every hand I see the battle of life, and hear the clashing of the arms of the good and the bad. The picture is before every eye that wishes to see it. The spirit of Ailema show? ed it to me, and shows it to every one else who asks it. Do you not see it ? ?P. H. McD., in Augusta Chronicle. A True Ghost Story. Washington, April 7.?The death this week of the Rev. Father Walters recalls not only his connection with the famous Surratt trial, but brings to mind the strange phenomenon of visi? tation from a supernatural world, in which he was the principal actor. Probably no point has ever been so much debated as the possibility of a spirit's return from the other world. And most stories of this kind usually come by a roundabout way that makes it impossible to trace the evidence. The following incident was told by Father Walters as his own experience to a fellow priest, who is now living in a Virginia town : One' stormy dark night Father Wal? ters had retired, when, possibly about 2 o'clock, there came a violent pull at the bell. At the sound he sprang up and, opening the window, glanced at the doorstep below. There stood two children?a boy of about 11 and a girl a few years younger. Both were thinly clad and their dress plainly showed nhat they belonged to parents who had a small share of this world's goods. "What do you want?" asked the priest of his small visitors. ?'Our father is dying and wants you to come to him immediately," one re? plied. "We will show you the way." In a few moments the priest was dressed and, opening the door, stepped out in the street where the two chil? dren were waiting. It was cold and the sharp wind seemed to pierce the thin garments of the pair, but without a word they set out, with the priest following closely behind. After a long walk through lonely streets and d-eary alleys they turned up a lane and? stopped before a tall, rickety ten? ement house that stood with only a single taper gleaming from a garret window. The boy opened the door, but did not enter. "My father's door is the first at the top of the house," he explained as the priest stepped within. "You will see a light shining through the key hole and cannot miss it." Stumbling up the dark stair from floor to floor the priest groped his way towards a faint line of light that shone above like a tiny thread in the darkness. And not a sound, save his footfalls, broke the solemn stillness. At last he reached the top floor and opened the door from whose keyhole the light appeared. Here a piteous sight met his eyes. The room, which was bare of any fur? niture save a broken chair and a rag? ged pallet, was dimly lighted by a candle stuck in a bottle. Its feeble ray danced in the dark corners and threw grotesque shadows on the livid man beneath the rags. "Who are you?" demanded the man in a low voice as the priest en? tered the room. "I am a priest?you sent for me a few moments ago," Father Walters replied. "You are mistaken," the man whis? pered. "I did not send for you?I have no one to send?I am alone?dy? ing alone." "That is strange," replied the priest; "for two children, a boy and a girl, came to my house, told me their father was dying and showed me the way." "Two children," gasped the man as he almost sprang upright. "What? what did they look like ?" In a few words the priest described their appearance, and as he did so the man covered his face with his skele? ton fingers. Slowly the tears trickled through and sobs convulsed his frame. "They were my children," he cried at last. "My poor dead children," and he fell back on his pillow almost exhausted. When his strength had somewhat returned he told Father Walters his story. How, after the death of his wife he had taken to drink, how the children had been neglected and had finally been laid by their mother's side, how he had sunk lower and lower till now he lay dying a drunkard's death. He had prayed for a priest, but there was no one to send for him. "They were my two dead children who came for you, Father," he said with a broken voice : "My poor chil? dren were sent by Heaven to bring you to their dying father." And the repentant sinner received the last offices of his Church. This story is vouched for by a gen? tleman whose veracity cannot be doubted, and, while it seems a fiction, really took place in prosaic, every-day Washington.?Philadelphia Times. Beware of Ointments fcr 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 reputabje 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 upnn the blor-I and mucous surfaces of !he s^cem. In buying Hall's Catar h Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. JSTSold by Druggists, 75c. ? There are three things which ought to be considered before some things are spoken?the manner, the time, and the place, A Sad Spectacle. A grt'fifc deal of excitement has been manifested in tbe lower portion of this county,? at Stockman's ptraioffice, on the subject of "witchcraft." It has* certainly gotten to be a seri? ous matter, and ?8 things are at pres? ent, presents a sad spectacle indeed. The results have been brought about in the following manner: Mr* Belton Stockman, who is an in? dependent farmer, ana the proprie? tor of a small country store and a successful man in all his undertak? ings, is the victim of an old5 negro im? postor. Mr. Stockman has for some time past been suffering with rheumatism in his right limb, at times being scarcely able to walk. An old negro appeared in his neighborhood some months ago, claiming to be from the I loiter part of the State, and claimed to be a doctor and insisted on making an examination of Mr. Stockman's ail? ment?for which he charged $1. After the examination was made the negro said he had located the trouble and told Mr. Stockman that he could cure him entirely, which he would do for $12? the money tobe paid after the cure was effected. Mr. Stockman took the negro's treatment for some time, deriving lit? tle or no benefit therefrom. The ne? gro would from time to time talk to Mr. Stockman and tell him of his enemies, how many he had, etc., and claimed that he had the power to be? witch anyone, and would resort to his "jack" or ''solomon" to prove what j he said. Mr. Stockman got worked up to such a point on the subject that he I finally lost his mind. And sad to say, I one or two others of his family were I slightly affected, and they believe somewhat in the doctrine of "witch- I craft." Mr. Stockman believed that he had been bewitched and he had all of his hands, five or six in number, and two of his brothers guarding his house, day and night?no one being allowed to go near him. Mr. Stockman claimed that the house had to be guarded nine days and nights and if anyone crossed a certain line within that time he would die. He had salt and pepper put all over the I floor of his house and was continually eating it, he claimed, to keep off the witches. I This state of affairs had existed for several days when the old negro "doc- j tor," voodooer" or whatever you may I choose to call him (more of a lunatic than anything else), was arrested and brought here to jail on Thursday J night. On the Friday morning following j some of Mr. Stockman's friends came to Newberry and had the negro re? leased on bond so as to take him back to Mr. Stockman's, and in this man? ner unarm Mr. Stockman and his guards, who had in their possession five or six shot guns and several pis? tols, with plenty ammunition, and threatening to shoot anyone that came near, except one or two persons,'* and if possible, cause some of the af fected persons to lose confidence in the negro's ability to do what he claim? ed. The negro was carried in Mr. Stock? man's presence and for a short while he seemed to become better, but by the next morning no perceptible change had taken place. j The negro was returned to Newher? ry the next morning and placed in jail to await further developments. ! We gather the above report from conversations with persons from Mr. Stockman's neighborhood. Later.? j Mr. Beiton Stockman was brought to Newberry last night and was examined this morning and car? ried to Columbia on the C. N. & L. road and placed in the asy.um ?New berry Observer._ t A New Story of Gen Grant In Blue and Gray for April appears a letter from Bryant S. Parker, form? erly of a South Carolina regiment, in which he relates the following incident, characteristic of the great general's quiet kindness : "In one hard fought battle in Vir? ginia, in which my regiment lost heav? ily in killed and wounded, I was taken prisoner with a lot of others of our regiment. We were placed under guard at the rear, and all were search-1 ed. I had in my pocket my Masonic demit. Next morning the guard came and told me that I was wanted at Gen. Grant's headquarters. I thought my time to die had surely come, and that I would not see Sallie and the children any more. I was sure the general was going to have me shot. 11 was the only one of our boys who was j wanted at the headquarters, and the guard told me to move en. I soon reached the tent and was told to go inside. I was frightened almost to death. My teeth rattled, my knees shook, and the perspiration was stream? ing from my face, although the day was cold. However, I entered and the tent was closed, and I was alone with the commander-in-chief of the United States forces. He saw that I was so frightened that I could hardly speak, and arising from his camp' stool, he shook hands with me and asked me to be seated. He was so kind and good that I soon felt at home. After talking pleasantly for a time he asked me to what regiment I belonged, and where my home was. He then picked up my demit from a table and asked me if it was mine. I replied that it was. He then asked me if I was a Mason, and I soon con? vinced him of thai;. He then went to the table and wrote my parole, gave me some money and told me to go borne to Sallie and the children. The guard was called, and with a hearty '?good bye," I departed from General Grant's headquarters, the happiest man in the army. General Grant was a mighty fine gentleman, whom I al? ways remember in my prayers." - m * m ? "How's dat Sambo ? You says you was at the battle of Bull Bun, when I sees you at New York on de same night ?" "Yes, Julius, you did for sarten. You see, our colonel says he, 'Boys, strike for yer country and j yer homes ! Well, some struck for der country, but dis chile he struck for home. Dat splains de matter, you see." ? The trade in agricultural imple plements is reported to have been very good in southeastern Russia for the season just pa3t. There was special activity of reapers, on account of the scarcity of hands, the outbreak of cholera having driven them away. Over four thousand reapers were sold, of which 1,000 were American, the remainder, of Russian make, finding sale solely because they were cheaper. The hay crop was very poor, and only about two hundred mowers and five hundred hayrak?;s were sold, all fyeing of American ma lufacture, MM All Sort* or Paragraphs ? Steel rails average 180 tons to the mile; iron 145. ? The best reputations are usually owned by poor men. ? We learn something from every? thing, even from failure. ? What is the best drawing lesson? Drawing a tialary. ? There are very few men who will give you something for nothing. ? One should play, read or labor with earnestness, and then rest. ? Persian ladies call a European lady's dress ''trousers with one leg." ? A man never gets so poor that he can't borrow trouble without security. ? Few men get their life laboj^fl?^ complishcd without some sore heart* aches. ? The more promise there is in you, the more you will disappoint your friends. ? The only way to win a victory is to go to war, and run the risk of bein'g.^ whipped. ? It sometimes happens that the man who knows himself, does not know much. ? The things that please most suc? cessfully are those that deceive most thoroughly. ? The general opinion seems to be that economy should begin at some body else's home. ? The marriage ceremony in Borne consists in knocking the beads'of the couple together. ? The empress of Austria smokes from thirty to forty Turkish and Rus? sian cigarettes a day. . . ? Sewing-circles are sometimes gatherings where dresses are sewed and characters ripped. j ? There is one thing a woman can never do?she can't make a man tell her where he has been. ? Two of the worst things in the world: To see a young boy smoke, and to hear an old man swear. ? More is accomplished by doing each day's work faithfully than by crowding two days' work into one. . ? Dean Swift said: It is useless to attempt to argue a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into." ? Why is it easier to be a clergy? man than a physician ? Because it is easier to preach than to practice. ? All the generous deeds men have ever done without hope of reward could be enumerated in one volume. ? A good man or woman will always teach that labor is honorable, and that it is the sure road to success. ? Mr. Stanley states that between 1777 and 1807,3,000,000 African slaves were sold in the West Indies alone. ? The first ingredient in conversa? tion is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the forth wit. ? "Overcome evil with good," as the gentleman said when he knocked down a burglar with the family Bible, jj ? Photographers claim that they" can take a picture of a rifle ball trav? eling at a speed of 3,000 feet peri second. ? Some men address people in the^" way a farmer calls his pigs to corn, and then wonder that they are not popular. ? It is more natural for a man to lie in bed in the morning and wish he was rich, than it is to get up and earn a dollar. ? It takes a lifetime of experience to teach us that we are our best friend; that we are our own worst enemy we s? never learn. ? Dimes are little opportunities? the man who rejects them waiting for the big opportunity of a dollar, never becomes rich. ? There is one thing about the^ devil that ought to frighten you in"" thinking of him?he never fails to col? lect what is due him. ? The number of people who die inside of the city limits of London every year would fill a cemetery of twenty-three acres. ? The difference between perse* verance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't. ? It very often happens that the black sheep of the family is the one called upon to furnish wool to keep the rest of the family warm. ? A young stockbroker having mar? ried a stout old widow, with 600,000 pounds, said that it wasn't so much her face that attracted him as the fig? ure. _? ? The Sierra Nevada Range- of California is nearly five hundred miles long, seventy miles wide, and from seven thousand" to nearly fifteen thous-jl and feet high. ^ ? Among the Eondeh people, who^ live on Lake Nyassa, in Africa, the favorite form of suicide is to enter the water and allow one's self to be de? voured by a crocodile. ? "What is the use of a wooden coffin ?" said an Irishman to his friend. "Sure, it will decay very soon. Bedad, I'll have an iron one, , and it will last me all my life." ? People who would blush to be caught with their hands in their neigh- ? bors's pockets, think it nothing to their discredit to be caught with their noses in their neighbors's affairs. ? The bravest arc not always the tenderest, as the poet sings. There is the red game rooster, for instance; he will fight a bird double his size, but he cuts up tough in a pot pie. ? Some people arc like the child that plants a bean and digs it up every day to see if it has sprouted. So few people can wait patiently for results, although that is the best way. ? Until men learn to use a little of the wisdom in their own affairs that they devote to the management of the affairs of their neighbors, the world will continue to hear of failures. ? The most common error of men and women is to look for happiness outside of useful work. It has never been found when thus sought, and never will be while the earth revolves and the sun shines. ? The umbrella magnolia of ?Ceylon bears leaves that are so large that a "ingle one may sometimes serve as a shelter for 15 or 20 persons. One of chose leaves carried to England as a specimen was nearly 36 feet in width^" ? The term "namby-pampy," which has come to be applied to a person of vacillating character, as well as to weak literary productions, was origi? nated by the poet Pope. He applied it to some puerile verses that had been written by an obscure poet?one Am-j brose Phillips?addressed to the chil? dren of a peer. The first half of the term is meant as a baby way of pro? nouncing Amby, a pet nickname for Ambrose, and the second half is Bim ply u jinking word tv fit it,