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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEBSON, S. C WEDNESDAY MOBNING, JUNE 27, 1894._VOLUME XXVIII.-^0. 52. IN GOLD ABSOLUTELY GIVEN AWAY!! For Every Cash Purchase of $1.00 From now until December 24, ISM, GOSSETT & BROWN "Will give you a Coupon Ticket which may call for $25.00 in Gold. $50.00 in Gold will actually be given to our Customers on Christ? mas Day. When you purchase Shoes to the amount of One Dollar Cash, you are given a numbered ticket, and the corresponding coupon number is dropped in a box made for the purpose. On the 25th of December five of the numbers will be drawn out by a blind-folded person, and the first drawn out will call fo?: $25.00 in Gold; the second, $10.00 in Gold ; the third $5.00 in Gold ; ,the fourth $5.00 in Gold, and the fifth $5.00 in Gold. COSSETT * BROWN, "Wholesale and Retail Dealers in BOOTS AND SHOES) ANDERSON S C. ft QUALITY WILL TELL." JL MAKE no pretensions to buy cheaper than others, but confidently claim that when QUALITY is desirable my Gooos have few equals, if any?certainly no superior. I seek to furnish the VERY BEST at prices consistent. While I was prevented from going to market by sickness, I have succeeded in got "nE*~ MAGNIFICENT STOCK OF GOODS! From Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. We cordially invite all to come and judge for themselves as to QUALITY, BEAUTY, 8TYLB, PRICES, Ac. I solicit a liberal share of patronage. - n, Thanks for a generous, past, with the hope of a continuance in the future, Respectfully, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS? IF YOU BELIEVE MONEY SAVED IS MONEY MADE It will pay you to examine the BARGAINS in Coats and Vests! TAYLOR & CRAYTON Are offering this week ! SPECIAL NOTICE. "W^E beg to call your attention, not exclusively but especially, to our Fine Brand of | FJLOUB?"Omega'1?guaranteed to please the mos"! fastidious. Also, to our su? perior line of? ? 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HUBBARD & BRO- make settlement wMh me at above place. JOHN M. HUBBARD. A GROCER WITH ANY "SAND!" WILL not put it in his Sugar, but rather into business principles. Pure Sugar is a good Ibing to be able to sell, but much of it id adulterated in these days. Tbo watchful Grocer is careful what he hoys? then he knows what he is celling. This is the only way in which a reputation for reliability can be built up. Ah in iSugar ao with? TEA. FLOUR, SYRUP, CANNED GOODS. CONFECTIONERIES, CIGARS, TOB AC O, Everything wt keep for public consumption. We BUY THE BEST, tberefore SELL TUE BEST, and are satisfied with a reasonably small profit. Perhaps you know this already. Certainly you do if you deal with us. J. A4 AUSTIN & CO. P. 8.?Every person who spends a dollar with us is entitled to enter our guessing contest, in which we will give away a Music Box, a Barrel of Flour and a Box Tobacco. SEED BARLEY AND RYE, FLOIJE, HAMS LARD, And a Fancy Line of Canned Goods, For sale at Low Prices by D. S. MAXWELL & SON, NO. 5 CHIQUOLA PLACE. 160-acre Farm to rent, SABGE PLUJiKETT. The Old Man Continues the Observations or Lact Week's Trip. Atlanta Constitution. Of course we could not tell of all our observations find the incidents of last wcck'B travelling round in one letter. Two things we noticed on the farm of John Keller, the Switzerlander, so uncommon as well aB profitable that we would not fail to mention it. "When this Swiss gentleman first set? tled where he is he was pretty bad off in the matter of language and, to state the truth, he could cuss me now and I would never know it. This in? ability to converse with his neighbors and passers by caused much wonder? ing as to what was his reasons for planting his fruit trees in one long row clear around his farm instead of in the regular orchard style common in Georgia. After the whole farm had been encircled in one continuous row of fruit trees, then he began running straight lines of trees across the farm both ways, the distances between rows making divisions of about fifty acre fields. At last, when the trees had taken root and Keller began stretching wires around it occurred to the active minds of Georgia crackers that the Switzerlander had sense and that was the best plan for providing posts that was ever seen in Georgia. So it is ; this man had given a lesson which should profit us before he could speak our language. In the matter of fencing I expect that this farm of 400 acres is the best provided of any in the State. Mr. Keller says that if he had hedges he would cut them away and plant the fruit trees. He has not his whole place wired as yet, but the trees are growing and the most of them bearing, to answer for posts and the stretching of wire as he needs the fence is a small matter. This man has been shrewd enough to make other people pay for his wire and for the stretching. By renting pasturage is the way he has done this. There are times when he has as many as two or three hundred head of cattle and horses upon his place at a small charge for keeping them. The manure alone would pay him, as he had it ar? ranged to pen them at night. In passing over this pasturage ground Brown and I saw what wo had never seen before, nor even heard of?a flock of goats as milk producers. Mr. Keller has a fine flock of Nannie goats as well trained to milking as any herd of milk cows you could find. He says that raising a few goats on every farm could be profitably followed and that it is just as easy to have milk produc? ers as not to have. Me and Brown did not know that goat's milk was so valuable as this man assures us it is. He says that one pint of goat's milk is as rich for butter as a gallon of the best Jersey milk. He milks some three pints a day from many of his Nannies and has a select line of cus? tomers who pay much more for this cream and butter. So it is. We live and learn. I guess there are many other things in the world that me and Brown know nothing of, but we are going to pass around among the for? eigners of this stripe more than we ever did before and find out what we can and tell it to the world. There is plenty of room and a warm welcomo for such men as this little Switzer? lander in the South, and it is to bo hoped that the young generation will be encouraged and profited by watch? ing their farm management, as they may be charmed by a contact socially ?if their tongues are a littlo tangled in talking United States. Brown and I have studied and stud? ied to find a way to say something tho very nicest about the ladies who treat us so well on these trips of ours. It is hard to say anything of nice dinners that would not be repeating. Mrs. White, the good wife of the Postmas? ter at Panthersville, gave us a red ham gravy the day we dined with her, and this very gravy has been .he keep? ing of us from getting off something nice about her clever treatment and splendid meal. Brown does the poet? ical work for this firm, and he declares that nothing but thoughts of that gravy trotted through his brain when? ever he called up the muses. Gravy, gravy, gravy ! Red w ^vy from Geor? gia raised meat, cured in the old-time way, is a subject that Brown cannot handle, nor can he collect the great variety of other things that were upon the table into a pretty poetical bou? quet, because the red gravy will not down, but every time his thoughts confound?Brown is a monomaniac on red gravy. But there is something in the home of Mr. and Mrs. White bet? ter than their table. So pretty docs it seem to me for a Georgia boy and a Georgia girl to settle down and build up such a home as this couple aro building. Both of them were raised in this neighborhood. They played together in young childhood, went to the same schools, the same Churches, were sweathearts as young folks and are now happy with a bright family a growing upon the same old hills. What could be nicer and where could you improve upon their example ? Brown takes delight in "setting back," as he calls it, one of these ex? tra smart fellows that we often meet in travelling. We were eating a lunch under the trees by a spring near East Lake the other day, and Brown found his opportunity. As we rested for our horse to eat, a smart crowd came to the spring where we were. Thoro was one of these extra smart fellows in the crowd. He knew a heap more about the old fields and hills and woods than I did?I soon saw that, and kept quiet. He told story after story about some of his regiment's exploits when he was with Sherman down here. He belonged to a Massa? chusetts regiment, and pointed over to Brown as he informell his hearers that "them wer: the sort of chaps we tackled on the famous twenty-second of June, right over there," and he pointed with his finger. Then he went on and related as how that upon one Sunday morning his regiment had answered to the morning's roll call, and afterwards sauntered up to a bat? tery that was soon to begin throwing hot shells into the city. Everything was made ready by the artillerymen and the firing of a big gun on tho right was to be the signal for the right to begin. "I," he explained, "was appointed to fire the signal gun." I thought Brown was asleep up to this time, but he rolled over and knocked thunder out of a big horse fly that was zooning over him, and listened to the fellow with his eyes shut. "I," went on the extra smartie, "walked up to the big gun, got a-hold of the trigger string, had rose upon tiptoe and was just in the act of sending forth a shell into Atlanta, in bo followed by a reg? ular rain of lead from the other'guns, when the sound of the morning's Church bell came to my car. 1 hesi? tated just a moment, and other bells rang out clear from the city, \ still hesitated to pull the trigger, and memories of the little folks tripping along the streets of my home town away in Massachusetts filled my head. I was soon asked to explain, and then I pictured the dear old mothers and daughters with hymn-books, and little children who were walking the streets just where our shells were to fall, as still the bells rang on. A crowd had gathered about me by this time, and among them was General Sherman. (Jnbeknowing to me, he had heard all that I said, and, turning away, he re? marked to the officer of the day : 'Let their bells save them?call the men to camp.'" Brown arose rubbing his eyes as the fellow finished, and after he had wet Iiis face from the spring branch he turned to the story-teller and asked: "You are a pretty good liar, haint you ?" The smart fellow bristled up and I was afraid he would hit Brown, but he dident. "Yes," continued Brown, "that was a pretty good lie?so good that I am envious." The smart fellow swelled?I was afraid he would burst. "You sec, mister," explained Brown, "I ^am rated as the biggest liar in Georgia, and that is the only thing I have any reputation for?don't tell any more, don't take the only rep? utation I have from mc !" Brown looked real pitiful as he Epokc these words, and you could see the redness passing out of the smart fellow's face as his swelling went down. In a moment more Brown raised his head and said to the crowd : "There were no bells in Atlanta when Sherman was here. There were none in all the South. The Churches were stripped of bells to make cannon long before Sherman's march through Georgia." Who is right ? Saroe Plunkett. Pindar*, Potatoes and Turnips. To the Editor of the New* and Cou? rier: It has been some time since I wrote you and article on agricultural subjects. I regret that I have noth? ing cheering to write, for the pros? pects are very gloomy for the farmers; but as gloomy as the agricultural in? terest looks the political is worse, and seems to be getting worse every day. I hope that by prudence and fore? thought our farmers may to a very considerable extent remedy their short-comings in the grain crops by availing themselves of such crops as a3 may yet be planted, and those that grow voluntarily over their farms. I regard the Spanish pindar as one of the best substitutes that can be planted to meet the short crop of oats and corn, and there is plenty of time to plant them. All the early varie? ties of the field pea may yet be plant? ed to make hay, and the crab grass an? rag weeds that grow voluntarily make good hay cut at the right time and properly cured. The right time is when in bloom, and in curing they should be exposed to the sun, only so long as will insure them against moul? ding. One day's sunning will an? swer; when dry all hay should be packed as closely as possible to enable it to retain the valuable ingredients ; if sunned too much these all dry out, leaving the hay light, brittle and worth? less. The sweet potato crop may yet be planted from slips orcuttings from the vines already growing, and last but not least comes the turnips, with sev? eral varieties, all of them good, but some better than others. The ruta is perhaps the best when grown, but a little more difficult to get a stand. They should be planted about the mid? dle of July in drills three feet apart and hoed out to one every foot. The others should be planted from the first to the middle of August and left about as above described. ? I prefer broadcasting the manure and making no bed or ridge, but laying off moder? ately deep with a shovel and covering lightly by dragging a rake along the row ; in this way a stand is almost certain. If the land is properly pre? pared by several ploughings and har rowings and manuring there is but lit? tle uncertain about the crop, and no crop pays better for the expense and labor bestowed upon it. About the first of December all turnipB ought to be" taken up and either banked or housed on a dirt floor. A good plan is to make a rack over them out of pine poles, and that after placing the turnips in a long heap put over them by setting up at each end of the pile a post about five feet above the ground, on which put a ridge pole, then lean on this pine poles near enough to? gether to hold dirt, which should be thrown on them thick enough to turn water. One end may be left open to get out the turnips for use. It is sur? prising to see how our people neglect these valuable crops. Nature has done much, but man docs but little. Few countries can grow such a variety of crops, but many of them are neg? lected for the cotton, though I believe it is slowly for the better. I neglect? ed to say that the tops of turnips should be cut off one inch from the turnip before putting them in bulk or they will spoil. 1 hope these sugges? tions may benefit some one. J. Washington Watts. Monntvillc, Lauren* County, June 13, 1804. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There is only one way to cure Deaf? ness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of thcmuc ous lin? ing of tlic Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deaf? ness is the result, and unless the in? flammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearin g will be destroyed forever ; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in? flamed condition of the mucous sur? faces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Scud for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Drops., Toledo, 0. gSySold by Druggist, 75c. ? A Cincinnati man recently pre? sented his wife with a piano lamp, which she said she would call after him. On asking her the reason, she replied: "Well, dear, it has a good deal of brass about it; it is handsome to look at; it is not remarkably bril? liant; requires a good deal of atten? tion, is sometimes unsteady on its legs ; liable to explode when half full; flares up occasionally : is always out at bed-timf and is bound to smoke." WEALTH IN* METALS. A Word Ab?ut Tin, Lead, Copper, Iron and Oulckftllver. Washington star. The contemplated removal of the tariff on quicksilver will ruin the in? dustry of mining for that substance in this country. It is a pity, too, for apart from its commercial value a cer? tain picturesque interest attaches to the metal. Its fluidity at ordinaiy temperature is one tiling that makes it remarkable. One can hardly realize that when reduced by cold to a solid it is very malleable and can be beaten out into sheets as thin as tissue paper. Deposits of quicksilver have been discovered recently in Utah, but nobody has tried to work them as yet. The entire product of this country comes from California. Cinnabar, the ore from which it is obtained, is a sulphide of mercury. By heat the mercury is separated from the sulphur in the form of a gas. which, being condensed, runs out of the distilling furnace in a thin stream like a con? tinuous pencil of molten silver. Frequently the miner with a stroke of his pick penetrates a cavity in the rock that is filled with pure quicksil? ver, which runs out, sometimes as much as a pint of it. The ore is often filled with globules of mercury, and, when it is blasted, the high tempera? ture created by the explosion volatili? zes the metal, which iu the form of gas po: sons the air. Workmen in the mines eat without washing their hands, and in these and other ways their system becomes saturated with quicksilver. SYMPTOMS OF THE VICTIMS. The first symptom of resulting trou-. blc is usually exhibited by the nails, which become diseased. Later the teeth drop out, bone-rot of the jaw follows, and the unfortunate is fairly eaten up by the poison. These trou? bles are avoided to a great extent by cleanliness. The men who work in the quicksilver mines of Wales are the cleanest people in the world ; their skin, untanned by sun, are white as snow. The Mexican miners in Cali? fornia arc dirty and die fast, but after two or three generations spent in the mines they last longer, their constitu? tions become more tolerant of mer? cury. Vcrmillion is obtained from cinna? bar. The red paint on the bodies of Indians in California led to the dis? covery of the quicksilver mines. White mon found out where it came from and began digging for ore of mer? cury. The most familiar use of the metal is for thermometers. It is very valuable in medicine, but it is most largely used in gold mines because of its affinity for gold, which it dissolves. Quicksilver is the most easily lost of all metals, finding its way back into the earth sooner or later. A queer sort of lemonade, made with sulphuric acid instead of lemon juice, is drank by quicksilver miners. It has the effect of neutralizing the mercury. In the lead mines the same mixture of sugar, water and acid is used as a beverage. It precipitates, in the form of a sulphate, the lead absorbed by the body ; in that Bhapc, being insoluble, it passes out of the system. The consequences of lead poisoning arc dreadful. Not long ago it was found out that the spread of certain mysterious diseases iu parts of England and elsewhere was due to Turkish snuff adulterated with lead. Sailors and tourists brought the snuff home from Smyrna and distributed it. The most picturesque use of lead is for making shot. Respecting this in? dustry a remarkable delusion is cur? rent?namely, that the little pellets are made spherical by falling from a height through the air. The fact is that perfect shot could be made by falling two feet just as well as by dropping 200 feet, if only they could cool quickly enough. The shot when they are let fall from the top of the tower, arc as round as when they reach the bottom. It is necessary that they should drop a long distance iu. order that they may have time to cool and harden before reaching the water well provided for receiving them gently. The sheets of lead used for wrap? ping China tea arc made in an odd fashion. They are not rolled or ham? mered. The molten metal is poured out upon a flat stone, and another flat stone is laid upon it. A thin layer of lead is thus formed between the stones ; it hardens quickly and is re? moved for a repetition of the process. The United States produced nearly 200,000 tons of lead last year. West of the Missouri River the lead ore yields more or less silver also. Some? times silver is the more valuable pro? duct of a lead mine. The crude mix? ture of the two metals is called "base bullion." PRODUCTION OF COPPER. This country produces more than half of the copper of the world. The metal comes from the Lake Superior region, from Montana and from new mines in Arizona. The Lake Superior mines alone yield metallic copper in large quantities. There the stuif is found in a pure state, nuggets of it weighing hundreds of pounds. These deposits were worked extensively by the Indians for centuries bcfo::e Co? lumbus, and the copper they obtained was distributed widely by barter. They left behind many large masses of the metal, because they could not break them into pieces and were una? ble to carry them away bodily. The United States can turn outSCiO, 000,000 pounds of copper yearly. The mines at Butte, Mon., arc able alone to put on the market 200,000,000 pounds per annum, all of it obtained from a single small hill. Of course the world's consumption of this metal is enormous. The waste is very great. So many cents are lost that the United States mint at Philadelphia is obliged to furnish ninety millions of those small coins annually. The copper used for shea ting the bottoms of ships is chemically destroyed ; it is the verdigris, incidentally formed, that kills the barnacles. Vast quantities of copper are consumed for making brass and in electric wires. WON DERFU I. A LUMIN I'M. The wonderful new metal aluminum, low costs only 55 cents per pound by the ton. The latest uses for it are for billiard cues, doc collar., hairpins and chair legs. The German army, having adopted it for canteens, spoons and forks, lias authorized its adoption as a material for flasks and other ves? sels, in place of glass. Experiments authorized by the emperor proved that aluminum was not aifectcd by coffee, tea and other fluids. Powdered alu? minum mixed with chlorate of potash is now employed for flash lights, instead of magnesium. One advan? tage that it has over the latter is that it makes no smoke. THE DEPOSITS OF TIN. The creologi''-'tl survey Ins inforai-jr tion of tlie now discovery of deposits of American tin, which may be profit? ably worked. Knowledge of the facts being aa yet incomplete no statement on the subject is ready for publica? tion. That there is plenty of tin ore in this country has long been known. Every hill of coarse granite is a mine of it. The difficulty is to get the metal out cheaply enough to pay. Thus far the much advertised pros? pects of tin in the United States have failed to materialize. It is hardly to !,C imagined that we shall ever be alle to compete with the Straits of Mal? acca, from which two-thirds of the world's supply of tin is obtained. The mining of tin in the straits ro gion is done to a great extent by the climate. The tremendous rain storms peculiar to that part of the world wash the metal out of the rocks in the mountains and deposit it in the beds of streams, where it is found by the natives in small, round nuggets, re? sembling shot. Labor on the Malay peninsula costs only $1.50 a month, and no machinery is required. In the United States the tin must be got out of the hills by artificial hydraulic power. Expensive plans are neces? sary, and workmen cannot be hired for less than !?2.50 a day. Thus, unless great masses of the metal should be discovered somewhere, it is difficult to see how we can produce tin profita bly. Nickel is another metal that is not produced profitably in this country. It has been miued in various parts of the United States, but the article im? ported from Canada and New Calo donia is cheaper. Not long ago a man out West found greatquantities of what he supposed to be meteorites in a ravine. They were composed chiefly of nickel; meteorites ordinarily con? tain more or less nickel. But the notion of rains of meteorites occurring in that region was disposed of by in? vestigation, which proved that the alleged messengers from space were in reality nuggets carried by water from some mass of ore-bearing rock in the path of a stream. Besides its usefulness in coinage, nickel is valuable as non-corrosivo plating and for making German silver. It is now being utilized in the manu? facture of armor for ships, as an alloy with steel. Though not hard itself, it makes the steel harder. Why this is nobody knows. Metals arc <|ueor things. A single patch of five acres in Burnett county, Texas, contains more metallic elements than arc to be found in any other known place in the world. In that little place arc found net only nickel, gold, silver, lead and tin, but a large variety of the very rare metals, such as cerium, lantha? num, cbirum, thorium and urauinum. Cerium is used in medicine to check the nausea of pregnancy. the extent OF aluminum. Seven per cent, of the earth's crust is aluminum. It is the only metal that is more plentiful than iron. The latter is the chief cause of color to earth and rock. It enters into almost all substances, circulating in the blood of animals and pervading the juices of plants. It is a valuable medicine, and is the only medicine that is not poisonous to the human system. One of the oldest things about it is that it is never found in a pure state except in meteorites. It was known in the time of Moses, 1500 B. C. On the coast of Long Island, and elsewhere, it has been extracted from sea sand by the use of magnets. The small black specks to be observed in any handful of beach sand are me? tallic iron ore. Most of the iron in the United States is produced in the Lake Su? perior region. Among the richest mines in the world arc those of the Vcrmillion range. Railways built a few years ago for the purpose of fetch? ing the ore from those mountains made a cut through the Mesabi range. This cut revealed the greatest iron deposit in existence, but the ore ap pered in such an unfamiliar shape thai, it was not recognized for a long time. It is a soft gravelly stuff, which now is dug out with steam shovels. Al? most every swamp contains more or less bog iron, deposited from water. This ore has been much used in New Kngland, but it is only suitable for foundry purposes. The discovery of deposits of plati? num in this country would be as wel? come as the finding of a diamond mine. At present the metal costs nearly half as much as gold, having risen greatly in price within the last three years. It is absolutely indispensiblcfor many purposes, being non-corrosive and resisting acids. It is utilized for chemical apparatus, scientific instru? ments and incandescent lamps. There is some platinum in the beach sands of Oregon, but not enough to pay for mining. Small quantities of it have been discovered recently in the copper mines of Canada, where it occurs in a new combination with arsenic. Two-thirds of the world's supply of platinum comes from two Siberian mines in the I'ral mountains. Tho metal is obtained there as a by-pro? duct of gold mining. The mining is done by scooping holes in the ground to a depth of about fifteen feet, and then burrowing rat fashion in all directions. Twenty-nine hundred cart? loads of earth are required to yield fifteen pounds of platinum. The big? gest nugget ever found was about the size of a tumbler. Now the gold is getting scarce, and the laborers have been drawn off to build the great trans Siberian railway. Hence the increas? ed cost of platinum, which, unless new deposits are found, is likely never to be cheaper than it is at present. miners' superstitions. Miners in all parts of the world have many odd superstitions. The mines of Germany are supposed to be haunted by little old men, not over two feet high, dressed as miners. Sometimes they arc malevolent and sometimes otherwise. Goblin miners, known as ''knockers," inhabit the mines of Wales. They make strange noises, and the tapping of their picks can be heard in ore bodies not yet reached by the human workmen. The dreaded Ladder Dwarf is a malicious hunchback of frightful appearance who kicks out the rungs of ladders in mines just before an accident occurs. Vegetables growing in mines are be? lieved to have talismanic virtues. In Sardinia an ancient lead mine has been deserted and permitted to fill up with water for dread of a small and venomous species of spider that in? habit it. Rudy's Pile Suppository is guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, or money refunded. 5(J cents per box. Send stamp for circular and Free Sam? ple to Martin Rudy, Lancaster. Pa. For Sale by Wilhitc & Wilhite, drug? gists Anderson. S. C. ? Germany's proportion of suicides is larger than that of any other Euro? pean country. A War Incident. "A funny war incident occurred down there." said Mr. John W. Woodruff, pointing downward from the Forsyth Street bridge to the track running between the bridge and the National hotel. ''When Forrest captured Colonel Straight's raiders at Rome they were brought to Atlanta in box cars and were switched off on that track. As Forrest's men had to return to Koine, a detail from Major Leyden's artillery, then in camp here, was sent to guard the prisoners. I was a member of the company, and the facts of the case are fresh in my recollection yet. The doors on one side of the car remained locked and the doors on the other side were open. Tn front of each of these doors one of Leyden's men stood on guard. "Everything went on smoothly un? til the relief came round after dark. The officer in charge of the relief squad found, to his astonishment, that one of the cars was guarded by a yankee with a musket. "'Hello! What does this mean?" asked the officer. " 'Oh, it's all right,' replied the yankee; 'the young man on duty here wanted to go and sec his girl, and he promised me his rations if I would take his place until he came back/ "We took Mr. Yank's musket from him and made him enter the car, and stationed one of our men at the door. The fellow had told the truth, as we found out when the absent guard re? turned. The youngster was fresh and knew nothing about soldiering. Ho saw no harm in slipping off to sec his girl, and, as luck would have it, he had picked out a prisoner who was a man of his word. "Our comrade would have been se? verely punished if his case had been reported, but they enjoyed the joke so much that they kept it from Major Leydcn until it was safe to let it be known. "Would'nt that yankee and his friend, the confederate, have a jolly time if they could meet at some reun? ion of the blue and gray ? If they are both living they ought to get to? gether."?Atlanta Constitution. Women Get There. New York June 18.?It is possible that New York will be the next State to extend the right of suffrage to wo? men. The constitutional convention will meet in Albany on the 8th of May and the women are getting up strong petitions in favor of female suffrage. One of their strong points is the fact that the women of New York own about a billion dollars' worth of prop? erty, and, with this large interest at stake, they should have some voioe in the government of the State. Undoubtedly the movement is gain? ing strength. In the United States twenty-eight States and territories have given women some form of suf? frage. School suffrage in various degrees is granted to women in Arizona, Colo? rado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massa? chusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wiscon? sin. In Arkansas and Missouri women vote by petition on liquor license in many cases. In Delaware suffrage is exercised by women in several municipalities. In Kansas they have equal suffrage with men at all municipal elections. About 50,000 women voted in 1800. In Montana they vote on local taxa? tion. In New York they can, and do, vote at school elections. The question of the constitutionality of the law is still undecided. They vote also in many places in this State on local improve? ments, such as gas and electric street lightning, paving, sewerage and mu? nicipal bonds. In Utah women voted until disfran? chised by the Edmunds law, when they organized to demand its repeal. In Montana woman suffrage on local taxation is guaranteed by the State constitution." In Pennsylvania a law was passed in 1880, under which women vote on local improvements, by signing or re? fusing to sign petitions therefor. In Wyoming women have voted on the same terms with men since 1870. The convention in 1889 to form a "State constitution unanimously in? serted a provision securing them full suffrage. This constitution was rati? fied by the voters at a special election by about three-fourths majority. Congress refused to require the dis franchisemcnt of the women and ad? mitted the State July 10, 1800. And let it not be forgotten that in the senate of the United States Feb? ruary 7, 1891, a select committee re? ported in favor of amending the fed? eral constitution so as to forbid States to make sex a cause of disfranchise mcnt. Congress adjourned, however, on March 4th following without reach? ing the subject. The Darkey and his Chfek. "One of the incidents of the boom at Chattanooga, which happened to fall under my immediate observation, interested mo greatly," said a Tcn nessccan. "A negro there had come into the ownership of a small piece of real estate worth, when he got it, about $100. During the boom this property became very desirable, aud could probably have been bought for a few hundred dollars had the would-be purchaser not scared the darkey by offering him several thousand ; but a deal was finally closed for $10,000, and the negro went to the bank to get the money. "How do you want it?" said the cashier. "Gib it to me in silber." The cashier began to pile up the silver, and the negro's eyes grew big? ger and bigger. Finally he could stand it no longer. '"Stop, boss," he said, "gib me a dollar and a half and keep de res' for me."?St. Lnnit (Unlit-Democrat. Bncklens 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. ? Every evening as the sun goes down two leaves of the common clover fold together face to fare, while the third closes over them. There's Many a Slip. ''Strange what little tilings will turn the course of true love.'' said one of the prominent members of the Porch Club yesterday morning. When urged to explain, she con? tinued : ''Why, I know two splendid matches that were broken off by the simplest things in the world : one was the whistle of an engine, and the other mustard plasters !" Her hearers looked incredulous and she went on: "It was last summer and I had a guest whom 1 introduced to one of our young men, and he took a great fancy to her. Of course I did everything in my power to throw them together, ami among other things gave a buckboard party. They sat together on the back seat and were getting along finely. He had reached the point where he told her he could not live without her, etc., when the road took an abrupt turn and the whistle of an approaching train sounded. It seemed right upon us, though it really was on the other side of the hill. Well, he flew out on one side of the wagon and she out on the other, and when we turned around to look at them they had disappeared. One of the boys jumped out and helped her back into the wagon, and some one rescued him, but she was so indignant to think that he had jumped without car? ing what became of her that she hard? ly spoke to him again. So you sec that match was spoiled. "The other thing happened in the East. I have a friend who gets fear? fully seasick every time she is on the water. Well, she was going to take a trip with a young man who had been very devoted to her all summer, and she was bound she would not spoil the trip by being seasick. So she did everything anyone told her. Took several kinds of medicine, took any amount of smelling salts, lemons and other things with her, and to crown all got five mustard plasters. She put one on the back of her neck, one on her chest, one on her stomach, and one above each knee. She stood the trip splendidly, but never thought that they would go right from the boat to the train and ride on the cars for five hours. As soon as they got on the train she began to suffer ago? nies from-the mustard plasters, and though she smiled and tried to look natural she squirmed and twitched in a manner fearful to behold. Finally her escort said : 'Why, you are the most restless girl I ever saw. Can't you sit still for five minutes ?' Well, she had to pretend it was all natural, and said she didn't know that she was any more restless than she always was. He said nothing, but after that he was very cool to her and finally went away without saying good-bye to her at the close of the summer. "My husband asked him one day what was the trouble between them, and he said: " 'Well, I believe that girl is a fit subject for a sanitarium. I took a trip with her one day and she is the most nervous girl you ever saw. Just twitches all the time. I don't intend to marry a woman who is that near nervous prostratiou if I know myself. A woman with nerves like that ought to be taken to a hospital.' "So you sec what trifles will break off matches nowadays.?Indianapolis Sentinel. The Rieb Han In Hell. It is seldom that a sermon is heard upon the theme of the very able dis? course that Dr. Fair preached at Grace Street Church Sunday night. His text was Luke xvi, 28 : "For I have five brethren, that ho pay testify unto them lest they also come unto this place of torment." He opened his discourse by saying that this passage in the Scriptures stands unique in one respect, and that is, it is the only one that reveals the feelings of the unconverted after death. We are told all ubout the glory and beauty of Heaven, about the happiness of the redeemed, but in this narrative the portals of the pit are opened and we listen to the voices of the damned. "Look in on this rich man in hell. What do we see ? Memory is not ob? literated, early scenes in life are not forgotten. What is he doing ? Curs? ing God ? No, he is praying, praying for the salvation of his five brothers." Dr. Fair pictured the wretched man as thinking of the old synagogue where he had heard so many offers of salvation and how he must have long? ed for just one more chance to accept it. "I am not surprised," said the speaker, "t'.at the Church, our homes, our friends, and Heaven itself is con? cerned for the salvation of men, nor that Christ himself became incarnate. I can understand all this, but when I read that the lost in hell, that hell it? self is concerned for the living, then I am surprised, utterly amazed." "What effect should this have on us ? What effect has it on the indif? ferent ? There are men and women here to-night living in total neglect of religion, absorbed in worldly pleasure, never giving one thought to their im? mortal souls. You won't even think about it when I am preaching. Heaven, earth and hell praying for you and you absolutely unconcerned. You will not even allow the subject to be mentioned. "What is the matter with you ? You are blinded by the devil. Led captive by him. House you man from your lethargy. If the prayers of min? isters, of friends, of God's people, of loved ones gone before can't move you, then let the damned in hell move you." The sermon was one of the most re? markable ever delivered by this gifted and eloquent divine, and from the comments made by the congregation, evidently produced a deep and-lnsting impression?Richmond, \'<i.. Dispatch. ? "Maw, I want toco fishing." "I would rather have you work in the garden this morning. Willie." "I'm too lame, maw. It's just all I can do to dig worms." ? Here is a suggestion fnun a Wes? tern paper. By a very simple rule the duration of night ami day can be determined at any time of the year. All you have to do is to multiply the time of the sun's rising by two, and it will give you the length of the night. Multiply the time of setting by two and you get the length of the day. It is easily demonstrated at the time of the year when the sun rises and sets at 1? o'clock, and the day and night are of equal duration. It is just as true as the days lengthen and shorten. Thus as winter approaches, take a day when the sun rises at ? '>..''.<? and sets at 5.30. Apply the rule and you have a night of 13 hours and a day of 11 hours. The rule will b?3 found abso? lutely accurate nt any season of the All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? In tlif days of Columbus only seven metals wore kjiown to "exist. Now there are 51. ? Sunday School teacher : What kind of boys go to heaven ? Small Boy : Dead ones. ? Rookson?'?Have you read 'A Costly Freak?'" Poorlcy?"No; I've done it : got married.'' ? If a snail's head be cut off and the animal placed in a cool, moist spot a new head will be grown. ? A young man of Paterson, X. J.. recently sneezed so hard that he jerk? ed, it is said, his shoulder out of joint. ? In 1845 a Scotch farmer sued the customs authorities for a penny and won his case. The costs amounted to $700. ? Ten thousand tons of salmon, 30.000,000 cans, were put up this sea? son in the canneries on tue Frazcr River, B. C. ? Mr. Jones?"Mrs. Brown keeps her temper beautifully, doesn't she ?" Mr. Brown?"Yes; I never saw her without it." ? Josh Billings says : "When a fellow gits a-goin' down hill, it duz seem as tho' everything had been greased for the okashun." ? She : Am I the first woman you ever loved ? He : Yes. Am I the first man who ever loved you ? She (tempestuously): You arc insultingr ? She : Really, now, aren't you a married man ? He: No. Why? She: Oh, you have such a settled look. He: Yes; I've been refused by 13 girls. ? If women would extend one-half the charity to each other that they accord to men, such a thing as a wick? ed woman would be as rare as a truly good man. ? Christianity in its broadest sense is the greatest necessity of the age. It would solve all the knotty prob? lems of state and bring the millenium of peace and good will among men. ? A lazy boy makes a lazy man, just as a crocked sapling makes a crooked tree. Those who make our great and useful men were trained in their boyhood to be industrious. ? The greatest desert is the Sahara. It is 3,000 miles from cast to west, 1,000 from north to south, -and has about 3,000,000 square miles, or about the area of the United States. ? There are no undertakers in Japan. When a person dies it is tho custom for his nearest relatives to put him in a coffin and bury him, and tho mourning does not begin until after burial. ? The first Sapbath School was in? stituted in 1787. There are now in the United States 108,930 Sabbath Schools, with 8,049,000 scholars. The world has 20,078,595 Sabbath School scholars. ? There is a wild flower in Turkey that is the exact floral image of a humming bird, the breast is green, the wings are a deep rose color, tho throat yellow, the head and beak almost black. ? A terrible windstorm at Glen wood, Mino., last week is reported to* have blown many hundreds of lishl from the lake into the bisins along* the shore, where they became easy prey for sportsmen. ? Wife : What a singular man you arc, to be sure. Whenever we have company I have to do all the talking. You have absolutely nothing to say. Husband : You are mistaken, my dear. I have plenty to say, but I never get a chance to say it. ? "Josiar," said Mrs. Corntosscl, "this industrial army business gets me." "It do me, too," "Ef er fellow is goin' ter walk jis fur the sake of walkin' an' gcttin' nowhercs, he might jes' as well do it behind cr plough cz any other way.-' ? Mother (entering parlor suddenly as the lovers turn up the light): Ethel, you were sitting entirely too close to Mr. Gctthcre when I entered. Ethel: Mother, you know well enough how afraid I am in the dark !?Puck. ? First Foreigner?"What do you think of the proposition of the Ameri? cans to use their flag design for a stamp ?" Second Ditto?"I'm in favor of it. It's the only plan by which we will ever be able to lick the Stars and Stripes." ? The thirty-third annual parade of the Sabbath School children of Brooklyn, N. Y., took place last Thursday. At least 25,000 children marched in the procession, while 100, 000 spectators gazed upon them with administration. ? A Kentucky mathematician has figured out some statistics on gum chewing. He says that the jaws of a small-mouthed young woman who is addicted to this habit move 0.750,000 inches or 103 miles a year, at the rate of thirty chews a minute for ten hours a day. ? "Mamma," said Willie after he had come from sohool. "I saw a poor little boy on my way home who never heard of ice cream." "That was too bad," said Willie's mother. "What did you say to him ?" "I said," re? plied Willie, earnestly, "that I had almost forgotten it myself." ? Plants often exhibit something very much like intelligence. If a bucket of water during a dry season be placed a few inches from a growing pumpkin or melon vine the latter will turn from its course and iu a day or two wili get one of its leaves in the water. ? "1 believe John willl propose to? night, ma. If he does, what shall I say ?" "Accept him. of course." "Yes, but what shall 1 say first?" "How long have you been expecting this proposal ?" "Two years." "Well, 1 don't know what you can say ex? cept Tili* is so sudden !' " ? "Is she pretty ?" asked one young girl of another. "No, not at all pretty." was the reply : "but she is charming?graceful, refined, ro poseful, with one <>f the sweetest voices I ever heard. She doesn't need what i> usually styled beauty." Charm is better than beauty?and is more lasting. ? A correspondent says : "I wi>h to tell those who may sulier from that terrible affliction, felon, of a painless remedy that will effect a perfect cure in twenty-four hours, as I have had occasion to prove within two of the last three days. A lady came to me who had been suffering over two weeks with a felon on the end of her middle linger. I saturated a bit of crated wild turnip, the size of a bean, with spirits of turpentine and applied it to the affected part. It relieved the pain at once. In twelve hours there was a hole to the bone, and the felon was destroyed. I removed the turnip and applid healing salve, and the linger is well."