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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEKSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1894. VOLUME XXIX.?NO. 5 SUMMER RESORT STORE-ROOM! J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. Have moved their Stock of Goods in Store-room on Whitner Street, under Intelligencer Office, and Opposite Post Office. get a cool breeze from the Blue Ridge Mountains and have en elegant well of water in rear of our Store, so we will be able to entertain our friend* and customers , during the hot Summer months comfortably. Onr old Store-room will be torn down and rebuilt in modern style, which we will occupy again about the 15th of September. We are going to offer Bargains to Cash Bayers ! And to those who buy on time and pay promptly! If you want the BEST COFFEE, come to see us. If you. want DRY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHING, Et?., for LESS MONEY than anywhere else, come to see us. Respectfully, J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. TN" GOLD ABSOLUTELY GIVEN AWAY! For Every Cash Purchase of #1.00 From now until December 24,1894, G0S8ETT & BROWN Will give you a Coupon Ticket which may call fpi* $26.00 in Gold. $50.00 in Gold will actually be griven to our Customers on Christ? mas Day. When yon purchase Shoes to the amount of One Dollar Gash, yon are gi?en 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 bei drawn out by a blind-folded person, and the first drawn -out- will call for $26.00 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. GOSSETT * BROWN, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in BOOTS AND SHOES. ANDERSON, S O. STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT I AT THE BOYS' STORE "TTOTJ will find some rare Bargains in TIS WABE until their stock is closed out. JL For the want of time and space we cannot mention everything, but will give a few prices: Three Quart Diiry Fans at.".... 5c Eight Quart Dish Pans at.....15c. Eight Quart M3k Bucket ._.13c. PIE PAKS, BIPPEES, BISCUIT GUTTERS, and other thing* too numer? ous to mention. ? And don't forget that we carry a full line of Confectioneries and Cigars. A bto lot of Fancy Cakes and Crackers Just receivod. We want money, and If you want Bargains bring us your money and we will give them to you. Very respectfully, *? .?tS^^-tBUSSELL 4 BREAZEALE. FREE CITY DELIVERY. 'QUALITY WILL TELL. 1 _MAKE no pretensions to buy cheaper than others, bzt confidently claim that when QUALITY is desirable my Gco?s have few equate, 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 get? ting a? ?, MASNIfclOENT STOCK OF GOODS! From Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Wo cordially invite all to come and Judge for, themselves as to QUALITY,. BEAUTY, STYLE, PRICES, <fec 1 solicit a liberal share of patronage. Thanks for a generous past, with the hope of a continuance inihe future, Respectfully, ? ? . MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS* SPECIAL MOTlCEp E beg to call your attention, not exclusively but espncially, to our Pine Brand of | FJLOUB??'Omega"?guaranteed to please the most fastidious. Also, to our su? perior line of? CANNED FRUITS and VEGETABLES, JELLIES and JAMS, LEWIS' SNOW FLAKE CRACKERS, TEA FLAKES, Eta BREDIS STEAM BREAD, HAMS, BREAKFAST BACON, And everything, too numerous to mention, usually kept at a First Class Grocery Store. We stall be more than delighted for yoc. to give us a ct 11, and let us fill your or? ders. Thanking you in advance, we are. Yours very truly, P. 8?Remember, all Goods delivered FREE. WEBB & WE?B, NEW JEWELRY STORE ! JOHN M. HUBBARD, IN HIS NEW STORE. .IN HOTEL BLOCK. LOTS OF NEW GOODS. NOVELTIES IN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. , lc. TO ?100 00. . ??r- No Charge for Engraving, "> ...22* The Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it's a pleasure to Bhow them. ? 1 ?????? ??.9.?Ifyou have-Accounts with J. M. HUBBARD A BRO- make settlement with'me at above place. \ JOHN M. HUBBARD. SEED BARLEY AND RYE, j ELOTJB, ? \ 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. PIANOS AND ORGANS. Things to Remember wlften you Go to Buy. A PIANO or ORGAN is something about which or* dinary buyers know absolutely nothing. The market is flooded with cheap rattle-traps, which to the eye look as well as really good instruments. They are actually sold at abont three times their value. Ludden A Bates 80cihern Music House beine the largest bnycr in the South is able to represent only best instruments made Every man in its employ is sn expert in bis line, and thev permit no fanltv instrument to leave their ware roon:s. Buy onlv from a House with an established reputation for skill and fair dealing. For further particulars write or call on J.\L, HAYNTE & DAUGHTERS, Greenville, S. C. HaU and Half. Obcdiah Oldschool in Interior. When Nehemiah went to Jerusalem, nearly a century after the first compa? ny of captives had returned under Ezra, he found the people sadly de? moralized. Even the priests and no? bles had intermarried with idolaters. The result was, as stated in chapter 13, verse 24, "Their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people." What a jargon ! How that mixture of Hebrew and Philistine must have grated ou the ears of the pious cup-bearer! It was Jehovah and Dagon iu the same breath. And no doubt the manners and customs and worship of the rising generation were half and half as well as their dialect. Nehemiah knew that if this state of things was not promptly arrested the next generation would he at least three-quarters Ashdod, both in speech and worship, and that iu less than a century the laud would be wholly given up to idolatry. A man of a community half corrupted is like a barrel of apples half of which are rot? ten. The sound fruit will not save that which is decayed, or even save itself. The only hope for apples or men is to separate the good from the bad. And knowing this, the puritan? ical cup-bearer contended with the Jews, and smote them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear that there should be no more inter? marriages. That was radical, and it was effectual. From the days of Ne? hemiah until now the Jews have been a separate people. When reading this latest historical record iu the Bible of the Old Testa? ment Church one is tempted, to ask : What if some Puritan or Presbyterian of the eighteenth century should visit us to-day ? Would he not feel as Ne? hemiah did ? Would he not say that the speech in our nominally Christian homes is only' half Christian ? Our grandfathers and grandmothers taught their children to repeat the Catechism and to memorize the Scriptures. Their own language, even when talk? ing about secular affairs, was largely Biblical. It was "with grace, sea? soned with salt." They would not permit any worldly literature, or any conversation about wordly matters in their homes, on the Sabbath. Per? haps they were in some things over strict, and in their strictness. a little Pharisaical. But they were noble men and women; and they left us a noble heritage. Are we conserving that heritage as to transmit it unim? paired to our posterity, or are we de? preciating it by conformity to the world ? Are we mingling the speech of Ashdod with the conversation that ought to be "in heaven?" Let us listen for a moment. Two sisters in Christ are going home from Church. One says to the other: I "Wasn't that a beautiful sermon our ?ood pastor preached this morning ? J ome of his illustrations were just too lovely for anything 1 And did you notice Miss Smith's new winter bon? net ! It is the first of the season. We will have to get ours before next Sab? bath." And so they go on talking about the services and the fashions in as strange a jaragon as that of the Jewish children in Nehemiah'siime. The family gathers around the table to enjoy its Sabbath dinner. It is not like the cold Sabbath dinners of a hundred years ago, but the most elab? orate repast of the week, because there will be more time to enjoy it. A blessing is asked. The ohildren are called upon to . repeat the text. Some remarks are made in regard to I the music and the decorations and then the conversation drifts into Ash? dod talk abont matters secular and sensual. The program of engage- j ments for the week is discussed. Perhaps the news in the Sunday pa? per is -read and commented upon. A suggestion is interposed, now and then, anent the weekly prayer-meet? ing, or the Woman's Monthly Mis? sionary meeting. But all sorts of topics are jumbled together, like the Hebrew and the Philistine words in the street talk that angered Nehemiah. And we have this mixture of world liness vdth Christianity indeed as well as in word. Think of voung men and maidens dancing or playing progres- I sive euchre until 12 o'clock Saturday night and then coming to Church Sab? bath morning, bowing their heads and repeating after the minister, "Lead us not into temptation." Think of a man making a public consecration of himself to that Saviour who said, "If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up bis cross daily and follow me," and then spend? ing more in carnal comforts and sen? sual indulgences, that single week than he gives to missions in a whole year 1 Think of a man who goes to the meeting of a convivial club at the hour when his brethren assemble in the church for prayer 1 Think of the woman who talks piously in the ladies' meeting, and then gossip? about her neighbor's faults and foL :s as soon as it is over. Have not some of my readers met this good sister ? Nay, can not some of them see her face in their looking-glasses ? I am not mak? ing assertions, I am only asking ques-1 tions. I cannot refer to all the illustrations of this modern mixture. There is Miss A. She sang a solo, a hymn of praise and consecration, last Sabbath, so sweetly that many hearts were thrilled and many eyes moistened. But Tuesday evening, at a Halloween party, she sang such rollicking songs that the company was convulsed with laughter. We will think of that mu? sical jingle the next time she sings in Church. i Mr. B. is a good talker. I used to like to.hear him tell in prayer-meet? ing about his love for our dear Sav? iour. But I had some business transactions with him last week. He tried to make me believe that black was white, and that what he had to sell was worth twice its real value. That Ashdod talk has spoiled his prayer-meeting talks for me. Oh that we could be thoroughly consist? ent and whole-hearted in our devo? tion to Christ! Oh that we could live for him, for him only, for him al? ways, for him everywhere and in all things 1 How faithfully he warned us that we cannot serve God and mammon. I Old Kobert South says : "No man can have two chief gods. It is in? deed more impossible than to serve two masters; forasmuch as a man's heart is more laid ^ut upon what he loves than upon what he serves. Be? sides that the soi l is but of a stinted operation, and cannot exert its full force and vigor upon two diverse much less contradictory objects. A man must first have two hearts, two souls and two selves before he can give a heart to God, and a heart to the world also." Bank .Rebellion! Columbia Register, July 24. The sensation of Sunday and yester? day in Columbia and throughout the State was the announcement that Governor Tillman intended issuing a proclamation ordering the reopening of the dispensaries. Sure enough. Governor Tillman yesterday issued such a proclamation. According to it the county dispensers are ordered to reopen their dispensaries on the first day of August. Governor Till? man issued the order in his discretion as Chief Executive of the State, and not as chairman of the State board of dispensary control. It remains yet to be seen what the other members of the board will think of his action. Should they think it unwarranted, they may oppose Governor Tillman, and then there would be lively times. Governor Tillman would be in a mi? nority of one, but we mistake the man if he would not undertake to run the dispensaries despite the non-assent of the other members of the hoard. Then would come a tug of war which would be exciting and interest? ing. ******** Let us follow Governor Tillman'a reason; ng in support of his action in ordering reopening of the dispensa? ries. The decision of the Supreme Court was upon the Act of 1892. When the decision was announced, Governor Tillman said it meant pro hibitiou and stated that he would bow to the authority of the Supreme Court. In recognition of that author? ity, he ordered the closing of all the dispensaries in the State. <They were closed and have remained closed. But if the decision of the Supreme Court only involved the Act of 1892, why did the hoard of control, which was acting under the Act of 1893, order the closing of the dispensaries ? That action has been taken by many people as a tacit acknowledgement that the decision knocking out the Act of 1892 carried down with it the Act of 1893, because they were identical in principle In other words, they thought it plain that if the supreme court declared law law uncon sti tu tion al, the mere re-enact? ment of that law by the General As? sembly with changes in verbiage would not make it constitutional. Governor Tillman iu his proclama? tion appears to rest his right to re? open the dispensaries upon the fact that the Supreme Court has not pass? ed upon the Act of 1893. In his speech at Holly's Ferry, however, tho Governor boasted of his having hid out in the bushes with the Act of 1893 so that the Supreme Court could not pass upon it. How then can the Supreme Court be blamed for not passing upon the law ? The situation is -perplexing and it is hard to say just exactly what ought to be done. Before the deoision of the Supreme Court it was difficult to enforce the dispensary law. It cost the lives of five or six men and the wounding of several others to enforce it. But it will be ten times more dif? ficult to enforce the law than ever he fore, for l;he disregard for it of its op? ponents has been increased by the de? cision of the Supreme Court, and li? quor men feel now that those who at? tempt to break up their business have no warrant of law for their action and will he ten times more desperate in resisting all such attempts. The re? sult will be endless turmoil and strife, with frequent callings out of the mil? itia. The 25,000 or 30,000 men who are opposed to the dispensary law will have no hesitation when doing jury duty to vote for the acquittal of persons indicted under that law, no no matter how strong the proof, for they feel that there is no such law since the decision of the Supreme Court. What is to be done then ? If convictions cannot >be had, wherein will be the use of the expense of at? tempting to get them ? The number of those who think ac? tion should have been deferred until after the meeting of the General As? sembly which might alter the law so as to make it run the gauntlet of the Supreme Court without violation of the rule oi stare decises is many. Those who think thus arc among the best ^Reformers and Conservatives. "We await with fear the result of the reopening. May the all-wise God of Nations rule the hearts of men and their actions so so that peace and not strife may prevail in South Caro? lina. Inns Igating an Accident. Superintendent Warren of the East? ern Illinois railway was telling the other evening of a certain engineer in the employ of the road who had been repeatedly cautioned against running too fast. He was running a freight train, and on one portion of his divis? ion there was a steep hill. His orders were to never permit his train to go down that hill faster than 15 miles an hour, but it was general belief that whenever he had a safe opportunity he sailed down that grade just as fast as the wheels would turn. One day he did go down the hill so fast that the entire train left the track at the bottom, and there were box cars piled up high. An investigation immedi? ately followed, and the engineer in railroad parlance, was put on the "carpet." He swore in the most sol? emn terms that he went down the hill not faster than 15 miles an hour, but that just before reaching the bottom he lost control of the airbrake, and the speed became so great the train could not keep the track ; hence the wreck, for which he was not responsi? ble. "But," said his superintendent, "we have a man here, a farmer, who was on the hillside that day when you came down. He stood at the edge of a clearing, saw you at the top and all the way down, and he will swear that he never saw a train going so fast in all his life, and he is a man 60 years old. He says that it was next to an impossibility to see the wheels. What do you say to that ?" The engineer never hesitated. "I know the man. I saw him the day after the wreck, and he told the same story to me, only there was a little more to it." "What was that?" "Why, he told me that it was the first train of cars he had ever seen in his life, and I don't think he would be a very good judge of speed." There was silence in the room for a few moments, and the engineer got off with a 60 days' suspension.?Chicago Herald. ? Iu Brazil a couple may be mar? ried by drinking brandy together. Rudy's Pile Suppository is guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, or money refunded. 50 cents per box. Send stamp for circular and Free Sam? ple to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa. For Sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, drug? gists Anderson, S. C. Nature's Most Invincible Creatures. BT DR. EUGENE MURRAY AARON. We are apt to consider ourselves the most powerful and all conquering members of the animal world, and next to us we range such creatures as the lion, tiger, grizzly bear and ele? phant, as capahlo of maintaining their own against all comers in an open hand-to-hand or mouth-to-mouth fight Yet in doing so we efr greatly, simply because we consider mere bigness or muscular force, forgetting the energy and the intellectual powers that make one of nature's tiny creatures, when combined in the vast numbers in which they are always found, by far the most formidable animal force known on land. Therefore, when the question is put to us, "Which do you consider the most resistless of all animals ?" it is always safe to reply that if warlike manifestations are re ferred to, the soldier or driver ants are far and away the most terribly in vincible creatures with which wo can be brought in contact. Monsieur Coillard, a French mis sionary in the Barotse Valley of South Central Africa, thus writes of these terrors there: "One sees them busy in innumerable battalions, ranked and disciplined, winding along like a broad black ribbon of watery silk Whence come they ? Where are they going ? Nothing can stop them nor can any object change their route. If it is an inanimate object, they turn it aside and pass on ; if it is living they assail it venomously, crowding one on top of the other to the attack, while the main army passes on. businesslike and silent. L the obstacle a trench or a stream of water ? Then they form themselves at its edge into a compact mass. Is this u deliberating assembly ? Probably, for soon ? the mass etirs and moves on, crosses the trench or stream, continues in its in? cessant and mysterious march. A multitude of these soldiers are sacri? ficed for the common good, and these legions, whioh know not what it is to be beaten, pass over the corpses of these victims to their desti? nation." Against these tiny enemies no man, nor band of men, no lion or tiger, nor even a herd of elephants, can do nothing but hurriedly get out of the way. Among the Barotse natives a favorite form of capital punishment is to coat the victim with grease and throw him before the advancing army of soldier ants. The quickness with which the wretch is dispatched is marvelous when it is considered that each ant can do nothing more than merely tear out a small particle of flesh and carry it off. Yet in a sur? prisingly short time the writhing vic? tim will have been changed into a skeleton of skeleton of clean and pol? ished bones that will make the trained anatomist envious. All are familiar with the talcs of how these armies of ants enter a trop? ical village and take entire possession of it, driving its inhabitants out in terror, and at last in a few hours or a day or two abandoning it cleaner than the arts of the most orderly house? keeper could ever make it." These are not travelers' tales. The most gifted pen must fail to give an adequate idea to the uninitiated of just how thor? ough and searching these creatures .are in ridding a house of every bit of animal and vegetable matter in it. Perhaps, however, the narration of the following bit of personal experi? ence may help to illustrate it. I had returned from a day's tramp in the hills, laden with trophies in the shape of tropical insects, some of them, perhaps, nefr to the eyes of scientists, an"*, all of certain value, when I was called out of my house by the cry. "The driver ants, the driver ants. Hastily placing most of my collections in glass jars and tin boxes, so as to be out of the reach of the invaders, and gathering such clothes as I would need for a day or two, I made a rather undignified retreat. After I had done so I remembered that I had left some rare bees pinned in a box that was in the pocket of my collecting coat, but as the coat had been placed in a strong chest and this chest was heavily scented with naphthalsn or "tar cam phot," and the lid fitted down very tight, I felt that they were safe. The next morning when I went back, after a night spent in my hammock in a tamarind tree, I found that of a bunch of bananas, consisting of a thick stem, and about 100 of the fruit, there was no trace whatever, save the dangling string with which it had been hung from the ceiling; and not a vestige of bread, chocolate, coffee and other eat? able odds and ends could be found on the thoroughly cleaned shelves on which some food had been left. Even the cracks between the floor boards had been cleaned out, the particles of edible matter having been carried away or devoured and the mere dust left where it could easily be swept away. This was not so bad, for a good cleaning never hurts a house in the tropics ; but when I came to examine my chest and found that a hole quite two inches in diameter had been torn in one end through an inch board of hard wood, that the box in my coat pocket had also been pierced and ev? ery one of the pins on which my beetles had been arranged stood in place as empty and clean as when taken out of the paper, I had a better idea of the thoroughness of these tiny scavengers than ever before.?Scien? tific American. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure is taken internally, acting dircotly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de? stroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and as? sisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One ?Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimo? nials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. J5SrSold by Druggist, 75c. ? Danville, Indiana, cla'ims the greatest man on earth?physically. He is 37 years old, weighs 907 pounds, is six feet tall, and eight feet four in? ches around the hips. Forty-one yards of cloth are required to make him a suit of clothes and three pounds of yarn to make him a pair of socks. His greatest ambition is to some day tip the scales at one thousand pounds. Confederate General?. It is a melancholy fact that almost every Confederate General who did not succumb to disease or fell in bat? tle died in poverty he brought on by his devotion to the cause espoused, says the Brooklyn Eagle. Raphae and Paul Semmes both died poor themselves, but a daughter of the former married a prosperous lawyer, Gen. Zollicoffer. She left nothing to a family of five daughters, four of whom, however, married well. The fifth may have done likewise, although accurate trace of her has been lost. Gen. Pillow left his family so poorly provided for that they were compelled to sell his library and his house also, although friends rebought it by sub? scription. Gen. T. C. Hindman died penniless, so did Gen. Dick Taylor, and his two daughters made their home with a.n aunt. He published a book,-but it did not prove a?monetary success, and left him in worse circum? stances than before. Stonewall Jack? son left his wife and daughter without means, but they were reasonably helped by legacies. Gen. Polk left nothing to his family, but his son Dr. Polk, located in New York and built up a very large and profitable practice. Gen. Forrest, who became a farmer, labored hard to succeed as a planter, but at his death left only a meagre inheritance to his family. Mrs. Gen. Ewell, who died three days after her husband, owned a very considerable property in St. Louis, and maintained a very comfortable establishment. Gen. Bragg left no property, and his widow went to live witruher ?ister in New Orleans. Gen. Hood was far from being wealthy, and Gen. S. Cooper "was absolutely poor. Major Gen. Whiting, of Fort Fisher fame, who died in prison in 1864, left noth? ing, and Gen. L. M. Walker, killed by Mannaduke in a duel, left but lit? tle to his wife. Gen. Buckaer had a varied experi? ence. His wife owned large tracts of unimproved real estate in Chicago, which was confiscated, but afterward recovered. It was then mortgaged, built up, and, in a panic, sacrificed for the mortgaged money, leaving him poor. Gen. Zack Deas, of Alabama, whose fame may not have been equal to that of others, was a shrewd finan? cier. He went into Wall street after the war and became rich. Gen. P. D. Boddy, a dashing cavalryman, also made the plunge into Wall street, but his fate was different. He lost every? thing he had, and then went to Lon? don and earned a moderate income a3 financial agent of some banking house. Gen. W. J. Frazier, who surrendered Cumberland Gap, settled down in New York and prospered as a broker. Gen. Thomas Jordan became editor of the Mining Record, and for years a familiar figure on Broadway. Maj. Gen. Loring 3crvcd for four years in the Egyptian army, then returned to America and became connected with a mining company of New Mexico, where he made money fast and became wealthy. Another who went to Egypt was Gen. A. W. Reynolds. He serv? ed awhile, dropped out of service, and then settled down in the country of his adoption. The careers of Early and Beauregard are well known. They lived and pros? pered in New Orleans, where they su? perintended the drawings of the Louis? iana Lottery Company. Gen. Early's death occurred in Virginia only a few months ago. He was one of the last of the great Southern Generals. The latter days of Gen. R. E. Lee's life were passed in the quiet of Lex? ington in his native State, where he became an instructor of young men. The duties of a College Prosidentwere faithfully carried out by him, although it was probable that the last years of his life were filled with infinite sad? ness. Whatever physicians may say, it is not far from the truth to declare jthat he died from a broken heart. Of the remaining brilliant leaders of the Lost Cause some dropped from sight and memory, -others <had a quiet and prosperous old age, but few fared worse than Gen. Thomas Benton Smith. He passed his later years in an insane asylum in Tennessee. That Confederate Billionaire* Mr. C. B. Rouss, the New York wholesale jobber, who went on Eras tus Wiman's bond for $30,000, and who has recently offered prizes for the encouragement of southern art stu? dents, is a millionaire .of a peculiar type. After the war Rouss came out of the confederate army utterly penniless. He made his way to New York and reached the city with 10 cents in his pocket. He slept in the park, ate free lunches and did odd jobs, and finally had a buninessi of his own. Misfor? tunes came upon him and he was sent to jail for debt. Wiman heard of his trouble, and on Christmas day sent him a fine dinner with a friendly let? ter. The prisoner felt encouraged, and on the jail wall wrote the prediction that in five years he would be free from debt and worth half a million. He was soon released and fortune fa? vored him. He is now worth several million dollars, and his kindness to Wiman shows that he never forgets a friend or a favor. The newspapers tell queer stories of him. He pays his employes at the end of each days'swork, and he makes it a point to pick up bright salesmen who have wrecked themselves by the drink habit. He has these men prop? erly watched and cared for, and many of them have thrown off their old habits, and are now sober, prosperous business men. Mr. Rouss employs a great number of typewriter girls. They represent almost every type of beauty, and when their employer has nothing else to do he likes nothing better than to sit where he can quiet? ly observe them and study their faces. His wealth has not made him purse proud. He lives simply, spends mon? ey freely, and is a friend worth having, as Erastus Wiman has found out. Perhaps that Christmas dinner sent to the man in a debtor's prison will yet be the means of re-establishing the man who sent it. No doubt Wiman now thinks that he never made a bet? ter investment. ? Kenneth Bazcmore had the good fortune to receive a small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy when three mem? bers of his family were sick with dys? entery. This one small bottle cured them all and he had some left which he gave to Geo. W. Baker, a promi? nent merchant of that place, Lewis ton, N. C, and it cured him of the same complaint. When troubled with dysentery, diarrhoea, colic or cholera morbus, give this remedy a trial and you will be more than pleas? ed with the result. The praise that naturally follows its introduction and use has made it very popular. 25 and 50 cent bottles fo.? sale by Hill Bros. The American Bicycle. "When one considers the present ex? tensive use of the bicycle in almost every part of the United States, it seems remarkable that half a genera? tion ago the first American made "wheel' had not come into existence. The bicycle, considered as distinct from the old velocipede, came into use in England in 1869, but did not make its advent in America until nineyears later. It is true a single machine waa made in this country in 1877, for Col? onel Albert A. Pope, of Boston, but it was in 1878 that the industry was ac? tually begun, the Pope Manufacturing company having made 50 bicycles in that year. They were modeled upon one of the best English machines, the 1 'Duplex Excelsior.'' It was not long before the company devised new pat? terns of its own, embodying various original improvements. Colonel Pope had full faith in the success of the bi? cycle in this country as a practical and popular road machine, and it was soon proved that his predictions were well founded. The success of his company, and the rapid development of a gener? al interest in cycling led others to en? gage in the business. Slightly previous to the first manu? facture of bicycles in this country there was a small importation of Eng? lish machines, and the importing bus? iness gradually developed to large pro? portions. The American manufactur? ers, however, more than kept pace with the foreign trade, when the years 1887 and 1888 ushered in a new era in bicycling, caused by the introduction of the rearing driving safety. In 1887 the Overman Wheel Co., oi: Boston, had brought out a machine of this type, and others makers, who had already been perfectincr designs, brought out safeties in the following year. The result was not merely a large supplanting of the former type, now in distinction called the "ordina? ry," but it brought bicycling into fa? vor with many people who had hither? to besn deterred from it, an advantage very largely increased by the introduc? tion of pneumatic tires a couple of seasons later. A very important phase of the new era was the develop? ment of bicycling for women, who had been before this limited to the compar? atively heavy tricycle, and thus placed at a disadvantage. Practically the leading manufacturers now produce special patterns for ladies' use, and it is safe to say that the present number of riders of this sex is larger than the total number of wheelmen in the coun? try ten years ago. Thatjthere is a pe? culiar fascination about a bicycle no one who watches the silent swiftness can doubt, and contrary to the general impression, the average woman learns to ride very easily and quickly, and when she once becomes mistress of the situation, and gets her machine under full control, she is apt to become more enthusiastic over its possibilities than her wheeling brother. As the popularity of the wheel increased, many new makes were plac? ed on the market, the resulting com? petition bringing improvement of all kinds to the fore in numberless varie? ty. The simple yet strong diamond frame came first, followed by improve | ments in construction from time to time as the manufacturers learned where the greatest strains should be provided for, and where the weight could be reduced without danger. The clumsy looking pneumatic tire;; have [ done much, with their cushioned ease, to lessen the sudden strains that the ' o ld style wheels were subject to, mak iug possible the gradual reductions in weight which have evolved the strong, swift wheels of to-day, weighing from 28 to 35 pounds, and the featherweight track racers on which the records are made. The many makers, all working to make and keep a reputation, have put their best brains and most skillful work into the modern bicycle, and many kinds of wheels can rightly claim to be the best that can be made. Prominent among these are the Mon archs, Columbias, Victors, Ramblers, Imperials, Waverleys, and Walpoles, and such English makes as the Ra? leigh and Humber. All first-class high-grade wheels are a safe invest? ment of the money they cost. Cer? tainly safe, for what other investment yields health as well us pleasure? None but the wheelman or wheelwo man knows the peculiar sense of cx hi lirating freedom that a light, strong wheel supported by air, can give. Literally the wheelman of to-day rides "on the wings of the wind." The bicycle, as now used by both men and women, has become an essen? tial factor in the life of the people, hardly less in its practical value than the common carriage. In nearly every city and town of the United States, excepting a few particularly unfavored localities, it has come into use for bus? iness, health and pleasure. To esti? mate the number of bicycles now used in this country would be a difficult matter, but the number would be among the hundreds of thousands, representing a purchasing price of tens of millions of dollars. The benefits of this popular use of the wheel do not accrue to the manu? facturers and riders alone. It has been left to wheelmen to arouse the public to the true conditions of our highways, and forcibly call attention to the evils of our road systems. As a result there has been inaugurated a wide-spread movement for better roads, and the bi? cyclists, especially the League of American Wheelmen, are tobe thank? ed for various efficient legislative bills prepared and pushed with this object. 16 is hard to say where the improve? ments in bicycle manufacture will stop, and it is equally hard to say what is left that can be improved on, for it really seems as if .the light wheels of the present day, with their diamond frames, dust-proof ball-bear? ing.5! and pneumatic tires, were the per? fection of strength and ease. The slight care required by a bicycle, cou? pled with its ability to easily outstrip a horse on the road for either long or short distances, makes it perhaps the most useful as well as pleasureablc in? vention of modern inventions. In closing, let us give you one word of advice: If you see your friend has bought a wheel, as he probably has, go thou and do likewise. ? The girl with one beau to her string stands a better chance of not being an old maid than the girl with a dozen. ? I know an old soldier who had chronic diarrhoea of long standing to have been permanently cured by tak? ing Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, says Edward Shumpik, a prominent druggist of Minneapolis, Minn. "I have sold the remedy in this city for over seven years and consider it superior to any other medicine now on the market for bowel complaints." 25 and 50 cent I bottles of this remedy for sale by Hill Bros, I Electricity's Possibilities. There is a bright writer who con? tributes to "Good News," a-boy's pa? per, published in New York. He heads his work "Talks," and in his columngives some very excellent ad? vice. The following is one of the best things recently from his pen. The wonders wrought by Aladdin's lamp are fairly rivaled by the work of electricity; perhaps in the course of time' they may be surpassed by it. Nearly every day, it seems to me. some new achievement, accomplished by this mysterious and all powerful force, is made known. So much has been done with it that we are no long? er surprised by the marvelous record that it is making. And let me say here that electricity is bound to be the force of the future, the force by means of which all me? chanical and economic results will be achieved. It will drive our engines, run our railway trains, our steamships, road carriages and vehicles of every kind, even as it now lights and heats our houses and cooks our dinners. And I do not "doubt that all this will be seen by even the old men of the present generation. So far as the boys and girls that I am talking to are concerned, the wild? est flights of fancy could hardly con? ceive of the things that they will see before they reach old age. What do you suppose they are doing now with an electric current and a pail of water? Something that seems to turn a law of nature up-side down. Let me tell you about it. Thousands of you* have seen a blacksmith with his tongs take a piece of red-hot iron from hin forge-fire and thrust it into a pail of water to cool it. What would you think if you should see him thrust a piece of perfectly cold iron into a pail of water and bring it out while hot? That is reversing the laws of nature with a caution, is it not? It is, most certainly; but it is being done all the time now, and it is becoming quite commonplace. I know the statement staggers your belief, but when I tell you that elec? tricity is the magician that does the work, you will lose your incredulity. The process is as simple as it marvel? ous. Across the top of an ordinary wooden water pail a bar of iron is laid. The negative pole of a dynamo is at? tached to the bar by a wire, and an? other wire connects the other pole of dynamo with a copper plate in the bottom of the pail, and there you are. Now, the blacksmith merely rests the piece of iron or steel against the bar across the top of the pail and dips the end of it into the water in the pail. Almost immediately the end of the metal becomes very hot, and the smith takes it out and begins to work on it with his hammer. That seems very much like magic, doesn't it? But it isn't; it is a very practical piece of business done by that wonderful electricity. Here is what happens when the smith places the iron against the bar with its end in the water: The electric current is closed by that act, and un? der the influence of the current the water immediately begins to decom? pose into the gases that form it?oxy? gen and hydrogen. When that process begins, the hy? drogen accumulation of the hydrogen on the iron that is submerged, thus preventing the water from coming in contact with it. The accumulation of the hydrogen on the iron would cause a stoppage of the current if the latter were of ordinary strength, but it is quite strong, on the contrary, and, in overcoming the resistance of the hydro? gen, great heat is developed, which passes into the piece of iron, making it even white hot. . The surrounding water does not cool the iron because, as I have said, the hydrogen film protects it. That is the "water pail forge," as it is now coming into general use, and to my mind is one of the most astonish? ing results that haYe sprung from electrical research. The blacksmith no longer needs his forge, his great j bellows, and his coal fire, with its smoke and its dust; a dynamo and a wooden bucket takes the place of that clumsy, expensive and dirt making outfit. Treatment of Boras, In these days of experiment, when, as an eminent surgeon recently re? marked, the profession seems mainly interested in trying to see how much of the human frame they can cut away and still have the patient live," it is interesting to record an instance where doctors have been willing to depart slightly from the scientific and try the efficacy of what some of their contem? poraries contemptuously call "old wo : man's remedies." A young woman, J aged eighteen years, was burned by the igniting of a quantity of gasoline. The arms, face, neck, shoulders, and the inside of the mouth and throat were badly burned, the hands especi? ally being so charred that the flesh crumbled into black powder upon be? ing touched. The treatment consisted of applications of soft paste made of lard and flour. This was renewed as fast aB the flour became dried and crumbly by the absorbtion of the fat. Upon the first application there was a decided sense of relief, which was in? creased by the free use of opiates. No other remedy was used, and the burns, although very deep in some places, involving not less than half an inch of the flesh, healed without a scar. In this case an extrenfely serious state of things ensued in the way of an ob? stinate cough, and the raising of a quantity of thin, white, filmy mem? brane, which was pronounced the coat? ing of the throat and air passages of the upper part of the lungs. In her fright the young woman had evidently drawn the flame into the lungs in suffi? cient quantity to blister some portion of them. Her recovery was rapid, considering the gravity of the case, she being confined to her room but abfut five weeks. When the band? ages were removed from the burned surfaces they were kept thoroughly softened with lard, and the drawing up and disfigurement usually accompany? ing such injuries was entirely absent. This is in striking contrast to the or? dinary lime water and linseed oil treat? ment, which has induced spontaneous combustion, and the zinc and other washes that have produced nausea and hemorrhages of the stomach, with fa? tal terminations. Perfectly clean, home rendered lard may be obtained by almost any one, and forms the ba? sis of a course of treatment that will, if properly managed and persistently applied, save the lives of eight cases out of ten, and also prevent all dis? tressing disfigurements.?Xeto York Ledger. ? It would require eight hundred thousan full moons to produce a day as brilliant as one of cloudless sun? shines. All Sorts ox Paragraphs. ? Uncle Sam's egg crop is? worth $100,000,000 annually. ? There are 57,000 women engaged^ in farming in the United States. - ? The first city built was, according to Hebrew tradition, in B. C. 3769, by Cain. ? In the East Indies there are\spi ders so large that they feed on small birds. ? The national4>anks of New York at present hold nearly $100,000,000 in gold. ? It is estimated that New York has no less than 100,000 opium amok- j ers. ? It will not make your heart any whiter to try to blacken somebody else. ?. -" ? German dentists are now using * glass in filling teeth in some instan? ces. ? The largest theatre in the world is the Paris opera house. It covers three acres. j? He that can feast upon another's misery, vexation or disappointment has a most unhealthy soul. ? Lovers love to tell each otherwhat they think of each other. So do mar? ried people, sometimes?and they do .'. it, too. -WB ? Petroleum is derivered from veg? etable and animal substances that were - deposited in and associated with the forming of rocks. ? Indian corn, or maize, never has . an uneven number of rows of grains, because it has opposite radicals or growth from the cob center. ? Delplaine gives figures to 'vrove that the planet earth has supported 66.627,842,237,075,266 human in? habitants since the beginning of time. ? In Persia the women of fashion paint black circles around each eye: and ornament the checks with fig? ures of various small animals, bugs,-, etc. * ? Prof. "G. A. F. Van Ryhn is au? thority for the statement that there are' 900 languages and 1,200 different dialects spoken by the people of the - world. ? In-order to elope with her sweet? heart Helen Witten, who lives near' Paintsville, Ky., chloroformed her parents ana four children. She got away. ? The Egyptians were such hard drinkers that they served boiled cab? bage, with salt meat, as the first dish j? at a-meal in order to stimulate their A thirst. ? The largest farm in this country is situated in Louisiana, it being 100 miles one way by twenty-five the -, other. The fencing alone for it cost *? $50,000. ? A bright young country woman, answers the question, "What is your., idea of luxury ?" with the suggestion, "The possession of something I don't own." ? If you are out of work a clean face, blacked shoes, and a nose with? out a blossom will be a better intro? duction than a diamond stud or a gold watch chain. ? At Washington there is a list of *: all the known anarchists in the world, and their place of residence when last i heard from. The French govewinenA-* has a similar list. ? Judas sold his Master for 30 pieces of silver; that is, thirty Roman pennies; about $4.12}. One Roman .penny was a good day's wages fOTan , agricultural laborer. ? Dick: What are you kicking about the income tax for ? You havn't any income. Phil: Perhaps . j not now, but I'm to marry a girl with , fifteen thousand a year. ( ? A man in New Jersey has dis? covered a new cure for hydrophobia. Before being bitten by a rabid dojr he he seized the animal and choked it to ? death. The remedy is infallible. ? S. S. Teacher: Why did Job * curse the day on which he was horn ? ; Johnny: P'raps he was horned on Christmas, like me, and the same presents had to do for his birthday and Christmas. ? Electrical bicycles are cropping up in England. The weight, of the batteries, when filled with the li? quid, is to be 44 pounds, and the ? whole weight of the machine is to be 155 pounds. ? "When does a man become a seamstress?" "When he hems and haws." "No." "When he threads his way." "No." "When he rips and tears." "No." "Give it up." "Never if he can help it." ? He: I had a queer dream about you last night, Miss Louisa. I was about to give you a kiss, when sud? denly we were separated by a river that gradually grew as big as the Rhine. She : And was there no bridge and no boat ? ? A mysterious pool is located uear Brooksville, Fla. A stream of water flows into it and disappears in a whirlpool in the center. A log thrown into it, will circle the pool many times, gradually drawing closer to the center when it sinks out of view. ? Mrs. Jones : Wasn't that a pow? erful address of Brother Smith's at the experience meeting ? Deacon Jones : Oh, Smith is a good man, but he's a little conceited. To hear him talk you would think there never was a hardened sinner in the world except him! . ? "What's the matter that there is no dinner ready?" asked the labor dealer. ''The cook has quit." re? plied his wife, leaning back in her chair and fanning gently. "Why did'ut you get it ready yourself? You know how well enough." "Me ? I'm out on a sympathetic strike with the cook." ? My boy was taken with a disease resembling bloody flux. The first thing I thought of was Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Two doses of it settled the matter and cured him sound and well. I heartily' recommend this remedy ao all persons suffering from a like complaint. I will answer any inquiries regarding it when stamp is inclosed. I refer to any County official as to my reliabil? ity. Wm. Roach, J. P., Primroy, Campbell Co., Tenn. For sale by Hill Bros. ? Paper telegraph poles are the latest development of making of paper useful. These poles are made of pa? per pulp, in which borax, tallow, etc., are mixed in small quantities. The pulp is cast in a mould, with a core in the center forming a hollow rod of the desired length, the cross-pieces,, driven in on either side of the pole. The paper poles are said to be lighter and stronger than those of wood, and to be unaffected by sun, rain, damp? ness, or any other causes which shorten the life of a wooden pole.