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BY GLINKSCALES & LANGSTON VOLUME XXIX.- NO. 7 SUMMER RESORT STORE-ROOM! I P. S?LLIYAN & 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 an elegant well of water in reiir of car Stora, so we will be able to entertain onr friends and cu?tomers daring the .bot Summer months comfortably. ' Oar olcl Store-room will be torn down and rebuilt in modern style, which we will occupy again about the 15th of Septembar. i We are going to offer Bargains to Cash Buyers! And to those who buy on time and pay promptly I If yon war. t the BEST COFFEE, come to see us. If you want DRY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHING, Etc., for LESS MONEY than anywhere else, oome to see us. Respectfully, J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. SULLIVAN HARDWARE GO. MACHINERY SPECIAL. . The Oelebratedlffiproved Smith Gin and the New Lum xnus Gin, Cotton Presses and Suction Cotton Elevators?ot the latest and most unproved designs. _ Wagon Scales, Rubber & Leather Belting, Shafting, Pulleys, &c. All Kinds of Machinery Great Beducfion in Prices, especially on Steam Engines, j Now is the the Time to Strike Bottom. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT I AJT THE BOYS' STORE XTOU will find some rare Bargains in TINWARE until their stock la closed out. ? X '? For the want of time and space we cannot mention everything, but will give a Jew prices: Three Quart Dairy Pans at.-.5c. Eight Quart Diah Pans at.16c Eight Quart Milk Bucket....13c. PIE PANS, DIPPERS, BISCUIT CUTTERS, and other things toy nuraer- ; ous to mention. And don't forget that we carry a mil line of Confectioneries and Cigars. A bis; lot of Fancy Cakes and Crackers just received. We want money, and If you want Bargains bring us your money and we will give them to yon. Very respectfully, "THE BOYS STORE,' FREE CITY DELIVERY. JRUSSELL & BREAZEALE. fit iLITY WILL TELL. IJ' JL MAKE no pretensions to buy cheaper than others, but confidently claim that when QUALITY is desirable my Goods have few equals, if any?certainly no superior. I seek to furnlsniha VERY BEST at prices consistent. N While I was prevented from going to market by sickness, I have succeeded in get tinga? MAGNIHOENT STOCK OF GOODS! From Chicago, New York,, Philadelphia-and Baltimore. We cordially invite all to come and judge for Oaemselves as to QUALITY, BEAUTY, STYLE, PRICES, &c i solicit a liberal share of patronage. i * Thiihks for a generous past, with the hope of a continuance in the future, Respectfully, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS* SPECIAL NOTICE. Wi E beg to call your attention, not exclusively but especially, to our Fine Brand of j FLOUR?"Omega"?guaranteed to please the most fastidious. Also, to our su - periorline of? > CANNED FRUITS and VEGETABLES, LIES and JAMS, VHS'-SNOW FLAKE CRACKERS, sFLAKES, Etc . .je " BREDIS STEAM BREAD, HAM8, < BREAKFAST BACON, And everything, too numerous to mention, usually kept at a First Class Grocery Store. We shall be more than delighted for you to give us a call, and let us fill your or? ders. Thanking you in advance, we are, Yours very truly, P. 8.. WEBB & WEBB. -Remember, all Goods deli vered FREE. MEW JEWELRY STORE ! JOHN IM. HUBBARD, IN HIS NEW STORE...SN HOTEL BLOCK. '?/??: LOTS OF HEW GOODS. NOVELTIES UN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. IC TO $100.00. $?r No Charge for Engraving, J8F* The Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it's a pleasure to show them. -? - P.S.?If yw have Accounts with J. M. HUBBARD & BRO. make settlement with me at above place. JOHN M. HUBBAR10. A REMEDY FOR HARD TIES! I DESIRE to inform the trading public that I am now reducing my Stock for the Fall season, and for the next few week3 will offer great inducements to Cash buyers. Come and see my Stock of Family and Fancy Groceries, Canned Goods, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Cigars, Etc., And I will please you in prices and goods. G-. P. BIGBY. PIANOS AND ORGANS. Things to Remember when 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 time? tbeir value. Ludden <fe Bates Southern Music House bein? the largest bayer in the South is able to represent only best instruments made. Every man in its employ is sn expert in bis line, and tbey permit no faulty instrument to leave tbeir ware roorrs. Buy on]v from a House with an established refutation for skill sod fair dealing. For further particulars write or call on J, lt. EAYNIE & DAUGHTERS, Greenville, S. 0. Another Letter From Across the At? lantic. Editors Intelligencer : The most interesting things to be seen in Europe are those that have a history. The beauty of a building or monu? ment has its value enhanced because it has witnessed tho coronation of a great monarch, the burning of a mar? tyr, or beoause it contains the bones of some noted dignitary. For these reasons Churches are of the highest in terest to a traveler in a country that has an old civilization. When we contemplate one of the great Churches we are amazed on ac? count of its vast proportions, and the immense amount of time and labor put on apparently the smallest details. We, in America, where a few months are considered sufficiently long to complete our largest buildings, are sur? prised to learn that many of the ca? thedrals of Europe were more than a century in building. It was very sei: dorn that an architect saw the last stone hud on a Church that he plan? ned. The reason of this great expense of time and money on edifices of wor? ship is not difficult to find. During the Middle Ages, which is pre-emi? nently the period of Churoh building, education was confined to the priest? hood, and the people had to be taught by painting and sculpture instead of by books. The illiterate mass could not read of the crucifixion, for exam? ple, as given in the Bible; but who could not read the story T7h.cn it was given in some moral painting, or in carved wood or sculptured stone ? Wc find not only religious subjects thus treated, but, since the Church had possession of all learning, all other branches of .knowledge, we find taught in this manner astronomy, botany, zoology ; the details on stone we::e lessons on hygiene, on good em? ployment of time, on agriculture, all of which composed an encyclope? dia read by all. In those days the Church was everything, the. institu? tion that claim edalmost every thought and the talent of all geniuses. When we consider these facts we can better appreciate these great buildings, whose equal the world has never seen. After these prefatory notes I procede with my journey. Our route from London to Paris lay by Newhaven, Dieppe and Rowen. The latter, a manufacturing city of 107,000 inhabitants is historically one of the most interesting places in France. Lying in the northern part of the country, it has seen many wars, especially those waged between France and England. It will be remembered that it was here that Joan of Arc was tried and burned in 1431. The place where she was executed is marked with.a statue and a fountain. Joan of Aro is the most popular historic character at the present to be found in France. The reader knows how the simple maid, whose vocation was to mind her father's sheep, believed she was called by God to go and conduct the Dauphin to Beines and crown him king. After accomplishing this, how she was captured and put into the hands of the English, how these, with the assistance of a French eccleseasti oal court, tried her for witchcraft, and?an everlasting shame on the Catholic Church 1 condemned her to death. The most astonishing thing of all is that the Church is loud at present in its praise of the Maid, and has alread beatified her, looking to? wards placing her on the calendar as a. saint. The infallible institution burning at one time and beatifying the same person at another ! She was &>good Catholic, and since the whole world admires the courage and virtue of this heroine, as well as wonders at the revelation of the divine to her, the Church now thinks it must come in for its share of the honor. Oh, consistency! The royalists also try to make capital for their cause by say? ing that she was a good royalist and fought to place the king on his throne. The republicans use the incident of her trial and death as an apprrobium on the Church and royalty, on the former for killing her, on the latter for forsaking her in time of trouble. We see from this that a party can find support, or at least a semblance of it, in any incident. The great centre of interest at Rowen is the two Churches, the Ca? thedral and Saint Owen. Like the majority of Churches of northern France, they are Gothic. It is in this section of Europe that this style of architecture reached its highest per? fection. The Cathedral is rather an irregular pile. The two towers of the west facade are of unequal height, the one to the right being the most beau? tiful, as well as the highest. This is called Tour de Beurre from its having been built with the money paid for indulgencies to eat butter during Lent. The central spire has been recently restored, and is 465 feet high. The dimensions of the interior are 447 fect long? 105 feet wide, vault 92 feet above the pavement. The Cathe? dral contains the tombs of the follow? ing celebrated persons : Rollo (d. 927), Richard Coeur de Lion (d. 1199), Hen? ry I of England (d. 1189). John Ruskin says that Saint Owen is the moc>t beautiful example of Church architecture in existence, be? cause it is pure Gothic. It was begun in 1318 and finished in about 150 years. The proportions of the inte? rior arc : length 453 feet (being 26 feet longer than Notre-Dame de Pa? ris), width 84 feet, vaulting 106 feet high. But figures can give no idea of the vastness and beauty of this edi? fice. ; When one enters it he is struck with the length of the nave, the beauty of the perspectives, the height I of the vaulting, the richness of the 135 stained glass, the cost of each one of which is almost a fortune. The visitor can place himself in the Church so that he sees nothing but innumera? ble columns and immense stained glass windows, no part of the wall be? ing visible. Nothing compares in beauty with these Gothio Churches. When the perfection of this archi? tecture is made the standard, St. Pauls at London is gross, the Pan? theon at Paris vulgar. The great Church architects are no more. No age before .or since has seen geniuses like these builders. Their inspiration, born of their time, died with them. Victor Hugo ex? plains this by saying that the print? ing press has killed the Cathedral; that we print Btories in books now, and not in stone. When wo look at Saint Owen, we are almost sorry it is so. We wish there were more like it. As we stand spell-bound before the works of these masters, looking upon this most beautiful page of history handed down to us, we can well ad? mire that faith that has taught to erect such a monument. The light steals through the stained glass many-colored, falling upon pave? ment, tomb and altar. One stands in this "dim' religious light," gazing down the long vistas formed by inter? minable columns, and is carried back five centuries. From some distant chapel rises the chorus of children at their morning service. As their juve vile notes reverberate from high vault, among massive columns and around ancient tombs, and come to fall upon the ear of the enraptured visitor, he is recalled from the shades of the past to present reality. Then he thinks there is but a short step back through those five centuries. The spirits of their ancestors are chanting in those children. The music of the present is from notes written in the past. Longer would I linger in thii old town, the gem of Normandy, rove over its green fields and flower-covered slopes. Longer would I wander through these old streets full of his? tory, but I must bid its beauties and interest adieu? W. E. Brsazeale. Paris, France, July 27,1894. Progress of Dental Surgery, The old and often deceived cogno? men of "tooth carpenter," as applied to the dentist, will certainly not hold in the present advanced stage of den? tal science. The old dread that would sutler agonies rather than submit the aching molar to the. rusty foceps and strong arm of the "tooth carpenter" has given way to the knowledge that dental practice is not to destroy, but to preserve. The old clinic's forceps, tnrn-screws, chisels and hammer, are back numbers, and the fearful torture of having a tooth-filled is a memory. Dentistry has advanced to a profes? sion. It is surgery. It is science. It is artistic. The "up-to-date" den? tal surgeon has nearly one thousand operating instruments. His skill and his experience in anesthesia enables him to perform the most difficult op? erations with but little, if any pain ; and, nowadays, the patient instead of hesitating in terror at the dentist's door, takes his seat in the dental chair with as much equanimity as he would in an opera box. This dental chair is a wonderful piece of ingenuity operated by electricity, finished with ball bearings and socket joints ; it is nicely adjusted to every motion of the operator, and in every position, is the perfection of comfort to the patient. Owing to advanced dentistry being "an art preservative," the proportion of people with artificial or "false" teeth, is steadily diminishing. Crown? ing teeth only requires the root to re? main, and the attached tooth is so perfectly fitted, that even the owner cannot distinguish from its neighbors, either by sight or feeling. The most pleasing work of the dentist is to im? prove nature. Understanding the anatomy and contour of the mouth and jaws as thoroughly as the occulist does the eye,' he removes interfering teeth, he lines them up, he clips off here, he fills in there, and he brings up the defective mouth to the most fashionable standard; and if my la? dy's cheeks or lips are shrunken, he will insert invisible plumbers, which, without pain or even inconvenience, make her a thing of beauty and a joy forever. The artificial teeth of Amer? ica arc concededly the best and finest made; even to manufacturing the "black teeth" for the wives and wid? ows of Japan, American dentists are considered the most expert in the world, and in almost every foreign city where an American dentist is lo? cated he takes the foremost rank and has the most lucrative practice. $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 directly 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, 0. *?-Sold by Druggist, 75c. ? Statistics show that in 1,000 marriages 332 me a marry women younger than themselves, 579 marry women of their own age or near it and 89 marry women older than them, selves. The most notable difference in ages was in Camden, N. Y., last year, where the bridegroom was 22 and the bride 69. ? Little Tommy Bay had a quar? rel with his sister, and would not kiss and be friends. His aunt said, "O, don't you remember what papa read at family prayers this morning, that we were to forgive 70 ti mes 7 ?" "res," replied Tommy, ''but I tickerlarly noticed it was to your brother, not sister!'1 MANCH JOLLET. A TRUE 8TORT. Augusta Chronicle. About one month ago I was on a north-bound train out from Augusta, Ga. In consequence of a heavy rain? fall the train was delayed for some time on account of a washout, and while waiting for the repairs to be made to the track I was drawn into conversation with two excellent gen? tlemen from South Carolina. One was Dr. W. B. Millwee, from Green? wood, the other gentleman was from Ridge Spring, and I have forgotten his name. It was while carrying on a general conversation that the subject of this sketch, Mance Jolley, was brought up. Dr. Millwee asked me if I had ever heard of Mance Jolley, the celebrated bushwhacker, o? Anderson County. After assuring him in the negative and expressing a great desire to hear something of his exploits, the genial Doctor proceeded to give a syn? opsis of some of the important events in the life of Mance Jolley, and the causes that led up to his being out? lawed by the Federal Government and a price of ten thousand dollars set upon his head. When the late war broke out Mance Jolley was one of the first to volun? teer, and spent the four dreadful years in fighting for the Lost Cause. He was a high-toned, educated gentleman, was noted for his bravery and daring, and from the fact that he and his cream-white charger, "Old Ironsides,' went through the fiery ordeal together and neither received a scratch or lost one single day from any cause. When hostilities ceased Jolley "rode his faithful old mount from Virginia back to his farm in Anderson County, and proceeded to make the best of a bad bargain, and to bring order out of chaos, for his farm had been neglected, and everything was in a bad way. Being an industrious and thrifty man he soon had everything all right once more. Now, there was a regiment of negro soldiers stationed at Anderson Court House, and this regiment was some? what of a stickler for Jolley. He could not reconcile himself to this, but he attended to his business ana said nothing. About the time Jolly got settled down to every day life he was sent for by an old and intimate friend, and told that all of his silverware and money had been stolen by some of the recently freed slaves, and he requested Jolley to help him recover his prop? erty. Having had the ring leader of the robbery pointed out to him Jolley braced him single handed, took him into a piece of woods, buckled him face in to a tree and with the aid of a rawhide he soon made the negro squeal and tell where all the stuf! could be found. The goods were returned to their owner, and Jolley went back to his farm. But the negro went to the colonel of the coon regiment and charged Jolley with assault with in? tent to murder. The colonel sent two mounted sons of Ham to the Jolley farm with instructions to bring the owner of said farm back to headquar? ters to answer the preferred charge. What became of the coons has never been known. At any rate Jolley had the two horses they rode hitched to a plow next day, working right along as if nothing had happened. The colonel next sent four trusty men to effect the capture of Jolley, but Mance had friends, and the four soldiers went the way 01 the previous two and Mance confiscated their hor? ses. When the fate of the last four be? came known a price was set upon Jol ley's head, but the colonel did not deputize anymore men to go to Jol? ley's home to arrest him; he chose other tactics to get Jolley within his dutches. Several months thereafter an entire company rode up to a little country church where Mance was at? tending divine worship. They first secured his horse, and then all ad? vanced to the church door. But Jol? ley got wind of the movement, bolted for the pulpit and jumped from a win? dow just as a volley was fired at him over the heads of the worshippers. Jolley had to go without his beloved horse, but it is said he dropped a man or two before he got out of rifle range. Jolley was sore over the loss of his horse, and forthwith made up his mind to recover him, and this feat is almost beyond belief, and is the most remarkable thing in the career of this remarkable man. Jolley wentback to his farm, mounted one of his contra? band plugs, and rode into Anderson next day, went right through the lines, and dismounted in front of the hotel, the colonel's headquarters, and asked to be shown to the colonel's room, which was done. The hotel people knew Jolley to be a brave man, but his actions now dumbfounded them. Jolley went right into the room", salu? ted and said: "Col. Whitehead, I presume ? My name is Mance Jolley. I was attacked while at church yester? day by a company of your men and my horse was stolen. I want a written order from you for the return of my horse at once. If you do not accede to my request I'll kill you right where you're sitting, and a good many of your soldiers will bite the dust before sundown to-day." All this time Jolley was fondling a huge and murderous looking revolver. The Mayor of Anderson, who hapr pened to be in the room at the time, told Dr. Millwee that Col. Whitehead was almost paralyzed with fear, and had to take a good stiff drink of cog? nac before he could recover his speech. He soon regained himself, however, and assured Mr. Jolley that nothing would give him more pleasure than to see that he recovered his horse. A messenger was dispatched, and while he was gone Col. Whitehead granted Jolley unconditional amnesty, and gave orders that he was not to be mo? lested in the future. Everything went along all right for while, but Mance got mixed up in another negro beating scrape, was re? ported, refused to be arrested, killed one or two soldiers, was again out? lawed, and a reward of ten thousand dollars was offered for his capture. Jolley then took a Confederate in with him, and together they went to bushwhacking right. One of their pet schemes was to waylay big army foraging wagons when they could catch one returning to camp loaded with provisions. Some times there would be as many as ten horses taken in this way, together with the con? tents of the wagon. They worked this racket successfully three or four times and it netted them several thousand dollars apiece. On one occasion Jolley and his Con? federate were galloping along a road near Anderson and suddenly ran up on two officers at a blacksmith shop, having their horses shod. The offi? cers did not know the men. Jolley and his partner drew rein, engaged the officers in conversation, and after chat? ting for half an hour suddenly ordered both men to throw up their hands. He disarmed them and took their hor? ses when the blacksmith had finished with them. The officers were then commanded to about face and get a hump on themselves for camp. The officers' horses and side arms were then piloted across the country to Jol ley's farm. Some time after this occurrence a company of men was sent to Jolley's home to take him dead or alive. After reaching the house and surrounding it a detail of twenty men were sent in. They were met at the door by Jolley's maiden sister, a stout, well built and healthy woman of about thirty-five summers. She told the officers in charge of the men that her brother was not at home, but if they insisted upon it she would let them search the house. The men filed into the house and searched every place from cellar to garret, and as they came straggling back to the front door after their fruitless search Miss Jolley assisted each one out. officers and all, with a well planted kick that would have re? flected credit on a trick mule in a circus. The men all took their medi? cine without a murmur, except one little five-foot corporal, who was al? most rendered hors du combat, and had to be carried back to quarters. Well, Jolley stayed around there for two yews and never was taken. He made two crops and marketed them, and came and went with impunity. Things got so hot for him at last, though, till he decided to give up bushwhacking and go to Texas. He converted all his property into cash, saddled up "Old Ironsides," and rode him all the way to the Lone StarState, bought a ranch, got married and set? tled down to lead a quiet life the re? mainder of his days. But the fates had decreed that Jolley was not long to enjoy his contemplated quietude, for in fording a stream after a heavy downpour of rain, he and his faithful "Old Ironsides vere drowned to? gether. Here's to poor Mance Jolley. Let us hope that before he went to his eternal rest that he made peace with his God. We will drink to his mem? ory in silence. W. B. Corbel. Llent. Gen. John B. Gordon. Editor Chronicle: In further sup? port to my position, and in confirma? tion of the statement th"t Hon. John B. Gordon was, before the close of the war, complimented with appoint? ment as Lieutenant, General, C. S. A., I beg to call attention to what the dis? tinguished chieftain himself says on the subject. In a letter to the under? signed, of date July 26th, Senator Gordon observes: "In the confusion incident to the great battle? around Petersburg and the final fall of that city and Rich? mond, my commission as lieutenant general was never received, although notified of my promotion by General John C. Breckinridge, then Secretary of War. I received this notification about th^ middle of February, 1865, although I had been in command of a corps some months previous. The delay in sending the commission was not unusual at that time, for the whole thought of the President, Con? gress and the Secretary of War and the General in Chief, was concentrated on the trying events occurring in rapid succession. A number of other com? missions of officers were never receiv? ed ; notably that of General Matt Bansom to the rank of Major General, and others. General Lee, however, acted upon the appointmentas though the commissions had been received, as he had previously done upon' my pro? motion to Major General, and placed me finally in command of one wing cf the army. Although the rank of Lieutenant General was undoubtedly conferred upon me by President Davis, as I was notified by the Secretary of War, yet at the surrender I signed my name only aa Major General, because in official acta I felt compelled to fall back to the rank on which I held commission at the time. You are entirely correct, however, in the state? ment that I was appointed Lieutenant General and held that rank from the date of the notice given me by the Secretary of War." It thus appears that the rank and title which I assigned to the Comman der-in-Chief cf the United Confederate Veterans, and Georgia's senior repre? sentative in the upper house of Con? gress, was not misapplied, and that, Lieutenant General, C. S. A. is, par eminence, the proper designation for the soldier-statesman, the Honorable John B. Gordon. Chas. Edoeworth Jones. Augusta, Ga., July 29,1894. He Wanted Somelblng Loud. "Say, Guggenheimer, I want to get a suit of clothes." "Vat kind ov styles you want ?" "I want something stunning. Some? thing so loud my wife can hear me coming three squares off even if the baby is crying." "Veil, mine fricnt, dees suit over your head vill baralize de baby. You hangs dot suit on derped bostand you no hear der baby gry mid outs you hold your ears at her mouth. You dakes er glass of peer mit dot suit ons, und ycur vife hears you halluf mile avay ven you pend your elpows." "That's bad about a fellow's wife being able to hear him take a drink so far off." "Yaw, dot es so, put, mine frient, of you grease dem unter der arms und apout der elpowa mit some machine oil dot stops dot. I drows in der oil free." ? In a certain family which was in rather poor circumstances, the arri? val of a wealthy aunt was expected. The aforesaid aunt, by some accident or other, had lost a portion of her nose. The children were reminded frequently not to make any reference whatever to the defective nasal organ. The wealthy aunt arrived but she had scarcely taken off her bonnet when the littlest kid of the flock exclaimed: "Papa, you told us not to say any? thing about aunt's nose. Why, she hasn't got any nose at all." ? Kenneth Bazcmorc 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 Gco. 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 for sale by Hill Bros. 8ABGE PL?NKETT. The Burning Question for the South At? lantic State?. Atlanta Constitution. There has just arrived in our settle? ment a Mr. Bane, from Texas, and he has turned many a head to swimming with the "Texas fever" from the glow? ing account he gives of the crops of that State. Mr. Bane is no "agent," but has returned to Georgia to sec old friends and relatives, and he is just such a gentleman that his words can be de? pended upon, and is, therefore, more dangerous to the interest of 'Georgia to the gain of Texas. While our Georgia boys are digging away at their little "bumble-bee" cotton, to free it from grass, caused in so much abun? dance by the late rains, Mr. Bane comes and tells them that people were picking cotton at his home when he left there two weeks ago, and that the stalks are as high as a man's head, and lapped in six-foot rows. Mr. Bane does not tell his glowing story of Texas with any interest of injuring his old State of Georgia. It is told as other simple truths would be told by a gentleman of veracity in the natural course of fircBide conver? sation, and the young people listen and wonder while feelings of dissatis? faction creep into their young minds and they grow weary of the old red hills. I would not disparage Texas if I could, nor would I undertake the soft? est impeachment of such a man as Mr. Bane, but I venture that there is another side to this picture, and a darker side. There are plenty of poor folks in Texas. There is grumbling of hard times; there are men out of work and "tramps" are upon the roads. I venture there is more "tramping" in Texas than in Georgia ?three times as much?and there are graveyards and suffering, and sickness, and I doubt if the tongues parching with the fevers of this rich section can find the crystal springs of old Georgia to cool them, nor the same healthful breeze does not fan them to rest. I say this, not that I love Texas less. Texas is you ag and vig? orous, and can stand alone now, with? out drawing from these old South Atlantic States, as she has drawn, and if she is wise she will cease, to tear her linen to draw from anywhere, but offer her wild lands as a premium for twins and grow a population worthy of the stock from whence they sprung. The Carolinas, Virginia and Geor? gia have done enough for Texas. The most of us have as many loved ones in Texas as we have at home, and if this "going" keeps on we will all long to go there for this reason. I have been watching these movers to Texas for a long time. Long trains of ox teams used to fill the roads on their way, and the dirt from here there has been moistened by, the tears of young mothers leaving their old settlements and the old folks so sad and lonely. Since the days of railroads I have watched the immigrant trains and there has been a tear for every puff of the engines that carried our friends away. It is like burying a loved one to take those too old to follow, to see them start for Texas. Especially should the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia begin to look for the cause that has been taking their young people away, and seek a remedy. Our young men are predisposed to go West, and it is a question that parents should ask themselves, why this is so? Brown and myself have placed the blame at a strange door?we have placed it upon the fathers. This is a strange place to put the blame, for we know that it is not intended. The "old man" may not cry and take on like the mother, but it wrings his heart just the same to see his children going off to the West, and he wonders why in the world they can't rest satis? fied at the old home. Brown had a talk with his boy and one of his sons in-law yesterday and the matter of "opportunity" seems to be weighing on their minds. They want some land of their own, and they think their op? portunity is in the West. Brown has enough land to give every child he has a home, and he expects for them to have it, but he wants them to wait till the "old folks" die before they get it. This waiting till father dies is the most Unpleasant thing that could be put on a child. A child does not like to contemplate the death of a parent ?they rather go West than for such an unpleasant thing to transpire, and Brown and I have figured it out that a child would not be worthy did he not feel thus. It is strange how the average "old man" does hate to divide up the old farm. They know the children will eventually get it all, and feel that this should satisfy. But it does not satisfy. Waiting is a hard thing with the young. It seems so long to wait ten years. An old man can remember when he thought he never would get to be twenty-one, and the old women of this day used to think that the time would never arrive for them to put on long dresses and go with the boys and marry and keep house for themselves. Time moves mighty slow with the young?a week is a month and a month is a year with them. And all their young days they work "in common" to fill the father's cribs and to keep up the old plantation. This is the fly in the lock?right here is where Brown and I place the blame. Every child should have something of its own from the very start of its working days. Just give your children a little "patch" of their own. Give it to them separately and then let me know if you ever hear of a boy being tired when his own patch is to work?never did a boy complain of hard work in his own patch, even if it was just a Saturday evening's holiday. Satur? day evenings given to negroes in slavery times fof the purpose of work? ing their own patches turned the old plantation into bowers of smiling cheerfulness and romping activity. Knowing this principle in human nature as well as old folks know it, it is strange that there is not more effort made for every child to have his "in? dividual" interest. Wc know of two young men in our settlement just now arrived at the age of twenty-one who are going to the West next fall. Either one of their fathers own as much as 200 acres of land. I venture the assertion that if these fathers, ten years ago, had given these sons ten acres of land, the ten acres would have now been rich and improved, the fathers would have lost no more of these sons' labor than they have lost, and these young men wculd not now be packing their trunks to go West. As it is, these fathers have several ten-acre plats on their places grown up in sedge and briars?unsightly to the eye and useless to all. You will never get me and Brown to believe anything but what a child should be encouraged in this way, and you will never make us believe that the parents lose any present benefits by such en? couragement. We have watched two little girls who had "patches" of their own this year, and they have not lost a moment to their mother on this account. On the contrary, they have more than gained the time by swifter work and have been happy all the year in anticipation af their harvest. But there will always be sorry peo? ple, discontented people and poor peo? ple, but to improve upon present con? ditions, I believe an easy matter so far as the children are concerned. "The old man" is the hardest thing to manage in the matter. I have always been a defender of the "old man" of families and I would not have him lose ah iota of his prestige, but I do think the majority of them arc too tenacious in holding on till death. It is so nice to see your children and grandchildren settled about on the old farm. A few might be ungrateful and brutes enough to forget their duties and lose their affection for the old people, but not many, and the greatest good to the greatest number is what should be sought for. There are mighty few fathers but what are will? ing and glad to do whatever will bene? fit his children. The most old men are just living for their children, and they honestly believe it would be bad business to divide up the farms. Some think that by keeping the wealth concentrated in one that the father holds a prestige for helping his chil? dren that they could not secure were it divided. And some old menshon estly believe thai a family would starve on a twenty-acre farm. The truth is?and it is what we all have got to learn in this Southern country ?that twenty acres is about as much as any one man needs, and the most of us would do better on ten acres. These big farms must go, and instead of howling for immigrants, the young people must be settled and the poor of the towns must be given ?uch terms, till not a Southern white man can be found but what is resting in peace under his own vine and fig tree. Work to induce the people already here to be contented, is what Brown says is much better than layine awake study? ing on schemes for immigration. Saroe Plunkett. Good Advice From a Bright Young ?en. To the Constitution, Jr.: When a young man, who has never been de? nied anything by his parents who were able to gratify every wish of their boy, takes a bird's eye view of this world at the beginning of his ca? reer, he is like a boy in love. He im? agines he is away up in the skies be? tween two batter cakes and the angels are pouring honey on him. He then starts out to make resolutions, and says he will begin vO-morrow to adopt them, but to-morrow never comes with that young man. In the course of years he finds himself without those parents who tfould gratify his wishes, and en? courage him in his resolutions to make a noble man of himself, and, boys, when for the first time this condition comes home to you, where are you ? You are as helpless as a man at sea who has a broom straw for a life pre? server. After you get out into the world to do your own scratching, you find out that no one cares whether your wishes are gratified or not. From my per? sonal experience you can hardly rely on friends who, you think, < would, help you most, for they are, with few exceptions, the ones who will turn their backs on you, and then you stare the cold, cold world in the face. Some boys at about my age often go wrong, and think they need some one to tell them right from wrong. That is a mistaken idea. Any fair-minded boy knows right from wrong, and if he does not believe he knows, he will find out that his conscience will soon draw it out so he can see his mistakes, and then the question is whether he will heed or not. A boy placed in my position, and one who is on neither side, and is about middling, has a good chance to see poverty and riches mixed. I am trying to decide whether I would rather be rich, poor or middling. I look at in this way. When a man is very wealthy it is such a burden to take care of his money, and it is so seldom that we find riches and selfish-, ness apart. I think if I can be in po? sition to lend a helping hand to those who have made resolutions and are trying to carry them out, and let me be about middling. I would rather take that position and view of life than to have the estate of the Astors. I think the best way for young men to do it is this. liaise your sights high and aim right at the white house, and some of you may one of these days find yourself safely located in one of these positions; you may be Gover? nor of your State, mayor of your city, a gentleman of good standing in your community, the sheriff of your Coun ! ty, or the chaingarg boss of your County's convicts, but woe unto the young man who makes resolutions and never adopts them, he may be" in the safe keeping of his County jail, or cursing his existence. My father used to tell mo : "Now is the accepted time ; never put off a thing you can do to-day until to? morrow, for to-morrow never comes." The world owes you what you hon? estly earn. The thing to do is to build your foundation on a solid basis, face the world with pluck and grit, do all things that arc acceptable in the sight of God and your fellow men. and when the end of your career has closed its doors against this cold world, you will hear a voice say, "Well done thou good and faithful servant." William Schley Howard. Washington, D. C, July 24,1S94. ? 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 ray reliabil? ity. Wm. Roach, J. P., Primroy, Campbell Co., Tenn. For sale by Hill Bros. ? A correspondent sends the fol? lowing, which he thinks is too good to be lost: "One of cur citizens has a daughter about 3 years old, who ac? companied her mother to witness a baptism. The next day she said she was going to have a baptism herself and arrayed her dolls along the edge of the bath tub. She prepared one of them for immersion. Her mother, hearing the child's voice, advanced to within hearing histance and heard the following address to the candidate: 'I baptise you in the name of the Father and of the Son and, into (he hole you All Sorts of Para jraphs. ? There arc more muscles in the tail of a rat than thrre arc in a human hand. ? The value of public school prop- . erty in the United States is estimated . at $400,000,000. ? The United States has a greater railroad mileage than any other coun? try in the world. ? Last year Australia produced^ gold to the value of $5,000,000 in ex? cess of any other country. ? The statement is made that during the last one hundred years France has lost 6,000,000 soldiers in war. ? Great as is the cattle industry, the value of poultry and eggs produced in the United States annually is but lit? tle less. ? Mrs. Ann Wheeler died recently, aged 102 years, at Ashmore, EnglanaV" in the house where she was born aha lived all her life. ? Statistics prove that nearly two thirds of all the letters carried by-the postal service of the world are written, ' sent to and read by English-speaking people. ? The average height of the men in the Union army in 1883 was 5 feet 7 inches. The natives of this country average a greater height than thoBe of any other. ? The head and face have 83 mus? cles ; the neck has 49; the thorax. 78 ; the abdomen, 33 ; the back, 78; the upper extremities, 98 : the lower, 108. ' ? A gold-weighing machine in tiei? Bank of England is so sensitive that a postage stamp dropped on the scale will turn the index on the dial six in? ches. ? Bessemer, Ala., owes its'origin to the fact that in the immediate vi- $ cinity there is a vein of iron ore from five to twenty feet thick and inex-'J haustible. ? Cultivate the habit of repeat? ing from memory. In later yiars it will he a source of both profit and pleasure, and often serve you well in time of need. ? It is astonishing how soon the conscience begins to unravel if a sin gle stitch is dropped. One little sin indulged in makes a hole yon could pat your head through.* ? At Lafayette, Ala., recently, two persons were married who had walked seventy miles to find an official to per- /: form the ceremony. It was a runaway couple at that. ? Fishhooks are precisely the same in shape.to-day as they were 20 cen? turies ago. The only difference is in the material; then they were made of bronze and now they are made of steel. ? Jilson?-"What do you think of the proposition to put the United. States flag on postage stamps ?" Jenks?''Don't like it."'.''Why not?" "Old Glory has never been licked." ? While Asbury Park is suffering, from a visitation of ladybugs, Mount \ Misery, N. S., is fighting "gentlemen bugs." The insect is a peculiar.one. and is so called because its head resembles a plug hat cocked on. onTT* side. ? Forty-five pounds of corn nre said to be worth only a cent and a half in Russia to-day, and many farm? ers are sending their cattle into the fields, as the cost of. the harvest? ing would exceed the price of-the corn. ? Criminals in Buenos Ayres wljo " are sentenced to long terms of penal. servitude are frequency released jon parole for certain hours each day, so '? that their private business will not suffer. ? The test for symmetry is to turn a man with his face to the wall. If he is perfectly formed his chest will touch it, his nose will be four inchesaway, his thighs five and the tips^bTTris toes three. ? A few years ago no man dared ride through the streets of any Chilian city on Good Friday. Even the cars were not allowed to run. No sound of., human labor was permitted to disturb the religious silence. ? Teacher: Now, Johnnie, you' may tell us this : Suppose your moth? er told you to come home at five o'clock, and you did not go; what would you be doing ? "I don't know whether it would be swimmin' orplay in' baseball." ? Two letters bearing the postmark 1859, addressed to General George R. Jessup, were received at the post of? fice in Madison, Ga., a short time ago. Where the worn messengers have been all these years is a mystery. Rudy's Pile Suppository is guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, or money refunded. 50 cents per box. Send stamp forcircu'ar and Free Sam? ple to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa. For Sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, drug? gists Anderson, S. C. ? Many a man tries to soothe his own conscience by thinking how many hypocrites there are in the churches. If every man on earth were a Judas, it would make it no better for you at the day of judgment. Every one must give account for himself unto God. ? John Hunt, of Providence, R. I., who died last week at the age of 70, had not spoken to his wife for twenty years, and did not even/repent on his deathbed. For the last twenty-five years of their married life his father and mother had not spoken to each other. ? "How does it happen that there are so many old maids among the school teachers ?" asked a reporter of a teacher the other day. "Because school teachers are, as a rule, women of sense, and no woman will give up a $60 position for a $10 man," was tho reply. ? The courts in Calcutta were re-. cently asked to permit a 15-ycar-old widow to select her father as her guardian. In the affidavit accompa? nying her petition she states that she is residing with her father, her moth? er, the step-daughter of her husband's daughter and her husband's son-'rrf law. The only other relatives, she says, arc a son, her husband's first cousin and her husband's father's brother's widow?her aunt by mar? riage, in short. ? A curious poultry show is being organized in Paris. The principal feature of it will be a championship competition for crowing roosters. That is to say, the bird that crows the loudest, the longest and the greatest number of times in a given period will take the prize. The champion cock of France is a little bantam hail? ing from the neighborhood of Scraing. He is on record as having crowed no less than 337 times in one hour.