The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, August 29, 1894, Image 1

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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1894. VOLUME XXIX.- -NO. 9. SUMMER RESORT STORE-ROOM! J. P., S?LLIVAN & CO. Have Waved Their Stock of Goods in Store-room on Whitner Street, under Intelligencer Office, and Opposite Post Office. s get a cool bm2;? from the Blue Ridge Mountains and have an elegant well of water is rear of our Store, so we will be able to entertain our friends and customers daring the hot Summer months comfortably. Our old Store-room will be torn down and rebnilt in modern style, which we will occupy again about tie 15th of September. . - : We are going to olfer Bargains to Cash Bayers! Aud to those who bay on time asd pay promptly! If you want the BEST COF FEE, come to see us. If you want BAT GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHING, Etc./ for LESS MONE Y.than anywhere else, com? to see us. Respectfully, - J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO: MACHINERY SPECIAL. The Celebrated Improved Smith Gin and the New Lum mnsGin. Cotton Presses and Snction Cotton Elevators?of the latest and most improved designs.. Wagon Scales, Rubber & Leather Belting, Shafting, Pulleys, &c. All Kinds of Machinery. Great Seduction in Prices, Especially on Steam Engines. NoW is tlie Time to Strike Bottom. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT! AT TJ^E BOYS STORE YOU will find some sow 0 rare Bargains in TINWARE until their stock is closed out For the want of time and space we cannot mention everything, bat will give a lew prices: ? < Three Quart Dairy Pans at.?.?.*. 5c. Eight Quart Dish Pans at.16c, Eight Quart Milk Backet.ISc PJE PANS, DIPPEiCS, BISCUIT CUTTERS, and other things.too numerous to mention And don't forget that we carry a full line of Confectioneries and Cigars* A big lot of Fancy Cakes and Crackers just received. We want money, and if you want Bargains bring as your money and we will give them'to you. Very respectfully, . ?? p;^?^STO*E'{RUSSELL & BREAZE?LE. FREE CITY DELIVERY. QUALITY WILL TELL." X MAKE no pretentiona to boy ctfsaper than others, but confidently claim that when QUALITY is desirable ray Goods have few equals, if any?certainly no superior. I seek to furnish the VERY BEST at prices consistent. While I was prevented from going to market by sickness, I have succeeded in getting a?. MAGNIFICENT STOCK OF-GOODS! From Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. We cordially invUe all to come and judge for themselves as to .QUALITY, BEAUTY, STYLE, PRICES, Etc. I solicit a liberal share of patronage. Thanks for a generous past, with the hope of a continuance in the future, Respectfully, . WTSS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. SPECIAL NOTICE E beg. to call you attention, not exclusively but especially, to our Fine Brand.of FliOUR?"Omega-'-guaranteed to please the most fastidious. Also, to our superior Hue of? CANNED FRUITS and VEGETABLES, JELLIES and JAMS, ? LEWTS' SNOW FLAKE CRACKERS, TEA FLAKES, Etc. . ' BREMS 8TEAM BREAM, HAMS, 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 orders. Thaukingyou in advance, we are, Yours very tiuly, " WEBB & WEBB. P. S.?Remember, all Goods delivered FREE. NE VI J IE WE LR Y^STORE ! JQtIN - ML HUBB ARD, IN HIS NEW STORE., . . IN HOTEL BLOCK. LOTS OF NEW GOODS. NOVELTIES IN PEOPUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. ONE CENT TO $100 00. ? " ^ar*No charge for Engraving. ySr The Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it's a pleasure to tho w tbem. P. 8.?If you have Accounts with J. M. HUBBARD & BRO. make settlement with me at above place. JOHN SI. HUBBARD. ? REMEDY FOR HARD TIMES! I DESIRE to inform the trading public that I am now reducing my Stock for the Fall season, and for the next few weeks will offer great inducements to Cash buyers. Come and see my Stock of Family and Fancy Groceries, v> Canned Goods, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Cigars, Etc. And I will please you in prices and goods. Q-. F, BIGBY. HIGH GRADE GROCERIES! Everything we have is We Guarantee Qu?lily! V|/e want your rcgular-all-theyear-round trade! Let us sell you all you can rat! It' you find anyone who will appreciate your trade more than we d ?, please bring them around^as we waut to see what kind of looking objects they are. Yours for something to cat, J. A. AUSTIX & CO. 8AKGE PLU?KETT, He and Brown Rejoice In th*> Blessings of the Season, Atlanta Constitution. Big meetings are in progress all around us, muscadines are getting ripe, maypops are turning yellow, while the corn fields groan under the weight of their yield. The time is fit for the countryman to rejoice, for never was Buch corn crops seen before and cotton is very much hetter than any one had reason to expect. With the blessings of good crops the consolation of being out of debt cheers the farmer's heart and fits him to enjoy the soothing peace found in the mingling of a Christian people around the altars of the country churches. God bless the country and God bless the season which calls the people together to renew old friend? ships and to rejoice in a holy revival of the Christian religion. Last Sunday was "feet-washing" day with the "Hardshells" at Harde man. while the Presbyterians gathered at Midway and the Methodists at "Wes? ley chapel to begin the meetings usual at this season of every year and always fruitful of good results. Perhaps the greatest number was in attendance at the Hardshell ohurch on Sunday, and it may be that many were there just through curiosity, but whoever may attend one of these "feet-washings" with an idle curiosity is sure to be impressed with the seriousness of the occasion and the sincerity of the peo? ple who engage therein. *When we turned off from the big road down through the forest of pines into a dim little road that led to the church the pine straw was soft as a carpet under the wheels of our buggy as we glided along, with not a noise to disturb the notes of praise that sounded from the congregation. Clear as an icicle and above all the rest the tenor of Uncle Elisa Webb sounded forth as he lined and sang? "Broad is the road that leads to death And thousands walk together there, While wisdom shows a narrow path With here and there a traveler." For a man in his eighties Mr. Webb has a most remarkable tenor voice, and all in all he is a most remarkable man and preacher. At this old church on last Sunday he had gathered around him the representatives of four genera? tions, and all of them strong, pros? perous and oling to the teachings that he has taught so long and faithfully. But one other mau in Georgia do I remember as having outstripped Uncle Elisa in the number and character of his progeny?that man was Soloman Bloodworthj of Spalding County, and deserves this mention for the number and qnality of citizens he has furnish? ed to our State, and I think he, too, was a hardshell. Some might take me for. a hardshell from my tone, but I am not. I learn? ed the Shorter catechism with the Presbyterians and took my dignity from them, learned to pay my debts through the Hardshells and was per? suaded from drinking by the Metho? dists, so you see, I owe a right smai t to all of them, and am entirely impar? tial. But the Presbyterians will take care of themselves, and the Methodists will make fuss enough, while the Hardshells' Lorn will never be heard if he has to blow it. They don't have no organs, nor choirs, nor steeples on their churches and they pass around the hat precious little. So there is mighty little to say about them. I think it would be a good thing for them to quit paying their debts awhile '?this would make them remembered ?and then they could hire a choir and buy musical instruments and put steeples on their churches?they would not have any more religion nor any better religion than what they "have, but a great many more people would find them out and praise or curse them as the case might be. Seriously, all the churches are good. You need never be afraid while trav? eling through any country, if every now and then you run across a church and a little schoolhouse. No robbers remain where churches orowd in, and then they are such nice places for the young people to meet each other. I watched some of my settlement's young folks last week at Midway and Wesley. I have been wondering all the year why it was that some of them spent so many of\ their Sundays over in that settlement. When I saw them last week sitting about in the buggies together and sauntering off to the spring in couples^I knew all about it. I rejoiced to see it, for my young neighbors have worked well all the year'?they are an honor to their par? ents, to their County and to Georgia, and it pleases me to see them picking out sweethearts. Not much danger of a young fellow running off to the WeBt when he is industrious enough to be prosperous at home and respectable enough to be well thought of by such girls as one sees at the protracted meetings of a country church. All in all, Brown and I have had a most delightful week. We have wept with the aged and rejoiced with the young, eat with everybody and drank from the springs. It has almost been I equal to an old campmeeting in the matter of eating and the renewal of old friends and a revival of the Chris? tian spirit has been sufficient to make the-iearts of the good preachers pres? ent rejoice in their work. Brown gained fourteen pounds dur? ing the week, and felt able to indite the following on the night we arrived at home: ? Feetwasbing" dav at Hardeman And everybody went. From there we went to Midway, Where all the week was speut; ? The old folks were "reviving"' And shouting "Hallalu," While the young folks were a-courtiog As the best that they could do; ? No matter?all are happy, And the lord is smiling down On all the country* people And I hope upon the town; The crops are good, and lay-by Has come around at last? And the work in summer sunshine Is nothing when it's past. Sarge Plunkett. I $100 Reward $100. i|The readers of this paper will be pfcased to learn that there is at least o|ei&ejadcd disease that science has bfle?n able to cure in all its stages, aud tllat is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure iaj the only positive cure now known tp the medical fraternity. Catarrh be? ing 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 jle str?ying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and as 'sisting nature in doing its work. Ti.~ 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. F. j. Cheney & Co., Props., Sold by Druggists, 73c. Toledo, ?. The Contrast; or Children and Money. Mr. Brown and Mr. Long were plain, honest young farmers, living near each other in a country neighbor? hood. They had married and started out in life about the same time. Each became the father of children?sons and daughters?and soon the subject of education was presented to these men. Mr. Brown and his wife, while not highly educated themselves, and poor withal, yet determined to do their best to educate their children. They first taught them at homj, thus giving them a little start before they were sent to the neighborhood school. At this they were always kept for the full school term unless their labor was absolutely needed at home, as was sometimes the case. In the meantime the Browns' home was as well supplied with good, fresh books and papers as their means would allow. After some years John, their oldest boy, having received, i through diligent application, his prep? aration for college, was sent away to take his course at a safe and reliable institution. Of course hiaparents and brothers and sisters had to wear their 1 old clothes and live a little harder gen? erally; but it was thought better to ed? ucate the children at almost any sacri fice than to have them grow up in ig? norance. After a term of years John finished his course and returned home, having in the meantime taught or otherwise worked during vacation t;o help pay his way. After graduation he went to work on the farm till a more lucrative business was found. Hi? sister Emma, next to himself in age, was also at col? lege now, and their father, notwith? standing the diligence and economy practiced in the home, found it neces? sary, on account of increasing expen? ses incurred in educating the children, to sell off a part of his farm, which was already small. He had no diffi? culty, however, in disposing of his land, as his friend and neighbor, Mr. Long, was pleased to take it at a fair price. The last named gentleman thought well of his neighbor Brown and fami? ly, but persisted in quietly criticising Mr. Brown's management of his home and business affairs, sometimes going so far as to say to Mrs. Long if the Browns did not give up their big no? tions about their children they would leave them as poor as "Job's turkey" when they died. But the years went slowly by; and after many hard struggles and much self-denial the Brown children were all well and carefully educated. The pa? rents, in their advancing age, showed signs of hardship and toil, their stoop? ing forms and stiffened figures bearing evidence of long years of labor. But. (for all this, there was a bright ana cheerful look about their faces, which I always grew brighter still when they I spoke of their children. True they had no property to leave them except the old homestead and its remaining hundred acres; but their children were all contented, and while not rich in material things, were living under the influences of high and ennobling pur? poses, making the world better and meeting heroically the trials and re? sponsibilities of life; and the secret of it all was they had something better than money?something which thieves could not steal?cultivated minds and hearts. At last Mr. Brown and his good wife passed quietly away, peacefully conscious in the dying hour that they had not lived in vain. And now their, children rise.up and call them blessed. Mr. and Mrs. Long took quite a dif? ferent view of life from that which the Browns held. They, while kind and well-meaning in their way, thought their main business in the world was to lay up something. Nobody knew, they said, what they might come to in old age; and, besides, they thought they ought at least to give their chil? dren a good start in life. Of course if they did all this, not only them? selves but their children would have to work hard and continuously; and they did work year in and year out, especi? ally the parents, who took no holiday, but only rested from labor on Sundays. Sometimes before the crop was set, and again after lay-by time, the chil? dren would be sent to the neighbor? hood school for a few weeks or per? haps for,a couple of months at a time. As soon, however, as one got big enough to do good work on the farm he or she had to give up school alto? gether; and ho most of the Long chil? dren could only boast of having gone as far as "baker" or "horseback" in the blue-back speller; and as their home was almost entirely destitute of books and papers there was small pros? pect for "book-learning" in the fami? ly. Meantime, however, Mr. Long was getting rich. Every year, by hard work and hard living, he would save up a few hundred dollars, which he in? variably invested in land. He was afraid to lend his money, as he might fail to get it back; and as land was about the only thing that could not be burned up, he thought it the best in? vestment. So it came to pass, after I some years, that Mr. Long's farm wi? dened itself into many hundreds of acres; and yet, for all this, when the children grew up he did not give each the good start he had thought he would. Somehow, he disliked the idea of cutting up his lands; and so, when the boys came of age, he either hired them at the same price he paid his colored laborers; or else they sought work on neighboring farms. There was little satisfaction in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Long now. Their children were coarse, boisterous and discontented. The little world in which the family lived and moved and had their being was all they knew about. The boys, it is true, were strong, vigorous young men, and could do a great deal of hard work, but then the same could be said of the mules they ploughed. And while the daugh? ters were active and could do field work and house work and the rest, yet they were not superior in these re? spects to the colored women who lived in the cabins on the premises. Finally, with many regrets, the old people died and left their many-acred farm. Their children wept some, but the thought of dividing the property soon dried their tears. After some litigation, a good deal of quarreling and any amount of hard feelings, a di? vision was made. None was satisfied with his portion, and in bitterness of spirit each coveted just a little of what the others had. Sam, the oldest son, with all his brute force, was una? ble to manage successfully, and before many years his mortgaged farm was sold for debt. Susan, the favorite daughter, married a worthless fellow who thought far more of her fine land than he did of his wife, and as his was a loose hand to manage money that came easily, (he had had but lit? tle otherwise,) the hard-wcrked and ignorant daughter of Mr. Long soon found herself the ?^npy mother of a number of children destined in com? ing years to become homeless and des? titute. The other Long children, ex? cept two, came to poverty; and the two who were said to have succeeded best followed their parents' unworthy example, making everything, their children and all, contribute to the one end of making and saving money, which was in future years to curse both parents and children, and then pass out into the hands of strangers who would enjoy the fruits of their labors. "He heapcth up great riches and knoweth not who shall gather them." ****** The above are not altogether fancy sketches; the persons they represent exist about us in real life. Occasion? ally we meet with a "Mr. Brown," who, while in limited circumstances, determines, on account of his appreci? ation of his responsibility as a parent, to make every necessary sacrifice for the proper training of his children. Alas! are there not on the other hand many a "Mr. Long" who sees nothing greater than money, and who sacrifices everything at Mammon's shrine? Yes, their comfort, their immortal offspring, even life itself?all these like bleeding victims perish here.?Rev. M. M. Brabham, in Southern Christian Ad? vocate. More like Apes than Men. The latest discovery of the missing link, says a German magazine, has just been made known by two Swiss scientists, brothers, who declare that Veddas of Ceylon fill the void be? tween man and ape. The brothers have spent several years in Ceylon in order to study this little-known but interesting race of pigmies, and, quite apart from the theory which they publish concerning the Yeddas, are of sufficient interest to command general attention. The Veddas are quite a distinct race, and are more like apes than any other human beings. The skeletons and the general organization of their bodies are greatly similar to those of the chimpanzees. The Yedda is the best preserved specimen of the curly haired race. These black pigmies lived in India many centuries before Buddha or Jesus Christ. Historians of the early centuries of the Qhristian era speak of the Yeddas and describe their mode of living, which is almost in every respect the same as it is at the present time. We find-in the Mahavanso. the most im? portant of the Singalese chronicles, details concerning the Yakas, people who are exactly like those whom we call Yeddas, and the Sanscrit poem, "Hamavana," the Iliad of India uses the woard "ape" when speaking of the Yakas. The number of the Veddas docs not now exceed 2,200, yet they occupy an immense tract of land, situated be? tween 7 degrees and 9 degrees latitude and 81 degrees and 82 degrees longi? tude. If you wish to see the Veddas in their pure state, free from any mixture with the races of Ceylon, you must go to that part of the Island. They live in small groups, or in fami? lies, apart from each other, each family having its own part of the forest to hunt in. When the rainy season (October December) comes around and the for? est is inundated they take refuge among the rocks and live in grottos. They are thus brought together and become sociable; they arrange mar? riages and talk about things in gen? eral. They recognize no chiefs, know no laws, and are devoid of any ideas. It has been said above that the Yeddas resemble chimpanzees in cer? tain respects. It remains to be added that they are about four feet in height, their hair is thick and black and when in trouble or grieved they hang their heads down in a way which gives them a peculiar appear? ance. Among themselves they go about naked, but when strangers are about they adopt a covering of leaves or cloth. They do not know what beds are, but pass the night naked upon the moist ground without the slightest covering. Their only weapons are their wood? en bows and arrows and their axes, which they always have near them. Alcohol and salt arc both unknown to them. Their communication with the Sin galese is reduced to this : During the night they will place in front of the door of a Singalcse blacksmith some money and dried meats, with a rough model, made of leaves and twigs, of the axe which they require. A few nights afterward they will go to the door and take away the axe which the blacksmith has placed outside for them. This shows what a dislike they have for mixing with other peo? ple. Their language is very simple and consists of Singalcse words so altered that the natives of Ceylon cannot un? derstand them and partly of words which are apparently the remains of some primitive language. Of course there are no family names; they say "the great man," "the little man," "the young woman," "the old man," etc. They know nothing of numbers. When they arc talking of many per? sons or things they repeat several times a word which indicates a single thing. They, therefore, cannot say how old they arc. Divisions of time cannot be expressed and the dimen? sions of objects are indicated by ac? tions. When they first sec a looking glass or a firearm they act just as monkeys do under similar circum? stances. Religion, belief in good or evil spirits, a fear of death are all un? known to them. When a Vedda dies the others leave him where he has died and shun the place for a long time, during which the body disap? pears. Yet, with all this lack of intelli? gence, they arc honest and trustwor? thy. They live peacably and have no internal feuds, which is probably due to the fact that they live apart, except in the rainy season. The English Government has on several occasions tried to establish schools for their children and endea? vored to christainise the Yeddas, but without success. ? 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 to 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., Tcnn. For sale by Hill Bros. Would Have Been No War. The Boston Herald prints tbc fol? lowing letter from ex-Governor Bul? lock, of Georgia, who is spending the summer at Charlestown Beach, R. I. : "To the Editor of the Boston Herald ?A friend has just forwarded to me a copy of your edition of July 23d. "In that paper you do me the honor of editorial reference to remarks made by me at the banquet given by Gover? nor Brown, of Rhode Island, at Squan tum, on the 20th. You do not con? cur in the opinion I then expressed, 'that if President Buchanan, in 1860, had been controlled by the same pa? triotic firmness in maintaining Federal authority recently displayed by Presi? dent Cleveland, under trying circum? stances, there would have been no secession and, consequently, no rebel? lion and war.' "I therefore ask your indulgence for brief space to give reason for the opin? ion I hold. "A large majority of the property owning slasses in the South?even in South Carolina?were opposed to the extreme issue of secession as a remedy for our acknowledged political dangers and for the reservation of our property rights in slaves. But then, as now, property owners were conservative and non-combative, while the secession mobs, made up in their rank and file of a class who by themselves or their families never had sufficient standing in their community to own a slave, were blatant and violent in their de? nunciation and abuse of all who dared to express an opinion in opposition to secession, branding as cowards those who were slow to make war on the Federal government. "All good citizens then hoped for and expected the use of sufficient force by the President, in defense of the Constitution and the maintenance of law and order, to dispurse the violent and to permit the conservative ele? ments to reassert themselves. , "Was the orcattization of a conven? tion in South Carolina declaring its purpose to take possession of all Fed? eral property within that State any less a defiance of authority than the Debs organization and acts at Chicago ? "When the Governor of my State, without even waiting for the flimsy excuse of a State Convention asserting her supremacy, took possession of the Federal arsenals and forts within our borders would there have been any question in the mind of a firm and patriotic President as to his official duty? "I do not agree with you, that 'the outbreak of the Southern rebellion was the result of long and careful prepara? tion.' "Leading politicians of extreme pro-slavery and States rights' rights theories advocated a line of policy which finally resulted in war. But trie great mass of our people were not in favor of or prepared for that horri? ble climax. "Our people were misled and delud? ed by the secession argument that the safety of our slave property required extreme demands on our part and that if we made them boldly the North would yield without war. This spe? cious argument was sustained by lead? ers of both narties at the North at the time. "But even with all the dragooning by our 'committees of safety,' 'minute men,' 'cockades,' 'patriotic leagues,' et al., not one of the late Confederate States, except South Carolina, and, possibly, Alabama, elected a Conven? tion having a clear secession majority in its membership, nor have our peo? ple ever cast a majority vote approv? ing of secession. Most of our Con? ventions, under great stress of public excitement and violent demonstrations to intimidate union members, passed such ordinances, but with a proviso that the ordinance was to be submit? ted to a vote of the people for ratifica? tion. The secession leaders, however, took care that actual hostilities were precipitated, and no such vote for ratification was ever passed. "The passage of a secession ordinance through the Convention of Virginia would have been impossible, Without the firing upon Fort Sumter. This act of war was precipitated at the request of the Virginia secessionists, who reported to Governor Pickens ana General BeauregaJd, in Charleston, that without actual hostilities Virginia could not be seceded. "The mistaken impression seems to prevail in the North that all Confed? erates were secessionists. Quite the contrary was true. The most persist? ent and efficient Confederates were those Union men, who had exerted their every mean:) in their power to defeat secession. And falling in that because of the absence of Federal as? sistance, they accepted the inevitable, and gave their full allegiance to the Confederate government, when organ? ized. "There is no reason to doubt that Colonel R. B. Lee, in I860, would have obeyed the orders of his com mander-in-chicf?the President, to use his troops in dispersing the unlaw? ful bodies assembled in South Caro? lina, to defy and deny Federal author? ity. But when such orders were deferred until after de facto govern? ments had been permitted to organize, and were in undisputed possession of all the Southern States, a wider ques? tion necessarily presented itself for his consideration, and he resigned his commission in the Federal army. "It is the duty of the Federal gov? ernment to protect the person and property of the citizen, when neces? sary, at the place of his residence. Loyalty does not require the citizen to abandon his home and seek elsewhere for his government. When such pro? tection is not afforded he must submit to the powers that be?'render unto Caesar, etc' "I must repeat that had James Buchanan been possessed of the patri? otism and firmness shown by Presi? dent Cleveland in the recent trying conditions there would have been no secession, no rebellion and no war. "The present Governor of Illinois and the present Governor of Texas have lately reiterated the same mis? taken views as to State sovereignty entertained by the Governors of South Carolina and Georgia thirty years ago. But with Grover Cleveland as com? mander in chief of the army and navy of the United States, we now have complete confidence that neither mobs or mistaken Governors of States will be allowed to disturb the public peace. "In the providence of God our pass? ing through the dark valley of death and destruction thirty years ago might have been necessary to bring about the same conditions of to-day. Now the men who were lenders on either side of the great conflict and who differ on present party questions, unite in ap? proving the vigorous action of the Prosident, in using the army to main? tain, by lawful means, the sovereignty of the nation, the peace and good or? der of the republic and protection to the person and property of the citizen wherever he may reside. Bums E. Bullock. "Charhstown Beach, R. I., July 31." The Moon by lewis swift. The most glorious object on which the eye of man ever rested is the sun, after which comes the moon when shining with a full, round face. It is difficult, indeed, to conceive that an object of such brilliancy is in reality a dark one, in itself as devoid of light as is the earth at midnight in the ab? sence of the moon. Moonlight is simply sunlight received second-hand, the light of the sun being reflected from the moon's dark surface. This is true of all the planets also, though not of the stars, as they all are suns self-shining as our own, a fact previ? ously given. If to behold the full moon is a spec? tacle so inspiring, her crescent with its horns painting either to the right or left, or, again upward as she nears the setting sun is hardly less so, and in this place demands special attention, as, from long experience, I find the causo of her assumption of the cres? cent, the half and the gibbous phases to be very imperfectly understood, it being often imagined, even, that some dark body passes between the earth and the moon, and cuts off her light wholly or in part, and suggests the question often asked of me, "What is the object which thus intervenes?" Of* all the countless host of stars, comets and planets, the moon is near? est to the earth, and, consequently it is not possible tor any other body to come between her and the earth. The moon's easterly motion is about thirteen degrees daily, and her com? plete revolution around the earth oc? cupies about 17^ days, but as, during this time, the sun has moved also east? erly one degree per day, the moon, to overtake the sun and produce a new moon, has to make more than a com? plete revolution. This requires a lit? tle more than two days, so that from new moon to new again is not 27a-, but 29J- days, the length of a lunar month. The instant of the new moon i3 when the moon passes from the sun, her il? lumined side being, of course, wholly turned toward that luminary, and her dark, and, consequently, invisible side toward the earth. As she emerges from the sun a constantly increasing portion of her sunny side turns toward us, and we see her first as a slender crescent which nightly grows in size until after the lapse of a little more than seven days after passing the sun she appears as a half moon, one-half of her sunny side being turned toward us, or, as the almanacs say, at first quarter. Nighly, more and more of her bright disk presents itself until, rising when the sun sets, her entire luminous portion is turned to us as well as to the sun, and we see her as the full-orbed moon. Then, in reverse order, the above changes are gone through until a fortnight has elapsed, when she again passes the sun and be? comes invisible. Although the full moon in a cloud? less sky floods the earth with radiance and splendor and invests the most un? lovely objects with a softened beauty, yet it would require more than six hundred thousand moons shining at once to equal the powerful light of the sun. _ ..? j It is a curious and an unexplained fact, and probably, not an exceptional case in the solar system, that the moon revolves round the earth in ex? actly the same time required to rotate on her axis, thus forever preventing her posterior hemisphere from being seen, and, therefore we are and must remain ignorant regarding the topog? raphy and scenery of the opposite side. The inhabitability of the moon has in every age been a fruitful theme for re? flection and discussion, but the inven? tion of the telescope has settled the question in the negative. As it is a world entirely destitute of an atmos? phere, as it has no water, not a drop, tfnd as its days and nights are, each, equal to two of our earth-weeks, and, as furthermore, no change has been observed since it became an object of telescopic study, we are forced to the conclusion that it cannot be the home of sentiment beings and that it cannot sustain life of any sort. Are we then justified in the belief that this heav? enly body has been created in vain? No; we owe much to the moon. She raises the ocean tides, and their ebb and flow serve to keep the waters of the gulfs, bays and estuaries of the earth from growing stagnant. And to sailors at sea she is of great service in determining positions. The moon as a telescopic object sur? passes in magnificence all others in the heavens. On favorable occasions she can approach to less than 220,000 miles from the earth, or, from surface to surface, to within 215,000 miles. If at such a time a magnifying power of, say, two thousand be applied, she will be seen as though at a distance of over 100 miles. Under thescconditions an object as large as the Capitol at Wash? ington could be seen as a visible point. It is not possible for any telescope ever to do better than that. The idea promulgated by sensational writers re? garding the giant telescopes that must, when completed, bring the moon to within a few miles or even to a dis? tance of a few yards, is wholly erro? neous. To see the moon well there is no need of a mammoth telescope, as she has sufficient light to bear a high power, yet our atmosphere is so laden with vapors and lashed with tremors which are magnified as much as is the moon itself, that the close investiga? tion ardently desired by astronomers is prevented thereby, and only low magnifying powers can be used. But the lunar scenery even under these not most favoroble conditions is grand be? yond the power of words to express. The great telescope of the Lowe Ob? servatory, with its incomparable eye? piece, specially adapted for the work, will reveal her mountain heights and craterous depths, her yawning canyons and dry ocean beds, where, when the moon was young, tides ebbed and flowed.?Mount Loice Echo. ? Kenneth Bazemore 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 pleased with the result. The praise that naturally follows its introduction and use has made it very popular. T.> and 50 cent bottles for sale by Hill Bros. I Uow Sanken Sblps are Baised, When a ship sinks some distance from the shore in several fathoms of water, and the waves conceal her, it may seem impossible to some of our readers that she can ever be floated again; but if she rests upon a firm sandy bottom, without rocks, and the weather is fair enough for a time tc give the wrecker:? an opportunity, it is -even probable that she can be brought into port. In Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk and New Orleans, large firms are established whose spo cial business it is to send assistance to distressed vessels, and to save the cargo if the vessels themselves cannot be prevented from becoming total wrecks; and these firms are known as wreckers?a name which in the olden time was given to a class of heartless men dwelling on the coast who lured ships ashore by false lights for the sake of the spoils which the disaster brought them. When a vessel is announced to be ashore or sunk, the owners usually ap? ply to the wreckers, and make a bar? gain with them that they shall receive a certain proportion of her value if they save her, and the wreckers then proceed to the scene of the accident, taking with them powerful tug boats, large pontoons, immense iron cables, and a massive derrick. Perb.aps-.pnly the topmasts of the wreck arc visible when they reach it; but even though she is quite out of sight, she is not given up if the sea is calm and the wind favorable. One of the men puts a diving dress over his suit of heavy flannels. The trousers and jacket are made of India rubber cloth, fitting close to the ankles, wrists and across the chest, which is further protected by a breastplate. A copper helmet with a glass face is used for covering the head, and is screwed on to the breastplate. One end of a coil of strong rubber tubing is attached to the back of the helmet, to the outside of which a running cord is also attached and continued down the side of the d::ess to the di top's r5fbt hand, where he can use it for signaling bis assistants when he is beneath the surface. His boots have leaden soles weighing about twenty eight pounds; and as this, with the helmet, is insufficient to allow him to descend, four blocks of lead, weighing fifty pounds, are slung over his shoul? ders, and a water-proof bag containing a hammer, a chisel, and a dirk-knife is fastened over his breast. He is transferred from the steamer that has brought him from the city to a small boat, which is rowed to a spot over the wreck, and a short iron lad? der is put over the sid<3, down which he steps: and when the last rung is reached ne lets go, and the water bub? bles and sparkles over his head as he sinks deeper and deeper. The immersion of the diver is more thrilling to a spectator than it is to him. The rubber coil attached to his helmet at one end is attached at the other to an air-pump, which sends him all the breath he needs, and, if the supply is irregular, a pull at the cord by his right hand secures its adjust? ment. He is not timid, and he knows that the only thing he has to guard against is nervousness, by which he might lose his presence of mind. The fish dart away from him at a motion of his hand, and even a shark is terrified /by the apparition of his strange glob? ular helmet. He is careful not to ap? proach the wreck too suddenly, as the tangled rigging and splinters might twist or break the air-pipe and signal line; when his feet touch the bottom he looks behind, before and above him before he advances an inch. Looming up before him like a phan? tom in the foggy light is the ship; and now, perhaps, if any of the crew have gone down with her, the diver feels a momentary horror; but if no one has been lost he sets about his work and hums a cheerful tune. It may be that the vessel has settled low in the sand, that she is broken in two, or that the hole in her bottom cannot be repaired. But we will sup? pose that the circumstances are favor? able, that the sand is firm and the hull in an easy position. The diver signals to be hauled up, makes his report, and in his next de? scent he is accompanied by several others, who help him to drag massive chains of iron underneath the ship, at the bow, at the stern and in the mid? dle. This is a tedious and exhausting operation, which sometimes takes many days, and when it is completed the pontoons are towed into position at each side of the ship. The pontoons, simply described, are hollow floats. They are oblong, built of wood and possess great buoyancy. Some of them are over 100 feet long, 18 feet wide and 14 feet deep, but the size and number of them used depend on the length of the vessel that is to be raised. Circular tubes or wells ex? tend through them, and when the chains arc secured underneath the ship the ends arc inserted in these wells by the divers, and drawn up through them by hydraulic power. The chains thus form a series of loops, like the common swing of the play? ground, in which the ship rests, and as they arc shortened by being drawn up through the well, the ship lifts. The ship lifts if all be well?if the chains do not part or some other acci? dent occur, but the wreckers need great patience and sometimes they see the labor of weeks undone iu a minute. Wc arc presupposing success, how? ever, and instead of sinking or capsiz? ing, the vessel appears above the bubbling water and between the pon? toons, which tremble and groan with her weight. As soon as her decks are above wa? ter, as much of her cargo is removed as is necessary to enable the divers to reach the broken part of the hull, which they patch with boards and can? vas if she is built of wood, or with iron plates if she is built of iron. This is the most important part of the diver's work, as there are so many projections upon which his air-tube may catch; but he finds it almost as easy to ply his hammer and his drill in making repairs under water as on shore. The ship is next pumped out and borne between the pontoons by power? ful tugs to the nearest drydock, where all the damages are finally repaired, and in a month or two she is once more afloat, with nolhing to indicate her narrow escape. Rudys Pile Suppository, is guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, or money refunded. 50cents per box. Send ritamp for circular and Free Sam? ple to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa. For sale by Wilhite & "Wilhite, drug? gists, Anderson, S. C. ? According to statistics, women to-day arc two inches taller, on an average, than they were 20 or 30 years All Sorts of Paragraphs* ? If you want to learn humanity, study a good woman. ? God never had an enemy who was not the bitter foe of man. ? An open and avowed sinner is not half as bad as a hypocrite. ? Six-tenths of the population cf Japan do not earn more than $10 per month. ? A fool seldom thinks of what he says, aud the wise man rarely says what he thinks. ? Equal parts of sweet oil and vine? gar make an excellent preparation for polishing furniture. ? The number of marriages per? formed throughout the world each day is estimated at 30,000. ? An Illinois man named Storms has named his three sons Hale Storms, llain Storms, and Snow Storms. ? A farmer of Conway, Ky., 78 years old, was recently married to a 13-year-old girl of the same place. ? In Italy, five centuries ago, every person that wore shoes was obliged to pay the State tax for the privilege. ? One inhabitant in every. 180 irt_ this country owns a bicycle, and has" lots of fun keeping the other 179 dodging for dear life. ? Through a pneumatic tube, 700 miles in length, letters are whirled between Paris and Berlin at the speed of twenty miles a minute. ? The highest lakes in the world are on the Himalayas in Thibet, where there are some bodies of wate:- as high as 20,000 feet above the level of the sea. ? In twelve months no fewer than 21,389 persons died in India from snake-bite, and more than half a mil? lion of snakes were destroyed during that period. ? Near Brenham, Tex., lives a man who has one eye, the strange feature of his case being the fact that the place where the other eye should be is blank, and has been so from birth. ? It is said that a man at Heming's Corners, Tenn., shrinks once a month from 180 to 110 pounds and remains in that condition for a week, after which he regains his original weight, j ? An old album of stamps collected' thirty years ago in Savannah and re? cently discovered by an heir of the collector, has revealed a number of valuable issues, some of them worth $1,500. ? An Irish editor who speaks with the air of one who has discovered a new fact by experience, says that the way to prevent bleeding at the nose is to keep your nose out of other people's, business. ? According to the latest reports the liabilities of the railways of this country foot up $11,000,000,000. As the railways are valued at $10,000, 000,000, this makes them $1,000,000, 000 worse off than nothing. ? It has been said by those who have studied that if only the birds were all destroyed we could not live, on earth ; for the insects which birds eat would destroy all vegetation, and all human life would perish. ? Of our 51 States and Territories, 27 are each larger than all of England, while the entire territory of the Union would contain England 69 times. Five of our States and Territories are each larger than the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. I ? A dissipated dog is one of Cali-. fornia's oddities. A Gordon setter, owned by Malachi Moon, is addicted to the inordinate use of lager beer. Strange to say, while the canine is. willing to perform any number of tricks for a drink, he refuses to drink from a glass that is half foam. ? The hottest place on earth is in the vicinity of Massowah. When the northwest wind blows from the desert the thermometer has been known to go to 160. The men of the Italian garri? son there can sleep only by the assist? ance of natives employed to go to and fro'all night and. sprinkle the bodies of the sufferers with water. ? Andrew Franklin, of Burlington, Kans.. one of the oldest pensioners on the rolls of the War Department, was born on Christmas Day in 1791. He fought in the war of 1812, in two In? dian wars, and served as a teamster in the civil war. In spite of his 103 years, Franklin, it is said, "can do more chores than most of sixty." . ?Augusta is a great place for girls, as the census clearly shows. While there are 2,000 more men than women in the State, in Augusta the females outnumber the males by the same amount. The girls needn't be uneasy about getting married as there are 15,000 men and 17,000 women, giving I each girl 15-17 of a man, which is a great deal more of a man than half the married women have. ? The great ocean is in a constant state of evaporation. It gives back what it receives, and sends- up its waters in mists to gather into clouds: and so there is rain in the fields, ana storm on the mountains, and greenness and beauty every where. But there [ are many.men who do not believe in ; evaporation. They get all they can and keep all nhey get, and so are not fertilizers, bu1; stagnantand miasmatic pools. ? Men arc like clocks. Some are too fast, some two slow. Some strike just at the right time and make little ado over it; others strike too late, and when they begin, there is no telling when they will end. Some never fail to tell the truth; others carry a lie on their faces from morning till night. Some sound an alarm, others never yet aroused a sleeper. All are liable to get clogged up if exposed to dust, and all must he wound up. ? There is a man in Eockland who will be an ungrateful wretch if he ever feels afraid of lightning any more. He had the grip a year ago, and his health had been very poor ever since until Monday. On that day he was standing on Bockland street during the thunder slower when he felt a severe shock in his left arm which paralyzed it for hours. Then it re? covered and so did the man, who says he feels as well now as he did before his illness.?Lewiston (Me.) Journal. ? A marauding hawk made an at? tack on a Lakeland, Fla., fowl yard and succeeded in ripping a chicken's craw entirely from its body, so that it dragged on the ground, and also cutting a hole through the craw, so that it would not hold food. A day or two afterward the owner caught it and one of the ladies of the family performed a surgical operation. The . craw was sewed up, and the chicken wa3 soaked in hot water until the wounded and dry skin became elastic again, the craw was restored to its place, the wound sewed ur and now that is about the healthiest chicken in the yard.