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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1894._VOLUME XXIX.- -NO. 11. SHOES, SHOES. "Good, Honest, Home-made Shoes, No Scraps, no Paper, no Wood. Nothing but Good Honest Leather and Work. Jf you want Shoes that will wear ask your merchant for a pair of ander* SON SHOES, and don't stop until you get them. If the man you deal with -don't keep them go somewhere else, and remember that every merchant ifl -authorized to guarantee our Shoes to give satisfaction to any reasonable man. ANDERSON SHOE AND LEATHER CO. SU?MB RESORT STORE-ROOM! ?I. P. SULLIVAN & CO. Wave Moved Heir Stock of Goods In Store-room on Whitnsr Street, nr% Intelligencer Office, and Opposite Post Office. get; cool breeze from the Blue Ridge Mountains and have an elegant well of ' water in rtr.r m our Store, so we will be able to entertain our friends and customers ??during tl e hot Summer months comfortably. c j old S'ore room will be torn down and rebnilt in modern style, which we wiU ??occupy ayr.io *bout the 15th of September. We are going to offer Bargains to Cash Bayers! And to those who buy on time a'^d pay promptly! t Ttu want the BEST COFFEE, come to see us. If yoa want DAY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHINQ, Etc,^ Tor LESS IM >NEY than any where elce, come to see us. Respectfully, J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. ULLIVAN HARDWARE CO: MACHINERY SPECIAL. The Celebrated Improved Smith Gin and the New Lam mas Gin. Cotton Presses and Suction Cotton Elevators?of the latest =aud most improved designs. Wagon Scales, Rubber & Leather Belting, Shafting, Pulleys, &c. All Kinds of Machinery. 'Great Reduction in Prices, Especially oh Steam Engines, NoW is tlio Time to Strike Bottom. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT! AT THE BOYS STORE TOU will find some some rare Bargains in tinwabe until their stock is closed out For the wast of time and spsce we cannot mention everything, but will give a Jawjurices: Three Quart Dairy Pans at.5c. E:ght Quart Dish Pans at.15c Eteht Quart Milk Bucket.13c, FJE PANS, DIPPERS, BISCUIT CUTTERS, and other things too numerous to mention. And don't forget that we carry a full 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 Haena to you. Very respectfully, -the boys st?,be,?{rij$$ell & breaze?le. "FREE CITY DELIVERY. SPECIAL NOTICE. V f E beg to call yon attention, not exclusively but especially, to our Fine Brand of I FJjOCR?'?'Omega"-guaranteed to please the most fastidious. Ali>o, to our supa-iar line of? . CANNED FRUITS and VEGETABLES, JELLIES and JAMS, LEWIS' 8NOW FLAKE CRACKERS, TEA FL AK ES, Etc. BREDIS STEAM BREAM, HAMS BREAKFAST BACON, .And everything, too numerous to mention, usually krpt at a First Class Grocery Store. We shall be more than delighted fur you to give us a call, and let us fill your orders. Tbaukiog you in advance, we are, Yours very tiuly, WEBB & WEBB. P. S.?Remember, ail Goods delivered FREE. _?_ EW JEWELRY STORE ! imm M. HUBBARD, JM fllS NEW STORE.Vrrr^..,^.IN HOTEL BLOCK. LOTS OF NEW GOODS. - NOVELTIES IN PROFUSION. *-. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. **/ ONE CENT TO $100 00. ? $30*No charge for Engraving. jtm- Tbe Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it's a pleasure to show tlhem. P. S.?If yon have Accounts with J. M. HUBBARD & BRO. mak/e settlement with sue at above place. W~J.? ? _l.Tnn ._ JOEiN 91. IKl'BBARD. A REMEDY FOR HARD TIMES! I DESIRE to inform the trading public that I am now reducing my Stork for the'Fall season, and for the next few weeks will offer gfjeat inducements to Cash buyers. Come and see my Stock of ( Family and Fancy Groceries, { Canned Goods, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Cigars, Etc. Aud/l^will please you in prices and goods. Gr .F. BIGBY. HIGH GRADE GROCERIES ! EYCirytMng we have is \ T W^Bnarantee Quality! |R|e wf.nt'y?urregular-all-thcyear-round trade! Let u/ sell you all you can ent! "If you fiad anyone who will appreciate your t ide more than we do, please bring them around, as we waut to see what kind of looking objects tney are. Yours for something to eat, J. A. AUSTIff & CO. From Northern France and Belgium. Editors Intelligencer: Like the bird that circles about its summer re? sort before taking its final departure for its winter home, so we, before leaving Europe, where we have spent our vacation, for America, arc visit? ing several cities in Northern Francis and Belgium. The first one we visited was Beau vais, an old historic town some fifty miles north of Paris. The most at? tractive feature of the city is the ca? thedral, which was begun in 1247 with the intention of eclipsing the great Cathedral at Amiens. Although only the choir and transepts have been built, these are on such a grand scale as to make it one of the famous Churches of the world. According to the greatest modern architect, Viollet le-duc, it attained the last limit to which the construction of great edi? fices of the thirteenth century has been able to arrive. He says that it is the Parthenon of French architect? ure. The choir was made so high that the buttresses were too weak to sup? port the vaulting, so that it fell in 1284. The vaulting is the highest in existence, being 157 feet above the pavement. Magnificent stained-glass windows, long and slender, lend their varied color and grace. When one looks up on entering, this sweep of 150 feet is almost tiresome to the eye. Yet there is so much grace, so much harmony of parts in these Gothic Churches that no fault can be found with them. Among many things about the Ca? thedral, perhaps the most interesting is the astronomical .clock, which re? sembles the famous clock of the Stras? bourg Cathedral. It has 80,000 pieces, and is made to indicate the hour, day, week, month, rising and setting of the sun, phases of the moon, the tides, the time of day in the principal oities of the world. It has 52 faces. When the hour strikes there is a scene of the last judgment. The cock crows, angels blow their trumpets, flames leap out of the dome of the clock, the Father inclines his head to his right and left to indicate that he is going to judge the world. First comes the soul of a righteous who is weighed in the balance that St. Michael holds. He is found of the right weight and receives a favorable judgment. Angels conduct him to Heaven amid sweet music, which va? ries for every day of the year. Next comes the soul of a wicked. He is weighed and found wanting, a demon with a pitch-fork comes out and throws him into the bottomless pit. The next city was Aliens, a thriv? ing town of Northern France. This place .enjoys the honor of being the birth-place of Peter the Hermit, who preached the first crusade. His statue is erected on a square at the back of 'the Cathedral in this city. The Cathedral, taken upon the whole, is the largest and most perfect exam? ple of Gothic architecture in exist? ence, and is the one usually taken as the type by writers upon the subject of Church architecture. Its length is 470 feet, length of transept 213 feet, width of nave 147 feet (being surpass? ed.^ this respect by Beauvais alone). Our next city was Laon, a pictu? resque city situated on the top of a mountain that rises almost perpendic? ularly on one side to a height of sev? eral hundred feet. There is a very interesting Cathedral at this place, which the government is restoring. This work has been in progress for forty years, and fifteen years yet are necessary to finish it. The sum spent is upwards of $20,000 dollars a year. All the Churches in France belong to the State. They are supported by charges made for seats at the services. A seat is usually two cents. The priests, or the Church proper as we would call it, gets what those in at? tendance choose to give. Our itineracy next calls for Reins (Rheins), noted for two things: it contains the Cathedral in which the old French Kings were crowned (with the exception of Napoleon I, who was crowned in Notre-Dame de Paris), and it is the centre of the champagne dis? trict. It was more on account of the history in connection with the Church that carried us there than the desire of enjoying fine drinks. Viollet-le duc calls this the queen of Gothic Churches. Its facade is the finest in the world. Such sculptured richness is almost incredible. There arc more than 2,300 sculptured figures of men, angels and animals about the Church. This is probably the most historic Cathedral of Europe. It was here that King Clovis, after being con? verted to Christianity, was baptized in the fifth century. This may be said was the beginning of Christianity in France. It was to this Church that Joan of Arc conducted Charles VII and had him crowned King. One must not think that there is any one Cathedral that surpasses all others in all its parts. To make the perfect Church it is usually said that we must put together different parts of several: The nave of Amiens, choic of Beauvais, facade of Reims and spires of Chartrcs. Champagne is made from grapes grown on the hill-sides in the country lying near the town. As the reader perhaps knows, every section gives a peculiar flavor to the wine made there, which is due to the soil and climate. The section where champagne is made is limited to the country about Reins. The demand is great, consequently the price is high. One has to pay here $2 a bottle for a good quality. The French, for the most part, drink wine ; a little beer is used. Ordinary wine costs from ten to twenty cents a quart. The poorest do not think of making a meal without wine. When the traveller tells the waiter he will take water, the latter is surprised. In Belgium, where we are now, every? body drinks beer. Indeed, I have come across the barbarous custom here in Brussels of an extra charge in the restaurantsv if you do not take either beer or wine at your meals. So it ii cheaper to drink than not. You are charged five cents extra for not drinking a glass of beer, for which the charge is four cents. If you drink, you gain a cent! What does the prohibitionist think of such a country ? Although Brussels is a very fine city, do not think much of it. It is an imitation of Paris. There is but little that is original to be found here; The wide, well-shaded streets, called boulevards, gives this city the ap? pearance of a copy of the French cap itol. However, I ought to mention the Palais de Justice here. It is by all odds the most inspiring Court House there is. It is built in the Greek style. The plan is square and covers nearly six acres. Over the centre rises an immense dome, which attains a height of three hundred feet above the ground. It is justly the pride of Belgium. In my next I shall give my impres? sion of the Universal Exposition at Antwerp. W. E. Breazeale. Brussels. Belgium, August 22, 1894. LOST IN THE SWAMP, a teue story. From the Christian Index. Nestled down amid the red hills of North Georgia, at the foot of Sawnee Mountain is the quiet little town of C-. No railway whistle has ever broken the monotony of its peace? ful?resfulness. In fact, it has always been a farming town ; many of its citizens owning and working small, farms adjoining the town. At the time of our story it was a new town in all its primitive glory. With all the energy and activity of a grov/ing town, it was backed up by a finr cattle range extending for miles in every direction. Here lived many years ago a little boy named Foster Smith, whose duty it was every evening to drive up his mother's cow. Foster owned a gentle pony and it was his greatest joy to gallop over hills and down valleys in search of the cows ; and the farther away she wandered, the better he liked it. One dark, cloudy evening, he went as usual, to drive up his cow. Of course there was no road through the woods, but the forest was very open in those days and the trees far apart, and the grass abundant. On this particular evening his cow was hard to find and nightfall found him far from home. It was cloudy and almost before he knew it it was dark. Every direction he would go, there was a thick swamp before him. He went through brush and bramble until he was almost dragged off his pony. He became confused and could not tell in what direction home was. Finally, it grew so dark he could not see at all, and he realizsd the fact that he was lost in the swamp and would have to stay there all night.' He got off his pony and still holding to the bridle he sat on a log all night. He did not hitch his pony to a tree because it was dark and the pony was all the company he had, and if he couldn't see him he could feel him. He had no supper; neither had pony. He got sleepy he would nod and almost fall off the log, but he held fast to the pony. It was a long, weary night for the little boy; but day came at last. He gladly mounted his horse as soon as it was light and made his way home. When he got there they were just starting to hunt for him ; his father and some of the neighbors mounting their horses, for the exciting news was spread abroad that a child was lost. His mother had spent a sleepless night; she had kept his supper wait? ing for hours and had gone to the door and listened for his coming and won? dered why he stayed so long. But the next morning her grief was turned into joy when her boy came home and the lost was found. How glad he was to be at home and how good the warm breakfast tasted ! And the next night how he slept! His bed had never before seemed so soft and comfortable or his room so cozy and cheerful. Now the lesson to be learned from this little story is the fact that we do not know how to appreciate our bless? ings until deprived of them. How glad Foster would have been had he found in his pocket as much as one cold, un buttered biscuit for his supper. Think of Foster w'hen you are disposed to grumble at your supper, cither as to quality or quantity. Sometimes you do not like your room-mate. Foster was so glad to have even a horse for company that he held to him all night. When you have to go to bed in a room by yourself and feel afraid, think of Foster in the dark, lonely woods and you will be ashamed to think of being afraid. To impress this little story and its lesson upon you, I will tell you that this little boy was playmate and cou? sin to Georgia's to-day most noted philosopher and humorist. Now, guess who that is. How do I know so much about it? Foster was my mother's little brother, and I. have heard my grandmother tell it so often. Twenty years after she could tell just what she had for supper. Now another question. Which do you think suffered the most that night, Foster or his anxious mother ? Which ? How's This. We offer One Hundred Dollars re? ward for any case of Catarrh that can? not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Wc, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the past 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financi? ally able to carry out any obligations made by their farm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Walding, Kinn an & Maryin, Whole? sale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter? nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. SARGE FLUxNKETT. The Negro as a "Problem'1 In Southern Political Matters. Atlanta Constitution. The lawyer and the negro as "prob? lems" in Southern polities is the mat? ter that Brown and myself arc ham? mering upon since we took a trip over into Alabama last week. We had decided that the negro was not a 1'problem" and that all agitation upon that line should cease. Wise men change their views?we have changed. In the course of our trip over to Alabama we had opportunity to get the opinions of others and to | study as we rolled along behind a yoke of old-fashioned oxen. The comforts of a palace car are nothing to taking a journey in a good covered wagon with plenty of fodder to lay upon, a big cheese box full of provisions and a team of oxen that will keep in the middle of the road from morning until night without a touch of the lines or a crack of the whip. After we cross? ed the Chattahoochee at the little town of Franklin the road was lone? some for forty miles and I think our good old oxen were as glad to meet the Alabamian as we ourselves and would stop every time, without being told, as Brown would raise the wagon sheet, peep out and say, "Good morning." The average Alabama countryman is rather in the attitude of the fellow who wondered who it was that "struck Billy Patterson"?they stand amazed at the defeat of Kolb and wonder for the cause that brought about the flinder ing of their third'party hopes. Of course, every fellow has his own no? tion as to the cause of the defeat. Some think there was fraud in the election, while these have a class to combat who claim that such an admis? sion would be a reflection upon the intelligence and courage of the party, "for," say these, "we arc able to take care of ourselves." The greater num? ber do not charge fraud and Brown and I joined these to seek out the cause of defeat in a philosophical way. We have decided that there is a dif? ference in a negro under the shadow of night time and the lightness of day. No great party can be established in the South which invites the negro to its ranks and gives the negro a place in its councils. If the negro has not sense enough to scatter to the four winds in the matter of politics the white man must have sense enough to ignore him in the councils of the party. These Alabamians say that the "grand old party"?the Demo? crats?has not only defeated the Third Party, but that they will defeat the devil if they can get his majesty into an open daylight association with the negro. These Alabamians?it was the mountains we were among?want to wipe out everything in the way of platforms and start new with just one plank, to-wit: "No negro need apply ?a party of white men." Brown and I have been of this opin? ion for some time, and awhile back when some of "the most prominent" of the "grand old party" drew very closely to the negro bishops in a mat? ter Brown chucked me in the short ribs and thought his Third Party had 'em, but nary time?they'll use them and get every vote from them that they can, but whene- :r you see a Democratic Convention dotted with negroes please let me know. I am of the number who has long thought that a "solid South" was not the best con? dition, and a few times I had hopes that the negro would learn enough to divide up and that the greed for office among the whites of a new party would suppress itself until a party could be buildcd, but my hopes are mighty weak now. The result in Al? abama is the natural result that will attend any effort in the South to break what we know as "solid" till the negro is out of the question ex? cept as a "floater." While the negro must be dispensed with the lawyer is indispensable. No use talking about running a party without the lawyer. Hang 'em ! I give up. I have spent the best part of my life trying to beat the lawyers out of matters and things in general, to at lastv resolve in good faith that nothing can be run without them. They loom up in everything and everywhere. Me and Brown quit the "grand old" just to get rid of the lawyer and in less than a week we had to quit the place to where wc had flown, thence to the Alliance and the Third Party, and now wc are backed up in a corner with a swarm of law? yers all around us cussing each other, and no matter which way the fight goes a lawyer has it. We cuss 'cm at home and strive to create such a prej? udice that they dare not enter our door, but let one come along and chickens are killed, preserves that I dare not touch are pressed upon them, and babies are named after them if there be any to name. We cuss 'em at Church and at the cross roads store, but let one visit the settlement and go out to the debating society and we are not in it. The president of the club will say something about our "distin guished visitor," and then the school? master will arise and move that "our distinguised visitor be heard from," and that settles the night. Foiks like me and Brown, who have studied on a speech the whole week through, are, suppressed and everybody listens to the lawyer, laughs with the lawyer or cries with the lawyer, just as the case may be. Of course we cuss them all in a general way, but individually they capture us and collectively they run the world. So, I suppose, me and Brown will waltz up and put in our little vote for Lawyer Hines, of the third, while, I guess, Lawyer At? kinson, of the "grand old," will get the office, and together they will pass many a jolly day at the capitol next summer, telling jokes about the cam? paign of '94. We must embrace the lawyer?this is my advice after a leisurely journey of over a week behind a yoke of old oxen, when I had nothing to disturb mo and rested easy on a flooring of golden cured fodder and sweet-scented straw. I have tried as hard as any of you can try to get rid of him. Several times I thought wc had him, but I find that we never came no ways near getting him, and now I am convinced that it is waste of time to strive against him. While I am ready and advise that all of us go on to work and let the lawyers run the machine, there will be nothing lost for us to notice the lawyer's methods. I was present at what they call a "bar meet? ing" in Atlantaja short while ago, and it was there that my hopes began to fail me of ever getting out of their clutches. It is worth any man's time to attend one of these "bar meetings." All their plans for a month arc map? ped out and such a perfect system have they that not a jar can occur. No other class can have such a system and no other class can approach them in the matter of brotherly courtesy. In this system and a strict adherence to professional ethics is where their power lies. Some of the other profes? sions may be as brainy, butnonecarry out plans or enforce their edicts as the lawyer. The lawyer is law?he is bound to run the world as long as the world runs smoothly, and in a smashup he is more calculated to escape the dangers of a crash than any one else. So I say let us all "stand in" with the lawyer and be just as happy as wc can. But, to return to the negro; as I am in the mood to advise. I would say that none of us can afford to join hi as a brother in politics. It is all right for individuals to hustle for the negro vote &nd it would be good party tactics to put out the man who can control the most of them, but when you invite them into your conventions you are putting a club into youroppo nent's hands to beat out your life with. If you sit in a nominating con vention with a negro he will expect you to sit in Church with him. This the Southern white man will never learn to do, and any movement in that direction entails upon us that condi tion commonly known as a "solid South." The negro has shown so much abil ity in taking care of himself, so much shrewdness in humbling himself to th circumstances for the accumulation of gain, that it surprises me that they would wish to push forward to the in jury of their political cause. Politics seems to addle the negro. He loses his cunning when it comes to political situations. He is cunning enough to get more than his proportion of work, but he loses his head in politics. He is humble enough to take a back seat among Democrats and to kiss the hand that smites him politically, but the very minute he is received into the counsels of a political organization his voice grows loud and his manners arrogant. No party in the South can afford to carry the negro, and it does seem that the negro would find this out and govern himself accordingly. All know that I avoid politics in these letters, bat those who know me per? sonally know that I would be glad to see a healthy division of politics in the South, We can have no division so long as the negro looms up?he has made the South solid and will keep it so, and will break down any movement that is foolish enough to accept him as a political equal and invite him in? to their counsels as the price of his support. There are many inconsistencies in this negro "problem." The very men who would be first to spring the ques? tion of negro equality upon a party re? ceiving the negro into its conventions, and who would strive with every man they meet to impress the odium of taking the negro into counsel, would much rather give out their work to the colored brethren, and do give it to them at times when their poor white friends would be glad to secure it. We all know that this docs pertain and we all know that negroes have received appointment to office through very high Democratic authority, yet we still understand that the "club" can be used destructively when the "grand old party" wishes to use it that way. Every old-time overseer can tell you that it will not do to have any social familiarity with a negro. There is that in the negro character that does not allow close communion between the races. In olden times it was notorious that an overseer who treated a negro with any degree of fa? miliarity was sure to breed contempt and the negroes would run him away before a year was out. The negro now, as always, has a contempt for a white man who draws very closely to him. The leopard might as well try to change his spots as for the negro to try to change this element in his character. Freedom makes no differ? ence with them on this. The next party that me and Brown joins will be a party for white men only. We would keep the lawyers out, too, if we could, but we give this up?it can't be did?the lawyer is bound to rule the world. You may kick as you pleaso and do what you can, But the lawyer Is bound to got him a hand, And when the game's over you moy howl about fraud, But that is no matter?lawyers had you "wnipsawed.' Sarge Plunkett. A New Invention Called For. To the Editor of the Scientific Amer? ican : Because I think your large ac? quaintance with the inventors of this country will enable you to bring the matter of this letter before the proper persons, I address it to you. There is great need of the discovery or invention of a cheap machine for the pressing of oil from cotton seed. The cotton gins of the South arc now almost universally run by steam or water power. Each of the largo plan? tations is always provided with such a gin. The smaller farmers send their seed cotton to a gin in the neighbor? hood. What is needed is a machine which, with an engine with twenty or forty horse power, used to gin the seed cotton, will press the oil from the seed, either while the gin is being run or after the ginning is over. The economy of this over the large oil ^mills is evident. The transportation of the cotton seed to the large.mills is a large item of expense compared to value of seed, the seed being worth at good prices rarely more than one-half cent per pound at the gin. The trans? portation of the oil cake or meal back to the farm for fertilizing is another large expense which will be saved. Another economy comes from the use, in pressing out the oil, of the gin en? gine after the ginning is over, and when it would otherwise be idle. An? other great advantage would be the making of combinations among the oil mills to depress the price of cotton seed impossible. I desire to call your attention to this matter, as involving in its suc? cessful solution not only great wealth to the inventor, but great pecuniary advantage to the producers of cotton. Can't you hud a man who will make the invention ? Very respectfully, J. Z. George. Committee on Agriculture and Fores? try, United States Senate, Au? gust 24, 1894. P. S.?To any inventor wishing to test this device, I will be glad to offer all necessary facilities in the way of power, seed, house room, rough labor, etc., at my plantation in Lc Florc County, Mississippi. ? A. M. Bailey, a well-known citi? zen of Eugene, Oregon, says his wife has for years been troubled with chronic diarrhoea, and used many rem dics with little relief until she tried Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and di arrhoca Remedy, which has cured her sound and well. Give it a trial and you will be surprised at the prompt re? lief it affords. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Hill Bros. I BILL ABP'S LETTER. BILL AND TBE DOGS. Atlanta Constitution. Beware of dogs. I want a dog law right now. I can't get up half a doz? en times in the night to shoot a pop? gun pistol at the does. I never saw such a crop as there is this year. I never knew them so impudent. Eve? ry night they congregate all round my house and on the front portico and the back piazza. They play a while and fight awhile. By the time I get the pistol and open the door they scatter, and I can't get aim in the dark on any one?never could shoot much on the wing, nohow. But give me a double barrel shotgun and a fence to rest it on and a dead still game within easy reach, and I can shoot as good as any? body. I'm waiting for moonlight nights now, and then woe be unto dogs. There are a dozen or more here every night. They are hiding a pro? tracted meeting or a logmatic conven? tion, and I th nk jur Scotch dog lad? die presides. I think he invites them, for he won't fight them. Our grove is such a beautiful playground and the piazzas arc so long and broad, and the tennis court is near by. But it is a late thing?this dog campmeeting at my house and we don't understand it. The other night I got up and slipped around in my celestial garments until I caught cold. I shot three times, but the dogs never even yelped nor run away. Next morning my wife gave her consent for me to use stricknine. So I visited the drug store and called for the deadly poison. The young man looked at me with a suspicious tone of voice and asked me if I had been reading Bob Ingersoll on suicide, but he finally put up the stricknine and made me sign a receipt on the pi son book. ' That night just before we went to church I locked up our dog and put out two pieces of beef at the back door and two at the front door. It looked to me like they were more thicker, more denser, as Cabe says. I put out four more pieces and got up about midnight and prowled around with a lantern. I found a big spotted hound reeling and staggering at the back door. He fell over the old mare's water bucket and seenicd to me to be enjoying his agonies. I waited on him awhile, and then I concluded to hurry him up a little; so I went back and got the little pistol and put it in about a foot of his head and fired. He kicked the bucket awhile and de? parted this life intestate. But as yet we have no relief. I don't know how many have wandered off to die, but last night the conven? tion was bigger than ever and more tu? multuous and I see no relief but moonlight nights and half a dozen shotguns. Some of the town boys are going to come over and have a pic? nic. Dogs are curious creatures. There is no animal of better qualities cr worse ones; no race of animals of such endless variety. There is none so loyal to his master and disloyal to other people, and hence nobody cares for any dog except his own. The good St. Bernard's maxim, "Love me, love my dog," is good theory but poor practice. A good, faithful dog com? mands more affection than the favor? ite horse that is far more stately and valuable. A man will defend his dog from abuse almost as vigorously as he will his child, and the maxim might well be modified to, "If you love me, you must respect my dog." But the best dogs in the world have a streak of wolf nature in them. The most faithful watch dog will slip off between midnight and day to join in a raid upon a neighboring flock of sheep. I have known them to go two miles to engage in this business, and nothing betrayed them but the wool that was found between their teeth. The dis? covery was astounding to their owners. Somehow or other dogs have been under the ban in all ages and coun? tries. At least other people's dogs have. Goliath said to David: "Am I dog?" etc. David said: "I am com? passed about with dogs." St. John ruled them out of heaven, for he said: "Without are dogs and soccrcrs and murderers 2.ndidolators," etc. He saw horses in heaven, but no dogs. The ancient astronomers declared the dog star to have an evil, malignant influ? ence, and hence the weather was hot and fiery during the thirty or forty days that it rose and set with the sun in July and August. Even the small boy takes his first lesson in swearing by saying, "dog on it," or "I'll be dogged." This may be called a cursory expression, but sometimes it leads to cur-sing. The dog star is a bright star in the tail of the dog?major canis?and sail? ors guided their vessels by it before the discovery of the magnet. They called it Cynoscuros, which, in Greek, means a dog's tail. The pretty word "cyno? sure" comes from this. So when it is said of a beautiful woman in an assem? bly that she was the cynosure of all eyes it literally means that she was the dog's tail of the whole concern. The word "cynic" is an unkind reflec? tion upon the dog, for it means a dog in the shape of a snappish, snarling, ill-natured man. To say of a bad man that he is as mean as a dog is another unjust reflection. Better say he is as mcau as a mean dog, or a suck-egg dog, or a sheep-killing dog, or a nig? ger's hound. Some men are meaner than the common run of dogs. Shakespeare says: "I'd rather be a dog and bay the moon." One of the first hymns wc children learned was by Dr. Watts, and it began? "Let dois delight to bark aod bite, For God bath made them so." But Byron was more appreciate and said: "I love to hear the watch dog's honest bark." And for the last cen? tury mankind have been more consid? erate of these useful and trusty ser? vants. The breed has been improved very greatly. Indeed, there have been exceptional breeds afar back in the centuries. The St. Bernard dogs had great renown, and the beautiful stories of their rescuing travelers from the Alpine snows were the delight of the children in our youthful days. The dogs in the arctic regions are indis? pensable to arctic life and comfort. They arc the horses of the Esquimaux and arc their food and clothing. Without thpir aid the arctic explorers would not venture in ar?tic seas. In? dian hunters love their dogs better than they do their wives and children and it is their religion to believe 'That when admitted to the heavenly skr. His faithful dog will bear him compart?-" But, nevertheless, we are desperate? ly hostile to dogs right now at my house. My wife says I must do some? thing and I'm going to do it. I give warning right now to all my nabors, white and black. A dog that won't stay at home at night is not worth keeping. Our little grandchild had a pair of beautiful pet rabbits and those dogs have killed them, and I'm going to kill the dogs. I don't say it in any dogmatic manner, but I'll bo dogged if I don't. Bill Arp. How Deaf Mutes are Taught, The little deaf and dumb boy of to? day has many things to be thankful for that the deaf mute of a hundred years ago never even dreamed of. He goes to school and learns to read, write and even to talk. He has toys books, and playmates to amuse him and when he leaves school he is abl to go out into the world and earn his own living. A little over a hundred years ago was believed that children who were born deaf were idiotic as well, and attempt was made to educate them As they could not hear what other persons spoke, and as they were not taught to read what others had written they grew to manhood very little any better than idiots, and those wh were unfortunate enough to have n homes wandered about the country shunned by grown persons and feared by children. The good Abbe de l'Epec, who founded the first school in the world for deaf mutes in Paris in 1778, open ed a new life for these wretched out casts. He sought out the deaf mute children in the poor quarters of Pari and made them his f riends. He found when they ceased to be afraid of him ?for these poor children were not us cd to kindness?that they used cer tain signs by which they could make themselves understood. These signs he carefully studied, and he made them the basis of the great sign lan guage that is now taught all over America and Europe. He brought a number of these chi dren into his school, and taught them other signs and explained to them the meanings. When he had brought them to this point, he taught them to spell out words with their fingers, and after that to read and to write, so that within a few years he proved what monstrous injustice had been done to the deaf mutes almost ever since th world was created. You would naturally think that it is a very difficult matter to teach a little boy who had never heard a word spo ken, and knew nothiagof the language that other boys pick up almost before they can walk, how to read and spell But it is not half so hard as it seems to be. The other day I saw a class of eight little boys in the big deaf and dumb institute on Washington Heights at work in their class-room. None of them were over twelve years old, nor had been in the institute longer than six months. The teacher, who i3 a doaf mute pointed to a small jug that stood on a table. One of the boys promptly spelled j-u-g on his fingers. Then the boy went to the blackboard and neatly and quickly wrote the word with his crayon. There were other articles on the table, and each of the boys spell? ed and wrote their names correctly on the board. By this means the boys learned that certain things have certain names. They also learned what those names are and how to spell them. As the list is so chosen that the names con? tain all the letters of the alphabet, so by the time this lesson is thoroughly learned the boys have mastered the entire alphabet. In the same way they are taught to spell such words as "good" and "bad." First they are made to understand what good means. When they understand it they spell it out on their fingers, and afterwards write it on the blackboard. But this takes a great deal of time and patience. A little deaf boy spends three years studying a primer that my young readers could learn from cover to cover in less than three months. Little by little and step by step the mind is trained, and at the end of three years the children can spell and write simple J sentences. Then they are ready for the study of grammar, geography, arithmetic and other branches of education. By the time they are young men they are ready to go to college, and there is a college ready for them to attend. It is called the National College for Deaf Mutes and it is in Washington. When a boy or girl passes through this insti? tution he or she can read Latin or Greek as well as your big brother can, and perhaps even better, and can spell out the meanings of the words in the English language on the fingers faster than they can be written out on paper. Of course deaf mute children don't learn quickly. They are the same as other children; some arc bright and some arc very dull indeed. But they have to make such good use of their eyes, which are both eyes and cars to them, that they are usually very ob? serving, and, as you probably know, it is the observing boy who usually stands at the head of his classes in school. Sometimes children are not only born deaf but blind also. The educa? tion of these poor children is very slow, and takes a great deal of pa? tience and sympathy. In this same class I have just told you about there was a blind deaf mute. He could not see the table, with its load of jugs, rules, hats, caps and other articles. But he could tell them apart by touch? ing them. Then, after feeling his way to the blackboard, ho could write the names with his chalk, a little more slowly, but equally as well as his com? panions did. He could also spell the words with his fingers. You will ask how he could understand what his teacher wanted him to do. That was done this way. The teacher would first take his little hand in his own, and spell out the name of the article he wanted him to write on the black? board. The blind boy felt of hi3 teacher's fingers, and as each letter was formed he would repeat it with his own little fingers. When the word was finished, he knew what it was as well as though he had seen it spelled with a pair of bright eyes. If you ever visit a deaf and dumb institute you will be surprised at the amount of noise you will hear. As none of the inmates can hear his own voice, he docs not know that he is making a sound when he laughs or coughs or cries out. He does not know that it disturbs a person who can hear when he shuffles his feet on the floor, or kicks the bench in front of him, or rattles his slate on the desk. Consequently the classroom where the little children are taught is about the noisiest place you ever were in. It is almost as noisy as a boiler shop. And even the chapel where the students meet every day to repeat the Lord's prayer in signs is sometimes as noisy as a playground. In every deaf mute institute there arc a number of drums, which are used to attract the pupil's attention as bells are used in ordinary schools. The deaf cannot hear the drum, but they can feel it. The vibration of sound which is caused when the drum is struck acts upon them as a sharp noise would upon you. They arc call? ed to dinner by a tap of the drum, and arc awakened in the morning by the beating of a big bass drum in tbeir dormitories. Do deaf mute children play the samo as other children do? Precisely. They have their nurseries and playgrounds. In summer they play marbles, 'tag, hop-skip-and-a-jump, and in' -winter the boys build houses out of blocks and play various games; and the girls dress their dolls, and have dolls' par? ties the same as other little girls do. The only difference is that the little mothers talk to their dolls with their fingers instead of with their voices. The favorite doll is made of cloth, because its arms can be moved up and down and twisted into all manner of*I shapes. A real Wax doll may be pret-,' tier; but it can never be as near to the heart of a little deaf girl as her rag baby is. It cannot talk to her. Do ra? babies talk? Indeed they do. A ; bright girl who is interested in her dolly's education teaches her rag baby the same lessons she has learned in the schoolroom. She bends its chub? by fingers into the forms of the letters ^ and makes it spell out the same words she has just been taught. Some rag' babies are extremely well educated. I had one shown me by an ambitious little mother that could spell out all of "Little Boy Blue" when its fingers were properly put through the various | motions. The boys have great sport the year round, and some of them are famous athletes. The Washington Heights institute has two harrier clubs and two baseball nines that many a hear- f ing and speaking club would have had | work to beat. Deaf boys use their^. eyes instead of their tongues. When ' they run across country, they do not spend any time in asking foolish questions. They are not disturbed or kept back by any strange sounds they may hear. They simply run, and run very fast. On the baseball field they are capi-'i; tal players. They watch the ball, and not the spectators or the ?other play? ers; and when the ball comes their way they are ready for it. The pitch? er of the Silentia Club, Patrick J. Gately (who gave his views on the game in a recent number of Harper's ? Young People,) is one of the best young baseball players in the country. The institute not only teaches deaf' mutes how to read and write, but gives them a thorough training in some trade. All of the graduates are able ? to earn their living in some way or another. Among those who have left the New York school are several cler? gymen, teachers, a few authors and scientists, some artists, clerk, inven? tors, editors, jewelers, and several hundred printers, carpenters, tailors, shoemakers and farmers. One of the .' clergymen was graduated t.t Yale col? lege after he left the school. The good Abbe de l'Epee snreiy did not live his life in vain.?Benjamin Northrop, in Harpers Young People. -? All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The cocoanut tree is the most valuable of plants. ? Uncle Sam's egg crop is 'worth $100,000,000 annually. ? In scandal, as in robbery, the re? ceiver i3 worse than the thief. '?No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another. ' ? A rocking chair worked by elec? tricity is one of the latest inventions. ? Lots of girls with lips like cher? ries and checks like a peach have tura up noses. ? Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, has an ism?he will not shake hands. He thinks it is a senseless thing and ' refuses to practice it. ? Becker?I see by the posters that Footlights, the tragedien, travels un? der his wife's management. Decker? So do most men, but they don't ad? vertise it. ? She: And is this hair dye as dan? gerous as the doctors say. He: Every bit. An uncle of mine once dyed his hair, and three weeks after he married a widow with four children. ? A loud clap of thunder will cause a lobster to drop his claws, a ^crawfish his fins, a woman to scream, "a cat to - become deaf, a pig's nose to bleed, and cause milk to turn sour. Rudy's Pile Suppository, is guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, or money refunded. 50 cents per box. Send stamp for circular and Free Sara pie to Martin Rudy, Lancaster. Pa. For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, drug? gists, Anderson, S. C. ? A scientific authority states that by saturating a bullet with vaseline its flight may be easily followed by the eye from the time it leaves the muzzle of the rifle until it strikes the target. The course of the bullet is marked by a ring of smoke, caused by the vase? line being ignited on leaving the muz? zle of the gun. ? Irving W. Larimore, physical di? rector of Y. M. C. A., Des Moines, Iowa, says he can conscientiously rec? ommend Chamberlain's Pain Balm to athletes, gymnasts, bicyclists, foot ball players and the profession in gen? eral for bruises, sprains and disloca? tions; also for soreness and stiffness of the muscles. When applied before the parts become swollen it will effect a cure in one half the time usually re? quired. For sale by Hill Bros. ? Shipping cotton to the United States would seem, at first glance, a good deal like shipping coal to New? castle, but, nevertheless, the exporta? tion of 40,000 bales from Egypt to American ports show that the demands of business are no respecters of prov? erbs. The Egyptian cotton coming to this country is largely taken by New England mills, which find it useful for giving a silken gloss to many tex? tures. ? While in Chicago, Mr. Charles L. Kahler, a prominent shoe merchant of Des Moines, Iowa, had quite a se? rious time of it. He took such a se? vere cold that he could hardly talk or navigate, but the prompt use of Cham? berlain's Cough Remedy cured him of his cold so quickly that others at the hotel who had bad colds followed his example, and half a dozen persons or? dered it from the nearest drug store. They were profuse in their thanks to Mr. Kahler for telling them how to cure a bad cold so quickly. For sale by Hill Bros. ? The grain, the smallest weight standard in general use, was so called from originally being the weight of a graiu of wheat. A statute which be? came a law in England in the year 1260 ordained that 32 grains of wheat taken from the middle of the ear, or "head," and well dried, should make a pennyweight. 20 pennyweights one ounce and 12 ounces one pound. Some centuries later there were some radical changes made in the above, such as dividing the pennyweight into 24 grains. This makes 5,700 grains in a troy pound, as now used.?St. Louis Republic.