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Bf GMNKSGALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVPMBER 14, 1894. VOLUME XXIX.?NO 20 at Cost! COMMENCING to-day we will sell our entire stock of CLOTH? ING at COST for the next ten days. This is no advertising scheme. We mean what we say, and to convince you we will show to any one our cost mark. Bout fail to see us. Bring the CASE No goods charged B. O. EVANS & CO. Thb SflccessM Advertizer! Is the man who writes something-ths people will read, and reading, believe. In this age of education and enlightenment,, when men,read and think for themselves, all that staff about "seil, jg goods cheaper than your competifcon buy them,'' being the "only competen ; dealers in the line," ?'handling better'stuff than anybody else," Ac, is mere clap trap, aud subjects the writer and the firm back of it to the contempt or all rJgbi-thinking people. The man who has something to offer, and then .'.tells the folks abont in a plain, business -Cway, is the man who "gets there," and - getttog'tbire, stands. - Xots- of people handle Paint. Some b?ndle one kind, some another, bat they 'all realize, if they have any business sense at all, that In order to make that business V. a permanent success His absolutely neces? sary to give the people the very best ma? terial. Th w we have tried to do, and at a price^hat puts it in the reach of ail. * In this connection we call attention to thefcet that crops are about laid by, time d5 plentifiil, and a little paint not only .freshens and beautifies, bat Improves won '. .'derfally the sanitary condition of the .pramisefl. If yonr bouse is all right may ? l? the fence needs a coat. Alittle Paint would keep that old bup/y from falling down, and the wagon might last a year or two longer by spending seventy-five cents or a dollar in Paint on it. Remember this, the longer you put it off the more it takes and the; leas good it does. Remember another thing, it costs just as much, and t iL.ci just aj much time, to have cheap paint put> \ as it does good s ,TWSnt? Always boy the <jst, even if you jpay more for it. HILL BROS., Drnggists, ANDERSON, S. C. MASONS' SUPPLIES, 276 EAST BAY, ' CHARLESTON, & O., IMPORTERS OP $BQUSR POBTLAND CEMENT, AB1> DEALERS IN lETiatern and Southern Rock Lime, .; IRosondale Cement, N. Y. Plaster Paris, ^Hair, liaths. Shingles, Tile*, Bricks, Fire Clay, All sizes T. 0. Pipe, Best PaU Sice 'fflri Brick, Rooffing Slates, AND all / . BUILDINGI MATERIAL. Telephone 291. -AngSg, im. - 8 8m W. L Douglas ? ^?1 6UAES1 IS THE QEIitT. $5. CORDOVAN, FRENCH&ENAMBUEDGMFT m<5& RNE GAlf & K?f 16ARDH *3.WPOL1CE,3SOIJES. ^?.*]7-5BoysSchdd.Shoes. ?LADIES ? i SEND FOR CATALOGUE * Mu?DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, MASS. Ton can rar re money by purcha?lug- W. L. v Douglas Sboen, fiecsase, w: are the largest manufacturers of advertised shoes In the world, and guarantee the valae by stamping the name and price on the bottom, which protects you against high -'prices and the middleman's profits. Our shoes equal custom wort iu style, easy Suing and wearing qualities. We have them tsold every? where at lower prices for the value given than - any other make. . Take no substitute. If your dealer cannot supply you, we can. Sold by O. F. JONE8 ? CO., ANDERSON, 8. 0. GEER:BR0S? Eelton, S. C. "vroncE to creditors. . All persons having demands against the Estate of W. A. Brownlee deceased, . are hereby notified to present them, proper ly proven, to the undersigned, within tbe time prescribed by law, and cboie indebted to make payment LEMUEL D STRIBBLING. Ex'r. Richlind, S 0. Ott 24,1*9* 17 1* 3 Application for Charter, NOTICE is hereby given tbat we, the undersigned Corporators, will apply to tbe next session of tbe General Assem? bly of Sooth Carolina for a Charter to build a Rxilroad from Greenwood, South . Carolina, via Dae West. Anderson, Town vflle and Westminister, 8. C, to the Sooth Carolina and Georgia line at or near tbe point where the Blue Ridge Railroad crosses said line, to be called "Tbe Green? wood. Anderson and Western Railway." J 0. Maxwell. T P. Riley, J. K. Darst, J. ?, Bailey, J G. 8immons, B. W. Cobb, H. P. McGee, M. B ulinkscales, G P. Tolly, d. C. Du Pre, W. L. Darst, R. B. Wilson. W B Millwee, d A. P.Jordan, J. W. Wldeman, R. 8. Galloway, Geb. E. Prince, C. A 0. Waller. Corporators. - Aug 22,1894_8_3m Application lor Charter. "VTOTICE is hereby given tbat wo, tbe JJi nndersiffned Corporators, ? ill apply to tbe next session of tbe General A?sem- j . bly of South Carolina for ? Charter to build a Railroad .'Vom Greenwood, Soutb Carolina, by way of Cokesbnry, Pelzer and Piedmont to Grqpnville or Easley, . South Carolina, to be called "The Salnda j Valley Railway V J. 0. MaxwaH, T. P. RHey, J. K Durst, J..8 Bollev. J. Gl Simmons, B. W Cobb. D C. DaPre, E A. Kmytbe. T. J. Ellis, W. L Durst, B. B. Wllsoo, W. B Millwee. D. A P. Jordun, G. W. Connor. J C. Moore, G. B. Riley, J. L. Orr, T. E Pol h V, Corp >raton. Aog 22, 1K94_8_3m Railroad Charter, NOTICE is hereby given that we, tbe undersigned corporators, wiil app'y in the next General Assembly of Sooth Carolina for ?Charter of a R-itirnad run ning from Piedmont, in Gram vi He no. to Abbeville O H , by way of the Towns of'Pe'xer, Williain?ton and lWt?n, anrt from there to Abbevil aC H Ojr the most desirable and practicable r.,utp. J C.-Klagh. W. C. McGowhtj, W A. Te<uple>.oo Dr. J A And^rwn, A M Erwin, J. E Wnk^fl-ld, R B. A Robiu ?>n, T. L CHnk<c?l*m, Jr, J. T. Ashley a W 8alliv*o,E A.. Sravth??, J*?. L Orr! J. T Rire, Ii D ? tTtrri*, R A. L?-wf.s D . J. W.-Wd-imaD. M. B. Clinkaoal??, R Brownie*. 7- u SH5E1M UP ?ND LETCiO GROCERY! WE beg to announce to our many patrons in Anderson and throughout the County that we have moved our place of business to the elegant and commodious salesroom? , IN HOTEL ?HIQ?OLA BLOCK. NO. 5, Formerly occupied by D. S. Maxwell & Son. We will be better prepared than ever to supply you with the BEST GROCERIES at the lowest price consistent with the quality of Goods given. We haven't disappointed you in the past, and hope to do even better tor you in the future. No compromise nor winking at adulterated goods. Strictly pure food at .popular prices. Come and see us. We are ready to make things lively. "Shakera up and letgo, J. A. AUSTIN & CO. CLASS IN ALL SHAPES, CUT TO ORDER, AT Evans5 Pharmacy. 9ST REMEMBER our $5.00 TURNIP PRIZE, due November 20,18^4. Bring on your Turnips and have weight registered. NO, 4 HOTEL CHIQJJOLA. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, EfC. ViCTORtA-BLUE -YlQIIiANIi Iron King: and Elmo. Stoves at Prices you cannot afford to be without one. ^,'"?. .1 - . :' I "We have just received a nice assortment of Goods in onr line, and we are going to I sell them at priceu to suit the people and times. It will pay yon to inspect onr varied Stock and Prices. We .take pleasure in showing and pricing customers and visitors our Goods, j whether yon wish to boy or not. Soliciting t our future wants, and thanking you for past favors, I remain yours, &c, JOHN T. BURRISS. 3?u IS*?Parties indebted to me by Note or Account will accommodate me very much by coming in and settling as soon as convcuient. Respectfully, JOHN T. BURRISS. SHOES in all Styles ! SHOES OF ALL QUALITIES, SHOES FOR ALL PEOPLE, THE MEANS SHOE, THE MILES SHOE, THE HTNDS HONEST HOME MADE SHOE, And all the Best Makes at Popular Prices ! ONE entire side of our Mammoth New Store is devoted entirely to 8hoe?. This is a *teh? worth feeing, and the PKICES WILL INTEREST* YOU. Don't forget that. WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY. And then you k'n w? We are always in the Cotton Market! ?S?r- Come to see us, and we will do you right _MoOULLY & CATHOART. iiiSiiOR HARD TIMES! j DESIRE to inform the tradiDg public that I am now reducing my Stock for the Fall seasoD, and for the next few week? will offer great inducements to Cash buyers. Come and see my Stock of Family and Fancy Groceries, Canned Goods, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Cigars, Etc. And I will please yon in prices and goods. Gr. F. BIGBY. $1.50 $1.50 THE BARGAIN OF THE YE, WE HAVE JUST RECEIVEt> A DRIVE IN nVCIEIKPS ZFTETE HATS. Your Choice of the Lot, SI 50 Had we bought these goods regular we would have to sell them at three dollars. No two Hats alike. All the latest shape and colors. Whenever we get a Bargain we give you the benefit. TAYLOR & CRAYTOX. $1.50 $150 HOW GETTYSBURG WAS LOST. FITZHUGH LEE'S STORY OF THE FATE? FUL FJELD. Condensed from an Account in Fitzhugh Lee's Life Robert E. Lee. The discussion of the battle of Get? tysburg is more general to-day, not only throughout the country, but throughout the world, than it was thirty years ago, when it was yet fresh in the minds of all the living, and its fearful sacrifices and heroic achieve? ments ou both sides were as living pictures in view of ^the nation. It is now undisputed that it was the decis? ive battle of the war. When Lee formed his lines on Seminary Ridge he presented the largest Confederate army that ever appeared on any battle? field during the entire war. Never before had Lee commanded so many men and never thereafter was he able I to approach the number who obeyed his orders on that fateful field. how the battle began. It is known that both Gen. Meade and Gen. Lee were moving toward each other when their advance forces met at Gettysburg, without either knowing the particular direction of the other, and both armies were moved in such positions as to be able to con? centrate readily at different points. What was supposed at first to be a mere skirmish at Gettysburg on the first day of July was precipitated by Gen. Heth, who got permission to move into Gettysburg for the purpose of supplying his men with shoes. That movement was met by the ad? vance of Reynold's corps that was making a reconnoissance in force, and the conflict began without either side supposing that a great battle was to be fought. Early in the afternoon Hill's whole corps was on the ground in action, and Howard's corps had come to the support of Reynolds, who had fallen early in the battle. Thus what opened as a skirmish precipita? ted fully 50.000 men, in the harvest of death within a very few hours, and the Union army was defeated with the loss of four or five thousand prisoners and driven in confusion on Cemetery Hill. the second day* 8 fight. On the second day instead of a sim? ultaneous attack upon the Union lines, as Gen. Lee's plans contemplated, and as he had verbally ordered, no attack was made until late in the afternoon, thus enabling Meade to largely increase his force and strength? en his position, and when the attack was made it was a desperate and bloody effort to gain Little Round Top and Culp'8 Hill, both of which could have been taken unopposed any time during the day before. Lee's entire plan of battle had miscarried, and his biographer sets forth at every stage of failure how the responsibility was upon the tardiness of Gen. Longstreet. He did not attack in the morning at daylight, as he should have done, be 1 cause Pickett's division was not yet there, and thus nearly the entire day was lost, during every hour of which the strength of the Union position was greatly increased by breastworks and the numbers of the army multiplied. On the evening of the second day it was evident to Lee that the position of the Federal army was too strong to j be broken on either of its flanks, as he had sacrificed many of his soldiers in vain efforts to get possession of Gulp's Hill and Round Top. He was thus reduced to the necessity of adopting one of three courses, viz : To make an assault upon Gen. Meade's left centre, at the point where it was nearest to Dee's lines ; to make a flank^move ment around Meade's left and thus attempt to force him out of his posi? tion, or to retreat. Gen. Lee doubt- j less well cons' lered all of these sug? gestions. He had discussed the question of attempting a flank move? ment with Gen. Longstreet, who strongly urged it, but it did not meet I with Lee's approval, and after fully j considering the matter he expressed the belief that with proper concerted action an assault could be made suc? cessfully, and his orders were given ! accordingly. Gen. Pickett's division I had arrived on the field in the after- j noon of the second day and had not yet participated in any of the battles, and as Longstreet's corps was now complete, with more fresh men in it than any other, he was charged with the duty of assaulting the Union lines early in the morning. pickett's awful charge. We cannot better convey to the reader the story of Pickett's luckless assault than to quote copiously from Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's story as it comes from his own pen : "Gen. Longstreet's dispositions were not completed as early as was expect? ed," continues Lee, "and before he could notify E weil the enemy attacked Johnson, was repulsed, and Johnson, thinking the fighting was going on elsewhere, attacked in his turn and forced the Union troops to abandon part of theirintrenchment3, but "after a gallant and prolonged struggle" was not able to carry the strongly fortified crest of the hill. "The projected at? tack on the enemy's left not having been made," Lee states, "he was unable to hold his right with a force largely superior to that of Gen. John? son, and finally to threaten his flank and rear, and rendering it necessary for him to retire to his original posi? tion about 1 p. m." The delay to attack on the right was but a repeti? tion of the preceding day's tactics. It was impossible to move from differ? ent flanks a slow officer and a prompt one "at the same time." Longstreet was delayed, Gen. Lee's report tells us, by a force occupying the high, rocky hills on the enemy's extreme left from which his troops could be [ attacked in reverse as they advanced, and he deemed it necessary to defend his flank and rear with the divisions of Hood and McLaws. "He was therefore reinforced by Heth's division and two brigades of Pender's (Hill's corps) to the command of wlrch Major Gen. Trimble was assigned, aNd Gen. Hill was ordered to afford Gen. Long street further assistance if requested, and avail himself of any success that might be crained."j the COLUMN formed. The assaulting column was at last formed. Pickett's division of three brigades, 5,000 men. was formed in two lines, Kemper on the right, Gar nctt on his left and Armistead in the rear. Hill's troops?six small brig? ades?having passed through the fiery furnace of two days' battles, did not number 7,000 men ; they were sent to support Longstreet's corps, but, curi? ously, were placed in an attacking column that had no support. Four brigades? Pettigrew's, Davis*s, (a brother of the Southern President,) Brnckeiibrough's and Archer's, of Heth's division, under that, fine offi? cer, Pcttiirrew?(FTeth having been wounded the day before) wre placed ou Piekett's left, and two, Lane's and Scales's, about twenty-five hundred men of Pender's division, under Trim? ble, in a second line, while "Wilcox's was to march on the extreme right to protect their flank. Thirteen thous? and five hundred, or at most fourteen thousand troops, had been massed to attack an army, out with no more hope of success than had the Spartans at Thermopylae, the English cavalry at Balaklava or the Old Guard of the French at "Waterloo. Pickett's division formed at 10.30 a. m., in line nearly parallel and in rear of the rise upon which runs the Enimittsburg road, but rather diago? nally to the Union position at the con? templated point of attack. Kempcr's right was one thousand eight hundred and sixty yards distant from it, while Pettigrew prolonged the line somewhat en echelon. Pickett's first formation was in one line, Armistead, Gamett and Kemper from left to right. Gar nett's troops were twenty yards only in rear of Wilcox's brigade of Ander? son's division, which had been sent out to the front between daylight and sunrise to protect guns then being put in position by Col. E. P. Alexan? der, of the artillery. Wilcox states that the four brigade commanders were together nearly all the time before the artillery opened uin the yard near the Spangler House," and that there was no officer present in that open field at any time higher in rank than a brigade general, which differ.? with an account by the right corps commander', who has said that Lee rode with him "twice over the line to see that every? thing was arranged according to his wishes and that there was no room for a misconstruction. of his orders." Lee's object was to cut the Federal army at its left centre as Marlborough split that of Yendome in the same month one hundred and fifty-five years before, thinking, perhaps, its right wing could be destroyed first or driven I so far out of the way that he could turn in whole or part against the left wing before it could disentangle itself from the rocks and woods of the Round Top. TESTIMONY OF LEE 8 8TAPF OFFICERS. It is fortunate three of Gen. Lee's trusted staff officers?Taylor, Venable and Long?have recorded that the plan of assault involved an attack by Longs tree t's whole corps, supported by one half of Hill's, or all of it if,he called for it, or upon the bright shield of the Southern chieftain there might have been a lasting blot. Taylor, the adjutant general of the army, says it was originally intended to make the attack with Hood and McLaws, re enforced by Pickett, and it was only I because of the apprehension of Gen. Longstreet that his corps was not strong enough that Gen. Hill was called on to support him., and Hill, in an official report, states that his troops were sent to Longstreet "as a support to his corps." Lee "rode along a por? tion of the line held by A. P. Hill's corps and finally took a position about I the Confederate centre on an elevated I point, from which he could survey the I field and watch the result or the movement." Long i?ys the order for the assault by the whole corps was given verbally by Gen. Lee in his presence and that of Major Venable and other officers of the army. Vena? ble states that he heard the orders given to support Pickett's attack by McLaws and Hood, and that when he called Gen. Lee's attention to it after? ward he said: "I know it, I know it." A consummate master of war such I as Lee was would not drive en masse a column of fourteen thousand men across an open terrene thirteen or j fourteen hundred yards, nearly every | foot of it under a concentrated and converging fire of artillery, to attack an army on fortified heights of one hundred thousand, less its two days' losses, and give his entering wedge no support. Why, if every man in that assault had been bullet-proof, and if the whole of those fourteen thousand plendid troops had arrived unharmed on Cemetery Ridge, what could have been accomplished ? Not being able to kill them there would have been time for the Federals to have seized, tied and taken them off in wagons before their supports could have reached them. Amid the fire and smoke of this false move these troops did not know "some one tad blundered," but had a right to feel that the movement had been well considered and ordered because it had elements of success. But there was no chance to write vic? tory upon their fluttering flags. The pages of history which record the magnificent exhibition of human cour? age drip with the useless sacrifice of blood. LONG STREET'6 RELUCTANCE TO OBEY. Longstreet was disappointed when he received the order to make this attack and wanted to move to the Federal left, but Lee knew his rela? tions with Meade had been too inti? mate during the last two days and the relative hosts too close for such tarti cal folly. His right corps chief says he took Pickett, who was to command the charge, to the crest of Seminary Ridge, pointed out the direction to be taken and the point to be assaulted ; that he "could fee the desperate ana hopeless nature of the charge and the cruel slaughter it would cause," and that his "heart was heavy" when he left Ppskett; that his objections to Pickett's battle had been overruled, and that the day was one of the sad? dest of his life, for he foresaw what his men would meet and would gladly have given up his position rather than share in the responsibilities of that dav. Lee, au contraire, was impati? ently waiting to seeLongstrr l a corps and one-half of Hill's, or, if necejgjry, all of it, break, with the force of .-he tempest which strands navies, through the hostile lines, if the testimony of his staff officers is worthy of credence. The details of the attack were prop? erly left to the officer who was to make it. Lee did not care whether Hood and McLaws, attacked, reinforced by Pickett and Hill's troops, as at first intended, or whether Pickett led and the remainder followed ; but he want? ed the muskets numerous enough to plant the victory upon his standards. To fight to a finish a protracted strug? gle was a bold conception ; to give in audacious form a coup de grace to his enemy was the acme of daring. But Lee, calm, quiet, conservative and self-controlled, was fearless when oc? casion demanded, as a study of his campaigns will demonstrate. ARTILLERY AMMUNITION EXHAUSTED. Two minutes afterward the Federal fire ceased, and some of his guns lim? bered up and vacated their positions. Then he (Anderson) wrote to Pickett, "For God's sake, come quick.' Pickett had taken his first note to Longstreet and asked him if the time for hia advance had come, and Long street bowed his assent; he could not speak, because, he says, he was con? vinced that Pickett was going to lead Iiis troops to useless slaughter. Long Btreet then rod-; to Alexander's posi* t on, and up m being told th'1 artillery ammunition might not hold out direct? ed Alexander to stop Pickett and replenish it; hut was told there "was very little to replenish with," and that the enemy would recover from the effect of the fire if there was fur? ther delay, and just then, says he, Pickett swept out and showed the full length of the gray ranks and shining bayonets?as grand a sight as man ever looked on?and that on the left Pettigrew stretched further than he could see. Gen. Garnett, just out of the sick ambulance, and buttoned up in an old blue overcoat, riding at the head of his brigade passed just then, and saluted Longstreet. Alexander had served with him on the plains before the war, and they "wished each other luck and a good-bye"?a last farewell for Garnett. Alexander fol? lowed Pickett. with eighteen of his guns which had most ammunition, whose fire was very effective against Standard's Vermont troops. The small thunderbolt had been discharg? ed, and the red-crested wave of assault rolled forward, destined to break into fragments on the murderous rocks athwart its path. INTO THE JAWS op DEATn. Screaming shells broke in front, rear, on both sides, and among them ; but the devoted band, with their ob? jective point steadily in view, kept stept to their music. The space be? tween them and the Federal lines grew rapidly less, and soon they were in the "mouth of hell," within range of the well protected infantry, and then there came a storm of bullets on every side, before which men dropped in their ranks as ripe fruitfrom a sha'cen tree. Still they closed the gaps and pressed forward, though canister was now raining on flanks and front with a terribly destructive fire. Brave men along the Union line could scarcely refrain from cheering at the perfect order and splendid courage exhibited by the Southern soldiers as they stag? gered on amid death and destruction, like a great pugilist whose fast falling strength denotes the loss of the con? test, but resolves to stand in front of his antagonist to the last. What was left of the right of the assaulting troops struck the portion of the Fed? eral lines held by Webb's brigade, 2d corps, and from the stone wall drove two' Pennsylvania regiments, captur? ing the three guns in charge of Lieut. A. fi. Cushing, and mortally wound? ing this brave ynung officer, who had been fighting for an ?hour and a half after being wounded in both thighs by the cannonade. "They moved up splendidly," wrote a Northern officer, "deploying as they crossed the long sloping interval. The front of the column was scarcely up the slope and within a few yards of the 2d corps' front and its batteries, when suddenly a terrific fire from every available gun on Cemetery Ridge burst upon them. Their graceful lines underwent an instantaneous transfor? mation in a dense cloud of smoke and dust?arms, heads, blankets, guns and knapsacks were tossed in the air and the moan of the battlefield was heard amid the storm of battle." Sheets of missiles flew through what seemed a moving mass of smoke ; human valor was powerless, and the death-dealing guns were everywhere throwing blaz? ing projectiles in their faces. No troops could advance and live. The fiery onslaught was repulsed as Pick? ett's division had been, and then the survivors of both came back to their former positions, but not one-half of the fourteen thousand. The famous charge was over. THE BATTLE WAS ENDED. "This has been a sad day to us," said Lee, "but we cannot always ex? pect to win victories." It was a sad day for the South, for at that time it was "within a stone's throw of peace." Fate was against Lee. The high wa? ter mark if Southern independence had been reached and from that hour it began to ebb from the mountains of Pennsylvania until lost in the hills of Appomattox. "It is all my fault," Lee exclaimedj and proceeded in per? son to rally and reform his shattered troops. Three Followers. The wily old Hassan sat in his door when three young men passed eagerly by. "Are ye following after anyone, my sons ?" he said. "I follow after Pleasure," said the eldest. "And I after Riches," said the sec? ond. "Pleasure is only to be found with riches." "And you, my little one ?" he asked of the third. "I follow after Duty," he modestly said. And each went his way. The aged Hassan in his journey came upon three men. "My son," he said to the eldest, "me thinks thou wert the youth who was following after Pleasure. Didst thou overtake her ?" "No, father," answered the man, "Pleasure is but a phantom that flies as one approaches." "Thou didst not follow the right way, my son." "How didst thou fare ?" he asked of the'second. "Pleasure is not with riches," he answered. "And thou," continued Hassan, addressing the youngest. "As I walked with Duty," he re? plied, "Pleasure walked ever by my side." "It is always thus," replied the old man, "Pleasure pursued is not over? taken. Only her shadow is caught by him who pursues. She herself goes hand in hand with Duty, and they who make duty their companion have also the companionship of Pleasure." State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) Lucas County. j ' Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. j. Cheney a Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that caunot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in ray presence, this 6th day of De? cember, A. D. 188(3. [seal] A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter? nally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. C^Snld by Druggists, 75c. ? The man who lives only to please himself has a hard master. ? It is stated that cholera is rarely fatal to a system impr ^narerl with to? bacco. 8ABGE PL?MKETT. A Remedy for tbe Great Strata That la Upon the People. Atlanta Constitution. It is surprising to find how many people there are who would welcome a war as a relief for the hard times? sound them as you pass around and you will be surprised. There is entirely too much war talk to suit Brown. When Mr. Lincoln was elected to the presidency there were fully as many who thought that j confidence would be restored and mat? ters would move along in smooth ruts again without bloodshed as there are now who believe that everything will be regulated amicably. Even in the campaign for secession a great majori? ty believed that it would be peaceable and the stump speakers swore they would drink all the blood that was spilt. Brown was one of the fellows who believed that we would be allow? ed to go in peace and he howled for secession. In the event that there should a war arise from secession these people believed that it would be a j small matter and the smallest man in Georgia thought he could easily whip three yankees. It was the belief that , yankees could never learn to ride nor shoot nor march. Things turned out so different to what Brown expected that it makes him quiver to hear any war talk and he has already begun to anticipate conscript officers and war times generally. The south would be peculiarly un? fortunate in the event of a war, though it were a foreign war. Of course the negroes would enlist and be received, and of course it would give them a share of the glory if glory there was. , Any way. if the United States were to have a foreign war the negro would stand very different ever after in the matter of social equality. There are many reasons why the south should never agitate a war, but rather we should all go to work to find other reliefs. The abolition party would never have been born had the freeing of the negro been the only incentive. Conditions had grown to be such in the New England states that relief must be had for theoverburdenedpeo pie of that section. The abolition of slavery was agitated e.t first for divers? ion. Tbe operatives of the manufact? uring states were made to believe that slavery would be thei? ruin and politi? cians profited by the agitation till nothing but a war could settle the question. The New England "gold bugs" grew fearful of the south as a manufacturing "section with slave labor ?at least thoy pretended to be fearful and used it in their tariff arguments or any other arguments to divert the people from real conditions. All the time the strain grew worse and worse, the people grew poorer and poorer, till slavery must be sacrificed to give relief. Brown doubts if there was ever a war started except by the "rab? ble" upon the genuine questions in? volved. It may be wisdom to divert. It may be statesmanship to lose the people in things too great for them to find their way, but it would be wiser to find other ways out of it than war. In very olden times, they tell me, that there was what was known as a year of jubilee. I had forgotten about it till Brown and I drove up to churcL last Sunday while they sang? l:The year of jnbil-p ht?.-* com1*, Tbe year of jubilee ban come, Return ye randaomB sinners borne." Brown thinks that this year of jubi? lee would be a great thing in this day and time. He tells me about all I know in the matter, and as he is a pretty close Bible reader I accept what he says as the fact. It seems that in those days the tension upon brain and muscles needed relief just as it needs it in this day, therefore, every seventh year was set aside by law as a year of jubilee, wherein the people were re? lieved from taxes or other burdens of government and made to rejoice. In the same connection, every fifty years was set aside as a greater jubilee year, wherein all indebtedness was wiped out and everything started new. Brown says tevive this old custom? it would be better than war, he thinks, and I can't help from contemplating what a rejoicing there would be just at this time if 1895 was a year of jubi? lee with us. As it iB there is no relief. From the cradle to the grave it is strain, struggle and anxiety. Were it not for the seventh day of rest, which we had so far, there would not be a sane human being. Every business man, every professional man, every workingman?all of creation?recog? nize the wisdom, outside of Christian reverence, in us having our day of rest?one in every seventh?is the way Brown enthuses upon the subject, and how happily', he says, we could all join in a jubilee year together singing? ''The year of jubilee bas form!" But this talk of Brown's is idle, I suppose. But none can deny but what something must be done to re? lieve the people. Will it be the thing so commonly talked of just now?war? The south knows the blight of war, and our peculiar condition as regards the negro should make it a patriotic duty of southern whites to cease this talk. This talk we hear does not arise from any patriotic motive?it is simply self? ish greed in some, in others it is ar? riving in that condition where any change will be received as a relief. It is a public state of mind?growing every day?that would tear down a republic or overthrow a monarchy, as the case might be. Surely the people do mourn and some sort of change must take place. Brown nor I do not place the responsibility of these con itions at the door of any party or any class. "It is a general looseness," Brown says, "the natural consequence of too much 'progress.'" He says that the grandest invention ever pat nted at Washington ceases to be grand the very moment it takes one crust of bread from the poorest child. The grandest intellect that ever treads our shores ceases to be grand the mo? ment it drops one speck of poison into our moral code or religious faiths. Of course, the south must keep up with the procession in the matter of progress. I expect that the New Eng nd manufacturers would be more ncere now than they were in the tarting of abolitionism were they to scrt that all manufacturing would be moved south. Then it was to control otcs ou tarriff issues. Now they really see the handwriting on the wall, hat the south is growing in manu acturing interests is just as sure as is that we should meet the new con tions without a sacrifice of old tra tions or moral standards. To do is parents must keep a watchful eye er the youthful who go out from under their eyes every day. Be sure and know that your children an? work? ing where they say they work and when. Every boy knows how to play truant at school, how to watch and go out and return with other scholars, thus fooling parents. The temptation is just as strong to play truant from work and go and return with the work? ers?it is worse in "laying out" from work, though, for wages must show up on paydays. This is delicate, too delicate to mention broadly, but what has been snid may put some good old fashioned parent on guard and save some wayward boy or girl from a ruin invited by the modes of modern progress. Sahqe Plunkett. Two Georgia Stories. Some time during 1884 Colonel. A. W. Toombs, of Earlington, Ky., ob? tained possession of an old pipe, which was curious and attractive. It was in the possession of a negro tramp, who j came to that town, and Colonel Toombs purchased it from him for a mere trifle. The pipe was a handsomely carved affair with a long stem, around which was a silver band containing the fol? lowing inscription: "Found on the body of an officer in the Thomas corps, on the battlefield of Chickamauga, Sunday, September 12, 1864, by Lieu? tenant Will Frazer, Third Confederate Infantry, Polk's brigade, Cleburne's division." Some time afterward Col? onel Toombs, being anxious to learn something more concerning the history of the pipe, inserted a card in the Courier-Journal concerning a descrip? tion of it and asking for' information. He was rewarded by receiving a letter from Lieutenant Frazer, of Sj;. Louis, whose name was mentioned in the in? scription on the pipe. The letter con? tained an account of how the pipe came into his possession, and the story is an interesting one. In his com? munication Lieutenant Frazer says: "In that terrible struggle on Sunday at Chickamauga my brigade (Polk's, Cleburne's division), in making the final charge about sunset, carried the works in its front, which were held? if I mistake not?by Beard's division of regulars. As I stepped over the breastworks a federal officer lying near a battery, apparently in the last ago ? ies of death, motioned to me. I knelt beside him, raised his head and gave him a drink of water from my canteen. He feebly pointed to his breast pocket, from which I saw the stem of a pipe protruding, and taking it out he pressed it into my hands, ?and with his eyes expressed his desire for me to keep it. He was speechless. How I managed to keep the pipe through the mutations of war that followed that bloody Sunday I hardly know, but at the close, when I settled down in New Orleans, I found that the pipe had stuck to me. In 1869 I presented the pipe to a friend of mine in New Orleans, aud he had it encir? cled with the silver band and engraved. How it got out of his possession into the bands of the party from whom you obtained it is, of course, a matter of coujecture, and I regret its career should have been so inglorious." On the land of a farmer five miles east of Crab Orchard, Ky., near the village of Gum Sulphur, is a well which is a great wonder to those who have visited it. It is known as the "burning well," a name appropriately given, for its waters, though clear, limpid and drinkable, are as inflamma? ble as naphtha. This well is about! fifteen feet deep, extending down through a stratum of slate rock. It contains'a wooden pump stock and the water, as it comes cold and sparkling from the depths of the well, has no odor about it. It has a mineral taste and is exceedingly pleasant to drink. Yet a dipper full of it coming in con? tact with a flame will take fire, blazing up like gunpowder. The well's dis? covery, if the natives tell a true story, was remarkable. A party of excur? sionists from the spriags went out in that section in quest of ferns, fossils and the like. On their return they found the well and stopped to get a drink. An old lady living near by brought a bucket and filled it with the refreshing fluid for the thirsty ram? blers. After they had drank she poured the remainder on the ground near the well. Just at this instant a young man of the party lighted z. ciga? rette and threw the match heedlessly to the ground. It chanced to fall into the poured out water, which took fire and flashed up, amazing and fright? ening the whole party. At the sug? gestion of one of the onlookers more water was drawn, and to the wonder of all it took fire as readily as an ex? plosive, scorching the .face and eye? brows of the rash experimenter who held the match. The old lady's family had for years been using water out of the well, perfectly ignorant of its properties. A Field for Mothers. It is in America that we find boys and girls smart beyond their years, and with more nerve tissue than they know what to do with. The little folks remind one of adult age; we may well call them "little men and women." They already know too much; they are active in tempera? ment because they cannot be other? wise ; and even before they are grown they will be rushed into society. The world around them moves fast, and they are racing along with it. The child eats at his father's table, takes the same food and drink, and it will be well if he does not have a aimilar smoke after each meal. Before he reaches manhood he will have laid tbe foundations for dyspepsia; and his little sister will not be a great way behind him. "Now, a practical question in this connection is what the mothers have to do with it. We hear a great deal of what women are doing in science, literature, art, invention and other fields of human industry. This is well; but who is studying the physi? cal well being of the next generation ? Bones and muscles, and the bodily tissues generally, are made from the food we eat; and they are often badly deteriorated and the blood poisoned, either by taking food which is not suited to the needs of the system, or that which is spoiled with condiments. Surely here is a field for mothers. Let them see to it that the young and growing child is not injured for life by any fundamental errors in its dietetic habits. No doubt the taste for strong drinks, tobacco and many forms of dissipation is too often acquired in the home and at the family table. Moth? ers, it is to be feared) do not suffici? ently realize the importance of this subject, nor the close connection which exists between the tastes ac? quired in early life and the habits which persist in later years.? Demor vst $ Magazine. Rudy's Pile Suppository, is guar? anteed to cure Piles a-id Constipation, or money refunded. 50cents per box. Send stamp for circular and Free Sam? ple to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa. For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, dni? fcists. All Sort* ot Paragraphs. ^ ? We cannot sow bad seed and reap a good harvest. ? There are three times as many widows as widowers. ? Divorce is the imperfect remedy of an imperfect social state. ? When all men know little, how can any one man know it all ? ? Most people are better thau their' neighbors give them credit for. ? An express train locomotive on a railroad consumes 10 gallons of water per mile. ? It is hard to find a man who does not put the blame of his misfortune upon his wife. ? God never did, never will, never can make ; mistake. His will and ways are always right. ? "Ef you wanter flattah er man'? vanity good," said Uncle Eben, "tell 'im he.ain' got none." ? If the United States has as great a relative population as Japan, it would have 960,000,000 people. ? Economic writers declare that the income of the Czar of Russia is equal to $25,000. per day every day in the year. ? He that can feast upon another's, misery, vexation or disappointment-; has a most unhealthy soul. ? A radish 3 feet and 8 inches in length and 22 inches in circumference is on exhibition at Winter Haven, | Florida. ? The girl with one beau to her string stands a better chance of not being an old maid than the girl with afj dozen. ? It would require eight hundred thousand full moons to produce a day as brilliant as one of cloudless sunshine. \ ? Lovers love to tell each other what they think of each other. So do married people, sometimes'?and they do it, too. ? One mile of wire, such as is used in the manufacture of hair springs for watches, would weigh less than half a pound. ? It is considered unlucky iu Ire? land to view a funeral procession while the beholder is under an um? brella. ? Sugar was unknown in Europe be? fore the Christian era, and only came into common use in the seventeenth century. ? ? Artificial ice is now so made in France that upon giving it a rap it will separate into small cubes, instead of irregular lumps. ? Exactly why the magnetic needle always points to the northward has never been positively determined \by the scientists. ? If America was densely popular ted as Europe it would contain as many people as there are in the world - at the present time. _^ ? A hypocrite is a man who makes a great deal of noise over people's. souls, but never cares a dime what be? comes of their bodies. ? 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With the use of smokeless powder, it is said, a man would be killed before he heard or knew of the report. The bullet is to be of nickel or steel. ? Henry Wilson, the postmaster at Welshton, Florida, says he; cured] a* sasc of diarrhoea of long standing in cix hours, with one small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and. Dhrrhoja Remedy. What a pleasant surprise that must have been to the sufferer. Such cures are not unusual with this remedy. In many instances only one or two doses are required to give permanent relief. It can always be depended upon. When reduced with water it is pleasant to take. For sale by Hill Bros. She: Do you think the time will ever come when women will propose ? He: I don't see why it shouldn't. Suppose you proposed to me to-night and I suid yes, what-. She : Oh, Henry, this is so sudden ! But never mind ; it is just as well and mother, I know, will be delighted. ? W. A. 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