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THE Bigger Bargains than ever await your Pocket Book i t We are Determined to Sell more SHOES this year than Ever Before. iS Si 500 Pairs Men's Good Shoes......95c. 200 Pairs Men's Good Shoes.75c. 1000 Pairs Women's Good Shoes.". .75c, ONLY A FEW DAYS MORE UNTIL WE WILL GIVE AWAY THE IN GOLD ! COSSETT & BROWN. TN DEADLY SUSPENSE. Inaclion Severely Tries the Nerves of a ? Soldier. Thousands of soldiers of the late war, union and confederate, were active participants in five, six or seven great /battles and a dozen hot skirmishes. 2Ndt one of 'themcould give an honest .?answer to the question: "What are a .?soldier's sensations as he goes into ibattle?" He couldn't, simply because :no two battles opened or were fought .under the same circumstances, and i therefore his sensations were different i each time. At Chantilly, where Kear :neywas killed, I saw men in battle-' / line who were actually weeping and as ? pale-faced as the dead. Next day, on ?> the Bull Run battlefield, I saw these ; same men laughing and frolicking as - they wheeled into line and opened fire. I saw the old First Michigan Cavalry make its historical charge at Gettys? burg, rashing across the fields to what seemed certain annihilation, and there was not a pale face among them. On the contrary, many of them were laughing and singing and calling out, "Good-bye, old man?see you again ia ten'minutes I " to acquaintances /mfcside the regiment. I believe my experience was that rof the great majority. If rushed into :a fight no one lost his nerve. If lying ?down in support of a battery or wait :ing behind breastworks there was laughing and joking. The man who 'happened to be wounded in the hand or foot got do more sympathy than as if he had complained of the toothache. If a shell struck the earth in front of us and covered a dozen men with grass and dirt it was a matter for a joke, although a hundred bullets and a dozen fragments of iron zipped and whizzed overhead and perhaps swept away tbe crew of a fieldpiece. It was the stand? ing out in battle! ine in the open, under fire but waiting to return it or to move ons which drained the courage of even the oldest veteran as blood flows Irom a wound. Let us take the second day at Get? tysburg. So long as we were moving there was something to distract atten? tion, but now comes the test of wait? ing?of suspense. Away over there we can see the columns of the enemy wheeling into position?banners rip? pling?artillery moving with horses under the lash. There is going to be a fierce grapple here. These scattered trees will be rent and riven?these acres of green grass torn np?that babbling brook change the color of its waters before the sun passes its zenith. Men drew a long breath to fill their lungs before putting forth all their strength in one great effort. Armies do the same. This is the long breath before the clash oomes. -Watch the horses as the fieldpieces come galloping np! They are looking across the valley at the enemy, their eyee blazing- and their ears working. Everyone is in a tremble as the teams are unhitched and led away to the shelter of the ravine. They know what is coming, and the waitiug un? nerved them. There is "Old John," as the boys call him. He has been in half a dozen fights and he has three or four battle scars, but he is just as nervous as if he had never heard a gun fired. See how his nostrils quiver! Watch the blaze of his eyesJ What a painting he would make as he stands there with head and tail tip and every nerve a-quiver! The officers' voices grate harshly as they jerk out their commands of: "Dress more to the right!"?''Front there!''?"Cease that talking.'' They are officers, but they are men. The exploding shells and the zipping bul? lets are meant for them as well as for us, and they arc also fighting against the terror of suspense. Our colonel rides along the line in front. That is well, but it is a bluff for all that. He's moving to keep his nerve under control. Watch the men! There are old veterans here?men who have fought in every great battle from first Bull Run?and there are recruits who reached us only three days ago from the far-away farms and villages. You see a difference, but it is affected. The old veteran jokes with the men right and left, sharpens his jackknife on the rock in front of him, whistles a few bars from a rollicking air to make you believe that he never felt more BetTftrti Vh V&t. ItJi, ^<y;<t sham, but it helps to brace up the pale-faced men who are to receive their baptism. "Why don't we move?" This state of suspense is disorgan? izing. Men lookly wildly to the right and left?to the rear. There are no cowards here, but it would take very little to start a panic and a rush. Men still laugh, but it is mockery. They jest; but they scarcely hear their own words. Look at that recruit! He's a sturdy young farther, who was sharpening his scythe in the hayfields three weeks ago. He has the strength of an ox, and no man ever looked into his face and put him down as faint? hearted. Twenty minutes ago he Would have swept forward with us to charge a battery anrl hurrahed with excitement. Suspense has sapped his courage and unnerved him. See him tremble I Note his paleness I Now there comes a look of terror and des? peration to his eyes, and before any? one could stop him he bolted away to be halted by the prevoet guard in the rear of the lines and be returned to us with the stigma of "coward" attached to his name. He is not a coward, -he has simply broken down Under tbe strain, us hundreds of men before him and hundreds will again. He weeps and wrings his hands as he takes his place in the ranks. You can see other men grow pale and work their jaWa and louk furtively from right to left. Suspense is about to start a panic when the shout rolls along the lines: "Attention! They are coming! Dress back ou the left I Steady, now !" It 1s the panacea. Five minutes later men are cursing and shouting and fighting as if they loved the scent of blood, but those who live through the fray will be very serious-minded and quiet for three or four days. It takes time to get the nerve back after a period of suspense. Captain Dale, Company B, ?th Ohio Volunteers. Tommj's Letter. It was Christmas time, and Tommy's father, to punish him, said he -would send word to Santa Claus not to bring him anything. The small boy was rather broken up for a while, but presently he was seen hard at work writing what looked like a letter. "What are you doing ?" asked his father. "I'm writing to Santa Claus, papa." to bring you anything." Then Tommy brought over his let? ter : Deer Santy Clas?You needn't bring anything to mee this time. I av binaverry badd boy. But pleas bring mi good papa a bo* of cigars and a wooly horse witho a long tale, an a drumm, an a opqe, and a waggin, and a big box o,f ehopklatts, an(j any. thing 'else you ^ think ny. Papa's bad boy, . Toiiaiy. A Jene? City Ghost In one of the broadest, cleanest, best Saved and most fashionable of Jersey ity's avenues stands a handsome four-story brick house which the eye singles out at first glance as a desira? ble place of residence. ] To begin with, it is exceptionally broad and solid looking) with a hundred little details of construction which say to the initi? ated eye it was built by some one who meant to live in it rather than sell it. There is a queer sort of tower in front, with a balcony running around the foot of it. Altogether, the whole air of the place is what the real estate men call a desirable residence for gen? tlemen. That is what a Southern gentleman thought. He was in search of a house to buy and was taken by the look of this one. After he had looked it over, his wife went to see it in company with a woman friend, long resident in the avenue. As the door opened to them the Southerner clutched her companion's arm. "Let's rt'% go back," she said. "Something-?a feeling I cannot ex? plain?tells me I cannot live in this house." Her companion insisted that they go through it. It was broad daylight, the house had a tenant and no harm could possibly befall them. So through the house they went, finding much that was desirable, though the South? erner kept looking nervously over iler shoulder. When the inspection was finished and the. pair -again in the street, she said with a shudder; "I would not live there if they gave me the house. Of all places I was ever in it is the one :that feels most haunted. I expected all the time to feel a ghost to clatch my hair/' The other woman laughed dryly. "It is a haunted house," she said, "the worst one in the city?though I was resolved not to tell you until after I you had Been it. No tenant ever lives in it longer than three months?that is why it is offered at such a bargain. Lights flit through it at night, there 1 are screams and ghostly footfalls and floating hands to catch at you as you pass. The story of it is this: Old Mr. J. built it after he had made his fortune, intending to live there the rest of his days. He furnished it magnificently?among other things he got a fine young wife. Six months after he was found dead in bed?and three months after that his widow marriod a handsome young fellow, of Vnmn ^T6^iv?iM hfl was her old lover. "Anyway, before the honeymoon ended he left his bride alone in her fine house and said openly it was be? cause he could get n? ^eace there; that he was beaten by ghosVv hands' Suls" ed by ghostly voices, to,"metnteVy 'ghostly lights until he mn^.elfchei leave or go crazy. Though that w"' dozen years ago, the noises oontiL * the ghosts will not down. The wiu iiBS been dead for years; the house i passed to the husband, which to my mind explains the persistence of the visitations." Inventions Needed at the Sooth. The following interesting- article from the pen of Judge Walter Chirk, appeared in the Practical Farmer re? cently: The common field of pea?whether the cow pea, clay pea, the unknown pea or variety?is the clover of the bouth. It will grow when clover will not. It will furnish more forage -.ban clover and -will improve land more rapidly. It can be sown when desired, in a crop of corn, and thus improve land without losing a year's use of it for cultivation;. At the North the pea is coming into wider use in lieu of clover for forage and as a land im? prover. This will furnish a growing market for our peas as they will not mature seed there. The great draw? back in the raising of peas for seed is' the great Cost of harvesting and beat? ing them out. At the North, where beans are largely rased, they have satisfactory bean harvesters and threshers. Inventive genius has al? ways been equal to the demands upon it. If some one will invent a satis? factory pea harvester and a good pea i thresher he will not only make a for? tune for himself, but he will bring j back fertility to the South. It will j increase tenfold the growing of field I peas, besides making a new crop for us to ship to the .North, These in? ventions will stimulate the growing of field peas, just as the invention of the cotton gin stimulated the increas? ed crop of cotton. Then, too, a good peanut thresher is badly needed for "the peanut crop. Picking off by hand is slow and expensive, and none of the .peanut threshers so far are satisfac? tory. They break and shatter too many peanuts. The price of cotton does not bid fair to go- up. The new area added every year in Texas Will continually overbalance the world's increared consumption. Then there is the steadily increasing production j in India, Egypt and Brazil. In Mexi? co the cotton plant lives eight years and produces two crops a year. Pro? duction there has heretofore been small owing to the lack of railroads and rolifthle labor. This is being remedied. To compete with a country which can produce 16 crops of cotton from one planting, is like using a muzzle loader against a 16 shooter. Besides all countries south of us, irrespective of fertility, and no matter how rich we s^aYiTasJ&fc^ lands,, have the advan? tage of us in the length of the season. We cannot overcome the disadvantage of our short seasons for cotton. In North Carolina it is doomed sooner or later, to disappear as a market crop. We can substitute many things. Grass is very profitable if the land is rich enough, because it takes so little hbor. Two weeks out of the 52?one week in June to mow and one week later to bale up?while cotton or tobacco re* quire the year round. The field pea offers the advantage of abundant for? age, a steady iimprover of our lands, a good fattener for cattle and hogs, and a crop to ship North. The drawback is the great expense of harvesting and preparing for market should be over c me. The South will renew with wealth and honor the man who will furnish the harvester and that will enable us to increase ten'fold this crop. A Tobacco Factory At Bock EVA, A gentleman of means who is engaged largely in manufacturing tobacco in North Carolinii is considering a proposi? tion to remove to this place and erecting a similar plant. He thinks we have the soil hero to cultivate the better grades of tobacco and is much impressed with the excellence of the crops already grown by several of our citizens. He has been in the tobacco business all his life and is competent to judge of the quality of the weed. Now that it has been demonstrated that the finer grades of tobacco can be grown in this section, and that toe with aa much if not greater success than in North Carolina, our farmers ought to interest themselves in the culture of this valuable cron and commence now to make preparations for the next year. Neighborhood clubs of dlght or a dozen formers each might ba formed who should employ an experienced tobacco raiser to superintend the seeding, plant? ing, growiug and curies; of their crops, Which need not be grown on more than eight acres on fach farm. Several pro? gressive young farmers have pigmfind their intention to organize stich clubs at an early day. Several farmers in Rock Hill tried this plan last year and it worked well. Of course the crop of last year was of no value, because the leaves were beaten into ribbons by the August storm, hut tili? year the yield is most satisfactory, and where the cultivation and curing has been properly done good prices are being, rtcived. There is no question that .if the same amount of lab ?r and expense as well as intelligent care and attention should be bestowed upon a crop of tobacco that is expended upon a orop of cotton, the re? turns from tbe tobacco will any year be much more satisfactory than from cotton. The subject is one well worthy tbe con? sideration of our farmers who have suita? ble lands, and every plantation in Eas? tern York must have on ft fonr or five or more acres well adapted to the cultiva? tion of this important crop.?Rock Hill Herald. ? A devilfish having a month with a! lateral spread of over five 'feet was recently captured in the Gulf of Mex? ico about 20 miles off from Browns? ville, Tex. ? Mrs. Frances Hadgsoa Burnett is laconically described, in an article on women writers, as the mother of two sons and 22 novels. ? Wine that is made of pure water is safe for use at a wedding. If we would be guided in our drinking by a miracle, let us remember all the facts of this case. ? In boring an artesian well at Eu? reka. Cal., workmen found charred wood at a depth of 500 feet, and at 580 feet took out shells and a portion of the skeleton of a bird.