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?? t - ^BY GLINKSCALES & LA.NGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1894. VOLUME XXIX.?NO 24 We Won't Be Undersold ! JUST RECEIVED, ^ FIFTY ALL WOOL BLACK CLAY WORSTED SUITS. * Tfcsse Suits you have always paid $12.50 for. Our price only $8.75. B. O. EV^lISTS & CO. CLOTHIERS, HATTERS, and FURNISHERS. 8A1ESME??BBLTON 0. EVANS, formerly with 0. F. Jones & Co. JOHN M. FLYNN, formerly with The Means Company. The Successful ?dvertizer I Is the man who writes something the people will read, and reading, believe. In this age of education and enlightenment, when men read und think for themselves, all that stuff about "selling goods cheaper than your competitors buy them," being the "only competent dealers in the line," "handling better ?stuff than anybody else," Ac, is mere clap trap, and subjects the writer and the firm back of it to the contempt of all right-thinking people. The man who has something to offer, and then tails the folks about in a plain, business way, is the man who "gets there," and getting there, stands* Lots of people handle Paint. Some handle ore kind, some another, bat they all realise, if they have any business sense at all, that In order to make that business -a permanent success it is absolutely neces? sary to give the people the very beet ma? terial.' This we have tried to do, and at a price that puts it in the reach of all. In this connection we call attention to the fact that crops are about laid by, time is plentiful, and a little paint not only ? Jresbens and beautifies, bnt improves won? derfully the sanitary condition of the premises. If yoar boaso is all righc may? be the fence needs a coat. A little Paint would keep that old bnpgyifrom falling down, and the wagon might last a year or two longar by spending seventy-five cents or a dollar in Paint on it. Remember this, the longer you pat it off the more it takes and the less good it does* Remember another thing, it costs just as much, and tat-s just as mach time, to have cheap paint put n as .i't does good Paint. "Always buy the <sst, even if you pay more for it HILL BBOS., Druggists, ANDERSON, 8. 0. Feakx. M. Mubphy. j. Fiouux Evxhb MURPHY & EVANS, Attorneys at Law, A1NDEBS01\, - - 8. C. COLLECTIONS and Commercial Law given special attention. Omca?Ovar Farmers' and Merchants' ank June 6,1894 49 6m I! lOJllfUlUIIj MASONS' SUPPLIES, [; 276 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, S- C, v IMPORTERS OF SSUGLISE PORTLAND CEMENT, AKD nSALKBS IN Eastern and Southern Rook Lime, ^Ecuendale Cement, jSf. T. Plaster Paris, Hair, Laths, Shingles, Tiles, Bricks, Fire Clay, Ail sizes T. 0. Pipe, Best Full Size Fire Brick, Boofflng Slates, , ANS ALL BUILDING MATERIAL. Telephone 291. Aug 22, 1S94 8 6m I W.L Douglas $3 SHOE > IS the BEST. NO squeaking. $5. CORDOVAN, FRENCH&ENAME1LEDCALE $ 5.5.0 P0?CI-.3 SOLES. ?LADIES? " SEND FOR CATALOGUE ??.?DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, MA3JL Yen can save money by Durcbfislng- W. JL. Douglas Shoes, _ ? ? Becasse, we are tbe largest man u facturer s of advertised shoes In the world, and guarantee the value by stamping the name and price on the bottom, which protects yon against high prices and the middleman's profits. Our shoes equal custom work in style, easy fitting and veering qualities. We have them sold every? where at lower prices for the value given than any other make. Take no substitute. If your Realer cannot supply you, we can. Sold by C. "E\ JONES & CO., ANDERSON, S. 0. - GEERIBROS., Belton, S, C._ "VTOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. The nndersigned, Administrator of Estate of S. Jackson Mattison, deceased, hereby gives notice that he will, on the 15th day of December, 1894, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from his office as Administrator. J. J. TRUSSELL, Adm'r. Nov 14,1894 20 _5 ?VrOTTCE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. ?S The undersigned, Administratrix of the Estate of D, H. Hammond, deceas? ed, hereby gives notice that she will on the 15th day of December, 1894, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson Coun? ty for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from her office as Execu? trix. . MARY A. ELROD, Ex'x., formerly Hammond. Nov 14,1894 20 5 " NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. The undersigned, Administratrix of the Estate of Joab M. Clardy, deceased, hereby gives notice that she will, on the 2lst day of December, 1S94, apply to the Juige of Probate for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from her office as Administratrix. MARY CLARDY, Adm'x. Nov 28, 1894 22 5 Notice to Contractors. Office of County Commissioners, Anderson, 8. 0., Dec. 6, 1894. WE will let to the lowest bidder on Wednesday, the 19th of December, at 11 o'clock a. m, the building of a Bridge over Broadaway Creek, near Mrs. McFaU's. Plans and specifications made known on day of letting. R. E, PARKER, Chm'n. B. T. MARTIN, W. P. SNELGROVE, Board Co. Com. A. C. W. T. McGILL, Clerk. Dec 5,1894 23 2 -Dealers in all kinds of CARPETS, RUGS, WALL PAPER, WINDOW SHADES, LINOLEUMS and STRAW MATTINGS, AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. And without any purpose or desire to bo extravagant or high - sounding in what we hare or what we can do, allow us to whisper the tact that oar Stock is very fall In all Ks departments, and to further say yon had better see ns belore baying anything In oar lines. We have recently added a complete Stock of? UNDERTAKERS' SUPPLIES, And having secured the services of a practical and experienced Em? balmer? and? AN ELEGANT HEARSE. We respectfully solicit your patronage in this line, promising, at any hoar, promptness, consideration and efficiency in these sad services. ENTERPRISE FURNITURE CO. THREE THINGS! JJIour, ?koes, Tobacco. WE could mention over a thousand things which we have packed in our large Store-room, and at remarkably low prices, but wo want to call your especial attention to the three above named articles. We have been trying for years to get a Flour which we could sell in competition with tha cheap goods with which our market is crowded. We have a Flour now which we guarantee to give the most exactiog customer entire satisfaction, and at the low price of $t 25 per barrel. We have also a large lot of our famous $2 75 Flour On Shoes we have done onr very best, and we think if you will come and look you will be convinced that we have one of the largest and best selected stocks to be found in the city. We have Shoes of all kinds by the thousands, bought at the low eat passible price for spot cash, and we will sell tl em to you with all the discount off. Tobacco is onr pet line. We have the satisfaction of knowing that we are hand? ling some of the best goods made- We will mention a few of our leading brands : Rebel Girl, Sweet Mash. Cannon Ball, Brer Rabbit, Jack Rabbit, Tar Heel, National Chew, Haney's Natural Leaf, &c , &o. We cordially invite yon to oome and see us. We will do our best to please you, and sell yon goods as cheap as any one living can sell them. Yours anxious to please, D. C. BROWN & BRO., No. 17 Peoples' Block. LEND ME YOUR EAR! I won't keep it loDg, for I simply want to tell you that in addition to my usual stock of? STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, CANNED GOODS, CONFECTIONERIES, &C, That I have a fine stock of FRUITS?Bananas, Apples, Oranges, etc.? which I am offering cheap. SANTA CLAUS Has also opened his headquarters with me, and I have almost everything to please the little folks during the Christmas holidays. Aud don't iorget I have a fine lot of TOBACCO and CIGARS. Give me a call, see my goods and get my prices, and if I can't please you no harm will be done. Yours to please, G-. F. BIGrBY. " A WORD TO THE WISE " Is an old adage generally undei&tocd but often Misapplied. E mean it for you to take the hint offered by us in our? BIG DRIVE ON DRESS GOODS, And call to Bee our BARGAINS before it is too late. We have a magnificent Stock in all grades and prices, and your opportunity for providing yourself with Dress Goods at small cost was never better than now. We carry in addition a handsome line o! Ladies' and Cbildrea's SUuES, Men's, Youths' and Boys' Shoes and Boot", Hats, Trunks, &c , etc. x Heavy Groceries and General Merchandise, At prices LOWER than ever known in the history of this country. Flour and Bacon by the Car Load. fca- WE ABE ALWAYS IN THE COTTON MARKET. _McOULLY & OATHOABT. SHaEEM UP AND LET60 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 CHiaUOLA 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 for you iu the future. No compromise nor winking at adulterated goods. Strictly pure food at popular prices. Come aud see us. We are ready to make things lively. Shakem up and letgo, J. A. AUSTIN & CO. BLUE STONE AX ORR & SLOAN'S, BE?SrsE DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES. A Necessary Requisite of Prosperity In any Country or Community. To the Editor of the News and Courier: A purely agricultural people can never be rich. They are necessarily customers of commercial and manu lacturing nations to whose wealth they contribute while they themselves re? main poor. If one-half the ploughs that are run in South Carolina were stopped, and the people that run them by some magic could be transferred to work? shops and factories to furnish articles for home and foreign consumption, the State would in a few years become incomparably more prosperous than it can ever be under present conditions, where the products of soil have to be shipped hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles to get sales. Even the few fruits and vegetables made in the South for sale have to be market? ed in Northern cities through a thous? and miles of nearer and competing territory. The Northern people, who had the foresight to found a college as soon as they founded a colony, are always wise enough to provide a mar? ket for their farm products. As soon as one of their new States is settled and has a surplus of bread and meat, which is about all they can raise, they at once look around to make a home market, and build workshops and fac? tories, to whose operatives they can sell the products of the farm. A citizen of a Northern town in a letter to the writer says: "We wanted a factory and subscrib? ed $10,000, with which we bought a lot and erected a building and adver? tised that the property would be deed? ed to anyone who would establish a shoe factory and run it for three years." The offer was accepted, and the gen? tleman adds: "I contributed $1,000 of the amount and all I ask is to be allowed to do the like again." Illinois is a fertile prarie State, with very little water power, ana seems to have good reasons for re? maining a purely agricultural State, yet it has made its workshops keep pace with agriculture, so that it is the second State in the Union in the amount of its manufactured goods. The farm and the factory support each other and the continually increasing surplus overflows upon the improvi? dent South. South Carolina has over 1,000,000 available water horse power, with no ice to clog the wheels. Of this not 5,000-horse power is utilized and raw cotton constitutes almost its only article of export. New York State alone produces $600,000,000 worth of manufactured articles more than the whole South makes. We need look no further to find the cause of the wealth of the North and the poverty of the South, in spite of the acknowl? edged superior natural advantages of the latter. It is a funny cry, "We make them rich." It is that our little surplus all flows into Northern coffers and that we must remain hewers of wood and drawers of water for the North until we become wiser. But the source of the North's wealth is the home market, which its people have the sense to build up, and their own selfhelp. A Northern farm jour? nal offered premiums for the best ac? counts of mortgage lifting given by farmers from their own experience. I have read the essays of dozens of these farmers whose lands cost from $30 to $100 per acre, and in every case the debts were paid by the sale of some of the following articles: Milk, butter, eggs, poultry, Irish potatoes, lambs, pigs, calves, oats, fruits ana vegetables. How surprising this must appear to a cottontot! We need not hug to our bosom the delusion that any large portion of the Northern people are poverty stricken as we of the South are. Their very prosperity makes the laboring popula? tion presumptuous, causing them to bring trouble on themselves by strikes, etc. Our people are too poor to at? tempt such things. The tide of en? terprising young men which constantly flows to Northern cities attests the fact that industry and business tact accumulate wealth there sooner than in the South. People do not emigrate to poor countries. Before the war South Carolina was extremely pros? perous. This was partly owing to the fact that it was full of workshops and was almost self-supporting and cotton was to some extent a surplus crop. The country abounded in carriage, wagon, gin, tailor, shoemaker and blacksmith shops aud in flour mills, corn mills, tanneries and hand looms. Now such occupations arc almost ex? tinct and we import all that we eat, all that we wear and all that we use, and only have cotton to exchange. Then, in proportion to population, there were five times as many people working at the ordinary trades as there are now, furnishing a maiket for the products of the farm and keeping the money at home. Some years ago the Legislature, in order to develop home markets by the encouragement of mechanical indus? tries, enacted a law partially exempt? ing from taxation for ten years all capital iuvested in new enterprises of this nature. It served to invite for? eign capital to enter the State, and to draw from hiding places money that had hitherto escaped taxation, putting such treasures in tangible shape for future taxation, at the same time in? creasing the school fund, building up towns, giving the farmer a market for all the products of his farm, with a higher price for his cotton and enhanc? ing the value of all the neighboring lands, thereby increasing the State's revenue. Thus all the property upon which Piedmont Factory was located only paid in taxes to the State thirty dollars annually all told, yet the fac? tory soon paid into the school fund alone $1,000, and now after the expir? ation of the ten years probably pays $8,000 or $10,000 in taxes annually. Had the beneficent law remained on the statute book the State would pro? bably at this time have had $10,000, 000 more capital invested in factories than it has, and would have had 40, 000 or 50,000 more white people to draw their supplies from the neighbor? ing farms. But in a fatal moment the Legislature repealed this law and killed the goo?e that was laying gold? en eggs. It is true that there is to some ex? tent an awakening in some parts of the Stafe to the importance of build? ing factories, but a rapid development will not take place until the Legisla? ture takes steps to encourage such enterprises. On the contrary; how? ever, demagogues to gain popularity among the ignorant and unthinking often try to throw obstacles in the way. England is the leading manu? facturing nation in the world because legislation was shaped to foster manu? factories. Intelligent rulers always and everywhere promote the material interests of their people by proper legislation. Legislative inducements to the building up of diversified indus tries is not class legislation, for the whole population of the State is bene fited; and above all others, the farm ers, in whom our chief interest centres, are most enriched, Again, in view of the great super? abundance of negros in this State, every facility should have been given them to emigrate as an encouragement to intelligent white farmers to move in, for this class alone are able to renovate and restore worn out lands and gullied hillsides that have been devastated by negro labor. If intelligence and thrift could be substituted for the ignorance and im? providence which now guide nearly all the ploughs in the State, prosperity would soon take the place of the al? most universal bankruptcy in which the farmers and tho,;s relying on them for support are involved. But the Legislature, preferring ignorant and improvident laborers to the thrifty and intelligent white farmer, enacted a law imposing severe penalties upon any man who should be found per? suading those dark-hued favorites to move to another State. And now, sad to say, with cotton at five cents nobody in the West wants them. "Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first deprive of rea? son." It is gratifying, however, to know I that a few men live here who realize the importance of home markets. A patriotic and far-seeing planter in Union County persistently refuses to use for himself and for his plantation hands food, clothing or any other article withiu reasonable limits except what is produced in South Carolina or an adjoining State. He wears Con? federate grey, and Southern made cassimers and jeans are good enough and cheap enough for anybody. If the spirit which animates this gentle? man actuated our people generally "light" would then surely soon break in upon this old State that we love so much. There would then be no call upon our planters to enter into combi? nations which must necessarily be futile to bull the cotton market, and all the pernicious anti-option agitation would cease and people would again make money by attending to their own business. G. H. McMasteb. Baby and Evolution. Below the nose runs a furrow part? ing the upper lip. In the faces of babies and children this furrow is very noticeable; from the evolutionist's point of view it is one of the most re? markable characters of the face. It tends to become obsolute in old age, says the Nineteenth Centuary, and it is not seen among the Catarhine monkeys. Among the Platyrhines it is but feebly developed; butin Lemurs it is in a more pronounced state? there is a depressed sepeum to which the two side pieces are joined?the upper lip, in fact, is nearly split in two, but held together by a depressed piece of flesh. In the Marsupialia and Bodentia the lip is practically in two pieces, and each piece is oapable of being moved separately. This is the "harelip," and its method of use may well be noticed in a hare or a rabbit when eating. The farrow, therefore, in a child's lip points to this: that our ancestors possessed not a single upper lip, as we do now, but two upper lips, one beneath each nostril, both capable of independent movement. In the course of time these two lips have, owing to the non-requirement of independent movement, grown together to form the single lip which we now possess, but the line of junction is not perfect and so the furrow results; and some? times there is a distinct scar down the middle of the furrow. The poBsessiou of this forrowed up? per lip by children is one of the strongest pieces of evidence against the descent of man from any Catar? hine, and in favor of his descent from Platyrhines, or from Lemurs through the intervention of Platyrhine-like ancestors, of which there are no exact living representatives. Not a Sponge, During the residence in New Or? leans of Bishop John P. Newman, of the Methodist Episcopal church, he was known in that city as a free and generous giver to charity. When the late war was at its height the bishop was constantly importuned for help and as constantly gave it where the request was worth attention. One day in the latter part of 1863 the bishop was busy on a sermon, when he received a request to visit the bedside of a man far out in the su? burbs of the city. The name was new to him, he was very busy, and asked to be excused. But no refusal would be taken and the bishop entered the carriage and drove to the man's house. He had expected to find his peti? tioner in the last stages of disease, but, to his surprise, the man appeared in excellent health. The bishop then asked him if he desired spiritual counsel. "No, Bishop Newman," the man proudly replied, "I don't want any of your advice. I'm a hard-shell Baptist and I'm all right. What I do want is $100 to get to Natchez, where I have relatives." Although somewhat startled by the brazen presumption of the man, the bishop ventured to say: "Isn't $100 considerable for a ticket to Natchez?" "Well, yes, I suppose it is. But do you think I want to sponge on my poor relations after I get there?"? Chicago Times. ? "Can you. match this piece of calico?" said Farmer Oldtime as he entered Cobwebb's dry goods store. "Guess so," replied Cobwebb, as he reached for a roll of dust-covered goods on his shelf. "Gi* me a quarter of a yard. Mandy wants to make over a dress she bought nine years ago, and a clerk at Wholpage's told me I could find it here because you never advertised any." Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the be;3t blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. I??Sold by Druggists, 736. SARGE PUJNKETT. The Seaaon (or a Poor flffan to Secure a Country Home. Atlanta Constitution. It is just now the season for people to be looking out homes for another year, and poor town people should let no grass grow under their feet. All agree that there have too many people crowded into the towns, and it is settled that many must return to the country. Thousands of poor men of the towns recognize this, but they fail to discover how it is to be done. They feel that they are too poor to move, and that land owners do not want them, and that they could not live if they were there. There is good reason for this feel? ing, but it can be all arranged and must be. First, the poor man's fami? ly must recognize the necessity of such a move, and nerve themselves for the hardships and humble themselves for the position. Men that have money invested in agriculture are not going to strain themselves to move families out from the towns who have more style than towns, but it is my belief that every family that will impress the land owners that they recognize the necessity of going to the country and going to work, will find opportun? ity for doing so. There must be a sight of sacrifice and much charity in all this matter. The land owner should enter into a movement of this kind, as a patriotic duty as well as a wisdom of foresight to crush out such "isms" as the "George theory." This ownership of thousands of acres of land may grow to be as great a problem as the question of slavery, if the trend is not changed. It is my belief that if some efforts were turned to getting the poor people out cf overcrowded towns as is now turned to having peo? ple from a distance come here, the results would be economic and a bless? ing to the land. Thousands of money is spent on immigration schemes that would be much the better spent right here at home in settling the surplus of overcrowded towns in homes on the farms. Our poor town fellows are in a mighty bad fix and they would jump at opportunities. The "southern chiv? alry idea is passing away and by a little encouragement our young men will turn to driving teams and clean? ing out stalls upon the same principles that they would measure off calico; there should be no humiliation in honest employment. The farmers have a right to be afraid of these town people, the belief is rife that they don t know how to work, and if they did their notions are so big that the country could not hold them. This is not true, altogether. The class of people who are sensible enough to desire a home in the country have put away all foolish pride, made up their minds to work and are anxious to see their way clear to do so. In this con? nection I could whisper into the ears of those who think otherwise that the old hayseed is no longer the butt of the universe. The farmers have come to know their importance and have turned to the exalting of their calling. There is no longer a disposition among the old folks to instill into the child? ren that a farmer's life is irksome and that all the opportunities are in towns. Me and Brown was bothered the other day?Thanksgiviny Day?trying to study up what in the thunder to be thankful about. We begun back at the Chicago convention, upon which occasion we howled ourselves hoarse over the prospects, and could find nothing from that day to this, politi? cally, over which to enthuse. Then we lit upon the countryman and his prospects?his crops have been good, but the prices kept us from enthusing. We were just about to go back into old times to find something to be thanful over when the rocking of the cradle in the other room began, and, all uncon? scious of any one being about her, Brown's old 'oman sang, as she rock? ed :? All those who like f.re welcome To rove from sea to sea, Bat here at home with baby Isdsareatunto met A love, a love's a-budding! A love tbat cannot die! I'll rock, I'll rock the cradle, And sing by-and bye! Baby dear, oh, baby sweet! I love you?yes. I do! I knew nothing of content Till God had given me you! I'll rock, I'll rock the cradle, Trusting to none other? There's no touch so kind and soft Ab the touch of mother. A love, a love is builded! A love thatcannot die. For all who rock the cradle And sing by-and bye-! Brown has been mighty quiet on this new babe. The little fellow is now three months old and this is the first time he allowed me to mention it ?this is fourteen. The thing that we are enthused over is that it is a boy?it was mighty hard to enthuse, owing to numbers, but we hope that by next Thanksgiving everything will be all right. This Thanksgiving Day is a sort of new thing with me and Brown. It comes in a season, though, that re? minds us of what we used to have. Corn shuckings, quiltings and "sur? prise parties," are what used to per? tain along about this season, and there was so much of this that we were all thankful enough without any great ado, and left Thanksgivining Day to the yankees. All of the winter in the "old south" was a time of rejoicing. The gathering of corn was a frolic, made so, I suppose, because of the shucking that would follow. Black and white were cheerful in this season of old times. Work went on with shouts and song; the cold didn't pinch, nor the hands get sore. There was none of this "sharing" of things among the negroes, but over the hills rang the melody 01 the old plantation songs, together with the barks of the longeared hounds. It was not one day of turkey eating i-n them old times, but every night for weeks there was a shucking in hearing, and the suppers were immense. After the supper the negroes gathered about the log-heap fires and danced and sang. Some would pat? "Juba dis and Jnba dat! Juba killed the yellar cat!" and feet would fly and merry sounds would fill the air. While the negroes were having a good time outside, the whites were happy inside the house. Everything was moved from the "big room," and innocent plays of the old "jiner-round" were engaged in. The old folks were lookers on always and many times took a part in the play. It was the young people, though, that had the finest time, for The prettiest little miss Would give her beau a klae, And not a bit of turning red from shame, For the house was looking on And there wasn't any wrong? It was just the nicest part of all the game. Brown and I went into the city after the cold of the morning had worn off, on Thanksgiving Day. While Brown did somo little trading I knocked about. One little bright fellow pass? ed me on tho sidewalk with a hop, skip and a jump. His face ws.s joy? ous and he was swinging his arras vig? orously. I heard the quarter he had held in his hand strike the stona pave? ment with a ring and bounce away through the grating of a sewer. A flush of disappointment passed over the little fellow's face as his quarter flew out of sight. I thought the quar? ter was gone, and so did the little boy, but it was not, for a kind policeman was at hand and raised the grating, let the little boy down by holding to his hand and recovered the lost money. While I assisted the policeman in re? placing the grate the boy rushed off to a neighboring store, got the quarter changed and came back with a gener? ous offer to divide with us. Of course ?one of his money was taken, but I am sure that the policeman went away reeling well paid for his kindness to the little boy. I did, would not you? One more little child, a little girl, stood at the fence dividing two lots, and was putting some of her nice things through the crack to another little one. They were little bits of things, but they were the happiest people I saw on Thanksgiving Day anywhere. I returned to Brown re? solved to not mention anything more about hard times and to be just as thankful as I possibly could. Really this has been a pretty hard year on people who have been in the habit of observing Thanksgiving Day, but I guess the yankees strained to the occasion. I don't blame them, for the New England people have been keeping up this custom since about the year 1600?nearly 300 years. Memories cluster around the occasion that make it dear to the section, no matter what the times may be. There is nothing to specially recommend Thanksgiving Day to the south, but? We'll join tbe yankee in bis ways, Tbe dear "old south" is gone, But there is nothing in these days So full of mellow song? So full of cheer for every heart, From simple to sublime, As frolics that were once a part Of southern harvest time? " Around the corn !" no more is sung, The note is lot, the harp un? strung. Sarge Plunkett. Colonists for Liberia. The steamship Kansas City, which arrived here yesterday afternoon from Savannah, Ga., brought, among her passengers, twelve negroes, old and young, and of both sexes, the advance guard of a large African colonization scheme now on foot throughout sever? al Southern States. The plan originated early this year in the mind of Bishop Turner, who is now travelling through the South. It was formulated and put into shape by Jere McMillan, a white man, of Birmingham, Ala., who founded what is known as the International Immi? gration-. Society. The plan of the society is not new, by any means, and this particular scheme seems to have had a large fol? lowing from its inception. The socie? ty is now said to number four thous? and. Yesterday's advance guard were members of a committee appointed by the society to go to Africa and arrange for the reception of a large body of negroes that will soon follow. President Cheesman, of Liberia, it is said, has promised the colonists land and farming implements. It is asserted that 4,000 Southern negroes are now congregated in New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah and Charleston, ready to start as soon as the commit? tee gives the word. The first big lot, numbering 500, will leave this port next month. The Liberian Congress will welcome them, and President Cheesman has written letters to the promoters of the scheme urging the negroes to come. The advance guard is in charge of D. L. Johnson, an intelligent negro, of Hot Springs, Ark., Johnson's wife and four children accompanying him. The other members of the party are Lafayette Woodhall, wife and two children, John Hines and Shadwick Smith, of Pine Bluff, Ark. The wo? men in the party appeared to be much pleased with the prospect. "You see," explained Leader John? son, who I saw on board the steamer last evening, "the negroes of the South have about arrived at the con? clusion that the race prejudice against them is increasing rather than dimin? ishing. This feeling is particularly bitter in Arkansas. Outrages are fre? quent, and there seems to be no way of redress. Courts and juries alike are against us, and in some sections a negroe's life is never safe for a mo? ment. "Our society is gaining in member? ship all the time. The moveraent is spreading throughout the entire South. Our meetings are held ;u secret. We realize that there w,uld be no use in trying to fight the whites. No resource was left to us but to get out of the country. "President Cheesman and the Li? berian Congress have assured us that we will be well taken care of. Each colonist will receive twenty-five acres of land. The. Government has also promised to help the colonists along until they become self-sustaining. "It is our intention to found a set? tlement," added Johnson. "We will build a town, and expect in a very few years to become a flourishing com? munity. The society has arranged for transportation, so that it will only cost each colonist $41 to go from any Southern point to Liberia. We do not want the idlers and no-accounts with us. We expect that each colon? ist will have about $200 in gold when he leaves this country. "I should not be surprised to see 10,000 negroes leave the South within a year. The Liberian climate is mild and delightful. The colonists are sure to get along if they will work." Johnson and his party will leave here on Wednesday on the steamer Adriatic. They will proceed to Mon? rovia, the Liberian capital, via Liver? pool. Johnson said that most of the supplie* for the new colony will be purchased in this city.?New York Herald, Nov. 12. 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 Sam? ple to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa. For sale by Wilhiie & Wilhite, drug? gists. ? C. Alexander, the banker and cattle king, of Paris, Ky., has just sold for shipment to Paris and London for Christmas beef, 545 head of Dur? ham cattle, averaging 1.800 pounds each. Mr. Alexander received $00, 000 for his cattle. Toe Proposed Cotton Trust. We are glad to see that the South? ern cotton growers have at last realiz? ed that they cannot raise ootton at the present prices, and tire casting about for some way to remedy the trouble. At the same time, we regret that they have chosen the plan adopted and known as the "Roddey plan" of form? ing a cotton trust. In my opinion, the idea is a crude one, adopted without proper thought, and will result in failure. The idea was no doubt based upon the success of the sugar, coal, oil and other trusts, which are composed of a few individ? uals and corporations, and for that reason act together as aunit; notonly in withholding their products from the market, but in limiting their pro? duction so as to meet the demands of trade and nothing more. The central idea in the Roddey plan is to withhold a certain per centum of the product from market and expect a rise in the price, even if the surplus exists and is withheld from market. We feel assured in our own mind that this will not give the desired relief. The setting aside of the enor? mous amount of one million eight hundred thousand bales of cotton, which would be one-fifth of the esti? mated crop of the present year, with probably as much more next year, will result in an accumulation of cotton that would constitute a powerful lever in the hands of the bears to keep down the price of cotton. The knowl? edge that this amount of cotton is in existence, would be a sufficient reason to the spinners, as well as the specu? lators for low prices. Another fault to be found with this remedy, is that no provision is made to ward off the decline in price that would result when this large amount of cotton is put on the market, unless there is a deficiency of production equal to the amount of the reserve to be sold. Unless the plan contemplates some effectual means to limit the produc? tion below the demands of the world by as much as the one-fifth of the crop to be reserved, the whole thing must result disastrously. We do not believe that any such limitation of production can be secured by concert? ed action, by means of a trust as pro? posed, because of the impossibility of securing united and prompt action by our farmers, isolated as they are and unaccustomed to act together as a body. Most farmers, I am afraid, would plant a greater acreage by one-fifth, so as to nave this surplus to place in the trust. Some who would not go into the trust would plant a larger acreage, hoping to profit by any rise in prices that might result from the operation of the plan. Badical chan? ges in the system of agriculture pur? sued by a people are always of slow growth and are the result of gradually growing convictions that a change is imperatively demanded. This change in our system of farming must come? in fact is now gradually taking place. The more progressive and intelligent of our farmers have already xealized that our only salvation lies in a diver? sified agriculture that does not depend for success upon any one crop as a money crop. The setting aside of one-fifth of the products of their labor in the production of the cotton crop, amounting in value to $57,000,000, pre-supposes a state of prosperity among our farmers which we do not believe exists. Why not diversify your crops? Why not raise something of which there is not a surplns ? The people of the United States consumed last year 250,000.000 bushels of Irish po? tatoes imported from abroad, costing $150,000,000; half as much and more than our entire ootton crop will bring. No surplus and low prices in this, and the same can be said of many other products that are adapted to our soil and climate. Let every farmer think for himself and not depend upon a trust to think and act for him. Let him read and inform himself, and he will need no trust with principal office in New York or elsewhere, with salaried officers, insurance on his cot? ton and other expenses, with the chan? ces that the trust will degenerate into a scheme for the enrichment of a few speculators and loss to the stockhold? ers. There is no quick route to better prices of cotton by this plan. You cannot counteract the effect of surplus cotton on prices by shutting it up in a warehouse. The whole world knows that it is "in there" and they will allow you to dictate prices. The world is two strong for the cot? ton planters to be able to compel it to pay high prices for a crop of which there is a surplus.?Rowland Blacky in Yorhrille Enquirer. A Hen's Brood of Quail, While Mr. J. T. Stuart, a prosper? ous farmer, living near Knoxville, Tenn., was mowing his grass this sum? mer, the machine cut off the head of a hen quail, which was setting on her nest. A broken egg showed that the eggs would have hatched in a few days. A little daughter of Mr. Stuart's took the eggs and carefully put them under a hen, whose eggs were to haix;h in a day or two. Fcurteeen of the quail eggs hatched and sixteen of the hen's. For a week or two the young quail went under the hen at night, as the chickens did ; after shut they roosted in one corner of tfie coop by them? selves. The little girl fed and looked after them, and they seemed to have no fear of her, but would come and jump in her hand. The moment anyone else came about they would run and hide. Their favorite hiding place was under the chickens, and sometimes two or three would try to get under one chicken, and in their efforts to hide would completely upset it. After they could fly fairly well they took up their abode in the garden, but would always come to the little girl's, call of "Chick, chick, chick," and i:: at a distance would fly and alight at her feet. When they were quite small an old cock quail came for several days and tried to toll them away but they would not go with him. They are now full grown, and all are living but one, which killed itself against a wire gate only a few days ago. ? For rheumatism I have found nothing equal to Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It relieves the pain as soon as applied.?J. W. Young, West Liberty, W. Va. The prompt relief it affords is alone worth many times the cost. 50 cents. Its continued use will effect a permanent cure. For sale by Hill Bros. ? "What do the men do at the club, John?" "Well, Maria, they pass most of the time praising their wives." "Yes, and I should judge from your breath when you come home, that they use very strong lan? guage in doing so." I All Sorts of Paragraph, ? Do but your duty, and do not trouble yourself whether it is in the cold or by a good fire. ? A 225-ounce gold nugget in the shape of a horseshoe has been discov? ered at Hargraves, Australia. ? At the Bombay Zoological Gar? dens the skin of a sea serpent sixty four feet in length is on exhibition. ? An English coin of the reign of Charles II. once sold for $2,500, the highest price a single coin ever brought ? "And so you married in haste. "Well, did you repent at leisure?" "Hardly. I have not had a leisure moment since the ceremony. ? The longest game of chess on record required between five and six years to play it. One player was in this country and one in Australia. ? In Australia horses and cattle are now being branded by electrioity from storage batteries. The tempera? ture is uniform and the brand safe and artistic. ? Intoxioated Individual (embrac? ing a lamp-post)?What a (hie) wise thing it (hie) is to have (hie) lights on the lam'-posts, so's a feller can (hie) find 'em (hie) at night! ? A Chinese paper says that Mari? ano Santa Ana., a native of Alb ay, who is 117 years of age, has just com? pleted the long term of fifty-three years imprisonment. ? Eight kinds of kisses are men? tioned in the Scriptures: The kisses of salutation, valediction, reconcilia? tion, subjection, approbation, adora? tion, treachery and affection. ? "Well, Tommy, is arithmetio easy for you this year?" Tommy: Yes'm. "Is it because you have a new teacher ?" Tommy: No, ma'am: it's 'cause I ain't got no 'rithmetio. ? Mrs. Coodove?Did you know that old Fustian, the dry-goods mer? chant, i3 dying by inches ? Mr. Coo? dove?Is that so ? Well, he won't last long. He always gave short measure. ? Irate visitor (after a few remarks) "Well, I don't want anybody to lie about me, and I won't .ave it." Editor (appealingly)?"How do you ever expect to have any compliments paid you, then ?" ? "Tell us," cried a group of maid? ens, "how to remain always young and attractive." "That is just dead easy," replied the sage, without even lifting his eyes from his hook, "get a fortune and stay single." ? Wiiie: I've got to have some money and some new clothes, and some shoes and a hat and a wrap. Hubbie: Gracious ! you don't have to have all that, do you ? Wifie (studying a min? ute.) Well, I'll compromise on the money. ? "Too bad Miss Brown's so awful? ly near-sighted, isn't it, Chawlcs?" "Y-a-s, me hoy." "Why, d'ye know, I've been told she weahs her glasses to bed." "How's that, Haw-wy?" "So's she can wecognize the people she meets in her dweams." ? 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 said yes, what?She?Oh, Henry, this is so sadden I Bat neve mind; it is just as well, and mother, I know, will be delighted. j ? A peculiarity of the blind is that there is seldom one of them who smokes. Soldiers and sailors accus? tomed to smoking and who have lost their sight in action, continue to smoke for a short while, but soon give up the habit. They say it gives them I no pleasure when they can not see the I smoke. ? "I b'lieve them Oldhams is get tin' to be regular agnostics," said J Aunt Sarah Jaue. "They don't keep the family Bible on the center table in the best room no more." "Well, 'tisn't their religion they're hiding,' Aunt Ann Eliza replied. "It's their age. Them Oldham girls are getting on." ? Judge to witness?"Now, madam. I want you to distinctly understand that hearsay is not evidenoe. How old are you ?" "I don't know, judge.'1 "Don't know ?" "I have no evidence of my age." "What do you mean ?" "I am told that I am so many years old, judge, but it's only hearsay, and you know that isn't evidence." ? Mr. Ira P. Wetmore, a prominent real estate agent of San Angelo, Texas, has used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in his family for several years as opcasion required, and always with perfect success. He says : "I find it a perfect cure for our baby when troubled with oolio or dys? entery. I now feel that my outfit is not complete without a bottle of this Remedy at home or on a trip away froi:x home. For sale by Hill Bros. ? lu Chinese etiquette it is regard? ed as inhospitality to serve any dish which will not allow all the guests to satisfy their utmost desire. Of that which is left over the family, who do not appear at the banquet, take what they please. They are followed by poor relatives, and they in turn by servants. What then remains is given to the poor and the afflicted. The news of a banquet gets rapidly abroad in a land where there is a great deal of poverty. ? Any one who has children will rejoice with L. B. Mulford, of Plain field, N. J. His little boy, five years of age, was sick with croup. For two days and nights he tried varions rem? edies recommended by friends and neighbors. He says: "I thought sure I would lose him. I had seen Chamberlain's Cough Remedy adver? tised and thought I would try it as a last hope and am happy to say that after two doses he slept until morn? ing. I gave it to him next day and a cure was effected. I keep this remedy in the house now and as soon as any of my children show signs of croup I give it to them and that is the last of it." 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Hill Bros. ? You probably remember the story told in verse of the old lady, who, when asked the occupation or her husband, replied that he was a "jiner," because his entire time was taken up in "jining" secret societies. The people who know Dr. David S. , Skinner in Brooklyn?that is, the folks who are intimate enough with him to presume on such a familiarity ?say that he is the champioo "jiner" of the country, because he is a mem? ber of thirty-one secret societies, and next week he will be a member of thirty-two, because, after much per? suasion, he has been induced to join the Masonic Veterans' Association, which, as its name describes, is com? posed of veterans in the Masonic order. Dr. Skinner has taken his thirty-second degree, and has been a Free Mason for twenty-five years or more, which qualifies him for admis? sion.?ATcio York Mail and Express,