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BF CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBBFABY 6, 1895._VOLUME XXIX.?NO 32. OVERCOATS! . WE have ju>t finUiia taking Stock, and we find we have too many .Overcoats on hand. If you intend buying one make a note of these prices: $10.00 OVERCOATS an. 67.50 9.00 OVERCOATS at. 6.00 - 7.50 OVERCOATS at. 5.00 5.00 OVERCOATS at. 3.50 All New Goods andjL?ng Guts. B. O. EVANS & CO., Clothiers and Furnishers FURNITURE 1 FURNITURE!! LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS! COFFINS and CASKETS furnished Day or Night. WE have on hand the LARGEST and BEST-SE ? LECTED Stack of FURNITURE in South Carolina! bought this Summer when everything struck bottom, and : whik there was a big cut in. freights. We have determined to give the People the advantage of our BARGAINS 1 We wOl Sell yon Furniture at Prices below anything ever heard v of in this Country before ! And prices it is impossible for any one else to buy the same quality of Goods for. 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Some Reminiscences of the Campaign of 1862. Editors Intelligencer : If I was going to write a history of the war I would have to begin hack in the fifties and explain to some extent the causes which brought on the late war., but as I intend only to give a few brief sketches of the part taken j^Tthe con? flict by the Hampton Legion, and es? pecially by the Gist Rifles during the time I was connected with that com? mand, I will have to begin with the campaign of 1862. About the 1st of April of that year I enlisted in Com? pany D, Hampton Legion, with Lieu? tenant W. H. Mauldin, who had come home for recruits for that Company. The Company was mustered into ser? vice in June, ld61, and had shared in the first battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861. I think it was about the 1st or [ 2d of April that we left Williamston for the seat of war, which was at Fredericksburg, Va., at that time, ar? riving there about the 5th, being on Saturday. That evening we were marched up to Colonel Hampton's headquarters to get our guns and ac I couterments and to sign the roll, which act made ub a full-pledged Confederate soldier for three years, or during the war. Of course we didn't expect to be there but a short time?in fact I was fearful the war would end before I got there, even after I had started. However, we kept on until we reached the army. We were given quarters in a large tent and assigned to mess No. 10, consisting of W. D. Maroney, Hiram Turner, John Timms, Garrison Timms, (Fatty bread we called him) W. M. Maddox, C. G. Irby, Samuel A. Spence and myself. The army had just marched from the Occoquan bay up to Fredericks burg, and were well quartered some two or three miles west of the city. We had nothing to do on Sunday but to go round and get acquainted "longer" the boys, and was well pleased with the appearance of the officers who commanded our Company and Regiment. Our Company officers were Captain. H. J. Smith, 1st Lieu? tenant R. R. Hudgens, 2nd Lieutenant W. H. Mauldin, 3rd Lieutenant E. H. Acker. The Battalion of infantry waB composed then of seven Companies and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel J. B. Griffin and Major Jas. Conner. Theodore G. Barker was Adjutant. Colonel Wade Hampton was com? manding a Brigade, composed of the 14th and 19th Georgia Regiments, the 6th North Carolina Infantry and the Hampton Legion. I.give these all in detail so you may know who I am talking or rather writing about further on. Sunday was a cloudy day, and I be? gan to think I would like camp life first rate, as I had always delighted in wagoning and "camping out." I wanted the war to be sure and last until I could get to see some yankees and go through one battle so that I would have something to talk about when I got home, like I use to hear uncle Johnnie Bagwell tell about be? ing in the revolution war and being in some of the great battles of that war. Some time in the night, (on Sunday night) rain began to fall, slow? ly, not very hard, and a little later on toward day we had marching orders served on us, so we had to rise and go to cooking "up three days'rations" to be ready to move at Bun up. In the mean time the rain had advanced from a gentle shower to that of a regu? lar gully-washer. I told the boys that I didn't think we need to be in any great hurry about getting ready, for it was not going to be a day fit to march, nohow, and that we had better not cook all the flour we had, for said I, " we would have a lot of cold victuals on hand that would no?be good?that I had never been use to eating cold victuals, and I thought we had better wait until day light and see if it was going to be a day fit for marching be? fore we done too much." The boys just laughed at me, and said to mc, "you let that little shower of rain fool you, and you will be out on the march without bread and no chance of getting any, and your flour will be made into batter against you carry it all day in your haversack through the rain." So the rain increased, and our chances of staying in "our tents de? creased, until after daylight, then come the order to " strike tents " and get ready to move at ouce. Said I, "surely Mr. Hampton don't mean for us to go out in this rain ; it will make us all sick, for" said I, "my mother never allowed me to go out in the rain," and down come the tent and we were standing out in the rain, and to add to our discomfort and astonish? ment, it seemed as if the rain had doubled its energy and was coming down in torrents, so to speak. How? ever, the officers seemed to take no notice of it but just went on forming companies as though it was a nice, clear day, but I tell you it rather got away with mc. It was somethiug that I was not accustomed to, and I almost began to wish I was back at home with my mamma. The Brigade being drawn up in line the news of the great victory the day before at Shiloh. Miss., was read, but in that great victory we lost one of our best Generals, Albert Sydney Johnson. Then we commenced the muddy march to Yoiktown. All day we trudged along in the rain and mud. I noticed a very young boyish-looking fellow along with ua, who had a sword swinging to his side and an officer's uniform on. Said I, "what boy is that goin? along there carrying his daddy's sword, trying to make people think he ^ as an office 1 ? " ?ome one said to mc that that hoy was a Captain of a Company, and that his name was Logan, and it was our General T. M. Logan, who rose to the rank of Bri? gade General in Cavalry. He had then, and I reckon he has yet, the most juvenile looking face to be as great a man as he is of any man I ever saw. We marched through that old his? toric town, Frederic'isburg, where George Washington's mother was buried, steering our course toward Ashland, by Bowling Green and Mill ford station. The second night we were out it snowed. I had on a new pair of boots that I had made just be? fore leaving home, and in crossing a creek, which was from hill to hill from the rains that Had fallen that day and the night before, I got my boots full of water and was not able to get them off my feet for three or four days. But that made no difference; it was war and we had to keep going. After resting a day or two at Ash? land we continued our march to York town via Hanover Court House, New Kent Court House and Williamsburg. By the time we got to Yorktown the rains had ceased and we had a few days nice spring weather. We took our position in. the rear of the main line and consequently had no picket duty to do. About thiB time Congress passed the Conscript Act, which took in all able bodied men from 18 to 35 years old. Our Legion, as well as a number of other regiments that went out in 1861, had only enlisted for 12 months, and their time was out, in fact some of the older ones were out. So they were called upon to reorganize or they oould disband, but they were immedi? ately liable to conscription, so the most of them chose the firBt and re? organized and elected new officers, some of the old ones and some new ones. Our Company elected H. J. Smith Captain again. W. H. Maul? din and W. T. Smith both claimed the 1st Lieutenant's place, and they had a long confab with the Secretary of War as to which would get the com? missions, but I think Smith finally got it and resigned on the account of the discord which had arisen on the account of the controversy. Lieuten? ant Mauldin was promoted to Quarter? master and we had to elect another to fill the vacancy. E. H. Acker was elected 2nd Lieutenant, E. B. Bowen 3rd Lieutenant; so we never had a full roll of officers until the next win? ter, and they were all new ones, Cap? tain Smith being killed at Sharpsburg September 17, 1863, and Lieutenants Acker and Bowen both died. It will be remembered by the mem? bers of the Company that "Colonel" W. T. Smith was a free hearted bache? lor and was only an honorary member of the Company at the time of the election, hence the controversy. Lieu? tenant Mauldin, I think, claimed his election on the ground that he waB an active member while Mr. or "Colonel" Smith was not, although he had re? ceived the majority of the votes. After staying at Yorktown about two weeks or more we again received marching orders, contrary to our wishes. Gen. McClelland did not take the same view of the situation then that Lord Cornwallis did 80 years before and come over and surrender and thus end the conflict, but he began a sort of an aggressive campaign against us, and having a large fleet of war vesels at his command with navi? gable water on each side of us, we had to begin a retreat. As our Brigade had been laying hack resting it fell to our lot to bring up the rear, which we did nearly all the way to Richmond. We left Yorktown early on a Sunday morning, looking every few minutes to have to fight. The Cavalry who were just behind us were skirmishing all along. Bozzille Boggs was killed in a skirmish that day.' He was a brave soldier and belonged to the Brooks Troops (Cavalry). He was the first man that I had seen that, had been killed by a yanlcee. A Cavalry man rode by us with him laying across his saddle in front of him. We arrived at Williamsburg some 12 miles from Yorktown about 2 o'clock p. m., and passed through the breast works and took up our position in the rear of the army again to rest. There was quite a little battle fought that evening in the front, but we were not called in. About 2 o'clock next morning we were started on the march again, and as we started the rain began to fall, gently at first, and increasing until we had another ground soaker. That J evening we took up camp opposite Eltham's landing on the York river, and is known by some as West Point. We lay around there idle until next evening when we moved out a little I closer to the river and formed a line of battle, tore down some fences in our front so as to give us"a good chance j to run right over the yankeesif neces? sary. But they didn't come. Our Company being on the skirmish line we were the picket line for the night. That was my first night on picket. Early next morning our Company, with one from each of the*other regi? ments, were put on the skirmish line in command of Major, afterwards Gen? eral, Jas. Conner. We were told that there were no troops in front of us except the enemy and for us to fire into the first men we saw. We had not advanced far into the woods before we ran into a line of men who fired into us, and, of course, we returned the fire, but was immediately ordered to "cease firing" "friends," etc., and it was the Texas Brigade that we had attacked instead of the yankecs. Un? fortunately wc had killed and wounded a few of them, but we didn't loose a man. Quito a funny occurence happened just before we started the advance. Lieutenant Mauldin and Hughes Ham? ilton each had a negro boy with them as oook and general waiting boy These darkies wanted to go into a bat? tle so they would have something big to tell after they got back home. So they wore told that they might go along, keeping a little in rear of the Company where they could watch tbeir respective masters and see how battles wore fought, not anticipating any dan? ger to themselves. "We had perhaps advanced a hundred yards or more when all of a sudden a gun boat open? ed fire on us, throwing shell, one of which burst over our heads, scattering the fragments in every direction. That was something that Willis and Andy had not took into consideration, and oonsequently were not prepared for it. Willis looked around a moment and, turning to Andy, said, "Andy, you can go on if ye wants ter, but I'se got ter go back and take care of mars Billie's baggage"?, and about that time another shell burst a little closer than the other, and then several more in rapid succession, and the rattle of musketry just a little in front of us, with now and then a whizzing minie ball close to our heads, they could stand it no longer. Andy did not say anything, but as Willis' big eyes shone around and he made the break, Andy was close at his side. With a shell every minute whistling over their heads they made their way to the rear in a very short space of time. Willis never afterwards liked to hear the boys say that they would have to "go back and take oare of mars Billie's bag? gage." After this little episode and after we had fired into the Texans, we were formed in line of battle on the right of the road leading to the landing on the river, and the Texans on the left, j then we advanced again, ooming up with sure enough yankees next time, I and drove them back to their gun? boats. Then Major, afterwards Gen? eral, Stephen D. Lee opened fire on them with his Artillery and drove them off. B. R. King, of our Com? pany, (D.) received a slight wound in the foot from a piece of shell, and I think a man in Company F. and per? haps one in Company E., were wound? ed, one of them mortally, as well as I remember, were all the casualties in our regiment that day. We picked up several haversacks filled with crackers, boiled ham and ground coffee, with the sugar in it, and canteens filled with lemonade ready for drinking. Lieutenant Bowen got a very fine, good beaver overcoat, and Beveral of the boys pioked up other less valuable articles. Several of us new reoruits received our first full degree of war in this fight, having taken in the first section of the degree in marching. Late in the afternoon we retired after gaining the victory, and after taking refreshments and resting awhile, we continued our march up the Penin? sular that night in the direction of Richmond, with the yankee close at ourheels, singing, "On to Richmond;" but hundreds of them never got there. Let the young military boys now, remember that war is not all a gallant display of uniform and glittering arms as they now see it on parade and gen* eral review, but something more seri? ous to consider. More anon, Squibe Fe well. Jauuary 26, 1895. Killing out Bushes. The whole secret in killing sprout? ing roots is to destroy the leaves to which they owe their existence. Grub? bing only provokes more shoots and more work. Mowing, if so close as to keep off all leaves, will certainly kill the roots. The best way we have ever tried to kill bushes is as an old darky did, from whom we first learned the method, to thrash them. Beat? ing and bruising so as not to allow a healthy leaf to show, will soon set up such a fermentation as to destroy top and root. Therefore, if the bushes are in a pasture, begin in early Spring with good hickory stocks, and beat and thrash every green leaf, and keep thrashing as long as a leaf'shows. This can be done much more rapidly than grubbing, and if well kept up, the whole plant will be dead by winter, and can be taken out dead and burned, with no live roots left to grow, says a writer in the Massachusetts Plough? man. In cultivated fields there is no difficulty in keeping bushes down, if a short rotation is practiced with corn, clover, small grain and peas. They will be then chopped, smothered and and mown so often that they soon give up the ghost. But in a permanent pasture my experience is that the more you grub the more bushes you get. Kill them by beating bark and leaves dead before digging. ? "I'm quite put out," said the lamp. "I'm very much cut up," said the hash. "It's all over with me," observed the lid. "And I'm played out," said the card. "Well, I'm blowed !" ejaculated the trumpet. "No rest for me," whined the cue. "I'm bust," cried the statute. "Oh ! I'm tired," sighed the wheel. "As for me, I'm simply done up," returned the parcel. "I wish to goodness," growled the penknife, "you'd all fol? low my example." "What's that?" they chorused. "Shut up !" said the penknife. And then the curtain fell and the scene terminated. $100 Reward, $100. The reader of this paper will be pleased to learn tbat there is at least one dreaded disease that in fence has been able to euro in all its stages, and tbat is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only poiitivo cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by buildln? up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. Tho pro? prietor have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case ihnt it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Ad. ress, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. J9-Sold by Druggists, 75c. BILL ARP'S LETTER. Arp and the Birds. Atlanta Oonstituiion. There seems to be an aristocracy in all things, animate and inanimate, and the human face is no exception to this law of nature. The Creator made some things for honor and some for dishonor. He made some creatures to rank other creatures ; some people to rank other people, and nobody has any right to make a fuss about it. The word aristocracy comes from the Greek word aristos, the best, and should not be confounded with plutocracy, the goldbugs, who rank money above brains and virtue. Gold and silver I are useful metals and have always been honored above other metals. Moses tells us in the first chapter of Genesis that the gold of that land was good. The Creator put some gold in paradise and it has ranked all metals since. Iron and lead and copper are far more useful, but gold ranks them. Just so do diamonds and pearls rank marble and granite. In vegetable nature we find that mahogany and rosewood and ebony and the royal palm rank the woods that are more useful, such as the oak, the hickory and the ash. The orange and the apple rank other fruits. The rose ranks the flowers and Marechal Niel ranks all the roses. In animal life the horse stands at the head of the list. "He smelleth the battle from afar and mocketh at fear." Among the fowls of the air we see the eagle towering in his pride. He is of I no account to mankind and yet we sing? "Great bird of the wilderness, lonely and proud, With an eye never dimmed and a neck never bowed." And we stamp his image on our money and claim him as the great American eagle. The chief difference between him and the buzzard is a matter of taste?one likes live meat, the other prefers that that is dead. But the eagle is an aristocrat and the buzzard is a Democrat. Coming, how? ever, down we find the mocking-bird ranking the fowls of the air. He is a charming Binger, and best of all he is game?he will fight. I was ruminat? ing on this line, because just at twi? light I saw a pair of them attack a screech owl on the front yard, and, after much-ado, they whipped him and drove him away, and then one of them sang us an evening song. They are building near the house, and so are the squirrels, and I have seen the birds drive the squirrels to their hid? ing places. Game chickens rank the common barnyard fowl?nabor Free? man says they are better to eat, and have a finer flavor. ' He had said this so often, that his wife thought she would see if it was so. She had one of his fine shawlnecks killed while he was away and had it nicely cooked, and, as he was enjoying it, she said : "Now, do you really believe that a game chicken is any better than this one?" "Why, my dear," said he, "there is no comparison. This chick? en tastes like all the common chick? ens, but it hasent got the flavor nor the delicate juices of a game chicken." She told it on him, and he hasent mentioned the subject since. Never? theless, it is a fact that game fish are better than the stupid, submissive kinds?trout rank all the fish east of the Alleghanies?trout and Spanish mackerel are the gamest fish down here, and they are the best for the table. But I will not write any more about fish, for fear of losing my repu? tation for truth and veracity. I only intended to illustrate a fact, which is, that courage is the best mark of aris? tocracy in animal life, courage of con? victions, courage in duty, marks the best type of manhood, not only in war, but in peace. Galileo and Luther had it as strong as did Lee and Jackson. It is force of oharacter and will-power that marks the true aristocrat. Web? ster and Clay and Calhoun were typi? cal aristocrats. They had convictions, and dared to maintain them regardless of personal peril. We have, no doubt, a few statesmen now of equal brain power, but they are lacking in moral courage?they deem it safer to follow the people than to lead them. There is not a statesman in the nation who stands up pre-eminent for his political wisdom, his moral courage, his unself? ishness and his patriotism. There is no Moses to lead us out of the wilder? ness?party is a bigger thing than country. If it were not so, Congress would agree on a commission from both parties to frame a tariff bill and a silver bill that would give the nation peace, and take these great national questions out of partisan politics. As it is now, one party says to the other, we will oppose anything you advocate. The reflecting conservative people everywhere are not only tired, but despairing. They would welcome the disruption of the old parties?"I never expect to vote again" is a common re? mark. But there's life in the old land yet. The South is getting along fairly well, considering the panic. The people have got used to hard times, and are adapting themselves to a continuation of the general depression. The South is a blessed land. I have before me a letter from a man in northern Ohio, who says: "Tell your people who are discouraged over the losses by the freeze to be thankful they are not up here in the North, where we have been buying feed for our stock for six months on account of last summer's drought, and many are suffering for the commonest necessities of life. Our charitable institutions are all taxed to their utmost to relieve them ?snow is now from fifteen to twenty inches deep, and the mercury 20 de? grees below zero, and the icy wind blowing a gale. How we would re? joice to spend the rest of the winter in sunny Florida." My friend Robert McCay says he spent several years in Europe, and mingled with the common people in their humble homes, and found them more contented in their poverty than ours are with their comforts of life. They live on what we would throw to the dogs?every scrap is carefully saved. If a German family has a son or a father in the army (and nearly every family has one or the other,) they save every penny to send to him and keep him comfortable. Just think what a drain it is upon the en? ergies and toil of a people who have to maintain half a million soldiers as a standing army in times of peace. No, we should not complain of anything down here in the Southland, where good crops have for many years blessed I the farmer's toil, and where a man can live comfortably on 25 cents a day. There is no excuso for a man to be? come a tramp, the laziest negro can command more than that anywhere every day in tho year. That is so, the wages of a negro man have not fallen below 50 cents a day in Cartersville?most of them get 75 cents. Down here in Florida they get from $1 to $1.25 for unskilled labor? for grubbing, hauling, making up mortar or digging in the phosphate mines. The greatest source of discontent is envy of those who are better off. That old dogma of Thomas Jefferson, who declared that "all men are by nature free and equal," has done much j harm, for it is not true, and never will I be until the millennium. It will not j be true then, for there are grades and ranks and classes in the future state. There are angels and archangels? Gabriel and Moses and Elias rank higher than Lazarus. There is also a hell and a lower hell?why should we envy those who rank us in wealth or fame or power or dignity ? Webster showed the right spirit when he said: "I thank God that, if I cannot raise a j mortal to the skies, I have no desire j to pull, an angel down." Oh, for more j of such noble aristocrats, j But it is not so bad in Florida for I visitors. We are luxuriating on very I fine oranges' every day, and they cost , us only 50 cents a hundred. The thick-skinned fruit has not been frozen ; inside ; some of it is a little touched next to the Btem, but we cut that off I and the rest is good. They make ex | cellept ambrosia. The fruit that still 1 hangs on the trees is generally eata? ble. I Grape fruit has not suffered like the I oranges, and we have it every morning j at the breakfast table. The weather ! is delightful, and our so-called female I invalids sport every day on or in the I water, and some of them can row a I boat to the island without a man. I i hear the same old song that I hear at [ home, "Woman rules here," and I am I content to take a second place?for my wife is an aristocrat and I am nothing but a Democrat. Bill Abp. Farmers of Two Sections. We wish every farmer in the South could read the stories from the special correspondent of the New York World sent to the famine district of Nebraska. We think we are poor in this country, but we are all rolling in riches com? pared with these Nebraska people. They had free land to begin with, but it was prairie land. Timber was not available and fuel was always hard to get. Most of them live from the beginning in houses built of sods, most of them with one room, one door and one window; warmed hi winter with a stove. They have made but two crops in eleven years. This year they made literally nothing. One man reported that from forty bushels, of potatoes planted he gathered a scant bushel of which none were larger than hickory nuts. The corn was less than a foot high and did not even furnish fodder. The wheat and oats did not grow as high as grass and yielded no grain. Chickens starved to death on the farms. The World correspondent drove thirty miles through the country and never saw a fowl. The people who had horses left were anxious to exchange them at the rate of two for one cow. A cow is valued at only $12, but she can pick a better living from the fields than horses can and families can live on her milk. The people have no food, no fuel, j no clothes. They have nothing to sell j and no money to buy anything and j stock of all kinds has been turned ! loose to gather a living as it best can j from the stunted corn stalks. Only J the mild winter so far prevents hun i dreds of people from freezing to death. They are hard working people. Most of them are pure Americans of the best class?young couples who t went out and took up quarter sections J of free land and who have labored hard, I hopefully and intelligently, making j every edge cut, trying to make grains, j stock, poultry, dairy products, every i thing or anything that would bring in j a dollar. The land and the climate . have been against them. ! If these people had been brought j South ten or twelve years ago and had ! rented lands and begun, even under I our lien law, living as hard, saving as J conscientiously, working as earnestly j as they have, they would certainly be in far better shape than they are. We call ourselves in bad shape here now, but we have nothing like tho condi? tions existing in Nebraska, have never, even in our worst times, had anything like them, and could not have them. There has never been a time when our soil would not at least yield enough to eat and wood enough for winter fires.?Greenville News. Whal'll the Harvest Be? _____ I The prospect now is that the use of commercial fertilizers in South Caro? lina will be greatly curtailed this sea? son, and the best informed men pre? dict that the falling off from last year will amount to fully 40 per cent. This is a big reduction and the rail? roads of the State arc already feeling the effects of such decrease. The State in the past few days has inter? viewed several of the largest planters in this section and from them finds that a majority of the planters have made up their minds to use fertilizers only to a very limited extent. Many of them claim that at the present and prospective price of cotton they do not feel justified in contracting guano debts and will try to make their crops one season at least with such fertili? zers as can be made on the farms. One of the largest planters in Fair field county was in the city yesterday, and, talking on this line, said that last year and for several years past he had used on his place about ten car loads of guano and that this season he would use only three cars. He further said that the reduction with others in his neighborhood would be in about the same proportions. Usually at this season, the railroads are rushed and can hardly supply enough cars to move the great amount of fertilizers offered them for ship? ment, but at present, while they were fully prepared to move this class of freight promptly, they are virtually doing nothing in that line, and from the present prospect, will have but little to do in handling guano. This, of course, is having a very material effect upon their earnings and they are beginning to feel it very sharply. "While Columbia has two of the fin? est and best equipped phosphate plants in the State, capable of turning out an immense amount of the stuff, they have found but little to do so far. In a talk yesterday with an offi? cial of one of the mills in this city, he ! remarked that up to this time this season, not a car had been shipped from this city to the territory along the Southern Railway between heTe and Charlotte; a section of country that the mills in Columbia usually supply with a large portion of their output. With other mills in this State the story if usually the same, and only a very small amount of guano is being shipped, there being but few orders. The mill in Greenville, which has a large capacity for turning out fertilizers, has shipped but six cars so far this season. From these stray shots, it will be seen that so far as guano is concerned, the farn/ers in South Carolina are going it alone the coming season, and as a matter of fact, competent judges say that the planters will use Less fer? tilizers than in any of the last twenty years. How the experiment of mak? ing cotton in South Carolina without the free use of fertilizers will turn out remains to be seen. Many planters say that the price of phosphate is too high, but the fact is the prioe has steadily decreased in proportion to the price of cotton and is down as low now as it can be manu? factured for. When cotton in this State brought 1S3 cents, guano sold at $75 a ton. Then, when cotton declin? ed to 10 cents, guano dropped to $50 a ton, and now, with cotton at 5 cents, guano is selling at only about $20 a ton. These figures will show that the fertilizer manufacturers have steadily reduced their prices from time to time and ha ve followed right along the de? crease in the value of cotton. There is a great clamor everywhere that the railroads should reduce their rates on guano, but as yet they have not signified their intentions of doing so, and claim that their rates are as low as they can make them. The matter of reducing fertilizer rates has been agitated so much of late that the chairman of the railroad commission has called a meeting for next Wednesday, when the commis? sion will hear all parties interested? the farmers, the railroad people and the fertilizer men?and consider what they have to say. Recently, the commissioners decid? ed not to reduce the rate, and so stated in their announcement, saying that such action had been taken after they had, most "carefully considered" the matter.?Columbia State. Growing Miniature Trees. It is vastly interesting to experiment with an acorn and study its possibili? ties as an attractive window garden plant. One of the most popular methods of starting it into growth is to suspend it by a piece of thread within half an inch of the surface of some water contained in a hyacinth glass. It should be permitted to re? main suspended in this manner with? out being disturbed, and after a time it will burst and throw a root into the water and shoot upward its straight and tapering stem, with beautiful lit? tle green leaves. A young oak tree growing in this manner in the window is a very interesting object. Several oak trees and also a chestnut tree have been noticed growing thus, but they are liable to die after a few months, probably owing to the fact that the water is not changed often enough to afford them the necessary quantity of nourishment from the matter contain? ed in it, but the interest displayed in the short lived little trees is well worth the trouble of experimenting.?Phil? adelphia Record. Rudy's Pile Suppository, is guar? anteed to cure Piles and 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, drug? gists. All Sorts of rarajrrapks. ? Joshua M. Sears is the heaviest individual taxpayer in Boston. His taxes amount to $48,019.92. ? In several European countries, including France and Belgium, elec? tions are always held on Sunday. ? Siberian women are raised as abject slaves?untidy in dress, and are bought with money or cattle. ? The share of land falling to each inhabitant of the globe, in the event of a partition, might be set down at 23* acres. ? Instead of an engagement ring, the Japanese lover gives his sweet? heart a piece of beautiful silk for her sash or obi. ? A trolley road is now being built to connect Baltimore with "Washing? ton. Trains will run 07er it at the rate of 60 miles an hour. ? A yard is 36 inches in length be? cause King Henry I of England, who adopted this measurement, had an arm 36 inches long. ? George Parrott, of Lynn, Mass., said to be the oldest shoemaker in the country, is 92 years old. He has al? ways stuck to his last. ? "Thank the Lord," said the far? mer, "cotton's gone up at last!" "You don't say!" "Yes; yonder goes ten bales in a cyclone." ? The action of ooffee on the body is mainly due to certain aoid and oily properties contained in the berries, and greatly developed in the roasting process. ? The Landlady?I'll have to apol? ogize for the presence of grounds in the coffee this morning. The New Boarder?Er?too weak to stand the strain, I suppose. ? Four oranges eaten every day are effective in removing the desire for intoxicants. One should be eaten be? fore breakfast, one each at 11 a. m., 3 p. m., and 6 p. m. ? It is the little things that make up life, and the little mistakes have as much effect as the little good deeds. There is no thought or act, but has its effect for good or ill. ? Smithers?"Brown, you are a well read man, what do you think is the greatest thing about this world ?" Brown?"Well, to be accurate, Smith? ers I think it's the circumference." ? The day after a snow-storm is usually very clear, because the snow in falling brings down with it most of the impurities of the air, and leaves the atmosphere exceedingly pure. ? A little girl somewhat noted for her quaint and original saying said the other day at the breakfast-table that "she had got a piece of bread head-first down her cough-pipe/' ? Mrs. Emily Thome, who resides at Toledo, Washington, says she has never been able to procure any medi? cine for rheumatism that relieves the pain so quickly and effectually as Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and that she has also used it for lame back with great success. For sale by Hill Bros. ? The greatest, most guilty sinner is the man who has heard the Gospel plainly, affectionately and faithfully preached, and yet has trifled with it, despised it and rejected it. No such sinner can be found in all the heathen world, and yet such are often the one? who puzzle themselves about what will become of the heathen. ? It has been noted that the reluc? tance of women to tell their age is no peace of modern sensitiveness. It is as old as the hills. In the Old Testa? ment, although great numbers of wo? men are mentioned, there is but one ?Sarah, Abraham's wife?whose age is recorded. ? 0. W. 0. Hardman, Sheriff of Tyler Co., W. Va., appreciates a good thing and does not hesitate to say so. He was almost prostrated with a cold when he procured a bottle of Cham? berlain's Cough Remedy. He says : "It gave me prompt relief. I find it to be an invaluable remedy or coughs and colds." For sale by Hill Bros. ? A traveling salesman for a local shoe house, who has recently returned from a trip through Virginia, stated that in accepting the hospitality of the residents of the rural districts in that locality he was frequently asked at breakfast whic^h he preferred, "wet sweetenin'" or "dry sweetenin' " in his coffee. If he elected the former, sorghum molasses was handed him, while if he chose the latter, he got little lumps of maple sugar.?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ? An old lady down east can't eee anything very new-styled about these tremendous sleeves which they are wearing nowadays. On the contrary, she thinks they are pretty old. "They are exactly the same as we wore in 1836." she says; "but then, to keep them full, instead of using a stiff lin? ing we stuffed them with feathers. Afterwards I took the feathers from a pair of sleeves and stuffed a pillow for a cradle, and there was plenty, too." But it's different now, when there are no feathers up a girl's sleeve, and when she has no use for cradle pillows. ? A Des Moines woman who has been troubled with frequent colds, concluded to try an old remedy in a new way, and accordingly took a table spoonful (four times the usual dose) 6f Chamberlain's Cough Remedy just before going to bed. The next morn? ing she found that her cold had almost entirely disappeared. During the day she took a few doses of the remedy (one teaspoonful at a time) and at night again took a tablespoonful be? fore going to bed, and on the following morning awoke free from all symptoms of the cold. Since then she has, on several occasions, used this remedy in like manner, with the same good re? sults, and is much elated over her discovery of so quick a way of curirg a cold. For sale by Hill Bros.