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BY CLINKSCAI ES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13. 1895. VOLUME XXIX.- -NO 3S HATS AND CAPS. WJ3 have just received another BT? LINE of HATS and CAPS. This is our third shipment this season, which shows? WE MUST HAVE TEE PRICES BIGHT. SGT Don't fail to see our line when in need of one. B. O. EVANS & CO., Clotillers and Furnishers. PLOWS! PLOWS! 25,000 Pounds Rome, Georgia, Steel Plows. Highest grade Steel?latest improved shapes. Tremendons Stock of Oliver Chilled Plows, FJow Stocks, Flow Handies, Heel Bolts, Clevises, Homes, Traces, &c? In fact, EVERYTHING needed by the Farmer at this season of the year, AND AT PRICES CUT TO THE QUICK. S@? Don't forget to get our prices on? * BARB AND GARDEN WIRE We will SAVE YOU MONEY. v . Yours truly, > SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. FURNITURE ! FURNITURE! I LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS! wsr COFFINS and CASKETS furnished Day or Night. WE have on hand the LARGEST and BEST-SE? LECTED Stock of FURNITURE in South Carolina I bought this Summer when everything struck bottom, and while there was a big cut in freights. We have determined to give the People the advantage of our BARGAINS! We will Sell you Furniture at'Prices below anything ever heard of in this Country before ! And prices it is impossible for any one else to buy the same quality of Goods for. When you need anything in the Furniture line give us a call, and? WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. Prices Lower than Cotton at 5c. Yours for business, G. F. TOLLY & SON, The-Leaders of Low Prices. Ill P. SULLIVAN * CO., -Will sell you the Best Cofiee, The Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, All for less Money than you have been paying. J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. SHAKES! UP AND LETGO 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 GHIQUOLA 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 in the future. No compromise nor winking at adulterated goods. Strictly pure food ai popular prices. Come and see us. We are ready to make things lively. Shakem up and letgo, J. A. AUSTIN & CO. BLUE STONE AT ORR & SLOAN'S, BE*?? USE GENERAL PRIMARY ORDERED. Senator irby Makes a Speech to hiit Committee. Columbia, February 5.?The Dem? ocratic Executive Committee met here to-night and referred all of its work to special sub-committees. The meeting was well attended, the following mem? bers being present: J. Y. Jones, W. M. Jordan, J. P. Glenn, R. H. Swee? ney, P. H. Gadsden, T. J. Cunning? ham, M. F. Jackson, J. T. Davis, A. E. Williams, R. B. Watson, T. W. Taylor, R. M. MoCown, J. W. Gray, J. P. Derham, J. Gentry, T J. Kirk land, Ira B. Jones, J. L. M. Irby, C. M: Efird, J. D. Montgomery, W. D. Evans, J. A. Sligh, 0. R. Lowman, T. C. Robinson, Wilie Jones, D. E. Keels, N. L. Burnside, A. C. Lyles, M. L. Donaldson, Secretary D. H. Tompkins. As soon as the roll was called Chair? man Irby arose and said: Gentlemen of the Committee: It has been customary for the ohairman of this committee to he compelled to open its proceedings without any re? marks, hut on this occasion I deem it necessary to have something to say in brief. In view of all that has hap? pened in this State since 1890 it is well that we should take our bearings now and meet the situation face to face like men. I cannot congratulate you on a bright outlook for the Democ? racy. You and those whom we repre? sent are in no way responsible for this. When the Democratic party came into power in 1876, under a Constitution that was forced upon the people by a Republican Government, one of the first questions advocated, the first demand made by the people, was for a Constitutional Convention to frame an organic law that would be adapted to their wants. The powers that con? trolled between '76 and '90, for reasons satisfactory to themselves, but unex? plained to the people, dallied with thiu question and refused their reasonable demands. Fortunately for the State the people took charge in ?1890, and after a long and hard struggle succeeded in ratify? ing the call made by the Legislature of 1893. She Democratic party of the State, whom you and I represent, and I may say the only Democratic organi? zation in . the State, proposed in its Convention of last September to make it a party question. The Republicans and Independents, aided by some loyal Democrats, came very near defeating this call at the November election. You and I considered it as our impera? tive duty, representing as we did the will of that Convention, to urge the people to sustain it. After a fair and free election it was carried by a short margin. I had hoped when this call was made and the Legislature had passed an Act carrying it out that its white enemies, for the good of the State and white supremacy, would have ground? ed their armB and allowed a peaceful and harmonious solution of this ques? tion. But not so, we are confronted to-day first by a Republican organiza? tion, which, outside of"a few Congres? sional districts, has been regarded as a political corpse, through its repre? sentatives, and its black hosts are now attempted to be marshalled for a des? perate struggle. But for some things,' which I shall hereafter mention, it could be easily overcome, for the rank and file of the Republicans in this State are tired of politics and cannot be organized in suh numbers as to threaten this Convention and white supremacy. Second. There is a quasi organiza? tion made up under the leadership of the State. They, calling themselves Democrats, are unwilling, and have been since 1890, to submit to what a majority of the white people demand, and are ready, not only to defeat the call and objects of this Convention but to unite in an unholy alliance with the negro leaders whom they helped to overthrow in 1876. I rejoice, how? ever, that this number is small and cannot assume dangerous proportions. There is still another element?that is the more conservative of this Con? servative (so-called) element?who are unwilling to unite with the negro, but who are unfriendly to the present Ad? ministration and its officers. There is still another that belongs to what is known as the Reform party, most, if not all, of whom were opposed to the election of Governor Evans. Lastly, there is the Reform move? ment, upon whom, thank God, this committee, with all its scattered for? ces, if necessary to maintain white supremacy, can rally and rely, and even with the great defection among the white people can defeat the Re? publicans and save the Convention. It is our duty, and the white people of the State expect us to peform it, to see that Republicans are defeated for delegates to this Convantion. There is no use to mince words about it. We must carry this Convention or white supremacy is gone forever. The Constitution under which we were elected does not give us the ex? press power to act in this matter, but it does by implication. It was a party question. This committee took charge >f it as such and urged its ratification at the first election. They talked of peace, of harmony in the Democratic party. There is as much peace and harmony in that party in ^jjuth Caro? lina as there is in any State in the Union. It is only the whole of the minority who will not submit to the will of the majority. I would not dictate. I have tried since I 1 av-1 been c airman of V is co nmittee to avoid ? ven the appear? ance of dictation, but there is only one way in which peace and harmony can be had in South Carolina, and only one way by which success can come to the white people in the election of delegates to this Convention, and that is for this committee to order a pri? mary election for the white Democrats of the State, to be held in July or Au? gust, for the purpose of selecting such delegates. If the factions have griev? ances let them settle them at this election, and let every true white man of the State abide by its result, other? wise we go into the fight disorganized and split in several factions to meet the Republicans, who are organized. I beg pardon for this departure, and announce that, a quorum being pres? ent, the committee is ready for the transaction of business. UpoD motion of Col. Jones, Gover? nor Evans and Capt. Tillman were in? vited to attend the session of the com? mittee. Dr. Lowman, of Orangeburg, offered the most important resolutions of the evening, which, with a slight amend? ment of Mr. Gadsden to have rules for the primary, was adopted as follows: Resolved, That the delegates to the Constitutional Convention be nomina? ted by a primary election to be held in all counties, unless deemed unprac? tical by the County Executive Com mittee, and that a committee* of seven be appointed by this committee to draft rules for the government of said primary, such rules to be submitted to a subsequent meeting of this com? mittee. Senator Irby said that he was in favor of a primary wherever it was practicable, but in some cases the con? vention might be preferable. W. D. Evans asked whether it was intended to have a campaign. Mr. Lowman suggested that each county could arraDge that for itself. Mr. Evans said that he was opposed to any Court House ring regulating the affairs, and he wanted to see the people deal directly with the elections. Mr. Efird did not think it best to put down any ironclad rules as to a primary. He wanted to see the best men in the State Bent to the Conven? tion and have it a white man's Con? vention. He thought it rather early to give away the plans of action, and thought it better to wait and on that account moved to strike out the latter part of the resolution. That was voted down. Mr. Lyles wanted the resolution trimmed down so as to make it a gen? eral primary, but this was voted down. Mr. Gadsden suggested in view of the importance of the matter that the rules had better be referred back to the whole committee before they were, adopted. This suggestion was accepted and incorporated in the resolution. Upon motion of Mr. Williams it was agreed that the primary for the nomi? nation of delegates be held on the last Tuesday in July, and that if a second primary be necessary that it be held two weeks after that. The following committee was then appointed to prepare the rules : Chair? man Irby, Lowman, Montgomery, Gray, Jordan, Sligh and Watson. Upon motion a committee of five was appointed to prepare an address to the Democratic voters of the State in the name of the committee. The committee consists of Messrs. Efird, Gentry, Ira B. Jones, Glenn and W. D. Evans. Upon motion of Mr. Efird all County Executive Committees are advised to look after the matter of registration. As there was nothing else before the committee it adjourned subject to the call of the chairman.? Special to Newt and Courier. Tbe Uses or Hot Water. The best methods of using hot water are as follows: For sprains of the ankle and wrist or any joint, the part should be thor? oughly soaked for half an hour at a time, night and morniDg, in very hot water, writes A. Marcy, M. D., in a .very valuable list of "Domestic Household Remedies" in the January Ladies Home Journal. Any one suffering from a severe sprain will not require more than the first soaking to convince them of the advantages of hot over cold water. A flannel band? age should be applied firmly after each treatment. For bruises, very much the same method should be fol? lowed, although the application need not be continued for so long a time. For wounds and sores the best method is to drip or pour for a few minutes. For stys and inflamed eyes, use water as hot as can be borne, by sopping. To stop bleeding, very hot water ap? plied to the raw surface will be found efficacious. For many forms of dys? pepsia and biliousness, particularly a catarrhal condition of stomach, a gob? let of hot water, drunk after the night's fasting, will give relief. For continued application, in the form of a poultice, as in catarrh of the breast, pleurisy, pneumonia, etc., a jacket of cotton batti?g wrung out in very hot water by means of a towel, and covered with oiled silk or waxed paper, should be used. ? Fannie : "Why do people always apply the name of 'she'to a city?" George: "I don't know. Why is it?" Fannie: '"Because every city has outskirts." $100 Reward, $100. The reader of this paper will ho pleased to learn that there is at least one drexded disease that s i?nce has beo'i ahl- to cure in all Its stages, and that ts Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh < ure is the only p aittve cure known to the medical fraternity. (Marrh bclnga constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hal1's Catarrh Cure is tnke-< internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the. system, thereby destroying tho foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by buildln* up the constitution and.assisting nature Iti doing its wo-k. The pro? prietors have so much faith in its curative rowers, that they nffitr One Hundred Dollars for nnyeve Unit It falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo. 0, i fl^-Sold by Druggists, 75c, ?NO. 25952" TALKS. A Convict Now Under Sentence Tells of the Life at Columbus, Ohio. Atlanta Constitution. Rare, indeed, is it when a convict from Uncle Sam's hig prison in Col? umbus, 0., is brought back to his na? tive State before the expiration of hii sentence. j There is only one condition that will effect this transfer, and that is when the convict can further the end of justice by telling what he knows of the doings of Bome other fated crim? inal on trial. And it is only in ex? treme cases of this kind that it is per? mitted. The exigencies of an important case in the United States court demanded that Jim Braokett, convicted and sen? tenced last June, be brought back to Georgia. After much correspondence j Solicitor Joe James received a com? munication giving him the authority to order the oonvict out. Escorted by Deputy James, son of the principal keeper of the Ohio penitentiary, Brackett was brought to Atlanta and is now, waiting for the McKutcheon case to be called before Judge New? man. Brackett has changed since he was carried on to Columbus. After the nine months' imprisonment his face ha3 taken on the usual expression of the criminal and he wears the conven? tional convict features. The loss of one eye has destroyed what might have been once a pleasing counte? nance. His skin, which from long exposure in the climate of the moun? tains and moonshine was rough and rugged when he first went to Ohio, is now thoroughly bleached, and its milky whiteness is covered by a thin coating of red beard. He has doffed temporarily his con? vict's garb and donned a neat-looking suit in whioh he made the trip. "Don't call me Jim Brackett. Call me No. 25,652, and I feel more like myself. I've almost forgot my real name, ybu know. That passes away, when a fellow strikes that place, and it's not often that he hears it pro? nounced. "I can't complain of the treatment they, give us up there. Of course the life is hard for me. I am uped to the mountain, where I can go anywhere I want to and have things my own way generally, and where everything is free and open. "It was a great surprise when they came to me last Friday and told me that I must make the trip to Georgia for the purpose of being a witness in the courts. I couldn't believe them at first. I didn't see how they could let me get out of there; they were so strict, but they sent me down a citi? zen's suit, and last Sunday evening, just after we had been marched away from the chapel, the guard told me to step out, and I knew that I was to come. It's like stepping out into a new and very different world. I don't feel natural. The Bound of human voices seems strange to me. "You cannot imagine," he resumed, "the size of that place and the num? ber of people there. I think that now there are 2,150 convicts there. The buildings cover 25 acres, and these buildings are cut up into little cells in which the boys are packed away. "There is only one man in a cell. A light is furnished us at night, and we are allowed to read until 9 o'clock. "We get up at 5 o'clock every morn? ing. Then we form in squads and are marched out into the hall. Every? thing goes lock-step there, but we are not chained. The guard marches us to the bathing rooms and there we separate and take our morning baths. Then, out into the yard for an hour we go to take exercise, and after that we are carried to breakfast. All of us are arranged in squads at the different tables. This finished, we are march? ed over to the 'idle house,' where we spend the time doing nothing but thinking. "The greatest torture to me," con? tinued the cr" ?ict, "is the silence that is demanded of you. We are never allowed, under any circumstan? ces, to say a word to a guard or a fel? low prisoner, except on matters of im? portant business, and that business must be stated, just like a school boy tells his teacher what he wants to talk about. "I broke the rule about speaking and caught the consequence one day. I knew that I was breaking the rules, and I knew what would follow, but I had not heard the sound of my own voice in so long that I was forced to say something. There was a man named Fowler sitting by me in the 'idle house.' I knew him well, and before I could control myself I walked up and slapped him on the shoulder and said, 'how are you.' He looked at me and trembled. "Then the guard came up and asked my number. I blurted it out to him. He put it on a piece of paper. I knew what it meant. "About daylight the next day the guard ordered me out. I was marched down to a little room where six or seven more on the same missiou had assembled. We formed lock step and were marched down to the cellar, where we knew the flogging operation was in store for us. I was the third man to he called. The guard led me into a small room. It was heated with steam so as to make it feel comfortable when a fellow's clothing was all off. I was disrobed entirely. Then a kind of elastic cap, which reminded me of the gallows black cap, was drawn down over my head and eyes. My hands were drawn behind and tightly hand? cuffed. "IwaB.led to another room, whioh I afterwards saw was much smalk. The deputy was here. He read over the charge to me in a ldud voice, and asked if I was guilty. I told him I was. Then I tasted the lash for the first time. The strap which he used was made from heavy leather. It oamc down on my bare back ten times with all the force the deputy could use. ' "After he had finished I was scarce? ly able to put on my olothes, I was so exhausted. "This was the only time I ever tasted the leather and the last, if hold? ing my tongue has anything to do with it. "The number of lashes in cases of this kindy vary of course, according to the nature of the offense. But this style of punishment is nothing to some I hare seen. One man that I know of was strung up for three days. "The process is about this: The convict is handcuffed and his hands drawn up over his head, where they are tied to a chain suspended from the ceiling. In this position he is foroed to remain until his sentence is finish? ed. During this time he is allowed nothing to eat except bread and water." Here Brackett gave an interesting account of the religious aide of prison life. In the large chapel there, he said, a corps of teachers assemble every Sunday morning. They are us? ually citizens bent on doing home mission work. There are three ser? vices during the day, but in order to attend a written permission must be obtained from the chaplain and this is tacked on the door of the convict's cell so that the guard can call for him. "The convicts, as a whole, are a very religious set," continued Brack? ett, "and their enthusiasm at the different meetings would surprise you. It is one of the few times we are al? lowed to talk, at these meetings, and when the preacher calls for the exper? ience of the men nearly all of them get up and say something, just to keep their tongues from going to sleep. "With the large number of convicts there it is a rare thing that we see a man we know. The best friend I had in the world might be there with me for years and I could never know what he was doing or have anything to say to him. "I caught a glimpse of old Jim . Lawshe the other day. He was march? ing along with a squad of machinists going to work. His head was shaved and he was stepping high. He saw me and winked?that was all he could do. Jim is a good workman and they keep him employed all the time. "I have never seen any of the rest of the boys. Lewis Redwine is in the deputy's office, but I have never seen him, nor Laird either." Brackett says that he has been treated kindly, especially by Deputy James, who brought him to Atlanta. The convict will remain here until the trial of McKutoheon, who is charged with stealing a still from the officers after it had been captured. Prices and Prices. Mr. Lewis Hancock, in the Galves ton News, closed an elaborate article on the present and past purchasing power of the dollar and of the cotton bale, as follows: "The average percentage of the fifty-five staples which a dollar will buy now, compared to the amount it bought in 1873, is 227 percent. That is, $1 now will buy as much as $2.27 would buy in 1873. The price for which a farmer sells a bale of cott.on now is certainly less than he obtained for the same grade in 1873, but the prices of the articles which enter into his daily life have fallen lower still. "As I stated above the actual aver? age prices of cotton in Texas in 1E!72 was 13 cents a pound, at which a bale of ootton of 50U pounds would yield $65. The actual average selling price during the fall of 1893, in the midst of a panic, was 7.07 cents, at which a bale of cotton would net here $35.35 ; a difference in actual cash of $29.65.' But, as a dollar now will buy 2.27 times as much as it bought in 1872, the bale of cotton at $35.35 will buy as much in groceries, dry goods, hard? ware, etc., as $80.20 would have bought in 1872, being a difference of $15.24, or 23 per cent, in favor of the farmer of to-day. "If the difference in the price of ginning, bagging and tics, and of cot? ton seed be taken into account,, the balance in favor of the farmer of to? day will be increased to $37.27, or 71 per cent. If the average price of cot? ton for the last five years?10.62 cents ?be taken as the basis of calculation, the favorable balance will be greater still. "There does not seem to be here; a basis for argument in favor of charg? ing our currency system. Any system under which the farmers of the South can, in twenty years, increase their production from 2,000,000 to 9,000,000 bales and yet buy with each bale 71 per cent, more of the necessaries of life than formerly, would seem to be too good to trifle with." The electric light which is to be erected on Fire Island, on the Now York coast, will give an illumination of about 250,000,000 candle power. It is expected to be visible 120 miles out to sea. ? O. W. O. 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 sayn : "It gave me prompt relief. I find it to be an invaluable remedy for coughs I &nd oolde," For sale by JJjlJ Brop, I THE PRAIRIE BLIZZARD. An Unwelcome Visitor to the Peoplo of the Plains. Winter's crown of glory in the East? ern States is the snow-storm. From the up-country neighborhoods of Maine to the Southern snow limit and west? ward considerably beyond the Alle ghanies, winter would be indeed a failure without the generous downfall of the big feathery flakes whose com? ing is prophetic of so varied a lino of cheery amusements, ranging from the ichool-boy sled-rides to coasting par? ties and the jingle of sleighbells. The snow may drift and swirl?it is longed for and welcome. On the prairies the winter storm is a different matter. With slender pro? tection afforded by their cabin walls, with scanty fuel and perhaps scantier store of food, the settler has good rea? son to dread its coming and tremble as he sees its approach. The snow does not fall in soft white masses, eddying here and there before alight? ing. It drives in fierce horizontal lines out of the north, fine as flour and chilled by zero currents until each particle is a distinct and separate pro? jectile, bent on piercing some living thing and causing its quota of anguish. It is something to contemplate with fear and to marvel at because of its fury. The blizzard, as the plainsman's vernacular designates the prairie snow? storm, is utterly incomprehensible to one who has not experienced it. Gen? erated in the great snow-breeding regions of barren British America, and swept on arctic blasts along the vast level reaches that stretch east? ward from the Rocky Mountains, with no forest to break its force, it becomes a demon of the air, secojid only to the cyclone or tornado in destructiveness. The moisture is ground as between millstones, hurled with bullet-like energy over hundreds of miles of level plain and finaly transformed into yeasty sleet by the softening effects of lower latitudes, falls in bleak showers on the ranges of Texas and No-Man's Land. At the beginning, the nowcomer is inclined to be merry over the bliz? zard's reputation for severity. He has not noticed that for two days the preparations have been going forward for the coming of the storm. The sky has been gray and the winds hushed. The sun has been marked by a great hazy circle, while the merouty has been-steadily falling. The gray of the heavens grows darker in the north and northwest, and here and there a curl? ing eddy shows that the wind is rising. Then a few flakes of snoir come drift? ing down?not big, white masses of half-congealed crystals, but hard, cheerless harbingers of boreal wrath. For a time they slide slantingly from the airy treasury, but as the wind grows stronger their course becomes farther inclined from the perpendicu? lar. They also change character, be? ing smaller and harder with each in? crease of speed. The wind eddies and curls no more. A level-lined gale is tearing its way southward, bearing on its wings the sifted snow. The ther? mometer marks zero and below. The plain is hidden by the storm as by a fog. There is nothing to do but crouch by the fire, listen to the roar of the ice-furies without, and hope through weary hours that the end will come. The blizzard is abroad upon the prairie in its full perfection. The "tender? foot's" sneers will never be repeated. For three days and nights there may be no cessation. Some particles of snow have found a lodgment on grass clump or furrow and narrow drifts hundreds of feet long have formed. The settler's cabin is the nucleus of a generous gathering of the arrested storm-burden and it may be almost hidden beneath the close-packed snow mass. At last the darkness lifts; the gray of the sky becomes lighter; rifts of blue appear here and there?then the clouds break into slow-moving fleecy islands and vanish. The meroury takes a final downward plunge through one bittet but Bilent, clear-skied night; on the morrow the sun shines and hope dawns again. Lack of cheap building material and the brevity of the winter season on the prairies, contribute to make the settler's cabin a poor refuge. When the blizzard comes, every resource of fuel is husbanded and it is faced with a grim determination to see it through. But not all are prepared, even so well as the settler. Occasionally a be? lated emigrant, en route either to a chosen claim on the frontier or toward" tha pleasantly remembered East where he hopes to find old friends and help? ers, is caught by the blast. He may have a tiny stove inside the canvas6 topped prairie schooner but its heat can do little against the power of the storm. Sheltered by the low bluff of some ravine or watercourse, he may weather the dragging hours of suffer? ing, but the chances are that team and driver will be found a gastly monu? ment to the storm-king's strength. The farmer who has hurried 10 or 15 miles to the nearest village to secure supplies for the impending visitation is often overtaken before reaching his waiting family and perishes on the road, for no matter how well he knows the path, when the blizzard rages his way is as uncertain as that of the mariner without a compass. At the prairie schoolhouses, where the settlers' children are gathered from a territory covering many miles in every direction, the blizzard brings terror to the pupils as well as to their parents. Rescue is impossible until $6 luU comej, and awful possibilities lurk in the bosom of the storm. A Dakota school mistress last winter failed to dismiss her scholars in time for them to reach home, and found herself and them prisoners from a I blizzard's approach. A night and a day at least were before her, during which her little charges must be pro? tected. Deliberately she apportioned the food remaining in thedinner pails, divided the larger boys into squads to keep the fire burning steadily, and when darkness came put the younger pupils to sleep on the benches. Then through the bitter night she sang, de? claimed, told stories, invented games and kept the frightened children amused and cheered as best she could. The following day passed much the same?but still no abatement of the storm, nor any rescue. The second j night was dreary, indeed. The chil? dren cried themselves to sleep, hun I gry and cold. With her own hands j the teacher broke up desks and black I board to feed the voracious stove. With morning came a shout at the door as the settlers shoveled away the snow, and then the plucky girl to whom the children owed their lives showed her womanliness?and fainted. ! The loss among stock on the plains by each blizzard is appalling. There is less exposure of herds and flocks now than in earlier times^ yet every season causes the destruction of thous ends of head of cattle and sheep on the ranges and in the unsheltered cor? rals. Several years ago, during the height of the Texas cattle trade, a bliz? zard in western Kansas early in De I cember destroyed more than half of 300,000 cattle that were being herded j on the open prairie. At one railway station, after the storm, 35,000 hides were shipped; at another 20,000. One ranchman found but 225 head alive out of 7,500 that had been grazing before the catastrophe. Several hun? dred ponies and a score of herders also perished. j The blizzard is a permanent feature of the prairie winter. Nothing but a decided climatic revolution can secure to the great Transmississippi region immunity from its death-bearing pres? ence. Better preparations are yearly being made to withstand its fury, and to protect more generously the dumb animals who suffer equally with their masters. The signal service is ren? dering aid in warning communities reached by telegraph of the storm's approach, while the settlers, taught by bitter experience, take with each season better precautions and provide more intelligently for their time of need, which is sure to come. But, with all man's care and de? fense, the blizzard remains uncon quered. It is cruel, relentless and unmerciful as some Norse god, from whose kingdom it comes. It is one of the West's possessions which is wholly and irredeemable; in its fore? front is apprehension; at its height, terror; in its wake, desolation and suf? fering?sometimes death. Charles Moreau Harger. *?LoTe for Love." As a dirty, ragged street-boy was running along one day an accident be? fell him. Re was pushed into the gutter, and for a minute or two he lay hurt and screaming, until a rough hand picked him up. He was not a beautiful object to look at a j he stood propped up against a pillar, his face and hands blackened with mud and the tears running down his cheeks. No one stopped to pity him. If any one noticed him at all it was only some rude boy who mocked and laughed at him. Poor little fellow! it didn't seem as if he had a single friond in the world. But a lady passed. She caught sight 6f the croucLing, unhap? py figure and suddenly stopped. "Why, John," she said, "is it you ?" J She had recognized in him a boy she had once taught in her Sunday-school. He told her his troubles and the pain his fall was causing him ; and, full of pity she had him removed to the hos? pital, where he was tenderly cared for. A year passed, and one night this same boy, now well and strong again, found himself drawn along by a crowd to a dwelling-house that was on fire. The engine had not yet arrived, nor the inmates rescued. But no sooner had he caught sight of the house than the cry burst from him, "O, she lives there!" and bravely he struggled?up the staircase through the smoke. He hunted until he found her of whom he was in search. She had fainted, but putting out all his strength the boy lifted and carried her out into the fresh air. And then, as the amazed by? standers cheered and praised him for his courage he walked away muttering, J "She didn't turn away from me when I was hurt." Love had done it. The love the lady had shown to him had awakened an answering chord of love in the boy's heart. And it is, as we think of all that Jesus has cone for us, of the love which led him even to die for us, that we are constrained to say, "We love him because he first loved us."? Morning Rays. ? 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) of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy just before going to bod. 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 thifi remedy in like manner, with the same good ro eults, and is much elated over her discovery of so quick a way of curing I a oold. For sale by Hill Bros, All Sorts of Paragraphs. t| ?'s ? Charley (bidding good-by)r^I haven't the check to kiss you. Alices ?Use mine. t ? A recent murder in Gorham, Mc, was the first that occurred there sinceJ it was incorporated, 150 years ago. :-M ? The young woman who is looking^ for a man of perfect disposition should": choose one who can tend some one else's baby. ? Long?"Are you in favor"of a gold basis ?" Short?"Silver is goods enough for me. Have cyou a'spare* quarter?" ? What is the difference between^ an editor and a wife ? . One -sets artijSs cles to rights, and the other writes! articles to set. ? A philosopher who had married^ an ignorant girl used to call her "brown sugar," because, he said, she was sweet but unrefined. ? The dog never fails to let a per? son know that he is glad to see him. | Some good men are so? peculiar that | they don't do this. ? "What did the editor get for his Christmas ?" A gold collarubutton." . "Well, isn't he satisfied?" "No I Now he wants a shirt I" ? Grandma?"You are just like aj clock, aren't you, dear ?" Johnnie (who has other thoughts of clocks)? "How's that? Got works inside of 1 me?" ? J. W. Jones, of Robertson, Ky.,^ has found a pearl on which is the per- \ feet outline of a man's hand. Seen through a microscope even the veins appear. It is valued by experts at $150. ? This is the way a Georgia darkey handled the Queen's English recently: "I doan' in ginerly buy on credit,'but. at dis particular conjunction I would like to git a little resistence on 30 days' return." ? He?How does it happen that none of you women has come forward with a new currency plan ? She?Oh, we already have a perfect one 1 When we need currency, we just sit down' and cry for it. ? The population of London is said to be 5,948,300 and increasing at the rate of 105,000 a year. The city, therefore, has a population of about 1,500,000 more than Scotland and;. 1,000,000 more than Ireland. ? Teacher?Why did you hit Willie! Winkum with a stone ? Little Johnny ?He?he got mad and looked like ajij if he'd like to hit me with something, so I jus' chucked the stone over to him so he could throw it at me. ' ? The largest check ever drawn on a bank was paid a few days ago to Thomas A. McEntyre of Brooklyn. The check was drawn by G. W- Yagfe^ presj^t of the United Statesl?^R?* gage Company, and was for $12,278, 750. 4 Rudy's Pile Suppository, is gnar^ anteed to cure Piles and Constipates or money refunded. 50 cents pernoSS Send stamp for circular and FreeSam4 pie to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa.' For sale by Wilhito & Wilhitfi^rug gists. ^^8fe& ? Judge : "I understand the plUlM tiff is suing for a horse." Attorney : "Yes, your Honor, but there seems to be a hitch about the evidence." Judge: "Well, you can't saddle the responsibility on the court. Let the case proceed." ? Mrs. Emily Thorne, 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. ? George S. White, known as the cattle king of Mendocino County, Cal., has been ordered by the Califor? nia Superior Court to pay his wifey who has secured a divorce from him, $100,000 for her separate estate. The divorce case has been continually in the courts during the past ten years. ? It is a wise providence that we cannot see the future. We can see through one pane of glass easily,, but through ten placed together we cannot see, yet each is transparent. By liv? ing a day at a time we get along well and all is clear, although we cannot see through all the purposes of Gcd concerning us. ? Nicholas Hallocx, of Queens, L, I., engraved his name on a silver quar? ter in 1844. It continued in circula? tion until a few days ago, when it was taken in change by the railroad agent at Queens. As the name was still decipherable after the coin's fifty years of wandering, the agent turned it over to Mr. Hallock. ? The little creature] which bears the distinction of owning more legs (and feet) than any other known or? ganized being, is the millipede, which literally means "thousand-footed." There are several species of these curi? ous worms, all possessing the charac? teristic of having a many-segmented body, each segment provided with a pair of legs. Unlike the centipedes? "hundred-footed"?they are perfectly harmless. ? The experience of Mr. R. D. Whitley, an influential and prominent citizen of Martindale, North Carolina, will no doubt be perused with interest by people in all parts of the country. For years he has been subject to vio? lent attacks of inflammatory rheuma? tism ; on the first of February he had an attack, which settled in one of his knees and caused almost unbearable j pain, for two days. He obtained bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm from W. M. Houston <JcCo., merchants at MecklinburgCity, N. C. He writes that it gave almost immediate relief and gives Chamberlain's Pain Balm the highest praise, and advises all persons troubled with like afflictions to use it and get relief. For sale by Hill Bros, 1