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BYCLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1895. VOLUME XXIX.- -NO. g HAT ' WE have just received another BIG LINE of HATS and CAPS. This is our third shipment this season, which shows? WE MUST HAVE THE PRICES RIGHT. Don't fail to see our line when in need of one. B. O. EVANS & CO., Clothiers and Furnishers PLOWS! PLOWS! 25,000 Pounds Rome, Georgia, Steel Plows. Highest grade Steel?latest improved shapes. Tremendous Stock of Oliver Chilled Plows PJow Stocks, Plow Handles, Heel Bolts, Clevises, Same?, Traces, &c, In fact, EVERYTHING needed by the Farmer at this season of "the year AND AT PRICES CUT TO THE QUICK. Don't forget to get our prices on? BARB AND GARDEN WIRE We will SAVE YOU MONEY. Yours truly, SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. FURNITURE! FURNITURE!! LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES. BEST GOODS ! w COFFINS and CASKETS furnished Day or Night. WEJiave on hand the LARGEST and BEST-SE? LECTED Stock of FURNITURE in South Carolina! 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 I We will Sell yon 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? x. WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. Prices Lower than Cotton at 5c. Yours for business, G. F. TOLLY fc SON, The Leaders of Low Prices, J. P. S?LL -Will sell yon the Sc CO., Best Coffee, /The Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, All for less Money than yon have been paying. J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. SHAKEN 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 CHIftUOLA 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 eveu better tor you in the future. No compromise nor winking at adulterated goods. Strictly pure food at popular prices. Come and see us. We are ready to make things lively. Shakem up and letgo, J. A. AUSTIN & CO. BLUE STONE AX ORR & SLOAN'S, BK?l?rSE BILL ARP'S LETTER. I Bill is Glad to See Mrs. Grant Welcomed by the South. Atlanta Constitution. We arc pleased to read about the cordial, friendly greeting that our peo? ple are giving to Mrs. General Grant. I sympathize with her specially be? cause she came into this sin-struck world the same year and month that I I did and was born and raised in Dixie j and inherited about the same number of slaves that my wife did and lived off their hire up to the day of Lin? coln's proclamation of freedom in 1863, and then lost them and got no pay for them, just as my wife lost hers. But there is one little difference. Mrs. Grant is drawing a pension of $5,000 a year and my poor wife isn't drawing anything. Mrs. Grant is a Southern woman and her sympathies were with our people until the fortunes of war drifted her lord and master the other way. A professional soldier will gen? erally fight for the best pay and t.he highest promotion when other influ? ences arc equally balanced; for in? stance, when he lives along the divid? ing line and has interests on both sides of it. I am glad our people hon? ored Mrs. Grant, for her husband was at the last kind to the South and dared to shield us from the tyranny of our conquerors. He had no revenges, no malice, but acted the soldier pure and simple. From the day that Lincoln called him from his brother's tanyard at Galena he never showed brutality or hatred to our people. In fact he was naturally a kind-hearted man and his comrades loved him. Our own General Longstreet was his intimate friend in the old army and helped him to win his wife and has always defend? ed him. The Northern republicans never admired him, for he was a dem? ocrat and a slave-owner, and after the war was over he would not let them confiscate our property and grind us into the dust. Up to this day they have not been able or willing to raise the money to build a monument to his memory. It is curious that Grant and Lincoln, the two greatest factors in the war, were men with Southern sym? pathies and had Southern wives, and who repeatedly declared that so far as they were concerned the negro was not in it. Lincoln said that if he could save the union without freeing a slave he would do it. Nobody believes this except those who know it. The ne? groes do not believe it. England does not believe it, but contributed freely to Lincoln's monument that represents him striking the shackles from the slaves. It is astonishing how long it takes to get the truth of history, but sooner or later it comes out. We are not lamenting the results of the war, especially not lamenting the freedom of the slaves, but we have all these years suffered from slander and false accusation and we rejoice that the truth is gradually taking hold of the Northern-mind. Slander runs a race and truth moves slow, but it catches up. This reminds me that an educat? ed Englishman told my son that for all these years he thought our civil war was between North America and South America. A brighter day is. dawning. When we see New England mills breaking up and coming South it is a sign .aat their people no longer believe us to be barbarians, but are willing to cast their fortunes in the South. Without cring? ing to their superior < wealth we give cordial welcome to all who dare to come. I met a Cape Cod ankee here who is as friendly as a brother and is delighted with the South and her peo? ple and regrets that he has invested money in the Northwest. He has purchased property here and is build? ing a winter home on the bay and the fun of it is the first thing he did was to build a cellar. "What is that for?" said I. "Well, we always .have a cel? lar up North," said he. "We couldn't keep house without a cellar." He has stored apples and potatoes and turnips so long in a cellar that he thinks he must have one. Said he would have brought one down if he could have moved it. This little hamlet is somewhat hid? den from the outer world and is off the great thoroughfare, but when found the visitor is content. We are all calm and serene and are more amused than concerned about politics. If the laws of trade take all our gold to England let it.go. Then we can run silver I reckon. I wouldn't issue any more bonds payable in gold. It is another miserable makeshift. The extravagance of the national govern? ment has brought about this disgrace? ful condition of affairs and maybe a general burst up will help us. Our government is just like a man who is every year spending more than his in? come and keeps on borrowing from Peter to pay Pa ul and giving another mortgage to make up the deficit. Leg? islation won't pay debts nor raise prices. Then let tho old ship run on to the breakers if she wants to. As Cobe says: "It's all optibnary with me." Let us swap politicians fur Now England mills, as your paper said last week. Politicians are frauds. .Tom Reed tells us that personally he is for one thing and politically he is for an? other. That is politics. He would sec the country damned if it would damn the democratic party. Have we no statesmen who will rise above these petty animosities? Do all the republicans want a protective tariff and a gold standard? Are these strictly party questions or are they great national questions? But why discuss the modern politician, the sel?s'i creature-who will promise every? thing for votes? Already have they established paternalism as a fixture upon government and millions are spent to catch the popular car and satisfy the popular greed. How can this government much longer stand the plunder of her treasury? But I must stop ruminating upon these things. They disturb my tran quility. I will take a walk in the garden and let my choler down. I will sail over to the island and help the little girl pick up shells. I will sing? ":Hail Columbia, happy land, If we ain't ruined I'll be hanged." Birx Arp. He Doesn't Play Pokpr, Boerxe, Tex., Feb. 1-1.?There is a young man named Victor 'Boy living six miles east of this place who is destined to become famous as a mind reader. In fact, his reputation al? ready extends over the big State of Texas. He is a native of Ohio, born in 1872, but was brought to Texas by his parents when an infant, and has since lived with them on a farm. He is more than fairly well educated, but has never attended school. His edu? cation has been gained from his mother and by diligence in study. Young Roy says that as soon as he looks into one's face for a minute or more the person's whole character and antecedents loom up plain to his mind. One of the most striking instances of his power was shown several years ago in this way:- A member of a large mercantile firm in Galveston, employ? ing 100 or more clerks, was enjoying a hunt near Boerne, and hearing of the boy's phenomenal gifts, went to see him. Without introducing him? self to Roy he asked him to tell him what kind of a man he was, his busi? ness, etc. Roy did so, even telling him the duties he performed in hia store, wherever that was, as he didn't know the merchant was from Galves? ton. For a long time this same firm knew that they were being systemati? cally robbed by one or more of their clerks, but they could not detect the guilty parties. They finally concluded to send for Roy, and, a perfect strang? er, he arrived at the store, walked through it, made one or two minor purchases of those he suspected and walked out. Returning to the firm's office he told them that the thefts were being committed by a young lady and a youDg man, and pointed them out. The firm was aghast with aston? ishment, and a member exclaimed: "Why, young man, you don't know what you are talking about. That young lady is the soul of honor; she is the niece of one of our trusted clerks. And the young man! Why, he is the embodiment of rectitude. He was brought up in this store; we would risk all we have with him. No, indeed; you may be a first-class mind reader sometimes, but this time you are mistaken." "Well," said Roy, "I was never more correct in ray life, and as these clerks are such favorites with you, you wouldn't mind giving them a month's vacation and at the end of that time you can see whether any? thing is stolen, and investigate and see that I have not wrongfully accus? ed them." The firm was tired of the stealing, and a"while after that they concluded to give both the young woman and man a month's vacation. They also commenced to investigate. They missed no money or goods that month, and during the time found that the young lady, who was - working for a small salary, was supporting her mother and two sisters, all living in fine^style, and she had a bank account of $1,800. The young man was found to be a high roller, and one of the most reckless card players. Roy received a fine gold watch for his discovery. The firm furnishes him in season all the fashionable clothes he wishes, and every spring he goes down to Galveston and takes a mental inventory of the clerks in that house. As a handwriting expert he has never made a mistake, and has proved it in a number of important cases. He has been frequently sent for to testify as expert in such cases at San Antouia, Dallas, Galveston, and other places where there was a great deal involved in written documents. He has been tested time and again in games of poker, and never loses. Many noted gamblers have called on him, and invariably put him to the test in games of poker. lie eyes each player closely as they pick up their cards, and often before the betting begins he will call out to the man who has a flush, straight, threes or a full, and tell him to take the chips, as he has the best hand, and he never makes I a mistake in doing so. A wealthy gambler from Denver offered him $5, 000 a year and expenses to travel over the country and play for him. But Roy refused, saying that for him to play poker would be nothing less than robbery of his victims. ? A Des Moincs 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 bed. The next morn? ing she found that her cold had almost entirely disappeared. During the day she touk a few doses of the remedy (one tcaspounfnl at a time) and at night again took a tablespoonful he 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 irood re? sults, and is much elated over her discovery of so quick a way of curing a cold. For sale by Hill Bros. To Dive for Fortune* Saoinaw, Mich., Feb. 5.?A com? pany has been incorporated to seek the lost treasure of the ship Pewabic, that was sunk in Lake Huron some 30 years ago, and in attempting to recover which three lives have already been sacrificed. The stout oaken hull lies 20 fathoms deep opposite the entrance to Thunder bay. In it arc supposed to be 500 tons of pure copper and coined gold to the amount of $300,000 or $500,000. The company has been formed by Minneapolis, Detroit, Duluth and Chicago capitalists. The work will be done under patents for subaqueous travel owned by a resident of Harris burg, Pa. He believes he can go to the great depth and come up alive. The wreck was located in 1892 and the spot was marked by a buoy. The Pewabic was sunk by the Me? teor. She was bound down the lakes from Copper island, which was then the richest deposit of the pure metal in the world. The collision occurred while the vessels were passing pack? ages of newspapers and letters from one to the other. The Meteor sheered into the side of the Pewabic, and in 4 minutes the. latter was sunk. With her went over 60 of her passengers, most of whom were in their berths at the time. After 25 years an attempt was made to locate the vessel and get her cargo. Appliances for deep sea diving were j crude then, and two men lost their j lives. After this nothing was doue ui\til 1892, when the small steamer, Emer? ald, was fitted out with all the latest appliances for diving, and the diver, Oliver Pelky, who had made some re? putation for deep water work, was en? gaged to go down. The Emerald used its drags for two weeks before the wreck was located. Pelkey went down Nov. 3, 1892. He reached the wreck successfully, and when he came to the surface he was enthusiastic over his new suit. He was sure he could get the treasure. He had been below 20 minutes and ( had walked entirely around the sunk? en vessel. He had experienced no difficulty on account of the great pres I sure. The confident diver disappeared the second time and over the side of the Emerald, and for a time his signals were numerous, and it was apparent from the movements of the lines and the airbubbles that he walked about the vessel and soon climbed up into it. Suddenly the signals of those on j the Emerald ceased to be answered. This gave no alarm for some minutes, but finally the men pulled the life line. It was evidently caught and could not be moved. It was thought that Pelkey must be dead, and the steamer was started back, giving the line a jerk. Soon the diver appeared. It was found that his suit had been torn open, letting in the water. The Emerald's crew were convinced that Pelkey had really discovered the treasure ship, but that when he climb? ed into it'his lines got caught. They were also convinced that the pull of the steamer had torn open the steel armor and killed him. A piece of copper was found clinging to one of I the lead shoes of the suit. Late last summer ' another expedi? tion was fitted out, and a diver of long experience, M. F. -Chalk, was offered large pay to make the attempt. Chalk, who is a widower, and has only one child, a daughter, lefused all offers, saying he did not want to be the fourth to die in attempting to recover the treasure on board the Pewabic. Then came the Harrisburg diver., and his offer was accepted. He will use, besides a special armor, a system of air bags for lifting the vessel and cargo. - ? ? m - An Insane Mother. Pittsburo, Pa., Feb. 11.?Mrs. Amelia Seibert, carrying her son, William Albert, nine months old, and dragging along her daughter, Marie Elizabeth, five years old, plunged to death in the Ohio river near her home at Coiapolis, about noon today. The woman was the wife of William Seibert, a contractor and coal dealer of Corop lis. She was thirty-four years old and had but the two children she took with her to her watery grave. Mrs. Seibert is supposed to have been in? sane. She was a mild-mannered, motherly woman of nervous tempera? ment. She was devoted to her hus? band and children. Last Friday the home of Mrs. Sei bcrt's brother-in-law was destroyed by fire. She brooded over this and today had her brother-in-law and his family come to her house to live. Shortly before noon today, Mrs. Seibert aban? doned her work and started toward the river with her children before any of the inmates knew what was up. James Noss was on the opposite side of the river bank and saw the woman hurry along the stream to the open place, where she plunged in. lie saw the little girl pull away from the water and endeavor to escape, but in vain. A search for the bodies was instituted and the mother was found with her baby in her arms, while with her left hand she held the little girl. Suicide while insane, was the?verdict of the coroner's jury. ? O. W. O. Hardman, Sheriff of Tyler Co., W. Ya., 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 Couch Remedy. He says : "It gave me prompt relief. I find it to be an invaluable remedy for coughs and colds." For sale by Hill Bros, Egypt la the Time of Hose s. We are only beginning to understand the height of civilization to which Egypt and other anoient countries around the Mediterranean had attain? ed even before the time of Moses, says Sir John "William Dawson, in the Ex? positor. Maspero and Tomkins have illustrated the extent and accuracy of the geographical knowledge of the Egyptians of this period. The latter closes a paper on this subject with the following words: "The Egyptians, dwelling in their green, warm river-course, and on the watered level of their Fayoum and Delta, were yet a very enterprising people, full of curiosity, literary, scientific in method, admirable deline? ators of nature, skilled surveyors, makers of maps, trained and methodi? cal administrators of domestic and foreign affairs, kept alert by the move? ments of their great river, and by the necessities of commerce, which forced them to the Syrian forests for their building timber, and to Kush and Pun for their precious furniture woods and ivory, to say nothing of incense, aro matics, cosmetics, asphalt, exotic plants, and pet and strange animals, with a hundred other needful things." The heads copied by Petrio, from Egyptian tombs, show that the physi? cal features of all the people inhabit | ing the surrounding countries, as well I as their manners, industries, and arts, ! were well known to the Egyptians. [ The papers of Lockyer have shown that long before the Mosaic age the dwellers by the Euphrates and the Nile had mapped out the heavens, as? certained the movements of the moon and planets, establishing the zodiacal signs, discriminated the poles of the ecliptic and the equator, ascertained the law of eclipses and the procession of the equinoxes, and, in fact, had worked out all the astronomical data which can be learned by observation, and had applied them to practical uses. Lockyer would even ask us to trace this knowledge as far back as 6,000 years B.C., or into the post? glacial or antediluvian period; but, however this may be, astronomy was a very old science in the time of Mos? es, and it is quite unnecessary to post? ulate a late date for the references to the heavens in Genesis or Job. In geodesy and allied arts, also, the Egyptians had long before this time attained to a perfection never since excelled, so that our best instruments can detect no errors in very old meas? urements and levelings. The arts of architecture, metallurgy, and weaving had attained to the highest develop? ment; civilization and irrigation, with their consequent agriculture and cat? tle breeding, were old and well under? stood arts; and how much of science and practical sagacity is needed for regulating the distribution of Nile water, any one may learn who will re? fer to the reports of Sir Colin Scott Moncrieff and his assistants Scul p ture and painting in the age of Moses had attained their acme, and were falling into conventional styles. Law and the acts of government had be? come fixed and settled. Theology and 'morals, and the doctrine of rewards and punishments had been elaborated into complex systems. Ample mater? ial existed for history, not only in monuments and temple inscriptions, but in detailed writings on papyrus. Egypt has leu a wealth of records of this kind, unsurpassed by any nation, and very much of these belongs to the time before Moses; while, as Birch has truly said, the Egyptian historical texts are, "in most instances, con? temporaneous with the events they record, and written and executed un? der public control." There was also abundance of poeti? cal and imaginative literature, and treaties on medicine and other useful arts. At the court of Pharaoh, corre? spondence was carried on with all parts of the civilized world, in many languages, and in various forms of writing, including that of Egypt itself, that of Chaldea, and probably also the alphabetical writing afterward used by the Hebrews, Phenicians, and Greeks, but which seems to have originated at a very early period among the Mine ans, or Punites, of South Arabia. Educations were carried on in institu? tions of various grades, from ordinary schools to universities. In the latter, we are told, were professors or "mys? tery teachers" of astronomy, geo? graphy, mining, theology, history, and languages, as well as many of the higher technical arts.?Scientific Am? erican. ? A few days ago a teacher in one of our public schools was exercising her class on definition of words and the writing of sentences. "Deceit? ful," said she, "means false," and she told one of the scholars, a tow headed boy, to write on his slate a sentence with "deceitful" in it. He scratched his cranium, looked at the ceiling and then ran his pencil over his slate. "Bead what you have written," said the teacher. "My ma has deceitful teeth." ? Jesse J. Drew was digging uuder his saw mill near Hollandale, Miss., the other day. when he unearthed ?6*0,000 in gold coins. It is supposed to have been buried there during the civil war. $100 Reward, $100. The reider of this paper will be plowed to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to euro in all its starts, S?d that Is Catarrh. Hill's Catarrh Cure Ls the only positive cure known to the modicsl fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby dtntroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by bulldine up the constitution and assisting nature in dolug its wotk. The pro? prietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any ca?e that It falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. C1IKNEV A. CO., Toledo, O. ?-Sold by Druggists. Wo. ELI HAWKINS WANTED FUN Extravagance of a Wyoming Cattleman Who Became Rich Suddenly. Pomona, Cal., February 10.?The death of Mrs. Jennie Hawkins in pov? erty in a little ramshackle house on the outskirts of Pasadona the other day recalls her experience and her husband's in the San Gabriel Valley twelve years ago. Eli Hawkins was a cattle rancher in Wyoming in the sev? enties, and sold out to a syndicate for several thousand dollars. He imme? diately removed down into southern California?the land of sunshine and tomale?with his wife. He bought a 200-acre tract of land, and began con? verting it into a suburban home, park, and orchards on a scale that took the breath of the easy-going settlers there. Money went through his hands like water, and the stories of his wild ex? travagance and his queer notions will not cease to be told in Los Angeles aud Pomona in this generation. Haw? kins spent money so recklessly that stories of his wealth were exaggerated. He was said by many to be worth ten millions of dollars, and to have great deposits in banks in every city from Helena, Mont., to Los Angeles while others told exaggerated stories of his income from his Montana herds. Hawkins was slovenly, resembled a tramp, and looked as if he never had $5 in his life. It was his delight to pas3 himself as a vagaband and try his credit among business men, and finish up by showing them one of his bank books. There were no improvements on the tract he bought, and he began opera? tions by fencing it. Every idle man in the neighborhood was hired and the transformation began. Farmers who had teams were employed, and the j procession of loaded wagons from the station to Hawkins' land was a sight to behold. In a few days he had a hundred men at work, all of whom were better dressed than their employ? er. The large force soon completed the fencing, which was the most sub? stantial of any in the valley. Then he set them at work on his garden and grounds. He employed a high-priced landscape gardener, erected a large conservatory, and filled it with beau? tiful plants. The grounds were tastefully laid out with winding drives and walks, arbors, fountains and little grottoes. To look at the man and then note his taste in" the ar? rangement of his home one could not help marveling. He bought an invoice of statuary at Los Angeles and distributed the fig? ures around his park. One day he came home intoxicated and, as it had been raining, he concluded that the nude figures needed some kind of cov? ering. He procured some paint and put black india rubber coats on the Cupids. Next he fixed Apollo with a flaming red shirt and green stockings. Mercury was enveloped in blue tights and a bright red nose. Yenus was rig? ged out with black stockings and a yellow gown. He built a cozy cottage in his park, and during his many escapades made things interesting for his neighbors. One night he and his wife took an axe each, chopped their furniture to pieces, threw it out of the window and burned it. The next day they went to buy a new supply. They looked as if they had escaped from-a house of correction. They went to the princi? pal furniture house. The cheapest sets were shown them, and even then the clerk was wasting his time. But nothing was good enough for Hawkins The clerk gave up in disgust and left the seedy looking pair to themselves. The manager then came in and asked them to go to the top floor, where he would show them something better. He showed them sets worth all the way up to $250, when Hawkins asked him if that was the best. A $1,500 set was exhibited. "I'll take that; that's my style. Send it out to mp ranch," he said. When the manager announced to the crowd of clerks that he had sold a $1,500 set of furniture there was a burst of laughter, in which Hawkins joined Then Hawkins proceeded to take the clerks down a peg by inviting some one to accompany him to the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank. On reaching the bank, the clork was as? tonished to sec the president come around and grasp Hawkins by the hand. Hawkins asked him if his check was good for $1,500. "Yes," said Hellman, "good for $200,000." By this time the clerk was out in the fresh air trying to get his breath. Hawkins had a mania when on the road for trying to run over people, and [ succeeded injuring several persons. One man, who had his leg broken by Hawkins' horse, recovered $6,000 damages. Hawkins and wife were both gook shots, and used the statuary as tar? gets. Before the works of art had been set up three months many noses and arms were missing, and the col? lection looked as if it .had been out with McGinty. One day the old man went to his new brick reservoir to take a swim. His wife warned him that she would shoot him if he went into the water. He plunged in, when bang went Mrs. Hawkin's Winches? ter. He hid behind the tankhouse, and every time he showed his head a bullet whizzed past. His playful wife kept him shivering there the entire afternoon. Money was no object with Hawkins. Fun, he said, was what he lived for. He died in an attack of de? lirium tremens. Mrs. Hawkins lived upon th? chari? ty of her relatives for the last years of her life. Her home was seized for the benefit of a swarm of creditors in | a few weeks after her husband's death. Japanese Oddities. Japan, which already has its einan cipatod women, its politicians, its demagogues, and even its anarchists, has, says a writer in the Revue ties Revues, nevertheless kept intact a host of oddities which, in a certain respect are stranger still than those of the Celestial Empire. The following arc some of them: While we write from the left to the right, the Japanese write from right to left. In writing, we form horizon tal lines, the Japanese make perpen? dicular ones. A Japanese book begins where ours ends, and, consequently, when we read a book we turn the leaves from right to left; but the Japanese arc forced to turn them from left to right. We make our referen? ces at the bottom of the page ; the Japanese place them at the top. The Japanese women are odder than their books. Europcau women show their necks and arms, while a Japanese woman carefully covers the upper part of her body and shows only her feet. A Japanese female is richly clothed up to the age of sixteen or seventeen, but a French female does not begin to dress in style until after reaching this age. A Japanese belle is a small, very slender woman lost in a large piece of fabric, which permits of a glimpse of nothing but a pair of wild eyes in deep orbits and a vague, indescribable smile. A fair complexion is repug? nant to her, and plumpness frightens her. A Japanese Venus would pro? voke a smile from an Aryan, while a European Venus would doubtless be considered in Japan as a type of a vulgar woman. Among us it is the chaste women who usually shine by their intelli? gence but in Japan intelligence appears to be the appanage of wo? men who lead a more or less frivol? ous life. We wear black as a sign of mourn? ing, while the Japanese wear white clothing under the same circumstan? ces. At our receptions, women always play the first role ; they are served first and the best places are assigned to them. In Japan, things are entire? ly otherwise. The women remain standing while the men are eating. This ceremonial does not apply at soirees, for the simple reason that in this case women are conspicuous by their absence. Woman is the inevit? able ornament at our fetes, but in Ja? pan she is treated as an obstacle that works injury to the splendor of the occasion. So woman is dispensed with, to the great satisfaction of all present. We eat around tables of some size, but the Japanese are served at small tables placed near the wall, and which afford hospitality to but one person. Our servants hand the dishes to us from behind; in Japan they are pre? sented from the front.' We always put the prenomen before the family nanie, while the Japanese do just the contrary. We carry children in the arms ; the Japanese women carry them on the back. In meeting a person, we turn to the right; but the Japanese turn to the left. With us, women of different social classes are somewhat distinguished by their toilet; but in Japan every wo? man, beginning with the wife of the Mikado and ending with the simple workwoman, wears the same style of dress, which differs only in the quali? ty of the material. A European woman may paint her lips, use beauty spots, pencil her eye? brows, powder her face, or employ rouge ; but if she does she will care? fully try to conceal the fact. A Ja? panese woman does all this, and per? haps a little more, but she shows her? self very proud of it and endeavors to make it appear that her beauty is the product of her art! And yet such art is not her own. With us, it is usually the duty of the maid to embellish her mistress ; but in Japan this task is relegated to the hair dresser, and while the massa gists of women must always be blind, the hair dresser must have his eyes wide open in order to worthily re? spond to his title of "painter of the living," to use the Japanese expres? sion. And there is another difference, too, and one that does honor to the pretty Japanese women. Women in all European countries exhibit special predilection for some foreign language. French women speak English, and English women speak French, Rus? sian, etc. A. Japanese woman speaks nothing but Japanese. It is to her, moreover, that the Japanese lan? guage owes all the progress that it has made in the last century. She was of old forbidden to study the Chinese language, which was considered as the exclusive monopoly of men. The Ja? panese women took hold of their na? tive tongue, and are at present at the head of the literary work of their country. Madam Murasaki is not the only one who has contributed to the development of this .flexible tongue and exotic literature, for, in additic.i to her, there are at least thirty writers and philosophers in petticoats who are laboring for the greatest glory of the Japanese renaissance. There is still another trait of char? acter that distinguishes the Japanese from us Western people. We speak like true debauchees, while the Ja? panese abstain from immoral language and prefer to it more or less immoral acts. The Japanese women, while com? peting with men, from a political and literary standpoint, have abandoned to them the monopoly of vice. So adul? tery on woman's side is almost un? known in Japan. What Europcau country could say as much V ill Sorts of ParagrapbSt ~?Cotton hasrnot boon so'cheap iifl Liverpool as it is now for 4G years. ? Babies are described as couponjffl attached to the bonds of matrimony^ ? If the children would stop gro*| ing so fast, the rest of us wouldn'tfeej so old. ? February is the month in which; the greatest number of births occurs June the fewest. ? She: "Indeed, sir, I havenT^j reached the matrimonial bargain coun? ter yet!" lie: "You would he a; bargain, my dear, on any counter." ? Harry?"I alway.3 wear a hat to< suit my head; hang the style." Dick* ?"Yes, I notice that a soft hat isJ your favorite." ? Edison's great-grandfather die at 102, his grandfather at 103, one of his aunts at 108, while his father alive at 90. ? Robbing graves is. the only Chi? nese law for which the thief may vast? ly be killed on the spot by anyone find? ing him out. ? A promise should be .given with, caution and kept with care. It should be made with the heart and remem? bered by the head. ? One of the saddest and most vex- | atious trials that comes to a girl when M she marries is, that she has to dis? charge her mother and depend on a ? hired girl. ? He wouldn't marry her because she had false teeth. But when wife kept him awake nights with the toothache and neuralgia, he wished, he had. ? According to rumor, Mrs. Ed? mund Yates carries about with her the ashes of her husband in a casket fitted into a little traveling-bag of speoial uesign. ? Samuel Edison, of Fort Gratiot, Mich., the venerable father of Thomas A. Edison, is now in his ninety-first. year, and is in full possession of all his faculties. ? Beauregard "Wilson, who lives [ near Yazoo City, Miss.? raised 300 bales of cotton last year, and though he has sold all of it at five cents a pound he has cleared $5,950 from it. ? A talking match between two so? ciety women was a feature at a recent church social in Brazil, Ind. No. stenographer could begin to keep up | with the winner, a little alto-voiced woman. ? Owing to the warmth of the cli?^ mate people live much in the open airr; in Australia, and on the frontier therej are said to be full-grown persons, both.4 men and women, who have never slept under a roof in their lives. Rudy's Pile Suppository, is guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, or money refunded. ?Ocents Send stamp for circular and FfS^ pie to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, drug? gists. ? Bees are being trained as letter^ carriers by an English farmer. A_ is taken away from home, a printed by mic::ophotography is gum-| med to his little back and he is1 thrown into the air. Home he goes, like a carrier-pigeon, and hfs> advantage he would enjoy over his big brother, is that he could not be seen in time of war, or, if seen, could. j not very well be shot. ? 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. ? While the United States has been wrapped in snow and blizzards and a below-zero temperature, Aus- ] tralia has been suffering from some of the hottest weather ever known thereT"^ The mercury has gone as high as 120 degrees in the shade. Being south of ? the equator, it is summer in Australia when it is winter here. But it never j? gets cold in Australia, except on the mountain tops. ? "Dear me," said Mr. Meekins, "it seems so absurd for men to be constantly talking about their wives having the last word. I never object to my wife having the last word." "You don't?" "Not a bit. I always feel thankful when she gets to it." ? "What does your husband do ?" asked the census man. "He ain't doin' nothiu' at this time of the year," replied the young wife. "Is .. he a pauper?" asked the census man. (She blushed scarlet to the cars.) "Law, no !" she exclaimed somewhat - indignantly, "we ain't been married more'n six weeks." ? Mary M. Seeley and Jason Hod? ges, of Provinceton, C.tpe Cod, were engaged to be married for forty-three years. The engagement was broken recently because Jason pulled a cork? screw out of his pocket along with his handkerchief. Miss Seeley says she is glad the discovery was made be? cause she has had her suspicions for thirty-five years. ? 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 Ijad an attack, which settled in one of his knees and caused almost unbearable pain, for two days. He obtained a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm* from W. M. Houston &Co., 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 Brost