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1 B?OLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1895. VOLUME XXIX.?NO. 37 OPENED UP! -? The Largest line of ? COLORED SHIRTS Ever brought to Anderson! 1ST You need one. Call and see them. B. O. EVANS & CO., Clothiers and Furiainhers WATER MELONS! WATER MELONS! We offer our usual premium of? $5.00 FIVE DOLLARS $5.00 For the Largest Water Melon raised from our Seed. It don't cout yoa anything to try for it. - Big Lot of Fresh Seeds of all lands NOW IN STOCK. ORR & SLOAN'S, ""SSSiSSr? PLOWS! PLOWS! ; 2S,000 Pcmnds Rome, Georgia, Steel Rows. Highest grade Steel?latest improved Bhapes. Ii Tremendous Stock of Oliver Chilled Hows, Plow Stocks, Plow Handles, - Heel Bolts, - Clevises, Hames, Traces, &c, EVERYTHING needed by the Farmer at this season of the year, ?HH 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. ITURE1 FURNITURE!! LAR?E8T STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODSI COFFINS and CASKETS furnished Day or Night. WE have on hand the LARGEST and BEST-SE XECTED Stock of FURNITURE in South Carobna 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 JPurnlture 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. J. P. SULLIVAN It CO., -Will sell you the Best Coffee, The Cheapest Flour, Cro 3kery3 Decorated and Plain, jDInner and Tea Sets, AU for less Money than you have been paying. J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. SHAKEM UP AND LET60 GROCERY! WE beg to announce to our many patrons in Anderson and throughout the County that we have moved our place of business to the elegant and commodious salesroom? IN HOTEL CHIftXJOLA BLOCK. NO. 5, Formerly occupied by P. 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 evcn.lwtter tor you in the future. fjo compromise nor winking at adulterated goods. Strictly pure food at popular prices. Come and see us. We are ready to make thiugs lively. Shakom up and -letgo, J. A. AUSTIN & CO. DUKE Cigarettes m HrSwARETTK W.DukeSons&.Ca.'' THCANERICAN TOBACCO CD ?uecsvaon DURHAM. N.C. U. 3. A. MADE FROM am) ABSOLUTELY PURE oor Health f means so much more than \ I'you imagine?serious and " fatal diseases result from trifling ailments neglected. Don't play with Nature's greatest gift?health. Ilf you are fee:ins; out of sorts, weak and generally ex? hausted, nervous,,. have no appetite $ and can't work', > begin at oncctak- *j "a:4 lng the most rclia ble strengthening medicine, wh i ch is ? Brown's Iron Bit- \ ten. A few bot- J ties care?benefit * comes from the very first dose?it won't ttain your Ueth, and it's pleasant to take. It Cures Dyspepsia, Kidney and Liver Neuralgia, Troubles, Constipation, Bad Blood Malaria, Nervous ailment? k Women's complaints. | Get only the genuine?It has crossed red lines on the wrapper. All others are sub-: two 2c. stamps we ae wrapper, receipt of 1 will send set of Ton Beautiful World's stitutes. On recei Fair "Views and book?free. IWN CHEMICAL CO. BALTIMORE, n'.D. DENTISTRY. THE copartnership heretofore existing between Dr. Anderson and myself is now dissolved, therefore I wish to inform the people that from and after this date will continue the practice of Dentistry alone. Thanking the people for past pa? tronage, and soliciting a continuance of 1 the same, I am most respectfully, A. C. STRICKLAND, Dentist. P. S.?Office in Masonic Temple. HORSES and MULES. THE undersigned will keep on hand throughout the season at McGruder's Stables, on Depot Street, a fine lot of Ten? nessee Horses and Mules, which he will sell for cash or on time with good security. All stock guaranteed as represented. Call and see my stock before buying elsewhere. J. P. DONOHOO <fc CO, Nov 23,1894 22 4m M. L. Bon ham H. H. Watkibs. BONHAflfl & WATKINS, Attorneys at Law. ANDERSON, - - - S. C. WILL practice in the State and United States Court. Of "ice?Opposite Post Offico. An* 15,1894 7 3m HATING PURCHASED THE Plaut of 'he Atlantic Pbospbate Company, together with tbe entire stock, brands and eood-will, we take this method of thanking tbe friends and patrons of the Chicora Fertilizer Company for their cor? dial support and patronage in the past, and now solicit the patronage of the Atlantic Phosphate Company, bb well as the Chico? ra brands, guaranteeing that, under the management of the Chicora. the reputa tion earned by the Atlantic brands will be folly sustained. CHICORA FERTILIZER COMPANY, CHARLESTON, S 0. QEO. A. WAGENER, Gen. Manager. Dec 12,1894 24 3m* THE ST E?fTcUTH CAPUINA, County of Anderson. IN THE COURT OF PROBATE. Jeptha Harper, John W. Harper and Jep-ha A. Wellborn, as Executors of last Will and Testa? ment of John Harper, deceased, Petitioners, against W. T. Harper, Mrs. Mary Ann Harper, Thomas Harper, Mrs Zilpba Wellborn, John W. Harper, Mrs. Sallle A. Hopkins, Mrs. Marga? ret S. Phillips, James G. Harper, Mrs. Ida Hop? kins, Ruby Violet Harper, Thomas Jesse Har Ser, Jeptha A. Wellborn, Mrs M. L. McPball, Ira Mary E. Duckworth, Mrs. Nancy J Holliday, Mrs Martha Knight, Mrs E C. Knight, Mis. Mary Knight, R. 0. Harper, John Harper, Thomas Harper, Jane Pinion, Mrs. Maitha Flynt, Mr8. Surah Dulacy, Mrs. K. C. Co:]lns, Mrs. Charity Duckworth, Mrs. Lizzie Flynt, Mrs. Elizabeth Dcnoai. John Piniol, George Pinion and Mrs. Margaret Boyd, Defendants.? Summons for Relief?Petition Served. To the Defendants above named : YO? are hereby summoned and requlied to an? swer the Petition in this action, which Ib filed in the offico of the Judge of Probate at Anderson Court House, South Carolina, and to Bcrvo a copy of your answer to the said Petition on the subscribers at their office, Anderson Court House, South arolina within twenty days after the service hereof exclusive of the day of such service: and if you fail to answer the Petition within tho time aforesaid, the petitioners in this action will apply to tho Court for the relief demanded in the Petition. Dated Anderson, S. C. February 27th. A. D. 1835. BONHAM & WATKINS, ? Attorneys Pro Pet. [seax ] B. M. Bpbriss, Judge of Probate. To the absent DerendanU W. T. Harper, Martha Kuigbt, E. C. Knight. Mary Knight, R 0. Har Ser, John Harper, Thomas Harper. Margaret oyd, Jane Pinion, Martha Flynt, Sarah Dulacy: S. C. Collins, Charity Duckworth, Lizzie F.ynt, Elizabeth Denoin, John Pinion, Geor<e Pinion, Ruby Violet Harper and Thomas Jesse Harper , TAKE NOTICE, That the Petition in the above stated case was filed in the office of the Judge of Probate for said County of Anderson, S.C., on February 27,1S9.1, aud that tbe object of said Peti? tion is to prove in solemn form the last Will and Testament of John Harper, deceased, late of said State and County. BONHAM & WATKINS, Attorneys Pro. Pet. Anderson, s C., Feb 27,1S95. To Ruby Violet Harper and Thomas Jesse Har? per, infant Defendants: You are hereby noti?td und required to apply for and have appointed for yourselves Guardians adlitem to represent y< u in this action ? and if yon do not make such application wiihin twenty days, after the service horeof upon you, tho Peti? tioners will make such application for you. BONHAM & WATKINS, Attorneys Pro Pet. Anderson, 8. C, Feb. 27,18V5. 3i-? SARGE PLUNKETT. An Open Leiter From a Georgia Woman. Atlanta Constitution. I learn of the most reliable source that the following letter is from a lady whose excellencies entitle her to more than a passing notice : " Puryears District, Feb. 7, 1895.? Mr. Sargo Plunkett: When I think about how much you and Brown know, I am constrained to ask you two ques? tions. Maybe you can answer them, and if you can't, .ask Brown about it. Only don't keep this letter as long as the foremost young democrat kept the epistle from David B. Hill?and then spring it on the country as a ' prophe? cy.' "First, I want to ask you why the citizens of Georgia don't build their own cotton mills, using as a corner stone the money they are offering as 'inducements' to eastern mill owners? I have seen many strange things in my chequered career, hut this sending of 'delegations,' offerings of tracts of land, and giving of premium chromos just in order to get outside mill owners down is the very strangest phenome? non I ever witnessed. The eastern mill owners are having a picnic. I shouldn't wonder if competition didn't become so lively in the south that the Georgia cities striving after this tid? bit will charter a whole railway sys? tem, bring the whole 'kit and bilin'' of them at one fell swoop, drape the favored section with red, white and blue, and get up a Fourth of July de? monstration! Georgia citizens can raise money for this, but they cannot raise money to build Georgia cotton mills! Georgia citizens can offer free tracts of land to strangers on which to locate cotton mills, but you watch a Georgia citizen offer free tracts of land to his neighbors for the same purpose! Before that happens you and Brown will be gray-haired angels, and it takes angels a long time to grow gray. Geor? gia is rich enough to build her own cotton mills, and she ought to do it; don't you think so, Mr. Plunkett? "My second question is this: "When the eastern mills come south what do you think is going to become of the vast army of mill operatives they leave behind? Do you think they are going to stay up there and starve? The sup? ply of mill hands in the east is already far ahead of the demand. It stands to reason then that the departure of the mills will throw a great body of laborers out of a job. And they are going to come after the mills. If southern citizens don't furnish them all free passes, and they haven't the car fare, then they will walk. You will see another great 'army of the un? employed' in line of march. But they are not going to Washington to worry congress. They are coming south to, oust the Georgia cracker. The east? ern mill owners will give them the pre? ference and the southern mill owners will do likewise, because it is the fashion in the south to patronize northern things. Now, Mr. Plunkett, I want you to tell me what will be-" come of that patient, long-suffering class of people?the Georgia crackers? If you don't know, ask Brown. Your reply will greatly oblige. "A Factoky Woman.". ? I take it that there is something to he read between the lines in this let? ter. Perhaps the questions are in the nature of a rebuke to southern people, . and I think it is justified by present conditions. I have been a strong advocate of southern people joining together and starting small industries of their own. If it were nothing more than a broom factory, or a chair factory?any start in this direction would he good. There is enough money spent for plowlines every year to start a small rope fac? tory. Enough spent for ax handles, swingle trees, plow stocks, not to men? tion larger things, that would soon turn our wasting water, into a source of profit. Conditions in the south stand as a menace to New England manufactories. Our climate and our water powers are things that the New England mill owners have been watch? ing, and so soon as they discover that the south is going to help herself on this line they, the New England mill owners, will come in a hurry. To capture these positions themselves is the way for the New Englander to save himself?he must "hedge. V There is no sentiment about these mill men to make them prefer the north to the south, and it is the most foolish thing to suppose that they are afraid of ku klux?we have long since decided that the average yankee is afraid of noth? ing. Their money is heavily invested in manufacturing plants, and they would much prefer for the south to lay still and let them ruu on just as they are, but whenever they find that the southern people are going to do something for themselves on these lines, there will be a rush to capture the positions. The New England mill owners are smart people, they know the situation, these flaming advertise? ments have no effect.upon them. They are watching with eagle eye to see that a co-operative movement among south? ern men does not capture these posi? tions and practically demonstrate their great advantages. Anyhow, the south is to have the mills, and this fact makes it a part of wisdom to turn our attention to the complexion of the operatives that are to come. These immigrant operatives will shape southern politics and south? ern religion. The "Georgia cracker" is a democrat. The idea of knownoth ingism has always been repugnant to the "cracker." It remains to be seen whether this will continue to he the feeling, and it much depends upon the temper of* the incomiug immigrants whether this docile "cracker" departs from this line. Naturally the "crackers" latch string hangs outside the door. He is slow to suspicion, hut once get him aroused and he will take care of him? self. Already the wage workers of southern towns are complaining that there is an understood concert of ac? tion by men of the same religious creed. If this is so, it is to be deplor? ed, and the "Georgia cracker" will overcome all his prejudices against such doctrines as knownothingism to preserve himself and his posterity. That there is, and has been now, for some time, a concert of action?a help? ing of one another?among those who have come south to work in the me? chanics is beyond question. Take your "religion and your politics into your business" has been and is being taught. Even now it is so cunning that southern proprietors do not know it, and "operatives" who complain are just passed as grumblers. But it is growing in impudence, as it grows in strength, and whenever the south awakes to the situation the "cracker" will prove as formidable as any and as worthy tho "bids" of churchmen or of statesmen as any. As "crackers" Brown and I arc opposed to the A. P. A., but when it comes to a light of the "survival of the fittest," and both sides practice secrecy and cunning, we arc with the "crackers" first, last and all the time. Prophesying is dangerous; therefore, I always allow Brown to prophesy. He thinks that the coming of the mills to the south is a foregone conclusion. He further conoludes that the olass of operatives that will come with them will be such as to make a terrible war inevitable. It will not be a war of swords, though; it will be a war of creeds, fought between wage earners for a survival of the fittest." The anarchist. The Protestant. The Catholic. Here Brown has the three elements arrayed one against the other, as they will be when the factories come. These will carry their "religion and their politics into their business," and south of Mason and Dixon's line will, be fought the greatest war of the "creeds" ever known upon this earth. Th^yprotestant will either succumb to tfrETatholic, or the Catholic to the Protestant, or, else, the anarchist will flaunt his red banner and proclaim to the world that there "is no God." So much for Brown's prophecy. Now I will touch, myself, upon almost as dangerous ground. Every man, from now on till we "bust," men and women will grow more and more alike. Then "Geor? gia cracker" will be one of the lost arts if present methods keep on. Twenty years more.of our present school system, and we are all the same. We will talk alike, walk alike, laugh alike, cry alike?by vote everything will go. We will have no Toomhs with a Ben Hill to combat him. We will have not one man above another intellectually. The accumulation of wealth will be the measure of men. Individuality will go with the "crack? er," sentiment will be lost in the vote of training?there will be no north, no south, no east, no west. Sectari? anism will he the only sentiment, the gain of wealth the only glory. Here and there a flicker?a dim, dim flicker ?will point the wreck of the sons and daughters of the south. Such a calamity may be averted. If the "crackers" awake it will he. The great trouble is that it has already come to be dangerous to discuss the situation?it is nearly impossible to get a public honest expression. The most of us have axes to grind. There would be many differences of opinion as to how to avert the calamities spoken of. Brown and I have our notion and Brown is pretty outspoken in his. He says that if the great head of Georgia's emigration bureau would stir himself to cut up the big planta? tions into small farms for the "crack? ers" that have no homes, procure some financial legislation that would enable tho land owners to secure money? land as a collateral is what he wants? then there would be a building of fac? tories by the concerted action of every settlement where the water powers are present, and then we could call in the emigrants just as we need them and in such numbers as could be leavened into the southern idea, and thus avoid troubles. Saegi Plunkett. Thoughtlessness* Farmer Simpson was an exceedingly mild natured man, and would find ex? cuses for the shortcomings of his neighbors, for the faults of his horses, and, in fact, for every unpleasant thing that came in his way. He pur? chased a cow, and had great difficulty in keeping her in the jpasture. "She's kind of a rovin' critter; but she means well," he said after a walk of several miles in pursuit of her. One morning he was milking the cow, wHn she began to kick violently, upset the stool, sent the pail flying, and all the milk was spilled. The farmer got up, and, contempla? ting the ruin, said gravely to a witness of the disaster: "Well, now, that is the worst fault this creature has." Then after a moment's meditation, feeling that perhaps he had been un neccessarily severe, he added. "That is, if you can call it a fault; maybe it's only thoughtlessness." Chickens on tho Farm. A generation ago, the chickens to be seen around the average farm house were of a mixed and haphazard breed. There are farmers still who keep such poultry ; there are also farmers who do not believe that the world is round and revolves on its axis every twenty four hours. But farmers so careless as to their poultry are almost as scarce as the latter ignorant class. You may meet a farmer whose ideas are a little mixed about the rotation of crops and the value of silage, but you have to go far indeed to find one who has not his preference as between Plymouth Rocks, Leghorns, Langshans, Cochins, and Bramas. Chickens on a farm are a kind of savings bank, and those which lay the most eggs and fetch the highest prices as broilers are very naturally more highly esteemed. Now the fancy far? mers were the first to attempt to breed better chickens in this country, and they continue to lead in the experi? ments looking towards the further betterment of domestic fowls. There is one thing that has been insisted on in vain, so far as ordinary farmers are concerned. That is the value of cleanliness?cleanliness in the chick? en house and cleanliness in the food and water given to the fowls. Un? clean houses are productive of all kinds of diseases; and unclean food and water, too. There is an oldfash ioncd notion that chickens are good scavengers, and that if allowed the freedom of the barnyard they will forage for themselves. This is true, but it is very unlikely that any cock or hen from such a range would ever take a prize in a poultry show. The way to get prize chickens is to mate the best with the best, and rear the the broods with care. As the reward, both in profit and satisfaction, is well worth the trouble, it seems strange that any country people should be content with any but the best. State op Ohio, City of Toledo, ) Lucas County. j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this Cth day of December, A. D. 18SG. seal. A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mu? cous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0. ^ES'Sold by Druggists, 75c. Wife of Eight Husbands. In the New York Sun is published the most remarkable story of "Irene House," the wife of eight husbands: Eight times married, three times divorced, twice in prison on criminal charges, twice in an insane asylum and once defendant in one of the nota? ble murder cases of the last twenty years; such is the record of Irene A. V. Redmond or, as she prefers to call herself, Irene Carson, now in the County jail at Trenton fighting against the efforts of her relatives to send her back to the asylum from which she has been twice released. Her marri? ages, her divorces, her trials and in? carcerations are but the chapter marks in the life story of a woman who pos? sessed not only wonderful beauty, in? telligence and brilliancy, but also that deeper art of moving and controlling all men on whom she set her will, and who lived within the law of her own desires alone. Four cities knew her: Trenton, where she was born and lived the greater part of her life; Philadelphia, to which she went as a mere child, though then a wife and mother, living for a few brief weeks a life that made her the very centering point of all those undercurrents in which gayety and vice are mingled; Chicago, whith? er she drifted in the prime of her womanhood, there to be seen every? where and known nowhere, the desire and despair of all the glided youth of that time; and New York, where she lived with her third husband in a Broadway office, and was called the most beautiful woman down-town. She made the fortune of one Park row restaurant, where she and her husband used always to dine, and where scores of men used to go merely to see her. In this remarkable story there is a page which has a local flavor, one of the woman's husbands being no less a person than Christopher C. Bowen, who will be recalled as the great king of the negroes of Charleston in the days of Radical rule in this State. This, according to her own. story, is the account of her marriage to Bowen: The woman's son by her first hus? band was married at her home in New Jersey. Among the witnesses at the wedding was Christopher Bowen, a Congressman from South Carolina, who was greatly attracted by the mother of the bridegroom. All of that even? ing they spent together in a conversa? tion which culminated in Congressman Bowen inviting the beautiful widow to visit him at his summer home at Sul? livan's Island. She accepted the in? vitation and they went South together. One evening Judge Cook, a local mag? istrate, and the clerk of the County Court, C. W. Buttz, came to the Is? land and spent the night.N There was some rallying of the Congressman on his infatuation for Mrs. House, and Judge Cook, turning to her, said: "Will you take Bowen to be your lawful husband?" "Yes, of course I will," she return? ed, laughingly, as though considering the whole matter a joke, and so she still considered it when the same ques? tion was put to the Congressman and he answered it in the affirmative. But he didn't regard it as a joke, and when, after there had been a bloody fight between some of the negroes on the place, she became frightened and an? nounced her intention of going back to New York, he called attention to the fact that she was his wife. "Not with any legality," she said, "but if you want to marry me when your term in Congress is out come North and I'll marry you." So he sent her to New York, took a house for her and she appears in the directory of that date as Mrs. Bowen. Within a. year Congressman Bowen died. The so-called Mrs. Bowen was advised that she could obtain a wife's share in his estate as a common law wife, even if the ceremony at Sulli? van's Island had no force, but she de? clined to-make any claim. There is still in a Charleston bank, a deposit of jewelry and' bonds worth $15,000 be? longing to her, but so tied up in legal complications that she cannot get it. So ended her union with Christopher Bowen and her last chance of social position. Her other husbands were all men of the middle class, all of them younger than herself. Here is a list of the eight husbands of this fin de sieclc Cleopatra in their chronological order: 1. Charles A. Anderson. 2. J. W. Denver. 3. Orson Alonzo Moore House. 4. Hon. Christopher C. Bowen, M. C. 5. Charles Naylor. 6. Frank Parker. 7. Paul K. Redmond. 8. Harry Carson. Joking a Newspaper. The New Orleans Times-Democrat is just now the victim of a perplexing practical jok(, perpetrated upon it by some unknown person. A respectable and gentlemanly look? ing man appeared in the counting room, and upon announcing the death of a prominent young citizen, paid for an extended funeral notice, furnished a picture of the dead young man for reproduction, and gave the city editor further points to be used in a "spread'' article, and then departed, wiping the tears from his eyes. No one was more surprised than the supposed corpse next morning upon the elegant obituary articles and artis? tic chalk plate cut. To surprise there followed indignation, and a demand upon the editor for an explanation. Strange to say, no trace can be found of the man who furnished the news, nor can a motive be thought of why any one should have perpetrated such a ghastly joke. The Times-Democrat announces that it will appeal to the next session of the Louisiana legisla? ture to make the furnishing of false news a punishable offense. It is a matter of wonder that news? papers having to rely upon so many agencies for news, do not get caught oftencr in this trap. It is only by rigid system and watchfulness over the source of every piece of news that such impositions can be avoided. That, it would seem, would be the most effective method to keep up, as statutory restrictions of the press tend more to tyranny than the protec? tion of the public.?Atlanta Constitu? tion. ? A severe rheumatic pain in the left shoulder had troubled Mr. J. H. Loper, a well known druggist of Des. Moines, Iowa, for over six months. At times the pain was so severe that he could not lift anything. With all he could do he could not get rid of it until he applied Chamberlain's Pain Balm. "I only made three applica? tions of it," he says, "and have since been free from all pain." He now recommends it to persons similarly afflicted. It is for sale by Hill Bros. A PANACEA FOR ALL ILLS. The Philosophy of Bacon and the Secret at Last Discovered for Its Universal Diffusion among the Masses. To the Editor of the Ncics and Cou? rier: I don't mean the philosophy of Lord Bacon, but the philosophy cf lord hog, a much more important phi? losophy?that sort of bacon is, if one is spelt with a big B and the other with a little b. The world can get along very well without the philosophy of Lord Bacon, but it would be a poor get along without the philosophy of bacon The philosophy of bacon is a philosophy that the most ignorant and the biggest fool can take in, which is a great thing in its favor. The philosophy of bacon is not in? ductive, but productive, and produc? tive of that strength that builds rail? roads, stirs up the ground, and in short, makes things go. Civilization marches not to the music of the spheres, but to hog chimes. Plenty of bacon means a plenty to eat, greasy collards and cabbages, and not short, but shortened, biscuits and corn bread. Is there anything better than "crack? ling corn bread ?" And a plenty to eat makes a prosperous and happy country. A man that has got a plenty of bacon can have a full stomach, and that is better than a full pocket; and a plenty of bacon, which means a plenty to eat?for if you have got plenty of that you can always get the other things that are lacking with that '?means a happy home. There would be many a family jar that would be kept down if the lard jar was kept well filled. How often have I wished when that lard jar was empty that all my family belonged to that large and respectable denomination that holds the hog and all his products as abominations. But this feeling don't last any longer than I can get some more lard for frying and "shortning," and then I fed like the darky who once asked me: "Wha de Jew beleebo ?" I said : "Well, for one thing, Jews think it a great sin to eat hog meat," and then I started to tell him something else about them, but he said: "Dat will do, I ent wanter yeddy no mo bout dem. Dat one church I'lc neber jine. Is sish people hab good sense ? One thing sho, dis nigger will neber jine de Jews." Here's another philosophy in bacon. I just believe that it would do more to harmonize matters in politics and bring all the factions in the Demo? cratic party?the Reformers and the Straightouts, and the Democrats and Republicans?together than all the appeals and propositions that are being made will ever doi If there was a plenty of bacon in the country there wouldn't he such a hunger and fighting for office, forthat is just what politics is now; trying to get bacon out of the public offices which are now regarded as so many smoke houses by the hungry politicians and office aeek ers. Men that have got their own smoke houses filled don't bother much with the public smoke houses. 'A plenty of bacon now in South Carolina would be like oil on the troubled wa? ter. A gentleman in Edgefield soon after the war hired an Irishman and a sailor right off the sea to haul wood out of the woods to a wood rack that he was supplying with wood at a railroad station. The Irishman's team were too oxen at the wheels and an old mare, Jinny, in the lead. Tho Irish? man was carrying his first load to the rack. The owner of the team 3howed him how to load, brought him out of the woods and put him in the road to the rack about a mile off. He said to the son of old Erin : "Driv* on to the station and up to the wood rack, and stay there until I come f.nd I'll show you how to put the wood in the rack. I have left something at the house that I have got to get. ' Pat drove on and got to the rack at the railroad all right, and thinking that all would be right left his team :.nd ran up to a grog shop that was near by to get a drink before his boss came. But when Pat got back from getting his "pull," maybe too or three of them, he found his team in a frightful condi? tion. Both oxen had gotten over on the same side of the wagon tongue, and had turned round and got their heads to the wheels, and "Ould Jin? ny," the marc, in the confusion, had got tangled up in the gears and Jiad got her head to the oxen, and they were all pulling back as hard as they could right down towards the railroad track. Pat, who had just come off the sea, and knew more about ships than teams, and couldn't talk anything but sea language, set up an awful hollerin and cry of distress, which soon brought his employer to the scene of danger. Dashing up on his horse he hojlered out, "What in the world, Pat, is the matter here, that you are making such an awful fuss to alarm the whole country?" And Pat, who was care? ful to keep out of the way of the team, who the more he hollered the worst they did, said very excitedly, "The lardboard ox has got over on the star? board side and 'old Jinny' has run foul of the riggings, and they are all going starn een foremost to thedivil." And that's a pretty good picture of South Carolina at the present. "Ould Jinny" has certainly "run foul of the riggings." But I believe that plenty of bacon would straighten the riggings out and get ould Jinny all right again. If we just had plenty of bacon before the Constitutional Convention meets, they'd come together a band of jolly good fellows, and there'd come no harm to the State, nor to any part or faction of the people. It is the hun? gry fellows that are to be dreaded. And last, if we had more bacon and, of course, plenty of other good things to go with it, maybe we'd have better preaching. (I do hope all my mem? bers will read this.) I heard a wise old preacher say once that a preacher was very much like a wheel that ran a heap easier and better for being well greased. Good country raised hams are powerful good things to give preachers to make them preach better, and if any one or more don't believe me just let them make the experiment on me with?well, I don't care how many hams. Right after the war I met an old Combahce preacher and I said to him : "Daddy Aaron, you preaching yet ?" "No mossa," he said, "I ent da preach now." "Why," said L "I'm very sorry to hear that." "Well, mossa," he said, "bittlc so skase now tell I cut hab de strenk fur stan up to de table, but soon is I kin git plenty ob bittlc fur eat I gwine tek up de wuk gen. I ent tro urn down fur good." And let the white folks remember that if they want the preachers to feed them they must feed the preachers. There1 s lots of philosophy, and the? ology too, in bacon. But what is the secret for its diffu? sion among the masses ? Why Span isli pindars. They solve the difficulty so far as hog food is concerned and are the "eureka" of hog raising. I once thought it was chufas, and they are a good thing, but Spanish pindars cap the climax. They are a sure crop, will grow on the poorest land and, I believe, will make more good hog food to the acre than any other thing that you can plant on the same quantity of land. And then by planting a crop of them a month or so before a second crop?say the first in April and the other in June?two crops of them can be made the same year. I know what I'm talking about. Just go heavily into the Spanish pindars this year, and I know that every one that tries it will want to send me a ham next winter for giving them the secret. (I know I'll want them to send the hams.) With Spanish pindars, sweet potatoes, sorghum, cow peas, watermelons and a little corn the great problem that has so long been worrying the world?how to diffuse the philosophy of bacon among the masses?will be settled, and the good time that's been s;o long coming?plenty of hog and hominy? will be upon us. And then, with good, pure Artesian water and no more fever, we'll have good appetites for our "hog and hominy" and aheap more nice things, and then it will be only the trifling, lazy fellows that will be fighting over the "bone" of poli? tics. John G-. Williams. AUcndalc, February 25,1895. A Wonderful System. "The system employed by the Unit? ed States postoffice department in tracing thefts from the mail is so per? fect that it is utterly impossible for anyone to rob the mail many times without being detected," said a man well posted in the workings of Uncle Sam's big postal to a New York Advertiser man. "Every now and then you read of this or that person being arrested by the postoffice in? spectors, but do you know the system they use to trace the theft ?" "Well, suppose you report that you sent a letter or a package to New York which never reached its destination. The first thing is to find out just what time you mailed the matter and from that the inspectors can tell what train it was sent out on. When mail mat? ter leaves an office it is accompanied by the card of the one who handled it, and it is the same with each messen? ger on the trains. "A list is made of every man whose hands the mail passes through or would have passed through on reach? ing its destination and a dot is placed opposite their names. Before long another complaint will be made and the same process will be gone through. Before the mail disappeared maybe it passed through the hands of four or five of the same men as the first one, and two dots go down opposite their names. The system is kept up, and, pretty soon, if the thief is not caught before that, five or six dots appear op? posite one or two men's names. "Detectives are at once nut to work shadowing the suspected ''men, and, after becoming reasonably sure of who is the guilty one, decoy letters come in play, and the work of gathering convicting evidence is carried on until the inevitable climax of arrest follows. "To accomplish this work it re? quires a complete system of keeping tab upon each and every piece of mail matter. A railway messenger is al? lowed 30 mistakes a month or one each day. If he makes more he has to explain, and if he makes 60 off goes his head. "Sometimes one man does not re? port another; if he does not and no mistakes are reported against a rail? way messenger then the men in charge of the department begin to investi? gate. They know the man must make mistakes, and they thus force each man to report another, for one who sees a mistake and does not report it is as guilty as the one who made it." Time's Mutations: He had been away from his .home town for years and years. Which means, in this instance, ten years, and he had gone away becausepretty Dan? nie Smith hadn't asked him to stay. ! Men do that sometimes. Now, he had come again, and as he wandered about the old place, there was almost a pain in his heart to note the changes time had wrought. Every? thing was new and it made him home? sick to wander about seeking the things of his childhood and boyhood days and finding them not. But he found Nannie Smith and went to her as a tired child goes to its mother. She was kinder than of yore and she was really glad to see him. And he ? Well she was 10 years old? er, but she was still as if it had been but yesterday since he had told her good-by. "I fancy," she said to him as they sat on the broad piazza of her home that evening and looked over toward the hills beyond the town, "that you feel quite a stranger within our gates ?'' "Yes," he said sadly, "I could scarcely have believed it if I had not experienced it. Ten years is not eter? nity, either." "No, but time changes more than eternity." "It surely does in this instance. Everything is changed." "Not everything; almost every? thing," she corrected him. "No, everything, everything," he insisted quite hopelessly. "There's one thing hasn't changed, John," she said in such a tone that he looked up at her curiously. "Tell me what it is," he asked eagerly, "I want to see it." "You can't see it very well, John," she smiled, "because it is my name." Ten years had been a long time for John to wait, but she made him wait a month longer, and when he came back to his native town again, Nannie Smith's name underwent a change also, but it didn't sadden John as the other changes had done. ? "Perhaps you would not think so, but a very large proportion of diseases in New York comes from care? lessness about catching cold," says Dr. Cyrus Edson. "It is such a sim? ple thing and so common that very few people, unless it is a case of pneu monio, pay any attention to a cold. There are a great many cases of catarrh and consumption which have their origin in this neglect of the simplest precaution of every day life. The most sensible advice is, when you have one, get rid of it as soon as pos? sible. By all means do not neglect it." Dr. Edson does not tell you how to cure a cold but wc will. Take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It will relieve the lungs, aid expectora? tion, open the secretions and soon effect a permanent cure. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Hill Bros. ill Sorts of Paragraphs, ? More flesh can be "whipped off a*9 horse in one day than can he fed on in a week. ? Dr. Young estimates tho mean g depth of the Atlantio ocean at about v 16,000 feet. ? There are an average of over seventy inventions patented every day \ in this country. ? There is tuuugLt to be very little'! use in a man's meaning well, if ho cannot express his meaning by his acts. ? Persons bearing the same sur? name, although they may not be relat? ed in any way, are forbidden to marry in China. ? The share of land falling to each inhabitant of the globe, in the event; of a partition, ?sight be set down at 23J acres. ? The eyeball is white, becauso the blood vessels that feed its substance are so small that they do not admit tho red corpuscles. ? An electric wire with a bit of cheese on the end is the up-to-date rat-trap. The rat that fools with it receives its death shock. ? London is twelve miles broad one way and seventeen the other. And every year sees about twenty miles of new streets added to it. ? In Toledo, Ohio, January 27. died Patrick Donnelly, aged 104,-and his wife died the next night aged 102. They had been married 81 yean. ? Always be good-natured -when you can. A few drops of oil will do more to facilitate the movement of :. the most stubborn machinery than rivers of vinegar. ? "Mamma, may we play at keep? ing a store in here ?" "Yes, but you must be very, very quiet." "Well," said wise Tommy, "we'll pretend we don't advertise." ? In eaoh wing of the ostrich, twenty-six long white plumes grow to maturity in eight months. In the male, these are pure white, while those of the female shade to ecru or gray. ? Johnny Smart : "My pop goes - into a saloon for the same reason that Sister Nan puts on her corset." Andy Puick : "How do you make that out?" -, i Johnny Smart: "To get tight." ? It is claimed that the paper horseshoe has been used with success j in Germany. It becomes rough by wear, and is therefore a security j against slipping, the chief defect of the metal shoe. ? "What do you think of this por? trait of-me, my dear?" askedWith erup. "It is very smiliDg and pleas- ; ant," said Mrs. Witherup. Then she^ added wistfully, "I wish you would I look like it once in a while, John." ? The girls will have a chance next year. It will be the last leap year fdr^jj eight years. The leap years whichVr' fall n the last year of a century arej not counted, so there will ho only V twenty-eight days in the February of 1900. ? When Julius Rogers, of Marshall county, la., was a baby, he was so small as to be a wonder to his parents and neighbors. Now he is a 6 feet, 5 inch chap, who weighs 353 pounds^ and looks as if he might gro^s(nll^l bigger. Rudy's Pile Suppository, in guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, ^ or money refunded. 50 cents per bojggg Send stamp for circular and FreeSauHB pie to Martin Rudy, Lancaster. Pa.]l For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, drug-' gists. ? W. A. Clarke, the Montana mine owner, is building a million dollar. I palace in New York. His fortune is - estimated at from $20,000,000 to $40, [ 000,000. Thirty years ago Mr. Clarke arrived in Montana with a pick on his shoulder. I ? There is a negro woman living within a few miles of Paws on. Ga., who is but 22 years of age ana has nine children. She has given birth to twins at four different times. The father of all these children is but 24 years old. ? An Irishman recently applied for an enlistment in a United States army recruiting:office. "Do you know any- ;{ thing about drilling ?" asked the offi? cer. "Oi do," answered Pat. "It's ;; 12* cints a yard at anny av th' dry goods shtores." ? Miss J?nie McWilliams, of Holly Springs, Miss., acted as deputy sheriff to her lather, R. Mc Williams, for a " year as a means of enabling herself to take the course of music which she is ~ at the present pursuing at the Cincin? nati Conservatory of Music. ? In a Hungarian village, recently, a farmer tried to shoot his tenth wife and her father. He explained that the previous nine wives had all con? sented to be divorced when he asked them, but that this one had annoyed him by refusing, owing to the injudi- 5pi cious advice of her father. ? The deepest dive on record is that of Captain John Christianen, of Seattle, who plunged into the waters of Elliot Bay, and after 20 minutes reappeared in no great distress. He brought with him a lead line and bucket from the tug Majestic, which lay, at half flood tide, 196 feet below the surface of the ocean. ? Those who grow large watermeL-' ons state that they make the hills in winter. If the ground is not frozenVl too hard, a pile of fresh horse manure is placed where each hill is to be, and the manure covered with earth. In the spring, after the weather becomes warmer, the manure is well incorpora- - ted witn the soil.?.Southern Farm. ? Chamberlain's Cough Remedy gives the best satisfaction of any cough medicine I handle, and as a seller leads all other preparations in this market. I recommend it because it is the best medicine I ever handled for coughs, colds and croup. A. W. Baldridge, Millersville, 111. For sale by Hill Bros. - ? An Arkansas editor put it thus: "You may hive all the stars in a nail keg, hang the ocean on a nail to dry, put the sky in a gourd to soak, unbuckle the belly-band of eternity and let out tho sun and moon, but never delude yourself with the idea that you can escape that place on the other side of purgatory unless you pay ? the printer." ? Bearded Stranger?"Madam, you may not recognize me. but years ago, when but a little child, I lived next door, and one day, in my childish romps, I lost a button from my coat. I had no mother, as you know; and shall I ever forget, madam, that you J. took mc in and sewed another button for me ? Ah, madam," brushing away a tear, "through all these years! have treasured that little button as a sacred relic, and here it is 1" Kind Lady? "Well, my good man, what can I do for you now ?" Bearded Stranger.? "All I need is another coat,"