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BY CLINKSCA.LES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOKNING, MAr?CH 20, 1895. VOLUME XXIX.?NO. 38 NEW LINE OF SPRING NECK-WEAR -Just received by IB. O. ZETV^ZtsTS <Sb GO. We are also receiving daily onr line of Spring Clothing, And we have the Prices right. BQ? When in search of a Suit give us a call. B. O. EVANS & CO., Clot liier? and Furnishers. P. Don't forget that we MAKE SUITS TO ORDER. Our sam? ples are now ready for inspection. B. O. E. & CO. WATER MELONS! WATER MELONS! We offer onr nsnal premium of? $5.00 FIVE DOLLARS $5.00 For the Largest Water Melon raised from our Seed. It don't cost you anjthing to try for it. A Big Lot of Fresh Seeds of all Kinds NOW IN STOCK. ORR & SLOAN'S, "SSS? PLOWS I PLOWS! 25,000 Pounds Rome, Georgia, Steel Plows. Highest grade Steel?latest improved shapes. A Tremendous Stock of Oliver Chilled Plows, Flow Stocks, Plow Handles, Heel Bolts, Clevises, Hames, Traces, &c, In fact, EVERYTHING needed by the Farmer at this season of the year, AND AT PRICES CUT TO THE QUICK. B&. Don't forget to get our prices on? BARB AND GARDEN WIRE. We will SAVE YOU MONEY. Yours truly, SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. FURNITURE ! FURNITURE 11 LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS! IS- COFFINS and CASKETS furnished Day or Night. WE have 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 ! "We will Sell you Furniture at Prices below anything ever heard of ill this Country before ! Aud 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 & CO., -Will sell you the Best Coffee, The Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, All for less Money than you have been paying. J. P. SULLSVAft &CO. SH?KEM UP AND LETGO GROCERY! WE bog 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? Iff HOTEL (;HIQU0LA 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 <vith the quality of Goods given. We haveu't disappointed you in the pa*t, and hope to do even better for you in the future. No compromise nor winking at adulterated goods. Strictly pure food at papular prices. Come aud see us. We are ready to make things lively. Shakem up and letgo, J. A. AUSTIN & CO. NO PLACE LIKE HOME. Georgia Negroes Who Went to Mexico are Thoroughly Disgusted. Atlanta Constitution. San Antonia, Tex., March 9.? Another batch of the 200 negroes whom "Pegleg" Williams and W. II. Ellis, a local colored politician of con? siderable note, recently colonized at Tiahualilo, in the State of Durango, Mexico, arrived here to-day walking back to Georgia and Alabama. Twenty-five of these discontented colonists passed through here a few days ago. They were footing their way back to their old plantation homes in Alabama and Georgia. They came into San Antonia from Eagle pass over the Southern Pacific railroad track, which they had follow? ed from the border for the reason that they found walking better on the ties than through the cacti of the prairie country. The correspondent of the Constitution came across five members of the party at the Southern Pacific depot. The negroes were soliciting aid from whomsoever they chanced to meet, and they did not hesitate to tell their woes. The leader of the party was a large well-built man named John Washburn. He stated in response to the inquiry of the correspondent that his old home was on a farm about twenty miles out from Birmingham. He related his experiences as follows: "I had a comfortable home hack in Alabama and I wished I had remained there. But all the 'niggers' got ex? cited about the wonderful country down in Mexico where we would all get rich in a few years. We were told that we would he well provided for and that the country to which we were going was a land of sunshine, and flowing in milk and honey, as the Bible says. We all left our homes expecting to better ourselves. We were well treated on the journey and I have no fault to find with Mr. Wil? liams or Ellis. We reached Mapima, the nearest railroad station to the land upon which we were to settle, all right and were taken to the land next day. We found that no houses had been provided for us, and, as the weather turned very cold a few days after we arrived, all of us suffered severely. We had to camp out through all of that cold spell in February. "The land is barren and it will be some time before any crops can be raised. Nothing can be grown except by irrigation, and the negroes do not know anything about that method of agriculture. The colonists must build their own houses, and from what I could learn, the prospect is good for the colonization company keeping the colonists in debt to them for some time to come, even if good crops are raised and things go ever so smoothly. Another thing that we did not like was the customs and manners of the natives. Their peculiar dress and the way in which they treated us was strange to us and it will be a long time time before the negroes learn the lan? guage of the native people. It is a different kind of country entirely from what any of us had ever been used to and I do not believe any of the colon? ist will ever be satisfied. I and those who are with me remained as long as we could stand it. We decided to start back to our old homes, and as we did not have any families there was nothing to hinder us from making the break. We have had a rough trip so far. We got a few short rides on the Mexican International railroad freight trains and have managed to get enough to eat from the colored people along the road since striking Texas. The second lot of negroes had not ar? rived when we left. All of the first lot were homesick and would return to their homes in a minute if they could get away with their families. I don't think Mexico is the place for the colored man. It is too lonesome down there to suit me. I would advise all the colored men of Georgia, Alabama and the other Southern States to stay where they are, if they have any home. If they have no home they can make one for themselves just as quickly and with as little work in Alabama as in Mexico." Washburn is unusually intelligent for a plantation negro and is very em? phatic in his statements concerning the disappointment and dissatisfaction among the colonists. His statements were substantiated by the other desert? ers who were with him. The remain? der of the party had arrived in the city a few hours earlier and had already resumed their journey towards their old homes. The party were foot? sore and presented a very dilapidated appearance. They all asserted that it would be only a short time until all of the colonists would return to their former homes, as they are all exceed? ingly homesick and anxious to get back. The Constitution correspondent has talked with a number of persons who are familiar with the country upon which the negro colony has been es? tablished. The land is located in the valley of the Nazas river, in what is known as the Laguna district. The district is one of the richest agricul? tural sections in northern Mexico and is famous for its cotton production. Cotton and all other crops there can? not be produced without irrigation. The native methods of farming are entirely different from those with which the Southern negro is acquaint? ed. Cotton is planted but o: ? ? every ten or fifteen years, it being in the nature of a shrub. It requires but little cultivation and gives an immense yield. There" is much opposition to the negro colonists among the natives of that section, and some of the lead? ing newspapers of the country. The enterprise has the support of the Federal government so long as the terms under which the concession was obtained are complied with and the laws of the country are respected by the colonists. W. H. Ellis, of this city, who is at the head of the movement, has been working on the scheme for several years and is very much gratified with the success of the undertaking. It is reported that he has a contract with Williams to remove 100,000 negroes from the States of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana to the Tiahualilo lands within the next few months. "Williams gave the move? ment a black eye yesterday by his circular advising negroes not to go to Mexico. The only other negro colony in Mexico is located in the State of Coa huila, near Naciemento. This colony is a small one and has been established for a number of years. They have made but little progress since remov? ing to Mexico and all of them would be glad to return to the United States if given an opportunity. The agricultural sections of Mexico are exceedingly rich aud splendid op portunities are offered for the estab? lishment of colonists in different parts of the republic of almost any other race than the negro. The con? ditions are so widely different from those to which the negro has always been used that he is almost certain to be dissatisfied. President Diaz offers every encouragement for the develop? ment of the agricultural and other resources of the country and any en? terprising American farmer can go to that country and soon acquire wealth, but it is different with the negro. He can never get used to the change. Uncle Sam's Mail. Some of the postal regulations of our country arc very odd. Alligators, dead or alive, cannot lawfully pass through the United States mails. However, if stuffed they are mailable. Horned toads and other kinds of toads, as well as frogs, are in no case accepted by Uncle Sam for transporta? tion. Live bugs arc excluded likewise. At the same time, all sorts of insects are constantly sent through the mail by entomologists, usually in tin boxes, living. Many are forwarded to the department of agriculture from all over the country. Cocoons, representing insects in one of the stages of their development, though strictly speaking alive, are ad? mitted to the mails. A special legislative provision allows bees to be sent by post in wooden box? es constructed in a peculiar fashion, with a sliding lid and a hit of wire screen to prevent the occupants from escaping. In this way honey bees are shipped all over the world, and even as far as from this country to Austra? lia. They arc admitted to the United States free of duty, as "animals im? ported for breeding purposes." Dead bugs of all sorts are accepted by the government for mailing, if dry. For example, dried grasshoppers will pass. If the farmers of the West ever learn to utilize grasshoppers for food as is done elsewhere in the world, they may be shipped in parcels by Uncle Sam's post. For reasons unexplained, an excep? tion is made against tarantulas, which, alive or dead, are excluded. This is simply a name given to certain large trap door spiders in southern latitudes, some of which make small birds their prey. Ordinarily spiders are permit? ted to go through, if dry and properly packed. All kinds of lizards are unmailable whether alive or dead. If stuffed they are not refused however. Eggs are absolutely unmailable. So are explosives, poisons and intoxicat? ing liquors. A like prohibition applies to bad smelling things of whatever description. The bacteria of cholera and other disease germs are not accepted for mailing. Nowdays doctors breed such germs in their laboratories, and send them about by express or otherwise. Doubtless bottled consumption, ty? phoid fever and diptheria travel over the world pretty extensively by post, undetected by officials. It is unlawful to split a postal card and write inside of it. That is to say, a card ? so treated is not perrr 'tted to pass for one cent. It is only mailable at letter rates. Two persons in the United States have the franking privilege for life? namely, the widows of President Grant and President Garfield. Letters and packages sent by them are free and require no stamps. Also parcels and letters sent to them go without pay? ment and need no stamps. Uncle Sam makes big money by sending letters to foreign countries. The business costs him only about $600,000 per annum, and he gets $1,700,000 for the postage. It is very likely that the tariff will be reduced to two cents an ounce before long; it is five cents now. An edd point about the internation? al postal system is that registered let? ters may be recalled by the senders at any time before they are actually de? livered. Not long ago a German bank sent securities representing a large sum of money to a fiim in New York city. Soon afterwards the bank learn? ed that the New York firm was insol? vent and on the point of bankruptcy, the news being received by cable. A cable message was sent without delay to intercept the securities on their arrival at New York, and the register? ed letter containing them was returned unopened to the bank. Great Britain, however, does not permit this privi? lege, holding that when a person ha3 mailed a letter, it must be considered the property of the address. A Hampton County ScaudaJ. Augusta, Ga., March 12.?On Sat? urday there came to the police head? quarters a man, apparently a farmer in comfortable circumstances, about 40 years old, who gave his name as Doc. W. Chassereau, a planter in Hampton County, S. C. He told a distressing tale of his wife's unfaith? fulness and her elopment with Benny A. Cease, a l'J-year-old boy. The woman, who was the idol of his heart, was the mother of four children, rang? ing in age from 1 to 8. The pair, be? fore their departure, had stolen from him $200 and a horse, but his chief aim was to regain his wife, whom he almost worshipped. They were sup? posed to have come to Augusta, and he desired police assistance in finding them. Detectives Howard and Kelly and Officer Prescott, a personal friend of the husband, were put to work on the case, but the couple remained so closely hid that until to-day nothing was seen of them. This morning Offi? cer Prescott went to a house on purely personal business, saw Cease there and instantly rccoguized and arrested him. The officer learned that they had been stopping as man and wife in Mrs. Park's boarding house, where the wo? man was found and taken into custody along with the young man. Immedi? ately after their arrest .Mr. Chassereau was telegraphed fur and will probably be here to-morrow. The indifference of the two was remarkable, and the woman says she has some little love for her children and despises her hus? band, but will go back to him. She says he ill-treated her and that flight was her only resort. As for Cease he doesn't appreciate the predicaments be is in and docs not seem to care. Both Cease and Mrs. Chassarcau abso? lutely deny having stolen any money, and the woman says that the horse they took was her own. ? Chamberlain's Cough Pcmedy gives the best satisfaction of any cough medicine 1 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. Baldridgc, Millcrsville, 111. For sale by Hill Bros. BILL ARP'S LETTER. How Many Happy Cays Does the Average Man or Woman see Each Year? Atlanta Constitution. How many happy days docs the average man or woman see in a year? Suppose we take a family?a man and his wife and half a dozen children? how many real happy days do they see, not counting children under 12 years. I was discoursing my friend, McCay, about it and he said that while traveling in Europe with wife and three children, between 15 and 21, he made a bargain with himself and them to keep a tally sheet and give each one a black mark who, in any way, marred the happiness of the family or any member of it during the day. The proposition was readily assented to by every one and the rules laid down were that no unkind word be spoken by one to another?that there should be no complaining about things that could not be avoided or that could be reme? died by themselves?no fault finding in a querulous way, no tardiness in coming to meals, no delay in getting ready for Church or for the cars or the deligence or any journey! no forget? ting and having to go back or send back after it. My friend, the pater farailias, was to be the judge of any infraction of these rules and if he broke any one of them himself his wife should be the judge. "Now," said he, "we kept that tally sheet fair and square for 120 days and I have it now put away as a keepsake. How many days do you suppose pass? ed in those four month with a mark? Guess how many?" "Did the mark of one mark the whole day," I inquir? ed. "Oh, yes, of course," said he. "The offense or the neglect of one member of a family effects the happi? ness of all. I don't mean that it de? stroys the peace of all, but it mars their perfect happiness. Of course it is lawful and permissible for the wife or the daughter to forget her parasol or her gloves or some message she wishes to leave to the servant, and this for a minute stops the procession, but it must be admitted that it would have been better, a little better, had she not forgotten, and so the black mark had to come." "Were you keep? ing house or boarding during this time?" said I. "Boarding," said he, "and visiting from place to place." 1 'No little children to tear their clothes or stump their toes or blow their nose?" "None," said he. "No servant Dinah to break the china? No neighbor's cow or long nose sow to raise a row? No duns or debt to make you fret?" "None," said he. "Well, yon ought to have had about 100 days out of the 120," saidl. "Well," said my friend, solemnly, "we didn't have but four? only four, and I believe that my wife and my children are better than the average, but in spite of ourselves there was something went wrong almost every day. Suppose you try it at your house?" "Don't think I will," saidl. "I have so long enjoyed these little myseries that I'm afraid I would be un? happy without them. It is unreason? able to expect a heaven in this sub? lunary life. My habits are fixed and I'm too old to little myseries that I'm afiaid I would be good experiment for young people to make. The poet says: "Can't that day laat whose low, decending sun Sees from tby band no worthy action done." The more worthy actions the more happiness. A century or so ago there lived a very wealthy lord who had several thousand poor tenants on his lands and every Christmas he offered to give every man and wife a flitch of bacon who would come before him and solemnly declare they had not said an unkind word to each other during the year. And they were to be con? firmed in their statement by some proof from their neighbors. Christ? mas morning brought most all these poor tenants to the great hall where the lord held his court. Some came to claim the flitch, but more came out of curiosity to see a man and wife who had not quarreled for a year. A flitch of bacon?well-cured bacon?was a big thing to a poor peasant, for none were allowed to raise hogs and so some of the tenants didn't mind deceiving the old lord to get it. But he was very shrewd and examined them like a law? yer would do and for years and years caught them in their stories and no? body got any bacon. At last one old couple came who stood the test and gave the proof and the old lord gave judgment in their favor and there was a great shout among the people and they took the old man aud his wife upon their shoulders and carried them all around the castle singing and shouting as they marched along. The story goes that for a hundred years this custom was kept up among the old lord's descendants and no couple ever got the bacon save those who had been married at least 30 years, and very few of them. It takes a man and wife a long time to assimilate and be? come perfectly reconciled to each other. Some don't quarrel, but they pout, and that is the worst sort of quarrel? ing. It doesn't disturb their neigh? bors, but it is like a funeral in the house. "Hdw very, very Bad is the room Where love, domeitio love, no longer neetleB." Then it is that the man takes to drink or to the clubhouse and the wo? man to morphine. My wife took a notion a few days ago to run over to Tampa with a young lady friend as her companion. They crossed the bay from St. Petersburg and had a lovely passage, for the water was smooth and the morning beauti? ful. They took in all the sights on the main streets, including the mus? eum of snakes and other tropical crea? tures, and then went over to lunch at the wonderful Tampa Bay hotel. She was charmed and delighted with the wonders and beauties of that grand institution. She inspected every square inch of the ground floor and talks gushingly about the paintings and statuary and vases and ornaments and tells all about the people, the guests, the rich folks, the proud and the vain, the old and the young, the English and American and Spanish and the band that discourses sweet music. "Oh, it was so fine and so grand," she said. About 3 p. m., they took the boat to return but the sky was overcast and the wind came up and the boat rocked, and by the time it neared the wharf my wife was very sick and her bosom heaved, but she kept her own secret and made no sign. They had to go down some steep little steps and along by the boilers to the gangway and then she surrendered and cried for help. The captain, mate and pilot and deck hands all hurried to her side and gently helped her down. "Hold on to me," she said in despairing tones. "Hold on to mo or I will fall on the boiler. Oh, I am so sick." And they were kind. <;Oh, so kind," she says, and safely they assisted her on to the wharf and into the car that was waiting. "Oh, what a relief to get out of that and into that car," she said. "I have seen Tampa and the great hotel and I am glad of it, but I will never go that way again if I live a thousand years. For the last hour it was perfect agony." But she is all right now and ere this letter goes to press will be basking in the sunsb;'ie of her old home in Georgia? that is if the sun is ever going to shine up there again. Bill Arp. The Difference In Training. A distinguished lady of wealth and influence, noted for model specimens of children, was asked by a friend and mother: '"Why are my children sickly and croupy, and yours always free from such conditions ?" The reply was, "You rear your children indoors, I mine out; yours arc educat? ed to be waited on by servants, I dis? cipline mine to wait on themselves ; my children are early to bed, you give parties for yours with late hours, and allow them to attend parties and keep late hours from home, fashionably dressed; my children have plain whole8omefood, adapted to their years, yours sweetmeats, rich and highly seasoned dishes, and are overfed gen? erally ; I teach mine to love nature and to feel that there is nothing ar? rayed so finely as the lily of the field, the bees; and the butterflies ; that there is nothing so mean as a lie, nor anything so miserable as disobedience, that it is a disgrace to be sick, and that good health, good teeth and good temper comes from plain food, proper clothing, plenty of sleep, and being good." A Tired Boy. The office-boy was leaning in his chair with his head resting on a desk when his employer came in. "Here, Tommie," he exclaimed, "brace up. What do you mean by lazying around like that ?" "I was just resting, sir," explained Tommie, coming to a "present" in a hurry. "Besting? What do you want to rest for? You don't do any work." "I do all there is for me to do, sir," said Thomas, defending his position. "Yes, but there is hardly anything for you to do." The amazing truthfulness of this statement left Tommie with nothing to say except "Yes, sir," and he said it. Then his employer proceeded : "Why," he said, "you don't work as much in a month as I do in a day." "I s'pose not, sir," admitted Tom? mie. "Then what the mischief makes you so tired ?" "Just thinking, sir, how hard I'll have to work when I grow up to be a man like you are," and Tommie heav? ed such a sigh that his employer in? vited him to be seated and asked him if he hadn't better send out for a bot? tle of patent medicine for "that tired feeling."_ Sonnd Reasoning. The difference between common sense and mathematics was illustrated in a remark which Tommy Jones? who is not exceptionally bright, but just a common, natural boy?made in his class at school the other day. It was the class in mental arithmetic. The teacher asked Willy Smith: "Which would you rather have, Willy, half an apple, or eight-six? teenths of an apple ?" "Wouldnt make any difference," said Willy. "Why not?" "Eight-sixteenths and one-half are all the same." At this reply Tommy Jones, who was several steps father down the class, sniffed scornfully. The teacher heard him. "Well, Tommy," said she, "don't you agree with Willy ?" "No'm," said Tommy. "I'd a good deal rather have one-half an apple." "And why, please ?" "More juice. Cut up half an apple into eight sixteenths, and you'd lose half the juice doing it!" What Spoiled the Coffee^ At last we have an infallible rule for coffee, and though it comse from an unknown source, it is warranted to please the most exacting epicure. It runs as follows. Bridget is an excellent cook; but like most women of her profession she is opinionated and insists upon mak? ing all her dishes strictly according to her recipes. Her mistress gives her full swing, not only as to cooking, but as to the purchase of supplies. The other day her mistress said to her: "Bridget, the coffee you arc giving to us is very good. What kind is it ?'' "It's no kind at all, mum," said Bridget. "It's a mixture." "How do you mix it?" "I make it one-quarter Mocha and one-quarter Java and one-quarter Rio." "But that's only three quarters. What do you put in for the other quarter ?" "I put in no ^ther quarter at all, mum. That's where so many spiles the coffee, mum?by putting in a foorth quarter."?Kansas City Star. ? It is related that a certain man was recently very sad because his, wife had gone on a visit, which she would not shorten in spite of his appeals to come home. He finally hit upon a plan to induce her to return. He sent her a copy of each of the local papers with one item clipped out, and when she wrote to find out what it was he had clipped from the papers he refus? ed to tell her. The scheme worked admirably. In less than a week she was home to fiud out what it was that had been going on that her husband did not want her to know about. ? Henry Williams, a farmer living near Walders Bidge, not far from Chattanooga, Tcnn , killed some hogs Thursday and hung the bodies in the smokehouse. At midnight he was awakened by unearthly howls, nnd on looking out saw by the pale rays of the winter moon a pack of panthers surrounding the smoke-house, accom? panied by a big black bear, all drawn to the place by the smell of the blood. When several of the animals were shot the balance skulked away. ? A severe rheumatic pain in the {eft shoulder had troubled Mr. J. II. Lopcr, a well known druggist of Dos. 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." JIc now recommends it to persons .similarly afflicted. It is (or sale by Hill Bros. WEAPONS USED BY INDIANS. The Modern Rifles and Revolvers are Now Used. The writer was camped with a com? pany of regular troops, sonic years ago, in the heart of the Indian coun? try. There were plenty of redskins about as we knew by thcirsignal fires, but as yet we had seen not one. Late one afternoon, however, the lookout, who was stationed on a high bluff near the camp, announced that he saw ob? jects approaching through the cotton woods that fringed the creek on whose bank we were located. I immediately guessed our red neighbors were about to pay us a visit, but whether of hos? tility or friendship it was impossible to tell. Wishing to be on the safe side and yet not appear afraid, I or? dered each man to load his rifle and place it at the entrance of his tent, with a full belt of cartridges near by, so that both could be seized at a mo? ment's notice. A long file of Indians entered camp in a few moments, and each one, as he halted his pony, put on a broad grin and grunted "How !" which is the universal Indian greeting. I saw that there was not a squaw among them, which was a suspicious sign. But on the other hand, they had no weapons, except a few bows and arrows. I made no comment one way or the other, but gave the chief some tobacco and sugar, and then proceeded to handle his Xav ajo saddle blanket with apparent ad? miration. Feeling it gently as if to test the closeness of the weaving, I noticed a hard body, which could not be the pony's back. In an instant the edge of the blanket was thrown upward and a repeating rifle of the latest pattern was disclosed! The old chief laughed long and loud, making believe that he had hidden the rifle just for a joke. But as further search revealed the fact that every buck had a rifle hidden similarly be? neath his saddle blanket, and a revol? ver in his shirt besides, there can be little doubt that an attack had been meditated, should the opportunity occur. The Indian of to-day has discarded his primitive weapons of war, and adopted the white man's. An Indian can reload an empty rifle or revolver shell as well as a white man. How he does it is a mystery, for the white man needs a special set of tools for the purpose, and the Indian has none that are not improved. The fact remains, however, and was so well known to General Miles that, when campaigning after Geronimo in 1886, he published an order directing that his soldiers should turn over to their officers all empty shells, in order that they might not be left on the ground and utilized by the Apaches. The bow is used in war when a stealthy attack is meditated, and quite generally in hunting, for there it an? swers as well and is more economical. The degree of skill attained by the Indian in archery is truly astonishing ; but it is the result of long and con? stant practice. The Indian boy's first lesson is to shoot with a small bow and bluut arrow. Finally he receives the strong bow, and with it fits him? self for war. These latter are powerful weapons. One that an Indian would, with the greatest ease, draw to the arrow's head, could scarcely be bent four inch? es by a white man. They will send an arrow 500 yards, and put it through a board an inch thick. On one accasion a man's skull was found transfixed to a tree by an arrow, which had gone completely through the bones and imbedded itself so deep? ly in the wood as to sustain the weight of the head. He had probably been tied up to the tree and shot. The Sioux make the best bows. Cedar and hickory are favorite woods. The wood is carefully seasoned by be? ing hung, sometimes for months, just out of reach of the flames of the tepee fires. The bow is 4 feet long, and an inch thick in the midddle. A warrior, with a sharp knife and a file, will take a week to make a bow, which will sell for about $3 in trade. The Crows make bows of elk horn, each bow requiring four pieces, nicely fitted to each other and spliced and wrapped together. "When ornament? ed, carved and painted, these bows are beautiful, and readily sell for $25 or $50. It takes an Indian about three months to make one. Before they came much in contact with the whites the Indians frequently used poisoned arrowheads. The Shos hones made their poisons of ants, dried and powdered, and mixed with the spleen of some animal. The mix? ture was then placed in the sun and allowed to decay. The result was such a deadly poison that if the arrow ever broke a person's skin it was sure to produce death. Arrows are made very carefully, for ! upon their construction depends the howman's success. Three or four are the limit of a day's work, even when the rough material is at hand. The branches from which they are made are cut in the fall, when the sap is not running, and arc tied up in bundles, so they will not warp. They are then hung up in the tepee, in a similar manner to the bow wood. The shaft is usually channeled, or grooved, so as to allow the flow of blood from the wound. Arrows pertaining to differ? ent tribes may be distinguished by the expert after examination of the feathering, painting or carving. In? deed, it is said that individuals of the same tribe can tell each others' arrows in the same way. The tomahawk and war club are hardly used at all. Their place has been taken by the knife, one or more being always carried by a wild Indian in a sheath attached to his belt. Used principally for skinning game, these knives arc nevertheless, at close quar? ters, deadly weapons of attack or de? fense. They are also used for scalping. Scalping is not a religious ceremony, as many have supposed. It is simply a proof of killing?evidence beyond a doubt. It would seem that scalping is fatal; but in itself it is not necessarily so. Numerous instances of survival, evcu when the victim had been wounded in addition, are on record. One spring day in 18G8, Thomas Cahonc and Wil? lis Edmonston. freight conductors of the Union Pacific railway, were fishing in a small stream near Sidney, Neb. They were unarmed, feeling sure that the handfull of regular troops station? ed at Sidney would keep off any prowl? ing Indians. Suddenly a party of mouutcd Sioux swept down upon them. They put eight arrows into Cahone, one of which passed under the point of the right shoulder blade and came out an inch or two under the breast. Knur arrows were fired into Edmonston. The scalp proper of Cahonc was taken by one Indian, while the second took a piece about 4 by 7 inches from the left side of the head. Bdmonston was not scalped, for at this juncture the soldiers and citizens from Sidney hurried out and the Indians took to flight. The wounded men were taken to the town, where the arrows were cut out. In 1883 I met Cahonc, who was then a passenger conductor run? ning cast from Ogdcn, Utah. He said he was in excellent health, having never suffered from his wounds or the scalping. He wore a skull cap, as may well be imagined. Kdmonston was at the same time a passenger con? ductor running west from Ogdcn.? New York Hcrahl. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The generous heart scorns a pleas? ure which gives others pain. ? You can disappoint the devil in one way by keeping out of debt. ? A man who will not reflect and, if necessary, repent, is a ruined man. ? It can never be that everybody else is wrong and you alone are right. ? 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Shall Irby Have a Second Term in the Senate or Not ? Washington, March S.?Although Congress has adjourned and all of the Smith Carolina Congressmen have gone homo, the members of the Palmetto colony here are still speculating upon the causes and the effects of the "split" between Senator Irby and Senator-elect Tillman. Senator Irby may try to disguise the fact as much as he pleases, but the general impression prevails here that Tillman is not working in double harness with him any longer. As near as I have boon able to get at the ''1)100.1" of this peculiar contention the trouble arises over the next United States Senatorship. Senator Irby wants a second term in the Senate, and he* wants it badly. He not only wants it, but he demands it as a matter of right. In a recent conversation with him on (he subject he said that he intended to make a fight for a re-election in spite of any opposition that might arise. He con? tended that it is the custom to give a Senator who attends to his business acceptably a second term. He feels that he has done all that could have been expected of him since he entered the Senate, and he will, therefore, ask the people of South Carolina to give him another term after 1897, when his present term expires. The friends of Senator-elect Tillman say that he does not want Irby to have a second term and he will do nothing to assist him in that direction. Who Tillman has selected as his favorite to succeed Senator Irbyjwill appear later, but just now very little is being said on the subject. It is claimed that Irby was but an accident in the first instance, and, therefore, he should be satisfied with six years in the Senate as the immediate successor of Wade Hampton. That may sound all very well for those who have not tasted of the Senatorial sweets. Senator Irby may not have been an active partici? pant in the great debates that have taken place in the Senate during the last two or three years, but he has put in four years of comparative luxury, with a private secretary, a private committee room and all of the trim? mings that go with a Senatorship. He cannot be blamed for wanting more of it. They all do. The more they get the more they want. The only interview that Senator-elect Tillman and Governor Evans had with Senator Irby during the recent visit of the Senator-elect and the Governor to this city must have been very in? teresting. It took place in Senator Irby's committee room. Senator Irby was spread out in a luxurious reclin? ing chair, with his wool hat canted over to one side?he generally wears his hat in his committee room and also at his private apartments. He is get? ting bald rapidly in consequence. Senator-elect Tillman and Governor Evans entered the room and proceed? ed to relate to the Senator the terms of the recent compromise, with the ac? companying details. It seems that that was the first intimation that Senator Irby had received on the sub? ject. He is naturally a sensitive man, and \i at once appreciated the fact that he had been totally ignored in the transaction. It was a terrible blow to his pride, but he struggled to control his feelings and appear indifferent as far as he was personally concerned, but expressed great anxiety as to the effect it might have on the Reform Movement in the State. He went so far, it is said,'as to chide Tillman with a lack of tact and political sagacity, and charged that the editor of the News and Courier had "dehorned" him. The authorized interview with Senator Irby improperly used the word '' deceived " for " dehorned.'' The latter word is the one Senator Irby claims as his own, for he was going on to tell Tillman of the amputation of sev? eral parts of his political anatomy by the Conservative leaders. It was any? thing but a merry party. The next day Messrs. Tillman and Evans pro? ceeded further North to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. The night after their departure Senator Irby went into "executive session" with himself, and considered all that he had heard from Messrs. Tillman and Evans in connection with other rumors and actual occurrences that have been floating around in South Carolina politics for several months past. The result of his delib? erations was the authorized interview which he gave out to the press associ? ations. He realized that a determined effort is being made to " turn his political picture to the wall," aud he objects to such proceeding for the reason above stated. When Senator elect Tillman returned to Washington, on his way home from New York, it was understood that Tillman and Irby were to have another consultation. Tillman dined with Representatives Talbert and Strait, but a few doors from the residence of Senator Irby, but they never met again in this city. Mutual friends stated that Tillman and Irby had engagements to meet each other at various places within 24 hours, but they managed to keep out of each other's way like two pro? fessional prize fighters of the present day engaged in making "a draw of it." The most remarkable thing about the pending controversy is the wide difference of opinion as to which side got the better of the compromise. Representatives Shell, Izlar, Butler and others contend that the Tillman ites "pulled the wool over the eyes of the Anti-Tillmanitcs." On the other hand Senator Irby and a few of his friends insist that the Conservatives out-generaled the Reformers and ob? tained from them concessions that they should not have had. Represen? tatives Larimer, Talbert and Strait are disposed to be non-committal on the subject, but they are loyal to Till? man under all circumstances. Alto? gether it is most interesting and the South Carolinians at this end of the line cannot understand why there should be such a bitter contest over a Constitutional Convention. They are inclined to believe that the real issue is "who shall succeed Irby in the Senate in 1S!'7 T'?Neves mid Courier. State or Onio, City of Toledo, 1 Lucas County. j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of r. 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 ho cured bv the use of Hall's Catarrh Cuke. 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