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B? GLTNKSCA.LES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, J?LY 31, 1895. VOLUME XXX.?NO. 5. "BOTST I ALWAYS needB CLOTHES. He needs 'em often when you clothe him cheaply. Give him well sewn, strong Suits that will stand the strain. Now is the time for him to need a new pair of KNEE PANTS?the old ones are worn out. We have received a new lot, (third shipment . this season,) out of which we can please you. A good Pair for 35c. Something better for 50c, 75c. and $1.00. Call and see them. Have you seen our 25c. COATS ? B. O. EVANS & CO., Chattanooga Cane Mills, Chattanooga Galvanized Steel Evaporators, With the Patent Cups. Chattanooga Portable Furnaces. Cook's Galvanized Steel and Copper Evaporators, Cook's Portable Furnaces. 19* We invite your attention to the above, on which we can save yon money. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. To the People who Enow Us, To the People who don't Enow Us, TO EVERYBODY, ONE AND ALL. - WE ARE - SELLING GOODS CHEAP FOR THE CASH. Di P. SLO^JNT & CO. OLD BACHELOBS ^pANNOT fully appreciate the elegant assortment of Fancy and Fami? ly Groceries, Canned Goods, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Ci? gars, other Goods, that we are displaying on our shelves and counters, but we? WANT WIVES, And Housekeepers, especially, to some and see the nice things we can furnish them for their tables. . We have the goods, guarantee them to be pure and freBh, and the prices VERY LOW. Give as a call. GL F. BIGBY. FURNITURE ! FURNITURE I! LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS! 19* 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 wtll 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 iu 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 yon the ? Best Coffee, Th Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, All for Money than you have been paying. J. P.SULLIVAN & CO. THE PLAN DISCLOSED. Tillman's Scheme to Regulate the Suf? frage. Columbia Stale. Augusta, Ga., July 22.?It is a strange thing that the Constitutional Convention is so very close at hand and yet nothing more definite has been made' known than that the regulation of the suffrage so as to disfranchise as many negroes as possible, without dis? franchising any white men, except for crime, is the work it is cut out to do. Not one of the other vital issues to come up before this convention have been presented to the public mind. Men who are candidates for delegates have as vague an idea of what the con? vention was called to do as the mass? es have of Norsemen's Valhalla but as a matter of fact, the question of how such changes in the organic law of South Carolina?changes that will af? fect future generations when condi? tions may be different, had not one ray more of light thrown on it so far as the public is concerned than when Tillman and Irby issued the address which caused the Convention to be called. During the last few weeks the Ring leaders have been seriously consider? ing the "hows," and many schemes have been discussed with a view of setting on some scheme that will stand the test of the United States Consti? tution. I have during the past few days moved about among several of the most prominent leaders on the Reform side in the State, and some light can I be thrown on the "how." woman's suffrage schemes. The woman's suffrage scheme has been fully discussed by the leaders. They have discussed a plan like this: T? put on a property qualification of say $200 for all white women, not con? sidering the negroes. This would, it was argued, give the white women in the towns a great power, while in the country it Would be a dead letter. Then the scheme of allowing all wo? men to vote under an educational qualification was discussed. This would give the State some 40,000 or 45,000 new voters; but it has been viewed as a dangerous experiment, and many reasons have been advanced why it should not be adopted. As near as I can ascertain, there now seems to be no chance whatever for "Woman's Suffrage; though a few months ago there was some likelihood of the scheme just mentioned being adopted. no property qualification. The overpowering question of the regulation of the suffrage then drifted down to the scheme of putting in a property qualification for all male vo? ters?a small one?but an examination of existing conditions showed plainly that many white men would be dis? franchised under this scheme. So this plan was rejected by the leaders. A plain, educational qualification was proposed, but for the same reason that many white countrymen would be dis? franchised, it, too, was abandoned. the mississippi plan. Other plans and schemes have been given careful consideration and much study on the quiet. It now seems certain that the following is the plan that the Ring leaders have settled upon. This plan is to extend the suf? frage to all men of twenty-one years of age in the State upon an education? al qualification, the test being a man's ability to read the Constitution of the State to the Supervisor. In addition to this for the first five years men are to be registered, who, if they cannot read the Constitution, can explain the meaning of any clauses read to them, the Supervisor to be the judge of the sufficiency of the explanation.fi Then the law will provide that at thf end of this five years all men registered dur? ing that time shall hold their certifi? cates of registration, while all who are registered thereafter will have to read the Constitution and show that they understand it. Under this plan, also, all criminals will be dis? franchised. the dispensary matter. So much for this all-absorbing suf? frage regulation. Now a word as to the dispensary. It has been long thought that the dispensary scheme would be put into the Constitution as as an entirety, but, as far as I can as? certain, there is no intention to do so. The scheme is to put clauses into the Constitution that will make constitu? tional all the features of the law which have been shown by the experience the law has had in the courts to be uncon stitutitutional. the "homestead" certain. The only other "issue" I hear re? ceiving any discussion at all is the "homestead" clause, as agitated in many counties, and it seems to be ab? solutely certain to be provided for. As to all other matters, or "issues" nothing is yet being said by those who are directing the movements of "the powers that be." They are being left to the members of the convention, and I doubt if the candidates for delegates have been giving any such matters any attention. The truth is the agitation of impos? sible schemes for division of delegates in the several counties and the atten? tion given to the legal fights which have been going on in the courts, have driven completely into the background all discussion by and before the peo? ple of the momentous question of "how" all these things were to be brought about. Maybe they have been willing to have others do the thinking. It looks so, anyhow. K. J. Watson. Tiilinan Discloses the Scham?, Branchyille, July 22.?Wheu I wrote the summary of the suffrage schemes discussed by the ring leaders, which I send with this, I had no idea that it was so soon to receive direct corroboration from the man who has beeu the head of the Reform move? ment from its very inception. But at a meeting held at Hunter's Ferry, ten miles from this place in Baruwcll county to-day, Senator Tillman made a speech in which he handled the mat? ter, and I am able to quote his exact language on the scheme. The meet? ing was one of the Barnwell county campaign meetings and during the forenoon speeches were made by the candidates in the county for delegates to the Constitutional convention. There were about 000 people present nearly all of them being Reformers and about seventy-five being ladies. Au cxcelleut dinner was served, after which Governor Kvans Bpokc, and then Senator Tillman faced the crowd. He came out squarely and gave the the scheme for the regulation cf the suffrage, making reference to his're mark at Ridgcway when advocating the calling of a Constitutional con? vention in which he asked the people to trust him and vote for the conven? tion. He stated too that in the spring after the Forty Conference he had served notice on all opposed to the Mississippi plan to get ready for the near future. Then he FULLY DISCLOSED THE SCHEME as follows: "I have given a great deal of thought to this matter. The 15th amendment is an insuperable bar to a permanent and lasting arrangement. Any scheme that may be adopted can only be temporary and will be largely dependent on white unity, as it is upon the administration of the law rather than in its language we must rely. This has been the case with the registration law and the eight box law. As long as 'no discrimination on account of race or color' can be made, even an educational qualifica? tion pure and simple would only serve its purpose of disfranchising the ne? gro while he remains ignorant. How then can we disfranchise illiterate ne? groes without at the same time taking the right of suffrage from the same class of white men ? It is easy enough and cannot be called a fraudu? lent system. The Mississippi consti tution provides that every voter must be registered and that the applicant for registration must be able to read a clause in the constitution, or be able to understand and explain it when read to him. The right to judge of the latter rests with the supervisors of registration. If the applicant can read he must be registered and there? fore allowed to vote. "QUESTION OF UNDERSTANDING." "If he cannot, it is easy to see that the negro could not understand, while the white man would. This is natur? al, as the whites are the more intelli? gent race. Couple a provision forbid? ding registration after conviction for crime, and require the applicent to be also possessed of a good moral charac? ter and you can see how many thous? ands of negroes will be disfranchised without infringing on the 15th amend? ment of the United States Constitu? tion. Should we ever have a govern? ment that would appoint registration officers who wanted to enroll the ne? groes as voters this scheme would not work. But there is a difference be? tween having it in the constitution and depending on the eight box and registration laws. A defeated minor? ity of white men could never obtain control of the government by using the negro vote. Such a minority must obtain control of the government by obtaining a white majority first and it would then have no need for the ne? gro. THE "MEAT" OF THE PLAN. "Another safeguard would be to provide that no illiterate person fail? ing of the necessary requirements for registration will be eligible after the first election, and that after five years the requirements for registration be the ability to read and write pure and simple. This would act as a spur to men of both races to fit themselves for the suffrage and would not perpet? uate the confessedly obnoxious but ne? cessary provision of trusting to the judgment of the supervisor. The charge that such a system would perpetuate dishonest elections is false." TAFFY FOR WOMEN. Continuing Senator Tillman said: "If this scheme is not adopted, then, so far as I can see, there is nothing else to do but have qualified woman's suffrage and hide behind petticoats. I am perfectly willing to give the wo? men of South Carolina the right to vote when they ask for it, but I don't believe they want it, and until they do ask for it, I prefer the other plan." The above are Senator Tillman's ex? act words, and they pretty fully cover the all important matter. It may be added thatrthis being the scheme the inaugurator of the Reform movement advocates, it will be almost certain to be adopted. (1 Senator Tillman returned to his home at Trenton this evening, being accompanied by Governor EvanB. E. J. WAT80N. One Relic Short Some time ago, when I was in the museum at Washington, a man came in with a friend of his from the coun? try. He showed the visitor the trous? ers and waistcoat worn by General "Washington, and the visitor, after ex? amining them with deep interest, ex? claimed : "And so Washington really wore those identical clothes, did he? Won? derful, wonderful." Then the man showed him Wash? ington's sword, and the visitor said : "What ? Is that the ?word he wore in battle? The very sword he wore with him when he crossed the Dela? ware, and at Valley Forge, and those places ? You don't say ! And that's the very?well, by George, it's great, its tremendous. I never expected to see such a splendid old relic as that." The man then directed his attention to Washington's camp chest, with the plates from which he used to eat, etc. And the stranger said : "No ! You don't mean to tell me that them's the exact plates he et off of. He didn't eat his vittals off of them very dishes, did he, and cut 'em up with that precise knife and fork ? Did?did he ? Well, if that ain't the most interesting thing I ever see. Makes a man feel as if those revolu? tionary times was real, don't it? And to thiuk that that great and good man actually took his nical-s on that crock? ery right before my eyes ! It's enough to make a feller holler. Then the mau asked him to move on to the next case, but he said: "Ain't there any more of themrel ics of Washington here ?" "No, those are all." "Not another one saved, anywhere?'' "I think not." "Too bad. What did they do with the lie he wouldn't tell?" Then the patriotic inquirer moved over to the next case. ? The area of rock worn away by Niagara Falls between 1875 and 1895 was 120,000 square feet. Between 1845 and 1875, only 18,500 square feet. There is more Catarrh in this scccion of the country '.hau all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incus able For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constant y falllog to cure with local treat? ment, pronounced it Incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional diseaso and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the ouly constitu? tional cure on the market. It is taken internally In doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous sirrace-i of the syitt-rn. They oiler ono hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi? monials. Address. F. J. CHENEY ft CO,. Toledo, O. ?*~Sold by Druggists, 75c, BILL ABP'S LETTER. J He Watches the Wonderful Growth of the Different Vines. Atlanta Constitution. "Big fleas have smaller fleas to bite 'em. And sc proceed ad iniinitum." Naturalists tell us that there is nothing so small but that there is something still smaller, and the only limit is one of vision, not of fact. The most powerful microscope yet made has found no limit to the infi? nite smallness of animal life. It goes on and on, and on past comprehension. These invisible creatures fill the air, the water, the food, the flesh, and make up all animal and vegetable life. We eat them and breathe them, and it J makes no difference, unless they are of a poisonous, malignant kind; and then they eat us, and we call it yellow fever or cholera or some kind of pesti? lence. J What a wonderful study is nature. I sit in the verandah and watch the vines as they climb the lattice?with what wonderful instinct they put out their delicate arms and tendrils to find something to cling to. The morning glories and madeira vines and cinna? mon vines twine around the canes, but the gourd vine will not twine at all. It grows straight up, and every few inches sends out a strong little arm or tendril that fastens around a cane or a wire and holds the vine steady. I never saw anything to grow as rapidly as this gourd vine. It was late in coming up, but has already climbed higher than the other vines. It makes a foot a day by measure? ment. I wonder how the Creator wrapped up so much sense in a tiny seed. What a condensation of life and beauty there is in the germ, the embryo of a flower seed?the seed of a carnation pink, for instance. It is a never ceasing mystery?the mystery of the flowers, the corn, the cotton, the leaves of the trees. I was talking to a friend about it last night, and he said he be? lieved that all plants were conscious of their existence and enjoyed life. Look at the pines how they bleed when cut with an ax. Look how the scar heals over, just the same as on a man when he cuts his finger. Prune it too much, and it dies. Look aj: the sensitive plant and see how it shrinks from the touch. See with what desire the leaves and flowers of these vines reach out to the morning sun. My? riads of flowers are born to blush unseen, and if they were not consci? ous of their beauty, why should they be born at all ? I used to think that everything we see was created for. the use or the pleasure of man, and that even the stars were placed in the heavens to please us. But I don't think so now. The birds do not sing for us alone. Even the sparrow that falls to the ground has the sympathy of its Crea? tor. But if a man wishes to ponder upon his insignificance let him try to grasp the extent of the universe. Sir Rob? ert Ball, of Cambridge, says, in a re? cent lecture on the stars, that there is no limit to the universe, no outside boundary?no space beyond the stars ?no space where there are no stars, and he tries to bring this idea within our reach by telling us that electricity travels on the wires 180,000 miles in a second and a message could be sent seven times around the earth in the tick of a clock, and to the moon in a second and a half and to the sun in eight minutes, but it would take four years to send a telegram to Alpha Centauri, the star that is nearest the earth. Over our heads and visible to the naked eye are stars so remote that if when Columbus discovered America he had telegraphed the news to them the message would not yet have reach? ed them. But the telescope at the Lick observatory has brought stars into view so utterly distant that if the wise men who visited the Saviour at his birth had telegraphed the glad tidings to these stars the message would still be going on and on and on at the speed of 180,000 miles every second and not have gotten there. Well, that settles it. Idon'twantto try to think any further than that. I'm afraid it would strain my mind? like Cabe said when he refused to shoot at a squirrel in the top of a very high pine?said he didn't like to strain his gun. And now the astronomers declare that this solar system of ours is a very limited affair when compared with the other solar systems that the big tele? scope has discovered. That instru? ment magnifies 1,000 times, and has actually brought the moon withiu 240 miles of the earth. I wish they would quit fooling with that moon. First thing we know it will get loose from its orbit and come tearing down upon the earth and knock a hole to the hol? low and set us all on fire. I don't see much use in the moon nohow, ex? cept to tell when to make soap and kill hogs and plant potatoes. They are making so much light by electricity now that before long we wont need any moonlight. But what arc we?we poor mortals who are jumping up and down upon this little earth?fighting, fussing and quarrelling about our rights, our property, our money. Are the angels all up among the stars and we the only sinners, the prisoners of hope, confin? ed here as a sort of Botany Bay?a place of probation where we may have a chance to repent and prepare our? selves for another habitation, even a heavenly ? Verily, it is all a mystery ?one little planet full of people who don't know whence they came nor whither they are going and who can't add a day to their existence ! They ' don't know by what power they raise an arm or step a foot forward or breathe the breath of life, but don't they brag?was there ever such a con coited, self-satisfied set of creatures ! They are carried along in space at the rate of 60,000 miles an hour, and turn a somersault every day 8,000 miles high, and sleep half the time and never stop to think who it is that holds the earth in balance and keeps them safe in their perilous journey. But don't we brag?brag about Chicago and New York and Atlanta and every? thing we do, just like we made the earth and were driving it around the sun with a pair of lines and popping a whip as we go. Was there ever such cheek and assurance ? But there is another side to this picture. The people are not all fools and braggarts. There are some who ponder on these things and humble themselves under the mighty hand of the Creator. And Revelation tells us that we arc of very great consequence ; that we were made in the image of our Maker; a little lower than the angels, and the mind can't conceive what has been prepared in heaven for those who love God and keep His com mandments. Then what else should we do ? A happy, trusting poet said : "The world is very lovely?0 my God I thank Thee that I live." Well, it is lovely, and it grows more so as the years roll on. The houses are prettier, and our homes more com? fortable. The horses are fineJ, and so are the cattle and hogs and chickens and dogs. The farms and orchards are finer. I came by Tifton and Cycloneta the other day and it was a feast to look upon the long rows of trees laden with peaches and pears and plums and figs and everything good to eat. Cycloneta is the pret? tiest farm I ever saw anywhere. Here are 2,000 acres in the piney woods that Mr. Sparks cleared and cultivated as an experiment, and it has proved a great success. It is a luxury to look at it?the corn and cotton and oats and vegetables alternating in the long luxuriant rows. And then the orchards ladened with bushels and bushels of blushing fruit. This farm has paid good dividends, and there arc thou? sands of acres all around it that arc just as good. After all it is the man and the plan that succeeds in any? thing, and one man's success affects a whole neighborhood. For miles around Cycloneta and Tifton the farmers are doing better than they ever did, for they have an example before them and try to imitate it. Bill Arp. The Mind or a Blind Man. Over in Berkeley, at the State Uni? versity, and among its most successful students, is a young man who has to rely upon four of the five avenues by which men gain information of the outer world, yet he has not only ac? quired great power as a mathematician, a reasoner and a teacher, but he has actually gained more knowledge of ex? ternal nature than a great share of people possess. Newell Perry is* now 21 years of age and has been totally blind since the age of 9, when a bad case of poison oak left him sightless. His childhood had been that of the average healthy boy, except that his powers of obser? vation were uncommonly exercised and his mind was well stored with pictures of sea and sky and hill and valley. These recollections of early years have been of inestimable value to him since his loss of sight, serving to guide and correct his conception of things, which maturer studies have brought him. After his blindness young Perry was sent to the State Institution for the Blind, where he soon distinguished himself as a student. He had before acquired the ability to read and han? dle simple figures. In his word under the teachers tensify the senses left him. If he could now read with much less facility than formerly, still reading came to mean much more to him. His mind was free to throw all its powers into forming the conceptions suggested by the words. If he could not now manage large numbers so readily by the U3e of written figures, he soon ac? quired the ability to carry and manip? ulate comparatively large numbers in his mind with marvellous accuracy and rapidity. Young Perry's advance from the in? stitution for the blind to a city high school, and thence to the State Uni? versity was rapid. In his later studies he has always employed a reader to save time. He selects for this office a person who is willing to be guided, who will be a passive instrument and literally "lend his eyes." In these years his rank as a student has always been good?among the best, in fact, and in mathematics especially it has been extremely high. The construc? tion for the most complex geometrical problem can be drawn in his mind and held there while the comparisons are being made which lead to the solution. The profundities of the differential and integral calculus, so full of dread to most minds, are pleasures to a men? tality of his grasp and concentration. An instance may illustrate young Perry's power. He requested a student to read to him several logarithms which he wished to use, and three or four were read of fifteen figures each. Per? ry requested that they be read a second time, after which he went to his room ro use the sixty figures, each in its proper place. It is-an ordinary thing for him to work with an algebraic ex? pression of twenty terms, carving it in his mind through all the changes of a mathematical computation. But not only in mathematics is Per? ry's wonderful ability displayed. He speaks, reads and writes the German language. He is exceedingly well read in history and English literature. He is a thorough student of the natural sciences, possessing the spirit of an investigator and the habit of strict r asoning. He is an excellent musician, and, strange to say, a fair dancer. One of the surprising powers pos? sessed by-Perry is his ability to direct his movements nearly or quite as well as can the average man. Many per? sons who meet him upon his rambles over the Berkeley hills or see him take the train for San Francisco or pass him upon crowded Market street do not realize that he has not the advan? tage of optical vision. So remarkably accurate are his movements on the street, in a jostling crowd, in descend ding a stairway two steps at a time, in entering a crowded lodging house and finding the room of his friend and selecting the book he wishes to borrow in his friend's absence, in traversing new paths with as much case and con? fidence as those well known, in riding upon his bicycle along the busy streets, that one is compelled to wonder if the much-talkcd-of sixth sense be not there beautifully exemplified; if some kind of spiritual vision more reliable than ordinary sight be not his fortunate possession. He, himself, docs not know how to account for his success in moving around. He just goes where he wishes without any attention to how he does it-; without realizing that he is in any respect different from other men until the realization is forced upon him by somebody's remark. Perry has already demonstrated his great ability in teaching. Among those students who arc seeking the services of a private tutor, either to be prepared for the university or to remedy some backwardness in univer? sity studies. Perry's success is well known, and his instruction is widely sought. The same intensity of vision, orderly arrangement of ideas and ful? ness of information which have made his own great success as a student ad? mirably fit him to help other students. And so reliable is his wonderful mem? ory that he can direct a student to the exact page of his text book where a required piece of information is to be found. When Mr. Perry is pursuing his own studies his reader is requested to announce the number of each page, and thereafter the blind man knows where that information can be found. ?San Francisco Chronicle. ? ? Cholly : "Miss S. is the sharpest girl I know." Chumley : "Yes : she cuts me every time I meet her." That ''Bloody Angle" Again. Editor Intelligenter : In your issue of week before last there was an article from B. F. Brown, of Au? gusta, Ga., in which he gives a de? scription of the "Bloody Angle," or the battle of Spottsylvania C. II., Va. I, then a boy of 17 years, was present, and there I, too, shed my first blood. I was about 20 feet to the left of the oak that was cut down by rifle balls, near a white oak that was badly torn by bullets, when one struck it and splinters from the tree struck my chin and went to the bone. The wound bled freely for a few minutes, but was soon forgotten, a3 the entire line just then ceased firing, and the big, tall Yankee, that Mr. Brown mentions, came up to where I was standing and asked us toosurrender. When he found that we would not surrender, he made an attempt to run back to his own line, and had got some 20 feet from our works, when the ringing report of a rifle was heard, and the Yankee fell on his face dead. The fatal shot was fired by a beardless youth of Harris' Mississippi Brigade. Mr. Brown is mistaken about the man getting back to the enemy's line, for that happened about the middle of the afternoon, and at dark he was lying in the same position in which he fell. The boy was severely rebuked for firing the fatal shot. We fought all day. I would wish for night to come, so the fighting would stop, but it seemed as though the day would never come to an end ; but, after what we imagined to be about two days, darkness set in, but the firing was as brisk as ever, until near midnight when it began to slack up a little, but only for a short time, as we received orders to rise and fire as one man, and to aim low in front of the breastworks. We did so, and by the flash of so many guns at once we could see the enemy's soldiers not ten feet in our front, where they had crawled up to take us by surprise, but many of them never lived to get back. Oh ! that awful day and night. It will never be forgotten by those pres? ent. When we got out of there, we found our General, our Colonel, and our Captain were wounded, and thir? teen non-commissioned officers and privates failed to answer at roll-call in our Company. J. B. C, Co. K, Orr's Regiment, McGowan's Brigade. A Fnneral and a Feast. On last Sunday, July 14, at 12 o'clock, at Zion Baptist Church; near the North Carolina State Line, in the famous cotton valley neighborhood, the funeral of Mrs. J. C. Graham, was preached by the Rev. Mr. Tart. The bereaved husband with his three little orphan girls went over from Dillon on the train to the funeral of the departed wife and mother. Mrs. Graham was sick when she moved to Dillon nearly two years ago. She was never able to be up but very little from then until the time of her death. She was affected with consumption. Quite a number of friends and rela? tives assembled at Zion Church to pay their last sad respects to the de? parted Mrs. Graham. It was a scene calculated to excite the deepest sym? pathy for the sorrowing husband and motherless little children. In all the congregation of sorrowing friends thero was no one whose affec? tion for the bereft husband and chil? dren were more deeply stirred nhan were those of Miss Francis Campbell, of, .Cotton Valley. The many little ? Sntions of kindness to the orphan owildren were not wholly unheeded by the observant father, and he became convinced that Miss Campbell would make a good stepmother. After the service was over he at once sought and obtained the consent of Miss Campbell to become his second wife. Without further delay, at 4 o'clock sharp, just four hours after the funeral of his first wife, he led the blushing bride to the Hymeneal altar where the twain were made one, and the 6 o'clock train brought the happy couple to Dillon, where they will make their future home.?Dillon Herald. A Witty Irishman"; One day in attending to applica? tions for the police force, the mayor was about to appoint an Irishman. One of the competitors called out: "What! are you going to appoint him? He cannot write his name, your hon? or." The man was then told to call again in two weeks. As the people were leaving the hall, a friend came to the Irishman and said, "Now, Pat, go home, take a pen, and keep on writ? ing your name, and I will set you the copy." When the fortnight was up, Pat made his appearance at the hall, and the mayor said, "Can you write ?" "Yes, your honor." "Well, take that pen and let me see you write your name." To the surprise of the bystanders he took up the pen and wrote his name. Some one said to the mayor: "Tell him to write someone else's name." His honor said, "Well thought of : Write my name, Pat." The Irishman said, "What! write your name and commit forgery ? I cannot do it, your honor." ? It is estimated that the late con? vention of Christian Endeavors, in Boston, cost the members in railroad fares, hotel bills end other necessary expenses not less than$1,000,000. It is a good deal of money for a demon? stration. ? Mrs. Rhodie Noah, of this place, was taken in the night with cramping pains and the next day diarrhoea set in. She took half a bottle of black? berry cordial but got no relief. She then sent to me to sec if I had any thfhg-that would help her. I sent her a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and the first dose relieved her. Another of our neighbors had been sick for about a week and had tried different reme? dies for diarrhoea but kept gettiug worse. I sent him this same remedy. Only four doses of it were required to cure him. He says he owes his re? covery to this wonderful remedy.? Mrs. Mary Sibley, Sidney, Mich. For 1 sale by-Hill Bros. Too Horse And the Bicycle. From the New York Sun. The present prices of horses of av? erage and even the better quality are lower than ever before in the history of the market. The business of horse raising has ceased to be profitable, unless it is confined to varieties of the breed for which there is a fashionable demand or which are distinguished for their speed. At the same time there is a falling off in the demand for car? riages. With very good reason, the horse dealers attribute this decline in great part to the present passion for bicycle riding; and the use of electricity and cables, for horse traction on the street railways throughout the Union has, of-course, very much to do with it. The horse has been displaced, to a large extent, by these new agencies both as a beast of burden and an an? imal used for pleasure. The dealers, however, profess, and perhaps feel, confident that the competition of the bicycle is due to a merely passing fancy or hobby. They say that the passion for bicycle riding is too violent to last, and that in the course of one or two years the horse will resume his place in the interest and affections of men and women, and the machine will be laid away as a toy of which people have grown weary. The diminution of the demand for draught horses be? cause of the substitution of electricity for horse power, they admit, will con? tinue indefinitely and steadily become J greater. Here in New York, for in- j stance, the time is near at hand when it will displace horses entirely from the street railways, and the same will be the case with the cities and towns of the Union generally. The experi? ments with carriages run by electricity or petrolenm, which have been made recently in France, suggest that the horse will have a new competitor not merely in the cities, but along country roads and in agricultural operations. As it is, a very fair horse can be bought for about the price of a cow. The rare and incontestably superior beast may fetch about as much as ever, but the ordinary horse of ordinary and even good breeding is very cheap. The use of the bicycle has increased at a rapid rate during the last year. It would be safe to say that there are three times as many wheelers as there were last summer, though then the number was great. Probably there are five times as many. The level roads in the neighborhood of New York are crowded with bicycle riders on Saturday afternoon more especially, and on all days they are numerous, and much more numerous than the people who drive horses for pleasure. Men who were once accustomed to take a drive for recreation when they reach? ed the country from town, now to a large and increasing extent prefer bi? cycles. Consequently the driving has undergone a very perceptible diminu? tion. Neither are they generally young fellows of sporting proclivities. Very many of them are gray haired men, who declare that they find in wheeling a needed recreation which driving doeB not furnish. Very many of them also are women, old and young. A great part of the country girls themselves are now expert wheelers, and the fem? inine visitors from town swell the numbers largely. Doubt as to the propriety of riding a bicycle has pass? ed away, for fashion has set its stamp of approval on the practice and sup? plied conspicuous examples of it which have released the feminine mind from fear of offending conventionality by I mounting a bicycle. Accordingly, man and wife, father and daughters, are frequently seen wheeling along the j roads together in a high state of en? joyment. The ambition to acquire the art of managing the machine, thus stimulat? ed, is rapidly extending among men and women both, and as it is easily gratified now that numerous schools for the preliminary instruction have been established, the practice of bicycle riding is increasing faster than at any previous time since the machine was introduced and brought to perfection. If people cannot afford to buy bicycles they hire them. Meantime the use of the bicycle simply as a means of transportation and for business pur? poses is extending correspondingly. It is in general employment in the country by messengers, mechanics, professional men, merchants, school teachers, and all persons who have long or considerable distances to go in the pursuit of their business. Chil? dren ride it to school. Clergymen use it even in making their pastoral visits, doctors in going their rounds. Its first cost paid, it requires no f urthei expenditure except for occasional re? pairs. It does not have to be fed like a horse, and no one needs to be hired to take care of it. It extends greatly the region over which carpenters, ma? sons, plumbers, or gardeners can make their work profitable, and to suca it has become indispensable. They have all the advantages and none of the dis? advantages involved in keeping a horse. They can make better time than the millionaire in his costly equipage. Accordingly, the assumption of horse dealers that bicycle riding is a mere fad, an ephemeral hobby, docs not seem to be justified. Evidently the machine has come to stay. It may be that its use simply for sport and rec? reation will diminish hereafter, some? thing else coming up to replace it in the popular fancy, but before that de? cline sets in, if it does occur, the pas? sion for bicycle riding will doubtless increase and extend greatly. Multi? tudes of people yet remain to be af? fected by it; but as a machine for various use as a means of necessary transportation it must continue to be employed permanently by greater and greater numbers of people. Very many of them, it is true, have never been horse buyers, but the machine will enable thousands of people in all parts of the Union who have depended on horses to get along without them wholly or in part. Only five more years remain of this century, but they are likely to be accompanied by some of the most important changes in civ? ilization, wrought by new means of transportation and locomotion, which have occurred since this wonderful nineteenth century of mechanical in? vention and scentific discovery was ushered in. ? Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cures colds, croup and whooping cough. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by Hill Bros. ? The Ecvercud L. II. Buge has resigned the pastorate of Memorial Methodist Church, at Has ton, Pa., owing to domestic troubles that led recently to his separation from his wife. The clergyman was married less than a year ago to Miss Clara Ludlow, of Statcn Island, N. Y. Her parents are Episcopalians. They in? terfered, it is said, with thahusband's affairs and wanted him to leave the Methodist fold, which he refused to All Sorts of Paragraphs, ? "What kind of sewing should wicked people do ? They should mend their ways. ? When bees do not go out as. usual, but keep in or about their hives, rain may be expected. ? The largest ocean creature now: known to exist is the rorqual, which often reaches a length of 140 feet. ? "Cannot we become one pleaded earnestly. "That depe replied the new girl. "Which ? "Who was Joshua Sunday School teacher the man who comman stand still; and he did it. ? It is stated as an interestin ciological fact that in?London one hundred widowers who marry again twelve marry their housekeep? ers. ? There is a tree in Jamaica known as the life tree on account of its leaves growing even after being severed from the plant. Only by fire can it be en? tirely destroyed. ? Three good washes arc received by an Abyssinian during his career? - at his birth, on his marriage morn, and at his death. At all other times. he shuns soap and water. ? We exported less wheat to for eign countries by 12 per cent, this year than last year. The cheapness was not even an inducement. Rus? sia supplied our deficiency. ? Experience is the best teacher in regard to what we eat. If an article^ of consumption gives us no trouble afterward, continue to eatit;?if it makes us sick, let it alone. ? Editor D. B. Cook, of The Niles, (Mich.) Mirror, has been a printer sixty-six years. He is now 80 years old, but can stick type as rapidly as any compositor in his office. ? Some philosophers have observed that "To be a good conversationalist. . one must need be a good listener. This is especially true if the conver? sation is to be by telephone. ? Proud Mother?Yes, my love, it was on this very spot, 21 years ago, your father proposed to me. Fair Daughter (carried away with interest) ?And did you accept him, mamma ? ' ? A woman-hater, an old bachelor of Vienna, who recently died there, directed his heirs to buy a vacant grave on each side of his, so that even in death no woman could be placed h near him. ? It is stated that wasps' nests often take fire, supposed to be cimred? by the chemical action of the wax*' upon the paper material of the nest itself. This fact may account for many mysterious fires. ? The largest sycamore tree in Ohio grows on the farm of Henry Peters, near Upper Sandusky. It is 160 feet in height and 48 feet in cir? cumference at the base. That ought to be called the sycamost tree. _> ? One of the most noted architects of Boston, Dennis Reardon, has been totally blind since his ninth year. He designed the plans for the Boston 15. brary, the natural history building", and many other prominent edifices. ? Little Boy: "How soon are ycu and sis goin' to be married cepted Suitor: "She has no teamed the day yet. I hope she doesnot be-**, lieve in long engagemeoTs." Little > boy : "She doesn't. Iknow^ 'cause all her engagements have"been fchort." ? A French physician says^t^at biting the nail is a mark of incipient nervous degeneration. He believes it to be hereditary. From statistics^ gathered by ? him among school chil? dren it is shown that almost one-third arc nail-biters, and that the habit is more noticeable among girls than boys. ? A law goes into effect on July 1896, in the State of Connecticut, which provides that all vehicles hav- j ing an axle two inches square, or of equivalent capacity, shall be equipped with tires not less than four inches in" width; those with an axle an inch and 1 three-quarters squaro must have three- g inch tires, and an axle an inch and a half square calls for tires two and a half inches wide. The penalty at? tached is $100. ? "I tell you how it is with me, Mrs. Blodgett," said the dressy neighbor. "When I go to Church and get all stirred up over what a desperate wick- j ed set we are, I feel vexed and put out- \ to think what a shame it was that Eve < didn't mind her own business and not < bring such heaps of trouble upon us; j but when I put on a new dresajhjit J fits me no nice I can't find a particle of fault with it, and a hat that makes every woman I meet feel as though she hadn't a friend in the world, then I own up that I feel downright glad she was fond of fruit, and I can't help it." ? The old theory that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, or the same object, is stoutly refuted by William Tussick. Last night he had been in bed half an hour when lightning struck his house, ran down the wall on the inside, picked him up and threw him out of bed to the floor. It was no gentle hand which used him thus, and it was some time before he recovered from the shock. Lightning seems determined to secure Mr. Tus? sick for a victim. About 20 years ago he was struck and knocked insensible by a bolt, but was all right again in a few days.?Philadelphia Record. ? Last summer one of our grand children was sick with a severe bowel trouble. Our doctor's remedies had failed, then we tried Chambendn's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave very speedy relief. Wc regard it as the best medicine ever put on the market for bowel com? plaints.?Mrs. E. Gr. Gregory, Fred erickstown, Mo. This certainly is the best medicine ever put on the m. rket for dysentery, summer complaint, colic and cholera infantum. It never fails to give prompt relief when used in reasonable time and the plain printed directions are followed. Many mothers have expressed their sincere gratitude for the cures it has effected. For sale by Hill Bros. ? An exchange tells that a stoiy was heard the other day of a father and mother who were trying to find names for their twin babies, who, by the way, were girls. It wa3 decided that the father must name them. After casting about and finding no names that exactly suited him he de? termined to end the strain on his mind and named them Kate and Duplicate. In the course of time another pair of twins came and they were boys. This was the husband's opportunity to get even and he wanted his wife to chris- . ten the boys. Imagine his feelings when the mother one day told him she had named them Pete and RepeatT" But when the third pair came the father -grew frightened and named them Max and Clima^, an I 1, '