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BY CLINKSC ALES & LANGSTON. ANDEKSCN, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOKNING, AUGUST 7,1895. VOLUME XXX.?NO. 6. THE ALWAYS needs 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 Fair 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 Eyaporators, With the Patent Caps. Chattanooga Portable Furnaces. Cook's Galvanized Steel and Copper Evaporators. Cook's Portable Furnaces. J?* We invite your attention to the above, on vf hich we can save yon money. . SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. To the People who Enow Tis, To the People who don't Enow Us, TO EVERYBODY, ON ft AND ALL. - WE ARE - SELLING GOODS CHEAP FOR THE CASH. D. P. &UOAJST & CO. OLD BACHELOKS ANNOT 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 come and see the nice things we can furnish them for their tables. We have the goods, guarantee them to be pure and fresh, and the prices VERY LOW. Give us a call. G. F. BIGBY. FURNITURE! FURNITURE! LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS ! W 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 heurti of in this Country before ! And prices it is impossible for any one else to buy the same quality of Goods for. When you uecd anything in the Furniture line give us a call, and? WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. Prices Lower than Cotton at 5c. Yours for business, Q. F. TOLLY & SON, * The Leaders of Low Prices. j. P. SULLIVAN it CO., -Will sell yonjhe ? Best Coffee, Th Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, AH for las? Money thia you have been paying. J. P.SUL.UVAN&CO, BILL ARP'S LETTER. He Names Over a Number of Questions That are Agitating. Atlanta Constitution. It takes a long time for big things to settle down so that we may get the truth and the facts. I was ruminat? ing about this in connection with the great battle of Manassas that was fought thirty-four years ago last Sun? day. This is one time that the day of the week and the day of the month corresponded with the anniversary of that battle. Thirty-four years have passed and this generation is just be? ginning to understand what the war was about. Northern histories have been so partial and one-sided that the young folks have been surprised and astonished that our people fought so hard and so long with so little to fight for. But the truth is gradually dawn? ing upon the nation. Southern his? tories have been written and introduc? ed in Southern schools and our chil? dren are becoming our defenders. I see that Mrs. Susan Pendleton Lee, the gifted daughter of General Pendle? ton, has written a history of the Uni? ted States, and has without reserve told the story of the late civil war, and the United Confederate Veterans, in their great meeting at Houston, have as fearlessly indorsed it. In a few years more the South will be vin? dicated, but it takes a long time. Eighty years have passed since Na? poleon figured in Europe and even now historians differ widely about events and motives concerning him. Mar? shal Ney was shot in 1815 or he died in North Carolina in 1845, nobody knows which. For several years we have been waiting for the truth about the Ha? waiian Islands, but it has not yet been written from a non-partisan stand? point. Conservative people don't know what to believe. The mission? aries used to tell us that the Sand? wich islanders were cannibals fifty years ago, but had all become Chris? tians and had schools and church.es like we have. Later accounts say that political schemers and unprinci? pled scoundrels from our country have plundered that unhappy land and re? duced those natives to beggars and subjection. And now we read that another set are arming vessels to drive the first set out under pretense of helping the Datives. I wonder what are the facts in the case ? And what about Cuba ? Who knows ? The prevailing idea is that Spain is a tyrant and has got those Cubans by the throat and they want to govern themselves and set up a Eepublican form of government like ours. But a knowing man, who has been there, told me that those Cu? bans were mostly negroes of the most degraded kind and were Dot fit to gov em themselves and all this rumpus was being raised by a few filibuster? ing Americans, who want to capture the island and divide out the offices and get rich off the sugar plantations that the Spaniards are cultivating. There was a big fuss raised and lots of sympathy extended about an editor whom the Spaniards had confined in Moro castle, but Homer Eeed says he found out the other day that the editor was a coal-black coon who had been very scandalous in his paper. And so the question comes up, "Is Cuba worth helping ?" David wrote, "I said in mine haste all men are liars," and the old Scotch preacher took that for his text and remarked : "Ah, David, David, if ye had lived till now ye might have said it at your leisure, me mon." Arc we a nation of liars ? Bead the papers and say! Who knows what to believe ? While I was in Florida the other day I read from the New York Recorder an awful account about Tavares being attacked- by rat? tlesnakes and the people had to turn out with guns and rocks and thrash poles aud they killed over 400 in the streets one Sunday morning and in two days had killed over a thousand and the people were terror-stricken. The article went into many details and told about a woman who putheriufant child in a tub while she was washing in another tub, and a big rattler got his head over the edge of the tub and she bad to kill him with her battling stick. I asked a Tavares man about it and he was amazed. "Why," said he, "it is a lie?a lie without any foundation. Some lyingrcporter made it up for a sensation." And not long after I read that there was yellow fever in Tampa and the people were flying from the city. I was in Tampa that very clay and knew it was a lie. Of course the paper took it all back the next day and said it was a mistake, but there is no telling the damage that such mistakes do. If a reporter who is running around for news cots up a lie for a sensation he should be turned off instanter. And here is the silver question that has been the subject of more oxager ation than will ever be forgiven in the day of judgment?more crimination and slander and suppression of the truth. And nothing is yet settled about it. Who knows what is best ? When we sec such statesmen as Mor jan and Vest and Harris and Daniel and George and Blackburn and Crisp and Black and McLauriu and a host of others on one side and as many notable men on the other side, what right has a common man to jump up and swear that he knows all about it and that those who don't think with him arc fools. But T reckon the next election will settle it, and I wish it was over, for the people are getting mighty tired of the whole business. Aud there is another question that comes up periodically and has recently come up again. Does education les? sen crime ? Some philanthropists arc getting concerned about this, and well they may. for the statistics of every State in the Union establish the fact that education of the kind the people are getting increases crime?not a little, but immensely, and yet we go on and on with it and the clamor comes for more and more. Just look over the daily papers and sec how the record of crime is increasing?not misdemeanors, but the most awful crimes?not only away off in Ohio, but right here in Georgia. But I for? bear. I wiote this all up two years ago and gave the figures from the ap? proved reports of the penitentiary and the prisons and the jails and the workhouses from Massachusetts to Texas, and they were all alike, so far as increase was concerned, lladcnt we better stop and think about this and take a lesson from Prussia as to kind of education that will diminish crime ? Who shall the good and vir? tuous girls marry nowadays ? Where are the young men who are worthy of them ? There arc at least forty young marriageable girls in this town of good families who would make good wives, but where avo the voune men to whom the fathers would entrust them . There are not teu?are there five Marriage is at a discount?not be cause these girls are fast or extrava? gant or ride a bicycle, but because the young men are generally no account, or dissipated or can't support a wife. Sonic of them will spree all night long and go to a dance the next night with a respectable girl. How many young married women have separated from their husbands or been divorced or abandoned ? About that bicycle craze, as it is called. I confess that I cannot see anything wrong or immodest about it when the dress is modest. It all depends upon that. I saw two young girls in Tampa ride up the street and alight at the postoffice and get their mail and mount again and ride away and nobody thought it anything wrong or immodest. I am sure it never oc? curred to me, and I was obliged to admire them and the grace of their evolutions. I .don't think that mar? ried women who are settled, as they say, nor very large 200-pounders, should ride them. There are many things that young girls may do that their mothers should not. As to the dress we are all the creatures of pre? judice, and the costume of the coun? try we live in has much to do with our prejudice. In Italy and Switzerland and Audalusia the grown up maidens all dress in short skirts that show the ankle and a pretty cross-laced hose above it, and it is all right over there. I've seen the pictures of these pretty maidens and like their costume, but it would be shocking over here. I will make another confession. I can see no good reason?save custom? why ladies should not ride a horse like a man if they ride at all. It is cer? tainly the safer way. I can't see any good reason why a woman should not practice medicine among her own sex. In fact, I think they should have the preference, and if some enterprising woman should establish a female med? ical college it would be liberally pat? ronized. The time is near at hand when the women will have to run the machine or it will not be done. The time is past for confining women to the fireside when there is no support for them there. Paul spoke for his own time and its customs?not for ours?when he said that long hair was the glory of woman. It was worn long, but now it is done up and secur? ed with hairpins. Who ever saw a painting of Eve or of Mary Magdalene or any Jewish woman of that day with her hair done up in a wad on the back of her head. How could Mary have wiped the Savior's feet with her hair if it had been a switch or was done up with pins. Paul no doubt was fasci? nated with woman's tresses as we all are. Even some of our notable men admired long hair so much that they wore their own hair down upon their shoulders. Joseph Henry Lumpkin and L. Q. C. Lamar wore theirs very long and so does Dr. Hawthorne and Roger A. Pryor, and I don't suppose there is any harm in it, even though they were not Nazarenes. A great man . can afford to do it, for it does give him a "Jupiter tonans" appear? ance. . ''He shakes his ambrosial locks and gives the nod." As to women talking in church, I hope they will not make a business of it and we could say the same of some men we know. But if she talks well and makes the world better, let her talk. She teaches our children in the public schools and Sabbath Schools and why not in the Church ? The fact is, if woman was allowed to be our lawmaker for one session she would wake up the nation on the whiskey business, wouldn't she ? Then let her make progress in every 'good work. We know very well that it is her natural desire to marry and be a mother, but if there is no pros? pect of that what must she do ? Go to the missionary society or visit the sick, you may say. That won't buy bread nor clothing. I heard a preacher say, "Would you make amazons of our women?" There were no Ama? zons and Amazonia has been stricken from the modern maps, for neither the country nor the women could be found. Humboldt says he searched diligently and found an old man over there who said his grandfather told him he saw four oue time?four wo? men astride of horses and armed with spears?but he says from his best in? formation these were a few dusky slave women who escaped from their captors and fled far into the interior and built a fort to protect themselves, and there, in course of time, they all died. This amazon story is all a myth, but if it was not, it does.not follow that our men will ever get so low as to let the women do the fight? ing. And now there is a big contro? versy about the old woman who killed her husband. No, I wouldent hang her. It was an awful crime for a wo? man to do, but I wouldent hang any woman. But look how many men have killed their wives or sweethearts in the last six months. It is getting as common as suicides. What is the matter with the country and who will protect the girls when we are gone ? Bill Art. Bo Good 1o Yourself. This is a common admonition, and it is full of important meaning. A man should take as good care of him? self as he does of his horse ; but how few do this ! If you do not take care of yourself, no one can take care of you. Take care of your body. Con? sider its needs. "Make up your mind firmly not abuse it. Eat nothing that will hurt it'; wear nothing which dis? torts or pains it. Ho not overload it with victuals, or drink, or work. (Jive yourself regular and abundant sleep. Keep your body warmly clad. As the first signal df danger from any of the thousand enemies which surround you, defend yourself. Do not take cold ; guard yourself against it; if you feel the first symptoms, give yourself heroic treatment; get into a fine glow of heat by exercise. This is the only body you will ever have in this world. A large share of pleasure and pain of life will come through the use you make of it. Study deeply and dili? gently the structure of it, the laws which govern it, the pains and penal? ties which will surely follow a viola? tion of every law of life and health." Glorify God in your body, and let your body be a temple of the Holy Ghost, that God may dwell in you and walk in you. $100 Reward. SIOO. Tin1 readers of this phper will be pleased lo learn thai. Hiera is at least one dreaded disease) that pr i ence has been aide to cure in all its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only posi? tive cure now known to iho medical fraternity. Catarrh keine aconi-titutional disease reipires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is tak.-n internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de? stroying the foundation of the di ease, and giving the pa ticnt strength by building up the constitu? tum and assisting nature in doing its work. Tho proprietors have >o initch Mill in its curative powers,that they ofTer One Hundred ) ollars for any ca-e (h il it tails to cure. Semi f?ir list of tes? timony!;. Address F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by Pr?ftet*, IS THE SOUL IMMORTAL. Cardinal Gibbons Believes in a Future Life. Hope springs eternal In the human breast, Man never Ts, but always to be blest. Tbo soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. The knowledge of one's self, the history of others who have passed away, and faith in God compel the belief in the immortality of the soul. Within one hundred years nearly all who now walk the earth will have bid farewell to the scenes of life, and their bodies will be a forgotten and insig? nificant portion of the earth upon which they tread. Though no fact is more evident than death, though noth? ing is more certain to the learned and unlearned alike, yet there i3 in all the millions who now inhabit the earth a something that reaches beyond the grave, a something that peers through the portals of death, a something which says : I shall not, I must not die. Besides the body, which will soon be consigned to the grave, there is a principle by which we move, and live, and have our being. This principle we call the soul. This soul has intel? lectual conceptions and operations of reason and judgment. Our minds grasp what the senses cannot reach. We think of God and of His attri? butes ; we have thoughts of justice and of truth ; we know the difference between good and evil. This consci? ousness is inexplicable on the basis of a solely material principle of being. All nations, ancient and modern, whether professing the true or a false religion, have believed in the immor? tality of the soul, how much soever they may have differed as to the na? ture of future rewards and punish? ments, or the mode of future exist? ence. Such was the faith of ancient Greece and Borne, as we learn from the writing of Homer, Virgil and Ovid. Belief in the soul's immortality _ was held by the ancient Egyptians,' Chaldeans and Persians and other nations of Asia. Grotius testifies that faith in a future life likewise existed among the Germans, Gauls, Britons and other tribes of Europe. The In? dians of North and South America looked forward to the happy hunting grounds, reserved in after life for the brave. This belief in a future life was not confined to the uncultivated masses. It was taught by the most eminent writers and philosophers among the enlightened and polished nations of ant:qiity. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca and Plutarch, guided by the light of reason only, proclaimed their belief in the soul's immortality. "The belief which we hold," says Plutarch, "is so old that we cannot trace its author or its origin, and it dates back to the most remote anti? quity." Even idolatry implied are cognition of the soul's immortality, for how could men pay honor to de? parted heroes if they believed that death is the end of man's existence ? Belief in the soul's immortality fol? lows necessarily from a belief in an all wise God. God, who created noth? ing without a purpose, has given us a desire to know, and a longing to be happy. Man's intellect is not confin? ed to the narrow limits of the body. It reaches down to the unexplored depths of the sea ; it wings its flight to the heavenly orbs ; it enters into most subtle substances, penetrates the matter that composes them and separ? ates their elements ; it dissects its own thoughts ; while the carnal body can at best serve as an unwieldly pivot, upon which this time-defy? ing principle depends. Yet when analysis and calculation have exhaust? ed their powers, the intellect of man still finds itself balked by unsolvable problems. Can it be that this intel? lect, so superior to the body of man, will perish forever, with its capacity for knowing still unsatisfied ? Why this insatiable desire for hap? piness ? Is it in vain ? Yet ask any one of the millions who now live: Was there ever a time in your life when the cup of bliss was filled, was there ever a moment when you had all you desired and feared not its loss ? Not one could answer yes, for death would say, with a hollow, mocking laugh : Thou fool, I come. Ask the miser who loves his wealth : Have you enough ? His answer, accentua? ted by his thin, meagre form, will be : More, still more. Ask the ambitious man, who loves self: Are you satis? fied ? His answer will be : Higher, still higher. Ask the sensual man : Did you find happiness in the gratifi? cation of your appetites ? He will answer : "Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity." Ask the affectionate father or husband as he stands at the grave of his beloved. He will answer: We shall meet again. God has given us a desire for per? fect felicity, which He intends to be one day fully gratified, and if this felicity cannot be found, as we have seen, in the present life, it must be reserved for the time to come. And as no intelligent being can be content? ed with any happiness that is infinite in duration, we must conclude that it will be eternal, and that consequently the soul is immortal. Life that is not to be crowned with the immortality is not worth living. "If a life of happi? ness," says Cicero, "is destined to end it cannot be called a happy life." It must be so. Plato, thou reason'st well Klse whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Of whence this spcret dread and Inward horror Of falling into naught V Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at destruction 1 'Tu the divinity that stirs within us. 'Tis Heaven iUolf that points oatau hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. God is all good and all just. Yet, if death end all, how can we reconcile our experience of the world with our idea of God's goodness and justice ? If death be the end of all, where would be the reward of virtue, the punishment of evil ? Vice that ridi? cules and virtue that suffers, are they to have the same reward V The hon? est man and the thief, made equal by death ? The innocent maiden, seduc? ed and betrayed, to have the same destiny as the selfish villain who laughs at her downfall? St. Vincent de Paul, who renounced the pleasures of domestic life to rescue the father? less waifs of the street, and the vi? cious wretch who sent these innocent orphans of unlitled fatherhood into a cheerless world, both to be treated alike by death ? If death ends all, why restrain the inclinations of our vicious appetites ? If the soul be not immortal, we would say with Caesar. "Virtue thou art but an empty word." Society, with its laws, is only a tyrant, patriotism an insane senti? ment, if the soul is annihilated by the hand of death. The soldier is or? dered to a post of danger. If he leaves it, he saves his life, but at the command of duty he remains and dies. Where is his reward ? The honors that arc paid to his memory ? What I benefit to him if Mr undaunted soul has ceased to exist ? To sacrifice one's self for the public good is noble, generous and sublime; but if every? thing were to end with death, such a sacrifice of life would be insanity, for the soldier sacrifices, gratuitously throws away, a something which if death end all is of incalculable benefit to him?his life. Destroy the belief in the soul's immortality, and there will no longer exist a sufficient motive for heroic patriotism. Eradicate this belief, and the world becomes the theatre of anarchy and crime. Remember the result of the experiment when tried by France. Figuier, the materialist, hesitated not to say, "It was not patriotism but materialism that destroyed the monu? ments of France." Destroy this be? lief, and duty becomes but a "rope of sand." Religion, virtue, civilization and liberty arc parts of the same chain, linked together by a belief in the inf mortality of the soul. Break this necessary connection and the whole chain will go. 'Tis immortality, 'tis that alono Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, eleiate and fill. J. Card Gibbons. Fonr Tears 4 part. After four years of enforced separa? tion little Leola Videto has at last been restored to her mother. During all these years the little girl has been in the custody of a father, who, if all accounts be true, has treated her with incredible brutality. The scene when the mother and child met at police headquarters yes? terday was affecting and brought tears to the eyes of those who witnessed it. With a glad cry that was intense in its fullness of joy the child sprang from the side of Detective Barrett and throwing her dimpled arms around her mother's neck sobbed on her bosom. Fifty feet away the father was a prisoner, and was ehut off from the happy picture by strong walls. Four years ago in Erie, Pa., Frank Videto, his wife and little child, Leola, lived. Videto was a painter and earned a good living for his little family. From some unaccountable cause Videto developed bad traits of character and the once happy home was transformed to one of tears and misery. The man began to vent his spleen upon his child, it is charged, and his frequent abuse of her was the cause of frequent interference by the neigh? bors. Finally Videto's wife, as a last resort, began suit for divorce and ob? tained a legal separation from her husband. Mrs. Videto was in con? stant fear that her husband would steal her child, which was awarded to her by the court that granted the divorce. To prevent any such thing the child was placed to board in a charitable institution in Erie, the mother paying the expenses out of her daily earn? ings. Finally the mother fell ill, and while she hovered between life and death Videto went to the home where the child was staying, and under mis? representations, as it is claimed, se? cured possession of her. After a long illness Mrs. Videto re? covered only to find her child gone. No trace of Videto could be found, although the most thorough search was made for him. The mother knowing well the nature of the father feared her child was lost to her forever. Eighteen months ago she married H. I. Gillis, of Erie, and has since lived in that place. The only shadow of grief in the happy home was the uncertainty overhanging the fate of the little girl. Seven weeks ago, when all hope had been abandoned, Mrs. Gillis saw in an old newspaper the story of a man's brutality to a child. The story was from Montgomery, Ala., and gave the man's name as Videto. The aid of the police was called for and correspondence opened with Chief Gerald, of Montgomery. After half a dozen letters had been exchanged, Chief Gerald wrote Mrs. Gillis that her presence in Montgomery was neces? sary in order that she might obtain possession of the child. Two weeks ago Mrs. Gillis arrived in Montgomery and found that Videto had left the day before, taking the child with him. The Montgomery detectives, after hard work, located Videto in Atlanta and Monday night Mrs. Gillis and Detective Murphy arrived in the city and laid the case before Chief Con? nolly. Detective Barrett was detailed on the case and located Videto at the ex? position grounds, where he was em? ployed as a painter. His boarding house, at 75 Houston street, was visited early yesterday morning and little Leola was found. The people of the boarding house told Detective Barrett of Videto's frequent abuse of the child, which, according to them, was unfatherly. Videto was arrested at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and carried to police headquarters, where he was placed under guard. Mrs. Gillis was notified and went down at once to claim the child. After some time Videto agreed to give up the child to her mother. He has married since leaving Erie, and the officers claim without obtaining a divorce from his first wife. This fact, with the charge of kidnaping, which Mrs. Gillis assured him would not be pushed, were powerful inducements for him to give up the child. Mrs. Gillis left with little Leola for Erie yesterday afternoon. Shortly after their departure Videto was re? leased from custody. Ho absolutely refused to talk of the case.?Atlanta Constitution, July 31. ? Seventeen private soldiers of the French army, in Bonaparte's time, by their bravery and talents, raised them? selves to the following distinguished stations: Two became kings; two, princes; nine, dukes: two, field-mar? shals; and two, generals. ? The points of the compass can be told from the trees by the follow? ing simple observations. The side of the tree on which most of the moss is found is north. If the tree be expos? ed to the sun, its heaviest and longest limbs will be on the south side. ?Since 1878 there have been nine ep? idemics of dysentery in different parts of the country in which Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was used with perfect success. Dys? entery, when epidemic, is almost as severe and dangerous as Asiatic chol? era. Heretofore the best efforts of the most skillful physicians have failed to check its ravages; this remedy, how? ever, has cured the most malignant cases, both of children and adults, and under the most trying conditions, which proves it to be the best medi? cine in the world for bowel complaint. For Bale by Hill Bro.*. SARGE PLUNKETT. The Old Man is Now Engaged in Enter? taining the Strangers. Atlanta Constitution. Battlefields have no especial interest to the people who have lived right among them, hut they do have with people who visit this section, and every year th'at passes will add more and more of interest to them. Strangers never tire of asking ques? tions nor hearing about the battles arouud Atlanta, and the ''fields" seem curious to them all. They used to call Brown and I "cranks" upon sub? jects relating to the war, and so com? mon it got to be for the young genera? tion to "guy" us that wcijuit talking about the war, except when we would get off on a log by ourselves, but now, when so many strangers arc coming every day, we hold up our heads again and arc always ready to discourse upon any matters pertaining to the "grand march through Georgia," or any other march. "Oh, yes," we tell these strangers, "just ask us what you please; draw us out; we like it, for the telling of these is about the only talent we have ever had developed fully, and then we have long ago understood how easy it is for an old man to be truth? ful on this line. It is hard for us or any other old people to be entirely truthful on any of the modern matters ?and we do love the truth, we do, me and Brown. We found a crowd of good listeners yesterday and they pressed us for some stories, and, also, purchased of us a good lot of worthless old pieces of shell, old bayonets, balls and ram? rods?they will buy anything, and I give it here as a "tip"?the wise will act accordingly. "Just before old Sherman swung around to Jonesboro," I went on, as Brown took in the money for some walking sticks we were selling them as relics of that bloody field, "the people seemed to know that there was trouble a-brewing and the big road was filled with refugees getting out of the way just as fast as they could. These refugees had been moving on as Sherman advanced till the most of them were in a mighty bad condition ?in fact, the most of them were in distress and had to live as best they could upon the few along the roads who yet remained at their homes. My folks nor Brown's folks could not find it in their hearts to turn away these poor refugees as long as there was a crust of bread and a place to stick one of them. "The night before Sherman swung around it was raining hard and was as dark as Egypt. We had took the re? fugees in till there was not a place for one to lay. They had been piled upon the floor after the beds gave out till there was not room to step about. We had reserved our own bed, me and my good wife, and were just preparing to retire, when the dogs tore around thp house as if they were after some wild varmint, and when I stepped out to see what was the matter what should I find but as sweet a young girl as you ever laid your eyes upon, and when we got" her in the house she told the most pitiful story about as how she had started down the road to keep out of the way of the yankees, had lost her way in the dark, could go no fur? ther and was just about to faint. The old woman shed tears as the girl told her story and pretty soon had some strong wheat coffee for her to drink and I gave up my last drop of spirits to warm her up and make her feel at home as much as we could. "After so long a time we begun to figure as to how the young lady should rest for the night, whereupon she in? sisted upon just sitting in the chair where she was. The old woman would never hear to that?such a sweet crea ture must have a bed if she bad to do without herself. In her enthusiam she came mighty nigh proposing to put the stranger in bed with me, but I would notheartoanysuch procedure and shook my head according. "At last it was arranged that I should crawl up the ladder into the loft and sleep upon the broomstraw. After I saw the old woman and the young stranger snug away in bed I crawled up the ladder and had as good a night's rest as I ever had in all my life, for the rain pattered upon the boards right at my head and sounded so sweet that I forgot the war and dreamed sweet dreams about the past. "The young stranger was up and gone by the break of day on the next morning and our hearts went with her, wishing her a good speed along her road. Up in the day after breakfast I was out in the piaza and saw a long line of blue coats coming. I called the old woman and told her we were goners?that old Sherman was upon us. Brown's girls were there and pur suaded me out of running and so we stood and awaited the approach of the soldiers. "Just as the line got in front of our house they halted and the men scat? tered to each side of the road and sit them down to rest. Directly there came some men on horses and as they approached the soldiers arose and shouted as loud as ever they could? " 'Huzar, huzar, huzar!' "I did not like that sound nor don't like it much till yet, but, anyhow, I soon understood that the men on horses were officers, and in a minute two of them started toward our house. When they came inside the yard I told my folks that I knew we were goucrs, but they soon changed their direction and took up at the well. One of these was a monstrous pretty young officer and the other one was a sharp-looking old cuss and they said it was General Sherman. I kept my eyes on them and expected every minute to sec them feel for matches, but instead of starting any fire the pretty fellow po? litely raised his hat and saluted us. Thinks I, what in the thunder is the matter with these yankees? Directly the general called an officer and point? ed toward us, and with six others he started in our direction. Then I would have swore that we were goners, but the officer said, as he halted in our front: "'We arc sent here to guard you and your home.' "Pretty soon up rode a fellow with a sack of bundles, and hands the old woman some sure enough coffee and jnany other good things. Along with these things he turned and handed! me a note. I called one of IJrown's girls to read the note and here it is: " 'These things are sent to you by the young olliccr in company with General Sherman at your well. I thank you for your kindness of last night?I am a federal scout!' "The old woman clasped her hands and exclaimed: " 'Well, well, well !' "While I exclnimcd: ,:iITcl!; hell, hell1 Brown and I are ever ready to en? tertain the strangers coming to the exposition with war stories and point out to them the fields of battle, but in the meantime we shall sell just as many "relics" as they will buy?no danger of our getting short on "relics." Sarge Plunkett. How a Fat Man Becomes Thinner on a Cheap and Simple Diet This is a simple and instructive lit? tle tale told by the Fat Man. It is undeniably true for there have been many witnesses of the Fat Man's fre? quent weighings, and more than one trifling sum has changed hands be? cause of the success of his experiment. There is no patent mcdicine'advertise ment concealed in the story, and. it may possibly be interesting, if :not valuable, to other fat men. "I never was really fat, you know," said the F. M., "but I was gaining on myself all the time, and when I found one day?to my unutterable grief? that I tipped the scales at 213 pounds, I determined that the time had come to apply desperate remedies. I read up on bantingism, consulted the price lists hi- a bicycle establishment, tried to rearrange my daily schedule so that there would be some time for exercise, and even held a surreptitious inker view or two with a druggist whose flaming advertisement of certain ex? traordinary pills had attracted my attention. I forswore beer and butter and other things which are supposed to be fiesh-forming, but the abstinence was of no avail. I continued to gain flesh, and the matter began to become serious. "Then appeared Providence in the guise of a fat friend, who really needed treatment as badly as I did, but who lacked the courage to put his excellent ideas into practice. 'Try the French plan,' said he. 'It is easy, anyway, and good results have often been ob? tained. You must make each meal consist of only one dish. Eat as much as you please, but there must be no variety, no dainty salads, no tempting appetizers, no desert. If you happen to want a steak, you are at liberty to order, and eat, the biggest and thick? est that can be found, but you must eat steak alone, and the same rule ap? plies to everything else. Try it.' "Well, I thought I would. I was in a mood to try almost anything, and then this novel scheme obviously pos? sessed the notahle merits of simplicity and cheapness. It involved neither elaborate medical treatment nor dis? agreeable exercise?only a little re? straint upon one's appetite. I cer? tainly would try it. "And I did. "It seemed almost wicked the next morning to curtail the breakfast cere? monies by omitting buttered toast and fruit, but I did it, and my first meal under the new regimen consisted of nothing but eggs and iced tea. It was rather a cheerless breakfast, I must admit, and a dinner of rare roast beef without vegetables of any kind was no better. There was a strong tempta? tion to abandon the whole business, no matter how fat 1 became. "But I persisted, and found, at the end of a week, that I had lost five pounds. That was immensely satis? factory and I had no hesitation about continuing the treatment?if it may be called treatment. Another week brought me down five pounds more, and a little later I touched the 200 mark, having lost exactly 13 pounds in 13 days. I kept it up until I reach? ed,190 pounds, and then returned to an ordinary diet, 190 being regarded as a reasonable weight for a man of my height and build. It is now three weeks since I resumed civilized habits in the matter of eating, yet I have not gained a pound. Great is the French method. "Physiologists have always argued that the ordinary man eats a great deal more than he really needs, and a great deal more than is. good for him. Upon this is based the anti-fat theory which I have found so successful. If a man sit down to a dinner of many courses, it is argued, he is tempted, by the mere variety, to eat an excessive quantity; whereas, if his indulgence be limited to one well-cooked, nutri? tious and palatable dish, he is apt to satisfy the reasonable demands of na? ture and then stop. There is no iced ' of eating anything that is distasteful, i or of eating less than one's appetite suggests. Only do not stimulate the appetite unhealthily by condiments and dainties and multi-flavored food. After a day or two, there is nothing disagreeable about this regimen, and inside of a week anyone can convince himself that he really has been more or less of a gourmand and that he is healthier and thinner upon a lighter diet. "At all events, as I said in the be? ginning, it is simple, cheap and harm? less. In my own case it not only reduced my weight and improved the general condition of my system but it relieved me from a torturing fear? which all fat men will understand? that I was in danger of becoming mon? strously and permanently adipose. I am convinced now that I can regulate my weight within reasonable limits, and whenever I touch 200 pounds, I propose to resort again to the French method."?E. H. B. in St. Louis Re pul'lic. ? Money is excellently defined as a composition for taking stains out of character. ? My little boy, when two years of age, was taken very ill with bloody flux. I was advised to use Chamber? lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, and luckily procured part of a bottle. I carefully read the direc? tions aud gave it accordingly. He was very low, but slowly and surely he be? gan to improve, gradually recovered, and is now as strong and stout as ever. I feel sure it saved his life. I never can praise the Remedy half its worth. I am sorry everyone in the world does not know how good it is, as I do.? Mrs. Lina S. Hin ton, Grahamsville, Marion Co., Florida. For sale by Hill Bros. ? A Stebenville (Ohio) dispatch says : "Farmer Rudolph Hook, of Gould's Station, near there, owns a fine cow that is fond of drinking oil, and at every opportunity the gentle creature hies herself to one of the numerous oil wells in the vicinity of the Hook farm, in the Gould oil dis? trict, and drinks the greasy liquid as it flows from the pipes into the tank. The discovery was made by the dark color of the cow's milk and it's oily taste, but it was several days before the cause was ascertained. Yesterday morning Mr. Hook followed the cow as she went off for her daily drink of oil, and watched her as she drank nearly a gallon of the raw fluid as it was pumped out of the earth. The cow has been tied up in the pasture field until broken of her remarkable appetite for oil." All Sorts of Paragraphs, ? A racehorse clears from 20 to 24 feet at a bound. ? The first census was that taken by Moses of the Israelites. ? In ordinary English writing "z" only occurs 22 times, while "e" occurs 1,000. ? The longest name in the Bible is Maher-shalal-hash-baz. It occurs in Isaiah vii, 3. '' "^j ? A statue is to be erected in France, to Ernest Michaux, the inventor of?^ the velocipede. ? A path may look pleasant ana^ yet be filled with footprints made by the cloven hoof. ? Better is little, provided it is your own, than an abundance of bor? rowed capital. ? The hardest people on earth for an editor to please are those who borrow the paper from regular subscri? bers. ? He that would save his feelings should beware how he shoves his cares or his corns in other people's way. ? The waters of North America are stocked with 1800 different varieties of fish. ? Men with gray or blue eyes are usually better marksmen than those with dark eyes. ? The color of snuff depends on the extent to which fermentation has been allowed to go. ? The huge guns of modern navies can be fired only 75 times when they become worn out. ? If you must worry, worry over the mean things you have done until you compel yourself not to repeat them. ? The best and much the quickest way to clean lamp chimneys is to dampen a cloth in alcohol and rub them clear. ? A new sect that has sprung up in Russia, holds that hair is sinful, and that baldheadedness is the mark of sancity. ^? At sea level an object 100 feet, high is visible a little over 13 miles. If 500 feet high, it is visible nearly 30 miles. ? Among the attributes of God, al? though they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. ? There are something like 40,000 public schools in Japan. The build? ings are comfortable and education is compulsory. ? Spending $2 where the incomeis only $1 will soon lead us to bankruptcy. This is a law of economy that all can understand. ? He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have for? gotten ita cause. ? If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of Heaven. ? A flea can jump over a barrier , 500 times his own height. At that rate a man could jump over a wall more than half a mile high. ? The railways of Ohio are said to have carried 85,000,000 passengers;, during the past two years without a fatal accident to anybody. ? Fresh milk, applied every week with a soft cloth to boots and shoes, has a freshening and preserving effect on the leather. ? It takes about three seconds for a, message to go from one end of the Atlantic cable to the othes^his is about 700 miles a second. ? It is a curious fact that on im? mersing one hand in cold water a cor? responding reduction of temperature occurs in the other. j ? The government of Switzerland is j the most economically managed in . Europe. The president of the Swiss - republic is paid $3,000 a year. ? A noted pianist says that the sound of the instrument is marred if-' the piano is left close to the wall. It should be at least three inches from the wall. ? Mount Ararat, the resting place of the scriptural ark, is, in reality, two mountains separated by a valley. The higher peak is 17,210 feet, and the lesser, 13,000 feet above sea level. ? A man should never be asuumed to own he has been in the wrong,-, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. ? Glady's?"I suppose your brother-^ Henry hasn't done much walking since he bought a bicycle?" Berenice?"No. He broke his leg the first time he tried to ride it." ? A'inegar and yeast should never be kept in stone jars, for there is an acid ig them which attacks the glaz? ing, and mixing with it has a poison? ing property. ? Players of wind instruments often devote so much time to music, to the entire ncglectof their minds, that they may literally be said to have blown their brains out. ? We shall always accomplish more with the assistance of God, even though we be few in number, than we will without his aid, even though we be a large army. ? The highest temperature on the globe is at Death Valley, Inyo Coun? ty, Cal. Its surface is 159 feet below sea level, and in summer the ther? mometer occasionally marked 122 de? grees. ? That some men think they can still do what they have been able to do is natural enough; that others" think they can do what they have never been able to do is singular, but not rare. ? There is a population of 70,000 in Iceland, yet the only military force employed consists of two policemen, stationed at the capital, Rcykjavic; and the only two lawyers in the island are the State's attorney, and another, who is prepared to defend anyone who may be put up for trial. ? The human skin is perforated by at least 1,000 holes in the space of each square inch. For the sake of argument say there is exactly 1,000 of these little drain ditches to each square inch of skin surface. Now estimate the skin surface of the aver? age sized man at 16 feet square, and we find that he has 2,304,000 pores. ? According to a Liverpool comic paper a youngman was arrested in that city, charged with kissing a lady against her will on the public highway. The prisoner pleaded that she was in bloomers, and he mistook her for his long-lost brother. The magistrate discharged him, and it is said the local tradesmen can now scarcely suppiy** the feminine demand for bicycles and| bloomers. ?r