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BY CLINKSCA? & LAN GSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9 1895._VOLUME XXX. HATS! NEW* line of HATS just opened, consisting of all the Latest Shapes in Alpines and Stiff Hats. A good Wool Hat for 25c, something better at 50c. Five dozen Alpines, new shapes, best value ever offered, at only 74c. Splendid line* of Cloth Hats, in assorted patterns, for Boye, at 25c If you need a Fine Hat we have 'em up to $3.00. Neckwear. Just in, our second shipment of Neckwear this season. Nice line of Cravats and Bows at 25c. An Elegant line Cravats and Bows at 50c. If you want to be in the style you will have to come to us for Neckwear. NEW LINE OF UMBRELLAS. Clothing, We have,doubled our Stock of Clothing to give a better selection to cur steadily increasing trade. Our line of j Suits surpass anything we have ever shown. JSP" Come in and look, as we want to show our Goods. Respectfully, B. O. EVANS & CO. If you want to see Pretty Things, in Endless Variety drop into that Jewelry Palace, Next Door to Farmers and Merchants Bank. BRIDAL PRESENTS.BIRTHDAY PRESENTS, World without end, and at PRICES that will make you SMILE. I have certainly bought the largest and prettiest Stock ever opened np in this City No trouble to find what yon want. NOVELTIES BY THE CART LOAD. A visit to my Store will knock tbe bines sky high. ENGRAVING FREE. Sesu No trouble to show Goods. Eight-day Walnut Clocks $2.00. Wfl/L. R. HUBBARD. Time and Place for Everything! THE time is now here to buy your Winter Foot* wear, and the place that offers you the most advan? tages ought to attract your patronage. We claim to offer the following advantages over all competi? tors : 1st?Larger variety to choose from, all sizes and all widths. 2nd?The neweBt and best styles, bought direct from the leading manu '% facturers. , ( 3d?Lowest prices, we buy for cash in large quantities and direct from the makers. Think over these things, and come and see us before buying. THE YATES SHOE CO., ANDERSON, S. C. Chattanooga Cane Mills, Chattanooga Galvanized Steel Evaporators, ? With the Patent Cups. Chattanooga Portable Furnaces. Cook's Galvanized Steel and Copper Evaporators. Cook's Portahle Furnaces. We invite your attention to the above, on which we can save you money. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. OLD BACHELORS C 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 couDters, but we? WANT WIVES, And Housekeepers, esp3cially, 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 ERY LOW. Give us a call. Gr. F. BIGBY. ISm P8 S; pi I ll Clinging to the trucks of freight! cars, begrimed with dust and riding in I the face of a blinding storm of dust I and gravel, little Johnny, an ex-bell-1 boy of the Auditorium, reached At-1 lanta yesterday and dropped in at the I Constitution office to report his .safe I arrival. I From distant Chicago the boy has I beaten his way across the country in I order to visit the Exposition. The I same feat he accomplished when the I world's fair was held, aud he rodeB from the west to the "Windy City in I the same manner. Little Johnny left Chicago Septem-1 ber 15th and arrived in Atlanta yes-1 terday, after being seven days on the I way. He tried to board the blind end I of a mail car as the train was leaving I Chicago, but was driven away by the I police. He escaped arrest, but was I so slosely followed by the officers that I he was compelled to leave the city on I foot. Forty miles out from the city M he was forced to walk in order to I escape detection. The first outgoing freight that pass-1 ed he caught hold of the trucks and I began his long and uncomfortable ride I to the South. At nearly every station he was de-1 tected and forced to run from the I train while a regular fusilade of coal I and pieces of ballast were thrown at I him. Every train that passed he i would board and possibly be put off at I the first station reached. Sometimes I he would ride on top of the cars, then h beneath, hanging just above the pond- I erous wheels and his feet almost drag-1 ging on the slippery rails. At times i lie would ride in between the cars and I then again perched in the corner of a I green liner he would spend the night i while the old car rocked and reeled on I its southern journey. Hanging to the I trucks of a frieght car he reached the I city yesterday. He was covered with I axle grease and dust and looked a I veritable chimney sweep when he slip-1 ped out from the car and for the first I time in his life stepped upon southern I soil. "I left Chicago just one week ago,'' I said little Johnny, "and the whole i trip has been made on the bumpers, I on the trucks or in the freight cars. 11 have been fired off many times and i sometimes thrown off while the cars I were in motion. I beat my way in I the same manner to the world's fair, i and have been a bell boy at the Audi- I torium since the fair was over. When I I heard about the Atlanta exposition i I determined to conic to the city acd I see the sights of the show. I tried I to catch a train right in the city, but I the police got so close after me that I I had t: leave town on foot. Every I train that came along I tried to board, I but the men were watching me and I I had a hard time of it. After I once I got on the trucks I was all right until I the train stopped, for while it was in I motion of course no one bothered me. i But when the train would stop I would I have toruu for my life, for they would I throw coal and rocks at me like they i wanted to kill me. "After I got on the southern roads I I found no trouble in riding, but the i northern trains arc hard to ride for I the crew watches a fellow close and he I is iu danger of being mobbed before I he can get away. "I'm going to stay in Atlanta until I the show is over and probably longer. I his stay here.?Atlanta Constitution. Ingersol on Secpsslon Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll is very cranky on religious matters, but in law and politics nobody doubts his ability. He fought against us in the late war, but he is manly enough to admit that the South only carried out the original idea of our government? the constitutional right to withdraw from a compact already broken. In his recent speech at Peoria Colonel Ingersoll said: "And let me tell you here today?I am somewhat older than I used to be ; I have little philosophy now that I had c t at the 9 o'clock in the morning portion of my life?and I do not blame anybody. I do not blame the South ; I do not blame the Confederate soldiers. She?the South?was the fruit of con? ditions. She was born to circumstan? ces stronger than herself and, do you know, according to my philosophy, which is not quite orthodox (laughter,) every man and woman in the world is what conditions have made them. So let us have some sense. The South said : "We will not submit, this is not a nation, but a partnership of States." I am willing to go so far as to admit that the South expressed the original idea of the government." Here is the clear admission of a great lawyer on the other side that the South had the legal right to secede. The question of the wisdom, expedi? ency or timeliness of exercising the right is another matter. Sometimes it is very foolish to exercise a right? sometimes it is a disastrous blunder. Edward Burke said that man had a right to shear a wolf, but that he would be a fool to try it unless he could handle the animal. However, whatever might have once been the right of the States to secede, we all now admit that the war settled the question, and that the right no longer exists. But it is well to have the past understood. ? Pop-corn pops because the essen? tial oil in the corn is converted into gas by heat, and thus an explosion oc? curs which tears the kernel opon, and causes a singular inversion of its con? tents. ? What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure, but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Deafnes? Cannot be Cured by local application?, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only ono way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitu? tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflam? ed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustach? is Tube When this tube gets inflamed, you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarr'i, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surface. We will gi7e One Hundred Dollars for any case of Drafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F. J. CHENEY, 4 CO., Toledo, 0> *3r*Sold by Druggists, 75o, KNOWS HOW TO CONTROL MEN. Creelman's Pen Picture of B n Tillman. Columbia, S. C, September 21).? At this moment Senator Tillman?for he has been elected to the United States Senate?is the absolute master of this community. His will is law. He reigns over the Governor, the Legislature, the Constitutional Con? vention and every city, town and vil? lage in the State. The Constitutional Convention is assembled practically to do his bidding, and yet in this Con? vention are his bitter enemies, the Bourbon Conservatives and six ne? groes, two of whom have been convict? ed of crime. His one eye domiuates the scene. His tongue lashes friends and enemies alike when he is opposed. He is absolute. Senator Tillman's explanation of the new plan to disfranchise the illiterate negroes of South Carolina is that the .people are tired of asserting white supremacy by either fraud or violence; that they are anxious to accomplish their purpose in the daylight and by forms of law. This is the sense of the whole Con? vention. There is not a dissenting voice. However bitter the debate may become and however roughly the Senator rides over the delegates, all are agreed upon one thing, that the Constitution must be so fashioned as to prevent the negro majority in South Carolina from ever again obtaining a controlling voice, either by itself alone or in combination with a dissat? isfied faction of the whites. The one fear has been that Senator Tillman would secure the passage of a clause that would enable him to dis? franchise illiterate white voters. But he promised in his public speeches that the matter would be so arranged that no white man could lose his vote except for crime. The Bourbons had in mind the educational clause in the Constitution of Mississippi, under which the election officers have a dis? cretionary power, enabling them to disfranchise illiterate whites or blacks. It is left to them to say whether a man who can neither read nor write is able to understand the Constitution when it is read to him, and no Court has any power to reverse the decision. The Bourbons, or Conservatives, have insisted that with such a weapon they pay for school purposes is to be used for white or black schools, but that the apportionment of moneys in each district shall be left to the school trustees. The school term for whites, which is now four months, is to be ex? tended to six months. The school term for blacks is to be shortened. There is to be no compulsory educa? tion law. The effect of this will be that the bulk of school moneys will be applied to the education of whites, and the education of blacks will be reduced to a minimum. The friends of this idea argue that five-sixths of the school funds arc contributed by the whites. Only a few days ago I saw a great audience of white people at Atlanta applaud Prof. Washington when he uttered that great appeal for the rights of his race. And now I am here in Columbia, in the presence of this im? pressive and discouraging problem. South Carolina is making more pro? gress in the manufacture of cotton than'any other Southern State. She has over a million spindles at work. Her towns and cities bustle with the new spirit of industrial development. Her vast tobacco region, a new feature of her wealth, isgiving a fresh impulse to her energies. But she has the question of white supremacy to deal with and it weighs upon her heavily. It will not do for the people of States uncurscdwith this confounding question to look with too harsh an eye upon the white people of South Caro? lina. It is a matter that can only be settled here. After all the South Carolinians are human beings with all the weaknesses of human nature. They cannot, and will not, overcome their loathing. My honest belief is that the very men who are making this Constitution intent upon disfran? chising the black vote feel far more kindly towards the negroes and have a more practical regard for their welfare than the sentimentalists of New Eng? land and the West One white man in the Convention, Samuel E. White, erected the first monument and, I think, the only monument in the South to the memory of the fidelity of the black race to their white masters during the late war. But there is an overwhelming conviction here that the negro in any stage of ignorance or education is unfit to govern the white race. Two nights ago I sat in a brilliantly lighted hall, where the Constitutional Convention is holding its session, and heard a speech in favor of a proposi? tion to deprive negroes of the right to hold office. While the proposal itself was defeated there was not one dis? senting voice to the sentiments of the speaker. The only objection raised was that the Convention was power? less to enact such a law in face of the Constitution of the United States. Here is the proposed law: "No person shall be eligible to take or retain a seat in the House of Bep rcsentatives unless he is a white man who has attained the age 21 years, has been a, citizen and a resident of this State three years next preceding the day of election and has been for the last six months of this time, and shall continue to be, a resident of the county which he is to represent." The man who offered this resolution is Robert Aldrich, a prominent lawyer, who served four years in the Confed? erate army and the son of a former Judge of the Circuit Court. Mr. Aid rich is a large, robust, broad-shoulder? ed man who abandoned the aristocratic party and allied himself to the Till '..:inites four years ago. lie represents B.irnwel] County, in which the negro majority is very heavy. During his speech the Convention listened with earnest, rapt attention. Senator Tillman fiercely attacked Mr. Aldrich, but his main contention was that the Constitution of the United States forbade such a law, that the Federal army would be used to prevent its enforcement, and that such a reso? lution would unnecessarily provoke and embitter the moral sentiment of the North. The one danger to the white supre? macy idea is that if South Carolina fails to educate the negroes in order to prevent them from voting under this new law, the philanthropy of the whole nation may be aroused sufficiently to undertake the work. Nothing can prevent outsiders from opening schools throughout the State and teaching the negroes to read and write. As a dis? tinguished leader said to me to-night: "That's the h?1 of it." An educa? tional qualification can only be a tem? porary measure of disfranchisement in a country deeply imbued with moral and humane sentiments, but if the Northern friends of the negro succeed in qualifying him as elector, it would mean simply the old struggle begun again. So far Tillman's followers have been absolutely united, but a division is in sight. Senator Irby is a candidate to succeed himself at Washington, and the Legislature is to make its choice next year. Senator Irby has been Tillman's right hand, so to speak. A few days ago it was understood that Tillman had arranged a part of the suffrage article in the Constitution so as to allow Governor Evans, his staunch henchman, to appoint all supervisors of election. Senator Irby conceived the idea that Governor Evans was to have the power in order that he might use it to elect himself to the Senate. I have every reason to believe that his surmise was correct. Governor Evans is a candidate for the Senate, and Senator Tillman will endorse him. The proposed law in its present con? dition leaves the selection of the elec? tion officers to the Legislature. But that is just as bad, from Senator lrby's standpoint, for two-thirds of the legis? lators are Tillmanites and will follow him to the death. There will be a tremendous fight on the floor of the Constitutional Convention over this section. Senator Irby has joined with the Conservatives and will demand that the Convention itself shall name the county supervisors of election, for the reason that there is a better chance of fighting Tillman here than in the Legislature. Meanwhile the one eye of Tillman burns in his head, a menace to his enemies and an inspiration to his friends. He is force and energy in? carnate. He has broken and scattered the power of the saloons with his uni? que dispensary law, and is confident that he will have his own way about the new Constitution in spite of op? position. He is eloquent, rude and ruthless, but he knows how to control men.?James Creel man in New York World. Stand by tbe Trnlli of History. An Atlanta correspondent of the Philadelphia Press writes: "Some of the newspapers here do not show much wisdom in printing matter at this time in defense of the rebellion. The Constitution to-day prints, over the signature of one of its well-known writers, a long article to the same effect. In the course of the article this appears: "But our people will never teach their children that secession was wrong. It may have been inopportune, but that a State has the right to secede was the doctrine of the founders of the government from Madison down, and even Daniel Webster declared so in his speech at Capon Springs, the greatest speech he ever made. New England denounces him for it, but he maintained it to the last." The Press correspondent then re? marks that if the Atlanta newspapers want to get northern visitors here "they would do well to stop printing that the South was right in the rebel? lion." Bringing out the truth of history is a very different thing from defending what some people call our rebellion. Bill Arp, the writer of the article re? ferred to by the correspondent, simply stated historical facts. Secession first originated in New England, and it made some converts among the early politicians of New York. William Itawls, a great Pennsylvania lawyer, also wrote a book in defense of the doctrine. It is also true that New England held a secession convention at Hartford. The southern people are not teach? ing their children that secession was a good or an opportune thing in I860, or that it will ever be a proper remedy for any State or section. What they teach is history itself. They tell their children that their fathers a gen? eration ago practically carried out a doctrine taught by the New England leaders in the early part of the present century and by many great men and lawyers?a doctrine which was legit? imately deduced from the origin and na? ture of our governmental system. This is all there is in it. In the past thirty years we have found only two substantial citizens of the south who regretted the failure of secession, and one was an Englishman reared in the north, while the other was a yan kec from Vermont. But we are not afraid that an occa? sional reference to the well-known facts of history will scare away north? ern visitors. The northerners are too sensible for that. They arc perfectly willing to let us have all the history we want. What they are after is the Exposition, and a slice of our climate, and a glimpse of our material progress. Wheu they arc enjoying these things it does not in the least mar their pleasure to be reminded of the fact that their grandfathers were the first secessionists.?Atlanta Constitution. ? Tf your children arc subject to croup watch for the first symtom of the disease?hoarseness. If Chamber? lain's Cough Remedy is given as soon as the child becomes hoarse it will prevent the attack. Even after the croupy coujeh has appeared the attack can always be prevented by giving this remedy. It is also invaluable for colds and whooping cough. For sale by Hill Bros? . BILL ARP'S LETTER. Bill Arp Extends a Cordial Invitation to the Northerners. N. _ Atlanta Constitution. It looks like everybody is running over with love about these times in these parts. The Grand Army brought down great rivers of it to Louisville and overflowed the city. Then it came on to Chattanooga and flooded the town, and then to Chickamauga and submerged the great battlefield, and thence to Atlanta, and had enough left to moisten the torrid soil and cause Clara Meer to rise several inches. We like this?we all like fraternal re? lations. Our hospitality is unbound? ed to our friends and the remotest sign of reconciliation is given a wel? come. There are no people as emo? tional and as friendly by nature as ours. Southern hospitality is a pro? verb. But it must not be abused. We demand a return of what we give. We are the same people we were be? fore the war. There is no change in our politics or our religion, but we are tolerant and forgiving and will always meet our foes on half way ground and shake hands and make friends. We welcome this visitation of our north? ern brethren and hope it may result in more harmony between the sections. If it induces a few thousands no domi? cile among us it will do good. Noth? ing else will ever convince and convert a northern man but a few years spent among us in social and business life. They must get away from their preach? ers and editors and their school books. Most of those teach hate instead of love. The north does not understand us yet and there were two orators at Chickamauga who were sincere enough to tell the truth without disguise. Governor Woodbury, of Vermont, spoke the New England sentiment when he said they would still teach their children that we were wrong in the fight. And Governor Turney, of Tennessee, replied, "that wo would teach our children that we were right in the fight, and will go to ou:: graves in that faith." Both were honest in their utterances. The last was pro? voked to reply and did it manfully. Sometimes I have doubted whether there waS-anr good to come of these gushing gatherings, for however-so much the speake*? may talk of love and reconciliation/^e old bitterness that culminated in tbes. late war still maintains among the masses of the people, both north and south. The braggadocio of the north does n^set well on the south, considering thaTltr' took 3,000,000 of men four 3rears to conquer one-fourth that number. If they were truly friendly and consider? ate they would stop pensioning their soldiers or else would propose to pen? sion ours. We are not only willing but anxious to make friends, but there never will be any real good feeling as long as we have to pension our own soldiers and help to pension theirs. Love is a good thing but it takes two to make it. Christianity has never yet gotten its converts to that heav? enly frame of mind and heart that will make them love their enemies. The best we can do is to say Lord have mercy on them and forgive them, for we can't. The truth is, I have quit trying to forgive some of our enemies, for they won't help me a bit. Even the Lord does not forgive a man who does not repent and these pension howlers and union savers don't repent a bit. What I want them to do is to acknowledge that we outfit 'em at Chickamauga and everywhere else. Then I want them to say you rebs had just as good excuse for fighting as we did. Then I want them to begin to pension our soldiers. They ought to give us back rations, but that.would break the government, and so we will forgive them that much. We have gotten along without it and I reckon can do so again. But most of their speakers were kind enough to say that both sides fought on principle for what they believed to be right, and if that is so both sides are entitled to the same rewards. The truth is, that neither side is entitled to any. Pen? sions are a discount upon patriotism. I don't mean pensions to those who were utterly disabled by the war and are on the charity of the public. They are not one in ten of the pensioners, either State or National, Thomas Hart Benton called the whole system a new departure when in 1841 he op? posed the grant of $25,000 to Presi? dent Harrison's widow. Said he: "This is a new page opened in the book of our public expenditures, and this new departure will lead us into the bottomless gulf of pensions and gratuities." Well, it is a gulf, an awful gulf. The government has to foster and pro? tect all the whiskey business to get revenue enough to pay the pensions. I saw two of the pensioners yesterday. I sat behind them in the car and heard them talking in their broken English. They were good, solid Dutchmen and talked about Kcnnesaw as we traveled by its base. One said: "Ivasvoundcd right over dare in dose voods," and when we got to the station the other said: "Dis is Pig Shanty; dere is a fine spring over dare an I fill my can? teen and so did all de poys and den de capen say: 'Poys, you must double quick now, for dere will be hell to pay at de foot of dat mountain.' And shore enuf dere vas?dat vas de hot? test place I ever vas in and I got my pension right over dare. De rebels fight like de devil for dat mountain, but we flank 'em every time?dey fight and we flank. Mine gootness, I vish I had dat spring on my farm." But we must all love one another if we can. I am strainin' myself all the time. Love is the best thing in the world. Love to God and love to man. "Love rules the camp, the court, the grove." "All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame." If love could prevail everywhere what a beautiful world would we have. I saw my old friend, Judge Bichard II. Clark, yesterday and he looked cheerful but tired, very tired. Every day he sits on the bench and hears cases where there was no love, but rather selfishness and hate. From day to day he has to look upon the dark side of human nature. The devil is on the floor and the judge is on the bench. That is not right. The devil ought to try his own cases. He gets up all the trouble and good men have to pay for it. But I am for the invasion. Let the yankecs come down and see us a little later on when the leaves begin to turn. Massachusetts has already opened her eyes and is bringing her cotton mills down south. She is planting $600,000 now at Rome. Other New England States will come in due season and plant manufactures closer to our cot? ton. But I am astonished at Mr. Woodbury considering that the first secession convention that was ever held was held at Hartford in 1820 and Vermont was represented in it. The convention was to form a New Eng? land confederacy, but Massachusetts kicked the sohcme over and it died for want of breath. But our people will never teach their children that secession was wrong. It may have been inoppor? tune, but that a State has the right to secede was the doctrine of the found? ers of the government from Madison down, and even Daniel "Webster de? clared so in his great speech at Capon Springs, the greatest speech he ever made. New England denounced him for it, but he maintained it to the last. But let us all have peace and let us love one another just as hard ai we can. If I had a comfortable pension I think I could love everybody. Bill Arp. The Emancipation or Labor by Ma? chinery. One of the interisting proofs of the lightening of toil by the aid of ma? chinery is found in the constantly en? larging sphere of labor being opened to self-supporting women, and the prediction is here made that within the next quarter of a century the ranks of the mechanic will be largely aug? mented by women. Statistics show that the number of women to whom the sewing machine gives occupation to-day is vastly greater than the number who formerly gained a precarious livelihood with the needle, or who could obtain similar work under old conditions. . Contrast the "work-a-day" clothes and- simply made "Sunday-go-to meetin' " garments of the people of a century ago with the wonderful variety and complexity of finery comprising the holiday attire, and, indeed, the everyday wearing apparel, of these of a similar class to-day. If it is true, as stated, that one sewing machine operated by one will do the work of ten hand sewers, it is no less true that the modern woman possesses ten times as many garments as her sister of a former age, and each garment displays ten times as much machine-sewed work upon it. But the sewing machine is a mere suggestion. The mind is fairly stag? gered in contemplation of the wealth of opportunity of wage earners that has been created by the steam engine ?especially in the form of the steam? ship and locomotive, which have liter? ally opened new worlds to the old sworld's poor. And what is true of the stoaui^ engine is true only in lesser degreeTy#-the telegraph, the telephone, the electnc^motor, the turbine and the whole range^ed^modern agricultu? ral machinery. ^k^s*^**?-%_ The modern bicycle?a theoretically perfect invention, and in some respects an almost perfect mechanism?has al? ready produced beneficial effects upon the physical developments of the wage-earning class sufficiently marked to attract general notice, and its future influence is incalculable. It is des? tined, in my judgment, to emancipate woman from many of the conventional shackles which have, bound her for ages, and from some physical disabili? ties which have hitherto limited her sphere of occupation. This is only one of the many striking instances in which invention is helping to benefit the masses. I am convinced that modern me? chanical inventions have in all cases proved to be distinctively beneficial to the wage earner. He is through their aid better housed, better fed, better clothed, better educated, has more numerous and better amusements, and is thus approaching more nearly the condition of life of the employer; indeed, the wage earner to-day enjoys many advantages of civilization which were unknown to the employer of a generation gone by. The majority of employers in this country are men who have risen from, the ranks, and many of our most im? portant inventions have been made by wage earners, who have the best op? portunity, through experience in their daily work, to learn the necessities of the age.?A. E. Outcrbridgc, Jr., En? gineering Magazine. Passing of the Cowboy. The cowboy, like the buffalo, is fast becoming extinct. In tho dawn of the new century which is now approaching he will be regarded as a curiosity. Ten years hence he will almost have attained the dignity of tradition. His? tory, which embalms the man in armor and exalts the pioneer, holds a place for him. The niche may be a modest one; but he has had his part in con? quering a new country, and no im? partial record of Western evolution can omit his picturesque figure. Be? fore civilization devours his identity, let us try to detain it a moment in its real likeners and garb. Dwellers in the loDg settled commu? nities scarcely realize how great a change has come over the Far West during the last decade. Ranches there will always be?ranches for grain, hay, fruit, and blooded live stock?but not for the rearing of range cattle. Yet the time is in easy mem? ory when there was a craze over the cattle business; when the cowboy was king at Dodge City ; when hundreds of educated young men went West to share the hardships of herders. Today the cattle ranges are deserted, or mort? gaged, or turned into farms. A more advanced intelligence has penetrated the possibilities of irrigation and wa? ter is reclaiming the wilderness once given over to the longhorn steer. The decline of the range cattle in? dustry has boon as amazing and rapid as was its rise. The business is not simply suffering from stagnation, it has almost ceased to exist, writes William Trowbi idge Lamed, in August Lippincotta. Early in the eighties a beef steer running on the range repre? sented $40; one-forth of that sum would pay for him now. Thirty dol? lars was the average price for a cow with a calf by her side ; now whole herds are disposed of for $15 a head. If Troubled With Rheumatism Read Thin. Annapolis, Md., Apr. 18, 1894.?I have used Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism and found it to be all that is claimed for it. I believe it to be the best preparation for rheumatism and deep seated muscular pains on the market and cheerfully recommend it to the public. Jno. G. Brooks, dealer in boots, shoes, etc., No. 18 Main St. also read this. Meciianicsville, St. Mary County, Md.?I sold a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm to a man who had been suffering with rheumatism for several years. It made him a well man. A. J. McGill. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by Hill Bros. All Sorts of F? ?Milk which utes in a sickroc ? The West whole, have among their po] ? Explorers say tint I the Congo River whej ships may passj other. ? Sam Jod 15 cigars a day. ? For the Lord's I the name of a Texas ? A boy can pull four til weight in boys on a sled tbs coal from the back-yard. ? The Christian is 111 ing grain; the riper more lowly he bends his ? It is folly to promise success in that which we ui contrary to the mind of God. ? To make paper stick that has been whitewashec vinegar or salaratus watet ? Delays ares?id to he dant but a large per centago of de seem determined to incur danger. ? It only costs the people United States about 18* cent men, women and children, to ed in 1890. ? In a "Wisconsin villa] funeral procession was vei made up of men and women] cles, the deceased having bee| ber of a bicycle club. ? Marshall Field of Chi said, made more money ou| chandise last year than atry-4 in the world, his net profits ing to $7,000,000. ? Old Abram's wisest] "Ef de descendants ob de roil crowed at Peter was to ebery time a lie is told, dar such a noise in de work couldn't hear de hens cackle."'' ? Do not take advantage hospitality of yourfriendii, byi ly and unannounced visiting..: word that you would like to visit if convenient, and then await a before venturing. ? A boy who has learned manly to be tender to rarely a coward, for the ;3tren? courage of his nature are develop teaching him to protect tho8< cannot defend themselves. ? Phil, four years old, z brother Harley, six, "What stars made of?" The answej "When God made the moon he little left, so he sprinkled it-ai and made the stars." ? First Kentuckian?Say, col( there's a Mormon elder down preachin' to a crowd of young wc and singin' "Would I were a Second Kentuckian?Well, I to* nish the feathers. You git sot to stick 'em on. -s- George Brown, colored, of Virginia, has a certificate] former rilSSttty^setting forj was born in New Orleans. He says that he bit ed George Washington's boots lighted his cigars. ? Mexico is said to have proi a speedy recognition.of.. th<!rCub| a belligerent power, and many are only waiting for this (iigna) gin a naval warfare against Spaii letters of marque issued by republic. ? A train passed through M on September 27th, from Eagle Tex., bringing 165 negroe? back to Alabama and Georgia. These the relics of a disastrous attempt"" colonize southern Mexico with Amei can negroes. ? A liquor-seller presented his to the executor of a deceased oust mer's estate, asking, "Do you w my bill sworn to?" "No," said executor, "the death of the deeeas is sufficient evidence that he hadt liquor." ? A simple way to treat a buj to cover all portions of it and thej rounding flesh with oil?sweet tor oil answers very well?spr heavily with dry flour and band?! once with linen. The first obj< to exclude the air and relieve I" ? "They tell me^ woman," said the yellow vest. "Of c<! is rather a tender sul ain't worryin'," sart "She's all right. Shelicl girl yesterday for burning the steak. ? Cornstarch makes the best paste for scrap-books. Dissolve a small quantity in cold water, then cook it thoroughly. Be careful and not get it too thick. When cold it should be thin enough to apply with brush. It will not mold nor stain the paper. ? "I tell you Hyde is as reliable a man as you can find anywhere." "What! Jim Hyde a reliable man ? Why, he is noted for never telling the truth." "To be sure, that's the very reason you can always depend upon 1 him ; if he tells you a thing you know it isn't so." ? Love to your neighbor assumes divers forms. In a family, it is a ten- " derness and care ; in a neighborhood, courtesy ; in friendship, sympathy; in business, integrity; in distress, mercy; to our country, patriotism ; ? to the world, benevolence; to the,_ church, brotherly kindness. ? A gentleman, calling on a farmer observed: "Mr. Jones, your clock is not quite right, is it ?" "Well, you see," said Mr. Jones, "nobody don't understand much about that clock but me. When the hands of that clock stand at 12, and it strikes two*; then I know it's 20 minutes to seven." ? A maiden said to her little ne- r*j phew : "Now, Johnny, you go to bed early, and always do so, and you'll be rosy-cheeked and handsome when you grow up." Johnny thought over this a few minutes and observed : "Well, aunt, you must have set up a gooa deal when you were young." ? '"It has been discovered," says the National Druggist, "that the bs of which quinine is obtained furnist no quinine except in malarial regioi If a tree is planted in a non-malarial district it will not produce quinine. It is therefore claimed that quinine is a malarial poison, drawn from the soil and stored up by this wonderful tree." ? The Darlington, Wi3., Jou ml says editorially of a popular patent medicine: "We know from experi? ence that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is all that is claimed for it, as on two occasions it stopped excruciating pains and pos? sibly saved us from an untimely grave. We would not rest easy over night without it in the house." This rem? edy undoubted 'y saves more pain and suffering than any other medicine iaj the world. Every family should kj it in the house, for it is^sure^ needed sooner or late. Hill Bros. says i