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BY CLTNKSCALES & LA^C^TON^ ^ ^ ^ ANDERSON, S. C. W^DNESDAY^MOli^ 1695. ~] " ^ " ^ " ^^^^^ TO MAKE A PLAIN STATEMENT PLAIN! IT would be a more thau useless task for us to attempt to describe the color, fit and fiuish of our entire Stock. What we would impress you with is that we are prepared to show the Public a very elegant Stock of? Richly Tailored Suits, Overcoats and Trowsers, For Men, Boys and Children. If the impression which you gain from the above concise statement is sufficiently strong to bring you here in person, the work of makiug you a patron of this House will have been accomplished. Respectfully, B. 0. CO. SPECIAL VALUES DRY GOODS and SHOES. "WE wish we had known you before," is what our new customers constantly say. We have the LARGEST and MOST VARIED assortment of? STAPLE DRY GOODS, Men, Women and Children's Medium and Fine Shoes, To be found in the City. Our line offeis the greatest inducements to WIDE AWAKE BUYERS- Come and see our line of 2S-iuch OUTINGS for only o'ic per yard. 3.500 yards just received. Yours very truly, D. C. BROWN & BRO. P. 8.?500 Barrels oi tlio Lee Baleutile FLOUR just received. If yon have never tried it buy one barrel and you will always use it. D C. B. A B. IT WILL PAY YOU! To drop in and see our Goods and get our Prices before parting with your hard-earned Cash, as we ? are in position to meet all competition, and will save you money on every purchase. WE have a big Stock of Ji aus, FJnvm-Is and Staple Dry Goods at prices that never fjil to sell. Also, a bip Stock of SHOES, bought bt f. re (he advance. All we have to do is to show our Shoes and the prices do the re.-t. They are certainly going fast. We sell the most popular and re'iab'e brands of FL.OITK in Town. Cheaper than you have been paying for inferior .stuff We always sell the best COFFEE. We can suit anybody on Tobacco, both in quality and price. Acids and Fertilizers on hand now. BR0WNLEE & VANDIVER8. AN UP TO DATE GROCERY STORE. WE?"THE BOYS'*?call the attention of the Ladies to the fact that we have just received a fresh line of BUCKWHEAT. OATMEAL. FLAP JACK FLOUR. FARINA and ROLLED WHEAT. Also, this season's RAISINS CUR? RANTS, CITRON and MINCE MEAT We handle St. Louis FINE CANDIES, and have just received the largest assortment ever shown in the city. CLEMSON COLLEGE FULL CREAM CHEESE?btst to be had?always on hand. Ask to see our 5 pound Coffee, and don't forget we give S lbs Soda for 26c We have put in a Phone for the benefit of the L-idies, and would be pleased to have them call up No. 70- Will be glad to attend to any business for them through our Phone when they don't want to come to the citv. Very respectfully, "{RUSSELL & BREAZEALE. Phone So. 70. Free and prompt City Delivery. Below we mention a few Goods >n which. E CAN SAVE YOU MONEY! Doors, Sash and Blinds, Builders Hardware of all kinds, Syracuse Turning; Plows, Syracuse Subsoil Plows, Rubber Belting; Leather Belting, Machinery Supplies, Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Inspirators, &c. Sporting Powder, Blasting Powder, Shot, Loaded Shells, &c. t&" Whon in the market for any of the above named Goods, or any? thing in the Hardware line, you will do well to inspect our stock ami gtt our price before you buy. Yours truly, : BROCK BROS. PROPHYLACTIC?" Preventive of Disease." THE PROPHYLACTIC TOOTH BRUSH! Unlike other Brushes in Construction, Use and Results. IT OLE AIS THE TEETH! - I II SA LE !5V ? ORR <fe SJLOA N. EDISON ON AIRSHIPS. Startling Plan Suggested to Solve the Flying Problem. Thomas A. Edison lias a solution of thf flying machine problem that is at once novel, plausible and simple. He believes that the day is coming when men will fly. But he docs not think this will be accomplished either with a balloon or with an aeroplane. "The trouble with the aeroplane," said Mr. Edison oncday last week, "is that it is cumbersome and unwieldy. I have watched with much interest the progress made in the experiments of Hiram .Maxim in England. lie has expended some $100,000 in building a track and constructing an immense machine on the aeroplane principle, while Professor Laugley of Washing? ton has been making experiments along the same line in this country, but on a smaller scale. "Theoretically these gentlemen have developed the principle shown by a bird in soaring, such as the eagle and the albatross, cither of which can sail for hours in the air without a motion of the wings. I do not believe, how? ever, that the aeroplane principle can ever be developed successfully so that men can fly. "An immense aeroplane machine like that of Maxim, which carries several men and a small engine, could not possibly be managed in the air. Neither could a small aeroplane suffi? cient to carry a single man, for it would not be under proper control. "As for the balloon or gasbag prin? ciple," said Mr. Kdison, "that has been practically abandoned by all recent experiments along this line. The reason for this is that a balloon forms a body of a large bulk, which is at the mercy of the wind. "In other words, it is impossible at present to construct a balloon which will carry a machine or engine suffici? ently powerful to force it against the wind. The more powerful is your engine or storage battery, the heavier it must be and the larger the balloon to carry it. "What is wanted is a flying machine that will go in any desired direction under ordinary circumstances. The balloon is unwieldy, and the aeroplane is unmanageable. Now, I have an idea that the proper solution of this problem is to be sought in an entirely differeut direction. We must aban? don both the balloon and the aeroplane. "I would construct actual ships of the air?yachts, schooners and brigan tinos?which would back and gybe and sail before the wind. My idea is that the lifting power for these airships should be gas stored in the sails. "In other words, you apply the bal? loon principle in such a way that the [ gasbag, instead of being an impedi? ment as it is at present, would be the actual means of propulsion. I would construct gasbags shaped like the sails of a yacht. "Take the mainsail, for instance You could have that made out of two sheets of canvas, say, one or two feet apart and kept in shape by a net. Fill that with gas. Do the same with the jib, the topsail and the flying jib. "These sails would be actually bal? loons, which would hold the ship up from the earth, but they could be so set against the wind at angles as to drive her in any direction. The masts and spars could be made of bamboo or any light material. "In this way an airship could rise from the ground, and it would make no difference to her what way the wind was blowing. A yacht can sail to any particular point so long as there is wind enough to fill the sails. An air? ship of this kind would only need a good wind, and she could go anywhere, either tacking or running on a beam wind or running before the wind." "I3ut how would you keep your air? ships from making leeway?" "With ballast," answered Mr. Kdi? son. "Vou could, of course, have a ccnterboard. But I do not think that would be necessary. "A proper amount of ballast would keep the airship upright and steady, just as it does when a ship is in the water. She would not then make lee? way. She would nut blow sideways. She would sail edgeways, just as all ships do at present in the water. "The balloons, in the form of main? sail, jib and topsail, would form a big surface fur the wind to bhiw upon and would force her ahead while at the same time keeping her off the ground. "In this way squadrons and fleets could navigate the upper air. We could have yacht races. Who knows but that the near future may witness races I'm- a cup taking place on marked mit courses of the sky just as we had the N'alkyrie ami I'efender this year racing on the water? The thing is by no means impossible. I am no flying machine crank, but this is a theory which I am surprised has not occurred to those who are devoting serious thought and large expenditure to the solution of this problem. "According to the plan which I have mapped out. the one great obstacle in all this question has been overcome. That is the motive power. A balloon cannot carry an engine strong enough to drive it against the wind, and neither can an ;croplane. "According to my plan, no engine, machine, sprint:, dynamo or motor is necessary. All that weight i> dis? pensed with. We make the wind it? self supply tlo1 motive power. There are no fans, screws or windmills, no propellers, no wheel- or other whirli? gigs. "The mere blowing of the wind on the balloon -ails drives the ship ahead in any desired direction, and she can I.Ii -Ir.n.l r .--Tii I _|m i .t<!|| hv rill Ol'.!? nary rudder. There would bo less danger in such navigation of the air than in yachting on the water. With an airship properly ballasted and bal? anced there would be no fear of cap? sizing, and sudden squalls would be harmless. 'T merely throw this out as a crude suggestion and leave it to others to work up. It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the reroplanc, which two or three years ago was thought to hold the solution of this problem, have been exhausted, and that wc must turn elsewhere. "Where else can wc find a plan which better serves the purpose than to dispense with weight and make the air itself supply the motive power? Even the most perfect motor, as ap? plied to the horseless vehicle, is too weighty for a successful navigable balloon.'' _ A JlailitT's Museum. Several weeks ago the dime museum on Dccatur street was levied upon by Bailiff Barucs, of Judge Edgar Orr's Court, by virtue of an attachment sued out by Mrs. M. A. Hughes against Ed. Reedy. Reedy was manager of the museum. The several curiosities constituting the museum were moved to Judge Orr's courtroom after the levy, where they have been ever since. They have been viewed by many people since they have been at Judge Orr's, as a peep at the museum there is free. The most interesting part of the museum is the mummified body of a giant Indian. The Indian must have been at least nine feet tall in life. The body, drawn as it is, measures within a few inches of nine feet now. It has been pronounced by some as in a state of partial petrifaction, but it has since been pronounced by high authorities in osteology as a genuine mummy. The flesh on the huge skele? ton is very dry, too dry for petrifac? tion, and in some places the skeleton is almost bare. The mummified body of the Indian is lying in a perfectly natural position. lie lies in the long green box, prepared for the purpose, with his long, coarse hair covering the pillow as if he were asleep. It is like a giant warrior had laid himself down to sleep. Even through the rough, dry muscle-like flesh drawn tightly over the bones of his face, there is discernable a fierce look of courage, such as might be imagined agiant like he would possess. The huge frame is well proportioned, considering that it is so large. The claim account for which the attachment was taken, not having been settled, the property has been legally advertised for sale on next .Monday at 12 o'clock. The curiosi? ties advertised are the giaut Indian mummy, a baby mummy and a double headed calf. The baby mummy itself is an inter? esting study. It is an Indian baby in mummified state tightly incased in a split log with an ancient looking hatchet cleaving its little head. It is supposed that the baby was murdered, possibly by the big giant, and put in? side the hollow of a tree, where the baby became mummified. The advertisement has attracted che attention of the Smithsonian institu? tion doctors and professors and that institution has sent several ostcolo gists at different times to make an ex? pert examination of the mummies. First Dr. Priorlcau and Professor Steele, of the Smithsonian institution, came and made an expert examination of the bodies represented to the mum? mies. After a long and careful exam? ination they pronounced them as real mummified bodies. The giant mum? my, they said, was 500 or perhaps 1,000 years old. They said its mum? mified state was due to a peculiar ac? cident. The bodies became mummi? fied in a peculiarly dry atmosphere, they said. Professor Lucas was the last of the Smithsonian institution professors to come and examine the mummies. He made an expert examination with powerful glasses and in many other ways and he also pronounced the bod? ies to be in a real mummified state. The examinations were made with the intention of purchasing the mum? mies to put in the National museum at Washington. Copies of the advertisement rif the sale were taken by the professors of the National museum and it is expect? ed that representatives of the institu? tion at Washington will be present at the sale of the museum next Monday tu bid for it. All of the experts who have exam? ined the giant mummy, which is near? ly nine feet in length, think it is a curiosity fit t<> be placed in the Na? tional museum.?Atlanta Constitution. ? Theodore Stern, of New York, has forfeited his bond of $20,000 rather than to serve two weeks im? prisonment and pay $12.") line for re? sisting arrest in a public garden in Germany for alleged violation of its rules. ? It is said that the new woman and the new man will yet dine off pa? per dish.'s. D is not improbable that the hat of the future will be of paper, impervious to water. I'mbrellas of paper have not yet been invented, but will doubtless come in time. Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as iliry rannot reach tin- scat of I lit; disetMC. ' atiirrli Is b blood or i'onMituiioual disease, and in order In cure it you must lake internal remedies Hall's Catarrh i'ur" is taken ii.t rtially, am) rcib directly on the Mood and mncous siiriarcs Halls Catarrh Hire tri hut a i|l!ack medicine I: was |.p M ril.ol by one of the host physicians in this c.iuntry fn'r yen", ami i? a regular prc<cri|>lioii It is" coin |.nt .I ?i*" the Im?iI Ionics known, combined with ilie liijt blood purifiers, acting directly mi tie nice nil ?ui laces The |>"i fett combination of tin; two ingredients is what produce* such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. .Send fui I'Mitiioiiial*. free C. J. nilKNF.y t r>o. T?!?4-. ". <*j?*i>.i|.< )?? ju.iHa;-'s TO CONFEDERATE VETERANS. An Important Circular In Regard to a Confederate History. To the I Suited Confederate Vvterans oj South Carol inn: Fellow Comrades: The flattering endorsement the convention of 1'nitcd Confederate Veterans in Columbia gave the plan suggested and publish? ed in various papers, for collecting the facts aud data pertaining to the history of the South Carolina troops during the war, prompts meto explain my reason for not wishing to wait for the Legislature to make an appropria? tion to carry on that work. To ask the State to appropriate money to be expended* to an enterprise in which, perhaps, many of its citizens feel no interest, and less pride, is only giving ground for obstructionists and croakers to oppose it and pour cold water upou it. I have no doubt (and T shudder at the thought) that there arc men in this State to-day who might be of some service in this work, who would rather sec the records that brave men and women have made for themselves and their State during that eventful struggle destroyed or hid for? ever from mortal sight, rather than to have them preserved as history to be read and revered by loyal and patriotic generations yet unborn. The men of our State who in 18(11 to 1865 immortalized the name of Lee, Jackson, Rcauregard, Hill. Longstrect, Stuart, Hampton, Butler, Evans, Gary, Jenkins and many others, are not "deadbcats" knocking at the door of the State treasury, claiming some? thing that is notdue them. The work before us is a larbor of love. Let the survivors of the different regiments, batallions and batteries, select their ablest and most energetic comrade who will go to work at once and gather up every obtainable incident worthy of note, pertaining to his command, or any individual soldier (dead or alive) connected with it. and let it be writ? ten down for the use of the State his? torian, whose duty it will be to put it in book form. If this work is done thoroughly and promptly, the State authorities will see at once a bonanza in procuring the publication of these records and will willingly pay those who have labored so faithfully in get? ting them up. I verily believe it will realize a sufficiency from the sale of the book (after paying all expenses incurred in its publication) a sum sufficient to be? stow a bounty upon every disabled Confederate soldier in the State with? out one cent of expense to the tax? payers. "When the Legislature is asked to raise money to procure the publication of this history, some people will be? gin to cry: "It's a money machine, gotten up by the old soldiers and their allies to deplete the State treasury or live at the expense of the taxpayers." Gentlemen, the men who saved the State in its darkest days, are not go? ing to do any such thing: neither do they intend that their enemies shall write their history for theni?mark (?hat. Wc have a perfect right to meet in convention, with open doors, as we have done, and recount the deeds and recall the memories of the past, with? out being guilty of any disloyalty to the general government. The war is over. The flag of the nation is our flag. The soldiers of both armies, North and South, can now meet and exchange courtesies, and in the most pleasant and dispassionate manner, recount the incidents of the past, the needs of the present and the hopes of the future, without discord or embar? rassment whatever. Let every old soldier who fought on the side of the South remember that his name will soon be forgotten and his deeds perish with the cause he held so dear unless he bestirs himself to the duty before him. If he is an uneducated man who c ui't write, let him call to his assist? ance sonic one who will write for him. In this he will find some men willing and ready to give him assistance? thcu the noble women of our State. So there is no reason why a single in? cident remembered by an old soldier should not be incorporated in the his? tory if it is worth preserving at all. There are plenty of publishing houses in our State, and many men throughout our country that would he glad to get the publication of these records, and will pay a handsome roy? alty for that privilege. So let us be up and doing: there is not a moment to lose. No loyal son of South Caro? lina can distrust his mother State, and he may rest assured that if he does his duty faithfully he will recompense himself fur it. A history gotten up to maintain the truth is of iucalcubly inure value than one made mainly for the money, the State might agree to pay for it. Let us work to the hearts of the people rather than their pockets for a trim history. Hoping all papers friendly to our course will copy this letter, T am yours fraternally, James L. Strain*, Adjt. Camp Giles. V. C. V. Union. S. C. ? W'heu most needed it is not un? usual for your family physician tu be away from home. Such was the ex? perience of .Mr. J. Y. Schenck, editor of the Caddo. Ind. Ter.. Haniu r, when his little girl, two years of ago was threatened with a severe attack of croup, lie says: '".My wife insisted that I go for tin- doctor. l?nt as our family physician was out of town I purchased a bottle id' Chamberlain's Cough Keinedy, whieh relieved her immediately. I will not hewithoul :t in the future." 25 and 50 cent !??.<? Gee fcr rr.lc bv !JUJ JJru* I NEVER LOOKS IN A MIRKOS'. It is 17 Years Since This Man Saw His Reflection. Did it over occur io you when you have made that easily spoken answer "1 can't" to some proposition that if you only made up your mind and put down your foot you could as easily say "I will," and. what's more, adhere to the resolution ? Tf you have never thought of this, and you have the time and inclination to consider what a man?or a woman, cither, for that matter?can do when he is determined it shall be done : read this story, says the New York Ilerahl. It is about a man who, wnen he was 17 years old, said to a friend who had been bantering him, that he would not voluntarily look at his reflection in a mirror for twenty years. Think of that length of time ! It was just as long as Hip Van Winkle slept, and you know how he changed in that period. Seveutccn years of that num? ber have come and gone and this man of strong will says he has kept his promise, and this, too, in the face of all manner of devices on the part of his friends to make him take aglimp.se of himself. This man who does not see himself as others see him. is well known in business circles in Xew York. There is nothing about him which should make him refrain from having as much use of a mirror as any other man. About 33 years old, of the average height and well built, his dark face is an intelligent, attractive one, his mus? tache is well trimmed and his hair, which is somewhat spare at the tem? ples, is as nicely parted and as care? fully brushed as that of any of his fellows. His necktie, too. is tied in the most approved fashion, and indeed his whole appcaranee is that of a well groomed man who spends an hour or two every morning before his dressing case, making sure that everything is just so before he presents himself to the ga/.c of the public. In the days of his youth he must have been a very handsome boy and there is little doubt that he took as much pleasure from his own image in the glass as any youngster. It may he that he was given to gazing at him? self too frequently, for it was from this penchant that this resolution grew. He was visiting a young lady one day and she caught him looking into a mirror every few minutes. She knew him so well that she felt at liberty to remark : "I'll wager that you could not keep your eyes from a mirror for an hour." Perhaps his pride was touched by the innocent words. At any rate, he replied : T can, and not only for one hour, but for enough of them to make twenty years." This was seemingly so preposterous that the young lady offered to make a wager for anything he pleased, then and there, and so the bargain was closed. There are few who know what arc the terms of the bet and there may be a nice little romance hidden behind it all. Hut that is not the subject of the story. Enough it is to know that he says that from that day to this he has never glanced into a mirror, or, in fact, at any surface that would cast his reflection, ami those who know him well do not hesitate to say that this is undoubtedly so. "It was a little inconvenient at first, I must admit," he said to me the other day. "for I knew my hair wasn't parted well and that my necktie must be all askew. But after a few days the awkwardness passed away and you may easily imagine that at this time the last thing I ever think of is look? ing into a mirror." He has been shaved in a barbershop in an uptown street, off IJroadway, for many years and his peculiarity is known to all the barbers. He was in the piOprictor's chair one day and his eyes were closed. The man of razors took a small hand glass, held it close to his face and suddenly exclaimed : "Oh, look !" But that was an old game to his customer. Keeping his eyelids shut, he turned his face to one side, cau? tiously opened one eye and then slowly moved his head until he could see that the barber held something in his hand. "I guess not." ho said, a.- he put out his hand and shoved the glass aside. ''1 have been tried that way t.ften in the last seventeen years to be caught now." He has gone to the same tailor for years and he never looks at himself as he doneda new suit. His tailor knows what he wants, is aware that some of his friends would inform him if his garments did not fit hitn as they should, and. in addition to all this, feels that he is put on his honor to do the right thing by a customer who puts faith in him. And no one can truthfully say that he is not a well dressed man. So it is also with his hatter. lie looks at the style of the hat he desires to wear, after having made a careful selection, but he leaves it all t'i the tradesman and to his friends as to whether in shape and otherwise it i- suitable to hi- face. Seated in a car on his way to busi? ness he makes it a point to hold a newspaper so that by no chance would he sei- hi- image should tin- window pane opposite reveal it. Fur the same reason he never looks into a shop window, and whenever in a theater, a restaurant or any place where he might have to break his vow. he is especially careful not lo turn suddenly. It is needless to say that the arrangement mirrors *v''ivr?l?y vui I" 'jisVIcj! see 100 reflections to himself i-: as an uncut book to him. Meeting him in the office of the hotel when- he has his rooms, T vm turcl the gness that the dressing-case in his room was minus a mirror. '".Not at all," was the surprising answer. "Of course there is a mirror there. But it is just as if it were covered with a dark cloth f<>r all that I care. My own room is t! easiest place for mo to keep from rcaking my promise ; it is only when I am out in strange places that I am afraid. As I travel a great deal ami go to places that T am unacquainted with I must be very careful.'' "What has all this taught you?*' '"That a man can do many things if he will which may seem almost impos? sible to him at first blush. It has helped mc in many ways. T was a very heavy smoker, twelve or fifteen cigars a day being my average. My doctor asked mc to stop on the first of the year, and not to smoke until Feb? ruary 1. T did it without any trouble. No, it was not a New Year's resolu? tion, ami probably that was the reason it was not broken, after the first month he told me I could have a cigar after each meal, and I don't cat more than three meals a day." "When the twenty years have pass? ed will you look iuto a mirror ?" "I will, indeed, and I think T will take more pleasure out of it then than if 1 had been looking at myself all the time." "Docs the lady with whom you made the wager know how you have kept your vow ?" "Now. now, my boy. Well. I don't mind telling you that she does, and that she has often asked me why I did not give up my foolish resolution. But I said it was for twenty years, and it will be, if I can make it so." "And what will you win from that lady?" "Ah, that is cntrc nous." Rescued A President. However pour the Lincoln home may have been, it affected the new child but little. He was robust and active, and life is full of interest to the child happy enough to be born in the coun? try. He had several companions. There was his sister Nancy, or Sarah ?both names are given her?two years his senior; there was a cousin of his mother's. 10 years older; Bennis Hankf, an active and ingenious leader in sports and mischief, and there were the neighbors' boys. One of the lat? ter. Austin (iullahcr, still tells with pleasure of how he hunted coons and ran the woods with young Lincoln, and once even saved his life. "Yes," said Mr. Collaher. "the story that I once saved Abraham Lincoln's life is true; but it is not correct as generally related. "Abraham Lincoln and I had been going to school together for a year or more, and had become greatly rttached to each other. Then school disband? ed on account of there being so few scholars, and wc did not see each other much for a long while. One Sunday my mother visited the Lincolns, and I was taken along. Abe and I played around ill day. Finally wc concluded to cross the creek to hunt for some partridges young Lincoln had seen the day before. The creek was swollen by a recent rain, and in crossing on the narrow footing. Abe fell in. Neither of us could swim. I got a long pole and held it out to Abe, who grabbed it. Then I pulled him ashore, lie was almost dead, and I was badly scared. I rolled and pounded him in good earnest. Then I got him by the arms and shook him, the water mean? while pouring out of his mouth. By this means I succeeded iu bringing him to, and he was soon all right. "Then a ucw dillieulty confronted us. If our mothers discovered our wet clothes they would whip us. This we dreaded from experience and de? termined to avoid it. It was June, the sun was very warm and we soon dried our clothing by spreading it on the rocks about us. We promised never to tell the story, and I never mentioned the incident to anyone un? til after Lincoln's tragic end. "Abraham Lincoln had a sister. Her name was Sallic, and she was a very pretty girl. She went to school when she could, which was not often. "Yes, if you must know. Sallie Lincoln was my sweetheart. She was about my age. 1 loved her, and claimed her. as boys do. 1 suppose that was one reason for my warm re? gard for Abe. When tin; Lincoln family moved to Indiana I was pre? vented by circumstances from bidding good-bye to either of the children. And I never saw them again. ? Mc Chin* M?chte. --?~ o - ? The most remarkable case of a woman giving birth to a child in her old age which is to be found in the annals of medical literature occurred near Fon du Lac, Wis., in 1800. The mother of this bouncing eight-pound infant was Mrs. Louisa Kimball. whose ago at that time was 72. The father of the child was 7"> year.- old at the time of its birth. ? Major C. T. I'icton is manager of the State Hotel, at Henison, Texas, which the traveling men say is one of tin; best hotels in that section. In speaking of Chamberlain's I'olic, Cholera and Diarrluca Remedy Major I'ioton says : "I have used it myself and in my family for several years, and take pleasure in saying that I con? sider it an infallible cure for diarrluca and dysentery. I always recommend it. and have frequently administered it to my guests in the hotel and in every case it has proven itself worthy of unqualified endorsc?" ??? " l'nrsnl?; hy Hill l*r?? Charles H. Rouss? Ni;\\ York, Nov. 24.--Thcrc is iu> one h:.rdly in the South who would not like to know something more about this wealthy New Yorker, who has offered $100,000 to establish a Confed? erate museum or depository for relies, and who. following so closely on this magnificent offer, only a few days since donated ?25,000 toward rebuilding the recently burned University of \"tflm ginia. Of all the interesting characters in this city who have been prominent be? fore the public for the past !?0 or 40 years but few now remain. Million? aires are numerous, but they are of the hundrum type, and there is little in their lives to occupy the public at? tention. There is one, however, whose history reads much like a fairy story, and who, though advanced in years and immersed in business cares suffi? cient to stagger a man of ordinary strength and vitality, is constantly doing something to astonish theee blase New Yorkers, and it is always something worth relating. Nearly every one in this vast city who can read is familiar with the his? tory of Charles Broadway Rouss, the "merchant prince of Broadway," as he is sometimes styled. Mr. Rouss, as t?0 per cent, of Amer? ican youth, who have afterward. achieved greatness or wealth have done, began his climb very low down the ladder, and slipped once or twice before he had passed many rounds. His history is one of poverty and hardship, first as a poor but respected farmer's boy, leading a dreary, monot? onous life on his father's farm near Winchester, Ya., restlessly longing for nobler things, yet patiently plod? ding and performing his duties as he saw them. When the war broke out he was a small country merchant at Winchester with command of perhaps less than a thousand dollars. This faded away before the advancing armies and he hastened to cast in his lot with his beloved State. When the smoke of that conflict cleared away he was one of the many thousand not only out an unrcmuncrative job, but minus food and clothes. In this plight he set out for the home of his conqueror and landed in this Christian city with ?1.80 in cool cash. There were no bunko men then and few sideshows on the Bowery, consequently he was not disturbed on account of his large possession. Fortunately for himself, Mr. Rouss was not so modest with his possessions and with pluck and luck and plenty of Al horse sense he scuffled and battled along in one way and another until he became known as a man who had bought out other men's stocks at auc? tion and sold them again for spot cash at reduced prices. After his ascent in prosperity in New York began he had a tumble, with debts to the amount of $51,000 "on his hands," as the saying is, but really I should say on other people's bands. But a little thing like this could not floor this "Napoleon of the auction business." He had only had a taste of wealth and there his real success began when he entered the ring again. From this time on his career has been one of success upon success. From small cramped quarters he has moved and removed until he finally decided about five years ago to erect the grand building he now occupies, the fine iron building at 540, 551, 553 Broadway, and for which he has been offered $1,500,000. The handsome edifice is ten stories high, is fireproof and a triumph of the architect's skill and art. In one of these large front windows is a magnificent lifesize painting of (Jencral Robert F. Lee by Bruce. Right here I will mention one of Mr. Kouss' peculiarities. While he is a noble-hearted, broad-minded man, who has lived 30 years and gained most of his success in the North, yet he is an ardent Southerner and loves the cause and the people for whom he fought. He is never so happy as when he is donating something to some commen? dable cause in the South, but for that matter there is no more liberal and charitable man in this city when real distress is brought to his attention from whatever section it may come. The remarkable thing about his char? ities and his donations of other char-1 acters is that they seem never to make I him poorer. The more he gives the wealthier he grows. He has. as he deserves, a charming family, though death has only recent? ly bereaved him, one of these being a young son on whom he lavishes much affection and whom he expects to suc? ceed him in perpetuating his sound and profitable business methods. His already great business is con? stantly growing and prospering under his guidance, though for the past year his eyesight has totally failed him. Overwork was the cause of it. yet he continues to labor and direct and may be found al his office 13 hours out of every 24. His friends in the South semi him many letters of regard and sympathy for his affliction, and they arc all gratefully received. In this short sketch it has been hard to do justice to a character so rich and a history so ripe in interest? ing anecdotes, but I have not attempt? ed to do more than give a mere outline sketch so that the people of the South may come a little nearer a correct idea of the man who evidently has their interest- so much at heart and who cherishes s., tenderly the recollection of the memories of his youth so full of adversity though tin y were.--/.'. 11'.. '?<< Atlanta t '"/if(,'(,i(iun. Speak the truth in love, and men uij] 1, v h;i' <- vox* rjpenk tb? tl'V.tb. not work' his fe^ to finil solves, eyes im ' ? Accl ports, thl women is more thj^ ? It is stat ciologieal fact 100 widowers marry their hi ? A mother's reaching thing i| followed many a verge of hell,' i upon. ? Her Choice. tie do you admire he made his r< riage tie,' aud without hesi ? 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