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7\ _-,_',__ t . i < 1 h i l i? i I i.I I ?? .~????.- ......._? - * "bYCLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAECH 11, 1896._volume xxx. -no 37. THAT OLD CRAVAT Looks "worn ; better come in and get a new one ; it will improve ^our looks wonderfully. New lot of TIES just in?big lot. Prices 25c, 50c, 75c and $1.00. We are receiving daily the best and most complete line of Spring Clothing we have ever had. The styles are right, the goods are right, the fits are perfect, and the prices are?well, bet ter come in and see for yourself. B. 0. EVANS FRESH AND PURE ... GARDEN SEED ! OUR New Stock of Seed have arr ived, and we are aell?Dg them at ex tremely low price*. White Onion Setts.15c. quait?2 for 25c. Yellow or Red Onion Setts. 10c. quart?3 for 25c. ill Paper Seed. 3 for 5c The largest papers?twice as many Seed as you buy for that money any where in the State. WATERMELON. PEAS, BEANS, &c, At correspondingly low price3. Our Seed are grown by The Cleveland Seed Co., of New York, and we have been selling them for ten years with perfect satisfaction to ourselves and customers. When ready to plant your garden come and see us and w will save you money. ORR & SLOAN, BE*?lsrE THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE Has a Full Stock of P1?WOS, ORGANS kd Small Musical Merchandise, At LOWEST PRICES for quality of Good'. ALSO, a large liDe of? Buggies, Carriages and Haro ess, AND THE CELEBRATED New Home Sewing Machine, THE .BEST IX THE WORLD ! ! Call and toe us, or writs ub yonr wants if cot convenient to come Respectfully. O. A.BEED, Agent. GREAT REDUCTION JEANS AND OTHER WINTER GOODS ! Heavy Shoes at prices that sell them. TTTXTTT TTT ^TT*D--Board's ' Obelisk, "Favorite," "Blue Bird" and Jj JL13I JDi JD Au\J \J JL1? J Waterloo " The-? nrnnd? are known to every housekeeper, and we guarautee PRICE, QUALITY and WEIGHT. If not found as represented your money will be cheerfully refundt-d. 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NOVELTIES IN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. ONE 'JEN r TO (100.00. ^3?~No charge for Engraving. 0^-The Prettiest Goods in the Town, and Jt'a a pleasure to nhow them, p. S.?If vou have Accounts with J. M. SUBS \RD & RRO. make xottlemnnt with meat above place, JOHN M. HUBBAB?. HOW TO OBTAIN REST. Evangelist Moody Preaches a Finn Ser mon on Rest and where to Find It. From the News and Courier. Any one who chanced to pass the Citadel Baptist Church at a iW min utes before the bells of St. Michael's chimed the hour of 4 yesterday after noon would have perceived at a glance that something unusual was about to happen. If the passer-by did not know, as all Charleston know, that the great evangelist, Dwight L. Moody, is conducting a series of meetiugs there, he would probably have supposed that a wedding was about tobe so'emnized. So large a crowd of 6uch dig?rent de Domiuations is seldom brought togeth er in a church. The congregation was an enormous one. On the rostrum were seated Mr. Moody, many of the city clergy and the choir, whose sweet music has add ed so greatly to the attractiveness of the services. The exercises were opened with the singing of one of the beautiful Gospel Hymns. This was followed by a prayer offered by the Rev. Mr. Wells. This prayer was followed by more hymns, and then another prayer was offered by the Rev. David L. Ramsey, D. D., pastor of the Citadel Square Baptist Church. There was another hymn, during the siDgiug of which the collection was taken up, and ihen the great guider of the souls of men began his address. The text was the beautiful words, "Come unto Me, all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give ye rest." The subject of the address was "Rest and how to obtain it." The preacher said that rest was the . thing most desired by the people of the earth. The places of amusement, the gambling hells, the dance houseB, the theatres, the circuses, the iaee tracks, the dime shows are crowded night after night and day after day with the people. And why ? Be cause they hope to obtain rest there. Mental rest is what they are after. Rest from sorrow and care and respon sibility. Forgetfulness of sorrow and responsibility and the evil of them . selves and the world is not to be ob tained in the gambling hell or on the race track or in the ball room. Where is it to be found ? The preacher said that if be wanted to find a man or woman who had found rest in this world he would know where to look, and he could find them. Yes, he could find them, hundreds of them, who have found perfect rest?for there is rest in this old world. It is in it, and yet not of it. Where would he look? First, he would tell where he would not look. He would not look for rest among pleasure-seekers. They are al ways striving for happiness, which is another name for rest. They never find happiness, however. They get only pleasure. Pleasure, a cup brim ming full of pleasure, they may get to-night, but a eup of bitterness and overflowing with sorrow will they have to-morrow. No, not among pleasure seekers. He would not look for it, either, among the rich. The great plutocrats have but little of it. They hardly know what it means. There are many of them, hundreds of them, who can. go into the market to-day and buy stocks and bonds and lands, but who, for a million of dollars, can get uo rest. They would pay a million for a small amount of rest if they could understand what it was. Complete joy and rest. He would not look for it among the so-called honored class, either. The city of Washington would be the last place on earth where he would go to look for it. A man no sooner gets into the House of Repre sentatives than he begins scheming aud plotting and pulling wires to get into the Senate. In the Senate he is not contented. He wants to get into the Cabinet. He works and works, and sacrifices himself, his health, his mind, oftimes his affections and friendships, to secure a place in the Cabinet. In the Cabiuet there is no rest to be found. There is a desire to get into the White House, and Lord knows there is no rest there. If there is a house in all the land in which no rest is to be found for the master thereof that house is the house in which lives the President of the Uni ted States of America. His life is one of labor and work. He is worried by every politician and office-seeker. The most frightful responsibility rests upon him and he has no rest. Not to the honored class, so-called, the men who sit in Gubernatorial chairs, or in the House, or the Senate, or in the Cabinet, or to the man who sits in the White House, would he look for the man who had found rest. They have it not. He would look among the disciples of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. To some man or woman who in his or her heart had heard the voice of Jesus say : ''Come unto Me and rest ; lay down, thou weary one. lay down thy head upon My breast,*' and who, hearing the voice of the Master, had gone to Jesus as they were, weary and worn and sad, and found in Him a resting place. To these disciples of Jesus would he look. He could find plenty of them. He believed that there were hundreds of them in that building that very min ute. If he should ask them if they had rest, and asked them how they found it, they would say. "Yes, Mr. Moody, I searched for happiness and rest everywhere. I sought it in the ball room, and in the gambling house. I sought for it in wealth. I sought for it in the excitement of the race track and in society. I found it no where until I heard the voice of Christ saying, ''Come onto Me all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give ye rest." "Jesus called and I came and I am at rest." This is the story that would be told by many. Rest and joy conjeth only of Christ. No prophet nor priest of old promised "rest." Christ alone promised it. This was to him one of the most pow erful arguments in favor of the divin ity of Christ. The church member, the professed Christian, who goes about carrying with him ever a burden, is not acting the part of a true Christian. He should go to Christ and give Him bis burden. Christ is a burden-bearer as well as a sin-bearer. No man has too great a sin for Christ to take away. Neither has any man too great a bur den for Christ to carry for him. Many seem embalmed in sorrow as the old mummies of the Egyptians were em balmed in spices. To these it was that Christ promised "rest." It was not to a few goody goody people that He said, "Come unto Me and rest." It was to all the world. The words were come unto Me "all" ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give ye rest. All must come. Following the sermon there was a silent prayer for "rest." Mr. Moody requested that all who wished the prayers of the congregation that they might obtain rest to raise their handfi. This was done by many. THE SERVICES AT NIGIIT. Nearly two thousand people beard Evangelist Moody last night. It was the last of the services, and it seemed as though every one of the great crowds that bave thronged to bear him during the past few days had come to this final meeting. Every availa ble inch of room in the Citadel Square Church was filled with humanity, and the hallways and entrances were crowded. After the usual opening hymns and a praver by the Rev. Dr. Bays, of Bethel. Mr. Moody came for ward and said that instead of preach ing a sermon he intended to tell the people just what to do if they wanted to be saved. Last night, he said, I told you how Herod had missed the Kingdom of Heaven, to-night I shall tell you bow you may gain it. In the tenth chapter of Romans we read : "Thai; if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved ; for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with thy mouth confession is made unto salvation, for the Scripture saith whosoever beMeveth on Him shall not be ashamed." Three things are required: That we beJieve on Christ in our hearts, con fess Him with our lips and be not ashamed of Him. If Paul were here to-night, straight from Heaven, I don't believe he could make the way any plainer. Some people have said to me Ma bommet came a thousand years after Christ and yet he has more followers. Why is it ? It is because they have no cross to bear. The disciples of Christ must bear the cross if .thoy would wear tho crown of life. If men could only step over the cross to reach that crown the Saviour's following would be greater. The cross is often the jeering of the world. It is when you are called to confess Christ that you become back sliders. If you want Christianityyou must believe with the heart, confess with the lips and be not ashamed. Christ said, "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." This does not mean to take up the cross at church once a week and confess Christ, but daily, in business and in pleasures to acknowledge Christ a? the Saviour of men. What would you think of a soldier or a policeman who would refuse to wear his uniform ? What would be said if a servant disdained the livery provided by his employer ? If we are servants of Christ we must put on His livery and fight under His banner. In Mark 12:8 we find Christ saying, "Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him shall the Son of God also confess before the angels of God." j^?ow many, very many men and women are moral cowards. They will not confess Christ because they might be lauehed at. Why is this so ? In every other religion under the sun the followers are believers in it, are proud of it. They are workers for it. On my way to Salt Lake City once the engineer on the train tried his best to convert me into the Mor mon faith. The Chinamen are proud of being followers of Confucious, the Mohammedans proclaim aloud their faith in Mahommet. and yet the fol lowers of Christ, the head and front, of the only true religion, are ashamed to own their Master. Thank God I have known Christ for forty years and I have never been ashamed of Him. What we want is that men and wo men will own up to their convictions. I believe that if those present who wish to acknowledge Christ were not moral cowards and afraid to own up, there would be more conversions in this church to-night than ever before at any one time in the city. But it takes a hero to be a Christian. You can't sneak into Heaven. Men have been afraid to read their Bibles, because their room-mates would jeer at them. Boys in the ar my were hooted a t for praying in their tents. They stood up for Christ and saved not only their own souls, but likely those of their associates. The blind beggar received sight at the hands of the Saviour because a true follower of Christ. He was cross question- >1 by the enemies of Christ, but he stoutly said : "I was blind and now I see," and before Christ be fell and worshipped Him. I have often been asked by young people, "Will I have to leave the world ?" and I tell them no need of that. Keep your record clean and the world will leave you. Once when I was in Chicago a man sent me an in vitation to attend the opening of a great gilded gate to hell?a bar room. I found one of the proprietors and asked if the invitation was genuine. He said yes. Then, I said, I will come. But if I find things not to my liking I may say something. You won't preach, will you ? said the man (who had sent me the invitation as a joke, or worse). Well, I may, and if I see anything that needs reporting to my Master I will have to do it. You don't mean that you will pray ? said the bar-keeper, in dismay. Yes, I may have to. Then we don't want you to come, be said. And that is the way with the world. Just go to a par ty, and if you sec the young men get ting intoxicated over the punch bowl, just protest against it and I'll venture you will never be invited there again. The Evangelist then described the part taken by Joseph of Arimathea, who protested against the crucifixion of the Saviour, and who, after Christ's death, had lain Him in his own new tomb. Joseph stood out against the members of council, who cried "cru cify Him," and against his friends and acquaintances who passed him the next day with faces averted and sneers or. their lips. But his reception on high surely more than compensated for all the insults and abuse on earth. "Friends," said Mr. Moody, "will you not confess Christ to-night ? This may be the last day or week or month you have of life. It is surely the last year with many of you. Let there be rejoicings in Heaven this night for the throng that will confess their Saviour. I will ask every man, woman and child in this audience who wishes to confess Christ to stand and sing, "Stand up, stand up for Jesus." I don't want anybody to stand unless they mean it, unless you want to." Fully two-thirds of the great con gregation stood and sang the beautiful hymn. After this Evangelist Moody offered an earnest prayer and dismiss ed the crowd. While the people were getting out the choir sang, "God be with you till we meet again." ? A true sense of our unwortbi ncss makes every blessing great and precious. BILL ARP'S LETTER. Ke Delights in Playing With His Grand children. Atlanta Constitution. I was ruminating about the cost of raising a child. My wife and my daughter have bean busy for a week fixing up short clothes for the little girl and I wondered what was the mat ter. "We are just making up some spring dresses for Caroline," they said. "How many will it take?" said L "Well, we will have to have fourteen to start on," said my wife, "one for each day and seven of them will have to go out in the wash you know every Monday." "How many other gar ments?" said I. "Well, there are seven white skirts and four flannels and some little shorts you know, but everything is so cheap now that her clothing doesn't cost much. These nice little dresses with lace trimmings and all only cost about 50 cents apiece for all the material and we do the work athome." Carolineisourgrand child and lives in the house with us and gives us lots of comfort. She loves me and I love her dearly and had rather nurse her and frolic with her than go to town and exchange wit and wisdom with the literati and the loafers. An old man and a little child fit mighty well together. It is nature's compromise. I am old and wrinkled and gray, but this little child will put out her hands to come to me whenever I come in the room. That flatters me, of course, though her grandmother says it is just because I walk about with her and that I spoil her and make it harder for anybody else to nurse her. She is cutting more teeth now and is just getting over the whooping cough and needs more nursing, and when she puts out her arms to me I'm going to take her and walk about with her if the world comes to an end. I've got a little soothing song that I've been singing to our children for forty years and I can get them to sleep when nobody else can. The measles are all over the town now and she has got to have them. Her little cousins have been here kissing her and now they have broken out, but that's all right. I don't believe in hiding a child from the measles. It is a right big thing to raise a child, and especially ten of them. It is the biggest thing in this life. There are things that the newspapers and society and congress make more fuss about, but they won't compare with it in importance nor in purity and love and self-sacrifice. The innocence, helplessness and affection of a child, say from one to five years old, is the most blessed and attractive thing in ?he world. About three million babies are born every year in the United States, and it takes about six million people to raise them up to walking and talking time. Then another crop comes on, and another and another. The fact is that about half the people in the civilized world are engaged in raising the other half. And it is a labor of love. I speak from experi ence when I say that the pleasure I have derived from nursing, caring for, maintaining, pleasing and educating our children has exceeded all that I have realized from all other sources. And now that I am old and tired, I had rather frolic with a grandchild than do anything else. Of course, there are some outsiders who care nothing about these things. There are some selfish mothers who are ab sorbed in society and its fashions and follies who turn their children off to h? nursed, and there are some* old bichelors who don't want to be both ered with them aud some business men who think that making money is a bigger thing, and hardly have time to get acquainted with their children, and there are a big lot of thieves, burglars, robbers, drunkards and con victs who care nothing for children, but, nevertheless, the masses of the people get married and become engag ed in raising children and this is the natural thing to do and brings more happiness than can be found in any other state or condition. My wife and my daughter with her first child are happier right now in working for that little child than they would be in any other occupation, and so am I. I wouldn't write a line for a newspaper if I wasn't obliged to. I would work in the garden and among the flowers, for that is the next best thing and keeps me in good health. But it didn't take as many garments for our first children as it did for the las.t. They were not changed every day in the old times?every other day was enough. My wife generally had two on hand and it kept her busy with needle and thread, for we never had a sewing machine until our first child was eight years old. She did it all with her fingers?plaits, tucks, trim mings, caps, bonnets, stockings and all. There never was a mother who did more work or nicer work for her children. It was just wonderful, con sidering that she wasn't raised to work and had her waiting maids all around her and was only sixteen when I mar ried her. But she had the maternal instinct, and for forty-five years has been happy in working for them. Some folks call it slaving, but if it brings happiness what if it is slavery. I don't see that she has pined away or lost flesh, or become sad and dropsy. There is not a gray hair on her classic head and hardly a wrinkle on lier brow and she has cost me less in doctor's bills than any child we have got. It is wonderful what a mother can endure and how far she will go to nurse her children. A few years ago she hurried off to Florida to take care of a sick boy, and she staid by him for three months in a little room and she saved his life. There is no doubt about that. And right now she is on the lookout for a telegram from New York or Ohio or Mexico or Florida, where the boys are scattered, and if it comes she will want to take the first train. What it will cost or where the money will come from does not seem to concern her. "If Carl gets down sick in Mexico I am going to him," she says, with as much assurance as if every railroad belonged to her. "I'll telegraph Mr. Raoul for a pass," she says. "He persuaded Carl to go there and he must take me to him if he gets very sick. Mrs. Raoul will make him do it, I know, for she is a mother and has a boy out there. Carl's life is worth more than all the railroads in the country." And she puts on an auto cratic and determined look that alarms me and all I can do is to pray the Lord that Carl may not get sick. He is the baby boy, you know, and mothers alway cling a little closer to the last one. So did Jacob to Benja min, and it is according to nature I reckon. He writes to her every week and his letters are always bright and cheerful and loving. She files them away in her stand drawer and ties them up with tape, and every now and then takes them out and reads them again and takes comfort. Oh, if the boys would all write such letters to their good old mothers. What a wori of comfort there is in them. Carl's last letter tells us about his getting a day off, and he and two Georghi friends went out a hundred miles to shoot ducks and killed 156 in a day, mal lards, teal, canvasbacks and spoonbills, and he says, "If you want to get rid of old Grover, send him out here to shoot ducks and he will never go back any more, for it takes no boat, and no blinds and no decoys." Bill Aep. Railways Ruined by Accidents. One of the most popular of the su burban railroads carrying passenger:} out of New York during the summer season went into the hands of a re ceiver a few days ago because there were pending against it damage suitii to the amount of $1,000,000 arising from an accident on Labor day?at accident in which a number of people were killed. Not one of the suits has yet come to trial, but such is the closeness with which railroad earningn and expenses are computed that the net earnings for many years to come would be hopelessly engulfed if onlys. part of the suits came to trid and il' only a fraction of the damages claimed was recovered in court. When one reads of a "terrible rail road accident" on some railroad line, an accident entailing loss of life and perhap3 serious injury to ma.ny, the circumstances is lost sight of that, after the doctors and nurses have be gun their work of skill or philanthropy, there come the lawyers whose clients are to be settled with either by cash compromise or as the result of a jury'e decision, and juries, it is well known, are hardly ever partial to railroad companies when private individuals are suing for injuries sustained or for the loss of immediate relatives. It is for this reason that a very serious ac cident sometimes means the wreckage of the finances of a railroad company. A few minutes' neglect, recklessness or imprudence may cost, in subsequent financial damage, years of labor. Among railroad men the case of the Toledo, Pecria and Western is a fa miliar one. In August, 1887, there was an accident at Chatsworth, Ills., on the line, in which 100 persons were killed, and the litigation resulting therefrom has kept the company in the courts ever since. The Monoa road, running from Chicago to Louisville, is another sufferer in its finances from an accident along the line, and the Ashtabula accident along the Lake Shore railroad some years ago involved that railroad iumany thousand dollars of loss. Kiilroads have no reserve fund to meet the losses sustained through damage suits from accidents. A contrary opinion prevails,especially among litigants and jurors, who seem to act on the general proposition that railroad corporations keep on band a large sum for such contingencies as an occasional accident costing anjwhere from $50,000 to $500,000.. # The amoun i of money paid in settle ment of damage suits by American railroads cannot be computed with any positiveness, because it varies con siderably from year to year, while the condition of the railroadu transporting passengers has much to do with it. When roads are in good condition, ac cidents involving loss of life or serious bodily injury are rare; when roads are in poor condition, such accidents are frequent. The large systems of the country, such as the New York Cen tral, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Illinois Central and the Southern Pacific, spend on an average in the settlement of damage suits about $150,000 each, and the smaller railway companies bring up, probably, the total amount paid to about $3.000, 000 in all. Although the American railroads carry collectively in a year 600,000, 000 passengers, the number of fatal accidents averages but about 300, and of injuries to passengers about 3,000, or one killed for every 2,000,000 car ried, and one injured for every 200, 000. One of the amendments to the present New York State Constitution adopted in 189-1 (section 13 of article 1) did away wiv,h the statutory power of the Legislature to limit a verdict for "damages for injuries resulting in death" to $5,000 ? New York Sun. Blank Was Bored* The right use of wealth is a text that suggests many sermons, and the influence of wealth upon happiness is almost as fruitful a theme. A story told by tbe friends of an Oregon mil lionaire goes to show that, after she has grown accustomed to a simple way of life, the possession of a for tune may involve only sorrow and bit terness. When his silver mines began to yield more money than he knew how to spend, Mr. Blank's ambitious wife conceived the idea of invading society. Washington was chosen as the point of attack. Land was bought, architect and builder were set at work and a modern palace rose almost as speedily as Aladdin's. Then began the struggle to be fash ionable, an effort in which Mr. Blank found himself an unwilling participant. Balls and receptions bored him. Late dinners, he found, agreed widi neither his head nor his stomach. Even to please his daughters, he could not pretend a cordial friendship for men who talked of nothing but lawn tennis and the latest opera. One gleam of pleasure came to the old prospector when, after a year, a former "partner" visited Washington. It seemed obscured when the stranger asked to see the new house, but the millionaire was too proud to shirk his duty. Wearing a face of deepest gloom, be escorted tbe visitor up stairs and down. The latter was admiring and enthusiastic. The host said little or nothing. In due course tbe inspection was finished, and they reached tbe hall. "Well, Tim," was tbe visitor's last word, "you can't say you ain't got everything you want!" "Yes, I can." tbe millionaire an swered somberlv, "I want a parrot." "A parrot! What fur?" "To hang up here, so every time I open the door heenn say. 'Here comes that old fool agin!"?Youth's Com panion. State or Ohio, city of Toledo, I Lucas County, | ' Frank J. Cheney makes oath tnat ho is the srniur partner of the firm of F. J. ' henkyA Co, doing business In the City of Toledo, County and State afor.mid ant! that said firm will pay the mihi of ONE HUNDRED DOLL J RS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured oy the use of Hall's catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before Rifl and cubscribrd in ray pres ence, this 0th day of December, A. D 188R [seal] a. W Gf.EASON. Notary Public. Hall's CaUrrh Cure Is taken internally aud acti directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of tho 8yst<-m Send for testimonials, free. Address. F. J. CHENEY ? CO:, Toledo, O. Stffa try DroggrVts, T35, WILL IT STRIKE THE EARTH ? The Professors all Say That it Is Possible. 6?. Loui8 Republic. Boston, Mass., February 22.?Per rine's comet is advancing towards the earth at the prodigious pace of 1,600, 000 miles a day, and unless it changes its course it may hit the earth some time during Saturday, March 14th. Prof. Lenschuer, of the State Univer sity of California, has just completed his calculations of the orbit of the new comet which was discovered by Astronomer Perrine, of the Lick Uni versity, a few days ago. His calcula tions convinoe him that the comet will take a new course on March 1st and sheer away from the earth. If, how ever, the professor has made a mistake of a millioneth part of a unit in his figures, the comet may strike us. Prof. Pickering, of the Harvard Ubservatory, was seen this evening by a reporter and asked if it were possi ble for the comet and the earth to meet in collision. His reply was that such a thing was certainly possible. "Comets," hesaid, "haveno special relation to the earth, and if the earth happened to be in the path of one it would, of course, be struck. I am not prepared to say just what would hap pen. No one knows. You see, we have no record of any such experience. The only man who dares to say much on this subject is Prof. C. A. Young, of Princeton, and I'll give.you his opinion on the subject, because he has given that line more attention than I have. "Prof. Youog's opinion is that a comet is nothing but a 'sand bank'; that is, it is a swarm of solid particles of unknown size and widely separate, say, pin heads, several hundred feet apart, each particle carrying with it an envelope of gas, largely hydrocar bon, in which gas light is produced, either by electrical discharges between the particles or by some other light, the evolving action being due to the sun's influence. This hypothesis de rives its chief plausibility from the modern discovery of the close relation ship between meteors and ?omets. "Prof. Young says that comets may hurt us in two ways, either by actu ally striking the earth or by falling into the sun, and thus producing such an increase of solar heat as to burn us up." In regard to the possibility of a col lision with a comet, Prof. Pickering said that it was to be admitted that such an event was possible; "in fact," he continued, "if the earth lasts long enough such a thing is practically sure to happen, for there are several comets' orbits which pass nearer to the earth's orbit than the semi-diameter of the comet's head, and at tome time the earth and comet will certainly come together. Such encounters will, how ever, be rare. If we accept the esti mate of Babinet they will occur once in fifteen millions of years in the long run." As to the consequence of such a collision, Prof.,Pickering said it was impossible to estimate for want of sure knowledge of the state of aggregation of the matter composing a comet. "If we accept the modern theory," he said, "and if this theory be true, every thing depends on the size of the sepa rate solid particles which form the main part of the comet's mass. If they weigh tons the bombardment would be very serious, but if, as seems more likely, the particles are smaller than pin heads, the result would be simply a grand meteoric shower. "Now," continued the Professor, "although the possibility of that comet striking the earth i3 real, still the probability is not so great. So far as we know, the probability is not much greater than that of some other comets striking us. At the Harvard observa tory here, we have not yet had the three good observations which are re quired before wo can make any com putation. "This is for the reason that so many other observatories are watching comets that we devote our time to things which they cannot do so well as we can. Of course, if the time comes when we are in a position where our observations will count for much, we shall devote our energies to them." Professor Garrett P. Serviss says that there is little possibility of the jomet hitting the earth. If it should ait the earth, he says, the most seri ous result would be its effect on the health of the earth's inhabitants. Servis^, in an interview, discussed bhe report that Perrine's comet is Iraveliug towards the earth at a rate of 1,71)0,000 miles a day, and that a collision was .probable. He said: "I judge the comet is 11 small one, perhaps as large as the earth. That would not be very large for a comet. It is probably not coming toward us, as the dispatches say. If it is, then there is no possibility of it hitting us. We are traveling 19 miles a second' and by March 14, the date they talk about its arriving, we shall bo millions of miles from where we are now. To hit us, it must be traveling toward the spot about 40,000,000 miles from here, \*here we shall be on March 14. Whether or not the calculations that have been made about the present pDsition of the comet, its velocity and its course are exact depecds upon whether the observations have been good. "It is not likely that they are exact, fer a comet is a hazy body, and it is difficult to get good observations. If it was a point like a star it could be told with mathematical certainty just w.iere it would be at a certain minute or hour, but being a hazy thing, it is difficult to see where is the head, the greatest point of condensation, and to tell exactly what the comet is doing. You remember in 1892 it waa thought for some days that a comet was going to hit us, and then I discovered that the comet was going away from us in stead of coming toward us. "A comet is not a solid body, like th 3 earth. It is made up of minute bodies. We might compare it with a dust cloud. While in size it compared wi:h the earth, there i3 no comparison in the solidity of the two. So far as we have been able to learn there are no large particles of matter in the comet. They are made up of atoms of dust, iron, nickel or some other metal. Our atmosphere is practically imper vious to such a body. Seventy or 80 miles above the earth, where the at mosphere is so rare thiit the vacuum is ?ilmost as good as that of a Crookes tube, there is still enough resistance to disintegrate and destroy a body like a comet traveling with the swiftness with which a comet travels.. The par ticles would become infinitely fine, no larger than the ultimate atoms of mat ter. 'They would ultimately reach the eanh. "While in bulk the comet may oc cupy the room of the earth aud in that sense it is as big as the earth, it is not packed solid like the earth. Take an ordinary dust cloud for example. It may cover a mile square of space, but if all the partioles were oompressea into the smallest possible space they would occupy very little room. So a comet as large as the earth might not contain more than enough matter to make a layer one ten-thousandth of a millimetre deep, if spread over the earth. If the comet was made of solid chunks of matter the result would be different. "The heat generated by the contact with the atmosphere would be suffi cient to melt things. For instance, a 100-ton piece of iron might burn a hole as big as the State of New York. Under the tremendous heat the earth and stone in the immediate neighbor hood would be vaporized immediately. But there are no large particles of matter in the make-up of a comet. There is just one possibility of un pleasantness in a comet's hitting the earth. That is tho subsequent effects on the atmosphere. It would seem likely that the atmosphere would be filled with gaseous matter and if the comet was a very big one, made up in part of gases, as they are, it might induce matter into the atmosphere deleterious to health. It might give us the grip or predispose us to the attack or other diseases." A Soft Place! "I was down to see the widow, yes terday," said Tim's uncle, "and she gave me backbones for dinner. I went down rather early in the morning ; we talked and laughed, and chatted and run on, she going in and out occasion ally to see to things till dinner was ready, when she helped me graciously to backbone. Now I thought that. Tim, rather favorable. 1 took ?t as a symptom of personal approbation, be cause everybody knowB I love back bone, and I flattered myself she had cooked them on purpose for me. So I grew particularly oheerful, and I thought I could see it in her too. So after dinner, while sitting close beside the widow, I fancied we both felt sor ter comfortable like?I know I did. I felt that I had fallen over head and ears and heart in love with her. and I imagined, from the way she looked, she had fallen teeth and toe-nails in love with me. She appeared just for all the world like she thought it was a coming?that I was a-going to court her. Presently, I couldn't help it, I laid my hands softly on her beautiful N shoulder, and I remarked when I had placed it there, in my blandest tones, Tim, for I tried to throw my whole soul into the expression, I remarked then, with my eyes pouring love, truth, and fidelity right at her, "Wid ow, this is the nicest, softest place I ever had my hands in all my life.' "Looking benevolently at me, and at the same time flushing up a little, she said, in melting and winning tones: "Doctor, give me your hand, and*I will put it on a much softer place.' "In a moment, in rapture, I con sented, and taking my hand, she gent ly, very gently, Tim, and quietly laid it on my head?and burst into a laugh that's ringing in my ears yet. "Now, Tim, I haven't told this to a living soul but you, and, by jinks ! you musn't; but I couldn't hold it any longer, so I tell you ; but mind, it musn t go any further." New Methods of Gold Mining. The nature of the revolution indi cated will best be understood by con trasting the conditions of gold mining twenty years ago and at the present time. The chief source of the gold supply, up to a very recent day, has been the rich gold-bearing alluvium, which bears the same relation to gold deposits in general as a'layer of cream to a pot of milk. It is estimated that from 1848 to 1875 nearly nine-tenths of the world's gold came from this all?vium. Now, in greater part, this rich cream has been removed and at the present time not much more than a third of the supply is derived from this source. In other words, placer mining has changed places with lode mining, and the greater part of the world's gold can no longer be washed down from the hillsides at comparative ly slight expense, but has to be sought in the bowels of the earth, often at far depths. More than this, quartz mines of extraordinary richness are by no means so common at the present time as they were two or three or four decades ago. The difficulty of work ing has been steadily increased, while the average value of the ore has steadily declined. You may judge of the comparative cost of working by a comparison be tween this and the former day. The gold bearing beds of the Transvaal are not difficult of access, nor expensive to work. They lie in a curiously reg ular fashion, resembling coal beds much more than the general run of gold bearing veins. The total output of these fields was about 33 millions in 1894, and a mining authority, Pro fessor Kickard. has estimated that to gain these 33 millions of gold probably cost as much as all the 143 millions which California and Australia put forth in 1850-1853, taken together. Or, to put the matter in another way, it has been computed that in the bo nanza placer days two men with a shovel, a pick rind a rocker could gain as much gold as ten men and ten stamps gain at the present time.?Re view of Reviews. ? "At Home Tuesdays in March from 3 until 6 o'clock," read a simple minded old lady on the wedding cards of a young couple of her acquaintance. "Well, well," she said, depreoatingly, "Carrie was an awful girl to go ; but I did think she'd stop her gadding round and settle down after she mar ried , but this looks like she expected to go it worse than ever, when she has to send out notice that she won't be at home but three hours a week. Great housekeeping she'll do at that rate ! I pity her husband !" Not to be Trifled With. Will people never learn, says the Cincinnati Gazette, that a "cold" is an accident to be dreaded, and that when it occurs treatment should be promptly applied ? There is no knowing where the trouble will end ; and while complete recovery is the rule, the exceptions are terribly fre quent, and thousands upon thousands of fatal illnesses occur every year ushered in by a little injudicious ex posure and seemingly trifling symp toms. Beyond this, there are to-day countless invalids who can trace their complaints to "colds," which at the time of occurrence gave no concern, and were therefore neglected.?When troubled with a coin use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It is prompt and effectual. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Hill Bros. All Soils of Paragraphs. ? London has 1,380 miles of streets. ' /M Paris has 600 mile* of streets. ? India has now become, next to China, the largest tea growing coun try. ? Railway laborers in Holland av- ;Jj erage from 36 cents to 70 cents per day. ^i ? Marriage is a lottery in whiclvwe all draw something?usually a baby carriage. ? If you knew tbe struggles through which your brother is passing, you would stop criticising him and throw your arm around him. ? "Clarence," she sighed roman ticly, "do something true, something brave, something heroic to prove your love for me." "Well," he falteredo hut calmly, "I have offered to marry you." ? Old Mr. Fussy?"Matilda, has that young man gone yet?" His daughter?"Why, yes, papa 1" Old Mr. Fussy?"H'm, you were so still that I thought he was stilHhere'r ? A queer wit was a London liquor dealer who bequeathed his gin-mill to the town on condition that forty shill ings of the rent should be paid each year to a preacher to preach a sermon :^ on drunkenness. ? Perry Patettic (in the road)? | Wy don't you go in ? De dog's alfc|H right. Don't you see him waggin' his .fM tail ? Wayworn Watson (at the jgate}? ?Yes, an' he's growlin' at the same time. I don't know which end to be lieve. ? "Johnny," he whispered to bei' little brother, "did your sister get a note from me last night? Il was writ ten on pink paper." "I think she must have got it," said Johnny, " 'cause when she came down to break fast this morning her hair was done up in pink curl-papers." ? A lady in Americus, Ga.., is us ing a lamp chimney she has had und used daily for the past eight years, and she expecta to use it for many years yet. She says that she boiled it in salt water when it was bought in '1882, and no matter how large a flame runs through it, it won't break. ? An Irishman and a Frenchman - were one day having a dispute ove:r the nationality of a friend of theirs. "I Bay,1' said the Frenchman, "chat if he was born in France he is a Frenchman." "Begorra," said Pat, "if a cat should have kittens in the oven would you call them biscuits ?" ? "Mamma, I know the,gentle man's name that called to see Aunt Ellie last night, and nobody told me, either." "Well, then, what is it, ' Bobby?" "Why, George Dont?I heard her say George Dont in the par lor four or five times hand-running. That's what his name is." : ? An Englishman was boasting to a Yankee that they had a hook in the British museum which was once own ed by Cicero. "Oh, that ain't .noth ing" reported the Yankee; "in the museum in Bosting they've got the lead-pencil that Noah used to check off the animals that went into the ark." ? The government engineer in charge of the department of roid inquiry, General Roy Stone, says there are about 500,000,000 tons of freight hauled over roads every year in the United States, and 60 per cent, of the cost of doing it is due to bad roads. He believes the loss from poor roads in this country would aggregate no less than $623,000,000 annually. ? All last winter Mr. Geo. A. Mills, of Lebanon, Conn., was badly afflicted with rheumatism. At times it was so severe that he could not stand up straight, but was drawn over on one side. "I trie do different remedies without receiving relief," he says, "until about six months ago I boug-ht^jl a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. r After using it for three days my rheu matism was gone and has not returned since. For sale by Hill Bros. ? The failure of the Florida~6range crop has caused many remote countries to be drawn upon to make good the shortage. Oranges from the Holy Land have recently been offered for sale in Chicago. The fruit is light colored, oval and carefully packed. It was grown near Jerusalem, and was in excellent condition when received in this country. ? In recalling some'instances of his childhood, Lord Macauley once said: "When a boy, I began to read very earnestly, but at the foot of every page I stopped, and obliged myself 'o give an account of what I had read^on that page. At first I had to read it three or four timeB before I got ray mind firmly fixed; but now, after I have read a book through once, I can almost recite it from beginning to end." ? A Methodist paper says that three brothers who were preachers made a visit to their mother. One of them said, "Do you not think, mother, that you ruled with two rigid a rod in our boyhood? It would have been better I think had you used gentler methods." The old lady rose to her full height and replied, "Well, Wil liam, when you have raised up three as good preachers as I have, then you can talk." r. ; ? A hatchet was found a few days ago completely imbedded in the trunk of a tree cut down in Cheboygan Co., Michigan. The wood had grown over it so that it was invisible from the outside. It bore the name of Robert La Salle, the French explorer, the ^ date 1665, and the Latin inscription, "Ad Majorem Deai Gloriam," the motto of the Jesuit order to which La Salle belonged. ? Simon S. Hartman, of Tunnelton, West Va., has been sub; ct to attacks of colic about once a ye?, and would have to call a doctor and then suffer for about twelve hours as much as some do when they die. He was taken recently just the same as at other times, and concluded to try Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says : "I took one dose of it and it gave me relief in five min utes. That is more than any thing else has ever done for me." For sale by Hill Bros. ? Converse College has lately re ceived donations amounting to over $100,000. Mr. D.E. Converse heads the list with a gift of ?70,000, the Board of Directors, the citizens of Spartanburg and other friends of the College give over $30,000. The gifts to the college are in perpetuity and the mauagement of the college is vested by special charter and incorpo ration in the hands of a self-perpetu atingBoard of Trustees and the.college" is made a permanent gift to the cause of education. The college is not yet six years old, but its success ha? been phenomenal. The enrollment of stu dents this year is 350, from (sixteen States and Canada.