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I \ BY GLINKSC A.! ES & LANGSTON, ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1896. VOLUME XXX.-NO. 49. That's a hard thing to do these kind of days-that is, if you are not wearing one of our. o tS! They are cool, light and durable. Price, $5.00. SUMMER UNDERWEAR, In all grades. SHIRTS, from 25c. up. HEW LINE OF NECKWEAR Just in. Dresdens and Rhum-CLumders is the correct thing. Come in and gaze. B. 0. EVANS HAIL TO THE CHIEFS ! The Conquering Heroes are 7 - THE - BARGAIN KINGS And th?y have Conquered the whole Town with their id Hoi of THEY have made High Prices quake with fear at their disregard for profits. If you have not been there don't miss this week's opportunities. They staod alone as the greatest values ever shown to this or any other public. The only genuine JOSH BERRY GRAIN CRA0LE, 14 Fingere, fitted with an especially fine blade, every one guaranteed. 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When ready to plant your gardeu come and see us and we will save you money. ORB & SLOAN, ""Sgl&iP* EW JEWELRY STORE M. HUBBARD? IH HIS NEW STORE.IN HOTEL BLOCK LOTS OF NEW GOODS. NOVELTIES IN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. ONE CENT TO $100.00. ?&'TSo charge for Engraving. ?Sfr*The Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it's a pleasure to Bhow thom. P. S.-if yon bave.Aoc rants with i. if. HUBS \RD & BRO. make settlement witt eae at above platt?, JOHN 51. HUBBARD. A P/EAN TO THE PUMPKIN. How dear to my heart Is the old yellow pumpkin! i When orchards aro barren Of stu flin for pies, When peaches and apples Have lK)th been a failuro j. And barries of no kind Havo greeted our eyes How fondly we turn To the fruit of tho cornfield! Only fools theso despise Tho old yellow pumpkin, The mud covered pumpkin, The big bellied pumpkin, That make such cood pies. -Louisville Domocrat. LOVE IN THE DESERT. Ono day a boy carno running to bis fa ther with a book. ' 'What does this word mean?" ho asked, for he believed that his father knew all the world and most of the things beyond. The parent be lieved that, too, and that is how the child had come to imbibe the idea. The man looked and saw the word "love." "Do you know what that word means, papa?" asked the boy. "Oh, yes," said the father. And ho began thinking. Ho thought for a long time, for there were so many things love is that he hardly knew where to be gin defining. And the longer he remain ed silent the harder it seemed to find a beginning. "It is difficult to answer," he observed, and the boy interrupted I him. " When we find a difficult problem at school," he said, "we go to the rule. What is the rule about love?" Tho father looked at him, but did not answer. Ho thought Then he gazed anxiously about, and out through the window he saw a man passing. "Ah, " he said, "there is Mr. Brown, and I want to see him. " And he hurried out to speak to the man, and the boy never heard what love is or what is its rula ****** Ford, being quite satisfied that tho story was a lie from the beginning and that his search for the wonderful lost desert tribe would result in no benefit to the Smithsonian institution, stopped to rest in the shade of tho water wagon, the wheels of which were sunk 18 inch es into the roasting sand. "Look out, " he yelled to ono of the drivers, "or this Nevada sun will get action on you and yon will pop like corni Lord, isn't it hot!" And he looked about at the blistering white and blue and cudgeled out of his memory certain verses: And when grim spirits como to that curs'd land. To be whore wanderers fell, They look In terror at tho burning eand And hurry back to hell "And that's desert Nevada, and where we are driving and swearing and sweat ing through it to find tho desert tribes man, who is a lie. " "By the powers, it isn't alie!" yelled Graves, his assistant "Look!" "A Chinese boy I" roared Ford. ' 'And, ye gods, a redheaded Chinese boy, and on a camel, and in Nevada!" Hong Foy was a dismal failure. Mc Goggin told bim so daily. He could not tamp Southern Pacific ties half as well as Yo Heave, or whatever the pockma rk ed Chinaman's name was, and Fon Kee could almost carry a "60 pound to the yard" rail by himself, while Hong Foy, being young and pale and calm, found it difficult to lug even tho spike maul or the pinch bar. Wherefore the invest ment of the Southern Pacific Railroad company in Hong Foy was denominated fay Mike McGoggin, the section fore man, as a weird and wonderful failure -only McGoggin used words of the 6ame import, but of different pronuncia tion. Hong Foy, however, could cook, and he Bhowed Maggie McGoggin how to make a soup out of potato sprouts which McGoggin declared to be the tri umphant work of the devil. Soup, by the way, is a thing not to be experi mented ?on when the section boarding house is at a place in Nevada where the water is brought in a tank from a sta tion 80 or 100 miles away. McGoggin appreciated the soup, and because of it refrained for two weeks from discharg ing Hong Foy. But on a Saturday night of the month of June, in the year 1881, he threw a bolt at Hong Foy, hit him with a crooked spike and made a run to the toolhouse to get a wrench to kill him with. He bad seen Maggie when 6he kissed the young Chinaman in the kitchen. In the shade of the toolhouse, after McGoggin had retired, Hong Foy crept like a dog which had been whipped out of its kennel but knows not where to go. He knew two lines of steel over which Chinamen labored, while a redheaded white man swore volubly at them. He knew a blue horizon, and theso things were all he knew in that land-except ing the sun. Where could he go? As he .leaned dejectedly against the toolhouse and thought of his love making, ho wept, and weeping, Maggie found him. Hong Foy had not dreamed of the fu ture, and had not expected the coming of taie girL He had expected to sleep in the toolhouse that night and be beaten again in the morning. But Maggie had planned. The best part of her plan was that she had brought a huge bottle, and ;.t had water in it "We will go that way," she said, pointing out into tho desert It is not so bad to walk all night through the desert if you are sure you are going to havo shade in which to rest the next day But the next doy came, and as Maggie and Hong Foy looked about them all they saw was what a couple of ants in a plasterer's box of lime see. Far, far, far away, round about and near it was white. And it was so flat that they seemed to look up out of a basin to a brim which was white and blue, and the alkali and the 6ky nestled so close to each other and the sky arched over as though it were the roof of the plain in such wise that Maggie thought they might as well have been imprisoned in the shell of a monster egg-only it would have to bo the biggest egg and biggest shell ever created, and there would be room for only one of such like in the world. Tho sun was beautiful in the early morning, aad there were roses in the desert ea just as there are roses in the east of ?.he orchard land. Tho sun looked on them with a friendly rotundity for an hour, and then he frowned, and the frown was of white heat And sleepily they plodded on, searching for a brush big enough to cast two square feet of shade. They had no means of telling timo other than by the sun, but the girl knew the secrets of the sun and knew it was 10 o'clock when the pale, calm face of Hong Foy looked into hers with a dumb piteousness, and he sank in a swoon. Hurriedly tho girl uncovered his head and saw for the first time the great, jagged, ragged hole mado by that bent spike thrown by her father. Tho iron had dug deep, but tho Chinaman had plastered tho wound with tho clean waste taken from tho toolhouso and had wrapped his cue around it. Maggie re garded tho hurt with a little bit of wo manly horror, and then she thought of how her lover had walked all that night through the sands with his head wreck ed by her father's effort and had not in timated that he was iniural at all , 1 'Ho is -worth it, " said Maggia And tenderly she dressed tho wound, wash ing it with the precious water Hong Foy had carried in the great bottle. "Ho is worth it." If you would have to guess at tho smallest part of that awful journey go out on the Southern Pacific to the place where tho temperature is normally at 140 in Juno at ll o'clock in the day time, where the air ia so hot that ifc curls itself up, where the alkali is baked into powder finer than the finest powder known to medicine, and without the slightest breath of air to agitate it sif ta and scatters about over the face of tho earth, being drawn np by the sun just as you have heard of water being drawn np. It will be an unpleasant ride to you, for you will leave your coat at , Ogden and your raiment along tho right of way with great persistence, until in the middle of tho desert you will be a disgrace and will belong in the samo epoch aa Adam and Eve, but you will not think of Adam and Eve, for they lived where water was and grass and trees and blossoms, and it would make you insane to think of those as you look ed out on the writhing blue lines of mountains millions of miles away. Mountains which you seo here this mo ment and which are gone when you look again. And beating, beating, beating with a might that makes your head thump ia the great world consuming Bun. Yes, if yon would like to guess about Maggie and Hong Foy-the crippled Hong Foy-and their 12 days'parching, f aminhing, agonizing journey until they walked out of death arid into a green lino cf paradise which ran along a clear river, you must go there and do it for yourself. And at tho end of the jour ney, if you ever get to the end of it, perhaps you will fall fainting and deathlike at tho margin of the stream as Hong Foy did, or perhapa you will drop on your knees and pray as did Maggia * ? ? * . * "The only thing in tho cabin," said Gravea, "which plainly was not made out of the thinga hereabout is a great bottle, which ia apparently for water. I wonder where it came from?" "I don't," said the driver of the water wagon. "What I want to know ia about that there humpy lookin camel beast that the boy met us on. Tell me where that thing came from and I'll go home satisfied. " "They don't know themselves," said Ford. ' 'They only know he came in here one day, and the woman says he waa Kent by God to help the Chinee haul wood in winter time, but the Chi naman insists that he waa created out of the alkali or something, from what I gather in talking to him, as a special gift of his josa. Tho boy says nothing. I consider that beast the greateat object lesson in the conciliation of religious disputes that I ever struck, for while holding these different views they don't quarrel about him. The real explana tion iii probably that he ia tho offspring of some of those camela tho United States government bought over from Africa, several years ago for use in the Arizona army posta, but which turned out a failure and were let loose to roam where they would. " "I suppose,"" said braves, "that you will say in your report that tho red headed, half Chinese kind is the natural child of the desert?" ' 'Yes. If this land of heat and hard ship is ever to be peopled, I think that will bo the breed for it!" "Dil it ever strike you, " said Graves to Fori, after they had got back to civ ilisation, "how that Chinese friend of yours and his wife and child out there in that desert are so fond of one anoth er?" "Graves," said Ford, "the word 'love' always seemed to me to be a sort of a sickly one for a grown man to uso in talking to another, but do yon know that is what I would call that case? I don't think I'd say fond. " "I don't understand it a4 all, " Graves observed. "Well, you know there's no rule for that kind of thing, old man. Love is something you can't cipher out like your latitudo and your longitude." Chicago Record. A Myutery of tho Mails. In tho mail delivered at his West Philadelphia residence tho other day William May, the well known ship chandler, discovered a most remarkable document It was an invitation to his own wedding, which occurred in 18G7, and where the missive has been during tho intervening 29 years is a matter bf no little mystery. It was addressed to a friend of former years, who then resided at 833 Wharton street Considering ita age, tho envelope is in a very good stato of preservation, although completely covered with hieroglyphics added by postal officials. The invitation card, while yellow with age, gives little evi dence of its 29 years of strange exist ence.-Philadelphia Ledger. Eiclily Entitled to it, "John, I think I should like to visit my old home in the East a month or two this summer." "I don't know, Maria, I'm afraid I can't spare the time from my busi ness." "I'm uotasking you to go, John. I can make the trip myself without any trouble." "You would get homesick, if you were to f tay away from home as long as that." "I think not. I should like to try it, anyhow." "What is the matter with, you, Maria?" irritably. "HaveutI been a good husband ?" "I am not making any complaint about you, John, am I ?" "Ain't I affectionate enough ? Hav ant I always kissed you when I went away from home in the morning and when I came back in the evening every day for the last 25 years ?" "Yes, and you've had a chew of plug tobacco in your mouth every morning and evening for the last 25 years, too. I think I wanta vacation, John." _ - A woman in Western Ontario purchased a newfangled kettle from a peddler. In the evening she showed it to her husband, a hardware dealer, who told her he had the same thing in his store for half the price she paid. "Well," she said, "why don't you ad vertise ? Nobody knows what you have for sale." Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot roach tho diseased porilon nf thc ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and (hat is by constitu tional remrdifs. Deafness is caused by an Inflam ed condition of the mucous I MUNI: nf the Eustach ian Tube ?Vhen this tube gets Inflamed yent have a ruiutiling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness Is tho result, and unless thc inflammation can be taken out and this ??be restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed fnrever; nlno cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Wc will give One Hundred Dollars for any ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh) Ihat cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F J. CHENEY & CO , Toledo, 0. 03-Sold hy Druggists, 75c HOW THINGS CHANGE TIME WORKS MANY WONDERS IN A LARGE CITY. A Vermont Bridal Couple Pazzlco - Cab man by Asking to Bo Taken to tko Kew York Hotel-Man?is Had Told Them Also to Go to A. T. Stewart's. They got off a train at tho Grand Cen tral station on Saturday afternoon and stood for a moment apparently dazed by tho roar of traffio and tho shouts of the cabmen. He was tall, angular and un ! wieldy. His face was bronzed by ex posure, and the brown contrasted finely .with his wide blue eyes. He wore a suit j the creases of which testified to the new ness of tho clothes, and his shoes creak ed as he walked. She was trim and neat and wore a silk frock with becoming dignity. She was young and diffident, j Her cheeks were rosy and her eyes were i bright. She hung closely to his arm and i glanced anxiously from his face to that of a particularly persistent cabman. There was no doubt that she was partic ularly proud of her brawny companion, and there was something about them ; that told at once that they were bride ! and bridegroom. He hesitated a few momentB and then said to the cabman, " We want to go to tho New York ho tel. " His accent betrayed the fact that New York was an unknown quantity to him, and that he probably acquired his pronunciation in the Vermont hills. Tho cabman scratched his head for a moment and then replied: "I can take yer where it were. It is closed np now. " Tho man seemed puzzled, and a look of anxiety appeared on tho frank, open face of the girl. Sho said, with a little catch of despair in ber voice, as she gazed appealingly at her escort : "Whatever are we to do, George? You know mother said to be sure and po to the New York hotel. She and papa went there when they were in New York, and they know that it is a good placa There are so many places in the city that are wicked that I am almost afraid to venture anywhere. 1 am sure that I never thought the New York ho tel would close up. Why, mamma said that it was as big as a whole aero lot. " "When was your mother at the ho tel?" asked the cabman, who was'trying to keep his prospective fare in a good humor. "Oh," replied the girl artlessly, "when she was married. She hasn't been in New York since, but she knew lihat the New York hotel was all right. Oh, what shall we do?" the girl ended with a pathetio little wail in her voice. The cabman smiled grimly. "Why, that's all right, mum,"he answered consolingly. ' 'I can fix yon ont all right. There are a hundred hotels around. Bet ter go some place else.1 ' After a long conversation and much protesting and pleading the young cou ple decided to go to the Brunswick. They got to the hotel in time for supper, as they call the meal up in Vermont, a nd were much worried by the European plan Finally they managed to make cut the matter and ate a good meal. After dinner, as they came ont of the c ining room the young wife pulled her husband by tho arm and whispered something to him. Ho made a reply about forgetting, and then turned to ono of the hallboys and said: "Can you tell nie where A. T. Stewart's store is? My wife wants to go down and do some Slopping." The boy, whoso knowledge of tho city began only a few years ago on the east s ide, had never heard of the old time dry goods merchant, and he could not give the information. Several attaches of the hotel were called into consultation, but to no effect. When at length the mana ger was consulted, he explained that A T. Stewart had been dead many years and. that another company had tho place. "That is too bad," murmured the young wife in a troubled way. "Mother did some shopping there and told mo to be sure to go there, as it was safe. But I suppose the new firm is as good as the old one, so I will go down. " It was then about 8 o'clock in tho evening and the manager suggested that it would be as well to wait until morn ing to shop. The girl looked at him in open eyed astonishment. "Why?" came from her lips. "Well, yon see," went on the mana ger, "tho store closes at G o'clock and there will be no one there tonight. " "That's funny. Up in Vermont the stores don't close until 9 o'clock, and I am sure mother shopped at A. T. Stew art's in the evening. " "Well, times have changed somewhat since then, " was the manager's philo sophical reply. /The young woman thought of tho closing of tho New York hotel, tho sys tem of running a hotel on tho European plan, the change in A. T. Stewart's es tablishment and other things she had encountered. "I guess they have, "'she sighed.-New York Tribune. Wby He Was Movlnjj. "You liko music, I understand?" "Very much." "Then yon aro happy in the location of your flat?" "I am miserable." ' 'But that young lady next door plays ull the time. If you enjoy music" "It is because I enjoy music that I intend to move out. "-Chicago Post. Infallible Sifrn. "How came you to suspect tho pris oner to be aman in woman's clothing?" inquired thc magistrate. "I didn't suspect," answered tho de tective. "As soon asl saw her try to lift her bonnet after sho had met and passed another woman on the street I simply knew she was a man. "-Chicago Tribune. Spiteful. "I cannot understand why my hus band should Tfive me a finer present ev ery year we aro married. " "I suppose he dees it to compensate you for growing old."-Detroit Free Press. - In Bavaria thc police will "allow no woman to appear in public on a bicycle unless she holds a certificate of efficiency. To obtain one she must ride before the public officials in a crowd of other candidates without falling off or running into any one. - Tf it required an annual outlay of $100 00 to insure a family against any serious consequences from an attack of bowel complaint during the year there arc many who would feel it their duty to pay it; that they could not afford to risk thier lives, and those of their family for such an amount. Any one can get this insurance for 25 cents, that being the price of a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. In almost every neighborhood some one has died from an attack of bowel complaint before medicine could be procured or a physician summoned. One or two ; doses of this remedy will cure any ! ordinary case. It never fails. Can you afford to take thc risk for so small au amount ? ? For sale by Hill Bros. 1 HOW TREATIES ARE MADE. Tho Initiative. In Negotiations With Foi? elem Powers, Is With tho President. "The treaty making power is given to the president, in connection with the senate, by the constitution," writes General Harrison in his "This Country of Ours" article iu Ladies' Home Jour nal. "The initiative-the negotiations with foreign governments leading up to an agreement, and the framing of the articles of the treaty-is with the exec utive. The senate has no part in the matter until the president communi cates the treaty to it and asks its con currence. It may then, however, cither concur or reject, or concur with amend ments. When the executive has agreed with any foreign power upon a treaty, and it has been duly signed by tho plen ipotentiaries for their respective govern ments, it; is sent to tho senate for its concurrence, and is considered there in secret session. "Whatever may bo said as to the wisdom or necessity of secret sessions for other purposes, it is mani festly necessary that the terms of treat ies and the discussion cf them should in many cases be kept in the confidence of those charged with concluding them until they are concluded. "Though all tho attempts in the con stitutional convention to give tho house of representatives a part in the making of treaties failed, it is still true that many important treaty stipulations de pend for their execution upon the action of the house. If a treaty stipulates for the payment of money by tho United States, tho money cannot be taken from tho treasury without an appropriation. It may bo said that as a treaty is a part of the 'supremo law of the land, ' it is the duty of congress to appropriate the money necessary to carry it into effect, and that in tho making of the appropri ation tho house has no right to consider the question of the value or propriety of the treaty. But, all the same, if the appropriation is not made the treaty fails. Usually appropriations to carry out a treaty have been given freely by tho house, but there is power to with hold them, and so to defeat the treaty. As to treaties involving our revenue laws, the house-having by the consti tution the sole power to originate rev enue bills-has claimed lite right to act upon a consideration of tho wisdom or unwisdom of the treaty. ' ' Boys and Firearms. An accident which shows the danger of not teaching boys how to use firearms is reported in The American Field. Sev - enteen-year-old James Groat of Omaha, with three comrades, was hunting duck? on the river. Not finding the birda plentiful, boy fashion, they thought they would play about in the willow blind. They laid their guns down and began to skylark. All cf a sudden a flock of ducks waa seen coming, and there was a rush to get the guns. If young Groat had been brought up right, he would not have left his gun cocked and loaded, he would not have grasped it by the mrz..:j and pulled it toward himself, the trigger would not have caught in a twig, and the lad would not have been killed. The top of his head was blown tb pieces by tho whole charge of shot entering just above the nose. When a boy wants a gan and is in a place about which game is to bo found, and there are hunters to hunt it, the boy is going to have it by hook or crook. So tho best way to do when a lad shows the symptoms is to put him into the hands of a good hunter and have him taught what to do and what not to do, especially what not to do, and if a good gun, built by a trustworthy manufac turer, is given to the would be hunter, there is no danger whatever. If this was done in every instance with boys, there would be no accidental killings. It is the self confident, self taught man who kills others and himself. Me and Other.*. An artist should consider facts about the masters of his profession calmly and thoughtfully. Ho may reach valuable conclusions about himself. A certain musical composer of much talent and popularity-we will call him Smithkins -has a happy appreciation of his own work, as his friends all kr ow. So highly does he estimate Smithkin's compositions that some of his friends were much startled the other day when he said gravely, "Did you ever notico that the names of all tho great composers begin with M?" "M!" ejaculated his astonished au dience. "Yes, M, " said the composer. "Mo zart, Mendelssohn,Meyerbeer, Moszkow Bki-and Me!"-Pearson's "Weekly. Husbands to Burn. The English actors who come over hero aro intensely English when they first arrive, but they soon show their appreciation of American colloquialisms by appropriating them. A gentleman of this city relates that some time ago in the New York club he met Fred Wright, Jr., the comedian. Somo one was tell ing about a woman who had just mar ried her third husband. "By thc way, " tho gentleman asked, "where is her first husband buried?" "He was cremated, " was the answer. "And the second?" "Also cremated." "By Jove," observed little Mr. Wright, "that woman has husbands to burn."-St. Louis Republic. Ancient Anguish. "It is believed," said the classical boarder, ' ' that thero was a game extant in the days of Rome that much resem bled our baseball." "Thc lauguago shows that," assent ed tho cheerful idiut. "The word 'finis, ' you know, means a talo ender."-In dianapolis Journal. Tho secretary vulture will often tako np an oyster or terrapin in the claws of one foot and dash it violently against a stone to crush tho shell aud enable tho bird to get at the contents. Georgians aro "Buzzards," from a state law protecting these birds. - A tramp asking for food at the door of a certain good deacon residing near one of the country thorough fares was given a loaf of bread by the master of the house, with the rather inhospitable remark that "the Bible says that if any man will not work, neither should he eat." Looking down at the gift with a shade of dis gust, thc tramp quickly responded, "Yes ; and does it not say that a man cannot live upon bread alone ?" It is but truth to add that he received a generous slice of country ham as a re ward for his quickwittedness. - Mr. James Perdue, an old soldier residing at Monroe, Mich., was severely afflicted with rheumatism but received prompt relief from pain by using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Ile says : "At times my back would ache so badly that I could hardly raise up. If I had not gotten relief I would not bc here to write these few lines. Chamberlain's Pain Balm has done me a great deal of good and I feel very thankful for it." For sale by Hill Bros. 1 THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. Silence of Denotation Brooding Over Be glons Once Thickly Peopled. In tho beginning of the thirteenth century the jnnnal revenue of tho By zantine empire amounted to ?130,000, 000. Yet at that time not only was the eastern empire greatly impoverished by the ravages of the crusades, but the chief part of Asia Minor, with its flour ishing cities, had been wrested from her by the arms of Islam. Today the revenue of the Ottoman empire is less than ?18, - 000,000. Tho silence of desolation now broods over vast regions which were once thickly peopled, well cultivated, abounding in flourishing cities and re joicing in an advanced civilization. Ter ritories which formerly supported the capitals o? anciient kingdoms-Ferga mos, Sardis, Cyzicus, Prusium, Troy, Nicomedia and many more-have been reduced under Islam to cheerless soli tudes, broken at intervals by Kurds or wandering Turcomans. According to Ubicini, who spent 20 years in the civil administration of the porte, and wrote in defense of Turkey 40 years ago, the annual produce of corn in Asia Minor was then estimated at 25,000,000 Turkish kiles, which, he thinks, might bo easily increased tenfold "if the great productiveness of the soil were turned to account. The same re mark," he adds, "applies to all other productions which serve for local con sumption or for exportation." But in stead of increasing during the last 40 years there has been an accelerated de crease. The decay of every kind of man ufacture has kept pace with the decline of agriculture. . Diarbekir and Broussa, once so famous for their velvets, satins and silk stuffs, have been ruined. So have Aleppo and Bagdad. Turkey abounds also in mineral wealth. It pos sesses copper mines which yield 80 per cent of ore, while the best British raines yield only about 10 per cent And there is coal in abundance within easy access. -Quarterly Reviow. ODD WAYS OF MAKING MONEY. Babbit Bones as Scarfplns and Miniatura Beal live Oak?. In the backbone of a rabbit is a joint bearing a remarkable resemblance to a fox's head. Lightly painted brown, a couple of beads for eyes, a cheap pin affixed, and lol a real sporting ecarfpin is produced at a nominal cost. At the time of calling in the French coins, which were freely passing in England for pennies, many dollars were made by ingenious individuals convert ing them into rings as souvenirs, this being done by cutting ont the center, turning the rim inside ont, leaving the inscription inside. Many of these rings are still to be seen among the poorer foUr, worn as wedding ringa, Acorn gathering may be the means of putting a few shillings in the pockets of tho country folk by picking them up for the farmers, but it did nob seem the quickest way to a fortune by one thoughtful son bf toil. So he planted a piece of his ground with thousands of acorns, and when they were small plants ho carefully re moved daily such as he wanted, with the mold round, and moss wrapped each root and started his father to hawk them in the nearest towns, and a re markably good idea It turned ont. The request of ibo old man to "buy a real British oak, raum, " generally se cured a purchaser, the ladies being charmed with the plant and the prospect of watching its growth inu a sturdy tree.-Odds and linda Moonshine Whisky. Says a revenue agent: "There is a great popular misunderstanding about moonshine whisky. - It is nothing but raw highwine-the crudest kind pf whisky-and most of it is made right In the big citiea Ton take a barrel of molasses, some yeast and a still, such as many people use for distilling water, or even less than that, you can let the vapor pass through a glass pipe covered with cold water, and yon can make all the moonshine yor. want The foreign ers in New York city make thousands of gallons of it for private use in this way. All whisky is white as water when first made. If kept in glass it re mains white for years, as yon see in the case of Irish and Scotch whisky. Put into wood it will in time darken, owing to the rotting of the oils. Moonshine is usually white because not kept long enough to darken, or, if kept, being usually stored in bottles or juga" New York Tribune. Hailstorms In th? Orange Free State. The Orange Free State is very nearly as large as England, and just as large as the state of New York. It lies from 4,000 to 5,000 feet above the sea and is mostly level, with some low ranges of billa The surface is bare of wood, except in a few sheltered spots along tho streams, but is well covered with herbage. The air is pure and brac ing, much like that of Colorado or Wyo ming. There are, happily, no blizzards, but violent thunderstorms aro not mir common, and tho hailstones-I have seen them bigger than pigeon's eggs which fall during such storms some times kill tho smaller animals and even men.-Professor James Bryce, M. "P., in Century. "What's In a Narnu?" A sculptor of more humor than talent recently induced a prominent New York woman to allow him to make a bust of her. "When it was nearing completion, he remarked during one of her sittings: ' 'I am afraid this is not going to look very much like you, but never mind, we will cull it 'Ruth' or 'St Cecelia' and send it somewhero to take a prize. ' ' New York Journal. No Danger. Jorkins-I m going to have my bank bills disinfected before I handle them. Mrs. Jorkins-For what reason? Jorkins-To remove tho danger of contagiou to my family. Mrs. Jorkins-I never ^eord of your family being exposed.-Detroit Free Press. - The man who can drink or let it alone is again with us, says an ex change. Ile is a genial sort of a fel low, and it might be harsh to roll him together as a scroll or to boil him in oil, or bake him over a slow fire as he deserves. He feels sorry for the slave to rum. "Why," says he, "all ycu need is thc will power. When I want to quit. I will surely quit." The day will come when he will quit, sure enough. The coroner will he notified when the time comes, and there'll be a nice inquest wkh home comforts and all modern improvements, and if our friend is rich the verdict will be that ho died of heart failure. If he is poor, it will be that he died of alcoholism. The men who can drink or let it alone is worth studying. - In the office of a New York wholesale dealer im horns and tips there is a pair of South American cat tle horns that measure, following the horns, nine feet from tip to tip. It is believed to be the biggest pair of horns iu the country. BILL ARTS LETTER. Fragrant Flowers Is the Subject Taken by Arp for KIs Letter. Atlanta Constitution. I am not a linguist, but have been told there is no language but ours that has a word or expression signifying "home" in the sweet, sentimental meaning that we attach to it. There are words enough thatmean adwelling house, an abiding place, but home has a broader compass and includes all the emotional surroundings-the garden, the well, with its old oaken bucket, or the crystal spring at the foot of the hill-the vines over the door and on the lattice-the shade trees, the land scape view from the window, the cradle and the old arm chair ;. the clock on the mantle, the pictures on the walis, the faithful watch dog, the playful kitten, and ever the crickets' chirrup on the hearth. But more than all these are the loved ones who meet us and greet us at the threshold. The wise man tells us of the time when man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets. Our home here is very brief, we know, but it it. the dearest spot on earth, and should be loved and cherished by every one who goes out from its sacred portals or returns within them to rest from the cares of a busy world. It is one of my constant regrets that there are so many good people in this great big world who have no home-not an acre on God's green, earth they can call their own. If every family had a home the children would grow up bet ter citizens, bet ter patriots; the parents would hold up their heads and be thankful to God for his blessings. The good wife and d lughters would treasure the vines they planted, and the flowers they grew in the front yard-flowers that are the smiles of God upon a sin cursed world. The poet says : "1 ha world hu nothing to lestow ; From oar own seWes'our joys mon flow, And th.vt dear place-'our borne,' " I was ruminating about these things as I sat in my veranda in the shadow of the vines-the Virginia creeper, the madiera and cinnamon vines that by day and by night are climbing higher and higher, enlarging and un folding their tender leaves that will soon cover the trellice. I love to watch their daily progress. I built the framework for these vines and am proud of it, even though my wife did boss the job and me, too. 'Twas sht v. ho made me set the posts out two feet from the edge of the veranda floor and brace them to the top of the columns. 'Twr.s site who suggested canes from the canebrake-long canes that were stuck in the ground and fastened to the crossbar. These canes are just one foot apart and are inter laced with horizontal canes, also a foot apait, and the basket work keeps the whole fabric good and strong Strong and vigorous vines have already climbed and twined around every cane, but she said there mast be windows in the lattice, so that we could sit in our chairs and see the trains go by and the carriages and bicycles and funeral processions and picnic parties and the children going to school and look at our neighbors who live across the way So there is a. splice of three feet where the vines cling close to the perpendic ular poles, but are n ot allowed to send out any horizontal shoots. This gives us ample vision of the outer world, and I sit daily in my big arm chair and rest my feet upon the railing and ruminate upon life with its blessings and am thankful, that I live. Just a word about that railing. It used to be about three feet high and studded with upright balusters, the top rail too high and the bottom one too low for a good foot rest. So when I bought the property the first thing I did was to reform the long veranda, it cost but a trille to take out the up right pieces and lower the top rail and run a middle one and then put short square pieces between them and alter nate them like a road to Jericho. This makes the cheapest and most comfort able railing in :he world, and gives an old man choice of three elevations for his feet and gives a modest woman choice of two. I have already observed in my brief life that there are two classes of people who like to elevate their pedal extremities when in a state of innocuous desuetude-old men and lazy lawyers. Old age is excusable, for his legs art tired, especially when his corporosiiy i aereases with advan cing years, or he is bossed around the flower garden by his loving wife; the average lawyer is excusable, too, I suppose, :or it is the brain that quickens the flow of blood to the extremities, and if the brain has nothing to work on-no cases, no clients-the legs get sleepy and must have rest. I can tell a town loafer's age pretty well by his posture when seated. An old, confirmed loafer wanta two chairs, one to rest his feet upon. If he is a lawyer he prefers a table. But I am off the subject 3gain. I was thinking about the Howers-the new and beautiful flowers that Mrs. Arp got from Mr. Berckman-these caunas that are so gcorgeously lovely and are now bloomiog into beauty. We had some yellow ones before, but now have other colors that are brilliant and attractive. I decorated my vege table garden last year with sun flow ers, but I don't think my wife fancied them. She said they made her eyes tired, bu; she is delighted with the crimson and orange and variegated cannas and her Mareschal ii eil roses and carnation pinks. She wants only $2 or $3 worth of new flowers every spring, and up to this time she has had it, thank the good Lord for His mercies. The weather has been awful hot, but I have had to dig and fork up the ground and haul fertilizers in the wheel barrow and lay off a new flower bed and change plants from the old one:$ and tote water and sprinkle f.nd rake around till me nether garments were moist and as salty as Lot's wife. It hasn't rained a drop in three weeks notwithstanding my rheumatic pains and my wife's corns and the rooster's crowing in the night, and so I have everything to water every evening. We have had no man servant but me for a long time, and my wife says I look exceedingly well, consider ing agc and infirmity, and thc girls smile around on the sly to see how a little uxorial taffy spurs me on. Had a letter yesterday from a suf fering benedict, who says his girls wanted him to stop chopping cotton and sowing peas and send some help to take up the carpets and whitewash the palings and the trees and the pig pen and clean up things generally, for som.e town ki?folks were threatening to visit them. He said he was about to outdo the girls, but his wife re enforced them and said they dident ask such favors but twice a year and were thc best daughters in the world, and she thought he might spare a hand for a day or two and now he writes to me for advice. Must he I surrender and take a band from the field or not ? No, of cour?e not. The way to do is to do all these little household jobs yourself. You can take up a carpet and hang it on the paling and beat the dust out of it as well as anybody, and whitewashing is nothing but good fun. You can hang a window curtain or put in a pane of glass or mend a baby carriage or repaint the mantle piece. My girls papered every room in our house. Their mother trained us all to do these things, and it saves a lot of money. My friend, that whitewashing must be done if the world comes to an end. Let the cotton suffer for a day. I expeot you have too much planted, anyhow. Everybody around here has. The good wife and daughters have to stay in tho-^Jfifl house or about it nearly all their time, and it should be made as pleasant and inviting as possible. Yours in sym pathetic bonds, BILL ABP. : Cheese and Courtship. Aristocracies in different places and ages have prided themselves on many different things. One of the queerest, perhaps, is the aristocracy according to cheese, which, according to the Neue ZuricJier Zeitung, prevails among the patricians of Zermatt. The aris tocracy of families is valued by the - number and ages of the cheeses they possess. There are families who pos sess cheeses made at the time of the French revolution. . When a child is born, a cheese is manufactured, which -j -<. is then called by the name of the child. It is partly eaten when its namesake gets married, each wedding guest tasting a portion. The cheese is then put away again, and finally cut into and finished at the fanerai of the person whose^name it bears. When a young man woos a maiden, he begs to be allowed to dine with her family on a Sunday. Hi? offer Being accepted, the lovers wait anxiously io see whether the girl* s father will cause the cheese to be set on the table. At the end of the long meal, if all goes well, the master of the house solemnly fetches the cheese bearing the would be bride's name and sets it on the table. When they have eaten it,'they are a betrothed pair. The others at the table partake of the cheese and drink to the eternal friendship of the two families.-London Daily', News. All Sorts of Paragraphs. - There are 47 Chinese temples in America. - Nothing will give the grass such a start on lawn, pasture or mowing field as a sprinkling with nitrate of soda in rainy weather. - A philosopher observes: ''Six things are requisite to create a happy home. One of these is a good cook, the other five are money." - Freddy : "What is a plank in a party platform, papa?" Papa: "It is something, my son, that candidates stand on before election and walk on afterwards." - The Danube flows through-coun tries in which 52 languages and dia lects ' are spoken. ' It bears on its waters four-fifths of the commerce of eastern Europe. - If you want knowledge, read the newspapers-not merely one, but several; when business presses, be deliberate ; when your wife scolds you, hold your tongue. - The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something ; the strongest, by dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. - An eccentric blacksmith at the Bridge of Allan was observed to plant * his cabbage zigzag instead of in rows, and on being .asked the reason, re plied : "It's to put the snails ?ff tue--. track." - The Broad river, in South Caro lina, was so called by the wh ites. Tho Indian name was Eswan Happeday, or "Dividing Line river," because it was the boundary between ?She Ch ro kees and the Catawbas. - Turkey bones is said to make the most perfect pipestems imaginable. The substance is light, perons, and resists the pressure of th? teeth. Smoke drawn through the turkey bone is cool and sweet. - A man in Sumner county, Kan., recently sold a hog. In paying for;i$g|^ the firm held out the amount of a debt. It went to law, and, after taking a change of venue, discovered that he had paid $150 for giving the.hog away. - "It may heall right to joke," said the small boy, crawling through, a hole in the fence as his mother, with a stick in her hand came running down the street in his direction, "but dis com in' woman bus'ness is a serious matter to me. - The Athens Banner perpetrates the following: "The lark was up to meet the sun, and oarol foi his lay; the farmer's son took down-his gnni and at him blazed away. The busy bee arose at five and burned the mead ows o'er; the farmer's wife went for his hive, and robbed hrm of his store. The ant rose early, his labors to begin: the greedy swallows flew that way and took his lordship in. Oh, bee, birds and ants be wise, in proverbs take no stock ; like me refuse to rise until half past eight o'clook." - A Chinese doctor is employed by families by the year at a. rate, accord ing to their means and his reputation, of 1 to 5 cents a day, as long as every member of the family is well. When one falls ill, the doctor's pay stops until their health is fully restored. - Christianity, if it means any-' thing, means 16 ounces to the pound, three feet to the yard, a just weight . and just measure. It means honesty in all dealings, purity in all conversa tion, a charity as broad as the race, unflinching integrity, sympathy, hu manity to man, loyalty to G-od. - Mothers will find Chamberl'V*1 Cough Bemedy especially valuable jr croup and whooping cough. It will give prompt relief and is safe and pleasant. We, have sold it for severalv; years and it Has never failed to givo the most perfect satisfaction. G. W. Richards, Duquesne, Fa. Sold by Hill Bros. - Live one day ata time, my dear," said an elderly woman to younger ono recently. "Don't -wrinkle your fore head to-day over to-morrow's cares. ; Nothing is so bad, nor so good, either, as we anticipate, and to-morrow's bur den may not be one when to-morrow is to-day. I lived over two-thirds of my life before I discovered this secret, and lam growing younger every month in its use. There ia always time and strength for today's duties and cares : it ?8 the piling and borrowing, the ci-ossing of bridges before they, are reached, that kills." . . .? ? 1