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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1896. VOLUME XXXL-NO % SH We are offering some Big Values in Shirts ! Got too many on hand. Should you need any I'S THE TIME TO BUY. Note these prices : 25 dozen Laundered Negligee Shirts, Collars and Cuffs attached, at 35c. 25 dozen Laundered Negligee Shirts, Collars and Cuffs attached-big value-at 50c. 25 dozen Laundered Negligee Shirts, with two separate Collars and Cuffs attached, only 75c. We have others on up to $1.50. Come in and gaze. LU PRICES NOT PROMISES I CRATCH the massfet, bat tbe prices mush be consistent with the quality of the Goods. We cannot afford to advertise a thing and then not do it We adverse the Best Flour and Coffee on the Market, At prices no one can beat. The fact ?bat cur DEAN'S PATENT FLOUR and J, I* NO 2 COFFEE is daily macing permanent cu? tornera for usia the ho^t evidence of | their real merit. If other people nay, and continue to bay, these Goods, yon shculd at least try them. We have a complete line of Shoes, Which our prices cannot fail to sell. They are of the famous "mover" variety, and they move. . HEADQUARTERS FOR TOBACCO, 3UCAR, MOLASSES, &C. _ DEAN, RATLiFFE & CO THE THOUGHT MAKES HIM SHIVEE ! BU f when the little fellow finds how soft the Sponge is he is com pletely reconciled and gradually grows to like the bath. Get one of our soft SPONGE-*, use attrac tive Toilet articles and the child will enjoy it. We carry a full line of Drugs and Toilet Articles. ORR & SLOAN. Fruit Jars ! Now is the time to look after Fruit Jars. I have them in Stock. JELLY GLASSES, PRESERVING KETTLES, ICE CREAM CHURNS. FLT FANS, FLT TRAPS. JOHN T. BURRISS. A REMEDY FOR HARD TIMES ! YES, I can give it to j ou, if you will give me a call, see my Goods and get my prices. My Stock consists of Fancy and Family Groceries, Confectioneries, V Canned Goods, Tobacco and Cigars, \Tn fact, almost everything in the Grocery line. \ I am not afraid of competition, but I want you to give me a call, and if my\,Good8 and prices don't suit you, you need not purchase. ( G. F. BIGBY. FREE CITY DELIVERY. * EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY!" \ But be sure that what you eat and drink is bought at the JP<>px?lar Grocery ! V Nothing but First Class Goods are sold There. HAVE you tried our SEAL BRAND or MORNING JOY COFFERS, put np in one and two* pound Can?. If not you are behind the times. Tnelr equal is *1Wt Therine can^boX'athfuHy ?aid about KING AN HAMS and SWAN'S DOWN ^L*Why do you worry av^out something nice to eat and drink ? Simply because yon kave^j^(JuR^!sTCH'K OF GROCERIES be'ore yon it will take but a moment to select something for Breakf*?'- Dinner or Supper. -A word to the mae is aut^eat. Yoars traly, * LIGON & LEDBETTER, Whole&j* anQ< Retail Grocers, Anderson, S. C. Remember, we sell the best LI>??d CEMENT on the market. NEW JEWELRY STORE ! JOHN M. HUSSAR!!, IN HIS NEW STORE.H.H- HOTEL BLOCK. LOTS OF NEW GOODS. NOVELTIES IN PROFUSION. \ . JUST WHAT YOU WANf:. ONE CENT TO $i-P0.00. .?ST* No charge for Engraving. iST-Tbe Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it'? a pleasure to shoX1* them. P. ?.-If yon nave Accounts with J. M. HUBBARD.* BRO. mattMwttlement *ith me at above'plaee. \_ . JOHN H. HUB^ABB. SAM JONES TALKS UPON FRIENDSHIP. Make Friends With Everybody at the Expensa of Everything Except Prin ciple-The True Object of Life. Atlanta Journal. Amid the tho rush and roar, push and drive for dollars and cents, amid the turmail of politics and the orash ing of commercial interests there is something better and higher than all these. True friends and good neigh bors are more preoious than rubies, and "more to be desired than gold, yea, than much fine gold ; sweeter also than the honey with the honeycomb," and in the getting of them there is great reward. A millionaire without friends is poor indeed. A president or king without his friends is a slave to the condition of things. A politi cian without his friends will "hit the grit" sooner or later. I fear sometimes imiid the discord of politics and the greed for gain we have lost sight of the fact that a man's wealth consists in noble friends and good neighbors. Money has very lit tle in it to bring happiness. Political power brings only cares, temptations and trials. Greed in itself is disinte grating and visits upon men a thous and slings and arrows. No man is so poor as he who has lived to make all men his enemies and rob himself of true friends. No man is so rich as the man who is embalmed in the hearts of a grateful community. We get political power, social pre ferment and dollars and cents as the result; of selfish aims and selfish ends by doing for ourselves. We make the happiness by doing for others. Peter the Great, Charlemagne and Napoleon tried to conquer the world with swords, but each of them died a conquered wretch at last. Jesus Christ lived for others, served others, died for others and there are millions of men to-day who would die for Christ. He con quered by service, by sacrifice, by be nevolence. Not long ago I attended Will With anes large Sunday School class ia At lanta. He gave to each of us a card at the conclusion of the lesson with the following inscription thereon : "I expect to pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show anybody, or a word that I can speak for Jesus, let me do it now; let me not. neglect or defer it, for I shall not pass this way again." If every human life were conducted after the lesson given here what a world of friends this would be ! Some one has said if we would have friends we must show ourselves friendly. The common courtesies of life, a kind word spoken, a helpful word given, a kind deed that costs little in sacrifice or ef fort, has made undying friends for many a man. Some one has said : I would rather have a dog for my friend than to have him as an enemy. Who would not make all men his friends ? Who, as a matter of choice, would rather have an enemy than a friend ? There is another old adage which says : "A friend in need is a friend indeed." We may reach the point where we do not need a friend in dol lars and cents; we may -each thc point where we do not need a friend to pro tect us because danger is nigh; but who can say: "I will never need the sympathy and kindness which man can show, to man?" When the hours of grief and bereavement, when the hours of sickness and death shall come, then the priceless value of friends is shown to us; then dollars and cents and houses and lands but mock us in our grief and torment U3 in our sorrow. We should make friends of every body at the expense of everything ex cept principle. The friends we lose by standing up for the right were not our friends, and would be hurtful to us if we considered them so. A friend is not only one who wishes us well but wo lld go out of his way to do us a kindness; or who would, if he stood alone, defend our name and reputa tion from the assaults of others. Many men who would have fallen under the blows given but for the hand of a friend uplifted to help them. Many a heart would have burst with grief but for the sympathy poured out to it by a true friend. And while we rush for riches and pull for power and gallop in our greed let us stop a moment and get our bear ings and Bee how we stand related to those about us. We have well nigh thrown aside the social features which foster friendship. We visit too little at each other's houses. Many long winter nights we could spend two hours pleasantly with a neighbor and win him as a closer friend. Many times we pass idly by without the warm grip of the hand or a kindly word the man who would be worth a world to us in some coming emergen cy. We cannot afford to sacrifice ev erything to political prejudices and selfish greed. We must have friends. We cannot do without them. If every man whose eye scans these lines will stop a moment and think how little he has done to foster friendship and win his neighbor in the last few years he would right about and determine to look in another direction for awhile. In the political world we see it fre quently asserted in thc press ''this political aspirant has a knife in his sleeves for some other aspirant," or this one has stabbed that one in thc back. In the commercial world one man has undermiuded another in bus iness. In the social world one per son has slandered the other out of de cency in the community so far as their ability to do such a thing would go. Thc man who goes around with a knife or a pistol in his pocket is a bad citi zen, and deserves the fate so many of them receive. The man who under mines and takes advantage of his fel lowms.n in a business transaction de serves, to spend ?he remainder of his days within the penitentiary walls clad in the stripes of a felon. He whose tongue would smirch and hurt the good name of his neighbor deserve s to have his tongue taken out by the root. We are not careful enough to mind the golden rule "Do unto others as you would be done by." No men have really prospered long who did it without principle and without due regard to the feelings and fortunes of others. I am sorry for any man who adopts wrong methods and practices rascality that he himself may risc as he rots. Pat truly said: "If we hada little more of the mailk of human kiudncss in this world what a bright world we would have." Let's do some good thing for some one every day wc live. If we are not able to do a good thing, let's speak a good word for some oue every day. Soon it would become a habit with us; and what a blessed habit it is to do good or to speak helpful of another. Such a habit would gather about us in sioknuas and in health, in poverty or wealth, in liv ing or dying, a host of friends who would be worth more to us than the wealth of the Vanderbilts or the re nown of kings or generals. No man liveth who can get where friends can not help him or enemies hurt him, and he who surrounds himself, living and dying, with good friends all about him has lived above the selfish life of him who dies at last like Mike said Pat did. When Mike told his friends that Pat was dead they asked what was the complaint. No complaint at all, he said, everybody seemed to be satis fied. I am sorry for a man when no body is sorry that he is dead, I re joice in a life that ends at laBt sur rounded by a host of friends that nc man can humber. Amid the fickle ness and falsities of this world there are true friends, and true friends are tho best things in the world. SAM P. JONES. Stonewall Jackson's Fee. "About daylight of the day before the second battle of Manassas," said a Confederate officer at a recent reunion of the blue and gray, "I was ordered to report to Goneral T. J. Jackson, with a dets.il of 100 men, for special orders. I went at once to headquarters and presented the orders I had recieved. General Jackson came out, and, beck oning me to follow him, rode some 50 yards from his staff, and then turned to me and halted. " 'Captain, do you ever use liquor ?' he asked. " 'No, sir,' I replied. "A smile lit up his rugged face as he said, 'I sent for a special detail of 100 men under command of an officer who never used spirituous liquors. Are you that man ?' " 'Yes, sir,' I said, 'I was detailed on that account.' " 'Well, then,' he continued, 'I have an order to give, upon the execu tion of which depends the success of the present movement and the result of the battle soon to be fought.' " 'If to keep sober is all that is needed, General, you may depend upon me.' I said. " 'No, he said, 'that is not all ; but unless you can resist temptation to drink, you cannot carry out my orders. Do you see that warehouse over there ?' pointing to a large building a little way off. 'Take your command up to that depot, have the barrels of bread rolled out and sent down to the rail road track, so that my men can get it as they pass, and then take your picked men into the building and spill all the liquor there ; don't spare a drop, nor let any man taste it under any circumstances. This order I ex pect you to execute at any cost.' "He turned and was about to ride back to his staff, when I called has tily : " 'One moment,"General ! Suppose an officer of superior rank should order me under arrest and then gain possession of the warehouse ?' "Coming up close to me, and look ing me through and through, as it seemed to me, he said, with a look of solemnity that I shall never forget: " 'Unless I relieve you in person, you are exempt from arrest except upon my written order. I fear that liquor more than Pope's army,' he added, as he rode rapidly away. "I took my men down to the ware house which had become so important, and threw a guard around it, placing five men at each entrance, with orders neither to allow any one to enter nor to enter themselves. "The next thing was to roll out the bread, which we did. Just as we were finishing that task, I was called to one of the entrances to find a gen eral officer with his staff demanding that the guards should either allow him to enter or bring him out some liquor. Of course, I refused to com ply with the command, upon which he ordered his adjutant to place me under arrest. "I told him I was there by General Jackson's personal order, and was especially exempt from arrest. He ordered his staff to dismount and enter the warehouse, and I gave my men the order to level their guns and make ready. "This made the General halt, in spite of his thrist, and hold a consul tation with his officers. They con cluded to try persuasion, since they could not get what they wanted by force. But they found that method of no more avail than the other. They demanded to know my name and what command I belonged to, and threatened to report me for disobedi ence. "I should never have yielded, and whether they would have pushed things to an extremity in their raging desire for the liquor I do not know ; but just at that moment General A P. Hill came galloping up with his staff, and naturally wanted to know what was the trouble. I explained the situation, which the quick-witted General took in at once, and ordered the thirsty squad off. "'Have you any orders to burn the building ?' he asked. " 'No ;' I answered, 'I have not.' "Without a word he rode away, and within an hour there came an order from General Jackson to fire the ware house, and when it was well destroyed to report to him. "I carried out the order to the let ter. Not a man got a drink that day, and for that time the foe that Stone wall Jackson most dreaded was van quished.- Youth's Companion. - The Soar family of Ambaston, Derbyshire, England, have a curious heirloom in the shape of a loaf of bread which is now over six hundred years old. The founders of the family, it appears, were great friends of King John. When that mouarch died, he made several land grants to the Soars, (jue of these tracts, it appears, had always been conveyed with a loaf of bread, as a witness of good faith. When King John made over the papers to the original Soar, he sent the tradi tional loaf along with the "writings," and the deed and the loaf are both kept to this day as sacred relics. - A little boy was on his knees in his little night dress, saying his pray ers, and his little sister couldn'tresist thc temptation to tickle the soles of his feet. He stood it as long as he could and then said: "Please, God excuse me while I knock the stuffing out of Nellie." There is mor?; Cat-rrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, mid until Uie last few years waa snppOS>d to be incur able. For a (?rej.t many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribid local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treat ment, pronounced it Incurable. Helene-- has prov en catarrh to :>e a const Uni ?ona! discise, and Iber? fore requires constitutional treatment Hall's Catarrh 'Ure, manufactured by F J Cheney A. Co. Toll do, Oh o, i- the only constitutional cine on tho market. It ls talen internally in doses from IO drops tn a teaspoonful. It acts dir elly on th* blood und mucus surf ces of the system. They offer enc hundnd do'iars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonial. Ad dress, F. J. CHENEY St CO., Ttfleya, O. T*3.So!d Ky DrTrjrgiatS, 75C i O GREAT CAROLINIANS. Adit. (?on. Holmes, U. C. V., Gives Per sonal War Reminiscences, From the Sunny South. To tell you "who waa "the coolest soldier or officer I eyer saw under fire" I find impossible. But my types of intrepid soldiers, who I again and again uaw under fire, are Lieut. Gen. Wade Hampton and Major Gen. M. C. Butler, under whom I served during the last year of the war, when to fight daily for weeks was common. Both of these very distinguished generals were both physically and morally brave traits not always found united, and yet to rae there 6eemed a difference Gen. Hampton always appeared to me unconscious of danger, with the fight ing instinct always uppermost; and to see a body of Yankees was to commence fighting, and if possible to lead the charge. Perhaps this carno no!, only from his inherited courage, but his many years of successful hunt ing of bear in the cane brakes of Mis sissippi had inured him to meeting personal danger face to face, and as it was danger sought, he knew only the thrill of personal combat forgetful of possible disaster. Gen. Hampton never lost his head, as was shown atTrevilian Station, Va., June ll, 1864, when Gen. Fitz Lee al lowed Gen. Curtis to get in the rear of Butler s and Young's brigades, fight ing Sheridan under Gen. Hampton's immediate command. Here Hamp ton's coolness and fearlessness en abled him, with the assistance of "the bpst soldier I ever knew," as Hamp ton calls Rosser, to turn a probable rout into an assured success. Hence Hampton stands second to none an a hard fighter, and as a nat ural and instinctive tactician in con tradist: notion to the great trained soldiern. Lee, Johnston and others. Gren. Butler, on the other hand, wasn't inured to personal combat and danger by his ante-bellum sports, but so fine was bis courage, so unshaken his nerve, that, if hG realized danger, he scorned it, and his chiseled face, never so handsome as when cold-set for battle, never showed if or not his soul was in tumult. He eat on his horse, as I once Baw him when report ing to him with my immediate com mander, whose adjutant I was, like a marble statue, though a full battery of artillery and many riflemen were mak ing him their mark, as he occupied the crest of a hill in an open road, di recting the fight; his staff and couriers having beeu ordered to dismount, and seek shelter in thc woods on either side. When Hampton, with his two A. D. C's, and handful of couriers and the writer, then acting A. D. C. on the staff of Gen. E. Mciver Law, commanding Butler's cavalry brigade, charged the Yankees in the streets of Fayetteville, N. C., in the spring of 1864, when falling back before Sher man, and always fighting his advance guard and flanking parties, he rose from the breakfast table, fp-ang through the window and mounting a courier's horse, dashed at the Yan kees and drove them out of the town and across the creek, and he was so cool that when the fight was over he told one of his couriers to find out the owner of a horse he had noticed during the charge and send him to his head quarters, as he wanted to buy the horse. In this brush, where we were sandwiched between Yankees, and had to kill and disperse those in front, and then kill and capture all of those in our rear, Gen. Hampton, after the fight, and as he was riding back into town, giving instructions to his couri ers as he rode to pick up every arm the Yankees had dropped, some one asked him how many Yankees he had killed. "Only three," he replied. "I didn't have my sword, or I would have killed more of them." During this same retreating fight through North Carolina I remember one day a courier dashing up to Gen. Butler just as we had crossed a nar row, deep creek, and the bridge was being destroyed, and excitedly re ported that the enemy had crossed the creek higher up and were then in the rear of our right flank, I felt nervous, but Gen. Butler, to me, seemed pro vokingly cool. Questioning the cou ricr closely he then ordered a staff of ficer to the rear to put a battery and a few supporting cavalry companies dis mounted into position to hold the enemy in check until the rear guard could leisurely fall back beyond the point of intersection of the two roads These little incidents observed by me daily were the shadings that seemed to bring out more strongly the magnif icent fighting qualities and reserved fores of the great cavalry leader and his intrepid lieutenant. Then yet another name must I men tion, and alas of a dead and not a liv ing hero-of one who, in a marked de gree, posseiised that cool courage called fortitude, the trait that women possess so much more largely than men. Capt. Moses Benbow Humphrey, of Claren don County, South Carolina, the name I love to recall. When the war broke out in 1861 Humphrey was a second class man of the South Carolina Mili tary Academy, being educated at the "Citadel," in this city. He was one of the cadets who fired on the Star of the West when she tried to reinforce Fort Sumter, January 9, 1861, and en tered the Confederate service in the summer of 1862, as captain of the "Cadet Bangers," afterwards F Troop, 6th South Carolina cavalry, a company of forty cadets, who, thinking it their duty to take the field, left their alma mater, although they knew it meant eipulsion. Humphrey's first oppor tunity of showing his grit was on John's Island, S. C.. February 9, 1864, when in the gray of the morn ing, with only eighteen of his men, and he alone mounted, charged some two thousand Yankees across an open field, thus holding them in check un til reinforcements could arrive. Hum phrey was wounded and his horse killed. At Trevilian Station, Va., Juue 12, 1864, in the afternoon of that fearful Sabbath fight, he stood erect, exposing himself as he cheered his men in the bloody angle of the line, telling them: "Don't be afraid, boya; you can't get killed; your sweethearts are at Church praying for you.'" So brave was he that the morning Gen. Dunnovant assumed command of our brigade., August 24, 1864; the day af ter Butler's division of cavalry had fought a port-' n of Hancock's infan try and driven them back, at Gravelly Bun, south of Petersburg, I over heard Gen. Butler tell Gen. Dunno vant: "I have never seen a man of more fortitude than Capt. Hum phrey." Then when we drove Kil patrick from his camp just at daylight the day before we passed through Fayetteville, Humphrey led a charge against a battery of the enemy, and I split the captain's head open with his sabre, receiving a wound in the arm that oaused his death. Humphrey de clined to have his arm amputated, paying ho preferred death to the loss of a limb, and so this brave young captain, just passed his majority, glorified by Gen. M. C. Butler's en comium, died because he feared not death, but shrank from dismember ment. One more instance I will recall of unusual indifference to dtnger. When wc charged into Kilpatrick'scamp and up to his headquarters, in a lull in the fighting at that point, because we had driven thc enemy away, though bullets were flying thick and fast all around us, I noticed a bullet headed negro cooking breakfast, and rode up to the fire to see if I could transfer anything to my haversack for my breakfast later, and I was astounded by the ab solute indifference of the cook to the danger around him, when he easily could have found safety behind the brick chimney of the house a few feet away. He went on cooking just as quietly and coolly as if not under fire--many negroes are fatalists, hence, when well officered, they make good fighters. JAMES G. HOLMES. Charleston, S. C., Marj 26, 1896. The Origin of the Poor Whites of the Southern Mountain Regions. The notion that the poor white ele ment of the southern Appalachian re gion is identical with the poor people generally over the country is an error, and an error of enough importance to call for correction. The poorwhite of the South has some kinfolks in the Adirondack region of New York and the Blue and Alleghany mountains of Pennsylvania; but he has few rela tives any place else above the Mason and Dixon line. The States of New York and Pennsylvania were slave States until the early part of this cen tury^ This poor white mountaineer de scends direct from those emigrants who came over in the early days of the colonies, from 1G20 to about, or some time after the revolutionary war period, as "sold passengers." They sold their services fora time sufficient to enable them to work out their pass age money. They were sold, articled to masters in thc colonies for their board and fixed wages, and thus they earned the cost of their immigration The laws under which they articled were severe, as severe as apprentice laws in these days. The "sold pass engers" virtually became the slave of the purchaser ol: his labor. He could be whipped if he did not do the task set him, and woe to the unlucky wight if he ran away. He was sure to be caught and cruelly punished. A.nd though he was usually a descendant of the lowest grade of humanity on the British islands, he still had enough of the Anglo-Saxon spirit' about him to make him an unsatisfactory chattel. From 1620 forward-the year when the Dutch landed tho first cargo of African slaves on the continent-the "sold passenger" was fast replaced by negroes, who took more naturally and amiably to the silave life. The poor white naturally came to cherish a bitter hatred for thc blicks that were preferred over him. he al ready hated his domineering white master. When he was free to go he put as many miles as his means and his safety from Indian murderers per mitted between himself and those he hated and hoped he might never see again. In that early time the moun tain region was not even surveyed, let alone owned by individual proprietors. The English, Scottish, Irish and continental immigrant who had some means sat down in the rich valleys, river bottoms and rolling savannahs, and the poor white was made welcome to the foothills and mountain pla teaux. These descendants of the British of the feudal era grew and multiplated, became almost as dis tinct a people as the Scotch highlander was, as related to his lowland neigh bor, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The stir of the period since the close of our civil war has made somewhat indistinct the line that separates the mountaineer from the plainsman of the South, especially in the foothills and at points where the two have in termingled in traffiic, in the school house and Church, and especially where the poor whites have been em ployed at miuiog, iron-making, etc., but go into the mountains far enough and you will find the type as it was 100 years ago, with its inimitable drawling' speech and curious dialect; its sallow complexion, lauky frame, lazy habits and immorality-all as distinctly marked as they were when hundred.-? of these people found Cherokee wive? ?ti Georgia and Tennessee, in th e early part of the century, and bleached most of the copper out of the 6kin of the Choctaw, as well as out of the Cherokee. It is a pity that some competent unthropological historian has not traced the annals of this i n teresting and distinctive section of our population and made record of it in thc interest of science,no less than in the interest ol' the proper education and elevation ot the mountain people. It has become, especially in thc Piedmont section of the South, a most important labor ele ment. The coMon mill labor by thou sands comes from the "cracker of the hills," and it is destined to become a great power, that labor population, social and political. The redemption of thc poor white began when slavery went down in blood and destruction, and it has gone on faster and traveled further than some of us think.- Chattanooga Times. - An exchange reports the dread ful misadventure of a man who thought he had a genius for saying pretty things. He was practicing his art up on a young lady, and was laying on the colors with too free a brush. "Cease your flattery," she said, "or I shall put my hands over my ears." "Im possible," replied the man, who fancied he saw a new opportunity. "Your hands arc too small for that." Last summer one of our grand child ren was sick with a severe bowel trou ble. Our doctor's remedies had failed when we tried Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave very speedy relief. We regard it as the best medicine ever put on the market for bowel complaints.-Mrs. E. (!. (?regory, Frederickstown, Mo. This certainly is the best medicine ever put on the market for dysentery, .summer complaint, colic and cholera in fantum in children. It never fails to give prompt relief when used in rea sonable time and the plain print-'4 di rections are followed. Many mothers have expressed the sincere gratitude for the cures it has effected. For sale by Hill Bros. GOOD WORDS FOR THE MULE. While His Reputation ls Queer, His Utili ty is Simply Imaoense. New York Sun. In all the range of natural history there is no other animal which has been tho object of so much derision and abuse as the mule. Not even the evil minded and malodorus skunk has so unenviable a reputation. If any s3holar in times so far future that th? present race of men shall have com? to be regarded as prehistoric and th? mule shall have become extinct, dig ging in the ernst of the earth for evi deuces of ancient existence, shall chance upon the now prevailing type of mule literature, he will be forced to the conclusion that our race fostered and maintained an animal of unpre possessing appearance, long of ear ii front and of reach behind, for the sole purpose of poking fun at in song, story r.?d illustration. The future excavator will be wrong. The mule is not so black as he ia paint ed. Truly, he has his bad points, but they are overmatched by his good ones, aad those who know him best appreci ate him most. So well is he consider ed that a firm in Jersey City, the Bishop's Sons Company, exports him to the extent of about 5,000 head an nually, and our neighbors in the West Indies and South America are glad to pay from $90 to $250 for him, accord ing to his breed and personal charac ter. Recently a reporter visited the mule yard, which ?3 an institution in Jersey City. It stands at thc junc tion of Grand and Bishop streets, and it has accommodations for about 10, 000 mules, should it bs necessary to crowd that number in a contingency that has never yet arisen. About 400 animals were placidly loafing about the yard when the re porter called. It charr eristic of the mule to loaf whenever he gets chance, but he more than makes up for it when he gets at work. These rcules were a calm, contemplative, uonest looking crowd with just atinge of mournfulness in their expressions. Nobody can look a mule in the face and not be convinced of the animal's absolute straightforwardness and good faith. In the face, by the way, is the proper way to look at s. mule. He can't kick with his fore feet; and if he is straightforward from a front view he is likely to be equally straight backward from the rear. By advice David A. Bishop, who did the con ducting, the reporter took good care not to pass close behind any of the stock. "All this talk about the mule's vi ciousness is bosh," said Mr. Bishop, but he is likely to branch out a little in mere playfulness and excess of good spirits, and sometimes that re sults badly for persons in his immedi ate vicinity. I knew a man once who had a mule that would follow him about like a dog, it was so fond of him, and once after he had been on a long journey, that mule was so glad to see him back that it just had to show its joy some way, and that man gut three ribs broken and hrs under ja.w knocked so far out of place that it never got back. Yet there was noth ing vicious in that animal." While speaking Mr. Bishop had led the way over to the watering trough where a number of the tenants were having a drink. Nearby were a feed manger, a hay rack and a salt manger. The animals paid no attention to their human visitors beyond a raising and projection of their awning-like ears. "This is the kind of life they en joy," said the mule raiser. "It's just about their style of temperature, there aren't any flies to bother them, they have plenty to eat and drink, and al together I doubt if you could find another spot on earth where the aver age of contentment is higher than here. The mule is an ambitious sort of creature. All he wants is to be let alone and he's happy. For all that it would take a very little thing to bring about a riot here that would send you and me vaulting over that fence if we wanted to save our bones. All that you would have to do to start it would be to drop a rail down on the heel of one of them. They're very suspicious of an attack from behind and very quick to resent it. The first one would scud the flying into the air and it would ct rattling dowu on another one, who'd take a kick at it, and a third would joiu in, and the first thing you knew the yard would be full of flying hoofs and the air of thuds like the banging of a muffled drum. That's the sound one mule's hoofs makes against another mule's ribs. There's surprising power of resistance in those ribs. It's a good thing, too, for if there weren't the rate of mortality here would be very high." "Do the mules ever fight among themselves just for the fun of it?" at.ked the reporter. "Not those of the same variety. We have a number of varieties here, and we keep them each herded separately. I've seen duels between two mules, and they were fierce and exciting, for these animals have a sort of bulldog grit, and they won't give up while they can stand." "What is the best brand of mule?" "A cross between a Spanish jack and a Kentucky thoroughbred mare produces a good mule. The jacks of ten eome at a high price. I've known $3,500 to be paid for one. The mules we get here are mostly from four to sevcu years old, between which ages the}' are the most easily marketable. Norih America breeds the best mules iu the world. France exports many, but they are fat and lazy and cannot be roused to hard labor by any amount of coaxing or abuse. The South American breed are small, and while they have the spirit to work they haven't the strength; so we ship to those countries. It costs $40 a head foi: transportation and $6 to $8 for duty; so the mule accumulates con siderable cost by the time he arrives. Speaking of a mule's strength, here is a peculiar fact, they seem to gain in spiration by working together. I've known twenty mules to haul a thirty toa load without a protest, where if you had tried to persuade any one of them to start off with his share of a ton and a half heb ind him alone, he would either lie down and try to die or else attempt to kick the load in two and take the lighter half." Are they expensive to keep?" asked the reporter. "No; very cheap, and they don'tre qure much care. They look after themselves mostly, and unless they get stirred up over something and get into a general row they don't make any trouble. All we have to do for them is to give them food and drink and occasionally cut their hair. Uh, yes, we do quite a barber business here. When the hair begins to get poor and scanty, we just drive tbe mules into a pen and shear them two by two. After a shearing or 'roach ing,' as we call it, they feel very gay and frisky." As Mr. Bishop led the way into another division, a solidly built horse with several brands on his sides walked across the yard, followed by a pack of mules. When he stopped all thc mules stopped and gathered around him in admiring contempla tion. This horse was llarus, one of Buffalo Bill's animals, quiet and peaceable in the open, but a demon when saddled and mounted. He is used to lead the mules on board ship All mules have this Same respectful admiration for a horse, regarding him, probably as a superior being. Before llarus' time Mr. Bishop had a spotted horse named Harry, whose occupation and chief pleasure in life was to lead the mules consigned to foreign ports on board ship, and then gallop down the gang plank, neighing with glee while they were being imprisoned on deck. They are very good sailors as a rule, and of a consignment of 1,500 that went to Cuba not long ago for use by the Spanish soldiery not one was seriously affected by the voyage. Of the relative values of horse and mule Mr. Bishop says: "The average life of a mule is about the same as that of a horse. The mule has greater power of endurance, can pull more weight, is less nervous and more patient, is more intelligent, and, with proper treatment, is equally docile. When a mule runs away, which is seldom, he doesn't smash in to everything that looms up in his path, but dodges obstacles and shows himself possessed of some common sense. A horse doesn't show any when he is excited. Of course the mule is no match for the horse in speed or beauty. Physically, however, he is the sturdier animal. His diges tion is better, he isn't so liable to disease, and he can better endure the rigors of heat and cold. As a worker he is slowly but surely replacing the horse." One attribute which Mr. Bishop failed to mention in ,he list of his pets' characteristics is the voice. When the mule yard bursts into blithe chorus all Jersey Cit}' knows it and the echoes split splinters from the rocks on Hoboken Heights. There are in that mule yard soprano, alto, tenor and bass voices, and an anthem performed by the full chorus is alone sufficient to damn the whole race of mules for all eternity. The Taine of Lemons. Keep lemons in the house, if possi ble, as they are sure ?;o be in demand for more purposes than one, and are very healthful. It is claimed where a large quantity of lemons are purchased j and there is fear of their not keeping till wanted for use, that if they are placed in a jar covered with clear wa ter, and the water changed each day. they will keep as long as desired, ana are as fresh when removed from the jar as when first purchased. There are few things as efficacious for breaking up a cold as hot lemon ade, taken just before bedtime. It is best, to render this more effective, to bathe the feet of the patient in hot water and mustard just before retir ing, then give hot lemonade to drink. Then put the patient to bed almost im mediately thereafter, there to remain well covered until morning, when, un less there is something more serious than a cold, the latter will have almost wholly disappeared. To make good lemonade take a gob let of hot water, and into it squeeze the juice of one good-sized lemon, and sweeten to taste. This makes a sti 'ng lemonade, and may not be fancied by some; but it is one of this kind that will do the most good when used as a medicine. For a cough, roasted or baked lemon is good. Put a good-sized lemon in the oven and remain until baked, which will be when the whole is very soft: then take out and add a quantity of sugar to make it a thick syrup. Take a teaspoonful of this frequently, keeping it warm, and, uuless in a very obstinate case, it will effect a cure in a short time. The juice of a lemon taken in the morning while fasting is often a pre ventative of those attacks to which bilious people are so frequently sub jected. Lemon juice rubbed over the hands each night before retiring will keep them soft and white. It is good for removing tand, and is a wonderful whitener of the skin. It is also excellent for taking out stains from the hands. Women who are careful of their complexions, aud are fond of vinegar on certain foods, would do well to use a few drops of lemon juice when any acid is desired as vinegar has a bad effect on the skin. A piece of lemon bound on a corn, changing for a fresh piece each day for three days, is said to loosen the corn that it may be easily removed. Do not throw away bits of lemon from which thc juice has been extracted, for they are good to keep for cleaning purposes. When the juice is not con venient, they are nice to rub on the banda to remove any ink stains and other discolorations. A piece of lem on, dipped in salt and rubbed briskly over a copper kettle, will give it agood polish. Never eat or allow to be eaten bits of lemon left standing for any length of time, more especially where they have so remained in a sick room. Do not throw away any lemon peel, but dry it in the oven and keep for flavor ing. A bit of thia dried peel cooked in apple sauce, or put in an apple pie, gives a delicious flavor that nothing else imparts. - Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cures colds, croup and whooping cough. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by Hill Bros. - Prince Bismarck has just lost his favorite and famous dog Tyras. The animal, which bore the sobriquet of the "Reichshund," died simply of old age. He was, however, not the original Tyras, which was much talk ed of at the time of the Berlin Con gress, because he bit, or tried to bite, Prince Gortschakoff's calves. After the decease of Tyras I., the present Emperor gave Prince Bismarck the animal which has just died. Mrs. Rhodie Noah, of this place, was taken in the night with cramping pains and the next day diarrhoea set in. She took half a bottle of blackberry cordial but got no relief. She then sent to me to see if I had anything that would help her. I sent her a bottle of Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and thc first dose relieved her. Another of our neighbors had been sick for about a week and had tried different remedies for diarrhoea but kept getting worse. I sent him this same remedy. O?ly four doses of it were required to cure him. He says he owes his recovery to this wonderful remedy.-Mrs. Mary Sibley, Sidney, Mich. For sale by Hill Bros. All Sort? of Paragrai1 - There are now 143religious sects in the United State. - Football has befen played in Eng- I land for more thau 500 year3. - The food an elephant eats in cap tivity costs about $25 a week. - To salute with the left hand is a . | deadly insult to Mohammedans in the . , East. - Why are chickens liberal? Be cause they give a peck when they take a grain. - What is the good of giving your children good advice, while setting them a bad example ? _j - The only safe way of dealJ 3 with duty is to perform it at once. "What thou doest, do quickly." - Our grand business is t ot to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - The man who marries a ta ll: a- . ative woman to reform her, will find she will have something to nay about it. - The exact distance from the equa tor to either the north or'SOuthpol? is 6,000 miles, when measured along the. surface. - The hens of this country earn as ? much as do the iron mines and the sheep together, and yet many eggs are still imported, J - No man ever served God by doing things to-morrow. If we honor Christ, J8 and are blessed, it is by the things jB which we do to-day. *g| - "Is Mrs. Dodgerly in deep motS^^ ing ?" "Yes, indeed ; she wouldn't | have a shortcake in the house until blackberries came along." -"Mrs. Hooper is a verybenevolenfc woman, isn't she?" "Yes; this time of the year she always gives away a large bundle of flannels to the poor." - Over 400 diamonds are known to have been recovered from the ruins of Babylon. Many are uncut, but most are polished on one or two aides. - Henry Ward Beecher made good point when he said that some people seem to think they were made on pur pose and everybody else by accident, - " Julia, what did that poor mau say when you gave him that lovely bunch bf daisies ?" "He said he would much rather have a good boiled cabbage." - "She doesn't seem to have many |?? friends." "No, but it is her own fault. Every time she aees a friend in a pretty hat, wrap or gown she gets one just like it I" - A Thorndike, Mass., man has a young kitten which is quite a couriosi ty. It has two distinct bodies, eight - legs, no tail and a headjvhich looks strangely human. - In Bulgaria the proprietors of a medicine by which they claim to sure a specified disease are liable to be im prisoned if the medicine fails to pro duce the desired effet. -She: "Yes, Henry, our engagement is at an end, and I wish to return to you everything" you have ever given ? me." He: "Thanks, Blanche. You may begin at once with the kisses." - The Missouri is the longest river, ? j and the Mississippi really joins the#r Missouri. But the Mississippi was discovered first and obtained the repu tation of being the principal stream. - "Shall I play this pretty German . waltz for you?" she asked, as she ran ? her fairy fingers over the ivory keys. "No, thank you," he replied; "play an American air. I do not understand German. -Arbor day was celebrated in - Nebraska by the planting of over 1, 000,000 trees between sunrise and ??unset. Premiums for the largest plantings were^ffered by societies and individnSBp^ - The ireoDsalvania railroad oilers a prize of an annual pass to the farm er along each of its divisiobo whose farm presents the best appearance, with a view to making the landscape along* ^ its line attractive to the traveler. - "Jim," said an honest coal deal er to one of his drivers, "Jim make that ton of coal 200 pounds short. It is for a poor, delicate widow, and as she will have to carry all of it up two flights of stairs, I don't want her to ;i? overtax her strength." - Big sister (shouting to Bobby) -5 "Bahbee 1 You are wanted to do an errand." Bobby (shouting back): Jj "Tell mother I can't do it now; I'm M busy." Big sister : "It's not mother^Ji, who wants yon; it's father." BobbyflB (hastily): "All right; tell him I'll begi there in a minute." - To read an inscription on a silver*^ coin which, by much wear, has becomeT?s wholly obliterated, put the poker in la the fire; when red hot, place the coin |P upon it, and the inscription will plain- jg ly appear as the coin cools. ThisW| method was formerly practiced at the 1 mint to discover the genuine coin when fl silver was called ia. - "My friend," said the philaa- ? thropist, "you ought to change *#our ^ methods. Do you expect to put in your life stopping people and asking them for money?" "Dereitisagain," replied Meandering Mike, in an ag- . grieved tone. "Dere ain't no use er . tryin' to satisfy everybody. If I stops people an' asks 'em fur money, you say I orter be ashamed; an'ef I stops -'ernr-r an' takes deir money widout askiu.', de p'lice runs me in." - "Fred," said Mrs. Rambo, "have you time to take a carpet out and-" "Don't ask me to do anything to that carpet, Nancy," responded Mr. Rambo. "I want rest." "I think you're al- "* way* wantine rest when I want you lio do a little job around the house." * wrathfully rejoined Nancy. "You'd be worth a good deal to a bicycle maker 1" "Why, my dear?" "Became you've got an everlasting tire on you." Whereat Mr Rambo exploded in a loud .' guffaw. - Make home a pleasant place for your boys. Do not be so afraid lil your best parlor that they may not use it. Let them have plenty of warmth and light, and entertaining books to read, and musical instru ments and many parlor games they like. Girls will stay at home if home be the dullest place under the moon, | but boys will not. -If their young I companions are banished, if they J, are checked when they laugh, or or make a noise, if they have not ttio innocent freedom that they needundoir ; " their parents' roof, then they will have freedom of some sort elsewhere. ; And there are always enough ready ix) :^ beckon them to places where the - bloom is brushed from youth's rqund : cheek. A young man will squeeze a little "fun" out of his life, and if you.J want him to be a credit to you and to Jj himself, make it possible for him t?k enjoy himself in his home. Let the-i home be a place to live and breathe in, not merely a roof under which he nty.^ ! eat and sleep. 1